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SMalley i 
gtti;SMUan*ou.$i §ulvcrtwing 
too strong to scorch them, but such as to cook 
them evenly brown all over. a. l. j. 
mortal: like truth, if crushed to earth, ’twill rise 
again. It is the physician’s great ally. Other 
things being equal, the chances of a hopeful 
against a hopeless invalid are as ten to one. 
And certainly discouragement is a most un¬ 
wholesome thing for both body and soul, and 
especially depressing to the health of woman. 
Women are so delicately made and peculiarly 
constituted, that they cannot afford to indulge 
in low spirits. A lady physician says, *‘i 
make it the first point when I get out of 
harinonj’ to get back again, i take a ride or 
a dose of medicine, or do something to restore 
my good humor, and so put the elements of 
my system into their normal relations again.’’ 
Look at the mother who has been hurrying on 
her feet from daylight till the dinner work is 
done, answeriug incessant calls and demands 
from different,directions, which interrupt her 
plans, feeling, as she says, "all dragged out,” 
and in such a relaxed nervous state thatslight 
annoyances call out, before she thinks, either 
tears, a whining tone or irritable words. Then 
look at the same woman as she comes iu from 
a ride or refreshing visit, all aglow with vital¬ 
ity and good spirits—laughing off every vex¬ 
ation and ready for any work, und say if her 
health does not demand that she earnestly 
strive to maintain this buoyant cheerfulness, 
and resist discouragement with all her ran¬ 
somed powers. zena claybourne. 
SUGAR- 
COATED 
CATHARTIC 
PIES BAKING OVER. 
To prevent pies from leaking over in the 
oven, put the sugar and spice on the lower 
crust, then add the fruit. The most juicy 
pies will seldom boil over much if heated in 
this manner, and of course, they are much 
nicer. Please try it readers, and report your 
experience. mrs. e. h. s. 
Ayer’s Tills are entirely vegetable in 
their composition, act speedily and thor¬ 
oughly, and impart tone and energy to 
the whole system. They may be given to 
children with entire safety. L. O. Brag- 
dun, Columbia, S. writes: “I have 
used Ayer’s Pills in my family for years. 
I give them to my children, in preference 
to any other physic, and always with the 
most gratifying results. They arc invalu¬ 
able as a home medicine.” A. B. Foster, 
Children’s Home, Westvillc, Conn., 
writes: “Wo have used Ayer’s Pills, and 
tliiuk them a very safe and excellent 
family aperient.” R. P. Jackson, Wil¬ 
mington, Del., writes: "I have used 
Ayer’s Pills for a number of years, and 
have never found anything equal to them 
for giving me an appetite or imparting 
energy and strength to my system. I 
always keep them in the house.” 
Most of (lie diseases affecting the diges¬ 
tive organs yield readily to the influence 
of Ayer’s Pills. They stimulate the 
Stomach, Liver, and Bowels, and restore 
the system to healtliful condition. A. 
A. Wostenholme, Utica, N. Y., writes: 
“ Whenever 1 am troubled with Indiges¬ 
tion, I take one or two doses of Ayer’s 
Pills, and am promptly relieved. I have 
used these Pills for years, anil have never 
known them to fail.” Randolph Morse, 
Lynchburg, Va., writes: “I have never 
found anything equal to Ayer’s pills for 
keeping the Stomach, Bowels, and Liver, 
in good working order. I always use them 
when occasion requires." F.. II. Knapp, 
Detroit, Mich., writes: “Ayer’s Pills 
cured me of Dyspepsia, from which I had 
suffered for years. They have done me 
more good than any other medicine I 
have ever taken.” 
EASTERN AND WESTERN COOKERY. 
Like “Anon” I am ashamed to he so often 
btntflted by the Domestic Economy Depart¬ 
ment of our worthy Rural, while I so seldom 
do anything to help the department. I am 
surprised t hat nearly all of the writers for the 
domestic columns are Eastern ladies, while 
the “Special Reports” show that the Rcral 
is read West as much as East. It is not that 
I do not like the Eastern letters or respect 
their writers, but their letters show such an 
utter ignorance of the fact that we in the 
West cannot do as they do in the East. What 
would any Eastern womau think of taking her 
nicelv molded butter to market and getting 
8 to 10 cents a pound for it? And yet that is 
all we can get, after grass is plentiful, and 15 
cents is the highest price which has been paid 
in this section for two years past; yet, we are 
but 150 miles from St. Louis, with good rail¬ 
road connection. Still our buyers claim they 
cauuot ship without losing mouey and we have 
no creameries in this part of fertile Illinois. 
Poultry is the only thiug we farmer’s wives 
have to depend on, and ’tis only in the past two 
years that eggs have brought more than eight 
cents on an average. Now they average about 
20 cents in Winter, wbeu our miserable half- 
breed bens with their more miserable quarters, 
will not lay; and about 10 cents in the Spring 
and Summer. 
Very few of the recipes given, especially 
those pertaining to meats, ure of any use to 
us, save occasionally in Summer, when the 
everlasting salt pork is "give out;” for not one 
farmer in one hundred here kills either beef 
or mutton, and the butchers a*k so much tor 
fresh meat that it is positive extravagance to 
buy it often. Another difference is in fancy 
articles, of which the materials med for either 
silk or worsted embroidery, are far more ex¬ 
pensive here than there. I notice, however, 
this same difference in most of the other de¬ 
partments. We are commanded to feed our hens 
oyster shells, while au oyster shell would be 
as great a curiosity to us heie as it would be 
to you to see the mammoth productions of our 
soil without the use of fertilizers, which are 
never employed here, save those from the 
stables, and even then no attempt is made to 
save the liquid manures. Still 1 think we cau 
learn a great deal of economy from our East¬ 
ern sisters; but the Western farmers will have 
to learn that the interest so many of them 
pay to Eastern loan companies eats up the 
profit off the crops before we can prosper 
very much or have many conveniences. 
"JUSTICE.” 
[Will not “Justice” benefit her Western, if 
not her Eastern Sisterhood, by giving us 
some methods of cookery adapted to the W est- 
ern conditions? e. m.] 
CARE OF HOUSEHOLD LINEN. 
UmpUmeote and gUaclnttrnj 
February and Murcb ate the months for 
repairing and replenishing table and bedlinen, 
also towels. Muny sheets will be found worth 
turning. Then others that have been pre¬ 
viously turned, ami are beginning to break 
again, maj* be divided the best wearing some 
time for childrens’ beds. Then we cau see 
how many new must be made. I always use 
the Atlantic A brand of muslin, as it wears 
well (which is a corsideratiou among farmers) 
and never wrinkles and rolls up In the middle 
of the bed, allowing the tick to become soiled. 
For tbo best, use bleached double width, al 
ways, on account of easy washing, selecting 
that which has very little twist. Pillow cases 
1 cau do very little towaid repairing after 
they begin to wear out, so I always use them 
for cloths to put over tubs of butter. We buy 
the pillow case muslin, which comes 40, 45, 
aud 54 inches wide, and wears much better 
than the ordinary yard-wide uiusliu made the 
other way of the cloth. Pillow shams may 
be made to save labor, but I have never used 
them. Table-cloths often, after being neatly 
mended, will last a year. Napkins wear out 
first around the hems. If the old hems are 
cut off, and new ones made, they will answer 
very well for tea, or at any time for children. 
For every day wear we use the red cotton. 
We buy the very best, and wash them care 
fully, and they retain the bright color until 
worn out. We prefer red cotton, especially 
for table cloths, to white linen. For company 
wo always use white. Towels that have been 
worn thin may be cut and made into dish 
towels. The poorest part may bo left out aud 
the rest will still be large enough for this pur¬ 
pose. I buy heavy brown crash for common 
use, and tbo haudsome white linen patterns 
with red in the ends for spare rooms. These 
will last at least 20 years, and then they may 
be cut and made into nice wash rags. The 
old worn bed-spreads, af tor they can be darn¬ 
ed no longer, also do good service for wash 
rags after being cut and carelessly hemmed. 
For di iug new work, I am particular to use 
Coate’s thread, aud have very little trouble 
with the ripping of either muslin or liuen. 
Alter my annual February over hauling I 
very seldom have to oieud or make any of 
these articles during the year. I do not buy 
new goods every year by any means, but 
when obliged to buy I find at this time of 
year goods are much the cheapest, especially 
in a city. B. 
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tn starting llielr flower beds or cuttings* or for Far¬ 
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Buy the Porter Hay Carrier, the only 
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Ottawa, 111 , for circular 
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Send for Circulars to 
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SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
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Drain Tile^Brick 
Machinery for 
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Naming this paper. 
NOTES, 
hen mrs 
RIDING Oil WALKING 
CORN AS D FALLOW 
It is well to buy or knit red wristlets to 
attach to knit underwear; they are more satis¬ 
factory to wash and look more tidy than 
white ones. They may bo basted on with 
strong double thread aud removed when 
washed, as they are apt to discolor the white 
when washed together. 
Pour boiling water over raw, sliced onions, 
let them stand a moment, pour off and cover 
again, and repeat two or three times, then 
drain well, season with pepper, salt, and vine¬ 
gar, aud a dyspeptic may eat them without 
feeliug any bad effects from doing so. 
For some kinds of troublesome sore throat 
a porous plaster on the back of the neck will 
be found to give relief. It need not be large. 
FOR GEMS. 
One cup of milk, two of flour, two teaspoon¬ 
fuls of baking powder, and a little salt. 
HOT CORN BREAD. 
Equal parts of meal and sour milk, two eggs, 
one tablespoouful of molasses, one teaspoon¬ 
ful of soda, two tablespoonfuls of melted but¬ 
ter, pinch of salt. 
RICK 1*1 K. 
One cup of rice well cooked, two eggs, one- 
lialf cup of sugar, one pint of new milk. 
SOFT GINGERBREAD. 
Two cups of molasses, one of shortening, 
two of water, one tablespoouful of soda, ginger 
to the taste. aunt Rachel. 
With double row 
Corn Planter and 
Fertiliser Attach¬ 
ments complete in one 
M a c b t u e. Received 
• medal am i h 1 g h c - t 
•ward* of merit at 
(lie Great Sou the r„ 
exposition, 1 ,»ii l». 
vllle. h \.. and a 
number <*r State 
Fair* In 1888. 
REAPERS, 
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BRAKES 
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Address H EXCEL A* DROMGOLT), 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
DESSERT. 
Take of baked apples, free from skin aud 
core, one cupful, add the white of one egg, a 
cup of sugar aud a lit le flavoring. Then 
begin and stir it with a spoon for an hour. 
It soon begins to swell and unless you start 
with a large bowl you will find you have not 
room, Greenings are the best apples to use. 
The ubove was given to mo with a fancy 
name, which I cannot remember. It makes 
a vtry nice dessert, not expensive except iu 
time. RUTH KENT. 
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BREAKFAST POTATOES. 
If cold potatoes left from dinner are beaten 
up fine with a little good milk or cream, aud 
set away, they can be made quite a nice 
breakfast dish by cutting them into pieces 
and frying them in lurd, like doughnuts. If 
no potatoes are left, then peel, wash, and dry 
with a towel some even-sized raw ones, aud 
fry in pare, sweet lard. The fire must not be 
Prof, Horaford’s Baking Powder. 
Dr. F. H. Atkins, A. A. Surgeon, IT. S. 
Army, says: “Ibis Powder furnishes a food 
rich in phosphates, so much needed in the 
animal economy, and so largely discarded in 
our finely sifted flour,”—aide. 
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