Domestic dronomtr. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
MBS. ENDICOT’S JOURNAL. 
Children's school clothes—aprons for girls — 
tomato preserves—reading for wilder evenings. 
Cutting out work aud getting it ready for 
the machine are hard work, as my aching back 
testifies. 1 did not get the children’s clothes 
just “fixed ” as they ought to have been before 
school commenced,having so much housework 
to do. I spent Monday iu looking over last 
year’s dresses, aprons, coats aud pants. When 
it came to the trying on, I was surprised to 
see how much Della had grown ; as for Harry, 
it’s just as he said, “some shorter boy will 
have to be found ” for his heavy suit. Della’s 
“best dress” last winter was a seal-brown 
cashmere ; now she will take it for school. I 
shall lengthen it by trimming it with blue and 
green mixed plaid, a piece about two inches 
deep around the skirt and about the same dis¬ 
tance from the bottom. This piece set in, will 
make it long enough. This, with the three large 
bib aprons I cut out this morning, will keep her 
lookiug nice all winter. The aprons are as 
Jong almost as her dress. They are hemmed 
arouud the bottom, aud trimmed at the nock 
and waist, with a ruffle; a pocket is set ou the 
right side,aud trimmed also with a ruffle across 
the top. Two of the aprons are of blue and 
white, the other of brown and white checked 
gingham. They are easily washed, dried aud 
iroued—a great, recommendation for winter 
time. Harry’s shirts I make of the brown aud 
white imported cheviots. Sometimes they have 
a thread of blue or piuk through them. His 
suits I get made, as I find that 1 do not know 
how to give them the finish I like them to have. 
I have hardly made up my mind what I shall 
do for Katy yet; the white dresses are so pretty 
but so troublesome that I should not wonder if 
soft, line fiaunel took their place ,* with pretty 
white aprons they still look baby tied. 
Harry has just brought a large basket of 
partly ripened tomatoes from thegarden,which 
I know means, that he wants me to keep my 
promise and make them into preserves, and 
this is the way I shall do it. 
Tomnto Preserves. 
Take tomatoes that are partly ripe, peel and 
put over them sugar, pouud for pound; let 
them set till the next morning; then pour off 
the juice—you will he surprised at the quantity 
—and put on in a porcelain kettle ; when it is 
boiling briskly, putin the tomatoes ; they will 
need to cook a long time—three or four hours, 
until the juice is a thick sirup. We find them de¬ 
licious, and they are a particular favorite with 
rich cream. I know many persons do not like 
them, but 1 think it is because they do not use 
euough sugar nor cook long enough. This 
must be done till the water has evaporated, 
or they will be insipid. 
Mrs. Cox was in this afternoon, and we were 
talking of the long evenings that are coming 
so soon, which indeed, have already commenc¬ 
ed. This led her to speak of a plan she had 
thought of for our amusement and improve¬ 
ment this winter. It was this—that as many in 
our neighborhood as wanted should form a 
club ; each one to select any book he or she 
wanted, the name of the book with the price to 
be handed to some one selected, who would 
buy the whole,thus getting them at a reduction 
from the retail price. It is proposed that the 
elub should meet once in two weeks at the 
home of some member; exchange books and 
spend a social evening. Thus each one would 
get the reading of a number of books for the 
price of one. The plan suited me exactly, as we 
have no library in our town. I told her if she 
would see part of our friends, I would try and 
see others, as I had wanted to make some calls 
for a long time. 
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SIT DOWN TO WORK. 
Aim women should economize their strength 
a6 much as possible while they are young and 
healthy, and still more if they are aged and 
feeble. One way to do this is to rest one set 
of muscles while others are iu action. Begin 
early in the morning by sitting down to your 
work before becoming tired, and you will hold 
out better through the day. 
Place a light box in a chair to make it high 
enough to sit at the table to work, You can 
iron, wash dishes, mix bread, roll out pie¬ 
crust, and many other things with far less 
fatigue than if standing. Women cannot keep 
on their feet very long at a time without injury 
to their health. All women who have chil¬ 
dren, whether boys or girls, should teach 
them early to aid in the kitchen. 
Boys as well as girls may be taught to pound 
out, or rub clothes, and even to wash, rinse 
and hang them up neatly. They may he 
taught to mop, scrub, aud clean ceilings, iron 
their owu clothes, and others’.if need he, clean 
vegetables, and do many things about the 
house,and it will make better men of them, than 
if they were not taught to do these things. 
Hattie Hopeful. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Mullins. 
Three cups of milk; one tablespoonful of 
melted butter; two eggs; oue teaspoouful of 
salt; three tablespoonsful of yeast; one table¬ 
spoonful of white sugar. Mix all in a sponge 
but the eggs. Half an hour before baking add 
the eggs and a quarter of a teaspoonful of 
soda. Let rise ten minutes. Bake in rings 
twenty minutes. 
Cocoanut Cake. 
Whites of four eggs; two cups of sugar; 
one-half cup of butter; oue cup of milk: one 
teaspoonful of eieam-of-tavtar and one-half 
teaspoonful of soda; four cups of Hour. Bake 
in layers. For fillingTake whites of two 
eggs ; one-half tea-eupful of sugar (pulver¬ 
ized) aud thicken with cocoanut. 
Slewed Green Corn. 
Cut the corn from twelve ears; add one 
pint of milk and cook in a covered pail set in 
a kettle of water cook oue half hour. Then 
add three eggs well beaten, salt, pepper and a 
little sugar to taste. Put a piece of butter in 
the dish in which vou serve it and pour iu the 
corn. 
Chicken Salad. 
Two chickens: chicken and celery equal 
parts; cut in small bits—not chopped. Dress¬ 
ing Yelks of three raw eggs; one teaspoon¬ 
ful of made mustard; a little salt aud red 
pepper; half a bottle of oil stirred in slowly; 
vinegar to make a cream. Add to salad just 
before using. Mbs. A. Gkiswolb. 
For Hemorrhage. 
To stop hemorrhage, or bleeding from the 
nose, wound, or from any cause, apply dried 
beef scraped very fine. If it is smoked it is so 
much the better. This remedy saved a pet 
horse of ours when everything else failed. 
Mbs. Kennedy. 
To Cook Carrots. 
Slice carrots roundwise, as thin as you 
please; cover with boiling water, and boil till 
done, aud until all the water has evaporated; 
then cover with milk and cream, and simmer 
80 minules; salt and pepper to taste, d. m. g. 
Deab Mbs. Maple I should like the ladies 
to try a Southern dish called 
Brunswick Stew. 
Stew until tender enough to bone easily, two 
chickens ; take out the bones, add ten ears of 
com cut from the cob, a dozen tomatoes, 
peeled aud sliced, and a pint of lima beaus; 
cook all together, add salt and pepper to the 
taste. 
Apple .Jonathan. 
Fill a pudding dish with apples pared and 
sliced, and pour over the dish a batter made of 
buttermilk brought to a foam with soda, and 
thickened with flour, so it will just spread with 
a spoon. When the apples are tender and din¬ 
ner is served, turn upside down on a platter ; 
beat the soft apples smoothly on the crust; 
add a lump of butter, mumeg or eiuuamon. a6 
one prefers, and serve hot. L. W. Baldwin, 
itrius of t|c S&xflt. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
.Monday, September 29, 1879. 
The legality of the clauses of the new California 
constitution forbidding the employment of Clilnese 
on public works or by corporation. Is likely to be 
speedily passed upon by the United St ates Supreme 
Court. Oregon has a similar law, which has been 
declared unconstitutional by Judges Deady and 
Field of the United States District and Circuit 
Courts, aud, If the Supreme Court sustains this 
position, California’s prohibition also falls to the 
ground. The San Francisco papers endeavor to 
sustain the constitution by the plea that our treaty 
with China only recognizes the Inalienable right 
of man to change his home for purposes of trade, 
ourlosty Or permanent residence, and argue that 
employment on public works or for corporations 
comes under neither of these heads. The annual 
session of the American veterinary association, re¬ 
cently held at New York, took steps to memoml- 
lze congress to establish a national bureau of vete¬ 
rinary Inspection. its especial purpose Is to be 
the stamping out of pleuro-pneuraonla and keep¬ 
ing foreign countries exactly informed as to the 
prevalence ot the disease In this country, now re¬ 
ported by the 8tate officials of New York and 
New Jersey lobe dying out. This New York ac¬ 
tion Happens to be Just in the line of the wishes 
of the great Western herders, whose 15,000,000 
cattle, or nearly half of all In the country, feed 
over the great cattle belt, which stretches .1000 
miles north from the Rio Grande to Manitoba. 
It costs only about. $3 to fatten a $30-steer on 
those wide plains, but If pleuro-pneumonla once 
got into the the almost numberless herds, the 
business would be ruined, lor It would be Impossi¬ 
ble to stump It out. The ehlet or only danger is 
from pure-bred Imported cattle, especially bulls, for 
this belt exports cattle to the Infected sections, and 
the next Congress will receive petitions by the 
bushel asking Immediate agreement on some form 
of national Inspection and quarantine against 
pleuro-pneumonla and other animal diseases, 
The Court of Appeals of this State has decided 
that mortgages made with bonuses or usurious 
Interest are void. The decision Is averse to the 
Knickerbocker Life Insurance Company, and 
wipes out over $ 1 , 000,000 in motgages held by that 
company. From April to August, last, over i7,ooo 
cabin passengers left this country for Europe. It 
would be a low a verage to estimate that these pas¬ 
sengers spend $1000 apiece in Europe, and tills 
means the expenditure of $17,000,000 abroad In 
gold. During the year ending .Tune 30 , 2670 post- 
offices were established and 1079 discontinued. 
There were 10,872 offices in the country June 30, 
and the increase since then Is 172. Large, numbers 
of Chinamen have arrived at New York the past 
week from .San Francisco, and one or them states 
that, thousands more are coming. The crusade, 
against polygamy at Suit Lake city Is to be vigor¬ 
ously pushed. The United states District Attor¬ 
ney Ls instructed In thoroughly prosecute every 
case presented by the grand jury, which meets 
next month. The judiciary will be strengthened 
if necessary. 
The luternatiouaJ walking match for Sir John 
A alley’s Champion Belt, worth $500 and a share 
in the gate money, took place here during last week 
at Madison square Garden—formerly Gilmore’s— 
and excited more public Interest than Tammany’s 
“ bolt,” or the proposed “ scratching” party of 
a-Uttle-poor-milk-and-a-good-deal - of - clean-water 
Republicans. Thirteen competitors started, each 
of whom had to pay an entrance fee of $500, the 
total making a stake of $6,500 which was to go to 
the winner of the match, In addition to the belt, 
and one-half of the net gate-money. One of the 
men, Butcher, fainted on the track after having 
walked 23 miles, and was at ouce withdrawn ; and 
tUen Panchot was withdrawn after having made 
205 miles, owing to lameness, and because his back¬ 
ers preferred not to tire him out now, as he is en¬ 
tered for another match at the same place next 
week ; a third, .Jackson, withdrew, “ knocked up” 
and hopeless, after having completed 230 miles; 
and a fourth, Fedenneyer, followed his example 
at the end of his 309th mile. The contest was to 
end at 1 1 o clock on Saturday evening, but all had 
retired from tbe track before ten. 
The Daily Record. 
The following table shows the amount of work 
done by the contestants each day : 
1st 
2d 
3d 
4 th 
5th 
6th 
day. 
day. 
day. 
day, 
, day. 
day. 
Total. 
Weston. 
.. 95 
78 
78 
71 
at 
50 
455 
Rowell. 
...127 
88 
95 
92 
50 
78 
530 
Hazael...,_ 
. .100 
86 
90 
92 
70 
64 
500 
Guyon. 
. 116 
85 
70 
76 
70 
56 
471 
Ennis. 
.102 
78 
40 
90 
67 
73 
450 
Merritt. 
. .110 
f)7 
90 
80 
74 
73 
515 
Hart. 
..no 
83 
79 
67 
77 
67 
482 
KrohOo. 
.. 93 
67 
73 
74 
76 
68 
460 
Taylor. 
..80 
90 
50 
30 
33 
37 
250 
Federmeyfir 
.. 85 
tx> 
70 
68 
Out. 
Out. 
848 
Jackson. 
.. 98 
62 
70 
Out. 
Out. 
Out, 
Panchot. 
.. 100 
54 
61 
Ollt. 
Ollt. 
Out, 
205 
Butcher. 
... 23 
Out. 
Out. 
Out. 
Out. 
Out. 
23 
DISTANCE AND TIME. 
The following ls the distance covered by each 
pedestrian, and the actual time occupied : 
Miles. h. sr. s. 
Rowell.530 3 i 139 2ft 0 
Merritt.016 139 32 16 
Hazael.500K 139 IM 5U 
Han.4821* DO 2-t 10 
Guyon.471 139 12 30 
Weston.456 137 17 15 
Ennis.450V 140 51 32 
Krohne...450V 140 48 25 
Taylor...250V 140 24 40 
COMPARATIVE RECORD OP PREVIOUS CONTESTS. 
The following table exhibits the recorded time 
made by the previous w inners of the belt, includ¬ 
ing that of “ Blower Brown,” in the competition 
for the belt representing the championship of Eng¬ 
land : 
Hours. 
Weston, 
Brown. 
O’Leary. 
Rowell 
5. 
35 
29 
30 
10. 
. 63 
62 
56 
55 
16. 
. 87 
88 
76 
88 
20. 
.100 
113 
101 
100 
25. 
.124 
126 
120 
110 
40. 
.144 
146 
132 
132 
36. 
.163 
168 
147 
149 
4U. 
.185 
192 
166 
172 
45. 
.211 
214 
188 
182 
50. 
.220 
221 
203 
203 
55 . 
.238 
246 
220 
219 
60. 
.246 
266 
240 
237 
65. . 
285 
262 
253 
70. 
.3113 
305 
283 
275 
75 . 
310 
301 
283 
80. 
.337 
335 
311 
303 
85. 
357 
830 
328 
90. 
381 
353 
343 
95. 
.390 
403 
373 
357 
100. 
..405 
409 
386 
361 
too. 
.417 
429 
400 
385 
110. 
.428 
447 
420 
401 
i to. . 
.450 
455 
442 
420 
120. 
.463 
480 
459 
427 
125. 
.478 
490 
468 
445 
130. 
.496 
606 
487 
463 
135. 
522 
505 
480 
140. 
541 
520 
500 
142. 
542 
520 
500 
The entrance fee to witness the contest was $i— 
double the price charged at any former similar 
exhibition; but at this figure $73,923 were collect¬ 
ed rrom as many “ paying” visitors, to say noth¬ 
ing of a multitude of “deadheads’ 1 and of a con¬ 
siderable number who got in on stolen or forged 
tickets. Of this sum Kuntz Brothers, the lessees 
of the Garden, get 25 percent, or $18,480.75, and the 
remaining $55,442.25 are now In the hands of Mr. 
Atkinson, whom Astley sent over here to repre¬ 
sent him. This will be divided among the eight 
contestants who made 450 miles. Rowell gets half 
after all expenses are paid. His share will not be 
much, if any, under $25,000, which, with $ 6,500 in 
stakes, to say nothing of the glory of taking the 
belt back to England, will pay the plucky little 
fellow well for six days’ work. Merritt, the second, 
a Connecticut lanky, thln-faced chap, will get 
about 9,000. Hazael, another Englishman who 
came in third, will get about $6,000; Hart, a negro 
who won golden opinions and the fourth place 
pockets some $ 2 ,Oim, and the others proportionate 
stuns, according to their place at the finish, none 
getting less than ins ent rance money—$506. 
Western, who brought the belt back from Eng¬ 
land after Rowell took it away from O'Leary, 
proved as disappointing a fraud as he has done 
on numerous former occasions. Hundreds deny 
that he ever made the 650 miles credited to him 
in his late contest in England. ’They maintain 
that; It was a “ put-up Job” in order that the con¬ 
test might take place here rather than in England. 
There the gate money amounted at the last con¬ 
test only to a paltry sum of $ 6,000 or $ 7 , 000 , whereas 
here, the winner always pockets a respectable 
fortune, others declare the fellow didn't do Ms 
best; and all parties vilify him and have lost con¬ 
fidence In film, owing to his “ monkey shines” and 
antics during the week. Rowell has been already 
challenged by O’Leary and Ranchot. 
Ex-U. s. Senator Spencer of Alabama, who 
ls now colnlug shekels from a Black Hills mine, ls 
already mixed up In Dakota politics, and Is making 
a hot fight to prevent Delegate Bennett’s return to 
Congress next year. The Colorado republican 
state convention at Denver last week nominated 
Judge William £. Beck tor judge of the Supreme 
Court, and the democrats Tuesday nominated 
George O. Rlohmoud or Pueblo. Nearly $2,500,000 
I of the sum paid out under the pension arrearages 
blllhas gone South, the Southern suites furnishing 
300,000 white men to the Union forces, not ao very 
many less than New England, whose pensioners 
receive $3,600,000 under the same bill, those in New 
York receiving $3,230,000, and in Pennsylvania 
$3,050,000. 
FOREIGN. 
In Afghanistan the British are concentrating 
their forces at Slrgar Valley, about 26 miles from 
Cabool, preparatory to a rapid advance on that 
city. Yacoob Khan, Ms heir apparent, and father- 
in-law, together with many of Ms chiefs, have 
arrived In the British camp. Meanwhile, his cap¬ 
ital is the prey of the wildest kinder anarchy; the 
gates are rinsed and hasty but confused prepara¬ 
tions arc being made by the mutineers and popu¬ 
lace to resist the English Invaders. The Khan’s 
power seems to be limited to a very lew districts; 
as the bulk of the country la without, la w or order 
of auy son, except the will of a number of petty 
eMcftalns or mutinous leaders. The British move¬ 
ments are retarded greatly through Inadequate 
means of transportation. 
in South Africa, X.ululand is being rapidly paci¬ 
fied since the capture of Cetewayo who has been 
taken to Capo Town, There he will probably'be 
held prisoner, although It lsnot unlikely that hla 
final fate will be decided by the home Govern¬ 
ment. in Europe the meeting ot Bismarck and 
Andrassy, ls supposed to have resulted lu the for¬ 
mation of an unusually close alliance between 
Germany and Austria. It ls at present, stated 
that each has guaranteed the possessions or the 
other; so that the future enemies of either will 
have to fight both. This close a lliance ls believed 
to be due to the danger on the one side from the 
Russian Panalavic propaganda and on the other 
from the certainty that France will take the first 
favorable opportunity for revenglug Sedan and 
regaining Alsace and Loralne. It ls rumored that 
there Is no chance of a peaceable settlement be¬ 
tween Greece and Turkey and both sides are vig¬ 
orously preparing for war. it Is the opinion that 
Austria ls obstructing the efforts for a good un¬ 
derstanding, and that In the event of hostilities, 
she would immediately occupy Macedonia. Prince 
I.obanorr is reported to be the bearer of a project 
for au alliance between Russia and Turkey. It ls 
rumored that. Russia ls willing to renounce eight, 
hundred million francs out of the twelve hundred 
million wltleh Turkey bad to pay her as a war In¬ 
demnity, and not a franc of which has yet been 
paid, and In addition to this Russia would give 
back some of the former provinces of Turkey iu 
Asia 
During a recent fight between the Peruvian ram 
Huascar and the Chilian transport Abtao and 
shore batteries at Antofagasta, Chill, Capt. era a 
of the Hauscar attempted to use one of the new 
English torpedoes. To the consternation of the 
Peruvians, however, the Infernal machine, after 
traveling about 150 yards toward the Abtao. turned 
and came directly back. A fatal collision was Im¬ 
minent, when young Lieut. Dlez Canseco jumped 
ovorboard, swam to the approaching torpedo and 
changed Its course so that It passed under the 
Huascar’s stern. The Chilian naval and land 
forces are doing nothing. The Peruvian treasury 
ls bankrupt, $ 5 , 000,000 being due the banks and 
others for war expenses, and there, is no money to 
pay the soldiers or furnish them with rations. The 
finance minister, appalled at the situation, lias 
resigned. Very little was heard of the loss sue- 
tatned by the Russians In their campaign In Ar- 
meMa during the Uusso-Turklsh war. The corre¬ 
spondents were mostly In the Balkan peDtusula, 
but a recetJt report from the Russian staff shows 
that the force engaged lost 30 per cent of its offi¬ 
cers and 23 per cent of Its men, In all, a total ot 
2139 officers and 70,478 men about equally divided 
between the killed or wounded and missing. 
The new Khedive of Egypt Is economical to par¬ 
simony, and saves candle-ends; at least the Paris 
correspondent of the London Times says that “ an 
eye witness has seen Mm extinguishing candles 
which were burning in an empty room.” 
If the early beginnings of the Increasing 
tide of immigration to this country from Eu¬ 
rope give any hint of its character, it, will largely 
consist of the wholesale transfer of particular In¬ 
dustries. An English trade journal says that a 
cutlery firm In Sheffield, with all Its capital and a 
full staff of workmen, ls removing bodily to thin 
country. The Paris correspondent of the London 
Economist reports that an orgaMzed company of 
50 herdsmen and women ls Just starting from the 
Cotentln peninsula In France, the cMef butter- 
making district la the country, to organize a dairy 
farm In the United States. 
During the past six years 93 monasteries and 41 
convents have been suppressed In Rome, and their 
Inmates, 2888 in number, cast adrift. The net pro¬ 
ceeds 01 the confiscations and sale of the church 
property lu the city were only $ 5 , 000 , 000 -—a mere 
trifle In comparison to the great expectations en¬ 
tertained by the authorities. The slaves of Clen- 
fuegos, lu the UU 100 Villas, Cuba, have risen In 
rebellion against, the Spaniards and Joined the 
Cuban patriots, taking with them a large propor¬ 
tion of their masters’ cattle. A correspondent or 
the Dundee Advertiser says, In a careful review of 
Scotch farming, that since 1872, when farmers were 
