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_' Donot let your cook take too thick 3 find «(f in paring potatoes. The Boiled in Vinegar.â€"Boil asparagus in salted water until tender. Lift from the water and drain. Cut in short lehgths, being partic‘ular to remove all hard parts. For dressing, take a p;ece- of butter the size of an egg, put in a sth‘pan, melt and let brown alightly. Add to this three-fourths cup vinegar. Let come to a boil, then pour over the asparagus and send to the {able steaming hot. But pepper in dressimr. ' ' ' 7 7 \Viih Cream Sauceâ€"Cut off all tough parts of asparagus and Lie the tender stalks in bunches; put aspara- gus bunches in boiling water suffi» cient to cover, add a little salt and boil till tender, place the bunches of asparagus upon slices of toast. Reâ€" move the string with which bunches were tied and pour over asparagus a cream fiance made thus: A cup sweet cream, a cup of the asparagus water, a. tablespoon flour, butter size half an egg. Let come to a. boil. This Is a very good recipe for asparagus, and is used in our home a great deal. , ,_- .0..- nuns cuua, out these» off, was): thoroughly, lay in bunches and cook in boiling salted water thirty minutes or until tenâ€" der, drain, butter well and serve hot, \Vith Cream Sauceâ€"Cut off all uuL quosuon the natural and whole- some. taste of the vegetable better than any other. Cut the bunchesin two, peel the lower half of the stalks as far as Um, hard “mun M..- m; ASPARA'GUS FAVORITES. Plainâ€"After trying various ways of Cooking asparagus I find that the famin verdict favors the simplest method. Other ways with milk or eggs may be good for a. change, but with- out question the natural and whole- some, taste of the vegetable better than any other. Cut the bunnhpq in Out of floors stood a shining car- riage drawn 'by two black horses, whose smooth Coats Shane like satin in the Sun. For very soon they were to take a ride, down the pleasant, shaded road that led to the village. And mother, who had always been "too tired" to get ready for a. ride, was going, too. But not with father â€"ab, no! Mother was going n10ne~ in the hearseâ€"for her beautiful sil- ver wedding day was also her burial J" .. VCI' din y And "motheu'," how beautiful she looked to these, hear nearest and dearâ€" est! Heir sllvcz'ed hair arranged in shining waves, 0. smile on her lips, the richness of her gown and the beauty and fragrance of the flmvers, all combined to make :1 charming pic- ture. "How beautiful mother is," whispered the youngest daughter,the baby of the flock, with newly awakenâ€" ed vision, to hem father. pure white lillies breathed out fragâ€" :rancc from their golden hearts, and dearest of all, within her thin, worn hands, brought to her by her hus- band, half-opened roses and creamy white, against the richness of her gown. Heir grownâ€"up boys and girls placed flowers in every room, carna- hinns, because “motheu‘ loved carna- tlnns,” and roses, “like mother had at home when she was a girl.” This was put home because "mother liked it so,” and that was laid there because " that was mother’s place for it.” Each and cverry thing was done with the solo thought of mother. ' V‘V‘. “~V.‘ LIJL JLhLAU parlor in profusion. Oldâ€"fashioned china bowls filled with masses of pink and white sweet peas set here and there, and from a quaint, tall jar, pure white lillies breathed out {morâ€" ,“v a--. N... V; vvvuulljs day. Flowers; for which she had always longed with a love almost akin to pain, were scattered about the little .. .v. muLJâ€"lhl . ‘And so, this sweet midsummer day. her silver wedding day, they had all gathered here at the dear old home.â€"the silverâ€"haired minister, {who had married them :35 short years ago, the many friends of her girlâ€" hood days, and the kindâ€"hearted neighbors, whom She had scarcely met, so busy. so full of tail, had been her quiet life. But tcyday seemed made especially for her, and all work, both indoors and out, had been laid aside on this, her beautiful silver wedding Rau- Year after year had passed by, each finding her a. little less able to cope :With the hard daily toil mt the farm. and leaving heir with‘ a few more sil- ver threads in her mace black hair. The children, now grown to manhood and womanhood, had each in turn, left the old farmhouse and gone out into the, lvotrlrl to seek fame and forâ€" tune, fully intending when these were iqu, to “make it easier for mother.” be. added to the fau‘m, and then more harm room to accommodate the proâ€" ddcts‘of that land; hclre, a note that must be met, and then had come the children's education, nnd later, as a find result at all these, the mortgage on the falrm. The longâ€"hoped-Io'r time had come at last. It had been one of he: cher- lshcd dreams,such a gown as this, rich enough for any event that might come into her quiet life. She had hop- ed and planned for it so many times since her weddingâ€"day; but there More many ways in which their hardâ€" earned money must go â€"-morc land to WEE E01965“ 015131101403 WQSEQ QWW HER SILVER “WEDDING. ' For the first time since her life he- gan, 44 years ago, Emily Harris, useJ only to common print and cheapest worsted, was clad in a black satin gown of .rx'chest texture and adorn- bd with the softest and finest of lace nt throat and wrists. :ES :5 $1)” § éOUS COOKING VEGETABLES pour over asparagus made thus: A cup cup of the_asparagus 19 a Great deal; Boil asparagus 4.“... u wunku his nephew iii a Pafirisiafil restaurantâ€" Not a bad {linger foy three francs,eh? Nephev rate. \Vcary \Yalkesâ€"Gee, whizz! You look tough. 1"What's de matter? Hungry Harwkesâ€"Overeatin'. Weary Wakesâ€"Coma 0M! Dat wouldn't give [yer a black eye. Hungry Ham‘kesâ€"No, but (lat was d»:- cnus: 0‘ dc trouble. The bartender batched [me at de fre: lunch. Enough sumo nix months intervened between its date and its receipt. ‘A dolphin found off the coast of Sicily vaa the conveyor 01' a. letter from a French gentleman addressed to his wife in Paris. Evidently the writer had allowed the note to fall oven-board whilst journeying on his yacht in the Mediterranean, but the letter reached the lady in due course, though some Bix months iniervenm-l ...........uu I'LL” nug- lish, he had entered into the humor of the situation, and had without dc- luy posted the communication to its proper-owner. Never perhaps has a loveâ€"letter been conveyed by a more peculiar postman. we mtenor of (1 huge mackerel and that being acquainted with Eng- n_L ‘ dingy, were in aperfect state of pre- servation. They were at once sent on to their destination, each letter ‘being marked on the outside, "Delayed through shipwreck.” no mention, of course, being made of the extraorâ€" 1di'natry incident which had occurred ‘sane the missives were posted. Rathea‘ amusing .was the following: A yoqu lady, walking on Brighton Pier, dropped into the sea ‘by accident a rather tender communication ad- dressed to the man of her choice. She forgot the incident completely, but was reminded of the same in a rather abrupt fashion by the receipt one morning some three months later of a. letter from her sweetheart, informâ€" ing her that the missive had been posted to him from Boulogne by a fisherman of that town. It seemed that the latter had found the note‘ in the interior of a huge mackerel.‘ There have, however, been cases beâ€" fore this of fish undertaking the carriage of letters. Some fifteen years ago a whale, which was strandâ€" ed on the south coast of Francenvas found, upon being cut open, to conâ€" tain a mailâ€"bug, wherein there reposâ€" ed many hundreds of letters. The bag in question formed part of a collection which was being conveyed to Guadaloupe by a wrecked vessel, and the letters, though somewhat dingy, were in aperfect state of pre- ean-nn+:~_ mL A, Cases Where Fish Have Undertaken the Carriage of Letters. ‘A very extraordinary case of afish acting as a letterâ€"carrier comes from Reryjavik, in Iceland. On April 29th of last Lyear a certain Captain Chris- tiansen, of the 55; Lawra, received an unimportant letter from the Sheriff of Vestermann while the ship was lying at thelatte'r port, Having perâ€" used the missive, the captain threw it carelessly overboard, and his aston- ishment may be well imagined when, ‘ on the 15th of the following month,‘ the identical communication soiled and disfigured, was handed to him by l the Consul of Reyjavik, to which place it had actually travelled in the stem- ach of a large codfivsh, and had been extricated from -the (same by a local fisherman. Seeing that ,Vestermann l-ies some 180 miles from Reyjavik, the letter must have travelled that disâ€" tance between April 29th and May 15th, the piscine post-man consuming just over two weeks in its submarine joui‘ney. Cases Where Fish The best arrangement for awin- dow garden is a large, wide shelf, which will accommodate two or three pots in depth. to this a large gal- vanized tray should be fitted. This can be covered with' enamel to match the wood of the. room or with moss green], which will harmonize with evâ€" erything. Two or three brackets, holding two or three (plants each, can be fastened at different heights on either side. Dainty .white sash cur- tains behind the plants will not only protect from chill dlrom ‘the glass, but will add much to the effort as a pret- ty background. ‘ To clean celery of the insects often found on it take a \vineglassful of hot water in which a little bicarbon- ate of soda has been dissolved. Plunge the celery into this after it has been washed. Then cool in ice water be- fore serving. City cooka too fwequently fail to properly “string” beans before cook- ing them. This is annoying at the table. Beans are vastly improved by a‘ cream or milk’ and: butter dressing. Cabbage are» better boiled with meat. Potatoes should always be boil~ ed separately. Otherwise they are soddem and unpalatable. See that Cucumbers are sliced as thin as possible, and put cracked ice over them half an hour before they come to the table. Onions should not be added to stew or'put in to cook with anything 0159 until they have been boiled for about town minutes and the water thrown away. On the other hand turnips should have a thick rind pared off. The tur~ nip has an Baxter part that destroys the flavou- of the whole it not thorâ€" oughly removed. best part of the potato is skin. THE . who is still gr0\x'}né:fi;st Let's have another! FOR THE \VINDO\V GARDEN PRIMARY CAUSE FISH AS POSTMEN. v:_h:>_lps just treated altogether. These products, it was said, were dangerously adultcrated, and injurious. and so the Government would ban them. There was truLh in it, for the Chancellor gave a hint of some such proceeding, and a num- her of speculators, who got the news early, started selling these commo- dities at a terrific raté. They of- fered quantities of the goods at low price, knowing that when the rum- our was confirmed the price would drop to almost noLhing. and they would be able to obtain the liquor which they had soldâ€"on paperâ€" at half the price thzy were booked to obtain for it from their purchasars. 'l'hus, by the usual City custom, they the A terrible "sell," which ruined a great many rash people who thought they could get ahead of the Govern- ment, was brought about by arum- our, not long ago, that the sale of Spanish brandy and various popular liqueurs was about to be forbidden altogether. These products. it was which delayed the French consign- mems. The British and anch merchants raced both each other and the Gov- ernment when the tax on tea was inâ€" creased a few years ago. It was a most exciting struggle,‘ for the British unloaded their warehouses, and tried to» hurry up the consign~ ments of tea that were coming/ along; 'while the French, seeing a chance, swept up all the tea to be had In France, and whisked it down to Calaâ€" is and Dunkirk, ready to come over at a moment's notice. They waited for more assuring news before ship- ping over, and they had the advant- age, because tea is not much sought after in France. and was cheap there. The French agents over here tried to get hold of the news, and the Eng? lish speculators combined to.prevent their obtaining it. At last the' news was practically confirmed. The British merchants poured their tea in, and within a few hours. a perfect navy of French ships came with! their. cargces, too. The race was about even; but the Frenchmen, wishing to make sure that there would be no hitch, had actually brought their own gangs of dock laborers with them. As might be expected, the English "duckies" fell foul of these, and there was NEARLY $10,000,000 worth of tobacco had duty paid on it during office hours that day, and large special stuffs had to be orgam ised to dsal with the work. Shouting mobs of them surged be- fore the doors, kept in order by lines of policemen. Thousands of pounds were made by those who were in time, and many thousands were lost by late- comers. Dignified merchants who were successful czlpered with joy out- side the warehouses, and rushed off to realise; while the struggling‘ de- spairing mass who could not get their applications attended to before clos- img time, because of the crush: almost went mad. \Vhen the doors were closed many wept tears of disappoint- meat. These are controlled by Government and a great army of staid business- men, wildly excited, besieged the warehouses in the race to get their goods out before the extra duty! came duo. h‘eusesâ€"places where imported goods c-an be stored, and the duty‘ paid when they are taken out. Not 10mg ago there was a slight; ex- tra duty laid on tobacco, which led to some of the most extraordinary sights ever seen in the business world. Small as the duty was, it. made a vast difference to the trade, and a great rush was made upon the bonded ware- settled matter all profit was lost. Again, if the tax did not “comm off” at all, two-thirds of the sugarâ€"gam- blers were ruined, h‘aving torus crf sugar they would not pay for with- out extra prcufit; and sugar would fall to almost nothing in price, so that the nation at large benefited. It was The coal was emptied out and sugar took its place to get it over in time; to: even :1 few hours after the sugar, worth about $22,500.000, were "cornered" by the British law-rac- ers. To get it over, scores of steam- ers, sailingwessels, and Craft of all kinds”, were chartered; and the rush was so great that speculators who had sunk their all in sugar, which was spoiling on the Continental whqrvcs. pwent nearly frantic. became short of if, and nearly all \Vestox‘n Europe had to pay another farming a pound for its sugar in conâ€" sequence. All the qunys and wharves of the great foreign cities were blocked with sugar-bags. throwing all when-business intoconiusion: and over 10,000,000 hundredâ€"“might bags of A Most Extraordinary Sightâ€"Exciting Struggle Between British and French Tea. Merchantsâ€"The Death Duty in Britain. When the rumour first spread that sugar was going to be taxed, a few weeks ago. a great army of business- men started to race the Chancellor {or a forlunbâ€"or ruin. They began the big gamble on an cnormoua- scale, buying up all lhn sugar that Europe had to 8:211. and struggling to get it over to Engl'md BEFORE THE TAX BEGAN. France, Auslria, Germany, and H01- land were ransacked for sugar to such an ext-ant that the Continent became short of ll. and nearlv all SUGAR AND OTHER GAMBLES THAT MADE FORTUNES. TRYING TO BEAT THE LAW. MAGNIFICENT GAMB A FREE FIG H'D. of colliers. â€"anything i; it came tax: was a "The man jac ket, and colour.” A Liverpool novelist says that the literary man Lho’llld have the keen~ est of imaginations. The following passages. taken from his first book, prov-3 that his awn imagination leaves nothing to be desired: V “Her hand was cold like that of a serpent." "The countess was about to reply, when a door opened, and closed her mouth." “‘Ha, ha!’ he exclaimed in Portuguese." "The col~ one) paced backward and forward, with his hand" behind his back, read- ing the newspapers." "At this sight the hegro's face grew. deadly pale." “The man was dressed in a. velvet jack-at, and in trousers of the same CAMERA AND BANK VISITORS. {It is [said that the Bank of France has an invisible studio in a gallery behind the Cashiers, so that at agiv- en signal from one of them, any sus- pected customer can instantly have his photograph taken without his knowledge. The camera has also he- come very useful in the detection of firauds, :1 word or figure that to the eye seemed completely eTasad being clearly reproduced in photographs of LL“ AAA,” th'e (16011.11;th tth Fadr gag; 112:3)“- ed with. .vVAJ :uuwu â€"that there results from the use of the diphtheria, nntitoxin, a consider- able reduction im the relative mortal~ it y from. this disease. An increase in the mortality rate of 5.07 per cent. when treatment is instituted on the first day of the disease to a rate- of 23.36 per cent. when the ant-itoxin is given on the fourth day, and 30.02 per cent. when} given on the fifth day should certainly be sufficient to con- win/3.3 the moist sk-eptiCaL . patde‘nlts, it is motewctrthy that under 2 years of age t'hcre were, 4,264 cases, with» 1,442 deathsâ€"33.81 ‘ -e.r cent. umde 1 year of age. 773 cases, with. 305 deathsâ€"39.45 per cent; from 2 to 5 years of age, 113353 cases, with 2,- 163 deathsâ€"19.06 per cent, from 5 to 10 years Of age, 9,628 cases, wit‘hi 1,â€" 120 deathsâ€"11.63 peT cent; over 10 yemrs of age. 5,929 cases, with. 350 dreadingâ€"5.9 per count. This exhaus» tire study demonstrates anew what has b30111 already comebasfively shown ‘1‘”; LL 7 CAMERA AND 311- hospitals, 35,095, with 6,398 deaths, a mncyr'talirty rate of 18.23 per cent; and in private practice and partially also in hospitats. 19,647, with 2.429 deaths, a mortality rate of 12.16 [Jer cent. To these JeULn-ck has added a number of collective repmrts from Austria, Hungary, Bosnia, Germany, Belgium, Russia and the United States of Americaâ€"127,359. cases, with 18,- 088 deaths~a martality rate of 14.2 per cent. An extremely interesting table is that which shows the inâ€" fluence of the early treatment with an‘tvi'toxin upon the momtality rate. Thins, of a toothl of 52,521 cases, with 8,026 deatihsâ€"a mortality rate of 15.28 ‘per courtâ€"there were treated cm the ‘fiirst day 5,970 with- 304 deaths, a martali'ty rate of 5.07 per cent; on this secamd day, 17.088, with 1,451 deathsâ€":1 mmrtality rate: of 8.49 per cent; om the: third day, 13,203, with 2,055 deathsâ€"a moir‘taLi-ty rate of 15. 56 pear Cent; an. the fourth day, 6,744, with 1,576 deathsâ€"a mortality rate of 23.36 mm 0901.; am the fifth day, 4,- 238, with 1,286 deathsâ€"n mortality rate of 30.02 per cent.; after the fifth day, 3,313, with 9224 deaths~a murtal- ity rate of 27.80 per cent, and on some day not specfified, 1,963, with 430 deathsâ€"a mlolrtality rate 01f 15.28 per cent. , With regard to the aces of tho. 8,525 deaths, a murtnLLty rate of 16.15 percent. Of theSe, there were treated Elaborate Report Domanslmtcs “fine 0! AIILIonln Scrum. O’tl‘o . :eLftnek, of the State Institute for the Preparation. of Diphtheria Antitoxin, Vienna, has prepared ure~ port oomcernrlmg the treatment of diphtheria by anltitoxin serum, which clcmhflnes the published reports of all other observers im. all parts of the world to the close of 1898. In; all there are 1‘61)th of 52,785 cases, with mnbarnle Rep did not feel the weight of the new order. but the wealthy did, and the Duke of \Vestmins.1er “us one of the first in the race, He made the great- er part of his $55,000,030 over to his son, and thousands of other people. did likewise. But there was a hole through which the law could creep in. and it did. All the tax-racers found themselves forced to pay the full duties. as well as heavy costs in' law and “enforcement”; and they dis- covered, too late. that the Govern- ment was too swift to be beaten in the "Death Duty Handiéap. THEY \VERE RUINED. : They could not ply for what they had bought on credit, and a. crop of over thirty bankruptcies was the result. A "race" with both Death and the Government was started in Britain when the famous death duties came into fomco. by which all legacies; we 0 taxed. People who had money 0 leave at once made "deeds of gift" of worth of goods which they had not got. and could not have paid {or if they bad. They stood to win or lose. in all. about $10,003,000; and when it was given out that prohibition had been abandoned, the price went up. and sold hundreds of thou-sands morth of goods which the got. and could not hnvr- r ANTITOXIN AND DIPHTHERIA. 'ERY EENSATIONAL. the 7 ages of the of pounds Only 52,000 in a million Englishmen are farmers. But more than a quarter 0d Russia's population lives by the soilâ€"293,000 per million. \Vhen you Dome to [hops and trade, the fig- ures are reversed. Two hundred and thirty-eight thousand Englishmen in the million are engaged incommei'ceL in Russia, (mly 47,030. We don't turn. rye feyther waan to turn And we all turn." But, there is, so the top and four chimed in the chiid Still, even taut a turn How many of you sleep there; little girl? mid the tourist. lv‘cytber and mother, myself and me toive broihers and sisters. answered Biddy, who was about twelve years old. Oh, but there is not room for oi youi "\VE ALL TURNS." It was in th: west of Ireland. Th: cabin was of the usual pattern; with cattle stalls to the left as you enter- ed, an open chimney, a round table, one chair, a. big box, and one bed to the right. The legs of the bedstead, an old four-poster, had sunk into the earthen floor. ‘pupmr for thirtyâ€"[cur years. A Rochester coroner censured Con- ductor Salick Smiuhv, of the “fest ‘S‘horte, cm account of the death of Patrick Quigley and Job-n Kinsella, of Auburn, who were killed last week. The men were three times ejectd from the train between Ganaudaigua and Fisher’s Station float trying to rid-c without paying fares. Then they bought tickets, but Canductmr Smith refused to Let them; .get em theI train again, unless they paid fur the free r-id-e they already bad. They took the next freight train and were killâ€" ed while leaving it in the Rochester yards. The coroner thiinks Conductor Smith contributed to their death by not letting them ride aite' he finally had bought tickets. The dui‘rcctorr's of the recent Music Festival at Syracuse report that the total attendance was 8,000. The total cost of the festival, including every expenditure known, was about $9,100. The total receipts were practically $6,500. This Leaves a deficiency of about $2,600. The gwarantm‘s will have to mmke this up by a. taxLof 50 cents on o. douxr. An experilmcmt in criminology is be- ing tried under the new parole law. Byron Day, anotolrxicras burglar, was taken flrcm the Roch-ester jail by order of Judge Sutherland and after a talk wi'th the judge, released on parole. \Voa‘k wus foam} for him in a 511m factory and he- will be given an opportunity to prom his promises of I-efmvl‘m mm] fed: the next; ten years. Gem. Rush 0. Hawkins, of New Ycrrk, has seam to the University of Velrmzln't, a. Lot of 'mro documents cone-arming the war of the rebellion to b: added to: the mLu'able collection of :1 Like natuurc, which he gave the Uniâ€" versity some time ago. Ln. the lat- ter Lot: is 0. copy of the. Daily Citizen; of Vicksburg, [or July 2, 1863, printed on wallpaper. R0 :nrt W. Button, (1 rcvpou‘tci' cm the stuff of u» Washington- evening will mean daily balances of the salary fund, which wiLl add (tom $6,000 1.0 $8,000 a'nmvunlly to the retirement fwnul for the next; ten years. W a den; of kmcckout derpS in Roch.~ ester, robbed of about $15 mad Left inxe-nlsible in an alley, “more he was later discovered by the, police. The Rochester Chamber of Com‘ murce hma published a-pamphlet setâ€" ting forth “1'! advantages of Ruchâ€" elstcrs, especially its water and electric paw” l_t is innuengded especially for Neighbourly Interest 1: Matters of Moment an ed From His Records. ‘3 tn'ib‘ution (it Um Exposition: PERSONAL AND POLITICAL NEWS ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE. AN HOUR WITH UNCLE SAM The Board mess of New, Orleans-has suf- nmhcr irreparable less in the '1' O. H. Snell-n, of the Times- lt. Mr. Stein was a writer hnér-1‘11.\vns apprepiated by the n {our abreast could never There would be no 103114 to >, sort. Four sleeps at. {gym- at the bottom, 311-, :1‘ mrmur Living in Founty, N.Y.. was fed kout dIrops in Roch. ,e L {haunt $15 mad left 'am and were killâ€" in the Rochester thinks Conductor to their death by Kids afie' he tickets. 31' no more than 'spaper writers in may. H'i's “By the; 3. Times-Democrat: ‘ hupor. W'hen he sez, “Tumi” in His Doings .. and Mirth Gather. Pu n-AmrSricn n eight