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â- hiiiMi lai mtB% •i««M»MMHMMI â- V ' V JfOr£.S A AD COMMENTS. One of the most surprising dcvelop- nieiits siiico the close of Uio war in Boutli Africa is llic siKldeti multi- plicity of boolis tiy Uocr authors. Before tlie wiir the world had scai'Cc- ly heard of a Boer book, and the si- lence on Ihut &ido during the hos- tilitiis seemed to eonlirm the im- prcsBion that the Afrikander farmers were an inarticulate race. Now ev- ery burgher Kcenis to have • thrown down the ride only to lake up the pon, and we have the lyhejionienon of a Boer literature created out of hand. Ex-I're.sident Krugcr has written his reinini-stuuces and C!cn. 1)0 Wet has told the story of his thi-ec-year campaign. Gen. Botha has given his version of the (ight, aitd tlie wife of Oen. ])c la Roy is about to record Iier sullerings and experiences in a book. The Kng- IL-di pap<;rs havo just fiiiislied review- ing extcnfive volumes written by Gen. lien. Viljoen and the chaplain of President Steyn. The Fiee State jire>i(k'i]t himself is still to be heard from, and so is Gen. Cronje, but these and a half a score besides arc not likely to remain silent. Tl e con- ditions are peculiarly favorable for this literary outpouring from the <lcfeateil side; the Boers are natural- ly prouil of tlieir strong resistance, while the liIâ- iti^(h public is in a gen- erous niDod, which gives the bur/;hers a lar^e audience in that country as well iis in America and Europe. i About the I ....House The quality of these books is al- most as notuwoi-thy as their (junnti- ty. The Ihitch Afrikanders write as vigorously and intelligently as they fought. 1'hey show less bit- terness than miglil iiave been ex- pected, and the British press ti-cals them with a reasonable degree of re- spect. All this is fortunate i)olitic- ally. It 19 likely to do a good deal toward reconciling van(|uis'ied and victor, thus srimplifying the dilticull task of reconstmctlon. The only dis- quieting thought is that these liter- ary soldiers, liaving had a taste of the Pierian sprintr, uuiy lose their Iiresencc of mind and join the innum- erable a'"'ny of novelists. In that case Tolstoi's story of the evil ef- fects of all Wars woukl le estab- lished. In talkiii,"^ about newspapers not long ago a college professor is re- ported to have said that twenty min- utes a day was all that one ought to give to newspaper reading. It is to 1)0 feared tluit s-.icJi advice will fortify tlie skipper and the sl<immer in tlieir lieltci'-altcllcr habits. Not that there is no justification tor skipping and skimming. There cer- tainly is. Till! perfect, ne plus ultra reader is the one who can adjust his si>ee<l to the importance of the mat- ter which he is perusing, who can float lightly over pas.sages which do not concern liini and plod conscien- tiously througli pa.ssages which do concern him, who has acquired the power of rapid survey without losing the power, whenever it is noci'ssary to e\ercise it, of accurat(! insight. This kinil of reading machine, capa- ble of being ndjuste<l to any requir- ed velocity, and to any required de- gree of llioroughness, will do more work in a day than any other kind of reading machine that can bo de- \is»,><l. H romnlnB true, however, that most people skir- and skim unintelli- gent ly. They fall Into Ways which arc fatal to lU'iital healih. They be- conu- too cursory. Such people slioiihl give their imper more than twenty minutes a day. They neoil not read everything that the paper contains. The headlines will enable them to ))ick out those article;* which are of particular value to them. Oth- er people will pick out other articles. That is the plan on which the daily paper is constiuctcd. It is not meant in all its parts for all peo- ple. What it attempts to do is to give each of its readers the things which he is interested in. When he .has found those things ho should rcnil tliem carefully. Unless he does he will flwl that bis nccpiaintanco With tiuTcnt events Is exceedingly uiwatisfaclory. The farmer who plows through the columns of his pa|>ci' with much more cnro than •peed is, nf all men in the ooiuitry, Iho best informed on many subjecla of pidilical moment. The thing w« neoil is, prrhafw, not that newspa- per reading .hould be Irss ub.iorbiDg but tliat it should lie mora discrim- Inatinft. Ifcclinf is lik* Bmohe, intticatlve aot of ktat tut of the fu.i. FOK THE COOK. Janacks â€" Take 15 cups fine cooked oatmeal, li cups Indian meal, 2-3 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 tea- spoons cream of tartar, 1 egg, thor- oughly beaten, 1 teaspoon shorten- ing. Add just a little sweet milk, a pinch of salt and stir all together. Bake in gem tins in hot oven. Griddle PulTsâ€" One qt new warm milk, 1 teacup sweet yeast or a yeast cake, i teaspoon salt, 3 beat- en eggs, 5 cups flour beaten to a batter. Set to rise over night, add- ing butter half size of an egg the last thing. If owa has cream, make the quart of milk .a cup short and fill up with sweet cream using half as much butter. Some put the but- ter in next morning after sponge has risen. Have everything warm, flour and all. Have gem tins very hot and set on stove while dropping in pulls, a mixing spoonful to a puff. Bake in hot oven for break- fast. They may be cooked on well- greased griildle, like fritters, but are more work, and served with syrup. Simple Soup â€" Get a bone of beef from the market, and boil it slowly all the morning. About an hour be- fore dinner chop about i pt cab- bage and 1 or 2 potatoes, onions if liked, add 2 tablespoons rice and season with salt and pepper. To make the thickening for the soup, take 1 t}i,\i, break into some dry (lour, stir until it can be rolled very thin, keeping plenty of flour about it to keep it from sticking together. Then roll as .you would roll jelly cake, and with a sharp knife cut in very thin slices. These are to lie dropped into the soup 15 or 20 minutes before taking from the stove. One egg prepared in this way will make thickening enough for 1 gal. of SOU]). Brown Bread Boll With Cream.â€" One cup of sifted rye meal, one cup line granulated wheat or fine graham (lour, one-half cup granulated corn- meal, one-halt cup Hour, one tea- spoon of salt, two level teaspoons of baking powder, one-half teaspoon of soda, one-h.^U cup molasses, and one pint sweet milk. Mix the rye, graham, cornmeal, flour, salt, bak- ing powder, and soda thoroughly to- gether, then add the molasses and the milk. Grease four small luiking powder cans, one-half pound size, fill them about half tul with the batter, cover them and steam two hours. Cut into slices one-third of an inch thick and serve with thick- ened milk or cream. Cook one level tablespoon of (lour in one level tablespoon of hot butter, add one cup of hot milk and a little salt. Sti'ain before serving if it is not smooth. To Cook Wild Buckâ€" Pick, singe and drav. Wash in several waters ond wipe dry. Pare several small carrots, place inside the duck and parboil tor one hour. Or it pre- ferred, use a slice or two of lemon to take away the rank flavor, in- stead of the carrots. Allow the licpior to simmer until only a pint or so remains in the kettle. Then ailil a generous lunij) of butter, salt and pepper to suit taste. Have ready 1 qt bread crunvbs, into which has been broken 1 tablespnon dry sage leaves. Over this pour the licpior in which the fowl was lioiled, retaining a small quantity for biist- j ing. Add 2 eggs well lieatcn. and 2 onions choppi'd line. I'lace the duck in the center of the baking pan and 'pour the dressing thus niado arininil I it. Bake in a moderate oven, liusl- j ing trequently. and turning the duck when nicel.v browned on one side. Serve with fruit jelly. Uaised Doughnutsâ€" Scald on<i pint of new milk, and when it is luke- warm, add one level teaspoon of salt and three cakes of compressed yeast. Cover and let the sponge I'ise in a warm place until very light. Then add one heaped cup of collee crushed sugar and one-half cup of butter which have been creamed together, also add two well beaten eggs, one-half of a nutmeg grated, and enough bread flour to make a dough that you can mold without adding more (lour, but be careful and not get it too stiff. Knead the dough o;ie-half on a warm board, then roll it out one-half incli thick, cut with a small biscuit cutter, and place them on the warm board half an inch apart, and let them rise in a warm place until they are very light. Then fry them slowly, and while they are hot roll them in powdered sugar, if you like. This makes three dozen. If you do not care to have them as rich, use only one-half cup of butter and omit one egg, the remaind/r of the work the same as above. Be careful that they do not get too warm at any time before frying. CIHLDRF.N AT THE TABLE. Mrs. Tilson writes on the didjculty of teaching children to eat a va- riety, and especially thos<! things they dislike. She says :â€" Let mo give examples how to do it and how not. A little boy and his mother were visiting us. Our meat was codfish in cream, which he rc- fu.sed. His mother said he did not like white sauce or gravy, but that was nonsense and he should learn then and there, or go without his dinner. My mother, a woman of great tact, shook her head at such a positive declaration. Hut there was a scene, the boy cried, left the table for a while, and finally had his dinnei' without codlish in cream. Those parents often succeed best who somewhat like '•Bre'r Rabbit" â- lie low and say nuflin !" A boy who Worked for me did not cat vegetables I asked whether they disagreed with him. "No," he said, "I don't like the looks and taste of the mu.shy things." I replied that as he had his own way to make. ho might Eonietimes board with families who would cat jirincipally vegetables and he go hungry, and I iiresumod he was willing to give everything in this world a fair trial. Had I ridi- culed or conunanded, lie would have said in his heart, "I will not be bossed by a woman, and a little one, at that." I made a show of caution, suggested he begin with a teasiioontiil every time a vegetable Was served, gradually increasing the quantity he ate ; then, drawing my- self up to all my Inches, remarked that I had great force of character and could teach myself to do any- thing in no time, but didn't expect other people could lie so strong. Of course the hoy said in his heart, "I will not be outdone by a woman, and a iittle one at that." When I thought he was equal only to a (ea- spoonful, he was ready for a table- spoonful, and when I consented to the latter, he was ready for more, being now a fair eater of vegetables and in better health. HOW TO TREAT CAKES. To test whether a cake is baked press it with the linger and if no im- pression is left it is done. If a cake is mixed too slKT or (he oven too hot it will split across the toyi. An experienced cook will know that if the s()lit is straight and dry the cake was mixed too dry. but if there are lurves in the split the ove!i Was too hot. Let tt cuke cool before frosting. MH. MORGAN'S PROFITS. Tlio following are the proUlS' made by Mr. I'ierpont Morgan (hiring 11)02 in linanciiig the tolli>wing "coinbini's"; From the Steel Ciu- poration. S2O,;!2O,IKI0; from tlie Northern Securities, J!4, 500,000; from the Stea.m.ship Combination. |b,r>00,000; from the llai'\'csters Merger, Sr),.")00,000; from the Louis- ville and Nashville Railroad. ST.OOO- 000; from the Iteally ("omi>any, SIl,- 000,000â€" a total of ?41, 830,000. â-  â€"9 WHAT TO BREED FOR. Dairymen who are not breeders of pure-bred cattle often boast that their dairies produce as much (or more) milk or butter as the herds of pure-bred catt.'", owned by the breed- er. If they wojld only give the mat- ter a little thought it would seem very clear why cattle not so well bred should bo greater producers for a short time. In the first place one should not imagine that a breeder is simply a feeder. High feeding is the rock that has shattered the bark of umiiy a would-bo breeder. The modern dairyman, generally buys Kis cows at from (our to six years old. He feeds them a ration to produce as much milk as possible, and at the age of eight or nine they fail and are replaced by others. Now this course will not do for the breeder. His foundation cows cost too much to be sacrificed in manner. Besides, a cow .should bo overworked if she produces best olTspring of which she is by absorption in the absence of a mouth. Because of the irritation to which this presence sometimas gives rise, and because of the annoyance, wliich the gad-fly gives the horses, all possible measures should be taken to protect them from such annoy- ance. It is usually farmers who have lost poor, run-down horses who lay claim to death by bots. But when we consider that bots do not eat by the mouth, but ore dependent on sustenance by absorption, it is plain that a poorly fed horse must needs be able to support a much less num- ber of bots in the stomach than a well fed horse. Hence tlie nrroneousness of the claim of death by bo€s. BABY'S FIEST WOSD. Child's Efforts to Make ItseU Understood. this not The most interesting period in a child's life is that in which it maies its first eiTorts at understanding and being understood. A child produces sounds only for the firs-t few months but these sound.s are vei-y e.xpressivie, if one is aji attentive ancl synipa- j^Ijq 'thetic hearer, and arise from the cap. inany changing feelings of suffering able. It is true that manv breeders 'or Plca.surc. The scream of a child follow the high-feeding plan and!'" P^'" ^^ altogether tlifTerent from make nionev at it, but" we should I tJii-' •""a-r of ajiger, and both are un- not lo.se sight of the fact that the M'''*^ ^^« fretful cry of hunger. A lit- object of the true breeder is to im-i*^'° ''â- ^**-''" *''« ^"'^" ''^'"S begins to prove the breed of cattle he fancies, j Practice on the vocal organs a and not simply to get rich and then Ihearsal of the sounds which in slip out from under the landslide of i^V 'if°T 1^"'8:"^\K0. condenmation heaped upon the cattle I ^'^ t'"'^ ^*^^->" twitten l).V the misguided people who bought his Weaklings, bred from great pro- re- time ducing but overtaxed parents. On the otlier hand, we tio not ad- vocate scrimping cattle i.nd thus producing the meanest of all cows, the purelued scrub. Speaking of scrimping calls to mind the case of I LV young village man who commenced baby twittering the vowel sounds come lirst, and modifications of the "a" are continuously strung together, often in o.'d ways; later the child apT>arcntly becomes con- 'scious of amusement in making these I noises and tlicn babbles, because to do so affoixls him pleasure. An un- usuallv loud shout will be followed b.v a pause of admiration, and tliei-e will be plain pITorts to renew special farming. He bought some pure-bred i^ound efUccts as he grows older, pigs and learned from his farm pa- rj-.y^^ ^.^^^^ articulate sound made by per that brood sows should be MODERATELY FED baby is usiually the s^â- llablo "uia, as everyone knows, and the result is The result was that after his sows that almoit in every hiinguagt this farrowed he nearlv starvctl them to syll-able is part of the word moan- death, pigs and all. He lacked c.x- ing "mother," as madia in Italian, perience, and didn't know the differ- mater in Latin. A baby will cxort enco between moderation and starva-|his lungs to the uttermost extent in lion. The well-bred dairy cow will ; order to obtain his end when in earn- surely eat a lot of food without in- jury, but she cannot eat everytliing, and the man who knows the type of cow that produces, and thou comes the nearest to knowing how much she can stand feeding, is the man who improves his herd. We occa- sionally find n cow that seems to run all to milk, and wo are elated. But we find to our sorrow that she has reserved but little for her o(Y- spring, and they are even below the average of the herd. Wo ought to have knovi'n before they came to maturity that they would never bo good cows because they lacked the dairy type. They were not beefy, but they were too delicate : they lacked luster of the eye, breadth of muzzle and size of nostril. Their heart girth was too small and their dinner basket too small also. They had tlie general open-made dair.v conformation and their tails est need of attention. The parting of the lips and opening of the mouth to its widest naturally produce the sound "ma." and, as his Majesty's desires are usually attended to by the mother, tJio syllable conies to be understood as her appellation. How many aeons have passed since first this word was thus used none caJi know; but there can be little doubt that it was one of the very earliest in primeval language. PRIZES OF THE BRITISH BAR. High Salaries and Large Fortunes Are the Kule. The Lord High Chancellor of Gi-eat Britain is second only in posrition to tlio Archbishop of Canterbury, and he enjoys an income of £tO,000 a year. The Loixl Chief Ju.'-tice of England were I has a salary of £8,000 a year. The of regulation length. They had good ! master of the rolls has a saUu'y of udder indication as heifers, but they jC6, 000 a .veur, and the loitis of ap- lackeil that great essentialâ€" con- ] poixl in ordinary have the same. The stitution. The only safe rule to fol- low in breeding dairy cattle is to breed to a fixed dairy t.ypc. If a great producing cow does not drop calves of tlie right type she is not desirable us a breeder, and on the other hand if a cow of but moderate milk [iroducing capacity drops calves have come from the bar that come up to the desired stand- (.'ornhill Magazine, aid of dairy conformation and con- The Attorney-General makes much stitution, .she mav safely be depend- more money than any of theso dig- ed on to work genuine improvement ni/taries. His stilary is only £7 Lords Justices of the Court of Ap- peal and the Judges of the High Coiut earn £5.000 a year each. The Masters of the High Couit are chos^ en cither Ironi barristers or from so- licitoi-s, hut all the otlier ofUce hold- ers to whom "o have alludetl nnist says the "It's funny I The filler nstiri h* was • great dorg for rabbit. 1*^ "OiMM h. K.Mt «b«> 4«y wu. friMl I" in the herd, rather than to weaken it, as is sometimes the case with cows that are great performers at the milk pail, but lucking in con- stitution or lasting qualities. BOTS IN HORSES. Now and again wo hear some far- OOO, but he has icx!S as- well, some- times to a very lai-ge amount. The Solicitor-General has £0,000 a year. be.4des his fees. Of course, the double work. legal and parliament- ary, which these officers have to uii- dcitako is most arduous, requiring an iron constitution aiwl a mind that reipiircs but little time for rest. The mer say, "My horse was killed with p,.jvate practitioners in some few bots," and in explaining the details L.j,j^^.j. „mkc larger incomes than any of tlie dead beast's ailment, "thc.vjof ^j,,, olliciul persons at the bar. It cut through the stomach, etc.," and i {^ „„t indeed many who make ti\ie so killed the horse. jfijvures. but there may be always one It will yet be a long time before yj- two leaders who are aohioving many horse owners will be willing this. Tlic leiwlers who are chiefly to believe that bots cannot cut or two wret.ches of men, the scclusiion of their cat through a horse's stomach. Now j.^^- not often make inoio than and again, so-called intelligent men will tell you that tUey have seen in- stonces ' of horses killed by bots. This erroneous ini]ircssion is a table commentary on our twentieth cen- tury light, education and knowlc<lge. Bots are developed in the stomach of the horse from the egg of the gad fly. T'he egg is laid somehow in the hair, where the horso eon lick itself. In this wa.v the eggs are taken into the stomach. They adhere to the lining of the same by hooks and are nourished by the absorption of digested food, through the skin. The.v adhere to the lining one season, and the following spring they are ejected ill (he droppings. til due time, they develop into the muliire gad fly, which In turn, puts In lis work In depositing eggs IN 'I'HE UAIR OF HORSES, na the opiKirtunity nia.v arrive. When Jtola nru present in xmy large nuni- h»r8 they nifty, .nd probably do ciiuHO rtlstiirbance in the â-  dig.»tion. but It In tint really so serious as is frequently Niippo.scd. The Idea that th.y cut through the lining of the atomach ia .rr.n- eoua. It in impossible far t.h«B t« do ao, an they tahc th«r own f««d before the public in ordinary cases from £5,000 to £0,000 a year. Larger fortunes ai-o ti-equently made by men who specialize in iiateiit eases, who are engaged in rating appeals and compeni-ution work, or who practice their profes-^ion at the parliamentary bar. *. IT HEATS EDISON. They were who met in club. • 'What arc the three quickest modes of communication?" queried one. "Telegraph, telephone, and cable- gram." "No; wrong in the last one. "Well, what arc tliey?" "Telejtraph. telephone, and â€" tell a woman I" HER IDEA IViinker ba.x the queerest (iickllings. "She fMid." <wid Mrs. Icollect.<» uiMbrellas. "Perlmpx she is trying I© la.v up aanieUiiag for a rairy dny," was â- r. Oiddlinga' auess. T)i« great«!«t grief may b. (Ilded with soBie flFTatitud*.