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* THE MARKET,
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it ro piace in the Union v.here buildings and itn
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!*, it was never thrown in the market;and unless
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all are exp ''ted to do. Thev will sell land under
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SELECT POETRY.
NJ.TK COURT BUT I ?.
1 have J finished it, the letter.
That will tell him he is free,
From this hour and forever,
He is nothing more to me ;
And my heart feels lighter, gayer,
Since the deed at last is done—
-1 will teach him that when courting
He should never court but one !
Everybody in the vl lage
Knows he's been a wooing me.
And this morning he was riding
With '.bat saucy Army Lee.
They soy he smiled upon her,
As be cantered by her side,
And ill warrant you he promised
To make her sou i his bri le.
But I bave finished if, the letter,
From this moment he is free-
He may have her if he wants her.
If f,e loves her mure than me.
He may go—it will not kill me—
I would say the s.im a , so there,
If I knew it would, lor flirting
Is more than 1 can bear.
It is twilight,and the evening
That he said he'd visit me—
But no doubt he's now with Annie—
He may stay there, too,for tne!
And as true as 1 am living.
If he ever comes here more,
1 will act as if we never,
Never, never met before.
It is time he should be coming,
And i ivond er if be will,
If he does I'll look so coldly—
What's that shadow on the hill f
1 declare out in the twilight,
There is some one coining near—
Car. it be? yo , 'tis his figure,
Just a I rue as i am hi re !
Now, J almost wish I'd written
Not to him that he was free
For perhaps'twas but a story,
That he rode with Annie Lee.
There he's coming through the gateway,
I will meet him at the door.
And I'll tell him still I love him,
If he'll court Miss Lee no more !
POLITICAL.
Gcrrit Sxui'di and V/. 1-1 Seward.
The Republican papers—at least the more
! dishonest and unscrupulous—are frying to shift
the responsibility which attaches to their pcrty
in the Harper's Ferry Insurrection. This was
to be expected, of course, because no party
could openly take the responsibility and live.
But the declaratic s of their leaders prior to
the outbreak, the fact that Giddings, who is
the leading roan in the Republican rank 3 in
Ohio, and Gerrit Smith, who at one time rep
resented a Republican District '.n Congress,
were both implicated i.i the conspiracy, and
the confession of BROWN that he had numerous
sympathisers in every free state in the Union,
prove beyond question, that the Republican
party was to a great extent, instrumental in
bringing about this bloody and lamentable tra
gedy. We append a portion of Gerrit Smith's
celebrated "Jerry Rescue" letter, and also the
well known sentiment uttered by W. H. Se-v
--ard, at Rochester, N. Y., when stumping the
State for MORGAN, the present Republican
Governor of New York. It wiil be seen that
Smith talks about telegraphs and railroads be
ing rendered useless in an hour. This was
literally fulfilled at Harper's Ferry. It will
also be observed that S j warJ says that ' they
who think that it (the collision between the
North and the South) is accidental, unnecessary,
the work of interested or fanatical agitators,
and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case alic
gf.ther.', This declaration of the great origina
tor 3nd life-giving head of the Republican par
ty, completely refutes the excuse set up bv Re
publicans that Brown's conspiracy was mereiy
the work of a crazy and irresponsible fanatic.
But read the programme of Smith and Sewaid,
and then say whether Republicanism is tree
f:om the blame which public opinion is fast
placing upon if.— Ed. Gazette.
EXTRACT FROM LETTER OF UON. GERRIT SMITH,
TO J. THOMAS, OF SYRACUSE, N. i\, A UG. 2?TH,
18b9.
Governor Seward was rijhf in raying that
the Stales must ultimately all be secured to free
dom or ginen up to slavery. But he did cu.t
see that his standing by slavery in the slave
States renders unavailing his opposition to its
extension into the free Stales. Governor Sew
ard can do nothing to prevent slavtry's going
where it is not, unless he holds a piracy
and an outlaw where it is.
BEDFORD, PA, FRIDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 4,1859.
I No wonder, then, ia it that in this stale of,
1 facts which I have sketched, intelligent black
men in the States and Canada should see no'
hope for their race in the practice and policy i
of white men. JVo wonder they are brought j
;to the conclusion that no resource is left to
j them but in God and insurrections. For in
| surrections, then, we may took any year, any
month, any day, vl terrible remedy for a terri
ble wrong. But come itmmustf t unlets anticipa
ted by repentance and the putting away of the
terrible wrong.
It will be said that these insurrections will
be failures , that they will be put down. Yes,
but will not slavery nevertheless be put. down j
by them ? For what portions are there of Hie
South that, wiil cling to slavery oflcr two or
three considerable insurrections shall have fil
i led tne whole South with horror ? And is it |
entirely certain that these insurrections will be ,
put down promptly, and before they can have
spread far ? Will telegraphs and railroads be
, too swih for even the swiftest insurrections ?
i Remember that railroads and telegraphs can 1
jbe rendered useless in an hour. Remember,
! too, that many, who would be glad to face the
j insurgents, would be busy in transporting their j
j wives and daughters to places where they |
! would be safe from that worst fate which hus
• bands and lathers can imagine for their wives j
| and daughtejs. I admit that but for this em- (
; barrassment, Southern men would laugh at the
i idea of an insurrection, and would quickly dis
j pose of one. But trembling as they would for
; their beloved ones, I know of no part of the !
world, where so much as in the South, men
would be likely <-t a formidable in rur reef ion, to '
j Bavz the most important iime, and be da
: traded and panic stricken.
When the day cf her calamity shall have come ;
\ to the South, and fire and tape, and slaughter
j shall be filling up the measure of her affliction,
! then wiil the Aoilh have two reasons for re-;
j morse
First. T'-at she was not willing (whatever!
| the attitude ol the South at this pcintj to snare !
1 with her in the expense and loss ol an irr,me
j diale and universal emancipation.
, Second. That she was not willing to vote'
| slavery out of existence.
Then, too, when alas it w'il! be t>o late, will
; be seen in the vivid light ol the sufferings of j
j our Soul hern brethren, both black and white,
! how shameful and of what evil influence was ;
| the apostacy of* those "Jerrv Rescuers," who ■
j were guilty of falling from the "Jerry level"!
and casiing pro-slavery vol
But why should ] bave eoken of the sor-j
rows that await the South ? V\ hnever he may ;
be that- foretells the horrible end ol American s
slavery, is held both at the North and Souili o j
be a lying pionhet—a cher Cassandra. The!
South would not rwr own Jetfereoc's 1
prediction of servile insurrection. How, then, i
can it be hoped that she will respect another's? j
If the South will not with her own Jt flerson
''tiembie" when reQecling that "Clod is just" ;
—if she will not see with her own Jefierson
that "the Almighty has no attribute which car.
■ take side with her in "a contest" with her j
' slave.?," then who is there either North cr
South that is capable of moving her fears and
helping her to safety ?
Respectfully your friend,
' GERRIT bMI Til.
REWARD'S PROGRAMME.
Smith endorses Seward ; ana what does Sew- !
i ard say ? He says :
'The two systems (slavery and freedom) are ;
at one® perceived to be incongruous. But they
j fcfi' more loan incongruous—.ney are incoinpa- j
Dole. They never have permanently existed!
i together in one country, and thev never can. i
**=**-*•***"*#* j
I I bus tb es? antagonistic svstem? are contin
j uallv coming into closer contact,arid collision j
i iesuits. Snail I tell you what this collision
I means ? They who think that it is accidental;
i unnecessary, tne work ol interested or fanati- ;
; cal agilatois, and therefore ephemeral, mistake i
: the case altogether. It is an irrepressible con
: diet between opposing and enduring ibrces, and
jit means that tne United States must and will
; sooner or later, become entirely as ave-.holding
j nation or entirely a free labor nation. Either!
j the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina and
; tae sugar plantations of Louisiana will uiti
mately be titled bv tree labor, and Charleston '
and New Orleans become marts for legitimate
! merchandise mcme, or else the rye fields and
; wheat fields of Massachusetts and New York
■ must again be surrendered by their farmers to
slave culture, and to tl>e production of slave, and
Boston and New ork become once more mar
kets for trade in the bodies and souls ol'
I men.
"Circumstances alter Gases."
i Had it been a tiiumph, the Black Republi
can tebellion at Harper's Ferry would have
i been praised and sanctioned by the organs of
that party. Brown would then have been a
I htro in their estimation ; he is now in their
; eyes, "a madman." The whole scheme would
| have been a masterly movement of the good
{ and the true—a revolution which would have
been equal to the one brought to a successful
; close by the illustrious Washington ! But it
; was a miserable failure ; it was, therefore, a
j folly, and its ostensible leader a fanatic ! So
i it was with Louis Napoleon when he attacked i
! Boulogne, many years ago, "with a tame eagle."
He was a madman. All Europe said so, and
why ? Because he was unsuccessful. Had h®
triumphed, he would at once have been
pronounced a hero. So with old Brown.—
Had he not so egregiously tailed, there is no
doubt he would have been canonized bv the ]
Black Republicans, whose agent lie has so ;
faithfully been. He was hissed on by the 1
| teachings and arguments <>f such men as Se
! ward a..d Smith, and Giddings : and many ol
' the other Black Republican leaders in the
| Northern and Eastern Sates are also implica
: ted, and it is a crying sin for them now to do
*e;t their friend and agent iu tiro.- of need.
Freedom cf Thought atd Opinion.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Divorced by Mistake.
One Winter there came to Trenton, New
Jersey, two men, named Smith and JoneS,
who had both of them designs on the Legisa
ture. Joaes had a bad wife and was in love
with a pretty woman—be wished to be divor
ced frotn his bad wife, so that he might marry
the pretty woman, who, by the way was a
widow, with black eyes, and such a form !
Therefore Jones came to Trenton for a divorce.
Smith had a good wife, good as an angel,
and the mother of ten children, and Smith did
not u-a.it So be divorce J, but Wanted to get a
charier fir a turnpike or plankroad to extend
from Pig's Run to Terrapin Hollow.
Weil, they, with these different errands,
came to Trenton, and addressed the assembled
wisdom with the usual arguments. First, sup
pers, mainly composed ot oysters with rich
background of venision ; second, liquors in
great pientv, from "Jersey lightning,"—which
is a kind of a locomotive at full speed, reduced
to !:quir shape—to Newark champagne.
To speak in plain prose, the divorced man
gave a champagne supper, and Smith, the turn
pike man, followed wiili a champagne break
list, under the mollifying influence ot which
the assembled wisdom passed both the divorce
and tu ipike bills ; and Jones and Smith—a
copy of. ;dl bill m thrir pocket—went home
rejoicing, over many miles of sand, and through
the ti ibulatioii of many stage coaches.
Smith arrived home in the evening, and as
he sat down in the parlor, his pretty wife b*-
si:ie him—how pretty she did look ! and live
o! her . children over-hearing the otner five
-sudying Iheir lessons in the corner of the room,
Smith was induced to expatiate upon the good j
results oi ins rrusion to Trenton.
"A turnpike, my dear ; I am one of the !
Directors, and will be President. It will set j
tne up, love ; we ca i send our children to the ]
boarding-school, and live in style out of the j
toll. Here is tae charter, honey."
"Ret me see it," said the pretty little wife, j
who was one of the nicest of wives, with j
plumpness and goodness dimpling all over her
lace. "Let me see it," as she leaned over P.lr.
Smith's shouider.
But all at once Smith's visage grew long;
Smith's wife's visage grew black. Smith was
not pstofane, but now lie ripped out an awful
oath.
.'■lf last us, wife, those infernal scoundrels at
Trecto'. have gone and divorced us!"
It was too true the parchment / which he
held was a bill of divorce, in which thejnameg
ot > ni'b and Smith's wife appeared in \
t- ; nlly I 'g'ole cbarac'ers.
.rs. Smith wiped her eyes with the corner
! of her apron.
"Here's a turnpike," said she sadly, "and
with the whole of our ten children staring me
in the face, 1 aint your wife ! Here's a lurn
oike."
"Blast the pike and the Legislature, and—"
Weil the lact is that Smith, reduced to
; single blessedness, enacted into a stranger to
ius own wife, swore awfully. Although the
! night was dark, and most ol the denizens of
Smith's town bad gone to bed, Smith bid his
! late wile to put on her bonnet, and arm and
j arm they proceeded lo the clergyman of their
! church.
I "Goodness bl -s rr.e !" exclaimed the good
1 man, as he saw them enter. Smith looking
iike the last oi June shad, Smith's wife wiping
| her eves with the corner of her apron—"Good
; ness bless me, what's the matter ?"
"! he matter is, I want you to marry u.s two
! right off," replied Smith.
"Marry |you !" ejaculated the clergyman
I with expanded fingers and awful eyes ; "are
you drunk, or what 13 the matter with you ?"
However, he finally married them over
j straightway and would not take a tee ; the fact
i is, grave as he was, he was dying to be alone
that be might give vent to a suppressed laugh
that was shaking him all over ; and Smith and
Smith's wife went joyfully home and kissed
every one of their children. The little Smiths
{ never knew that their lather and mother bad
ever been made strangers to each other by
iegi-iative enactment.
Meanwhile, an i on the same night, Jones
returned to his native town —Burlington, I be
lieve — and sought at once the fine black eyes
which he had hoped shortly to call his own.—
The pretty widow sat on the sola, a white ker
chief tied carelessly around her white throat,
j her black hair laid in silky waves against each
' rosy cheek.
"Divorce is the word," cried Jones, playful
. ly potting her double chin ; "the Let is, Eliza,
i I'm rid of that cursed woman, and you and
I'll be married to-night. I knew how to
manage those scoundreis at Trenton. A cham
i pagne supper—or wa it a breakfast, did tne
I business for tbein. "Put on your bor.net and
i let us go to the preacher's at once, dearest."
The widow, who was among widows a?
peaches among apples, put on her bonnet
and took Jones's arm, and
I "Just look how handsome it is put on parch
ment !" cried Jones, pulling out the document
i before her ; "here's the law that says that
Jacob Jones and Ann Caroline Jones are two."
! Putting her plump gloved hand on hisshoul
' Jer she did look.
"O dear !" she said, with her her rosy lips,
and sank back half fainting on the sofa.
"O blazes ! cried Jones, and sank beside her )
rustling the fatal parchment in his hand ;
"here's a lot of happiness and champagne gone
| <o ruin."
; It was a hard case. Instead of being di
-1 vorcedjand at libertyho marry the widow, Jacob
Jones was simply by the Legislature of New
Jersey incorporated into a turnpike company,
and what made it wors, authorized to run
from Builington to Bristol !
When you reflect that BHington and Bris
tol are located just a little apart, on opposite
sides ot the Delaware river, you will obsetvej
the extreme hopelessness of Jones's case.
"It's all the fault of that turnpike man who j
gave them the champagne supper—or was it I
the breakiasl ?" cried Jones in agony. "If
they had chartered me a turnpike from Pig's
Run to Terrapin Hollow, I might have borne
it ; but the very idea of building a turnpike
from Burlington to Bristol bears an absurdity
on the lace of it."
Sj it did.
"And ain't you divorced?" said Eliza, a
tear running down each cheek.
"No !" thundered Jones, crushing his hat;
between his knees, and what's worse the |
Legislature is adjourned, and gone home drunk,
and won't be back to Trenton till next year.
It was a hard case.
The mi>take (?) had occurred on the last day J
of the session, when legislators and transcri
bing clerks weje laboring under a champagne
breakfast. Smith's name had been put where]
Jones's ought to have been, and "wisy wersey," i
as the Latin poet has it.
A. Ghost Story.
Mr. Hector McDonald, of Canada, was re- i
cently on a visit to Boston. When he left ;
home bis family were enjoying good health, ]
and he anticipated a pleasant journey. The j
second morning after his arrival in Boston, when j
leaving his bed to dress for breakfast, he saw re- j
fleeted in a mirror the corpse of a woman lying i
on the bed from which fie had just risen ! Spell j
bound, he gazed with intense feeling, and tried !
to recognise the features of the corpse, but in }
vain ; he coutd not even move fiis eyelids ; for !
how long he knew not. He was at la3t i
tied bv the ringing of the b*H for breakfast, j
and sprang to the bed to sa'.isly himself if what j
he had seen reflected in the mirror was reai or j
aa illusion. Hr found the bed as he had left]
it ; lie looked again into the mirror but saw on- 1
Iv the bed truly reflected. During the day lie i
thought much upon the illusion, and determined j
next morning to rub his eyes and fee! perfectly j
sure that he was wide awake before he left his 1
bed. But notwithstanding these precautions, ,
the vision was repeated with this addition, j
that he thought he recognized in the corpse .
some resemblance to the features of his j
wife.
In the course of the second day he received j
a letter from his wife, in which she stated that i
Hie wa quite well, and noped he was enjoying j
himself among iiis friends. As he was devo- j
tedlv attached to her, and always anxious for'
her safety, he supposed that his morbid fears had
conjured up the vision he had seen reflected in
the glass, and went about his business as cheer
ful as ever. On the morning of the third day,
after he had dressed, he found himself in thought j
in his own house, leaning over the rntfin of bu j
wife. His friends were assembled, the minis- j
ter was performing the funeral services, his ]
children wept —he was in the house of death. '
He followed the corpse to the grave ; he heard
the earth rumble upon the coffin, he saw the
grave filled, and the green sods covered ovpr it;
vet by some strange power he could see through
the ground the entire form of his wife as she
lay in her coffin.
He looked in the faces of those around him,
but no one seemed to notice him ; he tried to
weep, but the tears refused to flow ; his very
heart felt as hard as a rock. Enraged at his
own want of feeling, he determined to throw j
himself upon the grave and lie there until his.
heart should break, when he was recalled to
consciousness by a friend who entered the room j
f o inform him that breakfast was ready. He]
started as il awoke from a profound sleep, though
he was standing before the minor with a hair
brush in his hand.
After composing himself, he related to his
friend what he had seen, and both concluded
that a good breakfast only was wanting to dis
sipate his unpleasant impression. A few days
afterwards, however, lie received the melan
choly intelligence that his wife had died sud
denly, and '.he time corresponded with the day j
he had been startled by the first vision in the'
mirror. When lie returned home he described j
minutely all the details of the funeral he had]
seen in his vision, and they corresponded with j
the facts. This is probably one ot the most vi- j
vid instances of clairvoyance on record. Mr. j
i McDonald knows nothing of modern spiritual-;
! ism or clairvoyance, as most ot his life has j
| been spent upon a farm and among forests. It j
j may not be amiss to state that his father, who;
i was a Scotch Highlander, had the power of |
j "second sight."— Boston Trnv.
I f£F*The late election in Baltimore city was
j carried by the "plug uglies," and was charac
j terized by about the usual number of fights,
rows, brawls, shooting and stabbing affrays.
(EF~A colored lady was arrested in New
York for stealing a parasol. She o'Tered an ex
' cuse to the magistrate, that th- sun was sp-il
; ing her complexion. He took pity on her, and
! sent her to prison for six months to enable her
] to bleach.
j VV'hv are many innkeepers' wives like
generals? Because they are rulers of hosts.
I C? = "A cofun (said an Irishman) is the house
a roan lives in when he is dead.
[T7*"A mass of the best rannel-coal of the
! size of a whale, contains more oil than there i
in that fish.
flfF~Live so that when death comes you may
embrace like friends.
Cjr"Small troubles are frequently the great
est trials, because we endeavor to hear Itiem
, alone.
I
Xf Good education is *he founlati:* of
• happiness.
VtBOLE XV TIBER, 2874.
i FARMER S COLUMN.
Prune Grape Vines.
I I"bis is the best month of the year lor pru-
I ring the grape. It can not well be done in
Winter at the north, because the vines are, (or
j ought to be,) laid on the ground and tucked up
' for I lie season. Neither can it well be done in
i the Spring, because the sap begins to tfow verv
j early, and profuse bleeding would ensue, it
done eat)y in November, the wounds become
! healed befoie Winter, and the buds left on the
I canes gather up a good supply of eioborated sap
| tor next yaar's use. It is also a pleasant time
; *o work, and the pruning will more likely be
well done, than H would amid the storms and
benumbing frosts of Winte-.
1. Is your vine a young on", and do you
| propose to try the "renewal" method ? Then if
it has two stout canes, sis or eight leet long,
cut each of them off to about four feet, and tie
them down to the lower bar of your trellis,
; One or two buds on each cane may be allowed
to throw up branches next year, and the buds
on each end may send off branches for exten
ding the horizontal cane at the base.
Or, possibly, your vine is five or six years
old, has this year borne fruit on several upright
branches, and has meanwhile sent up as many
more new shoots between the old. Then, all
you will have to do this Fall, is to cut off those
bearing branches down to the horizontal canes
on the lower far of the trellis. At the foot ot
those branches you will undoubtedly find sev
eral plump buds which will throw up new
branches next year, to fill the places of those
cut off. The branches of the present year's
growth may now, if stout and healthy, be cut
off at the top of the trellis, if weak, considerably
beiow that. The branches which pushed out
from buds at the ends of the horizontal canes
may now be shortened back, leaving two or
three new buds of the new wood, end then tied
down iothe lower bar.
2. Some persons prefer the spur-method of
pruning ; and perhaps our present reader does.
If so, possibly you have a young vine. Ail
you will have to do thi3 Fa!!, is to shorten the
canes about one halfjtheir length, and cut ofi any
lateral branches that may have sh A out "from then*
Or the vine may be several years old, and
may have been trained systematically. Then,
your work now is to cut out any thin watery
shoots that may have sprung up between the
bearing branches, robbing them of their strength
and snading the fruit. The bearing canes
should always de kept two feet apart, to allow
i room for the side-spurs to shoot out and mature
| their fruit without being overrun with super
' fluous wood. Finish your work, now, by cut
! ting back the spurs on the upright canes to OR*
!or two buds. These buds will bear fruit next
year, it properly cared for.
Or your vine may have taken an irregular
shape. Fou must then, as before, simply cut
out ail weak, succulent shoots w£ich have
sprung up from the root or sides ot the stock,
and thin out the canes all over the trellis, so as
to leave them evenly distributed over its surface,
about two feet asunder. Shorten in also the
spurs on the sides ot the old wood to one or
two buds. It here and there an oid cane has
! lost its buds, it should be cut clean out, and a
I young and healthy one trained up in its place.
For partially tender vines like the Diana, this
j last method of training, though less pleasing to
1 a gardener's eye, is, on some accounts, prefer
j able to the otner, because the canes can be
more easily bent to the ground in the Fall for
Winter protection.
Pruning having now been accomplished, all
the viues may be united from the tfpllis and
laid upon the ground. Be careful, while doing
this, not to break off the buds. If in a very
cold region, it may be well to remove the soif
a few inches, fasten down the canes with stakes,
! and throw on a few inches deep of soil.—-Amcr
i lean. ~lgriculiur\st.
Winter Protection of Trees and Plants*
j Fruit and ornamental trees planted this Fall,
l are benefitted bv a mound of earth a foot high,
I thrown up around tiie trunk. Let this earth be
i brought to the tree from another quarter, not
taken off from the extremities of the roofs, and
;so exposing them, as is too often done. Such a
j mound will keep the trees steady against the
1 wind, and protect the trunks from the inroads of
' mice. Cunning as these vermin are, they don't
j Know enough to ascend a bank of fresh earth in
| search of green fodder. For pear-trees subject
' as thev are to frozen sap-blight, we would sug
\ gest the additional defence of a light board or
I section of bark set up against the south side ot
the trunks. A hay-band wound on loosely, an
j swers a good purpose. Dwarf ppars need spe
! cial care in Winter, if the ground continues
I bare. Their roots need a covering ol manure
i or a mound of earth.
i As to cherry trees, do the best you can, and
even then, expect some injury and loss in the
northern Slates. For the splitting of the trunk
so common, the protection recommended for the
pear tree is worthy of trial.
Grape vines not perfectly hardy should be
• laid on the ground and fastened there, and then
i covered with litter or a few inches of soil. So
! of tender roses and shrubs : they may be bundled
up in straw, or covered with matting or ever
' green boughs, but they are generally safer if
j oent to the ground and covered with a little
j earth.— American Agriculturist.
Egg Tea or Coffee.
j iMr. C. O. Brown, Calhoun Co. Mieh., di
rects to: Beat the vo!k of an egg, wilh 1 ta
blespooofoi of sugar and put into it a cup of
cold tea or corfee. Add 1 a cup of cold water
in Summer, or boiling water in Winter. Put
in cream to suit the taste. Then whip the
white ol the egg to a froth, and stir it in . tbb
i is nice for an invalid.
VOL 3, NO. 14.