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COUNTUY SL.CIG1IIXG.
A Nete Song io an Old Tune.
BT SDK UK O C. 8TKDMAK.
In January, when down the dairy
Tho cream and clabber freeze,
Wben auow drifts cover the fences over.
Wo farniera lake our eae.
At night we rig thw team.
And briug the cutter out ;
Then fill it, fill it. fill it, fill it,
ALd heap tho furs about.
Here friends and cousins dash up by dozens.
And bleighs at leat a score ;
There Johu and Molly, behind, are jolly
l'tll rides with me, btf .re.
All down the village atreet
We range us in a row ;
Now jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle,
And o'er the crinpeu snow.
The windows glisten, the old folks listen
To hear the t.!eigh-bel!s pass ;
The fields grow whiter, the stars are brighter.
The road is smooth as glass.
Our niumevi faces burn.
The clear north wind blows cold,
The girls ail neatle, uetle, nettle,
Eacu in her lover's hold.
Through bridge and gateway we'er shooting
straightway,
Their toliu.au was too slow !
Ilo'll listen after our oug and laughter.
As over the hill we go.
The girU cry. Fie! for khame!
Their chevks and lips are red
And so with kiaet. kitues. kises.
They take the toll instead.
8. ill fo.low, follow ! across the hollow
Tue tavern irouts the road.
Whoa, now ! all steady ! the host is ready
lie knows the Cuuutry mode!
The iron ate iu the tire.
The hissing flip is got ;
So pour and sip it, tip it, sip it.
Sip it wbile 'tis hot.
Puh back the tables, and from the stables
Bring Tom. the fiddler, in ;
All take your places, and mako your graces,
And let the dance begin.
The girl ae beating tiuie
To hear thi nitieic sound ;
Now f.Kjt it, foot it. fo.t it, foot it,
And swiug your partukrs rouud.
Last couple toward the left! all forward!
(Jotilhou s through, let's wheel;
Firt tune the fiddle, then down the middle
Iu old Virginia Reel.
Play Money Muk to close,
Thin take the "long ehasse,"
While in to supper, supper, supper,
The landlord leads ihe way.
The Le'ls are ringing, the Lct!ers bringing
The cutters up anw ;
The betuts are Leighing, too long we're
ttaying.
The night hHlf-way tlirough.
Wrap close the buffalo robes.
We're all aboard once mure;
Now jingle, jingle, j ngle, j:ig!e.
Away from the tavern door.
So follow, follow, by hill and hollow.
And swiftly homeward glide
What miduignt splendor! how warm and
tender
The maiden by your Mde !
The sleighs lr.p lar art.
hler words are s--ft and low ;
Now, if you love her, love her, love her,
'Tis kafe to tell her to.
Hearth and Home.
Ealcs, Shttcts, nccbotcs, fit.
THE STORY OF BLUE BEARD.
DON" BT TIIE "VAT CONTRIBITOK."
A long timp ngo, twfore the invention
of Lair dye, when a man had to wear hi
txtanl - the color that nature made it,
whether lie would or not, there was a
man who had made himself enormously
rich as h whisky inspector, or eomeihing
ol ihat sort. I don't know precisely
where he lived, but think he lived mostly
in the imagination.
He ruu a great caslle, on the European
plnn, had horses and run them, and in
fact run about everything in his neigh
borhood, including running for office and
wih ite girls, for at the lime of which I
write he was a gay widower. He had
great quantities of greenbacks, corner lots,
oil stock, bonds, and things, but he was
hideously ugly, and had wilhal an enor
mous blue beard, frightful to contemplate,
which gave to him the cognemen of Blue
Heard, by which he was known to the
country round about, as well as to the
country that had laid off its round-ahout
and consequently was in itB shirt -elcetes.
Blue Beard grew wenry of living in
solitary magnificence in his lordly castle,
and finding that he was gelting bluer und
bluer every day, he determined to marry.
Having been married half dozen times
taken half a dozen raw, as one might say
he was naturally quile miserable when
deprived of the gentle influences of the
fair sex for any length of time.
One of his neighbors was a widow lady,
who - had two very beautiful and highly
accomplished, daughters. They could
play the piano, harp and seven-up, and
work embroidery and Planchette elegant-
To this widow lady Blue Beard applied
for the hand and general anatomy of one
of bar daughter, learing her to decide
which one she would give him. Al
though the "stamps" he bad pleaded
loudly in his favor, as they do yet, al
though this was a great many years ago,
yet that dreadful beard was against him,
and neither of the youne women deired
to fctre tt wg-ie & Pk wtrtTt fwfc
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1869.
ionable for beard; if it had been it might
have been different. One of them wept
bitterly because it would be several hun
dred yearB yet before hair-dye would be
discovered so that he could have bis whis
kers colored.
Another circumstance rendered them
shy of him. lie was having a wedding
every once and awhile at the castle, lut
no fwurultl Wedding cake had been
ordered from confectioners several times,
but no undertitker had had a job there
yet. No matter how many timet a man
ia left a widower, if he correspondingly
patronises some respectable owner of a
hearse, but tepeated wedlock without
funerals is certainly a suepiciuus circum
stance. Blue Beard cunningly invited the fam
ily and their fripnda to the caetle, where
they passed a week so delightfull that the
youngest daughter began to think blue was
a pretty good color for whiskers after all,
particularly when their possessor could
keep such an establishment as that, wbeie
they had three meals a day, besides a
lunch every morning from ten o'clock un
til eleven. She looked with contempt on
a redwhi:kered beau of hers, she used to
think "perfectly splendid," and acttally
asked him why he didn't 4rub Indigo in
to 'em!" Tho upshot of the business
was, she concerned to become Mr B.
Beard, and the wedding was celebrated
with great telat.
At the expiration of the honeymoon,
Blue Beard pretented to his wife that bus
iness of importance called him to a dis
tant city. He would be absent for sev
eral weeks, nJ in the meantime she
could invite company and enjoy herself
as much as possible. He gave her a
bunch of keys, enabling her at any time
to open bin safe, and feast her eyes on the
diamond:, (he loaned money ou "coilater
al," sometimes,) greenbacks, seven-thirties,
revenue stamps and receipted gas
bills deposited there also giving access
to the wine cellar, store room, ten-pin al
ley, corn bouse, &c, &c But one little
Ley optmed u room in the basement that
she must not approach save upon her
peril. She promised, and he took the
street car for the depot.
From the lime that Mother Eve disre
garded the injunction against a certain
tree in Eden's orchard and partook of the
Rhodtf Island pippin, thereby introducing
various things in the wot Id ntver before
dreamed of, curiosity has been an absorb
ing pasMon with the fair sex, and we
need hardly inlorin the intelligent reader
that her husbstrd was hardly out of sight
before Mrs B. B. had unlocked the door
of the foi bidden room.
But what a spectacle met her affright
ed gaze! Theie, suspended on hcoks
like so many gowns in a clothes press,
were the bodies of the murdered Mrs.
Blue Beards, w hose funem! had been in
definently postponed, while the floor was
clotted with their blood! She would
have swooned, but the phrase wasn't
known at the time. Terribly agitated,
she dropped the key on the floor, Main'mn
it with blood, which was Biter ward una
ble to wash out, even with -the aid of a
patent wringer.
Blue Beard returned unexpectedly, as
everybody mipht have expected, and the
blood upon th key told the story of his
wife's disobedience, for blood, you know,
"will tell."
"Must I," he cried, wringing his bands
in anguish, "must I again become a wid
ower, and so soon ! After one short
month of wedded bliss, (drawing his cim
eter nnd carefully feeling its edge) must
this latest and dearest one be torn from
my arms and I left alone alone 1 Bo-ho-ho-hol"
"Not if I can help it," remarked Mrt.
B. to herself.
I never nursed a dear gazelle." Blue
Beard blubbered, as ho. proceedod to whet
his scythe on the stove hearth, "to glad
me wiih its soft black eye, but when it
came to know me well "
"Now, Blue Beard, I don't want to
die."
"Prepare ! " yelled Blue Beard enraged
that Bhe did not at once accept the situa
tion. "Since I must die." said she, "grant
me a quarter of an hour in which to write
a farewell letter to the pres."
He could not refue so reasonable a re
quest, so he granted it, although he was
not ordinarily a Grant roan. Going to
her room she told her sister Anna to as
cend to the top of the tower and see if her
brothers (who, . supposing Blue Beard
away, were coming to smoke up his ci
gars and drink up hi" whisky) were yet
in si"ht. There was a cloud of dust in
the road, but it was only a flock of sheep
on their way to the State Fair.
"Time's up 1" shouted Blue Beard,
who didn't think much 'of writing letters
to newspapers, anyhow.
"Only one moment more. Anna, oh,
Anna!" she softly cried, "do you see
anybody coming now !"
'I see two horsemen- They see me
wae my handkerchief. It is it is Sam
and Bill'r
Then Blu Beard rushed in with his
drawn sword (ho had draum it s gift
show,) and was about to dispatch her to
the happy kreknying gronnds of her sex
when her brothers Sam and Bill dove in
nd blew old Blue Beard's brains out
vrith double-barreled bowie knives. .
The widow B- inherited his money to-
cether with the remains of his other wives, j
- . 1.1-J ... A A
witn which sbe was enaoieu to nc uF -JJowtTKD
of Aoatomj, ftwll mtrritd
side showman. Her nster Anna was
united to a gentleman 'bv tho name of
Dominy, becoming Anna Dominy, though
what year this was I cannot say. Blue
Beards went out with the eminent and
excessive widower of that name, and
kven't been in since to my knowIed"e.
Cincinnuii Timet. C
A TRl i: IICRo.
The city of Marseilles, in France, was
once afflicted with the plagpe. S terrible
was it that it caused parents to forsake
children, and children to forsake their ob
ligations to their own parents The city
became as a desert, and funerals were con
stantly passing through its streets. Every
body was sad, for nobody could stop the
ravages of the plague. The physicians
could do nothing, and as they met one
day to talk over the matter, and see if
something could not be done to prevent this
great destruction of life, it was decided
that nothing could be effected, without
opening a corpse in order to find out the
mysterious character of the disease.
All agreed upon the plan, but who shall
be the victim, it being certain that he who
should make the examination would cer
tainly die soon after. There was a dead
pause. Suddenly, one of the most cele
brated physicians, a man in th prime of
life, rose from his seat and said, "Be it 6o;
I devote myself for the safety of my coun
try. Before this numerous assembly I
swear, in the name of humanity nnd reli
gion, that to-morrow, at the break of dy,
I will dissect a corpse, and write down as
I proceed what I observe.'
lie immediately left the room, and ns
he was rich, he made out a will, aud spent
the night in religious exorcises. During
the day, a man had died in his house of
the plague, and at day-break on the fol
lowing morning, the physician, whose
name was Guyou, enterod the room, and
critically made the necessary examina
tions, writing down all his surgical obser
vations. He then left the room, threw the
papers into a vase of vinegar that they
rui;iht not convey the disease to another,
and retired to a convenient place, w here be
died in twelve hours.
Whs not this a true hero ? While we
nil admire the bravery which appenrs on
Ihe battle-field, let us rot forget that there
is an opportunity for the heroic in other
places as well Slud-nt and Schoolmate.
The Reason Wiit Brother Dickson
Lkft thk CiiuuC!! Mr. Dickson, a
colored barler, was shaving one of hia
customers, a respectable citizen, one morn
ing, when a conversation ocaurred between
them respecting Mr. Dickson's former
connection with a coloied church in the
place.
"I believe you are connected with the
church in street, Mr: Dickson !"
"No, h, not at all."
"What ! are you not a mamher ef the
African church,?"
"Not dis year, sab.' .f -
- "Wiiy" dni you leave their communion,
Mr. Dick6on f if I may bo permitted to
ask."
"Why, I tell you, pah," said Mr. Dick
Bon, snapping a concave razor upon the
palm of his hand, "It was just like dis : I
jined dttt church in good faif. I gib ten
dollars toward de stated preaching ob de
gospul de fus' year, and de people all call
me Broder Diukst-n De second year my
business not good, and I only gib five dol
lars. Dat year de church people all call
me Mr. Dickson. Dis razor hurt you,
sab r
"No, the razor does very well."
Well, sah, de third year I felt berry
poor, sickness in my family, and I didn't
gib nuffiu' for preaching Well, sah, af
ter dat dey call mt Old Nigger Dickson,
audi ictf 'em!"
So saying, Mr. Dickson brushed his
customer's hair and the genllemau depart
ed, well satisfied with the reason why Mr.
Dickson left the church.
Who is That a Bkaking ! The
solemnity of a leading church in this city
was thrown into convulsions on Sunday
last by a little event worth noting, both
for its own sake and for its suggest iveness,
with reference to current questions of
church music. Somebody's pet three-year
old had been trained to experience great
delight at low growling intonations of the
human voice imitative of the bear. - Dur
ing the renderins of one of the hymns at
this particular morning service, one of
those troublesome Christians, whose de
votion is helped by singing at church, but
who sing nowhere else, and for that reason
keep their contribution to harmony in the
background by being out of both tune
and time, was annoying all within four
pews of him, by a muffled growl he evi
dently believed was helping the bass.
Little Miss pricked up her infantile ears
at the sound, and turned suddenly , to
mamma, exclaiming in a voice audible in
a lull of the stanzs, to the remotest part
of the sanctuary : Mamma who ii that a
bearing t Who if that a bearing f A
snicker went the rounds of those who un
derstood the palpable hit. and it is under
stood that this juenile is in great demand
to be loaned to pewbolders whose vicinity
is afflicted with these pests of sanctuary
worship, the growlers, and snufflers, and
speakers, who persist in foisting . their
counterfeit notes upon the current "of
sound, which they affect to believe are
helping to realiae congregational singing.
A CHILD CAKICIKD TWO MILES BT AN KAGLE.
A gentleman named Bowers, from
Meigsville, Jackson county, informs us
that on Christmas Eve. about three o'clock
in the afternoon, the farm of a Mr. White
side, about five miles from Meigsville,
was the scene of a most exciting and
nearly fatal event. It is briefly this :
fr. Whiteside was in the little town
doing some ;nes. bl, wife wa8 HWay
at a neighbor's whe.. ick child waJJ
struggling with cbuh.ra inlvuU4n . auj
the only in door servant they had was uM
in the barn looking after some cattle,
when their child a bright little boy, just
learning to toddle around on his little feet
and prattle the name of "pa"- tumbled or
crawled out of its cradle, in whieh it was
left asleep by the Bervant a few moments
befoie, and managed somehow to get to
the door, which was unfortunately open
at the time, although the girl left in charge
of the place avers that she cli-ed it on go
ing out. The child tumbled into the
front yard, it is supposed, and was crying
and sprawling around, when a great grey
eagle, seen by the girl as she whs leaving
the barn, came swooping down, and fas
tening its immense and cruel talons in the
clothing of the little boy, rose up, appa
rently with much difficulty, as high us it
could, which was not very high, an-1 sail
ed off across the adjacent woods, just
skimming, as the servant says, the tops
of the trees. Wben the servant saw the
tho eagle coming down, as she was leav
ing the barn, she had a presentment of the
strongest kind, and says that she felt that
the child was out of doors, and that the
firrce bird of prey was pouncing down up
on it ; but when, in a moment after, she
beheld the great tyrant of the air rise
above the house top with the child in its
claws, she grew dizzy and fell to the
ground. Her weakness, however, dirt not
continue long ; the cold air blowing across
her face revived her quickly, and jumping
on her feet and gazing round wildly, she
saw the eagle disappearing over the woods
in the direction of the Cumbeiland river.
She was filled with but one impulse to
rescue the little boy. She became as one
frantic, for she had a remarkable affec
tion for the child She rushed forward,
bounded over the fence as if she were en
dowed with the lightness and agility of a
deer ; dashed into the woods, dark and
tangled as it was, not taking lime to hunt
out foot-paths, or cow trucks She in
stinctively felt that the thieving bird
would keep in a straight line, and she
kept in a straight line also. Wiih the
strength and unthinking courage of a
strong man who had become suddenly de
ranged, she dashed ihe undergrowth aside,
crossed the ravines as if she were on the
level plain, spurned the fallen trees and
jagged rocks as if they were the smooth
est and softest moss. The patch of wood
was fully a mile and a half through ; but
the girl made the run to the other edge of
i niihuui reeling in metcast ratliic.'l.
Beyond the wood, and between it and the
river, lay a patch, nf cleared ground, part
ly marshy nnd partly corn-field, full of
old stumps. When she left the wood,
and had a clear view, the saw the eagle
as if he were inclined to alight with his
burden somewhere in the neighborhood of
the river. This gave her new courage
arm fiesh hope, and she ran forward wall
increased speed. It luckily happened at
that time that there was a man hunting
in the neitrhboi iug marshes, and just at
the particular moment when the eagle
reached the ground with bis burden a shot
went off dangerously and alarming him
(for the hunter was behind a clump of
bushes about twenty yards off, and had
his back toward the spot where the eagle
and the child were), that he mounted into
the air again, but this time without his
burden. The pursuing girl was filled
with loy when she beheld the bird rise
witttuut the child. But fearing he would
return, as he seemed inclined to do so,
she sat up a vigorous shouting as she ran,
which attracted the hunter's attention in
that direction, who, Feeing the eagle quite
near him, and a lady rushing down the
slope with streaming hair and garments,
and wildly shouting, concluded at once
that there was something strange and
perhaps dreadful iu his immediate vicini
ty, and be also set up a vigorons halloo
ing, and proceeded to reload his gun with
much precipitation, forgetting to go after
the game which he had just shot. The
agle soon became aware of the formida
ble opposition he - would meet if he
attempted to recapture his prey, and
thinking better of it, he wheeled around
and swung himself in one grand swoop
across the river and disappeared behind
the shelving rock which forms the oppo
site bank at that point, before a &hot from
the hunter's gun was ready to speed its
flight to his heart. When the girl came
down to the hunter, she fell' stiff', and was
not able even to indicate what was the
matter. While the rough gallant was
endeavoring to restore her to conciousness,
be heard the scream of a child, and leav
ing the slowly recovering girl, he went to
ward the spot where the screaming came
from and beheld a fine, healthy, rosy boy,
with torn clothes, but otherw ise uninjured,
endeavoring to rise upon his little feet.
The tears streamed down his innocent
cheeks, and his face wore a most piteous
expression. He took the baby in his arms
and carried it to the girl, who was now
sufficiently Recovered to comprehend at
once) that ber befcrred cbarg was eaf
She clasped it to her bosom, covered it
. i .
witn Kisses and wept with joy. In the
meantime the mother and the father of
ihe child had returned home, and finding
it empty with no sign to indicate where
the inmates were gone, save a bucket of
spilled milk out near the barn, where the
girl had dropped it in her flight, they be
came exceedingly anxious and uneasy;
but the return of the servant, the hunter
and ihe wonderful little voyager, who had
the most thrilling adventure that was ever
heard of, restored them to tranquility
There was a truly merry and joyous
Christmas in that household Nashville
Tnn.) Times.
AssEcckktbicCas. -M..irvelous stories
in reirard to a cat owned by ihjeriy
of M.-iedith, N. H , are told by the Coni
cord Patriot. The cat was a hunter,
often going after rabbits and catching
them. If any of the family went into the
woods Tommy would go too and seek for
game, and if separated from the party
would climb a tree to find the direction in
which to go. He was very expert in
catching squirrels, and the boys would put
him'on a stone wall while they started the
game. One af;ernoon Tommy caught fif
teen squirrels in this manner. He would
wait any length of time when put down
in a place and told to stay there. One
day the at brought a rat to Mr. E , who
ekinrel it, which seemed to please pusi-y
very much, and he was told to catch more.
Henceforth Tommy made it his sole occu
pation to catch rats and see them skinned
The hides were fastened on the barn at a
distance of a few feet from the ground,
and thirty-seven trophies were in time dis
played there. One day Mr. E., being
busy, would not skin a rat which Tommy
laid at his fort, and drove him away rath
er loughly. The cat went off in high
dudgeon, with his back and tail up. and
never after would catch a rat, thourh
other game con'inued to suffer. Further
more, he tore down all the rat skins fasten
ed on the bsrn, to how his resentment !
This remarkable cat was killed a few
months ago by being caught in a fox trap.
Thk "Wild Man's" Stokt is Ohio.
Gallipolis is excited over a wild man,
who is reported to haunt the woods in the
vicinity of that city. He goes naked, is
coveied with hair, is gigantic in height,
and "his eyes start from their sockets,"
A carriage, containing a man and daugh
ter, was attacked by him a few days ago.
He is said to have "bounded at the father,
catching him in a grip like that of a vise,
and hurling him to the earth, falling on
him and endeavoiing lo bite and scratch
like a wild animal. The struggle was
long and fearful, rolling and wallowing in
the deep mud, half suffocated, sometimes
beneath his adversary, whose burning and
maniac eyes glared into his own with
murderous and savage intensity. Just as
he was about to become exhausted from
his exertions, the daughter, taking courage
nt the imminant Jn-er of lier parent,
snatched up a rock and hurling it at the
head of her father's would be murderer,
wne fortunate enough to put an end to the
struggle by sirik"i.? him somewhere about
the ear. The creature was not stunned,
but feeling uneqntd to further exertion
slowly got up and retired into a neighbor
ing copse that skirted the road."
How to Makk Kails Dlhable Al
most every one notices a difference in rails
used for fencing material. Timber left
with the bark on rots very much quickpr
than that which is split and seasoned.
Some rails last but three or four years,
and others are good for fifteen or twenty.
There is a difference, of course, in the
woods used for this purpose. Birch poles
are sometimes worthless after a year's use,
and chestnut is very durable. Experi
ments show that rails cut and split after
midsummer last much longer than those
prepared in winter, but summer is usually
full occupied with tillage and harvest, and
of necessity fencing material roust be pre
pared at a time of more leisure. If cut
early in winter, (and none should be cut
late,) have the logs split immediately, and
the rails piled where the sun and wind can
have free access to them. It is a good
plan to draw them o where they are to
be used, as the ground is now frozen.
leel poles too small for splitting.
An indignant wife recently visited an
Indiana judge and solicited his authority
in compelling the return of a truant bus
band. "But, my dear raadam," said the
bashful official, "I can't make him come
back." " An what's the reason ye can't,
I'd like to know?" "Why he is a free
man, and can go where he pleases," 'Au
can he do all that ye say ?" ''Certainly,
but then you can eet a divorce." "An
allow him to go with the creature when
ever he pleases " "Yes." There was an
expression of indignant surprise on the
woman's face : 44 Was ye ever a mother,
judge ! Did ye ever have any children!"
The judge thought he never had. "Then
don't be after talking t me about a di
vorce," and she swept indignantly out of
the office.
A Ccee roit Heart Diseasr. A well
known citizen of Carotid elet, who has
been afflicted for some years wiih palpita
tion ef the heart, ha" been cured by drink
ing tea made from dandelion, a common
field weed that with a rough leaf and a
vrilow blossom and desires that we
fchould make public the simple remedy.
Si. Leva JKfhtfA.
NUMBER 1
A MODLUX SAMJPfcOW,
In Dr. Alfred Booth's Reminiscences of
Springfield, Mass., occurs jtjie, following
accouut of Deacon Hitchcock :
Born in 1722, in the North Main street
region, he removed, while a young man,
to the eastern part of the town, now known
as South Wilbrahatn ; married in 1713,
and was the first deacon of the church
there, continuing in office many years.
He is well remembered by Hon. Oliver
B. Morris as occupying Ihe deacon's seat
at meetings, bis whitened locks giving him
quite a venerable appearance.
During a long life he was of wonderful
strength, agility and endurance, and had
he lived in the palmy days of Greece ke
would have been a worthy competitor io
the games of those days.
It is rHntl uf bim ,hat on one oceasion
a man riding by the field where he was at
work, and boasting of the speed of his
horse was challenged by the deacoa, who
said be could run to Springfield, on foot,
quicker than ihe horse with hi. rider
could. The test resulted in the triumph
of the deacon; diatance ten miles, tima
not stated.
He would lift a cart load of hay by
getting bis shoulders under the axle, in a
stooping posture, and throw an empty cart
over with one hand by taking hold of tha
end of the axletree. When loading grain
in a cart he would take a bag by the teeth
and with a swing and the aid of a push
from the knee, throw it iu the cart. Ha
had double teeth in front, and would hold
a tenpenny nail by them and break it oft
with his fingers. He used to say he did
not know a man he could not whip or run
away from.
The day he was seventy years old he
remarked to his wife that when they wera
first married he was wont to amue her by
taking down his hat with his toes, and
added :
"I wonder if I could do it now !"
Thereupon he jumped from the floor,
took off his hat with his toes, came down
on bis feet like a cat, bung up the hat on
the nail, turned to the table, asked a
blessing and ate of the repast then ready.
How to Wash Easilt. A housekeep
er in the Prairie Farmer lets us into her
secret how to do this, and we here priut
rbat she says :
"I am neither a newspaper correspond
ent, nor an authoress; but for the benefit
of the sisterhood who do their own wash
ing, I want to give a recipe, which I have)
proved and know to be good. It was
given me by a friend who has iiied it a
number of years, and says it will not in
jure the dot he's. Washing-day ia tha
most tiresome of the week ; to be sura
machines and wringers have done much
to lighten the labors, bot even with these,
I wash more easily by using the fluid. I
wish some one would try this recipe and
report how it works. Here it is :
"Five, -pounds of sal-soda, on pound of
borax, one pound of unslacked lime. Dis
solve the soda and borax in one gallon of
boiling water ; slake the lime in the same
quantity of Soiling water ; then pour them
both into eight gallons of cold water ; stir
a few times and let it stand until morning,
when the clear fl..id should be poured off
into jars, ready for use. For two pails
full of water use half a pint of the com
pound. Soak your clothes over night,
putting soap on the soiled parts. In the
morning wring thsm cut and put them on
to boil, first putting luma of the fluid and
soap into the boiler. Afier boiling ten or
twelve minutes, take them out into your
machine or tub and the dirt will rub right
off; then rinse well in two waters. Soma
will Bay 'twill not do to boil dirty clothes;
just try it and your clothes will look nicely.
and you will not be near as tired."
A Wondertl'l Fruit. Soap berries
are to be found in immense quantities
throughout Alaska. They grow on a busb
about the same in appearance as whortle
berries. When ripe they are red, of a
juicy and quinine taste, and generally bi
ennial. One quart, taken and placed in a
tub the size of a bushel, will, when stirred
with the naked hand and arm, become so
stiff that you can cut it with a knife. It
is eaten with horn or wooden spoons, all
the family sitting round the tub. It is
undoubtedly an acquired taste, but ths
commodity is much sought after. The
froth is of a beautiful pink color. Green
berries will maki nearly the same amount
of froth, but it is of a white color and is
not so highly flavored. Foreigners stir it
with port or sherry win, and add sugar,
in which case it is a very dslicious luxury.
Alaska produces berries as well as ice
bergs. Bachfxok?, Look Oct. It has been
demonstrated that married women on an
average live until forty five, while unmar
ried women do not Lve to be mora than
forty-three years of age. An exchange,
therefore, charges that svery man who
refuses to marry shortens some woman's
life just two years, and thus practically
commits homicide, aud fo'.lovrs np the
allegatioo by calling on tha grand juries to
find bills against bachslcrs over thirty
years old.
' i S SSTJWAI b)u L ' r
A i. apt visited Lafayetce, InJ,, the
other day, wha, in gathering cp her dress
to escap the mud, exposed to view a
beautiful white skirt, the rear breadth of
which was made of a half barrel flour ,
sack, upon which thi indelible brand of .
the miller wxa still visible, 'ninety-six
' paawe, twjra tynis wrt&v."