_- — Home Economies. ANcHOVY SAUCE ~Make a drawn butter sauee and add to it two or three teaspoon fals of anchovy paste. When it thickens remove it from the fire; you may add lemon juice if you like it. EneLisg POUND CAKE.—One pound of butter, one pound of sugar, one pound of flour, twelve eggs, one pound of ralsins, three pounds of currants, halt a pound of citron, half a pound of almonds, a gill of brandy. Bake like Palmetto cake. Sort TOING.—Beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth, add «radu ally a half pound of best pulverized sugar, beat well for at least half an hour, flavor with lemon juice. To color a delicate pink, use strawberry, currant or cranberry juice, or the grated peeling of an orange or lemon moistened with the juice and squeesed through a thin cloth, will color a handseme yellow. BEEFSTEAK WITH TOMATO BAUCE. —Take a dozen ripe tomatoes, skin and scald them (canned tomatoes may be used) ; put them in a saucepan with half a pint of good beef gravy ; season with salt and pepper, and put them to stew for an hour. When the steak is nicely broiled send it to table with the sauce in a tureen, ParapisE Pupping.—Pare, core, snd mince three apples into small pieces, and mix them with one quar ter of a pound of bread-crumbs, three egge, three ounces of sugar, three ounces of currants, the rind of one- half lemon, one-half wineglass of brandy, salt and grated nutmeg to taste, Put the pudding into a butter- ed mould, tie it down with a cloth, boil for two hours, and serve with aweel sauce. CELERY Soup.—Boil asmall cup of rice in three pints of miik until it will pass through a sieve. Grate the white partof three heads of celery on a bread grater; add this to the milk after it has been strained; put to it a quart of strong veal stock; let it boil till the celery is very tender, Beason with salt and cayenne pepper and serve, HaM.—To boil a ham, scrape and wash carefully in plenty of cold water Put it to cook in boiling water enough to cover it entirely, hock end up ; let it remain on the front of the stove till the ham begins to boil; then put it back, and let it simmer steadily for three hours. Takeit off the fire, and let the ham remain in the water it is boiled im tall cool enough to handle; then skin it, put ina baking pan and sprinkle with about three ounces of brown sugar; run your pan inio a hot oven, and let it remain a half- hour, or until the sugar has formed a brown crust. This not only improves the flavor of the ham but preserves its aloes. RABBIT.—Cut up the rabbit, remove the breastbone and bone the legs. Put the rabbit, a few slices of ham, a few forcemesat balls and three hard boiled eggs, by turns, in layers, and season each with pepper, salt, two blades of pounded mace, and one-half tesspoonfal of grated nutmeg. Pour in about one-half pint of water, cover with crust, and bake in a well heated oven for about one hour and a half, When done pour in at the top, through the hole in the middle of the crast, a Jittle good gravy, which may be made of the breast and leg bones of the rab- bitand two or three shank bones flavored with onlon, herbs and spices. Rabbits, whish are in the best condi- tion in midwinter, may be fricasseed like chicken in white or brown sauce. To roast, stuff with a dressing "made of bread-crumbs, chopped salt pork, thyme, onion, and pepper and salt, sew up, rub over with a little butter or pin on it a few slices of salt pork, add a little water in the pan, and baste often. Serve with mashed pota- toes and currant jelly. “He Needs It. Sn sn During the late political campaign the friends of a man who wanted to be a candidate for the Assembly sald, in urging his nomination : “He is & poor ' man, with = large family. He needs it.” As a rule, the pay of an Assembly- man hardly meets his current expen ses at Albany. Therefore, it would be folly for a poor man with a large family to seek a nomination for the As embly as a means of bettering his condition, if he intended to be con. tent with his legitimate pay. The inference ls obvicus. The impecunious candidate wanted to go to Albany for the sake of the stealings which he could realize’ as a member of the Legislature, Toast is what he needed.” And the fmends who were urging his nomination on the ground that he “needed it,” must have known that. A arta President Bontoux sand Mangers Feder, of the Union Generale, have lodged an appeal, which will be heard in February, against their sentence at Pari for acts in connection with the management of that institation. Women's Work. Mrs, Stanton speaks of ‘‘the indi vidual sacredness that comes of a per- sonal bank account,” in a paper in the current number of the North American Review, and the remark is one eminently suggestive, The differ- ence of having or not having, a little fund of money of one’s own, is no only a question of finance but is repre- sentative of the atmosphere of ease nd independence of personal inclinat tion, or that of independence on the will and judgment of another. The woman who earns her own money and who spends it at her own sweet will has, to this extent at least, a de gree of golid satisfaction in life. Every woman has countless ways in which she likes to spead money with- out talking the matter over with any one. Bhe has her own little private charities, her gifts, her tastes. Mrs, Stanto n says the love of accu- mulation is as strong in woman as in man, but that is perhaps rather a sweeping generalization. A woman usually cares more for money as a present currency for what it will do and give to herself and others than for its hoarding or growth. Ofremuner ative employment Mrs. BStanton adds : Next to freedom of locomotion and individual independence as element of health, comes the necessity of re- manerative employment and pleasant mental occupation. Woman Is now in the transition period from the old to the new, and is struggling to serve a higher purpose in life than she has heretofcre known. All girls are not satisfied with the amusements soclety has to offer, ncr all women with the position of wives, mothers, and house- keepers; and it is the want of con- genial employment that makes the lives of women so vacant and thelr health so uncertain, The love of accumulation is as strong in women as in men. It isa great satisfaction to know that one has acquired the skill to make a livelihood ; has the power to shape conditions; is free to gratify tastes ; to choose surroundings; to enjoy a little of that individual sacredness that comes from a personal bank account, Statistics show that girls taking a college course are more healthy than those who lead listless lives In society; that women who do business are far more vigorous than those who are mere household de- pendents. That the want of congenial employ- ment is enough to make life empty few can doubt; yet, when one looks at things as they are it is 8 source of absolute astonishment to find so many women working in ways which are to them a burden, and at pursuits for which they haye no vocation. Some one has recently said that the great question which interests women at present is aa to how they may obtain employment without becoming factory hands or being employed in shope, How do men obtain employment with out recourse to these? The question for theone, as for the other, answers itself. People escape the lower by fit- ting themselves for the higher, and then by resolutely insisting on taking the higher, If a woman will allow herself to be shoved to the wall and stay there quietly she will doubtless find the way easy. But that there is the slightest necessity tor her doing so is not true, A woman can do what she will, if she has the strength to will anything. A little staying power is a very good element in life. It is not worth while to be discour. aged and throw up matters which one has deliberately chosen, One obsta- cle in the way of successful work for women and the power of establishing the sacredness of a personal bank so- count is the false pride that exist among s certain class of women who are sshamed of having it known that they work for money. The decors tive art societies and the Woman's Exchange are the principal markets for work that is done sub rosa. Buch work is always under a disadvantage. The caution necesssrv to defend the reputsilon of the artisan against the possible suspicion of knowing how to do anything useful or ornamental re- sults in sadly limiting her resources. The key to a great deal of satisfaction, if not of speculative happiness in life, is to discover that work for which one has a vocation, and then pursue it to remunerative ends, and the sa credness of the individual bank ao unot, A A— Sir Peter and the Cow, whom I spoke In a recent letter. He was an opposition member during the lamentable government of Sir John Mackenzie in the last decade, and was a constant and most uncomfortable thorn in the side of that unhappy premier. Bir John was a conspleuous railroad magnate, and just before the opening of Parliament one winter Sir Peter called on him to induce him to pay $40 for a widow's cow that had been run over by the cars, “I con't believe there’s anything in it!” ex. 4 claimed the premier, peremptorily ; ‘it’s probably a trumped-up case, but ’11 inquire and you eall to-morrow." The gentleman from New Bruns- wick was not used to being treated so o.va'ler'y, but he pocketed it and called in the morning. “There's no justice in it. We won’t pay for the cow,” broke in Bir John. “ You won't ; won't you 2’ rejoined Bir Peter, with a manner quite as bouncing as that of the leader of the government. ‘ Have you been there or sent there and investigated it?" “ No, I haven't, but I won't pay for the cow. It's a mere trifie, and she ought to have kept off the track.” * Don’t the law say you shall have a fence?" “1 won’t pay for the cow, now ; and that’s all the answer you'll get.” “You won't pay for the widow's cow ; won't you, Bir John Mackenzie? I will make you pay for it,”’ exclaim. ed Bir Peter, now thoroughly aroused. “You will; will you! How will you ?' growled the premier. “11 take it out of you during the session, as sure as you are a livisg man. The widow's $40 isn’t any- thing, isn’t it? I'll take it out of you 1” It was an Irishman against a Scotchman, and both were angry. The sequel proved that Sir Peter took it out of him very thoroughly. Ho is a round-headed man, a hard worker, a pugnacious and redoubtable foe, an unforgiving enemy, bold and elegant in debate, no dilettante, but a hard hitter, snd some of his onsiasughts were furious, If he had not great tact he bad great force, and he never lor- got the cow. In the speeches he made every day against the measures and methods of the government, then under serious suspicion, he told the story of the cow and trotted her out with a frequency that must have seemed like cruelty to animals, Finally the last day of the session dawned, and the consideration of Mackenzie's expense budget was re- sumed, It provided the appropriations for the coming year. Bir Petr Mitchell took the floor and launched inte a eulogy of the de ceased cow and the propriety of mak ing ap appropriation for the widow. He was greeted with lsughter and mocking applause, and then his audi tors waited uneasily for him to finish. He continued. He told the story over again with embellishments and elabo rations. He contrasted the stinginess of the wealthy ruler with the quiet endurance of the penniless widow. He began to read from the Bible the commands to mercy, justice and char. ity, when the honorable members straggled out one by one to dinner, Sir Peter bit a biscuit, drank a swal- low of water, and continued, impres. sing upon the empty chairs about him the tender duties and graces of hu- manity. Members straggled In again, He quoled the Bong of the Bhirt. They appealed to him to draw his remarks to ss close. He retold the story of the cow, Meantime, Sir John Mackenzie was perspiring with wrath and anxiety in the remier’s apartment hard by. All his hopes were bound up in the appropristion budget. What if it should not come to vote! The hon. orable member from New Brunswick could not be stopped, for this was the one bill in the Canadian Parliament on which a member could speak as long as he wished. There was no way of cutting short the debate. No mo tion was in order while he was speak- ing, except the motion to adjourn— and that would be adjournment sine die, The Government members were in consternation, a8 the orator delivered a speech on the blessings of vaccination, gave statistics on the cost of fences in the United Siates, passed an elaborate enconlum on the saperi- ority, for draft purposes, of Devon cat- tle, to which class the deceased do- mestic friend of the bereaved widow belonged, and then began to describe the religious eccremonies in which the sacred cow of Barmah takes part, when the bell rang for vespers. A short time more and thesession would expire by law, and the Government bad passed no appropriation bill ! At this critical junctura one of the Government members returned ex- citediy from the Premier's room, rushed to the orator's desk, ani ex. claimed : “In the name of God, what ails you, Mitchell? What do you want 2"? “still, said Sir Peter, fin. ishing the sentence he had on his lips, “not a cent has ever been paid for the widow's cow!” The member uttered 8 vehement exclamation about tha! animal, and added : “Sir John Mao kenzie suthorizes me to say that he will pay for the cow, if you'll let this bill come to a vote.”’ Sir Peter sat down rather tired, and the widow got her pay. The Govern. ment organs declared that the widow's cow had cost $40,000, Her champion is still known in Canada as Bismarck Mitchell, on scoount of bis boldness and shrewdness in outwitting a Cabls pet and making himself long the ad- viser in-chief of a wvacilisting Gov. ernor, i What 1s the difference between Solomon snd Rothschild? One was king of the jews and the other jew of the kings. Agricultural, a Without sheep English farmers could not keep up the fertility of thelr land, There are three sheep to feur acres kept in England, while Ameri- cans only average one sheep to thirty- four acres, One of the best disinfectants, saves the Poultry Bulletin, is Condy’s fluid, which is made by putting one ounce of potass. permangenate in a pint of cold water. For use one ounce of this fiuld should be added to half a pint of water, Ducks can be raised with profit, if kept under favorable conditions. An English farmer raises annually about 1200 for the London market. Many of them are hatched in winter and kept under eover till the approach of warm weather, The United States Veterinary Jour. nal, Chicago, recommends the follow ing as a remedy for heaves: Pow- ered resin, two ounces ; tartare ns tic, two ounces ; Spanish brown, two ounces, and Cayenne pepper, two ounces, Mix, and give two teaspoon fuls a day in soft feed. In some parts of the West the large oat crop and deficiency in cern will cause the substitution of oats for corn as feed for hogs. A bushel of corn weighs nearly twice as much as one of oats, If ground together the mixture makes a better feed for growing pigs and breeding sows than either grain alone. A corr espon ent of the Breeder (Gazette is of the opinion thst futtening hogs in large numbers under ons man- sgement is not attended always with success, as they do not seem to thrive when many are fed and kept together. The same care cannot possibly be given them as is done with only a few, as cleanliness is indispensible to the hea th of the animals. The following is stated to bea nearly correct rule for measuring corn in eribs : Having leveled the corn in the erib, measure the length, Lreadth, and depth, sand multiply them together and deduct from the product one-fifth, and you have the number of bushels in the ear ; for shelled corn take one- half of this. To be strictly correct, add half a bushel for every one hundred. Harness should never be kept in the stable where manure is constantly generating large quantities of ammo- nia. This ammonia is rapidly ab- sorbed by the leather, and the effect upon the leather is about the same as would result from saturating it with strong lye, Ina word, ammonia rots leather, and hence keeping harness in the stable is sure to result in its dan age more or less, Regarding artificial incubators it may be safely stated that there are several kinds that work well, but only in the hands of carereful, attentive e- sons, A beginner should (ry one of small capacity, for an occasional loss of a large number of eggs amounts to a sum sufficient to destroy the profits, The care of the young chicks .& of more importance than the incubation of the eggs. “The effect of a strong ray of light falling on milk" says the Dairyman, ‘is to develop the fermentive organ- {sms that lead to the decomposition of the liguid. They are of a vegetable character, and peed light za well as warmth to enable them to thoroughly de their work. It is best therefore to keep milk in the shade, not necessar- ily in a dark room, but away from the light of a window, Of all roots, except potatoes, beets are most sensitive to frost, Carrots being mostly deep In the ground, will stand considerable freczing without much injury, provided they are left to thaw in the ground. | Parsnips and vegelable oyster plants are belter for being left out all winter, and of parsnips especially only enough should be put in the cellar for use when those out of doors cannot be gotten at, A farmer writes to the Ohio Farmer that wheat iands need thorough work- ing, and * then over sgain, and in a tew days still again, and then it will pay you $5 a day to work it again with the proper tools, although you may think it already cannot be im- proved on. This Is not very herd to work, except for the horses, aa the driver can ride while cultivating and roiling, and while harrowing, if you have an improved harrow.” Not enough difference is made in the price of chickens well or poorly fed. To many persons one chicken is just as good as another ; but one who appreciates differences in flavor there will be as wide a range as between different fruits, The difference Is partly in the breed, but much also de. pends on feeding, Fowls left to get their own living eat many things when hungry that a well-fed fowl would not touch.—~dmerican Oultive~ tor, Never apply pure hen droppings or any pure guano directly on seeds or the germ of most plants, Properly prepared fowl manure may be applied with benefit to any crop, field or gar, den, broadest or harrowed in, but is more economically employed in the hill or drill.’ As good a plan as any, probably, is to gather the droppings as often as on ¢ & week, snd mix with ay twice t'uir bulk of dry earth, Kathy's Music Box. “ Well,” said Kathy, trying to look cheerful, ** we've got a good fire, if we haven't got any supper, and that's one comfort, this freczing night.” Mikey epread out his little blue hands over the bright blaze with an air of satisfaction, but at the mention of supper his round face lengthened visibly, and he looked wistfully toward the empty cupboard. “ We might do without the shupper very well, as we had praties for din- ner, but what shall we have for aiting in the morning, sure?’ ssad thought- ful Johumy, with his little Irish tongue, “I cannot tell,” sald Kathy, sigh- ing, *‘but the saints will not let us starve, Perhaps Mrs, Arnold will be ready to pay me for my work by that time, Then we'll have a nice break- fast, if it is a late one,” “Hot cakes and sirup,’’ suggested Mikey, smacking his lips, as if he were already tasting the delicious compound. *‘You don’t look as if you couid bide that long without a morsel to pit in your mouth. You were afther giving all the dinner till us, and didn’t ate the full of a thimble yoursel, You'll be getting the sickness again if you do that way, Kathy.” Kathy did feel faint. It was true that she nad scarcely tasted a mouth- ful of dinner, and, as she had been ill, she felt the need of food more than she usually did in her days of fasting. It was no common thing for her to go without her dinner and sup- per both, but now it seemed as if she could not “bide’”’ until the next day, without even a crust of bread. “Bouan’t I go and see if Mr. Finn would trust us just this once, fora loaf of bread and a bit of tay? Tay is ju: t the thiog you need,” said Johnny after musing awhile, with his grave eyes fixed on the fire, “I don’t know but you may, John- ny,’ said Kathy, hesitatiogly., “He refused to do so onee, though, and I'd rather do almost anything than ask bima an.” “0,” said Mikey, dancing about the flocr, “ I'll be putting the tay kettle on right away. Won't it be jolly if we have the bread and the tay ;"” and his little freckled face fairy beamed w.th delight. But Kathy looked very sad and anxious, “Tell him that we will pay him to morrow if poesible, and if not, then on the day after,” said she to Johnny, who was buttoning his old threadbare coat, in which to braye the bitter night. “The tay kettle "ll be hiling in a minute,” said Mikey, placing it over the glowing coals as soon as Johnny had gone. “Hark till you hear it sing, Kathy.” “Poor little fellow,’ thought Kathy, “I am #0 afraid he will be disappoint- ed! OO, what a dreadful thing it 18 to be so poor, and what will happen to us if I don’t get some work pretty swoon 7" “There !” sald Mikey, after a few moments cf silence. “‘It is begluning to sing now, and doa’t it be jolly? It is singing for good luck. I know it is, for I vever heard it make a noise that pleasant 1” It did make a plescant noise, truly ; but Johnny had been gone a long time, and Kathy began to feel anxious, At last his step sounded on the stairs, and Mikey rushed to open the door, “0 dear! he hasn’t got anything, Kathy ? I suppose Mr. Finn wouldn't let him have an) thing. What a mean old man.” “Mr. Finn says he isn’t going to trust anybody any more ; but he wants to know if you wouldn’t be after sell ing that musie-box of yours—says he'll pay you $4 for it,”’ said Johnny, all out of breath. “Sell my musio-box I" exclaimed Kathy. “What a strange idea? How did he know that I had such =» thing 7’ “He says he's heard it many a time when he's been after goin’ by the house, and he likes the tunes it plays.” “Indeed!” sald Kathy, almost in- dignant that one should dare to pro- pose such a thiug as her selling the thing she prized most cn earth, for it belonged to her sallor brother Jamie, who was lost at sea three or four years before. When he went away he told her never to part with it ifshe could help it. And though Kathy had been in sore straights before, ard had been obliged to sell everything that they could possibly spare from their little stock of household furniture to procure fuel and bread, she never had thought of sparing the musio-box. Not only becanse it was Jamie's did she value it, but its music had always been a great comfort to her. It played sweet, plaintive old Irish and SBootch taues, and she kept it wound up nearly all the time, and, while she was at her work, it carried her thoughts sway into pleasanter places. It was the ehief delight and pride of both Johnny and Mikey, and it was seldom that they were wiliing to let it remain silent for one moment. Mikey's disappoir tment was too much for him, and he began to ery in spite of himself. The tea ketllv/s merry song was unendurable now. It seemed spiteful and mocking, some way, as it sent its fantastic wreaths of steam into the smoky air of the dingy old kitchen, Kathy sat down, and, leaning her head on her hand, began to think. How much good $4 would do them now, for there was no ce:tainty that she could obtain any money to-mor- row, snd how eould they live all that time without food 7 Then there was only coal enough to last until the middle of the next day, If the weather should be as cold as it was now, She felt as if she ought to part with the music-box, but how could she ? “What do you say, Johnny!” she sald at last. “Do you think we had better sell the music-box 2” “Shure you know best,” sald John~ ny, pulling confusedly at his cost but. ton. “Four dollars is a big heap of money! Wouldn't it buy plinty shuppers ?"’ “Not so very many, dear,” said Kathy, doubtfally, * but I suppose we must sell it, after all. I cannot work and go without food, and if I should be sick again we should all starve.” But the tears came into her eyes when she looked upon the poor old music-box and thought it would be for the last time. Mlze’s tears began to flow afresh, and Johnny looked as if he was going to lose his last friend. * Let's hear it once more before we part with it, anyway,” said Kathy, winding it up and setting it to the tune of ** Auld Lang Syne.” “ It seerus to me that it never sound. ed 80 nice before,” said Johnny, place ing it on the window-sill ard leaning over it fordly. But the musio-box acted as if it were bewitched, It never had been known to act in that way before. lastead of playing ** Auld Lang Syne” through in its ordinary proper and sedate man- ner, all of a sudden there came a little gnap, and dropped the plaintive ald melody and struck merrily into “ What's a’ the B.eer, Kimmer 7" Kathy looked fiightened, it was such an extraordinary freak, for she was sure that she wound it up to its fullest extent. “Shure,” sald Johnny heard the likes of it! good eign.” And he words : “ What's a’ the steer, Kimmer ? Wioat's a the steer? Jamie has lance i And soon he will be here “How did you know Jamie had landed ?”’ broke in a blithe voice from the doorway. “‘Bless the old music box, "Kathy ! I never should have found you if it hadn’t been for that,” Kathy grew white to the very lips, and would have fallen if Jamie had not caught her in his arms. For it was the same Jamies whom they had so long supposed dead, and the sight of his face again overcame her entirely. But she soon came to her senses, and such a happy meeting as it was you never saw in all your life, Johnny and Mikey fairly dsnced for joy when they came to realize who the stranger was, and the old music box sang as it never sang before, *‘I thought you were dead, Jamie,’ sald Kathy, at last, “The papers said that the Fearless was wrecked, and all on board perished,” “I know that,” said Jamie, “and the Foarless was wrecked, but two others of the crew beside myself were saved. We managed to cling to the wreck until a vessel came along and took us in. Bix mouths after that I was at home once more, but you were gone from the old place, and though I spent months in searching for you I could find no trace of you. How did you happen to come to Boston, Kathy “Oh, I heard that rent was cheaper, and that I could obtain work more easily here,” said Kathy. “But things look as if you had had a hard time, my poor little sister,’ said Jamie, looking about the bare, comfortiess room. Then Mikey made hate to tell him inat they hadn't anything to est in the house and were going to sell the mu ie-box, “Sell the music box!” exclaimed Jamie. “Why, I wouli as soon sell you, you little midget! I guess I can pick up money enough to buy some supper. The music box told me where you were. I heard it as it sat on the window-slll while I was going by, and knew its voloe in a moment," Jamie did pick up money enough to buy some supper, and a jolly one they had, such as the boys had not dreamed of fora long time. Afterward they found out that he had been in Austra lia, and had filled his pockets pretty well there. 5. they had a nice, oony little house of their own ; Johuny and Mikey were sent to school as proud as two little prineces, in nice new and Kathy gave up her sewing to be Jamie's housekeeper, This happened a long time ago, but as Johnny, who eaunot get the burr out from under his tongue, ‘they have never been out o' shuppers since, and the musiobi x sits on the sitting-room table, and sings just as lively as ever, shure,” , “I univer It must be a hummed the
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