FIRS* QAJLDKA AUD HOUSEHOLD, Farm and Harden Note). Keep potatoes in a cool, dry, dark cellar, with good ventilation. lit rses and cattle normally require, in , round numbers, four pounds of water for each pound of dry substance in their F food, while sheep require but about two I pounds, half as much. A Mississippi farmer dashes cold water into the ears of choking cattle. This causes the animal to shake its head violently, and the muscular action | dislodges the obstruction. Save lameness and coughs by an im mediate covering of the horses alter a !■- drive, if only stopping for a fuw minutes. | Do not cover the horse with blankets when ho is in exercise; not even in a storm; but rub thoroughly, and cover | after the horse has found shelter. il'igs that have been raised on milk, grass, clover, tubers and roots till they weigh 150 or 200 pounds are generally r healthy. They are then in good con > dition to fatten. In selecting tomatoes for seed, do not t be over anxious to obtain those which | ripen first, but select good, large, smooth ones, in fact the best specimens J you can find upon the vines. A pasture constantly grazed with | sheep or cattle fed once or twice a day with cottonseed meal, will rapidly im prove and will develop the best pasture r grasses and white clover. Clean steel with kerosene jii. Hood sheds should be provided for stock. Heavy fowls sometimes receive severe injuries in trying to fly down from high perches. It is calculated that one gallon of white paint will cover about forty-four yards of surface. Sour milk will bring better returns in eggs than in sny.other way. Have you removed manure from yards and stables for composting? If you "slick up" about the house your home will be more attractive and voluable. Vermin arc the greatest |est to J fowls. They are worse in the winter than at other times, ticeause the fowls are confined more closely, and have not opportunities to free themselves. Eicc may lie destroyed by whitewashing the house and roofs with lime-wash mixed witli carbolic acid. Fleas may be de | atroyed by thoroughly greasing the roots. Clean straw should be supplied * to the nests, and glass nest-eggs pro vided for early layers A glass-covered I coop will be useful for an early sitting f hen and a young brood of chickens. 11 The method of selecting and saving ! seed corn, practiced by a New York .farmer is, when husking, to select, from the stalki having two or more ears, the i finest and best ears—those having a small cob, well tipped out, rows regumr and straight, bright and clear seed, nnd with no strange'kernels. On such he | leaves three or four husks, and when a I quantity has accumulated he takes one I or two dozrn and braids the husks, I adding the ears on one side. These l" trusses " nrc then bung in some airy | loft, where they will not he liable to lie i affected by moisture rising from any l thing stored beneath, or be attacked by I insects or vermin. The deeper the f kernel, with a given size of ear, the | smaller thecoband the larger the yield, j The eye will easily detect this with a I little practice. tarern mm IH-jr Wood, Nothing can be more provoking to a v. man than to have to burn green or wet wood, and nothing in our opinion l goes so far to convict the farmer of ■biftlessness ns to neglect furnishing an s abundanre of good, dry wood. Some J farmers contend that there is a saving \ in mixing green wood with dry. because j they say that it lasts longer; but the 1 reason for this is that the sap from tho ; green wood has to be evaporated before | it will burn, and this [evaporation of ■ap absorbs the heat from the dry wood, •o that a certa'n amount of dry wxid _ has to be burned in order to consume the green. This may lie classed one of the wastes upon the farm. It is very unpleasant for the farmer's wife to have ' to go to the wood pile and bring in wet | wood, or have to dig it out of a snow I bank, which is not unfrequently the : case. A shed might be constructed at a slight expense, in which the farmer oould not only store his wood niter it Was cut hut also before cutting, and large enough so that lie or his bi.ed Dsn might work in it on stormy days. >ln such a shed the whole of the wood might be cut without interfering with any regular work. All that would be necessary would be to have a year's stock I in advance; dry wood could then al ways be had and easy of access, rutting off another great waste on the farm. It is a wise old adage which says: "Take I care of the cents and the dollars will take care o( themselves." It is taking care of the cents every day upon the farm which lays up the dollars at the end of the year . American CtUtinalor Haw to 801 l and St*w. To do either properly the food must be r Immersed at the beginning in actually boiling water, and the water must he allowed to reach the boiling point again immediately, and to boil for five min utes. The action of the boiling water upon the surface of either meat or vege tables Is to harden it slightly, but enough to prevent the escape of either juioe or mineral aalta. After the pot containing the food has begun to boll Hie second time, it should be removed to the side of the tiro and allowed to sim mer until it is done. This simmering or stewing extracts ail the nutritious qualities of either moat or vegetables. The pot should be kept closely covered unless for a moment when it is necessary to remove the scum. Ttie steam will con dense upon the inside of the cover, and fall back into the pot in drops of moisture, if the boiling is slow. Do not think that rapiil boiling cooks faster than the gentle process recommended. After the pot once boils you cannot make its contents cook any faster if you have tire enough under it to run a steam engine. Remember if you boil meat hard and fast it will be tough and taste less, and most of its goodness will go up the chimney or out of the window with the steam. Hcelpea. AFPLK Jn.LT.— Slice theapples, skins, cores and all; put them in a stone jar with a small quantity of water to keep them from sticking; th?n place the jar in water and let them remain boiling until perfectly soft; then strain, and to one pint of the liquor add three-quarters of a pound of loaf sugar; toil and clear with the whites of two or three eggs beaten to a froth. When it jellies pour into the glasses to coo', and seal them. FKATHKK CAKE.— Beat to a cream one-half a cup ot butter, add to it two of sugar and beat well toeether; one cup of milk with one tejispoonlul of soda dissolved in it; beat well together; then add one cup of sifted flour with two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar previously rubbed into it; add next the well-beaten y ilk of three eggs, beat the wuites separ ately until stiff, add them and then two more cups of flour; beat well between each successive addition; butter two middle-sized tins, put in the cake and bake for twenty minutes or half an hour in a moderate oven. A PPLK J AM. —Peel and core the apples cut in thin slices and put them in a pre serving kettle with three-quarters of a pound of white sugar to every pound of fruit; add (tied up in apiece of muslin) a few cloves, a small piece of ginger and a thin rind of lemon; stir with n wooden spoon on a quick tire for half an hour. KnMehlnit Poor I,ancen made with the pole of an ax on the hack of the head, aliove and behind the ear. On the floor, [not far away, were three children—his own babe and two belonging to Mrs. Ste phens—ail dead except one, which was unconscious and could not recover. Two of them had their heads crushed, probably by the same weapon. The living one had wounds about the face, 1 ut the skull did not seem to be in jured. The young man immediately gave the nlarm, and a party ol horrified neigh bors soon gathered at the scene of the tragedy. A search of the premises was soon begun, but nothing beyond what has been described was discovered in the bouse. The outbuildings were then searched. In a tobacco (house a quarter of a mile east of the premises they found Frank Bedenbaugh, badly wounded. He had crawled into th' house through a crack in the wall. His throat had been cut from ear to ear. and blood wounds, e-idcntly made with a hatchet, were on his forehead and face. It is supposed that the man had tried to kill himself witli the hatchet, and, failing in that, had used the certnin and fatal razor. Both weapons were found near him, covered witli blood. He was yet able to speak, and, in reply to a question as to where his wife was, lie designated the place where she could bo found, and added that he killed her. He wa3 taken to the house, and lived till eleven o'clock the morning. The horrified neighbors went from the scene in the tobacco bouse to a pas ture field where the wife, intentjon family duties, and with no thought of danger in her mind, had gone to milk only a few hours before. The night was dark and rainy. A still more hor rible scene was here presented. Here lay the dead body of Mrs. Bedenbaugh, witli her throat cut and lier head beaten and paitly imbedded in mud. The hf.tehet and razor had been used to do tho deadly work, nnd the fair voung fac" w*s ninrred and mutiiaien by the cruel blows. The bodies were placed side by side in the bouse, and all that Sabbath day, as the news spread, hun dreds of persons from the surrounding country visited the reene of death. The exact wny in which the killing was done will never to known. Whether the deed was the result of a sudden impulse, of a quarrel, or of a long settled intention, is not known. The actions of the murderer when his brother left him in the morning were not unusual, although be complained of not feeling well. There had been no family bickerings, and there waa no ill feeling between the murderer and the Stephens woman. Frank Bedenbaugh, the murderer, is about thirty years of age. Jasper Bedenbaugh, his lather, is of Herman birth, nnd has ten children. He is a well-to-do farmer, and lives about tour miles south of Calais, where he owns a farm of some 400 acres. The old man purchased the farm where Frank Uvea several years ago, and presented to him. Frank was a man of immense physical strength, as were the whole family. He waa not of bad disposition, although the faml y had the reputation of being fighters. He had been slightly deranged, and wna taking medicine for the malady, but waa not regarded as at all danger ous. Ho waa married only two or three years ago, and waa the father of one child. He was raising the oldest child of Betaey Stephens, who was about ten years old, and iiad lived with him for two or three years. It was to visit this child that Betaey and her youngest child went to Bcdenbaugh's. Mrs. Beden baugh was twenty-two years ol age, a lady of excellent family and amiable disposition, and her short married life had been a pleasant one so far as is known. A society of Mormon girls, having for its object the securing of monogamic husbands, has been discovered and broken up at Salt Lake. The members took a vow to marry no man who would not pledge himself to be content with one wife. Five granddaughters of Brig ham Young had joined it. What ia smaller than a mite's month f A man who reads a paper six month* and then refuses to pay for it. •lathering a Crowd. The other morning two gentlemen were looking out of tho window of a house on Market street, when they ob served a cabbage roll off a market wagon tliat was passing. Instantly over a dozen well-dressed and apparently sane persons negan yelling after the wagon as though the vegetable had been a gold watch or a thousand-dollar bill. The driver stopped about half a square off, looked back at the cabbage, yawned and drove on. " What an nbsurd fuss people in the street make over trivial occurrences," said one of tho gentlemen. "Now, I'll bet a silk hat that I could get a crowd of 500 persons around that cabbage in side of thirty minutes, and yet not leave this room." "I'll take the bet," said his friend, pulling out his watch. " Arc you ready?" " Yes; give the word." " It is now 11:30. Go!" The proposer of the wager led his friend to the window, threw up the sash, and, taking a cane, pointed earn estly at tho mud-covered cabbage with a terrified expression. Presently a hack driver noticed the action, and began to stare at the vegetable from the curb stone; then a liootblack stopped; then a billposter, a messenger-boy and a merchant. " What's the matter?" inquired a German, approaching the innocent base of bis national dish. "Don't touch it! Look out there! Stand hack!" shouted the gentleman at the window. At his horror-stricken tones the crowd fell back precipitately and formed a dense circle around the innocent cabbage. Hundreds came run ning up, and the excitement increased rapidly. " Lock out there!" frantically scream ed the better, waving his cane. "Take tliat dog away, quick!" Several stones were thrown at a cur that was sniffing around the cabbage. "Take care!" said a car driver to a policeman, who was shouldering his way through the mass. " It's an infer nal machine, nitro-glycerine—or some thing." Meanwhile the sidewalk was blocked, the street became impassable, women screamed and rushed into shops, and a storekeeper underneath began to tie a bucket on the end of a long pole with which to pour water on the fiendish invention. The crowd by this time numbering over 1,000, the two gentle men moved away from the window and sat down. In a few moments there was a hurried tap at the door, and there appeared a man who had been sent as a delegate from thf mass-meeting outside. "I should like to know, gentlemen," he said, " what the facts are?" " What facts?" " Why, what there is peculiar about that cabbage out there?" "Nothing in the world." was the soft reply, " except that it seems to be sur rounded by aliout 1,000 of the biggest fools in town. Do anything else for you?" The man reflected a moment, said he " guessed not," and retired. Before he handed in his report, however, Captain Short's watch had dispersed the mob and clubbed 211 separate persons for creating a disturbance.— San Frartrisco Fott. The Abase of Trees. Mr. Hughes, in a letter from his newly-founded colony at Rugby, Tonn . to the London Spectator, says: There are few more interesting experiences than a ride through these Southern lorests. The scrub is so low and thin that you can almost always see away for long dis tances among pine, white oak and chest nut trees; and every now and then at ridges where the timber is thin, or where a clump of trees has been ruth lessly girdled and the bare, gaunt skele tons only remain standing, you may catch glimpses of mountain ranges of different shades of blue and green, stretching far away to the horizon. You can't live many days up here without getting to love tho trees even more, I think, than wc do in well-kept Eng land; and this outrage of girdling as they call it—stripping the bark from the lower port of the trunk, so that the trees wither and die as they stand—strikes one as a kind of household cruelty, as if a man should cut off or disfigure all his wife's hair. If he wants trcp tor lumber or firewood, very good. He should liave it. But he should cut it down like a man, and take it cles n nway for some reasonable use, not leave it as a scarecrow to bear witness of his reek lessnessand laziness. Happily not much mischief of this kind has been done yet in the neighborhood of Rugby, and a stop will now be put to the wretched practice. There is another, too, almost as ghastly, but which, no doubt, has more to be said for it. At least half of the largest pines alongside of the sandy tracks which do duty for roads have a long, gaping wound in their sides, about a yard from the ground. This was the native way of collecting turpentine, which oozed down and accummulatcd at the bottom of the gash; but I rejoice to say it no longer pays, and the custom is in disuse. It must be suppressed al together, but carefully and gently. It seems that if not persisted in too long, the poor. dear, long-suffering trees will close up their wound, and not be much the worse; so I trust that many of the scored pines, springing forty or fifty feet in the sir before tb owing out a branch, which I passed in sorrow and anger on my first long ride, may yet outlive those who outraged them. Hav ing got rid of my spleen, excited by tfiese two diabolic customs, I can return to our ride, which had otherwise nothing but delight in it. PLKILN JKKAR THE POLE. Mrnlenant hhwitki'! (Experience--A K1..1 Journey of iI.JDI Mile.— Alcohol Worse Than Hhlmi.. The Thermom eter (Oil Oeitreea Helnw Kreezlnr* Borne interesting features of the recent franklin search expedition were pre sented by Lieutenant Schwatka, at a meeting of the Academy ofScienoesin New York. Beginning with the use of alcohol. Lieutenant Schwatka emphasizes the fact tliat not a> i t of ardent mpi rit of any kind was used.iu his sled journey of 3,251 miles. In shost ictineys and hunting expeditions where there was ample room foa baggage it waa consid ered tliat alcohol might be carried, and, if used In moderation would raise the temperature of the body slightly and tend, as elsewhere . to increased comfort. But on long journeys ardent spirits could not be carried in bulk without displac ing other indispensable articles. Alco hol was not regarded as necessary and was not considered a good heating agent. The injurious cttects of intense cold, however, had sometimes been wrongly ascribed to the use of li quor On shipboard the general use of aleo lolic stimularts was considered bad, and only allowable when every possible chance of scurvy was removed by the character of the food. In regard to temperature, Lieut' mint Schwatka said tliat his party had en countered the most intense cold ever re corded by white men—seventy-one de grees, or 103 below the freezing point. On tiiat day the camp was moved ten miles, and no unusual inconvenience was felt. It was not the intensity of the cold that was unpleasant. All suf fering was caused by the direction and violence of the wind. With the ther mometer at sixty degrees no especial trouble was met with, hut at a tempera ture fifteen degrees higher, with the wind blowing straight in the faces of the men, frost-bites and great suffering were common. The white men would freeze their noses or the exposed por rionsof their cheeks. The coldest days were perfectly calm; on warmer days, with the exception of a few days in mid summer, the wind blew constantly. But it was considered that to men clad in warm clothing temperature was not material, and the longest journeys could be undertaken without fear. When the thermometer sank to seventy-one de grees the sky was of a leaden hue, varied with brownish red near the sun. Clouds of vapor rolled from everything nninml. When the expedition stopped it was enveloped in steam. Musk oxen and deer could be detected at a distance of five or six miles by the vapor about them, and the Esquimaux claimed to be able to distinguish the kind of animal by peculiarities in this vapor. Water poured on ice caused a cracking like miniatun firecrackers, and the surface' of sheets of ice was gray and opaque from the unequal expansion. The sound of the runners was like tliat caused by a resined bow or tuning-fork, and, heard at a distance, rose mbied an itlolian harp. In the most extreme cold the acclimatisation of the white men proved as perfect as that of the natives. At a very low temperature the beard became a block of ice nnd the lips and nostrils wprc nearly glued together. Exercise, though important, was not so essential as has been stated, there never being a necessity of exercising to the point of fatigue. For Arctic explorers a strong circulation and a tendency not to perspire profusely are dolrabe. The common theories regarding the danger of using snow were at variance with Lieutenant Schwatka's experience. At thirty decrees the snow freezes tempo rarily, the mucuous membrane of the mouth causing a burning sensation. If this be often and rapidly repeated it is highly injurious, but snow and ice taken in moderation at long intervals are of great service in quenching thirst. Drowsiness was not experienced in con nection with great cold, and it was considered as resulting usunlly from a sudden change from shipboard to out of-door life, or from an insufficient ac climatization. Near-sightedness, though attended with some discomforts, gave certain important advantages. The glasses be came readily covered with congealed moisture from the heal, hut with the squinting common to near-sighted per sons were an efficient protection against the glare of the sun upon the snow. No one who was near-sighted suffered from snow blindness, while the Esquimaux were troubled with this more than the white men. They also suffered from chronic optbalmia nnd the deposits caused by cataracts. In very cold weather the huts were buried two or three feet deep in snow. It was advis able to change these huts as often as possible, because the constant freezing and thawing made them a mass of trans lucent ice, and exhalations from the breath, bodies and fires became con gealed on the walls, continually falling off and causing a little snow-storm in the interior. The effect produced by the darkness o the long Arctic night upon human beings was considered tojbe much more real than the discomforts occasioned by loneliness and homesickness. Accordi ng to physicians, it has been found that darkness decreases the respiratory movements in proportion to its inten sity. It was, therefore, held that in the long dark Arctic wiatcr the respiratory movements would become much re tarded, and a consequent injurious effect woul.i bi exerted, the circulation being slow nnd blood imperfectly oxidised. To prevent this, crews should be ex posed as much as possible to the light. American watches, with dials suited to the Arabic division of the hours of the day, are exported to Byria. A Catamount In a Trap. A recent letter from Montioello, N. Y., to a New York paper, Hays: Cata mount.* have not been BO numerous and bold for years, and the dreaded lynx has made ts presence known In the Black I>ake region. The appearance of these animals, all deadly enemies of the deer, is certain evidence that their prey is here in unusual numbers this season. William i'uleson, a bark-peeler while passing 'hrough the Beaver K ill wood heard a loud rowling proceeding from a spot some distance to his right. He was unarmed, but crawled steadily to. ward the place until he was able to see two huge catamounts feasting on a doe they had killed. He carried the news to the nearest settlement. Three men armed with guns proceeded to the spot. The animals had disappeared, after burying the remains of the deer's car ( ase. This meant that the catamounts had satisfied their appetites for the time and had secreted what was left of their feast to be eaten at some future time. This is one of the habits of the cata mount. As the safest and surest way to capture at least one of the animals, a large steel trap was buried at the aide of the carcase. On going to it next day the hunters found one of the catamounts fast by a hind leg in the trap. The men desired to secure it alive, but no one dared approach near enough to throw a rope over its head. Its rage was such that it made violent efforts to spring upon its captors. One of them finally approached with a long pole, which he expected to pass over the animal's neck and hold it light to the ground, while others tied its legs together. When the man was ten leet away the catamount made such strong surgings and springs forward to meet him that it tore its leg apart, and thus released from the trap sprang upon him before he was aware of the situation. It set its teeth in the pole not two inches from where one of the hunter's hands grasped it. Both fore paws seized tl e pole, and the one hind claw struck the hunter above the right knee, tearing the flesh for nearly a foot and at least half an inch deep. The liun.er dropped the pole and rushed back to where his companions stood gazing with terror on the unexpected attack ofthe infuriated animal. The cata mount crouched for a spring in the ; midst of the hunters, hut a rifle-ball 1 from one of them broke its fore shoulder and another shot gave it a mortal wound. ' No trace of its mate bad been seen, but while the men were looking at the cata mount they had killed, as it lay stretched | on the ground, the unmistakable cry of the other was heard eff in the woods. It (tame nearer and nearer until the animal sprang into an open space near the hunters, and confronted them with glar ing eyes. It crouched a moment and then mounted to the branches of a j chestgut tree, where, lying flat on a ; iimbi tprepared for a spring on any one who! mtured near enough. It was shot thro* .h the head with a rifle-ball. For •it least half a minute it hung suspended from the limb by the powerful claws of its fore legs, and then fell with a fearful yell to the ground, where it soon died. Snnshine. From an acorn weighing a lew grains, a tree will grow for a hundred years or more, not only throwing off many pounds of leaves every year, hut itseli weighing several tons. If an orange twig is put in a large box of earth, and that earth is weighed when the twig becomes a tree, bearing luscious fruit there will be very nearly the same amount of earth. From careful experi ments made by different scientific men, ft is an ascertained fact that a very large part of the growth of a tree is derived from the sun, from the air. ard from the water, and a very little from the earth; and notably, all vegetation becomes sickly unless it is freely exposed to sun shine. Wood and coal are but condensed sunshine, which contain three import ant elements, equally essential to both vegetable and animal life—magnesia, lime and iion. It is the iron in the blood which gives it its sparkling red color and its strength. It is the lime in the bones which give them the durability necessary to bodily vigor, while the magnesia is important to any of ths tissues. Thus it is, that the mora persons are out of doors, the mors healthy, the more vigorous they are, and the longer will they live. Every human being ought to have an hour or two ot sunshine at noon in winter, and in the early forenoon in summer.—HalCs Medical Adviser. Hoard Tear I'sn versa! Iss. If you say anything about a neighbor or friend, or even a stranger, say noth ing ill. It is a Christian and brotherly charity to suppriss our knowledge of evil of another unless a higher public duty compels us to bear accusing wit ness; and if it be true charity to keep our knowledge of such evils to ourselves, much more should we refuse to spread evil report of another. Discreditable as the fact is, it is by far the commonest tendency to suppress the good we know ol our neighbors and friends. We act in this matter as though we felt that by pushing our fellows down or hack we were putting ourselves up or forward. We ore jealous of commendation unless wo get the larger share. They bad been to see the tragedy ol "Julius Caesar," and on the way home, thoughts of the death of the great dic tator seemed to affect her so much that she turned to Algernon and exclaimed: "Wasn't it sad to be cut up so horri bly P" " Aw—yes," sympathetically re sponded A1 vrnoc, "and he pwotably bad on his best—aw—best clothes."