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For tho schoollmy, hot with play, For tho laborer tired with toil, For tho travolor on his way,. Doth the tireless rope uncoil. And how often, who can toll ? Or, who first tho Rraeioiis draught Drew np from the bonnteons well ? Or, who sunk tho ancient shaft f They are dunt, who Blakod their thirst At tho little silver fonnt In the wild woods, whore it first Called tho huntnnian to dismount. They are dust, tho pioneers, Who the strong-arm forest broke, Wiere the old well now appears, Whoro now curls tho village smoke. So shall we within tho valo With our children's children dwell; But the waters no'er Bhall fail In the old time-honored well. Robert Balling, 81. Txmit Pott-JHupatdu OUR COLONEL'S STORY. OR A SLIP 'TWrXT THE CUP AND THE Lir. " Tou all knew Sandy McPherson," said our colonel. " Intimately 1" " Perfectly !" " As well as my own brother, sir !" most of us replied, though, if the truth bo told, there was not a man at the mess-table who had ever heard of McPherson be fore. You Bee, it was the commanding officer who spoke, and it was always risky saying him nay when ho expected yea. . "They used to call Lim, you recol lect, 'The Great Unwashed, a vulgar but appropriate sobriquet, neverthless," continued the chief. "Great, on ac count of his burly and preciously ugly person ; unwashed, by reason of his ac credited scant acquaintance with brown Windsor, spring water and the functions of the dhirzeesand dhobies i. e., tailors and washermen of the land. Ou his coffee estate iu the moun tains and among his undraped and un Kcrubbed coolies, this disregard for the comforts and conveniences of life went f.r nothing perhaps it was even in keeping with the surroundings ; but when ho came down to this city, walked in its public earden and esplanade, or showed with its swells at the bond, his apxBratice was unruf thin? too outra geous, and his brother K. O. B.'s, mean ini? Knights of the Coffee Berry, and not, as you might suppope, of tho Order of the Bath, dressy men hereabouts, what ever else they are on their plantations, cast him completely into the bhade by their get-up and gorgeonnness. 'As for the spinsters and young widow of the station there was scarce one but who fought shy of admitting him into her presence as a morning visitor, much less as a suitor, though many of these blooming ladies were on the sharp look out for the silken chains of matrimony, and Barkis that is to say, McPherson was, as they knew, willing. " But, disadvantages of person and at tire notwithstanding, he was a right good fellow, this same gentleman. lie was honest, hard working, thrifty, simple-minded, and, from being a mere ad venturer without interest, friends or money, he had, self-helped only, saved up the bawbees little by little ; had bought patch after patch, acre after acre, of virgin land; cut down its timber, cleared it, planted it, and now he had squatted down free from incumbrances on Ailsa Craig, as he called his property, as pretty and as fruitful a small coffee estate as could be found in one of the most picturesque districts of this lovely island. " Now you young gentlemen who are in the habit of lawn-tenising, afternoon teaing, talking, spooning, walking, driving, with all the feminines, plain and colored, of this place, and who think that you have only to ask and be received which I beg and entrtat you will not put to the test, cutting up the mess and so on can't perhaps realize to yourselves the difficulties the worthy I am speaking of had met with in even this overstocked matrimonial empo rium. The Anglefralls, the Hunters, the Ilookers, lots of girls whom I will not name, had Bnubbed or turned up their pretty noses at him when he came a-wooing, and so, nolens volens, he re mained a bachelor, anathematizing his ill-luck and venting his disappointments upon the backs of shirking and recu sant Tamil coolies, the recognized natu ral enemies of coffee and the scape goats of its cultivators. Then as a last resource he sought from his brethren of the berry around counsel as to the most advisable method of getting the so needed helpmate, and the first man he consulted was lierr Thaler, a successful and rich German, whose estate bordered on Ailsa Craig. So, so I' said that personage. 'Zere is noting more easy. Zave off zat ragget beard, burn in ze tire zose old clodes not fit for 'Oufidsditch or any Juden Btrasse, buy von big too, mein frend, get zome Europe muster coats and zen return to ze frauleins and vidder fraus vid ze monish bug in ze 'amis. If zby vill not 'ave zou, zey vill take ze rupee; trost 'em for zat, my zon.' " But the recommendation was unpalat able, and to a (Treat extent impracticable, so another .! Achates was appealed to. one Jack le Geste, a man inucu ad dicted to chaff and practical joking. " ' In this land of pearls and precious stones, no go, dear boy, mud Mr. lo (. ' From Dondra Head mere north, south, women won't look at to Point Cala- east, west the you; that you have 'found out long ago. uive up hunting, then, in these oft-trod colonial fields, and draw the home covers. Don't von happen to know a bonnie lassie in your own " Caledonia stern and wild," or a pretty colleen in theoisle of shillelahs and shamrocks, who would be glad to share curry and rice with you ? Go and try those parts; if not, have a haphazard shy at where I hail from, the Channel Islands. Spins aye, and precious good looking ones too are as plentiful there as cocoanuts aro here, and maybe one of them might be induced to clear out in your favor. Failing those islets I know of no other dodge than indenting upon one of those co-operative associations, which furnish everything, even to a better half. But mind, old man, they keep a roster for foreign service in their offices; first lady on the list, plain or pretty, first for duty; you pays your money, but you don't take your choice.' "But these suggebtions also were con sidered infeasible and put aside. Pres ently, however, a thought struck Mo Pherson. " Le Geste,' said he, ' when I was a boy there lived in the neighborhood of my father's manse a widowed lady with two or three tlien wee, very wee daugh ters. From what I can recollect of them their means were cramped, not to sav ocanty. but they were of good blood and form. One of the children, the eldest if my memory serves me, was called Effie Eflle Needum and prom iscd to be bonny, for I can faintly recall nor blue eyes, ilaxon hair, rosy com plexion and jimp little figure. If she is alive she must be closo on thirty ; for it is many years since I came out here a stripling and was Cuinna Doray. Anqlice, little manter on the Paycock estate, as my kind employer styled that property. Mrs. Needum knew me "well better, indeed, than I knew her. I wonder if she and the bairns be in the land of the leal or the living.' "' Write directly and inquire.' And Sandy did bo, and asoertained that his old acquaintances, Miss EffJc included, were still alive and proudly bearing up against tho res anausta domi Armed with which intelligence he once again returned to Le Geste. " 'It is all right now, Mac,' said he your course is as clear as day. Send a "chit" to materfamilias N.; tell her that you are well-to-clo in the world, own lands and cattle, men servants and maid servants ; that you want to settle ; that as a whipper-snapper you liked no, better say lovsd Miss Effie, and ask her in plain English to come out and marry you. Abovo all things, though, be sure and send your photograph ; you are not such a very, very bad-looking ohap, S.vudy, if you would only dress liko a Christian and not like a coolie.' " fo tho letter w as written, submitted to Le Gesto's inspection, sealing, post- ins and in due course was received by the Ncedums, in whose little household it created no small amount of astonish ment, and was much spelt and pondered over, especially by the damsel most con cerned still a comely if even a some what passe body and who, after a while, consented to go out and wed her suitor. "Af'er all, mother dear,' she said, ' he has house and home for me; may be, by-and-bye, f r you, too, Jennie; and I'll do all I can to help you. It's the best thing for me. And really, Mr. McPherson or I suppose I ought to call him Alexander is yet young and not bad-looking. Quite the contrary very, very nice-looking, oee the photo he has sent us "And Miss Jennie quite agreed with her elder sister that Mr. McPherson was a beauty, ' Well, my bairns,' said the old lady, I can t gainsay you but that the por trait is winsome and douce enough; but as I call to mind the boy bandy, the son of the minister, he was not nearly so seemly and well favored. But it rs, indeed, lung syne since J. Bet eyes on him, and likely he has got handsomer as he got older; some men do.' Then, everything being settled, Miss Needum accepted her kismet, agree to go out, and her lover open handed, honorable, true, as I have al ready told you he was - sent the where withal for passage and outfit. And pending the many, many weeks that elapsed, and while the good ship Queen of Sorendib was sailing round the Cape for her destination, a change, a radical change, came over the life and habits of our bride-expecting friend. He cast into the limbo of things done with his coarse cumlies,' rough dun garees ' and other country clothing, and burst out into ' Europe muster ' linen, tweeds and serges. He purchased largely house furniture and knick knacks; he bought a lady's horse and a Feat s sidesaddle; he whose equine pro clivities had never extended beyond a shaggy mountain pony, and a tattered and torn pig-skin. He told his old flames and chums that be was going in for the Benedict, and bashfully lis tened to the '.riles ' and jeers of the one, and the chaff and laughter ol the other, As the time for the arrival of the Oueen of Serendib drew nigh awful were the fidgets of our hero ; and many days before it was possible for that Blow and sure craft to reach her port he was there walking about with a big binoc ular in his hands, looking out seaward and entreating all sorts and conditions of men for the very earliest news of her being sighted. The fact was that the rough-seasoned old fellow was on the very tenterhooks of anxiety and expec tation, as nervouf as a schoolgirl and behaving himself as such. -'Then at Jong last it was told Lim that the vessel was in the offing, was rounding the point, was at anchor in the harbor, and in the Master Attend ant's boat, cushioned, flagged and be decked for the auspicious occasion, Sandy McPherson, Esquire, of Ailsa Craig, planter, rowed alongside, same like he governor, tne native spectators observed. Scrambling up the side he took a hasty glance at the many passengers assembled on the poop, and, instinct ively guessing that Miss Effie was not among them, he dived below and con fronted the stewardess. " Miss Needum on board, and well?' asked he. " 'Yes, sir,' replied the matron, ' and a very nice, good, Kind, pleasant young lady she is, and I've taken the greatest care of her.' She felt sure that the gent was Miss N.'s husband to be, and that there was money in his purse for a gratuity, notwithstanding that, accord ing to the terms of the passage money, stewards' and stewardess' fees were in cluded a fiction, gentlemen, a pleasant fiction, which you will find out when you ao down to the sea in ships. "Take this card to her, said tne pale and trembling gentleman. I'll wait her coming np in that far corner ol this saloon.' " Glancing at the pasteboard the woman disappeared, and presently there ascended, step by step, from the regions below, first a neat straw hat, trimmed with bright ribbons, beneath that hat a face somewhat worn with years and cares, but still fresh and comely enough; then a slight, compact figure, draped in plain, weu-ntting garments, shawled and ready for the shore. Miss Effie, in propria persona, stood before her hand-seeker, blushing " He advanced from his coign of van tage to greet her, but as he grew nigher, instead of the warm, affectionate wel come he looked for, there was a fixed stare, a shudder, a hasty retreat and a loud scream which resounded from stem to stern of the big ship and brought every one from decks and cabins info the saloon. " Miss Needum Effie, my girl, what on earth is the matter ?' hurriedly stam mered out the astounded sandy. "Shiver my timbers, what ails the lassie?" put in the captain. ' Look out for squalls, if you've annoyed her !' And all the bystanders echoed the words in more or less threatening terms. She was evidently a favorite on board. Oh, take him away, cried the lady, piteously; take him away from me, some one I X don t know him I i ve been misled, deceived I I can't marry him indeed, indeed I can't. He is not Mr. McPherson who wrote to me, to whom I came out to be mar . He is so ugly. Oh, such a dreadful fright ! I'll return him liis money. I'll work my way back to my poor mother. I'll do anything, but I can't be his wife. I'd rather die first !' " ' Miss Needum, I don't indeed un derstand this,' said the taken-aback and completely-flabbergasted one. What does it all mean ? Are we not engaged ? Have you not come out of your own freo will to accept the home and the love I offer you ? Did I not send you my likeness ?' ' No, nol' " Surely I did. It was taken by Col lodion, our best photographer, and when he gave it to me he said: "Mr. McPherson, Bir, there is no flattery 'ere. Your worst nenemies would admit that." Why, I myself put it inside the letter to your mother. "I repeat, no decidedly and em phatically not Look at this,' and drawing from her bosom a little locket she opened it and displayed the head and face of a younger, much handsomer and in every outward respect a more lovable man than the scared one now before her. It was the counterfeit pre sentment of Mr. Jack le Uesto,, and X leave you to imagine what McPherson thought when he saw it there. ( "How could it get into the locket, you ask? W hy, in the simplest way in the world. That good-for-nothing fellow, Le Geste, when Sandy's letter came into his possession, thought to 'sell him, and so had surreptitiously removt d his carte de visite, substituting one of his own, and Effie had w orn it ever since. " The disappointed bridegroom plead ed hard and tried every argument to in duce the girl to let matters progress, but she was obstinate and determined. " She would esteem and respect him always, but nothing more. To let the cat out of the bag, Miss Effie had fallen desperately in love with the picture of her supposed Alexander, and in vulgar language had spooned over it awiully during the tedious and lone hours ol a long voyage. Of course- Bhe imagined that it was her intended husband she was approving, or she would not have done it certainly not. . ' So, quite chapfallen and in the mad dest of rages, McPherson returned to his estate. ' Arrived there he cut from one of his coffee bushes the thickest and knottiest of sticks and proceeded with it in Bearch of Le Geste ; but, fortunately for the jester, he had made tracks and was gone. " X lieu he reverted to his old customs and habits, sold his not now necessary goods and chattels and thought as little as he could of the false Effie. " A fickle and capricious creature, woman. Listen, gentlemen, to another exemplification of old Virgil's dictum. In the same ship in which, shortly after the breaking off of ht r intended es poiibal, Miss Needum sailed for England there came on board almost at the last minute a slim, daik-haired, good-look- lni" man, going uomo, some S4ia lor health; others, in fear and trembling of an irate Gael with a huge stick in his hands. Be this an it may, the health- seeker or the fugitive take which you please was no other than Le Geste, and, to close my story, when the vessel touched at St. Helena for water and provisions he and Effie went on shore and returned man and wile. A Smart Weasel. The remarkable sagacity of the weasel was well illustrated the other day by an incident which actually occurred in the suburbs of Santa Barbara. A gentle man's barn was infested with rats, and he was greatly annoyed by their depre dations. They have been gradually dis appearing, however, during the past few weeks. The gentleman finally dis covered the cause of their probable dis appearance in a very wide-awake weasel, which was engaged at the time in a vig orous combat with an unusually large sized rat. The latter proved too much for his adversary, and finally chased his weaselship out of the barn. A few mornings later the gentleman again sound the same animals engaged in a similar battle. The weasel at last ran away as before, and the rat followed in hot pursuit. This time, however, the weasel ran into a hole it had burrowed through a pile of hardened compost. This hole was quite large at the en trance, but the outlet was scarcely large enough to admit the passage of the weasel's body. The weasel darted into the hole with the rat at his heels. A moment later the weasel emerged from the other Bide, ran quickly around the compost pile and acrain entered the hole, this time in the enemy's rear. The gentleman, interested in the proceedings, watched the place some time, and found that only the weasel came out. Digging into the compost he found the rat quite dead, and partly eaten. The weasel had arranged his trap bo that the rat could enter, but becoming closely wedged in the narrow portion of the hole, could be attacked at a disadvantage and easily killed. Sounds from a Rainbow. One of the most wonderful discover ies in science that has been made within the last year or two is the fact that a beam of light produces Bound. A beam of sunlight is thrown through a lens on a glass vessel that contains lampbiacK, colored silk or worsted, or other sub stances. A disk having Blits or open' ings cut in it is made to revolve swiftly iu this beam of light, bo as to cut it up, thus making alternate flashes of light and shadow. On putting the ear to the glass vessel strange sounds are heard so long as the flashing beam is falling on the vessel. Becently a more wonderful discovery has been made. The beam of sunlight is made to pass through a prism so as to produce what is called the solar spectrum, or rainbow. The disk is turned and the colored light of the rain bow is' made to break through it. Now, place the ear to tho vessel containing the silk, wool or other material. As the colored lights of the spectrum fall upon it sounds will be given by different parts of the spectrum, and there will he silence in other parts. For instance if the vessel contains red worsted, and tho green light flashes upon it, loud sounds will be Riven. Only feeble sounds will be heard when the red and blue parts of the rainbow fall upon the vessel, and other colors make no sound at all. Green silk gives sound best in red light. Every kind of material gives more or less sound in different colors and utters no sound in others. The discovery is a strange one, and it is thought more wonderful things will come from it. Au Epidemic of Suicide. A wave of suicide seems to be sweep inir over the whole country. In all parts of the r epublio men and women are blowing out the little brains they possess and cutting their worthless throats in the most reckless manner, The compensating circumstance about it is that it rids the world of a number of people who, if they did not kill them selves, would probably kill somebody else, and that they make business lively for the undertakers and the coroners, It is almost impossible to account for this destructive tendency that occurs everv once and awhile. The ppecula tive writers and philosophers endeavor to account for it in various ways, and they talk learnedly and eloquently about crime cycles and more or less other sentimental rubbish, all of which is very good as a theory. The fact of the matter is there are a great many more crazy people in the world, or, as they call them in Washington, "cranks, than the world imagines. Vherr great iopular excitement that stirs the whole country comes these weak-mind ed creatures jump off the first wharf, tie themselves to the nrst rope they see, or point to their heads the first old rusty pistol they run across. The majority of them are of far more use below ground than above it. New York Her ald. Russia leather is made from the hides of two or three-year-old calves. The tanning material employed is willow bark, sometimes also pine and pear bark, used either in vats or in the form of extract. The oieration last five or six weeks. When this is completed the leather is well rubbed on the flesh side with birch oil and oil from sea calves, to which it owes its peculiar odor, and then it passes through rofflors that im press upon it a peculiar figure ami roughness. THE FAKM AM) HOUSEHOLD. Plow Enrlr. Where other work will permit it is best to plow the land for fall sowing soon after the haying and harvesting is over. This avoids the drought-dried soil that is frequently found later in the season, besides turning under the weeds before they have time to ripen their seeds. Thorough use of the cultivator will prepare the early -plowed land when sowing time comes. American Agricul turist. bhoelna Horses. One of the most prolific causes of contracted heels in horses is allowing their shoes to remain on too long. It is seldom we hear of horses having con tracted heels when worked regularly every day. Few persons are aware of the importance of removing a horse's shoes, which should be done at least every month or six weeks. It is too often the custom to allow the shoes. after having once been placed, to remain till worn out before removing them. Fifty years ago, when horse's shoes lasted much longer than tney do now, n was a common practice to remove them once before they were worn out. W hen removed the horses feet were pared down tho same as when newly shod. If this was the practice now we should have less interfering and fewer lame horses. Thinning- Frnlt. Whenever we tell a friend he should thin his fruit he talks about the curcu lio. the coddling moth, the birds and the boys, and " guesses there will be thinning enough before the season gets through." This is true enough in its way. Wherever these troubles exist to any extent it is not much use to grow fruit at all. Xiut there are some wuo do not leave all their gardening to insects and vermin; somo who dispute the right of these pests to interfere at all, and wage war, successful war against them; but even these do not appreciate the value of thinning their fruit. The evil of overbearing is particularly apparent ia dwarf pears and grapes. As a gen eral thing there is rarely a grape vine but would be benefited by having its bunches cut away and some of the free bearing dwarf pears might have from one -third to one-half. The grapes may be cut away as soon as they can be seen, but the pear should be left until some what grown, as they often fall after they are pretty well advanced. It not only helps the size of the fruit, but is a gain to the future health of the tree. Oer- mantown Telegraph. Chicken Cholera. The disease commonly known as chicken cholera is one of a contagious character, although it will undoubtedly occur spontaneously in a single fowl of a flock, and may spread no further if the sick fowl is removod at once to a safe distance. The disease is intestinal fever, with inflammation of the liver. It may be caused by unwholesome sur roundings and by continued indiges tion and malnutrition, by which the blood is brought into the precise con dition in which it furnishes an accept able support to the germs of the dis ease which are floating in the air at certain seasons and under certain cir cumstances. These, however, are so varied that we may expect them to bo present at all times, even iu the coldes weather, for even then fowls are at lacked with this disease. The conspic uous indications of this disease are a yellowness of the wattles and cheeks and erreen and yellow dung or a black liquid discharge. When a fowl is thus attacked it should bo separated from the rest; twenty drops of carbolic acid should be put into a pint of water for twelve fowls, and the sick fowl should have three drops of the acid given in a teaspoonful of water. No food 6hould be given for some days and only the carbolated water. I'liint niedluni-Slzed Palalam. The following figures show the result of experiments made in growing potatoes at the experimental farm of Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y.: The Early Rose variety was planted May 10; the soil, a Band loam, unmanured and mod eratelv fertile. Each plot consists of a single row fifty feet in length. The rows were four feet apart, and the seed was drooped eighteen inches apart in the row. " Below is the yield in pounds: Plot J'tWd. Yield Total No. Large. ihiuilL YUUl 1. Small potatoes used as seed, 2. Medium-sized whole potatoes. 30 85 55 38 2(i 85 123 119 3. Same size cut in halves, oue piece per lull, 4. Same sizu cut to two eyes per piece, one pi ecu per hill, 5. Cut as No. 4, two pioces per hill, 03 81 9(i 8(1 88 j a 21 3(1 25 41 40 103 120 110 113 til C. 7. 8. a. 10. Sted end ot potato pluuted, Ht.-iii end planted, Middle ot potato plant ed. 23 Sued planted two inches deep. 76 Seed planted four iiuihos 122 deep, Jn 11. Cultivated flat, 94 2. Cultivated in ridges, B'J Potatoes less than an hen's egg are classed as 33 31 2'J 131 125 118 average-sized small. It ap- pears that medium-sized potatoes, cut to two eves, and two Pieces to uie mu, give the best results; that deep planting ami flat culture did the best. These experiments, if they do nothing more, poiDt out to our readers the advantage ot such trials, and wo nope mere win grow among farmer a disposition to make annually biuiilar testa in tho cul ture of any and every farm crop, can be gained in this way. Much Cheap Fertilizer. Nearly every farmer goes to tho near est village to trade, visit a mechanic or obtain his letters and papers, at least once a week. He often takes a load to market, but he rarely brings one home, ne can, with very little trouble, haul a load of material that may bo obtained for nothing, and which will be of great benefit to his land. Most village peo ple make no use of the ashes produced in their stoves or of the bones taken from the meat they consume. Scarcely any brewer has any use for the hops lhat have been boiled in his vats, and the blacksmith hardly ever saves the clippings he takes from the feet of horses. All these materials make ex cellent manure. A barrel 'of shavings cut from the hoofs of horses contains more ammonia than is contained in a oad of stable manure. Applied to rland, without preparation, they might give no immediate results, but they would become decomposed in time and crops of all kinds would derive benefit from them. They may be so treated that they would produce immediate re sults. By covering them with fresh horse manure they will decompose very rapidly. They may also be leached iu a barrel and the water that covered them drawn off and applied to plants. Water in which pieces of horns and hoofs have been soaked is an excellent manure for plants that require forcing. It stimulates the growth of tomatoes.rose bushes and house plants very rapidly and emits no offensive odors. A vast amount of fertilizing materials is wasted in towns that farmers could obtain the benefit of with very little trouble. New York Herald. Recipes. Baked Potatoes. Raw potatoes pared and sliced very thin, put into a pudding dish and covered with milk, sprinkled with pepper and Ban ana a tablespoonful of flour previously mixed with a little mint, DaKea umu niceiy browned, from thirty to fifty minutes. Those fond of onions can add a few i NIlf'PH. Angel Cake. Beat the whites of eleven eggs stiff, then add one and a half cupfuls powdered sugar, and one teaspoonful vanrlla. But lour times one cupful flour, and one teaspoonful cream-tartar sifted four times; add the flour and cream-tartar, and beat bghtly but thoroughly. Bake in an earthen dish with stem in the center lorty minutes. Bbazilian Tea Dish. Take Borne slices of bread about half an inch thick, cut off all crust, steep the bread in a little milk; when soaked through cover each piece with beaten egg yolk and fry with butter a light brown; then arrange the slices on a hot plate and lay on each piece a tolerably thick covering of pow dered sugar and cinnamon well min gled. ' Cake or Buns. One pound of flour, one ounce ol butter, tnree-iouruis pound of brown sugar, pne pound cur rants, four ounces candied peel, three eggs well beaten, one-fourth ounce car- Donate oi soda, one-nan pini oi mm, warmed. Rub the butter in the flour, then Btir in the sugar, sprinkle the car- : bonate of sugar over the mixture and immediately add the milk and eggs, previously mixed together (the milk must have been warmed and the eggs well beaten), then add the currants and candied' lemon, cut thin. Beat all to- ' gether with a strong spoon for ten min- . utes. Have ready tins well buttered, ' half fill them and put them directly into a brisk oven. Asparagus Soup. Take half a hun-'. dred of asparagus, boil it in a saucepan with three pints of stock free from fat. s When done remove the asparagus, pound it in a mortar and pass it through a sieve. Melt about one and a half ounces of butter in a saucepan on the fire, and mix it with two tablespoonfuls of flour, add a little sugar, pepper and salt, the asparagus pulp and all the stock in which the asparagus was boiled. Let the whole boil up, adding as much more stock as will make the soup of the right consistency. Then put in a little spinach greening, and lastly a small pat of fresh butter, or stir in half a gill of cream. Sorvo over small dice of bread fried in butter. Black Sheep Turned White. A letter in the Colorado Springs Ua tette says: "As most of our readers proba bly know black wool brings from rive to ten cents a pound less than the corre sponding grade of w hite w ool. In order to secure the separation of the inferior product, as our shearing operations pro gressed, we placed the black sheep iu a pen by themselves. There were thus on last Tuesday night sixty-three black sheep and some lambs alone in one of the corrals. During tho night a coyote entered and killed a ewe and two lambs, aud we were greatly surprised to find iu the morning that the wool on the re maining Bixty-two sheep had turned perfectly white from terror. Happily this increase in the value of tho wool more than balanced the loss of the sheep that were killed." The author oi this story is a church member iu gooc standing and would scorn to exaggerate anything. No womau ever realizes tho uttei helplessness of her sex no much as whor 1 . I L ..I .11.' who readies a stoaiunoai v. nun urn 'I Milwaukee thoy give one last, lii i i.k around them and ) v down i
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