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The Well.
Dark anil cool t!io tvntor lies
In the old tinie-honorod cll;
Deep, down drop the bucket flioS,
And how often, who can tell?
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
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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
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