.THE FOREST REPUBLICAN to pnbllihi-4 every Wedneadat T J. E. WENK. TJWoa In Bmearbaugh ft Co.'a Building tlM BTRBKT, TIONB8TA, Pfc Term. 11.60 ptrYtir, No anneTlptloie twelve tor a Shorter period than th rra month. Oorrmiwaitenre nollcltftd from ell narta of the ennntrjr. No notice will bo taken rMatiianlcatlont. of aaaarmoaa The Astors of New York City pay 1,000 a. yor for ft special guard of their houses, which, although containing tempting riches, havo never been entered by persons with burglarious intent. Tho Aimocintioii of Grand Works of .Panama has made a contract with a busi ness house of Haiphong for the supply of 1,20(1 coolies, who will be put to work n tho l'nnnnm t'oniil. They nro to re ceive $20 a month and free board nnd lodging. ' A Philadelphia club of lawyers has called itself tho Burlaw, and situ o it be- came famous and moved into a new club house in a fashionable part of tho city, tho members nro kept busy explaining that burlaw was a sort of Scottish com mon law, whereby disputes between neighbors were settled at an assemblage of the pcoplo without tho delay and ex pense of litigation. The doubles in tho present House of Representatives, at Washington, or those haviug similar names, nro numerout. There are three Aliens, four Anderson, I two Bakers', two Brcckcnridgcs, four j Brow 11 ci or Browns, three Campbells, two Duvid-ous, three Hendersons, three Hopkins, two Johnstons, two O'Neills, two Russclls, only one Smith, three Stewarts, two Stones, two Taylors, three Thomases.two Thompsons, two Tanners, two Whites, two Whitings and two AVil sons. There are twelve Mc'a and only five with tho prelix O. It is announced at El Paso, Texas, that .Whe Mexican Government hoi granted company to induce emigration 1 1 eleven Stntcs of Mexico. Tho company has ol tnincd title to 53,000,0(10 acres of land iu Chihuahua, Sinaloa, rurango.Cohulia, Zacatcras, Guanajuato, Tamaulipas, Vera C'nu, Michnvenu, Gulisco and Guerrero, nnd prop.wes to c-tablish agencies iu all tho large cities of Eurt.po nnd America. . Tho Government has granted exemption from taxation to all s;'tt!crs on these tracts, mid insures proper protection. One of tho curious features of the courts is the number of people wtio want to chango their names. Some desire n new name iu order to come into inheii tanccs; others prefer better sounding titles. A Chicago man named "Tinker" o bjocted to his nanio becau-o it "1 an uncouth one, giving rise to much sport nnd ridicule, to the mortification and disgust of your petitioner." A New York musician with a Kussian name claimed that he had lost several positions as a member of an orchestra because his nam was hard to pronounce aud difficult to remember. Of the thirty-eight widows of Hcvo lutionnry soldiers drawing pensions from the Government, two nro icsiilents ol Ohio, two of Indiana, two of Illinois.two of Kentucky nud two of Michigan. Tennessee claims no less than eight, w hile North Carolina has five, Vermont three nnd Ceorgia three. The other old Indiei are scuttered about in Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, Now York, Pennsylvania, Texas nnd Virgiuia. The two oldest are uinety-fivc years of age and the youngest sixty-nine, the average living eighty-live. Of com so the hnsb mds of these women must have been middle-aged or quite old men with young wives. The young , est woman of the list is Nancy A. Green, of Versailles, Iud., aud the two oldest are Susan Curtis, of Topshum, Me , and Nancy Haius, of Curtcr's Furnace, Tenn. The last year has been unusually disas trous to navigation on the great lakes. The Chicago Triliwie presents a startling array of figures of losses whii h have oc curred iu ihu last twelve mouths, and which is appalling. Two hundred and four human lives have been sacrificed and $2,500,000 worth of property de stroyed. Seventy-three vessels went to tho bottom as compared to fifty-seven during 1880. Whether the increase was due to the greater severity of the storms or negligence is unknown. The effect of the property losses will be to replace the lost vessels mostly sail by steam pro pollers, lessoning greatly the risk of los' und increa-ing vastly the clHciency of the lake transportation service. Whilo the loss this year w as about 21,000,000 tons, the increase for next year will be about 100,000 tons. The cotton industry in the Southern States is gradually becoming one of the most important industries in the coun try," says JKmurr'. "All over the South great activity is displayed, and now mills are continually being erected. At Co lumbus, Georgia,onecompany has added 8,000 spindles to its mill. The cost ot building some of the mills has been from $100,000 to $500,000, aud after they Jiavo been erocttd it has been found ne ce8:iry, owliig to the largo increase in tho work, to extend them. At Galves ton, $1,000,000 has leeu expends 1 iu building a mill. All this vast expen diture of capital has been the means of giving employment to thousands of peo ple, aud the reult has been that the working people of the South have bet tered their condition. All the resovri es of the Southern States are beiug ra;iidly develop?!, and if this activity contin ues, the New South iu a few years will be the great rival of the North in the coin nercial world." ORE H VOL. XX. NO. 41. I PBACB. Winds and wild wave in headlong huge eom nution Scud, dark with temjwst, o'er the Atlantic's breast; While underneath, few fathoms deep In ocean, Lie peace and rest. Btorms In mid-air, the rack before) thsm swopping, Hurry and him, like furies hate-possessed ; While over all white cloudlets pure are sleep ing In peace and rest Heart, O wild heart! why In the storm-world raging Fllt'st thou thus midway, passion's slave and jet, When all so near above, below unchanging, Are heaven and rest! C. W. Willi. THE DONATION PARTY. BY IIKI.EN FORREST GRAVES. "Are you all right, Matilda!" said Mr. Perkins, casting a final, conprehensivo dance around him. as he put one foot on the wagon-step and gathered up the reins into his leu linnil. "Y-yes, I believe so," answered his wife. "Is the big loaf of election cake in!" "Yes." "And the stone jug of maple molasses ?" "It a right here." "And the ten vards o' rair-carnet. and : the nairo' brackets, and the cherry vase, ' . ' 1 nacKed in tissue-naner shavings f ' "Yes, I b'lieve we hain't forgotten ' nothin'," assented Mrs. Perkins, craning I her neck this way and that, to make as- surance doubly sure. ; "Wal, then," that settles matters," said the farmer, briskly adjusting himself in his scat. "Attention, company! For- ward march!" But ni the clumsy old farm-wagon ' lumbered slowly on through daisied I fields and meadows crimsoned with nod- .11.... ............. 1... I,,.1,.l .... In n n,,.,i.,f I one-sided manner nt his wife's clouded face. "What on airth's the matter, Matilda'!" said he. "I s'posed you was dead set on goin' to this 'ere 'Donation Party,' this nrternoon." " I did set consid'able store by it," said Mrs. Perkins, pumping a heavy sigh out of some unseen deeps in her internal economy; "but somehow l feel sort ol uneasy ubout lcavin' Chatty in charge of things at home." Asahel Perkins whistled. "Ain't she a woman growed up?" said he. " I s'nose so." "Get out!" said the old snrmer. ' Ono would suppose she was a baby. " But she aiu't used to bein' left alone. ' " It's a good time to sort o'begin, then, ain't it?" chuckled tho old man. " I'm afeard she'll let the dried peach sass burn." " No great harm ef she does." " And there's the calf to be fed, and tho Shaughni chickens to be looked arter, and the short-cake to be baked and" Well, I calkilato C hatty's equal to the occasion," nodded Mr. Perkins. " Anyhow, wo shan't never know, cf we don't take some way of find in' out. ( 'ome, mother, don't fret. I do b'lieve, ef you was on the road to heaven, you'd want to turn back to see ef the clothes pins was all a-layin' with tbeii heads tho . . 1 At. 1. ' I 1. 1 A . ! rigni way, nnu tue i-mcKcns nan gone 10 roost all square an' even on the proper perch." " As.ihe', you hadn't oughter speak light o' sacred things," reproachful y murmured Mrs. I'crkins, Well, mother, I won't," acquicscd Mr. Perkins, "cf you'll leave off thinkin' you know more than Providence does, eh?'' I So the old couple kept on toward the i Cattield Parsonage, where there was, on i that particular day, one of those great! local upheavals commonly known as a "Donation I arty," and where four bush- i els of doughuuts, thirteen bed-quilts, nine macraine tidies, and nineteen bou- ' quels of impossible paper roses, had al- : ready arrived in bewildering succession. I "I do hope," sighed the Kev. Eli Par- sons, "that Providence 'II put it into the head of some one to send me a full o.cr- coat, for mine's clear iu rags. Squire Pepper, now he's fairly well oft in this world's goods it's just like him to think of such a thing!" While Mrs. Parsons, a withered little old woman, won ousters oi isise curis on each side of her face, and an immortal butterfly always hovering over the black lace borders of her cap, secretly hoped that .Mis Goldwood, who had more money thau she knew what to do with, might be spiritually moved to present herwith a much needed black silk gown. "I know it ain't consistent to think too much of earthly adornments,'' sighed lioor little Mrs. Parsons; "but I never lad a silk gown, and it does seem as it it would be comforting to own one before I died." But our hopes are frequently doomed to be blighted Squire Pepper brought a damaged photograph album, from the "unsalable" eheli' in his More, and Mrs. Goldwood smilingly presented to her pastor's wife a hideous basket of wax fruit, which had stood on her own back parlor table until sho was tired of the sight of it. Mrs. Parsons could have burst out cry ing. i'he stuffy little parlor tilled fast with the parishioners. The kitchen was well The suggestion was instantly carried , packed with solid matrons aud brisk 1 out, and iu a moment, as it were, the maidens, arrangiug the salt shoulders of crowd was inside tho door, staring in a bacon, the juicy hams, the cold roost terrified way at the figure wrapped in ! fowls, and loaves of home-made cuke; shawls, which had fallen to one side iu the pounds of coffee, in brown paper the o!d ro king-chair, with its face cerements, the puckages of white beun, ' averted. No one had courage to step and the glosses of currant jelly, which . forward and solve th mystery. There were one by one brought iu. I wus a second of appalling suspense, The purlor tables groaned under book, j when suddenly ths back door was flung markers, embroidered tidies, home-knit ! open, and in rushed Chatty Clayton her laces, volumes of poems, and such emi- ' self, with bright eyes, cheeks flushed i nently useful contributions. i like twin roses, and her apron full of Mr.. Parsons bustled to and fro, j brilliant blue asters and yellow-fringed i wondering how on earth, even with all : golden rod. the china and glass she had borrowed, i "What is the matter, Aunt Matilda?" I she should manage to provide for such a ' she cried. "Back so soon? Why, 1 j concourse of guests. I didn't expect you until after dark ! I Mr. Parsons smiled feebly at the well- just ran down into the woods to get worn jukes of his people, und wondered some flowers and red leaves to arrange how many of this puit'culur type of on the walls; aud the suu isn't fairly j "Donation Party" it would take to send him to the poorhouse. "Didn't you bring your city niece;" old Miss Tackaberry asked of Mrs. Per Wius, w ho, surrounded by a group of con genial friends, sat on the sofa in the par ou's tudv, radiant as the full moon. TIWESTA, PA., "Well, no. not to-day," Mrs. Perkins answered. ''We calkilated, bein' there was so many tramps and roughs n-prow- lin' around the country since court-week, j as we'd better leave some one to hum to j keep house; and she didn't seem pa'-' tiok'Iery nnxious to come." I 'Should hev' thout she'd a wanted to I get acquainted with the young folks," j said Mrs Tacknbcrry. Mrs. Perkins smiled and smoothed ; down the flounces of her dress. "She'll , get acquainted before long, I guess," said she, calmly. "Not very young, Is'posc?" said Miss Tackaberry. "About sixteen," answered Mrs. Per kins, with suppressed triumph. "Well, I never'.'' said Miss Tacka berry. "She must find it awful dull here?" "Not so very," returned Mrs. Perkins. "Been here long?" "A week." "Me and sister Typhosa '11 call to morrow," said Miss Tackaberry. "I was always one to believe in sociability." But here Mrs. Parsons feebly an nounced that "supper was ready," undin the blind rush that ensued, Mrs. Perkins and Miss Tackaberry got separated At the "Donation Partv" everybody ate as much as they possibly could, and "And that's burned," guiltily mur nearly everybody put something in his i mered Chatty. or her pockets for the children at home. ' "But such a it is, you're kindly wel Gallons of scalding tea and lukewarm ! come to it." added the farmer. coffee vanished ; tons of indigcstililccake I disappeared as if by magic; monster dishes of sticky preserves were ever nnd , anon renewed; relays of hot biscuits ' J ! .... t arnveu, every live mmuui iroiu me stove-ovens, and still the cry was "more !" But the meal was, luckily for Mr, Parsons's equanimity.drawing to a close, when Joel Fullerton, a handsome, swarthy-browed young giant, popped his head in at tho door and looked around. i "ucacou rermns s ioiks nerei saiu he. "That's me," said Mr. Perkins, with his mouth full of biscuit and honey. "Old horse ain't got loose, has he? I tied him close to tho " "No, it ain't the horse," said Joel. "Jst step out here. I want to speak to you a minute." Mrs. Perkins uttered a shrill little shriek. "I knowed it," said she "I knowed it perfectly well. Somcthin's happened. The new Alderney cow is lamed, or else the house is toon on nro, ana trie insur- mice runoutonly yesterday." ' "Something's happened," said Joel, with an anxious look, "thouirh I don't ! rightly know how nor what. Mother ' she iust came across lots to your house togetthc receipt for makin' soft soap, and i.V , , A..u : .... although she could see your niece a-set aitnougu sue couiu see your niece u-sei- tin' by the tire, she couldn't make her hear, though she knocked lit to rattle . present, providing he was permitted tc the side of the old house down. Aud ' have the last turn. A doctor, a coronet don't' bo scared she, sort o' thinkin' nnd a bank teller took the bet. After s Mis Chatty's in a fit or hurt or sVthin", , brief d scussion the three gentlemen de so she sent me down hereon Speckle-back, 1 cided to tackle fried eggs, lie repaired while she stayed by the door to sort o keep guard." "Jerusalem!" muttered Mr. Perkins, fumbling to untie the horse. "Why didn't you kick in the door, or smash the window-panes, or su'thin'?' "As for the door, I tried my level best," said Joel;" but them timbers would stand an earthquake. And mother she wouldn't let mo break the window, for fear the flyin' glass should hurt your niece." "Git in, mother 1" said Perkins, hoarse ly. "Quick! There nin't no timo to lose! I dunuo what on airtli I shall say to Brother Clayton, down in York, if anything has happened to the gal that's all he's got in the world." I knowed it! 1 was sure ont: shrilly wailed poor Mrs Perkins, rocking. herself back and forth. "She s beeu murdered by a slungshot by some o' them miser'ble creeters as got loose from Dilktown Jail. We never oughter a- left her there alone!" "Don't mother, don't I" said Perkins, faintly, ducking his head as if her words were a shower of hailstones. "P'raps things ain't so very bad arter all. P'raps she's asleep." "Not very likely," said Joel, trotting alongside of the wagon on Speckle-back. ; a stout four-year-old colt. "Nobody I could ha' slept much with mother hoi leriu'aud rappiu' on tho glass like mod, I and me a-kickiu' at the door so that the ! very clock tumbled oir the shelf." ! "If you ketch hold o' my arm that ! way. mother.'' said poor Perkins, de- spairingly, I can't drive a vard furder." Even in that solitary and thinly peo- pled neighborhood a little group had ' already collected around the windows of j Deacon Perkins's house, peering through the tangle of tall lilac bushes and dense - 1 growing cinnamon roses to get a glimpse, 1 into the tiny-paned casements, and a ! lino of curiously-minded people had fob ; lowed from the Cattield parsonage, under the vague impression that "something : was wrong at Asa Perkins's place." - "JUsr iook lor yourseu, saiu uoei Fullerton "I cau't!" muttered Perkins, passing his hand across his forehead, as if there was some unwonted pressure mere. "Get me a screw-driver, something, outeu the back shed. I'll get in here, or I'll know the reason why!" "Father!" squeaked his wife; "there aiu't no need for no screwdriver. The buttery window's wido open, with nothin' but a few meshes o' mosquito nettiu' over it. You can scramble in there as easy as not, and open tho front door from inside down yet. Kilt what has happened? i Why are all those people here:" Mrs. Perkins mude a clutch at Chatty aud hugged her, after a strangling fashion, to her heart. I "She's alive!" she shrieked. "She ain't dead! Nor she aiu't iu a lit! I R EPUBLICAN WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1888. $1.50 PER ANNUM. knowed it all along! T knowed nothin' hadn't happened I oil, Chatty) Chatty! t never was so glad o' nothin' In all my life before!' "'Hut," spoke up Mr. Perkins.glancing furtively toward tho rocking-chair, "who's that? Who's the dead woman, or the woman in a fit, or whoever she is?'' Chutty broke iuto a merry tinkle of laughter. "It it's only a dummy, Uncle Asuhcl," she confessed. "I dressed up the bolster in Aunt Tilda's double gown and cap nnd spectacles and set it in the rocking-cbair, so that If any one looked into the window, they shouldn't fancy the old place quite deserted. For the sunshine was so bright, and the woods looked so delightful, that I '' stay in t But, oh" with a penitent clasping of her hands "I didn't indeed I didn't mean to give you such a fright as this!" "I don't mind the fright, my dear, so long as everything has turned out right at last," said Uncle Asahcl, his whole face beaming into a universal smile. "Neighbors, will you sit down and take a snack?" looking hospitably around on the assemblage. "We hain't much hut suit gingerbread and dried-peacn suss" But the neighbors decided to return to Cattield Parsonngo, wilth the solitary exception of Joel Fullerton, who elected to remain and be lectured by Chatty on nn uuiciuunuen. 'And so you really believed that old spectacled thing to bo rac?" crieil Chatty with infinite scorn. "You know I had never seen you,' pleaded Joel. "And vou went and spoiled Uncle Asahel'u Donation Party, and set all the tongues in Cattield wagging, and madt a scene all on account of a bolster?" "I'll never do so again," abjectly ut tered Joel. And therewith the young people burst out into uncontrollable laughter. Then Mr. nnd Mrs. Perkins, on thn back porch, nodded their heads and said "they guessed it was nil right." Sitturdny .fjtt. Eating 100 E;?s nt One Sitting. At the Hoffman House last night a party sat at a table in the art gallery miiKiug wagers eacn on ins own parucu lar trick. A a young broker who spenl last summer with his grandmother in Jersey, won a pocketful of trreenbncki on a trick taught him by the good old lady. Ho had lost considerable money on catch bets when he offered to waget ! ... i. 1J , miy imic iu iiiu pim iui nu umm cm more eggs than any other threo men to an ull-night restaurant in Sixth ave nue, famous for the encounters which men about town have had within iti portals aud ordered a batch. Every man ate and the waiter handed a check foi several dozen. Then the young broker that had learned a thing or two from his Jersey grand mother directed the cook to crack and spill into a large pan 100 fresh eggs. Be fore putting the eggs iuto the pan. how- ever, he ordered that it be hall hllcd with vinegar. His instructions were carr out. After allowing the mixture to co .. a reasonable time the cover was lifted and the eggs p'aied in a b'g dish. Bv crm"ssio:i of the propr'etor the gentle men interested ha 1 watched the cooking. v. lieu tue eggs were brought lortn every ! ono except the man with the Jersey grandmother gave vent to ejaculations j of ustonishmeut. The 100 eggs could ; be conveniently put into an ordinary j teacup. Then the owner ate them in : half a dozen swallows, i "There's a hole in the pan," yelled one ' of the party. I "No there ain't. I'll explain. Tht ' vinegar has eaten them. It is a fact, ; You can drop a thou-and eggs into a boiler with a little vinegar iu it and you : will find that when cooked in it the eggi will di-appear as if by magic." J Turk Mill mil! Krfire. The Youngest Federal Soldier. The youngest Union soldier of thelatf war seems to be almost us numerous at the aged colored woman who nursed ! George Washington. A St. Louis papci , now claims that the honor belongs tc ! Mr. George Faulds, who lives at ;.01 South Broadway, and is a member ol Frank P. Blair Post, G. A. It., of that ; city. Mr. Faulds was just twelve years, : one month nnd seven days old when h mustered into the service on the 7th day of November, 1801, and he was mustered j out January 17, 1805. He was enabled tc enter the army at such au early age be i cause his guardian, General Hobert 11. ; .uiicueu, uesireu to Keep nun wiin mm General Mitchell commanded the Ninth Brigade of the Ninth Division, undei General Buell, General Jeff C. Davil commanding the division. Soon aftei he was mustered in he was placed on detached service as an orderly for Gen eral Mitchell. Mr. Faulds went into the service with Company II, Second Kansat Cavalry. He also claims to be the youngest member of the Grand Army ol tho llepnblic. Iiruoklyn k'ajU. A (Jnulnt Epitaph. In the new cemetery at Stirling, Scot land, there is a tombstone tothe memory of a " Chief-Constable of Stirlingshire,' which, though erected as late as 180 ', hat in the epitaph a most quaint and sug geative illustration of mortality: " Our life U but a winter day: Koine only lueaktust und away: Others to dinner stay, and are full fed; the olit-st man but sups, and goe to bed: luro in his debt, that lingers out I he day: be that got soonest, hostile least to pay." Making Themselves Old. Shakespeare makes Ca sar say that cow ards die many times before their deaths And so they do. Aud -o do thou-uudi upon thousands of persons who grunt their I vesaway. They make themsclvet old with in. ined aches and puius unci anticipated distresses It is not good tc give way to megrims. Anticiputios brings the misery that it looks for. II we think wean: sick we shall I e sick. It we aulicipate decrepitude it will run t i wet us. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS Hot to Itoast Meat, Mrs. Emma P. Ewing. of the schoo of domestic economy at the Iowa Agri cultural College, says: In roasting meats or all kinds tin method adopted should be the one that iu the most perfect manner preserves the luices inside the meat. To roast beef in the best possible manner, place tho clean-cut side of the meat upon smoking hot pan, which must be over a quick fire. Press it close to the pan until seared and slightly browned. "Reverse and let the opposite side become similarly seared and brown. 1 hen put it at once in the oven, the heat of which should be firm and steady, but not too intense, and leave it undisturbed until cooked. The time that should be nl lowed for cooking beef in this manner is twenty minutes to the pound, if it is to be rare, less half an hour deducted from the aggregate time on account of searing. In other words, a five-pound roast of beef will require an hour and a quarter, a six-pound roast an hour and a half,nml so on. If the oven is not too hot the beef re quires no basting and is better without it. Wlaen the oven is at the proper temperaturo and the cooking is going on all right, the meat will keep up a gentle sputtering in the pan. If, upon opening the oven door; this sputtering is not perceptible, more heat is required. But If in addition to the sputtering any smoke is disc ernible in the oven, the heat is too intense and should be lessened. Unless the heat of the oven is too great, the drippings in the pan will not burn and smoke, and when the meat is cooked there will be a thin coating of brown jelly In the pan where tho meat rested, which by the addition of stock or water will make a delicious gravy. A roast of beef should never be washed and if it has accidentally been wet. or moistened, it should be carefully wiped dry before it is seared or put to cook. Bearing almost instantly coats the cut side of a piece of meat, and prevents the escape of juices in the after-process of roasting, while a firm, steady hent gently but thoroughly cooks it, and thus both juices and flavor are preserved. Basting is a troublesome as well ns damaging process. And as salt and water have a tendency to toughen and extract the juices of meat, they should not be used on it whilo roasting, if it is desired to have the meat sweet, juicy and tender. Recipes. Frosted Appi.es. Pare, core and slice apples of a large, tart kind. Bake them till nearly done. Put them away to get entirely cold ; then prepare some sugar icing, aud, first pouring off all the juice, lay the icing thickly on the tops and sides, as much as you can. Iteturn them to the oven to just harden und be set. Serve with cream. Stewed Chickens. Chickens pre pared in the following manner are n pleasant change from the usual fricassee : Cut up two young chickens, cook them for half an hour in a saucepan with a lit tle bacon cut iu dice, adding thyme, two bay leaves, a small onion, parsley and a piece of butter. Mix the yolks of three eggs in half a cup of crenm aud pour the mixture over the chickens, taking the saucepan instantly off the lire. Arrange the pieces of chicken symmetrically on a dish and serve. Coi.D-uiNNEU Beef. Take a piece of beef flank six or eight inches wido, as long us can be got. Sprinkle salt on it, if fresh; prepare stuffing as for fowls, and spread over it; roll up very tight and tie with strings to keep iu place, as the heat will curl it. Then tie or sew it up in a cloth, nnd drop into rapinly boiling water. Cook several hours ; the larger the piece the longer it will take. Try witli a fork. When done lay be tween boards and put a weight on it, keeping the cloth still on. When cold it will slice beautifully. It is best cooked the day before it is wanted. Plcm Pcddisg. One pound of flour; one pound of bread crumbs; three quar ters of a pound of raisins; three quarters of a pound of currants aud suet; three or four eggs; milk; two ounces of can died lemon peel; one teaspoonful of powdered allspice; half a teaspoonful of salt. Chop the suet very tine, stone the raisins, wash, pick and dry th? currants, mix these with the other dry ingredients, and stir all well together; beat and strain the eggs into the pudding, stir these in, and add just enough milk to make it properly. Tie it up in u well i floured cloth, put it into boiling water, and boil for at least five hours. Rice Ciioo.uettkh. Boil one half pound of rice in oue quart of boiling water, with one even tablespoon ml of salt, until it has become tender. Drain it and put it into half a pint of fresh milk. Flavor with four ounces of sugar, the grated rind of half a lemon, or two inches of stick cinuanion. Cook for half an hour, stirring occasionally to prevent burning. Take from the tire and gradu ally stir into the rice the beaten yoke of three eggs. Iteturn to the tire for two min.ites, when the eggs will be sufficiently set. Then spread the rice on a large flat buttered dish, letting it cover it to the depth of oue inch, aud so let the rice remain until cool enough to handle. Spread a clean board with powdered cracker dust, turn the rice upon it, and cut into strips ubout three inches long and one wide. Itoll the croquettes into the shape ot corks. Dip them first iuto cracker dust, then iuto egg, again into cracker dust, und then drop them for frying iuto boiling hint. When done, drain from grease on au in verted Bieve, or by laying on brown paper. I'he Country Hume. Drinks for the Voice. Tea coffee and cocoa are three admis sible drinks, but none in excess. For the voice cocoa is the most beneficial. It should never be made too strong, ami those cocoas are the best that have been deprived of their oil. A cup of thin cocoa just warm is more to be recom mended between the exertions of sing ing than any alcoholic beverage. Tea must not be taken too strong, nor wheu it has drawn too loug, for tea then be come acid and h is a bad influence upon the mucous membrane of the thro-.t. There is always a dry sensation niter having taken a cup of thut h.isbeen al lowed to draw too long. A vocalist hail better do without sugar in tea, and only takeuiilk with it Ainori.au lrwj'jitl. HOW A BLIND MAN SEES. thb axtraortjinaky case of a western man. Totally ftlind, and yet Able to Travel Without an Escort by Perception Some Testa. Many instances have t ;en related show ing that defection in any one or more of the human senses often results in de veloping the corresponding inner sense. This has been more frequently observed in persons afflicted with loss of sight and hearing. One of the kind is interestingly described in a late issue oi ine v nicngo Ilerald, which can be safely taken as one j of the most remarkable on record. j Mr. Henry llendrickson, born in Nor- j way forty-three years ago, but who has i lived in this country forty years, was de- prived of sight when six months old. He ; was educated at the institution for the i blind in Janesville, Wis., and is the author of a book eutitlcd " Out of the Darkness," somewhat in explanation of ; the mediumshiD with which he is be- : coming endowed, although unable to account for it in any manner satisfactory to himself or conformable to tho known laws of physical science. The narrative states that he is well educated, a brilliant conversationalist, and, with glasses which hide his com pletely closed eyes, one would scarcely recoguize him as a blind man. For '.he last twenty years he has seldom used an escort, except when in great haste, and when going on territory entirely strange to him. Many people who have ob served the facility with which he moves from place to place doubt that ho is totally blind, but he has been put under the severest tests, and those who have made the investigations are convinced that he cannot see. Describing his hubits to tie reporter, he said: "When iu a train nt full speed 1 can distinguish and count the tele graph poles easily, and often do it as n pastime, or to determine our speed. Of course I do not see them, but I perceive them. It is perception. Of course my perceptive qualities are not in the least impaired on account of my blindness. I am not able to explnin it, but I am never in total darkness. It is the same at midnight as at midday. There is al ways a bright glow of light surround ing me." A practical test was made. A thick, heavy cloth was thrown over his hend us he sat in his chair. This hung down on all sides to his waist. It was impossiblo for any one to see through it. Then be fore him or behind him," it mattered not, an ordinary walking cane was held up iu various positions, and in answer to the inquiry: "In what position am I hold ing it?" he gave prompt and correct answers, without a .-ingle mistake, some times describing acute or oblique angles. "I have never," he said, "by tue ordinary tense of sight seen an ob ject in my life, not the faintest glim mer of one. My sight or discernment docs not come in that way. This will prove tho idea to you : Take mo into a strange room, one that I have never beeu into, and never heard about, nud uo matter how dark it is, I can tell you the dimensions ot the room very closely. I do not feel the walls; I will touch noth ing; but there is communicated to me by some strange law of perception thu size and configuration of the room.'' He then related that being in New York in 1871, he walked from Union Square to a friend's house on Forty-first street, a long distance, with several turns, and did not make a miss. He said: "I knew the houso when I came to it. I did not see it, and yet I did. I am studying shorthand, and as my hear ing is very good, I expect to become an expert, i hud a little trouble with my writing nt first, but am now able to write very well." Another remarkablo illnstiation of his power to see without eyes is this: If ono make motions in the nir like beuling the time for a choir, but describing phonetic characters, he tells the characters, und interprets them. What might be termed a "crucial test" of. this was given the Hcr.ild reporter. Mr. llendrickson further said: "I'm a verv good skater, and tan, wheu gliding over the ice swiftly, see eveiy particle on the ice, every crack und rough spot, no matter how small nnd in distinct. The faster I go, the plaiucr I can see. Well, I don't mean that I can see, but I perceive, or something. It is light to me, and I discern everything." Simple Water Te ts. Test for Hard or Soft Water: Dis solve a small quantity of good soap in alcohol. I et a few drops fall into a glans of water. If it turns milky it is hard ; if not, it is soft. Test for Earthy Matters or Alkali: Take litmus paper dipped in vinegar, and if, on immersion, thu paper returns to its true shade, the water does not con tain eaithv matter or alkali. If a few drops of syrup be added to water con taining nn carf'iy matter, it will turn green. Test for Carbonic Acid: Take equal parts of water and clear lime water. If combined or free carbonii acid is present, a nrecinitate is seeii. to which, if a lew- drops of muriatic ai id be added, au 1 1- fervescence commences. Teat for Magnesia : Boil the water i I a twentieth part of its weight, and th' u I drop a few grains of neutral caibona'e of ammonia inte a glass of it, nud a f.-w ! drops of phosphate of sod.i. Ifmagne-in be present it will fall to the bottom. Test for Iron: Boil a little nut gall and add to the water. If it turns giav or slate black iron is present. Dissolv e u little prus-iate of potash, and if iron is present it will turn blue. Test for l.ime: Iuto u glass of water put two drops of oxalic a -id and blow upon it. II it gets uuiky iu- " Test for Acid : Take a piece of lit n is ! paper: if it turns red there must bcui id. If a blue sugar paper is turned red, it is ; a mineral acid, Jl u'th un-l ". A Child's l ogic. 'bl was teasing her mother Al.ttle for more iu lulgenee and w is put o f wiili "Wi.it till to -iiioi row. The following day she renewed teasing, and was reminded that she said the sume thing veMnday. "But, inaiuma,'' said tli" child, neatly, "this isn't yesii ulay. n's hi I eir to morrow. This reasoning trvit Fit J'n . wus successful. -' RATK8 OF AOVERTISIIIO. On. HoMre, on Inth, o tneerttoa- On. Sqasre, on. loch, on. moot " One Bonere, one Inch, three month Ore Sqnare. one Inch, one year Two Squar. ., one ear J J Qanrtrr Colnmn, one year j Half Coloron, one rear One Colnmn, ona year teeal advertisements tail aeata par e " anion. Marrtaca aao Oath notice fraUs. All bill, for yearly adwrttseawnte eollarta imv lerly. T.n.poary edYertlaemeaia moat be paid U advance. Job work caah on delivery. GROWTH. The liv! ni stream must flow and flow, And never rest, and never wait, Hut from its bosom, soon or late, Cast the dead corpse. Time verso Runs on and on, and may not rest. But from Its Vosom casts away i The cold, dead forms of yesterday ' Once best, may not be always best That which was but the dream of youth, Rcgot of wildest fantasy, To our old age, perhaps, may be A good and great and gracious truth. That which was true in times gone by. As seen by narrow, ignorant sight, May in the longer, clearer light C if wiser times, liecome a lie. I hold this truth whoever wins Man's highest stature here below, Must grow, and never ceaso to grow For when growth ceases, death begins. Alioe Cary. HUMOR OF THE DAT. The habitually silent man becomes gar rulous after he buys a dog. Boston Cl'Hl ii v. Tho boy who has a female school teacher knows all about miss-placed switches. W.sburg Chronicle. A Chinaman in New York is named Tank Tahk. It is not stated, but we suppose he is a barber. JS'orritoun Iler ald. In the Volapuk language the word for dollar is "doab." But it will be just as hard as ever to borrow one. PMeburg Chronicle. When a man gets to be a " society leader "you may generally look for him at the tail end of every other procession. Barlinjlon fV Prei. " Were there any poets among the ante diluvians ?" a writer asks. There must have beeu or there wouldu't have been any flood. B ft on Couritr. It would seem to the average philoso -pher that the man who wants the earth the most is the chap sailing about in a runaway balloon. JMroit f'nit I'reiu. Some things are quite beyond our ken: Explain why if you can. We say "a man's in liquor" when The liquor's in the man. liosion courier. The old, old story boiled down : She (early in the evening) "Good evening, Mr. Sampson." Same She, nto in the evening) "Good night, George." hur -Ungton llairlc ye. Every once iu a long, long while some conscience-stricken wretch returns to the government $23 which ho stole from it three years ago. The $5,000 which he stole last year he keeps as a reward fci his honesiy. Bvrdettt. "Doctor, I am troubled with an af fliction of the stomach." ' "Well, sir, il you will describe your symptoms, I think I " "Stop, doctor, 1 Medicine won't touch it. My trouble is an affec tion for pie." Burlington Fr ;. The quickest way of doing a thing isn't always the best or most satisfactory way. A gas leak, for instance, is easiest discovered hy going in search of it with a lighted lamp, but very few people care to try that method more than once. Burton Trmwrijit. Patient I've tnken nil the medicine you sent except this ono bottle, and 1 don't seem to feel any better." Doctor "Yours must be au aggravated case. Fnrmor Acorn's cow was took down at tho same time you wu., an' I giv' her just the same med'eine exactly, an' it cured her. " Lift. Snowbirds on Toast. Hunting snowbirds on South State, Street aud the avenues is A'lncMi) ble employment than hunting ducks in the Indiana marshes. But few persons are familiar with this fact, but it is truo nevertheless. The palate of the epicure must be tickled in some way; ducks nnd reedbirds are too common, but the snow bird, it would appear, fills the long-felt want. There are millions of them on thu south side, und they arc being shot and trapped ut every opportunity. The small boy does considerable towurds supplying the wants of proprietors of restaurant', but the busiuess has so suddenly devel oped that grown men have t irned snow bird hunters, and with reasonable good luck can make from $l.r0 to $3.50 per day. The birds are wholesaled at 50 cents per dozen, und four of them go to make a meal, which costs the purchaser 50 cents. The restaurant mun, it will be teen, has a profit of $1 on au inve-tmcnt of 50 cents. So it is apparent that there is money in tho business for every ono directly interested. Iu a restaurant window on State street the sign "Snowbirds on Toast," was seen yesterday. The proprietor was asked if there was much of a demand for suth gamo. lie said there was ut pies out, ns there always is at this se ison of the year. Thu birds me plump as can lie, juicy and wholesome, but a working man would eat a hundred of them at a meal without having his appetite ap peased. The b'rds feed onthegraia that falls from cars and vehicles. The hunters aic iu the immediate vicinity, and either kill the birds with guns or trap them. They go in flocks of hundreds, und u shot tired iuto their ranks brings down ut least a dozen. The hunter has a bag at his side and into it are tumbled the victims. The supply is enormous, and as long as the demand is kept up, so long will the south side hunters coutinue to make a good living. There ure not half a dozen in the field ut present, but when the snow comes dowu for keeps the ranks will be considerably augmented. Thut a mini can make u good day's wages at the business' is evident. Ctiaigo Tri hunt. Seal Hunting. ring, w hen the seal comt-s out In the i upon the ice to tusk unit iloe iu the warm sunlight, tue nuuu i app uucm-a him by lying down and udva ting cau tiously, at the same time imitating the motions of a seal, keeping his feet aud legs, which lie crosses at I he ankle, close together, so that they much veemlilc the hindquarters of a seal. Indeed, when at a distance, I have frequently found il dilticillt to tell which was the teal aud w hich the man. Ci-i-i'.i. During the lust few cars the growth of the towns on the Pacific Coai bus been remarkable.
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