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Lynn, Mass., is llio first city in tlio
world In tho manufacture Of boots nml
shoes, nml particularly those for Indira
and children.
Not including Alaska, Brazil is larger
in extent tlmn the United States; it pos
sesses within its limirn nn urea of 3,2H7,
!fi4 square miles, with a population of
13,333,25.
.
In the report of the directors of Eng
lish convict prisons is a curious nccount
of the, devices to which prisoners resort
In order to obtain admission to the in
firmary. It seems that prisoners almost
invariably cxnggorato their symptoms to
such an extent tlmt detection of the im
posture becomes easy.
A number of the fast Atlantic Ocean
record breakers have been laid up (luring
tho winter months. It is said that
they can only bo run at a profit during
the summer, when tho travel is great.
The City of I'aris, which has broken nil
records, however, will continue to run
throughout the winter, next spring and
ilinmcr.
During the past ten months England
4ns imported 301, 2 It) hundred weight
canned meats from the United States,
f2,2H hundred weight from Australia,
22,3SH hundred weight from Belgium
and 122,42(1 hundred weight from other
countries. The receipts from tho United
States were Da.lillO hundred weight
greater this year than last.
Captain M. V. Hates, better known as
Barnum's Kentucky Giant, was married
recently in Troy, N. Y. llo stands
seven feet eight inches in height and
weighs about Mil pounds, while his
brido is nearly three feet shorter, aud
weighs n littlo more than 100 pounds.
Both "arc in comfortable circumstances,
and Bates owns several flue farms.
One of the forcigu Catholic divines
who rode on tho Congressional limited
from New York city to Baltimore thought
that one of tho strangest sights he had
seen in the country was tho eating of
dinner ou a train going at the rate of
sixty miles nn hour. AVe are known
abroad as a nation of fast eaters, remarks
tho AVashingtou Star, but foreigners arc
not prepared to see us eat at the remarka
ble rate of a mile a minute.
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Tldung erous necidcut in British
ColututAii waters to the Amphion, the
finest vessel in tho large British squad-
jou, seems to show one thing very con
clusively, and that is that the rules of the
nervier compelling officers of war ships
to pilot their own vessels in inland
.waters ought to bo changed. Had there
been u pilot on board thoroughly famil
iar with the winding passages through
the maze of islands, the violent tide rips
or whirpools, and the other things which
render navigation between A'ictoria and
i Vancouver excessively dangerous in time
of fog, tho lives of tho Governor-General,
Lord Stanley, and his party would
Bot have lieon endangered, and tho com
mander of the Amphion would not have
been uuhnppy to-day.
Tho big ship Ureal Eastern is receiving
her coup-de-grace on tho bauks of the
Mersey, in England. She has been dis
mantled aud her stranded hull is beiug
broken up forVld iron. The old lovi
athan of the deep has had an unsuccess
ful career. Her launching thirty years
ago Wiis attended with a frightful disus
tor, ten men being killed by the explosion
of her steam box. Sho was never a suc
cessful sailer, and proved a disappoint
mint to her builders as an experiment iu
ship construction as well as unprofitable
to her owners. She was I!!' I feet long,
eighty-three feet wide, sixty feet deep
and 22,500 tons burden. In the opinion
of tho AVashington Star, her fato proves
tho impracticability of ships of her size,
uud it is safe to say that we shall not look
upon her like again.
A short time ago the papers had an ac
count of u man who showed his wonder
ful powers by mesmerizing, or hypnotiz
ing a person, but was unable to restore
the subject to her normal condition.
Fortunately, obs rvos the Chicago Herald,
there was an experienced hypuotizer near
by to undo tho work of tho exhibitor.
Bilt there might not have been, and the
subject of the experiment might have re
mained mesmerized for a week, or until
assistance could be had. Thanks to the
work of some French and other European
scientists, hypnotism is now one of the
re-ui!zcd means of relieving disease. It
is huWestablished on a scientific basis.
Like all other means of treating sick peo
ple and disease, it is a dangerous thing
'when used by unskillful aud ignorant per
sons, and its use by such persons can but
tend to bring it into disrepute as a dilu
tive agent. Tho exhibitions of mesmer
ism should be discountenanced as against
the feelings of humanity aud public pro
priety. A public exhibition of the effects
of hashish would probably bo interest
ing to a few people, but would at tho
Same time bo dangerous. The fc line iu
true of mesmeric exhibitions.
LET LIVING WORTH E SUNO.
'Tfs well to nay the kindest word
Of those who've gone from earth,
And eulogies are of ton heard
That emphasise their worth j
But bettor fnr, it seems to mo,
AVe'll find It now and then,
To let our living heroes see
They're loved by fellowmen.
AVait not until the heart Is still,
That has lieen proved most true,
But make it feel by deepest thrill
How dear it is to you.
To flattery base should none descend,
Nor need we yet be dumb.
But give good men, before their end,
A taste of joys to come.
Then let us speak with hearty praise
Of noble work well done.
And crown the victor with the bays
He valiantly has won.
'Twill cheer him on to higher aim,
To find his merit known,
And help achieve still greater fame
Than he could guln alone.
And others on the sea of life
Wny they lie old or young
Fartukers in the eager strife,
Whose deeds are yet unsung.
Perceiving that men recognize
Howards to merit duo.
Ami, deeming honest praise a prize,
AVill seek to win it, too.
Frank J. lionnclle.
INDIAN JULIUS.
HY lll'TH HANSOM.
'Is this Pembroke's Tavern?" said the
tallest and largest of the little group of
Horsemen collected at my door.
1 was not in the least startled or sur
prised. Questions like this were an ordi
nary part of my everyday existence. Our
little cabin was tho largest of any in the
neighborhood nor was it in any degree
palatial at that aud it stood just at the
fork of the roads, where it was the most
natural thing in the world that a "tav
ern" should be located.
Matthew had chosen this particular
spot because of a clear little spring that
bubbled up in the woods close at tho
rear, and a knot of magnificent .madronn
trees, which flung their shadow'ovcr our
roof-tree.
A neat littlo picket-fence, as yet guilt
less of paint, inclosed our small-domain,
and the cinnamon rose-bushes I had
planted were in bloom for the first time,
sweet reminders of iho Eastern homo we
had left behind us, three years ago.
I sat in the doorway, pulling wild
strawberries as the three meu rodo up,
anil answered composedly;
"No, it isu'ta tavern at all."
"Air. Pembroke lives here, don't he?"'
the man somewhat sharply demanded.
"A'es; but it is a private house."
"Couldn't you give me and my men
some dinner, madam?"
"Not to-day,"' said I, succinctly.
"My girl has gone away, and Mr. Pem
broke is not nt home. I am not prepared,
for visitors."
The men exchanged discontented
glances.
"Then," said another, "we must keep
on to Grill Station. Is it much further?"
"Nino miles," said I.
"Is it a good road !"
"Yes, nearly all tho way."
As I watched them ride away, I ob
served, with some surprise, that Indian
Julius, a good-for-nothing redskin in the
neighborhood, was riding an extra horse
in the rear, with a dirty blanket twisted
around his lank form. Noione knew the
neighborhood better than Icdiau Julius,
and n vague wonder crossvd my mind
that, with such a guide, they should find
it necessary to ask any questions of me.
I knew, however, that Julius was sub
ject to tits of sullen sileuce, sometimes
lasting for days together, during which
it was impossible to get a word good,
bad or indifferent out of h?m. He was
u well known vagabond aud skulker in
the neighborhood, aud had a wife
"Old Cleo" whose reputation was even
more shady than his own.
Hut he had whittled out many a wil
1 iv whistle for our littlo boy, and
brought uests of birds eggs to the baby,
and somehow I had a soft spot in my
heart for Julius', in spito of his numerous
backslidings and shortcomings.
'Never let that old rascal cross the
threshold again," said Matthew to me,
after losing his best white Brahma rooster
once, aud learning that Julius aud Cleo
had had a chicken stow at their shanty
on the evening of the same day. "Bask
ets, indeed ! And re-caning chair bot
toms! . The man ought to lie iu the peni
tentiary!" So that I was surprised, and not par
ticularly pleased, iu about two hours'
time, to see Julius come shullling back
ou foot, with the cud of his blanket trailing-abjectly
iu the dust. He paused at
the gateway.
"Pretty flowers,'.' said he, staring at
the cluster of pink cinnamon roses.
"Nice for little pappoose!"
I took no notice. Dinner was just on
the table a savory rabbit fricassee, with
a strawberry pie, and baked potatoes
bursting out of their jackets. I was set
ting little Mat ou his high chair, aud
tying a bib around his plum) neck, pre
paratory to the meal.
"Babbit smells good," said tho Indian,
sniffing the air. "Old Julius hungry.
He had no breakfast."
Little Mat looked imploringly up at
me.'
"Mother," said he, "give Old Julius
some dinner, please. Old Julius mended
my little cart."
I took out a liberal portion of the fric
assee, with two or three potatoes and a
monstrous cucumber pickle, such as I
knew his soul delighted in, and beck
oned to Julius to seat himself on the
doorstep: and there he made such a meal
as only au Indian can, ending with a
huge cantle of strawberry pie and a
wedge of cheese big enough for three.
"Now, Julius," said I, "you must
split me some kindling wood to pay for
this."
Julius's copper colored countenance
fell; he drew his hand across his berry
stained mouth.
"Me split him," said he, resignedly
Give me big hatchet."
"Julius, whit were you doing with
those men?" I asked, suddenly.
"Me ride horse," the Indian nnswered.
"Him buy horse. Mc ride to Grill's.
Him put horse on train."
"AVho were they?"
"How Julius know?" he retorted
sharply. "Him no talk to Julius. Him
say, 'Get up, you Indian brute!' Him
give Julius five cents five cents!" (with
scornful accents.)
And Julius swung his hatchet in a sav
age circle round his head, before ho set
to work.
After his usual fashion, it took him
nearly all the afternoon to split a ludic
rously small pile of wood; and when, nt
five o'clock, I came back from gathering
up tho linen which wns blenching on the
grass beside the brook, ho wns gone, and
littlo Mat had wakened tho baby with
shrill blasts on his beloved willow whis
tle. "Mother," said Mat, "Julius lost his
pocket-knife. Ho looked all over the
house to find it, aud it was under the
bureau in your room all tho time. I was
glad he found it, because it hnd only one
broken blade, and Julius thought a great
deal of it."
I stopped short, with the baby in my
arms.
"Under the bureau in my room!" I
repeated ; and then it came over me what
a fool I had been thus to disregard my
husband's injunctions. The field indeed
had been quite clenr for operations. Old
Julius had doubtless reaped a rich har
vest. I went hurriedly to my bureau.
The key was still under the embroidered
cover, as I had left it.
I opened the upper drawer with trem
bling hands. It was as I hnd supposed
the diamond ring that. hnd been my
mother's before me, and whicn I senrcely
ever wore, iu this wild Western home,
was gone; so also was a small leathern
wallet, containing seventy dollars in bills
and papers of no little importance. A
chamois-leather bag of silver-table ware,
spoons, forks, butter knives, etc., had
also been abstracted.
I was still standing, stricken dumb
with dismay and nnger, when the sound
of horses' heels rang on the road outside.
I rushed out, as I supposed, to meet
my husband, and put him on the track
of tho wretched old red-skinned thief.
But it wns not Matthew. It was tho
three equestrians, returning from Gull's
Station, or from somewhere else.
"Madame, do not be nlnrmcd," said
tho big one, with ostentatious courtesy,
"AVe do not intend to hurt you or the
children, but it is essential that you allow
us to tie your hands."
"To tic my hands!" I gasped. "AA'hnt
for?"
He shrugged his shoulders.
"So that you will not iutcrfere with
us," he said, quickly seizing both my
hauds and skillfully winding one of my
own kitchen towels bandagewiso over
them.
The baby set up a piteous wail. One
of the brigands took her, not unkindly,
from me, and laid her iu her wooden
cradle.
"Let her cry!" said he. "She'll soon
stop. Crying is good for the lungs.
And in less time than it takes to de
scribe this strange scene we were tied
hand and foot, little Mat and I, and
locked into the sitting-room, whence wc
could hear the steps of our unwelcome
visitors as they systematically went
through the house.
Little Mat looked at mo with wide
open eyes of terror.
"Mother," said he, "are they goiugto
kill us?"
"No, Mat," I nnswered "not if we
keep still. Aud it would do no good if
we hallooed our throats out. No one
could hear us but the birds and the
squirrels."
Little Mat uttered a choking sob.
"Oh, if father was only here with his
revolver!" said he. "Oh, if I was only
grown up!"
Aud my heart echoed every one of his
words.
The baby, sensible little lass, had left
off crying, and now lay cooing in her
cradle, trying to catch a western sun
beam which lay, like a thread of gold,
across her patchwork quill.
Mat and I were eagerly listening, when
once more tho bent of horses' hoofs
sounded on the road, and from the win
dow we saw tho three meu rido swiftly
away.
Once more we eyed each other in
mutual apprehension.
"And they've left us here, tied!"
gasped tho little fellow. "Oh, mother,
mother!" remembering some story of
hideous guerilla warfare that he had re
cently overheard, "do you suppose that
they have fired the house?"
"No, Mat why should they? They
have taken what they wanted and gone.
Wo must, wait here until somebody
passes, and then make them hear, if we
can."
"But tho windows and doors are all
shut, and uo one ever passes here after
sundown. Oh, mother, if I could only
get these strings uutied !"
And ho gnawed fruitlessly at them
with his small, white teeth.
My heart sank as I recognized the
truth of his words, but 1 struirirled
j bravely to keep back the tears and sobs.
At that moment the bolt in the outside
i staples was slid cautiously back, a
j course, black mat of hair was thrust
iuto the room.
"Oh," cried little Mat, with a gasp of
delight, "it s Indian Julius! Oh, Julius,
come and untie us!"
"AVhite squaw and pappose tied up!"
grunted Julius. "Mo untie him. .Me
cut knots with me knife. Old Julius
know they come. Ho hear talk ; they
catch ho listen. They hold pistol to ho
i ear, and miiKe no promise, mg swear,
he no tell, or they skin he alive. Old
Julius no tell" (with a chuckle), "no
break big swear. But white squaw's
wampum sufeinOld Julius's pouch. Old
Julius he hid down iu swamp; he lie flat
behind log, and come buck when man
all gone."
I had shrunk at first from the beady
glitter of the old mail's eyes, but wheu I
realized the pacific nature of hiseiraud, I
tlet him upproucb me with his kuifu ami
cut asunder the bonds which hnd been so ?
skillfully tied.
No soouer did he see mc released than
he thrust his hand down iuto one of the
recesses of his dirty blanket, and brought,
t) light, first my diamond ring, safe and
sound in its case, then the leather wallet,
then the chamois bag full of silver, nnd
laid them on the table beside me, their
contents quite undisturbed.
"Old Julius bring he back," said he.
"Give he to white squaw. White squaw
good to Julius she gives he strawberry
pie. Now we untie little pappoose."
Thus we were free again, to discover,
much to our delight, that nothing of any
considerable vnluc, except a revolver that
belonged to my husband, had been taken
by the wretches.
I need not say that Julius got nn ex
cellent supper and a string of gay amber
beads which ho had long coveted in be
half of old Cleo.
"But white squaw rememoer," said
Julius, impressively, as he wiped his
greasy mouth aud hung the beads around
his neck, "next time man on horse come
here, white squaw no say Mr. Pembroke
gone away."
AVith which piece of good advice he
shambled off over the hill.
I must own to beings little nervous as
the dusk settled down upon us and the
whip-poor-wills began to sing in the
woods, but, to my great delight, Mat
thew arrived several hours earlier than I
had expected him.
"Some one told mc," said he, "that
'Red Jake' and his gang were in this
neighborhood, and I could not help feel
ing uneasy when I remembered that
Gretchcn was away, nnd you all alone
with tho children."
His surprise nt. hearing my story mny
better bo imagined that described, aud
he swore a great oath that he would
never leave me thus unprotected again.
But after that our house was overrun
with baskets of Clou's making, and old
Julius never lacked a job of wood-splitting
or a meal of victuals.
"There's some good in the old scoun
drel, after all," said my husband. Sat
unlay Ni'jlit.
The Earth Increasing in Size.
The earth, traveling in its orbit around
the sun, uud onward with the entire so
lar system around some unknown nnd
still greater centre of attraction, is con
stantly traversing new regions of space,
which it depletes of meteoric dust and
meteorites, thus steadily no matter how
slowly increasing in diameter. Now let
this growth continue till tho earth has
just twice the attractive power which it
now possesses; we should then have twice
the number of meteorites nnd double the
quantity of dust falling annually upon it
than now.
Fortunately for our heads the earth
has not as yet attained very formidable
dimensions, but we may look upon it as
an established fact that it constantly
gains in weight and that in proportion to
such gain its attractive power steadily
increases.
The attracting force of the sun is so
enormous that a perpetual hail of meteor
ites and a torrent of dust particles
must rush upon it from ull direc
tions, and some of the foremost obser
vers are now of opinion that these falling
bodies are the sole cause of the sun's
heat.
In the light of this theory, our earth is
a young aud growing, not an old and dy
ing planet, a planet with a future, which
ought to be cheerful news to all of us,
although we shall not live to reap tho
benefit of it ; and the snu, far from being
on its last legs as an expiring luminary,
is steadily gaining iu heat and lighting
capacity. American (ieoloyist.
The Paris Sewers.
After one of tho congresses recently
held in Paris, a large party interested in
hygiene, led by M. Bcchmann, Eugineer-in-Chief
of Paris, visited the large sewers
that run from the Place dc la Madeleine
to the Chatelet. In barges and iu a sort
of tramway they traveled through under
ground Paris. The sewers were illumi
nated by many lamps and also by elec
tricity. "The barges were supplied
with cushioned seats, the ladies came iu
elegant toilets, and, so that they should
not soil their dresses, the steps down into
tho sewers were carpeted. As au en
gineering feat these palatial sewers, as
they have been so justly described, arc
certainly most remarkable, and well
worth a visit. From the Chatelet the
members of the congress were couveyed
iu comfortable brakes to the sewage furm
of Geuuevillier. At Clichy they stopped
to see the pumping machines, which lift
a third of the sewage and send it over
over the river iu an iron pipe to Geuue
villier, where it is used to irrigate 750
hectares of market gardens. Two-thirds
of the sewage of Paris still falls into the
Seiue at Asuieres, and the members of
the congress were able to witness how it
fouls the waters of the river. They then
went over the sewage farm, admired the
vegetables, ato some of the fruit, and
drank the beautiful, clear water derived
from the sewage of Paris. It contained,
they were assured, a smaller number of
microbes thau the best spring water sup
plied to the town of Paris."
Another Wonderful Bog.
A man who drives a preizcl wagon
around town has a great curiosity aud
I patent advertisement in the shape of a
I yellow doi . This dog is a sort a Scotch
I teuier, aud he is wonderful because ho
I does not sit in the seat with the driver,
like ordinary dogs, but he jumps ou the
horse's back, runs up toward his should
ers, and, with forefeet on the horse's col
lar, he rides through the streets us though
perfectly at home in his strange position, f
The horse trots along with a lumbering!
gait, which must be most uncomfortable
to his canine passenger, but the dog holds
his "seat," sometimes on three feet, some
times on two, and seldom on all four. Ilo
seems to like it, too, and appears to en
joy the wondering stares and amused .'
I glances of people w ho see him in his great 1
1 feat for the first time. The driver ap- '
pears unconscious of the sciisatiou his pet
is making, but all the sumo ho enjoys it
las much us the dog does. ihicmjo World. .
CROPS WITHOUT WATER.
RESULT OF EXPERIMENTS IN THE
AMERICAN DESERT.
All That Wax Don AA'os to Hold the
(; round Down Willi Matted Straw
nnd to Plow Deep.
To make a barren waste produce food
plants profitably without supplying wntcrs
such was the problem with which the
botanical division of the Agricultural
Department found itself, a while ago,
confronted.
Accordingly nn experiment stntion was
started by the division last nutumn in
southwest Kansas, not far from Gnrden
City. This particular location was chosen
because it conditions were typical of the
arid region generally. Two hundred and
forty acres were bought eighty ncrcs in
one spot and 160 in another. The land
was mostly open prairie, the surface a
stiff clay "loam, the top of which was
baked by the sun into a firm crust almost
as impervious to rain as so much slate.
About twenty inches of rain fell, it was
learned, in a twelvemonth pretty nearly
the average throughout the desert belt,
and, of course, it ran off without enter
ing the soil. The superintendent of the
stntion and his men set to work to see
what could be done with the eighty-acre
patch. To eight acres of the space, how
ever, they mainly confined their prelimi
nary experiments; the rest, for tho most
part, they planted with forage for the
mules nnd cattle, cmployiug irrigation to
help things along; but the eight ncrcs
were not irrigated noi supplied with
water in imy manner artificially. The
eight ncrcs, ns orginally found, were
covered with burr grass aid a prickly
perennial weed with a long botanical
name that is regarded out AA'est as a
worst curse than the Canada thistle,
being even more difficult to eradicate.
All this was cleared off in the early part
of last fall, the soil was plowed and har
rowed until thoroughly pulverized a foot
dee), and last spring it was planted with
grasses and forage plants. It was found
that the wiuter's frosts tended to disinte
grate the baked surface crust nnd reuder
it readily arable. Only eight acres were
treated in this way, because there were
only seeds enough of the sorts desired to
plant that amount of space.
Tho notion of tho Agricultural Depart
ment has been that the food plants best
adapted for agricultural use iu the dry
belt had been already placed there by all
wise nature, and so, inasmuch as no seeds
of such plants were purchasable, men
were sent over the prairies of western
Kansas nnd Colorado In September and
October of last year, with sacks over their
shoulders and sheep shears in their hands,
to cut off the tops of the ripened grasses
and things, for it was desired to plant
these germs nnd find out what they v ould
do with cultivation. As forty kinds of
grass and forage plant seeds were im
ported from abroad, including eighteen
or twenty varieties from India. . These
were all planted last spring on the eight
acres in the dry pulverized soil, together
with nbout a dozen species collected by
the grass gatherers from the prairies. The
latter species were nearly all represented
likewise by eleven varieties of grass
planted in the shape of sods, from one to
five square rods of each, got within the
neighborhood of the station. Such was
the work of the spring last year. The
prickly weed persisted in reappearing nnd
gave an immense deal of trouble. Men
had to go over the land constantly with
gloves aud pick it out by hand. No
water was contributed artificially to the
ordinarily parched land and the experi
mental parly devoted its nttention to put
ting up buildings for lodging the party
nnd for storing seed while it waited to
nnd out what would come up without
water from soil that for lack of water had
never produced anything before.
Part of the eight acres was covered
with matted straw, after the pluuting, and
part was not. Tho part left uncovered
produced very little, for as is usual iu
that region of wild-swept plains the
powdered surface soil, with the seeds put
iu it, was blown away. But the part cov
ered with the straw produced, without
a drop of water supplied save the scanty
rains, a far more abundant crop than was
raised, with first-rate irrigation to help, on
the rest of tho eighty acres which had
been sown to feed the mules and cattle of
the expedition.
Iu a word, it has been discovered that
tho average soil of the great American
desert can be made to produce plentiful
harvests of grasses, forage plants, and,
if those, then ulso meat, corn uud pota
toes, without any more water than is sup
plied at present. To accomplish the re
sult two things are needed the ground
must be pulverized deeply, to make n
bed for holding the water that falls in
ruin, and tho planted surface must be
covered after the sowing of the first crop
with matted straw. Subsequent crops
will require no straw, for the reason thai
the matted roots will keep the dry earth
from being blown away.
This is an addition to human knowl
edge which in the opinion of the Agri
cultural Department official who talked
to a Washington Star reporter should
tfirow open to agriculture hundreds o!
thousands of acres hitherto deemed
worthless uud add hundreds of million
of dollars to the taxable valuation of tin
country.
Next spring the entire 240 acres of tin
Kansas station will be planted with ex
perimental crops iu glasses and forage,
withoirt a particle of irrigation; then
will he plenty of seed then on hand for
planting the whole tract. The chic!
trials plants in that region have to bear
are the cohl winds of .March and April,
which sweep away with hurricane force
the plowed soil, and the hot winds, like
the birrocco of the Sahara, which pass
over the land in July and August and
sometimes blight the ripened crops with
in a few hours with their withering
breath, even drying up the tops of plants
and destroying the seeds. The Agricul
tural Department is at present occupied
ill extending this important work by eu
gugiug the assistuueu in it of the State
experiment statious of Utah, Colorado;
aud New .Mexico,
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
THE ruMrKtw PIE.
Take a sharp knife the best of Its kind
Ami pare oir the pumpkin's golden rind;
Then cut into culie-shaped blocks of buff,
And slowly simmer till soft enough.
Run through a sieve the best to beliouglit
Till you have of the sifted pumpkin a quart.
Oh, the "cropplc-crown" hen will mourn to
day For her rifled nest in the scented hay.
For ere your pumpkin pies you can bake
Out of her nest you must nine eggs take.
Beat volks and whites in a separate dish
Till tioth are foamy and light as you wish.
AVhite sugar, one cup nnd a half you take.
And two quarts of milk your pies to make;
Then of cinnamon, nutmeg, and mace, each
one;
You take a teasKKnful ere you are done.
Next spices, sujrar. eggs, pumpkin and milk.
You must beat together till "smooth ns silk"
(That is the curious, homely phrase,
My grandmother used ill those good old-time
days.)
Now a doron of raisins, more or less.
To each pie will add flavor, you must confess.
The whole must be baked in a shell-like crust,
And, just as it hardens, with sugar you dust.
If you follow this rule, when done you'll cry:
"Here's a genuine, old-time pumpkin pie!"
Hoinl Jlovm'kerpili'J
HEEK-STEAK PIE.
Take two pounds of steak; this need
not be the choicest cut, but should be
sweet nnd tender; put it in a kettle with
water enough to cover, and cover the
kettle; simmer for un hour and a half,
then take out the meat, cut it in f mall
pieces, taking out bone and gristle. Have
a pan lined with crust made of short
biscuit dough, put the meat into it, sea
son with salt, pepper and bits of butter;
stir a little corn-starch or flour in the
gravy in which the meat was cooked, to
thicken it slightly, pour over the meat
aud put on the top crust. Bake an hour.
Prairie Fanner.
APPLE rt nuiNO.
Pare, core, aud quarter sour apples. If
they have to stand awhile, put iu an
earthen dish and cover with n wet nap
kin or towel; never throw into cold
water as some cooks do. Put a layer of
these apples in the bottom of a buttered
pudding mould nnd sprinkle over it n
bit of salt. The salt, will give as good a
flavor us butter would give, and is less
bother nnd expense. Above the layer of
apples pluce a layer of stale bread, in
slices or pieces (fragments may be used
or pieces of dry toast left over from
breakfast), which have been soaked iu
water till they are moistened through.
Continue this arrangement till the mould
is full. Put over the top layer of apples
a thick layer of stale bread crumbs
soaked in melted butter. Sprinkle the
top layer of crumbs with sugar and put
into the oven to bake. Cream some but
ter thoroughly, add lino sugar, aud cream
altogether. Use one-half as much but
ter as sugar in this sauce. Add a table
spoonful of cream, and vanilla to flavor.
Cream nil again, aud set? away to get
cold. Amerinm Cultivator.
HOt'SF.HOI.D HINTS.
Hot dry flannel, applied as hot as possi
ble, for neuralgia.
AVhen not iu use the umbrella should
be left loose, unconfined by clastic ot
silkeu bund.
Broken limbs should be placed in nat
ural position and the patient kept quiet
until the surgeon arrives.
liancid lard is improved by tryiug it
over with a little water in tho kettle,
adding slices of raw potatoes.
It is said that the juice of a lemon
squeezed into a cup of coffee will afford
immediate relief iu neuralgic headache.
Do not blow tho food to cool it fot
children; tho breath is often impure uud
will make the food injurious to the child.
The light, soft wool goods worn by
gentlemen in the summer make pretty
skirts for little girls as well as for the
littlo boys.
Heumiorrhages of tho lungs or stomach
are promptly cheeked by small doses of
salt. The patient should bo kept at
quiet as possible.
When white candles appear on the
table shades of any other color may be
used, but when colored candles are
choseu the shades arc usually of the same
hue.
It has been decided that shirting
gingham makes the best kitchen aprous,
as it is durable aud not easy to tear. It
is very wide; one breadth is enough for
the ordinary apron.
Cloth jackets or ulsters may be cleaned
of grease by covering the spots with
French chalk, placing a piece of blotting
paper over it, and then pressing with a
hot iron. Hub with a dry tlaiiuel aud
brush well.
AVood, grasses, flowers, moss, etc.,
are stained by laying tho object to be
colored in the solutions, or painting
them over, or pressing the coloring liquid
iuto them. The colors mostly used are
magenta, methyl violet, malachite greeu,
and aniline blue.
To make a gargle for sore mouth and
throat, take four large spoonfuls of good
cider vinegar, four of water, a teaspuou
ful of common salt, and a very small
portion of red or black pepper; gargle
every hour. It is worth more than all
the chlorate of potash iu the country aud
it cannot harm you.
Kuiu water and soda will take out
machine grease. To remove oil and var
nish from silk try beuziue, ether and
soap very cautiously. To take out paint,
mix equal parts of ammonia aud turpen
tine. Saturate the spot two or three
times, theu wash out iu soapsuds. Paint
can sometimes be rubbed out of woolen
goods after it has dried.
The most fashinuble lieu iu New York
State is said to live in the town of
Waldoboro. She started in life a plain,
dark-brown pullet, but soon exchanged
this for a black and white suit. The
next time she shed her feathers she came
out hs white as snow , and this fall she
aiiiicars iu a black, white aud tan dress.
LISTEN I
AA'hoever you are as you rend this-.
Whatever your trouble or grief, i
I want you to know and to heed this:
The day draweth near with relief.
No sorrow, no woe is unending,
Though heaven seems voiceless and dumb;
So sure as your cry is ascending.
So surely an answer will come.
I
AVhatever temptation is near you,
Whoso eyes on this simple verse fall;
RememlMT good nnge's will hear you
And help you to stand, if you call.
Though stunned with despair I beseeoh you,
AVhatever your losses, your need,
Believe, when these printed words reach you,
Believe you were born to succeed.
You are stronger, I tell you. this minute,
Than any unfortunate fate!
And the coveted prize. you can win it;
AVhtle life lasts'tis never too late!
Kilo Whrelrr Wilcox
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Don't hit a man when he is down; he
may get up.
Protection on glassware extends to
where it gets into the hands of the hired
girl.
Beauty may be only skin deep; but
the plump girl gets the most sleigh-rides.
Puck.
In the race of life it isn't the fast men
who come out ahead. Uimjhumton. lie
jmliVtran. Hush-money, when used, is more apt
than any other money to make a noise.
Pirnyune.
Nature has made some men tall, aud
laziness has made them short. Uurlim
ton Five Press.
The youth who becomes ill from in
dulgence in a "snipe" has a siub-boru
umlady. D'niyhainiuu lit raid.
Two of the wealthiest men in the
AVcst are said to have been messenger
boys. It pays to go slow, after all.
frt-tttsinait .
Yes, there is plenty of room at the
top, and there always will be unless fa
cilities for getting there are improved.
Hi ugha niton lferahl.
Little boys generally look on little
pirls as a nuisance; but when they grow
older the reverse is geuerally the ease.
Mil tea nice Journal.
She "You have often heard, of course,
of the mermaids singing? I wonder what
tune they sing?" lie "Nep-tunc,
V lie "Nen-tuuc. I
suppose.
"'Yon
1 TjnrreitC! A nu riea n .
say vonr husband is a grent
whistler!'' "Yes, indeed; you ought to
hear him some time when iny milliner
bill comes home!" Statesman.
Love will go where it is spnt:
At least, so sny the scholars.
But often love, 1 fear, is bent
On going where 'tis dollars.
Boston Transcript.
A Moruiou has been committed to jail
for contempt of court for refusing to tell
how many wive he had. Evidently his
misery was more than he could confess.
Ilochcstir Pust-F.qircss.
Landlady "What's the matter, Mr.
George? You look down in the mouth."
Mr. George "Just so. I've almost
swallowed a feather from that chicken
soup." AVmi York Journal.
SmilTkius "Aw I a want you to
trim and curl my mustache, barber."
Hairdresser (who doesn't like being called
"barber") "Ccrt'nly, sir. AVhen shall
we send for it?" Once a Week.
jeweler (to Chinese laundryman)
"AVhy, John, you'll ruin that watch by
allowing it to lie in the suds." Liumdry
ninn "Me puttee him iu soak, ullec
samec 'Melican muu."' Jt fchrt' Weekly.
"Alas!" cried the captured fish,
"How little did 1 opine
The worm that looked so delici
ous could have such a horrible spine?"
AViu 1 oi fc Herald.
A. (to his friend, the famous painter
of battle scenes, who covers up with
smoke nil things that he does not know
how to paint) "Aud what are you
going to do when they use the smokeless
powder J" Flicjeinle Mactter.
Eighteen centimes ago a prophet had
no honor in his own country. Nowa
days there is mighty littlo honor about
them anywhere." if there were they
wouldn't be trying to make people be
lieve they could prophesy. Danst'dle
lSrccz '.
Muskruts in the Northwest are build
in it houses three stories high with man
sard roofs aud bay windows and steam
heaters in the cellars. Some persous may
thiuk this is a sign of a hard winter, but
it isn't. It is a sign that somebody is
Iviug. And York Stirs.
Chicago Girl "Oh,
just been out shooting
Great snort, 1 tell you."
Auntie, we've
at the target.
Boston Girl
"Yes. indeed; 1 fully
coincide with
Belinda, although the diversion is some
what arduous. 1 succeeded iu perforat
ing the bovine optic three times iu succession."
t. Bay Horses.
Did any one ever see a man or a woman
with "bay" hair.' asks the 7wse World.
No more than he saw an auburn horse.
The word bay does not of itself signify
a color, ami its use for the purpose of
designating the tolor of a horse is pure
ly traditional. It originated iu Eugl.iud
ill u district w here the breed of horses
was mostly several sh ides away from the
brown and yet loo brown to be called
red. There grew iu this district a great
many bay trees, to the leaves of which
the horses exhibited a decided affinity.
The bay lice had long been cherished
among the natives for the medical quali
ties of its leaves aud berries, and, iu a
way, was sacred to them, having had a
place in many of their legends ami super
stitions. Every breeder of horses was
sure to have a number of the trees, uud
relied upon them almost exclusively for
the medicines wherewith to cure hi
horses. The leaves were used ill oineu
tations uud the berries iu clysters. Tho
horses coining from this district, reared
among the buy trees, became known as
bay horses, and the uniformity of their
color led to the comuiou use of the
term.