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him that Plug stood one midnight onthe
“euro at the corner of ‘Twenty——strect
and Broadway. It was the first midnight
The ter ed hid piace, ‘but all his face
‘Was brightened by the inner joy he knew.
‘Two friends, long absent, met; and one had
The awful stroke and scathe of blinding
loss.
Hand tol in hand; wo Tait they, like a
With no » word uttered. hears Sa-hears was
< BWOorn.
a mother looked into her baby’s oyen,
As blue as heav’n and deep as nether sea.
By ia dim Prescience, spirit-wise knew
Such wry ‘exchanges J never more would |
a tes apa human souls,
Aye, deep as life, beyond all lead and line,
And Wordsate but: the broken shells that
shine ’
Along ths shoreby wiiich'the osean rolls.
+ Buckham, in New England Magazine.
PLUG HANKINS'S LUCK.
dons OF A WASTED LIFE.
ESSN, LL in all, Mr. Plug
fi-=—1 Hankins’ was the
© most phenomenally
unlucky man who
ever made a living
F out of cards. How
i} he managed to
{| make the living not
even his most inti: |
mate colleagues in
3) the black-leg pro-
i! fession could tell.
To be sure he some-
times won, but he
ASIN
ie f AL
~ gould not keep his: winnings § in his pocket
for twenty-four hoursat a time. He always
Juss.
returned to the table to lose them.
as surely as Fortune kissed his homely
face one day she would turn round and
slap it for the next four or five. Then Plug
“would have to resort to the disagreeable
shift of borrowing from his luckier
“brothers, and he did this So often that
‘there were very few indced of the pale-
faced, white-handed gentlemen of for-
tune, "from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
“who did not have Plug Hankins on their
Books for sums varying from one to one
Another singular fea-
tire of the case was the fact that .8cien-
fically }
Store than that, he was cool and brave,
He never spoke of his losses, and never
exulted over his winnings if he happened
‘He was sober and. free
from nearly every vice save the passion-
ate desire to gamble that had ruled his
life from boyhood. Other men made
fortunes and lost them every month, but
Plug Hankins was always, to use the
phraseology of the s + man,
Proke.” Tn time his’ wretched luck be.
came a jest among his fellow-gamblers.
‘They often laughed at him openly, but
Plug himself had never been known to
laugh. It was all dead earnest to
the only profession he knew, and he must
anake his living out of it or—
‘Besides his ill-fortune and his pluck
poor Plug was noted among his brethren
for one other characteristic. He was as
phenomenally homely as he was unlucky.
“The gambler’s pallor of his face, the
drooping eyelids, the short hair, the
sunken cheeks and great ill-turned ears
made him look almost corpse-like. And
then there was a long scar under his left
eye where he had been slashed by a knife
on one of the few occasions where he had
won. This, too, was a standing jest.
But Plug bore it very meekly.
There were meny who predicted that
some day Plug would make a winning
that would startle them all. It was sup-
posed that Plug himself looked forward
to some such event to compensate him
for his fifteen or twenty years of pa-
tience. But the good luck never came,
and as ill-fortune was piled upon ill.
fortune Plug’s patience began finally to
break down, aud his natural moroseness
became almost mania. The fact was
noticed by the rest of them, but they are
not tenter-hearted ‘men, as a rule, and
they only made their jests at his expense
the louder and more frequent. More |
than that, though, his fellow-gamblers
began to be very chary about lending
him money. In fact, as a rule, they
had begun to decline in no very polite
manner, and some even went so far as to
advise him to quit the business and get
a job somewhere digging dirt.
It was in a frame of mind born of
such treatment at the hands of men who
had previously been more than kind to
in many s 8 year that Plug had not been
ted before a dirty green
ik
right,
money he could mans :
crook to get hold of: With his hands
thrust into his great pockets and his
lied dows over his eyes, he lookéd
the very picture of dejection as he gazed
at he gutter under his feet. Even the
liceman on the beat had to smile when
+ him, and walked by with the
ejaculation, “Busted!” Indeed
-¢‘busted.” He had gone with-
out his meals all that day and the day
before in order that he might stake the
money at faro. He had asked every one
he knew to lend him money and had
been refused, and he hadn't a cent. He
had looked forward to this climax of ill-
fortune for a good many years. It was
# long time coming, Though, and Plug
bad almost begun to believe that it
never ould, come, when, behold, here
o had first thongs of the pos-
bia , po!
tion Plug had |
LP that time |
table waiting |
ys
promised himself that, if the day should
ever come it would be this souvenir of
his only romance that should do the
business. But now he found that he was
tempted to pawn the revolver, try his
luck once more, and then, if he lost—
well, the river was quite handy. The
Plug was roused, presently, from his
meditations by the. happy voice of a
child singing in a 3 high ‘key a silly but
popular song. He looked around, al:
most wondering’ Fr even a child could
could be 80 freé from care as to’ ‘sing,
and he observed
the street toward him, Swinging
pail in’ one hand and {ripping an im-
promtu dance-step to the song she was
singing. Hmph thought. Plug,
rushing the growler for some
father or ‘mother. That's’ what's the
matter with the Worl i
| been the matter with me.
up. © ‘No wonder we all
He had barely concluded the philosophi-
cal thought “when the child, a rather
ragged little girl, even: ‘though she did
appear happy, reached the. corner where
he stood, turned ‘and made for the side
door of an all-night saldon a few doors
away. She did not even glare at him,
but ch ped on under the guslight, and as
80 something fluttered from her
hand." Plug’s quick eyes
Shas that it was a dollar bill, even: be-
fore it reached the ground, and with an
impulse that was absolutely uncontrol-
‘able he stepped quickly forward, picked
it up, and was secure in the entrance to a
gambling-den before the child had
opened the door of the saloon.
: The time had been when he would
have felt disgusted with himself for the
dct. But that time had long passed.
It had gone with his old bravado and
his old ideas about gamblers’ honor—
it had gone with his youth and his re-
‘membrance of his mother and with his
capability of feeling shame. = He rushed
up the stairs, burst into the smoke-filled
room, and even before he thought placed
the bill on the ‘‘high card.” It won.
The dealer laughed good-naturedly. An
acquaintance cried out, jokingly, * ‘Good
boy, Plug.”
he had borrowed the money, and then
It’s bringing
. | there was a general laugh at his expense.
He did not mind it. Perhaps he did
not hear it. He looked stolidly at his
bet and left it on the ‘high card.”
Again it won and now it amounted to
four dollars. Again the dealer laughed
and so did the rest. There are strange
things about luck. Any gambler will
tell you so. ~The ‘thigh card” won six
times in succession, and Plug’s stolen
‘dollar bill now amounted to the
respectable sum of sixty-four dol-
lars. The crowd (ceased laughing.
The dealer, out of pure charity, asked |
Plug if ne wanted to let the bet stand.
Plug had been playing such a small
game for go long a time that the dealer
hardly believed he had sufficient nerve
left ‘to take such a risk. He
received no answer, ‘however, and as
silence gives consent in a gambling room
he proceeded to draw the cards. Again
the thigh card” won. It was one hun-
Plug had on the table.
youth’ burst out: laughing and said:
«tPlug's luck must have been turned at
last.” But Plug was still silent, The
next turn made his original dollar two
huadred and fifty-six « dollars. The
“high card” had won eight times in suc-
cession. If was becoming so interesting
that the other players forgot to make’
their bets until sharply reminded to do
so by the dealer. Even he was a little
nervous as he drew the next two cards.
He muttered something under his breath,
too, when he saw that Plug’s money had
doubled again. = “Great guns!” said the
irreverent youth; who had Deen figuring
for a minute with a: 1, ‘he’s won
five hundred ‘and twelve dollars! The
dealer is in a hurry new. He was afraid
that Plug would wake up to a reahza-
tion of his phenomenal luck and depart
with his winnings before the house
could get a chance to win them back.
He drew the two cards quickly. « Plug
had won again. “One thousand and
twenty-four dollars,” exclaimed the
youth with the pencil, “Only one
thousand dollars,” replied the dealer,
gruffl;
lars.” = SHI Plug was silent. A gam-
bler near him touched him on the sleeve
‘and said: ‘Wake up, old man. You've
won the limit. t are you going to
do with it?" :
“Won what?”
‘dreamily.
“Won ‘a thousand dotlars—are you
asleep?” ©
Plog did not answer. He reached
over and picked up the pile of money
and turned from the table. The dealer
géwore. ‘The proprietor of the house,
who had been watching the play, called
out, ‘‘You ain't afraid, are you?’ but
Plug paid no attedtion to him.
asked Plug, almost:
‘there continued some thoughts the. like
of which: had not troubled him for
many a year. He walked slowly up.and
down room several times, paying no
attention to the remarks of the men who
knew him, and who were either congrat-
ulating him on his extraordinary luck or
joking good-paturedly about it. And
none of them heard him mutter, as he
did = several times, ¢‘Stolen—stolen—
stolen!” Presently he walked to a win-
dow and threw it open. He leaued ‘out
and looked down into the stree Thi
problem was never solved, however, for
id. ' That's what's’
Another asked him where
dred and twenty-eight dollars now that
.An irreverent |.
The deal went on, and in Plug's mind |
not,
gave her a great roll of bills,
how.
the end of it.
* *® »
Brain Power in Plants.
he says: ‘It always fol
stances, soon die.”
repairing of nervous energy
vegetable kingdom.
readily -
‘small enough to fall into its maw.
out ‘a fluid which
our
: nil the gastric. juices of the ‘ani
This fluid dissolves the
meat or insect he absorbs their substance gl
into the tissues of the plant. In animal
nature digestion can only be commenced
hy the brain force acting by means of a
gastric glands; we
‘concede that itis the
the plant
A
ustration of the wonderful effect
of ‘brain power in plants may be ob-
served in the action of the radicle of
seeds. The course pursued by the radi-
cle in penétrating the ground must be
Darwin wrote
as follows in regard to this: ‘It is hard.
ly an exaggeration to say that the tip of
the radicle, endowed as it is with such:
diverse kinds of sensitiveness;acts in the
same manner as the brains of Some ani-
mals, the: ‘brain being seated within the-
extreme ‘end of the body; ‘receiving its
fmpressions from the sense organs and
directing the several movements.” Mr.
mal stomach.
nerve upon the
may, therefore,
action of the same power in
that produces the same results.
ther
determined by the tip.
‘Smith does ‘not ‘quite agree
er, which is the cause of all plant
ment.
‘When the spor
public.
are of
This is called ‘‘pillar robbing.”
and buried alive.
by human hands.
prisoned in this manner,
‘was abandoned that the
8 i
of forty-six miles, ot.
oe at the bottom w ae ty ot Ine }
By the in, lene & cube |
‘miles: above ‘the |
of quicksilver
inch of
* “The child was still weeping under T:
the iamp when he reached it. He said |} iY
to her as though it was all the money in
the worla, there was so much of it, and
she quickly ran home with it—even for-
getting to thank him for it, if she knew
‘He did not mind that, though.
He was thinking of a worthless life and
When bis body was discovered; the
next morning, ‘he looked uglier than
ever, for a bullet had torn a terrible
1 hole in his forehead..—Frank Leslie's.
Arthur Smith, a botanist of note and
one of the writers of the National Re-
view, entertains many curious ideas con-
cerning the sleep 4 and brain gover of |
» | plants, many o e notions, directly or
fo othe bad. |e iting with the sstablined
opinions of such men as Cuvier, Huxley
| Darwin. {Speaking of the mimosa,
its leaves at the
close of day, and there is no doubt, if it
were not allowed to sleep, it would; like
| the hnmare species under similar circum-
This is not only an
example. of the necessity of sleep for the
peration of brain power, but. a proof of
the existence of the same faculties inthe
Then, take the
tr of the carniverous plants, the
Venus fly-trap, for instance, which will
raw beef or any insect
botanical curiosity has glands which
In conclusion he mentions ve Te-
markable property of the potato fungus.
¢s of this fungus burst a
multitude of little bodies escape; if these
‘bodies gain access to water they develo,
a couple of little tails,by means of whi
they swim like ¢ tadpoles. St. Louis Re-
- Causes of Mine Disasters:
Mine disasters generally come “from
some one of three causes—cave-ins, fire-
damp explosions or blasting. In nine
cases out of ten they are brought about
either by the pentriousness of mine own-
ers or tho carelessness of the men. !
each mine pillars of coal are left to sup-
port the roofs of the workings. They
generous size, and when the mine’
begins to get ‘‘worked out" the tempta-
tion to take coal from them is great.
If these
roc! supports’ are ‘‘robbed” too’ freely
they will crumble under the weight above
them and bring about a ‘‘cave in.” The
chief danger of such au accident is that
the miners will be shut'off from the exit
“An experienced miner |
can generally tell hy the pistol-like re-
pots of the coal as it begins to give un-
der the pressure from’ above that a cave
in is coming soon enough to run to ‘a
part of the mine not hkely to fall and
crush him to death; but in the meantime
thousands ‘of ‘tons. ‘of coal ‘may have:
| blocked all ways of escape.
The’ place
y; the limit is Te hundred dol-
of refuge thus becomes a prison, and a
prison more horrible than Was ever bul
1t is hard to imagine anything more
hotriblé than the situation of miners ims
Fifteen days
and a half elapsed from the time of the
disaster in the Hill Farm mine at Dan-
bar, Penu., in June, 1890, ‘before hope
thirty men’ im-
prisoned iu the right heading still lived.
‘Two or three days after the disaster
signals made by the entombed men were
heard by the rescuing party. Every pos-
sible sffort was made to reach them, but
in vain, Their bodies le under Hill
Farm to this day if they were not deo-
stroyed by burning ges. ~—New York
Press
C—O is
Some Atmospheric: Phenomena.
A man weighs loss when the barometer
is high, notwithstanding the fact that
the atmospheric préssur: on nim is more
than when the barometer is low. =
the pressure of air on an ordinary-sized
man i8 about fifteen tons, the risd of the |
mercury from twenty-nine to thirty-one
inches adds about one ton hd the A he.
ONE WAY OF INCREASING. FARM VALUES.
- In one county in New Jersey, says the
Rural New Yorker, where excellent roads
have been made, farm property has in-
creased in value six times as mnch as the
cost of improved highways. Those who
are an for free mail delivery in
rural d
cates vy road improvement, as the
wretched, almost impassable condition
of the highways at certain seasons is one
of the strong arguments of the opponents
of the measure.
v
PUMPKINS AS FOOD FOR STOCK.
Pumpkins are easily grown on almost
any soil, says an Ohio farmer,and require
but little cultivation, : and are seldom
grown as a separate crop. ‘They are
generally planted among the hills of corn,
and may thus be considered as a kind of
‘they may have as animal food is com-
monly thought by farmers who raise
them in this way to be clear gain. Some
] varieties are of monstrous size; but the
common large yellow is sufficiently pro-
ductive, and for all purposes I give them
them the preference. . Pumpkins make
good food for cattle or hogs, but when
fed to milch cows I would first halve or
quarter them before chopping m up,
and scrape out the seeds, giving ‘them to
the hogs. ‘I have always believed the
seeds will cause a shrinkage in the milk,
otherwise I think them . excellent food
for cows. I know of no plant that will
ve 80 much feeding substance for so
little work ag the pumpkin will, and if
they are fed to hogs freely as soon as
they are ripe enough they will increase
fe their growth, and a great deal of corn
may be saved while fattening them. The
wonder is that there are not more of
them raised and used for animal food.
freeze they may be kept along well
through the winter, and furnish a va-
ricty-at a time: when most of the feed is
dry.—New York World.
.. FRUIT AND POULTRY.
In my oreeding yards, writes a poul
Ems have ae 100 fine let sry |
now beginning to bear. They are Mari-
tanas, Damsons, Spauldings and Lom-
bards, four well tried, varieties, and are
all perfectly smooth and healthy. I at-
tribute this to the fact that the fowls keep,
“| the trees well rid of insect pests, and
with Mr.” also to the fact that the trees were well
Darwin's belief, but is of the Fd fee with coal ashes, and are planted
“that it isa simple example of brain flow
in strong clay ground well drained and
of peach trees seem to thrive equally
well. © On the whole, there is no place
like the poultry yard for fruit, and by
planting orchards where one may reap
double profit from the ground: employed.
Adjoining the pouliry yard there is a
strawberry patch of ‘half an ‘acre’ on
which I have demonstrated to my satis
faction that the poultry ‘and small fruit
industries are easily and profitably’ com-
bined: Outside of the season when
berries are large. -enongh to attract the
fowls, it is no injury to allow the fowls
free range of the patch. This is also true
of blackbetry and raspberry plantations.
I find the poultry manure one of the most:
valuable = fertilizers for berries when
properly applied. It must, however, be
well mixed with dry earth’ er road dust,
or the effect’ will be rather disastrous
than profitable. It has always been a
pet notion with me that ten acres of
good ground, rightly located and rightly
managed for the poultry and fruit busi-
ness, is enough to afford a very comfort-
able living for a family not afraid towork
and of a ‘‘managing” turn of mind.—
American Poultry Journal.
Lia POP CORN.
Pop corn or parching corn, owing to
the smaller size of both ear and stalk,
can be grown upon very light land, al:
.most without manure, if it is what is
called “natural corn land,” and the sea-
grow a larger crop. There is a very good
demand for it in this market, the manu-
facturers of corn cake and corn balls
100 tons a year, and others pete more,
“while the grocers sell a‘
family ‘use, mostly during 1 the holiday
season, but some the year round. Thais
year the market rate at wholesales from
two to three cents a pound on the cob, but
the market ‘is overstocked, as it is with
a low one.’ Some years it has sold at
wholesale as high asseven cents a pound
in Boston, but such a price is more ex-
ceptional than the present price, and
from three to. four cents n pound is
nearer the usual figure.. As it is grown
prifeipally | in the Western States, Wis-
consin, Nebraska and Kansas being the
Inrgest producers, and Chicago the prin-
cipal market for it, the low price of this
year may disco! them from planting
so much next year, and the ft may
advance. There are several kinds, . The
favorite with those who use.
amounts is an eight-rowed, grayizh-
ith ears from six to eight
: smaller varieties of yel-
re should be
distances’
ricts should be strong advo-’
supplementary crop, and whatever value:
| If stored away where they will not
‘well adapted to fruit growing: = A row |
son is favorable. But it pays better to |
give a light dressing of manure, and
using a great deal, onefirm using at least
eal ‘for
almost everything else, and this price is
18 stalks grow to about’
s | anow were piled pradly: fruit trees to put
has a kernel nearly round, an ear about
three or four inches long, seldom five |
inches; and ‘the rice corns, either white,
yellow or red, seldom grow four inches
long. They are too well known to need |
further description, but are by man
thought the best for family use, Deine |
more tender when parched. In all of
these the stalks are smaller,
ears near the ground, and these can be
grown much closer together, and as a
good strain is very prolific the crop will
be much larger than would be expected
from so smail an ear,
cured, and last year's corn should be
ready to sell or use in February or
March, if well cured and kept dry. |
There is such a thing as its getting too
dry to parch well, and in such a case it;
is n to sprinkle it, and allow it.
to lie in the heap and swell before parch-
ing. ~-Boston Cuitivator.
WHY MANY DAIRTMEN FAIL.
Many a dairyman fails in meeting his:
expectations, and so roundly denounces:
the industry, and why he failed was, ac-
cording to Jay Gould in the P: tical
Farmer, his only want of dairy knowl-
edge. A man engaged in other pursuits
wholly foreign to the dairy suddenly re-
whole stock of dairy knowledge consists!
of supposing that’ cows give milk; we
of all the whys and wherefores, and de
tails, he is perfectly ignorant. The COW,!
her wants, rights, likes, distikes, rations
and comforts are all to be learned; but
assuming that he knows it all, he engages
mn a business that has more about ‘16 lig
learn and master than to become a
ficient machinist, and is . confounded oh
the start to find that every cow is a little
dairy by herself and wants individnal
looking after; but he; in bis wisdom,
concludes that he can mold them overby
giving one care and one attention, and,
one and the same ration to all, and half
of the time is ont of that ration and does
not know how to compound another, |
and so economizes feed until he can find |
something. To him all cows are alike, |
thing, and the result is that when he has
when it is up he is short of supplies. |
Then the ‘‘blessing” of the industry fol- |
lows, and the result is, another man pro- |
claims the dairy don't ‘pay!
tempt without any capital,
the dairy is loaded with. An in
feeding, of the laws of maternity, of :
animal life, of ‘adjusting conditions, and |
a world of detail, all enter into this in-
dustry, and no wonder men fail. The
man who seeks to become a dairyman
should apprentice himself to a first-class
dairyman for at least two years, and learn
the trade to that extent at least. Let
literature, text-books on feeding, breeds
of cattle, ‘and books treating of dairy
produce and its manufacture. = Then ons
can begin and grow up into a dairyman
if.he is ever a student. These are yr,
dairymen who succeed. The other fel-
low is simply a cow-milker, and ‘‘luck”
never smiles on hm, ‘Why Chicago
Times.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Leghorns and Hondans are the best
breeds for eggs.
Pullets that are just beginning fo lay
are not good setters.
' Extra large or odd-shaped eggs should
not be used for hatching.
Many of the hest specimens of pure
bred poultry are incubator-hatched.
At no time ia it desirable to feed poul-
try an exclusive grain diet; they need
more bulky food.
The buff Leghorn is bound to become
pepular, and so are the buff Wyandottes
and othex new breeds.
If the hens pick at the ‘whitewash on
the walls or fencesit is a goed indication
that they need lime; supply it in some:
form.
The fight against the Wyandotte re-
sulted in making the latter popular, and
to-day it holds its own with other stan-
dard varieties.
One ‘advantage in: fondling bran with
the ‘cornmeal i is that it in-
creases the bulk and is less liable to
cause indigestion.
Eggs will be set from now on, espec-
ially those from Brahmas and Cochins.
The early hatched chickens are in de-
mana for the fall shows.
‘While any kind of grease is sure death
to Mce, the odor of cedar oil, turpentine
or kerosene will cause them to vacate the
premises if used liberally.
It requires, on an average, ten pounds
of grain to feed incubator ln ten
weeks, = At first they will need less than
| one pound a week and at the last more,
With all breeds of chickens, except
the Brahmas and Cochins; it is best to
use a two-year-old ‘cock. ‘With these
two breeds they often get clumsy ‘at that
age.
‘Where the und is free from frost a
plowing of orchard’ now, or soon,
would be of great advantage. It would
expose the larva of many insects to birds
p winter with (and these are nu-
) anid also : poultry.
§ it would bean
oh She, his It has
solves to go into the dairy busiuess. His}
that calls for knowledge of nature, of fare of every member of it to look out.
——— A A et ene ee
5 HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
A cmap NIGHT-LIGHT.
In households where there are y
| children a softened night-light is rr
pensable. Very pretty ones are made,
but an inexpensive substitute ean be
y |
A
It should be well
: water.— New York Journal,
cortrived by any ome. A piece of
candle, weighted so'as to flost uprightins
tumbler partly filled With water, will last
several hours, and will burn until the
wick is far below the surface of the
HOUSEHOLD MARKETING.
In buying beef thete are a few rules to-
‘ remember: Bullock beef 1s the best to
i buy. It should be fine-grained, the lean
with streaks of clean, white-looking fat
running through it and of a bright red®
color. Unless there is enough fat the:
meat will be tough. . Cow beef is paler -
{ than ox beef, so you can tell it in that:
and | ay, and it is not so nutritious; but if:
the meat is of a very dark red it is too
old. To test beef press it down with
the thumb; if it rises quickly the meat
is good. For soup-meat get the shin
bone and a few pounds of the round.
Soup meat should have as little fat as
‘possible. The best meat for beef-tea is
i from the round. Mutton should be dark
colored and have plenty of fat.
In choosing poultry see that they have
{ smooth legs and short spurs; the male
birds are best. The feet should always
bend easily, and thc eyes should be
bright. If a fowl has begun to turm
blue, or if it has stiff legs, it is nok
good.—$8t. Louis Republic.
SERVANTS’ SAVINGS.
It is questionable if it is not a matter
‘of duty with every mistress, on each.
occasion when she -pays her servamts
their wages, to expect them—even to-
the point of making herself officious—
to lay by in the savings banks some por-
tion of the fund paid asa fund for old
age or against the rainy day that may
come. Some mistresses pride themselves.
on paying their maids at the end of every
week, and the small sum so received by
the girl‘is apt to be dissipated in as short
a time as it took to earn it. But if the
girl can do without it itiis ‘much better:
for her to waitand have it ina larger
sum, the sight and possession of which:
will let her be much more easily induced
to appropriate a goodly part of it to the”
future. Of course when servants have .
others depending on. them it is not easy
forthem to lay by any considerable
amount, but when they are only in the
and all markets are demanding the same 'yrge them to save their money.
him at the same time read the best dairy |
Lisl juice, one
{way of buying handsome clothes, of
; making presents or of spending for
| amusements it becomes a serious duty to:
. The
kind mistress may die, the pleasant home
a thing to sell the market is down, and | may be broken up, the next home may
: be very different, may be one where if
the girl is ill she has to provide for her- |
self and where there ure no frequent
There is no |
| gifts to spdre-her expenditure, so that
industry on earth that so many men af- | wisdom -peints out the path to the sav-
stock OF ' fnos bank of some other safe method of:
practical knowledge to begin with, 88 ' investment.
dustry |
The mistress: of a family
should remember that she has the wel--:
| for, and in begging her maid to save a
share of her wages she Is providing both.
for hev peace of mind in the presontand.
for her comfort in the possible sickness
and sure old age of the future.—Chicago-
News.
RECIPES.
Corn Meal Griddle Cakes—Beatl two
eggs and add one quart of sour milk,
half a teaspoonful of salt, one table-
gpoonful of melted butter (or two of sour”
cream), two teaspoonfuls of soda dis--
solved. Make a batter of two-thirds:
Indian meal and the other third wheat
flour. Bake on griddle.
“Venoise Pudding—Another favorite.
pudding 18 made in “this way: Take five:
ounces of bread crumbs, four ounces of:
sugar, three ounces of raisins, two ounces -
‘of citron, one teaspoonful of vanilla,
one-half pint of milk, the yolks of four
eggs, one ounce of brown sugar. Add.
the milk to this; pour over the yolks,
and the vanilla last, and steam one hour"
and twenty minutes.
Peach Pie—For the crust use half as.
much cold water as lard or prepared suet, .
have the shortening . very cold, and cut :
in fine pieces and well mixed through
the sifted flour, with a little salt added.
before putting in the water. When roll-
ing the upper crust, spread on a piece of ©
butter and roll in to make it flaky. Use:
canned peaches for the pie. Sprinkle
half a cup of sugar over them and a ht-
tle flour.” Be careful to wet the edge of
the lower crust before covering the pie,
80 the edges will adhere closely together,
which will Keep the juice in the pie and.
add much to its richness,
ote Croquettes—Beat the yolks of
wo eggs and add one teaspoonful of
oonful of salt, two:
tablespoonfuls of cream; one tablespoon
full of chopped parsley, & picce of butter
1 the size of a walnut; a dash of cayenne -
pepper and two cupfuls of plain mashed
potatoes. Heat the mixture thoroughly
and when cool form into clylinders.
Dip these first into beaten egg, then im:
bread crambs and fry in smoking hot
fat. Bee that they are perfectly covered
with bo and bread crumbs, or else
the potato will escupe into the fat and.
the appearance of the croguettes spoiled.
This quantity will make twelve ero--
quettes. X
Rabbit Stew—Cut two young rabbits
into joints; cut also half a pound of
streaked bacon into dice. Fry the ba-.
con in a stewpan, then put in the pieces
of rabbits; when just browned, add m:
good spoonful of flour, mix it up welf,
and moisten with - little over a pint of 3
water; season with salt and pe
When beginning to boil, skim it ofl ther
time; put in some button-onions and a
bay-leaf; let it simmer a quarter of am
hour. Take out the pieces of ra :
pile themup in a pyramid Spon 2 dish.
Let the sauce boil, keeping it
until the onions are tender and es
is thick enough toadhers fo the
‘back; then pour it over the. ra et
The juice o
ed to this ish,