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Akoalt' SB the nicest tiling a body ever saw I M *\ \ i Y-A* s f ; CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. 4l:; Iii the year 1689 there lived in Paris a woman of fashion called Lady Mazel. Her house was capacious and four stories high ; on the ground floor was a large servants' hall, in which 'was a grand •taircase, and a cupboard where the plate waa locked up, of which one of the •* chambermaids kept the key. In a small room, partitioned oft'from the hall, slept the valet-de-chambre, whose name was ?3as 1 ~ lie Bran ; the rest of this floor consisted T»-'e€n of apartments in which the iady saw company, which was very lrequent and Humorous, as she kept public nights for play. In the floor of one pair of stairs ims the lady's own chamber, which was in the front of the house, and was the. innermost of three rooms from the grand staircase. The key of this chamber was usually taken out of the door and laid "on a chair by the servant who was last with the lady, and who, pulling the door after her, shut it with a spring, so that it could not be opened from without. Iu this chamber were two doors, one oom- municaling with a back staircase, the other with a wardrobe, which opened to the back stairs also. x On the second floor slept the Abbe Foulard, in the only room whk-h was furnished on that floor. On the third story were two chambers, which oon- ' tained two chambermaids and two foot- boys ; the fourth story consisted of lofts and granaries, whose doors were always open. The cook slept below in a place where the wood was kept, an old woman in the kitchen and the coachman in. the stable. On the 27th of November, being Sun­ day, the two daughters of Le Brun, the Wet, who were eminent milliners, wait­ ed on the lady, and were kindly re­ ceived ; but, as she was going to church to afternoon service, she pressed them to come again, when she could have mora of their company. Le Brun at­ tended this lady to cirareh, and then went to another himself ; after which he went to play at bowls, as was custom- •*y at that tune, and from the bowling- green he went to several places, and, •Iter stipping with a friend, he went home seemingly cheerful and easy, as be had been all the afternoon. Lady Mazel supped with tAie Abbe Poulard as usual, and about 11 o'clock went to her chamber, where she was attended by her maids. Before they left her Le Bran came to the door to receive his <)trders for the next day, after which one ." <jf the maids laid the key of the chamber door on the chair next it; they then Vent out and Le Brun, following them, •Siut the door a;ter him, and talked with ' die maids a few minutes about his daughters, and then they ported, he teeming still very cheerfuL ,j,In the morning he went to market and Was jocular and pleasant with everybody be met, as was his usual manner. He then returned home and transacted his visual business. At 8 o'clock he expressed surprise that his lady did not get up, as che usually rose at 7; he went to his •wife's locVjiug, which was in the neigh­ borhood, and told her that he was un­ easy that his lady's bell had not rung, and gave her 7 louis-d'ors, and some crowns in gold, which he desired her to lock up, and then went home again and found the servants in great consterna­ tion at hearing nothing of their lady ; when one observed that he feared slie had been seized with an apoplexy or a Weeding at the nose to wliicli she was •abject. Le Brun said: "It must be something worse; my mind misgives •e; tor I found the street door open last Bight after all the family were in bed but myself." They then sent for the lady' s son, M. de Savoniere. who hinted to Le Brun his fear of an apoplexy. Lie Bran said: " It is certainly worse ; my mind has been uneasy ever since I found the street door open last night after the family were in bed." A smith being now brought, the door was broken open, and Le Brun, entering first, ran to the bed; and, after calling several times, he drew back the curtainB, and »ai<l: 44 Oh, lady is murdered!" %* ; box, which being heavy, he Baid : " She ; Has not been robbed; how is this ?" t ' A surgeon then examined the bddy, : ?- %hich was covered with no less than fifty wounds; they found in the bed, i- which was full of blood, a scrap of a cra- > «atof course laoe, and a napkin made Into a night-cap, which was bloody, and had the family mark on it; and from £ie wounds in the lady's hands it ap­ peared she had struggled hard with the • laurderer, which obliged him to cut the ITiXi&eles before he could disengage him­ self. The bell-strings were twisted «round the frame of the tester, so that hey were out of reach and could not If in st. A clasp-knife was found in the fjsiies almost consumed by the lire, %hich had burned off all marks of blood that might have ever been upon it; the key of the chamber was gone from the eat by the door, but no marks of vio- ence appeared on any of the doors, nor f?ere there any signs of a robbery, as but that it waa Le Brun who let him in seemed very dear. No one of the locks was forced, and his own story of finding the street door open, the circumstances of the key and the night-cap, and also a ladder of" rope being found in the house, which might be supposed to be laid there by Le Brun to take off the attention from himself, were all interpreted as strong proofs of his guilt; and that he had an accomplice was inferred, because part of the cravat found in the bed was iliscovered not to be hko Iris; but the maids deposed they had washed suoh a cravat for one Berry, who had been a footman to the lady, and who was turned away about four months before for rob­ bing her. There was also found in a loft at the top of the house, under some straw, a shirt very bloody, but which was not like the linen of Le Bran, nor would it lit him. Le Brun had nothing to oppose to these strong circumstances but a uni­ formly good character, which he had maintained durintr the twenty-nine years he had served iiis lady, and that he was generally esteemed a good fa­ ther, a good husband and a good serv­ ant. It was therefore resolved to put him to the torture in order to discover his accomplices. . This was done with such severity on Feb. 23, 1690, that he died the week after of the injuries he had received, declaring his innocence with his dying breath. About a month after, notice was sent from the Provost of Sens that a dealer in horses had lately set up there by the name *f John Garlet, but his true name was found to be Berry, and that he had a footman in Paris. In conse­ quence of this he was taken up, and the suspicion of his guilt waa increased by his attempting to bribe the officers. On searching him, & gold watch was found which proved to be Lady Mazel's. Be­ ing brought to Paris, a person swore to seeing hirn go out of Lady Mazel's the night on which she was murdered. Berry said he had been killing a cat. On these circumstances he was con­ demned to be tortured and afterward to i>e broken alive on the wheel. On be­ ing tortured, he confessed that, by the direction and order of one Madame de Savoniere---Lady Mazel's daughter--he and Le Brun had undertaken to rob and murder Lady Mazel. and that Le Brun murdered her while he stood at the door to prevent surprise. In the truth of this declaration he per­ sisted until he was brought to the place of execution, when, begging to speak with one of the Judges, he recanted what he had said against Le Brun and Madame de Savoniere and confessed that he came to Paris on the Wednesday be­ fore the murder was committed. On the Friday evening he went into the house, and, unperceived, got into one of the lofts, where he lay till Sunday morn­ ing, subsisting on apples and bread which he had in his pockets; that abont 11 o'clock on Sunday morning, when he knew the lady had gone to mass, he stole down to her chamber, and, the door be­ ing open, he tried to get under the bed; but it being too low he returned to the loft, puiled off his coat and waistcoat, and returned to the chamber a second time in his shirt; he then got under the bed, where he continuod till the after­ noon, when Lady Mazel went to church; that knowing she could not come back soon, he left his hiding place, and, be­ ing incommoded with his liat, he threw it under the bed, and made a cap of a napkin which lay on a chair, secured the bell-strings, and then sat down by the fire, where he continued till he heard her coach drive into the courtyard, when he again got under the bed and remained there; that Lady Mazel hav­ ing been in bed about an hour, he got from under it and demanded her money; she began to cry out and at­ tempted to ring, upon which he stabbed her, and, she resisting with all her strength, he repeated his stabs until she was dead ; that he then took the key of the wardrobe cupboard from the bed's head, opened his cupboard, found the key of the strong box, opened it, and took ou>t all tlie gold he could find, to the amount of about 600 livres; that he then locked the cupboard, and replaced the key at the bed's head, • threw his knife into the fire, took his hat from under the bed. left the napkin in it, took the key of the chamber from the chair and let himself out; went to the loft, pulled ofF his shirt and cravat, and, leaving them there, put on his coat and waistcoat, and stole softly down stairs; and, finding the street door only on the single lock, he opened it and went out and left it open; that he had brought a rope-ladder to let him down from a win­ dow if ho had found the street door locked; but. finding it otherwise, he left his rope-ladder at the bottom of the stairs, where it was found. Thus was the veil removed from this deed of darkness, and all the circum­ stances which appeared against Le Brun were accounted for consistently with his innocence. From the whole story the reader will perceive how fallible human reason is when applied to circumstances; and the humane will agree that in such cases improbabilities ought to be admit­ ted, rather than a man should be con­ demned who mav possibly be innocent. •UR YOUNG FOLKS* madow mvAummmf.fs In the e*rly autumn • . -fM Omjfl the Meadow Quaker*; Not tlie shakprs, not th« r Sn, no, no. Thesoqiii t little people Stand straight as a church stee<pl% And im> one ever saw them cooie^ Or pTer saw them gp. Whtto their hart and brotul-biii! L>iiuxi wiih pale silk lintug, „r s . Ob them d?wdro;-a oiten AHINLNG^ ' . '* YPS, yes, yi-a, 7V' No butterfly noes iiftsr thorn, ^ ; Jfo lirowu Ihlo hunts to cheer theMt, ,'!• 1 And what these Quak- r Mlrs are called I waut you all to gtioos --Harper*' Young AIM. A v 4'i •f' ... . V..' if/WTUS MW H/S SUCCESSORS. Some years ago I owned a large flock of sheep, and though I should hesitate to give in full my experience as a sheep farmer, yet there are a few "episodes" in that experience which may probably amuse and interest the boy readers of the Companion. One occurred the second week after getting my first flock home. I had bdught "Brutus," a very large South Down buck, about as handsome an animal as I ever saw. He would have weighed, alive, at least 200 pounds, and was as portly as a lord. It did me good to look at his fleece; it was magnifi­ cent I did not know when I bought him, that Brutus had a very sinister reputa­ tion. This I afterwards learned. He was a dangerous "butter," and had shortly before killed two bucks, and had nearly broken a man's legs. Yet one wonld never have thought it, on seeing the beast; for Brutus had no horns and had a most amiable expression. I led him home myself. He seemed very do­ cile. The same week I also bought "Caesar." He was a young Cotawold, valued at twenty dollars. He had a superb cream- white fleece, very long and thick. His former owner assured me that the wool on Caesar was ten inches in length, or rather depth. y lady is murdered!" He then ran flito the wardrobe and took up the strong Agriculture in the »onth. A correspondent of the Buffalo Courier writing from North Carolina says: As to agriculture in this region, the New York farmer would look with disgust at the careless manner of tilling the Boil. The plows are not more than one-third the size or weight of those used in the North, and only one home is attached. Sometimes the entire surface of the ground is scratched over two or three inches deep with these miniature plows, but often two furrows are turned together for each cotton row, and the spaces be­ tween are left undisturl>ed until the cultivator is started, after the crop is. up. I have only ence seen two hordes attached to a plow, and that was in the plowing of a newly drained swamp. Bat in this loose, sandy soil, it is very light for one ^ ,»eat by the door, but no marks of vio- horse to pull one of the small plows, fence appeared on any of the doors, nor The amount of land cultivated- is o t estimated by the number of horses used. * kj ge sum of "money and all the lady's For instance, if you ask a man how s j jwek were found in the strong bos | cotton he i < i;f>ther places. ~ I'eBrun, being examined, said that, After he left the maids on the stairs, he (J-;; • ^srent down into the kitchen ; he laid his - 1 key of the street door on " the table, and, sitting down by the fire £*o warm himself, he fell asleep; that he vo > > * r , as he thought, about an hour, -t-•;*?°?ng *° lock tile street door, he # lt,°Pen". that he locked it and " intends to plant he will tell you "a two-horse," "five-horse," or "ten-horse" crop, as the case may be. Each horse is intended to cultivate thirty- acres of cottoa, or forty acres, of corn, including the plowiug of the ground. The amount of guano and other com­ mercial fertilizers used in this section is astonishing, and in my opinion is bound | to impoverish and ruin the people if persisted in. Each fanner attempts to Hough not yet fuliy grown, nis liorns were large and finely curved. He was not so big and portly as Brutus; but I liked him better in many respects. Brutus I kept chained in one of the barns; while Cseser dwelt in a pen, in another barn, but had liberty to come out into the barnyard, which was sur­ rounded by a strong board fence, eight or ten feet in height*, I knew they woidd fight if they were to meet; but I thought they were se­ curely confined. The barns were distant from each other a hundred feet or mom One morning I had let out my flock into the fields, and was leisurely return­ ing, salt dish in hand, to the house, when I was startled by an ominous crash of boards up at. the barns. I set off in haste to ascertain the cause, when an­ other violent crash warned me to hurry. I reached the yard just in time to see young Caesar knocked headlong through the board fence, at the lower end of it. He lay partly in the gap and quivered. I thought at first that he was stunned merely. But he was dead. History had repeated itself there in my sheep- yard; Brutus had slain Crasar; aud, still war-like, he stood inside the hole and dared me to come in. It took both Mr. Bean (the hired man) and myself to capture him, We found that he had broken his chain, or wrenched the staple from the post, and got into the barn-yard by butting a broad hole through the board fence. The next day, or tlie next day but one, he bunted do.wn the useful Mr. Bean-- who had led him out to water--and bruised his leg rather badly. But, though knocked flat, Bean had seized the buck by one of his hind legs and held fast, and in a moment or two regained his feet. In that plight the two went over the yard and liad a lively tussel for the mas­ tery. At length Bean got hold of the other hind leg and let go the chain. Some minutes later he came down to the house wheeling Brutus before him; that is, he had both the ram's ltind legs in his hands, aud so forced the animal to walk laboredly before him like a wheelbarrow; or, as the boys at school used to say, "walk Spanish." The rOiain was dragging after. "Here's your cretter--'sarn him!" he exclaimed. "He like ter broke my laig--sarn him! Wyl a man's in danger of his life!" Mrs. Bean came ont and said tlie same; she declared she was in danger of her life when she went to feed the hens and hunt eggs. I was obliged to dispose of Brutus. In place of these two fallen heroes. I next bought "John Gilpin," a prompt, straight-limbed South Down, with a black face and smut legs. His name, like that of his predecessors, came to me on him. His former owner told me that he knew his name as well as any boy, and perhaps he did; for he really would run to y»u when yon said John Gilpin-- and shook the salt dish. As a stock animal he was ranked high, and I paid a correspondingly high price. I may as well tell you what became of him. For a year he was monarch of my flock, a very proud and arrogant one. He had grown. I valued him highly. Every one who saw him admired him. But a queer fatality hung over my stock i T*ook the key with him to liis chamber ' fully twice as much land as he ^yOn searching him they found in his i fias labor to properly tend, aud he tries m Jpocket a key, the wards of which were ma^e UP that deficiency with guano, aewly filed and made remarkably large ; bought on time at ruinous prices, for AAn.l rt.il < Wrt I 14- ....-- * 1 . * V. ' T * _ 1 • 1 . . . ' - r tk® M°°dy _night-cap on* Le- ! * anymore than pay his fertilizer bill, r ^ iBruii s licfld, it wfts found t«j fit liim ex- 1'® comes out at tlie end of tlie s©&- -v n iactly, whereupon he was committed to ' ^ just about where he began, except 's -Drison. ..... ... | that his land is poorer and will require a his trial it appeared as if the lady ; heavier application of this poverty-uro- was murdered by some person who had j duciug each time. The acreage of cot- C. 3 lIl ^ .a j1 5, that purpose j ton raised in this section is very great, « s'terward fled. It could not be most of the farmers planting nothing ,y himself, because no blood was I else outside of their gardens, in which ^p^upon Ms clothes nor any scratch on his j they make a great mistake, as they can ~body, whi"ih must have been on the ! raiae their own provisions much cheaper from the lady's straggling; 'than they can bny them. One day in October, the next fall, after we had turned the sheep into the fields. Mr. Bean came running to the house.. '"Bhere's trouble, air, up in the upper field!" he exclaimed. "There's a strange cretter come." Trouble, indeed! On reaching tbe up­ per field, there lay John Gilpin with all four of his black legs in the air and his neek crooked under him, while over his prostrate bodf stood another greats bony, but ill-conditioned ram with horns like an argali's. Withont exception, this was the most rufllanly-looking brute I ever saw--a creature all bone and horns, with little flesh and less wool. Nevertheless, this Ishmaelite had killed the well-bred John Gilpin the very first "pass" he had made at him. We reconnoitred the beast at a respect­ ful distance. "I declare!" said Beau. "He's a pill. Whar d'ye s'pose he come from?" That was an open question. Tbe ani­ mal had what looked to be a towstring tied round his neck, with tlie end drag­ ging. Presumably, he had been latched somewhere, by somebody. We drove the entire flock down to the l>arn-yard, and at length got the truculent stranger into a pen in the barn, where I meant to keep him till I could ascertain who owned him, and recover damages. But we had not got many steps from the barn before we heard a crash, and, turning, saw the new-comer just walking out. He had knocked the barn-door down! Evidently we did not know him yet "Sarn him!" exclaimed the astonished Mr. Bean. '"Why. he's * regular old PeelygarlioT We headed him off, stoned him back Into the barn, and then chained hirn to a post with two ox-chains. Next day Mrs. Bean came to tell me fhat there was ,a man below who wanted to speak with me. Going to the house I found the Rev. Mr. Paul, a "superan­ nuated" and retired clergyman of the Methodist Church, who lived some two mil ?s distant, and who was trying hard, in his way, to get a living from a small farm. I knew "im for a fair man and a good citizen. "My friend," said he, "I hear that my beast has killed your beast." "Ah, then, you own that rascally ram Ihat came along yesterday!" said L "I'm sorry." "Well, I'm sorry-," said Mr. Paul. "Of course it is a damago to you, one I must pay, if I can--uuless you are willing to go by the scriptural rale." "What's that?" I asked. "The Levitioal rule was that if one man's beast kills another man's beast, then he whose beast did tlie killing shall take the dead beast and leave in its stead his own live beast, and thus the affair shall end." ' 'That may be Scripture." said I, "but it seems hardly the fair thing--in this ease. For my 'beast' was a valuable animal; and I should call your *beast' a scapegoat covered with sins and in­ iquity/' We both had a laugh over it. "It scarcely seems fair, 1 admit/' said Mr. Paul. "It is Scripture, neverthe­ less." He. went on to tell me that he had been away from home, at an "ordina­ tion meeting," when his beast broke his rope. Since morning he had been searching for him. "Well, neighbor Paul," said I, "we will follow the 'Levitical' rule this time." So he took the dead John Gilpin in his wagon and drove off, leaving me the living. But I had muoh better have let him take them both. Next morning at breakfast Bean re­ ported that Peelygarlic had, in some way, got free from his chains, bunted down the barn-door again, and left for parts unknown: for he was not with our flock. _ "Let hifn go!" said L "Don't follow him. And pray fortune he may never come backl" But I had not stopped to consider the consequences. Wo heard no tidings from him for a week or more, when one afternoon tliqre rode into the yard a man whom I knew was in a passion tlie moment I saw him. He demanded to know if I was the owner of a beast which he proceeded to describe in such unhandsome terms that I instantly recognized Peelygarlic. At first, I was on the point of dis­ claiming all ownership of the brute, but on a second thought I concluded he was mine, by the Levitical law, and I had ac­ cepted him as my property. I had to acknowledge him. The irate farmer had mistaken the cause of my hesitation. He fairly shook his fist in my face. "I'll give ye twenty-four hours," he shouted, "to come to my place and set­ tle for his killing my full-blooded Me­ rino!" and he drove off at a great rate, the angriest man in the county. Nothing remained but to go and "set­ tle. " Accordingly Bean aud I set off next iporning. It was rather over three miles. The fact of our coming put the man in r. rather better humor; and a few fair words on my part pacified him so far that he now admitted that his "full- blooded Merino buck" was only half- blooded, and accepted $10 as a fair equivalent. But, meantime, Peelygarlic had gone from there, in quest of new adventures; and fully awake now to the fact that he wrs a dangerous representative to have abroad, Bean and I gave chase. We came up with the old chap about two miles further on, in a pasture where there were two cosset sheep and six or eight young cattle, among which was a black-and-white bull; and Peelygarlic was fighting the bull. Killing bucks had ceased to amuse him. He had turned bis attention to larger game; and certainly it was the most amusing encounter I ever witnessed. The bull went roaring and charging after the ram, while Peelygarlic, being the lighter fighter, dodged about aud butted as he got a chance. Bean and I stood and watched the fight and laughed. Wo both hoped the bull would kill him. At length Peely- garlic got in one of his skull-smashing blows plump between the bull's horns, fairly knocking the animal down; and he followed it up with another on the bull's sides which made the creature's ribs re sound like a bass drum. In fact, I guess he would have killed the buH if we had not interfered. We chased him into a corner of the fell™, caatuced him and took him home. What lo do with him now, unless we killed him, we hardly knew. Finally we put him in the barn cellar, and he stayed there for as much as a week, till one day there came along an odd featured man, in an old thorough trace wagon, from the township next above, to " borrow " dome seed wheat He happened to look «into the barn cellar. What he saw iu Peelygarlic that mode him wish to buy him, is more than I know. But he came in aud offered me five dollars for him. It is needless to say I took it. Idle Men In the House of Commons. Everybody who has ever read it re­ members Carlyle's famous description of the work-house of St. Ives, in Hunt­ ingdonshire, and what the picturesque tourist saw: "I saw sitting on wooden benches, in front of their bastile, aud within their ringwall and its railings some half hundred or more of these men. Tall, robust figures, yoiing mostly, or middle age; of honest countenance, many of them thoughtful and even intelligent looking men. They sat there, near by one another, but in a kind of torpor, and especially in a silence which was very striking. In silence; for alas! what word was to be said? An earth all ly­ ing round crying: 'Come and till me, come and reap me;' yet we here set en- ohanted! In the eyes aud brows of these men hung the gloomiest expres­ sion, not of anger, but of grief and shame aud manifold inarticulate distress and weariness; they returned my glance with a glance that soemed to say, 'Do not look at us; we sit enohanted here we know not why.' The sun shines and tlie earth calls, aud, by the governing powers aud impotences of this England, we are forbidden to obey. It is impossible, they tell us! There was something that reminded me of Dante's hell in the look of all this; and I rode swiftly away." An exactly similar scene may be wit­ nessed any night by a tourist, pietur- esquo or otherwise, who finds his way to the House of Commons. There they are, moody aud listless on their benches, flitting aimlessly hither and thither from corridor to corridor, sauntering through the tea room, idling in the smoking .room, all at their wits' ends how to get through the dreary hours, and hoping against hope that the morrow may break the horrid spell. And so "manjr of them thoughtful and intelligent looking men." --Fall Mali QtuetU* k CHAPTER OS VEGETABLES. fFrom the Household.1 Spinach is an excellent dish when well cooked; take two quarts, wash, boil for two minutes in salted boiling water, drain, chop; and heat in a frying-pan for two minutes with an ounce each of but­ ter and flour; half a pint of meat broth is added, the compound is stirred and heated for five minutes, and served with small pieces of fried bread. Socoud only to spinach are beet sprouts, which will soon put forth their tender claims for consideration; we all know them boiled, but after they are boiled they gain in flavor by beiug fried for two or three minutes in butter. New cabbage scalded five minutes in fast boiling water, coarsely chopped, sprinkled with flour, salt, and pepper, and gentlystewed for five minutes with milk or cream enough to cover it, is good. So, too, is red cabbage sliced, thrown for fifteen minutes into scalding salted water and vinegar, then drained, and fried five miuutes with butter, and served with a little hot meat gravy. Lettuce, which seems devoted to "salad days," is excel­ lent stuffed; it is well washed in salted cold water, the roots trimmed off, two tablespoonfnls of cooked force-meat of any kind, or chopped cold meat highly seasoned, inclosed with the leaves which are bound together with tape or strips of cloth; several heads thus prepared are placed in a saucepan, covered with broth or cold gravy well seasoned, and set over the fire to simmer about five minutes; the tapes ore then removed arid the lettuce heads and sauce are served hot. A link between cabbage and let- tuoe are Brussels sprouts, those tender, baby cabbages, which, stewed in cream, or quickly fried in butter, almost incline one's thoughts to vegetarianism. Bfets are familiar enough boiled and sliced, either served hot with butter, pepper and salt, or pickled, but a nov­ elty is a beet pudding, made fly mixing a pint of cooked sugar-beets, chopped, with four eggs, a quart of milk, a little salt and pepper, a tablespoonful of but­ ter and baking them about half an hour; cold boiled beets sliced and fried with butter are palatable; to cook them so that none of their color shall be lost, carefully wash them without breaking the skin or cutting of the roots or stalks, and boil them .until tender, about an honr, in boiling salted water. Turnips, either white or yellow, stewed in gravy, are excellent. Choose a quart of small, even size; peel them, boil them; boil them fifteen minutes in well salted boiling water; drain them ; Eut them into a frying-pan with sufficient utter to prevent burning; brown them; stir in a tablespoonful of flour; cover them with hot water; add a palatable seasoning of salt and pepper and stew them gently until tender. Or peel and cut them in small regular pieces; brown them over the fira with a little butter and a slight sprinkling of sugar; add salt and pepper and boiling water enough to cover them, and gently stew them until tender; serve them hot Parsnips are not sufficiently appre­ ciated, perhaps because of their too sweet taste; but this can be overcome to a palatable extent by judicious cookery; they are excellent when sliced, after boiling and warmed in a sauce made by mixing flour, butter and milk over the fire and seasoning it with salt and pep­ per; as soon as warm they are served with a little chopped parsley and a squeeze of lemon juice. For parsnips fried brown in an old-fashioned iron pot with slices of salt pork aud a seasoning of salt and pepper, several good words might be said. Carrots boiled and mashed and warmed with butter, pepper and salt, Reserve to be known; or sliced aud quickly browned in butter; tossed for five minutes over the fire with chopped onion, parsley, but­ ter; or tossed for five minutes over the fire with chopped onion, parsley, butter, seasonings and sufficient gravy to moist­ en them; or boiled, quartered, heated with cream, seasoned, and, at the mo­ ment of serving, thickened with the yolk of eggs. Onions are capital when sliced and quickly fried in plenty of smokiug hot fat, or roasted whole until tender, and served with butter, pepper and salt; or chosen while still small, carefully peeled without breaking, browned in butter, and then simmered tender with just boil­ ing water enough to cover them; or boiled tender in broth aud then heated five min­ utes in nicely seasoned cream. Oyster plant, scraped under cold water, boiled tender in salted water containing a trace of vinegar, and then heated with a little highly seasoned melted butter is excellent; the tender leaves which it often bears make a nice salad. Some­ what like oyster plant are Jerusalem artichokes, which are good and cheap in this market. Like oyster-plant they must be peeled under water, boiled ten­ der, and then served with melted butter, or quickly browned in butter, either plain or with chopped herbs, or served with an acid sauce of any kind » Celery we know best in its uncooked state, but it is very good stewed in any brown or white gravy or sauce, or rolled in fritter batter and fried brown. Squash and purapkir. are very good either boiled, sliced, and broiled or fried, or made into fritters like oyster-plant. Potatoes, most important of all hardy vegetables, must close the list. Lives there a cook with soul so dead as not to be willing to expend all the powers of fire, water and salt to produce mealy potatoes? If so, the writiug of her epitaph would be a ch#»erful task. And if cold ones are left they can reha­ bilitate themselves in favor by appear­ ing chopped, moistened with white sauce or cream, and either fried in butter of baked quickly, with a covering of bread crumbs. Steam fried, that is sliced raw, put into a covered pan over the fire, with butter and seasoniug, aud kept covered until teuder, with only enough stirring to prevent burning, they are capital. To fry them Lyonnai^a style they are cooled in their jackets to keep them whole, sliced about a quarter of an inch thick, browned in butter with a little onion, sprinkled with chopped parsley, peppei* and salt, and served hot Larded, they have bite of fat ham or bacon in­ serted in them, and are baked tender. Note well that the more expeditiously a baked potato is cooked and eaten the better it will be. BULKS FOB OOOKXNO THEM. Green vegetables should be thorough­ ly washed iu cold water and then dropped into water which has been salted and is beginning to boil. There should be a tablespoonful of salt for each two quarts of water. If the water boils long boforo the vegetables are put in, it has lost all its gases, and the mineral ingredients are deposited ou the bottom aud sides of the kettle, so that the water is flat and tasteless, then the vegetables will not look or have a fine flavor. The time for boiling green vegetables depends much upon the ago and time they have been gathered. The younger and more freshly gathered the more quickly they are cooked. Below is a very good time table for cooking vegetables: Potatoes boiled, thirty miuutes. Potatoes baked, forty-fives luiuutM. Sweet potatoes boiled, fifty mlnata*. Sweet potatoes baked, sixty luinatM. Squash boiled, twenty-five Green pew boiled, twenty to forty «wlw«»--, Shelled beans boiled, nisty mfauitM. • • String beans boiled, one to two horns. ¥ Gretm corn, thirty to sixty minutes. 5 '• Asparagus, fifteen to thirty mlautM> SrA " Spinach, one to two hours. , Tomatoes, fresh, one hour. Tomatoea, canned, thirty n Cabbage, forty-five ruiuntea to Cauliflower, one or two hotrn. Dandelions, two or three hours, r ^ ^ Beet greens, one hour. Onions, one or two honrs. - Beetn, one to five hours. Turnips, white, forty-tive to sixty mlnntwi TuruipH, yellow, one and a halfta Mf" Parsnips, one or two hours. ' , ^ Carrots, one or two hours. ' ' ' FARM NOTES. SttnftjOweb seed is highly recbin- mended as food for poultry. The friends and allies of honest butter aud cheese are closing in upon the oleo­ margarine and lard venders all along the line. You can tell a merciful farmer as soon as he stops his team at a post. He takes the blanket Off his wife's lap and spreads it over the poor horses. Thb yellow-wood--Cladrastis tinctoria or virgilla lutea--"bleeds" when cut as freely as any maple. Wonder if the sap has ever been tried for sugar? A limited number of poultry can be j kept upod every farm with profit, but ' an increase of numbers does not always produce proportion good results. There are as many as 4,000 known species of grasses distributed over the world, and there is not a soil of which some of them are not indigenous. Codling moths fly and do not crawl up the trunks of trees. The females of canker worms are wingless, and craVl up the trees on warm days in winter ana early spring to deposit their eggs. Thb planting of elm, maple, and other forest trees at proper distances along the highways increases the value of adjoin­ ing property, aud odds to the beauty and comfort of the section. In Germany, fruif trees adorn the waysides. An agricultural correspondent living in Battle Creek. Michigan, says that he purified his well of water, which was subject to so many worms, bugs and in­ sects as to render it almost unfit for drinking, by placing in the well a couple ot good-sized trout. They have kept perfectly healthy. A parasite has appeared in the orange groves of Italy, the West Indies, Florida and California which ruins vast numbers of trees and threatens to seriously inter­ fere with orange culture. The Italian Government offers 300,000 francs and one of its wealthy citizens 100,000 more for an effectual remedy for the pest In order to have the best success in growing potatoes, and to secure a healthy, vigorous growth and a orop free from rot, says Thorbun, it is necessary to plant as early as the ground can be got ready. Select a rich soil and plant iu rows three feet apart, aud the sets one foot in the rows. When an orchard requires fertilizing, it is best to do this all over the ground, and not to apply manure only near the trees. This produces a large growtlf erf roots close to the trees, for roots grow where the soil is richest. Orchards need lime and ashes more than manure, and these soon produce healthy, smooth bark. A Russian explorer who has been prospecting in the Turkestan frontier of China reports that he camo upon a locality where the rhubarb plant grows in extraordinary abundance and to a prodigious size, One root, which he dug up at random, was sixteen inches long, seven incites iu thickness aud weighed twenty-six pounds. A French statesman, after carefully studying the beet sugar question, as long ago as 1853 said: "The beet, requiring frequent liand-lioeing and considerable fertilizing, improves tlie soil. It is a fact that wheat sown after a erop of beets produces 10 per cent, more than after any other culture. In fact, everywhere that the beet is grown the selling value of the land has considerably increased." Perhaps there is no surer vegatable crop in Louisiana and Southern Missis­ sippi, or one that pays quicker or better than the Irish potato. It is so conven­ ient to handle that it will always be largely grown. There is none of the hurry and worry about it that attaches to tlie tender fruits, and when the crop is taken early it may be followed by sweet potatoes, turnips or oats. Australia is maiding great advances in the cultivation of wheat. During tbe last ten years she multiplied her acreage of this cereal two and a half times. She has also raised her average to thirteen bushels per acre, which is nearly the average iu this oountry. Still, in" spite of this, the wheat interests of that con­ tinent cannot be regarded as either promising or reliable. For two seasons out of five thus far tlie droughts there have been fearful. This will spoil the average of any crop. One of the four Ayrshire cows origin­ ally imported into this country by John P. Cashing, of Massachusetts, gave iu one year 3,864 quarts, lieer measure, or about 464 gallons, at ten pounds to the gallon, being over an average of ten and a half beer quarts a day for the whole year. It is asserted, on'good authority, that the first Ayrshire cow imported by the Massachusetts Society for the Pro­ motion of Agriculture, in 1827, yielded sixteen pounds of batter a week for sev­ eral weeks in succession, on grass feed only. Whenever a tree is transplanted, says the Rural New Yorker, many of the roots are injured--a part destroyed. Those that remain when set ont ia a new place are in no condition to feed the plant as it was fed previous to removal. Hence the top must be cut back to re­ store the equilibrium. Let us instance the case of a newly transplanted grape­ vine. If many buds are permitted, to push and grow, the growth of each at the end of the season will be fouad to be of a feeble, immature kind. If, on the other hand, but one bud be permitted to grow, a strong, healthy cane will be the resnlt Thus we see in the former case the sap is distributed amoug many buds and shoots, while in the latter it is sup­ plied to one. The tree or plant of any kind may live in either cases. While, however, cntting back renders the chances of life greater and insures more vigor, we have still to consider whether a few strong shoots are not more desirable than many feeble ones. am TTTf J ft SAFE AND 8Uli REMEDY FOB Cramps, na. « unotera Diarrhoea, Djssnteij. Cousin Dick's Ucpfy. 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