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|L, ««• ri»BHllNN> HIM •». »• 'Mi0 A* w» M»f. , Aad from fear window to the I W*teb«Ml «D <W- tfeere etood that monriag %f •• ilWbMe, tO 8©€fc| And wlshadtobe. Iny e a r s • » • As gnujd a knight m ha. AB day «be idle ech>«<^>ra«gl|| . - s>«-s UN noteee la »draw, •--' -• Al roar of flghHnff from afa% ..' . - fie daahinf of a atraain; -mmt Aad when the *t»r* CM*®. 6®* *9 •; • The lady oould not sleep: '-wfw' MM (MM the shtdow in the I MM kiaM the waters •W The daylight JlngMwl ere It Ami hardly with sntpnm Shs heard the tele th« servants With terror in their «v»»? •ow at the dose-barred <wtl« | Alt daybreak they had fori nit The knight's horse, which ess* Weak with a mortal wound. Oh, mil forlorn and riderleas, Stained with hie master's Meal Witt human uoqrow in his look* He hart and trembling atoo& Ska lady did sot apeak. She MM Beanie the horae to stand ; •he kinecd the bridle whore the tol|M Had held it in his hand; AMI all that day ahe 'onged and feared To hear tbe soldiers' tread, Whuu they came marching op the gtaa To bring tto knight home dead. She wishtf the women would Ml wall; She hoped that she might die} , She longud to be the little pag*\ Who hid himself to orjr. --Bmrper 't Magazine. KITTY'S FlITT. It doesn't do men anj good to live apart from women aqfi children. I never knew a boys' school m. which there WAS not a tendency to rowdyism. And !um- feermen, sailors, fishermen, and all other men who live only with men, are pro­ verbially a half-bear sort of people. Frontiersmen soften down when women tand children come--but I target myself; it is the story you want. Burton and Jones lived in A shanty by themselves. Jones was j> married man, but, finding it hard to support his wife in a clown-East village, he had emigrat­ ed to Northern Minnesota, leaving Ms ( wife under her father's roof until he ' should be able to make a start. He and Burton had gone into partnership, and had " pre-empted a town site" of 830 acres, There were, perhaps, twenty families scattered over this town site at the time • my story begins and ends, for it ends in the same week in which it begins. The partners had disagreed, quarreled, : and divided their interests. The land 1 was all shared between them except one " valuable forty-acre piece. Each of them ' claimed that piece of land, and the quar­ rel had grown so high between them that the neighbors expected them "to shoot on sight." In fact, it was under­ stood that Burton was on the forty-acre piece, determined to shoot Jones if he «ame, and Jones had sworn to go out j there and shoot Burton, when the fight was postponed by the unexpected arri­ val of Jones' wife and child. ft Jones' shanty was not finished, and he jj*fwas forced to forego the luxury of figlit- y ong his old partner in his exertions to ^jmake wife and baby comfortable for the knight. For the winter sun was sur- founded by "sun dogs," Instead of one ran there were four, an occurrence not uncommon in this latitude, but one ; which always boded a terrible storm. In his endeavors to care for his wile <and child, Jones was mollified a little, * .sand half regretted he had been so violent .bout the piece of land. But he was de- mined not to be backed down, and he "y would hare to shoot Barton or % shot himself. " When he thought of the chance of ;f Jfceiag killed by his old partner, the pros- «$Mpeet was not pleasant. He looked wist- Jipally at Kitty, his 2-year-old child, and T'ilreadet! that she would be left fatherless. T"Nevertheless, he wouldn't be backed 6 down, He would shoot or be shiot While the father was busy cutting • wood, and the mother was busy other- little Kitty managed to get the 7 v-'jfehanty door open. There was no latch • yet, and her prying little hands easily *%TOig it back. A gust of cold air almost j|ook away her breath, bat she caught «ight of the brown grass without, and the new world seemed so big that the little feet were fain to try and explore it. She pished out through the door, caught her breath again, and started away down the path bordered by sere grass and the dead stalks oi the wild sunflower. How often she had tanged to escape * from restraint and paddle out into the world alone. So out into the world she went, rejoicing in her liberty, in the " Iblue sky above and the rusty prairie be- -j Jheath. She would find out where the went to, and what there was at the **.--«nd of the world. What did she care if nose was blue with cold and her -jphubby hands red as beets? Now and then she paused to turn her head away from the rude blast, a forerunner of the storm; but, having gasped a moment, she quickly renewed her brave march in search of the great unknown. The mother missed her, and supposed - that Jones, who could not get enough of the child's society, ha ̂ taken the little one out with him. Jones, poor fellow, sore that the dar­ ling was safe within, chopped away until that awful storm broke upon him, and at -- last drove him, half smothered by snow and half frozen by cold, into the house. When there was nothing left but retreat lie had seized an azmful of wood and car­ ried it into the house with Mm, to make sure of having enough to keep his wife and Kitty from freezing in toe coming awfulness of the night, which now set­ tled down upon the storm-beaten anA anow-blinded world. It wee the beginning of horrible storm in which so many people were frozen to death, and Jones bad fled none too soon. When once the wooct was stacked by the stove, Jones looked around for Kit- to1. He had not more than inquired for ner, when father and mother each read in the other s face the fact that she was low in this wild, dashing stone- of snow. Be fast did the snow faJls and so dark was the night, that Jones could not see three feet ahead of him. He endeavored to follow the path which he thought Kitty might have taken, but it was buried in snow-drifts and he soon lost himself. He stumbled through the drifts, call­ ing out to Kitty in his distress, but not knowing whither he went. After an irildflndoa the or •trie, as many another poor wayfarar dad on that fatal night! AM It was. his wife must needs give up the vain little searches she had been •aairaup in the neighborhood of the shantr. She had now a sick husband, with nossen hands and feet and, face to oare lor. Every minute the thermom­ eter fell lower and lower, and all the heat the little oook-stove in Jones' shanty could give would hardly keep them from freezing. Burton had stayed noon that forty- acre lot all day, waiting for a chance to shoot his old partner, Jones. He had not heard of the arrival of Jones' wife. And so he concluded that his enemy had proved a coward and had left him in possession, or else that he meant to play him some treacherous trick on his \way home. So Burton resolved to keep a sharp look-out. But he soon lound that im­ possible, for the storm was upon him in all its fury. He tried to follow the path, but he co old not find it. Had he been less of a frontiersman he must have perished there, within a fur- tog of his own house. But in endeav­ oring to keep the direction of the path he heard a smothered ery, and then saw something rise lip covered with snow and fall down again. He raised his gun to shoot it, when the creature uttered Another wailing cry so human that he £it down his gun and went cautiously rward. It was a child. He did not remember that there was Such a child among all the settlers in New km. But he did not stop to ask 40BSIP ro» III UJtim 6lrta> Moderate exorcise in the open air is doubtless beneficial. But excessive dancing and skating are both injurious to women, especially before they have acquired the rail measure of their physi­ cal powers. Horseback exercise, which seems a successful means of strengthen­ ing the English constitution, is often­ times too violent for their lees-robust transatlantic cousins. The American soil and climate liaVe given a tempera­ ment to the raoe quite at variance with that of the European family, and which requires widely-different treatment. A SewdUe 6lri. The Princess Augusta Victoria* the bride of the German Emperor's grand­ son and the future Empress of Germany, is not wealthy, having a dower much smaller than many a merchant's daugh­ ter. But she is an excellent young woman, clever and sensible. Spiritually, it is said, she was nursed on rationalism of the kind which the Crown Princess inherited from her father. Her charita­ ble qualities, the housewifely grace with which she cuts bread-and-butter for the little boys and girls of Potsdam and Charlottenburg, her engaging manner and her soft Teutonic cast of beauty will endear her to her people. fwtr Wonwsi It ia not the smiles of a pretty face, nor the tint oi her complexion, nor the symmetry of her person, nor the costly dress or decorations, that compose wom- qiiestious. Be must, without delay, get °f's liveliness. Nor is it the enchanting himself and the child, too, to a place of safety, or both would be frozen. So lie took the little thing in his arms and started through the drifts. And the c'lild put its little icy fingers on Burton's rough neck and muttered glance of her eye, with which she darts such luster on the man she deems wor­ thy of her friendship, that constitutes her beauty. It is her pleasing deport­ ment, her chaste conversation, the sensi­ bility and purity of her thoughts, her «papa !- And Burton held her closer, I ^aWe and open disposition, her sympa- ». i . . .. _ ' I fhv wnfh Ih/viA m nilfrr anri ahnvA ->f|bl?rtse. /|3f 7 - " fee and fought the snow more courageously than ever. fie found the shanty at last, and rolled the child in a buffalo robe while he made a fire. Then, when he got the room a little warm, he took the little thing upon hisTtnee, dipped her aching fingers in cold water, and asked her what her name was. " Kitty," she said. " Kitty," he said, "and what else? " " Kitty," she answered, nor oould he find out any more. " Whose Kitty are you ? " " Your Kitty," she said. For she had known her father but that one day, and now she believed that Burton was he. Burton sat up all night and stuffed wood into his impotent little stove to keep the baby from freezing to death. Never having had to do with children, he firmly believed that Kitty, sleeping snugly under blankets and bufialo robes, would freeze if he should let the fire sub­ side in the least. As the storm prevailed with unabatw? fury the next day, and as he dared neither to take Kitty out nor to leave her alone, he stayed by her all day and stuffed the stove with wood, and laughed at her droll baby talk, and fed her on biscuit and fried bacon and coffee. On the morning of the second day the storm had abated. It was forty degrees cold, but, knowing that somebody must be mourning Kitty for dead, he wrapped her in skins, and with much diiHculty reached the nearest neighbor's house, suffering only a frost-bite on his nose by the way. "That child," said the woman to whose house he had come, " is Jones' i, I seed 'em take her outeu the wagon day before yesterday." Burton looked at Kitty in perplexity ; then he rolled her up again and started out. " Traveling like mad," the woman said as she watched him, When he reached Jones's he ferand Jones and his wife sitting in bitter wretchedness by the fire. They were both sick from grief, and unable to move out of the house. Kitty they had given up for buried alive under some snow-mound. They would find her when spring should come and melt the snow covering off, When the exhausted Burton came in with his bundle of buffalo-skins they looked at him with amazement. But when he opened it and let out the little Kitty, and said : "Here, Jones, is this yer Kitty?" Mrs. Jones couldn't think of anything better than to scream. And Jones got up and took his old partner's hand and said : " Burton, ole fellow !" and then choked up and sat down, and cried helplessly. And Burton said : "Jones, ole fel­ low, you_ may have- that forty-acre patch. me the murderer of that little Kitty's father." " No I you shall take it yourself," cried Jones, " if I have to go to law to make you.** And Jones actually deeded his inter* est in the forty acres to Burton. But Burton transferred it all to Kitty^ That is why this part oi Newton is called to-day " Kitty's Forty." ChArcoAl. If we wish for some substance which will catch fire from the smallest spark, we find that among thousands of bodies, simple and compound, that exist in nature or are produced by art, the most suitable for our purpose is pure carbon in the form of tinder. On the other hand, when we want a crucible that will bear •without taking fire the flame of the hottest furnace, we make it of pure car­ bon in the form of plumbago. The wax mold of the electroplater is a non-conductor of electricity, and itis, therefore, necessary to cover its surface with some good conducting material; it is found that the best material is finely- pulverized plumbago; but this same ele­ ment, when crystalized, as in the dia­ mond, is the most perfect of afl non­ conductors. Carbon, in one state, is as soft aa lampblack, in another it is the very hardest substance known; in one it is brilliantly transparent, in another it is perfectly opaque ; in one it is the most costly ornament in the crowns of Kings, in another it is shoveled out of the way as worthless. In all these changed in the condition and properties of carbon no law can be discovered, with the single exception that the temperature at which various kinds of charcoal will take fire are in fixed relation to the temperature at which the several kinds are prepared. This is of the utmost importance to the manufacture of gun powder; they have thy with those in adversity, and, above all, the humbleness of her soul, that constitute true loveliness. " Why how perfectly atwurd you are, Linda, interrupted the visitor, angrily. > "Too doa't listen to A word I say I was asking about Charles Bangs not roast turkey George Shelly thinb you're aw­ ful nfoe now tell me what did he say good gracious 1 what are you hugging me for?" ' * And, Tilda," thoughtful!j remarked Miss Fungleup, after the mutter had been explained and her father admitted that he had lost by a scratch, "I believe in my heart that if you hadn't thought about Charlie just then, I shouldn't have had any new suit this winter." All of which go<^ s to show that there s at least one subject upon which one may hope to secure the temporary at­ tention of the inscrutable female --San Francisco Post, HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. Iiour of despairing, wandering and shout- ^ ,,je investigated with great ing, he came upon a house, and liaving caXQ-~Mon^ly Magazine, London. Tapped on the door he found faee to face with his wife. He had returned to his own house in Ilia bewilderment. When we remember that Jones had not slept for the two nights preceding this one, on account of his mortal quar­ rel villi Burton, and he had now been beating against an Arctic hurricane and tramping through treacherous billows of snow for an hour, we cannot wonder that he fell over his own threshold in a state of extreme exhaustion. Happy for him that he did not fall be- Hnf an. GiaatlHdan «*toa qnel. A banquet was to be given to the General by one of the Japanese digni­ taries, and so much of the learning and the power of the Japanese was to be represented that the General was anx­ ious to have his share of the entertain­ ment well conducted. Mrs. Grant was accordingly requested to be in readiness at a certain hour, so that there would be no delay. When the hour arrived she had not made her toilet. The General sent tq^her and found that she had a Japanes^silk peddler in her room. The man's wires were spread all around, and she was asking prices and trying to make a bargain. It was time to start, and the General went ahead in his vehicle, leav­ ing a member of his traveling company at the hotel to follow with Mrs. Grant as soon as she was ready. This gentle­ man paced the hall for an hour, waiting for Mie ex-President's wife. She was deep in business with the silk peddler, and apparently forgot all about the ban­ quet At length the peddler went away, pleased at the sales he had made, and Mrs. Grant began to make her toilet. She "hurried on her things," and at length was ready. As the vehicle was on the way to the banquet-hall, Mrs. Grant spied her husband returning. Dinner was over, and he was on his way back, covered with flowers and decora­ tions and laden with presents. "Good­ ness me!" exclaimed Mrs. Grant; " there's Ulyss. I know he's mad from the way he looks. Stop and let me get out." She quickly descended from the carriage, gottinto the one occupied bv the General, and returned to the hotel. She said to her escort the next day that " Ulyss was so mad he hadn't spoken to her yet." The incident did not escape Grant's " Bos well," but it waa not re­ corded. PmgleapHi Te*W Woman is by nature so erratic and in­ consistent a creation that it doesn't do to bet on even her most marked charac­ teristics. For illustration, old Mr. Pungleup, of Nob hill, was comment­ ing on the railroad velocitv with which young ladies jabber to each other when they meet, without either in the least understanding or replying to what the other says. " It's just a mean falsehood gotten up by you good-for-nothing men 1 said the youngest Pungleup girl, indignantly. "All right," said her father, benignant- ly; " we ll try an experiment. I see your friend, Miss Giuckerson, coming up the street. Now, I'll wager that new walking suit you want so much that » j you can say 'roast turkey® and cran- It mighty nigh makin' "©rry sauce in response to the first half- " docen remarks that she makes without her noticing the fact." " I never heard anything so perfectly absurd," replied Miss P.; "however, I might as well have that suit--it's just too lovely for anything--BO I'll just do it to teach you a lesson." " Mind, now," said her father, as the front door bell rang, "fair play. You mustn't change your expression in the least, and you must repeat the sentence in your usual voice and manner--that is to Bay, in a single breath--all run to­ gether as it were/' Just then Miss Giuckerson was shown into the parlor, and through the library door old P. could hear the usual oscula- tory peck exchanged, and Miss G. ex­ claim, without even the smallest comma in the whole remark: " Oh you lazy thing been here a per­ fect age don't look at this hat perfect fright going to have flowers set back and bow changed why wasn't you at matinee Ha rrv was there." " Boast turkey and cranberry sauce," rapidly inserted Miss P., accompanying the words with that preliminary and concluding gurgle with which all women, for some occult reason, invariably adorn tiieir conversation when desirous of be­ ing agreeable. "Going to Mrs. Bladger's party?" oontinued Miss Giuckerson, with the seieiie rattle of a brook over the pebbles. " Molly Smith is goihg they tell me she paints pa's promised me a phaeton in the spring saw that hateful Mrs. Guppery on the street buff overakirt and green ruching just fancy." " Boast turkey and cranberry--" " Oh, George Skidmore's mother's dead. Ouch! got a flee in my sleeve little beast just eating me up alive bury her next Sunday did you get that edg­ ing at Gimp's ? " Roast turkey and eran-- "The girls at Clark's are to graduate next Thursday Jennie Giggles is going to be square cut with inside illw'on and white kid boots can't you come round for dinner to-morrow and stay all--" "Boast turkey and--" "Night, and show Milly your new basque ? That man with a light over­ coat stared at me again yesterday Jim O'Neill is going East this candy fright­ ful stale." "Roast turkey--" " Ma thinks Mrs. Brown ain't proper those ferns are just too lovely look at these cuffs clean this morning are my crimps coming out jours ain't Lillie Skippea says you mefCharlie Boggs the other night and he said something nice About me tell me qqick I" "Boast turk--" JAMBS PAUL, resident af Oxford Fur­ nace, N. J., while working in a field some time ago suddenly lost his power of speech. Physicians were unable to render him any assistance, and he grieved over the prospect of being speechless for life. Recently, in a. dream, he thought he recovered his speech and conversed with his wife. Upon awakening he found his dream literally fulfilled. He oould talk as well as ever, and he has since retained the power of speech. OTSTKB POL--Make a paste as for pie­ crust, line A shallow pan with it, put in a layer of oysters, season with crumbs of butter and salt, add a layer of bread or cracker-crumbs, and so on; then add the liquor and a little milk; oover with crust and bake. CTTTMTPII OF yuAms.--Cut the breasts from half a dozen quails, and at the small end of each insert a neat little piece of leg bone to make the breast look like cut­ lets. Dip them in melted butter, season, roll in cracker crumbs and fry in hot butter. Serve with French peas in the center of the dish. SAUCE ROBERT.--Pat two medium- sized onions, chopped very fine, with a large lump of butter, in a* stew-pan; let them brown well, constantly stirring; add a teaspoonftil of flour mixed with half a pint of good stock: salt and pep­ per; cook about live minutes; add a tea- spoonful of mixed mustard and one of vinegar. CHEESE SOCTFE.--This dish must be sent to the table direct from the oven, in the pan in which it has been baked, as it falls if kept standing. Beat separately the whites and yolks of two eggs, add to the yolks one teaspoonful of sifted flour, two of grated cheese, a pinoh of cayenne, one of salt, and one cupful of milk; when well mixed add the whites beaten to a froth, and stir briskly, pour into a but­ tered, shallow pan, and biake into a quick oven until of a rich brown color--about fifteen minutes. OYSTER TOAST.--This is a nice little dish for a lunclieorr or for a late supper. Scald a quart of oysters in their own liquor; take them out and pouud them in a mortar, when they form a paste; add a little rich cream and some pepper. Get ready some thin, neat pieces of toast, moistened sliehtlv with lxnlini? water, and spread with fresh butter. Spread the oyster paste thickly upon the toast, put a thinly-cut round of lemon upon each piece, and arrange them on a platter garnished with parsley. Serve verv hot. AN inexpensive but appetizing pickle is made as follows: Slice one peck of green tomatoes and nine large onions: scatter one teacupful of salt over them; cover with water and let them stand all night; in the morning drain and boil in weak vinegar. Then take four quarts of vinegar of good strength, two pounds of brown sugar, two ounces of white mus­ tard seed, two table-spoonfuls each of ground allspice, cloves, cinnamon and ginger, half a teaspoonful of red pepper. Boil all together for half an hour. The tomatoes, if a little too near ripe, will not need boiling quite so long.„ DELICIOUS PICKLED OYSTERS.--Wash them and hang them over the fire, with barely sufficient water to cover them: very little is necessary if there is an abundance of the liquor. To one hun­ dred oysters^udft a small handful of salt; let them come to a scald to swell them; watch for this and remove immediately with a skimmer, carefully laying them on dishes to cool; add one-third part vin­ egar (having previously strained the liquor) with whole white pepper-corns, allspice and blade mace to the taste; let all boil up together and pour over the oysters in stone jars. Ready for use in from twenty-four to forty-eight hours. The oysters should be very fresh and large. MINCE MEAT.--Two pounds currants, five pounds peeled and cored apples, two pounds lean boiled beef, one pound beef suet, three-quarter pounds citron, two and a half pounds coffee sugar, two pounds raisins, one pounds seedless rais­ ins, two tablespoonfuls cinnamon, one nutmeg, and tablespoonful oach mace, cloves and allspice, one pint each Madeira wine and brandy. Wash the currants, dry and pick them, stone the raisins, remove the skin and sinews from the beef and chop each ingredient up separately and very fine; place as soon as done in a large pan, finally adding the spices, Madcria and brandy; mix very thoroughly; pack in jars; keep in cold place. The London Cabby. The London cabby is at once a phil­ osopher and a wit, a sort of English Diogenes on his tub instead of in it. He has triumphed over every obstruction, even over the London fog. Weather is nothing to him as long as he oan raise a fare. When^he can't raise a fare he chaffs at the passiug world. His bed, as a rule, iB his box, and he has been known to take a nap there occasionally. He is a much-abused person, but, on the whole, he is a civil, cheery, well-conducted per­ son, particularly gallant to nervous old ladies and almost a rival of the guards or of the "bobbies" with the nursery maids, for he has inherited the wink of Sam Weller, and nothing could possibly re­ sist that. His tribe is very numerous, there being fourteen thousand of him, notwithstanding underground and over­ ground railroads and 'busses innumera^ ble. A mission has been started in Lon­ don for his special spiritual and moral improvement, but he doesn't seem to take kindly to the movement; in fact, it is hard to see how he can find time to attend a mission. Of the 14,000 cabbies, only 1,000 are set down as total abstain­ ers, and even these elite would probably resemble Rip's drinks--they don't count. If any class of persons might be excused for taking an occasional nip, it would surely be London cabmen, who are con­ stantly exposed to every kind of the worst weather that ever was invented. Sir E. Henderson, chief of the London police, stated at a recent meeting that he discovered a gradual improvement in the °*bby. There has been a considerable diminution during the past year in the number of cabmen brought before the authorities for drunkenness, but in this respect they had as yet by no means reached the point of moral elevation at­ tained by omnibus men and stage-drivers. Out of 4,400 omnibus men there was only 11 convictions for drunkenness during the year, and of 3,200 stage-drivers only 26. In 11,000 cabmen there had been 1,100 convictions, a reduction of 250 on the previous year. They were also rather addicted to furious driving, a fault that probably bear* a corresponding ratio to gin. A YOUNG lady of two-and-twenty refused towed a mas of fifty, saying he was neither one tiling nor yet another. Ho was too old for a. husband and too young to hold out any hope of immediate widowhood. " 1 * FABM NOTES. j as ho couldn't get it off, the akin grew in-Ik- * "1 A*' ' * - j OVE* it like the bark of a tree, you knew. TKn k one-system <rf tiuagid, »tyf ' The plaster has worked further and the London Chronicle, flRK' too prevalent, I further in, until now it hae gone to his in small gardens pArtietUArty. It is that 1 lungs; it pulls at his left lung in a way of digging and manuring only one spade | to set him crazy. He is a very remark- deep fill a few inches of the top soil are poisoned with dung, and turned into a moving mass of slugs and grubs, whilfe the subsoil is as hard as adamant. WATEK POR Cows.--Be careful about letting your cattle drink from ditches, or from pools in which they are accustomed to stand, or in which their droppings are deposited. It is not only liable to injure the health of the stock, but it is also a fruitful cause of malarial and typhoid fevers among those who use the milk from oowA^hus watered. A HORSE'S FOOT.--Those who will take pains to examine a horse's foot will find it a series of elliptical springs separated from each other by a spongy substance, and the frog a cushion to rest the foot upon, the whole being admirably con­ structed for a heavy body to resist jars, and from which the natural inference may be drawn that cutting and paring the hoof and frog is not only useless but injurious. STIRRING THE SOU*--It is more than two hundred years ago since there lived Jethro Tull, the famous agriculturist, who was such an enthusiast for stirrng the soil that he formed the opinion that crops could be produced without the aid of manure. It is a matter of consider­ able importance, remarks the Garden Chronicle, that the atmosphere should enrich and sweeten the soil, and unless its surface is in a fit condition to allow the air to permeate it, its valuable prop­ erties are lost. Travelers inform us that the Greeks in their vineyards throw up the earth between the vines in ridges, the object being to enrich and sweeten the soil by exposure, adding and mixing manure with the ridge of earth before returning it to the roots, which it would appear they are in the habit of pruning annually. To FATTEN FOWLS.--The best food for fattening poultry is oatmeal mixed with scalding milk. As a change in their diet is necessary boiled barley may oc­ casionally be substituted. Give fresh feed three times a day, as much, but no more, than can be eaten at each meal. Chopped up mutton suet or any fat trim­ mings of meat from the kitchen mixed with the scalded meal will produce an extra degree of fatness. Give green food, such as chopped cabbage, turnips or onions. Keep them supplied with gravel and fresh water. Milk, either sweet, sour or thick, is also most excellent. Fowls fed in this way must not be kept longer than two weeks, as if forced for a greater length of time thev are apt to become diseased. Leave them without food or water fourteen hours before kill­ ing. THE CROSS-CUT SAW.--Ten years' ex­ perience in the use of cross-cut saws has proved to me 'that I have been working under many disadvantages until recently. My wish is for all to know the great advantage of a plan which I pursue. Take a new saw that has never been set, place it between two lx>ards cut to fit the saw, clamp it tight on a bench or vice; take an iron wedge, file one corner to suit the set of the tooth when finished, then take a small hammer, hold the wedge with the left hand, strike the tooth lightly with the hammer until at the right place; then turn the wedge on the opposite side, and on the next tooth, and set it in the same way; now then you reach the third and most important tooth in the saw--leave it perfectly straight; pass on to the fourth tooth, set it as you did the first; turn the wedge, set fifth the other way; leave the sixth tooth straight; and so on until you finish. Now take your file, dress the two teeth as you do tlie common saw; the third file perfectly straight and square--leaving it about one-twentieth part of one inch shorter than the others. Continue in that way until you finish, and you will find it will cut twice as fast as the old way practiced by most farmers.--South­ ern Cultivator. ABOUT CLOVER.--W. J. Fowler, writ­ ing to an exchange, says': " The fertility of good land may be maintained by the use of clover alone, as shown by the ex- ?erience of hundreds of Western New ork farmers. I know pieces of land that have never had manure. Alternate wheat and clover has been the rotation ever since the original timber Was cut off. The clover each alternate year has been plowed under, and nothing but gyp­ sum, at the rate of 100 pounds per acre per year, has ever been applied! This land is still in good condition, not quite equal to the field near the barnyard, and which have had less clover but more manure, but tolerably sure for twenty to twenty-five bushels of wheat per acre. The lack in such land is more apt to be phosphate of lime, and a dressing of su­ per-phosphate applied with the wheat at seeding will cheaply and surely remedy this. By combining winter stock feeding with occasional plowing under of green clover for manure I do not doubt that the fertility of large farms may as surely be kept up as if the farms were smaller. In any event where clover is grown there must always be the roots in the soil to decay and this will prevent very rapid deterioration of fertility. So much al­ ways depends on keeping the soil fertile that commercial manures which on trial prove profitable should always be used." KEEP accounts and know precisely what is done, and is doing, and how the business of the form is paying, in what particular it is payings and where it is losing. Farming dom pay. It is the most profitable business in the world. The loose and careless manner in which it is generally carried on would utterly wreck any less profitable business. There was once a man who made certain attach­ ments for looms known sis "pickers," and prepared the raw hide from which they were made himself. But he thought it was a more cleanly and better business to buy the hides and merely cut them up and make the pickers. So he bought the hides from a neighbor, and the first year he was overwhelmed with debt and sold out, and his neighbor became rich by curing hides. The unfortunate man made, money so fast before that he never troubled himself how it was made, and only learned too late that one j>art of his business was profitable and the other was not; but then he had given over to his neighbor the profits t£nd kept the losses for nimself. It is much the same with farming, for no one can teU where he.is losing or making money, without ac­ counts. Just now is a seasonable time to consider this matter and to begin a new and more reasonable and safe sys­ tem,--Rural New Yorker. The Drag Apprentice. The druggist's apprentice during his master's absence becomes again voluble to the customer. Said the apprentice, half in soliloquy and half in narrative: " The drug business is terrific. These porous plasters. The old man has a national reputation for them. He makes 'em out of old sun-bonnets and glue- cuts up the sun-bonnets and smears on the glue ; and when you get one of these plasters on your back it is there for life. There's a man comes in here most every day to swear at the old man because he gut on one of our plasters for a lame ack in 1848, time of Mexican war, and, able chemist--the old man. I do believe he could make paregoric out of old um­ brellas, and boil down an illustrated weekly paper into attar of roses. He has ingenuity. You wouldn't believe." 8am Houston's RomABce. Ifcwn in Virginia in 1793, left an Or­ phan in boyhood, Sam Houston went with his mother to Tennessee, where he supported lier with his own industiy, thus early learning family loyalty. In 1813, at the age of 20, he enlisted under Gen. Jackson in the Creek war, and lor his repeated deeds of gallantry he So gained the esteem of Jackson that he urged him to remain permanently in the army. Resigning, however, and study­ ing law in Nashville, he rose from office to office, and in 1823, at the age of 80, he was elected to Congress, and then again in 1827 was elected Governor of Tennessee. Up to this time Houston was unmarried. Universally admired, and urged by associates to form an alli­ ance, which seemed essential to his sta­ tion, a young lady of beauty and accom­ plishments was cominendecf to him by family influence. His proposal of mar­ riage was accepted, and late in 1828 the marriage ceremony was performed with unusual pomp. The next day Houston resigned his office, crossed the Missis­ sippi into Arkansas, arid Dec. 11, 1828, wrote from the agency of his old Chero­ kee acquaintances the letter to Presi­ dent Jackson which called forth his let­ ter of Jan. 24, 1829. No one of Hous­ ton's companions knew till his death the cause of his new course, which his best friends, like Jackson, regarded as par­ tial insanity; no one but his widow could reveal it, and she oniy through a sense of conjugal and Christian duty. That cause was the highest test of loyalty of which any man could be ca­ pable. On the eve of the marriage Gov. Houston observed a tremor in the voice and in the hand of his bride, when the vow of undivided attachment was pro­ nounced, which convinced him some Becret had not been revealed to him. Before retiring he frankly told her of his suspicion, asked a frank confession^ and pledged her that it should not work to her injury. His frankness and firm­ ness led to the confession that her af­ fections had been given and pledged to another before their meeting, and that filial duty had prompted her acceptance of his proffer. Houston retired to his own cot, next day resigned his position, allowed the entire fault to appear to be his, permitted and encouraged her appli­ cation for a divorce on the plea of deser­ tion, and his bride was married to the man of her former affection. Many ir­ regularities, rumor, of course, charged on the man who had really sacrificed everything to save one who had erred only in mistaken duty; but no charge of domestic infidelity could be true in a man who denied it to the estimable lady who afterward became his wife. Getting Square With A Bursted Bank, During the bank mania in the West, when every little village and hamlet boasted its bank, one of these public " accommodations" sprang up in Mount Vernon, Ohio, under the cognomen of "Owl Creek Bank," taking its name from a small but beautiful stream pass­ ing through the village. The affairs of the institution went on swimmingly for a short time, but a short time only. Like all its kindred of money representation, it was declared insolvent. A morning or two after this important fact had come to light, a mys­ terious-looking person, wrapped up to his eyes in a cloak, presented himself at the counter of the bank, tendering some of their bills, and demanded, in a seri­ ous manner, their redemption in gold or silver. He was told that the bank had neither. He then demanded Eastern funds. "No funds on hand," was the brief reply. " Can you," said the mysterious per­ sonage, give me tolerably well execut­ ed counterfeit notes on solvent banks? I would prefer them to this trash." This was a home-thrust not to be sub­ mitted to. "Out of the bank, you insulting puppy!" " Hold ! I may have made some mis­ take. Am I right in supposing myself in the office of the Owl Creek Bank ? " "Yes, sir." " I have then my revenge for the loss of my money--I have just shot your President"--at the same time throwing on the counter, from under his cloak, a large hooting owL Analogies in Mature. The cocoanut is, in many respects, like the human skull, although it closely resembles the skull of the monkey. A sponge may be so held us to remind one of the unfleshed face of the skeleton, and the meat of an English walnut is al­ most the exact representation of tne brain. Plums and black cherries resemble the human eyes; almonds and Bome other nuts resemble the different varieties of the human nose, and an open oyster and its shell are a perfect image of the human ear. The shape of almost any man's body may be found in the various kinds of mammoth pumpkins. The open hand may be discerned in the form assumed by e crub-willows and growing celery. The German turnip and the egg-plant resemble the human heart There are other striking resemblances between human organs and certain vegetable forms. The forms of many mechanical contrivances in common use may be traced back to the patterns furnished by nature. Thus, the hog suggested the plow ; the butterfly, the ordinary hinge; the toad-stool, the umbrella ; the duck, the ship ; the fungous growth on trees, the bracket. Any one desirous of prov­ ing the oneness of the earthly system will find the resemblances in nature an amusing study, to say the least. GRANDMA GABFIBIJDs a corre spots dent says, is not a stately, impressive old lady, but a nice, plain, companionable mother of the ©very-day sort. You East­ ern people, both men and women, grow old more elegantly than those w-hose; early lives were full of frontier hardships at the West. To see the General with his mother reminds one pleasantly of Lawyer Wemmick and his "aged parent" in Dickens' "Great Expectations." As the "Aged P." of the administration, Grandma Garfield will be by no means a lay figure in the social life of the White Brnise. IT may be that the answer of the poor servant girl may find a response in other hearts. Some one said to her: " Well, Mary, I hear you left yoar old place. Where do you live How? " She replied, with a pleasant smile, "Please, marm, I don't live nowhere now--I'm married." A VOLUME of reminiscences of the late Ole Bull is to be made of materials which the violinist left with his family. laAST AIV» WOfXATe 4 faf: W ruxen mux tu.liwr , __ " Upon life** Mgbway I waa haatenlm, irWA I met a troobte grim, Whom I had often aeen with otbar ae, -• But I waa far from him. •. He aeized my arm, and with a I Looked o'er my happy paM; With ninking heart I felt uia oony gflp • Clutch tight and hold me fast, I*#' "You look," said ho, "«o hapgy • That I have come to aee - Why other trouble* mlas yoa ia Mr ASJML ' Aid what you'll do with maw" ~T~ • * * . "And have yon come to ataj «iA ait* X Hoping respite to win. "Yes, I have come to stay. Yon* trarid 1m ulief fe*' I'm crowded wher® I've I I would not look him in the face, bat To take him homo with ma To all my other trouble*, wlio Hi* hateful company. So he waa "crowded," and with m I laughed with eulien At arm'a-length took him up tha ataea af ] Under my own roof tree. And there I clutched hla aorawny l To tbruat him in the room Where, locked and barred, I kept ma tvMfehL tl Seclnaion'a friendly gloom. ̂ Orlmly he looked at me with erea that boaali "You nothing know of me; The key on othar troublea may ba tamed But 1 --xm Poverty." Ah! soon I knew It waa in Tain, im vatel No locks avail for him; Nor double doora, nor tMokhr-eertalaed tit/L Oould make his preBenceaUia. He wrote his name on all my thrwttMS VtML And in my Hhrinktng air He told the tale of ueeleaa ahifta and iln I made against despair. He brushed ibo smile from off my awcat fHAfilk " Ind left an anxious frown; "T". The fresh young joy* that ihould my tUUiw sSlM Hi* heavy feet trod down. He took my other troubled out, and wclksA' With them the public street; Clad in my sacred sorrows, cheaply MM * With all he chanced to meet. ' The months he stretched upon tba raflk of dl|E The days to weeks of fears: The weeks were months, whom weary, waya Stretched out through hopaleaa year*. To-day I stooped to fan with eagar starlit A Bingle hope which glowed, And, 'mid the fading embers ot my lifa, A fitful warmth bestowed. ' Cheered by a spark, I turned with Once more the strife to wage; But, as I turned, I saw my trouble Linking his arm with Age. Old age and poverty--hew end the strife! And ye remorseless pair Drape on the last, dim milestone at my Mi Your banner of despair. HUMOUS OF THE DAT. BALD heads never dye. USUALLY the coarser a base voice it the finer it is. A POPULAR paper is like a toper's nose --it will be read. WHEN your opponent calls you A HAT let him have the floor. THAT man that says that that that that that man used was correct, tells a false­ hood. A GREAT many men are cottage-built; that is to say they have but one story. And they are for ever telling it. A POOR dentist of Kokomo wears for­ ceps to keep him warm. A pair of draw­ ers, you know.--Kokomo Tribune. REBECCA: Yes; when a young lady ' goes crazy" over dancing, we think she oould consistently be called hopping mad. "PEOPLE should always many their opposites." Yes, one of the marrying parties ought to be a man and the other a woman. WHEN the editor's wife gets a new dress on the strength of a dry goods ad­ vertisement, might it not properly be called her ad-dress? A DOVEB'S QUERY. Tell me--tell me Gertie, true, i , Do not--do not-- do not lie. Can you--can you--can you--caa^ptit Make a--make a pumpkin pief BOYS, don't be deceived. A girl who will talk of the "limbs" of a table, will, after marriage, chase you around a two acre lot with a rolling pin and a regu­ lar kerosene conflagration in both eyes. A MAINE school-teacher captured thirty-three cuds of gum from her pupils in one day, and it was a rainy day at that. ---Detroit Free Pres*. Most any Bcliool-teacher can do that if she but chews. AN exchange speaks of "a policeman who shot a drunken man who tried to es­ cape in the hind leg." The policeman is to be commended. When a drunken man tries to escape in the hind leg he de­ serves to be shot. WHEN a fellow goes out of a theater to see a man, he eats a little burnt coffee and always finds his man. When a woman looks under a bed for a man she never thinks to eat any burnt coffee, and she finds nobody. AN exchange prints a lengthlv article on "Science at Breakfast." Valuable space wasted. Science at breakfast is getting away with four slices of ham raid half a dozen eggs while your vis-a-vis is unfolding his napkin. A MAN in Iowa has been arrested fen assaulting his wife, and he was found guilty, even though it was shown that he only stuffed her mouth full of putty when he wanted to go to sleep. Do we men have no rights at all? "TAKE the elevator" is inscribed on the fence of an' Iowa meadow. A curious traveler who climbed the fence discovered in about ten seconds that the elevator is of a dark brindle color, with a curl in the middle of his forehead. "TROUBLE has broken out in Cork." It is generally under the cork where trouble breaks out. --Norristotvn Herald. Many a sorrowing Home Ruler realizes that fact when he hears the corkscrew in the little small hours beyond the twelve. A HARD CASE.--Major Dunnup--"Aw- f'lly dull down here, isn't it Miss Maria?" Miss Maria--"Do you think so? Why don't you go, then! You're a bachelor and have only yourself to please." Maj. Dunnup--"Only myself to please? You don't knpw what a doosed difficult tl»«np that is tb do." A little love, A little A little rosebud for A lofeaa) A little fclch For d*ys aonn by-- A little girl heartbroken. Another man Wooe £arah Ann, With bankbook well extended. A social crown, A house in town, Aad Sarah's ]heart is mended. --*V. Y. Commercial. THE Mexican lady without arms, who plays the piano with her feet, must ly» a fine performer. She" throws her sole into the music.--Nev> Orleans Picayune. One could easily keep in step with such music--though the above story is denied in toe-toe.-- Yawcob Strauss. If the story is true, the Mexican lady's perform­ ance is certainly a great feat If, how­ ever, the story is a lie, it is, of course, best toe nail it at once-- Rome Sentinel. We know the lady, and she is a fine musician. She throws a wonderful amount of heeling into her execution.- Quincy Modern Argo. IF YOU want to find out how little man luiows about himself and family, give him an insurance " application" t fill out If you want to see how littl he knows about anything, put him © the witness-stand.--JkirHngton How Eye.