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- - =; ? • st *mW W! f'".* .; * jfHcitriirn ^laiiulralr I, VAN SLYW. inarni I EMIT, ILLINO THE KiNti'IH UA'iftUiSfiBa. BT MABOABBT VAN7>EOBIRT . .. .., •Vv.-vPa ^ mmm V'i «Kinntim»i. iHBifc 7 A VL * Hw King's thr^e little daughters, 'nwth (he £ ' » palace windows stray in (t, jb*v,-.' fall n into earnest talk tnat put an end to f piavinur, ^ *> , And the wen y Kintr smiled one* again to hear L'> what they were saying. W'K' It is I who love onr father best!" the eldest Hn , daughter said; s" "lam 1 he oldest rrinoeesr and her pretty face I*'*"'"'* 1 r" grew red; ' "What if there none can do'without? I km him 4f more than breaJ!" \ *' Then said the second Princess, with her bright bine ev-'s aflame, pf:'-;" "Than bread? A conmos thing like bread I •fe-A <•', Then hast not. anv shame! & ' ' O l a d a m I i t i s I , n o t t h o u , c a l l e d b y o a r m o t h - er's name. . , ** "I love him with a better love than one so tame pi as ;liine-- " ", More than--oh, what then shall I say that Is . l»oth brtght and fine, •it '";-f And l* not common? Yea, I know--I love him •; *' ,V m. re t han w.nc!" the little youngest daughter, whose speech f t - ;»£, would sometimes halt ' ' * „ • F o r fcer dre <tuy way of thinking, aald, "Yon are I ota in fai-It, I , "TIs I who love onr father beat--I love him more |h;< * , than salt." . f, Shrill little shrieks of laughter greeted her ' s • latest word, 1 A« the two joined hands, exclaiming, "But this *'*V" is mosj; bsurd." • §f,.M - Aid the King.no longer smiling,was grieved fh, that he WAS heard. For the little youngest daughter, with her eyes of stoaritast gray, , Could always move his tenderness, and oharm his care away. "She grows more like her mother dead,*' he whispered, " day by day." " But she is very little, and I will find no fault That, while h?r sistaia strive to see who moat shall me exalt. She holds me nothing dearer than a common thing liie salt." Hie portly cook was standing in the courtyard by ti:e spring; He winked and nodded to himself, " That little quiet tiling Knows more than both the others, as I will show the King." That afternoon at dinner there was nothing fit to eat; The King turned, frowning angrily,'fiom soup, ami fish, and meat. And he found a cloying sweetness in the dishes that were sweet. ^And yet," be muttered, musing, " I cannot find tt e fault. Not a thin L' has tasted like itself but this honest cup of salt." Said the yourure^t IVincess, shyly, " Dear father, ». they want salt." * • t'i.t > Amdden look of tenderness shone on the King's » 'j . -y dark taoe, >f:^>;S'fr A* be sat his little daughter in the dead Queen's " P'W'iL- " vacant place: " * . . . ! • . ' ** ' And he thought, " She has her mother's heart- aye, and her mother's grace. i't. "Great love through smallest channels will find ^.-its surest way: '•el^waits not state occasions, which may not coxne, or ni&y ^ It comforts &nd it blewun. hour by boar* and day by day." --Continent. - <V •* HELEN PRESTON. ?0l/t '-V t* ... <-^4 • : "&•* ' "Are there no underwriters for human hopes? • For the most precious of interests is there no In­ surance?" I had been tempted all day, tempted by fate and the devil. All summer long I had been trying to clasp hands for a life journey with a man I did not love; a man noble of soul and born to the purple, -who set up his high lineage against my poor gifts of beauty and song. He threw some love into the scales, too, but I, God help me, had none to give in return. I had bartered erewhile my whole possessions for a lew glances of a dark ejjfe, and my note had gone to protest; Could I--could I ? It kept following me about with fateful persistency, for to-night I was to give my answer to my high-born lover. I tried to look things in the face, to count the cost. Money was a good thing; it insured one warmth in winter and delicious coolness in summer, and prettiness and daintiness, and the entrance into good society. Yes, money was a good thing, *nd position and power, and houses and lands. So far good; but my soul hun­ gered and thirsted for a love commen­ surate with my own, which this man, who offered me purple and gold, had it not in his power to give, or, let me qual­ ify that, had it not in his nature to give. The stars came out golden and softv and the fragrant summer dusk crept around me where I sat inhaling the scent of the roses. Ambition and love tore my heart by turn, pnd weariness, too, put in a poor pitiful plea, for I was so tired. It was a brilliant future that Regi­ nald Dacre offered me, wherein toil and weariness could never come. I thought of the purple and fine linen; the .luxurious rest; the emoluments! Then my daily life passed in review be­ fore me--that of a companion to a haughty, fine lady, and a regular singer in a fashionable church, among fashion­ able saints and sinners. I began to orooi over the old satire: In a chnrch which Is garnished with mullion gable, - With altar and reredos, with gargoyle and groin. The penitent*' dresses are sealskin and sable. The odor of sanctity tau tie cologne. But suroly if Lucifer, flying from hades. Could sraze at this crowd with its paniers and pair.ta. Be would s sy, looking round at the lords the ladies. , Oh, where is All 8tnners If this is All Saints? I had entered upon this life from an - unloved and unloving home, a home doled out to me by the tardy justice of * granduncle who had robbed me of my inheritance. I thought at first I might find the sangreal somewhere in this new country, which seemed so fair; but alas! I had not even heard the swish of wings. I thought of it all--the fervor and the fret; the petty jars; the misunderstand­ ings; the pain of incomprehension; the Unguerdoned toil; the lagging hours; the awful pauses. _ This, or marriage; this, or marriage* It seemed written like a placard on earth and sky. It seemed bound like phylactery upon the brows of the peo­ ple as they passed to and fro; and soon the word marriage lost all its signifi­ cance for me, as words do after oft re­ peating. Did it mean misery or happi­ ness, bliss or woe ? This marriage that rang its changes through my brain--was it God-appointed? Did it mean God's Messing or His curse? You know I did not love this man #ho offered me re3i from my labors. He had not power to evoke one thrill at hli call. But then love is only one rea­ son why one should marry a man. There might be love and plenty of money, and yet one go hungry all one's life. 1 have known such things. I had tried to make my life straight «nd fair.. I had tried to keep clean hands and a pure heart; tried--God •who knows the se rets of all hearts', knows this--to fight despair. ' . . Long green days, . Worn hare of grass and sunshine; long mim nights ,*> "i'JJrom wnich the silken sleeps were fretted out-- JBe witness for me. ,, We see through shadows all our life We come into this world without our being given a choice as to OUT ad­ vent, and go out of it in the same man­ ner. We have not been consulted as to birth or death. More and more the prayer of Epictetus haunts me. "Lead me, Zeus and Destiny, whithersoever I am appointed to go; I will follow with­ out WiVcriiigl oVoii iuOugil I i.uril HOW - ard and shrink, I shall have to follow all the same." Should I marry Mr. Dacre? Was he a good parti? As th6 world said. Too good for. me, as my .lady elegantly phrased it. I had been born into the world amid fierce throes of mental anguish Through the pain of her travail my mother's heart was rent with the greater pain of my father's sudden death-- drowned off the Cornish coast, for I was born at sea. She lived until I was 10 years old, a life of sorrow, and poverty, and renunciation. Then she died, leav­ ing me to a compassionate world and my uncle. My life dragged On the clogged wheels. I was always at war with my surroundings. Though too prorvtl to express it, 1 had never realized my idea of Womanhood, or in any way grown up to my aspirations and dreams. If I had grown at all it had been through pain and repression--a fatal thing al­ ways for a warm-hearted, earnest woman. My uncle, Edward Earl, had pro­ cured me the friendship ( ?) of the lady in whose house I had passed a twelve­ month--Mrs. Lucien Granger, a distant cousin of his own. I was an unsalaried governess or companion, our remote cousinship being always made available by my uncle. It was during my resi­ dence with that lady that my fate came to me. A young nephew of Mrs. Gran­ ger's came to the hall. He was an artist, young and handsome, and fresh from a four years' sojourn in Rome. I need not worry you with the pro­ logue or the epilogue of our love, for words are so poor to express the heart's utterance. O golden day! O tender, passionate nights! O princely heart, come back to me! ' Alan Leigh ton was lip last son ,of a high-born family, and because of the blue blood--the united blood of all the Howards--flowing in his veins, Mrs. Granger interposed her fiat against our love, dreading, doubtless, the plebeian admixture of mine. It is a pity that blood does not always tell. It was an inglorious triumph to me--yet still a triumph--to bare my white arms to the shoulder during our gala night*--to which my voice was al­ ways invited--contrasting their satiny smoothness and perfect contour with the lean, brown appendages of Mrs. Granger folded over her aristocratic heart. But a cloud crept into the sky and its shadow fell across our path. Alan was called suddenly by tele­ gram to England, where his grand old either lay dying. We had but a mo­ ment for our farewells, for Allan's heart was rent with sorrow, and I helped to expedite his departure. But one letter ever reached me. His father was dead, and he was Sir Alan now. MY PRECIOUS HELEN: My father, whom I loved and respected above all men, died yes- tei day. I need not tell you how desolate we feel and how the light 'seems to have died out of every nook and corner. My dear mother is } rostrated with the blow which i has taken away the lover of her youth, and I I shail not be able to return to von for some ( weeks Announce our betrothal, dearest, to my aunt and uncle, which you know was my intention the very night I was called away. Be true to me, my darling Helen, as I shall be true to you. * Good night, dear love; I ."-hall write at' length as soon as mother and I have matured our plans for her lonely future. Good-nlpht, good-night! May ano-eis guard you, and may the good Fa.her fold about you His everlasting arms! Your friend and lover, ALAN LEIGHTON. Two years had dragged their slow length about since that letter came, and I had never heard from Alan, though craving his presence as the prisoner craves the sunshine. I had written him once, and I had regretted even that. "He was soon to be wedded to an Earl's handsome daughter," Mrs. Granger read aloud from an open letter in her hand; "in fact, it was an old affair, prior to his visit to the hall," etc., etc. How I regretted I had written, though the words had been few, merely asking him i£ he had been enabled to procure foyme a certain book we had made men/ion of together, and the time was more than a year ago when I had the right thus to address him. And now, another woman was to be his wife, and I must never think of the old days, or the old dreams, or look into his dark eyes, or feel his kisses upon my un- kissed lips. Never! and I might live fifty years. And O, the pity of it, out of all this world's million possibilities I had only the chance of two--either lo wed Reginald Dacre, a man old enough to be my father, or to be a companion to some haughty woman. I had dec dod upon accepting Mr. Dacre. The tiny note of barely two lines I had placed between the leaves of a book it was his n'ghtly custom to read. But Alan! but A1 an! I had thought him so true, so noble. I had called him "my prince," "my king," alone in the warm dusk under the stars. "I will not soil thy purple with my dust," had whispered in my heart. "Nor breathe my poieon on thy Venice glass." * * • * I went down to the sea to listen to its sullen roar, hear it tell its tale of human misery; of fair dead under its waves; of gold and jew­ els lying on green beds of moss; of agonies gone down, the wail of human misery their requiem. I tried to service would not be held for a half hour. The lights www tnrned down to a semi-darkness, and the old sexton, with whom I was a favorite, had left the key in the door for me. The moon shone across the organ keys and across my face, and the trailing olds of my white dress looked almost ghastly in its light. U, quaint old church! O, quaint old chimes! Too soon I would be far away from you, over the sea to my sailor's lordly home, carryinjg with me a heavier heart than my years should warrant. But it was too late to look back; and the fault was mine. I had I» seeds are to be kept over a year, they should be placed in a cool plaoe Mid exp&ed to light and air. Keeping them »the dark weakens vitality, per­ haps from the tendenoy to grow which darkness incites, but unaccompanied by u50xotiuo nuOugU l<j put ioi i>li leaf tttll1 root.--Chicago Journal. PROBABLY the very best treatment of a bearing orchard is to keep it in clover •nd pasture pigs upon it. jPigs destroy immense numbers of insects by eating the fallen fruit, and the occasional ruined my J plowing required to renew the clover own life, and must pay the price. Be- j will turn under an excellent fertilizer, cause I had been forbidden the desire of l and the land will be kept improving, mine eyes, I had sealed my fate. I j In t e absence of pigs sheep may be had bound my hands, and had intoned ! pastured in the orchard; but, unless Phoebe Cary's wailing words: | the trees are well protected by stakes, I have turned from the «ood gifts Thy bounty j horses and cattle should be excluded. Of course, staking is impracticable after the tree ; have been sot two or three years. SAYS a correspondent of the Country Gentleman: "There is no question as to the relative value of corn and oats in any form. There is no comparison between the two, no matter how fed, when good, rich, healthy milk is de­ sired. Quantity and quality are both supplied me. Because of the one whioh Thy wisdom denied me; I have bandaged mine eyes--yea, mine own hands have bound me; I have made me a darkness when light was around me. Now I cry by the waysMe, O Lord, that I might receive back my sight. "Peccavi," I cried, and my head sank upon the organ and tears stained the red roses- at my throat. "Helen!" and my head was lifted gently and Alan Leighton's tender eyes obtained in greater measures by feed- met mine. "Alan!" was all my aston- fag oats to cows, instead of corn. Any ishment could utter. _ , I person at all acquainted with the chem- • 7. . y°u have suffered," he istry of the cereals will admit the ad- ejaculated, m a tone of exquisite tender- j vantage obtained by feeding oats when ness. Helen, my first and only love, j much milk of a rich quality is desired, how we have been wronged. I only | Corn will form fat much quicker than learned an hour before I embarked that oats; hence its value as food in cold cli- you were not the false woman you had mates wrote W Wvi*i Mr tw™ or,® w* I dilation and drying are continued for some time, wheat has been kept sound and good for half a century. Its age , never does it injury, and such wheat is had 'married Mr. Dacre, and left with him for Cuba.' A subsequent letter, without date or signature, inclosing the tiny pearl pin I had given you, left me no room for doubt. I left England for­ ever, and I have been on the wing ever since, finding no rest for my heart on sea or shore. Helen, I suffered as few men suffer because of losing you, and because of your apparent falseness. But I could not waste my whole life be­ cause of a woman's untruth, so I tied up ! i^TD'+r"' _„n the broken threads and tried not to1/*7 look back. It Was by chance I met! Herman Sloan, and in the midst of, mutual confidences he asked me why I j had never returned to America and to ; the beautiful Helen Preston, who had ' decline ! all suitors, and was still unwed. I Helen, I embarked that afternoon, and I am here, never to be parted from my darling. When will we be married, ' sweet?" I Married! Alan," and the dreary' present recurring to me, I withdrew myself from his arms, and almost un­ consciously my lips framed the words: I had died for this last year to know You had loved me. Who shall turn on fate? I care not if love come or go Now; though your love s;ek mine for mate. It is too late. Too late! Helen, my only love ex­ plain your meaning for God's sake." Then came a broken disjointed tale of my sorrow and temptation when I heard said to yield handsomer and better I flour than that obtained from grain more recently harvested. At Dantzic . the preparation for keeping wheat con- i tinues for a year or longer, and after I this period it is often kept for seven j years, perfectly sound, in large grana- I ries, although Dantzic . is surrounded The^e facta show how easily wheat may be preserved if proper precautions are taken. • AN Illinois farmer, in a communica­ tion to the Germantown Telegraph, says that fresh, clean hog lard, rubbed three or four times on any kind of warts on horses or cattle, will remove them on three or four applications. I have removed the warts time after time, and have never been able to find the wart for the fourth application, If I should send the Latin name for lard and tell men to pay 50 cents to the druggist for about 2 cents worth of good lard, this remedy would be oftener used. For all wounds and bruises, cracks on cows' teats, etc., it is better than any patent liniments or ointments. GIVE the turkeys a chance' to hide their nests somewhere in the vioinity of the building, and they will do so. An old box or barrel turned on the side, 01 nis nanasome ana mghborn bride; of and partly covered with brush, a pile of my weariness of the hall; of Mrs Gran- I bjugh or corn-fodder around an old ger, of myself, of Mr. Dacre s constant; Btump a few boards and brush arranged wooing, and at last of the little note • « - e only this night thrust between the leaves of his book, making Alan's com­ ing forever too late for my happiness. Rapid hoof-beats along the road, and my courtly love came in sight. "Saved! Alan," and my words oame thick and fast. "Engage him in conversation, Alan, regarding the hall, Mrs. Granger, the weather, stocks, etc., etc. I will escape by the vestry door, fly to the hall, se­ cure the note! and then, O, Alan!" "My darling, my bright darling !" but I broke from his clasp and sped away like a chamois to the hall. I did not heed that the roses fell from my throat, that a portion of my lace flounce graced a thornbush, or that my hair, unloosed from its fastenings, hung about my shoulders. I think if I had possessed a piece of paper I should have held it aloft and shouted "a, reprieve! a re­ prieve!" Shall I try to tell of how I secured the note, and hid it in my bosom, of how I ran up stairs and peeped for one moment into the mirror, twisting up my shining hair and trying to hush the loud beating of my heart, of how I rap­ idly traversed the path leading to the church, dodging behind an osage hedge to escape meeting Mr. Dacre, hurrying on as soon as I was free, to be folded close to Alan's heart ? "And yon will not laugh at me, Alan?" "Laugh at yon, my darling, and wherefore?" | "Oh, for my mad flight, for the red ' roses scattered all along the road; for ! my unbounded joy at your return; for ! proposing to run and steal the note, ' and, and--things." j For answer came tender kisses ! pressed upon brow and lips, and closed eyes, and Mr. Lord Lovel (Mr. Dacre) rode forth from the castle gates alone requiem. 1 triea to re­ member all this, so that mine might not seem such a great thing amid a world of sobbing and tears. It was a good thing to think of the sufferings of oth­ ers, and try to ignore your own; a good thing. But my misery! the misery of the girl called Helen Preston! The girl was somewhat of a genius, the people said. She possessed the gift of song and she was handsome, too, men said. And she had two chances in the world, and if she had had money enough to have utilized her gift of song she might have had three. But she had smirched her soul, for all her beauty and gifts; had been false to herself, to God and humanity; false, too, to Reginald Dacre, for she kept her love for Alan locked in her h art. "I have sold my soul for houses and lands," she said, "and I am wretched. Mea culpa! Mea culpa!" "I have sold myself with open eyes," she said, "knowingly, with malice pre­ pense. I have no one to blame. That Alan forgot his vows did not make it right that I should forswear myself." But the sea with its fuss and fret, made my heart ache, and the turbulent water seemed wooing me thitherward. The chimes of our quaint old church, playing an old song, caused a choke in my throat. I would go and invoke grand airs from the organ, and mayhap I should forget the sea's roar. to .1? Texas Indians. ' The Texas Indians have always had a thorough contempt for the bluecoats. In 1875 the railroad boom began. The builders ran through their lines with an army of men in advance to drive back the savages. The railroads have done more to subdue the Indiana in Texas than any other influence. Lo can't stand steam. The State in 1874 began to prepare for the immigration influx which followed. Despairing of pro- tection against the Indians from Uncle Sam, the Legislature equipped the . Frontier Battalion of State Rangers. ' This handful of scouts attacked the marauders wherever found, and did in j six years what the United States troops ' had attempted for twenty years--drove out the Indians. Recently one of these gallant scouts was asked: "What do : you rangers do out here?" "We pro- i tect the frontier," answered the ranger. "But," expostulated the inquirer, in a fence corner, and other arrange­ ments of a like nature will deceive the most suspicious old hen-turkey into the belief that she is outwitting you. If the eggs are removed from the nest as fast as laid the turkey wiil lay thirty or more eggs before she takes a notion to sit. Always leave two or three nest- eggs in the nest to keep the hen from forsaking it.--Chicago Journal. MANY a settler is obliged to postpone the outlay for an orchard until he can better afford it. The cheapest way to start an orchard is to raise the stock and graft them; but this costs time and skill, which one may not have. An or­ chard may be had for the least outlay of money by buying root-grafts. These are advertised by many Western nurs­ eries. They consist of a root or part of one, grafted with a*scion of two or three buds. These are prepared dur­ ing the winter, packed in boxes of sand and kept in the cellar until they can be set out in the spring. The nurseryman I grows these two or three years, and i then sells them as trees. The farmer can, if he wishes, purchase the root- gcafts and grow them himself. WE think that many farmers would tan sheep and other skins, with the hair or wool on, if they were told how. They are very convenient for sleighs, wagons, house-rugs and many other purposes. We give the following from a reliable source, remarking that it is essentially the same that we have found in use by trappers and hunters in the wilderness: All fatty and fleshy mat­ ter should first be removed from the skin, and with sheepskin the wool should be washed clean with soft soap and water, and the suds be thoroughly rinsed oat. For each skin take four ounces of salt, four ounces of alum, and half an ounce of borax; dissolve these in one quart of hot water, and, when cool enough for the hand to bear, stir in sufficient rye meal to make a paste. This paste is to be spread thor­ oughly over every part of the flesh side of the skin, which is then to be folded lengthwise and left for two weeks in an airy place. Then remove the paste, wash and dry the skin. When nearly dry it must be worked and pulled, and scraped with a blunt knife, made for the purpose, shaped like a chopping- knife, or with a piece of hard wood worked to a sharp edge. The more the skin is worked and scraped as it dries the more pliable it will be. Other skins can be tanned with the fur on.-- Illinois Farmer. market gardener will not grow Lima! The Ml Thn<Mer. beans to mH dry, because they are It k evident that theri will have to worth more in the green ai»te, and he ̂a national party organised, perhaps can sell all he can raise. But the far- a dynamite partv, to annihilate the mer, however remote from the city, can - " matket the whole crop in the winter, mer, however remote from the city, can fieD(ia who write'for newspapers and matket the whole crop m the winter, everlastingly use the expression, "dull ™ . h? P4"1 .fo.r hia , tliud." With these writers anything can Agriculturist. HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. the find Wl« pritlj o ^r.11' from the carcass of a man who is hung for crime to the aesthetic and fairy like maiden who experiments on roller skates. Every day for a month the dis­ patches have contained a "dull thud" &ftltow root is recommended as thickening for custards and sauces of all kinds, both for puddings and or two, and the local writers of the city for meats. It is preferred to corn- and country papers have described the starch by many on account of the falling of more things with "dull thuds" flavor. | than would fill a box car. The expres- AN appetizing hot sauce for meat is Bi°i* originated with a reporter for a made by taking one can of tomatoes and paper published in Europe, many cent- adding to it two onions chopped fine, | uries ago, in reference to a man who a teaspoonful of cayenne pepper, cinna- j fell off the highest pinnacle of a mount- mon, cloves, salt and a little nutmeg to ' ®ip» ®nd struck several miles below, suit the taste. Let the tomatoes, onions, J with a "dull thud." It might have etc., boil for ten minutes, then take been an appropriate expression at that from the fire and add a large cupful of , time, but during the hundreds of years strong vinegar. that have passed since the dull thud GRAVY which is excellent with broiled ' bo®n worn so that it creates a smile fish or with pork steak is made by ! w ,n J118,11 rea^8 a^ollt browning a sliced onion in a little butter BUC" a. ""*• be dull thud is almost and adding a little at a time some beef | e^n ' 111 an*n8®nient, to the expression stock; thicken with flour rubbed smooth | W.^T8 nsed by new reporters in de- in a little of the cold stock. Add, if ; a ,. ®»_ "the scene beggars description." Many people have "been driven to desperation by reading of the dull thud, and a stop should be put to it. Some newspapers make a rule that any person who uses the expression "dull thud" shall be at once discharged, - t . , . , . but within a week the 'managing an ounce of geiatine m haif a pmt ol editor, or the proprietor of the cold milk; let it come to a boil gradu- paper will write something editorial, ally; when hot, but not boiling, add the descriptive of a fall, and will nncon- vou have it, some cold parsley or Worcestershire sauce. If sarved with pork, a table-spoonful of tomato catchup is good. Salt and pepper to suit. FOR a delicate and veiy nice dessert, make a pudding thus: Dissolve half yelk of three well-beaten eggs; stir con­ stantly. Sweeten to your taste; or, if you wish a definite direction, put in a quarter of a pound of sugar. This is the right amount for most people. When this is cold, stir in it a pint of whipped cream. Flavor with lemon or s^iously work in the dull thud, when, of course, the rule is suspended. There is no expression that seems to linger about in the recesses of the brain, ready to come forth unawares, like the duil thud. Dramatic critics, in speaking of some unusual bit of acting, describe r«i • « ., . . . - . j* I U1* Hl/i'lUKj UcotriUO vanilla; and, the last thing, stir in the the heroine falling, swooning, into the whites of the thrive eggs; have them 1 arms of the hero, with a dull thud. If beaten quite stiff, cake or fruit. Serve this cool, with A SPICE-CAKE, which costs but little, and which, if eaten while fresh, is ex­ cellent, is made after this rule: Rub half a cup of butter and one cup oi sugar together until they are light as cream. Beat the whife and yelk of one egg separately; add this, and also foalf a cup of sweet milk, one teaspoonful each of nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves; mix one teaspoonful of baking powder with one cup and a half of flour. Bake in a loaf, and frost, using the White of one egg, and frost the top only. After spreading the frosting over it, set it in the oven and brown it sl'ghtly. If you choose, you can vary this receipt by adding half a cup of raisins or currants. HAPPY is the woman who can have for use in cooking genuine, freshly- made buttermilk. The following rec­ ipe for crullers is a proof of this: Half a pint of buttermilk, a small teacupfol of butter, two cups of sugar and three eggs. Beat the eggs, and then add the milk and sugar. Half a teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in a little hot water, should then be added. Grate half a nutmeg and stir in with a teaspoonful of salt and half a teaspoonful of ground cinnamon of good strength. Work in flour enough to make a firm, smooth dough. Roll this and cut out cakes in fancy shapes, or twist like ordinary fried cakes. Fry in hot lard. THERE is pfobably nothing whioh gives greater pleasure to a certain class of people than the mere fact that their meat is cut as it ought to be. It is true that, generally speaking, too little at­ tention is given to the subject of carv­ ing. Few gentlemen commence early enough in life to attain complete suc­ cess. If it were only thought to be worth while, onr boys might all be taught to bone a turkey, or to slice the roast of beef or lamb with grace and perfect ease. A carving-knife and fork were among the gifts at a wedding not long since, and a legend on a card ac- we could have a sharp thud, for a change, it would brace newspaper read­ ers up so they could stand another sea­ son oi dull thud, but nobody seems to take the -responsibility of m'aking the change. What it wants is a society of desperate men, men who would "not hesitate to commit murder, who shall band together and be bound by a bloody oath. It should be their duty to read the papers and when they see the ex­ pression "dull thud" they should haunt the newspaper office until they have dis­ covered the perpetrator, and then fol­ low him to the free-lunch counter, and while he is firing the liver sausage down his neck, poison his beer, or choke him to death, and place upon the body a paper with a skull and cross-bones, and a warning, "This shall be the fate of all dull thudders." A reign of terror could be inaugurated that would, after a few hundred dull thudders had been slain, wipe out the senseless practice of causing everything to fall with a dull thud. Let such a band be organized, and cause the first man who uses the expression, "dull thud," to fall in his tracks, by the hand of the avengers, with a dull thud.--Peck's Sun. How Animals Shake Their Skins. In lower animals is found a peculiar muscle which rejoices in the name of {mnnicnlus carnosus. When we see a ivelv porpoise disporting itself in the waves, rolling head over heels, and otherwise exliibiting that propensity for aquatic gambols which is a character­ istic of its race, we may credit the mus­ cle just named with a full share of work in producing the movements of the lithe, fish-like frame. It would not be incorrect to describe the body of the porpoise as being literally swathed in this great muscle, so thoroughly devel­ oped are its proportions in that animal. When that modest but bristly quadru­ ped, the hedgehog, contrives in a mo­ ment of surprise to roll head and tail together, and to present an impregnable companying it might have been quoted surface to the gaze of his enemy, human from Montaigne, so full of wisdom was ; or canine, as the case may be, we must it: "Always cut your meat the right j credit his "panniculus" with the work of way of the grain."--Neva York Evening suddenly transforming him from an Post. active quadruped into an inanimate ball • of spines. A dissection of a hedgehog Why Paul Jones Left Russia. »i^vould show us that the great skin-mus- Another attempt to connect the Ens- *}e can intofn^e ^ mm' sian fleet beyond the Dardanelles with cle8.' ^afc ?ne of t^ef,e ff8 rePre" ^ a j. • 4.. „ t,,„ i „ , sentsthe "scalp-muscle" ot humanity. the fleet in the Black sea was made ; Q • when we see the horse "ahak- when, after the declaration of American ' • „ ?>• ' q4. » fy,„ A independence, the American pirate or; jf- i ^ Pa,,l .W* invito ! which has just left the sea sending the water from off his skm in the effective privateer, Paul Jones, was invited to Russia and placed in command of the Baltic fleet. The English officers in service of Russian ships were disgusted at the appointment and wished to sur­ render their commissions. In order to utilize Admiral Jones' talents, the Em­ press Catherine dispatched him over­ land to the Crimea, where he was to place himself at the disposal of Prince Potemkin. The Prince, however, and fashion of his race, we are simply wit­ nessing the action of the "panniculus" muscle in another phase of its action. Ascending now to humanity, how, let us inquire, is the "panniculus" de­ veloped in man, and what are the func­ tions it can be shown to possess ? As our previous studies will have led us to ex­ pect, the "panniculus" of man exists, firstly, in a condition which may be fully described as "rudimentary" when the American corsair could not get on together and no more aid WM rendered com ared with itfl development in lower to the Black sea fleet by Paul Jones ; life 1 The «8caip.mu8clei- has just been than by Elphinstone noted to represent part of the The manner in which the Empress - 1 Catherine got rid of the costly but un- , lit into8eparate and detached por s e r v i c e a b l e J o n e s , w h o h a d b e e n e n - [ j £ , n s • - r . . . . z . gaged for seven years, was scarcely panni- man thus becomes worthy of that sometimes noble-mind­ ed sovereign. It may be, too, that the I thought the United States troops were sent out for frontier protection." "So ̂kiU d b the frost they were, and the rangers came out to ̂ protect the troops." * What the Sooth Needed. Two New Yorkers traveling Booth were waiting in the depot at Memphis, and talking about the needs of the South, and they had been at it three- quarters of an hour, when a long-haired man in an old sombrero and an "over" THE Lima, the most popular bean Among amateurs and market gardeners, is slow in finding its way into the gar­ dens of farms. The dry beans sell for several dollars per bushel, and the mar­ ket has never been adequately supplied. Lima beans are easily raised, and yield as bountifully as most other pole beans; and they continue to blossom and bear Wo know of no reason why they cannot be made a specialty like hops and tobacco, and grown on a large scale. They would require better soil and treatment than the common field bean, but as the price is three times greater these could well be afforded. A rich gravelly or sandy loam suits them best, and the phos- pliatic manures are well adapted to flowed" look in his face, stepped up and fem\ t]lis kin? o£ 8oil 1we,have not F found them to run too much to vines, even with htavy dressings of compcst said: Gentleman, you were talking about the South?" "Yes, sir.". "You were talking about her. pros­ pects, pi ogress and needs?" "We were, sir." "Well, now, I ain't so very well post­ ed on her prospacts and progress, but if you want to know the great present prepared from muck and st ible manure. | The vine is a strong grower, and re­ quires abundant nourishment. The i pods are formed quite thickly from the j top to the bottom of the poles. They 1 want the full benefit of the sun, and the rows running north and south should be four feet apart, and the hills four feet apart in the row. In planting we needs of the South just invite me out 111 ™ to take a whisky straight!" --Wall Pl?fer to put the eye downward, and o.r„i ViMiK, : not more than one inch deep. The first Street News. YotJNdr grandson, presenting his cigax case to his grandfather. "No, my lad, I don't smoke." "Quite right; at you* . tit. xjk..,. „i of June is early enough for this lati tude. The bean needs frequent culti­ vation, until the vine? shade the ground. This crop is well suited for farmers re caotft IsftBk Midi The 3SM Another part of the great "skin- muscle" of the hedgehog is found in the muscle which in " human anatomy re­ ceives the name of the platsyma. This agent employed to checkmate Jones . latter mU9cle exists as a broad sheet of was ovet-oftcious andI less scrupulous fib j ^ bfineath ^ skin than his superiors would have wished each si<£ GftJhe neck. In man it 8erve8 h^fto Tri?!2 to wrinkle the skin of his neck, and it c of the Baltl° fleet was confronted ! aiso aicU ^ depre88ing the lower jaw. . , ,j . • i - •, i In other parts of m n's body traces of girl who sold trmket3Land who, m her , thedivis£n of the «pann^uiu8» ̂ also to be found. In the proportion of about 3 per cent, jn upward of 600 one transaction with Jones, dealt laT ishlyin smiles. The gallant Admiral replied in what he considered a becom­ ing manner to the young lady's provo­ cations, and at once found himself in the hands of the police, who, shocked at the liberty of his demeanor, ordered him to quit Russia without a moment's delay, which he did.--Toronto Mail. An Intelligent Crow. A writer in a Western newspaper gives an iteresting account of the tricks ' of a pet crow, which he caught while young and tamed. One of the peculiari-' ties of this crow was that he would drink nothing but the purest water, i and consequent!-.-, he learned to climb down a well-chain, to the depth of twenty feet, whenever he wanted a drink. His favorite trick was to sit on a gate-post and call, "Co bos--co-bns-- ! co-bos!" until all the cows would coma running from d stant fie d?. Once he was seen to steal a SHI ill coi i, and, by the extra pain^ he took in hiding it, one would have fancied that he knew its valucv After his plunder had been con­ cealed, he perched upon a fence, and i tried to act as though he had done no ' wrong, but when the owner cf the coin approached it, the crow got into a rage and fought for poosi'ssion of the treas­ ure. '| THE late A. H. Stephens, of Geor­ gia, loaned money to 120 young men to enable them to get an education. Most of tUo .money was repaid. bodies examined. Prof. Turner tells us that a muscle of man's trnnk, usually regarded by anatomists as of ordinary type, is really a fragment of the great "skin-muscle.w-- Longman's Maga­ zine. Live Stock in the Ctasm. The aggregate valuation of the live stock of the United States, as given by the last census, is shown by the table following: * lS-,0 *.... » 541,490,546 ISO* . 1870.'.!! - l,!WV27fi,4.V7 1,500,464,609 Making too correction for gold value in 1870 would reduce the figures of that year to alxrnt $1,220,000,000, and brinsr the ratio of increase very much the same during the lust decade as during the one that immediately preceded. There arc eleven States which have live stock to the value of nearly or more than $"0,000,000, in the following order--giving also the acres of farming land reported in o ich: Value of S-.offc Illinois 113-2,437,762 Iowa.134,715,101 New York U7,8fi8,2»J Ohio 103,70 Missouri 5»,?8.V282 Penns>4v&nik.... 84,2 *5,877 Indian* 71,0*W,W8 Kansas 6n,f»7,U9 Texas 60,307,t>87 Michigan S5,720,tl» Kentucky 49,«yr»,36T Balfiv mm ffiviA the tittal anjabot of Acres Average In Farms, per acre. 31,073,645 $4.18 24,752,700 2:1,789.764 24,5VJ,M6 27,8T!),5IT» 19,791,341 20,130,983 21.417.468 36,293,219 13.S07.340 21,495,240 cattle, as reported by the last four cen­ suses: _ UK 1800. Milch COWS 6,S§5,0M 8,583,78# Other cattle ,4.,,,.,... 9.698.060 Total ..17,77S,90J " ~ w M i . j - k < m o . WorklnKMen. 1.319.271 Alien cows 8,935,332 Other cattle u........ .13,666.00$ 25,^620.019 1880. <»<V! tUJ 12,443,1*) 22,488,58# Total .23,820,608 35,925,511 The nnmber of horses returned wa«; 1800 1860 1870 4,.. 1880..... . . . . . 4,3:16,7 6,249,1 ............ 7,145,3 . _ _ 1Q,357,_ Illinois leads with over a million- Texas following, but 20 par cent, be­ hind, and then but little farther down, Iowa and Ohio, with 792,322 and %T>,- 478 respectively, while Missouri and New York ar j filth and sixth. Mules and asses are in growing numbers, ad­ vancing from 1,125,415 in 1870 to 1,812,808 ten years later. Here Mis­ souri leads, followed closely bv Tennes­ see, with Texas, Georgia* and Missis­ sippi next in rank, and Illinois and Ala­ bama as sixth and seventh. In sheep we quote the aggregate number and the yield of wool reported : Wool, Sbesp, No. 1850... 21,723,230 I860 22,471,275 1870 23,477,951 188^ 35,192,074 Wool, lb?. 52,516,989 60,264,913 100,102,337 155,fi81,T51 av. per h'd. 2.42 Hw. 2.68 U>8. 3.51 lbs. 4.42 tbs. are to To the figures for 1880 m o iiu ywr added the "number of aheap on ranclies or public lands, as computed by a special agent, 7,000,000, making the ag­ gregate of sheep, exclusive of spring lambs, 42,192,074." It is added that the computed product of wool not in­ cluded in the above figures, and includ­ ing 38,000.000 pounds, as estimated fleeces of slaughtered sheep, will bring the aggregate wool clip of the year up to 240,681,751 pounds. President and Conductor. Mr. Hayes was traveling, absorbed in the affairs of State, when he was po­ litely waited upon by the conductor of the train and his ticket requested. The President explained who he was, but the conductor said that his orders were imperative. He was obliged to show something at the end of his route lor every passenger who traveled with him, and it did not make any difference who the man was, he must either have a ticket, a pass, or the money. Presi­ dent Hayes had neither a ticket nor a pass, he reluctantly pulled out his pock- • et-book and counted enough money to pay his passage. Haves was a very close man in money matters, and he was highly indignant at the treatment which he had undergone. At the end of the road he stalked into the offioe of the President of the rail­ road and laid the facts before him, with a request that the conductor be either discharged or reprimanded. The rail­ road official calmly paid him back the money which he had given the con­ ductor for his fare, and Mr. Hayes con­ tinued his journey in a much happier frame of mind. The conductor, when he found out that the President of the United States had made a complaint against him, was very apprehensive, and his fear of dismissal was by no means allayed when he received a sum­ mons from the President of the road to come at once to headquarters. When he arrived, Mr. Hayes' stonr was repeated to him, and he was asked if he had anything to say. Mr. Con­ ductor took the rules out of his pocket and read them, saying that he saw nothing which exempted any passenger, even so high a personage as the Presi­ dent of the United States. He was then told that it was not the purpose of the President of the road to dismiss him for a breach of the rules, but that he was to be promoted to a more respon­ sible position, with a much higher sal­ ary for his faithfulness.--Boston Trav- eller, A Set Not to Be Broken. . A man in Texas was arrested for run­ ning away with three sisters--triplets-- and was placed on trial. "You are a nice follow," said the Judge, as a preliminary. "I know it, Jedge; leastwise, that's what the gals said." "What do you mean by running away with three women, and ruining the peace of a happy family ?" . "I meant to marry 'em, Jedge." ; • "Insatiate monster! would not one suffice?" "Put it a leetle plainer, Jedge." "Wouldn't one have been enough?" "It mouglit look that 'ere way to yon, Jedge, and it did to me at fust, but you see there was three of 'em; kind of one set, like." "That doesn't count in law." "Mebbe it don't, Jedge; but them gals and me talked it all over, and they was mighty attached to each other, and said it was a pity for me to take one of them triplets and break the set, and so we just concluded to hang together, and I'll be durned if we wasn't hanging right out for Utah, and no mistake." "The law doesn't recognize any such excuses." ; "All right, old man; go ahead. There was three agin one, and if I have to suffer, I kin stand it; but I want to say right here, Jedge, it' any fool cuss breaks that set while I'm sufferin', IH break his durned skull as shore as I'm a dyin' sinner, and you can bet a raw­ hide on it." The case was continued.--Thtt Drum­ mer. ©lass Floors. .•mi.Ti ^irtser-glass is now being made nee of in the production of a paint wl>ich, in addition to its beauty and durability, is also advantageous as a means of pro­ tection against the action of fire. As a floor paint it is found especially valua­ ble. The surface having been well cleaned, any crevices or cracks between the boards are next luted with a thick mixture of water-glass and pulverized chalk or gypsum; then, by means of m stiff brush, a coating of water-glass, of sirup-like consistency, is spread over the floor, and to this succeeds a second coating of the same, mixed with the de­ sired color--the latter a mineral color, as the alkalies of the water-glass com­ monly decompose vegetable colors. This coating having become dry, other layers of the water-glas% are given, un­ til the floor acquires a fine lustrous ap>- pearanoe. In order to insure a pol­ ished brightness, the surface is ground off a little, oiled and thoroughly dried. The water-glass is not worn away either by heat or by continued use. 5.04 4.96 4.23 3.43 4.26 3.48 2.8", 1.G6 4.03 2.31 "I WAS at the theater last night," sa-'d Oara, "and what do yon think ? Charley Norris was there, in the very naxt seat to me." "Was he?" replied Mary. "Did he favor yon with any of his long stories?" "Oh, no," said Clara; "he hadn't much to say to me; he talked most of tho time to the young lady with him." "I see," said Mary; "he gave her tongue and you cola shoulder."-- Son km Traiwript, . •