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ELLIJAY. GA.. THURSDAY, -J ANUARY 27. 1887.
THE TALE OF LJFM.
lfau U today what man m yesterday—
Will bs to-morrow; lot him curaa or pray
Drink or be dull, he learns not, nor shall
learn
The lesson that shall laugh the world
away.
The world as gray or just as golden ehines.
The wine as sweet or just as bitter flows
Yor you and me; and you, like me, may
find
Perfume or canker in the reddest rose.
The tale of life is hard to understand;
Bat wail# the cup wait* ready to your
hand
Drink, and declare the summer roses blow
As red in London as in Samarcand.
Lips are as sweet to kiss and eyes as bright
As ever flattered Omar with delight:
English or Persian, while the mouth is fair,
What can it matter how it says good
night!
—Justin McCarthy ,
AN ORANGE HUMMOCK.
BT HARRIET PRESCOTT BPOFFORD.
Juliau could hardly remember the fine
old times before the war, although it
could not be said to be the fault of his
mother and his elder sisters, or of old
Mammy Dinah, all of whom kept the
legends of those times pretty constantly
before h’s eyes and ears. The splendor,
the company, the feasts, the slaves, all
seemed to him the veriest idle story be
side the fact of unvarying corn bread and
bacon now.
The house was tumbling to pieces; he
wondered if there was a worse ruin in all
Florida; the almost boundless extent of
the lands was uncultivated; the slaves
were all goue.
"I don’t see why we should bo poor,”
said Julian, having made up his mind
for a good square talk at last, “with all
the land that is here.”
‘‘That’s half the reason," said his
father.
“But I thought that it was off the
land people made their money.”
“When they already have money and
the hands with which to cultivate land.
It takes hands and it takes means to
grow cotton and sugar. I can hardly be
expected to go to work myself! ”
“Then,” persisted Julian, “why
couldn t we hire people, and pay them
from the crop when it comes? ”
“You don t know what you are talking
about, my son.”
“I know we have hundreds of acres of!
land, and if they were mine, I think that
I could do something with them.”
‘‘You may do what you please with
them, ’ said his father. .*‘l give you !
carte blanche,” and he went back to the.
reading of the Co/ir/roeional Hecord. Or
at least he would have gone back if
Julian would have let him. But .Julian
had not begun to talk without being very
much in earnest, and now he meant to
go through.
•‘Well,’' he said, laughing, ‘‘carte
blanehe is a good thing to have, but one,
needs some help to do anything wito
even that. I think if you will let hie
have the hummock in Okemolkokee
Everglade, and will lend old Cy to
Dandridge and me”—
“Old Cyrus! What would your
mother do without him, and what would
Rachel and Rebecca do? The only one
of 611 tne hands that has stayed faithful
to us! You can do nothing without
capital. ”
“But Northern people come here, and
seem sure of doing well. And we have
the land they come to buy. That’s cap
ital. If you lend old Cy to Dan and me,
we won’t ask you for more, for" we’ve
been saving our odd pennies for this,
and we’ve got enough to buy all the
grafts we want, and Col. Burbeck will
give us some besides.”
“Grafts ?” said his father, pushing up
his silver-bowed spectacles in perplexity.
•‘Grafts?’
“Yes.”
“What are you going to do with
grafts?”
“Look at them,” said Julian, with a
grin. “So I tee you’ll lend me Cy. What
if Rachel went along with us?”
“Your mother might uot approve.”
“Mother'll approve fast < nough, I
reckon, when we’re getting five-thousand
a year. ”
“rive thousand a year!” cried his
father, letting the < onyressional Record,
fall. “Have you gone daft, Julian?”
“Well, father, ’ said Julian, with a
great laugh, throwing back the dark curl
that was always dropping into his eyes,
“I’ll send for you to make us a visit on
the big hummock in Okemolkokee Ever
glade by-and-by, and then we’ll see.”
“I don’t know about it; Idon’t know,”
said his father, picking up the scattered
leaves of his cherished document. But
Julian knew that his father would lend
old Cy to Danbridge and himself, and
he made his preparations for the enter
prise, saying little or nothing. Rachel
nad already agreed to come to them
whenever they should send for her.
It was a week from that day that,
with a pack of simple provisions, with
rifles, picks, hatchets aDd pruning
knives, and some twine hammocks in
addition, Julian and his party started on
their excursion, as they called it, Julian
carrying on his back-greatly to old Cy’s
disturbance, but, then, old Cy couldn’t
carry everything himself—a bundle
wrapped in moss, which he gayly de
clared they must save first in case of fire,
for it was all their fortune.
“Bres- yer heart, honey,” said oldCy,
where's dis yer fire gwine to be, onlest
Mars' Ltan knocks my pipe onto a cypress
tree? An’ it s so damp in dese yer
swamps, ' sp.eet it'll put de pipe out any
how ”
They made their beds that night in
the hammocks that they slung high in
the Loughs, and that Julian bad brought
aloug against the wishes of old Cy, who
thought a bed of broken bougha fit for
a king -uakes or not.
What a scene it was on which their
eyes opened in the early morning I Ce
dars -upurb as the cedars of Lebanon,
dropping great circles of shade, the huge
live-oaks, trembling with webs and fes
tr ons of grey moss, that made sheets of
diamonds as it swung in the sun, here
and there a palm tree lifting ita green
crown in the clear air, and viatas info
the rich vendure of the swamp beyond,
gay with every color, and sweet with
every acetit o b my moon suckle, vauilla,
hrlu>tro|*c. and great unknown flowers
Ik and out the Utioketa Hashed wings
like jewel*; scarlet flamingoes stood in
the pool*, the greet white heron rose
heavily, and little alligators, that looked
as if they were living bronze*, crept up
to sun themselves on the bank*.
After they had finished their frugal
breakfast, and rolled their hammocks in
the smallest knot they could make, they
pushed on after old Cyrus, who knew
the paths and by-paths to everywhere,
and they were only a week on their way,
adding to their larder game brought
down by their rifles before they came up
from the swamp they had skirted, and
found themselves on the hummock of
Okemolkokee Everglade.
What a strango place it was. and what
a wilderness of wealth it looked to
Julian I It was a alight elevation, but a
few feet in all above the , lamp, and its
rich lands had beconwrt'iTiforest of the
bitter wild orauge, at*yri!&t of no good
to anybody, except in its season of
bloom, whin the rapturously delicious
fragrance drifted for miles on the soft air.
“We will explore a mile or two to
day,” said Julian, “and mark the trees
we" think best to keep, and thin out all
the others, the first thing we do.”
It was a busy day they had of it, and
many a busy day that followed, while
they' let sun and air into the great
thicket, and, as far as possible, saved
trees in the regularity they would have
had if set out in an orchard. Three or
four times before they finished Cyrus
left them and returned for piovisions,
the, second time bringing his son Darius
with him. And at last the wilderness
was cleared, and every tree remaining
in the first section had received the bud
of the sweet orange, which had been the
precious freight of Julian’s moss
wrapped bundle.
“Now,” said Julian, “while these are
accommodating themselves to the new
circumstances, we will go ahead and
clear out next year’s extension. I don’t
know exactly how long this hummock
is, but in time I mean to get all the
worthless growth cleared out of so much
of it as belongs to father, if its ten
miles, and every tree left grafted, and
we’ll have every sort of orange that
grows; the blood-red Maltese, the spicy
little Mandarin, and all the rest. This
is better than standing behind counters
or over desks, isn’t it, Dan ?”
“Heap sweeter work than picking cot
ton on the field honey,” said old Cy.
What a day it was to the boys and the
old servant when the whole orange for
j est, as far as eye could see, burst out in
i flower, with suoh a blossoming as would
; have wreathed all the brides of the earth
with snowy sprays, and whose rich, rare
odors one would think might have sailed
over the seas themselves, and penetrated
foreign countries with their sweetness.
“Now,” said Julian, to his brother
and confidante, "we want to be fit for
! what’s coming. Don’t let’s waste any
time. Di>Yancey has bonks enough,
tall u* what to read, and we’ll
go and and begin to get an edu
cation.” And so much of their plan as
this th*y announced to the family.
“I’m sure I don’t see what you can be
thinking about,” whimpered his sister
Fpunie, “when we’re all but starving."
/But Rachel was the only onewhotook
mold of the books with them; and la
bored along as near them as she cold fol
low; and before the year was out it was
surprising how much those lads and the
young girl had put into their memories.
Twice a year Julian and Dan and old Cy
and Darius went off on what their mother
called their wicked and idle shooting,
for which she didn’t see why their father
wa9 willing to spare them old Cy. But
the father kept the secret. They believed
it would make the mother happy enough
by-and-by.
Some years later, they set out early one
morning for the orange hummock, the
father having left a note for the mother,
saying that he was going with the boys,
and going to take Rachel,
Nobody enjoyed the whole enterprise
more than Rachel, who was a helpful
little body, and knew of countless meth
ods of adding to their comfort on the
way. Her own comfort was secured by
the little donkey that Cy had borrowed
of Dr. Yancey and < n whi h she rode.
“You’ll have to be lot'of use, Rachel,
as soon as we get tlere,” said Julian,
“and so has Mr. Kathlr.”
But when she did dbt there, she found
as romantic a little hit, made of orange
boughs, with two rooms in it, too, that
the boys had made fo her the last time
they were there, as ope could have out
of a fairy story; a|d long before she
reached the place sh could have found
the way by the odirs blowing toward
her; and when, all it once, the orange-
forest —not an or an; (grove or planta
tion, but the orange orest—burst upon
her in full gorgeous i mt she could have
cried with rapture, nly she knew her
father liked to have tfer staid and quiet.
But she knew she la< come to help them
gather their fortune, And all hands be
gan at once.
“We made a eft, you gee, father,"
said Julian, “the lAt time we were here,
too, and we can fiat it; and there is a
raft tied up under the bushes there, and
that will let us intfjthe water ways to the
St. John’s, if wepell our oranges well,
we’U have a betteifequipment next year.
After that, pntiece. patience, father!
When we’ve raftj down one lot we’ll
come back for tie next. When those
first old Spanish cdonists, three hundred
years ago, brougli over a few orange
shoots from SeviK do you believe it
ever occurred to gem that such a forest
as this would find a place here?”
It was all a Jlian said, and when
they had finishe> their voyaging and
■old the l‘t or.inje, the boys went back
with their father,and made their mother
a visit, and stopped all her reproaches
by tellint her thtjr story. Shortly after
that, miyons and y irpenters and garden
ers wcr.Jat work ljw'n the house and the
ground? and then the boys had taken
servant! and mules with them, and had
gone bck to the Okemolkokee hum
mock, ail l achel, with her mother's
consent had gone along, to keep the
mildew IT,-1 an snid, while they cleared
out the ummock farther along, glutting
nitw tre and tending old ones, and read
their b tks at night, by the light of
burning |).tch-pine knot-, before the lit
tle hut i the centre of their orange
trees, tl it acemed to bud and bloom as
if they new the wo k they were doing
for the fmily that had two such sons
and suchl daughter as Itschel, in il.
It was hslt-d sen years later, that I
met at Hk- Orleans a stately old gentle
rna 'rMed faultlessly; on his arm was
a pals #1 graceful iad whose face,
happy ad sttiilliur though it was, bore
traces < old discontent and sorrow.
Then m • group o t young people la
the distance, busy over trunks and bas
kets and wraps,—Frarnie and Rebecca,
and little Rachel, grown as tall and
handsome as they, and their pert and
pretty quadroon waiting maid; and
-lames, who had grandly tnrown up the
place under Government, anxiety to
keep which had once nearly worn his
life out; and the two boys, who had
forgotten there was such a thing as a
shop counter or an oyster-scow. and
Darius, grinning like a masque and old
Cy, hovering round Julian and Dandrigde
as if they were the chief treasures of the
family, and losing them one lost orange
groves and all.
“Yes,” said the stately old gentleman,
“yes, we are on the way to see the boys
off to Europe, to give them the advan
tages of the best education. Splendid
bys, sir—deserve the best there is. and I
am able to give it to them, and they
shall have it.
“Am I still in the cotton business?
Oh, no; the cotton business left me with
the war. lam largely interested in
orange growing. My boy*—fine young
men —early turned their attention to the
wild bitter orange on my waste lands,
and thank 9to them—l mean, thanks to
Julian and Dandridge there—you will
hardly believe It, but! receive more than
ten thousand dollars a year clear profit
from my orange groves:’’
The steamer bore away over the old
Spanish main, to Gibraltar and Genoa,
two promising young men, if young they
might be called, when nearly thirty.
Ten years had changed their fortune.
The old hummock still blossom* and
bears, and becomes a richer income year
ly, and is likely to do so until “the
boys” are old.— Youth') Companion.
Beecher on Gladstone.
Rev. Henry Ward Beqcher heard ex-
Premier Gladstone speak at Liverpool,
and writes his impressions of the great
English leader for the New York World
as follows;
Taking the address as a whole, and
comparing it with the elaborate efforts of
such an American as Daniel Webster, or
with some of the oid Greek orators, it
could scarcely be said to have the form
and finish that applies to many of the
masterpieces of eloquence. Judging of
its effect on myself, a stranger, a for
eigner, one not well versed in the details
which he discussed, I found myself,
nevertheless, glowing with the sympathy
of the audience and in full admiration of
this remarkable man. Whatever may be
the issue of the {mat question upon
which he' has expended his genius, which
ho regards as his last great life’s work—
the emancipation of Ireland —there can
be no doubt that Gladstone is pre-emi
nently the central figure in the politics of
Great Britain, nnd that he also is or hag
been a hading figure in the affairs of all
Europe.
Hi,* versatility is proverbial., His
klluwledge of classical languages and of
modern languages, which is not so pro
found or so minute as that of many other
men. is, nevertheless, remarkable. There
are few subjects which interest thinking
men to-day about which he cannot wisely
and instructively discourse. His memory
is something prodigious. His command
of material very striking; his accuracy
in statement marvelous. He impresses
one as a fur-seeing and comprehensive
statesman, void of the arts of politicians,
in deep earnest and with strong moral
convictions. •
Mr. Gladstone seems to be a man, 1
should say, of about five feet ten inches
in height. He is active, supple and
erect; capable of enduring great fatigue,
quite elastic in spirits, genial and social.
His head is said to be a Websterian bead,
but in my judgment it will hardly heat
that comparison. The lines upon his
face are btrong; his features are large,
and, being nearly bald, the impression
of the height of his foreheap is apt to be
exaggerated. A strong nose, a mouth
fine, but very firm, the chin only moder
ately full. Altogether a striking head
and physiognomy.
I met him subsequently at his own
dwelling in London at a breakfast. He
was* very simple and unpretentious in
his manner; grave and very dignified,
yet familiar. I cannot say that he is a
good conversationalist, but he is an ex
cellent talker. Although there were
several gentleman present, pretty much
all the discourse fell from his lips.
Mr. Gladstone has not escaped very
bitter detraction. The hatred him
on some sides is intense and even malig
nant. Even his personal morality lias
not escaped virulent criticism. It is
probable that no statesman for the last
hundred years has been subjected to
greater abuse and vindictive misrepre
sentations. To me he seemed like a
great man seeking great ends and by
very noble measures and from pure
motives. Whatever may be the outcome
of the present struggle, I think it beyond
all controversy that when the rights of
Ireland are acknowledged and estab
lished all men will see tbat the redeem
ing measures must be traced back to the
wisdom of William E. Gladstone.
A Great Sea on Fire.
The shores of the Caspian abound in
ntfphtha springs extending for miles
under the sea, the imprisoned gases ol
this volatile substance often escaping
from fissures in its bed and bubbling up
in large volumes to the surface. This cir
cumstance has given rise to the practice
of “setting the sea on fire,” which is thus
described by a traveler:
“Hiring a steam-barge, we put out to
sea, and, after a lengthy search, found at
last a suitable spot. Cur boat having
moved round to windward a sailor threw
a bundle of burning flax into the sea,
when floods of light dispelled the sur
rounding darkness. No fireworks, no
illuminations, are to be compared to the
sight that presented itself to our ga/e.
It was as though the sea trembled con
vulsively amid thousands of shooting,
dancing tongues of llaine of prodigious
size. Now they emerged from the water,
now they disappeared. At one time they
■oared aloft and melted away; at another
a gust of wind divided them into bright
streaks of flame, the foaming, bubbling
billows making music to the scene.
“In compliance with the wi-hes of
some of the spectators our bsrgc was
steered toward the tiaraes. and passed
right through the midatof them, a some
what dangerous exp riment, as the barge
was employed io tbs transport of naph
tha, and was pretty well saturated with
the fluid. However, we escaped with
out accident, and gazed for an hour
longer on the unwonted spectacle of e
see ve lire."
HOUSEHOLD MATTER*
A. Christmas Plum Pudding.
Three-qurters of a lb f bread crumbs;
1 lb. of beef suet; 1-4 lb. of flour; I lb
of currants; 1 !b. of raisins; 1 lb. of
sugar; 1 eunce of candied citron peel; 1
ounce of candied lemon peel; 1 ounce of
sweet almonds, blanched; 1 saltspoonful
■alt; 1 small nutmeg, grated; 1 lemon; 8
eggs; 1 pint milk.
Shred the suet finely; wash, pick aud
dry the curants; atone the raisins, and
blanch and slice up the almonds Mix
theie thoroughly with the other dry in
gredients, and then beat and add the
eggs, afterward the milk (adding ouly
enough of the milk to meisten the mix
ture into a stiff paste, too much will
make the pudding heavy). Put the mix
ture into a well-buttered mold, tie a
floured pudding-cloth over it, put it into
boiling water aud keep it boiling for six
or seven hours. As the water boil* away
do not add cold water, but replenish the
pot from another vessel of water which
is kept boiling for the purpose. The
adding of cola water makes the pudding
heavy. When the pudding is done and
taken out of the boiling water it should
be plunged at once into a vessel of cold
water. This will loosen the sides of the
pudding from the mold and render it
less likely to break in turning it out.—
Caterer.
Stale Bread.
A great deal ef bread is thrown away
bv those who can ill afford it, from lack
ef knowledge how to utilize it. On the
farm, in most instances, of course, stale
bread is not wholly lost, for if wet a
little it makes good food for the poultry,
or may be giveu to the pigs, but this is
not the best wav to make use of it even
by those who have poultry and pigs.
There are many ways to utilize stale
bread. It makes delicious griddle-cakes
when soaked in cold water. Three small
•lices with water enough to cover them
should be sufficient, when the milk end
fleur are added, to make two quarts of
hatter. Some prefer to put in one egg,
while others like them fully es well with
out. When the bread is soaked soft,
make it tine with a spoon, add the milk
and sufficient flour to stiffen enough so
that the cake* can be easily turned. If
aour milk is used add to the batter one
even tablespoonful of soda. If you do
not use sour milk use twice as much
cream of tartar as soda. French toast,
always a favorate dish with children,
can be mudo of thin slices cut from a
stale loaf and moistened in milk
and eggs—two eggs to a pint of
milk—and then fried on a griddle
with a mixture of butter and lard or
butter and beef drippings, and maybe
eaten with sugar or syrup, like griddle
cakes. Pieces of bread which are not too
hard can be made into a resemblance of
turkey dressing. Cut tne bread into
dice, and if you have a quantity of gravy
from which fat can be taken, left from
any kind of roast—though a piece of
butter will do as well—thoroughly grease
the bottom of a spider, put in the bread,
with some little chunks of butter and
Elenty of seasoning: then pour enough
oiling water on to moisten it. cover
tightly, and, in a moment, it will steam
through and you can stir it, and either
brown a little or have It moist like dress
ing. It shoffld be eaten with gravy over
it, and is a good substitute for potatoes.
The little dry, hard pieces and crusts
which always accumulate can be put on
a pie-tin in an oven that is just hot enough
to dry and make them a light brown,
then roll them fine and put away to use
in making croquettes, frying fish, etc.
Even these slightly-browned crumbs
make excellent griddle cakes with tile
addition of one egg and a handful of
flour and milk to a batter. Male bread
may be utilized in making n custard pud
ding also. The fact is, that where econ
omy Is the rule bread will not be thrown
away.
Useful Hints.
To Pomsh Tins. —First rub them with
a damp cloth; then take dry flour and
rub it on with the hands; afterward take
an old newspaper and rub the flour off.
and the tins will shine as well as if half
an hour had been spent in rubbing them
with brick-dust or powder, which spoils
the hands.
Cleaning White Km Gloves. —Take
a piece of white flannel, moisten with
sweet milk, rub on a little white soap
and wipe the gloves. Then go over
them again with the flannel dipped, in
miik, without the soap. Wrap them
loosely in a towel and let them remain
until dry; then stretch them.
Scouring Kwvkh. —Place a quantity
of brick-dust on a board, and having the
knife perfectly dry, press it down hard
and rub it back and forth, crosswise of
the blade. When bright, turn and scour
the other side. Then wipe off with a
chamois leather. Knives thug treated
will retain their brightness much longer
and have anew look after years of
usage. .
Furniture, Polish. —One ounce of
white wax, one ounce of. yellow wax,
one-half- ounce of white soap and one
pint of boiling water. Melt all together
m a saucepan over the fire, and pour
into a bottle. Apply it by rubbing a
little on a small space with a cloth of
any kind, rub with a second cloth and
polish with a third. The economical
housekeeper may have her furniture
nicely polished for the holidays at
trifling expense.
To Prkrkr.ne Steel Goods from
Rust.—After bright gratea have been
thoroughly cleaned, they should be
dusted over with unslacked lime, and
thus left until wanted. All the coils of
piano wires are thus sprinkled, and will
keep from rust for many years. Table
knives which are not in constant use
ought to be put in a case in which quick
lime is placed, eight inches deep. They
should be plunged to the top of the
blades, but the limo should sot touch
the handles.
A high class weekly, eomething after
the style of the London Saturday Jteciew,
will soon mako its appearance in this
city. The proprietor will be Dewitt J.
Beligman, e son of the wealthy banker
and himself a millionaire. The new
journal will contain ehort articles on poli
tics, society, srt end literature, supple
mented by brief debates on current topics
by well known writers, ends short story
in every number.
Capitalists are considering the feaaibli-
Ity of establishing a grain route from
Mnuitebeto i.ugland by way of Hudson a
lay.
on DOUAR Ptr * . Ia Aflw*i
Fan at the Fireside.
An exchange describes a few tricks
and games with which the long winter
evenings may be quickly and pleasantly
whiled away. Here ia a trick for the
boys to try;
Tile material r.ceded ore a clothes
basket, a strong broom handle, a stout
walking stick, two chairs, and four
penny pieces. Pass the broomsticks
through the handles of the basket, and
let tbe pro ectingends rest firmly on the
seats of two chairs, placed opposite to
each other. The slightest touch will
cau*e the basket to oscillate. Then place
a coin on each front corner of the two
chair bottoms. The player must then
seat himself on the broom handle, with
a leg on each side of it, and attempt to
jerk off the coins with the point of the
walking stick. He must neither touch
chair nor basket with his bands, but may
plant the stick on the floor, as a means
of steadying himself. As, however, the
stick is equally needed for jerking off
the coins, the operator generally has
many a roll out of the basket before he
succeeds. When the pennies opposite
to him have been dislarged, it is no easy
matter to turn r,.und and .emove the re
maining two.
This trick always produces shouts of
laughter; for the basket beingso near the
floor the tumbles do no Jiarm to the
player, while his grotesque' efforts are
highly amusing to the lookers on. If,
after a certain number of trials previously
agreed on, tho operator falls in hu
attempts he gives place to another. \
When the lads are tired of this game,
pater familias and one of his grown-up
friends may taka a turn at it, or they
may answer to the question: .
“Will you oblige me with a light?”
Two players are needed. One take* a
lighted candle in his left hand. Then
each must stand on the left foot only,
and extend the right leg and arm as far
behind as possible, they must bend for
ward, and try to give and take the re
quired light.
And I wish they may succeed—being
quite sure that they will bo successful in
adding to the fun of tho fireside circle
by their praisewort? pfforts.
Having failed or succeeded in lighting
a taper under these circumstances they
may next try in turn a novel mode of
extinguishing a lighted candle.
The player must be stationed opposite
to the light, which should be placed on
a sideboard or similar article of furni
ture, Then, when thoroughly blind
folded, he must be requested to turn
round three times before ho attempts to
blow out the candle.
This seems to be a very imple matter
to do. Well, if you think so, try it.
By this time everybody is ready for a
round game, and everybody must play.
Suppose you begin with “How do you
like jour neighbor?”
All the players sit in a circle except
one, who stands in tho middle and takes
the duty of “odd man.” ,
“The "Neighbor is always the player
to tho right of the one addressed.
The “odd man, or girl," turning
quickly round, inquires of a sitter,
“How do you like your neighbor?”
“If the answer is “Not ut all,” the
next question- is, “Who would you like
better?”
The sitter addressed names,_ or points
out, the more favored individual, whp
must instantly rise and run across to
change places with the rejected neigh
bor; but the “odd man” also tries to
obtain possession of one of tho vacated
seats, aud, if successful, the other, who
has lost hers, stands in the middle and
becomes questioner in turn.
Should the reply to “How do you
like your neighbor?” be “Very much."
instead of “not at all,” tho wiiplo of the
players change seats, and whopver is
left without oho becomes-“odd man."
Nevada’s Salt Fields.
The abundance of tijo salt formation
in Nevada is illustrated by the fact that
in Lincoln County there is a deposit of
pure rook salt which is exposed for a
length of two miles, a width of half a
mite, and is of unKnown depth; in places
canons are cut through it to a depth of
sixty feet, and not only has the deposit
been traced on the surface for a distance
of nine miles, but it is so solid iu places
as to require blasting like rock, and so
.pure and transparent that print can be
road through blocks of it some inches
thick. In Chui chill County there is said
to be a deposit of rock salt some fourteen
feet in depth, free from pny particle of
foreign substance, and wliich can be
quarried at the ra*e of five tonjs a day to
the man. What is know as the great
Humboldt salt field is estimated to be
some lifteen miles long by six wide. Ac
cording to the description, when the
summer heats have evaporated the sur
face water, salt to the depth of several
inches may be scraped up, and '..ncUr
neath there is a stratum of lock salt of
the purest description, and of a depth
unknown.
Having Fan With Nickels.
In some of the St. Louis one-horse cars
there are brass nickel carriers that run
the whole length of the car. From any
part of the car you can drop a nickel
into one of these carriers and then watch
it as it rolls along on its edge down the
incline and finally goes rattling into the
fare-box. I saw a wild Western ranch
man come into a car, and, after putting
his fare in the ordinary way, he noticed
a Dew-comer drop a nickel down the ele
vated railway. The device aroused his
utmost admiration. He at once changed
a couple of dollars into five-cent pieces.
Then he took ids place at the door and
started two nirkles simultaneously down
each side of the car and offered to ac
cept bets as to which would get into the
fare-box first. He kept this up until his
$•2 worth of coin was gone, and wound
up by saying “Wall, that's the queer
est contrivance I ever see. ” — Detroit Fret
Prett.
A Pnlnfnl Inference.
In the graveyard at Norridgcwock,
Me., are a couple of tombstones which
much amused a modern Athenian, who,
in the course of his wanderings, visited
that lovely village. < ;ne re- ordx the fact
that beneath ies‘i the remains of little
Sarah .(ones, who died in childhood on a
date which it aftecifled. The second
stone, erected over the grave of a half
sister of this child, who likewise died in
early youth, beme merely the laconic an
nouncement: "The Second little Sarah
has gone to Heaven.” The inferen aln
regard to the probable abode of the spirit
of the rirst child is as obvloue as it is
startling.- -#•#<* Umrd,
NO. 46.