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YOL. XVII.
Hidden Treasures.
are gems as bright, as precious,
Lying hid beneath the ground,
As those worn by lord or lady,
Gems as fair as ever found.
There are virtues just as noble
Hidden ’ae&th a load of oare
As those blazoned on the banner
Which the conquering heroes bear.
There are hearts that beat as grandly,
Thoughts that never have a pen,
Treasures locked in sacred caskets
Never praised by tongues or men.
Barest gems are ne’er discovered;
Shallow, hidden in the earth,
In the deepest oaves of ocean
Lies the pearl of richest worth.
Search amoug thy fellow-workers,
Probe beneath the wound of toil,
Surely thou shall find a diamond
Hidden deep within the soil.
Hearts are bound in ribs of marble,
Gems are bound in ribs of rook.
Happy he who bursts the portal,
Happy he who the gates unlook.
— By Mima V. Shattuck.
SACRAMENTO.
It was an odd name for a girl—Sacra
mento.
So the girl herself thought as she
stooped down beside a spring at the
foot of a oottonwood tree and lazily
dropped her pail into the water.
“It ought to have been given to a
boy, if it was a fit name to give to any
body,” ahe said, quite aloud. “ Bnt I’m
more boy than girl anyway.”
This last was added rather bitterly,
•s she looked at her brown, rongh
bands and her bare ankles, and thought
of the “ boys’ work" she had to do.
And it was hard to believe that this
was the beet kind of a life for a young
girl like Sacramento. Hero she” lived
alone, for her father was down at the
mouth of the canon all day. The gar
den work she was obliged to do, and
the care of the cattle fell upon her.
It was not often that she saw any per
son bnt her father, although now and
then, in spile of herself, she came in
oontact with the rude men of the min
ing camp up above.
Yet Sacramento had her dream, one
that she ‘ ‘ scarcely dared to own bnt
it came to her often as she went about
her work.
She knew that down at Santa Bar
bara and in the towns along the coast,
and far, far away across wide stretches
of the continent to the great East,
there were girls who lived lives very dif
ferent from her life ; and she dreamed
of such a life foT herself.
“Oh, if I could only go away from
here I” she cried ont, almost as one
cries for help “If I could only go
down to Sat* Francisco ana u> school
there single year 1 Ah, if 1 only
had oWnundred dollars I”
there was a step—not oTB
■ hchinfl
;Himl {’hen someone spoke. Shfl
(Few the voice without looking np. |> J
fwas Pete Larvabee, a fellow who livt.
down on Hahnemann's plantation, two
miles along the trail. He sometimes
rode by. He had not heard her last
words at all; yet strangely enough his
own were a repetition of them.
“Five hundred dollars, Sac,” said
ht. “Five hundred dollars in gold I
D'ye want ter earn it I There’s ver
chance,” and he threw down to her a
bit of paper crumpled into a ball.
She picked it np and slowly unfold
ing it ran her eyea over its contents.
SSOO Reward.
The above amount will be paid for informa
tion leading to tbo arrest, dead or alive, of
Walter Homers, who haa worked for some time
put on Maxwell's ranch. Said Homers is about
eighteen years old and Are and a half feet
high, rather good-looking, with light, curly
hair, blue eyes and a light mustache. When
last seen he had on a black slouch hat, gray
business euit with bine flannel shirt, and boots
with red tops marked with maker’s name.
The name of the connty sheriff was
signed at the bottom of the bill. Sac
ramento, having glanced it through,
looked up.
“ He's been stealin' horses,” exclaimed
Pete “Got off last night with four
of Max’ll's best somewheres. Thet re
ward won’t do much good, though,
Ther Regulators’ll lasso him an’ string
him up long ’fore ther law’ll git s tartod.
They’re hevin’ a meetin’ now up at the
Gulch. I tell ye, they are mad. They’U
make quick work ef they ketch ’em.
Yer father s there. Ye needn’t look fur
him afore night much.”
Then, after a word or two more, the
man rode on; and presently Sacramen
to took up her pail and with the sheriff’s
bill still in her hand went slowly up
the bank am} across the trail toward the
Jfcwsstf, tttnk’ing very seriously about the
five hundred dollars all the while.
It was some hours after this, and the
afternoon sun was going down behind
the tops of the mountains, that Sacra
mento, having finished her housework,
srss preparing to sit down on the porch
to do her sewing when she was met in
the doorway by a young man she had
never seen before.
And yet he was no stranger. The girl
knew him instantly, altbongh the
slouch hat wm pulled down over the
flaxen hair and blue eyes, and the gray
pants, torn and muddy, had been
drawn ont of the boot legs so as to no
longer allow the red tops of the boots
with the maker’s name to be seen. It
was the borsethief.
She did not, however, express any
surprise os she saw him. She was ac
customed to the sight of rough, evil
men ; and at the first glance she bad
felt that this one could not be either
very wicked or very dangerous. He
was not much more than a lad, and bad
an air of gentleness and good-breeding
bout him that six months of Western
life and the miserable plight he was in
at the moment bad by nl means de
stroyed. He seemed to bt short for
breath, too, and was trembling as if he
had been running.
Instinctively he raised his hand to
ward his hat and then, bethinking him
self, dropped it again.
“Could you give me something to
eat and drink T he asked, in a hesitat
ng voioe. “ Anything wUI do. lam
very hungry. I—l have had nothing
to eat since last night.’
“ Come in,” said Sacramento, gravely.
In her voice was neither kindness or
unkindness. She was trying to realize
the situation she was in. “ Come in
and sit down.”
Then she went- into the oloset near
by and began taking down from the
shelves milk and bread and meat, as
she slowly did so turning over the
matter in her mind. Here was this
man who had been stealing horses and
for whose capture five hundred dollars
whs offered, in her kitchen. Five
hundred dollars ! Exactly the sum she
had been wishing for—the sum that
would take her down to San Franoiseo
to sohuol and help her make a lady of
herself, And this sum might be hers
if she could in some way secure this
stranger or somehow keep him in the
house until help arrived. Help 1 Why,
she hardly needed help. He was weak
and exhausted, and in the drawer of
the kitchen table there was a loaded
revolver which she knew well how to
use.
She came out preeently and set the
things before him, bringing also a tea
pot from the stove and pouring for him
a oup of tea. Then she went and sat
down by the window and watohed him
furtively as he ate.
In spite of his caution he had taken
off his hat while he was eating. She
could better see what ho was like. It
was an almost boyish face, wom, but
not wicked, with the curling hair lying
in. damp clusters upon his pale brow.
In .he hands, small and well-shaped,
and in all his motions and manner she
felt that she could read something of
his stogy. She had heard before this
how young lads in the East filled with
romantic notions about Western life
and adventure sometime* left their
luxuriant homes and foe nd Iheir way
out to the ranches of the Pacific slope.
Perhaps he was one of these.
As she looked at him, fancying all
this, and realizing the terrible strait he
was in, and the probable dark fate that
was before him, hei heart yearned with
true womanly sympathy ; and her feel
ing found expression before she was
able to restrain herself.
“Oh, how oould you do it? How
could you do it?" she suddenly ex
claimed, her voice quite full of what
she felt.
He looked up at her in wonder; but as
his eyes met hers he understood her.
"I did not do it. Upon my honor, I
did not I” he said. “It was” that man
Dennis.”
Sacramento breathed a great sigh of
relief. Horse stealing was held in
that section to be a orime worse than
murder; and she was by no means free
from the popnlar estimate of its grave
nature.
“Oh, I am ghad of that i" said she.
“But—” She hesitated, and then went
on doubtfully. "But then how was it ?
Why did they say it waa you? Aud
why did you ran away Y
“It was Dennis? doings, their laving
that to clear himself.
' jgf‘ ' '"•>!. >• Ha* i’••*•
been no W> in trying
T.Tnnocent. always
_>a norefei&ief first and then con-
Ihuer his guilt afterward. I had to run
to save my life.”
“Do you know that there is a reward
offered for your oapture ?”
“I know the Regulators are after me,”
answered the young fellow, sullenly.
“They came pretty near catching me,
too, this noon. I just escaped them
aud came down the canon by the moun
tain trail. I have had a hard run for
it, and what with no sleep or food for
twenty-four hours 1 am about used up.
I felt as though I oould not go another
step when I saw yonr house. You
you have been very good to me. I shall
never forget”—
“But what are yon going to do now ?’’
interrupted Sacramento. “You are not
safe here.”
“I know it. Bnt I threw them off
the track at noon, and I do not think
they are within five miles of mo. Now
I have had something to eat I will take
to the woodß again. I hope I may get
away. If I don’t”—his voice trembled
and tears earn' into his eyes. “If I
don’t, I shalr hanging, I suppose.
Ob, what a, not to prefer
heme ten g. And yet, I
wonldu/ -jeh either, if it
wasn’t*' .and mother.” And
there (he pv. /Jt fairly broke down.
“ Hark !” Ssero.nento exclaimed. She
had been crying, too; she could not
help ii.
They both listened. In a moment
they heard plainly the sound of horses
coming down the trail. The girl turned
with instant self-possession.
“Go in there! Quick! Quiok ! There
js not a moment to lose ! Here, tqke
your hat I”
And handing his hat to him she
half-pushed him across the room and
into her own little room that led oil
from it. Then she hnrriedly cleared
the table again, barely finishing the
task as the horsemen halted at the
door.
There were three of them. One was
her father. Sacramento knew the
other two men by sight. They were
rongh, but of the better sort of those
who made up the dwellers in Kelly
Gulch. The faces of all three were
stern and forbidding, and they evi
dently had been riding hard. They
dismounted together.
“ Sac,” began her father as he en
tered the door, “ hev ye aeon anything
of a young chap, afoot or a-horseback,
coming this way ?”
Sacramento had expected the ques
tion and was ready for it. And she
meant, if it were possible, to answer it
without a lie.
“A young chap ‘about eighteen years
of age and five feet and a half high,
rather good-looking, and with red-top
boots on TANARUS” replied she.
“Yes! yea ! That’s him!” cried one of
the other men, eagerly. “Have you
seen him ? Has he been here T
“I was only quoting from this hand
bill,” said Sacramento, taking the paper
from the ahelf where she had laid it.
“Then you hain’t seen him at all?”
asked her father.
“I have been right here all day, and
nobody has gone by except Pete Larra
bee. It was he who gave me the bill.
WASHINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1882.
Are you sure he came this way, the—
the—horse-thief t"
“No;, but we didn’t know but he
mighter. The chances is thet he sloped
off to the mountains, meanin’ ter go
through Stove-pipe Pass. They’ll git
afore sundown.”
“It’s snndown now,” observed Saora
mento.
“Then they’ve got him now,” was
the sententious response. “ And we
should bo too late for the hangin’ ef
we sh’d go back. Leastways ’’—this was
added to his companions—“you’d bet
ter oome in and have a bite aforeyo go.”
So presently the three men sat down
to the supper that the young girl
quickly prepared for them. And while
they were eating she herself, at her
father’s bidding, went out to take the
saddle off Bueno, his horse, and give
him his feed. As she approached the
door once more a few minutes later she
heard words which caused her to stop
and listen.
“ I don’t like ter say anything against
thet kid o’ yonrn, neighbor,” one of the
men was saying, “but it hes kinder
seemed ter me all ther while’s though
she sorter hed some ’at on her mind
like. Ye don’t ’spose she knows any
thing ’bout thet yonng feller, arter all?”
Sacramento’s father laughed at this
as though it was too absurd to be con
sidered.
The other, however, was not to be
laughed out of his suspicions.
“Fur we all know,” persisted he,
“ she may hev him hid here somewhere
on the premmysis.”
“ It’s easy enough to see,” returned
the proprietor of the said “prem
mysis,” testily. “Where d’ye think
she’s hid him ? In her bedroom ?”
As he said this Sacramento, who was
now near enough to see into the kitchen,
aw her father rise from his chair and
step to the door of the room where she
had oonoealed the fugitive. Her heart
almost stopped beating as she saw him
push opsn the door and enter the room,
followed by his companions.
“We’ll make a ojus search of it
while we’re about it," she heard him say
within.
And thon she stood there in terrible
suspense upon the porch, expecting
every instant to hear the shout that
would follow the discovery of the
fugitive. |
But no such shout was heard; and
instead of it, a moment after, the two
men came ont again, her father still
laughing at his friend.
What oould it mean ? Had the
yonng man been able to oonceal him
self in the room and so evade their
search ? That was not possible. Then
she thought of the window. Oould he
have escaped from tho room by that ?
The window was so small she oould
scarcely believe that ho could have
crept through it. And yet he must
have done so.
She went hurriedly to the backoff the
house and, then down beyond thi'vjjorse
sheds. No one could be seen. ”\Bbe
halted a moment under a live-oak free
just at the edge of the garden, rlho
evening wan very calm and stillj and
the twilight shadows were deepming
fast. Was it tho rustling of the wind
in the boughs overhead that caught her
ear ? She listened.
“Hist! lam here—in the tree.”
The words carno in adistinot whisper
from directly above her.
She stood and thought a single mo
ment before replying. Then she said,
“You must get away from here at
once,” in an eager whisper. “ One of
the, men suspects something, and
they may at any moment make a search
of the place. I am going into the
house a minute. Get down at onoe and
go throngh the garden and across the
trail to a spring that yon will find there.
It’s at the foot of a big cottonwood
tiee. Stay right there until I come.”
Then she went back hurriedly to the
house. The throe men were still sit
ting at the table, and Saoramento felt
rather than saw that one of them still
regarded her suspiciously as she came
in. She did not speak to them at all,
but went dircotly throngh the kitchen
to her own room, and in a moment
came ont, went about her work in the
kitchen, and took np a pail apparently
to go to the spring for water.
Ten minntes later, standing in the
shadow of the cottonwood, yonng
Somers heard a step, and then Sacra
mento, leading Bueno all saddled and
bridled, appeared. He started forward.
“Hush !” she said; “they may oome
out at any moment. Listen to what, I
say. Your life depends upon it. You
must ride straight down the trail for a
quarter of a milo. Then, close by a big
cottonwood, just like this, you will
striko a path to tho left. Bueno will
know it, once yon get him in it. It
will bring yon ont, half a mile on, at a
corduroy road that crosses the swamp.
This end of tho corduroy has got- out of
order and there are some logs laid.
Lead Bueno across and then pull the
logs away. If youfean do that it will
make trouble for those who follow yon.
Beyond the swamp is a big plain.
Strike straight across it, keeping the
moon square on yonr right- -the moon
will be np by that time—and three
hours’ riding will bring you to the now
railroad. After that—God help you to
got safe away!”
Sacramento paused and pnt out her
hand. "Can you remember?” she de
manded.
“I can, bnt I can never forget—”
“Never mind that. Here, take this.
It is a little money. Yon will need it.
Now mount and ride—slowly, a little
way, and then for yonr life.”
The yonng man still bad h -ld of her
hand. The tears came into his eyes.
The next moment he was gone.
The next morning Saciamecto told
her father the story and coaxed him
into forgiving her. And the following
afternoon a man brought Bneno over
from the railroad town ; and then alio
knew that the fugitive was safe.
Six weeks later a lawyer from Santa
Barbara appeared with a letter from
Walter Somers. He was with his
friends at New York, and he begged
Sacramento to accept, as a gift of grat
itude, at least the amount of the re
ward that had been offered.
And so it was that she went down to
San Francisco to school that winter,
after all.— Youth’* Companion.
FOR THE LADlES
lloiuelv Waddings**
I have attended all sorts df weddings
in my time—the wedding pfja king and
queen: of a prince and prinefc; of lords
and.ladies; of Hebrews,with their quaint
oeremonies; of gypsies in the fields; of
bordersrs in the for West, when 1 held
one end of the broomstick; ef negroes
down South; of Tom Thumb and tiny
Miss Warren, weddings in cathedrals,
churches, chapels, meetiww houses;
weddings before the of
the peaoe and aldermen; weddings by
cardinals, divines, priests and preach
ers—but to me the most impressive
ceremony is the family-wedding in the
front parlor of the family Homestead,
when the father and the mother of the
bride are present to give her away, and
the father and mother of the- groom to
receive her into her new relationship,
and the little room is overorowded with
relatives and friends who know each
other, and everybody bride,
and then the kissing—as well as the
orying—becomes general, and even
such an outsider as myself comes in for
a share of the sweetest drfige in the
party—l do not mean the bride oake.
For others the march down the aisle,
the massive mnsio of the organ, the
long train of bridemaids, the dress pa
rade of ushers and the magnificent ser
vice. It is only a matter of taste, bnt
I prefer the homely wedding that gives
promise of a loving and lovely home
thereafter. —New For* Star.
Ante-Nuptial Dinner*.
Among the latest of society customs,
says the American Queen, which bid fair
to secure a permanent stronghold
among us is that of the antenuptial
bachelor dinner, given by an ekpfctant
bridegroom to his ushers and intimate
friends as a farewell to his bachelor
life. The yonng lady is generally con
sulted in making up this list of guests,
and in this way former friends of the
gentleman are sometimes able to de
termine beforehand, a tiling never
known certainly before thaintroduction
of this custom, whether the house of
the aforesaid friend will be a closed or
open one to them after bis marriage, or
if they be not invited the almost sure
presumption is that they have not
found favor in the lady’s eyes. The
dinner is generally appointed for the
week preceding the marriage. If the
gentleman be not blessed with the
abundant means without which the
fashionable caterers are only a delusion
and a snare, it ia permissible for him to
give his farewell dinner in his own
house, and in this case the number of
guests is generally somewhat smaller,
sometimes only comprising the beet
man and groomsmen. These are usually
five in all, although in large weddings
there sometimes are as many as seven
or nine. Twenty is considered a good
number of guests, and. Uds quota at
teudod the farewell dionMp . George
Merritt and Dr. ‘bis
season. ir
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Fashion Functfcj/
Chenille fringes are much worn.
Jerseys are revived on the other side.
Watered silk grows more and more
fashionable.
Fashionable dancing dresses, all, have
short skirts.
-/Esthetic dress grows more and more
in favor in England.
Flush is more fashionable as a lining
for wraps than for the outside.
Biack remains the choice color for the
cstliost and most elegant wraps.
Pule rose and cream white are the
favorite colors for fine weol evening
dresses.
Fringes of silver and pearl beads
mixed are used for trimming evening
dresses.
Arlificial flower garnitures are de
riguer with all gauzy and semi-diapha
nous ball toilets.
Tan-colored long gloves with loose
wrists are worn on all sorts of occasions
and with any kind of a dress.
Black lace and fine jet are the ap
proved trimmings for the handsomest
alack satin dresses for evening wear.
The newest and most striking mate
rial in Paris for whole costumes-is
watered silk with a floriated damask
pattern.
White, or pale blue, or rose-tinted
Chndda shawls make lovely evening
wraps when far-lined ones are cot
needed.
Detachable trains fastening below the
short bouffant back draperies come
with come of the handsomest late im
portations.
Court trains of great length, detach
able and fastening on at the shoulders,
come with the richest and costliest
evening robes.
Silver gray silk trimmed with silver
moire and steel and silver bead em
broideries, is a much admired combina
tion for light mourning.
Among fashionable shades are nas
turtium, dead leaf, old green, all dark
greeDs, faded old gold, and a shade
copied from the inside of a ripe melon.
Tinted Roman pearls are much worn
with full evening dress. Greek neck
laces are also worn, made of several
rows of pearls linked together at inter
vals by small diamond clasps.
Satin boots, with velvet tops, Span
ish insteps und Chinese tees, and
fastened with tiny jw< led buttons, are
worn with handsome dinner or evening
toilets of satin and velvet.
The Boston Pott considers it possible
for animals to blush. A turkey bar
been seen to turn mighty red aror.ad
his gills wiien pointed out to tho cook,
and maybe tho Pott is right.
In 1880 there were 12,412,187 milch
cows in the United Slates, an increase
over 1870 of 8,476,805. Daring the same
period the increase in the aggregate of
all cattle has been 12 057,188.
Every one in this world lio Us or her
share of troubles and trials. Let us
then try as much as We are able- not to
increase the harden of any bj as mnch
as the weight of a straw.
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
The Care oSVTools aud’Fnrm Implement*.
Dollar after dollar dwindles imper
ceptibly but surely away on many
farms during the winter seasor because
reapers and mowers, seed-drills, plows
and harrows are left just where they
were last employed to bear the injurious
effects of pelting storms and dry winds.
Tools wom or loosened and calling for
simple repairs are used until past
mending, and yet it is the leisure
season of the whole year.
A lew hours spent each day by the
farmer and his boys in the repair Bhop
or, barn cleaning and oiling machines,
painting wagon-bodies and repairing
wheels and axles, replacing rake-teeth,
tightening hoe-handles, sharpening the
knives to reaping machines, making
rollers and Btump-pnllers, etc., wonld
not only save unnecessary loss in actnal
dollars and cents, but a vast amount of
time, anxiety and annoyance in the
Bpring when the rush of work leaves
little or no time in which to make re
pairs or supply the place of lost tools.
There are a variety of mixtures that
may be applied to the iron parts of im
plements to prevent rusting, the cheap
est of which is grease that has not been
salted. An excellent article for the
protection of steel or iron may be pre
pared by melting lard and common
rosin slowly together and stirring tho
mixture until it cools. When required
in large quantities it may be made In
the proportion of about six pounds of
lard to two of rosin. If only a small
amount is desired, a piece of rosin the
size of a hen’s egg will suffice for one
pound of lard. This mixture can be
applied with a cloth to the metal sur
face, giving it a thin coat. The rosin
prevents the lard from becoming ran
cid and the grease excludes the air and
moisture.
Previous to applying any protsetive
wash, machinery should be thoroughly
oleaned and the bearings wiped and
oiled with castor oil or other lubricant.
Castor oil, by the way, is counted among
the best of oils for iron axles. A wheel
well lubricated will not only revolve
readily but runs much longer than when
oiled with cheaper sort of grease.
It is also economy to look after the
woodwork of tools and maohinery. Al
ternate wetting and drying soon injures
any wood, causing oraoking and final
decay. This may be prevented by the
timely and occasional application of
some cheap paint. When woodwork
from exposure has become cracked it is
advised to give it a wash of crude petro
leum previous to an external ooat of
paint. Petroleum not only improves
all wooden tools, but is alike valuable
for rustio furniture, suoh as arbors, gar
den chairs and vases that are exposed
to the weather. Gas tor is sometimes
employed as a paint for wagon wheels.
A correspondent who has mado use of
it in this way sayß that it forms a hard,
durable black polish, somewhat like
Japan on tinware; and dries in the sum
mer sun—cn wood in one day and on
iron in two days. A good black paint
for eoarse iron work, according to the
American Journal of Industry, may be
made by mixing plumbago with hot
coal tar. Equal parts of asphaltum
and rosin dissolved in common turpen
tine, says the same authority, make also
a good cheap covering for heavy iron
work.
To preserve harness, leather-belting
and the like, keep in some dry, airy
place; take apart occasionally and thor
oughly clean and oil every portion.
Never oil harness nntil it has first been
r< lieved of all dirt; scrape off the thick
est accumulation of mud, etc., witn a
dull knife, then remove the rest with a
wet cloth. If oiled previous to clean
ing the oil soaking throngh the dirt into
tho leather carries with it fine particles
into the pores of the leather, thereby
rendering it hard and stiff. For har
ness common neatsfoot oil is excellent,
but when mice and rats abound pure
castor oil is better, for these varments
do not like it. Apply the oil with an
old woolen cloth, putting on as mnch
as will rub in and dry readily. After
oiling harness and belting let it hang
for two or three days in some warm,
airy place and expose to the sunshine
when that is practicable. Never keep
leather appliances of any sort in a dark,
damp place. —New York World.
Fa rm and Garden Not cm*
Sheep give back to the farm more, in
proportion to what they take from it,
than any other animal.
Do not allow tho cattle to tramp over
the mowings when the ground is soft
enongh to retain the imprint of their
hoofs wherever they go.
Frequently after squashes begin to
blossom they dry up and die. For this
disaster no one has yet been able to
give a satisfactory cause.
Strawberries are much more proliflo
when four or five different varieties are
planted togethor, although each variety
may be a perfect one, than if but one
perfect variety were planted alone.
The opinion has generally prevailed
that a little bran mixed with meal
wonld produce more pork than clear
meal, but in some experiments lately
tried it was found that clear meal made
more pork than a mixture of bran and
meal.
Professor Brewer of the Sheffield Scien
tific school, Now Haven, says: “On
account of the value of our straw and
of the stalks of onr corn for feeding it
is fonnd that an aero of com, wheat or
other grain pays as large a profit here
as at the West, and that the labor of
each man is as well or better paid.”
The best thing to do with inferior
stock, when the price of grain and
other feed is as high as it is now, is to
fatten them quickly, if possible, and
sell them or dispose of them in some
other way. Better give them away
than, by keeping them, to deprive the
better animals of an übundanoe of food.
A correspondent of the London Live
Stock Journal oared a horse of the bad
habit of rearing when mounted by pro
viding himself with a bottle of water,
and dashing the contents “with vio
leuoe on its head” the moment it began
to get -upon its hind feet. A second ap
plication was never needed.
The Flemish farmer sorapnlonsly col
lects every atom of sewage from the
towns, he guards his manure like a
treasure, puts a roof over it to prevent
rain and sunshine from spoling it; he
also gathers mud from rivers and
canals, and the exoretions of animals
along the highways, for conversion
into phosphates.
Store cattle, or dry cows, may be kept
on the poorest forage nntil the cows
come in, when they should have as
good food as can be afforded. So the
best way to manage will be to feed up
the poorest stuff first. If it is found
that the corn-fodder is injured by the
blackening and mildewing effects of the
rains it should be fed before the hay ;
but if it has been secured in-good order
before sustaining any damage it may be
as well to feed it last or after the hay
is pretty well fed out. This is of im
portance mainly as the feeding season
will have to be well extended into sum
mer next year, or nntil soiling crops
can be obtained.
•taPM.
Gbiddle Oakes.— Take a cupful each
of sweet milk and soar milk, a table
spoonful cream or other shortening;
sift a scant half-teaspoonful cream tar
tar in the flour; dissolve a half-teaspoon
ful soda in a little water; stir in flour to
make a thin batter; have the griddle
hot and battered, dip on a spoonful at
a time and fry a light brown.
Apple Cbeam. —Peel ahd core one
pound of apples, place them in a stew
pan with eight ounces of sugar and a
pinch of ground nutmeg. Let cook
until tender; pass the apples throngh
sieve and let get cold. Whisk np rathei
stiff half a pint of cream, add the apple
pulp, a little essence of lemon, one
ounce of isinglass boiled in a gill of
water; mix well together; ponr into a
jelly mold and let set. When re
quired dip the mold into warm water
for hall a minute, wipe it with a cloth
and turn it out on a glass or silver dish.
Garnish with red flowers and slices of
lemon;
Mashed Potatoes.— Boil the pota
toes gently, after having made
them as nearly uniform in size as
possible, by dividing the larger ones,
or what is better, by slicing all, bnt not
very thinly. As soon as the fork goes
through readily turn the water off (sav
ing that for mixing your bread if you
bake the same day), then mash through
a colander into the same kettle or sauce
pan. Add butter and cream and salt,
and with a long-handled spoon beat a
few minutes briskly. Set the saluoepan
where it will thoroughty heat again,
and yonr potatoes will be a noticeable
feature of the best of dinners.
Noodle.— “ Noodle,” if properly
made, is a great addition to soup, and
is preferred by many peoplo to the best
“A.B. 0. macaroni.” For a family of
four two eggs will be sufficient; beat
them until they are very light; stir in
flour as long as it is possible to work it
in; salt it well; roll it ont on a kneed
ing-board nntil it is almost an thin as
paper and is berfeotly smooth ; put a
clean paper on a chair or table near
the stove and lay the noodle on it to
dry. It should be prepared early
enough in the morning for it to dry for
an honr at least. About twenty minutes
before the soup is taken from the stove
take the noodle and stir it over and
over until yon have a strip three or four
inches wide ; then with a sharp knife
out it in narrow strips; put these in
the soup and let them oook from ten to
fifteen minutes. Beef soup, with
noodle, and a pinch of curry powder, is
a dish to be “ somewhat considered.”
Household Hints.
Alum is one of the best additions to
make whitewash of lime that will not
rub off. When powdered chalk is used,
glue water is also good, but would not
answer for outside work exposed to muoh
rain.
That rustic black Italian crapo may
be restored by dipping in skimmed
milk and water, with a bit of fine glue
dissolved in it and made scalding hot.
It should be clapped and pulled dry,
like muslin.
Common soda is excellent for sconr
ing tin; as it will not scratch the tin
and will make it look like new. Apply
with a piece of moistened newspaper
and polish with a dry piece. Wood
ashes are a good substitute.
Mildew may be removed from linen
by mixing with soft soap a little pow
dered starch, half the quantity of salt,
and the juice of a lemon, and applying
it to the mildew stain with a paint
brash on both sides of the linen. The
stained article should then be left ont
on tho grass day and night until the
spot be removed.
Something for Nothing,
All newspaper publishers have had
experience with men who want to ad
vertise themselves or their business in
newspapers without cost to themselves.
It is pitiable to Bee the shabby means
they take to attain the end they have in
view. Men who would feel insulted if
they were called dead-beats, will with
bland effrontery ask a publisher to
“ please mention so and so” (an adver
tisement), or, handing in what is really
an advertisement under the guise of a
communication, they will say, " Here’s
a little item that will help you to fill
up with.” Men who do this—and there
are some in every town—call themselveß
honorable and would not think of ask
ing a real estate owner to let them use
one of his bouses a few months for
nothing; nor wonld they ask him to let
them cultivate and use a part of his
farm, without expecting to have to pay
rent for it.
The advertising columns of his paper
is to the publisher what the houke or
farm is to the real estate owner—his
source of income. Why any one should
expect the newspaper publisher to be
more generous in squandering his sub
stance than other business men is
something that cannot bo accounted for,
except on the supposition that some
peoplo have an idiotic idea that printers
set np type for the love of tlio work,,
and that ink and type and printing
presses arn gifts from heaven to
men, who publish opera
for the purpose of UAHS
way of their fellow ;
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NO. 6.
Empty Arms.
God’s blessing on tho stalwart arms
That hold their labor duty,
And hear the burdens of the hour
With oheerfnluess and beauty 1
All honor to the willing arms
That lift the poor and lowly,
And teach ns by their kindness
A lesson pure and holy 1
And raptures for the glowing arms
That clasp with loving Bweetneae,
A world of joy and tendomees
In beautiful completeness!
And rest unto the weary arms
That after pining sadness
Twine round our doar returning ones
And thrill again with gladness !
But sorrow for the longing arms
Where hopes, like birds, have nested ;
God’s pity for tho empty arms
Where darling onoa have rested I
■ —George Cooper.
HUMOR OF TitE BAY.
Some One says talk is oheap. It is
not when in the extra session of the
Legislature,' 'and must be paid for by
the State.
The Flathead Indians are praised
because they saw wood for their wives.
But they did not get their name for any
suoh reason.— P. I. Man.
The oldest inhabitant is generally a
man; not beoanse he is given to lying,
but because he commenced owning up
to his age sooner.— Picayune.
It is said that sharks will not bite a
swimmer who keeps his legs in motion.
If you can keep kioking longer than a
shark can keep waiting, you are all
right.
We are told that the ancient Egypt
ians honored a oat when dead. The
ancient Egyptians knew when a cat
was most to be honored.— Philadelphia
Quiz.
A man with a small salary and large
family says if pride goes before a faU,
he would like to see Pride start on a
little ahead of the prioe of coal and
provisions.
It is about time for some antique old
msthete after the mother Shipton pattern
to rise up and say: “ There’s going to
be a hullabaloo. The world will end
in ’B2.”. —New Haven Register.
In summer the mosquito,
Tho petulant mosquito,
Around you comos a-buzzing,
And makes you sad appear;
But in tho windy winter
It ia the airy snowball
That skims along tho highway
And takes you on the oar.
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A countryman who had selected a
seat at the theater from which he oould
obtain a good view of the stage was
greatly discouraged when a young lady
wearing a fashionable hat sat down in
front of him. He bore tho affliction In
silence as long as he could and then
bending forward, said politely: “Please,
jiaiss, would you be so kind as fa lower
your umbrella ?” She lowered the ap
plause of the audience.— Brooklyn
Eagle.
The Wear of Gold Coin.
\lt is estimated that the average
weekly depreciation of the $7,000,000
in gd held by the Boston banks i
nearly S3OO, or say $16,000 per annum,
the circulation boing made on the
recognized basis that a gold ooin in use
actually loses a five-hundredth of its
weight in a year. The coin is packed
in bags of $5,000 each. These bags are
passed from bank to bank, and the con
stant Motion which is made in handling
and weighing wears away the edges ana
faces of the coin, so that sooner or later
a hag falls short in weight, and valuable
time as well as money is lost in deter
mining which bank shall make good
the deficiency, the labels attached to
each parcel, on which appears the
names of the banks through which the
bag has passed, being the only means to
aid in fixing upon the responsible
party. The treasury department has
refused to issne gold certificates for
large amounts, on the ground that it
wonld oocasion trouble aud expense for
the government. Other expedients pro
posed are—the appointment of an insti
tution, not chartered by the United
States, as a gold depository for the na
tional banks, the interchange of certifi
cates among the hanks, and the estab
lishment of the clearing house as a de
pository. There are objections to each
plan, and another—the division of the
burden among five or six banks—is the
one which may be temporarily adopted
until Congress shall apply a permanent
remedy. The packing of the coin in
bags is a conventional way, and it does
not reflect much credit on the inventive
faculties of bank offioers that they have
not thought out a hotter way. If the
coin were packed in boxes fitted with
grooves in which the pieoes would lie
close and so confined that they would
not move in course of transportation,
and these grooves were made so that
they could be lifted out, with their con
tents, the loss from friction in tumbling
around the bags and pouring out the
coin as though it was sugar would be
very much reduced.
Where the Mousy Went.
In July last George Sands, a well-to
do farmer living near Milan, Ohio, took
home S3OO, and
requested her
with tho
housewife,
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