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Cream ok Caclikoweb.—Take hoiuc
white cauliflowers, wick olT the green
leaves, divide in flowerets, wash and
parboil in sailed water for ten minutes;
drain and put into a saucepan with four
ounces of butter, salt, pepper and nut
meg; cover, and let simmer slowly until
thoroughly done; then rub through a
colander, and mix with two quarts of
veal broth, thicken with four ounces of
flour oooked in butter; stir and hod ten
minutes, skim and press through a very
line sieve; return to tho slewpm, stir
steadily until boiling hot; add a pint or
more of boiling cream, J wo ounces of line
butter, and a tablespoonful of sugar;
mix well without boiling, and pour into
a soup tureen over small round crusts of
bread slightly fried in butter, and small
flowerets of cauliflower kept for the pur
pose.—[Delice.
How to Stew a Chicken Properly.
—This is the way in which a chicken
should he stewed: Cut it in piece*
a suitable size for serving before
placing it in the pot. Separate
the thigh, leg amhving joints, di
vide the breast into not less than four
compact pieces, and separate Hie neck,
hack, etc. Place the gizzard, heart,
wings and drum sticks in the bottom of
the pot or kettle, then put in the neck,
hack and other bony pieces, reserving
the second joints and breast for the top.
Use a pint of boiling water for each full-
grown fowl, cover closely, and after it
has stewed a quarter of an hour, add a
tablespoonful each of flour and butter
stirred to a smooth paste, with a little
water, to each pint of liquor used in the
stewing kettle. Keep the kettle simmer
ing unceasingly until the fowl is tender,
which can be ascertained by examining the
pieces on top. If these pieces arc found
to he suflicienfly cooked those beneath
will be also, as in placing tho pieces in
the pot or kettle those requiring the
greatest amount of cooking were put at
the bottom, so they would he subjected
to the greatest heat. When tire fowl
has stewed until perfectly tender, drain
into a howl all the Liquor or broth from
the stewing kettle, and set the kettle
with the pieces of chicken undisturbed
in it upon the stove where it will keep
warm. If the broth is too oily, skim
from it a portion of the grease, then add
a spoonful of flour, stirred to a smooth
paste with a spoonful of sweet cream or
milk, and season sharply with salt and
pepper, as this broth or gravy must sea
son the entire fowl. After seasoning the
gravy pour it over the chicken in the
kettle and simmer gently for about ten
minutes, then serve chicken and gravy
together on tho same platter. A chick
en one year old will stew an hour, and
each year added to the age of a fowl ne
cessitates an additional hour’s stewing.
Pursuing essentially the same recipe,
the stew can he varied by adding oysters,
mushrooms, truffles, celery, parsley, etc.,
or by using less water and more cream or
milk, and also by browning the pieces oI
the chicken in the skillet, either before
or after they are stewed. By these slight
and seemingly unimportant variation-
plain stewed chicken can he converted
into chicken sauce, chicken fricassee,
chicken marengo, and so on, until a
dozen or more different dishes known by
fanciful foreign names can be manufac
tured from one innocent chicken
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liltv. DR. TAM AGE
Tin* Brooklyn i)ivlnc*s Snndn$
SormoR. f
! "AW, /Wo Mit IW emit\ /omul
throughout all the land if Israel," e'e -l
'jilmuol xilt , 10- 21,
My lhVllVq litut Jilltil tmlnUllon to tliln lin-
1-0111110,t nort, Chautauquacs;. Christian Hu-
nhaVoMi gospel frorkort aild their friends
NMm nil imt-ts of WinoOIlklft ami America,
kahils Mid sinners! My inxt la gloriously
Appropriate. What a galling aKbJugattnn
ho Israelites wore suffering! The Philistines
had carried off all the hlaoksmlths and lorn
down all the blnolumlths' shops and abolished
the blacksmith's trade ill tlitt lahd Of Marl.
Thesa pin istmea had a pafiinuiar grudge
itRilihiit hlaoksmlths. althchigh 1 lmvo always
aumirod thorn and have homotimes IhuiieM
I ought to have beoh biltt thytkeifi THO Phil.
1st hies Would tH’fl OVoli rtllo\v these parties to
WOtR their Valuable mitt os of brass and iron,
nor might they make nay swords or Bpoars.
Thoro woro Only two sword# left itt All tho
Jnttd; Yeit, these PhllftliheJi Woilt on Until
they had taken all tho grindstones from tho
land of Israel, so that if on JSrselitish farther
wanted to sharpen his plow oi l his ho had
to go over to thtt gariMson Pf Dirt PHiUStftles
to get it dottrt, Tlkftro Was oiity one sharpen
ing instrument loft in tho land, and that was
a file-. The farmers and tlltt hi Sell hi leg fifty*,
ittg hothittg to whet ilp the tijwHter. and tho
goad, and the pickax save n'fjfinplo file, in
dustry was hindered and work practically
disgrnoed.
T’ho great idea of thasa Phitislinos was to
keep the Israelites disarmed. They might
get iron oat of the hills to make s\Vords of,
hut they Would not have any blacksmiths tfl
widd this Iron. If they got the ii-oh Woldedi
they would have nrt grllldfltoiinb fill Which to
bring the instrmnohts Of rtgHcultUre or the
military Weapons up to an edge. oh. yoii
boor, weaponless Israelites, reduced tri a file,
how I pity you l lint theta PhilistlHeS worn
hot forever to keep their heel on the nook of
God's children. Jonathan, on his hands and
knees, climbs up a groat rock beyond which
wero tho Philistines, and his armor boaror,
on his hands nnd knees, climb! up the same
rook, and these two men, with their (wo
swords, bow to pieces the Philistines, the
Lord throwing a great terror upon them. so
it was then \ so it Ls how. Tho two men of
God on their knees mightier than aPhilistlho
host on their foot,
I learn ilrst from this subject hoxt danger
ous it is for the church of God to albw its
weapons to stay in tho hntids of Its enemies.
These Israelites might again ahd again
have Obtained a sttnply of bwordS and
weapdhS) as for fnstanoe, when they
took the spoils of tho Ammonites, but
these Israelites seemed content to have
no swords, no spoors, no blacksmiths,
no grindstones, no active iron fninos, until it
was too late for them to make auy resistance.
I see tho farmers tugging along with their
pickaxes and plows, and I nav. "Whom am
you going with those things?'’ They say.
"Oh, we are going over to the garrison of
tho Philistines to get those things sharp
ened." I say, “You foolish ittett • why don’t
you sharpen thorn ut homo?'* ***yuj" they
say, "the blacksmiths’ shops aro*. nil torn
down, nnd wo have nothing left us but a
file." $
Ho it is in the Church of OhritC to-day. We
are too willing to give up our weapons to tho
enemy. The world boasts that, it has gob
bled up tho schools, and tho colleges, and
tho arts, and tho sciences, and the literature,
and tho printing press. Infidelity is making
a mighty attempt to got all our Weapons in
its hand and then to koep them. You know
it is making this boast all the time, and after
a while, when the great battle between sin
jtml righteousness bus opened, if we do not
look out we will ho as badly off ns these Is
raelites, without any swords to light with
and without any sharpened instruments.
I call upon tho superintendents of literary
Institutions to see to it tbut tho inon who go
Into tho classrooms to stand beside the Ley
den Jars, and the electric batteries, and tho
microscopes or telescopes bo children of
God, not Philistines. The atheistic thinkers
•ft his day are trying to get all tho Intel
lectual weapons of this century in their own
grasp. What we want is scientific Christians
to capture tho sttlenoe. and scholastic Chris
tians to capture tho scholarship, and philoso
phic Christian! to capture tho philosophy,
and lecturing Christians to take hack the
lecturing platform.
Wo want to send out against Schonkel
and Htrauss and Renan of tho past men like
the late Theodore fJhristliob of Bonn, and
against tho infidel scientists a God worship
ing Hlllitnnn and Hitchcock nnd Agassiz.
Wo want to capture all the philosophical
apparatus and swing around the telescopes
on the swivel until through them wo can see
tho morning star of tho ifcjdeomor, and with
minoralogJcal hammer discover the "Rock
•f Ages,” and amid the ttoru of the realms
find tho "Rose of SUarou and tho Lily of
tho Valley."
Wo want a clergy learned enough to dis
course of the human oye, showing it. to bo a
microscope and telescope in one instrument,
witli 800 wonderful contrivances and lids
closing 30,000 or 40,000 times u day, all its
muscles and nerves and bones showing the
infinite skill of an infinite God, and then
winding up with tho peroration, "He that
formed the eye, shall He not see?” And
then wo want to discourse about tho human
cur. its wonderful integuments, membranes
ana vibration, and its chain of small bones,
and its auditory nerves, closing with the
question. "Ho that planted tho ear, shall Ho
not hear?"
And we want somo ono able to expound
the first chapter of Genesis, bringing to it
the geology and the astronomy of the World,
until, as Job suggested, "the stones of the
field shall be in league" with the truth, and
"tho stars in their courses shall fight against
Sisera." Ob, church of God, go out and re
capture those weapons. Lot men of God go
out and take possession of the platform. Let
ail tho printing press of this country speak
out for Christ, and the reporters, and the
typesetters, and the editors and publishers
swear allegiance to tho Lord God of truth.
Aii, my friend, that day must come, nnd if
the great body of Christian men have not the
faith, or the courage, or the consecration to
do it. then let some Jonathan on his bqsy
hands and on his praying knees climb up on
the rock of hindrance, and in the name of
the Lord God of Israel slash to pieces those
literary Philistines. If these men will
not i»e converted to God, then they must bo
destroyed.
Again, I learn from this subject what a
large amount of the church's resources is
actually hidden and buried and undeveloped.
The JJiblo intimates that that was a very
rich land—this land of Israel. It says,
"Tho stones are iron, and out of the lulls
thou shalt dig brass," and yet hundreds of
thousands of dollars’ worth of this metal was
kept under the hills. Well, that is the diffi
culty with tho church of God at this day. Its
taleut is not developed. If one-half of its
energy could bo brought out, it might take
the public iniquities of tho duy by the throat
and make them bite the dust. If human
eloquence wore consecrated to the Lord
Jesus Christ, It could in a few years persuade
this whole earth to surrender to God.
There is enough undeveloped Christian
energy in tho United States to bring tho
whole world to Christ, but it is buried un
der strata of indifference and under whole
mountains of sloth. Now, is it not time for
tho mining to begin, and the ploknxos to
plunge, and for this buried metal to be
brought out nnd put into tho furnaces and
be turned into howitzers and carbines for
tho Lord’s host? Tho vast majority of
Christians in this day are useless. Tho
most of tho Lord’s battalion bo Long to the
reserve corps. Tho most of the crew arc
asleep in the hammocks. The most of the
metal is under tho hill:;. Jp
Oh, is it not time for tho church of God to
rouse up and nnderfetand that \v<i want nil
the energies, all the talents and alt the wealth I
enlisted for Christ’s sake? I like tho nick-
ham o that the English Sdldiers gave to Blu-
eher, tho commander, They called aim “Old
Forwards.” We lmvo had enough retreats in
the church of Christ; Jet us have a glorious
ftdvaneo. And I say to you now as the
general said when Ids troops were affrighted.
Rising Up iu his At iff lips, liiS half' ftvitfg in
tho wind, ho lifted bis voice until 20,000
troops heard him, crying out, "Forward, tho
whole lino!"
Agnii, I learn from this subject that wo
BtimhiittiUM dfi Well tfi take advantage of the
worlds slmtpehiiig instriimoiiiA; Tli»v»«
Israelites were tedueod td a lilt*; arid so they
Weitt fiver td thd gatrisori df the Philistines
to get their axes, aild their goadflj arid their
plows sharpened. Tho Bible distinctly Mates
in tho edritoxt that the£ had no Other instru
ments iioW With which to do this Work, arid
tho Israelites did right whftii they went over
to tho Philistines to use their grindstones.
My friends, is it not right for us to empty
tho world’s grindstones? If there be art. if
thoro bo logic, if there be business faculty on
Ilia rape* sidoi lot US go over and employ it
for,Christ’s Billed
Tho fact is wo tight with too dull weapons,
and wo work with too dull Implements. Wo
hack arid \Vo muiil when we ought to make a
clean stroke; Lot us go over rtriidflg -harp
business men and among sharp litorary men
and 11 nd out what their taste is, and then
transfer it to the cause of Christ. If they
hato floiofldo and art; it will do ns good to
rub against it; J ii cither iVurd!; lflt em
ploy tho world’s grindstones. Wo will listen
to thoir music, and wo will wntoli thoir acu
men; and wo will use thoir grindstones, and
ivo will bfii'fotf thblM phiiosonjiical apparatus
tri nmkfi our experiments, arid tfo Will btfr
rpw thoir printing pressaH ttt priblisb our
Bibles; and wo will borrow thoir rail trains
to carry our Chfldtlari literature; arid Wo
will borrow thoir ships to transport bur
missionaries.
That was what made Faul such a master in
his day. Ho not only got all the looming lie
could get of Hr. Gamaliel, but afterward
standing bit Mars hill and in crowded thor
oughfares inifi^d I Heir tieetry and grasped
their 1 Iflgio aild wielded their oiriqllolldtt aild
omplfiyed their mythfildgy. Until Hidiiysitis,
the Arediiagltoi learned lit thd Schools of
Athens and Heliopolis; worit down Uridor his
tremoflddtia powers.
That Was what gat’o Thomrifi Ohalmors his
power in his day. Hci coiitjuorod tho World’s
astronomy and compelled it to ring out tho
wisdom and greatness of the Lord, until for
tho second time tho morning stars snug to
gether. mnl all the sons of God shouted for
joy. That was wlmt gavo to Jonathan Ed
wards bln influence in his day. Ho con
quered tho World s nleiapiiysioS nlld fOfued it
Into tho service of God, Until not only tile
eld mooting house in Northampton, Muss.,
btlt iill UliriStoildOmi folt thrilled by his
Christian power.
Well, now, my friends. Wo all have tools of
Christian Usefulness. Dd not lot thorn ldso
thoir edged; We want no rusty blades in
this tight) Wo want ltd editor that cannot
rip up the globe. Wo want nd nx that can
not fell tho trees. Wo want no goad that
cannot start tho lazy team. Let us got tho
very host grindstones we can And, though
they bo in tho possession of tho Philistines,
compelling thorn to turn the crank, while wo
boar down with all our might on tho swift
revolving wheel tint 11 nil our onorgles and
faculties shall l»o brought up to a bright,
keen, sharp, glittering odgrt.
Again, my subjoet teaches us on what a
small allowance Philistine iniquity puts a
man. Yes, these Philistines shut Up tho
mines, and then they took thd spearS arid tho
swords, then they took tho blacksmiths, thou
they took tho grindstones, and they took
everything but a tile. Ob, tlmt is the wny Bin
works. It grabs everything. It begins with
. robbory, and it ends with robbery. It do-
spoils tills faculty and that faculty and keens
on until tho whole nature is gone. Was the
man eloquent before, it generally thickens
his tongue, Was ho lino la personal appear
ance, it mars his visage. Was ho affluent, it
sonds tile sheriff to soli him out. Was ho in
fluential, it destroys Ills popularity. Was ho
plaaid and genial arid loving, it fnnkes him
splenetic and cross, and so utterly is ho
obauged that you can soe ho is sarcastic and
rasping and that tho Philistines have loft him
nothing but a tile.
Oli, "the way of tho transgressor is hard."
Ills cup is bitter. His night is dark. Ills
pangs are (loop. His end is terrific. Philis
tine Iniquity ways to that man, "Now, sur
render to mo, and I will give you all you
want—music tor tho donee, swift steeds
for tho race, imperial couch to slum
ber on, and you shall bo refreshed with tho
rarest fruits in baskets of golden filigree."
Ho lies. Tho music turns out to bo a groan.
Tho fruits burst tho rind with rank poison.
Tho filigree is made up of twisted snakes.
The couch is a grave. Brnall allowance of
rest, small allowance of peace, small allow
ance of comfort. Gold, hard, rough—noth
ing but a flic. 8o it was witu Voltairo, tho
most applauded man of his day t
Tim McrJpturo wqh hi* Jest-book, whonco bo drew
llotoiioU tounll tho (Jhrliitlan and tho Jowj
An landed whoa wnh. but whni whoa Kick/
Oh, then a text would toitoh him to tho quick.
Seized with hemorrhage of tho lungs in
Paris, where lie had gone to bo crowned in
the theater us an idol of all France, ho Bonds
a messenger to get a priest that he may be
reconciled to tho church before ho dies. A
great terror fulls upon him. Ho makes the
place all round about him so dismal that the
nurse declares that she would not for all the
wealth of Europo see another iufldol die.
Philistine iniquity had promised him all the
world’s garlands, bat in the lust hour of his
life, when ho needed solacing, sent tearing
across his conscience and his nerves a lllo, a
file.
Ho it was with Lord Byron, his unoleanness
in England only surpassed by his unoloan-
ness in Venice, then going on to his brilliant
misery at Missolongni, and fretting ut his
nurse, Fletcher, fretting at himself, fretting
at tho world, fretting at God, ana lie who
gavo to tho world "Ohilde Harold," and
"Hardanapalus," and "The Prisoner of
Chilian," and "The Hiege of Corinth," re
duced to nothing but a file!
Oh. sin hus great facility for making prom
ises, but it hus just us groat facility for
breaking them. A Christian life is the only
cheerful life, while a life of wicked surrender
is remorse, ruin and death. Its painted gloe
is sepulchral ghastliness. In the brightest
days of tho Mexican Empire Montezuma
said lie felt kimwing ut his heart something
like u canker. Hin, like a monster wild
beast of the iorost. sometimes licks all over
its victim in order that the victim may bo
more easily swallowed; but generally sin
rasps and galls and tears and upbraids and
tiles. Is it not so, Herod? Is it not so, Hil
debrand? Is It not so, Robespierre? Aye l
u.ye ! it is so ; it is so. "Tho way of the
wicked He turneth upside down."
History tolls us that when Borne was
founded, on that duy thoro wore 12 vultures
flying through the air, but when a trans
gressor dies tho skies is black with whole
flocks of them. Vultures! When I soo sin
robbing so many people, and l see them go
ing down day by day and week by weok, I
must give a plain warning. I dare not keep
It buck lost I risk tho salvation of my own
soul. Hover, the pirate, pulled down tho
warning bell on Inohoaporock, thinklngthat
ho would have a chance to despoil vessels
that wore crushed on tho rocks, but one
night his own ship crushed down on this
very rock, and he wont down with all his
cargo. God declares, "When I say to the
wicked thou shalt surely die, and thou
givest him not warning, that same man shall
(lie in his iniquity, but his blood will I re
quire at thy bunds."
I learn from this subject wlmt a sad thing
it is when the church of God loses its metal.
These Philistines saw that it they could only
got all tho metallic weapons out of tho hands
of tho Israelites ail would be well, und there
fore they took the swords and tho spears.
They did not want them to have a single me
tallic weapon. When tho metal of the Is
raelites was gone, thoir strength was gone.
This is tho trouble withthe church of God to-
duy. It is surrendering its courage. It 1ms
not got enough inetal. How seldom it is that
you seen mrtn taking his position in a pew,
or in pulpit, or in a religious society, and
holding that position against all oppression,
and all trial, und ull persecution, and all crit
icism.
Tho church of God tfi-drty wants more
backbone, more defiance, more conSecTntrtd
bravery, moro metal. How often you soo ft
man start firit in somo good enterprise, and
at the first blast of noWq»ap»vdom ho hoi
collapsed, nnd all his courage gbriri/ forget
ful of tho fact that if a men bo right all thd
newspapers of tho earth, with all their col
umns {torirfding away at him, cannot do him
any permanent diirfintfo ! It is only when ft
man is wrong tlmt ho emi be damaged. Wlij
God is going to vindicate His truth, and lie
is going to stand by, you, my friends, in
otofy effort you make for Christ’s cause arid
thd futlVrttian of men.
I flrimetiiridft nay to my Wife: "There is
Something wrong * flic RoWspapors lmvo not
assaulted mo for three months 1 I have uot
done friy duty against public iniquities, and
I will stir them rip next Sunday/* Tbeu I
stir them up, and all t«C following Week tho
devil howls and howls, showing that 1 hi»vn
him very hrtl'dj Go fortli in the service of
Christ and do your Whole duty. You have
one sphere. I have another sphere. "Tho
Lord of Hosts is with us, and thd God of
Jacpb is our refuge. Selah/*
We tfkWrt of tho determination of
Jonathan. I do not Silpposc lie was a very
wonderful man, but he got ori till* knees and
clambered up tho rook, and with the Hfilp of
lite (trmor bearer bo hewed down the
Philistines, and tl man of very ordinary in
tellectual attainments, oil ID* knees, can
storm anything for God and for flld truth.
Wo want something of the determination c)1
the rfCriofftl who went into the war, nnd as
ho entered his first battle bis knees knocked
together, his physioal courage not quite up
to his moral courage, and ho looked down at
hi« knees and said, "All, if you know whore
I Wari goiflg to take you, you would shako
Worse tlmri timf !“
There is only orte qrieStlOB for you to ask
and for mo fd ask. Wlmt does God want me
to do? Where is tho field? Whore i» the
work? Whofc is the anvil? Where is thfl
prayer meeting? Where is the pulpit? And
finding out whnt God wants us to do go
ahead and do it—all tho energies of otff body,
miml and soul enlisted iu the undertaking.
Oh, iny brethren, we have but little timo in
WHICH lo fight for God. YoU will bo dead
BOOli.
Put in the Christian cause every energy
that God gives you. "Wlmt thy lmfld flndetn
to do; do it with rill thy might, for there is
neither wisdom nor do Vice in the grave
whither we are all hastening/’ Oh, is it not
high time tlmt we wake out of sleep? Olittroli
of God lift up your head at the coming vic
tory ! Tho Philistines Will go down, and the
Israelites will go up. We are oil the winning
side. Hear that—on the winning side l
I think just now tho King’s horses are be
ing hooked up to tho chariot, and when llo
does ride down the sky there will bo such a
hosanna among His friends and suoh a wail
ing among His enemies as will make the earth
tremble and the heavens sing. I see now tho
pliimoS Of the Lord's cavalrymen tossing in
the nir. The nfoliangel before the throne has
already burnished Iiirt trumpet, and then ho
will put its golden lips to Ills own, and ho
will blow tfio long, loud blast that Will make
all Nations free. Clap vour hands, all yo
pjoplel Hark I I hoar xbe falling thrones
and tho dualling down of domolishod in
iquities.
Sleep in Disused Quarries.
Ono of the most curious and deplor
able sights in connection with pauper
ism during tho winter in Paris is tho
influx of peripatetic beggars who in*
Yiide at night the disused quarries of
ArgentoUil and Montmartre, whore
they huddle together, as close as they
safely can, to tho limekilns, in order
to obtain a little warmth. Along tho
suburban roads in the direction of
Paris they can bo seen in twos and
threes bent double almost and hungry,
hurrying on and footsore, in tho hope
of being in time to obtain a night’s
shelter in tho isiles do unit—night
refuges—of the capital. But in those
buildings, according to tho Philadel
phia Ledger, thoro is not sufficient
room to accommodate all applicants.
Thoir hospitable doors arc open only
for a short time late at night, and when
once they are closed all entreaties for
admission are rigorously unheeded.
In the disused quarries they can find
plenty of room. A whole army of
mendicants could easily obtain sheltor
in thoir long galleries -a warm corner
to huddle up in and a convenient stone
for a pillow. Moreover, there are no
awkward questions asked as at the
aisles do unit, such ns “Who art thou?
From whence comcth thou? What is
thy calling?" And so from all direc
tions leading toward Paris they come
in large numbers at night, inud-be-
shattered, hollow-cheeked, worn out
with fatigue, and numbered by hun
dreds as they descend into the quar
ries, where, pressed pell mell ono
against tho other, they endeavor by
contact to keep out tho cold. Tho
largest number and deepest of those
disused quarries are in the neighbor
hood of Argenteuil, and there it is that
the police often make their raids when
in search of some criminal who has
escaped capture, and who, it is
thought, may be hiding among tho
“niftlfrats."
Hare fooled Among Snakes.
While we aro telling snake stories
the following good ono comes to us
from tho mountain regions, E. T.
Dulin standing as authority. Tho
country between Little Big Black
Mountain is a ginseng region, and the
Parker family are noted as “Hungers."
The girls go out barefooted in th»
mountains, though tho country is in
fested with rattlesnakes and copper
head and dig the ginseng, for which
they get good prices at the stores, and
from which it is taken to Pennington
Gap for shipn nt.
But along Glover Gap and up Rattle
snake Creek there are numberless rep
tiles. Beokio Parker is a girl, about
nineteen years of age, strong, healthy-
looking and handsome, but with a very
determined face. She is a splendid
rifle shot and is often seen with her
Winchester.
She goes after ginseng barefooted
and often alone. The roots are gath
ered in May and September, and dur
ing the month just past she did a
thriving business. One day, however,
she came across a don of rattlesnakes.
She had only stones und sticks with
which to light the desperate battle.
Some of the snakes were larger than a
man’s arm, and few of them us largo
us tho calf of a man’s leg. For
hours she fought them as thoy hissed
and writhed and rattled around her.
But the brave, determined girl battled
with them until she exterminated
every one that did not succeed in hid
ing among tho crevices of rocks and
in the dense underbrush. When she
had crushed the last one to be seen
she counted the dead, and there wero
just sixty-three. — Fredericksburg (Yu.)
Star.
MOTHER SONG.
; ,"o f t sleeps tho earth in moonlight blest;
Merit sleep* the bough above tho nost;
O’or lonely depths tho whippoorwill
Breathes ono faint noto and all is still.
| Hlnep, little darling ; night is long —
Sloop while J ring thy cradle song.
About thy droam tlm drooping flower
Blows her sweet breath from hour to hour,
And while the great moon spreads her wings.
While low, while far, the dear earth swings.
Slepp, little darling ; all night long
Thu winds shall sing thy slumbor song. ,
Powers of the earth and of tho air
Shall have thee in thoir motlicr-oarc,
And hosts of heaven, together prost.
Bend over time, their last, thoir best.
Hush, little darling ; from tho deep
Home mighty wing shall fan thy sloop.
—Harriot P. HpoITord.in Harper’s Bazar.
PITH AnTTPOINT.
Lniil by for ropniring—Widows.
Deads of perspiration aro the jewelry
of toil.
The Londoner who saves up for a
rainy day most lie kept pretty busy.—
Puck,
Silencd may givo assent, but it
doesn't favor tins request for auy
larger loan.—Truth.
Examiner—“What is your opinion
of this case?’’ Candidate—“Tho same
as yours. Professor.”
Death, taxes and tho sprays from n
street sprinkler are all hard things to
dodge.—Troy Press. i
He was a fresh young duilelot gay ' "j 1
Togged out from shoes to hilt; '
But fresher was. I'm pained to Hay, ', j
' The paint In which lie sat. Vj
—Buffalo Courier. 'I
“She appeared to mo liko ono wo
man in a thousand." “How so?” “I
saw her at the bargain counter.”—De
troit Tribune. .q
Go, sluggard, to tho ant and soo . ^
Hur methods, over spry, V, i
And If you want tho ant’s addross, '
Hook tlrst tho pteuin pin.
—Washington Htar. ’
“Did lie marry tho girl who could
paint things on crockery ware?”
“No; he married tho one who could
cook tilings to put into crockery ware.”
—Now York Press.
hough signs of summer that porplox
TMay often ooino to hand, *>,
he too cream sign is ono thnt all
TTho lassos understand. ’' ,
—Washington Htar. J
Clara Qiltman—“Aro you paid for
all the jokes you write, Mr. MoCJom.-
miek?” Humorist—“Yes, MiHs Cllara,
all my jokes aro made at somo ono
nine's expense.”—Joseph Banister, in
Itnymond’B'Mouthly.
Twonwook—“Sir, I wish to marry
your daughter.” Gruff Father—
“My daughter, young man, will con
tinue under the paternal roof. ” Two-
aweek—“No objection will be raised
to that, sir.”—Tit-Bits.
I “You say site triod to stop tho car
by whistling at it. Did she mako a
successor it?” “Yos, in a way. It
wasn’t her whistling that stopped tho
car, though. It was tho faco sho
made.”—Indianapolis Journal, l
The Afternoon Yap. ■„ 4 -
Tho editor of Wisdom publishes tlic
opinions of a number of eminent cor
respondents concerning tho valuo of
"the nfternoon nap.” Tho corre
spondents are described as “brain
workers, ” which term seems to mean
literary and professional men. Tho
replies aro as such replies aro usually.
Our medical readers well know in this,
as in other matters, tot homines tot
iiHiis. Ono man can work long and
well on hours of sleep which would
fail to restore another, us ono man can’
uso the tobacco or tea which poisons
liis neighbor. Some who cannot or
will not work by day work by night.
Now, other tilings being equal, tho
value of morning sleep is loss than of
sleep by night; it is lighter nnd moro
open to disturbances. Ho who reads
and writes by night finds, nt threo
scoro or sooner, that ho has unduly
taxed his strength ; for Bitch a person
“the afternoon nap” is clear gain—it
adds to the sum of sleep of a sort. |
Elderly people and hud Bleepere
I often wake very early, and remain
nwnko in spite of the friendly sand
wich; for these tho later nap is useful.
There are, too, hard-worked men of
naturally fooblo powers who benoiit
greatly bv an addition to their houm
of sleep; but for the ordinary man
who sleeps of an afternoon, tho judi
cious physician will prescribe luncheon.
Finally, the value of casual slumbering
to persons slumbering from “insom
nia" is not sufficiently well known. It
is too often supposed that sloop is u
fund which must bo boarded up for
use in due seasons. On the contrary,
Bleep breeds sleep, and tho warm feet,
the incurious mind and tho raised
position of tho easy chair may offer
what the softest pillow refuses, and
thus the sweet custom of sleep is re
established.
Measuring the Great Wall of China,
Tho great wall of China was meas
ured in many places by Engineer Un-
thank, the American, who surveyed
for the chief Mongolian railroad. His
| measurements gives it an avorago
height of eighteen feet and a top width
of Ilf teen feet. Every few hundred
feet tho wall is widened and surmount
ed by towers of twenty-four foot
square and from twenty to twenty *vo
feet high. The foundation of tho wall
is of solid granite, nnd tho brick,
which constitutes tho main part of the
structure, are still good, even though
they are supposed to have boon made
200 years before Christ.
In building this immense fence as a
barrier to tho regular incursions ol
the Tartars tho builders did uot oven
attempt to avoid mountains or chasms
to save expense. For 1800 miles the
wall goes straight over mountains and
plains, hills and dales, utterly regard
less of nature’s greatest obstruction^
—1’hiladelphia Press. ,