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VOL. I.
llrothers and Misters.
Brothers I have by the score,
A million, yea, and more!
Men who arc striving 'mid sun and ratu,
llcsoluto comrades on hill and plain,
Drawers of water and hewers of wood
Round in a common brotherhood,
With the hearts and hands to dare and do
Life’s fiery furnace passing through,
Oh, Brothers, I pray foryou.
And sisters have I, yea, more ,
Than sand grains by the shore;
Women who work and who know not peace,
Sighing in vain for the solo's release;
S’sters of trouble, In poverty’s van.
Toihvorn faces 1 sadly scan;
They come and go and are lost to view,
And death shall linger and fate pursue,
Oh! sisters, I weep for you.
—[ Ernest MeG alley.
SISTER DILLY’S BONNET.
r,V ZKNAS DANK.
The Ladies’ Society of an active lit¬
tle country church met one Friday af¬
ternoon at the home of Airs. Jonas
Wellman. Every member was pres¬
ent, and all Avere in such a pleasant,
merry mood that Airs. Cyrus Hodge
thought it a good time to mention
something she had had in mind for
several days; so, during a momentary
lull in the conversation, she said:
“Sister Dilly’s Avearing her onl Aviu-
tcr bonnet again this summer, ain't
i lie?”
“Y'fls; 1 noticed it Sunday, aud it
looked aAvfully old and hot for such a
Avarm summer day. . She’s worn that
one old-fashioned black velvet bonnet
Avith them cheap black ostrich tips for
four years, and it’s only a cotton vel¬
vet at that. I should think she might
contrive some way to get her another,
even if we don’t pay brother Dilly but
three hundred a year.”
“I get me a lieiv bonnet every sum¬
mer with my egg money, and Sister
Dilly lias liens n-layin’right along,”
said Airs. Wellman.
“You can get a real neat, black
rough-and-ready straiv bonnet in town
now for forty-four cents,” said
Airs. Plumm.
“Yes, but I don’t suppose Sister
Dilly feels that she can spend even
that much for a bonnet and buy the
trimmin’s too,” raid Airs. Hodge.
“You know' them three little orphan
gran’children of hers was sick most
ail Avinter and her and Brother Dilly
had medicine and doctors to pay for,
and Brother Dilly either had to liaA-ea
new suit this spring or stop preachin’,
an’ that cost over tAventy dollars.
Then they’re paying off that mortgage
of three hundred dollars that’s been on
their place so long.”
“Y T es, that’s so,” said Airs. Eli
Curry. “Sister Dilly' told mo the
other day that they’d paid it all oft’but
fifty dollars and she didn’t feel that
she’d a cent to spend for anything but
borne an’ furrin missions till that
mortgage Avas lifted an’ she’d a ruff of
her OAvn over her head. I’d feel just
so if I was sixty years old, and in her
place I doubt if I’d feel called on to
gi\'C ten dollars a year to missions of
any kind as Sister Dilly does.”
“Well, noAV, see here,” said Airs,
llodge, coming at once to the point,
“Sposin’ we club together and make
up a little purse and get Sister Shc’lfbc Dilly a
honnet for a birthday i, gift. b
sixty a week from Sunday. . I know ,
’cause I’m fifty-nine the same day and
avo avus both born in th3 same county,
and our names is Matiidy, and both
onr husbands’ names is Cyrus, and
AA'e’ve often talked about how queer
that Avas.
“Now our society’s got over fifteen
dollars in the treasury that avc’vc no
special use for, and I vote that we take
two dollars of that and each member
give ten cents extra beside, That’ll
make three dollars and ninety cents
and avo can get a real neat a'd tasty
bonnet for that. What do you all
say ?”
The proposition Avas readily agreed
to, and the next hour Avas spent in
discussing the style and make of bon-
nets in general. It was agreed upon
that Sister Didy should be kept in pro-
found ignorance of the action of the
society,"and it was further agreed that
(he bonnet should he black.
“A black bonnet is like :i nice b’aek
dress; it’s suitable for almost any and
every occasion,” said Airs. Piumm-
“and nothin’ else is suitable for fnn>
Vais, and Sister Dilly, bein’ a preach¬
er’# Avife, is bound to go to fun rals
eonsiderable.”
“I don’t think a woman of Sister
Dilly’s ago bad ort to wear flowers in
her bnnnit nohow,” said old Grand¬
mother Peters, Airs. Wellman's mother
and the oldest member of the society.
“No, not even wheat or oats artilislm s,
an’ when it comes to a big, flarin’ red
poppy, a-slamlin’ straight up an’ a-bob-
biu’ around on top of a body’s head,
like Climeny Cawkc’r that s only nr.
months an’ three days younger'n iuo
wears, 1 think it s perfectly semi ious,
an I allow to tell Climeny Cewker so
the first elinnco I gH.”
THE ENTERPRISE. t
“Now, now, mother,” said Mrs.
Wellman. “It’s only a more matter
of taste, I’m *ire I don’t object to a
little bunch of quiet* colored artificials
ju even au olid ladv’s bonnet.”
“Wcll, I do,” maintained Mrs.
Peters sharpsy. “You alius was a
giddy thing, lYisciUy Wellman, an’
how you ever e xpect to git to heaven
with your idees about nrtidshids an’
flounces an’ year-bobs an’ bustles is
morc’n I kin toll.”’
“L shall leave ill such ideas and
such ornaments behind me, mother,”
said Mrs. Wellman with a little laugh,
“Y’ou’d better, for you’ll find your-
self in comp’nv that’s above sich van-
ities, Priscilly Wolhnx’.i,” retorted
Granny Peters, as she shook one of
her shining knitting needles at her
daughter and lire wned darkly.
Mrs. Hodge and Airs. Wellman-
were appointed a camnrittec to pur-
chase the bonnet and attend to the
presentation of it with any message
from the society they might think
appropriate.
“My niece, Mary Uarver, does all
the trimming in a miOincry store in
Hartford/’ said Airs. Hodge. “She
comes out here for her vacation every
summer and knows Sister Dilly, and
I knoAv she’d get the bonnet up for
nothing for us if we’d write and ask
her. Pll tell he:r we want something
plain and neat and nice.”
“Without no Roppys nor fiuidub-
berics, mind you, if you expect ary
dime from me,” in Mrs. Peters.
“it will probably be plain enough to
please you, Grandmother,” replied
Airs, llodge, with no trace of resent¬
ment in her voice, for everybody knew
that Granny Peters xvas one of the
kindest hearted, old ladies in the world,
notwithstanding the sharp tongue that
continually belied her real character.
Airs. Hodge kept summer boarders,
and among them that summer avus a
young married man named Hill, AVho
went to Hartford every Saturday, re¬
turning the same day. He avhs very
obliging and frequently executed little
commissions for Mrs. Hodge in the
city. His wife was in the South >vith
an invalid mother.
Mrs. Hodge did not Avant to go to
Hartford, and Avrotc Her niece in re
gard to tho bonnet, determining to ask
Air. Hill to call for it when he went
to the city on the following Saturday,
“Certainly, certainly,” said Air.
Hill in his kindly Avav avIicii Mrs.
Hodge made her request known' to
him. “It won’t be the least trouble,
for, as it happens, I have to go to that
very milliners today to get a bonnet
my Avife has sent for and have it ex¬
pressed to her. She’s going to some
kind of a garden party down in
Georgia and had to have a new bonnot
from her own milliner, expressly for
the occasion. I’ll just kill tw’o birds
Avith one stone by getting your bonnet
at the same time I got my Avife’s.”
“You are very kind,” replied Airs.
Ilodge, “and now it’ you’ll just leave
the bonnet at Pastor Dilly’s house on
your way out here from the train, it
Avill complete the whole business. I’ll
give y ou a little note to leave Avith it.”
The note read as follows:
“Dear Sister DiUjf: A\'1U yon please :ic-
eept this little gift avo semi today as a birth’
.lav remembrance ami a slight testimonial of
the estL , em al , a affection of
“The Ladies’ Society."
Air. Hill said he would see that the
, 10 t c avhs left Avilli the bonnet and
jr 0 oil Mrs. Hodge felt rejoiced that her
little plan had been carried through so
successfully. She felt, too, the satis¬
faction one always feels over tho per-
formanco of a kind deed.
The next day was delightfully cool
and balmy for mid-summer and bad it
been Jess fair no doubt every member
of the Ladies’ Society Avould have
gone to church to sec the bonnet tow-
! ;ll -J which they had all contributed.
As it was. they were all there. The
J | pretty | little church boarders was in full, the neighbor- many of
T 10 summer
j ] 10 od having come out for the firs
| ,j me .
“Tam awfully glad Sister Dilly
don’t have, to Avear that old bonnet to
dav,” whispered Mrs. Hodge to Air*,
"Wellman as they entered tho church
porch side by side, “and I do hope
,li C members'of the society will like
the bonnet; but I hain’t much doubt
about that. Aly niece has splendid
taste.
The other members of the society
had already arrived, and >vcre silting
in their peAvs staring very hard at Sis¬
ter Dilly’s bonnet. Ali<. Hodge’s eyes
at once sought out the Dilly pew and
her lips almost gave utterance to a dis¬
tinct “My good land!’’when she saw
the bonnet. She feit that the eyes of
all the members of the society Avere
turned toward her, some in reproach,
some in inquiry aud some in keen dis¬
pleasure. Among the latter were the
shining* kc-en hkick eyes of Grand¬
mother Poiors, The old lady’s p8<*
was directly behind Mrs. Hodge’s,
and Hi tliftt i»tlv took her ?eat Mr*,
GA., FRIDAY, .ILLY 25.1890.
Peters leaned forward and said ac¬
ridly:
“Now, you've done it, Matiidy
•Tane Hodge, ain’t you? You shan’t
have any dime of mine to help pay for
makin’ our paster’s Avife a disgrace to
tlie neighborhood! Look at her a-set-
tin’ there with her head hung down as
if she was ’shamed of herself, ez she
no doubt is, and orter be!”
Airs. Dilly’s gray bead was indeed
bowed down and on it was a dainty
little white lace bonnet with tics cf
pink satin ribbon and white tulle. A
bristling pink poin-pon stood bravely
up in front iu a military sort of a
way, and the graceful tail feathers of
a bird of paradise floated jauntily out
behind over Sister Dilly’s meagre little
twist of gray hair. A wreath of pink
and avL ite daises seemed trying to
hide in the meshes of lace and tulle,
but every offending flower was seen
by Granny Peters,
Airs. Dilly looked very uncomfort¬
able, although evidently trying to ap¬
pear calm and self-possessed. She
Avas a good woman, but one un!rav¬
eled and unversed in the w’ays and
fashions of the world. She gave no
lieed to the fashions, blit avIioii she
had taken the bonnet from its box t‘ c
night before she had held it up on the
lingers of one toil-worn hand and said
to her husband:
“It looks aAvfully'gay for me, don’t
it, Cyrus? They say old ladies are
Avearing colors a good deal now, and I
know they dress gayer’n they used to;
and yet such a bonnet as this don’t
seem exactly appropriate for me;
does it, Cyrus?”
Air. Dilly had merely glanced from
the sermon he Avas writing and said:
“Well, Avell, Matiidy, Avear it, wear
it. The dear sisters AVho sent it likely
know better than avo do what the
styles arc and Avhat’s becoming to you.
Just Avear it, and don’t worry any
about it.”
But Airs. Dilly did worry about it.
“Aud yet,” she said, “I must Avear
it. I can’t offend the sisters by not
wearing it,” and so she wore it, to the
amusement of the society and the dis.
may of Airs. Hodge.
“ What on earth could Mary Carver
have been thinking of, was Airs.
Hodge’s mental comment. “If she
did it for a joke, she’ll find out Avhat I
think of her and her jokes Avhcn I see
her.
Early the next day Airs. Hodge Avent
aw'av from home for a week and on
her return Mr. Hill handed her a letter
Avith a queer little twinkle in his eye.
The letter was from Mrs. Hill and
read:
“Weil, Horace Hili, what in this
world were you thinking of to have
Airs. B- send me the horrid old
grandmother’s bonnet that came by
express today. Both you and Airs,
B-must have taken leave of your
senses. Imagine me going to a garden
party wearing a big black silk bonnet
—Avith a cape to it and a Avhite lace
frill in the front! Are you crazy, or
trying to play a joke on me? If the
latter, allow me to say that your joke
is in very bad taste and it will cost
you the price of two bonnets, for I
went right off and got me another, and
I gave tho one you sent to an old col¬
ored aunty who washes for us.”
“And tlurt was Sister Dilly’s lion-
net,” said Mrs. Hodge.
“Yes, but I had your niece make
her another just like it today,” Faid
Mr. Hill, “and the one she Avoro last
Sunday Is on its way to Georgia.”
And Sister Dilly looked very con¬
tented and grateful when slie appeared
the next Sunday in the bonnet intend¬
ed for her, and Granny Peters said:
“That buiiuit looks something like
it, but I should think Sister Dilly
would feel dreadful to think of what
a show she made of herself last Sun¬
day. I wouldn’t be a mite s'prised if
the whole tiling got into the papers.”
And so it hss.—[The Housewife.
Growth of a Fine Pearl,
The perfect pearl is found loose in
the interior of the flesh, and has its
beginning in an animal germ. The
oysters annually produce a number of
eggs which, as soon as they develop
into diminutive animals, are thrown
out by the mother. Occasionally,
however, an egg proves rviortivc and
remains behind. It is almost micro¬
scopic in size and is inclosed in a tiny
capsule. This capsule now becomes,
to all intents and purposes, a foreign
substance. But it has certain powers
akin to those of the parent, one of
which is that of manufacturing, throw¬
ing out and gathering around itself na-
ere. The nacre completely envelops
it, and the germ of an animal is soon
incased in a beautiful prison, usually
spherical in form, but sometimes pear
shaped. Its size, of course, depends
on the length of time to which the pro¬
cess is continued, as the pearl is en¬
larged by eoffst/uit deposit* from year
to rear,
VIRTUES OF COCAINE.
ITS WONDKItVTlIi PUOPERl 1E9 AS
A LOCAL ANAOSTHET.C.
How It Was Discovered By a Youug
Austrian Doctor.
It is probable that to no living man
floes humanity owe a greater debt of
gratitude than to Dr. Carl Kollor, the
discoverer of the application of liydro-
chlorate of cocaine as a local anms-
tlietic.
Of this important event one of the
most distinguished American ophthal¬
mic surgeons, the late Professor C. 11.
Agnew, said he “would rather he the
discoverer of cocaine anaesthesia than
President of the United States.”
In !nct, it marks an epoch in surgery
only second to the introduction of
ether aud chloroform. It is difficult
for one not in daily contact with those
suffering from injury or dise: se to
fully comprehend and appreciate the
benefit realized in the prevention of
pain by the employment of this won¬
derful remedy. A few drops of a
weak solution (two to four per cent.)
dropped into the eye robs it of sensibil¬
ity to such an extent that operations
otherwise causing most excruciating
agony are not in the least painful.
The pain caused by the presence of a
foreign body' in the eye disappears
under its local use, and tho removal of
the foreign substance is greatly facili¬
tated.
The muscles of tho eye may be ex¬
posed and divided, as in correcting
squint or “cross-eye,” and the extrac¬
tion of cataract no longer requires the
employment of general anaesthesia
with ether or chloroform. Cocaine so¬
lution purified by boiling has even been
successfully instilled into the anterior
chamber of the eypbull, in order to
completely deaden sensibility in the
iris, or curtain which contains the pu¬
pil in its centre.
Jn painful affiict'ons of the throat,
mouth, nose and larynx, and in all
minor surgical operations upon these
portions of the body, cocaine, properly
applied, produces insensibility and
gives relief from pain. Injected into
and beneath the skin, any small opera¬
tion, such as the amputation of tin:
fingers or toes, or the removal of small
tumors, etc., may be painlessly per¬
formed with the perfect consciousness,
and even with the assistance of the
patient.
Such is the dread of ether or chloro¬
form that many will bear with or con¬
ceal surgical maladies easily curable
in early development, until, after
months or years of suffering, they
submit too late to a heroic operation.
One of the greatest benefits to be de¬
rived from this wonderful remedy is
the inducement it will offer to early
operative interference.
It may 1)3 of interest to know how
near others came to winning (he laurels
so justly yielded to Dr. Roller. A re¬
cent surgical writer says: “It is true
that the amestliclic cffec's of cocaine
had been discovered before Kollei’s re¬
searches secured its wide application.
In 1855 an alkaloid had been extracted
by Gadecke from the leaves of cry-
throxylon coca, f
Two years later, aud independently,
I)r. Famuel Ii. Percy, of New York,
exhibited an alkaloid he had isolated;
and as far back as 1808 Sehroff bad
discovered that cocaine produced in
sensibility of the tongue when held in
(lie mouth; while Morena v Miaz dis¬
covered, by hypodermic injections of
the acetate, distinct loss of sensibility
over a circumscribed area. And yet
it was left to the brill'ant young Aus¬
trian to make the application ai d win
immortal renown,” for in September,
1884, at t he Ophthalmologies! Congress
in Heidelberg, a young man hitherto
unknown, born in Bohemian Austria
in 1857, who had bis
course of study 2 . the
Vienna Gymnasium in 18*57, grad¬
uated from the Medical Department of
the University of Vienna in 1882, and
served for trvo years as interne at the
General Hospital, announced his im¬
portant discovery. It soon bee me
known that in experimenting upon his
own person as to the constitutional
effects of various alkaloids, he noticed
that cocaine taken into the mouth pro¬
duced loss of seusation wherever it
touched the tongue or mucous sur¬
faces. He at once concluded that the
sensory nerves in other parts of the
body would in like manner be affected,
and within two weeks his resu.ts,
which were to be of incalculable bene-
fit to mankind and win for him und\-
ing tame, were given to tho world.—
[Harpej’a Weekly.
Take time; it is no use to foam or
tret, or do as the angry housekeeper
who has got hold of tfog wrong hoy,
and pushes, shakos 6ml patties it about
the look until both are ’prolfon and Ifco
dopy }l Still unopened. ‘
Medical Su;»rr.-ititloiia.
There is a popular supposition of
wide range, based upon I know not
what, that it is very healthful for chil¬
dren to play with dogs. A weak child,
it is thought, may gain strength by
being with a dog, or, if diseased, the
child may be cured by having the ani¬
mal “take the disease.”—for example,
inflamed eyes or any disorder of the
skin. Within a year a college gradu¬
ate told me, in perfect good faith, of
acquaintances, a Boston doctor and his
wife, whose little girl had been greatly
afflicted with some form of eczema
which they all hoped would disappear,
as the parents had purchased a line dog
to play with the child.
When a dog is teeth'ng, tho upper
incisors, according to a New England
superstition, must bo removed ns soon
as they become loose, or he may
“swallow them and have tits.” l’er-
haps even more generally received is
the fancied danger of allowing a
child's milk-tooth after extraction to
fall into the possession of a dog or cat
lest the animal swallow it, and the
child have a dog’s or cat’s tooth grow
in place of the lost olio. Tho Mexicans
and Indians in Texas say that every
animal has brains enough to tan ilH
own skin; and so tho lutier, in the case
of the wolf, panther, wild cat, mul
some other animals, is mainly pre¬
pared by rubbing into the tlesb sideoi
it the brains of its former wearer.
A somewhat common fancy among
children, perhaps too, among adults as
well, is that “every part strengthens a
part”—that is, that tho liver, heart
brains, and so on of animals, when
eaten, go directly towards nourishing
the corresponding organs of the cater,
A similar doctrine w-s worked out in
great detail by the American Indians,
and is, I believe, held by many other
savage tribes. It seems altogether
probable that such beliefs, wherever
found among civilized people, old or
young, are survivals from remote an¬
tiquity, and that they aro closely akin
in tlreir nature and origin to the well-
known doctrine of signatures which
1ms played so great a part in the sys-
terns of medicine for primitive peo¬
ples.—[Popular Science Monthly.
The Great African Forests.
The great forest through Avhieh
Stanley recently passed, which lie es-
limated to cover a quarter of a million
square miles, is only a small part of
the great African forest which cx-
tends almost unbrokenly from the
west coast of the Gaboon and Ogowc
regions, with a width of several hun¬
dred miles to the great lakes, This
belt of timber, trending away to the
heart of the continent in a direction a
little sou h and cast, is perhaps, the
greatest forest region in the world.
A part of it strikes south of the Congo
at the great northern bend of (lie river,
and the country embraced within the
big curve is cove:ed with a compact
forest, shutting out a large part of the
sunlight.
In these forests, completisly shut out
from the rest of the world, live lmn-
deeds of thousands of people who arn
almost unknown to the tribes living ill
I ho savanna regions out-ide. Scat¬
tered through the big woods within
the Congo bend arc little communities
of Itatwa dwarfs, of xvho.se existence
ilie traveller has no inkling until lie
suddenly comes upon them. Here
also along Iho Sark uru River are the
tree habitations described by Dr.
Wolf, where the natives ilvc in huts
built ninovg (lie branches to escape (lie
river floods. It was in great clearings
made in these forests that Kund and
Tappcnbcck discovered some of the
most notable villages yet found in A»*
riea, where wc 1-hiiilt huts, witli gable
roofs, lined both sides of a neatly-kept
street that stretches away for eight or
nine miles. These villages are even
more intcre ting than the street towns
in the more sparsely-timbered regions
south of them, which were regarded
as very wonderful when (hey were
first discovered by Wissinann.
A Steamship on Rollers.
An English barrister lias patented a
novel form of steamship, in which
four hollow steel rollers are made to
support on their journals above the
water a strong steel framework. This
framework bears the machinery and
all that is necessary to fit the ship as a
carrier of passengers, pleasure yacht,
marine residence, sanitarium, or hotel,
Rach roller is provided with paddles,
and is rotated by a steam engine at
each end. The ship’s flotfr being sup
ported solely ou the journals of (he
floating rollers, pitching and rolling
can be reduced and made even imper¬
ceptible by increasing the size of the
rollcis and their distance apart, The
rollers may be made of almost auy
and when very largo should give
greater speed, as well as steadiness,
than J.) can now bo attained,—[Trenton
(N, Awctloaib
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
AllIIXIl TIIK ,M.vi"nn:ss.
A great deal of attention should be
given to the proper airing of the mat¬
tress every morning, and at least once
a week a Btilf brush should remove
(he dust which will accumulate, even
in tho best ordered house, under tho
tufts of cotton, or the bits of leather,
or whatever is used to tack the mattress
with. Attention should also be direct¬
ed to the edge of the mattress, whore
the braid is sewed on, for dust sifts
under that. Whore tho bed room is
also tho dressing room dust cannot bo
avoided, but it may be at least changed,
sml it need not be allowed to accumu¬
late.—fWashington Star.
I!A(i Itl'OS.
A Berlin woman has given the fol-
lowing directions for making a rug
from bits of woolen rags. Her plan
allows much smaller pieces to bo used
than in the knitted ones, and the effect
is also somewhat different,
Cut any scraps of firm woolen ma¬
terial— the more bright colors, blue
green, yellow, scarlet the better—into
pieces half an inch wide and six long.
Sew them, slightly overlapping tho
edges, on n narrow strip of black
woolen till a number of yards of this
fringe has Lccn made.
Next cut a piece of jute or coffoo
sacking a little smaller than the rug is
to be when iinished, hem or bind it
with woolen braid and sew Ihe rug
fringe thinly around (lie outside edge,
(lien continue sewing row after row
toward the centre, leaving a space of
three-fourths of an inch between o h
strip, till they meet in Die middle,
where they must bo fastened a little
nearer. The narrow strips of cloth
must fall over each other in such a
way as to conceal the sewing—[Louis-
ville Courier-Journal.
CAItK OK TIN WARE.
“But, why do you not use more
copper or porcelain ware?” 1 asked of
the dainty housewife, though I admired
the clean, bright tinware.
“Tin-ware of good quality, Avith
black iron saucepans, do very well,”
she responded, “though, of course, if
1 could afford porcelain, or even the
agate iron-waie J should prefer it.
As for copper utensils, I do not care
for them, though they retain their
, R . a(< j( ig longcr any otll0r
n) - lllt ( tliey r-ertainly aro durable,
But chemists and physicians are op¬
posed to them largely, as they say they
are dangerous and poisonous, unless
the greatest care is taken of them cou-
staidly.
It takes some work, however, to keep
nny kind of cooking utensils in proper
order, but I have a few simple receipts
Avhioli answer every purpose. Now,
tinware should he cleaned in such a
ivay as not to wear away the surface
unduly. Sometime j I clean them as
follows: J mix a little of the best
whiting \viih a very 1 is t ie sweet oil
and rnb tho tins with this and then
wipo them clean, Aftt'l' that I dust
some dry whiting on them and rub it
off with chamois skin or a very soft
cloth.
“A simpler way to clean tin is to use
the best whiting, powdered tine, and
apply it with a wet cloth, and then
polish with a dry one. As for my iron,
ware I find that very fine ashes, sand
or brick dust sifted will scour it nicely.
Of course all tin and iron ware should
be kept in a perfectly dry place to pre¬
vent rust. If kitchen utensils are tar¬
nished and discolored badly put them
into a large boiler containing hot
wa'er and a handful of washing soda,
and let them boil for a few minute ,
[lien scour them with any good kitchen
soap.”—[New York News.
Kentucky Chicken Pie.—Fry two
spring chickens until a nice brown
Line a five quart pan with rich crust,
Put in the chicken with gravy aim
half a teacup of butter. Pea-on with
pepper and salt. Cover with a crust,
over which hi}’ bits of blitter, Bake
until the crust is brown.
Roiled dolly Cake—One cup of
sugar an l two eggs well beaten to¬
gether; adil (wo tublespoonfuls of
water; mix one and one-half teaspoon-
ftils baking powder with one and one-
half cups of flour; add to the eggs and
sugar; do not stir much after adding
the flour; bake in a dripping pan in u
quick oven; when cool, spread with
jelly and roil
Baked eggs—Arrange the bako sau¬
cers ou a tin and set in oven till hot;
put a small piece of butter and a
spoonful of cream, milk or water into
each; break in tho eggs, being careful
not to disturb the yolks or soil tho
edges of the saucers; sprinkle pepper,
salt and grated cheesy over tho top;
let bake till ttjero is a good pearly Him
over eaoJ) i
NO. ‘29.
My Bird.
A beautiful bird, a bonnie white bird,
Flew over the sunrise sea;
His wings were n-glint, with the sunrise
glow,
And 1 thrilled Avilli a joy I may novermor*
know,
As bo winged liis course to me,
Ills swift, straight course to me.
tie folded bis pinions upon my breast,
And 1 held him close to my heart;
lie sung me a song that I wept to hear,
A song so rapturous, low and clear!
And I said: “Thou shalt never depart!
From my fond arms never depart!”
i fashioned a nest for my bonnie white birr.
In the sheltering, safe home-croft;
t), I made him n nest, that glad .June
weather,
Sweet as the lilies and white as the heather,
And soft as the roses soft.
As the fair rose-petals soft.
Throe Junes and a day we bad Joy, ah, joy!
The song in my heart still rings!
With love and music, and flowers a-blowing,
l forgot how swiftly the days were going,
I forgot tlint my bird bad wings!
That my bonnie white bird had wings!
Db, for those days that never come back!
Alas for the days that be!
For my bird, my beautiful bird, is lo3t!
Tho golden sunset sea he crossed,
And he comes not again to me!
Never again to me!
Oh, swift was his flight, and sweet his song!
The song that I never lmd heard!
His wings wore r.-glcam with the sunset
glow,
And I thrilled with an anguish I always
shall know
Till I clasp once more my bird 1
Once more my bonnie white bird!
— [Emma <’. Dowd in the Ifousowifo,
HUMOROUS.
Maid to order—Tho waitress.
Something always on hand—Your
thumb.
Tho potato digger always endeavors
to get at the root of tho thing.
Even when a man weighs his words
he often finds they have no weight.
A girl with a dimple in her cheek
never lets it suffer from lack of exer¬
cise.
A man in narrow circumstances can
not consistently expect a wide appre¬
ciation.
Grace—Is Blackncy much attached
to his wife? Wife—Yes, by her
apron strings.
“I’a, what sort of a tunc do they
play on a barrel organ?” “Taps, my
son, I reckon.”
Listeners are not after the good they
will hear of themselves, but the bad
they will hear of others.
Hoggs—“Stanley reminds one of a
poker.” “Foggs—“Indeed?” Boggs
—“Yes; a grate explorer, you know.”
The engagement ring is symbolical
of how, after marriage, tho wife will
wind the husband around her little
fi ger.
The man who is aide to travel ex¬
tensively cun generally learn enough
in a year to make a bore of himself
for the rest of his life.
To a lover the geography of the
world resolves itself into two localities
—the place where his sweethoart is,
uni the place where she isn’t.
Governess—And now, dear, what
•an you tell me about Minerva?
I’upil—She was the Goddess of Wis¬
dom, and—and she irver married.
Kitty—How far have you got on
your graduation essay? Nellie—Oh,
I haven’t begun to think about writing
it yet. Wby, I haven’t evon selected
the. color of ribbon to tic it with!
A (Jolt That Joined a Herd of Deer.
William Nichols of Milton, Ore ,
when gathering his horses from tho
range hist fall found that a favorite
l’erchcron colt avus missing, and all
efforts to find him proving unavailing,
the animal was abandoned to its fate,
which no one doubted would be that
of the vast number (hat have found
their way into the equine paradise
through the inclemency of the present
unusually severe winter.
During the present week Mr. Nieh-
)ls, accompanied by another gentle¬
man, xa bile limiting deer among the
mountains that form tho source of tho
Walla Walla river, started a band of
17 black-tails from a deep canyon, and
to their surprise observed a yearling
■olt speeding away with the band, ap¬
parently as J Tightened as the deer
hemselves.
Although the colt had acquired their
wildness by association, ho lacked the*
speed of those mountain climbers and
was soon left far behind in tlit? mad
scramble over the rugged bills. Tho
gentlemen, who xvero well mounted,
pursued and overtook the colt, which
proved to be Mr. Nichols’s Percheron.
From the fact that tracks of the colt
following the trail of the deer were
,een iu several instances, and other
jvidences that were to be seen, it is
aclicved that it had spent the entire
winter with its strange companions,
and prolonged its existence by follow¬
ing the guidance of (ho excellent in-
jliupt of tho deer in search of £oqc|
ivhon tho snow was deep.