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VOL. II.
Dearest Not Costliest.
Those are vulgar things we pay for, be
they stones for crowns of kings;
While the precious and tlie peerless are un¬
priced, symbolic things.
Lovers do not speak with jewcls-flowers
alone can plead for them.
And one fragrant memory cherished Is hr
dearer than a gem.
— [John Boyle O’Reilly.
Next Door to the Church,
It was not the rectory; that was on
the other side. It was a lo^g, low-
studded, old-fashioned house, with
■wide rambling piazza*, and a lawn
which rail up to tlio very church win¬
dows, and preserved its identity as a
lawn, and distinct from a cliurcli-yard
by Hie intervention of a low iron
fence. A gato in the iron fence, and
a box-bordered walk leading to a littlo
side door in the north transept, ren¬
dered the church easy of access, and
left not the shadow of an excuse for
any member of the Birch family to
stay away from service. Not that tlio
Birch family ever desired to stay
away freui sotvicc. Quito tlie con¬
trary. Air. Birch, being senior war¬
den, took tip tlio co'lection, and could
not be spared. Mrs. Birch was god¬
mother to all the babies who came
into the world not sufficiently well
supplied with that necessary article,
and it was Incumbent upon her to bo
a properly shining example. John
went to. church because his father and
mother and Katherine did, and he did
not like to be left at home alone; at
least that is what John might have
said if lie had been asked, but I doubt
if it had ever entered his head that hj
could stay at home. And Katlierim ?
K Uherine had loved to go to church
all through her happy childhood mid
girlhood; and when she came homo
from college this bright summer—a
“sweet girl graduate,” as John mock¬
ingly called her—site loved it more
than ever. Moreover, Katherine
loved to go into tlie great dusky church
in the sweet summer afternoons,when
there was no congregation to disturb
the solemnity of tlie place, and when
she could sit quiet in a corner of a
pew, and think her own thoughts and
plan her.; own future. A glorious
future it was to ho, fail of noble self-
sacrifice and of toil for suffering hu¬
manity. And the sunshine falling
upon the tiled floor in wavering pa’chos
of purple and yellow seemed to her to
symbolize her dreams. Tlnj, purple
meant the struggles she should have to
make; tho gold, the joy which would
’result from the bravo conquering of
self. It was not very profitable, and
her color symbolism was certainly all
wrong; but tho afternoons in tlie old
churcli were helpful, happy times to
her.
Sometimes John would cotne too.
But John was a useful rather than an
ornamental member of society, and lie
knew that his proper place was be¬
hind ihe organ, where lie did not
show, but where lie rendered invalu¬
able aid to Katherine, who, perched
jnpon tlie high organ seat, in front,
voiced her ideals ami aspirations in tlie
music she wruiig from tlie heart of tlie
great organ. Those afternoons were
even better limn (he quiet ones.
“ Tlie rector of St. Alark’s was young,
and new to (hepari-h. He hud heard
much of Katherine before her return
'from college; too much, in fact, to
make him look forward with pleasure
to the prospect of such a parishioner,
“Katherine will bring new intel¬
lectual life into her circle of young
friends,” said her mother, “Kntlic-
rinc will know 'Hie reason for thcs e
new-fangled notions of yours,” said
per father. “My, but Kitty knows
when u sermon is had,” said John.
And outside tlie family it was the
tame, until the minster groaned in'
“A paragon in a parish is n positive
pest,” said lie to himself, uncon¬
sciously alliterative in his scorn, •‘I,
at least, shall not bow'down to this
intellectual autocrat.”
The day of her arrival came, It
was Saturday. Air. Carson was a fre¬
quent guest at Hie hospitable mansion
next door, ami after ids Into dinner Jie
dropped in to piy bis respects. “Bet¬
ter get it over witli,” thought lie. He
wa 3 not a man who fled from disa¬
greeable duties.
As lie stepped upon Hie wide front
veranda, a figure rose from a ham¬
mock at the end, and came forward—
a little figure, slender and graceful.
The setting sun behind fell upon tlie
golden hair, making a shining lmlo
about it. The rosy gown repeated the
colors of tiie evening sky. It seemed
to tlie young limn that (lie heart of the
sunset had embodied itself, and was
corning to meet him. And then tlie
brilliancy of tlie sky faded, and there
was only a maiden witli golden hair
and a rosy gown standing before Dim,
holding out her hand and saying:
! “This Is Mr- Carson, is it not?
THE <9 ENTERPRISE. t
Mamma told mo to expect you. Sho
will bo out very soon."
Then, bustling, housewifely Mrs.
Birch appeared in tlie front door,with:
‘•Oh, Katherine, my dear, are yon
alone? "Why, hero Is Mr. Carson 1
And, Mr. Carson, this is my daughter.
How glad I am to have you know one
another, after all you have heard about
enoli oilier 1 Now do sit down, and
talk and be friends.”
Katherine looked at (life minister
again, and thorn was a twinkle in her
eye, and a curious little smile about
the corners of her mouth. Mr. Carson
felt more uncomfortable than suited
liis priestly composure. What had
Mrs. Birch been saying about him?
Could it be dial lie had been held up
before Ibis charming maiden ns a par-,
gon, until she regarded him as lie had
expected*fire minutes before to regard
her?
“But, indeed, Airs. Birch, you do
me too great honor,’’ ho said, “1
trust that you have iiot given Aliss
Birch a wrong impression.”
And then he wanted to annihilate
himself for having brought down tiie
flood of eulogy which kind and out¬
spoken Atrs. Birch proceeded to pour
upon his devoted head. And Kather¬
ine sat demurely by and tried to look
solemn nnd awed, as was proper in
the presence of one whom her mother
so revered, but a most at surd little
smile would play abput the corners of
her mouth, making tlio dimples come
and go in a fascinating way. Air.
( a son knew she was laughing at him,
an l lie did not like it, hut he iiked to
watcli Hie dimples.
Katherine had not expected to find
Air. Carson a paragon, She knew her
mother's fondness for clergymen of
any sort, and especially for her - own
particular rector. She knew equally
well her mother’s habit of seeing and
talkiiig^bont tlio best in every one,
and she had come home prepared to
meet a very ordinary young man.
Katherine iind a habit, not inherited
from licr mother, of regarding most
youthful members of the stronger sex
as “very ordinary young men indeed.”
This was not bccauso they did not ad¬
mire her, but *p'obably because they
did. Katherine’s ideals,, you know,
wore very high, and llien sho was in¬
After that, tlio happy days flew by
on swift wings; tho beautiful golden
summer-time was fast growing into
autumn, and the liouso next door to
tlie church had had moro than its share
of good times. But It happened that
often Katlicrino w6uld be missed from
tlie gayest of tlie parties, and would be
discovered in tlie hammock, witli Air.
Carson on a chair by her side, engaged
in earnest discourse.
“Ob, thoy’re talking plans,” said
John. “Sbo’s going to teach poor
children in tlio shims of New York,
nnjl.he’s going to be a ‘eelebate,’ what¬
ever that'i*. I hoard them tiiis morn¬
ing. Ho’s going to lead a life of stern
devotion to duty, lie said; and Kiltie
looked soulful, and said so was she.
Truly, if Kiltie weren’t so jolly, slic’d
be a stick, and anyway, alio isn’t so
nico ns sho used to lie. She's prettier,
though, only Air. Carson never no¬
tices whether a girl’s pretty or not.”
September came, and with it Hie
time for John’s return to school. Tlie
day before his departure lie was lazily
swinging,in a hammock on the porch,
when a voice called to him* •
“John, dear John, just one more fa¬
vor before you go!”
John knew well enough what was
Hie favor sbe asked, and, after all,
tiiis was the first time, and she was a
jolly sister, any way; so lie came, not
ungraciously, down upon the lawn to
and together they went
in’o the church.
Ten minutes after the door opened
softly and Afr. Carson came in. He
had brought a now To Dea n for
Katherine to try; but Katherine was
absorbed in her music, and had not
heard tlie opening door and the enter¬
ing footsteps and did not look around.
Tlie minister stood stiH. The church
was cool and d’m after the sunshine
outside. Tho wavering patches
purplo and gold lay in long lines
across tho floor. Katherine had not
(old him her little conceit about Hie
purple and gold. She knew tiiat it
was silly, and he only thought vaguely
that the colors were beautiful, and
that somehow they reminded him of
Katherine; and then he looked at her.
In tlio shadow of the great organ she
sat, grave and still, with upturned
face.
“St. Cecilia,” murmured tho minis¬
ter, and he too stood very still for a
minute. Then lie gave himself a little
shake and came forward. How he
was tempted to let his fancy wander,
here in tlie old church! He knew his
duty, the path he had laid out for
himself to walk in, and it was a path
of self-renunciation; but how his de¬
terminations had been weakening! afi
GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 12.1891.
through tlio blight summer timo, and
how he had permitted this paragon
(“for tliis is n paragon,” said tlio
minister to himself; “though not tlio
kind I had expected to sco”) to set his
heart a-flntter.
“1 must not,” lie said. And lie
walked calmly up tlio long aisle—up
to her very side. But KnUiorino
turned and looked on ffim, and smiled
a grave greeting, Iter hands still upon.
Hie keys and a soft minor chord filling
tlie air.
“Katherine, my littlo Katherine I”
said tlio minister. And his strong
hand imprisoned tlio little one on tlio
white keys. Tlie chord became a
sudden jumble, and then stopped alto¬
gether.
“And when he called her littlo Kath¬
erine, and sho didn’t say anything, I
stopped pumping,” said John, ’after¬
ward; “for usually Katherine luvtes to
called little.”
Tlio sun streamed in through the
west window; tlie soft light fell upon
Katherine's hair.
“The gold is tlie color of your hair,
and the other is tlie color of your eyes;
and that is why I love it, dear heart,”
said Hie minister.
“And the purple doesn’t mean sor¬
row,” said Katherine, very softly; “it
means glory.”—[Harper’s Weekly.
Led Into the Yailey of Death.
“There is also a ‘Valley of Death’
in America, although not many peo.
pie are aware of its location,” said
Col. Benjamin G. Gleason, an old
California pioneer who is registered
at the Tre wont House. lie said he
had read of the deadly place in tho
island of Java. Ho said if tho valley
in this country is not as ghastly it is
as named.
“A band of immigrants known as
Hie ‘Alontgomery Train,’ consisting of
nearly 100 families, perished in a val¬
ley north of the old Mormon road in
Utah about 40 years ago, and that is
why the spot is known as the ‘Valley
of Death,’ ” continued the old pioneer.
“It was a Mormon horror. Simply
because some of tlio immigrants had
displeased some of tlie Alorinon in¬
habitants along the route they were
led to their deatli by a Alorinon guide.
The place is 36 miles square and sur¬
rounded by mountains so steep they
cannot l>3 climbed. There is ono en¬
trance to tlie spot and that is where
tlie train entered. Neither water nor
vegetation is found there; beasts and
birds shun the spot. Nothing but
sand abounds. Even tlie snakes avoid
the place, there not being enough in
tlie desolate region to furnish means
of subsistence.
“The immigrants were enroute to
the Pacific, coast, and it was to this
barren region they were led by their
guide, who, it is claimed, had instruc¬
tions from tlie Mcrmon leaders to mis-
lead the band and permit it to perish.
The travellers readied the centre, and
around and around tlie enclosure they
wandered. The scorching sun poured
down upon them, and children crying
for water died on their mothers’
breasts. Then tlie mothers with swol-
len tongues and burning vitals lay
down in tlie sun to die. Strong men
stretched themselves in death, and the
animals followed.
“It was thirteeh months after tlie
band perished before Jlie place was re¬
visited. During all this time the ab¬
sence of tiie immigrants was not ex¬
plained. Finally, when the Kansas
Pacific engineers were exploring the
unknown region they discovered the
barren spot. Tlio train was scattered
all over the valley. Tlie wagons stood
complete, while the skeletons of men
women, children, and beasts lay
bleaching- in tho sun. — [Chicago Tri¬
bune.
An Obedient Soldier.
In Hie confusion of tlie engagement
at Shiloh Die captain of a Federal bat¬
tery was commanded to stop tlio ad¬
vance of a column of troops dimly
seen through smoke and dust.
“General,” lie said, “those are our
own reinforcements.”
“You are mistaken, sir,” said the
general tartly; “do as I bid you.”
Tlie captain promptly opened fire,
smashing the head of the column and
driving it to cover. He sighted one
of tlie guns himself and did ail the
damage, lie could. He knew lie was
killing friends, but when obeying or-
ders it was his habit to obey them in
letter and in spirit. When he had j
stopped Hie column he seated himself
comfortably on tlie trail of a gun and |
lit his pipe. — [San Francisco Exam-
iner.
A Nice Scheme.
Grafton— What do you think, Tom? j
Bill Bluff, who we Giddy, all thought has so at- off j !
tentive to Aliss gone
and married iier mother! I
Wiggins—Well, that was a nice
scheme indeed for getting rid Of £
mother-in-law!
A GOLDEN HARVEST.
Picking Oranges From the Trees
in Southern California.
Gangs of Pickers Busily at
Work in the Groves.
The first picking of oranges in South¬
ern California is made about tlio mid¬
dle of Doceinbor in Hie San Gabriel
valley, and from (lie first of January,
for a month or so, and tlio gathering
continues unabated. A few weeks
previous the wholesale shippers go tlio
rounds of the groves. Many of them
have arrangements from year to year
with tlio owners, whilo many pro¬
ducers prefer lo lnako new contracts
each season. The agent inspects tlie
grove and oilers so much per box or
so much for the fruit on tlie tree, and
hero tlie responsibility of tlie owner
ceases. The shipper puts on his pick¬
ers, tlie grower receives his cheek and
another year is begun.
The picking of tlio orange in largo
orange centres, such as Iho San Ga¬
briel valley, is announced by an addi¬
tion to the floating population. Gangs
of pickers—Mexicans, Chinese, Amer¬
icans, men and boys—gather from far
and neat’, and tlio groves are tilled
with gay laughter and song. Every¬
body is at work, and if the crop, ns it
is this year, is large, everyone feels
cheerful and confident, Tlie orange
grove of the imagination is a streteh
of trees filled with golden fruit,
where one can lie in fltc soft grass nnd
luxuriate iu the sight. Tlie actual
grove, while beautiful to Hie eye, is
not a placo for lounging, as tlio ground
is or should be kept ploughed continu¬
ally and irrigated often by floods of
water. But the trees are attractive;
ever green, often showing ripe and
green fruit and white blossoms at the
same time, they are an enigma.
A gang of men under the head of a
leader or overseer takes possession of a
grove bright and early in the morn¬
ing, two or three men being appointed
to a tree, and tlio picking begins. Tall
stepladders enable the pickers to rcacli
the top brandies, and cadi orango is
carefully ent from the tree, as if it is
pulled and tlie string broken it will
soon decay, Tlio pickor wears a bag
into which the fruit is dropped, which
when filled is handed to tlio washer
or scrubber. The latter, generally
a Chinaman, waslios the black stain or
rust from the fruit, polishing it with
a cloth, after which it is passed to an
assorter. Soinetimos a
is used, a runaway, so that the or¬
anges of the same size will all collect
together. This accomplished, each
orange is wrapped iu variously colored
paper and placed in tlie box ready for
shipment. A counter keeps tally of
the boxes, as Sometimes the owner is
paid by tlie box, as well as tlie picker.
In some groves various machines
are used. Thus one patent is a knife
on a long polo, which is connected
with a canvas tube. The orange cut
in this way drops into tin chute, and
by an arrangement of traps drops
from one to another, and finally rolls
into a box uninjured. The ordinary
method of picking, however, is by
hand.
Tlie orange pickers are usually a
jolly lot, there being something about
the business apparently that enlivens
the spirits nnd imparls an air of jollity
to tlie party. Tho Aloxicans and Ameri¬
cans labor in harmony, but an orange-
picking team composed of Chinamen
and Americans appears to work the re¬
verse. Tlie Chinese picker finds that
his ladder gives way without warning,
dropping him into Hie thorny tree or
upon tlie ground. He is bombarded
with oranges from unseen quarters, or
finis his pigtail fastened to a branch;
in other words, as a rule, his life iu
the orange grove is not as pleasant as
it might be. He is strongly suspected
by Ins fellows of working at rates tiiat
will not support a wliito man of fam¬
ily, addicted to taxpaying.
At tlie-orange picking time tlie conn-
try is a marvel to tho Easterner. While
standing among Hie oranges tlie picker
looks away over grove after grove,
fields of flowers, acres of golden esch-
choilzias, patches of wild daisies, blue,
bells and yellow violets, and finally
his eye rests upon the Sierra Madras,
or mother mountains, rising but four
or five miles distant, the garden wall
of this modern Ilesperides. His nos.
tri , g JnhaIe tho odoi . of thc orange
blossoms, while his eyes greet (he
snow banks of a vigorous winter. Tho
great peaks arc capped xvith snow,
and tlie upland blizzard is raging with
unabated fury. From the vantage
ground of the orange grove the wind
can be seen on Mt. San Antonio whirl
i»g aloft the snow in gigantic wraiths,
tossing it upward in huge clouds that
n “e hundred* of feet, to be borne j
away oyer the lowland and duaipated,
With eyes on this arctic sccno tlie ob¬
server can scarce believe the facts,
scarce realize that lie can by a single
glance encompass winter and summer.
Tlie orange picker, however, has no
timo to spend on tlie icsllielics of tlio
subject; ho Is picking against time,
and an oager East is wailing.— [New
York Sun.
GniNs In the Nile.
Tlio grass barriers through which
I)r. Junker passed measured 100 feet
to a mile and a quarter in width, and
frequently delayed him for hours on
stretches that he might otherwise have
put behind him in a few minutes.
Dr. Junker directs attention to the
fact, however, that even grass barri¬
ers are not an unmixed evil, since at
high water llieir thickly matted sub¬
stance serves tlie purpose of a filter in
clarifying tlio stream, says Gold-
thwaite’s Geographical Magazine. So it
happens that tlio White Nile is “the
clear,” whilo the Bltto Nile, in which
tlio conditions arc unfavorable to the
formation of grass barriers, is “tlio
dirty."
Tlie grass is swept into the stream
at high water from tlio swamps and
stagnant ponds along Hie banks. This
grass grows together in great masses,
which, once floated info the stream, be¬
come welded by nets of innumerable
roots and smaller water plants, till a
barrier forms across tho channel. Tlio
force of tlio current increases tlie com-
pacPness of tlie barrier thus formed,
and brings it now material from above.
1 he barriers difler greatly as to com¬
pactness; through some tho lsmailia
cut her way slowly, merely with her
prow. Others were tramped down.
cut and loosened before her by na¬
tives. Others, “like felt,” as Dr.
Junker says, were firm against such
simple devices, Wire cablos were
made fast to each of tlieso massive
barriers near ils edge, and at the same
time to Hie prow of the lsmailia.
Tlie steamship then backed wate r
with all hor power and thus tore loose
and set adrift down stream great
chunks of tho barrier. To tints clear
a river of a largo barrier is a huge un¬
dertaking. Ernst Alarno, for instance,
witli four steamships and several hun¬
dred men, was busy from September,
1879, till April, 1880, clearing his way
in the Bahrel Gabel. The piercing of
a harrier by a steamship bound down
stream is frequently exceedingly peril¬
ous, as tiie loosened masses of matted
grass, instead of floating off behind
the boat are ofteu drivon back against
her stern till sho becomes as firmly
imbeddod in tlie grass as she would bo
in an ice field.
Country Life iu the Argentine.
In a new country the traveler must
not bo particular, much less exacting;
above all, ho must not expect to find
refinement among the inhabitants,
whoso whole efforts barely suttice to
sustain the combat against tlie ele¬
ments. Still, I cannot refrain from
noting tho impression of sadness and
disgust produced by (lie sight of tlie
towns and colonics of tlie pampa, and
by a glimpse of tlie life that tiio in¬
habitants lead. Verily iho majority
live worse than brutes, for they have
not even tlie cleanly instincts of the
beasts of tlie field. Their houses are
less agreeable to the eye Ilian an Esqui¬
mau’s hut. The way they maltreat
Iheir animals is sickening to behold,
ltarelr do you see the face of a man,
woman, or child that does not wear a
bestial and ferocious expression. In
Hie villages there are no clubs, no li¬
no churches, no priests, rarely
even a school. The men and women
work, cat and sleep, and their only
distraction is the grossest bestiality,
gambling and drinking in tlio pulpcria,
with occasionally a littlo knifing and
revolver-firing. During my ’ whole
stay in the Argentine, and in all the
centres that I visited, I was struck by
the utter absence of inoral restraint,
and by the hard materiality of tlie
faces of the people, from the highest
down lo tiio lowest.—[Harper's Maga¬
zine.
One of Nature’s Wonders.
Naturalists say that Hie feet of the
common working bee exhibit tlie
curious combination of a basket, a
brush and a paif of pinchers, The
brush,the hairs of which are arranged
in symmetrical rows, are only to be
sce.n with a high grade microscope.
With tiiis brush of fuiry delicacy the
bee brushes its velvet robe to remove
the pollen dust with which it becomes
loaded v^hiie sucking up the nectar of
flowers. Another delicate apparatus
is the 6poon-shapcd appendage which
receives the gleanings that the bee
wishes to carry to the hive. Finally,
by opening the “brush” and the “bas¬
ket” by means of a neat little hinge,
(:, u two become a pair of pinchers,
which render important service in con-
,tructing the cells for reception of tint
honey,—[St. Louis Republic-
FOR TIIE II00SHW1FE. A
COOKING QUEEN VEGETABLES. ’
All green vegetables should be
freshly gathered, washed in cold
water and cooked in frostily boiled
water until tender, not ono moment
longer. Split peas, lentils or Loans,
and all dry vegetables which abound
in casein, do not boil soft or touder in
hard water. Green vegetables, on the
contrary, retain their juices better if
boiled in hard water, A littlo com-
inon salt will harden 6oft water, while
hard water may be rendered soft by
tlio addition of a teaspoonful of bi.
carbonate of soda to a gallon of water.
— [Boston Cultivator.
SOUTHERN JOHNNY-CAKE.
Ono medium-sized toaenpful ol
sweet milk, tho same of buttermilk, a
teaspoonful of salt, ono of soda and
one of melted butter, with enough
coarse yellow meal to admit of rolling
it out in a sheet about linlf an inch
thick. Spread it out upon a shallow
pan which lias boon well buttered and
bake for forty minutes.
Tie a picco of clean cotton cloth
around a stick, dip it in incited but¬
ter, and as tlio cake begins to brown
rub it over it. Repeat this four or
live tiineB until it is hard and crisp on
top. When done pass a broad knife
around between tlio cake and the pan
and turn it out on n clean cloth. Do
not cut it up, but break in good-sized
pieces and serve in a napkin.—[New
York Journal.
KENTUCKY BABBIT STEW.
Tho mysterious blue-grass burgoo
which is such a feature of the barbo-
ettos of this great country is really a
sort of gypsy-kettle stew into which
enter all the good tilings of field and
wood which tlie season affords. Lack¬
ing rabbits, gray squirrels can be used.
Tlie vegetables, etc., are prepared at
home and carried afield ready for the
kettle, sometimes packed into it, ready
for the addition of game and water.
For a pair of squirrels or ono large
rabbit allow half a pound of salt fat
pork cut in slices and laid next the
kettle, tlie vegetables resting against
it; a quart of shelled lima beans, six
large cars of corn cut from tlio cob,
six white potatoes pooled and cut into
dice, one large green pepper chopped,
two large onions peeled and sliced, a
quart of okra cut in small bits, and a
quart of tomatoes peeled and sliced*
Aftor tlio rabbits or squirrels arc
dressed and laid in tlie kettle upon
these other ingredients nearly fill it
with cold water, allowing the water to
come an inch nbovo tlie other tilings,
and cook gently over a moderate tiro
until the flesh of tho game is tender I
see that tho seasoning is savorv and
tlio stew of tlie proper consistency and
then serve it.— [Chicago News.
SWEET BISCUIT.
A delicate resipe for sweet biscuit
comes from Hie maple sugar region.
Measure out a quart of tlie best flour;
add three teaspoonfuls of baking-
powder or two teaspoon fit Is of cream
tartar and one of soda. If you pur¬
chase your soda and cream tartar of a
trustworthy druggist and are sure of
getting tlie very best, use them, be¬
cause they make a more delicate and
equally light biscuit; otherwise uso
baking-powder of any trustworthy
make. Whatever is used lo lighten
the biscuit, whether it is Hie soda and
Cream tartar or tlio baking-powder,
sift it through tlie sieve with tho
flower. Rub a piece of butter tlio
size of an egg through the flour and
rub it through so thoroughly that
some portion of the butter touches
every portion of the flour. Tho suc¬
cess of any baking-powder or of a
soda biscuit depciids upon care at this
point. Now add a pint of rich, new
milk. Stir it in the mass, which
should he a soft dough. At this
period add a cup of maple sugar cut
up into irregular dice about the size of
peas. Dredge a board; turn out tlie
dough. Dredge flour over it and roll
it as quickly as possible till it is about
an inch thick. Gut out tho biscuit
with a small tumbler or biscuit cutter,
not over two or two and a quarter
inches in diameter. Tiie biscuit will
rise to tlio proper size. Bake them
from twelve to fifteen minutes in a
very hot oven. Serve them hot. Tlieso
maple sugar biscuits are a delightful
change.—[New York Tribune.
household hints.
Boiled starch is improved by adding
a little salt, or a little disso lved gum-
arabic.
Be careful where you keep your
flour. It is more readily spoiled by
odors than milk.
To 'keep butter hard, without ice,
take a new flower-pot, wash it clean,
wrap it in a wot cloth, and set it oyei
the butter,
How She Lost Her Lover.
'Twm a summer ago when he left me here,
A slimmer of smiles with never a tear,
TUI I aalil to him with a sob My ilenr!
Good bye, my lover; good-bye!
For I loved him, oh, as the stirs love nightt
And my cheeks for him flashed red and
white
Whon he first called me his heart’s delight;
Good-bye, my lover; good-bye!
The touch of his hand was a thing divine,
As he sat with me in the soft moonshine
And drank of my love as men drink wine;
Good-bye, my lover; good-bye!
And never a night ns I knelt in prayer,
In-a gown as white ns our own souls wore,
Hut In fancy lie came out and kbsed me
there.
Good-bye, my lover; good-bye!
But now, ob God! what an empty place
My whole heart is! Of the old embrace
And the kiss l loved, there Is not a trace;
Good-bye, my lover; good-bye 1
He sailed not over tlio stormy sea.
And he went not down in the waves, not
he;
But oh, he is lost, for lie married me;
Good-live, my lover; good-bye!
— \V. Ililey, in Chicago Herald.
HUMOROUS.
There arc no pieces left of broken
silence.
Tim heart of a city is probably
where its beats conic from.
No matter what t'io season may bo,
it is always spring with frogs.
“is your wife lecturing now?”
“Well—ah—not on the platform.”
At tiio present ruto of legal fees
nono but a wealthy man can “keep
bis own counsel.”
Men may be just as willing to hale
you for your virtues as for your
faults, but they seldom have llie same
opportunities.
Mrs. Nocat—Do you think my
daughter will ho a musician? Pro¬
fessor— Igan’t zay. She may. 8 he
tell me she gomo of a long-lived fum-
ily.
“Then,” lie said, after she had re¬
jected him, “this is tlio end of all?”
“Oli, not liecossarily,” sho replied,
cheerfully. “The world seems to be
going yet.” «
Itosc—1 think I’ll say yes. It is
better to marry a man you respect
than one you adore. Dolly—But it’s
so much easier to love men than to re¬
spect (hern.
If there is such a tiling as real,
downright mortification on this earth,
it is in the feeling of the man, who,
himself intending to cheat, finds that
ho has picked up the small end of a
horse trade.
Mamma—You naughty girl! You’ve
eaten every cookoy there was on the
plate. I told you you might have
three. Little Edith—Yes, but you
didn’t tell mo which three; so, to be
Bure I’d get tlie right ones I cat them
all.
The student burns the midnight oil,
Pursuing wealth and fume,
And every month he has to pay
A gas bill just the same.
Air Currents Above Us.
Mr. F. Gallon, in some recent re¬
marks on tire importance of observing
the upper currents of tlio air, said that
Iho groat tiling wo now want to know
is tlio state of the air above us; for we
arc at tlio bottom of an mrial ocean,
and all wo know is what takes place
at tire bottom. Imagine how little a
marine animal that lived in the bottom
of the sen, having tlio same intelli¬
gence as ourselves, would know of
the currents above. That is precisely
our position. We understand only
one horizontal section of Ibis superin¬
cumbent mass. Opt. II. Toynbee of
England, commenting on Mr. Gal¬
lon’s remarks, observes I hat it seem*
possible that cheap balloons may bo
used to advantage where upper clouds
arc not seen. IIo thinks this is
proved by (lio adventure of an aero¬
naut who went to Madras a whilo ago
and advertised an ascent, fixing an
hour when the sea breeze had set in,
witli the object of being drivon over
the land. There were no upper clouds
to show the motion of the upper cur¬
rent of air. Mr. Bayley of tlio reve¬
nue board of Madras feared that there
might be an upper current of air
w'hicli would take the man out to sea.
He took his glass and watched the bal¬
loon from his office window. At first,
in the lower stratum of air, tlio bal¬
loon drifted quickly to the westward
over the laud; but soon, giving a pecu¬
liar twist, it moved seaward so quickly
that although the man pulled Hie string
of the valve, allowing the gas to es¬
cape very freely, lie fell into the sea
two or throe miles from the land. •
Boats in the harbor harried out and
s aved him —[Goldthwaitc’s Magazine.
*
Not Disturbed.
“Store robbed last night.”
“You don’t say. What was taken?”
“Nearly, all. In fact, the only tiling
not disturbed was the watchman,
[Philadelphia Timo*,