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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1883)
Tiie CraiMfl Democrat. €RAWFORDVIIiLE, GEORGIA. PECK'S BAD BOY. THE BUYS PI.AY “WILD WEST’* SHOW. Ttf Br« 1 Bor’s Pa bassos a Cow, and Keta Pulled Around in Most Promiscuous Manner. [From trie Milwaukee Sun.] “You see,” said the bad boy to the gro¬ cery man, “all of us boys in the neighbor¬ hood wanted to have a Buffalo Bill show, and pa gave us j ermissiou to use the back yard, aud he said he would come out and help us. You know that Boston girl that was visiting at our house, with the glasses on ? Well, she went home the next day. She says this climate is too wild for her. You see, we boys all fixed up as Indians, and we laid for some one to come out of the house, to scalp, the way they do : n the show. We heard a rustle of female garments, and all hid, and when the Boston girl came out to pick some pansies in ma’s flower¬ bed, we captured astonished her. You never see We a girl so and I as took she hold was. of yelled of hands ‘yip-yip’ and chum took hold one of her my the other, aud her bangs raised right up, and her glasses fell off and she said ‘Oh, you howwia things.’ in “We took her to our lair the hen house and tied her to a tin rain water conductor that came down by the cor¬ ner of the barn and then we danced a war dance around her, and yelled ‘ki yi,’ until she perspired. I took my tomahawk aud lifted her hair and hung it on the chicken roost, and then I made a speech to her in Indian. I said: “ ‘The pale faced maiden from the rising sun is in the hands of Her the Apaches, brothers and they yearn for gore. and fathers and uncles, the Indian agents, have robbed the children of the forest of Their army blankets and canned lobster, and the red man must be avenged. But we will not barm the pretty white maiden, except to burn her to the stake. What has she to say ? Will she give the red men taffy, or will she burn ?’ “Just then pa comes out with a cis¬ tern pole, and he rescued the white maiden, and said we mustn't be so rough. ail Then the girl said she would give us the taffy we wanted, and she went in and she aud ma watched us from the back window. Pa be watched us rob a coach, and he said it was first rate. The man that collects the ashes rom tho alley, with a horse and wagon, he had-just loaded up, and got on the wagon, when two of my Indians took the horse by the bits, and four of us mounted the wagon and robbed the driver of a clay pipe and a pocket comb, and a knife, but he saved his ashes by promising never to reveal the names of the robbers. Pa just laughed, knife when we gave the ash man back his and things, and said he hadn’t had so mnch fun in a long time. Then we were go¬ ing to lasso a wild Texas steer, and ride it, the way they did in the show, and pa Baid that was where he came in handy. He said he could throw a lasso just like a cow-boy. We got my chum’s pa’s cow out of the barn, and drove her up the alley, aud pa stood there with a clothes line, with a big noose in the end, and he headed off the cow and threw the lasso. Well, you’d a died to see pa sweep things out of the alley with his pants. The cow was sort of seared whon we drove her it up the alley, cause I guess she thought was time she was milked, arid when pa stepped out from behind the barrel aud thro wed the rope around her neck, I guess she thought it was all day with her, for she turned and galloped, anil kicked up and bellercd, and pa did not know enough to let go of the rope. First pa followed the cow down the alley sitting down, and about a bushel of ashes got up his trowsers leg, aud the tomato cans and old oyster cans flew around like a cyclone was blowing. Us In jins climed up on the fences to get out of the way, and that scared the cow more, and she snatched pa along too quick. I yelled to pa to let go cf the rope, and just as the cow drawed him under a wagon he let go, and the cow took the clothes line home. Pa got up and shook the ashes out of his trowers legs and picked up a piece of board and started back. You never saw a tribe ol Indians get scared so quick as we did. As I went in the hen coop and got under a barrel I heard pa say: “ -That busts up the Buffalo Bill busi¬ ness. No more wild steer lassoing for your uncle Ike.’ “"Well, no one was to blame but pa. He thinks he can do every¬ thing, and when he tries it and gets tangled, he lays it to me. We went out on (he street with our tomahawks, when pa went in to brush himself, aud disilanded, and went to our reservation, ana piece reigus again, and the Boston giri has gone home with an idea that we are all Heathens out west.” What a Baby Can Do. A baby can wear out a dollar pair of kid shoes in twenty-four busy advertising hours. It can keep its father in the newspapers for a nurse. It can occupy both sides of the largest sized bed man¬ ufactured simultaneously. It can bills make the author of its being’s wash foot up to $5 a week and not be felling at all well. It can crowd to suffocation the •smoking car of a railroad train with in¬ dignant passengers between two stations. It can cause its father to be insulted by every second-class boarding-house takes keep¬ chil¬ er in the city who “never dren.” It can make an old bachelor in the room adjoining use language that, if ottered on the street, would get him into the penitentiary for two years. It can, in ten minutes, drive a man fran -tiealiy from his home and cause him to *eek the companionship of a locomotive blowing off steam. They n* used H to in call ,..i it if matrimony, rnammonv out dui a a crusty, _ s ._ aisappomieu Hjcannointed old mu bachelor was. calls It K “Matter o money. Well, it may be, sometimes. Cleanse brushes in water in which th.re is a teaspoonful of ammonia. EDITORIAL NOTES. Gen. Dumont, Supervising Inspector of steam vessels, reports the accidents for tLe vea r, iUrly four; liv< s lost, 284; pas.-engers carried, 475,000,000, of which Lumber one in 1,750,009 perished. A recent official report says that the mercury in South Australia often rises in summer to 115 degrees in the shade, and this has been exceeded on several occasions. In January, 1862, it reached 116 degrees, and in January, 1882, it was ISO—only thirty-two degrees below boil ing- in the sun. The army of pensioners amounting to 303,658 are classified as follows: Army invalids, 198,648; army widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, 74,374, navy invalids, 2,468; naTy widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, 1,907; survivors of 'he war of 1812, 4,831; widows of those who served in the war of 1812, 21,336. Feav peop e reflect upon the fact that ihe Indians are the richest landholders in the United States. We have 237,066 of them, exclusive of .he Alaska Indians, holding 151,397,768 acres of laud Some of the tribes own 3,000 acres per .Indian The average is about one square mile to each Indian, while a white man is not al owed to pre-empt more than 160 acres of the public land. Professional sword swallowers per¬ form, apparently, startling feats, but it is a well-known fact that the back parts of the mouth are capable of becoming, through habit, accustomed to abnormal contacts. By constant practice the sword swallower accustoms his pharynx to the contact of large objects, such as swords, canes and even billiard cues. This ac¬ complishment, however, is acquired only by gradual and painful efforts. Gov. Crosby recommends to Congress, through the Secretary of the Interior, the immediate cutting down of all ndian reservations, now covering two fifths of the area of Montana, to the actual wants of the 18,000 Indians, and throwing the lands open to settlement. He urges relief for the Black Feet,North Blegans, Assinaboines and Grosventres, and also that schools for the education of Indians in agricultural pursuits be established. John Griffin Carlisle was born September 5, 1835, in Kenton county, Ky., just across the river from Cincin¬ nati. After receiving a good academic education he studied law with Hon. John W. Stev nson and Judge Wm B. Kinkead, and began the practice in 1857. He was elected to the legislature in 1859, to the State Senate in 1866, and again in 18G9, resigning in 1871 to make the race for lieutenant governor, and was successful. In 1876 he was elected to congress, aDd has been re-elected at each succeeding election since. I’atti’b brevet husband is Signor Nicolini. Niissiu is the widow of M. Rozeaud. Gerster is the widow of Dr! Gardner, and has a baby ten months old. Scalchi is the Countess Lolli in real life. Mme. Pappenheim is Mine. Ahren. Ellen Terry is Mrs. Kelley. Mme. Va leria bears the unromantic name of Mrs. H R. Percy Hutchinson; her husband is a very matter of fact manufacturer in the north of England Semhrich is Mme Stengle in private life, and is an Austrian Pole; she is a proficient violin p ayer, and sometimes accompanies herself on that instrument in opera. She is twenty-four years old. The Brooks comet of 1812 ia now visi¬ ble in the evening. It is in the north¬ west, and is pursuing a path that will soon bring it into the constellation of cygnus in which the swan is across the milky way. On December 13 th it will reach the maximum brightness of 1812, and by the 14th of January will become four times brighter. Its closest approach to the sun will ba oq January 25th, after which it will be seen no more for seventy ene years It has shown some remarka ble feature unknown in any other comet. About the 20th of September it bright¬ ened rapidly and threw out a considera¬ ble tail. The light was of unusual den¬ sity, and, at one time, became of a smoky color. In a few days the tail and bright¬ ness suddenly disappeared. Several times since a feeble tail has been ob served to form and fade again. While there are crowds of N w York doctors who barely make a living, some of the most successful physicians enjoy magnificent incomes. Among the lucky ones may be mentioned Lewis Sayre, who makes a specialty of deformities. His income is about $40,000 a year. F. Galliard, the leading gynaecologist makes a large sum annual y. Austin flint, Sr., the well known author and practitioner, makes $30,000 out of lungs and livers. Others run as fol ow‘ ; Cornelius Agnew, eje and ear, $20,000. LE.Thomas, diseases of women, $50,009; Alfred Loomis, . fevrs, $3o,000; ’ ’ W. Hammond, nervous diseases, 7aL $35,000; J. T M. „ Caroochan, . of the u bone. surgery $25,000. Abraham Jawbi, diseases of children, $25,000, From these figures it will be seen that those who reach the top of the profession reap a rich reward for their labors. A few facts about the professional tours of theatrical people are interesting. In this country there are now 227 theatri¬ cal companies on professional tours, em¬ bracing, say, 4,< 86 members. The fol lowing figures will show the expenses of these traveling companies : Transporta¬ tion, $1,221,000; hotel bills, J2.8t0.000; hauling baggage, etc , $560,000 ; salaries and incidentals, $8,400,000; total out¬ lay, $12 981,000. These companies play on shares, receiving about 65 per cent of the nightly gross receipt*. Some of the leading attractions make as much as $50,000 a year clear profit. In order to lessen thj hardships of these professio. al tourists it is proposed to build special cars for the companies in which they can live and travel. It is believed that such a car could be run for $175 a week. Un der this system probably $1,200,000 in hotel bills could be saved. The London Lancet thinks that the renewed and steady occurrence of fresh cases of cholera in Alexandria affords new grounds for anxiety and watchful¬ ness. It is true that the epidemic was stamped out, but cholera has a tendency to sustain itself after an outbreak in one season by a series of scattered cases lead¬ ing to another epidemic in the following season. The cases now reported from Alexandria are of a modified type, but it has been found that these are precisely the cases xvhich constitute ths links be¬ tween one epidemic and another. The laxity of sanitary administration ing an epidemic will doubtless increase tire predisposing causes of cholera, and the authorities of Alexandria cannot be too energetic in thek endeavors to re¬ move these causes. A traveler speaks of meeting a sell >ol of pompanos in Southern Florida. His yacht ran into the school and the fishes immediately left the water, flying like birds over the yacht. A numbei of fishes have similar habits. The gar fish has a habit of rising in the air and cours¬ ing along for a hundred feet or more. The ordinary flying fish is well known. One of the cuttle fishes is called the fly¬ ing squib. This fish sometimes hurls himself sixty feet in the air. In New England a spider is frequently seen flying in the air. It ejects six little threads of siik from its body and by flapping it mana es to keep afloat. Certain species of monkeys and squirrels are able to fly like buds. Recently in the Malay coun¬ try a frog has been discovered that has a habit of flying. Its feet are provided with enormous webs which act as A r.f chutes. The committee, on ways and means is con-idered by far the most important of the committees. It frames all tariff legislation before being presented for the action of the house, and to it all bills of that nature, and all bills relating to the general financial condition of the country, are referred. Its duty is, as indicated by the name, 1o look after the “ways and means” of providing the funds for the support of the government. In other words, it assumes the position ordinarily occupied by the husband in the family, o‘ providing the “where¬ withal” for the support of the family, while the position of wife is filled by the commutes on appropriations, who spend the money. To be sure, the duty of the latter committee is to make th se appropriations just as light as they can consistently be when the children of the household—the heads of the various departments—make known their wants. But Is not that the duty of the wife as well? The reckless squandering of our pab lic domain excites general complaint Last year 20,000,009 acres were dis¬ posed of The public domain a'quired from France, Spain, Texas, Mexico, Russia, and by cession from the States was about 1,852,310,000 acres, costing $322,000 000. Of this outlay the gov¬ ernment has received back about $200,000,000. The sales have been 290, 000,000, wh le 370,000.000 acres have been given away. Nearly all the land remaining in the hands of the govern¬ ment is of little value compared with the territory disposed of. Under the timber culture law and tne homestead act, it is claimed that a criminal negli gence of administration has placed mil¬ lions of acres in the hands of land siarkg. Bona fide s ttlers are in a minority, and vagabond squatters and timber thieve are numerous. In Alaska a settler instead of being confined to 160 acres is allowed under various laws to take 1,120 acres. Bo even in that re¬ gion the land is being too rapidly taken Northern men who rushed into cot¬ ton planting in the southwest directly after the war, lost heavily, but those who turned their attention to the cul¬ ture and manufacture of sugar were more successful. Three sons and heirs of ”, Oakes Ames are now running vac Millandon , plantation , . on the .. west , side of . the Mississippi, three miles -i above . Gretna, , Lon,slana r . . - Their „. . manager is a Ma.ne • man, who has been directing the estate for many year*. This plantation em ploys 14 ) hands In the sugar house aui! cane fields. The machinery it. all of the heavy order. The Ames brothers culii vate about two square miles of land ami all the equipments or the plantation are perfect. Among other c nveuiences they have their own tramway cars to convey the cane fronj any part of the fields to the mill. By th* use of improved ma¬ chinery these manufacturers have been enabled in the years ’79, ’SO. ’SI, ’82, to get a larger percentage of juice each suc¬ cessive j ear, thus: Sixty-two aud 2 lOths pounds 1 1 100 pounds of cane; 04 and 9-lOths pounds to 100 pounds of cane ; 67 and l-10th, snd G9 aud 7 lOths This may be an exceptional p notation, but there is ni reason why the conditions of its operation should not become general in the sugar growings e.tion. i - __ _ Several of the leading scientists of Europe have recently discussed the g rm theory of contagious disease from various standpoints. The opinion i expressed that in anticipation of the assault of in¬ fective organisms an effort will be made to introduce into the body substances which, though small in amount, sha 1 so the blood and t seues as to render them unfit for the development of the contagions. Subsequent to the sssault of the parasite the experimenter will in¬ troduce substances which shall effectual¬ ly stop its multiplication. It is believed that such substances have been f >uml, Alkaline sulphides, introduced into the body, are said to act powerfnll y upon the con agia of marsh fever, typhoid, mili¬ tary fever, puerperal fever and smallpox. An Italian physician is experimenting with arsenic as a preventive of malaria. It is his intention to collect a large number of animals assailable by the dis¬ order, and, after dividing them, he will treat one group with arsenic, and leave the other without treatment, and then determine by inoculation experiments whether ar enic really possesses the power it is supposed to possess. The re¬ sult of these experiments will be looked for with intense interest. GENERAL NEWS Texas contains three lunatic asylums The average in Texas is one hauging to thirty murders. The Penitentiary farm in Montgom¬ ery is ordered for sale. Fruit dry ng promises to be a leading industry in Piedmont, Va. Boone county, Ark , is filling up with immigrants from Mississippi. Fourteen negroes will occupy seats in the Mississippi Legislature. A valuable vein of iron ore has been d> -^red in Farquier county, Va. ‘t'A ‘ : 2£bft of-MieuBOpy, Florida is about to set out forty acres in olives. The Birmingham machine shops will employ six hundred able bodied men. A-RKansas has a district of eight coun¬ ties in which there is not a single saloon At the end of the year Alabama will Gave a surplus in the Treasury of $250, 000 . The farmers of Alabama are said to be more economical now than ever be fore. The Crump void mine, near Chariot t« N. C , has been sold to Boston capital ists. Bushels of pearl buttons are being turned out by the button factory daily at Rhea county, Tenn. Nine thousand pounds of Guava jelly have been manufactured by Captain Terry, of Yal&ho, Fla., this season. There are 2.090 Germans in Charles¬ ton, and they are said to exert a very beneficial influence upon the commu nity. 1 HE new bridge being bui t across the Chickasahay river, east of Shubuta, fell recently, when it was nearly com¬ pleted. The orange crop of Louisiana this year is much larger fhan was antici¬ pated. The quality of the fruit is ex¬ cellent. The United States Fish Commission has made Atlanta its distributing point for the Southeast, and has established an agjncy there. A party of eighty-five Boston manu¬ facturers have arrived in Raleigh, and will proceed to investigate the resources of North Carolina. With the completion of the new ar¬ tesian well at Charleston, B. C., the water supply will be increased to 800, 000 gallons, about four times what it s now. At a dinner given by the Medical Club in Montgomery, Ala., last week, the guests appeared in knee breeches, black siik stockings, patent-leather low cut shoes and bucsles. Mr. A. M. Higgles, of New York, has been in Augusta, Ga, prospecting, wi h a view to establishing a 50,000 spindle cotton factory, for the manu factoring ol fine fabrics. North Carolina will levy no State tax next year. The Western North Carolina Railroad company will pay in to the treasury $609,000,which sum will carry the State government. The John P. King mMl of Augusta commenced baling goods yesterday for the market. The mill has 26,500 spin dies and eighty looms, and is very coin* p] e *,e. The company has a capital of $1,000,000. The birthplace of Admiral Raphael J. Setnmes, in "Washington, Ga., was re¬ cently told for $2,000. The Seinmes family were among the founders of tne Catholic church in that town. It is a quaint old cha[>e!, which stands next to their homesteads. The board of health of New York city has been endeavoring to sue out an injunction against the sale at auction of “Ping Sney teas,’’ which are well known to be adul erated. The importation of Ping Suey teas amounts to one lii*d of all the teas that arrive in the New York market Thf, eotton weighers of Galveston county, Tex., have filed suits ag irst merchants in the city of Galveston, claiming damages because the merchants had employed private parties to do their weighing of cotton. The cases will be watched with interest, as they involve some very important points. A member of the National Butter, Cheese and Egg association, in cession at Cincinnati, said in the course of an address that the annual value of the butter product of the United Slates is ?tU)2,000,000; tho cheeso produc’ $30,000,00', and eggs and ponltr, amounted to about the same. As Mrs. Whiting steppjd out of her residence in B:»t«ii Rouge one night re¬ cently, she felt something windin around one of her lower ii.nbs. Sh screamed and shook off the reptile, which, when killed, was discovered to be two feet in length, and of the species known as the highland moccasin, which is very poisonous Tne shipment of cattle from Massa¬ chusetts to Florid.-, without any change of cars, is a considerable undertaking, but it has been successfully done. On Monday the first through car of cattle passed over the Charleston and Savan¬ nah railway. It was consigned to John Bradford of Tal ahassee and contained thirty-ix head of fine Ayr.-hire and Jersey cattle, valued at $1,809. The deputy commissioner of interna' tvenue says that the internal taxes already collected for the present fisca’ vear are at the rate of $123,000,000 per annum. He estimates that the collec¬ tions for the entire year will amount to about $130,000,000. This estimate in¬ cludes between six and seven millions to be collected in special taxes in April nd May, but does not include an in rease which is anticipated for spirits orced out of bond. Martin Luiiier. The exact date of Luther’s birth seems to be at least doubtful. “I have often,” says Melanothon, “asked Margaret [Luther] at what hour of what iuto day the it was that her son Marlin ennui world. Bho recollected the hour and tho day perfectly, but had forgotten ’ Bhe the year. stated that she was brought to lied on tho 10th of No¬ vember, at 11 o’clock in the evening, at Eisloben, whither she had gone to buy provisions at the fair that was held every year in that place, and the child was baptized next day, after the name of the saint whose festival they were celebrat¬ ing at the time, Bt. Martin. ” Luther's brother James, whom Miche¬ let calls an honest, worthy man, be¬ lieved that the year of Martin’s birth was 1483, and there is little if any proof to the contary; hut neither can there be said to he any positive proof of the fact. Borne zealous partisans of the Pope's cuuse maintained that Martin was born on October 220, 1483. so that they might find an exteremeJy bad horoscope for tho reformer. One Gauricus, with the same amiable intentions, fixed the hour and minute at 1:10 p. m., on tho 22d of Oc¬ tober, 1484, and from the conjunction of himself the planets on tho oooasion convicted that the heresiarcli died without any sense of sailed religion. “His soul, most impious, to hell, there to be scourged Alceto, Tisiphone forever with the fiery whips of and Megiera.” Tycho Brahe was satisfied that Luther saw the light under favorable auspices. Diverted Ills Mind. It is related of Thaddeus Stevens that shortly after his removal to Lancaster in 1842 he heard of the sad prostration of an old friend in York, a lawyer, who, pressed hard by necessity, had diverted to his own use $300 due to a certain widow client, hoping soon to regain his financial footing and repay her. But “unmerciful disaster followed fast and followed faster,” until the poor fellow’s mental depression was actually killing him. Mr. Stevens hunted up the client, paid her from his own pocket the $300, obtained her receipt, and went to see his friend. “Hallou! old fellow,” he ex¬ claimed, on entering his office, “yon must wake up. Don’t lie so down-hearted. Bay, don’t yon suppose you’ve really gone and paid that woman and then for¬ gotten all about it ?” A despairing shako of the bowed head was the only reply. “Well, I believe you did, and I’m going to look through your papers and see if I can’t find the receipt.” Then he pretended to ransack some pigeon¬ holes, and a moment later exclaimed : “Well, if you’re not the biggest fool I ever heard of ! Look here, old man I What’s this ?” So saying he showed the receipt to his astounded friend, who thereupon recovered his spirits, and, happily, his business fortunes also. Af¬ terward he repaid Mr. Stevens, and the latter was never able to find out Low his generosity had been detected. A Kansas miller drowned himself in liis millpond because a dam he had just built failed to collect water enough to turn the wheel, He exhibited good sense. Borne men would have gone borne and jawed their wives and kicked the dogs clear across the room.— Nor riatown Herald, Christmas Dinner. BILL OF FAKB. Boast turkey, with cranberry and apple sauces. White potatoes, mashed. Sweet potatoes, roa-ted. Macaroni and ehtt.se. Celery, pickles, cold slaw. Bo is and Boston Brown bread. Miuoe and pumpkin cider. pies. Swot t Bakins and nuts. Black coffee. Our bill of fare is a simple one, and ol course as many additions can be made to it as desired. The first article to make are the pies. Make the paste of one quart of Hour, the one half-pound of lard, of and sweet, small good butter, of cold same Chop the but¬ one enp water. ter and lard up into the Hour, until as fine as powder, wet into a stiff dough, knead into a ball, and roll deftly and quickly into a thin sheet, ulwnys roiling Horn you. Fit on the pie plates. For the pumpkin strained pies take one through pint of stewed pumpkin, a sieve, four eggs, one quart of milk, a little mace, cinnamon and nutmeg, and three-fourths of a cup of sugar. Beat well together and bake in a moderately hot oven without a covor. Before put¬ ting on the table sprinkle with powdered sugar. If yon have not good mince meat already made it buy little from a cider. grocer, Fill and mix with a sweet the pie plates and put on a thin crust. Before serving place in the oven to heat. The turkey should be ordered or liought a few days before Christmas. Have him plump and firm, also tender. To test a tender turkey, lift the wings, and if the skin breaks easily, he is all right. As soon as you get your turkey homo dress it and place in salt and water, first washing last it in several teaspoonful waters, and in the mixing in a of soda. Two hours will roast a teu Make pound turkey, dressing if your bread fire is brisk. a of crumbs, but¬ ter, pepper, salt, sage, thyme, BWeet mn joram, one egg, and vvet with a little hot milk. A little chopped sausage and onion is liked by many. Sow the turkey up tightly, and butter dredge aud with flour. Baste at first with water, afterward with the pan dripping. Fried oysters laid about the dish, when the turkey ia served, is an improvement. The cranberries should bo boiled until very tender, then strained and sweet¬ ened. To make them jell, add a very little gelatine dissolved in warm water. The apple sauce should be made of tart apples, and not sweetened. It may be stuffed also with gelatine, and both, if made the day before Christmas, will save labor. The white potatoes should be dished as soon as done, and piled in a pyramid with a tiny tuft of parsley sticking out of tho top. Allow un hour or over to roast tho sweet potatoes. Keep the celery Boil ia the water macaroni until the in water time of until serving. ten¬ der, drain, then placo in a deep dish, mix in a tablespoonful of canned toma¬ toes, grate a little cheese over the layer, then put on another of macaroni, and so on until tho dish is filled. Cover the top with grated cheese, and place in hot oven for ten minutes, Berve hot. This is a delicious dish. Serve the cider with the pie, and the raisins and nuts afterward, ending with a very small cup of black coffee, which is made by taking a teacup of coffee to a* pint of water, boil for ten minutes, and serve without milk or minor. Roys, Learn a Trade. Learn a trade even if you are in a position which may seem to insure you against want ns long us you may live. You inav not follow a trade for a living, but time invested in learning a trade, and learning it thoroughly, is tho laying away of a cupital stock on which yon may find it very convenient to draw some day. Life is said to be an uncer¬ tain existence. It is, so far as wealth is concerned. You may be a rich man to¬ day, but by some unlucky investment which made great promises made at the start, and failed, yon are a poor man. With a good trade, nothing under such fear. circum¬ Yon stances, you have to have an exhaust less reserve fund to draw from. Not only learn the theory of a trade but learn its practical the worth, carriage and learn it thoroughly. in In New Haven, makers’ convention Conn., after the committee on appren¬ ticeship had reported in of fuvor indenturing of re¬ storing the old system apprentices until they reach their ma¬ jority, Mr. John W. Britton, of New York, said: “One of the serious wants of this country, and our trade, is good boys. Our hoys are deteriorating, as are our men. The greatest difficulty that we experience in New York, is that of getting boys who have brains and are willing to learn a trade thoroughly. The example of men who have made millions in a few years, is held up before our lioys in school, and the boys become inflamed with the notion that they must make their millions and be able to found cross¬ roads colleges before they die. So they eschew trades and become poor profes¬ sionals.” America to-dav depends upon Europe for her most skilled and finest workmen, simply because tier trade young they men slight the miuutia of the go to learn, aud merely obtain a superfi¬ cial or genera] knowledge of it. Wo have too many professional the speaker men in above the country to-day, and as schools love referred to says, our to dwell too much on the achievements of professional men. A man with a trade, a trade well learned, m xt to the farmer, is the most independent, He is and prepared most to lie envied among men. for any emergency. Deposit, Impressed. N. Y., —Miss dreamed Bertha three Crowley, nights of in succession of her uncle’s death in Texas. Impressed with her dreams, she addressed a letter to him. The letter fell into the hands of his lawyers, who notified her last week that she): ad fallen heir to $50,000 by her uncle’s death. A Chicago man wanted a divorce be¬ cause his wife persisted in singing hymns. The Court just laughed at him, and he would have lost his case had not his lawyer summoned the wife to the witness stand and started her singing. At the end of the fifth verse the Court threw up the spronge and the divorce was granted.
