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OS4AWFORDVILLE, GEORGIA. _ _
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f II #5 FSES OF COTTON SKEW.
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Tit Rumlile konrre from W hich Our Olive
OU la Derived.
a large cotton-seed ^oil manufacturing
company, whose works are located in a
Southern city, and obtained from him
some facts in regard to an industry
which, from tho smallest liegiunings,
has now assumed large proportions.
“It is only within the |>ast decade,”
said the official, “that the business of
f ahi (1 "' ),lt0
out the South have been established a
much shorter period. It has now be
come a great industry, and gives em
ployment to thousands of men and boys,
besid.H bringing an immense revenue
Dto the country as the returns from a
mirce which up to u short time ago
^Odiicid “Formerly, nothing. plantation af
upon every
Br the cotton bad been ginned, im
nense mounds of cotton seed were to
oe found, tlje burned greater portion left of which A
was either or to rot.
small proportion was fed to stock, but
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reginmd by the most improved meth
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The hulls aroused as fuel in the fur
Paces, and furnish tho steam power
which propels the machinery. The
meal is passed through oil powerful by
dran he presses and the is extracted.
The oil cake is shipped to Europe,
where it is sold to mills, roground and
enough more oil extrnotod to i. pay the
manufacture there. After going through
this Hccoud proccrtH tho cake in iinaliy
sold to farmers and dairymen, who hold
it in high esteem for feeding stock. Ho,
you we, nothing is wasted, and what-was
once a worthless article lms been made
to yield substantial returns ; u every
conceivable manner.
“Most of the cotton-seed oil produced
in the United Htntos also finds its way
to uurone, Where, after b, mg r, lined
and manipulated, One it is used the in a great prof
variety ol ways. ot most
fesffirsrx
rxr,:;::
diflereee • As the oil derived from eot
ton-seed pc ..Hesses no deleterious qmili
«Ttiblui>ZXooil^^nonrea ties but w emmllv ai healtliv and di
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it.l^fl .s th. , -hi region
Ween.ploy fromiMU. i hands, and do
a basin, si of a millmu ol dollars yearly.
There is an increasing demand for the oil,
with which the mablinlimontof homany
new mills does not nmro than keep up,
and too the businCHH yields of capital a liberal invested,” return
npon amount
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THK CONVENTION SYSTKM.
lion NoihIuriIom* lor I'rrulrffni mut \ Ins
rrctahh-iii wi rr .Hudc Prrvloiin l.i IS.IO.
Tho National Convention system ol
mailing Presidential i.ominat ion. is „f
comparatively modern origin, dating
back but little more than half a century.
I’revieue t,« tS'Ul nominations wen us
nallv made bv Congressional caneiis or
by State legislatures Tho first oix>n
opposition to the former method was in
March Congress’protested 1808 when seventt on members
of against Uougros
sioual .bet,.th.n, and pronounce I the
caucus which lmd nominated dames
Madison irregularly held. I’he prie: ve
soon began of convening State legist,
live caucuses to f..rostall the Uongres
sioual oonclave, The last candidate lor
the Presidency to receive lus iiem.ua
. tho
t-iim at the hands ef tv ogres
sioual caucus was \\ illiam 11. t i iwford
iu 1824. All the other caudulates, t’al
lioun, Jackson, Adams and C lay, joined
against him, and the result was that no
body received a majority ,n the el etoral
college. I he election was throw u into
the House and ri snood m the okouv ot
Mr. Adams. Tins struck tho death
blow to the Gcugrt'ssioual caucus caucnJ.is sys
tern, and tho State Le ; islntivc
A nominating Ixnly i^eri^luHi mh>u after.
During d-.u’ksou’s first term of the
the Presidency middle the link State Con-rent the ion system, modern
of great
party “machine” was well built up.
This was M'owed by the erection of the
sn|K*rsttneto v. die National A an von tn «.
ihc tirM National I onventiou j.ropor
. v,-r held m this country was that of
the anti-Masonic party at Baltimore in
Scptomlvr bSdl to which WdUam
Wirt and Amo* I... :d..-r were noun
noted for Prosideut and \ uv-l r-i.!ea:.
In the following Ikvcii) >or tho W hig or
National K pu 'bean 1 arty held in»t
national convention in the same city.
and uuaiumoush- nomiuatysl Hourv t lay
; ,.fnl ST n..i mginu-t , .. .' of . Nan Huron aud • i ':
ius associates, the Democratic machine
was faily complete iu all its parte, local,
State and national conventions, and the
system thas inaugurated has simT bid'll
followed, the only changes that have
since been made having been chiefly in
matters of detail—Arne Ilaren Pa’la
diurn.
EFFECTS OF HEAT.
Student “Heat expands and cold
contracts. ”
Professor “Correct. Give an
amj>h\”
“Daring too summer tire affect
city pool and for their they country relative
expand in winter contract.
Phila. Call .
A Q UIET PICTURE.
The .bifting toa-low* lay
In ohirming qnaisitnew on the bare white floor,
Creeping in softly through the open dorr,
In a ■till, drowsy w*y,
Doming through nn*ei of the ivy v“.s
That tali in nhap f it :hi‘,:igh th> pin»
The fire-light gav aiel bright, '
With cherry bltwhi's for its r...idy rijanua, !
Steals trembling from the old hearth s huge
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I» kI«s»»k shape, among .he...... gn.. ,
The batiy on the fl‘*>r,
With tiny hand* dosed o'er her pearly toe*, j
Wu’ < ti e i),e blaze a« itcoiuc-a an i goes,
And wonders more and more
iVhcnee ooiriea the red light on the snowy feet,
And striven to catch It in her lingers sweet.
.
With fold* d lan'lH, T, Zar,\oA ail done,
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y ■
a^riyZni ‘". JV ‘ ’
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In homespun garb of gray,
Tho father sitting by the window wide, !
Unfolds bh> paper with an honest pride, !
Ami in Ida homeiy way I
lUia-ts of the pomp of Mate-its wealth and ;
, ut _
Wlt u acarcc one envious longing in hia heart 1
Upon the lowly ;
steps '
The granddame watches for the coming moon,
While murmurs of Home half-rcmcmbcred tuno ,
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Til If \ VGJiAULlA (j I, \ |! I \ \ MUIIDKK dll hlM.li.
the mystkkv of the death of nicho
pah flint, the hand agent.
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Nicholas Flint, Lord (.ralmioro , s
agent, waa, like his master, a well hated
man; but while the peer was more bated
by the tenantry than feared, the agent
wbh more feared than hated. It was not
tenderness on the part, of Ins lordship
which, before Nicholas Flint became
his agent, prevented him. from making a
merciless use of his power to evict, and
the tenants—Irish peasants are, as a
rule, shrewd judges of character-knew
this. They never Grabmores for a moment mildness mi
agined that Lord
toward them had been dictated by con
sideratiou tor them. Once lie came
under tho influence of Mint s stronger
wu^iiSt!r 8 £
?r P “S;J^tera
Flint was of a different stamp from
his lordship. Ho was a man of the most
resolute determination and most reckless
courage. g Whenever he made up his
u.« u.i»
'**ouutry, sa’-lt orwiy f-*‘ hatml ‘ -■IW'JW®' and danger it
brought upon himself done it was He
»as actuated by no feeling of hostility
toward the unfortunate people who
I rembled before l.im On the contrary,
he wu« rtnimated bv the most consul on
tions oonvietion that in acting as he did
he was doing his duty, not merely to
ward his employer, but toward society,
and not merely toward society but to
wardtlie tenants themselves.
Whatever might bo the ultimate re
alt of this system of estate manago
incut, it could scarcely be expected who that
the existing generation of tenants,
»U its privations and expen
oneed mum of its benefits, would regard
its originator with km. ness, and hey
«>»d tno . He wa-s looked upon by them
with absolute detestation and abject ter
r “ r - Yet in his very clmraeter he found
a certain jirotection from their ill wall.
He went abroad and mixed freely with
"ic jH'ople, unarmed aim unattended;
and though at the sight of his pale,
delicate faceand thin, drooping mous
taelie. the children shrieked mid the wo
men crossed thamselves, nobody inter
{‘-red with huu. He even wandered
the country at night alone, yet
the tenauta sought h only to keep out of
hls , vttv ,
Flint was a widower, but not childless.
]{ as j, la ,. m niies alleged, his wife had
died of a broken heart, no one could
affirm that there w as much likelihood of
a -s „ in i llr f, v te befalling his two sous.
These were now young men of three
and twenty and oue-and-tweuty respec
tivelv, and as unlike their father as sous
could well be. They were of a bright
nnd frohesome disposition always on
D\ung thoinselve^, tiu ‘ iuul t>ut gladtosei^ foolhaith others aut
thoughtless in the extreme. When
lavls arrived from 1 ublm, where
they were both studying for the bar, to
\ d fheir Christmas vacation with
tJ 0!r {atht . r the country had been for a
j , ; IU0 oor.vulsed bv agrarian troubles.
} liu r . 0 boWt , ver though toere had
GrebhS“U • , few minor outrages on Lord
free from
mnu]er H, s lordship, aware of his un
.fl ar itv. tuul sought safety in Eng
, au d ; but Flint, although, if possible, altered
more unpopular, ‘ in the no way His
, „ ou aCt nit of country.
V erv r^cklessmsa kd the suprsUtions
tenancy to believe that lie did not fear
’i..oiui'o bv a compact with the
J yil bo ;1 ^ured for a certain time
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against d a!U.
had driven .
As the fear of outrage
most of the gentry from the neighbor
UockI, and as the farmers had put a stop
to hunting, Mr. Flint's boys had little
company or sport to amuse them dur¬
ing their Christinas vacation; and, os
bow to kill tbe time. One day, as the
cider of them, after having smoked un
til he was nearly sick, was wondering
what he should do next, his brother
n .rrv nil ♦ v l im
"Xick,” said he. ‘Tve au idea.”
“Have you,” said Nick. “Oat with
it."
suggested by Nicks name. What to
you say, agrarian old fellow, murder?” to onr said perpetrati*£ Harry. '
a great “What ?” cried Nick “Do
you landlord* mean, ;
we should murder some of the
or agents in the neighborhood t”
ohUsuit’of I h4 t< strew!’tak?K ^ j
an dot with
out with us some night in iSrite: the dogcart,
and when the people are coming onto!
the houses pitch the dummy back into
the dog-cart and drive off iike the deuce,
Inat would create stir enough in the
country to keep us in fun tin we get ,
back to Dublin. —
“Verv likely but what if we’re found ?
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out’” '
“Not much chance of that. There’s
X^’to ' SflS
w^- W out? T Besides wo^maUer even if we
imind it
much ”
Nicholas did not altogether agree
with nart’in this and at tirst declined to take
J the business- of' but ultimately
overraLe * 1 imr.ehiom tv his voumrer and" brother
V his prudence they re
, t carry out the jiroiect the next
They / searched up an old suit
,, stuffed it with straw ancL
tied ou it one of ute hats Putting this
m tl - , g . 1 f lirmH hed besides
it to the end mxt their heme
?Si firing uul^£l!nnS half a dozen windows we:reoj:>e:imaj
and as mauy heads popped flung out. the
sprang to the ground and
dummy back into the dogcart. By the
time lio got back himself, several peo
ple> more or i eS8 clothed, were m the
roatl calling out and running toward
them. The boys saw it was time to be
off, so, slashing their mare mto a furious
gallop, they rapidly disappeared from
the villagers. four hundred
Tht ,y W ere three or
Tur ds past the last cottage, and were be
ginning to moderate the mare’s pace and I
Jnn cXx „ h OVCI . t u e consternation they became had |
“ when they suddenly
that a horseman already was distinguish following
They y could
iu thc dark-that of a tine,
brort d shouldered man on a big, broad
breasted horso They began to see that
^
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^“"anner‘.ht'e . . . , , yi ‘ ...... n fir." s
1 ’ i to wide
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of the horseman, m u ■ ,
jii and Jr Hog his «a intense .i
.^wition to
homir bot , bo rse mid rider went down
’ tol Nicholas, who
• was
' u‘ (l up in „ perfect agony down of
lir ,„rel)eiision and flarrv sprang
. f ;l ]j on horseman’.^ assist
„ had 8carce ] y reached toe
’ lie J that
„ roll n d however when observe
the horseman was on his feet, and while
E Hrrv stood irresolute whether to go to
ward him or remount tho dog cart, the
, , s trail ft tier’s * pistol nnd the
b t * t bis ear de -
, - ? b - j. s in „ bfick on the
‘ il ' cart and called on Nicholas to drive
tortnOfotoVto . As toe mare ^ dashed off the
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J«>"8 * Ha rUs sleevo showed the boys
the uangtr mey o . A tbird shot
f ‘^° dltol » an!?tliey S oar i
was b Deyonu evond pis i range j, j were
8ftfe ' traversed
n was u 11 , ui y. i h(ul
t f ? -
emitagios Xfmare’s mar headlong pace The
on try luoy iu was sparsely
’there^seemed , being noticed
'^/XveHrnt to be no reason
J Queued they were being followed,
(lu v spml and began to talk
ove'r their night’s adventures. It it was
u0 longer the mere innocent fan ap
l^ared to be before the horseman turned
np Morions'scrape, Thev had they fullv saw, got into
a and they could not
help ackiiowietlging to themselves that,
if they were discovered it was possible
that at the aj'proaching assizes they
mighthave to defend themselves agamst
the charge of attempted murder. The
only consoling point they could find
m too w hole ^n'Zth^ business was a^nehme their prisoner P fearUp
J ^ i >v a’ s h 0 t**the ballet had evi
, struck the horse only—probablv “
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the fo ,
on one oi egs. .. ,
were in doubt morning
to^wWtatiou _ BO in the
Th.Mmi.tot and confess all
|“v ? in ««o doing escape anv
K or 0 being ° indicted. But after
some discussion they agreed ,,, tha., . as the .,
chm.ee of ^very -as small mid toe
i^ommy of mif^ion greaMhe b^t
thing they could do was to take every
possible precaution to baffle inquiry.
They accordingly pulled the dummy to
pieces and cast the straw with which it
was stuffe*! into a roadside ditch. While
doing so they noticed, to their alarm,
that the hat was missing. Upon con
sideratiou, they became reassured. It
was extremely‘unlikely .J that an old felt
hat * suob ba if tb e farmers in the
_ wore ^. wou ld t^> anvthing like a
<nffiea ; nt 0 j 0 to pu t the jHilice on toe
right scent Then having finished the
wprk dismantling the dummv, thev
drove rou' d bv a circuitous route, so
ns to reach their father's house bv a dif
ferent road from that leading from
Ballymol—haekiBg. When th.T reacted
borne they were pleased to see that no
body, was yet about They entered
quietly, and, after P«tbng up the horse
and dog cart and hiding bedrooms the o.d clothes, without
tliev went to their
H patently disturbing any of the house’s
:r.a xixiates.
Though both the boys were extremely
esss: ’ ffS2=
m in wonld bring exposure on the
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W , * } ■-ml ’-| affair ‘morning Nicholas
t + - v and
nad just at length tai.en ,, 1 . , . H-ntihled J ^ ■
do*or ,
Sdtoo^bt sleep, ^when cLe & tobfa tbe head The
_tl.at wm
that everything mui e * • ■
ss mS&sjss
1 inqtortag about him.
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something bad has . Happened .
j’m afraid
to him, sir. tit
Xn a second all recollection of last
night’s adventures was out of young
Nick’s head.
“Call Harry, he said, and tell the
«**«*> fiS on^om^Tf do “retail his
™ t0
where the policeman was awaiting . b m.
It was old Sergeant Gnmshaw, whom he
knew well—a rugged and clear-sighted
old fellow from the North. Before he
Lad well returned Nicholas’salutation,
Harry came running down in his dress
ing-gown from his bedroom, pale and
excited.
“Well, sergeant,” said . Nicholas, “I
hear you are asking about my father;
has anything happened to him.
”‘I greatly fear it, sir,” replied Gnm- and
shaw, in his strong Ulster accent
official style. “Last night sub-consta
txlfssssii^sx whmtte/the pl»« Ito o'rfmd
, ss^&sSsszssil He riding home from his
waa
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f... fleet! on him anti l.toke Lie hone’. leg
- Snh-Oonstable ■ O’MuIlican g
, tcmul on^ the road a hat with your
| i through J ° Tt^ ’ They J took the body with
, , .. f ». nl1 .i »
’ *iAnd "S where did i this take place C’ ser
f „ , v n M h,
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At Ballymulwhackmg, .. sir, . „ replied ...
tie sergeant.
The two brothers glanced at one an
in confusion. They knew asked not
what to say. At length Nicholas
if the Sub-Inspector was hurt.
"No, sir,” answered the sergeant,
"only a bit shaken.”
“Would he recognize his assailants
again?” 0
.. No nir/ht’ sir he doesn’t think he would.
pi... was verv dark and ^ he saw
14 s
iikefarm ; rB ™ ^r ple *
same time with a knowing aiT, “I may
S»*, Your Honors, we have a suspicion Dub
f t they *4job.” are agents sent up from
->
f iiion wflt nto *«
dress, we 11 go with you to the sub-m
“Well, sir,” said the sergeant, “I m
m charge of the men searching the road
the murderers drove off by, for the
i hotly, and I d rather go there. But Mr.
Hurry told me him to call Ballymulwhackmg here and request
you to go to at
as soon as you could.
This the young men agreed to do, and
the sergeant took lus departure. As
8O0n 03 ho was B ono > tbe T retlred to
Harry’s bedroom and there began to
consider whether they should at once
explain to toe sub-inspector toe true
^rsion of the Ballymulwbacking affair,
or wait to see how things would turn
°nt. One thing seemed clear-some
‘ blu S 8 «™ u8 had befall ® n tb eir father.
Though he was accustomed to take
midai B ht walks - he never had been
known to remain out long after mid
i night; and neither of the boys could
doubt that he had been murdered. To
allow, then, the police to remain even
for an hour on the wrong scent was
simply to play into the murderers’
hands-perhaps to secure them their es
cape from jusfice. The boys, tb therefore, sub-in
determined to go straight the
spector and confess all.
Just as they were starting off for this
qiurpose the postboy arrived with some
lettei-s. Nicholas glanced hurriedlv at
the superscriptions. him. One The of letter them it
seemed strange to
was on was from Cork and was addressed
m himself. He tore it open, and toe
momeD t his eye met tho writing inside
contents - almost fainted \fter reading the
t n ‘ rapidly he h.-mded ‘ it to Harrv *’
‘
it ran as follows: f .
“My Dear Boys—I am a ruined mac.
I have abused my position to rob my
employer. It was all through stock
speculation. I always thought my luck
would change, and so kept on until all
hope was gone. 1 had not the heart to
tell you, my boys, how I had disgraced
you. I am bound for America, and you
will never hear of me again. Thank
God, ^ the ^ pittance Starvation. vour mother left you
^ from May Giod
protect yotlj is the one prayer of your
heartbroken Father.’
T .,e brothers were Jumfounded.
^onWLen could not for a time realise their
considered^ they became calmer
and state f. of
affairs they found it . somewhat , im
proved. Their father s life, at least, was
safe, and if they only let the police per
sist on the scent they were following,
his honor, too. might be preserved.
Thev proceeded, therefore, consultation to the sub
inspector, and, after a long
with him, agreed that the perpetrators
of the Ballymulwhoeking father’s murderers, outrage and that must the
be their
oper course was to use every exertion
to .U s ver them. They were the bolder
ra - amending this, as they found
the sub-inspector did not for a mo
i suspect them. Great attempts
” rI de to discover the miscreants,
auc ' rewards were offered—the
raselves promising one of £250;
s scarcely necessary to say that
; e remained a mystery.
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quinces. Wipe, pare, quarter and re- ,
move all the core and the hard part
under the core. Take an equal weight .
of sugar Cover the quinces with cold j
water. Let them come slowly to a boil.
Skim, and when nearly soft put one
^2 ^“wtenX 6
ir. tods addanother
t of tbe SU2 r a r, and continue until all ;
a sts :
cupful of tapioca and and half a pints teaspoonful of water, ci {
salt into one a
and let them stand five hours where it
will be quite warm, but not hot enough j
for the water to boil. Two hours before
dinner-time peel six large apples, and
takeout the cores without dividing the
j pu t fp, em j n a pudding baking j
til } the boles !dd.‘£^£*1 * I
* t ^ and bake for one hour, turning
to prevent them drying,
When the apples are quite soft, pour
the tapioca over them, and bake for an
hour longer. This pudding is to be
e aten with mow-flake or other hard
sauce made of butter and sugar creamed
together. Sago may be used in place of
the tapioca. Wherever known, this
pudding becomes a favorite.
Lemov Pickle.—C hoose a dozen mid
dle . size ^ lemons, fresh and perfectly
^ scrape the outsides of them with
a niece of broken quart bottle and then
bel'elteo «. to li.og togethet! Bob
sprinkle some more salt over them, and
h.ot’lul ol uhite mustard seed, and as
much Cayenne pepper as will lie upon
. Sprinkle salt
a dime.^^ »p some among “
fi{and a]] the tim
the lemons are in the bowl. Then have
a clean stone iar ready take out the
lemons one by one, squeeze them avery
little and lav them ^l carefully in the iar;
kv to the spices about them and tie
them close down; let them stand a
and thev will be fit to eat Su^ar
can be’added to taste when served.
j Cuab-apple I reserves.— irememoer
as if it were a treat ot yesterday tue ae
licioiis crab-apple preserves wnicn, and wun but
a slice of grandmother s bread
ter, made up a lunch of gTea ment for
* just he . cbl how ^ r sl^e R e ,f’ preserved -.IflJId tok^omeTimes tom sometimes
! °^ r _t° 8ee In!? S? fr^tVio
remains
; %r >^^
kettle with water enough to nearly
, cover them. When the 8k «?as‘ te ” der
so that it could be pierced with no effort,
the apples were takeributanda syrup
rnbt amta nn W&tad.teatka
kettle and the whole allowed to simmer
until the apples were thoroughly
cooked and looked clear In grand
mother s day this was put into jars, but
the canning process so universal in our
time is a vast improvement, for, al
though toe fmit would “keep more or
less thought must be, given to it to m
sure its not working.
Pickled Apples.-P eel a quart of
gree n apples and remove without breaking cores with toe a
round apple-corer, in porcelain
apples; put over the fire a
lined saucepan a pound of sugar, a pint
of vinegar, a level teaspoonfnl of whole
. cloves, and a small stick of cinnamon
broken m half-inch lengths; when the
vme g a r boils put into it as many apples
M wl ll C ook without crowding, and boil
them gently until they are tender, but
not broken; take them out of the pickle
with a skimmer and put m others; when
all the apples are cooked pour the pickle
over them. A larger quantity may be
prepared, and when cold put into glass
or earthen jars and sealed air-tight.
Tickled apples make a good garnish for
I any fat poultry or for roast pig.
Forest Citx Apple PoT-PiE.-Peel.
quarter and core enough apples to fill a
medium-sized, round-bottom iron pot or
| an enough old-fashioned good biscuit Dutch crust oven; to line make the
; pot; for the crust, sift with each quart
of flour two heaping teaspoonfuls of
baking powder and a level teaspoonful
of salt; rub into a quart of flour a heap
teas P?9 nfnl >"itter or lanb and
then quickly mix . in enoug l cod " ater
*° make a dough which can be rolled
oat half an mch thick; butter toe pot,
lise it with the crust, put in the apples,
add half a pint each of cold water and
molasses, a teaspoonfnl of powdered
spice, and some sugar, if tlie apples are
sour: cover the pot-pie with crust, make
two or three cuts on top, butter lid of
pot and put it on, and bake the pot-pie
in a moderate oven for an hour and a
half; then take off the cover and brown
the top’crust. Trrn the pot-pie out and
serve it with sugar and butter, molasses
or any ' good * pudding sauce.
Qnick Runs ^ by Steamboats.
Charles _ Weed, . ~TT7~ chief engineer - of the
!! aamer ^ lJgrun *, s ald \° a r f? ort ^ : Tbe
ri .g nm LS ca P able . °* ma U a g
miles an hour, , but wedo not run her at
that apeedforit Bn.or wou d bring us to our
pier at Fad at too early an hour,
At present her speed is about sixteen
m ii es an honr. By the way, there have
been some notable runs made by some
of our river and sound steamers. As far
back as 1852 the steamer Reindeer ran
from New York to Hudson, a distance oi
lit! miles, in four hours and fifty-seven
minutes, and made five landings. In
1864 toe Daniel Drew was only seven
hours and fifty-one minutes in covering
the distance from New York to Albany,
146 miles. She made nine landings, too !
Her average speed was 22.3 miles per
hour. In 1S67 the Mary Powell made
the run to Poughkeepsie, hours, a distance of
txj miles, in three with six land
lugs. These, I believe, are the best runs
on record in America, and probably will
net soon be beaten.
THE JOKEliS’ BUDGET.
ll llAT WE FlM> TO SMILE OVER IM
the iitMOEOi’s i* ai*i: it is.
a peoffssiox found.
Old Mm—“Mv son, you don’t appear
to know any more after your four years
SartS^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Young Man—“Why, I was No. 1 in
**,«. M _
health I have. I just tell you what, the
gymnastic professor did not let any grass
grow under our feet. There s not a
young man in the country with such a
stock of muscle as I gained at college,
“Ah! in that case it is all right. Ill
apprentice you to a blacksmith,
Phila. Call.
QUITE AN ACCIDENT.
“Dear me,” gasped Mrs. Knoawl,
“here is a terrible item in the paper,
My, how the poor man must have suf
fered 1 husband.
“What is it?” asked her
coming to her side.
“Why, one of those poor walkrng
match fellows swallowed a sponge.
“What! Let me see.’
After carefully reading the article,
Mr. K. threw the paper down growling:
“You women ain’t got a gram of
sense. It don’t say he swallowed a
sponge. 3
“I k D ow it don’t in those exact
up the .pongo ,t he .It.lu't emllowit!'
were
the stroke °« at col ege weren t yon .
; "MapH a hand at all athlelt.
contests? . I I
■ hand? My
j “Quite champion a walker, gracious the best
was the
j runner, the head man at lifting heavy
weights, and as for carrying! why, I
' could shoulder a band of flour ami —
“Well, love, just please carry the baby
a couple of hours; I’m tired.”-PMo
. delphia Call.
^
A FAMILY RESEMBLANCE.
,
j “Hello, Bobbery, old boy,” said a
Han d cu ff.
, “Whom are you addressing, Sir ?”
“Oh, come, you can’t guy me. I
i know ^ you if you ^ are dressed up.”
, j am not Eobbery> Sir .»
: “ Well then > 1>d like 10 know wh °
>
youare? ..
“My name is Assignment, Sir.
“Well, maybe it was your brother
^ ,,kl “ w< You l00k T
i wag tb(J fatber Q { the whole batch of
i you. I remember .”—Chicago News.
a bashfuia _ soy. - >
OT 'i,g eto JSL » t°«« 4>»«
A t the breakfast table next morning lii»
fftther said:
“Well, my son, did you go borne with
an o{ tho girls ]ast Big ht?”
“ Ye8 ,” said Bob.
“Who was she?”
Eobert hesitated, but finally blurted
out:
“I thought it was Annie Warren, but
when we got to the turn of the road she
went into Ella Ham’s house.”
“But I should think vou might have
told by the sound of her voice,” said his
father,
“Neither of us said a word,” said
Bob, blushing and stammering.— De¬
troit Free Press.
SFEAK GENTLY.
A handsome girl in a tailor-made suit
twitched the coat of a ear conductor and
remarked:
“Say, Sir, will you let me off at
-’s?”
“All right, Miss,” answered the young
man as he rang up her fare, “we go
right by it.
“Of course,” sarcastically, “and that s
precisely what I don’t want to cto
The passengers.laughed, but the con
nuctor duin t. ie put that gu on e
crosswalk three blocks above her des
tmation, anuwasa nail mila away tie
10Te & e 10 QX
particular about hf.r company.
Mrs. Judge Carpentermadearrange
ments to hire a colored lady to do the
COO king, or at least she thought she had
ma ,q e arrangements, but she was mis
taken.
‘ T do my own marketing, and I shall
expect yon to accompany me,” said
Mrs. Carpenter.
‘ ‘Den we can’t agree. I nebber allows
myself ter be seen on de streets in com¬
pany wid anybody who carries a basket.”
—Texas Siftings.
A SAD LOOK AHEAD.
First school-girl, with sudden interest:
“Oh, I forgot to tell yon that I was en
gaged!”
“
“OhTyes “R«aliy’” don’t
; and I am so happy I
know what to do.”
“That’s just toe way 1 felt, but after
yo u have been engaged thirteen or four
teen times you won’t give it a second
bought. Indeed, you’ll have to stop to
cbink of bis naiue .^’’-Detroit Free
Prcs ,.
A POSSIBLE DANGER.
Mrs. Minks -“Women’s suffrage, in
deed ! There won’t be anything of the
kind if I can help it.”
Miss Finks—“But why not? Just
think ! With a slight change in the law
women could run for office.”
“Exactly; and that is why I oppose
it.”
“Well, I do declare !”
“Yes; I don’t care to have a lot ol
sweet girl candidates buttonholing my
husband every time he goes out. He is
vain enough now.”— Phila. Call.
It was the old orthodox Deacon who
said, alter listening to a Uuiversalist
sermon, “I’ll give §5 if he will make me
believe it.”
