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VOL XI.
AT DAWN.
Each leaf, another Tokening, sigh\
■“Sweet sister, it is day!
, The last night-blooming glory dta^
And wheresoe'er a petal lies,
i The east grows warm and gray.
♦•The birds are still asleep; and yet,
Amid the silent throng,
i Like dusky vapors that beget
j The dew, dream-winged shades have set
The germs of heavenly song.”
—John B. Tabb, in Lippineott.
A HILL COUNTRY IDYL
BE THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH.
-ITTY M’KISSEM
// /} looked at her broth-
er and sighed, and
» the sigh was ac~
- companied by a
l\ glance tion of admira¬
. Hugh M’Kissen
was certainly a fine
specimen of young
mountain manhood.
Tall and muscular,
h i 'if, with a lithe and sin-
\ w JL ewy form, whose
\ ;V graceful proportions
w.
W even the half-ccat,
A Rti _Jhuntin ' half-sack, g-shirt,” called “a
•eould not disguise; a frank and pleasant
expression, and a voice that, in spite of
a rather nasal tone when its owner was
excited, was full and musical—Hugh was
worthy of feminine admiration. He was
singularly ignorant of his attractions,
and, though bold in peril, fearing
neither man, bear nor catamount in
single fight, was timid in the presence
of women, his mother and his sister ex¬
cepted. The owner, subject to his
mother’s life-right, of a thousand acres
of mountain land, of which one-third
was rich “bottom,” or level land, with
horses in stall, cattle in meadow and
steers on the hill-range, he was at seven-
and-twenty a bachelor, while his fellows
were heads of families by the time they
had come to manhood. He loved his
mother and sister, who worshiped him,
and he was content. «
Kitty M’Kissen was not his sister, how¬
ever, nor was she his kinswoman. Eigh¬
teen years before, John Markham came
there from the East, and bought a little
‘‘bottom-patch” of sixty acres, and set-
tied on it with his wife. He built a log-
■ - cabin, set to work awkwardly to culti¬
vate a few girdled acres, and tried to ac¬
commodate himself to an unusual posi¬
tion. Folk around, naturally suspicious
of strangers, thought he must have done
something wrong to make him leave
home. He brought books, not over a
hundred in number, which the neighbors
deemed to be a great library. His house
was neat, owing to his young wife's taste.
The neighbors said: “It’s stuck roun’
with thing-a-majigs till it’s a plom
sightl”
Markham worked bard, and so did his
wife, and, soon after their coming Kitty
was born. She was christened Catk-
arine Burnett. Three months after her
birth her mother died, and Mrs.
M’Kissen, who had just lost a child of
nearly the same age, offered to nurse
Kitty—an offer thankfully accepted.
But Joim jarkham caught cold by ex¬
posure, it settled upon has lungs,and iu
less than a year he died,leaving his little
possessions to his child. Kitty thrived
and soon became known as a M’Kissen,
the circuit-rider’s baptismal certL cate to
the contrary notwithstanding. She and
Hugh.wuo was a nine-year-old boy wuen i
she came,had been brought up togetaer.
When she was half-gro.vu, Peter
M’Kissen was kilied by the fall of a
girdled tree,and Kitty became the main¬
stay of the house, for old Mrs. M’Kissen,
woo was ten years senior to lier hus¬
band, bad been half paralytic for years,
and passed her time :n nobbling between
her bed, the kitchen-table and the fire¬
side.
Frank and good-natured, as well as
atii euc, Hug u was a popular y uing man
—ais fellows accepting his lead and
young won en receiving his attentions
courteously. But ne never threw the
handkerchief at any particular fa.r one,
treating ail with a shy deference. They
did not come up to the stunting o,
Kitt , who had indented some of the re¬
finement of her inotuer; and who, hav¬
ing read her father's books over aud over
again, was credited with a vast amount
ot learning. That kind of knowledge
did not interfere with her housewifely
qualities, for she was known to be the
best coo t and baker as well as the best
butte; maker and neatest housekeeper
in the county. Huge measured all other
girls oy i.et Procrustean standard, Be¬
side, Hugh was not matrimonially iu-
cliued. His home was too comfortable,
and he was in no hurry to bring a
sirange woman there.
But Mrs. M’Kissen thought it high
time for her son to marry, and spoke to
him about it.
“What’s the need, mother?'’ he re¬
sponded. “I’m should comfortable, and so are
you. Why I bring a strange girl
here—one that ain't used to us and our
ways, upsetting things?”
“You needn’t do that neither,” said
his mother.
But Hugh was too obtuse to take the
hint and went out to salt the cattle. But
he communed with himself as he went.
“I might spark Lucy Campbell,” he
thought. “She’s been East to school,
and she’s a sort- of higu-flyer, but she's
pretty. Old Jim Campbell’s well off,
and he has only young Jim and Lucy.
I dunno. I’ll speak to Kitty about it.
And there she is at the cows, now.”
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. MARCH 3, 1892-
Kitty wm there with her milk puls,and
Hugh broached the subject at once. She
looked up, blushed a little and then
looked down, and listened.
“Lucy Campbell!” she cried. “So,
Boss! Why don’t the cre’tur’ keep
still? Lucy Campbell's a nice girl; a
little sharp-tempered, but you’re not;
and she never turns a hand to anything
around the house; but you’re not look¬
ing for a housekeeper. Give down,
Bossl”
“Well, there’s Nancy Stallins. Nancy’s
people are not so well off as Lucy Camp¬
bell’s; but they do say that Nancy is the
most industrious girl in the neghb’r’d.”
“Yes,” said Kitty; “yes, she’s a
worker. She never cleans up her dirt,
though; and she—she chews snuff. You
don’t like tobacco in that way, do you,
Hugh?"
“M-mph!” ejaculated Hugh. “Well,
I dunno what to do. Mother, she’s at
me to marry, and I declare, except the
two, I can’t think of a girl I’d like to
have, unless—well, there ain’t one.”
“You stupid!” said Kitty, pettishlv.
“Eh?”
“This Boss is the most stupid cow I
ever saw. Now, Bullfaec!”
And Kitty stooped at her pail, and
began a fresh milking.
“See here,” said Hugh: “Did you
ever see such an uncertain chap as that
Si Doss? He’s been here four times
this week about buyin’ a cow, stays
around hours at a time, aud ain’t made
up his mind yet. ’Pears to me he don’t
know A good thing when he sees it. ”
“There are a good many young men
in the same fix, I allow,” said Kitty.
“Si Doss appears to me not to be one of
that kind. He knows what he wants, I
fancy.”
And then, with her filled pail, Kitty
moved off to the spring-house.
Hugh stood a minute, salt-bag in
hand, forgetful of his cattle, when he
saw Si Doss riding up and then dis¬
mounting. Si tethered his horse to the
pendant limb of a Decch tree, and then
strode forward. He had the reputation
of being the most forward young man in
the country; but he had a very em¬
barrassed air now.
“Howdy, Hugh.”
“Howdy, Si.”
“Folks all well?”
“Yes. Your’n?”
“Fus’-rate, thank y.’ Our best
brood sow’s sort o’ limpish. I allow
she’s been eatin’ somethin’ afore we
brought her outen the woods. ”
“Likely.”
And then the two stood like ex¬
hausted receivers. At last Doss broke
out:
“I’ve been allowin’ to git married.”
“Yes?”
“I’d like you to put in a word for
me.”
“Me? Who’s the girl?”
“Kitty M’Kissen.”
“Not—our—Kitty!”
“Yes. I’m not quite sure whether
she favors me or not. I’ve been aroun’
some, but someho .v I ain’t got the nerve
to speak out. Couldn’t you souu’ her
au’ find out?”
“Our Kitty! Why, Si, she’s a little
girl. She's too young. ”
“She’s eighteen year old. I hearn
Miss M’Kissen say so. You know,
though, I’m tol'rabie well-to-do, an’
don’t owe no man a dollar. I love the
very ground she walks on.”
“Well,” said Hugh, after a pause,
“we’li see about it. Anything new?”
“There just is. There’s a fellow down
to the town—a furriner from the East—
J=°t U P * u store clothes an’ mighty sassy-
lookin’, an’ he’s beeu inquirin’ about
John Markham’s folks. Sez he’s a kin
to ’em au’ ’s gwine to come and hunt up
Kitty.”
“No! What’s his name?”
“Galvin Burnett, He’s a lawyer
where he lives.”
“Burnett? Must be kin to Kitty’s
mother. You told him whar she is?”
“Yes; and thar he comes now, ou Sol
Diugess's clayband mar’.”
It was a sprucely dressed stranger who
rode up, and, leading his mare, came to¬
ward tnem. It was not necessary to tell
his kinship, for he “favored” Kitty, as
they say in the hills. The same eyes
and forehead, but he had a square chin.
He explained his business.
“Come into the house, Mr. Burnett,”
said Hugh. “Kitty will be back from
the spring house, presently.”
D .ss was anxious to learu everything,
but as no one asked him to remain, went
off reluctantly. Presently Kitty came
in. and the newcomer introduced himself
as her drst cousin, the son of her mother’s
brother.
“Of course,” said Burnett, “I am
very giad to know a near relative, espec-
ialiy when she’s a pretty girl; but I did
not come for that. I am here on busi-
ness. Do you kno .v anything of your
father's history?”
"No, sir.”
“Oh, don’t ‘sir’ me, Kitty; we are
own cousins. Call me ‘Cousin Cal.’
Your father ran off with my aunt, having
married her against grandfather’s com-
mand. Grandfather disowned her, and
was very bitter. But when he died, he
left one-half of his property to father
absolutely, aud the other half in trust.
The nature of the trust was explained in
a sealed paper, not to be opened until
after father's death, and to be carried
out by his executor. I believe father
knew its nature. The trust money in¬
creased under my father’s prudent man¬
agement, and that share of the estate
amounts to more than what I inherit. It
is nearly twice as much. I opened the
paper, and the instructions are that I
“ TELL THE TRUTH ”
am to pay it over to the heir cr heirs of
Catherine Markham. Iam satisfied from
inquiry, that you are the heir, Kitty,
and I am ready to transfer to you, under
the proper legal form, nearly ninety
thousand dollars. I congratulate you.
Kitty. You will be able to live East, as
comfortably as possible, on an income
sufficient, I suppose, for a single gentle¬
woman.”
Ninety thousand dollars! The amount
dazed Kitty, and struck the M’Kissens
dumb. It was a fairy tale, aud the
young lawyer looked like an enchanter.
Hugh was considered rich there, with
iess than a fifth of the sum; but ninety
thousand dollars!
At last Kitty asked:
“Mr. Burnett—Cousin Calvin—must I
live there to get the money ?”
“No. You can live where you like;
but if you want to enjoy life, the
East is the place for you. You are your
own mistress, or, at least, will be at
twenty-one. In the meanwhile, the court
here will probably let you name your
own guardian aud trustee.”
“Thauk you, cousin. I am glad to
know you; glad to have this unexpected
fortune, and would be glad to see a place
that I have heard so much of. But the
only kin I ever knew, though not of my
blood, are dear to me. This is my only
home. I may visit the East, but I could
not stay there.”
The news of Kitty’s wonderful inherit¬
ance soon spread. Rumor increased it
by an additional cipher. It was heard
ot with a thrill of awe and envy. It was
said that the dashing “furriner” was to
marry Kitty, and take her away immedi¬
ately; aud Josiah Doss was intne gulf of
despair. Hugh knew better, so far as
Kitty’s views went, but he felt a sinking
at the heart. Kitty would stay, but
with such a fortune in possession she
seemed out of the common sphere.
Burnett,while thedegal forms going on,
amused himself by studying this cousin,
who was so readily accommodating her¬
self to circumstances and the M’Kissens,
especially Hugh. It required no pene¬
tration to see ihat the lacter was in love
with Kitty, but seemed not to quite re¬
alize his own feelings; and that Kitty
loved Hugh and knew it.
“That young man is bright enough in
some things, but very stupid m this,”
said the lawyer to himself. “I'll play
the good genius, for the fun of the
thing.”
The court at Kitty’s instance,appointed
Hugh M’Kissen her guardian and trus¬
tee, to the scandal of the young folk,
who thought she should have chosen
some older man. Hugh and Burnett had
divers conferences, before affairs were
over. At one of these the lawyer said#
“What a very pretty girl Cousin
Kitty is! Don’t you think so Mr.
M’Kissen?”
“Ye-es.”
“She’ll make a figure when she gets
into society, too. She is one o£ the
rough gems that take to polish kindly.”
“M-uj.”
“The fact is, T admire her the more
the more I know her. I must try and
persuade her to leave the mountains. ”
“Kitty M’Kissen isn’t one of that
kind," said Hugh. “You heard her say
that she would stay here, aud she is the
one to keep her word.”
“I beg your pardon, Mr. M’Kissen,” I
said Burnett. “Her proper name is
Catherine Markham, and sue is not like¬
ly to change it—in this place. No
offense to you; but the name is a good
one, and sounds well; but it would
sound better if it were changed to Bur¬
nett, in my judgment.”
And then Burnett walked off, to take
a stroll through the hills, leaving Hugh
confused and indignant.
“Confound his impudence!” cried
Hugh. “Mrs. Burnett! He’s after
Kitty’s money. Kitty marry him!”
Hugh walked out to cool himself aud
met Kitty coming from the spring-
house ; for Kitty was born to love cows
and chickens, and her money had not
changed her ways. She nodded. Hugh
kept at her side, aud as she reached tno
porch he said:
“I—I want to have a talk with you,
Kitty.”
“All right. Sit down on the porch,
then, and I’ll listen.”
“Kitty—I—the fact is—”
“Yes?”
“The fact is— You don’t care for
Burnett, do you?”
“Care for him? Of course I do. He
brought me good fortune; he’s my own
cousin, you know, and he's a very nice
man, too.”
“Are you—going—to marry with
him?”
“What a question! I suppose you
can ask it as you're my guardian. I
don’t see how I could; he’s not a Mor-
mom, and he has a wife already.”
“Oh, Kitty, you know I—”
“Well, I don’t know, till I know
what it is I know.”
“Kitty, I love you.”
“Of course you do; we were brought
up together. ”
“It’s not that, Kitty; but why can’t
we marry?”
“You never asked me, Hugh.”
Hugh asked then with a vengeance.
He poured out his feelings in a flood of
words. Kitty didn’t interrupt him.
She liked it. But when he paused for
sheer want of breath, she quietly put
her hand in his, and said:
“You ought to have known that I
loved you, Hugh.”
When Burnett came back he divined
the state of affairs at once.
“Mr. M’Kissen," he said, dryly, “I
presume Miss Burnett will have the ap-
proval of her guardian in this matter.*
Kitty did go to the East, but it was ai
Kitty M’Kissen, and with her husband.
Aftei their return there was a house put
up on the M’Kissen place which was
the wonder of the neighborhood, beta
of itself and furnishings.
‘‘Such doings!” said Nancy Stallins
to a gossip. “You know the house,
built outer bricks and rocks—a sorter
cross atwix’ a co’t-house an’ a meetin’
house; an’ enough rooms in it for a
tavern. But I was inside; six wagon-
loa Is o’ things was put in; the floors are
kivered all over. Yes!” continued
Nancy, with the bitterest climax,
“kivered with kiverlids!”—The Ledger,
SELECT liftings.
Oregon has a fifteen pound turnip.
The latest location for a watch is in a
door handle.
The largest quadruped of California is
the grizzly bear.
A Texas man has three buttons worn
by Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Va.
Wiliam Hanks, of Los Oros, New
Mexico, has three well defined tongues.
There are 208 students from North
America at the Berlin (Germany) Univer¬
sity.
A Texan’s pony found the watch his
master had lost and brought it to him in
his mouth.
A novel Viking ship, supposed to be
one thousaud years old, was unearthed
recently from a raouud in Sweden.
An Oil City (Penn.) snake’s eyes, on
being photographed, showed an exact
reproduction of the face of the farmer
who had killed it.
A Californian is going to start an ele¬
phant ranch. He intends to train the
elephants to pick oran ;es and hire them
out to orange growers.
The flat pieces of iron shaped like th
letter S whicn are frequently seen on the
walls of old brick buddings is the au-
ciont symbol of the sun.
The savant Tremer has asserted his be¬
lief that the celebrated library of Ivan
the Terrible was not destroyed in the
burning of Moscow, Russia.
The women in Bridgeton, PeDn., have
formally petitioned the Mayor for per¬
mission to carry red pepper with them
wueu they go out after dark.
The month of February, 1886, was
kn?,>u among the lovers of the rare and
curious in nature as the “moonless
month” from tiie fact of it having no full
moon. This can only occur eight times
in a century.
The finest white pearls are from India,
the Persian Gulf and Panama; the finest
black and gray pearls from the coast of
Lower California. Beautiful pink and
red pearis are often secreted by the com¬
mon creek mussels.
The deepest trustworthy sea-sounding
ever made was 26,850 feet, this depth
being found twenty-three miles due north
of New Guinea. Deeper soundings have
beeu reported, but geographers do not
consider them reliable.
Albinus, one who contended with Sev-
erus for the Roman Empire, was the
greatest glutton of antiquity. For one
breakfast he ate 500 figs, 100 peaches,
ten melons , twenty buaches , of grapes,
100 small birds and 400 oysters.
Parting the Hair iu the Middle.
The number of men who part their
hair in the middle is increasing every
day. The fasuion has grown in the mat-
ter of dressing hair so rapidly that it
would not be out of the way to say that
fully one-naif the men who formerly de-
rided this once much-condemned fashion
are gradually gettiug around to it.
“Ihey begin,”said a well known bar-
ber yesterday, “by parting the hair a
little higher up ou the head by degrees,
until they finally get it exactly in the
centre. I remember very well when it
was a very rare thing for a man to part
Ins hair directly over his nose, but all of
the contempt and fuu which siicn a
proceeding evoked are now replaced by
indifference as far as the public is cou-
cerned. Twenty years a^o a politician
who parted his hair in the middle
courted disaster at the polls. Now no
end ot statesmen, prominent or other-
wi3e, wear their hair in a dandified fasu-
ion and it does not even call for a re-
mark. The only thing that the rank
ana file strenuously and positively object
to is a masculine bang. They won’t
have that at any price." — National Bar-
” er ‘
Manufacture of Dyestuffs.
Few instances of modern mdustriai
growth m any one specialty are m .re
surprising than that of the manufacture
of artificial dyestuffs. In England,
° er maa y a “ d sm " e otnet
countries h but t especially in , Germany,
this industry has attained such prodigious
This appear, from the published statistics
that one of these plants-that of the
larowerke, at Hoechst-on-Nain, where
are employed some 1900 workmen, hfty
foremen, nine engineers, besides eighty- ■
six clerks and fifty-seven chemists. The
works cover an area of 72t>,000 square
yards, and from one end of the works to '
the other the distance is 3300 feet. Be-
sides a great variety i of dyestuffs, * the
rat „ | j • Sfr: ..
none telegram. |
$1.00 a Year in Advance.
TEACHING BIRDS TO SING
f
EITLARGINa NATURE'S GIFT T*
THE FEATHERED POLK.
5?
Canaries May be Taught a Variety oj
Notes—Best Methods ol Teaching
Them to Sing.
To think of music lessens for a bird
seems rather odd, for song is nature’s
gift to the feathered folk. Undoubt¬
edly, says Olive Thorne Miller in the
New York Recorder, a bird hatched in
solitude, and never allowed to hear the
voices of his kind, would express his
emotion in some sort of musical fashion.
But, as a matter of fact, many, perhapi
all, birds are taught to sing. I have my«
self heard several birds at what I believe
to be their singing lessons, notably the
American robin and the whip-poor-will.
In both these cases the old bird sang his
full song and waited while the little one
with more or less success imitated it.
Over and over the parent repeated the
notes and the infant tried to copy
them.
These are the native teachers, but
birds destined to the life of parlor mu¬
sicians, as the bullfinch and some others,
have human teachers, when their music
lessons are as regular and their instruc¬
tors as painstaking as the professors who
teach our daughters.
The canary, our most familiar house
companion, is usually imitative and in¬
telligent, aud a wonderful capacity for
song dwells within his tiny frame. I
may say hers also, for his pretty little
mace can sing, though not everyone
knows this.
There are three distinct ways in which
a bird may receive a musical education.
He may be taught to sing our tunes,
opera a rs or negro melodies, as is gener¬
ally done with the bullfinch; or,
second, he may be instructed in the
notes of another bird, as a lark or a rob-
bin; or, thirdly, his capacity may be
developed, his powers of voice cultivated
and his song remain the canary song
through all.
A seed diet gives the muscles compact¬
ness, therefore, according to this system,
seeds should not be the principal diet
until he “graduates,” but a soft food ol
hard-boiled egg grated with cracker oi
bread, and boiled in milk to the con
sisteney of stiff paste. Some seed may
be added, and this may be varied by
bread and crackers in milk, and grated
egg, or a little lean beef chopped very
fine. He should have variety of food
and plenty of it, for he is growing and
must be well nourished. It is good also
to lot him fly about, for this helps to ex¬
pand the chest.
Now to teach him. If he is to sing
“Annie Laurie” or “The Last Rose ol
Summer,” he must be placed in a quiet
room, with the cage covered. Then a
few notes of the chosen air should be
whistled, or played on some instrument,
flute, bird organ or piano. They must
be p,ayed slowly and distinctly, in cor¬
rect time, and over and over till the
bird begins to try it himself. He must
not see the teacher, nor hear the least
noise to distract his attention from the
notes so constantly repeated. The'in¬
structor may have to spend hours, it may
be twelve, before the bird learns his
lesson, but he must persist in reiterating
taose f ev v notes and no others till the
pupil repeats tnem. When he sings his
notes be should be rewarded with some¬
thing he likes, for one a bit of food, for
anotoei a little praise,
No matter how well the bird has
learned his artificial song, he will forget
it the first time he moults, unless it is
carefully repeated to him every day
w ule moulting. bird’s’
if the owner wishes her canary
to sing like a lark or robin, shs must put
him under native instruction. He is to
be placed, with his cage covered closely,
j u a room alone with his teacher, whose
cage-is in a light, sunny window. The
lark sings for his own pleasure, and the
canary, in his darkened cage, forced to
pa? attention to it, learns to imitate it.
One man, who kept a large number ol
canaries,, tells of having one of them
trained by a wild English robin. He:
cage—for it was a female, a year old—
haiuj alone near the window, outside
waieh was the robiu’s favorite singing
pmca. The cage was uncovered, for he
never thought of training her, and for
weeks she uttered no sound, but listeued
an ,i looked at the singing bird, and one
q a y sbg surprised her master by giving
tn>; robin song perfectly, Treated in
t ;je vva y described, a canary will learn to
imitate almost any bird song.
! ,ie third metuod, and the most uatu-
—sand all that 'EgZZS.
arv is nee led to do this is
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t0 fc H the * onc “ duri the ^e , eara .
in nod * ln t e 00m w f th flae
Singer alone, when he will follow his ^
,. so iar M hls ers al|(5W<
p fae things to remember are that he
i., P „ ,„ ck | y * ft, ^ “ cov- *
, red> so that his tteatioa .nvthin“ not b
disnacted by y seeing ^
Ulie cauti oa sho d be needed. How-
ever aauo io or vmtimelv a bil . d - s
be he should never be ‘. stopoed t by
! '1,^” sol ue lln -^ at ,- J. , u .
u '
lm n p f «■ d creaiures are exceedingly g th . f- ^ sens.tive, ^
aud tfrey are by terror sometimes throwji
tw
mistres3 ^
NO. 52.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
CHE AM SALMON.
Take one can of salmon; mince It fine,
drain off the liquor in a colander ana
throw it away. Boil one pint of milk,
two tablespoonfuls butter, salt and pep¬
per to taste. Have ready a pint of fine
bread crumbs, which place in a layer in
the bottom of a dish. Upon this lay a
layer of the minced salmon, then a layer
of the dressing made of the milk, butter,
pepper and salt, more bread crumbs and
so on, having crumbs for the last layer.
Bake until brown.—Detroit Free Press.
CHICKEN OROqURTTE8.
For chicken croquettes use one solid
pint of finely chopped cooked chicken,
one tablespoonfui of salt, one-half table¬
spoonful of pepper, one teacupful ol
cream or of chicken stock, one table¬
spoonful of flour, four eggs, one tea¬
spoonful of chopped parsley, one tea¬
spoonful of onion juice, one tablespoon-
ful of lemon juice, one pint of bread
crumbs and three tablespoonfuls of but¬
ter. Put the cream or stock on to boil,
mix flour and butter aud stir into the
cream; add chicken and seasoning. Boil
two minutes and add two of the eggs
well beaten. Take from the lire imme¬
diately. When cold, mold, cover with
egg and bread crumbs and fry.—Brook¬
lyn Citizen.
MOCK HARE.
For a mock hare cut a nice, lean beef¬
steak from the sirloin, leaving out the
tough end. Chop two tablespoonfuls of
suet fine, with a cup of fine bread¬
crumbs. Add a little parsley and a sprig
of thyme. Put in a teaspoonful of salt
and half a teaspoonful of pepper. Wet
the mixture together with the yolk and
white of au egg, and finally add a tea¬
spoonful of onion juice for flavor.
Spread this stuffing on the steak and roil
it up in it, tying it in place to keep the
stuffing in. Rub the steak with butter,
flour it thickly, lay it on a roasting-
rack and keep it in the oven tiil it is
fairly well done. If the oven is hot, it
should be cooked brown on the outside
in twenty or twenty-five minutes. When
ready to serve remove the strings, and
serve it in a platter with a brown gravy
made from the drippings of the pan and
accompanied by a crimson mould of
spiced currants. Carve it in slices from
the outside, not across the roll, serving
is a little delicious dressing with each slice. This
a way to cook a sirloin
steak for a change.—New York Tribune.
DEEP APPLE PUDDING.
It may also be made with canned
fruits, if some of the liquid is poured off
and used for sauce. Line a buttered
three-pint crockery bowl, with a rolling
rim, with a paste made as follows: Sift
a quart ot flour with two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder and a small teaspoon¬
ful of fineiy-chopped suet, half mutton
and half beef; stir into a soft of dough
with a fork and about two cups of very
cold water. Roll out once a little thin¬
ner than for biscuit crust and spread on
the bottom and sides of the bowl; then
put a layer of thinly-sliced tart apples,
and sprinkle with about a teaspooniul of
sugar and a little lemon or grated lemon
peel, if liked, and so on until tte bowl is
heaping full; sprinkle two tabiespoon¬
fuls of cold water through, theu covei
with paste. Wring the pudding cloth as
dry as possible out of cold water, dredge
it with flour and put over the top of the
pudding and tie with stout twine three
times round under the rim of the bowl,
f he cloth should be square and of good
size. Bring the ends together in the
middle, pulling taut to tighten the
string and secure with safety-pins or a
few stitches. Put in a large pot of
boiling water with an inverted plate or
scaud on the bottom and boil for three
nours; the water should be replenished
when needed and kept boiling. When
cooked remove the cloth, run a knife
around the sides of the bowl, hold
good-sized, rather deep dish over the
top; invert quickly and you have a
mound of light paste with plenty of well-
cooke l fruit. Half beef and half mut¬
ton makes a lighter paste than all beef.
The former is better flavored, as it is not
well to use all mutton.—New York
World.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Never set coal oil near butter or lard.
Save your coid tea; it is excellent foi
cUauing grained wood.
Hot solution of salt and vinegar
brightens copper aud tinware, also zinc
bathtubs.
When suffering from overstrained and
fired eyes bathe them in hot water sev¬
eral times a day.
Fine shavings from soft pine wood
make a pleasant pillow. They have
special curative virtues for coughs and
lung troubles.
In trimming lamps with broad wicks
clip the ends a little lower than along
the middle aud thus avoid a smoked or
cracked lamp.
Cracks in furniture may be filled with
Indian red or burnt umber to get the
desired shade. When dry it will take
on equal polish.
According to the Medical Record cas¬
tor oil has not failed in any case to re¬
move warts to which it was applied once
i day for two to six weeks.
In washing greasy skillets the addi¬
tion of a little soda to the first water will
neutralize the grease, and make it much
jasier to cleau. These are best cleaned
when hot.