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HAN-TOOK-m mi, ?um. It Is fanny to me . That down by the am That a as salt as cod when von Book R, A little old town BhonM decl re np and down, rKn-to.k-itlKa-tooSt.ttl Nan-took-itt It bold, taut 0 whisht Itsm-uaiUMaltsli when ont of tlie wat.tr y n hoofcttt B it it d er t loriret To Y -vp marmurt mr yet. "Hwn-took-it. Kan-Kok-it! Naa-took-ltl What make tt so queer? " Hto nt-vt r h-?re, And ncs. of to? cvc thai o' r'ook it Ere saw h ru mla-.te, . f-o wha is t ere i i it. This er. die w "Kan-tc .k-:t! Kan-took-it?' If twa o-ie'h;n? of cost I in sore tt was lost By the sra v h n son-e bnuKest has shook & A' d Us n.eat of theoe.att T t e' t . wt'n TTan-toot-.i ! Nm-tock- tl N v-wok-itl" I eni9 the I town, F-sh'-, ce'-iU atiflb o-n . T.inksn lo' i 9 1 a 8 ha fire, ok it, An 1 nn I- em n a. I e, 'ii a n . nv b '. "Haa-icok-l ! N n tcok-l . Nan-ook-llf

X WlJSOY DAT. BT7. V. BttlT. The -lawn was a dawn of splendor, And the bine of the morning skies AVas us placid and deep and tender Am the bine ol a baby's eyes; The sunshine flooded, the mountains. And flashed over land and sea Like the spray of a golden fountain But the wind the wind ah met Like a weird, Invisible spirit, It swooped in it airy night, And the earth, as she storm drew near it, Quailed as in mute affright; The erra-s in the (rreon fields quivered The waves of the smitten brook Chilly shuddered uid shivered Ab.I tae reeds bow ed down and shook. Like a sorrowful mlHerere It .-obbed and it wailed and blew Till th" leaves on thn trees looked weary; And my prayers were weary, too; And then, like the sunshine's glimmer, "That failed in the awful strain. All the hope of my eves crew ihin r In a spatter of spiteful ratal.

MY PELTATE SECRETARY. "Well. Peter, have I seen the last of tliem ? Re illy I begin to believe my advertisement reached the eyes of every man in London ont of employment, and not yet am I fully satisfied with a single applicant." Thus I addressed myself, half to myself half to my worthy butler, one morning in early May, when for two horns I had been interviewing a horde of men, all anxious to obtain the situation of my private secretary, at figures much less, I ascertained, than those Z had set upon in my mind as a proper estimate and valuation of their services. Within a year I had fallen heir to my uncle's fortune, and, being a bachelor of 35, and -somewhat luxurious ia my tastes and habits, with perhaps a disinclination to labor, I discovered my increasing correspondence so severe a strain upon my time that I determined to find some one to relieve me of at least a portion of the duties I found irksome, hence my advertisement of a few days previous. I had had in all some 200 letters. perhaps, but from these I had selected twenty, nineteen of whom I had already seen. One, the one the wording of whose answer, perhaps, had pleased me most, had not yet put in an appearance. "There is one young person below, sir," responded my good Peter, "but it's not a man, sir. It's a voting lady.'' "A young lady? What can a woman want with me? However, I will sea her. Show her np." A few minutes later, a rustling of skirts informed me that my latest 'visitor had arrived upon the scene. I looked up to find a young lady of 20, perhaps, simply, almost shabbily, dressed, but posses- ing a pair of very pretty eyes, which were taking me in with an intentness which, had I been a bashful man, would certainly hare inspired a blush. As it was, spite of the shabby dress, something in the young woman's air caused me to spring hastily to my feet and beg her to bo seated, while she told in what way I could be of service to her in any way. "I received aj note from you this morning, Mr. Bowman," she replied, iu a voice which w at once sweet and refined. "This, I think, was the hour yea named for me to call." "A notd from me ?" I stammered, in amaze. . Without farther argument, she rose, and, laying on tie table beside me a note addressed is) my own chirography to G. Thorpe, Ej., resumed her seat. "The 'Esq.' sas not quite correct, von see," she continued; "but I am G. Thorpe. The 1 initial stands for Grace." By all the powers, the writer of the twentieth note wai before me, and was in petticoat! "I I adverti-ed for a male secretary," I explained, htlf amazed and half amttsed; "I an) a liachelor add living in bachelor quarters." n "I interred it wai a man yon wished to fill tie place, hat, inasmuch as the duties o. ly occupied certain hours of the day, I thought jit might be equally well filled by a wcan. I am very desirous of such a portion. I am a good and rapid penman and. if my sex is not an insurmountable jobst.cle, I think that I might give ytjn satisfaction." As she spoke I remembered the note short, concise, anft withal expressed with a certain elegance of diction. Even the signature recurred to me . "G. Thorpe." I smiled to remember that no doubt of the Writer being a man had entered my mind; I had even mentally determined the first name was George. The idea she presented to me was entirely new. . Yet I really knew no reason why a woman should not do as well as a man. If she had no objections to accepting the post, I did not know why I should have any to granting it. She would have her own room, entirely disconnected from my personal suit of apartments, und I should expect to see her but for a short time each mornins, to give her directions for her work during the day. There was no occasion for my rememliering her presence any more than that of my housekeeper, or the numerous maitb. This, of course, was all mental, but when G. Thorpe, some fifteen minute later, bade me good morning, it was understood that from the following Monday the hoars between 10 and 4 belonged to ue, on consideration of a certain valuation, which, my secretary deel i red far too libiwai. This frank avowal wasjtbe first nn-bnsiness-lile expression I had heard her titter. Monday morning I awakened with a singular sensatioa that something unusual was about to happen. A few momenta consideration resolved the something into thefuet that my new secretary was that day to ester upon her duties. When I entered the apartment I had ordered prepared for her a little study opening out of my library I found her already at her post. Her hat and cl ak were laid aside, and, as she looked ap with a grave smile to bid me good-morning, I started at the sudden discovery that an extremely pretty woman stood awaiting my orders. This discovery gave me anything but pleasure. Instantly I became colder and more reserved. Of course, I told myself, she would try to fascinate me, and equally, of course, ignominious failure would attend her effort. As clearly and concisely as possible X tried to make her understand her dufjse. For a timo I would lay the letters

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before her with a rongh draught of my replies, but later, when she grew accustomed to my mode of expression, I would merely indicate the tone of the response, whether negative, affirmative.

j or the conditions to influence either. ! She grasped my ideas very qu'ckly, I and at 3 o'clock sent me her roplie-i. With

one or two exceptions they were wholly satisfactory. These I took to her to farther oxplain. I fancied, as I entered the room, she looked weary- there was a sudden sadness in her expression, I had not previously detected. But I refrained from any outspoken sympathy, and was somewhat more curt tha i usual in giving her the necessary details. "I am sorry to have been wrong," she said. "It will t ke me bnt a few moments to rewrite these as you desire." Her very humility angered me. "They will wait until morning," I replied. "I prefer you should not work over hours." But when, an hour later, I looked ont of my window, as the street door c'osed, I saw that Miss Thorpe had inst left.

I and, going down to the study, I discov

ered the letters, ready to poet, uprm the table. So the first day was marked by an act of disobedien e and a discovery Miss Thorpe was possessed of a will of her own. Two weeks passed along, everything working smoothly, when my correspondence became more involved. Some building was being done under my directions, and I was obliged to inspect plans and go into minute details so that part of the time Miss Thorpe could only perform the manual labor at my dictation. It was wonderful how much less irksome I found the task than I had anticipated. The fears 1 had had in the beginning, that my secretary would attempt to fasc'niite me, died. Her reserve anddignity equaled my own nay, exceeded it; for, when I would have led the conversation into other channels, she brought it back to the present with consummate skill. My secretary had been with me six

weeks, and, further than that she wti3 G. Thorpe, and infinitely charming, I knew nothing. I h ive forborne to state that, just at this period, I wa3 placed in a most delicate and trying position. By the terms of my uncle's will, I was to marry my cousin, Alice Thornleigh, or forfeit to her one-half the estate. The latter consideration would by no means have induced me to giva my hand without my heart, since I was alrealy abundantly provided with this world's goods; but I felt bound in hon; r to carry out my uncle's wish, so far as meeting my cousin, whom I had not seen since a child, and endeovo'ing, if possible, to make her the offer enforced upon me by his generosity. My aunt and cousin had been spending the last eight years in America. It was just as my story begins that they cabled me that they were about to sail for London, so that four weeks previous my cousin and I had met. I found her a very beiutifnl girl, but utterly cold and indifferent in manner. It certainly, however, I told myself, would not be difficult to learn to love her, and I resolutely set myself to the task ; yeb at the end of four weeks I was no nearer the desired result than at the beginning of that period. Indeed, to be no nearer, argued that I was further off, since to stand still in such cases is impossible. One day, when I had just left Miss Thorpe to her duties, my brother startled me by the announcement that Madam and Miss Thornleigh had honored me by a call. . "We were so anxious to see you in your bachelor apartments, my dear boy," exclaimed my aunt, as I welcomed her, "that I could not resist tho impulse to bring Alice to sec you. Now you must take us all over, and show us everything.""Everything but one room," was my mental reservation, shrinking involuntarily from that shrill-voiced comment on the occupant of the study. "Not there," I said, as we entered tho library, andcay aunt had moved toward the door her quick eye had detected. "That is my den." But, as fate would' have it, hearing my voice and utterly unsuspecting anythingas unwonted as visitors, Miss Thorpe, wishing to ask me some question, herself opened the door. For a moment the ladies regarded each other in silence; then, with a burning blush, Miss Thorpe withdrew, but not before my aunt had drawn herself up with conscious virtue and chilling disapproval. "My dear," she said, turning to Alice, "we have evidently made a mistake in our intrusion. We will remedy it as far as we may by bidding you, cousin, good-morning."

"You must not misunderstand the

position, however, aunt, I replied eagerly. The young lady whom you have seen is my secretary and amanuensis. I should have been frank in the first instance, but I honed there would

be no necessity for an explanation."

I only am to blame for having brought Alice here," was the haughty reply, and the two ladies went out of my doors. "I stood troubled and perplexed for a m-iment, then went into the study. Mi-s Thorpe was again busily writing, bnt I fancied her face waa very pale, and I wondered if she had overheard my aunt's words. She did not long leave me in doubt. "It will be two months to-morrow, Mr. Hodman, since I entered upon mv en-

I gagement with you. Will you kindly

accept this short notice of my Hjyiguatkn?" "Tour resignation? Yon wish to leave me just when you have learned to understand all my ways, and have made me so dependent oh yor " So dependent! Had I really uttered those words, and having uttered could I retract them? A thousand new ideas went whirling through my brain, but her voice calmed them. "I have known always," she said,

, "that ny position here was an anomaIons one, but I felt by preserving my own 1 ji: -i , i , -r - i i "

uiKiuvy awt womuuuwu j. couiu reconcile its necessity to myself. I find that I am wrong. Thanks to your generosity, Mr. Bodman, my need is not so great as when I applied to yon, and I sl: Jl doubtless be able before very long to find some other employment. But however this may be, I shall always feel for you the deepest gratitude," As she spoke the last words her lips quivered and her voice trembled ; but I knew now why I had been so indifferent to Alice, and why the hours in the quiet little study had grown so dear to mo,

"Yon say yon will be grateful, Grace," I answered. "Then prove it by remaining with me. I cannot do without my secretary; bnt we will give the post another name I cannot do without my wife. Grace, darling, when you stole my heart I do not know, but I think on that first morning, when, standing in your shabby dress and hat, I determined to harden it against the wiles and fassinations of G. Thorpe." So I won my wife, and so my cousin Alice came into half my uncle's fortune; but, though all this happened long years ago, I have never ceased to be grateful that I gave to the twentieth applicant npon my list the post of "my private secretary." The Modern Plovf. Standing high, ay, very high among the improvers of the American plow, is the name of the late Jethro Wood, born in 1774, in Dartmouth, Mass., of Quaker parents, Jethro being the only son. In his boyhood he molded a plow from the metal of a pewter cup, to which he harnessed the house cat and experimented in the flower garden, but thp old-fashioned Quaker whipping he received from non-resistants by profession had a tendency to check any immediate attempt at further experimenting in inventing plow castings from the pewterware from the family dresser. His aim and chief study was to invent a new mold-board which from its form should meet the least resistance, and which should be constructed, share nnd standard, of cast iron. In his effort to give form to his ideal he used wood and his jack-knife, and was constantly whittling, day in and day out, until his neighbors deemed him nu.d, and gavo him the soubriquet of the "whittling Yankee." In pursuit of the curve he substituted the potato for wood until the fancied ideal was actualized. The manhood of Jethro was largely passed in Scipio, Cayuga County, N. Y., an agricultural town, somewhat famous for its inventors. The natal day of the modern plow is set down aft September 1, 181i). The neighbors shook their heads, looking wise meanwhile, and called the inven

tion "Jethro's Tolly. They agreed almost to a man that his new plow could never work. One day he induced one of the most skeptical neighbors to make a public trial of the plow. A large concourse gathered to see how it would work. The field selected for the test was thickly strewn with stones, many of them firmly imbedded in the soil and jutting up from the surface. All predicted that the plow would. break at the outset. To their astonishment and Wood's satisfaction it went round the field, running easily and smoothly, and turning up the most perfect furrow which had ever been seen. The small stones against which the farmers malicumsly guided it, to test the brittle metal, moved out of the way as if they were grains of sand, and it slid around the immovable rocks as if they were icebergs. Incensed at the non-fulfillment of his prophecy, the farmer finally drove the plow with all force upon a large boulder, and found to his amazement that it was uninjured by the collision. It proved a day of triumph for Jethro Wood, and from that time he heard but few taunts about tho pot-metal. It was soon discovered-that his plow turned up the soil with so much ease that two horses could do the work for which a yoke of oxen and a span of horses had sometimes been insufficient before; that it made a bet e - furrow, and that it could be bought for seven or eight dollars; no more running to tho blacksmith, either, to have it sharpened. It was proved thorough and valuable success. Thomas Jefferson , from his retirement at Monticello, wrote Wood a letter of congratulation, and, although his theory of the construction of nioldboards had differed entirely from the inventor's, gave his most hearty appreciation of the merits of the new plow. All uncertainty of the new plow having been removed, and prompted by a philanthropic desire to do the greatest good to the greatest number, in 1820 Jethro Wood sent one of his plows to Alexander I., Emperor of Bnssia. Not being a French scholar, Mr. Wood got Dr. S. Mitchell, President of the New York Society of Natural Sciences, to write a letter in French to accompany the gift. The plow was received and acknowledged by the autocrat of all the Bussias by the retua of a diamond ring to the inventor, reputed to be

worth $15,000. By some error it was

delivered to the writer of the letter, who appropriated it. Mr. Wood appealed to the Russian Minister, who corresponded with the Czar, who said the ring was intended for the inventor. The President of the Scientific Society said he gave it to the Greeks, who were then struggling to free themselves from the Turkish oppressors, "an ingenious modo of quartering on the enemy." Wood, a Quaker; and a peaceful man, did not press the matter, and so it ended. Boston Traveller. Brother Garduer's Fatherly Advice. "Will Col. Algernon Bixby please step dis way?" asked the President as everything under the head of communications had been cleared away. The Colonel advanced like a man expecting to receive a gold medal for some meritorious service, and Brother Gardner continued: Kernel Bixby, I has received a complaint from your wife to de effect dat she am bar'-fut." "An' dat de wood-pile am entirely gone." "We am no ban's to burn wood in de summer, Bah." "An she says she am outer flour, tea, sugar, butter an' eberyfing else but meal." " We has been libin' on the Dio Lewis plan fur a few weeks, sab," coldly replied the Colonel. "I understan' dat you owe three months' house rent?" "Yes, sah, but I'zc gwine to move dis fall." "Kernel Bixby look me in the left oyel Fur de las' six weeks you have beenloafin' aroun' an" hatin' hard work. You haven't aimed an honest nickel since July. You am wonderful handy wid your excuses, but let me say to you dat if you doan' start out on Monday mornin' an' look fur work an' start de sweat on your back, I shall call fur you at de nex' meetin'. Dat call will mean bizness! It will result in purceodin's dat will walk yon down sta'rs fo' steps at a timet It am now time to disorganize de meetin'. Let tho Glee Club sing as swoetly as possible, an' any member who picks up n hat bolnngm' to some odder iieail will be hack in his record for vjrvbew nd honesty." Detroit Free Fress.

AGRICULTURAL. Increase Your Feeding' Slock, The meat production in tho United States could easily be absorbed to tho extent of feeding' 100,000,000 of population. It will never ho done so lang as the average farmer is content to sell his grain, leaving the production of moat, beef especially, in the hands of a comparative y few who make a specialty of fattening stock. The same is true in a ease of sheep, though not to the samo degree. But for some reason the American farmer, and, indeed, the American pcop'e, do not take kindly to mutton. The taste should be educated in this direct'on. In all our hill country sheep should be tho mort profitable of. fa- m stock, and particularly in the hill region of the South, where early lnmbs may be turned off at a low cot, to ho eagerly bought in the Northern markets. So swine should be carrie.l to the full capacity of every farm, both North and South. There is a world's demand for we'lfattenrd, healthy pork, and aiwny. will be. Where the climate is udapted to l he growth of Indian corn, the most profitable use it can be put tt is in fattening steers and hogs for market. If the farmer, cultivating from 80 acres upw.ird, would study these meat problems carefully as to profits in a series of years, taking into consideration the increased value of his farm over that where tho coarse grains were sold, ho would not be Ions? in recognizing the f.ict that his true interest lay in carrying as much live stock as his iaudwt.uld feed. Our most wealthy farmers are those who have given their attention to the production of meat, butter and cheese. They always will lx. Instead of producing comparatively little more meat than is required for home consumption, our export should be in thU direction, rather than in the export of grain. The first course brings the most money, and continuously enriches the soil." The latter policy never mndo the farmer rioh who persisted in it year by year. In the end he must lay out ail his profits for fertilizers, while the stock farmer gets his profits as he goes along, and accumulates minnre enough year by year to keep his soil fully up to its original fertility. Saving- Clover Seed. I would like to tell you how i. save clover seed. I have been in the business for many years, and have run a steam thresher and clover huller for a long time. Every one. who rnns a thresher knows how much trouble and danger there is in getting sticks and stones in his machine. The clover huller is worse than the thresher. Then why rake up the clover and get all the sticks and stones in the field mixed with it f I think there is a better and faster way to accomplish the result, and save more seed. Just think of having a spun of horses walking over your clover all day, tramping out your clover seed, and then a horse and rake to come along and finish scattering out tho balance. No wonder tho owners of hullera do not get out more seed per day. The cause is the seed is not there.' It has been tramped ont in the field by runniug over it in cutting and raking. Threshermen would rather thresh for a lass price clover that has boeu cut the right way, than thresh with sticks and stones gathered in it, and thus have their machines broken. Now I will tell you how I cut and save clover seed. I take 'a se'f-rake reaping machine, take out the pin that trips the rake, put on a trip chain so that you can trip the rake with your foot whenever there is enough clover on the platform of the machine. Tho next time I go round I trip as no irly in line ns possible, thus making no.irly straight 'rows of the piles when the field is cut. I let them lay until dry to either haul in or thresh them with the huller. I think this is much tho best way, as it is less labor and I am sure not to get sticks or s'ones to break the machine, beside gelling more seed. Clover when cut for seed may lie in the field in piles where it wav.ut for three or four weeks, if the piles a-e not too large, and not hurt getting wet through to tho bottom. They will not hurt if they do not heat. Clover will hull better if it is well watered, so that it is dry when hulled. If any one knows a better way I would like to hear from them. I have given the plan I have followed a long time, and I have raised hundreds of busho's of clover seed. Cor. Clover Leaf. Orchard Oral. You ask for our experience with orchard grass. Our first experiment was on three-quarters of an acre; it was a piece of rnn-out mowing land, covered with a tangle of running blackberry vines. Fifty bushels of ashes and ten one-horse loads of a mixture of a dies, lime mortar, clay mortar and soot from an old chimney were spread npon it in the fall and plowed in. The next spring fivo cords of a compost of stable manuro and muck were harrowed in, and tho land was planted to potatoes. The second spring three cords of stable manure were applied, and it was again planted to potatoes. Tho third spring four cords of stable manure were plowed iu, and it was sown to orchard grass and clover; three-fonrth8 of it without grain and one-fourth with fodder corn. The "catch" was all good, rather better with the fodder corn; bnt wo would not advise any one to follow that precedent, for on three occasions since grass seed sown with fodder com has proved an utter failure. This was in 1875, and it has been mowed over since. For the first three years the first mowing was at tho rate of' two tons per aero, and a thick aftermath beside. Only once has it been given a light top dressing of Chicago bone-dust, which seemed to have little effect, and has received no other manure. It has often been cut twice in a season, and once three times. Under this treatment the yield of course is not so great as at first, but it is still greater than that of any other grass we raise so long afto sealing. Indeed, no other variety can bear comparison with it in point of holding out year after year. The soil is a s indy loam, much affected by drought, from whioh we suffer almost every season in this vicinity. "It will not do," says mv authority, "to have it stand with wot feet. Where it is under water even for a short time it is apt to kill out." Not less than two bushels of seed should bo sown per acre, with from five to ten pounds of clov r. It -too.' bcltisr : In-

sown wiitumt other prnii-; a crop of weeds is apt to oomw up 'vhich we cut

before they go to seed, and the grass occupies the land afterward. The seed is very easily raised, harvested and prepared for use. It seems to matter little whether it bo winnowed at all ; we have simply threshed it and sown it in tho chaff. The quality of the hay is equal to the very best anil superior" to most kinds. It is preferred by our stock of nil kinds to other varieties. The first thing beside milk cutcn by a little winter lamb, raised by hand, was the sweet, tender leaves of tho orchard grass hay. It is richer in fledi-forming elements than

even timothy, and so to be preferred for j

growing animals and milch cows. We are so well s itisfiinl with it in every way that? we should sow it to the exclusion of other vari ties wore it not for the fact that it need- to bo cut about the middle of June; and iu this climate tho weather at that time is very uncertain, and does not become settled till about the 1st of July. A few acres e n be secured in' odd days, but not a whole crop. Upon your rich alluvial soils, whore not. too wet, much better results ought to be obtained than are possible here. Helen Young Baileu, Hopkinton, K. H. ' HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS.

LEARN1NU THE GROCERY BUSINESS.

FnosTWG. One ounce chocolate scraped fine, whites of two eggs, one heaping cup powdered sugar, teaspoonfnl vanilla. Chocolate Cake. One cup of sugar, half cup of butter, two eggs, half cup of sw et milk, evenel off teaspoonful saler.itus, two evened off tcaspoonfuls cream of tartar, two cups of flour, tea-

spoonful lemon. j To Clarify SroAit fob Pheseuvixo. i For each p;uud of sugar allow one- ' ha'f pint of water; fof three pounds of sugar the white of one egg. Mix when cold, boil a few minutes and skim it; let it stand ten minut-M, skim it again, : and str.tiu it. Soft Cookies. Take one coffee cup . of butter, three of sugar, one of thick ' cream, and four eggs; mix the butt 5V and sugar, then add the eggs and tho cream. Take a pint of sifted flour and ; r; teaspoonful of sod i; mix well and I htir in the other ingre dients sufficient of it to make the paste or dough suff

i enough to roll out ; cut it in squares, impress with a fancy mold and bake in j a slow oven. i Spiced Eldebbeub rus fob Pies. Six i quarts berries, one pint vinegar, rwo ' ; pounds sugar, table-spoonful each of : cinnamon, cloves, allspice, gitiger. ! Stew five minutes, ponr in a crock, and I cover with a paper. Wheu making tlo I pies, line the plates with crust, to each ; pic add half a cup of sugar, after beri ries are put in crust, also a large spoon- ! ful of flour, and butter tho size of a

luckory-nnt. Browned Guavy. Chop np an onion and fry it with a bit of butter; und when it is brown add ft good teaspooti-

i ful of moist sugar and a drop of water, and toil all together on the fire until j the water is reduced, and the snar be- ' 1 gins to bake of a dark brown color. It ! must then be stirred on the firo for ! throe minutes longer; after which j mo'sten it with ha'f a pint of water ; ndd ; a little pepper and salt, boil ail togetheU j for five minutes and strain. J Bolls. Tako two quarts flour and ! rub into it a table-spoonful lard and a little salt; put iu a t?ep bread-pan and : ; make a hole in the flour, into which pour one pint cold boiled milk and half ; ; a cup of yeast; cover the pan and let it ; stand all night; in the morning stir it ! up and knead well and set it in a warm j place to rise; let it rise to a light sponge ! (it will rise in on hcur and a half), then ; : roll it out on the board about half an , i inch thick, cut with an oval cutter and j ! fold about two-thirds of it ; lay them in , ! baking pans, let thera rise an'hour and : then bake in a quick oven fifteen min- ', i tites. They are very nice indeed. Washington Pie. Ono cup sugar, ' one-third cup butter, one egg, one-half

cup sweet milk, one-halt teaspoonful j saleratus, ono teaspoonful cream of tar- j tar, one und two-thirds cups flour, teaspoonful lemon. Bake in two tin sheets and when done spread jelly between the layers. If a chocolate pie is desired, Use the following filling instead of the jelly: One ounce chocolate grated, one- : half cup sweet milk, one-half enp pow- ' tiered sugar, yelk of one egg and teaspooufnl vanilla. Sti - the chocolate in the milk, add the esTg,- sugar and vanilla; set it-in a vessel of boiling water and stir it until of je ly-like consistence. : Morn sugar can lie used if desired. . When cold spread between the layers of j the cake. j Mi tton Piks. Cut the mutton into i small slices, without bone; season it : very well, and stew it with the fat also . cut in pieces, putting in no water, j When tender allow it 'o remain until j cold; remove all the greaso nnd fat : very carefully; have pome gravy made from the bones, add to it the strained j gravy from the mutton. A minced ; shalot and button onions are good ad- ; ditions, and, if the 1 ittcr bo pickled, : the!r nei lity wilt lie an improvement. ' Put it into a dish, or into small pattypuis, andbako it; if iu pattypans, use ; puff paste. Mutton pies arc ii. for hot i than cold. Tho uudordouo part of a ; leg of Mutton may be thus dressed ; but the loin and kidneys are better suited ' for the pnrpof.0. j

BY A SMALL BOY. I went to learn the grocery business with Mr. Ginger, and I found him the clear ginger itself, and ho found me ditto. I was only 14 years old, but was a lot older in my own way of thinking, and stood right on my dignity the first day I was there. It only took me about half an hour to learn the business, anyway. I learnt the candy, sugar, apple, orange and raisin business in less time than that, for I knew all about it before I got my hat off. After I had been there about twenty minutes, and was pretty well through with a bottlo of gum-drops, the boss asked me if I had ever been in a grocery store before. I was too full for reply at least my mouth was but as soon as I got my mouth nearly empty, "Often; been ia bigger ones than this, too." "Well," he said, "you seem to take hold of some parts of it pretty quick." "Oh, yes! I can learn anything quick that I set my mind to." "See," said he, "if you can. learu to dust off those lamp chimneys, wash off those shelves, bring up some potatoes cut of the cellar and leave off eatjng candy." "I don't think I can set my mind to do that. Have you no man to do these sort of things?" "No; we always make the boy do that." "Well, where's the boy? Ain't he come yet? I'll liet you a quarter that before I'm her long he'll have to get here earlier in the morning than this." "Who?" "The boy." "What boy?" "Didn't you say that tho boy did all the dirty work? Come, oil fellow, you can't fool me. If yon think I'm green, why, you're got a hold of the wrong man, and it's me that's telling you." Just then there was a laxly came in. She asked the price of our best flour. I referred her to the boss. "Flour has raised," he said," "and we can't let you have a barrel for less than $7. "Oh. I can get" it for 6.50," she said. "In your misty mind," says I. "Hold your tongue, boy," says the boss. "My advic?e to you missus," Kays I, "is if you can get as good flour as we have for $0.00, you are a tangled up monkej if yon don't go and got it, if your credit is creditable." "You're an impudent puppy," remarked the boss savagely. "Tho same to yourself and many of them," says I, meekly. With this the lady marched on tscdatelv. "Hold on, old lady!" says I, "Don't go away mad. I'll let you have a barrel at $6.75, cash!" She kept right on out, without letting on she heard me. ( I sung out, "Good-bye, while you're handy!" As soon as she was gone the boss said: "Boy, you won't suit mc. You would drive all my customers away with your sauce, besides driving me cra2y." "Neither ono of them would be a very long drive, if I'm properly acquainted with myself, and 1 guess I am." "Clear out! clear out!" shouted tho boss, "liefore I kill you on the spot." "Which spot do you mean ?" says I, at the same time laughingly heartily in his face. He threw a pound weight at me. I

made a nice catch, and said, "out on first base." He looked wild. I threw it back to him, but 2ie muffed it, and it went out through the window. I don't know where this would have stopped had not a customer came in. I looked down the street and saw the boss coming with a policeman. I quickly got inside, locked the door, and dusted out the back way, resolved to give up the grocery business, and I have n-ver been seen in that town since.

Sain in the South. Among the stores of mineral wealth which the South is continually discovering, nene are more remarkable than the great salt mines of Louisiana, a few miles south of Now Iberia. The salt is found in a solid rock mass, which assays 99 per cent, of pure material, and the deposit covers 110 acres, which appear inexhaustible. The mines are situated directly upon the Bnyou Teehe and convenient to the terminus of great railroad linos, ami, although they have been systematically worked only three years, the iudustry has assumed great proportions. Salt from these works can be delivered throughout the South at loss than the price either of foreign importations or the product, of Northern works; and Mobile, which it. the chief distributing point, counts upon soon becoming the great salt market ef the Mississippi valley.

The hut, best fruit which comes to ' late perfection, even in tho kindliest I soul, is tenderness toward the hard, :

foriKunuice toward the unforliearmg, waiiuth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward tho misanthropic. Sterne.

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Burning of Theaters. Each timo a theater is destroyed by lire some architect expert in theories informs the pttblic how future disasters of the kin I moy be prevented. That most theaters are defective in construction, so far as the conserving of publia safety is concerned, is apparent to all who 'frequent them. It is no less obvious that many improvements could be made that would reduce to a minimum the danger risks. But the indifference of the public to the very perils that threaten is ihtfehief element of responsibility for the existence of places of amusement that are no better than fire traps. It is only by the utmost watchfulness that fires in- theaters are prevented, and relaxation of scrupulous care may lead at any time to a repetition of tho terrors cf Brooklyn and Yienna. An experienced builder says: "Almost every theater m a mere shell of brick and mortar, with flimsy wood und paper work within. The auditorium is a box within a box, or, to put it still more aptly, it is o,n oven." This is to a large extent true. Stages are so constructed that they arc regular tinder boxes, the scenery," flies, girders and rigging offering every fuci ity to the rapid spread of flames. To remedy these almost universal evils a thousand mcanii are suggested year after year. They are not adopted. New theaters spring up with all the old defects or enough of them to leave the danger almost undiminished. And so it will continue to the end of time where theaters are without unobstructed exits on every side. There is one illustration in this city of what a theater should be McYicker's. It is an individual building, with a broad street in front and a wide alley on each side and at the rear. It has twentythree available exits opened for use at every performance. Only the grossest carelessness on the part of an audience itself would make tho loss of life an unavoidable incident of a fire in this theater. Those theaters that make a great parade of placards pointing to exits by ways unfrequented, lending to parts of the house wholly unfamiliar to the audience, generally leading onto or under the stage, are to a largo extent practicing a criminal deception. The people who followed those directions would become bewildered by thoir strange surroundings, and would more than likely plunge into tho very dauger they ousht to avoid. The only real solut ion of the problem is, after all, a nun. ber of easilygained exits, b in th !8e ' MoVick-i-r's Tin itt , : ting direct-. into the . (! uir 1 Htli-i't or nilex, so that uM-np! ci uld w pror-iptljr and

uncoufusedly effectei- n some of the Chicago theaters a panic wWtld insure great loss of life in the crush to et ottt of tha only exit known to the audience. No ordinary fire could get the advantage of an audience provided with a number of exits adequately corresponding to the seating capacity of the house. A statistician assures us that since 1619 there have been 524 theaters destroyed by fire. Of these 401 occurred during the lust century, and between 1871 and 1878 such fires occurred at the rate of thirteen per annum. The principal of those losses were Astley's, inLotidoii; the Grand Opera House, Paris, burned four times ; Drury Lane, OoVent Garden, Niblo's, the Brooklyn Theater, the Ring Theater, Yienna. Chicago Inter Ocean. The Passi of IIr.r. Mine. Blanoho Lee Childe (the wifo of a nephew of General Robert E. Lee), in a iieries of papers giving her impressions of Egypt, says ! "Then the principal dervish begins a litany, an.d all the disciples reply with a kind of growling that resembles nothing human. Lionesses or hyenas might utter such responses. A few Mussulman spectators leave our group &nd joLi in the ceremony, murmuring, 'Allah, Allah,' at each response. The sounds of la nentation grow keener, the music in a titrange and taking rythm keeps up the measure with quickening blows on the tambourine. Nothing can bo imagined more heart-breaking than these appeals to Allah, these sighs that come in waves like the groaning cf a surf. How wonderful these faces are, admiral types of suffering, of ecstacy, of mad misovy, of supreme longing, of inexpressible anguish. "The expression of the human countenance can go no farther than this nor grow more intense. At this moment in the wierd drama, as the circle of those frenzied creatures widens and come s back upon us who are looking on, huddled up iu a corner of the hall, a vision suddenly rises upon me of those ferocious beings; howling, gasping and turning upon us as their prey. In a few seconds the Christian dogs would be torn to pieces without hope of succor. We are barely some twenty poor, scrimped, awkward, feeble tourists, absurd in our European garments, and re should quickly become a mere legend. Before us is brutal force developed splendid, free motions, strong as those of a panther, passion nervous,

aud religious magnetism excited to the ; highest point. Their convulsions, their cries are full of frenzy, but of frenzy j regulated, kept- in hand, deliberate, and

lar more reaouDtaoie, tuereiore, man

any spontaneous rage, xou feel that whatever oue of these demons, (demons for the moment), might do would be lone at once by the others. But ill of this is and remains a vision. We riiall not pass to posterity in the story of a celebrated massacre." doing to Bed in Japan. Going to bed in Japan is rather an indednite expression for any one accustomed to sleep between sheets and blankets and upon snowy pillows. In fact, you do not "go" to bed at all, but the bed, such as it is, simply comes to yon ; and the stvle of preparing for the

night is about the same wherever you I are. First, a cotton-stuffed mat is laid

; anywhere upon the floor, and a bloek or j roil : s placed at one end to test (?) your i head upou. Then yon lie down, and a

cotton-stufied quut is turown over you. This quilt is like a Jap dross on a big Hcalr, with large and heavily stuffed sleeves, which flap over like wings. But

the difficulty is that these capacious sleeves, with all the rest of the bedding, contain unnumbered legions of voracious fleas hid away in recesses known only to themselves, but which onlv wait till'you get fairly nestled in sleep, when they begin their onslaught on their defenceless and helpless victim. Awakened by the merciless havoc they are making upon you, it i in vain that yon roll Hnd toss and shake your clothes till you lire wearied out ; that only increases the vigor with which they fflflew the battle, and though you may spend hours in the faint glare of primitive oil-lan-tefn, which is set in ono corner of the room, and strive to rid yourself of the tiny tigers that are devouring you, it is all to no purpose, and you sink down at last usleep. But you are soon awakened again, only to undergo tho same tribulation, and the long hours of night pass away as you pace up and down the narrow limits'of the room listening to the suoring of the dozen or more of tho .tonga-hided sleepers who surround you, and ;.)cep through the sliding shutter of the House to see if tne day is breaking or not. You cannot lie down again, for the floor is crawling with the creatures you dread, and you cannot sit down, for there is nothing to sit upou, and such a thing as a chair was never heard of in ; that region. Kinder Looking Around. ! A middle-aged gentleman, who formerly lived in this city, returned after an absence of two years, and in duty bonrd called upon a number of his former acquaintances. He stepped into the store of a well-known trader and was familiarly and cordially greeted and titer a chat he said : "I have met with a sad bereavement lately." "Indeed! what has been your trouble?" askel the trader. "I have lost my wife," replied the poor mau; "she died about ten (lavs ago. Here is an obituary which tho nditor of the Blank wrote," and he pulhid from his pocket a newspaper, and unfolding it, pointed to a veritable obituary. "I added a few lines myself," he continued, "for she was a good woman, and Smith's obituary docs her no nioro than justice." "I presume you are right," said the trader, "and the loss of one's ifo is indeed a bereavement. You have tho sympathy undoubtedly of all your friends." "Yes, but that is a poor consolation, after all," said the widower, with a solemn visage. Finally

the Mihjcct was changed to ono of a j more cheerful character, and after a few moments' talk the trader said: "But; what, may I ask, has brought ymi back to Lowell?" Tho strangiir didn't answer heartily; but after a moment ho re

plied : "Well, to tell the truth, friend, I am kinder looking around for another wife. " LoweU Mail. As Irish antiquarian Has reconstructed from old title deeds and surveys the fact chat Dublin once had its Thing, or popular assembly of Scandinavian freeloldcis; its Thingniount, or hill on which the assembly mot, had its hangman's hill close by. The Scandinavians scttlid Dublin in force. Tho late Mr. Chat lea Haliday showed iu his recently piibl nhcit lHi thai tl.f old names st. sl as cstunonv to that fact up to a compwit lively lato -late.

pith Airo popit. "I guess Pll push along," is what tb man with the wheelbarrow said. Man is like a glass of beer. Blowing the top of his head off settles him. Which is tho largest room ia the world? The room fcr improvement. There are no pumps where the oo coanut grows, which, perhaps, accounts for the milk in it The man who has been Vound with the boys half the night is likely to feel flat the next morning. "Give us a rest," was invented by Archimedes when he offered to move the world with the lover. ' The Kew Jersey Enterprise h&s dincovered that the most assthetic thing known is a cigar stomp. Ii is all but. Nothiwo like being well wp in arithmetic. A Vossar collage girl has gone into half mourning. It is for iv half brother. "Who shall decido when doctors disagree?" Wo don't know who aiiouhl, but Mil know that the undertaker generally docs'. A YOUN0 lady attending balls and parties should always eectne a female chaperon until she is able to call some male chap her own. At Fort Worth a man dropped deadon entering an eating house to get bfe dinner. If the dinner was like moift dinners you get at Texas eating houses, the man would have died, anyhow, in a short time. Texat Sitings. If yon Mleeplessly toss oa your ptUw, And long for a space of rcpoM Just, be ttll u a tomb o:: a willow, And think of be end of your no!, See that never tt tJromjhl goes to wutdef While noltly your e j'cllds yon clow: And be sure that bat ono tiling yon pondnp--Kecp your eyo on the nd otfmr man. "Breddben," said u plantation preacher, "I will now discourse to yoa ob de 'pistle ob Clover!" "No, Pomp," cried one of his sable congregation, "yoa means de epistle of Timothy." "No matter," replied the preacher, "any kind ob grass will do, so dot it bc good fodder." Txas Sifting. Foote, dining at the house of Mm. Thrale, found nothing to bis likins. acd sat in expectation of something lietter. A neck of mutton lieing the laze thing, he refused it, as he hod, the other olirtws, As the servant was taking it away, however, understanding that there wae not hing more, Foote called out to him: "Hallo, John ; bring that back aglin. I find it's neck or nothing." A correspondent of the Springfield Bound Table relates that years ago, Long John Wentworth, then in Congress, once told a Methodist of the House, 'Tm not going to vote for you again. You give us too much hell-fire in your sermons. Now there's a man at Cincinnati who promise to save the whole of us. He's the man tot me." "Ah, Mr. Wentworth, but he cioesn't know you au well as I do, or he wouldn't undertake to save the half of you." A distinguished statesman has Ion; been noted for his mastery of th; English language. An answer he gav not long ago in one of the Parliamentary committees is an instance of this. When asked if he knew the river Dee, the right honorable gentleman saiit, after a little hesitation, "Yes." Then seeing what a tremendous admission he had made in the universal allirmntive, he added : "That is to say, I do not know it scientifically, or geologically, but generally I do know the river Dee." Oxe fine day as an emnteat ad rocata was arguing a most intricate and tirsome case Wore the Court of Appeals he noticed that one of the judges wtta sound asleep, and stopped short. "Pray continue, Brother X." said the ChiefJustice, benevolently. "Thank your Honor, bnt I did not mean to finish my argument until your colleague has wakened up." "As you please," replied the Chief-Justice, "but I fancy my colleague does not mean to wake up until you have finished your argument." French Paper. A scientific exchange says that if yo hold your thumb tightly orr the muzzle of a gun you may fire the gtm off and the bullet will not injure your thumb in the least. This is a new ides and should be heeded, and any ona who contemplates looking into the muzzle cf a gun should place his face right tight against the muzzle, aud ha will escape injury. Science is doing wonderful things in this world, nnd maybe this new ides will be a popular and worthy one, but it seems- not, as every day some people are injured by guns going eff and caiTyinr.

destruction before them. ireclcit SUVi. F. McC, Houston, Texas: "l'lcase answer through year corrasponient's column: "Is . the f arth solid?" We used to think it was hollow; that there was an aching void jf emptiness in the center of it. The good old man who preached to us before we back glided into a printing office used to speak of this world as "a hollow mockery an empty sham." Abo it a week ago we stepped out of the back door of our office, at night, forgetting for a moment that tho surface Of 'the hollow mocker v" did not reach ra within four fei of the office floor. Since thejroamerifc we regained consciousness and fonnd ourselves stretched out on "the hollo w sham" and the office boy trying to wrench the back of our neck into iis socket, we have had a firm belief in the absolute solidity of the earth. Texfa Siblings. So fcaslly Untied. According to a Chicago street "fakir" tho public is bo easily gulled thfct impostors and sharpets actually despisa their fellow -men for their sheep-like stupidity. A man he knew of ran a perfectly square game which was on out-and-out swindle, but which brought in the first people of the town. He bad a pile of gold and a -ile of silver coin. By paying half a dcliar a person could throw six dice. If he threw six sixes he took gold; if si: aces, silver. No ono ever did it. It was next to an mpossibility, aud the nan raked in several hundred dollars said left. A jfelJow . traveling down in Alabama who had scarcely money enough to buy a few bars of transparent soap, cut the soa-a in very small pieces, wrapped them ia tissue paper and fin foil, sprinkled them with cologne, took a sponge satix rated with benzine nnd arnica, with it washed the grease spots out of coats and hats that cams along, pretending it was the soap, acd iu three ,'liount, with a glib tongue and a little rabbin?:, disposed of $3i worth of what had cOf t him almost nnthintr. A Candldnte for IheTPenlteaUary. "Where were you last June? Where you not in Anstan?" asked an Austin official of a vagrant, whom he suspectei of being a noted criminal for whom a reward was offered, and which reward he wished to collect. "I cant remember to save my life. I had & differont name ltst June from the one I have got now, so I can't toll whether I was iu Austin or not. This being in so many places, and having so many different names, confuses the best f B3" .... -,i x "Well," Bftid the official, "you will get over all that after a while, if your ore aot careful." "How so?" "You will have to stay m one plow, and instead of having three or four names, vou will not have any name at sdh. You wUl go by a number." Texat Sitings. Aha iu tinv didn't have a surgeon in his arm, amlmh.n.w. b"i)it.a,hl,' mi. ni.ili. iii-w md i" paymnttvit. -: iw scmnfi for soli' r.'ory.