Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1877 — Page 4

GOOD-BY, OLD YEIB, GOOD-BY. BT GERALDINE GERMANE. The belle ring slow, in muffled tone, The chilling wind make* sadder moan ; The flowers are dead, and all must die. Good-by, Old Year, good-by. The laughing stream* run coldly now. Stern winter reigns, with ice-crowned brow, Fair summer is dead, and you must die, Good-by, Old Year, good-by. Onoe you were young, but now you’re old, Our youth can ne’er be bonght with gold; Your youth is long dead, all youth must die. Good-by, Old Year, good-by. Your glory came, your glory’s gone; All glory fades time breathes upon; All grandeur and pride shall surely die. Good-by, Old Year, good-by. You brought us many gllt’ring Joys That cloyed and broke like children’s toys ; Our Joys you have killed, now you must die. Good-by, Old Year, good-by. You brought ns much of galling grief, But, like our joys, its smart was brief ; If joy must aye die, then grief must die. Good-by, Old Year, good-by. Thou wast a year of hnndred years, Of glsrlous triumph that endears, Bat, ah! as the others, thou must die. Good-by, Old Year, good-by. Though husk must die, the kernel lives, Ho doth the truth each year e’er gives; Thou brought’st us much that will not die. Good-by, Old Year, good-by.

JOE’S NEW-YEAR’S DINNER.

To have seen Joe Sterling stubbing about the Htore of Messrs. Sampson & Sturges no one would have suspected him of being a hero—a little, short, beardless fellow, with a peaked face, and shoulders that stood out sharply—wearing never a plume, nor scarf, nor slashed velvet doublet, like the hero of romance and chivalry, neither epaulets and gold lace like the military hero, neither broadcloth and beaver like the gentleman hero of the moral drama, but attired with severe simplicity in a wellworn “pepper-and-salt” suit, that pinched about the shoulders, and was too short in the sleeves, his sallow complexion effectively set off by a sky-blue neck-tie—a tie which Filkins, a spruce fellow-clerk, who supported a dictionary, had stigmatized as “perennial”—his cuff-buttons not mates. Oh, but, Joe, blessed be the world on its New-Year’s days, if it had more like you I Who Joe was, where he came from in the morning, where he went at night, interested neither Sampson nor Sturges nor Filkins. The hitter had, one evening, invited him out to witness the presentation of that glory of the drama, “The Black Sheep,” to be followed by “ the side-splitting farce of ‘ The Onelegged Shoemaker ” but Joe had politely declined, murmuring something about duties that detained him at home. Thereupon, Filkins had lifted his eyebrows, and made no more advances. He had never found young men with “duties” congenial companions. By 10:30, New-Year’s morning, Joe had completed his marketing among the shops and stalls on Bread-and-But-ter square, and, with his basket swung on his arm, had begun trudging homeward. He kept a sharp watch, as was iiio *<ont, to left and to right, to see if there was anything he could do for anybody. When one is on the lookout for somethir g of that nature, something generally turns up, and it was hard on to 11 when Joe turned into that sloppy, decayed old street, which he had turned into regularly every night since he had been in Sturges’ empoiy. He was growing dreadfully tired of that street. It wasn’t a busy street. Nothing ever seemed to stir in it, except tired men and women going out and coming in from labor. Nothing ever went up on it; nothing ever came down. The old wooden tmildiDgs just gathered a few more lichens, and sank a little from twelvemonth to twelvemonth. It wasn’t a cheerful street. It sometimes seemed to Joe as if all the tired, and discouraged, and sick, and cross, in the city—all the people despairing enough to he wretched, and yet not despairing enough to give up a kind of automatic effort, had gathered themselves together there. Joe began whistling as soon as her entered its precincts, and whistled lustily, just as boys do who have their courage to keep up, until he came alongs do the decrepit wooden building that held his “homo.”

Up two flights, mid turning to the left he entered fi small room, the atmosphere of which was charged in about equal proportions with the odor of moldy wall-paper and of some kind of pungent liniment. A middle-aged, unhappylooking man, witli his feet and legs stretched out on two chairs, reclined before the window. His gay dressinggown was wrapped tightly around his body, and a gray shawl was swathed about his limbs and feet. This was Joe’s Uncle William. Uncle William had been in his day a dishing young man, but he had dashed just a little too far, and all at once, as sometimes happens in parallel cases, found himself used up, body and soul. Then, since nothing else remained to be done, he had repented, and found, to his astonishment, that the laws of nature wouldn’t work backward, even for repentant prodigals. The almshouse impended. Just then Joe, the size of whose heart, was out of all proportion with his pecuniary resources, had interposed. He had left a pleasant boardingplace for a detestable tenement, saddled himself with a burden which he was likely to carry for life, and gone to housekeeping. Uncle William, when securely established in his three chairs at Joe’s expense, hail given himself unreservedly to brooding over his troubles and lamenting his hard fate. His melancholy gaze was, this morning, fixed out of the window, and he failed to withdraw it when Joe entered. “Morning again, Uncle William,” said Joe, briskly. “It’s been a bit dull here, for New-Year’s morning; has it, Uncle William, slowly turning from the window, delivered himself of a sound that might have been either a grunt or a groan. “ And you haven’t found anything in- 1 foresting in the papers ?” continued Joe, looking down at the pile of periodicals. “ I laid in liberally for all the pictorials, hoping you would be entertained by them.”

Uncle William shook his head slowly and a trifle scornfully. “I couldn’t be entertained by pictures, Joe ; I’ve been reflecting. ” “ Then I wouldn’t reflect any more. It don’t agree with you. Aren’t you glad you’re going to have me for company, this alternoon? And a hot dinner, too ? Hot dinners are luxuries nowadays. See here, will you?” pulllng from oat his basket a round of beef. Uncle William eyed it gloomily. ■Beefsteak for a New-Year’s dinner !” muttered he. Beefsteak isn’t to be despised— not if it s tender and juicy as this,” replied Joe, making an incision in the beef with his pocket-knife, and watching the juice start out with an expression of keen gratification. “ Not in our ■present situation, I know it, Joe ; tnat s the sting of it. I don’t blame you, Joe ; but I can’t help thinking how it used to be with me ” Here Uncle William attempted moving- one of his limbs, hit his foot against a ohairbaok, and cried out with pain. Joe slapped his steak upon tho table, brought Uncle William his liniment and then pirouetted ofl' into his bed-room-three minutes, and he was back again, in a suit the patches whereof attested the fact that he did his own mending, as well as cooking. “ Now, we must have dinner in a jiffp, unde. Then I’m going to give the room a thorough cleaning up; and after Mint, jf Mm, Dotyd bring* up the

ing, I’ll sew up the holes in the stockings, while you read aloud.” “ You know I can’t read aloud, Joe; it nuts me out of breath,” snapped Uncle William. “No more you can’t. How forgetful in me! Well talk, then, and have a good time just the same.” Uncle William grunted derisively, and fingered his swollen and bandaged Joe shook down the ashes in his stove, turned on a pile of coal, brushed out the oven and tumbled in a half dozen or more potatoes. From suspicious-look ing depths beneath the table he drew forth a gridiron, which he began scraping vigorously, meanwhile talking briskly — whether to himself or Uncle William it would have been difficult to decide. “ It’s a miserable way to leave a gridiron, without cleaning; but what can a fellow do who has as many irons in the fire as I have?—breakfast to get and clear away, rooms to tidy up, dinner to be laid out, Mrs. Dowd’s water to be brought, Unde William’s feet and legs to be bound up, and may be a run to the druggist’s or the doctor’s. Haug it all! a fellow can’t be as nice about all these little particulars as he’d like to be. He must once in a while neglect his gridirons.” Joe soon had his steak sputtering on the iron, it’s grateful odor mingling with that of the coffee on the stove, and overpowering the perfume of Uncle William’s liniment. He then jerked the table a few inches from the wall, spread over it a stiffly-starched and highly-blued “best” tablecloth, set on the dishes spasmodically, and, just as the little mantel-clock rang out 12, he announced dinner, and offered to assist Uncle William to the table. The process of getting Uncle William to the table in good order was no mean one. First, the two chairs in which his limbs reposed were one after the other moved a slight distance; the large chair in which he sat followed them carefully; then the small chairs made another forward move, and by degrees the entire establishment was brought alongside the table. “It’s all piping hot, and I’ve had splendid luck with the gravy !” cried Joe, sitting down and helping Uncle William with a liberal hand. “Joe,” said Uncle William, peevishly, “ I ain’t up near enough.” Joe hopped up, and drew the three chairs gently, one after another, an inch or two nearer the table, then bobbed down in his place again. “ You’ll take two potatoes, I think, Uncle William, and—” “Joe,” interrupted Uncle William, “ won’t you just h’ist up those pillows at my back, and put the big one at the bottom and the little one at the top ?” “Dear me, uncle!” cried Joe, flying at the pillows. “How careless lam ! It seems to mo I never shall remember about those pillows. You see I’m thinking so much as to whether you’ll like the dinner or not the pillows slip my mind.” “ Joe,” said Uncle William, as soon as Joe was again seated, “I wish you’d just take that cushion out from under my left leg and slip it around under the right one. ” Joe dropped his gravy-ladle and whisked around to the cushion. “ Careful, now—careful, Joe,” said Uncle William, dividing his attention between Joe and the forkful he was making up. “Now, under the other one—not so high up—a little lower down — oh, dear! Can’t you get it right ? There, now ! And won’t you just wrap that corner of the shawl around them again?” Back came Joe, and, not in the least discouraged, began Ms dinner. Uncle William, as lie the second time passed his plate, groaned : “I can’t help thinking of the New-Year’s dinners I’ve eaten in years gone by—such dinners as you never dreamed of, Joe. Little did I anticipate I should ever come to this.” “But just think how much better this is than notMng! . We’re going to have biscuit and grapes for dessert; and you’ve the best tliiug yet to learn, uncle,” cried Joe, exultantly. “This isn’t our regular New-Year’s dinner. This is only an installment. We’re going to have another after I get cleaned up.” And Joe’s face fairly beamed. Uncle William, though still gloomy, appeared interested. “Just look here, will you?” Joe drew up from beneath the table a little oyster-keg. ‘ * These aren’t your common every-day sort of oysters. These are au extra, prime, extravagant kind—kind the big-bugs use. Pass me that saucer, please. I’ll turn you out two or three, just enough for a trial taste. There, ain’t they beauties? Have a little pepper and vinegar with them. Aren’t they delicious ? And those aren’t all.”

Uncle William solemnly swallowed the oysters, while Joe rapped the bung in his little keg and brought his marketbasket up from beneath the table. “See there, will you?” triumphantly | producing a handsome plum pudding. “And there, too !” with much rustling of tissue paper bringing forth and poising on his hand a frosted and flowered cake. “Then there will be grapes enough for the second meal. You didn’t expect all this, did you ? Say, now, did you ? You’ve been pleasantly surprised for once iu your life, haven’t you?” cried Joe, playfully pinchiDg Uncle William’s arm, eliciting only a sharp yelp. “ I’ve done with all expectations of anything good, Joe.” “How delighted you must be with these things, then. You’ll taste the pudding, and find out you’re going to , have one good thing, any way, won’t you ?’’ said the undaunted Joe, slashing into the pudding with his “sharp | knife,” then depositing a thick, ! fruity slice before Uncle Wiiliam. “ Here’s the cake. You’d like to j know how this looks on the inside. I would, any way. It seems almost a pity to cut it. That’s what it was made for, though. Isn’t that cherubim—l mean that cherub—a nobby little fellow? How the sugar-works crackle ! Have a bit6f this, uncle?” Uncle William nodded, and eyed the cake approvingly. “Oh! I know what I’ll do,” cried Joe, jumping up again; “I’ll carry a part of my share down to Mrs. Dowd. She’s always washing and washing, until it seems as if she’d wash the soul out of yet, with those five children to keep in bread and meat, she never has any treats.” Joe cut out a quarter of the pudding and the cake, and whisked out. In a few seconds he returned, singing jubilantly through the hall. “Don’t, Joe; it goes through my head,” said Uncle William. “So it does. I beg pardon. Have you been waiting to be moved away ? I stopped to empty Mrs. Dowd’s tubs for her.” Uncle William intimated his readiness to be moved, and the operation was successfully performed. Then Joe slipped oil' his cuffs, and went into the work. He cleared and washed, assorted and arranged, swept, dusted, rubbed and scrubbed. He had applied the lead, and was polishing up his stove, rattling the covers back and forth vigorously, his hair shaking down toward his nose, when unwonted voices were heard in the hall, the steps of two men, and the tap of a cane on the bare floor. “The ocoupaut °f this tenement,” said a voice, Joe qqw recognised as his landlord“is an eccentric yaqugman, whoi boards bjjnsplf and supports aq invalid uncle/’ '■ • -

“Rap, rap, rap,” went the cone on Joe’s door. Joe, unaccustomed to receiving company, was a trifle discomposed. He pushed the hair out of his eves with his wrist, and, still grasping the blacking brash, threw open the door. “Mr. Sampson, Mr. Sterling,” said Joe’s landlord. Joe bowed in a dazed sort of way, holding his glittering hands awsy from contact with his clothes, and swaying the brash in the air. “ Mr. Sampson is about purchasing this building and is inspecting the tenements,” explained the landlord. “ I think—it seems to me that I’ve met yon before, young man,” said Mr. Sampson. “ Yes, sir; I’m the Sterling tliat clerks it in yonr store,” said Joe, humbly. “Blessme, so you are! Sturges attends to the store mainly, and I don’t have much chance to know yon boys. So you live here do yon? You re-al-ly do?” “ Yes, sir. And this is my uncle, Mr. Knowles,” said Joe, nodding toward Uncle William, who was beginning to bristle at a fancied slight. Mr. Sampson bowed; giving Uncle William a glance that pretty accurately took the measure of that gentleman. “ And you live here, Sterling, and support your uncle, eh ?” said Sampson, bluntly, and to Uncle William’s offense. “Ido sir,” said Joe, proffering Ms only unoccupied chair, and motioning one of his callers to the lounge. “Our apartments can’t be called elegant, and all things hereabouts aren’t exactly to our tastes, but it does very well, and we’re quite comfortable.” “ But really— re-al-ly, thisisqMte extraordinary for the present day —for the present day. Qmte extraordinary! ” “ May I ask what salary we are paying you?” continued Sampson, looking about the room.

“Five hundred a year, sir.” “And I understand—excuse me, young man, but do I understand that you support yourself and uncle with your salary, exclusively ?” “ Oh, dear, no, sir !” said Joe, misunderstanding Sampson. “I shouldn’t be willing to spend all my salary. We put nearly two hundred in the bank last year.” “Mr. Sterling,” said Sampson, looking Joe sharply ii the face, “ do you wish me to understand that you and your uncle lived on three hundred dollars last year ?” “ Certainly, sir; and lived pretty well, too; didn’t we Uncle William?” “Pretty well,” said Uncle William, faintly. “You know, sir,” continued Joe, “it isn’t the necessaries of life that eat up the boys’ salaries so; it’s the extras they like, and some of which they must have, unless they live a little more quietly. ” “Better live more quietly, then,” muttered Sampson. “As for myself,” said Uncle William, “ I won’t deny that it comes hard on me. I don’t blame Joe, but it isn’t what I’ve been used to. I was once a man among men, even as you are, sir; free and easy in regard to money matters, and with no expectations of being brought down to this. I’m nearly helpless, sir; I’m agreat sufferer, and I’m—- “ Yes. I see—l see,” interrupted Sampson, impatiently. “I beg pardon, Mr. Sterling; I’m greatly interested. May I ask what are your expectations ?” “ They’re not great,” said Joe, abstractedly, rubbing the blacking-brush over his hand. “Mr. Sturges promised a rise in salary if I did well; and then I’ve thought that if I did well, perhaps —perhaps there’d be more rises. Clerks do progress, you know. ” “Yes; I know,” said Sampson, smiling. “ Then I’m hoping to some day obtain a pleasanter home, and better medical aid for Uncle William.” “I wish you success, young man. I thiuk I must speak with Sturges about this case—yes, I will speak with Sturges. I don’t care to look further at these rooms, landlord.” Sampson made a respectful bow to Uncle William, a most respectful one to Joe, aud ambled out. Joe resumed his stove-blacking, clattering the covers more merrily than ever. “Sturges,” said Sampson to his partner next morning, “ what kind of a fellow do you call young Sterling ?” “ Reliable 1” firmly replied Sturges. “And we paying him only 500?” “ I’m going to make it six this year.” “ Make it seven; and, if he bears that well, increase it by another hundred next year.” Sturges opened his eyes. Sampson gave him a little recital; and, before the end of the year, Joe was in such a Eosition that Uncle Willism began to ave a glimmering perception that, mediately, good did sometimes come to himself.

“ My dear,” said Sampson to his wife, on the 31st of the next December, “ there’s that yoimg Sterling, of whom I’ve told you so much—he seldom leaves his uncle, evenings, and appears to have few social pleasures. I think I’d better invite him to dinner to-morrow. In many respects lie’s an exceptional young man—for the present day—for the present dag, an exceptional young man.” So it happened that, on the next NewYear’s eve, Joe made Uncle William comfortable with cold turkey and plumpudding at his right hand, and liniment at his left; and, having carefully attired himself in a brand-new suit, skipped up town to Mr. Sampson’s. Notwithstanding his half-dozen eccentricities of manner, lie created an excellent impression, and thereafter rapidly grew into favor in high quarters. Five years from that time, Sampson had gone out of the business, and Joe had gone in. The firm had become “Sturges & Sterling;” Uncle William had so far recovered as to be able to take care of himself; Joe had improved in looks and manners, ceased to do his own cooking, and was making slow but sure progress in winning the affections of Miss Nell S impson.

How Webster Slaughtered the Romans.

Webster, as Secretary of State under Harrison, had a worrisome time about the President’s inaugural message. He wrote one out himself, and endeavored to make Harrison accept it, but that worthy was obdurate; he had prepared his own and was determined to read it. Webster told his friend Harvey that he was annoyed because the message was, according to his judgment and taste; so inappropriate. It entered largely into Roman history, and had a great deal to say about the States of antiquity and the Roman proconsuls and various matters of that kind. Indeed, the word “proconsul ” was repeated iu it a great many times. When he found, says Mr. Harvey, that tho President was bent upon using his own inaugural, Mr. Webster said that his desire was to modify it, for, as it then stood, he said, it had no more to-do with the affairs of the American Government and people than a chapter in the Koran. Gen. Harrison rather reluctantly consented to let him take it. Mr. Webster spent a portion of the next day in modifying the message. Mrs. Seaton remarked to him, when he came home rather late that day, that he looked fatigued and worried. Said she, “ I really hope nothing has happened.” ‘ ‘ You would think that something had happened,” he replied, “if you knew what I have done. I have killed seventeen Roman proconsuls as dead as smelts, every one of them.” A Bangor man has received a note, inclosing $1.50, from a man with a tender conscienee, as pay for a pair of chickens worth seventy-five cento, which he stole v?ben a boy, fifteec year* ago,

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Around the Farm. Dr. Ward detailed a case of extraordinary recovery from epilepsy, the patient being placed upon a celery diet.— Report British Vegetarian Society. Thk only safe way, if improvement is the object, is to breed from fall-blood males. Always use such, and the pure blood will rapidly gain the ascendency. Utica Republican. It pays well to keep pig-pens clean, and with a warm sleeping apartment, with plenty of straw. Hogs will fatten much faster in a comfortable pen than in one that affords but little protection against cold winds and storms.—Exchange. To a farm like mine, not favored with any living brook or spring, I consider a good wind Mil a most important and valuable piece of machinery. Mine not only saves the labor of primping, but furnishes an abnndant supply of water at all times for house use as well as for all stock on the farm.— Detroit Tribune. At one of the county fairs, two farmers, one of whom was the exMbitor of a simple half-bushel of wheat, held this little dialogue: ExMbitor—“l raised ninety-two bushels of wheat like that on four and one-half acres of land.” His neighbor—“ Well, if I had read that in a paper I wouldn’t have believed it, but, if yon say it is so, it is so, of course, ana Fm an infernal fool to be buying my flour, as I have done for ten years and must do this winter, for my land is just as good for wheat as yours.” There is a whole agricultural sermon in that little dialogue, and it is one which has been preached a hundred times and made hundreds of converts tMs fall. Scores of farmers, who last spring couldn’t be made to believe that wheat could be profitably raised in New Hampshire, believe it now.— Mirror and Farmer. Forest leaves are excellent to mix with hot-bed material, and, where practicable, should be saved for this purpose. They do not heat so rap : dly as stable manure, and in tMs have an advantage as tempering its violence, making it last longer, and maintaming a more regular heat. They are excellent material to put round cold frames to protect half-hardy plants. A board is put up the height of the frame-boards, and about a foot or more from them, and the leaves filled in between. If the plants are somewhat tender, the bottom of the frames may be filled in a few feet with the leaves. Much heat is thrown off during the decomposition of the leaves, which, though not enough to keep out a severe frost, yet modifies somewhat the temperature. These leaves, after they have been two or three years decaying, make admirable stuff for potting and for flowers in general.— Gardener's Monthly.

Care of stock, so far as their proper bedding, feeding and ventilation are concerned, is too important a matter for the thrifty farmer to neglect attending to himself. However trustworthy his assistants, judging by our own experience, ii; will pay him well at the close of the season to see, each evening, that his cattle, horses, sheep and hogs are well bedded, fed and watered. Scarcely less important is the proper ventilation of the buildings in which his stock are wintered. Wliile the entrance of draughts aud cold is to be carefully prevented, it should be borne in mind that domesticated animals, like man himself, need fresh, wholesome air, and, if compelled by ignorance or carelessness to breathe a foul, tainted atmosphere, it is at a serious risk of health and consequent profit. A visit to the bam, stable and pig pen early in the morning will at once warn the observant farmer of defective ventilation.— Moore's Rural.

It is surprising to see the quantity of potatoes that can be grown from one pound of seed. Last season parties that did their “level best,” in competition for some tempting prizes, succeeded in producing from one pound of the Alpha potato, from 1,280 to 1,982 pounds! In these experiments each eye was cut from the seed, and planted in separate hills ; and the land was covered with an immense coat of stable-dung, and plowed or forked in. Then ashes, bone-dust, lime and other fertilizers were applied without stint, at the rate of SSOO worth to the acre ; and, when the clouds failed to supply sufficient moisture, water was supplied from other sources. This is “ high farming ” in reality—no half-way work ; and it was shown that one can not easily apply too much manure to potato land. Potatoes require a good deal of potash, and farmers can not make a mistake in applying to the land on which they are grown either ashes or commercial fertilizers that contain a large percentage of potash. It comes cheapest in muriate of potash, being fifty per cent, of actual potash, and selling at $2.50 per 100 lbs. — Rural New Yorker. About the House. Eat Graham pudding and milk for breakfast. Mend coal-scuttles with flour paste arid Canton-flannel. A cement of ashes and salt will stop cracks in a stove. Wicks must be changed frequently to insure a good light. Acidity op the Stomach. —This can be corrected by using alkalies. Borax is good, if used properly; take a small pinch several times a day; too much might cause nausea. Bread-Making. —We use a2-cent cake of yeast dissolved in three pints of luke-warm water. This makes three loaves of bread and one pan of rolls. Our bread is excellent. Fob Dyspepsia. —Bum alum until the moisture in it is evaporated ; then take as much as you can put on a dime, about half an hour before eating. Three or four days probably will answer; but take it until cured. Dark Steamed Pudding. —To be steamed two and a half or three hours. One cupful molasses, one cupful of sweet milk, two cupfuls of butter, four cupfuls of flour, one teaspoonful soda, three-quarters cupful of fruit; spice to suit the taste; to be eaten with sour sauce. Boston Tea Cakes. —One well-beaten egg, two table-spoonfuls of sugar, one cupful sweet milk, one teaspoonful soda dissolved in the milk, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar sifted in the dry flour, two heaping cupfuls of sifted flour, one table-spoonful of butter, melted; bake in small tins. Celery. —Celery can be kept for a week or longer by first rolling it up in brown paper, then pin it up in a towel and keep it in a dark place, and keep as cool as possible. Before preparing it for the table place it in a pan of cold water, and let it remain for an hour. It will make it crisp and cold. Corning Beef. —For 100 pounds of beef take seven pounds salt, two pounds sugar, two ounces saltpetre, two ounces pepper, two ounces soda; dissolve in two and a half gallons of water ; boil, skim, and let cool; when a scum rises after a few weeks scald the brine over, and by so doing and keeping meat entirely covered with brine, it will keep a year and more. Jelly Cake Rolls. —Four eggs, beat whites and yelks separately; one teacupful white sugar, one teacupful sifted flour, one teaspoonful cream-tartar, one-half teaspoonful soda dissolved in a very little hot water; flavor with the juice of on© lemon; beat all well together; spread quarter of m i»oh thieh

in a square tin; bake quickly; then torn bottom side up, spread with jelly, and roll up while hot;* this recipe makes three rolls.

New-Year’s Eve Customs.

Previous to the spread of Christianity we find very little, comparatively, recorded of the observance of the coming of the new year, and nothing specially in regard to the evening preceding the day upon which it was ushered in; but, among the early Christians, the observance of New-Year’s eve partook so directly of the ceremonials of Christmas that it may be considered a projection on the same plane. New-Year’s eve was a period of feasting and merry-making, although Bacchanalian in character, and involving as much fun and frolic as could be manufactured out of resources at hand, or tolerated license. An ancient ana peculiar custom on this evening in England was for young women to go from door to door with a wassail bowl of spiced ale, singing songs suited to the day and their expedition; and, for this congratulatory exercise, which was accepted as a wish for the health, happiness and prosperity of those they delighted to honor, they were accorded douceurs in proportion to the estimate of the pleasure received or the health of the recipients. In allusion to this custom, in Herrick’s “ Hesperides,” we read: Of Christmas sports, the Wassell Boule, That tost up after Fox-i-the-hole; Of blind-man-buffe, and of the care That young men have to shoe the mare ; Of ash-heapes, in the which ye use Husbands and wives by streaks to chuse; Of crackling laurels, which, foresounds A plenteous harvest to your grounds; indicating certain games that were entered into on the occasion, with the good wishes for the future year understood. The wassail bowl, or cup, indeed, of New-Year’s eve was considered the health bowl; and in the drink con tained there were exchanged pledges, such as are now exchanged in glasses of wine at convivial dinners—the word wassail being derived from the ancient Anglo Saxon, ivaes hael, which means “be in health;” and this the same as the “Gossip’s Bowl” of Shakspeare’s “ Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the composition of which was all with sugar, toast and roasted crab or other apples, seasoned highly with nutmeg—a mixed beverage not unlike the apple-toddy of our present festivities. It was not unusual in those times that the wassail bowl or cup, borne around by the young maidens, was adorned with ribbons and garlanded with flowers and golden apples, derived doubtless from the old pagan fashion of the wine-cup. Apple-bowling, or wassailing the apple orchards, a practice that for many years obtained generally in England, is still said to be customary in Sussex, Devon, and elsewhere in that country. This is accomplished by a troop of boys, who visit the orchards of their neighbors, and, encircling the apple trees, repeat the following words, as given by Herrick:

Stand fast root, bear well top, Pray God send us a Rood howling crop ; Every twig, apples big; Every bough, apples enow; Hats full, caps full, Full quarter-sacks full. The following superstitious indications from the wind on New-Year’s eve are still accredited in the highlands of Scotland : If New-Year’s eve night-wind blow south, It betokeneth warmth and growth; If west, much milk, and fish in the sea; If north, much cola and storms there will be ; If east, the trees will bear much fruit; If southeast, flee it man and brute. The custom of watching the old year out and the new year in seems peculiarly a practice of Christians, and is most specially observed by tbe Methodists. The hours devoted to this exercise are generally employed in prayer, singing and exhortation, chiefly in a review of life in the past and resolves for greater purity of heart and manner in the future. Watch-night, on New-Year’s eve, is still observed by the more rigorous of Methodists, both in England and this country, though as a religious exercise among this sect of Christians it is far from being universal, and is generally growing more and more in disuse.

A Call Upon an Editor.

“ From the sample trunks in the hallways of the hotels, we should judge the drummers from New York houses have arrived in town,” was the innocent paragraph a Western editor wrote for his paper. When he returned from dinner the grinning office-boy announced to him that four gentlemen were waiting to see him. “Where are they?” asked the quillclriver. “ Well,” says the imp, “ they’ve been smoking in the composing-room till the compositors have sneezed all the type out of their sticks, ’u they’ve sent me out six times for beer, ’n now they’re playing draw-poker with the foreman on the imposing-stone. ” “Verywell,” said the editor, bringing a large club in the comer more into view, replacing the paper-cutter with a bowie-knife, and lialf opening a drawer in which reposed a revolver, “show ’em in.” Four gentlemen in very plain suits, with very large diamond pins, and very large watch-chains, with lockets at the ends as big as dollars, entered, the foremost laying a card on the desk, inscribed: SHARP, CHISEL & CO., 1,000 Beekman street, New York, Hardware and Cutlery. in small letters, and Presented by GEO. GOUGE, in very large ones, asked: “Are you the editor?” The journalist looked at the party quietly, as if calculating the cost of their graveelothes, and answered: “I am.” “Here is a little paragraph about commercial travelers,” said Mr. Gouge, pulling a paper from liis pocket, “which me and my friends, who are members of the Temple of Honor, and belong to the Youug Men’s Christian Association, of New York, would like explained. ” The miserable man took the paper mechanically, and gazed at his paragraph, which the printers had set as follows: “ Jt’rom the simple drunks in the hallways of hotels, we should judge the drunkards from New York houses have arrived iu town.” Quietly taking up his revolver, the editor strode upstairs. Two sharp reports and heavy falls were heard, and the journalist returned and pleasantly remarked to his visitors: “Gentlemen, there are not many entertainments in this town now, but a proof-reader and a compositor are to be buried to-morrow, and, if you care for that sort of thing, I should be pleased to see you at the funeral.” And he sat down to write an obituary notice, while that night, through the cold and heavy mist, four gentlemen bought railway tickets for Chicago.— Boston Bulletin.

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