Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1879 — Page 4

SERENADE IN THE TROPICS. BY WILL WALLACE BABMEY. When lhe night* are heavy with musk And the stare are ripe in the gloaming, The low moon breaks, like an apple of dusk. Through the shadowy leave* like a pomegranate husk, And I know that my lady is coming; By the primrose's javelin plume, And tne cereus open, a* though An April frost, in its delicate loom, Had woven the snow-flakes into a bloom Of capricious and odorous enow; By the shadow that, like a glove, The passion-flowers leaf has thrown Tn the lists where the laurels breathe and move, By the sweet syringe’s piping of love, And the jessamine’s bugle* blown; But the lisp and the Hugh of the leave* in the Hushes are low and sweet. At bo-peep, hid in the tamarind sheaves, For the hour of blossom on midsummer eves, And the sounds of her coming feet. Like the sudden bloom through the husk Of the primrose at even tide, She comes by eddies and pools of musk, That flower to shape in the fragrant dusk. And follow her open-eyed. And the blush and the bloom afford Such a harmony, hour by hour, My soul confesses a fond accord To the sweet responsive word for word Qf the night in its perfect flower. —Harper'* Magazine for Mau.

THE “SNAPTOWN TOMMYHAWK.”

BY WM. M. F. BOUND. It looked very like a pig-sty; but it wasn’t. It was the office of the Snaptown Tommyhawk, and, in the estimation of Simon Slope, the editor-in-chief and principal proprietor, was a rather imposing building. The first number of the paper has not jet made its appearance ; butit all went well. It would soon burst upon the world with meteorlike brilliancy, and more than verify the expectations of the public, which were very high, I can assure you. Simon Slope had projected the paper; Simon Slope had formed the company that was to publish it; Simon Slope had built the office; Simon Slope had been chiefly instrumental in securing the type and paper; and Simon Slope had written the most brilliant of the editorials and the most pungent of the paragraphs ; and yet you will be surprised to learn, my reader, that Simon Slope was only 14 years of age. The Snaptown Tommy hawk grew out of a public need. The boys of Snaptown had been for years groaning under parental oppression and the systematic tyranny of their elders, and they needed an organ. They needed a mouthpiece, through which they might lift up their voices against their op Sressors. When a month’s half-holi-ays had been taken away from them, because they had merely driven a cow into the village school-house and put cayenne pepper on the meeting-house stove, they felt that the time had come when they should make their wrongs known to the public, and appeal to that sense of justice that is supposed to slumber in the heart of every community. One day the Snaptown Courant had published a paragraph reflecting unkindly upon the boys of the place, and Simon Slope had read it. He could hardly contain himself with indignation as the words sank into his heart; and, as soon as his father had turned his back; he rolled the scurrilous sheet into a ball, and, thrusting it into his trousers pocket, rushed out of the house to a warm corner by the meeting-house horse-sheds, where the boys were wont to assemble for the twilight loafing. “Look here!” he shouted. "I say, this is too bad. Nobody is going to stand, this sort of thing." And he pulled the rumpled paper from among the tops, jack-knives, fishing-tackle and chewing-gum in his pocket. “Now, you fellows, just listen, an’ I'll read you something that'll make your hair fairly stand on end. Here ’ns." And he re.d aloud the following paragraph : Mischietc.vs Boys Wnea consider the dtcngv ctf the of this town, we feel such * write of uidhraauuD tout we feel that we should like to es.eiuwige c»ur edrtori«J pea for * good thick birch rod and give them * thrashing all round We have beard a good many com- . j uru of their behavior, but we did not fully reamse toe prevailing spirit of mischief until it ttw home to our own door. We did not mind their ptayiag hall before our office till Pandetaooissa «ould be quitt in comparison to the »rreet We did not beed, nr at least pretended n‘t to t-eed, toe hieroglyphics with which our Eardeu-feoce had beea decorated. We should have felt quite Jost if an occasional pane had not been broken in onr office windows. And we looked upon the hanging of a dead cat to our front doir as a harmless pleasantry. But, when it comes to stretching wire across the sidewalk at such heights that we alternately abrade onr shins and cut our throats, as we go homo at night; when it comes to putting loaded sticks into our wood-pile—one of which blew up our office-stove a few weeks ago—-we feel that patience ceases to be a virtue, and that honest citizens have some rights that boys are bound to respect. We hope this hint will be taken in the proper quarters, and that sundry parents in this town will heed Solomon’s wise admonition. Wo shall be happy to furnish rods.

“There!” exclaimed Simon, when he had finished reading. “What do you think of that?” “Nobody ain’t willin’ to let us have a little fun,” said Tom Stokes, Simon’s bosom friend, and the very boy who bored the hole and put the powder into a stick of the editor’s wood. “Something ought to be done about it,” exclaimed a red-headed urchin, whose special recreation was the drawing of caricatures on doors and fences. “I’ll make a picture of him hanging to a gallows. Paint it in red on his front door.” “I might lick his little boy,” said a pugnacious urchin, “ but I’ve done it so often a’ready that he wouldn’t know what ’twas for, an’ I’m afraid ’twouldn’t do no good.” “We might serenade him with tin horns and tin pans,” said another boy; “ but he’s so used to it now that he sleeps straight through it.” “ I’ll tell you what let’s do,” said Simdl. “ Let’s start a paper and pay him back in his own coin. Sarse for sarse—that’s what I say.” “ Takes a lot of money to start a paper,” remonstrated the heiroglyphic boy. “Bother!” said Simon. “It don’t take much if you do your own work of it. We can buy a press for $5, and buy second-hand type by the pound for a little more’n the price of old lead.” “ Where you goin’ to get your $5 to buy your press ? ” asked one practical youth. “Earn it, you booby,” said Simon. “An’ who’s goin’ to write the paper, after you get things? Seems to me it will be a good deal like writin’ compositions, and everybody knows there ain’t no fun in that.” “ Oh, I’ll write most of it! ” said Simon; “me and two or three of the other boys. We’ll form a company. Capital $lO. I’ve got $5 already, and I’ll be half owner; and the rest of you can make up $5 more easy enough.” This was the beginning of the Snaptown Tommyhawk. The company was formed, the type was bought and sorted, the press was set up in the building which the publishing company had erected for it. The building, as I’ve said, was not imposing, but it answered admirably. Old doors, old drygoods cases—in fact, any old boards that could be found lying about were used in its construction, and the sash for the windows were surreptitiously obtained from a ruined hen-house on the Slope premises. But I needn’t go into the details of preparation. The Snaptown Tommy hawk became a reality in due course of time, and a copy of its first and only issue is lying before me as I write. Si Slope had a very good conception of an editor’s duties. He had thought a goqd deal about the matter, and asked the advice of his elders. He had heard his father say that “what the public

wants is facts;” and his mother had remarked that it was gossip that made people read the papers. His older sister, who had just returned from a finishing school, declared that no firstclass paper could exist without a fashion article and poetry. Then Si’s quick observation had shown him that the most attractive articles in the Snaptown Courant were those that were most abusive. In fact, he had heard his father say that “fearlessness is what everybody likes in a newspaper—calling a spade a spade, and a liar a liar, and a thief a thief;” and upon this free and fearless basis Simon determined that the Snaptown Tommy ho wk should be conducted. Then it should be.original —nothing stolen from other papers, no rehash of stale jokes, no old rhymes; but all fresh and original. To attain the end of originality. Simon enlisted all the boys of his acquaintance to bring him items. “Just keep your ears and eyes open, boys,” he said, “and tell me what you hear and see. I’ll fix it into shape and publish it; and you shan’t be the losers, you bet.” The boys were very diligent and effective newsgatherers, and Si proved to the world that he held the pen of a ready writer, as you will see by the following extracts from the first number of the Tommyhawk. I think I’d better transcribe the whole number, as it is not larger than two pages of a reading book. Here it is—heading, spelling, and all: THE. SNAPTOWN TOMMYHAWK. Foundered by Simon Slope. Noz.~L May 15th, 1874. No. 1. MOTTO : BE JEST AND FEAB NOT. Editorial. This paper is published by Simon Slope and some other boys, to show to old Smith, of the Courant, that he ain’t all creation, as he thinks he is, and that somebody else can write and edit a paper as well or better than him. Most everybody round here has had about enough of old Smith’s sarse, and it is high time a decent and unscurrilous sheet was started. That is what this is going to be. All the news we publish will be original, which is not the case with the Courant. We have a large corpse of reporters, and have hired a boss poet, and we do not intend to knock under to any paper in the country. , Our politics is Republikin, clear through. We respectfully solicit the patronage of our towns people, and hope to run the Courant off its legs in about 1 year. Sic semper tyranis.

POETRY. SPRING. BY B. 8. The enow is sone the spring is here And planting time has come round Again To ride the merry horse to plow Will make us boys feel cross as Cain. And now our sleds must be stowed away For sliding in hot weather we cannot do. And skate* must also be laid away Also change our boots for the festive shoe. I am fond of winter, I don’t like spring For in winter you see there is much more play And now we poets our ink must sling And can’t go out to enjoy this bright May day. THE SNAPTOWN COURANT. BY SIMON. The meanest paper under the sun Which hardly anybody ever reads, It is like an old rusty Continental gun Loaded with Punkin seeds. It can't shoot straight and it never hits, And it does not hurt if it does, And when it shoots it kicks so it nearly seta the editor into fits. Such an editor! Oh—dear me- buz 111 HANNER. BY S— S—E. I love you banner—banner dear And do you banner love me? If you do. you see, well build us a boat, And go sailing into the Carribean sea. I will defend you while I live And fivht for you till I die And if you don't love me hanner dear I shall certainly heave a sigh.

NEWS. The editor of the 8 n C -t, on returning from the lodge of Freemasons last Tuesday Evening, was called an “outrajous old donkey ” by his wife, who kept him sitting on the doorsteps for three-quarters of an hour. He had forgotten his latch key. Billy Smith informs us that his sister thinks the new singing-teacher just lovely. She remarked at the tea-table last Sunday Evening that all through singing-school she felt just like flinging her arms around his neck and kissing him. We cannot commend her taste —for we should not like our sister to care for a man who has his hair dyed on the sly every Saturday Evening, as our barber’s son informs us Mr. Singing Snodgrass does. Mr and Mrs Percival had another row about pocket money last Friday night. They had better be careful how they quarrel with their windows open. Our friend Tom Stokes informs us that his father the grocery man does keep rum in the keg down cellar labelled “Soothing Syrup,” and Captain Fungus has a jug filled there every week. He says also that his father sometimes puts chalk or some other white stuff in his sugar. Deacon Pepper has a boil on his nose. He half starves his hired boy —and we’re glad he’s getting his “come up-uns.” The Thompkins family keep their children on rather short allowance. One of them informs us that no more than one piece of plum cake is ever allowed them at a time. Miss Slope will have the minister and his family at tea next Wednesday. Great preparations are in progress. She has borrowed Mrs. Pepper’s china Tea Set for the occasion and the repast will be spread on Mrs. Stoke’s long damask table-cloth. She has sent her best spoons down to Boston to be replated and sent word to have them all marked to look as nigh as can be like real silver. She says that whatever the minister's sermons amount to she’s bound he shall have a good supper—and that’s what he don’t often get at home with such a wife as he has. ARTICLES.—Cats.—Cats are about the most interestingest animals there is. You can have more fun with a cat in half an hour, if you have a good tree handy and an enterprizing dog, that you can with a whole traveling menagerie. Cats and fire-crackers are mortal enemies—You tie a bunch to a cat’s tail and set ’em and they will go down the street like a firry comet. N. 8., wire is better than string to fasten them on with—as string is liable to burn off. It is a very pleasant pastime to see two cats fight. Their tails -may be tied firmly together, and, for fear they might tear up things in the garden, it is a good plan to hang them across a clothes-line. They can be heard miles. I have often seen them. Some folks regard this sport as cruel; we call snch folks chicken-livered. Did you ever see a shaved cat? They are very singular creatures—if may be done with a razor if you know where your father keeps his’n. You tie up the cat’s paws in old mittens while you are doing of it. Some folks don’t think it hardly P a 7§ —ft“d J shall never be guilty of do-

ing of it—though I do think a father is rather mean who whales his boy all over—when his finger is cut half off and his face scratched all over all ready. Kittens are very pretty. There are more than forty of them in the water under the mill bridge. They nearly all of them have stones tied to their necks. It is very unfeeling thing to drownd a kitten. They are innercent harmless creatures. Cats are great singers. The Chinese eat cats. What can you expect of the heathen? Some people hang dead cats as May baskets—it is only a joke but the folks that get ’em never seem io appreciate it. There is a great many other things about cats—but I think I have given you a plenty of ideas already, so will close. Simon Slope. That was all the reading-matter that the Tommyhawk contained. . There were some advertisements, principally calling attention to the manufacture- of sweet-fern cigars and asking for the return of lost balls and jack-knives. Altogether the paper was a success —if the success of a paper can be reckoned by the commotion it creates. The above number was issued on a Saturday morning, and before midnight of the same day Mrs. Slope had received a note from the minister declining her “kind, invitation to tea,” and devoting several pages to as hearty abuse as a minister could frame in language. Mr. Stokes’ store was visited by a committee of the temperance society, who brought an officer to seize the “soothing-sirup” keg; and, before he had gone, another minion of the law had Mr. Stokes in hand for selling adulterated goods. That same night Deacon .Pepper discharged his hired boy, without notice. On that same afternoon Mr. Singing Snodgrass walked into the barber’s shop, thrashed the barber, broke the bottles, and went straight off and proposed to Billy Smith’s sister, who accepted him at once. The edition of the paper was sold in no time. There was not a copy of it left by 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and, while Si Slope was that evening making a selection of candy and dime novels, for which he intended to pay with the proceeds of the sale, he was seized upon by Mr. Percival, who proceeded then and there to chastise him. He had hardly escaped from this- angry man before Stokes’ boy had him by the hair of the head, dragged him into the middle of the street, and, putting him down in the mud, kicked him till he was black and blue. Capt. Fungus saw the fight, and came and helped Stokes’ boy. At last, covered with mud and with shame, the young editor made his escape and hied him homeward, vowing vengeance. He was just turning the last corner when he met the boy whom Deacon Pepper had turned away, and this wicked boy had a horsewhip. Such shrieking was never heard before in Snaptown. After this last infliction Si sneaked into the yard, saying: “ Never mind, I’ll pay them up next week. I’ve got things to tell about all of ’em. I’ll get every one of them a lickingl” And he went across the yard to lock up the Tommy - hawk office. As he approached the building, the Tompkins boys sprung out upon him, and, acting as leaders ta a score more of fiery and untamed youngsters, they proceeded to tear down the building before Simon’s very eyes, having previously bound him to a tree. Then they pelted him -with the types, and, it being quite dark, made a glorious fire of the debris of the structure. Mr. Slope, seeing the light, came rushing out of the house, and, instead of driving the boys away, shouted: “Go it, boys. Serves him right. And, when you’ve done, I’ll take him in hand.” And Mr. Slope did take him in hand pretty effectually—so effectually, indeed, that Simon was obliged to stand at his meals for a week afterwards. Poor boy 1 The day after that first and only issue he was seen limping out to the ruins, and, as he stood there, leaning on a cane, and surveyed them with his one unblacked eye, he was heard to murmur: “Things ain’t as they was. There’s no premium on telling the truth now-a-days. George Washington couldn’t have edited a paper without lying; and I’d rather go to school all my days than ever try it again.”

A Thrilling Adventure.

We find the following account of a thrilling adventure in the Oakland Radiator: “The Noble Grand Humbug of the Sazeracs burst into this office this morning, his face covered with a deadly pallor," and his limbs shaking in every joint. Something terrible has happened: “Gimme four fingers—a bird load!” he gasped, between chattering teeth. The jug was handed out of the cupboard, and its contents administered in broken doses. He was soon sufficiently soothed to tell the following terrible tale: “Well,you know,” he said,“thatthere has long been talk of heavy deposits of gold in Milpitas. The other day two prospectors from the Black Hills were wandering with their picks and “pans around the suburbs of that classic city, when they discovered a cavern of marvelous appearance. They took no heed of the surroundings in their thirst for gold, but boldly entered, and their eyes were greeted with a scene that beggars description. A horrid smell pervaded the cavernous recesses, and they found huge bowlders and snags of a substance resembling quartz. After removing the rubbish their picks struck in vast pockets of solid gold, and they soon succeeded in filling their sacks with all they could carry. Just as they were preparing to leave,” here the eyes of the Noble Grand rolled wildly, rendering three more fingers necessary, “there was a violent upheaval. The ground under their feet was thrown into terrible convulsions and rose nearly to the roof of the cavern. Then it opened again, and the bold prospectors found themselves flying through the air at the rate of 60,000 feet a second. They landed in a marsh five miles from the mouth of the cave, comparatively uninjured. “Was it a volcanic eruption?” innocently inquired the youngest reporter. “Volcano! ” shouted the Noble Grand scornfully. “Why, you darned fool, they had crawled into the mouth of a Milpitas girl while she was asleep and were digging away at the plugs in her teeth, when she sneezed them out! ”

Hobbles.

It is estimated that there are in Philadelphia not less than 2,000 collections of old coins and autographs. The hobby is confined entirely to the male sex. Speaker Randall has a fondness for specimens of our golden currency, and is the proud possessor of a collection comprising a specimen of every gold coin which has been coined in this country. S»mon Gratz, ex-President of the Board of Education, has the reputation of possessing the largest collection of autographs in existence in this country. William S. Vaux, a cousin of the ex-Mayor of that name, has an immense collection of old paper money and .coin—among the latter being a fine 1804 cent, which has an extraordinary value. Perhaps the largest collection in America is in the possession of a Tenth Ward druggist. His accumulations, the labor of over thirty-five years, are valued at $75,000, Among them is a complete collection of copper, silver and gold issues of the United States, together with a nearly complete set of the ojd Colonial coins,

FARM NOTES.

Watering Horses.— Horses should drink after, rather than before, eating, aa a rule, though there are exceptions. A very thirsty horse may have a little water, though not all he desires, especially if heated. Sheep Pulling Wool. —Sheep pull each other’s wool when they are suffering from indigestion and a depmved appetite. When this is noticed, it would be well to give a strong dose of salt, which will act as a purgative, or one ounce of an equal mixture of salt and Epsom salts may be given to each sheep separately, lest some get too much. Lost Cud. —Suspended rumination, Commonly called lost end, is the effect of indigestion. This is frequently removed by giving the cow one pint of raw linseed oil, or melted lard. A very popular remedy is to cause the cow to swallow a salt mackerel; this is often effective, and operates doubtless by the action of the salt and the oil in the mackerel. To Prevent a Cow Leaking Milk. —To use an elastic band around a leaky teat will be injurious. The compression will soon cause mischief. Any other mechanical contrivance will doubtless have the same effect. A safe practice is to procure some cullodion at the druggist’s, and so soon as the milking is over, to cover the end of the teat with a film of it. This dries instantly, and shrinks in drying, thus closing the orifice so gently as not to be hurtful, and will break away in milking. Red ants are often a great pest in a house, and it is difficult to get rid of them. A friend says that they may be readily trapped thus: Ants are fond of fresh lard, and if a plate be greased with that they will leave almost everything else and go for it; in their greediness they get caught in the lard and cannot get away. The plate is to be occasionally warmed and wiped, and then regreased and set again. It is well to place some small sticks against the edge of the plate to serve the ants as bridges and ladders by which to reach the lard. Sod vs. Stubble for Corn.—A subscriber, in Fellow county, Ind., planted eighteen acres of com last year; half on a clover sod, the other, half on “the best side of the field, in corn the year previous;” all planted the same day and having the same treatment throughout. The result was thirteen bushels per acre on the com-stubble, and fifty bushels on the sod land. Although the stubble had some manure, it is very evident that the clover added vastly more fertility to the soil, and was the cause of the larger crop. It is a common experience that a clover sod is one of the best manures for any kind of grain crop, and it is highly valued by most wheat-growers in all sections. Choice of Hens. —The sitters should be chosen of a breed characterized by persistence and regularity in incubation, fidelity to their chickens, and gentleness of disposition. The Light Brahmas are our resource, and can not be excelled for hatching and rearing. Pure bloods, however, are not used; but, to give less awkwardness and greater spread of wings, they are crossed with barn-yard fowls. The half-blood resemble the Brahmas the most in form and other characteristics, and are almost uniformly docile. The half-blood Brahmas are extremely valuable for hatching and taking care of chickens. If, however, it is more convenient to use some variety of pure-blooded fowls for incubating purposes, the Plymouth Rocks, er either variety of the Cochins or Brahmas will do very well. If the stock of eggs be more than ordinarily valuable, we prefer hens in their second and third year. They are better mothers when the younglings most need a mother’s care; they are always more steady and constant after being nested, and they will bring. up their chicks, on the average, with considerably greater certainty than will yearlings and pullets. —Poultry World.

Distance Apart for Drains.—When the conditions are such that a sufficient fall or depth cannot be had otherwise, the outlet may be under the surface of the water a portion of the year and the drains still work well, especially if the outlet is into a running stream. The question of distance between drains is a more general one, even, than the last. The custom of the English drainers is, to put their drains deeper and closer to each other than the American. It is quite' natural there should be this difference in most cases, for, as a rule, our soil, especially in the West, is of a freer and more pliable nature, possessing the property of permeaability to water to a much greater extent than the clay soils of England. I find many rules for our guidance, but believe we must fall back upon practice. A common rule is twenty feet apart fora three-foot drain, forty feet for a fourfoot one, and eighty feet for a five-foot one. A granger writes to the Prairie Farmer, under date March 23, 1878: “The experience has proved in most casei that 150 feet apart is near enough except when the ground is naturally spongy or marshy.” As a note to the communication the editor suggests that ten feet in width may be allowed for each foot in depth. My own opinion is: Tile drains may be put as near to each other as we please, and that they will do good service in the usual soil of Hlinois as far apart as proposed by the granger. —Prof. Shattuck, in Drainage Journal.

A Modern Romance.

Who says that the days of romance are ended needs to read the strange history of a Scottish plowman who has returned to his native heath after a long exile. Twenty years ago a farmer in Orkney hired a young man to do farm work. The plowman touched the fancy of his master’s daughter, and the result was that, in a runaway fashion, and in opposition to the will of the patriarchal farmer, the two became man and wife. The old gentleman was furious, and turned his back determinedly oil his son-in-law. The young plowman kissed his wife, left her in her father’s arms and sailed for Australia, whence he soon ceased to write. His wife became a mother, and remaine in a state of such wretched suspense that her father began to repent of the treatment to which he had subjected her husband. Efforts were then made to trace the whereabouts of the latter by means of advertining in colonial papers and otherwise, put all to no purpose. He had gone to America. Years passed. The grandson grew up to manhood, and, not liking farm work, bade adieu to Orkney, took ship last year to the United States, and, after some knocking about, found employment in a mercantile house in Illinois. In the course of business he discovered that the gentleman at the head of the firm was a native of Scotland, hailing, indeed, from the same district as himself. Occasional meetings led to more minute inquiries as to dates, names of places, persons and the like, in the old country, and, after being six months in the establishment, the youth found—however wonderful it may appear—that he was actually serving as a clerk with no other than his own father. The effect of this discovery on both may be left to the imagination of the reader. Father and son are now in Scotland. The in an who went away a penniless plowboy, but returns rich, has been welcomed

with much emotion by his venerable fatker-in-law, who is still hale and hearty, as well as by the wife whom he left many years ago in her youth and beauty, but who is now a middle-aged matron.— New York Tribune.

ARTISTIC COOKING.

[From the Phiadelphi* Time*.] At Association Miss Dods appeared as usual among her pots and pans and gas stoves, dressed in black alpaca, and white pinafore and white cuffs. She prepared and cooked several dishes, explaining the processes as she worked, talking very slowly, giving ample time for her listeners to make full notes; while some of her dishes were cooking she took up another, goiug.back and finishing the first when the proper time came. In this way she utilized all the time and prevented unpleasant waits. One of her dishes was beef olives, requiring one pound of steak from the round, a little pepper and salt, one-half ounce clarified fat, one-half pint cold water, one desert-spoonful Worcester sauce, one desert-spoonful mushroom catchup, one-half ounce flour "one desertspoonful chopped parsley, three tablespoonfuls bread-crumbs and one egg. While preparing this she said: I first melt in a small saucepan the clarified fat, and then put in a small basin three table-spoonfuls of bread-crumbs, pepper and salt. I next chop the parsley very fine and mix it with the bread crumbs, pepper and salt it in the basin; then I drop into this an egg and mix it well in with the ingredients in the basin. I cut the steak into small, long pieces. Into each of these pieces I roll a little of the stuffing and tie around them a piece of string. When the fat in the pan is very hot I brown the roll of meat on all sides. When they are browned I pour away the fat. A steak or olive browns better with the lid of the pan off. When the olives are done I remove the strings and pour over the sauce, which I will show you how I make: In a small basin I put a half-ounce of flour, and make smooth with a very little cold water. When it is quite smooth I add the catchup, the Worcester sauce, and a few drops of browning, the latter to give it a nice color. I then add the rest of the halfpint of water and mix well. The olives have now browned nicely. I pour oft the fat and pour on the gravy, cold, I stir this on the fire until it boils, and then let it cook slowly for an hour and a half. In using mushroom catchup be careful not to use too much salt.

mock-tubtle soup. For mock-turtle soup I require one calf’s head, five ounces of flour, five quarts of cold water, one teaspoonful of mixed spice, two onions, one gill of sherry, plenty of pepper and salt, five ounces of butter, one table-spoonful of mushroom catchup or Worcestershire sauce, two raw eggs and one sliced lemon. Soak the head in plenty of water for one hour. Then put it on the fire in five quarts of cold water. When it boils, skim it very carefully, and then let it boil until the tongue will come out and the meat will slip from the bones. Take out the tongue and the meat from the cheeks, put the rest back, and, adding the onions, let it boil four hours. Add a table-spoonful of mixed spice, strain and let it get cold, and then remove from the top of the stock all the fat. Melt in a large, clean saucepan five ounces of butter, stir in five ounces of flour, and add the stock, into which you have already thrown the tongue and meat from the cheeks, cut into small squares. Then take the rest of the meat from the other parts of the head and add to it two raw eggs, plenty of pepper and salt, mix well together and roll the mixture in small balls, using a little dry flour for the purpose. Place the balls on a slightly greased plate, and stand them in the oven three minutes to make them firm. Then put in a tureen a very-thinly-sliced lemon, one gill of sherry, one table-spoonful of catchup or Worcestershire sauce, and the small balls, and over these pour the soup after it has boiled ten minutes, having added a few drops of browning to the soup at the last minute. The soup should stand in the tureen five minutes before it is served, so that the center of the small balls may be thoroughly heated. CHICKEN SALAD (MAYONCAISE SAUCE). To make Mayoncaise sauce I require the yelks of two eggs, one gill of salad oil and a little pepper and salt. First see that your bowl and spoon are quite dry. Drop into the bowl the yelks of two eggs, and add, drop by drop, a gill of salad oil, beating the eggs all the time. When the yelks and oil are thoroughly mixed and perfectly smooth, add a teaspoonful of vinegar, a little at a time, and a little pepper and salt. To make chicken salad, bcil the fowl until it is tender, remove all the bone and skin, and cut the meat into rough pieces, not too small. Sprinkle over all a little pepper and salt. Take one-third of a head of celery, cut it into very thin slices and mix it well with the chicken, and sprinkle over it half a table-spoonful of vinegar. Then place it on a plate and pour over it the Mayoncaise sauce. Then sprinkle over it a table-spoonful of capers. Arrange around this the very delicate leaves of a head of lettuce, and arrange around the plate, inside of the lettuce and on the salad, a few gerkins. Garnish the center with the green tips of the celery. RICE CROQUETTES. I require for rice croquettes one-half pound of Carolina rice, two eggs, two ounces of sugar, one quart of milk, one teaspoonful essence of vanilla, and two or three table-spoonfuls of bread crumb. First put the rice and milk together and boil twenty minutes; then turn the rice into a large basin or bowl, add the yelks of two eggs, one ounce of sugar and a teaspoonful of essence of vanilla. Beat this well together and put aside for one hour to get cold; at the end of an hour, to finish the croquettes, first flour the board slightly and roll the mixture into small balls, taking about a table-spoonful at a time. Don’t let the flour get inside the croquettes, as it will make them break in cooking; then beat up well the whites of the two eggs and roll well in this the croquettes, seeing that they are thoroughly covered. Roll in the bread crumbs, shaking all except enough to cover them, and fry for two minutes in clarified fat.

Serious Danger

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Ghosts. Not CoL Ingersoll's “ aristocracy of the air,” but real Autnan ghosts. Ghosts that were once healthy men and women, but now are simply the “ghostsof what they once were.” A* we meet them, and inquire the cause of all this change, they repeat the old, old story, “aooM,” “neglected cough,” “ catarrh,” “overwork,” or “dyspepsia," “liver complaint,” and “constipation,” witix unsuccessful physicians and remedies, in offering his Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets for the above affections, Dr. Pierce does not recommend them as a “sure cure” in all stages. For, if the lungs be half wasted away, or there be a cancerous complication, no physician or medicine can cure. The Discovery is, however, an unequated pectoral and blood-purifier. It speedily cures the most aggravated cough or cold, and, in its early or middle stages, consumption. By correcting «u laxities of the stomach and brer, it readily cures biou-uo., scrofulous ulcers, “bunches,”or turners. Hunareus testify that it has restored their health, after eminent physicians had failed. For constipation use the Pellets. As a local remedy for catarrh use Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. The Delicate Membrane which envelops the lungs and lines the air passages is exceedingly sensitive, and a slight irritation of it increases and spreads very rapidly. Remembering this, use, if you are attacked by a cough or cold, that incomparable pulmonic and preventive of consumption, Db. Hall's Balsam for the Lungs, which invariably gives speedy relief and ultimately effects a complete cure in all cases where the breathing organs are affected. Use it in time and prevent serious bronchial trouble Bold by all Druggists. In these days, when there is such a strife among makers as to who shall produce the lowest-priced Parlor Organ, it is well to remember that one company keep up their standard of highest excellence. Every organ made by them may be depended on. To have a Mpeon & Hamlin Organ is to have ths best that can be made. A young lady, born on a Pullman car in lowa the other day, was immediately named Car’line Bertha. sudden changes in the weather are pro ductive of Throat Diseases, Coughs and Colds. There is no more effectual relief to be found than in the use of “Brown's Bronchial Troches," 25 cts. a box. CHEW The Celebrated • MlTilHT.mil " Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. The Pioneer Tobacco Company, New York. Boston and Chicam Chew Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco. Smoke Pogue’s “Sitting Bull Durham Tobacco. ”

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