Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1889 — Page 6

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATURDAY, JUNE 29/ 1889.

8CHWATKA IN MEXICO.

CO»CKBirn?G THE 8IERRH MjLDRE CUFF DWELXXBA.

A Wonderful mid lute root Inc; People— Their Mode of LI Tine; and Peculiar ReU«lon—Their Power* of Endurance—Wonderful Feats.

|Cor. af The Indianapolis News—Copjriijrhted.' Ik thb Hbakt or thb Siekba Madke Rakoe, Soothwestebk Chihcahca, Mexico, M»jr 22.—My but article left ne at Camp Diaz, our fourth camp in thia part of the Sierra Mad re range, overlooking the Grand Barrmnea of the Urique River. At nightfall of the first evening a dim light mu “raised,” as the sailors would say, in what seemed to be a perpendicular cliff on tha opposite side of the mighty canyon, as osar as we could make out in the gloom of the falling night. Its position was located, and sure enough next day our conjectures were verified, for we could sec a few dim dottiugs showing caves, while the main one led up a steep (of us of debris that tapered to a point just in front of its entrance. Strangest of all, but a little ways down on lh« side of this very steep fauus, so very Iteep that one would have had much difficulty in ascending, unless there was brush to assist in climbing, we could easily make out with the help of our glasses that corn fiad been planted by these strange people. It seemed as if the tops of the dwarf plants were just up, the roots of the next row of »t corn above them—if they can really be Bid to have been planted in rows at alii —-i i

tribes of soma parts of tha mountaiaa even war against each other without asking the Mexican government ye* or no, and conclude their own treaties as s resalt of such aosirels on their own basis. I was informed bv Mr. Alberto Mendoza, a perfect master of both Spanish and Englii-h, and an interpreter at one of the big Sie/re Madre silver mines, where there also was employed an excellent Tarahumari interpreter, that such a war as I have described recently broke out and was carried on by two factions in adjoining parts of the mountains. It was not a very great affair, of course, but I doubt if its existence was even known

in any other part of Mexico.

Singnlariy enough, the badge of office of these self-governing tribes is a scepter, if an ornamented stick held in the hand can be called a scepter. These black savages of tbe Southern Sierras obey it more implicitly, however, than if it were a loaded Gatling gun trained on them. Whenever a governor or a justice seizes this mace of the Madre Mountains and holds it aloof every person within sight is quelled more effectually than if it were a stick of giant powder that would be exploded if they did not obey. Its name among them translated is “God’s Justice,” and certainly no superstitious people ever obeyed a mandate more readily and completely than do they this mute " expression of their own laws, and without which they would often be lawless

under the same circumstances.

An almost ludicrous case was told me of a foul murder having been committed by the wild Tarahumaris on the person of a civilized one, the murderers holding possession of the body. It was natural that the civilized faction should want the corpse for burial, and they demanded it, but it was refused. The civilized Indians then went ! to the boundary line of the two factious, : hoping' to get the Chief of the wild Indians j to assist them. Here they found some four j or five hundred of the latter drawn up in | battle array, with bow and arrows to disjute their passage into their own land. Chief was absent and refused

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Much as I would have liked to visit the place, the condition of my mules and the state of my provisions made ‘It clearly out of the question, coupled with the information I got that better chances to see cliffdwellers would present themselves before long; which fortohaMy was soon verified. Not far from Camp 1 uz was a place where we could have tied our braided horse-hair lariAtes together and let a person down about 100 to 120 feet into the tops of some tall pine trees and from thence gained the first incline, which, though dizzily steep, I think would have led by a little bit of Alpine engineering into the bottom of the big barranca four or five thousand feet below, from where an ascent could be made to the caves of the cliff-dwellers. But there were other and more potent considerations, which I have given, that prevented our attempting to pertorm this acrobatic tight-rope performance with the cliffs and crags as spectators. We might now say that we were out of # the land of the living cave-dwellers and in the land of the living cliff-dwellers, although the latter live in caves In the cliffs, but Imake the distinction between the two of caves on ^he level of the ground in the valleys, or the sides of the mountains, and the caves tvhich were in cliffs or walls and reached by notched sticks used as ladders, or as I saw in a few cases by steps made in the strata by nature of alternate hard and soft rock, and up which nothing but a monkey or a Sierra Madre cliff-dweller could ascend; some of these clifi^houses in the caves and great indentations being often 100 to 200 feet above the water of some mountain stream over which they hang like swallows’ nests. Truly they are a most wonderful and interesting people, well worth a big volume or two to describe all that is singular and di tie rent from other peoples, savage or civilized.

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Jtcet Effectt in the Sierra Madre*. All these Tarahumari Indians, whether , civilized to the extent of agriculture, living in houses, and the other arts to a*crude degree and embracing Christianity, or whether in the most savage state, naked to the skin excer" J J -’ J in caves or dit sun ma some day, are all to a greater or less extent independent of jthe Mexican Govern- • meat much more than are any of the peaceable Indians of the United States from our own Government, unless it be a few almost . unknown tribes in the interior of Alaska. If H 1 a Tarahumari commits a crime against or I does an injury to a Mexican or foreigner the Mexican Government takes notice of it and tries to punish the offender; but between themselves, except in a few cases of flagrant murder, they can conduct all administration of justice, as well as other matters, wholly by officers of their own selection and by their own codes and customs. The very wild ones—the cliff and cave dwellers— kaow nothing of Mexican affairs, and in fact fly from all white people like so many quails, whenever tfeey approach. The more emUsed elect their own chiefs and obey his executive mandates so well, as a general thing, that there is really very little reason for uie Mexicans to force their offiicals upon them, if their only object is a maintenance af the peace. Stirf, tha half wild 4 Aiv.. . i ' v-' .

to come to the assistance of the others, although demanded in the name of the Mexican law, with corresponding punishment. The civilized Indians then conceived the idea of a small body of picked men in a round-about way to compel his attendance. which was done, although he still refused to exercise his authority to compel his own band to give up the corpse of the dead Tarahumari. The forcing of the wild chief into the dispute was about to bring on a collision between the two, when one of the civilized Indians wrenched his scepter from his hand, waved it aloft and demanded of the wild ones that they cease all hostile demonstrations and bring in the body of the murdered man, all of which they did in the name of “God’s Justice.”

-'i 3j .. Some Curl out EocI: Formation*. As the civilized Indians are Christianized and have been by the Jesuits for many years, while the wild ones living in cliffs and caves are—if they can be called anything—still worshipers of the sun and believers in the return of Montezuma, this “God’s Justice,” as represented so effectually by the mace or scepter, cannot mean solely the Christian God or that of the Indians, for in either case it would have no effect on the other. There can be only one conclusion that I can see, and that is' that this badge of authority is as old as the Tarahumari’s themselves, or at least antedates the conversion of the civilized ones by the Jesuits, or the conquering of the country by the white people from Europe. The Mexicans use nothing of the kind except probably in their State and Federal Legislatures, as we do in some, and it is not at all likely that these Indians, and especially the wild ones, would have borrowed it from so distant and almost never-visited source. The civilized Tarahumari have their own elections, patterned after the Mexicans in a crude way, while the wilder ones have their chiefs, but whether they are elected or hereditary I was not able* to ascertain, but I am inclined to think it is tbe former. The wildest known of the Tarahumari cliff and cave-dwellers are probably those of the Barranca del Cobra, which can be seen from the Grand Barranca of the Urique as one skirts its dizzv cliffs, being in fact a spur of the Grand Barranca leading out to the east There are undobtedly many other, but unknown, places where these savages dwell if possible more primitive than those of the Barrunca del Cobra. In this canyon tbe cliff-dwellers are often stark naked, except a pair of barrack**, or rawhide sandals, so common among the Mexican peons, these protecting the soles of the teet from the flint-like broken rocks of this part of the country, and without which even their tongh hides would soon be disabled. Upon the approach of whites they fly to their bird-like houses in the precipitous cliffs like so many timid animals seeking their burrows. The next nearer grade of these people go so far as to ornament their persons with breech-clouts after the latest fashion set by Adam and Eve, the more savage of these again using the skins of wild animals for this purpose, while the better grade manage to secure some dirty clothes from the others to finish out this necessary part of their wardrobe. When it is reflected that the winters are quite severe on the higher parts of these Sierras, the snow being often

two and three feet deep, it is qnite easy to conceive what consatntional toughness these fellows mart have ia their scanty at-

tire.

An Eskimo would long to get back to the Arctic if he were here, so he could sit on on iceberg and get warm. The endurance of these savage sons of tbe Southern Sierras is wonderful in the extreme. I have already given, in a previous article, some examples of their run- ' ning powers in chasing a deer to its death j on foot over as rocky a country as mortal j man ever dwelt in. Kince that time I have I heard of another method they have of chasing the same animal which is slightly different, but that slight difference is nevertheless very interesting. They take a small native dog and starve it lor three or four days until it has a most ravenous appetite, then they go deer hunting *ud put this keen-nosed, hungry brute on the freshest deer trail they can find. It is perfectly needless to add that be follows it with a vim and eneriry unknow n to full stomachs. Fast as a hungry, starved dog is on a trail that promises a good breakfast (for the brute is always liberally rewarded ii the hunt is a success) he does not keep far ahead of the swift-footed cliff-dweller who is always close enough behind to render any assistance that in ay be required if the deer is overtaken or a fresher trail is run across. 1 If night overtakes the pursuers they sleep on the trail and resume the chase as early next morning as the light will allow. Once on the trail, however, the deer is as doomed an animal as Colonel Scott's coon, although the pursuers have been to sleep for two or three nights on its course before it was overtaken, especially if the fleeing animal knew in some way that it was pursued before it was overtaken. Once overhauled a series of tactics is begun so as to divide the labor of the pursuit between the dog and the man, but to give no corresponding advantage to the deer. Wide detours are forced upon the deer by the swift dog, each recurring one being easier to make, and the pursued animal is brought near the man, who, with loud shouts and demonstrations, hcatts oft the exhausted animal every little while and turns it back on the pursuing dog, until finally in one of the retreats it falls a temporary prey to its canine foe, when the man rushes in and with a knife soon dispatches the game. Their powers of endurance on the mountain trails are almost equally marvelous. The semi-civilized are often employed as couriers, mail-carriers, etc., and in all cases they invariably make from five to ten times the distance covered by the whites, while there is no known domesticated animal that can possibly keep pace with them. It takes six or seven hours of fairly continuous climbing to-make, by mule back, from the Sea Guaquiro to the “Cumbra,” in the Barranca del Cobra, by a most terrible mountain trail, the ascent made being 4,000 to 5,000 teet.* It takes four hours to descend in the same way. A message was sent from “La Cumbra” by a Tarahumari foot-runner to a person at Nea Guaquiro and an answer received in an hour and twenty-two minutes, the same messenger carrying the letter both ways, or making the round trip. One day a Tarahumari carrier passed ns just after we had gone into camp about 3 o’clock in the afternoon, bound for the same point we expected to reach in two days’ hard mountain travel by mule-back. I wanted to send a message by him to this place, and when ascertaining when he would reach it, was, as my readers will easily infer, somewhat astonished to find out that he expected to make it that night, and i was afterward informed that he had done so. Not a great mnnyVears ago the mail from Chihuahua to Batopilas was carried by courier on his back, who made the distance over the Sierra Madre range, a distance of two hundred and fifty miles, and returned, or a total of five hundred miles, in six da vs. Here he rested one day and repeated fiis trip, his contract l>eing for weekly service. Alongside of this the best records ever made in the many six days’ “go-as-you-plea.se” contests that are heard of in the great cities of the United States sink into almost contemptible insignificance. I could give a dozen other instances, but these arc enough. Of course these runners make many “cutoffs” from the established mule trails when their course is along them, and they thus save distance, but making all such allowances their endurance is still phenomenal. I will drop the cliff, cave and housedwelling Tarahumaris for awhile and take them up again in the future from time to

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One of the most distinguished characteristics of the Sierre Madre range is its wonderful rock sculpture and one that will make it a grfiat tourist resort in the future, coupled with the grand scenery and curious inhabitants when better communications are to be had. 1 do not think I exaggerate when I say that 1 passed hundreds of isolated sculptured rocks in one day, any one of which would have been as great a curiosity in Central Park as the obelisk. I give some illustrations from Mr. Landean’s sketches, but all the thousands we saw would have to be viewed to get anything like a clear idea of the beauty, grotesquenesi and especially profusion of sculptured rock in the Sierre'Madres, ia which it undoubtedly outranks all other ranges of North America, and as far as I can learn, the whole world. The Grand Arroyo of the Churches is sculptured rock for eighteen or nineteen miles, alongside of which the Garden of the Gods in Colorado, so often visited by tourists, is as tame as turnips. The trail from Camp Diaz to 'our fifth camp in the Arroyo de los Angelitos along the western side of the Grand Barranca of the Urique, was as picturesque as the most poetical imagination could conceive. The trail was often very wiuding up and down the steep arroyos and over the cliffs, and many times the mules, out of compliment to the commander, would form his monogram or initial letter 8 on the snountain

sides. An illustration is given, but a hundred equally as good, yet varying in every detail, could be given from that one day’s march alone. That night we slept for the

sines and listened to the whin-npor-wills.

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he uext night we had fallen o,<

slept under orange trees and palms, and were awakened by noisy paraquete and the

swift whirr of humming birds.

Frederick Sohwatka. HOME MATTERS.

Ammonia will usually restore colon that have been taken out by acid. Rub the tea-kettle with kerosene and polish with a dry flannel cloth. Ceilings that have been smoked by a kerosene lamp should be washed off with sodawater. ’ A tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with white clothes will aid in the whitening

process.

A fine polish for steel articles can be got by using pure lime mixed with alcohol and applied with a piece of leather. When you boil a cabbage tie a bit of dry bread in a bag and put it in the kettle. French cooks say that all the unpleasant odor, which makes the house smell like an old drain, will be absorbed by the bread. A wash which will remove the sunburn acquired by outdoor sports is mode by adding twelve ounces of elder water six drams of common soda and six drams of powdered borax. Applied to the skin it will

make it clear ana soft.

For tired, aching and weeping eyes, suffering from close application or other cause, * comforting and safe wash may be made from the purest obtainable water. Into a two-ounce vial of water put half a teaspoonful of essence of peppermint, and having shaken well, apply to the eyes to find if it be too strong, and if so, increase the proportion of water, and try it again. It should produce for the moment a slight warmth, the after effect being agreeable,

A SLUGGER ON SLUGGING.

BEECHER AND ESGKHSOIX.

JAKE KII, RAIN, THE HEAVYWEIGHT, ON TRAINING.

The Routine of a Fightorji Day—How He Must Live and Train to Become a Formidable Antagonist— It Is Rather Hard Work.

cooling and healing. Apply ad libitum with soft, clean muslin; this renewed on each application. Dressmakers and other , persons working at night have found relief j

in this remedy.

To Remove Faint. The ordinary method ofscraping or burning off old paint is hardly expeditious enough for general purposes, and is also laborious. Soda and quick lime are far more thorough. The solution of half of each is thus made; Dissolve the soda in water and then add the lime, and apply with a brush to the old paint, which — > thus be removed in a few minutea.

[Written for The Indianapolis News.] Every prize-fighter has his own method of training, his own fancy of what it is best to do to get himself in condition, and I may even say that prize-fighters have “cranky” notions on this subject of training ji^d as other people have peculiar ideas in regard to the particular work or enterprise in which they are engaged. Tniining is not a matter with which nationality has anything to do, and yet I can understand that what might be proper to do in England it would not be w ell to do in our country, the climate and the ways of living in the two countries being different. And tbe fact is, that the methods of training men for the prize ring as they are pursued in England are different from the. methods followed by American prize fighters. Furthermore, even in England there have been quite a number of changes in the old methods introduced by the new school of fighters, though they are much more conservative in these matters than we are on this side of the “big pond.” I will give a general outline of my own method of training. 1 get up in the morning at 5 or 6 o’clock and start out for a walk of about four miles. Before I start I might take a glass of sherry with an esrg in it, or a cup of beef tea, but nothing more. I walk leisurely, in fact slowlv, the object being simply to rouse myself up after a good night’s sleep, get a breath of the fresh morning air and start up the physical system preparatory to the more severe labors of the day. On’iny return from this walk I eat nfy breakfast"; sometimes I have fish and eggs, sometimes chop and eggs, or a small steak, some dry toast and a cup of weak tea. I don’t know that strong tea would hurt a man, and 1 suppose he could have it if he wanted it, but weak tea is better because it quenches your thirst and you are permitted to drink but little water, if, indeed, any at all. You can’t have coffee because of its peculiar action on the bowels, and a man’s stomach,when he is training, is apt to be in a very sensitive condition. After breakfast I sit S’-ound, read the morning papers and write letters to my friends. Then! put the “sweaters” on and go out for my heavy sweat. These “sweaters” consist of three very thick flannels and cover the whole body. With this not very comfortable clothing on me, -in addition, of course, to my ordinary outside w earing apparel, I spend two hours in walking and running. That is all I do before dinner, and I may add that that is all any man would want to do before dinner. For the midday meal or dinner I eat roast beef, roast mutton or boiled beef or boiled mutton. I eat green vegetables at times, but no potatoes. I drink two-thirds of a pint of ale or claret at this meal. This is not a very large amount of drink for a man, and I do not think it does me anv harm. There is a certain amuunt of nutriment in ale, and light claret wine—it must be really good claret wine—quenches thirst and is an aid to digestion. After dinner 1 loaf around, as the saying is, for an hour or so, but always in the open air. Then I take a slow walk for a mile or two. On mv return I begin ray work of punching thfe big bag, which hangs in a room suspended from the middle of the ceiling. However much prize-fighters may differ in regard to other details connected with training, I believe that they all believe in punching the big bag. This punching process limbers up a man’s arms and exercises a set of muscles that so far during the day have received but little attention. Then again, it makes a, man very active / on his feet; he has to keep dodging from one part of the room to the other in order to avoid the hits from this big ball, which comes flying at him from all points of the compass. When a man gets worked up over this exercise, I suppose, by straining his imagination a bit, he cau taucy he has his coming opponent right before him, pommeling him for all he is worth; that makes this exercise all the more interesting and valuable. After this work I take my bath, or I may have taken it in the morning after going through the walk with the sweaters. 1 vary my food and I vary the exact time I take my different exercises. And I may say here that with fighters generally the most difficult thing for them to endure in connection with their training is the monotony of the work, the doing the same tilings day after dav for several iWeeks. 1 believe thia terrible regularity has a wearing effect on a man’s mind; it bores him, it worries him, and I suppose worriment must effect the nervous system, and so do a man harm. For that reason 1 vary my course a little; if I have roast beef to-day I may have boiled mutton to-morrow; I drink ale to-day, i will drink claret to-morrow, and I will take my bath and the rubbing down that always comes after it at a different time each day. About tills time I put on my everyday clothes and idle away the time until tea is ready. For this meal I do not eat much, generally a little fish or a little chicken, never anything very heartv. But day is not yet ended. Altar supper I take a slow walk for about four miles; on my return it is quite likely I will play a game of billiards, and then, about half past 9 or 10 o’clock, I go to bed, feeling that I have earned a good night’s rest. Before a fighter begins training he takes an ordinary dose of physic, an aperient pill and Hunyadi Janos water in the morning. In old times prize fighters used to take what was called the “black draught,” and the custom is still followed by mauy in England. This black draught was a composition of licorice, salts ana senna; it was a very nastv <tt>se and a very powerful aperient. The old trainers would physic a man a week before he went to work. I think that system is a mistake, though some trainers in England do the same thing in the present day. The question is often asked, “How does a prize fighter feel when he is receiving punishment in the ringf” It depends a great deal on the man; sometimes you feel pain and sometimes you don’t. Some men are more sensitive than others. A blow that would knock one man insensible would not have the least effect on another man. There is a great deal in what ypu call the temperament of a man, the same as w ith women; one woman will faint at the sight of blood, while another would be willing to have her finger cut offi A the but he gets a punch —paralyzes him. He would like to go on butcan not; he is sensitive to the punch. I have seen fellows with big heads and bull necks that you would think could stand the blow of a sledge-hammer, and yet they could not stand punishment as well as some slightly built man whose physical appearance was against him. It depends on the temperament of a man how he receives punishment and how he feels when it is being given. I don’t think I am doing an injustice to the newspaper press when I sav, generally speaking, the reports of prise fights make tne encounters apy>ear a great deal more horrible than they reallv are. I have read in the paper about the condition of a fighter, and, according to the account, it would appear as if he should hare died on the spot. Ou going to see the man I haw found that he had only suffered from a bloody nofe, and that the blood had been spattered over his face and hod fallen on his wrists. There is much exaggeration ip describing the punishment men receive fn the ring. Take Charley Mitchell, for instance. He has fought sixteen battles, and, according to the newspaper accounts of prize fights, he ought to resemble % monster of deformity and ugliness; veAhe Kh n’t a scratch on him, and even hiwnemies will admit that he is a good-luokiiASan. JaxM tuuix.

Th» Groat Preacher’s Opinion at the Work Done by the Atheist. [Canadian Advance.! Mr. Beecher has gone to his rest. Tbe way was long for him and often very rough, but he trod his path with a buoyant step and far-looking eyes. Great, natural, faulty, beloved, he has gone now; but his word’s remain. Perhaps Colonel Ingenoll and those who were with him will long remember the following selected incident: Colonel Ingersoll was thrown one day into the society of Henry Ward Beecher. There were four or five gentlemen present, all of whom were prominent in the world of brains. A variety of topics were discussed with derided brilliancy, but no aUusion was made to religion. The distinguished infidel was of course too polite to introduce the subject himself, but one of the party finally, desiring to see a tilt between Bob and Beecher, made a playful remark about Colonel Ingersoll’s idiosyncrasy, as he termed it The Colonel at’once defended his views in his usual apt rhetoric; in fact, he waxed eloquent. He wjm replied to by several gentlemen in very effective rei>artee. Contrary to the expectations of all, Mr. Beecher remained an abstracted listener and said not a word. The gentleman- who introduced the topic with the hope that Mr. Beecher would answer Colonel Ingersoll at last remarked, “Mr. Beecher, have you nothing to say bn this question?” The old man slowly lifted himself from his attitude and replied, “Nothing, in fact, if you will excuse me for changing the conversation, I will say that while vou gentlemen were talking, my mind was bent on a most deplorable spectacle which I witnessed to-day." “What was it?” at once inquired Colonel Ingersoll, who, uotwithstaudiug his peculiar views of the hereafter, is noted for his kindness of heart. “Why,” said Mr. Beecher, “as I was walking down town to-day I saw a poor blind man, with crutches, slowly and carefully picking his way through a cess-pool of mud in the endeavor to cross the street. He had just reached the middle of the filth when a big, burly ruffian, himself all bespattered, rushed up to him, jerked the crutches from under the unfortunate man and left him sprawling and helpless in the pool of liquid dirt wdiich had almost engulfed him.” “What a brute he was!” said the Colonel. “What a brute he was!” they all echoed. “Yes,” said the old man, rising from his chair and brushing back his long, white hair, while his eyes glittered with his oldtime fire, as he bent them ou Ingersoll — “Yes, Colonel Ingersoll, and you are the man. The human sottl is lame, but Christianity gives it crutches to enable it to pass the highway of life. It is your teaching that knocks these crutches from under it and leaves it a helpless and rudderless wreck in the sloughs of despond. If robbing the human soul of its only support on this earth—religion—be your profession, why, ply it your heart’s content. It requires an architect to erect a building; an incendiary may reduce it to ashes.” The old mau sat down and silence brooded over the scene. Colonel Ingersoll found that he had a master in his own power of illustration and said nothing. The company took their hats and parted. FOR THE COOKS.

Rice Muffins—To one quart of sour milk add three well-beaten eggs, a little salt, a teaspoonfnl of soda and rice flour enough to make a stiff batter. Bake in rings. Beef. Croquets—Take cold roast beef; mince it line; putin an onion chopped fine, sweet marjoram, a little powdered cloves; moisten with the beef gravy; make into balls, dip in the beaten velk of an egg, roll in flour and fry them in lard. English Fish Sauce—One and a half ounces of cayenne, two tablespoonfuls of walnut catsup, two tabiespoonnils of soy, a few shreds of garlic and shallot, one quart of pure vinegar; put in a large bottle and shake every day for two weeks; then put it into small bottles and cork them weU. In a few days it will be fit to use. Pearl Cake—Whites of three eggs, one teacup of white sugar, one teacup of flour, one teacup of corn flour, half a teacup of butter, half a teacup of milk, two spoonfuls of baking powder; flavor with lemon. Beat the butter to a cream, add the sugar and other ingredients, aud lastly the eggs (whites only), well beaten. Bake at once in a moderate oven. Hominy Croquettes—Two cupsful of cold boiled hominy, one egg beaten light, pinch of salt, tablespoonful of sugar, a little milk. Beat the egg into the hominy, mash it free from lumps. Add milk cautiously until the hominy is as soft as it can be handled. Stir in the salt and sugar, and form the mixture into croquettes with floured hands. 8et aside for an hour in a cool place to become firm. Fry in deep, fat to a good brown. Lemon Toast—Take the yelks of three eggs, heat them well and add a cup and a half of sweet milk; take some bread, not too stale, and cut into slices, dip them into milk and eggs and fry a delicate biowa in melted butter. Take the whites of the three eggs, beat' them to a froth, adding half a cup of powdered sugar, then add the juice of one lemon and a cup of boiling water, heating them in well. Serve over the toast as a sauce. Rice Griddle Cakes—Boil half a cup of rice; when cold mix one quart of sweet milk, the yelks of four eggs and flour sufficient to make a stiff batter. Beat the whites to a froth, stir in one te&spoonful of soda and two of cream of tartar, add a little salt and lastly the whites of*the eggs; bake on a griddle. A nice way to serve is to spread them while hot with butter and almost any kind of preserves or jelly; roll them up neatly, cut off the .ends, sprinkle them with sugar and serve ifnmediately. Puffs—Take a pint of milk, and when it boils stir in as much flour as will make it a thick batter. Add three well-beaten eggs, and two or three drops of oil of cinnamon, or any other flavoring. Dust a large flat plate with flour,then wfith a spoon throw on it the batter in the form of balls or fritters, and drop them into boiling clarifieff dripping or lard. Serve them with grated loaf sugar strewed over. The batter may be made into a pudding, adding with the'eggs one ounce of salt butter. Boil and witn a sweet sauce. Cheese Fondu—A pint bowlful of minced cheese, which should not be of a rich kind, the same quantity of bread crumbs, two well-beaten eggs, half a nutmeg, teaspoonful of salt. Heat a pint of milk boiling hot, put in it a large taolespoonful of butter, pour the hulling milk over the other ingredients and mix well, cover the bdwl with a plate and set it back on the range for three or four hoars, stirring it occasionally, but be careful it does not cook. Half an hour before supper butter a nice pie plate and pout into it the mixture; set It in a quick oven and brown, sending it to the table very hot. This depends for its success on being quite smooth and the cheese all dissolved. ■' ■ ♦ - Lemonade Syrup. [American Asricnltarlst.] Lemonade is economical if the opportunity of making a lemon syrup Is seized when lemons are cheap. Grate the thin yellow rind of twelve large lemons «ver six pounds of granulated sugar. Add two quarts of water and stir over the fire until the sugar is dissolved. Bring to a boil snd boil until it thickens, skimming as fast as the scum rises. Add the juice of the twelve lemons and simmer fifteen minutes longer. Bottle and cork tightly and keep in a cool place. Two tablespoon fuls of this syrup will make a delicious glass of lemonade. Nothin* Good Dies. [Dickens.! There is nothing—ho, nothing—innocent or good that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An’ infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in redeeming actions of the world, though its bodv bn burnt to ashes, or drowned in the fleefi sea. Only In Fun. * [Merchant Traveller.! "Did yon intend to hit this man when you shotat niraf ’ asked the Judge. “Did I ten’ to hit ’ii»r “Yet.”

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