Pike County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 48, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 April 1881 — Page 4

PIKE C01TY DEMOCRAT, PETERSBURG, s : • INDIANA STEPPING IN FATHER 8 TRACKS. All through night's wearying darkness; snowy flakes In tidying whirls hadi filled the wintry air; As noiselessly ns Time our blossoms takes. They driRed here and there. And when the glowing, rosy-hearted mom Awoko earth's sleeping denizens anew. Behold i The snow upon the night-winds borne Had buried streets and lanes from view. The city hosts assailed the crested snow. And as the Red Sea waves of old rolled back. Foam banks on every side loomed up, and 161 All walked a solid track. But yonder farm-house, like a ship at sea. Becalmed, withall sails set, awoketo hear The low of kine, flocks bleating to bb free, The while the day drew near. The farmer, anxious for his troubled herd, •lyith sturdy stride the trackless snow-drifts , passed; By their grunt need to strong exertion spurred, v He reached the fold at last. His gladsome son, exulting, darted on. Swift as an arrow from an archer’s bow: ** I’ll go,” ho shouted, “whero my father's gonol I care not for the snow 1” He stumbled, struggled, fell: yet still he tried; For pride or courago stayed his turning back. Until a new thought dawned: “ I'll go!" he cried; “ X’il step in father's track I” How many glorious victories have been won. How many, from temptation have turned back. Defying evil, just because a son Would step in father's track. How should you walk, O fathers, lest too late You strive to call some erring wanderer back! For precepts be3t on thorn examples wait That |eave tho brightest track. So live that when the deepening snows of age Shall hold your failing strength iu bondage buck. Your children's best and noblest heritago Shall be your shining track. And when the household and the hearth are gone. And tender looks and tones may not come back. Your mantle long may rest upon the son Who steps in “ father's track.” —Louise H. Upham. in Youth'* Companion.

ACANTHI'S COMEDY. Undoubtedly Mr. Clabaugh ought to have been wiser, after twenty-nine years’ knowledge of his nephew-,’ than to have been at all annoyed or impatient because that nephew w-as late to breakfast. But Mr. Clabaugh had important business on hand, and was eager to transact it. ' “Does Jasper think that I telegraphed to him to journey live hundred miles to meet me here to*-day without a motive? Has the boy no curiosity?" muttered he to himself, as he slowly stirred his third ■' cup of coffee. The long dining-room of the Pequot House was quite deserted, save Mr. Clabaugh and one or two waiters, when Mr. Jasper Surridge eventually made his appearance. “I seem to be a little late," .Jasper coolly remarked, after exchanging salutations with his uncle, “I am sorry you waited.” t*If you knew why I desired to meet you here, what my business with you is, you would hot wonder that I waited! I 1 think I w-as the first person to sit dow-n 1 to breakfeast, and now the room is deserted.” “So it appears!—has quite the air of a ‘banquet hall deserted.’ But that is all the better for. us if you are anxious ■»' to discuss business at once; there will Be no eavesdroppers.” “Quite true!” remarked Mr. Clabaugh, cheerfully, half inclined to be grateful to Jasper for being So late that no chance fellow-boarder could hear his secret. “I think my news will give additional delicacy even to those tender biscuits. You remember hearing me speak of that eccentric old ^ Philander Kdlifia... for whom I, have K imylEpt; many wins? “ The man who lived in Medae?” “ Yes, the same. Well, he is dead.” “Somebody—or some charitable society—is to be congratulated. The old beggar left a pot.of money, didn't he?” “You can hardly call a man who had amassed half a million, a beggar, I think."’ “Not literally, of course—only figuratively—a bit of’slang.” “Oh!” And Mr. Clabaugh was appeased; he would not willingly insult even the ghost of a rich man. “ Who has got the property?- -one of , the old maid cousins, or a hospital?” j “Neither. A person of whose existl ence I hever heard until I made his last will; his only grandchild, Acantha Edliffe.” “What an outlandish name! I thought be was, a bachelor—a misogynist!” “ So aid I, but lie w-as married in his young days, and had one son, Pablo, w-hom he drove from home by his ill temper * and his miserly ways. This son also married and died, leaving one daughter, Acantha; as this girl is his legal heir, none of the many aspirants can even claim the property.” “Curious! But why telegraph for m P' ’ hi

“This girl is young, rich—and wnm'vried." “Aiiv I understand! I, too, am young and unmarried, but alas' not rich. You think there are possibilities for me?” “Certainly 1 do! You are good-look-ing—” " , “I inherit my looks from my mother: the Clabaughs* are all presentable.” “Nonsense!” but the uncle was flattered. “(You have always beensnccessfnLwith women—but by the wav,’’ and Mr, Clabaugh’s tone change from complacency to anxiety, “is there any entanglement between yodand Lottie?” “Oh, no, nothing serious, only a flirtation; I have not committed myself.” “That is lucky. It wouldn’t do, you know, for my nephew to be oaught in anything dishonorable; it would injure both of ns.” “Don’t: you worry, uncle! 1 am too ’cute to leap before I look. Lottie is very sweet, and if she were old Edliffe’s, heiress tWe would be some sense in my spooning on her. However, she is almost as poor as 1 am, so that match will not be made. But about this Edliffe girl, is she—is she at all passable?” “Of her looks I know nothing; but as she has been a teacher in one of the grammar scoots in Clarendon for the last two years, she mnst have some sort of an education. Now my plan is that you start for Clarendon to-night—” “No, no, to-morrow! You forget that I have just come post-haste from Ohio! ]>o give a fellow time to breathe.” „ J “I presume a few hours’delay will do no harm, so we will say to-morrow. When you reach Clarendon look in the directory for the name of Edliffe; it is not a common one, and make Acantha’s acquaintance as well as you can. Here are letters of introduction to three of my friends there, but don’t use them i! you can help it; it will be better for you to fall iu love with the girl without knowing who she is; then no one can ever neouse yen of having married her for her money. Do you understand?” “ Oh, yes! But will not she, or some one, smell a rat? My advent in Clarendon just as she becomes an heiress—” “Site will not know she is an heiress until I see fit to tell her. I intend to give you from one to three weeds’ start: I am not well; my physician has ordered me here to the mountains to recuperate; hew ean 1 attend to busi- “ I se t! I must make hav before the sun shines. Miss Aeantha will have first a lover, then a fortuue; which St rather reversing the usual order of things.”

“You are serious, Jasper? Yon will really try to ton this girl?” K “lam seriously—very seriously—in want of money, and as for trying'ta win this rural damsel (for Clarendon is hardly more than a village), well, I think I can do it,” answered Jasper Surridge, complacently, as he arose from the table and sauntered ont to the hotel piazza. Young Surridge had good grounds for his confidence in his own attractions.' He was tall, handsome, graceful and devoted to ladies’ society, could quote poetry or utter delicate compliments by the hour; and some of his half-envious admirers declared that he had been stern enough to refuse two offers of marriage from rich widows! .. When he made his appearance in church the morning after his arrival in Clarendon, there was quite % flutter among not a few of the tender young hearts, and at least a score of bright eyes looked the question, “Who is that handsome man?” With his mind concentrated upon the unknown heiress, Jasper carefully surveyed the congregation and sighed for some fairy to whisper to him, “ That is she.” Presently the organ pealed forth, and a clear, sweet, mezzo-soprano voice sang an anthem, “ Come unto me all ye that labor." Regardless of the place, Surridge turned to his next neighbor and whispered: “ Who is that charming singer?” “Miss Edliffe,” was the startling

The directory had already shown him i there was but one family of ihat name in the town, “Mrs. Jane Edlifl'e, 17 Willow street; Acantha Edliffe, school teacher, 17 Willow street;” evidently'this was the hoiress. “What does she look like?” was his next thought So he turned round and took a good long look at the singer; resuming his mental conversation “die said, “Medium height, slender, dark eyes.and hair, good complexion, decently though plainly dressed; she will do!” To make sure that this was the person he sought, he discreetly folio weft her home, aud wheriTie saw her enter 17 Willow street he was satisfied. He delivered one of his letters of introduction the next moAing, and as soon as he could ho began to rav.e oyer the “exquisite voice, the most delightful voice,” he had heard in church, and -innocently asked the,singer’s name; then, finding that his new friend Ehew her, he begged him to present him to her. Chuckling at his good luck, he began to make delicate but assiduous love to Miss Acantha, and was charmed to lind that she did ncft repulse him; on the contrary, after a few days she seemed to give him some little encouragement —not boldly, however, but tiffiidly and innocently. Mrs. Edliffe was not so cordial as ho could have wished, but still she was not actually inimical, and there was no one else to interfere—at least, no one of whom he knew anything. “Acantha Edliffe’s conduct is really disgusting!” whispered the gossips within a week after Surridge’s arrival in Clarendon. “Before this stranger appeared she accepted Hubert 'Luttrell’s attentions with avidity, but now she quite ignores him,” “He hasn’t been to Willo-w street since last Sunday,” responded another gossip, “while this Mr. Surridge is there every evening, takes Acantha to drive every afternoon and sends her books and llowers every morning.” “Well, he is rich, probably, and very stylish, while poor Hubert is neither.” Acantha’s conduct in this matter caused plenty of talk; Luttrell himself was the only silent one; When some venturesome person tried to “interview’ ’ him on the subject he simply set his teeth together and muttered: “Popinjay!” But popinjay or not. Surridge completely distanced Luttrell in two weeks. At the expiration of that period he might hare Been heard whispering to LAeantha: y - . “Oil, my darling, if you knew how I much 1 loved you, you would not be so coy; you would at least try to love me in return!” “Perhaps I may try," whispered she, hesitatingly, but" quickly added, warding off a threatening embrace; “but how can I be sure that you are true? You have known me so short a time!” “Fourteen long days! After all, what is time to those who love? The moment I saw you I knew that-you, and you alone, must be my wife!’.’ Which was true, but not as he would have had Acantha understand it- “ You have loved before, of course—” “Never! Never! I may have had my passing fancies, but you are the first girl whom I have wished to marry.” “ But I am poor and insignificant” “Not the latter, my sweetheart. And as to poverty, do you suppose I care for jthat? We will manage to live, I assure you.” a “Yon know nothing of my family.” J “Your mother, .you say, is your only relative; I am sure she would grace any station.” “Hear mother, I am sure she would! If I should consent to—to try and like you, you must promise and not listen to any nonsense about Mr. Luttrell. I did love him, really love him, I thought, until—udtil—”

“My darling! rour sweet confession has entranced me!" “No.no! I have confessed nothing! Give me until to morrow to think of it; and mamma's consent must be gained.” Of course Surridge promised to do anything Acantha desired; and when he returned to his hotel that evening he telegraphed to his uncle: “Come on at once. The fates are propitious}” The fates are proverbially eccentric; so Surridge realised when, on calling at 17 Willow street, he was told that Acantha was too ill with nervous headache to see any one. In the meantime Mr. Clabaugh arrived and congratulated his nephew warmly on his success; but also in the meantime, simultaneously with Mr. Clabaugh’s arrival came the rumor of old Mr. Edliffe's death, and the next morning it was announced in the local newspapers with the addition: “This gentleman was unknown to our townsmen; nevertheless his large fortune is to come to us, Miss Acantha Edliffo (teacher in Oak street grammarschool) being his heiress.” “Confound these newspapers! The fat is iin the fire now,” was Jasper’s savage exclamation when he read those lines: “ What possessed the girl to have a headache last night!” “ No matter. You aro virtually accepted. You can still make a good point; show her the notice and say that of course she will not want you now that she is rich, that you cannot submit to be called mercenary; that will fetch her.” And so it did. The uncle and nephew called together that morning, and after the former had told Acantha of her grandfather’s bequest the latter carefully withdrew “l)h,PMr. Surridge, whata pooropinion you must have of me! Do you think that I would permit the wealth of the Indies to come between me and the man I love? No true woman Aver weighs love against money.” ,, “ Miss Edlifle, you overwhelm me! Ypu are nobler—” stammered Jasper. “Nobler than you are?” said Acantha, sarcastically, with a sudden change in voice and manner. “ 1 might easily be that! Gentlemen,” continued she, slowly, opening the door that led into the hall, and laying her hand within the aua bf Hubert Luttroll, who stood them1" with a smile on his faee, “let me present to you my husband, he who loved me when I Was poor, and to whom I was married this morning!” The two plotters gasped and tamed,

pale. Jasper was the firsfHo recover himself; he exclaimed: “ Miss Edliffe, tour conduct has beeh unwomanly! You encouraged me—” “Why did I encourage you?” she asked, quietly interrupts,g him. For your owe good, to teach y ou a lesson. Mr. Surndge, your conduct has been most unmanly! You jilted Miss Lottie solely for my money; you would have married me with a lie on your lips! Ah, you both look surprised; you wonder who revealed your secret? Mr. Clabaugh was my informant”" •*I was not,” Mr. Clabaugh retorted. “ Yes , yon were. I was an unnoticed listener to part of your conversation at the Pequot House, and your dilatoriness, Mr. Surridge, gave me the one day’s start needed to come home and instruct my mother and Hubert as to my plan. Perhaps you remember that the waiters at that hotel were all young ladies; several of us school-teachers needed both money and change of air, so we “hired out” during vacation as waiters at the Pequot, and gained some money, plenty of exercise, mountain air, and. a little fun.”—Godey'a Lady'a Book.

The Llueu Closet. Sheetings for double beds should be two yaids and a half wide at the very least, and their lengths, when finished, not less than two yards and threefourths. A sheet of niggardly size is an abomination to the tiay housewife, who loves to see the edges of her precious mattresses safely tucked away from thd hands of the, restless sleepers. The hems of sheets are b road at the top and narrow at the bottom, for reasons unnecessary to mention. Fine sheets sometimes have a wrought hem or a hem that is hem-stitched, or may be a cluster of tiny tucks is added to a sheet close to its widest hem. If the latter ornamentation be selected, a provision for its tucks must bb made when planning the length. The decoration of the sheet makes turh-overs or sheet-shams quite unnecessary, and there is something in the very word “ shams” that gives an unpleasant look to such bedornaments, be they ever so elegant. Sometimes, however, they appear to be requisite to the agreeable appearance of the sleeping room, but they might have a pleasanter narde without injury to their elegance. T^e ends of the pillow 6lips should be fiuished like the tops of the sheets, provided they be not closely fitted and huttoned over their cushion of feathers. A practical housewife has found out by experience that the handsomest cotton sheeting, and by far the most durable variety, is unbleached. Such of her family as once insisted upon having woolen sheets upon their beds at midwinter are likely tpfjitke more than kindly to unbleached ^oods. They are soft, fuzzy and clinging, and everybody knows that white, as white.is no' longer admired for anythin". Unbleached cotton are among the elegancies of the lady’s wardrobe, aud why not for the linen closet? If unbleached sheeps are not pleasing to the eye, they certainly will be to the touch. Therefore the unbleached material, in fine, smooth texture, is neatly hemmed and brought into use in the chamber of domestics until they are perfectly white, when they are promoted to thp best shelves of the closet and a new, supply of unbleached art icles takes the places they have occupied. Pillow slips of unbleached cotton are treated in the same manner. The table cloths of the kitchen, if they threaten to break, should be cut up, hemmed and devoted to the dish-wash-ing department, and new ones of unbleached liudn damask made to take their places. Glass-wiping clothssshould not be of elderly linen, because of its tell-tale fibers, and (beea.use there is a linen provided for glass sufficiently inexpensive for the purse of even the most economical housewife. A,plentiful supply of kitchen-naperyis a marked incentive to housewifely, tidiness in the busy part of one's establishment. From the dining-room table linen choose such table cloths as are very nearly worn out, cut them into large towels, hem. them nicely, and keep them to lay over accidents that befall a fresh table cloth, or devote them to the uses of the children, who require Almost unlimited supplies of clean. “ wipes.” ■ Of course, a careful shopper is always alert for pretty patterns and good qualities of table linen, opportunities for good bargains coming now and then within her reach all the year around, but seldom so frequently or so satisfactorily as during midwinter. Many ladies prfefer for their handsome cloths a plain, round-threaded and nottoo-fine linen, which they embroider in quaint patterns of trailing vinesi, buds or blossoms in fadeless ' flosses. Sometimes above a lace border is worked a suitable quotation in large German text or old English lettering upon each of the four sides, each text being selected so as to extend quite across its own side of the cloth. Of the same sort of linen, pieces one yard by three-fourths of a yard :in size are frequently embroidered in similar patterns to lay over the cloth bones,th the carver’s paraphernalia and also to sustain the eott'ee or tea tray, or perhaps to receive the soup tureen.

wuiun is uiittuiy in t^lhu HUSM3SS care. Counterpanes and beril blankets cost much less money toward the end of winter than they do earlier in the season, because the merchant desires to make space for his new spring goods, which always occupy more room than do the goods for other parts of the year. Ladies are not always practical, they sometimes fail to take these matters into their minds with sufficient intelligence. “If a lady can secure a seven per cent, interest for her money she considers herself exceedingly fortunate. If she secures the necessaries of her house at ten per cent, reduction from their usual cost it is equal to a ten per cent, investment, and is quite worthy her careful consideration.—Pkila. lUcorti. Length of the Mississippi. Mark Twain mourns over the diminished length of the Mississippi in this strain: Therefore, the Mississippi, betvreeii Cairo and New Orleans, was 1,2 lo miles long 176 years ago. It was 1,180 after ' the ent-off of 1722. It was 1,040 after the American bend cut-off, some years ago. It has lost 67 miles since. Consequently, its length is only 973 miles at present.. "Now. if I wanted to be one of those ponderous scientific people, and to prove what tiad occurred in the long past by what had occurred in a given time in the recent past, or what will occur in the far future by what has occurred ip late years, what an opportunity is here! Geology never had such % chance, nor such exact data to argue from! Nor development of species, either. Glacial epochs are great things, but they are vague—vague. Please observe. In the space of 176 years the lower Mississippi has shortened itself 242 miles. That is an average of a trille over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotio, can see in the old Oolitic Silurian period, just 1,009,1)00 years ago, next November, the lower Mississippi River was upward of 1,300,000 miles long,and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing rod. And, by the same token, any person can sec that 742 years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and a quarter long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single M ayor and a mutual Board of Aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trilling investment affect. c -•

Hints M Early, Gardening. The market gardener knows by experience what kinds of plants will stand sharp spring frosts without injury, and sows accordingly; but the mind qf the average farmer is so confused by the multifarious'and conflicting directions, notes and instructions given in seed catalogues, agricultural papers and on seed packages, that he is in doubt whether tt> sow in February, March dr not at alL He likes early vegetables as well as anybody, but does not like to take the trouble Of making and attending to a hot-bed, so he lets the matte! go until warm weather fairly sets in. Then he has too much other work to attend, to, and the garden is often entirely neglected. } ° It is a fact not generally understood by farmers, that the seeds of most of the leading early vegetables may and ought to be sown long before farm work is commenced. I wul give a few hints on this subject, that may prove instructive to the farmer who is befogged by catalogues, as I used tobe. The soil for early gardening must be dm/. Remember that! If your garden is not thoroughly underdrained, it must be carefully surface-drained. To do

nits. . «u inas is necessary is to nave it on a gentle slope, and plowed into lands twelve to sixteen feet wide, leaving the furrows open and smooth. The earth will take in all the water that ip necessary for the plants, 'and all the surplus must have a free outlet, so that the water level may always be kept below the roots of the plants. If possible, the north and west winds should be broken by a grove, tight fence or buildings. « If the soil thaws out, and dries so that it can be worked with a spade, any time after the middle of March, select the warmest, dryest and sunniest spot in the garden, and drive three rows of short stakes three feet apart, the stakes being four feet apart in the row and about a foot high. This makes a ’bed six feet wide and sixteen feet long. On the top of these stakes across the bed, nail narrow strips of board. Have a few sixtefen foot boards or light poles ready, to lay on top of these strips, and a pile of clean straw or coarse hay for a cover. In the bed sow lettuce, radish, cress and early cabbage seeds in drills about four inches apart. Barely cover the seeds with tine earth. Should a hard freezo, snow or coid rain come on, cover the bed entirely ovet with the hay or straw. The strips and boards on the stakes will prevent the straw from pressing down on the planta. In bad weather they may be left covered three or four days without injury, though it should always be removed as soon as possible. The last two weeks in March is also the best time to sow peas and onion seed. Sow the peas anyhow. Get them into the ground, and cover with about an inch of earth. What snow or frost comes at that time of the year won’t hurt them. If the soil is not sticky, sow all the onion seed yon intend to. Put them in drills twelve or fourteen inches apart. Good onion seed sown at this time is certain to make a crop of :good onions, if they are kept clear of weeds while growing. If you can sow onions, sow beets ana turnips also, in drills fifteen to eighteen inches apart. Cover onion, beet and turnip seeds bv sliding a piece of board over the drill marks. Never run a roller on the garden until the soil is perfectly dry. One of the main points to be observed in sowing seeds at this time, is to leave the soil as light as possible. One or two seasons I have sown these seeds as early as the first week in March. In other cases, it has been utterly impossible to get them in before middle of April. Always get everything in readiness by the first of March, then watch for the first opportunity. I have had lettuce, radishes, turnips and cabbage three inches, and onions and pefis , six inches hyh.^jl hm-ied under a foot of snow, and not <J5e was injured in the least. 1 have seen them frozen so stiff that I could have kicked them all off the ground like icicles; but they thawed out and continued to grow as though nothing had happened. Spring frosts, even severe ones, rarely do the hardy early vegetables any harm; but long-continued cold rainy weather always injures them more or less, and is to be guarded against by providing thorough drainage. It is not necessary to make a monad to plant seeds on. but have the bed slope gently from the center to the furrow, and keep the furrow clean and open. Early potatoes may be planted in well drained soil long before spring frosts are over. As soon as the frost ij out below, mark out the rows and drop the setts, one large or two small ones, about twenty inches apart, and cover with about two inches of soil Then throw over each hill a big forkful of stable manure. Remove the coarse part of the manure as soon as danger from frost is over, and hoe the soil np towards the plants a little. Potatoes started in this manner will be ready for the table two or three weeks earlier than if planted in the old style.—Cor. Examiner and Chronicle.

The Habit of Thoroughness. A capital motto to be hung over the kitchen door is this: “Thou desirest truth in the inward parts;’’ and the woman who, when she expected company to tea, always went the first thing aud washed the cellar stairs had tendencies in the right direction; she did it, she said, to “settle her m;nd,” aud there is no doubt, whatever that it was a source oi deep and heartfelt satisfaction to her, as she sat in the parlor and entertained her guests with sprightly conversation, or presided with ease anil dignity at her daintily dressed table, to retlect that the hidden and gracious virtues symbolized by clean cellar stairs were here also. A habit of thoroughness is something which most people need to cultivate with assiduity, and in no profession is it more needed or does' it count for more than in ours, dear housekeepers, who read'this. There, is an unmistakable air about a perfectly neat house which is felt by all those who come into it,; there is no use in trying to make it appear that neatness and omcr are characteristics of your home unless they are. There is reason to think that some women are in this matter content to seem without caring to be, but it is a very transparent deceit. “ If there is to be any dirt in the house,” said the best housekeeper I ever knew, “ let it bo where I can sec it; let it lie on the parlor tables and chairs rather than be allowed to remain under the beds, and in corners where it will become rich soil for the development and growth of germs of disease.” There is a great difference between a disorderly housekeeper and an untidy one; there are often cogent reasons why a woman cannot possibly always have her house in the order she loves; it may be the one severe trial of her life that she cannot carry out her ideas in this respect, and she may.be deserving of credit for accepting the situation with equanimity, especially if, as is frequently the case, she may also be obliged to endure the injnsticeof being rated a failure as a housekeeper, when in reality she is irreproachable so far as neatness is concerned. This is certainly of paramount importance; it is a truth sadly forced home sometimes that life and death wait upon the discharge of what appear to be simple and even unimportant matter.—Cor. X. Y. Post. —Potash, says a writer, is absolutely necessary to successful potato growing. The easiest and best mode of applying it is in the form of wood ashes. It is furnished also in soft coal ashes and well-rotteij yard or stable nqancjre.

USEFUL A&D SUGCESTIYE. —Fried Bread.—Slices of toasted bread dipped ih milk and fried in hone; are excellent. Then instead Of calling them r fried bread,” they are tortjas, an eleqllent Spanish delicacy. Melt the hone^jpto a pan, and when it is very hot piit in the bread, which is served hot, also, after becoming nicely browned. —Delicious croquettes of rice are made thus: Take one quart of boiled rice (if possible boil the rice the day before you wish to make the croquettes), three eggs and a little salt. If the rice is very moist put in rolled crackers; add a very little sugar. Put some flour on the kneading board, and drop a spoonfdl of the rice on the board, roll it in a longeroU and drop into hot lard and fry a la fried cakes. —Apple Float—Six large apples, two spoonfuls white sugar, juice of one lemon, whites of three e»gs. Stew the apples very soft and lay them on a sieve to drain and cool. Remove the skins and cores before cooking. When cool put them on a flat dish, add the sijgar, lemon and egg, and beat with an egg-beater to a stiff froth. Fill your bowl or custard-cups with soft custard and pile the froth on it as high as it will stand.

—it is sale to have a rule for making the simple things in cooking, and so be sure of satisfactory and uniform results Here is an excellent rule for preparing mustard for the table: Take two tablespoonfuls of mustard, one tablespoonful of flour, mix them well while dry, then take half a cupful oi strong vinegar, fill the cup with water, stir the mustard and flour with this, cook it as you would boiled custard; when it is thick enough take from the fire and add one teaspoonful of sugar. —Where the soil is naturally deep and mellow unusually deep plowing is not necessary for onions or any other crop, lieep plowing is required"for the purpose of making a deep soil, and when this exists naturally there is no necessity for the plowing. The longer onions are grown on the same soil the better they succeed, adequate manuring of course being given; and a good method of culture is to plow the soil deeply as soon as the crop is gathered in the fall or late summer, and then to plow it again in- the spring not so deeply: this in time produces a deep rich soil and a very productive one, but it requires the same management to keep it in good condition. —Corn Starch Pudding, with Eggs.— One pint of rich milk; two tabiespoonsful of com starch; one scant half cupful of sugar; three or four eggs—the whites; a little salt and flavoring. Beal the eggs to a stiff froth; dissolve in a little of the milk; stir the sugar into the remainder, which place on the fire. When it begins to boil, add the dissolved com starch. Stir constantly foi a few minutes; now stir in the Ijeaten whites, and let it remain only a moment or two longer. Flavor; with vanilla, grate half of a cocoannt, or with chopped pine apple, strawberries, o i dried cherries swollen in water, or dissolve one half a bar of chocolate in a little milk and mix it with one-third ol the pudding and put into the mold in layers, first white, then brown, then white. Serve with boiled custard sauce or whipped cream. Lies, Their Ways and Antidote, Mr. Samuel Richardson writes from Mihnesota that he has seventy-five (01 twenty-five) head of two-year-old steers, which were put into a new barn at beginning of winter; arp in good health and flesh; have never come in contact with any other stock, and yet they have got lousy. Has tried lard and carbolic acid melted together, but it is so cold there that the lard freezes in about two minutes, and the lice are “just as hearty and well as ever.” The -faair-4» getting Joose, And- the fine looking two-year-olds are beginning to make him feel ashamed of them. “The barn is cleaned out every day and fresh bedded with straw; it cannot be from any neglect of care.” The ways of lice are mysterious. They often attack cattle in line flesh, but generally are to be found on those which are thin. They will spread rapidly, sometimes from one animal to another when they are confined in a stable, or they will sometimes remain on one animal,, or more, during the entire winter without spreading. They seem to prefer animals with thin skin, and on this account are generally to be found on calves, or white cattle,. Cattle which are frequently carded and the scurf washed out of their hair rarely have lice. When lice infest a herd and get into a stable they are liable to summer over in it and prey upon the cattle the next winter. On this account, where lice once come they usually come again. They sqem able to perpetuate them- ' selves, hiding in the crevices of the stable, without any animal food for sustenance. Every "stable in which lice are found should be thoroughly whitewashed with quicklime, allowing it tc penetrate all the cracks or if the stable is tight enfough it should be fumigated by burning sulphur in it, which "is destructive to all parasites of this kind. Of course the cattle should be removed from the stable during this operation. There is no law of prevention that I

know of. Cattle get lic§ upon them when lying in places where rubbish has decayed, or where there is rotten wood, which ii> a natural place for lice to harbor. Lice multiply under favorable conditions, and some seasons are more plentiful than others. Sometimes an animal will have a few lice which itwill carry all winter without an visible increase. and then again from a few they will increase to myriads. This increase generally follows when poor food is given to the animal, with a waste of vitality. An increase of vitality and flesh usually results in no increase, or perhaps n lessening, in the number of lice. Mercurial ointment is an effectual remedy for lice, when rubbed into the hair, but it is so poisonous that it is dangerous. It makes the animal liable’ to take cold, causing stiffness, or eruptions of the skin when too much is applied, and to be poisoned by licking itself. An old farmer used to puncture the skin behind the foreleg and insert a ball of this ointment, closing the aperture by a stitch, so that it could not work out. The poison, was absorbed by the blood, and in this way the lice were destroyed. This farmer insisted that this was the only proper manner to use mercury. He had practiced it foi years with success, he claimed. A strong decoction of tobacco will kill lice. ' The best destructive I have evei tried is a mixture of kerosene oil and lard of equal parts. If the weather is too cold to apply the mixture, which may be melted, I should try kerosene oil alone. It will not injure the hair ot skin of pigs when applied to them, and it probably would not affect cattle. 1 would not be afraid to risk it, and it is a perfect destructive for lice. It is a discovery of my own, which experience justifies. I should mix powderedsulphur with aalt and give the cattle free access to it whenever they were lousy. If they eat enough of it the lice will leave them. Anyway it is heathful, and will nifl in the cleaning out of the parasites; —K D. Curtis, in N. T. Tribum. —Ope of the oldest churches on the American Continent is thfi Tumacaco Church near Tubac, Ariaona—was built by the Franciscans in 1554, and has consequently reached the age of 627 > ears. Fifty-six years ago Indian* murdered seven priests Within its’ wall , and twenty-five years ago several priests came from Home and dug from a sepulcher on the right side of the altar $80,900 in coin and jewels.

Joe Wlnrow’e Two Blows. A well-known citizen, remarkable for tus unostentatious benevolence and piety, hearing of Joe Winrow’s death, said: “I’m sorry to hear it.” “Did you ever take any lessons from aim?” the sculler asked. The pious old gentleman opened his ayes wide. “Good gracious, no! ” said be. “I never put on a boxing-glove in my life, and I trust I may never be induced to raUe my hand in anger against my one. They say Winrow was a great fighter.” “You bet,” was the reply. “Do you know,” said the pious gentleman, “that I was acquainted with Winrow for several years before I could bring myself to believe he was a fighter. He was a neighbor of mine for a long time. When he moved in, some one told me he was a prize fighter, and I expected every day to see him engage in a quarrel. To my surprise, 1 never saw bim have a misunderstanding with any »ne. He was always sober and pleasant, and I notieed he used to stop and chat with the little children. Every body spoke kindly to him, and 1 began to think there must be some terrible mistake about the reputation he had of being a desperate fighter. I doubted

whether be could light at all, be was so quiet; but one day down on Washington Street I saw him save a little child from the wheels of a milk wagon. The driver, a great burly fellow, took no trouble to avoid the little one, and the ehild would certainly have been killed had not Winrow rushed in and seized her. The driver only jeered and would have gone on had not Joe shouted out to him that he ought to be arrested. The fellow stopped at once and commenced to use fearful language. “ ‘I’ve a good mind,’ said he, ‘to get down and give you a licking.’ “ ‘ You’d better try it,’ said Winrow, who was holding the little girl by the hand. • If you step down I’ll break your jaw, you big ruffian.’ “The driver jumped down at once and made a rush for .lop, and I really trembled for him, for his assailant was a ferocious-looking fellow, and a great deal heavier and stronger. The old man did not seem to be a bit scared, though. He just lifted the little child away a few feet and then turned and threw out his right hand at the driver, and the fellow went down like a log. I was astonished beyond measure, for the old man did not seem to make any extraordinary exertion. The driver got up at once and made another rush at Joe, and the old man threw out his left hand, and down went the belligerent party again as if he had been shot. I was more surprised than ever, for the second blow seemed to stun the fellow, and he jay for some time on his back in the mud. Then he turned overhand crawled on his hands and knees to the wagon, and climbed up in a dazed sort of way to the seat and drove off. I noticed that his face was covered with blood. When ’twas all over I took the old man by the hand, and the first thing I knew 1 .was complimenting him, though I never thought I should be found praising a man for striking another down on the street. The old fellow only laughed though. “ ‘ Oh, that’s nothing,’ said he. ‘Whv, the duffer couldn’t whip a ten-year-old boy. I don’t believe he knew how to hit me if I stood and let him.”’—San Francisco Chronicle. —If Southern planters andMarmers wish to become mgre prosperous, says an exchange, they should at once abandon the pernicious credit system. In the Cotton States, particularly, it is a weighty drawback. As the system is; practiced the planter or farmer gives the merchant a lien on his crops to be grown, and the merchant, being fully secured, furnishes the necessary supplies and fixes his own prices. The planter or farmer is thus wholly at the mqrcy of the merchant, and has no redress against exoibitaht rales. A'decision has just been rendered by the Supreme Court of Mississippi which will afford the farmers of that State some relief. A merchant who held a mortgage on the crops of a farmer foreclosed it. The lower court allowed his bill against the farmer, al* hough it was shown that the priees charged were at least double the cash rate. The Supreme Court, on appeal, reversed the decision, and affirmed that the purchaser was pot in a position to decline the purchase on account of the prices Charged, and that he acquiesced in the prices from an overruling necessity. His extorted assent to the prices fixed was without consideration, and was therefore void. » —Mr. H. L. Kimball, Director-Gen-eral trf the International Cotton Exposition, to be held in Atlanta in October, is in New York making final arrangements for getting the Exposition machinery in motion. In reply to a reporter he said: “There is now not the slightest doubt; that the Exposition will be a success in every sense of the word. After a careful survey of the situation we decided .that §100,000 was necessary to get everything in proper shape. Of this amount $35,000 was allotted to Atlanta, and our friends in the North said that if Atlanta would subscribe that much they would do the rest. We opened the books in Atlanta, and in one hour the amount needed was subscribed. I have now conie to New York to get the subscriptions of those interested here in the

enterprise. inree suDscnbersm tms city have given about £10,000, and I have no fears that we will get all that is needed. It is the belief of those who are conversant with the prospect that the, receipts at the gates and for privileges will be enough to pay back the subscription in full with a probable profit.” —Many persons consider themselves friendly when they are only officious; they counsel not so much that you may become wise as that they may be known as teachers of wisdom. TI1E MARKETS. NEW YORK. April 1, CATTLE—Native Steers....... Sit ss i* COTTON—Middling. a FLOCK—Good ti> Choice...... 5 U0 fti‘ WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 122 © No. 2 Spring........ 1 17 ® CORN—N >.2... 59 ft* OATS—Western Mixed. 44 ft* PORK—Standard Mess... 15 25 © ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling. .... © BEEVES—Choice. 5 25 @ Fitir)to Good.. 4 50 © XiiUyeCows.. 2 "5 ft* 'Texas Steers........ 3 25 © HOGS—Common to :r*eleet. 4 50 ft* SIIEEP—Fair to Choice........ 4 75 © FLOCK—XXX to Choice. 4 50 «i WHEAT—No. 2 Winter. 1 No. 3 “ 99V* 1S81. 11 25 10# 6 75 1 24# 1.18 01 45 16 00 CORN—No. 2 Mixed. 41 OATS-No. .- 20 RYE—No. 2...-.:. 1M TOBACCO—Dark Logs.. 3 75 Medium Dark Leal 6 10 HAY—Choice Timothy.. 18 00 BUTTER—Choice Dairy. 24 EGGS—Choice... H PORK—Standard Mess..... 15 25 BACON-Clear Rib... 08 LARD—Prime Steam... 10 WOOL—Tub-washed, medium 39 Unwashed. 25 © CIItCAGO. CATTLE—Native Steers....*.. 4 CO © HOG8—Good to Choice.* 4 90 © SHEEP—Good to Choice. 4 70 © FLOUR-r-Winter...,. ft 00 © Spring. 4 50 © WHEATfNo. 2 Red. 99 ‘4 © * } No. 2 Spring.»• 1 WV#© CORN—NO. 2. 381a « OATS—No. 2... 30#© KYE. »6#© PORK—New Mess. 15 50 © KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Native Steers.. 4 00 © Native Cows.* 2 75 © IfOGS—Sates at... 5 25 © WHEAT—No. 2. 88 © No. 3. 86‘4© CORN—No. 2 Mixed. 32 © OATS—No. 2... 32# « NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR-HigU Grades. 5 40 © CORN—White.*. 61 © OATS—Choice..r.. 49 © HAY—Choice. » 00 © PORK—Mess... 15 50 © BACON-Clear Rib. 0s£© COTTON—Middling. .. © 10# 5 75 4 85 . 3 5 4 £0 6 15 5 75 5 10 1 05# 1 00 41# 36*4 1 02# 4 00 7 00 18 50 20 12 16 25 «H# 10# 41 26 5 75 5 80 6 00 6 00 5 25 1 O*# 1 01 40# 33 1 00 15 60 4 SO 3 50 5 27# 88)4 88# 32# 31# 625 ttt 50 25 50 16 25 09# 10# r

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