Pike County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 49, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 April 1881 — Page 4

PIKE MTV DEMOCRAT. -I'noii r</M /,, PETERSBURG. IN DIANA. ^ THROUGH THE SHOW. For. under this fa6t-falUn* snow. The walk'fc entirely hidden 1" •Entirely hhlilenlt was and mow, For, as the eateh i lifted. Sis inches deep, from cate to door, • I saw the snow had drifted. “ Ugh t” shuddered she, “ You lead the way!" Was her nimmand next spoken. ®* Item-, at once was to obey; And, through the snow unbroken, I stalked with steady, ample feet; With lifted skirts she followed, IkitoUiyt stepping, while her neat Foot-prints in mine were swallowed. Bash to her mirthful, puzzling faoe 1 looked across my shoulder. And wondered if she'd smile with grace Qn me, should 1 grow holder. “Why may not you and I,” I said, “Through life thus walk together? I’d break the vmy with happvtread Through all life’s snowy weather." She (ltd not answer me a word, But one sweet flatten permitted. And then, before me, like a bird, Into the house she bitted. And through the snow and from the gloom Her fairy foot-prints drew me Into the cheerful, cozy room, Where love surrendered to me. % Ah! in our wedded life since then Snow-storms have broken o'er me; But always, iuto light again, ”Xis she has walked.be/eni me. j —Scribner's Monthly.

MOASIIK’S PRE-EMPTION. ** Well, no. She’s not, ezac’ly, mine, nor yet my wife’s; but ws claim her all the same.” These remarks referred to a remarkably line, not to say formidable-looking, ■young woman, who had just reined a high-mettled young horse out of the home gate into the townward lane. “ Take the kinks’ out of him.” said the old man, as he closed the gate behind the cavorting steed. To which remark the fair horse-woman made reply by Hinging kisses from her whip hand, and dashing away into a cloud of dust. “ Yes,” he said, in response to my further question, “she’s my gal; but she’s not my da’ter, nor she ain’t my . wife’s da’ter.” “ Brother’s?” “ No. No relation to either of us by blood.” “Waif?” “ I dunno much what a waif rightly is. I call her a peiemtion.” “Do you mean a pre-emption?” I asked, gently. “ Well, no matter if ye call it a peremtion er a pree-emtion,” he answered, a shade testily. “ What I mean is, that I took her up as a wild claim on the unsurveyed lands of the U. S.” “ Seems to be a line horsewoman,” I said, half musingly, as we were approaching the entrance to the house. “Step in,” he said; “the door’s open, and that shows ye the old woman’s not to home; and the way she’ll raise Cain, and lectur’ on flies, when she does come home will be music in this camp, you bet you!” and the man chuckled inwardly until he developed a touch of asthma that set him coughing in a way that was more comical than serious. “When I get into kind of a cough,” he said, resum11 mos’gin’eiy take a little old rye and loaf sugar.” And so saving he led me into the dining room of his comfortable farm house, asked me to be seated, while he opened the lower half-doors of the dish cupboard, and, bringing out a sugar-bowl, spoons, f-dasses, and a cut-sd»oo w sAiu, gv*ny-ana interrogatively: “ Trv a little?” , Whether ! tried a little or whether 1 did not, is a question open to debate, which may be settled by each reader according to his or her view of what a man ought to do in such a situation. “ ” said he, when he had earer* ._ fully replaced the implements of hospitality in the cupboard, “let’s go out to the barn, and see the colts. There is where 1 can talk best. 'Though I ain’t a lust-elass talker no time, I can get on better whenl’tn seeing a good, healthy colt reaching for his hay. “I reckon, now,” he said, after having shown me his horses seriatim, “ you’re thinking I’d ort to tell you how I peremted the gal that went out the gate on the jumping brown colt. , “The way 1 peremtsd Lainey was this. I was Jin California when the Reese River mining excitement broke out in Nevada in 1862, and wasn't doing much good. I bought a little cheap Mexican jack," packed my blankets, Sab, tools and cooking outfit upon his ek, took the road behind his tail and went afoot into the Nevada mountains, away east of Reese River, determined to find a silver mine. I had a little money on hand and a little more coming to me from good men, when I started. 1 sunk it all in two years and worked hard, but found nothing in the

-r» **“* "uiuiaiMusaurai. Hi me summer of’64 I heard ox the drought in California, and of how cattle and horses •were dying there of hunger, while where I was there was any amount of good hoss grass. Now is my chance, I thought. I’m losing big money not having stock to eat this grass. I took te my jack and started from Eastern Nevada on foot along the overland stage road for California, calculating to fetch bosses on the shares to Nevada. Besides my jack I had also a dog—a dog that peremted me—a mixed dog—a kind of St. Bernard and .shepherd dog—and he was a mighty wise dog. “ On the stage-road them days there was no houses—no houses anywhere near it—only the stables And ’ostlers’ quarters at stations fifteen to twentyfive miles apart. At these stations were’nt no women or families—just men, and mighty hqr.d citizens most of them men was. There being no place to stop at or fool away time on, I kept right ahead, day' after day, with my pewjession. There was fust the jack, then me, then the dog, one behind the other, ill as solemn as could be. 1 wasn’t feeling no ways cheerful myself, but by the looks of things when my face wasn’t too thick with dust, I was the cheerfulest of the lot If the jack wasn’t solemn his looks belied him, and ns for that dog, Nep, being a black deg, with a down, tail, I think he was . the most serious critter 1 ever did see. He seemed mostly to be on the point of going to sleep, but he wasn’t half as sleepy looking. «There was mighty little carrying on day or night within a Snffi6 ^k*wtsho/inie fhOdren that ever I saw. miles a dav, and, as I had about eight hundred miles to so, ye see,, including delays, I was in for a month’s steady tramping. Some days 1 would travel for hours with one or another of the .west-bound immigrant wagons or trains as thev came creeping along toward the end of the hard journey across the continent, foot-sore, weary., dusty and dilapidated. These trains had qhildi-en with ’em of all ages, arid When my .! dog gat in among them children he -WHS happy. .He walked right up, raised his drooping tail, and was a new dog: But 1 -qejer pimped at-mght rhai 5 the k of shelter, I* Would qnload

.Canary go would gather a few sticks or dry weeds, teako my little fir per, eat it, gite Nep a blankets o* the gron sleep soundly till after daylight. Nep mostly laid down alongside of me on the edge of the blankets, and though he often growled in the night, I never paid much attention to him unless he got to be extra ferocious; because, while I knew the plains were prowled over every night by coyotes, just as w ell as Nep knew it, it didn’t need to affect me ns it did him. I wtusn’t afraid of no coyote. “One night, however, after I had made a very long and mighty tedious day’s tramp, I thought the dog Was mighty unsettled about something; but after rousing up a couple of times and finding nothing I laid down and fell into a very heavy sleep, from which I did not awake until near sunrise. L don’t suppose I should have awoke when I did only that 1, thought I heard a child’s voice saving: “ *Oo mus’ not make such a big noise wiz oo nose!” < “Well, sir, I opened mv eye3, and there standing beside my face was a four-year-old girl, holding Nep by the ear with duo baud and shaking the forefinger of the other hand at me, repeating: “ ‘ No; oo mus’ noi make such a big noise.’ “I was not, and never had been married up tQ that time, and didn’t, know much about children, but I began right there to feel like a father. 1 took the little blue-eyed, red-cheeked, whitehaired plumpness, and sitting her upon my breast. I was just going to commence talking to her when she said, pointing: my litUe snpte, roll out iny lie down Sana

• i-ook: at oo aog. “And, sure enough, there eras that fool dog just a-tearing around camp, a-walloping his tail on the ground, and every now and again jumping high over me and the young one, as if he had plumb lost his naterral senses. He was the gladdest dog i ever see. “Now,” I said to the young lady , “ what is your name?” “ ‘ Lainey.’ “ ‘ Where do you ItTeP’ *■‘In ow wagon.’ • t “ ‘Where doss your mamma live?’ “ ‘Oh, my ot her mamma, she’s dead! the bad lngins killed her. Now me’s got another mamma.’ “ ‘Where does the new mamma live?’ “ ‘In ow wagon.’ “ ‘Where is the wagon?1 “ - Down there,’ pointing forward. ‘“Down where?’ said i, rising, with the child in my arms. “ ‘Down there,’ pointing again. “‘Oh, no; there isn't any wagon dow n there. That’s away off the road.* . “ *No, oo ask’e dog. He knows? “I looked inquiringly at Nep, but he had fallen into his olu, solemn, sleepy looks again. _ «f ..... W* .:j “ * Where did you sleep last night?' “ ‘ Oo know. I sleep wiz oo and ’e dog,’ A‘I held the ohild m my arms, and looked ail about the sage-covered plain, and up and down the lonesome, desolate dust-liae or rund, but, I couldsee no Sign of camp smoke, nor any object indicating civilization. “ ‘ How far did you walk, to come here?’ “‘Oh! such a long, long way—me and ’e dog. I so tired I go to sleep, and ’* dog tissfme in fac* and wake me up; then—then—we walk a long way, some more, and come here to sleep wiz oo.’ “ ‘Well, now. Miss Lainey, ymv set, right down here (in the htauwts, alongside of the dog, until I get us some breakfast,’ and I put the child out of my arms. “ ‘Me vewy hungwy.’ “‘All right! We’ll soon have some breakfast. Which do you like, Miss Lainey. tea or coffee?’ “‘Toffee, and heaps of sugaw.’ “ And so, chattering along to t he child, i fussed around until I got our little breakfast ready in the midst of the wilderness. “She was a very hearty young lady, and did justice to my rough efforts to please her halate, and after breakfast, she insisted on a large pan of hot water to ‘ wass '4 disses.’ but as I could not afford that luxury in the midst of perpetual drought, we compromised the matter by my agreeing to let her ri de on top of the pack-animal’s pack- Tikis arrangement delighted her no little for a While, and also suited me first-rate, until she got into the idee of standing up like a circus rider. She never hw3 much sense of fear. I argued, and even scolded against this circus business, but it was no use. and finally I gave her a rope’s-end in each hand, winch suited her mighty tine, until she got to being sleepy and laid down on top of the pack and fell fast asleep, whilel walfce<J beside the jack to see that she didn’t fail off.

•i a tun t reeron we should go ter without hearing inquiries for a lost child, yet, as I passed immigrant wagons, and was passed by other immigrant wagons, they had none at thein lest a child or heard of a child be impost. “My little procession wa§§pquittt so solemn after we got Lainey. ’cause the dog, instid of walking behind with his tau dropped, now marched in front, with tail and head np; and Canary, calculating to keep np with the dog, stepped a heap more livelv than he did before, and ye-hee-hawed Splendidly. And now if you think that when Lainey was standing up on top -of Canary’s pack that we wasn’t some circus, ■ ye’r mistaken. “1 don’t know what the immigrants and st age-dri vers took me for—whether they thought I wsis a Mormon running away from too much wife, or a wklderer m distress, or a man what had kitted a family in order to steal a gal-baby and a jack and black dog—but I took my self foe a man with a powerful responsibility on his hands. “The fust two or three days I was awful feared I wouldn’t find anv one to take Lainey off iny hands;. Then, by jing, I began to dread meeting or finding any one who would take her. And, at last, to tell ye the trnth, 1 left the reg’lar stage road and sneaked off over the Sieixa into California by an old shadowed ropte. “I got some changes 6f clothes for Lainey here and there from immigrant women, piece at a time, and by the time I got down into the coast counties—‘cow counties’ some calls ’em— I was mighty handy in taking caret of that young lady. _ “I got down to my stopping-place well on into November, turned iny jack out-on a ranehe, rented a little cabin in a little town—not such a very little town—and went to keeping house and attending ha mv hoss speculation. 1 hired an old Mexican woman to look After Lainey when I wasn’t at homo. “Attest it came Christmas day, and 1 had Lainey by the hand, going up street as big as could be, to fill her stockings hen we meets a lady, and tlowff drops that ladv on her knteis on the board-wndk right in front at us, and, reaching wnt her arms, she said: “ ‘Lainey Woods! Lainey V.’oods! Thank God, I have found you at last!’ ‘VAbdMfciU Mdv look mtr -baby into to. W. wo^ii^ t Stand, no such punsense, and came a-crying and tearing after me, dragging the woman by the hand.

woh’rsthy wla nobody b it him. “Well. * - -«*" «.»6 —how tBe Indians haTT kiUfefl La’ney mother, and how disease and grief had killed the father—how disease had i the friend—b»w Lainey hi off in the desjbrt in the Bid IWani j —how part of Lainey’a-11 ty, consisting mostly of fine broodmares, 1 was left, over in Nevada, temporarily in charge of the Overls.nd Stage Company—in. fact, .how all this business and this child and this friend! needed a man to look after ’em. So it came about one way with another, that I married the lady, fathered the child, find got into the boss business. “ Whieh being just about what 1 Wanted to do. makes me free to say that wild peremtion in the desert was a pooty lucky lay-out.” “ies, indeed, vary lucky,” I said. “But now, after all, don’t it seem to you as if that black dog; went off in the night and stote that young’un?” ’Here the venerable Moasick had a slight asthmatic paroxysm, and as we walked toward the gate out of which Quien Sabe and his rider had made their picturesque departure, he finally succeeded in saying: “YVeitt That brown eott’s yours for just what 1 told you. Sfiy the word and I’ll hold him for you for mos’ any rea sonable lengthof time.” I said the word, and Til put up the money; but I’m not going to be in s hurry about taking “that brown colt” away from the scenes of his childhood. If I were a married man it might be different—but I’ve geimy eye on Moasick’s pre-emptkKk3f|pe?

Cities and Their Godfathers. Most cities were fou tided by accident There was no deliberate plan. A hut or two grew into a village, a village into a town and a town into a city. London, for instance, had no godfather. The first barbarian who landed from his canoe and fixed his habitation under the hill now crowned by the cathedral of St. Paul, little knew he Was founder of a city to which Rome at the height of its glory was insignificant in its proportions, its numbers and its wealth. A place sometimes derived its name from the physical features which distinguished it. Oxford, Cambridge, Milford, Newport, Recihill, Black water, Yarmouth, are instances in point. At times some natural advantage it possessed was thfe occasion of its name. Thus the Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza named the capital of the State he founded in South America Buenos Ayres, to celebrate the excellent climate ; and Valparaiso, was so called as an intimation that its position is such as to be the very valley of paradise. The cities founded by the godfathers after whom they were named are the most factious in existence. No man seems to have been above the ambition of perpetuating himself in that way. Alexander the Great gave his name to the Egyptian city which he founded, and which the Ptolemies made one of the most magnificent of the ancient world. In Caudahar, tob, we recognize the Asiatic name (Iskander) ©t the great' conqueror who founded it* Cologne (Coionia Agrippina), which has come to be regaitled as the symbol of German unity, owes its name to the mother of Nero, who was born there Saragossa, capital of the Old kingdom of Aragon, is only a corruption ol C-esarea Augusta, so called after Augustus, who rebuilt the Carthagenian town formerly on its site, and named the new city after himself. This refounding an old town and giving it a new name was common in antiquity. When Adrian restored what the ancient writers called Uscudama, he imposed upon it his own name, and thenceforward it was known ns Adrian, ople, just as when Philip III. of Macedon, - formed a new city on the site of Euruolpias, it was converted into Philippopolis. In the same way Constantine, when transferring the seat of empire to Byzantium, renamed the city on the Bosphorus Constantinople. The representative of the modem Byzantine Empire has his seat in'acity also celtedafterit-;founder —St- Petersburg. When adventurers from this country named theohief towu ia Nova Scotia, they were virtually addressing a prefatory dedication to the Earl of Halifax, fii'st Commissioner of trade and plantations. Charleston was so named in honor of Charles IJ., the reigning monarch. Baltimore received its name in 1768 after Lord Baltimore. It was only just thait when, in 1793, the foundation stone was laid of the Federal Capital of the' United States, the forthcoming city should, be named after the father of his country—Washington. In the same way the capital of Victoria was named after the prime minister of the time, Melbourne; that of South Australia, Adelaide, after the Queen Dowager; that of New South Wales after the then. Secretary for the Colonies, Sydney; and that of New Zealand after Lord Auckland.—London Globe. > -- Underclothing.

Now that the sp ring winds hare begun to blow, the time of influenza returns, and why? We discussed the matter in the sitting-room the other day. and this is the way Aunt Helen expressed herself: “I truly believe that more than one half the colds caught, and influenzas from which the women of farmers' families sutler so much, are' traceable directly to an insufficiency of underclothing. Nothing like the use that city people make of flannel is common in the country*. Many neglect the matter from a mistaken suppositionthat ‘such things are all a matter of Habit, and that to go somewhat thinly clad hardens the constitution.’ 1 know wives and daughters of farmers in good circumstances who make almost no change in their clothing from summer to wiuter. If they add to their calico or delaine dresses af cotton underwaist and baste some cotton lining into the sleeves, it is considered sufficient. Occasionally a canton flannel underskirt is indulged in, but real flannels are eschewed; a vague notion being entertained that they are heavy and Durdensome to carry about. Underwrappers, to be most serviceable, should be made of light and soft, but not thin flannel, and should be moderately close fitting. There is nothing better for jackets than soft, flexible red flannel,' even though its old-fashioned claims as a specific for rheumatism be d isallowed. The drawers should reach to the ankles, and the skirts gored to avoid too much weight. The union of warmth with lightness is the most desirable thing to secure.: Thus protected and with feet welt shod, woman will have no need to invest her- ’ self in sack or shawl every time she goes to the open door or window. Do not suppose that simply wearing a warm outer dress is enough for the' requirements of health. Let no woman who wishes to preserve either her health or her good looks to a period past middle age neglect this important matter oi warm underclothing.” A knowing look went round our circle when auntie finished, and we recalled the fact that Susie was just up from a rick bed in which she had a severe battle with pneumonia, apcl when we asked Dr. ir days before, seby Susie Jalaper, a few < __ „ _ should get pneumonia? he replied, a SSiirafirafJ6tfiK§,?2 give her pneumonia; yon will always l succeed if yon put that tissue underclothing on her and sc oft %er u ‘ coM day!”-Cft«W»tt» dCWor*. on a -The man wktvUtwk* the boy who fives next door to him is a good toy has not bees found.—Button t'tstl _

Doing Farm Wort Early. The soil fflnatalwaye bo the first object of the former’s attention. Any advantage or loss here will be felt, not only for the season, but through the farmer's life, as it is so much cumulating value made or- lost. He must begin bis work as early in the spring as possible, as he has no time to lose. Weeds begin their, growth at once, end these can never be subdued so well as when they first appear, or earlier. Some even put forth Defote the soil is dry enough Jto work, on undrained clay. Showing thd advantage of a drained soil, where the work may be commenced with the Starting of the weeds on land intended for grain by early sowing, harrowing whll, and if need be, cultivating the lard, which gives the grain the start of the weeds, and the land being good, the chances are it will keep the start, shading the ground and smothering the pest; also being a safeguard to some extent against the drouth, which often occurs, and is sometimes hurtful. All this can be done only when the crop is put out early. The yield in general will then be better, tfie straw brighter and the berry sounder. All our spring grains will bear early sowing, which means early harvesting, thus distributing the work well, favoring also seeding down. Which is always risky if delayed. All land intended for spring sowing should have its surface worked early te keep down the weeds, the benefit to the soil '-^Thiproved texture and fertility more than paying for the labor. Keep the harrow and cultivator gbtng, and see that there Is no lack of implo-men‘-s and that they are of the best kind. Money here is well laid out; only keep the implements in use. M Where manure is needed, it is always best to apply it in the fall or winter on plowed land intended to be sown in the spring. This makes the finest of seed beds. Of it may be applied ih the spring if done early and spread atoned) so the spring rains may wash the strength into the soil instead of losing

u at mu uaru. ii is wen, assoon as u a weather gdts warm, to lay open the manure piles so as to get them thawed for early application. The manure made during the past winter is better than usual, as the severe and continued cold weather largely saved the liquid portions from loss. Pains, therefore, should be taken with the manure to get it on the land as early and as evenly as possible. There will then be a good start of the grain, even if the weather is not so very favorable. Once well started in such soil it will grow on. I It is such soil, if quite mellow and even, that should be seeded latest and the smoothing harrow passed over to ©over the seed and still further tine andjeven the soil. A drouth then will not much interfere with the seeding, as the young plant, once started, will be pushed by the manure, the {growth oi the toot keeping the start ot the drouth. Corn ground, if plowed early or in the fall, should have its surface worked as soon as the season will allow, after planting, the smoothing harrow be used for a few weeks, and the cultivator as long as the corn will admit, there will be~ few weeds left; indeed, there need be none at all, if the rows are put well apart, as the work on the soil may then be continued as late as desired, or till no more weeds make their appearance. This is really one of the most important things in corn culture, as it not only favors ths growth of the crop, aided by sun and air, which the wide space between the rows favors, hut deans, pulverizes and enriches the sod for the succeeding crop. Thus we see the advantage of beginning an early war against the weeds} but the work must be kept up in all hoed crops, including especially hops, where it may be continued till picking time, stirring only the surface. Sometimes a wet season interferes with the work; hut no season is so wet but there are occasional times when the cultivator can be used, when all other work should gfve way to'this, else the weeds are sure to hurt if apt ruin the crop and fill the soil with seeds for future trouble. Carelessness allows our land to become foul. A desperate warfare with the weeds >* before us, and we must engage in it with unremitting effort, beginuing early in the season, continuing until no more foothold can be obtained. Fortunately this work is a highly paying one; all the soil is now occupied by the crop, which, whetherof grass or grain, is a dean one as well as increased in yield; the manure is clean; the land by working is improved in texture and fertility, working"therefore easier. Unless hoed crops are thus treated there will be littie or no profit,' consequently no more land should be set aside for them than can be properly attended to. and it* should be remembered that ihe work occurs in haying. There is another thiuj* that should be done early, but is sadly neglected in general, and seldom well done. It is the use of the roller- As soon as the frost is well out of the ground, and there is no danger of any more heaving, and the sou is not too soft (it will be firm enough early if there is good drainage), apply the roller to all grass lands whether meadow or pasture, and also to winter grain which needs it even more than grass. This packs the ro ds which were loosed and exposed to the

favorable to protection; bat the spring does alWavs more or less harm to grass and grain, and this cannot be better corrected than by the roller, which, in effect, ‘is replanting. Bat it mnst be done Defore the early, sharp, drying winds hurt the plant. To do this effectually the rollor must be heavier than those commonly in use; as heavy, with the usual length, as a good pair of horses can draw, Detter if three horses have to be ttsed. After the wheat has been rolled and the plant has made some growth, having become well fastened, go over once or twice with a light harrow. This is equivalent to hoeing the wheat and is destructive to yowng weeds, and it favors seeding down if that has been deferred.—€bn Country Gentleman. Health of the Farmer and His Family. The early part of spring is peculiarly trying to the health of the farmer and his family. There is little occasion for outdoor 'work until the ground dries , sufficiently for the plow, but plenty of : occasion for feastful living. The Bvi ing and the life are confining and constipating, and over-feeding and costiveness are at the bottom of uncounted miseries and troubles. When work opens and presses as it does in our harried spring, there will be exposures to wet and chill, and overheats that often bring suffering of other kinds, and froquently of the .most acute nature. Medicine, if resorted to, likely enough promotes the complication more than it relieves. The wise will be careful to prevent evils so difficult to cure, and so disturbing to tbe temper, and distressing to all around, by taking plain, digestible diet instead of pbysic; by cultivating temperance and moderation; by keeping the bodily warmth equable, and by avoiding tbe insidious germs of malaria which are everywhere in malarial districts, during the cool and humid hours, but which some negligent fanners expressly cultivate by leaving damp decaying matteri'm drains, cellars or heaps, out of reach of the purifying Mr. There can be no enjoyment of me, nor any weil-founded hojie of its long.continuance, where nature’s laws in regard to fend and health jure not obeyed and applied with even regularity day byJoj.-KJT.Jribune. f* -Tea-leaves used for keeping down the dust when sweeping carpets, are apt to stain high colors; salt is the best in the winter and new-mown grass in the summer.

USEFUL .ASP —Kedgeree.— Boll two tablespoonfuls >f rice and drain it as dry as possible, flare ready some previously-oooked ish, palled with forks into nice small pieces,1 and free from a.l bones and dun; add it to the rice and make it hot >rer the dre. Just before serving beat ap two eggs and stir well into the rice wd tifih. Add a little cayenne and salt Nb taste. —Pie Plant Pie.—Slice very thin into Id earthen dish. Allow a large cofleeShpfttl of pie-plant to a large tedcttpful 8f dhite sUgar and twtt tfisspdoafnls of flour. Stir together, let Stand while making the crust. —An inexpensive boiled fruit piideg may be made by mixing one cupof sugar, two cupfuls of sweet milk, one egg, a little salt, half a nutmeg, two capfuls of dried currants, chopped raisins or sliced sweet apples, enough flour for a stiff batter and two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. Pour the batter into a buttered mold, a tin pap or a floured pudding-cloth and let it boil lor about three hours in plenty of water. t> • —At it meeting of the Chemung County (N. Y ) Tobacco Club, one of the members said: “T am not in favor of hill manuring with any mop. Manure in a hill does not dissolve; the next year it is still there. Manure applied broadcast becomes thoroughly incorporated iu the soil, and there is no feu hat that the roots will tind it, if it is ■ou'y there. Manure eannot make plant feed until it has been dissolved.” —Durihg the past season the Kansas State Agricultural College has kept an exact account of the cost of raising com', winter wheat, andoats. Corn, twenty-two and one-half acres, fortyseven bushels per acre, costing four teen cents per- bushel. WhJht, seventeen acres, seventeen bushels per acre, costing fifty-four cents per bushel. Oats, Sixteen acres, yielding tweuty bushels per acre, costing twentyeight cehts per bushel. The account includes the cost of seeds, planting, cultivating, harvesting and marketing, the item of labor being charged ~at the average price. The amount of wheat per acre was very

Mg»t—Some flower seeds cannot be placed in the soil too early in spring, provided they have a good mellow bed of line earth. Others iVbuld rot and never grow. The former are the hardy sorts; the latter the tender ones. Without going into a long list of either, they may be known by observing which has been most quickly, and which least affected by annual frosts. Verbenas, for instance, are hardy, and cannot be sown 'too early. The morning glory, cypress vine, etc., must be left till the soil and weather becomes warm. The same rule will apply to vegetables; peas are to be sown early, beans ieVbral weeks afterwards. The first endure a moderate frost, the latter are killed by it. j?£j The Codling Jfrttn J J . It appears from alb the accounts which we receive of the damage done brths anpk>s hy the eedling moth- that the Cvtfls 'Spreadingraprdly. * -Forsome years past many remedies have beenadvised as reliable* but skill the evil spreads so that last year some parties declared tWhtfmorethaa half of their ape the codling,motm Wishing to make myself tnSre iutry ftctfttaifwed with the habits of the codling motn, I collected and opeped several crabs which were injured by the pu^ic efthe ntothJj Jiteok twelve of those and placed them in two crabs; then I burnt some earth in the stove till l knew all insect life was destroyed in it: then i dampened it a little and pat about three inches of it into a glass jar; on the fcpp of the earth in the jar I placed the crabs in which I had put the pupb. 1 then cohered the top of the jar with a piece of paper which 1 pierced with a pin. They soon left the erabs and went into the earth and were formed into chrysalis: in that state they did net remain long, when they came out the full grown moth. I then found they were very partial to water sweetened with honey. In 187S1 1 placed a gallon mustard jar in my orchard, in which 1 had some water sweetened with honey, and in that 1 caught large numbers of them, and also of many beemoths. 1 found my apples and erabs were not so much injured as they had previously been. Last year 1 placed jars so prepared again, and in two nights 1 caught about a hundred moths, so*that very little of my fruit was injured, and all who saw my orchard were qttit* *«**#$**» to see. mjMrne faro*, and so free from thesckvages of the moth. 1 expect next year y> completely exterminate the moths in my orchard. Any vessel in which the- honey and water are placed should be such as a gallon mustard jar, so that the moths could have easy access to the sweetened water, bat couhl not easily get cut. Then the moths should be removed every t wo or three days, for if there are too many left in the water others will light on them and be able to lly out. The moths only fly at night. Those who have bees should be careful and remove the jars in the day, otherwise many bees wilt be lost. I always in two or three days remove the moths with a peee of wire cloth fastened to the end of a stick, and kilt those ■which are alive.—Cor. Canada Farmer.

The Parsees of Bombay. Seeing for the first time hosts of men going through the streets wearing what looks like a seetion of stovepipe glazed and then dotted a’i over with infinitesimal gilt specks, said stovepipes minus a rim and the baek bent down toward the front as if intended to be used as a whistle in an emergency, the natural impulse is to shout with' langhter; and it is only when this “shocking bad hat’’ is understood to be the badge of theii persecution, their cross, pat upon them |n derision, which they have carried gladly and proudly, despising the shame tor faith's sake and so elevated' to the dignity of a crown, we bend before it in respectful reverence: The farsees are immensely rich and powerful, nc matter whether that wealth wav acquired by inheritance, by frugality or commerce. Splendid and luxurious carriages drawn by two and not infrequently four full-blooded Arabian horses, with a syce or footman running on at the head of each, roll through the stieets and (throng the “bunder,” or quay, where the band plays at sunset, end usually from among the cushions rise the gloomy spire of- the Parsee's improbable hat greatly to the disappointment of the “rounder” who has gazed earnestly expecting that no one short of a Viceroy ora Governor-Gener-al would torn np out of snch splendid surroundings. But the penance of peculiar dress is carried to such an extreme by the mate sex that the females have nothing to do but array themselves like the lutes of the field, clothed in silks and satins, whose silken and gold embroidery emit a sheen which fairly dazzles western eyes; loaded with jewels, festoonsd with springs of pearls, arms weighed down v*ith bangles and legs covered with stiver anklets nearly to the knee; veiled in gold or silver gauze, shod in sandals ov satin w|)ieh disdain the soil of the streets, they walk eir sh beside their hosbw tls, the realization of all one's early dreams of oriental splendor. Even the children are clothed in embroidered silks and laden with bangles, till one Is forced to conclude that it is only upon reaching man's estate one is permitted to wear the dress which gives him his peculiar place ’among the religions people of the eastern world.-0#r. Spri»sfi6l$ (Mass.) Republican.

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