Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 31, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 December 1884 — Page 4

ME COUNTY DEMOCRAT. Published Every Thursday. PETERSBURG. ... INDIANA. A CONQUEROR. >• On the shining heights hr had sought so long. He stood alone at the break of day: The wind about him blew Perce ana strong* Ami the wide, waste Iasi t beneath him lay; He could sec the.arch of tho purple sky. And the distant sea-line, thin and white; h?ur’ ns the swift gale hurried by, The low, weird voice of the fleeting night. He could see the way that his feet bad trod, The wreck and ruin his hand had made, The clotted blood on the withered sod, Ihe cold white faces amid the shade; The land was his by the victor’s right, lie had swept the people before nis wrath. And conquered all by his keen sword's might, And marked his course by a lurid path. His word was law In tho prostrate* world, Where Kings lay prone in their galling chains; He laughed when the bolts of Jove were hurled Along Hie silence of fruitless plains; The boastful trumpets for him were loud, And servile minions bent to his feet; But he passed alone through the cringing crowd. And no rod lips for his kiss grew sweet. And what did this give for the weary years? Lo, nothing at all but a sounding name, And a harvest of woe and bitter tears, For the loss of love is the gift of fame: Ah, tew are the good things life can hold; And tho one that shine', all others above Is neither fame nor*», wealth of gold, But the sweetness and joy of perfect love. —Thos. S. Collier, <» Current. MORNING ilJSINGS. A Romantic Loye Story, Tbld in SDc^Soliloquiba. «■

SOLILOQUY THE FIRST. Heigho! So this is London, and a smoky, foggy, dismal metropolis it is, to say the least of it Reminds me of young Simpkins of our class who undertook to write an apostrophe to the ocean—a la Byron— and completed one line: “Oh, thou prodigious dampness!'’ Simpkins stuck there and couldn’t get any further, but there is no sueh limit to London dampness. By the great ponds of Michigan, the air here seems to hold water in solution! One runs a risk of being drowned in breathing! I suppose this is what Mr. Guppy called a “London particular;” but with all due respect, I don’t think London is particular, or she wouldn’t have sueh an atmosphere. Fine showing, this, for an April morning! Ho, hum! I really must get up and commence my pilgrimage. 1 can't understand why I should have started on this'European tour, and condemned myself to wandering about looking at tilings I don’t want to see, climbing mountains I don’t want to climb, rummaging around through nasty streets where I don’t want to rummage. and inhaling odors that I decidedly objeejt to. What is the use now of my “doing” London and subjecting myself to fatigue, odors and ’ackney coaches when I can accomplish it all so much more pleasantly with one of Dickens’ novels at home in a hammock, or drifting down the Chesapeake? Ican’t understand why I should want to see the Tower because the Princes were murdered there, nor the Avon because Shakespeare was born there, nor a hundred amj one other places because something was.jSone or wasn’t done there! If a man tells me his father washanged, I am quite-satisfied to believe him without rushing off immediately to see the place and bring away a piece of the gallon's or a shred of the rope. Thank- Heaven, when I’m through with London my occupation’s gone, V«d I can go home in peace. Constantinople, Vw#co, Rome, Switzerland, Paris—I’ve done them all,-and pretty thoroughly, I hope, though my rpeople at home will be sure to think of some confounded place that I ought to have seen, but didn’t sfie. Something that I have omitted which they have been dying to see for goodness knows how long! Think I’d better coach up on the guide-book, and—that reminds me, I gave mine away to the tpretty girl whom I rescued in Venice from the gondoliers—those fellows are as bad as London ’ackney coachtnen—and who was so charmingly grateful. She said she hoped we might meet again, and she vvas ejer so much obliged to me, and it was so nice to meet a countryman, for she was American—I would have known that if she had stopped after “nice”—and a great deal more to the same effect, and in the sweetest voice and with the cordial confiding way which belongs alone to our girls Bless ’em! Shook hands with me, smiled more in her soft gray eyes than with her lips, gave me her card"and left mo standing there with my hat off, a - spectacle for those rascally boatmen! Made a memorandum on a blank leaf of my guide-book to this effect: “Prettiest picture in Venice. Study in gray. Gray eyes, gray robe, name Gray. Worth a fortune, but by the right person to be had for the asking. “N: B.—Would that I dared to ask.” Then I gave the nearest gondolier a twenty-franc piece to overtake her and retrieve to manemoiselle the book she did neglect. And that’s all. By Jove, I must get up! SOLILOQUY THE SECOXD. Three weeks in London! Well, London isn’t so bad after all, and I’m really interested in hunting up queer' places. I’d give a farm just to find Mrs. Todgers’s boarding house, and Miss Gray rs constantly looking for a Curiosity Shop. That I should meet her a^ain, and especially in this human labyrinth, is a piece of good fortune little short of fatahtv. Her mother and fourteen-lyear-old brother constitute the party, and the old lady says she really doesn’t know how they would have managed to see so much of London but for my

valuable aid. 1 m a disinterested party, lam! Hanged if I don’t believe 1’iin getting too much absorbed in the flesh tints and the foreshortening, and the coloring of my study in Gray. She has not said a word about my guide-book, not even whether she received it or not; "but she seemed to be glad to see me, and I—pshaw! I’m too old to lay abed and day-dream like a school-boy!. 1 think I’ll go home. I’ve iieen enough yellow fog and block smoke. Mrs. ©ray says they are going to Scotland pnd the Hebrides, and a IT those moist, unpleasant places that William Black rejoices in—and indeed when one can sit by a Warm fire and read about rain and wind,leaden sky and dewy weather, it isn’t bad; but excuse me from participating, as the man said when he was going to be hanged. Yet I can be with her by going. She said her mamma wanted me to go so much. I wonder if she speaks to me with mamma’s lips? Girls do, ][ know, particularly when they take any interest. For example, if her mother wanted me to go as an escort and she herself didn’t care a straw whether I went or not, she would have said “I want you to go 80 much.” It’s a good sign when mamma comes to the front. Bah I’m trying to construct nothing into something—a practice I thought 1 had abandoned ever since the days I persuaded myself that a certain school girl returned my youthful passion because 'she permitted me to carry her bookstrap to school, a dream that was dispelled by her subsequently conferring that privilege on another, ycmng gentleman in knickerbockers.

But still 1 would like to see Scotland and the places so “clustered around with historical associations’*—I believe that’s the phrase which one reads about in—in Sir Walter—and ot her historian s. At home they'll be sure to ask me about Auld Reekie, St Ronan’s Well, Corrie Nat Shian and Coif, au Togle, and what shall I say? It is clearly my duty to go to Scotland because—Harry Olden, you are pulling the wool over your own eyes! Yon don’t care a jot more lor ordinary places with extraordinary names than you do lor extraordinary, places with ordinary names! Now, acknowledge it’s the girl. Well, confound your impertinence, suppose it is the girl. I am going to Scotland. SOLILOQUY THE THIRD. Ah-grrr-kirr-gnooch! By Jove, how I must have been snoring! I never felt so little like getting up in my life though the sun is pouring in at my window, and the whistle of the partridge comes from the hillside like a morning matin: The breezy call of incense-breathimr morn. The swallow twittered from the straw-built Shed. | I'm glad I came to’ Scotland—glad we left the beaten track of tourists and took up our quarters at that Highland hostelry. I don’t think I ever enjoyed rambling through woods and picking ferns, or sketching hilltops^ half so much, even on the banks of the old Susquehanna—lny benison on her broad bosom! I’m sure there must be something about these Highland braes that nourishes rhymes, romance, and all that sort of thing, for a fellow seems to drop into poetry as naturally as Mr. Silas Wegg. Laurel—I beg pardon Miss Laurel—my study in Gray—savs she

Knows tnat i am oi a poetic temperament, and I am so foolish as to go hamtuering up verses to prove it! An, well! ' When it is happiness to be foolish ’tis foolishness not to be happy. Seems to me I’ve heard some quotation like that, only briefer. Heigho! Yesterday was a red-letter day m my existence. To be sole guide, assistant, counsellor and protector of the dearest girl in the world for a whole day of rambling through forest and glen is what I call a blessed privilege. We explored Ben Voirllch—all the mountains in this country seem to be afflicted with the Christian name of Benjamin— spoke our little piece over Monan’s Rill and ate our luncheon in “Lone Glenarty’s hazel shade.” I think I must have spoused a whole canto of “The Lady of the Lake” at different times, and how spirited' she was over the defiant stag—how her beautiful eyes till up at the death of “my gallant gray.” p Well it’s a blessing I know Scott by heart! It is precious little else I know about poetry and novels, 3but she defers to me as if I wore an emporium of information. Said she: “Mr. Olden, you seem to feel poetry, while other people say it You give it a ring of reality that is more affecting than finished declamation.” I—“It must be because yon are my auditor, then. Generally* I regard poetry as a combination of fantastically elevated words and ideas — a hyperbolical expression of ultra human sentiments in ultra-human language. With you for a listener it seems almost appropriate, so high a rank do I give you.” She (arehlv)—“I wonder if I have anything to do with the feelings which prompt you to wind up an impassioned poem with some absurd parody or burlesque?” . 1—“Oh, that is done for the purpose of taking the edge of what you might otherwise consider sentimentality—and partly to convince myself that I am not growing sentimentafin reality.” She—“Is sentiment such a" crime in your eyps?” I—“Not a crime, but a source for ridicule. Promise me not to laugh—not to think mo absurd—and I’ll play at romance like the veriest lover of them all. By Heaven, I have a mighty leaning to it!” bhe—“Some day you’ll play it in earnest, and lie the '•veriest lover of them all,’ or I am no prophetess.” I—“Methinks the day nas come—the hour and the woman! Can you not see that since I have known you—since that happy day in Venice—” She (naively)—“When you returned my book?” I—“Ah! Yon did get the book. Then it has told you that I have set up your picture in my heart and fallen down before it—” “ ‘AH on .a summer’s day!’ Are you not getting'dangerously near the brink, Mr. Olden—of the lake, I mean? You might wet your feet.” * j 1— “Do you think I say this in a vein which justifies flippant interruptions. Miss Gray?” * She—“Do you think I treat you in a way which justifies llippant gallantry, Mr. Olden?” I—“You wrong me when you treat as gallantry the homage of a man who—” She “Is quite as serious as he usually permits himself to be, or he has been during any summer vacation for the past half a dozen years. Who parodies Rosalind, and says: “Come, I’ll woo thee, for I’m in a holiday humor, and like enough to be ensnared?’ ” I—“You regard me as a trifler, I see.” She (regretfully)—“And only think what you might have been! Let us go homo.” > Now, what does all this mean? Am I in love? And is there a chance for i me? As to the first, yes; and the second—Well, she scorned the manner and not the matter of my wooing. There’s some comfort in that. If yon can convince a woman that you were a trifler until you succumbed to her, she is prepared to forgive the first and to regard the last as very natural. “Only to think what y*ra might have been.” She said it almost mournfully. Now, I don’t think I might have been anything in particular; but I shall try to be it from this time forth,and she shall be the judge. How beautiful she is! I’d give a King’s ransom, to hear her say— There’s the breakfast bell!

SOLILOQUY THE FOURTH. Jangle, jangle, jangle! Gpnfonnd the church bells! A fellow never can sleep on Sunday morning for their clamor! Back to Edinburgh from the flebrides —back from the land of mist and clouds and romance, with a full determination to read about, but not visit, it henceforarwd. Too much fish and Gaelic to suit me. Three months gone, and the ground covered with autumn leaves, since I’ve been dangling in her train; and—and I fear I’ve been making a tfool of myself! l)oes she care for me at all? Well, I’m a sanguine, selfpersuasive man; but, putting all that aside, I think I am gaining ground a little. Why am I not ecstatically happy, then? I expected to be, and—by Jove,, I will be! I have lived a quarter of a century without having seen any woman so beautiful, so loviible; and I know she’s far too good for me. What a disgustingly conceited idiot I am! I dare say it’s all my egotism, and she really never gives me a second thought. And yet when I pulled that reckless young scapegrace brother of hers out of Loci! Mayle, she put both her cold little hands in mine, and whispered some incoherent words, of which I could only catch, “Forgive me—I know you better —now.” Pshaw! that was only gratitude. And yet, when I held her hands, and tried to tell hovr gladly I would take far greater risks for her sake, she did not take them away, but raised her eyes to my face so bravely and trustingly that I trod on tir for days afterwards.

She keeps my book,- Mb. I sew the. leaf on which I wrote that absurd crotchet thrust into her Utile silk pmrse. E.he had torn it ont, and was making a relic of it. That might tie because of its oddity, and probably means nothing. There never was a girl so proof to flattery as not to preserve such a spontaneous tribute. She treat; me just the same as ever—is friendly and cordial, no more. Uncertainty, then, is all I arrive at—uncertainty as to her feelings, uneasiness as to mine. Pretty much the same way I felt at long Branch three vean ago, when I spent a fortnight to determine whether 1 was in love with Lucy Bomer, and if so whether she would * bo pleased to hear it; at the end of which time she married young Landless, and to my surprise I was pleased to hear itf * Suppose this was to result similarly? I think I'd better go home. And vet there will be something lost out of life when I leave her. I should be wretched, I am afraid; but not so wretched as I would be should she refuse me. Perhaps not so wretched as I might be eventually if she accepted me. “ Where shall I find the concord of this discord?” Apparently not in this bed, for it looks like what Mrs. Partington calls a “ corruption of Mount Vociferous.” Hello, Boots! Bring me some hot water! Mr. Henry Olden, get thee home on the next steamer. t SOLILOQUY THE FIFTH. I feel as if I had just parted with my immortal soul, not to mention everything I have eaten for the past twentyfour hours. Sea-sickuess! The man who called it one of the comic diseases was surely never seasick! A myriad of curses on the reeling, rocking old tub. I could almost wish she'd go to the bottom.

1 wonder how Miss Gray an<? hex mother are standing it. I hope to Heaven I shall not see her again until she recovers, or else I’m done with romance forever. The old lady would insist on taking this steamer, and I think it was a dispensation of Providence to cure my malady. How can a man worship when his divinity is white around the lips and red around the eves, with a drawn, pinched look, as if anxiously expecting a catastrophe; when she is sensitive as to sympathy and querrulous as to assistance; whe n she appears to regard her brother with undying hatred, and her mother as n barbarian armed to the teeth with camSior and shawls for her special torture? ow, I say, can a man lie sent in entST when all his faculties are: concentrate^ on iinding some place where he cam hold himself still, when the only fiadhig he can summon from the depths of his embittered nature is one of hatred and contempt for the stewards? ’How could I have been such a simpleton as to dawdle sentimentally through a whole summer, and start home during the equinoctial storms? A proper termination this for love’s young dream and all its attendant follies. Sweet reveries and murmured vows forsooth! Moonshine all of it, and as for po(etry— it is a mockery, a grinning skeleton! I’ll never be such a fool again! I suppose Miss Gray loathes the very remembrance of all that midsummet madness, and I recall it with the same unbounded satisfaction I derive from recollecting a meal of cold pork and potatoes. Pork! Ugh! I’ll never eat it again! They say this steamer will reach hew York to-mofS-ow, and I he:*e register a vow that I’ll go back home and stay there—be a misanthrope, philosopher, cynic, hermit—anything but a sentimental fool! Amen. i SOLILOQUY the! SIXTH. Will the day never break? Those, swallows outside of my window have been chattering for an hour as if it were their wedding day. The 24th of April —just a year to-day since I lan*|led in Venice—just a year since I began studying the light and shade of my beautiful picture in Gray, and to-day I place it in my father’s hall! Ah, there comes the sun! How the clouds gather golden fringes! How pure and fresh the morning air! The birds ate singing as if they knew my happiness! The dew is sparkling on the grass! It is spring time, and my wedding day!—Sheldon Bordc>\, *n b'an Francisco Argonaut.

BACON. How It Should Be Selected, end How to Cure It Properly. The best bacon is made from pigs ■which will not weigh more than one hundred and twenty-five pounds when dressed. The rashers or strips for the bacon are cut lengthwise off the pig, and about half of the sides ar§ used. The portion next to the backbone is fatter and lacks in muscle, and isf not so good on that account. When bacon is made from small pigs—those weighing less than one hundred pounds—the whole of the sides are used. Red and black Berkshire hogs make this best bacon, because they have the l argest proportion of lean meat. Six pounds of salt and two ounces of saltpeter should be used for one hundred pounds of meat—too much saltpeter renders meat dry and hard. Five pounds of brown sugar may also be used. If the baeon is cured in a barrel the salt, saltpeter and sweetening should be mixed, and a portion sprinkled on the bottom of the barrel, and some also between the layers of the meat and the top, and enough water after the meat is packed closely put on to cover it In a month the meat will be ready to smoke; Tod much smoke will color it and give it a rank taste. Another way to cube bacon is to rub the above mixture on the flesh side of the strips, and then pil e one piece above another and let the mixture penetrate. After three days rub again and pile up as before. A week after rub again and pile it up, putting the flesh side up every time. The mixture should be divided into three equal parts, to provide for the several rubbings. At the end of a month the meat will be ready for smoking, or before if the salt has all penetrated and the surface has become perfectly dry, which is an indication. After smoking, the lashers should be sewed up in bags n: ade of cotton cloth, and hung up in a dry, dark place. If the bags are white-washed on the outside all the better, iis this will keep the worms out.—The 1'armer (Eng.).

The Extraordinary Young Lndy. Once in a Large City ' there dwelt a Maiden whose Mother, being in Moderate Circumstances was put to great straits to so educate her Daughter that she might occupy a Higher W alk in Life. She worked hard, and d< pri ved herselt of every Comfort. And how was she rewarded? Strange fo say, this Youpg Lady appreciated her Mother’s Sacrifices, and did nil she could to lighten her La bors. Ujion returning from School she would devote her time to the Kitchen until the hour for her Music Lesson arrived, and then she would make the Piano Howl. She arose early and assisted with the Washing and Ironing, and when her Young Man took her to the Ice Cream Parlor at night she always slipped some Choice Cake into her Pocket for Ma. Finally She and the Young Man were m arried, and the Best Room in their House was devoted to the Old Lady, who never afterwards did a Lick of Work. MORAL. Tips is not a True Story. It is a Fable.—Cincinnati Times-Star. —If you would have sound, active, vigorous, handsome horses, have clean, well-ventilated stables, sound food and pure water.—Prairie P.trmer

PURE WATER. Ita KerailtT la the ColUvatton'oT Sound. Healthy Vegetables. It has been said by a great chemist that the leaves are the lungs of trees and plants. They are even more than lungs; they are both lungs and stomach. It follows that if the leaves and roots of trees and garden vegetables are watered with water containing poisonous substances, the whole body of the plant, tree, root, or stem is liable to become poisonous if used as food. It is well known among florists that mixing dyes with water poured around the roots of flowering plants and shrubs will speedily change the hue of the flowers, showing that the dyes are taken up in sap and cars ried to the remotest parts of the rosebush, geranium plant, or any other to which they are applied. In this connection the following from the Cincinnati Enquirer of a late date will be interesting in a sanitary view of the matter of clean water for irrigating uses: “There is considerable complaint from residents of Spring Grove avenue concerning the methods of the gardeners whose plots deck the entire Mill Creek Valley. Their gardens seem to be in a flourishing condition, but they water their plants with the vilest refuse, which creates an abominable stench. The offal of tanneries, distilleries and starch factories is used in place of pure water. The simple reason is that tlus stuff can be obtained from the neighboring manufactories with less trouble than the water ean be carted. To show how poisonous it is it is ouly necessary to state that when a quantity of it lias been turned into the canal the fishes would immediately turn over and come to the surface dead. Washer

women who have attempted to use canal water into which the poisonous refuse was turned could not use it because it took the skin off their hands and arms. Yet this is the same matter the bottom gardeners pour on the vegetables which stock the Cincinnati market. The question arises: If this offal is so vile that nothing animate can exist in water tinctured wjth it, what effect will it have on the plants which the people eat daily?” Prof. E. S. Wayne, a noted chemist, says that he has experimented for two years on vegetables over which arsenic and Pari| green had been spread to kill insects’. He found turnips grown under these circumstances impregnated with arsenic, but could not find that potatoes were, affected in the same manner. If turnips will absorb the poison, it is not unreasonable to suppose that radishes and onions wjll. Lettuce grown where the slop watering is practiced must necessarily be un wholesome, as the obnoxious matter is poured directly on the tender leaves. If hogs are fattened largely on fish, their flesh when cooked smells <ke lish and tastes like fish and is not good. If ducks and hens are fed much fish their eggs are not so good and frequently taste fishy. If you desire good milk you must be careful and see that your cow has clean food and pure water, and so with your poultry and to a certain extent so with your hogs; and to have pure vegetables the ingredients with which they are fed and which enter into their composition must be comparatively pure and free from poisonous matter. This is a matter that calls for more attention than it has received at the hands of those caring for stock or growing garden vegetables. Pure feed makes pure butter, pork, poultry and vegetables. Ftdb’s Magazine truly says that, as a people, we have taken only our first lessons in ornamental gardening, and few know how much of beauty and enjoyment is in store for them and their children in the wealth of trees and shrubs and flowering plants at their command.—San Francisco Chronicle. ' DRAINS. How Mucli They Are Needed in Baras and Barnyards. Drains about the barns should not only include those for carrying off the rain-water, but there should be sufficient of them to carry off the liquid manure where it can be saved and made use of. This part of the manure contains nearly all the potash and nitrogen of the food, and is far toff valuable to lose, even at the cost of considerable expense in providing for its saving. The value of a cow’s urine has been considered equal to that of her food, and, considering the high value of fertilizers and the prices a farmer has to pay for them, it is not at all an unreasonable estimate. And yet how few farmers save any portion of it, although fertilizers are purchased at a great cost every year. A simple system of drains, made at the cost of a few dollars, would save all these valuable elements of fertility, and remove from the yard what is now left to become a nuisance and a waste. These liquids may be carried into a shallow pit cemented at the bottom, or a tank lined with plank, and these may be filled with absorbents to be added to the manure heap; or the solid manure and litter may be wheeled out of the stables and thrown into the pit or tank, and made to absorb the liquid. This is a very important matter to be attended to now when there is leisure. But the drainage from the roofs should not be mixed with the manure, or the latter will be so sodden that it will not ferment and heat, .and the valuable parts of it will be washed out. The field drains may not require any elaborate system of underground tife draining, thousands of dollars have been buried in this way without any necessity. There are circumstances in which underdraining in a thorough and competent manner may be required. As, for instance, when water flows from high ground and saturates a lower place, this saturated ground requires a complete system of drains to remove the water from it But the evaporation from the soil in our climate where the summer heats are intense, and drying winds ' blow almost continually from the interior of the continent, is so great that theeotteoon loses a surplus of water that mayhSppen from occasional heavy rains, ahd the danger we experience is ra^M-r from a deficiency than an excess_r>f moisture. It is not safe in this, respect to rely upon English authori ies and opinions. In that moist climate, although the rainfall is not much more than half as much as ours, the soil is nearly always filled to overflowing because of the very inadequate amount of evaporation. There the air is filled With moisture for weeks at a time, so that a constant drizzle is falling, even when the almost daily showers have an intermission. On this account the excess of water in the soil calls for complete underdrainage, even in sandy and gravelly fields, which is by no meahs 'necessary in our drier climate, although our rainfall is greater. For this reason, complete drainage of laftd is rarely required here and is frequently exceedingly injurious, as it discharges from the soil the surplus water which is indispensable as a supply during the l^fer dry weather of the summer.—Times.

—The knitting erase has succeeded that of the crazy qnilt, and the result is every day pleasing window visions of pretty misses engaged in knitting, some of whom attire themselves to suit their work in genuine grandmotherfashion of chintz dresses and white handkerchiefs folded neatly across their bosoms. The poor of the city are the grateful recipients of the greater portion of the mittens, stockings, neckscarfs and other useful articles made by these fair manipulators of the knittingneedles.—JT. T. L«tter, in Trey Times.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. 1 _ The production of fine wool in the United States is increasing even more rapidly than the consumption. —Drumming on a closed hire, or blowing a little smoke from burning rags or decayed wood, inside the hive will frighten the bees, and cause them to at once fill themselves with honey.— Troy Times. —Experience has conclusively shown that the public taste for fruit keeps pace with the increased production. Desirable fruit products are now almost constant articles of diet, while their healthfulness is universally conceded.—N. Y. Herald. —In washing flannels it is a mistake to use very hot water. Wash them in lukewarm water in which soap has been dissolved, and rinse in clear water of the same temperature, stretching them well in both directions before hanging on the line.—Albany Journal. —Lemon buns are made of one-quarter of a pound of butter, half a pound of sugar, one pound of flour, four eggs, half a teacubfnl of sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, add lemon extract to your taste; currants, also, if yon choose. Bake in a moderate oven. —Boston Globe. —Washington pie. Six tart apples, six ounces of sugar, six ounces of butter or thick cream, six eggs, the grated peel of one lemon, half the juice. Grate the apples, after paring and eoreing them; stir together the butter and sugar, as for cake. Then add the other ingredients, and bake with rich under paste only.—The Household, —Women with country homes and forced to depend on themselves for a living could doubtless in many caJro support themselves by poultry raising if they will do as the dandy did who became an expert in arranging his necktie—“give their whole mind to it.” It does not require a heavy capital to start with three or four dozen fowls, and when these are a success then enlarge. —Exchange.

—The average size of farms in the United States decreased from 203 acres in 1850 to 134 acres in 1882; the percentage of unimproved land decreased 61.5 per cent, to 49.9 per cent., and tho assessed valuation almost trebled. As the population pushes westward the number of small farms will increase, the great ranches of the West will be divided and the “evil” will remedy it-' self.—Albany Evening Journal. —For fried chicken, cut the chicken into six or eight" pieces. Season well with salt and pepper. Dip in beaten egg, then in fine bread crumbs in which there is one teaspoonful of chopped parsley for every cupful of crumbs. Fry ten minutes in'boiling fat Cover the center of a cold dish with Tartare sauce. Arrange the chicken on this and garnish with a border of pickled beets, so that it can be served with cream.— Savannah ((?«.) News. —To bleach sheeting, soak the cloth twelve hours in soap-suds, then take for every twenty-five yards of sheeting a half pound of chloride of lime and dissolve .it in enough boiling water to cover the cloth when dipped into it. When the lime is dissolved strain the solution through a cloth; then put the sheeting in and stir constantly for a half hour; rinse well in pure water; then boil in strong suds and bang in the air to dry. Flannel, which has become yellow, may be whitened by putting it for twenty-four hours in a solution of hard soap water and ammonia. Use a half pint of ammonia to one pound of soap and one gallon of water.—Toledo Blade. ‘ PIG FEEDING AND PORK. flow to Produce a Mountain of Fat from a Healthy Little Pig. So long as there is a demand for fat hogs there, must be a supply; and, of course, the question with the farmer is, how can I most rapidly and cheaply produce the largest possible mountain of fat from my, at present healthy little pig? Prof. Browne, of the Ontario Agricultural College, after testing the

question with a large number of animals and in a variety of ways, declares that “raw peas are fifty percent, cheaper than cooked peas, and cheaper than Indian com in any form.” Of course the latter point would' depend upon the price of the two commodities. As to the best manner of feeding, a farmer neighbor of mine, who raises one or two very fat hogs every year, finds that upon the one-meal-a-day plan he never fails to secure (1) a large frame, (2) extreme fatness finally, and (3) freedom from sickness, all "of which he humorously attributes to (4) “keeping ’em happy and contented.” His neighbors’ pigs, fed three or font times a day, are, so he says, “squealing alt the time they ain’t eatin’ ” while his own “get up and eat their one square meal, and then lie down an’ sleep most of the. time.” One season, raising three pigs, he made (t. e., exclusive of weight of the animals when he bought them) 1,260 pounds of pork in 180 days, an average of seven pounds or two and onethird pounds, each, a day. The last two months the trio consumed, on an average, ten quarts raw corn-meal a day. The dry meal was turned on top of fresh water (a pailful or two) in the trough. Thus only were they watered and fed. When killed, though not fully up to the Straasbnrgh geese, which are fed for fat livers (for the famous pates de foie gras so beloved by gourmets) and which are so accurately diagnosed by the expert attendant, that only those are killed to-day that would die an unnatural death from “liver complaint” to-morrow; still the fat disease was developed fully up to, in fact, above the average. So much for the question of excessively fat, instead of meaty or fleshy animals. With regard to the desirability of hogs of the latter class, an observing writer has remarked that out-of-door pigs would not show so well at the fairs, and would probably be passed by judges and people who have been taught only to admire only the fat and helpless things which get the prizes, and which are, truly enough well adapted to fill lard kegs; but the standard of perfection should be a pig Which will make the most ham with the least waste of fat, the largest and deepest sides with the most lean meat. It should also have bone enough to allow it to stand up and help itself to food and carry with it the evidence of health and development in all its parts. Without work or exercise, the muscular System, that is the flesh or lean meat, can never be largely, developed, but on the contrary, it begins to degenerate with all living creatures the moment exercise ceases. The outdoor air and exercise which makes the muscle,will as surely develop the whole organism, and not only produce a long.

large irame, and rumish the solid legbones to bear it erect An acquaintance who prides himself on raising (in ^ barn cellar on a mamirii-'heap!) ‘‘healthy pig pork” for his own family, instead of buying the Western produced article (where the poor animals are exposed to pure air and com on the cob) once remarked of his Christmas pig: “Why, even the bones are so tender that they chew up almost like the meat itself!” This illustrates I may say in passing, the condition of fat,“rickety” children. No matter how “hard and good’’ their fat is described to be, it is pie kind I have been talking about; and if we could look beneath the wretched stuff, we would find the muscular and nervous systems very lean and attenuated just as we do in the case of fat sheep -and hogs.—C, E- Paige M. D.i in N, Y. Tribu n e,

Nitrate of Soda. A good commercial article of nitrate of soda contains fourteen and one-half per cent, of nitrogen. The price is now about fifty dollars per ton. In other words, the nitrogen costs about seventeen cents per pound. It is in an active available condition, and there is probably no cheaper source of nitrogen. Market-Gardeners, nurserymen, and all others who buy manure, could unquestionably use nitrate of soda to great advantage. What the market-gardener needs is rich manure. The ordinary manure obtained from city stables and elsewhere is poor in nitrogen—especially in soluble nitrogen. Five hundred pounds of nitrate of soda used in conjunction with twenty tons of manure per acre, would often produce a better crop than forty tons of manure. We have used it with decided benefit on asparagus, onions, young cabbage plants, carrots, beets, celery’, etc. Nitrate of soda is very soluble, 'and should be applied in small doses to the growing crop. Much will be washed out of the soil by heavy rains.—American Agriculturist. The Poetical Market. He came into an Austin newspaper office and in a very pompous manner handed the editor a document, wit!} the remark: ' “My friends, to whom I have read this poem, praise it very highly, so 1 have concluded to allow you to publish it for a reasonable remuneration. “I can't publish your poem, but I can give you a hint how you can make money out of it,” replied the editor, after he had read over the verses. , “I should be touch obliged to you.” “Those friends of yours who admire your poem so much have got money, have they not?” “O, yes, some of them are quite wealthy.” j. “Then you bet them one to ten that there is not a paper in theUnited States that will publish the poem, without being paid for it, and you will scoop them for all they are 'worth. Good morning. ’’— Texas Siftings.

—The Connecticut Humane Society is to receive annually one-eighth of the income of $100,000 or more under the provisions of the will of the late Junius I>. Bristol, of Southington. —There is said to he no difficulty in raising all the grass needed for hay anywhere in the State of Florida, where the land is good. Egyptian millet grows well. 820,000 Gone! San Francisco, Cal.—The Chronicle publishes in substance the following marvel. Captain AT. F. Swasey, the oldest pioneer of the coast, makes a statement of the intense suffering of his friend Colonel D. J. Williamson, an Army officer of distinction, and an Ex-U. S. Consul, who was attacked In the winter of 1861-2 with violent rheumatism. So great was his agony in after years he became a helpless cripple, and after trying numberless remedies, the baths of other countries and spending a fortune of $20,000, the disease seemed to assume a more virulent type. Finally, he was persuaded to try St. Jacobs Oil, the great conqueror of pain. It worked a miracle of cure. In a letter to the Chronicle he confirms Captain Swasey’s statement and adds: “I cheerfully give my unqualified attestation to the truthfulness of the statement, because I feel perfectly certain that a knowledge of my cure by St. Jacobs Oil will prove the means of relieving hundreds of sufferers.” Tor areover head and ears in debt because you haven’t paid your hatter. Yoang Men, Head This. The Voltaic Belt Co., of Marshall, Mich., offer to send their celebrated Electro-VoL* taic Belt and other Electric Appliances ou trial for 30 daf^s, to men (young or old) afflicted with nervous debility, loss ofvitality and all kindred troubles. Also for rheumatism,neuralgia, paralysis, and many other diseases. Complete restoration to health, vigor,and manhood guaranteed. No risk incurred, as 30 days’ trial is allowed. AVrite them at once for illustrated pamphlet, free. A cutaway jacket is the proper costume for an elopement. For Throat Diseases, Coughs, Colds, etc., effectual relief is found in the use of “Brown's Bronchial Troches.” Price 25cts. With the drunkard life is reel.—Philadelphia Chronicle. Ir afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Isaac Ehompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 250. A promising young man—One who gets his clothing on credit.—Chicago Sun. About thirty years ago a prominent physician. Dr. William Hall, discovered a remedy for diseases of the throat, che6t and lungs, which was of such wonderful efficacy that it soon gained a wide reputation fri this c 'untrv. The name of the medicine is Dr. Wm. Hall’s Balsam for the Bungs. Love may laugh at locksmiths, bnt he smiles very complacently on coachmen.— Boston Budget. Judgment Day January 4, ISSN. We are prepared to prove it by the AVord of God. For information, address O. B Kail or A. J. Rawson, Woodhull, HI. Benjamin Franklin was married at the age of twenty-one. He discovered lightning shortly afterward. Pike’s Toothache Drops cure Ini minute, 25c. Glenn's Sulphur Soap heals and beautifies. 25c. German Corn Removes kil Is Corns a Bunions. THE MARKETS.

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