Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1873, Page 7

NCILED. BY S85 ZEEE. (After Bret Harte.) Sam Bright ? Oh, Yeu! High asa kite, J bat cowder-milt Biowed up to kill. How old? Turned twenty, ood deeds plenty; ‘There's one gate that Nor L, gold will pass through. His wife? Of No course, Most took her life, in force ‘The rain-storm goes by, ‘Then sunshine, and everything’sdry. Couldn't come in. Old Brooks, Big pile; Pxhaw! looks! ld wins love's omilles:: irief hangs up her harp, Hamph! widows! they're sharp. Fat Contributor's Saturday Night. THE GUARDIAN CAT. Ihave grown tired of photography, partly be- eause my fingers were continually black, partly DLeeause peopleawho meant to pr: me always said that my results were very good for the work of an amateur; but some years ago I was wild about it. ‘mania wasto photograph bits of scenery ant ruins which had nev mn foens- was in the west of E and. The wildest paris of Seotia Ireland and Wales have a tourist. hem, slimy touts and ciceroni crawled over thelr surface with snail-like severance and stolidity. and left traces. But no one has ever written a hand-book of Dowd; no one wowli bay itif he did. Dowd has no scen. ery in partvcalar, mo wat-riall, no antiquities of historica! « philosophical interest. There was aruin.dwierd; but commonplace impecuniosi- ty, not romentic war nor mysterious haunting, had cansed its deeyw, and, what was more, a fellow jived in i a@smnuggier nor coiner, | either. bot the rigtfal owner. } I shoul! not have found that out, if it had not been for a thunder-storm. I was hard at work | with my apparatus an; agination—«Ruin | near Dowd. West ‘Rain near Dowd, | 2? &c.—when the sk ¥ ou would t passed the day so long as I got shelter. Part of | the root seemed to be in ped enongh repair; | so I struck my camera and little tent at once, aud com n ned an exploration of the inter! as the first drops comme: crown-sizet sp'ashes. After penetrating the dilapiate? ooter walls, 1 ought to have seen that the kernel of the place was ina more hab- table cendition; for there had been an attompt st cultivating wegetables in an inner garden, amd th mework of certain windows wa= glazed tI wasso eager to get my unter shelter before the rain came on in earnest. thet [ noticed nothing of this; and so t poned that I blund: tuto @ furnished ‘ot that the furniture was exten- was enongh to swear by; a deai- cherry-wood chairs, and a’ portrai oils, about totaled it. A man deal-table when I entered. P at the intrusion; and [ saw that ang. thin and dressed in a suit i's plaid, con: bly the worse for “y not knowing th pat. or, at least of so tumble- somewhat bitterly a! ut come in. I have er you, I fear; but “T would not you, if it were not that I have be taking some large photographs, and do not wish them to be spoil that I am sorry to keep my skin out of such a deluge as this.”” For the storm had now bu t with great fury. hes of lightning averaged about three to the ; the thunder was rather a suc explosions than the normal roll; and came dew cogsion of e rain f ail the cargovies of Enrope g am international spouting match noticed. This was a very large black hich emerged from under the table and | stretched himself, and, without taking the | slightest notice of myself, proceeded to examine intere: v Ingenge that he had no reason. The w: gently 3 gain. alone proved fectly m» prepared to satistied himself that there mas no great mischief to be apprehended; | ‘or presently he came to his master’s side, gave | hrm & rub on the Knee,and then began to groom bimself with his ,e “Poor old Dabble!” said his master, scratch- ng his head with a forefinger; and the animal, instead of pu like another cat, gave a lit: He murmured “Yow, yow !”—as evident an at- ieTayt to speak as «Dabble. “Yes: he possible. Polite tor diable?” | inquired. my familiar, and. with one excep- md and companion. Are you Fifteen years, I should say.” do vot think I “am very curious about other "s private affairs, asa ralrule; but I tainly coufess to having felt that impertinent passion In the present instance. Who was this man, whose manners, phraseology, aud ent bespoxe ap educated gen’ 7 Aud why did he live in a ruinalone with a black cat double the size and intelligence of other biack cats? Well, he didn’t, quite. There was a witch « mpi with the iblishment; and presen came in. Her hooked nose, cury- (SLM And general appearance might’ fairly have burned her, were faith not cold without | collateral evidence; but she carried her broom n her hand, and the black ea¢ ran to her, rub bed against her eld legs, sat up, and plang bis claws again and again into her dress with | cestatic grasps. Dammatory signs against the whole family: **Tortures for three!” the order veremptor ily demanded by the fitness of things, 3 at ee was a poor, degenerate, harmiess witch; perhaps a lapsed witch. who had been baptized: for she was of the thunder.and shook like a screw-steamer in a sale whenever a fresh e' came. She hat taken refuge in @ vault which was once acellar, smd had ed out. The sight of me rightened her almost as mach as the thander the water. We are not nsed to visitors,” said the young ..With asmile of nation. «Phis gen- tiemain has come in for shelter, Molly. Have we offer him besides dry bread and Dabble bronght in a rabbit early this morn. Master Waiter,” mumbied the old woman. Dabble ! and he patted the cat's head. pok the rabbit for us, please, Molly.” There were some smoldering wood-embers on the large hearth, which the old woman raked togethe up into a flame; and then | addin disappeared to skin the | Dabb , which was in due time boiled. and set before us. Our table-cloth, though very coarse, was clean; and the same id of the iron forks. I added the bread cheese from my knapsack to the an common stock. h appearing over the edge of the board till he received a suftabie morsel. when be went down and dispatehed it on the floor, reappearing when it was finished. If his master proved dilatory, he put out a paw » sideways, dabbed his arm, at the same time laintive me: we three m0" Whe our meal,we left the table; and the harmicas witch sat down, and had her din- ner before ci away. Of course I had . ‘etemioan One bit amongst four is cause they mate a great I shotkl not have been surprised bat proud dom placed in a correspondii dion im some Cente of Spain; ct even te the situation would not have seemed abnormal. But that an English gentleman having good health, should mot orenlisted, er driven a cab, would give bim £30 unintelligible muddie to me. efections: sot wut reflections; 80 planation, that iy hortant | grow betore = rom Dow to go back with me, that I became very intimate with uged my stay im the quence; and that he dl Wae* plery of a lawsnit. ions t! ves throwing substance in thelr race after a shadow, ‘amily and its acres had dwindled dows i | all; but after itwas mad. | cif | Shan ‘bound ined would be accepted as evidence. But, after adeal of learned ment, and some hesitation, the authorities who had to decide the matter declined to take the will for the deed; and the case was kept for the benefit of a fresh set of lawycrs, at that time not out of their dinners and articles. _T country to infinity. As a means of i their number, 1 would suggest that offered by all Se em 2A oir societies best trained and_ most i le did gt se heir; he did sink the money. Fortunately for her, the wife died before it was quite spent. The goodly Musgrave estates all eke said, the house and homestead ing alone retained. This last bit of strand was stuck to tenaciously, because it was prett; certain that the iron safe, with the cove! parchment inside it, was somewhere about the pre But where? It is needless to say that it had been weil hunted for, ex ; and, indeed, the rul house was, im no small measure, owing to the ruthless manner in which some of these inves- both; and him. supply: neither are ripe grapes so most other fruits. Cut oe Pi even suspended in a dry room, by keeping. Besides the grapes that for the itful grapevines on cottages. Thave known this done to such ex- cellent effect that the vines became models of such a spirit as emulation was stirred up that one laborer had paid another two days of his wages to do up his vines for here need be no fear of an excessive erishable as ece of wood attached aot eont in bottles of water, or will keep good for months, and even improve are not ome-made eaten can readily be converted into a cheay “Sappty, wot quite all the money of Watter | bsterage, the Trejadicn sgainat homsmede Muagrave’s father went to the lawyers; somo of ines has 4 mye g Fs it was spent in educating him in a manner be- fitting “the position he would hold when the lawsuit was over, and the valuable house. property at his disposal. But his father died, and the funds gave out before he had finished Lis intended course; and he found himself in currant, imrose, goowe! wine. “hbec of them who ah or berry, or rl grow their hands likewis at real bane this is better than nothing but beer, On the contrary there are few of these who do not contrive to make a few bottles of elder, habarb mostly in. Ihave known cases not a few in which the queer, tantalizing, poverty-stricken con- home-mad: board Aition In whieh T found Him when photography | ®,2ittle hon mivageis metcoetins Go hate kane and a thunderstorm us together. | Bands at ‘home. “Neither is there any reason When he firet commenced his confidences, I why home-made wine should be confined to the Pena seg rn. eben #T mestally working classes. RS many parts of England perm aoe he with ceraemond pet ge mapas be mado equal or superior to many short wine of France phy of that ancestor. But by degrees I grew Tederestods his account was acer enough, if mine is not; and he had Cuca aaa oa Sind Dabble, amd | however, it will ‘be earning bread the ruin tothe care of Me losing oll look about for some method of to give a few receipts with and without water, and thus and Germany. The chief fauit of our out of door grapes has by adding 90 many ‘allons of water to the grapes. The noxt step | to show for everything he adi At last [ pert was able to concelve Now it was pomible to keen | siping firmed gown the gallon of the | Lim out of what seemed so undoubtedly his | watery juice or must, “One can Sale wont — tarp I wus aetalewyer. tadhemnes at the waste of att this trouble and expense. | enough tor such liberty, Italked reason to him, | jf that ie too aehd, acid idee nce eam urging him to throw t ing game up, leare ‘ve most useful r allow your readers considerable ‘latitude in and bacon; for even Lg beh poryenn tory an he | Seuachtengd taste wre erin It will be geen in the weed Eee eee ee ick ot eit for | Scatel that if we err in watering our must or forty pounds a year; he got about ten pounds | for the apples in his orchard, and half as much more for the hay that was cut init. Dabble, | who was an arrant, but not a self-seeking her, occasionally brought in a rabbit or a t; that was what the last of the Mus- lived on. He owned that it savored of to goon like that; that his best course e to sell what little homestead remain- m—which he could do at a fancy price, retaining pasion of itdestroyed th vmpactness of the remsinder of the éstate— | and make a fresh start in the world; but said he simply coukl not do it. | “s arise you could make one vigorous effort,” j said I. “Of course I could,” he replied, “if that were | le—a week after, or a ears after—I should if we water once, man a m wine makers wa‘ London Garden. A Detectives Story. er, of Newark, reads like a novel writer’ | time ago, to work up @ counterfeitin, Jim. open month, or @ year. or five be drawn back into this inherited struggle; and it Lthen had to bear the reflection that 1 had thrown away a change, I feel certain that agen- timent of remorsefal regret would drive me wad. No, you might just as well tell Laoeooa to make an effort, and wrench himself free of the serpent folds. i he could, they would twine to find thatseveral of the 5 citizens, and members o Dutch Jim,” that shrewd and cumming life would have been the forfeit. Di rape juice, we err in distinguished company; f if the French and many times. and stew and torture the leesinto the bargain.—Th- After much trouble he succeeded in getti mitted to the gang, under the name of ‘ Dutch ‘The Newark Courier tells the rest: ‘heir headquarters was in ene of the ceme- where they met nightly, and a partially rave, in an obscure part of the burial ground, contained the spoils of not only the re- sult of the counterfeiting, but of a number of | bold robberies committed by the gang. The de- tective worked his case well, ana was astonished ang were well-known churches. Had the Fang once suspected the true. character of A little episode in the life of Detective Beck- "s story. Mr. Becker was ordered to Fort Wayne some oa felicw’s ifferent one’s . he gang were arrested, and always “‘Dutch round him again, when he was reneeaee ee . F 7 A the party “copped,” but he I never annoyed him with common sense ways by the ‘skin of bis teeth,” again; and, indeed, atter a little while, I caught the chancery infection myself. Of course> it was but in # mild form, as -had no property of my own at stake; but I had itsufficiently to alter wy ideas entirely, and sympathize with the per- tent struggle with in which my new riend was engaged. To tell the truth, I was in an unhealthy state of mind at that time, hav- been recently jilted—a misfortune, which, they grow ace’ to it, often makes JPEnE men sulky with the world in general. My sulks took the form of isolation, tempered and resider.: wa, with pot, the car which the burgiars occuy rded by a dozen officers. A fearful ances) as did his turn some good blows. captured, and in compan sey,” were put in cells. ination came, “Dutch Jim” was put at a canny black cat to be broken, and the was secured. has since returned to Newark, and is the city foree. A Very Mard Case. A case now pendin; Rocroy, in the de ity ob the part of the Prussian y on the been quoted against them by Fre avowediy bent on convicting conduct. The re of the s 5 antversity abraplly when his father died, and left him the dormant lawsuit, and nothing else. Then, at first, he was — of being able shortly to oer his lary a better home than the: modestly pic! forthem- selves, bat after a while, when he had well studied the story of the family failures, his love was but another wedge in the torture-boot. I consoled him with the reflegtion that his case was far better than mine, hf girl was faithful to hin, or at least he thought so, and he hada chance; whereas I knew for certain that the them of Vaux. next day a column of the Prasian be released. At last the final blow came—the arrest of the five leaders, and ‘Dutch Jim’? was ene. They were on thoir way to commit a burglary in a neighboring town. Recker had telegraphed the government officers to be ready, and when the train reached th cht oc~ mid as it was not yet time for “Dutch dim” to be publicly known. he entered into the fight with as much earnestness (to all appear- = and he did receive in re- , ‘The ring-leaders were with “Jim from Jer- the day of exam- on the stand, and when he gave as his occupation, government secret service officer,” the coun- terfeiters wilted. The evidence was too strong Becker now on before the tribunal of mt of the Ardennes, horrible an exampie of sever- fs any that has writers, odious port case shows that about two months after the battle of Sedan, on the 28th of October, 1370, a Prussian soldier was killed by Franc-tireurs in or near the vill: of heat ot ine was amore popcgum, and that t | ‘AMfwht Occupled the village. seized the men had bern shot out of it a another fellow popped | the number of 23, in the church, telling hat I was Tacky Pape Ee had | ‘hat they must choose three from co changed her mind before , instead of afters and I could not contradict that. reropened the door, and presented to the ‘among them. selves to be shot. After waiting 75 hours, they - : ers @ helmet containing 28 numbered pieces of Bs tra pee aen Tes misfortunes was | paper, for them to dra lote with, Three men, ‘De you la es sho grieve for pet ani- | DOWever, offered themselves; or, what is much mani rate, “Omiya dog'* folks say Well, | More painful, three meu were pointed out Gans water sor worth my regret | Whom @ majority of their companions had ‘se- than a continent fall ef men and women who | \ected by vote—by universal suffrage—to un- dergo the out of the e! arch Pneee against: cemetery, and shot. don’t. Still more absurdiy, Umes attempted; and we are not second thought to the lossof an animal, ‘that be has for the loss they sustained escape by ig lots.— Pall _ A CRUEL STEPMOTHER—Sad Cate malty of death. They were taken e wallof the Their widows now demand ‘rom their survivors compensation at civil law their hus- bands not byion Siowen to take their chance of Mall Gacette. Inhuman, cae . Ps then Greek, but ‘Bish _ ee Wan, ae tee 2ist Pe thodox a man as eyes Well, whatever may be the 5 a animals, einer, endowment » Dabble must have had a soul; 2s icant he reasoned. and certainly would have. | ‘hutgnation of tis nelgiinons gud ean tes t ec rat i him. Do n to tell me that a | ntrference. Officer Ketcham was sent to the of other hi = bt f whois but e! ears oF tere beating, one large seit, extend! across her It was also locked up two nigh where she was nearly fro: left by eating them quietly in the a rods? “le took no medicine; he had no doctor, and yet he died, poor dear—which looks as if the stolen something.—N. P. Post, 20th. a a More AccIDENTAL SHOOTING. — The of No. 319 east 37th street, wasin the habit of cruelly maltreating her step- e ce the woman. ee, bore marks of se- a whip, that she in a dark cellar, zen. The pretext for Unis punishment was a charge that the child had Fictim ing; the next his coat was and he did not M iT i r= it; CS may! he Shag ad about yen — Soa, jan Cavanagh. TaGerscon slew eyes ; on convul- make resen| sions, in the course of one of which he suc. | roms burean drawer to AD aed and letermined to bury him in the orchard, Iie favorite tree, w scratch holes a Mu in the pe SA undoubtedly Hie in wait was taken to Bel! soon widened it, bi Newue went to the Sem ery station-house and surrendered himself to Capt. MeCullough.—¥. » bu him out, but was ‘to do so, and had to and I dug down a little deeper; not much. for f . ‘The machinery was stopped as Was stopped by something harder than a raot—a soon a8 it was known, but not in time to save the big stone, . It was impossible to make | poor man’s . ¥. Bapress, 20th. any impression on it; s¢, as one does not like to beaten, I dug round #t, and tried: to it up| ADVERTISING always Rays, and. sometimes a bodily.” Muagrave had'to help, and the we diz. | person making his wants in this way interred a square iron box. even more he wants. A Boston ant: «By Jove!” cried I. “I wonder if it is the announced to the (pen gh des sate ee eked wax spepeteaher?” , and Bac et red, and then grew deadly Bound tp de!” said he, “and the deed is in in spite of the suapenee, be the gafoon ib we by Bae one . re yatied te AF jaa the’ grave. Then we took our discovery ‘in general sessions i: Wein wistonn Mpeee ee, New York, sentenced to ‘Willie Feldman in Bfvingsos of Mrs. 8. O, Daniels, a hi with Mr. A. W. very a. ‘Mr. pened, pa lg agp her if; ) came ‘ ‘ S7-A husband in North can strike what the jodgec ape panishewont, Now that must be quite law hnsbands ‘whe do ‘hot care woe Healy the Willy, mentioned locomotive te1 = a nable, but the ci ‘ned on the ‘a8 seen falling from the recent train on the bi went back to But the trial was over and the cause i & rH ik If fi F if F E it 8 oie £ eit fie as F z E g aE i F i gE, cE ies Ri ; a E i rt i ) i Bi & Me er followed. It was the theory of the defence stick fell from the first mder. One or two mounced the theory un- rcumstance has since hap- very same bridge. A stick of wood engine-tender of ick te up eead It ta precincts ick it up founs in m as the stick must have been dooomed Willy Clark to prison. poor boy was in rison, pining away, yet only complaining be- Pane Wey Real St Wa grat y wor One night he more about and yay, when he mor his fanc: up, told him-he was not seemed not put mell (the sheriff) said I wouldn’t ever let me come home flark cell alone, boy.—St. Louis Our int nce ys and asked if he q er, to hu- still still further cheer him in prison then, Will froyese and immediate said: “1 di e stick there, mother, but Mr. Gam- must own itor he in” minutes after the mother sat in that the hand of her dead im Dreams, @ne remarkable thing as to the stuff of our dreams is well worth # moment's consideration— and it is this: Of whatever staff we are our- selves made (so far as re; our stitution and ‘fat t, moral con- ition and character, of such stuff our dreams will assuredly partake, in a ver; great degree, whatever may be the forms an: phases—grotesque and ri lous, or awfal and solemn—uyder which they occupy the mind in sleep. It has been frequently asserted by writers on this subject that the dreamer is at on ete., ete, ans e time brave asa lion, at another a mere pol- t one time a knave, at another a saint, But all such descriptions are false « baseless—the moral individuality under- oes no change indreams. The coward neeer reams that he emotions in the land of is valiant, or the brave man that is a coward; the sordid man has no generous nor does the free-handed, hospitable man become a churl in his sleep. The ms ofthe miser will never visions of self-sacrifice and benevolence, nor ye pees the base, mean, @ud impure, be a whit more noble or elevated waking Hours. often acquire wealt tion, or power; in enough that we do, in our dre: than the acts of their true that in dreams we honor, dignity, repata- t, we , and it is likely ms realize, as it Tt ii were, in the course of our lives, all those va- tious lon wakil ings and ambitions which we are the habit of picturing to ourselves in. those myths and day-dreams in which all men, from the necessities or their natuge, in- duige more or less. But, throughout all thess eh vidual no’ ne t undergo a we never lose anges, endless as they are, the moral indi- remains the same, and camot, or will moral change. Again, in dreams our personal identity: one man ver dreams that he is another man, and, though he may dream that he is two men, of ten men, or twenty, yet cach and all of these knows not how. others which _— a tendency to suggest, it Il be none other than himself, multiplied he From these considerations and uld appear that we have ourselves a part lay in furnishing the stuff of our dreams. what extent we are ourselves the creators of r dream-life may perhaps be shown in subse- quent chapters.—Leisure Hour. The Preston, Minn., 2. It storm the an wit a snow drift sto] Progress direction. From the indications, it hey ent he took his oldest child ont of the cut the storm overtook him, and, it appears, when Frightful Case of fe republican, of the 17th “One of the most heart-rending cases of four miles northwestef Granger, im this county. happened that on Tuesday, the day the great ‘eat Mr. Evans,a Welch minister of pel, was away from home with his wife ed two children” On his retara in the evening thin three-quartersof a mile of hisown house, in that rand carried it home, after Hyp gee acouple of blankets, he returned to i ious wife was waiting in the cutter for her e cutter, wr: in the blankets, and, mate 2 home was waiting the old for the return of its father; the anx- us band. Who can describe her tle jecture. the Saturday follow! little frozen occupant; found a stiffened corpse; the eumbed to the raging storm. agony and the lit- one’s terrible suspense! {t is all left to con- When the neighbors called at the house , it had but a solitary e wife and mother was horse had also suc- the unfortunate husband and babe were found, are not detinitely informed. AnoTHER Duap Communist TURNED Ur.— ‘The other day, a case was tricd in which it was stated that a chambermaid in the service of Madame Fould was shot for hidi: when the troops entered Paris. man was sald to be Col. Brunel, who was in command ef noorde. the Place de Cos . He was discovered in a cupboard and shot; the girl was also shot, but she was not dead when left, and reco the wounds she received. The pel now feases to have received a letter Col. seh es ose Lees, eek ee 9 inst charge of incendiarism brou; him. The man shot at Madame Foull's aust have been one of the many unknown that fell during that bloody period.—Paris Corres- pondence London Echo. Worsk THAN PoLtarR Weatuer.—The Hart- ford Times says: “The Jam storm ef the century was that one 18, 14, and 15, in Min- nesota, which was a ive hurricane, accom- panying the thickest at a tem| Of 20° to 30° below zero! No- thing quite up to this—with i awful excep- tion—was ever Dr. Kane's party, even during the winter eeaeon, in all the 0. regions. SrRance Sect mm VeRuont.—There pally on Dear, brown troui Sw thing —————— Owe More AwFuL Wagsine.—The Ohio) of weary in the Polar my The women wear trowsers, or some- ie Mari r says that on the 14th, while Mr. , living meee tler, wap oiling his discnar 5 the ball hired gyri in the head Killed hes inetasties ‘the name of the her age nine! young lady was Deborah eri ewan, A Loxpon REPORTER has recently died who portment Of writing ‘ie econ ped artis alata Atal ate Ualistic theory of Uusiness in the | Tue Mormons bave three lefinite, progression Courier thinks Aggies fer Pesd, arp Se aneey eet ge ane and spring, and will afford « healthfal and neu and oer. e hy “ hour matures, and » from the we are not cer- which tempted ‘Eve inthe igerdsast Race me might have been an ora peach. The word apple pevieB rte » of to the Celts, and ‘apply to them. Sackear; eens or baked, are the best patients in the fevered condition of small pox, fever and erysipelas. It has been well at Seen ore geared fa- vorites.” Every eye every hand reaches tothem. Anapple is a noble fruit, the friend of immortality, and its virtues blush to be tasted. Every muse delights in it, as its my- shows, trom the garden of the Heape- rides the orch: Pilato. A basket of Kinds, stating im. sights shall” pecturms the sf sta im me the = ing ight, pes = : a3 much as it genius. He may wild) tehrewdness snatch wildness from woods, gc cities, learning from libra- ries and universities, compliments m courts; but for subtlety of thought, for sovereign sense, beta melt for color, mn and behavior, he best whieh enter so largely into the component parts ofevery meal. At present, apples are princi- pally used in the form of puddings, pies, tarts, md are more wholesome than when ith butter, eggs and flour. But they are very delicious when simply baked, and rerved at every meal; substituted for pea and such condiments, how 4 would sarely found . Sweet baked apples are a most desirable addition at the breakfast and tea table, and far more healthfal, appropriate and sustainmg than half the dishes usually es- teemed cssent at such times. Served with milk and bread they make the best diet that young children can of, and are very ‘sat g in their ire. Baked ap without meat, are far more sub- stantial food than des Can possibly be made, and to us the dell aroma and flavor are al- Ways most. Sg menor . We would rather go with- out our daily bread our daily sweet RP) cs, eri _— is such an aband- ant crop of ‘aj season, we presume there are mand Fasntiies who will’not use abar- rel of them for the table this season, but will devour at least six barrels of Let us beg of them to equalize the two a little more, and purchase at least three barrels of apples to five of potatoes. They will find that less flour, eggs, si and butter, will be consumed in a family when _ plentiful supply of is iEae‘Phicaceni cae teseser eon ia eats two raw eveni before ~ —— LM. « F = thi not only supp! is brain, bat keep the whole ‘oyster in a healthy condition. For years Lhave followed his ad- that the fruit has been vice, and am confident of great service to me. ‘here are dozens of recipes fo propering, ap- ples for the table, but almost all of them require the addition of ‘butter, eggs, &c., but to us either baking, as. or steaming them, make the most palatable Our family favorite is prepared thus: Wipe the apples perfectly clean, dipping them first into boiling water; then with a “corer” remove ali the seeds a: stem, by punching it through the apple. Place the fruit into a deep baking dish, put a table- spoonful of white sugar into the middle of each apple, turn a teacup of boiling water with three tablespoonsful of su dissolved init. Bake in 4 slow oven until quite soft, taking care not to burn the skins. Take out in dish and serve with cream; milk wili do, but it is a poor substi- tute for the richer article; concentrated milk, however, is equally good. The apples can also be pared, cored, and sweetened, and placed in a deep ‘on the upper part of the stove; a large teacup of boil- ing water poured over them, and a plate laid over the dish. Boil them unti soft, and ther is no trouble about removing the skins wh: eating them. Sweet apples ean be treated in this way, using molasses instead otyngar, pre- ferred; and they will be delicions in Or, Pickied apples are almost ‘as Lae ge A as pickled peaches, and arecasily prepared. Take one pound of coffee crushed sugar, No. 1, and dimokee it in one quart of cider vinegar; add to it one tablespoonful of whole cloves, two of all- spice berries, and two of stick cinnamon, broken fine. Boil and skim it for twenty minutes. Put into the syrup small sweet apples, let them cook until a broom corn will run through them, but do not let the skins break badly. Skim out into ajar, and turn over the boiling liquor. Smaii sour apples can be used, if desired, and the Siberian crab apple makes a delicious relish if thus prepared. ‘The ingenions housewife can invent ways of cooking apples; if the skillful French cooks have discovered three hu and sixty-five Ways of cooking an egg, surely our inventive brains can discover two hundred ways of cook- ing apples. ‘Apple short-cake is “dainty dish to set be- fore one’s king;” and most husbands appreciate it. Fair friends, let us cultivate the use of apples for food, and not let them decay in our cell for want of appreciation. 8. 0. J. How to Pluck Poul ‘That farmer whose poultry is not troubled with the gapes, that has not been visited with the chieken eh era, knows what it is to prepare forty or fifty fowls for market since the practice of scalding has been vetoed by the buyers. I have known persons on market day to go out and kill a dozen or fifteen at a time and hy § them into a room where they would be a dozen women and boys ulling a few feathers at a time between the thumb and forefinger to prevent tearing them. Now, for the bene- fit of such I give our plan: Hang the fowl by the feet by a small cord; then, wich e small knife give one cut across the upper jaw, oppo- site the comers of the mouth; after the Tood ped running @ stream, place the point of the knife in the groove in the upper part of the head, which will cause a quivering and twitching of the muscles; now is your time, for every feather yields as if by ic, and there hefore he attempts to gp, you can have kim as before he attem| , you can have as bare as the day he came out of the e; The wise ones may 88 the reasons—I only know the effects—Cor. N. ¥. Tribune. Care of Manure im Winter. It is quite to prevent manure from be- coming frozen during the winter. By proper management it may be worked over so as to be made in the best condition oe es, of spring for use on grass iand to be pi ‘for corn; or fine enough to harrow into plowed land. ld be kept piled in 3 com- pact heap, in which shape it will ferment, and i sufficient heat to resist the severest frosts and melt all the snow that may fall = it, and ————— a to prevent 2 fanging. The heap be turned once or twice, and the outside coarse manure put into the center. By this treatment early in spring, it may be made fine and perfectly well-rotted.- American Agriculturist. Tae Latest Story Asovr SToxes.—About ten days Sf; it is said, Stoker received an anonymous ij x up is spirits, and if enclosed jtokeg these communications to Mr. Townsend, that gentle: tarned i i that on business and that before the assault he was making $150 Ppt aged for the that the as- ee ee ea ee: ‘The marshal testified that hetsed no mare force fee The ‘on Mond brought ine verdiet of 61000 dassages for Jobeon. SCHARGE OF 5 Me ‘ Isaiah ‘the le. ie fell wae a sound an alarm. and seven children. BoaD SuiTs—It is aaa oe some Pi Saeco ‘eharges. These suits colored coro- aman bape and brains eet against atree while tem poems on snow to one about among the win- ALPHABETICAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY: Osatatetag Cords of First-Class Butabo Miehmenis t= oi Branches of Best= ees bm the Bistréct. Sent fee Se ine gor pase’ come, tne pom. oe A 5 2 Co, hay 7 a3 Patent Pinan EN. "a Ale, Georget' ie 4 ot sion cirate Rot bom ae aaa t Dovorass x) cvacren, i338 ih MANGERS. x Joon, a c. cient brates ee. CornLann, 43 La. ave., bet. 6th and 7th sts. ERIES. KRAPET. 1745 Pa. ave. corner Ith street. Lame, Mat Pies Htcad, am Br Capital st has. M Hour Aen Baw Tth street, between G and H. BANKS $= BANKERS. Rigos & Co., ecutive avenwe, corner of 1th st. National Savinos Basg, cor, N. ¥ 15th Frxrvwrs's Savina & Tavst Co.,Pa. ve £56 Waterst., Gen B ; IES. at MiTiNG Straw Ht. & Bt. Bleacher, 9% Pa. av. DERS. MEs. 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FRANK BARNUM Joux J. PEasopy, ( RW Mrs. TW Sttirenoy's Goi L ‘UNBIDER, JUAN BOYLE & co., KEAL ESTATE AND pore BROKERS, No. 606 Fwrzextu Staxet, ©: COppostte Treasury.) Jou FDomam, Rest, bet. th & 0th and 19820 st. Horace shod according to natural formation of feet. | "Guo uf TELS. frold ARLINGION House, Vermont ave. and H street. CoxtixentaL Pa. One of 19 USE-FURN: on the Opequan, 's aw dere Beas 2 Hatt. Super acre. ‘Both of these farms exe great bar- COMPANIES, ‘Six lots on north aide Bode i ee igee ger TORT} og ES ot easiness os ‘One lot_on south side, nearly opposite, on very ‘Sood lath streets. LEE FACEOMIES mano, va. non. she ering x rooms, been, voomr.