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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1879)
r- - . ft .it ! . ti T I J T-THE RED CLOUD CHEF. H. I.. THOXAS, Fibllthtr. RED CLOUD, -- - NEBRASKA. A MORNING DREAM. I, for removed from meadows green, vrom tranquil ahade or woodland lawns, Lie In my attic, all alone. And dream the while the morning dawrn-. About my brain there flit, like birds. Thoughts of a past eurpawsing lair; 1 hear old unloroottcn words. ltemcmbered footsteps on the stair. Old odors, olden songs, perhaps - Bleep seems to melt them Into ono Come hack, and all the long elapse . . OLtimc rolls back to days long gone. 1 know I'm dreaming; if 1 wake I shall descend to narrow dys And petty cares, which grudge and take The time I'd spend in other ways. Mv daily labor, hard and stern, "Gives me so little, takes so much; Gives mo such wages as I earn. Hut chills my life with Icy touch. There's nothing left. Vainly I think In duty done to find content; Each dawning day wakes me tohrink " From life, from which the sou! seems rent. This Is my happiest hour, this time, lirief moment of my morning dream, Keforo 1 hear the unwrlcome chiine, Sounding far more In rain than gleam. 'Tis then 1 smell the lilies white, Who.se tall e talks swayed in that still place, Half garden, half a desert bright. Where I hist sawyou face to face. I see 3ou as you stood, I hear Your voice that mingled with the birds', And all the sounds far off and near, . Making a prelude to your words. I look beyond, across the wold, To where tho -windmill stood andhurl'd Its giant arms, that turned and rolled In dizzy motion, quickly whirled. I sec the pigeons wheeling high Above our heads; the golden bees; Treasured with honey-laden thigh, Like winged Insect argosies. I see it all; it fades and dies , Into the irray oi waning nours. An rnlnbnws lade In summer ski 09. Whoso brilliant color mocked the flowers. Oh weary light! that comes to glad A hundred hearts, no smile you bring To Jiie, whose heart, though now so sad, Wsis once as light as swullow's wing. Oh Holds ! where never more my feet Will tread, as in the long ago, In dreams L smell your fragrance sweet. - And see the corn Uowcis sway and blow. Ctltic Monthly. THE DEATH-RED OF MRS. O'FLA HERTl't nfcar me last wurrudsi Faix, there's 0'- Shaughnessy, That wurruld's thafc! owes nie nlncpincc happeny. And there's rhll Coyne, with his decaivlng thricks, Owes me live shllllns, and there's Tathrick - Free ly the same token owes me two and six, Thc'craythurl May the dlvil howld him fasti" " The mild coman is sinsible to the last!" "Give mo a dhropl Arrah, where was I thin? And I o e 51icky O'Fail wan pound tin, And Phelim M'darthy two pounds, and I owe Tin cc pounds to Jimmy Hone, and Mrs.Flynn Wan pound slvin shilliu's, two plnce happe ny. Xo! TIs tuo plnce and thrco farthfn's, by your laves." " JTotcly St. rathrick! Hear noichowshe raves!" Scribneror April. HER BLUE-EYED ROY. " My boy, my boy, nry blue-eyed boy, For thee I sigh, for thee I weep, When others tread the mazy dance, Or smile In happy dreams and sleep. Torn from these loving arms away, Uy thosu who recked not tear or prayer, Ei e thou couldstspeakthy mother's name, My tiny bud, my babclet fair. " My boy, my boy, my blue-eyed boy, . Could I within thy bright eyes gaze, Or have an hour to kiss thee in. 'Twould light up many weary days. But thou art far away from mo; iletwecn us Ocean's billows beat, And I can but thy picture kiss. My f airy rose, my babclet sweet." As Miss Isabella Spooner finished reading these vcrics and proceeded to out them out of the paper they had graced, with a pair of scissors that in company with a bunch of keys hung from her generous girdle, a murmur of ad miration and sympathy arose from her audience. This audience consisted of Mrs. Spooner, Isabella's mother, a tall, thin, pale woman with a great deal of forehead that is, iu regard to height and very white, well-shaped hands, which looked as though they had been molded out of lard ; Mrs. Dusenberry, a lady who looked about fivc-ahd-forty, but who, according to her own calcula tions, grew young so fast thathcr friends confidently expected that in a few years she would be a girl again, with lips so thin that they came near being no lips at all, bumpy brow, small, black, un even eyes, a' nondescript'nose, and a fig ure remarkable for its unobtrusiveness ; Captain Hottop, Miss Spooner's uncle, a hale, hearty, rather handsome man, who had spent most of his life in a sail ing vessel; Mr. Wellington Octoper, a young pork-merchant, called "Devil fish " by those of his companions who had been to the Aquarium, " because it came so devilish near oeing Octopus, ou know." with reddish hmr. rortHJoTi i ou know," with reddish hair, reddish complexion, and no forehead to speak of; Miss Eugenia Ann Octoper, sister of the oork-merchant, a pretty, pert young girl, who came down to "break fast in diamond ear-rings, and talked a great deal about "style;" and two or three elderly men and three or four young men, who, being mere nobodies, can, of course, only expect, mere men tion. It was a lovely day in the last week of July, and these people were gathered together -on the broad veranda of the Spooner homestead (Mrs. Spooner took a few summer boarders for company), and, truth to tell, they could not have been in a pleasanter place. The house, substantially built of gray stone and draped with beautiful wistarias that climbed to the very roof, faced the Del aware River, and the gleam of the water through -the branches of the catalpa trces that stood just outside the garden gate, laden with showy flowers, among which the bees were having rare riot, was a pleasant sight to see. Miss Isabella Spooner, the real mis tress of the homestead her mother's extreme lassitude rendering: her onlv the nominal one was a comfortable, sentimental old maid, with an obtrusive -"' figure (in which respect she formed a 'great contrast to her friend Mrs. Dusen- ft ?berry), light, very light blue eyes, and a snub-nose. SheNroreKer3iair brushed back from her forehead a- forehead muph like her mamma's and falling in a curly crop in the back of her head. In evening.. dress these curls were always tied with a bit of brieht ribbon, which srinipartea to them quite a juvenile ap pearance ana cnarm. Miss Isabella doted on ooetrv. and looked upon all rhymers as " heaven born." In fact, she had an intense re spect for and admiration of all persons connected with literature, and was' wont to say, " Could I have been pen-gifted 1 would have asked no other boon." "How very sweet!" said Mrs. Dusen- uuiij, iu a &uit, ivu sole voice, as Miss Spooner, after reading the verses quoted above, took her scissors in hand. They remind me of some lines I intro duced in my first letter to Professor Ganz at the time I became so interested in the habits of the birds of North America. He said afterward, by-the-bye, that the brightness of that letter absolutely dazzled him." Mrs. Dusen berry prided herself on her letter-writ ing, ana, anxious uuu uer xaient snouid not be "hid under a bushel," wrote on the subject which sho thought would be I most interesting to him, with a hint as to the impression he had made on her susceptible heart, to every man with whom she came in contact, as soon as possible after forming his acquaintance. " And when do you expect her, Isa bella?11 asked Mrs. Spooner, lifting her hands, of which she was very proud, from her lap, to regard them more close ly, and then listlessly dropping them again. "This afternoon, toward evening," answered Miss Spooner, taking a letter from her pocket and referring to it. " She writes: I hope to arrive just as the sun is beginning to drown in your beautiful river, and the evening star peeps forth as bright as bright, alas! as the eyes of my blue-eyed boy.' " " How very sweet!" said Mrs. Dusen berry. " It reminds me of a note I re ceived the other day from Dr. Drake, in answer to one I sent him begging him for a copy of his lecture on the Human Skeleton.1 " " Well, I should say she was right smart. Yes-s," said the young pork merchant, in a nasal voice. "Them verses sounded very pretty. I don't read any thing in the newspapers but the lard quotations and hog-market re ports myself, but I know good po'try when I hear it. And you read first-rate, Miss Spooner, you do. Yes-s." "It was nice," said his sister; "but no better than a friend of mine can do. She can write pomes by the hour, but she don't print none. She don't need to, "cause her pa's rich. She on'y does it for fun." "Well, I'm blessed," here broke in Capt. Hottop, dropping his feet with a bang from the chair-top on which they had been elevated, "if I wouldn't like to know what this is all about. Who is she ? And who's the blue-eyed boy ?" "Why, bless me! you've just come, and you don't know, do you, uncle?" said Miss Spooner, putting the " pome" away in her pocket-pook, and leaning back in her chair the better to meet the eyes of the Captain. " She's Mrs.Mont gomery Montague, a charming young widow, and the blue-eyed boy is her only child a lovely babe " " Babelet," corrected Mrs. Dusenber ry, at the same time playfully flicking the cheek of a youth at her side, one of the mere-mentioned, who in his interest in Mrs. Spooner's story had neglected to fan the rival of Madame De Sevinge, after having been captured and detailed for that duty only five minutes before. " And when her husband died," con tinued the far Isabella " (he was the younger son of an aristocratic English family, one of the very highest inti mate with the Queen and he ran away to this country on a lark, and his folks disowned him because they thought he married below him, though I've no doubt she was much too good for him, and he treated her shockingly), his father sent for the boy, and tore him from his weeping mother's arms." " And recked not tear or prayer,1 " quoted Mrs. Dusenberry. "But why did she let them take him?" shouted the Captain. "By heav ens! they couldn't have taken him if she'd 'a held on. Foreigners tearing citizens of the United States from their mothers' arms! Who ever heard of such a thing before?" " Well, they didn't exactly tear him away," explained his niece. " That's the poetical way of putting it," interpolated Mrs. Dusenberry. " But she was left almost destitute," Miss Spooner went on, " and shc'sa delicate little thing, and " " Circumstances were too many for her," suggested the pork-merchant. "Just so," assented his hostess. ' Rut TTinof forfunofolc 0V10 nnasaaoaa the gift of song; and with what her writings bring her in, and the presents which are .showered on her wherever she goes she is such a favorite she manages to get along. I met her at Mrs. Biuclight's party last winter, and we took such a fancy to each other right oil', and she told me her story in the conservatory. Young Chandler was A'MV, .UWUV AVfcbUUUVUIJ) 0IIU UUPObdJkJ there, too, but she didn't sec him ; he was at the other end of the room, be hind some tall plants he was very at tentive to her afterward, and gave her a pearl bracelet on her birthday and I cried till my nose looked like a " " Cherry," suggested Mrs. Dusenber ry. Adding, in a sprightly manner; "Captaiu, if you desert me for this en chantress, I'll never forgive you," to the great astonishment of the honest Captain, who had not exchanged three sentences with the lady, and indeed had never seen her until this very July af ternoon. "Well," said Mrs. Spooner, changing a ring from the forefinger of her right hand to the forefinger of her left, "we must all be very kind to her. sympa thize with her with all my heart about her child. I know how I'd feel if I lost yon Isabella." "My babelet sweet!1" murmured Mrs. Dusenberry, fixing her peculiar eyes on her friend, on which the gawky youth at her side dropped the fan, and burst into a loud guffaw. " Hush ! " cried Miss Isabella. "Here she is." And up the garden walk tripped a slight girlish-looking woman, dressed in a blue-gray silk, with a Gainsbor ough hat, from which floated a long oiacs: oscn.cn pmme, coquettishly set on the back, of her head. Her pale yellow hair hung in babyish curls about her snow-white brow, and she raised a pair of lovely yellow-brown eyes to the group on the veranda. Miss Spooner, with astonishing quick ness, considering how stout sne was, ran down the steps and caught her friend in her arms. "You darling ! " she said, with enthusiasm, " we have just been reading your sweet, sweet poem, A Mother's Wail.1 Welcome to the homestead!" " How beautiful it is ! " said the little woman, clasping her dainty kidded hands, and speaking in 'a clear voice perfectly audible to the listeners above as she turned toward the river. " That glimpse of the water! the grand old trees! the fragrance of the air! and" raising her beautiful eyes ; the glori ous sky "with a catch in her breath " so like the eyes of my lost, my darling Doyi" In less than a week every man in that house was more or less ia love with Mrs. Montgomery Montague the Cap tain, the pork-merchant, the old clerks, and the young clerks. And the woman well, the women didn't like her as well as they did be- asx.w ono -i- i j - "She's pretty enough and clever enough," said Mrs. Dusenberry, "but I for one am getting tired of her blue eyed boy. As I said in a letter of mine to a distinguished literary gentleman immediately upon reading it he enroll ed himself among my band of admirers J have loat children. Inst thorn in the 1 J have lost children, lost them in the grave, but I never bring my shadows to cloud the sunshine of my friends.1" And, to do her justice, she never did. On the contrary, so uncommonly well did she bear ner bereavements that one could scarcelv believe she had ever hen bereaved. But to go back to the pretty poet's lovers. Captain Hottop was the most devoted of them all. He had never been in love before, and love, like scarlet fever, is a most serious complaint when contracted late in life. He followed Mrs. Montague around like a faithful, loving slave, carrying a heavy shawl to spread on the grass when she chose to sit beneath the trees, and a large um brella to shield her from the sun when it was her pleasure to ramble along the road. He named his sail-boat Lilian after her, bought a pony and phaeton and placed them at her service, swung her for hours in the hammock which hung in the orchard, and listened with patient, heart-felt sympathy to her long ings for her blue-eyed boy. " Blessed if it ain't too bad!" said he one day (they were sitting; beneath the catalpa-trecs), as the little widow press ed her lace handkerchief to her eyes to dry the tears that sprung to them just after she had remarked that the twitter ing of the dear little birds was so like a baby's voice "darned if it ain't! Couldn't you git him away from them folks? 'Pears to me couldn't refuse you any thing when you clasp your hands and look at me with tears in your ej'es." "Oh, Captain," sobbed the sorrow ing mother, "there are very few people in the world like you very few. You are one in a thousand yes, Jive thou sand. But I never had a chance to ap peal to them personally. I was very ill when when they took my darling away; and letters, with no matter how much feeling we write them, are so cold." " Why don't bjou try personally,1 then?" asked theTJaptain, swinging her dainty parasol about, to the imminent danger of the delicately carved handle. She blushed, cast down her yellow brown eyes, raised them again, looked him in the face like a child resolved to tell the truth, however painful it may be, and said, " I have no money wherewith to pay my passage to England. Under stand me, would willingly, most will ingly, be a steerage passenger, a stew ardess, any thing anj thing to bring me nearer my child. But coming to them save as befitted the wife of their son and brother, my husband's proud family would certainly disown me, and I should be alone in a strange land more heart-sick than ever." " Well, if the want of money's all," cried her honest lover, " that's easily settled. I'll give you the money to go in bang-up stylo, tnd " But here he stopped in amazement, for Mrs. Montgomery Montague had risen from her seat and drawn her small figure to its fullest height. " Sir, do not insult me," she said, with trembling lips. "Insult you!" cried the Captain, springing to his feet "insult you, my dear little woman ! I never dreamed of such a thing." "But you offered me money," she stammered. "And I was about offering you my hand and heart that's the way they put it in the love stories, don't they? Will you marry me, Lilian? and then, if you choose, we'll go together for the boy." " Generous man !" said the widow, a tear stealing down her pretty cheek. " But don't you see" and a smile suc ceeded the tear " that that would never do? I could never plead for my child as the wifo of Captain Hottop. It must be as the widow of Montgomery Mon tague." "Blessed if you ain't right!" ex claimed the Captain, looking at her ad miringly. " Well, promise to marry me when you return. Do, Lilian. No one could love you better than I." " When I return?" " Yes, for surely my promised wife can accept part of the fortune that will be all hers when she is really my wife, without any body Darn it! nobody need know. Will you, Lilian?" "I will," she said. "Will what, my precious?" he asked, smiling. "Every thing," she answered; and turned and fled like a bashful girl, after he had clasped her in his arms and given her a kiss in true sailor fashion. And by the very next steamer Mrs. Montgomery Montague started for Eng land, with a valuable solitaire diamond engagement ring glittering on her pretty hand, a check for five hundred dollars in her silver portemonnaie, and manv useful and ornamental farewell gifts from the ladies of the Spooner house hold. The ladies felt all their old in terests in her revive, now that she had gone away indeed, as Mrs. Dusenberry informed the 80-year-old grandfather of the youth who fanned her on the after noon of Mrs. Montague's arrival. "She was much too lovely, and made me quite jealous of you, you false man." And Miss Isabella Spooner hung the picture of young Montgomery "that babelet fair," in the parlor, and wreath ed it with daisies. " Heaven grant that we may-see the darling himself soon!" she said, with pious emphasis. But they never did. For, a couple of weeks after the widow's departure, Wel lington Octoper burst in among them all as they were playing croquet on the lawn, scattering the balls in every di rection. " Sold, by gracious!" shouted he. "What?" asked Miss Spooner, drop ping her mallet. "A million tierces of lard and twice as many pigs, I suppose," murmurea Mrs. Dusenberry, leaning in an uncon scious manner against the shoulder of her partner. " She's a fraud! Tcs-s," continued the pork-merchant. "Who?" they.aW cried this time. "The widow, Mrs. Montgomery Montague, that is,Mrs.Maria J. Thomp son. Ycs-s." "Maria J. Jane. I suppose. A sweet name," said Mrs. Dusenberry. "A fraud, sir! What do you mean, sir what do you mean?" bellowed Cap tain Hottop, as though through a speak ing trumpet, a flush overspreading his weather-beaten face. "Just what I say, Captain. Yes-s," answered the pork-merchant. ''It ought to be the 1st of April it ought for, by jingo, there never was such a sell ! The only truth she told was when she said she was a widow. So she is. Yes-s. The widow of Jack Thompson, celebrated mince and pumpkin-pie mak er in Chicago. I met his brother on the street to-day. He's a pork-merchant. And she never had any children." "Hot a blue-eyed boy?" grasped the Captain. " Not even a blue-eyed boy. Yes-s ! " said Wellington Octoper. Harper's Weekly. Therk has been an extraordinary nat ural phenomenon at RaoDclsdorf. & vil- lacre near Erfurt, a fortress in Prussian Saxony. A lake near the hamlet sud- denlv rose with violent boiling move ment and overflowed its banks. A vil lager saw & column of boiling water rise to & considerable height from the mid- die of the lake, when it broke, and WW scattered in every direction. Histery ef the Pebllc Debt. the United Sut marks aa important point in the financial history of thbj countrv. A few facts will ill wtratc the t wondeiful history of the credit of the United States daring the 18 years begin- ning with July, 1851. The debt of the United States on the 1st day of Jaly, 1861, was $&S,400,000, of which about S24.GOO.0O0 was on ac- count of the War, then in its infancy The growth of that debt since then and ' its decline is a matter of instructive in- terest. The aggregate on the 1st of July in each year was as follows: leci s.wo,cw) , ini-fS IS:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: iStjSSjK' iso 2,Gi.f3.ro is vir-cjtj i lec T!Of.iiio 1W.-J. ia. IJ !.titt.OU a 2,ai4,o On the 4th of March, 1869, tho Sccre tary of the Treasury r ' . .i i Lreaaury pm me iaw pro- sinking fund in ooeratU. viding for a and also began tho application gan the application of the surplus revenue to the purchase of tne debt. The maximum of tho debt was reached in 1866, and from March, 1869, the diminution of the debt continued regularly until, on the in of July, 1876. it was reduced to $2.10l,13),000. there- duction at that time being $593,643,000, or at the rate of nearly $60,00J,000 a year from the time the debt had reached its maximum. On the 14th of June, 1870, Congress authorized tho issue of new bonds, bear- ing 5, 4 $, and 4 percent, interest, to be exchanged for outstanding 6-per-centa or gold, and the proceeds applied to the redemption of the 6-per-cents. In July, ioiU iuu uuuaiiuiuiug uuiiua nrcivut iuu 1 U f 1 4 U A W &.& MAk .... following amounts ana character: KJr'Ld.V;Vn; l?i?Kf,ft2 .'.--. --.. . itonaSi,carinKpcr?en:::::::.: i3w:oo6 On the 1st of July, 1876, these figures had been changed to the following Toml bonded debt.. si cniitt ooo l ..ikW.Ko.wiM lloiids ItcariiiK 6 pur cunt irv,i;.wjii ttonds beurlnS percent Tll.lM.uoo It will be seen that in the six years the principal of the bonded debt was re duced S408.463.000, and the annual in terest on $516,000,000 had bceu reduced from 6 to 5 per cent. On the 1st of January, lo 9, the bond- j ed-debt statement showed the following figures : ., -,... ' r3 Ite'SSl Total bonded debt 1 to rids bearing 5 per cent. Ilonds beurln 5 per cent TUl.OxC.tlM l'.ond.H bearing 4K percent '2.001.0uO ISunda bearing 1 percent 193,7oO.C00 The 6 per cent, bonds included a twenty-year loan made in 1861, which is not redeemable until after 1881, and amounts to $189,321,350, and some smaller items, and also 5 20 bonds to the amount of 373,164,850. Tho Secretary of the Treasury an nounces that since the 1st of January I last 4 per cent, bonds to the full amount of all these 520 bonds have been taken ; and'that on the 1st of July, 1879, or within nine years from the date of the Funding act, there have been converted of the bonded debts 6 per cent, bonds to the amounts as follows : fis converted into 5 per ccnta ? .r05,llOJWO Gi converted Into 4K per cents.... 25o,ooo,ooo 6s converted Into! per centd a;i,Njl,KJ0 The reduction accomplished in the annual interest on this conversion of bonds is $20,270,700. The burden of the debt is, therefore,rcduced that much every year. The sale of 4 per cent, bonds is suspended for the time, but the Government will in the meantime issuo 4 per cent.certificates,the money received for them being applied to the payment of the old 10-40 bonds, bearing 5 per cent, interest and issued in 1864, and which amount to 191,000,000. There is nothing, however, in the his tory of national finances equal to the sale of 4 per cent, bonds since the 1st of January, 1879. Over $370,000,000 of such bonds sold at par within 95 days, and such an event is unknown in the history of any nation. Chicago Tribune. Hints to Housekeepers. Dr. Marv Safford communicates the following to the Herald of Health : The farmer's wife in too many in stances is pcrmaturely old. If she has no help, with the ever pressing cares of home and family, she finds very littlo time for rest and relaxation from care. But if she only knew how to do it she could command more leisure, and add to, rather than detract from, the com fort of herself and those dependent upon her. In the first place, with all of the f resh and abundant vegetables that should be found in every farmer's garden, with fresh, sweet butter and plenty of milk, the whole household can feast upon ex cellent and nourishing food during the summer, without using much meat. Monday -washday -there must be a fire certainly most of the forenoon ; then is the time, if fresh meat is at hand, to make a delicious and nourishing soup, a good meal of itself. The meat cut in small bits, or if a bone brumed, is put on, on the back of the stove, when the firo is first built, to cook slowly, the grease is all removed, the vegetables if it be vegetable soup cut fine, are put in early, not too many to make it too thick, but enough, with some rice, to give it consistency. While this has been going on a rice pudding has been put in the oven, just enough rice, with milk, sugar and raisins, if one has them on hand, which re quires no previous cooking, and no stirring, and is ready for the 12 o'clock dinner. If there are berries, and a pie is preferred, put them into a pudding-dish with no crust beneath to be maie soggy and indigestible, but with an overcovering of such material as light buscuits are made, and thus save time and trouble of kneading and rolling, of placing and cutting out the abominable compound called pie-crust. Why make a pie at all? Why not eat the berries? Because pie is traditional, and much enjoyed by the farmer and his help, and a few berries used in this way will go much further than when eaten uncooked. Now, while the wash-; ing is going on, tne soup mazing, tne pudding baking, the skillful housewife will have hcr eye outreaching to the needs of supper. In another kettle she will have put a tin-covered dish, with the amount of oatmeal or cracked wheat needed for tea; she will have learned just what proportion of water is needed, and never'haTe to give a thought to its cooking, except to sea that enough wa ter is kept in the kettle. It will be done about the time all else is, and will no doubt prove a very acceptable dessert to the man of the house and his help, cer tainly with cream and sugar. But if it is destined for tea, it is put into some thing that will give it a shapely appear- ance when put upon the table. If there is any sweet corn or beans left over from the dinner they can be prepared so as to make a most palatable OTccotash for tea, and so it will always be with, tie economical housewife- Tuesdav there will be a hot fire for j ironing, unless tne iarsnere wuo is m - m -rrL l which she certainly needs. Then, if the I tie advantage ox a aeroaenu siutc, 1 botcher supplies a roast, U Uo time to cook it; the larger it is the raore juicy get enough k u to have K cold for attracted to oadltio of " ? Wednesday's diaacr, aad on Thamiay parte, w.lv.r:; make a rneU pie, witi a nJe, Hj;t, haTtac racd U aJJ H "" bUcuit-dough cnL Tken thre are ta . Tfe history im .w"r" bones that would help to mak a pxs! U not only wy . J J JJJJ soup for Friday. If one fcls the aecw aa a nmaatic aspect, ia w sity for meat, and something of thUiJeroraa Boaaparte. wao . kind could be done. It would save a rat vWu! Baltimore. H l ?; amount of heal and fame thatcotno t child la th fT. K ilaS from the frying of pork, besides ghlof: of Napofeon by fifteen years. He km better food, with le liability to dsrangc some experience la narai taauec, aa stomachs and livers. J kwi reached the rank ol Uetaau The prudently inclined farmer's wife. While In Baltimore he bcae i1 with a husbaad ready to second her ef. to MUs Wttersoa, a youa laS9l forts, can dispcna with the ums of lea k wealth aad .peaatr, whom ae w: not only to tho pecuniary benefit of the' notwithUadisi; the prytt of te family, but to ,u hcauh-promoaajr.and Fmek cjomoC The 0 jjj substitute in its place a wboleaomc and ( younger than hr husband, waoss sa . ui Jsi. x .u.. u.n uHNtmnmlM! in Kuron. but the lpm- iuusiatjccauiuiiuufc, m ms vy . ta3d or rye, barley, or wheat cotlee, irround bv herself. A most superficial glance at the home k , VT . f . t.i ana sarrounuings oi xno xarmericus ujc storv of iha thrift or the thrifUcMnew that" prevails within and without. If ths farmer's wifo lack order, if ho doesn't have a place for every thing, and put even thing in iu place, then you will always find her behindhand , with all her work, and wondering how it is that Mrs. S , with quite as much to do, never seems hurried, nor flurried; and that the washing and ironing, bak- I ing, and cleaning arc done when they should be. Tho farmer's wife wastes vitality, and is perpetually hindered in hor wo'rk by her long skirts. There Is no reason . why she should not, liko the farmer, be i dressed suited to her work. Upstairs, i down cellar, in and out, !he should wear L .. l ' ..Il.ft 1 .a .A. a ureas so snort say six oreight inches from the irround that sho can carry carry a r-j r... ! baby UP-"1" or Inilk down .stol Wl.th - out skirt ontanglementi. Lethor Dut n W nnn.. on. I .hn will nni'C ifrmnrt from the freedom it secures. The farmer's wife should never lose in her , i uresa aim ireraonai auuuMiuivu m charm of neatness: a clean calico, a fresh collar, a tidv anron. and orderlv kept hair she may always have. j Ail Extensive Scheme for Jewish Col onization. The New lork Times says: An onil- gU0lx movement that may ponsibly assume proportions of some importance. u.vi imuuj uwis. .www wj uw vciI ovcr LeP juatur0J,t ana a pair ox rag resuients in this city, and looks to sot- , , rj0VCjI on her fingers. She nerer Uements in homes m tho far West either j but took wUh A kind of growl of newly arrived indigent Jewish imml- wha.u:Vcr j,mau cojn the- passengers gmnts, or of families that havo been tin- 5 bl vouch3a0 her. That old worn- povenshed by tho hard times. At pros. .... ...w ...,...... "' uu ""i .... .wwww.-..w, most of whom nro recent arrivals from Hungary and from other Kuropoan countries, but it is not limited to such, and any persons wishing to commence i life anew are invited to join tno now col ony. Tho project is to obtain suitablo lomli nn no fovAroMii forma m ItnoHkln. and to narccT them out into farms anuto parcel tnem out mo ro, each emigrant acoumntr tho titlo to his property on certain easy con - ditions. As now composed, the nnlnno omhriofla armors. Aktllnil arti- san?, carpenters, plumbers, and others who have worked at trades, but all of them very poor and decidedly in need of ahelpmg band. Air. Moirowitz oi o. oit Awt iiuiucuii outww, m.!""; acting as an agent for tho colonists, and has put himself iu correspondence with Rev. Dr. Wise of Cincinnati, &nd lead ing Jewish rabbis and men of wealth in western cities, with a view to obtain ac curate information and reliable counsel. Correspondence has been opened with prominent men belonging to tho United Hebrew Benevolent Society, with a view to place the movement under such tutel age as will command tho confidence of the community. Mr. Meirowitz said yes terday that it would be premature to ontcr into detail, as every thing deponded upon replies to letters which ho had just put in the mail. He would say, how ever, that the movement was not in tended especially for the benefit of tho poor immigrants with whom it origi nated, bnt would bo made as largo and general as possible. Prominont He brews in this city nnd elsewhere, among them llev. Dr. Gotthiel, have been for a longtime discussing and maturing plans for the benefit of the poor of their race in tho larger cities in this country, and a convention has been called of promi nent Jewish citizens, to meet on July 7 in thi3 city, in order to consider the best method of carrying into execution an extensive scheme of colonization. Straage Meeting at a Death-bed. The father and mother of Mr. Stan ton, the Superintendent of the Selraa, Rome & Dalton Railroad, killed in the late bridge accidents the ono from Ohio and the other from Philadelphia has tened to him by the quickest route and the least possible delay. Ono of them arrived before he breathed his last and the other after, but in time to see him laid away in his last resting-placc.The parents met for the first time in 30vcar3. Long years ago they separated and were divorced, and young Stanton took his mother's maiden surname. Both his parents were remarried. To make the strange occurrence still more singular, they were both accompanied on the sad pilgrimage by their respective mates. And thii3 happened probably the strangest meeting that ever occurred at a death-bed scene. Meridian (Miss.) Mercury. IU Use of Stale Bread. Cut stale bread into small pieces, let soak in milk all night; in the morning add i as much flour as soaked Dread, auu Deal wen, adding more milk if necessary to make a batter that will run. U;e baking powder or soda and cream-tartar to make light (I teaspoonful of soda and 1 teaspoonful of cream-tartar to 1 quart of batter), and bake on a griddle. Far better than buckwheat. Another way to use stale bread b as follows : Butter slice of stale bread to half fill a pudding-dish. Pour over them a custard made of 1 quart of milk, i cup of sugar, 4 eggs well beaten, and very little salt. The custard and stale bread must fill the dish.. As soon as the bread is well soaked with the custard bake until the cusCard thickens. n Granulated Wheat Bread. Take a pint of actively boiling water, salted J siignuy, ana aoa enougu mw grssuimi ed wheat flour to form a thin musk; to this stir in a quart of tepid water, a It ? t !- - ovcte welt dissolved in a little water; tiucfce it as stiff as it can be stirred with a spoon with cold-blast flour, and put each loaf in a separate pan; let it stand until it puffs up nicelv, and then bake in a quick ores two hours. Westfort, Ct, has a couple aged re spectively 93 and 94. If they lire until 3Iarct, 1880, they will celebrate the seventr-nTta anniversary of their mar- riage with a diamond wedding. AWt th Beeeperte. mVK. - - x - -- - - . :.., , den, ciupU 4 to r p. Uu lTullZUorlr'Ur'. on d. v - l, .. l.i.rMW aifk kit hmUf. tM ,- :.-. - - ' Kmneror. The latter not oaly refined to rvcognbw the mar i.c K worM " . w ivwjuw. --- r . .kdf Kl m. J U w than this, he persuaded Jerome xo aoac- don hb wife, and the young couple. , that suddenly separated, never met again. Tho neglecUd wife was early called tosuffergrcat sgony. Having ao hope, of her huibsnd's return, she took pawtge to England, where bo became tho mother of a son with whom he ail- , ed for Baltimore. Since then she hu passed her life In that city with the ex- , ccption of a trip to Europe many years ago. How strange U recall the fact that this woman, though thus shameful' ly deserted, has always cherished an ax fection for her hnband ! hhe refused any ecouu auiance aim "nw jmaineu.Mme.iMjnapane. ki mwh me sorrows o. ner iaucrui .. ""? . ?caLh ,.?' hcr aly "?' h ???H!Z m uauinioro 3uuc ",' .- 7L in Baltimore some years ago Hl.4 IinCrM HJllUO ftnil W UlCi a !"' ,yor, but ncverpracticed, for having mar- l nod a woman oi wcaiiu ne was enauicu .. , t,,i.nmrt -tvU until remored "...... ........v...- .-v.- -- - ---- by death at tna ago ox uu. uiicinwiu I Uazcltc. The JljslrrloHs Bcjrf r. Kvnrv dav on tho Via Toledo, the finest and most frequented street in Na- pies, might havo been soon an old worn- b , Icr lho wejci,. 0f years, clad , ln wrctchea mourning. She wore tat. lore(, b0nneton her heed, a thick black an,s lns wcr0 .i0 fmncs per diem ; but wno was sner io onu uium n;ii, mm fino n07Cr anawerei questions. inoj vthtK day a coUpi0 0f municipal guards laJd h&n on horf ftndf Duntijing her into a cab, took her oft to the .Mendi cant's Homo. Ono of tho female at tendants stripped her, and suddonly, from tho filthy, fetid envelope of rags, morBe imioroiia-iiKe, a lujiy young woman .considerably on this sido of 30, ,..,u 't t, .i ,M..tn emerged, Cindorolla-like, a lusty young 1 Hurmako upwMa msrvelofcfToct. Hor curV0(, g n waa 4. arranged with a , , . 1 T , i WM fa,tcnc( at tho kneo Her bump WM manufnCturcl from a ball of rags, fjrwrjlki1d jt-,,. whlt faco was maimKCI with imitation parchment. On inquiry it was found that this young , woman was of eooil familv. and that tho gains sho so cleverly earned weru t:iken regularly homo to her parents. The Late Ameer. 1 ho late Ameer of Afghanistan was 1 universally called the "tnad man throughout his dominions, and so great was the awe in which ho was held by his subject, the Times of India says, that no ono dared tell him of tho defeat of his troops on tho Peiwer Khotal by the hnglish invaders, bherc Alt sat in his council-room, waiting for tho news, but no one ventured to toll him the ro ult. At last, tho mother of Abdulla Jin sent hor little girl to tell hor father. He was talking eagerly as the child en tered, and she tried hard to blurt out lir rnmmafro. "Mv mothnr r&vh I am in U-W vour HirrhnriH ' hut lh Amiwr! kept putting his hand on her mouth, as tho discussion wss important. At last ho turned to her, Well, what is it, lit- tlo ono?" The child camo sidling up. all eyes upon her, " My mother says I am to tell vour Hichnu thn S.hn. I have crossed the Khotal." An instant B - - J r'- - --- mr stampede from tho neighborhood of the Ameer closed the Council. Whew Jim Younger was captured. Sept. 21 187a, he had a bullet fired into bis face from a needle-gun at 10 paces distance. The ball smashed the right half of the upper jtwand lodged in tho muscles in the back part of the throat. There it had been ever since till a few days ago, when the steward of the prison hospital undertook to loosen and re move it. An incision was made by the surgeon, and two days after, at Young er's request, the steward began to sep arate the muscles from the ragged bul let, and after working at intervals for two davs he removed the ballrad tn.i twisted piece of lead from the place where it bad been for two years and a half. Jim was in a fsir way to die, but he is now likely to recover. m m Japanese Cleaxixo Cream. -Take 1 ounces of white castile soap, 4 ounces of ammonia, 1 ounce of ether. 1 onnr of glycerine, and 1 ounce of spirits of wine. Shave the soap fine, and dissolve in I nuart of water: then add 4 nmrt. of cold water and the other ingredients. Pet into jugs or battles and cork tight ly; before using, shake well. This U a preparation for cleaning mea's clothiatr. coalcollars, dresses, larpets. or mt preparation lorcleanix coat-collars, dresses, articli ond hv n nr rfir r: 1 ' M.T.V o Amylrll-A -l.!. !. ftT mixture, and rub the soiled snots Drisaiy; tnen sponge o with cold water. Keep the bottle corked while using, as it evaporates very rapidly. - - Ma. Goldie, the naturalist, who kae passed 18 months in New Guinea, has iewa wacfmwj, uuonpw tee Kris- I T"m " neeaam weajc&ess 01 vo- bane Courier that his party cause is fortTher wiabie, on the whole' U contact with a tribe of natives ia the ia- c i tn that he who kep h- terior whose custoa saggtsted to kiss fr nt aad hb ears open, Uvd? -the probable origin of tke rasaors that ! P1" waichee his opportnaity a nre ojen aiways currwit of a race of t laziwi men in souse remote career of the globe. Tfcwtt aatires wear artifi. cial tails of such cuaning comstrnctioft as to entirely mislead a casual observer. They are entirely naked, except fcr the caudal omiwent. which ie m. iw about half way down their legs. Jacob Besxett, of Meridiaa. Is fcaa Couaty, Mick., has a boy weighier 201 pounds, who will be 15 years' ol5 3Uy, andaril2ye ofTwto v-.lvC,MWaWflHilj,1M aaea ter 1 years of age who weighs) pounds. The msidect baad of hopeA has. band. rUSUKCT tURMiRArH?. Thk ekpaaat allows h; wite to crr7 fci oee tniak Woas sphere T?ii?ke will orrwr jp married. Whk did the alphabet fftrt Into a fmr Whea A he, 8 X D cried, N rd, Q UU aad X pokd. Ma. Baowjr, who "kwv it w somechlsr of that sort, aMl to hr met laritaUoa II. M s r Im aiae the diay of her Utr r,d fcr couia4 aad her eaU. Tiia editor of a pper nntlj m nUted tKat poet ' Tfc cat day he received a cow poUor. v Ued The Ballad of the Mrcha Tnit- Btt,M Araoros ci the proceeding In 0 DHvai p.f!amrn came. Old Si T. "1 r U W . ; . .-.. drniirkle on TT I - ii,,A tk-rim-LiI KiurU f K.edl!orof hCinelaaaU-;! V W"W " --.-. --- a v,,Ai lUmYvm uuu a mi mn wore i M , t .. . i.it. ..u. , oi jro.u " ""' Z ' . ,l down aad jenHe a Km ., i Rich and rare were tao gtiru. .. , wore. jT !cr for a camel to p. vhm- ' ue eye of a needle than U I for af- wuraaa In a fur-lined k oloat U u Jo without JctUnjc it tup upvn j4i Utile, to show that the fur t more thi jye bonier. 0 nrst-cla reporter will ctcr t r j u, en nf an uauocf I 1 iu,ro that the follow oven k o, conudaiBj- l,(A in uh Tn jjwari makes the nurUr m4 - enough to shoot thcnwclre iKOrKaMJRt lecturing on prcho! r ma11 h enomena are ntlun ,,t ! Instance1, that leaf appear irrreit b rvyr Un other won!.. I have a a ?nalrj .( ' greenness within roc harm was meant, but Of tllt the ui would laugh. Two gifts are offered to men in th.i world; they very seldom can hare both One is ueces, with wearlnva, tfo ! other failure, with hope. Tho tai ,. much tho best. The man who 30vc !, finds that his aueeea iu not am u" to a great deal ; the man who td, t . - Keep nt nope, it in nappy roan "Tnmiis," quoted David, In c cal mood, Mare not what they koui " Of course not," cotnmntl Uad.r, the sewing machlno no am, but errr, Ixxly knows the machlno Un't lh? h t it seams." And then nobotly ald any thing for a long time, and lKrld ma!r omu remark about people wimooui in t anreciato sentlmonl. tiurimjt iuunfuj. Tnic clergyman who lhu derrtctl an every day horse transaction wa n his high horse of rhetorical nublim it You may kindly guide the pram r , steed to tho crystal brook which mV i down tho hill side In the nun, but v i can not coerce him to sloop and tko hb h, t , u aUnm lf ho , , wllllnir to accent vour nruirere 1 j not wining to accept your proiurci f ,n,no'- ' ri,,K, ,l? ,M A,K hnniliMl hv a lllflll In full urilfi funrra tin i form tit. 1 ' "onud by soveral civic society wa. j proceeding to the cemetery a d,-rPjut oI" ""'ky with grixzlcd hair set down his wheelborrow. and when he h I viewed the imposing procondon u-tk, occasion to remark to the bjitnnd-r generatly: "Peed now, honoj. I M! you,t'alnt nuflin toulo, wncn jor km ii laid 1 away tike dat." "Aman!a, I wish you to put tHo large Bible in a prominent place on the center-table, ami place three or four t i hvmn.book carelewily 'round on ton solas. I havo advcrtiwd lorayuirtf man to board In a cheerful, C'hr Lai family, and I toll you wimt, If j( u gr don't manage, either ono of you, to rki him in, why I'll norcr try any Uun; again, for I'm tired tmlS'.Uuln 3" Bazar. Disgl'ssiku an absent friend ", Robinson's a clever feller, and he' i modest feller, and he's a honet f i-r L but betwixt you and I and the pot, Mr. Jones," Raid Brown, confidaual r, picking his wisdom tooth with hu kltl-1 finccr-nail. Robinson ain t got nciinrr the look nor ct tho language, nor yet , u,e manners of a gentleman " "Il.L J 7" aro r Jones, shoveling tho melted remains of hU iro podding nt hl moulh with a steel knifo (whlrh l afterward wiped on tho Ublo cloth -.- -. You've 'it '1m orf to a T." WA tm irxovnr.Tr A!i'. " There m KYountr dmJ, vh'VUUt It oot very lttilii u lr-M h"r. hht wm nwNit a a rot In hr erry.ly uloth, lint hju! nn yumx man u er hr IJliUM, vou ,, lin lil Ki Omt ft " u thn only frJJow in tbj nrlcllof"-, 2 I thfi ft mount Of twrclnM, mhtf ul' 't ohiljcw! to wnjtm npon th? 't t air Wit Imply fmottgh to !UtMa her I WAjrr to ha walk.-. 1, that U now ih5 thin. I want to Kit tnjr muwiK up, AHd nail ftrmiri'! th? tin I want to win a champion lt. Ami mftka th jMypl? ilk. I want to hrar th fnllow about, Jrrtjalein. can't hn wnlk I want to brat O'lary. And wear the ru-um mil' Tnr walking 1, I riWtan'l. The laMt fcmalM ntyl. 0hlh ChrittUn A4c"U -' Hi (Jive Tear .Meal Mr. ., " thj ja wlo pk With the loaJec tonu do lri "" It was a favorite remark of an old v--Captain whom Caaseor knew that I -learned in youth never to Ulk a' ny Uiag he had determinei upir "Men watte their energy fe ulk' fc would say, "and have none left for th.r enterprisee. But if they aro w.e enough to keep still, and ileroto thm selree to doing, they will find that th r 'rTir'T WT OMeive ana iw. , Sk i enneceeeary," Good adr l" t T lad it hard to t U w SOCJal X social aaisasJ. and there i a certaim pleasure in 4kcuasing oae'j plaas with a friend and enjoying the:? frails in aaticipatlos. Some go throogi the world In a cold-blooded, cakuUtia way, seeking advantage at every tore. and ekwbUee India r IL bet are thcT !jft'H the tt asotWs to pUm afurr' wcee to tae the faUi pnc?, a better chance of whu tae www caia success Uaa tne more cos- Mssg kd. Jhk wast m success It sssepiy to lar an a store of tiu jwld's goods? The maay so view 1 bwt those who have looked deeper fee that he is bso trulTsucceasfal who ha. borne his share of life's burdens aa-t troubles, who has opeaed his heart w his fellow saea, whose thought hare not bees of aU alone, aad the work tag of whose smiad have not bxa Wholly coBceaJed. Of course preds k to be obeerred, and care m&& be tshev U the chc4e of coandacts. Ad "r-""0 kp oetar v yorr Te mnty ten to cy.- Bt doat seed ap the wiadows of your soul too tightly. Itaeedeamoccauoaal airiuf . Awten TnmscripL "" - yf HByiiiliiii.ftTimKiT-wwi' i ac i JTZTXtW-iUlfAii J-'lS-! f r- a;, c i -Hr-l- Or'-- - -. . -V-"JK-iSsr j&fyrSSJ n lil'll !!'