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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:
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On the 4th of March, 1869, tho Sccre
tary of the Treasury
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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,
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following amounts ana character:
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On the 1st of July, 1876, these figures
had been changed to the following
Toml bonded debt..
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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 :
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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
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