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My love she lies at lankuid; ease . - Across her silken Hammock length; tier stray curls flutter I ir the breeze That moves amidst tbfe sunlit tree And stirs their gold with mimic strength t So cairn, so still, the d fowsy noon; Bo Sweet, so fair, tile golden day: Too swe et that it shou d turn so soon From set of sun till risfe ol moon And fade and pass bway. Her eyes are full of happy dreams, And languid with T ne calm of unstirred nutted bliss: mountain streams. The light of unforgottd n scenes, Live In her thoughts of that or this. A year, a month, a wedk, a day, , The meaning of sortie look or word. Swiit, nudden as a sunbeam's ray, Do these across her memory stray As if again she looked or heard? It may be so. j I would For I who love and It were, she who dreams, her, The worldto me is onl Can my heart's cry to fcity'stir . Her heart that sile t seems? O deep eyes, lose your gentle calm: O fair cueek, lose your tints of rose; O heart, beat swift witlf love's alarm. That I may, win with chain and charm. And hold you till 1 life 'close. Lo, sweet, stand and gttze and faint Beneath the wondet of your eyes. Whose beauty I can prkise and paint Till words and fancy lrLe restraint, - And fear iorgotten lies! Eileen'd Choice. i i . : xv. BY J Pretty Eileen Blake had two lovers. It would have beeru she boasted a dozen small wonder had Perhaps she did. but the len who ground saw how tarere in tne DacR- small their chance was, and preft rrind their discomfiture should not i be ree bsrnized, abdicated the field in favor of Lrir. Bernard Stuart i and Terry O'Grady The" former was a young surgeon, the latter a native of hej- own "Green Isle" and both loved her, It was as easy a matter to discover this as to discover Eileen's preference. Terence she had known always. He had been her lover always, Bernard Stuart had j brough t some wonderful new element Into her life, transfigur ing and glorifying i t. She could not help but treat poor Terence kindly; he had been so good a friend. It ,was nc t coquetry which made her turn to him when the other I was not by. It was rather the old hab it asserting i self, ai d in such moments the clouds would sc aitter, and his hon est face would bea n with the bright ness of his hope. . i1 We were sorry to see this, those of us who were watching-the little drama. Terence was a favo -ite among us. We had taken s prejudi ce to the young sur geon, I scarcely kn w why. His faee did not seem quite true, and as yet he had not asked Eileen to become hi3 wife. ! t Sometimes benilipg over her, he would whisper something in her ear which would bring 6uch brilliant radi ance into thebrigh "blue eyes, such a. tide of color over tl e fair round cheek, that he might as wi Jl have shouted his love phrases aloud, so far as their con cealment was conc rned. One afternoon sme friends joined us. During the co jversaticrn as to our party and our futu re plans,- the name of-Dr. Stuart was n ientioned. k'Is his wife witii him?" i asked one of the new comers "His wife ?"wd exclaimed, aghast, you not know he "Certainly Dictf was a married man? Benedict three years, He has been a I am surprised to hear he is-alone I glanced about the room. Fortu- natelv Eileen was mot present. A sud- den impulse prompted me to find and , tell her all, lest she should hear the truth in a less gentle way;' for I who loved the girl, knew that she loved this man. I v 1 r The otflers had given the matter less thought. Already the conversation had drifted into another channel, when I closed the door upon the little group. Staitrhtwav I weujt to Eileen's room. She.ws not there. w 1 Passing the doctor's room. I noticed his door ajar." and 1 remembered then that I had heard h wonld attend tha m ask Eileen if she morning to some for him, stating trifling commission she would find the necessary upon his bureau. She was tanding there now. Through the hal; -open door I caught a glimpse of thest. aight young figure but the next moment 1 started back. The mirror before which she stood re fleeted her face, It was white, and ghastly, and drawi . Had she already heard? ' f. j " ' Softly I atret th rom, rlolng the door behind me. ne turned, like some hunted thing. Then I saw that in her hand she held a letter. "Eileen," I said and something in my tone must have told her of my pity ing love for, witli a cry, she sprang forward, and clasped to my breast, burst into a passioi 1 of sobs. :. For a time I did not strive to check them, it was belter so; but soon she' grew calmer of hei self. "It must be som 1 mistake," she said "See!" holding up the letter "I found this on the ibrary table. I did not mean to read- I did not read ex cept the first woidf, and hey found their way; to me, I did not look for them They are: ' My dear husband." The envelope in w lieh they came was. directed to him; bt t there must be some mistake, jl was wrong to misjudge him he told me mat he loved me." "You have not misjudged him, Eileen. . Doctor t tuart is a married man."1 j . I expected anotl er flood of tearr , but none came. She o: ily grew whiter and colder. j - "You too diatruflt him? 1 was wrong I I . . - . : . to show you this. I should have taken it to him." . . ; Then I told him all that I heard. She listened to the end, when she arose, and laid the letter and envelope back where she had found them. She took up two kid gloves. "I must merfdthem, as I promised, she said, in icy calm. "He must never know. Promise me, madame, that he shall never know." Then she quietly turned to leave the room, out as sne reached the door I heard her murmuring to herself. ."It's the last time. Oh, heaven, that I might so mend my heart!" The afternoon was darkening into twilight, and I had for a few moments lost consciousness, as I half leclined upon a fauteuil in one corner of the I drawing-room. . During my slumber two figures had entered. Their voices now aroused me. ., 'i . i I recognized Terence's deep, manly tones, as he seemed to answer some thing his companion had said. "Sn vrtll will murro mo IT 11 aa-n 9 J " . ' ... ....... j u., JUUVVU . Ah, I have not deserved such rich hap piness ! Last night you were so cold, so distant tome; to-day you pour sun light on my soul." ; He would have drawn her towards him then, but she had shuddered and sat still. - ; "Say nothing to anyone,. Terence. I do not want it talked about,1 out next Sunday, In church, we will have our banns read. ' In one month we well be married. Then as you have often promised me, we will go to Ireland." "All shall be as you wish, little one" the man answered, but a great joy trembled in his tone. Neither of them had discovered my presence and I dared not make it known to them; and then, the servant entering with lights, they. arose and moved away. That evening Eileen smiled upon the young surgeon, as was her wont. True, her eye was brighter her cheek more flushed, j Once only, as he bent to whisper in her ear, I noticed that instead of the blush deepening, it paled, and there was a momentaiy quivering of the ripe scarlt Hps, but she gave no other sign. Once, in obedience to his request, she disengaged a rose from her hair and fastened it, with her own fingers, in his coat. Sunday was but two days off. At last it dawned, bright, beautiful and clear. I heard Terence ask Eileen to go to church with him, but she refused "I have promised the doctor," she said, "and it will be less embarrassing;, for me not to be with you." : I felt my own heart flutter when, a few hours later, I saw the minister ua-" fold a slip of paper he held in his hand, and knew what was to follow. Clear and distinct fell the names. They could be heard in the remo est part of the church. I glanced towards Eileen. She sat calm and immovable Her companion's eyes were fastened on her face, their expression chiefly fierce ! dominant anger, mingled with intense incredulous amazement. : Eileen had her triumph, but, quiet and impenetrable as she was, I won dered if she did not pay the cost too dearly- As they passed out of the church, ere they had left the porch, he turned to her. ; - 5- i j . : - I "How dared you?" he said.1 "What?" she answered, j "Is it of my betrothed you speak? Ah, that has been an affair of many months. It is not a cast, doctor, for your medical kill." A month. later Terence and Eileen were married. That she was doing him wrong, never seemed to enter her mind that she was hiding her bleed ing heart by stabbing his, she did not dream. Terence had always loved her, and at any cost the doctor must never learn the truth. It was almost pitiful to watch Terence O.Grady's tender lov ing care of his young wife. They remained only six months In Ireland. Then she said she was home sick, and he brought her back to the pretty little home he had prepared for her. I Come and stay with me: lam so lonely," she said to me; and I, loving the child, consented, s She thought she made her husband happy. I had not been in his bouse one week before I knew that he suffer ed martyrdom. His patience never wavered, but his life was going out in the struggle to melt the ice in which his wife, all unconsciously, had encased her heart. One evening, in the twilight, she "What makes you so tired, my dar ling?" I answered, stroking the. soft, bright hair, "Eileen," I said, more gently, "have you not yet forgotten?" "I never can forget," she answered with a sudden pathos. "Do .you mean that you still love " "Hush!" she commanded, interrupt ing my sent ence before I could utter the name. "I hate him! I hate his deceit hi falsehood, his treachery ; and yet I live over and over again the past, until it brands itself into the present. He reproached me think of it, he reproached me for deceiving him. Had I not known the truth, I could almost have believed him." A sharp peal at the outer door arous ed us both. We sprang to our feet, both pale and trembling something in that ring betokened troubled. In another moment a face we bot'i remem bered well appeared in the doorway. It was he of whom Eileen had just been speaking. "I bring you bad news," he said. "Can you bear it?" "Speak!" . I "Your husband hi dangerously 111. NORTH-WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA "WE LABOR FOR ITS I WINSTON, FORSYTH COUNTY, They are bringing him here. We may came to me and sat at my knee, laying her head in my lap.. "I am Sn tlrpH " aha eairl-aL"as iirorW spare his life. Do not despair. "My husband Terence!" With these ..words she sprang past him. Did she even in that moment remem ber the ever, living past? The man who had spoken was but as a piece of marble to her; but one thought filled her mind. Terence was ill Terence, perhaps dying perhaps dead! It almost seemed the latter when he was brought in, in ghastly unconscious ness. . The days merged into weeks, and his life was despaired of. Eileen never left his bedside. She had said she could not forget the past; for though he who had shared it with her shared also her vigil for it would be to' Dr. Stuart's skill, if Terence lived, that he owed his life. ( . She had no thought but of the man who, ceasing to strive, had accom plished too late perhaps, that for which he would so gladly have laid down his life. ' ' "You love him so well," the doctor whispered to her one day. "Eileen, i( I save him, it shall be my atonement." She looked up at him, with startled gaze. He nad spoken tne words aloud as yet unacknowledged to her own heart. She waited until he had left her, then fell on her knees and prayed from her soul-depths for her husband's life. Terence's loug-sufFering patience had won his reward at last. i A little laier, with a long sigh, Ter ence opened his tired eyes to consci ousness. Jtie cioseu mem witn a snud- der. ... 1 : i Sitting by the other side of the bei, I was forgotten,' as Eileen, with a low sob, bent over the sufferer, Dressing her lips to his. "Terence, love," she murmured, "I don't deserve it, but, oh, will you not live for me?" I "For you ?" he questioned, in his low, weak tones. "I thought you would be glad to feel the toils were freed. . ! Glad? Oh, my husband ! My one only love !" I saw the great joy that lit his f ice at her words. I knew that they brought healing to his soul and to to the body. Both had forgotten me, but I must see no more. I stole softly unnoticed from the room. On ' the threshold I met Dr. Stuart, but I mo tioned him back. '.'He will live," I said. "He has dis covered the truth " "Do not tell her," he answered ; but when I first met her my wife had been dead a year. I loved her with an honorable love. After her marriage, I learned of her mistake. I know now that she never loved me; and with her future happiness in the balance, I can say: "l am content," tuougn ior ner sake, I shall never call another wom an wife." There was a look of suffering in his face which led me to believe his words were true. . He said that Eileen never had loved him. I did not undeceive him with the sentence I hadjonce heard wrung from her lips: "Ah, Heaven, if I could so mend my heart!" Perhaps it was a prayer, and Heaven had answered it. The Jocose. He had just taken his seat in the street car, in fact had hardly got fairly down, when a lady entered. He im mediately rose. "Don't rise, sir; I beg of yon, don't!" she said. "Good heavens, ma,am," he yelled, "I must! There's a pin three inches long eel up on that seat!" She made no further objections to his rising. During the last political campaign in Michigan, a well known lawyer of that State was addressing an audience composed principally of farmers, in Gratiot County. In order to win the confidence of his hearers, he said. "My friends, my sympathies have always been with the tillers of the soil. My, father was a practical farmer, and so was . my grandfather before him. I was mjTself reared on a farm, and was, so to speak, born between two stalks of corn." - Here the speaker was rudely inter rupted by some one in the audience, who exclaimed, "A pumpkin by Jin go!" - MINE VVMILY. Dimpled sheets mit eyes off blue, Mout' like Id vas moist mit dew, Und leetle teeth shust peekln' dro Dot's der baby. Curly head, und full of glee, inrousers all out at der knee He vas playin' horse, you see " Dot's little Otto. Von hundred-seexty in der shade, ' Der Oder day ven she vas velghed H he beats me soon I vas a v raid . Dot's my Gretchen. Bare-footed head und pooty stoudt, Mit grooked legs dot vll bend oudt. Fond of his beer und sauer kraut Dot's me himself. Von schmali young baby, full of fun, ; Von leedle pright-eyed. rouglsh son, ' Von frou to greet ven vork Is done ; Dot's mine vamily. Charles Follkx Atoms. The origin of the saying. "Taking a man down a " peg," may be traced to the 'pegging, or making the drinking cups, which was introduced by St. Dunstan to check the intemperate habits of the times, by preventing one man from taking a larger draught than his companions. But the device proved the means of increasing the evil. It was intended to remedy ; for the mst abstemious were required to drink precisely to a peg or pin, wheth er they could soberly take such a quan tity or not. To the use of such, cups may also be traced the origin of the saying, "He's a peg to low.' N. C, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1881. Agricultural. E.NSILA.GE. The question of the economy through the use of ensilage has become an im portant one, and justifies the giving nlore than usual space to its elimina tion, j The following is from the report of Geo. Hi Cook Director N. J. Agricul tural Experiment Station New Bruns wick. ! Ensilage. In this bulletin we give the results, of a feeding experiment with corn ensil age. I J On November 16th four cows of na tive breed were taken from the herd at the College Farm, placed side by side in the same barn and for a term of ninety-one days were fed, exercised and milked at the same time. During the first period of twenty eight days a ration was divided among them, made up of twenty-two and one half pounds of clover hay, forty-nine pounds lof wheat straw, seventy-fiye pounds of brewers' grains, seventy-five pounds of turnips, and seven and one half pounds of cotton seed meal.. It was calculated to furnish daily to each 1,000 lbs of live weight. 2.5 lbs, digestible proteine. 0.5 lbs. digestible fat 12.5 lbs. digestible carbhvdrates. This being according to German inves tigators the necessary amount of food. For the second period of twenty eight days no change was made in the ration fed cows No. I and II, while in that fed III and IV, 100 lbs of ensilagt was substituted for 40 lbs of turnips; in other respects it remained the same as that fed during the first period ; it fur nished, daily to each 1,000 lbs 61 live weight. ! 2.50 pounds digestible proteine. .90 pounds digestible fat. 14.90 pounds digestible carbhydrates This was fed in order to determine whether' an increased amount of the heat producing' compounds, fat and starch, was rendered necessary by the severity pi the weather. The addition al food caused no increase in the yield of milk; 1 cows I and .II on the poorer ration gave during this1 period more milk than during the preceding. j Our intention thus farwas to ascer tain the quantity of food required to keep these cows up "to their full yield of milk, i I For the third period, of five weeks, ending Feb. 17. Nos, I and II were fed the same as during the first and second periods; tx III and IV an equal amount of digestible food was, , given daily, to 120 pounds of-ensilsge and five pounds of cotton and seed meal per cow; it was eaten without waste and to its apparent relish. ' v 1 Ve tabulate below the yield of milk for 13 weeks. It must be remembered that during the first period all; four cows received the same ration ; that during the second and third periods cows I and II received the same as during the first; that cows III and IV were fed during the second period with an unusually rich ration, and during the thir.d period with one made up of ensilage and cotton seed meal, alone, containing horvever an amount of food equal to that fed during the first period. -3 3 3 6 t-i f? "3 2 """ 3 O 3 T3 00 B I S 2 3 M 00 3 j o - 3 o 3 -3 3- a ha 3 i : 1 ce 3 - vj - An opportunity Is here offered to call attention to the fact 'that up to a certain point the yield of milk may be Influenced by the quantity of digesti ble food,' but beyond this point, which is determined by breed, time of calv ing and individual peculiarity, an in creased amount of food fails to increase the yield of milk; ensilage can produce ho more milk than any other fodder which contains an equal amount of food, a point well illustrat ed by the above table. While the yield of milk and its per centage of butter cannot be increased at will, it is well known that its quali ty may be very materially influenced by the feeding. It is claimed for ensil" age that it makes "Winter butter equal to June butter." A claim willingly admitted, butter from the fodder being to our knowledge of unusual fine col or and flavor. " The composition of ensilage is by nomeans constant as the following ta ble of analysis shows: soil, variety of corn, method of planting and cultiva; ting, and above all the time of harvest ing, exerts a decided influence on its quality- ! . The samples furnished by Mr. Piatt and Messrs. Whitman & Burrill, had the characteristic vinous smell which indicated that they had been exposed to the air, before reaching the labora tory, and probably ah analysis of a per fect sample would have indicated a lar ger amount of nutritive matter. From personal observation at the silo we i i :erests. rrrr rr- know that Mr. Platts' ensi'age was as well preserved as any we have seen. In this table the samples have been arranged with reference to their per centages f water and carbhydrates : 24 as S S f5 t 5 32 S 8 S ; 8 A oc x r i r- 4OuiO'VCC''?5 w ; I " i - CJ 3 S $ 3 id 10 c e i2Sf3'"5SSi2Sg5S fc o o o o O c o at 2 CO Ti . S aB 2 S3 SS 5 3 Sc SB 08 1-1 :N a) C at oc l t a s 3 X S i . S -S3 S "3 b o p o 5 - E I s -s -a - S3 ' -- - 2 PS E 3 m tf S S The amount of ensilage to be used depends j entirely upon its quality and upon the plans of the farmer. Mr. Mills, for instance, could make up a full ration for a cow of 1,000 lbs. live weight, by feeding daily eighty pounds of his ensilage and five and one half pounds of cotton seed meal ; while atthe.Cqllege Farm with fiva pounds of cotton seed meal, one hundred and twenty pounds were necessary. In these rations nearly all the carbhy drates needed and a portion of the pro teine and fat are furnished at a very low pr'ce oy the ensilage ; the balance of the proteine and fat is drawn from the cottonseed meal. If desirable, a much smaller quantity of ensilage could be used and the carbhydrates given in form of corn meal or any feed rich in these compounds; in ensilage they can be had, however, much cheaper than in any food known to us at present. One thing must be considered: if the quality of the ensilage obliges the far mer to feed his cows more than eighty or ninety pounds daily per head, there is reason to tear that they will scour. The amounts fed by the above named gentlemen have varied from sixtyfive to eighty pounds, and with these amounts ntrlfrouble whatever has been experienced. We therefore conclude that if the ensilage is of first-class qual ity, eighty pounds per day will furnish an animal with the full amount of o T' . earbhydratef; if it is of medium quality it will be safer to limit the amount to about ninety pounds, furnishing: the rest of the carbhydrates in form of feed or straw.; " From the above experiment we feel justified iri concluding that milch cows can be safely fed large quantifies of this fodder, and that it is a perfect substi tute for hay. The question of expense we reserve for a future bulletin. Y The Care of Canaries. Breeding and Care of the Young. As many who own birds have a desire to breed them, a little information may not prove amiss to the beginner. Were you to visit one Of the large breeding establishments in Germany you would observe a quantity of rooms arranged very much after the style oC the sleeping apartments of a hotel. Each of the rooms are properly fur-. nished with light, ventilation, a quan tity of email trees, feeding ; boxes, water for bathing and drinking, and on the sides of the room a quan tity of nests, and the floor covered with sand, to the jdepth of three or 'more inches. In this room are placed twenty or more male birds and three times their num ber of females; and from the large feminine family every male chooses his mate, and live one large happy, family together. The young birds are taken at the age of six: weeks, as they can crack seed (and we will here remark, that when fully feathered, they commence to warble; that is, they fill their throats in the same manner as an old singing bird ; and this is the only way that male birds can be told from females when so young) and placed in cages, say twenty-five birds to a cage, and kept In rooms holding about twenty such cages until they are through moulting; for a young bird as soon as he is in full feather commences to moult or shed his body feathers; his tail and wing feathers he sheds the second season. This moulting process requires about six weeks, after which they are taken away from the sound of all singing canaries into a room having a small opening at the top; and in the room above them is kept a nightingale, skylark, or seme other fine whistling bird, the best of his species, who acts as instructor for the young birds. It is from this instructor they get these beautiful notes, the bow-trill, the bell- l note, .the flute, the water-note, ; etc., which are so much admired. At the age of six months they become adepts at singing. ; A suitable cage for breeding can be eitherof wood, wire, or the oidi nay jap anned tin cage, or braes, fc'hould you use an old wooden cage it should be thoroughly scalded with hot soda wa- j ter, to; kill all .the vermin, and then varnished over. v The bird should have a nesti Wire is the best, securely fast-, end into one corner of the cage, first covering the nest with canton or cotton and woolen flannel, and hung up against the wall at least a foot above r your head and In a southern aspect if , . t possible, and not moved untilyou are through breeding for the season. There should be placed in the cage a piece of old mortar to make egg-shells from without this the female will lay soft shell eggs. The female will sit upon the eggs thirteen days when the oper ation will commence. , Birds are hatched one each day un til the eggs are all hatched. If it should happen that one or more of the eggs remain in the nest, and do not hatch at the proper time, it would be well to take them out of the nest care fully, using for this purpose a teaspoon, so as not to handle them, and hold them before a strong light, and if there is the appearance of, blood-veins, place" them back carefully; for they may yet be hatched. If, upon the other hand, the egg be clear and transparent, it can be thrown away as worthless. As a rule, never throw away an egg until it has been laid at least twenty-one days. From the time the young birds are born the male bird helps to feed them, if he is a good father, and so partially relieves the female. Eating the eggs as soon as they are laid usually occurs from improper feeding. Birds that are mated require rich food, and this should be given them three or four weeks pre vious to mating them. When this is done it is very rare the -eggs are dis turbed. The richest and best food for.young birds, in addition to their mixed seed no hemp should be the following One hard-boiled egg, the whole egg grated on a coarse horse-radish grater, and one common soft cracker rolled fine with a rolling pin, or carefully grated and then mixed together, and then fed to the birds in small quantities at least twice per day ; and this food must be cotinued to the old birds until you are through breeding; and the same food must be continued until they can crack seed, which they will do with ease at the age ot six weeks. It is however, an advantage to soak some rape seed and put it in for the young birds as soon as they leave the nest. Another source of great annoyance to bird breeders is, that occasionally the old birds desert the young and leave them to starve. This I never knew to occur where birds placed as already described and always feu and cared for by the same person. It is the' constant annoyance to which a bird is subjected that occasions this, and the fault of those who have had this ill luck. They take pride in the birds they are prospectively going to raise, and as soon as they are from the egg the cage is taken down on all occa sions, and Bhown to every visitor, and when it is too much trouble to take it down the step-ladder or chair is brought into action, in .order to show up the bird family, and then the question is is asked : "Why did my old bird de sert the young before they were a week old?" If you have had this ill-luck you see wherein success awaits you in the future. Occasionally there is no apparent cause for the old birds desert ing the young. When such is the case and the old birds are very good ones it is well to bring the young up by hand, using the food described above, and using a quill with a small piece cut from one side similar to the old fashioned quill pen. It can then be used as a spoon; and, with three or four such spoonfuls, feed them every hour, and not oftener than once an hour, using judgment to not over-feeding.. It is always a good rule to take the nest from the cage and keep the young birds in it, covering them over slightly until they are well feathered. San. Francisco, Cal. queer. Household Knowledge.. Springfield Soda Biscuits. One quart flour, one pint milk, peice of b Jtter Bize of an egg, one teaspoon ful soda dissolved in milk, two teasooon fuls cream tartar sifted in flour, with salt. Minnie's White Muffins. One half cup of sugar, one-half cup of water one and one-half cups of flour, the whites of three eggs, one tablespoonful of butter, one and one-half teaspoonful baking powder, bake in muffin pan. Marlborough Pie. Grate six ap ples, one cup sugar, three table spoons melted butter, four eggs, Juice and grated rind of a lemon, two table spoonfuls brandy or wine, if you choose if not omit it. Bake in an under, but without top crust. Springfield. : Rumrill Snaps. Three-fourths cupful lard, three-fourths cupful butter, one cupful sugar, one pint molasses, one teaspoonful soda, one tablespoonful ginger, one table spoon spice, then enough flour to roll soft and very thin in lings. Florida Water. Dissolve half an ounce each of oil of lemon, oil of laven der and oil of ' bergamot, and half a drachm each of oil of cinnamon and il of cloves in a quart of the best deo dorized alcohol. Add two quarts of filtered water und bottle for use in the toilet. ; Roast Lamb. :Put the meat in the dripping pan with a little hot water in the bottom. Sprinkle with salt and a little pepper. Baste often and allow eight or nine minutes to a pound. When done take the grease off the gra vy, make it bubble on top of the stove and make a thickening of browned flour. ' Fish Pudding. Fish balls are good food, but when burned up in fat they ose half. their nutrition. Mix finely chopped fish, particularly cod, with dried herbs, boiled potatoes, pepper, Bait, mace, an egg and some butter. Place in a well greased mould and put in the oven: brown well the outside and dish up, or warm well through in a covered pan. Eat with It boiled beet root, stewed onions or any other vege table. ' Beefsteak aux Pommesdk Txbrk. Six Months, $1.00. NUMBER 20. j Take a large and tender steak, bone it and scatter over it bits of butter, salt and pepper, and a little sarre and rtneiv j chopped onions. Over that spread :t thick cushion of mashed jotato wt 1 seasoned with salt, ffeth butter nud u very little milk. Roll up the steak with the potato inside and fasten the side and the ends with skewers, put the steak in a baking pan with a large cupful of stock or gravy and let it otnik slowly, basting like a t hicken. Serve with a rim of mashed potato nrouutl the platter and garnish with water cress. Parsnips Imphovkd.-Parsnip are not sufficiently appreciated, peihaps because of their too sweet taste ; but this can be overcome to a palatable ex teut by judicious cooking. They re excellent when sliced after loUing and wanned in a sauce, made by mixing flour, butter and milk over the fire and seasoning it with salt and pepper; as soon as warm they are served wiih a littlechopped parsley and a squeeze of lemon juice. For parsnip fried brown in an old-fashioned iron Kt with siloes of salt pork and a fea sor ing of salt and pepper several good words might be said. Humorous Reading. The Forged Letter. Just before the election an Irish voter in San Francisco told his master, an Englishman, that he was going to vote against Garfield bt cause of the "Chinet-e" letter. "Don't you know," said the master, "that letter is a forg ery ? Every intelligent man is satisfied that it is." "Begorra " replied Patrick, "that's the very raison I can't vote for him. I can't conscientiously vote for ony mon who would write a forged letter!" 8he read a'l the books of science, , Her fingers were covered with Ink ; She booted at marriage alliance. She talked of the missing link. She quoted savans and preachers Of greater or les renown Platonic in all her fea ures. She got a mash ou a clown. ' . A Conundrum Answered, There is a certain Galveftou family that does not attend church as regularly as they should, brtt they send the oili est boy every Sunday to keep up ap pearance. Last Sunday the head of the family said: "Go dress you roe If boy ; it's time for you to go to church.' "I would like to know," responded the boy, Kulkily, "why I am the on y one in this family who ha got to be religious?" "Because you need it most, you scoundrel that's why!" thundered the stern parent, feeling for the young marly' r4s hair. There was a young man of Meudula, Who fondly exclaimed, "I'll devote a Few lines lo my girl !" With his head In a whirl This kind of a letter he wrote her: "Oh. silver-trimmed pearl of Mendola, I um not very much of a wroter; , But what I have writ. You're the subject of It " And she bounced the unlettered young voter. "Jennie Dare," whoever she is, ha.-, come out with a new song, "Love Me a Little While the Roses Bloom." Well, it isn't exactly the thing, so long as we are out of the market, but we'll doit. And then, when th roses pej; out, we'll love you .a considerable through the verbena season ; then we'll keep it up while the how do you sell those flowers that sound iike Xenia, Ohio? 2inna? thank you while the zinnias flame out; and then we'll hire a conservatory and keep the eld tiling going till along about Christniur. 151e you, there's nothing mean alxut us, and if the young men of this country have got so slow you have to make ap peals of that nature to the public we'll discount all the roses between here and the vale of Cashmere. A GAME CHICKEN. " A chicken lived a chlrpten died ; His drumsticks and his wlngR were fi led ; Ills feathers by a dealer dried. And, very shortly after dyed. Soul be had none , admitting that. How comes it there, upon her hat. Ills plumes a mortal chicken's rise A gl-rlous bird of paradise! ! Here is Laura's composition on the cow! "A cow is an animal with four legs on the under side ; one on each korner. The tail is longer than the legs, but it's not used to btand on. The cow kills flies witn her tail. A cow has big ears, that wiggle on hinges ; so does the tail. A cow is bigger than a calf, but not as big as an elephant. She is made small, so she can go in the barn door wben nobudy is looking. Some co as are black and some hook, A dog was hooked once. Hhe tossed the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat. Black cows give white milk ; so does other cows. Milkmen !-ell milk to buy their little girl's dresses, which they put water in and chalk. Cows chew cuds and each row rind it's own chew. Then they sw allow their chew and chuse another chew to chew. This is all there is about cows." Character in Voices. I have noticed as a fart that btruck me a being peculiar, that the bravest and largest wild animals a1 ways had deep voices, and that they were gener ally melodious, full of ruuMe, a it were, while the small fry, which would run from a common cur, had high, sharp voices. I have hunted with some of the bravest men the be-it scouts, and the most famous hunters in -the West, and I found that they also had heavy tones as a rule, and I deduced from this that the highest order of animals, those that were brave and daring, were also deep in voice, and that their in tonations never jarred on the ear. When I saw that the heroes in an opera were tenors, It struck me a an odd Idea that thin-voiced animals we seldom so courageous in actual life as their deeper-toned congeners, sna this has caused me to express it here, to see If it is in any way founded on fact, or whether it is a mere artifleial system of display. 1