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S THE PROGRESSIVE FAHMER: DECEMBER 13 1892. - - V poetrv- :S?E FORTUNE TELLER. . wird first twilight wstW-nf the camp, , W wVJd by shadow?, half staruta, enTack of horses' tramp: ' blue-eyed and efender, ?.s,.v bayard and fell; led It-? i epoken-the future ke offn3 HPS should foretell. . A" . i,and " she blushed. " Shall I see him VnrS;Se pickei you will behold ; CJ i! handhomo and mauly, ahand has the prasp of a king; SIb , hevond thi for the harvest, n only how fair is the spring." . . .L.nr cottace or castle. IaCiH ;tr tou ask of the future 1 and t hat shal 1 guard and protect you BomV"LallVe sweeter for dreaming. Tour castle's-a castle in Spain." lu,:fKnou-k8 Bolton, vi panics' uome journal. HOUSEHOLD. COCOAXUT JUMBLES. One cup of butter, H cups of sugar, e pgg, one teaspoon soda, one cup of " Jjjk one heaping cup of cccoanut, a little nutmeg, flour to roll, cut in square pieces and fold over the edges, or cut in long narrow strips. INDIAN PUDDING. i Scald one quart of milk, thicken with ong Cup of meal, two eggs, one spoon ful of flour, one cup of molasses, salt and ging-r to taste- When cool add one pint of cold milk; do not stir.it. Bike slowly for two or three hours. TOT PIE. Cat veal, beef or chicken into pieces, put into boiling water enough to cover, with two slices of bacon; cover closely, and boil an hour, and season to taste; make a batter of two well beaten egg, two cups of milk, teaspoon fulof baking powder and flour, drop in separate spoonfuls while boiling, and cook fivp minutes: serve immediately. TLAIN CAKE. Take two cups of flour, 1 of sugar, half a cup of butter, one of cream, two pyct one teaspoonful of baking powder, mixed with the flour. Put all these ingredients into a depdish and beat until light. It is not necessary to beat them separately, as in soma other cakes. B.ike in a dsep form and in a moderately hot oven for about half an hour. MACAROONS. Take half a pound of almonds, blanched and skinned, with three or four titter ones among them. Pound them fine in a mortar, with the whites of three eggs. Add 10 ounces of sugar and stir for a quarter of an hour. Put in little round or oblong heaps on a sheet of white paper, dusted over with flour. Sprinkle sugar over the macaroons and bake in a slow oven. SWEET POTATO TARTS. Five egg?, one teacupful of sugar, one teacupful of butter, a little nut meg or cinnamon. One pound of po tatoes, boiled and mashed, with a pinch of salt, and milk to make it moist. Beat the butter and sugar first. and then add the potato a little at a time. Beat up the eggs and stir them in. Then add the flavor. Line the pie pans with a crust; fill and bake the same as pumpkin pie. This quan- j tity will make three or four tarts. PEPPERMINT DROPS. One cupful of sugar crushed fine and ; just moistened with boiling water, then boil five minutes; take from fire and add cream of tartar size of a pea; mix j well and add one-half teaspoon ful of essence of peppermint; beat briskly until mixture whitens, then drop quickly upon white paper; have cream of tartar and essence of pepermint measured while the sugar is boiling If it sugars before it is all dropped, add a little water and boil a minute or two. THE SECRET OF FASCINATING. Doubtless thousands of young yeople and not a small number of old ones, wish every day of their lives that they could learn the secret of facinating others by means of their graceful, ex quisue manners. The secret is an open e. It is so easy to learn that it lies J" neglected by the wayside, while aey who would give their dearest treasure to find it pass unknowing. 7 n y thh: m yur heart with god wu to everybody, and then prac g at all times the best manners you w vr?ictuhTy at h. you pa at home, thig charming manner and J? i Speak' get settled on yu never! eaveyou. Be just as polite besitf. asyou would to yur of mother ?Ju t0 gain the Sod wiU sisters and I and brothers and strive chlldren exactly as you There i 800dwillabroad ners like th Pl?Ce for PracticinS man" Paiit mt1 . drcle; no place' I aPPreciate t? 7' here ifc wiU be so of heart mi' a e a cultlvatlon 10 feel notHn 5 bdy' thi3 endeavor people at S bufc affection for the thought! e and treat them as deration ere Worasmucacon- erethP. ur handa " they they afnt and his family. So will flat rf y Tnen from the home magneUc .f0 you those sweet tne heart, ?f Ces which wil1 draw art3 of unkind toward you. TWO PLUCKY WOMEN. Up a long hill the horses were slowly toiling. "Speaking of road agents," said the old stage driver, "I've had my fair sheer of holdups an' don't hanker arter any more. How many? Wall, I couldn't jist give ye exact figgers, but ten wouldn't bo fur out of the way." "And wcro you wounded in any of the holdups?" I asked. "Three different times, sir. Some folk used to purtend to believe that drivers and road agents stood in to gether and whacked up, but they war idiots fur talkin' such bosh. The best proof of the fact that it wasn't so lay in tho killin' of three different drivers on this very line inside of six months. Durin' that same time we got away with two robbers. People who are whackin' up, as they call it, don't slambang bullets and buckshot into each other at clu3 range, do they?" " Well, hardly. You've had women aboard when you've been stopped, I presume." "Sartin, and then thar was fun. I was laughin' to myself only yesterday about the case we used to call 'The Old Maid's Roundup.' It was a funny thing. Ill pint out the place, a dozen miles ahead, as we come to it. I had three men and a woman as passengers, and all were inside. I hadn't seen the woman and couldn't tell what she looked like, but it turned out that she was a single critter, about forty years old. She had red hair and a sharp nose, and she could ttilk a wheel off a coach in five minutes. Mebbe she'd bin disappointed in love, as they call it. I've heard that that sort o' turns a woman's feelin's into pepper and vine gar, bne got into a fuss with the men about their smokin' almost as soon as we started, and every few minutes I heard her pipin' away and makin' a kick about somethin' or other. It jest made me fat to know she wasn't har nessed up tome. "We'd jest climbed the hill and it was three o'clock in the afternoon when the robber they used to call Hirry Blossom ' steps out from behind a rock and levels his gun on a line with my face. I stops right then and thar. Harry nods to mo not to make a fool of myself while he was busy and steps along to the door and orders the pas sengers to git down and view the scen ery. He was a gentleman, Harry was, and mighty gallant to the ladies. The old maid had travelled enuff to know what a hold up wasj and at fust she refused to git down. She sot right thar on the back seat and wollopedthat chap with her tongue till ho didn't know whether he was afoot or on horseback. Jemimy ! but you orter hev heard her call him villian, rascal, wretch, coward, Injun and a hunded other names! I was consarned over the robbery, of course, but I had to laugh or burst." 'And she wouldn't get down?" I asked. "She did arter a bit. He wasn't goin to roo ner, ler ne wasn c mac kind of a greaser, but he figgered that the men had passed her their wallets, as was often the case. The three fel lers was like lambs, but I didn't blame 'em any. A man who plays fool when thar's a shot gun and a road agent lookin' at him never gits any sym pathy. Sho finally got down, and I could see she was bilin' over with mad ness. Harry got 'em in a row and wa3 callin' fur their wealth when the old maid yelled out like a cat pinched in a door and grabbed him. He had a pistol in his hand at the time, but she didn't seem to keer. She got him around the waist and tripped him up, and it was all done so quick nobody could get the hang of it. She was jest fightin' mad and wanted to scratch and pull ha'r, but when he went down we all saw the chance and lit on to him. He fired twice, but didn't hurt anybody, and by that time we had him safe. He's over m tne penitentiary yit, and it's all owin' to that old maid. "It was funny. We loaded him in- - -mm. side, bound hand and toot, ana sne tongue walloped him fur thirteen long miles. Harry was a tuff one, but he afterward told me he'd rather got five years extra than to hev bm obliged to hear her go on. She had a Bible with her and she put in the last two miles readin' a chapter ot it to mm i "The rewards offered on him piled ud about $1,000, and she got the money and $200 on top of it as a present from the company. Lands ! but didn't Harry feel broke up and ashamed ! He had stood off the sheriff half a dozen times, and to be captured by a woman and an old maid at that jest broke his speerits down 'till he was as humble as a rabbit. "Jest about a year arter Harry Blos som's capture," continued the driver, as I .asked him' for further incidents, "I went out of Austin with only one passenger and she was a schoolma'am. She was a teacher over in Eureka and wasn'trover twenty years old. I can remember sho wa short and small and had black eyes. Thar' wasn't much money passin between the two towns and that line had never bin in terfered with. "Howsoever, thar' is alius a fust time, and it cum to me about five miles out of Eureka, The bosses war' joggin' along as contented as you please, and I was holdin' the lines and thinkin' of that gal I've been harnessed to since, when I git3 a su id en lift. A cuss who didn't know beans about the bizness had taken it into his noddle to turn road agent, and this was his fust hold up. Instead of steppin' out like a gentleman and givin' me a chance to hold up in decent fashion, he puts a bullet into thi3 right shoulder afore he shows, hisself, and then begins to whoop and dance up and down the road, The hosses was fur runnin' away, but I finally got 'em pulled down and waited fur the idiot to cum up. tie was white about the gills and a good deal more skeert than I was till I told him I had only one passenger and that a gal. Then he begins to brace up and let on he's a terror from way back. No respectable robber would hev thought of plunderin' a woman, but that cuss was low down and probably hard up. He walked up to the door, a gun in each hand, and ordered her to step down." "And you couldn't interfere?" I asked. " I wasn't heeled with a shooter, and bein' as he had put a bail into me and I was bleedin' like a stuck pig, and hevin' trouble with the hosses, I didn't want any more bizness on hand jest then. I know'd he'd skeer the gal half to death and wouldn' git over five dol lars in cash, but I couldn't help it. He had his hand on the door to open it when she fired a pistol in his face. She had one, it turned out, and she had the pluck to pull tho trigger, but it were a great surprise to mo when I heard the report and tho yell which foiiered. Tho bullet hit the feller in the side of the nose, about half-way up, and the pistol was held so clos that his eyes was blowed full of powder. He dropped his gun and staggered back with his hands to his face, and that little gal leaned out of the winder and says to me as sweet as pie : "'Driver, will you have the kind ness to drive on?" j "I had that very kindness, you bet yer life, fur I didn't know how bad the I feller was hurt and I didn't want any more of his lead. I run the hosses into Eureka and the gal hopped outer the coach and kissed her a3 chipper as you please. I reckoned to find her all up sot with hysterics, but she wasn't that sort. She says to me, Kays she : " 4 Driver, I guess you and the Sheriff kin gobble that chap if you'll hurry back, fur I know the powder blinded him.'" "Six of us drove back thar in the coach. The feller's two guns was lyin' in the road whar he dropped 'em and we found him in the brush a few rods off. He wasn't built fur no road agent. He was whimperin' like a boy, and as soon as he heard us he began beggin' that we wouldnt hurt him. He's in State prison, too, and I saw him only a week ago. He didn't quite lose his sight, but he can't only jest tell the difference between a king and a jack in broad daylight. "And what became of the girl?" "The gal? Oh, she got married in about a year, of course. Jest went and threw herself away on a feller as didn't know plums. I was never more disappointed in my life than I was when I heard of it. Why, if I'd seen him among a drove of jack rabbits I wouldn't have wasted a load on him 1" "Ranchman, was he?" "Ranchman! No! Ho was what they calls a professor, and the gal's mother like to hev cried herself to fleathover it!" New York Herald. ON THE LAWYERS. The Quitman (Ga.) Free Press has heard two good jokes on lawyers. One is on Judge Jim Guerry, of Dawson. A short time ago an old negro was up before the Judge, charged with some trival offence. "Haven't you a lawyer, old man?" inquired the Judge. "No, sah." " Can't you get one?" "No, eah." "Don't you want me to appoint one to defend you?" "No, sah ; I jes' tho't I'd leab do case to ignance ob de do't." The other is on the legal fraternity in general. An old farmer was on his deathbed. He requested that two law yers from a neighboring town be sent for. When they came he motioned them to take seats, one on each side of the bed. He looked from one to the other for a few moments, and then with his last breath exclaimed: "I die content, like my Saviour, between two thieves!" Renew your subscription at once. See your neighbors, get a new sub scriber or two and send in with your own. You can't do a better thing. CALEB CUSHING'S CURIOSITY.. Industry and Retentive Memory at the Great Jurist. Caleb Cu3hing's decisions while a Justice' of the Supreme Court of Massa chusetts were admirations of the Bar. but lawyers wondered at his familiarity with the .eports, knowing that he had long been out of actual practice. A writer in the Green Bag explains this tamilianty by the statement that Mr. Cushing, on being appointed to the Bench, prepared himself by reading in nineteen days the fifty seven volumes of Massachusetts reports. His habit, wo are told; was to read every book, pamphlet or periodical that seemed likely to gratify his intense thirst for knowledge. When Webster's Unabridged Dic tionary appeared he read it through, word by word, and corrected some mistakes. He sought information from every source. "Ho would go into tho street and ask information from the shabbiest negro if in that way he could learn what he wished to know," said one who was associated with him in Wash ington. He once asked an acquaintance in whose company he happened to be, what name was given to the part left after a check had been torn from a chick book. The gentleman could not inform him. A few days after he re ceived a letter from Mr. Cushing with the single word "stub." Trival as the question seemed he could not rest until it was answered. "It was not easy to start a topic of which he was ignorant, " says the writer already quoted. "I took tea with him at the house of his niece nos Jong be fore he died and during the conversa tion he turned to a niece and said: 'Margaret, I see the ladies are to wear so and so the coming season,' giving in detail the new fashions." Mr. CusBing excelled as a lingui-st and was said to be able to converse with all the Foreign Ministers at Wash ington in their own tongue. It is also stated that as our Commissioner to China he negotiated the first treaty without the aid of an interpreter. Industry, a retentive memory and a methodical habit made him a linguist and what Bacon calls "a full man." He was as methodical in arranging hi3 time as in classifying his papers. In his office every paper was in its place and during the day every hour had its duty or work. A Washington real estate man, wish ing to show Mr. Cushing a piece of property, was told to call at 5 o'clock in the morning. Tho man was not ac customed to such early hours, but was advised by one who knew Mr. Cush ing to be prompt. As he drove to the door at the appointed time Mr. Cush ing was on the steps. He talked all day, studied far into the night and never seemed to know fatigue. "I never," says a writer in the Green Bag, "went by his house at Newburyport, when he was at home, no matter how late, that I did not see a light in his room, and it was known to be his habit to work till after mid night and throw himself on a lounge for a few hours' rest, and at daylight resume his labors." ALLEGED FUN. She I suppose you would have been happier if you had not married me? He Yes, darling, but I wouldn't have known it. "Mamma," said Jacky, whose little sister was pulling his hair, "I wish you'd make May stop. She's behaving in a very ungentlemanly way." Cholly Bah, Jove, I've a dreadful pain in my head. Can you suggest a remedy? Sinnikers Yes, have it filled. Jack Many a happy marriage has been spoiled by money. Tom Yes; it spoiled mine. She re fused me because I didn't have ei ough. "Pa, who was the old woman who lived in a shoe?" , "She was originally a New York girl who married a Chicago shoemaker, and was left a widow without a home." They were talking of the intelligence of animals. "I've seen a hog count," he said. "So have I," she said. "I've seen him count two seats in the car and take them both himself." Foreign vis tor Is that college a really fine educational institution? Amercan (proudly) Is it? I should say. it was. They've got the most idiotic college yell to be heard in the whole country, sir yes, sir. Raredon How does it happen that you haven't a gray hair in your head, while your mustache is full of them? Welden My friend, there isn't a form of liquid dissipation on earth that that mustache hasn't dipped into. Little Dick Tell us about the giants, Mr. DcTalk. Guest I don't know much about giants, my boy. Littl8 Dick That's queer. Papa j said he heard you tellin' Sis some tall stories. Aunt Flintskin I feel quite pro voked to think that you and your mother were in town the other day and went to a. restaurant instead of com ing to our houee to dinner. Why didn't you come? Little nephew We was hungry ! " One feature about this bureau that I can recommend," said the salesman, "is that it -has been carefully oiled all over the back. Gum won't stick to it anywhere." "My daughters," said the customer, "are all married. Show me one that you can't drive a nail into. I want it for my boy." NOBODY COULD FOOL HIM The amateur farmer looked wise. He had tramped or driven over a large portion of the farm, had passed judgment on the richness of the soil, and had talked of the purchase of som9 improved machinery. Altogether he was very favorably impressed, an nounced that he had about made up his mind to buy the land. Then he noticed a little pool of bubbling water. "What's that?" he asked quickly. "A spring," replied the old farmer "one of the purest, coldest springs in this country." "A cold spring!" exclaimed tho amateur farmer. "Yes, sir, and as clear as crystal." "Look here!" said the amateur farmer sternly, "do I look like a man who can be imposed upon?" Why, no" " Would you pick me out for a man who doesn't know his business?" " Of course not. I " " Then do you expect to unload this farm on to me handicapped by that thing?" "Why, what's the matter with it?" " Matter with it ! Don't you suppose I read the papers? They kill crops?" ' ' Springs kill crop3 ?" ,'Cold springs do. You can't fool me, old man, if I do look like a city bred man. A cold spring is worse than a backward spring according to the Young Farmer's Weekly, and you wouldn't dare try to sell me a farm with a backward -spring on it." The old man leaned against a rail fence and did't know whether to laugh or swear as he watched the amateur stalk haughtily down the lane." D i, jil Free Press. THINGS HOPED FOR. A bright school teacher had a boy come into her class from the nexo lower grade, who had the worst reputation of any boy in school. His behavior was so tricky and disobedient that he had always been put into a seat di rectly in front of the teach desk where he could conveniently be watched. His reputation had preceded him, but the new teacher had her own ideas how recalcitrant boys should be treated. On the very first day she said : " Now, Thomas, they tell me you are a bad boy and need to be watched. I don't believe it, I like your looks, and I am going to trust you. Your seat will be at the back of the room, end seat on the fourth row from the wall." That was all she said. Thomas went to his seat dumbfounded. He had never in his life been put upon his honor before, and the new experience overcome him. From the very first he proved one of the best and most in dustrious pupils in the school; and not long ago the teacher gave him a good conduct prize of a jack-knife. The other day she was going down one of the streets not far from the school, when suddenly she noticed Thomas among a small crowd of street gamins. He saw her, too, and im mediately took off his hat, and called out, his face beaming with a glad grin : - "Hello, Miss E, ; nice day." The other boys laughed at him. "Well" said he, "she's the best friend I ever had, and I'm going to take my hat off every time I see her." WOULDN'T STAND HUMBUG. " While I was in Brazil," said a New Yorker the other day, "a Yankee cirj cus manager brought his great moral show down and proceeded to do the country. According to his advertise ments his collection of animals was more complete than that which Noah took in-out of the wet, and bis perform ers more wonderful than Barnum was ever able to engage.. I attended hi3 show and found it a very brazen fake. The audience departed grumbling, and in an hour the show king was before the Poo Bah of the place charged with fraud. The latter had one of the circus bills spread out on a table and had checked every discrepancy in the per formance. 'Now,' said he, 'why did you not give the show. you advertised?' The showman thought it was a great joke, and that he would probably be subjected to a light fine and let off with a reprimand, but he was mistaken. For every shortcoming in the show, for every instance where it failed to tally with the advertisement, he waa fined $100 and given a month in jail. His fines aggregated $1,000 and his im prisonment a year. He is serving out his time now. As he was led away he remarked that the people down there had no conception of "poetic license. And they haven't. It is no place for the genius humbug." THE 0Ld"cOW. Mr. A. W. Hathaway, at the Farm-" ers' Institute, held at New Florence, Mo., had this to say in regard to the old cow : "Of all domestic animals which con tribute to man's necessities, the ' old cow' easily takes the lead. From in fancy to old age, in sickness and in health, the ' old c jw ' contributes to a large degree the nourishment of the human family. We commence with milk and follow with butter, beef, cheese and probably end with beef tea. Her skin manufactured into leather contributes to our comfort in b:0-" and shoes, and to our wants in th various articles for which leather ::J used, and if necessity compelled, t.ha ox could do a large share of the labor that is performed by the horse. I will -not be tedious by giving statistics of the amount of beef produced, the amount of butter and cheese manufac tured, or the amount of capital in vested, but only call your attention to it that you may compare it with the rest of our domestic animals, and see if the old cow is not worthy of more attention than is usually given her. Yes, her meek, quiet and gentle ways ought to win our affections. To be practical, let us consider what care should bo given her. A barbed wire fence is not sufficient protection from the cold winter weather, but she should be comfortably housed and have plenty of good food. And let me give you , some of my experience in feeding the old cow. Last year I cut my corn while the fodder was green and let it cure in the Shock, then run it through a feed cutter, and fed with it a ration composed of one part of ground screen ings, one part of cotton seed meal, one part of crushed ears of corn. They gave a good quantity of milk and ate the corn fodder up pretty clean, leav ing only the larger pieces of the butts. ' This year I am feeding corn fodder the same as last year, and corn in the ear. They do not give nearly as much milk, and do hot eat the cut fodder nearly as well, and this is my reason : The cotton seed meal and ground screen- ings made better balanced ration. The ratio of albuminoids to barbo hydrates for milk cows or fattening animals should be one of albuminoids to five of carbo hydrates. Corn fodder contains 1.34, corn 1.10, making the ration con tain a ratio of about 1.20; cotton seed meal 1.18, and wheat screenings, which is composed largely of chess, has never been analyzed, but probably has about the same ratio as wheat bran, which is 1 to 51, which would make last years ration somewhere near right. I wish some one would tea me oetore these meetings close, what we can raise that win be ncn enougn in aioummoids to feed with corn fodder. It would seem unnecessary for me to say that an animal so valuable and of such good disposition as the old cow, ought to be treated with kindness but know many treat them very ill. If she is frightened and starts they send a club after her, or if she has a sore teat and kicks they whack her on the ribs with the three-legged stool. (I don t use a three-legged stool; I use a box, which is unhandy to chastise her with.) will tell you how 1 manage to break a heifer to milk. I had a little scrubby looking cow which I traded with one of my neighbors for a large, fine look ing heifer with a. tine calf some six. weeks ol d. He said he had never milked her except to relieve her bag of what the calf could not take. I Dut her in the stable and tied up her calf; she was a little wild ana large and strong, and could kick me across the stable with little effort. I concluded that the reason my neighbor traded with me was that he did not like to wrestle with her, to break her to milk, and if he is here to day he will learn how I did it. tied her head up pretty short to the manger as quietly and gently as I could. She could not ruii but she could kick. I then strapped up her right foreleg and had her at agreat disadvantage. petted her and rubbed her bag a little while and then milked her. I went through the same operation a few times, - till 1 could put the strap on without tying her up. After she got used to that I put the strap on in the vard : after awhile I could milk her without putting the strap on, and had no trouble with her after that It is better to handle tho heifers and gentle them be- j fore they have calves." NOTICE. Parties inviting any of the officers of the Alliance to make an address, are expected to pay expenses of the same. The State Alliance cannot pay the ex penses of any one except when doing regular work. 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