{ / 1 Volume XXXIII. IN ESSENTJ1LS, UNITY; IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY; IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY. • SUFFOLK, VA.. ETtI!DA.Y OCTOBER 1, 1880. -- — —\TE Number 3f). |lodr^. "ANOrHEKJiEAPfcTH.” John 4: 37. J1Y THE BKV. T. H. NEWTON, D.D. I’ve looked o’er acres rich and broad, Well pleased to call them mine; Mine b> my toil, a life’s reward,— Home lor my lifo'i decline : Yet title clear and deed iu fee Could not return those roods for.me. I’ve built a mansion neat and fair Well fitted to my mind. 1 hoped to spend life’s sojourn there, (To quietness inclined): But others sleep whbiu my rooms W hilst I seek rest in stranger’s homes. I had two thousand books in store, (I dread a vacant mind) — My only sin ! I sought for more— To knowledge well incline d, But war cornea on with ’furiate pace And burns my shelves before my face. These lost—new projects to regain What thus had fled away— Bore my hope onward still in vain For sickness needed prey. She touched each fibre iu m> frame, And left me not of health the name. Thus one by one our hopes depart And saddened leave the breast: But as they go they teach the heart To seek not here a rest. We learn the worth of things on high: Moue snatch our treasures iu the sky. Tho’ spoiled of all not one thing sours, Nor call I Cod unkind, E'en deserts yield new crops of flowers And thus new swee’s we find 1 » God reaps our toils—they are not lost He’ll give us more than the,) have cost. But if He reaps, (yet drops no grain) ’Tis not that He's austere ; He garners up our yearly gain To make our profit clear. All shall be trophies in lli3 train When iie comes to own his right to reign. So tho’ we call them losses now It’s that we little know ; Full soon He’ll tell us, strangely, how He’ll make our profit show. Those faithful in life’s toilsome hours Shall rank as first of heavenly powers. Jielectiong. HOW COLONEL HUGER TOLD THE STORY. BY THE HON. JOSIAH QUINCY. I fulfil the promise matte iu my last paper by giving the story of the at tempted rescue of Lafayette, as told by Colonel Huger, when diumg at m.\ father’s house iu Quiuey, October 3d, 1825. The report, of course, is not stenographic; but, as it is chiefly ta ken from very copious notes made ai the tiuio by my sister, Miss E S. Quiuey,. the reader may rely upon its substantial accuracy. •‘Aly first recollection of Lafayette is that of a child three years old. By a singular accident my father’s house, ou North Island, South Carolina, was the first American roof which shel tered him. Late one night in the year 1770, onr family was alarmed by a loud knockiug at the door. Fear ing au attack oi the enemy, we barred oui windows and refused admittance. At length we weie made to under stand that the applicants wore the Murquis de la Fayette and the Baron de Kalb. They had taken to their boat, to avoid British cruisers, and had been directed by some of our ser vants to uiy lather’s house. They were, of course, admitted, with every tokeu of welcome aud hospitality,aud. accompanied by my father, left the next morning for Charleston, from whence they at ouce proceeded to the American army. Young as 1 then was, the incident made tt distinct im piession upon my mind.” After it abort pause, Colonel Huger proceeded to the events that led to bis second meetiug with Lafayette. “Ibe merit of tbe contrivance to rescue Lafayette from tbe Casfle of Oluiutz belongs uot to tue, but to Dr. Bollman. He was a Hanoverian phy sician, of great conrage and address, who bad been engaged by friends of Lafayette to discover bis prison and attempt bis rescue. Bolltu»io com menced bis seurcb in 1793; but lor some time could only learn that tbe ltussian Government had given Aus tria tbe custody of this daugerous re publican, and that be was probably somewhere in that country, 'lhe next year, after many ineffectual at tempts, bo found out tbi.t certaiu French prisoners bad been taken to Olmutz, a strong fortress in Moravia Suspecting Lafayette might be oneol them,Bollmaun at once repaired toOl n>utz, where be managed to make tbe acquaintance of tbe military sargeou of the- fortress. Representing bim self to be a physician, travelling for improvement, be inquired oue day, as if from idle curiosity, whether there were any French prisoners in the Fortress! ‘Oh! yes,’ was the re ply ; ‘and Lafayette is among them.’ Bollmanu then mentioned that lie i had some French hooks with him, that he would gladly lend this famous ! prisoner. He was informed that this would be permitted, provided the hooks were inspected by the proper officer. The books were accoidingly sent; bat ill one of them, upon the margins of separate pages, Bollmaan had scrawled words which, when put together, formed the following sen tence: ‘If you read this book with as much care as that lent yonr friend at Madgebuig, you will receive equal satisfaction.’ The person referred to had received an account of concerted plans lor his escape from prison writ ten iu lemon-juice on the blank pages of a book. Lafayette understood the allusion, and, bolding it to the tire, soon deciphered a request to instruct his friends how to attempt his res cue. '' The book was then returned, and Uollmanu, upon examiuiug closely, found the words ‘Hold it to the lire’ written upon oue of its pages. On obey lug t. e diiectioii, lie found that lie had been understood. Lalayelle mloiuied him tout he was frequently allowed to drive for his health, and, as he was personally uukuowu to Bollmanii, he mentioned a signal by wlii, h lie might he recognized, if they should meet. This was all he couhl say. Every thing else was left to the courage aud ingenuity of this adven turous doctor. Tue volume lent mid returned was the only communication he had ever had with Lafayette.” “A short time after this,’’ o mtiuued Colonel Huger, “1 met Hr. bollmaan, at Vienna, wbeie he confided to me his plans aud begged my assistance. I felt it my duty to give him all the aid iu my power. We hired a post ebane and a servant; also two hors es, oue ol them trained to carry’doub le. We tbeu set off for Olmutz, a distance of 150 miles. Upon our at rival, we seut the servant aud the chaise on to Hoff', a post-town twen ty-five miles from Olmutz, ou the road we wished to travel. We moun ted our horses apparently to follow bun ; but, iu fact, to endeavor to meet Lulayette. Our pistols were not loaded, aud we took no other arms. We had uo intention of taking life to forward our design. It was the burn when we knew that Lafayette wasal towed to ride. We rode towards the Castle; and, upou nearing the walls, saw an open carriage, iu which was seated a prisoner in a blue surtout. with an officer beside him aud au armed soldier mounted behind. As we passed, the prisoner gave the sig ual agreed upon by raising his hai aud wiping his forehead with his handkerchief. The feelings excited by this assurance that the prisonei was indeed Lafayette I can never for get. We looked, as indifferent as possible, bowed slightly, aud rode on. Fiesently we turned aud followed the carriage. When it reached the open country, Lafayette alighted, on the pretense of taking exercise. He gradually drew the officer who had him in charge away from the high road. Suddenly he grasped the hilt of the officer’s sword aud drew it. At that moment we galloped up to his assistance. A scuffle ensued, the of ticer was slightly wounded, and La fayette's coat was stained with his blood. The soldier meantime hur tied back to the Castle, to give the alarm. An unlucky incident here oc curred. We had dismounted, and oue of our horses, frighteud by the sau gleaming upou the drawn swords, ran away. The officer now seized La layette by the collar aud succeeded in throwing him. The latter exclaim ie«l; ‘lie isstraughug we! V\ e then attacked i lie officer, threw him, aud held him down, calling to Lafayette to mount the only remaining horse aud escape. I said to him ‘Go to fluff!’ a direction which Lafayette most unfortunately mistook lor the Buglish phrase ‘Go off 1’ If I had on ly spoken in French, and said AUez a Iloff, our plan would have succeeded. Lafayette mourned aud rode slowly away; but immediately returned,aud declared that he could not leave us iu such a situation. We reminded him that not a moment was to be lost, aud besought him not to frustrate our design. With great reluctance he then galloped slowly away. We then let the officer escape, aud, alter much difficulty, I succeeded iu catch iug ottr other horse. We mounted and attempted to follow Lafayette. But, utifortuuutely, the horse that he had taken was the one that we bad trained to carry double. ■ The horse we were compelled to mount, soon loured, stumbled, and threw us. It was impossible for both of us to e.s cupe. 1 then insisted that Bollmanu should take the horse aud follow La fuyette alone. He declared that he conld not leave me; bat, upon my re minding bitn that he could be of great assistance to Lafayette, throngh his knowledge of the German language, of which I was ignorant, he reluctant ly decided to go. “My situation was a forlorn one. In a lew moments the whole country would be in pursuit of ns. fiiut J re. solved to lose no chance that remain ed. I harried toward a consent,that appeared upon a neighboring hill. Boon I heard voices behind me, and took refuge in a wood. I hid myself behind a tree, determined to strike the first horseman to the ground and t.o mount bis horse, liut my pursu ers were too numerous. I was iu slantly surrounded, seized, aud car ried to Olroutz.” The characteristic delicacy of Colo nel Huger led him to pass slightly over his sufferings while iu prisou. For ten days he was treated with the utmost rigor. He was chained to the fioor of a small arched dungeon, six feet by eight, from which light was totally excluded. His request to be allowed to send the words “/ am alive” to bis mother was rudely re fused. Colonel Huger continued his narra tive tints: “After t he rigor of my punishment was abated by a removal front tbe dark dungeon, I discovered that Boll inauu was iu the apartment above me. We soon contrived to hold some communication, and from him I first learned the total defeat of our plan. He had reached Uotf; but, not find ing Lafayette, be lingered on tbe irontier till lie was arrested and sent 10 Ol muz. I have already explained tne misnnderstai ding of my direo non,‘Goto Hull!’ which frustrated our design. Lafayette, thinking that ne was only told to go off, wandered into the village of Zagorsdorf, where lie was stepped as a suspicious look ing person, his clothes being stained with blood. We were all three brought back to 01tmitz,and confined there separately, ignorant of one another’s condition. When our trial came on, a yonug man who served as our interpreter became deeply inter ested in our late, aud told our story to Conut Metrowsky, an influential person residing in the neighborhood. Touched by the couduct and suffer ings of two meD he had never seen, I tliis nobleman gave our young inter preter the command of his purse, and the judges of the tribunal were bribed to sncb effect that, after an imprison ment ot eight mouths', we were re leased. We had just cleared the Austrian dominions, wheu an order com mantling a uew trial reached Ol inutz from Vienna. Had we been (hereto meet it, there can be no doubt that the result would have been a sentence ol death. “When I met Lafayette, the other day, iu New York,I had uot seen him lor thirty years. Determined that our meeting should have no witnesses, I went tu the house that had been as -sgned to him early in the morning, aud was admitted before he left bis chamber. He remained in prisou ihree years after the event I have re lated. He was told that we had been taken aud sentenced to execution,bnt was uot informed of our liberation.— For months he daily expected to see us taken out to be shot.” “While Colonel Hnger was speak ing,’’ writes the lady to whom the reader of this narrative is indebted for its preservation, “the countenan ces of bis little audience round the table expressed alternate hope and fear, joy and anxiety. The interest of the most highly-wrought novel was not surpassed by that of the story,as it fell from the lips of one of the chief actors, himself the best personi fication of a real hero we had ever seen." Before returning to the cit.v, Colo nel Huger amused the ladies of the family by the account of a play then very popular at'the theatres of New York. It was called t he Castle of Ol mutz, and he figured in it as a con spicuous character. “But are you not the hero 1” asked one of his ad mirers. “Oh 1 no, indeed,” was the reply. “Heroes are always married at the end of the play, and I am not so iortnuate. I am represented, how ever, as desperately in love with the daughter of the governor of the Cas tle, atitf I am left in the same unhap py situation at the end ot the play l have always had a particular aver sion to rumantic love stories, and lit tie thought X should ever see my sell figuring in oue of them.”—Indejtead tut. How to M ake Sermons Short.— We like to preach short seruious just as much as you like to hear us j but if von want lo have the sermon short, \o‘u must look out for your owu sins, for we have got to name them all be fore we come to the application, and the lei.gib oi the sermon depends en titely upon yourselves.—B. E. Hale, THI SKEPTICAL SHOEMAKER. “I bare read," said the shoemaker, “a good deal about the heathen gods, and I believe the account of Christ is taken from some of the heathen writ ings or other.” ••Will yon abide by Jour own deci sion on two questions that 1 will put to you I” said the Bible-reader. “If so, I will freely do the same. I will abide by yonr own answer; by doing So we shall save much time, and ar rive quicker at the truth.” “Weil, said he, “out with it, and let us see if I can answer; there are but few things but what I cau say something about.” “Well, my friend,” replied the rpiul er, “my first question is, Suppose all men were Christians, according to the account given to us in the Gos l>el concerning Christ, what would be the state of society 1” Lie remained silent for some time iu deep thought, and then was con strained to say, “Well, if all meu were really Christiaus in practice as well as theory, ot course we should be a happy brotherhood indeed.” “I promise yon,” said the reader, “that I would abide by your answer: will you do the same f” “Oh, yes,” he readily replied ; “no man can deny the goodness of the system iu practice; but uow fur ttie other questiou ; perhaps I shall get on better with that; you have got a chalk this time against me.” “Well my next questiou is this, Suppose all men were intidels, what then would be tbe state ol London and ol the world f” He seemed still more perplexed, and remained along time silent, the reader doing the same. At length he said, “You certainly have beateu me, for I never before saw the two effects upon society ; 1 now see that wheie the (_hri tiau builds up, the tufidel is pulling down, f thank you I shall thiuk of whal has passed this afternoon.” The sequel was that he was fully persuaded iu his own mind to give up all his iuBdel companions and follow tlie Lord Jesus Christ. But tbe change did not stop here. When flrst the render called he had to sit on an old, dirty chair, with a number of half starved children sitting in their rags on the floor arouud him, neg lected and uucared for; uow they have removed to a better home in a cleaner street. Witbiu, all is cheer ful and happy. The father, no long er faithless, delights iu the company of his wife and children, all of whom are neatly dressed ; aud his chief hap piness is to read and speak to them ot the tilings which belongs to their everlasting peace. “Where the Christian builds, the infldel pulls down.” Why is thisf The fact cannot be denied. Infldel France wrote, “Death is an eternal sleep,” above her cemeteries, and then tore down civilization auu quenched the light of humanity in seas of blood. And Freucb cominu uists iu 1871, while arresting ecclesi astics aud describing them as “ser vants of a person called God,” dug down the foundations of law, order, peace and truth, and with lire and sword destroyed their fellow men by thousands, and made the stieeia ot Paris red with blood. The traits ot unristiamty are as precious as those of infidelity are vile Where the precepts cf Christ have sway, war is uukuown ; robbery, dis Uouesty, iuteiuperauce violeuce and Inst are forbidden ; aud under their benign influence, property is se cure ; life is sacred; poverty is provi ded lor; sickness is pitied ; infancy is nurtured; old age is revered; wo mauhood is cherished; aud inauhood is euuobled. Such are the fruits of true Christianity ;—and iulidei vir tues mostly spring from Christian roots. Skepticism cannot blot out a father’s godly counsels or a mother’s fervent prayers. And as a result there are often traces of Christian principles where there is no Chris tian profession; as therV are plenty of people who practice infidelity while they profess Christianity. Do not be deceived by names of professions. Set genuine infidelity aud genuine Christianity side by side, w atch their fruits aud take your choice.—Ex change. The contest which is before the Church of Christ in this age is set forth in some very vigorous words by Bishop Huntington, of the Episcopal church, as follows: “A barbaric splendor,’ a sensuous and faithless civilization, a decorated and hollow worldliness, a society which, with its mouth full of meat aud wine, and jew els on its fingers, says otily, ‘Ear, drink, dress, dance, tor tomorrow ahull he as this day ; or, if we die, we .die’—tlua is the heresy, the) horror, the damnation thut American Chris tians have to confront, to fight, ami please God, to overcome.”—Exchange. A LETTER FROM THE LATE JOHN S. C. ABBOTT. |The Methodist.] Relieving some overburdened pig eon holes of their accumulations of old letters, this morning I came upon the enclosed which I received from the late Rev. J. S. G. Abbott, short ly before his death. Mr. Abbott’s literary position will make the letter interesting, and its serenely ex pec taut spirit helpful, I doubt nut, to your readers. I am faithfully yours, Jehu DeWitt Miller. “Peppenegeck” X. V., July 22,1380. The Letter. *»#*•» Your kind letter of the oth has just been brought me. 1 am pillowed upon a sick and citing bed, with a little tablet in my bauds 1 can, without much dtliculty, pencil lines to my friends. I sutler very little pain. My mind, it seems to me, was never more clear or joyous.— The physicians assure me that 1 am liable at any moment to die. I am happy. 1 do not see how any one can be more happy out of heaven. 1 am expecting every hour that a group of loving angels will come and say to me, ‘•Brother, God has sent us to convey you to heaven—the chariot is waiting.” All the infirmities ol flesh and sin will vanish from body and soul. I shall be the congenial companion with the angels in that most wonderful of all conceivable journeys from eaith to heaven. 1 have several times taken the tour ol Europe. Aud there was great joy ill seeing the wonders of the old world. But there were sorrows too, the discomforts of travel, the need of ecouomy; the mind burdened with those earthly cares which never can belaid aside. But when tbo angelic summous come, I shall be an ‘ heir ol God.” He will provide the chariot aud will meet all the expenses. All care, imperfection, pain will he goue. The escort will be glorious, angels loving me with a brothers love, and God will have made me worthy of i heir love. We shall pass Sirius, the Pleiades, Orion aud firmaments, oi as Herscliel calls them, other univer ses of unimaginable spleudor. And then we shall enter heaven 1 All its glories will burst upou our euraptur ed view. Angels and archangels, cherubim and seraphim, will gather around us with their congratulations. W e shall see God, his tliroue, the splendor of his court, uudersfaud all the mysteries of his being, aud enter upon blessings inconceivable, forever aud forever. All this I believe, my dear friend, as fully as I believe in my own exis teuce. Aud I may enter upon this enjoymeut before uigbt shall darken arouud me. In the religion of the Son of God and in the atoueuieut be has made for my sius, 1 fiud all that my soul craves 1 am indeed happy But writing these lines has exhaust ed me. I hope to meet you iu heav en. Then we will clasp hands aud lovingly refer to this correspondence, Yours affectionately, Johns. C. Abbott. Fair Haven, Conn., March 3, 1377. GOLDEN WOKDS. The habit, of looking on the bright side is valuable. Men anil women who are evermore reckoning up what they want rather than what they have—counting the difficulties in the way instead of contriving means to overcome them—are almost certain to live on corn bread, fat poik, and salt tish, and sink to unmarked graves. The world is sure to smile upon a man who seems to be successful; but let him go about with a crest fallen air, aud the very dogs in the street will set upon him. We must all have losses. Late frosts will nip the fruit, the bud banks will break, invest meats prove worthless, valuable hor ses die, china vases break ; but all these calamities do not come togeth er. The wise course to pursue, when when oue plan fails, is to form anoth er ; when one prop is knocked from under us, to till its place with a sub stitute, aud evermore count what is lelt, rather than what is taken. When the dual reckoning is made, if it ap pears that we have not lost the con sciousuess of iuteutioual rectitude ; if we have kept charity towards all men; if, by various discipline of life, vve have been freed from follies amt con tinued in virtue, whatever we have lost, the great balance sheet will be in our favor.—£j>. Neglect of private duties is the grcut reason why the hearts of many are so dead aud dull, so loruial anil carnal, so barren anil unfruitful un der public ordinances. Oh ! that Cbnstiaus would lav this seriously to beau. Certainly that man’s heart is bestiu public duties who is most fre quent iu private exercises. jarrn an A HINTS TO LOVERS OF FLOWERS. A most beautiful and'easily attain ed show of evergreens may lie had h.v a very simple plan, which |ia> been found to answer remarkably wcj ou a small scale. It geranium branches, taken from luxuriant and healthy trees, be cut as for slips and immersed in soap watei they will, after drooping for a few days, shed their leaves and put.forth fresh ones, and conHtiuc in the lines’ vigor all the winter. By placing -e number of bottles thus filled in the Bower-basket, with moss toeoncea1 the bottles, a show of evergreen is easily insured for the whole winter All the different varieties of the plant being used, the various shape, and colors of the leaves blend into a beautiful effect. They require no fresh water. By striking young verbena plants in the last days of July, and potting them first into thumbs and then into larger as soon as the roots have reached t he sides, and keepiug then in vigorous growth, pinching back the leading shoots and nipping off every-flower head, the verbenas may be made to bloom in the w indow ab winter, lucre is danger from over w ateritig. Sow is the time to sow Caiuatior and Picotee seed for next summer’ flowers. Sow in a partially shf.dei bed. As soon ^as the plants have made the second pair of leaves, prick out inton bed where they are wanted to flower. Protect with a slight mul ching ofdry leaves eftning winter, INITIALS ON FRUIT. Did you ever see a name printed on a growing'apple, pear or peach ? No Weil, if yon wish to have that pleas ure, this is the way to obtain it: VVLile the fruit yet hangs g'reei upon the tree, make up your mim which is the very biggest and mosi : promising specimen of all. Next, cm out from thin tough paper the initials of the name of your little brother 01 sister or chief crony with round specks for the dots after the letters, aud the letters theuisehes plain and thick. Then paste these letters aud dots on that side of the apple which is most turned to the sun, taking care not to loosen the liuit’s hold upou its stem, As soon as the apple is ripe, tak. off the papereuttings, which, having shutout the reddening rays of tin ! sun, have kept the fruit green jus 1 beneath them, so that the name oi initials now show plainly. After that, bring the owner of the initials to play near the tree, and sa.' presently, ‘-Why, what are those queer marks on that apple up there?” You will tiud this quite a pleasant way to surprise the very little one. and, of course, you can print a short pec name as easily as initials. DEPTH OF SGWiNG WHEAT, Farmers who are wide awake and given to investigation don't so.' as much wheat per acre as the.' lor uierly did, and they don’t sow it si deep. The great, heavy harrows oi of ten or twenty years ago, are no now employed by them in covering seed, and t Lie drill, which can be de pended on better, is becoming uni versally popular. A Wisconsin wn ter gives tbe result of an experiment in planting at different depths—on tbe sutface, bite-fourth inch, oue half inch, three-fourth inch, and so uii to several inches. That on the surface lay two weeks before sprout ingt that one-fonrtli to three-fourth 1 inches deep came up in litur or five j days, and so on, getter later as the ■ depth increased. I The last to come up was planted three-aud a half inches deep, and was fourteen days in reaching the , surface. Jfoue planted deeper ever j reached the surface. At the end 01 six weeks that planted one-fourth to one-half inch deep stood way ahead of the rest. Dyspepsia Ocee.—In mild cases i take one teaspoonful sweet oil, aftei ! eating, three times a day. lu severe : forms take a dessert spoonful. This, , followed up, has cured cases where doctors have given them up. Ye who sufier from this dreadful disease don’t fail to try it; surely it can’t hurt you. To cool the blood drink cold water acidulated witu pure,powdered cream tartar. ' ’’ Friends, assist us in extending the j circulation of the Sun. SELECTED RECEIPES. If a groove is mode in :i lien roost uid lilied with a mixture of lanl and sulphur, the fowls will uot be trou bled with life. It is said that a tea made of ehest mt leaves, and drank in the place of 'ater. will core the most obstinate •use of dropsy in a few days. lits can he in taut I v cored by browing a spoonful of finesaitas far nick into the month of the patient as io.-sibie, just tis i lie in comes on. In feeding bran to stock we obtain r return almost equal to its cost in rhe active quality of the manure. A1 lays bear this mind and feed yonr stock liberally on it. -Mixing fowls from different local •ies is the most fruitful cause of ■lii iken cholera. The dilltrerit breeds if game fowls seem less liable to this lisease than any other, and if kept ree from contact with “strau gees,’’ are lot likely to contract this malady. C'hqleba Infantum.—For chol ra infanrum, the whites of two eggs, veil beaten ; then mix with water; o.ld one teaspoonful of orange tlower 'ater and a lrtf’.e sugar; a table •pbontid every hour. It will,says an xchauge,. cure the worst case of cholera infatituui. Diarrhea in Pius.—Chauge food or a short time. Linseed meal one part : bran seven parts; corn,ground wo parts; mix aud add a little salt. For one hundred pigs put two ouncts of tincture of veratrum veride in a rucketful of warm water, aud mois • en their food three timesa day. Get i quart of the veratrum. The Queen of Puddings.—One pint of bread crumbs, one quart of uilk, six ounces of sugar, butter of lie size of au egg, the yelks of four Jggs, flavored with lemon aud bake is custard. Beat the whites of four eggs to a .loth, aud mix with it a cup of pow lered sugar and the juice of a lemon; spread a layer of fruit jelly while hot; cover with the lrost'iug, and bake nn ll slight brown. , 1 bis is to be eaten cold with cream ir warm with any sauce. To Preserve Quinces.—Pare ind core them nicely, aud have some i hole and some cut in large slices. Putin a kettle aud bod until you •au pass a straw easily tLrough hem; tlreu put them on dishes to coel. Take some of the water in which bey were boiled make a syrup of one round of sugar to one popnd of fruit. Boil it, aud when clarified put in the quinces. Cover for a while with a urge plate (it makes them light coi ned), ami let them boil slowly until! hey are dear. Every now and then j ake them out of the kettle aud lay hem singly ou dishes to cool a little, and then put them back to cool more. llus process is suitable tor preser ciug pears and peaches likewise. Heal Hasty PtDDiNG.—Put Keltic with the quantity of cold erin it which you wish to have ct pudding, put in salt: some like moY some like less (uso your judgm£ tbout that). Wlien the water gins to boil take the corn meal in on&e it. hand and the pudding stick or spoon,^ in the other. Let the meal fall gent-res ly through the thumb aud fingers,*^ stirring it all the time until it gets prove eake when ready to bake. When ■hat thickness boil it about five new utos, pour it out into a greased •fcbesi not very deep. When wait$jgO breakfast cut it in slices about han11 your inch thick. Pry in lard a little a&tfU. han is used for griddle cakes. So^a^t like it tried or boiled iu fat as doug your nuts are, but it is rather too rich. noney “ jon jou 11GH Ueed Pied Dumplihg.—: birds may be good roasted or **sme serv but there is a little finish abort 14 caps reed bird dumpling which ha 5**n trj" charms. MITH lingerie Sue tells about a £■' iiuuter who in a wild boar pt^ key, iu the turkey a pigeou( • that pigeon au ortolau, then i&oc. Better the boar aud all, and threpo store. everything but the ortolan alone ate. Reed bird dumplings $iea by Mr. J. B. like this : Take a reed bird aud %. L. D«ughtrey’«. iu him. Make a dough r bug and put him iusid*ARDBN * eley. dumpliug ibercqgh1" vour the dumptinj kernel, whiuh the oyster. It was au .tare riv oooked