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HOUSE AND FARM. 1 Hints to the Cook. An i ntree specially designed to aceom hany roast pork is made in this way :'ee! as many potatoes as will cover the ottom of a deep pie dish. Sprinkle a :.aif teaspoonful of dried sage over tuem. ut u small onion in thin slices, id spread them over this. Add salt cad pepper, and little lumps of hu't-r o u i o y o u n- K i v in of the dish will- i.• i i i moderate oven. An appetizing entree is made tak agcoid boiled cabbage ehup i! for a medium-sized pudding dish mil a id two well beaten egg-, a tablespoon ml oi bulter, three tablespoonfuls ot creiui w!th pepper and salt and libitum. ihit v the pudding di«o, put 111• Crtbb.-ige in hake until brown. I'his imyln' eat en cold, hut it is ueh better it served hot. It is especially good with roast pork, or pork chops." delicious ehieken .soup is made hv oting up one chicken and putting it in your kettle with nearly two quarts of water, a feaspnonml of salt and a little pepper. When about half done add two teaspoonfuiH of barley or of rice. When this is done remove the chicken from the Siiip, tear or cut part of the breast into small pieces, and add to the soup with a cup of cream. Tin rest of the chicken may he reserved for salad, or f". chicken croquettes. A delicate entree is made by scraping ten small table carrots and putting them in a saucepan with threi ounces of but ter. Lot them simmer gently when you judge that they have cooked for fif teen minutes, add some salt, pepper, a very small onion chopped tine, and a little,—say a teaspoonful—of chopped parsley. When the caivots are tender, drain the butter from them and serve hot. This is a nice dish with roast beef. Potato pancakes make a most excel lent dish for supper. Serve with the same embellishments in the way of pick les, sauces as you would do were the dish you were offering fried oysters, (irate a dozen medium sized potatoes, uftcr peeling them and washing thor oughly. Add the yolks of three eggs, a heaping table spoonful of Hour, arid if they seem to dry, a little milk will do to thin them, with a large teaspoonful of salt, and lastlv the whites oft.be three eggs beaten still", and thoroughly beaten in with the potatoes. Heat vour grid dle and put butter and lard "in equal proportions oh it, and fry the cakes in it until they are brown." Make them a third larger than the ordinary suo of the pancake. One way to economize and to produce excellent results in cooking is to use suet in place of butter or lard. For many purposes it is better than either of these. Some, people who object decidedly to cakes fried in lard relish tkem when suet is used for frying. Beef balls are very nice tried in suet. Round steak can be used for these. Chop the .neat tine, season well with pepper and salt and •.my herb you may choose, shape them like flatballs with your hands, dip in egg ami fine cracker or breadcrumbs, and try the hot suet. Currant ('urtin^, An experienced gardener of Indiana, according to tho Farmer's Advocate, is o: uoinion that very -iw persons who plant currant cutting- *'t at the right season of the year. usu illy done in the spring, when in tact it should be done in the fall. I have had a good deal of experience in prop gating cut tings. I always plant my currant cut tings in the Hill as soon as the leaves fali oil'. They will make durable roots two or four "inches long the same fall, while the buds remain dormant. They will make double the growtli the next sea son if set in the fall, than they wih if not set till spring. They should be set in ground that will not heave them out by the effects of frost, and should be covered just before winter sets in with coarse litter. Remove the covering early in the spring, and examine the cuttings to see if any of them have heaved, and if so, press them down again. Should they heave up an inch or more, if well pressed down, they will start and make a belter growth than cutting, in the spring. In either case however, the cuttings should alwavs be made in the mil. Happy i o -Luck: Tar in: •,: g. The Western Rural in commenting upon the happy-go-hck style of farming which our improved machinery makes possible, says, "it is not a question with us how much an acre will produce, or can in? made to produce? An acre? U'hat is an acre? If one acre does not roduce as much aa we want we plant two, for our sulk}* plows, and riding cultivators, and reaping machines make distance and area of very little impor tance. In fact we spread out our oper ations too wide and too thin, simply be ause our modem improvements enable fis to do so. We waste land and we waste interest on capital invested iti i,ind ,md we will be compelled to do differently in this country. We shall 'nave to contract our operations, and quit cultivating an e itire township in one arm simply because inventive genius enables us to get over it easily. I'nless, instance, we can increase the yield wheat per acre in this country, there danger of being driven out of the bus -'S8 of wheat growing. As the country •otues settled up and land increases price, we shall not be able to- devote to raising fourteen bushels of -•at to the acre, and that is above the .ige. We must make one acre do at what two are now doing and we do it. No 'doubt of it at all. aing is not alwavs going to be what iw is in the United States. It can always be so: and the question with v farmer ought to be not how much age can I get over, with our mar nsiy perfect machinery, but what is iuiit I can compel every acre under ivation, to do in production?" variuth and Pnro Air for Stock. ue recent cold weather gives stock v ellent appetite and shows conclusive ly theimportaure toviding for them comfortable wint :. rters, Toe loss from unnecessary exposure of stock in Western latitudes amounts to millions of dollars in this country every winder, and the importance of the 'question of shel ter for stock needs to r.e advocated. There is usu tl'v much less exposure_of cattic, and the former are better enahe (d to beat lh" inclcuii-qicv ol wva-iier if iIKM-meiK it. •\iuft raiiy i an them i se -that iect. acruhorned to it sen-iuve, to col.!, and ul)U'ilance of he/arty thev are capable of enduring ere went.ner, yet economy re iut* attention be n Iw th., and suitable means for shelter and eom fo't provided, Many faraieis allow their .'lock t.» bo unneeossar-jU ••--.•d in winter, from mere en :u: 1 ignorance of the laws pertain the health and comfort of c.l! animals. They need to be reminded that the heat in ail warm-blooded animals lequh't s to be kept at nearly the saint temperature nr.d that when the weather becomy.? cold wr stormy as in winter, .some ptovisv-ns must be made to keep iioth*' anim il heat to nearly its normal decree. This may usually be ivcompliMied hv ieedhg the animals heavily of strong con-.vii! ra* teu ft,oil, but it can be done much chc.i p» ei by providing suita 5 oroteeti on against the cutting wind- a: i pelting storms. "resh air is the vital element of health nd on the hills of our dairy counties t!»o supplv from November to May is or dinarily ample for all demands: it is, r,n to the piesent waiting, iiotcontrolletl by any combinations, or likely to be lucked up by a ring, but in many ami many a stable (and house aswelb it is as careful iy economized us if there was a risk of using :t all up with no chance of gettms any more. A cow mnot give whole sonic mi.k without pure air as well as pure water, but thousands pet little ot either on farms where .ree winds blow, and bright springs bubb.e, simply be cause no thought is g.ven to ventilation, and it is easier to let the herd drink l:'oma\ard pool than to conduct water to them,—Coiintrv Gentlem in. sihetter for Stock. One of the gieat leaks on a farm urs tiuring the winter fjnm lack of a.iequa*" shelter for stock. The farmer must i:ot be content that stock manages 10 live throuidi the winter for profit they must make constant gain. The present is n opportune time for closing the cracks in the stables, patching up the roofs of all the farm buildings, attending to stable Hoors and seeing that ali planks are &ul ticiently strong tf withstand the pro tracted weight of the aniinals. When the farm possesses only a mea gie supply of barns and other perma nent buihlinars for stock, autumn is the season for constructing e* t-^jier shelter.1 umler which catt'e, sheep and swine may be |rotected. In sections where tun her is plenty, sheds and pens can be built a*, small eost. When building material is -varce it becomes a more dil'licult matter to properly house the stock. In sections where the winters are dry and protection is required from frost and wind more than from rain and snow, straw and prairie hav make ex cellent substitutes tor weather boards and shingles. It is no unm-ual thing to build sheds tor both sheep and cattle of straw and hay with the assi-ta/ue of a few forks ami poles. These sheds art best located where the opening faces the poulti, and if constructed oil a slope, dry beds will be secured. The poultry uf the farm is liable to be neglected for what are considered ob jects of more importance. In point fact, the^e minor appendages, when pro vided with warm, diy shelter ami orop erfo*d, air a source of considerable revenue to ibeir owners. IW ail meaii provide shelter lor the fowls. Feed them judi -iously through the winter, and eggs in January, February and March, with early breeds of "spring chickens, will repay with good interest tor the ire and tho money expended. Flaxseed as a Medicine l-'ioui the Sin Francisc-} Scientific Press. No household in the country should ever be without a supply of flaxseed, both whole and ground for there is scarcely anything which can be used with greater success by the amateur physi cian. At least half of the stUm'-nts of lit tle children may be traced to cold, or to some disturbance ot the digestive or gans and in either of these cases a fiax fieed poultice is a sovereign remedy. Pour boiling water on the grouiH flax seed, stirring briskly at tho same time, till it is the coiisislencc of mush tiien put it into a flannel bag previously pre pared, apply it as hot as it can be borne, and cover with several folds of flannel. Let it remain until it begins to cool, when it may be replaced by another. In cases of cold on the chest, hoarseness and cough, it often acts like a charm, and also in attacks of diarrhuea, and pain in the bowels. I have seen a little child screaming in agony, relieved in a few moments by tiiis safe house hold remedy, falling into a quiet sleep, and awakening the next morning quite* well. Its great recommendation is, that it can do no harm, even if it should fail to do good, which is more than can be said of many nostrums confidently pre set ibed for family use. Flaxseed tea. if properly made is ex cellent for colds and coughs, and is pleasant enough to necessitate no coax ing of the little ones. Put two table spoonfuls of the seed into a quart of eedd water, set it over the fire, and, when it begins to boil, allow it two min utes by the clock. Then strain, add the juice of a lemon, and white sugar to taste. Keep it on the back of the stove where it will be warm, and give a wine glassful at short intervals. Henry Ward Beecher thinks there are other c&ti«»*9 for divorc? than the scriptural one oi adultery, but he added that the sane tity of t.lie famiiy is the hope of the world, and divoicj should not be faeilf. Among the relics destroyed at the burning of the Pittsburg exposition building was the sword of General An thony Wayne. )jivc Hamper'® Kxpeii'-i York Hon 1, hall to the room iv ii" cove. I am thua particu the mom because it hai* of She room ot the high, and the was so thin that a u U Ti V' aaW—H i mm* actly 1 at tin s" reetr (it'll e fronted on !o feet idc the room. couple of easv-chnirs atid two phi.' "airs aiso stood about. On the ght-hand Mde bed, between lounge, of was a wardrobe near the foot just outside the alcove, and that and the fireplace was a fhis completed tlie furnishing of the room. I had arriv" i fr oi a a:': .a .• -ley and was very tired, but superb health. 1 never was one likely to indulge in vision and wish it distinctly understood that I am not a spiritualist, and do imt believe in spiritual mauife.-tations in any way. 1 relate what have to say just as it "happened, leaving the expiuna tion to any one who can evp'ain it. an .veil, as i say, aim was gi ven n.s room, had mv dinner servd ill tlie room, and sat there until midnight wr.t ing letters, and then calling the bell hoy and giving him the letters. I closed and locked the outer hall door, an 1 then the inner one, and after looking at several photographs of friends, 1 left them and my writing material «n the tabic, an 1 went to bed. assuring myself that there was no possibility of any one entering the room by the window. There were no transoms, only a sort of win low blind slatwork over the head of th-.1 bed for air. I left the ga^ turned up slightly, and the little table by the side of tie stationary wash-stand, where 1 had drawn it._ lor the sake of the light, there being no other burner in the room. lining very healthy, tired, and not troubled bv a ban conscience or diges tion, 1 went, to sleep almost as soon a I was comfortably settled in bed, and i do not know how ng 1 .-jlept. Sudden ly I a^ojie am) ^at bolt upright in bed, and saw two men iu the room. The light was bright, and they were seated it the right-hand side of the room at the foot »f my bed. Om* was on the sofa and th" other on a chair, and the tilth marble-topp'.-d table was between them, and on tiiis (able thev were plaving euchre. 1 heard n word*, but knew it was cut lire, oecause 1 understood that i'ame iirlv well myself. He who was sitting, or rattier reclin ing on the sofa wu- a delicate-1 joking man, like one in poor heaiih, and was dressed in a light suit of he clothes. Jf had thin, redish hair and straggling beard. His forehead was unusually broad and rest of his face the pointed beard gave jdm a pecu.iar look. His hands were long and thin, and his left wrist was misshapen, as if it had once been broken and badly set, The other man was stout, dirk, with piercing black eyes, ami eyebrows which seemed to tand out straight. His hair was straight acd thick and verv bhiek ami shining. His moustache was thick ami drooping. At one corner of the month— I can't remember which—was a hltle sear like the letter V in sham and his face and chin had ttiat peculiar'bluu tinge that some dar*v men have when newly shaved. He was handsome, with al. He ^vas dressed in dark clothing. They played out one hand and bad piayed one trick on the next, when I noticed they seemed angry and quarrel ing, though I In ard no sound, and in an instant tlie dark man quickly drew a knile and fibbed the other in the left breast. The knife penetrated to the very hilt. He shivered a little, his eves closed and he was d. id. Then the other one rose and lifted up the inert right arm and drow it forward, and clasp -d t'l e naml around the handle of the knife, and pushed the table closer until it held the elbow of the dead man in such a pe tition as would keep the arm from fall ing again. Then he gathered up the (•aids, put them into his pocket, took tip fits hat, and ln an nHta!lt the whole scene had disappeared, and I fell pack in lie bed and knew no more until morning, I might give a long description of mv terrors and work up a thrilling title, but as am simply narrating facts I must say t.iat I was md. frightened. I wa« more surpnsed than anything else, and the whole too.-c place so suddenly that I time to get frightened until it was all over, and when 1 awoke in the morning it had almost, passed from mv mind, an I thought it. but a dream. But when I rose ami went into the room 1 saw that the table stood by the side of the lounge and all my photographs and papers were on the bureau. Still I dj,] !ifr aUn, pr t:im a i'oo Pi i tothat e bu ?'i ^'Hn, as I walked «iy sleep some when I was voung, arid the press of business mfn'r 1 (lHy U Went 0llt mv That night I was roused in precisely the same manner as before, and I saw he same thing precistdy. In the morn n the table stood bv the sofa again and all the things that had been on it U1 Th l] f' :ttl ""iluring surprised n.e a -oo I deal, and I must confess to feel inga little -crawly" about it stilt much the dav almost effaced the impression before night. The third w frieiidh, and ret amed at about 11 O rlock. And HbnoMt i red, logo through ex experience and then in ..MM to feel uncom t«e to i t" 11 i IIL'S i i mm ino\ e iiuti lab Is*. 1 n :i sut'et natural ageucv. that had been around .imik c.n tied that tab e fast to she tlie bureau, ami tied more, knop 1 could have untied in hah an piled iiings on lie top and to ed ng the ga^ iuily turned ir.vol ni'«rnin.r afti bavin.' been I be nil if, all a nd be ropi ire' and a 1 i 11 "-M with iioi gfi i oci :ioi thing to do with it maid and asked •of bedside ti.at is the lircplace, together take up the entire v An oltl-fasiiionctl bureau sto window on the 'eft hand oneutet'ingthe room. A stationary wash-stand, with a movable gas burner abc between tlie bureau and ing into t!ift little hall. r.rusi-els carpet ctn'ered the Ibn', mid a small oval marble-topped hit'ie stood in the center She as placed loor lead- A ratiler fad So I sat u in Ied there for half an hour. All iu an instant the w hole thing was before me again, and, I did feel somewhat queer and chilly, but I watched tiie progress of the wt"de trag edyaga'-i. and i de.- led, for ti e la4 time. As soon as was letsible the morning I sent for Mr. Adams, the clerk come up, and I asked him if lie Would tell me whether any rnurdt had ever been committed in that ro-m, ami he declared there had not but when I insisted on iinding out whether a trage dy of auv kind had been enacted there, he admitted I bat once a man had eom mito suicide in that room. He had been sick and was despondent, and so had taken his life. I felt sure, then and told him Ho, that that man had be-*n murdered, nu.I undei just such circumstances as I had eeii. Mr. Adams could not give the details of the p-itioiiof thebj lvof tho supposed s.U'.cide. 1 wa-. then assigned to another •••oui, and as long as I remained 1 .wa no more of my ghostly vi on. I pro uised Mr. Adams to s.iy nothing about it, not. that we beheved iu ghosts, either of us, hut for the hotel's sake and 1 went my wav to Kurope after a lew days, and re mained there some years. On my re turn I simply parsed through New York, and had almost forgotten the whole af fair. After several yearV residence in America again, and after travelling the. whole length and breadth «t oui country twice, it is quite natural to sup pose that I should have forgotten ad about it. One dav I was writing a verv lively, sprightly letter, and feeling in particularly good spirits, when nil at itice I pushed aside that letter, and drawing o:her paper toward me wrot- out a simple history of that affair, just as it was, and mailed it to the New k "-tin. They took onlv time to verify what, they could .t the story and pub lished it. It made considerable stir, ami reporters visited tie room and in terviewed Mr. Adams, who admitted ali that i- here told and a .so ad led that he felt positive tnat 1 was perfectly ».in ceremand honest, and a particularly le\ el iiea^ed person, and tint not given to any of the fallacies of spiritualism, afcd that he did not doubt that I saw every thing as I -aid. He had id oi- or two persons who desired to leave that room, hut he did not know why. He would not be afraid vee tiu^e, but never had (.one so. I hen several persons who had occupied that, room tiegari to be heard from, ali relating different experi ences, though none had een what liclll. A Catholic priest published an arid. rHatirg to it, and aacounting for it a.I living hut be believtd that the •ad heer, murdered and that the a-.- a.-^n v«s stili hying, and that, as a pnm,h "•ent lor his crime, ho was obliged to enact it every night in spirit whiv a-'.eep, and that it was a well known id tnat one ni:n• 1 had influence ,1SKV-'1 wn penences there. m: wearily nave 1 HUle 4t rangesv familur to wemcd ioiik, which was fixed Iv' his dretv his lii.-il .a- "pop me, and he which was so gh istlV'a Hit1|,71iTt «iw it shuddered, and then he 11 1 VP around dead. vv?u,illt "ati-l vV'Hl!d u "V'licd lo 0 tbat S||Q I si-r41,- mv mai sha der of ,i t'ti 'ell tipt)] witii •r I,.... Ti by and ten: pv w r. the fan. at iny liof ti as Hi pivus iin-1 idiv!* led a chamber if «iie coiud ntii ,'ee: in the room with :ae. She suit! d:at was against tin' rules, but that she would .-[leak to the feni.sekt eper. So Kaly did, and t!ie hoiisek-, eper came down. 1 had a conversation with her and asked her it any om* had ever com pUb in ativ wav jf tliat room. She I Minted, and finally said that a sick in dywe.C"- had in-isted on being changed toan ther room, but ditl not oiler any explanations. I did not t-ilher, !uf de cided not to give up without one more trial, and this night I determine 1 not to fall asleep at all, and so 1 sat up ead ing, or rather trying to read, until mar ly twelve, and then I did not feel quite as though I wanted to re main in the same ro mi, and I desired as much protection as the alcove room would give, though there were but c.ir tains to separate the rooms. nay t, 'l tt'hu-h i'a|n w nil ii\ ou wor 1 result -."t.l.i, ••'led vvroii^tij ai'ds lii'i hu-i.ainl k|,,j, II )•)lilull If-•{ |jj he hi'e tine term,leas ^atlieibenum hear oi his y( 11- suicide, ami is jj|. ow n him-e.f.i n father, .'je sul!e-(. can imagine. e ful wi liini eon],] awake, but as mo: seemed to j| and no math*] and we trawled return in sa. ri He told tue all, ai enough to l.jve hii mfiiiatelv, and of: and one other wu: he coult! ever shov Ho has told mi' bi-.tiled r:ige he V) in body to be able This other woman made public w !at that his helmv.i of sclf-de.-tr'i'-tiun, of suspecting his tlied content. Wi avannah, uhere i send you tiiis to you to publish it. a may wank an!.,n|! let tinr'-iir* iiillg liave ie'ir iw iv. again. He fore'yen have j. lined my 1 iod w d! be aiercif bis suffering, (i That was all. Nt I'iie p'ipeis next 'fa of uu uiikiii.ioi w house. She ound on he tin ried le. 1 UtjsaSi tnja .: u' made r. If a c.k. thing oii'tt he I Pt". it. Ill lilt- lllertUti:i sons as may rei.d wrilteu iu !his ptor far as i am e-.ni-i-r rest, 1 believe it tli stand HruUicr ardm ing woi-ki: lirot a lettei aroiji:.: "Wi machiii: car-i'U •tilt 1 while wa-oer. M»' a o u n w i n n need of !iis si", vsi'." In- li'-lps to nwi'M',! and by the proli*1' A ontrai'tor kin na f4 a day dan de n cents a cue! ir p!\" an' deal oi I wages alt i.i oiilv a sartiii filial ingmen lt-air/.c pbers. Ic wmki::gs. show as tie iner -u maud i cgulate j• rs.'••*• only miich to iu: "1 has no te irs 11 termctl de cori'hi'.'i-y De bov wli'i s 'is out ters bouse!) I'.w'.'M" thin' He niati wli'^ ought to lib kin aim let aiai can't, let him he s.i» workin' niea n'»sit tage and i- 'tn His coudishm a-w 0 ve. another to a gieina-r or less extent, and mat his mind during its free moment, o e i n e o i e a o a e good lire, ciiiSdrcU an' ht-wspapcr »rter in man has uo h'H cannot allot.!. "Ami what score o' y'ars h» W-1' discontented'-' v otim of the new-pupers suggeste'.| oat. it W'Mtheg i,,s» of'T-unmanv '-e hei.s and some i ins talled tin who e allliir. Ah iMighsn se: eq.t .jii also pui.ii-lie-l e-M-ei.enee while occupying that room had been playing eards h'1 de sperit o'_ faisi* de ole 1 »oy w'id dc fur his money. a friend mi.«1 while at the little table there came A Several year- have passed sine,, tleii 1 1 1 written or suen anvthiii" bi-'m'-i t' tho wlmic Mreeltr S'|: b»"i»t 1.01 an,! I.li,!,,,,! ,o toward a ladv of .f„i 'J'" tire, Who was st:^' iii bvVk" 'Vi wt.tlem.m who,., la-- a, J, |. belter off dan ri! iioiise latter '. wants to furnish it' ford. His dauiihh'M or i.ianiicr, cloze, an' hit. earinents /., her. It takes keep up dis fa.se tlar am otic w i r. satisfied live with" man wa.s siifi 'H|1 ". It has got so dat tie-w in' man am asham 1 got so dat gaiH t.o housework. «l laborin' men want" an' suntliin' h» K'*., ,, nf of a wtrtlsawvcr cloaks tie coudiS'i es am sunthin, tackle. Let us Several men 111!) r«uT«T„^%r..Zdr h'sslv and th^ him, but use i wan ti'v. ,i,v,v1':r4,,i «nt, and, us such I felt' Prt)S* wifh a twli,,,.. V bestrit k •hd not fain orTrv was dead. to'i? i., .u'-v «aid he 'WaVable to ordetsTand ln r3 ,,, wives have app111'' velvet jackets i( je, ut easy ly the pit as Si Isaac Wa! P° bean-box if wasevui had something tf'• off a horse to get l»* Detroit Free Ten cotton fdct niui'iB are in °P f. ha ri of thirty miles tM cott rn factories yieW'