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F.\I!M AND IIOl'Si:. For the Cook. K'K M:M A PIE.—Oue cup of OITAMIK RAISIN* (chopped,) one cup of currants, on uf of sugar one cup of molasses, one and one-half cups of water, one i!f cup of vineger, four crackers, (powdered), and al! kinds of spice. Bake between crusts. C'AKK.—One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, one cup of uiilk, five cups of flour, and the yolks of six and whites of three eggs. Bake six layers on jelly tins. Trie whites oi three eggs beaten to a stiff Irotli with oue eupofjsngar, the grated peel of one orange and the juice of two, if large. Sp-ead the thin mix ture onto five layers, then add sugar for the top sufficient to make a frosting. This is very nice. KM .less &JU.VS1I Pik.- Stew the squash till very dry press through a collander to each pint of squash allow one table spoonful each butter and cinnamon, one cup sugar, one teaspoonful ginger, a lit tle salt, and a few crackers rolled very tine. Add milk according to judgment* Mr.sjf AND CHKKSK.—Swiss guides and porters who have to bear extreme colli, which is always supposed to require much animal food, and whose labors are sever.?, are said to live entirely on a diet of polenta (mush) and cheese, and to be fine, hardy specimens of man horni, carrying groat weight with ease. The Fast India coolie,'lives on a little but ter with his rice and pulse, but his cli mate is very different from the bracing air of the Alps, frosty air that anywhere else would be supposed to create a de mand for the heaviest animal food. There is considerable (vegetables) oil in mush, and cheese furnishes albumen thai in this simple (Viet are combined the carbons and nitrogens «f food. A Pretty lied room. A room recently lilted up for a clergy man's little daughter by the ladies of the congregation as an expression of their regard, is thu« described in the Dee orator and Furnisher: The walls were covered with paper in pretty design of daisies and bluets (ragged sailors) upon a creamy, latticed ground. The ceiling was painted sky blue, with dome effect given by deepen ing the colors toward the edges. Two or three feathery clouds heightened the illusion, and a llight of three or four swallows swept across the skyey surface towerd the windows. The carpet was only remarkable for its harmony with the situation, being simply an ordinary Brussels, with a ground matching the wall-paper tint, and so closeiy covered with small spring flowers that the effect was aim ist chene. A dark blue border and ne or two rugs relieved the eye and prevented a garish appearance. The doors and window frames were fortu nately of adi. and so in thorough accord with the predomitient tint of the room, which was blue. The window curtains were models of dainty simplicity. They were made of cottage drapery, a figured Swiss muslin rather thicker than the dress material of that name, and woven with a border on one selvedge, which /epeated the center pattern in this case the figure w is a daisy the size of a dime, with a line of the same flowers twice the size between two strips of a bor der. The novelty about the curtains an addition made by cutting two hori zontal slits two incites long across the border between the tripes, at intervals of six inches apart, and buttonholing the edsres loosely, making a succession of bias, in and out of which was slipped a blue rihbon two inches broad. Bands and bows of the same ribbon wera used for looping the curtains back. The furniture was of bamboo, and all of the pieces were of smaller size than the same articles in ordinary rooms, yet not sufficiently dwarfed to be useless. A miniature lounge and two easy chairs were covered with buff and blue cre tone, :»nd blue ribbon bows were tied upon the upper corners of the graceful little cane seat chairs. The small bed was low, with an airy extension of bamboo rods at the head springing to hold up a large ring, through which a curtain of Swiss muslin, like those at tho windows, was drawn. A folding 1-umboo screen in front of the mantel and two panels of cream and two of biiie sateen. The former were decorated with snow balls and bluets in arrasene embroidery, the latter with daisies in ribbon wo*k. The armorte and chiff onier were a third smaller than full si/ed furniture and the dressing bureau was of similar dimensions. Al! the dainty U)ilet appointments of the latter were decorated with blue and the frame the long dressing glass was covered with a full ruche of nine silk. Some choice engravings and colored photographs representing phases of childhood and girlhood were hung upon the walls by blue cords and tassels, and the small book snelves were tilled with such books as young people ei joy. In deference to the newly awakened fears of even the best plumbing in sleep ing rooms, there was no stationary basin, but a washstand, en rapport with the other furniture, held adamulv mod eled antique toilet set with a dado de sign of water plants upon cream color, with swallows above on a sky blue ground. Replacing the door of a large closet was a portiereof Swiss muslin, which, being drawn, revealed a play-, ouse on a Scale so expensive and complete that it might be questioned whether ('.oils or their owners were most charmingly lodged. The happy little proprietor of this room and annex, on returning from the country, where she had been sent while the surprise was prepared for her, flaysthat half of the first night she spent in tier pretty new bed was passed in con gratulating "herself on her new posses sions and the rest in gazing entranced into the fairv-like Drecmets of the play house, which was illuminated by a tiny chandelier fed by real gas. The Pol'Barrel. A tab largest at the bottom and taper ing toward the top, of sufficient size to contain a year's supply, is the best ves sel in which to store pork when packed it should be the meat will not rise to the top, the slant of the tub holding it down. It should be placed edgewise, in regular layers as solid as possible. After putting a layer of salt in the bottom of the tub (and if pounded down with a maul the better fill the interstices with salt then layers of salt between layers of meat, and so ou till the tub is filled then fill up with pure water. If the barrel s sweet, salt pure and pork sound, there never will be any dam aged pork nor will skimming or scald ing the brine be necessary in order to have sweet pork the year round. The old salt left in the bottom of the barrel is, so far as it goes, just as good a new for continued use. Never have but one piece of pork loose at a time while using, and keep a stone on that between meais, for pork that comes to the air will rust after a little. I have packed and kept pork in this, way annually for thirty years, and never had a pound of it injured. The injury of which such frequent complaint is made is due to some neglect or carlessness, and it would seem that people of common prudenct would not be so often caught with dam aged pork. -Charles Mason, I^ake Co., Ohio. Influence of Food on Milk. The influence of food upon tin* qualify of milk has called forth, first and last, much discussion and in this country it is generally conceded that food has very much to do with it. The contrary opin ion, however, has some advocates who base their con fusions mostly upon the experiments made by Dr. Kuhn at the Moeckern Agricultural Station in Sax ony. It is claimed that he demonstrated that the feeding of a cow has nothing to do with the quality of milk, and the nec essary consequence is thatjwe can not increase the ratio or proportion of cream or butter in a cow's milk oy any chango ot food, however rich it maybe". This is so much at variance with the experience of dairymen on this s»de of the ocean that most dairy people are skeptical about these experiments. Curiosity led to an investigati®n of the methods employed in these experiments and the revelations were not a little surprising. The milk of Saxon cows, if the agricul tural reports are to be credited, is of re markable richness, four and five quarts yielding a pound of butter. We venture to say that such cows are not to be found anywhere outside of Saxony. The con clusion is irresistible that the statement in these reports, as well as that of the Doctor himself, may be taken with mauy grains of allowance. Poultry Management. The careless poultry-keeper is often surprised by finding,early on some cold, frosty October morning.a brood of chicks fiesh from the shell. The surprise can hardly gladden the sight of the owner, for there can be no hope of raising them in the inclement weather. If a few sur vive they are of small value, always dwarfed, and imperfect. This is the re suit of direct negligence. If the fow s had been kept in confinement, or every hen made to give an account of herself at the morning feed, this trouble might have been avoided. These are the per sons who say that fowls do not pay for their keep, and they are only kept aro.ind to please the women folk. owls should not be allowed to steal their nests. Thev are never so profitable as when kept in confinement—in sum mer in ample yards, and in winter in roomy, comfortable buildings. The eggs can always be found where they are laid, and there are no late broods com ing ofl at the beginning of winter. I have frequently heard the indif ferent poultry-keeper remark that it is better'for a hen to steal her nest and come off in late summer. Her brood is then no trouble, and the chicks are all pretty ture to live and jrow up. 1 know better. Experience has taught me that one early-hatched chick, well fed and raised is worth two of these late, neglected ones, I do not leave it to the fowls what kind or sori of chicks I shall raise I like to control this mat ter myself. I have a choice, and I know which my best fowls are. From them only do I make my increase of stock. Oi course fowls kept in confine ment are more trouble, but there is no branch of farming that pays better for the outlay than the keeping of fowis. The stock must be rignt, and then there will be found little difficulty, with a steady application to the business. All the fowls' wants must be supplied. A hen should never be set after the 10th ot June, and not then unless it be on eggs of some small and early-manured breed. This gives an opportunity for every feather to get full growth ni warm weather, alter which the fowl takes on fat rapidly. Lean poorly-kept hens will not lay. and lean, poor poultry is not fit for market. The rule should be to give good keeping at all times and seasons.--Cor. Country (lent lei nan. Materials ror Bedding. Materials for bedding horses and cat tle kept in stables are becoming scarce and high in many parts of the country, as they have been for a long time in most European countries. The value of straw employed for bedding horses is washed after it has been used for that purpose and is sold to paper manu facturers. Recently sawdust, sand, peat and dried clay have been employed at substitutes for straw for bedding horses and dairy cows. Attention has also been called to the different kinds of mosses that grow in many parts of the country. Tfie moss found in bogs in all tke North ern states any which is u-ed hy nursery-, men for packing trees and bushes is aiso lound to make very good bedding after it is dried. All kinds of mosses can be compressed into very small bulk by the baling process, and "put in a form to be readily and cheaply transported. The best litter is that which will absorb most urine. According to Boussingaulr, bean, buckwheat, and pulse straws are first, as they absorb three times their weight of liquid wheat straw, but twice its weight, and dried earth, out one-half. —Chicago Times. The brewery of K. Kowitz, at Cannon Falls was destroyed by lire with its contents Loss, $i.c\000 insurance $»,000. TAKK HKART. All day the ttormy win-1 has blowa From off the dark and briny SPH No bird has past the window tlown. The only song has been the moan The wind nude in ttie willow tree. This is the summer's burial time She died when dropped the earliest tea* And cold upou bet rosy prime Fell dowu the aufumn's frosty rime— Yet I am not as oae that grievej. For well I know on sunnv s«as The blue-bird waits for sunny skira And at the root of fore.it trees The may Ho were sleep in fragrant ease, And violets hide their azure eyes. O thou, by winds of grief o'erblowu Hecidts some golden summer's beir, Take heart!—ttiy bird* are only And again the old farmer chuckled himself into a state of semi suffocation. "Come in and see us'" biitt he. "My daughter Aurilla." she's come back a widow and does tai!orin' and plain sewin.' The old woman's slone ueaf but she's dreadful quick ateatchia' a Jerome Clav bit his lip. course," he said, "it ia decide. But if Jpssie—" 1 IIJW", T.i v blossoms sleeping, tearful sown, To'gr.vt thee in th* imm rtal year. lift IM)i Pool!. o vou've come backa^a-1, •Ictonn'.' said old Mr. Scwell. "Well, we heard you was thinkin' of returnin' t« Kim Mountain. Bad pennies always come back ha! ha! ha! Ani you did not make such a big fortune as you e.ilcula ted, eh?" Jerome Clay lean- ovet th-' -id /.ig zug rail fence and rubbed h:s eyes. Had time stood still all these years while be had been in the South? For here was Farmer Sewell in the same old blue checked overalls, with the same bat tered straw hat, the same wrinkles be tween his brows, driving the same* old red cows home through the twilight lane, where the scent of trampled spearmint came up. and the melancholy not.'* of a whippoorwiil soimded faintly on the purple silence. And yet.---and yet it was twenty odd years since he had left Kim Mountain, with all his wuldly goods bahnced in a bundle on his back. He had been a da«iing lad of twenty-one. then: there were silver hairs in his black locks, now, and he left a dead past buried under the sweet magnolia groves. And here was Moses Sewell, just the same as ever, only a tritle yellower and more dried up. "Yes," (.'lay said quietly, "I've come back. And you are right when you say that fortunes don't grow on every bush." "(?ohr tujyour uncle's house?" said Mr. .Sewell, leaning over the bars. "He's dead and buried, poor fellow. Always had a weak chest you know. And the gals ain't no younger. The three old maids we call 'em—ha, ha, ha, ha!" person's meaning!" And off he trudged over the patches of sweet smiling spearmint, bis broad figure vanishing Into the gloom like a shadow. "Three old maids, eh?" repeated Jer ome Clay to himself. "Clara and Bess, and little Kate, the golden-haired beau ty, the soft eyed poetess, the wild little sprite who was a mixture of Undine and Queen Mab. Then,surely, Father Time has not atood still!" The light shone out, as of old, from the red-curtained casement, the great fire of logs was blazing on the hearth, and the three cousins greeted the re turned wanderer with unaffected warmth. Tin y were changed, of course. What else could have been expected? The beauty had grown sharp and freckled and her lovely hairjhad lost its burrLsh., and she was not quite as tidy as she used to be in the old days about her ribbons and frills. Soft-eyed Bessie's sweet voice bad degenerated into a whine she had grown round-should ered and lost one of her front teath and lit le Kate was a stout, middle-aged woman, who reminded one of Undine no more. But they were cousins still—the girls who bad played and romped and flirtedith him in due arithmetical pro gression. And there still existed a bond of steadfast friendship, and he told them the story of the Southern wife who had been buried lor five years under the magnolias, and they all sympathized and beauty even cried a little. "I have brought my three children to the North," he said. "I left them in New York, and if 1 can get some genu ine, whote-sou led w man to take charge of my home, I'm thinking of settling here in Kim Mountain. Ciara, dear,von used to h» foml of me in the old times! What do you say to undertaking the charge?" 'I he beauty seemed to grow smaller, sharper, more business like,in a second if cousin Jerome had come home a mil lionaire, she would have jumped into his arms. iHit Clara Neely was not romantically inchned. To her, love in a cottage pos sessed no charms. "I couldn't Jerome,' she answered, lUickly. "I'm not very strong, and 1 couldn't assume any responsibility of liiis arduous nature. Besides, I'm'not loiid of children. I'm greatly obliged to Vou, 1 sure, but IV rather not." is for you to I he poetess shrugged her shonlders, and laughed a light, shrill-Bounding ca bination. "Cousin Jerome," said she, "it's just as well to be irank about these matters 1 wouldn't marrv a poor man—not if I loved him like Komeo and Juliet, It's had enough to scrape along as we do heje, witn only half what one requires to live on decently. But to plunge into poverty, with two or three children be longing to another woman no, I thank you. For time, as may easily be perceived, bad eliminated a great deal of poetical element from Bessie Neelv's soul. 1 he qamd.tm Undine did not wait for the question, as far as she was concern ed but added, promptly, th it she quite agr«id with her .dster in all these mat ters. "•It's such a pity you didn't stay here, where vou weie well ofl, Jerome," said she. in 'the pitying, patronizing manner which your genuine man most abhors, i Dear pa, you know, always disup proved ot your going south. And you i might have got the situation of agefjt to {the Wnite Castle Place, at eight huu i died a vear, and a cottage found, if you'd OHIV been here on the spot. Pa used to know the old agent, and could have recommended yon!" Jerome smiled. "White Castle?" said he. 1 hat s the big house on the hill, where we chil dren used to peep at the roses and white grapes through the ulass sides of grap. MHO nighly considered, broke in Bessie. Jerome Clay went uw*y feeling rather depi essed. It is not the lot of every man lo :e thrice rejected in one evening. •'They think I am a fa lure in hie," said he," half smiling, halfsigbing. "Well perhaps they are not wrong. People's ideas differ." Aurillia Haven, the old farmer's daughter, had been a wild hovdon of a schoolgirl when Jerome ('lav went south. Hie was a silent pale woman ot three and thirty now, who did the "h»:l'ress" work of the neighborhood, and had hard worn to get along. But. her dark brown eyes lighted up when Mr. Clay spoke of his far-off home and her cheek glowed scarlet when Mr. .vweil chuckled out: "So the three old maids wouldn't have nothing to say to you? Ha, ha. ha!" "Do vou blame them?" said Jerome. "Well, no," confessed the old man. "(lals naturallv want to better them selves nowadays. If you'd come back with your pockets full of gold, they'd sing a "different song, you'd see." Aurilla looked pitying v at Jerome Clay. She, too, had fwund life a tailurn, and in her quiet way did all thut she could to comfort the tall, quiet man, who had hire 1 the spare chamber in her father's house for a few weeks, since his cousins had altogether omitted to invite fiiuc as their guest at the old place. She was not pretty—never had been— but .-he had a sweet, oval face, with fringed eyes, and a mild, wistful expres sion, which Jerome ay liked. And one day she spoke out what wad in her heart. "Mr. Clay," she said, "I can't help thinking of those poor, little, mother less children of yours. If you bring them here, I'll take care of them. I al ways liked children, and it shall cost you nothing. Father will let me have the big north bed room for a nursery, and their board won't signify. They can go to the public school, and I'll make their clothes, if you'll buy the ma terial.'' "Aurilla, you are a genuine woman!" said Mr. Clay, earnestly. "None of my cousin* have spoken to me like this." "Perhaps- perhaps they didn't think of it!" faltered Aurilla. "Possibly," dryly remarked Mr. Clay. "But, Aurilla," gently retaining her hand, "is it of rnv children only that vou think'' Have vou no tender, pitying feeling—the sweet sensation that is akin tw love, you know—for me? Aurilla wfll "U be my wife?" And Aurilla did not refuse. "Now that vou have promised to mar ry me," said Jerome Clay,"[ will t*d! you all my plans. Aurilla. I have bought a house here"— "Here, Jerome?" "Yes, here. Will y u come with in to look at it?" "I will go wherever you wish, Je rome," sn:d the bride-elect, in i»ort of innocent be wilder merit. Mr. Ciay put her into a little carriage at the door, and drove her upthe moun tain-side. through the huge, stone gate way of White Ca-tle, to the velvet lawns in front of the colonnad' portico, where statues of Ceres altid Proserpina stood in dazzling marble on either side. anl an antique sun-dial marked the Iden footsteps of the tlod of Day. Its a beautiful piae.ei'' said Aurilla." he answered quietiv, "it is our home." on mean to tell me, dear," cried the delighted widow, "that you've been fortunate enough to receive the a"rrn\' I thought Mr. Wright--" "Mr. Wright is the asrent still," said lay. "What I moan is that I have bought V\ bite Castle and Us ground. This fin old house is to be your home hencefor ward, Aurilla." "But, Jerome, I thoaght you were a poor titan?" "Did I ever tell you so?" be laughing u "Did I evertell anyone so'.' it the good people in Elm Mountain choose to believe me a pauper, is it fair "'d me responsible for tiuMr TRiMi councinusnes*? No, Aurillu! In money, I am rich—rich beyond n.y wildest aspirations. But when first "l came to Kim Mountain, I believed uivst-sf bankrupt, indeed, in the sweet coin of love and human kindness. Sweet heart, it is so with me now. It was vonr u-ind that unlocked the gate of happi ness to me it shall be your hand that is to reap the rich reward." i k'®*s®d her forehead ien- the children?" she cried. I he children are With their maternal aunt at the Windsor hotel in New °rk he answered. "The boy is Koon to enter college, and the gir!s are both tngaged to be married to southern gen tlemen, and after a brief visit here will return to .New Orleans with their aunt. ", my darling, your tender solicitude was not required after all!" Autiila sighed softly. had soir.e- r',iir,VorihetoMchShe °f tW.nJrS? tn^'utV1tenderest iiuie ,er ue a •lo ,ei»h J'ohnsohTv, From :iit \aldorta, .«• %nnty. wntes UHtilif arsofad.-s1HMtttn, ster ahrgHtor in whiclj SHoh, played «u seen:a that lluniW., At it c|,ii- dren hands in her own, the sound o! small child voices in her ear. But she w,B«i"I- ioviug eyes, and e l0Ved hw And the Three Old Maids are sharper, more untuly and shrid-voiced iimnover since they have realized the fatal mis ke hey made retusing the overture* of their cousin Jerome. ?a,ltrm'n,IK' R,anaK»n« 5 $ ttie noithern |art i.f y,e: •learic d'i.-d upj ., \»u. A grand place, the givat greenhouse. as I remember it." "And tnc posi ion of n.v::t i» most •sponsible, -nhyth, ritlf. n P«r!ii i j„u I s"». U J* others 1-1 the. m, ,.2 'cuown that tiuir andt:r• the perch f-imilv great quantities by t^V, ty were auifKed other appliance?, ai. bete and thereover' pond I laving havocwi'1 Master .lon-ph carrier sack, in which todep,»l»a caught. WIKMI loaded he co" Id carry lit! wr©/ and make a deist's,, more. In making orl( ,r while wailing thmugi, tin ee feet deep, su'iie .j li.-hermen, a mounter 1 of unuMial sizf, at he boy and «.'!,) A desperate strugi'.v .-KW dtled for his life.I! hi- prey. It s.i lui|.f,c^j|i which hung hy th* in Uti r-ih.jnti-rM ami it pio\I'd a si rt iu.' .-reatlv the imisi.-.v brute's teeth, anil tt: y venting a short to bat whiiM might haw ai without tin- strugg'-* ids life. By an "Ll-ji pe r|, natl elf tS K only when f.ising Ie bleeding fli- 1 The inuibt' .. a moment wti. he e!ih i .el i.i ,m fpp irpui: by "\triciite.l i,! death befoiu the bv the struggle, wire a\. other battle ensueI with gigs, lie-i, V'kv. other instrument hand, charg ujw!. ing in three feet w^r considerable advantage, had their blood up and out-done, when one 'Its bold to seize him by the Tkeie were too nnc.v y' 'gator to slap around w:t: culiar mode of 'gator ws: had to give up the ir was plunged inti hi* t/r was safe to approach Soon his head *aa -c' body, and the vlct r: out of the pond w:t!. ::.e on a pole. Fortuuw among tho party, u: the buy's rt oil lid-. writes us that Ma-! suif -rs mui ti, is d-.i.i: hkelv be out soon. FOKTY YI:VL Fashion* of Our Faihf That Were Familiar Bv l'renlice Mulfori Forty y ars aszo ture course had n: t ance. The village of regular winter "Which vrna the Washington or b•. or "What iiiventii :. ful to mankind, tK the mariner's com: The land was free Breech-loaders an ridges" were un' cut their o^n wft'l of powder into tin ful of shot, adjust and hanged 1 fowling-pie *o was game of all desori] plentiful. Forty .v*' still native to the i 1! Island, and a year organized by the this country. The trunk ni tfif with small brass smasher had bae* Valises were Ion bugs were not out ('ity hotels CrtU by the gong or d... lord sat at the carved the break^. dined together HH 1 Dinner was serw and formality. 1 the covers from tn" given signal, horc 1 room, then reapp* dishes to PC carve'' The oyster sale furnished with r, re 'esses afb'rditii!' 1 and quiet than the"' without a cloth-clu sign, painted .. candle was snick i" The liar of the than that of the I was better. Brfli In the citv drinks fore the screen Six cent drinks w gant and so wen Among old awjJr could be found and port or the sideboard tn*- ji of the smaller n years ago nniinta erns" where pliug and bitcinP tives was fsi I1,or^ i- e s o i u i n s to engine comp^ crea re is the anpei]tt iion they ap y to Mrs. Jerome HII kKwn. av Wulll(1 80 y i re ,f C. u v a i e s A inated in a drunk. Exhnnst ., course to hours, and th« lage engine after a fire a»(f. one. IbiUsehoI'l^rR law to keep 1('H at tires TheV.bJJ*, had the owm'f" in white lettew1.