Dodge City times. [volume], May 29, 1880, Image 6

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A FLOWER IS A BOOK.
3 rr la th ininot rcee at h room.
Where 1hkWs oi ancient lore arc utored
Mlierc t Urerl ul rsya of light nt'ir break tho
gloom.
At mi How luorn or at the clor-e of day,
1 lind, wit'iin an aleme dark and drenr,
A book in iui-iouH language, quaint and
old.
V ittun, trow, in some forgotten year,
Itj Kimc strange hand, now lyin j etlll and
cold.
I bnih the dut (mm off Its leathern iddes.
And Kan the k:ncs with careUs, heedless
eCH.
Uttlef know what in the book abide.
What thought within the anciuit oJuroo
lie.
Mv eye reason a yr How page at last,
iliift nnd colon d bv the Jnp-o ol time;
Hi re lies a flow er that bloomed in days lonjj
past,
1'luike.d by a band In Mine far distant
dime
I cn breathe a feint yet rare perfume
I'lrirtnjr from !MitiaUertp and wrr;
W hnt band, 1 wonder, pluc Veil it In Us bloom i
And prweel it in this cduuie lying here?
lcrliBiw mqic maiden wanderiiw 'mid the
tire, I
WU re through the forest ylan footpaths
bdf
Micddiit? its sw cetmv on the fumnierbm re,
Y omul t W fair flow er upon its iuo-s bed.
rerhaph placed it In her coldtnhalr I
A radiant Jewel, w liicli no ! irl tr 1 I
And home jot.ng bnir sought the blosnom
rare, I
To hint u lo e he did not dare to tell.
IVih-.p Hinio thoughtful scholar dropped It
Ik t . .
To murk the pisi,jrc till be read again. i
And iKiund within it- prison cIoe and drear.
1 1muuti Ion,; lorgotten y ears me now er i
Iain.
lVrbap but I could wonder t III the day
1 1 a turned to dusk, and then not rucs-5
artel t.
The future and the unknown past mut-t stay
Wrapped la a darkness keeper than tho
mbt.
tlcnry hepltg J)orrt in tU Boston Transcript.
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A RUSTIC MEW OF KUBlSTEIS.
Well, sir, he had the blamcdest, big
gest, catty-cornered pianner jou ever
Viiil e es on ; somctbin' like u distract
ed billiard table on threo legs. Tho lid
was hoisted, and mighty well it was. If
it hadn't been he'd a tore the entire in
sides clean out, and scattered 'em to the
four winds of heaven.
Hayed well? You bet he did; but
don't interrupt mc. When ho first sit
down, he "pcared to leer mighty httlo
'bout jilavin, and wisht he hadn't come.
He tweufie-leed'cd a little on the treble,
and twoodle-oodled sonie on the bate
jnst foolin' and boxin' the thing's jaws
for Win' in his waj . And I says to a
ira scttin' next to me, says I: 'What
sort of a fool plajin' is th it?" And ho
says, "HcWi!" But presently his
hands commenced chosin' ono another
up and dow n the keys like a parcel of
rats fUiniperin' through a garret i cry
swift. Parts, of it was sweet, though,
and reminded mo of a sugar squirrel
turnin' the wheel of a candy cage.
" Now," I saj s to my neighbor, "lie's
show in' off. He thinks he's a-doin' of
it, but ho ain't got no idee, no plan 01
nothiii'. If he'd play me a tunc of some
kind or other I'd"
Hut my neighbor says "Heish!" very
impatient.
1 wa just about to git up and go
home, Win' tired of that foolishness
when I heard a little bird w aking up
aw a off in tho woods, and call sleepy -like
"to his mate, and I looked up and
see that llub was beginning to take
some interest m his business, and I sit
down again. It was the peep of day. i
The light canio faint from the east, the
breezes Mowed gentle and fresh, some
more birds waked up in the orchard,
then some mor in the trees near the
house, and ail begun singin' together.
People began to stir, and tho gal opened
tho shutters. ,lust then the first beam
of the sun fell upon the blossoms a leetle
more, and it techt tto roses on the
bu-hes, and.the nct thing it was broad
da ; tho -un fairly blazed, the birds
sung like they'd split their little throats;
all tho leaves was" movm', and llahin'
diamonds of dew, and tho whole wide
world was bright and happy as a king.
Jx-craed to me like them was a good
breakfast in ever houc in the land, and
not a sick child or woman anywhere.
It wa a fine inornin'.
And I aj to my neighbor: " That's
music, that is."
But he glared at me like he'd like to
cut mj throat.
Vrcsentl the wind turned; it begin
to thicken'r.p, and a kind of gray mist
camoocr things; I got low-spirited di
rectly. Then a silver rain Wgun to fal'
I could sec the drops touch tho ground :
some flashed up like long pearl ear
ring", and the rest rolled away like
round rubies. It was pretty, but mel
ancholy. Then tho pearls gathered
themselves into long strands and neck
laces, and then they melted into thin
silver streams, running between golden
gravels, and then the streams joined
each otlicr at the Wttoni of the hill, and
made a brook that flowed silent, except
that you could kinder see the music,
specially when the bushes on the banks
mined as the muic w ent along down
tho valley. I could smell the flowers in
the meadow. But tho sun didn't shine,
nor the birds sing; it was a foggy day,
but not eold.
The most curious thins w as the little
white angel-boy, like you see in pictures,
that run ahead of the music brook and
led it on and on, away out of the world,
where no man ever was, certain. I
could see that boy just as plain as I see
you. Then the moonlight came, with
out any sunset, and shone on tho grave
yards, w here some few ghosts lifted their
hands and went over tho wall, and be
tween tho black, sharp-top trees splen
did marble houses iwe up, with fine
ladies in tho lit-up windows, and men
that loved 'em, but could never get
a-nigh 'cm, who pliycd on guitars un
der the trees, and made mo that miser
able I could have cried, because I
wanted to love somebody, I don't know
who, better than tho men with tho gui
tars did.
Then the sun went down, it got dark,
tho n ind moaned and w cpt like a lo-t
child for its dead, mother, anil l could
a got up then and there and preached a
better sermon than any I e cr listened
to. There wasn't a thing in the world
left to live for, not a blame thing, and
yet I didn't want the music to stop one
Lit. It was happier to be miserable
than to be happy without being miser
able. I coulimtunderstandit. I hung
my head and pulled out my handker
chief, and Mowed my noe loud to keep
from cryin'. Myj eyes is weak, anyway ;
I didn't want any bodv to be a-glann'
at me a-snivlin', ami it's no body's
business w hat I do with my nose. It's
mine. But some several glared at me
mail as blazes. Then, allof a sudden,
old Kub'm changed his tune. He ripped
out and he rared, he tipped and he
tared, he pranced and he charged like
the grand entry at a circus, 'i'earcd
to mc that all the gas in the house was
turned on at once, things got so bright,
and I hilt up my lieid, ready to look
any man in the face, and not afraid of
nothin'. It was a circus and a brass
band, and a big ball all goin' on at the
same time lie lit into them keys like
a thousand of brick; he gave 'cm no
retday or night; he set every livin'
joint in me a-goin', and not Win' able
to stand it no longer, I jumped, spang
onto my seat, anujet hollered :
"Go it, Bube!"
E cry blamed man, woman and child
in tho houe riz on me and shouted,
"Put him out! put him out!"
" Put y our great-grandmother's grizz
lygray greenish cat into the middle of
next month!" 1 says. "Tech me if
you dare! I paid my money and you
jest come a-nigh mo!"
With that some several policemen run
up, and I had to simmer down. But I
could a-lit any fool that laid hands on
me, I was bound to hear ltubj out or
die.
Ho had changed his tune again. He
hop-light ladies and tip-toed fine from
end to end of tbekey-board. Heplayed
soft and lo.v and solemn. I heard the
church bells o er the lulls. The candles
of heaven was lit, one by one ; I aw the
stars rie. The great organ of eternity
began to play from tho w orld's end to
the world's end, and all the angels went
to prayers. . . . Then the music
chjngul to water, full of feeling that
couldn't be thought, and began to drop
drip, drop drip, drop, clear and
sweet, like tears of joy falling into a lake
of glory. It was sweeter than that. It
was sweet as a sweetheart sweetened
with while sugar mixt with powdered
silver and seed diamonds. It was too
sweet. I tell you the audience cheered.
Kubin he kinder bowed, like he wanted
to say, "Much oblceged, but I' rather
you wouldn't intcrrup' me."
He stopt a moment or two to ketch
breath. Then he got mad. He run his
fingers through his hair, he shov ed up
his sleeves, he opened his coat-tails a
lectio further, he drag up his stool, he
leaned ocr, and, sir, ho just went for
that old planner. Ho slant her face, he
boxed her jiws, he pulled her noc, he
pinched her cars, and he scratched her
checks until she fairly yelled. He
knockt l.er down and he stamped on
her shimclul. She bellowed, she bleat
ed like a calf, she howled like a hound,
she squealed like a pig, she shrieked
like a rat, and then he wouldn't let her
up. He ran a quarter stretch down the
low grounds of the base, till ho got
clean in the bow els of the earth, and
you heard thunder galloping after thun
Iler, throjgh the hollows and caves of
perdition : and then he fox-chased his
right hand with his left till ho got waj
out of the treble into the clouds, war
the notes was finer thin the pints of
cambric needles, and 3011 couldn't he ir
nothin' but the shaddcrs of 'cm. And
then he wouldn't let the old piinncr go.
lie for'ard two'd, ho crost over fir-it
gentleman, he chassade right and left,
back to jour places, ho all hands'd
arouu', ladies to the right, promenade
all, in ami out, here and there, back ami
forth, up and down, perpetual motion,
double twisted and turned and tieked
and tangled into forty-eleven thousand
doublo b(w knots.
By jinks! it was a mixtcry. And then
ho wouldn't let the old planner go. lie
fecht up nis right wing, he fcclitnp his
left wing, he fecht up his center, he
feet up his reserves. He fired by file,
he fired by platoons, by company, by
regiments, and by brigades. He opened
his cannon siege guns down thar, X 1
poleons here, twehe pounders yonder
big guns, little guns, middle-sied guns,
round shot, shells, shrapnel-, grape,
canister, mortar, mines and magazines,
e cry livin' battery and bomb a goin' at
tho same time. Tho house trembled,
the lights danced, tho walls shuk, the
floor come up, tho ccihn' come down,
tho sky split, the ground rokt heavens
and earth, creation, sweet potatoes,
Moses, ninepenccs, glory, ten-penny
nails, Simpson in a 'simmon tree,
Tump, Tompson in a tumbler-cart,
roodle-oodlc-oodle oodlc nid lle-uddlc
uddle uddle raddle-addle addle-addle
riddle-iddlo-iddle iddlo reedle-eedle-eedlc-ecdle
p-r-r-r-rlang! Bang! lang!
pcrlang! p-rr-r-r-r!! Bang!!!
With that bang! he lifted himself bod
ily into tho a'r and he come down with
his knees, his ten fingers, histen toes,
his elbows, and his no-c, striking every
soiitary key on the planner at the same
time. The thing busted and went off
into seventeen hundred and fifty-seven
thousand fie hundred and forty-two
heme-demi-cmi quivers, and I know'd
no mo'. 27i Quarterly Elocutionist.
The man who said that if you w ould
give him tho luxuries of life he would
manage to dipcno with tho necessities
w ill be pleased to learn that the Su
preme Court of Indiana has decided
that what is usually considered a luxury
is a necessity. The ca3e arose from the
sale of a cigar by the clerk of a hotel,
resulting in his arrest for the iolation
of the Sund ly law, which, like that of
nearly all Suites, forbids rioting, hunt
ing, fishing, quarreling, common labor
and tho pursuit of one's usual a oca
tions, works of charity and necessity
only excepted. The Court decided that
the word "necessity" must be defined
according to its legal meaning only.
The term was applicable to tho sailing
of ships, the running of steamboats and
trains, carrying the mails, operating tel
egraphic lines, keeping up water works
and gas works, carrying on distilleries,
breweries and running flouring mills.
Thee are not prohibited on hunday
anywhere in the ciwhvcd world, and
seldom legulated any differently on
Sund ly than on a week day ; and large
manufactories, blast furnaces, salt
works, oil wells and other pursuits
w herein heavy machinery is used, and
w here a stoppage is atte nded w ith loss
or ineonv enience, are seldom interfered
with in their Sunday operations. There
is no neces-ity tor working in a shop,
plow ing a field, selling from a store,
opening an office, etc., on Sunday; but
there is a daily necessity for cooking
food, taking meals, drinking tea or cof
fee or smoking a cigar. A hotel mav
be kept en Sunday, as it is on a week
day; and if it has a cigar-stand, at
which cigars are sold on week day, it
is as law ful to sell a cigar on Sunday as
to furnish a cup of tea or coffee or sup
ply a meal of lcunls. So that, in In
diana, it lea3t, a cigar is pronounced a
legal "necessity," which opens up a
w ido variety of moral and social que s
tions too extended for pro'ent discus
sion. Detroit Free Press.
The Marquis of Huntley has sold the
Wst shooting property in" Scotland for
$1,105,000.
HUME AM) FAUX.
Okuiam Gems. One pint of butter
milk, one teaspoonful of soda, a little salt
if butter is not u-i'd, one tablespoonful of
shortening, ono tablespoonful of sugar,
Graham to make batter like Johnny
cake. To Use Stale Bkem. Soak the
bread in hot wateruntil soft; w hen cola
add two egg8, half a cup of sweet
cream, one teaspoon of oda, a little
salt and flour to make a stiff batter like
fntters. Fry in hot lard or boil in
water. To be eaten w ith sirup or w hat
c er liked.
GiNGtuSxArs. One cen cupof but
ter, one cup of brow 11 sugar, two cups
of molasses, a teaspoonful of salt and
two of soda. Any spice liked and flour
to roll out. Put all but flour into a
clean pan and Wil five minutes. Then
remove from fire and at once begin to
add flour. Work as rapidly as possible
and bake in a quick oven.
To Cleanse Cottox Goons. Add
to hot rain water a.i amount of w heat
bran equal to one-eighth of tho fabric to
W cleaned, and after stirringwcll for
five minutes, add the goods; stir them
about with a clean stick and bring the
article to a boil. Allow the mixture to
cool until the goods can be washed out,
after which rinse them well.
GfkmnTiuflf. Put ono quart of
straw Wrries, or anv otlicr fresh fruit,
in the bottom of a glass ili-li ; sugar the
fruit, cover it with a lijcr of macaroons,
pour over it a custard" made with one
quart of milk and the jolks of seven
egg-, well beaten; sweeten to your taste;
when cold place on the top tho eggs,
beaten to a stiff froth, with a little
sugar.
siLtn Cake. Two cups of granu
lated sugar, one small cud of butter,
two even cupfnls of sifted flour, whites
of twehe eggs, juice of one lemon.
Cream the butter, then add the sugar,
stirring until very light. Beat the eggs
to a stiff froth. Add the flour to the
butter and sugar, then tho whites of
eggs and stir all to even lightness. Bako
in small square tins. Ko-e water may
be 11-ed for flavoring the icing.
CltlCKFN A LV CUMF. Cut the
chicken up, stew in a pan of water until
done; then make a thickening of cream
or rich milk and flour, seasoning with
butter, pepper and salt. Have ready
baked a pair of shortcakes, in ide as for
pie crust, but rolled thin and cut in
small squares. Lay the crusts on a dish
and pour o er tbem tho chicken and
gravy while all are hot. This is a de
licious substitute for chicken pic.
ItAfiocT of BffF. One and a half
pounds of beef, cither round or neck ;
cut the meat in pieces two inches
square, brown it in eitherbuttcr or drip
pings enough to keep it from burning;
adila tablespoonful of flour, and when
the flour is brown the meat must W cov
ered with boiling water; then season
with pepper and salt. Let it coolc slowly
until tender. The water is to W re
plenished as it boils away.
Skimmfd milk is best given to young
chicks when it is sweet and mixed with
corn-meal in the form of muh, or with
bread steeped in it. Otherwise the
milk should be curdled, heated, and the
curd separated and given by itself.
The peculiar structure of tho fowl's
stomach, of which tho gizzard is a por
tion, makes hard food, to some extent,
indispensable; mushy food is never
healthful for poultry of any kind ; on
this account milk is admissiblo only in
small quantities, and very seldom, ex
cept in the shape of dry curd.
AsrAKAGUS Socr. Select about two
dozen of good asparagus-stalk3 ; boil
these thoroughly in enough witer to
cover them; a quarter of an onion
boiled with the asparagus is an improve
ment; when tender, take tho asparagus
out of the w atcr, sa ing the water, and
removing the onion ; cut the asparagus
into small pieces, of course only the ten
der part, and put them in a" mortar,
adding a little of the water; must bo
pounded until perfectly smooth; now
take some sifted flour, a'dessertspoonful,
a bit of butter as big as an egg, and a
very little pulverized sugar; mix well,
and then put on the fire until it melts,
stirring all the time; add this to the
pounded asparagus and the rest of the
water; when it has Wiled a few min
utesmix tho yelk of ono egg with a
tumblerful of cream, and add this; if
properly made, it wants no straining;
use salt'and pepper to taste, and a very
little nutmeg; one stalk of asparagus
may bo left, which maybe cut in thin
slices, and added last. "