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THE PKOIEfcESSIiE- FABME'-MiAP'iM 1886. 6 I1 t i f s HOPE ON, HOPE EVER. Hope on, hope ever. Though dead leaves are lying In mournful clusters ?neath your wan dering feet; . . Though wintry winds through naked boughs are sighing, The flowers are dead ; yet is the mem ory sweet Of summer winds and countless roses glowing ?Neath the warm kisses of the gener ous sun. Hope on, hope ever. Why should tears be flowing? In every season is some victory won. Hope on, hope ever, though your deck loved tresses With trembling finers for the silent grave, Though cold the cheek beneath your fond caresses, Look up, true Christian soul, be calm, be brave ! Hope on, hope ever. Though your hearts be breaking, Let flowers of resignation wreathe your cross, Deep in your heart some heavenly wis dom waking, For mortal life is full of change and loss. Hope on, hope ever, for long-vanished faces Watch for your coming on the golden shore, E'en while you whisper in their vacant places The blessed words, "Not lost, but gone before!" Hope on, hope ever, let your hearts keep singing, When low you bend above the church yard sod And fervent prayers your chastened thoughts are winging, Through sighs and tears, to the bright throne of God. Hope on, hope ever. Let not toil or sorrow Still the sweet music of hope's heav enly voice. From every dawn some ray of comfort borrow, That in the evening you may still rejoice. Hope on, hope ever words beyond com paring, Dear to the hearts that nameless woes have riven, To all that mourn sweet consolation bearing. Oh, may they prove the Christian's guide to heaven ! Chambers' Journal. RICH POUND CAKE (YELLOW). One pound of flower, one pound of sugar, eight eggs, and three-quarters-of-a-pound of butter. Beat the yolks of the eggs well, then add sugar and beat more, then the butter, and beat to a cream, then add the flour, and lastly tbe beaten whites. SPONGE CAKE. Beat three eggs and one cup of powdered white sugar well together. Sift into one heaping cup of flour, one teaspoonful of cream-tartar, and one-half teaspoonful of soda. Sift the second time, and add to the su gar and eggs ; lastly, stir in a table spoonful of hot water and one-half teaspoonful of flavoring. ICING FOR CAKE. Dissolve one pound of powdered sugar in just as little water as possi ble, then stir in the whites of three eggs beaten a little, but not to a froth. Put this mixture into a deep dish, and set in a kettle of boiling water, stirring till quite thick. Re move from the fire, and beat till cold. It is then ready for use. LEMON PUDDING (NEW STYLE). Cream up one tablespoor ful of fresh butter with one teacupful of sugar. Two eggs must be beaten up very light, and two lemons provided for seasoning. Dissolve a tablespoon ful of corn starch in a little cold milk, then pour over it a teacupful of boiling water. Add to this the butter, sugar and eggs. Rub the lemons until soft, grate the rind into the batter, and also strain it into the juice. Bake in puff paste. This quantity makes two puddings, and will be found very nice. -v BAKED HASH. . , j I Take nyi kind f of cold iiieat and chop it not4veryfine. To one pint of the chopped! meat )idd;oiie-half as. much cold mashed potatoes, two ta blespoonfuls of bread crumbs, the same quantity oi uuiier. jxoisieu all with a half cup of water; season with salt and pepper and Lake half an hour. Do not use too deep a dish to bake in. PRUNE PUDDING. A delicious prune pudding is made by stewing a pound of prunes till they are soft ; remove the stones, and sugar to your taste; add whites of three eggs beaten to a stm froth, make a putt' paste for the bottom of the pudding dish ; after beating the eggs and prunes together till they are tnorougniy mixea, spreaa tnem on the crust, bake for half an hour, or till you are sure the crust is done SCOTCH SHORT CAKE. Take one-half a pound of slightly salted butter and one pound of flour ; then mix flour and butter with hand ; then add four ounces of loaf sugar and work all into a smooth ball; then roll out. until it is half an inch thick ; prick over with a fork and pinch round the edges and bake for one-half an hour in oven, with moderate fire, in round or square pan according to taste. GINGER POUND CAKE. Six cups of flour, -two cups each of butter, brown sugar and molasses, eight eggs, tablespoonful each of cinnamon, ginger and soda and two nutmegs. Dissolve the soda in a cup of sour milk. In baking take particular pains not to let the cake scorch, for gingerbread is of all'cakes the easiest to burn. Line the pans with greased paper and put a brown paper over the top to prevent the crust forming too quickly. COCOANUT CAKE. Two eggs, one cup of white sugar, half a cup of sweet milk, quarter of a cup of butter, one and one-half cups of flour, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Bake in a mod erate oven in pans one inch deep. To prepare the dessicated cocoanut, beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth ; add one cup of pulveriz ed sugar and the cocoanut, after soaking it in boiling milk. Spread the mixture between the layers of cake and over the top. SWEET WAFERS. Six eggs; one pint flour; two ounces melted butter; one and one half cups powdered sugar; one cup milk ; one teaspoonful nutmeg. Beat whites and yolks separately and ve ry stiff, rub the sugar and butter to gether, and work in first the yolks, then the milk, then the flour and whites. Bake in well-buttered wa fer or waffle-irons very quickly, browning as little as possible. Roll them while hot upon a smooth, round stick, not larger than your little finger, slipping it out carefully when the cake takes the right shape. These little cakes are an acceptable addition to any tea or supper table, and look well among fancy cakes in a basket. APPLE CHARLOTTE. Nearly a quart of fine, stale bread crumbs ; a full quart of sliced sour apples. Into a well-buttered pud ding dish put a layer of apples, then a layer of bread crumbs, plenty of bits of butter, a half-cup of sugar, a little salt and nutmeg. Repeat this until the dish is full, having a thick layer of apples and a good allow ance of butter and sugar on the top. Cover the pudding dish and bake slowly one hour; then with a spoon press the apples into the juice, frost the top and brown in the oven. May be eaten hot or cold, with or without sauce. By omitting the butter and substituting a cup of milk, the apple charlotte is free from the objection of being too rich for children, and is still very delicious. RAISIN CAKE. Beat to a cream one wound of nul- verized sugar with three-quarters-of- a-pound of good butter; then stir in, one at a time, eight ecrfrs, beatintr constantly ; then add gradually one full pound of good roller-ground flour, and after that is in have just a half cup of good sweet cream, or milk might do, into which 'has been well stirred about half a teasDOon of good baking powder. Then, before putting the batter in your baking pan, stir in a pint of Muscatel rais ins that have been stemmed and seeded. Then line a small dripping pan with soft white paper, well greased with butter, and bake well one or two hours. If the batter should seem too thin, add a little more flour : if too thick, a little more cream or milk. It should not be too thick or thin. Ice it nicely and set it away to dry. The cream or milk must foam. CHICKEN PIE. Cut up two small chickens, and put them in a saucepan with one-quarter-of-a-pound of salt pork cut in thin slices,, adding salt and pep per. Cover with water and simmer until done ; then set aside until cold. Make a paste of one quail of flour, with which is mixed two teaspoon fuls of baking powder, two large ta blespoonfuls of clarified beef drip pings or butter, half a teaspoonful of salt and half a teacupful of gran ulated sugar. Mix together and moisten with sweet milk until a soft dough is formed. Roll out half the dough and line a well-buttered tin pan with it. Fill with the chicken and broth, adding a tablespoonful of butter. Set an inverted cup in the center, roll out the other half of the paste and cover the pie with it. Make a large incision in the middle of the paste and press the sides of the upper and lower crust well to gether. If all the broth be not used at first, add through the opening during the baking. The pie should be baked in a moderate oven. COOKING FOOD FOR THE SICK. The embargo on animal food re moved by the convalescence of the patient, much of the difficulty in providing a pleasing variety van ishes. Still certain restrictions re main. All fried food must be most carefully avoided. The oft-re-peated story of St. Lawrence having at tained sanctity by a gridiron, and that in so doing he conferred upon that implement the power of making better everything prepared upon it, by no means applies to the frying pan. It is labor enough for the vig orous stomach of active habits to digest fried food, but the task be comes an almost an impossibility to the gastric organs of one is recover ing from illness, and is unable to in dulge in any but the slightest exer cise. Let the convalescent's food, then, be prepared by stewing, roast ing or broiling; these afford a suffi ently wide scope for the most exact ing palate. As a beverage for the invalid when no longer bound to a milk diet, nothing could be more nourising than cocoatina. TO CLEAN NICKEL TRIMMINGS. Rub the nickel stove trimming and the plated handles and hinges of doors with kerosene and whiting, and polish with a dry cloth. Ten cents' worth of oxalic acid dissolved in a pint of hot water will remove paint spots from the windows. Pour a little into a cup and apply to the spots with a swab, but be sure not to allow the acid to touch the hands. Brasses may be quickly cleaned with it. Great care must be exercised in labelling the bottle, and putting it out of the reach of children, as it is deadly poison. Spots in varnished furniture -are removed by rubbing them with essence of peppermint or spirits of camphor, and afterward using furniture polish or cold linseed oil. Good Housekeeping. EXCELLENT FURNITURE POLISH One ounce of white wax, one ounce of yellow wax, one-half ounce of white soap and one pint of boil ing water. Melt all together in a saucepan over the fire, and pour in to a bottle. Apply it by rubbing a little an a small space with a cloth of any kind, rub with a second cloth and polish with a third. The eco nomical housekeeper may have her furniture nicely polished at a trifling cost. OIL IN LOUISIANA. Louisiana is the latest addition to the petroleum producing States. Oil strata has been reached near St. Charles, La., at a depth of 375 feet. from which oil of fine lubricating and fuel properties flows at the rate of twenty-hve barrels per day, notwith standing the drill remains in the well as an obstruction to the flow. The parties boring: were prospectini? an immense deposit of sulphur, and . were greatly, and, no doubt, agreea bly surprised when they "struck oil." The "find" will be developed to the fullest extent. A remarkable feature of the prospecting is the dis covery, within a radius of ten acres. of gypsum, alum, pretroleum and suipnur, the two latter in presuma bly paying quantities, especially the sulphur. Midland Farmer. HIS MISTAKE. TTo frmnd n. rnfrtred tramp sitting on his front doorstep eating hw lunc . -vv-r-t . . . flmr h LI 1-1 nun I IV HOT ft T"H V ( LI UW1 "Partaking of a slight lunch. Will yuu join me ; uiv i,i I..!' x j snnmlwl "No; I don't want any of your villainous teed. "That's so: it is pretty tough kind of fodder. I just got it out of your L-itr.hn Ynur WITft mUSL UtJ UUiu hp.r own cookinff. now." "What's thai, von infernal hound exclaimed the angry man, starting toward the tramp, still quietly sit tinrr on the sten. "Don't get excited, sir; don't get owifAd think n, minute. Aren't V w J m-m m--m - you mistaken in calling me a hound T "No, I'm not; and I'll -" "But, my dear sir, you are mista Iron T'm no hound. I'm a setter." The gentleman gazed at the tramp in admiration ana leit mm to nnisn his lunch." Cincinnati Traveller Hot water is the best remedy for a caked bag lots of it and fre- . ill quently. An inflamed uaaer is very sensitive. Remember this, when the cow is uneasy, and be gentle. REMEMBER ! You will always find at the ' Big Coffee Pot " Lirgsst and Bssi Assorted Stock of Cooking ad Heating Stoves, Tin-ware, cScc, in this section. All Stoves guaranted to give perfect satisfaction. ROOFING AND GUTTERING, and all kinds of TIN and SHEET IKON WORK. Also PAINTING TIN ROOFS done with neatness and care. TOBACCO FLUES a specialty. JGgg'Kjive us a call and beconvinced.tg Very Respectfully, Gli;RSH,Slt:NSBIANT&CO., Sign -'Big Coffee Pot," Main Street, - - Salem, N. C. 4:3m. OP RALEIGH, N. C, am AGAINSTLOSS HI FIRE. This Company has been in successful operation for Sixteen Years. W. S. PRIMROSE, President: W. G. UPCHURCH, VicePres. CHAS. ROOT, Sec. and Treas. P. COWPER, Adjuster. Feb. 10-ly. LIVELY-TIMES -AT- SI Where James F. Fulton, of Stokes County. W. P. Reid, of Winston, and Miss Bettie Tkaynham, of Davidson County, are giving every attention to the wants of their many friends. GHOCEHY DKPAKT.MENT : Full line of Syrups, Molasses, Meat, Lard, Fish. Sugars, Coffees, and Fancy Groceries. GKNKRAL MERCHANDISE: Dry Goods, Hats, Shoes, Confectioneries, Wood en and Willow Ware. Glass Ware, Drugs. Spices, &c, &c. r Also Agent for the celebrated la for growing fine YELLOW TOBACCO. Gives umvereai saiiesiuciion. mce, casn 84.00 On time $1.50. ' He sincerelv thnnka hla McnAa. far- that. hk eral natronasre in tha rast arid Uv ing, Iqw price and strict attention to their inter ests he hopes to merit a continuance of their pa tronage. He means exactly what he says, when It TZ- j? -vf. A" NORTH CAROLINA so"ti,crjhir iri s r- PLYMOUTH k JLU top 18-V. dna n -A. C. VOGLER UNDERTAKER COFFINS. CASKETS, ' Ladies' Gentlemens' and Childrens' m-m., ROBES, always on hand. All orders fr " " ""ipuy. ZkCftln Street, - - Saleaa, Xt.q 45m. Respectfully, A.C. VOGLEr." MY BULL "BUCK," two and a half yearn old very kind, fine form, Sire " Joe Donovan Full Blood Jersey ; dam Full Blood Devon At LUC lKUl uwu .a.vrv Kjvt-rn. c Axon XVI Ver WILL STAND AT HIS STALL, on my Farm, During the Season. CALF INSU11ED FOR $2.50. TERMS STRICTLY CASIf.i J. C. SHUTT. 3-3m. For Satle. nUREand HIGH GRADE GUEKV JT SEY BULL CALVES. The latter will be sold at veal prices if taken early. The first order gets the best calf. Address CLOVERDALE FARM, Raleigh, X.C. Dr. Rich'd H. Lewis, Prop'r. 5-lm. mmiM house, Umatilla, Orange Co., Pla Fine Hunting and Fishing. Prices Moderate. Special Arrangements Made by the Month. J. A. MITCHEXER, Prop'r., - Late of Johnston Co., J.C. 45 Land Agency Office in Building. Im proved and Unimproved Land for Sale, it Edwards, Broughton & k RALEIGH, A. (!., PRINTERS, BOOK-BINDERS AND BLANK BOOK MANUFACTgRERS, ESTABLISHED 1872. THE HOST COMPLETE HO USE OF THE KIND IN THE ST A TE. Prepared for all Kinds and Styles of PRINTING OB BINDING, Keep tle Oi)ly Complete $to&of MERCANTILE, RAILROAD, BAW AND LEGAL PRINTING. We solicit orders and guarantee prompt attention. Address, edwarss, imwi aco., Printers and Binders, 1-tf. Raleigh, N. C W.J. VVYATT & CO.; Commission Merchants AND DEALERS IN HEAVY AND FANCY GrS(O0!f(li$ DURHAM, 1ST. C JrConsignments of all kink Country Produce solicited. 13m 11 a THOROUGH BRED AND TROTTING HORSES; JERSEY CATTLtr SOUTHDOWN SHEEP ; c. RRRKSTTTRE 110W AND BRONZE TURKEYS. Young stock for sale by !. 0. ALEXANDER-. imm yoi sin o Indorly Fans 5-6m. iie lu v iu;s you w give mm a can. 3-tf.