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. ' . * ' f II WEEKLY iW 0M01 TIMES. ggtoted lo ^gritulture, Horticulture, gomestit (ttfonomg, fjolitc Sitgrature, jpolitits, and the Current $chjs of the gag. to ??_ r rL ?**71TYr^T""1 V- -V r VOL. XVII ?New Series. UNION C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 12, 1S8G. NUMBER 0 ocnooi commissioner s Report FOR TIIE TEAR 1H81 AND lWHo. o jonks vi LLE?NO. 1. S. W. Tallcy $ GO 00 W. n. Lemons 84 00 T. B. Reynolds 81 00 B. J. Foster 48 00 A. 0. While 52 50 It. T. Foster 35 00 Miss It. A. Carlisle.... 52 25 Miss Anna llhinehart 00 00 Miss Nannie E. Goudclock 80 25 Mrs. M. A. Mitchell 40 00 Miss Hal tie E. Wood 84 00 K. J. Foster 2100 p n .. ?. 25 00 Miss Dora Whitlock Id 00 Benjamin Kennedy 125 00 T L. flames 125 00 Wm. Webster (not paid by Treasurer)... 2 50 Total ?989 50 l)R ATTOSV II.I.K?NO. 2. 1). F. Foster $ 45 00 Miss Ella Wood 40 00 J. L. Alexander 80 00 .). W. Spears 00 00 Miss Ollie II. Haynes 90 00 Miss 1*. Carrie Williams 00 00 R. C. Sarratt 120 00 Miss Ilattie L. Campbell 40 00 11. A. Stewart 52 50 Miss C. JanePryor .. 50 (?0 II. B. Tate CO 00 J. O. Spencer 120 00 IN. U. Littlejohn 10 00 Total $807 60 dOWDSYSVILLK?SO. 3. Miss Leah Tessier $32 60 Mrs. Mary A. Lcgg 81 26 J. 0. Mooreliead GO 00 J. A. Lindsay 73 00 C. E. Speara 70 00 James L. Strain 76 00 Miss Ida White 10 00 Elijah llcid 76 00 M. 1). Manly 32 60 W. II. Spears 77 75 Miss Emma Kendrick 60 00 Miss Kate McGowan 60 00 James L. Walker 60 00 Duaky Hamilton 25 00 Alice Littlejohn 30 00 Elaira Littlejohn 18 75 J. A. Campbell 37 50 Miss Ilachael Macomaon 75 00 Mlsa Nannie C. Kendriok 27 60 Miss Alice L. McCullough 75 00 j Mias Ida E. Tucker 25 00 F. W. Littlejohn 25 00 R. C. Tat rick .. 81 25 Total $1157 00 PINCICNBY?MO. 4. J. J. Kinard $90 00 C. C. Dogan 10 00 C. II. Jones 90 00 J. Q. Bailey uN 50 W. B. Lemons 40 15 R. II. Foster 90 00 J. D. Bailey 90 00 C. M. McKissick 83 00 A. C. While 9 GO Miss M. E. Darlington 90 00 M. S. Faucett 90 00 M. L. Lemnsler.. 90 00 Miss Aurie Q. Ellis 18 00 T. N. Kelley 50 00 R. M. Latimer 90 00 Total $989 23 t'KION?MO. 5. Miss Lizzie Qreer 1 $125 00 Miss Mary McBride G1 70 J. II. Rodger 50 30 C. C. Jeter 40 00 P. R. Nichols 40 00 Miss Genera Wilson ^ J. M. Foster '>0 00 Lucy A. Lipsey 30 00 Miss Auria O. Ellis 20 00 M. A. l'rultt { CO 00 II. L. Goss . *20 00 Miss Carrie Hawkins CO 25 Miss Lorena Hawkins 75 00 W. B. Lemons 8 75 Lucy A. Nicholas 20 00 x Total $717 00 SAKTVC?HO. 0. Miss Sue II. Carlisle $ 90 00 II. Brown 1. 22 60 D. B. Fant .... IK) 00 J. G. Bailey 87 60 Ida Tucker 75 00 C. C. Jeter 75 00 Mrs. M. G. Humphries 45 00 Miss. M. M. Russel 75 00 Miss Mary MoBride 13 60 \ll.a 9..a R Ial?. -? WUW <i> UU Mrs. L. C. Jeter 100 00 Miss Aurie O. Ellis 10 00 J. C. Swygart k Co. 16 50 J. 0. Stephens 10 60 M. Chapin 45 00 Total $781 40 FISH DAM?MO. 7. Berry Tucker $ 10 00 Drusilla Tuoker 60 00 Mrs. M. Q. Humphries 87 60 J. C. P. Jeter 106 00 Miss Agnes M. llice 100 00 John II. Byrd 50 00 11. Brown 16 00 Mrs. 11. L. Sims 100 00 A. r. Wilson - ?5 00 Mary M. Mobly 16 00 J. W. James 80 00 Totals $647 60 A uoca.nsvillk?no. 8. John D. Noriis $00 00 J. H. Rodger 13 80 J. 11. Sumner 72 00 J. P. Shnnds 40 00 F. A. Foster 00 00 T. W. Giles 26 00 J. B. Lancaster 00 00 Ida Gee 30 00 A. Lula Walker 00 00 Kliza Robinson 40 00 I A. U. Smith CO 00 R. Q. Johnson 00 00 W. B Lemons 11 25 Fannie Rodgcrs 30 00 M. C. Nowell 10 00 Total ..$030 50 gosiikx hill?no. 0. William Byrd S 05 00 J. H. Thomas 05 00 Eva Schoppaul 50 00 A. W. Rico GO 00 Addi^V. Eison 125 00 Julia Eison 50 00 ToUl $415 00 cross kkys?no. 10. John D. Norris $ 25 00 L. M. llicc 45 00 Anna tiosaett 50 00 C. B. Bobo 75 00 W. C. Wilbum 50 00 Sallie L. Ray 75 00 B. F. Kison 90 CO Lizzie F. Gregory 100 00 Jonnio Cunningham 87 50 II. L. Hunter 09 00 Total $705 50 counr iiousK?so. 11. E. E. Brilton $181 50 11. E. No well 120 00 A. P. Wilson 86 00 J. II. Brown 57 00 J. II. Rodger - 2 60 S. J. Ray 6 00 R. W. Tinsley 1 50 J. K. Young 6 60 R. T. Geo 1 85 Francoide Wagner 20 00 Butler Sheldon 10 00 B. F. Bailey 2 50 Total $495 55 Respectfully, W. M. FOSTER, School Commissioner Union County. Care of Preserved Fruit.?Keeping fruit or any provision depends on tlirce things. It most be sound to begin. A Bpcck of decay or acid change will develop ferment in a kettle of fruit. Second, the jars or cans mu?.t be air-tight. The object of steaming the fruit is to expel the air and arrest the change in the juice, which would naturally proceed to ferment. Air penetrates in Gner ways than we can discern, and needs much less than thn crevice of a hair or a pin's point to enter and spoil the oontents. Glass that is free from cracks or air bubbles, well-glazed stoneware, free from flaws, yellow ware, or strong, dark earthen jars will keep the fruit from tho air, provided it is soaled with wax, putty, or bladder, soaked and left toshriuk on tho uiouth of the jars. Cans with screw tops and rubber rings arc apt to have slight defects which prevent perfect sealing, and cannot bo depended on without wax. Third, the jars must be kept in a dry> dark, cold placo, very little above freezing. A shelf in a furnace-warmed cellar or storeroom opening from a kitchen, is not the place to preserve fruit. It may be put up in the best manner, and yet spoil through keeping in tke light, or whore it is not cool. Glass cans should be wrapped in paper, buried in sand or sawdust, or kept in a dark closet. Packed with plenty of chaff, oats, dry sand or sawdust, or dry. sifted ashes, most preserves will stand freezing weather without injury, but each can needs at least six inches of non-conducting inatc<? rial about it on all sides, for protection. A pit on one sido of the cellar, dug below the reach of frost, and lined with boards, with straw or ashes between them and its wslls, will keep preserves from heat or froizing. A pit dug in the cellar, four feet below the level of its floor, well drained and lined as above, will provo tho best place for keeping mall quantities of preserves enough for a inglo family. Thk ARMSTnoKo Cask.?Atlanta, February 1. ?The trial of Dr. Armstrong, Episcopal clergyman, charged with immoral revelry and conduct unbecoming a minister of the Gospel was continued before the Ecclesiastical Court, which rooonvened this afternoon. The evidence is now all in and the case will probably be decided to morrow night as counsel have begun their arguments and evening sessions will be held to hasten the elose of the long and disagreeable trial. No church affair in Georgia has ever caused such a profound sensation as this, and it is the topic of the hour in every home in the State. Kaatf.k Dat.?Eaater day thia year fall* on I (ha 25th of April, which ia (ha latest date on | which it oan fall. It haa not coma on thia day in ovar one hundred yeara and will not again come later than April 22 until 1004. The car. lieat day on wh ich Eaater can fall ia March 22. It baa not fallen on that day ainca 1818, and will not again until after the year 2,000. And it would be all the same to any of us that year | if it fell on the 4th of Jnly. , THE MOTHER-IN-LAW. Dere vas many qvcer dings in dis Und off dcr free < 1 neffor could qvite understand : 1 Der peoblea dbey all seein so dcefrent to me As dhoso in my own faderland. Dhey gets blenty droubles un d into mishaps Mitout dcr least bit off a cause ; f Und, vould you pelief id? dhoso mean Yankee t chaps, I Dhey fights mit dheir moder-in-lawa. Shust dink of n shite man so vicked as dot! 1 Vhy not gif der oldt lady a show ! t Who vas it gets oup, rcn der nighdt id vas hot, . Mit mine baby, I shust like to know ? Und dhcu in dcr vinter, Then Katrine vas sick, Und der mornings vas shnowy und raw, s Who made right cray oup dot fire so qvick ? j, Vhy, dot vas mine moder-in-lnw. Id ras von off dhosc voronn's-rights Tellers 1 k been ; n Dlicre vns noting dot's mean aboudt me; Vhcn der oldt lady vishes to run dot masheen, Vhy. 1 shust let her run id, you see. ^ Und, vlien dot shly Yawcob was cutting srme dricks, ,] (A block off der oldt chip he ras, yaw !) <, Kef sho goes for dot chap like some dousand off bricks, 1 Dot's all right ! She's mine modcr-in-law. t Veck oudt und reek in, id Tas alvays der same? c Dot Toman Tas boss off der house- c Built, dhen, ncffcr raindt ! I vas glad dot 'she * came; n She ras kind to mine young Yawcob Strauss, j Und rhen dliero was rater to gel vrom der spring, * Und fireTood to splilil oup und saw, e She tns velcotno to do it. Dhere's not anyding Dot's too good for mine moder-in-law. . ?Jioslon Glnbr. i ii EBENEZER'S SLEIGH RIDE. o 'Twos in the Slate of Indiana. Farmer c Sproggins and his wife, Lizy Ann, set out to f> market quite comtortable-like and snug. They " were going to the town of Uattleroot. They took along with (hem two dozen chickens and six dozen eggs. This had been a great winter for sleighing in c Iudiann, especially around the town of Rattle- a root. S " ii itch Kbenczcr to the sleigh this morning, s Sproggins," said Lizy Ann. s! Sproggins blessed ?he signs in the almanac tl for sending such good wheat-growing winter weather, and obeyed. Kbenezer was not a horse ; ho was a mule, h lie was white, with fair long ears, and a tail of T remarkablo intelligence. Over a good feed of * hay Ebenezer whisked bis tail softly, to show his gratitude aud peace. When Sproggins gate p the oaudal member a brisk twist, Ebenezer fi knew as well as his master that that meant c ? Git up !" When a boy came fooliug around, there was a a sudden upheaving of the appendage, a storm u signal, as it Were, to indicate that hereabouts t! was the earthquake end of Ebenezer. 1 Farmer Sproggins was wont to say : a " That there mule's got more sense in his one 1 tail than the town council of Ilattieroot have in * their heads.'' c The farmer and his wife had raised their Ebenezer from a gawky, quavery-legged colt, i He was born the sanio year their eldest son ? was, and Simon is old enough to vote for the next President. This family mule was crowned J with years, dignit y and faithfulness. " He's the stidiest crcetur, Ebenezer is,'' said * I.izy Ann. "You couldn't starkle him no more'n you could Oran'ther Sproggins' family bible." ' That market morning they sledded on over the snow in happiness and peace. Ebener.er, Sprog- 1 gins, Lizy Ann, the chickens and the eggs. At the top of Pigeon IIill thorc was a rongh place. r The sleigh jolted slightly. It struck the rheu- a malism in the old white hen's knees, and she ] gave a squawk. An egg or two croaked. I " Huddap, Ebenezer," said Sproggins. Ebenezer looked around and winked, and j then he looked ahead. Pigeon Hill was half a mile long and very o steep. Before the snow came, there had been a heavy rain. The ground hnd froze stiff and ? icy. Then the heavy snow fell. " Splendid bottom for sleighin'," Sproggins said. 1 The wind had blown the snow off the hill, ? and left not much else than icy coating. There , wasn't much of anything to sleigh-ride on except j the splendid bottom. , Ebenezer slid slightly. ' " Slow it up, Ebenezer," said the farmer. * The mule shook his tail vigorously. He planted his fore-hoofs into the ice. They began t to go. " Back, Ebenezer, ba-a-ack !" shouted Soros gins. By that time the sleigh itself was like the old lady's tongue in meeting. It had " got a going ( and couldn't stop." I It shot forward and touohei the mule's hind ( legs. | Ehenezer was surprised. He, a dignified, gray-haired family mule, who had never in his life kioked over the traces, had been hurt and ' insulted in his tenderest spot. It was too ' much. He lifted his hind legs to kick. Then he was still more surprised. In point of fact, if a gallon of iolized horse radish imd been poured up his nose he couldn't have been more astonished. Before he raised his respectable heels, he had been a thing with a leg at | each corner. But affer that fatal moment, he was a thing with legs only at his two front corners. The instant his hind legs were lifted off the ground the sleigh shot still further forward. The shafts snapped off quicker than the eords i of gratitude. Bleigh, Sproggtns, Liiy Ann and the chickens went nnder the mule. F.benezer was on ton. Thea the strangest thing of *11 happened. The aleigh atruok the mule'a front lega. After that he had no more legs at all any more, but only just oornera. The aleigh knocked him off hia balance and aoooped him in bodily. Kbeneser aat down with the folka to take a aleigh ride. lie was a big mule. Part of him aat in Lixy Ann'a lap. Some more of hiaa spread itself on the basket of sis doten eggs. There followed a destruction that was pitiful lo see. Beautiful lost possibilities of Christmas :akc and omelet lay scat tore! nlong that icy sill in a way to draw tours from your eyes. Ebcnczer's tail, Spriggius' feet and Lizy Inn's spare-room coverlet were all blended tojether in that dazzling truo sulphur-orange int which fashionable milliners would give at east half of one eye to catch. Still there wasn't enough seat to hold all of Sbenezcr. lie laid the rest of himself upon he chicken-coop, lie didn't look around very ong about it, either. Next followed a crash and splintering and a ound like tho sudden wreck of senatorial topes in Ohio. The old while hen, in spite of her rheumatic tnees, escaped to the roadside, and lay a moment fluttering upen her back. Then she gave ne flop and all was over. She died of heart liseaso. With a wild screech the Shanghai rooster larted out from the other side. Sproggins' ihanghni had been a beauty iu his day. In he year 1880 he had been selected to head the runup hat Democratic procession that was to clebrate the presidential election. Hut the lection went t'other way, and tlie Shanghai rag left in inglorious retreat. The disappointtent struck in on liiiu somehow. From that ay he droopedj or mostly lost the ttso of his rings. For a year he had been too down-heartd to fly upon the roost. In moments of violent shock the dumb have cen known to talk, the blind to see. K*en so, a this supreme instnnt, old .Shaughai flew out f that doomed sleigh as spry as a spring hicken. Far o'er the wide expanse of snow, rom field to field he flew, shouting to all the rorld as he went: "Kookle, kookle, koo-koo ! " Still the sleigh shot madly on. The rest of tho feathered crew that were not rushed were set free. Each instant one and nother made its escape ; now from the top of proggius' fur cap, now from I.izy Ann's boulder, and now from this side and that, like hooting stars, each shrieking as it got out of hat: Quackle, quackle, quack-quack !" It was the most expressive hen talk ever card in those parts. It roused the country, akc it in all its features, the animated picture ras a scene for a great American chromo. F.bcnczer's nerves were not soothed by these rocecdings. lie made frantic struggles to get rce. And here was the tip-top act of the cirus. Sproggins' brain had whirled around for half minute, and then settled itself unalterably pon the conviction that the mule sitting right ketr? in.^he alqigh with him was rpuiuu- away, 'o his crtadit, be it said, that, true to his duty a a man and male protector, he held fast by he rains throughout. Whenever a chickon flew rom this side or that he jerked the lines, nnd ailed Ebcnezer /rantically to wol" AS Ule 31C1&U BllUC tlun u fSBICI ????Ck Xtaovci | )ftle but determined, tho blessed old idiot still i a.- t.i? 1 -i ? - ? ^rw|icu iuc ueim sou BllQUieu : "Wo! Ebenezer! wo! Bla?t ycr picter, 'ou old fool, wo !" Once Ebenezer looked arround with an extression of infinite disgust, as if to say: "Maybe you'd like to wo' your self, wouldn't 'ou?" They reached the bottom at last. Nobody rns hurt. Ebenezer'8 dignity had been ruffled beyond edemption. He looked not around. He gave , bound and snort and disappeared down the oad. His head was up, and his tail was standng out horizontal. Thus he vanished from tuman ken. He has never beon heard of. For two weeks after there was seen in The lattlrroot Roarer the following "ad," to wit; Strayp.l)?A wHito mule, .sixteen hands high, ugly in the hind legs. " Of course, it was unexpectinglike to himlelf," said Farmer Sproggins. - - -- No Chance for tiie Presidency.? Mamma,' said a little Fifth ward boy lugubriously the other day as ho laid down a roluuic of biographioal sketches of the Presidents, 'I don't believe I'll ever bo a President. I ain't got the chance; I wasn't >ruog up right.' i ttrt.? .ft j ? ? >* uy, cuuu, you nave inc same chance ,hat other little boys have.' 'No, L ain't; I wasn't born in a log cabin, lor 1 ain't drovo a team on the canal, nor bad to rend the spelling book by tbe light )f a pine knot, nor had to split mils, nor aothin' like the rest of the boys who got '.here. I tell you, mother, I'm handicapped on this Presidential business.' Prom tbe stress laid on the hardships endured by sonic of the Presidents when boys it is not strange that the juveuilo mind ihould draw such a deduction. Little Jenny's big sister is entertaining Mr. Skibbcrs, and thinks she can get along without any assistance; so she pats the little one on the head, and says. 'Come, little pet, i*,'a time your eyes were closed in sleep.' Guess not, said Jenny; Mother told- me to keep my eves open when you and Mr. Skibbcrs were together! Didn't Need to he Treated.?Good morning, Mrs. Giiligan. How is Patrick this morning? a L.I. i. .4*? cure, 110 a no ocucr, nor. Why don't you send him to the hospita to be treated? To be treated, is it? Faith, and it'a thi delarium trimuiins he has already. ? Col. Ashbel Smith, a veteran of the wai for Texas independence, died in Houston La\yvf.i<s and Law-makers?Just one hundred years tig>, in 17S6, there was an amusing controversy in Massachusetts over the grnvo question whether lawyers were a benefit or an injury to the community. It was not a simple debate, which was to lead to nothing. Many people wore, in fact, greatly excited over the question, and some of the Massachusetts towns voted to instruct their representatives in the Legislature to ' endeavor to pass an act nbolishing 'the 1 order of lawyers.' 1 One proposition was to limit the number 1 of lawyers in the State to twenty-five, and I to hnvo thcui elected by the people. It 1 was also suggested that uo member of the 1 profession should be elected to the Legislature ; for it was charged they swarmed iu tho IIousc of Representatives, nnd exercised a sort of autocratic power in framing the laws upon execution of which thev were to fatten. As a matter of fact, there were then less than ninety lawyers in tho whole State ; and there were only fifteen members of the profession in the House of Representatives, of which they formed only one-sixteenth part. Tf .l.?rncOM .. u;..i 1: ?.? .. ww iuvivioiu ? UI^II uuaipilllicill (U tliuir I taleuts to say that they ruled the Legislature. There lias always been, and there is now, a popular feeling that our national and State Legislatures contain too largo a proportion of lawyers. If it be an evil, it is greater to- ^ day than it ever was before. There are delegations in Congress from some even of the larger States, which are almost inclusively conip net of lawyers. Massachusetts, for example, s.-uds almost as many members of the profession to represent her in Washington a3 she put, a century ago, into her own Legislature. The proportion in Congress, of which more than two-thirds arc lawyers, is much 8 larger than it is iu the llritish Parliament. ( The House of Commons lately elected con* ' taius oue hundred and ten barristers and * twenty-three solicitors. The two branches 8 of the legal profession thus furnish almost c exactly one-filth of all the members. Yet ^ even this is a larger propoitson than is con* <] tributcd ty any other profession or calling. 1 It appears, then, that whatever objection 1 i there may be to lawyers as law-makers, the 1 people gonerally attach but little importance ? to theui. We must conclude that exper- 1 ieuce shows tho members of this profession 1 to bo peculiarly fitted by their mental training for legislative duties. 1 No doubt familiarity with practical business is useful to a member of Congress ; but even in this respect the mcrcbaut's knowledge is apt to be more narrow in its scope, it may be more thorough, 60 far as it ?r tends, than the lawyer's. It will bo found on looking through our political history that almost every statesman of the first ( rauk, whether President, Senator, Itcprj- ] sentatives, or Cabinet Minister, was a , lawyer or an editor. Even Andrew Jackson 1 was a judge before ho was a general. i Beginning with tho year 18G0, the Republican and Democratic parties have had in all twenty-seven canidates for President and Vice-President. Nineteen of them were lawyers, three were editors, and four were generals. General Grant is the only person not a lawyer who has occupied the chair of the President sinco General Taylor died, in 1850. It is a mistake to think that any considerable part of the laws passed by a Legislature belongs to tho class of ]aws which make cases for the courts, and bring fees to members of the legal profession. It is a slander upon the lawyers who sit in our Legislatures to say that they favor bills which will increase the number of suits, or the cost of litigation. The truth is, that great legal reforms havo been effected, and are constantly making ; and those reforms are not only suggested by lawyers, but find in tho profession their most intelligent and effioient advocates. A Legislature wholly composed of lawyers no State should have, of courseHut it is well that this calling furnishes usually the largest contingent to our lawmaking bodies. A Shrewd Hoy.?A gentleman who was visiting one of tho publio schools in a Texas town asked a bright-looking boy: 'What profit is there iu the study of ancient history?' 'About fifty cents' I reckon,' was the reply. What?' 1 'Well, the teacher makca us buy the ; books of him, and we have to pay SI. I think he gots them for fifty cents apiece; ao he has a clear profit of fifty cents. acoordioK 1 to my calculation.' The boy went home at recess, hence he 3 could cot comply with tho requeet of the teacher to stay in after school. - ? r Six million, nine hundred thousand bales . is estimated to bo last yoar's cotton crop: DOMESTIC) RECIPE8. liKEP Stew.?To make an appetizing beef stew, take out tbc bono and bind the pieces of beet tightly, putting a lemon, pared and cut in two, and some herbs in beforo binding. Place it in a* small a stewpan or kottlo us will allow ol its being covered with water. Let it cook slowly and gently ; do not add any wator unless absolutely necessary. Slice a large onion and fry it brown, and add to the water also any sliced vegtablcs you choose, or cook the vegetables in i kettle by themselves, and serve on the platter with tho beef. If you do not add my water, you will ha?o a very rich gravy ind a portion of it may be reserved for soup stock. IIam Cooked in Cider.?Put a pint of ;idcr and a cup of brown sugar into enough srater to cover the ham ; boil three hours, >r until the skin will peel off easily, ltcnove the skin, cover the ham with a crust )f sugar, and bak6 in a slow oven thrco lours D'wsillpn ? ntm /if *" ~ - ^ v u vu v? ou^ai I U tl 1'iuu )f cider, and baste the ham frenqently irhilc baking. If the eider is very sweet, no less sugar. To Waum Over Cold Beef.?A dish vhich is liked by the hungry and the hearty, s made in this way : Tako somo thin slices )f cold roa<t beef, brown them in butter varm some cold boiled potatoes which you lave chopped fine and seasoned well. Heat ilso cold boiled cabbage chopped fine. When heso are all hot, place a layer of meat in a vann vegetable dish, then a layer of the poatorthcn of the beef, then of the cabbage, md so until the dish is full. Do this as peodily as possible, so as to scud it hot to he tablo. Chicken Croquettes.?Take a good ize chicken, and one pound of lean veal. ]ook meat and chicken together. Save the iquor, hnshup the chicken and veal finely ogcther ; season with milk, pepper, salt, parley, and half a tablcspoonful of grated nion. Tako a loaf of bread, stale, rub tbc read into crumbs until you have equal (uanlitics of crumbs and meat. Place over he fire as much of the liquor as will tnoisen well the crumbs, into which stir tho nilk, and a piece of butter tho size of an igg. Wheq. it boils stir^in tho__cru iintil they stick to the spoon. "Xdd^thc meat and, when cold, two well-beaten eggs. Form into rolls with your hlbds, roll them in crumbs, and fry in hot lard like doughuut*. Potato Croquettes are nice Tor supper, and are preferred by some people to the much-praised Saratoga potatoes. Take two cups of cold masbod potatoes, two eggs, a lump of butter the size of ati egg, salt and. pepper to taste, and half a cupful of fine cracker crumbs.' Mix well ; roll with your hands on a kneading-board in round cukes or long ones ; scatter a little flour on the board ; drop the calces in hot hrd and fry until they are brown. The Romance ok a Coai, Stove.? One day last full, after talking until his throat was sore, a Detroit stove dealer succeeded in selling a widow a coal stove, but it was with the proviso that if everything didn't work satisfactorily, he was to make it. Two days after delivering tbc stove he got his first call. A boy entered the store and said; 'Mrs. wants you to come up and fix that stove. The housd is full of smoke A man was sent up, and he found the trouble to be with the chimney. Only three or four days had passed when the boy came in again and aaid : That stove is puffing and blowing and scaring the widow to death. She wants the same man to come up again. lie was sent, and it was discovered that sue aiun t Know now to arrange the dam. pers and drafts. Everything seemed to run well for a week, and then the boy walked in to announce : She sent me down to have you send that man up again. The house is full of coal gas. The man went up and applied tho remedy, but inside of threo days the stove got to puffing; two days after that the fire wouldn't draw; then it drew too muoh; then gas escaped again. At length the dealer went to the houso and said: Madam, you gave mo $30 for the stove } how much will you take for it ? I wouldn't sell it. Hut I can't be sending my man up hero every two or threo days all winter. You won't have to. I've concluded to marrj bint in order to have some one here in case of an accident. And three days ago they were quietly and happily married.?Detroit Free l*ret?. The disoovery has been made that the world doesn't revolve with the same mo* mentum it did a thousand years ago, but it still swings around fast enongh to satisfy I the man with a heavy note coming due.