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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.