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* THI % VOL. VI. NO. The Farmer's Sceptre.* BY JOEL BENTON. A giantess, when pagan folk HaW oil tho wArl/1 in uv&r Looked from a hill one sunny morn Aero?e the fields of May. The song of birds was in the air? The winds with balm were sweet: Her daughter, rosy-oheeked and fair, Was playing ?t her feet. , Soon rims with glee the little one From slope to slope aw%y ; She holds the summer in her arms, The streams and fields of May. The child could step from hill to vale, And as she wildly ran She saw beneath her towering gtride * The busy husbandman. . His oxen, plow, and him she took Within her apron's space, And, hastening with the portent queer. She sought her mother's faoe. . " Oh mother! thou hast told mo much I did not understand. Now tell me what this beetle is Which wriggles through the sand." * ' 0, child,-" the giantess replied, " Go, put it back again; These are the stern forerunners of The patient race of men. ' In other realms, iby little one. Our home henceforth must stand, For these who come in lit lenens Have come to rule the land." *A Scandinavian legend. Hoi tte Weathercock Was Oiled. " I'm game to do it," says Billy John< ?l 8011, " any ume yon use. "Not you," says Joey Bance. "It ain't in yon." " AiD't it?" sa; b Billy. And as he spoke he took a pull at his strap, and Parson says? "My good man i couldn't think of allowing it." You see, this is how it was. We'd got a weatheroock a-top of our church spire at High Beechy; and it was a cock in real earnest, jnst like the great Dorking in Farmer Granger's yard; only the one " on the spire was gilt, and shone in the Aid quite beautiful. There was another difference, though. Fanner Granger's Dorking used to crow in the morn, and sometimes on a moonlight night; bat the gilt one a-top of the : steeple, after going on swinging round, and round, to show quietly which wa;i the wind blew, took it into its head to stick fast in calm weather, while in a rough wind?oh, lor' a' mercy ! the way it would screech and groan was enough to alarm the neighborhood, and alarm the neighborhood it did. T Vml 1* OrO QQ if WQC f]lP x nuuiuu v *? ww wv weathercock at first, but quite took to V old Mother Bonneti's notion as it was I eigne of the times, and a kind of warn\ ing to High Beeghy of something terrible to come to pass. But, there, when you stood and saw it turning slowly round in the broad daylight, and heard it squeal, why, you couldn't help yourself, but were bound to believe.' Just about that time a chap as called himself Steeple Jack?not the real Steeple Jack, you know, but an impostor sort of fellow, who, we heard afterwards, had been going about and,getting sovereigns to climb the spires, and oil the weathercock, and do a bit of repairs, and then going off without doing anything at all?well; this fellow came to High Beechy, and saw Parson, and offered to go up, clean and scrape the weathercock oil it and all, without scaffolding, for a five pound note. Parson said it was too much, and consulted churchwarden Bound, who said ' ditto," and so Steeplejack did not get the job even when he had come down to three pound, and then to a sovereign ; for, bless yon, we were too sharp for him at High Beecby, and suspected that all he wanted was the money, when, you know*, we couldn't have made him go up, it being a risky job. The weathercock went on squeaking then awfully, till one afternoon when we were out on the green with the cricketing tackle for practice, Parson being with us, for we were going to play R unboro' Town next week, and Parson was our best bowler. He was a thorough gentleman was Parson, and ho used to say he loved a game of cricket as much as ever, aud as to making one 01 our eleven, he useu to do that, he said, because he was then sure no(N?e would swear, or take more than was good for him. Speaking of our lot, I'm sure it made us all respeet Parson the more; and I tell you one thing it did besides, it $cemed to make bim our friend to ?o to in all kinds of trouble, and what's more, it fetched all our lot in the cricket club to church, when I'm afraid if it hadn't been out of respect to Parson, we should have stopped away. Why, you may laugh at me, but we all of us loved our Parson, and ne could <-turn us all this way or that way with his little finger. Well, we were out on the green, as I said, and the talk turned about oiling the weather cook, and about how we'd beard as Steeple Jack, as he called bim self, had undertaken to do Upperthorpe steeple,- as is thirty feet lower than ours, and had got the money and gone off. "I thought he was a rogue, "said Billy Johnston. " He looked like it; drinking sort of fellow. Tell yon what, I'm game to do it any time you like." "Not yon," said Joey Ranee. "It Hin't in you." " Ain't it," says Billy, tightening his belt, and then? " My good man," says Parson, " I couldn't think of allowing it." You see, ours was a splendid spire, standing altogether a hundred and seventy feet six inches high; and as it says in the old history, was a landmark and a beacon to the country for milce round. There was a square tower sevent y feet high, and out of this sprang the spire, tapering up a hundred feet, anil certainly one of the finest in *h?; ^ oottrHrf: i BI % 1. "Oh, I'd let him go, sir," said Joey; j " he can climb like a squirrel." . " Or a tom-cat," says another, j "More like a monkey," says Sam Rowley, our wicket-keeper. " Never mind what I can climb like," says Billy. " I'm game to do it; so here goes." " But if you do get up," said Parson, "you will want tools to take off and oil the weather oock, and you can't carry them." Just then a message^ame from the rectory that Parson was wanted, and went away in a hurry; ahd no sooner ^ had he gone than there was no end of chaff about Billv, which ended in his I pulling up his belt another hole, and saying:? "I'm going." " irliaf am vnn oroinc to do when OUU ""-V o 0 1 you get up there ? "Nothing," he says, "but tie the rope up to the top of the spire, and leave it for some of vou clever chaps to ; do." ; " What rope shall you use," I said. "The new well rope," says Billy. ; "Its over two hundred feet long." Cricketing was set aside for that day, i for Joey Bance went off and got the rope, coming back with it coiled over his arm, throwing it down before Billy in a defiant sort of way, as much as to say? " There, now, let's see you do it." Without a word, Biliy picked up the coil of rope and went in at the belfry door, to come out soon after on the top of the tower, and then, with one end of the rope made into a loop and throvn over his shoulders, he went to one edge of the eight-sided spire and began to climb up from crochet to . crochet, which were about a yard apart, and looking like so many ornamental knobs sticking out from the spire. We gave him a cheer as he began to go up, and then sat on the grass wondering like to see how active and clever the fellow was as he went up yard after yard, climbing rapidly, and seeming as ' Ka'<1 ar.nn Ka of tha fnn II IIV U OV.>V/U W ??v vuw wjr, The whole of the village tamed out in a shite of excitement, and we had hard work to keep two brave fellows from going np to try at other corners of the spire. " He'll do it?he'll do it.!" was the cry over and over agaiu. And it seemed as if he would, for he went on rapidly till he was within some thirty feet of the top; when all of a sudden he seemed to lose his hold, and come sliding rapidly down between two rows of ?rockets faster and faster, till he disappeared behind the parapet of the tower. We held our breath, one and all, as we saw him fall, and a cold chill of hor ror came upon us. It was not until he had reached the top of the tower that we roused ourselves to run to the belfry door and began to go up the spira! staircase to get the poor fellow, whom we expected to find half dead. " Hallo!'' cried Billv's voice, as we got! ' half-way down the cork-screw. "I'm ! coming down." " Ain't you hurt, then ?" cried Joey j Ranoe. "No, not inuoh," Sftid Billy, as we j reached him by one of the loop-holes in 1 the stone wall.' " Got some skin off and a bit bruised." " Why, we thought you were halfkilled," we said. "Not I," he replied gruffly; "the rope caught over one of the crockets, and that j broke my fall." " Going to try again ?" said Joey,with a sneer. "No, I ain't going to try again, neither," said Bill, gruffly. "I left the rope up at the top there, thinking you were so clever you'd like to go." "Oh, I could doit if I liked," said Joey. " Only you daren't," said Bill, rub- ; bing his elbows, and putting his lips to j his blee line knuckles. ( ! " Daren't I ?" said Joey. And without another word he pushed j by Billy, and went on steadily up toward j the top of the tower.. "I hope he'll like it," said Billy, chuck- j I ling. "It ain't so easy as lie thinks, j i Let's go down. I'm a good bit shook." i Poor fellow, he looked rather white { as he got down, and to our surprise on i looking up on healing a cheer, there was : Joey hard at wo'rk with the rope over his shoulder, climbing away, the lads j cheering him again and again as he climbed higher and higher, till he at last; ' reached the great copper support of the ! wRitlieroock, and then, he clung there | j motionless for a few minutes, and we j ! began to think he had lost his nerve i and was afraid to move. Bnt that wasn't it?he was only gatli-! | ering breath ; and we gave a cheer in j ! which Billy Johnson heartily joined ; as I np there looking as small as a crow, the ; plucky fellow gave the weathercock a ; i spin round afterwards holding on by his j legs, clasped round the copper support, ; while he took the rope from his shoulders, undid the loop, and then tied it s i securely to the great strong support ?11 if!. - I- - 1 J J U: 1 1, a4 All lH 18 ..Hit) Lit) 11UU 11UU LI 1(5 Dunn not j 011; and now, taking it off, he gave it a ; skim away from him ; and away it went, , right oat into space, to fall at last far from the foot of the tower. Joey now began to come down very ' slowly and carefully, as if the coming down was worse than the going up, and more than onoe he slipped ; but he had . & tight hold erf the rope with one hand ' and that saved him, so that he only i rested, and then continued to come down. You see the spire sloped so that he did not hang away from it, but against 1 the stone sides; and so we went on ; watching him till he was about half way down, when he stopped to rest, and, pulling up the rope a bit as he , held on to the rope, so as to rest his i legs. We gave him another cheer, and so did | Parson, who just then came up, when ! Joey waved his hand. As he did this, something occurred which took away my breath ; for, poor fellow, he seemed to slip, and, before he could utter a cry, he turned over and hung head downward, falling, with his i leg slipping through the loop,till his foot caught, and he hung by it, fighting hard > for a few moments to get baok, but in 1 vain ; and as we watched him his strug: gles grew weaker, so that ha did not turn j himwlf up in trying reach SAU] AND PORT BEAUFORT, S. C. | the loop where his ankle was caught; I and at last -he lmng there, swinging j gently to and fro, only moving his I hands. By this time Parson, I, and two more had got to the belfry door, and we ran panting ap the dark staircase till we got upon the leads. 44 Hold on, Joey," I shouted. 44 I'm coming." 44 Make haste," he cried back. 44 I'm about done." By this time I was about ten feet up, and climbing as hard as I could, forgetting all the danger in the excitement; for I don't think I should have dared to go up on another occasion. 44 Look sharp," said poor Joey. 44 It seems as if ali my blood was rushing into ; my head." I leaned over and got hold of the rope j close to his ankle, but do anything more I could not. I hod all the will in the world to help the poor fellow, buC it took all my strength to keep myself from falling, and as to raising my old com- j j panion, I neither had tne strengtn nor i | the idea as to how it could be do-*e. The onlv way out of the difficulty seemed to be to take out my knife and cut the rope and then the poor fellew i would be killed. "Come down I" cried a voice below me. And looking toward the leads, there was Parson stripped to the shirt and trowsers, and with a coil of rope over his shoulder?for the new well rope had proved to be long enough to let him cut off some live and thirty feet. 44 Don't leave me," groaned Joey, who was half fainting. 441 feel as if I should fall any minute. I say, lad, this is very awful. 44 Here is Parson coming up," I said. And so it was, for he went to the row of crochets on the other side of Joey, who now hung looking blue in the face, and with his eyes closed. 44 He jpust make haste?make haste," he moaned softly. I stopped holding on, while Parson climbed up quicker than either of us 1 " * 3 ? v* it ? i? i naa aone 11, drawing aiuitvon up uj mo ! arms in a wonderful way until lie was | abreast of us two?me holding oh and j Joey hanging on by one foot. As soon as Parson reached ns, he said a few words of encouragement to Joey who did not siy a word, and then climbing higher, tied the short rope he carried, to the long rope just above the loop kuot which held Joey's ankle. Then, coming down a little, he tied his rope tightly around Joey just under the armpits. " That will bear you, my lad. But catch fast hold of it with your hands, while I cut your foot free." Climbing up higher once more, he pulled out his knife, opened it witn his teeth, and then began to saw through strands of the loops that held Joey's auklc, until there was a 6uap, a jerk, j and a heavy swinging to and fro, for the I poor fellow had fallen two or three feet, I and was now hanging by the rope round ! his breast, right way upwards, i He did not make any effort for a few minutes, as cheer after cheer eame to ns from below, he swung there, with us holdiutr on for dear life. " Can you climb down n?w, Ranee," said Parson, " if I cut you free ?" " No, sir," he said hoarsely. " I've no use in my arms or legs?they're all pins and needles." "Then we must lower you down," said Parson, calmly. And getting hold of the long piece of rope, lie climbed up once more, as coolly as if he was on an apple tree iu his own orchard, and 6aw that the knots were fast; then, coming down, he passed the long rope through the one round Joey's breast, and tied it again round him. " Now," he said, " Fincher and I will hold on by this rope, you can let him work it over his head," and then, with Parson striding across from the crochets at one angle to those on the other, and me holding on the rope as well, we let him down sliding, with his back to the stone till his feet touched the leads, when he fell down all of a heap. " Untie the rope," said Parson, "and get him down." - He spoke very hoarsely, shouting to them below; and a cheer came up. " Now, Fincher," said Parson, "we've got to get down." As he spoke, he made a running n x>se in the rope with the end he held in his hand, let it run up to the big noose, and pulled it tight. j s Then he made an effort to get his legs | together on one angle; bat the distance j he had been bending was too great, and he couldn't recover himself, swung I away by his hands. "I can't help it, Fincher? I must go I first" he cried. 1 And he was already sliding down the rope as he spoke; but I was so unnerved and giddy now that I dared not look down. I believe I quite lost my head then for a few moments; for I was clinging there for life a hundred and twenty feet above ! the ground, and the wind seemed to be trying to push me from my hold. I was brought to myself, though, just as the landscape about me seemed to be : spinning round, by feeling the rope ; touch my side; and I clasped it convulj sively with both hands, and then, wiudj ing my legs round it, slid rapidly down, I the rope seeming to turn to fixe as it j passed through my hands. A few moments later, and I was safe i on the tower leads, trying like the rest I a l i.1. _ .1 to 6111110 1*1/ kUO UKXIgCX wo unvi poocu j through; but it was a faint, sickly i kind of a smile, and we were all very j glad to get down to the green, and ! cared nothing for the cheers of the peoi Pie. The rope w as left hanging there, and i staved till it rotted away ; but somehow ! before a week was out that weatherj cock stopped squeaking, as if some one i had been up to oil it, and, though noth| ing was said about it, I've always felt as ! sure that Parson went up himself and j did it early one morning before any one was up. He was cool-headed enough to do it, for lie certainly saved Joe Kance's life, and I know no one in the village would have done it without bragging after. At all events, the weathercock was oiled, and as I said over and over agaio to Joey: "If Parson didn't oil that wither cook- ^ho did V i > FOR ROYAL C< , THURSDAY. DEI TAMING WILD ANIMALS. How Lions and Tiger* ore Tamed?The Secrets of a Dangerous Profession. A New York Herald reporter has interviewed a tamer of wild animals with the following interesting result: According to the best beast trainers, no wild beast can ever bo trusted, not even the so-called " noble " lion. They are all treacherous, the females generally being more deceitful and dangerous than the males. The lioness is more difficult to manage than the lion, the tigress than the tiger. Kindness?that is anything but ordinary kindness or "civility"?is absolutely thrown away upon a wild beast. It lias occasionally some little effect upon a lion, but really very sel+V.O lir>n liAinor rrtftllv ft Blirlv and "UUil D J ? - | treacherous brute, all lion stories anil j talk to the contrary notwithstanding. But with a tiger, and especially a tigress, all affection is literally wasted. A tigress is as likely to eat you up after six years of attention on her as after six days, if she only fancies she is safe in so doing. In all professional intercourse with wild animals you must depend on ' fear?only absolute fear. Let the beasts know that you can and will beat them when they deserve it and they will not hurt you. Never trust them for a moment. Keep your eye on them all the time?not that your eye alone will have any effect upon them. All these stories in books about "eyeing animals "into submission and the power of the human eye over the brute creation are sheer fabrications. An 1 as a rule the whip is the most efficacious of instrnments in training or subduing a wild beast. It can be used quickly and at once, and it hurts every time. So the beasts learn to dread it even more than a gun?more than anything save a red hot bar of iron or a fire. "I depend more on my whip when I go in among my tigers," said the reporter's informant, "than upon myself. If I were to drop my whip the beas's would fancv I had lost all my power, and would pounce first upon the whip, then upon me. I would consider the dropping of my whip while in the cage with my animals as almost a fatal calamity. "To train a wild animal," said Mr. Still, "you must first make his or her acquaintance from the outside, doing chores around the cage and getting the animals acquainted with your face and, above all, with your voice. They remember voices more acutely than they do faces: thev are governed more by sound than by sight. Onoe I had a beast in my cage that had not seen me in my red suit that I wear when performing. When I entered with it on the brute did not recognize me and would undoubtedly have sprung on me and torn me to pieces had I not shouted to her in my ordinary tone of voice. She remembered me at once and slunk down submissive. " The trainer feeds his beast and gives them water. These acts give him no hold on their gratitude, but they serve to render his face, form and voice familiar. They serve as an introduction to tiger society. Put you must always watch your beasts well, whether outside or inside the cage. In fact, I think," said Mr. Still, "that you are most in danger when on the outside. You do not realize their proximitv?and they do not realize ^rours?they nave not quite the same fear of your whip when separated from you by the bars, and so they are ready to 'go for you' at any moment. The four tigresses here at the circus have bitten repeatedly people who came too near their cages. One young man, doing chores around the cage not long ago, was seized by the hair of the head by one of the beasts and nearly scalped. Another had his arm broken by a wrench. "Having got accustomed to your beasts and your beasts accustomed to you, your next step is to train them to do their tricks. These tricks are very simple, but they require a good deal of time and a good deal of whipping to accomplish. "The lions are the smartest of the wild beasts. You can traiu a lion to do the ordinary tricks in trade?jumping through hoops and over gates, standing on hind legs, and so on?in about five weeks' constant work. In this time-table of wild beasts von can estimate that it would take a lioness about a week longer, and a leopard, which cemes next in intelligence to a lion, about six weeks to learn the same feats. The tiger would take about seven or eight weeks, a tigress about eight or nine weeks, while you.can keep on beating and teaching a hyena for about four months before you can do much with him. " The most difficult feat of all to teach a wild beast is to teach him how to let vou lie on him without his eating you. I do this every night with one of the tigresses, but "she don't like it a bit, though she keeps quiet enough, for it aggravates her inwardly. "The great secret of tiger taming and all wild beast taming," continued the tiger tamer, "lies in the whipping of the animals?knowing just when to whip them?and just how much. You must keep them well whipped, but if you whip them either too little or too much, or whip them without cause, it may be fatal. As for positively taming a wild beast you can't do it?especially a tiger. One or two men may have more er less influence over an animal, but no one is absolutely safe with them, and no wild ' ' ? 1.1 T* .5 beast was ever aosoiuieiy xaiiiea. r ooa makes bat little difference with any wild beast as to its natural ferocity, and with a tiger it makes none at all. My animals would tear a man limb from limb after a full meal just for the fun of the tljing. On the other hand I would just as lief enter their cage before a meal as after it; in fact, I do enter it to perform just before feeding time in the afternoon. Once I was obliged to keep them without food for four days, crossing from England to France, and yet I performed them before I fed them on the fourth day. On Sunday we do not feed- the tigresses at all, so as to keep them from sour stomach and indigestion; yet on Monday before feeding time I perform them. The mere amount of food has very little to do with their behavior. Thirst excites them more than hunger. Each of my tigers drinks about a pail of water a day and consumes abeut ten pounds of meat." "There ie this difference between a! *^8^ * lion," our encT"lop?*di? ' T T 3MMERCIAL I'EMBEll 6, 1877. of wild beast lore. "A lion will tear von out of spite and temper occasionally, but a tiger attacks you only for sheer love of blood. A tiger's claws, too, are even sharper than a lion's. The leopard's claws are less sharp, while a hyena's foot is like a dog's, clawless, the hyena's strong point being, like a scolding woman's, in the jaw." " * 1 J *1 XI Having now pretty wen exnausiea tne subject of wild beast taming and training a concluding word may here be said as to the pay of the professional wild beast tamers. This is much smaller than is generally supposed, ranging from 8150 to $100 a month. Considering the risks of life and limb these men daily take and the fact that there are not fifty of them altogether in the world, this would seem scanty compensation. But the men themselves seem satisfied, and there appears to be a wild bizarre fascination about this wild beast life, which, like the love of art in a fine artist, is its own, even if it is often, its only reward. BUFFALO PEXXICAN. How the Jndinnn .llanufactare thto Article of Pood. A corresiMDudent of the Chicago Times, writing from Winnipeg, thus describes the manufacture of pemmican by the half breed hunters of Manitoba : Buffalo pemmican is essentially a British American provision;'for, notwithstanding the vast annual slaughter of the herds in the United States territories, no pemmican is made. The arfinlA fnmisliAd thfl F.ndish A ratio ex pfeditions under the name of pemmican, differs from the true provision in being made of beef, and preserved by means of spices and salt Buffalo pemmican contains no salt, and is made from the dried flesh of the animal. It is the product of the summer hunt, though a considerable amount is also made in the early part of the fall hunt, before the cold is sufficient to keep the green meat from tainting. To manufacture it, the meat is first cut into thin slices, then dried either by fire or in the sun, after which it is pounded or beaten out into a thick, flaky substance bv means of wooden flails and poles. In this state it is placed in a bag made from the raw hide of the animal, about the size and shape of a half-barrel flour sack. A quantity of Buffalo fat or tallow having been boiled in a caldron, is now poured while hot over the dry pulp in the bag, and the whole stirred together until thoroughly mixed. The quantity of ,fat going into the bag about equals in weight that of the pulp, generally fifty pounds, the bags averaging one hundred pounds each. When a particularly nice article is desired about ten pounds of sugar and June or service berries are added. As soon as the contents of the bag cools it becomes very hard, the whole composition forming the most solid description of food that man can make. The bag is then sewed up and laid in store, or ready for immediate use. It is calculated that, on an average, the carcass of oue buffalo in fair condition will yield enough fat and dried meat to fill one bag with pemmican. As a traveling nrovisiou it is simply in valuable. There is no risk of spoiling it, if ordinary care be taken to keep it free from mould; there is no assignable limit to the time pemmican will keep. As to its taste, I never met any two men who entertained exactly the same opinion. I should feel inclined to say, if asked the question, that it tasted like pemmican, there being nothing else in the world that bears to it the slightest resemblance. There have been people who were candid enough to say they found a resemblance in sawdust mixed with melted tallow candles, others, again, who suggested the chose approximation of chips and boardiDg house butter, with plenty of hair thrown in to hold the compound firm. I am willing to acknowledge that much of the pemmican made would be the better of a comb, but after years of experience in the use of it, I am' not able to pronounce upon its flavor. Nevertheless, there is no form of food that possesses anything like its sufficing quality. A dog that will eat from four to six pounds of fish per day, when at work in harness, will eat but two pounds of pemmican if fed only upon that food. Pemmican may hfi r>rpnared in manv wavs for the table, but it is a matter of individual taste as to which method is the least objectionable. There is rubaboo and richot, and pemmican plain and pemmiean raw; this last being the form most in vogue among the voyageurs. The richot, however, will be found the most palatable. Mixed with a little flour or potatoes and onions, and fried in a pan, pemmican in this form cau be eateu ; that is, provided the-appetite is good and there is nothing else to be had. A *4 Corset Liver." The Cincinnati Commercial says: Some medical students in one of the colleges of this city, dissecting a female subject a few days ago, found what is called in doctors' parlance a "corset liver." When tight lacing has been practiced through several years, a permanent dent or hollow is produced in the liver, which may be seen verv plainly after the woman is dead and her liver dissected out. This kind of liver occars so frequently in women that physicians have given it the name of "corset liver." In ,the snbject mentioned the hollow in the liver was large enough for the wrist of a grown man to be laid m it. Young ladies who don't want their livers put into the newspapers and made an awful example of after they are dead, would better take warning. He Didn't Know the Difference. " See here, Parker, what's the difference between a ripe watermelon and a rotten cabbage ?" asked one letter carrier of another the other day. 1' You've got me there. I don't know," he returned with a look more puzzled than an illiterate man at a cross roads guide-board. " Then you'd bf a mighty nice man to send after a watermelon, you would," remarked the quizzer as he moved on.? Cincinnati Break font Table. ? " Call me pet names?something typical of sweet sounds," he murmured, and he he ? ? a gay lute. RIBT i. $2.00 per FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Recipe*. A Good Plain Pie Crust.?Sift one quart of flour into a bowl; chop into the flour (using a chopping-knife) one-lialf pound of good Arm lard; chop until very fine ; pour in enough ice-water to make a stiff dough, and work it with your hands ; flour your hands ; work t-nnr /lonah into shane : handle it ouick J VU* ? 9 ? - - ? iy and as little as possible ; flour your pastry-board, and roll out your dough . very thin ; always roll from you ; have ready one-half pound of good butter that has been washed in two or three cold waters to rid it of salt; spread the ' dough with butter; fold it up, then roll it out thin again ; spread again with butter ; fold again, and repeat the operation until the butter is all used up. To Roast Coffee.?If you desire to have extra fine flavored coffee, buy the green coffee?pure Java. Pick it over, wash it well, drain it and spread it out on pie pans; roast it in a moderate oven, or on top of the range: stir it often to keep it from burning, and roast it until it is a good brown ; then drop a small piece of butter in each pan and ' mix it up just enough to make the coffee shine; grind it fresh every morning, j The flavor will then equal, if not excel l the " Vienna " coffee. Calves' Feet.?Boil them until | tender; cut them in two, taking out the j larger tames. Season with pepper and salt and sweet marjoram, and dredge well with flour; fry a light brown in lard and butter mixed. Serve with parsley sauce. Crackers.?Butter, one cup ; salt, one teaspoon ; flour, two quarts. Rub I thoroughly together with the hand, and | wet up with cold water ; beat well, and beat in flour to make quite brittle and " ? 1 -11 $ 4 i hard ; then pinch oil pieces ana ron om i each cracker by itself, if you wiah tliem to resemble baker's crackers. i Poultry Gravy.?Poultry should be picked and drawn as soon as possible; never allow it to remain over night undrawn, for the flavor of the craw and ; intestines will penetrate the whole fowl; never cook it in less than eight hours after it is killed ; after drawing a turkey 1 rinse it out with several waters, and at the last mix in a half teaspoonful of pulverized borax; the inside of the i turkey is sometimes a little sour, and will flavor the dressing; the borax will act as a corrective ; fill the turkey with this water and let it remain while you prepare your dressing ; when the dressing is ready pour out the borax water, and if you wish rinse the turkey out I " ? Plowing t?n acres, eight days, at /our dollars per day $32 00 Harrowing over twice, two and a halt days.. 10 00 Drilling wheat, one and a quarter days.... 5 00 Seed wheat, fifteen bushels, at |1.23 18 73 Harvesting, at two dollars per acre ?.. 30 00 Thrashing, 15u bushels, at ten cents per bushel 16 CO j Hauling wheat to barn 6(0 Cleaning and hauling to jiarket 6 00 Total $112 75 We have now a total cost for the tenacres of $112.75, and a cost per acre of eleven dollars and twenty-seven and onehalf cents. A Trap for Bank Thieves. The Scientific American thus describes a recent invention for catching thieves : The object of this invention is ! to provide for use in. banks, stores, etc., I a thief or robber trap, so constructed that it may be tripped by the cashier, proprietor, clerk, or other person stai ~.i Unwind (lia nr in onv i liUliCU i;uuiuu V4iV vx/uiawv* | m | other convenient place, and thereby precipitate the thief or bnrglar into the cellar or apartment below. Thetilting sections constitute that part of a bankingroom wliioh is iu ffont of the conuter. On removing tko support of levers from the tilting sections they will tilt and precipitate any one standing thereon into the cellar or apartment below. It is hence within the power of the cashier, clerk, or other person having access to the tripper, to tilt the sections wkenj over a robber has gained access to the | bank or store, and thus precipitate him into a place of secure confinement with-, out incurring the denger of personal i finmntiter and injury. with clear water ; in roasting, U your nre is good and turkey young and tender, i allow ten or twelve minutes to a pound ; baste often, first with melted butter and hot water, afterward with the gravy in the pan : wash the giblets well and ; chop them up fine ; boil in just water i enough to cover, and when the turkey is done place it on a heated dish ; add the chopped giblets with the water in which they were boiled to the drippings in the pan ; thicken with a spoonful of flour?wet, to prevent lumps; boil up once; pour into a gravy-boat; serve the turkey with cranberry sauce. In making gravy of any kind, if the meat or poultry is very fat, it must l>e skimmed off before adding the flonr. .Medical Hints. Sour Stomach.?A sufferer from want of appetite and sour stomach can be greatly benefited by leaving all "medicines alone and for a time existing entirely on milk and lime water; a tablespoonful of lime water to a tumbler of milk. If this disagrees in any way, increase the quantity of lime water. How to Get Fat.?Abstain from the use of tea, coffee and tobacco, and acids of all kinds; take a sponge bath daily, and dry with a coarse towel, using plenty of friction to promote the general cir .1 1 1 - - J il cuiationoi Uie UIOOU; lueu uuusuiuo nj*u your meals a large bowl of oat-meal porridge with fresh milk. How to Get Thin.?Take regularly three times a day in a little water fifteen drops of hydrate of potassium?always after meals?and a little moderation in eating will help. Relief fob Asthma.?One to two tablespoonfuls of syrup of rhubarb. Neuralgia Remedy.?Extract of gelsemin (yellow jessamine,) five to ten drops, ii^about a tablespoonful of water; three doses taken at intervals of an hour apart, not sooner, have relieved very j severe attacks. Cost of an Acre of Wheal. A correspondent of the Ohio Farm- j cr gives the following estimate of the j cost of growing wheat. He says; We . ! will now take a 10-acre lot and sec what! j it costs to raise and pnt a crop of wheat j j into market, and what profit when there j I is a vield of fifteen busnels per acre : JNE Ami Single Copy 5 Cents. Items of Interest Everything we add to our knowledge adds to our usefulness. One of the greatest wonders in this world is, what becomes of all the smart children. The under secretary for India estimates the cost of the Indian famine at $155,000,000. Ohio has 881,000 acres of apple orchards, and raised this year 15,000,000 bushels of apples. The editor who saw a lady making for the only empty seat in a car found himself " crowded out to make room for more interesting matter." Simkins playfully remarked to his wiffi that he had four fools: beautifool, dutifool, vouthfool, deliglitfooL . " Poor me!" said she ; " I have but one." During his long reign the Pope has founded 130 bishoprics. In Europe there are 595 prelacies ; in America, 72; ' in Africa, 11; in Asia, 10; and in Australia, 21. An American tourist says that a San Domingo revolution consists of "a few yells, three or four hoots, some one accidentally wounded, and come home, darling?all is forgiven." There are some seven hundred carpet making establishments' in the United States, which in prosperous times furnish employment to between 150,000 and 200,000 operatives?men, women and children. Barnum is said to have remarked, as he looked at a California artist's painting of a cow : " Good gracious! do you mean to tell me that's from life? If there is really such a strange beast in existence, I'll have it for my show, if it costs $10,000." A band of robbers, lying in wait in Nevada for a stage in which a large amonnt of treasure was to be shipped, were informed of the departure of the vehiole from Eureka by a confederate's signal fire on the top of a mountain nearly thirty miles distant. This fire also excited suspicion, and a guard was sent to protect the stage. A desperate encounter was the result, and the robbers were all killed or captured. A sturdy vagabond, with full' black - * ? beard of unusual length, was recently brought before a London magistrate, who questioned him about his past life. i* If one can believe all that is laid to your charge," said the judge, solemnly, "your conscience must be as black as your beani" "Ah," replied the^rily rogue, "if a man's conscience is to be measured by his beard, then your lordship has no conscience at oil" ADAM'S WEDDING. ' Thongh Adam and Eve were fall young to wed, They managed the matter right well; No arrangements were made, there was no vain tiarade, No "Jenkins " the story to tell. Their wedding was quiet as qaiet could be, - They cooked no provisions to waste, And to wed in a garden among the green trees Was surely the height of good taste. Would it not be relief to oar anxious mammas If simplicity sweet could revive ? Twoald be cash in the pockets of harassed papas, And young men wonld be eager to wive. ? No costly outfit, no big frosted cake, No care aboat jewel or glove; There wonld be no reception and no bridal tourThere would only be Edeu &ud love. yauderbilt's Second Marriage. At the time of Commodore Vanderbilt's second marriage, says a writer in the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, a lady acquaintance gave me its history as an evidence of superiority of feminine cleverness and finesse. Years ago there lived in a Southern city a shrewd, clearheaded widow with one daughter, who by the death of her husband was left in limited, though comfortable circumstances. A worthy young gentleman courted and espoused th^laughter, who. was especially devoted to her mother. In fact, the devotion was so intense that first a separation and finally a divorce were the results. The inotner visiting here Mrs. Vanderbilt, the commordore's first wife, who as I recollect was a distant relation, added so much to the hap * ''? * -1? v>?4- oV? a ttto a Ivurflrfli] pill ess OI U1U DUUiiY IUU DUV nuu -^d? to remain, which she did, and after the death of Mrs. Tanderbilt suffer. 1 so much from lonelines that she sent for her daughter. It was not a very long time afterward that the mother and daughter returned to their Southern home; nor did many moons wax and wane before Commodore Vanderbilt jumped into a special car, witli a special engine attached, and with a trusted friend was whirled westward at a mile a minute pace until they reached London, Oot., and after a happy meeting and a brief marriage service, die was whirled eastward again with his wife, the beautiful daughter, who hau journeyed from the South with her mother to the trysting place in London. Words of Wisdom. Fortune and the sun make insects shine. Every rain drop which unites the mountain produces its definite amount of heat. "Forgetting the things that are behind. press forward." Excellent ad viae to a mole. Mediocrity, with concentration and application, wins oftener than great talent diffused about in the speculative air. The world is all ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. Talent is a docile creature. It bows its head meekly while the world slips the collar over it It backs into the shafts like a lamb. It is with glory as with beauty; for as a single fine lineament cannot make a handsome face, neither can a single good quality render a man accomplished I l/U? a concurrence of many line features a.2.1 good qualities makes true beauty and true honor. All*confidence which is not absolute and entire is dad^erous. There are few occasions where a man ought either to see all or conceal alL for, how little soever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to moke bin privy to all particular*