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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<
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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.
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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?;
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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| 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
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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
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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
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FOR
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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
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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
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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? '
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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."
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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
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$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
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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
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hard ; then pinch oil pieces ana ron om i
each cracker by itself, if you wiah tliem
to resemble baker's crackers.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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*