Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ThI-WEEKLY EDITION. ieys True Igidiance. i Deeper than all sense of seeing ides the secrei source of being, And the soul with agreeMg I4arie to liveinthoughtisanddeeds For the life is mora than raiment, And the-earth is pledged IFr payment Unto man for all his needs. N&tamjeqrpmmon mother, Eveliving-mano roter, Therefore let us serve eso otheri S Not to meetthe law's behests, But because through cheerful gVie We shall learn the art of living; And to live and serve is best. Life is more than what man fancies! Not a game of idle *chances; a But it steadily advances c Up the the rugged heights of time, h Till each complex web of trouble, s Every sad hope's broken bubble, Hath a meaning most sublime. t More of religion, less of profession; More of firmness, less concession; 0 More of freedom, less oppression, q In the church and in the state; e More of life and less of fashion; More oflove and lessof passion; That will make us good and great. When true hearts divinely gifted, Fronihe-chaff of error gifted, On their crosses are uplifted, Shall the world most clearly see, That earth's greatest time of trial Calls for hqly self-denial, Calls on men to do and be. Sat forever and forever Let it be the sou's endeavor Love from hatred to dissever, And in whatsoe'er we do, Won by love' eternal beauty, TD our highest sense of duty Eve=nre be firm, and true. -Sratford Herau. s A VICTIM OF DUTY. a] rm*MM FpuNCa OF LOUIS NI d.S You have often seen him pass through -h the fields with a hasty step, recogniz- t1 Able jnot eerby his blouse and his reglation- bat, but also by the sus- M tained setivity of his movements, be- r caUse for himthe instants are counted k an he] ot the right to slacken his Sindefatigable walker, he :a- f( coypliahes hitaskfromithe first to the of the year without ever rest o matter though a tropical n k*Wp invite a-creatures to beeome motion less, though the bold be Siberian, though it blow and snow, he must go to the last TiUage on his route to carry the h letters, newspapers and prospectuses B which trade confides by millions to the cz * care of thepost..p The. Wiwaysaze not-made forim; throu Woods and marshes, to seek w the hut lost in the depths of the soli- h tude, far removed from any public road? 7Y . He travels from eight to ten leagues h dai). making circuits, crossing brooks, .eatng rocks, venturing into rvines d and wounding himself among the hedges I and briars.- Loitering is forbidden to him, for the .official hour of return is fixed: the letters he brings back must ] depart by the next mail. They are s wait.ed for at the postoffice and the least a variation of his programme may have a grave consequences. t We cannot without ingratitude forget 4 the services of this incorruptible mes songer, whose probity and zeal are con- ii s:antly put to the proof, who brings us 11 a;.a certain hou..r our letters and our :ti journals, the news, the expectation of s< uhichi keeps us full of anxiety; who contributes to sof ten for us the bitter- o~ ies,s of absence and distance. Imagine t ho void the disappearance of these huimble functionaries would leave in tI or.r existence! ! I knew a maff who for twenty years 1j filed this position. A former soldier, a] tiauks to irreproachable records of se service sirengthened by a little influ ence, he had obtained the great favor of C< having placed to his zredit fifty francs ai per month at the postoffice of the dis- at trict. Pere Martin was not very fond of p this brilliant position, but he perfectly understood his responsibility and doties; a] he never complained. Everybody in the district was y acquainted with this little gray-haired man with bronzed features, whose limbs had the pliancy and strength of steel. E He was highly appreciated, for, while a se~ scrupulous observer of the regulation, ft ho never refused to perform a service, a provided it did not conflict with his fc duties. There was not a corner of his route h: which he had not passed over, accom- Il panied by his woli dog. He knew to a ti meter the distance separating the small- bi, est hamlet.from the chief town of the h district, and was familiar with all the s paths and by ways. h: To spare himself half an hour's walk i he never would have thrown into a a ditch some silly prospectus or somew printe.1 matter bearing a doubtful ad dress ;,if he returned anything to the ft postoffice it was because its addrees b could not be found. He was the slave w of his orders, as punctual as the clock, vj and so discreet as to discourage the most curious. Everybody greeted him aa kindly when h-e arrived at a village; the y< chikiren came to him, and even the al dogs barked joyously at his approach. ti Thtere was considerable rivalry as to who should offer him a glass of cider dl and a slice of bscon. But he rarely accepted anything. Timno passed and| he did not like to. contract troublesome li obligations. ir Hence the notes made concerning him were excellent, and his* chiefs re gretted that the parsimony of the ad- h ministration only permitted them to; reward his loyal services with con- h temptibie gifts. Iw One day in the middle of October he it departed on is usual round. The fic weather was frightful; it had been raining incessantly for more than a week; the roads had become bogs and di the brooks had been transformed into h torrents; what foliage remained on the s trees was so impregnated with water a that it could not offer a protecting shelter. The postman, wet to the skin, s walked with the impassibility of an old h soldier who does not discuss his orders. c] He had distributed a portion cf his mail, bat his round was far from being d finished when he passed an inn, or rather t a miserable drinking-house, situated at E the entrance of a wood; this place was tI . mainly patronized by sabot-makers, who iound there alcoholic drinks and a few o groceries. t Lere for an instant; while you are giv ng me the information I need, the iolence of the storm will abate." This invitation was addressed to him . a man who, with a pipe in.Li oiuth, was standing upon the threshold f the drinking-house. The rain was pouring down at that Loment; a fierce blast swept it into 'ere Martin's face, prevented him from alking and bent to the-.grou*&_the alwart tre. The postman was a little ahe a of me, -.and the demands of, the service o not go so far as to forbid the ac sptance of a momentary shelter when offers itself under such circumstances. He, therefore, went into the house nd sat down beside the fire which rackled on the hearth. The man who ad invited him to enter threw upon it >me dry branches, which were soon in ames; a heavy vapor arose from Mar. n's soaked garments. The stranger interrogated the post ian as to the hours of the departure r the mails, and asked him a host of aestions about himself, his service and rerything concerning it. "You kr.ow me then?" said the post tan. "Parbl,.u! Everybody loves and ;teems you here; Pere Martin's value well known. I hope you will not re ise to drink with me. Ho! Madam osier, two glasses of your best randy." A woman waited on them and re irned to her occupation. "What a dog's trade you follow, Pere [artin!" said the man. "Will it take Du much longer to finish your round? ou doubtless have yet to go to the anda Grise, to Plessis. I know some ae who is impatiently waiting for you iere. I am obliged to pass in the icinity. If you wish it-I will relieve om of your letters." "Thank you; I will deliver them my. " That's yourself out and out. After tyou areright. Itis your duty to liver them." While talking with a loquacity which id not encourage the postman he took D the sack the latter had placedbeside [m, seemed to feel its weight and irned it over and over. "Let my saek alone, please," said [artin, coldly. . "You have disar mged all my letters. I shall no longer now what to do." The other humbly excused himself r his.awkwardness. " The evil is reparable," added he. Seat yourself at this table, and you iR have uo trouble.to arrange the let rsaccording to the route you should The postmam-emptied his sack before im, and began to arrairge -his'etters. is questioner affected to keep dis tetly at a distance, but found a-op rtunity to cast a furtive glance over Drk he heard furious .growls behind in. "Pere Martin, help me to prevent ur dog from strangling mine," said s new acquaintance. The postman arose and caught his :g by the skin of the neck. The ani als fury contrasted with its habitual antleness. This fact seemed strange to Martin. :e felt distrust of the communicative ranger grow upon him. He was >out to replace his papers in the sack hen the man, as if to see what was te state of the weather, opened the yor. At the same instant the wind swept 2petuously into the room, which it tIed with a thick smoke, and lifting te letters spread out upon the table attered them in every direction. The postman uttered an exclamation :anger. "Bah ! it is nothing," said the person ho had caused the accident. "We o will speedily gather them up." And without heeding the refusal of artin, who wished to avoid his help id do the work alone, lhe began to arch for the letters. When they had collected all they mild findl the postman carefully ex ained them ; then he seemed worried, if he had not the full number. "Are any missing?" asked his com mnon. "It appears to me that there was other letter." "Bahi! either you are deceived or >u forgot it at the postoffice." " That is quite y>ssible." He said to himself that it must be so. owever he resumed his hunt and arched beneath the furniture. He und nothing and concluded that his emory had not served him faithfully, r he watched his companion's move ents and it did not seem admissible to .a that he had stolen a letter. Never eless he hastened to depart, regret ag that he had entered the drinking muse. The man who had chatted with m inspired in him a veritable repul en, and it was his rule, because of the abits of discretion which the postoffice iposes upon all its agents, to keep at listance all who do not appear to him :rthy of confidence. The storm had somewhat abated its ry, the rain soon ceased to fall and -ight sunshine lighted up the country in the postman reached the nearest flage. A woman was at the door of her h'ouse raiting his passage. She was still >ung and, without. possessing remark de beauty, had a neat and sympa etic countenance. " Monsieur Martin," said she to the >stman, " have you a letter for me ?" "No, Madam Andre, I have not." " That's strange; my husband should ae written to me to-day; you cannot iagine how much his silence tronbles She grew pale and seemed scarcely to wve the strength to sustain herself. The postman assisted her .into the' >use and handed her a chair upon ich she let herself fall. T wo charm g children fixed on her sad and ans us looks. "You will receive a letter to-morrow, adam Andre," said Pere Martin; "the slay of a day is easily explained: your isband was disappointed, some unfore en business suddenly demanded his tention and he missed the mail." " No; I know him and cannot'under and his silence. You are aware that i departed two mouths ago for the ty. Some work was to be attended to hich promised to bring him in a great ~al of money; a small inheritance was be received. But all is concluded. e sent me word that he would return is evening; he had made his arrange ents to that end. To-morrow the farm La Mane is to he sold; he has decided purchase either all or part of it. again present itsel, but I would prefer a thousand times that he should miss it to having him return without notifying me." 4:Why?"-ke "Because some one has wicked-Ae signs against him and -at night i, rible blow is-soon struck. Youi g there are two routes by wkich4 ituu here; one is longer than the ~erin I:muafrai4 lesthe so as there is -someonS .t'o direction. I .tremible at ie-iaeie thought of it. IfTlIy'iewde The postman strove to calm her fears, but she shook her head. ."You cannot think,' resamed she, " what certain men are capable of when they have a grudge against anybody.' She seemed' to hesitate, and then added: "If I tremble it is not simply be cause my husband will have ta pass through a dangerous spot with money in his pocket, but because there is in the district a wretch whose dearest wish is to put five feet of earth between them. "This hatred dates;-from long ago. When I was a young.girl he wanted to marry me, but he filled me with horror. He has never pardohed me for having repulsed his offers, and has enveloped in the same animosity the man I pre ferred to him. He haten Georges and myself for being in easy circumstances while he vegetates in -%ant, asif honest people were responsible for the mis takes of idlers and drunkards. This is not all. A crime was recently com mitted; suspicions were aroused, but the proofs were wanting. I possess them, .and the guilty man knows it. Ah! it is a dangerous secret for a woman who has only children around her." "Yesterday he accosted me to sound me; I did not hide from him my con tempt. He saw clearly thAt he was un masked in my eyes; he overwnelmed me with insults and threats. I took the unfortunate notion to say to him that soon, when my husband had re turned, when he had a man before him, he would be less presumptuous. Oh! if you knew what glances his eyes shot at me, what an expression of hatred his features wore ! I know that often dur ing the nighthe haunts the ruins of the Mouin-Brule. If this man should dis cover that my husband is- to pass through that place, I tell you, Monsieur Martin, he is lost!" "What isthesooundrel's name?' "jean Bruno. It is not astonishing that you are unacquainted,with him, for since his return to the district he has not publicly shown himself." Thepostman was silent. He remem bered having heard the woman at the arinking-hoase call the ma - ahad met there by that-name. Heasked himself in consternation if the letter bad iot been:stolknirom him, but he recalled epistle had not been in his sack; he re assured himself and sought to reassure the woman, yet he resolved to await her husband's arrival at the chief town of the district to advise him to be prudent. He hastened away and when he was alone his fears regained possession of him. He again began to doubt and little by little was seized upon by a terror he could not explain. He in creased his pace and leaped over the hedges and ditches with unusual nim bleness. Unfortunately, his round that day was exceptionallylong, and the bad weather in addition had considerably delay ed him. He reached the postoffice a little later than was his custom. The woman who distributed the mails on being consulted by him affrmed that he had taken away a letter for Madam Andre. One of her assistants confirmed ,this declaration. The postman was thunderstruck. He saw with fright the heavy responsibility thrown''upon him. His terrors aug mented when he remembered that time anKagain, at the moment of opening the mail bags,a man had presented him self, asking if there was anything for Madam Andre! He flew rather than ran to the office of the coach which carried passengers from the nearest station on the railway to the chief town. Georges Andre had arrived, but had set out immediately on foot for his village. This news gave Martin a violent shock. The prospect of a catastrophe for which he would be responsible arose before him. He saw this man, who had returned with joy in his heart, encountering death at the threshold of his home through his fault, and misfor tune overtaking the widow and the orphans. The darkest clouds troubled his imagination. Ho did not hiesitate, and, without taking time to enter his dwelling, started off again. Those who saw him pass, absorbed in his thoughts and noticing no one around him, asked themselves what grave affair could have caused this breathless haste on the part of a man who must have come back trom his round broken by fatigue. After havalg passed over a fourth of the distance he inquired concerning the traveler and asked if he had been seen. He had gone by some time before. The joy of return ha1 given wings to his feet, as the thought of a misfortune to be averted had~ increased the speed of the postman. The'e was no longer even the shadow of a doubt ; the fated man had taken the path which led straight to the Moulin-Brule. Pere Martin calculated%hat by passing over another path, which, however, was rough and dangerous, ho could yet ar rive before him. He hastened on and reached the fatal spot when the night was already ad vanced. The place was well fitted for a am-ouscade. There was a species of cut through the rocks. On both sides bushy trees formed an almost impene trable shade ; rapidly moving clouds at each instant veiled the moon, the wan rays of which added to the sinister character of the landscape. He paused; amid the rustling of the foliage agitated by the wind he thought he heard the sound of approaching footsteps; it was, doubtless, George Andre, whom he hlad preceded only by a few instants; he was about going to meet him when the report of a gun rang out and a ball struck him full in The assassin emerged from a neigh boring thicket; but on apprcaching his victim to finish and rob him he found himself in the presence of a new actor and vented his disappointment in a hor rible oath; he had recognized George Andre. The blade of a knife flashed Iin his hand, but he was not allowed 'tme to use it-a club descended vigor Thybent o4 athat intan MiD.t Thelibia- and wi-fei caied him their home, where'he livelonlYtwentY four-hours. He related oi -e had allowed to be stolen from himiheleAwi in which Georges Andre hdannaouine liereturn, and how he. had dedTedc preven, at any price, the conseqene of his negligence, even if he should-bf hompell to offer his life in 'e*xchan for thDof the:factor of a family whon he had involuntarily helped to place'ijM SObseurvictim of duty, he had Aded another act to the lisof those ufiknw rifeew which re made daily,iohoun being encouraged w the hopead d fce t recompense, witiout even han g -foi indemniftition the remembranceth should leae behind him 'A MaiOWn Wifei. omeears go ere lived in Phil periL = hee h Obdcuhiatim pair: -T he husband' business was one that .his, wife could assist i en, sowshe %as in eve hway hii helpmeet, besides 'being. 'U hious keeper and his savings bank The were happy and prospe.g 2n ten own little a house-,the P l patent idea of comfort. Afer A -tinme the man.grew amb'inonsth 6s ore shiw footing. He too Ii e ien,ay i ihemduty.of i s ing henhs meanspolitiesmlidwater. Unfo'rdtuney it wa polis san swhibky bn. is cease the sot of ward polities thaVisn earred onin liquor soons.- He grew'-ato be such an important an o c i his a"Com bination " that he could not gatd -atc his'-business any more. If -.hi6iw&reAh( showy Of' iMulH took to poiOf- it would be tha , in spite ofwh- empty shop andtinanwter, went o getting rich. ad whiX y i is -Aehig politidian of wthavd itics thais crthe sortthMa im tdanno i hias- "crn t a . more ft aloneim th . 1 d"idu hr:btelt:oiIhi.very fshoand uia'shedaorderst he wt politci hin d Xeof thke com-imptp sort.thatisu enot6 a "sei th-4o politial trd'isifi, e-,etaoe "She to e tem good. Here again the story ought to turnr that she built up the business herself again, ad put up her own name as a sole trader. But she was a poor heat. broken woman. She wanted to reclaim him, and not even the business was as important to her as what had become ol her husband all the days and nights he had stayed away from her. They were half starved, but she kept up a decent appearanoe still, kept her cbildrbn clean and herself tidy. One day a strange thing happenad. This respectable, neat woman, with her two pretty chil dren, made her appearance in the tavern where this man' spent his days. She did not make a scene; she did not come for that. 'She quietly took her seat there and waited for him. People came up to her and urged her to go home, saying that this low drinking resort was no place for her and her children. "Wheirever the father stays," she replied, "is the place for his children and for me." Of course he was ready soon to go home. Some men would have been brutal-have struck of cursed at her for interference, but this man was only weak, not cowardly. The next day he went to another pThzee. She followe~d presently with the bright little children. This was kept up for some weeks. The tavern-keepers grew uneasy. They could not stand the mute witness of the man's weakness. They could not complain of her, for she did nothing-said nothing--only sat and watched. She did not cry or entreat while her husband loungeda up to the bar to drink. She simply sat: by, pained and intent, with the two children kept very close to her, as if she would shut out from their eyes and ears such talk and such sights. No tavern-keeper could stand it. One after another refused to sell liquor to a man so guarded. Finally it began to tell on him-this gentle, faithful watch. He stopped drinking, dropped his "political " associates that had led him to it, and began to turn over a new leaf. He picked up his old business again, but finally concluded to move to another place and make a clean start He- is now prosperous, and his e: perience is not the least part or hi gains. This was the way one womis reformed her husband; with never a spoken word she fairly shamed him out of his ruin by letting him see that hatever he sank to there she and her children were bound to be, and that even in danger or foulness she still looked to him to protect them. For better, for worse, she had married him, and even when he took the worse therQ would she and her children be. It was an appeal to his manhood, and a very uncomfortable appeal to the manhood of all who stood around or who dropped in to drink. Not a cry~ ing woan-not even a praying one, as any one could see-but by the mute appeal of her presence there, finally con* quering for decency and happinese again. ________ Teeth as Producers of Near-Sighted ness. Dr. Sexton, a leading otologist of New York, thinks he has discovered 2 connection between near-sightednesa impaired hearing and defective teeth; the teeth ifrnish the starting point foi the disorder affecting the other two or. gans. The " fifth pair" of nerves sup plies at once the teeth, the tissue oi the nose, those of the eye and ear, the integuments of the frontal and temi pora.l region, etc. A defective tooti produces irritation of the whole TigiB thus supplied, and in fact often occa sions severe cases of neuralgia. Ever when there is no pain felt in a tooth il may yet be the cause of grave disordes in the eye, ear or temple. Dementia, it is claimed, is sometimes due to toothhavingall the appearaneofesound ness to the nprofessional eye. aX .aD HOUSEHOLD. Polled Cattle. in an exchange says: No o has owned a head of im cattle will ever again have th horns. A dozen of the ie will drink at the same a trough which would accom ut one animal having horns. number will crowd together ihedforshalter the whole space horned animal would con for its- comfort, driving out. With these polled eat erand the shipper of stock no fear of asmage resulting goring of horns. There is emana from sll parts of the o nlls of this breed, m a cross of these on s bein'g for the most part 6The bulls are notably quiet. Meloo-Culture. farmer says: During the spring I gather together all -ananure I can, such as hog th the cobs raked out, hen yard scrapings, etc. After I aTre planted I load this mix e wagon, and if not we4 w a few pails of water on the fieldnd straddle one -another hand take two ch side of the wagon, shovelful of -this mix By soaking the seed over night, it will be to examine a few hills divedays, to see if they their way tnough the inch 6o j was first covered on seed; e manure should be shoved .the back of a rake. ons are beginning to get eaf, I take a mixture of slacked lime, one-third - e each hill with about getting the greater part ound the plants. With et 1,000 good, salable mew, e, and always get a pre id untyfairs. weeds. kill weeds and how rid th - species? A very simple ma if we would use the same co shown in other things. corn, cats or wheat, or a hill o or melons produce good seed to the ground just as the orming? Every annual pla.will surely diee ce)e or well gh. A young p;ant, buried ti root -~rauch in the soiF to a good si surely die. It must have b ai, ."th and sunlight. Ordinary 19 cul early in the season kills the larger of the weeds of a field, and 01 if cul Aon were frequent enough and a it would kill everything that b grows the ground. In a season y moist igh to sprout seeds it takes 3x but a ery few weeks to rid a field si almost solutely of both weeds and hi weed seeds. A plow, harrow and roller 03 are aIl the tools needed. Plow to ii bring up the seeds from the under soil b; and harrow oust as often as a crop of bi seeds start, rolling the ground each time cE to comgasdt the soil that other seeds may Jr germinate. Adry season is not half so 1E good as a wet one for killing weeds by b thiis method.' Almost all oi.r dooryardam and barnyards are nurseries of weeds, n: from whio!r'continual streams are flow ing unobserved to other parts of the ai fstm.-ffew Enqiand Farmr. Jr - The Farming We Need. e *A eorrespondent of the Germantown Ii Teegruwph says:~ The time has now come when nothing but high farming b will pay. in this section of country, 0' sincethe cheap and fertile lands of the b: West are brought into such close and E sharprdompetition by cheap freiglits fi snd rapid transit. Old habits which Y' are not now paying must be abandoned, b and newer and better paying ones b adopted. Every acre of tillable land 0 must be made to yield its treasures with a< the least possible expense. When one e hundred bushels of corn per acre can h; be produced, we must not be Eatisfied E with:fifty bushels. If a new imple- J ment can do the work of two men with s' an old one, the old one should be I laid by and the new one used. If there tI is not enough manure to go all over the b common ground, we must bay some a wel4ried fertilizer that will increase h the product. It is all folly to continue i to farm poor land when it is possible to a eich it. The expense of farming poor I aniis greater theathat.attending richer Jr laa,-ad the labor more discouraging. a There:must be moro general attention's given to dairy products, the cultivation P of small fruits and the raising of poul try. -The old system of pasturage will e to give -way before the onward h of soiling and the DO-fencing sys ter. The road master, with his gang j of full hands-and .half-grown boys, t4 must yield to the new road scraper and h smoother. To which we may add that e the time has arrived, even in our neigh boring counties, where more systematic 5 method and higher farming are expe-a dient, in order to produce satisfactory 1 results. On our best bottom land the!i old corn and hay and clover methods I may y$ satisfy the farmer, but even he couldexperience benefit by heeding thet admonitions of the above extract. Biscult. Battercaken., Wafile-. - These articles form a pleaant varia- Ia tion from bread, and are within the i reach of every housekeeper. She may1 use some milk ar?d soda for raising bis- o cut and battercakes, or she may usej e baking powder. A quart of umilk or it cream kept a day or two in a warm r place will sour; so one who can have t sweet milk can also have sour if she de- t sires it. Biscuit msy be made in ati variety of ways, two or three of which r are the following: Into a quart of flour a mix thoroughly by three or four sift- ~ ings through a sieve two teaspoonfuls ij of .good baking powder. Then rub into s the flour butter the size of an egg, add '] nful of salt and mile enoughlf to e Dot a very stiff dough, mold i quickly, roll thin, cut in shapes andr -bake immediately in a quick oven about fifteen minutes. After the milk is e pordon the fiour the succeeding s shculd be conducted as quicklyc as e,bs that the gases liberated jc by' ~liquid may not pass off without c 1 raising the dough. The oven should be ! hot before the dough is made. Butter may be omitted,but the biscuit will not be as nice for .the omission. If sour milk or buttermilk is used instead of baking powder, sift a teaspoonful of soda thoroughly with the flour, then rub ir the butter and proceed as before. More or less soda, according to the acidity of the milk, should be used. . Hammered biscuit are made as fol lows: Into.a pound and a half of flour rub a pound of lard or butter and a pinch of salt. Mix enough milk or water with it to make a stiff dough. Beat the dough well with a rolling-pm for half an hour or more, or until the dough will.break when pulled. Form into little biscuit, prick them oi the top several times with a folk, and bake. Fancy biscuit are thus made: Into three pints of flour mix a teaspoonful of salt, two teaspoonfuls of lard or but ter, one teacupful of warm milk. To this add two eggs well beaten, and one teacupful of home-made yeast. Mix well and set in a warm place to rise, which will take about five hours ; form into biscuit; let them rise again and bake. These are nice for tea, also are rusks made as follows: Melt four ounces of butter in half a pint of new milk; add to this seven eggs well beaten, a gill of yeast and three ounces of sugar; pour this mixture gradually into as much flour as will make a thick batter, and let it rise in a warm place half an hour; then add flour till a soft dough is formed; knead it well, form into small loaves, let them rise, and then, bake them. When cold, slice them and brown in the oven. Muffins, waffles and battercakes are all composed of precisely the same ma terials. Sugar is sometimes used in muffins and waffles, but not in batter cakes. To make muffins, mix together a quart of fine flour, a pint and a half of luke-warm milk, half a teaspoonful of yeast, a couple of beaten eggs, a teassoonful of melted butter. Set the batter in a warm place, and when light pour it into battered muffin rings and bake light brown. Or mix together two eggs, a pint of flour, a teacupful of milk or cream, butter half the size of an egg, a little salt and a teaspoonful of baking powder stiffened with the flour. Waffles are thus made: To one pint of luke-warm milk add four tablesnoon fuls bakers' yeast, one tablespoonfal brown sugar, one tablespoonful melted butter, a little salt and flour to make a batter the consistency of thick cream. Let. it rise-over night. Izthe-mormg st. Irak0fr-gwarh_44a; t and two eggs, wEtes and yolks: r;l ten separately. Add the whites the inm at thing, and bake immediately. t For battereakes, mix with one quart flour two teaspoonfuls baking powder, teasonful of salt. milk to make a Sc tter, then add two eggs, whites and ye )lks beaten separately, and bake im- si< ediately. Use as little grease as pos- tix ble on the batter pan, and have it just a t enough. As much almost depends nt the frying of the cakes as onthe mix- th . of them. Battercakes may be raised tr, yeast or by sour milk, as well as by 18 king powder. The best buckwheat an nes are raised by yeast, and a little fa: lasses is added to the batter when it we mixed. Eggs should be added to the co tter just before baking. Boiled rice pc ay be added to battercakes, or homi- ac r or bread crumbs soaked in milk. by ems belong to the family of biscuits Imi id battercakes, and are very easily in de. To make gems of unbolted fai eat: Mix with unbolted wheat gra iough wheat to make a batter, add a tti btle salt, and beat it up well. Pour fe: to hot buttered iron-gem pans and ce Le a light brown. Both pans and co: en should be of the hottest when the nter is poured in. Another method: ix together two cupfuls milk, two cup- D flour, a little salt and the beaten co >ks of two eggs. Add the whites, a J sten to a stiff foam. the last thing and ca ke immediately in geml-pans in a hot Ithi ran. To the above recipes may be to, :led the following for making corn rai ke: Three pints of cornmeal, one- S ilf pint of molasses on the meal; mix au 11 scald thoroughly; cool with sour i ilk, add two pints of rye meal, a little wl .t, and soda to correct the acid in the pr ilk. Have it quite soft and bake an Lree hours. And this also--Indian sci anock: Into one pint of Indian meal o ir a pint of sour milk or buttermilk, df a teaspoonful of salt, a tablespoon- Idl each of melted butter and molasses, y; d two weli-beaten eggs, and then stir w Sa pint of wheat flour. Thin it with Ilit ilk to the consistency of drop cakes, in id a heaping teaspoonfal soda dis- th ded in water, pour into buttered E' ma an inch thick,.d Coffee Tarerns. er An English lady writes that coffee erns are not only great promoters of ~mperance, but also pay their way as ,in ~vestment. One of the be-st coffee tav- v ns is in a town in Hertfordshire. Them indow is painted half-way up, show- el ig the words " Coffee Tavern," anudp dore hangs a small sign telling that fu dging can be had, and nice, neat rooms os iey are, with pretty trilled muslin cur- w: ils, fit for a ladly's boudoir. e The large shop is fitted up with coun- st rs for the huge tea and coffee urns; in :nall tables are dotted about, as in a E >reign restaurant, and at the side there in a large table giv-en up to newspapers pi ad magazines; in the bar parlor there C a bagatelle board. -w If properly managed, the experience It f most of those who have established p ofee taverns over the c:>untry is, that i aey are not only self-supporting, but a emunerative; and to~ bring this about} p: e eatables and drinkables must be of f e best, and the place rendered as at- pl ractive as possible. Such establish- es ients are calculatei to improve, raise ip nd refine the general character of the I A eople. A breakfast cup of tea or coffee | I ;sold at the rate of two cents, and a lc lice of bread and butter for one cent.i oj he cheap coffee restaurants here charge jti ye cents, and the stuff is anything but p: aviting; the places, too, are dingy and r n aiserable-looking. l Lt the temperance people get up a p ompany to establish coffee taverns g uch as they have in England, and not i u ly will they advance the temperance h ause, but also obtain a good dividend fi n the invetment.,t 'FACTS AND CORESTS. It appears that if any one wants to go out in the ocean three miles from the American or British shore and cut a telegraph cable he can do so with im punity. No country would have Juris diction over him. It would not seem that there could be much danger of cable-cutting so far out, but the elec tric congress in Paris wants protective measures taken. Vaccination as practiced in China has two peculiar features. The subject is not operated on the arm or leg. but in the nose; and the government, while it does not compel people to submit to the operation, practically reaches the same end that it would by doing so, by offering to paronts for every child vac cinated a.premium of 100 copper cash, which amounts to about ten cents, and, for a poor Chinaman in his own country, a sum not altogether to be despised. The Mormon priests, in their ser mons, are telling their deluded follow ers that if they had been called they could have saved the President's life simply by laying on of hands. The Salt Lake Tribzne, a fearless paper, that has for years been a painful thorn in the side of the Mormon church, per tinently asks the wise healers: " Why didn't they save their Prophet Brigham in that way? Why didn't they save the sixty Mormon children that died in Salt Lake in August by that simple process? The frauds shouldn't all answer at once." J. V. Sears, in an article entitled "Housekeeping Hereafter," in the At lantic Moidnthl, predicts great changes in the future in housekeeping-methods. He thinks that every fifty families will be provided with a centralized estab lishment, from which heat, light and power will be furnished, while the do mestic supplies of each house will be delivered t,rough pneumatic tubes. There will be a common uven and laun dry. There will be no coal ashes to take out, and many other present an noyances will be avoided. This sys tem, it is maintained, will also result in reducing expenses. Is nothing in this world what it seems? Most people would say that that important member, the nose, was placed exactly in the center of the face, but.itis .assre tst~sa.t8y L4171 3ltely true an correc'rgiiabe fact, that which- tes a 1itte e right or left. el e Among other industrial changes 3nthe te thern States during the past few ars, is the notable one of subdivi- dis )s of the large plantations. A bulle- . . issued fron the census office presents i table marking the increase in the yie mber of farms in the several States to at formerly were divided into immense - cts of land worked by one owner, from not (30 up to the present date. This shows mI imienEe increase in the number of the3 ms mn all the States excepting Dela- Str re, where the increase appears to toe rrespond only to the increase of the ofl pulation. The increase is also partly ha ~ontd for in Florida and Arkansas in ' the-settlement of regions not per! had nent.y occupied twenty years ago; jbee a word, the increased number of whk ns is to a large extent due to emi- hui ition in those States. According to of t 3estimates made in the bulletin re- per rd to, most of the farms do not ex- on 3d 500 acres, while many of them sid< iprise less than 100 acres. dut n American lady wrote to Andrew dal White when he was minister at the Mrl t of Berlin. The lady in question, Fre esident of a small country village, the mly informed the American minister bet t a grand fair was to be held "in our hot n " before long for the purpose of occ sing money to build a new church. the e was at work herself on a sort of met tograph bedanilt, and she inclosed to square plece.s of white linen, on rec iich she wished tire emperor and em- tha ass of Germany, Prince Bismarek me other German dignitaries to in- ver ibe their uames in indelible ink. pro 3e sure," she added, thoughtfully, .pla: o have them write exactly inthe mid e, so that the pieces will fit right." hen it is -emembered that Mr. White I s expccted to march up with these cha tle patches and a bottle of indelible me: k and ask this favor of the heads of thr most stiffly ceremonious court in Bal mope, the reader will probably un. ma restand that the autograph bedquilt tra LB completed, if at all, without the Ne sired contribution from the German I by ipire. i n Italian naturalist has been study g the eucalyptus tree, and finds it as .le Iuable for destroying miasma as the m st sanguine Californians have ever v aimed it to be. It has extraordinary j l wers of absorp'ion, the trunk of a 1-grown treeo taking up ten times its c weight cf water from the soil inm rich it stands. This alone is often ough to purify a fever district, the e perfuous miasma-breeding moisture sh the earth being absorbed by the tree.sh rperiments with eucalyptus planting an miasmatic regions have given sur *ising results. The vicinity of t,he nvet Dene tre Fontanie, near Rome,fo s oe cf the nicst pestilental spots in ak, but monks sent there in 1868 to h .ut groves of these trees made it a ha alth ful region within five years. On farm near the Algerian borders, wheret -eviously no human being could live r r any length of time, 1,300 eucalyptus ants set in 1867 have counteracted -ery tendency to fever. Similar ex- ca 3riments have been successful also in sace and Lorraine. The home of the ee is in Australia and Tasmania. It mposes in great measure the forests Australia. .Jn California all varie as of the tree are to be found. It is tD anted there chiefly on account of its t pd growth, to obtain shade and wood nd on some of the otherwise treeless Of ains. So quickly does the eucalyptus !0t ow that a plant three feet high, set | the atound near Mentone in 1869, i ad attained in 1874 a height of over fty feet and a diameter of forty inches Itr< SAYIN~GS By G~ARFIE.LD Rolden Words from the Lips and Pen of the; Dead President. After the battle of arms comes the battle of history. For the noblest man that lives there still remains a conflict. I would rather be beaten in right than succeed in wrong. Present evils always seem greater than those that never come. Growth is better than permanence, and pemanent growth is better than all It is one of the precious mysteries of sorrow that it finds solace in the unself ish thought. Statesmanship consists rather in re moving the causes than in punishing or evading results. Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no ideas be bind it is simply bratality. Eternity alone will reveal to the hu man race its debt of gratitude to the peerless and immortal name of Wash igton. I doubt if any man equaled Samu e Adams in formulating and uttering the fierce, clear and inexorable logic of the Revolution. Throughout the whole web of na ional existence we trace the golden tread of human progress toward the higher and better estate. Occasion may be the bugle call that summons an army to battle, but the blast of a bugle can never make soldiers Dr win victories. It is as much the duty of all good men to protect and defend the re.utation of worthy public servants asto detectp-mb ic rascals. An act of bad faith on the part of a State or municipal corporation, like poison in the blood, will transmit its urse to rising generations. Bad faith on the partof an individual, a city, or even a State, is a smallevil in comparison with the calamities which follow bad faith on the part of a sov ereign government. If there be one thing upon this earth hat mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man; it. s a man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.; We should do nothing inconsistent with the spirit and genius of our ipsti tutions. We should do nothing for. re venge, but everything for security; nxothing for the past, everything for the present and future. sed throigh the aohol sfor teo egage the sperftbw --shydroge. this means beet-root alcoho, wiir zua]ly very poor, ca1be.'made to lA - eighty per -cent. of spirits, equal ;hat obtained from the best malt. ertain interesting facts have been ed by M.Delaunay wih regard tothe nence of strychnine as a poison, and state of the animal operated on. ychnine affects more quickly and in se]y strong frogs ratheq than weak s; frogs well fed than those which been fasting; frogs that had been rigorous exercise than those which been at rest, and frogs which had n exercised after injection than those eh were not. Farther, a frog when g by the leg showed the influence he poison sooner than a frog sus ded by the head; an intact frog than that had been bled, and the right of the frog than the left. ome observations on meteors, con ted this year between July 25 and y' 30, were recorded in a paper by Cruls, which was read before the neh academy on September 5. As horary average increased rapidly ween the evening and the morning rs, and as a remarkable recrudescence arred immediately before sunrise, presumption was that the stream of wors moved in a direction opposite that of the earth. This conclusion gived further support from the fact Sthe meteors soon after 5 A. 31. red with great velocity, and were brilliant. Their direction was bably very little inclined to the ae of the ecliptic. Mosby's Narrow Escapes. fosby would run risks and take nce.s which he would not order his a to take. He was in Washington ee different times during the war; in timore four or fire times, and in re than a dozen instances he pene :d the Federal lines for information. ir Middletown he was once cut off Federal cavalry who held the pike oth directions. When ordered to render he drove his horse over the ne wall and got away through the ds. Three bullets pierced his cloth :, his horse was struck twice, and an reoat strapped to his saddle was an cut away by bullets. One day ile he was eating dinner in the Luray !Iey six Union cavalrymen walked in him. They did not know 1 as Mosby,~ but rightly con tured that he was a guer a. As they attacked him he >t two and dashed through a window I made off with one of their horses. was once captured in Washington ile on a spying expedition, but. ged drunkenness and made a dash liberty while on the way to the pro t marshal's office. At that time he I plenty of proofs on his Trerson to e convicted him as a spy. Nest u-renton he one night, rode with enty-f our men full upon a Fed"ral *erve picket of at least a hun tred *n. Both aides stood staring at each cr for a moment and then Mosby led out :. SDid any of them mules come this Haven't seen' any," was the reply. SCuss the critters-they stampeded us !" growled the guerrilla, as he - -ned his men and rode away. Some of his men had blue overcoats ,some wore citizens' clothes, andeo e could say that they did net belong the Federal wagon trains.-Detroit -ee Press. The orange is tne longest lived fruit e known, and is reputed to have