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IN A. HAUNTED Gi 0
Tho fulltnvingis a little a nisode oat ori: le
clays when my lusbond, an thieve hi the
Eligineeve, was ht civil employ in India and
held the appointment of superintendent of
what I will call the Guranighur and Gauges
Canal. Now the life of a cauLl eugieeer fs
slightly monotonous. It may be a degree
higher in social status than that of an ongi-
neor in charge of one of the State Railways,
and it may ennbraoo a wider' sphere of action
than that of ongieeor m charge of barracks
or fortifications 10 a garrison station, but it
lacks variety, During the cold wootlher, for
six menthe on end, we n rohed up and down
that wretched stream, which ran through ns
TRE BRUSSELS POST,
'ad away suddenly un detaeluneut duty, not very ))l, dab be nhu•n>rd about me,
1 took ten daye' leave and went shooting, Bob,"
was a 000ndid snipe o041100, anti there 1 Malta to tell 1111n what I had seen, but
were lots of black buck in this pert tl100, the horror of it agaiu overpowered mo and
Well, Jack wont away on leave two or three 1 elosud my oyes to Out oat the ghastly
tlayn bofore Christmas, Tho day after eight.
Christmas the bearer, the only servant he Then the others came in and carried me
had with hint, turned up sial* with the fever all'. 1 don't remember anything about the
saying 1119 master, who was at an 1 old rust march or the now vamp, for the morning
bungalow not far from horn, had sant hint brought it sharp attack of fever anti for many
book because ho was so in. Well, do you days I lay u00onsoions and delirious, Cot
know, junk was nover seen of heard of agam Rydaln stayed an to companionizo Bob, who
The distriet was scoured, the natives all lrue really anxious about me and sent in
interrogated, and there cane a rumor that forty utiles for the nearest doctor,
he hal taken a dak.ghe.rry (a paatoheise) 1 got bettor. My brain recovered Re mind.
atdgono down the Grand Trunk road toward ibrium and I woe able to think with less
Caloutta. But it was never confirmed, and horror of what but for Nip's extraordinary
behavior I should have thought a bad dream,
One day I lay languidly m a long chair.
Wo were to march on the next morning and
resume our regular routine, and our guests
wore leaving, no. Thoy were sitting by me
now, trod I feebly watched the Colonel light
a cigar.
' What au odd ring that is on your little
finger, Colonel."
lie dropped the match as if be lied been
shot, burning a hole la his trousers, and
muttering to himself for doing so.
"It's not native work, he ft ?"
"No, French," he answered shortly.
" Do let me see it."
Rather unwillingly, he let me draw his
hand down and exomine it.
" I see, it's one of those porie-
bonhetn' rings, a twist of gold and
silver. A keepsake, eh, Colonel ?".
and 1 laughed nervously, for as I touch-
ed the ring a cold, creepy feeling carte
over 100, and those two awful figures seemed
to float before my eyes again.
"A keepsake? Yes," he answered short.
ly; "it belonged to my friend3aok."
Isere was an op ortnneity to disburden
my mind of its awful sourer. \Iasteringmy
horror with a violent effort, 1 sat up and
spoke.
" Col. Rydale," I said, " 1 have seen your
friend Jack,"
The Colonel jumped up amazed.
" Good God 1" Ito exclaimed.
"Yes," I went on with increasing diffi-
culty, for every. word i spoko,seemod to con-
jure up the visi005 afresh, "I have seen
him twice—on Christmas Eve—in the
mnng1 grove—with w beautiful nature
woman. Tho first time I thought it was
Jack Denver—the second time—in the tent
—Nip woke me howling—and 1 s,o" "—
I could n01 go on. 1: covered my fano
with my hand, as if I could blot out the
sight, and the Colonel, very alarmed, mixed
me some still' brandy and water. Then he
looked at me fixedly.
" Do you feel stronger? Can you bear to
hear something ?"
I nodded assent.
" \\'e found him—Jack—the next morn-
ing, Christmas Day. They were righting
your tent, whish bits been blown down, and
in digging tt trench round to carry off the
writer they none upon""
" Go on," I muttered.
"Two skeletons together—headless—the
skulls detached - chopped off. On the
wrist and anklebones of one were a native
woman's bangles ; on the little finger of tine
other this queer ring poor Jack used to
wear. That's why wemoved you off in such
a hurry. Hello I Hero, Bob, conte quick,
your wife has fainted 1"
When I came to I asked to see the ring
again. It seethed to have a fascinatirn for
me, this link between the poor murdered
lad of years ago and the present.
"Iremember the ring well, said Col.
Rydale. " Wo used to chaff Jack about
wearing it, and he always persisted in say.
ing that it had been given Trim by a sister
who was dead."
" There's sohnething engraved on the in-
side," I remarked, twisting the ring round
and reading aloud. "Jot -0.k f -r -o -m L•i-1•y
B-a-r.n• e•s.
Jack Denver, who had not spoken hither-
to, now jumped up with a start.
' Good heavens 1" he exclaimed, " show
it to me. That was my mother's name be-
fore she married. Yee, I know she had a
brother who died in India, but after her
death I never saw much of her family, and
I never heard any particular's. What a
round world it is, to be sure. That poor
fellow must have been any uncle."
]ustanbly the resemblance between Jaok
and that figure 1 had seen flashed into my
mind, and as quickly explained itself satis-
factorily.
Lily and her Jack were tnerried within a
year, and are as happy as the day is long,
but I have never had the courage to breathe
to her my suspicious of her lover on that
owlet night.
no trace of hint woo ever found. The civil
uninteresting m tenet of country AS 10 ro be officials did tiler bests but Jack hall utterly
Toned in Northern ludic. At each halting dieappearcd. Itis name appeared in orders,
place, and I got to 11,•'11 tient by moor*, as after it bit, es absent without leave. After
they were pitted at regular intervals at leu n 1110110 00 two it was struck out of the
miles or so along the hack, the same pitch' 0000100 in the official gazette."
ing the same e.tilip, With everything 111 eae.h " But 30ILs there no reason for his dials, -
tent exactly the 0111110 110 it hal been the day pear'anoe?" I asked.
before, Outside the sante muddy, sluggish " None that I could ever find except that
stream, with its painfully r0gulae banks,
planted with the saute tamarisk, acacia and
such like light trees, We marched in the
early morning, arriving at stn' uew abode by
breakfast time, and found the mess tent
pitched and the patient cook preparing our
repast in the open air over e, urate scooped
out in the sunbaked earth. After breakfast
my husband held a kind of little court. The
head lieu of the neigltberingvillages appear -
the poor fellow was very hard up and owed
a lot of money. But that was the easewitlt
several of us in the " Dashing Drabs " in
those days. A court of inquiry sat on his
affairs, and we raised a subscription among
us and paid up, that the name of the old
corps mightn't sulfur, and also bemuse we
all missed poor Jack so. No, it was a rum
affair altogether. I didn't understand it
at all, and I never shall."
ed. Always the sante mutual grumbles be- At this moment the entry of my husband
tweet them and the sahil,—too much water and Jack cut short our conversation and
let out over tlledr rice field, or not water on. soon afterward I retired to illy tent, leaving
ouglt ; arrears of does to be paid, and au the gentlemen to sit up a little longer over
everlasting fluting fault with the native
subordinates in charge of this portion of the
canal, corrupt and untrustworthy as all na-
tive officials are, and who, as usual, itad
pocketed the money and neglected to keep
up the tanks. A. slip and a flood were quite
an exoitement in our life.
Such an event had occurred at the time
of which I inn writing. The heavy showers
that generally fall in Northern India about
Christmas time had come earlier thou usual,
and we found one habitual camping -place
under water and our tents pitched for us in
a square grove of mangrove trees about
a half -mile front the caned and within a few
hundred yards of a native village of mud
huts. It was n"1 at alto had plum—shady,
which was a consideration et noon, even at
that season of the year—and a change from
our usual surroundings. So we derided that
it would do very well for ne'te halt in for
Christmas Day.
Christmas Day is kept by the English in and then a bark of a 'toroth Clog echoed
India, however remote and lonely they may from the neighboring village or the distant
be, and fu spite of utterly uncongenial wen- yell of a, jackal. But there was a silence
then and surroundings, iu a way that lens
mud of pathos in it. There is 0 melan-
choly striving to keep Christmas as " at
home"—a going to church where possible,
athering together of friends and acquaint.
emcee, a decorating of church and gateways
with flowers and much feasting—all of whish
hollow mockery does not shill the longings
for home and t lie thoughts which will fly
back to days that are no more.
Onr Christmas on the canal was generally
lonely enough, but on this 000051011 we were
looking forward with delight to the advent
of two 010110ra. One was our old friend
Col. Rydale, an ally of maty years' stand-
ing, now retiring and going hone for pond,
and who had promised to Dome and spend
hriatmas with us on his way down wen-
rThe other was Jack Denver, a subaltern
•f artillery quite new to India, and naw to
s also, though we were 300y anxious to
ale his acquaintance, for Jack had just
'ome out from England, engaged to my
h oungest sister Lily, who was to follow and
tarry him a year later.
Our younger guest 010100d in camp first,
iding across country on a new purchase,
timed of his coolies and luggage. The Col•
nel came later in our dog -cart, which we
pad sent to meet shim at a point where the faithlessness I What profligacy 1 My poor
anal was crossed by a high road, and which Lilly I
rought him thence along the canal bank, a There lay tic letter in whish I had been
road strewn with ugly holes and pitfalls for praising a to the skies this preoious young
he unwary.
"Naw, Bob," I said to my husband before
inner, "listen to me. You'll have plenty
f Col, Rydale, whets not pressed. for time;
ut Jack must go on to itis battery the clay
iter Christmas Day, and I want to find out
hat he's like; so, after dinner, you go and
ave a quiet smoke with him alone, and I'll
ntertain the Colonel. Men always wax con-
dential over a pipe. I like the looks of him
ell enough, but I don't believe he's half
ood enough for dear Lily."
Bob did as he was bid (he always does),
nd after (Ulmer I found myself sitting in
e dining -tent alone with my elder guest,
Bob carried off Jack to smoke in the
ffice tent.
It was a lovely moonlight night, sack a
ight as you only get in the tropics, but
illy withal, for the wind was rising as if
in were coming. We had a little charcoal
re in our portable stove in the tent.
Col. Rydale talked of many things and
eople over his coffee, but at last I got him
to tho subject nearest to my heart.
"Col. Rydale," I asked, 'do give me
.ur opinion about our young friend yonder
m
am so interestedin him for y sister's sake.
"Seems a nice fellow," the Colonel replied
what I've seen of hien, Well set-up and
art, and no nonsense shout him. Odd
ing, you know, but he reminds me so in
;sonans of a great.ehum of mine I loot
hen I was a young fellow and quartered at
nnkahpore in this dist' lot, not far from
=re,"
"Indeed," said I; " and WAS he nine,
•ur friend?"
A better fellow never breathed ; and good
eking, too—just the linage of that boy."
"Poor fellow I And what did he die of?"
"Die? if o didn't die ; that's the funny
trt of tit. Queer story altogether. I never
uld make it out—he was lost—missing—
Mt hyead nafi ." curiosity was aroused, ropes ave wayand the gusts narl
blew
" What a strange hong Do tell me,
Col, the tont clown, so carried you in bore. Are
gdale," I you feeling better ?
I poured him out another elmof coffee ; I As he spoke the memory of the awful
1110 the hearer bring him a live piece of vision I had witnessed rose up again in all
areoal wherewith to light a fresh cigar, its 0ppalld116 ghastliness, and I suppose T.
d thus encouraged, the Colonel told his toast have looked pretty bad, for Bob for.
lo—whntthare was of it : bed°me to Day another word, He put on
It's many years ago, l was ayoungster, fresh cold appliOatinns, and the ayah came
Was Jack —his name was Jack, too. We
fanned me. Under these soothing im-
d everything together, shared the some fluences my bewildered brain grow gradually
mgaiow, rode together, shot ingather. soothed and I slept,
e of our favorite hounds forsnipe was a It was wretched Christmas Day, aftor
cel (morass) near this very plane, eve often all, for all of us—we who had expected to
me out here, and Irecollect it was 1)000USe 1>e 00 jolly. together. I dozed all day,
ok admired very much a really very Mond- afraid to think, not, 0110300)1 1c, tall(, dread•
me native civ girl whom tee saw drawing ing Lhio night with a nameless horror. How
their pegs,
My tent had been pitched a little way
from the others in 'a corner of the square,
regularly planted grove, under a particu•
laxly fine mango, I got into my dressing
gown, dismissed lay ayah and, anxious to
lose no time, sat down to begin at once a
letter to Lilly for the next mall, with an
account of my first impressions of Jaok
Denver. I 010 busy writing when Bob
tante in and went to bed and sleep promptly.
for he lad had a worrying day in the office.
Presently I finished and putting away my
letter—so eulogistie and so sanguine—
raised the curtain of the tent door to have a
whiff of air before getting into bed.
The brilliant full moon, sailing et inter•
vats from under studding clouds, flooded
the wide -stretching level plain with a haze
of silver, and cost inky black shadows in.
the grove under the mangoes. But for the
rising **rind, the night was very still. Now
in the night—a silence which might be felt.
I stepped outside to enjoy the peace and
beauty of the scene, and as I did so the
weird hoot of a startled owl among the
branches made me turn my head toward
the grove.
Then I perceived two figures advancing
toword me out of the deep shadow—two, a
elan and a woman.
They cause nearer out into a path of moon-
light, and I gave a gasp of surprise as I
recognized thorn—for the man was Jack,
my Lilly's jack, and he was welkin with a
native woman.
I stepped back against the tent and
watched eagerly, mach shocked, for she
was a very beautiful woman I could see
now the moonlight was so strong, graceful
and lissom in her meant drapery, and, oh,
horror 1 Jack had his arra round her waist
and her head was leaning an his shoulder.
I dropped the curtain of the tent and stood
within thunder -struck at what I had seen.
Of course I had heard rumors in India of
Europeans taking unto themselves the
daosghters of the heathen, but that Lily's
Jack, so young, so new to the country,
should pursue such a course so openly, and
under Why very nose, shocked me almost as
11111011 as if it had been Bob himself. What
scamp. WIhatamercy it was that Ihad not
sent it, that there was yet time to warn her
as to the real character of the man whom
she contemplated marrying I I tore up the
letter I had written, and with a strange
whirl of anger, surprise and distress in my
mind, flung myself into bed and soon fell
into a troubled sleep.
How long I had slept Ido not know, but
I was awakened suddenly by the whining of
the little terrier Nip, who always slept at
my feet. Nip was standing bolt upright iu
bed, with his ears back, his tail between his
legs, and his attitude cowering. He was
gazing intently at the door of the tent and
whining in a queer, frightened manner. My
first thought was of thieves, and I setup
promptly and looked in the same direction.
A second or two later, though the our
tains did not part, I distinctly saw two
figures pass through them—one like Jack in
English clothes, the other a draped native
female, whom he clasped to him.
They advenrad slowly across the tent,
and I sat and glared at them. Suddenly as
they came nearer, my heart froze within me,
for I saw they were headless.
With ono shriek of terror I fell back settee -
less on to my pillow.
When I came to myself it was broad day-
light and 1 was lying on a long bamboo
chair in the dining tent. As I opened my
eyes Bob bent over me and a wonderful ex-
pression of relief crossed his face. I grasped
his hand oonvulsively.
"Bob," I cried, "for Gsd'e sake, don't
leave me I"
"I'm not ping to, darling ; but you mast
be quiet," and he laid a wet rag on my
burning brow,
"But where am I? Why am I not in bed
—in my tent?"
"There was a heavy storm in tho night
after—after you were taken ill. The guy
ter at the well Boar the village over there, thankful I was, then, toward evening to find
myself being lif ted into an extemporized
doolio,
and being borno away from that
awful spot,
ti Wnoro aro you talking* mo, Bob 1" I ask.
ed feebly, for my head was getting bad
again.
0 laughed at Jock in rho mess about her,
1 the head man of the village, ono of
lose wives elle was, got jealous, 1 think,
d shut her up and would not let her show
reelf when anyof the sahibs came this
shooting. Se really was a very pretty
—50 tall and slim andand such oyesgraceful, an oval
e, 1 ----not a bit like the
erage native woman."
Well, Colonel," I laughed, "she name
ave =dean impression on yon, too, after
these years for your memory to be so
sh. But I am more interested in Jack,
Well, it was one Christmas. I was
"On to rho next camp, my darling Wo
think it will bo bettor for you, You've got
fever here,"
I noticed in a vague kind of way there
was a queer look on his face, very unlike
his usual' expression. He looked rather
scared,
" Tely heck `• hack" I replied, " but Pin
IRELAND IN AMERICA,
'Che *toast Dial 111e 1',illed Metes 1s (11e
"(treater 1rel anII" ./erose 1110 ,1111111110
Hints for the Household,
Satin stloes, when the uppers are worn
out, can he re-covered, and bound with
ribbon, to look like now.
If a pinch of Balt ie put with the white of
an egg. the temperature of the albumen will
imnledately fall, and the ooll egg will froth
repldly.
Delicate colored silks should never be laid
away in white paper, as the chloride of lime
used in bleaching the paper often injures
the Dolor,
Attention should be paid to the airing of
linen. People are surprised Out they suffer
sometimes so much in afterlife from rheu-
matism and stiff joints. If they only know
what clomp linen they had put on at differ-
ont periods of their life, they might find
they had less cause for surprise. Much
chrome rheumatism is sometimes caused by
damp linen,
110 JOHN I,i*103IAN- 00 51111' 00011.
When reading Irish newepapere and the
speeches of Irish orators one frequently
comes across such phrases tis ""The Irish na•
Lion du Anhoriea,' " The greater Ireland
across the Allaude," eto. To the 1.nglieh.
ratan and Anglomimion smolt phrases seem
but the idle bombast of the imaginative
irisin,
Bet those phrases aro not fictions nor
empty boasts, The long, steady influx of
Isiah men and women into the United
Stator has made them positive realities.
Some one has estimated that the City of
New Y orlc contains more Irish than Dublin,
Cork, and Belfast combined ; that the City
Of Brooklyn eontains more Irish than Gal.
way and Waterford together ; thttt Boston
contains more Irish than Dublin ; that Phil
adold>hia contains more Irish titan Belfast—
and Insignificant indeed must bo the town,
village, or hamlet in the United States that
has not its quota of Irish born persons. And
the presence of the lrish is felt in the none•
enclattu'o of cities and towns.
The Atlantic Ocean contains but one Ire.
laud, but the United Status contents four,
ono each in Alabama, West Virginia, Indi-
ana, and Minnesota. And then Hibernia,
which is another name for Leland, wo 11000
three of them, one each in Florida, Now
Jersey, and New York. And tier we have
no fewer than five Erins, a pobnanne for Ire.
land, scattered through the States of Geer.
gia, New Yorlc, Tennessee, Texas, and Wis.
cousin. We have an lrisltburg in Virginia,
and Irish Ridge in Ohio and Ioislt Ripple in
Pennsylvania. Nebraska has an Erina, Vir-
ginia has an Erin Shades, and Indian Terri.
tory has an Erin Springs.
Tho provinces in Ireland are represented
in the United States by Munster, in Illinois,
Munster, 1n Pennsylvania, and Ulster in the
laLtee Stoto, besides an Ulster Park, on
Ulsterville, and an Ulster County in Now
York. We have neither Leinster nor Con-
naught.
The counties of Leland are abundantly
represented hero. We have 1 i Dublins, 18
Wnter'fordo, 11 'Pyrones, 7 Limericks, 5 Chanes
5 Mayos, 4 Sligos, 3 Corks, S \\'exfords, (3
Aarhus, (1 Derryo (four of which aro called
Londonderry), a ILoscommon, a Kings
County, a Queens County, a Galway, a Wick-
low, a Longford, Kilkenny, Kildare, a
Donegal, a Carlow, a Monaghan, and an
Armagh. That is pretty substantial "fie.
tion" truly, but only a fraction of the
" greater Ireland" has been told yet.
As for the towns and villages of old Ire-
land they are reproduced here in a great pro-
fusion. We have twelve places ealledAvoca,
that world-renowud place in the County
Wicklow, immortalised by Moore in Itis
" m e:tidies" ;we have six places called Avon-
dale, atter the beantifal resideioe of Charles
Stewart Parnell, also in County Wicklow,
and we have several places called after Par-
nell himself.
We have a Garryowsn in Iowa, a Tulle -
more in Illinois, a Rathdrum in Idaho, an
Achill in Rosoonunot County, Michigan ; a
BollinainCalifornia, aDoneraile in Kentucky,
a Strabane in Dakota, an Ardee in New York
aol'.oOneesee, a Kinsale in Vitgina, a Kin•
kora in New Jersey, a Para in Iowa, a Not ah
in Iowa and in Michigan, a Queenstown in
Maryland and in Pennsylvania, twelve towns
oalled Westport, four towns colied Newry,
thirty towns called Newport, a Valencia in
Kansas and in Pennsylvania, four places
called tennis, four oalled Kilgore, a tiilmieh-
ael, a Kilmanagh, aLtenore, aLisburn, and
eleven Bangors.
Even the hotbed of County Armagh
Orangeism, the Monclies, is here in Wiscon-
sin, and another Orange stronghold of his-
toric fame, Ballybay, hs in Pennsylvania,
and we have ten places called Belfast, and a
Boynelles in Miohigan, a Bandon in Miens•
sofa and hs Oregon, a Lurgan in Pennsyl•
vaniaa Fermoy in the same State, tNoenah
in Wisconsin, au Athlone in I;alifornla and
Michigan, a Bray in North Carolina, a Rem_
elton in Indianaa Clontarf in Minnesota, a
Dungaunet in 01110, a Dromelilfe in May
land, a Croome in the same Slate, a Cooks-
town, iu Georgia and in Now Jersey, a Ran-
dalstowu in Maryland, a Boyle in Kansas
and in Pennsylvania, a Ballyolough in Io1va,
ton places called Banbridge, five oalled
Coleraine, a Green Isle in Minnesota, two
places called .rsenisland, after Gleenisland
in the County Antrim ; nine Milltowns,
eight Middletous, twenty-five Milfords, and
five places callei Adair.
The list is by no means exhausted, but it
is cut off here simply that it, may not become
tedious. Enough has been given to show
the "Irish Nation in America" is a pretty
big and substantial fact.
Nearly every State in the Union has conn.
ties coiled after the famous Irish•Americats
of Revolutionary fame. We have two noun -
ties, eight towns, and seven lesser places
oalled after Jack Barry, the fatter of the
Ainerioan Navy, aCaunty Wexford Irishman
thirteen counties, thirty-eight towns, and
twenty leaser places oalled after Charles
Carroll of Carrollton ; fifteen counties, fifty.
eight towns, and fifteen lesser places named
in honor of Maj. Anthony Wayne, the Irish -
American hero of the Revolution ; in honor
of John Hancock, the first signor of the De-
claration of Independence, we have ten coun-
ties and eighteen towns ; in honor of oommo.
dore Stewart, " Old Ironsides," Pa'nell's
grandfather, we have towns andplaces almost
ad libitum ; in honor of Maj,•Gen. diehard
Montgomery we have nineteen counties and
twenty-three towns; in honor of Commodore.
McDonough we have one county and four
towns ; in honor of Gen. Stark we have three
counties and aboub twelve towns, although
it is probable that some of those places were
named in honor of Mollie Stark, who took
her lntebatd's place when he was killed at
his gun, and remained in command of that
gun until the end of the war. She was and when nearly clone test by droppmg a
created Captain for bravery in action, but h
For suones to every pound of rolled dough
ollow two ounces of lard, a little carbonate
of soda, and about this sup of buttermilk.
Do not use too moth soda or the scones will
have a strong soda smell. Mix well togoth.mm
or and let thoroughly amalgamate ; knead it
up again, mould round, pin out a good size,
Cook the inside all round one inch from the
edge. Brush them over the top with milk
and bake them in a sharp oven.
In making toffy talks a pound of brown
sugar, three ounces button a teacupful of
water, end. one lemon ; boil the sugar, but-
ter, water, and half the rind of the lemon
together, and when sttifioiently done—this
you will know by dropping in a little sold
water, when it should be quite crisp—let it
stand aside until the boiling las 00030)11 thou
stir in the juice of rho lemon ; butter a dish
Ned pour in the toffy, It should be a guar.
tor of an inch in thickness.
When making barley sugar take a pound
and a halt of film loaf sugar, broken into
lumps, enol boiled over the Are with a pint
of water. Skitn ib carefully, and boil umbil,
when dropped into sold water, it time brit-
tle and will snap. Add the juice of a lomat,
and boil up once more ; thel cot On 011e supe
to cool. Before it sate pour the preparation
upon a marble slab, which hos been rubbed
with beam,' keep it as much as possible in
a lump. When it is cool enough to handle,
mut mm
os and roll into rolled sticks.
Theeo shonl,I he put into an oiled papor, alai
loft till they aro cold and stiff, They will
keep best dna co'tieter in a dry plane,
t=reat profusion towns and places named
after ail the prMeipal Melt surnames, so
multitudinous that a volume Iese in size
Unlit\Vnbster's Unabridged would be in.
capable of holding them. These 11111000
lock just like tide ; Celan:inn, O'(Julnn,
O'Neill, O'Connor, C'Dauiel, Pntriok, Kelly
131ddo Ford, Lynch, Malone, Moran, Moore,
Orr, Muldoon, Kennedy, Murphy, Doyle,
Flaherty, Ryan, Mulley, Mnlvany, S•. ane,
Shannon, Donovan, Poway, 1)•,auho0,
Norah, Dunn, lhuudgaan, Bradt, Dillon.
And if those aro not disbinobitu.y Irish,
then there is nothing Irish ell earth, A
very signilicant fact is this 1 That the Stelae
ofPennaylvtuhia, \Vi5conei h, Virginia, North
Carolina, Nebraska, hliasonri, and Arkantts
each wear a shamrock every clay in the
year—aid if that is not sggressively Irish,
it would be interesting to leuow whet is,
But still more emphatically Irish is the
fact that, Minnesota, Missouri, and Loutei-
ana elicit has 0 St, Patrick tell to herself and
all the time, besides a San Patricia in
Texas es that the soil of America should bo
kept continually free from poisonous *hinge
But, alas I the preeasbioe is a failure for
wo have four places oalled Corydon, the
most hated oonibivation of letters in blob
history, a Hams that, in the estimation of
every patriotic, Irish -American, is vile
enough to poison the graffito rooks of Maine
Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, and Pennysl-
tondo, each of which carries this foul Mot
on its fair bosom, and thus seems desirous
of doing honor to the cowardly informer.
Enough 15 there shown to prove that the
phrases "The Greater Ireland in America,"
The Irish Nation in America," °to , are
by 110 mons empty boasts.
;FAN., I, 1r'03'ati:a,1
sierosaaarseassessestasssesseistemastessesteers
,MarriageHOLIDAY ru
Marriage is often imago,
Young num should 1>e oanful about drap-
ing. remarks. They may be ptoked rep by a
bigger 111101."51tionma, I Itnow what butterflies are
for," oriotl a little boy, running into the
house. "To lay butter," he added, emphn.
ideally." What's the difference between n pro•
hibitiouisband a toper'?" " Wily, the latter
is 11111 of drams and the former of aernp'
les."
When rho short young man wants to hiss
the tall young woman she may not have to
stoop to conquer ; but if site likes hint alio
comma
apt to stoop to commaDoggins—" Wher' Wye gin that hat?"
Duchy— Hat store, 'nurse ! ' 1a-a•as,
yo did 1 What's suoh a hat wuth, Dudoy t
Dunne. Man wasn't 111."
Mies Ainiable--" Ethel isn't pretty, but
then her face grows on you." Hiss Shari/ -
tongue (in ;rebottled alarm)—" Does it 1
Well, I hope it won't grow on me."
Biggs—" l'nh glad to hear you playing
00me new pions this your." Bagga--" No 1
they're the same ones I played last year,
only l've had my piano tuned,"
Home-made Oantliee,
It would not seen* Christmas to the little
people withoLtt candy, my more than it
would without dolls, end even older ones
would share the same feeling if something
sweet were missing, There aro many pretty
ways of serving bonbons with the Christmas
dinner. Pretty dishes Tilled with them can
be placed upon the table. Dainty. bags of
various colored sil Its, with sprays of flowers
pointed upon them and Blind with bonbons,
either with dinner card aeachmi
od or me
painted upon then, are pressing souvenirs.
The variety of candies that can be made at
home is infinite its to color', shape and Ilavor.
The purity and cheapness ,f these *1 'a1u-
factures are worthy of couskderal' leo.
Besides all the delights of the c n in
watching mamma make the delis... ,,s bits is
a pleasure ton great to be denied the little gnateonstnners. There is a t oppurtnnily
for 00000150 of taste in shaping these sweet
morsels, and a little practice is all that is
necessary.
Lt tho olden time a paper ba filled with
candies was suspended in the doorway. In
burn the ,yotmg people were blindfolded, a
long stick placed in their hands, end, after
being turned around, they struck at the bag.
Some one was sure to succeed in breaking
the paper bag before long, mad then what a
scramble there was for candy, A Christmas
pie ism welcome surprise when it appears
upon the table. To make this pie, take a
large wooden bowl or chi pan, cove' it in non
artistic manner with white or colored paper;
fill it with bran, in which arc hidden small
packages of candy, marked with the name of
the person for whom it is intanded. Or each
one may draw the first that comes to his
hand. I will give 0 few recipes for Christ-
mas candies easily made at home;
510ENCn VANILLA *'REAM.
Break into a bowl the white of one or more
eggs, as is required by the quantity you
wish to make, and add to it an equal quanti-
ty of sold water; then stir in the finest pow-
dered or confectioners' sugar until it is stiff
enough to mold into shape with the fingers.
Flavor with vanilla to taste. After it is
formed into belle,' cubes or lozenges, place
upon plates to dry. Candies made without
cooking are not as good the first dtty. This
oream is the foundation of all the French
creams.
A Chapter on Roasting Meat,
Roasting meat though one of the most
common modes of dressing it, is by n0
means an easy task. Roast moat is too often
sent to the table nearly raw, or dried up,
till there ie scarcely any gravy in it. Good
roasting consists hl dressing the joint thor-
oughly, and yet retaining its juices. A great
Ileal of success in roasting will depend on
the heat and goodness of the fire.
Cover the fat of veal or lamb with a piece
of paper tied on with twine. Baste the
meat, for tho more it is basted the better.
When ft is nearly done the paper over the
flit may be removed and the joint lightly
dredged with flout', in e•dor to give it an ep-
poaranoo oalled, frothing. Spriultlo a very
little salt on it, but not until it is just ready
to dish up, as salt draws out the juice. The
usual tine allowed for roasting is a quarter
of au hour or twenty minutes for each pound
of meat, but this rule does not always
answer. Meat fresh killed takes longue to
roast than when it has been kept long, end
in warm weather it takes less time than in
cold. Brown meats require less time than
white amends do.
Lot the butcher chop the joints of neck,
col Ionia of mutton and lamb, or they can-
not bo well separated by the carver when
they are sent to the table. Veal, pork and
lamb should be thoroughly done, um. re-
taWeing any red juice ; ab the sane Lime,
rare should be taken not to dry thorn up,
or roast them till the flesh parts from the
bodes. Mutton does not take quite the length
of time to roast that beef does.
NUT CREAM\.
Chop almonds, hickory nuts, butter nuts,
or English walnuts, quite fine. Make the
Trench cretin, and before adding all the
sugar, while the cream is still quite soft, ani
into it the nuts, and then form into bolls
bars 00 squares. Three or four kinds of nuts
may be mixed together.
MAPLE 5UOAR Cit1AJ15.
Grate maple sugar, mix it in quantities to
suit the test° with French cream, adding
enough confectioners' to mold into any
shape desired. Walnut creams are some-
times made with maple sugar, mud are de-
licious.
ORANGE 1:112000.
the rind of one orange and squeeze
the juice, taking care to rejeot the seeds.
Add to this a pinch of tartaric acid ; stir in
confectioners' sugar until it is stiff enough to
form into small balls the size of a small mar-
ble. These aro delicious,
STIRRED CREAM WALNUTS.
Take two cupfuls of sugar, two.thirds of
a cupful of boiling water and one-half salt
teaspoonful of Dream of tartar. Boil until it
threads, cool slightly and boat until it
begins to thicken, Stir In chopped walnuts
and drop on tins,
PEANUTS NOUGAT,
Shell the peanuts, remove the skin, and
break into small pieties, or not, as preferred.
Take two cups 'of confectioners' sugar and
one cup of the peanuts. Put the sugar in a
sauocpau, and as soon as dlesolved, throw
into it the nuts, stirring rapidly. Pour quick-
ly into a buttered pan and press into a flat
cake with a buttered knife, as it cools very
quickly.
ACME CHOCOLATE.
Take two cupfuls of brown sugar, ono.
half cupful of grated chocolate, ono -half
cupful of water and a small piers" of butter.
Add spice to taste. Boil these ingredients,
WAS always lovingly referred to as "Irish
Mollie Stork." `then we have seven count.
iesand eleven towns called Sullivan, in honor
of the Irisin -American Revolutionary patriot
of that name,
As for Jackson, the places named in his
honor are almost too numerous to count,
Jacksonville, lila„ being a proud monument
to his beloved memory ; in honor of O'Brien
of Machias Bay folno, we hove an O'Brien
County, Ia., and an O'Brien in Glynn Coun-
ty (da, ; in honor of Potrick Henry we have
ten counties and eighteen towns. In fact
nearly every State in the Union possesses
towns 0v counties called McDonough, Slo.
Moth, Sullivan, Jasper, McCracken, Col.
harm, O'Brien, Emmet, Meagher, Dougher-
ty, Murphy, etc, eta
Phil Sheridan had 110 fewer than three
counties and seventeen towns nailed in his
honor ; " 131ook Jock " Logan has nits noun.
Coo and n0 loss than sixteen towns named
alto' him. In fact, all the Irish-Amerioan
herons of the Iate war lave counties and
towns named to forever perpetuate their
memory ; thus we have Comeau, Burke,
Shields, Kearney, L'loburn, Cass, Mulligan,
and all the rest of them,
Indeed, the " Trish Nation in Americo"
is a big, heavy feet, for we have hero in
little into cold water. Pont' into uttered
pans whet) done and mark insquat es.
trannitny'S simatiSt1S CANDY,
Take two cupfuls of molasses, one onpfut
of sugar,& piece of butter the size of a small
ogg, and one tablespoonful of glycerine.
Put these ingredients into a Mottle and boil
(hard twenty 00 thirty minutes ; when boiled
thick drop a few chops in cold hate', and if
the drops retain their shape end are brittle,
it is done ; do not boil too much, Have
pans or platters well buttered, and just its.
fore the aaudyis poured into thorn stira in
oloo•half teaspoonful of mom of tartr or
sola. If flavoring is elesirork,drop tho flavor•
ing on rho top as it begins to cool, and
when it is pulled the whole will he flavored.
Pull until as white asdosired,and draw into
sticks and out w1111 shears, This rotipo 15
lmsurpaoaed, •„
I3Rr,tn SApali,—A good addition to game
and roast fowl, Pat All onion on to boil ;
When boiled, take out the onion and add to
the liquor a pint of mills. When it comes
to a boil add a cupful of very fine broad
orumbs and a mall piece of butter, and lot
it bolt slowly for about twenty minutes,
beating it With a spoon meanwhile Ito as to
have it Moo and smoo h, This is the nicest
served with d110k of 080.
Rosin Trite ov.—Draw and singe aplamp,
young turkey. Stull' with a dressing made
of lite crusts of four loaves of bread, soften-
ed in boiling water, one egg, one teacupful
of butter, a little salt, pepper, and minced
oelery ; mix well and fill the body of the
turkey with it. Roast the turkey about at
hour and a half or until very brown, sprinkle
with salt and popper, keep covered with a
greased paper and baste frequently. To
make gravy, boil the heart, 1i• er, neck and
gizzard in half a gallon of hater two hours,
chop up, return to the gravy with a spoon•
fel of cornstarch, moistened with to little
Doll water, season with pepper and salt,
pour in the pan in which the turkey was
cooked, and stir. Scree the gravy in a
boat, and e•anberry-sauce in individual
sauce -dishes.
ROAST Cinnortax.—Talo aplump, year-old
pullet, single and draw, tie the legs and the
wings down, place small pieces of fat salt
pork when; on inch apart, milking two rows
on each side, pace the chicken in a baking
pan, put a tablespoonful of batter and half
a teaspoonful of salt in the pan, place in a
quick oven and haste every len minutes.
Roast fifteen minutes to every pound. Serve
with brown sauce. To make the brown
sauoe, molt and stir oue ounce Of butter over
the fire until brown, thicken with one table-
spoonful of flour, ani. mix smoota ; thio
with half a pint of boiling stook, add one
finely chopped onion, a small carrot, a sprig
each of pursley, thyme, and sweet marjoram,
a blade o: mace, a little black pepper and
salt, Simmer for tea minutes, then strain,
and stir in a tablespoonful of Worcester-
shire sanme, a tablespoonful of tomatn, and
the judo of one lemon. Stir nmtii thorough-
ly mixed.
Roast Wild Pigeon or Roast Teal Ducks.
—RubeaclrORO insidewith a little sot 1, and
place in a 00w in a roosting pan, with vary
thio slices of fat salt pork on each bird ;
sprinkle with popper. Place the pan iv the
oven ; baste frequently with butter ; place
it on a hot dish and pour the gravy over.
Roast Ham. —Take your ham, prepare a
common pasta of flour ant water and roll it
out. Moll the paste around the ham and
bake it, allowing about the seine time as
you would for boiling. Thiele a very good
way retaining all the flavor, and does for
either fresh or evoked hams.
Beefsteak and Potatoes.—Take a largo
and tender steak, scatter over it bits of
butter, salt end pepper, a little sage and
finely chopped onions, if you like. Over
*hot spread a think cushion of mashed pots•
toee, well seasoned with salt, butter and a
very little milk. Roll up the stook with the
potatoes inside, duel fasten the sides and
ends with skewers, Place the steak in a
baking pan with a cupful of stock and lot it
nooks owly,bastingoften. Serve with a rim
of mashed potatoes around the plotter.
Roast Ducks.—Make a dressing of ono
teacupful of brood crunmbs, one teaspoonful
of ppwdsred sago, one boiled onion, chop.
ped fine, one large tshlespoonfnl of butter,
one teaspoonful of salt and a little popper.
klix, and fill the space from which the crop
was takon, and the body of the duals, Place
in a baking pan, cover the breast with a
thin slice of bacon, dust with flour, and
baste with lord. When brown, make a gravy
with the gizzard and liver stewed in soup
stock, to which add a blade of mace, anti
the juice of one lemon.
Roast hlutbon.—Wipe *vitt a worse
towel. Rub all over with Latter, put in a
balling pan with a very little water. Sot fu
a hot oven, baste often with melted butter
popper and salt, Servo with mine sau00.
Tho fnilowing 10 a pretty good " time
table ;" Turkey, ton pounds, stuffed, throe
hours ; over ten, four hours ; under ten, not
less that two hours. After stuffing, lot the
bird remain somutso before cooking.
Hoot through, gradually, before bringing
to roast, The oloiof secrets are to hove the
bird warmed through* the fire bright, and
to baste often. Large fowl, one hotur; small
throe fourth 01 on hour, . Duck, if young,
ono hour, Chicken, olo•half hour, if young.
Goose, ono hour and throe -fourths or two
hours. Pigeon, ono•ihalf ]tour., Roof, eight
pounds, rib or sirloin, night minutes for
per pound ; odd ten minutes for every
additional pound, Veal, nearly three hours.
Lens)), six pounds to the hour, Porky if a
Kparo-ribs of ton pounds, throe hours,