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The Exeter Times, 1887-7-7, Page 7- • - A trellenee oom It's Jubilee this and Jubilee that, And Jubilee evdiything The workluginen strike for LJubilee And the slinIcgers for Jubilee belts, With Jubilee teeth our Jubilee girls °hew Jubilee candies and cake) While every new-fangled thing that ootaes, out le A new•ganglect Jubilee fake. We wear Jubilee collars and Jubilee Miffs, And Jubilee shirts and trousers ; We grow j titillated on Jubilee splits, And cheer with three Jubilee rousers. Wethave Jubilee epics and Jubilee so7nfi 41:1,v the Jubilee Poet Red elminP,•,' walleye Jubilee handkerchor iefs, athertildtes and Larry Donovan' s Jubilee jump, Wo lett Jubilee dollars by Jubilee bets oe Jubilee races and crooks; We read Jubilee history, Jubilee chat Out of Jubilee papers and books. Our miiiiiiters p.eaela nom a Jubilee text, The law,yera cite jubilee eases, Tne doctors give J ubilee physic and pills— Girls tighten with Jubilee litoes. raise A FAAIER'S EXPERIMENT ( BY J. BIANTON MARLOWE. -- " Caw I caw 1 owl' "Whoa 1" seid Farmer Tolley, The team stopped. Fanner Tolley leaned on the plough -handle, and looked up to a clear spece in the sky, which was as cerulean as a sea. "Caw I caw 1 caw 1" There were light clouds drifting aoross the blue expanse'driven by the warm wes- tern winds, and between the earth and sky was flying a dark object—a solitary orow. "Caw 1 caw I caw I" "Yes, I hear ye," said Farmer Tolley. "Cone to pull up my oorn this year before it is planted. 1 know you of old. I declare it is too bad 1 Go lang 1" Not far from the field where the farmer was ploughing was a swamp. In winter, when it was frozen and " sledding " was good, the farmers worked there, cutting their summer's wood. But as soon as spring came it was a miry bog. The great trees rose as from countless mossy islands. No one could penetrate it after April during the warm season, except when there Was a drouth. In this watery solitude, in the tops of the tall pines the crows made their.nests. Farmer Tolley glanced up from the neat furrow the plow was turning to see where the dark object was going. The black sails of the pirate of the air swept before the warm winds towards the pines in the deep. est bogs of the swamp. "1 declare it is too bad 1" reiterated the farmer. "Too bad I Just like your rela- tions waitin' round for your property before you die. Go lang 1" At the end of the furrow the farmer stop. ped his team and went to the well -sweep in the dooryard for some water. When the well -pole was descending his wife came to he door. "Sophia, what do you think ?; I've seen that crow again." "Show 1 You don't say so, Pelick e' Farmer Tolley's Christain name was Peleg. "Sure as you're alive, I have 1" "Do you think, Pelick, it was the same one ?" "Yes, he knew me, and spoke to me from thesky, jnet as though I had been one of the oldideeephets, and he'd been sent to try my pidence." "Do you think it was the same one what pulled your corn so last year, Pelick ?" "The same one Sophia. Pulled the whole field up so that I had to plant it all over again. When T had gone away to the Four- 11,0•Days' Meetire, and as a delegate too I I • shant go this year, if they elect me. That crow did me well:nigh on to fifty dollars daizioge. I don't know but a hundred." Fanner Tolley tipped the bucket on the stone well -curb. "Don't you want I should bring you out a dipper, i Pelick, or a tumbler, or some - thin' "No, I ea use the bucket just as well." "Wall, Peliok, I don't know what you'll Polk& went back to his team. That evening, after milking and doing the chores, he sat down by the fire, for the even- ings were yet" somewhat long and cool, and took up the local journal. "Peliok," said the good wife, "what do you think I found? There's a piece in that paper about crows." Where, Sophia ?" " Let me take the paper and I will find it for you. There Pelick.' Farmer Tolley adjusted his spectacles and began to read. The cat climbed into his lap and rubbed against the paper with a faint mew. "You get down, puss. Let me read this, Sophia, ! Sophia, I say! It esys here, Pro- fessor Solomon, one of those great professors that arranges the planets and all them things, I suppose, it says, he says, Sophia, that the crow never alights beneath any ob- ject of which he is afraid. Just listen a moment: 'It is a fact well known to ornithologists that a crow never alights beneath any object of which he is afraid. Hence ecareerows should be erected high in the air, like barrels on tall ,poles, etc. The New England custom of stringing the field is for this reason very effective.' Stands to reason that it is so, Sophia. Folks are discovering almost everything now-a-daye." Fanner Tolley stroked the cat. He was a very guileless, tender.hearted man. It must have been a very mean kind of a crow to have pulled his corn, when he was "gone away to the Four -Days' Meetin' as a dele- gate too." .A.Iter,the bluebirds came the robins, after the robins, the martins; after the martins, the orioles, and then it was planting tima. One day when Farmer Tolley was in- dustriously dropping corn and rejoicing in the sunshine, a Weak shadow swept across th row, like a partial eclipse, and his feet weie ested by it familiar voice— " Ce, 1 caw 1 caw 1" " Y u -black wretch 1" said Farmer Tol. ley. " Pll fix you 1 You go along with your caw, caw, comin! Wait till get up my sieentific scarecrow That will, make your eyes stick out. You won't do as you did last year, when I set up my straw man. Keep a comin' a little nearer, a little nearer, and finally one damp day you dropped down and lit upon his head. But I've got ye this ,yean There's nothin' that's like science.' The peach boughs reddened with hies. soms, the pear trees became white as snow. Then the orchard burst into bloom like hills ef ivies. There were burning bushes in all . . the roadsides and pastures. Then planting tune was freer. The bobolinks came, mid the tender blades of corn began to form geometrical lines in the brown fields. Suet at this time, when there were dam- ask morniegs, and dewdrops on every leaf and blade of grass, and the clover was in - dense, and the row were filling as cute with wine a 'wonder appeared in' 13onney- Ville, stiehir fie the eldesit inhabitant had never seen. It was in Farmer Tolley's corn field, In the middle of the said field there was P‘a rock. It was on this rock that the won. der appeared, It consisted of the figure of a man, o rether of a giant, es though one of th ohampione of t e aboriginal race had corn back to behold the advancee thet science we, making in the world. The effigy held i its ha,ud a tall polo, and on the top of th pole was an open umbrella, The farmer had set up this effigy one da at nightfall ; it was on the evening of th first day that he discovered that his ear 1141.8 beginnieg to break throligh the hills. On the morning after this gigantic appe rition was made to lift up its umbrella thu high in the air, Fanner Tolley rose early and took his milking pails and went out to milk his four thrifty cows. But the though of his scarecrow, eonetructed after Prof. Solomon's plan, so exeited his euriosity.that ho put down his pails and walked briskly toward the cornfield. He sat down there under a tree by the wall, and viewed with tatisfaotion and amazement the creation of his own hands, which loomed above the sprouting field under the protecting um- brella. The crow was also up early: From the far-off pine -tops in the inacoes- sible bogs, there came an exclamation ef wonder. " Caw I caw ! caw I" with a flapping of glossy wings. Iiaw 1 haw 1 haw 1" said the former, slapping his hands on his knees; so you see it, do yo? 1 can take a little rest efter plantin' tune, this year, thanks to Prof, Solomon Haw !haw 1 h " When the neighbors saw the apparition they, also, as well as the crows, were greatly surprised. They stopped by tho bars to look at it. Horses saw it from the road and were frightened. The select men met and talked about it. Was it safe ? It might cause a skittish horse to run, or take thee senses away from some nervous woman or child. r The June ineetiug proved delightful to e Peleg and Sephia, There was nothing o selfiali in Peleg's Soul? and he related to 8 several fanners who were delegates the Et achievement of science as illeetrated by his o Wondeefel seereerow, The flfly Of his return was abuy, He re - Y marked to Sophia that they had need of the 0 umbrella which was protecting the giant in a the corn field. The latter certehely stood in danger of rheumatism or catarrh. " Never mind, Peleg," Said Sophia; "it is dein' great servioe where it is." Immediately en his retura Peleg visited the cornfield, Ile stoppedat the bars The crow did not greet him from the tree tops, but, cotild it be? there was a bleck gulf in the ;ittwho o! green.rwes !tti 1holding a Bueu h r thi spe owIn duel lir: f brella boldly above his head, The crow had surely been at work there. Farmer Tolley walked slowly toward the deist in the late beautiful expanse. It was raining very hard. As he approached the vacant space his feet were arrested by a sound that made his lower jaw fall and his knees tremble, It came from the umbrella. " Caw, caw, caw !" "Could it be?" Out from limier the umbrella darted a dreadful object, with wings like night, wild. ly ejaculating, "caw, caw, caw 1" The farmer paused. " I never I" There was a commingling of Plutonian sounds inside of the umbrella—a wail as from an orphan asylum. Peesently out flew Boxing the Earti• young crow. Boxing the ears is a tee COMM= form of Then another 1 punishment practised by irritable and igno- And another 1 rant persons, audit is almost always done in And a fourth 1 fits of sudden anger. I say done by irri- Then followed their mother, making a long table and ignorant persons, beoatifie it seems solemn procession through the windy, wat- to me that no person of anyinformation on ery air. The poor things had lost their um- the subject would allow their passion to get brella, but not their mother. the better of their judgment in such a mat - Farmer Tolley stood like one petrified. ter. The drum of the ear is ofpaper-like The collapse of science and logic and theory thinness; it may and has' been, in numbers all in a moment, as it were, seemed to him of cases, ruptured by a single slap on the like the blowing away of the word on which side of the head, incurable deafness result - his feet of faith were planted. But he had ing. Says an eminent physician, " All not been gaining willpower during the June strokes on the head of children with an meeting to fall into a passion on the very angry hand are brutal and criminal," In day of his return. He recalled, too, what the same connection he adds that "a goner - his prudent parson had said about not being ous, wise and humane parent should. allow a over confident in a theory unless you are night to intervene between the commission sure that all the premises are correct and of the fault on the part of a child and any well proved. decided punishment. The veriest theft He only said mildly— should be allowed time lest the law should "I'll tell Sophia of thet." be vindictive and wrathful. And shall a And he added philosophically— man or woinan punish an unresisting. child with engry inconsideration, with unreason- ing wrath in the heart ? It is monstrous." The sagacious farmer's corn came up well, and rejoiced in the sunshine of the glowing days. The farmer surveyed it with pride and the crow with envy from afar off. W heel the ill-omened bird flew over that field he flew high, as though, seized by a better in- spiration, he was ascending toward the sun. 1 A third or fourth morning after the giant with the lofty umbrella had been paloed upon the rook, Farmer Tolley again visited his field. The crow, also, had made a short excursion in that direction, and was con- templating the giant from a tree on the edge of the swamp. Caw 1 caw 1 caw 1" he called, as he saw the farmer crawling through the bars of the promising field. You don't say so 1" said the farmer. "Get along as far as you dare to, haven't a ye? You see it, don't ye ? How that corn a • HOUS*WELOLD. Ohild Qharacter. The first chars Oer of right childhood is that it is modoet A well-bred child does not think it eau teach its parents, or that it knows everything. 1t may think its father and mother know everything—perhaps that all groweaup people know everythbag ; verv certainly it is sure that it doee not. And it is always asking questioea, and wanting to learn more. A aeoend character of right childhood is to be faithful, Perceiving that its father knows best what is good for it, a noble child trusts hini wholly, gives him its hand, and will walk blindfold with him if he bids it. A third character of right child- hood is to be loving and generous. Cave a little love to a, child, ^ and you get a great deal back. It loves everything near it when it is a right kind of child ; would give the beet it has away, always, ff you need it ; does not lay plans for getting everything, in the house for itself, and delights in helping people—you cannot please it so much ae by giving it a chance of being ueeful, in over so little a way, And, because of all these characters, it is cheerful. Putting its trust in its &tar, it is careful for nothing ; belt% full oelove to every creature. it is happy always, whether in its play or its duty, Se, then, you have the child's char- acter in these four things—humility, faith, charity, and cheerfulness. is comin' up 1" The next morning brought to the fanner g further surprise. On going to the field he fi found that the crow had arrived there be- I o fore him, and was surveying the greenery rom a tall white berch that rose from a a corner in the wall. 1 ve The farmer stopped short when he first T saw the black object swaying in the wind from the top of the white birch tree. He nsl was thinking at that time of the wonderful „ advancement that knowledge was making I in the fields of discovery and in ascertaining the real relations of things, and he was a rather humiliated at the suspicion that the 11,1 crow also might have become a scientist and " be making progress as well. In these days of advancing knowledge the good parson called to see Peleg with an im- portant message. "I've been talking with a committee, , „ Peleg, and they are unanimous that you shall go as the delegate to the June meet. ing this year. You had. a rather hard ex -1 pomace last year on account of the crow, •! but Deacon Holden says that he will get , his little boy to watch your field this nu year. He thinks that he cannot go any- how." "1 shall not need anyone to watch my , field this year, parson. I have been study. ing science, and I have set up a contrivance f. that would terrify the boldest servant or ,"" the prince of the power of the air—I mean "a figuratively that crow. Go out to the field with me, parson, and I will show you one of "ae the most wonderful sights that you ever set ,f•E" eyes on ! .All the neighbors are talking he about it 1" , beg ' tan "' When one plan does not work well, I've lways noticed that the best way is to try neither." The next day the farmer removed the iant and the tall umbrella from the corn eld. On the morning after the disappearance f the airy knight, a very innocent looking careerow appeared upon the identical rock here science had met such a signal defeat. o the outward eye it was the figure of a man holding in his two hands% gun after the anner of a soldier presenting arms. Only op.hia knew the terrible secret contained in he immobile -looking figure. The crow was up betimes on that morning, nd beat its way through the sea of gray ist mingled with sunbeams to the little irch tree in the corner of the field. "Caw, caw, caw I" The figure stood like &statue. The brains of birls, like all brains, have their limitations ; and to thecrow's limited philosophy, that figure could not be a man orvus swung up and down en the tree.top the billowy mist, and now and then ad- d its base notes to the sweet choruses of inlet that encircled t he field. Then he ided gently down on level wings into the ddle of the field. " Bang 1" Did ever a scarcrow fire a gun before? If ever there was an astound:led member the raven family, it was that one; as• nished not only that a scarcrow should e a gun, but ahat the effect should be so rinlese- • It took the lucAry bird. but a ment to recover its wines, and the way latter. propelled 14, brealfastless body ugh spacevas somethieg remarkable in achievements of aerial velocity. The ailed bird left the field in the dim die- ce before the echoes of the gun had ceas- d' th • The parson and farmer Tolley passed . d Praetical Recipes. CARAMEL CAKE.—One-half cup of butter, one cup of sugar, two eggs, one-half ouplof milk, one-half cup of flour, one teaspoonful of soda. We think that one and. a half tea- spoonfuls of baking powder instead of soda makes the cake much better. Bake in three le,yers. Spread frosting between and on top of layers. • COLD LEMON PUDDING. — One-half box of gelatine soaked in four tablespoons of water for ten minutes; and a pint of boiling water, juice of two lemons, one cup of sugar; • strain and set away to cool. When cold, • stir in the whites of three well -beaten eggs. A thin boiled custard can be used to pour over this pudding, or thick; sweetened cream. POTATO PANOAKES.—Grate a dozen me. dium.sized potatoes;after peeling them and washing thoroughly. Add the yolks of three eggs, a heaping teaspoonful of flour, and if they seem too dry, a little milk will do to thin them, with a large tablespoonful, of salt, and, lastly, the vehites of three eggs beaten stift; and thoroughly beaten in with the potatoes. Heat your griddle and put butter and lard itt equal proportions in it, and fry, the cakes in it until they are brown. Make them a third larger than the ordinary pancake. BOILED BATTER PUDDING.This pudding is composed of flour, butter, eggs and milk. • Take three tablespoonfuls, put it in a basin and add sufficient milk to moisten it; care- fully rub down all the lumps with a spoon, then, pour in the remainder of the milk and stir in one ounce of butter, which must first have beea melted. Keep beating the mix - ready by. boiling Up Klee good white fsoap, VIP LIME -KILN CLUB, stand to 000 helow the boiling point, say For some weeks past Elder Shinhene z put in the blankets and sluice them nation. This is end to e t9 the such as ivory eoap, in soft water let et till it is as hot as the hand eau bear, then Whitbaek hes exhibited sinsIoof , hienherdi- up and down repeatedly, Never rub fact that he drew $13 in a louusg ttery and wants any soap on the blanket, and do not rub to e6tablieli a club of his own—a eoeiety them, 08 this will cause them to full up, with lees formality aed more lemonade, thicken and shrink. A .fiothes wringer is It wae evident from his actions when the the be ee improvement upon hand labor for meeting opened that be bad an iron hot, squeezing mit the water. After rinsing in and the triangle bad scarcely t,ent forth its. warm water squeeze as dry as possible, stricken voice when he was on his feet and stretch lengthwise and dry in the open air , addressing the President, if the weather is good; if not, dry in a warm 1 Brusicler li'Vliitbeele, you er' eut o roem, but not near the fire. Mist or mud order," replied the C,hair, or any soil of the kind should be shaken and "Does de Cheer deeidt„ dat 1 ar' out of beaten out or removed before the washiug, order ?" " It does, eah." To CLEAN FEATHER Puenows, —An excel- : ch,a,,r.D.,e,n I 'peals from the dedehhte, of de lent way to renew and cleanse feathers is to make a cheese -cloth pillowcase and empty , all the feathers into it and sew up the open I yeuir 'pe, al am out of order, sah 1" ! end; next plunge the case of feathers into a 1 e also peal from dat deciehum, an' 1 axes fur a vote of de lodge." tub of hob water and sluice them up and down. The water should have a little( It was plain to all members that Shinbono spirits of hartshorn or ammonia in it to soft. was out of order, and that he was Beellng After drawing them up and down for a en and remove the dirt from the feathers. to force some issue. Brother Gardner look- ute, and then asked • ed. at him in a dazed sort of way for a men - number of times, run them up and down in "Does Brudder W'hitbeck know dat he is clean, cool, eat wetter, and then pin the bag ' dollars rt by the four corners to two -lines an liable to a fine of from six to leben thoueand let them remaia for hours in the hot sun, turning them after the first two hours. Use ,, "No, fiah 1 I demand a vote On My either new pillow -cases of ticking, or wash ' 'peal! the feathers are well sunned and dried, and cleanse the ones used before. When I . "Does yap intend to bulldoze dis Cher r* "1 intend to hev my rights under de eon - place them in their cheesecloth aloe back stitushum an' by-laws of dis chile I hev in the +inking case. This process makes 'pealed from your decishum." them soft, clean and light. 1 "Des any pusson second dat 'peal.?" ; asked the President as he looked up and, A THRILL_ING SCENE. 1 down the aisles. I No oiae clid, The old man slowly removed the ppecta.. Magnetite]. Aitken tite Lions—A Queer Ex.., cies emu his nose, took the rhinestone pin pertinent. !from his bosom and calmly descended the Some two hundred journalists were present, platform and approached the elder. The yesterday, says a Paris correspondent, at the 1 latter started to pull a brick -bat wrapped in Folios Bergere, where a sort of general re- alligator skin frone his hind pocket, but be - which took place in a cage oontaining two happened, From the reporters' desk it seem- ! blearsal was given of a seance of ma.gnetism fore he could got it out something serious fine lionesses, Sailda and Sarah, and an ire, ed as if his heels hit the ceiling and his head amuse lion, Romulus, The cage was placed the floor in rotation. One of his shoes sail - on the stage, and the lion.taaner, Giacometti, ed nth the southwest corner and struck having entered it he made the animals first State Right's Green in the stomach, and the perform in the usual way, bu.t the great other flew in the east and upset Col. Pare attraction was the entrance into the cage of Handle Jackson. Butteus buckles, broken M. de Torcy and his "subject," Mlle Lucian suspenders, boot -traps andrecipes for mak.. Thissubject is not more than twenty year. ing root beer filled the air and were drawn, towards the open windows and the buinpety- bumps on the floor so alarmed the grocer down stairs that he ran out and sought to. turn in a fire -alarm. ley and by a deep hush fell upon Paradise Hall. Brother Gardner of age, plump, and what may be called pleas. She was dressed in white, and had her hair hanging loose over her shoulders. After presenting her to the spectators M. de Torcy told her to go into a cage placed against the one contammg the lions and communicating returned to his chair, Giveadam Jones .pnt with it by a door. He followed her in and his coat under the head of the pulverized made a few passes in front of her eyes. In man and the floating fragments slowly drift - a minute Lucia seemed to be fast asleep. ed out into the solemn night. Opening the doorleading into the lions' cage "All gueornents should rule by law," said lel.de Toroy entered it, and in obedience to the President, as he toyed with his specta- his order was followed by his subject. She walked straight up to the lions, which were kept in respect by Gi000metti. Romulus seemed to be half asleep, Sarah appeared afraid, and only Saida kept on roaring. M. de Torcy then made Lucia kneel down ein front of the lions. Her arms were stretched out towards them, and the expression of will be toted into room number three an? cies, "but when subjects defy de law an' de, guv'ment, too, de guv'ment should be ekaa to de occashun. Does any one eke in die hall want to 'peal from de decishun of dis Cha'r under de head of 'Communications Not a hoof moved. " Werry well. De remains of de victim, her countenance changed from that of as. tonishment to joy. Roused up by Giacometti, the lions now began rushing and bounding around Lucia, who remained motionless. The lioness Saida was then made to stand on her hind paws. While Giacometti held her jaws wide open M. de Torcy ordered Lucia to stand up and walk up to the for- krvered up with apiece of floor -cloth and de, Committee on De Lost An' Gone will make. sich arrangements fur de funeral as seems, consistent wid de occashun. We will now dispatch the bizness on de Seckretary's desk." - ees SOME FREAKS OF N.S.TURE;.. midable animal. The subject obeyed with the utmost. composure. Two heavy arm. The wife of Mr. Hey, of Anieribus; Ga., s chairs were then put into the cage, and, wears a handsome breastpin whiehwas made ' - assisted by 'the lion -tamer, M. de Toray out of a petrified strawberry which grew 031 placed Lucia, who was now as rigidly -stiff as a board, with her head resting on the back of one and her feet on the back of the other. This was the barrierover which the Mrs. Rosanna Dennis, of Tin, diealef miliondasbwineeemtinadge. to,jhuernzpasweitfhththee elestoutisf ehr: I dropsy seventeen years ago, and her bodya. inent was turned low, Bengal fires were 'found to be thoroughly petrified, with the . ' which was disinterred. the other day, was, lighted,inetta steel whip, roared. sturedge dleounderb by sG itahosoy- exception of the feet. It was so heavy that flesh and blood. Prom the beginning to the continued to leap over this barrier of human chipped from the body resembled flinty lime ten men were required to move it. A piece end there was something terrible in seeing stone, the young woman in a state of unconscious- Ara Soule, of Grant, Minn., noticed that . nem place herself in what appeared immMent one of his favorite hens had ceased laying danger of being devoured, and the unplea- :Fs, but growing remarkbly large. Finally - the last jump the sant feelingwas considerablyincreased when ii°nesa Saeda failed t° died, and Mr. Soule was curious enough to- ter attaining an astonishing size the hem hold a post-mortem examination. He out the fowl open and was somewhat astonished, when four well-developed spring chickens. popped out and began strutting around the - barnyard. He supposes that some trouble with the hen's organization had stopped the 41 egress of the eggs and that the natural heats of her body incubated the chicken genus. leer husband s farm. The berry is beautifully colored, resembling a bright ruby, and is yery hard. It weighs about two ounces and glistens in the light like a ball of fire flaky apple blossoms drifted upon the breeze t rough the orchard toward the field. The 1 e Then the scarecrow walked toward the ture, to le away among e pines. • and three eggs and a pinch of salt, and clear Lucia, and sent her rolling to thet •farmhouse, and had e, talk with Sophia. when the batter is quite smooth either put ground. She fell heavily but remained inert and whitened the emerald turL "This is a wonderful age in which we are living, parson ; steam cars and telegra h I The summer came, and autumn P)waered cloth tied tightly down over it, and this into : on her forehead. On opening her eyes Lucia the autumn leaves, bur burned to gold.The it in a well -buttered basin with a 'floured , till M.de Torcy waked her up by blowing appeared more astonished than frightenea in finding herself among the wild beasts. and balloons, and pumps and things. There Pun' is one thing, parson, that you can always trid trust, and—that—is—science !" Ilan The corn field came into view with the ed, colossal image ereoted to science under the nob a vessel of boiling water, moving' the basin le swallows left the leaves • the par. ge fluttered about the walls of corn. about to keep, the flour from setting in any part, and. boil. for one and one quarter of an ds, and at last the wild geose again cross - hour, or else boil in a floured cloth that has the changing sky. The farmer raised a been wetted in hot water and lace in a le crop of corn that year. . lee parson came to the husking. Peleg ted the history of the crop over the roast kens, baked apples and pumpkin pies. Parson," sill(' he, "the premises of that scarecrow theory were all eorrect--were y not?" • Not quite, not quite, Peleg," said the tegis of the lofty umbrella. • • There, parson, what do you think of red that ?" chic "Caw 1 caw caw 1" I last "Massy, parson, where did that crow fly; the from ? Rose right out of the ground like. c. "Peleg," said the parson science has numy sides to it. You eantot trust a new principle of science until you you know th cro whole of it and it is wholly proven. Ther are discoveries and discoveries." "The principle of this discovery," sal Peleg, "is that no crow ever lights under neatti an object of which it is afraid. Now, any crow would be afraid of such an ob. ject as that, it stands to reason. That's so, parson, every time. Therefore that there field is just as much protected and just as safe as though there was never a crow in all the wide world. That's what you would call logic, parson." Yes, Peleg, but in these great logical questions one wants to be sure that his premises are correct. The crow knows more than you think he does, Peleg, and I would not leave a field of mine like that without watching at this gine of year with- ut t was perfectly sure that my science nd logic were perfectly correct. I wouldn't ut any man's theory against that crow. e may have a theory of his own before on get back, Peleg. When a brow gets ver being soared of an object he becomes 43nderfully tame and bold. My father nee had a tame crow that would steal his hoestrings out of his shoes when he was ating at the table. Theories are good ings to work by Peleg, but a man it ea- untable for the exercise of his common iase. 'Prove all things,' the wise man id. Science is not science, and logic is vessel of hot water to boil; the pudding thus covered will cook in a little less time than A Very Queer Accident ot a Sinai Train the other way. Serve with sweet sauce, " with a NI., One. wine sauce, or with preserves or tart jam. "Talking about collisions and railroad ac - This 'pudding should be brought to table cidents," said the brakeman, after putting quickly while it is light. a window up for a young lady passenger Belem) Smen.—Baked shad is a delicious and failing to notice tbe old woman who good „parson. ' What became of the dish for late s ' d I wanted a similar servicerrformed, "let rile REMARKABLE ACCIDENT. w ? • may be prepared as follows : Select a large e will not trouble me again next year, Shad for the purpose, and let it have full, Pennfiylvanian. accident wassaa narrow gauge e e parson." • briht looking eyes firm flesh and red gills. road down there, which used the track of , Peleg was right. The crow was wise. He Scale it, open it, and after cleaning wash it the old Atlantic and Great Western broad " never again visited the philosophical farm- well, and then place it in Olean salt t ' gauge for seven miles of course runningon prmg an ear Y summers an ten you of a id t w once down in a th co se sa not logic, unlesa you're sure." Peleg and Sophia went to the June meet- ing. On the morning before Peleg started for this gathering of excellent, thrifty, will ordered people, which Was appointed to take place in a little white chureh on the green of neighboring town, he Walked proudly over the corn field, which had be- come like a rippling sea of green. The thrushes were singing in the woods, and the robins in the orchards and dooryard trees "There is music everywhere," said Peleg, A dreadful discord broke upon, or rather into, the choral harmonies of the woods and orchards and ancestral trees. "Young crowe, do believe," mid Peleg. "A whole family of them, Almost grown up, too, How beaky I Mt to have a Meare crow like that !" er s field, where scarecrows fire guns. A Russian ble's Three Robbnis. to lie a short time. Before cooking wipe it its own rad, set nght between the rai s of dry, rub it inside and out with a mixture of the other road. The old Atlantic and Great pepper and salt and fill it with a stuffing ; Western you know, is now the Nypano, or , , , . bread crumbs mixed with a 'finely inixod I the fine , New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio, a part of Erie system. Its gauge was six feet composed of the follewin namely, The St. Peters , rg correspondent of the silver onion, some ;thyme leaves, rebbed , , wi e an w . d d hat big cars they used to run on London Times says :—A piece of interest- small, a little sweet maJoram of summer 88.- 1 that road! Why, they were like barns. ing information reaches me from a trust- very, and a lump of butter. Do not use too ; Well, one night there was a collision be. worthy source. 1t will be remembered that I much thyme or saintlier savory, but just 1 tween a narrow gauge train and broad gauge the submission of the Mery Turcomans was enough to give their delightful flavor to the , train. Some mistake about orders, I guess gained by help of the famous Moscow I dish. Sew' up the openime witha strong it was. Anyhow, a narrow gauge passenger merchant, Kousohine, who sent his so-called 1 thread, dredge the fish with flour, lay it in ' e I train dashed into the rear end of a broad trading caravan into M,auery in charge of a pan with a little water in which is some g passenger train, and with the curi ffi- Alikhanoff and other officers in disguise. For I butter, and place in the oven. Baste fre- 1 ' o5usest resalt ever you heard of. That little She great service then rendered, this pioneer , quently and bake one hour, and serve with , narrow gauee engiue just jumped right up of Russian conquests in Central Asia has parsley sauce. Three or four narrow strips into the the big ears of the other train and been rewarded with a patent of hereditary / of fat salt pork laid on top of the baking fish never stopped till it reached the tender be. His firm is wellknown for its is thou manufacture of cheap and highly coloured ght to improve its flavor. hind the broad gauge l000rnotive. And cotton prints for the Asiatic market, and the arms now granted to him and his descend- ants display three robbins, indicating the i Do not let growing chldren wear shoes i ta.i.idnever hurting a paesenger in either means of his elevation to rank and fortune. t with high heels; it is better for them to .aan,'cept one feller what had his head Precisely the same caravan tricks, I am ; wear none at all, or onlysuch an increase of I outen a window of the narrow-gauge amok. assured, are now tried in Afghan Turkestan 'I. thicknese as is seen at the heels of common- 1 ing car. He was pretty badly hurt. It was by exactly the same persons. This Moscow sense flat -soled shoes. . a mighty queer sight, let me tall you, one house is full of enterprise, and being backed i train inside another, and the passengers of Wash children's feet once a dee, in pure ; each talking to each other as comfortable as sap by the Government, with privileges over th,e Tranecaspian railway and elsewhere, of tepid water, as the largest pores of the sys- ' you please. r was brakeriaan on the broad. course sticks at nothing. Last February its tern are locatecl in the tioles of the feet, and ' gleuge train, and at we w'at runnin' under olitico.commercial caravans introduced these pores discharge offensive refuse mat- 1 orders to make Salamanaca by a certain oseow goods into the bazaars of Herat again. ter, which, if not renioved, is reabeorbed ' minute we went right along without stop - Useful Hints. what was the funniest thing about it, it drew the whole train after it, the little oars running right up the aisle of the big train under our very eyes. Clothe a child's lower limbs, and the feet best.joke of it all was that my conductor ( ping, taking the other train with us. T especially, warmly. The fashion that went through the narrow-geuge train and, A Firm Clutch. orders very short frocks and thin undermade all the passengers whack up cash clothing is deadly and cruel. Childrenis fares." " Mr, Featherly," seid Bobby, " Sister Clara asked lee last night if you were a stoekinue should. be changed at least every other day, and sunned and aired deily. Social Agonies, young man Who kee,ps the Sabbath." " I hope, Bobby, ' teelied Featherly, aaiX- To CtuaX CANARY BIRDS.—These pretty 1 She—Oh, hour do you do, dear Mr. Lyon? iously, "that he told her that I do." creatures are often covered with lice and Have you forgiven me for cutting you at he said that yori keep everything greatly annoyed by them. They may be Mrs. Lee Hunter's last night? I was meta - you got a hold of," relieved of thent by placing a clean white ', a.11y etitpid enough to take you for that her - loth over their cage at night. In the morn- rid b, Air, , Tet oroterby Thompson, whom . ing it will be covered byvery minute red you're said to be so like. It's a horrid libel Sir Reginald Hanson iSsaid to be the first spot's; those are the vermin which give the —.you're not like him a bit. Lord Mayor of London who has received . little songsters to much trouble. He—A—a—I 'wasn't at Mrs. Leo Han - during his itclinnuatratnan the degree of I To wash w °came blankets, or any woolen • tors last night—a—a—a—and my name is I), from his university, article, proceed as follows ; have a suds Tetterby Thempsen. The petrified body ot a human being was found on the farm of Martin Edwards, near Windsor,in a ditch last week. The body is - Shat of a short, fleshy person, and is steppes - ed to be that of an ancient mound-builder. It is very hard and looks exactly like soap- stone. The head is long and narrow, the. forehead high and prominent, with high, cheek -bones, square chin and a small neck. The body was broken off at the knees, the. lower limbs being missing: Its total length to the knees, is two feet rane inches, and its weight is about 170 pounds, There is a sink -hole on the line of the, Carthage and Adirondack Railroad, near. Harrisville, N. Y., into which ton after ton, of gravel has been dumped, but only to have - it disappear from sight. A. short time ago the railroad employeee succeeded in filling it up to a level with the surrounding coun- try, but when a couple of cars were pushed, over it they sank at once in eighteen feet of water and a brakeman narrowly escaped drowning. Altogether 300 carloads of gra- vel and any quantity of rubbish have been thrown into the hole, and the railroad, people now think that it is bottomless. In Zapohtlan, Mexico, two hunters recent- ly discovered a beautiful grotto 30 ) yards long and 130 wide. The grotto is formed of quartz and is adorned with the most beauti- ful stalactites and stalagmites, which glitter like pearls when the light of the torches falls upon them. The infiltrations have form- ed exquisite pillars and colonnades thirty yards in height. In the centre of the grotto are two artificial reservoirs filled with clear - and very cold water. On the floor were found many petrified skulls and bones, which leads to the belief that the place was once used as a teinple for human sacrifice by the ancient Mexicans. Smoke, Mark Twain says he uses about 300 cigars a month. Robert Buchanan thinks that tobacco is invaluable, while Tennyson's partiality for O clay pipo is well known. Nine -tenths of the journalists of New York are lovers of the weed, arid the print- er's work generally ends in smoke. Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, when in broadcloth smokes six cigara a day. Whesa in nankeen hie solace is a pipe. • Mr, Allibote, the great compiler, Says tsinoinok. ing keeps o. man (Inlet for an hour after dinner and is a groat thing for dioes.