The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-05-03

Without the drops In the we'll.
Only poor little penny,
Itwas all I had TO give;
But as pennies make the dollars.
II may help some one TO live.
A few little bits Of ribbon,
And some toys; they were not new,
But they made the sick child happy,
Which has made me happy, too.
Only some out-grewn garments;
They were all had 20 spare
But they'll help to clothe the needy,
And the poor are everywhere.
A word now and then Of comfort,
That cos. me nothing TO say;
But the poor old man died happy,
And II helped him on the way.
God ieveth the cheerful givsr,
Thong. the gitt be poor "a, aud I snail;
What doth He think OF HIS children
When they never give at all Z
ALL FOR THE BEsT.-A devout phil
osopher came to town whose gates were
closed. Hungry and thirsty, he was
obliged to pass the night in the open
air. He said. "What God sends is good"
and laid himself down. Near him stood
his ass, also burning lantern, on ac-
count Of the insecurity Of the country.
But storm arose and extinguished his
light; also lion came and devoured his
ass. He awoke, found himself alone, and
said, "What God sends is good" and
waited quietly for the dawn of day.
When he came to the gates he found
them open, the town devastated, robbed
and plundered. A gang of robbers had
invaded it during the night, and had
killed or taken the inhabitants away
prisoners. He was spared. "Said !
not" exclaimed he, that all that God
sends is good9 Only generally it is not
until the morning that we see why He
denied us something in the evening""
WHEN an Indian wants to catch
polar bear he doesn't throw out large
iron or steel hook which the bear knows
will catch him in the jaw, but he takes
lot of strong whalebone and wraps it
up tight, and around this he puts
blubber. You know what blubber is,
boys? It's fat, something that the bear
likes. Well, he puts the Slubber around
the whalebone till it looks like big
piece of fat, and then he let's it freeze
and puts it where the bear will find it.
Along comes Mr.. Bear and sees it; he
smells it, it smells good, it's fat, it's
good to eat, he likes it. He rolls it over
and finally bolt, it whole. Then when
he has it down, the blubber melts and
the whalebone springs open and splits
the poor bear and kills him stone dead
And that's the way the devil catches
little boys. He makes sin pleasing and
seductive, and leads them on to de.
struction.
PLUM-PUDDING AND MINCE-PIEs.-
I've been reading an article on plum.
pudding lately. It's the nearest / could
come to the latter, for mother says they
are too rich for little owlers to eat. The
lady who, half century ago, made the
best plum-puddings in England, was
named harriet Dunn. l should like q
Dunnation from her, though object tC
duns in the main. At the house of Mr.
Champion, of Darnall, near Sheffield, q
plum-pudding was once served com.
prising "a pounds of -four, 16 pounds oil
raisins and currants, and 40 eggs. II
measured five feet around it. Al
Paignton Fair, near Exeter, a plum
pudding was once drawn through the
town amid great reioicings. 1t was &c
large it contained 400 pounds of -four
ITO pounds of beef-suet, 40 pounds oil
raisins, and $40 eggs. This 800 FOUNDER
required constant boiling from Saturday
morning until Tuesday evening, and il
required brewers copper to boil it in
1t was cut up and distributed to the
poor, the pudding was. ] wish / had
been there. shouldn't have been &C
poor after finishing my share of the pud
ding as at the beginning.
The following are the customary in
gradients used for the queens mince.
pies mixed one month before wanted
240 pounds of raisins, 400 pounds of cur
rants, 200 pounds of lump sugar,
pounds of cinnamon, 3 pounds of nut
meg, 8 pounds of cloves, 3 pounds Of
ground allspice, 2 poun is of ginger, 30C
pounds of beef, $50 pounds of suet. "a
bushels ofapples, 240 lemons, 80 pound,
of citron, ~ bottles of brandy, pound,
mace, 60 pounds of lemon peel, and 6(
pounds of orange peel. 1t is very bad
to put brandy in mince-pies, or in any
thing else. Just think of eating a piecs
of mince-pie that had 70 bottles Of
brandy in il! should be branded as 9
drunkard if 1 did it; but royal person
ages can do these things with impunity
Golden Hours.
A CHIvALRoUs DoG.-My boy offer
has, for a playmate, very fine young
retriever, and in the heyday of youth
the two used to gambol and play to.
gether, just as If they belonged to the
same genus-puppy. A fact for Darwin
One day in their rambles-for the re.
triever preferred his young masters com.
pany to any other, and they were insep
arable-they crossed lake to an island
which they entered, carelessly leaving
the boat insufficiently fastened to the
shore.
After amusing themselves in the island
thicket for some time, and wishing tC
rejoin the mainland, they returned to
the boat, only to find that it had drifted
far out of reach.
What was to be done? The passage
was too deep and long for the boy to
swim. A night on the damp island, even
with his faithful playmate, was not a
pleasant prospect, yet it seemed in
evitable.
The boy thought little, and then,
addressing his dog by name, said, Go,
fetch" Immediately the obedient ami.
NAL plunged into the water, and swan
toward and round the boat. But it was
a very heavy, fat-bottomed one, known
in Scotland by the name of cobie. The
dogs efforts, therefore-th though he
splashed vigorously-to drive the boat
back to its moorings, and to his aux
iously expectant young master, were I'M
avsiling and fruitless.
Here was fresh and unexpected d.
lemma, and the boy began to think there
was little hope of rescue.
Not so the dog, though it numbered
one summer instead of ten. He gave up
splashing and padding round and round
the boat, but made one vigorous spring
out Of the water, aud succeeded in
scrambling up the side and into the boat.
Once inside, dipping as he was, he
gave himself a strong shake, and then
at once jumped up, out Of the bottom of
the boat, on TO the center seat, where