The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-11-27
Cracker Pies.

Cracker Pies.
One cup and half vinegar, three cups SUI
gar four cups water, one heaped cup of raisins
(chopped), one teaspoonful each Of cloves, Gin
namon and allspice, one nutmeg, small piece
of butter and two cups crackers, rolled fine
Put all the ingredients together, and boil until
about the same thickness as mince pies This
is sufficient for four pies. VERA.
SHERIDAN, Clare Co., Mich
The Little Oregonian.
The great rocky canon lay close before
Measles and her mamma, and the sound of the
rushing waters came up dismally to their
senses as they prepared to take few moments
OF rest after their toilsome journey over the
foothills and up the mountain side. There
was one particular spot mamma always visited
when she came this way. Away back in the
distant past she remembered how her own
childhood had been woven in with the legends
and relics of Indian life and warfare. She was
the daughter of q pioneer, and had found
many tokens OF the savage race amid the tall
grass and tangled woods of Illinois, and romped
and raced in their hard-beaten trails, OF gath
cred blocks Of charred wood from the midst of
their deserted camp-fres. Their long, feathery
arrows lay scattered over the foothills that
the timber, near the brink Of the canon, she
had found a wild spot, where a series of rude
mounds, with stakes interviewer above them
told plainly that some of the tribe lay buried
there, of which now and then q scattering band
remained troublesome. Not more than year
before bad the aunty Measles loved so we'll,
then on a visit at rancho many miles AWAY
been obliged to stand sentinei during the dead
of night, herself q hostess, in tremor of fear,
lest the band the pioneers had determined to
vanquish, if possible, ere it reached their
homes should divide nd creep stealthily upon
them unaWares.
Mamma and Measles had picked their way
through brakes and brambles, and over logs
and rocks until the mounds were reached and
the dash OF the foaming waters was close at
hand. Brushing the decayed leaves from the
trunk of gnarled oak, mamma seated herself
and drew Measles down upon the green moss
beside her. For wonder the child's hands
were empty, for they had seen many beautiful
punches of bloom, but on this lovely morning
the cry had been. Tawberrieth, mamma, taWr
berrieth!" and the buds and blossoms that
nodded greeting as they passed seemed to
wonder at the unusual forbearance and the
hstlees sway of the restless hands.
"Tawberri6th, mamma, taWberrieth. Addie
wanth thome veal bad, her doeth."
They are not ripe enough yet, dear One
of these fine days papa will take us out in the
wagon over to the edge of the big marsh, and
we'll have grand time eating Strawberries,
won't we, dear?"
i deth tho, mamma; and will aunty do wild
nth, and dem naughty title boyth what thtole
NV pity birdth netht?"
"No; Charlie and Ned Williams will not 60
They are too boisterous and ungovernable."
What maketh title boyth tho naughty mann
ma? [ with dey wath dirlth, do"
Because their parents are not careful enough
with their training 1 fear they do not always
tell them the truth"
"Do 90 alluth tell me de truf, mamma,
alluth?"
II mean to, dear. When have l missed it,
Dolly?"
beth title while ado 90 thaid oo'd booth
Addieth earth, but 90 didn't"
Unless she stopped jerking so on mammals
arm. My little girl became peaceable as
layub Immediately, and saved her ears. Mann
ma ought not to have threatened such pun
ishment as that, for she is always careful about
injuring her babys head But am afraid Mrs.
Williams forget5 to even pinch her children's
ears, which mode of Furnishing can do no last
ing HARM"
"Addie don't ite to be pinthed, her don't"
Then she must always mind what mamma
tells her. She's pretty good girl, only little
needless and forgetful sometimes"
"Oh, mamma thee dar" and the tireless
feet soampered to messy hillock a short dis
lance away. In moment she was back again,
WIFI dill uASalhly UuS Claspeo uSnIy III ner
hand.
'tThrow it away, dear. It is nasty pinch
bug, See how it clings to your apron.
There!"
The little hands shivered moment as they
released their hold; then the blue eyes sought
the face that was bending SO watchfully above
her.
"Do de bid budth pinth de title budth earth
when dis it'll naughty title dirlth?"
The demure look and the earnest question
were too much for mammals gravity TO with
stand, and for moment her sllvery laugh
startled the happy songsters overhead and
went ringing out across the dusky canon. Only
for moment, however, for Measles clanbered
eagerly into her lap, and, pointing little way
up the gulch, exclaimed in terror, "Thee de back
man obe~ yonder, mamma, thee him." One
glance, and the color forsook her cheeks, for,
across the canon, sitting upon his massive
launches and gazing warily over at his neigh
bors, she beheld bear The Indians were
forgotten the music of the birdsno longer
charmed her ear: the clinging brakes and
brambles held no terrors for her, as, with
Measles grasped beneath her arm, she sped
toward home. Had she stopped to consider a
moment she would have seen there was no i'm
mediate danger, for there was an impossible
gulf between them.
william" she gasped, as she reached home
and found him snoring upon the lounge,
there's an elephant, or rhinoceros, or a
crocodile, or bear, across the canon, up by
the mounds. Go and kill him, don
What shoot a gun on Sunday, Sabra?"
"No matter about the day. He may devou,
your baby if you let him live"
"My wife and baby both. POUNDS! Well
then, the better the day the better the deed. j"
Papa done to till de back man. up in de
woodth, aunty," Addie cried, dancing out inti
the woodshed where she was reading "Addit
and mamma wunned and wunned; didn't we
mammal"
But there was no firing on the Sabbath, after
all, for Mr.. Bruin had taken to his heels, ant
papa looked gloomy enough as he placed his
gun in the corner, for it WAS the charm O
bear-hunting that had led him to wander from
the States and settle amid the wilds of Oregon
As yet his faith had been poorly rewarded.
ORLENA.
CHICAGO, Ill.