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MOTHERS! MOTHERSH NOTHERSM

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FARM AND PRESIDE.

-Buckwheat given to hens makes the
yelk of their eggs a very light yellow.
More corn will increase the color.
"A pint of SCOT from the chimney or
stove pipe in pailful OF water will make
liquid manure of the greatest value for
flowers and plants of all kinds.
80 Flat bread" is highly esteemed by
the Norwegians, who bake it every day
in round thin cakes. 1t is made of rye
and oatmeal mixed with water, stirred
well together, thoroughly kneaded and
baked on griddle.
{ In some parts of Southern Illinois
vegetables are raised in advance of the
season in open ground by conducting
heated air or steam in pipes running at
some distance under the surface of the
earth. - Chicago Journal.
The Canada-thistle perpetuates it
self chiefly by means of root-stalks,
which are full of dormant buds, and
hence any piece an inch long will send
up stalk. A single plant in an ordi-
nary cultivated field will soon spread all
over it by means of the roots.
Breakfast Cakes.-Take the REM
nants of cold boiled ham, fat and lean
together, and chop them finely, or pound
them in mortar. Soak an inch thick
slice of wheat bread in half pint OF
warm milk, and when very soft, pound
itwith the ham. Add two well-beaten
eggs to the mixture and little pepper
and catsup or Chilli sauce. Roll into
cakes, dip into beaten egg and bread
crumbs and fry in pork fat, or put into
a baking dish and cover it with bread
crumbs, and bake in the oven for fifteen
Country Gentleman.
To wash venison steak Is to ruin
1t. When you slice the steaks from the
haunch they ought to be clean. The
outside cut may be soiled from transport
tationi then you may rub it clean with
damp towel. A venison steak should
be broiled on a clear hot fire, well sailed
and with very little pepper and eaten
plain with little hot butter in the
dish. A good sauce is made with .
couple of teaspoonfuls of currant jelly,
mustard spoonful of celery seed and
some of the gravy from the vanison
steak, served as hot as possible. Hot
plates-very hot ones-are necessity
for game of all kinds, and most especi-
ally venison.-N Y Herald.
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OVerst0cking Pastures,

The overstocking of land is one of the
surest and quickest ways of running past
ures. 1t is an everyday thing with many
farmers, who cannot be made to believe
that they are getting the full benefit of
a pasture unless the grass is eaten off a
little faster than it has time to grow;
consequently all who put this method in
practice always have bare pastures and
poor cattle. The advantages to be de-
rived from allowing the grass to gain on
the cattle during the growing season are
many, among which are the following:
Cattle which are kept growing all the
time come to maturity at a proper ace.
Animals kept constantly on bare pastures
never mature properly; those kept on
good pastures do not have to work day
and night to satisfy their appetites, or
use up all their food in building up q
system worn down by partial starvation.
A good covering OF grass is protection
to pasture. 1t is Natures protection
against the effects Of bad and dry wealth
er and the cold rains of winter. so
that new grass will be growing under =
covering of the old crop. 1t Is true that
cattle will thrive better on mixture Of
old and new grass, while the seeding of
the mature grasses will keep up the full
variety of those kinds native to the soil.
Consequently pastures thus treated pro-
duce more food for stock during the year
than those kept continually eaten down
to the bare earth. The practice of keep
ing pastures in good condition is easily
done upon large farms, where reserve
fields can be provided, but even the small
farmer can succeed in having renewed
and fertile pastures, Il he but study the
laws OF Nature, and practice according to
the knowledge thus acquired. Chicago
Tribune.
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Bedford and the Match Making Duchess.

There is capital story, told. in con-
nection with Beckford and the Duchess
of Gordon. That man of his enorm-
GUS wealth should remain a widower
was to the mother world a most beinous
offence, and every lure was cast out by
gorgon mammas and siren daughters to
capture such q splendid victim; but our
hermit was proof against all tempta-
hons. Most famous of all the match
making mothers of the period was her
Grace of Gordon, resolute woman
who cared nothing for rebuffs where a
prize for one of her daughters might be
gained and under whose manipulation
man was weak creature indeed. Beck
ford was in the habit of paying short
visit to London once or twice during the
year, but finding that he always con-
triyed to avoid her and her darlings, the
Duchess resolved to pay an unlimited
visit to Fonthln and attack the lion in
his den. Made aware of her coming,
Beckford gave instructions to his conf
DENTAL servant to see that the lady was
sumptuously entertained as long as she
chose foreman, and then retired to his
private apartments.
. When her Grace arrived, she was. in
formed that Mr.. Beckford was engaged
studying some new books that he had
Just received, and that it was more than
any servant dared do to disturb him.
The next day, and the next, similar
excuses were rendered to her request to
see the host; every attention was
paid her, everything she could de-
sire was at her command-ex-
cept the master. During eight DAYS
this maternal fortune-hunter fretted and
fumed and resorted to every device her
imagination could suggest to get at her
proposed victim, but all in vain; and at
the end Of that time she was COM
PEELED to beat an ignominous retreat
--Geattenaan's Magazine.
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Tomato Culture.

The chief requisites, says Joseph Har-
ris, in growing good tomatoes are: First,
good seed of a good variety; second.
good stocky plants, and third, good
warm, dry soil and good cultivation.
The best crop of tomatoes / ever raised
was treated in the following manner:
Seed sown in hotbed in March. in rows
three inches apart and four or five seeds
to the inch. When two inches high the
plans were removed to another hotbed
and set out in rows FIVE inches apart and
the plants three inches apart in the rows.
As soon as the plants began to crowd
each other they were transplanted into
pots and placed in hotbed, the pots be-
ing plunged into the soil level with the
surface, This last point should not be
overlooked. 1t gives the roots of the
plants the needed :. bottom heat" and
the heat is much more uniform than if
the pots are simply placed on the top Of
the soil in the hotbed. The plants were
allowed plenty of. air and soon were
hardened off. The last week in MAY
the plants were set out in the open
ground, in rows three and a-half feet
apart each way. The land was mellow
and moderately rich. We made good
sized holes with spade where the plants
were to be set out, and then with rake
or hoe filled these holes with fine, warm
surface soil, and put tablespoonful of
superphosphate in each hole, and work
it thoroughly into the soil with hoe
Give the plants thorough watering be-
fore removing them from the pots. Set
the plants deep, or say till the first leaves
are on level with the surface. Press
the loose, mellow soil firmly around the
ball of earth and roots. Keep the ground
very loose and mellow on the surface by
the constant use of the cultivator and
hoe. If you have no hotbed start the
plants in box of light soil in the kitch-
en- window. When the plants begin to
crowd each other in the box transplant
into other boxes, and when they are we'll
grown harden them off by leaving the
boxes out of doors during the day in fine
weather. Good plants may be raised by
sowing the seed out of doors early in the
spring. Select a sheltered spot with a
southern exposure; work into the soil
some dry sifted coal ashes. Sow the
seed in drills, fifteen inches apart. For
raising young tomato plants in this way
the soil cannot be too rich. But the land
where the crop is to be grown need only
be in good average condition, except that
it should be very fine and mellow.-N
Y, Herald. ss +,sasf1 =, s,kAe.4.--. s.
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Pug had objected to going to .cbr.-.
and the child had carried the ss
Cling. barking little dog in his arms My. "
three squares. The sweet babv fs ~
was flushed with the heat and fat;. sace
the broad-brimmed hat was uuaha y - ~
back over the sunny curls, and Pr. Ia =,
torn big rent in the sailor dress p '' q:
effort to escape. Sc, he Climbed ~ a 10y
one of the green wooden seats MI y
the shadow Of . lilac bush, Win pals ,'sl
his arms, and would Doubtless y
fallen fast asleep if the choir Il Il.
church just across the street had NJ ~
commenced to sing: - NY
Christ the Lord is risen aou,, sss
Christ hath broken every chains
We must go now, Pug.,'
So the child slipped down, and ia
ing Pug once more in his arms. walras
across the park to Aunt Prue,s cb ursaSa
The chapel doors in the rear ~ = ~ y.
church were open, and in they went
The people were seated. and fr;n,
themselves comfortably to listen to III ~
Easter sermon. Fans and drpssss
rustled, the light came in throuch ~
great stained windows, and fell Is fo Nv
of red and purple and yellow--herss s q
new spring bonnet. there like 4 aama
on the floor. sfs '1''''' ~
Mr.. Dale had risen from his seat !.
announces the text, when a. smile. fbsS
a sound which broadenei into 4 .lancb
broke out all over the Congregation 90
For there in the doorway Of tho
church, facing all the peoble xteod ~
Jacky with Pug in his arms. ! No wnn'.
der every one laughed Straight ;nfo
the church stepped the little lad. and
was up on the pulpit stairs before AM
one had Thought TO stop him, y t,efs,s-s 4
Yes, there was the great cool shaded
church; the sweet music; flowers on Tia
organ, the altar and everywhere about
the chancel. but the angels with the;
white wings-where were they? Ara
little brother Philip was he not in tlis
Heavenly place? -.
Jacky turned round on the uulpk
stairs and grayely sought Aunt Pnpes
Gainsborough hat with its noddiur
white plumes. Yes, there she SIT vit6
q face all rosy red at the sight. Of her
dusty nephew and struggling dog. n
live brought you yofr doggy, Amt
Prue," he said, in his clear, childish
voice, that rang through the arches q
the great church. And. oh, Aunt
Prue, y with trembling lip and the 81
tears starting from the blue eyes, 4 tkns5g
are no angels here. and / can't find
brother Philip for marnma!"s nsN Kas's
Papa John, red and wrathful, started
down the aisle toward his Young i61
but kind Mr.. Dale, leaving his nulult
took the child by the hand, and, jgyiivldE
him little bunch of fragrant f6aibsiss
from vase near by. led him into The
vestry. "a szsisssssy sssss4fsss snf f
Jackys went, back through the park d
papa's arms, and BY the time he reached
home was fast asleep, with the cufly|
head nestled down - :. IL, Z
Within the gracious hollow ~A%Ms wv
Which God adeineveFy human ehoulder,
Where He meant some tired head ~ 4Rss
For comfort should be laid. ;. HhA ~
s4su0a boon Wtqe gAsrake 7
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stor Rouna Readefs.
MARCH AND APRIL.

A clustering fellow goes browning about;
He tossos the snow with a scuffie and shout,
And pinches the toes,
The ears and the nose
OF each little darling, wherever he goes
The timid birds hear him and hide their wee
heads, 81,
The mooly-cows shiver in barns and in sheds,
And sweet flowers say, sgs3sHs fsigyif
/" At home we will stay
Until this noisy fellow gets out of the way"
A bright little maiden is soon on his track,
And gently, though firmly, she orders him
back. fi,ss--s - ~ So
Oh, fair she appears,
In smiles and in tears;
She calls to the flowers: Come up. pretty
dearS."
The birds hear her voice, and they twitter with
glee,
And pink little buds peep the bright sky to
see; IS
The grass wrinkles out, =
And lambs skip about, "a ~
And, oh, the glad children SO merrily shout!
And who is this clustering chap, can you tell?
And who is this maiden who robes hill and dell,
Whose whisper SO arch b
Wakes Oak-tree and larch? = 2
Why, she is Miss April, and he Mister March.
-Hdrper's Young People.
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she goes home in the street-cars and hur-
ries off to another funeral, where the
same programme is repeated. Very
often we encounter another class OF
regulars who strive only to geta ride
to graveyard where their own people
are buried. These worthless always be-
tray themselves BY carrying fower-pot,
which they vainly try to conceal IN their
shawls. The pot contains flowers to be
planted on the graves of their own dead.
''The fiower-pot regulars make a reg
ular picnic out of the occasion. They
take their sewing and lunch. An old
tombstone forms the table if the weather
is fine, and, seated on the grass, the GRO
MES gossip and sew to their hearts con-
tent. On clear day in the spring-time
/ have seen no less than twenty of these
scandal mongers waiting at the Palmer
Street ground for a funeral to enter,
which they follow like carrion crows in
search of horse meat = ss' s17s
The suggestive but rather inelegant
smile was interrupted by young man
who called the undertakers attention to
awoman ascending the steps, and crowd
ing her way between the persons coming
out of the house. She was prevented
from going any furthersby,the undertaken
whispering something in her ear.
That woman" said he, resuming
his position at the curbstone, ''has been
going to funerals for twenty years, tony
certain knowledge. If she fails to get a
ride she is content to watch the house
while the family is absent. She takes
occasion to go all over the house and sex-
anime everything 1 don't think The
woman is dishonest. She is genuine
female Paul Pry, umbrella and ALL
PhiLGdelphia Cor. chicago Tribune.
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Isaac Newton, the philosopher, was,
like Macaulay, not above propounding
riddles, showing that although he disco0-
cred gravity, he was notsalWays addicted
to it, Here was orc of his which Hor-
ace Walpole couldn't guess; s
-Four people sat at a table oplay,s .,.,g 81 /
They played all that night and some part Of
ssss.sg next day: .s.ss ~ ..-,sss.s i {.
This one thing observed, that when ali were
seated,
Nobody played with them and nobody betted;
Yet when they got up, each was q winner q
. - guinea. TtsN
Who answers this riddle + m sure is no ninny.''
- Those of our readers who do not pre-
tend to be any smarter" than Horace
Walpole WILDE pleased to know that the
answer is musicians 1t might have
been ''punz makers almost. as well, be-
cause they often play upon words, night
and days Detroit Free Prss. ssu4
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"A certain Philadelphia man who has
been to- Europe and never tires of. telling
about It, remarked to stranger on Q
local train the other day: II suppose
you have not Travelled much. have youp''
mot much, not mueh,'' was the reply,
'.only about 1SO, 900 miles during. the
past ten years" The ..been-to- Europe
man nearly tainted. and does not yet
know that the stranger lives thirty miles
out-of the city and has merely travelled
that distance twice every working day
during the past decade. Phitadelp hia
NeUs.
Irish landlords up to the present time
have not made an effort to charge their
tenants for the air they breathe, but they
are rapidly coming to it.-N Z, Cone
nserctal Advertiser
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The oystermen of Oyster b3 4
l., claim that they hold Their nsaen ~
rights under a patent of grant $50 M
the town by Queen Anne, and ins
New York Legislature has no rgn'
interfere with them.
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s-A New York woman has msde
will on silver cards, taking out 2 P'sai
of each card in the shape OF $3.50 n.
no two being alike-4and GYMS \
piece to different heirs. They Rs ~ =
receive what she has bequesthed ~. y.
on the cards into which, their ~
pieces fit -. -
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-04-08

Parmi les REGENTS projects de
chemins de fer, il en- est un qui est
dun interet considerable pour
l'ouest de la Louisiana. lie Trans
Mississippi Central Railway-tel
est le nom de ce nouveau chemin,
qui, partant d'Omaha, Nebraska,
touchera a Jefferson City, Miss, a
Little Rock, Ark, s'arretera a
Houston, Texas. II doit traver-
ser six paroisses de la Louisiana !:
Union, Lincoln, Bienville, Red
River, Natchitocheser ct Sabine
L'execution de ce projet est de ma
ture a doubler la production de
ces paroisses qui sont restees sta
tionnaires par suite du manque de
communications.