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Show believe, the only Rebel banged at the ANDERSOXYILLE. close of the war. lie received instructions from Jeff' Davis, and was imbued with an outrageous vindicMEMOIRS OK ONE WHOM'FFEK-E- I tiveness bv his instructor, which torITS 1IOKKORS. tured the life out of thousands of helpless men. Eis Story Does not Tally With Jeff A Letter from Mrs. Jefferson Daxls. Davis' Story. Mrs. (.'. 11. Ihuvhenal, the wife of a Attorney in Richmond, IndiOne of the lust men to leave Atnlrr-simvi- ll ana, is the sister of I 'apt. ijeldeu A. : during tho vur is Hay, oik? of the officers of the guard in Asheville, N. searching f r over Jell Havis while he was in Forthealth. lie is of middle age, onee of ress Monroe, and Airs. Rurchemil, then hanlv physique, hut u W reduced hv Miss Hay, spent a winter there, during exposure ill the llehel prison and by which personal relations weretheformed other that resulted in her receiving other cau-e- s. What did we have to rat? said lie day the following letter from the in rejilv to the correspondent's inquiry. widow of the dead Chief of the ConWell, sir, onee a day only we had a federacy : Beauvoir House, Christinas, 1889. J"nk of haeon the si.e of my two linHear Mrs. Rurchcna!, Your Stork k. thit My an inrli and about gers kind letter has been gratefully served were beans and very variegated peas to each man, about a handful daily, received, and I am heartily glad to hear coni once more of you and ( apt. Hay. I with a small piece of bread containing the ground cob with am always sure, in thinking of him, that he is leading no unworthy life, the corn. The I .eans and peas were old and full and had I known his address, would of hug. inside of them would he have written long ago, to ask news of found nieo fat bugs. The beans and his passing years. Your memory of dear hudiuud is that of most peojams were few enough, hut t.'ie bugs my were plentiful. Mach squad of pris- ple who could discern the grace of oners would pool their meat and peas Cod which reigned in his heart. He in a ramp kettle, making soup by boil- always answered to tenderness, and and you lie found ing I lie hueon, peas and water until in your brother Circles of gentlefolk in strong contrast to many tin baron was those with whom his misfortunes gre:ie formed on the surface of tin of assoup, and in the centre of each grease and those of his country enforced circle we would always liml a nicely sociation. We ail remember you and (apt. ladled hug. With only one meal a day, which was but a fraction of an I)av with tender friendship, and I probordinary meal at that, a mans appetite would he very happy if it were increases. He ran cut hugs, booth gs able we should meet again on earth. or anything to till up. So we soon ac- Most probably the letter you received customed ourselves to the bug diet. was written by me, for I have been amanuensis for over 'The i.ehel sentries were posted around tny f Tty years, and hud practised writing the stockade twenty feet apart. The dead line inside the prison like him until even lie could not tell can was about twenty feet from the fence. which had written, actually. You liftsudden now what the understand line. Alen were shot for crossing that of these services off- me is I can 1 remember one poor fellow who had ing become crazed under the exposures not realize that there is nothing left and privations of our horrible life. for me to do personally for him that He was tired of living, so he crawled he has an inheritance so glorious that1 poor help. over the ulead lint. diet hack or I'll there is no need of my ur plantation shoot yer! shouted the sentry. Some had generally gone to one told the sentinel that the man was with him, but the presence of guo-t- s The officer on guard was prevented mv leaving home, or, lather, cra.v. called. He warned the ora.y prisoner lie preferred I should remain with to get hack or lie shot. The poor fel- them. Ho was ill for a week with The order was acute bronchitis, and the valuable time low shouted Shoot. lost there could never be regained. given to shoot; the rifle cracked and When we thought him convalescent, a the irresponsible Union soldier wus a chill terminated his life in congestive corpse. live hours. We always knew when a prisoner Neither of my children was with us. was d ing, because half a dozen of his Winnie (Fie) was and is in Iaris, and about the sufferer companions gathered Mrs. Hayes (Maggie) was in Colorado ready to carry tho corpse outside the Tliis readiness to act as Springs, where her husband's weak stockade. Mr. Havis require him to live. pallbearers arose from the fact that lungs tho prison there was at never lost his handsome figure, never when out-id- o chance to snatch twigs and grass from stooped, never grew bald his voice the wayside, to he used us food or never changed, nor did the elasticity fuel, livery dead man was stripped of his step become heavy ; he gained of all clothing when life left the body. enough tlcsh to make him look like a He grew man of 00. Ale reasoned that clothes were of no tixo to the dead, and they were of use more and more tender and gentle, which was the only change I saw in to protect live men. lo-Our shelter and fuel supply was him. Rut my s is too new tome to eon nt it now. My sister is Mine. ('. decidedly limited. Where the trees do Weehmar Stoi-- s, and lives in Liverhad been cut down inside the stockade, She has two tine children, a pool. in poor fellows urgent need cf wood grown and her hoy nearly so. dug the roots out of tho ground to a girl This illustrates !81i( looks still handsome, and is young considerable depth. the wretched want wo experienced. for her age. Now, my dear, I have JSo shelter was provided by the Rebels. been personal, in deference to your Wo were captured as raiders. Our desire todiear of us, as well as to a sense of the kindness which lias kept considered to it their take captors right ver thing we possessed in the way of our memory green so many years. With love to your brother, xotirs We wero searched thorvaluables. Ah II. Davis. faithfully, the One of ten men in our oughly. in had How $150 squad greenbacks. to keep it from the Helm was a ques- Friday aud Sunday Children Sacrificed. tion. Finally a corn cuke was baked Until a few ye rs ago the ,'aklia-lava- s in the ashes, into which the money of Madagascar were very generwas pushed. When the searchers ally given to infanticide. Every child arrived they did not liml the cash. that was unfortunate enough to enter With this money our comrade bought the world on a Friday was carried to a piece of rough woven cotton stuff', the nearest wood, laid in a shallow with which to make a tent to cover hole, and left to its fate; Friday being held in Madagascar, as in many other ten men. t was scant covering for so many. countries, to lie an unlucky day. By Itv digging a cellar two feet deep we a very different process of reasoning, were able to c owd under the cover. certain children born on Sunday were One man slept in an exposed position, also doomed to death by exposure. so we all took turns on the outside. Sunday being a lucky day, it was conh eramped were our quarters that sidered tlmt Sunday's bairns, who-- e when one man desired to turn over fathers hold high rank, would, if they during the night all tin others were were allowed to grow up, become danobliged to turn with him. 1 remember gerous to their progenitors; and they cne night a stone hurt me we slept on were therefore put out of the way lest the bate earth without a blanket and trouble should ensue. Twins, too, 1 pinched the man next to me, desiring were killed; and every infant whoso him to turn over so that could move. birth had caused the death of its He mother was destroyed because, accordMy disturbance made him mad. swore at me. 1 swore at him. We ing to tho law of the Saklialavas. it is I be u stepped outside to fight it out. a murderer. And when a child was When we squared off' to deliver born at midnight it was customary to we were actually too weak to place it, next day, upon a path by AYo resembled a pair of ex- which oxen went to water. If the strike. hausted pugilists at the end of a lmrd I ea ts did not touch it on their way, tight, and wo agreed to finish our dif- the infant's life was saved; but if a ferences after the war, shook hands hoof or a liair bru-he- d it, no matter and went to bed again, actually amused bow lightly, the child was slain. at our ludicrous efforts to tight. AVebster at Fanouil Hull, Every morning the dead risoners were athcred in rows outside of the An interesting anecdote of Daniel prison. Arms and legs of the corpses AVebster is given by the lion. Charles were tied together. For a time the lx. Tuckenuun in bis article on Gravlmcks' pretended to keep a record Hays in Roston. in tie North f the dead. Finally Union men were American Review. AVebster was dedetailed for the purpose. The hearse livering an address in Faner.il Hall on consisted of a rough farm wagon, with the necessity for individual exertion rigging. Upon this convex am-- tie' and unflinching patriotism to avert the were thrown, as a farmer would dangers that threatened the political throw logs of wood. The brutal jailors party whoso principles lie espoused, strove the ghastly load to a trench, into when lie pe ccivcd a terrible swav of which the bodies were thrown. On tl e packed assembly, consequent on the tht way to burial arms and legs pro- rush of those endeavoring toenter, and truded from the cart and wero muti- noted the danger that might ensue. lated against tho wheels. The inhu- The orator stopped short in the middle manity exhibited by the overseers of of the sentence, advanced to the edge this prison lias never been equalled by of the platform, extended t,is arms in man. an authoritative attitude, and in a Too little is known by the rising stentorian voice, cried out : Let each The effect xvas ingeneration of tho cruelty of these man stand firm! Southerners in managing Anderou-vill- e. stantaneous. Each man stood firm; It was a damnable pest hole for the great heaving m.i-- s of humanity which there is no excuse, and for regained its equilibrium and. save the which .TetT Havis was responsible. lung breath of relief that tilled the air, Tin Kcbel general, who managed I.ili-b- y perfect stillness ensued. That. ex-(limed the great orator, is what we Prison and afterward managed o apt an illussaid that lie would kill call !'' more Yankees in pris n than would tration of the principle lie xxas exlie carried out bis pounding that the va-- t audience red at the front. ,hrat a far as he could, and was, 1 sponded with deafening cheers. AT - s Ry-go- 1, -- CHAIRMEN I HAVE MET. Some of the Strange People AX ho Have Presided at Max OKcU's Lectures. In my fexv years lecturing experience I have come across all sorts and conditions of chairmen, and can recolUct very fexv that have helped me. Noxv xx hat is the office, the duty, of a chairHe is supman on su h occasions? posed to introduce the lecturer to the audience. For this lie needs to be Someable to make a neat speech. times he is nervous: lie hems and haws, cannot find the word he wants, und only succeeds in fidgeting the audience. You don't like it. Sometimes, on the other hand, he is You a wit. There is danger again. don't like that. 1 xvas once introduced to a Nexv York audience by General There was danger Horace Porter. certainly in that, you xvill agree with me, and xvill not be surprised when I tell you that after his delightfully witty and graceful little speech, I felt as if the lie- -t part of the shoxv xvas over. Sometimes the chair has to be offered to a magnate of the neighborhood, though he may be noted for bis long prosv orations. Neither the lecturer nor the public like that. At others, it is a very popular man who is put in the chair, and gets all the applause. One doesnt like that. More than once when announced to deliver a lecture on France, I have been introduced by a chairman, who, having spent his holidays in that country once or twice, opened the evenings proceedings by himself delivering a lecture on France. 1 have felt very tempted to say to the audience in such cases: Ladies and gentlemen, ns one lecture on France is enough for an evening, perhaps you would rather I spoke about something el-Of those chairmen xvho can anil do speak, tho Scotch ones are generally good. They have a knack of starting tho evening with a droll Scotch anecdote, and putting the audience in a good humor. Occasionally they will also inako a jmijms and equally droll little speeches at tho close. One evening, in talking of America, I had iuriitiuned the fact that American dinners wero very lively anil that I thought the fact of Americans being able to keep up such a floxv of wit for so many hours xvas duo to their drinking Apolliuaris water instead of stronger things aft-- r dessert. At the end of the lecture, the chairman rose ami said that lie had greatly enjoyed it, but that he must take exception to one statement I hud made, for lie thought it very deeficult to be witty on Apolliuaris watter. Another kind of ebnirman is the ono who kills your finish and stops all the possibility of your being called back for applause, by coming forward, as soon as the last xvorils are out of your mouth, to inform the audience that tHe next lecture will he by Air. or by making a fmnneitd statement of the Society's posi ion and appealing to tho members to induce their friends to joiu. e. Two Dog Stories. Eugene Jepson, the netor, has a big, anil shaggy dog of Newfoundland collie ancestry, which lias recently exhibited unsuspected traits that have led his master to surmise that there may be something iti the theory of metempsychosis after all. The anl mul is named G retell, after the detective in Fedora," which role Air. Jepson ono assumed. Gretcli is a very domestic and emotional creature. He is usually allowed to sit in the dining room of Mr. Jepsons home at Fort Lee while the family eat. 11c was unintentionally excluded not Ion ago by the bloxving to of a door. After a little while his absence was noted by his master, who went exit to look for him. Air Jepson found the dog in tho yard Sobbing like a child, with big tears trickling utl'his black muzzle, lie resused to he comforted, and would not be persuaded to enter the dining room that evening, lie brooded over the fancied slight for several days. One Sunday morning lie was sent after the paper. After an absence of fifteen minutes, Greteh, xvi.lt a peculiar cunning exp: ession in his eyes returned without the treasured paper, lie xvagged his tail, shook his bead, anil tried to indicate iti various other xvays that the newsman from whom ho usually received the paper had not sltoxvu up. It could not be found along the path leading to the gate xvhere tho nexvsman and Greteh exchanged Sunday salivations. Air. Jepson had to go to church without his breakfast. On the folloxving Sunday Greteh was again sent after the paper, and came buck xvithout it. This time, He xvas hoxvever, lie xvas watched. seen to take the paper from the nexvsman anil then sneak a fexv rods away from the path, dig a hole anil bury the AY hen lie returned he paper in it. started in to lie about his mission in Air. Jepson expressive pantomime. interrupted him xvith a warning forefinger and the remark that he, Greteh, ought to be ashamed of himself for his duplicity. G retell seemed to have guessed wlmt had happened, and ran off' and got the paper, which he deposited at his master's feet xvith contrition. Grocer Johnson is tho leading Ocean County bird, dog and fossil fancier. AY hen anybody lias a dog that lie doesn't want, the groceryman is always Chas. F. ready to take him on trial. Neathing, the Fulton street caterer, xvho lias a xvintcr cottage here, laid a bulldog of xvliioh he grexv wearv. Grocer Johnson had seen Sportx-'number of times, lie greatly adniiivd the dogs pit tight icg mouth, which opens well back to his ears, and agreed to relieve Mr. Neathing of his Linden. Sporty took to bis nexv home kind! and as he only took a few of the mi labors cluckens, one at a time, for xx Lick a the grocer willingly ami handsomely paid, he became a general favorite. tqiortv, in an e deavor not long ago to capture a pullet, severely injured one of his jaxx's by sudden contract xvith a shovel in the hands of the oxvncr of the fowl. Sporty beat a ha-t- v retreat. He had txvo lady friends on Second street, and to them lie repaired for treatment ami consolation. They gave both so gene rou.-l- y that lie his friends when liis daily and he xvas fed. wound xvas dre-setportv soon recovered, and fur a timo conducted himself with becoming propriety. Rut his appetite for chicken got the better of his deportment a fexv ilavs ago, ai d he again fell from grace. This time, attem ding to clear a barbed xvire fence, lie badly tore tho muscles and ile-- h of one of his hind legs. He hail not been to see his lady friends since they lmil mended his lacerated jaw, but lie brought his game h"r to them before it xvas done bleed vi-it- ed d ing. They gixe him their best attention, and be came as frequently as on the former occasion to receive it. After having his leg dressed and his apbut petite satisfied lie in less than hour he returned, bringing with him a fine broiler, which lie laid care ullv on the door mat, and then informed liis friends of his gratitude for xvhat they hail done for liim by calling them to the front do r in the dog manner of running backxvurd anil forward until his purpose xvas accomplished. The ladies picked up the chicken, tied it firmly about Spottys neck, turned him loo-- c and lie lias not been seen at their home since, lie eeps close to his kennel, and is the picture of sham anil despair. The ladies, xvho are expert in dog intelligence, say that Sportys liking for game suppers xvill be effectually cured. -- A Tender AYooing. llots for stories have not all been used, as some people a. ert," remarked AY. Jennings of AYyoming in the Colonnade last evening. A friend of xvho lives out mine, he continued, in the cattle country of the Rig Horn basin xvas a xvitness in 1885 to one of the most remarkable weddings of which I have ever heard. At that time a fexv settlers had gathered in and formed the nucleus of xvhat is now a prosperous funning region, but tho sway of the cowboy xvas undisputed. The fir-wedding in that section on Owl Creek was that of Rig Charlie and h Aleetutse Nance, a native belle. Tho bride anil groom came miles on horseback to the seventy-fiv- e Squire's, and in exactly the same fashion. AY lie n within a fexv miles of the Squires home they met that official, surrounded by half a dozen coxvbovs. Then the bride got restless and nervous, declaring that she wouldnt marry any man on earth. But the Judge, the coxvbovs and the groom were equal to the occasion. At a short distance stood a corral. Take her over to the corral, boys, and put her in, said liis Honor. As Aleetutse Nance heard this order she made a wild break for the hills; buther days of freedom were over. She was quickly run doxvn, and amid a volley of feminine eloquence tho delighted boys started on a lope for the corral. Reaching this, Nance leaped from her bronk and started like a scared deer fur some adjacent brush; but it was no go. However, she fought vigorously, and his Honor ordered: Hobble her, boys. The boys were in ecstasies. A pair of raxvhiile hobbles were stripped ftom a cayu-e'- s neck, and their txvist adjusted about the sturdy ankles of the struggling bride. She was taken into the corral, and bis Honor, m Minting tho fence, bade the groom take his place by her side, and catch on to her hand. This done, his Honor assumed the look of dignified importance called for by the occasion, and said: Rig Charlie and Aleetutse Nance, you come inter this corral single. I pronounce you a couple. Big Charlie, unhobble xour wife. But this Big Charlie found it difficult to do, and it was not until one of tho coxvboys had gently east his lariat over the newly-mad- e xvife that the husband xvas able to turn ihe lady lo 'se. Then the justice called his boys together, and saying: Come on, boys, we lialn't got no business here noxv, led them axvay. One of the boys looked back, and the happy couple were busy unpacking their camping outfit, anil the honevmoon had evidently begun. t sage-brus- sage-brus- h Trying Ordeal for Edwin Booth. Edwin Booth recently told a party of friends of a trying experience that onee befell him xvhilo lie xvas having a quiet little stroll all by himself in one of tho smaller cities where lie xvas acting. Seeing some particularly delight-- f r cream pulls in a conspicuous part of a restaurant, he stepped in and purchased one. AYithont stopping to ponder upon the peculiarities of cream puffs. Air. Booth, in the most uncalculating and enthusiastic manner, bit exactly into the centre of the Of course, a small spongy delicacy. stream of the cream oozed out at each side of the into and gathered itself together on Air. Booth's cheeks. Just at this juncture some one in the shop recognized the tragedian and cried out: AA'hy, that's Air. Booth! Half a score of people croxvded aLout and ey ed the figure xxith interest. Is was a trying position for a great tragedian xvho xvas con eiousof being in anything but a tragic role. But he went calmly his on with refreshment, eating xvitii as much unconcern and enjoyment, apparently, as if he xv ere far from the madding crowd. But, he adde t. with a t xv inkle in his eye. I never did a better hit of acting in my life. The mil. doUvcicd to the factory orght to be in good condition. is square. That ning, and this is much the lietter on all accounts and not usually if any, more expensive. Hints for Farmers and Busy Housewives to Appreciate. food slowly. Digestion till the temperature of the food has been raised by the beat of degrees, tho stomach to ninety-eiglienee the more heat that can he imparted to it by 6loxv mastication, the better. The precipitation of a large quantity of cold food into the stomach by fast eating may, and often does, cause discomfort anil indigestion, and of this kind results in a everv measurable injury to the digestive drunk xx ith cold function. Eat all cold xvill not begin ht occa-io- n Ice-xvat- er food of cour-- e increases the mischie. Hot drinks hot xvater, xvoak tea, coffee, chocolate, etc. xvill, on the contrary, help to prevent it. But eat 6lowly, anyxvav. Any one who hns ever oaten the delicious Southern dish gumbo xvill forever after haxe a high opinion of okra, and will not he at a loss to knoxv why it is cultivated. The conservative culinary authority of the encyclopedia for declares that okra is cultivated its young pods, xvliich abound in mucilage; their principal use is to impart If the enthu a thickening to soups. siastic believers in the industrial value of okra are to be trusted it xvill he for tho pocket instead of the palate of the South. Like ils relatix'cs of the malloxv family tho okra has a fibre, and this it is believed can bo used as a substitute for jute and xvork-ei- l up into bagging. The agricultural department of South Carolina has recently received specimens of okra fibre and has forwarded some of tliom to Secretary Rusk, xvho is said to be a be.iever in okra. In the okra stalk the fibre is surrounded by the xvood, not mixed xvith it, and is therefore quickly separable by machinery, xvhile jute must he separated by hand. Some okra enthusiasts predict that it will displace King Cotton, and more conservative people believe that the fibre xvill he found to Tho have great mercantie xulue. South is making bagging of various materials and xvill try okra rather than In tliis pay tribute to the jute trust. respect the South has shoxvn a sturdy determination to be independent of tiust dictation. cul-iivat- ed . xva? So Good feeding is a very important agent in good breeding, hut it taUj quite a number of generations hif,ire anything like a nexv breed can be pro. duced in addition to much xvatchfitf care. Common land plaster is excellent ai a deodorizer about stables and privies or to keep manure piles from eendini0 out their odors. Colts should bo used frequently xvhile groxving up, but always lightlv until their strength inaTires. No cun. siderablc weight should he placed on a colts buck until the spine is stiff' aa,j strong, or a holloxx' back xvill be the result. Some dogs do excellent at churning, but a Chester Uo., Pa., dim after three years of steady xvork, rt fused to churn any more, and allowed himself to be choked to death rather He doubtless felt than xvork longer. that some other dog should have liis day, and perhaps he xvas right. A New York dairyman, after mini xvas induced to keep a persua-iomilk record of each coxv, and on sumd uf lSUC ming up found that only his herd (one coxv in three) xvas pay- ' Thereupon he reor- ing expenses. ganized that herd In a hurry, and ia ie noxv satisfied that a record is a safe thing. llahit lui3 a great deal to do with the methods in vogue for dairying and stock feeding. Before peoplo xxete habituated to the use of table forks it xvas deemed sinfui in some quarters to use them just as some benighted4. Christian objected once to fiddles and ' organs in church choirs. This fact is yp1 recorded in the American Cyclopedia. Some people even yet deem it almost sinful to stable a coxv summer and . 0 xvintcr, think ng that she needs to tight I111' flies in summer in the sun, and that northxvest winds and snowstorms t crea-- e the floxv of milk in winter. One xvho lias tested the yield of milk from a coxv fed xvith nice green, early cut hay, and then xvith hay over ripe, g1 coarse and brittle, says that t he former was xvorth to him $7 a ton more than fr the latter. But somo farmers xvill not behex-it in spite of a dozen tests. A good milk record xvill tell far more of a coxv's merits than a study of Let escutcheon. n, one-thir- , j e rwili Farm Notes. five tons of butter xvereobsi Sixty Fattening tho birds is an important, ftkat but not a difficult matter. The birds shipped from Alontgomerv County, are shut up in a light, dry, but roomy Pennsylvania, to Liverpool by Samuel jconi jeny house or shed for about six xvecks, and C. Freed recently. are fed twice a day on barley meal Airs. Carver, the cattle queen of mixed with milk, but always have good Tular County, bought 1,400 head, of i barley and maiz : by them if they feel cattle last week of Boso ranchers at They are also given milk to $10 a head, says the Los Angeles j hungry. drink, anil roots of various kinds, xx ith Times. jogm cabbage, are allowed to them, as xx'ell xvho The can thinks he man as a plentiful supply of sand, ashes, ftvitl of and lime to assist digestion. They a:e fruit successfully without any study is it insect enemies xvill knoxv xvhen kept strictly clean, and food is never too late. Insects xvork when frui: kxT1 alloxved to lie about and become sour, rjf ves The great secret of turkey feeding is groxvers sleep, and on Sundays also. to keep tho birds from becoming sick, A petrified apple was discovered at a b and to kill them off' so soon as the pro- Harrington, Ale., a few days ago byippi cess of ripening is completed. A hun- some boys. It had changed to the f tit. dred and lit'ty years ago the birds were co or of marble. The stem and sent in droves to London, as we have som xvere apparently as perfect aibrni IliiS already seen, and fatted in the neigh- when the fruit fell from the tree. totii bourhood of the metropolis, if fatted tree A thriftv hut fruit at all. La'er on a series of express can be made Qi root to bear sometimes by carts xvas established, by means of . about a trench it, D'g which the birds could be delivered to pruning. ting off tho long roots, put muck or M London in two days and a night. But manure in the trench and fill up. The now they are killed on the spot, pluckresult will sometimes be admirable. fior- ed and dressed, and xvithinafexv hours A duck, belonging to a Rockland, hlc can bo delivered into the poulterers Ale., man, xvas frozen into a i ond theie, ifo shops. There is another use to which the other night, aud xvas found in theferuill turkey is put, though it has nothing to morning xvith just her head out of tb jmdf do with the question of supplying the ice. The ice xvas broken and the dudeuull markets, namely, as a hatcher and freed, apparently nono the worse for j iir brooder. Turkey cocks as wrell as her night out. jjlynx hens can ho trained to sit and rear any To check or ruin a fruit orchard a variety of fowl, and as they planted xvith care, seed it to grass ami. largo number of eggs and chickens, leave it to take care of itself. There they can do a considerable amount of are some other ways also, but fexv work in this direction. It is no un- as efficient as this. Blit xvhat is 8retj.av th'i. common th ng in some p arts of France use of an orchard unless planting to see a turkey gobbler looking after a owner means to care for it? flock of little chickens, perhaps thirty rapid in number, with all the zeal and care February, in fact, is generally mortxscI of an old matron. Ball Alall Budget. windy and cold, though less snowy (the in than January, and it is in this momlprin, that xve must xvatch our chances in ef Jig Canned food of every description is mild winter like tins one, to get out Tin noxv almost universally used all oxer our xvood and store our ice whenevttfimik the world, and the argumtnts for and the weather favors. The chances it and s that c against its healthfulness ha-- generally Alarch are far more uncertain. Social subsided. It is admitted that canned I'rick goods are not necessarily unhealthful per se, and their great com ;nce Kate Field says, referring to and comparative cheapness under Chief Justice Fuller delivered in them very popular. Aloreox'cr greater House of Hepresent-tive- s his oration, care is exercised by tho canners than on a of Constitutional 'AVorli century ever before, so that the real danger ernmeut: In marched the (i, which attended the use of goods put dent and Air. Blaine, followed by up in tin cans has been in a great other Secretaries, and sat down ia ( -- 1 bios-fie- non-beari- cnt-- cox-e- r 4 - e measure eliminated. Nevertheless some caution should be exercised by consumers. Decomposition in animal products often develops poisonous alkaloids, like the tvrotoxicon which is sometimes the cause of illness to persons eating milk products or cheese, and cases of illness from eating canned goods are usually to be traced to this source. There is also an. element of danger in salts that may lie formed by the action of tho contents on the inetal of tho can. Both these sources of danger hax'e been reduced to a minimum by improved methods of canning, but it is idle to deny that they exist, and they demand reasonable precaution in purand chasing using canned goods. There are otVr objections, such as they arc, to food in cans. It must he confessed that tlie operations to be witnessed in some, at least, of the canning factories are not such as to prepossess a sensitive stomach in favor of canned fruit, nnil the women and men who handle the fruit in i s various stages are not always so cleanly in person as diey might be. Good housekeepers are coining more and more into the habit of doing their oxvu fruit-ca- n of the amphitheatre. h3:. u f Yes, sitting is what it is calico AYitlun five minutes every mother son of them, xvith perhaps ono exceh A; tion, had slid doxvn so that hia bw The was supported by his shoulder bhwc TheJo", tha first roxv . and the small of his back. ti of the Sup cine Court S folloxvyj h! In bevy after bevy filed in. trast with them, there sat tho j j. Alinisters and the delegates to international Conferences, as as ramrods. 4 j vt,,( AYhat made the contrast so disspff" j able was tho fact that our oxx.ti gr men were by far the sons on the floor, as a rule. It 6c3;arli a pity that they should spoil ' effect by such an attitude. the common fault of American Tr its public places. Congress sits on t ain and odd spines when it .rp best-lookin- g P0 ( , ( C sdei re; rr magistrates do it on the Bench, State legislators do it. Ever? does it xvlieu he hasnt his hands r' I p,, brain or both, too busily oveupa yea admit of such a thing. And Os, pray; j 't |
