way of keeping eggs as above, we shall be 
glad to print it. 
Green Pen Fritters .—One pint cooked peas; 
mash while hot ; season to taste ; make bat¬ 
ter of two eggs, one cup milk, quarter tea¬ 
spoon soda, half teaspoon cream tartar, half 
cup (lour ; beat hard ; cook as for griddle- 
cakes. 
Cookies.—I cup of butter ; 3 cups sugar ; 
3 eggs; % cup milk or sour cream; tea¬ 
spoon of soda. Mix soft, roll thin, and bake 
in rather quick oven.— h. 
an hour of trial which would have discour¬ 
aged muny a bravo man, After years of toil 
and labor, with a large indebtedness to her 
late partner, a large family, an invalid hus¬ 
band, thus to lind herself almost where she 
begun, was soul-trying ; but with the indom¬ 
itable will which she possesses, site mar¬ 
shalled her energies for a new battle of life, 
and amid all lifer misfortunes there was not 
a shadow on her face. Moneyed men came 
forward and tendered her means, but she 
refused it, choosing to paddle her own canoe. 
With $200 she purchased four Italian queens, 
and with a few stocks of bees which she 
secured elsewhere she started again. Soon 
after a fanner from a distance offered her 
iifty colonies of common black booH, to be 
paid for wheu she pleased and at wliat price 
she pleased. Mr. James Smith, the well- 
known horticulturist, who resides a mile 
south of the city, and two miles from her 
residence, offered her the. use of his fruit 
farm, on which to Bet lip her new colonies, 
aTnl she accepted the kind offer and removed 
her bees there, and immediately set about 
removing them to movable comb-hives and 
Italianizing them. This colony will this 
season increase from 50 to 163, and will pro¬ 
duce over 7,000 pounds of honey, so that 
before the year is gone she will have recov¬ 
ered very much from her loss. At her home 
DOMESTIC BREVITIES, 
MRS. ELLEN S. TUPPER, THE BEE 
CULTURIST. 
Des Moines, July 28,—Mrs. TUPPER was 
born at Providence, It. L, in 1832. Who was 
a daughter of Noah Smith, afterwords a 
prominent politician iu Maine, and for fifteen 
years First Assistant Secretary of the United 
States Senate. Her mother was a sister of 
Hknhy Wheaton, author of the well-known 
treatise on international law. Mrs. Tcppeii 
was educated at Providence, having zxll the 
advantage^ that wealth could give. Iu 1843 
she married Mr. At.t.en Tuppeu, a successful 
lumber merchant at Houitou, Me., herfather 
having already removed there ami engaged 
in the lumber business. There bIlo resided 
ten years, enjoying all the luxury that wealth 
could give, when her husband removed to 
Newton, Mass., where her health failed and 
she became a confirmed invalid. Her physi¬ 
cians pronounced her heart diseased and her 
stay on earth very short. Thinking a change 
of climate might be beneficial, the family 
came to Iowa in 1851, locating at Brighton, 
Washington County, she so feeble as to be 
unable to leave her bed. The fresh and 
invigorating air of her new location soon 
revived her wasted energies, and she regained 
her health. Her husband in the meantime 
had invested lus money in a tract of timber 
land and steam saw-mills. His health soon 
failed, and being unable to attend to his busi¬ 
ness liis wealth melted away like dew before 
the sun, and poverty and bankruptcy came 
upon them. Thrown thus upon her own 
resources, Mrs. Topper sought some way of 
relief. She had never done a moment’s raau- 
ual labor. Necessity stared her in the face, 
and several small children, one a babe, rang 
their demands in her cars. She engaged as a 
teacher of a school three miles distant, ut $20 
a month, and with her babe in her arms she, 
on horseback, daily went to her tafik, attend¬ 
ing to her household duties when out of 
school. After the close of thus school she 
established a school in her own house ; she 
loves little children, and soon she had a house 
full of pupils. Thus she managed to support 
her family unt il 1857, when she turned her 
attention to bees. Who purchased two colo¬ 
nies, and began to work with them, mean¬ 
while reading everything which she could 
find relating to bee culture ; but she soon 
learned that theory and practice were two 
quite opposite matters. Her two colonies 
Increased rapidly. She bought improved 
hives as hist as she could afford them. She 
soon after became interested in Italian bees, 
and procured a few. She then began to 
write about bees, giving the result of her 
practical knowledge. Her first article was 
published in the Burlington Hawkeye, she 
receiving pay therefor, fu 1865 she wrote an 
essay On bees for the United States Agricul¬ 
tural Report, which was pronounced by good 
judges to bo the beat essay ever published by 
the Department, and a Washington paper 
said of it, “Though written by a woman, it 
is a model for efforts of that kind. She knew 
what she wrote about, and told it—not one 
waste word in sixteen pages.” Her reputa¬ 
tion soon began to be established ; she was 
sought out by various journals, and she now 
writeB regularly for the National Agricul¬ 
turist and Bee-Keepers’ Magazine, the New 
Vork Tribune, National Bee Journal, and 
Colman’s Rural World. She also has the 
position of lecturer on. bee-keeping, natural 
history of bees, &c., in the Statu Agricultural 
College at Ames, whither she goes regularly. 
With the officers of that institution she has 
visited different parts of the state, holding 
farmers’ institutes, and wherever she goes 
never fails to elicit much interest in her 
subject. In the spring 1873 she, with her 
family, removed to Dea Moines iu order to 
gain a more central location. She formed a 
partnership with Mrs. Annie Savery, there¬ 
by adding abundant capital to her practical 
knowledge, and the firm was known as the 
Italian Bee Company, An agent was des¬ 
patched to Lake Como, Italy, to procure 
queen bees, find the business was rapidly 
increased. In the fall of that year she pur¬ 
chased the interest of Mrs. Saveiiy in the 
business, and placed her bees for the winter 
in the collar of her house at Cottage Grove, 
about, one mile from the city. Early thin 
spring, while she was in the city, '.with her 
family, her house took fire and her 300 liivea 
or bees were destroyed. Writing to a friend, 
she said :—“ I came home at dark to find my 
house a wreck and the 200 stocks of bees 
ruined. Is it not hard sometimes to believe 
that ‘ 1 all things work t ogether for our good '{ 1 
I have worked so hard and am so tired that 
I can form no plans for the future.” It was 
SELECTED RECiPES 
Green Corn Pudding. —Allow one long ear 
of sweet corn for each person. Take half a 
pint of milk, one egg, a dessertspooafuI of 
white sugar, one of sweet butter, and a tea- 
spoouful of salt to every two ones. Beat the 
eggs and sugar well together, aud add the 
milk and salt. Cut the com oh' the cobs with 
a sharji knife, and chop the divided grains 
with a chopping-knife, but not too fine ; or, 
better still, split each row of grains down the 
middle before cutting them off the cobs. The 
com must not be boiled first, ytir the 
chopped corn into the milk, and bake iu a 
brisk oven in custard cups or a tin pan until 
the top is nicely browned, but not hardened. 
Serve hot, without sauce. This is a delicious 
dish. Some persons prefer it. cold. Common 
corn may be used, if young and tender, but 
requires as much again sugar. 
Cooking Pens. — An English paper says: 
No vegetable depends more for its excellence 
upon cooking t han peas. Have them.freshly 
gathered and shelled, but never wash them. 
If they are not perfectly dean, roll them 
in a dry cloth ; but tin's is seldom required, 
and then only through carelessness. Pour 
them into the dry cooking-dish and. put as 
much salt over them as is required ; then 
pour on buffing wat cr enough to cover them; 
boil them fifteen minutes if they are young ; 
no pea is fit to cook which requires more 
than half an hours boiling. When done, put 
to a quart of peas three tablespoonfuls of 
butter, and pepper to your taste. Put all 
the water to them in which they were boiled. 
The great mistakes-in cooking peas ure in 
cooking too long, and in deluging them 
with water. 
Preserving Plums Without Skins. —Pour 
boiling water over large egg or magnum 
bommt plums; cover them until it is cold, 
then null off the skins. Make a sirup of a 
pound of sugar and a teacup of water for 
each pound of fruit; make it boiling hot and 
pour it over ; let them remain l'or a day or 
two, then drain off and boil again; skim it 
clear and pour it hot over tlm plums ; let 
them remain nnt.ll the next day, then put 
them over the fire in the sirup ; boil them 
very gently until clear ; take them from the 
simp with a skimmer into the pots or jars ; 
boil the sirup until rich and thick ; takeoff 
any scum which may arise, thim let it cool 
and settle, aud pour it over the plums. If 
brown sugar is used, which is quite as good, 
except for green gages, clarify it as directed. 
Daniel Webster's Chowder, —A Newport, 
R. I., correspondent furnishes the German¬ 
town Telegraph with the followingFour 
tablcspoonfuls of onions, fried with pork , 1 
quart of boiled potatoes, well mashed ; l 1 
pounds of sea biscuit, broken; 1 teaspoonful 
of thyme, mixed with one of summer savory ; 
hi bottle of mushroom catsup ; 1 bottle of 
port or claret; 1 j nutmeg, grated ; a few 
cloves, mace and allspice ; 6 pounds nf lish, 
sea bass or cod, cut in slices ; 25 oysteis, a 
Jittle black pepper and a few slices of lemon. 
The whole put in a pot aud covered with an 
inch of water, boiled for an hour and gently 
APIARIAN NOTES 
bee stings. 1 recommended him to apply 
common soil to the wound, as described by 
Mr. Gordon, aud it immediately relieved the 
pain and prevented the swelling. Such a 
receipt is of more value than gold to all who 
have anything to do with bees. I formerly 
used common blue for bee stings, but coni 
moil soil is preferable.” 
Salt Water for Bess .—Are bees fond of salt 
water, and does it do them any good to have 
it supplied to them ? When I was a boy 
I remember my father kept bee:-, and after 
making a box-liive of new boards he used to 
drench the inside with strong brine. I never 
asked nor knew why. 1 was reminded of it 
by seeing a statement, sometime ago, that 
bees weie benefited by having access to salt 
water. How does it benefit them ? Cun any 
of your apiarians answer *— C. F. (loss. 
Building Combs Straight. — Is there any 
device invented which will compel bees to 
build their combs parallel and of equal size f 
if so, where, can I obtain such device *—s. f. 
We know of none. 
King-Birds Destroy Baas, a Marylander 
has discovered, by dissecting them, and he 
shoots all that approach his apiary. 
