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OONDUOTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
PEN THOUGHTS PROM “ EVERY-DAY 
HOUSE.” 
MRS. ANNIE L. JACK. 
“ And I know why the bird with the spring time 
To the gnarled old tree comes buck ; 
He has tried tho south and the summer. 
He has felt what the sweet things lack." 
So wrote a dear friend of mine who is one of 
America’s sweeteBt singers, and the lines 
haunted me, with a truth I could not deny, 
during niy homeward journey toward this 
laud of snow. Full and rich had been the 
days and weeks. No words of mine can tell 
in a “ pen-thought ” of the enjoyment I found, 
meeting, as 1 did, many of the men aud women 
of the day, whose words of wisdom aud songs 
of melody are known to thousands. Science, 
art and literature, each and all, gave me a 
glimpse of their treasures aud spoke words of 
kindness and regard. Besides this, I saw the 
“Mural" and his wife and “weans,” as ihc 
Scotch folk would say, I enjoyed with them, 
at the Rural Farm, the pleasure of a Sabbath 
day’s rest and their large hospitality, and wit¬ 
nessed the entire interest and enthusiasm they 
evince in every department of this paper. 
But New York is a noisy' city to quiet coun¬ 
try people. We stared in amazement at the 
elevated railway, and gazed with awe at the 
seeming pigmies working with nothing but 
wires on tho East River bridge; and theu came 
the truth of Trowbridge’s lines: 
0 “ Laud all houses, and roads all stones, 
That deafen your pare aud batter your bouoR"’ 
So, after all, w r e turned homeward, resolved 
to once more seek the “ simple tastes aud tuiud 
coutent” that lie withiu our sphere, and to tell 
the result of our experience to the Rural sis- 
t ers. 
There is no class to whom a glimpse of the 
outer world is more necessary than those in¬ 
terested iu domestic economy. We learn a 
great deal by comparison, aud every house¬ 
keeper is on the alert when at other people's 
tables, to gain some new idea or plau, that will 
make borne brighter, or add to her satisfaction 
therein. During the first few days after one's 
return is a very good time to take judgment 
upon your own works. Are the children where 
you have visited bettor behaved, as well or 
better dressed, than yours? Are the daugh¬ 
ters more loving aud dutiful, the sous more 
helpful? Was the table and its appointments 
more neatly kepi, the food better cooked, than 
yours ? All these and other questions, by way 
of comparison, present themselves to your 
mind, aud are valuable, as they encourage you 
to better things and help to make home more 
attractive. The contact with the busy outer 
world is a good tonic to our sleepy, stagnant 
lives; the stirring words that fall from the lips 
of an orator, or the poems we may hear from 
one with voice too sweet for aught else ol 
earth, may refresh aud cheer us ; but I think 
every housekeeper will agree to the feeling 1 
have mentioned—the value of distance and re¬ 
turn to home, in the way of comparison. 
MAKING “HIRED HELP" RESPONSIBLE. 
MARY WAGER-FiSHER. 
One of the rules at ’* our house” is to make 
the “ help,” both on the farm aud in the house, 
responsible for the loss aud breakage of articles 
confided to their eare and use. The result is 
that the breakage of crockery is almost 
nothing, and other losses areiu proportion. 1 
think that “help,” as a rule, like this method 
of management much better than the “fus6" 
and scolding that usually accompany break¬ 
age. They learn a double lesson in this way: 
to be careful, and to know the cost and value 
of thiugs. Of course, the master aud mistress 
can always make whatever aliuwau«o they 
think best iu regard to accidents. Whenever I 
have occasion to introduce "new" help into 
my family service, I inform her at the outset, 
that what she breaks she will have to pay for, 
and the announcement is always good-na¬ 
turedly received. Not long ago, 1 overheard a 
new arrival iu the kitchen remark to my house¬ 
keeper: “ Madame’s rule is a good ouu about 
breaking dishe6. I was at a place two years 
ago, where there was the same rule, and where 
I broke some dishes. But mind you, I haven’t 
broke any since. Some girls slam the dishes 
around aud don’t care whether they break 
’em or not. 1 guess if they had»'em to pay lor 
they would be more careful," aud I was quite 
of the same mind. It is sometimes well lo 
know the opinions of hired help on household 
management. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
liaUtii l’ie. 
One egg; one-half cup of raisins well slewed; 
one cup of sweet cream; sugar to taste. Beat 
well together, and bake with two crusts. Cur¬ 
rants (dried) instead of raisins are very nice. 
Hnsty Pudding, 
Place on the stove a pan containing six 
teacupeful of sweet milk. Beat two eggs well, 
and add one teacupfut of milk; six table- 
spoonsful of flour aud a little salt; beat well 
together—then stir it in the milk on the stove 
just before, or as it begins to boil. When as 
thick as mush put iu greased cups to mold. 
Made in the morning and eaten with sweetened 
cream for dinner, it is excellent. 
Gingerh rend. 
One cap of sugar; one cup of sirup; one 
cup of sour milk; half cup of butter; one 
tablespoonl'ul of giuger; one teaspoouful of 
soda; flour enough to make it thick but not 
so stiff but that it will smooth without the aid 
of a spoon. Bake in a small-sized dripping- 
pan and cut out as you want for the table. 
Mrs. II. C. Underwood. 
Apple Jelly, 
A beautiful aud delicious jelly may be made 
of any sour red apples such as Spitzenbergs, 
Baldwins or Northern Spys. Wash, quarter 
aud core without paring and cook until the 
whole mass has a red tiuge and is soft. Pour 
into a coiander, drain olf the juice aud run it 
through a jelly-bag. Boil again one-half 
hour. Measure and to every three cups of 
juice allow two cups of sugar aud boil aguiu 
fifteen uiinute6. If highly-flavored jelly is 
liked, lemon or vauilla ruay he added before 
it is turned into the cups. Most jelly recipes 
give unequal measure of sugar aud fruit, juice, 
but in making jelly of winter apples I have 
found two of sugar to three of fruit, give a 
good firm jelly that will cut smoothly with a 
knife. 
Apple Sauce. 
By using a little care iu making fresh apple 
sauce, it may be a much more appetizing dish 
than the “mussy pop" that is often seen on 
our tables. If you have a variety to choose 
from, always take those that do not go lo pie¬ 
ces readily when cooked. (I have found the 
.Spitzcuberg to be the best). Peel, core and 
cut into nice even quarters, rejecting any 
bruised or knotty pieces. Cook them in a 
porcelain kettle or any earthernware dish. J 
have an old-fashioued grunite-ware pudding- 
dish lhal i have used lor years in cooking 
apples. Four plenty of boiling water on them 
aud boil until you euu pierce them readily 
with a fork, and no longer. Then turn care¬ 
fully into your table-dish without breaking 
the pieces ; sprinkle with sugar and cover in-, 
til cool. 
Canned Rulncc*. 
Quinces are scarce iu this section of the 
country this year, aud therefore our supply 
for canning is limited. 1 may as well confess 
that my supply was quite limited ; in fact, X 
had just two nice, fair quinces, which a kiml 
neighbor hud sent me. Yet from those two 
quinces I managed to fill four quart cans with 
most delicious sauce. 
In the first place, I pared the quinces, being 
careful to save every particle of the skin, the 
cores aud the seeds, which I boiled together in 
a little water until soft. Boiling extracts from 
the eorus a guutoiy substation, which is pecu¬ 
liarly rich iu that delicious flavor whieh con¬ 
stitutes the only value of a quince, and of 
which I wished to save every atom. To the 
water which I straiued from these after boil¬ 
ing, I added the two quinces cut into eighths, 
four pounds of sugar and eight pounds of 
rich, sweet apples, pared aud cut into nice 
even quarters (that were without spot or blem¬ 
ish), with water enough to cover them. 1 boiled 
them neatly two iiuurs, until the apples were 
perfectly sott aud yet held together nicely; 
then scaled them m quart cans. Being cooked 
in so much sugar, they hardly needed self- 
sealing cans, but the caus are so cheap now 
that it seems bettor to use them; then one 
need have uo anxiety about fermentation. 
At this time of year one has cans that have 
been emptied of strawberries and other fruit 
pul up early in the season. The remuuut that 
remained after filling the cans was eaten at 
the tea-tablu, and was honored by a compli¬ 
ment; for paterfamilias, being ignorant of the 
large substitution of apples, innocently pro¬ 
nounced them the “best canned quinces he 
had ever eaten.” e. s. r. 
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CHRISTMAS SWEETS. 
llickory-nui Mucaroonv. 
Make frosting as for cake; stir in enough 
pounded hickory-nut meats, with mixed 
ground spice to taste, to make convenient to 
haudle. Flour the hands and form the mix¬ 
ture into little balls. Place on buttered tins, 
allowing room to spread, aud bake iu a quick 
oven. 
Hickory.Nut Cakes, 
One cup of white sugar; one beaten egg ; 
half a cup of sifted floor aud a cup of minced 
nuts. Drop on buttered tins. 
Ice-Cream Candy. 
One and one-half pound of “A sugar; two 
tablespoonsful of butter; one atd a half tea- 
cupful of water; the riud ul ?lf a lemon. 
Boil until it will wisp when dropped into cold 
water, set aside and when it has eased bub¬ 
bling, stir in the juice of a lemon. When cool, 
take out the peol and pull until white. Draw 
into tbin sticks and check into three or four- 
inch leogths. The sirup should be stirred all 
the time it is boiling. Mary B. 
.MISCELLANKOFS. 
Monday, Dec., 8.1870. 
A sail spectacle was witnessed at smith port, J’a., 
on the 4th Inst.; It was the execution ot Andrew 
Tracy of the same place, who, on the tsth of last 
September, shot and killed Ills sweetheart, Mary 
Itiley, lu the street. When the drop fell the rope 
broke and precipitated the doomed man on the 
ground; a now rope hud to be provided and adjust¬ 
ed and he was picked up and brought, on tho scaf¬ 
fold a second time, allot which painfully prolonged 
the scene, lie was convicted or the crime mid 
there can bo no doubt ot his guilt, but there Is 
doubt as to the justness of this severe sentence. 
Tracy was an educated und even learned young 
man, but If the published peculiarities oi his char¬ 
acter and behavior are true, he could not. have 
been in Ills right mind, neither at the time of the 
tragedy nor for years before. But he Is gone and 
the law Is satisfied. 
A dispatch from Toronto, Dec. 4th, states that 
smuggling is carried on lo an Immense extent on 
Lake Erie at the nearest points to (lie American 
shore. The attention of the Dominion Govern- 
nient Is being directed to the circumstance and 
Immediate action will be taken to prevent it. The 
matter will also be brought to the attention of the 
authorities at Washington with a request for 
interference. 
Employers are beginning to respond to the im¬ 
pulse of the better times. The wages were re¬ 
cently raised from five to ten per cent, for 600 
mechanics employed in the Car shops of flic Dela¬ 
ware, Lackawanna, anil Western Railroad at 
Scranton, Pa„ without any request on their part. 
The Virginia legislature met at Richmond 
last Wednesday In tho tl ret biennial session, and 
the readjusters elected all the officers lu both 
houses. Gov. Holliday's message Is almost wholly 
! devoted to a discussion of the public debt. He 
fully Indorses the settlement made during the last 
session, known as the McCulloch bill, by which 
the creditors agreed to forego tack interest due 
on their money, and states that, notwithstanding 
ti 11 the agltallon looking to a repeal ol the meas¬ 
ure, nearly $8,300,000 of old bonds have already 
been exchanged tor new ones. Louisiana voted 
last week tor state officers and on the adoption ot 
the new State eonstli niton. The democrats have 
probably elected Wlltz governor by 20,000 majority. 
The new constitution was adopted by a large ma¬ 
jority, while tJie debt ordinance was probably de¬ 
feated. Tbc democratic majority in New Orleans 
Is about. 6 , 000 . 
Chief COJorow surrendered himself to the peace 
commission at Los l’lnos, Col„ Monday, and tes¬ 
tified that he took part tn the Thornburgh fight, 
which lie said, was caused by accident. The 
troops were trying to avoid the i tes by taking 
the trait, Instead of the regular road through .Milk 
Rlvor canon, while the Indians were trying to do 
tho same thing. They were surprised when the 
command came up, and began the light quite un¬ 
expectedly to themselves. Colorow swore posi¬ 
tively that Uie Mormons had promised to assist 
the Indians In any war with the Lulled states 
troops, 't he commission Is now much more hope¬ 
ful ot accomplishing something than formerly. 
The surrender of 12 Indians engaged lu the White 
River massacre will probably be demanded Sat¬ 
urday. uuray will attempt to carry out the de¬ 
mands, and a lively Indian light may be witnessed. 
The Utes attacked the herders ot a herd at White 
River, from which the troops obtained their meat, 
Sunday night and drove otr the whole herd. 
FORsiun. 
The land agitation In Ireland 18 still the chief 
topic of Interest tn Great Britain. The arrested 
agitators have been committed for trial, but In the 
meanwhile all three of them have been released on 
ball, and with the eolal ot their “ persecution” tresh 
upon them, are now spreading their opinions, a 
trifle more guardedly, before vast, audiences lu 
different parts of the “Gem of the sea” aud the 
“ Tight Little Island." Immense crowds lu Liver¬ 
pool, New Castle and London, have been sympa¬ 
thizing in the liery accounts of Irish grievances elo¬ 
quently expounded by Parnell, McDavltt and oth¬ 
ers ; and there Is even some hope that the more 
phlegmatic and law-abiding English tenants will 
share in the agitation lor a modification of the 
present land laws. In Ireland Itself the public 
feelings are kept at fever heat by patriotic spout- 
ersaud lnrlrmunaiory newspaper articles. Land¬ 
lords are beginning to see that very considerable 
concessions are indispensable; and the public 
authorities must soon realize that the arrest ot a 
few extreme mouthpieces ol popular discontent is 
a poor expedient for removing its cause. Mr, 
Gladstone, now canvassing in the Liberal Interest 
for election to Parliament In Edinburghshire 
against the whole power of the local chief poten¬ 
tate, the Duke ot Bucciaucli, says boldy that Ire¬ 
land should have Home Rule In local matters, on 
Friday last Thomas Brennan, another ot ihe most 
turbulent, orators, was arrested In Dublin tor a 
Speech made at a huge mass meeting at Balia on 
tho 22 d till. This has Intensified the excitement. 
The cold in A fghanIstan is 1 utexise. The English 
troops arc In winter-quarLora. Russia and Persia 
are less friendly; the latter will occupy Herat. 
Afghanistan, along with the English lu spring. 
Several of the newly appointed governors of Af¬ 
ghan provinces have been resisted; one or two of 
them slain and now that military movements are 
suspended, the whole country beyond the British 
Lines, seems to have fallen Into o state of anarchy. 
Yacoob Khan Is on his way to India, a close pris¬ 
oner, a condition In which he will probably remain 
for years, If not for life. Although tt seems 
Impossible now to legally convict him of hav¬ 
ing caused the massacre of the embassy, there 
Is no more doubt but that he could have pre¬ 
vented It, had he not been culpably negligent. 
Negotiations between Germany and Austria fora 
commercial treaty giving tree trade, Dave fallen* 
through. Germany wanted too much; Austrian 
merchants pisgusted. 
-John I. Delane, for nearly 40 years editor of 
the London Times Ls dead at the age of 62. Baker 
Pasha fixes the Turkish police force, at. 60,000 men. 
Russia seems desirous ot conciliating Germany by 
granting long-refused commercial facilities to 
Teutonic traders. The German Baltic provinces 
of tho Czar are violently agitated by a project to 
make the Russian language the legal language 
therein, and in other ways to Russianize them. 
The King of Denmark has been visiting Berlin 
and is reported to have come to a settlement, with 
regard to the claims of tils son-in-law, the Duke 
of Cumberland, to the throne or Saxony, He will 
probably resign Ills claims, and in return be made 
Duke of Brunswick and receive back Ills confis¬ 
cated millions. 'The latest cablegram, however, 
says that uot, a word was spoken about the matter. 
Saturday week Alfonso, of Spain, took the Arch¬ 
duchess ChiIsifne of Austria as hts second wife, to 
succeed poor dead Mercedes——bull-fights, galore 
and all sorts or joyous munitestallons. The eman¬ 
cipation ot Cuban slaves will probably receive some 
attention now tbatdue measures have been taken to 
provide an heir to the Spanish throne. Meanwhile 
a fresh rebellious outbreak in (lie “ Ever Faithful 
Island'’ has Indicted great damage on the sugar 
Industry in the eastern part ot the Island, and 
threatens more. 
In France the sessions of the Legislature have 
been removed from Versailles to Laris, where the 
first session has just been opened slnee the com¬ 
munistic revolt ol t hat city in 1*7 t. A nother batch 
of 80 Communists has been pardoned, bur. agita¬ 
tion still continues for a complete amnesty. The 
Extreme Republicans tn France Insist that, all 
office-holders not actually belonging to that party, 
should be dismissed ,ii once. Lately, however, 
this faction has received a severe check, by a very 
decided vote of the legislature repudiating their 
extreme measures. This, however, has caused a 
aplll-a number or 'em rat her--lu the Republican 
ranks, arid a speedy change of the present Ministry 
ls probable. 
cm Deo. l. us the Czar was approaching Moscow 
on Ills way to si.. Petersburg from the Llvldla 
where he had been staying some, weeks, an at¬ 
tempt was made to assassinate him. The rail¬ 
road truck over which hts train was to pass had 
been undormliuied and a large quantity of ex¬ 
plosive material placed there, which was lo 
blow his brains to pieces, a change ot schedule 
on the road, however, caused the explosion to 
destroy another train, H was undcrsi/od that 
on ills arrival at Moscow he Intended to call 
a number of unofficial advisers to alrl him In 
governing the empire as well fo liberalize his gov¬ 
ernment; bur now ti is probable repressive meas¬ 
ures will be more rigidly enforced t han ever, i be 
weal her all over Europe is very unusually severe. 
In the British Isles a 20 hour snow storm has cov¬ 
eted the country many feet deep, aud caused much 
delay Ul railroad travel, Germany and non hern 
France are mUcli lu thesamo condition, while the 
more northerly connirles are suflmlng from a 
winter or noarly unexampled severity so early In 
the season. 
A Berlin dispatch of the 2d Inst, says that Prince 
Bismarck will probably arrive there on Thursday, 
it seems that Ihe r.rpotlai ions between Bis¬ 
marck and the Vatican Dave suddenly closed, as 
Bismarck will not agree (o the restoration of the 
German Bishops There seems In be every proba¬ 
bility that the old struggles are recommencing. 
An appeal from Cardinal Manning lor subscrip¬ 
tions m ullevlate I be distress In Ireland was read 
lu all the Catholic churches in London ou Nov no. 
It Is stated that lu the West ot Ireland such hun¬ 
ger, poverty and want are now to be seen as have 
never been known since the great. Irish famine. A 
general collection aU through the Roman Catholic 
churches tn Great Britain was made yesterday. 
Figure* DonH Lie. 
Sparta, Union Go., Oregon, May 30, 1879. 
Botter Improvement CO., Buffalo, N. V. : 
Sirs —The package of " Butter Maker” forwarded 
by you to W. W. Ross. Esq., ot this place, was 
handed over by him to me for trial, aud orders to 
report t he results to you, as I have the manage¬ 
ment of his dairy. 
1 have the honor to report that ono gallon ot 
sweet cream churned at a temperature of 55 deg. 
and treated with the “ Butter Maker” according to 
directions accompanying package, produced four 
and one-balr pounds of butter of a fine golden 
color, and firm, waxy texture, and of delicate fla¬ 
vor ; time occupied tn churning and gathering the 
butter, twenty minutes. 
One gallon of sweet cream, same lot. churned 
without the powder, produced four puuuds of but¬ 
ler several shades lighter in color, not so firm or 
waxy in texture, but no perceptible difference tn 
flavor; time occupied In churning, at same tem¬ 
perature as above, forty-five minutes. The fine, 
even grain, rich golden color, increased quant By 
from the same amount of cream, aud the differ¬ 
ence of time occupied In the churning and gath¬ 
ering the butter, are greatly In favored using your 
preparation, and I have no hesitation in recom¬ 
mending the same to my frleuds and the public 
generally. Very respectfully, your obedient ser¬ 
vant, G. W. Eastekurook. 
For Bronchial, asthmatic, and Catarrhal Com. 
plaints, and Coughs and Colds, “ Brown's jjroiu 
ohial Troches" manifest remarkable curative prop¬ 
erties. imitations are offered for sale, many of 
which are Injurious. The genuine “ Brown’s 
Bronchial Troches" are sold only m boxes, 
In answer to numerous Inquiries, we can cheer¬ 
fully say that Dr. C R. Sykes, whose card appears 
tn this Issue, ls an old resident ul' Chicago, a regu¬ 
lar graduate, honest, honorable, and responsible, 
and as a physical! Lakes first rank In his chosen 
specialty of Catarrh and Its complications.— farm¬ 
ers' Jicriew. 
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Feeble Ladles, Aged Persons, Weakly Children, 
Persons of Sedentary Habits, all need llop Bitters. 
-- 
Lyon’s Patent Ileel Stiffener Is the only lnven 
Uon that will make old boots straight as new. 
