m 
tlon that she was his wife, that she silently ad¬ 
mitted the truth of It,” he said, “ Did she at any 
time call him her husband?” 
“ Yes, my lord—yes, sir,” stammered the little 
lawyer, getting rather confused, “ twice or three 
times in the hearing of the Innkeeper and her 
servant.” 
“ Did she say anything about the length of time 
they had been married?” said Sir David, using his 
pencil again. 
"Yes; In answer to a question from Mrs. Mar¬ 
tin the lady said they had been married a very 
short time,” 
“ Thank you. Go on, If you please.” 
A few more lines ttnlshed the reading; Mr. Can- 
tire put down his note-book and took up his pencil; 
Sir David glanced over his notes he had taken, 
with a grave abstracted expression; and while 
Lady Sholto leaned back white and trembling in 
her arm-chair, her husband crossed over suddenly 
and took im "Place by the Earl, putting his hand 
affectionately on Ills shoulder. Lord Ivor’s faco 
was very pale but calm still, although his eyes 
were watching sir David’s face with a strained 
anxious gaze palatal to see. Jean sat with her 
head bent on the cushions of the sofa, perfectly 
still and motionless save when a long shudder ran 
through the slender bowed frame. Andrew Blatr 
alone sat calm and unmoved, In the same attitude 
of careless ease, his head resting on his hand and 
his dark eyes lixcd thoughtfully on the Are. 
“Are any of those statements disputed, Mr. Can- 
tire?” said fir David, after a pause. 
“I believe not, Sir David.” 
“ in case they are, would witnesses be forth¬ 
coming?” 
Mr. Canttre glanced at Mr. Blair, who Inclined 
his head silghtly. 
“ Yts, Sir David.” 
Another pause, a terrible pause. 
“You are doubtless aware, Mr. Cantlre, that the 
question before us, that of an irregular marriage, 
Is one on which opinion la divided," said Sir David, 
quietly. “One lawyer takes one view of the ques¬ 
tion, and one another. What Is your view of this 
case, Mr. Cantlre? Do the statements you have 
read prove a marriage in your opinion or not?” 
The little lawyer hesitated; he did not like to 
hazard his opinion before Sir David had given his 
own, and there was a pause. 
“ Well, sir,” said Sir David, rather sharply, lift¬ 
ing his steel blue eyes on Mr. Cantlre’s face, “have 
you formed any opinion ?” 
“Yes, Sir David,” said Mr.Cantlre, at length 
mustering courage. 
“ Will you iavor us with It, sir?” 
“My opinion, Sir David, la that there is before 
us strong evidence in favor of marriage-” he 
hesitated again, and In the slight pause that fol¬ 
lowed, Jean lifted her head and fixed her brown 
eyes on the lawyer’s face with an expression which 
made him turn away his own, and made the con¬ 
clusion of his sentence rather unsteady—“and I 
tntuk the lady and gentleman who met at Lang- 
dale are, according to the laws of this land as I 
understand them, husband and wile.” 
A low, faint, shuddering cry broke from the 
cowering figure on the couch, and tho beautiful 
head tell Into Its former attitude of abasement. 
A slight gleam of triumph lighted up Mr. Blair’s 
dark eyes, but he said nothing, nor did he move 
from his place. Lord Ivor stood proud, silent, and 
motionless, waiting, as It were, for sir David’s de¬ 
cision. 
Very slowly and distinctly the words fell from 
his Ups, as If each one were uttered with due de¬ 
liberation. 
“ My opinion coincides with yours. Mr. Cantlre,” 
he said, qulety, and for a few minutes the silence 
in the room was so complete, that you might have 
heard a pin fall. 
Then the Earl made a slight movement, forward 
and an attempt to speak; but his voice died away, 
and he turned with a mute appeal to Lord 
Sholto, who said: 
“ Did you understand Sir David, that the lady 
denies any intention of marriage or any consent ?” 
Sir David raised his eyebrows silghtly. 
“ But the evidence proves otherwise,” he said, 
quietly. “ I am giving you j udgmeut according to 
my light.” he went on, calmly. “ Another lawyer 
might give a different opinion; but even that is 
doubtful, although, as I said, there Is a variety of 
opinion in the matter.” 
“ Is there any chance if the matter were brought 
before a court of its decision differing from yours, 
Sir David?” 
u “A slight one, a very sUght one,” was the quiet 
answer. “Lord .sholto, 1 arn bound to tell you 
that marriages have been declared legal on less 
than the evidence brought before me to-day. l 
wUl quote but one. A gentleman called a woman 
Ids wife, in the presence of a servant, with the In¬ 
tention of commitUng suicide the next hour, and 
tne few words ho spoke gave her every right as 
his widow to claim Uls property.” 
Another silence, a terrible silence, during which 
Lord Ivi r staggered back a pace or two with a 
faco of uuuttered anguish, while Lord Sholto 
threw his arm round him, fearing he was about to 
fall. 
“ Sir David’s decision Is to be final, I believe v” 
slid Mr. Blair, quietly, at length rising from his 
seat, and resting one hand on the table, when 
Jean suddenly stood upright, her slight figure 
swaying to and fro In her weakness, but with the 
strength and courage of despair on her beautiful, 
miserable lace. 
“ one moment,” slie said, In a piercing voice of 
agony. “ Do you mean to say that a tew words 
spoken In jest make that man oh! the con¬ 
tempt in her voice at the words—“ my husband v 
Do you mean to say that I belong to 1dm because 
In my mad tolly I allowed him to call me Ills wife, 
to prevent any unkind remarks the Innkeeper 
might have made ? Do you mean that those words 
are sufficient, without one scrap of writing, to give 
me Into his power?” 
To be eonUmed^ 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. ftOV. 4 
Dotiustk Economy. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
PEN THOUGHTS FROM EVERY DAY 
HOUSE. 
ANNIE I.. JACK. 
Our youngest girl has quite a faculty for 
staining her dresses with every imaginable 
thing—fruit of all kinds, of course, and but¬ 
ternuts. Last week, when puttingawaj T summer 
clothing, I found several dresses in a very bad 
state, aud determined to try a recipe I had 
seen floating through some Western newspa¬ 
pers. So I made a solution of Epsom salts and 
moistened the spots, then rubbed well aud 
moistened again. While the material was wet 
a tin vessel was filled with boiling water and 
set on the 6taius in rotation. It was left on 
each spot for some minutes and the water kept 
hot. After this came a thorough washing, and 
the dresses were kept out in the hot sun for 
more than an hour. I do not say they were as 
good as new, but many of the ugly, dark 
status, had disappeared. 
How plentiful the apples lie about the doors 
where chickens aud children have access to 
them! A brood of late ducks finds a tender feast 
iu tho ruddy cheek of a Fameuse, aud if a 
giant Alexander drops to the ground there is 
always a stray hen ready in the orchard to 
peck it. A friend in Boston sent me the other 
day a new recipe for cooking apples, which I 
will give in her own words. “ We are trying 
a new combination in apples that, I got at Sa¬ 
lem. They arc cut up as for apple sauce, 
stewed a long time with a little water, a cup 
of molasses and some spices. At the time of 
taking off the fire, stir in a quantity of hot 
toast cut into little squares. Eaten cold with 
cream, we think it delicious.” If I should tell 
you the house from which this recipe came to | ! 
me, it would add to Us prestige, but the sacrcd- 
ness of friendship forbids publicity. 
How tired one gets of anything so plentiful 
as to be always in sight! When apples first 
come in and wheu they are getting scarce, 
we relish them with double zest. Ju6t now, 
eating so many fresh from the tree, we almost 
feel it a trouble to take up our time cooking 
them. Yet an apple freshly baked, or made 
into a 6vveet aud wholesome sauce, is a) ways 
suitable and healthy food. Just now we are 
busy in the garden at intervals taking up the 
last of the plants. I find coarse boxes filled 
with sand aud a little earth better for those to 
be wintered in the cellar, than fieeling them in. 
Mine, last season lived quite well, and came out 
iu the spring a yellowish green, that soon be¬ 
came fresh wood and early bloom,wheu planted 
out. Parsley must be cut and if tied iu small 
bunches aud dried by hauging, head down¬ 
ward, in a dark pantry, will be found to re¬ 
main as fre6h aud green as if tied and put 
into bottles. So many things to do at this 
season and frost is coming ! 
-- 
SYSTEM IN HOUSEKEEPING. 
When I step into a friend's house and see 
every thing at sixes aud sevens, as regards its 
domestic arrangements, I feel as though I 
should lik»to take hold and produce order out 
of the chaos. This, no doubt, sounds egotisti¬ 
cal ; but to an order-loving mind the sight of 
dust and disorder, to say nothing of bad man¬ 
agement, is simjily a tormenting aggravation ; 
and a person of such, a character can no more 
help thinking tiiat if she were at the wheel the 
domestic machinery would run with less fric¬ 
tion, than she eau help breathing. Permit me, 
Rural sisters, to tell you my way of managing 
housework. In the morning, after dressing 
herself neatly—and it is only necessary to wear 
a well-fitting, dean calico wrapper, with ruffle 
of the same at the neck, if one does not care 
for a white collar, aud with hair tidily ar¬ 
ranged and a clean apron on—the housewife is 
ready for the day’s duties. Before leaving her 
sleeping room, she should take the blankets 
from off the bed and open the windows, that 
the fresh air may enter. The next step of a 
housekeeper is supposed to be iu the kitchen, 
especially when there is no servant, where 
breakfast should he made ready as speedily as 
possible, that the ‘ ! guid man ” may not be kept 
waiting louger than is really necessary. A 
substantial aud nourishing meal may he easily 
prepared, out of few and simple materials. 
For example, let us take the following for one 
morning, varying it as you choose from time 
to time:—Coffee, nicely prepared, aud u little 
observation and experience, will teach one 
how to make this just tight. Tuke the pota¬ 
toes left from yesterday’s dinner and warm 
them up. Spread the table with a clean cloth; 
place the dishes in their proper places, and 
now with good, sweet bread aud butter and a 
dish of fruit, you will have a plain but good 
breakfast. As soon us the meal is over, wash 
up your dishes and put them iu the closet, 
each kind in its appointed place. Do not leave 
them standing, to draw flies, or until they be¬ 
come dry, aud consequently hard to wash, in 
order to do something else, as I have frequent' 
ly seen housewives do, but get them out of the 
way aud off your mind, that you may take 
each duty as it comes along. 
After your dish-washing is fiuished, if you 
have no extra, pressing duty, sweep your 
kitchen, dust the furniture, aud be sure your 
cook stove is clean aud black ; for who wants 
to eat food cooked on a dirty, greasy stovo. 
covered from morning till night with ashes 
and chips ? Next, arrange your sitting-room, 
that you may not feel mortified should you 
have a morning call. Then pay a visit to 
your sleeping apartments, carefully and neatly 
making the beds and putting each garment 
that happens to be lyiDg around, in its proper 
place. After this, various duties will occupy 
your attention—baking, preparing vegetables 
for dinner, cte., etc, 
Of coarse, those who live on a farm, have 
the care of milk aud butler, but with a little 
tact and good management, these duties come 
in their proper places. Of course, all of these 
things arc not easy to do, aud they tax woman’s 
strength sadly sometimes; but if she looks 
well to the ways of her household, and is a 
frugal helpmeet to her husband, she must ex¬ 
pect to bo weary many times. After dinner, 
which should be served at twelve o’clock, if 
possible—and in the country it generally eau 
be—when the dishes are washed and put away, 
what remains for the housewife to do but 
make herself tidy and sit down to her scwiug 
or whatever she chooses to do ? To be sure, 
there will be days when extra work will keep 
her busy from morning till night, aud days 
when company will come and interfere with 
the usual routine of work. But a neat, indus¬ 
trious housewife, who systematizes her work, 
will not be flustered or '* put out ” because she 
lias extra duties, or because company unex¬ 
pectedly drops in upon her. 
Aunt Patty. 
-- 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Rice Griddle Cakes. 
One cup of sifted flour; two cups of warm, 
new milk; three eggs; one cup of boiled 
rice; teaspoonful of salt; large teaspoou- 
lul of baking powder. Mix the flour 
with one cupful of milk, then add the rice— 
which must be newly boiled, or reheated by 
steaming and then beating light with a fork— 
and thin with the other capful of milk. (All 
of this last cupful may not be required to re¬ 
duce the mixture to the proper consistency.) 
Beat the yelks and whites separately, whipping 
in the yelks first aud the whites last. Add the 
baking powder mixed with a little floor aud 
bake at once. 
Prune Whip. 
Stew one pound of nice prunes with very 
little water and sweeten with white sugar. Beat 
the whites of five eggs until stiff and stir to the 
prunes. Put into a pudding dish and bake 
half an hour. Serve when cold with cream. 
Mrs. Denton. 
Quail on Toast. 
Dry-pick them, singe, draw, cut off their 
heads and legs at the first joint, split down tho 
hack, wash and wipe dry with a cloth, rub a 
little melted butter over each bird and broil 
over a clear fire. Turn often and dip once or 
twice into melted butter. Season with pepper 
aud salt. Take as many half slices of bread 
as there are birds, toast to a delicate brown, 
butter and place a bird breast upwards on each 
piece. Thin slices of broiled bacon may be 
served with the quail. k. l. g. 
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QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
Bread-Making. 
Mrs. Gunn wishes directions for making 
good, sweet bread. 
Ans. —For yeast: Four large spoonsful of 
flour; six grated potatoes ; three spoonsful of 
sugar; two spoonsful of 6alt, and one of gin¬ 
ger, mixed to a paste. Simmer one handful 
of hops in a quart of water for half an hour, 
strain aud pour boiling hot over the above 
mixture, stirring the meanwhile. When cooled, 
stir in a large cupful of yeast. Put into a 
stone pot, let rise iu a warm place, Ihen keep 
in the cellar. 
The Sponge: One quart of w r arm water, 
three mashed potatoes, with enough sifted 
flour to make a stiff batter. Beat well, then 
stir in one coffeocupful of the above yeast and 
let rise in a warm place. Do this the evening 
before baking. 
Kneading, Baking: In the morning sift several 
quarts of Hour into the mixing-bowl. VS r e are 
careful to have more flour iu the bowl than 
needed, so l hat the dough never adheres to the 
sides or bottom of the howl. The surplus 
flour can he re-sifted aud returned to the bar¬ 
rel. Make a well in the center of the flour, 
stir iu a piece of lard the size of an egg, two 
tablespoonsful of while sugar aud a large 
handful of salt. Pour in the sponge, then 
very gradually add a quart of warm 
water with one hand, while with the other 
carefully mix in the flour. The process of 
kneading is very important. The flour should 
be worked in by degrees, and not “dumpt” 
in. The dough must not be too stiff, neither 
should it be sticky. No exact directions can 
be given, but experience aud practice will 
prove the best guides. When thoroughly 
kneaded, form into a round mass, cover and 
let rise in a warm place. When light, mold 
into loaves. At this kueading no more flour 
should be used than necessary to keep the 
dough from sticking to the hands aud board. 
Tho loaves should rise one-half hour before 
baking. Bake from three-quarters of an hour 
to an hour. After the first fifteen minutes the 
heat should be moderate. Good flour, good 
yeast and care are requisite in bread-making, 
and without which no housekeeper can expect 
to make good, sweet bread. 
Mflus of t|c Ufflt. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Monday, October 27th, 1ST9. 
After the Republican victories In Ohio and Iowa 
the chief Interest In the pollctlcal world seems at 
present centered in the contest In this state. A1 
parties are actively canvassing. Robinson ex¬ 
presses confidence in his re-election, John Kelly 
declares that. RobiusoD’s defeat Isa foregone con¬ 
clusion, and that the struggle lies really between 
himself and Cornell. Tho latter says nothing, but 
is working hard, while his followers are loud in 
their certainty of electing their man. The 
“Scratehers” are pushing vigorously a pamphlet 
and circular warfare against the Republican can¬ 
didate, and rejoice In the name of “ Young Repub¬ 
licans,” though most of the leaders of the move¬ 
ment are old stagers. 
As a sequel 1o that boating fiasco ;of Hanlan 
and Courtney at Chautauqua Lake, Mr. Blalke, the 
Reteree, applied for the money at the Bank In 
Rochester where the $eooo stake had been deposited 
by the Hop Bitters agent. He wished to draw out 
the cash to ho handed to Ilanlan who had rowed 
over the course unopposed. The Bank, however, 
refused to pay tne amount, unless a bona, jtde. con¬ 
test took place, whereupon Mr. Blalko urged Han¬ 
lan to row the ruco over again as the speediest 
means of settling the dispute. This, Hanlan has 
agreed to do, provided the stakes are so placed that 
there will be no difficulty in the winner’s obtaining 
them after the next race. Tho donor of the stakes 
writes, suggesting that the next race should take 
place at Washington, D. C. Courtney has not yet 
been heard from. The most Important news from 
the scene of the late Indian hostilities la that Gen. 
Adams has succeeded In uncondit ionally' obtaining 
possession of the women and children saved from 
the massacre at Meeker's White River Agency. 
The whereabouts of the hostlles is still In doubt, 
some reports sending some of them north to join 
Sitting Bull, while others say they are scattered 
among the tribes of friendly Indians. The Interior 
Department is confident of securing the peaceful 
surrender of the men guilty or the late outrages 
and an amicable yet satisfactory settlement of the 
entire difficulty. 
Memphis rejoiced yesterday in the first frost 
of the season severe enough to destroy Bronze Jack 
for certain. Tho n umber of deaths dally from the 
fever had dwindled down two or three before 
Jack Frost routed Yellow Jack. The railroads 
arc already running on regular time to the plague- 
smitten city; refugees are returning from all 
quarters, and business will soon he all the livelier 
for Its late collapse. 
According to the International postal law, the 
following articles are prohibited from transmission 
In the common malls: Tobacco to England; salt, 
daggers, sword canes, and pistols of small size to 
Italy; copper coin, and copper, silver, and golden 
art icles to Holland; cigars in lesser amount than 
3,000, also alcohol, liquors and beer to the United 
States and Canada. Although San Francisco's 
chartered wheat lleet numbers 62,744 tons against 
34,279 at this time last year, tonnage Is so scarce 
that shippers are telegraphing for vessels to Aus¬ 
tralia, New Zealand aud Callao, Peru. The export 
demand Is enormous and farmers and exporters 
are anxious to ship right-away on account of the 
recent foreign .advance In the price of wheat. 
There are 15,963 tons of disengaged shipping at 
San Francisco, but tire captains, who are Ameri¬ 
cana, are holding off for higher rcte3 and sailors 
are so hard to get that a dozen loaded ships cannot 
leave for want of hands. Portland, dreg., is in the 
same fix. The pleasure-traveling Gate City guard 
of Atlanta, Ga., have been enjoying an exceedingly 
cordial reception In New England—first at Hart¬ 
ford where ex-Gov. Hubbard and Gen. Hawley 
were among the speakers of welcoming addresses, 
and next at Boston where they were handsomely 
treated. The Mollle. Maguires are on the war¬ 
path again In the region between Plttstou Junc¬ 
tion aud Scranton, Pa., and their outrages by In¬ 
cendiarism and other means are numerous. Last 
week a gang of 20 attacked a passenger train on 
the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg railroad. They 
signaled the engineer lo stop, but lie, surmising 
danger, let on steam. The response was a volley 
of shots, riddling the cab, and one ball plowed 
through the scalp of the brave engineer. 
foreign. 
The Austrian and Hungarian governments have 
accepted the war estimates for maintaining 800 ,- 
000 men In the Austrian imperial army for the 
next io years. A statement submitted by the 
Hungarian government shows that when the 
military systems of Europe are completed, Italy 
will have over 2 , 000,000 soldiers; France, which 
lias 1,816,000 now, will have 2 , 723 , 000 , Russia has 
2,380,000 already, aud Austro-llungary 1,194,000, 
what wonder that Europe Is becoming Impoverished 
with so many of her bous taken away from pro¬ 
ductive Industry In the prime of their lives, and 
living upon the labors of their fellow-countrymen! 
TflO committee at Madrid having In charge the 
