HOUSE AND FARM. Apples that are slightly unsound can be taken to drinking ice water, and are not ing been so christened at the instance of passed along some thought he was crazy, made into jelly, and my recipe is as follows:. satisfied except they get their regular allowance. Mahs'r George, in honor ot the immortal but when spoken to his answer was: "Do Hints For the Season.' 0 After cutting* out*the imperfect corn-and-seedsman. Off went Sam in not stop me it's all right." As he interfered Don't let a lew sunshiny "*days*"decerve parts, wash the apples and quarter, without The mules which pull the rock-trains search of this boy, and he found him at with no one, he was allowed to walk you in the Jetting up on the care of your sparing or dbring. Place in a porcelaine are driven three 6r four tandem, each the back of the maternal mansion, splitting on undisturbed. "Where is the man how?" stock. -February and Marcli are hard kettle, and to four quartsquart of cut having a torch upon its head, which &|>p little less thal one if up pine-knots for kindlings. Sam I asked. "There, you can see him at the they move along, months, especially lor growing anf trials. as- bobs up and down approached him with a very slow dignified other end of the block, walking with his The appet^tfe )ias^ flagged somewhat, land ,colfl water. Cook slowly until soft but and they present a very novel appearance step, and a look of commiseration. head down," was the answer. changes of weather are ve^y (t the sudden not broken. Turn into a jelly bag that as seen from a distance in the darkness. "Hey, nigger!" said Sam, "dat's all He was just about turning the corner, trying. & little neglect will surely cause has just been wrung out of hot water, and All the mules in the tunnel woik eight you fit for, is to work. Why don't you and I waited till he had performed the them to get a set-back a few set-backs hang up to drain. Strain the juice again hour shifts, the same as the men. Notwithstanding be a gemman like me. whut ain't a-gwinc circuit, then, taking him quietly by the mean "Spiing-poor" stock and thisi to make the jelly clear. Boil ten minutes this short duty, they to do a licko' work dis whole day?" arm, I marched him ti my house, followed meanswell, the butcher or the stockbuyer skim, then add the sugar, one pound rapidly wear out, a it is a pity to see "Done runned away, is you?" answered by a lot of boys. In the meantime,the will tell you that this means, in to a pint of Juice, and boil twenty minutes. them panting and blowing in the confined Pumble. firemen, engines, and hose-cart rattled language that you ought to unaers^nd.,,, If the* apples are not sour, the air, with perspiratioe streaming "Well, I'll come 'round dis ebenin, off. The man was thorougnly tired out viz., dollars and cents. 4 jelly will sgem thM^but in a few days from them. when de ole ooman gibs you a dose ob when I took him into my hall and seated will be solids anpl of a fine amber color. The mules have a cloth fastened to hickory-tea.''i In-coming cows or*ewes need the best him on a chair, while my servant went H- their bridles, which is to put over one "Dat 11 do, boy said Sam. "Let you of care as to feed, dry, pure air^warmth, for a little wine and something to eat. I eye befoie they emerge into daylight. The Bloodhound. know dis is my buff-day, an' I won^woik and bedding. Slippery watering places, paid him foithwith a dollar and a half. The cloth is removed* as they enter the tor nobody, on my buff-day. Go ax yo' too high feeding, injuries from crowding He informed me that, while making one tunnel on the return trip. The object is BT BARRY CORNWALL. mammy kin you come up an' play wid and exposure, are all to be guarded of his turns, a lady came out of a house Come Herod, my hound, from the* stranger's to have them reserve one good eye, exposed mc tell her my mammy sent word for against. Colonel Waring says that he and inquired why he was carrving that floor! to daylight, is incapable of seeing you to come." does not fear ever again to lose a cow bv brick, and on his giviag her the reasons Old friendwe must wander the world once anything for some time after entering Pumble dropped the hatchet, stared milk fever. "Judicious starvation just he received a dollar. The object soon more! ww*^^ darkness. Whenever it is neglected to ecstatically, and ran in to obtain the before and after calving," is relied on to For no one now liveth to welcome us back became known, for as he passed the bandage and eve on the outside, the mule So, come!let us speed on our fated tiack, desired permission. It was granted. prevent it* houses small sums were given to him by What matter the regionwhat matter the staggers and stumbles about in the darkness, Then this dialogue occurred: different persons, and he was well satisfied The hensand especially the pullets, weather, N and refuses to go ahead. "Be a good chile!" with his day's work. "But," said he are beginning to sin in their cheerful, So you and I travel, till death together? The mules of course, all have their "Yes'm." what shall I do to-morrow?", And in death?why, c' on therel may still be contented manner on the snnny side of names, and Jane, Nell, Fan, Tom. Bill, found "Don't forgit vo' manners!" "Why," I replied, go early in the the barn, or in the comfortable coops. By the side of my beautiful black bloodhound. Jack, Frank, are sure to be amongst the "Nome." morning to the houses fiom which you This means more eggs and unless you lot One mule has been facetiously 'Member vou's my son!" received the money and ask for work, and expect to get something from nothing We've traversed the desert, we've trave the tlYes'm."* christened Susan B. Anthony. They are no doubt you will find some one who will you know what the biddies require. Only the sea, great favorites with the miners, especially "Don'r you git into no mischuf!" And we've trod on the heights where the put you in the way of getting it: then report don't forget the shell-making material when underground, and they answer the "Nome/' eagles be to me." The following afternoon he fresh water, clean nests and warm breakfasts. Seen Tartar, and Arab, and swart Hindoo call of their names, like pet dogs and "Ef you dose, I'll w'ar you out, sah informed me that he had been sent to a (How thou pull'dst down the deer in those strange to say in that heated atmosphere, Now, go 'long!" German, who kept a pork establishment Barn Notes- We must be careful nowa skies of blue they soon lose their proverbial tendency The boys trotted merrily away together. in Third avenue, and who wanted a clerk No joy did divide us, no peril could part days while the barn-yaid is wet and for kicking. The oriver generally stands But they had not gone fifty rods before The man from his friend of the noble heart to keep his books. He was to get $5 a mussy, or a great deal of fodder will be on a small platform in the rear of the Ay, his j)'iend', lor where, where shall there they heard Pumble's mother calling hitu. week if his work proved satisfatory, and wasted. It is now too late in the season eyer be found first car, and since he could not reach the They stooped to listen. his duties began on the following dav. to feed strawr but plenty of it will be required A friend like his lesolute, fond bloodhound? yoyclones!" she shout- mules, dnyen in tandem, with a whip, he "Takekeer- ob Before leaving me he asked for the brick for beds. The calves and young shies smaU stones with the greatest dexterity, ed, and then went back into ner house. What, Heiod, old hound! dost remember the which had brought him such good luck, animals must be kept clean i.f they are expected of which he has a good supply befoie day Under a great pecan-tree, on the lawn and I gave it toliim. Within the year I to be healthy a foul stable will When I fronted the wolves like a stag at bay* him. befoie the "big house,'" Sam and Pumble ascertained that the man had been "transferred cause a young thing to lose its appetite. When downward they galloped to where we Two trains generally follow, one behind sat down to consider and consult, or, as to a larger establishment of the stood, This is one of the common failings on a the other, for should an accident they expressed it, "to study up what us same kind, with a salary of $1,000. Whilst I staggered with fear in the dark pine farm to put off cleaning stables and it is wood9 happen from caves, breaking of wheels, gwine to do." Three or four years after this I was riding their horrible a most unprofitable form of shiftlessness. 9 Dost remember their howlings or of cars getting off the track, one diiver Shill I tell a story?" asked Pumble. in a strepf-car, when a well-dressed It makes pigs scurvy and lays the foundation speed? assists the other in overcoming the difficulty. Does you know a good one?" inquired man accosted me with a smile, and asked lor mange it gives calves the diarrhea God, God! how I prayed for a friend in need! Sam. Andhe came! Ah, 'twas then, my dear me if I knew him. Seeing me hesitate, and makes sheep and lambs sick. The The most durable mules are those witti Dis story's gwine to bp a new one," Herod, I found he said- "Don't you recollect the man cows are suffering for lack of the currycomb That the be*t of all friends wasjny bold bloodhound. short legs, large bodies, compactly built, said Pumble, beakase I'll make it up as who carried the brick?" and brusti soap-suds and a sponge and weighing about 900 pounds. I go 'long.' He then informed me that he was doing are needed back of the horns and on the There are altogether about thiity mules "Tell ahead," said Sam. a prosperous business on his on account, withers and on each side of the tail, to Man, tell us, dear friend, that the noble hound employed in the Sutro Tunnel, though a "Wunst apon a time?" interrepted Must forever be lost hrtbd worthless ground had laid up money, and expected soon to clean out the dirt which has accumulated. greater number is kept on hand. Sam. Yet "Comage," "Fidelity," "Lo\e" (they build himself a house up town. The cattle cannot reach these places themselveshence Shut up! Wunst apon a time. Dey What became of the brick?"' I inquired. they should often be "Bear Man, as on vvings, to his skies away. Sam's Birthday, wuz a man. An' dis heah man lighted cleaned. -The itching must be almost intolerable Well Heroldgo tell them whatever may be, up he pipe, an' started out on de big and if the cattle could speak I'll hope I may e\er be found by thee. That brick, sir, has always occupied On the nineteenth day of last month, road. An' he went walkin' along. If in sleepin sleep if with skies around, after a good currying and sponging there a place on our mantelpiece, and we value Sam could and would have testified, from Maystthou follow e'en thither, my deai bloodhonnd! Right stret along. An' walkin' along, would be loud-spoken tnanks. it as the.most preoious of our little possessions.* information and belief, that he v*as f} an' walkm' along, art walkin' along. An' but on It has made our fortune." i"1 "eight yeahs ol, swine on nine When calves are three weeks old they xoalkirC along An' walkin' along, an' the morning of the twentienth. that interesting will eat a little meal. We begin with a walKin' along Mules in the Mines. infant of color was infoimed by handful stirred into their milk. At the I Was Alive. Dat man wuz gwine all de way, wuz his mother that lie was ''nine yeahs ol', end of the week they may be given two Hw the Animal" are WOTJ* and. n't he?' interjected the listener. gwine on ten." Teat-tl In ihe Subterranean .Regions** handfuls, and when six weeks old they He was rather an uncouth-looking individual, He had n't got no way, hardly, yit,' olXeiarta. "Hoo ee!'' he cried, "whut a powTul will eat a quart and do with less milk. and as, he sauntered into the said Pumble, "b ut he kep' a-walkin From the Sutro (Nev Independent. while I mus'ha' slep'! Or else I giows Sweet milk is costly feed to give to store the crowd sitting on the barrels The heat in the Sutro Tunnel for several along. An' walkin' anlong, an' walkin wus an* dat ar Jonus's gourd you tol' me calves. Veal calves are not worth attending winked at each other, and made remarks thousand feet back from the face is along, an' walkin' along, an' walkin 'bout, whut wuz only a teenchy leetle this spring as there is no sale. about his person. very considerable, ranging fiom 95 to 100 along an' walkin' along, an' walkin simblin at night, and got big as de henhouse They used to bring $10 when four weeks Where did it come from?" asked one, degtees Fahrenheit and feels all the hotter along afore mornin' early sun-up. Him' old, and giadually dropped down to $4 pointing at him. for being partly depuved of exygen. "Stop dat walkin' now," said Sam, hey! look heah, mammy, is I skipped and $5. This year, no demand at- *any Somebody left the door open' and it At the face where the men are at work, and tell whut he done when fie got froo any Christrnases?" pi ice. Cows keep up in price as blew in," said another. two stieams of fresh air, geneiated at walkin'." "No, chile," replied bis mother "you high as they have been tor several years. I don't think it's alive," said a thirds shaft No. 2, two miles away, and 1,045 "He come to de place he wuz a-gwine ain't skipped nufiin. Dis is yo' buff-day This is one oi the anomalies in trade, Touch it and see," remarked a fourth. feet above the tunnel, are constantly dischargedone to," said Pumble. de 'fects ob which is, dat it's des so many which it is hard to understand. It must "Yes, its a mansee it move?"' que from the blower, the other "Did he, sho' enough?"' exclaimed Sam yeahs sence yon wuz fust borned. I don't be that the low price of gram is causing ried the first. All hands laughed boisterously. from the compressorpipe and though the "I uz kinder sseered hevudn't neber know how't'll be, Sam,folks is sim'iar farmers to increase their dairies. This air at that point is 108 degrees Fahrenheit, git dai at all. Whut did he do ne\T' to de cocoa-giass, whut grows up mighty is a mistake often made to rush from it is quite coniforta'ble. I'm a poor man, and I don't want to "De nex' ing he done," said Pumble, peit, tell 'long come somebody wid a hoe one thing to another. Better stick to one One switch-mule is employed on each have any trouble with anybody. I'm a impiessively, "wuz to turn right 'jound to slosh it down,but et you libs long trade. A few years aero almost everyone shift, which is used for bringing a car at Chnstian, and don't believe in turmoil an' go back -vvhar he come from. An' dat's enough, an' nufiin happens, you'll keep went into hops and after a considerable a time from the switcha thousand ieet and strife, and can't participate in it. I all'" on habbin a buff-day ebry yeah wunst a outlay were glad to hop out. vs backto the face of the headei it is pray you, worldly-minded people, that As was his invariable custom when yeah till you dies. An' ebry time you then taken back with the loaded car to Deodorisers,A pai) of clear*water in a you will allow me to depart in peace," deeply impiessed, Sam began to sing, has one, son, you'll be one yeah older."' bring othei empty ones forwaid, in which newly-painted room will remove the said the new arrival. Pumble joining in: Fine way to git giay-headed," said manner trains of fifteen oi twenty cars sickening odor of paint. Coffee pounded One of the crowd, more daring than the "Jaj-bird a-settm Sam aie made up. This, mule fiom the time On aswuigin' limb, in a moitar and roasted in an iion plate, rest, hammeied the man's hat down over At this moment a mighty crash re He wink at Stephen, it is unhitched from the empty cars, and sugar burhed on hot coals, and vinegar his eyes, and another dabbed his nose Stephen wink at him sounded from the kitchen down stairs, while it is waiting to be hitched up to full of molasses from a bairel standing boiled with myrrh and sprinkled on the Stephen pint de gun, and Aunt Philis descended the stej.& the one being loaded, manages to put its floor and furniture of a sick-room, are excellent Pull on de trigger, with gieat precipitation. Then Sam nose up to the air-pipe, and keeps movjng Oft go de load deodorizers. 'fejO/"'*** Then the poor Christian took a small heaid her shouting angrily its head up and down, in older to get An down come de nigger'" volume fiom his pocket, and began reading The Uses of the Lemon.- A piece' of You, Bose! Oh, you oettah git. you Irwin, Russell, St. Nicholas for May. all the ah possible in the fevv minutes the Scripturers in a drawling, singsong lemon bound upon a corn will relieve it mean ole no-'count rascal! I do 'spise a allowed if." tone. in a day or so' It should be lenewed houn'-dog!' All About a Bncjv. One day last week a man iifcha'rge ot While he was engaged at this, the night and morning. The free use of lemon Sam went on with his toilet, musing, the switch-mule was seen coming out of crowd played all soits of tricks on himOne juice and sugar will always relieve a cough. To the Editor of the New York Evening Post the while, upon the piobabihty of his the tunnel,^in the middle of the 'shaft, put some eggs in his pocket, and another A well-known citizen living not many A lemen eaten before breakfast^very day Afri- ever getting to be as old as Uncle and on inquiry why he made his appearance mashed them. Then the biggest blocks fiom Union Square relates an incident for a week or two will entireM prevent kin Tommy," who was the patnarch ai4his^unusual hour, he said he had man in the house poured some oil on his somewhat in this wise: that feeling of lassitude pefculitr to the of the plantation, and popularly supposed coinjp Out after .another jmule to do the hat and lighted it. Then the clerk hit him One blight morning in the month of to tne approach of spring. Pefhaps it& to be cluss onto two hundred years of switching, for his regur|t,r switch! mule under the nose with a codfish. Then that November, some years ago, I was preparing most valuable property is its| absolute age and who was wont to aver that had become rebellious ana utteily refused man quietly put the little volume in hia to go dow% town, when the servant power of defecting any* of the injurious when lie ailived in that pait of the country, to do any duty. He declared the mule coat-tail pocket, and the clerk went head informed me that a man was waiting and even dangerous ingredients entering when he was a boy, the squirrels all was standing in fiont of the airrpipe, near first into the molasses barrel. When the at the fiont door to see me. "Tell him into the composition of so very many of had two tails apiece, and the Mississippi the face, and no amount of coaxing, biggest man in the house picked himself I'll be down in a moment,"' said I. On the cosmetics and face powders in the River vcas such a small stieam the people whipping or pulling could induce it to from under the countei, it wa next to an going to the door a man ot tall stature market. Every lady should subject her budged it, on occasion, with a fence-rail. leave, and. he was compelled to start out impossibility to guess where his nose left and lobust appearance, calling me by toilet powder to this test. Place^a teaspoontul Thus meditating upon the glorious possibilities after another mule, in ord.er to. permit off and where the codfish began. name, requested assistance, saying that of the suspested powder in a glass of his iuture, Sam got ready for the work to proceed. *t he had a large family, a wife in delicate No. 1 made work tor the glazier as be add the juice of a lemon. If effervescence breakfast, and went down. It was not After a few hours, by sheer dint of health, and no means to procure food for hit a ventilator in the -window. No. 2 takes place it is an infallible proof that the until he had absoi bed an enormous quantity force, the refractory mule was. biought them. "You appeal to be strong and hatched out half a barrel of eggs, and No. powder is dangerous, and its use should be fried pickled pork and hot corncakes, out, ha^ a dezen men being required to healthy why don't you woik?" asked I. 3 got up on the pie-shelf and stayed theie avoided,|as it will ultimately injure the and finally with leluctance ceased: pull and push it along. It has since been "Simply, sir. for the reason that I cannot As No. 4 walked out of the door on his skin anadestioyjhfibeaiity of the complexion.^ to eat, that his mother told him what put to work otitsi-le, for it would be useless procure work." back he wondered how much it would f$^***f* had caused the-noi^e a little while before, to put it at switching any more, for Not having work to give him, I cost to make him as good as new, and the s* r\ how old Bose, the fox-hound, had with it would repeat the same performance at thought I would test the sinceirty ot his poor Christian man remarked: **t*r* Attics and l^el.aM. felonious intent come into the kitchen, each shaft. -vk intentions. If I give yon work, what The next time you folks pick me up i/t and surieptitiou-sly supped up the ltusTa good plan for a, hou .ekeeper to The intelligence of mules is displayed pay do you want?" Anything, sir, you part of her for a slouch -look out you ain't in the every1 chicken-soup that had been prepared for make a weekly vilit to in a wonderful-degree when used underground, choose to give me, so long as I can obtain wrong pew. Good day, fellers." Sams Tjirthday bieakfast and farther, dwelling from garre*t to cellar." The and in dangerous places. They means for my suffering family." The clerk is waiting for them to come how the said delinquent had added insult attic is often the repository of articles gradually learn to understand every com "Very well," said I, I will give you 23 ronnd an settle for damage done, but to injury, by contemptoasly smashing of little value, such as worn-out garments, mand the driver gives them, and in the cents an hour if you will carry a brick they must have forgotten where the place the bowl that he had emptied. beding, etc. If such articles must be header when the signal fire is given, on your arm around the block: for five is, as they pass right by wthout looking kept they: can be neatly packedtin drawers Sam,however, was too true a philosopher they instantly wheel around, with their hours without stopping." Thank you, in, ffMld an their bills remain, unpaid. t? few or b6xe$, ..wrapping woolens" of any value to cry long over spilt milkor soup. He backs toward the blast. One day a mule sir I will do it." After hunting a while in linen or {hick brown paper to protect reflected mat the breakfast he had just neglected to wheel quite around, but I found a biick, placed it on the man's tuem from moths. Attics %ihd. cellars* taken would prevent his eating any soup, The morning after the fall of Plevna, stood at right angles wittiNhe tunnel, and arm, startel him on his walk, and then should be sp arranged that they can]be even if he had it. "I isn't mjy-rubber," tnough* over 400 feet from the face, a the London Daily Tdegraph issued an went down to my business. perf ectF^ ventilated." To some" persons said he to himself, with which beautiful rock four inches in diameter struck it in Not having the least faith in the man's edition of 296,000 copies. The proprfetors the thought of Spiti ng the- cellar is and happy thought his frown was superseded |oe side, producing an ugly wound, promise, 1 thought but little more of it, are literally coining money, their net ^f anything but pleasant, $f because, by a smile, the smile developed I^bnx,which Hie intestines protruded. He yet as I knew I should be back within the" name is associated" with^da%nes|,* income considerably exceeding $500,000- into his normal grin, and be began to *hdTio be Jthrown on a flat car, carried five hours I determined t$ see if he performed and shot, *V, noxious vapors, dampness, small dj\0gy chant an appropriate stanza from one of. d, year. All this has been done in fifteen out4 his work. My business kept me windowa/walls and^fioors which arei*$re-* that his favorite lvrics: a*imule*is,k years, is due to the foreclosure oi a chat A curious freak abb"u away rather later than I expected, so I had A Iv swcpt, boxes barrets et in disofde* "O-o-o-old Uncle John!. %hen%nything touches their heads they to forego my usual walk home, and took a tel mortgage of $20,000 on the machinery A-a-a-aunt Sally Goodin! ?j ^S*' We have seen just sucn cellars^ but* we" dodge while touching ^horse's ears, riiakes Fourth avenue car tc be back within the When you got enough eorn-o*read"!^*i and fixtures of the paper,when it was in extremis, know of one more cheerful than many j#^ra?JhrOw up tfieir heads. For this I's des as good as puddin.'." five hours. by a family of J^wes, type brokers, &* parlors. It is?, ligbf and airy, anjtT'in" ^eas^n horses cannot ~be used under- The excellent Aunt Philhs ^as much As I approached the corner of the street the south windowfl*plaiits thrive durin, named Levyf Two have since dropped break their affected.by this saint like conduct on the where I reside I found a great crowd of the winter months, thetrro'fghVgree! that name, and have, "under royal' sign ^et- injured in })art of hereon. She sighed fearing that persons gatheredtwo fire engines, a liage show how well adapted the cool at that manner. the boy was to good to live. manual," taken that of Lawsoh and the hose-cart, and a hodk^and-ladder truck. mosphere of the cellar combined with, The switch mules, when the men are 'jNemmind, Sam," said she "you need Upon inquiring where the fire was, I was namest oif Mr. and oMrs. Edward Lawsone freedom from dust is to their needs. A' the list guests at the Princ ea PP eating, go from man to num begging for n't tote no wood to-day, orfotch no water, informed that it was a false alarm, and a weekly visit to their cellar answers during something to eat, and they will eat cooked or dq nufiin. Go down to de quarters, that what brought the people together the wlter, but as spring comes upon of Wales' l^balL^Mpf^wardT^aw- meat, pies, drink cofTee in fact, anything an' git Pumble to play wid you." and occasioned the/ agitation was the us this part of our house requires closer son, a familiar face in the lobby of the the men have. Some of the mules spectacle of a tall man carrying a brick on Pumble was a boy who in age and attention. House of Commons, is editor in chief. when the men arc not looking, are in the his arm aiound the block tor nearly five tastes qorresponded closely, with Sam, as Vegetables must be examined, and habit of upsetting the men's lunch pails hours. The neighbdrs were looking at him he did in complexion. His real name, at He is about 27, and has a keen eye to a those showing signs of decay, removed. and helping themselves. They have also """"r- f* form the windows and the doors as he full length, was Pumulechook,he hav- IfeM baronetcy, aiilnnM-^ fiaw.... -ssssto&x..-.. ,Z*u