-''''yf'Tf1'" -rw. 4 ^HwiMW^iif ^^^P^W'^4PP4f'-: ^*3&-'- THE SEA WIND'S SONG. me as quickly as I recognized him but FIRESIDE.% The poet Longfellow is said to have aroused of my movements. By the ^AEM AND and the wholesaler and, finally, by I little thought that such a meeting always made his tea at his own table, end of the we* or so, I had broken' several stages, to the retailer. By the ml Austin Dobson in Independent. would affect my destiny. How? You of a peculiar kind expressly sent to away all but the thin outer edge, so time it reaches the latter the bushel shall know in good time. Kfco him from abroad. It was a liquid that a vigorous shove would send the Agricultural Miscellany of corn or its product of four and a ovr it sings, sings, sings, iP, From Winchester I made my way amber, kill of sunshine and inspiration. remaining part out. quarter gallons has been reduced onehalf, Will hog-eaters never learn to cremate Blowing sharply from the sea-line, back to the North to the town where make a enp of tea is a fineart. The question was now how to get which means eight and a half With an edge of salt that stings the trichinae? That is the only I first fell into trouble, and was lucky The^ most delicate flavor is obtained How it laughs aloud, and passes, down to the ground outside. The distance gallons. There are sixty drinks to practicable way to make quietus of As it cuts the close cliff-grasses enough to get employment as a bv a judicious mixture of Oolong the gallonthat is the averageeight from the hole to the yard below these muscle-borers, which once let How it sings again and whistles. "striker" in some large iron works. black, English breakfast, and Japan and a half gallons mean 270 drinks at was fully sixty feet. A rope I must loose in the department of the human How it shakes the stout sea-thistlesHow With wages at four shillings a day, I t*a There is a brand of the Garden 15 cents eachthere we have $46.35 have somehow. All my ingenuity was it sings! interior become painful if not managed very nicely and was comfortably Formosa, that is all balm and as the consumer's price for a bushel of called in to play to get one. The rugs How it roars, roars, roars, fatal tenants. Seventeen persons off. Alter a while, another laborer fragrance and sunshine, and that, corn which the farmer raises and sells of my bed were double, and fastened In the iron under-caverns, who at a recent merry-making in the same works, Joe Smith, combined with. Orange Pekoe, is a beverage for 30 cents. Who says there is no together as if one was the lining of the In the hollows of the shores feasted on raw pork "were more or as he called himself, came to lodge in industry in this country? But the fit tor the gods. But a eup of other. The under ones I tore off and How it roars anew, and thunders, less affected with trichiniasis and the the same house as myself. Naturally farmer we saw just now spent his tea can not be tru*y enjoyed a la solitaire. As the strong hull splits and sunders, made into strips, which I plaited into And the spent ship, tempest-driven, lives of some were dispaired of." The we became somewhat familiar but he whole bushel of c^rn in the price of Its very nature demands the* a rope. Sundry other little things On the reef lies rent and rivenHow two drinks, and the people who do was very silent about himself, so that telegraph often brings warning news of social circle. which I found from day to day in my it roars! I never got to know where he came similar experience elsewhere. Thorough work about the corridors, were not till the soil get away with $46.05. from, or anything of his history. One cooking is the resource of safety stealthily put aside and changed into 'How it wails, wails, wails. Hints for Housekeepers-. day I saw that he had got possession rope. At length I had plaited what I In the tangle of the wreckage, in the preparation of all flesh of swine. Poultry Notes. Cranberry jelly mixed with cold water of a watch, a far better-looking In the napping of the sails, thought sufficient. My materials were Scratches is often caused at this How iteobs away, subsiding, thing than I had been accustomed to From Poultry World. makes a refreshing drink for sick stowed away behind the cistern, and I season by exposure of the legs to ice, Li)^ a tired child after chiding see among workingmen. "Hello, Joe," Cabbages supply an excellent auxiliary determined to attempt an escape on I? persons. And across theground swell lolling, snow, and mud, and is due quite frequently said I, "you're getting smart. Where the next Saturday evening. I chose for the winter feeding of chickens. You can hear the bell-buoy tollingHow Brooms dipped for a minute in boiling to neglect of cleaning the legs did ye get that ticker from?" that evening because it was usually the it wails! suds once a week will last much and leaving them covered with icy "Oh, I won it in a shilling raffle. most free from any chance of interruption Every one who keeps- even a few longer than they otherwise would. mud when a horse is brought in from It's a beauty, isn't it?" from the officers, and the most fowls should have a room for their exclusive I flOW I BECAME A CONYICT. A neat, clean, fresh-aired, sweet and work. The way to avoid it is to wash The following Saturday afternoon, favorable for escaping detection, if I use in the winter, if at no other well managed house exercises a moral just as I was leaving the house for a the legs with warm water when the succeeded in reaching the crowded season. as well as a physical influence over it* stroll, Joe met me rather hurriedly, horse is brought in and rub them dry thoroughfares of the town. The droppings of the hens should be inmates. A STORY. saying- "Tom, I'm goingto Manchester then apply a little alcohol and rub it Saturday came. Supper was served occasionally lemoved they should One can have the hands in soapsuds I was born on the estate of Lord till Tuesday. I haven't much time well into the skin. Sometimes the at 5 the cells were locked up for the not be allowed to accumulate. The without injury to the skin if the hands to catch t' train, and I just want one in the north of England. My father disease is caused by impurity in the night and by 6 o'clock the officers, floors should be covered with loam or are dipped in vinegar or lemon juice or two things in t' house, and a few excepting a couple left in charge, had blood. In either case it is well to give was one of the under-gardeners and sand. immediately after. shillings extra like. Just run and left the building. "The night watchman one ounce doses daily of hyposulphite lived in one of the lodges on the domain. Too much meat, especially if raw, When food is to be fried have the pawn this watch for me, there's a good will be on duty outside at 8," I of soda and apply a solution of one will hurt the fowls, but they need a moderate As soon as I entered upon my teens, I pan very hot before the fat is put in lad, and we'll both go to the station said to myself "I must be out of this dram of sulphate of zinc in a pint of supply of it in winter, when they *was taken into the great house as a and have the fat hot before beginning together." before then. Now for it." I removed water to the part after thorough washing cannot forage upon the insects of the to fry. Then the minimum amount -sort of page, where I was treated with "All right, Joe," I said, "give it to the cistern for the last time, pulled fields. with warm water and soap. of fat will be absorbed. me." /much kmdness and favor. In a while from their hiding-place the .coils and Prepare for snow, sleet and storms Salt sprinkled on any substance "I'll follow thee in a minute," he I outgrew my "buttons," and was irons, and with a thrust or two sent One of the best systems of raising this month, in your winter arrangements burning or the stove will stop the shouted, as I hurried to the nearest the thin portion of wall into the yard tomatoes is that practiced by Mr, tken sent to the stable as an undergroem. for the fowls. The weather will smoke and smell. Salt thrown upon pawnshop. below. I then fastened a bar of iron Engle, of Marietta. He believes in be sharp and trying now, for the most Before I had reached my coals blazing from the fat of boiled When I handed the watch to the to each end of the rope. One of these, part, during the next three or four transplanting frequently, to secure eighteenth birthday, my noble master chops or ham will cause the blaze to shopman, he examined it closely, and placed across the opening on the inside, months. abundance of fibrous roots The died. Tha son who succeeded to the subside. once or twice looked rather queerly afforded a safe holding the other Let the laying hens run at will in the plants are trained to single stems Mold can be prevented from forming title and estates was quite unlike his at me. "Where did you get this?" kept the hanging rope steady. I barn-yard. They find grass seeds, fastened to stout stakes, two strings on fruit jellies by pouring a little paraffine he asked. father. A clean sweep was made in the put my legs through the opening to partly digested grain, etc., and so require being generally sufficient to use in over the top, and that, when "A mate of minejust gave it to me to descend, and managed to get through, establishment the racing-stud was less feeding. If you expect eggs tying. The side shoots are pinched cool, will harden to a solid cake, which pawn," I answered. "He Avon it in a and reached the basement yard, done away with the elder servants this cold weather, don't forget to jive off immediately beyond the first can be easily removed when desired. raffle I expect him here directly." though not without fear and trembling. them a hot mash in the morning. discharged a retrenchment was made Put all the pieces of bread which are cluster of fruit, and the leader is "Boy!" he shouted to an assistant By a shake of the rope the iron bar Keep a big iron pot hidden under the all round and in the change I was one left each day in a pan and dry them topped at the height of four feet. Tomatoes in the shop, "I shall want some change fell from its holding, and I was able to kitchen tabb, and into it throw parings of the many who had to seek work in a moderate oven. They may be grown this way are earlier, run and get some as quick as you pull it down ior my further use in scaling of all kinds, all sorts of table refuse, beaten fine in a mortar and put away elsewhere. can." healthier and invariably free from the outer wall. It was a November and fill up with small potatoes. in jars for breading or pudding. They My lot was next cast in the large In a few minutes the boy came back dirt. The soil must be rich to secure nightdark, cold, and windy. I now Cook until very soft and keep it on the are useful for sifting over greased cakepans with a policemanthe "change" he made for a part of the outer wall best results, as the plants grow more town of whither I had gone to back of the range all night, in order to to prevent the cake from adhering. he was sent out for, as it proved. which separated the chaplain's garden seek employment. A successful shopkeeper, rapidly and ripen eaiherhence command have It warm in the morning Before "Officer," said the shopman, "this from the prison, and where there was who advertised his wares by a better price, the fruit is also feeding, mash all well, and star in bran, If you wish to prevent the unpleasant young man has just handed in a watch a suitable corner for the use of my sending around the town a showy van of better quality. Livingston's seedlings meal or middlings. odor that arises Irom boiling cabbage, that's wanted. Here's the notice of rope. I had frequently noticed this drawn by two handsome horses, appear to be the most popular tie up a piece of stale bread in a warning sent round from the police of- spot from the reception ward, and driven by a good-looking, well-drested The Advantage ot Middlemen. varieties, although good words were muslin cloth and boil with the cabbage. fice." guessed its height to be about fifteen coachman, wanted a suitable groom to spoken for Trophy and others. The advantage of low rates for farm A piece of stale bread on the "What have you got to say?" said feet. Over this spot I threw the iron complete the show. Coming fresh and products is caught and retained by end of a knife with which you are cutting the policeman. bar at the end of the rope by good ruddy from Lord 's stables, I obtained The best food for young pigs is the middlemen. Three illustrative instances onions will prevent the juice from "I know nothing about it I will take luck, it caught somehow on the other the post without any trouble something which will not ferment,such eftVcting the eyes unpleasantly.Exchange. of the anomalous disproportion it directly to the man who gave it to side. I mounted quickly, sailor fashion, and added very much, I think, to the as dry unground oats. The little fellows between buying and selling prices me." and in another minute I was free. attraction of the shopkeeper's show will chew these and spit out the as long as the bloom of youth and are cited by the Northern Christian The by-road from the prison joined skins, and the thorough mastication But on going into the street, nothing How to Care for ConvalescentsThe Trifles country air remained on my cheeks. Advocate: the highway to the town about 600 was seen of Joe. We went to the lodgings they give to them wonderfully aids its Overlooked But I found the new life very different yards off and skirted the warders' cottages. "Wheat has declined fully 33 per but no Joe was there. He must digestion. Then they want to be in from the old one. Coachee and I From Good Housekeeping. When I reached the junction I cent, since '82, but at retail flour is have seen the officer,taken to theshop the grass. Little pigs will eat a great had more leisure than was good for When a sick person is recovering saw under the gas lamp one of the warders down only about 12 per cent. All and then thought it best to run away. deal of grass, and it is nature's own us in this perambulating business. from an illness and the proverbial appetite smoking and chatting with a policeman. kinds of meat cattle are cheaper than "Well, young man, you must come pig medicine, and will go a big way Hurry was no part of of the com alescent asserts itselt At tlie sight my heart sank but I they have been since the war farmers with me to the station. The watch is towards promoting health. One of our duty in the delivery all its force, the business of supplying quickly recovered my courage, crossed who have them to sell can find no stolen and has been found upon you the worst misfortunes to a pig is to of parcels, and so our driver frequently food becomeb comparatively theroad,swinging my arms about in a market for them. The very best beef so said the officer as he laid hold of have a shiftless owner, one who is so turned aside into some by-street to easy. The nurse has a large assortment ca.reless way,and passed on safely towards is offered in Syracuse, Utica, Oswego my arm to take me to the lock-up. heedless and coarse that he is not indulge his weakness for drink. I had from which to choose. But it is the town. As I proceeded, it struck and Auburn at $4 50 to $5.50 per cwt. In due time I was brought before the ashamed of making his pork in filth. been accustomed to have my glass of when the sufterer is burning with fever me as very foolish to venture into the by farmers and butchers yet people magistrates,charged with having stolen No matter about the man, but it is home-brew in the servants' hall and or agonizing with nausea that the caterer's lighted streets in prison dress besides who buy beef by the pound are paying a watch. I told my story, which, hard on the pig. Its skin gets rough up to this time I can tiuly say that ingenuity is most severely taxed. there was no one in the town that I particularly about the same prices that were asked from the smiles on the faces in court, and sore, its comfort is lessened, and *y habits were sober. But companionship The tax of preparing food that cared to see. I theretore when all sorts of fatted cattle were seemed to be a very stale one. its usefulness is limited. with my van-fellow led me to will tempt the appetite and yet not increase turned my steps in an opposite direction, scarce and beef at wholesale sold "la anything known of this man?" join him his tippling, until at length the malady, is no light one. It and marched northwards into readily at $10 to $12. Cheese has A barrel before having pork put into sharply asked one of the magistrates. I was almost as bad as himself. One is especially difficult in case of fever. the country. After walking about hardly paid for making this year it should be thoroughly scalded to remove "Yes. Your Worship," answered an evening, after the usual calling at our The patient's strength must be maintained seven miles, I took refuge for the night thousands of tens of good cheese sold impurities and destroy any official, as he read from a large book, favoite houses, we were both without a while at the same time everything in an out-house belonging to a small below 5 cents a pound and much as germs that would result in injury to "Convicted for stealing a pier-glass, copper to take a parting glass for the that quickens the circulation or farm on the roadside, I hid myself in low as 3 1-2 cents but the city buyer, the pork if not removed. A barrel April 19, 1867, and sentenced to three night. In the stable loft, at the back excites the f-ystem, is as feul to the the loft among the hay and straw and or indeed the very farmer who made months' hard labor." that has once been used to pack beef of our master's premises, a pier-glass flame that is consuming him. Nor is slept like a top. Early on Sunday it, will have to pay at the store from It was now October, 1868, only should never after be used as a pork had been stowed. It lay there for several this the only argument against administering morning I was aroused by some one 10 to 14 cents a pound for the same about eighteen months after my first barrel. It will be iound next to impossible weeks. We were in doubt about animal food. The prime coming to milk the cows. I kept close cheese, and he often gets short weight appearance in the same dock. I saw to keep pork sweet in it. But its ownership, and in our need of cash e\il effect of the fever is the drying up under cover, but no one came into the besides." that this fact told againt my tale. this is a rule that does not work both the coachman suggested that we might of the healthful juices of the body. loft. As a possible advantage ta both '1 "You stand committed to the sessions," ways. An old pork barrel is- one of raise a few shillings upon it. At first producer and consumer, our contemporary As soon as darkness came on I slipped was the reply of the bench The stomach.deprived of the amount the very best tor keeping beef. I hesitated to take any part in the -suggests the establishment by away, and went on still northwards. and I went down below, lamenting my of gastric fluid requisite for proper digestion, matter but my scruples and tears were farmers of retail agencies in towns. If Three years- ago an Illinois stockman All that night I tramped, hard luck. is unable to dispose of anything overcome by my companion. "Nay, co-operative storekeeping ever was introduced a polled AberdeenAngus scarcely meeting a soul. By daybreak A day or two after my committal but the lightest and simplest lad, you have naught to fear. On justified it certainly would be now in bull into his horned dairy I had reached the outskirts of a large to the borough prison the chief superintendent form3 of nourishment. Neglect or ignorance pay-day we'll get it out of pawn, and the interest of depressed agriculture." herd, and, as he expresses it, "publicly town, whose name I did not know. visited my cell, note book of this duty of sparing labor no one will be any the wiser.'' An empty house offered an enticing challenged his cows to produce a in hand. "You have been previously to the digestive powers has been responsible Thus persuaded, I joined in the first "Right Kind of Religion," place of rest, and in I went for a few single ealf that should ever grow a convicted," he said. "Once in this for many cases of gastric complication diskonest act of my life. As fate would Many years ago, on visiting Yarmouth hours. By this time I knew that the horn upon its own head," and up to prison last year. Haven't you been which have not only retarded shave it, the pier-glass was wanted before hue and cry would be abroad. Without Port, his native place, my father the present time they have not been in Winchester Jail since?" immediate recovery, but borne xay-day came round. The guilt a disguise my liberty would be met an old friend, who said to able to do it. The N. E. Farmer, I saw it was useless to deny it and fruit long afterward in dyspepsia and. was brought home to our door, and but short. The police of this unknown him: "Mr. H., I've got religion since now I began to realize the seriousness kindred complaints. The U6e of milk whose editor has had satisfactory experience the coachman and myself had to town would, I am sure, be now I saw you." "I'm glad you have," of my position. The superintendent in febrile disoiders of comparatively in the same direction, commends dhange our livery for a prison dress. on the lookout, for the prison could said my father "but have you got a was getting up my criminal history for recent date. The-practice of keepings this breeding off a worse than "Three months' hard labor," came not be thirty miles off. An empty the Recorder, and two convictions in typhoid patients alive for weeks on, shed at the meeting-house to put your useless excrescence, and hopes there like a death-knell upon my ears and house could supply me with nothing, so short a time would certainly insure an almost exclusively milk diet was. horse in Sundays?*' "No* I have will be a general effort to the same with a choking lump in my throat, I so I resolved to go prospecting. I for me a long sentence. The knowledge regarded as a startling innovation,but. not," "Well! I guess you'd better end, which, he says, does not involve was lodged in the borough prison. got through an attic window on the of my innocence the present case its success has been the best argument, try again. I think you haven't got any special sacrifice of other peculiarities After the expiration of my sentence, roof, and crawled to the nearest inhabited made my position all the more grievous. in its favor. The drinking of hot milk the right kind of religion." This was and good qualities of favorite animals. the shame o my disgrace prevented house. Looking through as a remedy for bowel troubles baa* long before the day of societies for me from going back to my father's cottage. its attic window I saw on also been proved sinca the threatening* Each of the cells in this prison was prevention of cruelty to animals but All the people on the estate a chair a suit of clothes of cholera have been, heard among us Many farmers do not feed turnips provided with a small cistern for water, I have no doubt it had a good effect, must have heard of my crime, and how evidently some ones Sunday suit, A glass of this.as hoc as it canbebwallowed, because the stock will not partake of let into the outside wall, but with one for the story was told all "along could I dare to show myself there! not yet put away. They were quickly taken at each meal to the exclusion them when they can get better material. of its sides flush with the interior wall. street."New-Orleans Picayune. Much down hearted, I walked back to in my grasp, and a few moments o every other beverage, has I found one of the screws, by which it Something depends upon the yfcke town from which I had been imprisoned. found me back again in my refuge. I been known to act like a charm as-a^ was fastened, loose. Curiosity led me manner in which the turnips are fed. Low Neck Drosses. The only opening that occurred was, indeed, in luck's way, for in the anti-laxative. to try and loosen the others. This I at No animal cares for a hard, woody or The present fashion oi extremely to me was to join the army. I trouser's pockets were twenty-three last accomplished. Then I took the frozen turnip, nor should the roots be decollete evening dresses is not confined *ceuld hi4^ myself there, I thought. shillings. I stowed the prison clothes cistern out, and saw a space in depth fed without some preparation. The Ancient Fruit Canning. -So I waYaedto the recruiting quarters, up the chimney and walked into the to the young and fair, says the New more than half the thickness of the better method is to steam them and We arft-indebteds to Pompeii top- or sfcook the Queen's shilling and enlisted. street dressed in the stolen suit. I York Tribune. All ages accept this wall, and large enough to admit the add ground gram, but the majority great industry of canned fruits. Yeara 1 was then under twenty years of hailed a cab coming down the road, unlovely fancy which' is all the more passage of my body. The thought of of farmers object to the labor of such ago when the excavations were -beginning age, and "a promising youngster," as after one or two questions for information, extraordinary since fashion presents escape at once suggested itself, and I proceeding. A root-slicer, however, a party of Americans found, in Ghe sargent said. All in good time, I I directed him to drive me to an exquisite and tempting array of resolved to make the attempt. I carefully may be used, by which the turnips H&. what liad been tflte pantry ot aJiouse, was sent to Aldershot. A few months' the barracks. Strange to say, this kerchiefs, delicate laces and other put back the cistern, replaced the may be sliced. They should then be many jars of preserved figs. One was .stay there made me homesick. I regpented cabman was the owner of the clothes charming devices, half-revealing, halfconcealing screws, and covered them with whitewash covered with water over night, sprinkled openod and thy were foursd! to be of the step I had tak?n, and I had on. You may scarcely believe the neck they cover. The from the walls. with meal and salt the next morning, fresh-andgood'. Investigation showed made up my mind to give up soldiering it, but it is quite true, as after events heart-shaped waist finished with a Having several weeks to wait for and fed. They are, of course, not that the figs had been put into the as soon as I got a chance. My proved. And I paid the poor fellow lit- peak adds grace to the figure, whether trial, I was taken out of the cell a as valuable as hay, corn, fodder or jarssin a heated state, an aparturo being difficulty was to get the clothing of a with his own com! good deal, and was employed in many slender or otherwise. It is cut very grain, but they serve an excellent dietary reft for the steam to eeaape, and -civilian. I dare not buy clothes, for ways. One day. as I was doing a light low at the neck, but has an diner I enlisted in a foot regiment, under purpose, increasing the appitite then sealed with wax. The hint was my purpose would thus be made job in the basement, I saw an iron bar trimming which.just relieves tht skin a feigned name of course. For a fortnight and assisting to keep the animals in taken, and soon after fruit-canning known neither could I take a comrade about three feet long lying about. of too strong a contrast, mjde of or so I kept pretty close to barracks good condition. WAS introduced here, the process being into my confidence. I resolved This I concealed in my clothes, and I then foolishly asked the wife some soft, silky crape or tulle, and as identical with that in vogjt at Pompeii .at length to bolt and take my chance. safely carried to my cell. My first object of one of the sergeants to pawn the the back is cut to correspond vasth the twenty centuries ago. There are Passing through a Hampshire village, was to break the bar in two but The Cost of a Bushel of Corn. stolen clothes. It was the story of front this fe^ similarly arranged and aiany ladies among us wh& can tomatoes I saw a countryman's smock and how was it to be done without a file? the watch over again. The There is a statistician about the the tiny cap or strap that ansarers for and peaches for domestic use, trousers drying on a cottage hedge. My eyes lighted upon the scrubbingstone theft had been reported to Palmer House says a Chicago paper the sleeve- corresponds also* in the, and d* not realize that they are indebted "The very thing," I thought "all is used for cleaning the floor. I the police the pawn brokers who desires to impress everybody witb way of several little folds of the transparent for this art to, the people of fair in war and with such notions tried the hardest piece I could find, had been warned and now the Pompeii. economic facts. Said he recently: fabric that trims tha corsag, in my mind, I stole the articles and and rubbed away with all my might. woman's errand transferred me from "Do you see that man over there? The display f ball costumes and -made off. But luck was against me. Imagine my delight when I found the the barracks to the police station. Well, he's a farmer, down near Elgin. those foe other full-dress occasions islike 'The theft was soon discovered and I iron showing signs of wear! Stone An old ledger kept by a Honesdate My photograph was taken and circulated. was pursued and arrested before I had There he goes with a friend they're a mimic Albambra. '.She full-tone was to be had in abundance, and I It was recognized at the prison (Pa.) merchant 60 years ago has thefollowing gone far on the road. For this offense going to get a drink. The farmer will colors* the iater-lacing filagree of embroidery, jb: persevered until success crowned from which I escaped. In a day or charges: Osepint of whisky* I was sent to Winchester Jail for a pay for it. Now, let me see. That with the profuse admixture my work, and the iron bar lay two I was visited by my old friend the 6 cents half pound tobacco, 12 1-2 couple of months. It also brought man will sweat two mortal hourst nextspring of pearls and beads, the fret-wo*k ornamentation, in two pieces. I then began my chief superintendent, who, claiming me about my dismissal from the army, cents 1-2 pound of tea, 56 cents 1-2 to plow enough ground t raise arabesqu*embroideries attack upon the wall. The dinner-hour as his property, took me forthwith for the regiment was too respectable i.W aiuuuauuu,ar one bushel of corn. That ba^hel of qwemoroiaeries, was usually a very back to my old quarters. a frescoese S i the shaded of. the Byaantina gallo *t keep a felon in its ranks. wh 5 cents 2.ne drink of ^Skv corn he will sell for 30 cents. He is going sk safe time for prisoners to play pranks. naus 2 S* 5 "Young man," said he, "do you cent period, the lull Ionic volute^ Runw VoUrsok^t! firij 2 i in there now to spend the' 30 cents During my, imprisonment at Win- Only one or two warders were left in i.7 500 nc know what you are likely to get for wJSKy a Lois-all are iocluaed in the pracetol I ?umR a ,a 1 for two drinks. Therefore f* ehester a circumstance took place charge, though the prison was a very the farmer this?" arrangement of theories andtho girt'of"^ -j,l suppose,4' I '& which, though trivial at the time, had andthecornhaveparted. Now, let me lai-ge one and pretty full. Fortunately "A few months extra, I decoration in silk and beadwork. stick, 19 eeots whisky and barrel, wruch to do with me some time afterward. tell you, what becomes of the corn. A for my schemes, my cell was situated answered. $12 currycomb and almanacs, 31 1-2 One day, as visitorb I wa taking exer- on the fourth landing from the bushel of corn makes seventeen quarts, A Tribute To Tea* He smiled grimly, saying "Seven cise in the ring a stepped ou to cents 1 quart of brandy, 50 cents100 5 basement, and in the reception ward, of whiskylour and a quarter gallons^ From the Boston Traveller. years, as sure as anything." cigars, 25 cents tobacco and L the ground. I immediately recognized which at that time contained very few The distillery get its first profited "What! penal servitude?" I gasped. A cup of tea in its finer significance whisky, 18 cents 8 pounds, of butter, in thethe strangernthe chiefI superintend- persons awaiting trial. Every dinner cents* a gallon. Tfcere you are $2 powder 3 1 cents "I never thought of that." en of priso where had served is the symbol of hospitality. Properly S1.2o 1 quart gin, 34 cents 1 barrel hour, therefore, I pulled out the cistern P for that bushel oi corn. Now the And so it came to pass. I was sentenced 1 ^?c* $ flour $6 made, it is the nectar and ambrosia three months. It seems to me that and set to work chipping away the Government com$B in, 90 cents fe gal- to se^fen years' penal servitude heconvictioneagainsthae had com from north to prove brick wall behind it. Therubbish was of thfr-gods. It should be served -2 gallon whisky, 2a cents 3 pounds lon$3.85, added to the $3r, makes for "breaking out of prison." Thus. I a man then await 1 carefully kept in the space thus made, sgar,44 cents 1 quart rum, 50c%nts- in tha daintiest of porcelain, and it $5.85. That Tarings the p/oduct of became a, convict.Chambers's Jom ing trial in Winchester. He recognized and no suspicion seems to have? been horse to ride and drink oi whisky, 2a the bushel otaorn down to, the jobber nal. shoujiu be made at the time of serving* i cents (horse 25 and wbjsky. a cents). 'W- I r%fK