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4 .. - WILLAMETTE FARMER: SALEM, OREGON, DECEMBER !0u 3onie iri:lc. MISS. IIAIiniOT T. CLARKE, Editor. ANORY WOKU3. Angry words are lightly spoken In a rash and thoughtless Lout; Brightest links of life are broken l!y their deep insidious power. Hearts inspired by warmest f eeling, . , Ke'er before by anger stirred, Oft are rent past human hcaliug, By a single angry word. l'oisou drops of care and sorrow, Bitter poison drops are they, Weaving for the cominc; morrow Saddest memories of to-day. Angry words, oh, let them never From the tongue unbridled slip; May the heart's best impulse ever Cncck them ere they soil the lip. Love is much too pure and holy, Friendship is too sacred far, For a moment's reckless folly Thus to desolate and mar. Angry worde are lightly spoken, Bitterest thoughts are rashly stirred, Brightest links of life are broken By a single angry word. A GOOD-MIGHT, nv II. .1. I" With the day's garments lay Thine earthly cares away, M in o'er wearied child casts down its toys; Bid the wild throbbing cease That broke thy heart's deep peace, Amid life's surging waves of Kricfs and joys. Take to thy ihrkeneil roim ! No shade of inward gloom, Since angels gather there to guard thy rest; And through the silent uinht, Gather from fields of light Some healing herbs to bind unto- thy breast. B'rom life's perplexed afl'airs, Its memorioj, hopes and prayers, Thou will lie down to slumber sweet and deep; But who can say for thee, Where shall the waking be! Will earth or heaven the future harvest reap. Go, then, forgiving all, Upon thy God to call, Life's crown of thorns no longer on thy brow; And fanned by angel"s wings, Dream of all glorious things, And with thy guides, at heavenly altars bow. Fresh as the morning dew Benin thy life anew, If such thy Father's will, pon earth; Pluck from the past Its flowers, To garland future hours, But leave the thorns in scil that gave them birth. CHOICE RE-IPES. Tomato Sov. Oho peck of lipe toma toes, peeled, one quart of vinegar, three and a half pounds of dark brown sugar, ind one ounce of whole cloves. Boil all together very slowly until it is rich and thick and reduced fully two-thirds. This will keep years and get better with age, and is delicious with poultry, game and meats. Apple Puddistg. A delicious apple pudding to be served hot is made thus ; Tecl and quarter enough apples to cover the bottom of a deep tin plate ; then make a batter of sour milk, sodn and flmnv with a tablesnoonful of lard to nnnnfrh flour to make a batter which will cover the apples. This should not be thinker than for pancake-'. Tour it over the apples and bake till brown ; then, when done, turn it on a large plate, with the crust down. Over the apples scatter sugar and cinnamon ; if you like it rich, spread n thin laverof hutteroer the ap ples befoie putting on the sugar and cinnamon. Tanc.vkk- wirit rRK-EitVE. One pint of prepared flour ; about a quart of milk ; six eggs;, a little salt. Beat the yolks light, add the salt and two cups of milk, then the flour and beaten whites alter nately, and tljin with moie milk until the batter is of the right consistency1. It should be quite tliiu. Hve ready in a small frving-pan a tabletpoonful of but ter or s'weet lard, hissing hot but not discolored by too lona heating. Pour in enough batter to cover the bottom of the pun, and frv quickly, pouring oil' the fat so Boon as the cakes Kt. Turn it with a lift of your spatula and a skillful toss of the pan at the same time. As fast as the pancakes are done thu same lard will do for several let an assutant spread onoli nrinn u hot nlate and cover with sweet jam or jelly, rolling up' neatly to soon as this is done. Sprinkle with pow dered sugar and set in a warm oven until you arc ready for dessert. i "Housekeeper', wishes for directions for making "bread griddle cakes."' The old fashioned way was to break 'the bread itr small bits and let them o.ik' for several hour, in sonr milk; then when reidjf to' fry'thonvtake apoon and stir them o there at no lump left ; fweeten tliesbur milk with eoda dissohedina little hot water, in "the proportion" of a scant teaspoonful of soda to one large cup of sour milk. The batter hunld be an thick as for rorn-rueal gritldlo cake, and to this end , stir in KM!;h Hour to make it sb ; a largo pinch of alt and the same quantity or sugar enouui oe auuea. Bread griddle' cakes, can be pi ado by using swet-tmilk and baking powder in place of sour milk and.eoda. Here is the most tonsible iwipo tor lef a la mode it has boon my good for tune trj.use. Take, three pounds of f reh-1-eef, remove!! the fat and gristle ; mix somo cloves, mace, allspice, black pepper, mid a little cayenne with a little Ie than a pint of vinegar, tho quantity of spico to be determined by your taste- a tnblespoonful of each, with the excep tion of the cavenn", is tho umnl allow ance a half a teaspoonful of eayenneis suflicient. Put the meat in n porcelain kettle, and pour the vinegar and spice over it, and a pint of soup stock. It is considered by some cooks a great addi tion to cut thin slices of bacon and lay them over the meat. Cover the kettle, and let tho beef cook slowly till perfectly tender. This may be served cold, or hot, and with egetabicsor without. To make good sandwiches, -the bread should be light and not to -tale. Cut it in thin slices, butter well on one side, and between the slices lay meat chop- noil fine nrrnt verv thin : or beef or nam, a little mustard is usually added. After being prepared, tho sandwiches should be piled together anu Kept uotween two plates or in a sandwich box. Instead of tho sliced meat, (lotted or finely chopped meats, suph as beef, veal, chicken, ham or tongue may bo used ; this method is preferable to the slices, as there is no difficulty in dividing them with the teeth. To make cheese sandwiches, take two-thirds of a good cheese grated, nnd one-third butter and a little cream; nnnnil nil together in a mortar, then spread it on slices of brown or white broait ; lay another slice over cacti ; press them gently togetner, anu cut in smuii squaie'pieces. Babies feet are objects of unlimitod admiration; the soft curves and outlines and the perfect nails do not in tho le.T-t suggest the cramped and misshapen form they will take after a while, in all human probability. Thoughtlessness and it mistaken notion of economy cause the lack of beauty and the sonso of dis- . i ..,. f .i. i.A1r ...n conilort aooiu me jeei, ui mu iimi-giumi boy or girl. Children are frequently naue to wear suoes unit muy nine uiu- . .1 .,. .. .. mi. giown necause wiey uru uui nun, uui. "Best shoes are inmost niwnys iw w when they are purchased, and as they nrp nnlv worn occasionally, the feet change and enlarge, and are injured by the ill-fitting shoe. The inula should he nrA f. nurl lnrdrod utter hv the mother just as conscientiously as the morals of the child. Many an hour of acute pain, as well as of loss to the man or woman, may bo charged to the neglect of the nails in cniiatioou. ii me discovery is made that the shoe is oppressing the foot and crowding the nails, it would be bet ter toremove the shoe and let the child go without rather than continue its use. If there is 'danger of toenail pressing downjn the flesh, it can be avoided by cutting a scallop or point in the centre of the nail. This will certainly prevent ingrowing nails. tTnuoeteeners coiiinlain that the ap ples are entirely tasteless this year ; that the sauce maae wnn mem una nu jmui. Tho following recihe for sauce is said to be excellent : unt some naru appies m quarters, or smaller pieces still after peel ing them ; put them in a jar, with plen ty jof sugar and white ginger-root, cut line, scattered over them ; the best way, perhaps, being to put in a layer of ap ples, and then of the sugar and gingor. In two or three days pour in enough water to entirely dissolve the sugar ; then strain this juice, and, putting tho np pies in it, let them fetew slowly until they are tender. If the apples mu tanuillj treated, they will not .loe ihcu shape. Sorve when cold. This i.- very good with meat. jfoii &M$ faiililreq. -- . , THE CRICKETS TALE. UV MR CI VI. 1H1TV RVTKS "Good mornluz, Mr Cricket, How di you sleep List night? Sure, never was tho sky so cltar, The moon so big and bright. I listened to the concert Your friends give. Certainly They played with more than usuil skill That blue gross symphony." He rat in the sunshine, rubbing His arms and back and knees, And shook his bulgy head and sighed, "llon't ask me, if you please, For I never closed a winter! We played the concert through, Though I scraped those blessed fiddle-string' Up to my chin in dew. "My friend with the hurdy-gurdy, And the one with the flageolet, The bg-pipe man and the bugle-blower Were drenched and dripping wet. And just in the very thickest Of barytone and bass, A misty, ghostly-looking thing Came stealing by the place. "I felt a chill like the ague Go crawling np my spine; And my neighbor with the castanets Begged for a sip of wine; And the tenor in his solo Coughed between every note; While the little soprano lady tied A kerchief round her throat. "The pipes whined shrilly, feebly; One quaver the bassoon blew; Then all, as if of one accord Stopped short, and ahuddercd, 'ugh?' Not another chirrup they ventured, Jingle, tingle or clink! Now, who was that misty, ghostly thing" I said, "Jack Frost, I think?" Companion- OUR LETTER BOX. Imported Matches. Residents and strangers in New York city inut have noticed, during the latter part of the summer, the offering for sale on the streets of matches in -boxes of foreign appearance, the price asked being lower than that of our domestic matches. These foreign matches are as different " their nationality, for they come from Switzerland, Bohemia, Italy, and rfvden. Thoc from Italy are especially attractive, being in reality miniture paralliiiD candles, haying a line cotton wick and being only about one and a half inches long. They burn with a clear, white flame, and last a suf ficient time to light wveral lamps. They are put up in neatly embossed boxes with a sliding drawer that ojeus by a bit of concealed elastic cord, and closes by the fame means on being slightly pu-hed back. The other torts are" similar to tho-e manufactured here. "Wliv these foieign matches are now for the firi-t time introduced in large quantities to this market is explained by the Act of t'ongres-, by which the tax of one cent on each one hundred matches, whether domestic or foreign, was remoi ed Julv 1. This tax was more onerous on foreign makers than on our home manufacturers, because, as the government required that the attaching of the stami"-. Jiould le done while the gooiiB weie in Dona, anu uy custom uui cial, it proved an expensive operation and generally nicc-sitafd the repacking of the Miiall boxes by reason of the de ttruction of label, wrapper, and often times tho boxes. The domestic mnnu- f.icturerB. made a blight reduction .in price on the removal of the stamp tax, but it was less than the amount of the tax. Although there has been no reduc tion in tho duty on imported matches, there lias been a change in tho" condi tion's and expense- attendant on their importation by re.wni of tho removal of the stamp lax, that enables our mer chants to imxirt tiwiv ami Bohemian matches, jnd after piling the govern iiu-nt the thirty-thc percent, duty tx acte 1. sell them to the dealers at a lower prk-o than is aked for tho doufstjc monopoly matches. UnwxiEviLLK, Cl., July 16, 1652. I am selling Acmen's C-iuph Syrup, and tb sain rldtt,lly4tcrMsiiig,-.Itj:ivngood,satii. f'Ctbo. r. . , V, I Smith, Miorr's Drug Store." Donivill,,'Cl. The letter box is beginning to fill up and Aunt Hetty feels very happy to got so many letters on hand. The lirst this week is from Johnny V., who has writ ten liefore. We must say that the letter shows care; you carr all see that it is a good letter to read, but you can't all see that it is done in good shape; there is a right way to do everything, and pustom has laid certai n rules about letter wilt ing. Johnny- has dated it properly and commenced it right; then he has put capital letters where they should be, and punctuated it correctly. Now there arc many good letters come to the box, which look all right in the paper, lie- cause Aunt Hetty fixes them', which have no capital letters at all, and which do not look business-like. It is not the fault of tho little writers, but the teachers are to blame for not showing tbeir scholars the proper way to do it. We are glad to have Johnny speak out so bravely about temperance. Yes, many a boy hasbcon ruinod just because he wont into the saloon to hear the mu sic; then, of course, he had to buy wine liquor to treat those ho found theio. It comes easy to go again after once he has crossed the threshold. In old times people drank a great dal ; it was the fashion among nice, people to ask their friends to take a glass in their own houses, and these pooplo lived long lives and were never seen drunk ; but in those days tho liquor was tho pure thing and did not affect the mind, while now almost, all liquors aio made of drugs and stun' that make people crazy mad, so 'that they kill and destroy, and commit every sort of wicked deed, beside cutting short the lies of those whnusv the-e made up drinks, so destroying mind, bodv and soul. It is a line accomplishment to be able to get up and recite a piece befoie others; next ben is the habit of committing nice verses it strengthens the memory and elevates the mind. We welcome Junic, we aie sine her other letter never came, if it had we me very sine it would have been in print. I low funny to catch fish with a "grub hook,' it must be so, for little girls never tell big fish stories, they leave that to tho boys another name for the roll too every gill's name is worth tnolwys names, for eveiy girl has intluencp over her brothers and all her boy cousin- so girls you must all see that our infhietjci is used for good things and for right How swM to lie and hear the water rippling by, while the birds can behenid too in the uight time. We jememher of camping by a mountain stream and of lu-iiiK lulled to sleep night after night lir Vin unit mnnimr water, while the different birds could be heard and the wild animal- culling to each other. These .mud of nature are beautiful to one whonjoy iwl, creation, Estelle writes again, and w aie glad to see she reinemliers the Cmlc we hope she take good ;ifp of "Bob" and does not ket-p him where there i- n draft of aii ; some keep thu cage by the cook stove where all tho bail odor of tho kitchen are, and, then, sonic put tho bird where it is cold, then feed and water just when any one happens to think of it. There should oe one certain umuiu the day set apart for that duty, and never should bo foigotten; just think how cruel to shut a bird up nnd then not feed it. He sure and put a piece of cloth on -the cage at night and see if thero are any lice on tho cloth if thero are any you must scald the cage and keep putting cloth near the peiches,nnd then you can catch the villains, for they will surely kill the bird if they arc al lowed to increase on tho bird. These mites will crawl off the bird before morn ing and will sometimes live in the.cracks of the wall near whore the cage is hung. Mir.Tox, Ogn., Nov. 29, 18S11.' Editor Home Circle; I do not go to school this winter, for the nearet school is a mile and a half from here. I study at homo. It is very nlensant in the Walla Walla valley. We have a beautiful stream running through our place; my brother Col. catches salmon in it and shoots ducks. Some times we see from the window the tish swimming past, and Col. rushes out and catches them with a grab hook. He al ways gets them. Wo can hear the water running in tho night, and the ducks talking us they float by, and little night birds wade in the irrigating ditches in tho gaiden and make the queerest noises. Thevare dried up now, the tlitches l mean, not the birds, though for that mat ter, the birds aro gone too, for its coming winter. The mountains annum us aro covered with snow. It is winter up on Basket mountain where my sister Maude is teaching, but down here it is sunny and warm yet. I wrote once be fore, but I did not sec it in the paper. I think tho last F.mimer was extra good. I read all of it. I inn 11 years old. Do the girls of the Ciiole like to declaim I do. I sKko "Paul Kevcre's ltido" last week at Miss Dallou's school. Here's a conumdrnm for tho girls and boys to guers : "Why is a caterpillar like hot bread t" Please put my name on the temper ance roll. Yours truly, Jl'N'in Suttok. 7, 1383. 3 . THE YOUTH'S COMPANION IfE COMPANION gives more than two hundred stories yearly, by the nriety of week, is most noted authors. The next volume will lc nnequalleil in its variety oi entertaining and instructive matter. The Covr.vxiox is published every handsomely illustrated, and is a paper for the whole family. SERIAL STORIES. Tho FouiHllin-i of Talis, by The Covenanters Ihuigiiter, by A Hoys' Story, by A Story of English Knstic Life, A Story ot Adventure, by Alphone lhmriot Mis. Oliphnut T. .1. Trowbridge Thomas Hnrdy C. A. Stephens THRILLING Shark Hunting:, by Among the Moonshiners, by Outwitted, an Indian Adventure, by Wrecked Upon a Volcanic Island, Stories of tho Cabins In the West, Adventures in the Mining Districts, Breaking in the Reindeer, and Other Sketches of l'olar adventure, by Stories of Menageries, Incidents connected with Men agerie Life, and tho Capturo and Taming of lid lieasts for Exhibition, by ' Boy's Afoot In Italy and SwlUerland, The adven tures' of two English boys traveling abroid at an expense of one dollar a day, by ADVENTURES. T. B. Luce J. Chandler Harris Lieut A- Chapia Richard Heath E. J. Marrtoa H. FUimore W. H. Glide S S. Cairns Nugent Robinson FAMOUS POETS. The greatest living poets of ENGLAND, FU.VXCK and AMERICA will contribute original poems written expressly for Companion' reader-. ALFRED TENSYSOX, VICTOlt HIIUO, THE EAltli OF LYTTON, .1. ;. Will Tl IKK, T. It. ALDKICII. ENCOURAGEMENT AND ADVICE. C. K. Winder JatncH Parton A. Hammond Calveit Vans llixrr. ron Toon F.untr.iis, by Tin: FAii.rnr.-! of (1ui:tMi:n, by A DiiiTAiiY ron Xehvous I'iioplk, by ITlSTS F(in CoUNTKY' lUll-Hi: UlUl.tlKII-, Dr. W. Ckktkuvimx, Ogn., Nov. 17, 188:1. Editor Home Circles I thought I wpuld write again. It ha9 been raining to-day and is a good time to write. Our school wjU'oo out in two weeks, and the last day of school we aro going to have a picnic in the school houfee, AVe are. going to dress up nice and take tome real good dinner, then we will all eat our dinners together. "Wo are roiiic to have speeches ; my speech U, "Where there's drink there' danger," I saw it in the "'iu.ami:tte Fatmkii; I nut it. out and am learning it. l'leaso put my name on the temperance roll. I don't know much about temperance. My p.i don't drink, nor my prandpas didn't drink. When I go to town and have to pass a saloon I never turn my head and look in, I just go past as quick as I cm. 1'yn seen boys that wmld stop and listen to wme mu-sic in a i-aloon, but I don't. There was a deaf and dumb man come to our house begging pa gave him Home money ; he gave us a paper that had the deaf and dumb letters on. I eau spell my name with my lingeis. No moie thi-time. Cioodhy. .Imi.vw Win.mis. Wii.i.ui-,Ogii.,Nov.2t, 1P8I1. IMitor Home Ciicle: A- my othei letter wa publi-hed I ih.iught'l would wiite another. I am a little girl 11 yeaiK old. I have a little pet calf, hi- name i-s Dick. My lister has ,i little oanaiy bird, she call him Hob, he is very MsVet ; he sing pietty near all tin time We had a little snow l.iHt night, and theie wa1- h'ost tlnV morning. I do not go to school this winter. Our school elo-ed in lime. W only have thiee month"' school a year. I villrloo wishiug'suree.- to the Tuimih Kerour little friend. n-rEM JuiiN. Tiik titrr of Mr.Moitv, and Othor Tapers giving Instances of SelftHelp, by A Nnw ruorr.s-ioN ron Yoi'xn Mi:s The opportunities for Young men as Electrical Engineers, by TiimrT Lnssoss LE.tnNEn Fuom the European poasantry. Novel papers on household Economies, by At Tim Ann of Twestv-Oxk. A series of Papers showing what great men had accbmplMiwl, and what they proposed doing at that period of their lives, by Samuel Smiles Thomas A. Edisou Helen 8. Connnt Edwin P. Whipple STRANGE REMINISCENSES. Statze Driver Stories, by Stories of Saddle Bag Preachers, The Last .Days or Women of Fashion, by My first Visit to a Newspaper, Office. 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