To roast properly, meat should be put a good distance from the fire, and brought gradually nearer when about half the time required for cooking it has elapsed; it should be basted frequently; and, when nearly done, floured, to make it look frothed. Old meats do not require so much dressing as young; and if not fat enough, use a little dripping for basting. Veal and mutton require a little paper put over the fat to preserve it from being burned.

Ten pounds of beef require from two hours to two hours and a half roasting, eighteen inches from a good, clear fire.

Three ribs of beef, boned and rolled, tied round with paper, will require two hours and a half, eighteen inches from the fire: baste once only.

The first three ribs, of 15 or 20 pounds, will take three hours or three and a half; the fourth and fifth ribs will take as long, managed in the same way as the sirloin. Paper the fat and thin part, or it will be done too much before the thick part is done enough.

When beef is very fat, it does not require basting; if very lean, tie it up in a greasy paper, and baste frequently and well.

Common cooks are generally fond of too fierce a fire, and of putting things too near

to it.

Slow roasting is as advantageous to the tenderness and flavor of meat as slow boiling.

The warmer the weather, and the staler killed the meat is, the less time it will require

to roast it.

Meat that is very fat requires more time than other meat.

BOILING extracts a portion of the juice of meat, which mixes with the water, and also dissolves some of its solids; the more fusible parts of the fat melt out, combine with the water, and form soup or broth. The meat loses its red color, becomes more savory in taste and smell, and more firm and digestible. If the process is continued too long, the meat becomes indigestible, less succulent, and tough. The established rule, as regards time, is to allow a quarter of an hour for each pound of | meat, if the boiling is rapid, and twenty minutes, if slow. There are exceptions to this; for instance, ham and pork, which require from

BROILING requires a brisk, rapid heat, which, by producing a greater degree of change in the affinities of the raw meat than roasting, generates a higher flavor, so that broiled meat is more savory than roast. The surface becoming charred, a dark-crust is formed, which retards the evaporation of the juices; and, therefore, if properly done, broiled may be as tender and juicy as roasted meat.

BAKING does not admit of the evaporation of the vapors so rapidly as by the processes of broiling and roasting; the fat is also retained of the heat into an empyreumatic oil, so as to more, and becomes converted by the agency render the meat less fitted for delicate stomachs, and more difficult to digest. The meat is, in fact, partly boiled in its own confined water, and partly roasted by the dry, hot air of the oven.

To fry

FRYING is, of all methods, the most objectionable, from the food being less digestible when thus prepared, as the fat employed undergoes chemical changes. Olive oil, in this respect, is preferable to lard or butter. fish well, the fat should be boiling hot (600 degrees,) and the fish well dried in a cloth; otherwise, owing to the generation of steam, the temperature will fall so low that it will be boiled in its own steam, and not be browned. Meat, or indeed, any article, should be frequently turned and agitated during frying, to promote the evaporation of the watery particles.

To make fried things look well, they should be done over twice with egg and stale bread crumbs.

TO MAKE VINEGAR.- Boil slowly, for one hour, three pounds of very coarse brown sugar in three gallons of water; work it with a little yeast, the same as you would beer; then put it into a cask, and expose it to the sun, with a piece of brown paper pasted over the bung-hole, and it will soon become fine vinegar, fit for pickling or any other purpose.

TO PREVENT LAMPS FROM SMOKING.-Dip the wick-yarn in strong hot vinegar, and dry it, before putting it in your lamp.

YOUTH'S CORNER.

WAR MISCELLANY.

All about my Friends.-No. 1.

One day, early last spring, hearing a peculiar noise, several times, in the chamber, I went up stairs to see if I could ascertain the cause of it. After listening and watching for awhile, I heard the noise again, and looking in the direction, I saw a singular looking mouse. It was larger than, common housemice, and of altogether a different color. Its back was a bright, reddish brown, its belly cream-white, and its feet, silver-white. made the noise by drumming with its foot, which it did every time it came from its hiding place. It acted so funny, and was such a pretty little fellow, that I proceeded at once to "make friends" with it, by giving it some corn, and crumbs of bread.

It

The next evening there was a great scampering, and squeaking, among the mice in the chamber, and the next day I found several dead mice in the chamber, some of them partly eaten, and from that time to this, I have not seen a common mouse about the house. But my friend the mouse with red back, white belly and toes, became quite tame, and is allowed to go all through the house. It never makes any trouble by gnawing bags, boxes, &c.

Whenever a quantity of food is given it, it will immediately carry it away, not to its nest, but to any place where it can hide it-under a cushion, in a boot-wherever it can get it out of sight, then afterwards it will get it as it wants it to eat. Unlike other mice, it eats the whole of a kernel of corn, instead of eating only the chit. The mouse did not make the drumming, after the first day, except when it went to some place where it was not used to going. UNCLE WILLIAM.

[This mouse is a species of field mouse undoubtedly. Twenty years ago, when pioneering in Waukesha county and making a farm out of the broad acres then lying idle, we caught an animal very similar to the one described. Living in a house with a loose floor, he had access to all parts of it, and one morning we found a half pint of corn stowed in the toe of one of our boots. Curiosity prompted us to catch the perpetrator. It proved very much like the one described by "Uncle William." Of his other qualities we cannot speak.]-ED. pro tem.

Lines.

Men of the Northland! where's the manly spirit Of the true hearted and the unshackled gone? Sons of old freemen! do we but inherit

Their names alone?

Is the old Pilgrim spirit quenched within us?
Stops the strong manhood of our souls so low
That Mammon's lure or Party's wile can win us
To silence now?

Now, when our land to ruin's brink is verging,
In God's name let us speak while there is time!
Now, when the padlocks for our lips are forging,
Silence is crime!

What! shall we henceforth humbly ask as favors
Rights all our own? In madness shall we barter
For treacherous peace the freedom Nature gave us,
God and our character?

Here shall the statesman forge his human fetters,
Here the false jurist human rights deny,
And in the church their proud and skilled abettors
Make truth a lie!

Torture the pages of the hallowed Bible,
To sanction crime, and robbery, and blood!
And, in Oppression's hateful service, libel
Both man and God!
Shall our New England stand erect no longer,
But stoop in chains upon her downward way,
Thicker to gather on her limbs, and stronger
Day after day?

Oh, no; methinks from all her wild, green mountains-
From valleys where her slumbering fathers lie-
From her blue rivers and her welling fountains,
And clear, cold sky-

From her rough coast and isles which hungry Ocean
Gnaws with his surges-from the fisher's skiff,
With white sail swaying to the billow's motion
Round rock and cliff-

From the free fireside of her unbought farmer-
From her free laborer at his loom and wheel-
From the brown smithshop where beneath the hammer,
Rings the red steel-

From each and all, if God hath not forsaken
Our land, and left us to an evil choice,
Loud as the summer's thunderbolt shall waken

A People's voice!

Startling and stern! the Northern winds shall bear it
Over Potomac's to St. Mary's wave;
And buried Freedom shall awake to hear it
Within her grave,

Oh, let that voice go forth! the bondman sighing
By Santee's wave, in Mississippi's cane,
Shall feel the hope, within his bosom dying,
Revive again.

Oh for your ancient freedom, pure and holy,

For the deliverance of a groaning earth,

evening and after rain, and take care to dry everything in and about your persons and

tents.

Let it go forth!

Sons of the best of fathers! will ye falter
With all they left ye perilled and at stake?
Ho! once again on Freedom's holy altar
The fire awake!

Prayer-strengthened for the trial, come together,
Put on the harness for the moral fight,
And with the blessing of your Heavenly Father,
MAINTAIN THE RIGHT!
J. G. WHITTIER.]

Sanitary Measures for the Soldiers. The Medical Commission of Massachusetts recommend the following directions to the attention of troops in the field :

Soldiers should recollect that, in a campaign, where one dies in battle, from three to five die of disease. You should be on your guard, therefore, more against this than the enemy, and you can do much for yourselves which nobody else can do for you.

1. Avoid especially all use of ardent spirits. If you will take them, take them rather after fatigue than before. But tea and coffee are much better. Those who use ardent spirits are always the first to be sick, and the most likely to die.

2. Avoid drinking freely of very cold water, especially when hot or fatigued, or directly after meals. Water quenches thirst better when not very cold, and sipped in moderate quantities slowly, though less agreeable. At meals, tea, coffee and chocolate are best. Between meals, the less the better. The safest in hot weather is molasses and water with ginger or small beer.

3. Avoid all excess and irregularities in eating and drinking. Eat sparingly of salted or smoked meats, and make it up by more vegetables, as squash, potatoes, peas, rice, hominy, Indian meal, &c., when you can get them. Eat little between, when you have plenty at meals.

4. Wear flannel all over in all weathers. Have it washed often when you can; when not, have it hung up in the sun. Take every opportunity to do the same by all your clothing, and keep everything about your person dry, especially when it is cold.

5. Do not sit, and especially do not sleep upon the ground, even in hot weather. Spread your blanket upon hay, straw, shavings, brushwood, or anything of the kind. If you sleep in the day have some extra covering over you. 6. Sleep as much as you can and whenever you can. It is better to sleep too warm than too cold.

7. Recollect, that cold and dampness are great breeders of disease. Have a fire to sit around whenever you can, especially in the

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but a little while.

9. If disease begins to prevail, wear a wide bandage of flannel around the bowels.

10. Keep in the open air, but not directly exposed to a hot sun. When obliged to do this, a thin, light covering over the head and neck, in the form of a cap with a cape, is a good protection.

11. Wear shoes with very thick soles, and keep them dry. When on the march, rubbing the feet, after washing, with oil, fat or tallow protects against foot-sores.

Soldier-Health.

In our variable climate, it is necessary for soldiers to have clothes that will afford judicions protection against excessive heats and sudden chills. The head and neck should always be covered when exposed to the burning sun, to prevent sun-stroke, and the body should be sufficiently covered during night, and in rainy weather, to prevent chills.

Cleanliness of the person and of the clothes are necessary to health. When in the field, on active duty, soldiers are in the habit of sleeping with their wearing apparel on, so as to be in readiness to repel an attack or to march at a moment's warning. In such cases it is very difficult to keep the clothes clean, but a very good plan to pursue, is to employ ten or fifteen minutes daily in taking off the entire clothing, hanging the different parts on tent poles or the posts of a fence, and switching them well with a ramrod or a switch cut from a neighboring tree. This will tend to prevent the increase and development of noxious vermin. Bathing daily, either in a stream or only with a sponge, is likewise essential to health.

After a march, or when marching, the face and particularly the eyes, should be wiped with a moist cloth or sponge to remove the dust. The face should never be washed with cold water when heated, either upon or after a march, as by suddenly checking perspiration inflammation of the eyes is very likely to result.

Soldiers are exhorted not to sit or recline upon the damp grass when tired. To enjoy a few minutes' rest on a severe march, it is better to lie down than to sit, but the blanket, or great coat should always be employed for reclining upon. When warm with rapid exercise, either in hot or cold weather, a thirsty soldier should drink very cautiously. A French officer once dropped down dead after taking a hurried drink of cold water, in weather when snow was upon the ground. He was perspiring freely, being on a rapid march.