3 cups raisins - a pound.

4 cups currants - a pound.

1 small cup sugar - 6 ounces. Same of butter.

1 large cup molasses - 12 ounces.

2 eggs.

1 cup sour milk and teaspoon soda - or else use sweet milk and baking powder. 6 cups flour - 11/2 pounds. Spices if desired.

Prepare the raisins and currants and dust them with flour. Mix all the rest together and beat well, then add the fruit. May be baked in a shallow pan to cut out squares warm or in deep mold. Makes about 5 pounds, costing 45 cents, or 9 cents a pound.

Divide before baking and you can have one cake and the other half steamed to-morrow for pudding.

There is music on the water to-night - serenading party in boats - fifteen young ladies have come to the Trulirural House to board for a week or two - glee club or seminary class or something of the sort from Basswood City, and they are down at our boat landing singing. Proprietor of the Trulirural has instigated them to that -knows that our side cannot muster even a parlor quartette. If Mr. Farewell would put his hired girls in a boat and tell them to sing their loudest that party would soon be put to fight. I suppose that would not do - it would make what they call a scandal, and, instead, the manager, the housekeeper and 'bus driver are hanging the trees lull of Chinese lanterns, and the beat boy with the big hat, is getting out some fire-works.

"For it makes the heart so gay, To hear the sweet birds singing

On their summer hol-i-day."

It does put new life into a fellow who is weary of his ill success when duck hunting to see the game come circling around at last.