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The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-31
Advice to consnmntiues.

In some good advice to consumptives,
Dr.. Hall says:
"Eat all YOU can digest, and exercise
great deal in the open air, to convert
what you eat into pure, healthful blood.
Do not be afraid of outdoor air, day or
night. Do not be afraid of sudden
changes of weather; let no change, hot
or cold, keep you in doors. If tits rainy
weather, the more need for your going
out, because you eat as much on rainy
day as upon clear day; and if you ex-
Eerclse less, that much more remains in
the system of what ought to be thrown
off by exercise, and some i'll result, some
consequent symptom, or i'll feeling, is the
certain issue. Ii it is cold out of doors,
do not muffie your eyes, mouth, and nose
in furs, wells, WOODEN comforters, and the
like; nature has supplied you with the
best muffier, with the best inhaling reg
uiator, that is, two lips; shut them before
you step out of warm room into the
cold air, and keep them shut until you
have walked briskly few rods and quick
ened the circulation little; walk fas,
enough to keep off q feeling of chilliness,
and taking cold viii be impossible.
What are the facts of the case? Look
at railroad conductors, going out ola hot
ar into the piercing cold of winter and
In again every FIVE or. zen minutes, and
yet they do not take cold oftener than
others; you viii scarcely find . consump-
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-31
The Ponltu Honse

As everything connected with poultry
nowadays has a peculiar interest, we
give the following remarks from an Eng
lish paper:
First, of the roost and nest.house.
The floor should be sprinkled with ashes,
loan, pulyerized peat, or fine charcoal,
and the floor should be cleaned every
week. The yard should contain grass
plat, some fine gravel, Stacked lime, dry
ashes, and pure water. The nests should
be lined with moss heath, and straw.
Evidently the Dorkingsare the best breed |;
they win lay an average of 185eggs each
per ahnum. Fowls with black legs are
best for roasting, while those with white
legs are best for boiling. If you want
them to set early, leave the eggs under
them. Fowls in their native habits never
lay more than they can hatch. Remem-
Der that no success can be expected from
poultry keeping if their houses be damp,
cold, unelean, or badly ventilated: if
their food does not approximate to that
which they get in a state of nature, viz
mixture of animal and vegetable food
if the water they drink be stagnant, the
drainage of the manure heap, DC, or il
the strongest and the handsomest be not
bred FROM"
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-31

character, habits, de-, of the jackass, and
whenever he had occasion to write upon
law, politics. morals. or indeed any sub
iect concerning the human race, he found
his labor very much abridged, as BY
spreading his memoranda before him, he
could insert them with great facility of
application. We are not sure that a SIM
liar ingenious plan might not be adopted,
with observations on the animal we are
considering. The phrase. "swinish null
titude," which everybody individually
applies to everybody else collectively.
shows the universally of the popular
sentiment on this subject; when your
neighbor calls you a "hog," you need
not always suspect him of figure of
speech.
Man and hog are both omniEorous, and
either owing to this, or some other mex
plicable cause, are subject to the same
diseases; indeed, it has been asserted by
respectable medical authority, that many
of the /" ills that flesh is heir to % may be
directly referred to the use of pork as an
article of diet. Consumption, scrofula
from scrofa-measles and smallpox.
are but few examples of human dis
eases thathave been known to affect swine
with precisely the same symptoms that
they exhibit in mankind. And when it
is considered how often they remain la
tent and undeFeloped in the system for
years, and how slight the probabilities
are that the consumer can ever ascertain
with any degree of certainty the sanitary
condition of the animal ON which he
breakfasts, the feat of devouring pork
chop, savory if it be, with even that con-
fdence which no ordinary man is sup
posed to have in sausages, requires almost
Spartan nerve. The use of the hog is to
furnish light to the world, and oil for ma
chiuery; that is his true glory. Read
Hogg and Bacon, andlaugb, if youplease,
with the weaker brethren who are facetious
on Ham-but as you value health, trans
gress not the Levitieal law.-Bsfalo
Commercial.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-31

tive man in thousand of them. 1t is
wonderful how afraid consumptive people
are of fresh air, the very thing that would
cure them, the only obstacle to cure
being that they do not get enough of it /;
and yet what infinite pains they take to
avoid breathing it, especiallyif it is cold
when it is known that the colder the air
is the purer it must be; yet if people
cannot get to a hot climate, they viii make
an artificial one, and imprison themselves
for whole winter in warm room, with
temperature not varying ten degrees in
six months; all such people die, and vet
We follow in their footsteps. If were
seriously III of Consumption, I would live
out of doors day and night, except it was
raining or mid-winter, then would sleep
in an upholstered log house. NY con.
sumptiye friend. you want air, not physic
you want pure air, not medicated air
you want nutrition, such as plenty ol
meat and bread viii give, and they alone
physic has no nutriment, gaspings for all
cannot cure you; monkey capers in a
gymnasium cannot cure you, and stimu-
lants cannot cure you. If you want tc
get well, go in for beef and outdoor air,
and do not be deluded into the grave by
newspaper advertisements, and unfnda-
BILE certi6ers."
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-31
The Idler.

The man is an annoyance nuisance.
He is of no benefit to anybody. He is
an intruder in the busy thoroughfare Of
everyday life. He stands in our path,
and we push him contemptuously aside
He is of no advantage to anybody. He
annoys busy men. He makes them un-
happy. He is unit in society. He
may have an income to support him in
idieness, or he may sponge on his good
natured friends. But in either case he
is despised. Young man, do something
in this busy, bustling, wide-awake world
Move about for the benefit of mankind,
if not for yourself: Do not be idle. God S
law is, that by the sweat of our brow We
shall earn our bread. That law is good
one, and the bread we earn is sweet. Do
not be idle. Minutes are too precious to
be squandered thoughtlessly. Every
man and every woman, however exalted
or however humble. can do good in this
short life, if SO inclined; therefore do not
be idle.-Fireside Journal.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-31

condition! There are no stumps, but the
sod isrotted, and your field, clear ofweeds
and grass, is light and mellow as an ash
bank In the prairie, too, hand can cul-
tiyate one third more thanin timber A
prairie farm viii pay for itselfthree times
over before farm can be cleared In the
timber" Yethe would have northerners
believe that this gem in the center of our
great Union is entirely beyond the reach
of their labors. While it is barren and
forbidding to northerners, it is fertile and
inviting to southerners with their slaves.
Believe it who will. To me it is too trans
parent a fallacy to need comment.
In addressing mechanics, he uses the
following language: "To the poor me-
chanic 1t offers great inducements. To
all carpenters especially, and to stone and
brick masons, it win give constant en-
ployment, at high wages. The rudest
beginner receives 81 50 per day; good
workman as journeyman, receive, in reg
ular employment, from So to So per day.
Their expenses are light, the cost of liy-
ing being low.
''The land is not yet surveyed, but il
is expected it will be the ensuing sum
mer. In the mean time occupancy
gives title by pre-emption to 16O acres.
When ready for sale, the pre-emptors en-
ter it at 81 25 per acre.
Gen. S. goes on to show that land OF
the same quality, in Missouri. and join
ing Kansas, is worth from $40 to 8 5 pei
acre; and in Platte county, only Is miles
off, it is worth from S25 to $50 per acre.
If emigrants pour into Kansas, as it is
confidently thought they viii, land, in
less than five years, viii be worth $50
per acre. Besides. the Pacific railroad
will unquestionably pass through this
Territory, and that, too, very soon. Kan
sas, at the present time, is easy of access.
You can gofrom Philadelphia to st. Lou
is in three days, at a cost of about S18.
From st. Louis. daily packets leave for
Kansas, which they reach in from 8 to
days, at cost of from Sc to $40, and
found. So that the probable cost from
Philadelphia will be S25 to $50; and oc-
cupyig FROM 7 to 8 days in the passage.
VINO will not go TO Kansas?
L. HI. CAUSE.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-31
A New Potato.

A. D. Gray. Esq. during his recent
explorations across the continent, for the
purpose of ascertainiug the praciicability
of constructing a railway to the Pacific,
discovered a remarkable plant at the head
of the Gulf of California, il being found
in abundance through a range of naked
sand hills skirting Adair Bay. It is de-
scribed as a parasitic plant, with large
and feshy root, and has been called
" Ammabroma Sonorse," signifying sand
food ofSonora. The fresh plant is cook
ed by roasting upon the hot Goals, and
resembles the sweet potato In taste, hav-
ing much saccharine matter about it. Il
is likewise dried and mixed with less
palatable kinds of food, such as musquit,
beans, DC. 1t is represented to beavery
delicious vegetable, and could il be trans
planted. Mr.. Gray believes it would con-
stitute an important acquisition to the Ia
bic, probably not second in demand to
the sweet potato or asparagus.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-31
Midnight.

Huferland, In his treatise on sleep, has
some curious as well as forcible ideas on
the necessity of devoting midnight to
rest and sleep. He considers that the
period of twenty-four hours, which is
produced by the regular revolution of
the earth on its axle, marks its influence
most definitely ON the physical economy
of man. Diseases show this regular in
fiuence, in their daily rise and fall. Set
tied, regular fever exhibits twenty -four
hours f1ux and refux. In the healthful
state, there is manifest the same regular
influence; and the more habitual our
meals, our hours of exercise and employ
ment, and our hours of sleep, the more
power is there in the system to resist dis
ease.
In the morning the pulse is slow and
the nerves ealmer, and the mind and the
body better fitted for labor. As we ad-
vance towards the evening of the day,
the pulse becomes accelerated, and an al
most feverish state is produced, which,
in excitable persons, becomes an absolute
evening fever. Rest carries off this fe-
yer by its sleep, and the refreshing open
ing of the pores which sleep produces.
In this nightly respiration there is an alb
solute crisis of this evening fever; and
this periodical crisis is necessary to every
one, for it carries off whatever useless or
pernicieus particles our bodies may have
imbibed.
This evening fever, Huferland thinks,
is not entirely owing to the accession of
new ehyle to the system; but to the de-
parture of the sun and of the light. The
crisis of this fever, to be moste effective
by its regularity, ought to take place at
midnight, when the sun is in its nadir,
and then the body becomes refreshed for
the early morning labor. Those who
neglect this period, either push this di-
urnal crisis into the morning, and thus
undermine the Importance of its regular
ity, or lose it entirely, and arise to their
labors unrefreshed by sleep. Their bod
les will not have been purified by the
nightly crisis, and the seeds of diseases
/ will have thus been planted.
Nervous people are peculiarly subject
to the influence of this evening fever, and
think they cannot labor without its ex-
citement. Hence their mental efforts are
performed i'll the night alone; the impor-
tant time for the crisis of their nervous
excitement passes over in wakefulness,
and no refreshing perspiration cleanses
the body or strengthens the nerves. Such
people will wear out soon, unless they
change their habits and seek rest when
nature and the human constitution die
tate.
These considerations should be deeply
studied and regarded by all who are in
1.-THE habit of turning night into day, and
of changing the functions of each. A
failure of health will soon manifest the
truth of these remarks.-Has. Courant
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-31
Houston and the Indians.

Our Washington correspondent SAYS
"When Gen. Houston was delivering his
speech on our Indian policy, delegation
of chiefs from the Wyandot tribe hap
pened to be in the gallery and heard him.
So delighted were they that they sought
an interview with the General, for the
purpose of having talk This took
place at Wizards Hotel, in the presence
of a number of gentlemen.
"Tau-roo-mee, the principal chief
stated that the object Of their visit tc
Washington was to see more of then
white brothers, to become better acquaint-
ed with them, and to learn all they could
of their manners and habits of life. This,
he said, was their only object. Tau-roo-
NEE is an Indian of enormous stature
weighing near three hundred pounds
but stands as erect as a boy, and possess
es the dignity of Roman Senator. He
spoke in the Wyandot tongue, with quite
an exhibition of the pantomime. Gen.
Houston replied in very appropriate and
practical manner. He told them that
whenever his red brothers would wear
hats, coats. pants, and boots, they might
become as white men; whenever they
would consent to live in comfortable
houses, with their women and children
around them, they would become as white
men; whenever they would cultivate their
fields. build villages, erect sehool-houses
and churches, and become instructed and
educated, then, and not until then, could
his red brothers expect to live in peace
and happiness. His speech was well re-
ccived by the Indians, and they left,
highly gratifed with their talk The
Wyandot Indians now occupy that por-
ton of Kansas Territory between and al
the confluence of the Kansas and Mis-
souri, rivers" ."-Republican.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-31
Agricultural.
EVERY Man his own Mille,


The question, What shall we eat %
has been decided. "The staff of life''
-as everybody knows, is bread-not
pork-and the best bread is made OF
wheat, rye, corn, cats, barley, and other
grain. Wheat, in the middle, western,
and northern States and provinces, is
more extensively used for bread than
any other kind of grain; and all things
considered, it is every way the best
But it should be properly prepared-not
ground to a powder, then bolted. II
should simply be cracked, or crushed,
and then boiled, baked, or cooked to the
taste. But the object of this is to inform
the reader how he may become '' his own
miller" For eight dollars a good port
able hand-mill which viii grind or crack,
say, two or three bushels per hour, may
be obtained in New York.
For three dollars, a smaller, though
inferior mill, may be had, which will am
swer the same purpose.
For twenty-five, fifty, or a hundred
dollars, large and more perfect mills may
be obtained. They may be propelled by
wind, horse, or steam power.
! DR.. Trail, Is Laight Street, New Yoik,
has a large mill IN his own house, which
grinds by steam, all the wheat and other
grain used in his extensive establishments.
Every family should be provided with
a mill of sufficient capacity to grind or
crack their own grain.
Superfne flour is not as healthful or
nutricious, and should not be eaten, es-
pecially by invalids Better adopt the
rude mode of the real " Native Ameri-
eans''-the Indians-and pound in a
mortar the grain we eat, than have it
spoiled by the millers.-Water- Cure
Journal.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-31
Pork Chons,

Has the reader while luxuriating over
one of those delicacies, ever suspected
that he was almost cannibal? We do
notmean, of course, that there is any con-
sanguinity between the human race and
the genas sus. but simply that there is a
remarkable affinity of tastes, and certain
similarity of corporal structure, which
induces suspicion at least that Lord
Monboddo's theory was formed without
much reflection. It is said that human
flesh SO nearly resembles that of swine,
that the daintiest epicure cannot detec.
the difference, of which notable in
stance occurred during the Peninsular
war. The anatomical knowledge of the
early physicians was chiefly acquired
from swinish dissections, and for long
time judicial investigations in case Of
poisoning, &C., were satisfied by exper-
iments on the entrails of pig. As
regards mental qualifications, the resem-
blance is still more striking-the same
obstinacy. giuttony, laziness. and the in
quisitiye disposition, stolidity, and uncon-
scious self-complacency, which have
proved the chief obstacles to mans i'm
provement, have likewise been, time out
Of mind. the Distinguishing characters
tics of swine. 1t would be an interesting
question in animal metaphysics. to deter
mine what proportion of these qualities
is inherent in the pig. in the nature of
original sin, and what share derived from
the contaminating influence of associa-
ton with his two-legged prototype-we
are not, we confess, familiar enough with
the subject to give an opinion, but leave
the ISOLATION to the inquisitiye In the
more recondite mysteries of nature. An
eminent English divine of the last CEN
tury. was accustomed to abstract what
ever be met in his reading relative TO the
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-31
Deceit.

If there is any being on the face Of
Gods footstool, that we utterly despise
and abominate, it is two-faced man,
who greets you with an out-stretched
hand, smooth words and smiling face,
and yet, the moment your back is turned,
SCOTS about and reviIes you, insinuates,
perhaps, base charges which emily a hell
ish malice could invent, using his vile
tongue to stab your reputation or that of
your family, and all probably to revenge
himself for some fancied wrong, to which
his hateful imagination alone gave birth.
Such beings should be driven out from
among men, and be compelled TO wander
up and down the Garth, branded IKE
Cain, the scorn and derision of every
decent human being.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-31

ritoay Of Koasos, may yet be found as
rich deposits of the golden sands as those
so recently discovered in the western? /?
The climate here is certainly most de-
Gghtful. Let me give you contrast: /
saw by paragraph in one of the eastern
papers that on Christmas day the ther-
mometor stood, in some of the northern
States, as low as 29 degrees beioa zero.
On the same day, at Lawrence, twen-
ty-6ve miles below this, and at hispoint,
it ranged as high as to 66 degrees IA tde
shade, or almost to summer heat. Christ
mas day was not an exception. The en-
tire winter. save few days, has been
equally pleasant /; and to-day seems to
me to beone of the mildest and most de-
lightful days ever enjoyed.
Taking it then as a whole. | repeat the
statement with which began this letter:
that there IS no better or more desirable
country in the porld than Kansas. In
passing through the country the idea has
often suggested itself, that here benefi-
cent Creator had regularly pareelled the
entire land into farms of one hundred
and sixty acres each, with due proper
ton of prairie and timber, and due al
lowance of coal, stone, and water; and l
am well satisfied those same farms, when
properly TILED by the hand of the indus
trious and intelligent farmer, as trust in
God they may be, viii yield every variety
of products that the necessities of man
may require, or his luxury crave.
California may have a valley or two
superior in some respects TO the lands of
Kansas. Texas may possibly possess
some narrow strips fsoilalong its streams,
cultivated by irrigation, which may prove
more productive than ours; but, when
considered altogether, neither California,
nor Texas, nor even far-famed Italy itself,
is worthy to be compared to the Terrific
ry of Kansas.
The summing up of my opinion is
simply this: The Creator might have
made a better country than Kansas; but,
SO far as my knowledge extends, he GER.
tainly nerer did. Yours, truly,
C.K.H.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-31
Select Poetry.
Go Plant a vine.


READER. 90 plant vinel
Why should the virgin soil drink in the sun
Why should BIS blessing shine
On the bare earth with naught to rest upons
60, plant vinel
Dig deep the soil;
Let Il behold thy morn and evening care;
Bend to thy toll
As though it were glad labor to prepare
To plant yine-
Perhaps twill cling,
Alas too late, around withercd tree,
And all its fragrance fling
On the ungratefal air full wea1ily:
Yet plant 3 vine!
No clusters may
Reward thy labor and thy toll arrayed,
Yet cen lamb may stray
In summer heats beneath its broad -leaved shade
Go, plant vine!
Thou lowest thy fellow-man;
Why tarry longer for the sun will set.
No phiianthropic plan
Cpl up! Oh, hast thou nothing done as yet !
Go, plant yinei
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-31
Strong.

The following. which we clip from the
Richmond Mirror, strikes US as strong
Our information is that the Freesoil
and Abolition Governor of Kansas Ter
ritory will not call an election for MEM
bers of the Legislature of Kansas until
after the opening of navigation in. the
spring, thereby enabling the unholy, ini-
quitous, and hell-deserving " Emigration
Aid Society" in the North to pour into
the lap of this beautiful country its horde
of erime-polluted and poverty stricken
people coming, as Col. Benton once said
about Abolition petitions in Congress,
with the devil in their heads and he'll
in their hearts, 70 vote for It's being a
free State. We hope the Abolitionists
and Fseesoilers viii be .foiled In their ef-
forts in this regard. We hare. enlisted
for the waf against Freesoilism and Abb
olitionism, in whatever guise or shape 1t
may come