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White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17
Farmers Out of Debt.

There must be something radically wrong
with the farmer, says the Prairie Farmer of
Chicago, that does not now free himself from
debt Never in the lifetime of the present
generation will such another opportunity pre-
sent itself. Every cultivated product of the
temperate latitude bears highly remunerative
price. Every fruit of our trees finds ready
market Every domestic animal that roams
over our fields or feeds on the contents of our
granaries finds ready purchaser. Animals,
vegetables and fruits alike are in demand. 1t
matters not for the purpose of paying debts,
whether the money received for farm products
be fifty, sixty, ninety or more cents below par,
a dollar cancels dollars worth of debt, con-
tracted even in the good old days of specie
for which men sigh. A few years ago it took,
in many parts of the West, ten bushels of corn
to bring dollar. Everything else that the
farmer produced by his toll and care was equal
ly low in price. Then indeed were hard times,
and crushing load of debt settled down upon
the shoulders of all-for the great mass of
Western farmers came here poor in money, rich
only in faith and hope. If a mans crops and
stock last year brought him 81 900, and his ex-
penses were $500. this year his expenditures
even allowing them to have doubled, which they
will not have done in one case in ten-will
allow of profit double that Of last year. And
what is year or two of economy now-econo-
my of the most rigid kind, that shall follow
when the homestead is free from incumbrance !;
when all the stock and machinery are the prop
ertT of the landholders; when there is no ac-
coount at the grocer's, nor the dry goods mer-
chants, shoemaker's, nor blacksmith's ? 1t
will be glorious epoch when people of these
prairies own their own farms, and this, we be-
leve, may at once be, if proper advantage be
taken of the times in which we now live.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17
Opposed to Oaths.

A correspondent, writing from Richmond,
relates an incident as follows: Talking of oaths
reminds me of a local joke which my pen can
not resist recording. A modest young country
girl, on applying for rations to of our relief
agents, few days ago, was asked if she had
ever taken the OATH mo, indeed, sir,' was
her terrified reply, 81 never swore in all my
life" "But you must take the oath, my good
girl" said the agent, "or l cannot give you the
rations." "No, indeed, can't, sir" said the
girl; " mother always taught me never to
swear" The agent mildly persisted, and the
maiden as pertinaciously refused all attempts
at persuasion, until, overcome at last by the
dreadful conflict between necessity and her
high sense of moral duty, she stammered out,
with downcast lids, swell, sir, if you miil
make me do such horrid, wicked thing, d-n
the IaHkeesr'
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17
SuccOtaEh.

We do not make succotash now -a-days as we
used to do when our mothers and grandmothers
were the couks, or as the civilized Indians OF
the present day make it. The season is at
hand, and ] am of the opinion that SO many as
will manufacture dish of the material as per
directions, will vote unanimously with my sue
cotash friends:
For supply for six persons, taken dozen
fair sized ears Of green corn, one quart OF any
of the kinds of shelled beans other than Lima
Il don't like Lima beans for succotash.
They arc too big and buttery. l prefer the
case knife or kidney beans for the dish. And
a pound and half of fat. salt pork.
First, parboil the pork, twenty minutes,
then cut it into three equal parts, put it into
fresh water, and set it to boiling again at the
very least two hours before the hour for serving
dinner. Having thus disposed of the port. cut
the corn clean from the cobs, and put it in to
cook with the pork and beans US soon as you
have got the material to boiling as you can.
Keep up the fire, drop in lump of good, sweet
butter, say two ounces, turn in pint of new
milk, season with butter, stir up the succotash
for minute or so with the stout kitchen spoon,
and il. is ready to serve up.-Saturday Evening
Post.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17
Ustfld ano Curious.
Feeding the Sick.


Sad mistakes are made by hundreds of we'll
meaning folks in their method of administering
pourishment to invalds. 1t is the custom to
keep the delicacies intended to tempt their ap-
petites constantly within their reach. The re-
suit is, that instead Of feeling any desire for
the jellies, broths, etc., thus obtruded upon
their notice, the sight of them creates ioathing
and disgust. Sick people should never De
haunted with food in this way. Even persons
in health would lose their relish for choice
dishes if condemned to live in a larder, sur
rounded night and day with all the dainties OF
the season. If you have anything rare and de-
licious for your patient, surprise him with It.
A pleasant surprise is good tonic, and you
may excite his palate by springing refreshing
rarity upon him Unexpectedly. Never hand a
sick man pile of eatables, telling him that
you expect him to devour the whole OF 1t.
Feed him on the infnitesimai plan, with fairy
morsels; and as soon as he has taken what he
requires, remove the remainder. In visiting
sick rooms, how often one finds bowls OF arrow
root and sage, cabs of jelly. cups of beef tea,
fragments Of dry toast, slices Of oranges. and
the like mixed in among black draughts, boxes
of pills, plasters, leeches and denominations OF
the "healing art" No wonder the pale and
languid inmates have no appetite Home
Journal.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17
Facts AbOut Milk.

Cream cannot rise through great depth of
milk. If, therefore, milk is desired to retain
its cream for time, it should be put into a
deep narrow dish; and if it be desired to free
it most completely of cream it should be put in
to a broad shallow dish, not much exceeding
one inch in depth. The revolving ofthe cream
is facilitated by rise and retarded by fall of
temperature of the dairy so degrees Fahrenheit
all the cream will probably rise in thirty-six
hours; but at 20 degrees it will perhaps rise in
half that time, and when the milk is kephnear
the freezing point. the cream will rise very
slowly, because it becomes solidified. In wet
and cold weather milk is less rich than in dry
and warm. The season has its effects. The
milk in Spring is supposed to be the best for
drinking, and hence it would be best for calves;
in Summer it is best suited for cheese, and in
Autumn, the butter keeping better than that of
Summer, the COWS less frequently MIXED give
richer milk, and consequently more butter
The mornings milk is richer than that of the
evening. The last drawn milk, the "strip-
pings" at each milking, and at all times and
seasons, is richer than that first mlked,"
which is ever poorest.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17
Fall Wheat.

This has been bad year for wheat, and
doubtless many of the farmers in Kansas feel
discouraged about raising it. But we have
been always of the opinion that the failures in
this crop here, have been owing chiefly to bad
husbandry. Our ideas of correct culture of fall
wheat in Kansas, are very nearly expressed in
the following extract from the Kansas Farmer:
Z" am finally convinced that if our farmers
would use drills to put in their wheat, drilling
il in during the month of September North of
the Kaw, and not later than the 18th of Octo-
Der even in the Southern tier of inhabited
counties, and upon ground plowed in July, or
early in August, that the wheat crop of Kansas
would be the most certain crop raised here, and
more certain and with fairer yield than in
most sections called good wheat countries.
The crop is almost universally sown too
late and put in too shallow-hence it gets too
little root to Withstand the heaving of the soil
from the freezing and thawing of February, or
is killed by having all the soil blown from its
roots in the dry windy weather of January. If
the farmers viii continue to harrow it in they
should at least roll the ground well after har-
rowing"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17
Aspararus a Substitute for Coffee.

Some two years since, patent was obtained
by Mr.. James P. Gage, of Staten Island, for
the use of asparagus as a substitute for coffee.
He asserts that the seed and root of aspara gus
are found TO contain caffein, the peculiar prin-
cip!e of coffee, in larger quantities than the
coffee berry.
Cafrein can be extracted from coffee, and OBJ
tanned in white crystals by chemical process
not very complicated. The coffee is first soak
ed in ether, which dissolves and extracts the
caffein. The solution is then mixed with water,
and the subacetate of lead is added, when the
caffein is thrown down in solid precipitate.
After the removal of the excess of lead and
fltering, the caffein is obtained in white nee
oles, slightly flexible and transparent, with a
silky lustre, fecbly bitter, and free from odor.
Coffee contains from three-tifths to six
fourtecnths per cent. of caffein; the weakest
being the st. Domingo, and the strongest that
from Martinique.
If the root and seed of asparagus do really
contain caiiein in larger quantities than the
cohee-berry, it is 4 very interesting fact. We
should like to see the matter tested by some of
our Scientific american.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17
PREMIUMS IN GOLD!

As an additional inducement to Subscribe
early, we shall distribute among our Subscrb-
ers large list of valuable Premiums, relying
upon an extraordinary large Subscription List
to compensate US for our liberality. These
Premiums will consist of valuable Souvenirs of
the Golden Wealth of the Pacific States, and
will be as follows
u To any person sending US One Hundred
Paving Subscriptions, we will send them, i'm
mediotely, Twenty and a Ten Dollar Gold
Piece, California Coinage; and an extra Copy
of the PACIFIC MONTHLY for Year, free.
% To any person sending US Fifty Paying
and a Five Dollar Gold Piece, and an extra
Copy of the PACIFIC MONTHLY for Year, free
u To any person sending US Twenty five
Paying Subscribers, we will send, Immediately,
a Five Dollar and Two-and half Dollar Gold
MONTHLY for Year, free.
a. To any person sending us Ten Paving
Subscribers, we will seEd, Immediately, a Three
Dollar Gold Piece, and an extra Copy of the
PACIFIC MONTHLY for Year, free.
GT To any person sending US Five Paying
Subscriptions, we will send an extra Copy of
the PACIFIC MONTHLY for Year, free.
&C We are. also, having made, large guam
tity of Valuable Presents and Keepsakes for
Single Subscribers, who send direct to the
Office.
The Presents and Souvenirs consist of La
dies Breast Pins, Ear Rings, Finger ings,
Sleeve Buttons, etc.; and Gentlemen's Breast
Pins, Finger Rings, Sleeve Buttons, Studs,
Settings for Cane-Heads, etc., mad. from Cali
fornia and Nevada Gold and Silver bearing
Quartz and Crystalized Quartz Jewelry,
(cOmmOnlv known "a California diamond lew
elry.) The Gold and Silver bearing Quartz
and Ore from which these Souvenirs are made,
rs from the celebrated GOULD & CURRY and
Ophir Mines of Nevada, and will be valuable
as Mementocs, as well as beautiful in appear
ance and Design. EVERY REGULAR SUB
SCRIBER, as above, to the PACIFIC MONTHLY
will be entitled to one ofthese Articles for every
Subscription standing opposite their names on
our books.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17
An Afflicted Mother.

A short time ago, an old gentleman Of sixty
and maiden of sixteen, put up at one of the
hotels of an eastern city, the register discover
ing, much to the surprise of the proprietors,
that the couple were man and wife, propably in
the first stages of the honeymoon.
A few hours after, the bride was found in the
parlor moaning and sobbing bitterly, in her en-
deavors to give vent to what appeared to be
some heart crushing sorrow.
"Why, my little DEAR" said the hostess, hel
heart overlooking with sympathy, "what is the
matter?"
"Oh dear, dearE' said the youthful bride, be.
tween her convulsive gasps and sobs, call my
sons, FIVE in number, are in the army"
The lady, it appears, had married her hus
band the day before, who had five grown W
sons, all of whom had enlisted, and the appall
ing fact had just burst upon the mother of six
teen, that she had five children exposed to the
vcssitudes of war.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17
No Wonder.

One of the most fashionable hair iressers
tells the following good story:
An old Quaker lady was standing at the
counter one day. when gay young girl came
in to engage a hair dresser for the evening.
She gave her order hurriedly, saying that she
wanted half dozen ''rolls' and butterfly on
the top. Grecian or "waterfall - on the
back, with plenty of t'puffs'' and curls," and
ended with an injunction to send along any
quantity of Gratis" "mice," and "cataracts."
"Poor child" said the dear old lady, COM
passionately, looking after her as she departed
"what pity she has lost her mnd!'
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17
Hanging Tobacco.

The proper way to hang tobacco, is to pro-
cure some sticks four feet three inches in length
and one inch square. Get knife for the pur-
pose, and split the plants to within five inches
Of the ground, and then cut of close to the
ground, After they become wilted, haul them
to your scaffolds, which should be in the field,
made of poles, placed Eve feet from the ground
and four feet apart; drive two small boards in
the ground four feet apart, and on these place
your tobacco sticks, and then hang your plants
on these, and then the stick on the scaffold,
and let it hang for two weeks, then haul to
your barn. Have poles in your barn the same
as the scaffold, and hang the same. Tobacco
sticks should be made of hickory trees, about
eighteen inches thick.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17
keeninr Green Corn.

In July last, we made a planting of sweet
corn, for the purpose of drying it for Winter
use. Part of the crop we cut from the cob and
dried in the sun in the usual manner; and part
we cut up, stalk and all, and put into small
stocks. about the 10th of October, when the
corn was but just glazed. Ofthis latter saving,
We have recently been eating, and find it near
ly as good as when it was cut up and stocked.
what effect continued freezing and thawing
may have upon it, as the Winter advances, we
early Winter, we shall practice hereafter the
cutting and stocking of it in the feld.-Ohio
Farmer
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17

A WOUNDED rebel soldier thought he was
about to die; and feeling that he had many sins
to answer for, he requested that minister
should be sent to him. The Rev. Mr.. H., a
rebel parson, was called in. Sitting down be-
side the wounded man, and assuming all the
sacerdotal airs, he gravely said:
"My friend, in what state was your mind
when you first felt that you should like to be
baptised7'
Feebly and dolorously the dying man replied:
"Ar-kan saw"
The divine was instantly disguised, and ris-
ing from the sick bed in great Indignation,
said, "shucks! that fellow don's know enough
to 60 to Heaven" and he instantly left the
room.''
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17
for tbt farmtr.
Planting Strawberries in the Fall.

MANY persons believe that spring is the best
time to plant strawberries but the Ohio Far
mer seems to be of different opinion, and
gives the following directions for fall planting
"When plants are well set in the fall, they
will fruit the next season. as it is the fall growth
of the root which supports the plant for next
years fruiting. Go into your garden to-day and
pull up strawberry plant which has fruitsd
this season, and you will see the old stock of
roots dead and black, and from the crown OF
the root beneath a new set Of roots putting out;
these must make good fall growth or you will
get no considerable crop offruit next year; and
TRANSMITTING now causes a less jar in the natur-
al condition of the plant than if taken up at any
other period of the year.
"Choose 70: planting, young runners that are
well rooted then on cloudy day proceed with
your work. Draw line where you desire to
plant, and mark place for the row; spread out
the roots evenly on all sides, set in so as to
bring the dirt well up to the crown ofthe plant.
If the weather should prove dry, wafer
thoroughly, so as to soak the roots, as often as
the foliage shows by its dropping appearance
that water is necessary.
"Before the setting in Of winter, cover the
entire surface of the ground, over the plants
and all, with little of straw or other material,
to keep the plants from the changes of freezing
ard thawing, to which they would be exposed
if left on the surface, where the sun and winds
would have full play upon them.
"This covering should be removed in the
spring, so as to let the plants grow up without
hinderance. The fruit buds are formed in the
fall, and if these are injured during the ext
gencies of winter and early spring, the crop of
fruit will be lost.
Strawberries, ike grapes, need generous
strong soil, but not decidedly fat, and espe-
cially not recently stanched with green or raw
manure. If manure is needed, let it be fine
old, well-rotted compost, and let it be thorough
" mixed with the soil, which soil had best be a
deep loan, though some varieties, as the Early
Scarlet, viii flourish in sandy soils. A moist
soil is always best for strawberries
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17
IGbe fnl1 Of tie Ching.
a PSALM OF DEArH-Hor IN THE BOOKS
I" TO BE SAID OR sUsG' BY POLITICIANS OF TIE COP
PERHEAp PERSUASION.

Nigsers young and niggers old,
Niggers warm and niggers cold,
Eiggers large and nigsers small,
Nisgers siio:t and niggers tall;
Eisgers yellow, dark or dun,
Curse the nigsers, every one.
Nisgers low and nisgers high,
Nisgers wet and nigsers dry
Nigssrs heavy and nIggers light,
Niggers dull and nisgers bright;
Summer. Winter, Spring and Fail,
Curse the niggers, one and all.
Curse the niger, curse him well;
Curse his color, hair and smell;
Curse his eyes, his cheeks, his nose,
Curse ais feet, his head, his toes.
His grinning teeth, his curving shins;
Load him with the nations sins.
Curse his signs, his tears, his groans;
Curse brain and muscle, blood and bones;
Curse arms and shoulders, back and breast,
Curse him roundly, curse your best,
Call him monkey, ape and beast,
OF all The things that live, the least
With kissing breath and foaming lip,
Lash with tongue for want Of whip;
Sheer, and roar, and stamp, and swear;
With brandished knuckies pound the air;
Gnash your teeth with rabid rage
Curse all the tribe from youth to age.
Curse him while he breathes the air,
Curse him cold upon his bier;
But to his soul be pity given.
And send him to some niger heaven;
Then own yourself the lowest sneak
That ever trampled on the weak;
The lowest, foulest wretch, forlon,
Whom men should kick, and women scorn.
Confess yourself, without figure,
OF all that breathes, the meanest Niger;
Though white without, and black within
Black of heart, though not of skin.
Sunk in meanness past retrieving,
Who curse the negro for living.
FLANDERS
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17
The Commercial Bulletin describes , nre

THE Commercial Bulletin describes prepa-
ration, invented in New York, for "extending'
tea; it is made of wheat husk, taken from the
barn floor after threshing, slightly crushed, and
colored black or green for the different varie
ties of tea which it is designed TO adulterate.
This article is styled "Japan Tea," and is al
ready extensively used in New York and Phil
adelphia, where it is sold to the grocers for
mixing with the genuine tea, which they sell
from 75c. to So so per pound. The price of
the adulteration is from 20c. to Soc. per pound i.
1t is tasteless, and may be perfectly harmless,
if there is nothing poisonous in the coloring
matter.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17
Crab.Apple Jelly.

Jelly from any other tart apples can be made
in the same way as the fol!owIng-apples, how
ever, should first be sliced. The crab apples
have a very delicate favor-better for jelly
than that of other apples. Put them in ket-
tie with Just enough water to cover them, and
let them boil four hours, and then take them
off the fire and rub them through a colander;
this will separate the seeds and skin from the
pulp; then strain them through flannel bag.
Then to each pint of the juice thus strained,
add pound of white sugar, and boil for TWEEN
ty understandable skim, if necessary;
then fill your glasses or moulds. and let them
stand for two or three days in the sun, till suf-
ficiently hardened
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17

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White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-17

A LIEUTENANT in the service, by the name OF
Broom, was advanced to a cap'aincy, and nat.
urally enough liked to hear himself addressed
as Captain Broom. One of his friends, much
to his annoyance, called him Broom-havinp
done so the fo,tieth time, Broom said:
"You will please remember, sir, that have
a handle to my name" "Ah," said his tor
mentor, $50 you have; we'll, Broom handle
how are YOU %