The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-03-01
COL. DEM. -.- VOL. XXXVI.. NO. Q.


The following letter was read recently
before the Pennsylvania Senate at the
request of one of the members. Asevery
thing that comes from the pen of the far
mer editor is doubly interesting we
give 1t entire:
tribune OEFICE, Jan. %, 1872.
Mr.. j. r., Reading, Pa:
M Dear ,Sir-Your favor of the 25th
inst, is just received in reference to the
admission of colored children into the
public schools of our city, and contain
ing copy of your remarks at meeting
held by your colored citizens. L will
forward your remarks to Washington as
requested, and / think you need have
no fears of removal. am forming no
opinion just now on the question, but
think Mr.. Summers bill will settle the
whole matter. A great deal of my time
the past season has been occupied in
preparing a new and enlarged edition of
"What l Know about Farming "a most
excellent and serviceable book, which l
think you ought to have. will send
you copy, postage prepaid, on receipt
Of price: Sl,50) AS the season is
advanced and has kept me in the house
great deal, have been trying to better
the condition of our people by endeavor-
ing to make Improvements in cooking.
For some years l have found that
doughnuts lie too heavy on my stomach,
which my physicians attribute 60 the fat
in which they are fried. They tell me
that a doughnut contains about eight
times as much fat as is consistent with a
doughnut. To overcome this difliculty,I
have gone to considerable philosophical
research. BY using only one eighth of
the usual amount of fat for frying them,
Mrs. Greeley assured me the doughnuts
would burn. By using eight times as
much -four | would have just eight
times as many doughnuts as 1 wanted.
l therefore determined touse eighttimes
the usual quantity of sOts. Mrs. G.
mixed up the batter in the bread bowl,
and having made most exact proper
tions, put in one piRt of sots. The
next morning, on entering the kitchen,
we found that our batch of doughnuts
had risen about ninety degrees above
our highest expectations, and the tide
was still rising. Mrs. G.. heated the
lard while l tried to stir down the bat
ter, but all to no use. Ipoured in some
fat, but it only spirited and crackled,
and l was mortified to find my expert.
ment failure as the doughnuts would
not stick together. Too much sots in a
doughnut is worse than Carl Schurz in
| a caucus.
But | was not dismayed. Education
had done much for the human mind,
and there is no reason in philosophy
why it should not do as much for dough-
outs. To preserve the tone of the dough
nuts without the fat, subs stituted alco
hol for lard, but the consequence was
that Mrs. G. and myself narrowly es-
capped with our lives. We only saved
three doughnuts out of the batch, two
Ol WHlCU we dtS anu SeDI llio tHlIu W
Mr.. Beecher. They were truly delicious,
but they are too high priced and the
manufacture is attended with too much
risk for this brand ever to become a
popular article of diet. Those we made
cost about seventy-three cents piece
Let me hear what your colored citi
zans are going to do with the school
board.
hear that in your vicinity you raise
a small fruit called pretzels, which are
said to be good when cooked. Please
send me few seed, and l will set them
out in the spring. Yours truly,
HORACE GREELEY.
p. S.-When passing through Allen
town some time ago, a boy came through
the cars with cakes and peculiar fruit
called snits. l bought few and set
them out, but fear our climate is too Sc
we're for them. If you will be kind
enough to send me few healthy vines
l would like to give them another trial
in my green house II. G.
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