davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-04-26

SENATOR MoRRILL.-No sounder,
more sensible or more effective speech
has been heard in Congress for many
day than the one which Mr.. Morrill, of
Vermont pronounced in the Senate on
Friday upon the contested North Car
olina scnatorship. Mr.. Matt Carpenter,
who figures i'll this affair as the volun-
tecr, unpaid attorney of the military
gentleman hy the name of Abbott, now
trying to steal ii seat, had just deliver
ed one of his brilliant legal arguments,
and Mr.. Morrill, replied to him. We
hear sometimes of crushing" replies.
This is one of that sort. The Vermont
er's logic is as good as his sarcasm, and
throughout the speech there breathes
an honest contempt for the knavish pro-
ject he is fighting, which is thoroughly
wholesome and bracing to the moral
sense. 1t is plain enough now that this
project is dead, and Mr.. Morrill, can
Justly claim that he was ''in at the
death" Springfield Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-04-26

Theodore TiltOn, of the Golden Age,
exclaims "Save me from God who
damns" We should like to do it, my
boy, but the thing is impossible.-LOu-
isriIle Courier journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-04-26
ST. c3ohnsburp Galtdonlan.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY
g. NJ. STONI; ~ co.
Opposite Soldiers Monument, st. JOhnsbury.

Terms.-One copy per annum ------------ 800
If paid strictly i'll advance 90
Each Subscriber will find on his paper in
nection with his name the date 10 which he has paid
No other receipt Is necessary.
Postage.-Thcrc is no postage this paper in
Caledonia County. Ont of the County. five cents a
quarter to any part of the United States. Canada
Subscribers must remit twenty cents YEAR for ad
vance postage, which has to he paid at this office.
job Printing of all kinds done al living prices
With new and modern machinery and skilful work
men nearly all kinds OF Job Printing can b, done H
well and as cheap as i'll the cities.
Legal Blanks, Card and Paper stock constantly
"u hand.
Rates of Advertising:
Onr square U2 lines. one inch spaccD week. SIOO
Each continuance. -
Half square (6 lines one a.
Each continuance. III L.
Onc square zone inch of space per year --un
Business Cards per year teach lincl lu0
Iiheratnu~ E~irayS Notices To Legislature, etc 80
Special Notices. per square, one week. =!
Each continuance 81
rf- Advertisements illustrated ,rh CutN hcci'a-
Hrc per cent ddrdnce scale rGte~. No obec'inia
Ole advertisements recered and ,othjHg bt legitimate
business ddcertjSii,g solicited.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-04
Steam %Pl8ughing.
From the N. Y. Evening Post.

Tlph IL " l. LNVhibb -Vn.
1t is a rather singular fact that all
attempts at steam culture IN this coun-
try have SO far proved to be failures.
In this respect, progressive though we
are as a nation in other matters, we
have been left behind by many Euro
pean countries. Yet in the cultivation
of large tracts of land steam plouehlng
is undoubtedly more efficient, as well
as more economical than the present
system. Our English cousins fully mp
preciate this. There are in England
several different establishments en-
ploylng over twelve hundred men each
in the manufacture of steam ploughs.
The plan found to work the
best in Great Britain is to have
organized companies, who hire out
their steam machines and do the work
by contract, and, it is SAID, that more
than five hundred steam ploughs are
thus held for hire. The success Of
the experiment is proved by it's work
ings on a tract of five hundred acres
neal London. So poor was this land
deemed that it would not bring n rent
of three dollars per acre, but after be-
ing ploughed by steam it brought a
clear profit of SIS, 600 on grain crops.
Scotland also finds no difficulty in max
ing steam ploughing "pay.' In Ger
many the same mechanical force meets
with general approval, while further in
the East the Pucha of Egypt employs
four hundred of these ploughs.
Two difficulties e TO have at
tended all etfortsto make steam plough
ing a c in this Countrywide
nature of the machines themselves and
the lack Of any organization to put
them In operation. As TO the first diff
ficulty, the machines have been too
cumbersome and too expensive. The
plan OF stationary engines drawing the
ploughs by means of cables had a fair
trial, but for many reasons abandoned
as lmpracticsble on IA large scale, and
too complicated for small farms. Then
an engine drawing a dozen ploughs was
exhibited, but met with no favor, as the
cost of one such machine very great
and dlsproportionate to the results
attained. OF course steam ploughing
is most needed on the prairies of onr
western states, where the soil Is level
and fertile, and here is where the
second difficulty occurs, in the necessity
for some regularly organized company
to introduce the engines. Take q new
colony for instance. If its members
combine n OF these machines can
easily be purchased, and will do more
work in a single day than all the men
together. I us the laborers would
have time to perfect the other details
incident to the establishment and per
manent location of a settlement. Some
such system viii doubtless soon take
the place of the independent work Of
each laborer.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-04

The question has been repeatedly
asked whether flax seed can be profit
ably raised III Michigan. Its culture
has not been entered into in this State
to any considerable extent, and in the
minds of many farmers it is not settled
whether it will pay or not. In this con
Sandusky county, Ohio, to a Cleveland
exchange that it will pay to raise fax
seed. He goes On
Your subscriber sowed ten acres on
fair ground the last Of April, and har-
vested the last of July. The ground
was plowed about four inches deep,
narrowed once, then leveled with a
plank ~leveier, narrowed again length
wise Of the furrow. sowing directly over
the harrow Gas it should be sowed even
ly,) then brushed in with n good brush,
or a light h0rrOa0 would do, If the teeth
are close together.
Flax should be cut when ripe, as both
seed and fibre are worth more when
fully matured.
1t should be harvested either with a
cradle or a reaper, and bound in small
bundles and put up in double rows,
with about two dozen in each bunch.
When thoroughly cured it should be
thrashed or put into a barn till winter,
when seed generally brings the highest
price. Seed should be well cleaned.
On tair ground the yield of seed viii be
from ten to twelve bushels per acre, and
and from six to ten hundred pounds of
straw.
Flax straw is worth from six to ten
dollars per ton. Flax before wheat,
leaves the ground In excellent condition
for wheat.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-04

village in the land, this milk may be
readily sold at the door for six or eight
and not seldom for ten cents a quart,
At the least prlce-six cents-the total
amount of sales would be $50, which
would pay for the extra food required
to keep this larger animal in the best
condition, and for the increased interest
and depreciation, and leave a handsome
profit besides. Any COW must be fed,
sheltered, MIXED, and generally at
tended to. The amount of labor re-
quired in the case Of the better animal
is in ne respect greater than in the
case of the poorer n The profit of
the operation Is all real profit, and no
small account should be made of the
greater satisfaction and pleasure that
result from full m~ilk-pails than those
half full. from fine COWS than from
{ Scrubs 1t is a return to that old
principle that whatever is worth doing
is worth doing well and if it will pay
to keep any COW at ah,it will surely pay
to keep the best COW that We a afford
to buy"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-04
Good Cows the Cf,ca pest.

Az the season is at hand for purchas-
ing mich COWS, We commend to gen.
eral attention the following judicious
remarks by n practical man Many
poor men would be inclined, we fancy.
70 think us wild in advising them to
pay so much as ever 800 or S125 for
an extra good COW, the best that IA be
found in the neighborhood, yet we are
confident that in a majority of cases,
due care being gwen to the animals
health, cleanliness, and ample nutrition,
the profit would be very much greater
than would an inferior animal. Proba-
ply the average of COWS kept for the
family use of poor men Will not give
more than 1900 quarts of milk per
annum, or at the most 1880 quarts.
This amount of milk, in the family Of
the ordinary mechanic or laborer, is
worth five cents a quart for home con-
snmpuon-say from $50 or $50 a vear.
Ont Of tins sum is to be paid the inter
est of theanimal's cost, her depreciation
III value and the price of purchased
food, which is more or less according TO
the circumstances under which the fam
NY live. For S125, even in other dis
tucts than those which are
caletly devoted to the keeping Of COWS,
an excellent animal, fire.
quently q grade Ayrshire or Short-horn
may be purchased, that Will give with
good care, on rich food, not less than
1000 quarts OF milk per annum In
stances are not rare OF the yield reach
ing even 5000 quarts. With such an
animal we viii suppose that, as in the
previous case, loo quarts are con
snmei by the flmily,a and are estimated
q SIS. This Leaves :, 500 quarts Of
mLk for sale and, in almost every
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-04
one cupful of sweet milk one teaspoon

one cupful of sweet milk one teaspoon
full Of cloves one Of cinnamon one OF
nutmeg one and a half t~easpoonfuls
of soda, four and n half ~teaoupfuls of
-four add raisins or c%urrants, if you
please but roll in -four before putting
to other ingredients beat all together
thoroughly bake carefully in a we'll
heated oven. This is excellent, far bet
ter than the richer kind, say black or
frcit cake, and more easily digested.
CRACKED WHEAT.--For Il pint of the
cracked grain, have two quarts Of water
boiling in a smooth r pot over a
quick fire stir in the wheat slowly;
boil fast and stir constantly for the first
half hour of cooking, or until it begins
to thicken and pop up" then lift
from the quick fire, and place the pot
where the wheat will cook slowly for an
hour longer. Keep il covered closely,
stir now and then, and be careful not
to let it burn at the bottom. Wheat
cooked thus is much sweeter and
richer than when left to soak and SIM
mer for hours, as many think necessary,
White wheat cooks the easiest. When
ready to dish ont, have your moulds
moistened with cold water, coverlightly,
and set in a cool place. Eat warm or
colo, with milk and sugar.
HoNE MADE CREAM CANDY.-If made
according to the following direction,
you will have cream candy equal to
that of the confectioners: To any
quantity of white or clean, light sugar,
add an equal quantity OF cold water,
Dissolve a little cold water with starch,
III the proportion of two teaspoonfuls to
one cup of sugar, and set it aside
ready for use. Set the sugar and water
on the fire to boil; do not stir much
after the sugar dissolves. Let it boil
until q little of it dropped into cold
water will harden readily. Then add
the starch, stirring very rapidly, and
boil n minute or two again try when
when done pour into a puttered dish
or pan, and set aside till cool enough
to work with the hands. Add to it
while working such ~flavoring extract as
may be preferred. Work till very light.
Draw out into flat lengths and cut into
sticks,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-04
FARM. GARDES AND HOUSEHOLD.
The seventh Year Rainy season.

The seventh Year Rainy Season.
Mr.. j. E. Hickok, of Whitesville,
Missouri, writes as follows to the Farm
Journal. We give it for what it is
worth
Would it not be we'll to diaw your
readers attention to this year, 1872, as
being the regular septennial rainy sea-
SOM Being forewarned il being for
earmed.n In 1853 | was farming in
Illinois. We had some forty acres of
corn that we could not cultivate in at
all. In 1865 / cultivated in the mud.
No matter how many wet seasons inter
vene, | think We may surely prepare
for abundance of rain every seven years.
Let our farmers striyeto get their corn
ground ready for the seed early, and
plant while fresh, before the weeds
have started. Then, perhaps, one good
cultivation can be given the crop,
which on new lands at least, will give
a fair yield. The great secret of rais-
ing a good crop of this important sta
pile (any season. lies in getting the
young plant started ahead of the weeds
when it is comparatively easy to cult
vate properly.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-04

Ported MEATS 1t sometimes happens
that large quantities Of cooked meats,
prepared for a party which did not
come of, perhaps, remain on hand,
which are inevitable lost. Such should
be ported. Cut the meat from the bone,
and chop fine, and season high with
salt and pepper, cloves and cinnamon
Moisten with VINEGAR, wine, brandy
cider, and Worcestershire sauce, o
melted butter, according to..the kind of
meat, or TO suit your W taste. Then
pack it tight into a stone jar, and cover
over the top with about II quarter OF an
inch of melted butter. 1t will keep
months, and always afford a ready and
excellent dish for the tea.table.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-04
Tn and Down.
By LINN.

only a wreath Of engine smoke
Up through the valley creeping,
6,immering grey the mountain way,
LOW on the lake side sleeping.
II. Nhit,ned giesm a summer dream
seemed from the ivied gable,
where, peeping through sprays wet Win ue",
Outlooking, Ioitered MABEL,
That sweet old task, 10 guees, to ask
WI n, how, from whittier coming.
That unknown He, that King TO be-
stopped not for engines humming.
TIT while the mist, low stopping, kissed
The hamlet peaceful sleeping,
Tore its grey plume on orchard bloom,
To leave the punk buds weeping.
Thus oil unknown, up 20 his throne
Fair Nab+l's Kin drew nearer,
while through the pane she watched the tram,
From dimness growing clearer.
Nor guessed the fate its living freight
linked with her love-dream dawning;
So, cropping blind, we live to fad
We stand by d~oorways yawntng.
A drifting wreath of smoky breath,
Down through the valley creeping,
dlimmeSing grey along the way
Where shadows dim lie sleeping.
Zone is the CLEAN Of sunny dream,
YEARLY watoheth Mabel;
While tears like rain fall on the pane
That lights the ivied gable.
Ouerying now, with aching brow.
Whether 1t were not better
To fail to find, since oath nay bind,
And kings own other fetter.
Family and far, smoke-drift and car
With hill and clouds are blended
Empty beside the valley wide
The summer dream is ended.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-04

CARPETED Floors. When a carpet is
taken up to be cleaned, the floor be-
meath it is generally very mu h covered
with dust. This dust is very fine and
dry, and poisonous to the lungs. Be
fore removing it. sprinkle the floor with
very dilute carbolic acid, to kill any
poisonous germs that may be present,
and to thoroughly disinfect the floor
and render it sweet.
A NICE JELLY CAKE One cup of
good sweet cream and two cups of white
sugar beaten together; add six well
beaten eggs, three cups of flour, the
Juice Of lemon, and one cup of cur
rants. Dissolve a small teaspoon of
soda in part of the cream and double
the quantity Of cream of tartar il the
cool cut in moderately thin slices
around the loaf, and spread with apple
jelly and put together carefully, and
the loaf will be complete again.
CHEAP PAINr.-A cheap paint may
be made for outbuildings
that will last fer years, by
taking milk and cement or wa
ter line as some call it-mix and APP
ply three or fodr coats; any dry col
or mas be added. This will last for
years, and by renewing once in two or
three years, a building will look as well
as if painted with oil paint. To put
this on, the pant should be stirred
constantly, as the finer parts Will soon
be all used ont, and at last you viii
have nothing but sand.
FARMERS FRUIT-CAKE. Three cup
fuls of sour, dried apples, soaked over
night in warm water. In the morning
drain oft the water, chop too fine, leay-
ing the apple about as large as r%aislns,
then simmer in two cupfuls OF molasses,
two hours or until dry, that is, until
the apple has absorbed all the molas-
ses; one and a half cupfuls Of butter,
wen beaten; one Of sugar, four eggs;
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-04
Feeding La mbs.

The American Agriculturist gives
this method of feeding lambs:
Zone OF the greatest difficulties in
raising early lambs, more especially
with some breeds which are not natur-
ally good mothers, is the disposition Of
the eve to disown or neglect the lamb.
When she has twin lambs this not sell
dom happens. Without great attention
at ~yeaniug time a farmer may lose some
fine lambs which might easily be saved.
We have experienced this ourselves,
and have saved many early lambs by
feeding with cows milk. 1t has bsen
said that cows milk is poisonous to q
lamb. We never found it SO, but have
had very good success, ever with that
every tender breed, the Leleesters.
The critical time with a lamb, more es-
peciallv in cold weather, is the first day
of it's life. Often the eve may be as
good a nurse as possible, but the lamb
may be weak and chilled. A mouthful
Of warm milk will often revive a lamb
when it is not able to get up to suck.
To feed a lamb that has been altogeth-
er disowned by the eve, We use a tin
can, a common kerosene oil can, with a
piece of sponge wound round the end
of the spout and covered with Il cotton
bag, shaped like a teat, which was tied
on. The milk was made warm and a
little sugar dissolved IN it. The teat
beng put in the lambs mouth it viii
Immediately suck eagerly, and will
soon get accustomed to the strange
method. When a eve is weak and has
but little milk, a few spoonfuls a day
will help the lamb very much. When
a eve will not own her lamb
it is the best to take her and with one
hand hold up the wool SO that the lamb
can get to the teat. Let the sheep be
held so that she can turn her head and
smell the lamb, and if "A little salt be
sprinklcd on it, she will commence to
lick it and her unmotherly objections
be soon removed. Such a eve should
be placed with her lamb in a small stall
by herself. AS soon as the lamb is
strong enough, it will, by dint of per
severence-when the sheep cannot es-
cape-lealn 81 help itself. In two or
three days the eve will have become
friendly to it. The sheep pens should
be visited several times a day, and the
last thing at night and the first thing
in the morning, as soon as lambs begin
to appear. The ews should be removed
a day or two previous to this event, into
a pen by themselves, where more care
and a little extra feed can be given them.
1t should be remembered that when. a
can or bottle is used to feed the lamb,
it should be carefully rinsed with scald-
ing water Immediately after using, lest
any s%oureness should occur. Sour milk
will kill lambs very quickly. In case
diarrhna should occur from any neglect
in this respect, it may be stopped at
once by administering the following
cordial; One pint ofpeppermint water
with one nee of prepared chalk, in doses
of half a teaspoonful Or more, according
to the age Of the lamb, three times a
day. 1t is very rarely, however, that
this Will be needed if care is used. 1t
is also very important that warm, dry
quarters with clean straw bedding be
furnished"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-04
Thi. Coffee Supply.

The landslide on the line of the San
Paulo Railroad bids fair to produce n
temporary interruption of the shipment
of coffee from Brazil. About 200, 600
bags per month, being more than half
of the coffee exported from Brazil, was
transported by means of the San Paulo
Railroad to the port of Santos. Until
the proper repairs can be made in the
railroad, the only means Of conveying
coffee to the sea side Will be by a long
and tedious process. 1t must first be
carried on the back of mules by devi-
GUS paths along the base of the Sierras
do Mar to Juiz da Fora, a distance of
over one hundred miles. At this place
it can be taken in vehicles along the
high road to Mana, where it may be
taken in barges to Rio de Janeiro. If
the delay in repairing the railroad
should be four months, as estimated,
the amount of coffee transmitted to
Rio de Janeiro by the route above de-
scrlbed may prove n most inadequate
substitute for the 800, 900 bags which
would ordinarily be shipped for ex-
pOrtation.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-04

Ir has long been supposed that cold,
especially very great cold, had the effect
of weakening iron, but 1t is o claimed,
as the conclusion Of repeated and care
full experiments, that 1t adds to its
strength. 1t was found by VI. Joule,
Mr.. Spence, and others, that a speci-
men Of cast-iron, having at 70 degrees
Fahrenheit a given power Of resistance
TO a ranvers strain, will, when re-
duced TO the temperature OF zero, have
that power increased by three per cent.
Some doubt this conclusion, and
think the difference came from the
quality Of the iron used in the expert
ments, yet the impression seems to he
gaining ground that cold does not in
crease the the tendency TO fracture in
iron, but that the greater amount of
breakage lin rails on railroads, for ex-
ample, where it is chiefly noticed,)
comes from the diminished elasticity
Of the road bed, in consequence OF the
freezing Of the ground.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-04
Steam N~arigati0n.

1t seems to be but yesterday since the
learned DIR, Lardner PLAINLY demonstra-
ted-for there was no other word to
apply to his clear and convincing logic
the impossibility of steam navigation
of the Atlantic. But, alas for the fall
lacy of human judgment, since not
long after, one bright summerday, there
came gliding into our waters a trim
built bark, with gracefully moulded
hull ANA taper spars, regardless OF winds
and tides, q messenger from the far
shore of the Atlantic, showing that
logic was as nought, and that the great
problem OF ocean steam navigation had
had been solved virtuously. Now every
maritime port of Europe sends forth
myriads Of swift-winged steamers, ami
hiatr1ng time and distance. while people
wonder with what new marvel science
intends to surprise as; she has taught
rs to traverse the sealike a bird, and yet
desire outstrips ,fulfmeut.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-04

AT the present time Great Britain
has six hundred furnaces annually on
Stunning upward of II, 800, 600 tons of
ore, and bringing ont u product III Pig
metal of 800, 900 tons, valued at more
thar $675, 900, 900. This production IS
not 80 great as that Of the United
States; and IN the last ten years the
increase of the manufacture in the lat
ter country has been 20 percent, while
that Of Great Britain has only reached
Ia per cent. Several enthusiastic
Americans say this, evidently with
much reason, to the limited supply OF
good ores in Great Britain, and the in
creased expense Of raising them fror"
the beds below the furnace.
NJ. ANAsrAsI, Of Paris, who was
struck with blindness in 1870, has been
generously presented with pictures by
his brother artists, which, when sold,
realized $50, 900.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-04

A GOOD motto for semestresses
+" As Won sew 50 shall you ~rip-espec-
tally if You only sew $3.50.