The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-05-17

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 Trans Herman Widstrand, the Swcde, ex. royal secretary, becoming disgusicd with the tyranny of kingdom. came 10 America m 1855, sought and found employment at the Treasury Department in Washington, but af- terwards moved to the northern shore of Lake Constance, Wright county, Minnesota. where be has since resided. His principal occupa- ton i. writing for newspapers and magazines, which he does in five different languages. The following letter from this gentleman to the Cincinnati Commercial will be read with interest:
 To the Editor Cincinnati Commercial.-I have seen quoted from your paper an article concerning Dr. bio Lewis and
 CHEAP FOOD.
 Cheap probably means obtained with little labor. Sometimes one will for little money get things that are very dear to the producer, requiring much labor. The producer of wheat, beef, butter, etc, does not get one-tenth as much for hts labor as a clerk in the depart ments at Washington; and still clerks com plain of the high prices of such things, although their labor Is not one-tenth as hard as far mer's. have tried both, and know whereof am writing.
 About year ago there WAS an article in Hunts Monthly concerning
 INDIAN CORN.
 It is stated that it contains more than four times as much oily matter as wheat four, and that its composition makes 1t capable of alone sustaining man that one pound of it parched or made into bread, is more than equal to two pounds of fat meat. After having read that l concluded to try it. Mixing cornmeal with water, l put it in a spider and baked it on the coals in the parlor stove. 4 cake seven inches in diameter and one inch thick was more than sufficient for a meal Three times a week for weeks l ate nothing else, and did not long for anything, retained my weight and was never sick. Corn boiled, not too soft, will probably do as well.
 Here il takes about ten days work, besides fencing, for an acre of corn, which would yield fifty bushels, or about one hours work to produce half a bushel of corn, which is more than sufficient for ten days for one per- son. At the present price in money (tbirty cents per bushel), it will cost about one and a-half cents per day-about five dollars per year A rational person will be more than satisfied on that than on the fare at the best hotels in Earope or America.
 So much for the staff of life. From one eighth of an acre of ground
 ONE CAN RAISE ALL THE GARDES-sTuFF one wants, including five bushels straw berries, apples, squash, potatoes, beans, toma- toes, carrots, caulihower, asparagus, and three eights is enough to raise the corn-half an acre for all the food person requires for a year. This requires no hard labor One can work 1t with light shoes and thin clothing, be dressed like true gentleman, and have no hard washing, when the weather IS warm it is very comfortable and healthy to go bare foot. Clothing, shoes, bcd-clothes, etc, need not cost more than Sl0 per year. It is folly l to keep any animals. The Chinese and Jap anese know that. Steam, caloric, wind, water, etc, can do their work.
 AVERY COMFORTABLE HOUSE,
 large enough for one person, sxl2 feet, can | be built here for S20. Everybody can do it | for himself Land costs less than 9 cents an 1 acre under the homestead law. So we need no agrarisn laws. Able bodied persons do not need to steal, or cheat, or lie, or go to banking or dckering to make decent living. If they will associate, be of one soul and one mind, and have all things in common, as the first Christians, they can soon have all the comforts that money can buy, and many which they cannot obtain for money, without the internal antagonstic competition gener- ally prevailing, where the good and gentle and weak succumb to the bad and strong, where not more than one out of a hundred can set himself to work properly and know how to make a living, where the best are treated badly, and prevented from doing good to themselves and others, where isolation on the large prairies or in the dense woods is almost as bad as the crowding in large cities.
 POLITICAL ECONOMISTS
 ought to study the economy of the Shakers, Icsrians, Zoarites, Perfectionists, etc, etc, and may then be able to get answer to the question of the abolition of misery, suffering, and wrongs, which ought to be done before the 4th of July, 1876.