Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-09-05

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some other sacred or dignifed use. Think
Of Spanish cucumbers by the yard. and
wheat, oats, and barley more than six feet
tall. You need not be surprised 20 have a
Colorado friend write to YOU from his rancho.
sitting in the cool shade of a stalk of bar
| ley growing by my door, = Nav it not be
sad without the smallest impropriety that
the sap has risen in that Greenwood? Yet
probably there is not grain Of fiction in
any one Of her facts, for Colorado has been
the land of Goshen to agricultural emi-
grants.
Pickles and relishes are very popular here.
Ladies eat pickles with bread and butter,
and there Is 4 large green gherkin that Is a
| universal favorite. Driving with - the Ma
| 10" from farm house. where we had stop
| ped to purchase a vast Jar of these pickles
for home consumption. he gravely pulled up
| about couple of miles from his own house.
opened the jar, and ate two monstrous slices
half the size ofone's fist He proiered me
taste, but was satisfied to see him relish
his distractions with all the heartiness of
farmers boy. Pastry, cakes, and confec-
| tionery are household necessaries. All the
housewives or servants are skilled in making
cakes. Puddings with n flour crust are SCI
dom seen, but creams and pies, fruit, Gus
tard, and mince, are present at every hotel
dinner meal. Plum pudding, OF fruit pud-
ding, as they term it. Is amuch more digcSti-
bic compound than at the English table. but
it tastes strongly Of molasseS. 1t would ex-
haust half page of this paper to enmer-
ate the cakes and preserves that are sent up
at tea-time. Stewed prunes, fruit compotes,
pears, peaches, cherries, apples, raSpberries,
cranberries are the most frequent. Maple
sugar syrup Is a delicate relish Meats, or
hash. are served with every meal: and the
grlddle cake, or cake consisting of four pan
cakes. one atop of the other, soaked in but
ter and sugar, i in frequent acceptance
Only in the town hotels Is a list of the edi-
bleS visible. In the country the waitress
enumerateS the dishes from which you have
to make your choice. though as has been
told above, the vegetables, sauces, and pre-
serves lie before You on the table Toboard
at a country hotel seld&sl costs more than
ten dollars (t2) per week.
The temperance laws Of the State of Yer
mont are very stringent, and are therefore
universally cyadcd. The public sale of IL
quor is crime. and the crime is committed
everywhere There Is a bar. but the public
is only in appearance barred out. The IL
quor is frequently sold in private room, in
which he who drinks is locked in or YOU
follow the landlord into his own -anctum.
and take your hasty gulp in hall-guilty
fashion. without word or question There is
a loud complaint about the increase Of drunk
enneSs all over the STATE. The first breach
of the law by the landlord is punishable by
a fine of ten dollars (nearly c2) in each case
preferred; at the third repetition of the
offence his license Is taken away. Ny I'M
fortunate host has lust been fined forty dol
lars. But somehow the lawyers cOntrive
that the summons shall ALWAYS be for a first
offence" Certainly the present law does
not work at all we'll, though the Temperance
societies and the clergy. as a body, would
not like to have it repealed, or even modi-
fed. The tone of feeling about the use of
wine. spirits. or beer amongst Unpreiudiced
people j. much n it is in England Let him
that likes Use these refreshments, and trust
to his Owa sense OF decency not to drink to
excess. The State Of Ohio has passed law
under which any ono, who Is injured in
" person. property, or means Of supp0rtiy
any intoxicated person, or in consequence
of the int0Xication Of any - person. may
recover damages from the person who
provided the liquor causing the intoxication,
or from the landlord owning the premises on
which the liquor was procured. This is the
verbatim report by" President II. l.. Way
land one of the foremost Temperance ad-
vocates, who seems TO believe that the pro-
visions Of this edict can be - easily execu-
ted, and who proposes himself not only TO
mulct the vendor where a sale Of liquor is
distinctly provable. but to " assess the dam
ages upon all the liquOr-sel.crs of the town
or county" The druggists sell spirits and
wines A. part Of the medical pharmacop0ia ;
and very large proportion Of spirits used
in respectable households is surreptitiously
procured from the chemists stores. The
bottles in which the spirits are yended are
medicine bottles, and the vendor wraps them
up thoroughly in paper, so that whether the
article sold Is an embrocation. or black
draught, or Bourbon whiskey. is not appa
rent to the neighbor's eye, rarely closed.
The " transients." " or chance-customers Of
a country hotel are of all occupations-min-
strels, tumblers, equestrian performers.
strolling lecturers. musicians. iugglers and
rope dancers, travelling dwars. fortune
telIers, spiritualiSts, clairvoyants. doctors
with specifics against every I'll endured by
the human body. ehiropodists. dentists. mes
merists TO ensure sleep at will ike oar
famous doctor in Bloomsbury, and runners
or =. drummers'' for commercial houses.
trading in everything from razor-strops up
to locomotives, who display their wares. or
prints of them, in sample room set apart
for their exclusive use. Few travel for
pleasure, save in the excursion season. Gen |
eral klomfnger did us the honor to pay us
visit, and present, under proper considca-
tion, his portrait to those who cared TO pre-
serve the memory of great man, hardly
twenty-lour inches high. lie was only just
more endurabIe than General Tom Thumb
in a tall hat, dress coat, pants or trousers
strapped, and boots. carried a g0ld-tipped |
cane half as tall as himself for " style"
and smoked cigars. strong or mild. when
ever they were presented to him. As he sat
in the lap of his attendant, the conductors
of the railway cars passed him without tax
ing fare. OF course fabulous estimates
about his gains were guessed; and he was
declared to have been sold by his father,
leased out again by his purchaser. and yet
TO he putting by handsome weekly fortune
on his own behalf
MAJOR Bumper, horsc-tamer. with n pa
tent bit and bride, who drove his team Of
black geldings without any reins, using his
whip and his voice alone, obtained 4 fair sale
for his harness. Madame lie Blond with
- lroquois remedies digested from the tradi-
tions of the aborigines, and unyitiated by
the experimental uncertainties of modern
chirurgy,' a very respectable, well-dres-ed
old lady. having an obSeryanteye. and quiet,
deIneanor. did not attract much
patronage. But Doctor Maxim caught my
with his tall frame, cadayerous
pointed face, high cheek-bones, restless eyes,
square head wearing long black hair. and
having prominent large mouth, with a
rapid fashion Of speech. The doctor, in his
modeStly affirmed that, e having
been endowed from birth-bcing the seventh
son Of the seventh son Of the second son Of
the seventh daughter, and with the wonder
ful and glorious gift Of healing the sick and
afflicted by his truly wonderful phreno-mag-
netism, he stands confessed by tne most
scientific men on either hemisphere, to be
the most perfect interpreter OF the sympa-
thetic influences of the human race the
phrenO-magnetc influence that peryades all
human nature. and which Is 50 little under
stood, and seems 50 very mysterious to all
mankind. Is perfectly plain 10 him. You
see the doctors orthography and grammar
are little disturbed, probably owing to the
excess Of the phreno-magnetic influence He
had long list Of visitors, though he insisted
on working - only on an equitable and hu-
manitarian principle, taxing those who are
able to pay in proportion to property, in
come, or according to the nature OF the dis
ease, ALWAYS IN ADvANcEr' Specifics and
nostrums, even where the community is well
provided with qualified practitioners, have
an illimitable market-the placards, alma-
macs, and illustrated tracts, advertising bit
tiers, balsams, ointments, liniments. syrnps,
tonics, aperients, sedatiyes, ETC., furnish
literature such as the English language owns
nowhere else. Dyspepsia, catarrh, scrofula,
chill and fever, lung disease, and blue devils,