Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1874-02-26


Flanders and Holland are Justly cele-
brated for their diaries, which arc distin-
guished alike for cleanliness, good man
agement, and rich produce. Dutch butter
and cheese form no unimportant item In
the commerce and comfort of the world.
Milk, chemically aud medically consider.
ed. contains those very ingredients. in the
right proportion, which are requisite for
the formation of blood. bone, sinew. mus
Gle, tissue, &c, and it is in fact model
food; 80 that dietary however made up,
whether for young or old. is whole some
and nutritious precisely ~ it bears an in
trinsic relation TO the component parts of
pure milk. Man, if his life were led in
simple aud natural manner, would thrive
best on farm produce Artificial drains on
the nervous system, especially on the
brain, call for artificial modes of coinpcn-
sation, and hence many forms and compli.
cations Of disease are introduced; So that
Carlyle was perfectly right, and in deep
sense too, when he said somewhere 1--WE
quote from memory "The COW Is the
friend and ally of man, but the French
cook Is his natural enemy" Their. is a
singular story told of some milkmaids who
once were the means OF saving = city. Let
me relate the story. During the wars in
the sixteenth century in the Low Coun-
tries. the Spaniards intended to beslege
ha nf In IIail
dinghy planted some thousands OF soldiers
In ambush, to be ready for the attack
when opportunity might offer. On the
confines OF the city lived rich farmer
TO furnish the citizess of bort with butter
aud milk. His milkmaids at this time
coming TO milk the cows, saw under the
hedges the troops laying in ambush.
Seeming to take no notice of them. the
girls MIXED the kline. and then went home.
singing merrily as they went with their
nilkpails on their heads. On reaching the
farm house, they told their master what
they had seen. who, astonished at the In
formation, took one of the maids with him
to the burgomaster (or magistrate) of the
city. ON the magistrate hearing the story
OF the girls, he Immediately sent a spy 10
ascertain the truth of the tale. Finding
the report correct. he began to prepare for
safety, and instantly sent TO the States. or
Government, who ordered soldier into the
city, and commanded the river Mas TO be
let in by a certain sluice, which would
soon lay that part of the county under
water where the besiegers lay hid. This
was forthwith done, and great number
of Spanish soldiers were drowned; the
rest. being checked in their design TO take
the city. escaped with their lives And
thus the city of bort was saved. The
States, 10 perpetuate the memory OF the
merry milkmaids' services to the country.
recompensc him for the loss of his house,
land. and cattle BY the food and they ais
caused the coin of the city To have a milk
maid milking a COW enSraven thereupon,
which. believe, i to be seen to this day
upon the bort dollars. stivers and doit.
The same representation was also SET up
on the water-gate OF the Mas; and the
milkmaids were granted handsome annu-
ity for life. Milkmsids. both Flemish.
Dutch. and English. render important ser
vices to their respective countries in ply
ing their daily vocation Of first milking the
cows and then selling the milk; but it i
not given to all such maids to have In their
"milky-way" life. an episode so striking
and so profitable as that which befcll the
fair maids of Dort.-I orr Otra FYr.side.