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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-23
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

JENNY LIND CAKE.-Two and one-half
cups of flour, one and one-half cups OF
sugar, one-half cup of butter, one cup of
cream, one teaspoonful of cream OF tartar,
one-half t~easpoonful of soda and two
eggs; spice to your taste.
SpoNeE-CAKE.-The yelk of five eggs,
broken into a dish containing n and
n half cups sugar and beaten till very
light, the whites beaten to a stiff froth,
then added, one and one-half cups flour.
Bake twenty minutes. By baking this in
thin sheets it makes excellent j~elly-cake.
FRUIT. CAKE-VERY NICE.-Eighteggs,
two cups brown sugar, two of strip, two
and one-half of butter, one-iourth OF
water, one t~easpoontul of soda, flour to
make it quite stiff, one ~teaspoonful each
of mace, cloves and allspice, two of Gin
namon. one nutmeg, two pounds each OF
raisins and c%urrants, Il of citron. Bake
in loavcs three and one-halt hours.-Oht0
Farmer.
A GOOD PUDDING.-Take one quart OF
soul milk, half a pound of clear salt pork
chopped moderately fine, two eggs well
beaten, one t%easpoonful each of soda and
ground cinnamon, a teacupful of black
berry preserves or any other fruit you may
prefer; flour to make a stiff batter. Put
in a basin and steam two hours. To be
eaten with maple molasses or melted
sugar.
M1NCE-MEAT FRITTERs.-With half a
pound of mince-meat mix W ounces of
fine bread crumbs Tor a tablespoonful of
-FOUR, two eggs well beaten, and the
strained juice of half a small lemon.
Mix these we'll, and drop the fritters with
a dessert-spoon into plenty of pure lard
fry them from seven to eight minutes,
drain them in a napkin and send them
very hot to the table. They should be
quite small.
COOP RECIPE o DoUGHNUTs.-Take
three eggs; beat well have your pot on
tn. fire and your lard all melted ready to
fry the nuts. Take three tablespoonful
of the melted lard, two heaping cups OF
sugar, rolled; sift about three pints OF
flour, put it in the bread bowl, make a
round place in the middle of the flour to
hold your eggs; when they are beaten,
pour them into the flour; now the sugar,
then the melted lard, now a half-teacup
of sour cream or buttermilk, into which
put one heaping ~teaspOonful of soda
beat up the milk and soda till 1t foams
pour that among all the rest; now put in
ground cinnamon to suit, or any other
spice you like best. And now the secret
comes. If you want them good, don't
mix quick, but take your time; work and
squeeze the eggs, lard, sugar, etc, back,
ward and forward through the fingers I'M
til it will be stiff and make dough in spite
of you. When you fry try and keep the
grease at a regular heat, and not too hot,
but fry quickly. Make the dough about
as stiff as biscuit dough.-Cor. Rural Neu
Yorker.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-23
Cultivate the Soil More Thoroughly

A LARGE portion of farmers attempt to
work too much land. Hence the cultiva-
ton is too superficial for profit. Plow-
ing by cutting furrow-sliccs twice or thrice
as wide as they should be, makingnumer-
Gus balkS, pulverizing the seed bed not
half as thoroughly as would be profitable.
putting in the seed impertectly, removing
crop after crop from the fields during the
entire lifetime OF the proprietor without
ever returning a single pound of f~ertiliz-
ing material as an equivalent for the elc-
ments removed in the crops, constitute
the SHINING system of agriculture which
always makes poor farms and poorer
farmers. The skinning system will al
ways require more labor for what it OBJ
tains than high farming. Every skillful
manager knows that it is easier and cheap
er to harvest 200 bushels of corn from
fifteen acres than from fifty. 1t is not be
cause the successful farmer obtains occa-
sionally a large crop or a high price that
he makes the business permanently profit
able; but because he uniformly raises
good crops without failure through all the
vicissitudes of seasons. This he can only
do by keeping his land in the best condi-
ton and giving the best cultivation. The
superficial manager sometimes sees an oc-
casional or accidental good crop raised
with little care. Then he is induced
to try the same mode in other in
stances, with the hope that each Will prove
alike lucky, although the failures may be
nine cases in TENN the same way that
weak-minded people venture their prop
erty in lottery tickets, although they
know their chances are slim for obtaining
anything in return. The high price of
almost every farm product operates as a
strong stimulant to every farmer to make
the most of his land; but a serious obsta-
Gle is met at the first step by the extreme
scarcity and high wages of farm labor.
This dilemma is likely to lead many to the
old and improbable course of skim-cult-
ure, unless prevented by proper inteili-
gence on the subject.
Now, then, if a farmer is satisfied that
he is in possession of more cultivable land
than he can work with satisfactory profit,
let him commence a renovating system OF
management. Grass and even weeds are
natures own renovators of the soil. II
the manurial of the farm will
afford only a moderate dressing of manure
for one, W or three acres per annum, let
a given plot be MANFRED so generously
that the growing crop will show the effect
of the manure applied. Then work the
manfred plot thoroughly. Let a large
portion of the farm be stocked down with
grass or clover, or pillow under a crop OF
maize. Do not try to raise crops of any
sort; rather let the efforts be directed to
the improvement of the fertility of the
soil. After a few years crops can be cult,
waited with satisfactory protit.-New York
Herald.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-23
What the Lottery Wheel Did for Two
Men.

ABOUT two years ago two Indianapolis
commercial tourists drew a portion of the
capital prize of the Louisville Library lot
terry, one acquiring $500 and the other
IS, 900. The 81, 800 man at once bought
an interest in the g~rocery-house by which
he was employed, at the same time keep
ing his former position, his experience
and capital realizing an increase of So, 900
or $1,000 per annum. This was not
enough, however, to satisfy his ambition,
and in two or three months he found it
eXpedicnt to sell out to his partners, who
| gladly paid him 81, 800 for his interest.
In six months he reached his bottom
dollar and was in search of a situation.
For a time he was employed about a ticket
sCalping office, and atterward travelled for
three wholesale houses, never retaining a
position longer than a month. Business
men eyed him with something bordering
IN suspicion and he could no longer get
work. He found plenty of time for drinks
between meals, though, and at last, over
come by his mlSfortunes and drink, he de-
termined to end his mortal career, and a
night or two ago he was trying to buy
morphine or arsenic at several drug
stores. His efforts in this direction were
unsuccessful, for the drug clerks heart
lessly turned a deaf ear to his pathetic ap-
peals for an agent to help HIM across the
river Styx, and his demise has not yet
been announced. 1t is presumed that he
has decided to take the slower but equally
certain path to the other shore. He has
only to shorten the intervals between
drinks to accelerate his speed and achieve
his destiny quicker.
The $4,000 man, who was also an en-
ploye of the same firm, took his windfall
and ven to Kansas, where he engaged in
the lumber business. Now he, too, is
back in the city of concentric circles,
g busted" and looking for a job. And so
the world moves.-IndianapoIts Journal.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-23
The Farmers Toulouse and Work.
shop.

A FARMER can never fully appreciate
the usefulness of a good set of tools, and
a workshop, in which he can on rainy
days, or in the winter season, repair his
farm implements in many cases, or make
useful articles to be used on the farm, and
become expert in the use of planes, saws,
bits, drawing knives, etc. On nine farms
in ten in the United States, probably, all
the edge tools to be found consist of an old
saw, not filed within ten years; a rusty
auger, with handle loose; one or two gim-
lets, made half a century ago, and an AK,
in pretty good order from sheer necessity,
to be able to cut wood enough to keep
from freezing in the winter season. Every
good farmer should have a room in some
outbuilding where a stove can be placed in
the winter, in which he can do any little
jobs hat one may be able to do who Is not
a practical mechanic. After this work
shop is provided he should purchase a
fair assortment of good tools, as follows:
Fine and coarse teeth saws, two or three
augres of different sizes-bits of five or six
sizes, with brace to be used in the place
of gimlets, being much better; several
planes, drawing-knife, files Of different
sizes, a wise, Ratchet with a broad cut,
nail hammers, large and small; a small
sledg e-hammer, weighing about two
pounds, and other things that will occur
to him when purchasing. A cooper's
shaving-horse is a very useful thing to
have in such a workshop; also different
sized wrenches, with which any nut on
the iron-work of farm implements may be
removed.
Let any young farmer supply himself as
above stated and in two or three years he
will be surprised at his advance in the
use of such tools and his ability to repair
many things that are generally sent to the
blacksmith or the wheelwright to mend.
He should always provide in advance
hardwood timber, cut in the most con.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-23
l~ss"usting Remedies.

IT would really appear as if some an
cient prophets of the healing art, some
Phpbus Epicurios or E%sculapius must
have laid down as a principle for the
selection of health restoring compounds
and corrections: by their nauseous-
ness We shall know them" Else were the
recipes for all the hideous, abominable
witch-broths, wherewith the older books
of medicine are replete, quite unaccount-
able on any theory of human sanity.
Many Of them (which weak-souled pa
tients have swallowed by the ounce and
the pound) were of a kind which it is
quite impossible to quote; nor can we
wonder that, as Plato tells us, the Athenian
physicians were wont to engage the great
rhetorician Georgias to accompany them
and persuade their patients to take their
prescriptions. Let the following, how
ever, be taken as moderate examples:
Take what animal soever thy fancy best
liketh, and thou thinkest most fit to pre-
pare. Kill it and take it (but separate
nothing of its impurities, as feathers,
hoofs, hairs or other heterogeneous sub
stance; bruise all in a large and strong
mortar to a fit consistency; put it then in
to a vessel for putrefaction and put upon
it of the blood Of animals of the same kind
so much as may well moisten it; or,
which is better, cover it all over. Shut
close the vessel and set it to putrife in
ttao equine for forty dayes that it may fer
ment." (The result is to be distilled, cal
cined, rectified and distilled over and over
again and again, "seven times to separate
its phlegme," till finally) thou hast a
pleasant G } safe and noble Animal Ar
canum TO fortitie the animal life,
and restore health and vigour to its
languishing spirit, till God doth call for
its final dissolution and separation.''-
aurora Chymica, P. 6. This was bad
enough, but a great advance Tin the line
of sacrificc) was made when the mere
odiousness, we may say b%eastliness, of the
dose per Sc. could be added the horror of
eating what had once formed part ola hui
man body-in short, of cannibalism. The
0~rdonnances which follow really seem to
have a connection with ancient idol rites
Of human sacrifice, and possibly (had we
means of tracing them) might be fathered
on the earliest worshipers of Hesus or of
Odin. The seasons Of the year (spring
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-23


How many wrctchcd homes In our land,
How many hcart-brokcn invalids! Life with
many signifies a mere oncrOus existence.
All are subject to disease, but when health
is removed the hope is nearly gone out.
sickness is usually incurred through expo
sure or carclcssncss. Especially is this true
with those diseases peculiar to women.
Through her own imprudcncc and folly she
is made to drag out a miserable existence
a source of annoyance and anxiety to her
friends, and anything but a comfort and
pleasure to herself. Exposure to the cold at
times when she should be most prudent, and
overtaXing her body with laborious employ
ment, are both fruitful causes of many Of
the maladies from which she suffers. Grad
ually the bloom leaves her checks, her lips
grow ashy white, her yivacity departs, she
continually experiences a feeling of wcari-
ness and general languor, and altogether
presents a ghostly appearance. What does
she need? Should she take some stimulat-
ing drug, which will for the time make her
".tcd BETTER" or does her entire system de-
mand rcparation? She requires something
which not only will restore to health the dis
cased organs, but will tone and invigorate
the system. DR.. Picrce's Favorite Prcscrip-
ton will do this. 1t imparts strength to the
diseased parts, brings back the glow of
health, and restores comfort where previous
ly there was only suffering.
Every invalid lady should send for 1.-THE
Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser"
in which over fifty pages are devoted to the
consideration OF those diseases peculiar to
Women. IT will he sent, postpaid, to sany
address, for $50. Address K. V. Pierce,
NJ. D., Worlds Dispcnsary, Buffalo, n.
Y. Agents wanted TO sell this valuable
work
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-23
Schenck,s Mandrake Pills

will be found to possess those qualities necessary
to the total eradication of all bilious attacks
prompt to start the secretions of the liver, and
give a healthy tone to the entire system. Indeed
it is no ordinary discovery in medical science tc
have invented a remedy for these stubborn com
plants, which develop all the results produced by
a heretofore free use of calomcl, a mineral justly
dreaded by mankind, and acknowledged to be de.
struCtive in the extreme to the human system
That the properties Of certain vegetables comprise
all the virtues of calomel without its injurious ten,
denotes is now an admitted fact, rendered indis.
putable by scientific researches; and thos. who
use the Mandrake Pills will be fully satisfied that
the best medicines are those provided by nature in
the common herbs and roots Of the fields.
These pills open the bowels and correct all bill
Ions arrangements without salvation or any of the
injurious effects of calomel or other poisons.
The secretion of bile is promoted by these pills, a.
will be seen by the altered color of the stools and
Disappearing of the sallow complexion and cleans.
ing of the tongue.
Ample directions for use accompany each box OF
pills.
Prepared only by J. H.. Schenck { Son, at theil
principal office, corner Sixth and Arch streets
Philadelphia, and for sale by all druggists and deal.
FRS, Price 25 cents per box.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-23
How Doctors Differ,

patient has a dull, heavy feeling about
the head, with a dizzy, whirling sensation
when rising up suddenly, a bad taste in the
mouth, with foul breath, a feeling like a load
on the stomach after eating, with a faint,
all-gone sensation at the pit of the stomach
that food will not satisfy, pains about the
side, back or shoulder, hands and feet some.
times cold and clammy, alternating with hot
fushes, sour eructations from the stomach,
eyes tinged with yellow, blood thick and
stagnant, with costive bowels, md all at.
tepdant symptoms. One doctor examines
the case and calls it liver complaint, another
kidney disease, another dyspepsia, and still
another impurity of the blood. Now the
fact Is all of these doctors are right and they
are all wrong, because such patients have
all of these diseases combined, and the
reason such diseases are not cured is because
the custom is to treat one of the diseases al
a time. While one is being cured the other
gets worse. We should treat the disease
with a remedy that will act upon all at the
same time. The SHAKER EXTRACT OF RooTs
mot a patent medicine) is so made by the
Shakers as to effectually remove all of these
distressing symptoms. Sold by A.. j. White,
$40 Pearl street, N. Y. Agents wanted.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-23
He Was the Man.

ONE eveninglast week, when the winter
blasts noaned sadly around the street cor
ners, and the captains of the ferry-boats
wore anxious looks, seven or eight vessel
owners and "%laid-up" lake Captains sat
around a cheerful base burner in a saloon
near the river. After the usual amount of
growing about the weather n of them
told a story. There might have been an
ounce of truth about it, but the crowd felt
certain that the one ounce was Offset by
twenty-four pounds of the awfullest
kind" of lying. Therefore a second man
told a story to beat it, and then a third
man beat the second. When the FORTH
man started out he said:
"Gentlemen, l have also seen tough
times. When | was sailing the schooner
Fortune forty years ago two of us were
swept overheard in a storm IN Lake Erie
one black night. A hatch cover went
with us, and it SO happened that we both
clutched it. 1t was not large enough to
support two. / was captain, he a sailor.
l had a family-he had none. l shouted
to him to quit his hold, and when he
would not | reached over, clutched his
throat, and held on till his fingers loos-
ened and he went to the bottom OF the
lake! 1t was twenty miles off Point
Betsey, and with a shrill, wild shrek,
which yet fingers in my ears, the poor
wretch went to his death! May the Lord
orgive mel"
With his chair tilted against the wall, a
lanky, sunf1owerish chap had been nod
ding his head right and left, as if sleeping.
As the Captains narrative was concluded
the stranger rose up and solemnly said:
81 am that MANI
The crowd looked at him in astonish-
ment, and he continued:
q landed on Point Betsey next morn
ing in time for breakfast, and l swore a
solemn oath that I'd lick you for choking
me if | had to live hundred years to do
itr'
You can't be the man." replied the
Captain, looking suspiciously at the fell
lows big fists; "it was forty years ago"
q know it was, and for forty years
I've been aching to lick you out of your
boots!"
The Captain had lied, but he didn't
want to own it, and he said:
"That sailors name was Dick Rice"
"Kerect" bowed the stranger; that's
my name"
but he was taller than you"
being in the water so long that night
l shrunk just a footr' was the cool re-
joinder.
We'll, l know you can't be the man."
said the Captain.
81 am the man, and now Pm going to
maui you to pulp! No man can choke
me and then brag about it!''
He sailed in and upset the Captain, but
was then set upon by the whole crowd.
He got into the eye of the wind and hung
there for a time, but presently he paid off
a little, got the wind IN his quarter, and
went at it to lick ten times his weight in
old liars. He was a very ambitious man,
and those who could get out doors got
out, and those who couldn't offered him a
gallon Of whisky to come TO anchor. He
furled his sails on this understanding,
and as he set his glass down for the third
drink he wiped his bleeding car and re-
marked:
When a man tries to sacrifice me in
order to save himself he don't know who
he's tooling with"
He was the biggest liar Of them all, but
he made the most out of it.-Detr0it Free
Press.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-23
A Georgia Farmers Content.

WE noticed on the street, the other day,
a neat one-steer wagon and a neat, strong,
black steer between the shafts, and a nice
cotton covering over the ribs of the wag-
on body, and a black jack thrce-pronged
stick, with three red apples on the prongs,
erected on the front end of the wagon
body as Il sign. We determined to see
the proprietor, and he submitted to an in
terview as easily as a candidate for Gov
ernor. We said: Stranger, what have
YOU got to sell ?" He said: Il have got the
yaller-skin red breasted shocky apple"
w said: Where did you come from ~ He
said: " From the upper ee-n-d OF HARRISON
County, on the left prong Of Turkey
Creek, and close to Jack Mountain" We
said: "How many apples have you got and
how do 0 sell them :" He said " started
with twelve bushels; | retail them at tit-
teen cents a dozen, or two dollars per
bushel. | have sold seven bushels, and
will close out the lot in a day or twO.n
On inquiry we found it wo.ld take him at
least ten days to make the round trip from
home and back, but he would realize on
his load of apples nearly thirty collars,
and it didn't cost a cent to make them. He
had made plenty of corn and meat and
some cotton, but he hadn't even had the
cotton glnned. He said it was penned up
in the field and he was in no hurry about
it. He said he would be down again be-
fore Christmas with another load of ap-
pies and some bees-wax and honey and
some feathers and some other little tricks.
He was well dressed in homemade jeans
and was as happy as a lark. We asked
him when he would bring his cotton, and
he said he didn't know, bull if he got
time to gin it and felt like it he might
bring it in some time next summer after he
laid by his crop. He seemed to care very
little about his cotton, and if the COWS had
eaten it up he wouldn't have Shed a tear.
-N0Cman (Gd.) Star.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-23

THE Prairie Farmer thus tells how to
cut and trim pork: Have the bog laid
on his back on a stout table. Clean the
carcass of the leaf fat. Take off his feet
at the ankle JOINTS. Cut the head of
close to the shoulders, separating the
iowl from the skull, and open the skull
lengthwise on the under side SO as to re-
move the brains fully. Remove the back
bone in its whole length, and with a
sharp knife cut off the skin-then the fat,
leaving only about one-half inch of fat on
the spinal column. The mlddllngs OF
sides are now cut from between the quar-
tiers, leaving the shoulders square shaped
and the ham pointed, or it may be rounded
to suit your fancy. The ribs are next re
moved partially or entirely with the sides
The trimmings or fat from the hams ano
fabby parts of the sides are rendered W
with the backbone strips for lard. The
sausage meat is cut off from the fat and
ribs; and other lean pieces are used for
the same purpose.