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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-16
HOUSEHOLD.
Table Manners.

The table is the place at which the fam
lily meet, and where there should be the
freest and most unrcstrained social inter-
course. We eat to live; but the mere ami
NAL necessity is lifted up and glorified
when the charms of pleasant conversation
and of mutual courtesy surround the GUS
tom. So far as the sustaining of life is
concerned, that object might be reached
if each took his bread and meat and re-
tired to a closet to eat it alone. But there
is a spiritual life that is to be fed and sus-
tained and it is starved where there is no
grace, not only before, but during meal.
The great trouble with our American
life is, that it is too gloomy. We take no
time to entertain and amuse each other.
Not seldom does it happen in some houses
that a meal progresses in dead silence, ex-
cept when it is necessary to speak about
the dishes, or to help some one to pota-
toes or pie. This is almost as bad as rude
ness or quarreling There ought to be
bright, genial, sparkling talk, in which
the children should be allowed to join.
There is no sense whatever in compelling
an intelligent child to sit like deaf mute
at the table; though on the other hand,
children should not monopolize the con-
versation, nor be allowed to ask strings OF
irrelevant questions. Every one should
prepare for the table by some little pro-
cess of dressing. The hair should be
smooth, the hands washed, the general APP
pearance of each individual inviting, and
each should try to be as agreeable as pos
sibe to every other. 1t is quite wonder
full how little freshening up of the toilet
freshens up the soul as we'll as the face.
So far, we ought all to be luxurious. Ii
the mother sees to it that her school-boy
sons always come to dinner with clean
hands and nails, and that her daughters
never dawdle into the room in tawdry
fnery or soiled wrappers, she will do more
than she dreams of in making them grow
into real gentlemen and ladies.
The table itself ought to have a festive
look. Flowers have special grace on
the breakfast board. A dish of fruit nicely
arranged pleases the eye as well as the
palate at dinner. Clean linen, even though
coarse, and whole plates and cups, with
bright glass and silver, help appetite
along. A few well-cooked dishes, how
ever plain, nicely served, will promote
health and happiness better than great
variety ruined in the preparation.
Some housekeepers, with an eye to saw
ing trouble on washing day, have adopted
the marble oil-cloth instead Of the white
damask for ordinary use. For our part,
we would prefer economy in any other
way. A fine white table-cloth, or buff
or crimson one occasionally for breakfast
or tea, will furnish forth the family feast
much more beautifully. - Christian at
Work.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-16
Rev. Mr.. Starved-tO-Death.

His congregation have kept him on
small salary, which they did not pay.
Noticing that their minister's overcoat
was getting shabby, and his wife looked
very much troubled, the good people met
together and resolved to atone for the past
by giving him a donation party. The
night came, the sleighs drove up, the peo-
pie stamped the snowclods off their
heels, and the party began. The most OF
us had not eaten much during the day,
in order that our appetites might be
sharp and keen. Some had brought
smoked beef, and others bread, and others
cheese, and others tea, and others coffee,
and others turkeys and geese. The few
liberal souls who brought largely and gen
erously ate but little and demanded no
thanks; but we who had brought twenty
five cents worth of provision ate fifty
cents worth, and we who had brought
forty-cents' worth ate nearly to the amount
of one dollar. taking away in our hand
kerchiefs for the children at home enough
to make up the full dollar. The carpets,
which ought to have been replaced three
years ago by something better, were
about finished that night by the tramping
OF several uuHuTtu ItCt' W. piONc :"
lamp and dropped one tray-full of the
crockery of Mr. and Mrs. Starved-to-
Death. We left, when we came away,
many pieces of fruit cake with the raisins
picked out. Our horses had eight quarts
of the minister's oats; for we had come a
long way. We left the dominic ten or
fifteen book marks, more than enough to
put on the empty plates of the parsonage
some day when the fare is short. We
added to the minister's library some
fine copies of the "Patent Office Reports"
which had been franked us by our con-
gresham in Washington at public ex-
pense. We ran our elbow through a pane
of glass, which will help in the ventila-
ton of the parsonage when the weather
is warm. We left some delicate memen-
tos in the shape of tobacco cuds in vari-
Gus places In short, we had donation
visit. We all feel better; and if any man
in all the world ought to be happy and
grateful, it is Dominic Starved-to- Death.
Let others, if they will, support their pas
tors by contributions Of money, which has
been the ruin of so many people; but i'm
proving on the words of the orator, we
cry, "Give us donation parties, or give us
death !"-Christidn at Work.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-16

To PICKLE RIPE CUCUMBERs.-Take
firm, ripe cucumbers as soon as they turn
yellow; pare them, cut out the seeds, cut
them in strips two inches in width, let
them lie in weak salt and water eight
hours; then prepare syrup OF one gallon
of cider vinegar, five pounds OF sugar, Tor
eight pounds of cucumbers; add CHINA
mon, mace and ginger, boil twenty min
utes, then strain. After drying the Gu
cumber with soft cloth, put it in the
syrup and boil until soft; skim the pieces
out carefully, lay them in a colander to
drain, then boil the syrup to the consist
ency of molasses, pour it on the cucumber
and keep in a cool place.
GREEN TOMATO P1CKLEs.-One peck OF
fresh green tomatoes sliced; sprinkle salt
over them, let them stand one night, drain
we'll, put in kettle with cider or vinegar
and water and scald twenty minutes; skim
out and drain, throw out the vinegar and
water, add one ounce each of pepper, all
spice, and cloves, one-fourth pound of
mustard seed; one pound of sugar; SIM
mer all day on the back of the stove.
SWEET TOMATO PICKLEs.-Four quarts
of cider vinegar, five pounds of sugar,
eight pounds of fruit, two ounces of GIN
| namon, one of cloves, one tablespoonful
each of allspice and salt; scald the vine
gar and sugar together, skim, add the
spices, boil up once, and pour over the
| fruit; pour off and scald this vinegar
twice more at intervals of three days and
then cover close. This recipeis also good
for plums and peaches.
CUCUMBER PICKLEs.-Take small fresh
cucumbers free from spots, soak them in
| two parts vinegar and one part water four
days, then put them in the pickle jar; take
the best of cider vinegar, cloves, mace,
pepper, cayenne, ginger and mustard seed
| boil them together and pour it on while
hot. If the vinegar is good they will keep
long time.
FARMERS PUDDING.-One cup of pork
chopped fine, one-half cup of molasses,
one-half cup of sugar, one cup of raisins
one cup sour milk, one teaspoonful soda
and spice to taste. Steam three hours.
! LIGHT CAKE.-One egg, one cup OF
sugar, one half cup of sweet milk, one ano
one half cups of flour, one tablespoonful
of butter, one teaspoonful of cream o
TARTAR anu Olc-llttil- tcdspoouiui VI SoNt'
Very nice for tea.
To PICKLE BLACKBERRIEs. - Tire
: quarts of blackberries, one quart of eide
!, vinegar, one quart of sugar; no spice
4 required. Put all together at the sam
time into kettle and boil ten or fifteel
minutes.
WARTS. = Frequently apply muriatit
acid to the wart only, it will soon disap
pear. In the absence of this, scrape enough
soap from a common bar to make poul.
tice and wear at night, and the wart will
eventually dissolve. The same is true of
corns.
FROSTED glass, useful for screens, ETC.,
is made by laying the sheets horizontally
| and covering them with strong solution
of sulphate of zinc. The salt crystalizes
on drying.
SWEET CORN BREAD.-Take one cup of
Evergreen sweet corn meal and four cups
of wheat meal, mix these we'll and sift
them slowly into very cold water, stir
briskly until stiff batter is formed, knead
lightly, mold quickly, and bake brown in
hot oven.
NEVER split wood against the grain.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-16
How Postage Stamps are Made.

SIN printing, steel plates are used, on
Two men are kept hard at work covering
them with the colored inks and passing
them to a man and girl who are equally
busy at printing them with large rolling
hand presses. Three of these little squads
are employed all the time, although ten
presses can be put into use in case OF ne
cessity. After the small sheets of paper
upon which the two hundred stamps are
engraved have dried enough, they are sent
into another room and gummed.
The gum used for this purpose is pc
culiar composition, made of the powder
of dried potatoes and other vegetables
mixed with water, which is better than
anv other material, for instance, gum
arabic, which cracks the paper badly
This paper is also of peculiar texture,
somewhat similar to that used for bank
notes. After having been again dried, this
time on little racks, which are famed by
steam power for about an hour, they are
put between sheets of pasteboard and
pressed in hydraulic presses, capable OF
applying a weight of two thousand tons
The next thing is to cut the sheets in
half; each sheet of course, when cut, con-
tains hundred stamps. Next they arc
pressed once more, and then packed and
labelled, and slowed away in another
room, preparatory to being put in mai
bags for dispatching to fulfill orders.
If single stamp is torn, or in any way
mutiated, the whole sheet of one hundred
is burned. About five hundred thousand
are burned every week from this cause
For the past twenty years not single
sheet has been lost, such care has beer
taken in counting them. During TIT
progress of manufacturing, the sheets arr
counted eleven times.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-16
FARM AND GARDEN
Culture of Peanuts.

A correspondent of the Country Gentle
mann writes upon this subject as follows
We first get our land into best possible
condition by ploughing and narrowing
finishing with the smoothing harrow
Then we Law off rows with a marker
drawn by two horses; the driver standing
on the marker and driving to stakes, SO
as to Law straight row. The marker
makes two rows, three feet apart, and at.
tached to each runner is small wheel,
which makes a sign or mark at sixteen tc
eighteen inches apart. Hands follow i'm
mediatelv. dropping two kernels at every
marx Then follows a hand, covering
with a hoe, one to one and half inches
deem. and pressing the back of the hoe
down on the hill after covering. The
plant will be up in six to twelve days.
AS soon as the row can be seen, we throw
the dirt away with turn plough. When the
dirt is we'll up we work the ground around
the plant with hoes and cultivate be-
tween the rows with cultivators. The
ground should be kept mellow and free
from weeds by constant use of cultivator
and hoe. -Four hoeings are not too many.
The plant should not be disturbed after
the list of August. In this section we
plant from May 10 to June l. 1t is bet
ter to have all planted by May 90. If
crows or moles are troublesome, use tar
on the seeds as you would for corn. Seed
dug after heavy fog is not reliable. 1t
will take about three bushels of seed to
plant an acre. Great care should be used
in selecting seed, and none planted but
smooth and plump kernels. Stiff soil
will not produce first class nut. The
soil should be sandy loan, and we'll
lined. Chocolate colored soil produces
the most desirable colored nuts. If dug
before frost, the vines make excellent fod-
der for cattle and horses, but the nuts are
better filled and heavier if dug few days
after frost.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-16
The Three Eras.
BY LEAL N. sEvELLoN.

Boy, with locks of golden hair
Full of sunshine tangled there,
From the orb that fills thy days
With its rainbow-fibered rays;
Back rejecting, from thy face,
Cleans Of beauty, heavens own grace;
Open throw thy heart to love,
Let in heaven from that above;
Keep the sunshine in thy heart,
Painting there the flowers that start;
1t shall warm thy soul to bloom,
In the land beyond the tomb.
Manhood, with thy hair of brown,
Dark with shadows falling down
From the clouds that feck thy life
With the shades of joy and strife;
Enter in thy heart and sow
Precious grain, which there may grow
Food for thee and many more,
Winter sendeth to thy door.
Heed thou not the clouds that lower
Ger thy head in evil hour;
Know that all thy springing grain
Needs the sunshine, needs the rain.
All, old man, thou hast been out
Barehead, in the snow storms rout;
Winter, with its driving flakes,
On thy head glory makes,
As an ancient mountain-top,
Where the weary ages stop.
While the wind blows fierce and cold
Through the forests stripped of gold,
Enter in thy heart and sit
Where the Preside comforts fit;
Let the yule log warm the air;
Christ may hold his birthday there.
Rural Nep Yorke,
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-16

MEDICINE FOR POULTRY.-In ordinary
cases it will not pay to give medicine to
sick fowls. In the first place, but little
is known of the diseases of poultry, and
again there is an equal dearth of knowl-
edge respecting remedies. Besides, the
value of an average fowl is so nconsider-
able that treatment will not pay unless
very simple and very successful. The
best course respecting poultry ailmentsis
prevention. Try to secure such vigorous
breeding stock and such complete sanitary
conditions for all the birds at all the ages,
that illness will be rare. Then the
strength of constitution will be such that
any ordinary disease can be resisted with
out the use of medicine, if good nursing
is given. What we mean by nursing is
this: Place sick fowls in a dry, sunny
place, out of the wind, and safe from dis
turbance. Then givesthem food easy Of
digestion, such as mush, potatoes anc
meat, every article cooked, and warn
milk for drink. If, after all, they can
make out to live, say to yourself, by way
of congratulation, ''therc are so many
birds, not disease-proof, that have beer
weeded out of my stock at any rate. y
Country Gentleman.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-16
Healthfulness of Lemons.

When the people feel the need of an
acid, if they would let vinegar alone and
use lemons or sour apples, they would
feel Just as well satisfied and receive no
injury. And a suggestion may not come
amiss as to good plan when lemons are
cheap in the market. A person should
in those times purchase several dozen at
once and prepare them for use in the
warm. weak days of spring and summer,
when acids, especially citric and malic,
or the acids of lemons and ripe fruit, are
so grateful and useful. Press your hand
on the lemon and roll it back and forth
briskly on the table to make it squeeze
more easily, then press the juice into a
bowl or tumbler-never use tin-strain
out all the seeds, as they give bad taste
Remove all the pulp from the peels and
boil in water, a pint for a dozen pulps, to
extract the acid A few minutes boiling
is enough; then strain the water with the
juice of the lemons; put pound OF white
sugar to pint of the juice; boil tel
minutes; bottle it, and your lemonade i
ready. Put in teaspoonful or two O
this lemon syrup into a glass of water
and you have a cooling and healthfu
drink.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-16

THE CATHEDRAL AT COLOGNE.-Of all
gothic buildings, the plan of the Cathe-
dral at Cologne is the most stupendous;
even ruin as tits, it cannot fail to excite
surprise and admiration. The legend con-
corning its plan may not be known to
every one 1t is related of the inventor of
it, that in despair of finding any plan sui
fcienty great, he was walking one day by
the river, sketching with his stick upon
the sand, when he finally hit upon one
which pleased him so much that he ex-
claimed, "This shall be the PLAN" " will
show you one better than that" said
voice behind him, and a certain black gen
tleman, who figures in many German le-
gends, stood 10y him and pulled from his
pocket a roll containing the present plan
of the Cathedral. The architect, amazed
at its grandeur, asked an explanation OF
every part As he knew his soul was to
be the price of it, he occupied himself
while the devil was explaining, IN COM
hitting its proportions carefully to mem
orv. Having done this, he remarked 1t
did not please him, and he would not take
it, The devil seeing through the cheat,
exclaimed in his rage, You may buiIo
your Cathedral according to tins plan, Dut
Won shall never finish it This predle-
ton seems likely to be verified, for though
it was commenced in l24S and continued
for $50 years, only the nave and CHOIR ana
one tower to half its proposed hight al.
6ni.had Bauord Tutors " Vietos At0ot
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-16
Mail Contracts.

;. IL mas long been mystery to the pub
TIC as well as to bidders at mail LETTINGS
TO Know why all transient or local bidders
are always overreached by the mail con-
tractors monopoly, or which is known at
washington as the "Mail Contract job
oers. Since Marshal Jewell assumed the
control OF the Postoffice Department, manv
wrongs nave been righted. and others are
oeihg brought to light as fast as he is able
70 investigate them. Jobbery and frauds
OF every nature are being searched for and
welded out, as Mr.. Jewell is firmly deter
mined that his department of the govern
ment shall be thoroughly purified. Mail
contract Jobbers find no favors at his
nahds' and honesty, efficiency and the best
interests OF the public business is the rule
that controls his actions, in all his official
relations to individuals or the public. Mr..
Jewell deserves and receives the thanks of
the nation for the position he has taken.
we trust that the example set by him for
the government of his official relation NAV
permeate every department of the gov
erhment. The late fraudulent transactions
That have been unearthed by Mr.. Jewell,
we md reported as follows in the tele-
grapmc columns Of the Inter- Ocean, and
IL SHOWS how mail contracts have been OBJ
talned and how the combinationn obtain
nearly all the contracts at exorbitant rates.
The Telegraph reports as follows, to-wit:
Mr.. Tyner has signalized his entry
upon the duties of Second Assistant Post
master-General by fully unearthing the
methods of frauds in obtaining contracts.
SO long employed, but which have in the
man heretofore escaped detection. In
tins investigation he has had the earnest
support Of Mr.. Jewell. Through bribery
OF certain number of clerks and messen
gers, all figures Of bids were obtained, the
official stamp affixed to each bid as open
ed was counterteited by an engraver, and
bids were then prepared to meet the state
OF bids filed, this counterfeit stamp attach
ed, they were then slipped into the pile
OF bids for recording by the bribed clerks.
About thirty bids obtained in this way
have been discovered and cancelled. All
awarded by the department at the last let
ting will be thoroughly examined at once.
Several clerks will be dismissed to-mor-
row. United States Marshal Kinds of Ala
bama was reported by Governor Jewell to-
day to the Attorney-General at cabinet
meeting as implicated in the matter, he
having used counterfeit stamps on bids,
and his dismissal was Immediately order
ed. In addition to discoveries of the
methods in obtaining fraudulent con-
tracts, the manner of perpetrating the
frauds existing on number of long lines
In the Southwest were ascertained. With
some large contractors it has been the prac-
tice on extended lines, where six days
service was called for, to run from each
terminus past the first or second office for
the six days, and obtain certificates from
the postmasters of these places that full
service was performed, and then perform
the service over the rest of the route only
once or twice week.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-16

= Hrs FIRST Su1RT.-A countryman Pu ah
5 I'D q shirt in Raleigh, N. C., whlch'
was the first white one he had ever , o~ied
The me-, next w 0un the important occasion that
h had melted i him to the purchase 1he snlr'
had nice sla'e stvIe that was new to its
m ,n sns After careful study he put,,ona
pp Gsse the opening in 'front.' concluding that at
a ',o Id. brace to make him stand erect.
T S,ou dressed, he met his bride at the
church door but her knowledge was great
ar than his about shirts, and she made MN
70 home and reverse the garment before
he would allow the ceremony to proceed.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-16

PEACH TREES ON PUN STocKs.-"ln
the Science Of Health for March appears
an article copied from the OHIO CuHt-
Gator, recommending grating the peach
upon plum stock. The idea is not new
and has been experimental with again
and again. The trees so grated grow
readily, come into bearing sooner thah
upon their own stock, and the fruit ma
lures about ten days earlier. The plum
coming to maturity sooner than the peach,'
and having completed one season grown
by the LIST of August, there is not activity
enough in the plum stock to supply the
peach and keep it growing until October,
as is natural for the peach; consequently
the fruit is insipid, one-sided; the tree 1t
self very tender, suffers more from eX-
IRENE wet, drought and cold, than the
peach does upon its natural stock. nave
never known the peach and plum to i IL
over two years. ANDREW NELIh'
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-16
Who is a Gentleman ?

A gentleman is not merely person &C.
quainted with certain forms and etiquette
of life, easy and self possessed in society,
able to speak and act and move in the
world without awkwardness, and free from
habits which are vulgar and in bad taste.
A gentleman is something beyond this
that which lies at the root of all his pleas
ing is the same spirit which lies at the
root of every Christian virtue. 1t is the
thoughtful desire of doing in every in
stance what others should do unto him.
He is constantly thinking, not indeed how
he may give pleasure to Others for the
mere sense of pleasing. but how he may
avoid hurting their feelings. When he is
in society, he scrupulously ascertains the
position and relation of every one with
whom he comes in contact, that he may
give to each his due honor, his proper po-
sition. He studies how he may avoid
touching in conversation upon any sub
iect which may needlessly hurt their feel
'ings-how he may abstain from any allu
sions which may call up a disagreeable Oh
offensive association.
A gentleman never alludes to, never ap
pears conscious of amy persons defect
bodily deformity, inferiority of talent, O
rank, of reputation, in the person in whose
society he is placed. He never assumes
any superiority to himself-never ridi-
cules, never sneeTs, never boasts, never
makes display of his own power or rank,
or advantages-such as isimplied in ridi-
cule, or sarcasm, or abuse; and he never
INDUCES in habits or tricks or inclinations
which may be offensive to others.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-16

WORRIED HIM OUT-Among Inc cro"u
around a hotel dinner table yesterday,
were husband and wife from Wisconsin,
Going east on the night train. She was
much the younger, and fashionable wlthai'
while he was like an old bear. AS they
sat down she was heard to whisper;
Remember, now, and eat with your
fork"
He started off all right; but pretty soon
she caught him feeding his mouth Wi'h
his knife, and she nudged him and WINS
pered: forlr
You have forgotten; use your FORK
He commenced again; but 1t WASH Two
minutes before she had to prompt MN
once more. He made still another star,
and another failure, and, as she whispered,
to him, he threw down knife and fork anu
Nov, see here, Mary, its twelve sml, .,
\,;nos whether we fill up or 60 hungry anu :,
Inn going to eat six shillings' worth II i,
lose a whole set of case knives down III!
throat" Detroi
She had nothing more to say'--De''0'
Free Press.