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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-10-30

their influence through lofty piles of
the gummed sheets in frames. The
gum used is not gum arabic-that
would in drying cause the sheets to
curl and crack-but is simply kind
OF potato starch. a girl swiftly aG-
Justs the edges of heap of printed
sheets, SO as to slide them all into
place, while she deity dahbs them at
a single stroke with the mucilaginous
substance, which she applies with a
single motion of wide brush. This
is the substance you click to make it
stick " on the letter you drop in the
post-office. s-',.ss'ss,s-'.i 49, ~
After the cumming and drying, the
stamps, in sheets, are flattened out
and made smooth by being subjected
to the persuasive power of a hydrau-
lie press, the force being $50 tons.
After they come out they are taken
by girls who swiftly adjust them in
even edged heaps while counting.
10 show how CAREFUL they are,
note this fact: There was a count
last summer of 106,000,000 of stamps,
on a sudden and unexpected visit by
government experts from Washing
ton, who went through the pile in the
safe. 1t was count of long accumu-
lation, and it was conducted and tes-
titled by the figures on the govern
ment books at Washington. Yet out
of these 106,000,000, the only discrep-
ancy found was 851 stamps valued at
S22; the aggregate laundering of four
years OF this busy work, involving SO
many millions Of stamps and dollars.
Once the girls counted steady for two
days to find single missing sheet.
The perforating is done on small
machines with cylinders that have
belts of little projecting cylindrical
cogs or teeth, very small and close
together and having square ends like
bolts. Each of these minute projec-
lions fit accurately into its cores
ponding slot in the metallic plate
beneath; and when the printed sheet
OF postage stamps, all cut to a hun
dred each, is run through hemachine,
it energies with the edges Of the
stamps all punctured in rows.
1t is not easy for any body to
understand, without seeing the pro-
cesses Of the work itself, what fine
ness Of touch, as we'll as swiftness and
accuracy Of movement, are required
in the various landings Of these
sheets OF postage stamps.
Seven hundred million stamps a
year: Thfs appears to be the present
rate of demand and supply of the
great American public. The New
York post Office orders twice month,
and orders for about 100000 each
time.
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the smell OF the small dirty pool, as
these eighty creatures flop over and
over in their anxiety to get a bite;
and in less than one minute not YES
tage is left OF the goats carcass.
This may read as if it were a very
horrid sight, and certainly it is rather
so, but it has a great similarity with
that. Of a fox being thrown to pack
of excited hounds.
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chopped with one-halt cuptul or rals-
ins, two tablespoonful Of flour, one
cupful of sugar, one cupful of water.
Bake with two crusts.
Water GrueL-Take one spoonful
of oatmeal or cornmeal; boil il in
three pints Of water till it is fine and
smooth then pour it into bowl, and
add white wine, sugar, and nutmeg,
to your taste; serve it up hot, with
buttered toast upon plate.
An English Steeo Of Cold Roast
Beef:-Cut the meat in small and
rather thin slices, season them highly
with salt and pepper, and dip each
lightly in bread crumbs moistened in
gravy or melted butter. Dress them
neatly on dish, and lay over them a
thin layer of cut pickles, and moisten
the whole with glasstul Of pickle
vinegar and the preserved gravy of
the roast beef; heat in Dutch oven
and garnish with fried sippets or po-
tato balls.
JuJienaee Soep.-Take one carrot;
if long, cut it lengthwise in thin
strips, and the strips afterwards in
small pieces one large onion, a
turniP, some cabbage, one leek. If
you cut your vegetables yourself, add
one potato. One vegetable of each
kind is enough. Put your vegetables
in a saucepan with one quarter pound
of butter-not on the range where it
is hottest, for fear of burning. Cover
them and stew one and half hours.
Add little bouillon every little
while as the vegetables sink to the
bottom Of the pan. When cooked
strain your bouillon over the Julienne
and serve it hot.
Sailing Rising Bread.-Take two
or three pints of new milk in -four
until it is of sufficient thickness;
then set in dish containing water,
nearly as hot as you can bear your
finger in; keep as near the same
temperature as possible; in six OF
seven hours it will be up, unless the
-four is too fine; if it is, add a little
graham or cornmeal. Have your
-four and some warm milk ready, put
the sponge and as much OF the milk
as is necessary to make the dough
sufficiently thin; then make loaves,
set in a warm place to rise, when sui:
ficiently light, bake, and you will
have as good a light bread as have
ever tasted. Water may be used
instead Of milk, but the bread is not
so sweet. This recipe will make
good bread where hop yeast fails.
Picked Oysters.-One hundred
large oysters, one pint white wine
vinegar, one dozen blades of mace.
two dozen whole cloves, two dozen
whole black peppers, one large red
pepper broken into bits. Put oysters,
liquor, and all, into a porcelain OF
bell-metal kettle. Salt to taste.
Heat slowly until the oysters are very
hot, but not boiling. Take them out
with a perforated skinner, and set
aside to cool. To the liquor which
remains in the kettle, add the vinegar
and spices. Boil up fairly, and when
the oysters are almost cold, pour it
over them scalding hot. Put in jar,
cover the jar in which they are, and
put away in cool place. Next day
put the picked oysters into glass cans
with tight tops. Keep in the dark,
and.where they are not liable to be.
come heated. have kept oysters
thus prepared for three weeks in the
Winter. IT you open can, use the
contents up as soon as practicable.
The air, like the light, will turn them
dark. Ft
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POSTAGE STAMPS.
How They are Made-An Interest
ing Study. . tN

A visit to the establishment in
which the postage stamps for the
United States are made was very in.
teresting. There are about eighty
persons at work making the stamps
we put on our letters; and it is doubt
full if there is to be found anywhere
a buster set of workers or any who
make things fly at a livelier rate.
More than half of these eighty are
young women; the rest men. I say
young women, for there appears to
be no old or middle-aged ones among
them; and thereby hangs the tale"
Men fail to come to time in the ne
cessary delicacy OF touch and rapidity
Of work. Not even a gross or fat
woman will do; they are too coarse
and clumsy for the marvellous dexter
ity and CELEBRITY. Of touch and move
Nobody who buys at the post-office
a sheet Of stamps ever imagines the
number and variety of processes it
has undergone in the stamp manu-
factory. As one part of the work,
the sheet has been counted no fewer
than twenty.six times. Beginning
with its status as simply white paper,
and so on through different hands, to
the printers, the gummers, the perfor-
aters, and various others, all of whom
must account for the exact number of
sheets they handle. So that their
can be no mistake or loss.
After the paper is wet down." as
the printers say every hundred
sheets being counted-it is taken up
to the printers. Each sheet is of the
right size for making 100 stamps of
the ordinary size. The printing-room
is crowded with the hand presses
used for printing the stamps, no fewer
than eleven presses being in active
operation. Each press has three per-
sons in attendance-one to "tend
press, "sonets % ink the plate, and one
the printer"
The printers are paid by the hum
dred. Precisely how much they earn
could not find out, but it ought to
be good wages, for they work like
beavers" The blank paper, all num-
bered, is charged to the printers to
whom it is delivered.
Each Of these eleven presses turns
out 1900 sheets day, or 1900 a
week. Each sheet contains 200, and
as they are delivered to postmasters
only in sheets of 100, 1t follows that
each sheet must be cut right through
the middle. A girl with a long pair
OF shears cuts them as accurately as a
ruled line, showing what good eye
aud rapid hands can do. One girl,
whom 1 watched for a while, cuts
ttty sheets a minute-11, 900 daily.
IL is silent cut, cut, cut, from morn
ing till night, working as if her life
depended upon it. The girls are all
busy at variety Of processes in the
preparations of the stamps, and their
wages average about eight dollars a
week.
From the printing-room and the
drying-room (the latter an insuffer-
ably hot place, where the sheets are
placed in frames on drying racks }
they go to the cumming room, which
is also drying room, but not hot,
the drying being aided by revolving
| fans, fixed to shaft, which send
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dy abduct me-" said Mrs. Smith at
the breakfast table the other morn
ing. "H'm !! so should /, my dear
so should l, said Mr.. Smith with ex-
ceeding eagerness.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-10-30
A Big Mistake.
Becently our church had a new

therefore 1t happened tnat during
his pastoral call he made several ludi-
crous blunders. ,-f"7.
One of them is as follows:
The other evening he called upon
Mrs. MADDEN. She had just lost her
husband, and naturally supposed that
his visit was relative to the sad &C.
currence. af
So, after few common-places had
been exchanged, she was not at all
surprised to hear him remark:
"It was a sad bereavement, was it
not, Mrs. MADDEN 2"
Yes" faltered the widow.
Totally unexpected"
cob, yes; l never dreamed of it."
Gle died in the stable, SUPPOSED"
ooh, no in the house"
"Oh-well, / supposed you must
have thought a good deal OF him"
"Of course sir this with vim.
The minister looked rather sur
prised, crossed his legs and renewed
the conversation.
"Blind staggers was the disease, l
believe ?" he said.
mo, SIR" snapped the widow, "apo-
plexy."
Indeed; you must have fed him
too much"
He was always capable OF feeding
himself, SIR"
Every intelligent he must have
been. Died hard, didn't he."
"He did,"
"You had to hit him on the head
with an axe to put him out of misery,
l was told"
Mrs. Hadden's eyes snapped fire.
Whoever told you SO did not
iss@N eeare sns james died naturally"
Yes" repeated the minister, in a
slightly perplexed tone, he kicked
the side of the barn down in his last
agonies, did he not?"
No, sir, he didn't"
"Well, / have been misinformed, /
suppose. How old was he ?''
"Thirty-fve."
Then he did not do much active
work. Perhaps you are better with
out him, for you can easily supply his
place with another"
" Never, sir-never will / see one
as good as he"
"Oh, yes, you will. He had the
heaves bad, you know.
" NOTHING of the kindn
, why, l recollect / saw him, one
: day, with you on his back, and dis
| tinctly recollect that he had the
heaves, and walked as if he had the
2 string halt"
e Mrs. Hadden starred at her rever
! end visitor as if she imagined she wal
e crazy.
t "He never could have the string
C halt, for he had cork leg!" she re
S turned.
' A cork leg remarkable. Blu
f really didn't he have a dangeroul
7 trick of suddenly stopping and kick
: ing wagon all to pieces? ?"
! "Never; he was not a madmar
4 SIR"
r Probably not. But there wal
e some good points about him."
r l should think SO !"
: "The way in which he carried hi
Y ears for example"
y Nobody else ever noticed tha
: particular merit" said the widow
Y with much asperity; che was warn
hearted, generous and frank"
i GOOD qualities" answered he, un
} consciously. How long did it take
]. him to go a mile ?"
= "About fifteen minutes"
r "Not much of a goer. Wasn't hi
1 hair apt to fiy?"
5 "He didn't have any HAIR. HI
l was bald headed"
/ "Quite curiosity ?"
, :" No sir; no more of a curiosit,
: than you are"
The minister shifted uneasily. ant
: got red in the face. But he returned
/ to the attack.
, "Did you use the whip much OF
; him ? " he questioned
"Never, sir."G
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Il should just like to, see sOmebO.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-10-30
RECIPES.

Lemon Pie.-Inside of one lemon,
chopped with one-half cupful or rails
ins, two tablespoonfuls OF flour, one
cupful of sugar, one cupful of water.
Bake with two crusts. a
, 1878-06-28
EXCURSION TO OLYMPIA ON the 4TH
THE STEAMER GOIIAH

Will leave this city on Wednesday,
July 3D., at 8 A. NJ, touching at Port
Gamble only, arriving at Olympia the
same evening. Returning will leave
Olympia on Friday morning follow
ing.
AS the steamer will only leave on
conditions that a sufficient number
of passengers can be obtained from
this city, it is particularly requested
that all those intending to take part
in this excursion, book their names
at B. S. Miler's jewelry store on or
before June 30tb.
Fare for the round trip, single
tickets, g. Gentleman and lady, IS
The Port Gamble brass band will
accompany the excursionists.
, 1878-06-28

PoRr TOWNSEND HosPITAL.-Dur-
ing the past eight years years there
have been over 1000 patients treated
in the Marine Hospital at Port Town.
send. Of these one only has been
arrested for being drunk and dis
orderly. We do not believe any
similar institution can make better
showing. We doubt whether any
community, however quiet and order
ly, can present better record. The
malicious, indecent and untrpthful
attacks made on Doctor Minor and
his Hospital, we are prepared to
show, are prompted by jealousy; but
no man, however rich i'll the vocabu-
larry of billingsgate, need hope in
this community to pull another dow
with falsehoods, or build himself up
with SANDERS on his neighbor.
, 1878-06-28

APPRopRIATIoN.-The powers that
be in Washington recently accom-.
plished'a "a long neededwork by appro,
priating The sum Of $500 for the
purpose Of erecting fog whistle on
Point Wilson. This is indeed good
news not alone for Port Towns end
but for Puget Sound commerce gen
orally, and is another link in the evi
dence of the faithlulness and eff
cheney with which our much .abuset
Delegate in Congress has performed
his duties.
, 1878-06-28
Our farmers should take courage

OUR farmers should take courage
regarding the prospective price ol
potatoes. California papers an
nounce the utter failure of the crop
in many portions of that State, on
account OF blight. While many Of
our sturdy tillers Of the soil out
wardly manifest a sympathy for the
California ranchers it is nevertheless
hard for them to put down human
selfshness and prevent hearty
chuckle over the fortunate turn for
them.
, 1878-06-28
rSE SEATTLE & WillA WAILA R. R,
oRr,.nN.N nJstPTOINTVENTB BErOuES
WN.uING GtON TIRRi IORNN 0PPOR'
IINETN

The y. p. r. Il. bin failed to pass
the House of Representatives and be-
come a law. This bill, It j, had passed
would have secured within two wears
a railroad from Eastern Washington
and Oregon To Portland. Puget
Sound aud Western Washington by
II would have been left out in the
cold, but it would have materi'
allv benefited that large part Of
Washington Territory lying east of
the Cascades.
Promising to majority OF the cit.
izens OF this territory immediate
relief from the tvrannical monopoly
of the o. 5. n. CO., the n. p. r. r.
bill deservcdly met the hearty sup
port Of our Delegate in Congress.
1t was not such bill in all its pro-
visions as he desired, but was the
best that offered, or could be secured,
in that il promised relief within a
comparatively short period of time.
1t however failed. The o. S. n Co.,
in their desire TO perpetuate their pet
monopoly, secured the approval of
members of the N. P. K. r. Board
of Directors, and succeeded in vir.
tually killing the bill in the House
of its friends.
What now is the hope of our
friends of Eastern Washington for
an outlet to the ocean? How can
their wants, and the interests Of our
whole people, be best attained ? 1t
seems to us there can be but one
answer. The SEATTLE & WALLA
WALLA r. r. MUST BE BUILT. 1t is
no local measure. Its benefits are
not for Walla Walla, or Eastern
Washington, or Seattle alone. 1t
does what the N. P. r. r. bill did
not do. 1t secures to Washington
Territory the control of her own pro-
duets until they find the worlds
thoroughfare-ocean transportation.
Itpermits the interchange Of com
modities between our own people
without feeding the insatiate greed
of foreign monopoly. 1t benefits
every settler, makes more valuable
every homestead, is rich with prom.
ise to every merchant, opens fields
for labor, and is the brightest hope
that gilds the horizon Of the future
for Washington Territory.
The present is the time, and the
most favorable time to carry on to
successful completion this great
work. Now the N. P. R. R. Co. is
disheartened; now the o. S. N. Co.,
with Shylock thirst for blood will,
by extra charges, bleed the hard
worked farmer Of our Eastern Terri
tory. But the people of the Sound
must put their united strength to
the wheel, and their hands in their
pockets. Once completed it will
bring abundant remuneration to the
investors. No earthly power can
prevent Port Townsend, or the peo-
pie of the lower Sound, from reaping
some of the merited reward of such
an enterprise, and surely some of the
outlay should be ours. We hope an
effort will be made among our citi-
zens to aid in this work.
, 1878-06-28
the lE0lsS WAR.

IL unw seems @ Poe q pretty gcuor-
ally accepted fact. that our govern
mrnt has. 100 the Indian war NOW
raging. . " big thing un BE-, hands.
That the hostile redskins have, o.,
thcy always take precious good care
to have. an the alvaG'lg" pos, hlc
in their favor in the wav Of position.
etc, is very apparent. While many
are busy philosophizing over the
real or supposed cause of'he troubles,
the unfortunate settler whose posi-.
tion is in the vicinity Of the uprising
is being murdered, driven of or is
otherwise suffering the penalty for
the great blunder.
Whatever may have been the i'm.
mediate pretext for war, the prime or
real fault certainly lies with the
miserable policy being carried out
by our general government, toward
its Indians. The Bannacks claim to
have been driven from their reserva.
tion by lack Of support. Whether
this be true or not, certain it is that
they are outlaws, and that the speedy
forcing OF them into suhjection is sthe
most important matter just now in
connection with the disagreeable
subject in hand. 1t has been
charged that the Nez Perce rene
gades who survived the war of last
year should have been returned to
the scene of their crimes and there
tried and hanged without delay in
stead of being treated as prisoners
of war and protected against the
consequences of war, as observed
between belligerent nations; that if
this had been done the Bannacks
would have profted by the example
and would have been 10th to enter
into war with the certainty Of being
either killed in battle or hung at the
restoration of peace. We believe
this to be about as near one extreme
as, on the other hand, to say that
the Agents are the responsible ones
who ought to be punished for cheat,
ing the Indians out of their dues.
When the Democratic party, oh
tanning control of the lower House
of Congress, started out upon its
"retrenchment and reform" idea, it
struck right and left without discrim-
inaton. The object of its leaders
evidently was to make as striking a
show of economy as possible com
pared with the doings Of the pre-
ceding Republican House. Thirst
for political capital and popular ia.
vor carried captive the better judg-
ment of men otherwise sensible, and
brought about, wharf.-the Indian
wars that have already cost so much
in blood and treasure, and are rich in
their promises of still larger divi-
dends of the same legacy. Vault.
ing ambition indeed o'erleaped itself,
for our Indians, too moagerly pro-
vided for, set themselves about max.
ing their wants and rights felt and
known; and, naturelv enough, they
did it in true Indian style.
The key note of the only true and
proper reform IN our Indian policy
we believe to have already been
sounded. 1t is this: Let the In dians
become citizens, own land and be
protected in the exercise of such,
and only such, rights as whites Ell.
joy; hold them amenable to our
laws for any wrong-doing, and teach
them that any infringement upon
their individual rights by unprin-
cipled white men will likewise be
judicially and properly noticed,
and the vexed "Indian question"
will be forever settled.
, 1878-06-28

BISHOP Bowman, whom many Of
our readers will remember as the
able presiding officer at the M. e
conference last August in Seattle,
sailed from Philadelphia in the
steamer Nederland, on the 22d of
last month for Europe. He will in
clude India in his travels, and goes
in the interest Of the missions of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
, 1878-06-28

REvERsEp.-The Olympia "Stand-
ard" says that, Gone of the most
serious objections to many religious
organizations is that they prescribe
rules of conduct for those outside
the pale of their denomination which
they do not pretend to follow them
selves" We do not know just who
has stepped on Bro. Murphy's corns
this time, or what particular reli-
gious organization he is shooting at
under the guise of random shot,
but, we do know that he is candid
enough, after serious consideration,
to admit that the sentence just
quoted reverses the matter exactly
from the actual facts in the case.
The real trouble is that many Christ
ians, of the hickory and hard hack
variety, tacitly accept the idea that
a non profession exempts them from
all obligations to obey the com
mands of the Bible, or exercise any
OF the Christian virtues not suggest
ed by what little natural goodness Of
heart they may possess, while at the
same time it leaves them free to
snarl at every flaw noticeable in any
professors character. Let Church
member fail, even in the least partic
ular, to live up TO his profession,
and he is Immediately set upon and
ridiculed to scorn for his weakness; /;
and the wall is sure to come loudest
from some one outside the pale"
ETC., but designate to the assailant a
similar transgression on the part of a
man outside the Church and he will
reply =" Oh, well, he doesn't make
profession" This rule, when APP
piled, will infallibly indicate who
keeps one measure for his corn and
another for that of his neighbor.
noNfr Won raad anv of our new
, 1878-06-28

THE Olympia Transcript" is eyi-
lently striving very hard to coax the
federal officials Of our Territory to
bestow little patronage on 1t TO
keep it quiet. One of the misfortunes
of that Gum is thatits cartridges too
often prove to be blank, having for
their object the intimidation of some
body, but doing little execution.
, 1878-06-28

For want OF appropriations by
Congress, Gen. Howard's Depart.
ment Head Quarters at Portland will
go into barracks at Fort Vancouver,
Maj. Candy, Paymaster, U. S. A.,
will take up his quarters at Fort
Townsend.