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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-16
Household NInliers.


PLAIN RUsKs.-One cup of yeast, one
cup of sugar, one cup Of water, one egg,
IA little salt, n large spoonful Of lard;
mix together; let them rise twice and
bake.
SANDERS OF CoLD BEEF. -Mince beef
Tor mutton or veal) small, with pepper
and salt; add light gravy. Put it into
scallop shells, or baking dish, with
mashed potatoes and cream. Put bit
of butter on the top and brown them in
an oven.
GERMAN ToAsT.-Cut into slices loaf
of bread; soak them ten or fifteen min
utes in pint of milk; add two eggs and
little salt. Fry i'll equal parts of lard
and butter till they are light brown on
both sides. This dish is quickly pre-
pared for desert, and may be eaten
with pudding sauce.
Sort INDIAN MEAL PUDDING one
quart Of boiling sweet milk add suf-
ficient quantity of corn meal to make q
stiff batter; add salt and make sweet with
molasses; butter pan and pour the bat
ter into it; then pour upon 1t one quart
cold sweet milk, add little butter, cut
into small pieces, and bake slowly.
PRESERVED STRAWBERRIES. Pound
for pound of berries and sugar. Put
them in preserving kettle over a slow
fire until the sugar melts. Boil 25 mill
utes fast. Take out the fruit in per-
forated skinner, and fill a number Of
small cans three-quarters full. Boil and
skim the syrup five minutes longer, fill
up the jars, and seal while hot Keep
in cool. dry place.
HARD YEAsT.-Stir into apint of live
ly yeast enough -four to make thick
batter, and tablespoonful of salt. Let
it raise once, then roll out thin, cut
into cakes with cake-cutter, and dry in
the shade in clear windy weather. When
perfectly dry put in a bag, and hang in
u cool, dry place. They will keep good
six months. One of these cakes dissolved
in little milk or water is enough for four
quarts of flour.
FISH PUDDING. pounds of boil
ed fish; large lump of butter; Ia
blespoonful of flour; two cups of fresh
milk. When boiled it must cool little.
Add to it the yolks of seven eggs, the
whites beaten, and stir it around; then
add salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Put it
in a buttered dish, and cook for one hour
in q pretty warm oven and then serve.
Sauce-Flour and butter and n little
broth and capers.
YEAST FROM PEAs.-To one large tea
cupful of soft split bruised peas put one
pint boiling water; cover it closely, 80 rs
wholly to exclude the air, and set it in n
cool oven or by the side of the fire for
"A hours, when it should have fine
froth Oh the top; a tablespoonful of the
water is the proportion lin warm
climate) to one pound of flour; yeast thus
prepared is very generally used i'll Persia,
and the writer has employed it in India
for three years with perfect success.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-16
A Ghackarad Life.

Chicago papers tell strange story
about q poor colored woman named Mel
lie Jones, who died in that city two weeks
ago, and was buried in potter's field.
Her father was negro named James
Mink who started stage line in Canada
in 1850, and acquired large fortune.
He gave his daughter Minnie good edn-
cation, and, as there We're few negroes In
Canada whom he considered fit to marry
her, he offered dowry of $40, 900 to any
respectable white man who would take
her to wife. A cabman named James
Andrews, good looking and agreeable,
accepted the offer, married the girl, got
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-16
PART III.
NlsIIInEEIIADEI-

The way which lies between Princes
Gate and Whitechapel is neither short
nor pleasant; there is Il whole series Of
cuts and windings and unexpected turn
ings TO be taken; yet neither locality ex-
periences any serious Inconvenience from
the comparative inaccessibility Of the
other.
The glaring July sun beat down upon
the pavement, shedding a fierce light on
all around; making the staring geraniums
in the fiower-boxcs look redder than ever,
and bringing ont sudden points of bright
ness i'll the steel hardness and glossy
coats of Mrs. Pierepoint's carriage
horses, which stood impatiently champ
ing before the door of II certain house in
Princes Gate. Jarvis and John, one OH
the box of the victoria, the other stand
ing on the hot pavement, were by no
means in a good temper.
"Haven't no patience with missus
whims," said the coachman grumpily;
"Whitechappel indeed and ON such Il
day as this.
Maybe she's taken to distric' visitin', "
suggested John, mildly.
"Not 'cr" (cOntemptuously)-"tha 3
not 'er line. Mark my words, she's up
to some game or other" Jarvis never
finished that sentence, for at this point
the door was flung open, and Mrs.
Pierrepoint came forth to the outer air.
Whitechapel or not Whitechapel,
Gas Jarvis said,) "The missus" had
certainly shown no carelessness with
respect to toilet that afternoon.
Perhaps some stiff-backed people
might have considered her costume hard
ly suitable to one-year-Old widow; she
had cast of the heavy Grape dress,
bonnet, and mantle, to which she had &c
rigidly adhered during the first twelve
months of her widowhood, and wore
some soft transparent, web-hke material
with dark line ripping down it. which
lost itself every now and then in the
folds. Her hat was soft and feathery, o.
some graceful, indefinite shape; in tho
front of her dress were two heavy, half
opened roses Of deep creamy color.
She stepped into the carriage, and re
peated her orders Of the morning to tn,
obsequious John, Number 2, st. Gibb'
Buildings, near the Bethnal Green Mu
. scum"
An observer more penetrating tnal
, the fOotman might have remarked a rath
er higher note than usual in the well
trained voice, brighter sparkle in tn
eyes, faint culver in the full, red lips
but John was thinking about the long
hot journey before him-envying hi
mistress the lace parasol, which mad
, her look 80 cool and comfortable.
The carriage rolled from the door
Mrs. Pierrepoint lay back with wide eye
and parted lips, through which came III
short, quick breath. She could nc
) think; her head seemed in o confuse
whirl, half-delicious, half-terrihle, To
: day, to-day she was to reap the rewar
, Of long months of self-denial and sell
: repression, There would be struggl
: she was prepared for that, for Fran
!; was terribly proud, but of ultimate VII
y tory she felt sure. Her whole bein
Q seemed in q sweet fever, swayed by
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-16

his $40, 900 and set out on u southern
wedding trip. In Virginia he sold his
wife to planter for 81, 800 and returned
with his ill-gotten gains to England.
When Mink, who lived in Toronto,
learned his daughters ate he succeeded
in effecting her release through the in
fluence of Sir Henry Bulwer. But she
would not live in Toronto and removed
to Elmira. In the course of time stages
superseded stages, Mink lost his money
and his daughter went astray. She
finally died as u laundress in Chicago.
She was nearly white, pretty even in her
age, and, very pleasant in her manner.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-16

Rub the benzoin, alOes and saIicylic acid
to fine powder, and add them to the
essential oils dissolved in the alcohol.
After days maceration, add to the
mixture the oleic acid, the soda, and the
borax dissolved i'll the water, and, lastly,
the carbolic acid. Shake the whole well
for half IN hour, and after one weeks
maceration in a cold place, decant the
clear liquid. For use, shake well with
twice its LUX OF water, and add 100 to
l20 times its bulk of water, string thor
oughly. For scab and itch dilution with
only thirty or forty times its bulk is
necessary.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-16

A DRAG, driven by an elegantly attired
lady, with trim and neatly-dressed col
ored boy perched OH the fOotman's seat
behind, was passing through the street,
when it was espied by an old negro
woman, "Bress de Lord" she ex-
claimed raising her hands rs she spoke,
"Bress de Lord! I never 'spected to
see dat. Wonder what dat young cullud
gemman pays dat young white oman for
driving dat kerridge? know'd it'd come,
but never 'spected to lib to see it. Dis
nigga's ready to 60 way now."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-16

cleanliness by keeping them in quarters
as clean as it is practicable to have them.
There is more reason for afforling bed
ding TO cows than to horses. 1t requires
little labor to take up all the droppings
Of COW yard and to throw them in n
heap. II this is done every morning the
cows will have clean place Oh which to
lie. A stiff brush should be used to re-
move the various kinds of dirt from the
body and softer one employed to clean
the udder. Manure should never be al
lowed to cake ON the side of q cows
body III found there it should he re-
moved while it is soft by means of
stick and rag and water. The practice
of treating cows to full bath in a stream
or lake az often as once month during
warm weather liz recommended to all who
are located near bodies of water.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-16
MATTHEW PRIOR.

An Nancy at her toilet sat,
Admiring this and blaming that,
"Tell me" she said, "but tell me true,
The nymph who could your heart snbdue,
What sort Of charms does she possess 2"
"Absolve Inc, for one; IN confess
with pleasure replied. I" Her hair,
In ringiets rather dark than fair,
Does down her ivory bosom roll,
And, hiding half, adorns the whole.
In her high forchead's fair half-round
Love sits, In open triumph crowned.
He In the dimple Of her chin,
In private state, by friends IL seen.
Her eyes are neither black nor gray,
Nor fierce nor feeble is their ray;
Their dubious lustrc seems 10 show
Something that speaks nor Yes nor No.
Her HIPS no living bard, weet,
May say how red, how round, how sweet:
Old Homer only could indite
Their vagrant grace and loft delight;
They stand recorded In his book,
When Helen smiled and Hebe spoke.7
The gypsy, turning 10 her glass,
Too plainly showed she knew the face.
"And which am most hke," shc said,
"YOur Chloe, or your nut-brown mAid?"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-16
Universal CnrboIic Composition.

Hagar has devised the following min
ture composition for veterinary and
farmers use. 1t keeps sores clean, kills
lice, cures scab and itch, keeps off flies
and mosquitoes from animals, protects
seed corn, etc. Ofcourse it will have to
be diluted properly:
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lfrom Temple lar
Mrs. Pierrepoint.
A SKETCH IN TWO PARTS.

''Sunt, qui
CruStis ct pnnis Niduas Ncncntur aYaris.
lNcipiantquc ,enes quo@ in NiNAria Thittmt'
Ho,Gc,, Up. |. 1.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-15
WORDS OF

Arise, arise then to the labor. add another ray
to LIES joys, and In the words OF tiny Tim
God bless us-every one"
We sometimes look for Augus3s grain and DC.
tober's ~fruitage, when as yet 1t is only spring.
time. Pationcel In due time the ripened fruits
Of grace will be ours,
The maelstrom attracts more notice than the
quiet fountain; a comet draws more attention
than the star; but 1t is better to be the fountain
than the maelstrom, and star than the comet,
following out the sphere and orbit OF quiet use.
fulness In which God places us,-Dr. John Hall.
man has a right, If he has The means, honest.
ly acquired, to build an Eden for himself and his
family to dwell in. But no man has a right to
such a use Of wealth as shall convey the idea
that 1t is right for a man to be exclusive and sell.
fish, and that he has right, because he is fortu.
nate, to neglect those that are not fortunate.
l would have a great deal more hospitality
praoticed than Is common among us-more hos
pitality, and less show. Properly considered, the
quality Of dinner is twice blesti 1t blesses him
that gives, and him that takes, A dinner with
friendliness is the best Of all friendly meetings
apompous entertainment, where no love is, thu
least satisfactory. -Thackeray.
And though men, as seeds, are very small, ant
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-15

AConnecticul woman is in the majority by an
elOpement with two husbands, neither Of them
own her.
This is the time OF year the senior tells every
body how to run the world.
In purchasing house, the buyer should be
sure the seller is not to deep for him.
penny wise, pound foolish" so.iloquized the
man in church, and he put the penny in the box
and the pound In his pocket.
A Boston physician says high-heeled shoes in.
jure the eyesight. He may save his eyes by turn,
ing them in another direction,
tits said there are now 200, 900 Christians in
China. If they are real Christians, China com.
pares favorably with this country,
The Philadelphia Herald regards it as scarcely
possible that the handsome stockings now worn
by ladies are intended for show only when hung
upon the clothes line.
Its suspected the three cent piece was invent.
ed to deceive the deacons, Itcan be slipped into
the contribution box as ostentatiously as the
dime.
Olive Logan says: paris Is the wickedst city on
the face Of the earth" Directly after that she
says: ut is a lovely place to visit, either for a
week or twelvemonth. +"
When reform spelling becomes universal, a
dime novel hero can write: II cum Nv a prowd
rase," without giving himself dead away as re,
CARDS his early education.
A Philadelphia woman who gave her age a,
ten years younger than she really is, explained tc
a friend that she was overlooked at the last cen.
sus, and did not wantto get the records mixed up
The census enumerators get two cents for every
person they capture. Some persons are not ever
worth that much, but no enumerator has had the
honesty to return the change.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-15
THE MU3ING AND MoRALIzING OF AGE,
CURIOUS AND USEFUL.

some wonderful relics OF an ancient race OF
people have recently been discovered In eastern
New York. A writer from that section enumer.
ates a number Of articles, among which we no.
tice the following! A number Of arrow heads,
small copper avis, a sea she'll adapted 10 drink
ing uses, several bone avis, all of which were un.
like any ever found In Indian burying grounds,
Prof. Tice is OF the opinion that about all the
so.called cyclones which have prevailed to an un.
usual extent this season, are storms Of electricity
and entirely independent Of wind.
Scientists, from close observation, are Of opin.
ion that pines aud other needle leaVed trees have
a stronger attraction for watery Vapor than other
trees, and those containing resinous matter alb
sorb much more water, and exhale 1t more rap.
idly than other species,
Two OF the trustees Of the state OF Vermont Uni,
versity have offered $3.50 in prizes to boys not over
seventeen years of age, for the best crop OF pota'
toes and corn on One.tenth Of an acre. A similar
practice In other localities would doubtless prove
Of much benefit to our agricultural interests,
A Test Of Rdison's new electric railway at MenlC
Park a few day ago was most gratifying to the
inventor and some thirty persons who accompan
led him upon the occasion, 1t is anticipated tina
the street and elevated railways Of New Yorl
will at no distant day be successfully operated
by electricity.
The "zoOgyroscope" is a newly invented instru.
ment for taking instantaneous photographs o
moving objects, and has been found to be Yalua
BILE in showing the various positions OF running
horses, athletes, etc.
A shower Of metOriC dust, containing fragment
Of metallic iron, together with organic particles
visited Catania, Sicily, recently, to the Surpris
and astOnishment Of the people Of that region.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-15
GEMS.

Kind words are balm to the wounded heart
and food to the hungry soul.
There is faith that saves, but there Is no dog.
matism that saves,
F~rivOlity, under whatever form 1t appears takes
from attention its strength, from thought It's orig.
inslity, from feeling its earnestness.
Real glory
Springs from the silent conquest Of ourselves,
And without that the Conquerer Is naught
And the first slave.
God does nothing for us In this sphere directly
which we are able to do for ourselves, and for
one another.
VRin.glorious men are the scorn Of wise men
the admiration Of fools, the idols Of parasites and
the slaves Of their own vaunts.
The whispers In the forest
Blend with the rivers signs,
And everywhere, from all things,
Sweet strains Of praise arise;
From early mornings brightness
To evening shadows dim,
Gods happy world is singing,
Her grateful songs to Him.
man may be a very imperfect man, yet II he
Is honest, sincere, trying hard each day to be
better, he may be a very good man, and the
world will give him due credit.
As boys should be educated with temperance
so the first great lesson they should receive Il
irugality. It is by the exercise Of this virtue
alone that they can ever expect 10 be usefu
members OF society.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-15
THE HANCOCKs.

John Hancock was born in 1870, died 1850, aged
so years, He was a minister at Lexington, Mass,
John Hancock, jr, was born 1908, died 17A,
aged II years, He was q minister Of Braintree,
Mass and a son Of the preceding,
John Hancock, LII D., was born 1887, died 1898,
aged Sc years, He was one Of the Signers Of the
Declaration Of American Independence, a son Of
John Hancock Of Lexington, He was q native Of
Quincy, Mass; graduated at Harvard College in
1854; member Of the House Of Representatives fol
Boston in 1866; President Of the Provincial Con-
gress Of Massachusetts, in 1774; President Of Con
tinental Congress in 1775; Governor Of Massachu-
sets In l7SO-Si and 1887 to 1898.
Benz F, Hancock was a son OF John Hancock
LII D., signer Of the Declaration OF American In.
dependence; was a lawyer at Morristown, Mont
gomery county, Pa, in 1928; was a member Of the
Baptist church and Superintendent Of the Sun
dayHsohool,
Winfield Scott and Hilary Hancock, twin broth,
ers, and sons Of Benz. F, Hancock, were born In
Montgomery township, Montgomery county, Pa.
in 1924.
Hilary Hancock, twin brother, is a lawyer a
Minneapolis.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-15
A NAP.
A Local Disciple OF Rip Van Wrinkle. - An Old
Gentlemsn's Sleep for Three Days
and Nights,


In 1909 Solomon Eversull, the Oldest
man now living in the county, took up
his residence upon what is now the Coll
lege Hill pike, just south Of the city cor
poration line, above Cumminsville. Then
it was but one vast wilderness, and for
nearly three-score years and ten the old
gentleman has resided there, scarce
knowing the sensation Of being away
from home.
During the latter part of last week he
fell asleep, as was his wont during the
day, but what was the alarm Of the
household to find that all their efforts to
awaken him were fruitless. For two
days his condition was the same. His
breathing was regular and his re'
spiration all right, but all the attempts to
arouse him made by the physicians who
had been called in by the strange phe-
nomenon, we're bafl ed and unsuccessful;
they gave up their endeavors. AT the
end of the third day the old man sud-
denly awoke, seemingly with no effort
at all, and he Immediately asked for his
supper.
To the many questions put to him re-
garding hi> condition, and what the
matter was with him, he answered that
he did not know of any thing wrong.
He was pretty sure, however, that he
had been asleep long enough to get very
hungry.
Mr.. Eversull is said to be one hundred
and six years old, and he is now partly
blind. His medical attendants, now
that he has awakened, consider him
good for a year or so more He came
West from Harper's Ferry in 1902 with
his father and mother, but before the
Journey to Cincinnati was accomplished
the father was called away to his long
rest.
For a number of years he followed
the business of bodybuilding, and after
his removal tout into the woods" he bes
gan to till the soil. For over half a CEN
fury he lived happy with his wife, who
but a few years ago was burned to death
as she helplessly sat in her chair. Since
that sad event the shadows have dark
ened over the old mans life, and he
longs for death to claim him, when he
again may Join her. He never received
even a common education, and to-day
he can neither read nor write, He has
reared a family of seven children, and
of this number he has outlived two. The
remaining ones have, Of course, passed
the prime Of life and have children
grown themselves, while little one are
calling them grandpa"
MI. Eyersull remembers the Wal Of
1872. Indeed he came within one Of
joining the volunteers at that time. OF
the great rebellion he knows compar-
lively nothing beyond the fact that there
was a civil wal. In appearance he is
like one of the old venerable partri,
archs of Bible times, and his snowy
beard and hair are emblems of the life
he has spent. His voice is still clear
and powerful, and he is truly one Of the
most remarkable personages to be met
with in a long time. He is an inveterate
user Of the weed, but is a stranger to
any other dissipation.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-15

KArds and whisky reduce all men to the same
level, and a very low level at that.
Good immitatOrs are even more skarse than
originals are.
An immitashun to equal an original has got to
beat 1t at least twenty-five per cent.
Larning Ia easy emf to acquire, wisdom Gums
slO, but sticketh to the ribs.
Men luv for the novelty Of the thing, woman
luVs because she kant help It.
The man who kant laff IL an animal, and the
one who won't IL a devil.
A festive old man is a burlesque on all kinds Of
leyity.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-15

The citizens of Norristown, Pa, Gen,
Hancock's old home, responded to his
nomination in a salute of 500 guns on
Thursday night, and in a grand process
sion embracing Democrats and Rspubli-
cans, George Bullock, a staunCh Repub-
lican, has raised a Hancock flag over his
large woollen mill, and will vote for his
friend and fellow townsmsn, as many
others also declare they will do.