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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07
How a Famous Cheese is Made.

Perhaps the mostjustly celebrated
cheese made ON the Continent of
Europe is the Swiss 'Gruyere. This
is made mostly in huts, called cha
lets, high up among the Alps, at the
time during which the pastures on
the mountain-sid are accessible,
and the huts habitable, say from the
melting of the snow in May to the
end of September, when men and
animals descend for the winter into
the sheltered valleys thousands of
feet below.
The chalets are located in the
midst of the mountain pastures on a
spot safe from avalanches, and gen.
orally near to a small pond or
spring of water, when such are
available. Provisions from the val
leys are carried up weekly to the
chalets, and it is under such difficult
circumstances that a cheese is made
which for hundreds ofyears has been
considered almost, if not quite the
best on the continent.
The milk, partly skinned, or not,
according to the quality of the
cheese desired to be made, is put
into great kettle and swung on a
crane over a gentle fire, where it is
allowed to attain a temperature of
seventy-seven degrees Fahrenheit,
when the kettle is swung off the fire
and rennet is added TO the milk.
When coagulation has advanced far
enough the curd is cut into as fine
pieces as is practicable with the large
wooden knife which is used for the
purpose. The kettle is then swung
over the fire again, and the curd is
taken up in small quantities in a
porringer and poured back through
the fingers, where it is still more
finely divided.
Great Importance is attached to
this division of the curd, in order
that each particle may be fully ex-
posed to the action of the heat in
Cooking" process, which ensues up
to point when temperature of
900 has been attained. The kettle
is then Immediately swung off the
fire, and the waste of curd
and whey stirred for some
fifteen minutes longer, and if
the cooking has been properly per-
formed, the particles of curd have
the appearance of bursted grams of
rice swimming in the whey. The
curd is then collected in a cloth, and
great care is taken to expel all
whey. The sailing of the cheese is
also considered a delicate and I'M
portant process. The salt is rubbed
from time to time on the outside of
the cheese, care being taken to dis
scern when enough shall have been
absorbed. The Grueyre cheeses are
commonly three feet in diameter,
and weigh over 100 pounds. A sue
cessfal cheese of this kind is like a
soft yellow paste, which melts in
the mouth, and it is filled with cavi-
ties about the size of pea, one or
two, say, in each square inch of
cheese.-Dafryman's Journal
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
INSURANCE NOTICE.
DEPARTMENT OF
INSURANCE STATISTICS AND HISTORY,

INSURANCE STATISTICS AND History, :
Austin, Texas, February IS, 1881.
To AL Whom 1t May Concern:
This is to certify that the MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY, of New York. has
in all respects fully complied with the laws Of
Texas as conditions precedent TO its doing bust
ness in this State, and that the said Company
holds certificate OF Authority from this office
emitting it to do business in this State for
one year from the LIST day ofJanuary, 1881, 10 the
31st day OF December, 1881.
L. g.. Given under my hand and SEAL at
Office, in Austin, the day and date first above
written. A. W. SPAIGHT,
Commissioner.
Represented by E. T. EGGLESToN, Agent,
Austin Texas. mryw3t
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

Two instances OF the danger
attending some of the sports
of little girls have recently been
furnished in Washington city.
In one case the family physi-
clan attributed the injury from
which his patient, a little girl eight
or nine years of age, was suffering,
to over-exercise on roller-skates
Other physicians coincide lin this
view and expressed the opinion that
parents should restrict their girls to
short exercise on these skates.
Another case has occurred in which
the physician attribu ted the death
of little girl to excessive exercise
in tho common amusement of jump
ing the rope. One of the features
Of this sport IL for each child en-
gaging in il to attempt to jump a
greater number of times than any
other. In this way they put their
physical endurance to the greatest
test, and netinfrequently infiict per-
mAnent injury ponthemselves
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07
Butter eaters should reouil

Butter eaters should require
their boarding house keepers to
sign q contract that they will not
put on their tables neither "oleo-
margarine" "butIerine," '1ardine,1
nor any like substance. All of these
deleterious articles are now manu-
featured to an alarming extent of
offensive meats and sold to consum-
ers as genuine articles al prices
high enough to prevent suspicion.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

The Express says: "Capt. Bra
denreturned Sunday from the west,
and reports having secured the
right-of-way for the Sunset railway
as far as the Seco, about forty miles
distant. Men will go to work six
miles beyond the Seco. Capt. G..
w. Polk takes charge of the engi-
neers, and will push right on for the
Uvalde country. Four camps of
men have completed their grading
to the Hondo, and are waiting for
further orders. 1t is expected to
get through to the Rio Grande
within six months. Men are also
going to work on the Pecos, above
San Felipe, about 40 miles west,
and on the Southern Pacific line.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

THE departure from our midst of
Col. j. ID. Templeton is regretted by
a host of friends in Austin, where
he has endsared himself to many by
his honorable course as a public
officer, and by his great worth as a
gentleman. He goes to his old
home, Fort Worth, TO engage in the
practice of his profession, in which
he has as bright prospects as any
lawyer in the state.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07
ESTRAY NOTICE.
tie Of Texas, County Of Travis.
the honorable county clerk OF Travis cou

State Of Texas, County OF Travis.
To the honorable county clerk OF Travis coun-
ty. The undersigned would respectfully an
nounce the following estrays, totwit:
One dark brown horse about is hands high,
branded j. on the shoulder, and email white
dot in the forehead, about 10 years old, collar
mark.
One sorrel horse, hind feet white about four
inches abont the ankle, about II hands high,
with curl)
One sorrel mare, about II hands high, hind
feet white eight inches about the ankle, right
branded FRY (perpendichlar) on the shoulder.
One bay oily aboul . years old, ~ hands high.
hind feet white, rope around the neck, small
sPot In the forehead, branded on the shoulder
FRY (perpendicular)
The above described horses run near Buass
ranch oniPerdinales. 1881
=, One gray mare 14H hands high, branded d on
the shoulder, on the thigh, eight years old 4 a
GEORGE NJ. HEISSNKR,
County Commissioner.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

THE Washington Post says that q
careful computation shows that the
valve of the Federal patronage to
be handed over to William Ma
hone, of Virginia, amounts TO about
az many dollars as the number OF
Democratic voters whom he pro-
poses to deliver to the Republican
DartV
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

EVEN Asia has not escaped an ex-
ceptionally severe winter. In ia
pan there have been snow storms the
like of which are not remembered
to have occurred in forty years.
The snow has been ten feet deep in
the fields and fifteen feet on the
hills.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

Estrayed by W. K. Goodwin, before Isaac
Friedrich, j p, T. c., August 1s, 1880. sorrol
mare, left hind foot white, about 15K hands
high, branded ~ on hip, about years old. One
sorrel mare about 10 hands high, both hind feet
white, stripe 10 the forehead, branded VI (oon-
little sOrrcl mule, brand on shoulder about this
q. All Of them appraised at about 500.
FRANK BROWN,
a.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

The Bureau of Statistics reports
that 1,7s0,6s2 pounds of butter
valued at $S7l,l7S, and 6,O45,74
pounds of cheese, valued at $7ss, 72s
were exported from this country
during February, 1881, against 2 lO7..
OF pounds of the former, valued at
$447, 166, and 2,27S, S5S pounds of the
latter, valued at $296, 7O8, exported
in February, 1880. The total value
of dairy products exported durina
ten months ending with February
1881, is placed OF 81, 21s, O97, As com.
pared with S16, S99, 607 exported dur.
ing February, 1880. s.tsi'
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

~ THE cotton seed oil factories OF
New Orleans give employment to
!. 1925 hands, and pay these $S74,142
in annual wages; the iron foundries
employ si7 hands and. pay 1898, $50;
the cigar manufactures 997, to whom
arc paid $l79,772. Industries of this
sort are in their incipient stage, and
with their increase New Orleans will
grow and prosper as never before
.Austin's prosperity could alike be
assured by the establishment OF
manufacturing enterprises.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

THE Post having heard that a
half dozen men at Austin labored
and give birth to a bantling, which
ethey name " Progressive Democ-
sfacy,' it takes up the little thing,
and hopes its quiet day-dream of
twelve months, of seeing the De-
mocracy torn assunder, destroyed,
is about to be realized. 1t wants to
get up 'boom" for this 'Progres-
sive Democracy" and advises Major
Sayers or Col. Charles Stewart, or
Gen. Robertson, to take command
of il, and lead ON to victory, which
would mean the days of Republican
ism re-established in Texas-and
that Is what would most delight the
Par
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

III A BILL has passed the legislature
sdof New Jersey offering bounty OF
tone dollar per ton for all the
sorghum produced in that common
I wealth, and the same amount per
ton for the sugar made from it. A
little modern enlargement of view
. in the encouragement of agriculture
and manufacture would pay Texas,
as New Jersey expects to be paid
by encouraging the. protection of
! sugar production.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

1t is said that vine-cuttings
grated on the cactus that grows in
our Western desert will thrive and
grow productivity, despite the want
of rain in those regions. This is i'm
portant if true, and stranger things
have come to pass. This presents
the idea of making the desert blossom
like the rose in a new fashion.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

THE Washington Post tells the
startling tale that Logan is to sue
, coed Grant as the stalwart candidate
for the Presidency in 1884. Ex-Sen-
ator Spencer, of Alabama, is said TO
be engineering this peculiar move
ment, and working up a Logan
boom. Democracy will not die, and
It may be kicking more lively than
ever in 1884, and the boom may be
converted into q collapse.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

AND now it will not be necessary
to send all the way to Chicago for
oleomargerine. A factory for the
manufacture of this delicious COM
pound has been opened in New Or
leans.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

IN the United States there are
6,577, 151 colored people or descend
ents of Africans, 105,717 Asiatics,
and 65,122 Indians. The total being
50.l62,s66 the white population is
4S,404,876.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

-"What are uen of the world p
Dumas is reported to have said to a
Journalist who interviewed him /:
"Strip the clothes Of of four men,
whereof two shall be gentlemen and
two others members Of Q swell mob ;
wash the feet of the latter, and [
defy you to pick the two gentlemen
out Of the foufT
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

THE new Gear of Russia, Alex
ander I'LL, has one virtue which
should go to save his life from vio-
lence, even more than that divinity
which doth hedge a King" lie is
correct in his domestic relations.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
ESTRAYS.

Betrayed by Jacob Hereford, before Isaac
Friedrich, j. p, 7. G., June 18th, 1880, one
gray gelding, about II years old, branded ON
shoulder MP (connected). One bay 'geldinR o
years old, 10 hands high, left hind foot white,
spot In forehead, branded A ON shoulder One
dun mare, black name and tail, about u hands
high, g or years old, branded X on hip and
dim brand on shoulder and ID on same One
dark bay mare, years old, branded FD on left
high, left hind foot white. Appraised at si0
per head. FRANK BROWN
n ~ ~
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

ON the heels of rumors that
Greece is on the point of making
war on Turkey, comes the statement
that Turkey has ceded Thessaly and
Crete to Greece.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

WHILE Senator Malone receives
his boquets direct from the White
House, Ben. Hill gets his from the
women of Virginia.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

DIR. G. A. Greene, takes the sen.
sible ground, that tight check-rein
10 cruel, binders q relic of barbar-
ism, and the crupper undesirable
with the majority Of horses.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

IT is believed that Gould was the
man who raked in 10000 shares of
International railway stock in
New York the other day. These
shares represent S9,OOO,OOO.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

BRENNAN voted a municipal
schools tax and took change of its
schools, and in default of payment
Of the tax the free schools have
been closed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

Estrayed by X. A. Alton, before Isaac Freld.
rich, j. r., II. O. Sept 2let, 1880, red roam
II years old, branded WI on left sho .lder APP
Clerk G, @. Il, q,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

Miss Annie Pauline Scott OF
Monongahela City, Pennsylvania,
has been awarded the $4,000 offer.
ed by Adam Forspaugh for the
hsndsomsst woman in the world.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07
ESTRAYED

By John Anderson, before F. Tegner, j P.
T. c., March IA, 1881, a sorrel mare, about z
years old, ABOUT II hands high, white spot in
forehead, Spanish brand on left shoulder. APP
praised at so. FRANK BROWN,
mr. 16w3ts. Clerk G. q. II. q.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

Estrayed by Henry Russell, before d. G. Pace.
J. p, II. g., February 21st, 1881, a sorrel pony,
blaze face, left hind foot white up about six
inches above the hook, about five years old, u
praised ut tl2 FRANK BROWN,
mr. 3t+ Clerk q. C.. II. z.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

Estrayed by L. d. Darlington, Jr., before
brown horse, branded on shoulder and @ IN a
circle on thigh. Appraised at fl5.
FRANK BROWN,
Clerk q. O.. IT q
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

THE state will nowproceed in the
organization of State University,
its location being left to the people.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

WHEN statesmen arc called to
rise in the House not more than a
score should stand up at once.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

Estrnyed by j. II. league, before Isaac Freld-
rich, j. p, #. O., February 9th, 1880, dark
geding, brand not discornibie, looks Ike fish.
Appraised nt Se5 FRANK BROWN,
Clerk q. g., T.. L..
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07

THE papers of California justly
condemn the acquittal of Kalloch,
the murderer of DeYoung.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-10-14
SALT PaGDUCTiGM.

The San Francisco Journal of CON-
mcrce says: According to the census
returns the annual salt product of the
United States is nearly 0OOO. .Ot
bushels, of which 2s,oo0,000 bushels
are obtained from suhterranean brines
while tie other 2 100000 l.ush,.lS are
obtained from evaporation Of sta and
lake water and natural deposits.
The industry employs about 500
persons, and the value OF each years
product is S., 100000, or less Than
1s cents bnshcl. Michigan is the
great salI-prodncing State, it's pro
luct being over 100000 bushels.
New york comes next with nearly
100000 bushels; while West W.
gi,la and Ohio take third and fourth
places, with 2.6so,0Oo aud 2,65o,oOo
lnshels, respectively. Pennsylvania
produces only about $4,000 bushels;
California, few thousand more;
Virginia, abou. 425,00O bushels; aud
Utah which has thu. Great Salt Lake.
about 4SO,n0c bushels. The salt
product has increased during the last
decade about 90 per ceni, but the
total value of the product is less by
a Tcw hundred dollars. The price
per l,usllcl is tut little more than one
half what it was in 1870,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-10-14
ADVERTISING vs. DRDHaNlERS,

During the past few years there
has fcen Il manifest change, on the
part 81 wholesale merchants. in the
appreciation of the valne of travellers
as compared with newspaper adver-
;ising. A firm OF heavy dealers in
Chicago, abnu, three years ago, dis
prnsed with its dr. lmmrrs,anl for he
purpose of cxl erinent, expended the
amount of their annual expenses in
advertising with such excellent re-
suits as 10 cause them to do away
with drummers altogether. Other
firms in varinus parts of the country
are SAID to have don, likewise.
The cost. Of ''dranlncls" is cnor-
nous. 1t is seated that the weekly
cost of the commercial travellers of
New York City alone for railway
fares AMI hotel bills exceed half a
million dollars. Add TO this their
salaries, which are are not less than
half million, anil it will be seen that
the annual cost of drummcrs of that
one city exceeds fifty million dollars.
The same proportionate cost prevails
throughout the country.
Merchants are beginning TO see
that the results do not justify this
outlay, and that the methods of com
petition of many drummers are such
that heinteres,s OF legitimate trades
men would he as well, ii not better
secured by newspaper advertising,
and at much less expense. The
newspaper nowadays reaches every
household and every dealer, and adj
dresses thousands, where the com
mercial traveller addresses one, fact
stIatis being appreciated more and
more every day by merchants, Who'll :
sale as well as retail Cincinnati
Times.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-10-14
MONOPOLY AND COMMERCIAL SUCCESS

We were surprised to reaf in a
leading Democratic paper Of New
York that "monoroly had always
existed, and always will ex-
list, because. it is the natural conse-
qHnce ofcommercIal success
That an evil has always existed is
no reason why we should passivcly
tolerate or encourage it 10 our owl,
detriment, and it is no more q natural
consequence of. commercial success
than burglars are the out growth of
wealth. The power of consolidated
riches in our day to levy caprrcious
t,ibu,e on every branch of industry
is not n natural, but an unnatural
and inequilab'e consequence of com
merciai success. When few men,
representing gigantic corporation,
can create twenty million dollars of
fictitious values by the stroke of n
pen and then convert these paper
certificates into real values, they nee,
essarially absorb so much wealth into
their private Golfers from the general
store. When they prove their ahIlit y
to corrupt legislatures or courts, seiz"
the public domain aud violate solemn
contracts, they erect themselves into
II power greater than the government
and undermine the whole structure
of civil liberty.
There is "a very dis int line helwce
legitimate commercial success Al d
piratical monopoly. II legislation is
powcrless to arrest the abuses of TIE
latter, then we should legalze brig
andage and burglarv-S,anlar,i.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-10-14
The RUSSIAN WHEAT SUPPLY.

It is not little remarkable that
Rnssra, country which has been
greatly under a cloud since 1877
partly by reason of the disorganiza-
ton OF her finances occasioned by the
strain of The RusSo-Tnrkish war anil
partly Ivy reason of the political 20 j.
cy which unfortunately finds favor n,
81. Petersburg, has this year beer
blessed with a wheat crop OF remark
able abundance. The Russian whea,
yield of 1881 is said, in.leed, to be
the largcs. ever known in the Rus
sian empire. In the districts iribuia
ry to he Odessa the yield has beer,
SO prolific that local farmers are said
TO have affirmed that they conl,l
dispense with harve>ts for three or
fnnr years 10 come. A,lvi"es from
TaoanroG and the Caucasus also
ainounce a wheat yield equal to that
of 1874, which was the largest ever
k"own in Russia. Central RUSSIA
does not r'.jnit.r in quite such lavish
abundance, but still the wheat crop
is Il COOL one an,l of excellent quail
tv. In the north of Russia but lHtle
wheat is grown. The largest tx
ports of wheat in any one year from
Russia have been l02, 900, 900 bushels.
This total comprised the surplus from
two crops, one of which was tempo
rarily shut up in Russia I'y the Russo
Turkish war. 1t is not at all in
probable ilat the total of lo2 ,00O, 900
hn~hels just noted will he exceeded
by the Russian wheat exports OF
1872. II is also not at all unlikely
that the abundant wheat crop with
which Russia has been blessed this
wear may tend to ,lifiuse more pres.
peritv and conicntment among the
Russian Liverpool Journal
ct Commerce.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-10-14
TIE PROSPECTS OF COFFEE THIS
YEAR.

The history Of the coffee trade, il
we'll written, would be wonderful
and interesting resume of much that
is notable in human annals. IF all
articles of food or drink have, as some
believe, direct influence on human
actions, who knows how this subtle
Arabian berry may have directed the
currents Of modern history. All the
coffee in America and the West
Indies is said to be derived from a
single plant that reached the new
world about hundred and fifty
years ago. Now America produces
the greatest part of all the coffee of
the world, while the United States is
the heaviest consumer. The import
alton which in 1870 was 235, ,356,574
pounds, was 446, 6,35o,727 pounds in
1880. The population increased less
than 40 per cent, while the consnp-
ton ofcoffee increased nearly double.
San Francisco Journal Of Com
:nerce.