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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
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The Household.

BAKED BEETs.-Wash them perfectly
clean, put in a pan with little water,
and bake until they are tender. The
time varies with the size of the beet, an
hour being small enough allowance for
a beet of medium size. When they are
done remove the skin and serve in the
same way that you do boiled beets.
| FRIENDLY LOAvEs. Beat half dozen
mealy potatoes with quarter pound of
grated ham, two eggs, a little butter
and little cream, taking care not to
make it too moist; form it into balls or
small loaves, and fry them nice hight
brown; they should be fried in butter.
Pile them on napkin, and serve with
a garnish of fried parsley.
SQUAsH.-Squash is much nicer if a
little flour be added to it while cooking
Cut it into small pieces, boil until ten
der and rub through q colander; add a
piece of butter, little cream and some
flour which has been mixed smooth in
milk and thoroughly cooked, and boil
again, and just before taking from the
fire stir in the well-beaten yolks of two
eggs.
MINCE MEAT.-One pound beef suet
finely chopped, two of rump steak
Slightly broiled), three of apples, two
of currants, two of raisins, one nutmeg,
tablespoonful of cinnamon, rind of two
lemons, quarter of q pound of mixed
candied peel, one pound sugar, two
quarts of cider boiled down to one with
a quart of maple sirup, glass of rasp-
berry jelly, teaspoonful of salt.
rr,o
of flour, one and half teaspoonful of
baking powder, one-eighth ounce of
bicarbonate of soda and pinch of salt;
mix into firm dough with buttermilk,
which should be sour, though not ran
cid. A few currants and little white
surgar can be added if sweet teacakes
are wanted. Or, take half pound of
flour, as much carbonate of soda as
will lie on a quarter of dollar, double
that quantity of cream of tartar and
pinch of salt; make a stiff dough with
buttermilk, knead lightly and roll
about half an inch thick; bake in
round cakes.
POTATO PANCAKEs.-Potato pan
cakes make an excellent dish for sup
per. Serve with the same embellish-
ments in the way of pickles or sauces
as you would do were the dish you
were offering fried oysters. Crate a
dozen medium-sized potatoes, after
peeling them and washing thoroughly.
Add the yelks of three eggs, a heaping
tablespoonful of flour, and, if. they
seem too dry, little milk will do to
thin them, with large teaspoonful of
salt, and lastly the whites of the three
eggs beaten stiff and thoroughly beaten
in with the potatoes. Heat your grid
die and put butter and lard in equal
proportions on 1t, and fry the cakes in
it until they are brown. Make them
third larger than the ordinary size of
the pancake.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
ALaree Yield of Wheat.

A Kansas farmer has new method
of putting in whest, which the American
Cultivator recommends for trial IN other
localities. He has narrow iron wheel
attached behind his drill, which follows
in the drill row and firmly presses the
soil with the seed to greater depth.
By this method he grows upward of
fifty-six bushels per acre.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
Watermelons for the Million.

On the largest truck farm in the
south, which is near New Orleans, $50
acres of watermelons are
planted. 1t is said the proprietor
would make money if he only sold the
seeds from the melons raised. The de-
mand is great, and prices, according to
the Midland Farmer, range from 81 to
50 per pound. - 3Ea) > 1c Sla lire
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
This Seasons Corn.
CultivafOr.

The grains of corn that grow on the
ends of stalks with the tassel will pro-
duce new varieties if planted by them
selves. 1t is in this way that many
curious and sometimes valuable novel
ties are secured. Varities produced
from seed grown this year ought to be
adapted to unfavorable seasons if the
conditions of the seed affect the future
plant, as is generally believed.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08

was not till after shutdown that they
dared to attempt crossing. What
renders it SO curious is that not enc at
Browns station saw the clouds. 1t
may be possible that some hidden
springs were uncorked by some subter-
ranean earthquake. At any rate, it is
q great wonder.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
Twin Calves.
Agriculturist.

Calves born as twins, when of the
same sex, breed as regularly and read
lily as those which come at a single
birth, and often inherit the fecundity of
their parents. When, however, bull
and heifer calf arrive at one birth the
heifers, IN large proportion of cases,
never breed. Bulls born along with
heifers do not seem to labor under any
disadvantage in procreating their
species.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
The Pear.

From recent experience the pear
seems likely to take the place of the ap-
pie as the fruit most easily grown. 1t
has been, the past three years, more
certain bearer than the apple, is less af-
fected by insects, and has no disease ex-
cepting blight, which may be kept in
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
The Scotch Herring Fisheries.

The herring fisheries of Scotland en-
ploy nearly 10000 people, one-seventh
of the population. The boats represent
a money value of $500, 900. The an
nual yield of cured fish has risen from
10000 barrels early in the century to
100000, and has trebled in fifty years,
while in the same period the value of
the nets has increased IS per cent.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08

SHEBoYGAN, WIs.-Dr. S. B. Myers
says: 81 recommend Browns Iron Bitters
for. general debility, loss of appetite and
want of strength,'
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08

Now is the time when the chubby reed
bird dies.-[N. Y. News.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08

The youth who waltzes well is the one
who leads the whirled.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08

The oyster is full grown in about five
years.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-08-04
Feeding Cows in Summer.

The customary loss from poor and
deficient feed in midsummer, VIXEN
grazing Is the sole dependence for the
summer feed for the herd, is about two
fifths of what would have been the yield
if full feeding of green food had been
supplied through the entire season.
When herd has been permitted to
shrink from drought, it not only gives
less milk through all the remaining part
of the season, but it dries up entirely
very much sooner than when the flow
is kept right up to its maximum measure
all the time. Herds which are full fed
go dry on an average only about one
month in the year, while those which
suffer from drought six to ten weeks
in the hot part of the season, with no
extra feed, go dry on the average about
three months. Animals pinChed in the
summer get poor and Uanting in vigor,
80 that they do not stand the winter
well, and yet it costs more to winter
such herd than it does heshy one.
To subject COWS to lack of feed~ when
they should be doing their best, brings
disaster in every quarter, and lntilcts
losses upon the owner which keeps him
struggling with poverty from year to
year, and by distressing and discoura-
ging, make him dissc dstied with his bust
ness, and life an uphill journey.-Na-
tional Live Stock Journal.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-08-04
About Butter and Milk,

There are many different methods of
packing away butter in summer for win
ter use, but much depends upon the
quality of the butter when made, also
upon the place in which it is stored. If
the butter is we'll made, and the butter
milk all removed from it land then stored
in cool place, almost any of the simple
methods of packing will answer. Pack
ing in jars or clean, sweet tubs, and then
covering with clear brine is usually suffi-
cient. When only small quantity is to be
preserved the following plan is an excel
lent one: Work over, salt to taste, and
wrap each pound or two pound roll in
cloth and put in jars, and cover with cold,
clarified brine, and set in cool place.
2. The milk should be cooled as rapidly
as convenient as soon as drawn from the
COW, and then set in a room where the
temperature will be between so and 81
degrees, or lower in summer if possible.
This will answer we'll for both milk and
cream, but in winter it should not go
much below 55 degrees. 3. A prepare
ton Of annatto, more extensively adver-
tised under the name of annotoinne.
This is the best coloring material known
for butter and cheese, and it is very
cheap. Directions for using accompany
each package. York Sun.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-08-04

Willard Asylum for the insane, at
Ovid has among its inmates Danish
lady of good education, and who, previ-
ous to her insanity, occupied a respect
able position in society. Her delusion
is that she is immensely wealthy
the queen of the universe. On
all: other subjects she is relatively "a
tiohal, and converses with ease and
luency. She has the delusion that the
asylum is her castle, built for her spe-
cial benefit, and that the attendants and
inmates are her servants. Recently she
managed to elude the vigilance of her
attendants and mail letter to brother
in Denmark, stating that she had become
wealthy and was living in a magnificent
mansion, surrounded by luxury and at
tendants, and had abundance to provide
for herself and family, and closed by
urging him to accept her hospitality and
Having frequently heard of the good
across the sea. he did not have a suspi-
cion but what fortune had favored his
sister, and that she had
therefore proceeded Immediately to
close out his little tailoring business, in
which he had managed with difficulty
TO support his family. and with the pro.
ceeds purchased tickets for the trans
portation of his wife and five children to
central New York. Allowing the letter
announcing his intention of coming only
q few days start, the little family took
ship for America with light hearts and
great expectations. Arriving in New
York, they set aside barely sufficient to
take them to their destination and spent
the remainder in improving their ap-
peaIance so that they should not bring
discredit on their rich kinswoman. On
reaching Ovid they recognized Willard
from the description given in the sisters
letters. The cruel disappointment of
the brother and his wife was pitiable.
Instead of palatial abode, they found her
in hopeless condition and an inmate of
an insane asylum. Letters Oft the insane
should be kept and submitted to some
central authority. More than one asy-
lum physician has lost his life from at
to evade the sending of inn
proper letters of lunatics.-Journal of
Nervous and Mental Diseases,
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-08-04
Cheese Making on a Small Scale.

H. j. ", Lafayette, Ind.--How can
cheese be made on a small scale-say
where only six gallons of milk are used
at time?
ANs.-Strain the nights milk into a
tub, or other vessel, and put in the rem
net-one tablespoonful to three gallons
of milk. As soon as the curd becomes
firm cut it with case-knife to the bot
tom, in fine squares, and let it stand till
the whey comes on the top; then dip
the curd into cloth which is set in a
basket over q vessel to catch the whey.
In this way the whey drains off, Gath
er the curd in bunch in the cloth, and
put light pressure upon it leaving it in
the cloth. 1t must be put in a cool
place. In the morning change the milk
to curd-the same as night beforehand
put the two curds together. 1t must
pow be scalded, which is done by heat
ing portion of the whey, sufficient to
cover the eurd, or it may be done with
water, The whey, or water, should
be heated almost to scald-
ing point and the curd
immersed in it, where it should be
left few minutes and stirred lightly
until it begins to have an elastic and
tough feeling, when it should be taken
out and put in the basket, and whey, or
water allowed to drain off. After drain
ing-which takes but few minutes
the curd is put into chopping bowl and
chopped about as fine as chestnuts, salt
being added-fve ounces, or teacupful
to IL pounds of curd. An increase of
salt will make drier and harder cheese,
AS soon as chopped, put into heap of
suitable size, and then under the press
after ten minutes take out and change
to dry cloth, and put back into press
to be left till night, when it should be
turned again and pressed until morning.
A cloth bandage is put around the
cheese when taken from the press, and
the cheese is rubbed with melted butter.
It is then set in dry, cool place, and
kept free from flies by darkening the
room. The cheese should be turned
twice a day and rubbed with melted
butter. 1t must be looked to carefully,
to see if the flies have deposited any
eggs, or it will get wormy and spoil.
For setting the milk many persons use
their washtubs and other things thew
have handy, using a press of simple
New Yorker,
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-08-04

again. Now with pencil and yard stick,
check it off in blocks the size
your raveled strips will fill, which
will be something less than quarter o t
an inch. Count the blocks in the pat
tern-mine is gray cat with some
white about her. Count and cross mark
your checks, so rs simply to outline the
animal, marking rings where the
white should 60. Then long strips
of the gray may be sewed on, from the
ring marks, making it unnecessary to
cross mark every check. Make plain
border, or one with stars at intervals
may be added. Then fill up the space
between border and central figure with
some contrasting color. When finished,
it may be sheared very trihe. to make
1t smooth, when it will present a close,
curly appearance somewhat resem bling
Brussels carpet. 1t is easily done, and
when neatly put together is pretty
enough to grace any farmers parlor.
Cushions may be covered in the same
neutrality-suspicious. of Country
Gentlemen
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-08-04
For and About Women.

Lemon juice rubbed on the face at
night and washed off in the morning,
without soap, is the best and safest re.
mover of freckles.
The secret of successful frying. says
the London Caterer, consists in having
the fat boiling before putting the food
into it.
Says the Northwestern Miller: Let
the -four sit on the back of the stove or
some other warm place "a hours and
you will be surprised at the difference
it will make in either bread or cake.
If the gentleman has asked you to
consider yourself engaged to him, ask
him to consult your parents before you
are in any way pledged IF he delays
to do so, the correct course would be
for your father to speak to him, while
You must refuse to continue the intimacy
until you really know what he means.
If you are indispOSed to take this course,
tell him plainly that he had better dis
continue his visits unless he is prepared
to ask your parents consent to an en-
gagement.
Man, in "Christlan civilization" sees
no beauty in the female form unless
there is a notch all around it, like tn at
with which woodman deadens tree.
The deeper the notch the better is he
pleased, for it makes q convenient rest
for his arm. In making this notch for
his admiration and convenience a wom-
an as surely, if no. as shortly, takes her
own life as the woodman takes that of
the tree. and completely units herself
Tor the ordinary duties of womanhood.-
Aunt Jane Swissheim.
Rev. DR.. McKendree puts the case
No girl, he says. be she ofthe
lily or the country, is fit to be wife till
The can, if necessary, cook a meal, make
q dress and keep house in order. Ac-
are good, but q tired
husband would much prefer a good
quare meal. All matches that are
brought about by selfish motives are unho-
y, and women who marry for position or
wealth are just as guilty as those who
veil their virtue for a given sum. They
ire. in fact, living a life of legal lied
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-08-04
HOUSE AND FARM.
Farming Paragraphs.

Col. Gillett says that we have passed
the time when there is any profit in
gro wing steers first and then fattening
them afterward.
In planting onions for raising seed
none but the very best bulbs should be
used. This is rule of those who make
q business Of raising tirst-class onion
seed. You may obtain fair lot OF seed
from your half-ripened bulbs, but we do
not consider it of much value, although
some good onions would probably be
raised from 1t.
Always keep accounts. 1t is unsafe to
rely on mere memory, and more espec
isily as ones business becomes compli
Gated and enlarged The man who keeps
accounts knows at glance how the
money comes and where it goes to. The
weak points in his affairs are brought
prominently ont for his inspection and
correction.
For several reasons the sugar maple
seems to be the most useful shade-tree
to plant in all sections where it will
grow. Though in the forest it shoots
up, and does not yield as much shade as
many ether trees, it spreads its branches
much more when growing alone, and, if
it's growth is made symmetrical by judi
cious pruning soon after it is set, 1t be-
comes one of the most beautiful of shade.
trees. 1t also makes the best of fuel,
and, moreover, a sugar orchard by the
roadside, where the sap can be con-
veniently gathered with team, 10 no
small advantage.
An English gardener says he does not
agree with those who say that one good
wedding is worth two hoeings. He says:
Never weed crop where a hoe can be
used, not 80 much for the sake of de-
stroying weeds, which must be the case
if the hoeing be we'll done, as for increas-
ing the porosity of the soil, to allow the
air and water % penetrate freely through
it. Oftentimes there is more benefit
derived by crops from keeping them
we'll hoed than there is from
the manure applied. Weeds or no
weeds, | keep stirring the soil, we'll
knowing from practice the beneficial eff
fects it has
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-08-04
supposed Speech of Congress
man.

Che-mah, the imported midgetin Bar
NUNS circus, is only twenty-eight inches
high, weighs twenty-five pounds, and is
paid salary Of one hundred and fifty
dollars a week, while Colonel Goshen,
the native-born American giant is seven
feet eleven inches tall, weighs four hun
dred and elghty-three pounds, and is
paid beggarly ..pittance of seventy
five dollars week. And we ask the
American people and their representa-
tives in congress assembled, is their no
protection for American giants? Does
the great republic, builded on the fonn-
dation rock of eternal justice, and &C.
mented with the. best defbrinated blood
of our fathers, standing in the broad
light of the nineteenth century, intend
to assert its rights, or will it stand tame
ly by and see its brayest and dearest,
the best giants that climate can build and
money can hire, trampled under. the
iron heel of the pauper midgets of the
efete monarchies of the east? Down
with the Golden Club? for we can see
the hand of the British gold in this, and
we will scotch the storm that, like
friend. is brewing at our
feet. aud waste its sweetness ~, the de-
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-08-04
British Church Liyings.

The church, as PRECISION, exhibits
some curious anomalies in Great Brit
ain. While favored Wears hold plural
tiles of parishes and draw thousands of
pounds per annum from districts they
have never seen, we find the Bishop OF
arlisle announcing that he has vacant
living at his disposal, viz, the incum-
bency of Wastdale Head, in Cumber-
land. The income is but ESQ, but the
population is only fifty. The Bishop
says that he will be truly grateful to any
one who will recommend him to a cler.
gyman suitable for the post, and he
holds out the prospect of the speedy
erection of q suitable parsonage. There
is another living going a-begging. in Ok
fordshire, stipend El00 and a vicarage.
But there are two serious drawbacks.
The sun of el30 has to be paid for
adaptations, and of the population of
800 hardly one-eghth attend church,
the remainder failing prey to many
kinds of dissent"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-08-04
How Dull it Is in New Bruns-
wick

A New Brunswick journalist was asked
yesterday if the status of the editorial
fraternity in the maritime provinces
had improved of late. He replied: "No;
it is still bare grind for the most of US
to get living. Once il. while some
one of us gets government post of pro-
fit and honor, as, for instance, Editor
Elder, of the st. John Telegraph, who
is now provincial secretary-a sort of
prime minister, as it were. His is an
able and well-to-do paper"
"How is the st. John Globe now
adays2"
''1t is a very lucrative sheet, though
miserably printed. In that respect it is
uniInproved. The rural journalists of
the maritime provinces barely get liv-
ing. Most of them set their own type,
with the aid of their families or poorly
paid outside help. You will frequently
find the rural editor turning the crank
OF his own press on publication
day."
"HOw is business in the prsvinces?"
"Since the adoption of the nationalist
or high protective policy, several mills
and factories have been established at
Halifax and st. John. But the best thing
for us to do is to get annexed to the
States. We shall never get our best
possible place till we Join fortunes with
you. / think the maritime provinces
will be annexed first, for we are separa-
ted from the rest of the Dominion bv
the State of Maine, which juts up into
our geography like huge wedge. cut.
ting as from the rest of the Dominion
almost as effectually as wall. To reach
Ottawa without going out of the Domin-
ion we have to take rail route which
swings up around the northern border
of Maine and runs through a desolate
and barbarous region. If Maine be-
longed to US, we should have an OPP
portunity to make much closer cor
nection with our political capital. But
that is out of the question, although it
would perhaps be very good thing for
Maine and for Portland, by making it
great seaport, as nature intended it to
Herald.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-08-04
MiSnated.

An unequal marriage Is usually an I'M
happy marriage. There are exceptions,
as there are white blackbirds. The elo-
quent Robert Hall married his cook.
Jennie" he said to her one evening,
as he took seat by the kitchen-fre,
pipe in hand, "Jennie do syou love the
Lord Jesus?"
eyes, sir" she answered.
Jennie, do you love mel"
eyes, sir"
"Will you be my wife,"
eyes, sir"
They were married straightway, and q
most excellent wife she made him. But
the ELOQUENT preacher WAS a chronic in
valid, and needed that his wife should
be a good nulse-nothing more.
But generally, when ali educated man
marries an iIiterate woman, or a lady
mates with Il clown, they soon disslpate
Cloves young dream"
The poet Bryant's father studied sur
gerry under a noted French surgeon,
named Leprilete. He had been educa-
ted in Paris, and had practised in San
Domingo until driven from the island by
the negro insurrection.
settling aI NoTLOn, Mass, ue lHdTIleu
the daughter of a plain farmer and
gained respectable practice. Being on
visit to Taunton, he was invited to a
party. "Do bring Mrs. Leprilete to
Taunton" said one of the ladies address.
ing the lively Frenchman, as he stood
dressed in the elegant style of his cour-
try, wearing lace ruff1es on his wrists.
I'VE will do all in our power to make
her visit agreeable"
"Ah, madamer replied he bowling
''You geeve her leetle pork and beans
dot all she want" He never brought
her.
A generous man and gentleman &C aid
not have made so contemplate re-
mark about his wife, but itilustrates the
truth that unequal marriages Gre not
happy ones.
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serted village. (The 'emaining chap
ters of this beautiful and eloquent 70.
nance will be found in the Congress-
ional Record, for sale by all respectable
druggists. None genuine. without the
glass blown in the bottle. or close by it,