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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-01-14
CURING MEATS.


The following is the famous recipe
used by Mrs. Henry Clay for curing
hams, several hogsheads of which were
the name of Ashland hams" they
commanded the highest price, especially
among the wealthy wings of that city
For every ten hams of moderate size she
took three and one-half pounds of fine
salt, one pound of saltpetre, and two
pounds of brown sugar, and after mix
ing them thoroughly together, rubbed
the hams Herewith on either side. They
were then packed in tight box and
placed in cool clubhouse for about
three weeks, when the hams were taken
out and put in a pickling-tub or hogs
head and covered with brine strong
enough to swim an egg. After remail-
ing in the pickle for about three weeks,
they were taken out, rubbed with fresh
salt, and hung up in a weli-ventilated
house for few days to dry, after which
they were transferred to the smoke
house, where they were hung up and
smoked with green hickory or walnut
wood until they had acquired the color
OF bright mahogany, when each ham
was sewed up in canvas, the coverings
whitewashed and hung up to dry, after
which they were whitewashed again
and packed away in hogsheads with
hickory ashes until wanted either for
home use or sending to Boston. The
Germantown Telegraph has also a IA
NOUS recipe for curing bacon, beef, or
mutton, which is published annually for
the benefit of its readers, and it is as
follows: To one gallon OF water add
one and half pounds of salt, one-half
pound OF sugar, one-fourth ounce of
saltpetre, and one-hah pound of potash
increasing the rates to any quantity
desired-and boil these together until
all the impurities have risen to the top
and been skinned off. Pour the same
into a tub, and when cold pour it over
the meat, covering the meat completely
with the mixture, taking care not to
thus put down the meat for at least two
days after killing. Some omit boiling
the pickle, and find it to answer equally
as well, although it must be ADMITTED
that the boiling purifies the pickle by
throwing off any impurities that may
be contained in both the salt and sugar.
It is said that if this recipe is strictly
followed it only requires trial to con-
vince anyone of its superiority over the
common method of putting down, and
the meat will be found surpassed for
sweetness and delicacy of flavor The
potash, unless of the purest kind, may
be omitted.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-01-14
A Few Nor. Points,
= OOO. will simply say, j OO Is

We have had the exclusive sale of the
Rockford Quick Train Railroad W. Watch
for the past three years. No OTHER
PARTY CAN BUY THEM FROM THE FAC
TORY. OR HAS ANY RIGHT TO SELL
THEM. 1t seems to Us much like boys
play TO get angry and advertise prices
because they cannot buy the goods.
We trust the publication of prices will
continue through the whole list, as we
have no money to advertise goods not
in stock. Such desperate efforts will
not deceive any. The people know
that we have never cursed the place as
ready to be fenced in, because we were
going to leave it. They know that we
are not travelling experimental insti-
tuition, and they will continue to buy
their Watches, Silver Ware, etc., of
the Old Reliable Ravenna Jewellers,
Swift's Block.
WAIT BROTHERS.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-01-14
Blu cklen's ArnicaSaIye,

The BEST SALvE in the world for
cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum,
fever sores, letter, chapped hands, chill
blains, corns, and all skin eruptions,
and positively cures piles. It is guar
anteed to give perfect satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price Is cents per
box. For sale by G. T. Reed, Ravepaa
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-01-14

MANY cases of heroism occurred in the
city of Saragossa, Spain. during the re-
cent cholera epidemic. Every citizen
gave money, food or labor to the suffer-
ing A poor washerwoman, bringing
home clothes to a lady whom she found
in state of collapse, in which it was
impossible to warm her, threw off her
dress, jumped into bed, took the dying
woman into her arms, and chafed the
clammy limbs until circulation was re-
stored. When the disease had spent it
self the Spanish Government offered re-
wards to the principal officials, who
promptly refused them. 1t then be-
slowed the Grand Cross of the Order of
Benefcence on the entire city. This
cross is given only to few individuals,
who have risked their lives for the help
of others; there is no order more highly
valued in Spain. Never before has it
been conferred on an entire town.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-01-14

The statement of an Ohio dairyman,
that with warm, well-lighted, clean
stables, plenty of early-cut and well.
cured grass, supplemented with the con-
tents Of Q good silo and wellhlled
root cellar, the comfort, health, and pro-
fit of the cows should be no more prob
lematical in winter than in summer, 10
certainly sensible.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-01-14

Gen. Longstreet spends most of his
time in literary work at his home in
Gainesville, Ga. His recollections are
as vivid as though the war had closed
but q month ago.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-01-14

that are eaten without being cooked.
They form an excellent fertilizer for
souashes. melons and cucumbers. They
retain moisture well, and will absorb
large quantities of liquid manure and
soap-suds. When placed in hills in
which vines are to grow, they should DE
trodden down SO they will become COM
pact.
In the west, where much of the land
is fiat prairie, and where powerful winds
prevail during the fall, most of the
leaves that fall from trees are carried to
places where they will be of no benefit
to the farmer, gardener, or florist. They
are blown into ponds, streams, ravines
and bitches, where they become incor-
porated with the mud. In Scotland for
est leaves are utilized for fertilizers. In
many places they are raked up and
placed in heaps, which are covered with
sod. There they are allowed to remain
until they become decomposed. In some
cases they are forked over two or three
times year with view of fastening
their decomposition. They are. often
applied in the condition they are in
when raked up to clayey land and
plowed under They are of benefit to a
clay soil by rendering it lighter, and by
adding to it substances that aid in pro-
noting plant growth. In some places
forest leaves are used for bedding cattle
and horses and for putting into yards
and pens of pigs. When they become
saturated with liquid manure they will
quickly rot, and become converted into
a most excellent fertilizer. Decomposed
forest leaves form one of the best ma
nures for fruit trees, grape vines, bushes
that produce fruit, and ornamental
shrubs. They are also excellent for both
sweet and common potatoes. 1t is Oft
en- easy to collect large quantities of
leaves in the corners of fields by weav-
ing hazel and other bushes between the
wires that constitute the fence. Leaves
often accumulate in considerable guam
titles in ravines and gather ON the farm
and in the deep bitches by the sides of
the roads. They can be taken from
them late in the fall with little trouble
and placed in heaps where they will be
converted into good manure. The heaps
should be covered with turf. which will
prevent the leaves from blowing away,
will cause them to settle close together,
and hasten their decomposition--Chi-
cag0 Times.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-01-14
EDUCATED FARMERS.

Our most successful farmers are not
those who work hardest at manual
labor; they work, nevertheless, with all
their energies. None are exempt from
labor; but in all it is not equally well
applied and directed. Ii we take any
two men, physically equal, the one will
accomplish most who excels in BRAIN
power Therefore, let that small in
closure within his own skull be cult
yated as assiduously and as carefully by
the farmer as is his choicest crop. What
ever farming may have been in the
past, the time has come when the high
est intelligence is demanded as a neces-
sarv qualification on the part Of the
agrieulturist.
Book. farming. however, is decried,
and farmers are not reading class. "
We, on our part. neither underrate the
practical knowledge, nor overrate the
importance of the scientific study of
farming. The one is needful to the
other, and science is futile if it does not
help practice to do its work better and
cheaper But there is one great want
in most of our farm houses, and that is
the almost entire absence of agricultural
literature, both book and periodical
form The volumes one most expects to
see on farmers table are generally
conspicuous by their absence; and, will
it be believed. there is many a farmer
who does not take an agricultural news
paper. Boys and girls grow up on the
farm, and spend those years which will
SO much influence their future lives
without ever once being led to realize
the momentousness of what is before
them. They grow up, too, without a
taste for reading, and so miss never
failing source of happiness, not to
speak of mental culture and refinement.
For all this, the want of suitable books
and papers on the farm house table is to
be blamed. The bodily toilers come in
thoroughly wearied, and often with q
longing for relaxation of some kind;
but there is no paper and no interesting
volume that they can turn to, an so
they live within themselves, as it were,
and in too many cases sleep away their
existence.
But just let the young farmer think
for moment of the forces, the proper
ties, principles, Influences, the laws
developed and undeveloped-with which
he must come in contact, and under
stand if he would succeed. So far from
being less dependent upon the arts and
sciences than those engaged in other oc-
cupations, the farmer stands in need of
far wider range of knowledge. than is
requisite in almost any other business.
And farming need not prove the un-
varying round and monotonous life it is
ofted said to be; for every operation on
the farm is an incentive to inquiry and
stimulant to thought. Men of one idea
can not succeed in farming, and those
engaged in it, the young especially,
should lose no opportunity Of adding to
their present stock of ideas BY reading,
BY Investigating for themselves, and
through intercourse with others.-Scot-
tssh agricultural Gazette.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-01-14
iss:. 80. FARM TOPICS.

The Value of Forest Leaves as Fertilizer
for the Farm, Orchard and Garden.
High Intelligence Demanded to be Sue
cessful as a Farmer-Curins Meats.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-19
LIN MII.EH.

accomplished after much iirrco lighting To
him must bc given IA" crolit ~ having
brought To end tho career IL Sitting Bull anI
the final submission nf III, thousands VI saS
age followers.
Gen Miles Is IA BDatonian 10y birth, and Ira
his 18th year. He began his career ~ a iner
chant, but IN 1851 be- entered the army a,
captain u the ~Twenty-sCord Massachusetts
infantry he las not larl down hi, arms siDca.
10 married "a nicc, 81 Gen. and Scnntor
Sherman.
In answer % a request from Secretary FIr
dicJtt, Gen Milo Furnished the following
reasons Why the AparEns should d. removed
from Arizona Tbc reply Is worthy ~ tho
man and Of thc occasion. Hero h "A portion
IL il:
You asl me- WY ! desire tho removal 81 tho
hparhes from tbn L.rritOry, ! siiI TIL you Ia n.
territory whps prospects and progr-sa hsS. b-n
blasted and retarded by tho iian1ifh crsltiss 90
ilo%c Indians. ] ask IL Ia the nIUIg snb DB h-baif
IL the widows hgI fatirrles chrilpn whose lives
have b,n wrecked HDb WhD., future ha. isrn
dnrkeD"i ~ the mml'ring raids ~ tbcBe GsDd..
I ask Il In tIIe uamr ~ tbs Thousands ~ lives that
have l,-.n offered up n a sacrifrr tD tie res,pa
ton system Finally. ! ask II la the MANS ~
civilization. which can Lever advance la this tsnj.
tory ~ iDng ~ the indians are allowed periodically
tO tarTUnIU the country.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-19

Got all uou rant ort of this oentlsmahf'
II limited il 10 him." | replied, ''but he
seemed Il think it would only damage oar
Gaze. a. no proof cOald ~ rendered in sup
port Of it
True. that is the weak point bat you
know, sir, | suppose, that murder has been
done that way before? Aye, and an limo
cent mlB guillOtinei for the crime Of which
he knew nothing. ! think, after all, hr.
BelmOre was right to suggest this while
the mystery Of the stryehDia that the
young Lady had bought was unexplained.
II would have been too far-fetchhd then.
Bot things are different now, and the home
secretary will have to think whether, after
all, the evidence will justify him IN refus-
ing him a reprieye. For my part, Mr.
FentOn, I'll put my money on a respite"
Bielski looked round At Oregon and evil
IDENTIFY Judged from the state Of that gen
tleman's features that the screw had been
applied to him not Intellectually.
ITo BIZ c~oSTISUED.l
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Nv.
JANIEs GREHsnN'S STORY.

1t was late at night when | got hack to
, coverv | had made. \ letter from Hard
ing awaited me. in which he told OF the
the steps he WAS taking for the purpose OF
finding GrcgSOn. Through the celebrated
detective Max Biclski he believed that he
might at last get on his track, though the
chase would undoubtedly be difficult one.
| did not 90 To bed until | had answered
the letter and given Harding y full account
of my visit to the hall. | concluded by
impluriug him 10 come 10 me At once. u
that werr possible, 81 that We might advise
as Ia the next measures 10 he taken.
"A gentleman is waiting to see You, ST,
down stairs 1t Was early the next morn
iug. while | WAS at breakfast in my pri-
waite room at the hotel. that | received this
intimation.
DO You know his name
mo, sir; he would not give me his
name. but he said | WAS to tell you that he
came from Mr.. Harding
SHOW him up at once.
The stranger MAS short man, with pow
erful frame. clean Shavcn face, and bright
eyes that seemed to SEE everything at once.
Beg pardon, sir, for intruding, he
sid, addressing lne with a business like
air; Il thought you Nigh; not wish to
have my name spread over the house, for
YOU see il is rather a well known name
now, sir; | am the detective Mr.. Harding
has been e~mployinSOn Your account | he
lieve.'
Mr.. BielSki?"
Yes, Max BielSEi At your service, sir
He pulled a note book out of his pocket
and opening il continued: Il understand
Won want TO meet with a party of the name
OF James GregSOn, aged abOut thirty, tall
and fair haired. Well, Mr.. Frnton, don't
be offended, but | must tell you 1T once
that that description won't give me any
help in finding the You see, sir,
there are thousands of tall, fair haired
men of thirty walking about the streets;
AS for the name, YOU may be sure that Mr..
GregSon is not Mr.. Gregson now, If he has
any Ieason To keep in hiding. You will
have to tell me something more
But l am afraid that is just what l
cannot do
"Well We'll see. sir. You must excuse
ME putting you through your catchism,
Mr.. FentOn. 1t must be done If I'm TO
lay hold of your nan"
And in surprisingly short space of time
Mr.. BielSki had made himself the master
of all the particulars, good, had aid in-
different, which | knew about GregSOn, in
Guiding even the story Daisy had told me,
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Sherman.
"Inf Her Roll. Gallarhrr.O

The fayorite slang e1pre--ion on tho Chs
rago board Of trahe NEW IA, LIT her ruii,
Gallagher This cOmfa from New Orieans
When Blakely Hall went down there q Tow
years ago u write up the exposition, which
didn't expos, De found that the generic mama
of the bobtaiI car driver u tho Crescent City
was Gallagher. He Observed that when ths.
driver u thes-o ranshackls stopped In thu,
strect for n Indy passenger tho gclrtlstnsn in
the car would usually ri1e, take OH theI. hats
and se tbs newcomer seated with rAn,ething
Ike ciiiyalric grace. Then one or r.,ors would
sing out, ~Lt her roll, Ga!lazhr RI Tho rusty
brake would twiri, the jad<d mule would
prOLsl AMI tho crehking @Ir would roll on
through dust TO destiny.y New York World.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-19

Then Geronimo has lcrn skipping Across the
MEXICAN border in surh n way N to hsrras'
the troops. Tn" MrNicans viii not allow the
United State, Ia establish u permanent camp
on their side al the line, nnd aS ia" McSlcanS
cXcrl~l ihrmSl v"s hut little toward his cap
iurr ho frll hlrn on Mexico rs u place al
refuge. Gn rruImu haS never CnIsidcr"i I"
Mexican soldier worth hpthrring about any
way, and boasts that lo never wasted any
ammunition on McxirnnS-hc kill"i them
with rocks.
On the llth Il last January, IL will ie r..
m'ml~rrd that Capt, Emmett Crawford.
while pursuing Geronimo, was shot down 10y
a party of Mexican soldiers, who had mis-
taken lis command Tor "A body of hostile Ia
dIans, at least - It wa, said at the time.
Since then reports AMI dcnials 81 Geroui-
mos capture have followed ono another thick
aud fast, until h. became like the hiShman's
flea. This timo it is hoTsdh o Is captured FOR
keeps" and to Gen. Miles is the honor due.
Gen Miles viii always bc noted n a most
sucCcSsful Indian fighter. He IL was who cap
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-19

IN the mountains. lie escaped with them
lie was aftcrwani captured in New Mexico
and brought 10 the san Carlos reservation
with tho rest Of his iril-. - after this no
eSrarei again AMI Was out until 1871 !"
1881 he made his thinl escape, ami eluded the
soldiers until 1854, when Gen. Crook brought
him into camp.
On May :. ISL. Geronimo led in tho out
break which las given Mexico ami tho
uultel States no end III hardshlps since The
chief d~litirulty in capturing him came nom
the rough nature ri the country, where ths
Anachcs were pcrlcCtly at home In fact, IL
is likely they would prefer "a life " la"less
mSs. with the privilege Of roaming FREQ over
these mountains, To a life ot luxury IN cap
tNLtN.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-19
Keen back the tearg of low which were

keep back the tears of joy which were
yelling from my eyes.
1t now occurred to me that, as most OF
the rooms in the hall had been searched by
the police under Mr.. Eastmead himself at
the time of Daisy's arrest, l might begin
my own investigation by exploring this
secret passage in which we had already
found so important a piece of evidence.
Bidding the servants remain where they
were, we slowly climbed the narrow wind
ing stair. 1t led into a corridor equally
narrow and very long, unlighted and ill
ventilated, so that more than once the can.
die which Eastmead carried to be on the
,>nfpf Of a~nir,nn
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-19

turc1i Chief Joseph
and the NrG PcrUcs
in their nig ht
through Montana
after they had sue
U~siuIly BIT
md cyudol other
generals II" also
captured In" hostile ;
~ChryrHnC-,, Who AZ" I
now lIy lng inI-Ic"
~ farmer, Un tn"
Rosebud, IN Mon
tnna All iii. u.a
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1t has been proven over and over again
that a little land well titled il more profit
able than an extended area neglected and
Improperly cared for.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-19

1876, b a tavern
k e epe named
Rogers was killed
by some drunken
Apaches. 1t was
then decided by the
Indian agent to
transfer the Chiri-
cahuas to tho San
Carlos reservation.
Geronimo, at that
time a ~sub-chief,
protested, saying
he did not think It
Just 10 send them
all away for u
murder one OF the
nulmber had COM
Inittet, and whom
they had already
put 10 death But
Geronimo's pro
tests availed moth
ing, and his people
were ordered To
move. Geronimo
asked for leave tn
gather his family
.asafNapA.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-19
ROOM At THE ToP

Never mini the crowd. lad, -.
Nor fairy your life Won't tell; "a
The work l. done for all thai, tS
To him who doeth Il rel.
Fancy the world n hill. lad.
Look ~ber the millions stop:
YODT BDI the crowd At the bose. lad.
Bot there's always room at the top.
Courage and faith and patebcsi
Tbens's spaee Ia tbs Old world Jet:
You staDi n better chance, lad,
The further abog you ert
Keep youJ eye On the goal. lad,
Never DESPAIR 90 drup; I
r sur that yOur path kats upvsrd-
There's always rom az The TOD.
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Luh yah . wosefr d oqrb ot isubh aennsa.
Dna eavta sit tpesvsses 10 shf ssdfrs n
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GERONIMO CAPTURED.
PORTRAITS OF THE RENEGADE CHIEF
AND THE GALLANT GEN. MILES.

The End of the Trouble With the Chiri.
eahua Apaches-History OF the roubi
Geronimo En- Route & Florida-Wih
He be Hanged:
Geronimo and hand, the terror OF Arizona
New Mexico and Sonora, is once more zap
tured, and it is to lie hoped he will now DO
placed where he cen no longer harm others OF
where he himself viii not fall a victim to ~
venee at the hands Of friends OF the many
he has murdered during these many years
Geronimo is the head chief Of the Cbirf-
cahua Apaches and first came into notice In
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-19

.>l have done so. Let me
H'o" about him. He has
'.' Nearly eight wears at nv
>J1''on At WangOora-the
! We lived. am told that he
%TiouS troubld, and that
--r "aN usually one of the
-- one Of the moss simple-
r .y ME him. Very soon
Be- Tue station ~ an ordinary
| dn.' NY uncle'S life when he
/ nm | IN crossing a swollen
T. s,... That You may be sure,
hy my uncle. He very
Flr ,, .A 10 Que OF the chief posts
.r'.' al the time that | came
f., g,','a SlN years ago, he was
| md I'.i Sn'on Of my uncle in his
~' evidently secured his
nm TO NE as danger
/ dSny-erpnS, and had, too. /
Dent s'ed that. But | cannot
4al>, that he would have
ETtl 'N beneflrtor's l;ca u
| ain 10 - loSe and nothing con-
4 ,tlnBiry true, and it was the
zpjint5 block in the way of
Slj IN The murder. Flinter
l IqfJa cthing to gain by it.
atng yDp you must forgive me
'd lie b~, a subject that has
Ou' about which | saw
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-15
The Mexican Baby supply.
Fro1n IN 6t. LloaLiR Nritic

F'OUe INC Or LHsUbo CFbfCs
Everything concerning Mexico is of interest
jpst now. and 1t is pleasant to be assured that
among the chief, productions of the country
are children. Thus an observant correspond
ent in that country notes the large acquaint-
ance Of the people with multiplication in say
ing that Mexico is the hot-bed Of children.
The land is flooded with them, aud small
family is thing unknown. They greet you,
he says, at every window, at every corner on
every woman's back. They fill the carriages
on the plaza, they are like a swarm Of bees
around honeysuckle---nDe on every tiny
flower and hundreds waiting for their chance.
man died the other day who was followed
to the grave by eishty-seven sons and daugh-
tiers ana had buried thirteen, so that he was
the father TO the grand total of 100 children.
There ts another man living In Mexico who
has had two wives and who has living forty
FIVE children. Allowing the small average of
five to the family one can see how numerous
the grandchildren would be, am acquainted,
he adds, with a gentleman whose mothe r is
but thirteen and a half years older than he,
and she had eighteen more Of family. 1t is
blessed thing that the natives are able to
live in cane hut and exist on beans and rice,
else the list of deaths by starvation would be
something dreadful.