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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-10

4.
Three eggs, six ounces sugar, one
pound of flour, three ounces of cur
rants, n large teaspoonful Of car
Donate of soda, one of cream of tar
tar, one gill of cream r little more,
or little milk a be used instead
with the gill Of cream mix the soda
and cream of tartar thoroughly into
the flour, beat up the eggs and
sugar, add the -four by degrees, and
the other ingredients, make the
paste just stiff enough to roll out on
a board, cut into rounds, bake in
rather a quick oven with milk to
give them a glaze before baking. /,
CAKE BATTER.
Almost all old housekeepers can
remember how irritating it was in
their salad days, to take acake from
the oven, gently turnit out on a
sieve, to avoid moving it for two
hours, to place it tenderly in a cake
box, to strip off the protecting paper
casing with incest precaution when
tea-time came and then to find,
on cutting it that every raisin,
every currant and every fragment
of citron were Amassed together at
the bottom in a conglomerate that
ought to taste good but certainly
looks anything but good; and if the
young housekeepers do not know
it they will soon be wiser if not hap
pier, for this accident occurs at one
time or another. One way of avoid
ing it is to be sure that the cake
batter is thick enough to hold a
spoon upright for a few minutes.
CARAMEL PUDDING.
Put a handful of loaf sugar to boil
with a quarter of a pint of water.
until the syrup becomes a deep
brown. Warm a small basin, pour
the syrup in it, and keep turning
the basin in your hands until
the inside is completely coated
with the syrup, which will by
that time have set. Strain the yolks
OF eight eggs from the whites, and
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04
Aboriginal war-Paint Pit.

j. E. Rose lately discovered on his
place the original pit dug by the Indians
to get their war paint. The pit is on a
corner of the extensive bank OF mineral
paint, the discovery of which was men
toned a short time since. Close to the
edge of the slough, where the late high
tides made encroachments on the bank,
can be seen Il quantity of blue clay,
which some say was also used by the
Siwashes in years gone by; but if it was,
it need never be used by them again, as,
since the advent of the whites, poor Lo
looks blue enough without paint 1t
would be interesting to know Just what
the noble red man did do with these
varieties of clay but Coos bay whisky
has made such inroads in their ranks
that Indians who were old enough to
drink it when the bay was first settled
have long ago departed to the happy
hunting grounds, or some other place,
and the process by which they con
verted the clay into paint is liable to
remain a mystery Coos Bay (Ore.)
Ne10S.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04
Manly Bimetallism.

The New York Tribune says: A wri-
ter in The Sun seeks to produce the i'm
preston that Mr.. Blaine, while in the
senate, took non-commtal attitude on
the phase of the silver question then be-
tore the country. Mr.. Blaine's public
services are historical, but it is well
enough to have the record honest and
straight. The person is foolish who at
tempts to show that MIR. Blaine was
ever non-committal on anything. He
was pre-eminently the statesman who
always had views and always dared to
announce them.
The very passages from his speech of
February z, 1873, to which The Sun S
correspondent adroitly tries to attach
an equivocal meaning, are all the proof
that is needed to show that his position
was clear, explicit and consistent. He
IS not monometallist. He believes in
the coinage of silver, and favoring the
double standard, he demands the per-
feet harmony of coinage values. He OPP
poses an inferior coin, whether it be a
gold dollar that is less intrinsically than
the current silver one, or silver dollar
less than the richer metal of the same
generic name. That is Mr.. Blaine's at
titude, and very sensible, honest atti-
tude 1t is. That view of national money
which insists that specific coin, wheth-
er it be made of silver or gold, shall be
worth all it claims to be worth will new
er be mischievous to business nor help
full to Hobbies or jobs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04

this broad land no idle hand could be
found Though before this point will
be reached, wages will have gone above
"a day; but with wages at 81 day,
the laborer on these highways will by
six days work construct 1924 worth of
rail-highway, well worth the $24, and
he will deliver that property to the gen.
eral society before he will get the 1924
in money which will represent the
"aches and sweat of a weeks toll to
exact from the earth this portion of
rail-highway for the whole people.
And this laborer viii do just what Ia
borers always do, he will furnish
the capitalist with service or proper
ty before he will receive the general
society's certificate that he is entitled
to an equtUale'at service or property.
The peoples, that is, the general So
clety's, perfect money issuch certificate,
check and order; their approximate
money is something less than their GER
tifcate, ETC.; while any corporation
currency is still less than the people,
approximate, or partly legal tender,
money.
And now, Mr.. Editor, / am ready to
announce our basic truth; and with
your permission, | will announce it in
an article which l will try to make
shorter than this one.
w. ii. HoLFoRp.
Bloomington. Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04
The Drummer's Fine Christmas.

at was very fine Christmas | had"
said the drummer; every fine time
had. You see, I'm engaged to a girl,
one of the incest girls in Chicago, and
one who is worth some money, too
Well, she invited me to eat Christmas
dinner with her and her folks, and /
accepted. A day or two afterward /
received word from some of the boys
that there was to be a big blowout,
with champagne and stuff, and | was
counted on to be present. This being
the last Christmas of my bachelorhood,
/ concluded | might rs well have one
more good time with the boys, and so /
wrote them to expect me. Last We'd
nesday / was in St. Paul. / wrote a
telegram addressed to my lady, telling
her that business of great Importance
had detained me in st. Paul, and so on.
/ gave that telegram to the hotel clerk,
a friend of mine, and he agreed to send
it Thursday noon. That night / took
the train for Chicago, and on Thursday
afternoon l was walking over on State
street, when who should | run plump
against but my girl. She was very
frigid girl, too.
II have just received n telegram
from man | used to know she said,
Jelly; he was to eat Christmas dinner
with me, but he has been detained by
business. Hereafter he and | will be
strangers. Good-day, sir.
''And then she walked away, carry
ing with her my hope of nice wife and
$4,000 in cash. How was that for
Christmas?" Chicago Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04
Precocity of the Infant Buckla@e.


From these sources we learn that
when weighed shortly after his birth,
the infant Frank was found TO be
heavier than the leg of mutton provided
for the family dinner of that day; and
that birch-tree was planted in honor
of his arrival, the taste of the twigs of
which he learned to know well. His
early years, as described in his mothers
journal, reflected in miniature his char
acter in maturer life For facts, espe-
cially of natural history, he had from
childhood most tenacious memory.
AT four years of age he began collect
ing specimens, and at seven he com
menced journal. Earlier than this,
at two and half years of age, ''he
would have gone through all the natural
history books in the Radcliffe Library
without making an error in INSTALLING
a parrot, a duck, a kingiisher, an owl, or
a vulture.n When he was four years old
a clergyman brought TO DIR. auckland,
from a considerable distance, some
Every curious fossils. They were
shown to the child, who, not yet able to
speak plainly, said, ''They are the verte-
br@ of an ichthyosaurus." At three
years of age his mother could get him
to learn nothing by rote. His mind
was at work on what he saw, and he
was very impatient of doing that which
was not manifest to his senses, yet he
was not considered premature. He ex-
celled in apparently strong reasoning
powers, and a most tenacious memory
as to facts. He was always asking
questions, and never forgot the answers
he received, if they were such as he
could comprehend. And he was al
ways wanting to see everything done,
or to know how it was done; and was
never happy unless he could see the re-
lation between cause and effect. -Popu-
Tar Science MonthL4.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04
seasonable Hints for the Family.

HALF an hours boiling, disease-germs
spoiling.n
Cheese, when excessively acid, is like
ly to produce alarming gastro-intestinal
irritation.
Corns and bunions may be helped
and ofttimes removed by the constant
employment of olcate Of copper, spread
as plaster.
Mosquitoes, flies and other pests viii
not enter room in which the castor-oil
plant is growing; or, if they should en-
ter it, they are soon found dead beneath
the leaves.
A simple test for the detection of lead
in drinking water is provided by tine.
ture of cochineal, a few drops of which
will color the water blue if there be the
remotest trace of lead present.
Seven grains Of powdered oyster shells
and twenty grains each of powdered
salep, sage and tragacanth, boiled in a
pint CT milk, form an excellent nutritive
diet in the chronic bowel complaints Of
children.
Many forms of toothache may be
promptly and pleasantly relieved by
chewing cinnamon bark. And cotton
soaked in two parts of choral, ten parts
of oil of almonds and sixteen parts OF
glycerine often relieves earache.
When the internal administration of
turpentine. or the eating of asparagus
produces no characteristic odor in the
urine, it angurs i'll for the sufferer from
renal disease, as it points to very signifi-
cant changes in the kidneys.
Cut pound of beef into fine pieces,
place it in an empty jar, without water,
cover it and stand the jar in a saucepan
to simmer for about six hours. This
simple process will yield about a tea.
cupful Of all there is in the beef.
Bags Of hot sand are much better
than bottles of hot water TO place in the
beds of invalids who require artificial
heat. The sand retains heat longer
than water, and sand-bags are more
| comfortable "bed-fellowsn than bottles.
A large draught Of any artificial fer
ruginous water Immediately removes
the unpleasant after taste of cod-liver
oil leaving peculiar flavor of fresh
oysters on the palate, so pronounced, in
deed, as to render dose of oil an abso-
lutte bonnie boachc.
In an hour a grown man inhales from
fifteen to twenty cubic feet of air, and
exhales from three-quarters to one cubic
foot of carbonic acid; he also gives out
about two and half ounces of watery
yapor from the lungs and skin in the
same space of time
At the French Academy of Medicine
Dr. Combe has made a valuable COM
munication respecting the destructive
effects of the persistent use of morphia
on the teeth. He has noticed that the
victims have not a sound tooth left after
years addiction to this habit.
Chamois leather makes an excellent
filtering medium. 1t should be previous
" washed in soda solution to remove
grease, and well washed in water after
each using. Tinctures, elixirs, syrups
and mucilageS will run through it in a
most satisfactory and expeditions man
ner.
Ten grains of iodine, dissolved in an
ounce of turpentine, forms Il solution
eminently successful in the treatment of
ringworm of the scalp, after the parts
have been thoroughly washed and
cleaned 1t is painless application,
and may be applied at any age and to
any part--Medica5 World
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04
The Gulf Stream.

The Hereditary Prince of Monaco has
been making himself useful by inyesti-
eating the Gulf Stream. The common
belief, though it has not been seientifi-
cally verified, is that that current, after
passing the Azores flows to the north
east and tempers the climate of the
British Isles and the Scandinavian
coast To test this the Prince last sum
mer took several hundred wooden floats
to the Azores, and then, cruising to
northward in the waters of the Gulf
Stream, dropped them overheard at in
tervals of q mile. Sealed within each
was a memorandum stating the date
and exact latitude and longitude in
which it was east over and REQUESTING
the mariner picking ii up to note the
same details OF that occurrence. Not
many of the floats have yet been recov-
cred, but such as have been unanimous
y testify against the accepted theory, for
they were found far to the southwark
from where they had dropped. Enter
prising geniuses who think of turning
the British Isles into icebergs by divert
ing the Gulf Stream will please take no
tice that their labor might, after all,
prove to be vain.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04
THEY WILL SURELY FIND YoU

They are looking for you everywhere
Drafts of air in unexpected places, GO
ing from hot rooms to cool ones. care
lessness in changing clothing: In short
anything which ends in a common cold
in the head. Unless arrested this kind
of cold becomes seated in the mucous
membrane of the head Then it is ca
tarrh. In any and all its stages this
disease always yields to Ely's Cream
Balm. Safe, agreeable, certain. Price
soc. 47w2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04

had severe attack of catarrh, and
became so deaf that / could not hear
common conversation. Isuffered terri
BILE from roaring IN my head, pro-
CURED bottle of Ely's Cream Balm,
and in three weeks could hear as well
as | ever could, and now l can say to
all who are afflicted with the worst of
diseases, catarrh, take one bottle of
Ely's Cream Balm and be cured. 1t is
worth $1,000 to any man, woman or
child suffering from catarrh.--A. E.
Newman, Grayling, Mich.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04


The son ofthe editor of Lloyd's Weekly
of London. England. newspaper which
has weekly circulation of 650, 600 cop
les has been visiting in New York. The
newspaper men there have been show
ing him around the mammoth offices.
and the young man is reported as
amazed. even astounded, on seeing the
wonderful power-presses chew up such
enormous quantities of white paper.
Each of the leading newspaper-offices in
New York has the fastest presses and
the largest circulation in the world. 1t
is no wonder the young man was car
ried off his feet mt sight OF the marvel
Gus printing facilities displayed to his
view. OF course the $4,000 edition of
old man Lloyd's sheet is printed on a
hand-press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04

The great sources OF the extensive
curative range of Dr. Jones RedClover
Tonic are its great blood purifying
qualities and its gentle aperitive action,
thereby removing all restraint from the
secretive organs, curing promptly and
thoroughly dyspepsia, costiveness, bad
breath, piles, pimples, low spirits. sick
and nervous headache, ague, malaria,
and all stomach, liver and kidney
troubles. The most delicate stomach
accepts it with relish. Price so cents.
of Barber, McNair & Co., successors of
Fred w. Bryan, Lancaster. .
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04

THE FIRST KEEN TWINGE.- As
the season advances, the pains and
aches by which rheumatism makes it
self known, are experienced after every
exposure. 1t is not claimed that Hoods
Sarsaparilla is specific for rheumatism
we doubt if there is. or can be, such
remedy. But the thousands benefited
by Hoods Sarsaparilla, warrant US in
urging others who suffer from rheuma-
tism to take it before the first keen
twinge.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04

Judge of government by the men it
produces. Judge of man by his deeds
a tree by its fruits, medicine by its
results. Time tried and true is DR..
Bigelow's Positive Cure, which contains
the good qualities of all the best cough
remedies without the defects of any of
them. A safe and speedy remedy for
coughs, colds, and all throat and lung
troubles. Sold by Barber, McNair q
Co., Lancaster, in fifty cent and dollar
bottles. Healing to the lungs. Safe
and pleasant for children. 2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04
All the World Akin.

The number of a mans ancestors
doubles in every generation as his
descent is traced upward In the first
generation he reckons only two ances-
tors, his father and mother. In the sec
ond generation the two are converted
into four, since he had two grandfathers
and two grandmothers. But each of
these four had two parents and thus in
the third generation there are found to
be eight ancestors that is, eight great
grandparents. In the fourth genera
ton the number of ancestors is sixteen;
in the fifth. thirty-two; in the sixth,
siXty-four; in the seventh, 1913. In the
tenth it has risen to l,024 in the TWEEN
tieth it becomes, 04S,576 in the thir-
tieth no fewer than 1,073,741 1874 To
ascend no higher than the twenty-fourth
generation we reach the sum of To- III
PIC, which is a great deal more than all
the inhabitants of Great Britain when
that generation was in existence. For,
if we reckon a generation at thirty-three
years, twenty-four of such will carry us
back 792 years, or to A. d. 1898, when
William the Conqueror had been Sleep
ing in his grave at Caen only six years,
uiiNt Ills SUI w ltiittlli
was reigning over the land. AT that
time the total number of the inhabitants
of England could have been little more
than two millions, the amount at which
it is estimated during the reign of the
Conqueror. 1t was only one eighth of
nineteenth-century mans ancestors if
the normal ratio of progression, as just
shown by a simple process of arithmetic,
had received no check, and if it had not
been bounded by the limits of the pop
ulation Of the country Since the result
of the law Of progression, had there been
room for its expansion, would have been
eight times the actual population, by so
much the more is it certain that the
lines of every Englishman's ancestry
run up to every man and every woman
in the reign of William from the king
and queen downward, who left descend
ants in the island, and whose progeny
has not died out there.-Rer. Henry
Kendall, IN Popular Science Monthly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04

IN THE DEAR OLD DAYS. We
differ IN creed and politics, but we are
unit all the same on the desirableness
of fine head of hair. If you mourn
the loss of this blessing and ornament,
a bottle or two of Parker's Hair Balsam
will make you look as you did in the
dear old days. 1t is worth trying. The
only standard SOC article for the hair.
46W4
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04

London gossip reports that both
Queen Victoria and the Princess of
Wales are much exercised in their
minds at the very lively interest the
Prince is taking in the turf He is get
ting too old and stout for other fun;
and, rs Parliament can no longer be de-
pended upon to pay the gambling debts
of royalty; the Queen probably thinks
She may be called upon to loosen her
purse-strings.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04

Charles H. Tweed who died at Pitts
burg recently, said in his will: mo
flowers at the funeral, Grape on the
door, nor monument nor stone to mark
the grave. The first is cheap respect.
the second heathenish, and the last /
cannot afford. What money there is
must be devoted to useful purposes. y
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04
SCOTS Emulsion of Pure
Cod Liver Oil, with Hypophosphites

Is ErceAent IN LING Trouble.
DR.. Enoch Galloway, LaGrange, Ga,
say: ~ have used SCOTS Emulsion
with wonderful success in all Lung
troubles. also find no equal in Summer
Diarrhna of children"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04

ut is absolutely impossible said
Lord Rosebery in a recent address in
Scotland, that in the future war could
ever take place between the United
States and England
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04
AN ENTERPRTSING. RELIABLE

AN ENTERPRISING, RELIABLE
HOUSE. Stone & Hassell can always
be relied upon, not only to carry in
stock the best of everything, but to Sc
cure the Agency for such articles as
have well-known merit, and are popular
with the people, thereby sustaining the
reputation of being always enterprising,
and ever reliable Having secured the
Agency for the celebrated Dr. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, will
sell it on a positive guarantee 1t will
surely cure any and every affection of
Throat, Lungs, and Chest, and to show
our confidence, we invite you to call and
get Trial Bottle Free
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04

AN ANSWER WANTED. Can
any one bring us case of Kidney or
Liver Complaint that Electric Bitters
will not speedily cure? We say they
can not, as thousands of cases already
permanently cured and who are daily
recommending Electric Bitters, will
prove. Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Weak
Back, or any urinary complaint quickly
cured. They purify the blood, regulate
the bowels, and act directly on the dis
eased parts Every bottle guaranteed.
For sale at 80 cents bottle by
STONE & HAssELL.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04

Men do not do all the cute things,
says the Madison journal. Give the
women a chance, and they will rise
equal to any emergency. The town of
Dunseith, OAK, having offered $500
and town lot for the first baby born
in that town, a woman living a short
distance some 200 miles - away
crossed over the town line, gave birth
70 bouncing boy, pocketed the $500
and deed for the town lot, and went
back again. accomplishing the feat in
ut once, with Il clause in her constitu-
tion giving her woman the right to
vote
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04
The Situation.

There is no mistaking the intention
OF the Republican senators of showing
up to the country the false colors under
which President Cleveland has been
running the ship of state as regards the
question of civil service reform. On
Jan. 18th Senator Edmunds introduced
resolution calling upon the attorney
general Greatly calling upon the presi-
dent) for the reasons for the removal of
the Republican district attorney for the
Southern district of Alabama. It's de-
signed that this shall be a test case, as
no possible reasons, under the civil SER
vice law, which the president so loudly
vaunts, could possibly be tortured into
consonance with his action in removing
a faithful .oflicial and replacing him
with another. The president has been
known 10 boast, automatically, that he
would or would not give his reasons for
removals. as he saw fit; and it is with
the evident intention of showing the in
sincerity of his civil service reform pro-
fessons that the issue is to be made. A
lengthy cabinet session on the 26th was
devoted wholly to the consideration of
the senate's resolution, and so divergent
were the views of the members that ad-
journment was taken without coming
to determination upon the matter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04

Senator Spooner, who delivered the
eulogy on Thomas A. Hendricks in the
senate last week, has been the recipient
of high compliments from the distin-
guished men OF both parties.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-04

General Bragg could not let the
Fitz John Porter matter rest where it
died and was buried by the veto of
President Arthur, but has again re-
vived what may lead to another long
and bitter debate over an ancient and
mouldy subject Gen. Bragg and his
committee are willing to come down
very considerably, however, in their
demands and have asked that he be APP
pointed simple colonel and be retired
as of that grade if the president feels so
disposed, with no allowance or compen-
sation prior to such appointment Hav-
ing not much confidence in securing
any greater vindication for Fitz John,
they are willing to accept little one
for a cent.