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Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-09-11
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Thursday WAS Inv ---
Do you know what a chestnut
gong isl
Lewis Bros, of Vicksburg is the
Mace to to buy shoes.
The lights will shortly be put
into the hotel, and then the livers,
poIics Jury regular meeting is
,bs second Monday in October.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Sewer
-.turpsd last Saturday from a two
weeks visit to Mississippi.
BEFORE buying drugs consult the
Advertising columns of the TINES,
and then buy them of Fulton NJ.
acRas.
The shingles are on the roof OF
he hotel. 1t will be close race
htxeen it and the jail, which is
finished first.
There seems to have been great
deal of unnecessary delay in the
,uuOintment of the delegates to
the Ruston Convention.
The delegation to the Ruston
Convention scarcely fills the bill
made out by the mass meeting.
When the mass meeting said 1t
wanted King, it gave specific in
structions, as plain as could be
desired.
Six King men on the delegation,
With one of the six in New York,
only leaves FIVE with four anti-King
men. That is too near even.
Mr.. 7. Warren Briscoe returned
from Gallatin, Tenn, Monday,
whittier he escorted the Misses
Briscoe and Miss Celia Groves.
A fine specimen of a cotton stalk
was brought to the TINES Office
this week. 1t contained 25S bolls
and forms, and was raised by Joe
White, colored, ON Mr.. Lanes
place.
Dallas Hawkins, a brother OF
Gov. Hawwins, was kicked in the
face by mule last Tuesday. He
was stunned, and his upper lip
split open, but no bones appear to
be broken.
The offer of Mr.. Barstow which
Will be found in another column is
business. He has a lot of other
goods besides those mentioned in
niscard, and he will dispose OF
them cheap. There is money in
his offer.
The Security Mutual Benefit
Society has only levied twelve as
'essments from 1881 to 1886, aver.
aging three year, and making the
cost for assessments to a man OF
iarty less than five dollars a year fol
each thousand dollars of insurance
The first bale of new cotton wa:
brought to Tallulah Tuesday last
IL was raised on the Shadburr
place by Lewis Miles, weighed 49,
pounds, was bought by Mcclellan
bros. q coltharp for 81 and ship.
pea TO Z. NJ. Walmsly & Co., New
Orleans.
Inc game of base ball between
we Bend Club and Lake Proyi
aencs resulted in favor of the BenG
oy a score of AZ to II. The Benz
Gun had on hand a large stock Ct
S n with which they liber.
a.iy oesprinkled Providence. Th,
visitors na got ratified, and the Benz
did as they liked.
In the last Congressional cam
paisn' Mr.. Montgomery was 70,
Aing giving as his reason for bein,
w. mat the majority of the peopI,
'an'ed King, and deferring to tn,
i Oh the majority he supported
:. ang. The majority says agaiI
mat IL wants King. Is Mr.. Mont
s0mery supporter of King now
us'erence to the will of the ma
IOrity' '''' niA
Two negroes living on the Gal
r 'o'e place got into a difficult,
~ s' saturday night, at a dance
- 1 ss ,0,10wins morning both wen
,bo, - pend purchased some buck
,IU'' and ID returned to Oak Grove
uefe they met. each ARMED MS,
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-09-11
CAPITAL PRIZE, Si5OGCo.
Commissioners .

We the undersigned Banks and Bank
ers viii pay all prizes drawn IN tho
Louisiana state Lotteries which NAV La
presented N orr rDuutprS
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-09-11

Terms o. Court.
Nadison-Jurv Term-lst Mondays
in January and June. Civil term-lst
MONDAYS in A pril and November.
Fast CarroII-Jurv term-lst Mondays
July and December. Civil term-lst
Mondays in May and October.
25th Senatorial District.
Senator Geo. W. Montgomery
Parish of Madison.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-09-11
NoPtl
Mississippi Valley Route

yE-Close connections at al JunctoriaI
Points.
Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars New
Orleans To White sulphur and other
celebrated Springs and sum mer resorts
along the line Chs. * ohio Rv.. without
chan ge-PUllman and Monarch SIr.p-
ing Cars. New Orleans to Little Rock
without change.
Purchase vour tickets via through
ear line, thus insure convenience and
comfort, lori urther,nIOrmation appig-to
j. VI. EDWARDS. KNAPP
V p. * u. VI. q p \
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-06
Housekeeping Hints.

10 cook a partridge: "First catch
your Bird" pick and clean it nicely and
cut it in pieces, same as chicken. Put
it in cold water and set it on the stove
and when the water is warm and looks
bloody throw it away and fill up with
cold. Continue TO do so till the meat
looks white; then pull the skin off-the
large pieces-pick out any shot that
may be lodged in it, and fill up with hot
water. A slice of salt pork boiled with
1t seasons 1t, or salt may used. Boil
till tender, when the broth, which should
be simmered down to half pint, is to
be thickened with little flour. In the
meantime, fry very small onion, cut
fine, in little butter; toast a slice of
bread and lay in deep dish; place the
onion on il and then the meat, and pour
the broth over the whole. Add a little
pepper and serve hot. Squirrels and
rabbits are nice cooked the same way.
When onion is fried and added in this
way it does not destroy the flavor of
the game, as do boiled onions. but is a
good relish. Try it. My father was a
sportsman and taught me to cook game.
A. M. S.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-06

give over-rich food as clear grain the
waste is still greater, because such food
is more costly.
AT the New Hampshire Agricultural
College an experiment has lately been
tried in butter-making by the centri-
fugal process, with a view to ascertain
ing how short time would elapse in
transforming mornings milk into but
ter for the breakfast-table. Only two
hours were necessary and only half
hour longer from the time that milking
was commenced.
ACTUAL feeding experiments have
shown that herbivorous animals can
obtain sustenance from the twigs of
trees, and even from sawdust, and
chemistry has explained the fact and
taught us how it is done. The chemist
tells us that woody ibre can be changed
into starch and then into sugar, both
digestible. The OK can change fibre
into starch and sugar with his digestive
organs without the aid of the chemist.
IN a paper presented by Professor
Edwards at the late meeting of the
New York Dairymens' Association was
the following in regard to ensilage: 81
still believe in the silo. / will say, with
all candor, after having used ensilage
for four years, that l believe in sue
culent green corn, and that in the silo,
and fail to find any evil effects there
from. After the most critical examina-
ton believe that ensilage is a friend
to the farmer"
FARM AND GARDEN has the right of
it when it says: Hollow horn is often
the sign of hollow belly" The quack
medicines on our druggists shelves
may be a sign of advancing civilization
and may the Lord in his mercy save us
from that sort of civilization-but of all
the signs of hopeless barbarism none
is more infallible than the knife in the
hand of quack veterinary surgeon
when he splits open poor cows tail
to deprive her of part of what little
blood she has got and to season the
rest with pepper and salt. Oh common
sense! how uncommon thou art!
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-06
Homestead Science.

The esteemed Homestead is getting
to need scientific editor as badly as
the esteemed Cultivdtor. 1t gravely
informs its readers that sugar can be
made of sawdust, rags, tow or any
vegetable fibre. Soak the substance
for several hours in sulphuric acid,
then dilute with water and boil awhile,
and it will be glucose sugar" AS the
girls say, we should "admire " to see
some of the " sugar" that would result
from this process. In the same col
umn we are informed that two ladies
in Westminster, England, know how
to lower their bill for burning gas.
The jet is surrounded by glass vessel
of water. The liquid magnifies the rays
three-fold, so a very small flame suflices
for ROOM" This is a discovery in
deed. Edison must take back seat
and these two ladies be Immediately in
vited to occupy chairs on the platform.
Heretofore it has been supposed that
lenses, whether made of glass, or glass
and water, while changing the direction
of rays of light always diminish their
intensity. We hope the Homestead will
be content to leave to the Cultivdtor its
present monopoly of "bob-tailed sci
ence " in New England.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-06
Farmers and Taxation.

The Boston CultiUator says, editori-
ally, that " Farmers are fast learning
that the value of their surplus farm
products depends largely upon their
proximity to the mill, the loom and the
forge. Free-trade would rob them of
the advantages of home and local
markets, and bring them no sufficient
compensation" In another column it
says, also editorially, in speaking of the
national debt: " We are sometimes
forced to think that the present genera
ton is taxed too heavily, and must
struggle too hard to pay the enormous
debt so rapidly. The nations re-
sources would be developed much faster
under less onerous system of taxation,
and rapidly increasing population
could handle the debt with greater ia
cility than those who have already
borne the heat and burden of the day. -
The CultiuatOr is ludicrously igno-
rant paper on all matters of natural
science; but when it comes to that
branch of social science known as po-
litical economy its intellectual condi-
ton is a perfect middle. Just notice
the above extracts. In the first one
we are told that free-trade would
rob the farmers" and in the second
I" that the nations resources would be
developed much faster under less on
erous system of taxation" The only
logical inference from these two state
ments is that the internal revenue
taxes on whiskey, tobacco and oleo-
margarine should be repealed. But it
would probably be very unjust to sup
pose that our contemporary contem-
plated such purpose. 1t just simply
didn't know what it was talking about,
and reminds one of the darkey preacher
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-06
Cheap Food.
Professor II. E. Afford is quoted a:
follows on this subject:

Professor H. E. Afford is quoted as
follows on this subject:
Skim milk, buttermilk and cheese, at
their usual retail prices, are cheaper as
nutritious food than any other articles
on the list, and are approached in
this respect only by fresh mackerel
and dried Goldfish. On the contrary,
butter costs two or three times its real
food value, and often more. What
shall be said of domestic economy in
America, where more butter and less
cheese are consumed per capita than in
any other nation in our zone? And of the
government of some of our great cities
where boards of health absolutely pro-
hibit the sale of skinned milk, and
actually destroy all that can be found?
OF butchers meats, pork and mutton
are the cheapest and veal the dearest.
OF fish, mackerel is the cheapest, while
salmon and oysters are about as dear
relatively as butter. Eggs generally
sell at their full food value. Wheat
-four, oatmeal and beans are the cheap
est forms of vegetable food, nearly all
other vegetables Except potatoes), as
well as the fruits, costing more than
they are worth for their nutritive prop
critics alone.
What the professor says is quite true
in general way, but the question what
is best, and in the long run cheapest, to
eat is not settled by the mere weight
and composition of the nutritive matter
which food substance contains. Many
nutritive substances are too concen-
trated and indigestble to the large ma
jority of stomachs, and these, though
nominally cheap, may be in reality dear,
besides being greatly injurious to
health. People who work hard in the
open air may eat cheese and beans with
impunity. The underfed because
underpaiD laborers of Europe may eat
the little they can get of such concen-
trated food without harm. But the peo-
pie of America are not yet reduced to
this necessity. Oatmeal is nearly as
hearty" as beans and cheese, and
perhaps, next to the Grahamite delu-
sion, no dietetic folly has done more
harm to American stomachs than the
oatmeal craze, which is now happily
dying out.
Beans are to-day the one particularly
injurious " vanity" of New England,
In the old times, when nearly every
body worked hard out-of-doors, pork and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-06
Notes from Rose Meredith.

| HOPE the sisters will try baking APP
pies for breakfast by coreing them and
filling the cavities with sugar. Per-
haps Mrs. F. of Cabot will try some
Duchess this way, though the st. Law
renee is better. May we hope to hear
from Mrs. F. through these columns.
Can she not give us an account of her
trip to N?
l HOPE the farmers wives will learn
to rest Sunday and do little or no cook
ing on that day, but go out and re-
joice in nature, or lie on the lounge and
rest, or swing in the hammock that
should be found in all farmers piazzas
or yards. Sabbath means rest and
recreation, and who needs more sorelv
one day in seven a cessation from the
toll over cooking-stove than a farmers
wife? Roast your meat or boil corned
beef or tongue or chicken, and you have
little idea how all will enjoy it. Then
pile the dishes into the pan and put a
little ammonia into cold or hot water
and cover them. Let them stand while
you cool off. Then pour off the water
and rinse. / have wooden dish-drainer
made of Stats of wood about quarter
of an inch wide and half an inch apart.
about fourteen inches long and eight
wide; sets up from the stand about
two inches. l stand up my dishes in
the Stats and, as they dry, remove and
put in more, putting away the dry ones
and polishing the knives while the
process is going on. Hot water makes
the process very easy and saves time
and labor.
Derby, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-06

beans and brown bread were an almost
ideal diet for New England For
Woodworking farmers, lumbermen and
outdoor workers generally they are still,
with potatoes and bread, an admira-
bic diet. But for indoor people pork and
beans are very harmful, and are the
cause of much of the dyspepsia, "liver
complaint and consumption that
decmate our population. Oatmeal is
but little less harmful, and nobody
but fool would think of advising its
use to dyspeptics. Cheese is the worst of
all food, taken clear, that can be eaten
by sedentary people, and fortunately
most of them instinctvely refuse it.
Yet cheese is really very cheap and
good form of concentrated food, and
when we learn to use it, as the Italians
do, as a flavoring to farinaceous foods,
grating it over maccaroni, rice, toast,
etc., ETC., we shall be able to consume a
great deal of it with advantage. Cheese
is much more digestible after being
cooked, and if melted cheese is spread
thinly upon toast in the place of butter,
it makes most excellent article of diet
for all with moderately strong digestive
powers. Fruits have quite moderate
nutritive value, in the direct sense, but
they greatly aid the digestion of more
hearty food, and are for this reason
cheap, since with them we can eat the
cheap food that is otherwise hard to di-
gest. Dry beans and peas are much
more wholesome and nourishing when
made into soups with meat and less nu-
tritious vegetables, such as potatoes,
carrots, tomatoes, etc. The science of
eating (Dietetics) ought to be studied
in every household Unfortunately,
some of those who have had the most
influence over the popular mind on this
subject have not understood it them
selves, as teachers should do.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-06
ArOOstOOk Apples.

The clay" apple, mentioned in the
letter of E. H. Hayden of Oxbow, Maine,
in our issue of September s as per-
fectly hardy" and regarding which he
referred to our friend, J. w. Ambrose
of Sherman, Maine, is thus spoken of
by Mr.. Ambrose himself in a letter to
the Maine Farmer:
81 presume he means the Joy apple,
the scions of which | procured in Patten
some years ago. l called it the Joy
apple simply because | procured the
scions of Mr.. Joy, who told me it was
seeding, and recommended it very
highly as a winter apple. Mr.. Joy
has since informed me that he was mis-
taken about it being Seeding; it
was a grated tree sent him from
Massachusetts, the label having been
lost. The fruit bears very close re-
semblance to the " Seek-no-further of
Philadelphia, and is perhaps indentical
with that once popular variety. Size
medium, shape flatish round, quality
excellent, a good bearer, keeps well
until June q once kept them until the
variety is a failure with me, not being
sufficiently hardy for our high latitude
when worked on nursery stocks, but
succeeds well when grated in the
limbs of hardy, standard trees, and /
consider it my cery best winter apple"
We do not know, and can find no de-
scription of, any Seek-no-further "
apple of Philadelphia, but perhaps
this apple is the " Westfield Seek-no-
further" of Connecticut, as it agrees
with Mr.. Ambrose's description in re-
gard to size, shape, quality and degree
of hardness. This is fuller descrip-
ton from Downing: "Fruit round
conical, pale or dull red over a pale
clouded green ground-the red sprinkled
with obscure russeted yellow dots.
Stalk very slender, three-fourths of an
inch long, in an even cavity. Flesh
white, fine grained, tender, with rich
pearmain flavor" 1t is well to have
these apples correctly identified, to
avoid expensive mistakes, and we hope
Mr.. Ambrose will send us specimen.
The Westfield Seek-no-further can, we
are confident, be grown top-grafted in
Southern Aroostook, and in Franklin,
Washington, Orange and Lamoille
counties, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-06
From Mrs. c. l.. +.

Dear Sisters Again come to have
a little chat with you. l am sitting by
fireplace this chilly September even
ing, with bright fire burning on the
hearth. Do you know what luxury a
fireplace is? If you are going to have
a new house, or an old one made over,
have one room with fireplace in it.
1t may be anursery or bedroom, where
the sick ones in the family can have the
benefit of good air. One will ventilate
house all over, and | think it is the
only good method of ventilation. |
think there would be less nervous
diseases if they were in common use.
WHERE is Mrs. A. w. and all the
others sisters who have written so many
good letters? Miss E. A. b. has made
a good beginning. l hope she will not
"weary of well-doing."
THE only recipes l have for cream
gingerbread are the following: One cup
of cream, one cup of mOlasses, one egg,
one tea-spoonful of soda; add salt and
ginger to taste. No 2: Break one egg
into tea-cup, fill the cup with sour
cream, one cup of molasses, one tea
spoonful of ginger, one of soda; mix
soft.
CRAB-APPLE JELLY.-Put the apples
in kettle and cover with water Let
them cook soft, but not enough to
mash; then pour into flannel bag and
let them drain, 1t must not be squeezed,
for it would not be clear. Then to a
pint of the juice add one pound of
sugar. Boil the juice five minutes;
then stir in the sugar and boil two
minutes. Pour into moulds.
MARMALADE.-Take the apples out
of the bag and strain through sieve.
To pound of the apple add pound of
sugar and cook it little while. 1t
must be stirred constantly to prevent
burning. Then pour into moulds.
East Bethel, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-06

who, discoursing on the broad and the
narrow ways, declared that one of
dem led to perdition an de odder to de-
struction." -" GOSH" said a more clear
headed nearer, " den dis chile hab ter
take ter de woodsl" Guess we had bet
ter go on paying off the national debt,
Brother James, onerous " as the job
may be.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-06
Your Children

Are constantly exposed to danger from
Colds, Whooping Cough, Group, and
diseases peculiar to the throat and
lungs. For such ailments, Ayers
Cherry Pcctoral, promptly adminis-
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As remedy for Whooping COUGH,
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afflicted, we used, during the past win
ter, with much satisfaction, Ayers
Cherry Pectoral. For this affection, we
consider this preparation the most eff
cacious OF all the medicines which have
come to our knowledge. Mary Park
hurst, Preceptress, Home for Little
Wanderers, Doncaster, Md
My children have been peculiarly sub
jcct to attacks of Group and | failed to
ma any effective remedy until / com
menced administering Ayers Cherry
Pectoral. This preparation relieves the
difficulty of breathing and invariably
cures the complaint. - David G.. Starks,
Chatham, Columbia Co., n. Y.
/ have used Ayers Cherry Pectoral
in my family for many years, and
have found it especially valuable in
Whooping Cough. This medicine allays
all irritation, prevents inflammation from
extending to the lungs, and quickly sub
dues any tendency to Lung Complaint.
j. b. Wellington, Plainville, Mich.
I find no medicine so effective, for
Group and Whooping Cough, as Ayers
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the worst case of Whooping Cough ever
saw. Jane Malone, Piney Flats, Tenn.
Ayers Cherry PeCt0raI,
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No gains without pains,
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The result is amedcine of unusual strength
and curative power, which effects cures here
tofore unequalled. These peeuliarities belong
exclusively to Hoods Sarsaparilla, and are
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-06
Her Answer.

I'm going to he married." he softly said.
She looked up in swift surprise;
The color from out of her bright face fed
The light grew dim in her eyes.
you're going to he married?" she echoed, low,
Her voice had steady tone.
" hope you'll be happy where'er you 60"
cough hid a little moan.
" know that your bride will be good and true,
You never could love any other"
She steadily looked in his eyes dark blue;
:" tender you joy, my brother"
IN going to be married-that is, hope
To be, though hardly know
Dear love, shall longer pine and mope9
tremble for fear of NO"
The color that out Of her face had fed
Came back with deeper hue,
Why, isn't 1t funny?" she shyly said:
That I'm to be married, too?'
Hartman 11rocofe
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-10-27

honest co!iNictions ANA Courage. but
the man who is satisfied to acGuiesce
in things as they may exist at the time,
whovisrvilling 70 drift with the fido.
who is satisfied to be nodded by them
rather th'n r~0ld then to- higher,
nobler f0rllls and purpdses, iseertain-
~ not living the most worthy life thas
is possible to him. He runs the risk C.
being compelled to look back upon his
earthly existence as it terminates with
the consc iOGsncss that his life has been
largely failure. Or if he does not do
this still the fact of failure remains.
Only that life which will stand the
severest tests both of time and eternity
|'cAh Ne called really worth the living
There are many perglexlngs questions.
! Before us as people. There is no
tready Rssacea fox allr the Sils that bev
! set tsD tb-dayA Yet il Isl safe ID oons
clude that practical application of the
lI-tsosrei'wr4ievrntuatsy bring the answer
to ALL, Christian character. in the jim
diyidual, in society, in the Nation, is
the one thing needfdl. Be true. Live
noblNs Aaake life. worth living. ~
Christiai1 at Hork. a.ude ~ 1T egit /.