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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-12-12
THE KITCHEN.


The kind of tea depends on the taste
of the family, which is, of course, known
to the housewife; consequently, no dis
tlnct kind can be recommended. The
quantity used varies according to taste,
but, usually, one teaspoonful of tea for
each cup is what is allowed, and if this
should be too strong, it can easily be
weakened to taste. Always use pot
made of some kind of earthenware, and
never, on any account, use a tin one. If
tin must be used for this purpose never
let the tea stand in it only long enough
to steep, Tea, when left standing in
anything is not drink to be recon-
mended, but if left in tin pot it be-
comes actually poisonous, and ought
never to be drank.
When making tea always be sure that
the water used is boiling. 1t is not
enough that it has been boiling and is
still very hot, but it must be boiling
when poured on the tea. 1t is best when
convenient to always use the wlter vi hen
1t first boils, for if the water has been
taken off, set back and has to be re-
boiled for the tea it is not as good.
Scald out the teapot before using, then
place in it the quantity of tea used. Put
the teapot with the dry tea in it on the
back of the range, and let remain q
minute or two. Then add enough boil
ing water to just cover the tea, put the
teapot back on the stove, let remain
about three minutes, then add the
quantity of water necessary. Serve i'm
mediately, and there is no doubt but that
it will be good
When weakening tea always do so with
boiling water, when possible, but if not
boiling at the time, very hot water that
has been boiled is the next best thing.
Never for this purpose use any water
before it has boiled, mo matter how hot it
may be, for it will ruin the flavor of the
tea, also putting on the top of cup of
tea scum that is anything but inviting
to look at, aside from drinking it.
Never boil tea, but if by accident it
boils, throw it away and make fresh, for
although this may appear wasteful, it is
an excusable waste that ought be COM
mended.
Always empty the teapot after each
meal, and put it away until wanted, but
never let it stand on the stove, as some
do, from one meal to another. Many
housewives havea habit, when making
tea, of putting a pinch of the dry tea in
their mouths and chewing it. 1t is not
that it has pleasant taste, or that they
like it, but only habit formed as many
others are, thoughtlessly. This should
be discontinued as quickly as possible,
as the juice of the dry tea extracted in
this way has very injurious effect on
the system
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Poultry at the Paris Exposition.

The American Farmer is our authority
for saying that there were nearly 1000
pens of poultry at the Paris Exposition.
The greater part of these were entered
by French exhibitors, there being few
Americans and still smaller number of
English exhibitors. The Cheveeurs
took the lead as is usually the case at a
French show. The Houdans were poorly
represented, and this breed is said to be
losing its popularity, There were fine
specimens of La Fleche and Courtes
lattes. Of the foreign breeds Cochins
took the lead, but there were also speci-
mems of Brahamas, Dorkings, Spanish,
Andalusians, Minorcas, Langshans,
Hamburgs, and Polish. The American
breeds were represented by Leghorns,
Wyandottes, and Plymouth Rocks. The
French demand a white -feshed fowl,
SO the latter breeds are not to become
popular there. There were some tur-
keys, few geese, chiefly Toulouse, and
quite show of duckS-principally
Rouen and Pekins.
The Leghorns, Brahmas, Cochins,
Langshans, Plymouth Rocks, and Wyan-
dottes seem to take the lead as favorites
among all classes of poultrymen, al
though as strictly fancy fowls they fill
only second place. The fact is that
while there are some breeders who make
a specially of ornamental fowls, such as
the Polish, yet the sales of the breeds
mentioned above far outnumber those
that are bread for beauty.
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"
been rescued by one Of the men he was
guarding. He ever afterward held that
prisoner in contempt.
His greatest ambition was to do some
thing that would distinguish him,
which was realized by all his compan-
ions. His greatest craze was arresting,
unnecessarily, privileged prisoners.
Some boys reported that "blue
coat" had been seen in skirt of woods,
when our man Immediately set out to
make the arrest. He felt of no less
Importance when he found that all his
assumption at bravery had been made
In capturing real coat.
But this incident only made him am
bilious and alert to find some victim to
pounce upon.
A few days later just beyond the
line, he came across "blue jacket"
asleep.
Wake up, you - -, and
march"
The Union man raised himself to
sitting position, rubbed his eyes and
began to yawn.
"Trot, or 1 will have to waste some
ammunition in killing dog"
The man began to move along.
Il will have you. hand-cuffed, YOU
big bully, you" and he gave the man
a kick.
Have a notion to waste load on
you any way, you cowardly hound"
and he administered another kick.
Endurance had been taxed to its ut
most, the prisoner could stand no more;
he wheeled, snatched the gun, and soon
had the drop on our man.
Nov, l guess you will have to
march, came the command.
One man hesitated, but he soon de-
cided that discretion was the better
policy and was marched to headuuar-
ters, where the trusted Union prisoner
was allowed to go about his business.
The incidents were related as the
actual truth to us; but as the hero of
the story is still alive, enough ficti-
cious coloring is given to the incidents
to prevent identification.
PUTNAM, Ga.
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Forty millions of people to whom war
was hardly more than tradition and
story were suddenly plunged into
the greatest armed conflict of modern
times. Everybody was green at the
business; the exceptions in favor of
the poor little regular army and the
survivors of the Mexican war were so
few as not to leaven the mass. The
people and the soldiers had everything
to learn; and the amount of practical
foolishness which they went through
with in order to learn how to maintain
war and how to fight was something
amazing. We can all afford to laugh
at it now, although in those days the
silliest ideas and suggestions were
treated with the utmost seriousness.
Perhaps there was never greater folly
than that contained in newspaper
gasconade, North and South, in the
first year of the struggle. The press
of to-day is very different thing from
what it was then-and the greatest
educator was the war itself. The en-
terprise and push that make the Amer
lean newspaper so great to-day were
fostered and developed by the neces-
sity of putting the daily news of the
great events of the time before the
public, and of doing it promptly. But
the plans put forth by editors on one
side for crushing the rebellion, and on
the other for debating independence
in Washington! Men
Who neer set squadron in the field,
Nor the divisions of @ battle knew
would write and print with amazing
conceit about what the armies should
do, and the people read and believed
their twaddle, until the experience of
the progressing conflict taught them
that war was o trade, business by it.
self, to be learned, and thoroug ghly
learned, by those who would prevail in
it, and that amateurs and novices had
no business with it.
Certain stock expressions invented
by imaginative newspaper men had q
great run, until it was discovered that
they were very weak inventions, and
then we heard no more of them. The
anaconda" business.was the best speci-
men of this kind of thing. Certain
jealous and enthusiastic Northern
presses discovered that the Union
armies were an immense anaconda;
that it was only necessary to put them
in motion, when they would encircle
the Confederacy, and resistlessly crush
it in short order This was very pretty
as a poetical image; but it was soon
discovered that the Confederacy would
not lie still and be crushed, but would
return blow for blow, and this figure
OF speech was dropped.
Then came the masked battery"
craze. Everywhere that our armies
were likely to go in the South, masked
batteries" were to be expected. The
press was full of warnings on the sub
iect, and the people, if not the soldiers,
had dire apprehensions on this head.
But this fever quickly ran out.
And the intelligent contraband"-
who that had got a respectable growth
in 1861 can have forgotten this fertile
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Notwithstanding most farmers are now
so we'll posted on the lightning rod and
Bohemian oats swindles that but few
can be caught by them, there are still
schemes used to beat the farmer out of
his hard earned money. Among the
articles that are used for purposes of
fraud are pumps and hay forks. A
Canadian paper speaking on this subject
says:
The pump swindle is thus managed:
A travelling agent asks the farmer to be-
come an agent for the sale of iron
pumps, promising him one free if he
will. The farmer agrees to take eleven
pumps, which he is to sell at S11 apiece,
reserving SIS on each as his commission.
Then he signs and order for these
pumps on these terms, but which turns
out later on to be promissory note for
Sl65, the retail value of the pumps.
Sometimes there is verbal under
standing" that if the goods are not sold
they will be taken back, but that under
standing never materializes, while the
note does.
The hay fork swindle is somewhat
similar. The agent offers to put up one
for nothing if the farmer will take an
agency. He accepts, and later on an
other man calls to get him to sign a
statement of the condition of his affairs,
just to show that he is a responsible
person" In some mysterious way this
is converted into an order for large
number of hay forks. The man who
thinks he is merely singinga recommen-
dation of the working of tanning mill
which is on exhibition finds that he or
dered one.
Shoddy peddlers, pretending to rep
resent great English or Scotch houses
sell goods which are so fimsy they will
not stand sewing together. Imitation
gold watches are sold sometimes as high
as $50, which turn out to be worth moth
ing. In lightning-rods there is now but
little cheating done; the farmers have
learned that device of the enemy.
most ingenious trick was perpetrate ed
by clerical-looking couple, who, with
timid- blocking young man and woman,
drove up to farmhouse and stated that
the couple had taken whimsical notion
that they should like to be married
among such handsome surroundings,
and were willing to pay well for the
privilege. The farmer consented, served
them fine dinner, and was paid $40 for
his trouble. The receipt which he gave
the groom returned to plague him in the
form of $400 promissory note in the
hands of an innocent holder. The in
ventors of this bright game have about
worked out the province and will be
likely to Try the States. The western
farmer must beware. A good rule to
adopt is never sign any paper presented
by strangers, and when once adopted
live up to it.
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is one of them, though you'd never
suspect it to see him moving about.
He is as spry as boy with his cork
leg. Congressman Brown and Booth
man, of Ohio, used to say they were
in hard luck, because each had lost a
left leg. If one had lost right, they
could make one pair of shoes do for
both. Senator Hampton had hard
luck, too. He fought like a tiger on
the Confederate side, and came out
without scratch, only to be thrown
from mule a few years after the war
and have leg so badly hurt that it
had to be amputated. The only one
armed men in the last Congress, be-
ieve, were General Hooker, of Missis-
sippi, and Congressman Oates. of Ala
bama. They were both mighty brave
men in battle, but I've heard they
never shook hands but once, refusing
to do so again because it is a hoodoo
left-handed shake.
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The Anxious. "Troubled,. ). Martha.

The whole world of minute annoy
ances that beset our painstaking house
keeper in the effort to bring the work of
hirlings up to her standard of faithful
service is not worth tear-hardly a
sigh. The philosophic manager whose
sense of proportion and fitness is above
the average of her sex takes up ashes
Cfguratively) with long handled fire.
shovel. Our anxious and troubled,
("cumbered" in the originaD Martha goes
down upon her knees on the hearth and
plunges her tender hands into the
heap.
The saddest and one of the most sig
nificant things / ever saw was woman
in an insane asylum who did nothing NIL
day long but wash and polish one win
dow pane. Nothing diverted her from
the task. With puckered forehead and
folded lips, her eyes set upon the glass,
she breathed upon it, scrubbed it with
her apron, and went over and over each
inch Of the shining surface until the
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vile, scouting around for deserters
and escaped Union soldiers made one.
He was one of those "brave" men
whose affected "back" would not per-
NIT his going into the regular service,
yet as his patriotism was so strong and
he could see no need of board of
physicians examining into his disabili-
ties, compromise was made by giving
him an easy place.
There were larger men on guard at
Andersonville than he, yet no one
gave such giant orders to the men
while getting out slabs or digging
trenches in which to bury the dead.
In fact, the great navy pistol he always
carried buckled around him, and the
musket under the weight of which he
staggered, were the real incentives to
his bravery.
He never seemed to appreciate any
favor; the only thing that ever seemed
to please him were words of praises.
To illustrate his ingratitude, it was
related that that on one occa-
sion he over-calculated his ability to
leap deep ditch, and in making the
attempt was precipitated to the bot
tom, and though good swimmer would,
due to the weight Of that great pistol,
have been drowned, had he not
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-12-12
THE POULTRY YARD.
Why the Hens Don't Lay.


The Farm and Garden says the time
is not far distant when farmers and
poultry breeders will wonder why hens
don't lay. If they have one breed, then
that particular breed will be blamed and
another one tried, only to find the same
existing conditions of management.Now N ow
is the time to make such arrangements
as will 60 far toward insuring o liberal
supply of fresh eggs during the winter,
when eggs are scarce and high. The
first step toward this is to see that your
poultry house is not only clean and free
from dampness, but that it is made
tight-wind and rain -proof-and that
proper precautions are observed fol-
ventilation. One of the very best things
to make the house storm tight is tarred
felting, which is also obnoxious to lice
and mites. though more substantial
outside covering can be made by first
painting the building thoroughly, and
then before the paint dries, putting
coarse, close-woven bagging or canvass
over the whole, tacking it we'll in place.
The bagging can be treated to two or
three coats of good rubber paint and
the thing is done. A warm, comfortable
house, goes far towards insuring winter
eggs, and when to this be added, in the
start, good, early hatched and vigorous
bir DIS and plenty of suitable food, there
need be no reason for asking why, the
hens don't lay. They naturally will not
furnish as liberal supply in winter as
in summer, but they will furnish none
at all if left to Shift for themselves.
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Seventh United States Infantry, was
stationed near Nashville guarding the
railroad bridges, and in the company
was an enlisted man named James
Tate. His term of enlistment would
expire on the morrow, and for weeks
his chief conversation was in reference
to the long -looked-for discharge, in an
ticipation of joining his old father and
mother in Pennsylvania, and the JOY it
would afford them to once more see
their boy. On the day previous to
that on which he was to have received
his discharge, he was detailed for
guard, and jocularly remarked that
that was his last guard mount. After
guard mount the detail was ordered to
load their Springfelds, and were in
two ranks, Tate being in the front
rank. An awkward man in the rear
brought his gun down and struck Tate
lightly ON the head with the muzzle.
The latter looked around, remarking
that he didn't want to be killed on his
last day of service; but the words had
scarcely been uttered when the awk-
ward mans piece went off and the ball
entered poor Tate's head, killing him
instantly. The company previous had
seen hard service and lost many of it's
men, but that did not cause as depress-
ing feelings as poor Tate's unfortunate
death, under the circumstances.
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oUtty OI soV6IHI UHyB 3
he was shown through the almshouse,
where he encountered an inmate who
had been comrade in the army of the
revolutionary war The old decrepit
veteran excited the commiseration of
the President, who thought the old
soldier who had fought for his country
was out Of place in the almshouse and
should be better provided for. When
he returned to Washington the Presi-
dent brought the matter to the atten-
tion of Congress and recommended u
pension, which was granted.
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Live stock Notes

THERE would be much better satisfac-
tion to most farmers if they would make
corn the minor instead of the principal
ration for their breeding swine.
The silo enables the farmer who has
brood mares to keep up the milk-how in
winter, and SO time the foaling, if he
likes fall colts, as to have his mares in
working condition in the busy season.
AN editor of an agricultural paper re-
Gently saw this way of keeping an un-
ruly bull in pasture. A stout strap was
fastened around his horns, and to this
was attached chain about five feet
long, which ran through ring placed
in his nose to large block of wood on
the ground. While this prevented him
from getting out of the pasture, it per-
mitted grazing in any part of the field.
A CALIFORNIA farmer SAYS: Il dis
covered two years ago the greatest se-
cret in hog feeding that ever had. The
feed was nothing new. 1t was nothing
more or less than ensilage made of
lucerne. l found that young hogs grew
fatter on it in winter time than on any
other feed l could give them and were
always healthy. In April l sold 400 ID
hogs in the San Francisco market that
had never eaten q pound of grain, and
nothing but lucerne and ensilnge made
of lucerne since they were pigs until
twenty days prior to slaughtering, when
l gave them few bushels of corn each
to harden their flesh. They were no
fatter after eating the grain than when
they left the ensilage, but it made their
flesh more solid"
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Average Mean price Mean price
price of of hogs in of steers in
Years. corn per Chicago per Chicago per
bushel. 100 pounds. 100 pounds.
It will be noticed from this table that.

1t will be noticed from this table that,
as rule, the mean price of hogs has
fuctuated in the same direction as the
average price of corn, but not always in
the same proportion. There are some
apparent exceptions to this rule; for
instance, in 1882 the price of corn is
given as much lower than in 1881, and
the price of hogs as much higher. The
same apparent contradiction is noticed
in the years 1887 and 1888. A partial
explanation of these exceptions to the
rule will be found in the fact that the
price given refers to the crop produced
in the year named and not the average
price of corn for the year. Thus the
hogs marketed in 1882 were fed partly
upon the crop of 1881 and partly upon
that of 1882, SO that we should come
much nearer the average price of the
corn fed to the hogs sold in 1882 by
averaging the price for the two years.
The price of the corn is evidently one
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heart of the beholder ached wearily. She
had been doing that one thing, and
nothing else, for four years.
Since then she has stood with me as
the type of thousands whose vision is
narrowing hourly through absorption
in work, which is not degrading
in itself = which is excellent in
its time and respectable in its place
but was never meant to fill
the horizon of any human beings mem
tai or spiritual sight Marion Harland,
IN Once q Week.
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Half pound of stiffed -four, quar-
ter of q pound of butter, six ounces of
sugar, two tablespoonfuls of thick sour
cream and one egg. Make paste of
these ingredients, roll it out and cut it
into diamond shaped pieces. Glaze
with egg and bake in o hot oven. When
cold place bit of jam or jelly in the
center of each and serve.
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OF the important factors which deter
mines the price of hogs and steers, as is
demonstrated by the above tObles, but
where n number of influences are at
work, we should not expect any closer
relation between these prices than is
here shown. The question is a compli-
Gated one, and in the absence of data
which would establish the exact number
and weight of the cattle and hogs that
are marketed each year, We can only
hope to get somewhat general idea of
the supply and demand and the relative
fluctuations ofprices.-F0rm, Field and
St0ckmdn
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A BEE owner relates q peculiar in
stance of the bees hatred Of black OBJ
lects. 1t became necessary in some way
to arrange something belonging to the
hive. when, like host of furies the
enraged inmates flew out and attacked
the disturber of their peace. Quick as
thought the farmers wife ran and threw
her white apron over the husbands
head, whereupon the bees did not alight
on him, but instead attacked two inno-
cent black hens that happened near by,
and stung them to death in less time
than it takes to write the story.
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Beat two eggs until light and foamy;
add one cup of sugar, tablespoonful
of cream or piece of butter, one cup Of
sweet milk, and add salt and spice if
you choose, two. heaping teaspoons Of
baking powder and flour until the mess is
stiff enough to roll on the boards and
cut in squares or rounds nicely. Drop
in hot lard and fry brown.
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Sponge Jelly Rolls.

Four eggs, one cup and half sugar,
one tablespoon baking powder, beat the
whites separately, and the sugar and the
yolks together till very light; then add
part of the whites, then q cup of -four,
then beat good, than little more -four,
then the rest of the whites and stir easy,
put it in and bake. Spread and roll as
quick as you can.
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sOne-Legged Congressman.

ENAToR BERRY,
says a Southern
exchange, lost a
leg at Corinth +;
Senator Butler,
of South Caro-
lima, lost his at
Brandy Station;
and over in the
House there are
three one-legged
men, or W ere
during the last
Congress. Rep
resentative Hen
derson. of Iowa.
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The First Pensioner.

L is claimed that
the first pensioner
of the United States
was q Salem Mass. }
veteran of the war
of 1912, and was
brought about by
President Monroe,
who was visiting
that place on July
8, 1917. During his
n
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Cornstarch Custard.

boiled in one quart of milk, sugar to
taste, peel of two lemons grated and the
juice of one. When thick, pour into a
wetted dish. Beat one cup of sugar
with the white of five eggs and pour over
the corn starch, set in the oven until
slightly brown. Serve hot or cold, with
custard made of the yolks of the eggs.