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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-02-27
RECIPE KS.

Chocolate Coukles-One and a half
cup Of sugar, two-t.irds OF cup OF but.
ter, one-hatt cup OF chocolate, two eggs,
one teas poonful 0. sofa, two of cream
tartar. Mix stiff AMI roll thin.
Custard Pie-To three cups Of milk
add three eggs well beaten. sweeten 10
taste and CRATE in little nutmeg. Line
a deep pie dish with pastry and fill.
Bake rather slowly. Take out the pie
as soon as it begins 70 set, or it Will
later. Grated cocoanut can be added
to this rule.
Small Plum Pudding One rup OF
milk, one-half cup OF >u4si, one half cup
of molasses, one half cup OF butter, two
cups O. iiout. one cup .. raisins, Que te"'
spoonful OF soda. Steam two hours
Sauce: Oae cup sugar. one etG, beat
together and add ei hit tablespoons OF
boiling milk. Flavor TO taste.
jelly Cake-Eight eggs, whites. two
cups of sugar, onc-half cup ot>tniter.
three fourths of a cup Of sweet milk,
two and one half cups Of -four, two heap
ing 1easpoonfuls of baking powder. Feat
the whites Of the eggs TO a froth; beat
the butter and sugar TO cream DIVIDE
in three or four equal parts and bake IN
Jelly pans. When done, spread with
| icliy and pile one cake above the other
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-02-27
INOCULATION FOR HOG CHOLERA.


According to statement furnished By
DR.. D. L. Salmon, Chief Of the Bureau
of Animal Industry, there has been dur
ing the last summer an outbreak Of swine
disease in La Sale County, H., and the
farmers applied to Secretary Rusk for
relief. At their urgent request DR..
Schroeder, of the Bureau Of Animal In
dustry, was delegated to make investi-
cations and to give such advice and as
slstance as was needed.
AS further stated by DR.. Salmon under
later date, fifty y-tive hogs hal Been pur
chased and divided into three lots. OF
these, eighteen had been inoculatc1 by
DR.. Schroeder according to the method
used bv the Bureau Of Animal Industry,
and eighteen Others by another person
according to another method. and nine
teen were not inocull.ed. bcins kept by
themselves, AMI were held to determine
whether the animals hai been exposed to
disease previous to incubation, and
whether the inoculatcd animals resisted
disease better than those which had not
been lnocula.ed. According to this last
report the hogs not iuoculated were all
weil. none of those inoculated by the
Bureau Ia died, while four Of those in
oculated by the other method were
dead.
The subject is chiefly interesting from
the fact that committee of the farmers
agreed to pay one half Of the expense Of
toe ex experiment., thus showing their IN
.erest in it a1i their desire for f9,.her
light on the question whether any sys-
TEN OF In0culatlon Is preventive for hog
cho,c-a. Dr. Salmon did no: oppose In
s-cuia.ior. bat lie pointci ou. dangers
connected with it whica farmers should
understand before they adopted it. IN
tie meantime the report Of the commit :
tee OF farmers experimenting the exper-
/ irucnt made at Ottawa will be looked Tor
/ with interest New York World.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-02-27
NELLY BELTON'S RUSE.

i snrrrrino very rnucb this afternoon and
jq iryinato s,ecn He IS IN the sittino
room. On the Ioun.c. where | made h1m
~. "a i IS much cooler there"
..W6a.'s The matter now - said Nelly.
VITA l.cr pretty face curiouslv un-
chau.r.I ~ the news Of her fathers in,
disposition.
"oa. lust oac Of MS nervous spells!
ArG. |, thin1, ic SAID he had head
ACHE. to-. br3ilcl him a Dirl, and he
sccm'i .o relish that, and drank some
bnttlrnil, ii the mornings churninr.o
.iycn, thcu, If he can eat and enjoy
luttermill. remarked the girl, with a
>lort laugh, ..hqiS not 50 very bad off.
Hc honest now. mother, do you believe
much IL fathers ailments No, no; don't
YIN rova. but tell me the truth Aren t
ms app. lite aa.l looks too COOL for. there
{. tc mu.u the matter with himl l de-
c'aic have CAUGHT DR.. Lester smiling
b,.udt" sevettl times when he has been
here il SIC father, aud it was all he
could do to keen from laughing right In
L. face
Mrs rclton's kindly face wore half
amused, half frightened expression as
she li,tcaed t. her dau glitter, but she an
swered tlemurcly
.IIaw ,a,. vou talk 50. Nellya OF
course your father is Ill, or WHY should
he fri..n 10 he s04"
: lie likes ,ettinr ami coddinr lust
like a baby. adl. mother, l really be.
lieye you know it is mainly his imaeina.
tic, ,ha, is Il work. but YOU have got in
the habit of waiting on him and bumor.
;r,r III fYrri..s until "a, al !. &c mot.
Ter II course. Now own up. Do YOU
believe in his sickness 10 lay."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-26
FASHIONS FAOS.

Flounces of lace are seen on the new
changeable silks, surahs and challies
Watered silks come in the new shades of
heliotrope, yellow and black, red and black
and lilac.
The Russian blouse is not effective I'M
less belt be used to draw it in closely to
the figure.
Yokes of embroidery are fashionably
united with the new long basques and
round waists.
Plain and printed pongees are now dis
played and make pretty and serviceable
summer dresses.
The new silk bengalines are very hand
some and are much used for visiting and
promenade costumes.
Flower hats will be universally worn
during the summer, and for theater wear
or at summer festivals they are lovely.
Striped ginghams are trimmed with en-
broidery and ribbon, and are made up after
the Russian blouse or in plain round or
surpliced waist.
Promenade dresses of fine French cloth,
in such shades as tan, blue, ecru and dark
green, are trimmed deliberately with bead
ed passementerie or jet.
Braided robes are not now as muci in
demand as embroidered robes, which come
in beautiful shades and are embroidered in
floral patterns, wheels, circles and cres-
cents.
Irish point lace and embroidery is used
On summer challies, silks and the imported
ginghams, and ribbon enters largely into
the ornamentation of such dresses as well
as lace or embroidery.-Dry Goods Chron-
icle
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-26
SCIENTIFIC WAITS.

1t is interesting to learn that we live a
distance of only twenty trillion miles from
the nearest Of the so called fixed" stars
According to Sappy, the famous physi-
olOgist, the stomach contains 5000, $50
glands which are constantly secreting gas
trio juice.
NJ lie Chatelier states that by means of
his pyrometer he has discovered that the
temperatures which occur in melting steel
and in other industrial operations have
been overestlmated.
Some experiments in connection with the
artificial production of clouds by burning
cases of resinous matter were lately made
in Paris, but were only partially success
full on account of the wind carrying the
clouds away as soon as formed.
The largest band saving machine in the
world has recently been completed in Eng
land and sent to Tasmania. The machine
can saw through maximum depth of 75
inches and the carriage will accommodate
logs so feet long and weighing about 80
tons. 1t is asserted that this saw cuts even
faster than a circular saw, while wasting
IS per cent. less wood.
Experiments on the ventilation of tun-
nels on Saccando's system have recently
been carried out in Italy. In this system
fans and ventilating shafts are dispensed
with, but air is compressed into reservoir
outside the tunnel, to which it is led in
suitable mains From these mains it is al
lowed to escape at different points inside
the tunnel, from which it drives out the
foul air
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-26

hEtD - DlSl I'M LIED IL.
dread. | would leave the campaign to
others. 1t is afterward that makes me
shudder and which induced me to write
that letter You must remember that
have been before the country for sixteen
years as a presidential aspirant. | have
been followed by host of loyal friends.
All this accumulation of sixteen years
of obligations would be presented to me
for payment the moment put my foot
in the White House. They would come
down upon me by droves. would have
to see them. Friends such as they have
been could not be put off upon another.
No one else could satisfy them. And
what would be the result of all that?
How long could l, in my condition, with
stand an ordeal like that? That is the
way Blaine talked, and he meant every
word of it. OF course you fellows can
understand how sorry his immediate
friends are that he takes this view of
change his mind He lives in constant
fear of his own collapse, and he has &C
quired the notion that year in the
White House would kill him.
well, as | was saying, | had begun
to fight at Blaine to rouse him up.
succeeded. | struck fire, and for an
hour or more he talked as l have never
heard any one else talk. Blaine has that
way of saying the thing which every
one has been thinking, but never knew
how to express, just as Tom Reed has,
only there is this difference. There is
sting in everything Reed says he always
bites. Blaine is as gentle as child.
He loves even his enemies. That man
never bore spite against living crea-
ture He is incapable of it.
when reused Mr.. Blaine is today as
brilliant a man as he ever was. On this
occasion he and | fell to talking of the
politics of the past. happened to men,
ton cabinet officer of the jackson ad-
ministration. You are mistaken, said
Mr. Blaine, as quick as flash: he was
under Van Buren,, and went into office
in 1888 afterward looked up the rec
ord and found that Mr.. Blaine was
right. There is nothing the matter with
that prodigious memory of his. Mention
any one you please who has ever been
prominent in the history of the country
and Blaine will instantly tell you all
about him. Let him meet a man he
knew quarter of a century ago and he
will remember not only the man, but his
family history and everything else In
connection with him"
This free hand picture of the Blaine of
the present, drawn by Congressman
Hit for his colleagues, and with no
thought that it would ever reach the
newspapers, give as a sample of the
sort of gossip which our friends of the
eloanoom regsle themselves with.
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tains here. Probably Cochran is living
in Washington at the rate of $1,000 a
month, but he can afford it, for his law
practice in New York yields him a
handsome income.
Reed is still the leader on the Repub-
hcan side, and when he assemblies his
heutenantS and tells them what he
wants done his dictum generally settles
il. The big man from Maine is lucky
enough to know how 10 make men obey
his wishes without rousing their ire.
He hasn't SO much tact as genius. He
simply overshadows everybody that
comes in contact with him. and no one
presumes to rivalry. Tom Reed has two
sore spots. One is his sensiuveness on
the car business. He believes the out
cry that was raised against his rule IN
the last congress had much TO do Win
Republican defeat in the elections Of
1890, and yet he thinks he was right II
his rulings.
Probably no living man is SO much
talked about in the house smoking rooms
as Mr.. Blaine. There is always a Inys-
terry of some sort about Mr.. Blaine
VIII he run for president, or won't he:
Is he sick. or is he well? And so it Coes-
The secretary has Just one close friend
in the house. Mr.. Hit visits Mr.. Blaine
about seven times a week BiaiEe has
no secrets from this tried. trusty friend
So Of course Hitt is often anneaIed O.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-26
CONVICTED THE COURT.
4 California Jury Finds the Judge Guilty
of Contempt of Court.
L

AUBURN, Cal. April 23.-The Califor.
MIA jury and the California Judge have
not stopped their good work of doing
ludicrous things for the rest of the world
to laugh at The finding of an Auburn
jury is one of their latest feats of alb
surdity.
The Southern Pacific company, hav-
ing been much pestered by brake beam
tourists, got a law passed by the legis
lature making it criminal offense tC
steal transportation on a railroad car,
The first arrest was made in this town
when a brakeman discovered hungry
and dirty tramp coiled up on the brake
beam, where he had ridden across the
mountains The tramp was tried before
a jury on the charge of having stolen d
ride on a railroad car, and the jury
after due deliberation returned a yer.
dict of not guilty because the stolen
article was not found in his possession
There is one judge in this country whc
has the reputation of making the juries
under him work very hard. He Is ex
tremely severe upon them, and no mar
viii serve a second time on jury under
Judge - if he can possibly help Il
He was holding court in country
school house and the jury, who were al
farmers. began to be very FESTIVE. But
there was not much prospect Of their be
ing allowed to go home for some time
unless they took matters into their Owl
hands The judges instructions upOr
the case then under consideration had
been plainly for a verdict Of guilty
But without deliberation they abruptly
returned verdict Of not guilty. anc
added that they had found the judg,
guilty Of contempt Of court and sen
fenced him to be confined IN the schoo
house for three weeks. And then thes
made rush for the door, locked il alC
fed. leaving the court TO climb out a.
the window as best il could.
In another mountain town not FL
from here there Is lawyer who Is very
unpopular with both bench and bar CT
account Of his domineering and quarrel
some disposition. He is locally famoul
for his unusual faculty Of browbesfin-
witnesses into saying things they don
intend TO say and badgering them inc
tempers and inconsistencies One "a,
he had in hand big and muscular VIII
ness, upon whom ne was prscticing t.
usual methods
Suddenly the witness stopped. delibe-
ately took off his coar, squared Of IN.
began giving the browbeating LAWYER !
tremendous licking. The sheriff inter
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-26
GASTRONOMlC GOSSIP.

Strawberries should never be washed,
but simply Jumped" in cloth.
An English writer says gooseberries are
not appreciated as they should be.
a seasonable omelet is made of shad roe,
chopped olives and the yolk of eggs.
Never eat marmalade in Paris. Much OF
it is made from orange peel found in the
streets.
Sam Ward used to say man who does
not like stewed terrapin is worse than a
savage.
Macaroni of very good quality is made
in this country, but it lacks the Naples
crispness.
Candied rose leaves, which women so
abundantly eat. are at last declared TO be
injurious.
Grated pork is sometimes the "go be-
tween" in the caterers alleged chicken
sandwiches
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-26
Austrian Method of Execution.

The Austrian method of execution, 20
use the words of famous humorlst, is
fatal If persisted IN long enough, but 1t
Is bv no means in keeping with the en-
lightenment Of the age. The AustEians
swing a halter over the neck Of muir
dsrer and string him Up, while the exc
cstioner in chief. wearing white kid
gloves, calmly beholds the victim wrig-
gle, and two ponderous assistants pull
him down bv the LEES
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by his fellow members for some in
formation about the secretary of state
He doesn't often respond, but few
days ago he sat down on one of the sofas
and in the presence Of an interested
crowd of congressman thus explained
Mr. Blaine's position and condition:
MIR. Blaine" said Hit, lis not well.
He is not as sick as he thinks he is, but
he is not a well man. He has his ups
and down. One day he is like his cid
self. His great intellect flashes out glo-
riously, as in the old days. Friends
gather around to listen, perfectly en-
tranced. The very next day. perhaps
you can't get word out of him. He is
so respondent and morose that he seems
incapable of thinking or expressing him
self. While in the dumps he is not
much more than big baby. Then he
is no more like the Blaine as the world
knows him than night is like day. Mrs.
Blaine is naturally much worried about
him, and it is painful to see that good,
faithful wife watching her great hus-
band as a mother watches child and
wondering what she can do for him.
"One recent day found Mr.. Blaine in
the depths of the dependency which
often assails him. He wouldn't say a
word Finally thought l would shock
him into activity, and began by asking
him what he meant by acting in this way.
There's nothing the matter with you,'
said, except that you have lost your
courage. Brace up. Why did you 60
and write that letter Withdrawing from
the presidential race? You had no bust
ness to do it. If you had kept still You
would have been nominated without a
word Of opposition. You would have
been triumphantly elected. There are
hundreds of thousands of Democrats In
this country who would like chance to
vote for you. What do you mean by
throwing away all this power, all this
opportunity to be useful to your party
and your country as if it were mers
baubleP
cat this Blaine frightened up and
showed fight. You don't understand it
at all, he said. Cant you see that am
not well and strong? How long do you
suppose | would live in the White
House? 1t isn't the campaign that
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-26
ON HISTORIC GROUND.
1t Recalls "Reminiscences of Andrew Ohm
son and Parson Browulow.

son and Parson Browulow.
Especial Correspondence.l
HARTMAN, Tenn, April 2s. - East
Tennessee is rich in places Of historical
interest, and hundreds Of tourists from
northern states make pilgrinages 10
them. Elizabethton, in the Watanga
valley, Is one Of the most interesting 10
calities in the state. 1t is an old town.
started in 1897. Near the village stands
the modest home Of Andrew johnson.
and an old sycamore tree Is pointed out
to visitors to the town, under which the
first court ever held in the state was
held. \. g. Taylor and Landon c.
HAYNES were born here.
There is an incident connected with
Andrew Johnson'5 death that has never
been printed In front Of his old house
runs the Wstanga river. The water l.
swift and the ford deep and dangerous.
A man was taking a drove OF cattle
across and Mr.. johnson, who stood in
his doorway watching them, noticed
that some OF the cattle were getting int
very deep water and were IN danger 0.
drowning. He became somewhs; ex
cited by his efforts 10 attract the driver
attention, and his old neighbors say
that the exertion and excitement brough-
on the stroke Of apoplexy that caused
his death.
Just above the village On Doe river
are the ruins Of an iron furnace Cucs
owned and operated by Parson Brown.
lows father in-law--O. Bran a large
tree Is now growing up through the Old
stack. Elizabethton used 20 be tough
town. bat a rev generation has arisen
and there has been a marked improve
ueIt. Local option was adopted and
works well
Every reader Of war history, and tbs
who remember the stirring events q
that period VIII recall the trials anc
dangers through which the loyal Iaen q
east Tennessee passed Near The yillzgs
OF Eliza bethton lives one q the brave
and tr1est Of these ratTlCis-Llan Ellis
he Is said 10 have killed more Eoui-a
crates with ISIS 0zn hand during ths
war than any ctneE one man For more
than four years he secuted through H.
mountains. often n sight q Us owg
home. AID get Ia ali thai tine tx d&sel
not sleep under rs OWE ROOF he pIi0tsa
oye- a-nno lagxhx.x IA zAs TinaAn iaE-.
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of the fight, and only the few can be
leaders. But the smoking rooms and
the sofas and easy chairs in the rear of
the hall never lose their charm.
Say what you please about the medi-
ocrity of congressman, know from
number of congresses that while the
art of oratory is gradually being lost in
this country the art of talking well in a
conversational way is continually grow
ing. Sit down in these smoking rooms
and you will hear all the latest stories, all
the freshest mots, all the newest gossip
of men, women and politics. Here the
leaders are pulled to pieces, humbug
exposed, demagogy confessed OF ridi-
culed, the future of parties predicted
and the fortunes of presidential candi-
dates settled about fifty times day.
Men like these daily symposiums, this
meeting together Of kindred spirits, and
the pleasure here obtained is about all
the satisfaction majority of the mem
bers get out of congressional service. L
think my friend General Newbury, of
Chicago, voiced a prevalent sentiment
when he said the other day that but for
the gossip and stories of the smoking
seats he would have resigned his mem
bership long ago. Il am at the same
time paying pretty dearly for my whis-
tle." added Newberry. my board bill
for myself and family, five persons, four
rooms, is 5000 a month. | pay $3.50 q
month for carriage, that being cheaper
than bringing my own carriage on from
Chicago. My other expenses foot up
about $3.50 month, and so find that
my salary of $4166 6 month falls a long
way short of keeping me going. 1t
costs me about $125 week to sit in the
smoking room and listen to John Allen 5
stories"
There are plenty of other congress-
men who spend as much money for the
honor of sitting in the house as MIR.
Newberry. The great majority, how
ever. are hard up all the time, because
they are poor men and $4,000 year
salary does not hold out very well il.
this town. | have it on good authority
that the stories told in the smoking
rooms are of better quality as rule
than the cigars there consumed. Nine
out of ten of our friends from the west
and southwest are content with five
center, but when you see Bourke Cock
ran. Speaker Crisp and Mr.. Catchings
putting their heads together, you may
be sure that none but five-for- a-dollar
cigars are III their mouths. Mr.. Cock
ran furnishes them.
This young Tammany lawyer, veri-
table giant in frame, is coming to the
front as one of the strong men of the
house. He is immensely popular. He
and Tom Reed, who sit opposite each
other with only an aisle between them,
are about the most noticeable pair in the
house. Both are big physically and in
brain power. Each of them is a great
debater. Both are wits and good fell
lows. They wear the two largest hats in
the house, Reeds being seven and a
half and Cockran's a seven and three
quarters. Reed and Cochran are i'm
mensely fond of each other, too, and the
ex-speaker often dimes at the fine house
which the young Tammany man main
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Some shoes, Surely.

An idea may be formed of the growth
of manufacturing in the United States
by an examination of the statistics of
the boot and shoe business. Twenty
years ago New England factories pro
duced 50 per cent. of the footwear made
in America. The New England product
has largely increased, vet il IS now but
So per cent. of the total value, the in
dustry having been established in other
PARTS of the Union. Since 1880 importa-
tons of hides and skins have increased
about ~ per cent. During the sama
period exports of manufactures Of leath-
er have increased more than rs PEI
cent
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-26
CHARACTER IN THUMBS.

A long first joint of the thumb indicates
will power
a long second joint of the thumb indi-
Gates strong logical or reasoning power
4 thumb that is wide and thick is an in
dication of strong individuality in its
owner.
A thumb which carries broad knob at
the end is a certain indication of great OBJ
stinacy.
The thumb is the characteristic feature
of the human hand, a characteristic in
which it differs from the hand Of the mon
key, and of al parts of the hand no one n
80 strongly individual or telltale as the
thumb