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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-12-27
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

-Spiced Grapes: Wild grapes are
best for this use. They should be
stemmed, washed boiled till soft. and
then pressed through coarse sieve.
To each ten pounds of the pulp thus
prepared add half the weight of sugar,
an even tablespoonful of cinnamon, a
heaping teaspoonful each of Glove,
spice and pepper, grated nutmeg and
two quarts of vinegar, Boil till it is as
thick as catsup, then hottle.-N. Y.
Observer.
Baked Apples: Peel and core, place in
deep dish. Fill the canters with SUI
gar. Let them bake until you can pass
a straw through them easily. Whip
the whites of two eggs, with one cup of
white sugar, add four drops of extract
of almond or twelve of lemon. Pour
this meringue over the apples, return
to the oven until it sets, or returns
white. Put dabs of apple jelly over all
artistically and it will tempt the most
languid appetite and is harmless for in
valids. -Housekeeper.
Ounce Sauce: One cupful of ounce
preserve, one of milk, one tablespoon
full OF corn-starch, half cup of sugar.
Mix the corn-starch with little of the
cold milk and put the remainder in the
double boiler. When it boils stir in
the corn-starch and cook ten minutes,
then add the sugar and preserve,
mashed fine. Cook ten minutes longer
and rub through strainer This
sauce is usually served cold, but when
used with hot pudding, it, too, should
be hot.-N. Y. Ledger.
An economical batter for fritters is
made as follows, but 1t must always be
made quite an hour before using: Work
six ounces of dried -four into paste
with cold water and the yolls of one
egg, add quarter of pint of warm
water, and lastly the well-beaten white
OF egg. Slices of apple, pieces of rhu-
barb, stewed dates which have been
well dried and Toured, or any other
fruit, will make excellent fritters, if
dipped into batter made from this
recipe. Leeds Mercury.
-Macaronl with Cheese: Put pieces
of macaroni one inch long into boiling
water, add little salt and let it boil
for twenty-five minutes; then put into
a colander to drain. Fill deep earth
enware baking dish with successive
layers of macaroni and grated cheese
very little cayenne pepper improves
the flavor. After the dish is filed, lay
on the top slices of fresh butter, and
| pour on enough milk to moisten the
whole. Bake in regularly heated
oven for fifteen or twenty minutes,
and send to the table Immediately in
the same dish.-Good Housekeeping.
Tea Cakes: Two cups of Sugar, one
cup of butter, four eggs well beaten,
four teaspoonfuls of sweet milk, two
teaspoonfuls of lemon extract, and two
teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Cream
butter and sugar, add the milk, the
yolks of the eggs, and then the flour,
add the stiffiy-beaten whites of eggs
and lastly the baking-powder. know
some think this must always be incor-
porated with the flour, but l have used
it the last thing over and over again,
and know that it can be done. The
above cakes are baked in patty-pans or
simply dropped in spoonfuls. Orange
Judd Farmer.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-12-27
PIG FEEDING.

Practical Conclusions Drawn From Ex-
perlments at the Wisconsin Experiment
Station.
"All things considered, the hog has
been the most profitable animal on
western farms, and no small part of
the wealth of the western states is due
to this one animal. Corn is and has
been the most universal food for swine
in this section, and so it is to Indian
corn that we are indebted for the
benefits accruing from the hog. No
other plant furnishes so much avail
able food to the acre, Or food that is so
well relished by the hog, as corn.
With millions of acres of land devoted
to corn-growing, and large part of
this corn being fed to hogs, it is
no wonder we have come to regard
corn as made for the hog and the hog
for corn. To one who first acquaints
himself with the situation it might
appear that all the farmer has to do to
increase his income is to plant more
corn and raise more hogs, but the iu-
vestigator will soon find that were the
market open to all that could be raised,
there seems q limit to the pork produc-
ton OF any farm or locality, for nu-
merous difficulties beset this vocation.
Pigs are born only to meet an early
death; hog cholera devastates large
areas, passing from point to point with
great rapidity, clearing everything be-
fore it, leaving the farms not only
without swine, but so inoculated with
| the disease that all the business in that
section must be held in allegiance for a
year or more. Farmers are constantly
complaining that their hogs become
too fine-boned, and get but temporary
relief by sending off to breeders
for coarse-boned sires. These facts
show that as now handled on
the average farm at the west, the hog
is in an abnormal condition and
that degeneration is constantly going
on, or, popularity stated, stock runs
out The difficulties in the way do
not end with the troubles named, but
follow the hog even after death, into
the park barrel. Foreigners claim that
our pork is diseased, and place an EN-
barge upon it, Home consumption is
decreasing not because our people think
the pork is diseased in itself necessa-
| rily, but because the meat is so exces.
sively fat that there arises strong
aversion against it in the minds oil
most people. As people in the lower
classes in life get ahead in the world
they give up pork for more expensive
meat. Not only, then, have we to con.
slider the questions of hog feedingfroni
the standpoint of feeder and breeder
but the opinion and wish of the con
sumner must receive attention, if thi,
industry, of such great magnitndSn1
| -. >. T..
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-12-27

er was they q feminine heart
that didn't delight in umbrellas, and
surely the designers know 1t, for they
rake every artistic instinct IN their
souls to devise and satisfy this longing.
Handles of gold and silver are chill
dren Of q day that is done. They were
cheaply initiated, and smart women
put their real ones aside In disgust and
took TO those Of wood.
This set the pace to those who wero
not modish folk, and fashion whirled
from the mineral to the vegetable
kingdom.
And now have We umbrellas of finest
silk with handles Of wood, upon which
the artists place many designs. Tho
favorite shapes In handles are long and
narrow, One odd variety of newest
build is of gnarled imported wood,
without semblance of polish, ending
at the top in grotesque or picturesque
head made of bisque. Ono is of little
Dutch boy, with water lily inverted
over his head. Another ends in cross
legged Brownie and others in red
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-12-27
Boiled Turkey with Celery.

Chop half head of celery very fine.
Mix with it one quart of bread crumbs,
two scant tablespoonful of salt, half
a teaspoonful of pepper, two heaping
tablespoonfuls of butter and two eggs.
Stuff the turkey with this, sew up and
truss Wiring large square of white
cotton cloth out of cold water and
dredge it thiclkly with -four. Pin the
turkey in this and plunge into boiling
water. Let it boil rapidly for fifteen
minutes, then set back where it will
simmer. Allow three hours for tur-
key weighing nine pounds, and twelve
minutes for every additional pound.
Serve with celery sauce. The stuflng
may be made the same as above, only
substitute oysters for celery, and serve
with oyster sauce. -Good Housslteep;
tun
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-12-27
Fried JOHNNY Cakes Arc Fine.

Did you ever eat fried "Johnny
cakes?' They are perfectly delicious,
and are, think, indigenous to Missouri.
! never ate them anywhere else, at any
rate. Take atcupful Of sour milk, one
cupful of sweet milk, two eggs and
enough soda to swecten the mess. To
this add in cornmeal and flour till you
can make firm round balls of the
dough by working 1t in your hands
make them small, using one-third flour,
the rest meal-and then drop them In
lot lard and fry as You would dough
nuts. Fat them when hot, with butter,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-12-27
A Change of Opinion.

There's nothing like fresh air" said
the business man.
Il used to think that" said his part
ner, ''till the new clerk came here He
has an air about him that is altogether
too fresh. Washington Star
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-12-27
HERE AND THERE.

Are there any cracks in the poul-
try house? There certainly ought not
to be when winter comes on.
The better education of the agri-
cultural classes will be the ultimatel
antidote for agricultural depressio1n
1t is the heavy horse that is q.
ing the best price these dayR Our
faith in the draft horse has never wav-
cred. ~
Help the poor, ragged. hens to get
on their winter suits blythe addition
of a little oil meal or fresh meat TO
their daily ration.
Wheat is not yet cheap enough to
feed to poor quality of stock. No
food is cheap enough to feed to such
stock profitably.
Feed literally, but not wastefully.
Good preparation by grinding, ifgrain,
or cutting, if fodder and stalks, in the
ensilage cutter, is most economical
proceeding.
Don't keep your boys out of the
public free school next year to hoe or
pick four-cent cotton. Educate them,
and they will know better than to
raise it at such price when they grow
up
The government crop report for
rNovensber indicates a corn crop for the
entire country amounting to 100000
600 bushels for 1894, against 1919, 1885,.
go bushels last year.
1t makes no difference to the farm
err whether it is overproduction or I'M
derconsumption; whether it is his ina.
bilitv to sell or other peoples inability
to buy. But he wants something done
that will make difference betw6
prices of products as they are "
they ought to be.-Farm and n
"A correspondent of the
ing World says that,y
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-12-27
ct4RI8TmAs FANCY WORK.

}nc4pehsIsH Articles which Are Sure 70
s rloesc Your Friends.
A ep] NJ back to washstand saves
1uany ugly stain upon the wall
paper No2esty IA shape is now sought
and one X the latest IDEAS represents
= huge fan d plated cretonne or art
x muslin. II tlievlatter is used, It Is SO
4 thin thatit requires lining. The better
p]on is to cut the fan shape out in
American cloth, or even stout brown
paper nd then to take long strip Of
The ipaalin having lace sewn plainly
rot f1lI] Yong The top edge and to plat
That over the paper, lacking it here
Glnd th4re ia keep Il in place The
pplashcx can be kdpg up BY cord, the
ends xhiaH <ss 70 be brought
kz coSor .kaeps dust from the
plano lsi3li can b, soa}]e exceedingly or
/. nainenI&l The ue <c(kal chosen should
ssncw Of - 1lsil ma Of rather bright
mAon Pl4sh. ar r central band Of
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-12-27

which are intended for the
general market can be fed almost ex-
clusively on corn, adding ground
little oats, shorts, skim-millS or other
protein food. AS far as possible, how
ever, in these times of low prices, hogs
should be grown on pastures, and corn
used only to ripen up the animal. On
our western farms land is the cheapest
and labor the dearest thing we have,
The hog that runs in clover field or
bluegrass pasture waits. on himself,
and makes healthy growth, if. not
very fast one. This growth is usually
more profitable than that made from
entire grain feed. Usually part RAJ
ton of grain can be proftably fed to-
grazing hogs to hasten their growth.
"Where the general market is the
destination, one can not be over par
ticular about the pork product, but
must manage it at all points in the
very cheapest way"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-12-27
FARMER AND PLANTER
DIVERSIFIED EARNING.
The Farmers of the South are beginning
TO See Where the Profit Lies.


The Farmers of the South are beginning
TO See Where the Profit Lies.
So much has, time and again, been
iaid upon the subject, that to say more
would seem to be superiluous. 1t is by
'line upon line, precept upon prccept,"
that lasting impressions are made.
Already the farmers of the south are
practicing diversified farming to a
much greater extent than ever before,
and it is to the constant urging and ex-
horting and coaxing of the agricultur-
al press, more than to anything else,
that the credit is due. Those farmers
who are diversifying their farming
most, we find are the most prosperous.
Those who have no bacon, nor lard,
nor molasses to buy, do not feel
the grinding pressure of low
price cotton anything like as
much as those who have to buy
these things. The farmers who,
while supplying their own wants with
the above-named necessaries, have also
raised surplus to sell las they almost
invariably do when they diversity, can
now snap their fingers in the pallid face
of King Cotton, and tell him to keep on
declining until death releases him from
the environments of earth, for aught
they care.
Farming, from business standpoint,
is a simple thing. 1t simply means to
make more than you spend, in order to
be successful. If you raise all, or nearly
all that You and your family eat, you
surely will not have to buy much in the
way of groceries. If, while you are
fattening two hogs for your own larder,
you just put in two more to consume
your overplus of grain, Stops, ETC., you
will be long on pork, and able to lay
by few dollars for nucleus. If you
| look well after your little herd of cat.
tie, you will have one or two beef
steers to sell in the fall, and this will
be an addition to your little hoard.
The same may. be said of potatoes
raise a surplus to sell. Raise lots oil
turnips, too Have something to take
TO town to sell whenever you go.
An acre or two in broom corn will
not cost much labor to cultivate, and
will pay well for the time you spend
on it, If you live in locality where
you have a few acres of moist bottom
land, plant patch of ribbon cane
and make a supply of the incest
homemade sirup you ever ate
On two-acre patch of cane yor
should make from 100 to $50 gal
Ions of cero. (Sirup from which M
sugar is taken.) You can readily
all you have over your own ho~
ply, for from sixty cents to
five cents per gallon, which
you good profit on its cost
This is the { farm
marks
at ony
| ploduct
flesh for
and comin!
thodox doc
and be thanlfr
outlook, and
and strive to d.
pei of diversifea. - tn al
the farmers of The So have BEEF
converted. Texas, FARM and Ranch.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-12-27
taking Chances.

kn-Hear about that burglary in
p They must have been dss
Iet of fellows
| Brown What did they do2
,n--Made their ray into the
q and ate some o Miss Smiths
made cake. --Puek.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-12-27
TEACHING ENGLISH.
A Young Girls Experience Trying to Ex-
plain to "a Chinaman.l

A Young Girls Experience Trying to Ex-
plain to II Chinaman.l
A clever girl who would make SEN
sation in society if fate had been lit
tie more kind to her in material way,
lives on side street and is a constant
source of amusement and Joy to her
little circle of friends. She is poor;
she is compelled to turn and return her
gowns; trim and retrim her bonnets
and make all sorts Of little sacrifices,
and all because fate decreed that her
father should be kept quiet, unambi-
tious, conscientious, dreaming sort of
fellow, instead of bustling, money
making, successful merchant This
girl has brains and good looks, and,
what is better, originality, but she
is compelled very often to walk be-
cause she has no car fare. She
amuses herself with all sort of things
that other girls seldom think of. Her
latest exploit is class of Cinnamon,
into whose wooden heads she is en-
deavoring to inject faint idea of the
limitations of the English language,
and incidentally the Christian religion.
In her class, on recent Sunday, she
was giving Ching Poi an object lesson
on the wonderful creations of God.
"See, Ching" she said, ''see this
beautiful rose. God made this rose.
He made it to look pretty and smell
sweet. God made all things, Ching,
He made you and he madeline. Now
tell me, Ching, who made the rose?'
Ching grinned and said: Sod, He
malSee lose"
''That's right, Ching. Now, why die
Ie make the rose?"
He malSee lose to look pletty ant
zee sweet"
hats rirht. Who made you
W.
makee me, replied Ching. III,
me to look pletty and smellee,
is endeavoring to teach tn,
hen few other things, but will
lrsonal SMILES with the rose res
~. Kaueas Cifv Star
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-12-27

is shown by the fact that careful, IN
telligent breeders and specialists hold
their stock up to n high standard Of
excellence, and even improve It. Nor
is it difficult for the intelligent farmer
to keep his stock where it wilfyield a
satisfactory profit. First ofiall there
must be. careful Discrimination be-
tween the hogs used for breeders and
those intended only for feeders. Breed
ing from immature stock must be
avoided as much as possible, for this is
probably one of the greatest sourcesof
the present lack of Constitution. To
fatten brood sows after. they have far-s
rowed off filters once or twice, is a
practice, most unfortunately, altogeth-'
err, too common. Good mothers should
be held for breeders as longas possible.
The care of the pig must begin before
it is born, by not only giving the dam
comfortable quarters, but supplying
such food as is essential for Che build
ing up of the bodies of her young.
During pregnancy the sow.should re-
ceive plenty of protein food in the
shape of blue grass or clover pasture,
bran, shorts, middlings, shipstuff,
slxim-milk and peas. 1t is impossible
to keep brood sows through the.winter
on Indian corn alone, and have good
results at narrowing time. Even If
large filters of pigs are successfully
brought into the world by dams so fed.
there must be weakening of constitu-
tion which sooner or later will sbring
disastrous results. Since it is the
cheapest food on the list, corn very
properly may form part of the ration
of hogs at at all times, but to cause a.
brood sow to not only maintain her own
life, but to grow the bodies of litter
of young from the elements contained
in the daily ration of corn is simply.
out Of the question. There are not
enough bone and muscle Elements in
the corn brood sow can econsume to
suffice for building up the bodies Of
her young.
"Unless the farmer has the proper
buildings and conveniences for attend
ing to the wants of brood sows IL is
better to have the pigs born In the
summer time, when the mothers are
running on pasture, for with pigs
brought into the world under such
conditions the risk is reduced to the
minimum. When born, it is profitable
push the pigs forward as rapidly as
possible by feeding the mother heavily
on nutritious diet, which should con-
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-12-27

Practical Conclusions Drawn From Ex-
perlments at the Wisconsin Experiment
Station.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-10
THE FIREMEN MEET.
Gathering OF the Brotherhood at
Harrisburg-Great interest
Is Manifested.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Sent. 0-At least
400 delegates from all parts of the
country will be present at tho opening
session Of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen tomorrow morning. Large
delegations from the south and south
west have arrived today and more are
expected tonight The grand officers
are pleased with the interest that is
shown in the meeting. 1t is believed
the present officers will be reelected
without serlous contest.
Tho public meeting at tho opera
house tomorrow night will be Of pc
culiar interest because Of the promin.
ent representatives Of railway organi-
zltions who will be present. Many
important questions will be considered
by the convention and some changes in
the constitution proposed by the grand
master are most radical. The dele
gates now here do not believe the
American railway union mas perman.
emily injured the brotherhood and the
opinion is freely expressed that the
membership Of the brotherhood will
rapidly increase.
The local committee has issued
handsome souvenir programme which
gives the social entertainments and
excursions arranged for the pleasure of
the visitors.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-10
MIN00KA SCHOOL WAR
Numerous Citizens Protest Against
the Erection of New School
Building.
Special to the Scranton Trf5un, .

MINooKA, Pa. Sept. 9-Another
meeting was held at No. 3 school Sat
nrday evening by tho citizens opposing
the now school, A more stormy or in
dignant meeting was never held in the
town. A large crowd of objectors were
on hand, but only few of tho school
directors were present. After the
nesting was called to order Mr.. Kelly,
OF the injunction committee, said that
there was lots Of vacant room in the
Moosic schools and in the other schools
OF the township. He said that Peter
Mullin had memorandum of the at
tendance in Greenwood, Duckaway
Hill and Stark schools.
Mr.. Mullin rose adjusted his glasses,
and began to read the attendance in
each school. Greenwood school, 115
IN attendance, seating capacity 1880;
No, school, attendance 2S, seating
capacity 60; Duck Hill school, atten-
dance 70, seating capacity 1870; Stark
schools, attendance 129, seating
capacity 24O. The committee also
stated that large number Of the
pupils attending the schools were
children not exceeding the age of four
years.
Director Higgens who happened to
be present, observed the severe manner
in which the directors were spoken of
by this indignant assembly, started in
at this point TO divest himself Of soms OF
the blame. He said that no teacher
should have more than thirty-fve
pupils and the committee ordered fifty
five for each Que. Then the fun
started. Mr.. Higgeus became fiery
and so did the citizens. They claimed
that there were three teachers in one
room. Higgens contradicted. Mullen
said the directors were taking them.
Higgens said no that they knew their
business, MIR. Higgins said he came
there TO throw little light on the mat
ter but the rest objected. They did
not want his light, Higgens got angry
aud the crowd yelled. Chairman,
Squire O'Hara called on Officer st.
John to preserve order.
After quiet was restored, Mr. Burke
read the report OF the investigating
committee who visited Moosic, which
mas as follows: Full attendance at
Moosie schools was 90S; scholars seat =
ing capacity, 800; vacant seats, 49,
The report was accepted,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-10
DOCTOR DISAPPEARS.
A Michigan Phycician Mysteriously
Vanishes--Theories of
Murder.

CAssoPoLIs. Mich, Sept. 9.-While
Dr. Conkli7, who was supposed TO have
mysteriously disappeared last Sunday
night, after being called to his Office by
two strangers, is still missing. Devel-
opments yesterday sadly disarrange all
the theories Of abduction and murder.
Several Of his neighhors assert posi-.
lively they saw the doctor early Mon
day morning The Maccabes and to
which order DR.. Conklin belonged, are
still divided in their belief as to his
fate, but have appointed committee
of five pledged TO find him dead or
alive.
The story declaring Conklin was the
chief witness in n murder case and
friends of the murderer had probably
made away with him is untrue in
nearly all essential details. DR. Conll-
lin was non-essential witness in aiife
insurance case, where the question Of
the health Of the insured at tDe timo he
took out :he policy is involved. Moth
ing has developed to show the slightest
cause for murder. abduction or a flight
from the country.