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Year: 1869

Many and various are the methods adopt
ed by our farmers for increasing the flesh
of hogs and pigs. One thing all agree upon
and that is that October and November are
the months to press food for flesh. After
that time we feed for heat as much as for
flesh.


Boiled food is undoubtedly the best to
fatten hogs, but something else is needed.
Cleanliness is very desirable. The finest
hogs We ever raised were washed every
Monday with warm suds. The ''hired :"
man was wonder in his way, did not shirk,
and of his own accord kept up the practice
all the season. An old broom was always
at hand to scrub them well, and they SEEM
ed to enjoy the process as much as our
children enjoy bath. We never relished
pork and ham so much as we did that sea-
son, knowing that the animals had been SO
well attended to.


Charcoal should be fed twice a week to
fattenng hogs; they eat it with great avid
ity, and it supplies carbon in its purest
state. A pan of it might be kept in the
pen, and trial made Of its fattening prop
critics. Sulphur is also useful condiment
which hogs eat greedily. Whether it is
essential to their health we know not, but
we do know that they relish it much more
than we used to relish a daily spoonful of
sulphur and molasses given to us in child
hood for spring debility.-IJM.
Year: 1869

Pie paSte.-Six cups of sifted flour; two
and a half cups of lard, shaved with a knife
into the flour; one tablespoon filled level
with salt. Moisten with two cups of water
or less (as moist as can be rolled.) In mix
ing, handle as lightly rs possible.


Several strips of the paste (rolled very
thin placed in layers around the edge, and
extending far enough to allow the custard
to conceal where they terminate below
give finish


Some persons are in the habit of notch
ing and ornamenting the edge of the pie
by flattcning it at intervals This is q
mistake, as any pressing upon tie paste in
terferes with tie proper AaIy appearance.
Pie-crust should also Invariably be made
in c?ol place.


Punsp&in. .fAi@g.-To prepare the pump
kin for baking: Peel it, take out the seeds,
cut it in pieces, put in hot water, and let it
stew until soft. Then strain it through a
colander. Afterward add cold milk, until
the mass is of a creamy consistency. To
every pint of milk allow two or four well
beaten eggs according to richness desired. J
Then add to the mixture two tablespoon
fuls of molasses to each pint of milk, if it
is desired to give darker surface to the
pie. Flavor with freshly. ground ginger and
cinnamon. Lay the pie-paste i'll buttercd
dish, and fill with the custard. Bake three
quarters of an hour
Year: 1869

At this season of the year, all our farm
ers are preparing to salt their hams and
bacon, SO we propose to give them recipe
whereby salting and smoking can be done
i'll one simple and short process. Many of
our housewives are forced to depend upon
their neighbors for conveniences to smoke
with. Those Of us who own smoke houses
know how difficult it is to smoke Just right.
By this process all trouble is avoided
Take large sized butter firkin, cask, or
barrel, according to the quantity Of meat
you desire to smoke. Place it over Il fire
of corn cobs with the corn on. Meat smok-
ed in this way is highly favored, the corn
seeming to produce a better taste than cobs,
or wood, or green walnuts. Let the tub
smoke from five to six hours. To one hun
dred pounds of meat take eight pounds of
salt, two pounds of coarse brown sugar (or
three pints of molasses, and two ounces Of
salt petre. Rub little fine salt into the
hams and shoulders, then put the meat into
the smoked tub, cover it with cold water,
turn in the salt, sugar, and saltpetre, cover
closely. sand set i'll n cool place where 1t Will
not freeze. If Il scum rises on the brine,
turn it of, scald and add little moro salt.
If desired to keep through the summer, in
the early spring smoke the tub three hours
longer, put back the meat and turn on the
brine when cold.
In month after picking, the hams will
be ready to use. They can be kept in the
brine all summer, and if a ham is cut,
return it to the tub for further use.


Beef and tongues can be kept in the
same manner, and there is no danger from
insects. In six or seven weeks the beef is
picked and smoked enough to dry. This
Is the surest and most expeditions way of
sailing and smoking pork and beef, and if
once tried will always be adopted.


Hearth and Home.
Year: 1869

A correspondent of the Germantown
Telegraph gives his mode of stacking fod
der as follows:


Gas soon as safe to crib the corn let the
husking proceed as rapidly as possible
Tie the fodder i'll bundles of moderate size,
and if practicable haul and stack as the
husking proceeds; two large two-horsc
wagon loads to the stack. have my corn
husked after rains only, or when it is so
damp that the fodder will not break. But
beware lest it is too wet when stacked.


Select a piece of ground near tho stable
for stacking yard, where water cannot
stand; throw down three rails crossing each
other to hold the tops of the bundles from
the ground; make the stack of Just such
diameter as will admit the bundles to lap
at the top sufficient to bind the stack and
keep the centre high sufficiently high, as
all stackers will understand, to have the
butts carry Off all water. No bilge to stack
is made. stand in the centre Of the stack
all tie time when stacking, and can stack
more rapidly than could be put away in
small shocks or set against fences or poles,
as is so often seen.
Year: 1869

LigH Puste.-Sift into n pan three quar-
ters of pound of -four and another on a
plate Beat the whites of two eggs to a
stiff froth. and mix them with wine-g glass
or more of cold water. With this wet the
-four to stiff paste, and forming it into a
pin. Then lay it on the paste board, and
roll it out into a thin sheet. Use the extra
quarter Of flour for sprinkling and rolling.
Have ready three quarters of a pound ef
Cover the sheet with one portion Of the
butter. placed all over it in small pieces
and laid on at equal distances. Then sprin-
kle on little flour; fold up the sheet of
paste; tiour it slightly when folded; roll
it out again, and put on in the same man.
ner another portion of butter; then -four
it slightly; fold it up; roll it out again, and
put on in the same manner another por-
tion Of butter; then flour it slightly; fold
it up; roll it out again, and put on the third
division of butter. Then fold it, flour it,
and give a hard, final rolling, always NOV
ing the rolling-pin from instead of to'cdrd
you. The paste will then be ready to fill


PUMrKIN-CUsTARD: Pass pint of we'll
stewed pumpkin through a colander, and
add pint of cream. Add eight eggs
thoroughly beaten. Then stir in a tea
spoonful of powdered cinnamon and a
grated nutmeg ginger or lemon may be
preferred to these adding sugar according
to taste. Lay the paste in a buttered dish
and fill with the custard. Bake in brisk
oven three quarters of an hour.


Hearth and Home.
Year: 1869

"It's Jack, it's only jack" he cried with
real agony as he tore off his mask, and the
young lady, slowly returning to her senses,
once more opened her eyes and beheld
her lover, real African gorilla from his
his chin downward, but possessing very
resolute, yet anxious human head-very
like Jack Gales with the scalp and grin
ming jaws of the defunct monster hanging
behind his ears.


This was an extraordinary situation; a
nice young lady "a strange garret, con-
fronted by ar erratic young man in semi
gorilla costume; his countenance flushed
with excitement and exercise; his eyes
wild with anxiety and alarm his whole
manner that of a person who is in state
of utter quandry. The truth of history
compels me to record the fact that Miss
Clara Coriander threw up her hands and
laughed as if che would die. She was a
sensible girl and liked good joke. Old
Coriander's plans were laid bare to her
clear vision III one moment; she saw
through the whole trick and laughed in
the face of the astonished Mr.. Gale.


"Oh, Jack" said she, as soon as she
could recover her breath, chow could you
be such fool? where am /? How shall
| ever get home? Oh, oh, OH" To all of
which Jack could only reply in install
ments. But, by secluding the young lady
on the stairway, he succeeded in preparing
for their return to the Coriander mansion.
Through the ehalf-deserted streets the young
couple went in different guise from that
in which they had before astonished those
who saw them flee. The gorilla delivered
up the old mans daughter, and was glad
to be told that the menagerie, not quite
ruined, must needs be closed for few
months for repairs. 4t


The show opened again in due season
with new attractions, under the manage
ment of Coriander and Gale. But in all
the lines of cages of rare beasts, no Afri-
can gorilla was to be found. In lieu
thereof they showed handsomely stuffed
skin of the much lamented beast which
came to an untimely end in consequence
of cold caught by exposure at the great
menagerie fire. Coriander's heart re-
Tented when Jack saved his daughter from
the burning building, and he found his in
ventive genius invaluable in ths show
business.
have seen the only young gorilla born
on the American soil, of which there is
any account.


1t has pink cheeks and blue eyes, and is
learning to answer to the name of Clara
Gale. .--OUer1dsd Monthly.
Year: 1869

WASHINGTON, April IL, 1859.


The effect of the recent action of the
President and Congress, on reconstruc-
ton, especially in Virginia, is of the most
encouraging character. Letters from
Richmond say that it seems as if load of
depression had been lifted from the spirits
of the people, and that satisfaction with
the action of Congress is well nigh unani-
nous, the only exceptions being some few
sullen reactionists who still harbor the
ghost of the rebellion, and spit on the flag.
Business is already reviving, as conse-
quence, and the doubt and uncertainty
which have been consequent upon their
chaotic condition being removed, people
are already beginning to forecast plans
for the future and preparations for large
ly increased business activity. 1t is be-
lieYed that the material interests of the
State will be advanced many millions by
the action of Congress.
Year: 1869

home, and attending to his work. He
was industriously exhibiting himself
as Napoleon and Cupid, while his wife
was taking the repose so necessary af-
ter her protracted exertions. He took
me in to see her, and called her 'tPop-
pitt" and he seemed to be completely
happy.


They are both now at work in my
show again, and q more affectionate
couple does not exist. She often thanks
me, when Minnikin is out of hearing,
for teaching her that it is sometimes
good to pay the oppressor in his own
coin.
Year: 1869

The Portland Argus relates that as the
morning train over the p. s. &. p. Rail-
road was passing through the suburbs on
Its way to Portland few days since, m
old lady was seen by the engineer on the
track short distance ahead of the train.
He made MI the noise he could by whis-
Ting and ringing the bell, but she needed
not the rapid approach of the iron horse
with his rolling stock. The engine wa,
reversed and the brakes set up Just In sea-
son so that the little shock given the old
lady only unceremoniously seated her on
tho cow. catcher of the engine. When
the train had completely stopped, she
alightcd and pleasantly said to the engi.
neer, '.I heard your whistle. but thought
1t was from % tug boat. / am much


obliged to you for Stopping She wa.
not girl Of the period, for she did moi
scream and faint. She must have been
well schooled in etiquette. .......
Year: 1869

THE LATEST LfPRovRNENr.-One Of the
latest things out for an improvement is that
Of a. @. Goodrich's Patent Combined Hem
and Tuck Measure aud Marker This attach
ment is simple and durable, and can be at
tached to any sewing machine. sBy use of
this attachment each succeeding tuck is meas
ured and marked out true and parallel with
the last line of stitching while the same is
being sewed. When We take into considera-
ton the beauty of the work done, and the
ease and facility with which il is accomplished,
We do nOi hesitate to say that no attachment
heretofore used on q machine is so simple
and easily managed, and does all it's work
with such precision as the New Tuck Meas
ure and Marker, as now applied to all sewing
machines. All sdies who use . machine wen
know the length Of time required toImeasure,
mark and fold the tuck above that taken to
do tho sewing of the same. To say that Ave
seams around an ordinary skirt, of four or
i've yards each, can be sewed in the time re-
quirel TO measure, mark and fold one tuck,
is only repeating fact well known to all.
But now, IL tuck can be measured and
marked out true and parallel with the line of
stitching while the same is being sewed, then
at least four times as much work can be done
in given time, and in superior manner in
comparison to that done in the ordinary way.


These attachments may be found at all sew
ing machine Offices throughout the United
States, where circulars and all information
may be; had, or circulars sent on application,
by addressing the patentee, H. G. GOODRICH.
95 Michigan avenue. Chicago.
Year: 1869

SHAKEN UP.--When the wind storm came
up in Hunterdon. n. j., last Friday after
noon, George Kuhl, of Copper Hill, was
just tying the cap-sheafof stack of wheat.
The wind struck the stack, and Mr.. Kuhl
found himself sliding off with the top, and
landed in the wagon, which was standing
alongside. A ladder standing against the
stack was blown over. striking the mules
across the back, which frightened them,
and away they went over the fields on q
wild run for the barn. On their way they
took short cut through the peach orchard,
running against more than thirty peach
trees, of four years growth, every one of
which was either broken off or torn out
Mr.. X. remained in the wagon all the time,
and says he never had such jolting up as
he then experienced.
Year: 1869

A Coop MovE.-The people everywhere are
finding out that the best articles are tho
cheapest in the end, especially where life and
health are concerned. They are therefore
using Fougers's Compound Iodinised Cod
Liver Oil in preference 10 all others, as there
by they are sure to derive moro benefit. All
who are afflicted with lung diseases should
take it. II is sold everyr ere.
Year: 1869

THERE is no mistake about il, PLANTATION
BITTErs will ward of Fever and Ague and all
kindred diseases if used in time. No family
need suffer from this distressing complaint
if they will keep PLANTATION BITTERs in the
house, and use it according to directions.
The most important ingredient of this medi-
cine is Calissys or Peruvian Bark, which Is
known to be the finest and purest tonic in
the vegetable kingdom. The extract of this
Bark is the active principle of all the good
Fever and Ague Medicines prescribed By in
telligent doctors. Calisaya Bark is used ex-
tepsfyely in the manufacture of PLANTATION
BIrTERs, as well as quinine, and We dare say
they owe their popularity mostly to that fact.
We can recommend them. .i@
Year: 1869

In all the recent works the eye, the subject of
accommodation, or the fitting of glasses, receives
The largest share of attention. Considering its ex
tensive application it is regarded as the most valua
Die result derived from the recent advances in oph-
thalmc science.
Year: 1869

1t is important that when the eye is being used,
the crystalline should 1emain in passive state.
If an effort is made to read with glasses too strong
or too weak, constant tension is kept u on the
ciary muscles which operate the crystalline. This
not only prevents the full development of the sight
but 1t hastens the deterioration of the eye and me-
cessitates gradual increase in the strength of the
glasses.
Year: 1869

and nobody speaks. Another is the street
car or railway car, where dozen neigh
bors ride home together, and neither says
a word, unless it is within week of an
election. s i'll another is the domestic
parlor, where the husband silently reads
his evening paper from eight to ten, and
does not even tell his wife the deaths and
marriages. If such man would even,
like the Trsppists. put in an occasional
suggestion to Remember DEATH" it
would be something consoling. How are
we to explain this odd combination, this
silent gregariousness Are we in tran.
sition state from the Eoglsh to the
French type, that we thus congregate as
if we were French, and hold our tongues 10
if we were English2 Or. is it the vast
ness of our national experiment that
makes US wish, like children in the dark,
to hold each others hand and say noth-
ing2 1t is easier to ask these questions
than to answer them. Nstiens develop
in their own way. Perhaps with freer
means of communication we shall yet
shrink less from country life. With more
variety of culture, we may grow more
sensible. as well 90 more social.-NeU
York Tribune.
Year: 1869

OUR STREETS. No one walking through
the town can but observe the improve
ment IN the roads and streets that are in
progress under the efficient labors OF
Commissioner Adams. Although some
may think he does not work fast enough,
if they examine them they will find the
work is being done thoroughly and per-
manently, not temporarily, but put in
condition to last for years. He will serve
all alike before he closes his labors, and it
will be well done The new road. the
extension of Pine street to the residence
of Col. Kingsley, is being graded stoned
and graveled in a permanent manner, and
in time that locality will be open for
buildings, and nothing can sooner accom-
plish such a desirable result than the
building OF "a substantial highway Ii il
one of the best signs in the progress OF
Rutland that It's buildings are being of a
character that will not only ornament the
streets. and they are not constructed OF a
material that does not make them tinder
boxes for the devouring eleme nj, but also
our sidewalks, highways, crosswalks, and
sewers are being built with a view TO
their permanence. and rot for a mere tenn
pprary purpose.
Year: 1869

He simplified the subject and brought
it within the scope of every individual
present He proved himself to be an en-
thusiastic student and instructor of Geol-
ogy, and added greatly to the interest OF
the meeting.


The attendance of teachers as well as
citizens, was large, crowded houses greet
ing each speaker, and a lively interest
was manifest in all the exercises OF the
meeting
Year: 1869

PouGTSEY.-Thc Poultney Bulletin,
under the head Of "Auld Lang Sync,
gives the following extract from letter
received from former resident


Il have to acknowledge the receipt of
the back numbers of the Bulletin, con-
tanning the Judges history of the money
diggers, which il mostly new TO me; IT IL
human nature, think, to be interested in
incidents that occur near home, though
in themselves unimportant. You also
have nv hearty thanks for beautiful
map of Poultney sent gratis. In looking
over the map it awakens in my mind
many recollections of the past. Some
pleasant ones, some sorrowful. Some with
whom have held sweet counsel, now rest
from their labors some have gone to
their rest full of years, some in youth;
some in infancy, all sleep the sleep that
knows no waking, until those in their
graves hear His voice and come forth.


Rests there one on your green hillside
dear to me as life itself; snatched away,
a prattling child just at that tender age
when our affections were so intertwined
with it's very life, that it required more
than human strength to say: Thy will
be done" Her last words on earth were
Papa; and how oft the question presents
itself to my mind, shall that sweet voice
greet me when / enter the pearly gate,
where death and parting shall be no moreS
I think a dozen families are all that re-
main Of your villages population Of twen-
ty-fve years age. Alas how changed !
where once familiar voices greeted
nv ears, strangers unheeding pass me
by. Youth has ripened into manhood and
in distant homes have made new friends
and with the big throng have sought
wealth or pleasure; but how many have
instead, drained the bitter cup Of sorrow,
l think but few villages in the State with
the same natural advantages have shown
as much enterprise and spirit of progress
as yours. bid you hearty God speed
and invoke heavens richest blessing upon
you, that your intellectual, moral, and re-
Year: 1869

WoNDERFUL PREsENTIMENT OF AP-
PRoACHISG DEATH.-A most singular
and surprising realization of PRESENT.
ment Of death has just occurred in this
city. A lady on the eve Of becoming a
mother, anticipated that she would not
live after the birth Of her child. This
being 80 deeply impressed upon her mind,
she mentioned TO friends visiting her that
it would be the last time many Of them
would see her in this life. Her death
followed the birth Of her child an hour
and half. More singular than all per-
haps, is the fact that her husband,
upon searching for paper to record the
names Of the pall-bearers for his wife's
Year: 1869

It is the solemn thought connected with
middle age that life's last business is begun
in earnest and it is then, midway between
the cradle and the grave, that man begins
to look back and marvel, with kind of re
morseful feeling, that he let the days Of
youth go by SO half enjoyed. 1t is the pen
sive autumn feeling it is the sensation of
half sadness that we experience when the
longest day of the year is past, and every
day that follows is shorter. aad the lights
fainter, and the feeble shadows tell that na-
ture is fastening with gigantic footsteps 10
her winter grave.


So does man look back upon his youth.
When the first gray hairs become visible,
when the uuWelcome truth forces itself up
on the mind that man is no longer going
up the hill but down, and that the sun is
already westeriug, he looks back on things
behind.


Now this is natural feeling, but is it
wise Is it the high Christian tone of
feeling We answer, No. We, who have
an "inheEitance incorruptble and undefled.
and that fadeth not away" what have we
to do with things past? When We were
as children, we thought as children. But
now there lies before Us manhood, with its
earnest work; and then old age, and then
the grave, and then home. An so man
hood, in the Christian life is better than
boyhood, because it is a..riper thing and
old age ought to be brighter, calmer, and
a more serene thing than manhood.


This is a second youth for man, better
and holier than the first, if be will look on
and not back. There is peculiar simpll-
city of heart, and touching singleness of
purpose in Christiaa-ofd age which has RI
pened gradually and not ftfully. It is then
that to the wisdom of the serpent is added
the barmlessness of the dove it is then
that to the frmness of manhood is joined
almost the gentleness of womanhood; it is
then that the somewhat austere and sour
character of growing strength, moral and
intellectual, mellows into the ripeness of an
old age, made sweet and tolerant by expe-
rience. 1t is then that man returns to first
principles. Then comes love more pure
and deep than the boy could ever feel
then comes a conviction, with a strength
beyond that which the boy could never
know, that the earliest lesson of life is in
finite. Christ is all in all.-Earnest Thoughts