smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

1t will be winter soon, but before the
ground closes and the snow comes can't you
build shed over the place where your ma
nure heaps will be piled and thus save
third part of the value of the manure?


Some Of these fine days can't you gather
few more leaves little muck, sawdust,
sand or something else to bed down your
stock with during the winter?


Can't you bank up the house little bet
ter, or pile hemlock around it, or plaster up
the cracks around the cellar windows so
the potatoes won't freeze as they did last
winter?


Cant you batten the barn, or contrive
some other way to make it little warmer
than out of doors?


Can't you clean and oil up the tools you
are done using for this season, so they won't
rust out before you want them again?


Can't you move the watering trough into
the barn cellar or under a shed, so the cat
tie can and will drink without being choked
to it.


Can't you fix a hen-roost somewhere, so
the droppings won't all light on the cattle's
backs or in the horse cribs ?


Can't you build false entry over the out
side door that will save wood and keep the
children from getting cold?


Can't you arrange the corn barn some
way so the rats won't eat half the grain in
it3


Can't you bank up the pump and put
clothes on to the water-pipe, so they won't
freeze up before spring?


Can't you put in that light of glass that
has been broken out of the window in the
gable end of the barn for two years


Can't you put new floor in the place oI
the old one which has worn out in the cat.
tie and horse stalls?


Can't you kill off twenty-five of the thirty
doves that belong in your barn and must
steal living or starve this winter?


Can't you build over the hog pen, so the
porkers won't have to shiver and grow poor
for the next three months ?


Can't you clear the barn of carts and car
riages, so as to give you elbow room and O
chance to feed your cattle?


Can't you put away what rakes and forks
you will not need, and not have all yol
own around the barn to get broken and b,
in the way?


Can't you fix the sheep.pens and cribs 81
as to save fodder and make it better for both
sheep and shepherd


Of course you can, and if these thing
need doing about your premises it will bC
money in your purse to be up and doinl
them.-MirrOr and Farmer.
Year: 1874

money out of these paper promises to pay
than they could out Of currency resting
upon gold, dollar for dollar. They don't
want to see specie payments.


The railroad management have driven all
of their property up to the highest possible
point, and are taxing the people roundy to
pay big interest on the same. Ask an out
slider who has looked this matter over care
fully how came this state of affairs about,
and his answer will be, "greeubacks." In
our direful distress government forced
greenbacks upon tho people. What would
be said of doctor that gave calomel to a
patient as a last resort and cured the dis
ease, and after the patient got well contin-
ued to dose him with calomel.


Il. f. LAY.
HarerhiH, ~ H., Nov. Z.
Year: 1874

My remedy would be TO raise a better
class of pigs. l would raise such pigs as
would stand high feeding until they were
fat enough for market, and then would dis
pose of them without delay. If you take
pigs that are not accustomed to mature be.
fore they are three or four years old, and
endeavor to SO feed and force them that they
shall be ready for market at twelve months
old or less, what can you expect but hog
cholera On the other hand, breed that
is accustomed, and has been for generations,
to mature early can be pushed forward rap
idly without injury.


l should expect the best success from
pigs raised from large, healthy, oommo n
SOW, sired by the refined thoroughbred boar,
Of a breed distinguished for its gentleness,
6neness Of bone, little oflal, early maturity,
and fattening qualities. The mother would
furnish the digestive powers, and the sire the
assimilating powers. These qualities, COM
bined with early maturity, 6ueness of bone,
and high qualities of meat, would give you
precisely what a good feeder wants.
Harris.
Year: 1874

Hop to Make Cream Pies.-Take the
cream from one pan Of milk, add one egg,
one tablespoonful sugar, and use nutmeg or
lemon. Bake as you would a custard pie.


Baked Eggs.-Beat up six eggs, one ta-
blespoonful OF -four, six Of sweet milk melt
your butter in the frying pan when hot,
turn the whole in, well beaten, and bake in
hot oven.


Corn Batter Bread.-Take six teaspoon.
fuls Of flour, and three of corn meal, with
little salt; siit them, and make thin bat
ter with four eggs and sufficient quantity
of milk; bake in small pans in a quick
oven.


Shin Of Beef Soup.-Ilave the shin well
cracked up; put 1t to boil in five or six
quarts OF water boil it five or six hours
skim it very often. Cut up very fine, halfa
white cabbage chop two turnips and three
onions put them all into the soup with pep
per aud salt, and boil it two hours; take the
bone and griste out before serving, II you
have some raised dough, make up a dozen
balls, the size of nutmeg, drop them into
the soup and let them boil half an hour.


Oatmeal .Mush.-As a general rule the
coarser the meal the better the mush. The
meal in which the kernels are barely broken
in two once, is next in quality to the groats,
which are not broken at all. Pour one
measure of this coarse oatmeal into three aud
one-half measures of boiling water. Stir oc-
oasionally, and boil briskly until the meal
is evenly difuscd through the water, then
set the Kettle back where il will barely sim.
mer, cover close aud let it cook an hour
without stirring, Then dish and serve
warm.
Year: 1874

OLD BUTTER.-A package of Danish but
ter, packed seventeen months ago and in
prime condition, was received by the Presi-
dent of the New York Butter and Cheese
Exchange the other day. 1t came from DO.
livia, where it had been sent from London,
and was accompanied by a note stating that
if as good butter could be produced here
New York would soon have control Of the
trade of the South American markets, as the
cost Of butter from London was too great.
A meeting Of merchants was held, when it
was decided that as good butter could be
made here and that steps should be at once
taken to secure control Of the South AmerI-
can trade. Wood has heretofore been al
most exclusively used for packing purposes,
but it is to be superseded by tin, which has
been tested and found in every way to be su.
perior to wood. The butter packed in tin
was not rusty in the least, although it had
been shipped from Denmark to London,
from London to Bolivia and from Bolivia to
New York city.
Year: 1874

What do we mean by an improved breed
of lpigs2 Usually we mean a breed that
has fine bone and little oifal. A breed that
is very quiet and will turn the food it eats
into flesh and fat. 1t is breed that will
eat and digest stomach full of rich food
aud assimilato it. As rule the weak spot
in all high-bred pigs is that their digestive
powers are not as good as their assimilating
powers. They can assimilate more food
than they can digest. On the other hand,
our common, coarse, unimproved hogs can
usually eat and digest more food than they
can assimilRte. They are accustomed to for
age for themselves. They have plenty Of
exercise and comparatively little food. Now,
then if you take such breed of hogs, and
endeayor to push thcm rapidly forward with
rich food, it is easy to see how their blood
could be poisoned by the excess of material
which the animal is not able to convert in
to flesh aud fat.
Year: 1874

The cheese and butter are handled by one
house in New York City, that of John s.
Martin, and the cheese generally sells at q
price very nearly or quite up to that OBJ
tanned by the majority of factories The
sales this year up to September have aver
aged within &c. per pound of the "best fan
cy" which goes to market. While the but.
ter taken off sells for enough more to make
up the difference or loss if any on this
cheese aud in addition gives handsome
profit to the proprietors Of the factories.
In other words the business pays well for
capital invested and for labor employed,
besides giving handsome margin for risks
and the accumulation of "sinking fund.-
Rural Ne,c. Yorker.
Year: 1874

Breakfast Rolls.-Take coffee cupful of
new milk; two beaten eggs half cup Of
fresh yeast; teaspoouful of salt tea
spoonful Of sugar two tablespoonfuls OF but
ter or sweet lard stir in briskly enough
siIted -four to make a stiff batter. They
should be mixed in this way at tea time,
and covered up to rise. Late in the eve
ming, when the dough is light, mold it out
on the board and put back in the pan, and
cover again. In the morning tear of, but
do not cut in ipicces of sufficient size to
twist up into rolls, working it as little as
possible when they puff up, bake in Il
quick oven, and eat them while hot,
Year: 1874

Why is it that on the removal of an old
growth of timber If the land is allowed to
grow up to timber again we get new
growth unlike the old one In kindp From
whence comes tho new growthP


SUBSCRIBER,
South Wheelocb. Nov. 10.


Science has failed to settle upon the cause
Of the fact inquired about above. Various
theories are advanced, one of which is that
the seeds Of the various kinds Of trees are
present in the soil, ready to spring up, but
the large growth ehokes out those in the
minority, as weeds will sometimes choke out
a valuable crop. But the forest which
Year: 1874

Some changes are gradually being made
in the cheese factory system which promise
to be an additional Improvement in con.
Quoting the business of dairying. The old
plan, and that on which most of the fac
tories are now managed, is TO make the
factory q "joint stock affair" among the
farmers of neighborhOOd, or perhaps one
Year: 1874

grows takes certain constituents from the
soil, so that when the burden of timber is ta-
ken off the composition Of the soil is not
what it was when said growth began. The
new growth starts with an equal chance, but
one class Of trees find more pOurishment Pc
culiarly fitted for them than tho other does,
and so overbears it and crowds it out.
Year: 1874

The executive committee of the State
Grange has issued an address to the.
Grangers Of Wisconsin. 1t warns them
that an attempt will be made in the
next Legislature to secure the repeal of
the railroad law, and urges them to re-
sist the effort. The address concludes
as follows:


In this connection your committee
would impress upon every member Of
the order, the Importance of persistent
attention to the details incident and
necessary to secure a legislature the
coming winter which shall hereafter be
known as having been impregnable to
the assaults of organized capital. Your
committee would also add word in IA
vor Of t.he practice already inaugurated
oy the order, of requiring public an
swers to questions publicly put to can
didates as to their opinions upon SUBJ.
jects they are likely to be required to
act upon. This is especially important
upon the coming occasion, but it should
be adopted as settled policy and prac-
tice of the order to make these public
inquiries of public officers at any and
all times while they occupy public po--
sitions.
Year: 1874

Todd was asked the other day his
private opinion of Stebbins. He re-
piled, with that impressive solemnity
peculiar to that great man, slightly
shifting his shining plug hat back, so
that the listener might have the full
benefit Of his own expressive and in
tellectual countenance:


''Stebbins, sir; brains, sir; brains.
You never see such a clear head as
what he has-so ca m and so cool.
Just hunk of brains-that's what he
is. Perfectly awful. It is ripping
distance from one end Of that mans
head to t'other. Often and over again
he's had brain fever a-raging in one
place, and the rest Of the pile didn't t
know anything about it-didn't affect
it any more than an Injun insurrection
in Arizona affects the Atlantic States. y
Year: 1874

Disinterested benevolence and mutual
friendship are always touching. The
Minneapolis Tribune and the Evening
Mail both support Bill King, and Bill
King supports them.-Farmington
Press.
Year: 1874

THE MONEY MARKET


Money rates to-day were on the basis OF az and
B. per cent Commercial paper unchanged. For
eign exchange closed quiet at 4.851s a 4.S5A for
bankers sixty days. sterling and 4s9k 40 for
demand.


GOLD


opened at 111h and closed at 111H, the feeling IN
favor OF higher prices being still strong. Opinions
vary as TO the success OF any artificial bull move
ment on this side, yet coincide in the belief that
with an advance in the English bank rate and
corresponding advance in exchange gold must be
quoted at q higher standard In the near future.
Year: 1874

The project of converting portion Of
the Great Sahara Desert into an inland
sea continues to find favor, and it is un-
derstood that thorough surveys with a
view to determine the precise mode of ac.
complishing this object are under way by
the French government. As to whether
the result aimed at is desirable or not is q
question of considerable discussion. On
the one had, the replacing of a large
amount of desert waste by water, and
making seaports of interior towns in AL.
geria, and the expected restoration Of an
ample rainfall to various parts of North.
ern Africa, are viewed with favorable an
ticipations. On the other hand, it is
maintained that the sea will be simply an
immense evaporation basin, which will
soon be clogged up with salt; or that ,
serious interference will take place in the
amount of heated air carried across tht
Mediterranean, which at present prevent,
the extension Of the Alpine glaciers
Should this Uninterrupted, it is feared tha
increased glaciation will ensue, possibly
restoring large portion of Centra
Europe to its condition during the rein
deer epoch. Whatever be the result Of
this great engineering operation, it is ex
tremely probably that it will be attempted
by the French authorities.
Year: 1874

The following sad warning is from tho
pen OF New York correspondent of the
Buffalo Commercial advertiser: sThe
use OF tobacco is bad enough when begun
in mature life, but it is infinitely worse
when the foundation of the habit are laid
in early years, as seems to have been the
case here. A case of my own intimate
acquaintance has this very week appalled,
a large circle of friends in this city. The
victim was exactly my own years, and q
companion from early childhood. For 80
years, at least, he has been a continual
smoker of the choicest cigars, but in all
his other habits temperate and regular,
and OF excellent constitution-one who,
OF all men, would have laughed at the sug-
gestion that tobacco was killing him. On
the Saturday night previous he was strick-
en- with progressive paralysis, character
lstlc OF nicotine, and ON Saturday night
he died. His death was most pitiful-
First sight was lost, then speech, then
motion of the neck, then motion of the
arms, and so on throughout the body, and
he lay for fortnight unable to move or
make sign, save pitiful, tongueless, in
articulate sound, which sometimes rose to
almost frantic efforts, all in vain, to make
known what he wished to say to his fam
lily or friends-for his consciousness and
mental faculties were left unimpaired till
within two hours of the last, to aggravate
to the uttermost the horror of his situa-
tion-a living soul in dead body. The
sense of hearing was left unimpaired, so
that he was conscious of all around him,
while as incapable of communicating with
them as if dead, save by slight sign of
accent or dissent to a question. The doc
tors were fully agreed that tobacco was
the cause of the stroke
Year: 1874

ALLEGED CURE OF LEPRosy
"Friend OF India" reports that the Mad
ras surgeon in medical charge Of the
penal settlement at Ft. Blair believes be
has made valuable discovery in the cure
OF leprosy. He is Of opinion that it can
be cured by the oil of the gurjun-tree-
Every leper in the settlement is, it is said
being cured fast of this loathsome dis
ease. In no case has there been the
slightest failure, and the disease has been
arrested at every stage.
Year: 1874

When trade grew slack, and notes fell due,
Inc merchants face grew long and blue;
HIS dreams were troubled through the night,
With sheriffs, bailiffs, all in sight,
AT last his wife unto him said
"h1se up at once, get out of bed,


ana get your paper, ink, and pen,
And say these words unto all men:


my goods wish to sell to you,


And to your wife and daughter, too:
my prices they shall all be low,
THAT each shall buy before they go."
He did as his good wife advised,
And in the paper advertised;
crowds came and bought of all he had,
His notes were paid, his dreams were glad,
And he will tell you to this day,
How well did printers ink repay
He told US, with knowing wink
HOW he was saved with printers ink.
Another-in place as tight
Contented was the press to slight;
He did not let the people know,
or what he had or where to go.
His drafts were due and were not paid:
A levy on his goods was made;
The store was closed until the sale
And for some time he was in Jail.
bankrupt now, without a cent,
At leisure he can deep repent
That he was foolish and unwise,
AND did not freely advertise.
Year: 1874




We have nothing new to report either for better
or worse III the general trade of the city and country
Money is little more active than last week, with
sils ut advance III rates. though in ordinary busi
ness times our present money market would be
garded as very rosy" one, as in fact it is for that
matter. The rates on call have ranged from to
per cent, while frst-class commercial paper goes
at to per cent. according as the bills have short
or long time to run. There has been no important
change ill sterling bills, though the market was
little moro active at the close than
at the commencement of tho week.
We continue to export gold. and there is naturally
surprise expressed that the fact does not
show itself more prominently in the bank statement
and in the market price for coin at the Gold Ex-
change where the fluctuations Of the week in a
speculation that has been alternately weak and firm
have been only per cent. the range having been
11l3 and ILL.,! with the closing price at III,
actly the figure at which the mark closed week
ago The following table shows the course of the
Il r.
Year: 1874

It will pay to examine LEVY BROTHERS stock
Of Ladies' Dress Goods. They offer extraordinary
bargains, being determined not ID carry any over
the season. They also offer large lot OF remnants
vQry cheap,
Year: 1874

PAY YouR WATER TAxEs.-We again urge ali
who have not Jet paid their water taxes, 10 do So
at once. After February 2sth, an additional five
per cent will be added to the face OF the bill


making ten per cent. extra which all delinquents
must pay. There is no use in delaying this mat
ter as the taxes must bs paid in the end, or else
the parties must do without Brandywine water
The last day of grace expires March 3lst, and in
all where tax has not been paid BY this date
the ferrules will be drawn and the supply of wa
ter cut OF. BY paying at once parties will save
much trouble. st.
Year: 1874

BAD BOYS So bad and malicious have been
the boys In the vicinity Of Third and Jefferson
streets, tha. this morning gentleman living in
the ne,ghborheod lodged complaint at Police Head
quarters, and left the names of several OF the
Cffsnders. The parents of these boys had tetter
guard them closely, or they may experience con-
siderable expense and disgrace on account of their
neglect.
Year: 1874

FRESH SHAD.-Captain Barry has favored our
people with q supply of fine fresh shad from
North Carolina. They can be had OF 4l6H Market
street. Also, fresh herring. from the South Fifty
cents dozen. At this season they are a luxury
to our people not often induIged in
Year: 1874

Money has been easy at and per cent on call
loan and 81 TO @ on discounts of prime paper


Government bonds were firm in both home and
foreign markets, and hence fair trade was do1e in
she leading issues. We annex closing street quota
Year: 1874

A VERY serious accident occurred to the
north bound train on the Mississippi Cen.
trail railroad on Friday evening. The
cause Of the accident as near ss we could
ascertain appevrs to be this: On Friday
evening, owing to the large number Of
people returning from the carnival, 1t was
found necessary to divide the train into
two sections. Both sections left New Or
leans on time, and the first train passed
Canton, a place q short distance this side
of Now Orleans, all right, but the
switchman thero did not notice that the
train hsd flag out, indicating z
that q second train was coming, and
opened the switch to lot out q freight train
which had been placed on side track
In few minutes after, and before
the freight train had got under way, tn,
second section OF the passenger trair
came along, and running at the rate O
about eighteen miles an hour, ran onto tn,
side track and collidsd with the froigh
train, The result Of the collision was tn,
killing of q negro boy, who was In the bag
ago car, and slightly wounding two o.
three other persons. This report come


from q reliable source.
Year: 1874

WELL, from what you hear what do
you think Of tho women's temperance
movement? do you believe the women of
Cairo will organize and endeavor to pray
the saloons out of existence" are questions
thA. are sung IN our oars on an average
fifty times day. To all those who con-
template putting such questions to us to-
morrow to-day is Sunday, and we stall
attend strictly to our religious duties, and
nothing else, we will say that We have
had our answer printed on large placsrd,
which we intend strapping on the back Of
our office boy, and have him parade the
streets throughout the day. The card
contains thi. answer: ave don't know
what the women intend to do; the bes


way TO find out 10 to ask the womsn."
Year: 1874

A wELL-KSowH old ba.chlor of this
city proposes to put his neck into the
matrimonial halter about the middle Of
March. The aforesaid old batchlor may
be seen winding his way to and from the
courthouse three or four times daily.
Year: 1874

An English paper says A remark
able example of presence of mind ia D
railway porter is afforded by an incident
which occurred as the down train from
Perth TO Aberdeen was leaving Guthrie
station. A newslsoy who accompanied
this train while in the act of stepping
into carriage missed his footing, and
fell down between the platform and the
wheels of the carriages. As the train
was by this time in motion, any attempt
on the part of the boy to get up would
have infallibly resulted in his instant
death. Nine persons ont of ten wit
Messing this accident would have turned
pale, and either shrieked out at the top
of their voices advice of various kinds,
or remained awe-struck and motionless,
abiding the issue. Fortunately, howev-
er, one OF the station porters was mas
ter of the moment and of the situation,
and, rushing forward, lay down on the
platform then seiZing the boy with his
hands, held him fat on the ground till
all the footboards of the train had
passed over him and the danger had
ceased. This combination of coolness
and common-sen is an acquisition
that may we'll be envied by many per-
son who, notwithstanding all the gifts
of an elaborate education, is less tit To
battle with the difficulties and emergen-
cies OF life than the humble station
porter at Guthrie, who thus saved The
newsboy from a horrible death.
Year: 1874

Crimes against property and per-
son have doubled since the cold snap
set in. Homeless vagrants, crowded
out Of police lodgings, and having no
soup houses to fall back upon. are
nerved by the desperation of hunger to
crimes of unusual violence. Preferring
to go to prison rather than starve, they
have no fear of arrest if the ordinary
chance of impunity fails them. What
are We going to do about it q? On the
eve of Thanksgiving day fourteen able
bodied men and women who were to be
discharged from the Kings County Pen
itentiary prevailed upon the keeper to
complain of them as vagrants, and lock
them up again until May l. 1t is idle
to say these people could find work il
they wanted il. The work is not to be-
had. But it ought to be created. IL
will be cheaper for the city and Sta'e
to make work for The unemployed than
to expend large sums OF money for
charity. Work is asked, and not aims.
NeU York Commercial -4dvertiser.