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Year: 1874

A number of circumstances unite
to cause salt pork to be one of
the leading articles of diet in the
farmers family; and for all it is so
easily cured, it is astonishing to
know how much is lost every year
by being improperly cut and salted'
Much finds its way to the soap Ket-
tie, and q large amount comes on on
the table So badly tainted as to oe
unwholesome food. Every farmer
barrel as the first essential for prop.
erIy saving pork. 1t should Se OF
Oa On9d materials; iron bound with an
Sra Sra heavy hoop at the bottom. 1t
should be provided with a closely
ftI;ng cover that will come over the
chime. This cover should be pro-
vided with handle. If new wines
should not be put in old bottles
there is no danger in putting new
pork into old barrels. Many indeed
seem to think that there is virtue IN
an old barrel, and would prefer one
that had been in use for a year to
one lust from the shop of \ cooper
A weil-made pork barrel will last
for wears, for the salt that it alb
Year: 1874

serbs will preserve it. 1t should nO'
be used, however, for holding be


mutton, or even hams and shoulders,
which require a different pickle than
that required for clear pork.


The pork barrel should stand in
the coolest part of the cellar. 1t
should rest on a support that there
is no danger of water coming in
contact with it. A false head, with
holes bored through it, should be
provided for preventing the pork
from coming to the surface. A
stone should be placed on this. If
there is old brine in the barrel
when you wish to pack pork, it
should be boiled and the impurities
skinned off when it may be used
again. The hogs after dressing,
should hang out in cool place at
least twelve hours before the meat
is packed 1t would be best if they
were split in two. The softer parts
of the belly, the trimming from the
hams and shoulders, had better be
tried out for lard or used for saus-
age. If the ribs are entirely remOv-
ed, the meat can be cut IN slices
much better. The less lean meat
there is put into the barrel the less
blood there will be to color the brine
and render it impure.


The clear sides should be cut into
strips of nearly uniform width. 1t
is a good plan to use a straight
edged measure in cutting them
Detached pieces of meat coming to
the sursace of the brine, becomes
rancid and thus injuries the whole
contents of the barrel. The bottom
of the barrel should always be coy
cred with salt. Then a layer of
strips should be placed the rind out
ward, the longest pieces next to the
barrel. Use the shorter strips near
the center of the course. When one
layer is formed as compactly as it
can be done by hand, add half an
inch of salt, and then continue the
successive layers of pork and salt.
Some recommend leaving pork in
clear salt for two or three days.
At the end of this time sufficient
water should be added to cover all
the pork. If all the salt on the up=
per layer is dissolved, more salt
should be added, so that the brine
shall be of full strength.


Prairie Farmer
Year: 1874

FORTY is an ugly corner that takes a
man into the shadow of life. as it were.
But better be in the shadow with friends
You love, than keep in the everlasting sun
shine of youth, If that were possible. and
see them go down in the valley without
you. One does not feel his progress when
all around is going on at the same rate.
Year: 1874

The Arkansas Legislature organized on the
18th. quorum of both houses being present
Baxter was recognized a Governor, and a
joint committee was appointed to prepare
resolutions 10 send to the President. giving
the views Of the Legislature in reference TO
the existing difficulties in that State


A short skirmsh occurred during the eve
ming, in which two men were wounded
Year: 1874

Manufacturers of human hair goods
have long been trying to find some way
to separate and turn mixed hair, so as
to place the roots all one way. This
problem has been solved at last by
Mrs. Emma Hough, of this District,
who has lately invented and patented a
machine that does its work thorough
ly and perfectly, just as if it knew ex-
actly what ought to be done, and knew
how to do it. This machine, the first
one made, is now in use, at Peckham' s
hair store, corner of Fourth and South
Ninth streets. To show us what it
could do, the machine took in and put
through sample of mixed hair. lit
tie more than an ounce, eombings
saved by lady and furnished for the
experiment. We examined the hair
carefully with microscope before it
was placed in the machine. The roots
and points were about equally mixed,
half and half each way. We watched
the process from first to last, and the
machine did just as we had been told
it would do. The sample came out
smooth and straight, all the roots one
way, making it equal to the best im-
ported hair; the value more than
doubled.-Brookly Daily Times.
Year: 1874

SYDNEY SMITH said one thing which
is good for youth to have quoted in its
behalf, and as reply to the maxim
they ike not, namely, Spare the rod
and spoil the child" To hardship,
say some people-to whom it is easiest
to be hard-children should be early
Injured, so that in after life they may be
better able to bear it, though if it
should not come atall in after life their
labor is in vain. Sydney Smith, on the
contrary, says: Those young people
will turn out to be the best men who
have been guarded most effectually in
their childhood from every species OF
useless yexation, and experience in the
greatest degree the blessings of wise
aud rational indulgence"
Year: 1874

will always be demand for the manufactured
article. We have waterpower in abundance.


If Northern manufacturers can pay trans
portation and insurance on the raw material,
and manufacture it on the frozen streams OF
New England, and realize handsome profits,
WHY cannot the Southern manufacturer who
can purchase it at his very door without the
expense of freight and insurance charges,
compete successfully with Northern manufac-
turers? Our water powers are as good, the
streams seldom frozen, and our climate is
much better we can work more days in the
year; labor can be had cheaper. Besides
making large profits on the capital invested,
YOU will give employment to our poor women
and children, and the cost of manufacturing,
instead of enriching men thousand miles
away, will be spent with our own merchants
and tradesmen, and thus improve the condi-
tion of our State.


I do not wish to be misunderstood. I do not
desire North Carolina to invest her capital in
factories because l entertain any unkind feel
ing for Northern people. l have had enough
of sectionalism. was once known as "king
Cotton" but my crown, fnot entirely ruined,
is badly damaged by sectional difficulties. l
only mention the North because most of our
staple is manufactured there. | wish to see
all our people, North and South, prosper, but
l can see nothing like prosperity for the
South-for North Carolina-until the people
learn to raise their own food, manufacture
their own staple, and give employment to their
own mechanics. (M c. Crescent.
Year: 1874

is made to pass from one apartment to the
other, connecting a clock in sixteen business
wings of the establishment, and regulating
them with such precision, that the whole of
them are always pointing to the same second
of time. In another room was machine, ex-
ceedingly simple, for detecting light gold coins.
A row of them dropped one by one upon
spring scale. If the piece Of gold was of the
standard weight, the scale rose to certain
height, and the coin slid off upon the side of
the box if less than the standard, it rose
little higher, and the coin slid upon the other
side. l asked the weigher what was the aver
age number of light coins that came into his
hands, and, strangely enough, he said it was
question he was not allowed to answer.


The next room I entered was that in which
the notes are deposited which are ready tor
issue. eve have thirty-two millions of
pounds sterling in this room," the officer re: re-
marked to me-; "will you take little of it :"
1 told him it would be vastly agreeable, and
he handed me million sterling Give million
ofdolars, which received with many thanks
for his liberality, but he insisted on my de-
posting it with him again.. as it would be
hardly safe to carry so much money into the
street. I very much fear that I shall never
see that money again. In the vault beneath
the door was director and the cashier count
ing the bags of gold, which men were pitching
down to them, each bag containing thou
sand pounds sterling just from the mint.
This world of money seemed to realize the ia.
bles of Eastern wealth, and gave me new and
strong impressions of the magnitude of the
business done here, and the extent of the re-
lations of this one institution to the commerce
of the world.
Year: 1874

1T pays to raise good stock that ;
what Mr.. Samuel Look OF North Jay says,
and backs the assertion by the following
items: Said he, within the last six years
| have sold four pairs of steer calves for
$3.50; none Of them being six months old
and some of them considerably less than
that. The highest price received for
a pair was S130, the lowest SO. The
calves We're all OF Durham blood and of
course well matched in every particular
AS have seen considerable in the papers
from time to time about big hogs, large
hens eggs and profitable sheep, thought
| would like to say to Maine farmers and
stock-raisers, if there is any one that can
furnish the Journal with an item that can
slrpass or even match this on steer calves,
please to let US heal from him. 1t will
be remembered by some of our readers
that Mr.. Look took several premiums on
stock, at the last show of the Franklin
County Agricultural Society, one for best
matched oxen and another for best trained
steers, these latter being one pair of the
calves sold, spoken Of above, and we
should guess they We're the ones for which
he received the highest price given above.
For the matched oxen at the show Mr.
Look was frequently asked to name q
price, but declined, subsequently, how
ever, we heard they were sold to a gentle
man in Livermore for very high price
We agree with Mr.. Look that it pays to
raise good stock. Pity It's that more farm
ers won't verify the truth of the remark
Lewiston journal.
Year: 1874

1t is pleasant to think. just under the snow


That stretches so bleak. and blank and cold,
Are beauty and warmth that we cannot know,
Green fields, and leaves and blossoms Of gold.
They are hidden how: not glimmer breaks
Through the hard blue lee and the sparkling


drift;


The world shrinks back from the downy flakes
Which out Of the folds of the night-cloud aft.
Full often now when the skies are wild.


And hoarse and sullen the night-winds blow.
And the lanes and hollows with drifts are piled.
| think of the yiolets under the snow.
| look in the wind flowers tremulous eye,
l hear the chip of the ground-bird brown,
A breath from the budding grove steals by,
And swallows are dipping above the town.
The lily shines on its bending stem,


The crocus opens its April gold,
And the rose uptosSes its diadem


Against the floor of the winters cold
And that other world to my soul, say,


That veled the mystic world Of the dead,
II no further away on any day,


Than the lilies Just under the snow we tread.
Year: 1874

Book farming has often been held up to
lilicule. While it is true that farming
from knowledge gained from books
Without practical experience, has general
ly failed OF success, it is also true that the
best success in farming is never attained
without the knowledge which may be
gained from books and papers. Practical
experience accurate observation and close
reasoning must 90 with such knowledge
and the two must 90 together in order to
make the best success, The manufacturer,
the merchant, in short the successful man
in any business is he who with good .iudg-
ment gains knowledge Of the operations
same or similar lines of business, and pro-
and most readily gained from books and
papers


The successful farmer is the reading
one. 1t is only by reading that he can
keep sufficiently posted up with the times,
and be prepared TO cope with the spirit of
the age in which he lives 1t has been
aid that IAN agricultural community
without papers and books adapted to its
varied interests is like Il ship at sea with
out compass OF rudder.' Every man who
has an opportunity to observe various por-
tons OF our country must surely have
noticed the wide contrast often seen in the
condition of communities not very widely
separated from each other, and also that
the greatest degree OF prosperity is always
found accompanying the greatest degree
OF intelligence. In the reading commun-
ity will always be found more money. bet
ter houses, richer lands, better titled
farms worth more per acre, and III every
respect a better social condition than will
be found in the community where books
and papers are not generally and freely
read.


An enteIprising, intelligent, reading
farmer who settles in a backward, non
reading community soon raises the value
of his neighbor's land. He attracts the
attention of other enterprising farmers to
the neighborhood A farmer cannot afford
70 do without books and papers adapted to
hlsFared interests, and more than that, he
cannot afford to allow his neighbors to do
without them, but should use his influence
IN ail suitable ways for their improvement
IN thls respect, inasmuch as the advance
ment OF the mass is the advancement Of
the individual
Year: 1874

ALLOW it! My he thinks she's Just
right, and everything she says is law and
gospel?'


"Well, they do say she makes tip-top
housekeeper. better than most folks
thought for before they We're married.
Mrs. Jedediah Jones told me she gets fifty
Boston,


"Fifty-tive cents y almost shreked Aunt
Polly, who only had fifty for hers


Yes; fifty-tive cents. You see she fixes
it all up in some sort Of fancy balls. She's
a regular manager, | tell YOU


50 it will be seen Laura was gradually
rising in popular esteem. 1t was fact
that the same system, culture, Judgment,
patience, that had made her a successful
teacher, had made her good housekeeper
Instead of doing everything at the hardest.
driving it through, by main strength, she
put some mind into her work, planned,
had method and order, made her brains
save her hands


But some skeptical reader may possibly
suggest that the life of farmers wife
does not consist entirely OF sitting in ivy
wreathed parlors with bright bows on;
that there are certain disagreeabe actual
tiles OF churning, baking. washing, pig
killing, hired men, not to be ignored. 1t
is true it was not ali sunshine Few lives
are. Keats says,


"Where's the eye, however blue.


Doth not Weary -


SO it may be presumed Laura did not
escape her share of the discipline life has
for every station. Sometimes she was
dreadtully tried and consequently little
blue. Sometimes, after q hard days work
a day when she did not feel very well,
and the children We're cross, and every
occasionally in every household-she was
tempted. perhaps, to look back halfregret-
fully to the peaceful days of girlhood But
Lance was so good, so considerate If
Laura was 4 tritle cross he discreetlv said
nothing, which course soon brought her
to 4 very becoming state of humility and
penitencc. He did not look upon woman's
work rs nothing, because different from
his lie felt it iS right that Laura should
have help in the house as he on the farm,
even if in the end he owned less bank
stock and government bonds as a result
lie actually thought more Of his wife than
Of money SO if Laura were pecuniarilv
less profitable to him than big strapping
Phemie Stowell would have been, and if
Laura sometimes had her trials and vexa-
tons yet they never regretted yielding to
the secret attraction of the strong love
that drew them towards each other-a
love that bound them only the more close
ly to each other as the years went on, and
the experiences they brought were enjoy
ed and endured together
Year: 1874

Plum PUDDING. Two eggs; six crack
ers; three pints of sweet milk piece of
butter the size of an egg one cup of raj
Sins little salt and nutmeg.


BAKED INDIAN PUDDING Four eggs
one quart of sweet milk; five large tea
spoonfuls of Indian-meal nutmeg and
sugar to the taste. Boil the milk and
scald the lndian-meal in it, then let it cool
before adding the eggs Bake three quart
ers OF an hour. Eat with butter or sweet
sauce.


PANCAKES. One egg; two spoonfuls
of sugar, one cup of sweet milk one tea
spoonful Of soda; two tea-spoonfuls of
cream-oftartar; three cups of flour.
Year: 1874

A benevolent Old gentleman on Christ
mas day presented seventy-eight news
boys with seventy-eight savings bank pass
books, each representing small account
opened at the bank for the boy by the
generous gentleman. BY this plan the
good old citizen sought to impress on the
minds Of the newsboys the Importance Of
economy and thrift. 1t was beautiful
thought and would be worthy Of imitation
had it not happened that on the day after
Christmas those seventy-eight accounts
were drawn, these seventy-eight pass
books sold for old paper, and seventy
eight newsboys might have been seen at
the theatre that evening, rapturously ap-
plauding the tragic star of the bloody
drama
Year: 1874

We hear Of men contcssng on their
death beds to the crime of murder, abduc-
ton and incendiarism but whoever heard
of man confessing to borrowing his
neighbor's paper instead of subscribing
tor one of his own? Nobody. Death
cannot save that man.
Year: 1874

what It was. For q moment could not discern
the object, for IL was now dusk and the thing was
partly buried In the sand. II seemed biack ano
round and that was all. and was aoouI passing
on without further notice. confess 10 scken-
ing sort OF feeling as saw attached 20 II the long
plated hair. A little nearer look, and saw nad
kicked the head OF a Chlnaman. At another time
the incident would have led to report and inquiry
with dead, 1t was hardly worth attention.


BURNING THE DEAD.


have made many inquiries as to the loss OF life
In Macao and neighborhood; but II s impossible
to give anything like an accurate estimate.
No one puts the number at less than 6ve
thousand, while others say 1t with reach twenty
thousand. Home readers who peruse this account
may think such loss incredible; but those who
know what crowds dweu In small boats and in
Chinese houses win receive the statement
without hesitation. Between two thousand
and three thousand have Teen already
buried or burned. Never. or at least not
in modern times, has there been cremation
on sucn scale. Burying was tried for the hrsr
few days; until the labor OF digging graves was
too great. Then 1t was determined to Try burn
ing. FOR this purpose tar was sought for, but
only one or two barrels could be had. rne method
OF cremation was very simple; TOO simple, indeed,
for any one near the huge burial mounds is pain
hundreds were burned on Saturday, and on sun
day over q thousand bodies were destroyed In
this way. l had intended describing the process
OF burning, but l feel have already dealt sum-
ciently with the horrible AT any rate l am
heartily tired OF looking on the scenes have
lately witnessed and attempting 10 describe
them.
Year: 1874

went about two miles further, when the
drag rope caught in large tree. The
occupants were nearly thrown out by the
tremendous shock of this sudden STOP
page. The balloon was 100 much for the
tree, however. The limb, large one,
snapped off, and away went the air-ship
again, rising rapidly toward the heavens.


Donaldson was anxious not to lose any
gas, as he wished to continue his journey
as long as possible; but after this failure
he decided that the only hope of landing
on this side of the Hudson was in sacri-
ficing some of the gas, so the anchor was
thrown out and the valve opened. Down
came the balloon. The graphing irons
caught. There was thump, then an
other, and then the huge globe swayed
to and fro and the basket was stationary
upon the earth.


Disposing of aportion of his crew, Mr..
Donaldson reascended with the rest and,
after varied experiences, finally landed
near Saratoga, N. Y, having travelled
about 800 miles and continued in the air
nearly twenty hours.
Year: 1874

A remarkable case of lunacy has just
been made known in Green Village, N.
j., by the death of Charles Crowell at the
age of seventy, who had been a raving
maniac for over forty-fve years. He was
kept chained to the floor of his home, and
would never allow clothing to be put on
him. He was confined in a small apart
ment made for his use. No furniture
was in the room, the only thing in it be-
ing straw. His mother took care of him
for the first fifteen years, and during that
time he tore to pieces over 100 bedquilts
which she had made for him. At times he
would be perfectly harmless, and would
allow his mother and sister to stay in his
room and feed him. But for months he
would pace his small room and no one
dared venture near him. In his room
was very small window through which
food and water were given him. Some
times he would not eat for week; at
other times enough food could not be
given him to satisfy his voracity. His
mother died from the great burden, and
his sister took charge of him. She, too,
died after some years from the constant
care and anxiety with which she watched
him. The most remarkable fact in con-
nection with the case was that just before
he died his mind was clear and he called
an attendant by name.-N. Y Tribune
Year: 1874




Nothing is more beautiful than the
belief of the faithful wife that her
husband has all the talents, and
could, if he would, be distinguished
in any walk Of life; and nothing
would be more beautitul-unless this
is a very dry time for signs-than the
husbands belief that his wife is
capable of taking charge of any of
tie affairs of this confused planet.
There is no woman but thinks that
her husband, the green grocer, could
write poetry if he had given his mind
to it, or else she thinks small beer or
poetry, in comparison with an oc-
cupation or accomplishment purely
vegetable. 1t is touching to see the
look of pride with which the wife
turns to her husband from any more
brilliant personal presence of display
Of wit than his, in the perfect CON
fdence that if the world knew what
she knows there would be one more
popular idol. How she magnifes
his small wit and doats upon the eself-
satisfied look in his face, as if it were
sign of wisdom. What q counselor
that man would makel What war
rior he would bel There are a great
many corporals in their retired homes
who did more for the safety and sue
cess of our armies in critical moments
in the late war than any Of the "high-
cock-a-lorum" commanders. Mrs.
Corporal does not envy the reputa-
tion of General Sheridan, she knows
very we'll who really won Five Forks,
for she LAS heard Of the story o hun
dred times, and will hear it hun
dred more with apparently upabated
interest. What general her hus-
band would have made, and how his
talking talent could shine in Con-
gress. o e4. ~


There isn't o wife in the world who
has not taken the exact measure of
her husband, weighed him and set
tied himin her own mind and knows
him as we'll as if she had ordered him
after designs and specifications of her
own. That knowledge, however,
she ordinarily keeps to herself, and
she enters into league with her hus-
bard, which he was never admitted
to the secret Of, to impose upon the
world. In nine out of ten cases he
more than half believes that he is
what his wife tells him he is. At
any rate she manages him as the
keeper does the elephant, with only
a bamboo wand, and sharp spike in
the end. Usually she fatters him,
but she has the means of pricking
clear through his side on occasion.
1t is the greatest secret of her power
to have him think that she thorough
ly believes in him.