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Year: 1875

Ever since we have heard of that Maine editor named T. Pot, wO have been filled with anxiety 10 know if trifle would make him boil over.

 Some ingenious observer has discovered that there is remarkable resemblance be- tween baby and wheat, since it IS cradIed, then thrashed, and finally becomes the flower of the family.
Year: 1875

poets Of the market. But it could
not be supposed that Gen. Gibbon
would allow this method Of CON
tracing to continue, which IS injuri-
Gus to the interests Of the Govern
ment, for the purpose Of aiding the
monopoly Of the farmers. No, and
il this state Of affairs exists much
longer it is no more than likely to
suppose that the supply depart
ment will be notified Of the impos-
sibility Of supplying the military
posts in Montana through home
contracts. The result Of this Motif
cation would be the shipment Of the
supplies needed from the Eastern
markets. Can the farmers stand
that? We think not. And the soon
er they look upon the matter in its
proper light the better It will be
for themselves.
Year: 1875

exorbitant rates the dealers may


desire to ask.


The Helena papers quote the


wholesale price Of -four at from


four to four and a half dollars, and
a scarcity Of the article is not even
hinted at This speaks for itself.
Now let any person desirous Of
purchasing in quantity, say twenty
sacks, which is rather a small order,
proceed to Helena to fill his bill,
and the flour merchants will inform
him that they are unable to fillany
such demand. In fact, only q few
hundred pounds can be purchased
from any one merchant. The drift
Of this is easily discerned It is
the primary move in the develop
ment Of the scheme. 1t creates an
impression that -four IS scarce, and
consequently affords ali excuse for
an increase Of price. This increase
is gradual, because a sudden ad-
vance just now might spoil the
whole maneuvre. Flour can not
be bought now for less than five
dollars, wholesale, and only very
small orders will be filled by any
single dealer Why is itso !? There
is no general scarcity Of flour
There is more flour in the Terri
tory this year than last. Judging,
therefore, from the refusal to sell
at wholesale, and willingness to sell
in small quantities at an advance
Of the quoted rates, we must incline
to the belief that the intention Of
the schemers IS to hold the market
for some time longer, and thus cause
the impression to become general
that there is a scarcely Of -four
This no doubt IS the course of the
game which is now being played at
the expense Of those who are de-
pendent upon the Helena market,
by a few unscrupulous spectators,
the result of which will be an i'm
mediate increase in the price Of
flour the moment we are hemmed in
by the SHOWS Of the coming winter.
All is well that ends well, and the
plot Of the Helena -four merchants
may yet be checked, ere its worst
effects are felt By the general pub
lie.
Year: 1875

try it confines to a region not occu-


pied by white persons, remote from


white settlements, and in the habit


ual occupation Of Indians. Now
the country on this side of the pres


ent line Of the Blackfoot Indian
reservation, and between the Teton


and the Marias, is open for settle-


ment and IS at present occupied by


white settlers, and according to


Judge Wade's own words does not


come within the meaning of the


term Indian country. Consequently


any traderin IN that country having


license from the United States and


this Territory no more comes with
IN the jurisdiction of the Interior


Department than does any merchant


Of Helena; nor has he any more
need of a license from the Commits
sioner Of Indian affairs to trade IN
that country than any Helena mer-
chant has to trade with Indians in
the town Of Helena. And for the
same reason the United States Mar
shals have no more right to seize
the goods Of any trader in that
country, who is without a license
from the Interior Department, than
they have to seize and confscate
the. property Of any merchant who
may without a license from the
same Department trade with IN
dians ID the town of Helena, or in
any other town Of the Territory. The
tract Of country included within
the boundaries Of the Blackfoot res
ervation is Indian country within
the meaning and for the purposes
Of the Intercourse Act. This is
the real meaning to be derived from
reading the late decision Of Judge
Wade, with which to that extent
the general public will agree.


The Act Of Congress approved
April 18th, 1874, which established
a reservation for the Blackfoot In
dians in this Territory, clearly de-
fines the boundaries Of the same.
For the benefit of our readers and
those concerned in Indian trade on
the Teton We publish this Act.


BE it enacted &C., &c. That
the following described tract Of
country, IN the Territory Of Mon
tana, be, and the same is hereby,
set apart for the use and occupa-
tion Of the Gros Ventres, Piegan,
Blood, Blackfoot. River Grow, and
such other Indians as the President
may, from time to time, see fit to
locate thereon, viz: Commencing
at the northwest corner Of the Ter
ritory OF Dakota, being the inter
section Of the forty-ninth parallel
OF north latitude and the one hun
dred and fourth meridian Of west
longitude; thence south to the
south bank Of the Missouri River;
thence. up and along the south bank
OF said river, to a point opposite
the mouth Of the Marias River:
thence along the main channel Of
the Marias River to Birch Creek;
thence up the main channel Of
Birch Greek to It's source; thence
west to the summit Of the main
chain Of the Rocky Mountains;
thence along the summit Of the
Rocky Mountains TO the northern
boundary Of Montana thence along
said northern boundary to the place
af hanlnnina Y
Year: 1875

\ well krown LAWYER of our
town called on us one day during
the present week, aud asked us to
interpret a certain act Of the last
General Assembly Of the State, re
marking IN tone OF confidence,
that his science aud experience was
utterly al fault IN the particular in
stance. Well pleased 10 find our
private opinion of our mental gift
confirmed ia such Il fattering man.
ner, we at once put our whole mind
upon the legal problem, and at
leGgth reached a conclusion as to
what was the intention Of our law
makers, provided we added,
".that they really intended any
thing" We were thus cautious be-
cause we then seriously doubted
whether the legislature had any
definite intention when it passed
the act, and we did not want to en-
danger oar reputation as an cXpoun-
dor of the law by being 90 positive,
The lawyer thanked us very wuim-
ly for our assistance, and concluded
by saying, 81 can interpret law,
but when it comes to constituting
nonsense, always 90 tot al editor"
Now we would like to know wheth-
cr that last observation was Il fling
at the Legislature and compliment
to US, or compliment 10 US and a
fling at the Legislature?
Year: 1875

A friend joyfully told us few days


ago of his anticipations in the grape way.


He had bought little place in the vi


cinity and had made up his mind to have


things right. His maxim was that what
was worth doing at all was worth doing


we'll, and he meant to do it.. He had


done it. He had dug out the dirt three
feet deep into the clay, and had filled it


in with light, rich compost, through


which the roots might push their way in
ease and comfort and live on the tat Of
the land. He had spent considerable
money in doing the job well. He in
tended to get only the best vines, and
felt sure such an expenditure would
result in magnificent grapes and plenty
of them. He had done his work we'll.


1t is strange that such course as this
should ever have been recommended by
horticultural writer's, but it is fact that
they have. Grapes are now so easily and
cheaply grown-fruit often five cents a
pound-that we had we'll nigh forgotten
that this was the standard advice Of the
books years ago. But our friend pro-
duced it in black and white from the
pages which he had chosen as an au-
thority, and then we knew how it was in
the olden time.


Now, our readers at least would know
that instead of such proceeding as this
being an evidence of doing it we'll for the
grape, it is simply an act of folly, not
only towards ones pocket but as an act
of liberality to the vine itself. The grape
root needs to be warm and dry, but this
deep we'll in the clay encouraging the
collection of water from all around it,
has just the contrary effect. The roots
are damp and cool, and not warm and
dry.


Indeed it is only of late years, when
people have given up all this expensive
foolery that grape culture has become
tolerable success. Under the old plan
we had failure after failure, and we came
to believe that only those varieties which
were little removed from the wild fox, or
the frost grapes could be grown. But
now we have the finer kinds getting
quite common. As soon as we gave up
this deep trenching nonsense, grape
grape culture-took fresh
start, and this real culture consists in
little more than planting a vine in good
earth, as we would any ordinary tree,
and see that it does not suffer for want of
food. This is good grape culture in a
nutshell. l.-Germantow Telegraph.
Year: 1875

Now is the time to put up an ice house
if you have not got one. Every farmer
should have one, if he has ice within good
hauling distance. Everyone knows what
luxury ice is in summer, even when in
health, and in sickness it is indispensable.
Everyone likes good, hard butter. You
can't often have it without ice. Every
one likes ice-cold milk and cold water,
but they can't be had without ice. So,
have an ice house, that you may have
the many luxuries that ice affords.


But you may say there is no ice in
haluing distance. In this latitude it is
easy to have it. Make pond now, while
this fine fall weather lasts, and You can
have ice this very season. A few days
work will make good pond on almost
any farm, and that will make plenty of
ice. with which you can fill a cheap ice
house; or you can make a more expen-
sive one if you wish. In future num-
Der we will have something to say about
how to make an ice house. If subscrib-
ers will refer to the numbers of the
Rual World of last year about this sea-
son. they will find directions for making
ice ehouses ofseveral kinds.-Rrdl World.
Year: 1875

WASHING WOoLENs.-Prof. Artus
who has devoted himself to the discovery
of the reason why woolen clothing when
washed in soap and water will insist upon
shrinking and becoming thick, and
acquiring that peculiar odor and feeling
which so annoys housekeepers, says these
evil effects are due to the decomposition
of soap by the acid present in the prespi-
ration and other waste of the skin which
the clothing absorbs. The fat Of the
soap is then precipitated upon the wool.
These effects may be prevented by steep
ing the articles in warm solution of
washing soda for several hours, then
adding some warm water and few drops
of ammonia. The wOolens are then to be
washed out and rinsed in lukewarm
water.
Year: 1875

Take out the ribs, and after cutting
off the ham and shoulders, divide the side
longitudinally about half way up. The
upper half being the most solid fat and
meat, is cut in suitable pieces for the
pork barrel, and the lower half being
thin and strcaked alternately with fat
and lean, is just the thing for bacon.
Take off narrow strip from the lowest
belly side, which is all fat, and makes
good lard. Leave your BACON in one
piece, and put it in plain pickle ofsalt
and water strong enough to float a potato
for two weeks Gf the pork is very
heavy. let it remain for three days or
week longer), then hang in smoke house
and cure to light brown, more or less
according to the taste. Cut thin, trim
off the skin and smoky edges, and broil
or fry and eat hot, and yon have dish
relishing to the most delicate appetite,
and satisfying to the most hearty. Boiled
it is a delicious addition to poultry, and
is first rate eaten cold afterwards. The
English bacon is generally dry salted,
and much of it is hung up without any
smoke, except what it may get from the
farmers kitchen, a'..i is used through the
year as we use aIr salt pork. l find that
the pickle 10 quite as good and much less
trouble than the process of dry sailing.
Some add saltpetre, but think it has
tendency to make the meat hard, without
any corresponding benefit The bacon
put up in this country and sold as
"sugar-cured breakfast bacon" is very
nice and sweet but its flavor is exactly
like ham. The addition of the sweeten-
ing matter spoils it for my taste, and
takes away the simple and appetizing
flavor Of the pure salt and smoke. Put
sugar in your ham but keep it out of
your bacon.-Country Gentleman.
Year: 1875

Sheep raising has had its ups and
downs like almost every kind of busi-
ness, but it is a question if any business
has paid better for series of years. The
rapid increase of sheep is very favorable
to farmers of small means who wish to
engage in wool growing. Sheep raising
is too much neglected in the west. The
animal that furnishes clothing, food and
light, which crops hill sides too steep for
other creatures to ascend, is entitled to
vastly more credit than it receives
Chicago Times.
Year: 1875

During period of thirty years
past we have been accustomed to make
cheap and durable mittens in the fol-
lowing manner, to be worn when per-
forming all sorts of out OF door work: A
good sheepskin is purchased for about
81, which ha, been tanned with the wool
on. The wool, of course, is short-not
more than half an inch in length. A
sheepskin of medium size will make
from three to four pairs of mittens, as
per the size of the hands. A pattern was
first made out of stiff brown paper. The
paper thumb-piece must be neatly fitted
to the pattern. Then the leather will fit
the thumb-hole. One pattern will an
swer for both mittens if the leather is
turned over after one mittcn has been
cut out. Sometimes the mittens are
made with the wool outward, and some
times the wool is inside. When mittens
are to be used for handling wood, stone,
lumber and other things which are liable
to wet them the leather is smeared with
a coat of coal-tar, which must be dried
in before the fire. A coat of coal tar will
prevent the leather from becoming wet
like piece of vet cloth, and it will also
make the mittens wear like horn. Apply
tar only to the parts that are most exposed
to contact with the material to be han
died. In lieu of sheepskiu We
have sometimes employed tanned calf
skin. Mittens will keep hands much
warmer than gloves. Procure a glover's
needle of triangular shape, let thesedges
of the leather be wettej before the nit.
tens are sewed, employ strong thread,
well waxed with beeswax, and the nit
tens will render excellent scryiee.-M
y. Hyela.
Year: 1875

Coiu ieet at night are thus deprecated
by the Science Of Health: "Never go to
bed with cold feet. Never try to sleep
without being perfectly certain that you
will be able to keep them warm. To lie
one night with cold feet gives such a
strain to the system as will be felt seri-
ously, perhaps ending in a fit ofsickness."
Year: 1875

Chip the beef as thin as paper with a


very sharp knife. Melt in a frying pan
butter the size of an egg, stir the beef
about in it for two or three minutes,
dust in little -four, and add haSf
teacupful Of rich cream, give a boil up,
anl serve in 4 covered dish.
Year: 1875

The story about that famous book for which
tl,o British Government had offered to pay
$1,000 turns out to be n shrewd ADVERTISE
mcnt. It is pretty evident that somebody
has lied; and the credit Of the performance
is about evenly divided between New York,
Boston, and Louisville.
Year: 1875

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A GOOD Word FOR THE BLACKB1RDs.--
A farmer writes from Woods Hole to
the Boston advertiser: ga few days ago,
as the barley in my fields was ripening,
the blackbirds began to gather about it,
and my farmer began to anathemize
them as thieyes and robbers. feeding
upon what they did not sow. 'Why,
said he, they come in clouds from Nau.
shon, and all about u.s. Notwithstnnd-
ing, told him. was satisfied that they
did more good than harm, and they are
welcome to their share. The harvest
began, and as the mowers reached the
middle of the field they found the stalks
Of the grain stripped and cut up by the
army worm. When the barley was
down they began to march out OF the
field in compact stream through the
barway into the next one, and here we
clearly saw what the slackbirds we're
after. They pounced upon them and
devoured them by thousands, very ma
terially iessening their number and
their power of mischief. These army
worms have returned after an interval
of eight or ten years.
Year: 1875

New DRAY.-We We're shown
this afternoon a dray built in
this city for Mr.. David Morris,
by J. w. Hunt. The dray is
heavily ironed throughout and
is, as Mr.. Morris says, a much
stronger and better one than he
could get from the East for the
same money. Mr.. Morris found
at what cost he could get one
from Chicago and it was exactly
what it would cost to build one
here. Consequently he gave the
jobito Mr.. Hunt. Eta few more
in this city would act in asJsen-
sible a manner as this, it would
result in building up numerous
small manufactures of this ma
ture, as well as in keeping in
circulation here a large amount
Of money now annually sent
abroad. Mr.. Morris rejoices in
the possession fthe first wagon
as wel[as in the first dray ever
built in Seattle.
Year: 1875

g% The Comet will not be on
the route again as soon as eN-
pected. When the repairs tc
her boiler are finished she will
have to go on the gridiron and
have her hull patched up a little
as she is leaking considerably
She will hardly be out before
Tuesday or Wednesday of next
week.
Year: 1875

SEATTLE CoAL.-The amount OF
coal being shipped from the Sc
attic mine is increasing daily.
The ship Orpheus is now very
nearly loaded and there are
three barks now awaiting their
turn at the bunkers. When the
new wharf is completed, the
work of loading coal will be
much eXpediated.
Year: 1875

THE LIBBY.-The steamer lib
by, in the intervals between her
weekly trips to Bellingham Bay,
is constantly being fitted up
This week she is having a new
wheel put on one side and, on
her return from her. trip. next
week the other one will be put
on. Last trip she hung a new
Year: 1875

ACCIDENT.-R. Elliott met with
a serious accident this morning
near the Bay View House. He
was standing on some scafiold-
ing when it broke with him and
he fell to the ground, striking on
his abdomen aeross a beam. lie
lis injured Internally.
Year: 1875

RACE.-The Zephyr and Black
Diamond had a lively little race
this morning. The Black Dia-
mond had about a quarter Of a
mile start, but from the way the
Zephyr was gaining on her it is
supposed she passed her about
Alki Point.
Year: 1875

We witnessed. the test of this new
invention near the new depot yester-
day, rode on the car and pronounce it
a success on straight line. The con-
structor made mistake in not making
a curve on his experimental track, to
show that it will turn q sharp curve.
Everything else is all right. 1t is
cheap and easily constructed. Vehi-
cles can cross it much easier than they
can cross double track. 1t is of
lighter draft and capable of bearing q
heavy burden. But if it can be dem
onstrated that it will turn sharp
curve it is our opinion that the great
est advantage of the invention will be
for steam cars to. run through our
mountainous country to the seaside
valleys TO bring the produce, the wood,
the coal, etc., from regions where it
would be impracticable to build even
narrow-gauge railroad. This road can
be run almost anywhere that donkey
can travel, and the grading would cost
but little more than foot-path. But
it all depends upon its ability to turn
a curve. Of course the parties inter-
ested will have that tested before they
proceed to any considerable expense.
Year: 1875

Council and who never misses an OPP
portunity to rain vituperative invec-
tive upon it, fought the passage of the
ordinance as then before the Council,
apparently on its injustice and general
informality. And finally, If there is
nothing but good contained in the or
dinance, why the indecent haste to
secure its passage? Good things will
keep, and if there is no spring gun
concealed beneath the specious word
ing Of the document, why not wait
until the facts are brought out and the
subject discussed pro and con. There
is no reason for haste, as the railroad
depot is not yet finished and the thou
sands of men and women will not be
subjected to the dust and danger which
ga Citizen' 80 much breads for some
time. Let us start fair and continue
on that line if we do not make quite so
much money.
Year: 1875

Yesterday afternoon we visited
San Fernando street and examined
the ground over which the Main and
Spring Street Railway are asking of
the Council permission to lay down a
track over which to run their cars.
The company ask to- cross the rail-
road track and run their road through
the centre, or nearly the centre, of the
street to within about 100 feet of the
West end of the depot building, which
is objected to by citizens using that
street as means of coming into and
going out of the city. The ordinance
which the Council is asked to pass
give the street railway company the
right to extend their track to point
opposite the depot building, where the
unoccupied portion of the street is so
narrow that if a street railroad track
were laid in it it would be almost inn
possible for teams to pass on either side
at times when the track was occupied
by the cars. To this the people resid-
ing In the Eastern part of the city very
properly object. Something has been
said about there being no substantial
difference between the original ordi-
nance and the modification as it now
stands. We find on examination that
there really was no material differ
ence. In the original document these
words, written in ink, are enclosed in
lead pencil brackets: "Thence along
said street to point opposite the new
depot of the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company" On the margin of the
sheet is written in pencil these words:
"Thence along the East side of San
Fernando street to point opposite to
and half way between the two switch
ed lines of the S. P. r. r. Co." We
do not say that any one contemplated
doing it, but the ease with which the
brackets and side note might have
been erased, suggested the thought
expressed the other day that the mod
itied ordinance would prove to be about
the same as the original.