Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 27 August 1853 — Page 1

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CRAWFORDSVILLE REVIEW.

DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSPAPER, Published, every Saturdny 3fornins» by O S E I I A S E S O

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Till: .11 AN I LOVE. I1V JL'AL.I.OX.

I love nn ojK'n countenance A kind and noble face! Tl'f index of an boner heart.

That loves tli** human raoc! A brow on which a smile is thron d. Like Kiinliifht on a Sower— As oitcn as the rejral skim-.

With beams of love and power!

love the kind and welcome irlanee, That proves we're not alone: And olt! how weet to find at times

Some feelings like our own! A heart thiit beats with purest hopes, g: To pit\ and to Mew Tliat strives to make earth's comforts more,

Its pains Mid follies less!

I love the man whoso penorous smile Is given will) his hand— Who sous his equal in all men,

And all men equal stand! Who sees not the distinctions made, Py human laws between The man who has and who has not.

Hut loves from what he's seen!

I love the man whose heart is true, Wiio seldom wears a lY'iwn And loves all men. from him who toils..

To him who wears a crown! Wi'.h mildness ever on his lips, A free and open mind.— A brow with mental trrandeur spann'd,

A .soul riUproniely kind!

M- I From the Nashua Telrgrnph. '^VIIICII WAS THE UKNTLE.II.W.

i# 'Please, sir, don't push so.' It was in endeavoring to penetrate the dense crowd that filled the entrance and blocked the door way, after one of our popular lectures that this exclamation met my attention.—

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It proceeded from .a little girl of not more than ten years, who, hemmed by the wall

one side, and the crowd on the other was vainly endeavoring to extricate herself.

The person addressed paid 110 attention to the entreaties of the little one, but rushed on towards the door. 3 'Look here/ exclaimed a man whose coarse apparel, sturdy frame, and toil embrowned hands contrasted strangely with the delicately gloved lingers, curling locks, and expensive broad cloth, of the former. 'Look here, sir, you're jamming that little gal's bonnet all Lew smash with them elbows o'yourn.' 'Cannot help that,' was the gruff response—'I look to number one.' 'Voirtake care of number one do you?'— 'Wal, that's fair, so do I,' replied the countryman, and with these words he took the girl up in his arms, and placing his broad shoulders against the slight form of the latter, he pushed through tTie crowd and do.wn the steps, landing him with rather more haste than dignity, in the street below.— The young gentleman picked himself up, but rather intimidated by the stout fist of the stranger, and abashed by the laughter of the crowd, concluded it was time to go home. In polite society the former would be courted and admired, and the latter overlooked and despised but which was the gentlemarf?

On a raw blustering day a few weeks since, a young girl with a basket 011 her arm, entered one of our stores. After making a few purchases, she turned to leave. Two gentlemen stood in the door way, whose appearance indicated that tiiey thought themselves 'considerable if not more'—whose soft, sleek coats, and delicate hands were apparently about the same quality with their brains.

As they, made not the slightest movement, as she approaches, the young girl hesitated a moment, but seeing no other way, she politely requested them to stand aside. They lazily moved a few inches, allowing her barely space to pass, giving her a broad stare that brought the color to her face and the fire to her eye.

In stepping upon the icy pavement, her foot slipped, and in endeavoring to save herself, her basket fell, and the wind scattered its contents in every direction.

At this the two gentlemen burst into a lo\id lit of laughter and seemed to think it vastly amusing. 'Let me assist you,' exclaimed a pleasant voice, and a lad about sixteen, whose hands showed that he was accustomed to labor, and whose coarse well patched coat indicated that he was a child of poverty, sprang forward and gathered up the articles—presented the basket with a bow and a smile that would have graced a drawing room. "Which was the gentleman?

A "SLIP."—A traveling lecturer picked up a candidate for a wife a few days ago in Lynn, whom he selected through his knowledge of 'bumps,' as he had never known her until an hour and a half before. He procured a marriage certificate and then proceeded to Salem, when the girl, who had been nothing loth to accept the offer, found the house of her intended, who had buried his wife four days before, well stocked with children^but having little else in it. She was immediately seized with home sickness, and borrowed money er.ongh to return in the cars.—Boston Courier.

TIIEV OUGHT TO HAVE SPARED THEM.— The National Democrat says that the two old cannon used by General Jackson in the battle of New Orleans, which had been objects of curiosity in the Navy Yard at Brooklyn, were sold under a general order made to sell all the old guns. Thes^e guns were highly prized in the Navy Yard as relics of the memorable oth of January, 1815, and were objects of much curiosity on account of their peculiar^construction.— The officers of the yatd appealed twice to spare those two old guns, but the ordei was irrevocable, and they were sold.

LWCLE .TOJI AND AI XT KITTY

OR

HIGH FARMING AND TALL HOUSEKEEPING.

T.Y

FALCOXBBIDOS.

You have read, heard of, and perhaps seen, what is called high farming but of all the high, farmers and done-up-to-a-fraction farmer we ever knew, was embodied in the grand actions of our jolly old Uncle Tom. His plantation wasn't large it encompassed some three hundred acres two hundred yielding corn, potatoes, wheat, itc., and one hundred abounding in fine timber.

Uncle Tom lived in a land of "peculiar Institutions," and was possessed of about fifteen woolly heads, and sundry mules and horned cattle. Aunt Katy was a stirring woman. She presided in person over the domestic territory with wonderful clocklike motion, time and tune. Never surely, was there a country household from New Hampshire to the "far West" so perfect in all its details, so clean, clear of rubbish, and so polished up, as that of Aunt Katy.

Never was there a farm so perfect in its detail, so thoroughly managed and systematically conducted, as Uncle Tom's. The golden sun, where ever he deigned to favor earth with his gladdening smile, never perhaps, in the course of thirty years, got up I before Uncle Tom or Aunt Katy. Neither •chick nor child, man or beast, was found— if able, by the grace of God or Providence to get up—in bed or inactive after old Sol •rave token of his coming.

Lncle Tom's ancient was a burly, old grey-headed darkey named Juba. He had been bred and born in the famil}-—the companion in toil and pastime from Uncle Tom's boyish days to the noon, ay, and evening of life. He was, what we would call in the South, "an enterprising nigger proud of his value and usefulness, the oracle of the entire colored population, and at all times the reliable "second fiddle" of Uncle Tom.

Aunt Katy's adjutant was old Melissa— or, as she was called, Milly and what Juba was to Uncle Tom in his "high farming," Milly was to Aunt Katy's "tall housekeeping."

It was just as flagrant to leave down a bar or leave open a gate on Uncle Tom's farm, as it was to make tracks in the sitting room or "spill grease" in the milk house of Aunt Katy's domain. Uncle Tom was great on white-washing and raking up trash Aunt Katy had a religious faith and Christian energy in the application of scouringsand, soap-suds and scrubbing brushes.— The man, woman, or child bringing dirt into Aunt Ivaty's precincts, never dared poke their noses into the domicil, and the mere hint to juvenile darkeys, that Aunt Katy would be the death of them, if they dropped a crumb of their hoe-cake upon the kitchen floor, would give them a chill and sharpen their visual organs until the most infinitesimal mite assumed the definable bulk of a corn-cob or masticated "peck of oats."

Never was there "a small settlement" where so much soap was made and used up as upon Uncle Tom's place. Aunt Katy's floors, "from pit to dome," were so white and clean you might eat ofl'of them Soapsuds was Aunt Katy's sovereign remedy for health and happiness equally so as Uncle Tommy's notion that success and salvation depended as much upon perfect fencing, draining, and white-washed barns and gates, as brains and family Bibles Uncle Tommy's woodland was every rod as clear of bush or brush as a pig of feathers? while Aunt Katy's walls, floors, stairways, closets, cellars and garrets were as free from speck, scratch, impediments or blemishes, as the soul of a saint or a Chinese premium mirror.

The hogs, intended for the house table, underwent a weekly saturation in soapsuds from the time they become shotes to the period of their becoming pork. Washing hogs, Uncle Tommy declared, made them healthy and grow. And Katy was content to know it made sweet meat, kept them clean, and did them good generally. The cows were curried, combed and washed, same as the horses. The old and young darkeys were scrubbed, washed and combed, until they shone like black snakes.— Even the old house-dog, a veteran of the kennel, had his face renovated by soap and water until his large pink nose assumed a glazed and firey hue! Flies and whittlers were Aunt Katy's abominatiou, while for a biped to expectorate tobacco on her floors, or within a rod of the house, would be an insult equal to decapitating her favorite "tom-cat" or dropping a tar-bucket into her butter-churn. The niggers had to go behind the barn to sneeze, and the old man Juba, when he ventured to take a siesta from his corn-cob pipe—which he did whenever he had been "put out" about anything —sought a great white oak stump at the far end of the orchard, and there old Juba would sk, hands and legs crossed, and "go on" about the degeneracy of the times and sorry shotes of people coming up around him. "Ah-h-h, bress God! da's none ob dem good ole times no more, no how. Dar's none of ob dem times at de huskin's, de hoss race, de quiitin' frolics uh, ah de lor,' hasn't I see'd 'em but da's gone bv, da's no use talkin': no Chris'em-us, no new year, no fourf July, no uuffin but-lazy, shifless niggers and sorry shotes ob white folk

The bread of idleness was cat by no "living soul" about Uncle Tommy's plantation. The smallest pioaniuny could pick brush

and chips, stray wool and weeds—and they were at it. And though all were well worked, they were well clothed and amply fed and, perhaps, on nd fafm in the-Stats, was there a more contented, happy, and hearty set of agriculturists than Uncle Tom's plantation might boast of. It is true, Uncle Tom and Aunt Katy carried some of their high farming and tall house-keeping notions a little too far, as the sequel of our glances at their institutions will go to show. I It was on the 25th of March, a day upon which Aunt Katy always made it a point to overhaul the house from top to bottom.—

Ceilings and walls were white-washed, everything routed, and floors scoured with soft-soap and sand, until they fairly shone with whiteness. It was a day of soap-suds, sand, sour temper, and whitewash. It was a day upon which Uncle Tommy went to town, some five miles off, to get such matters and things as pertained to the coming season of toil and vegetation upon his farm. He usually took the wagon, two horses, and his ancient Juba.

All geared up to be off as the bright sun was peeping over the eastern hills. Uncle Tommy drove up and began to stow sundry bags, boxes and jugs into the wagon.— Everything being ready, Uncle Tom and Juba got in and, as was his facetious custom, Uncle Tom bawls out:— "Good-bye, Katy. Don'tscour the floors through before I get back?" "And don't you get so boozy, Tommy, that Juba will have to lay you in the barn like a sack of wheat!"

A loud ha! ha! haw! from Uncle Tom, and a yaw, yaw! from Juba, was the response, as the team rolled away. "He! he! he! giggled old Milly, as she and her assistant, a bullet-headed Topsy, began to operate upon the soap-suds, sand and floors. "He he! he gorry, I specs we shall scrub dese floors clar fru, dis berry day uh, ah Been at 'em forty-'leben hundred times da's a fac—must be near fru "Never mind talkin,' Milly. You and Sue lay on the elbow-grease give these floors a rale good scouring. Dirty as if the hogs lived here!" says Aunt Katy popping in upon the two operatives. "Bress de lor', dis been scrub enuff to be clar fru, anyhow!" says Milly, laying on the "elbow-grease," with a vengeance. "Don't you be afraid, Milly—lay on the elbow-grease. There's a crack full of dirt. Dig it out, Milly, dig it out!' cries Aunt Katy, pointing out the "damned spot," as Shakespeare says.

Now the ceilings were not "lathed and plastered"—the rafters were far apart— Milly weighed over two hundred, and Aunt Katy not much less. After thirty years' scrubbing, the floor had got nearly as thin as paste-board, and, all of a sudden, Milly's prophecy was fulfilled. Down went the! end of the broad board rip, and tear, and! down went Milly, forcing her fat body, like a plug, into the gaping aperture, and the splinters cracking and tearing lierlinsey-j woolsey and tawney cuticule, until Milly yelled like a panther. She had grabbed Aunt Katy's gown at the first symptom of the break, but Aunt Katy rushed away, bawling for help.

Nobody being in the house but the picaninies and Sue, to help—Aunt Katy rushed down stairs, Sue following. The big table was put under the pendant victim, and Aunt Katy and Sue mounts, and finally re-' lieve poor old Milly, by dragging her through the scoured floor. Such a time such a yelling and bawling, and groaning of the picaninies, Sue and Milly, was ahead of hog-killing! House-cleaning was knocked on the head for that day, and poor old Milly went to bed and grunted for dear life.

Dark came and no Uncle Tom. The night wore on Quite done out with the cares and trials of the day, Aunt Katy went to bed, but not to sleep the thoughts of what L'ncle Tom would say and how he would laugh and roar over the prophecy, tormented Aunt Ivaty worse than a raging toothache. Aunt Katy hears a noise of the wagon at last. Uncle Tom was coming, boozy as a loon, doubtless. The wagon appears to enter the barnyard, and all is still. This silence continuing so long, Aunt Ivaty becomes alarmed,—gets up, slips on her clothes, and goes down. What a sight meets her eyes as she opens the door and looks down the lane. There stood Uncle Tom and Juba Uncle Tom whitewashing his ancient from head to foot! "Good Lord!" cries Aunt Katy "what on earth are you doing?" "Whitewashing this infernal black stump!" bawls Uncle Tom. "Stump, you fool—you'll ruin Juba for-, ever!" "Juba? Well,, so it is, by thunder!" says L'ncle Tom. "Go wash yourself off, you cussed fool —why don't you!" and Uncle Tom made! tracks for bed, and before Aunt Katy could prevent the catastrophe, he was up stairs and tumbled through the hole in the floor!

:A "GENTLEMAN."—John, what is a gentleman?" "Stub-toe boots, short tail coat, and a high shirt collar." What is the chief end of a gentlemen?" His coat tail."— "What is the work of a gentleman?" "To borrow money, to eat large dinners, to go to the opera, and to petition for an office." "What is a gentleman's first duty towards himself?" "To buy a pair of plaid pantaloons and to raise a huge pair of whiskeTs."

Our Country and her Institutions.

YOL. 5. CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY MD.,"AUGUST 27, 1853. NO: 9.

SCROFULA AND PORK.

The editor of the Journal of Organic and Medical Chemistry, an able, new periodical, comes out savage on pork. He "defies all hog-eaters, chemists and physiologists to prove that hogs' flesh is a healthy article of diet." He asserts that the name scrofula "had its origin in a disease peculiar to swine." This is true, the Greeks gave it this name—"swine disease." It may, however, be wrongfully applied, as many other terms. A man is called a dunce as an epithet of stupidity, derived from the term applied to the followers of the metaphysician Duns Scotus, by their less able but more bitter opponents. Nevertheless, there appears to be something between scrofula and pork, if the testimony of many able physicians is to be believed.— There are some, however, who ride upon different hobbies one upon one kind of food, and another by a different kind.— One will advocate bran-bread and vegetables another, beef, pork and beer. There

bad beef is just as full of scrofula as bad pork. The great object in selecting food is to have it good—in proper condition— and when hogs arc fed upon good provender, and killed in good health, their flesh, if eaten in moderation, we presume will not cause disease. People of fair complexion, who live in cold changeable climates, are subject to scrofula. We believe, however, that too much pork is eaten in our country, and the strictures of the Journal •of Organic Chemistry, are required to arrest attention and direct it to the evils arising from the unbounded use of pork for food among our people.—Sci. American.

J£5T One of the largest Shaker Societies in the world, is located at Union Village, Warren county, Ohio. It was founded in 805, and now numbers near oOO persons. The Societies are divided into four families, the largest numbering near 200 persons. and is called the Center, it being the residence of the elder and mother. The building of this family is a four story brick, 88 feet front and GO feet deep. Their fruits, butler, cheese, cattle, kc., are of the very best, and they have a garden of about 12 acres, in which are cultivated all the medical plants and herbs of this climate.

Thc new 0rlcans Bce

in the most dangerous crisis of the fever— scarcely conscious—tossing wildlv on her

should be a moderation in all things, for beckoning to his female relatives, who, busy in devouring two cent bananas, stood gazing at the passing stages. "Look here," says Zeb "by golly, don't you beckon teu them gals in that ere way, mister I tell you don't I won't stand it, noheow!" "Goin' up?" crics the driver. ..•.***% "Goin' up! Don't cal'late I'm a Millcrite nor nothin,' deu ver£" "Goin' up?" the driver repeats,' as he stops his team. "Where in sin you goin' up teu?" "Hippodrome,'Crystal Palace, and—" "Hold on! hold on! Git in, Deb take keer your frock, Cynth. I'll be darned if that aint a clever feller, neow, anyheow.

Ihe celebiated Shaker Sarsaparilla is as Zeb made a similar splurge, the driver manufactured here, and is a great source of, brought the door to a little sudden, and revenue. Garden seeds are put tip in large

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countless numbers of poultry, but no hogs quarter, and jumped cut into the mud, keror dogs. sock! ,, "Come along, gals by golly, let's break.

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lowing as a sample of some of the pictures by one feller, lost my cane, got cheated outi of suffering in New Orleans, as incident to of a quarter, trouses all spilt with nmd, and the prevalence of the yellow fevev: I'll be darn'd if 1 aint off for home fust I

Those who have never visited the indi-,bo?''

er of two children—one of whom is just old be done neat] v.— Scientific American. enough to comprehend the terror of thc

ered last winter by a person who tracked several raccoons into it. Mr. McL. and his companions went in, as they supposed, about two miles, when they came to a pit which they could not pass for the want of a ladder, but they saw that the cave extended beyond. While traveling the two miles, they discovered eight or ten branches leading off in different directions, some of them apparently larger than the direct avenue. A petrified monkey, as perfect in shape as if it were alive, was found.in the cave some weeks ago, and we understand that it has been sent to the worlds's fair in New York.

The Muhlenburg county surveyor intends making an examination of this cave during the present week, and he will give us an account of it.—lav. -Jour.

SST James Shirley was hanged at Hollidaysburgh, Pennsylvania, on Friday last. Being asked upon t^e gallows if he had anything to say. he replied in a firm tone: "I hare nothing, excepting that I hope to meet all-these gentlemen present in Paradise hereafter. I die better than I thought I should.. This is not the backing up of the spirit of the man it is the spirit of God that enables me to do so I never was a bad man naturally I wish to say the cause of this is intemperance." *.'•

AN \."IA/IV DISKIVERY. Zeb Long and his two female gal cousins, Cynthia and Debby Bunca, came all the way down to New York from the confines of the Connecticut valley, to see the town, and go round and "skecr" up the fashions. It didn't take Zeb long to lose his cane, while Deb was jitst as unfortunate in dropping her parasol, which a little begrimed wretch picked up and cleared with! Zeb began^to look around for the Crystal Palace. "Say, mister, kin you tell a feller where that darn'd Palace o' yourn is?"

The Yorker looked at Zeb a moment, and then says he— "It's way up town greeny?" "Way up teown, greeny! By golly, yeou don't say so! Wall, neow, that feller cal'lates he's darn'd cute aint got no manners noheow sassy as pizen dod rot him!"

While thus expressing his opinion generally, he sees a man on top of a "bus"

Look a here, say—" "W'aoa-oo! Want to get out?" "Git eout?" "Do you want to get out?" says the driver. "You be darn'd," rays Zeb "neow that's a pooty idee, ask a feller to get in to go to the Palace, and here you darn'd skunk, after fetching us fifty rod, want us to git eout!" "Pay your fare and get out, you mutton head!" cries the riled up driver.

The door being slacked up, the girls jumped out nimble as educated fleas, and

sen on

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quantities, and the Dayton Gazette, to 1 "Ho-o-o-o-ld 011! Look a here, stop, let which ne aie indebted foi the above facts, feller eout! Mur-r-r-der! Here take ihistates that they have now on their domain 'quarter, and let me eout-t-t!" JOO head of sheep, 500 cattle, 100 horses,

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Jnver let up, Zeb handed over the

for hum agin I've seen enough"—gut sassed

Come!?°nS'

gent sick can form no proper conception of "V tracks an.l snaked their horrible destitution and awful sufier-1 ing. Imagine a woman lying on a dilapidated pallet, in a building which flattery could hardly dignify with the name of hovel—without a solitary friend to assist her—

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wretched couch, burning with that insuport- parent^ and which will reunite broken "lass able thirst which seems unquenchable by jirmly, neatly and invisibly. Lime, mixed oceans, and without a drop of water by her with the white of egg, forms a very strong bedside. Imagine this woman the moth-1

'b-iig eout Cynth 1"|

the gals down towards the Battery, was a caution to "hoss-boats!"

MENDING GLASS.—Melt a little isinglass in spirits of wine, and add a small quantity of water. Warm the mixture gerttlv over a warm fire. When mixed by thoroughly melting, it will form glue perfectly trans-

cement

for glass, porcelain, etc., but it must

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scene, but as yet incapable of her parent, I THICKNESS OF A XSEGKOE'S —The while the other, an infant, hangs on Memphis Appeal relates that a few days mother's breast, striving to draw nourish-. ago, while a barrel of llour was being lowment from an exhausted fountain. Reader, ered from the upper story of a warehouse, this is 110 fancy sketch. It. has been wit-, and when yet a considerable elevation.it nessed within forty-eight hours by a mem- slipped and fell upon a negro, striking him ber of the Howard Association we believe in full upon the head and forcing out an it to be fully matched in all its supernumer-1

e)'e- S^U'J

ary horrors", by scenes which that associa- however, and the negro was doing well. tion, in the discharge of its self-imposed duty, is daily compelled to lookupon."

ANOTHER GREAT CAVE IN KENTI-CHV.— I if the fumes of the weed were actually neM. G. P. McLane of Mississippi and others cessary for man's welfare, the Creator partially explored a cave last week in would have given him a longer neck to seMuhlenburg county, about ten miles south cure abetter draft, put thc smoking apparaof Greenville. The cave was first discov- tus a little lower down, and placed on the

as nut even fractured,

jtST A writer against the pernicious practice of smoking, takes the ground that

top of his head a patent arrangement to carry the smoke off.

HE:TGLISH 'API'I.VESS-—COMPLIMENTS.-—

'Ere's wishin' you good 'ealth, Jim, hand

a 'appy life," (drinks.) "Think ye, Bill, Think ye. I'ad hought to be as 'appv a dog as ever lived, for I 'ave got a wife as can thrash any man ofj 'er weight, and 'ave a child of only twoj 'ears and a 'a!f, as can heat two pounds of beef stake at a sittin, besides hown the smallest black terrier in the,yvorid, as has no equal on a 'uin." 5

MRS. PARTINGTON.--"Now ing dear," said Mrs. stood smoothing his going out on Sunday.

go to meet-

Partington, as Isaac hair preparatory to He looked down on

his new shoes, and a thought of the green fields made him sigh. A ri.-hing line hung out of one pocket, which Mrs. Partington didn't see. "Where shall I go?" asked Ike. Since the old lady had given up her seat in the Old North church, she had no stated place of worship. "Go," said she sublimely, as she pulled down his jacket, behind, "go any where's where the gospel] is dispensed with." Such liberty is rare.'

Thc man that likes to hear women scold, has just hir^d a Fa-** filer plav him t.C^leep.

TERMS OF ADVERTISING:

One square, three insertions Each additional insertion Quarterly advertisements per square, Yearly advertisers allowed a very liberal di.AConnt.

Patent medicine advertisements by the year, per column. $S0,C0 I'n tent medicinc nulls, finirlo insortion per square, 25

£4?" Office, on the corner of Main and fireen utreei upstairs,

Illiinlcs of all kinds for sale nt (his office.

USES OF TEACIIES.

As a plentiful crop of peaches may be expected the present season, we publish for

thc benefit of our lady readers, thc following from the New York Times, over thc

signature of Agricota: The peach is one of those fruits in particular recommended to be eaten in thc morning, in preference to any other time.j Brooks says they agree well with persons,' of hot constitutions and costive habits, es pecially if eaten in a morning fasting and Gerard says that the leaves boiled in milk will destroy the worms in children From the wood of the peach tree thc color called rose-pink is obtained. Thc leaves, when' bruised and distilled in water, constitute a:l excellent article for flavoring certain 'descriptions of cookery. When steeped in, brandy, they communicate to it the flavor of Noveau. Sweetening rith fine sugar, mixed with a small qirantitv of milk, and afterwards decanted in the usual manner.

Dried Pcachcs.—To dry peaches in li.cii

whole state, pare them, boil for a few miri utes in a syrup composed of one pound of sugar dissolved in three quarts of water,' and, after being drained by laving their.'' singly on boards, place them in the oven.* after the bread is taken out, and pack then-, carefully in boxes. Another method pur sued in the drying of peaches is to have r-. small house, provided with a stove, and drawers in the sides of thc house lathed at their bottoms, with void intervals. The ripe peaches are then cut in two, but not peeled, and placed in a single layer on laths, with their skins downward, to save the juice on shoving in thc drawer they.are soon dried by the hot air produced by the stove in this way great quantities may be successively prepared, in a single season, with but little expense in thc preparation of the building and in fuel. There is yet another method which it may be well to refer to in this place. Take the open stone sort, when perfectly matured, but not too soft, and, after rubbing off all the down with a coarse wet cloth, divide them into halves, fill the cavities with sugar, and place them skin down, so that they may be removed without handling the fruit. By this method the pores are so closed on one side by the skin, which should not be removed, and sugar on the other, that the flavor of the fruit is retained in a much greater degree than in the common way.

I'each Preserves.—Take enough ciariii ed sugar to cover the fruit, boil it till the syrup blubbers on the opposite side of the skimmer, then put in the fruit, let it boil lively two minutes, remove the suine, let it stand from the fire till next day, then take out the fruit, boil the syrup again, and as soon as the fruit, boils take them from tlr, fire, and when cold put into jars, and keejv from heat or moisture.

Peach Jam.—Gather the fruit when ripe, peel.and stone them, put them into the pan, and mash them over the fire till hot rub them through a sieve, and to each pound of pulp add a pound of white sugrir ai.d half an ounce of bitter almonds, blanched and pounded let it boil ten or lifteen minutes, olir, and skim it well..

Peach Jdhj.—Take free stones, not too ripe, wipe them, and cut into quarters, crack the stones and break the kernels small put the peaches and kernels into a covered jar, set them in boiling water, and let them do tiil soft strain them through a jell}' bag till the juice is squeezed but allow a pint of unite sugar to a pint of the juice put tin. sugar and juice into a preserving kettle, and boil them twenty minutes, skimming very carefully put the jelly, warm, into glasses or jars, and, when cold, tie up with brandi $ ed papers.

Ptach II inc. lake nearly ripe fruit,. stone it, and bruiae the pulp in a mortar, put eight pounds of the pulp to one quart of water, and let it stand twenty-four hours, then squeeze out the juice, and to every gallon of it add two pounds of white sugar, then put it ii.to a ca.-k, and when it has fer mented and become perfectly clear, bottle it up and use at pleasure.

Pt.aches in Jirandy.—Wipe, weigh, and carefully select the fruit, find have ready a quarter of the weight of powdered white sugar put the fruit into a vessel that shuts closely, thruw the -ugar over it, and then cover the fruit with brandy between the top and cover of the pot, put apiece of double, cap paper, set the pot into a sauce pan of water till the brandy is quite hot, but^not boiling put the fruit into a jar, and pour the brandy upon it. and, when cold, put a bladder over, and tie it down tightly.

Pi. klcd P'e'xche*.—Take a gallon of good vinegar, add to it four pounds of sugar, boil it for a few minutes, and remove any scum that may rise then take clingstone peaches that are fully ripe, rub them with a flannel cloth,* to get oil the down upon them, and stick three or four cloves in each put them into a glass or earthen ves« 1, and pour the liquor upon them boiling hut cover them up, and let them stand in a cool place for a week or ten days, then pour oft the liquor, and boil it s».s before, after which return it boiling to the peaches, which should be carefully covered up' and stored away for future use.

CO" There is one advantage about thunder storms, and that is—the harder the claj s, the more closfcly wives snuggle u: to iheir liu-lnni*.

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