Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 26, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 November 1894 — Page 7

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. —Lamb Curry.—Take two pounds of lamb cut small, fry in butter until a nice brown, season with half a teaspoon of green mint chopped fine, two teaspoons of curry powder, and simmer slowly for three-quarters of an hour. Serve on a platter bordered with boiled rice.—Housekeeper. • —Whipped Syllabubs.—One pint of rich cream, whites of two eggs, a small glass of wine, one cup of powdered sugar; flavor with vanilla, whip half the sugar into th«S cream, the rest into the whites of the egg. Mix these and add flavoring. Whip to a strong froth and heap in glasses.—Boston Budget. —Apple Float—One dozen large apples, carefully washed, boiled in a very little water until perfectly soft; then strain through a wire sieve and make quite sweet; when cold add the wellbeaten whites of three eggs and beat all together until quite light and stiff; grate a little nutmeg over it and eat with rich cream.—St. Louis Republic. —Rice Pudding.—Wash one-half cupful of rice, stir it into one quart oi rich milk, made by adding one quart of water to one can of condensed milk. Add one-half teaspoonful of salt, lump of butter one-half the size of an egg, and raisins, stoned if liked. Flavor with nutmeg. Mix thoroughly. Pour into a small, buttered dish. Bake in a slow oven over two hours. Serve warm with cream (made by mixing one part condensed milk to two parts water) or any sauce.—N. Y. Observer. —Esealloped Cauliflower.—Cook as directed for boiled cauliflower. Let drain and break the “flowers” apart. Have ready a pint of cream sauce made as above, and two tablespoonfuls ol grated cheese for each cauliflower. Put a layer of the cauliflower in a baking dish; dip over it sufficient sauce t© moisten it; sprinkle with grated ehpese and a sprinkle of cracker crumbs; then another layer of cauliflower, sauce, etc., till the dish is fpll; cover with a layer of cracker crumbs and cheese, dotting with bits of butter. Bake half an hour.—Ohio Farmer. —Scalloped Chicken.—This very nice ‘supper dish may be made from such bits of cold chicken as will not otherwise present a nice appearance. For each cupful of the minced chicken allow half as much white sauce; put the chicken in layers alternating with chopped hard boiled eggs, one for each cupful; season and moisten with the sance; cover with bread crumbs and bake fifteen minutes. Turkey or veal may be used in this way and instead of baking in one large dish, individual scallop shells may be used when it will make a nice course at dinner.—Orange Judd Farmer.

LINEN FOR THE SPARE .ROOM Some Things Which the Reserve Supply Chest Should Contain. There is a theory in the minds of ♦some badly informed housewives that it is a mark of vulgarity to have'“best” things. They say proudly, and quite rightly, for that matterTthat nothing is too good for their own people. They -seem to imagine, illogically, that this absolves them from the necessity of having good things for their guests. Nevertheless, it is not true that a warm liking for one’s own household is incompatible with keeping a certuin set of sheets, pillow cases and towels for the guest-chamber. Every woman of housewifely instincts has a natural desire to keep as large a supply as pos- • sible of spare linen, and it is only common sense to want to save that which is most worth saving. So that a supply of “best” linen does not necessarily imply that the family’s usual supply is poor.

me ssucws* kuu piiiuw-caaca should be of linen. Linen is deliciously smooth to lie upon. It is pleasanter also to the sight than cotton. One may buy linen sheeting by the yard and hemstitch it if she has unlimited time, a'taste for needlework and remarkably good eyesight Even then she will save very little. During the linen sales a pair ot linen sheets, hemstitched and laundered, may be bought for four dollars and fifty cents. They range from this price up to very much dearer ones, but those Kt this cost are of an exeellent quality. Pillow-cases to match may be bought at the same sales for two dollars and fifty cents a pair. The upper sheet should have the initial oi! the owner embroidered just beneath the upper hem in the center, so that when the sheet is folded down the initial shows. The pillow-cases should be similarly marked. AH sorts of towels—hemmed, fringed and bordered, damask and huckaback —are used, but the best for general wear are hemstitched ones of white huckaback, Fringe grows “stringy” and knotted. Gray colored borders have an unpleasant habit of fading. But white, hemstitched towels wear out evehly, which is the great considerationrwith thrifty housewives. A rather coarse variety of huckaback with fringed or hemmed edges cost three dollars a dozen. This quality is good for ordinary use, but it is well to have on hand finer towels and more elaborate ones. If any with colored borders are bought they should be embroidered with the owner’s initials ho the same color. White monograms done in heavy marking linen are besil lor the ordinary white towels. Old towels may sometimes be exit over to advantage in the shape of wash rags. But Turkish towelling is to be preferred, and crocheted wash rag-s are perhaps the best of all. A fairly good quality of Turkish towels may be bought for twenty-five cents, but the more expensive oues are better, for the reason that they last longer and that their threads do not have no unpleasant a manner of coming out. All Turkish towels, and, indeed, all fringed linen of any sort, should have .the fringe whipped on before it is used.—N. Y. World._ Time for Forbearance. Daughter—Maw, I want you to stop bogsing paw until after I get married. Mother—Why, I should like to know? Daughter—Just as quick as I get a little bit intimate with a young man, they begin to ask if 1 take after you.— X. Y. Weekly

FARM AND GARDEN. GOOD &HEEP BARN. Ivrentl Thins* to Bo ConaMorod Rf|trd) j tor Location and Construction. In building' r. permanent sheep barn there are several things to be considered. The location should be high and dry, facing the south, if possible, where Elenty of good, dry yard room can be ad. ' ... The building must be so constructed as to be free from dampness, drafts and foul air. A very good bam for 100 sheep of medium si*e may be built thirty by filfty feet, either with a stone or brick basement, all above ground, not less than eight feet high in the clear (and, better, nine or ten), with many large windows near the top, so arranged as to open and close easily, and with three doors ten feet wide on the south side. These will allow teams and wagons to pass in and out in hauling out the manure, and should be kept wide* open, except in stormy weather and when the wind bbws in. The barn above may be sixteen tc twenty feet high, and can easily be filled with hay from an end door by means of a hay fork and track. We have two such barns—one thirtv by forty that accommodates eighty large breeding ewes, another thirty by sixty-four. We are often asked _ t r f /

GROUND PLAN OF SHEEP BARN. why we did not bmld them wider. I answer that fifteen feet on each side is far enough to move the hay dropped in the center, anil.a wider barn would be harder to ventilate. Our hay doors are in the end, are twelve feet wide by fourteen feet high, and hung at the bottom on heavy hinges, have a staple and ring near the top on the inside to which a rope is attached to fasten to the ’hay-earner to lower and raise the door as needed. Where stone and brick are scarce and expensive, the barn can be all frame except a. foundation, which should be as high as the manure is allowed to accumulate. Twenty-four-foot posts can be nsed and the first eight feet taken for the sheep stable and the balance used for the hay barn. If ensilage is wanted it can be built longer, and as much at one end used for a silo as is necessary to supply the flock with a succulent ration each day. It is a good plan to build in the form Of an L. as this gives shelter from the 'prevailing winds, yet there is one objection to this—lack of yard room. The'-thirty by fifty-foot barn with three wide doors can be divided into three apartments, with long feed racks, or with movable panels of fence where the round racks are used. Two or three hay chutes should run up through the center of the barn; these should be boarded up, with doors on sides that should be kept shut when not feeding; •these act as ventilators and should £»ass up to the ventilators in the cupolas ton the roof of the barn. To illustrate the ground plan of such <a barn 1 give the accompanying diagram. , AAA: Compartments of barn sixteen and two-thirds by thirty feet. BUB. Yards thirty by sixty feet. (The middle one will be as much less sixty feet long as is taken off for pathway to watering place—not more than .ten feet) C C C. Doors of barn ten feet wide. D D D D. Oates to yards. E E E E E E E. Large windows. F F. Chutes for hay and ventilator. G. Well or watering trough for all yards. H U. Better plaoe for watering (troughs. III. Bound feeding racks if panels of movable fence are used to form fhe compartments. In stormy and windy weather this barn should be closed on the side or sides'from which the storm comes and opened on the opposite sides, giving plenty efjresh air .at all times. Our thirty by forty foot barn mentioned above, with eight and a-half foot stone basement and sixteen foot hay barn above, sided with matched dressed sheeting, oast us about four hundred dollars, and one ten feet longer could be built for five hundred dollars oi* less.—George AlcKerrow, in Farm, Field and Fireside. Do the Bom Seed Sait? .On account of the avidity with which bees take salt, I had supposed it as necessary to salt my horses, hogs and cattle, says a writer. If one does not keep a salt trough for the bees they are apt to swarm about his stook and well troughs and many are drowned; but so long as salt water is given them they do not go or bother anywhere else. Where there are streams or pc ads convenient, bees, especially if not salted, will resort to these for water; but even there are eertaiu spots that seem to yield mineral or brackish water they go to suck. This shows their need of something more than ordinary pure water, and sinee they leave all other wavering places for a salty one, we can fairly conclude that it is best to give it. Bests and carrots can be kept in bins packed in dry dirt. They should be perfectly dry before packing, and if exposed in a close place to the fumes of burning sulphur they will keep a year if the dirt in which they are packed is clean.

A NOBLE FIGHT. An Eminent Southern Lawyer's Long Conflict with Diaease. Twe*ty-Ftv* Tmh of Protptritr, Advtr. ■tty and Miirlf. Th. Gmt Vie. torjr Wan by Mmm Ow a Stubborn Umum. [From th4 Atlanta, Oa, Conttitutian.} Foremost amomr the beet known lawyer* and fanners of North Carolina stands CoL Isaac A. Sugg, of Greenville, Pitt Co., a man who has been on the edge of eternity gpd whose life had been measured by minutes. “It has been twenty-two years since I became a resident of this town,** said Ctl Sugg, in telling bis story to a reporter, “even then the first symptoms of Gravel were asserting themselves but were slight. Gradually, however, my disease developed, end fight It ss I would it seemed to gain a stronger foothold day by day until my misery was complete. For sixteen years 1 never knew what it was to be free from pain, not pain as an ordinary man thinks of it, but agonising, excruciating, unendurable pain. Tortured from head to foot, at time* thr ftn into spasms when it would require ited strength of four men to hold me un p I was stupified with stimulants and opiates. I could not sit lie or stand In any one position but the shortest time. Sleep was out of the question unless brought about by the strongest stimulants or opiates. Oh how many, many times have I thought ol putting an end to that life of suffering. But then my mind would revert to my wife, my children, my home, and 1 would restrain my band with the hope that some other means of escape would be offered. I searched the archives of medicine for relief. Doctors were consulted, lithia waters, mineral waters, drugs, opiates and stimufants of all sorts were tried without avail. Why 1 sent clear to the West Indies for medicine' and

vei in© resun was in© same. “I kept at my work as long as I could but nature gave way at last and I succumbed to the inevitable. My entire nervous system bad been shattered by the stimulants and opiates I had taken, my Jblood had actually turned to water, my weight had dropped from ITS pounds to 133, aud it seemed .to everybody that the end was in sight. Why 1 could not bear the gentle hand of my wife to bathe my limbs with tepid water. 1 was simply living from hour to hour. I had made my will, settled my business and waited for the last strand of life to snap. “It was at this time that a somewhat similar case as my own was brought to my notice. This man had suffered very i.ach as 1 had, his life had been despaired of a* mine had and yet he had been cured. Think what that little word meant to me— CURED. The report stated that the work had been accomplished by a medicine knowt as Dr. Williams’ PinKPdls for Pale People I investigated the report thoroughly an« found that it was true in detail. Then I pre cured some of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills an< began taking them and began to ge better. I began to sleep like a healthfu child, sound, calm and peaceful. My appe tite came back aud m y nerves were soothe and restored to their normal condition and frit like a new man. But the greatest Mess ing was the mental improvement. 1 bega to read and digest, to formulate new plans to take interest in my law practice, whiei began to come back to me as soon as m\ clients realized that 1 was again myself After a lapse of 10 years I ride horseback every day’ without fatigue. “That Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills saved mj life is beyond doubt, and I am spreading their praise far and wide.” Inquiry about the town of Greenville sub stanbatedthe above facts of Ool. Sugg’) case, and that many others are being benefited by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale Feopl) are considered an unfailing specific for suck diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow co mplexions, that tired feeling resulting from nervous prostration; all diseases resulting from vitiated humors in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities, and all forms of weakness. In men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, or excesses of whatever nature. Dr. Williams* Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, (50 cents a box or 6 boxes for #3.50—they are never sold in bulk or by the 100) by addressa Dr. Williams’ MecUcino Go., ScheneoKeep Off the GrassSome park policeman lately clubbed a party of ladies and gentlemen for walking upon the grass in Central park. “They’re killing men and women there for wearing off the green.”— Judge. Rather Tardy. A Friend—What ails Mrs. Akehardt, doctor? Friend—I *■ am unable t» diagnose •definitely at this time. “Why, haven't the winter styles in diseases been announced yet?”—Truth.

The "Wronjr Door. Girl (jokingly)—I’d like a place whero I’M have everything I want, nothing to do and no one to boss me. Clerk—This, miss, is an employment office, not a matrimonial agency.—N. Y. Weekly.__ No flurry. The Woman—III be ready In just one second, dear. The Husband—Then I’ll have time to ran down town and get shaved before ere start, love.—Puck. Where Be Felled. Bobbins—Hlgbee isn genius. Bradford—Can do anything, I sup* pose? Robbins—Yes, anything except make a living.—Truth. Gas Not Needed. Dentist —What! You don’t want gas3 You insisted upon havii% gas the last time. Victim—You haven’t been eating onions this time.—N. Y. Weekly. Lookod That Waj. Forrester—Does Howler’s wife practice her pieces at home before singing them in the choir? Lancaster—I imagine so. Howler never goes to church.—Life. After Taking. Ferguson—Miss Highstrikes is quite a stately girL She takes after her father. - ' Hankinson—Yes, and when I go there, blame him, he takes after me!—Chicago Tribune. A Stupid Time. “What kind of a time did you hat# at Miss Beacon’s literary soiree?” “Oh, stupid. None but clever people there.”—Kate Field's Washington

A Iterator Tldocq. “I understand,” said the detective, “that yon had a dew to the whereiboots of Crockles, the famous criminal.-’ t “Yes,” replied the brother officer; “a slight one.” ‘•What was it?” “A man came to me and said that he was Crockles, and wanted to give himself up because he was tired of eluding justice.” “What did you do?” “Nothing, lie couldn't prove his identity.”—Washington Star. Hopeful View. “Swiggles* books are very well spoken t>f, are they not?” asked the timid-look-ing man. » "Yes, sir,” replied the bookseller. “Some of the critics praise them highly.” “And I suppose there will be a pretty ictive demand for them in time?” “O, yes,” said the dealer. After Swiggles is dead everybody will be wanting to read them.” The timid-looking man went softly iway. He was Swiggles.—Chicago Tribune. —The rook is the only bird that ‘repairs his nest in the fall. The same birds use the same nests year after year, and just before migrating they touch up their nests and put them in oraer for the winter.

THE MARKETS. New Yoke. Nov. 5, DATTLR—Native Steers.* 3 5o A COTTON—Middling. .... A FLOUR— Winter Wheat. 8 to A WHEAT—No. 3 lied. . 35*4* DORN—No.8 ... 60 A :>ATS—No. 3.... PORK-New.VIess. 13 50 A SI'. LOUIS COTTON—Middling. A BEEVES—ShiDping Steers... 5 00 A Medium..*........ 4 45 A BOGS—Fair to Select.. 4 8' A SHEEP—Fair to Choice-- 2 W ® FLOOR—Patents. 8 40 A _ Fanev to Extra do.. 8 00 A WHEAT—No.8 Red Winter. A COKN-.No. 8Mixed... A OATS—No. 8. 8»XA It YE—No.8.. 47 A TOUACCO-LugS. 3 50 A Leal Burley.. 7 Od A H A Y-Clear Timothy. 8 -0 A BUTTER-ChoieeDairy. ..... 15 A EGGS—Fresh ... ... A POKK—Standard Mess (new).. 18 50 @ BACON—ClearRih. T A LAUD—Prime Steam.:. A CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping .. 4 50 A HOGS—Fair to Choice. 4 85 A SHEEP—FairtoChoiee. ...... 8 65 A FLOUR—Winter Patents. _ 8 50 A Spring Patents.. 3 00 WHEAT—No.8 Spring ... . No.8 Red.. CORN—No. 8U.... OATS—No. S.. .... A PORK—Mess tnesr) . 11 87*® KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shipping Steers— 3 85 © HOGS—All Grades. 4 1' @ WHEAT—No.8 Red. 4« A OATS—No* 8. »*A CORN—No 8...... . 48*A NEW ORLEANS e FLOUR—High Grade. 8 40 A CORN—No. 8. 54 © OATS—Western. .... A HAY—Choioe. 13 00 ® PORK—New Mesa...... .. BACON—Sides. A COTTON—Middling.. 5*® LOUISVILLE WHEAT—No.3 Red. .r. »1 A CORN—No 8 Mixed. 54 © OATS—No.3 Mixed (New).... SS0*A PORK—New Mess ..13 50 A BACON-Clear rib. 7),A COITON—Middling. .- A 5*XA 58<A M* 55 SIM 13 13* 5* 5*

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An Agricultural Pent. Farmers are perpetually grumbling at the annoyance of sorrel, and have, after many experiments, found, lime and potash their best assistants in exterminating this weed. In some way the idea has become prevalent that the alkaline properties of these two substances have something to do with destroying the sorrel. This is true only because they stimulate other and stronger plants. Clover sown over a sorrel field and liberally fed with lime and potash will soon make such a vigorous growth that the sorrel will stand no chance of life, being actually crowdedl out of existence.—N. Y. Ledger. Don’t You See ? That vapor creeping up from the marshy lowlands. Itisladened with the seeds of chills and fever. Do you think you can breathe these without danger? Not much. Protect yourself with Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters and vou will be safe. Or if you find dyspepsia, rheumatism, inactivity of the kidneys or liver, or constipation coming on apace, use this thorough and beneficent safeguard. Mistress—“I think you handle those fine china dishes vere carelessly." Domestic— “Don't worry, mum. They are so light that they wouldn’t hurt even if I dropped ’em on my toes, mum.”—N. Y. Weekly. A max who used to keep a cigar store recently went into the butter business. He staggered his first customer by askiug if he would have it “medium, mild or strong."— Credit Lost.

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THE POT INSULTED THE KETTLE BECAUSE THE COOK HAD NOT USED SAPOLIO GOOD COOKING DEMANDS CLEANLINESS. SAPOLIO SHOULD be used in every KITCHEN.

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