Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 25, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 November 1895 — Page 7

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. —Quince Honey.—(Nice ter yrfddl* takes.) Make a sirup of two pints and a half of pulverized sugar and a scant ^ pint of water and let it boil ten minutes. Then add two quinces peeled and grated and boil ten minutes long* ar.—Prairie Fanner. —Fresh Cucumber Pickles.—Pour * l*oiling water over fresh cucumbers. When cool and drained on a towel fill glass jars with them, packed closely, and sprinkle in whole pepper corns, doves, mustard seed, celery seed or any other flavor liked, but do not use any great quantity. Put a cup of white sugar to a pint of vinegar,^heat to boiling pour over the pickles and seal up —Chicago Record. —11 raised Fowl,—Bone the fowl and stuff with force-meat Fry a few slices of onions in a stewpan; add the bones and trimmings of tiie chicken, a bunch of herbs, a few blades Of mace, and a pint of brotlu Cover the chicken with slices of bacon, cover the pan very tightly, and stew for half an hour. Strain the braise gravy, and boil it up quickly to a jelly. Glaze the chicken with it and serve cold.—Housekeeper. —Calfs Brains Saute.—The brains must be washed and cooked fifteen minutes in boiling water, to which has been added a teaspoonful of vinegar. Blanch and remove the bits of skin, etc. Break them np with a fork and mix them to a paste with a beaten egg, and a little pepper and salt Have ready in the pan two tablespoonfuls of butter, and, when this is very hot put in the brains by the- spoonful, taking care that the portions do not crowd each other: turn carefully so as not to break them. Fry until brown, and serve them.—Boston Budget —Furniture Cream.—The article so extensively known as “furniture Cream-’ is made as follows: Take of the best yellow wax (beeswax) four ounces, of yelld^ soap two ounees, and disolves or emulsify by boiling in fifty ounces (two and a half pints) of water; then add one and a half ounces of turpentine and an equal quantity of boiled linseed oil, with thorough agitation. By sprinkling a little of this valuable cream upon a piece of rag, and rubbing it upon furniture, a decidedly fresh appearance will be imparted to the latter.—Leed's Mercury.

^—Salmon with bggs.—Cover a plat* ter with perfect leaves of curled lettuce, the stems for the center. Pour off the oil from a can of salmon; lay the fish carefully in the center of the platter, and season with salt, pepper, and lemon juice, lloil nine eggs hard, remove the shells and cut each egg in three slices, into a crock; stir salt, pepper. a tablespoonful of melted butter, one-half teaspoonful of mustard and one tablespoonful of vinegar together and pour over the eggs. Place them around the salmon, on the platter, and serve at once. The green lettuce, the white and yellow eggs and the pink of salmon, make this dish as pleasing to the eye as to the palate.—Housekeeper. —Hollandaise Sauce.—Half a teacupful of butter, the juice of half a lemon, the yolks of two eggs, a speck of cayenne, half a cupful of boiling water, half a teaspoon ful of salt. Beat the butter to a cream, then add the yolks, one by one, the lemon juice, pepper and salt. Place the bowl in which these are mixed in a saucepan of boiling water. Beat with an egg beater until the sauce begins to thicken (about a minute), and add the boiling water, beating all the time. When like a soft custard it is done. The bawl if thin must be kept^ over the lire five minutes, provided the water boils all the time. This sauce is delicious with boiled fish and hot asparagus, also with meat that require" piquant sauce.—Western Rural. SYSTEM IN HOUSEWORK. The Difficulty of Kuuntnc a House by Rule and square. While there is nothinr in the world so wearisome as iron-clad regulations and inflexible rules in the household it must be admitted that a reasonable amount of system lightens labor, reduces the friction of the domestic machinery to a minimum and makes it possible to accomplisn n great deal more work in the same time than can be compassed when everything goes in a slip-shod, helter-skelter fashion. To attempt to run a house by rule and square is a task too hard for the average woman. She who tries it finds the attrition altogether too much for her in the long run. It wears out her temper, saps her vitality, and destroys the peace and harmony of the establishment. Meals at the tap of the drum are important, provided one can get all of the members of the family to make their appearance on time, but in most families there are indolent or aemi-invalid persons who never conform to regulations and who are always behindhand. If this is the case it is just as well to take things easy as to be forever buffeted with such delaying 'Conditions.

There is nothin? more important than to teach children to be prompt at meals, but it is not, as a rule, the ehildren of the family who make the trouble. It is the adult, the aged and semi-invalid and the careless and indifferent who disarrange all of the housekeeper's plans. Without trying in any way to disparage method and its advantages, it is not difficult to see that the faculty of adaptation and the ability to meet emergencies are quite as useful to the housewife as the gift for the strictest and most rigid system. Housekeeping is an occupation that is made up of short corners and quick turns The unexpected is always happening and the woman who is able to grasp a situation and turn an unfortunate accident into a tolerable alternative or an advantageous incident, is the one who comes out best in the long run.—X. Y. Ledger. __ —“These cut prices in medicine are>a great comfort to me,” remarked Mrs. Uummey. “I never felt as though 1 could really afford to be sick as long as I bad to pay a whole dollar for a single bottle of patent medicine; now that I can get them for seven tv-three cents it makes a big difference.”—Harper's Bazar. .

FOR WARM COUNT! IES. I can think of better method feu* keep* tag ice in Texas than that generally used in parts of Kentucky, T nnessec, Virginia and other wanner s tates. A circular hole 12,15 or 20 feet (i ccording to the capacity wanted) in iiameter, like a very large well, is e*ca ated in a high, dry piece of ground, to he depth of 8 to 10 feet, and where t can be drained at the bottom into pervious strata of sand or gravel bel« w. or by sewer, pump or sipbon pipe to lower ground. When the excavatic a is completed, a strong, double-waile 1 wooden framework is put in, the out ?r boards resting against the earth am preventing caving in; the inner biards are nailed on the inside of the fn me, so as to leave an air space of, sa 4 or 6 inches ail around. This frai leworkia extended several feet above the common surface of the ground, then drawn in conically all around, and rt ofed over with a conically roof. Double doors are made in one side of the con cal roof; through these the house is fiUed. When filled, they are close ! tightly

A WARM COUNTRY ICE 110 C8K. and when ice is wanted they- are opened, one outward, the other inward. Often a stairway leads from outside down under the bot :©m of the icehouse, where milk, butter, etc., are kept. .When the framework and board-ed-up sides of the house are completed, the earth excavated is graded up around the house, so that the water from the | roof falls well out upon the earth, and runs away outside. The mound is | sodded, and when such a house and i mound are well constructed, they are an ornamental object in the back yard. Ice stowed in such a house keeps well; a ladder is used to enter w hen the iee gets too low to step in upon it. Such a house will last many years. With greater expense in i sing woods that will not readily decay, such as cypress, the house is good for a lifetime. A sketches shown in the cut. All doors must fit tightly by being rubber or cloth lined. If dry sawdust cr powdered charcoal can be obtained with which to fill the air space in the wall and roof, so much the better. However, if the walls of the house are made tight, so that the air between has no circulation, they are a good non-conductor. Shade trees growing on the south side of the icehouse assist it. Such a house is somewhat expensive at first, but in the long run will be found cheap. It ought to work well in the dry, well-drained soils of the Panhandle of Texas. The ice should be cat in blocks, and stacked iu solid, like bricks, to be aried apart as wanted.—T. V. Munson, in Rural New Yorker. WHY THE SILO PAYS. fen Reasons Which Should Appeal to the Good Sense ot Readers. Until every farmer has a silo, it is in order to preach the silo, so we beg those who have silos to bear with us if we seem to repeat self-evident truths. Remember what an awful lot of preaching it takes to save a few sinners, and have patience; or do better, help us spread the truth. 1. The silo stores away corn more safely and more permanently than any other plan. Silage is practically fireproof, and will keep in the silo indefinitely. Corn can be made into silage at less expense than it can be preserved in any other form. 3. The silo preserves absolutely all but the roots of the corn. 4. Silage can be made in the sunshine or iu min. Unlike hay, it is independent of the weather. 5. When corn is ready for the silo, there is but little farm work pressing. 6. Corn is worth more to the dairy as silage than in any other way.

7. At least one-third more corn per acre may be fed on silage than on dried corn, stalks or fodder. 8. Corn is fed more conveniently as silage than in any other form. 9. Silage is of most value when fed in combination with other food richer in protein. It is not a complete food. 10. Owing to its succulence and bulkiness,1 silage is the best known substitute for green grass, and is therefore especially valuable as a winter food.— Jersey Bulletin. Selfish Uadownan. How many farmers and others, too, whose places are destitute of fruit and shade trees? Again, how many rented places are devoid of trees of all kinds? Has the landowner ever stopped to consider that a small orchard, a few yard trees around every tenement house, will greatly enhance the value, attract and hold a better class of tenants, make life more enjoyable and that, too, at practically no cost? We tell you, there is a great deal of selfishness; we look abroad and see how stingy and selfish many are with their tenants, and of tentimes perchance some good farmer rents his farm and moves away, and is so selfish as to reserve all, yes, all the fruit produced, denying even this to the ten ah t. Landowners owe their tenants and public generally a duty bv planting at least a moderate quantity of trees. This is a wise public policy.— C. P. Robards, in Ornamental Tree Growing. v_._ Bad Forever and a Day. Many men come and many men go, but some bad roads bid fair to be bad lorever.

HUMOROUS BREVITIES. Proprietor—“Where iis the book, keeper?** Office Boy—“He tea* Leu His wife sent him word that the baby was asleep, and be*s gone home to see what it looks like.**—Texas Siftings. Everything,” she murmured, as sfo gazed on the wooded hill, when tK frost had touched the leaves, “is turn* ing to gold. Do you enjoy it T* “No,” he replied, without looking up, “I’m ter free silver."—Washington Star. “Pa.” asked Johnny, whatisanomde plume?” “A nom de plume," replied pa, “hr the gratuitous appellation of the fictitious person who has to bear the disgrace which attaches to one’s literary misdemenora.”—Boston Transcript. “What makes them lynch people?” asked the boy who thirsts for knowledge. “To show others that the law must be obeyed.” “But isn’t lynching against the law?” “Why-er —of course—O, run along to bed, child!”— Washington Star. Mrs. Slimson (Severely) — “Willie, this lady complains that yon have been fighting with her little boy, ami wants vou to promise never to do so again.”' Willie (to lady) — “You need’t be afraid, ma’am. Your boy will keep out of my wav after this.”— 11 arper’s "Bazar. UNUSUAL AND STRANGE. A crop of strawberries in September is one result of the hot weather iu some parts of England. Mr. Louis Coulon, a lawyer of Montlacon, France, has a beard eight feet long. He began shaving at the age of twelve, and two years! later his beard was a foot in length. A strange funeral procession was lately witnessed in a Wisconsin village. There were in it a number of men and women on bicycles, the deceased having been a member of a bicycle club. A dog that had six and a quarter inches of her spinal cord removed was exhibited at the recent physiological convention at Berne. Though the muscles of the hind legs and back had entirely degenerated, she had survived the operation two years. An egg laid by a New Bedford hen recently measured four inches long, seven and a half inches in circumference and weighed six ounces. When broken it was found to contain another egg, of ordinary size, perfect in shape and with a hal'd shell.

RAILROAD RUMBLINGS. Hanover, in Germany, after trying I the trolley system for its electric cars, has gone back to-the accumulator sys- : tern. I The question of abolishing the old coaehbody railway carriage and substituting the American end door system on all railroads is being agitated in England. Thev effect of the recent race by the English trains to Scotland is being shown in the acceleration of trains'in other parts of the kingdom, and it is gradually working its way around London. It is apparent that the Great Western and the Southwestern are about to undertake a speed competition for {be west of England traffic. The New York Central made the proposition to the United States postal department to run a fast mail from New York to Chicago on a schedule about the same as that of the Empire State express, if the government would give them three dollars per mile for running the train. The government thought the figure too high, and there the matter stands. IN HOT AND COLD LANDS. It is announced that the.flying mouse in a recent discovery in the Cameroon country of Africa. It is a link between the bat and true mouse. Africa is to be triangulated from the Cape of Good Hope to Cairo. Dr. Gill, astronomer royal Cape Town, has prej pared the plans and Cecil Rhodes 1b : backing him up. Civilization is striking deep into Africa. Prempeh, king of Coomassie, who Is accused of violating his treaty obligatons to England, and of continuing to offer up human sacrifices, now’ employs • London solicitor to present his side of the case, in the hope of averting another Ashantee war.

THfc MARKETS. s .. A JO sft Naw York, October 28.189' CATTLE—Natl *eSteers.• 3 8* a* 4 66 COTTON—Middling.. 8*A 8* FLOCK—Winter Wheat._ 3 60 A 4 80 WHEAT—No. 8 Ked... .... «t jPK COHN—No. 8.. A « OATS—Na 8.. .. .... PORK—New Mess.. • 7ft St\ LOUIS COTTON—Middling... A HE E V ES—Fancy Steers...... 4 80 A Medium_... .... 4 00 A HOGS—Fair to Seieot. S«0 A SHEEP-Falrto Choice....... 8 1=> A FLOCK—Patents... 3 80 A Fancy to Extra do.. 8 75 A WHEAT—No. 2 Red Winter... 63\A CORN—No.2 Mixed. *1*A OATS—NouS . •>- § RYE-No. 8. »«*A TOBACCO—Luca. 3 03 A 8* ft 40 4 fiii 3 Mt 2 W> 3 39 3 10 M* IT* 38* 8 uo Leaf Burley....... 4W A 12 <0 HAY—Clear Timothy. ® M B UYTE K—Choice Dairy...... I* w ECUS- Fresh . 13*® PORK—Standard Mess........ 8 5» A BACON—Clear Rib . 8*3 LAKO—Prime Steam.... CHICAGO CATTLE—Shipping .*_ 813 A HOG S-Fair to Choice.. St* A SHEEP—Fairlo Choice.. *73 A FLOCK—Winter Patents..... 3 0) A Spring Patents...... 3 13 A WHEAT—No.2 Spring........ 5»XA No Sited. *MA COKN-Na 8. 31 \~ OATS—No. 2..... . < PORK—Mess (new)... 8 1*K KANSAS Ol l’Y CATTLE—Shipping Steers.... 8 7' HOGS—All Grades. ... .. .. 3 85 WHEAT-No..' Red..,.... OAT'S—Na 8. CORN—Na 8. .;. » NEW iiiuEAN■». FLOUR—High Grade. 3 85 CORN—Na 8. *.. OAT'S— Western. .. 85 HAY—Choice. 17 ©‘ PORK-New Mess . 8 7ft BACON—Sides.... CVTTON— Mwdling.a.. LOUlSVMK*& WHEAT—Na 8 Rod (new) ... «t cdkN-Nai Mixed............ 38 OATS-NaS Mixed............ 1ft PORK—New Mess... • 7ft BACON—Clear Hitt.....*.... COTTON—Mddling. 30 18 15 8 63* ft* 3* ft S' 3 90 3 SO 3 50 3 50 ♦ox Si's 1H\ 8 8ft S 00 3 70 68* 17 85>i 965 S7 85* IS ft* 8 87* 3* 8* 1 H •7* 38* 88* ft©* K

—A census of centenarians.HtfiUj taken In France iriie two, hundred and thirteen persona of one hundred or over, one hundred and forty-seven of them.women and sixty-six men. The oldest was a woman who had just died at one hundred and fifty. In a village of the department of Haute Garonne. Nearly all the centenarians belonged to the lowest ranks in life. Will be rendered more beneficial, and dm fatigues of travel counteracted, if the toj will take along with him re, and Stomach Bittern, and use that protective and enabling tonic, nerve invigorant and appetiser regularty? Impurities in air and water are neutralised by i t. and it is a matchless tranquilliser and regulator of tbe stomach, liver and bowels. It counteracts malaria, rheumatism, and a tendency to kidney and bladder ailments. “What's the latest thing in bloomers!” “The most modest girl will be. “—Truth. Is taken internally Price 15c. A wish man should have money in his bead, not in his heart.—Swift. Buchan's pills for constipation 10c and 26c. Get the book (free) atyour druggist's and go by it. Annual sales 0,000,000 boxes. GrviLiTT costs nothing, but buys everything.—Lady M. W. Montague.

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“Did your father get away to the country this summer, Harry!” “No, air. He was too busy to take a vaccination this year,” 1 said Harry .-Harpers Basar. < Piso's Cure for Consumption has no equal as a Cough medicine.—P. M. Abbott. S3 Seneca St., Buffalo, N. Y., May »> 1SW. Vekse sweetens toil, however rude the ! sound.—Gifford. I |

“Dn> yon enjoy the eon cert, Mrs. Barberf* They wasn't any. A man came oat moA Mnged a planner, while bis wife stood betide him shriekin' at htnr aH the time. Seems to me they'd ought to have arrested he woman for interferin’." — Harper** Bazar. Browk—“Our candidate says the salary1 >f the office is no object to him.” Junes— ‘I suppose he bee his eye on the perqalates.’’—Brooklyn Life. T ,

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