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VOL. 30.
STROUUSBURG, MONROE COUxNTY, PA., OCTOBER 24, 1872.
NO. 25.
published by Theodore Schoch.
en ves -To JoILtrs a rear in advance unci if not
nai l before the end of the year, two dollars and fifty
,.iits will be charged.
y, tviper discontinued until all arrearages are paid,
icf ct the op"011 the Editor.
tC? Advertisements of one square of (eight lines) or
rts.oue or thre insertions 91 SO. Each additional
r,tiUjii, 50 cen j. Longer ones in proportion.
jobImfT tin a,
OF ALL KINDS,
itttXiitA in the liiphest style of the Art, and on the
most reasonable terms.
Valuable Properly
FOR SALE.
The subscribers offer for sale,
tthfir resilience in Stroudsburg.
P I he Lot has a lront ot 145 It.
)n Main Street, with a depth of
I'.jd feet.
The buildings consist of a convenient dwell
in? house, store house, barn and other out
buildings.
There is an abundance of choice apples,
pears, plums, grapes and small fruits, with
excellent water.
May 16, '7:2. - A. M. & R. STOKES.
DR. J.LANTZ,
Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist,
Still Ins hi office on Main Street, in the second
ory ol Dr. S. Walton's brick building, neatly oppo
the Stroudshurg IIiue, and tie A.uters himself
tnat hy ritfhlftn years constant practire and the most
tarnet aii l careful Httent.i-n to all matters pertaining
t his profession, that he is fully ahle to perforin all
jM-raiions in the dental line lit the most careful, taut e
and skilil'il manner.
S,n--il attention Bieii to snun; the Natural Teeth ;
!.. tn the insertion of Artificial reel li un Rubber,
CnlJ. Silver or Continuous Gums, and prrtect fits tn
all ra.i insured.
M'ist person know the great folly and d.ineor ol en
trus'iiij their work to the uiexotrieiirrd. or to those
living at a tllslaiice. April 13, 1871. ly
I)
It. GCO. W. JACKSON
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER.
In the old office of Dr. A. Reeves Jackson,
residence in WyckofT's building.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
August 8, 1872-tt".
JK. II. J. PATTI2KSOX,
OPERATING AND MECHANICAL DENTIST,
Having located in East Stroudsburg, Pa., an
nounces that lie is now prepared to insert arti
ficial teeth in the most beautiful and life-like
manner. Also, great attention given to filling
and preserving the natural teeth. Teeth ex
tracted without pain by use of Nitrous Oxide
Cias. All other work incident to t lie profession
done in the niwt skillful and approved style.
All work attended to promptly and warranted.
Charges reasonable, l'atronage of the public
solicited.
Office in A. W. Loder's new building, op-
Kiite Analomink House, East Stroudsburg,
l.J July 11, 1872 ly.
DR. N. L. PECK,
Surgeon Dentist,
Announces th it having just returned from
Dental Coliegs, he is fully prepared to make
artificial teeth in the most beautiful and life
like manner, and to fill decayed teeth ac
cording to the rnot improved method.
Tee'h extracted without pain, when de
tired", by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
which is entirely harmless. Repairing; of
' kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
Caarjes reasonable.
OSce in J. G. Keller's new Brick build
in j. Main S'reet, Stroudeburg, Pa.
U 31-tf
DR. C O. IIOFFJ1AX, M. O.
Would respectfully announce to the
nblio that he hits removed his office from
Oakland to Canadensis, Monroe County-, Pa.
Trusting that manj' 3'ears of consecutive
riotic-e of Medicine and Surgery will be a
f tfSfieat guarantee for the public confidence.
February 23, 1870. tf.
JAMES U. WAIjTOX.
Atlornej at L.avr,
, OJS--3 in the building formerly occupied
by L M. Burson, and opposite the Strouds
burg I5ank, Main street, Stroudsburg, Pa.
jan 13-tf
LACKA1VA..A HOUSE.
OPPOSITE TH K DEPOT,
East Stroudsburg, Pa.
15. J. VAN COTT, Proprietor.
The bar contains the cboiet Liquors and
the table is supplied with the best the market
affords. Charges moderate. may 3 1872-tf.
TTJATSOX'S
M )Iutmt Vernon House,
117 and 119 North Second St.
A ROVE ARCH,
PHILADELPHIA.
May 30, 1S72- ly.
"KELLERSVILLE HOTEL
The uudersigiied having purchased the
above well known and popular Hotel Proier
ty, would resiectfully inform the traveling
rublie that he has refurnished and fitted up
tKe Hotel in the best style. A handsome
Bar, with choice Liquors and Segars, polite
attendants and moderate charges.
CHARLES MANAL,
Oct 10 1871. tf. Proprietor.
JgAIlTOXSVIIaLIMIOTKI..
Thi old established Hotel, having recently
changed hands, and been throughly overhauled
and repaired, will reopen, for the reception of
f guests on Tuesday, May 27th.
t The public will alwayn tind this house a de
sirable place of resort. "Every department will
he managed in the best possible r.iannejr. The
table will be supplied with the best the Market
affords, and counoisures will always ti&d none
hut the best wines and liquors at th bar.
Good stabling beloning to the Hotel, will be
found at all times under the care of careful and
obliging attandants.
way 23, 1872. ANTHONY II. ROEM EB.
A Long and Healthy Life.
Doctor Barnard Van Oven, a medical
writer of great talent, sajs :
"There can be no doubt that health is
the natural condition of man, and that
we ought to pass through life in a state
of vigor, enjoying every day of our ex
istence. It is imperiously our duty to
study the best means of promoting so hap
py a cooditon. If we thank the Great
Creator of all for the life He has bestow
ed on us, we should endeavor to retain
His gift in the fullest perfection. It
would be well for mankind if the princi
ples of physiology, and fhe laws of hy
giene as deduced therefrom, formed a
part of every course of education; for
then men, being acquainted with the
great causes of disease and the best means
of preserving health, would so conduct
themselves as to secure the ODe and avoid
the other."
It will, perhaps, seem incredible to
many persons that health or length of
days should be at all under our own con
trol. Numbers of worthy people are so
disposed to look upon everything that
happens as a dispensation of Providence,
that has to be submitted to whether or
not, that they will hardly like to .be told
of laws which regulate health and life,
and by obedience to which the one may
e promoted and the other lengthened.
There is, however, no reason to doubt
the fact ; and every one may decide
the question for himself, by liviog strict
ly in accordance with those laws, and
making the satisfactory result.
Man lives and grows by the functions
of digestion, respiration, circulation, and
secretion. The food is converted into
blood, and becomes vitalized, and in this
state is propelled to every part of the sys
tem, to nourish and renew, and to remove
such matters as, having performed their
infunctions, have become effete, and
would prove noxious if not removed. ;
In infancy and childhood, the nutri
tive or building up process is ceaseless
and rapid ; anything which tends to check
it, such as deficient supply or bad quality
of food, is not only to be carefully avod
ed, but is highly blamable. Children re
quire to be plentifully fed with suitable
food ; if the appetite be cheated, there
will be imperfect development, and dis
ease, if not deformity, through all after
life. When, however, all the organs are
lully developed, and the body has attain
ed maturity, a different relation of the ac
tion occurs. The blood-vessels are only
called upon to replace what the absorb
eots remove, and for a period the normal
condition of the frame may be regarded
as one approaching to a perfect equli
brium. During this state of maturity
the body should neither increase nor de
crease in size, form, or vigor, except in
asmuch as the continued exercise of some
parts, or the disuse of others, may oo
casion a greater or less degree of develop
ment. Hence it is that persons in mid
dle life should be careful to control their
appetite, aud rigidly refrain from eating
too much. Middle life is, however, the
period when people are disposed to think
that they ought to indulge in creature
comforts, their position in life is general
ly taken by that time, and so a well-spread
table tempts them into the daily practice
of taking more than they want, and ill
health is the inevitable consequence.
At the age of fifty there is usually an
increase in the bulk of the body, by de
posit of fat chiefly on the trunk ; but at
the same time the face shrinks, the eye
lids become loose, the crow's feet appear,
and here and there Time traces a furrow
on the couotcnance, which henceforth he
will plow deeper and deeper. The mus
cles, too, fall away, and the skin becomes
dry and harsh Except in rare cases, the
hair turns gray and loses its gloss, crisp
ness, and curl, or becomes thin and falls
off. As age advance?, so do these char
acteristics mark themselves more strong
ly ; the plasticity which once gave free
dom and ease to all the movements of the
body aud limbs is lost to a coutinually
increasing rigidity aud consolidation.
The bulk diminishes, in consequence of
the absorption of fat ; the muscles become
stringy aod fibrous, and often weak ; the
voice falls into a piping treble ; the eye
sight needs artificial assistance, the hear
ing is blunted ; in short, all the senses
lose more or less of their delicacy with
age.
There is something in this which makes
a long life appear undersirable ; yet we
have many proofs in ancient and mod
ern times that old age is not by any
means incompatible with cheerfulness
and a capacity for enjoyment.
Doctor Van Oven gives tables of 7,000
persons who lived ages from 100 to 185
years. A noteworthy instance, of what
simple and regular living will effect is af
forded by Cornaro, the Venetian, who
had almost killed himself by excesses at
the age of forty. He then became strict
ly attentive to his diet and course of life,
and lived sixty-four years longer to the
ago of 101.
"How few really die of old age ! ob
servos Doctor Van Oven. 'Parr's death
at 152 was premature, induced by a fool
ish change from the simple diet and ac
tivc habits of a peasant to the luxurious
ease aud exciting foods anddrioksofa
country gentleman. His body wa ex
amined by the great Harvey, who found
all the organs in so 60uud a condition,
that, but lor intemperance and inactivity,
he would, in all probability, have lived
many years longer." An English gen
tleman named Hastings, who died in
1650, at the age oMOO, rode to the death
of a stage at ninety. Thos. Wood, a
parish clerk, lived to 1G0, and "could
read to the last without spectacles, and
only kept his bed one day." J. Witten,
a weaver, was "never sick, never used
spectacles, hunted a year before his death,
and died suddenly," at the age of 102.
Francis Athins "was porter at the Palace
Gate, Salisbury ; it was his duty to wind
up a clock which was at the top of the
palace ; and he performed this duty un
til within a year of his death (at 102.)
He was remarkably upright in. his de
portment, and walked well to the last."
Margaret M'Dorval, a Scottish woman,
who died at 106, "married thirteen hus
bands, and survived them all."
Cardinal de Salis, who died in Spain,
in 1785, at the age of 110, used to say,
"By being old when I was young, I find
myself young now I am old. I led a so
ber, studious, but not lazy or sedentary
life ; my diet was ever sparing, though
delicate; my liquors the best wines of
Xeres and La Mancha, of which I never
exceeded a pint at a meal, except in cold
weather, when I allowed myself a third
more ; I rode and walked every day, ex
cept in rainy weather, when I exercised
for two hours. So far I took care for the
body ; aod as to the mind, I endeavored
to preserve it in due temper by a scrupu
lous obedience to the divine commands,
and keeping (as the apogtle directs) a
conscience void of offense to God and
and man.". J. Jacob, a native of Switzer
land, "when 127 years old, was sent as a
deputy to the National Assembly of
France ;" he died the following year.
Others might be mentioned, but we have
only room to add that, within the past
two centuries and a half, ten well certified
cases of individuals in England and Wales
living to ages
ranging:
from 150 to 200
years, have occurred; and here, in mod
ern times, we have repeated to length of
days commonly belived to belong ex
clusively to the patriarchal ages.
Doctor Van Oven points out the good
that may be accomplished by a proper
rigimen faithfully followed. This con
sists in certain general rules, which we
give in his own words : .7
1. Do not take food except when the
appetite demands it ; that is, do not re
cruit the system but when the system has
become exhausted., i..r
2. Let the quantity ' of restorative
nourishment be proported to the degree
of exhaustion which previous labors have
induced.
3. Select such food or foods, drink or
drinks, as your own experience and the
general usages of society point out as best
suited to your habits, and easiest of di
gestion. 4. Let the food and drinks be varied
and mixed, and when in health do not
torment yourself by too close an atten
tion to any dietetic rules.
5. Take vegetable infusions, as tea,
coffee, and fermented liquor3, in moder
ation ; but avoid distilled spirits altogether,
except under the guidance of the physi
cian. 6. Avoid active exertion or study im
mediately after taking food.
7. Let prodeuce govern the passions'.
To which may be added, that it is es
sential to the health and strength of all
persons to have from six to eight hours
of sound sleep. A steady observance of
these simple laws will insure the highest
health it is possible to attain. '
children! V
Nothing is more charming than to see
happy, healthy children, and to see them
also neatly and tastefully dressed. But
simplicity is the charm of youth ; a fresh
young face needs litte adornments. Rich
garments, jewlery, and extra number of
ribbons, flounces, ruffles, and puns add
nothing to the beauty of chilehood.tr
Mothers nowadays incline to dress their
children like minature men aud women.
In so doing they not only make a great
mistake, but they wrong their children,
particularly their little girls, who at ten
are often seen decked out in as much
finery as a fashionable woman of fifty.
Id the first place, this style of dressing
makes the young girl look old, and robs
her of all that fresh simplicity which is
so natural and pleasing. She appears ar
tificial, constrained, and disagreeably self-)
conscious. Her thoughts are necessarily
much upon her adornments, and she has
not yet learned to co nceal the fact.
What mother has the right thus to im
pair the beauty of her child ? Then,
again the health and comfort of the lit
tie girl are seriously interfered with by
the care she is expected to give to her
fine garments. She cannot run aod jump
and rump about as she longs to do, lest
aha tears them ; she must seat herself cir,
cumspectly, lest she crush the trimmings;
she must be constantly on her guard, lest
she soil the delicate . fabrics. At many
fashionable summer resorts it is positively
painful to notice how absurdly this sys
tem of ornamentipg children is practiced.
It is hoped that sensible mothers will not
interfere with their children's rights in
this respect. Give them simple cloth
ing, for this does not prevent the gar
meots being pretty and tasteful. But
let young folks have a chance to be young.
In America we all grow old too fast not
in years but in thought, in feeling, and
habits.
A Michigan man of sixty lately cele
brated his wedding and dropped dead
from heart disease a few minutes alter
the ceremony.
The Lightning Rod Swindle.
So many people have suffered from a
crowd of swindlers who do business in
lightning rods, that we give the follow
ing story, in order that you may judge
the swindlers from the honest men.
A man of good address, in fact what
may be termed a good talker, makes his
appearance, driving a smart turn out, and
engages the owner of a house (if a new
one, so much the better,) in conversa
tion, and expatiates on the advantages of
having one's house or barn protected
from lightning. He has a collection of
newspaper slips containing accounts of
buildings that have been struck by light
ning, and in part or wholly destroyed.
If any of these have occurred within a
comparatively short distance of the lo
cality where the agent then is, so much
the better. He so works upon the fears
of the house owner, that the latter, if of
a nervous temperament, fully expects to
have his buildings destroyed by the elec
tric fluid the next time a thunder shower
comes that way. He, finally, asks to see
the price list of the agent, and the latter
exhibits it, and shows that for a com
paratively small sum, lightning rods, with
the necessary attachments, can be erect
ed.' A bargain is struck, and it is agreed
that for a sum ranging from $25 to $50,
the house will be made safe against elec
tric fluid in whatever shape it may come.
Before leaving, however, the agent looks
over the buildings, and suggests one or
two additions, without mentioning, how
ever, that it will incur ' additional ex
pense ; or, if the purchaser is cautions
enough to make an inquiry, is assurred,
that the additional expense will be trifl
ing, and is as nothing compared to the
additional security that will be afforded.
The agent drives away, and in a few days
thereafter, two men arrive, fully provided
with all the necessary implements and
materials, and proceeds to erect the light
ning rods and attachments. The work is
done, and the men drive away. In a
short time, a bill . for the ' work done is
sent in, and the house owner is astound
ed to find that he is called upon to pay,
not $25 or $50, as he had supposed, but
from $125 to $250. He calls at the of
fice of the company, and demands an ex
planation. He is assured that the bill is
a correct one that the items are proper
ly rendered, and that payment must be
made. He instances the bargain original
ly made with the agent, and is told that is
of no account, because of the additions af
terward made. In a rage, the victim de
clares that he will never pay the bill, aud
is assured that he will be sued for it, and
that he will merely have the expense of
the suit, in addition to his bill, to pay
If he still refuses payment, suit is brought,
and by din't of swearing to each indivi
dual item on the part of the agent and
employer, the victim is beaten, and com
pelled to pay, not alone the swindler bill,
but the costs of the suit no small
amount. He has been swindled through
out the whole transaction, but he has no
remedy. This is but a specimen of scores
of well authenticated cases.
The Poor Man and his Home.
' If ever household affection and loves
are graceful things, they are graceful in
the poor! The ties that bind the wealthy
and the proud to home may be forged on
earth, but those which link the poor men
to his humble hearth are of the truer met
al and bear the stamp of Heaven. The
man of, high descent may love the halls
and lands of his inheritance as a part of
himself, as trophies of his birth and pow
er ; his associations of pride and wealth
and triumph ; the poor man's attachment
to the tenement he holds, which strangers
have held before, and may to morrow oc
cupy agains, has a worthier root, stuck
deep into a purer soil. His household
gods are of flesh aod blood, with no alloy
of silver, gold, or precious stone. He has
no property but in . the affections of his
own heart; and when they endear bare
walls and floors, despite of rags and toil
and scanty fare, that man has his love of
home from God, and his rude hut becomes
a solemu place.
Oh 1 if those who rule the destinies of
nations would but remember this if they
would think how hard it is for the very
poor to have engendered in their hearts
that love of horns from which all domes
tic virtues spring, when they live in dense
and squalid masses where social decency
is lost, or rather never found if they
would but turn aside from the wide thor
oughfares and great houses,' and strive to
improve the wretched dwellings in by
ways where only Poverty may walk,
many low roofs would point more truly to
the sky than the loftiest steeple that now
rears proudly up from the midst of guilt,
and crime and horrible disease, to mock
them by its contrast. In hollow voices
from workhouse, hospital, and jail, this
truth has beeu preached from day to day,
and has been proclaimed for years. It is
no light matter no outcry from the work
ing vulgarno mean question of the peo
ple's health and comforts that may be
whistled down on Wednesday. In the
love of home, the love of couutry has its
rise ; aud who are the truer patriots, or
better in timeof need those who venerate
the land, owuiug its wood, aud stream,
aod earth, and all that they produce t or
those that love their couutry, boasting
not a foot of ground in all its wide
domain 1 CJtarles Die ken.
The Ohio wool clip 1,000,000' pounds
greater than last year.
A Horse Story.
Mr. Catje a retired grocer of Williams
burg, says the New York Sun, purchased
a sorrel horse " about four months ago.
Every week-day and Sunday he drove the
animal. Being ot a sociable disposition he
made frequent stopping places and re
turned home late. His horse was ne
glected aod suffered in consequence of
Mr. Catje's eccentricities. This neglect
and ill treatment soon began to show on
the horse. Large sores broke out over
his body and he became emaciated. Find
ing that it. would cost him too much trou
ble and money to recuperate the poor
animal, he resolved to kill him. He
placed a rope around the horse's neck and
walked him to the dead horse's dock.
The animal was tied to a post. A num
ber of laborers and boys stood around
while the men of the horse boat prepared
to kill the poor brute. Mr. Catje stood
in the crowd. The blow, iostca of
knocking him insensible, merely stunned
him. Before it could be repeated the
horse, with a desperate jerk, broke loosed
from his fastening and darted at the crowd
of people. Singling out Catje, he ran
for him. Scarcely comprebeuding the
situation, as he afterward s:iid, he ran for
his life up the wharf to the lumber yard.
In and around the piles of lumber, up
and down ran Catje, followed by the horse
with mouth exteuded. Large flakes of
froth covered his breast. The people on
the pier stood in amazement, unable to
render'any asistance. Finally, after Catje
had ran around the yard a number of
times, and when nearly exhausted, he
jumped for a pile of boards, to the top of
which he clambered just a3 the horse,
with a bound, struck his forefeet on the
boards and strove to clutch the terrified
man. As Catje dropped on the boards
exhausted, the horse, with a roar, fell to
the ground dead. His eyes were pro
truding from their sockets, aud his month
wide open. Catje was ; removed to his
home. He has torn down hi3 stables,
and intends to own no more horses.
; Business.
Take advantage of modern facilities,
and accomplish as much in a single day
as required months and years lormerly.
Use the means within your reach ; there
is something for everybody to do, and a
place for every one who is willing to work.
Don't depend on your own lungs alone ;
use the lungs of the press. Treat your
customers as your frieuds, by serving
them in the best manner, and never let
them be deceived or dissappomtcd. 1 ind
recreation in looking after your business,
and vour business will not be neglected
in looking after recreation. Buy fair,
and sell fair, take care of the profits, and
be economical. Should misfortune over
take you, retrench, work harder, but
never, fly the struck ; comfort difficulties
with unflinching ; perseverence ; should
you then fail, you will be honored ; but
shrink, and you will be despised. The
tricky, deceitful and dishonest, are rarely
prosperous, for where confidence is with
drawn, poverty is likely to follow. Best
satisfied with doing well, and leave others
to talk as they will. Never speak boast
ingly of your business; keep your owu
counsel about the management of your
affairs. Be charitable according to your
means. To compete successfully with a
neighbor, participate in the facilities to
go ahead. .-, i :
, Use of Fruits.
Instead of standing in fear of a gen
erous consumption of ripe fruit one should
regard it as decidedly conductive to
health. The very diseases, says the Coun
try Gentleman,' commonly assumed to
have their origin in the free use of all
kinds of berries,' apples, peaches, pears,
cherries, and roelons,-have been quite as
prevalent, if not equally destructive, in
seasons of scarcity. There are so many
crroueous notions entertained of the bad
effect of fruit that it is quite time a coun
teracting impression should be promulga
ted, having its foundation in couicuou
sense and based on the common observa
tion of the intelligent. No one ever liv
ed longer or freer from the attacks of dis
ease, by discarding the delicious fruits of
our couhtry. On the contrary, they are
very essential to the preservation of health,
and are therefore given to us .at the time
when the condition of the body, operated
upon by deteriorating causes not always
comprehended, requires - their greatful,
renovating influences. Unripe fruit may
cause, illuess, but fresh, ripe fruit is al
ways healthful.
' The Price of Glory,
Since the close of the war with France,
Germany has received from that unfor
tunute country, in tho shape of indem
nity, four hundred and eighty million dol
lars. There is still ; remaining, six hun
dred and rdxty million dollars before the
Prusian army of occupation is tiually
withdarwo. . ; .
The wonder is where France gets all
the money, and what Germany is going
to do ' with it after it is all paid over to
her. It is estimated that the entire cost
of the war to Germany was about two
hundred ami seventy five million dollars ;
so that the job of humiliating and im
poverishing troublesome neighbor has
proved poibably. the most profitable
financial performance in the annuls of
military history, ancient, mediaeval or
modern.
To Keep Cider.-
Below we give two receipts, one of
which will preserve the cider sweet, or
in the condition it is in at fhe time the
treatment is applied ; the other is ap
plicable only after the cider has ferment
ed. According to No. 1, one fourth of
an ounce per gallon of sulphate' of lime
should be added soon after the cider runs
from the press. This can best be doner
by adding the sulphate of lime to a gallon
or so of cider in a separate vessel, and
after stirring well pour into the barrel.
The cider will keep in the condition i
was at the time the lime was added. This
plan will work equally well if the cider
be partially or wholly fermented when;
the lime is put in. It does not appear
to be absolutely necessary to rack off the
cider unles it is to be transported; in tha
case it should be racked in about tea
days after application of the remedy.
The Housekeeper,
Fui ed Squash. Slice thin, dip irf
egg, then in flour, and fry in butter.
Lamp Chimneys are most apt to crack
after being washed. In my own ex
perience, they ore les? apt to break if
moistened with the breath and polished
with a cloth or paper, and afterwards
with a chamois-skin, which gives them a,
clear brilliancy.
Cream Cake A cheap and excel
lent cream cake for every day is made in
this way : Break two eggs into a cup,
and fill the cup up with sour cream. Add
one cup of sugar, one cup of flour (pep
haps a very little more), salt, soda and
nutmeg. This can be used also for a jelly
cake.
To Softxn PuTTY.-fTo remove old
putty from broken windows, dip a small
brush in uitric or muriatic acid (obtaiw
b!e at any druggist's) and with it annoinC
or paint over the dry putty that adheres to
the broken glass and frames of your win
dows; after an hour's interval the putty
will become so soft as to be removed
easily.
Dryixo Pumpkins. Peel and' cut aa
for stewing ; then slice very thin (it cao
be done with a cabbage sTicer) ; then
spread on tins or other dryer?, and put in
the stove oven with a moderate heat. It
will retain its natural flavor better than
any other way. In preparing it for piesr
soak it in water a few hours and stew its
the same water.
HaESEUVED Apples Weigh equal
quantities of good brown sugar and of
apples ; peel, core and miuce them small.
Boil the sugar, allowing to every three
pounds a pint of water ; skim it well, and
boil it pretty thick ; then add to the
apples the grated peel of one or two
lemons, and two of three pieces of white
ginger if you have' it. Boil tilt the apples
fall and look yellow This preserve will
keep for years".
Bain Water Barrels. Where it i
desirable to catch rain water for washing,,
and there is' no' cistern for the purpose,
kerosene barrels are very useful'.- Yo
can buy them for seventy five cents
apiece. Light a match and apply it to
the oily inside of the barrel, and it will
burn away the oil and give you a clean
whole barrel. Of course none but an
idiot would do this where the flames
would endanger house, barn or other
property.
Pumpkin Pies Cut the pumpkins
into small pieces ; take out the seeds and
inside, but do not pare if. It must bo
well grown and thoroughly ripened, and
not watery. Put the piece ir a saucepan,
with only a few spoonful of water uot
more than four ; cover close and let it cook
gently, so as not to scorch, until the
water has all evaporated, and the pump
kin has cooked quite dry, aud of a rich,
dark orange color. While hot sift it
through a coarse sieve. Season only as
you are needing for the day. For one large
pic one egg, one tablespoooful of mo
lasses, four tablespoonful of condensed
milk, and enough of new milk to make it
as thin as you wish or if you have it
half milk and half cream, instead of con
densed milk ; sugar and spice to suit the
taste. Bake till a clear rich brown, but
do not blister or scorch
Root np the Weeds.
Two boys, John and Will, were em
ployed by a gentleman to keep the path
of his garden weeded. John contented
himself with taking off the top of the
weeds. He soou cried, "I have cleared
my path ;" and, having swept away the
leaves, ho went off to play.
Will was much longer at work, for he
stopped to take all tho weeds up by the
roots, and he was well tired when be went
home.
. But the raio cara-e down in the night
and all the next day, and, when the boys
master went a few days after to look at
the two paths, John's wauted weeding a
much as at first, while Willie's was clear
and only needed a few turns of the roller
to make it buite neat. So John was eent
back to do his work properly, and very
tired he would have been had not Will
good matured Uy helped him to finish his
task.
Only thorough work is worth doin.
Faults only half uprocted will appear
again and again, and we fhall almost
despair of curiug them. Will you remem
ber this Hi
Ohio will have 12,000,000 pounds of
giapea IM season.
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