PIKE COUNTY PRESS.
Friday, July 17, 1898.
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Regular Republican Nominations.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM M'KINLEY,
of onto.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
GARRET A. HOBART,
OF NEW JERSEY.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
For Congrossmen-at-large,
GALUSHA A. GROW,
of Susquehanna County.
SAMUEL L. DAVENPORT,
of Erie County.
Editorial.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
In 1872 Mr. Nasby wrote from
Baltimore where he was a delegate
to the Democratic National Conven
tion which nominated Greely as fol
lows :
"Wot a blessing is Greeley ! With
Greeley we shel hev reform and
Eieoe, with Greeley ther will be no
twlisness on the part of the ex
Rebels ; the Ku-Klux will be put
down by the power of the military
and the negroes will be proteckled
in their rites. I know this for I
hev it from his committee. Take
suthin.
There was one mae proudly sport
ing a Greeley and repudiashun
badge, another with Greeley and
payment of the debt in gold, and
every one of them was jubilante at
the prospect of having his ideas car
ried out for every one of 'em said he
had full and positive assurances
from his committee.
I speet I shel have to take the
stump this fall for Greeley. I do it
gladly without any assooranoes
from his committee, for, of course,
hell have to take care of his sup
porters, and bein' oared for is just
now my principle business. But I
shel try to confine mysolf to one
seckhun.
Ef the national committee take me
over much territory I want to
know exaetly what that territory is
and shel make a map of it, and shel
write on the margin of each sock,
shun precisely wot the leading in
terest of its inhabitants is, and to
wot pertikeler policy it will be ne
cessary to pledge the party.
The note will run thus :
Pennsylvania, high tariff on Iron,
ooal and sech Protection strong
danger of importations drain of
gold to pay for foreign manufac
tures would you have our horny
handed laborers reduced to the level
of pauper labor f Never.
Illinois Broad wheat fields, corn
and cattle on a thousand hills. Ag
riculture our nateral. Wood you
tax the tax the sweat of the honest
farmer to build up the purse proud
austooratio manufacturer of Penn
sylvania f Never.
Noo England. Tariff on cotton
goods and proteckshun to the negro
of the south, and the execution of
the laws even if military has -to be
used.
South Karoliny. Free trade al
ways and so on. Even with such
preparation it will be close and
judgmatical work but I can do it.
Besides them patriots which expect
to be postmasters and such will al
ways be on hand to post me so that
I can t make any serious mistakes.
P. V. Nasby,
wich wuz postmaster.
RESULTS OF CHICAGO CON
VENTION.
The aggregation at Cliicago of
Populists, Anarchists, Free Silver
ites and Democrats so called, after
incubation have hatched, both a
platform and candidates. It is dif
ficult to speak in a temperate man
ner of the proceedings or the re
sult, but It is not at all necessary for
Republicans to characterize the dif
ferent and warring elements which
composed controlled and dominated
its deliberations. After reading the
vituperative speeches of its orators
there remains absolutely nothing
for the friends of good government
and sound money to say, in con
demnation of the party, If it Is en
titled to be called by such a digni
fied appellation. From the plat
form of that convention anathemas
were hurled opproblous epithets
bandied, Jeers, sarcasms, wrang-
lings, profanity and abuse illumin
ated the speeches, and all aimed not
at the common and vigorous foe of
Democracy the Republican party
but at the so called Democracy it
self. Looking at the scene and reading
the oratory dispassionately, it was
pitiable. That a party which in the
past has claimed an adherence to
principle and dignified itself to some
extent by an adherence to the land
marks of its founders, should be
torn from its time-honored moor
ings, its traditions tossed to the
winds, its principles trampled in the
mire of dissension, its ranks decim
ated by the shot of its leaders, and
the routed fragments covered with
obloquy and scorn, is, indeed a sad
but striking commentary on the
danger which lurks behind any
party which is willing for the sake of
atemporory political gain to enter
into affiliation with any element
which promises aid, and which will
abandon principle for the sake of
preferment.
The Democratic party coquetted
with Populism, it invited the free
silver caresses, it coddled with the
Anarchists, it smiled on Socialism
and now these heterogeneous ele
ments have combined and swathed
the party in their crazy quilt and
stifed its cries with a discordant roar
of triumph. It is in the toils and
its efforts at release like the fly in
the spider's web only render its en
tanglement more complete. The
Democratic party has sown the wind
and is now reaping the whirlwind of
discomfiture and dissolution.
It has gone through the slaughter
house to the open grave.
OF ESPECIAL IMPORTANCE.
Now that the hot days are here
and vegetable matter decays most
rapidly, every householder in the
Borough should have an especial
care that there is no accumulation.
All refuse and waste of any kind,
whatever, should be so disposed of
that it may not become offensive,
and breed disease germs. Closets,
cesspools and pig pens should re
ceive immediate attention by being
kept clean and a sufficient supply of
disinfectants and deodorizers used
to prevent gases arising. A good
sanitary condition of the town is in
dispensable to the health and com-
fort of the citizens and the enoour-
agement of city people to sojourn
here during the heated term.
THE MILFORD LYCEUM.
The rooms of this association are
now opened daily for the use of
members and any who desire to
avail themselves of the advantages
its books and newspapers afford.
The porch of the building is wide
and cool, the room large and com
fortable and a courteous attendant
is present. The officers would be
glad to have our summer visitors
and others patronize the Lyceum
that it may be made as popular and
useful as it is deserving.
All will be weloome.
An entertainment in aid of the
association an extended notice of
which is given in another column
will be hold next Thursday eveniag.
ABOUT COUNTY TAXES.
In reply to an enquiry by a sub
scriber we give below the rate of
tax levied for county purposes for
the past fifteen years :
DeWltt, Bensley and Newman, Commis
sioners. 1RM216 mills.
ltwH 10 "
ltfttt 10 "
Gale, DeWltt and Bcnsley. Commissioners,
lbao 10 mills. Also U mills to pay bonded
Indebtedness.
1886 Is mllU.
ltt7 e "
Gale. Correll and Balcb, Commissioners.
1KM8 10 IU11U.
iwy 10 "
1U0 10 "
Correll, Dlugumn and Kneallng, Commis
sioners. lKwl 10 mills,
lwe 10 "
Ibwtt 10 "
Holler, Newman and Dlnginan, Commis
sioners. 18W 10 mills. Also It mill for indebted
ness. 1806lu mills. Also S mills for indebted
ness. Iy010 mills.
The Press will earnestly labor
during the campaign just entered
on to uphold the cause of sound
money, protection to borne indust
ries and good government.
Every Republican who believes in
the above principles and every Dem
ocrat in the County who desires the
downfall of the factions which do
minated at Chicago, and who still
hopes that the dootrinea of Jeffer
f the
hould
party should be maintained
subscribe for the Press.
Our space prevents glvilli the
names of Democrats of proijj nonce
who have deolared that thertnnot
support the Chicago ticket, mil will
support McKinloy,
The list of loading Doni
newspapers In the East, Wo
South which refuse aid and
era He
t and
com-
fort to the party platform an
i
nomi-
nees includes nearly every
per of
prominenoe anu large circulation
The only leading New York pnper
which swallows the pill is the Jour
nal. In Pennsylvania the Times,
Record and Patriot, are all arrayed
against the party and its platform.
Poor old Miss Democracy 1 She
is a misfit in the midst of misfor
tunes. The New York Sun w hich pro
fessed a few weeks ago to be full of
suspicion, and doubt as to McKin
loy 's position on the money question
and was one of the bitterest, and
most persistent and perhaps the ab
lest in opposition to him now says
"the Presidential candidate of every
Democrat who favors honest money
and who still hopes to crush the
enemies of the fundamental princi
ples he was bred in should be with
out hesitation, evasion or sop to
prejudice William McKinley.
The roads were badly washed in
many places during the heavy
storms last week. At Conashaugh
hill the culvert was insufficient to
carry off the water, and it cut across
rendering the road impassable un
til repaired. This is all another les
son for supervisors to look well to
the places where water is taken
across a road and to have the gutters
alongside large enough to carry off
the water. The damage results
from a neglect to properly attend to
these requisites.
Can Pennsylvania Democrats logi
cally refuse their support to the
Chicago platform and ticket ? They
were in it to . the finish voting for
their favorite son. This would seem
to bind the party here to free silver
and all the platform represents.
Shades of Jefferson and Randall, to
what a state has the mighty fallen.
" The worst of all knaves are those
who can mimio their former hon
esty. We cordially ask every Republi
can who desires the success of his
party in the County this fall to co
operate in extending the circulation
of the Press. Take it yourself and
get your neighbor to do likewise.
Let us have a long pull, a strong
pull and all pull together.
Democracy as taught by Jefferson
opposed slavery, but by concession,
compromise and surrender it passed
into the control of extreme slave
holders, so, by the same processes
the silver men are now in control.
Slavery split it in 1880 and silver in
1880.
The standard money of the world
is gold. No one country can act in
opposition to the world's fixed busi
ness methods and maintain position
among the leading nations of the
globe. It is against all business
principles.
Just what position the refusal of
Mr. Pattison's long distance tele
phone to audibly answer Harrity's
appeals from Chicago last week will
place the party in this State in, is
at present, what no fellow can find
Out.
If you desire to be informed on
the great question of the day, and
especially on the money question
which will be the main issue in this
campaign, read the Press.
It might interest the readers of
the Dispatch to see the views of its
distinguished editor on the Silver
question, if he has any convenient
for exhibition.
It is in order now for our bright
young oo temporary to write a lead
ing editoral on "the Bryan Pill."
Has he swallowed it?
A Cheerful Face.
Next to the sunlight of heaven is
the cheerful face. There is no mis
taking it the bright eye. the un
clouded brow, the sunny smile, all
tell of that which dwells within.
Who has not felt its electrifying in
fluence? One glance at this face
lifts us out of the mists and shadows
into the beautiful realms of hope.
One cheerful fuoe in the household
will keep everything warm and
light within. It maybe a very plain
face, but there is something in it we
feel, but cannot express; and its
cherry smile sends the blood dan
cing through the veins for very joy.
There is a world of blessed magio in
the plain, cheerful fuoe, and we
would not exchange it for all the
soulUftts beauty that ever graced the
fairest form on earth. The Churchman.
son, Jackson and the fathers!
FREE COINAGE CASTLES IN THE AIR.
The cheap money devil tempts the farmers with piomises of prosperity,
but the men he deludes will find that he leads them only to ruin and poverty.
Now, us In the past, the tempter finds willing dopes who will learn, when it
is too late, that free silver prosperity is only a uiitago.
TO CUT DOWN WAGES.
By Paying Labor In Cheap
Dollars.
THE SILVERITES' SCHEME.
Why Ex-Governor Boles Wants
Free Silver Rich Landlords
Could Then Make
Elg Profits.
Ex-Governor Horace Boies of Iowa is
franker t'mn his follow silverites, who
pretend thnt tlieir 50 cent dollar scheme
would benefit the working classes. In a
recent. ititorviow he says:
"I have myself in this state two
farms, paid for largely with money I
have earned as a lawyer. One is a farm
of 2, BOO acres of laud, and the other
contains 1,000 acres. With the present
price of labor and the present price paid
for form prodncts, no man in the world
conld take either of these forma, even if
I should present him with the ground,
and mukn a dollar ont of It I mean, of
course, that he conld not equip the form
and pay interest on the money invested
in the equipment and wages for labor
oat of the inoome he would get by sell
ing the products. A farmer who works
himself and is assisted by the labor of
sons and daughters could make a small
farm pay. But no farm is profitable
when conducted on the basis of a manu
facturing business. Cheap and abundant
money is the only remedy for this intol
erable state of things."
This is a candid admission that he
thinks that wuk'os aro now too high, and
that in some way free silver will giTe
the farmers cheaper labor. The mere
fact of uu increase in the price of farm
products would not make farming profit
able, if, as is claimed by most of the 16
to 1 loaders, wages would be doubled
along with doubled prices of everything
the farmer buys. Mr. Boies clearly ex
pects that the result of "cheap and
abundant money" will be the practical
reduction of the price paid for farm la
bor. This would no doubt be a very
good tiling for a rich man with 8,600
acres of land. But what does the poor
laborer think of the scheme? Are the
American people ready to vote for a
debased currency which will reduce the
wages of the workers?
Next in importance to the confession
that free silver would out down wages
is the admission that "a farmer who
works himself can make a small farm
pay. " What kind of farmers does Mr.
Boies expect to see prosper? Men who
have bought up big tracts of laud which
tbey hold out of use in the expectation
of selling it at a high price, and in the
meantime are working it with hired la
bor? That is not the kind of farmers
which Americans wish to see thrive.
The man who owns and works his own
land is the ideal farmer of this country.
The biff estate with its "gangs" at hired
men may do while new territories am
being opened up, but the welfare of the
republic depends on the men who culti
vate the soil owning the land they till
If ex-Governor Boies thinks himself en
titled to au income from his land with
out working it himself, he is very much
mistaken. No farmer should prosper who
simply "owns land" and expects to
make a profit out of other men's labor.
That under free 'silver a few men could
use oheup money to speculate in land
and get rich out of the toll of the under
paid hit ii em is the very best of reasons
why the masses should vote against it.
Ex-Uovemor Boies admits that the
farmer who works can make his farm
pay. Bat in another part of the same
interview he says that farms bought SO
or 25 years ago cannot be made to pay
interest on their cost This is a strong
argument against cheap money, for it
was the greenback inflation of the war
period w hich put the prioes of land so
high thut the men who bought farms
have boon struggling ever linos to pay
for thorn. Tho heavy mortgages, with
high interest rates, which are crushing
so many farmers, have their origin in
the hi'h speculative price of land caused
by the cheap money craae of the last
generation. Free coinage would repeat
the evils brought about by the overis
sues of greenbacks, and while not help
ing the present owners of farms would
benefit speculators and make it harder
fur the millions of landless and home
less men to gut a piece of land on which
to make a living.
Air. Boies is evidently a sincere man
and is advocating free silver with the
idea that it w ill help men, like himself,
who own big tract of land. But as the
only results of that policy would be the
repudiation of debts, the reduction of
wages and the enrichment of the men
who speculate in land but do not work
themselves, he is not a safe guide for
honest citizens.
Yi'himjkn Ubaham.
FARM PRODUCTS.
Prices Have Fallen rtecnutw of Inn
Production In All Paru of the World.
Q. Is it true thnt the price of wheat
and many other farm products has fallen
heavily f A. It la
Q. How are such declines, in wheat,
far instance, to be explained? A. By
the enormously rapid increase In grain
growing area throughout tho world.
Q. Has this increase been especially
rapid since 1878? A. The increase in
grain growing area in this period, espe
cially in North America, South America
ami Asia, has never e.n approached in
any equal period in the history of the
world.
Q. Row rto wo j ldao of actual com
petition in th.i Bale of wheat? A. By
the supplies thrown annually on the
world's grout distributing markets.
Q. What market in particular? A.
England, where most of tho buying
nations po to pur'.'mso their grain.
CJ. What are the figures? A. As re
cently as 18H0 Grent Britain imported,
for consumption and re-export. Go, 261,
924 hundredweight of wheat a largo
increase over the preceding annual aver
age. In 1K!G it imported 81,749,056
hundredweight
Q. What bus made possible this re
markable increase in wheat production?
A. The exceedingly l -ipid development
of transportation facilities in newly cul
tivated grain countries; among them
India, Russia and the Argentine Bo
public. Q. Has there been an increase in the
United States itself? A. An enormous
increase.
Q. How large? A. In 1876 there
were 88,881, 61i acres of wheat culti
vated in this country; in 1891 there
were 89,916,897, an increase of 60 per
cent The yield in 1875 was 292,186,
000 bushels, a beavy increase over pre
ceding years. In 1891 the yield was
611,780,000. Even last year, with a
greatly reduced aoroago ahd a partial
crop failure, the yield was 467,100,000
bushela
Q. Has tho yield of other crops in
creased correspondingly? A. It has.
Q. Give instances. A. Tho cultivated
area of corn in the United States in
1871 was 81,0:U,i;ii acres; in 1891 it
was 70,201,515; increase, 124 per cent
The yield of corn l ist year was more
than double that of any year prior to
1875. Both the uercige uiid tho average
annual yield of oats have doubled since
1871. Our cotton crop in 194 was 60
per cent greater than in any year prior
to 1887.
Q. Was a decline in grain and cotton
prices under such conditions inevitable?
A. As inevitable us u decline in the
price of clothing or furnituro or books
or steel rails or pins when competition
in their manufacture has extended enor
mously. Q. Would free coinage help the pro
ducers of grain to a largo profit under
such conditions? A. Not in the least
Q. Why not? A. Because if the nom
inal price of grain were to rise through
inflation of tho currency tho prioe of
everything else would rise also, and the
farmer would be relatively no better off
than be was before. New York Even
ing Poet
"Suppose," says "Coin's Financial
fjohoot, " "that oongress should pass a
law tomorrow authorising the purchase
of 100,000 oavalry horses of certain
sizes and qualities. Horses would ad
vance in value. "
This is one of "Coin" Harvey's argu
ments to show how free coinage would
raise the price of silver. It does not fit
tho cane, because under free coinage the
government v.'ould ixt purchase silver,
but would simply stamp it and make it
legal tender. L it likely that the gov
ernment stamp is going to greatly in
crease the value of silver? Will some of
"Coin's" pupils toll how much the
stamp "U. S. " added to the valuo of this
army mule? ,
Wkm Thar W1U ttot fonr.
Asked by the Washington correspond
ent of the Chicago Times-Herald where
they would got the funds with which to
carry on a brief silver campaign after
they had made their nominations at
Chicago, one of the silver leaders bent
his head forward and whispered ooun
dontially, "ITrom tho owners of silver
mines and bullion out west we will get
all the money we need. ' '
THE BOLTERS' APPEAL.
PooMdh Bwwnnl Otwin For Th4r Afftflon
bf the Bolting Silver Rcpahllnaiu.
At a secret conference of the bolting
silver delegates to the Bt Louis conven
tion an address to the people of the
United States was agreed upon and giv
en to the press. This declaration of free
coinage doctrine was prepared after
pamriil consideration by Senators Toller,
Dubois and Cannon and other silver
leaders and may therefore be held to
embody the strongest arguments which
can be mode in favor of tho silver stand
ard. The grounds on which Senator Teller
and his associates ask for support are
the assertions (hat "the basis of our
money is relatively contracting;" that
"onr financial policy is dictated by
creditor nations;" that "we produce all
the necessaries of life, while other no
tions consume our products;" that the
restoration of bimetallism by this coun
try will don bio tlie basis of our money
system;" that "falling prices are the
deadliest curse of national life," and
that "bimetallism will holp to bring
about the great hope of every social re
former" of better conditions for the hu
man race. On this platform the bolters
nominated Senator Teller as an inde
pendent free coinage candidate for pres
ident These claims of the sliver Repub
licans aro all untrue. Instead of con
tracting, the basis of our currency is
steadily increasing. The production of
gold is now about 1200,000,000 per
year, and of this over 1 180,000,000 is
added to the world's stock of money.
Our stock of full legal tender silver has
increased from leas than $80,000,000 in
1878 to $560,000,000 in 1896.
Our present financial policy was de
liberately adopted by thereproscntatives
of the American people in congress as
sembled. The charge that it was dic
tated by foreign nations is an unfounded
imputation on the men chosen to make
our laws.
The idea that this is a country of pro
ducers while other nations are consum
ers only is too silly for argument For
every dollar's worth of products we sell
abroad we buy back at some time a dol
lar's worth of foreign products which
we consume We oonsumo in the long
run exactly as much as we produce.
The claim that "bimetallism," by
which is meant free coinago at 18 to 1,
will doublo the basis of onr money sys
tem is not believed by the silverites
thomselvo. They know better, for they
know that with the bullion value of sil
ver at 80 to 1 of gold, the cheaper metal
would drive out the more valuable
Thus instead of doubling the basis of
our money, free silver monometallism
would cut it in two by forcing gold out
of circulation.
Falling prioes are due almost entirely
to improved methods of production by
which lobor on the farm or in the work
shop can create wealth nioro easily than
in former years. This means that tho
masses oau get moro of the necessaries
and luxuries of life, and it is therefore a
great blessing and not a curse. Other
reasons for falling prices are the new
sources of production opened up in vari
ous parts of the world in recent years.
The gold standard has had nothing to
do with lower prices.
The claim that "bimetallism (silver
monometallism) will help bring about
tho great hope of every social reformer"
would be moro convincing if it was ac
companied by information as to how it
would do it In the absence of proof
general promises of better conditions
under free silver are altogether too
vague for sensible men to take risks on.
A policy which depends on baseless as
sertions and positive perversions of
facts can never gain the support of a
majority of the American people, and
the movement headed by Senator Teller
is therefore doomed to failure.
Coin Harvey's "Scientific Honey.
"Out of the wisdom of man came the
use of two metals for nse as money,
these metals to be coined into money at
a ratio in weight of 16 to 1, or in the
ratio provided from time to time. The
option was given by law for tho people
to use money made from either metal,
neither redeemable in the other, but
each of itself money. The option was
with the debtor, the person getting the
money in motion. The debtor thus con
trolled the demand, and as demand
gives value, the supply being limited,
this option to the debtor shifted the de
mand from gold to silver or silver to
gold as each increased or decreased in
quantity. The debtor used the one most
accessible; so if silver became cheaper
the demand was shifted to it, and this
brought it back to a parity with gold,
and vice versa, "
How ridiculous I The idea that we can
have a scientifloor just system of money
which gives debtors the option of pay
ing in two or more metals at fixed ratios I
The chief work of money is to facilitate
exchanges. Who prefers to make con
tracts in uncertain terms? What mer
chant would care to give farmers credit
and to give them the option of paying
in wheat at 60 cents, oorn at 40 cents,
oats at 20 cents or potatoes at IS cents
per bushel? And who but the farmers
themselves would pay for the risks and
uncertainties if a merchant were com
pelled by law to give credit only in this
way?
awing Banks Depositors, Awakel
"All the great savings bank states,
with the exception of California, voted
for the gold plank at St Louis," says
the Boston Transcript "It is safe to
say that the vote for the gold plank
stood for fully seven-eighths of the total
deposits, and perhaps more. " These de
posits, amounting to more Chan $1,700,
000,000, are the rainy day savings, as
The Transcript says, of the "toiling
millions" about whom the silverites are
so greatly concerned. The Transcript
adds: "Reckoning their dependents,
these depositors stand for a very conaidri
arable proportion of the entire popular'
tion of the United States. If free coin
age triumphs, these deposits will virtu,
ally be out in halves. '
aaN Vaa lof llilm W Ob Kalaay.
' The following suggestion was sent by
the editor of the Velaaco (Tex. ) World
to a prominent sound money man in
New York:
Can't you get information from Mex
ico? The people on the Hio (iraude bor
der are agaiuat free coinage and our
people who go there in nearly every in
stance oonie back converted. You ought
to send an intelligent man to Hexioo
and get the facts. I went there and it
converted uie to the gold standard. t
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SAINT OF THE COOKS.
She Was a Queen of the Culinary Art and
Was CancnlKpd.
Fow peoplo, perhaps, knew before
thnt cooks hntl a snint of their own,
who, kind liuly will doubtless in the
hereafter make tho grilling of them
as pleasant as possible. Santa Zita,
ns she is named, lived it appears, at
Genoa, and was there canonized.
She could so runs the legend, cook
bettor than any chief within 300
miles of the town, which we all
know is noted for its wonderful
soups and dumplings, though of
course in the latter indigestible ar
tieloof food outrivaled by Vienna,
since it is one of the chief articles in
the religion of gastronomy thnt it is
only in the kaiserstndt that the glose
is in perfection. Santa Zita was, it
seems, not less famous for her piety
than for cooking, and was a con
stant attendant at the cathedral dur
ing high mass.
One day, however she foil into a
trance, so-called though in plain
English a good sound sloop and
quite forgot that she had to produce
an exceptionally fine dinner for a
large company. On awakening she
hurried forth from tho sacred edifice
in a way which was far indeed from
her wont, but on reaching the kit
chen, what was her surprise and de
light to find a party of cherub celes
tials busy cooking the required din
nor. She did not interfere, but was
at first not unwilling to accept the
praise- which was lavished on her
culinary success. She soon repent
ed, however and told the world tho
truth about the spiritual and mira
culous help she had received, and it
was agreed on nil sides that she de
served to bo canonized. According
ly she became Santa Zita.
Tomato Catsup. Cut in small
pieces one bushel of ripo tomatoes,
heat to boiling and mash pulling nil
the pulp through a fine siovo, then
odd two garlio bulbs, two good sized
onions, one ounce of whole allspice,
one ounce cloves, somo cinnamon
sticks and red pepper to make it as
hot as you like it, one pint of good
vinegnr.and ono half pound of brown
sugar, boil this for hours slowly un
til thick as you like. Strain again
throngh wire siovo and put up in
pint cans boiling hot.
Chili Sauce. Take twelve largo
ripo tomatoes, five onions chopped
fine, four peppers remove seeds and
chop. Two cupfuls of vinegar, two
tablespoons of salt, three of sugar,
one teaspoon each of ginger, cloves,
allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg and col
ery seed, boil the mixture an hour
and can in air tight cans.
.
Canning Blackderkies Allow a
coffee cup of sugar te every pound
of fruit, prepare tho syrup with a
very little water, put in berries
enough for one can at a time and do
not lot them boil hard but only tim
mer about throe minutes, as every
effort should be made to keep the
berries whole.
Blackberry Jam. Weigh and
mash berries fine and allow three (
quarters of a pound of sugar to every ;
pound of fruit, boil slowly until the
syrup cools thick, then seal or put
up in jelly glasses.
Blackberry Jelly. Allow four
pints of juice to three full pints of
sugar, dissolve a half box of gelatine
in a little cold water and add the
juice and boil twenty minutes if
green apples can be obtained they
are much better than the gelatine
for making the berries jell, use half
green apples and half berries, cut
the apples in slices and boil until
tender in just enough water to cover
them, drain off all the juice and add
to berry juice, add sugar and boil
twenty minutes.
CANDIDATE'S CARD.
Having been appointed to flu a vacancy
In the ollluu of
Associate Judge.
I hereby announce myself a candidate for
the nomination at the Republican Conven
tion. Should I receive it, and bn elected,
I shall endeavor to iicrform the duties of
the ollioe impartially and to tho best of
my aoiuty. ;
WILLIAM MITCHELL.
July a, ISMfl.
All jMTHons are hereby notify! thnt
throw in k r burning paiHJin or Aif uo of
any kind In Uit tflnxit 01 thu Jttruugh Is
prubibilud.
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