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me Cherokee Georgian.
Canton, G-a.,
WEDNESDAY, - AUGUST 11, 1875.
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Agricnltnral.
TH® BOKGIAB OF OUR KITCHENS.
Schiller, in his poem of “The Real and
the Ideal,” very properly says:
The space between the ideal of man’s
soul
And man’s achievement, who hath ever
passed?
An ocean lies between us and that goal
Where anchor ne’er was cast.
This is true of woman as well as of man,
of American women especially, and con
cerning them particularly in the detail of
cookery. Why it is that in the United
States a meal of average quality is abso
lutely unattainable in a private family, who
can say ? Os course, in that complement of
th© scavenger’s cart, the boarding house, or
in mansions, where the dwellers commit
their stomachs to the hollow of the hand of
the Hibernian cook, we do not look forth 6
delicacies—not even for the decencies of
the table; but there are at least two or three
millions of families in the country where the
wife or the mother, proud of a practical ed
ucation in the household affairs, is house
keeper or cook. Os these it would be too
much to expect that they should adopt the
economy of the nation whose pot-au-feu,
lather than whose eagle, should be its na
tional symbol, or display that exquisite
taste which more than atones for paucity
of resource. We have come to consider the
ragout or salmi in the same category with
hash —American hash at that; and as for
soups and broths, they require too much
care in preparing and too much time in
eating to suit our business-like taste. Nev
ertheless we Americans have at least pass
able mutton and fair beef; our poultry is
better than the average; in butter and flour
we excel the world; in vegetables and
fruits we surpass it infinitely. God, indeed,
has sent us dinners; how comes it that we
have no cooks save such as are of infernal
origin ?
It cannot be because of ignorance. Let
any one who will consult the household
columns of any of our hundred and fifty
♦aid agricultural papers, and he will find
there ample evidence that, at least theo
retically, the farmer’s wife and daughter
are acquainted with the culinary art. Ag
gravatingly so, we might say, because on
their own showing they are sinning against
light. On paper these women will devise
Apician banquets. They will show you
how to prepare rolls to whose lightness
saleratus did not contribute, or Indian
bread of alluring pale golden hue that do
not eat like perspiring putty adulterated
with sawdust. They will concoct soups
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that would raise an 'appetite beneath the
ribs of dyspepsia, and even boil a potato—
for Soyer was right when he made the boil
ing of potatoes and the toasting of bread
crucial tests of culinary proficiency—till
the tuber, bursting with a foamy efflores
cence through its selfish and reluctant skin,
in the words of Moore, himself an Irish p.<et;
Turns to thy lip and half blushes
That thou should’st delay to bite.
A* to meats, be the same of fish, flesh or
fowl, what is there that they cannot boil,
bake, roast, broil, stew, or—alas’—fry ?
While in th?, matter of tempering dulcet
creams, or preparing lucent syrups tinct
with cinnamons, or jellies tremulous and
translucent, they rise into the very poetry
of cooking. Nay, has not one artist of the
preserving kettle whose soul was in her art
ns thoroughly as ever was that of Mr. Vin
cent Crummlcs’s conscientious tragedian—
who when he had to play Othello blacked
himself all over—begun her recipe for the
making of cherry preserves by insisting
that the fruit shall be culled and atoned, of
a cool afternoon, in the shade of a tree, by
a maiden of snowy fingers, clad in a fresh
and becoming print dreso?
Alas, that the distanc s of the "household
column” should lend so flill and false en
chantment to the view of the household
tables over which these poets of the pots
and pans preside! For let one but enter
the home of the average American farmer,
where the cook is the heiress to all the ages
of domestic economy from the landing of
the Mayflower, and what shall he find ?
For drinks, turbid coffee that has been mer
cilessly boiled, or lea on whose rank tide an
axe might swim. For vegetables, potatoes
clammy with a sense of their own indiges
tibility, the odorous cabbage or the taste
less squash or turnip, three parts waler and
one part filler. For meats, steak in the pre
paration of which the atrocity of lard has
lieen superadded to the enormity of the
frying pan, or the inevitable mutton, which
is never quite cooked enough or quite warm
enough ; or the adamantine corned beet, so
dear and destructive to the American stom
ach, which is covered with salty crystals.
But, Brinvillers and Borgia, the desserts!
What cou’d not the misdirected ingenuity i
achieve, if confined to legitimate channels,
which here devises the accursed pie which
fa burned on top, raw at the bottom and
tolled in the middle, its contents being
Imsswood chips with a tang of apple or
book-binder’s scraps preserved in brown
sugar And as for the leathery peaches
the flaccid pickles and the soggy cake, their
adequate realization must be left for the
choked tongue of nightmare to attempt to
- tell.
Oh, woman ’ heaven’s last, best gift to
the kitchen, must you and your daughters
continue to marshal families Ute saleratus
way to dysfM'jk'.i* ’ Can you never learn
that the gridiron and the clear, glowing bed
of coals, whvrvon St. Lawrence W'nsulf
wouhl have deemed it a luxury to be
Vroitel. toiler beflt the lordly steak, unnaac
erated with the brutal pestle, uncon lami
nated with factory lard,and will sooner woo
jl to tutu to pale pink, delicate amber and
tender brown (with a sensitive elevation at
the corners, forming a central chalice for
the reception and perservation of its own
juices) than the flying pan, accursed of
gods and abhorred of men ? Know you
not that by thinly slicing potatoes—not left
over from yesterday’s noonday dinner—in
to cold water, wiping the same dry in a
towel, dusting them with pepper and salt,
frying them in l>oiling lard, and as soon as
they put on the rich golden brown hue of a
Cuban belle, removing and draining them,
you can compass that which at Saratoga
has brought fame and fortune to the artistic
restaurateur? Is it not in you to pour
boiling water on your coffee and to set the
pot over a shovelful of embers in the hearth
box, where it will just simmer and not boil?
Can your finer female sense not apprehend
the difference between fanning a smokeless
fiie with a generous slice of bread till the
surface of the latter turns delicately golden,
then brushing the same with fresh butter,
and burning bread on the top oi a dirty
stove, then swabbing it in melted, rancid
oleomargarine? Alas, if experience can be
relied on, we fear not. Priscilla is joined to
her saleratus and frying-pan; let her alone.
’ New York World.
Agriculture in Georgia.
One of the most valuable documents ever
sent out from any agricultural association
is the proceedings of the spring meeting of
the Georgia State Agricultural Society
which has been provided by Mr. Malcolm
Johnston, the Secretary. It is full of useful
knowledge. Every page is a gem Those
who desire to learn pure and practical wis
dom on the subject of agriculture can find
more in these pages than in any ordinary
library.
One who but a few years ago looked upon
a land desolated by invading armies, to a
people bereft suddenly of $12,000,000,000 of
property, cannot but view with astonish
ment and sincere delight the evidences of
prosperity and intelligent labor which every
where crops out in the proceedings here
published. There were gathered together
208 farmers and planters, delegates from
every part of the State, and well may a
visitor have said that no more intelligent
body was ever assembled at any similar
meeting North or South, East or West, for
not only the papers read but the clear,
pointed discussions thereon show that a
reading, thinking, live, active people were
there assembled. No false basis of puffing
carries the value of the bonds of Georgia
far beyond those of her Southern sisters.
Iler crops of cotton annually produced at a
lessening cost, her home production of corn
and meat annually increasing, and more
spindles every year added to the number
already so profitably humming within her
borders, all betoken that she is with cer
tainty attaining a position of prosperity at
- home-whiclLwilL conlinuaHy add to. the
confidence manifested in securities she puts
forth and Insure the investment of capital
in her great undeveloped manufacturing re
sources. Where a people go about their
work with such a will and earnest desire to
learn as pervades everything said by these
' Georgia farmers in their council, they can
neither be kept under by the most iron heel
of despotism or the wildest ravages of air or
water. Plain words are these of Mr. Pool,
of Warren, but he speaks to the point, and
’ crop statistics of Georgia show that this
phalanx of followers gains in numbers with
every recurring year:
You talk of hard times. I think this the
best time for a man to start out as a farmer
and make money that I ever knew. The
’ way to make it is to pursue a right policy —
' keep out of debt, live within your means,
make all your supplies al home, and do
everything with good judgment. The
proper policy to pursue was forcibly illus
trated before the war, ns w< 11 as now, by the
condition of the people in different sections
of my country. On one side of the comity
we have oak woods, and on the other side
piney woods. Before the war, all above
Warrenton, they raised a great deal of cot
ton and but little corn; while below, they
raised but little cotton and a good deal of
corn. The result was, those above Warren
ton were always in debt and borrowing
money; below, they were generally out of
debt and had money to lend. The same
state of affairs exists now.— N. 1”. IForW.
How to Cook a Husband.—As Mrs.
Glass said of the hare, you must catch him.
Having done so, the moae of cooking him
' so as to make a good d»h is as follows:
Many good husbands arc spoiled in the
cooking; some women go about it as if
their husbands were bladders, and blow
them up; others keep them constantly in
hot water, while others freeze them by con
jugal coldness, some smother them in
hatred, contention, and variance; and some
keep them in pickle all their lives.
These women always serve them up with
tongue sauce. Now it <a mot be supposed i
that husbands will be tender and good if;
' managed in this way; but they are, on the
contrary, very delicious when managed as ;
follows: Get a large jar, called the jar of
carefulness (which all good wives have on
hand,) place your husband in it, and set him
near the fire of conjugal love ; let the fire
be pretty hor, especially kt it Ims cleai; above
all, let the heat be const tint; cover him over
with affection, kindness, and subjection;
garnish with mod cat, becoming familiarity,
and the spice ot pleasantry; and if you add
kisses and other confectionaries, let them be i
accompanied with a sufficient portion of
scctecy, mixed with prudence and modem- j
tion. We should advise all good wives to
try this receipt, and realize how admirable
a dish a husband is when properly cooked.
Over bees, aud more than 800 woody
species of plant*, are embraced in the flora
of the United States; and of the trees,
250 species are tolerably abundant in one
region or another, 120 ot them growing to
a large size.
Opportunity for Work.
Examples of greatness and goodness be
fore us bid us work, anil the changing
present offers ample opportunity. Around
us, everywhere, the new crowds aside the
old. Improvement steps by seeming per
fection ; discovery upsets theories and
clouds over established systems. The
usages of one generation become matters
of tradition, for the amusement of the
next. Innovation rises on the site ot
homes reverenced for early associations.
Science can hardly keep pace with the
names of publications, qualifying or abro
gating the past. Machinery becomes old
iron, as its successor usurps its place. The
new ship dashes scornfully by the naval
prodigy of last year, and the steamer
laughs at them both. The railroad engine,
as it rushes by the crumbling banks of the
canal, screams out its mockery at the barge
rotting piecemeal. The astronomer builds
up his hypothesis, and is comforting him
self among the nebula:, when invention
comes to the rescue; the gigantic telescope
points upward, and 10l the raw material of
which worlds are manufactured becomes
the centers of systems blazing in the infinite
heavens, and the defeated
into space, with his speculations, to be
again routed, when human ingenuity shall
admit us one hair’s breadth farther into
creation.
There is no effort of science or art that
may not be exceeded; no depth of philos
ophy ’that can not be deeper sounded ; no
flight of imagination that may not be
passed by strong, soaring wing.
All nature is full of unknown things;
earth, air, water, the fathomless ocean, the
limitless sky, lie almost untouched before
us. What has hitherto given prosperity
and distinction has not been more open to
others than to us ; to no one, past or pres
, ent, more than to the student leaving the
school-room to-morrow.
Let not, then, the young man sit with
folded hands, calling on Hercules. Thine
own arm is the demi-god. It was given
thee to help thyself. Go forth into the
world trustful and fearless. Exalt thine
adopted calling or profession. Look on
labor as honorable, and dignify the task
before thee, whether it be in the study,
office, counting-room, work shop, or fur
rowed field. There is an equality in all,
and the resolute will and pure heart may
ennoble either.
The Effects of War.—War, like in
temperance, is a giant evil in its ramifica
tions, reaching and contaminating all of
the interests of society. Like the river
with its poisoned fountain, its corrupting
influences reach every nook and retreat,
sending a wi lespread desolation wherever
man is found. Under its withering influ
ences, more deadly than pestiferous mias
ma, it blasts every rising cripples
industry, exhausts natural resources, fans
the fires of jealousy and hate, widens local
chasms, excites malicious animosities, prac
tically closes the doors of the churches and
the halls of learning, and thus fearfully de
grades our fallen humanity. In its abso
lute sway, its tyrannical assumptions, it
seizes not only the public treasures, but
lays a ruthless hand on the national con
science, transferring the individual moral
sense to the censorship of a superior in
military position, making might the syn
onym of right. The inferior is thus com
pelled to yield his moral convictions to a
superior in command, ever subject to the
caprices of men by no means models of
purity, or to the supposed emergencies or
accidents of war. In such circumstances
and under such influences private virtue
must become dwarfed, and vice assume
gigantic proportions. The Sa’ ba’h, a ne
cessity, not only of man’s moral but of his
physical nature, is violated, desecrated,
becoming a day of hilarity and carnage.
Familiarity with crime makes it less odious,
while scenes Os cruelty and bloodshed can
not fad to callous the heart, brutalize and
destroy, in some degree, the more enno
bling and the finer sensibilities of our
higher nature.
A Dig Puff.—lt is not often that I puff
a hotel, but where I pay my bill at the rate
of $4 a day for sleeping in the “milky way"
and feeding on a bill of fare, it’s a privilege
and a pleasure to mention such an institu
tion. The Kimball house, in Atlanta, Ga.,
ought to travel with B-tnrim’s show as a
curiosity. It is the largest hotel, I presume,
In the world. Many peophe-wtorgO'rtip in
the sky parlors to repose never Come down
but go right on through to heaven, without
change of elevators; and those who have
written bick say they could smell the hair
oil on the hair of th .-clerks all the way up.
The balls are so l ing and winding that
many waiters get lost while going- after a
pilcher of water and are never heard of un
til their remains are found years after. I
went in there one morning and ordered
breakfast. A small colored toy took my
order, and it was so far out to the ki'ehen
that he was grown and gray-headed when
he got back. It is a very large house —ho-
tel! Many travelers going South and re
turning by this city order their m-als in ad
vance, and frequently when they get back
they have to lay over a week to make con
nections. The hotel is a verv large one,
aud eveiy thing about it is very large, from
the feet of the clerks, the mouths of the
waiters, up to the bills. It is provided
with all modern conveniences, hot and
cold water, bay windows, idiots, dir y
sheets—everything to make the traveler
happy, including an undertakers estab
lishment for the accommala’ion of such
boarders as starve to death wh.le waiting
sot the waiters. It is a very large hotel, and
everybody stops there just once. — Cor. Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
It is the opinion of the d<»ctor that the
lawyer lives by plunder, while the lawyer
thinks the doctor lives by pill age.
Pure Expressions.—Every word that
falls from the lips of mothers and sisters es
pecially, should be pure and concise and i
simple; not pearls, such as fall from the I
lips of a princess, but sweet, good words,
that little children can guile r without fear
of soil, or after shame or blame, or any re
grets to pain through all their life.
Children should be taught the frequent
use of good, strong, expressive words—
words that mean exactly what they should
express in their proper places.
If a child, or young person has a loose,
flung-together way of stringing words when
endeavoring to say something he should be
made to “try agun," and see if he can not
do better.
It is painful to listen to many girls’ talk.
They begin with “My goodness I” and in
terlard it with “oh's I” and “sakes alive I"
and “so sweet I” and “so queenly I” and so
many phrases, that one is tempted to be
]ieve they have bad no training at all, or
else their mothers were very foolish women.
There is nothing more distinguished than
the twaddle of ill-bred girls; one is provoked
often into taking a paper and reading, and
letting them ripple and gurgle on, like
brooks flow, they know not whith r
My heart warms with love for sensible
girls and pure boys; and, after all, if our
girls and boys are not this, I fear it i« our
own fault, for this great trust rests in the
hearts and hands of the women of our land.
If we have a noble, useful purpose in life,
we shall infuie the right spirit into those
around us.
“Shoo Fly” in the Church.—The
Western Catholic is responsible for the
statement that “Shoo Fly” has been paro
died for Sunday schools, after this fashion :
“Sa-tan, don’t bodderme;
Sa-tan, don’t bodder me;
Sa-tan, don’t bodder me,
For I belong to company G.
I hear, I hear, I hear,
I hear de organ’s tone;
I feel, 1 feel, I feel.
Religion in my bone !”
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