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About The Cartersville express. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1875-18?? | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1879)
,<tfarm and plantation. FAUX TK, A grave mistake is maae by farmers who think that stock must not be fed at home after the first appearance of grass Stock will show this false economy al through the seasoD. The following rule in plowing is recommended : “ Never turn up over one or two inches of unfertile subsoil in om season ; and, when so turned up, the land tshould receive a dressing of manure.” Apply around your trees almost any substance that will cover the soil and shield it from the drying rays of the sun, and from the evaporation of moisture. A great mistake is often made in planting corn early. Indian corn requires warm ground and hot weather, and it will not grow until these condi tions are present. If planted previous to this time the kernel is apt to rot, and if the corn does come up it is not fit for much. Corn early planted has a gauntlet to run in the usual summer drouth. For throat distemper, grate fine a small, green, wild turnip; or if dry, give a heaping spoonful, mixed with bran or oats. It is good for a cough also. Loss of appetite, thirst, diarrhoea, gene ral weakness and cyanosis of the comb are the symptoms of chicken cholera. Someone who has experimented in the matter says that a handful of bran scattered in each hill of potatoes when planting will increase the yield third. The following was evidently uttered by a true farmer: “ The country home can be made very pleasant by fixing up the yards and houses more than they now are. Farmers Bhould be without debts and then they can make farm life very pleasant. The farmer should read and study several hours every day. He must have good laborers, and have them un derstand that his interest is theirs Plenty of reading matter should b3 kept on hand at all times. Instead of straight lines about the place devote mere space to landscape gardening. The keeping of good stock will always add to the pleas ure of farming. Farmers should go out and interchange views with each other.” A farmer in Holden informed us that, being much annoyed with crows pulling up his corn, he placed a large umbrella in his field in order to frighten them away. Imagine his surprise one wet day in finding a good flock seeking shelter under it from the rain. The umbrella is now used for another purpzse.—[Bangor Wig. Generous care and culture will repay in a melon crop. A warm, sandy soil free from weeds and grass is tho suitable. Then manure, ashes, and yard scrapings answer well for melons. About as good a way for planting melons as any, is to open deep trenches, letting them be some eight feet apart, and deposit a shovelful of fertilizer about every six or seven feet Then drop the seed-eight or ten seeds—in a space of a foot square over the manure and cover one inch deep. After the vines begin to grow, care and labor is necessary to keep off insects. When the plant has attained considerable size, all superfluous ones must be cut out, leaving two or three to a hill. The plants should be well culti vated and free from weeds until they cover the ground. DOMES HO RECIPES. TO MAKE ICED APPLES. Pare and core one dozen large apples, fill with sugar, very little butter and a pinch of cinnamon; bake till nearly done, let them cool, pour off the juice, put icing on the top and sides, brown slightly in the oven, and serve with cream POTATO PONE. Wash, peel and grate two pounds of potatoes; add four ounces of sugar and butter melted; one teaspoonful each ot salt and pepper; mix well together, place in a baking dish and put in an oven to bake until it becomes done and nicely browned. ICELAND MOSS JELLY. One handiul of moss washed in several waters and soaked an hour; one quart of boiling water, juice et two lemons, one wine-glassful of sherry, one-fourth teaspoon ml of cinnamon. Soak the moss in a very little cold water; stir into the boiling and simmer until dissolved. Sweeten, flavor and stir into molds. to Glean papered walls. Rub them with stale bread, the staler the better. Cut the crust off thick and wipe straight down from the top. Draughtsmen and crayon artists use stale bread continually to remove super fluous lines or marks from their draw ings and consider it the best article for this puipcse. STP.AWBEREY TARTS. For each tart take 2 eggs, 1J table poonfuls of sugar, small piece of butter about the size of a partridge egg ; beat well together; add 1 cup of sweet milk ; roll paste thin; place in a pie pan ; aitei pouring into it the above mixture stew into it one layer of nice berries; bake until the eggs are placed, and you have a delicious tftrt. No flavoring is needed except the berries. PEACH OR BERRY PUDDING. Take 3 eggs, 1 table*poonful of butter -lof sugar ; beat together; add 1 cup of sour milk, ajid soda in proportion to acid the milk; stir in flour enough to make a stiff batter; beat briskly until smooth . have your pan buttered; pour in hal’ the batter ; put into it 1J pints of ripe peaches sliced thin, or 1 pint of berries; pour over this balance of the batter; bake until done, and serve with hot eauce. POTATO RIBBONS. Wash and peel some large potatoes of good quality, cut them in very thick slices, and then slice each round and round, into long ribbons. Put them into a pan of cold water and let them lay for an hour. Then drain and fry them in a pan of boiling butter until they are brown and quite crisp. Dry them with a napkin, pile them in a hot dish and sprinkle over them a seasoning of salt and finely powdered parsley. LEMON MERINGUE PUDDING. One quart milk, 2 cups bread crumbs, 4 eggs, £ cup of butter, 1 cup white sugar, 1 large lemon, juice, and half the rind grated ; soak the bread in the milk; add the beaten yolks, with the sugar and butter rubbed to a cream ; also the lemon. Bake in a buttered dish till firm and browned slightly ; draw to the door ot the oven and cover with a meringue of the whites whipped to a froth with 3 tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar and a little lemon juice ; brown very slightly, sift powdered sugar over it, and eat cold. You may make an orange pudding in the pame way. TO COOK FISH. Delmonico has been giving the public the benefit of his experience in cooking fish. We give the following condensa tion of the culinary “interview” from the New York Sun: Boiling seems to him the " most legitimate,” as well as the quickest and most convenient. His direction is to “ put them in cold spring water, the less the quantity of water that the fish can be boiled in the better —with a handful of salt. Rub a little vinegar on the skin of the fish, to pre vent it from cracking and make the flesh solid. Ten minutes to the pound should be allowed for a salmon, and three or four minutes for almost any other kind; but a good general rule is that the fish is done when the fins pull out easily.” Mr. Delmonico also says that broiled fish should be split in two from head to tail, dried, seasoned with salt and pep per, greased with a little oil (which is preferable to butter), broiled to a nice brown color, the gridiron having been previously well greased, too;” that fish, to be eaten in perfection, should be ‘ cooked in wine, either white or red, in the baking dish, besides chopped onion, salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and while cooking, this sauce should be spread over it several times;” and that small fish may be “ deliciously” fried in oil, after dipping in milk and then flour, or in very hot grease, after being breaded with beaten eggs and crumbs. —mmm |— mam Fashion Notes. When mummy cloth has an ecru ground the polonaise is lined as far as the hips with ecru batiste. The soft cotton ntuffs used for wash dresses have very little dressing, and require very little starch when they are laundried. If made stiff with starch they do not produce the effect of being new and fresh. One of the latest novelties is the shoulder cape in Garrick seape, made o* silk fringe The upper part is tied in meshes, and fits like a collar, while below this grass fringe in thick rows hangs to the waist line; price $lO. Cotton laces in showy effective pat terns are much used for trimming mus lin and cambric dresses. What is called Byzantine point is liked for such pur ooses, as it washes well, and imitates the nch designs ot antique laces. White muslin nats with fichus to match are shown, to be worn with any aay short dress as a pretty summer ct s tume for garden parties and summer -tea The round hat is of the sheerest organ y muslin, made with a low broao town and wide brim drawn down on fio vires that are placed about an inch apart. HOME INTERESTS* My Ramble. I walked In the wood one fair spring day, Gathering the first sweet flowers ol May. The birds were singing among the trees; The air was filled with a balmy breeze. I gathered daisies and buttercups bright, That grew in the shade and pleasant sunlight; The brook ran leaping about with a song; On through the meadows it flowed along. As toward my home I wended my way, At the close of that fair summer day, The sun was setting behind the hill; The flowers were asleep, the birds were still. Ida May. Sister Sarah’s Garden Talks. If any of my Bisters have their gardens start ed, I congratulate them. There are always hindrances to be overcome in commencing any good work; and, in a lady’s first attempt at gardening, one is sometimes found in a “lord of creation” who knows to a certainty that “that garden of yours” will prove to be a fail ure. Not that he means to be unkind, but sim ply because he lacks faith. When your table is once garnished with vegetables and made beautiful with flowers from your own garden, he will be delighted and his sympathy fully enlisted. Perhaps you can also lead him to discover that he has some latent muscle that can be developed with wheelbarrow and hoe quite as successfully as with health-lift or dumb-bells. If you can do this, it will not be quite eo laughable to hear the good man com placently tellrng the neighbors about that fine garden of “ours.” Hoeing must begin as soon as tye plants are well up. Have a sharp hoe and cut the weeds between and as near the rows as you can with out disturbing the plants; then, with the hand, take the remaining weeds from the rows. Try to do hoeing in the morning before the sun gets hot It will be more comfortable for you, and the weeds will be quite dead before they can get any help from the ehadows and dew. Your garden will not be complete without some early potatoes, and some early and late sweet corn. Plant cucumbers in * hills—six inches high and twelve inches wide—in rich soil. Have the hills six feet apart each way. You can plant early turnips between; they will mature before the vines run much. Beans must not bo planted while there is any danger of frost Plant two or three inches apart, in drills two and a half feet apart, in light, rich soil You should have a small seed bed in which to sow cabbage, cauliflower and celery—for transplanting by-and-by. They can be sowed in drills six inches apart Last year I raisdd tomatoes from seed sown in open ground, but it is safest to buy a few early plants. I have beautiful plants from seeds sewr in a shallow box about six weeks ago. I have kept them in the kitchen window and they have been almost no trouble. Bisteu Sabah. Flowers. Among all the hardy plants cultivated none can surpass in beauty the Yucca, or “Adam’s needlo,” as it is sometimes called. There are several varieties, but the one known as Fila mentosa is the hardiest of all, enduring our most rigorous winters with impunity. It is an evergreen, with sharp-pointed leaves, and from the sides are thrown off thread-like filaments. About midsummer it sends up a stout flower stem five or six feet high, bearing an immense cluster of bell-shaped flowers of creamy white color. The Yucca may be used with fine effect as the center of a flower bed, and materially aids in relieving the monotony of the soft-wooded plants, suen as Coleus. Yuccas delight in a deep rich soil, and may easily be increased by dividing the thick, fleshy root. They may also be grown from seed, but require growing several years before they are strong enough to bloom. Mb. Bennie. Hinsdale, Dapage county, 13 . How To Make a Pretty Tidy. I will tell how you can make a pretty and durable tidy. Take bleached muslin—that with no starch in it is the best—cut in round pieces, say the size of the top of a teacup; turn in a lit tle of the edge all round; take a needle and stout thread, gather all around them, draw it up as small as you can; then flatten it down so that the gathered part will be in the middle; fasten youi thread; make as many of those as you like, and join them together in a square or a circle, and put on some white fringe on the edge, and it is finished. I hope I have made this plain enough, eo that any one can make one, as they are very pretty. ‘ Aunt Maey. Maywood, Kan. Cinnamon Cake. Take nice light dough, and kneatr enough sugar with it to make it tol erably sweet; also some butter or lard; after mixing thoroughly, roll to about one-half inch in thickness and spread quite thinly with but ter, then sprinkle well with sugar and sift cin namon on this, and roll up the dough as you would a rolled jelly cake, and cut the cakes off the length of the roll; put in pan and let them raise till light, and after baking partly take out and coat the tops with egg and sugar, then return to the oven/ They are nice. Floea. Cableton, Neb. Marble Cake. Light part: White sugar, one and one-half cups; butter, one-half cup; sweet milk, one-half cup; soda, one-half teaspoon; cream of tartar, one teaspoon; whites of four eggs; flour two and one half cups; beat and mix as gold cake. Dark part: White sugar, one cup; molasses, one-half cup; butter, one-half cup; sour milk, one-half cup; soda, one-half teaspoon; cream-tartar, one teaspoon; flour, two and one-half cups; yelks of four egg; cloven, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground, of each one-half table-spoon; beat and mix as gold cake. Directions: When each part is ready, drop a spoon of dark and a spoon of light over the bottom of the dish in which it is to be baked, and so proceed to fill up the pan, dropping the light upon the dark, as you continue, witn the different layers. Kate S. ScovnxE. Teheran, 111. Ginger Cookies. Here is a good recipe for ginger cookies: One pint molasses, one cup sugar, one-half pint water, on© table-spoonful of pulven F .3d alum, one table-spoonful of soda, two table spoonfuls of ginger. N. E. Foegbaye. Millebspobt, Ohio. Silver Cake. l will give a receipt for silver cake which I have tried andean recommend: Whites of eight eggs, two cups of sugar, two-thirds of a oup of butter, one-half cup of sweet milk, two cups of flour, two teaspoonfnls of cream of tartar, one-half teaspoon of soda. Maggie S. Kan. Dutton’s Head* At Yale, long ago, was a student named Dutton, who was bald. One day, at recitation, another student burst out laughing. The tutor asked what was the matter. The student made an ef fort to be quiet, but soon there was an other explosion. The tutor then in sisted on knowing the cause. The student said, “A fly kept trying to light on Dutton's head, and he slid off every time”—Journal ot Education. A Mohammedan Funeral in Africa. A correspondent of the Springfield Republican writes from Tunis: **Yes terday I saw a Mohammedan funeral passing through the streets. My atten tion was first attracted to it by hearing a murmur of many voices approaching from the distance. The sound was un like anything I ever heard before. Soon there appeared 200 or 300 Arab men crowding through the narrow streets, all joining in singing or chanting a song for the dead. In *ke midst of them several Arabs bore upon their shoulders a bier like a crib. The bot tom of it was covered over with a Turk ish or Tunisian rug, on which stretched the body of the dead Arab, enveloped in what appeared to be a Persian shawl. I would have followed after the proces sion, but was told that none but a Mo hammedan" was allowed to witness the burial ceremony. Old residents of Tunis tell me that the final act of de positing the body in Mother Earth is a strange and novel procedure. The Arabs have a superstition that, as the new-made grave is ready for its occu pant, the evil spirits at once take pos session of it. To drive them out, they resort to all manner of strange devices. The most efficacious, and the one usual ly resorted to, is based upon the belief of the devil’s fondness for gold, and that ‘ money is the root of all evil.’ As soon as the body is placed by the sic/3 of the grave, the medicine man or saint exorcises the devil, and signifies by signs that his Satanic Majesty, with all his imps, is in the grave below. The nearest relative of the deceased, who is prepared for the emergency, takes from his pocket a handful of small gold, sil ver, or copper coins, according to his wealth, which he throws in the distance as for as possible, as if he was sowing grain. The evil spirits are believed to scramble after it, and, while picking it up, the body is hustled into the ground as quickly as possible, and the stones and earth are placed over it before the eloven-footed money-hunters can re turn.” A Peace-Making’ Lawyer* Lawyers are not supposed to merit, as a class, the blessing pronounced upon peacemakers. But even Dr. Johnson, who hated the legal fraternity, was once led to write an epitaph on a peace-mak ing lawyer. The doctor was passing a churchyard, and, seeing some people weeping over a grave, asked a woman why they wept. “Oh,” said she, “we have lost our precious lawyer, Justice Randall! He kept us from going to law —the best man who ever lived.” “Well,” replied Johnson, “I will write you an epitaph to put upon his tomb.” It read: God works wonders now and then— Here lies a lawyer an honest man. If Johnson had lived a century later, and made the acquaintance of Judge Ryland, of Missouri, he might have written a similar epitaph. More than once the Judge was heard to say: “I would rather give SIOO out of my own pocket to avoid a suit between neighbors than to gain SSOO by prose cuting one.” This pacific lawyer was once asked by a gentleman belonging to an influ ential family to bring a suit against a brother for slander. “Go home,” said the Judge, after list ening to the complaint, “and fall on your knees three times a day for a week, and pray God to forgive you for har boring such unkind feelings against a brother. If at the end of that time you are still determined to bring the suit re turn to me, and we will consult about it.” “That is strange counsel for a lawyer to give,” remarked the man, amazed that a lawyer should decline a suit. “Yes,” was the reply; “but it is me best I can now give you.” Before the week had ended, the man returned and told the Judge that he had concluded not to bring the suit.— Youth's Companion. municipal iieots. This is a bad year for cities. Memphis is remitted to the condition of wilder ness; Elizabeth is in default; Jersey City is industriously “ shinning” to avoid a default, and it is now announced that Altoona is to be sold under the hammer for a failure to meet its State taxes. The purchase of Altoona would be a real-estate operation from which we should say that in the present con dition of the market the largest and boldest operators might be excused for shirking, nor is a syndicate likely to be formed to acquire the stock, fixtures and good will on which the late town owners find it impossible even to pay taxes. Municipalities, from a commer cial point of view, are much the worst managed of all corporations, for the rea son that they are given over to man agers whom the stockholders of any other corporation would employ, if at all, in the most subordinate capacities. There is stringent need of a general re form in this matter, but it is rather mel ancholy to consider that the only seri ous attempt at reform in this State re sulted in a recommendation which was in the first place certain not to be adopted and in the second place certain not to make any practical difference in the government of cities if it had been adopted —New York World. Senator Batard, of Delaware, has nine children. His oldest son, aged about 19 years, is a student of the Uni versity of Virginia. Several of the older children go to school in Washing ton city. His wife has very little dis position for society life, and passes her time with her children, giving an occa sional plain reception, WIT AND HUMOR. Casual ties—Chicago marriages. Plain sewing—Planting tn the pr* lies. Who foots the bills in the scores of walkists? Circus clowns will appear iu fool dress this season. Now sow seedsmen’s catalogues in your waste baskets. Cuba is growing restless on account of so much peace. Can a marriage broker be properly called a noose agent? Bachelorhood is a sickness which may be cured at any moment. The only oasis in some men’s lives is the green spot on a faro-table. The meanest ism in this world is rheumatism—remarks a sufferer. The man with a nightmare must dream that he is in a sleepy holloa. Fruit-peddlers will soon be around, like Noali, with an old ark and a load of pairs. Sickness turned a Western man’s hair from white to a dark brown. Proba bly the sick man dyed. Interviewers annoy GLief Joseph, to such an extent that he begins to think he is an old buck bored. “There’s no place like home," eh? Better ask some young man who is pay ing attentions to a pretty girl just over the way, and she! There are some things that are as well kept dark. It isn’t policy to throw light upon such a subject as an open barrel of gunpowder, for instance. Let a small boy catch his kite on a telegraph wire, and he will exhibit more ingenuity in getting it down than it would take to invent a first-class flying machine. It is said that the very center of the earth is the only spot where one can be merry all the time, and the reason is that, as science tells, everything there loses its gravity. “You always lose your temper in my company,” said an individual of doubt ful reputation to a gentleman. “True, sir, and I shouldn’t wonder if I lost everything about me.” Mrs. Partington, in illustration of the proverb, “A soft answer turnefh away wrath,” says, “It is better to speak paragorieally of a person than to be all the time flinging epitaphs.” A Western paper, in describing an accident recently, with much candor, says: “Dr. Jones was called, and under his prompt and skillful treatment the young man died on Wednesday night.” It was after a concert at which some of Berlioz’s pieces had been produced, when a friend met the composer. “ Well, how did they execute your pieces?” “Like criminals, sir; like criminals.”— Paris paper. A woman raised to the third power o : widowhood has the photographs of her three departed lords in a group, with a vignette of herself in the center and underneath is the inscription, “Tho Lord will provide.” A woman offered her little son his choice between a stick of store gum or a lump of spruce. He was undecided which to take, and remarked: “How happy I could be with either, were the other dear chaw, ma, away.” The following is told of a very young gentleman who was passing an examina tion in physics: He was asked, “What planets were known to the ancients?” “Well, sir,” he replied, “there were • Venus and Jupiter, and” —after a pause —“I think the Earth, but I’m not quite certain.” The pedestrian who walks 500 miles in six days never travels faster than a boy does when he is dispatched to the cellar for a scuttle of coal while a cir cus-pageant is passing the house. “ How sublimely ethereal!” murmured Miss de Flukey, as she leaned over the rail of the fine steamer that plies be tween Venice and Messina, and watched the play of the moonbeams on the waves. “How just too tremendously magnificent! I call this simple jov on aLlyodl” The following is told of a young gentleman who was passing an exam ination in physics: He was askedr “What planets were known to the an cients?” “Well, sir,” he responded, “there were Venns and Jupiter, and —after a pause —“ I think the Earth, but I’m not quite certain.” - H A soft answer,” etc.—Female epi cure—“Oh, mister, I’m sure that was a bad one!” Oyster salesman (indig nantly)—“What d’yer mean? Then you shouldn’t a’ swallered it, mum! I’ve been in this trade a matter o’ ten years, and never ” Lady—“ Well, it certainly left a nasty taste ” Sales man (mollified) —“Well, there’s no de nyin’ that some on ’em is ’igher in flavor than others! ” — Punch. Anew method in the cure of mad ness is practiced with considerable suc cess at the lunatic asylum on Black well’s island, New York. A hall has been fitted up with every facility for gymnasties, and the patients are greatly delighted with the exercise. An old gentleman without tact, on meeting some ladies whom he had known as girls, in his boyhood, cordially remarked: “Bless me! How time flies! Let me see. It is fifty-two years come next April since we used to go to school together in the old red school house. I was a little chap then, you re member, and you were fine young women.” The old man could never un derstand why his cordial greeting was received so coldly.
