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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
BY JAS. A. WRIGHT AND HUGH WILSON.
THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
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Tanas —Three Aolltrs a year, in advance.
DIES OF BAD COOKING.
One friend asked another of what the
gentleman died whose house they
were passing. After a moment’s
pause, he remarked quite seriously:
‘‘He died of bad cooking.” I do
not know that 1 ever saw such a state
ment in an obituary notioe, but it
might with truthfulness bo put into a
great many. The only wonder is that
a great many more do not die of
it. Probably an active out-door life
helps to keep off the fatal result,
though the same cannot fait to steadily
undermine the stoutest constitution.
Meats sodden in fat, and bread nine
tenths of the time sour or heavy, are
the order in many households. A lad
whom circumstances compelled to
board for several months iu such a
place, said : “I should have supposed
they would miss it some times and
have good bread, bat they never did.”
If some house-keepers bad served an
apprenticeship, to learn the art ot
making poor bread, they could not
have succeeded better. Sour bread
and dyspepsia are twin brothers, or
rather mother and child.
Careless, bard working mothers,
who will not tako a little pain to cook
a few plain things well, are usually
the least sufferers by the poor man
agement. They and tbelr families
have usually such an amount of out
door exercise that they can barely
live through it, without breaking
down. Stilt a great deal of the cross
ness and misery which haunts such
homes like a shadow, arises from the
iudigestion which follows loading up
the stomach with stones and leather
in place of wholesome food.
The evil is greatly aggravated when
we come to the more comfortable
middle class, where too often the
whole management of meals beyond
a few bad directions, is left to an ig
norant and careless domestio. Good
uosly potatoes are turned Into water
washed lumps .; meal is put into cold
water at first and afterwards boiled
at a furious rate until all the jnices are
soaked away, and the mass that re
mains is about as dry, and unnour
ishing as a block of fibrous wood.
Then the liquid meat which is left in
the kettle is turned out into the drain.
So on to the end of the chapter.
The sour bread difficulty is quite as
great here, and if an attempt is made
to correct it, enough soda is usually
employed to make a fine dish of soap
in the stomach, when combined with
tbe grease usually accompanying
such cooking in one article or anoth
er. If oar ladies only wonld attend
to tbe business themselves, and first
learn and then carefully direct their
domestics in tbe business, standing by
to see that it is done right, until tbe
habit is formed, it would do more to
make their families healthy and hap
py, than all tbe tucked skirts or em
broidored dresses they could make in
a life time. It is worth making the
effort for. It will pay you the lar
gest in the matlor of mere
personal happiness, to see- each meal
oome to the table thoroughly well
prepared, and to know that husband
and children can partake of it with
out danger of that foe to all happi
ness, indigestion. Tbe advantage to
small incomes of snch a wise supervi
sor as tbe mistress oi the house, can
not be over estimated. “The eyes of
the mistress will do more work than
both her hands.”
There is another class, too who,
though often not the richest, pride
themselves on the little they have ac
quired among plain neighbors of‘‘good
livers.” which usually means, they set
a table on which every luxury of the
aeaeon abounds, prepared with all the
expensive ingredients that can con
veniently be added thereto. It was
& cariosity to hear Mrs- L. describe
the ingredients sho mixed into her
mammoth jar of mince-pie meat.
All tbe spices that ever camo over,
were added with wine, brandy, cider,
toa berries, little pieces of suet, cran
berries, raisins, currants, and various
otber things “too numerous to men
tion.” When puddings were made,
they were rendered wholly indigesti
ble by a dozen or more of eggs, and
the various pickles and “catchups”
with which her family were daily
regaled, and were so hotly spiced as
to burn the mouths of ordiuary mor
tals.
One is reminded of Addison’s le
marks on such a table. “What coun
ter-ferments must such a mcdly of in
temperance produce in tho body I
For my part, when I behold a fash
ionable table set oat in all its mag
urficeoco, I fancy that I seo gouts and
dropsios, fevers and lethargies, with
otber innumerable distempers, lying
in ambuscade among tbe disbos.”
Such extravagance in tbo use of
materials, is far from being a sign of a
good cook Good cooking consists in
preparing well, simple, wholosomo
food. Unwholesome food is badly
cooked, however ingeniously tho ma
terials may be jumbled together. .Rich
people may bo able to afford the time
and expense of being sick after living
on such diet, but it is not agreeable
o. ;n if they can afford it. It is not
wise or right to thus lay themselves
aside and cat short lives which might
be usefully employed iu God's ser
vice, just for a momentary gratifica
tion of the palato.— Mother's Journal.
ADrtDOTE FOR 'FOISON.
Send for a physician. Moanwhile,
remember that the effect of adminis
tered poison is instantaneous, or comes
on slowly. If instantaneous, the
patient immediately cries out with
tho sensation of heat or burning, or
scalding at any point from mouth to
Btomaoh; tho presumption then is
that some corrosive poison has boon
taken—something which eats or de
stroys or disorganizes the musclos or
fleshy parts of tbo tonguo, mouth,
throat, stomach, etc. Most poisonous
substances ol this sort are acids, and
tbe first best remedy likely to be at
band is common soap dissolved in wa
ter, or soda, or saleratus, or magne
sia; but in the burry of inexpert
bands tbe remedy may be made so
strong as to become of itself another
poison; hence it is best to take the
simplest thing which is most likely to
be at hand, and which caunot injure
in any quantity or strength in which
it can be taken; hence for poisons
which cause an instantaneous sensa
tion of burning in the throat, etc.,
drink a teacupful of sweet oil, or
lard, or greaso of any sort; tho most
that can happen from an over amount
is that it will be vomited up, and this
brings more or less of tbo poison out
of tbe stomach; then you can more
leisurely drink magnesia-water or
strong soapsuds, or a table-spoon of
wood ashes, put in half a pint of luke
warm water, stir, let it settle two min
utes, pour it off, and drink.
If a powder has caused the urgent
sensations, the most generally appli
cable antidote is to swallow one or
two raw eggs; the white is tbo effi
cient part, but there may not be lime
to separate the yolk. Tbis is best in
poisqns from arsenic, corrosive subli
mate, verdigris, creosote, etc.
if the effect is not instanstaneous,
and time may be taken, tbe first best
thing to be done in all cases is to get
tbe poison out of tbe stomach instant
ly, by swallowing every five minutes
a tea cop of warm water into which
has been stirred a full teaspoon each
of common salt and ground kitchen
mustard. There is vomiting almost
as soon as it reaobea the stomach.
Then drink a enp or two of very
strong coffee, which is the best reme-
WASHINGTON, WILKES COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1867.
dy for all anodyne poisons, as opium,
morphine, laudanuff, etc., eto. In
short, if tho sufferings are instantane
ous and urgent, drink sweet oil or
soapsuds; it gradual or causingdrow
siness, mustard emetic, strong coffee, or
white of eggs.— Dr. 'Ball.
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Cnour.—Wo copy $n article on tbis
disease which wo com noml to the spe
cial consideration of mothers. It is
from Halts Journal of Health, and
may be read with advantage : Croup
seldom comes on suddenly. General
ly it has at first no Ulhor symptoms
than those of common cold, but the
very moment tho chill is seen to car
ry its bands towards its throat, indi
cating discomfurt thofo, it Bhould bo
considered an attack of croup, and
should be treated accordingly. When
a child is sick of anything, no physi
cian can toll whore that sicknoss will
end. So it is with tbe cold; it may
appear to be a very slight one indeed,
still it may end fatally in oroup, putrid
sore throat, or dipthetia. The mo
ment a mother observes croupy symp
toms in a child from two to eight
years, tbe especially croupy age, she
should keep tbo child in her own room,
by her own side, day and night, not
allowing it for a moment to go out
side of tho doors, keeping comforta
bly warm, so that no chiltness or
draft of air shall come over it. Light
food should be oaten, no moats, hot
bread or borries. The whole body,
the foot especially, should be kept
warm all tho time. Robbing twenty
drops of sweot oil into tjbo skin over
the left breast with the jiAnd, two or
three times, or more tinjos a day, of
ton gives the moot TottofMx* n
cold, in proventing Acfltp. Such a
oourso promptly pursued will prompt
ly cunralmost any coldia child will
take, and seldom fails tdjnvard off ef
fectually, in a day or twb, what would
otherwise havo boon a intal attack of
oroup, with its ringing, bar
king sound, Us uneasy, depressive and
labored breathing, nono.pt' which can
be mistaken when once heard. Many
a sweet child has been lost thus: Tbe
parents aro aroused at dead of the
night with cough that sagge|tscroup'
but it seems to pass off, and in the
morning they wake up witlf a feeling
of thankful boding
ill. The child runs aboift all day as
if perfectly well; but next night
tbe symptoms are more decided, and
on tbe next night the child dies; but
tbis would havo been averted with
certainty if from tho first night the
child had been kept in a warm room,
warmly clad; if tho borfols had been
kept free and nothing had been eaton
but toast with tea or gruel, or stowed
fruits. — Exchange.
Climate or Brazil.—According to
Professor Ag assiz, the climato of the
Amazonian basin diffefs from that of
our regions in tbe same latitude, by
reason of the great moisture prevail
ing there. Tho combination of heat
and moisture, ho observed, produces a
more luxuriant vegetation than is to
be found anywhere e l ß §^>
There are four disf.AMseasons as
with us; but perpetual
There is more or less
out the year, but no sutjjfjjpcial peri
od of great prevalence SlfTnarks the
climate of olhor tropical regions,
wbere a very dry season succeeds
months of copious rain. The rains
do not prevail overall sections at tbe
same time, but beginning* the South
in September, they progress north
ward till they reach Guiana in March
and April. Asa consequence, when
the Southern tributaries of tbe Ama
zon are most swollen, tt* Northern
tributaries are at their lowest ebb, and
vice versa ; and thus a balance is main
tained between the upper and lower
parts of the basin.
Again there is a difference between
the course of the main stream at its
most western origin, and at its mouth.
The swelling waters of the Madeira
reach tbe Amazon in November or De
cember. Tbe Northern tributaries
pour in tbeir water at a later poriod.
The great increase in the Amazon at
its confluences, by temporary coinci
dences in tho flow of its tributaries,
is in or near tbe month of Maroh,
when tho water rises a loot in each
twenty-four hours, until it reaches a
height of thirty five feet above tho or
dinary level. The Amazon is lowest
in October.
He said that tho temperature of tbo
wholo valley was remarkably even,
varying from tho minimum to the
maximum not more than fifteen de
grees. Tbe temporature ot the wa
ter of tho Amazon is also oven, tbe
maximum being 84 degrees, and the
minimum 78. Other streams show as
little variation in this respect. In
consequence of this evenness of tem
perature, there is a feeling of comfort
most agreable to the inhabitants.
THE KITCHEN GARDEN.
Gather the early crops as they mature,
saving all the straw and haulm for stock or
llie manure heap. In gathering roasting
ears, cut up the stalks at the bottom, and
it not needed for bogs, cows or working
stock, euro them far winter; left in the
patch they are wasted and very unsightly
Irish Potatoes may be gathered as soon as
the tops die, or if the weather is wet, when
most of tho vines are decayed. If left in
the ground they will bo likely to take a
second growth, which spoils them for a
table use.—Dig them early in the - mor
ning, late in the evening when the the sun
is low, or in cloudy weather; for if expo
sed to the midday sun, they'are sure to de
cay. Do not put them up in bulk, but
spread them, of the sun, under cover, un
til perfectly dry; and keep them thus
spread, not over five or six inches deep,
until there is danger freezing, when they
may be stored, in the winter, in barrels
and boxes in a dry place, safe from frost.
Thus kept dry and cool without sproutiog,
they are equal lo those grown at the North
for cither planting or eating. Sprouts
must be rubbed off iu they appear, or they
ruin the potato for eating. Prepare thor
oughly the ground in which they and
other early crops were grown, by plough
ing or spading, that it may be ready for
transplanting or sowing other crops
These operations, for success, in hot’
weather, roquire fresh dug soil.
Pole, Bunch and Snap Beans and Table
Corn may still be planted, also melons,
encumbers and squashes. If you bare
not plenty of cabbage plants, they may
still be sown, but will require shading un
til they begin to come up, but no longer.
We raise thorn at this season under glass,
white washed with pipe clay, to temper
the light and heat. Beets sown at this
time, if a stand can be secured, are excel
lent all winter. We soak the seed four or
five days, until just ready to sprout; have
the beds freshly made; dry the seed with
sufficient superphosphate, ashes or fine
dirt to sow readily; mark the drills and
water them, then cover with fine fresh soil,
and after a few hours to allow the drills to
dry a little, gently press the soil upon the
the rows with a plank.
Thin out the latter planted crops of
carrots, beets, Ac. The Utter make excel
lent greens (cut up, tops and bottoms,
after being nicely washed,) from tbe time
they are big enough to pick until they are
an inch iu diameter. Keep the surface soil
light and clean by surface hoeing.—Cut
off tbe upper shoots of tomato plants 4 when
the fruit is half grown, as it hastens ma
turity. Earth up plant as they need. In
hoeing at this time, do not go too deeply
near the plants, as they need all their root
lets to gather moisture from every quar
ter. Transplant Celery, Winter Cabbage,
Tomatoes, Sweet Potato Slips, &c., but
protect tbe more tender sorts by inclining
over them shingles inserted in the earth on
the side next tbe sun.—Winter Cabbage
it is needless to undertake to grow umess
under the following conditions; The ground
must be very deeply dug—not less than
a foot—and fifteen inches much better.
VOL IL-NO. 11.
It must be liberally manured with fine
manure, and q portion of this manure,
but not all, shouU.be some good' super
phosphate. They slioutA be planted low
in the ground iu a trench, earth
gradually drawn up to them so C&x the
heads may be on short stems; tbe mala,
roots will then be deep enough to draw
moisture from the lower stratum, and side
roots will be emitted from the stem all tbe
way to the surface. Cabbages thus naan—
aged, with the worm kept off by hand
picking, are pretty sure to head. Do not
allow any of the leaves to be plucked off
before the head is formed.
If water is convenient, apply it liberally
at night. Frequent surface hoeing ie a
good protection against drought, the dew
being copiously absorbed by the porous
soil.—Basil and otber Pot herbe should
be gathered when tbe plants are in bloom.
Begin uow to prepare your ground for
lluta Bags and other turuips, for which
see agricultural work (or tbe month.
Southern Cultivator.
How Cattle Kill Trees —lt ia a
noticeable fact that a tree ever so
thrifty, and of whatever kind, tg
which cattle gain access, and under
which they become habituated to
stand, will very soon die. Iu tbe case
of a solitary shade tree iu a pasture
or by the roadside, tbis is of common
occurrence. The query may have been
suggested, to what is this owing f
In the first place, rubbing a tree by
the necks of cattle is highly pernici
ous, aud if persisted in, it will com
monly destroy them sooner or later;
bat if the body of tbe tree be covered
so that their necks cannot touch it,
will ( ensue as cer««*-*r **
they are allowed to tramp the earth
about it. But wby should tramping
earth destroy the tree t The reason
is one of the wide aud important ap
plications to the laws of vegetable
growth. The roots of plants need
air, if not as much, yet just as truly,
as the leaves and branches. Tbeir
case is analogous to that of fishes,
which, though they must have water,
must have air also,: viz : just about as
much as permeates tbe water. If it
be all shut off, so that none that is
fresh can get to them, they will ex*
haust the supply on hand, and then
die ior want of more. So the roots
of trees and vegetables want air.
When tbe earth is in a normal
ural condition it is full of-fctersiioes
and channels, by which' air gets to
them. But if th« Cattle are allowed
to tramp the earth, and the sun
aids their work by baking it at tbs
same time a crust like a brick is form
ed, wholly impervious to the atmos
phere, and tbe tree yields to its fate.
So a tree oanoot live if its roots art
covered with a close pavement. They
will struggle for life by creeping to
tbe surface, and hoisting out a brick
here and a stone there, or find a crack
where tbeir noses can snuff a little
breath; but if fought down aud cover*
ed, will finally give it up. So if a
tree bo tbrust into a close clay, or its
roots are kept under water, it refuses
either to be an aquatic, or to put up
with its aluminous prison. It will
grow as little as possible, and die the
first opportunity. — Prairie Farmer.
The Christian Pilgrimage.—ls
men have been termed pilgrims, and
life a journey, then we may add that
tbe Christian pilgrimage &r surpasses
all others in the following important
particulars; iu tbe goodness of the
road, in the beauty of the prospeots,
in the excellence of the company, and
iu the vast superiority of tbe acoom*
modatiou provided tor the Christian
traveler when he has finished his
course.
A man’s pride shall bring him low:
but honor shall uphold the humble in
spirit.
Lies have long lege bat weak backs.