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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1892)
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. A PRACTICAL PLAN FOR THE CURING OF PORK. Old and Klinplc, Hut ICilfct’tlve—To Get >i Good Itoari—Tunning Slippp Skin — Bulky llomei-Kunn Xotp* mid Home llliitn. ('tiring Pork. Tho following practical plan for curing pork is not n •■newfangled" method. It is old and siraplo. but none the loss effective. It was dis carded temporarily at ono timo for a trial of tho sugar-curing process, the result being a spooily return to "anciont simplicity." Our meat is invariably sweet and juicy, writes Cloorgo T. Pottit in the Country (lontlomnn. Those who cat of it frequently muko Inquiry os to the curing process. Throo hogs, each weighing about 'lb0 lb. gross weight, aro killed early in tho morning (all necessary preparation having been made tho day before) and drossed as soon as possiblo. As soon as hung up thoy nro well scrapod down with cold water, and aftor tho entrails aro re moved. cold water is dashod inside tho carcass. They aro loft suspended until aftor dinner, whon they aro t&ken down, laid on a meat bench and out up one at a timo, boginning with the smallest. ino pieces are carried to tho collar ahd spread on boards whero they will not freoze. Here thoy romain until the noxt day, when thoy aro thorough ly rubbed with dry barrel salt, great care being taken to got plenty of salt in all crevices and especially to work it down the bone, whero the log has been sawed otT. The pork-barrel Is an ordinary M-gallon oil-barrol. Af ter a thorough scalding, it is placed in a corner of the cellar, tho bottom covered with salt, and into this the pork Is closely packed, skin side down noxt the barrel always. Salt is al lowed to adliero to tho pieces all it will. After thoy aro laid in tho barrol a small handful of salt is sprinkled over each pioco. Tho side meat being cut in narrow strips pioocs of it can often be used to advantage in filling up vacant places botween the large pieces. When the hams and shoulders are all in. a handful or two of salt is sprinkled on top. and the head of an old salt barrel, hold together by strips nailed aoross. is laid on top of the meat and weighted with a cloan stone. The spare-ribs Ac., are salted lightly and put in a separate vossol, for more imraediuto use. Or thoy can some times be kept frozen. Inside of a wook, brine, made by stirring dry salt in puro cold water until it will bnroly carry an egg. is poured over the pork until the barrol is full. Hero it is allowed to romain for about six weeks, when it is trans ferred to the Rmoko house and hung On cross ties eight feet from tho floor. ' As tho smoke house is not batoned, tho crucks betwoon the weather boarding aro somewhat open, and we prefer to have it so, because it is im portant that pork should be dried as woll as bo well smoked. It hangs here a few days before smoke is put in. Then a slow lire is made in tho stone fireplace, directly under the meat, and fed from day to day with hickory or elm chunks (we use tho latter here) until tho pieces assume a light brown color, when a newspaper is wrapped about each piece and it is then slipped in a muslin sack about the size of an ordinary pillow slip. The saok is tightly tied and hung In the granary until wanted for use. The ‘ work is begun sufficiently early to have tho meat put away before fly time. How to «i«t (aOOtl Roa ld. From the complaints about the bad roods that have tilled the country pa. per#, and from the resolutions that : have been passed at several Grange meetings, it seems evident that our fanning communities have awakened • to the necessity of doing something, to render the roads passable in winter and relieve the blockade of travel that continues yearly through the winter season. Good roads cost money, but they do not cost nearly so much as bad ones. The paralysis of business that is the inevitable result of muddy roads at the very season of the year when the farmer would bo the best able to market his products, were it possible to reach market with a fully loaded wagon is a great bur den upon the prosperity of the state. The farmer, shut out from the market. . ;Or compelled to reach it at double the | , expense incurred at other seasons is % the prime loser; but the business men of the country towns, the merchants ; of the city, and the artisans and la borers everywhere also share in the loss. If tho rural communities have at last realised this fact, and that they lose moro by naving bad roads ' than it would cost to make good ones, then the first and most important step in tho way of remedying tho evil has been taken. if they want good roads they can have them, and unless they do want them badly (juough to pay for them they will never materialize. Tho rural districts dominate the legisla ture. and it is for their representatives to pass the laws necessary to the se curing of public highways that will bo such tho cut re year round. Tho dd pick-atid-shovel system must bo abolished, and tho making of perman ent roads in a systematic manner, with fou dations of lock and lop dressing of gravel and sand, well drained and solidiy rolled, must lake, its pluco. The money spent upon tho roads under tho prcscut sysiem is practically wasted, and no permanent, result is achieved. A collection of road tax in money, with no personal service whatever, to he spent iiv u county superin’endont who knows his business and is held responsible for tho results would keep all roads in good ■ repair after they had once been prop erly constructed. — Portland Ore gonian. Tunning Sli««*p Skin*. The following directions for tanning shoop skins will answer a correspond ent: For mats take two long-wool skins and make a strong suds, using hot wator; when It is cold wash the skins in it, carefully squeezing them botween the hands to get the dirt out of tho wool then wash the soap out with cold, clear water. Then dissolve alum and suit, each a half pound, with a little hot water sufficient to cover tho skins and lot them soak in It over night for twolvo hours, then hang ovor a pail to drain. When thoy are woll drained spread or strotch carefully ovor a board to dry. When a little damp have an ounce of saltpolro and alum pulverized and spriuklo on tho llesh side of each skin, rubbing in woll; then lay tho flesh sides together and hang in tho shade for two or three days, lurniug the under skin uppermost every day, then scrape tho flesh side with a blunt knife to removo any remaining scraps of llesh. Trim off projecting points; rub tho flesh side With tho hands, and they will bo very white and handsome, suitable for a door or carriage mat. 1 hoy also make good mittens. Lamb skins or oven sheep skins, if tho wool bo trimmed off evenly to a half or three-fourths of an inch long, make beautiful and warm mittons for ladies nr gentlemen, and the girls with a little practice can make them. — Farmor’s Veiee. Tho bast thing to do with a balky horse is to soil it to somebody who lias plenty of patience and time to spare. There are various recipos given to sta t a balky horse, but they all fail sometimes. It may bo statod. however, that tho horse can contem plate but one thing at a time. If. Iheroforo, its thought can be drawn from tho balking it will likely start. Tho best way to do this is to do some thing to tho animal deliberately, but suddenly when it is done. We have soon horsos started by patting thoir heads as if nothing was the trouble that tho driver carod for, and then quickly seizing tho noso and giving it iv sharp twist. Tho pain occupies the Animal's attention wholly, and the 3river gets into the wagon, picks up the lines, and the horse starts at the command—Farmer’s Voico. Farm Notes. To make tho farm most profitable, avorything must bo turned to account. In economizing manuro it is quite in item to udapt the feed supplied to the crop. G enerally when everybody wants to sell is a good time to buy. whether of stock or products. Generally the more valuable the prdduot the greater the drain upon tho fertility of the soil. With all classes of stock it takes more time to mature a scrub than one of tho improved breods. Commercial fertilizers will give quicker results than manure, but the affects are not so lasting. Clover is a most valuable plant for green manuring and is also a valuable fertilizer if used for pasture. A patch of sowed corn, sorghum or millet will often help out the hay crop materially, as well as the pastures. In many ways both in feeding and selling tho stock on the farm a good pair of scales can bo used with protit. So far ns is possible, it will bn best to sell the matured Btock and keep that which is young, thrifty and grow ing. Homo Hint,. Half a teaspoonful of sugar gives a fine flavor to brown gravy. A little borax or soda in the dish water makes brighter tinware and is better thun soap. Jelly will not mold if a thin layei of paper dippod in the white of an egg is laid upon the top. Silk handkerchiefs and ribbons should bo witsho l in salt and water and ironed- wet to obtain the bost re sults. To give a good oak color to a pine floor wash in a solution of one po. nd of copperas dissolved in one gallon oi strong lye. You can clean your brass kettle w tli a solution of oxalic acid in water. Apply with flannel, wash o f and p if ish with a chamois skin. A teaspoonful of kerosene does as well as a hit of. white wax in boiled starch, and mutton suet is as g od as either to make a plain gloss. Unique dishes for serving terrapin are In the shape of sea shells with all the exquisite pink and given s ad ing.. They are in Coni port china. It is the fashion to have lire .1; ast. lunch and dinner sets of tin- nine kind of china. W'lito and gold English china, with a gold monogram or crest in the centor. is used." The annoying black load dust that arises when polishing a stovu with or dinary stove blacking may he pre vented by adding a pinch of pow ’.erod gum tragacanth to the black i g Awater bottle, the interior of which has become coated with carb mu r of lime from hard water, may he cleaned by washing in water in which a tea spoonful of spirits of salts has : con dissolved. Rinse woll before using. The white of eggs may be given different colors and flavors. . sc rasp berry syrup for pink eggs sp n.-u-h for green, and the grab d yei.ow r.aJ of the lemons with two or :hree <! op. of saffron for yellow, and vanili i and chocolate for brown. If after ad.l ng the flavoring the i ream is not u te firm, stir in a little powdered sugar. These eggs should be wrnpprd in par affin and then In fringed tissue papers. They are pretty laid in little hadeets lined with white paper. Under the paper there should be a layer of white cotton. * HORRIBLE MURDER IN FRANCE v [^culviil Wire IC'iviiiigeti Herself on !l«-r * u |i|il miter. I’aiiih, May 'M.—The Figaro to-day relates a story of u horrible murder which Ik excitinggreat public interest’ The names m e not given, but if the de tails printed in tin- Figaro are true 'hey cannot long be concealed. The t ry is i lint l lie wife of a government 'j.11 holding HD important position rid nog suspected her husband of i ilium y *^dlh the wife of a i' • miilinnt deputy, whose name I in been frequently mentioned in i.iimvfion with measures of 11;i Lloiitil importance. The wife is ■ -i.owii to be a woman of high temper, .ml ilie tragedy that resulted is not a - i i-prise to those who have met her. In- got an intimation in some way that her husband and the woman who had 'captivated his affections might be found at :i:j Hue Durecher. The wife ‘went there ulone last night, armed with a revolver. She succeeded in pass ing the portor of the building without aroilsing suspicion, and proceeded at once lo the room which, as proved, was occupied by the guilty couple. i lie misuanu was taaen utterly by surprise anil neither he nor the woman hiul an opportunity to escape. The wife poured out a llood of abuse on the ffuiltyi- woman, charging her botli with betraying her own husband and robbing her of the man she loved. The wretched woman cowered in a cerner and was too stricken with shame to utter a word of reply. Tlte fury of the deceiven wife increased and drawing a revolver she fired shot after shot direct into the woman's body. The husband, when his wife drew the revolver, thought it was intended for him and dashed out of the room, leaving his companion at the mercy of the infuriated wife. The latter did not cease firing until five bullets were lodged in the victim's body, when, see ing that her prey was not yet dead, she drew a dagger and stabbed her repeatedly. The blood from the wounds spurted over the murderess until she presented as gory nn appear ance as the expiring victim. When people who heard the struggle came into the room the dying woman could not speak, but expired in a few min utes. The police were called and the murderess taken to prison. It is said that she had reserved one bullet in the revolver for herself. The husband will undoubtedly be dismissed from the government service and the trial of the murderess prom ises to disclose a great deal about the rottenness of French society. IOWA CROP REPORT. farm Work Almost Entirely Stopped by - tlie Had Weather. Drs Moines, Iowa, Slay 33. —This week’s Iowa weather crop bulletin says: Another cold and wet week with heavy rains and destructive floods deepens the gloom of the crop situa tion. The daily average tem perature was five degrees below normal, and on Friday snow flurries occurred in all parts of the State. The heaviest rainfall measure ments reported are as follows: Chero kee, 4.80 inches; Monona, 4.10; Buena vesta, 3.96; Palo Alfo, 3.95; Lyons, 3.93; Wright, 3.25; Adams, 3.18. There was less than two full days of sun shine. Little planting or plowing was possible. Wheat and oats on uplands look fairly well; on all low land grain crops are drowned out oi turning yellow. ■_ Robbed of Money end Two Diamonds. St. Louis, May 24.—Harry A. John son of Toledo, Ohio., was picked up by the police here last night in a semi unconscious condition. On being re vived he said he had been robbed by traveling companions from Indianap olis of 81,235 in money and two dia monds valued at 8700. The police are investigating. More Than II« Asked. Wilkesrarre. Pa., May 24.—A ver dict for 815,500 was given the Rev. Hol den of Long Island in his suit against tlie Pennsylvania railroad. The Rev. Mr. Holden lost a leg in an accident at Hazleton in 18SS, a passenger train running into a carriage which he was driving. Ho sued for 810,000. Weekly Hank Statement. New York, May 24—The weekly bank statement shows the following changes: Reserve, increase, 83,783,850; loans, decrease, 81,107,001; specie, in crease, 82,000,000; legal tenders, in crease, 82,057,000; deposits, increase, 83,7511,000; circulation, increase, 840,100. The banks now hold 810,553,075 In ex cess of the 25 per cent rule. Died from Drluklug Pol» <ied Liquor. Ci-ifi-fox, 111., May 24.—David C. Spainhour died last evening from poison maliciously put in a jug of alco hol from which he and four or five other young men had for some time been drinking. Several of the other men are seriously ill from the effects of the poisoned liquor. The affair caused a great sensation. The Judge Must Pay the Bill. Alma, Neb., May 25.—The famous breach of promise suit for 850,000 against Judge (Justin, a prominent pol itician of Nebraska, by Miss Lucinda Searls, resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff. A Veteran Playwright Dying. New York, May 24.—Charles Gay ler, the veteran American playwright, is dying in St. John’s hospital, lirook lyn. Mr. Uajfler is 73 years old. H; has had more than two hundred plays produced and often said that he wrote more thun four hundred. No Riot* In the-City of Mexico. City of Mexico, May 24.—Notwith standing threats and rumors of riots there was no disturbance here to-day. The street patiols have been with drawn. Tiie opposition press is still bitter against the government. YOUNG & CO. I Have removed their music store to | Douglas St., two doors east of Hotel | Kvans undone door westof Mrs itolxrts' mminary store. We handle Pianos, I Organs, Hewing Machines, small Musical Instruments, Sheet Music und Muslo Hooks 2S per cent, discount on Sheet Mnuin. Tlinlnw nnrl Wonolslno .. Un„n| Muslo. Tuning and Kepalrlng a Sped, alty. We handle the celebrated Domes « iHiuuitj iuu uuiuuruiuu uomes* tic Hewing Machine, acknowleged to bo tlie best mac nine made. Also the New American No. 7. Call ou us when in need of any thing In our line. We handle the Jlest Goods at VERY LOW PRICES. Oil, Needles and repairs for all ma chines. Respectfully, 1 YOUNG & CO. (3 N. HOPKINS, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office over Blglin's furniture store. Calls promptly attended day or night. LADY’S HOSIERY AT COMMISSION PRICE. Ladles, do you realize that when you buy or the retailer you are paying three unnec essary profits? The manufacturer sells to the commission house, the latter to the Job ber. and the jobber to the retail merchant. You must pay the manufacturer a profit first and then pay each of the subsequent hand lers, a profit, not Infrequently paying two profits to the retailer. _ Manufacturers’ Commission Company is a responsible syndicate which sells direct to the consumer. By Investing In manufac turers’ samples, odds and ends, job-lots and the stocks of insolvent manufacturers, in connection with our regular commission holdings, wo arc able to sell to the consumer direct at the COMMISSION price, which is but one remove from the manufacturers. While this company handles all kinds of ladles furnishings, we are making a special drive on our HOSIERY, merely to introduce our name In your territory and establish a reputation for giving values never before of fered, so that you will be fully prepared for our later announcement of our entire Hues. Bead the following offers: Ladles’full length, fashioned, fast black hoso, superfine guage, (retailing everywhere at 2» to 33 cents per pair.) we will sell at 10 cents, or one-lialf dozen at DO cents. Ladles' extra length, full regular made, fast black and seamless hose, very finest guage, (retailing everywhere at 60 cents up,) we wUl sell ut tiil cents, or one-half dozen for Wo pay express charges, and agree uncon ditionally to refund mosrey If hosiery Is not the values and qualities described. Be sure and send the size wanted and remember that ns we pay express we cannot afford to send less than one-half dozen. Orders must be accompanied by cash In cither money order, postal note, stamps or registered letter, addressed to the Manufacturers’ Commission Co., 231 Fifth Avenue, -38- Chicago, IU. O’CONNOR & GALLAGHER DEALERS IN Of all kinds. A specialty made of FINE CIGARS. If you want a drink of good liquor do uot fail to call on us. Martin's Old Stand, O'Neill, Neb. s\! BSOLUTELY FREE I The publishers, of the Family Journal are determined to largely increase the circula tion of their paper. To do this we make the following unparalleled offer. 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