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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1899)
THE CONSEHVA- DEAD. TIVE learns just as it goes to print that Vice-President Hobart died at eiglit o'clock on Tuesday morning , November 21st , 1809. Money is worth , MOVK HANKS. just at this time , much more as an income producer on Wall Street than it is on any street in any city west of the Missouri river. In view of the coming populist pre ponderance in the supreme court , a pre ponderance which has been secured by promising antagonism , active and un ceasing against 'all incorporated capital , it is a possibility that some of the heavier and wealthiest banks of Nebras ka may move East to loan money to the money power disciples at bigger rates. When will the TRUSTS. pugnacious Smyth from Blarney Castle , acting as attorney- general for Nebraska , assault anew with victorious wrath The Standard Oil Com pany which stands admittedly guilty of having reduced illuminating oils in Nebraska from one dollar and a half to ten cents per gallon ? When will the same officer petition for a bounty to be awarded the silver smelter syndicate for having virtuously put up the price of the white metal ? Has Smyth forgotten the indescribable "crime of 1878 ? " Plutocrats in USUltY. New York City , cuddled up in the wigwams of "the money power , " on Wall Street , have recently been paying twenty-five per cent interest on currency which they have borrowed. But the placid popu lists and other fervid friends of cheaper currency and the free coinage of silver at 1C to 1 , away out on the farms of Nebraska , get all the money they wish for at six per cent per annum. The plutocrats seem to bo self-crushers rather than pulverizers of plain people when it comes to usurious extortion. BUTCHER.There is a "lady" A IAI > Y BUTCHER. butcher in Roches ter , N. Y. , Miss Daisy Stevenson , the solo proprietor of a well-stocked meat market on Plymouth avenue in that city. She is a fluent and pleasant con versationalist and a popular young lady. She has boon cutting meat for two years. She took up the knife and the cleaver of her then sick father and has made a success of market surgery. With the "lady" butcher of Syracuse , N. Y. , and the pioneer one in Iowa , she completes a dainty trio to which their pluck may induce others to form the army of "female" markotmou. As to her work Miss Stevenson says : "It is not through choice that I do the work , but because it is a means of sup port for the family. It was difficult at first , but now it does not seem harder than homo work. I am my own boss , which means a great deal. I open the market at C :30 : in winter and 0 in sum mer. I find it difficult to get good help ; anyone can sell good cuts , but it is the odds and ends which go to make up the profit , and which must be disposed of as well. I very seldom lose anything from bad accounts , as my customers are prompt. If I send a statement and re ceive no returns I immediately drop those people from niy roll , and refuse to trust them again. " She acts promptly with the "dead- beat" and gives a pound weight for the price of a pound. She pleases her custo mers , and her surroundings are not blue with coarse oaths and obscene vulgarity. She has a very neat , clean , up-to-date meat market. National Provisioner. EXTORTIONS. tTh ° who sing of "the good old times , " before the globe and all the plain people dwelling thereon had been disfigured and mauled into subjugation by the plutocratic pirates who committed the unspeakable crime of 1873 , are requested to read the his torical articles on transportation which appear from time to time in THE CON SERVATIVE. "Roll on , silver moon" is not nearly so melodious a refrain as was "roll out" in the primitive days of the wagon boss and the ox and mule trains of the plains between the years of 1854 and 186G. Before the demonetization of silver how simple and cheap was trans portation and how free from high pas senger and freight rates 1 Those were delicious days for commerce , when these Nebraska plains had never been invaded by voracious corporations and only wolves , instead of populist orators , howled and yelled on hillside and valley. Down with capital I Up with talk 1 CONSOLATION a M a rk Tapleyism that never has been equaled finds much cause for consolation and even jollity in the election returns from Ohio , Pennsyl vania , Kentucky and other insignificant members of the United States. Shaking its sides with suppressed merriment Bryanarchy bubbles over with satis faction and predicts the certain election of its inventor and patentee to the presi dency in 1900. It is evident that this syndicated prophet believes that Nebras ka will select and elect the president without troubling the other states about the matter in 1900. Either that or if Ohio , Pennsylvania , Now York and Kentucky had all endorsed the Chicago platform and 10 to 1 by a very largo majority , Bryanarchy would have been rolled up in sackcloth and wallowing in ashes 1 If they must laugh now because of the hope which general defeat gives them they certainly would have been compelled to weep had they experienced general victory. They rejoice because the elections of 1899 demonstrate the fact that no 1G to 1 economist can ever be president and we join them with a serene smile. , . , . , . Tne railroads of RAILROADS. , . TT . , , . , the United States are the best railroads in the world. They operate the best rolling stock on the globe. They give Americans the cheapest transportation on earth. They are assaulted by more demagogues , maligned by more politicians , persecuted ' by more petty courts and slandered by * more fool editors than any other incor poration beneath the sun. How to beat I and cheat a railroad is taught as a fine art in all the kindergartens of populism. T ° tll ° CHEAPLY CURING S61 hnVO Of HOG PRODUCTS.hnVO a Surplus pork which they must cure or let spoil , and to those who have not market facilities for disposing of ther surplus hogs the following ex perience of Mr. Frank Dearduff may prove valuable : In each killing the hogs were shot , stuck , scalded , scraped , hung up and opened before dinner. After dinner they were roughly cut up , lard cut out and cooked out of doors in an iron kettle. Heads and legs were nicely cleaned and placed in a vessel of water over night. The meat was placed on table in moat-house to cool out. Next morning the meat was trimmed nicely , which made more lard and sausage meat. All the fat was cut from the lower side of heads and cooked out with the rest of the lard , and then the legs and heads were cooked , until tender , in another big kettle out of doors. Heads were used for mince meat or head cheese , as preferred ; legs were eaten at dinner , after dinner meat was salted and placed on tables. We use the following in curing : To 100 pounds of pork , 2 quarts of coarse salt , 2 ounces of black pepper , 6 ounces of sugar and % ounce of saltpeter ; dis solved saltpeter in one pint of hot water ; mixed all in a vessel large enough to lay a ham in , and rubbed each piece thoroughly , particularly where the leg was cut off. Let lay on table three days , then rubbed again with the mixture ; packed in box ; let lay from 12 to 14 days ; then smoked with hickory chips. In December we put our meat away for the next summer. We first wrapped it in paper , then placed it in coarse muslin bags and hung it in a dark closet upstairs that was kept for that purpose. Our sausage meat was ground and mixed as follows : To 9 pounds of meat , three tablespoonfuls each of black pepper and salt ; sago the same , if desired ; then the meat was sacked or stuffed and hung up in meathouso and used while fresh and good. National Provisiouer.
