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.
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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.