with difficulty digested, and d/mys tend to de¬ 
range the functions of the stomach, BUe La not 
essential to chymiflcation, (digestion,)—that is, 
it does not naturally pass into the stomach, and 
is seldom found In that organ, except under 
peculiar circumstances. When fat and Oily food 
has been persevered in for some time, there is 
generally bile present in the gastric fluids of the 
stomach. With this and similar exceptions bile 
is never found in the stomach. It is only in 
morbid conditions that it Is found there, and is 
only called into the stomach for the purpose of 
chymiflcation of all fatty and oily aliments.” 
We need not wonder that in the Jewish economy 
it was commanded, “ ye shall eat no manner of 
fat, of ox, of sheep, or of goat.” Swine’s flesh 
and other fat was strictly prohibited, and of 
conrse was out of the question. 
The idea that pork is “unclean,” &e., your 
correspondent says originated “ in the brain of 
some dyspeptic.” Very well. It originated 
with the God of Moses, and Mr. Cone shall 
have the fall meed of credit for his belief. His 
pious exhortation to live “ in love and charity 
with our neighbor, keeping a dear conscience, 
and exercising gratitude to a kind Providence 
for the good things he has provided, good pork¬ 
ers included,” will most likely have great weight 
in this connection. 
Those who think fit to eschew pork, he de¬ 
nominates “ poor weak souls, who can put out 
of sight a pint of cream at a time.” Does he 
think a pint of lard would be more palatable, or 
render his soul less weak ? That it would be 
more greasy is very readily perceived. Cream is 
soluble in water, while lard is not,—hence 
wonld be lees injurious, for reasons already 
given. He thinks I made an “ unlucky state¬ 
ment ” in saying that our fathers, grand fathers, 
&c., ate pork. I made the statement to show 
that we are following in the beaten path in that 
respect, while we diverge from it in enlightened 
views and Improvements in others. That our 
progenitors possessed “great strength and 
physical development,” is true, and my state¬ 
ment was based on that proposition, and I sub¬ 
mit to the good judgment of the readers whether 
it was most “ unlucky” to my side of the ques¬ 
tion or to his. If our forefathers were not 
healthier and stronger, how does it happen that 
we, their descendants, have deteriorated ? He 
attributes their hardiness and better health to 
a more exclusive pork diet. I dissent, for the 
reason that I believe there was never a time 
when pork was so extensively and exclusively 
used as an article of diet, and in so many ways, 
as at present. The whole country is alive with 
pigs; and the Great West especially is fairly 
reeking with the perfumes of pork and pigge¬ 
ries. There is a greater demand for it than ever 
before, and consequently more of It raised. So 
extensive has the business become at the West, 
that the genius of the inventor has been into 
requisition to lessen the labor of butchering; 
and in Chicago there la now a machine for 
“killing pigs by steam.” “A great iron claw 
with five fingers” (the design was doubtless 
copied from nature by trying to imitate the 
hand) “ hooks out the pigs which are quarreling 
iu the pen below,” (a prominent characteristic,) 
“and lifts the porkers to u gibbet near by, and 
then plunges them into scalding water. By 
this machine fifty porcines are killed, scalded, 
cleaned, split and hung in rows ready for salting 
within an hour.” 
If pork were a wholesome form of diet, the 
enormous quantities of it consumed should 
serve to render us Sampsons in “strength and 
physical development,” instead of a great na¬ 
tion of of quivering dyspeptics. As for the story 
that it takes three G rabamites to make a shadow, 
I would inquire if it takes three of the kind Mr. 
C. describes, who are capacious enough to hold 
“nine good-sized biscuits” a piece?” 
Charlotte Centre, July, 1365. a. w. w. 
Written for Moore’3 Rural New-Tork«r. 
DIET-PORK. 
The following lines were written for Edward Ev¬ 
erett when a child, hy his friend and pastor, Rev. 
Thaddeus Mason Harris, D. D., of Dorchester: 
Prat how should I, a little lad, 
In speaking make a figure? 
You’re only jokiDg, I'm afraid 1 
Do wait until I'm bigger. 
But, since you wish to hear my part, 
And urge me to begin it. 
I’ll strive for praise with all my heart. 
Though small the hope to win it. 
I’ll tdll a tale how farmer -John 
A little roan colt* bred, air l 
And every night and every mom 
He watered and he fed, sir. 
Said neighbor Joe to farmer John, 
“ Are n’t you a silly dolt, sir, 
To spend such time and care upon 
A little useless colt, sir?" 
Said farmer John to neighbor Joe, 
u I bring my little roan up. 
Not for the good he now can do. 
But will do when he's grown up!’’ 
The moral you can well espy, 
To keep the tale from spoiling; 
The little colt you think Is I, 
I know it by your smiling. 
And now, kind friends, please to excuse 
My lisping and my stammers; 
I for once have done my best, 
And so I’ll make my manners. 
* The expression “ little roan," applies to the color of 
little Edward Everett's Hair. 
Many people think it makes no 6ort of differ¬ 
ence what they eat or drink, if they only make 
money, get rich and able to make a thow in 
the world. But why not give the subject a little 
attention, if but a moiety of what Its importance 
demands ? Can it be less Important, or produc¬ 
tive of more harm than the feeding of farm crops 
or domestic, animals ? If so, wherein ? If not, 
what good reason for being sensitive on that 
more than on any other subject ? Farmers, 
fruit growers, and fiortieultnrlsts bold discus¬ 
sions on every topic connected with their re¬ 
spective vocations, and institute a great variety 
of experiments, which all result in bringing to 
light a great amount of useful information. 
What individual and associate efforts fail to 
accomplish by such means, the munificence of 
State and National Governments supplies, or 
materially aids, by liberal appropriations, Agri¬ 
cultural schools and Colleges are springing up 
as if by magic throughout the country, liberally 
endowed both by Legislatures and the General 
Government. As a consequence we see a more 
general and rapid improvement in farming in 
its various branches, and in the construction of 
all kinds of farm implements and machinery, 
and a more general diffusion of intelligence 
among the people. The tendency is to reduce 
and economize labor, and increase the produc¬ 
tiveness of the soil. While enjoying so great a 
degree of prosperity we should not overlook 
what may be of equal importance to mankind— 
the laws of oar own being. If they do not share 
equally In the fostering care of our rulers, they 
should not be regarded as being of less moment, 
or less entitled to public consideration on that 
account, than industrial pursuits. 
It is no matter of surprise that we do not 
agree on every topic, nor yet very 6trange that 
we do not look alike; but we should be equally 
as unreasonable to rail at each other for our 
differences in opinion, as for our difference in 
looks. But everyone to his “taste.” I have 
not courted discussion, still I believe in letting 
all sides be heard. Wa. Cone deprecates con¬ 
troversy on the subject of diet, yet wades thro’ 
a column in the Rurax of June 17tb, in contro¬ 
verting what he deems as “ unprofltable as a 
dispute on the chess or moon question.” I will 
not complain of that kind of consistency if he 
“there is no ac- 
Wb present our readers this week with two 
very accurate views of the Owasco Lake. This 
is the central one of the three lakes for which 
Cayuga county is celebrated. Like its sister 
lakes, Skaneateles and Cayuga, Ow&sco is a long, 
narrow body of pure, bright water, Ijiog be¬ 
tween low, rolling hills, in one of the finest 
developed agricultural sections of on r State. It 
is nearly twelve miles in length, and varies in 
width from one mile to one-fourth of a mile. 
The great trail of the Iroquois crossed the 
Owaseo River, the outlet of this lake, a little 
south of the present city of Auburn, (hen, the 
Indiau name of the lake, means a crossing by 
means of stepping stones. 
Upon the sight of Auburn formerly stood the 
Indian village Waskough, where, according to 
tradition the celebrated Indian chieftain Tah- 
gah-jute was born. The English name of this 
character, and the one by which hfi is generally 
known was Looan. On account of his early 
friendship for the whites, he was given this 
name, after Jambs Logan, the Secretary of Penn¬ 
sylvania, and a noted friend of the Indian. The 
sad fate of the distinguished brave is well known. 
Driven to madness by the unprovoked murder 
of his family, relatives and friends, ne took up 
the tomahawk against the “pale-faces,” and 
became a leader in the Indian wars which fol¬ 
lowed. Bitterly did he revenge his wrongs. 
Thirty white men fell by his own hand. Finally 
in 1780, owing to a strange mistake he was slain 
by tils own people In self-defence. Every school¬ 
boy is familiar with the indignant remonstrance 
which Logan sent to Lord Dunmore, when his 
fellow-chiefs laid down their arms and sued for 
peace. Looan would not Join them, but sent to 
the Governor of Virginia a speech beginning 
thus“ I appeal to any while man to say, if he 
ever entered Logan'3 cabin hungry and he gave 
him no meat.” The speech in Its present shape 
was first given to the public by Jefferson, in 
his “Notes on Virginia.” The people of Au¬ 
burn have erected a suitable monument to the 
memory of this brave and much injured red- 
man, at Fort Allegan, an ancient Indian mound. 
It is built of llmestose and bears a marble tab¬ 
let, inscribed with the following pathetic sen¬ 
tence, taken from the “ remonstrance” to which 
allusion has been made: 
•• Who 1* there to mourn for totnn." 
There are many other spots of historic interest 
about this lake which are well worth a visit, hut 
tbs prevailing charms of the locality consist in 
the wild and romantic scenery of “lake, and 
shore, and stream.” 
COUNSELS FOB THE YOUNG. 
Never be worried by trifles. If a spider 
breaks his thread twenty times, twenty times 
will he mend it again. Make up your mind to 
do a thing, and you will do it. Fear not if troub¬ 
les come upon yon; keep up your spirits, 
though the day he a dark one. 
“ Troubles never a:»p forever— 
The darkest day will pass away.’’ 
If the sun Is going down, look up at the stars; 
if the earth is dark, keep your eyes on Heaven 
With God’s promise, a man or a child may be 
cheerful. 
•‘Never despair when fogs in the air! 
A sunshiny morning will como without warning.” 
Mind what yon run after.. Never be content 
with a babble that will burst, or a firework that 
will end in smoke and darkness.' .Get that 
which yon can keep, and which is worth'keep- 
ing. 
“ Something sterling that will stay 
When gold and silver fly away.' - 
Fight hard against a hasty temper. Anger 
will come, bat resist it stoutly. A spark may 
set a house on fire. A fit of passion may give 
you cause to mourn all the days of your life. 
Never revenge an injury. 
‘•He that revengeth knows no rest. 
The meek possess a peaceful breast.” 
If you have an enemy, act kindly to him and 
make him your friend. You may not win him 
over at once, but try again. Let one kindness 
be followed by another till you have com¬ 
passed your end. By little, great things are com¬ 
pleted. 
“ Water falling day by day. 
Wears the hardest rock’away.” 
And so repeated kindness will soften a heart 
of stone. 
Whatever you do, do it willingly. A boy that 
is whipped to school never learns his lessons 
well. A man that is compelled to work care6 
not how badly it is performed. He that pulls 
off his coat cheerfully, strips up his sleeves in 
earnest, and sings while he works, is the man 
for me. 
“ A cheerfal spirit gets on quick; 
A grumbler in the mud will stick.” 
Evil thoughts are worse enemies than lions 
and tigers, for we can keep out of the way of 
wiid beasts, but bad thoughts win their way 
everywhere. The cup that is full of good 
thoughts, bad thoughts find no room to enter. 
“ Be on your guard, and strive and prav 
To drive all evil thoughts away.” 
can afford it, since he thinks 
oountingfor tastes.” 
In the same number of the Rural, same page 
with his, is an article on the subject of “Swine 
and Cattle Raising," which I would commend 
to hi6 special attention. The relative effects of 
the two kinds of business and their comparative 
profits on adjacent farms, is therein set forth in 
a very convincing way. To say nothing of the 
deleterious effects of pork on the human system, 
the superiority of sheep and cattle husbandry 
as a source of profit, over that of “ hog-raising,” 
commends itself to the favorable consideration 
of every farmer. It has been said, and I doubt 
not with much truth, that the grain fed to a hog 
during its growth and to complete the process 
of fattening, would keep a family longer aud in 
better health than the pork after it is butchered. 
Allowing this to he an approximation to truth, 
it will be seefi that pork, to say the least, is a 
very expensive luxury. 
Your correspondent don’t believe “civilized 
pigs will eat snakes.” If snake eating be his 
test of “civilization,” let it be decided by ex¬ 
periment. 1 never yet saw a pig refuse to eat 
snakes when he had a chance. His unbelief in 
the matter, I suppose, muy have arisen from the 
fact that his pigs have “ pat oat of sight ” all 
the snakes In his neighborhood, and are in the 
same predicament us to a supply os the clergy¬ 
man’s parishioner he tells ns about, who dis¬ 
turbed his slumbers in the night time in survey¬ 
ing the wondrous emptiness of his pork barrel, 
and “couldn’t find any pork to steal.” In the 
absence of snakes, let him try them with offal 
from the butcher’s yard, or a dead carcass of 
any kind, even in the last stages of putrefaction. 
If they refuse these delicious viands, we may 
reasonably conclude that they are further ad¬ 
vanced iu “civilization” and refinement, aud 
have enjoyed better moral and religious privi- 
lieges than pigs In general. Nay, the “ early 
piety" of his pigs would he undeniuble; aud 
we might Justly Infer that they are members 
of the church in “good and regular standing." 
So, I will handle them tenderly, lest I become 
obnoxious to the charge of “ offending one of 
these little" piggies. Just here, I am reminded 
of the old admonitory couplet which runs thus: 
“ Brother should not war with brother. 
Aud worry aud devour each oilier.” 
I thought that his argument connected with 
the empty pork barrel would be more attractive, 
and appear to better advantage In the form of a 
syllogism, thus; “Pork Is indispensable.— 
Parishioner couldn’t find any pork to steal. 
Therefore pork diet Is healthy.'’ 
His next paragraph is somewhat like the 
above, only a little more so. “ It was a com¬ 
mon saylug thirty years ago in Michigan, that 
people wouldn’t have the ague unless they got 
out of pork;" and to prove the truth of the 
saying, he cites the case of a “ near neighbor ” 
who had it, and being just able to crawl to the 
log-house raising, was there told hy a friend that 
it must be he was out of pork, and when he got 
home he would send him apiece. “ You need- 
uot do that,” 6aid the sick man, “/or tee are not 
out.” “ Hear all ye hungry,” shivering “ souls." 
Is not pork the great panacea for preventing 
ague? Further “controversy” might seem 
“unprofitable,” nevertheless I would cite a little 
medical proof that pork Is au aggravatiou if 
not a prominent cause of febrile diseases. Dr. 
Beaumont, iu some experiments made by him, 
says:— “Fat meats aud oily substances, are 
VIEW' at the foot op owasco lake, 
incident which occurred a few months before, 
when the doctor was in Lis studio, and an English 
lady, or some one of secession proclivities, asked 
him if he had ever executed a bust of Jefferson 
Davis. “ No, madam,” said he, his bright eye 
flashing with fire, “I hope that before long, an 
artist of another profession than mine may havt? 
the pleasure of executing him.” We spoke of 
the readiness of the English to be on our 
side, now that success had crowned oar 
arms. “Ah," said he, “I know not which 
is the more annoying, when yon are trying to 
get a heavy load up hill to have some one hitch 
ou his horse behind and pull you back, or, when 
you are going down hill, to have him put on his 
horse before and dash away with ail fury, to the 
risk of upsetting your load Aud breaking your 
neck.’’ 
A BIDE ON AN ICE BILL, 
The ice hills erected in the Russian cities for 
the purpose of amusement have eften been de¬ 
scribed, but the sensations of au ice ride have 
seldom been more vividly narrated than in these 
words: 
I engaged one of the J I nks iu attendance to 
pilot me on my voyage. The mac having taken 
his position well forward on the little sled, I 
knelt, upon the rear end, where there was barely 
space enough for my knees, placed my bands 
upon his shoulders, and awaited flic result. He 
shoved the sled with his hands, very gently and 
carefully, to the brink of the i<y steep;" then 
there was a moment’s adjustment, then a poise, 
then sinkiog of the heart, cessation of breath, gid¬ 
dy roaring and whistling of the air, and I found 
myself sending along the level with the speed of 
an express train. 1 never happened to fall 
out of a fourth story window, but I immediately 
understood the sensations of tht unfortunate 
persons who do. It was so frighdiil that I shud¬ 
dered when we reached the end of the course aud 
the mau coolly began ascending llie steps of the 
opposite hill, with the sled under his arm. But 
my companions were waiting to lee mo return, 
so I mounted afyer him, knelt s|aiu, aud held 
my breath. Thi.-* time knowing that was com- 
A CHEMICAL FREAK 
A platina crucible is made and maintained 
red-hot over a large spirit lamp. Some sulphur¬ 
ous arid is poured into it. The arid, though at 
common temperature one ot the most volatile 
of known bodies, possess the singular property 
of remaining fixed in the red-hot crucible, and 
not a drop of it evaporates; in fact It is not in 
contact with the crucible, but has an atmos¬ 
phere of Its own interposed. A few drops of 
water are now added to the sulphurous arid in 
the red-ho.t crucible. The diluted arid gets Into 
immediate contact with the heated metal, in¬ 
stantly flashes off, and such is the rapidity and 
energy of the evaporation that the water remains 
behind and is frozen into a lump of Ice In a hot 
crucible from which, seizing the moment before 
it again melts, it may be thrown out before the 
eyes of the astonished observer. This is indeed 
“ a piece of natural magic ” and as much like a 
miracle as any operation of the forces of nature 
could produce. It is certainly one of the most 
singularly beautiful experiments imaginable. It 
was devised by a French savan, to Illustrate the 
repellant power of heat radiating from bodies at 
a high temprature, and of the rapid abstraction 
of heat produced by evaporation. 
THE UNTRAINED CBEEPEBS, 
Mother 
may I have a holiday 
to-day?" 
“ A holiday, my dear ! Why ? ” 
“ Why, I don’t see why I should be always at 
work and learning my lessons. I cannot see 
what good it does.” 
“ Suppose my dear child, I had’let that creeper 
outside the window grow for a month, without 
attempting to train it? ” 
“ Why, mother, I suppose it would have grown 
very long, and hung all about.” 
“And do you not think that then I should 
have found it almost impossible to train it 
through the trellls-work as I have done ? Yon 
saw me, as the young plant grew eacn day, and 
the stem was tender, train it through the trellis, 
and bend it whither I would; and nowit has 
grown up just where and what I wished it should 
be, looking very pretty, and shading us nicely 
as we sit at the open window, instead, of being 
in the way whenever we walk in the verandah, 
i And now I wish you to learn this lesson,' that if 
you do not gain bubits of application and per¬ 
severance when yon are young, by the time you 
are grown up you will find it difficult, nay, 
almost impossible, to obtain them.” 
Emily did not, as many girls would have done, 
persevere in saying, ** Well, I think it is very 
tiresome to do all these stupid things; ” hut she 
went quietly aud got her work, sitting down by 
her mother’s side. 
“When I have done my work then I will 
learn my lessons, and after that I shall be ready 
to play." 
Emily found her morning’s work fitted her 
better than anything else to enjoy her playtime. 
HOW THE RACK WAS ABOLISHED 
Torture, applied to extort confession, was 
discontinued, it is said, in the public courts of 
Portugal, in consequence of the following cir¬ 
cumstance : 
A conscientious judge having observed the 
effects of the rack upon supposed criminals, in 
maklug them confess anything, to the sacrifice 
of their lives, to get released from the torture, 
determined to try aa experiment. It is a capital 
crime. In that country, to kill a horse or mule, 
and he had one of the former which he much 
valued. He took care, one night, to have all Ills 
servants employed, so that no one but the groom 
could go into the stable. When all were fast 
asleep In their beds, he stole thither, himself, 
and cut the horse, so that he bled to death. 
The groom was apprehended and committed to 
prison. He pleaded not guilty; but the pro 
sumption being strong against him, he was 
ordered to the rack, where tne extremity of the 
torture soon wrung from him a confession of 
the crime. Upon this confession, he had sen¬ 
tence of hanging passed on him, when his master 
went to the tribunal and there exposed the falli¬ 
bility of confessions obtained by such means, by 
owning the fact himself, and disclosing the mo¬ 
tives which had influeneed^kim iu making the 
experiment. * 
Improved Propeller.— Mr. Russeils, an Au¬ 
strian, has secured a patent in this country for a 
contrivance by Nvhich vessels may be steered by 
means of the propeller or screw, which moves 
them ahead, aud without the help of a rudder. 
The propeller is fixed in a case, which supports 
it, and in which it is moveable by the turning of 
the steering wheel, either to starboard or to 
port, in either case forcing the stern of the 6kip 
around while her headway is not stopped, and 
Indeed scarcely lessened. By this method a ves¬ 
sel can be easily turned in her o-wn length. 
A PATRIOTIC ARTIST 
A correspondent of the Christian Watch¬ 
man who visited the studio of Powers at Flor¬ 
ence, says: 
Though courted aud petted by the English, 
who have been among his best patrons, Pow¬ 
ers has always been true to his country—loyal 
to the core. Dr. Weld reminded him of a little 
A Frenchman cannot pronounce ship. The 
word sounds “sheep ” in his mouth. Seeing an 
iron clad, he said to a boy, “Ish dish a war- 
sheep?” “No,” answered the boy, “It'saram.” 
Put no faith in*a new Itromise based on the 
breach of an old one. 
