AUG. 17 
526 
Domestic Economy. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE 
SUMMER SIFTINGS. 
ANNIE 1j. JACK. 
“ That in some season, yet to bo. 
Our cares will leave ua time for rest.” i 
So “we all think,” but to how many of us 
wiU our first rest be iu the grave! Each week 
we tbiuk we shall be able to enjoy more leisure , 
wben the next comes, and it, in turn, finds us i 
as busy with fruit or pickles to attend to, visit¬ 
ors to entertain, or the inevitable sewing, patch¬ 
ing, and darning. Time for rest! Not while , 
Jim and Joe can climb the tallest trees, and tear , 
their garments on the jagged trunks; or, as 
this year, when weeds grow apace, and must be 
hoed. But I have enjoyed a pleasant time lately 
in the society of congenial friends, who came to 
see me and not to criticise or enjoy my hospital¬ 
ity in any other way. So we talked and talked 
of books and flowers and days that are past, 
without feeling any of the restraint so often im¬ 
posed by the presence of visitors. For I hold 
that if hospitality becomes a burden, it should 
at once he dispensed with, and nothing is more 
trying to the feelings than to enter a house 
where a sudden flutter and lengthened prepara¬ 
tion tell the new-eomer of the changes that are 
occasioned in the domestic department by his or 
her arrival. “A dinner of herbs” quietly and 
without a “fuss,” is better than the “stalled 
ox 11 that is got up with great ostentation, or a 
table set with unusual splendor that finds the 
household uncomfortable and ill at ease. Bo 
we prefer the quiet, plain, method, and can now 
look back upon a few days of real enjoyment. 
What if we did simplify our meals, and make 
fruit take the place of pie ? It saved our strength 
and time, and was quite as palatable. Aud I 
wonder if the readers of the Bubal know- how 
pleasant is a little pic-nio, unpremeditated, in 
the woods or orchard. How Bweet the food 
how hungry the guests at such a time, and how 
happy and gay the freedom from restraint ren¬ 
ders one 1 The pleasing remembrance of such 
days remains long aud deep in the hearts of guest 
and hostess, and puts them both at ease aud ca¬ 
pable of enjoyment while under its influence. 
For life is made up of little things that fret and 
worry or please us and rest the heart. 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Yeast. . 
I have found the following to be an excellent 
yeast: Grate five raw potatoes and add one pint 
of boiling hop-water; let scald ten minutes, 
then when cool add a tablespoonful of brown 
sugar; one tablespoonfnl of vinegar; one table¬ 
spoonful of salt and a teacupful of yeast or one 
yeast-cake. Put into a stone jar and keep where 
it is oool, Mbs. D. Sneeekeb. 
Long Island. _ 
Snow-Cake. 
Whites of ten eggs beaten very light; one and 
one-half tumblerful of sugar; one tumblerful of 
flour; one small teaspoonful of cream-of-tartar; 
eift the flour, sugar and cream-of-tartar together 
and stir gradually to the beaten eggs. Bake in 
a round papered pan for twenty-five minutes in 
a slow oven. Ten minutes after baking, frost 
with the white of one egg, three spoonfuls of 
sugar and cover with grated cocoa-nut. 
Willow St., Brooklyn. Mbs, W. Spelman, 
Chow-Chow. 
One peck of green tomatoes chopped fine; sprin¬ 
kle one cup of salt over them and let Btand over 
night; in the morning drain in a colander, add 
eight green peppers chopped fine, one cup of 
white BUgar, cover with vinegar and boil twenty 
minutes. Chop fine six large onions; two 
bunches—the white part—of celery, with three 
or four red peppers. Add to the other in¬ 
gredients, when cool, with a cup of mixed mus¬ 
tard, whatever spice you like aud a pint of grated 
horBe-radish. Put into a Btone jar, cover with 
cold vinegar and tie down tightly. 
Woodsburg. Mbs. Beekman. 
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QUERIES ANSWERED. 
Parker-Honse Rolls. 
Will you kindly give me a recipe for the 
celebrated Parker-house rolls? e. l. 
Ans.—T o one pint of boiled milk, which has 
been allowed to get almost cold, add two teaspoon¬ 
fuls of white sugar, one-half cup of lively home¬ 
made yeast, or a quarter of a cake of compressed 
yeast dissolved in two teaspoonfuls of warm 
water. Stir in sifted flour to make a stiff batter; 
cover warmly aud let rise; tfien when light, mix 
in one beaten egg, a tablespoonful of sugar, one 
tablespoonful each of soft butter and lard, a 
little salt and flour to make a dough which will 
not stick to the hands; knead well for one-half 
hour, if you have the patience, return to the 
pan, cover tightly and let rise again ; flour the 
board and turn the dough outo it; roll out one 
inch thick, using as little flour as possible, aud 
out with a cake or biscuit cutter ; put a little 
melted butter on one-half and lap nearly over 
on the other half; place in order in the pan, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
about three-quarters of an inch apart; again let i 
rise until very light and bake in a quick oven. 1 
The rolls may be rubbed with a little beaten egg 
and milk just before baking if one so fancies, or 
a little powdered sugar and cinnamon may be 
dusted over as they are taken from the oven. 
Rubber Rings. 
Can rubber rings belonging to the self-sealiDg 
jars, which have become so hardened that they 
are useless, be replaced ? Domestic. 
Ans. —Yes. If the dealer who furnished you 
with the cans does not keep them, have him 
order them, or write for them yourself direct to 
the manufacturer’s. 
Lemons. 
Can lemons be kept fresh for any length of 
time so that they may be used for pies, lemon¬ 
ade, etc. ? Housewife. 
Ans.— They may be, by covering with cold 
water and changing the water every second day. 
Ourry Powder 
So many dishes now-a-days are seasoned with 
curry powder, a seasoning of which I know 
nothing, l should be pleased if you would fur¬ 
nish me with a recipe. Mas. H. C. 
Ans. —Two ounces of coriander seed; three- 
quarterB of au ounce of cardamon seed; two 
ounces of cumin seed; three-quarters of an 
ounce of caraway Beed; three-quarters of an 
ounce of Cayenne pepper ; half of an ounce of 
black pepper; half of au ounce of fenugreek 
seed; oue-fonrth ounoeof cinnamon; one-fourth 
ounce of mace; half of au ounce of cloves ; and 
ten ounces of turmeric. Each of the above 
should he powdered fine and set before the fire 
to dry, then sift, put in glass bottles and cork 
tightly. One small teaspoonful of the above is 
sufficient to season anything for most persons. 
It gives a very nice fiavor to boiled meats, 
gravies and stews. 
Infants’ Powder. 
Please give directions for a harmless powder ? 
Mother. 
Ans. —Perfumed oorn-starch we have found 
to make a most excellent powder. It is as little 
injurious as any cosmetic can be, is inexpensive 
and answers every purpose for which it is in¬ 
tended. To prepare : Take any suitable paper 
box and cover the bottom to the depth of one- 
half inch with oorn-starch ; over this place a 
piece of writing paper saturated with any ex¬ 
tract—we use patchouly—and cover with starch 
to the depth of an inch. Repeat until you have 
in a sufficient quantity of the corn-starch ; cover 
tightly and tie up iu paper for a few days. 
Tablecloths and Napkins. 
Should tablecloths and napkiub be starched ? 
m. s. 
Ans. —There is a softness and elegance afoul 
the unstarched cloth while the starched one is 
stiff and unyielding. As for napkins, the pur¬ 
pose for which they are to be used ought to de¬ 
termine whether they should be soft and pliable 
or stiff as a shingle. 
flttos of i&tch, 
POLITICAL. 
Monday, Aug. 12,1878. 
A congressional committee of three, with Mr. 
Hewitt at Its heud, has been In session during 
the week in this city to obtain from representa¬ 
tive working men a statement of their views as 
to the cause of the present lack of employment 
through the country and also as to the best reme¬ 
dies therclor. Before them have appeared a 
large number of men belonging to various avo¬ 
cations and to different labor, socialistic, com¬ 
munistic aud other associations the names even 
of which have been tor the most part unknown to 
the general public. The opinions delivered were 
generally crude and often so extreme that to 
carry them out would completely revolutionize 
society. The general drift of them was that the 
depression is mainly due to the accumulation 
of capital In the hands of the wealthy, to the 
grasping greed of these, and the high rate of In¬ 
terest they charge as well as to the unfair ad¬ 
vantage given them by the Invention of labor- 
saving machinery, and perhaps more than all, to 
the scarcity of currency caused by contraction 
and the “ Insane” attempt at resumption. 
Among the various remedies suggested or in¬ 
sisted upon were: that government should be¬ 
come the employer of all labor, pooling the pro¬ 
fits and meting these out according to the wants 
of cacU family; that government should give a 
free homestead to each Idle man and loan, him 
say |5000 to work the farm, the same to be 
secured by mortgage and payable In a stipulated 
tune; that government should Issue all the way 
from ten to forty thousand millions in greenbacks, 
so that every one might have a pocketful and 
that these should be legal tender for all debts; 
that the government, should at once do some¬ 
thing ; that it should start, a vast series of works 
of Internal improvement to cost at least $ 10 , 000 ,- 
> 000 , 000 ; that the circulation Bhouldbe Increased 
k to $58 per head; that all labor should be co-op- 
1 eratlve; that all employed In all offices under 
’ government or elsewhere, from the president to 
the street-sweeper, should receive the same pay; 
that taxation should be graduated, so that the 
5 accumulation of capital would be impossible; 
3 that more than six per cent Interest should 
1 never be allowed; that all Interest whatever 
3 should be absolutely prohibited; that eight 
r hours should be a day’s work; that six hours 
should be a day’s work; that Inventors of patents 
should be rewarded by the government and their 
devices declared public property; that church 
property should, be taxed; that the religion of 
humanity should be made to supersede all others, 
and a multitude of similar panaceas. 
Kearney, the California agitator, has been 
spouting wildly on Boston Common and else¬ 
where about the “ Hub,” and haB formed a coali¬ 
tion with Ben. Butler with a view to the election 
of the latter next fall to the governorship of 
Massachusetts on the labor-greenback ticket. 
Butler, too, has been delivering hla opinions up at 
Biddeford, Maine; and, unlike the California 
Irishman, he always has opinions which, 11 not 
correct, are nevertheless worth listening to. He 
left the Democratic and Republican parties be¬ 
cause the former wished to destroy the nation, 
and the latter, founded to vindicate the rights of 
the lowest class of laborers, is now held bound 
hand and foot by capitalists. Ben talks 1 mor¬ 
tal ntngly always, and often Instructively; whereas 
his new ally merely pours forth a torrent of 
threats against, capitalists and organized society, 
larded with a copious Hood of billingsgate. He 
wishes all workingmen, whatever their religion, 
nationality or political affinity, “to pool” their 
Issues until victory has been achieved. This Is 
the dull season for news—Congress not. In session, 
no elections, no Interesting foreign develop¬ 
ments—and accordingly tho press generally Is 
giving much moro space to this foul-mouthed 
demagogue than would be accorded him at any 
other season. 
Manton Marble, late editor of the N. Y. World, 
has, in a circular letter, given an Inside history 
of Mr. Tlldeu’s attitude towards the Electoral 
Commission which gave the presidency to his 
rival. Ho was always steadily opposed to the 
appointment, of this court, Insisting that It was 
unconstitutional, that the House of Representa¬ 
tives had a right to take part In counting the 
vote for president, and that the final decision of 
the question rested with that body. These 
opinions he had from the outset made known to 
the democratic leaders, and he was prepared to 
take all legitimate means to carry them Into 
practice. It has been repeatedly said that the 
democrats lost the presidency through Tllden’s 
timidity, uncertainty and vacillation; and tills 
brochure is designed to remove this error and so 
strengthen TlJden’s chances for a renomlnatlon 
as the democratic candidate In isso. 
The republican state convention of Maine met 
on Tuesday at Portland, and renominated Gov¬ 
ernor Con nor by acclamation. Reso) utlous of the 
usual republican Import were passed and the ad¬ 
ministration utterly ignored. Blaine was the 
guiding spirit of the assembly—and BluLue Is not 
a warm admirer or Hayes or his cabinet. By the 
way, the President has been Interviewed with 
regard to tho members of this, and expresses 
himself thoroughly satisfied with every one of 
them, and hopes they will all remain with him 
till the end of his term. A new Bureau has been 
established In the interior Department for the 
purpose or crediting the accounts of the forty- 
four railroad companies In which the govern 
ment Is Interested on account of the aid In the 
shape of land grants, Indorsement of bonds, etc, 
given In building them. The election returns 
from North Carolina show slight, republican gains 
and a strong Independent movement, so that It Is 
thought the republicans and Independents com¬ 
bined can elect Merrlmon senator against Vance, 
the Bourbon candidate. From th^strong demo¬ 
cratic press ot the Booth there are numerous com¬ 
plaints of the treachery, vuiamy, and general tur¬ 
pitude of the independent voters, who seem likely 
to become the recipients of not a few of tho com¬ 
pliments formerly reserved for the republicans. 
The story that Editor Watterson of the Louis¬ 
ville Courier-Journal want* to bo scoretary of the 
United States Senate, which he has just denied, 
seems to have grown out of the fact that his 
father, Harvey Watterson, a congressman a gen¬ 
eration ago, Is a candidate for the place. 
The clergyman Is getting into politics a good 
deal out West this year. Rev. Gilbert de La 
Matyr was recently nominated for Congress by 
the nationals of the Indianapolis district, and 
now Rev. George Pepper has been taken by those 
of the 15th Ohio, both ministers having won the 
hearts ut the new party by sermons they have 
preached on labor themes, Pepper having declared 
during the railroad strike last summer, that If any 
corner In hell was hotter than another, Tom 
Scott and other railroad magnates ought to be 
put there. Up in tbe 4 th Michigan district the 
democrats have also rallen back on the clerical 
profession for a candidate, nominating Rev. A. 
D. Eldred, a leading Methodist minister. There 
Is little prospect, however, that any one of the 
three will be called upon to serve the country. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Commissioner Baum, of the Interior Depart¬ 
ment, has written to the Southern collectors of 
internal revenue, virtually offering amnesty for 
past offenses to Illicit, distillers, If they will cease 
violating the law. From 60 to SO “ moonshiners ” 
have surrendered in accordance with this agree¬ 
ment. The point, of the entering wedge for South¬ 
ern claims has Just been driven In by a provision 
of the Sundry Civil Service Bill, allowing $ 10,000 
to the Richmond and Danville Railroad on an old 
bill, whose payment, on account of its Illegality, 
bad twice been refused by the Department. 
Bankers, pretty nearly everywhere, are com¬ 
plaining or a glut of sliver money wnteh they 
cannot get into circulation, as greenbacks are 
more convenient, cheaper ot transportation, and 
actually worth more In the money markets. 
Another Boston defaulter! Conantls ttiu name 
this one has disgraced by heavily swindling a 
hank of which he was the cashier. This Illustra¬ 
tion of the truth of some of Kearney’s denuncia¬ 
tion of dishonest capitalists, Is now exciting the 
sympathy of the mawkish, behind prison bars. 
The Governor of Ohio Is a bankrupt. He was 
the head of the firm of Bishop sl Co., the largest 
grocery house In Cincinnati, doing a trade of 
over $3,000,000 a year. Shrinkage of real estate, 
and bad debts chiefly caused the ruin—liabilities 
$360,000, and Its very unlikely creditors will get 
more than 40 cents on the dollar. The Pacific 
Railroads have Issued a circular threatening to 
eject persons who attempt to preempt land under 
the “so-called dectslon” of Sec. Schurz. Moat 
likely a test case will soon be made up for a 
Judicial decision on the matter. 
By the laws of Virginia, to prevent miscegena¬ 
tion. should a. white person marry a colored one, 
both are liable to two years in the penitentiary, 
and the minister or official who dares to tie the 
knot, is liable to be fined $200 for tho Indiscretion. 
The enforcement of this law Is now making three 
people miserable in Alexandria, Va. Six hundred 
journeymen shoemakers are on a strike in Chi¬ 
cago. They demand $12 instead of $0 a week; 
refuse to compromise on $10.50, aud the “ bosses ” 
say they will gel their work done cheaper In the 
East. St. Louis has 26 mills, with a capacity of 
12,000 barrels a day; and a third more flour Is pro¬ 
duced there this year than last. In the past six 
months the receipts of wheat have been 4,832,093 
bushels against 2 , 610,811 bushels the same time 
last, year; and already the sanguine citizens 
dream of beating Chicago, aud becoming the flour 
and grain market of tlie world. Well, perhaps 
t,h6lr dreams may turn out true, after they have 
had about, a score of first-class funerals. Twenty 
thousand cabin passengers have left this port for 
Europe this summer—the largest number on re¬ 
cord during any single season. How about hard 
times! 
Rurus, the new King of the trotting track, fail¬ 
ed at Rochester to make his Buffalo time, the 
best he could do being 2.17. Durlog the week 
there have been several violent storms or tor¬ 
nadoes in different parts of the country, the most 
destructive of which occurred at Wallingford, 
Conn., on Friday last. The path of the hurricane 
was about a quarter of a mile broad; It swept In 
full force only over a length of about three miles, 
and it lasted less than ten minutes. Its track 
was chiefly along the outskirts of the to wn, where 
there were a large number of rloket.ty frame 
houses, tile homes of mechanics and poor people. 
These It leveled as It passed, crushing many of 
the Inhabitants beneath the ruins, or slaying 
them with the beams and timbers it bore along 
in its course. Twenty-eight deaths have already 
occurred, and as a great number are more or less 
severely wounded, there will probably be more 
fatal cases. The pecuniary damage cannot be 
less than $260,000. Out at Lincoln, New Mexico, 
postmaster Dolan refused to surrender the office 
to McSween. The latter attacked the place at 
the head of 64 backers, and after firing at long 
range for four days, set. the office on fire, and In a 
hand to hand struggle killed Dolan aud eight of 
his men. A number of others were wounded on 
both sides. Four companies of soldiers were only 
nine miles away, but owing to the late law pro¬ 
hibiting their interference as a posse comltatus, 
they could not be used to quell the disturbance. 
The ambassador who lately arrived from China, 
Is at present at Hartford, conn., and will not go 
to Washington until September. There he will 
be installed In the "Stewart Palace,’’ and make a 
grand show. It Is expected that, while com¬ 
mercial relations will bo Improved, tbe treaty 
stipulation In regard to Immigration will be 
amended with the consent of the Celestials, 
who want to keep all of their 450, 000,000 at home. 
There has been an over-issue of $ 100,000 on a 
Pennsylvania Stato loan for $ 400 , 000 , made In 
1853. Some rascal m office has pocketed the pro¬ 
ceeds, and now the books relating to the matter 
are missing. The loan was payable this year, 
the legitimate amount of it. has already been 
paid; and the above amount la still outstanding. 
There Is no means of discriminating between the 
over-issue and th© other bonds, but no more will 
be paid until the legislature acts. There were 
political thieves In the days of old, also 1 
The railroad men In session at Long Branoh 
last week fixed the rates ot freight tor cattle 
from western points to tho sea-board on the 
basis of 60 cents per cwt from Chicago to New 
York; 13 trunk and western lines represented. 
foreign. 
The Austrians are meeting with a good deal of 
opposition In occupying Bosnia and Herzegovina. 
Ills reported that there are In the field against 
them more than 100,000 well armed Bosnians, 
Arn&uts, Albanians and disbanded Turkish 
troops. The country Is very hilly, and the Insur¬ 
gents have fortified all the passes and strategic 
points along the roads. Several severe skirmishes 
have already taken place, the latest reported on 
Friday last, hfficn 500 Bosnians were killed and 
700 taken prisoners. This morning’s telegrams 
announce that Turkey and Austria have come to 
an agreement with regard to the duration of the 
latter’s occupation of the country and that the 
Sultan has notified the combatants accord¬ 
ingly that the Austrians enter the country as 
friends and that all resistance to them will be 
useless. To insure this, they are pouring forward 
reinforcements. The Porte Is disposed to make 
liberal concessions to Crete; but Is resolved to 
retuso tbe Grecian demands as unjustifiable. 
An ex plosion occurred on the and Inst, in the 
fortification ot Kara causing a fire which de¬ 
stroyed nearly the whole town. The In habitants 
of Batoum, ceded to Russia, are resolved to re¬ 
sist aud together with the neighboring seml- 
savage tribes have taken up arms to the number 
, of 36,000 men. The Russians are reported to be 
1 still busily fortifying positions along the Black 
Sea and they do not believe the war yet enact . 
j. ^_xT4»xn ftaat. allOi'RAllR Curuinftl 
It is Cardinal Nina that succeeds Cardinal 
FranclH as papal Secretary of State, not Luca, as 
the telegram said last week, lie is reported Ot a 
liberal turn of mind, and Is continuing the net, 
Uatlons with Blsmark. It Is said that peace has 
been agreed upon between the Empire aud the 
Vatican, on condition ot free pardon to all orders 
of clergy for paat offenses against tfie F&uc laws, 
these laws are to continue on the statute books 
