THE fURAL NEW-YORKER. 
ilomcstir (L'toiiomu. 
OONDOOTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
MORNING AND EVENING HOUSEKEEPING. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
The days grow perceptibly shorter, the even¬ 
ings are lengthening, and the hour oi live seems 
early lor beginning a day’s work, even In the 
country. But while the heat lasts—and that Is 
till the middle of September In this latitude—there 
Is really nothing «o Important, in regard to saving 
strength as to do all we can ot the necessary work 
of house and garden during t he cool hours or the 
morning aud evening. For coy own part. 1 much 
preier the morning hours. After the freshness of 
the night air, and one’s own good night’s sleep, 
the body is better able to cope with the duties be¬ 
fore one. How fresh and sweet the air, as we go 
Into the garden for weeding at an early hour! At 
no other time do the birds sing so blithely and 
happily. The Morning-glories, too, arc at their 
best about sunrise—dew-spangled and real ‘ glo¬ 
ries," while the evening Primroses are just shut¬ 
ting their oyes as the sun advances, for 1 have 
orten found the expanded (lowers blooming 
through the night. It la a good time, too, while 
breakfast Is preparing, to think ot the dessert for 
dinner, and, during these days of heat, to study 
what light, cool and wholesome pudding wo can 
make that will be ready Ju ease of emergency, and 
cost no extra nre, to cause us discomfort. The 
children of a household can be sent lo gather the 
vegetables, and taught fo prepare them tor the 
table after the lesson of clean hands Is properly 
learned. Anything that, requires extra stove or 
sun heat through the day can be as well done 
while the cool hours arc with us. Apart from 
fruit—which I set first—there is nothing among 
» dishes for dessert to equal those made with eggs, 
milk and gelatine. A very simple but palatable 
puddlnglo be made Ilk the Uaily morning Is by the 
following recipe: One pint, of cream, whipped 
light; half a package of gelatine, soaked In milk ; 
a small cup of white sugar, aud whites of two 
eggs. Dissolve the gelatine and sugar by heating, 
then wheu It has cooled beat up into the whites, 
making it all a firm froth. Beat In the cream 
and HU your mold, previously rinsed in cold 
water, it takes six hours to cool, and Is suitable 
either ror dinner or tea. 
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MRS. ENDICOrS JOURNAL. 
<nc to make scrap-bexj/as; tomato catsup ; farm¬ 
ers' rice; preparin'/ plants,/br niinter, 
September 4.—Barton’s brother, who Lives -at 
H., five miles from here, Is the editor of the coun- 
y paper, and knowing how well we appreciate 
his kindness, he never comes over without brlug- 
lng a roll ot papers and pamphlets. After they 
have been read by us all, in my leisure 1 go over 
them, scissors In hand, cutting out all scraps I 
think of value to us. These I put In a large brown 
envelope, such as they put writing paper In at 
the stores. Then, when l have time, l sort 
them out and paste in three books, old Patent 
office Reports, labeled on the backs, “ Kitchen," 
“Garden," and “Scraps.” In the first l put. all 
kinds of recipes; In the second, any thing about 
flowers and the vegetable garden; In the other, 
anything else I find w orthy of keeping. In the 
one labeled “kitchen,” l have cut out a number 
of printed pages and pasted In white paper ones, 
whe re I can copy recipes when told rne. t he last 
one that went in was this: 
Tomato Catsup, 
Select perfectly ripe sound tomatoes, cut in slices 
and boil until the pulp Is cooked soft. Rub it 
through a sieve to take out the skins and seeds, 
and return to the kettle for cooking. To each gal¬ 
lon of the pulp add three taolespoonsful each of 
salt, ground pepper and mustard, and one each of 
ground cloves and allspice, cojk it until It is 
thick enough to run slowly from a bottle. Let it 
get cold, then bottle and seal. 
I made what we call ** farmers’ rice,” for dessert 
for dinner to-day. We all enjoyed It so much that 
there was not enough lelt for baby Kuty’s supper, 
as 1 Intended there should be. It is so easily and 
quickly made, 1 wonder it is not oftener lound on 
country tables. 1 put about three pints of milk on 
the stove In a pan. AVldie It was coming to a boll 
I mixed two eggs with liour until It was dry 
enough to roll through my lingers In grains. Then 
stirred It Into the milk quickly, so as to keep it 
cooking all me time Five minutes are long 
enough to finish It. I urn into a dish and cat while 
warm with plenty of cream and sugar. 
September 6 .— To-day I finally accomplished 
what 1 have been wauLlng to do lor some time, and 
that was to pot my plants for winter, since the 
coming of the new hard-coal stove into the sitting, 
room, I have taken so much pleasure with our 
plants. My work was so arranged that the wash¬ 
ing up of the dinner dishes was the last thing to 
he done. When Della and 1 Lad iLnlsued them, 
Harry had Katy sleeping sotfudly, and we were 
ready for the work we all love. Early in July I 
had planted slips of Geraniums in a shallow hox 
and set It under u low tree where, the cuttings re¬ 
ceived the morning sun lev a little while every 
day. They weie kept damp b.\ u plentitul sprink¬ 
ling every evening, an(l were now Une plants. 
While I selected wind I wanted, Della got the pots 
from a corner or i lie wood-shed where they had 
been put last spring, and Harry brought a barrow 
of compost from tin garden heap with which he 
mixed several sftovelalul of sand thcroughly 
through it, and tilled the pots, each with a bit o r 
crock In the bottom for drainage, with the soil thus 
prepared. After pressing the earth firmly around 
the roots 1 watered them picked off all (lie buds 
and set them In the shed out of the light, where 
they can have perfect rest for several days. Then 
the Rose Geranium was transferred from the little 
three-inch pot in which It had been rooted to a six- 
inch one. Several Begonias were treated in tl e 
same way. As the earth around them had not 
been disturbed, a smart rap on the bottom ot the 
pot loosened It. so the whole could be lil ted out. 
T hey were set on the north-east porch. Harry 
came around with the smllax. which was Just 
showing a green shoot after its si x weeks’ rest, In 
one hand and the hanging basket of Fink and 
White Oxalls in the other, also just ready to wake 
up. When Della added the Heliotrope, It did re¬ 
quire considerable courage to take off the buds, 
just, showing the purple, while a faint fragrance 
was perceptible, soon I shall plant my sweet 
Alyssum and Mlgnionette seed and then 1 shall 
have, not all I want, but all 1 can take care of. 
We have only three windows in our sitting room, 
aud 1 have firmly made tip my mind that only one 
slmil be filled with flowers. A banging basket 
may go iu the east window, but nothing more. 1 
ilad that I have a great deal better success with 
my plants If they are potted early and get a good 
start before cold weather. As soou as there seems 
to be any danger rrorn frost, 1 will carry ihem up 
stairs aud leave them there until danger of freez¬ 
ing. Managed In this way', I think they feel the 
change less than by any other treatment. 
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GRAPE JUICE. 
Dear Mrs. Mai*ee:— When a young housekeeper 
at the south, I was often puzzled to know what to 
do with my surplus grapes. We did not use wlue 
nt the family; so, after our home market was sup¬ 
plied, and l had made Jelly, marmalade, etc, 
there were many left for which I had no use what¬ 
ever. Thinking i would try canning the juice for 
flavoring purposes, I lound that I had discovered 
by accident not only a delightful beverage, but a 
tonic for the sick, which they could take when too 
weak for other nourishment.. * Jt, sold readily, and 
1 found It. very profitable; beside the pleasure it 
afforded to send a bouto to a sick friend or a per¬ 
son too poor'to buy. Physicians recommended It 
highly. 
Recipe. 
Express juice, using cider-press for large quanti¬ 
ties; strain through a tlannel bag; bring to the 
boiling point in a porcelain kettle; skim, bottle, 
make air-tight by pressing well the cork into the 
neck ot bottle and filling with wax. Pack in 
boxes, standing the bottles upside dowu, and keep 
in a cool, dark place. It is best after it lias been 
kept nine or ten months. .Quality varies with the 
variety of grape used; that made from Hartford 
Prolific and Diana is excellent. 
'Livy Erlswohth. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Preserving Citron. 
Pare the cit ron and cut it. Into small pieces, not 
exceeding a quarter of an Inch in thickness. Re¬ 
move all the seeds, weigh and put them In alum 
water for two or three hours. Then turn t he alum 
off and boil in clear water until you can pierce 
them with a straw. Make a sirup, allowing one- 
half pound of sugar to a pound of irult, adding hall 
a pint of water to a. pound of sugar. Place your cit¬ 
ron m the sirup and cook the same as other pre¬ 
serves. oust before taking from the stove, slice In 
t wo or three lemons, according to quantity of pre¬ 
serves; then let them boil a minute longer. 
Mrs. D. M. Johnson. 
Indian Baited Pudding 
The following are excellent recipes for the above 
but whether better than the one you have Just, 
published 1 cannot tell: No. 1. Scald a quart of 
milk and stir in seven spoonsful of Indian meal, a 
teaspoonful or salt, a teacupful or molasses and a 
great spoonful of ginger or cinnamon. Bake 
three or four hours, the longer the better, If you 
want whey, pour m a little cold milk after it ts all 
mixed. No. 2. Let one quart of milk come to a 
boil, then add two eggs well beaten, three table- 
spoonsful of Indian ineal and one of flour. Bake 
three-quarters ot an hour. Serve with cream and 
sugar. m. m. 
Mount Morris. 
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QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
a. M. <i. asks if corn and beans can be preserved 
in glass cans, and if so, wishes directions for pre¬ 
paring them. 
Ax a.—Tin cans are used chiefly for the preserv¬ 
ing of vegetables of all kinds for winter use. and 
we doubt If you would meet with any success In 
canning either corn or beans in glass. We can 
give no other directions than to cook the legeta- 
bles until tender, i hen put Into hot cans and make 
air-tight. Ju the Rural of .May 3, page 2-ss, we 
gave directions lor canning corn In tin (and beans 
can be treated likewise), which we republish 
below. Both ot the above v. getables can be pre¬ 
served In brine, directions for which have been 
given lately in these columns, and for home pre¬ 
serving of either we should prerer that method to 
attempting to can them In glass or tin. 
To Can Corn. 
Cut llie coin iroin the cob when not t o old; fill 
tin calls and sealup by soldering on the lid; punch 
a small hole In the lid and place In a large pan of 
boiling water, which should come almost lo the 
top ol the can. Boll lu this bath one-hair hour, cr 
uotllthe steam escapes treoly from the aperture. 
Take out and seal up with a drop ot solder. Re- 
turntotho hot water and boIL from three to four 
hours. When cool, If the canning has be'riper 
feet, the ends of the cun will be slightly concave. 
Coloring; Everlastings. 
if. IK., POQtionocft Bridge, conn., asks us how to 
color wild Everlastings, etc., for winter bouquets. 
She wants several of the brightest colors, includ¬ 
ing a good green, she says she has tried aniline 
dyes, and that she was told by a druggist to mix 
the yellow and blue together to produce a green, 
and by so doing just spoiled the whole. 
Ans.— We know of nothing better than Lea- 
mon’s aniline dyes. Try the green. 
|lrtus of tljr Solcflt. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Monday, September 8,1S79. 
Thr rice crop of South Carolina for the year Is 
estimated at 44,000 tierces, and that of Georgia at 
20 , 000 . The increase or flouring mills In the four 
states ot Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota 
from lsfin to is7S was from 1,188 to 3,000. The 
production of butter and cheese Is said to be four 
times greater in value than the total yield of out- 
gold and sliver mines, m Baltimore there are 
forty peach-packing establishments. Few, it any, 
ol these houses employ a less number of hands 
than two hundred, while several of them reach 
eight hundred or one thousand, and these are ex¬ 
clusive of those engaged In the manufacture ot 
tin cans and the packing cases. This year, up to 
the close ot July, our Imports were a million less 
and our exports seven millions less than for the 
corresponding period In ts7s. The exports of gold 
aud silver were five millions more Tills does not 
show mi unusual balance of trade In our favor. 
T he city council ot Lawrence, Kansas. Monday 
week, refused to levy the bond tax ordered by the 
Fnlteii stales District Court, and passed a resolu¬ 
tion declaring that the city cannot pay more than 
fifty cents on the dollar of He Indebtedness. A taru- 
ily named Busy, at Unden, N. J., consisting of a 
rather, mother and tour children, were poisoned 
Monday night by eating toad stools for mush¬ 
rooms, Two of the children are dead, aud the 
other two are dyJug. The parents, are sick, but 
are recovering'. 
The negro exodus from the South is expected to 
lx: very heavy this fall, so soon as the crops have 
been gathered In. Various organizations have 
already been here and there formed to promote It., 
nominally often upon philanthropic principles, but 
nearly always In reality from political motives. In 
1880 the next census is taken and upon me retui ns 
then made of the population of the different states, 
the apportionment ot members of Congress will be 
fixed. The greater the emigration from the South, 
therefore, before the census, the smaller the num¬ 
ber of Congressmen that will be assigned to that 
section. .Moreover, the settlement of the emi¬ 
grants In the Northern States will add to their 
populaUou in proportion as if diminishes that of 
the South, and consequently increase the number 
of Congressmen from the North, and as the large 
majority ot the Northern Congressmen are Repub¬ 
licans, the exodus, it. Is expected, will add to the 
representatives ot thaL party, while lessening the 
number of their opponents. A careful review of 
the amount ot State and municipal debts repudia¬ 
ted by the South since the close or the war puts 
the total at $300,000,One. In addition to this, the 
bulk of Southern debtors availed themselves of the 
benefit ot the lax bankrupt, laws that w$re in 
force alter the •• onploaaantntss,” and thus got rid 
oi at least as much more Indebtedness. As almost 
the efltlre amount of the debt In this way shirked, 
was due to Northern capitalists and merchants, 
the South has been to that amount enriched by 
the “ spoils of the Egyptians,,’ and this has mate¬ 
rially aided the efforts ot the people to regain an 
era of prosperity. 
Mrs. Dixon, the wife of the man murdered at 
Yazoo because he was a candidate ror sheriff, tells 
her story and her husband’s in one of the Vicks¬ 
burg papers in a way to stir the sympathies of 
southern chivalry, if there la any such quality 
left. When the Democratic convention passed a 
resolution, based on the names of “two reliable 
men,” that Dixon had threatened to kill Barks¬ 
dale, Dixon told his friends that this was a trick 
to prepare the public mind for bis own assassina¬ 
tion. It. seems that Ifixon lived long enough to 
make an ante-mortem sworn statement as to the 
circumstances, and also to be baptized In the 
Catholic church. T his was in answer perhaps to 
the taunt of his enemies that he was an Infidel, 
which Is still a terrible denunciation at the South. 
The day berore he was shot he sent word to Barks¬ 
dale by a friend as to the falsity of the charges 
that he bad ever threatened him with lumssltui¬ 
tion, and .Mrs. Dixon quotes a letter from J. c. 
Prewitt, a brother-in-law of Barksdale, dated 
March, 1878, In which he bears witness to Dixon’s 
good character and to the extent lo which he was 
being persecuted. A tempest extending through 
part of Louisiana and Mississippi on Monday did 
miscellaneous damage of many hundred thousands 
ot dollars. Eighty farmers who ar< dissatisfied 
with the agricultural prospects In England sailed 
on Wednesday lrern Llvupool for New York on 
their way to Texas. They are from northern 
Yorkshire and Durham, and are of various classes, 
ranging from small-tenant farmers upward, sev¬ 
eral or them can command capital of $-2500 to$3,uou, 
while some others have entered Into partnership, 
one group having raised a capital ot j i,ouo. 
A sad story la that of the family of Gen Hood 
of New Orleans. Last Monday week, Mvt Hood 
died ot yellow fever; the general lnmself was laid 
by her side on the following Naurnlay at the ago 
of 19, and ire le i vea behind two daughters very 111. 
(Jen. Hood had a brilliant career as a lighter lu t he 
Confederate army, rising from a low rank to t he 
command of flic forces against Sherman in hlB 
march to lhe sea. The question of Sunday laws 
is entering into the pending Virginia campaign. 
The rural districts want the laws strictly enforced, 
but the cities want them relaxed, and a citizens’ 
association has been formed at Richmond to send 
men to l ire next Legislature who will allow the 
clues to ivgulute their own Sunday observances 
without regard to the State law. The same Issue 
will enter Into the Texas campaign. A Marshal 
(Tex.) jury has Just fined a newsboy $25 for sell¬ 
ing a newspaper on Sunday. Mrs. Kate Chase 
Sprague fled from Canonchet. R. I., this week 
carrying her younger children. Gov. Sprague 
made an exciting pursuit in order to recover the 
latter but failed. The whereabouts of Mrs. 
Sprague is nor, known, but it is thought that she 
will eventually go to France or Germany to live. 
It Is now denied by her own counsel and others 
that she was kept a prisoner at Canonchet by her 
husband or abused by him. Her counsel and 
friends disapproved of her departure. She will not 
be pursued or prosecuted, except that Gov. 
Sprague will press his claim for the children. 
Mr. Sprague will probably obtain employment 
under Mr, Chafee. the trusteo of the Sprague 
estate. 
'l lie National Greenback-Labor Party of the 
State of New York assembled at Flic a last w'eek. 
The successful organization of the Convention was 
not secured till Saturday, Friday up to midnight 
having been spent in discussing delicate points of 
parliamentary law, in arranging to pay ior the 
hall, and In admitting the proper delegates from 
this city. It did not appear that these last, of 
which there were three sets, were any of them 
“ regular” or Irregular, but the question at Issue 
concerned the political affiliations of each set with 
organizations of real importance. A happy result 
was at length attained, and the men who com¬ 
posed the meeting arc to be congratulated upon 
tire fact that they refused all the overtures which 
were made to them by Tllden and Company on the 
one hand, and Tammany Hall on the other. The 
venerable Mr, Richard Schell was mentioned as a 
candidate for Governor, but the honest and horny- 
handed sons oi labor literally hissed the Tammany 
schemers out of the hall. Finally, the Convention 
nominated Harris Lewis, ot Herkimer county, and 
president of the Farmer's Alliance, for Governor, 
and a full state ticket. The platform Is, In the 
main, the usual greenback deliverance, but distin¬ 
guished by the addition or some extraordinary 
resolutions Intended to cheer up Kearney “in his 
heaven Inspired work,” charging “ our opponents” 
with being “ really tin* red-handed Communists,” 
and commending Kearney's recent restraint, of the 
California mob from attacking the same. Appar¬ 
ently Kearuey'b “ pcace-polley” has produced a 
temporary transformation of “ the commune, ’ 
wlileh is altogether the best thing he hies done. 
The Republican Convention of this State met at 
Saratoga on Wednesday and at It Conkling won 
a decided personal victory by securing the nomi¬ 
nation for Governor Of his intimate personal friend, 
Mr. Cornell, and the whole of the rest of the ticket. 
It was thought by the Hayes party that that 
“muss” in which he waaembroiled up at Canon¬ 
chet, would have Injured his Influence, buthe.came 
out triumphant on all points, llayes st Co. make 
the best of a bad job, and express an earnest desire 
for the election of the ticket. Yellow fever Is still 
raging at Memphis, where the resources of the 
Howard Association are exhausted so that they 
have had to Issue a request, ror outside aid. In 
New Orleans also there has been a considerable 
number of deaths, but It la confidently expected 
that there the disease will be localized In a small 
strip of the upper part of the Fourth District where 
all the deaths have hitherto occurred- 
The lands hi Dakotah, opposite the Sioux reser¬ 
vation, reserved for settlement in 1875, to prevent 
the whites from pressing too closely upon the In¬ 
dian frontier, have beeu for the most part thrown 
open to settlement again, the main object of the 
reservation not havlug been achieved. 
The following table, prepared from Information 
received at the Bureau of statistics, shows the ag¬ 
gregate production ot the three great agricultural 
staples of the Southern states for each year since 
1870 :- 
Year. Cotton, hales. Sugar, hhde. Tobao., Tbs. 
1870 . 4,352.317 144,881 285,000,000 
1871 . 2,974,311 128,451 426,000,000 
1872 . 3,930,508 108,520 480,000,000 
1873 . . 4,170,388 89,408 50fl,U00,UOO 
1874 . 3,832,901 116,867 316,000,000 
1875 . 4,669,288 144,146 522,000,000 
1876 . 4,885,423 169,331 635,000,000 
1877 . 4,811,423 127,763 560,000,000 
1878 .Aliont 5,200,000 About 212,000 672,OOO.uOO 
Out In California, Kalloch luslead of dying by 
De Young’s assassinating bullet has been elected 
mayor or San Francisco by the workingmen’s 
party. The Honorable Bilks and Democrats 
were nowhere elUier lu the city or state elections. 
From present appearances the Republicans have 
elected some of the city ofiieers, while Perkins 
their candidate for governor of the State has 
been elected by a respectable majority. They 
have also elected a majority of the state 
Legislature and certainly three members ot 
Congress and probably all four. Tbe working- 
men have gained a majority of the railroad 
commissioners and also a majority ot the Supreme 
Court including the Chief Justice. This election 
may have an important effect on the choice for 
next, President, as before Intimated here. Of the 
3S state delegations, 19 Including California, are 
Republican, «is are now Democratic, while the 
Indiana delegation Is equally divided between 
the two parttes, with the deciding vote in the 
hands of De La Matyr, the Greenbacker. Should 
the election go into the House, therefore the 
Kepubllcaus now have the best show. 
FOREIGN. 
Commodore Shufeldt writes from the west coast 
of Africa that the “opening of Africa,” as it is 
termed, Is a mere deceit and delusion, and says 
the natives of the lower Congo, who have been Di 
contact with the whites for near ly 400 years, have 
only had engrafted upon their innate barbarism 
the lowest vices ol civilization. The appointment 
of consuls along the coast by our government is 
recommended ns calculated to give our flag a 
recognized status and create a rallying point for 
any future commerce from the Coiled States, be¬ 
sides affording protection to our people in their 
Intercourse with the unlives. 
Ill Mexico, Diaz lias several times declared Ills 
Intention not to be a candidate for re-election to 
the presidency of the Republic, under any circum¬ 
stances. Indeed, there Is In that country a consti¬ 
tutional amendment, proliibltlug the re-election of 
a president. Now, however, there is much aglta- 
