THE 
RAL NEW-YORKER. 
Jbtttesik (bnmomi). 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE, 
CREAM, DOUGHNUTS, DRIED PUMPKIN. 
COOKIES AND A REVERIE. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
“You can make anything good with cream,” 
she said, as we sat at tea on an island one 
pleasant afternoon. It was an impromptu 
picnic, and we were discussing ttie different 
cakes before us after partaking of each as one 
cau only when the air and wind add to the 
usual appetite an enjoyment of food that is 
never felt when partakiug of a regularly 
cooked meal. 
“Yes, those doughnuts were made with 
cream. I use fine flour and cream-of-tartar. 
and can judge pretty well the proper consist¬ 
ency. I am glad you like them. Pumpkin 
pie? yes, dried pumpkin of a year ago. The 
reason of the light color you admire is that I 
was careful to dry it quickly aud not give it 
time to catch any burn or dust. If put away 
in paper bags, it will keep for years.” 
“But how do you make these cookies so 
crisp ?” 
The lady who made the reply was famous 
for her cookies, so I took the recipe for the 
benefit of Rural readers: 
Oue cup sugar, half cup of butter, one cup of 
sweet milk (cream is better, and dispense with 
the butter if you have it); two eggs, four cups 
of flour, or enough to enable you to roll the 
dough. Put in the whites of eggs and flour 
last. Roll out with as little handling as possi¬ 
ble and bake quickly. Keep them in a dry 
place, but not close, or they are apt to become 
soft. 
The waves of the beautiful blue lake dashed 
up at our feet and mingled with the conversa¬ 
tion. “Darling little white caps,” a6 one of 
the party called them, danced on the waters, 
aud afar off we could see that glorious Mount 
Royal, from which Montreal derived its name. 
What a rest to weary hands and brain is a 
day like this, afar from even the petty bustle 
of village life, where, as the white wings of 
vessels glide pa6t, we cannot help thinking 
how suitable the lines 
“ The stately ships go by 
To the haven under the hill,” 
and then some busy steamer puffs and rushes 
past in the near distance, reminding us of civ¬ 
ilization seen but not felt by us. And even 
amid the clatter of dishes, the useful exchange 
of recipes and the light, pleasant laughter of 
friends, we seem to feel a stillness, and the 
little trials and larger ills aud disturbances of 
the busy world fade for the time before Na¬ 
ture’s wonders, aud we say 
“ What are they all In their high conceit, 
When man in the bush with G od may meet ? ” 
LOG-CABIN SKETCHES; OR, JESSIE SEA- 
BRIGHT’S DIARY.—No. 9. 
MAY MAPLE. 
July 10.—-The heat grows more intense as 
the season advances ; every day I am thankful 
for a good searching draft of air through out 
cabin chamber. The logs have all been thor¬ 
oughly whitewashed, since the last jottings in 
my journal. And the shingles and rafters over¬ 
head have been covered with clean newspa¬ 
pers. So the rooms, though so low that I can 
only stand up in the middle, look clean, airy, 
and therefore pleasant. A partition crosses 
the middle of the chamber, with a door in 
direct range with the windows, and another, 
stretches across the side of one room, thus 
making a sort of closet for barrels and boxes, 
odds and ends that help more or less to make 
a room appear untidy. The partitioning was 
made of “ building paper,” aud was the result 
of a dozen yards of kuilted carpeting. These 
new walls were covered with wrapping-paper 
tinged with buff color, which cost one shilling 
per pound, aud was paid for iu ruffle hemming 
by hand. 
A tiny can of buff paiut that cost thirty-five 
cents, and was paid for in “garden truck,” 
makes my piue bedstead look quite presentable, 
and u low chest, also painted buff, makes a 
very good seat by the east window, which looks 
out upon the garden, now brilliaut with flow¬ 
ers and luxuriant vegetables, where an hour or 
two are spent each day in removing weeds aud 
stirring up the soil. It is a pleasant outlook 
in the afternoon when the scorchiug 6un has 
passed over to the western horizon. 
A board nailed to the wall with a couple of 
braces, and covered with paper, answers for a 
toilet staud, aud eaeh room has such a con¬ 
venience. Some swinging shelves, for books, 
papers, collar boxes, etc., were made of paste¬ 
board shoe boxes, given me by the boarding¬ 
house matron, strung on heavy cord, made of 
wrapplug twiuc. A baudkerchief box was 
laced together at the ends for a wall pocket 
for my guest chamber. I often wonder if I 
should take more pleasure in fitting up a hand¬ 
some residence, with means at my command, 
thau I do in contriving improvements for my 
lowly cabin home. I am sure if pioneer women 
were more engaged in making the best of their 
surroundings, they would find less occasion 
for complaining of their humble lot, besides 
making themselves aud their families comfort¬ 
able and comparatively happy. 
“But,” says one, “there’s no use in fixing 
up an old log house, for you can’t make any¬ 
thing else of it, if you try; and, for my part, 
I’d rather save my strength and money to 
adorn a new house, which we 6liall probably 
have in a year or two at most.” 
But the years pass away aud others follow in 
seemingly quick succession, and yet no new 
dwelling makes its appearance. The old home 
grows more aud more dingy, and more and 
more dilapidated, as also do tbe hearts and 
tempers of its possessors, until there are frowns 
out-of-doors aud frets within. Happiness and 
contentment Spread their wings aud fly to more 
congenial homes, aud the grave at last gives a 
resting place, to the unhappy hearts that have 
never found the fountain of all true enjoy¬ 
ment, because they were unwilling to collect 
the sweets from every flower. They failed to 
obtain many blessings, because they did not 
“do with their might, what their hands found 
to do.” 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
linked Indian Pudding. 
If Mrs. H. C. G. will try the following recipe 
for baked Indian pudding, she cannot fail to 
be pleased with the result, as it is the original 
recipe of au experienced housewife. 
One quart of sweet milk. Heat about half of 
it. Mix half a teacupful of Indian meal smooth 
with a little of the cold milk and pour luto the 
scaldiug milk, siirriug meauwhile. Thou add 
one spoonful of flour mixed smooth with more 
of the cold milk aud one beaten egg. Sweeten, 
and season to taste, with a little salt and lump 
of butter if desired. Now add tbe remainder 
of the cold milk. Bake two hours. 
L'rnb Apples. 
No jell can exceed in looks or flavor, that 
which is made of crab apples. Some may not 
know that by taking out the core, the jell will 
be far nicer-looking. 
A nice dessert can be made by stewing cored 
crab apples in sugar very slowly, with a lump 
of butter. Extract of lemon may be added. 
Placed ou a platter or covered dish, it has a 
very appetizing appearance. If steamed and 
sprinkled with sugar, or laid iu a sauce dish of 
sirup, they make a uice sauce for tea. 
Aunt Em. 
Eggs for Winter Use. 
About this time farmers’ wives begin “laving 
down " eggs—or rather standing them up for 
winter use. As good au article as I ever tried 
for the purpose, is fine sand, which will keep 
cool if placed in tbe cellar, bran, oats, etc.,are 
apt to heat. Place them so as not to touch eaeh 
other on the smallest end. The philosophy of 
this is, I suppose, that if placed on the smallest 
end, the yolk will not settle aud stick to the 
shell, which causes the egg to become unfit for 
use. 
QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
To Wax Natural Flowers—Halsaiu Apples. 
I. D .—Dip the ilowers into melted paraffine 
or spermaceti—a melted caudle wili answer— 
withdrawing them quickly. Have the liquid 
ouly hot enough to maintain its fluidity. The 
flowers should be dipped in one at a time, held 
by the stems and moved about for an instant 
to get rid of air bubbles. This process is too 
severe for many delicate specimens melting 
them, as it were together, and of others, the 
heal will change the color. 
From the Balsam Apple—Momordica Bal- 
samina—a liniment is made by iufubiug the 
fruit deprived of its seeds in sweet oil or spirits 
aud used for rheumatism, chapped bauds, 
flesh wouuds, etc. Thu fruit is also crushed 
and used iu the form of a poultice for wouuds. 
To Dry Corn. 
K. L .—Boil the coru for five miuutes, take 
out aud when eool cut each row through the 
center with a sharp knife aud scrape out the 
corn. Dry ou plates arouud the stove or iu the 
sum If out-of-doors protect from insects. 
Wheu wanted for use, soak in tepid water just 
enough to cover, for a few hours, then boil ten 
miuutes, seasou with cream, pepper aud salt, 
aud serve hot. 
Mnrtynia proboscedu. (Unicorn Plant.) 
Ii. II. Crane: Gather the pods wheu about 
half grown or while tender aud succulent—if 
left until the flesh has hardened they are worth¬ 
less—aud pickle them the same as you would 
cucumbers. 
Canning Tomatoes. 
J. M. Gunn: We should not advise you to can 
your tomatoes iu glass but in tiu quart caus 
or stoue jugs, holding two quarts or a gallon. 
If tiu be used, skin, slice the tomatoes and 
drain in a colander, or sieve. Then press the 
solid part into the cans through the small 
opening at top, and solder the cover on at 
once. Immerse the cans in boiling water and 
let boil for ten or fifteen miuutes. Take out 
and puncture with a sharp instrument like an 
awl, to allow the air to escape, then imme¬ 
diately re-seal. When stone jugB are used, 
boil the tomatoes the same as you would 
for the table, for tweuty minutes or half 
au hour, then pour hot into the jugs, which 
should be previously rinsed with scalding 
water. Drive in the corks softened in boiling 
water, and cover with a cement made of bees¬ 
wax and resin. This last method of preserving 
tomatoes will, we think, please you best for 
your own family use. 
Color from Cloth. 
Tyro wishes to make a rag carpet and has a 
quantity of her husband’s clothing to out up 
for that purpose, but all are so dark colored 
that she would like to take out the dye aud re¬ 
color them a brighter shade. We know of 
nothing that will do this without injuring the 
fabric, but if any of our readers can aid Tyro 
we would be pleased to publish their expe¬ 
rience. 
Itftos of fjjt ®!M. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Monday, September 22 ,1S79. 
The trial of Henry J. Gully for the murder of 
Cornelia Chisolm ended at DeKalb, Miss., last 
week In a verdict of acquittal, after a deliberation 
of less than halt an hour by the jury, with the 
picture of this terrible affair and the pathetic 
story of Mrs. Chisolm so vividly before the public 
mind, this verdiei is likely to bo looked upon at 
the North as a failure to do justice to a, very bru¬ 
tal fellow, But there Is no telling from the mea¬ 
ger reports of the case how the jury may have 
been influenced by the Judge's charge or the 
technicalities of the law. The trial seems at this 
distance to have been fairly conducted. The cases 
against the murderers of Judge Chisolm and his 
young son John arc yet to be tried. The worst 
feature to the prosecution ot the murderers is that 
the evidence taken on the trial showed that 
Philip Gully, a brother of the man just acquitted, 
aud 32 other rioters, were indicted for Chisholm’s 
murder two years ago, but that no arrests have 
ever been made, no ball required and no steps 
taken toward a prosecution in these cases—a state 
of affairs almost Inconceivable to a community 
having a grand jury and a prosecuting attorney 
at all. Gen. Walker intends that the enumera¬ 
tors lor the next census shall number one to every 
4,000 Inhabitants. Instead ol one to every 20,000, as 
formerly, aud quicker work correspondingly will 
be made of it. lie recommends that persona pe¬ 
culiarly acted to know the population be selected, 
as assessors, postmasters to small places, school¬ 
masters and country physicians. In Germany 
aud England, the school-masters are very much 
relied upon to taking the census, being well fitted 
by their dally habit ot precise listing and register¬ 
ing. 
of the 125,000 Mormon population, It Is claimed 
that only one-tenth are living to polygamy, that 
is, that only one-tenth of the male adults avail 
themselves of the privilege ox having more than 
one wile,poverty and other considerations prevent¬ 
ing the rest. Of these only a portion ha ve married 
since the law or lse 2 and a prosecution must fol¬ 
low within live years ot the crime, which consists 
to contracting any marriage subsequent to the 
first, when the first wife is living. Gov. Emery, 
who Is well-ilked and much respected by the way 
as governor, recommended to feretory Hchurz that 
Congress make the crime of bigamy to consist to the 
constant Intercourse and living wllli more wives 
than one. 
The political movements of the week may 
be briefly summarized. The Wisconsin Democrats 
are at a loss for a candidate for Governor, Mr. 
Alexander Mitchell, who was nominated for that 
office last week, having telegraphed from Europe 
an absolute declination. Mr. Mitchell Is said to 
be -‘probably the richest capitalist to the entire 
Northwest,” and so much the best candidate his 
party could have selected that his refusal to ruu 
leaves them to distress. The Wisconsin Democracy 
botog elated two years ago with its reduction of 
the Republican majority, imagined that all it 
needed to carry the state was the Greenback vote, 
which H accordingly solicited with a rag-money 
platform. The result was disastrous, and this 
year It resolved that *• the constitutional currency 
of the country and the basis of all other should be 
gold and silver coin,” which, perhaps, was as far 
as It could go with any show of consistency. The 
Maryland Republicans held their Convention on 
Friday, adopted verbatim all of the Saratoga plat¬ 
form which relates to national affairs, except the 
section referring to Democratic 111-treatment ot 
“old Union soldiers," and nominated Mr. James 
A. Gary, of Howard County, for Governor, ex- 
Postmaster-Geueral Cresswell declining to havo 
his name brought before the Convention, The 
Massachusetts Greenback Labor party met to Fan- 
uell llall Friday, and, after a tumultuous session, 
nominated General Butler for Governor and Wen¬ 
dell Phillips for Lieutenant-Governor, and adopted 
a platform which asserts that “the Greenback- 
philosophy has been grandly vindicated ” by the 
Stoppage of contraction to 167s and the receiving 
of greenbacks ror custom duties, and that the coin 
resumption ot the Republican party la a sham and 
a delusion. Kearney will read with surprise that 
his Eastern friends believe “labor-saving mar 
chinery is a boon of God to the sons and daughters 
of toll,” though they want “the contract system 
ol convict labor abolished.” 
Governor Robinson has just accepted the renom¬ 
ination for Governor of this State, tendered to him 
by the Democratic State Convention that lately 
met at Syracuse. John Kelly, t.he Tammany 
“ boss,” who with his followers *• bolted” from that 
Convention, and was nominated by his “heelers’’ 
as a rival candidate for the Governor’s chair, Is 
energetically at work organizing his adherents to 
this city, and wherever there are any considerable 
numbers or them throughout the state. He says 
that he has not the slightest, expectation of win¬ 
ning the coveted honor himself, but he feels con¬ 
fident that he will be able to draw votes enough 
away from Robinson to defeat, him. The anti- 
Tammany men, however, say that Robinson’s hos¬ 
tility to Tammany will so benefit him In the rural 
districts that any losses he may suffer here from 
Kelley's oppositions will be nearly counterbalanced 
elsewhere. Many of the followers of Tammany 
Hall, too, will vote for the regular nominee of their 
party. In the Republican party ot this State there 
are also some signs of discontent with the nomi¬ 
nation ot Cornell for Governor. It Is stigmatized 
as a “machine” nomination by a few kid-gloved 
“ Simon-Pures” who think they are honoring poli¬ 
ties by meddling once a year or so with an elec¬ 
tion, and are then disgusted unless they are per¬ 
mitted to “ boss the job.” About half a hundred 
of these, most of whose names are now for the 
first time seen to print, have Issued an address ad¬ 
vising oilier malcontent Republicans not to “ bolt’’ 
the ticket nominated at Saratoga, but to “scratch” 
Cornell’s urul Houle’s names. The Democratic 
“ bolt,” however Is likely to do more mischief than 
the Republican “ scratch.” 
Gen. Grant arrived In San Francisco on Saturday 
evening. Great preparations had been made by 
the citizens to give him a welcome such as had never 
been accorded to any one ou the Pacific Slope. The 
Secretaries ot War and the Navy telegraphed to 
their subordinates In California to co-operate to 
every way with the citizens to welcoming home 
America’s great general. The following Is a sum¬ 
mary of this morning's telegraphic accounts of his 
reception:- The groat court Of the Palace Hotel last 
evening, when Gen. Grant arrived, was lighted by 
electricity, and the hotel aud its court and the 
street were crowded. At 10 o'clock the doors were 
thrown open,and a barouche containing Gen. Grant 
was driven within the building. As he alighted, 
however, Madame Fabbro and a chorus of five 
hundred voloes opened from one of the balconies 
with an ode of welcome, and it. was announced to 
the great multitude In the street that the General 
would appear ou one or the balconies arter he had 
had time t.o take off his overcoat. As soon as the 
review was finished the soldiers and sailors, veter¬ 
ans of the late war, repaired to the sand lots with 
a field battery and fired u salute. After a chorus 
had been rendered, Gen. Grant, to response to re¬ 
peated calls, appeared on the balcony of the fourth 
story and bowed to the shouting populace, and 
Mayor Bryant appeared and announced that as 
soon as the General had finished his dinner he 
would show himself. In a few minutes Gen. Grant 
appeared, and Mayor Bryant called for order, and 
the General, mounting a chair, which was passed 
over the heads of the multitude, was again greeted 
with cheers, ne Bald: 
Fellow citizens or Han Francisco: After 
twenty-live months absence, I am glad to meet you, 
and assure you of my cordial thanks for the kind 
greeting you have given me. 1 shall stay to your 
city long enough to greet you more fully. 
The General then withdrew. The reception 
Committee, In the tug Miller Griffith, ran along¬ 
side the City of Toklo, about three miles outside 
file Heads, and as the China, George \V. Elder, 
Ancon, and Ht. Paul, with their decks black with 
hats, slowly rounded to, the party went on board. 
The General and Ills suite were on t he bridge of 
the Toklo, and the Committee were conducted im¬ 
mediately to him. At about the same time the 
Government steamer McPherson, with Gen. 
McDowell and stuff, ranged alongside. There 
were no formalities. The band of one of the 
steamers played “Home Again,” and Gen. Grant 
was welcomed to the Pacific coast. The General 
said that be had ridded himself of some of his 
superfluous flesh, as ho weighed ise pounds when 
he sailed from the United States, and now pulled 
down the scales at 159. On the trip from Yoko¬ 
hama the weather was fine. The departure from 
Yokohama was attended with elaborate ceremo¬ 
nies, at the instance of the Japanese Government, 
Gen, Grant and suite being accompanied from the 
Mikado’s palace by the entire Cabinet and all the 
foreign Ministers. Troops lined the way to the 
station, and as the City of Toklo bteamed out of 
the harbor salutes were fired. Gen, Grant made 
no public appearance except to take a ride to Gar¬ 
den Gate Park with Major Bryant yesterday. 
The United states marshal, with an execution 
against the city ot Elizabeth, N. J., for defaulting 
on Its bonds, found no property that could bo at¬ 
tached. It la stated that tho appoint meut of a 
receiver for the city will be asked. Daniel Drew 
had been lu his usual health during Thursday. At 
6 o’clock he dined with Darius Lawrence, the 
broker, lie returned to his son’s house after din¬ 
ner. Although he complained of feeling slightly 
unwell, lie Insisted that no oue should alt up with 
him. About 10:15 Drew walked Into the room 
occupied by Lawrence, and said he felt much more 
unwell. Medical asslsunce was at once sum¬ 
moned, but before It arrived Drew was dead. The 
physicians attributed hts death to epilepsy. 
FORKIUN. 
Thomas C. Scott, the well-known English agri¬ 
cultural authority, writes that tho government 
and trade estimates show that the surplus of wheat 
in America, Russia and to the East Is 4,040,000 
bushels less than the aggregate deficiency of the 
various countries, and that a rise to the prices of 
breadstuffs Is therefore anticipated. Lord Derby, 
speaktug at South Point, England, Thursday, 
recommended public and private economy for a 
time, as trade must Infallibly revive, seeing that 
England was not, like the Continental powers* 
wholly occupied with armaments; and said the 
furtherance ot emigration schemes was more 
