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CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
MBS. ENDICOT’S JOURNAL. 
Apple jelly; how to make aivi flavor; to put away; 
delicate cakes. 
Oct. 11.—Betsy’s brother brought a load of 
apples to market this inorniDg and as he called 
to see if I wanted any. I bought half a bushel, 
thinking they would make nice jelly. They 
were a tart apple—Maiden’s Blush, he called 
them. Bet«y first washed and wiped them, 
then we cut them iuto quarters aud filled a 
good-sized porcelain kettle, addiug only 
enough witcr to keep them from burning. 
When soft we strained them through a coarse 
muslin bag, theu through a finer one. and put 
back ou the stove with three-quarters of a 
pound of sugar to every pound of juice. In 
about twenty minutes the fi.st kettleful was 
ready to come off. I always take out a little 
into a cup and set it in cold water, aud if it 
commences to thicken at once, I know the 
jelly is done and that there is no danger of its 
having to be boiled over. When the uext was 
done, I stirred into it extract of vauilla, uatil 
it tasted strongly of it—one has always to 
remember that food flavored w hile hot, tastes 
stronger of the extract then than it will when 
the mixture has become cold. The last kettle¬ 
ful was flavored with strawberry. Apple jelly 
made iu this way i6 very nice, and as it is 
liked by almost every one it is very haudy for 
the table. While Betsy prepared tea I cut 
rounds out of the finer kinds of brown paper 
that comes around tea aud dry-goods. These 
I wet in cold flour and water, mixed as for 
starch, and put over my glasses, bowls and 
cups of jelly, pressing down smoothly around 
the 6ides. 
Oct. 12 .—The first thiug I did this morning, so 
as to get it out of the way, was to mark my jelly. 
The paper covers were dry and as tight as 
drum heads. On each of them I wrote with 
pencil the kind, naming them by the flavoring. 
I have fouud that the best place I have to keep 
anything of the kind, is in the dining-room 
closet. They should be where it is cool, dry 
and dark. 
After the children had started to school and 
when Katy was sleeping, I went into the 
kitchen aud finding the cake box entirely 
empty, concluded to try a recipe given me by 
Miss C—, called 
Delicate Cake. 
One and a quarter cup of sugar, half a cup 
butter, halt a cup of milk, three eggs, two 
cups flour, iuto which has been thoroughly 
mixed oue and a half teaspoonful of baking 
powder. The eggs should be beaten in last. 
Flavor with nutmeg and bake in little tins—I 
used my gem irons. When cold, frost. Two 
eggs will be sufficient for the frosting. These 
proportions made iu my pans two dozen ana 
one cakes. Think uext time I will double the 
quantity, foi, if put away in stone jars, they 
will keep moist for a week, or longer. 
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HYGIENIC FOOD. 
Being somewhat interested in hygienic cook¬ 
ing, and not seeing very much on the subject 
in the Rural, I thought a few words would 
stir up the contributors on the subject. We 
are a 1 ation of dyspeptics; and would It not 
be well to try aud make our dishes more easy 
of digtstion? It is well known that hard- 
boiled or baked eggs are very indigestible. Can 
any one tell us wheth -r they are as indigestible 
when baked in custards, cakes and pies? Let 
us have some receipes for puddings, pies, etc., 
that will be palatable and healthful. e. h. 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
To Cure Hams. 
Cover the bottom of the cask or barrel with 
coarse salt; put in the hams with the Bkin side 
down and sprinkle over fine salt. Place in 
auother layer of hams and so on until all are 
in. Make a brine according to the following 
proportions: Niue pounds of salt, four pounds 
of brown sugar, three ounces of saltpetre and 
one ounce of saleratus to six gallons of water. 
Boil, skim and when cold pour into the cask 
until the hams are entirely covered. Let 
remain in this pickle three months. 
Mrs. A. M. 
Cranberry Sauce. 
Look over and wash a quart of berries, 
put on to cook with a coffee-cupful of water. 
Stew slowly, 6tirring often, for an hour el¬ 
even longer. Take from the fire, sweeten 
liberally with white sugar, put through a fine 
colander aud let form in a wet mold. 
Chocolate Tartlets. 
Grate one half cake Baker’s chocolate; rub 
smooth in four tablespoousful of milk. Heat 
over the fire, add four tablespoousful of white 
sugar aud a tablespoonful of vanilla. Stir 
constantly. Then whip in the beaten yelk of 
four eggs aud a tablespoonful of melted butter. 
Make aud bake some rich tartshells, put a 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
6 mall spoonful into each, cover with a merin¬ 
gue made of the whites aud a little powdered 
sugar, and put iuto the oven until delicately 
browned. Mary B. 
Chocolate Drops. 
Two and one-half cups of granulated sugar 
and a half cup of water boiled for four minutes. 
Flavor with vanilla. Theu beat with a fork 
until cool euough to make into little balls. 
Have half a cake of Baker's chocolate melted 
and roll the balls it to the ehocolate. 
Ronst Goose. 
Stuff with a dressing of finely mashed pota¬ 
toes, seasoned with minced onion, pinch of 
sage, butter, pepper aud salt- Before making 
the gravy skim off a good deal of the fat iu the 
pan. Mrs. A. E. .B 
Roast Turkey with Oyster Dressing. 
Take a loaf of stale bread, cut off crust, 
crumble floe, add butter, pepper and salt. 
Strain the liquor from off a qu trt of oysters, 
bring to a boil aud pour over the crumbs, add¬ 
ing the crusts previously soaked. Fill a well 
dressed turkey first with a spoonful of dressing 
then three or four oysters aud so on until all 
are iu. Draw together, rub butter, pepper and 
salt over the turkey, place in a dripping pan, 
pour iu half a pint of hot water, and roast in 
a well-heated oven from two and a half to three 
hours. Baste frequently with a little water, 
butter, pepper and salt, kept in a cup on the 
back of the stove. Half an hour before it is 
done baste and dredge with flour. When 
making the gravy if there is much fat in the 
pan pour off most of it. add the chopped gib¬ 
lets with the water iu which they were boiled. 
Thicken with flour—browned—made smooth 
in a little creaui. Season. Mrs. Braiton. 
The November Scribner (or which 100,000 copies 
are printed) opens with two rrontlspiece portraits 
or Bayard Taylor, one engraved by Cole from the 
large photograph by Gutekunst, tbe other by 
duengllng from a replica or the bronze bass-relief 
by the sculptor O’Donovan, which was executed 
for Cornell University. 
An interesting feature of this number Is tbe first 
Installment of The Graudisslmes, Mr. Cable’s new 
story (and first noveJ) of Creole Lire, which suc¬ 
ceeds Mrs, Burnett’s Haworth’s, and Is to be one 
of the principal attractions of the magazine for 
the next twelve months. The opening scene Is at 
a masked ball at the old Theatre St. Philippe, New 
Orleans, at which there Is some lively coquetry on 
the part of two of the characters, ending In their 
unmasking to each other; later chapters describe 
the approach of Immigrants up the Mississippi, 
and relate the ancestry of the great creole families 
of the Granrllsslmos aud De Graplons, the feuds of 
which are the basis of the story. It Is a field com¬ 
bining fresh and diverse elements of interest, and 
one that Mr. Cable has made Ills own. 
Ably supplementing the part of The Grand- 
lsslmes relating to the river, Is the paper on the 
Mississippi .Jetties, by Mr. E. L. CortheU, the resi¬ 
dent engineer at Port. Eads. There Is a portrait 
of Captain Eads, and the work Is made clear by 
plans. A timely paper on Tbe Agricultural Dis¬ 
tress in Great Britain is contributed by Mr. P. T. 
Quinn, of the New .Jersey State Agricultural Asso¬ 
ciation, v ho concludes from personal observation 
of English farming during the past, year, that It 
has Irretrievably lost Its prominence as an indus¬ 
try of the kingdom. This effect Is attributed part¬ 
ly to the system of renting, partly to the conserva¬ 
tism of the farmers themselves, but chiefly to 
American competition. A strong contrast to t his 
state of affairs Is presented by Mr. Henry Klng£ 
Picturesque Features of Kansas Farming, wide 
Incidentally shows an unexampled state of pros¬ 
perity ; Illustrated papers of an interest somewhat 
allied to these are on Rare Lawn-Trees, by Mr 
Samuel Parsons, Jr., of Flushing, I,. I., and on 
Success with Small Fruits, by Rev. E. P. Roe, of 
Cornwall, N. Y. Both of these papers are by ex¬ 
perts, and contain much Information for the plant¬ 
ing season. 
Nine other papers give variety to the number, 
viz.: an account by Clarence Cook of Mr. Morris 
Moore and his Old Masters, with three engravings, 
including one by Cole of the celebrated Apollo and 
Marsyas of Raphael, discovered and owned by Mr. 
Moore, a painting which It Is hoped may be pur¬ 
chased for America; the first part of Mr. E. C. 
Stedmaira critique of Bayard Taylor s poetry and 
literary career, involving the consideration of eth¬ 
er American literature before the war; a curlois 
Study Of flow Aulcaalsget Home, by Mr. Ernest 
Ingersoll, whose conclusion is against any special 
“ homing lnstlucta picturesque Illustrated arti¬ 
cle by Mr. W. 11. Rldelngon The French Quarter of 
New York; Extracts from the Journal ol Henry J. 
Raymond, edited by his son, Mr. H. W. Raymond, 
and principally devoted to reminiscences of Web¬ 
ster and the campaign of 1848 Including Webster’s 
opinion of Clay; a paper on the habitat and game 
qualities of The Michigan Grayling, by the late 
Thaddeus Norris; the fourth installment of Mr. 
Henry James’s Confidence, in which the scene 
changes to America, and two clever pieces of ro¬ 
mance-one a story of Americans In Europe by 
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Head, entitled A Sigh and the 
other of the Schleswig-Holstein war, by Mr. II. H. 
Boyesen, entitled Ilka on the Hill-top, and Intro¬ 
ducing a Swiss yodellng song. 
The poetry ol the number Is contributed by Aus¬ 
tin Dobson, Mary Mapes Dodge, Charles G. D. 
Roberts (a young poet of promise), William C. 
Bonaparte Wyse (three sonnets on his cousin, the 
Prince imperial), Mary J. Jacques, and Eliza C, 
Hall, 
In his department of Topics ot the Time, Dr. 
Holland writes of Peter the Gi eat—apropos of Mr. 
Schuyler's history, to be published In Scribner, 
and discusses The Nation’s Doctors and Is Life 
Worth Living? The Home and Society depart¬ 
ment contains practical advice on Weaning the 
Baby by Catherine Owen, and a paper from 
Charles Barnard on Light, Heat, and Power for the 
Householder, considering “what has been done 
aud what Is likely to be done In these fields of 
domestic economy.” Culture and Progress In¬ 
cludes a long review of Haeckel's Evolution of 
Man and other notices. The world's work treats 
of important Advance In Metallurgy, Improved 
Builder's Platform, Novel Application of the Pen¬ 
dulum to Useful Work, etc. Bric-a-Brac, which is 
principally taken up with Ught satire, Is especially 
bright. 
Goon Covo-ant Number Two.—The opening 
sketch by Octave Thahct, Is at once vigorous and 
pathetic, In wliLsh all the characters have been 
drawn from life. The central figure Is a western 
Methodist minister who against his will drifted In 
his belief toward Schopenhauer’s Ideas, other 
characters are a brother clergyman, a noble Illus¬ 
tration of Methodist warm-heartedness, aud a lady 
from Pittsfield, Mass., with her husband. 
Another vivid portraiture Is Mr. W. M. F. Round’s 
description of an experiment he made in smoking 
opium In a Chinese opium den in Boston. 
The Men of Lake Tahoe graphically pictures the 
hardy lumbermen of that wonderful and beauti¬ 
ful California lake, six thousand feet above the 
sea in the sierra Nevadas, and some experience on 
its shores. 
Around St. Paul’s describes some of the end¬ 
less and interesting peculiarities of London. 
The stories are A Fragant Vase, by Mr. Horace 
E. Scudder, A Kid of the Goats, by Mrs. Lizzie 
W. champney; and the Cornet solo, by Miss 
Elizabeth W. Denison. 
The verses include on» of Miss Elaine Goodale’s 
charming flower poems. Fringed Gentian ; and 
others by Mrs. Celeste M. A. Winslow, Mrs. Mary 
Bradley, and Mrs. Helen Ekijv Starrett. 
Rev. Dr. James M. Whiten has Bible Bygones; 
there Is a resume of the various Sunday laws of 
the different New England States, given apropos of 
the recent Sunday discussion In Norwich, Conn, aji 
article on the charities for children h> New York; 
an article by Mr. Arthur Dllman entitled The Gos¬ 
pel Doctor, timely In view of the live hundredth 
Wlclif anniversary which occurs next, year; The 
District Attorney and crime by Rev. Charles 
Caverno; and a sketch, Nooktown Gossip. 
WHERE THE BEEF COMES FROM. 
The November Llpplncott's contains a timely 
and Interesting article on “ Where the Beef Comes 
From.” The following extract shows from what 
small beginnings our present aud ever-increasing 
beef traffic sprang: 
It was during the last days of the war that the 
Texan cattle- trade first assumed large proportions. 
At that time Nortnwe3tern Texas was swarming 
with cattle, which possessed little or no value on 
their native ranches. They were not a choice 
breed. Large, raw-boned, with wild eyes and lonr 
outspread horns, fierce In temper and forbidding 
of aspect, they were about as low a grade of the 
bovine rice as could be found. The cows were 
never milked and the oxen never yoked. Still, 
their tle-li was meat, though dark In color and 
rather coarse In flavor and texture, and meat was 
at that time In active demand at the North. Some 
large government contractors tried the experi¬ 
ment of Importing them. They fouud teal they 
could buy two-and three-year-old steers In Texas 
at six to eight dollars per head, aud sell them In 
Missouri at thirty to thirty-five dollars per head. 
This paid very well. At first only small droves— 
or “bunches.”as they are called In the West—of 
from three hundred to five hundred head each 
were bought; and so careless were the Texan 
stock-raisers, and so high was Northern credit, 
that the bunch was usually paid for by note at 
twelve months. The cattle were driven North 
through “ the Territory” (Indian Reservation) to 
the Neosho Valley, and thence along the boundary- 
line between Missouri and Kansas. Coffeevllle 
w as one of the favorite markets of the day. Old 
cowboys still speak of It. with oaths. It seems 
that It produces the largest and most blood-thirsty 
heirs ol musqulioea In the West, and on hot 
nights the cattle, driven to frenzy by their Insect 
tormentors would stampede and scatter over the 
country. 
In the course of a year or two the profits of the 
business became an open secret, and capital was 
embarked In It by several dealers in St. Louis aud 
Chicago. From a few hundred bead the bunches 
swelled to a thousand or more and the price or 
three year-olds rose In Texas to leu and fifteen 
dollars. Simultaneously, settlements began to 
thicken on the Kansas border, and, the settlers 
naturally objecting to periodical invasions of wild 
cattle, the Northern rendezvous was moved to the 
vicinity of Topeka. It did not stay long there, for 
many reasons, and after a general consultation 
among dealers, Ablllne, anew town ou the Kansas 
Pacific, some twenty'live miles farther west, was 
selected as the future cattle market of the Wes¬ 
tern country. It was surrounded Dy rolling prai¬ 
ries still covered with buffalo-grass, weU supplied 
with water, easily reached from the South and 
connected with the East by a line of railway. 
ilclus of % toll. 
miscellaneous. 
Monday, November 1st, 1879. 
Before this shall have reached most of our 
readers, the November elections, which now en¬ 
gross the greatest share of public Interest, wUl 
have been decided by the votes of the people, so 
that anythlngthatcouldnowte said In reference 
to that matter, would be useless. In this State all 
parties seem to be working hard, and each ex¬ 
presses Itself confident of effecting the object It 
has In view. The Itoblnsonltes say they will gain 
enough of dissatisfied Republicans, mostly 
“Scratchers” to compensate .for the handful of 
John Kelley’s followers who have bolted the reg¬ 
ular Democratic nomination. John Kelley, while 
bitterly denouncing all newspapers that fall to 
support him. la still confident of a snfflclent “ back¬ 
ing” to enable him to defeat Robinson or rat her 
Tilden whom he la really flgliUng; Cornell’s or 
rather Conkllng’s followers, express a quiet con¬ 
fidence or success, and that the “ Scratchers'' are 
not equal to even a very small fly on a very big 
wheel, especially as they call ttn mselves Admln- 
lstratlonlsts, yet Secretaries Everts and Sherman 
have spoken here against their movement,. The 
“ Searchers,” on the other hand, say that. If they 
cannot defeat the Republican candidates whom 
they are fighilng, they will at any rate so reduce 
the majority for Cornefi aud Soule below that 
of the ticket, that their strength will bo ap¬ 
parent to everybody, and that scratching nomin¬ 
ations which one disapproves Is the best way to se¬ 
cure good ones. Well, to-morrow will settle all 
these questions. 
Senator Each Chandler Is dead. He was found 
dead in lushed at the Grand Pacific UoteL Chicago, 
early on Saturday morning, after having delivered 
one ot the most powerful speeches of his life before 
an audience of 5,0n0 persons tbe previous evening. 
The coroner decides that, he died of an Inrush of 
blood upon the brain—apoplexy. The dead states¬ 
man was born at Bedford, N. TI„ Dec. to, 1813. He 
received an academic education; but wnen quite 
young moved West and settled iu Detroit, Mich., 
then a mere trading post bur. lately surrendered 
by the English lie started In the dry goods busi¬ 
ness, which he followed successfully until i860, 
when he first look part In politics In opposition to 
Gen Cass, who at that day domineered political 
matters in Michigan as head ot the local Demo¬ 
cratic party. The desperate struggle which fol¬ 
lowed between the Old Democratic party under 
the veteran leader Cass, and the young Repub¬ 
licans under Chandler resulted In the election of 
the latter to the Senate In the winter of 1857. 
There lie took a prominent part In the violent 
discussions that preceded the outbreak of the late 
war, being always one of the boldest and most 
ouuspoken ot the Republican leaders. During 
the war he was the author of tho Commute ou 
the Conduct of the War which contributed greatly 
towards the ultimate triumph of the Union arms. 
He was re-elected to the Senate at the cud of 
this first term. In 1863, and again in isos; but 
at the close of his third term lu 1875, he was de¬ 
feated by Chrlstlancy during the anil-republican 
flurry of that time. In October 1875 lie was made 
Seer Mary of the interior by Grant, whtjh position 
he held lo tne end of the latter’s administration 
on March 4, l$77, gaining the reputation of being 
the very best official who had ever held the posi¬ 
tion. He was always noted for his radical Re¬ 
publicanism, aud Ills haired of Great Britain; 
but not even his bitterest enemy has ever ven¬ 
tured to reflect on his personal Integrity, which 
won him the sobriquet of “ Honest Each Chand¬ 
ler.” in bis business and real estate transactions 
he acquired a large fortune—several millions—and 
had the reputation of being very liberal. Ills loss 
Is deeply mourned by a host of friends everywhere. 
During the, past w'eek death also claimed Gen. 
Joseph Hooker—Fighting Joe Hooker—who died 
at Garden City, Long island, where he had for 
some time made his home. He was bom at Had¬ 
ley, Mass., in 1815; graduated at West Point in 
1837; served In the Florida and Mexican wars 
with distinction and was gazetted captain, major 
ami lieutenant-colonel l or gallant services In the 
battles ot Montery, National Bridge aud cbapul- 
tepec. In 1858 he resigned bis commission, and 
become a farmer lu California. At the boglunlng 
of the civil war he re-entered the service and was 
apjioiuted brigadier general or volunteers in March, 
18«1, and served In the neighborhood of Wash¬ 
ington until March, 18ri2, when ho took com¬ 
mand of a division of the army of the Potomac, 
lie was made major general in the following May 
aud look an active part in McClellan’s peninsular 
campaign. He was made brigadier general of the 
United states army In September of the same 
year and commanded a grand division under 
Burnside at the battle of Fredericksburg. He 
succeeded the latter In commaud of the array of 
the Potomac ou January 20, is03, and fought the 
battle of ChanccllOiavuie at the beginning ol May. 
On June 27 he resigned the command on account 
of a “difficulty" with HuUeck. and was succeeded 
by Meade. In September be was placed In com¬ 
mand of t he 12th und 13th army corps, which were 
concentrated at Chattanooga, and took an active 
part In the series of battles fought there uuder 
Grant In November, and was made brevet major 
general tor his services on Lookout Mountain In 
his “ Battle above the Clouds,” on which some 
discredit has lately been thrown by Gen. Grant. 
While In commaud of the Army of the Cumber- 
land-the 20 th army corps -he was prominent in 
the operations about Atlanta. He resigned his 
command In 1S61 lu consequence of a dispute 
about rank. In September he was placed In com¬ 
mand of the Northern Department; In 1865 In that 
of the East, and m i860 lu that or the Lakes. He 
was mustered out or the volunteer service on Sep¬ 
tember l, I860, and on October 15,186S, was made 
brevet major general of the United States Army, 
and retired from the service. Since theu his time 
has been chiefly passed In elegant leisure. 
Dakota is the next candidate for Stateshtp, and is 
being put forward as a proper community lobe ad¬ 
mitted to Lhu Union, especially by Republican 
newspapers. The late Dr. Francis J. Lemoyne, the 
American apostle of cremation, was of French 
descent, and so ardent an abolitionist Hi Ills young¬ 
er years that he was nominated as vice-president 
on the ticket with James u. Blrney In 1839. lie 
was also the first abolition candidate for Governor 
In Pennsylvania, and founded a coHege for colored 
people at Nashville, Tenn., to which he gave 
$30,000. He was so economical that he burned can¬ 
dles Instead of gas, and Is said to have pUed up 
$ 300 , 000 . Though full of eccentricities and whims, 
the old man was charitable In his way, and had a 
native shrewdness and acquired fund of Informa¬ 
tion that made him a good companion. Sir Fran- 
