‘The RURAL NEW.YORKER 
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Tennessee Notes 
Such a lonesome, lonesome day! The 
wanderlust has struck the eldest lad, and, 
baggage in hand, he has departed to join 
the next oldest lad in Iowa. Paul and 
Lee are in school, but they come home 
about five. Thelma, the wee girl, has to 
stay from Monday until Friday. I won¬ 
der if the time seems as long to her as to 
me? I have kept myself as busy as a bee 
all day long; first there was the trunk to 
straighten out., the violin to put away, 
caps, coats, etc., left behind, to brush and 
put away for safe keeping. Next to 
straighten the rooms upstairs, then down ; 
bake light bread, cook a pumpkin, bake 
some custard. If eggs are scarce, use 
one teaspoon of cornstarch to pinch of 
baking powder and just a wee pinch of 
salt for each custard, and you cannot tell 
the difference. Thoroughly mix the milk, 
starch, sugar, powder and salt, then add 
the pumpkin ; mix well together. 
Next some patching to do, but while the 
stove was hot I baked some sweet pota¬ 
toes, dried corn, and cooked sufficient for 
supper so I will have no more cooking to 
do today. We have the finest lot of roast¬ 
ing ears. We planted a late patch of corn 
and cane for feed; the roasting ear's are 
just now coining in, and I don’t know 
whether it is because they are late, but, 
anyway, we and the neighbors think they 
are far sweeter than just the ordinary 
corn. Paul has a pig that thinks so, too; 
it will cut down two or three stalks of 
cane, then smell around and finally cut 
down a cornstalk with an ear on it. We 
hate to pen the pig, for it is gaining over 
a pound a day, and Paul thinks it the only 
pig in the country. I want to get one for 
Lee from the pig club, but here it is 12 
miles to go, and, well, maybe I will get 
there after awhile. They give the boys 
an eight-weeks-old sow pig on an agree¬ 
ment that they will take good care of her 
and return two sow pigs eight weeks old 
out of the first litter. It would be cheaper 
to buy the pig, but there is good stock in 
them, and they could not be sold. 
Our paper reports a race riot at Knox¬ 
ville Saturday night. What is the rem¬ 
edy? A compulsory school law and a 
vagrancy law combined may help. The 
trouble is generally started by one of the 
idle, ignorant, vicious sort. Some of the 
Southern localities show three blacks to 
one white. A race war would be no 
laughing matter there. It is a problem 
that grows more serious and complicated 
every year. We have but few colored peo¬ 
ple in our own locality ; they are a peace¬ 
ful, law-abiding people. 
A State compulsory school law is now 
to be enforced, but I can find nothing iu 
it to compel school buildings to be iu 
walking distance, or where there are con¬ 
solidated schools, as in our own case, for 
there to be a conveyance furnished for 
those who live from three to four miles 
away. I believe in the consolidated school 
if carried on right, but I am against giv¬ 
ing all to a few and nothing to the many 
depending on the little sehoolhouse nearby 
for their future education. No wonder 
the cities are crowded and the country 
showing more and more abandoned farms. 
There, your children have school facilities 
without walking six or eight miles a day 
in all sorts of weather; there, organized 
labor can work six hours a day and collect 
a day’s wages. In the country we work 
10 hours a day, and Congress is being pe¬ 
titioned to allow us not even expenses for 
our long day’s work. The products of the 
soil are the real basic wealth of a nation. 
Those of us in contact with the soil could 
exist without gold, silver, or the products 
of the factories, shops or mills, but how 
long could they exist without the food? 
If there is to be a committee to fix the 
price on our wheat, corn, meat, lard, eggs, 
butter and chickens. I want a committee 
to fix the price on the shoes, cloth, suits, 
overai.s. coffee, tins. pots, pans, needles, 
pins, farm implements, medicine, wire, 
etc., and I want the committee to know 
that we are paying from 20 to 100 per 
cent increase on what we buy, and iu some 
cases more. 
So many of my neighbors are losing 
their chickens from what they think is 
cholera, but I think it lice and starvation. 
1 am feeding wheat bran, milk and a bit 
of copperas in their drinking water. All 
the broody hens are thoroughly dusted and 
greased. I try to keep a lookout for car¬ 
casses ; one dead chicken will kill a num¬ 
ber if not burned or buried. We* have a 
fine crop of sunflowers this year. They 
are so easily raised and make fine feed 
for the molting hens. 
Water is scarce, so after I am through 
washing I use the suds and rinse water to 
clean the floors. We bought 1 bushels 
of apples. I made five half-gallon jars 
of marmalade or butter, and two gallons 
of jelly out of the peelings. 
A land agent sold a farm near here yes¬ 
terday ; free dinner, free prizes and a band 
concert, but he cleared $6,000 on the farm 
s> he could well afford to pitch a few 
pennies out. 
The wee girlie starting to school 
leaves a childless home for the first time 
in 27 years; one feels so funny, lonesome 
and a bit relieved, too. mks. d. b. p. 
Eottling Elderberry Juice 
Mrs. T. 15. asks for use of elderberries. 
I only make juice of the berries, every 
year, and have the greatest satisfaction, 
as we all in the family use it as a medi¬ 
cine. When any of us get a cold coming 
I boil one-half cup of elderberries and mix 
with one-half cup strong tea, drink it hot, 
at bedtime, for as many evenings as neces¬ 
sary. When the children come home in 
Winter, frozen. I heat up one-half cup 
juice in one-half cup boiling water; it 
makes them feel fine in a few minutes. I 
put the berries in a big kettle, set them on 
slow fire, or on top of stove, heat through, 
and keep stirring now and then, till the 
juice comes; then strain in bag till next 
day. To each quart of juice use *4 lb. 
of sugar (brown sugar is fine). Boil 15 
minutes, add one stick cinnamon to whole 
portion; skim so it is perfectly clear. Bot¬ 
tle when cohl; take heavy wax paper, 
four inches square, double, fold over the 
neck of bottle and tie with a string. It 
will keep fine in dark place. MRS. o. p. 
India Relish 
Will you publish a recipe for India 
relish? mrs. a. s. 
The following recipe for India relish is 
given in "Marion Ilarland’s Cook Book”; 
One pint of young string beans, cut into 
inch lengths; one pint of very small cu¬ 
cumbers (an inch long), each cut into 
three pieces; three sliced cucumbers, one 
pint of button onions, peeled, four long 
red peppers, cut small; one cup of green 
nasturtium seed, one medium-sized cauli¬ 
flower^ cut into small clusters. Put all 
these ingredients into a stone crock in 
layers thickly strewn with salt, the up¬ 
permost layer being salt. Cover with cold 
water, put a plate on top. weighted with a 
stone to keep the vegetables from floating, 
and leave iu the cellar for three days. 
Drain off the brine, rinse with cold water 
by putting the vegetables in colander and 
holding under the faucet, return to the 
crock, cover with cold fresh water, and 
leave for 24 hours. 
Prepare three quarts of vinegar, one 
teaspoon of paprika, one teaspoon of 
cloves, one teaspoon of celery seed, two 
tablespoons of curry powder, one tea¬ 
spoon of ground mustard, one teaspoon 
of mace, one teaspoon of grated horserad¬ 
ish, iy 2 cups brown sugar. Let this mix¬ 
ture come to a boil, put in the drained 
vegetables, and simmer for 10 minutes 
after it begins to boil. Turn into a stone 
crock, cover closely, and let stand 4S 
hours. Then drain off vinegar and bring 
to a boil, pour over pickles and leave a 
day longer. Then fill into small glass 
jars and seal; set in a dark closet It 
will uot be ready for use under three 
weeks, and is better if uot touched for 
six weeks. 
Dishwashers I Have Known 
For over eight years I have used the 
Sanitary dishwasher and consider it truly 
helpful. Table dishes for eight may be 
placed in racks in a tank, and six quarts 
boiling suds sprayed over them, by means 
of a pump. Three to five minutes’ pump¬ 
ing washes them ; then the suds is drawn 
off and a teakettleful of hot water poured 
over the dishes, which will drain dry in 
the racks. I prefer, however, to wipe 
table silver and glassware. No dishes are 
ever broken by the process, and there is 
little difficulty in getting them clean, if 
those which have been used for dough or 
egg are thoroughly soaked. I sometimes 
give sticky plates a touch with a long- 
handled dish mop, to shorten the time of 
pumping. Directions accompanying the 
machine need to be strictly followed. 
I once saw a homemade dishwasher 
which was greatly prized by the owners. 
It was like a cupboard, perhaps 4 ft. high 
by 2x2, with racks for shelves. At the 
bottom was a receptacle for hot suds, and 
a sort of revolving dasher, operated by a 
wank, splashed the water up over the 
dishes iu the racks above. 
It is uot necessary to buy powdered 
soap, as common homemade soap, sliced, 
may be dissolved in the water while it is 
being heated, and serves well. Even with¬ 
out a dishwasher, very hot suds and a 
dish mop, with a good dish drainer, are 
great helps. If table silver is washed by 
hand it will sometimes do to drain it, 
placed upright in a large tin can with 
perforated bottom, setting it on the stove 
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