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Show FARMING BACK IN 1800 Agriculturist Lived In the Simplest Manhsr and In the Strictest Econo ny. In a well built rabln or log the farmer lived In the simplest manner and with the strictest conoray. Ills rooms were warmed and hla food waa cooked by a fire In a lOplate Iron tove. which sent the gases up the flue of a solitary chimney that rose from the middle of the bouse, ills food waa clefly pork and rye, onions and aauerkraut, milk and cheese, turnips tur-nips and Indian corn. Sometimes fresh moat was added, lint no beeves nor sheep were slaughtered till ever part of the carcass bud been lsposed of among the families on the neighboring neigh-boring furms. With this exception, everything he ate grew upon his o ;n land. Everything Every-thing he wore was made under hla own roof. The good wife and her daughters cultivated the garden putcb that lay near tbe house, trained the -honeysuckles that shaded the door, spun the flax and woolen yarn, worked work-ed the loom, made the cheese and butter and, wherf harvest came, tolled with the sickle In the field. If he bad a servant on the farm, the man or woman whs. a redemptloner. From McMaster's "History of the American People." "Do you know when a man Is Invariably In-variably put out?" "Why, yes. When he Is taken In." New York Evening Telegram. |