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Show An Early Mill, The want of mills is everywhere a great deprivation in a- new country; varied have been the devices for overcoming over-coming it. A substitute for a mill was used in the early settling of western New York and probably to BOine extent in Ohio. It consists of a stump hollowed out by fire as a mortar, with a log attached at-tached to the end of a young sapling bent over to act as a pestle. The process was slow and tedious, it being a day's work to convert a bushel of corn into samp. The early settlers in western New York when they owned a few slaves, which Bomeof them did, employed them in this drudgery, hence tho process was vulgarly termed "niggering corn." People Peo-ple of humanity in our time would not bo guilty of using Buch an expression as this. No one thing shows the general moral advance of tho American people more strongly than their treatment of and increased consideration for tho humbler classes among them. Howe's Historical Recollections of Ohio. |