Bloomington Progress, Volume 16, Number 48, Bloomington, Monroe County, 14 March 1883 — Page 1

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A woman to fon holy father wont Confession ot sin iu her intent; And so her misdemeanors, gmt mod small. She faithfully rehearsed them all: And. chief est in her catalogue of sin. She owned that she Mr-bearer had been. And bornea bit of scandal np and down To all the long-tongued gossips in the town. The holy father, for her other sin, Granted the MwnlnHnn asked of hint:

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He tow her this offense was very gran, And thnt t fit, fit. nenance she must BO

Out by the wavslde where the thistles grow. And gather the largest, ripest one, dcatter its seeds, and that when this was dona. She most comt back again mother day To tell him his commands she did obey, 'he woman, thtnldns this a penance light, listened to do his will that very night, eeling right glad she bad escaped so well. Next day trot one she went the priest to tell; The priest sat still and heard her story through. Then said, "Them's iiomething sail lor yon to do; Those little thistle seeds which yon have sown, I bid yon go recather every one. The woman said; "But, father, twouM be in vain To try to gather ni those seeds again; The wind have scattered them both far and wide. Over the meadowed Tale and mountain side." The father answered, "Now, I hope from this. The lesson I have taught yon will not miss; Ton cannot gather back the scattered seeds, Which far and wide will grow to noxious weeds; Nor can the mischief once by scandal sows By any penance be again undone," Montreal Witness.

"She says," writes Mr. M. D. Conway, in an aceonnt of a personal interview with Louise Michel in London, "that not only women but men have far more freedom in England than in France. The republic is largely a delusion; it fares no better with the poor than under the empire. She does not wish that women should be enfranchised . in France; the men vote bad enough without the help of the women dependent en them. There has been, she says, a remarkable and steady decrease of the influence of the priests over women since the Franco-German war, bnt that emancipation has not gone far enough yet to entitle women to vote. The great work is to give them the freedom of all occupations; to give them equal wages, to protect their earnings; then you ean obtain the woman's real vote, and not merely one which doubles the vote of some priest or master. She much admires America, and should hare gone there this year had it not been for the illness and decline of her mother." gha Bad Bead an Easajr. She had been reading an essay somewhere and was going home on a street ear, accompanied by a miss, a middleaged dame, and two youths. -There were a dozen other passengers in the ear who were not aware that she had been reading an essay, and she determined to enlighten them; so in a halfpitched voic e that could hare been heard lor blocks, she screamed: "Oh, dear! C don't know how glad I was when I finished reading my essay. I was really quite nervous, I assure you, for there were whole pages of it. I actually set up all night to write it. It was a terribly trying tune to get up before a cultnred audience and read an original es.say of such length. How did I do?" Dame: "Just splendid." Miss: -"Be-autifal.". First vontk: "I never saw you do better."" Second youth: "Quite well." She (in a tone of astonishment and disgust, with caliope power) "Quite well!" (With aeora "Perhaps you think you could do better?" (Beseechingly.) "You wre out among the audience. Now dp please tell me what they said about me." Second youth: "Some of them criticised your enunciation." (A smile all around by the other passengers.) She (with great scorn) : "Oh, they did, eh! The mean things!" He: "Then some of them thought your strictures on Pickens were unjust"" She: "WelL.1 never liked Dickens. His character are all overdrawn and unnatural." He: Terhpas you prefer Thackeray?" She (with a sniff of disdain) : "Thackeray ! Thackeray!! Who was Thackeray, anyway? Thackeray wasn't nobody!" And those of the deafened passengers who hadn't already got off the ear to walk home went out and rode on the platform, taOser lady Biders. Every now and then a fatal accident happens to a woman by a fall from a bone, says the ISew York Times. A recent one occurring in an English bunting field has been particularly commented on. The horse reared, fell backward, and, before the rider could free herself, the animal crushed her. Of late a new prong has been added to a lady's saddle a third horn, in fact and quite a number of these side-saddles Itave been introduced into th United States. The trouble seems to be that, with this extra rig, the difficulties of disengagement from the saddle are very much increased. If the position m rendered rather more secure the imparting of sudden movements to the rider being prevented by these triple horns when it becomes necessary in exceptional cases for a woman to throw herself out of her saddle she is secured so tightly that rapid action becomes impossible. Accidents will happen, even to men who know -how to ride when a horse falls backward, the only escape being to slide down the horse's back, a circus-like performance, which is easier to describe than to carry out. But, with a rolling horse, a woman stands but little chance. A horse slips and down he goes, struggles for an instant, turns over on one side, and then comes a broken leg for the rider. As a great fox hunter said : "Any fool can fall, but the thing is to know just how to fall," and, of course, "how to fall" can never be taught in a riding-school. Exceedingly long and heavy , riding skirts become even more dangerous with the three-proBged side-saddles, for one of the rider's-legs may be so tightly enveloped that it can hardly be moved; then, again, if the limb is freed there are chances of entanglement of the folds at the skirt in the new prong, and a fearful dragging of the rider. So matter what are the precautions used, as long as a woman 'must ride in an unnatural position there is some danger, but the risk may be reduced to a minimum in this way : Never permit a woman to ride ahorse that has a single vice or trick. If all the accidents happening to women were studied it would be found that 75 per cent, of them arise from a faulty horse, and the rest from the heavy, unyielding material of the skirt. Side-saddles have the least to do with it A Woman's Criticism at m 'Woman. In view of the protest against municipal suffrage for women, signed by 60,000 ladies of Massachusetts, I would like to point out a possible evil in the possession of the vote which has not hitherto been spoken of very much, if ftt ajl. Those of us who sympathize

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in theory with woman suffrage (of whom the writer is one) have been apt to consider that the chief practical objection to the suffrage for us lies in the overwhelming power that it would place in the hands of the ignorant female voters, or rather of their "bosses." For bosses they would have without any sort of doubt. And the bosses would probably wear male attire. Bnt this is not alL There is a certain class of keen, cold, hard-headed female politicians in this country who have well learned the lesson from men that there is money to be made in politics, and that they would like to get their share of it by exploiting their "influence," or any other of their faculties. T am credibly infoimed by one who was once employed as a Washington correspondent that the representatives of this class of female politicians in Washington are not only disliked by statesmen there, but absolutely feared they are so unprincipled. In illustration of this want of principle, I would like

to cite the action of the well-known'

woman lawyer, Belva Lockwood, regarding the Anti-Bigamy bill, which provided for the disfranchisement of plural wives. Mrs. Lockwood and her friends went to the Capitol and personally opposed the passage of the AntiBigamy bill, because it deprived the Mormon concubines of the franchise. Thus she allows us to understand that the Mormon female suffrage must stand, even at the cost of the most hideous system of legalized prostitution that ever disgraced a Christian nation. For other Christian nations, at least, do not countenance such abominations in the name of religion. The laws of Europe and England concerning such matters are among the horrible outgrowths ol their military system, with which religion has nothing to do. When a woman as well known as Mrs. Lockwood deliberately announces to the world that a woman had better be an enfranchised Mormon than a decentlywedded or maiden non-voter, and shows us that her friends are of the same mind, it is time to go slow and reflect upon the consequences likely to result to public affairs if we get an organized gang of female political cormorants to match the males already on hand. Mathilde Fay, in Boston Post

The moral and religious degeneracy of the times is a feature so marked that even the most casual observer is unable to overlopk it. The fragments of old forms and creeds mark every step of modem progress, until one sometimes is tempted to ask if the world is to be left wholly without formulated belief of any sort. On the one hand are to be met 'negations, unbelief, agnosticism; and frequently, on the other, a construction of ancient creeds that is practically an abrogation and a denial. To propose a remedy for this epidemic of unbelief is beyond the wisdom of any man, and nothing short of time can effect a cure. It is not impossible, however, to discern some of the causes that have produced this state of things. Perhaps most effective among them is the development of what we are accustomed to call "the woman question;" in other words, the turning of the attention and thoughts of women into new and broader channels. In modern civilization the existence of religion depends upon the faith and fidelity of women. Left to men, the church would become either a system of moral ethics or an organization striving for temporal power through its hold upon spiritual instincts. The religious element is essentially a feminine attribute, and religious systems as distinguished from moral philosophies have been the outgrowth of the minds of women or of men whose character was modified by asceticism. In our days women have largely abandoned religious for social ethics; not upon faith but upon knowledge has their attention been centered, and the inevitable result has followed; A nation learns its faith by the fireside or not at all. It is one of the issues which women mut fairly face, whether the benefits they can confer upon the world by a public or semi-public career will compensate for the loss society sustains in the resulting neglect of their office as religious instructors to the race. There is, ii seems to us, no more weighty consideration than this connected with the-tangled problem of the condition of thj sex to-day. We believe fully in woman's right to decide the question for herself, but we believe attempts to. evade it to be as dishonest and cowardly as they will ultimately be futile. Of course we would notclaim that the unsettled state of religion:) thought today fa wholly owing to the cause indicated. The broadening of modern thought in all directions, the wonderful development of knowledge, the rapidity of nineteenth century life, are all important factors in the case. We do believe, however, that no element entering into the problem is so important as the position and intention of women; and, while we repeat that we acknowledge their perfect right to decide for themselves where they will stand in this respect, we also insist that they owe it to men, to society and to themselves not' to evade or ignore so important an issue. Boston Courier. TTature'i Tf ash-Boom. Nature's gifts are widely and variously distributed. In one place the elements of things are given to be made available by labor; elsewhere, she provides things ready for man's use. To gain our bread, the seed mnut first be sown and months after the grain harvested, threshed and ground. But the native of the Pacific Mes plucks his bread from the breadfruit tree. Our druggist, with his acids, concocts the cooling soda-water; but in a tiny, rocky isle in the middle of Clear lake, California, there is a perpetual soda-fountain from which gushes better soda-water than the chemist can produce. Perhaps nature foresaw the overworked and not over-strong housewife to whom ' Vashing-day'' is a dread and burden, when she established here and thc renatural wash-tubs and washing-machines and, in some places, even provided ready-made soap. In the Yellowstone National Perk the family washing is easily disposed of. The soiled bedding and clothing is put into a stout bag which is hung in one of the boiling springs md left there while the party wander about sight-seeing. When taken out the clothes are so clean and white that no rinsing is necessary. On one occasion a party hung their bag of clothes in T.he basin of the geyser called "Old Giant;," and, wandering off, were absent lontri'r than thev intended

to be. Wliflo they were away, the

grant spontea, ana toe garments were thrown high in the air, torn into shreds and scattered. Borne time afterward, bits of the blanket and other cloth were found petrified, and some of these petrefactions are stui exhibited.

OTJB TOVm FOLKS. The Sphinx. She doesnt live in Egypt Not in these later years: She sits in a cane-scat rocker, And this is what ahe hears: "Mamma, Where's my pencil?" "Mamma, -wherc's my hat?" "Mamma, what docs this mean? "Mamma, what is that?" "Who was General Taylor?" "Where's this horrid town?" "Have I got to do it?" "Say, is ' rest a noun?" "Can I have a cornet? Don't I wish Iliad I" "Ma, if I rot rich some day, Wonldn't you bo glad?" "This book says tho dew-drops Climb the morning sky; Ob, what makes them do so? - Tell the reason why." Bear the gentle answers, Making matters plain; Should site speak in riddles. They will ask again. - "Something ails this slipper Ttocun't it look queer? "Must I do it over? Fix it. Mother dear." "We most write an essay On a piece ot chalk; Mother, what would yon say?" "Ma, why don't yon talk? Children, come to Auntie 1 Iiet Mamma alonei X sometimes think the patient sphinx Will really turn to stone.) -.4nno & Bend, in St. A'icliolas.

Those Squirrels. "Say, Tom, the kittens are gone," announced my brother Charlie, peering into the manger where we had a few days before discovered Madame Puss and her family snugly installed. "Is Puss there?" I asked. "Yes, and she seems awful lonesome," was the reply. After a few moments' consultation we decided to ask Pat if he had seen anything of the kittens. "Sure they may have strayed away in the night." "Bnt they couldn't walk. They were only three days old," I objected. "That's thrue, Mister Tom; but thin a cat's a cunnin' cratnr. To see won of thim blinkin' by the fire all day ye'd niver think they could make tho noise they do at night ; and they'd be concealin' their strength in the daytime to use it at night," answered Pat. Plainly there was nothing to be learned from Pat. After thinking it over for a while, Charlie suggested that we hunt up the young ones. We started toward the grove behind the barn with a vague idea that people got lost in forests, and that it would be quite possible for the kittens to have lost themselves in the grove. "Maybe they have hid in the tree," suggested Charlie. "They couldn't get th ere, " I answered. "But Pat saidthat they could do more in the night," urged Charlie. I was 11 years old, and was half inclined to doubt Pafs reasoning, the more that I remembered hearing my father exclaim when he announced the discovery of the kittens : "Goodness ! we can't have four more cats. I don't get any too much sleep as it is, and an addition of a quartette to our nightly concert is not to be thought of." Charlie was my junior by two years, and his faith in Patrick was unshaken, so he 'said: 'Tm going up to see, anyhow." He thrust his hand into the hole, and pulled it out again, triumphantly shouting, "What did I tell you? Here is the" he paused to examine his prize, and continued in a crestfallen tone "a young squirrel." "Give it to me, and get the rest" I directed. They were very young, and were queer, fuzzy-looking animals. Charlie and I examined them, and then the thought struck me that we might give them to the cat in place of her lost kittens. We ran back to the barn and placed them in the manger. Madame Puss looked puzzled for a moment, first gazing at the squirrels, then at us, as if hardly knowing what to do. But she soon decided, and with a comical purr, as if to say, "I suppose it is all right, but those children have certainly changed," she drew the squirrels toward her, and washed first one, then another, and finally went to sleep with her strange family cuddled close to her. After that she took the best care of her adopted children. The. squirrels grew, and began to climb out of tho manger and run around the barn. Madame Puss was at first distressed by this, but she soon got used to it, and seemed rather to take delight in her precocious children who could climb so much better than she could herself. Hov first renl trouble came when, after patient waiting, she caught a mouse and carried it to the barn in triumph. The squirrels looked on in perfect indifference, and absolutely refused to touch the dainty morsel. Puss was surprised, but a few days later she brought in a bird; but when they paid not the slightest attention to it she was in despair. Had she, then, bronght up a family which was to be no use to the world? For a day or two she tried everything meat, bits of iish, pieces of cold potato, until some happy in.iiratioti led her to take them an almond which had fallen from tho dinner table. After that she carried them bits of bread, corn and nuts, until they grew largo enongh to come to tho house themselves. Then they ranged tho place from cellar to garret, dropping asleep in mother's work-basket, in father's pockets, and in bureau drawers, until they became a perfect nuisance. At last the crisis came ; one of them went to sleep in father's boot,, and bit his too severely when he went to put it on; tho squirrels were sent to New York to be sold, and Charlie and I eaoh had a pair of skates from the proceeds of the sale. How Chlldrao Piny la Japan. The Japanese believe in enjoying themselves, and the young folks are as bright and merry as the children of other climes. The girls play battledore and shuttlecock, and the boys fly kites and spin tops. The girls enjoy their games very much, and tiro usually dressed in their prettiest robes and bright-colored girdles; their faces are powdered with a little rice flour, their lips are tinted crimson and their hair is done up in a most extraordinary fashion. They play in the open street, sometrawa forming n circle of half a dozen or more, and send tho flying shuttlecock from one to the other. They are very skillful and rarely misi a stroke. The boys like a strong wind, that their kites may soar high ; bnt the girls sing a song that it may be calm, so that their shuttlecock may go right. The boys have wonderful kites, decorated with dragons, warriors and storm hobgoblin. Across the top of the kite is stretched a thin ribbon of

whalebone, which vibrates in the wind, making a peculiar humming sound. When I first walked tho streets of Tokio, I could not imagine what the strango noises meant that seemed to proceed from the sky above me; the sound, at tunes, was shrill and then low and musical. At last I discovered several kites in the air, and when tho breeze freshened the sounds increased. Sometimes the boys put glue on their kite strings, near the top, and dip the strings into pounded glass. Then they fight with their kites, which they place in proper positions, and attempt to sow each other's strings with the pounded glass. When a string is severed, a kite falls and is claimed bv the victor. The boys also have play-fights with their tops. Sometimes I met boys running a race on long stilts; at other times they would have wrestling matches, in which little 6-year-old youngsters would toss and tumble one another to tho ground. Their bodies wre stout and chubby, and their rosy cheeks showed signs of health and happiness. They were always good-natured and never allowed themselves to get angry. On the fifth day of the fifth month tho bovs have their Fourth of Julv, which thoy call the "Feast of Flags'" They celebrate the day very peaceably with frames and toys. They have sets of soldiers, heroes and celebrated warriors, with flags, professions and tournaments. Outside the house a bamboo pole is erected by the gate, from the top of which a large paper fish is suspended. This fish is sometimes six feet long, and is hollow. When there is a breeze it fills with wind, and its tail and fins flap in the air as though it were trying to swim away. The fish is intended to show there are boys in tho family. It is tho carp, which is found in Japanese waters, win swims against the stream-and leaps over waterfalls. The boys must, therefore, learn from the fish to persevere against difficulties, and surmount every obstacle in life. When hundreds of these huge fishes are seen swimming in the breeze, they present a very curious appearance. The girls have their "Feasts of Dolls" on the third day of the month. During the week preceding this holiday, the shops of Tokio are filled with dolls and richly-dressed figures. Tliis "Feast of Dolls" is a great gala day for the girls. They bring out all their dolls and gorgeously-dressed images, which are quite numerous in respectable families, having been kept from one generation to another. The im.iges range from a few inches to a foot in height, and represent court nobles and ladies, with the Mikado and hfc. household, in full costume. They are all arranged on shelves, with many other beautiful toys, and tho girls present offerings of rice, fruit and "saki" wiiie, and mimic all the routiue of court-life. The shops display large numbers of these images it this special season. After the holidays they suddenly disappear. I once bought a large doll-baby at one of the shops to send home to my littlo sister. Tho doll was dressed in the ordinary way, having its head shaved in ttie style of most Japanese babies. It was so life-like that when propped up in a chair a person would easily suppose it to be a live baby.

Whalebone, Owing to the discovery and extended use of petroleum on the one hand and the multiplied ways of utilizing whalebone on the other, the latter substance has become the most valuable instead of the least valuable of the property of whalefishing. America has the lion's shore of tho whalebone industry. According to the German Pilylechnisch Zeitunq, the improved product is there supplied from only seven works four in New York mid three in Boston. The personnel is 110 to 120. The principal application of whalebone now is that in making whips and corsets. Steel has mostly displaced whalebone in umbrellas and parasols. Some years ago umbrella ribs were made in France of an excellent imitation of whalebone (not distinguishable, indeed, till fractured.), but it is no longer heard of. Genuine whalebone is often made white and used with garments of muslin or the like, not being seen through these as easily as the dark sort. The newest application of whalebone is that to hats; it is cut into fine strips and interlaced with straw. Such are very ilear. Another novelty is "whalebone ribbon." For this white whalebono is generally used, and the shaving is so thin that ordinary print can be read through it. It is often colored blue, red, or green, and used by saddlers in making rosettes. Walkingsticks of whalebone are also in good demand. The exceptionally thick strips cut for this purpose are rounded by being drawn through holes in ft steel plate. Billiard pads of whalebone must be very smooth and cut of a certain exact thickness. Fithing-rods are made of two carefully-worked strips of whalebono, with thick; silk thread wound round them. Pea-holders and other small articles are made of whalebone at the lathe. The hair cut off the raw whalebone was formerly used for brushes, but it is now mostly replaced by other materials. It is largely crisped and usod as a filling for mattresses. This list by no means exhauts the uses of whalebone, which is continually being applied in new ways.

FARM NOTES.

A Submarine Treasure. In 1780 the British man-of-war Hussar was wrecked in Hell Gate, having on board about j,(H!0,000 in guineas. In 1794 an expedition was sent out from England, and for two seasons attempted to rniso tlie wreck, but was forbidden to work longer by tho ITnitod States Government. In lHltf another attempt was made by an E iglish company with a diving-bell, but with no success. Since then a number of companies have organized only to meet with failure. Within tho post five years a new company has been at work, using the latest sub-marine armor mid appliances. A sloop firmly anchored about 100 yards from tho New York side of tho' Kast rivor, three-quarters of a mile above Ward's Island, is tho company's headquarters, and marks tho spot where tho Hussar sank, with her bows pointing to the north. The stock is divided into 4A.000 shares of $100 each. Cannon, cannon-balls, menaeles, gun-flints, silver plate and bonos'lmvo been found. One day a brass box vas brought to the surface. It was full of jewels, with a necklace of brilliants. It was loft for a moment on the deck, and disappeared, nevor to bo seen again on board again. A lump of silver, iniulo of various coins ogglomerated by the action of the water, has been found, together with scattering gold coins. But the main treasure remains yet to be found.

Tbb fleeces of any sheep are badlyinjured around stacks. Long-wooled fleeces are more damaged thou the downs of fine wools, since they are longer and more open, and catch more beards, chaff and straw.

Ay Eastern paper says lambs can be nuidn to shear f-nm two to four uniinrls

more- wool by a little extra care and feed during the winter. Tho extra w ool will more than pay for tho extra feeding, and the result will he a much larger and stronger sheep. For this purpose feed good clover hay, with bran, oats and corn mixed equally. Hkkbv Stewart, in the Sural Xew Yorker, says that no dairyman or farmer can 'afford to givo more than $200 for a heifer promising !!0 pounds of butter a week when mature, as all that might be paid in excess of that sura is what might be called, a "fancy" price, -eYad the "bric-a-brao" value Of the animal, paid merely for the pleasure of owning it. No limit can be placed on this value, as it depends wholly on tho fancy and pocket of the ultimate owner and the speculative recklessness of the intermediate dealer. Wor'.h of Incubators. Fanny Field :inds that many farmers and poultry raisers nro afraid to purchase incubators for fear that they will not work satisfactorily, or that inexperienced hands cannot run them. I do not blame them for this feeling. I lost a good bit of money on incubators before I found one that filled tho bill, but at the same time I can assure them that there are iDoubators that wil: do all the makers claim for them, and that any one who oan follow printed directions can run them. G. H. McKwney, of Stanford, Ky., gives to the Louisville Courier-Journal the following recipe for destroying hoe on cattle and horses: "Boil Irish potatoes in such quantities a.i required, a peek if need he, until they are thoroughly cooked. Then take out the potatoes a.nd boil the water a short while to incre ase its strength. Then wash the animals, whether cattle or horses, with this 002x5 or tea. It will effectually destroy the lice. If one application fails, keep on trying, as the remedy is cheap and perfectly harmless otherwise." At times horses are habitually overfed, and their systems becom e so disordered by it that their health tuners, and, tho power of digestion failing, they lose" flesh instead of gaining it, and wi'l recover condition only by diminishing from one-fonrth to one-half the quantity of their allowance. Frequently old horses become thin on account of their teeth wearing unevenly, so that it is not in their power to masticate their food. In such cases a farrier should be employed to file them ; or the owner, if ho possesses tho particular kind of file used, oan file them himself. In this case much less food will soon restore tho hoise to a proper condition. Rook salt should, of courso, bo' ever present in the manger, as a horse was never known to take too much of it Of emanlown Telegraph. Eli Elliott gives this advice to stock-raisers in the Diary and Farm Journal: "First, get goal stock of some or! the best beef breeds ; then send them along in calfhood, and be sure you never let them lose their calf-fat, but push them on good feed, as well as good grass, at the same time; never let them know what hunger is, but make tiiem weigh from 1,300 to l,i00 at 2 yearn old. In such case you may have fed them on good ground feed, such as oats, corn, bran, shorts and oil meal, every day of their live?, and still you will hare a fine profit, as the time Las never yet been that it t.id not pay to feed a good auimal all in would eat of the best and most nutritous feed to be had, regardless of the cost; of it provided it had always been so kept, and was put in market at not more than 2 years old." Joseph Habiiis, author of "Walks and Talks on the Farm," etc., asks and answeri some important questions in farming iu the American jgriculturitst. We now havo far Letter tools foe cnltivaang lands than formerly. In fact, our tools are better than our agri culture. And we may rest assured that so soon as we adopt improved methods of farming and gardening, our inventors and manufacturers will furnish nil the tools, implements and machine? necessary to do the work. But will it pay to adopt high farming? That depends on what we mean by liigh farming. High farming, if we confine ourselves to the production of hay, Indian corn, wheat, oats, and ordinary farm crops, will not im- in this countrv. And Kn- John

Bennett Lawes once wrote n paper, or gave a lecture before a farmers' club in ' Scotland,in which he demonstrated that ! high farming was no remedy for the low J prices of agricultural products of Great j Britain and Ireland. I think, however, he would admit that thorough oulti- j vution and heavy manurin g could be j profitably used for the production of what w e. usually term garden products, i The advocates of high farming make a mistake. Neither Old lingland nor j New Ihiglund will ever raise nil the ! wheat required by its populati m. i Kvou the great State of New York, I j hope, will not long continue to raise ' on its soil nil the wheat it annually eon- j sumes. Commerce is the fes' tuie of the j g, ai.il wheat is carried ten thous-ind ! miloi to niamket. Cheap bread in what! the world wants, and what the world j wants the world will got. Cheap whi'at can nevor bo furnished by high, farm- j iug. It must and will be grown largely 1 on land manured only by nature, j There may be places in which wheat ; enn be profitably growij, whore mauy of j the constituents of the plant must bo applied to tho soil, just as there are j daces where wo can profitably use ! chcinif.il processes for the production

of ice. As a rule, however, nature and commerce will furnish ice e'Ueaper than even modern science can manufacture it Wo shall have two kinds of farming. One will consist largely in the production of wheat, corn, oata, barley, cotton, sugar and rico. The other, while it will not entirely neglect tnese great products, will aim to produce crops which cannot be kept frc-ni year to year, or ordinarily be' transported long distances, HOUSEKEEPERS' HEM'S,

Fbikd Salt Fish. Take thin pieces of the fish having the skin attached, soak for sovoral hours, skin si:le up; sonk over night if it is to bo u sed for br yak last, and fry the same us fresh fish, after having dipped it in meal. Some pick tho fish in small pieces, dip in rolled cracker, aud fry like oysters. Veal Rtbakb. Out thin, sea in with salt, pepper and Bweet marjoram, broil over hot coals, turning froiuently; do not lot one side remain over the fire till done, or it will be hard and dry; if turned frequently it will be juicy 'and

tender ; take up iu a hot dish in whioh there is a little boiling water, with a lump of better aud a littlo lemon juice or catchup. Steamek Podding. One cupful chopped suet or a half cupful butter, one cupful sw eet milk, two-thirds cupful niolasscs, a teaspoonful of salt, if vou use snDt; if butter, not any salt will be needed ; a teaspoonful soda, a enpful

chopped raisins, three cupfnls flour; steam three hours. Sauce : Stir a table-spoonful of flour iuto two tablespoonfuls of melted butter till smooth ; add a cupful and a half of boiling water and let it cook a while; add a half cupful of sugar and two table-spoonfuls of vinegar, nutmeg or lemon; boil up and serve. Lobsteii Croquettes. Take the meat of two small lobsters and chop very fine ; add to it a slice of onion chopped fine and browned in a saucepan with a tablespoon ful of butter aud two even spoonfuls of flour, with two spoonfuls of sweet milk; stir it together for a few minutes on the fire to make a thick dressing, sprinkling in a little pepper and salt a id chopped parsley. When it has thickened turn it over the chopped lobster and stir in three well-beaten eggs. Form into croquettes, dip in yelk of egg, and then into bread crumbs, and fry in boiling hot lard. Bice Muffins. You can't match them. Tfcey make that dreariest of all meals, breakfast, a season of joy. They ave unutterably delicious. They are the apotiieosis of gastric enjoyment. It is an act of Christian enjoyment to tell your neighbors about it after you have made them just this way : One cup of bcilcd rice, ono cup of sweet milk, two eggs, five table-spoonfuls of melted butter, half a small saltspoon of s-alt, ono teaspoon of sugar, two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, and enough flour to make a soft batter, which will drop from the spoon. Stir after all the ingredients are in, lightly but thoroughly, and drop the batter into hot battered muffin-rings for baking. Salad. A scant pint of cold boiled or roasted meat cut in small dice. Veal, lamb or chicken can be used, or even two kinds of meat, if you have not enough of one. Twice as much cabbage as meat. Only that part of tha cabbago which is white and brittle should be used, and it can be chopped about as fi ne as the meat is cut. The dressing: One-half pint vinegar, one heaping t cible-spoonful sugar, one teaRpoenful dry-mustard, two eggs, a little salt an d pepper ; heat the ingredients over hot water, stirring constantly tc prevent curdling, and remove from tha fire as soon as it thickens; then add a piece of butter half the size of an egg, and pour it hot over the meat When it is entirely cold stir in the cabbage. Pot-Boast of Beef. Slice quarter of a pound of salt pork and lay it on tho bottom of a dinner-pot; peel and slice a medium-Bused oniou and lay it over tho pork; then put into the pot a rather square, solid piece of the round of beef, weighing about six pounds; season it with a table-spoonful of salt and a saltspoonful of pepper ; add sufficient hot water to reach one-fourth up the side of the meat; cover the pot and set it where the meat will cook slowly; about half an hour to each pound ol meat U generally the time required for cooking. Turn the moat occasionally, and eook it very slowly until it is brown and tender; take care to keep only sufficient water in the pot to prevent burning. When the meat is done, keep it hot in the ovt-n, while-a table-spoonful of flour is boiled for two minutes in the gravy; then serve the gravy and pork an the dish with the pot-roast The Fecundity of Fish Their Age. An average herring contains about 25,000 ova, so that 1,000 females of that fish would yield, if all the eggs were to come to life, 25,000,000; but hundreds of the eggs altogether escape the fertilizing milt of the male fish, and other hundreds of thousands are devoured by enemies that seem to think the ova of the herriug has been created solely to serve as food to them. All our sea fishes are endowed with enormous powers of reproduction. A female codfish has been known to contain 2,000,000 or 3,000,01)0 ova, but, as has been stated of the herring, the waste of eggs from the want of beiug fructified, and from other causes, is really enormous. The flat fishes are also ail of them very productive; but in the case of all sea fishes tho waste of lif e is really and truly incalculable, otherwise man would bo incapable of dealing with these minor monsters of the great deep. As has been shown in the case of the herring, there aro animals preying on the shoals tho demands of which ore far more deadly than those of mankind; the same may doubtless be said of most of our other sea fishes. But the total stock of fish of all tiges must indeed be prodigious. There are, however, many difficulties in the way of fixing upon a figure. It is not yet known, for instance, with anything like certainty, at what age herring or codfish arrive at tho Hiulurity of their lives; but it may be hazarded s a conclusion, whioh has not been arrived at without the most careful considerations, that the sea in all probability contains a supply of fish which, in the event of production ceasing, would last tho community for a period of five or six years. These fish, of course, must be of all ages; but no man can tell the ox not age of any fish which he may from day to day find upon his table. Nor can we tell tho average age which any of our fish attain. Many of tho codfish we capture "look" to have been very old denizens of the deep 10 years old at least And as some of the fish which a re captured are occasionally of on enormous size, that fact seems to indicate a long period of life. We think, however, taking tho majority of our fishes into account, that if creation wore at once to (-top, and the fish of the sea were suddenly to cease to multiply and replenish, the present stock, at the rate of rapture now going on, might last us for a period of from four to fivo years. Bertram, in the British Quarterly Ueview. A Misapprehension of Facts. A London orgau-grinder escaped a fine by a very ingenious excuse. He had been playing before tho house of an irascible old gentleman, who furiously, and with wild gesticulations, ordered him to "move on." Tho organ-grindor stolidly ground on and was arrested for his disturbance. At the trial the judgo asked him w hy ho did not leave when j requested. "No spik Iuglese," was the litply. "Well," said the judge, "but you must have understood his gestures, his motions." "1 tiiiltcc ho come to dance," wis tin rejoinder, that caused the judge to laugh hctti-tly Mid let tho musician go. In Frauco and some other countries where wood is scarce and high it is bought aud sold by weight 1

POLITICAL NOTES.

When a Democratic editor writes a '200-line editorial on "The Susceptibility of the A frican Bace to the Influence of Civilization," it means his colored washwoman has agreed to l-ake out her bill in old exchanges in lieu of actual cash. .Texas Sif tings. "What kind of a figure do you think Judge Davis has cut in the Senate?" "Why, he has managed to vary his biography somewhat at the expense of onv material performance, and I should tlu'uk at the expense of his real dignity. Few men who have sat on die Supreme bench have had so many circumstances occur to them as Davis, yet in hardly any case has he seemed to direct events or "to show capacity for legislative life." Oath's Interview with a Cabinet Officer. All through the prohibition contest in Iowa the Democrats of that State professed to be strongly in favor of high license, but, now that the proposition is being urged quite earnestly, owing to the failure of tho prohibitory amendment, the Bourlions are crawfishing. If brought to a square issue, they would take the same stand there as at Springfield. The Democratic party can be counted u; on safely to be on the wrong side of any and every public question, State or national. Chicago Inter Ocean. Ose of the leading Greenbackers of Indianapolis, says the Joui-nal of that city, has become disgusted with his party and proposes to abandon it. He says that it has sold out so many times that the organization is demoralized. Last fall he asserts that 2,000 Greenback votes were offered to the Republicans at $2 apiece. When the Republicans declined the bargain it was eagerly accepted by the Democrats. Having worked the Greenback dodge for all it is worth this leader now proposes to go into the auti-monopoly business for a living. The Texas Stato treasury has a sur plus of some $2,000,000, and the peopio lie awake nights from fear lest the Treasurer will run away with it. The Legislature has now before it a proposition to increase his bond to $500,000, but as he could reimburse his bondsmen and still have $1,500,000 left, if he chose to follow the illustrious example of Polk and Vincent, this is not considered much of a safeguard. The shortest way out of the difficulty would be to appoint a Republican Treasurer and then tho people could feel sure that that cash is "thar." Chicago Tribune. The Massachusetts Democrats naturally are beginning to ask what they have gained by placing Gen. Butler in the executive chair of the State. So far they have had little to compensate them for their trouble and expense, to say nothing of the odium they brought upon themselves. Their share of tho patronage the Governor has had to distribute has been insignificant, the larger port of it having been given to the Butler Republicans. The General, doubtless, believes that the Democrats will continue to aid him whether they get any of tho offices or not, but that the only way to hold his Republican supporters is to give them the lion's share of the good things. Chicago Tribune. The appointment of Mr. Dorman B. Eaton to the Chairmanship of the Civil Service Commission is one with which tho most ardent reformers ought to be satisfied, for he has talked and written more on the subject of civil-service reform than any other man in the country, aud his study of the subject at home and in England has given him a familiarity with it that few men ean boast of having. Mr. John M. Gregory, the second member of the commission, is pleasantly remembered by many of the old residents of this city. He was a teacher in Gregory's Commercial College here about twenty-seven years ago, and was regarded then as a man of, unusual ability. He afterward removed to Illinois, where, iu the winter of 1866-7, he was instrumental in procuring a charter for the Illinois Industrial College, an agricultural school of which he was President for many years, Latterly he has lived in Chicago. He is without doubt a most excellent man for the place to which he has been appointed. Detroit Post The sins of the Southern Bourbons are rapidly coming home to trouble them, if J. Hendrix McLean, Independent candidate for Governor of South Carolina last fall, is to be believed. He remarks to a correspondent of the Philadelphia Press that "the system of political fraud is not only destroying the liborties of the peopio but it is demoralizing society in a'l its phases, and absolutely threatens to destroy all honesty and virtue in the church as well as in the State. As evidence of this I need only say that it is a common thing for the Democrats to practice frauds on each other in their primary elections and in conventions; and, worse still, the same corrupt methods are being practiced in the church elections. But the people are awakening to the evil results of this system of frauds, and we are on the ove o'f a political upheaval. The issue is freedom of sioeoh and purity of the ballot" Mr. McLean is a nativo-born Southerner, and he sees that though tho result of ballot-box stuffing aud bulldozing has been deplorable to the victims it is likely to prove still worse for the perpetrators. It was the custom of Gov. Waller when addressing a political gathering hist fall, when he desired to impress those present with any particular statement that he had made, to turn to the newspaper men and request them to "put that down." To su'ch an extent was this request made during his speech ir, Miildletown that it gave the same a look of "dizziness" when it appeared in print. It now comes our turn to osk the atteution of our readers to the following statement of moneys stolen by Democratic officials, and to request thorn, in tho language of our worthy Governor, to "put that down I" Urate of Mlfwmri $ 200,000 ft ate of Avkausa-s 200,000 Statf of Tonncswo. 400,000 Hratv of Alabama 530,000 City ot Loutsvtlto 200,000 Oram! total $1,250,000 Only $1,250,000, not taken by "scalawag Republicans," but stolon withiu a few short weeks from the State and city treasuries of f ve Southern States bv tho "Bourbon Democrats," those highly moral characoerstliat go to make up that "great party" which in a few short months will "pose" as the party of "honesty and reform." Paste this iu your hat, good render, aud when you have time calculate tbe amount that the Democrats would steal out of tho national treasury, if thoy once got a crack at it, taking the above figures as a basis. b'orwalk i.Ct.) GateUe.

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The investigating committee on the ntw State Hou mule two reports to the BguslMfr tho 57th ult,, the rafciorlt; reoommMfln thit the Legislature take no aotton on tha nuttnt and the minority favoring the panafe of a bill to allow the Commtoaionera to employ tha ol0 contractors. Howard and Derlg, to complete tlx buildlnK, with the $2,000,000 limit provided by law. The claim of lira. Edwin May for $10,801 for services rendered by tut last husband an architect of the tww Stain House was allowed. Tha Becate paftKid, by 30 to 10, Representative Aildn'a bit! requiring the State Superintendent of 1'nblk Infraction In hit) next apportionment of tho school fund to set apart $10,000, and soonannuaUy deduct the same amount and set it. apart, lo be known as a normal sohool fond; rIho. Mr. Shirley's bill making mechanio's Men good on all eliuff-csot structure and inelodtagattornoys' fees. The Senate also passed House, bills to enable counties to dispose of certain lands for the benefit of the school fond; to relieve ttc flood sufferers by allowing tiiem to par but per cent, penalty on delinquent taacr. instead of the heavy penalty allowed by law. The Senate Boad bill, reviving the old law, wa concurred in by the House; also the bill toprevtan and punish the assessing and eoLiecans or illegal or constructive fees. The House, witti. only five dissenting votes, passed the Btotn Houhc Appropriation bill. It levies n yearly tcent tax and appropriates $100,000 from the eencral fund. The bill relating to the Bnreao of' Statistics, as amended by the Hoost, left thfgeological and statistical departments separa tod. and the Senate concurred thereto. Taf following Trustees of the various Stone tnatittttions were elected by the LcgislatVe,talolal rchkIoc , all of them being Democratic nominees President ot tlie Board of Benevolent InstM il. tlonn, Thomas II. Harrison, of Boone county : Trustees Insane Asylum, Philip Gapen, IndtsiQ. apoIlK: Deaf and Dumb Asylum, a K. Urmiston Franklin county; Blind Asylum, Howard BrtgJa of Putnam; Trustees of the Feeble-minded Institute, John M. (lore, of HeluyLR,cn'rd, son, ol' Washington; Robert D. Brown, of Dowborn. The Senate was in session nearly tha wholf night of the 57th nit., the bone ot oontmtioe being the Metropolitan Police bill, and tberf .were a number of turbulent and exciting seanea The Republican members held the floor all. piirhtforthe ostensible purpose of discmstot: the Railroad Commission bill, which was thact jmder discussion, but in reality to prevent eoiHiloraMon of the Metropolitan Polios but, which is purely a political measure. I .lent, flov. Hanns. overruled every point of order made fertile Democrats, and refused to consider appeals, although the discussion was in terra j-ted enecy minute by such questions. The Democrat denounced Lieut. Gov. Banna's ruling! t as beirc revolutionary and ouV ageoua. The Senate adjourned between 3 and , o'clock a. m., and npon reassembling on thettth the fight was renewed. The bill was passed by 17 to 21, Senator Youche (Republican) votlngvith the Democrats in the affirmative. Thcanlmnsof the tatter's vote was soon made, apparent, tor when the vote was announced he made a mottott to reconsider, and on that got the floor far discussion. It then became evident to the Democrats that a repetition ot lasts night's" filibustering proceedinjB was imminent, and they used every means in their power to fight it off, but to no avail, as the Republican minority, with the assistance ot the Lieutenant) Governor, prevented them from getting tho floor. About midnight the Democrats tried to put Senator WiUard in the chair by main ferret, but the effort was futile. This action created such incitement that it was found necessary to clear the lobbies and galleries, which was done with considerable trouble. In the lionise, the entire day was consumed in considering the flpe clfio Appropriation bill, fully two-thirds of Qm provisions of which were stricken out. Tins Senate was in session nearly D nlbu again on the 28th nit. as a result of thenllbaa -

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the Senate convened in the morning of tha 1st the contest waa renewed? Tke

Democrats, to offset the taodes of ttaatr adversaries, reconsidered the vote of which the General Appropriation mil ws, passed, and then refused to concur in the amendments made by the conference committee, wtt3i the object ot forcing the Governor to sign th Police bill or accept the alternative- of oalUng au extra session of the Legislature. The proceed -ings were enlivened by an attack upon Llaut. Gov. Hanna by Senator McCuUongb. of Glburtt county. Addressing the chair directly, be denounced the Lieutenant Governor in the meet unm-ssnred terms. Be said Hanna was an accident; that he got his nomination andec false pretenses, the delegates In the convention thinking they were voting for John Hanna; that hewisapigmy; that he had violated his oath ot office; and much more to tie same iffect. Tha chatr ordered the Secretary to take down MeCullongh's words, which the latter oifered to repeat if the Secretary desired. The proceeding hi the Legislature, aside from thU. were uneventful, the time being devoted in the Hornet J the consideration and passage of great many minor bills, mostly of local elgnmcinco. Among the moat important butt passed was that ot Mr. Sutton, which provides tnat any State, county, or township officer who' foils to pay over any linen, forfeitures, docketfees, etc., as required by law, and allows the same to be collected ot him by any anthoriael officer, and he deducting therefrom his penalty or per cent., that said officer permitting Utetame to be done shall nav over and make good to the school fnnd the nenaJtv or ner cent, ao Oedset

ed, and the prosecuting attorneys ot the Staff arc required to bring suit against such omaia) to enforce the collection of the same. The nil

for the endowment ot the State univentti' one; half 1 per cent, on the taxaUes of the State ijeo passed the House. The entire session of the Senato on the 81 Inst, was spent In considering the Johnson vt O verstreet contested-election case from Morgan conntv. which was settled In favor of Oversunc $ (Rep.), the sitting Senator. Senator Foolke stated to the Senate that he had beeninformef by Senator Bens that he (Benz) bad been offered a large bribe to vote for the Metropolitan PoUtf bill, and ho wanted a committee appointed t investigate the matter, which was sooordiagly done. Benz charged that Hon. & B, Kerr, ex-member from Floyd county, had come to hound said that he was --.uthorUKd to tell him td name his own price for his vote on the Police bob and that he indignantly rejected the offer, f committee was apnointedto investigate the matter. In the House, a very Important Wllrejarctlng insurance companies was passed. It pen rides first that all insurance companies dohif business on the assessment plan shall execute a lwnd payable to the State of Indiana conditioned for the faithful performance of their contraca witb their policy-holders. It make? It a feloTT for anv insurance company doing bnainene in this State to takeout a policy on tht. Ufa ot any infirm, aged or crippled person. Considerable time was spent on the bill allowing the IStati House Commissioners to complete the building at a costf not to exooed $2,000,000. The bill ti endow the State Voiversity by an annual tut of one-half of 1 percent. onthetaxshleaaC th State was passed. The Legislature adjourned sine die at 3 o'clock p. m., Monday, the th Inst At a o'clock a. IE., Gov. Porter sent to the Howe his veto of the Metropolitan Police bill. Af soon ia the veto had been read a vote was taken and tl bill iMUised by ayes 04 to nays . Keslerwa th onlv Democrat who voted in the negative, ia also Robinson, the Greenbacknr. The abeeutesa were Oilman, Greene, aicContJck, Mntas and Smith ot Perry. At halt -met J o'clock the Senate passed the Mil over the Governor's veto, the measure receiving twenty-six aflhmattvc votes, all E-em Jcrate. Senator Beai voted HsainRt it, of all the Democratic Sena &, The absentees were Null (Democrat.). Hostettev and Smith of Delaware. The House passed tae Appropriation Mil. bnt it failed to reaoh tho Seaate in time for the I.teutejiact Governor toafam it, as le provided by law.

He'd Scoop a Little. About the t'awo that Daniel Dwr began his Wall strees career, ho mw tip the country one time to visit aonie friends, and two fanners called upon him to decide a case. One had sold the other five bushels of -wheat, and proposed to measure it in a half bvjthtl, and sweep the top of a measure with a stick. The other objected, aud Uncle J Daniel asked to decide. f "Well, legally speaking, a bushel is' only a bushel,"' he answered. '"And can the measure be swept offf "I think it cau?", "What with?" " Well, if I was selling wheat I shnjald probably use half the bead of a Sour barrel." "Which edge of it?" i "Gontlomou, that is a point I fjaunot now decide on," wghed the oil iaa.. "If I was selling to a widow or a preacher I am certain that t should sweep the measure with (he straight edge, but if I was selling to a man who pastures his cows in the road and lm pig in his neighbor's corn, I'm afraid I should use tho circular side and scoop a little to boot."irtH Street Dai 'j News. Venice is said to be none the wor.t for the stomboats that have Imhmi intr i: dnced. They aro not permitted 1 blow a scwaming whistle or to rtm . after dark. The gondola maintains its position beside them. President Alice F. FiuxtSr, of Wellesley College, says that, thtfcauiio of the breaking down of t&e rla nt school is the lack of proper pbysiotd cfci-e, before entering.