Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1883 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. <l£a«»t. Oapt. A. O. Nutt, cashier of the Pennsylvania State treasury, was shot and killed at Unlontown, Pa, by N. L. Dukes, a member of the Fayette county bar and memberelect of the State Legislature. Both were men of high social and political prominence, and the affair has cast the deepest gloom over the community in which they resided. A serious business failure is reported from Philadelphia, James Smyth A Co., ths proprietors of two large mills where ginghams and cottons are manufactured, having allowed their paper to go to protest. Their liabilities are estimated at #600,000. • In the matter of Sunday trading by Hebrews, In New York, Judge Araoux holds that Jews and Qentlles are alike under the constitution. Kate Field’s Co-operative Dress As>ciation in New York closed Its store, with assets of #244,000 and liabilities of #125,000, Joseph Gray, the English champion,, beat Henry Borkes, America’s best man, in a match game of rackets at New York for the world’s championship and #SOO. There is a strong feeling among the importers of steel in the Eastern States against the changes in the customs duties proposed by the Tariff Commission. Oliver H. P. Belmont and Sara Swan Whiting were married at Newport, R L , before an exclusively select assemblage. The presents were valued at #IOO,OOO, Weat. A horrible accident occurred at Estelline, Minn. During the absence of Mr. Barker, his wife left three children, two of them aged 5 and 3 years, and her little baby 0 months old in the house, while she went out to do the chores about the barn, and It Is thought that the children commenced playing with the fire and set fire to themselves. Mrs. Barker saw the fire and hastened to the house, but two of the little ones were charred corpses, and the fire in the house was under such headway that in rescuing the baby, which afterward died from bums received, she herself came near perishing in the flames and is now in a critical condition. In an affray at Chicago, Theodore Nooy killed his brother Bohemiel with a revolver. Johann Most, the noted London Socialist, arrited in Chicago last week. The Western Association of Commercial Travelers held its fifth annual con vention at St. Louis. Thomas Kerr, formerly of Lexington, HI., killed William Hartley in cold blood in a saloon at Pioneer, Arizona, for which he waa lynched by the citizena The citizens of Prineville, Ore., searched out the members of a gang of horse-thieves, shooting John Thorp and John Weston, an’i hanging Sid Houston and Charles Lester. Henry C. Kiesel, City Treasurer of Tucson, Art, has fled to Texas, being a defaulter to the amount of $3,100. South.. Two great-grandsons of Daniel Boone received mortal wounds at the hands of William Vaughan, of Ladonia, Tex. By a decision of a Virginia court the school fund of that State has been Increased by’#soo,ooo, one-fifth of which sum is to be devoted to the maintenance of a colored normal school. A collision of trains occurred on the Chesapeake and Ohio road, near Millboro V«v, by which five men were killed and two wounded, all but one being employea John Townsend, Bert Cowan and W. Bain were killed during an affray in a saloon near Pine Hill, La. English & Huguenin’s warehouse, containing 2,266 bales of cotton, and Henry A Shearwood’s grocery, at Macon, Ga., were consumed.

WASHINGTON NOTES. .Ex-Marshal Henry wrote a letter to the President asking for an investigation of his official conduct Henry vehemently denied that he dodged behind Garfield’s tombstone for defense. The Attorney General, to whom the letter was referred, replied that the ex-MarshaPdeserved his punishment The Treasury Department publishes a decision that a Chinese wet-xfurse is a laborer, and cannot be admitted to the United States The Commissioner of Agriculture hjjl prepared a revised table showing the grain production for the year ending Dec. 1. It is as follows: Bushels Corn ....... .1,635,000,000 Wheat 510,000,000 Oats - 470,000,000 Barley .............................. 45,000,000 Rye.;.... 20,000,000 Buckwheat 12,000,000 Total 2,692,000,000

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Jem Mace, the pugilist, arived at San Francisco from Australia, bringing a half-breed Maori to fight Sullivan. Oscar Wilde's lecture tour in this country was a financial success. On leaving NeW York for Europe, the other day, he remarked that he had been subjected to much ridicule, but he had made many friends.

POLITICAL POINTS. Congressman Leedom, of Ohio, is a Democratic candidate for Sergeant-at-Arms of the next House. FOREIGN NEWS. The Pope gave 12,000 francs, on Christmas day, to purchase beds for the poor of Borne. In receiving the Cardinals, at Rome the Pope said the papacy was recognized as a great moral force and that the powers are reknitting their relations with it McDermott, a well-known Nationalist and ex-suspect, was remanded at Sligo, Ireland, on the charge of using seditious language at the meeting of the National League The prisoner, during the speech, said the gallows were reeking with the blood of innocent people condemned by drunken juries and partisan Judges, Davitt, in a speech at Wolverhampton* England, summed up the present condition of Ireland as one of famine, discontent and coercion. He considered the prevailing distress to be owing to the unjust system of land laws, rack-rent and discouragement of every form of trade revival. The remedy consisted in the turning of a great part of the grass lands into cultivation and the introduction of a system of loans to oppressed tenants in order to enable them to tide over (be coming winter.

JA& W. MoEWEN Editor

VOLUME VI.

Soldiers walking the streets of Limerick Christmas night were attacked and roughly bandied by civilians, and the police were Called upon to quell the disturbance. The furniture warehouses belonging to William Wbitely, said to be the largest in London, were destroyed by fire. Great distress in Iceland from want of food is anticipated daring the winter montba The six hundredth anniversary of the House of Hapeburg was celebrated throughout the Austrian empire, on the 27th of December.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

The Senate adopted a resolution, at Its session on Dec. 22, in favor of giving a rebate on tobacoo in case the tax be reduced. The Civil-Service bill was considered. Mr. Brown’s amendment to limit the term of the Commissioners was lost Mr. Saulsbury’s proposition that the Commissioners take an oath to perform their duties without political bias was adopted, and tbetir salaries were fixed at #3,500 each. The House adopted a resolution to adjourn to Wednesday, Jan. 3, and fixing the hours of meeting at 11 a m., after that date. The Army Appropriation bill was taken up in committee of the whola Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, instancing the case of Lieut. Fred Grant, secured an amendment providing that Aids-de-Camp shall receive no additional rank or pay for staff duty. Mr. Brown offered an amendment designed to prevent the appointment of political pets to army paymasterships, but a vote disclosed the lack of a quorum. There was nothing done worthy of mention in either house of Congress at the session on Dec. 23. There was a little personal controversy In the Senate between Messrs. Hoar and Beck, while the Pendleton Civil Service bill was under consideration, which caused a slight ripple of excitement at the moment, but it was soon forgotten. Bhortly thereafter both the Senate and House adjourned over the holidays. Upon the reassembling of the Senate, after the holidays, on Dec. 27, debate recommenced on the Pendleton Civil Service bill Mr. Beoksuid he would sooner see any son of his breaking stone on the roadside than seeking a department office. Mr. Hawley’s amendment to prohibit the solicitation of political contributions by one Government officer from another was rejected by 18 to 27. A new section was adopted forbidding the retention in office of any person habitually using liquor to excesa The bill then passed by 39 to 5. The noes were Messrs. Brown, of Georgia, Call, of Florida, Jonas, of Louisiana, McPherson, of New Jersey, and Morgan, of Alabama The bill provides for a board of three Commissioners to pass upon the qualifications of persons desirous of entering the public service. A chief examiner is also appointed lo act with the board and travel around the country, arranging the preliminaries and conducting the examinations. Appointments are to he distributed pro rata among the States, according to population. Political predilections are to be ignored in making selections, and those appointed must not be addicted to the excessive use of ardent spiii'X Neither Senators nor Representatives are allowed to recommend any one to the board, except in the way of certifying to the character or residence of applicants. There was no quorum in the House, and an adjournment to Dec. 30 was voted. The Edmunds hill to prevent Government officers or employes collecting from or paying to each other money for political purposes was taken up by the Senate on the Sbh ult Mr. Beck offered a Substitute to rohibit Federal officers or employes from ontributing money to any person for political uses. The latter proposition was voted down, and the former was passed. The Senate, by a vote of 22 to 21, resolved to take up the Fitz John Porter case, and consider it unfinished business from day to day until disposed of. All of those voting aye were Democrats, except Messrs. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, and Miller, of California.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A dispatch from Hartford,. Ct., says: “The decision delivered in New Haven by Chief Justice Park, of the Supreme Court of Errors, that the black ballots polled by the Democrats in that city in the November State election are illegal, has created a sensation in political circles all through the State, The feeling is intensified to-night by the announcement that Mr. Cole, Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, intends .to take action calculated to place in office Republican candidates for State offices, although they received the minority vote. The Mack ballots in New Haven counted for the Democratic candidates were about 7,000, and throwing these out as illegal gives the election to the Republicans.” Near Beverly, W. Va., on Christmas night, Adam Currence and four children were burned to death. The chimney of a faetory at Bradford, Eng., fell, demolishing the building. Thirty-six employes were killed and fifty were seriously injured. Five negroes were drowned by the overturning of a ferry-boat at Darien, Ga. Tufa buildings at Prescott, Ark., were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at #IOO,OOO. Jay Gould has come into possession of the Galveston, Houston and Henderson railroad in Texas, thus giving his Southwestern system an outlet to the Gulf of Mexico. Clarence Veight deliberately applied a match to some fireworks in Mrs. lizzie Swim’s cigar store at Fort Worth, Texas, causing an explosion which fired the building, Mrs. Swim perishing in the flames Disastrous floods are again reported In Germany and Austria. In Baden, twenty persons were drowned by the washing away of a bridge. The Russian railroads are said to have ordered the discharge of their Hebrew employes, and the Senate has decided that no court can authorize the transfer of land to Hebrews Great mortality has been caused among sheep in the midland counties of England by heavy rainfall and floods The steamer New England was wrecked in the Clarence river, New South Wales, the passengers and crew all perishing. An yicle falling from a store at Laona, N. Y., instantly killed Charles Banks and seriously wounded Wm. Smith. -A block of land in New York which was bought at auction ten years ago for #6O, OOp has lately been mortgaged for #891,600. Col. E. H. -Wolfe, Auditor of Indiana, while going home in Indianapolis, at an early hour in the morning, was halted by a merchant policeman and fired the indignity being increased by an arrest and imprisonment. He was promptly released by the Police Justice. The proceeds of the recent sale of articles accumulated in the Dead Letter Office amount to #4,497, which Bum has been deposited in the treasury to the credit of the Postoffice Department. New counterfeit quarter dollars of the date of 1878 are in circulation. They are plated with silver, and are not full weight To relieve toothache apply to the troublesome tooth a tiny piece of cotton saturated with ammonia.

The Democratic Sentinel.

RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION.

A Summary of the Work Done In 1882. The Railway Age gives an interesting account of the railway construction in the United States during the year 1882. The following is the Age'* summary of new track actually laid from Jan. 1 to Deb. 1, length of main line only, indicated by distance between termini, being considered, and no account being made of new sidings or additional side-track; No. No. States. Line?. Miles. States. Lines. Miles. Alabama..... 2 39 Missouri.... 12 3UB Ar zona 2 192 Montana.... 2 309 Arkansas .... 7 G 29 Nebraska... S 2io California ... 7 2-6'Nevada 1 41 Colorado 12 600 N. Hampsh’e 1 17 Connecticut. 1 N. Jer-ey... 6 86 Dakota. 16 480 N. Mexico... 3 21 Delaware.... 0 0 N. York 22 732 Florida 6 204 N. Carolina. 10 164 Georgia 6 3A"> Ohio.*. 17 664 Idaho 3 30t Oregon 3 198 Illinois 16 385 Pennsylv’a.. 31 464 Indian Ter.. 1 67 Rhode Isl’d. 0 0 Indiana 9 5.8 8. Carolina. 3 67 lowh ...74 » BTennessee.. 8 133 Kansas 8 217 Texas 19 817 Kentucky.... 3 8S Utah 2 175 Louisiana.... 4 62 Vermont.... 1 8 Male 3 58 Virginia..... 10 228 Maryland.... 2 41 Wash. T.... 0 0 Ma-sach'setts 2 6W st Va.... 3 20 Mb higan .... 13 223 Wisoonsin.. 16 897 Minnesota. ..13 411 Wyoming... 1 25 Mississippi.. 3 87 Totals in 4i States and Ter 316 i0,82t Where, as in several cases, the same line has been built in two or more States, it is oounted but as one line in the grand total so that the footing under the column “No of lines”—3l6—is less by twenty-two than the actual sum of the number of lines taken separately by States and Territories. Thus it appears that track-laying has been in progress during the year in forty-four of the States and Territories, upon 310 different railways, wjith the result of adding no less than 10,821 miles to our railway system, and it is not unlikely that this may be increased to 11,000 miles by the final returns These figures place 1882 far ahead of any other year in respect to railway building, the increase over 1881, hitherto the year of most extraoi dinary construction, being about 1 500 miles, or more than 10 per cent For the purpose of comparison, there is given below the figures of yearly mileage found in “Poor’s Manual,” assuming them to be approximately correct, and adding our figures for 1882; Miles Total Miles Total Year. built, mileage. Year. built, mileage. 1873 4,107 70,278 1878 2,687 81,776 1874 2,105 72, 83 1879 4,721 86,'97 1875 1,712 74,(96 1880 7,174 93,671 1876 2,712 76,8' ft 1881 9,386 104,813 1877 2,231 79,' 89 1882 10,821 115,634 The amount of capital which has been Invested in railways In the last year is almost incredible. Allowing #25,000 per mile as a fair average for the cost of a road equipped and in operation, the 10,800 miles of which we have recorded have cost #270,000,000, to which is to he added the vast and unknown sum expended in preparing road-beds on which track is not yet laid.

The Postal Card.

Wo one denies that the postal card is a great thing, and yet it makes most people mad to get one. This is because we naturally feel sensitive about having our correspondence open to the eye of the postmaster and postal clerk. Yet they do not read them. Postal employes hate a postal card as cordially as any one else. If they were banished, and had nothing to read but a package of postal cards or a foreign book of statistics they would read the statistics. This wild hunger for postal cards on the part of postmasters is all a myth. When the writer doesn’t care who sees his message, that knocks the curiosity out of those who handle those messages. A man who would read a postal card without being compelled to by some stringent statute must be a little deranged. When you receive one you say, “Here is a message of so little importance that the writer didn’t care who saw it. I don’t care for it myself.” Then you look it over and lay it away and forget it. So you think the postmaster is going to wear out his young life in devouring literature that the sender doesn’t feel proud of when he receives it? Nay, nay. During our official experience we have been placed where we could have read postal cards time and again, and no one but 'the All-Seeing Eye would have detected it, but we have controlled ourself and closed our eyes to the written message, refusing to take advantage of the confidence reposed in us by our Government and those who thus trusted us with their secrets. All over our great land every moment of the day or night these little cards are being silently scattered, breathing loving words inscribed with a hard lead pencil and shedding information on sundered hearts, and they are aa safe as if they had never been breathed. They are safer in most instances, because they cannot be read by anybody in the whole world. That is why it irritates ns to have some one open a conversation by saying: “You remember what that fellow wrote me from Cheyenne on that postal card of the 25th, and how he rounded me up for sending him those goods?” Now, we can’t keep all these things in our head. It requires too much of a strain to do it on the salary we receive. A man with a very large salary and a tenacious memory might keep run of the postal correspondence in a small office, but we cannot do it. We are not accustomed to it, and it rattles and excites ns .—Laramie Boomerang.

The Public Schools and the Public Desire.

Nine-tenths of the children who attend the public schools are sent there solely for the purpose of getting simple elementary instruction. They go to the primary schools to learn their A B CS, to be taught to read and to write. They are put in the grammar schools to be grounded in arithmetic and geography and history. That is all the instruction that they have time for, all that can be properly given them in the time they can spend at school, and all they really have immediate need for. The general demand, the vox populi, is for that sort of instruction, and no other. If the attention of the average run of pupils is diverted from these simple, elementary and essential branches of study to others which are more ornamental or valuable only as a foundation for courses to be '.pursued subsequently, their time is so far wasted, and they are defrauded of their right. —New York Sun.

Romantic Tramps.

A mysterious fact concerning these modem Enoch Ardens is that none of them come back 1 rich; none return handsome, strong or useful; all are in a condition that would justify a poorhouse or hospital in receiving them, and if their original wives take them in they will do so principally for the purpose of having some one on whom to expand surplus stores of liniments, bandages, lotions and other comforts for infirm persons. But imaged shirks and malingners really must have some one to take care of them, why do not they apply at the nearest poor-house instead of inflicting themselves on their wives’ second of third husbands. — New York Herald.

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KEELHAULING.

An Atrociously 4 Cruel and Barbarous Pan* lsliment. For untamed and disgusting cruelty : ‘keelhauling” is about the most horrible punishment that the depraved mind of man could invent. It is described as follows by a correspondent at Alexandria, Egypt: Just before noon the men were brought on deck pinioned with their arms behind their backs, their hands before them, and ankle irons confining their feet, so that they could barely walk. The crew of the ship had been called on deck. The officers stood on the starboard side, the crew on the port, the victims at the mainmast. The officers were in the flounting dnss of their service, the men wore the'r cutlasses. An officer read the findings—that is at least what we supposed they were —of the court martial. This was a long and protracted ceremony. When he had done some seamen went aloft and made fast to the mainstay near the mast two blocks. From this they rove two stout lines in different directions. These were carried over the side of the ship and weighted with a sounding lead about forty feet from the end. Then the lines were carried around the stern of the ship and brought forward, the leads sinking them under the keel. After that they were hauled on board, the leads detached, the two men were tied side by side, and both ropes made fast to them, one rope being tied to the waist of one, the other rope around the shoulders of the other. The arrangement of the tackles was to drag the men under the ship from either side by hauling on the fall or running end of the rope that'fell from the leading blooks on the mainstay. These ropes, to enable the hauling parties to ‘walk away,’ were led through a snatch block on the deck. The crew were then divided, half of them put to each rope, and the two wretches, being led to the side, were shoved overboard. They both screamed as they fell into the water, and as the distance from the gangway to the surface was quite fourteen feet, they must have been more or less hurt. But this was only the beginning of their miseries. The men on one side hauled taunt the rope underneath the ship, and then the order to ‘walk away’ was given. The band played a solemn tune, something like the “Carnival of Venice” in movement, except the tune was changed, and stamp, stamp, stamp, went the men. We saw the two wretches go under, and then the only movement was the ropes going through their blocks, one Bide paying out the other coming in, but slowly. We had no measurement of the ship, but as the rope acted directly—that is, there were no moving blocks—the distance around the bottom was exactly that covered by the men as they walked the deck drawing the rope behind them. Thus we were able to make some estimate of the distance, and we calculated it at fifty feet from surface to surfaee. Presently the two victims appeared on the other side. They were hauled quite out of the water, and the rope by which they were hoisted was made fast and coiled up ready to pay out again. An officer —probably a doctor—went down and examined them. The one upon whom the strain of the rope had fallen was apparently lifeless. His face was turned toward us; it was bleeding and torn; his clothes were hanging in shreds, and his hands were dripping with blood. His eyes were opened, but they seemed to be filled with blood, The ship’s bottom, covered with barnacles, rasped upon the poor devils like nails. The other man seemed to be conscious. His back, as he hung in the air, was toward ns, but he moved his head, we thought, and apparently to beg for mercy. Evidently the officer reported them still alive, for when he had come on deck again the two men were lowered into the water, and the crew manning the rope that led up from the other side marched away with it, and once more the victims disappeared. From the time they went under the surface of the water until they reappeared at the other side of the ship, was just twenty-four seconds. It seemed to us to have been an hour. The first frightful journey had terminated by their being scratched and torn; at the end of the second they were mutilated. The nose of one wretch was torn almost away, one ear was gone, and the shreds of the clothing lie had worn clung to him only where they were held by his bonds. He was blood literally from head to foot. His companion’s condition was equally horrible. This time they were hoisted up to the rail and swung on board. Then we could see something of the action of this barbarous punishment, for they were not held off the side, but were scraped up along the ship, striking against the ringbolts, the chains, and every cruel obstruction until they swung in clear over the deck. Then they were lowered down and released. They were both unconscious, probably even then dead. It may be hoped they were. Death must have been a welcome release. An inquiry as to the facts made on board the ship elicited the reply that it was not a matter of public concern. Nevertheless we were offered coffee and cigarettes. It is needless to say that we did not accept either. For my part, I should have rather seen the entire ship’s company shot than accepted any' hospitality at the hands of its officers.

Why the Bride Shed Bitter Tears.

On the bank of the Kennebec river, a few miles below Bath, Maine, lives an old* lady. Years ago she cried so violently when about to be married that it was with difficulty she could be pacified. On being interrogated as to the cause of her great grief, she replied that it made her sad to think she was to live so near to the steep bank of the river, where her children weuld daily be in danger of falling over and being drowned. The lady has now lived there about fifty years and has never had a child.— From J the Brunswick Herald. - ' s *

How He Got Solid With the Dukes.

Tom Ochiltree used to tell a story of the time When he was editor of the Houston Telegraph, a “d-tndy newspaper” of somewhat limited circulation, printed in a Texas town six days a week. He happened to be* in Paris—“used to run over very ofren, you know” —and .was walking down Avenue de l’Opera one night “with Jim Bennett and a lot of Dooks and Princes. When we came to a telegraph office Jim says: ‘Hold on, Dooks; I want to go in and tie a dispatch to the Herald.' So we all went into the telegraph office. Bennett hauled out a lag wad of manuscript and handed it to the clerk. There

were a good many thousand words in it, and the Dooks and things were very much impressed. I saw that I must do something to keep my end up, so I said carelessly to Bennett: ‘ Jim, is that anything particular?’ He says: ‘Well it's a little dispatch one of my fellows handed me just now. I thought enough of it to bring it over here.’ ‘Very well,’ I said; ‘do you mind if I duplicate it ? ’ ‘Not at all,’ says Jim. ‘Well; then,’ says I to the clerk at the window, ‘ just duplicate that to the Houston Telegraph.’ It broke the back of the Houston Telegraph, but it made me solid with the Dooks.”

SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE.

The greatest distance that should be allowed between the under edge of a picture-frame and the floor is fifty-two inches. In button-hole stitching the bottom of a flannel skirt, double the flannel as if to hem it, and baste it in place. This will give firmness to it, and it will last twice as long. To Whiten and Soften the Hands. — Four parts of glycerine, five parts yolk of eggs, mix thoroughly and rub on after washing the hands. Good also for abrasions of the skin. To protect tea-roses they may be potted and placed away in a light, warm cellar. Hardy varieties should be covered with coarse litter from the stable; but this should not be done until the ground begins to freeze, and the protection should not be removed until the ground is completely thawed. A Philadelphia bird fancier says: “You can tame a canary inside of six hours by depriving it of food for that length of time, and then putting your hand filled with seed into the cage. Repeat this at intervals, And the bird will soon become tame enough to fly about the room and come to you when you whistle for it.” To Clean Gold. —Jewelers often clean gold by washing it first in a little lukewarm soft water and soap. Then, after wiping, shaking it about until perfectly dry in a Wash-leather bag filled with finely powdered boxwood. When taken out of the bag the gold, if embossed or raised, must be gently brushed clean of the wood-dust with a diamond brush, or, if smooth, polished with a leather. White worms, which infest occasionally all soils where plants are kept in pets, jnay be removed as follows: Lime water may be sprinkled over the soil, or a little slaked lime may be sprinkled also on the earth and in the * saucer of the pot. Lime water may easily be made by slaking a large piece of lime in a pail of cold water, letting it settle and then bottling for use. Give each pot a tablespoonful twice a week. To Clean and Revive Old Furniture. — A piano-maker gives the following- directions for removing fingermarks from and restoring lustre to highly polished but much defaced furniture : Wash off the finger marks with a cloth—or, better a chamos skin—wet with cold water; then rub the surface with nice sweet oil mixed with half its quantity of turpentine. A liberal rubbing of this mixture will reward your labors. Stained Floors. —Beeswax and turpentine rubbed into the floors twice a week keep them in beautiful order. Melt a quantity of beeswax in a jar, by placing it for a short time in an oven. When warm add to it a little turpentine, and stir them together. When cold this ought to be of the consistency of pomatum. If too hard, melt Again, and add a little more turpentine. To be used cold. After carefully removing all dust from the boards, rub in a very little of the beeswax and turpentine with a coarse flannel. Oil for dull woods may be made by melting two ounces of yellow wax in a clean earthen vessel, and when hot Adding four ounces of best spirits of turpentine, stirring till the mixture cools. This polish should be rubbed on the wood with a flannel cloth, and it will penetrate tlie pores of the wood, leaving a little coat of wax, which will brighten with a slight daily rubbing. This care 4 in old times gave the fine luster which made plain, substantial oak and cherry furniture so handsome. A good polish to keep wood in order is also made of equal parts of sharp vinegar, spirits of turpentine and sweet oil. Half a pint of each is enough. Rub the furniture or wood with this, and go over it with a clean soft cloth.

Gypsy Lore.

The day of the week on which you are born is the best to commence business. Fridays and Tuesdays are the luckiest for women; though women fairly shudder over regarding Friday a lucky day. Sundays and Mondays are the best for men. Never enter a new house or sign a lease in April, June or November, and avoid the 11th for any kind of an enterprise. The lucky days for business are the three first days of the moon’s age ; for marriage the 7th, 9th and 12th. Ask favors on the 14th, 15th and 17th, but beware of the 10th and‘2lst. These are all the moon’s age. To answer letters, choose an odd day of the month; to travel on land choose the increase, and for ocean the decrease of the moon. Start new buildings in March. Don’t marry on yonr birthday or on any martyr’s day. “Which are some of the most prominent signs of events, as it were, that cast their shadows before?” the reporter asked, realizing that he was getting enough “points” to set up as a fortuneteller himself. “Thousands of them,” answered CeJio, “but I can’t think of many now. Here is one that I never knew to fail: If you meet a white horse, if you are going on particular business, it means success. If it is a piebald horse, it means that whatever you have asked for will be given you.” Another: “If a pigeon that does not belong to yon flies in your • house it means success. If it rests on a bed, death. If there are two pigeons, there will be a wedding. Never tell a dream before breakfast. The same dream three times is friendly warning. Had William the IH. and the Duke of Buckingham paid attention to this they would have escaped death as they did.” “How about cards ? Do you ever use them?” “Sometimes; but the planets and stars have much more to do with us. As we are bom we are controlled. Planetary influence is a thing the scientists of later days langh at, but who can say they are better informed than the astrologers of Old. For myself I depend more on the science of astrology than on cards, though palmistry helps out.” Washington Star,

FARM TOPICS.

Watermelon seed, properly washed and dried, is worth $5 per bushel. DamJ* moss is said to be an excellent material in which to pack winter vegetables to retain their freshness. Black corn has been raised in Livingston county, N. Y. It is described as being as blaok as an African, as sweet as sugar, and retains all these attributes when cooked. Ik England inferior barley is generally ground into meal for feeding cattle and pigs, and nothing surpasses its value when boiled as a mash for horses after a hard day’s work. A pah. of milk standing ten minutes where it is exposed to the scent of a stro ag- smel ling stable, or any other offensive odor, will imbibe a taint that will never leave it. In England ensilage is receiving considerable attention, as possibly affording some measure of relief from the distress caused by bad harvests and too keen competition from more fortunate lands. Those who have tried it thoroughly say that apples packed in dry sand remain until spring as crisp and seemingly as fresh as when first gathered. The same is said of potatoes. The sand is used year after year. It has been demonstrated by one woman—Mrs. Joseph Squires, of Redding, Ot. —that bee culture is agreeable, easy and profitable work for women. She took 800 pounds of honey from eighteen hives this season, and is so well pleased with the business that she has increased her colonies largely. The cheapest way to get a supply of pie-plant is to sow the seed and select the best specimens among the seedlings for setting out in permanent rows. It takes a year longer to get the plants, but they have more vitality than old ones and are better in other respects. Japan clover is a small yellow variety, and adapted to all kinds of soil. There are several kinds of Japan clover, one of which takes possession of the ground gregariously, to the exclusion of 'other plants, forming dense and beautiful swarth. It is short in growth, will thrive on light soils, and suitable to this climate. There have been several cases of death the past season in lowa by bulls. The Jersey bull is probably the most dangerous. Bulls are always treacherous and dangerous, no matter how mild or tractable. So long as you can keep him ignorant of his p6wer, he is tolerably safe. But let him once break his rope or pull away by force from his keeper, or if he sees you dodging or shying from his movements, he at once knows that he is master and is no longer safe on the farm. Usually horses drive at pleasure all of the cattle, including the bull. But let him once drive a horse, then no horse ever after is safe in the yard with him. If a bull once breaks a weak or rotten rope, then the strongest is no longer any obstruction to his will. It is the same with fences. If he Can break down a poor or weak fence, he soon learns to disregard the strongest. A famous recipe for curing ham* was that of Mrs. Henry Olay, who used at one time to send several hogsheads of “Ashland hams” every year to Boston, where they commanded high prices among the wealthy Wings. For every ten hams, medium-s’zed, she took one pound of saltpeter, two pounds of brown sugar, three and one-half pounds of fine salt, mixed all these together and rubbed each ham well wi!h it. They were then packed in a tight box, where they remained in a cool outhouse for three weeks. They were then put into the pickle sub, which was nearly filled with a picklff strong enough to bear an egg. After the hams had remained in this pickle for nearly three weeks they were taken out, rubbed by hand with salt, and then hung, up to dry in the air. They were then taken to the smoke-house, where a fire was kept up with green walnut branches for three weeks. Each ham was then sewed up , in canvas, whitewashed, dried and then whitewashed again. They were then packed in hickory ashes—leached ashe3 of course —or otherwise the fat would have been absorbed. The Mark Lane Express, of London, having circulated questions respecting draught horses among a number of great.firms, etc., employing them, obtained much information in reply. To the question, “Is there any breed of heavy draught horses which, more than another, is especially adapted to heavy work in paved towns ?” the Southampton Dock Company replied: “With twenty-five years’ experience we find that the Belgian an l English breed horses are best adapted for heajßjjf work on paved and rough roads; ings are always preferred, and roan the favorite color.” Messrs. Courage, great London brewers, object lodieavy flesh legged horses for work on the stones. As to heavy-legged horses, opinions are divided. Mr. Wallis, of Dublin, who horses the express wagons for several leading Irish railroads, says that the English and Scotch horses are much more easily managed than the Irish. One authority pronounces in favor of the mixed Belgian and English horses so far as price, power and durability are concerned, but most are decidedly in favor of the breeds of the United Kingdom. The feet of foreign breeds will not, they say, stand the stones. In many instances, remarks the Country Gentleman , it is better to set out trees to form orchards in autumn. The advantages are, better selection from the nursery before the best are selected, and the work may be done more deliberately and carefully. The earth will become more perfectly settled about the roots, and the trees mat e an early start when spring arrives. The drawbacks are, more exposure to sweeping winds by the trees, which are somewhat weakened by removal, if set in exposed places, and danger of the trees being whipped about by the wind, unless long roots have been well taken up with moderate-sized trees or security against wind effected by small mounds of earth, or by staking. Another drawback, coming from neglect, is the .hardened crust of earth which forms during the long interval between setting and growing; but this crust is easily broken, and the soil made mellow late in spring. There is still another difficulty which is generally overlooked, but which may be guarded against. Nurserymen are often compelled to begin early to fill orders, and before the natural fall of the

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leaf. These leaves have not entirely fulfilled their functions in rounding' and ripening the wood. Partly tender trees are thus not so perfectly prepared to resist the intense cold of winter, and the tips of the shoots may be killed. With hardy trees like apple trees this deficiency would scarcely be any detriment at all, but with peaches some attention may be necessary. Thay may be carefully heeled in, partly covering the stems, and closely filling all interstices among the roots; to be set out early in spring, and after transplanting, and before the buds have opened, all the one-year shoots should be out baok most of their length, the degree of shortening depending partlv on the amount es good roots which have been secured with the trees. On the whole, it is quite as well or better to set trees in autumn, if the abovementioned care is taken.

HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS.

Cream Dressing for Cold Slaw.— Two table-spoonfuls of sweet cream whipped; beat well and pour over oabbage previously cut very fine and seasoned with salt. Chicken Soup. —ln boiling chickens for salads, etc., the broth (water in which they are boiled) may be used for soup. When the chickens are to be served whole, stuff and tie in a cloth. To the broth add a little lice, or add one thinly-slice l onion and a quart of tomatoes. Boil twenty minutes, season with salt and pepper and two wellbeaten eggs, and serve. Lancashire Pie. —Take cold beef or veal, chop and season as for hash; have ready hot mashed potatoes, seasoned as if for the table, and put in a shallow baking-dish, first a layer of meat, then a layer of potatoes, and so on till the dish is 1 leaping full; smooth over top of potatoes, and make little holes, in which place bits of butter; bake until a nice brown. Pickled Chicken. —Boil four chickens till tender enough for meat to fall from bones; put meat in a stbne jar, and pour over it three pints of cold, good cider vinegar, and a pint and a half of the water in which the chickens were boiled; add spices if preferred, and it will be ready for use in a few days. This U a popular Sunday evening dish; it is good for luncheon at any time. Cranberry Sauce. —Pick over and wash the cranberries and put in the preserving kettle with half a pint of water to one quart of berries; now put the sugar (goanulated sugar is the best) on top of the berries. Set on the fire and stir about half an hour. Stir often to prevent burning. They will not need straining, and will preserve their rich color cooked in this way. Never cook cranberries before putting in the sugar. Less sugar may ba used if you do jiot wish them very rich. Rolled Apple Dumplings. —Peel and chop fine tart apples, make a crust of one cup of rich buttermilk, one teaspoonful of soda, and flour enough to roll; roll half an inch thick, spread with the apple, sprinkled well with sugar and cinnamon, cut in strips two inches wide; roll up like jelly c.ike, set up the rolls (on end) in a dripping pan, putting a teaspoonful of butter on each, put in a moderate oven and baste them often with the juice. Use the juice for the sauce, and flavor with brandy if you choose. Mince Meat. —In the “housekeeper’s department” of the Germantown Telegraph we find this seasonable recipe: Take two pounds lean beef boiled, and, when cold, chopped fine; one pound beef suet, chopped very fine; five pounds apples, pared, cored and chopped; one pound sultana raisins, washed; two pounds raisins, seeded and chopped; two pounds of currants, washed in several waters; threefourths pound bf citron, cut fine; two table-spoonfuls of cinnamon, one grated nutmeg, two tablespoonfuls of maca, one of ground cloves, the same of allspice and salt, two and one-half pounds brown sugar, a pint of sherry, a half pint of brandy; let it stand at least twenty-four hours before making up into pies. If the mince-meat made after this recipe is kept in stone jars, well covered up, in a cool place, it will keep all the winter; if it becomes dry, add more wine. Another recipe: Four pounls of raisins, two pounds of currants, two pounds of citron, two pounds of suet, two pounds of beef, two pounds of sugar, one and one-lmlf pints of sherry, one gill of brandy, one ounce of mace, one ounce of cinnamon, one nutmeg, one quart of apples, one thin rind and juice of two lemons; chop well and mix thoroughly.

GOOD MANNERS.

Fruit is now-generally served as a Jfirst course at breakfast. Ragged-edged note-paper is de rigeur for feminine correspondence. Terra cotta and brick-red colored papers are also much used. When dining touch the napkin as little as possible. It is decidedly bad form for the lords of creation to have the prefix “Mr.” on their visiting cards. Some men speak disparagingly of themselves to induce others to praise them. Compliments, at best, are cheap things, but when solicited, their value is greatly below par. In introducing always present the younger to the elder, or the least distinguished to the one better known. Illustrated envelopes are no longer considered good taste, but the paper may be embossed or painted in water colors. In passing a goblet to another, if there is no salver at hand, the goblet should be taken by the stem only, and so handed. HAND-PAnjTTED menu cards still have the preference, but for ordinary occasions there are cards upon tinted Bristol board with an engraved vignette in one corner and the date and place of entertainment in the other. Judge Hilton, who refused Banker Seligman entertainment, at the Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga, because the latter was an Israelite, now offers to give SIO,OOO to the exiles’ fund for the benefit of Russian Hebrew refugees. Several gifts and subscriptions offered by Judge Hilton to different Jewish charities have already been refused. Dr. Brown, of the Jewish Herald, ♦.Links that the society for the relief of Hebrew exiles should accept the gift. . When the Prince of Wales dines at home'he revises the dinner menu, always submitted to him by the royal Chet

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EMPTY CHURCHES.

Xfhy Certain HlnUtan Fail to “Got at* Their Congregation*. [Prom the Now York Tribunal The number of churches throughout the country that are invariably full, not to say crowded, on eaoh reQurring Sunday is not large. We doubt if it reaches onc-quartor of one per cent, of the Aggregate. The majority of ohnrohes are never more than two-thirds full. A great many are never more than a third full. Not a few are uniformily as “sparsely settled" as a very new country. Yarions explanations have been suggested to account for this state of things, all of which are plausible. But it oocurs to us than one of these upon which no unusual stress has ever been laid is worthy of the serious consideration of the ministry.. We mean the explanation which refers the smallness of the average attendance upon church-ser-vices to the fact that sermons are either entirely read or are preached from more or less copious notes. The lawyer addressing a jury, a politician on the stump, are not confined to notes; why should ministers be ? Is not the method employed by lawyers and stump-speak-ers better calculated to engage and hold attention ? Obviously so. It is a human instinct to believe that when a man is earnest, when the message he has to deliver comes from his heart as well as from his head, he will find any but the most casual and infrequent reference to a manuscript impossible, since be realizes that it can only be accomplished by breaking the chain of attention that connects the pulpit and the pew. A well-known lawyer onoe said to a friend: “When I was young in the profession I was assigned to the defence of a man who was indioted for murder. Whep I came to sum up, being profoundly impressed with the importance to my client of what I had to submit to the jury, I departed from oustom and read a carefully prepared speech. No sooner had I done so. than I regretted that I had not thrown aside my notes. I found that I could not get at the jury.” Soores of ministers are constantly complaining that they cannot “get at" their congregations. They are not ministers who are independent of their manuscripts. Show us a minister who is reckoned the most successful and we will show you one who preaches without notes. There is muob sense in the eulogium passed upon a popular divine? by an old hunter. “I like him," said Nimrod, “because he shoots without a rest.” The preaching that is philosophic, reflective, metaphysical, possibly without serious disadvantage may be done from the closely followed written page. So, too, may that preaching be whiph is to interest a cultivated audience as a fine lecture would. But the preaching which is calculated to arouse and quicken must fellow not that method nor yet the extemporaneous method, which, except in rare instances, has its outcome in loose and inconsecutive thought, but a method which leaves th% preacher as free to come into personal, persuasive relations with his hearers as if he were a lawyer or a stump-speaker. We are aware that some ministers say that they cannot trust themselves to get up in their pulpits without a firm reliance on their notes. The implication of course is that they hold that they had better preach with notes than" not preach at all. But it is a question whether poor preaching, preaching that does not take hold, is not worse than no preaching. No man would feel that he had a call to be a jury-lawyer who found that he could not “shoot without a rest” in court. Why should a man with similar limitations feel that he has a call to address for his fellows in relation to matters of the first importance? A few weeks ago a minister in a neighboring • city who preaches to more empty than occupied pews, took for the subject of bis discourse the decline of religion. He proved the decline by reference to a mass of suggestive statistics and concluded by an earnest appeal to his hearers to join him in supplication to the throne of grace for a revival. The matter of the sermon was excellent, but the manner ? From first to last the speaker was closely confined to his notes, and the urgent appeal with which he concluded was shorn of nearly all its force sincff it came from the lips of a man not leaning toward bis hearers, but bending over his desk; not looking into the eyes of those whom he desired to touch, but upon the printed page. The sermon ought to have produced a deep impression. Apparently it produced none. There was no magnetism in it. A poet of the florid school was once criticized as having nothing to say but saying it magnifioiently. The trouble with so many ministers is that they have much to say but thoy say it with distressing effect. If a public sentiment could be organized intolerant of the relianoe of ministers upon notes, the effect would doubtless be to exclude some very worthy men from the pulpit. But it would eertaifily lead to the survival of the fittest. And in this field above all others none but the fittest ought to survive. -*■- —- Too Active. —Your little son is perhaps troublesome. He is never quiet, and is constantly demanding attention. How shall you abate this nuisance? You may try to destroy these bad habits by scolding him, by rebukes, by lectures, by punishments. That is one way) but not the best. These bad habits often spring from an instinct of activity, and intense desire to do sometliing, which the Creator has given the child as a means of mental and moral growth. In trying to pull up the tares you are in great danger of rooting out the wheat also. If you succeed by force in changing his disagreeable torment of perpetual activity into a dull quiet, you havo changed a bright boy into a dull one. A better way than destroying tliis tendency is to fulfill it by giving him plem ty of occupation of an innocent kind. Give him a heap of sand to dig, blocks of wood to build houses with, a box of tools and boards to saw. „Set him at some work, useful or interesting, or, at least, harmless. He will like all this better than he likes mii- • chief. All his irregular activity was a cry for something to do. Give him that, and you will have no further trotible.

A Non Sequitur.

A country preacher was exhorting his unbelievers, and.liis text was, “The Flood.” As he waxed eloquent, he said: “And Noah warned the wicked that they might repent, but they heeded him not; and the Hoods carte and drowned them all, and what do you suppose the# thought tUei^?”— Boston Globe, f fi, ■ v.y * , 1. * * , . ■ s: .