Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1895 — Page 3

WHY PROTECT THEM?

MANUFACTURERS CAN UNDERSELL ENGLISH COMPETITORS. A Conclusive Tariff Argument—Protectionists Now Afraid of Chinese Labor—lmmigration and the Tariff —Don’t Sell Tour Sheep Now. As to Certain Tariff Duties. For some time past in almost every Weekly issue of the American and the English trade journals of the iron and steel industry reference has been made to sales of American iron or steel products in England or In neutral markets which were formerly supplied by English manufacturers. We have directed attention to many of these sales during the last twelve months. They show that our manufacturers are selling in the English market wrought iron tubes, cast iron pipes, hoop iron, tiles, shears, saws, and wire for the English makers of screws. They also show that in Canada and some other neutral mrkets our manufacturers are overcoming or already have overcome the competition of the English in several important branches of the industry. All of the products thus gold abroad —in England, the British colonies, or neutral markets—without the help of any protective duty, and sometimes under a considerable handicap of ocean freight charges, are protected here at home by duties which are high, even in the new tariff. These duties are needed, the followers of McKinley say, for the defense of the domestic manufacturer against sales in this country of English goods which the domestic manufacturer undersells in England itself. Our neighbor, the New York Tribune, published a few days ago an article showing “how the great Pittsburg pipe mills are underbidding their competitors across the ocean.” The transaction in question was the reported sale of ,250 tons of wrought iron tubing in London by Pennsylvania manufacturers. Our neighbor should explain why-the present duties on wrought iron pipes (25 per cent.) and cast iron pipe ($13.44 per ton) are too low to afford adequate protection to the American manufacturer as against importations of wrought iron tubes and cast iron pipes into this country, and why the American manufacturer, who undersells his English competitor in South America, Canada, France, and England itself, needs to be protected here by any duty whatever. We should like to know whether Gov. McKinley and those who agree with him would now, if they had the power to do so, increase the present duties on wrought iron tubes, cast iron pipe, hoop iron, galvanized iron, saws, files, boiler plate, tank plate, wire, and other iron or steel products which our manufacturers are selling abroad at prices which the English manufacturers cannot meet, as in Canada, where the English have already lost the greater part of their old trade, and even in England, with respect to some of these products. A glance at the statute wjll show that the present duties on these goods are high. Would Gov. McKinley and his party make them higher, and if so, why? Would they reduce them? Why not? Why is any part of them required, even from the point of view of the McKinley protectionist? New York Times. Afraid of Chinese Labor. Great lamentations are going up now from the protectionists all over the land; 400,000,000 of slaves, they say. are to compete with our workingmen. China is to have open commerce with the rest of the world. Unless we increase the protection duties on Chinese products our workingmen will be forced to work for Chinese wages. The future looks blue to all disbelievers in trade and commerce. It is true that according to the terms of peace with Japan five Chinese ports are to be opened to commerce and that Japan and other nations will be permitted to open cotton factories and other industries in China. But what will happen? Is modern progress and invention unable to compete with hand labor and antiquated methods? Not much! European and American goods will find big markets in China as soon as the Chinese have learned to make something to exchange for our goods - for, of course, it would be impossible for the Chinese to take our goods unless they had something to offer us that we desired in exchange. We must take some product of theirs or they cannot take our goods. In any case, both we and they would benefit by an exchange of products. The Chinese would produce such articles as they are by nature best fitted to produce and we would do the same. They can produce rice very cheaply. We can produce machine-made goods more cheaply. We Will exchange our sewing machines, clocks, stoves, shoes, tools, etc., for their rice, tea, silks, etc. Our mechanic will produce goods in one day that will exchange for as much rice or tea as will be represented by ten days’ labor in China. He can by exchanging with the Chinese get more rice for one day’s labor than he could get in any other way. The more rice he.will take from the Chinese the more of his goods can the Chinese buy. This will make trade. It is not unlikely that our exports to China will increase from $5,000,000 a year, as at present, to $25,000,000 or $50,000,000 in ten or fifteen years.

Even supposing that after twenty or thirty years the Chinese should be able to manufacture a considerable portion of the cotton goods of the world, would we Americans be better or worse off because of the change? Would we not get our cotton fabrics much cheaper than now? Would not many more be employed in making something to exchange for these Chinese goods than were thrown out of employment because a part of our cotton industry had left Us? We would certainly gain more than we would lose by such a change. It is natural and well that each individual and each nation should produce those things which he or it can most cheaply produce and get by exchange those things which he or it cannot produce most cheaply. Hence all barriers to commerce and trade—■whether mountain ranges, Chinese walls, or tariff walls—are an obstruction to civilization and progress. The removal of any of, these barriers makes

life easier to millions of people on this globe. We need have no fear of competition with Chinese labor. Xn>migration and the Tariff. The New York Press Is doing some taU calamity howling. It says that “two years of tariff reform have reversed the tide of immigration into the United States, which in one year had reached 730,000, and now our net gain in population from abroad for the last year is only 1,696. Our outgoing refugees from bad industrial conditions last year were 312,771 and our incoming immigrants were only 314,467.” This Is indeed a bad showing, for which some party is responsible. It occurred, however, not under Democratic, but under Republican laws—the McKinley bill being in full force during the last fiscal year. Since the Wilson bill has been operative, wages have begun to rise—at first slowly, but now more rapidly—and the tide has turned toward this country. Canadian mill operatives who left New England by thousands during the dull McKinley-Sherman period of 1893-4 are now coming back in flocks. The Press is correct in saying that “Nothing more clearly indicates the relative superiority of countries than the tide of immigration. It always flows toward the place of best opportunities for getting a living. A little more of tariff reform and the United States will be reduced below the water mark of Europe.” The fact that so many people were leaving this country for Europe in 1893-4 shows that, all things considered, wages reached the European lev-' el during the McKinley period. When wage earners considered the rate of wages, cost of living and opportunities for employment and enjoyment in Europe and America, they concluded that it was, in 1593-4, about “six of one to a half dozen of the other.” There being no duty on either emigration or immigration in any country, labor is free to flow back and forth at will—which it has been doing. This fact serves to show what a farce tariffs are as a means of “protection to American labor.” American labor has absolutely no protection (except the trouble and expense of crossing the ocean) from foreign labor; for, as the Press explains, the moment the “opportunities for getting a living” are better here than abroad, foreign labor begins to flow this way. Tariff duties are on goods and all the “protection” there is for any class goes to the manufacturers or producers of these goods. Tho case is very clear.

Women in Pittsburg Rolling Mills. Protectionists who have found delight in pointing out the superior condition of American workingmen and in emphasizing the barbarity of employing women and children in the coal mines and iron works of Great Britain may be Interested in this item, Which has recently come from Pittsburg: “Women as operatives in tinplate mills in America have proved a success in the large new plant of the Monongahela Tinplate Company, at South 15th street, the past week. Two weeks ago Mrs. Hattie Williams came to the manager of the Monongahela mill and asked for work because her husband was ill and could not support the family. Mrs. Williams was put to work separating plates as they came from the rolls, and so proficient was she that five young girls were given her as assistants, and she was made forewoman of that department. The company now proposes to put 100 girls and women at work in the mill within the next few weeks.”

The Impossibility of competing with Welsh tinplate manufacturers, with their low-priced labor and their and children operatives, has been one of the stock arguments by which American manufacturers have supported their demand for a highly protective tariff on tinplate. With a duty that is equal to nearly 60 per cent, of the foreign cost of ordinary grades of tinplate and nearly 30 per cent, of the price in this country, the manufacture of tinplate has proved so alluring to protectionists with money to invest that already the cry of over-production is heard in the land. Now comes the descent to the lower plane of the muchdespised Welsh manufacturers, and the employment of children in the mills is followed by the introduction of women in the sheet rolling mills. The Monongahela mill referred to in the paragraph above is essentially a protectionist enterprise, of which Henry W. Oliver is the president— Philadelphia Record.

Give the Goose a Chance. A good many workmen in different parts of the country, impatient at the delay in an increase of their wages, are threatening to strike. As a friend to the workingmen In many times of their need, the World feels impelled to repeat the familiar laconic advice of Punch to those about to marry: “Don’t.” There are unmistakabte indications that the industrial goose is getting ready to lay golden 6ggs for labor. To strike now may not kill the goose, but it might frighten her from her benign purpose. With wages rising on all sides, trade reviving and the wheels of Industry humming again, it is inevitable that wages will advance in alliines where they are now too low. Competition—the demand for labor—will attend to that, with a little .quiet and persistent effort by the labor unions. But to inject the element of uncertainty and fear into the industrial situation at this time by threatening to strike would be very bad policy. Be patient a little longer. Give the goose a chance. —Newi York World. Don’t Sell Your Sheep Now. Educated by events, some of the protectionist journals are now advising the farmers to hold on to their sheep. But we do not observe that they make any apology for their misleading and panic-breeding articles last year in which they advised the farmers to send their sheep post-haste to the shambles. The farmer who edits his farm on the strength of what he reads in the Republican newspapers is a man much to be pitied—Philadelphia Record. It is believed by microscopists that the highest powers of their, instruments have not yet revealed the most minute forms of animal life.

OUR RURAL READERS.

SOMETHING HERE THAT WILL INTEREST THEM. How to Make a Reservoir for Irrigation Purposes—Crossing Old Races of Fowls Not Always Profitable—The New Double Horseshoe-Notes. Windmill Irrigation. Wind-pump irrigation will be depended upon more and more wherever the rainfall is apt to be deflcient. The accompanying illustration taken from a photograph, represents a section of one of the many reservoirs in Meade County in Southwest Kansas which have been used satisfactorily for some time. The pump is larger thau the average in this locality, having-jt 12Inch cylinder, a 12-inch discharge»pipe and a 10-inch stroke; it lifts the water 14 feet at the rate of 175 gallons per minute.

The preparation of the reservoir Is most important, and in order to assist any who contemplate such an addition to their farm improvements, I wiU tell how I made mine. Select a site higher than the ground to be watered. Lay out the reservoir corresponding in capacity to the power of the pump. The pump must be capable of filling It in two or three days. Remove all sod, placing it beyond the limits of the walls. Do not use it in forming the embankment. Then plow and scrape, dumping where the wall of the reservoir is wanted. Continue until the work is completed, driving over the wall. Leave the inside sloping so the waves will not Injure it When the excavation Is of the desired size plow the bottom and pulverize thoroughly. Hitch a team to a block, road scraper or other suitable object turn in the water and begin to puddle by driving along one edge and continuing until the whole surface Is puddled. This will cause a precipitation of sediment which will fill the pores of the soil and enable It to hold water quite well. The bottom will then be 12 to 18 inches lower than the surface of the ground outside, but that much water must always be left in the reservoir to preserve the puddling, for If It gets dry or freezes the work must be done over again. If the reservoir is small, say 30x50x3 feet, some dirt for the wall must be obtained from the outside. An outlet can be made of four 2-lnch planks long enough to reach through the wall. Saw the inner end sloping and provide It with a valve made of 2-inch board, and on the same prin-

IRRIGATION BY WIND POWER.

clple as the valve in an ordinary pump. —E. D. Smith, in American Agriculturist Sweet Potato Plants. The bedding of seed sweet potatoes in spring is quite a simple affair, yet it is highly Important in order to get the best results, that it be done right and well done at that. Make an ordl-. nary hotbed with any rapidly fermenting manure, directs Farm News, level it down, raking the top even; pile down your potatoes in center of bed, then place them carefully, one potato at a time, as close as possible without them actually touching one another. Then put above them six Inches of loose, dry earth, woods-mould preferred. The larger potatoes may be split In two, lengthwise, and laid cut side down, among the others. Water the beds every week (washing day) with good strong soapsuds, the stronger and dirtier they are the better for the potatoes. If a crust forms or bakes on the surface, keep it well fined (broken up) by hand. Don’t have less than six inches of mellow earth above them, or your slips may be too short to set out well. Never set out the slips in very wet weather, puddling the roots or watering them. If you water them, pour a little water In the hole with the slips, then fill in on top with dry earth.

Det Subsoilins Go Down Deep. The deeper we can penetrate down into the soil with the plow the more plant food we can draw up, and the greater quantity of water we can store there. Every rain storm now avails us very little, if the hard pan is formed a foot below the surface. It soon runs off, and disappears. The plant food that is buried up in the hard pan cannot be utilized by the roots of the crops, and a great deal of loss is experienced in this way. The question of Inventing a plow that will penetrate from two to three feet below the surface and stir the soil up thoroughly every spring is very important, and one that will have a direct bearing upon the future of our agriculture. Meanwhile, we must break up the hard pan beneath our plowed fields the best we can. Our present subsoil plows partly solve the difficulty, and many of them run so hard that it almost requires steam to haul them across a field of ordinary compactness. Crows and Growing Corn. Crows and the corn field do not seem to have been on intimate terms last year, at least with E. W. 8., who wrote the American Cultivator: “I planted four or five acres of corn on a field that had always been the favorite camping ground of crows. They annually pulled a quarter of the plants. Last year, after planting the corn and before it came up, I bought a 30-cent bottle of strychnine, dissolved contents in hot water and after cooling, added enough cold water to cover a peck of corn and let it remain in the solution two days. The corn was then sown broadcast over the field. The trows were constant visitors before sowing the corn, apparently expecting a rich feast as soon as the young plants

appeared above ground. For two days after not a crow was to be seen on that field; on the third day, two were seen to alight, but they made a very short stop. Not one was known to sample the corn and in hoeing not a stem was found pulled.” Crossing Old Races of Fowls. Fashion and the whims of showroom judges have Influenced one way or another the modeling of types and choice of colors for the fancy fowl, says the Orange Judd Farmer. Many old races,, when kept puro, are really fine in appearance and valuable in productive qualities; but often when two pure old races are crossed, the product of the union of the two seems, after the first cross, not so productive as either of the parent breeds, and the appearance of the cross is course, never to be depended on for any specially desired points. Tho illustrations that accompany this article present portraits of two old races .of geese—the

EMBDEN GOOSE. TOULOUSE GOOSE. EMBDEN-TOULOUSE CROSS.

Embden, tae famous goose of the Germans, and the Toulouse, the splendid French breed, both grand races when kept true. In the third picture is shown a specimen which suggests, coarsely put together, the points of both, and probably the result of crossing both races. It fails to show tho characteristics of the breed, nnd we should judge would make a farmer poor'though it might win money for fanciers. -v Setting Fences in Spring. Spring Is the best time to make fences of any kind. The ground is soft for digging the holes In which to set posts, and after they are set there is time for the soil to compact before winter. If posts are set in the fall it is very hard to keep the fence straight during the first winter, as the posts will be lifted by freezing or blown over by heavy winds In early spring. When frost Is out of the boll the best made fall fence will need more or less care. It is better to leave the making of the fence until spring. It can be done before the soil Is fit to be plowed or work,ed In any way, and when other work is not pressing. Early Decay of Fruit Trees. Fruit trees planted when the country was new were much longer lived than those planted now. We well remember seeing old apple tree? that were never grafted, which had sound trunks and bore large crops of indifferent fruit when they were 50 to 60 years from seed. It Is not alone because they were seedlings that they were thus long lived. It was many years In some places after fruit began to be grown before the tree borer made Its appearance. When It did come tho older trees had hard, thick bark, which offered a poorer place for the borer eggs to be deposited, and so the older trees escaped. While the country was new snow lay more evenly on the ground, not only protecting the roots from deep freezing, but filling the soil with water as a reservoir against summer droughts.

A Donble Horseshoe. The accompanying cut illustrates a shoe that is specially adapted to horses for training and racing. It is made in two sections, one light, the other heavier. The light section is permanently nailed to the hoof, and the heavy section is put on while the horse is in training. It not only gives the weight desired in training, but preserves the

THE DOUBLE HORSESHOE.

sharp edge of the light section, which Is needed to prevent slipping. It is claimed that this invention will also lessen the expense of shoeing, rendering It unnecessary to change as often as is done with the old style shoe. The illustration is taken from the Scientific American. Agriculture aa a Science. The science of agriculture is in a great degree founded on experience. It is therefore of consequence that every farmer should know what has been done and what is doing by others engaged in the same ocupation, and that he should impart to others the fruits of his experiments and observations. Sell Leghorns Early. A cross-bred Leghorn will produce fine broilers, and even a pure-bred Leghorn chick Is excellent, but they shoujd be sold by the time they reach twenty-four ounces, as they do not grow as rapidly as the larger breeds after they are eight or ten weeks old. A Pear to Beat Them AIL A California fruit-grower is reported to have originated a pear that will keep as long as the Baldwin apple. If the pear ranks as high among pears as the Baldwin apple does among apples, the originator has struck it rich.

SWEPT BY A CYCLONE.

TERRIBLE HAVOC WROUGHT IN KANSAS. Ten Persona Are Killed and Many In* jured In the Viclniny of Halstead—• Property Loss Will Be Large—Children Narrowly Escape. Farmhouses Leveled. Wednesday afternoon a fearful cyclone devastated a atrip of country several hundred yards wide and at least sixteen miles in length in the vicinity of Halstead, Kan., killing ten persons outright and seriously injuring several others, while many have received slight injuries. The cyclone struck the house of Mrs. Frye, a widow, who lived about nine miles southwest of Halstead, completely destroying it and slightly injuring Mrs. Frye. It picked up the house of John Schultzback and carried it away. The fine two-story bouse of Joseph Weir was entirely swept away, killing Mrs. Joseph Weir, Grace Weir, aged 11; Herman Weir, aged 5, and a five-weeks-old baby. Mr. Weir had previously left the house, and when the cyclone struck was about fifty yards away. He clung to a tree, but was badly injured by flying debris and will die. Joseph Weir, Jr., and sister, Maud Weir, the only ones in the family who took to the cellar, escaped with only slight injuries. The home of E. C. Caldwell, which was sixty yards west of the Weir's, was unroofed and the side torn away. The family escaped by taking to the cellar. The next house in the path of the storm was William Armstrong’s, which was completely wiped from the face of the earth. Mr. Armstrong was killed, Mrs. Armstrong seriously and perhaps fatally injured, and Grandma Chapin, who was there sick in bed, was killed. About 100 yards east of the Armstrong house the large two-story residence of B. E. Frizzell was picked up, as was also a large two-story house of J. F. Frizzell, across the road, and both, together with all the outbuildings, were completely swept away, leaving only enough debris to show that a house had stood there. The families of both the Frizzells escaped uninjured. Spencer Ross' bouse was in the line of the tornado, and was carried away, as were also the houses qf A. 8. Powell, J. A. Comas, Andrew Thompson and Menno Hegc. Miss Daisy Neff, at Powell's house, was badly Injured, as was Mrs. J. Comas.

School Children Safe. At the Hoge district school the school children hud just been dismissed. Hege saw the storm approaching, aud, fearing its results, hurried the scholars to his cyclone cellar. His foresightedness prevented an awful loss of life, for just as the last child had been safely stowed away in the cellar, the cyclone struck the house over them and demolished it As it was, not one of them was even slightly injured. The fury of the storm seems to have done its worst about five miles west of Halstead. Near the Frizzell home dead cattle, horses, hogs and chickens are scattered all over the wheat fields. 1 Those who first saw the disaster coming say it made very slow progress, traveling not faster than a person could run. It seemed to waver first in one direction and then in another. As far as heard from, covering a distance of eighteen miles across the country from southwest to northeast, twenty residences, nearly all of them large ones, were destroyed. The loss will bo not less than $200,000. Everybody in the track of the storm lost everything.

JOHN BULL ACCEPTS.

Nicarasuan Incident Considered Practically Settled—Ships to Sail Away. The understanding is that the British fleet will immediately withdraw from Gorinto. It is not known what guaranty Great Britain demands for the payment of the indemnity, but it is believed in official circles that the affair is practically settled. It is said in Washington that the guarantee of the payment by Nicaragua of the indemnity as required by Great Britain will be made in the amplest manner possible, so that there appears to be no further obstacle between the two countries as to a final adjustment. From the British standpoint the acceptance of tho compromise and the immediate evacuation of Corlnto establishes the good faith of Great Britain in her declaration that there was nd purpose of occupying territory. From the first the British authorities have assured Ambassador Bayard, and the latter has so advised Secretary Gresham, that there was no purpose of ,aggression, or of securing a foothold in Nicaragua. The only purpose, Earl Kimberley has said, was to collect a debt by such force as was necessary and then depart. Nicaragua, notwithstanding these assurances, has maintained that the collection of the $77,500 was merely a covert means of occupying her territory. This view has prevailed very widely in Washington, even in some official quarters, although the policy of tho Government has been to accept the good faith of Great Britain’s representatives.

The withdrawal of the troops from Corinto and the departure of the fleet would not only end all questions of British territorial extension in Nicaragua, but also put at rest the fears entertained that the control of the Nicaragua Canal route would be seriously affected by the proximity of British forces. The affair has cost Nicaragua more than the original $77,500. It was necessary to raise 3,000 extra troops at a cost of $3,000 a day. The abandonment of Corinto as a customs port has also resulted in much loss. The disturbance to business and commerce is a loss which cannot be measured in dollars.

Dr. Robert N. Keeley, Jr., of Philadelphia, who recently returned from Bluefields, says that he is well acquainted with pro-Consul Hatch, for whose expulsion from Nicaraguan territory Great Britain demanded smart money to the extent of $75,000, the enforced payment of which has led to international complications. Dr. Keeley asserts that Hatch, before his trouble, was the keeper of a saloon called ‘‘The Cactus” in Bluefields, and that his expulsion could not have caused him more than SSOO damage at the utmost.

TRAIN ROBBERS' PLOT FOILED.

Result Is the Fatal Shooting of Two Men Near St. Joseph, Mo. Two man fatally shot isrthe result of a frustrated attempt to rob a Burlington train coming into St. Joseph, Mo. For some days a gang of tough characters has been hanging around, and information was brought to the Burlington officials that the Omaha express was to be held up. William Haag, a hotel min, furnished the information, and the officers sent] guards, who frustrated the design. Wednesday evening, while Richard Rau, an, employe of Haag, was sitting in the bar of Haag’s place, Thomas Farrall, one of the gang, stepped inside the door and, without a word, shot Rau through the stomach, inflicting a fatal wound. Citizens quickly gathered and captured the men after a long chase, not, however, ui> til Farrall had been fatally shot

HOUSE HOLE DEPARTMENT

What Rusts the Clothes. An authority on laundry work says that Prussian blue, or even bluing of which Prussian blue is a component part, is responsible for many small spots of iron rust found on clothing. The Trusian blue la a mixture pt Iron and cyanide of potassium, element# which the soap used often has a tendency to separate. In which ease the Iron Is deposited on the clothing. Pure indigo, although it costs more. Is a safer bluing. If you wish to determine if there is Prussian blue In the bluing you commonly use, turu a few drops of it into a cup, add water, and then a lump of washing soda. If tho mixture turns a reddish tint, it shows that tho Prussian blue is present.— Philadelphia Ledger. Pound Cuke. Wash and cream six ounces of butter. add slowly lialf a pound of fine granulated sugar, the well-beaten yolks of five small eggs, tho whites of five eggs beaten stiff and dry. Add half a pound of flour, with half a saltspoonful of mace, half a teaspoonful of baking powder mixed with a tablespoonful of milk, and one teaspoonful of vanilla. Beat the mixture thoroughly and bake In a slow oven from one and a half to two hours. This cake is best when baked in small individual cake pans. Butter the pans with clarified butter, then dust them with flour very lightly, fill with the cake mixture aud bake until thoroughly done in a slow oven. Don’t Abuse the Dishcloths. No articles in kitchen use are so likely to be neglected and abused as the dishcloths and dish towels, and in washing these ammonia, if properly used, is a greater comfort than anywhere else. Put a teaspoonful Into the water in which these cloths are, or should be, washed every day; rub soap on the towels. Put them in tho water, let .them stand a lialf hour or so, then nib them out thoroughly, rluso faithfully and dry outdoors In clear air aud sun, and dishcloths and towels need never look gray and dingy—a perpetual discomfort to all housekeepers. A Famous Het of Dishes. The most famous set of dishes in the world Is in the White House. The first dish toward this famous set was selected by Martha Washington, aud la an old-fashioned family soup tureen. Every lady of the White House has imple gdd|ilons v W-.T X * Some whici; will bo greatly appreciated in years to come were contributed by Mrs. Harrison and are decorated by herself. During her first term as first lady in the land Mrs. Cleveland presented to the White House a few very large pieces, which were given to her ns wedding gifts.

Correct Temperature. The proper temperature for a living room Is soy adults la good health 08 to 70 degrees. Invalids and aged require more heat, sometimes as high as 80 degrees, but children should not be kept in an atmosphere above 70 degrees. This applies to even young infants, tho temperature given being correct for a nursery. For a sleeping room the temperature should not rise above 65 degrees, preferably 60, except where illness or special causes require modifications of the general rule. How to Make Tea. , One teaspoonful of tea should be used for each cup. -Tho water for malting it should be boiling. Scald tho ternpot well, then put in the tea afld'pdtti' over it one teacup of boiling water, pieace where it will keep hot, boil, and let it draw for about minutes, then add as many cups of water as you wish to have tea. A mixture of green and bluck tea It preferred by most persons. Black tea may be allowed to boll, but green tea should never boil. The Latest in Coffee-Cape. A unique set of after-dinner coffeecups was on exhibition at one of the leading dealers’ last week. It was entirely of silver—cups, saucers, spoons. Borne are enameled, some are chased, some are inlaid, but no two are alike, and a spoon matches each one. What the cost Is was not ascertained, but that matters little, if at all. The cups are really superb, and, as stated before, are unique. Similar sets may come to be made, but this Is the first that has been so far.

Lobster Croquettes. Chop fine the meat of a boiled lobster, season with pepper, salt and mace. Use one-fourth the quantity of fine bread crumbs. Mix all together with two tablespoonfuls of melted butter end one beaten egg. Make into balls or cones and fry in a kettle of hot fat, after dipping each one into beaten egg and rolling in cracker crumbs. Serve hot and garnish with sprigs of parsley. Coffee Blancmange. Take one-third box of gelatine and dissolve in one-half large cup of milk; when thoroughly dissolved add another one-half cup of milk, one large cup strong coffee heated to the boiling point, one-half small cup sugar, two eggs well beaten, pour into a mold; to be eaten with cream and sugar. | Clam Fritters. '■ Open as you would oysters and chop fine. Make a stiff batter of eggs and flour, -add a little black pepper. JUtr into this batter the chopped clams and a little of the clam liquor if necessary to make the batter the proper consistency. Fry in hot butter or lard.

Awkward Coincidence.

1 At a recent performance at one of the leading theaters a few evenings ago two ladles who lived at a distance, having to catch an early train, were obliged to leave the theater before the performance was finished. Selecting, as they thought, a quiet interlude, they were passing out of the stalls, when an actor suddenly appeared on the stage, Md, repeating a part of his role, exclaimed “There they go. The only two women I ever loved. One I couldn’t have and the other I couldn’t get” The amusement of the audience and the astonishment of the young ladies can be Imagined.—Spare Moments.

NEWS OF OUR STATE.

A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. CVbat Our Neighbor* Are Doing—Matter* of General and Local Interest— Marriagoa and Death* Accident* and Crimea - Pointer* About Our Own People. Don’t Wa*te the Go*. —, Prof. J. C. Leach, State Gas Inspector, who has returned from a tour of the gas belt, authorizes the, following .statement, warning the public against the needless waste of gas: “There are many sections of the gas field that 1 have not visited at all, and am, therefore, not sufficiently informed to give an intelligent estimate of the gas supply: but judging from what data I have at hand, 1 believe that the statistic pressure of the gas field is decreasing. True, there are some wells that show a very slight decrease, if any, but this is the' • exception and not the rule. The belief in many places that gas will last forever, and the extravagant use and waste caused thereby, are doing great damage to the commercial interests of the gas field; for no one knows better than tho manufacturer, who is looking for a location for a factory, that at the present rate of reckless wasting of this precious fuel, the time is not far distant when he will have to return to coal. The gas companies have realized this for some time, aud are doing all they can to husband their supply, and I am glad to say that in some places the people are awakening to these facts; are doing what they can to create a sentiment against the waste of this fuel.” Minor State New*. Hosier Thomas was thrown from •’ horse at Elwood, and fatally injured. Survey for tho new electric road between Elwood aud Anderson lias begun. Joseph Ei.i.is, 20, while working in a field near Wtirren, was killed by lightning. The Dieterich syndicate has brought the Logansport natural gas plant for SSOO- - Earlham college museum has received a tremendous alligator from a Florida friend. Henry county fair association has decided to build a half mile track at New Castle, Worms arc destroying corps, meadows and other vegetation in Clarke and Floyd catinties. Oh A Pickett, 10, Noblesville, is dead from injuries received by falling from a haystack. Fiieii ‘ Yeaton, of Indianapolis, was seriously Injured in a runaway accident at Columbus, The barn and four horses of Reuben Pierce of Sullivan burned. Loss, $1,500; no insurance. Fulton county commissioners have let the contract for a new $78,000 court house, to bo built at Rochester. A mad bull viciously attacked a horse driven by James McCombs near Logansport. JkConibs was seriously hurt. The Nfuneie architectural iron works were destroyed by lire recently, for the second time since construction. Loss S2O- - r The county seat removal question is being revived In Lake county, Hammond disputing with Crown Point for a relocation. Mad de r ;s have done considerable damage to stock in Morgan county. Many hogs have been killed suffering with rabies. A child was born In Kokomo, recently that is the fourteenth daughter of tho fourteeth daughter. Mrs. 8. 11. Burt is the mother. Guy Shepiikred was waylaid by footpads at Vincennes, beaten unmercifully, robbed and driven home in a buggy by the robbers.

Homer Thomas, 15 years old, while horseback riding two miles east of Alexandria, was thrown from his horse and fatally injured. South Bend will send a delegation to Washington to protest against the new public building In that City. The citizens are greatly dissatisfied with the plans. Mils. Banta’s three children played with kerosine st Washington, and one of them st uck a match. Tho house was destroyed. and one of the children fatally burned. A Plymouth man returned a stolen dress skirt to its owner, accompanying it with a note explaining In illiterate language that he stole it to clothe his naked wife, but it was his first theft and his conscience hurt him. James 11. Chandler, running a restaurant at Indianapolis, was appealed to by a chambermaid for protection against three drunken fellows. Chandler undertook to remonstrate with his customers, and was hurled down a steep flight of steps, fatally fracturing his skull. Ezra Skaiii.es, of Muncie, has mortgaged his property for SSOO and gone to New York to try and get his son, Arthur Searles, out of prison by making good the money the young man received by fraudulently representing himself to be an agent of an Indianapolis newspaper. At Lafayette, Judge Everett rendered a decision in ex-Attomey-general Smith’s suit to recover from the school trustees a considerable sum of money that had not been expended for tuition purposes. The court held that the law of 1895 did away with the law of 1893 and that the attorneygeneral could not maintain a suit under the new law. Ex-County Clerk Daniel W. Souder has arrived home at Fort Wayne, from South Africa after a mysterious absence of four months. His return greatly relieves his family, his wife having become nearly crazy from suspense. lie greeted his friends who met him at the trrain and went to his carriage, which took him to his home. A icporter attempted to interview iiim, but he became excited, and, flourishing his cane, said: “No. sir; if it was not for these cursed newspaper, 1 wouldn’t be here in this condition.” His friends hurried him to the carriage, which prevented an attack on the newspaper man. Josephine McCoy, the young daughter of J. B. McCoy, of North New Jersey street, I ndianapolis, was burned to death in a celler. Her clothes caught fire from a natural gas furnace. In attempting to save her tho mother was badly burned. The other night Mrs. Savanna Dugan, who deserted tier husband in Ohio ftVe years ago, died in Fort Wayne. She was alone with William Newman, her lover, at the time. The coroner’s inquest developed the fact that the woman’s neck was broken, and while the funeral was in progress Newman was placed under arrest on suspicion of being the cause of her death. The prisoner declares his innocence. Charles Reei>, wanted at Muncie, Marion and Delphi for horse stealing and for whom a large, reward was offered, was arrested at Kokomo and taken to Muncie for trial. George Meekins, proprietor of the Gas City Hotel, was driving in Jonesboro with a friend, his horse took fright, and before it ooufid be turned dashed over a bluff at the foot of Fourth street., and plunged into the Mississinnewa River, a distance of over eighty feet. .The men fell about half way and caught and were not seriously hurt, while horse and buggy went into the river. The horse also esoaped serious injury, and rescued himself by swimming to the other side. The escape of the men is the talk of the town.