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terday to wait upon the Postmaster-general to demand the reinstatement of the forty-odd of the Brotherhood who had been dropped within the last ten days, will only precipitate the discomfiture of the organization. Every man who Is known to have anything to do with the Brotherhood is to be dismissed as soon as the Depart ment oan get around to it and select his successor. Geuerai Vilas has but little patience with the dictatorial insolence of the Republican organization, and will deal with it with au iron hand. This is one strike that will not succeed. WHITE HOUSE EXPENSES. Figures of Interest to the Domestic Minded— What It Costs to Run the Establishment. Washington Special. Now that the White House has anew mistress, there is naturally a good deal of curiosity about the management of its details Os course the people who have read the papers in the past few weeks are aware that there is a French cook, a French maid, lots of door-keepers and attendants of this sort, but few of them know whether they are paid out of the public funds or out of Mr. Cleveland’s private purse. To put it into a nutshell, it may be said that all those who attend to the public part of the house are paid out of the public fund, while those who are employed for duty in the residence portion of the building are paid out of the President’s private funds. One of the secretaries at the White House, Mr. Crock, has charge of the disbursement of the necessary funds for the private part of tbe houso, but he allows checks against the President's private account for this purpose, and under the supervision of the President on any question of special expenditures. Servants employed in the private part of the house are paid 'but of the President’s own money, including the eook and his assistants, the President's valet, when he has one, the French maid, the servants 3 ho take care of the rooms, and all that sort of ilng. Os course the new furniture for the residence part, as well as the office, is paid for out of the public fund. So is the cost of heating and lighting the entire building. In fact, it costs just a round SIOO,OOO a year to ran the White House aside from the salary of the President. Here are tbe items as appropriated for in the appropriation .bilks just peadiug in Congress: For compensation of the President of the United States, $60,000. for compensation to the following in the office of the President of the United States: Private secretary, $3,250; assistant secretary, $2,250; three executive clerks, at $2,000 each; two clerks of class four, one clerk of class three, one clerk of class two, who shall be a telegraph operator: steward, at $1,800; one usher, at $1,400; four messengers, at $1,200 each; five door-keepers, at $1,200 pach; one watchman, S9OO, and one fireman, sß64—in all, $33,864. The contingent expenses of the executive office, including stationery therefor, as well as record books, books for library, miscellaneous items and furniture and carpets for offices, care *f office, carriage, horses ana harness, SB,OOO. For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of the executive mansion, $6,000. For ordinary care of gfeenhonses and nursery, $3,000. For repairs and fuel of the executive mansion as follows: For care, repair and furnishing executive mansion, SIO,OOO. to be expended under the direction of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, by contract or otherwise, as may be most economical and advantageous to tbe government. For fuel for the executive mansion and greenhouses, $3,000. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, SI,OOO. For repair of conservatory of executive mansion, $6,000. Lighting the executive mansion and public grounds—for gas, pay of lamp-lighters, gas-fitters and plumbers, gas-fitting and plumbing; purchase and erection of lamps and lamp posts; purchase of matches, and for repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for office, stables, watchmen’s lodges and for the greenhouse at the nursery, $14,000; provided, that for each six-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds, no more than S2O shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning pd keeping in repair the lamps, under the expenditure provided for in this act; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as tnay he necessary for that purpose. Repair of Water-pipes and Fire-plugs—For repairing and extending water-pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, and cleaning the sprites and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the executive ■VnaaVion and the building for the State, War and Navy Departments, $2,500.

MINOR MATTERS. file President Vetoes the Senate Bill for the Relief nf Martin L. Bandy. Washington, July 3.— The President to-day vetoed the Senate bill for the relief of Martin I* Bundy. In the veto message the President pays that the claimant, who was a quartermaster, after the settlement of his accounts, was found to be indebted to the government Thereupon he put in a claim for forage for horses more han sufficient to offset his indebtedness. There no suggestion that he had or used any horses, >id if he did, aud failed to make a claim for . >rage at the time he settled his accounts, • then/'says the President, “he presents a case >i incredible ignorance of his rights, or a wonderful lack of that disposition to gain every possible advantage which is usually found among those who deal with the government.” The claim Is not allowed on the grounds that it would set a precedent which could hardly be ignored, and which, if followed, would furnish another means of attack upon the Treasury quite as effective as any which are now in active operation. Indignant Property Owners. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, July 3 —An indignation meeting was held here to-night by property owners in the square where the congressional library building is to be built. They protest, in very vigorous terms, against the appraisement of the property condemned by the jury selected for the purpose. Not one property owner was satisfied with the appraisement, and many have filed objections to it Among those who have filed objections is Jeremiah C. Lots, formerly of Portland. Jay county, and father of Judge O. J. Lotz, of Muncie. His objection is to the award on his property, consisting of a lot and a nine-room, two-story brick residence. The assessment of damages is $4,895, which he regards as unjust and a violation of his rights as a citizen under Article 5 of amendments to the Constitution. He states that the property brings him in an income of S4OO per annum, which, at 6 per cent, the legal rate of interest, represents a capital of $0,666, and the jury proposes thns taking away $1,770 from his capital, and giving a sum which, at 6 per cent., would produce $293, or $lO6 less than the property now produces. _ Airs. Cleveland at the Capitol. Washington, July 3.— Mrs. Cleveland paid her first visit to the House gallery this morning. She occupied a seat in the gallery, and was aoeompanied by Mrs. Vilas, and Mrs. Lamont and Captain Eads. The party remained about twenty minutes, and absorbed the attention of tho House to the neglect of the dull discussion which was progressing upon the Wis'onsin claims amendment. Many Republican nembers, whose seats being immediately under ■he gallery, prevented them from having a good iew of Mrs. Cleveland, turned Democrats for nee and took vacant seats upon the Democratic ide, whore the view was unobstructed. The •arty also paid a brief visit to the Senate, whsre they occnpied the seats reserved for the presidential family in the private gallery. If their presence was known to the occupants of the floor or the galleries ths fact did not make itself conspicuously manifest. Monster Petitions from Knights of Labor. Washington, July 3.—The headquarters of the national legislative committee of the Knights pf Labor in this city is being flooded with petition# from local assemblies to be presented to

Congress, urging action upon the measures named in the recent list submitted by the national committee. Petitions received to-day bore about 50,000 signatures in tbe aggregate. These petitions are alike in form, having been printed and distributed to the local assemblies for signatures, but many of them are accomoanied by letters of the most vigorous sort. Ralph Beanmont, chairman of the legislative committee, declares it to be tbe purpose of the Knights to test the sense of Congress on the measures named, and to find out whether the politicians mean to pass measures for the relief of the people; and whether the right of petition is to be respected. Mr. Beaumont expects to present to Congress, within a few days, similar petitions bearing at least a million signatures. Tbe papers from some of the Eastern States are said, by the local assemblies forwarding them, to bear the names of entire communities, not alone those of Knights of Labor. Miscellaneous Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Washington, July 3.— ln the Criminal Court, io-day, the motion for anew trial and in arrest of judgment in the case of John Q. Thompson, publisher of a paper here, recently convicted of libeling Mrs. Henrietta C. Ingersoll, was overruled, and a one huudrei-dollar fine imposed. The case was appealed. Representative Curtin, of Pennsylvania, has decided not to he a candidate for renomination. By direction of the Presideut, all the executive departments will be closed on Monday. The following promotions were made in the office of the United States Treasurer to-day: E. R. True, to be cashier; James F. Meline to be asßistaht cashier, and David A. Ritter, to be chief clerk. Avery strong petition from S. Shulter and 129 other citizens of Indiana, urging passage of the oleomargarine bill, was presented in the Senate to-day. Senator Voorhees has gone to his home at Terre Haute, where he will deliver a Fourth of July oration. Ex-Governor Foster and ex-Representave Richard Townshend, of Ohio, are here on railroad business in which both are largely interested. Senators Evarts, Teller and Logan, Republican members of the committee on privileges and elections, who voted against an investigation into the charges of bribery in connection with the election of Senator Payne, of Ohio, have determined to make a report of their own, so there will not be a majority report against an investifghtion, after all, but three. The one recommehding an investigation will only be signed by two members of the committe, however. McDonald was at the White House to-day.

KING LUDWIG INSANE. The Autopsy on the Remains of Bavaria’s Mad Ruler. New York Medical Record. Great interest attaches to the question of the alleged madness of the late King Louis of Bavaria. Many have hinted that his eccentricities were purposely exaggerated by those about him, and that he was not in reality insane. A leading English medical journal takes this view. The full report of the autopsy, which wo give below, will therefore be read with close attention. It seems that on Jane 8 Prof. Von Gudden, Dr. Hagen, Prof. Grathey and Dr. Hubrich deposed under oath (1) that King Louis was suffering from a well-advanced form ot mental disturbance known to alienists as parancea (Verruecktheit); (2) that this form of disease was one of gradual, progressive development, and was, in his Majesty’s case, then incurable; (3) that through this disease the free will of thinking was completely destroyed, and he was permanently incapacitated for governing. Such was the unanimous opinion of the physicians mentioned. The post-mortem was made by Prof. Rudinger, in the presence of Prof. Grashey and Drs. Kerschensteiner, Halm. Hubrich and Ruckert. Marked changes of various forms and of a degenerative nature were found in the skull, brain and meninges. These changes were partly abnormal developments, partly chronic inflammations of old and recent date, and are described as follows: The scalp was very thick and enormously vascular. The skull was disproportionately small and asymmetrical. For example, the diagonal diameter from the left brow to the right side of the occiput was 17.2 centimeters, while from the right brow to the left occiput it was 17.9 centimeters. The skull was extraordinary thin, its thickest portion being only .3 millimeter. The coronal and sagittal sutures on the inner surface of the skull were completely ossified. The longitudinal sinus was too much dilated posteriority and narrowed anteriority. Thera were several large and small bony protuberances on both sides of the inner surface of the frontal bone. The dura mater was in general much thickened, especially over the frontal bone, where it was vascular and roughened. The left petrous bone showed a projection which corresponded to a depression in the temporal lobe. .The tentorium was irregularly thickened, and on stretching appeared porous and friable. All the blood vessels of the base were filled with a dark fluid blood. The brain, without the dura, weighed 1,349 grams, or about 43$ ounces. The arachnoid on both convexities of the cerebrum was thickened and mtiky-looking. At one place, about at the junction of the left first frontal and the ascending frontal, the pia and anactaroid membranes had become thickened and raised by fibrous proliferation. The skull over this point was almost as thin as paper. In certain localities on both sides the convolutions appeared shrunken, viz., at the beginning x>f all three of the frontal convolutions, the mesal parts of the anterior central convolutions, and in the region of the middle of the post-central fissure. The brain substance was vascular and soft. No microscopic examination has yet been made. The account thus given apparently does reveal degenerative changes. Taken in connection with the personal and family history, they place the insanity of the King beyond all reasonable douot, and make it quite unnecessary to suppose that there was any dark conspiracy in connection with his tragic end. Sealing Fruit-Jars with Cotton. New England Farmer. Several housekeepers have reported to the newspapers successful experiments in preserving fruits of various kinds in glass jars by merely filling them full of hot fruit and immediately covering with pieces of cotton batting tied over tbe mouths of the jars. Mrs. Orange Judd reported in the Prairie Farmer more or less success, last year, with this rodthod. Others claim to have filled jars with uncooked berries and cold water, and by sealing immediately with the cotton batting or otherwise, have found the berries in good condition afterward. We ate rhubarb last winter that was put up in clear water aud came ont in perfect condition. Two corrfesponaents to the Farmer from son them New Hampshire report excellent success with hot fruits sealed with cotton-hatting tied over their mouths. Some lots were covered with paper, and cotton over that, but both kept equally welL The main thing seems to be to fill the jars full, and then to keep atmospheric fungus germs from coming in contact with the fruit A half ineh'of cotton-batting is found to make a wall that the mold spores cannot penetrate. The common self-sealing jars are good enough, hat where families cannot afford them, or have a surplus of common bottles lying about empty, it may be well to utilize them for preserving such fruits as they will keep. There are many things yet to learn regarding the preservation of winter stores. m Something In • Name. Boston Transcript. A hotel-keeper informs us that if he has Roman punch on his bill of fare, there are several very pious gentlemen who decline it, notwithstanding there is nothing in it more harmful than lemon juice; but if he calls it sherbet, no matter if he has rum enough in it to scorch one’s throat, these same pious gentlemen will eat it, smack their lips and call for more again and again. It is hi* opinion that there is a deal more in a name than some people are willing to admit The American Agriculturist for July says that "buckwheat is one of the most valuable grains both for human food and for feeding animals. It ia only slightly inferior to rye in nutritious matter, having much the same character as a food and containing very nearly as much nutriment as oats." Saits for Men And boys cut down $2 to $5 each at the clearance sale of the Model.

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FROM POVERTY TO AFFLUENCE, Romantic Story of a Millionaire Contractor on the Panama Coast. Panama Correspondence Colonial Standard. People are trying hard to make themselves believe that tbe times are getting better, or, at least, that they will get better very shortly. Since it is now certain, they say, that the canal company will obtain the proceeds of the 600,000,000 loan, so much talked of, as a matter of course there will follow anew boom —in fact, a very boomerang of a boom—in business of all sorts. Money is found to be plentiful, and everybody will therefore prosper and be happy. We shall see. Meanwhile there is no denying that Colon, in fact the whole isthmus, ia suffering from a severe fit of despondency. Perhaps it may be partly ascribed to the weather; for notwithstanding old Dr. Johnson’s vigorous protest that no man of sense should ever allow his spirits to be affected by so trivial a matter as rain or shine, heat or cold, good weather or bad. yet it is my belief, after considerable time for observation, that most people are less cheerful when a gloomy thunder-cloud is hanging around twothirds of the time, ready and w : ling and positively anxious to inaugurate the deluge. How can they do otherwise than ft-al that their stock of daily hope and sunshine it> abundantly watered, to say the least? Contractors, for instance, who have large numbers of men at work, must wish that a kind Providence had so arranged the celestal water works that a laree share of that most precious fluid which now falls here, say nine-tenths, had been bestowtd upon less-favored places. It is a perfect embarrassment of riches. There is one of the great enterprises connected with the canal, however, that heeds not sun nor rain. It is beyond nnd above such accidents and approaches in its operations the independent action of a natural agency. It is the admiration and the wonder of all intelligent beholders. A mighty automaton, lacking only the breath and bloqd of life to rank with the fabled monsters of Plutonian or Megatberiau origin! Would you know what this wonderful object is? This cunning combination of mechanism, upon so huge a scale and so perfectly adjusted that it seems a living thing? I will tell you. It is the monster Slaven dredge of the American Contracting and Dredging Company. Or, rather, it is seven of them! A small fleet! Ido not think it would be possible for any writer to describe in words tbe workings of these great machines and tho strange impressions made upon the mind while watching them literally “eat Up" and devour the space of earth they are set to attack. I have tried once or twice and have given it up. I could stand for hours spellbound, watching the great steel buckets, each of which holds a cubic metre, revolve upon the endless chain from the depths below to the seventy feet high tower, where they empty themselves into an immense receiver, from which the softened aud astonished material, so lately dreaming the dream of creation in undisturbed repose, is shot away through great pipes, hundreds of feet, too, from the hanks of the future canal. Slowly and surely, like fate, or like the “mills of God" in the poem, the great wheels turning over, driven by a powerful central engine deep down below, while a half dozen other lesser engines, like arms, and legs, and hands, and feet, guide all the operations of the ponderous and wonderful invention. Day and night, in sunshine, or in rain, there need be no rest. Change the watch, as on a ship at sea, and all through the twenty four hours the tireless monster labors for M. de Lesseps and civilization! I am sure that ordinary readers care little or nothing for figures, therefore why should I tire you and them (begging your and their pardon) by stating tho details of work performed by this company? Suffice it to say that they will put out 1,000,000 cubic metres a month until their contract of 30,000,000 is finished. What proportion is already done I cannot sav; hut I am assured by the very able and enterprising young gentleman who is at the head of their affairs, viz., Commodore H. B. Slaven, that they will be up to time. The work will be completed as agreed. And since I have inadvertently mentioned the name of my friend, the Commodore, I will venture to tell you something about him* even at the risk of his displeasure, for he is an instance of what a young man of energy and intelligence mav accomplish in a few brief years. Henry Bartholomew Slaven was bom-in Canada West, now Ontario, a little over thirty years ago. His parents were farmers, in moderate circumstances. Tho youngest of several brothers, all of whom had gained prominence, he remained at home on the farm, “a bare footed boy,” working hard, as all farmers’ boys are used, until he approached maturity. Then came the irresistible impulse of adventure that toro him away from the parental roof and the home acres, to begin his struggle with fortune. His first skirmish in the great battle of life was in the city of Philadelphia, where he soon graduated as a skilled pharmacist, at a very early age. From there he went to San Francisco, where, without friends or money, he opened, under the celebrated Baldwin Hotel, the largest and finest drug establishment an the Pacific coast He was a youthful Aladdin, with lamp of cheerful toil. In a brief space his name and fame were known, not only in the city of scan Francisco but all over the State of California. He invented and patented medicines, and was the soul of enterprise and of quick perception. To the surprise of everybody this youth, who had not yet attained to manhood, had already made the beginning of a fortune. Success had already crowned his efforts. But the process of accumulation seemed slow to this active mind. There must.be new worlds to conquer. And so, one fine day, the plane of anew kind of dredge were shown him. I will not have time or space for the intervening details; tbe struggles, the delays, the severe trials, and the final triumph. But the result speaks for itself. .The most wonderful part of it all is the constancy and untiring energy and faith with which the Commodore has pursued his object. Associated with his brother. M. A. Slaven. and backed by such worthy men and millionaires as Hon. Eugene Kelly, of New York, the American Contracting and Dredging Company has become the leading factor in the solution of the great Panama canal problem. Iu personal appearance Commodore Slaven is tall, dark and handsome, with the air of a man who knows exactly what he wants and how to get it. He is still unmarried. Genial with his friends, liberal and considerate towards his associates and assistants, and just to all. he pursues the even tenor of his way towards the near goal of his ambition. From the brave, barefoot boy of the Canadiau farm, to the millionaire contrator of the Panama isthmus, will be like the magic transformation of a dream!

The Future of the Negro. Oliver Johnson, in New "’Tork Enterprise. I hold that the negro of the United States is not at all likely to emigrate from the land of his birth in tlJfe vain hope of placing himself in more favorable circumstances than those which surround him here. Those who indulge the dreamthat he will betake himself to some region of the earth where he can build up a nationally of his own color mistake his character, and are sure to meet with disappointment. He is here, in tbe land of his birth, the land of freedom and equality, and here he will remain in spite of the contempt of the vulgar and the persecution of the proud. lam also certain that, in proportion as the negro qualifies himself by education and re finement to share the privileges and amenities of cultivated society, he will find the color of his skin no bar to these advantages. Gradually but surely the vulgar “prejudice of color” will fade out of the hearts and minds of people of culture, and a black skin, no more than red hair or blue eyes, will be regarded as a badge of soeial inferiority. Nor. do 1 shrink from avowing my belief thAt wbon this day arrives, marriages between whites and blacks, if they do not become common, will be far more frequent than they are now, without exciting either wonder or opdosition. Ignorance, whether among citizens of a white or a black complexion, will always be a source of danger to the country; but I am confident that the day is not very distant when the negro will be a useful and valuable factor in the hody-politio. His advancement will not be the fruit either of concession or self assertion exclusively, but of a wise resort to the one or the other method, as circumstances may require. We may in this particular safely confide in his own judgment and tact, which have been so well Illustrated in the past. Destroying Weeds in Lawns. Nsw Brunswick Agriculturist. Combo weeds, suoh as docks, dandelions, thistles, etc., may easily be removed from lawns, where they are a decided nuisance and source of trouble, by means of oil of vitriol or carbolic

acid. Provide yourself with an old blacking or pickle bottle, and fix a piece of wire round the neck to carry it by, and a stick about sixteen inches long to dip in and lift the acid with. Don’t point the stick, but notch the lower end of it to the length of two or three inches from the point, so that it may hold the acid more effectually than if it were smooth. One drop of the acid, if it is good, properly placed in the center or heart of each plani, will effeotually destroy it before your eyes, and your ears will also have some evidence of the work of destruction. for no sooner does the vitrioi touch the plant than it begins to hiss with some suggestion of vindictiveness of tone that assures you the enemy is annihilated. One dip in the hottle of the notched end of the 6tick will be quite sufficient to do for four or five single crowned plants; those with double crowns should, in order to make sure of their destruction, be treated to a drop on each crown separately. Os course due care should be taken of the clothes and the skin in doing the work, and the acid should be kept out of the way of children and ignorant people. FAYING OFF. How Die Members of Congress Get Their Money Each Week. Washington Batchet. It is interesting to watch the way in which Uncle Sam’s sons draw on the old man at the Capitol. Take the lower House. The bank for the members is convientiy situated alongside the Speaker's room at the west side ot the wing, and is conducted as any other banking house. Checks on it are good commercial paper anywhere in the country. There are seven men connected with the management of the bank, including the Sergeant-at-arms. The Deputy Sergeant-at-arms gets $2,000 per annum, the cashier $3,000. the book-keeper SI,BOO, the paying teller $2,000, the messenger $1,300, the page $720, and a laborer $5 a day during the session. There is an average of $150,000 in the safe while the House is in session. When money is needed the messenger goes to the Treasury with the proper papers, accompanied by a Capitol policeman, and returns in a street-car, usually with about $40,000. If there is a call for a larger sum the Sergeant-at-arms jumps into a carriage and goes after it himself. The pay of the members begins the4thof March after their election, and a check is sent them every month, unless they otherwise direct Their accounts are certified by the Clerk ot the House, as there is then no Speaker. The pay of a member is $416.66 per month, but to avoid fractions they are paid $416 for four months and $417 for eight months. The Treasurer only recognizes and makes payments. Many an old member is under the impression that his per diem is always placed to his credit, and could be drawn out before every sunset, but he is mistaken. The $5,000 per annum is divided into twelve installments at Mr. Manning’s end of the line. When a member dies his pay ceases on the day of bis death. The salary of the successor commences the day after the decease of the foimer member, though the election may not occur for several months. The new member, in other words, draws pay for time he never serves. The members draw their money in different ways. There are probably twenty of the present House who let their salaries run into nest eggs. Among these are Scott and Everhardt, of Pennsylvania; Powell, of Illinois: Boutelle, of Maine; Healy, of California; Jones, Stewart, and Reagan, of Texas; Ellsbury, of Ohio: Stone, of Massachusetts, and Wakefield, of Minnesota. Scott has over a year’s salary owing him—about $6,000. Theother members mentioned nave from SI,OOO to $3,000 to their credit. There are a couple of dozen of members who always overdraw, or rather borrow from tbe head of the b .nk. They • borrow, or get in advance, sums ranging from $lO to S3OO, and at the end of the month they have nothing. The great majority of the members draw all that is coming to them at the end of each month, particularly those who have their families with them. Some of them never see an outside bank, but let their monthly salary remain, and draw it out in small sums. Others take out their salaries and place them in other banks. But this not done as much as formerly. A number of them got caught in the Middleton Bank that broke some time ago. Most of the members do all their financial business over the counter of the Congressional Bank, and some of them pile checks up as hie’n as $60,006 in a single session. The employes of the House, 150 strong, are paid off at. this bank as a matter of accommodation. During the long sessions $60,000,000 pass through the wire wicket of the House bank.

Our Agricultural Colleges. Edward Hersey, in Mirror and Farmer. Because a college does not teach a boy how to hold a plow and dig a post-hole better than his father can, it should not be condemned; it is the business of the farmer, rather than the college, to teach these things. The college is established to teach the students advanced practical ideas, that, as yet, have not become familiar to the common farmer; so it becomes the duty of the professors to teach the students the condition of the soil that is best adapted for the growth of the different crops, rather than the particular manner of holding the plow; the different elements and the different properties of plant food in different kinds of manures, rather than the particular manner of loading it into the cart; the nature of a tuber and the best method of preparing it for planting rather than the particular method of digging potatoes; the nature and amount of animal food in an ear of corn rather than how to husk it. The first duty of the colleges is to teach the minds of the scholars; this may be followed by training their hands, especially in the performance of each work as they cannot be trained in at home. Because our colleges are not just what we think they ought to be we should not try to tear them down, but we should exert ourselves to build them up and improve them until they become as near perfect as possible. We must remember that perfection is not found among the works of man. It should also be remembered that agricultural colleges are new institutions, therefore they open anew field to explore. It is very difficult to find the proper men to fill the different offices of the college. It requires time for men to properly fit themselves for the new duties, but if we will be patient they will, in time, come up to the required standard., There can be but little doubt that the farmers, when they fully understand the objects of our agricultural colleges, and fully realize the necessity of giving the coming farmer a higher education than the present have, will undoubtedly exert themselves to place the colleges where they will be in a condition to do well the important work assigned them. Because every student that graduates from an agricultural college does not immediately go into the farming business and become rich, we should not get mad and try to kick the institution over; it must be remembered that we live in a free country, where each man follows the occupation that seems to offer him the best opening, and it should not be forgotten that the money to support the colleges comes from all classes. Not a Genuine Grandee. Paris Let tor in Boston Berald. “Christine Nilsson is going to marry the Count Casa Miranda, a Spanish Deputy, and of no particular importance, who has sowed auy amount of wild oats in this capital. He comes of a very respectable family, but it haa not long been ennobled, hence it is a great mistake to call him grandee. His mother was the first one of the family that was ever ennobled, and the title of countess was given her by the father of ex-Queen Isabella in recompense of her fidelity as lady’s maid to her daughter. When Isabella ascended the throne she gave Sonor Casa Miranda the right to bear the title, and to hare it descend to his heirs forever. We all know him here, as he used to be the correspondent of two or three Spanish papers. He is about fifty-five years of age—that is to say, about ten or twelve years older than Mme. Nilsson. He has a daughter, a young lady of about twenty-six, who has been iiving with her future stepmother for four years. 1 used to see Mile. Miranda and Mme. Nilsson often when down at Monte Carlo last winter.’' He Went Home Early. Harvard Lampoon. Enfant Terrible (who has been lying in wait for the visitor) —‘‘Mr. Borelong, are you going to stay till 10 o'clock!” Mr. B.—“ Why, would you like to have mes E. T.—"No; but pa said he bet yon would, aud raa thought you wouldn’t have the cheek." _ A correspondent of the Ohio Poultry Journal claims that Italian bees gather honey from the blooms of the red clover, and they work on many other flowers that the native bees do not, aud aiBO on all that the common bees work. This, to the honey-producer, is an item of no mean importance.

HOW DILI. NTK WAS DBCEITSD. An Incrate Who Palmed Himself Off as John the Baptist. better in Denver Tribune. I was imposed upon once in a way 1 despise. I do not say it because it was the first time I was ever imposed upon, for it was not To be imposed upon seems to be my sphere. Eight years ago, while I was doing some assessment work on the old Boomerang claim on Mill creek, our camp was startled by the appearance of a man with a hopeless droop in the knees of his pantaloons, and indications of an intense nervous strain on the only suspender he wore. There was something about the man that instantly caught and retained the interest of the spectator. It was the suspender. Unconsciously we looked at it with horror and apprehension, for it might give way at any moment He was a small man with dm V red eyes. They seemed to be all the-time fixating about in a sea of unshed tears. He did not weir good clothes. His raiment had originally been that of a man rather below the middle walks of life. This original owner had evidently worn them along for years below the middle walks of life, and then he had thrown them away. After a reasonable delay this gentleman had gone to the rag pile and appropriated them. We were not vain in our own personal appearance in the camp in those days, but when we saw this man and bis shabby bark we felt more content with our lot. I can still see John the Baptist, as he called himself, in the clear, red light of a mountain sunset in July, as he wound up the crooked road that crossed and recrossed the little irrigation canal. He wore a full beard, with cracker crumbs in it, but otherwise perfectly plain. It was one of those long, reddish beards, with little flecks of sunshine and other natural penomena in it It was the kind of beard that an old Etruscan Mormon generally banks up bis windpipe with. He was a meek man with a retreating manner and a forebead of the same style. His ears hung low on the side of his head and little tufts of red bunch grass grew out of each. They were pale ears with little bronze freckles on them, and he wore small eardrops in the puffy bottom of each lobe. He wore a Derby hat It was not the kind of Derby hat worn so much now. It was about the first one that was made, and it had a wire run through the brim to hold It in shape. It was not a jaunty hat. It was rather what might be called a plain, unassuming hat that didn't intend to brag or boast, but was willing to let its work show for itself. His other clothes were plain also. He was not vain of them. He simply wore them out of deference to the statutes in such case made and provided. The coat had flowing sleeves to it, and it was held in place at the throat by the use of a tenpenny nail. His pantaloons were once eiddy and checked, bat now they had lost all spirit and all hope. They drooped like a forgotten political boom, and they clung to John the Baptist because there was absolutely no one else on whom to cling. These pautaloons were simply the wreck of former grandeur; once proud and haughty, they were now used simply as an evasion of the law; once sprightly and springy at the bottoms, they were now the saddest of all pictures, a pair of battered, neglected, baggy, plaid pantaloons, plain in front, looped over one shoulder, and caught at intervals by bull dogs. This man was said to be a little warped intellectually. but I didn’t notice it. Os coarse, it was a little eccentris for him to come into camp and register as John the Baptist without giving his surname, but most all of us wore nom de plumes there in camp, and so we were not inquisitive about people's home names. There is nothing that feels easier to eat and sleep in during hot weather, nothing that has less tendency to hag at the knees or bind under the arms than a Mother Hubbard nom de plume. So we all wore them. John the Baptist preached in camp on the following Sabbath, and we all listened t > him. He talked modestly about himself. Now and then he referred to the Creator, but only incidentally. He could make a good grammatical prayer, and, with better clothes on, would have made quite an impression as the champion of the Legislature. Some of his petitions to the throne of Grace would have read all right in the Congressional Record, but still he wasn’t a man who seemed to accomplish anything with his prayers. While he was a good, all-around, extemporaneous speaker, at such a time his petitions never seemed to get any further than the clerk of the committee on credentials. I had faith in him, though, and gave him roy other blue flannel shirt, which he needed sadly, especially when the days got pretty hot and he wanted to take off his coat and run around in his shirt sleeves. No man can successfully loaf around a mining camp in his shirt-sleeves unless he has a shirt, so John the Baptist wore my blue shirt and put his long, weary legs under my groaning board, and slept on my floor in low, guttural tones, and borrowed my gun, and scratched the stock against the rocks, and jammed the barrel in trying to flsh a tarantula cut of a crevice with it, borrowed some money of me and went over to town. He never came back to the old Boomerang claim, but returned to his large and airy asylum at Mount Pleasant, la-, as the guest of the State. I presume he is there now, wearing my blue flannel shirt and doing the forerunner act. It was two weeks after he went away before I learned the truth. Then Buck Brammel came up to my cabin and said: “Bill, you remember that party that claimed to be Johu the Baptist, and nsed your smokin’ tobacker here for two or three weeks, and went away a fortni't ago?” Well, he was no more John the Baptist than I be. They say he played the locust and wild-honey racket all through Nebraska, and downed ’em in good shape, but be was no more John the Baptist than * be. He was another man. Bill Nye.

Converting Corn Into Pork. Farm, Field and Stockman. Pork and corn sqpan to be inseparable articles. But unless the eoru is properly fed the pork will be expensive. Corn and pork only go together when it is desirable to fatten the hogs. If corn is used in any other manner, or for a different purpose, the pork becomes a very expensive product. We do not advocate feeding corn in the summer to any class of .stock, and experi ence shows that while it is invaluable to the pork-raiser, and the most convenient article he can use, pork can be produced more cheaply when the corn is fed in a judicious manner. Many farmers, though aged, do not know that clover hay can be fed with advantage to hogs, and yet such is the fact We have long separated the hog from all other classes of stock, and denied him the privileges of being fed on grass, cut hay, ground oats and other food that is more acceptable to him during nis growing period than corn, and the consequence is that he fails under the long-continued diet of corn, and becomes susceptible to diseases that were before unknown. To keen the steer stuffed with dry corn, which is a concentrated food, and deprive it of bulky provender and pure water, would cause it to succumb in a very short time, yet this is just the treatment the hog is compelled to undergo, simply because "corn is king” and supposed to be cheap, when the fact is that when fed under such circumstances it is very eerily. What the hog requires is a variety, including bulky food, and corn will then perform aa important service. An 01<1 Belle Discovered. Crawfordsvilie Journal. The tinners, who this week put anew roof on the residence of Miss Janey Jones, found an old pav-roll for a company of mounted rangers, for the month of December. 1813. The roll contained the names of 106 persons, and Ambrose Whillock was the paymaster. The men received s3l per month, and Gen. Z. Taylor witnessed the paymeut of each man, except cue. The officers of the company were: Williamson Dunn, captain; Henry Brenton, first lieutenant; Henry Ristine, second lieutenant; David Htllis, third lieutenant; Green B. Field, onsign. What Are You Giving (7sT New York Evoning Post. Mr. Cleveland’s steadily-growing popularity is ptimariiy due to the deepening belief that he is an honest man, with courage enough to defy his party wbeu it is in the wroug. At the reported proceeding of the-Ohio Horticultural Society, several of the members made statements of the amount of various crope of small fruits. Mr. Parry, of New Jersey, had grown 200 bushels to the acre. Mr. Farnsworth from 100 to 150 bushels; Presideut Ohroer, of Dayton, thought 75 bushels a fair average, but

had known 300 bushels to be raised on tw* acres. There are certain requisites for obtains ing large crops, namely, a rich and substantial soil, liberal mauuring, depth of culture before planting to prevent harm from drouth, andL most important of all, the selection of productive varieties which will not run to stem and leaf, by high manuring. The True Aristocracy. Boston herald. There is no aristocracy in the United State* but that of the intellect, and the opening of oug institutions to women on a large scale is to be one of the sources of the sustentation of the larger culture and the wider sense of things that is growing up among us. Astounding Ignorance Rebuked. Boston Transcript. Said she: “Didn’t know I had graduated! Dear me! Don’t you read the news?” And the editor went out. feeling very humble, pursued with, “I should have expected you to know, o£ all men!” The Fact of the Matter. Hartford Post. The idea that fish is good braia food has bee exploded by the scientists. The fact is that brains are usually born in a man and not fed into him. A New Ticket. Washington Republican. Cleveland and Holman is the latest and most unique suggestion for 1888. It is said that the best mode of using sulphur about plants, in order to destroy insects, is t sprinkle it on the ground during a warm day* when it will prove beneficial without injuring the plants. w Public water-troughs, it is claimed, are place* at which infectious diseases aie spread; hone* the water should always be flowing in them, ia* stead of turning it on only when wanted. INDIANA FAIR LIST. DISTRICT FAIRS. Acton Fair Ass’n. - .Acton Aug. 30 to Sept. 31 Bridgeton Union.. .Bridgeton Aug. ‘23 to 28*. Dunkirk Union Dunkirk Aug. 31 to Sept. 3L East. Indiana Agr’l. Kendallville.. .Oct. 4 to 8. Edinburg Union... Edrnbnrg Sept. ‘2O to 24. FairmountUnion...Fairmount Sept. 20 to 24. Fountain. War re a & Vermi11i0n........ Covington Sept. 21 to 24. Francisville Agr'l.-.Francisville...Oct. 5 to 8. Henry, Madison & Delaware Middletown... Aug. 31 to Sept. 3L Interstate Fort Wayne.-Sept. 14 to 17. Knightstowm Union.Knightstown.. Aug. 31 to Sept. 3, Lawrence District.. Lawrence Sept. 14 to 17. LoogooteeDistrict..Loogootee.... Sept. 7 to 11. Miami and Fulton. .Macy Oct. G to 8. New Ross Agr’l New Ross Aug. 9 to 14. Northeastern Ind,. .Waterloo. Oct. 4 to 9. N. Indiana & S.MichSouth Bend.. .Bept. 20 to 24. N. Manchester TriCos. Agricultural.. N. ManchesterOet. 5 to 9. Orleans Agr’l Orleans Sept. 21 to 25. Patrons & Farmers.Kentland....Aug. 31 toSopfc.& Poplar Grove A. H. and M. A Poplar Grove.. Sept. 0 to 10. Southeast Indiana. .Aurora Aug. 17to 20. Switzerland & Ohio.E. Enterprise.. Sept. 14 to 17. Union City A. and M. A Union City Sept. 20 to 24. Urneyville Agr’l Urneyville ... .Oct. 7to 9. Warren Tri-county.Warren Sept. 7 to 10. Wayne, Henry and Randolph Dalton Sept. 7 t.o 10, Wells Sc Blackford.. Montpelier Sept. 28 to Oct. L Xenia Union Xenia Sept. 7 to 12. COUNTY FAIRS. Boone County Lebanon Aug. 10 to 20.Cass Logansuort.. .Sept. 14 to 18. % Clark Charlestown ..Sept. 27 to 30. Clinton Frankfort Aug. 23 to 27. Daviess .Washington...Oct. 4 to 10. Dearborn Lawreuceburg.Aug. 24 to 28. Decatur Greensburg...Aug. 31 to Sept. 4. Delaware Mnncie Aug. 17 to 21. Elkhart Goshen Sept. 14 to 17. Fulton. Rochester Sept. 22 to 25. Gibson Princeton Sept. 15 to 18. Grant, Marion Aug. 31 to Sept. 3. Green Linton Oct. 4 to 8. Hamilton Noblesville—Aug. 23 to 27. Hancock Greenfield Aug. 24 to 27. Harrison Corydon Sept. G to 10. Henry New Castle ... Aug. 10 to 14. Howard Kokomo Sept. 13 to 17. Huntington Huntington, ..Sept. 21 to 25. Jackson Brownstown.. Sept. 7to 11. Jasper Rensselaer Sept. 7to 11. Jay Portland Sept. 28 to Oct. 1. Jennings North Vernon. Aug. 10 to 13. Knox Vincennes ... .Oct. 11 to 16. Lagrange Lagrange Sept. 28 to Oct L Lake Crown Point -Sept. 14 to 17. LaPorte LaPorte Oct. 5 to 7. Lawrence Bedford Sept. 15 to 18. Madison Anderson Sept. 6 to 10. Monroe Bloomington .Sept 21 to 25. Montgomery CrawfordsvilleSept. G to 10. Newton Morocco Sept. 7 to 11. Noble Ligonier Oct. 12 to 15. Orange Paoli Sept 1 to 4. Parke Rockville.. Aug. 16 to 21. Perry Rome Oct 4 to 9. Perry Tell City Sept. 28 to Oct. 2. Pike Petersburg.... Sept. 28 to Oct. 4. Porter Valparaiso Sept. 14 to 17. Posey New Harmony Sept. 14 to 17. Randolph Winchester.... Sept. 14 to 17. Ripley Osgood Aug. 17 to 20. Rush Rushvilie Sept. 14 to 17. Shelby Shelby vi11e.... Sept. 7 to 11. Steuben Angola Oct. 11 to 16. Sullivan Sullivan Sept. 6 to 11. Tippecanoe. Lafayette Aug. 30 to Sept. 4. Tipton Tipton Sept 20 to 24. Vigo Terre Haute. .Sept 13 to 17. Wabash .-...Wabash Sepfc. 14 to 17. Warren West Lebanon. Aug. 31 to Sept. 4 Warrick Boon ville Aug. 24 to 28. Washington Salem Sept.. 14 to 17.

The First Sign Os failing health, whether in the form of Night Sweats and Nervousness, or in a sense of General Weariness and Loss of Appetite, should suggest the use of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. This preparation is most effective for giving tone and strength to the enfeebled system, promoting the digestion and assimilation of food, restoring the nervous forces to their normal condition, and for purifying, enriching, and vitalizing the blood. Failing Health. Ten years ago my health began to fail. I was troubled with a distressing Cough, Night Sweats, Weakness, and Nervousness. I tried various remedies prescribed by different physicians, but became so weak that I could not go up stairs without stopping to rest. My friends recommended me to tiy Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, which I did, and I am now as healthy and strong as ever.— Mrs. E. L. Williams, Alexandria, Minn. I have used Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, in my family, for Scrofula, and know, if it is taken faithfully, that it will thoroughly eradicate this terrible disease. I have also prescribed it as a tonic, as well as an alterative, and must say that I honestly believe it to be the best blood medicine ever compounded.—W. F. Fowler, M. D. D. S., Greenville, Tenn. Dyspepsia Cured. It would be impossible for me to describe what I suffered from Indigestion aud Headache up to the time I began taking Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. I was under the care of various physicians, and tried a great many kinds of medicines, but never obtained more than temporary relief. After taking Ayer’s Sarsaparilla for a short time, my headache disapSeared, and my stomach performed its uties more perfectly. To-day ray health is completely restored. Mary Harley, Springfield, Mass. I have been greatly benefited by the prompt use of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. It tones and invigorates the system, regulates the action of the digestive and assimilative organs, and vitalizes the blood. It is, without doubt, the most reliable blood purifier yet discovered. H. D. Johnson, 383 Atlantic Brooklyn, N. Y. ft Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & do., Lowell, Man. *rice 91; six bottles. 5.