Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 25, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1876 — Page 1

i r I r : VOL. XXY-rNO. 43. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY - JUXE 7. 1876. WHOLE NUMBER 1855

THE SAFETY OF THB BTATE. BT THC B.IV. ER. I. 3C. TARBOX. From the OongregaUonallst.1 , The little springs the sparkling rills, . In lonely coverts b'.de; They rna tmoD; the ancient mlW And through me sbalows gltd; There birth is n the wilderness From mountains wl ids they go By many windln pths, to cheer The thirsty land below. Uod guards the 11' tie mountain springs, Nor lets their channels dry: He boveis on Hl cloudy wlnjs From out the stormy sky; He gives the ram and "snow like wool, And foeds this ceaseless flw, . To make tbe lowlands beautiful And waring harvests grow. . The strength that makes a nation great In secret Is suDplled; ' Tbe energies tnat bulM the state In humble virtues bide; From simple homes among the him The pi ltual force flow. The strength tha' conquers earthly Ills And overcomes the loe. And ir these lonely fountains fall And Utile streamlets dry, J$o art or cunnincan avail; The Natlou's elf man die: Bat if the mountain .treais are pure. And constant in tbeir flow, The Nation' heritage Is sure In all the plains below.

THE STRUGGLES OP A PRIMA DONNA. A. True Story of the Life, Adventures and Triumphs of Emma Abbott. In ISM poor music teacher with a sad face eat In tbe Peoria, ( 111.,) lepot consoling - a sick wile and a group of restless children Tbe father, hoping to better his condition, tad left the busy city of Chicago and brought his little flock of helpless children - with him. Among the children was a lif.le. blight four-year-old girl. They ballad her Emma. The little thiDg, sur rounded bv poverty, sang and bummed and prattled, for like her lather, she was n 11 of music The poor music teacher . moved into a little wooden house on tbe hill, and, after a while, I'oviaence put . nonnh dudIIs in his way to keep poverty from hla door. At night Mr. Abbott came home tired and d soouraged, bat the wurolings and happy chatter of llttie Emm che-red Mm up. From her earliest infancy the littlo child had taken int-Jbse deicht in music. . A. sonar or an organ in the street would draw tbe little thing burgry from the table . A touch on a cuitar weuid set her in dcetasy. At tbe age of :x little Euim i jad dreams of singing in public. Atseve. ehe . -was cocBtsntly siygiug about the house, i catching tvtry tuue she lueara her latner :. play, and at nine, to the surprise of evory- ' body, she began to play the guitar herself. She became so proücleat with the guitar, and created so mucii ialk among theneigbbjrs. that her la.l.er thought he would better his circuar,s.ance3 by brlcging her out with her little brother George in a "" mcert in Puerto. The nigtt came. Tbe little tniDg, rot much taller than her guitar. amkZKlaad delighted tbe audience. Har debut was to succässf altaat her 'alter resolved to lake her on a concert tour. This he did, and the child singer appeared ; hundreds ot times before delighted country ' audiences betöre she was tuirteen years old. At the age of thirteen liltle Emma was invited to visit some school mends at Mount Pula-skl, not a great way from Peoria. Whiie mere, knowiDg the poveriy of her father, and wUnue to surprise him Ith money earned ent!reHby htrsel', ste resolved to get tp a cone- rt "on per own " took." She went to the PuUskl printing . office in short dresses, got trusted for her own handbills and then went and posted them around town herself. On one of these handbills now before ma is printed: Miss Abbott will singIne Mirry Swiss Girl," a chorus! The little girl didn't know what a chorus ' meant, but It looked nlce,and so she had it ' 'put on the oil. She drew quite a house; took in iw, ana iook k? nome u cer mother, tier lather now becoming sick and discouraged, little Emma went down to Lincoln, sang in a school ho use, and then came borne tu give guitar lessons a: twenty cents per lesson to pay her tuition in a feekc: school. At fifteen tittle Emma secured a class of twenty poor children, who came to recite at ber mother' bouse. On Sundays sbe sang in the Hebrew Synagogue a kind bid rabbi, Marx Modes teaching her to procounce'in Hebrew and OtrmaD. The sDricg of her fif enth birthday found Emma's father pocrer than ever before, and tbe little woman, to help, her mother, tried to secure a clerkship la a store, bat failed. Sne Baw her lather sick and discouraged, her mother sick, aad brothers and sisters hungry. la the midst Ot her great distress she heard of a school nine miles frcm Peoria which needed a teach r. Thither the went on toot through the mud and slush. 8he found tbe principal trust ae, a kind old man, at his dinner. 'What do you want, my little woman?" asked tbe old farmer, as Le laid down bis koite and fork to survey our little heroine. "I live In Peoria, sir, and I'vewalked " VWhat! walked, child T walked I" Interrupted tbe old man in astonishment. - Yea Blr;. and I want to teach your school." - 'Weil, I declare! Bat, my child, there are fifteen applications la ahead of yours." But I doat think any of them need it as bad aa I do," , said Emm. "No, and you are the smartest looking one In tbe whore lot, and as plucky as -Julius Csejar. Have yon got your certificate?" .... ' "No, sir," faltered Emma. ' -' Well, my girJ, if yoa!ve walkei nine miles through tbis mud and slush you'll do to teach school 1 for me. Sit up and have some dinner l"t " Emma began the school the next week, - won tbe respect of the parents and tbe love . of the children, and In four months took 40 back to her mother In Peoria. After school closed, Emma, assist sd by her father, gave her first; large concert In .Peoria. Quite a number -of amaurs assisted ber. ' Rouse Ball was fil ed, tbe people cheered,' and her pr father and mother received f 100. This was all -used by ter father sod her mother; except $3. "with this amount in her band she leit her , father sick at home and " started lor Rock. Jaland to visii a young iaay-. xrisna wno , thought she could get np s concert in Kock Island. She found her young lady friend absent and her mney dwindled down to twenty cents. . M What snail I do?" she si id to herself,

almost disheartened. Then a new thought spized her. She remembered her father had once (aught music In a family by tbe

name rf Deer, who- lived over tne. Mississippi river in Mollne. "Mr. Deer will surely help me," she said, "and 1 will get up a concert there." . Ten cents took Enema to Mollne, but Mr. Deer was absent. Mrs. Deer, a crotehetv-faced cli woman, was very cross. She locked insinuatingly at Emma, and said: 'I don't know what pretty young woman like you want of my husband. I guess he balnt got no time to fool away ge ting up concerts." k Just then Mus ADOOit s pica tne piano, and asked if sbe might play something Ina moment she was warbling a sweet song. The oia woman lisienea, men dropped her dish, wiped her hinds on her apron, and came and loc Red over ber Klassts in astonishment. Just then Mr. Def r entered. "By Jove, Matilda, that's nice Bingin'," he exclaimed. -"Who's doln' it?" "My name is Emma Emma Abott, sir. Fat er used to teach " "Ihunder, ye! I remember Mr. Abnnttj bat what are you doin' here? What " "Well, pa and ma are very pior now, and I've come here to see if you'd help me get up a concert." "Help you? Why, of course I will. You shall have our churcb. You're a brave girl, and we'll get you up a big boue !" And she did have it. She got her bills printed, went around personally, and announced tbe concert in the schools, and tbe house was crowded. Tbe next night Miss Abbott sang strain, and at the end of a week she returned to Peoria with 60 in cash. When she Showed her money, her astonished mother held up her hand9, and, with joy and sadness in strange combination, exclaimed : "Ob, Kmms, I hope you bavn't been robbing somebody!" Little Emma was now pat sixteen years old. Sbe saw her father and mother growing poorer every day. She knew she had talent, but sbe had no one to bring them out.' Her father was too feeble to help her. So sbe started on a concert tour through Illinois all alone, accompanied by her faithful guitar. Arriving in a town, sbe would announce her concert in tte schools, sometimes with poor success, sometimes successlullj ; tut she was always hopeful. Sha always sent borne all tbe mntet she did not need to use. At Joliet a Coicago opera troupa came up behind her, saw her bills aad heard such praises from tbe people that they ecgnged her to sing with them lor sevenrj-fire nights through Illinois, led!ana acd Michigan, where tbe troupe broke up and lelt ber out oi money. The next town was Grand Haven. Oat of money and two hundred miles from home, sne determined to give one more concert alone and raise . money er ougn to take her home. Poor, friendless and discouraged, it was to be her las', effort. The audience came late, and among tbem was a kind-hearted railroad man, who listened with enthusiasm. "Mv child, you have the voice of an ange ! he said. "You must go to New York." ' "But I haye no money," ! "Well, I will give you a pass to D9troit From there you can sing through Canada to the Fall, and some way to Mew York. Trust in Providence, and go and see Parepa. She's In New York. She'll help you." 1 With thanks für tbe advice, and sac gulne with hope, little Emma lauded the next day in Detroit and then crossed over to Canada. Contrary to her sanguine ex pf ctatlons, she found Canada a poor place fcr h6r. She ttopped et several towns, but hard luck stared at ber everywhere. Many times she walked hungry from place to place, and once, to raise money, she cut off her hair and sold It. Music was her love and she forgot every discomfc. in tue miast oi ner ueauuiui songs. Oace sbe Jrcz her feet and sang while tbey ached with tbe Intense pain wtica follows. Tbe appiacs3 of the audience overcame hunger, sorrow and even the p-da of frozen leet. Her one intense Genre was to get to XevYork and see Parepa. On ste was wafted toward tbe b'g city. At Lyons, iu Wayne county, her money gave out and soe topped to süig in a school house. All day long she went without food. Sbe actually sang when taint and hungry. With the proceeds sbe bought a good supper and continued on her wy to New York. Alter two weeks of singing and hoping and struggling, Miss Abbott finally arrived In New York alone and in tbe night, pot ing up at the Washington House. The next night she paid her last money for a t'eket to tbe opera; but, to her great disappointment, Parepa did not sinz. She finailyheard Parepa at S:elnway Hall, lu" never succeeded 1 n meeting her face to face. Failing to interest any one In her voice In New York, and solicitous for tbe welfare of her father and mother. Miss Abbott resolved to return to the West. What eould sbe do? She was out of money, with no friend, except her sweet, bird-like, voice. Maoy a time this voice had ben her salvation before. It had opened stony heart. S?, borrowing f 15 from a lady in the hotel, our little wanderer started for the. West. Her money took her to Monroe, Michigan, where s.'ie h, fir Jed everything in advertising three concerts. Tbe nights were stormy, and she lot-t 11 her money. Sbe could net pay ber hotel bill, and the unfeeling landlord held on to btr guitar. With tears In her eyes sbe left it, and went on to the next town, where sbe sang in an ice cream saloon, making money enough to go back and redeem her guitar. This was one of the most dismal episodes In Miss Abbott's life. So discouraged was sbe that when a theatrical troupe came along sbe was glad to Join it for seventy nt ihts, to sing in lows, Kanfas, and even out among tbe Nebraska Indians, sending the proceeds to her mother. Ambitious of success sbe now tried, with poor luck, three concerts alone in Milwaukee and Chicago. Tte people bad never heard of her wonderful voice, and ttey would not come out to hear one young lady sing. Her ill success in Chicago and Mllwau. kee induced her to try tbe provincial towns again, so little Emma started tor Plymouth, Ind., where she advertised to sing In tbe parlors of tbe United States Hotel. Tbe audience was mall, and she had to pawn her galfar for f 2 50 to pay. her hotel bill. Sbe also pawned hf r concert dress, the only nice dress shn had, to get money enougn to go to Fort Wayne, Ind., a few miles beyond, where she advertised for another concert. Tbe concert was in the parlor of the Elin House, and having no guitar, sbe engaged tbe clerk in the mualo store to play ber accompaniment.. The few who came. were delighted, and

her receipts were f 18. With this she went back to Plymouth, redeemed ber guitar and dress, and sent iöto her mother. ...

Wltb bad luck all around her, and the future almost hopeless. Miss Abbott cow. almost gave np la despair.- Then the' tbougbtthat her poor motner and sistera depended upon her, impelled her to make ore more effort. "I will go to TolPdo," she said, "and make one more e flirt, and trust in Providence for tbe rest." . Arriving at Toledo, she advertised to aing in the parlor of tbe Oliver House. Fate was against her. Tbe small audience, tbough entbusiss.lc, did not pay experse, but tbe chivalrous landlord refu d to take her guitar. "No, eir!" said be, forgetting that he was addressing a yosog lady, "George Brown ain't going to take no young lady's guitar; and more than that, you can eUy and try It again." Things now looked dismal enough. Her sp'endld courage began to give out. Be bind ber sbe saw nothing but a tbree year' struggle with poverty. The luture looked as black as midnight, ibe kinaoess oi George Brown brougbt tears in ber eyes but alter it came tbe dreadful thought of sulcldt! The Idea of failure In tbel scheme of her life was dreadlul. That day little Emma went wltb a bursting heart and looked eff the great Toledo pier, and tbe thought of jumping off s ruggled in ter bosom. Baoiy ane turned away. Hope was tone, but sbe thought ot ber mother, and love for her still bouyed her up. Returning to tbe Oliver Hanse, she caught a glimpse of Clara Louise Kellogg, then in tbe?3nitn of her fame, but in a moment ahe was gone. Shedisappeared, with a pieoe of music, in tbe Oliver Honst. Following after, little Emma encountered Miss Kellogg's maid. Ob. I do want to see MUs Kellogg so mach!" sbe exclaimed to Petrilla. "Ob, cen'i I see hei?" "She's jufct gone In to dinner with her mother, but will be out In a moment," answered Miss Kellogg's maid. In a few moments Miss Kellogg came out with her mother. "I'm Miss Abbott," said little Emma, half frightened, "and I do wish to see you so much!" "Never mind, come In. What can I do for you?" asked the kind-hearted Mies Kelloeir." "I warjt you to try my voice. I do think I can sing, and if you only say so I stall be sure," said little Emma locking up pleadingly with ber clear blue eyes. "Why, certainly, my child," said Miss Kellogg's mother, who got up and opened the piano, but seeing little Emma's shabby dress ard wild, sad look, sbe held up ber hands aud exclaimed; VWhy, Louise, where has this poor child been wandering?" In a moment Miss Abbott was singing one ot ber beautiful ballads, full of native sweetness and pathos. As her . magical voice toucbed those higb, clear notes which have since astonished tbe kings aud princf s ot Europe, Miss Kellogg's mother sat in mute wonder. The ears of tbe mo'.htr ot tbe great singer seemed to feast on the clear sweet strains; then fcLe burst out enthusiastically: Louis! Louis?! Do you hear that volC9 how clear no brf ak there! Thai's the voice f r me!" - That night MUs Kellogg kindly gave Miss Abbott a letter to Erranl, a tinning teacher in New York, and money enough to pursue ber studies lor ttro years. With tears in her eyes, little. Emma thanked her benefactor the singing angel sent by the Lord to take her out ot captivity. Then Bhe came to New YcTk. A borne at Dr. Elder's, two years with Errani, and an engagement to sing in Dr. Cbapln's Filth Avenue Church at $1,500 a year.quickly followed. Sunday after Sanday that great congregation was melted by Miss Abbott's magic voice. Triumph after triumph came, but siill beyond sbe hoped icr more. Sae longed for lame for recognition. One day (March 1, 1872 ) a rich business raan, whobe heart was bigger than his pocntt-book Mr. John T. Daly, who after ward built the Windsor liotd eat down in bis office and wrote a little note to Miss Ab. ott. -It was. short, but it was worthy of Mr. Daly, who was always doing princely things, and it filled her heart with a flood of Joy. Mr. Daly told her bow he admired her talent and respected her pluck, acd that if she wished to go to Milan and study he would furnish her the money.: j "I want to go," said Miss Abbott, when tbe writer talked with her, her eyes all the time beaming with gratitude. "It Is the hopeot my life, but I do not wish to receive so much from one person. - If the wbole congregation would interest themselves in me how eladly I will go!" "Very well," said a leading member, Mrs. Georee Lake, on the mornlDg or March 2D, "I will give ?1,000 toward it." Then Mrs. Go. Hoffman gave $300. C. P. Huntington 500, Mr. John Q. Mojt 00, Mr. Z Li. A. Wetberell ?50U, Mr. A. J. Jobrison ?2oO, some others 100 eacb, and Mr. Daly made ud tbe res', all p 13 able to tbe order of Mr. D. T. T. Marshal. On Saturday morning, May 20, 1872, a great crowd ol frienc's with ucuquetg and oer.edictions thronged the Ciiy of P.ria to bid god speed to Miss Euima A. Abbott on tier journey acres the Atlantio to Milan. ' On Miss Abbot t'd arrival in Milan, Lampartl pronounced ber voice a marvel. Nara, to whom 8tanley recommended her, after neariog her sing from "Mignon," said: "You must quit the music 01 Ambroise Thomas and take the grand score of the matters." San Giovanni finally became Miss Abbott's teacher. Losing her health, she took atrip to the Mediterranean and back to Paris, where one day sbe was invited to the palace ot the Rothschilds by the baroaeas, who was so enraptured by her sweet voice that she embraced her and became her bosom friend. The venerable Bonaldl, tbe lavorite ' instructor of .Malibran, offered to instruct Miss Abbott la Paris, but Dalle Sedle, to whom NLlsson recommended ber, finally became her teacher. ' When he beard her sing ce exclaimed, "Mademoiselle, you will yet have the world at your feet," and Wartel, the distinguished French teacher said, "When she Is finished sbe will be without a rival in tbe world." Madame La Grange sld: "My child, you are very like Jenny Lind. 'Your voice is pure, limpid, powerful, sweet, charmante charmante!" Tbn all Paris became wild about the wandering child from Peoria. Adalina Pa.ti invited her to her villa, and when she sang an aria Pattl folded her In ber arms and said: "I love yoa because you love your art, and I see you will become great." Tnen Miss Abbott's fame went beyond Paris to London and St. Petersburg. When Franchl, tha renowned lmpreasarlQ

of 8. Petersburg, beard her sing with Pattl, he offered her a big price to go to Russia, and Pattl, said: "Come, my child

wltb me, and. I will be in a box to ap plaud your debut and throw vou vaur fir.-t bouquet." Bat she chose to stay and study with Wartel in 'Paris. One dav Wartel Interrupted her alngincr by- exclaiming:. "C'est magniflqo I ' Yoa alng like an angel, little one. You will be the glory of America!" . ' A few days ago I picked np the Son and read this cable dipatcb: Mr. Oye, the re nowned Coven t Garden im preetario. hav ing Introduced our sweet Poorla warbler to tbe most critical court audience ot London: "Losdon, May 2. Miss Emma Abbott made a very successful debut as "Dauahter of the Rsglment" at Coven t Garden to-night. Though her acting leaves something to be desired, she poasesses a voice of great power and purity, and is almost perfect In ber rendering ot the character. She was twice recalled a;ter the first act." And when tne big-bearted Christians of New York read this paragraph tbey who, remembering our Savior, put tbeir arms around this tolling woman aDd helped h&i up when tbev read of her final triumph they said, "Verily It is more bkssed to give than to receive," and all the world responded, "Of such is the kingdom ot heaven J" And when little Emma shall stand in our Academy ot Music, like Nilsson and Titiens and Lucca, her ailver voice filling the air like a cboir of angels, or hushing the audience to a boly repose, then the. unurcn 01 tne Divine Maternity will strew the first bouquets at the leet of her who, loving both tne church and drsma, improves all the gifts which God has given her. A FAMILY FEUD. OOSTEST OVER A WILL WITH VERT PECU LIAR FEATURES. The New York Times says: The contested will of the late Dr. James Main came up yesterday before Surrogate Calvin. Tne deceased was a W6ll known physician of French extraction, and died in this city ou January 1, 1876, leaving an estate valued at about 0,000 to be distributed amongn umerous children and grandchildren. In a will dated January 6, 1S76, la which he states h s fge t S seventyfive years, he makes tbe lo lowing bequests; To bis eldest daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Mortman, M,000; second daughter, Mary Houghton, $4,006; grand paugttpr, Stella Hougbton, (5,000; grandson, Frank Hougbton, J 3,000; third daughter, Sarah Merrill, $10.000; fourth daughter, Sielia Skinner, ?4,000; urandson, Edward Skinner, f6 000; grandson, Arthur skinner, f 3,000; son, Charles E. Mairs, $200, and grandson, Frack Mairs, f 100, "in consequence of tbblr idle and intemperate habit;" to bis sister, Elizabeth Brown, l,000. All the rest of the estate is left in trust to his executor?, Pliny Freeman and Cnarles O. Llvermore, the residue pf which, after payment of all just debts and lega cies, is to be divided among tbe Denenciaries in proportion to the legacies lelt tbem. The will is contested on behalf of certain grandchildren not mentioned in the will, acd upon the grounds usual in euch cases, but particularly that of a want of testa mentary capacity. THE DAUGHTERS OF THB DECK AS Kb, all married, are beneficiaries under the will, besides several cf tbeir children. He left one son who has been iu the penitentiary under tbe alias of Charles Meyers, and" to whom, as shown above, he left only $200. It is claimed by counsel for the contestants that be omitted one grandson, the son of a deceased son, and also two granddaughters, children ot one of his daughters, while the whole distribution ol tbe estate, in leaving to cne daughter t ar greater amount tbau to any ether, are strong reasons for contest. It is claimed, also, that a want of testamentary capacity in the deceased is shown io tbe will itself; first, in representing himself to be 75 years of age, whan he wss nearly 80, and, again, in wrongly naming bis daughters as eldest, second, third, etc. They also propose to prove that the FraDk Hougbton named in tbe will as a grandson is not a member of the family, and will be repudiated upon tbe witness stand by Mrs. Houghton herself. The mother of the contesting grandchildren, who are minors, is represented by Mr. A. 11. Wait ner, and the grandson by John H. Bird, with whom is associated ex-Judge Richard Busteed. The executors sra represented by Alfred H. Kowe and A. Oakey Hall. Tbe quarrel is confined to the family, and is conducted with all the bitterness usual iu such feuds. Oae of tbe subscribing witnesses was examined yesterday, and a cross-examination ot söme length, was suspended to give him time to produce books of Interest, and the direct examination ot tbe otber witness to the will was had, when the further bearing was adjourned till June 21. It will, then be continued for tbree days. NEW CHEATS. ' . ! Cheats, rays the Spectator, have found a new and lucrative trade. There Is a rage for "old plate" just now, and preposterous prices are given, especially for old silver, which is occasionally sold," according to a recett aiticle in tbe Qaarferly Kevle w,et lour or five hundred times its value as metal. The age is tested by the "Hall" marks, and some of the dealers have taken to tbe practice of welding bits of metal to Btarxpsd into larger articles, which are then sold to oonno.sseurs who know notelog except the marks, as antique speci mens. Tbe Goldsmiths' Compaoy, wblcb-j might be much more energetic than it is in putting down cbeating In g?ld and silver articles, is now prosecuting: a case, htill undecided, in which it alleges this to have been done. Its plan is to discover the workman who did tbe work and make him give evidence. It tbe workmen la Birmingham and 'tbe potteries wbo turn out " old Spacish brass" articles by the dczsn and " old blue china" plates by tbe score were puv in tbe witness box, a good, many ot the new race of curlodealers would be locked up, to the advantage of buying mankind. x Hammond, the revivalist, has stormed the strongholds of Satan in Baltimore and Washington, with the loss to Satan of one suicide, tbree lunatics aod several hun dred converts, and pushed him back on Vineland, 2iew Jersev, where be (tiam mond) has compelled him (Satan) to turn and fight under a dwaavantage. world. Ben Butler, who bas ,beea eximlnlrg tbe Republican machinery, says be " Is net certain of tbe success ot tbe party at the coming election." There are great

many oi the same way of thinking.

AGRICULTURAL. ART FACTS FOR FARMERS. OVEB DRAXNKD LASB.

From general farming experience of not lees than 25 years, I prefer land over-drained (if possible) to land not done, or inefficiently done, although I have been told more tban occe that land has been spoiled by oraininjr, for cbeese-making purpose, which is the complaint ot incompetent farmers. Supposing tbey are rlghf,itcan on'y apply to a few isolated places. Where land' has been proper) v drained at a deoth of ttre or four . leet. evcry; day facts go to prove tbe bent-üt. esneclallv after in ar rdlvjitiriTi nt top-dressing bones, comport or sewage. tne lauer, in some casts,, might net be suitable ft r cheese. Grass land, alter draining, has somet.mes an impoverished as pect, Decause tne coarser grasses are derived of their element ( the stagnant waterV and will ere loDg die oai and disappear, and will give place to other grasses of bet'er quality, produced by under-draining and anrfaca annlianpn. ThA rcsnlt rf tsvn. dressing is far better on land tban it drained, than on that which is cot dxained. 80WE5O CLOVER SEED. It is not best to harrow after sowing clover seed, as it covers the small seeds so deeply that many of them will net germinate. If tbe ground is Id proper tilth no covering will be needed, as the seeds will naturally be washed under fine particles of soil by the first rain. With' winter grain the seed may be swn on frozen ground before it is dry enough to harrow. Freezing and thawing will cover the seeds sufficiently. One peck of clover seed per acre should be sown on all land where clover seed has not recently been grown. Moore's Rural. KKW FOOD FOB HORSES AND 8HXXP. A favorite and rather new kind ot mash for horses is coming into use, composed of two quarts of oats, one of bran, and half a pint of flax seed. The oats are first placed in the stable bucket, over which is placed tbe linseed; add boiling water, then tbe bran, covering the mixture with an old rug and allowing it thus to rest lor five hours, then stir the mass, well up. The bran absorbs, while retaining the vapor, and tbe linseed binds tbe oats and bran together; a greater quantity ot flax seed would make the preparation too oily and ltss relished. Oae leed per day is sufficient; it is easily digested and is specially adapted to young animals, adding to tbeir voluma ratner tban to it eir I eigt t giving eutatanca to the frame. Professor Sanson reminds us no to overlook tbe lood, in the nourishment question in connection with tbe ameliora tion of live 6tock. He considers oats, as so generally given to sheep, as obiection able, and approaching tte unprofitable; rams generally receive one pound ot cats daily, ewes halt the quantity. Oats form Lng an exciting lood,re especially suited to rams during the season whe- tbey are to serve, but .ror hastening tbe develop ment ot joucg sheep, they only build up the bones, not the nssn. Indiana armer. FEEDING HESS. On a second return home 1 found a seconl complaint from the best-read poultry man in these parts who bad charge of my hens that they had rxade poor returts lor tbe care givea tbem. I found reason enough in the fact that they bad not been watered. "Why, I never water mine!" exclaimed my model poultry-grower. Falthlul biddies! No wouder they welcomed their mistress, and flew straight to tbe watering- Irougb. No wonder, after pining lor shells," that they risked their necks In tbeir attempts to get them, as tbey were being pounded up. It dots one's heart good to see tbem crowd around for their hot wheat brau, stirred either with scrape or wetted wltb skim milk, and partly baked in tbe oven. On the fourth day tbey rose up to 16 eggs from 17 ; hens, alter this last cold wave pasad over u, from seven to ten eggs wbereas they were reported as having laid from one to five dally. I have reason to know that water helped more tban acy other one thing. If, next to fresh' meat, there is anything I enjoy giving the hens, tt is (aan water; also a hot bran mash made n tbe "pot Lquor" saved from a l-oiltd dinner; potato parings can te saved to boil tender before adding tbe bran for tbeir morning dish. " The Couttry Gentleman taught me to bake all leed fcr any young chickens. I, have nsver had a case of the gapes since. HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT. TO KILL COCKROACHES. A tea-cupJul of well bruised plaster of Paris, mixed with double the quantity ol oatmeal, to which add a little sugar (this latter i;not essential), then strew it on ih ? 11. or or in the chluks where they frequent. SASD SOAP, OR WISH BALLS, I. Scar and silicaous sand, of eacb, one pound; perfume (any), a sufficient quantity. " 2. Soap, five pounds starch, to mnndff! easens of oranee or citron, one eaoot; eau pour la barbe, one gallon; beat together and form into balls. SALXOX SALAD. One can ol salmon, six egg boiled . hard and chopped fine, one pint of chopped oucamber pickles; add vinegar and oepps io taste; oeiore mixing cram iae on irum the salmon, and do not use it if the pickks are sharp and brittle. CHOOOL ATE CAES, v . Two caps of sugar, one half cup of butter, whiles of three eggs, one cup of milk, two and three fourths oups of fliur, three teaSDOonfulls ot baking powder; bake on jslly tins;wbltej ol two eggs well beaten, with not quits a cup oi. puiveuzou buk i add six tabltspooniuls of grated German sweet chocolate and two teaspoonluls of vanilla; Bpread the cakes. i DARK FlO CAKE. - Two cups ot sugar, one of butter, one of cold water, with a teaspoonful of soda dissolved lo It; three caps of raisins, chopped fine; cinnamon and nutmeg, four eggs, one pound of figs; use the figs whole covering tbem well witn tbe cake to prevent burning. Bake In layers, frosting between each layer. Make asstifl as pound ctke. Cut witn a very sharp knife to prevent crumbiilng. This receipt makes two loaves. BOOT BEEK. Take dandelion roots, earsaparilla roots. yellow dock roots, burdock root, sassafras

root, and wild- cherry bark, black a'.der bark, prickly ash bark and birch bark; put one large handful of eacb into a large py, and pour Io one gallon and a half of waier; bod the roots and burk lonir enough to get the strength lr out; then strain it and sweeten with molasses. When COOled tO blrwl wtnntS A-t . 1.

wand twelve or fourteen hour,, until it ..uu,, ,urU train it on tne yeast and; bottle it, or put Into a small cask. HAC'HrS TW TTAjrms. Take pieces of coli meat. ctior fine. adding srffident ODJon to chopped fine, a few bread crumbor an egg. Dei.eaf a little salt and perper. ani a teaspoontul of mixed herbs thyrme, snmmer savory, and sweet marjoram. Put your hash itto a stew pan, with gravy or " vvvuko io moisien ir, and a bit of butter. Lit it StAw varw . mlouts.-sttrrinff all th m Tho rvi. it In a flat dish and pat in the oven- till it .a nunou boa une crown. BBSr STEAK FnDISO. Make into a very firm smooth past, one pttnd of flour, six ounces of beef suet ticely minced, half a teaspoonful ei salt and pint of cold water; line with- thia a Dasln which holds a pint and half: season one pound ol tender steak, free uiiim or sKin, witn nair an ounce of salt and half a teaspoontul of pepper, well mixed together; lay it In tbe crust, pour in a quarter of a pint of water, rollout tbe cover, close tbe pudding carefully, tie a flouted cloth over and boil tt th ahd a half. BLACK CA KB. Two pounds of currents, two poands of raisins (after washing both currents and raisins, when tbey are dry dreigo with flour), one large teaspoonful of ground cinnamon, one large spoonful of ground mace, four nutmegs, one' gill of molasses, one gill of brandy, one gill of rose water, if you choose; sift one pound of flour in one pan and one pound of sugar iu another; add to the sugar three-quarters ot a pound of butter and s:lrto a cream; beat six eggs flight and stir into the butter and sugar alternately with the flour, then add, by degre-s, fruit, spice and liquors, and stir hard; bake in a moderate even about four hours ; let it remain in the oven to cool. BOOUBISO CLOTH. A little hard soap is dissolved In water, and after mixicg it with a little clarified ox-gall is applied to all the spots of grease, etc., and, well rubbed into them with a stiff brush, until they appear to be removed; alter which the article Is well cleaned all over with a bru-h or sponge dipped in warm water, to which thsformsr mixture with a little more ox-gall ba? been added. The cloth is next weil ringed in warm water, and hung to dry. For dark-colored clothes some fuller's earth is o.ten added to tbe mixturaof soap and gall. When tbe article is nearly dry the nap Is laid ' smooth and pressed, alter which a soft brush mofcterea with a little olive oil is pats! over it to give It a final gloss. Buff and drab cloth is cleaned by covering It with a paste of pipe-clay and water, either with or without a little kmter to tempsr the color, which, when dry, is rubbed or brushed cff. ' ' BLACK PTE. This is fcr either wool, hair, fur or silk. Boil the articles for two hours in a decoc tion of nutgalls, and alterward keep them for two hours more In a bath composed of logwood and sulphate of iron; kept dur ing tbe whole time at a scalding beat, but not boiling. During tbe operation they must frequently be exposed to the air. The common proportions are five parts ot galls, five of sulphate of iron and thirty ot logwood for every hundred of cloth. Sometimes a little acetate of copper (verdigris) is added to Improve the color. Woolen cloth, before it receives a black color is usually dyed blue; this renders tbe color much faller and finir than it otherwise would be. It tbe cloth is coarse, tbe blue may be too expensive; In that case, a brown color la given by means of walnut shells. Silks dyed in tbe same man ner as wool except that as it imbibes a larger quantity of tannin, the quantity of galls must be increased t) twice as much and. the aiiK.mubi remain longer in the solution. An action for libel brougbt against the Record newspaper of London, by the Rev. F. Arnold, author ot a book entitled, "Our Bishops and Deans." was recently tried in the Common Pleas Division before Mr. Jus tice Llndley. The plaintiff, who conducted bis own' case, stated that he wrote to tbe Racord saying that he should be happy to snd them a copy of hla txx k ii tbey would give it a lull and fair review. This was promised, and the book was ent. Afterwar l there wks a review of tbe book, wh ch txtended over bix numbers of the Itron, taca p r.ioa cousittin cf two or tree cuiuru?. I u those articles the platatifl contended he was personally attacked. It was not only said of him that he bad done h s werk in a detective, slovenly, und inaccurate manner, but that ie had unfairly attacked Individuals. It was farther imputed to him that upon almost all crucial theological questions tbe book was stamped with . uncertaioty and inconsistency, and fiat he avorod erroneous opinions. Tbe lury, at tbe close of tbe plaintlffVcase, said tbey did not think the art'cles complained of went beyond fair criticism, and Judgment was given for the defendant, who declined to take costs. . In "Emotions and the Will," Professor Bain's new work, a very gloomy view Is taken of the brute principles in human nature. "The in tensest or tbe primary susceptibilities of the mind," he says, "are Bensuality and malevolence." He speaks of the "primary gratification of seeing others in pain ;" he discard, aa refuted by experience, Dr. Chalmer's theory, that ktndnes,- truth, and honesty are "sweet to the taste of the Inner man," whereas envy, malice and falsehood have "tbe bitterness of gall and wormwood." He will cot admit that tbe life of a tyrant whose rage is dally led by new executions, is one oi "fierce Internal agony," but asserts that his ecjovment is only qualified by occasional tender emotions and tbe consequent struggle between rage and compassion. Londoners pay yearly 1,151,023 lor water, ani 2.981,589 tor gas and meteia, tram wh ch tbe companies derive a net , profit ol JE1&27.454.

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