Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 48, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1880 — Page 7

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THE INDIANA! STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1 24; 1880.

OUR FAR 31 KUDGET.

oner Farm Balky Horses Protection to Trees and Shrubs. gar From CI J er TU Bent Broed For Beef A Profitable Business Karat Nute, Et. Bcmi For Stk Feeding. Mr. Partridge, an Orleans County, ew irk, farmer, sends to the Rural Home the lowing particulars concerning beans as xl: "Dunn? the winter season Mr. P. epj from fifteen to twenty-five families king beans, and the damaged ones picked together with the split beans screened jre picking, are sold to our farmers Ceding sheep and swine, but mostly sheep. Some are fed to cows, t . . 1 1 . 1 T T r. 11 Willi euot rrauiu. a uaw 2?' mind one farmer, formerly Vi this County, but now livinenear Spenrport, who has purcha.4ed a good many .iVtj of us for feeding his cows, and he itethat, if when feeding meal he would ance to feeding beans, there would be an Vrea.se of from one to two quarts per clay the amount of milk, and when changed m beans to mcalacorrespondingdecrea.se. hey are especially adapted to the feeding sheep, not only Having tne iaiiening proxies of corn, but al.to e n tain some ingrei. 1 1 4 cnt wnicn enters largely imo me firuuuv- i n of wool. They are more valuable for j d where wool is the object sought for than n. As to feeding swine, they have to rn to eat them by degrees, and then by l!ni finl miTincr nenn nr nipftl With 4 ... HUM ....A...., " ' - - - " " - - - - they answer very well to ieea young r store hogs, and will give them a good t; but pork niale mainly from feeding ans is not considered by your larmers rth more than the salt it takes to prerve it. It always produces sou, spngy lrk. and in cooking fries away to almost Lthimr: also, the lard from the same will . . . m . t naruen, dui remains 01 a aoiu ouy nare. here swine are fed or beans the V-t six to eight weeks before slaughtering. changed to corn, the results are much r, tlie corn seeming to harden the ). Mr. P. sold quite a good many tons rS beans for feeding sheep one year ago lVier ton; they are now selling them at l per ton, or iuiriy-nve cents it uiunn, ere be ing a steady demand for them for edinz sheen. A hirge number-of our mcrs have been feeding sheep for market ,ast winter, and have been well paid in y instance. A Flower Farm. a corner of the County of Essex, EngMessrs. Carter, floriculturists, have es--hed a farm devoted to tne growth of K These rlants are not destined to the cardens of the wealthy classes, ft to furnish seed from which flowers may ultimately obtained. A recent visit to village of St. Osyth disclses a tract of ll-sheltered country whiclv io its variety Jolors, reminded one of a stained-glass low gone mad. In one place an Lnse of the deeiest blue is led by a few acres of nemoinsirnis. Next to it appears a perfect If the purple hapoharia. Then comes a I of the deep-blue lobelia, ana, iunner Mie ewters a space covered wnn me itian red of the phlox drummondi. e are followed by smaller beds of sweet (lianis, the yellow , oxalls, and these sea of color are relieved by the white imophila. Another portion of thefami devoted to petunias, with, purpie ana hite leaves edged with green; these are f. lowed by a yellow sea ot escüscnoitzia ocea, anci then comes a promontory of the poriferous sweet sultan, white lilac, and illow. At the end of this appears an .and of verbena, surrounded by the blue pin. A sea of the bright scarlet goditia. fmed after the Princess of Wales, and jother pond of the same color is formed by piscaria cardinals. Every color is found -the blue of the lobelia speciosathe blue of the camjanula, the yellow of J snapdragon, the rosy tint of the sweet indann, the bricht scarlet ot tne 10m yub nasturtium, the old-iashioned irtock. the rench gay and purple fed gonitia witneyi. the white clarkia. icated tn Mrs. Iaiigtry, while Lord L-onsfiell's and Mr. Gladstone a names immortalized in different kinds of fsan then urns. A , , A. 1 iiese flowers are not rncKea, oui are ai-L-d to run to seed, which is carefully tered and made up into small packages. corner ot the farm is devoted to the f tivation of the seed of the more useful lucts. Here niav be found a bed of erican parsley, and a plot of the new moth wheat lately introduced from the Js. This cereal produces an ear of inie size, but bearded like barley. These n," as the beards are called, drop oil ie ear ripens, leaving it perfectly smooth, t to the extirpation of weeds, the gardes greatest difficulty is to keep the diflerkinds of flowers in their own beds. The 11 birds do their liest to mix them up, .eera to take a special delight in carryfihe seed of some briuht scarlet flower dropping it into the midst of a bed ded to a llower of another color. Balky TIorea. correspondent of the Ruralist writes: y and varied have been the plans, both , and harsh, tried for the cure of balkiin horses, by parties troubled, delayed, rovofeed in tins way. Ilaving had. ierable experience in the handling of lorses, I have found the followinsa remedy. It is easily and uuicklv iterliued, and has never, so far as 1 am aware. leu 10 cure. yo persons are required for the One should hold the reins ie the other fastens a short strap jpe a natter strap, always at hand, an3 tne purjose well just below the fetpt a lore leg: then coins forward, he pull on the strap until the horse lifts ot; continuing to null, the foot will be fght forward, and set down a little in ance of the other. The horse thus thrown t of a natural position, will move forward am ins equiuuriiim. Anoiner pull will 'e another move forward. This may be al several times, or until the bon-e ives Tithout having the foot pulled ward. Usually, the first or second h.l will i'art him. Three or four t b reminde r at most will do the work. tub the start is iuad it U generally an one. öometimes, however, it has the earane tif flip litirxp hpimr in lmrrv I V7 rom the provoking man with the p; therefore, a steady hand should mankue reins. I have never known a horse er this treatment to kick or to act mean my other way than to try to run. When loes start off the hold on the strap should nven up. Alter having eone twentv-nve bore yards the horse should ffentlv be Light to a stand and the strap removed. !ien iry u sian mm witnout tlie strap. It does not move ofT at once apply it again, e will soon tire of being thus annoyed, d will give you no further trouble in this A Profitable Duklnes. A Missouri correspondent of the Rural tprld writes: "One of the easiest and tst ways of making money is in buying jyoung stock young colts, mules and selling. Here a thrifty, well-formed can be bought for from f to 135, depending, of course ----- , m . v M 4 1 JVJUJ. it is weaned turn it cpon pasture and in. it will need very little care and lion, and .when it is a vearlinz will If bring from $i0 to $G0. Keep it until two-year-pld. Break, lead and rid,

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and it will sell all the way from $tt to $100. You can not lind anything that will turn money faster at such Profi t here, where we bare plenty of land that , is only good for !asturii)g. The cost of keeping such stock s very small. You have not the same risk of loss that you have on a great deal ot stock. Even if you happen to pay a price that may seem a little high at the time, such stock will soon grow out of it, and in the end leave you a good margin to nay you for your time and trouble. With older stock that is simply bought to fatten, you can only save yourself by adding flesh, which is sometimes rather a hard way of making up a loss. You luve no more risk to run of disease or accidents than from older stock, while it takes less capital to buy them and less feed to keep them. For such investments as this the country in this portion of the State is especially adapted; with plenty of springs and running streams to furnish stock water in sufficient quantity; with land cheap and taxes light, the ridges make good pasture land, while the bottoms will raise the lest of croi. You can pasture your joor land and cultivate your gtKKl land, raiding feed for yourstock during the winter. You can usually buy young pigs, just weaned in the spring, at from fifty

cents to $1. I-ct them run all summer, and in the fall men who want to feed hogs to fatten for the market will readily gite $2 or $3 apiece for them; or, if you raise corn enough to fatten them yourself, the profit is still more increasd, as by that means you will get a good price for your corn. All a man needs is a small capital to beein with and patience to wait. There are plenty of opportunities open to men who are anxious to hnd a pleasant, easy, prohtable way ot investing their capital so as tobe sure of making them a living. The Climate for Potatoes. The best crops of potatoes, as respects quality and quantity, are produced where the seasons are couiaratively short, where drouths do not occur, where the temperature is seldom very high, and where the air is tolerably moist during the growing season. Potatoes are best that attain their growth quickly. Ordinarily tlie poorest otatoes are those that have'their growth interfered with by the occurrence of a severe drouth. If the tubers are of sufficient size they are likely to sprout or "take a second growth." If 'thev are of tiuite small size thev are likely to become hollow or ill-formed. In either case their flesh will be sott, vrj mealy potatoes of nutty flavor are not raised in seasons attended by drouth or in places where the growing season extends through six or seven months. Very good early potatoes may be raised in most of the Southern States, as their growth is continuous. It is difficult, however, to keep them so they wiil be fit to eat either in or out of the ground. lAte varieties of potatoes seldom do well in the South as their growth is stopped by the prevailing drouth. On this account sweet potatoes . i generally raised for the table. "With little doubt, tl o region recently opened up by the Northern Pacific llailroad will soon become as famous for tlie production of potatoes as it now is for the production of wheat. The climate and soil are very well adapted to this crop. The best potatoes ever seen in this market came from Ileaver Island, near the northern extremity of Lake Michigan. Very good potatoes are also brought here from the northern portions of Michigan, and from Minnesota. The best potatoes. however, in the lJoston market come from Aroostook County, Maine, or from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It is true that imtatoes raised in Northern Minnesota would have to be carried long distances to find a market; but rail road and steamboat transportation have made it easy to carry heavy articles long distances and still allow large profits to the producer and shipper. The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers are available for sending potatoes for the supply of the Southern Slates. Many of the potatoes raised in the far North could be converted into starch for home consumption and ex port. The remainder could find an outlet through the same channel that wheat and other grains do. Potatoes on a Large Scale. Few persons in this country, except in .localities where starch factories are located. undertake to raise potatoes on an extensive scale. We have many ten thousand-acre wheat fields anil a much larger number of one thou.nd-acre corn fields. We have also enormous plantations of cotton and tobacco. One planter in' Mississippi had 17.000 acres in cotton last seaon, from which he produced over 13,000 bales. There is a disjosition to engage extensively in the production of almost every variety of farm crops, with the exception of common potatoes. These are generally raised in a small way, nearly every farmer in the Northern Slates producing enough for his own use and a few to supply the local market. Now, if potatoes were sparingly used this would not appear strange. But such is not the case. Potatoes are In more general use than any crop produced on farms, with the one exception of wheat. Asa rule, potatoes are on the table of every family twice a day. They constitute one of the chief articlee of food at all times in the year. As was shown during the prevalence of the Colorado beetle, it is very difficult to find an acceptable substitute for common potatoes. The demand for them is large and will increase as population increases. As a rule, potatoes are produced to poor advantage. The work of planting, cultivating, and harvesting is jerfornied almost entirely by hand. There are machines for planting and digging them, but they are too expensiw? to be purchased and ued by persons who raise but a few acres. Most of the potatoes raised and sent to market are of poor quality and in bad condition when sent to market The reason for this is obvious. Potatoes are regarded as a crop of secondary importance. They receive attention only when it can be spared front other .crops that are regarded as of more importance. They arc ordinarily planted on land that will not. produce a good crop of corn or grain. They are dug by hand and are often exjosed several days to the sun because there is no suitable place for storing them. If potatoes constitute a leading crop, as corn and wheat, they would receive better atten tion; farms would be sefected in sjecial reference to growing thrru; machines would be pnrchased for planting, cultivating, and digging them. There would also be buildings constructed, pits and cellars dug, for the purpose of storing them before they are sent to market. Protection to Trees and Shrubs. It is very annoying to have trees and shrubs destroyed by frost after one has b-en to considerable trouble and expense to procure and cultivate them. The climate of the prairie region of the West is unfavorable to the preservation of tender varieties during the winter, on account of the frequeni changes. It is even worse than the climate of much higher latitudes, as the cold there is continuous from fall till spring. There is also a large amount of snow that affords the best protection. It is easy to raise peach trees in this lati tude.hu tdillicult toobtam varieties sufiiciently hardy to endure the effect of related freezings and thawings. Small I teach trees may be protected by tying the (ranches together by bands of hay or straw, and standing long stalk of corn about them. After the latter are in place they should be kept secure by means of a rope" or piece of wire, such as is used for binding grain. Large trees may be protected by tying the branches together and building straw-ntaek sbout them. Protection may alo be afforded by means of a cao formed of corn-stalks or long rye traw. liy means of three or four sets of fence rails a framework may be constructed alnjut a peach tree which, when tilled with straw, will afford the most ample protection. - Some pliant shrubs may be bent down to the earth, fastened K position by means of forked sticks, and covered with soil and straw. Borne that will not bear bending may be covered with straw, twisted in the

form of bands. Rose bushes or tender shrubs of any sort standing in rows may be protected by building a wall ot boards on each side and filling with sawdust, tanbark, forest leaves or chopped straw. The boards may be of a joor quality of lumber, and can be held in position by stakes. The top of the I -otector can be covered with boards, or earth ronnded over, so that it will carry off the rain. One set cf boards and stakes, with good care, will last many years. The material employed for filling the space between them can be used to good advantage for mulch in the summer. The stakes should be set and the boards nailed to them before the ground freezes, but it is not necessary to supply the tilling till after heavy frost occurs. If some of the shrubs and bushes are quite tall, they may be bent over and held to the ground by means of weights, or secured by cross sticks. Tlie covering should remain in place till all danger from heavy frost is over in the spring. Vinegar From Cider. Cider is so cheap this season that farmers who study economy ir ill be likely to make their own vinegar. The pncess of manufacture is very simple. The best vessel to use in making vinegar is a barrel in which hard cider or vinegar has been stored. If a new barrel is employed, it should be thoroughly rinsed out, a gallon or more of hot vinegar poured in and allowed to soak into the wood. The presence of a small amount of old vinegar will cause the contents of the vessel to acidify more rapidly. The barrel in which vinegar is made should not be entirely full of cider. It is best to leave a space equal to about one-third of the capacity of the vessel, in which the air can circulate. The bung of the barrel should be left out. and the vessel placed on its side about a foot from the floor. In order to increase the circulation of air, it is well to bore a hole in eac h end of the barrel a few inches from the chime. A uniform temierature of about eighty degrees is most favorable to the rapid making of vinegar. This may often be conveniently obtained by placing the vessel back of the stove in the cooking room. Sometimes a loft over the kitchen can be employed for the manufacture of a considerable amount of vinegar during the winter. If a stovepipe runs through the room the requisite temperature may be obtained without extra expense. The process of changing th cider to vinegar may be hastened by occasionally rolling the barrels from hide to side. Cider to which mustard seed, horseradish and sulphite of lime have been added with a view to keepingit sweet, can not be converted into vinegar. It is not necessary to have hard cider in order to manufacture vinegar. It may be made to good advantage from juice just expressed from apples. It is customary to allow the new cider to remain a week or two In open tubs or barrels, from which one head has been removed before placing it in the barrel that is to serve as the vinegar generator. During this time it passes through the vinous fermentation, and is tolerably clear. If it is strained before it is put in the generating barrel, an accumulation of sediment may be prevented. By filtering cider through animal charcoal or bane-black, the vi Ägar made from it will be nearly colorless. By adding a little burnt sugar or caramel, a dark-colored vinegar may be obtained. Vinegar of very fine flavor can be manufactured only from the juice of sound, well-flavored apples. The taste of acetic acid, which is the sour principle of vinegar, is not pleasant. It requires to be modified by the natural acids and other substances of agreeable flavor that are contained in fruits. The Bent Breed for Beef. Till quite recently the breeders of shorthorn cattle in this country have had everything their own way. There was no one to dispute the claims of the animals they bred to the highest degree of excellency as beefproducers. The earliest maturity and the finest quality of meat were claimed for this

breed of cattle without controversy. There was a rivalry between the breeders of Bates and Booth stock, but the most zealous supportersof theclaimsof each family freely admitted that animals of the other strain were vastly superior to those of any other breed. Short llotns not only became fashionable, but they were "all the rage." Most persons caiue to believe that they united every Ioint of excellence that it was possible for animals to attain that were designed for beef. Some went even further than this and declared that Short Horns were superior to any cows as milk producers. In their opinion the Short Horns fulfilled all the re- ; quiremenbof "general purpose" cattle. The cows, they claimed, would give a very large amount of rich milk for many years, when they could be rapidly fattened and sold at a high price for beef. But the Short Horns to-Jay have very strong rivals. Pew are now willing to declare that they are generally as good milkers us the Holsteins, Ayrshires and Jerseys are. The most they at present affirm is that certain families of their breed, and their crosses, have produced some very good milkers, and that by judicious selections a good herd of dairy cows may be collected in which Short Horn blood will predominate. Since a considerable number of Herefords have been introduced into this part of the country, tlie claims of Short Horn cattle as the best beef producers have been stoutly denied. The breeders of Herefords contend that these cattle will mature earlier than the Short Horns; that the quality of the beef is better, and that the animals themselves are more hardy end generally better breeders. They also assert mat the Herefords aie better adapted to tlie great plains, w here a large proportion, of the cattle of the country are now kept, and that when Herefords and Short Horns are kept on the same range the former make the best beef. They claim that prime Short Horn beef is only produced when the animals are stall-fed, and that this system of fattening is too expensive for the average Western stock-grower. Early Decay f Apples. Reports of an immense apple crop come from all parts of the country. Varieties of trees classed as "shy bearers' are loaded with fruit. Not only is there an abundance of apples, in the old settled regions of the La.-, t, but the same state of things exists in newly-settled regions of the West. Centurvold trees, that showed evidences of decay years ago, are breaking down under the weight of fruit. lrees that were transplanted from the nursery only three or four years since require to be supiorted by props u prevent the branches from breaking olf. All over the Eastern States cider mills are running night and day. In many parts of the Wr est the, best apples raised can not be sold for more than twenty cents per bushel. In Onio, it is said, apples are not sold by the bushel or barrel, but by the wagon load. In many parts of the country a;ples arc so plenty that the proprietors of large orchards can see no profit in gathering any but the choicest varieties. They accordingly allow their neighbors to pick them on shares, or give town iieople a ctiance to pick on the payment of a small sum each day. In some localities hogs, sheep and cattle are turned into ttie orchards. Appearances indicate, however, that the profits in the apple crop will not be large, notwithstanding the general abundance. The dry summer and early fall caused them to ripen in advance of the season. Tlie complaint comes from all quarters that fall apples are already rotting badly. Some commenced to rot on the trees, and others fell and decayed on tlie ground. Many fall apples in tins market are in very bad condi tion. In most localities, both East and west, apples that are classed as winter fruit, are in eood . condition to eat and cook now. October finds them In the same state of mellowness they commonly have in December. Many vane ties of apples that are generally in their prime at Christmas will probably decay be fore Thankssivinc. rrom d resent a linear ances, prime apples will be acarce and high next rpring. The varieties raised in the West that keep best can only bt preferred

dun rut the winter by exercising the btst care and judgment in selecting, packing and sorting. Farmers who have large crop of ap5les would do well to engage in themanuacture of jelly, apple-butter, cider and vinegar. Farm Note. It pays to feed cows giving milk liberally. Butter la high, and now is the time to feed profitably. Cracks in sloves may be effectually stopped by a paste made of ashes and salt mixed with water. Evaorated fruit is as superior to sundried fruit as fresh raspberries are to those dried on the bushes. Summer hog-packing to Augnst 4 amounted to 3,4.J0,1W3 hogs, against 2,319,805 same time last season. Always give the soil the first meal. If it is well fed with manure it will feed all else, plants, animals and men. It is estimated that the stalk crop of the country annually amounts to Üü, 000,000 tons, worth over $2tX,000,000. The importation of thoroughbred horses, cattle and sheep from Europe to this country for the past year exceeds that of any former year. Rapid drying of paint is Insured by the addition of a small proportion of litharage, sugar of lead or Japan varnish, according to material or color. A syndicate of cattle dealers at Toronto, Canada, recently contracted for the conveyance of 20,0)0 head of cattle to the ports of Liverpool, Olasgow, Bristol and London. A tract of 3,40 acres In Logan Valley, Nebraska, has been bought by Iowa men for $30,0S2, and they will open an extensive stock farm, starting with 1,000 head of young catth-. The potato crop of this country, it is believed, will reach 123,000.000 bushels this year, valued at $100, 000,000. New York leads in its cultivation, the crop there reaching 25,000,000 bushels. Suffolk and Berkshire pigs may be profitably fed, to be sold at nine and ten months, upon clover, corn meal, linseed meal, or corn and oat meal. Haifa pound of linseed mea! per day on the average to six-months-old pigs would be sufficient. Recent experiments in England show that thin sowing of wheat in drills is more productive than thick sowing. By special culture on small plots a single grain to the bill has given a yield of 100 to 1G2 bushels to the acre, according to the Experiment Record. A dormant bulb of the calla should be planted so that the point shall be just above the surface. The exact depth of this plant in a pot or tub is not a matter of much importance, as it readily adapts itself to circumstances if it has a constant supply of water. None but earth colors should be used in painting floors, and the rapid wearing off of a coating of oil paint on a floor is a sure indication that white lead has been mixed with the paint. It is important that the first coating should be perfectly dry before the second is laid on. In selecting cows for milking, the free, easy step, the pleasant and comfortable expression of countenance and the round, capacious form of body are far more important than the line of descent or family history. Pedigree goes for little unless it carries with it the marks of a good milker. American Cultivator. The subject of the shipment of cattle from Omaha to Brussels direct is being investigated. From Omaha to New York the freight will be about eighty cents per 100 pounds, and from New York to Antwerp 4 per head. What the expense on a cargo would be has not been definitelyascertained, but it is said that the venture has a favorable look. A ton of cotton-seed meal contains thirtyeight ixmnds of potash, fifty-six pounds of phosphoric acid and seventy-eight pounds of nitrogen. A ton of average barn-yard manure contains twelve pounds of nitrogen, six pounds of phosphoric acid and thirteen pounds of potash. These minerals would make a ton of cotton-seed meal worth, as a fertilizer, $25.06, while those contained in a ton of barn-yard manure would be worth $4.05; but there would be a value in barnyard manure not given in these figures, arising from its ameliorating effects in the soil, and another value arising out of its heat-

producing properties, which the cotton-seed meal lacks. Tlie heat-giving properties and its ameliorating action in the oil make it of so much more value to the market gardener. The first mowing machine which met with any success in this country is believed to be that of William Manning, of New Jer sey, patented in 1831. This machine was furnished with the saw-tooth knife, having a vibratory motion. In 184 the Arabler patent made its appearance, with a cutterbar of wrought iron, and a single smoothedged knife, operated by means of a crank. which gave it the vibratory motion. Another machine came into use in 188., by which the cutting was performed bv circular knives fastened on to the per iphery of a horizontal wheel five feet in diameter. The wheel was suspended on a Eerjendicular shaft which hung on a lever, y means of which the driver could elevate or lower the knives at .will. In 1837 appeared the Wilson machine. This was operated bv the horse walking behind the machine. The Hozza machine, of Cincinnati, was brought into notice in 1830. American Cultivator. TU Natural Orator. Youth's Companion. "The orator is born, not made," say cer tain critics. The assertion is contradicted by so many exceptions that it can not be received as a general rule. It is, however, verified in the career of some great orators. The nuwt notable case in' the annals of American orators is that of Patrick Henry. The bees of Hymettus touched his lips, as they did those of Plato, while slumbering in his cradle. He lisped in eloquence, as Pope did in numbers. Henry was a natural orator, but he was "only that and nothing more." Mr. Jefferson, who knew him well, and often listened spell-bound to his eloquence, says he was neither a man of education nor a well-read lawyer. Wirt, in his "Life of Henry," which should more properly be entitled Wirt's "Romance," says lie read "Plutarch's Lives" once a year. "I don't believe," said Mr. Jefferson, "he ever read two volumes of them." One November, on leaving Jefferson's house, Henry selected two books from his host's library. "I will take these two volumes of 'Hume's Essays,' " he remarked, as he put them in his saddle-bags, "and try to read this winter." In the spring he returned them, saying he had not been able to get half through one of them. In fact, Henry was too lazy and too fond of company to read. His delight was to pass weeks hunting in the "piny woods" along with overseers and people of similar social position. At night when they gathered about the camp fire, Henry was the soul of the company, telling stories and cracking jokes until bedtime. Yet the lazy, halt-educated lawyer seemed like one inspired when he stood before a jury or on the stump. "He appears tome," wrote Mr. Jefferson, "to speak as Homer wrote. I never heard," he continues, "anything that deserved to be called by the Käme name with what flowed from him. Where he got that torrent of luiixuaxe from is inconceivable. 1 have frequently shut my eyes while he spoke and when he was done asked myself what he had said without being able to recollect a word of it. He was no logician." But Henry's case is an exceptional one. There is nothing like it in our history, and the time were on his aide. To-dav the man who wishes to attain eminence as an orator must have Ideas and know how to put them in an attractive form. To gain ideas and acquire the art of putting them be must

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EUCHEK-PLAYIXG PIGS.

How a New York State Doctor is Mating His Fortune. Animal Trained to To Trick T Hing tlie Nam be r of Day ia the Year by Means of Cards. Philadelphia Times. Dr. Knox was a young practicing physician, of Putnani County, New York. He had a gig and sulky and a couple of horses, and pretty good practice, but not upon these did his heart turn fondly in his leisure moments when no hasty messengers were at his door-bell and a sort of truce existed between him and his hated rival, otherwise the pale horse, otherwise the fell destroyer, otherwise the great leveler. From a boy he had been fond of animals. Ever since the rod of an irate schoolmaster scored a vindication of pedagogical authority on bis body after spending the whole of a valuable afternoon tracking up a woodchuck which he brought back triumphantly in his hat ever since that occasion the lVetor has had a passionate fondness for all sorts of animals, not excepting the vagrant dog or lean cat of familiar memory. As time passed and the Doctor neared his majority glad visions of pleasure floated before his mind. He could have as many cats and dogs and other animals as he wanted, and lie would be at liberty to sjtend as much time over them as lie pleased. This golden idol of his dreams came at last. The Doctor became twenty-one, and havinggraduated in medicine he established himself in practice in the town of Patterson, Putnam County. Now at once, in his intervals of leisure as aforesaid, his hands found plenty to do. He began to collect a little private menagerie of his own. He got a bear and a monkey and an eagle and an alligator and a fox and a young wolf and wild-cat and a half dozen different breeds of dogs, all of which he hept in his barn and had a man to attend them. FORTCNE IX PISUCIKE. One glad day fate whispered in the Doctor's ear to go to a neighboring farmer's place and buy a litter of pigs. The Doctor obeyed. The pigs were about two weeks old. He put them in a pen, fed them on corn and in his leisure hours watched their growth. Days passed away and the pigs seemed to thrive in the bright sunshine and clear air, and the Doctor almost fancied he could see the transition taking place by which the pigs were progressing from tliat earlier and more inoffensive jieriod to that Ishmaelitish stage of existence in which they are known by the harsher and more suggestive name, and when the vocabulary of the mother tongue is not sufficient for the owners of corn-fields who suffer from their depredations. Four weeks passed and the growth of the pigs seemed marvelous except in two cases. The Doctor's watchful eyes discerned two small pigs who seemed not to be getting any fatter. The Doctor ordered an extra supply of corn. Still the two pigs languished. The Doctor watched them and noticed that they had very bright eyes and larger brains than the others. Besides, they seemed more nervously active, slept very little, and when they were sleeping they lay with their eyes only half clot-ed, as though they were thinking about something. "Bill," said the Doctor to his hired man, "take those two pigs out and put them in u box by themselves." "There is no box' said Bill, exc?pt the monkey cage." "Well, the monkey's dead," said the Doctor, "and he won't want his cage any more." "All right," said Bill. Then Bill went to woikand put the two pigs in the monkey cage. The next day the loquacious old farmer came along and stopped to inspect the Doctor's menagerie. "What have you here, Doc?" he asked, seeing the pigs. "Oh," said the Doctor, "those are two imported pigs just from China. I got them day before yesterday direct." "Ye don't say so,5' said the farmer, bending down and looking at them with renewed interest. "By J eorge, they're beauties. I never saw sech intelligent-lookin animals in my life. . If it's a fair question, what did they cost?" The Doctor named a fabulous sum, and the farmer believed every word of it and went into the town and spread the news. In a few hours forty or fifty persons came to see Knox's imjorted pigs. The admiration was general and the unanimous verdict was that they exceeded anything ever seen. "What are you going to do with 'em?" they asked the Doctor. "Train 'em." said that propagator of health, briefly. "How?" said the crowd. "Wait awhile and see," said the Doctor. Thenceforth on every occasion when the arduous cares of his profession were not pressing the Doctor devoted himself to training the pigs. One be called Horace Greeley and the other Annie Hindle, after a well-known variety actress. The training progressed by easy stages. At first their lessons were confined to picking up handkerchiefs. The Doctor's plan was straightforward and simple. First he would take a handful of corn. Then he would have a little whip. Then he would make the pigs look at him. Next he would give them a grain or two of corn. As soon as the pigs would eat the corn they would want more. But the Doctor would throw down his handkerchief and give them to under stand that they could not have any more until they picked it up and gave it to him. This gradually they learned to do regularly. Then by the same means he taught them to play euchre. The fame of the pigs spread throughout Putnam County. Old euchre players who had never been beaten journeved to l'aturson to run a tut with the two pigs. 'In every instance the O. E. P. s were vanquished, lhen the Doctor handed over his practice temporarily to a rising young Esculapian brother, and hired a batch of negro minstrels and a juggler or two and went about to the Ftate and Coun ty Fairs, exhibiting his pigs in a tent and conducting the minstrel and juggling busi ness in connection therewith. STRIKING PHILADELPHIA. The Fair season being over, the Doctor was next engaged by the variety theater people. He had his pigs all last week at Minor's Theater, in New York. On Mondav they oiened a week's engagement at the National, in Philadelphia. An expectant crowd sat in the parquet and galleries reading a particular note at the head of the regular programme, to the effect that "the performance will commence with Dr. Knox and his original Putnam County educated and performing pigs." When 8 o'clock came the curtain rose and revealed on the back pari of the stage a wooden box cage, with two compartments. In one was Annie Hindle and in the other Horace Greeley. Horace was jumping through a hoop a couple of weeks ago and broke his leg. The Doctor set the limb, but the pig is not able to perform without danger of injuring it again. The performance at present depends on Annie Hindle. The moment the curtain rose the pigs were seen peering through the wooden slats out at the footlights and the audience with bright, twinkling eyes and impatient features. They grunted and tossea their noises, as though vehemently protesting against being boxed up any longer amid so much brilliancy and light. Dr. Knox appeared with a small whip and let out Annie Hindle. She ran right straight to the- footlights, put her nose against it, sniffed a little, and, turning, ran back to the Doctor. Then he placed a lot of cards with numbers on the floor. . These cards Annie would pick

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wa, how many days there were in a week and how many weeks in a month. "How many days are there in a year?" bJted the Doctor. The pig ran down to the cards and picked up one in the middle row with the number r.Viand, running back, gave it to the Doctor, then, -going back, it followed the row of cards until it came to one with "G." Thisa'. it carried to the Doctor; then, runnrrtg bark, it picked up "5," and, carrying-' U to him, completed its work, showing the audience that the year had in it 3fi5 days. In the aame way it told the audience it liked eorn by picking up a card with that word on it in answer to the Doctor's question as to what it liked best. These are only some of the things which it did. All this was done with a willingness and qnicknes which seemed " to show marked precocity, and gave the impression that the pig was very proud of its accomplishments. The pigM are only four months oid. Dr. Knox says that any pig that can be made to look at a person when it is spoken to may be trained. "Let Polttie Alone." Detroit Free Press.1 A real clean, nice-looking old couple were at the Union Depot yesterday to take a train going South. The husband was nearly seventy years old, and pretty lively, and the wife was only a year or two behind him, with a voice . that meant business eveay time she opened her mouth. There was considerable political talk around the depot, and the old man at once became interested. "I've been over in Canada in the woods for the last two weeks and hain't heard a thing," he explained. "Is the 'lection over with 7' -j v "Yes," replied one of the men. "Many riots and knock-downs?" "Thousands of them,.'. "I used to be the worst man around the polls yon ever see," continued the old gent as he spit on his hands. "Fveseen the time it took four Constables k hold me." "Peter, what are you doing here?' asked the old lady as she suddenly appeared. "Finding out about politics." "What kind." "All kinds." "Well, you let polities alone and come into tlie waiting-room." "Purty soon. So they had riots and knockdowns, eh? 1ordl don't 1 wish I had been around!" "Peter!" called the wife. "Yes, 'I'm here. I suppoae the candidates set up the drinks, didn't tbey?" "Oh, yes." "Great shakes! But I wish I'd been over here. Take it along about forty years ago, and after I had three drinks down it took the whole Whig party to held me. My great hold was in cleaning out the voting place and walking off with the baHotrbox.'' "Peter. I want tou!" called the wife. "Yes, Nancy. Well, which side" Peter was choked off right here. Nancy got hold of his collar and lifted his heels off the floor, whirled him around, and headed him for the waiting-room with the remark: "After you have lived with me another forty . years you'll learn that when I say Peter 1 don't mean Paul! The idea of your standing out here talking politics when we've got to look around for a pieee of bedcord to tie that old h&chel up or lose half our duds! Pike!" When they came out to take the train the old man had his eye out, and seeing the man who had answered his questions he asked : "Who did you say was 'lected?" He was yet on'the last word when the wife brought her bandbox down on top of his head with the exclamation: ' "Shetup!" Tliat "shet" him. He looked back once with a sorrowful, injured air, but ehe Eunched him in the back with the box and e humbly entered the car. and was driven into'thc seat on the side next to the dark wall. . Troth Crushed to Karth. (Wall Ptreet News. Monday afternoon a strangqr, whose whole appearance was a dead give a away on his empty pockets, entered an office in Exchange Place and asked: "Do I look like a missionary about to sail for India?" . "No. sir," was the prompt reply. "That's right I like people to be frank with me. Do I look as if I could convert any great number of heathens if I should turn missionary?" "No. sir." "Good again. Would you advise me to turn missionary?" "No, sir." "Thanks. I see you are a business man. Pm another. I came in hcre: calculating to tell you that I was a missionary about to fail for India, and ask you for a small donation. You wouldn't have given me a rent, would you? "No, sir." "That's plump, and it pleases me. Now, then, Pll tell you the truth. I've no money, nothing to do, don't want to work, expect to have a close rnb this winter, and will be much obliged for the loan of ten cents." "Can't spare it" "Not even when I tell you the truth?" 'No, sir." "Then vou don't care whether I lie or tell the truth?" "No, sir. I can't see how it affects me any." "Very well. It docs me good to find a frank, honest man, and, on the whole, I'm not disappointed. If you had lent mea dime it would have gone, for whisky and been wasted; if you had believed me I should have lied to you. Seems as if you might recommend me to some one in the block on whom a pleasant lie would have effect; but I won't press the matter. Au revoir." ' It is now known as the "Treaty of Mentor."

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