Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1881 — Page 7

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THE INDIANA' STATE SENTINEL; wWNKDAif MARCHO. 188L

OUR PAB2I BUDGET.

Winter Wheat A. Report on the Propects From St. Louis. The Out Orange avs m. Timber Trete- ' Cheese Soft Corn Cream Orchard Notes. -Lard Soft Corn. Various persons who bare bad long ex perience In Iowa, says the State Register, are predicting that sound corn would be $1 per bushel one year hence. They claim that always after a long and cold winter there hare been partial failures of the corn crop unripe, sol t and frost bitten. This is not a . - i .:.,..t

necessary coniueuce. ne uc nuturu 'v j. a;,i. ... niHtmiiAn that when from

any cause corn was planted late the results been soft corn. "When wheat and oats can be sown in March, then there is time to prepare corn-ground in April ready for plant ing in early May. But when winter liners l.itp intn the sorinir so that the work on the farm can not be commenced until the middle of April or later, then it is iruiosibte with our largo farms and limited help to plant the corn in time to insure a sound crop. In our experience in this climate, we hare never known the cold to continue in the soring too late, if corn was planted as soon as the soil would peirait, to prevent the maturing of a good crop, uur worn is dv nutnro of our crons too much crowded. Having little or no winter wheat, we have vervthini? to do in the sprinc wheat, oats, nai, potatoes inn cum, " uuu mv. mir ahnrt nrirurs. This is the cause of soft " . , ' n ..I... I com following a lomr winter. Ana I 1 i? . . . . .romins snrin. that farmer who plants eood seed, in the usual season, will need no Insurance Company to guarantee a good, sound crop. Our farms br some process must bo arran! differently. More preparation for tha snrine plan tin ar must b done in the fall. So many crops which need planting at the same time must be partially auanuoneu,

I Not only the crowd at seeding time ereatly

reduces tlie rroli tot the faun, but different arrangements for harvest must be made. At present our corn has to be abandoned too ?oou to cut the hay. And before the hay is done the wheat claims attention, and its demands must bo heeded. Itefore it is safely in shock the heavy crop of oats is crippled down and half destroyed. With the ordi nary force on the farm these crowding laims can not be attended to. Half of the ay is left until it drops its seed, when it is not so eood as bright straw. The oats will lave to be harvested at double cost and half last. It is better, therefore, that the farnijr do not arrange to have these three crops Calling on him at the same time. IJetter vabandon some one of the crops which can "Slot be harvested. And it needs wisdom to rightly decide what is best to do. I5ut it is evidently wrong to toil to raise a crop and shen let it unavoidably go to waste. Productions of Cream. The Milch Zeitung relates a recent experiment by Fjord: A quantity of fresh milk was divided into three jortions, one of which was set in ice water at once; the other two were allowed to cool an hour by funding at ordinary temperatures, and one of them was then et in ice water; the third portion was carried in a wagon for three hour's before being set in ice water. All the samples were allowed to stand ten hours. Calling the quantity of butter yielded by the first portion of milk 100, the other two gave 70.3 and 73 parts respectively; or, in other word. there was a leas of 27 and 27 percent, of butter in the two cases mentioned as compared with what should have r been obtained if tlie-e two portions of milk had, like the first, been put in ice water at once. The loss was not in all cases

V sogreutas this; but the fact that it may Jk occur, and may under certain conditions be

so serious, is wen wortuy tue attention oi the managers of creameries; and no les worthy of their consideration is the simple method discovered by Fjord of almost entirely avoiding this loss, which consists in heating the milk, as soon as received at its destination, up to about 101 degrees. In the warm sea-ton the milk may be cooled as soon as drawn, so as to be delivered in a fresher condition at the creamery, where it may then be warmed as above. These experiments also yielded the imiortant result that with a good centrifugal creamer no notable loss of butter was caused by this partial cooling of the milk before delivery; ao that reheating the milk is unnecessary when this method of separating the cream is followed. The Osag Orange axe a Tlmbr Tr. I Prairie Farmer. South of the north line of the State of -Missouri there is no more valuable tree than the osage orange can be planted for timber Vr deciduous tree shelter, yet we seldom have a word about it from those who per sistently advocate timber planting. WliyT We auppoze lor the reason that those who are growing seedlings for timber trees see no money for them in the seedlings of it. The .young trees are crown so cheaply by those who grow it for hedging, that no one in the forent tree needling business can compete, i This tree is admirably adapted for the pur-

V ioses of farm timber and farm fuel over the I West and Southwest, not too far North. It is yheaply obtained in any quantity, transC plants successfully without extra care, is iwell suited to a dry climate, grows quite lfast, soon making useful timber for farm I use, is among our strongest and most lasting I of woods, very useful for almost every puri pose that had wood is used for, is most exJ cellentluel either green or dry. There is a C -question whether there is any timber that V will last longer for fence post than it will.

Our experience is that a sapling of O-tage orange, three or Ave inches in diameter, will last longer than any other post of that size. "We have known poles three or four inches in diameter to lay on the ground under a hedge and remain perfectly sound for fifteen years found enough to be used as hand-spikes to roll heavy logs with. A few tUat were cut fourteen years ago for grape stakes are yet sound and in m, while Mverai hundred each of white, oak and sassafras are eone, and began to become uselew at three years. The timber of the Osage orange is easily ut and split when jrreen. but on seasoning '.t becomes very hard. It is perhaps the beat wagon timber in the world. For tlie felloes of wkeels it is said to last four times as long as the bet white oak. Thirty years of coninued observation of this tree shows that it has fewer faults as a tree for general cultiva tion for the uses of the farm than any other; it Las not been troubled by insects or disase; its foliage is alwayshealthy and beauti ul. Then why plant the soft wooded, offensive ailanthus, the soft wooded European larch, the elms, the maples, tbe box elders, t-jritn woods or very lime economic vaiue, 'VU hen we can have the so much more valua Lie Osasre oranee at a much less cost? The Seedlings of it can be obtained at any time for half what the others can be bought for, Winter Wheat. 1st Louis Republican.) About the close of the winter or early in the spring the condition of the winter wheat crop reasonably becomes a subject oi great interest in this, the principal market lor it, andall information concerning it, when ob tained from proper and reliable sources, pos sesses importance and value. Especially is this so at this juncture, from so exceptional a winter in duration and severity as is just closing. To obtain this desired information Messrs. IL C. Greer & Co.. one of the lead ing grain commission houses of 8t Louis, recently framed a circular embracing the most essential questions thereon for answer. find mailed copies to a great number of inte rior shippers of grain in the winter wheat belt These were freely responded to to the

extent, on Saturday last, of "upward of 200

statement, and the result, as contienseu oj umju.t.,5 waier; anatnmuy, Messrs, Oreer & Co., in a circular for dUtn- if a how is well fed for ten dava, bnt inbution throuKliout tlie winter wheat section, sufficiently supplied with water throughout

has been furnished to the Kepublican lortne benefit of the urain receiTers of the city and the farmers and shippers that the circular tnav not otherwise reach. The summary is as 101 lows: J . - .. The stock of wheat at Bhipiins points is liberal, and the farmers hold from IS per cent, to 25 per cent, more than at tne same time last year. Farmers are generally holding for$ I per bushel, but will meet the market freelv if spring weather develops no wrinns ininrv to the erowinir wheat f Tond turn r ortv-nve per cent repon me --J - V . . condition excellent, and tlie growing crop of wheat uninjured yet; 20 ier cent report slight iniurv .to "late sown." "broadcast sown." "sown on wet lands," "sown on old old lands," etc.; 5 r cent report growing wheat badly damaged; 14 per cent report only late sown badly damaged; 10 per cent. report 10 to 25 per cent winter killed ; G jer ci-nt. retwirt from 2H to SO percent, winter illed All agree that the freezing, thawing ad winds of the next thirty days may do much dam aire to the erowinif wheat Acre age sown in wheat is from 15 to 25 per cent irr eater than one vear ago. Corn Stocks comparatively light. At many points, usually shipping points, corn is being imiorted to supply home demand. From these replies is als deduced the following information : Drouth last fall caused late seeding in many sections. One party in Illinois reports that the farmers in his neighborhood expect to plow up their wheat fields and plant them in corn. iSome report Fultz wheat sufferinir more than other varieties. Some report the corn still in the field badly in Hired by the wet weather this winter. The following is an account furnished Messrs. (Ireer t Co. bv Mers. Parrish it Uro., shippers at Miami, Saline County, Missouri, of a test of the crop In that County made bv a reliable farmer: "In January, after the severe cold and hard freeze, lie chopped out three or four inches of a drilled row. put it in a box. and when it thawed out every stalk was alive, and green, and while frozen it had a green appearance. Subsequently he made two more tests, and in each ease not a stalk in a box containing three drilled rows at least eighteen inche long, taken out of hi good looking wheat as there is in the country, was round to be alive, but when thoroughly warmed the bud in a few da ys was found to be black and rot ten. The letter continues: I here is a difference of opinion among farmers. Most of them think wheat is all right, but it is too soon to tell, as it freezes green, i et, when warm weather conies it disappoints: There was a sale of the new crop of wheat here to day l,ou0 bushels to be delivered In warehouse, September 1, at one dousr cr bushel." It is the opinion in the country that the roads will be bad and farmers' deliveries light until after corn planting. Lard Cheese. The following statements with regard to the use of lard in cheese-making wen made recently at Albany, X. Y., by Assemblyman Crapser, of St. Lawrence County, before the Assembly Committee on rubiic Health : The main elements in cheese manufactured from milk are caxeine and fat. Ken net is used to coagulate. It is necessary to add oil if a richer cheese is wanted. We have never been able to do it in this coun try until recently. Lard is now substituted in place of cream or butter oil. To 100 pounds of milk we add one and a half lounds of lard, and have to buy the best laid we can. We get it at Chicago cr else where, and it has to be deoderized by heat In the usual way. Stearu-rendercd lard is better than kettle-rendered. Hv the new process it requires six to eight hours to render it One would get four pounds of cream from 100 pounds or milk, and this four pounds is one-third caseine, so that about two pounds out of a 100 is real oil. Therefore, 100 jwnuls of skim milk and one and a half pound of lard will make ten pounds of cheese. It makes a good quality of cheese. We have bt en able to sell all we could mak. We make salable cheese out of skim milk, an I so benefit farmers. This new checie is made from sweet milk, from which creim has been removed at 40 Fahrenheit, after s'andinr twelve hours. No chemicals are msed in this process, except some coloring matter, which we make. 1 have twenty-one factories, and have put them to making lard cheese as fast as iosMi ble. We have to work on the Kly, but the honest farmer would not take any advantage. We got along with them by paying more for their milk than it is worth, (seven ot my factories are now ruukingthe lardchec.se, which goes to Chicago, lloston, New i ork and Baltimore. The fact that it was made of lard sold the goods. The skin cheese factories in St. l.awrence use chemicals. I skimmed mine so close for butter that it could not make .salable cheese. This kind of cheese we can sell to the middle classes, but not to the millionaires. Lard can be treated by difference of temperature and not be injured like butter. To deodorize the lard we blow hot steam through it. We manufactured twenty-live hundred boxes of sixty pounds each last year. Orchard . IPralrle Farmer. Our plan for cultivating ujbearing orchard wxl we ask forluonc better, only that we want a better tool than the common plow to stir the soil with is to.pnw the ground between the rowsj one way, not trying to plow very near the stem of the trees, about the 1st of May, with fa common turning plow, then in ten days harrow thoroughly, then in ten days again, and then about the 10th of Juna plow the orchard the other way. then harrow three times the other way. This plan we adopted after a great deal of - i . ! . yi' . i siuuy aim experiment e rcasuueu in this way: If we should plow the the orchard both ways, turning all the ground possible, we would destroy so many roots as to give toe orchard a severe check; but by plowing it between the rows onlv ono way at a time, we leave at least half the roots undisturbed, and the trees are not checked at all.- And we cared not how many roots we plowed up between the trees one way; we knew the undisturbed roots would hold the trees in thrift until the broken roots could put forth new feeding roots in the fresh, mellow. Plowed land This kind of culture is adapted to high, dry, rather poor hill land; on richer and more moist soil it would have to be modified to suit, for so long as an orchard of bearing trees is making a growth of from six to fifteen incites yearly it has vigor enough. There can be no general plan for the culture oi orchards giveu. lor the culture ot each orchard müst be according to its soil and requirements. The cultiva tion necessary on a thin, dry soil would cause an orchard on a richer, moister soil to run all to wood, with none or little fruit Rich level or prairie soils should be treated very differently from thin, dry, hill soils; when planted in orchard, they should gen erally be laid down in grass, and the thrift ot the trees kept up in part by cutting back and thinning out the outer branches and by surface manuring, and eventually by plow ing narrow strips Deiween me rows. A Corner lu Clovreed. I New Knsland Farmer. March 12 1 Dealers in field and garden seeds predict high prices for clover the coming spring. It is believed that nearly the entire stock. which is much smaller than usual, is in the fi a n1 rf i A.'f t tn rt i havfl VwkiicrKt. wf Irt the intention of getting clover "cornered." Our advice to farmers is. to endeavor to disMnn with cloverseed as far as praet cab e Vu u till they are willing to selll at reasonable rates. . . . .... . . Importance of Watering Stock For the purpose of determining the ca pacity of a torse to undergo the privations incident to a state of siege a series ot experi ments have been made in Paris. Tbe re sults show that a hone may hold out for twenty-five days without any solid nourish ment, provided it is supplied with good1

drinking water, that a horse can uba'st for

uns iriuu, 11. wu wmuuiTt me eieventn day. A horse which bad received no solid nourishment far twelve days was nevertliecondition to draw a load of COO jwuu .n...u v. imi, n , tw. rih ). f It. Advantages of Soiling. I Wettern Rural. It has been proved by experience that the same number of animals may be tained by soiling, in equally good o mainor better condition, on something less than half the quantity of land that is required to support them in pasture. It is well known that a very considerable portion of a pasture neld is rendered unfit lor food by the trampling of the animals and tlie effect of their droppings; whereas when the grass, etc., is cut and consumed by stock in houses, sheds or yard, all this waste is prevented, and instead of slandering over land soiled by their droppings, etc., they consume their food quietly in an agreeable shade, where they are safe from tiie attack of Hies and other annoyances. When properly soiled, cattle improve very much more rapidly than when pastured. This is accounted for by the quietness with which they enioy their food and dnnt without having to travel long distances in search of them. Protection ot Plants. Chemist If a little chloride of lime be sprinkled on the soil. rats, mice and insects will soon de sert it. Plants may be easily protected by it from insect plagues by simply brushing over their stems with a solution of it. It has often been noticed that a patch which has been treated in this way remains free from grubs, .while the unprotected beds round about are literally devastated. Fruit trees may be guarded from their attack bv attaching to the stems pieces of tow smeared with a mixture of chloride of lime and hog s Urd. Ants and grubs already in possession will then rapidly vacate their positions. Farm Note. of birch wood One cord weighs 2.3G8 pounds. worms miest me tunes, me inu'stines. and the kidneys of pigs. Soft soap differs trom hard in having pot ash in place of soda as an alkaline base. Water in which Max has been steeped not only kills hsh but Is injurious to vegetation. The Chicago Packing and Provision House kills 10,000 hogs every day, a day being ten hours. The first one or two litters laid by pullets are not so good lor hatching purposes as those laid later. Andrew Sprague, of Kaston, Me., raised 200 bushels of very large sugar beets from forty square rods of ground. The average price of the corn crop of Uli nois for 18SO is thirty-three cents per bushel, which is six cents lef-s than the average price for the last twenty years. IX not be in too much haste to set your hens, unless you have a warm place, not only for them to set in, but also for the young chicks aitey they are hatched. A couple of ounces of carbolic acid to three quarts of water, sprinkled on the poul try house through the tme nose of a small watering-pot once in three or four weeks will destroy lice and other parasites, An exasixrated Pennsylvania farmer, who had lost a great number ot sheep, placed some poisoned meat where he thought it would do the most good. His rnge was con siderably soothed the next morning on find ing the dead bodies ot eighteen sagacious dogs, Nothing is equal to tallow for large cog wheels, but a good grcaso may be made of twenty-five toumls of tallow, twenty-five pounes of tar, hteen of soda, and three or four gallons of water. Itoil the soda and wtitcr till the former is dissolved; then add the other ingredients, Instead of oil, which thickens and makes whetstones dirty, a mixture of glycerine and alcohol is used by many. The propor tions of tlie mixture vary according to the instrument oiK-rated Uon. An article with a large surlace, a razor, for instance, sharpens best with a limpid liquid, as three parts ot glycerine to one of al cohol. If vou wish to be successful with trees do not plant large ones; they cost much more than small ones, you lose a larger percentage of them, and the tops of a number die dowsi, while even those which io the best are much longer in starting than smaller ones. Of two persons planting two lots, one of large trees, the other of smaller ones, in a few years the small trees will be the best value. On account of a lack of sheds and other means ot protection, the winter in the Northwest has been very destructive to sheep and cattle, but more particularly to the former. Two young Scotchmen, who went Into the sheep business about a year ago with a herd of about 4,000 hccp, have lost them all this winter, and are financially ruined. It is not a wise policy to have all the eggs in one basket In 1871 the yield of wheat was 200,722,400 aushels. In 1875 210,1:50,000, and in 1880 .180,812,723 bushels. In the last decade the production of corn has increased from 9'Jt,H0H.000 bushels to l,3."57,5:55,Ot0 busbels. In 1880 the gTain area of the country was lOf,142,076 acres. Ten years ago the total export of grain from all parts of the United States was 72,122,3!M bushels: last year it amounted to 228.53!),J47 bushels. A tw.an I mrtrstvAil rar! rv tiir rrffrvi n i plants with their natural colorals to dissolve one part of salicylic acid in COO parts of alcohol, heat the solution up to the boiling jHin in an evaporating vessel, and draw the plants slowly through it Shake them to get rid of any superfluous moisture, and then dry between sheets of blotting paper, unuer pressure, in the ord-nary manner, too prolonged immersion discolors violet flow ers, and in all cases the blotting paper must be frequently renewed. The novelty appears to be salicylic acid. The air bubble or air cell in an egg Is at the round or blunt end. It contains the air which is to supply the chick during the pro cess of incubation. It is known to contain a greater proportion of oxygen than the air we breathe. As the chictc increases in size the air bubble grows larger, and when on the noint of hatching it occupies one-fifth of the whole egg. The slightest perforation of this air chamber will prevent success to hatching out About the nineteenth day ot incubation the air cell is ruptured and tlie chick breathes with its lungs. It is at this date that the lively movements seen in eggs placed in water are observable. About Great Men. Sprlogflfld Republican. One mild consolation which we may offer to those who lament the decay of threat men is. that cre&t men are great humbugs. Sixty years ago the cointry was at the opening of a loner era of peace and rapid internal ue velopment. It was also an era of "great men ' at least it seem to now irom a distance, although Webiter, Clay and Calhoun upread over a period of forty years seems not j Mfl... .1 a very generous uimnuuuon. u iucy did for the country would putzle anybody to tell. It was discovered in 18C0, at any rate, that they had left pne prodigious job undone. The country without a single "&T Vr". ''great man" on either side plunged into the wl" W4 BIU'' . f""" Roncy maue commuu uicu 5im, iuuiuw who become irreat on an emergency may be I . 1 1 . . 1 paruonea num&n weakness iu raimj ymtr moment. One ympathire sometimes with k. i,mU oWaofo in tha rtlrt rd wbo after much dUaonointment from the men of , v . vt - genius and briniancy preMe4 upon his attention, bursts out profanely! I am tired of your great men and your brilliant fellows, Oive me a reguhtf old-fashioned damned fooll"

WILD BILL OP MISSISSIPPI.

A Deserted Child Who Wvt Alone la Swamps Till Manhood. I Southern Exchange. Reading of the discovery, recently, of a wild man in the Antelope range of mountains in this State, recall to memory the capture of a w ild white human being in the swamps bordering the great river oi the West below the city of Natchez, in the State of Mississippi, in the year li24, who had grown from childhood up to man's estate without seeing a single person of his own species until he was found by his captors. Believing that the incidents of the story will prove of interest to the readers of the Examiner, they are herewith given. In tviiainson county, in tue oiuic nooe named, just above the old town of Fort Adams, there is a strip of country known as Old Itiver, which was seldom visited by the pioneer settlers of that region, and then only lor the purposes of tithing and hunt ing, as both game and fish were to be found in abundance In that vear a nartv of dj. - - - - I - hunters, to their astonishment scovered the naked footprints of a human being leading through the mud into the water f the old bed of the river. Their curiosity was the more strangely excited from the fact that no one resided in the immediate vicinity of that place, and the Fettled portions were but sparsely populated. To discover who it was that made the footprint they hunted Hcveral days in succession with their dogs, and finally brought to bay IS A DROVE OF WILD ItOOS, a tall, sinewy human beinir in a state of sinewy unman being in a perfect nudity. He brandished in his hand " j - - a stout stick, with which he defended him self against the dogs, the hogs rallying around him. seeniinixlv for his protection. He gave utterances to no intelligible sounds. only yells of rnge and screeches. They hound and carried him to the town of Moodvllle, the teat of justice of the County, some twenty miles distant He was in every respect a veritable human being, with a good coating of hair over his body, which, .it is to be inferred. Nature furnishes all her creatures, otherwise unprotected, to shield them from the elements. He had lost the power of speech, which indicated that he had been left to himself when very young, lly kind treatment he soon became domesticated, his faculty of speech was restored, and he gave this account of himself: When quite a boy supK)sed some six or seven years his father (presumably) came down the Mi.ssi.sippi River from some of lhe Western States or Territories in a tiatboat, with his mother, his elder sister and himself, and landed at the mouth of Old River, near where the town of FortJ Adams now otands, where they remained for several days. One day the father killed his mother and sister with an ax. Instigated by fear, the boy ranand concealed himself in a hollow log. II is father hunted him, calling him "Hilly," but he remained quiet in his place of concealment lleing unable to find the boy, lie loosened the llatboat from its fastenings, and t loa ted down the river, as was supposed, tu NewOrleans. LXfT ALOMK At so tender nn age, in a wild, uninhabited section, the law of necessity became to him the law of existence. The climate being mild made it favorable to him. He selected a magnolia, or bay tree, hollow at the base, which, In that section, trew to great size, j and made himself a bed of leaves and moss, where he stayed at night and took shelter when it rained. For food, he subsisted on frogs, tadjvolw. such fish as he could catch, and the void fruit that grew there in summer. Thus he managed to live until the time of his cap tare. The habits of this unfortunate being, and the changes which took place in him from the time his intellect began to develop by coming in contact with civilization, is interesting to contemplate. At first, the emotions of shame he knew nothing of, and It was dilllcult to make him wear clothing when the weather was warm. Whenever hunger pinched him, and he could I obtain nothing else to satisfy his appetitr, he would return to his original diet of frogs, raw fish, etc. An amusing instance of this kind occurred on one occasion. It was tlie fortune of the writer of this to live in tie family who had "Wild Hill" in charge. On one Saturday he, with Hill, each on a borse, with a bag of corn, were sent to null some miles in the country, lleing detained by the miller until evening, Rill became hungry. Returning home, he heard , A THOU CROAKING Df A LAQOOIT by the wayside. Instantly he sprang from i . .i , . t . ins nurse ami cauiiousij waned into me water, stooping until it reached his chin, so so as not to alarm the frog, (iuided by its croaking on the opposite bank, he moved slowly until he came within reach of it, and darting forth his hand, he sizcd the frog, and taking it by the lrgs, he tore them asunder and ate it with a relish. For a long time he was irresponsible, and rpmilred to be In charge of some one to keep him out of mischief and trouble. On one notable occasion Mrs. Hammett. his guardian. wished to pay a visit to some of her lady friends in the town of Woodvllle, and her son, who was generally charged with the task of looking after liilt being absent, she locked him up inside the house. Her re turn beii.g delayed until evening, Hill found the atmosphere of the room oppressive, and denuded himself of his cloihini;. Reins hungry, ne concluded to do his own cook ing, and endeavoring to do what he had seen others do hi this line, he put into a skillet a little of every kind of food he could find in the house hog's lard and ground coffee mlxel in and puttingiton tne nre, utirreu u unui ne tnoupht it was sufficiently cooked. When Mrs. Ham returned, accompanied by some ox her lady neighbors, and unlocked the door, she found her lady Rill seated on the Moor near the hearth with the skillet before him, lifting its contents with both hands to his mouth; und expect ing chastisement, he backed into a corner, lickimr his lips with his torgue. lie was exceedingly FOND Or BWRXT Till HQS, and particularly of strong drinks if they were sweetened. For a drink of sweetened whisky lie would attempt anything. At one time he was promised a gl.issof whisky and sugar if he would whip general Joor, who, in full feather, was mustering the County Militia according to the old manner of doing such things annually. To obtain the promised glass, Rill stealthily came up oeuma mm, iook mm oy ine uair ot me head and bore him into the dust on the street Finding himselt thus assailed, General Joor drew his sword and pierced Rill through the thigh. From this wound he never fairly recovered. He was very agile and fast of foot He could climb a tree with surprising quickness, swim and manage a horse with dexterity. It was with him as with a child. From the time of his capture he knew not right from wrong actions until he was taught, and until his intellect expanded and he begun to comprehend his true position in society, he sorrowed over the reflection. He sickened and died in New Orb ans in the year 1829. while in charge of a gentleman who undertook to exhibit him for money. Th Drowning; Nefro and III Pocketbook. IVIcksburg (MIm.) Commercial. A negro planter came to Vicksburc. sold his cotton, put his money in his pocketbook, and started down the river. Leaninz too far over the guards as the boat backed oat he fe.U ?7 ?"s Portemonnaie, which in 111s siae pocaei, noated out and roas w ui his u on me luriace OI the Wi", while the current carried the I I "Vi a . a u I wa. I s w a.a4 a . .1 t - . niv 1 j " " wcnu ai.u wwiniance started toward the drowning man, who, perceiving his treasure floating off. "cd ,v?.,.ce n.d vL PkeU oooai tum um wen unaer and cusapd A, he rosw An1di f.Dari!$ii8 ln dat pocketbook I" Bcrcely bad be uttered tbe words before he nk a second time. The yawl came wlthinreach Justin time to recue tbe drowning A'rican

as he came to the surface for tbe last time. A soon as the water , was wiped from his nose and mouth, so that , be could see and speak, he asked: "Did Ed you save dat pocketbook?" "No," was the response. 'Well, den," said the negro regretfully, "what de debbil was de use of savin' me?" A MOIIILK TKRRAPIN FARM.

Htw the Diamond llmcke nre Hailed ud Shipped-A Ulg Collection of Them. Mobile (Aia.) Register, January 30. A few days ago an aitlcle clipped from a Washington paper appeared in the Register, giving a description of Senator Dennis' terrapin farm in Maryland. As we have something of the sort to boast of in the neighborhood of Mobile, it may not bo amiss to give our readers a description of Mr. Mclford Dorlon's great terrapin farm at Cedar Point This projection of land is on the western shore of Mobile Ray, about thirty miles below this city, and is inhabited principally byoystcrmen who reap golden harvests from the many beds which furnish nearly every oyster brought to tbe port of Mobile. Mr. Dorlon, who keeps a store at this point, has about three acres fenced in with strong pilings. Leading to this inclosure are two canals, one 011 the bay side and the other on the gulf side, which supply with aalt water a number of ditches ten feet wide and 100 feet long. The pond accumulating from the excavation of these ditches is thrown on each side, and tised by the terrapins to sun themxdves and lay their eggs in, which, if counted, would go up in the millions, and can be raked up by the bushel. In the winter season the terrapins remain imbedded in the mud of the ditches where they stay until spring time, never touching a morsel of food. A system of sluices enables Mr. Horlon to keep the ditches full of alt water, or drain them at pleasure, and he is not at all dependent on the tide for that purpose. The n amber of terrapins on the farm, as far as can be ascertained by the closest calculation, is between 20,000 nnd 25,000, and in the course of the next three of four years will be something hard to calculate. About May 1, Mr. Dorlon makes his purchase of terrapins from the country people on the Mississippi Sound, and takes all he can secure at $3 a dozen, and that generally averages about 8,000 a year added to this farm, outside of those bred therein. The inhabitants of Mississippi and Alabama hunt the terrapins with dogs trained for that purpose. The dog barks when he finds one, and the hunter immediately secures it by going to the pot where the dog points. The cost of feeding the terrapins, which, as we have said, is only done in the summer, is about $1 per dozen for the season, and tlie price per dozen in New York has varied from $18 to $8. The food, which consists of crabs and fish, is caught with a seine, in front of the farm, and really very little ex!ense is attached to the raising of these valuable land tortoises. Mr. Dorlon begins to ship about October 1, ami then on to about Mav 10. He generally sends his to Savannah by rail, and thence to New York by steamer, nveraglng about 12,000 a season, and, had it not been for a disastrous hurricane, which some time ago washed out Mr. Dorlon's , farm, it would be to-day the greatest terrapin farm in the world. He can always shin all he can get, for there is a ready market for these delicacies. The New Spring Dodge. I Detroit Free Preu. She was looking out of the window when he entered the yard, and she said to herself that she might ring the bell until he was tired, for she didn't want to buy any soup and had nothing for tramps. He rang and rang, and after the seventh or eighth jal she went to the door to bless him. "This is the greatest piece of impudence 1 ever saw," she exclaimed us she pulled the door ojen. He smiled. He lifted his hat and smiled again. He had jHor clothes and a hungry look, but there was something captivating in his smile. "Welir she queried us she held the door. "My errand is a very pleasant one, and yet I feel somewhat embarrassed in making it known." "If you have any bills to collect you must call when my husband is in," she observed. "Rills, oh, no. Madam, you have, perhaps, noticed In the papers that a book entitled: 'Prominent omen of Michigan,' is soon to be published?" "I I v-c-s. I think ao." "Well, it is to be illustrated with engravings of 100 striking faces. My instructions are not to look for beauty so much as for marked expression of deep thought I was Instructed to call here and ask you if vou would permit the publishers to publish your wood-cut in the forthcoming book." "Who could have sent you?' "I dare not tell. Your's is to be published on the first page, and only nine more will be taken from the city."' "And what's the charge?" "Nothing. If you want the book you will have to pay $2, but you are not asked to take it" "I can't sec why they should have selected me?" T.og pardon, ma'am, but your's is a very striking face. It tortrays an expression of strength of character I never saw equalled. Many Indies have offered me as high as $10 to piit them in the book, but we can not go outside of our selections." "I can't give you a decided answer today," Hhe said after thinkhK it over. "Perhaps my husband will object. You may call again to-morrow, and you will please accept this for your trouble." Liberality as wen as strength 01 character," he chuckled, as he pocketed the bill. "Very well; I will call at this hour to-mor-roy.,r TUt was two weeks ago. but the woman is not xpecting him. She has learned from her husband that this is a cold world, and that "Mulllvcr's Travels" will be sent to all subscribe. for the "prominent women" book. What an Earthquake Did. A curious result seems to have followed a recent earthquake at Hucharest The soil of Rucharest is a rich, black, porous vegetable mould, very springy under pressure, and carriages passing in a street cause a strong vibration in the adjacent houses. The Grand Hotel Boulevard, however, was an exception to this general' rule, and in the rooms facing the principal street, on which there is a heavy traffic, no sensible effect was felt from passing vehicles During the recent earthquake, the windows and crockery in less massively constructed buildings rattled very sensibly, whereas, there was no audible sound iu the hotel. Since the earthquake shock, however, this state of things has changed entirely, and every vehicle pacing the hotel causes vibratiou in the whole building. The singular Sart of this change is that the effect proneed by the vehicle is the name as that accompanying the earthquake. It is not a jar as previously produced In other buildings but a pawing motion similar to that felt in the late tdiock. This movement Is po great as to cause pictures to sway backward and forward on the walls. The hotel is one of brick, covered outside with mastic, which would show at once any crack in the walls. However, there is not a crack in it Hence, it is thought this change in the solidity of the structure appears to be due so some efect produced in the earth underneath the building by tbe shock of earthquake. t ininnnnnnnÄ Elijah Q. Allen is a very absentrminded man. A friend went to Houston the other day and when he got back Elijah asked him: "llow is old Major Rones coming on? Has he changed much of late?' "Changed! Why, I should emilel He has been dead more than three years." "That's a facti I one of the pall-bearers at his funeral. I ,1 thinking of old Major Snooks, who died about the same time. Has he changed much of late. Galveston News.

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"Oh, where Is my boy to-night Where is my tender youth a roamtog-T A mother snjc ln anxious tones, At the twilight's yellow gloaming. Well, that fragile youth was a mile away, Qnite comfortably fixed, you see, With a bouncing crlr ot 2u pounds A overing on his knee. Tlie boy who is well parent will shed water. shingled by his "Serious Charges Against a Chicago Dealer" is the headline ofa dispatch in the daily papers. He probably had three aces in his boot Boston Commercial Bulletin. In a certain counting-room tho following notice is stuck up in a conspicuous place: "Persons having no business in this office will get through with it as soon as jossible and leave." The night editor of a Nova Scotia journal wrote the following bead line to one of his cable dispatches: "Tlie British Lion Shaking his Mane." He was unable to eat his breakfast next morning when he found ihe pnnter s version or the matter staring him in the face thus: "The British Lion Skating in Maine." A big six-fioter was lifting for all lie was worth on a wagon-wheel which was stuck, when a little two-foot mite of humanity, nearly as broad as he was long, and just out of long dresses and into pants, with his hands in his pockets and a swaggering air, sang out : "M ister, do you want me to help you? 1 can grunt while you lift" "Does that little bit of n pig eat much, Pat?" "Much, Your Honor?-' was the answer. "Well. Your Honor, I'll tell you the plain truth about that pig's appetite. He'll eat two whole pails of milk, and yet when he's got it all stowed away I can put him into one of the pails and he wou't more than half till it He's 11 wonderful pig. but "t nmch profit to a joor man. Your Honor." Rill Titz and Joe Nagel had a $." game of billiards in the "Gently Dreaming" saloon, on Galveston avenue. Bill lost the game, but instead of paying the $3 he said: "I haven't got . rent of money with me. Joe." "You haven't? What ort of a way is that for a gentleman to do to come into a saloon and play without a cent of money in his jocket? How, now, am I to pay what 1 owe the barkecper?-rGalveston News. There is no more common sight on the streets of Galveston than a moving house. Kven two-story frame house", by the liberal use of able-bodied mules tnd ro.lcrs, are moved from their sites to vacant lots many blocks distant This explains what Rill Pitz meant when, after the oyster supjHT was over, a few nights ago, and he started for home, Gilhotily found him holding on to a lamp-post and e jaculating: "Whip up your mules." "What do you mean, Bill?'' "Whar do yer shupposc I mean? Are you sho intossicated yer can't slice? I can't crosh street till house gets pasht, can I? Whip up yer mules." The house that Pitz thought was moving was of brick, four stories high, and kept in place by a heavy mortgage. Galveston News. TA1ILK GOSSIP. Every One, it Is said, has a mission, but it seems to be the mission of very few people to mind their own business alone. Everybody is merciful toward himself, but he can't conceive why other people should make a blunder or commit a wrong. The trouble with life is not that there are so many things to Uarn, but that there are so many things to unlearn before we begin to learn. The Admiral of Castile declared that when a man marries and when he goes to war, he ought to Ims prepared for anything that muy happen. There are a great many moralists in the world who can write n good prescription for honest living, but who seldom take any of their own medicine. A great many jK-ople's morality resembles sign osts at the corner ot country roads. They point in the right direction, but they don t budge nn inch themselves. Men of small capacity can bear neither great ill fortune nor great good fortune. Men of large capacity, says Hare, have two highest titles when the moon is at the full and when there is no moon. It will do no harm to remember this anec dote of Napoleon. One of his officers re ported of a certain stragetic plan that it was impossible. "Impossible!" cried the Gen eral, "impossible is the adjective of fools." An investigatior says that no two thumbs arc alike in shaiie. lie curiously studied the subject by examining the impression made by waiters' thumbs on restaurant plates. It would be better for us all if we had the simple faith of the poor negro who said: "If 1 see 111 ue isibie that I must jump through a stone wan, 1 m gwinc to jump at it Gom through it belongs to God; jumpin' at it belongs to me." If you will look in the nineteenth chapter 01 tue ioog 01 ine Acts you will find that the "Town Clerk of Ephesus" was a man who never did anything rashly. Whenever von are asked o five a man iudimiAnt lust 1 j - o- - - - j r -- 1 jj tell your questioner that you must consult with, the "lown Clerk of l'.phcsus, and it will save you many a headache. We are, most of ns at least, like the negro in ono respect "Are you a Union man, Sam?" said an officer to a darkey. "Yes, salt, wen de Union army is roun' I'm Union man." "Well, how is it when the Secesh is here?" "Why, den I'm Secesh all over, said Sara; and he added, "De white folks can't get ahead of me on dat principle." Plato, in giving a definition of man, says he is a two-legged animal without feathers. Socrates lar.gbed at the idea, and bringing a rooster stripped of its feathers into the school of the philosopher, exclaimed: "Behold the man of Plato I" Adam Bmith imv proved the definition by saying: "Man is an animal that makes bargains. No other animal does; no dog exchanges bones with another dog." - Never reckon your enemy too cheaply. Judge justly concerning the opposing force, and then make your arrangements accordingly. "I will make an attack on England!" said Napoleon, in a rage, after the l'eace of Amiens, to Lord Whitworth. "That is your affair, sir," was the reply. "And I will annihilate you!" continued the tyrant "Ah, sir, that is our affair," calmly retorted the Englishman. The wiae-bpread lame of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is Jnntly won by its own inerita, and the reputation it has gained has been secured by its universal use. Tlie man who boasts that he never loses his memory may never have had any memory to lose. Why Wear Piasters? They may relieve, but they can't cure that lame back, for the kidneys are the trouble, and you want a remedy to act directly on their secretions, to purify and restore their healthy condition. Kidney-Wort has that specific action, and at the sane time it regulates the bowels perfectly. Don't wait to get sick, but get a package to-day, and cure yourself. Liquid and dry sold by all druggists. Germantown Telegraph. Indigitlon, Dyspepsia, nervous prostraUon, and airiorms of iceueral debility relieved by taking Mknhman'i Peptomized hr.tr Tonic, the only preparation of beef containing it entire nutritious properties. It la not a mere stimulant like the extracts of beef, but contains blood-making, forcegenerating and life-sustaining properties; la Invaluable In all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork, or acute dtieaae; particularly If resulting ff?, pnlnwnary complaints. CAäWKLL, UAZA&r A Vo., Proprietors, New Yerk.

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