Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1881 — Page 7

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THE INDIANA" STATE SENTINEIJ fiTEDNESDAY, MAT 18, 1881.

FARM MATTERS.

8nestIons Of and For the Season. Batter Making; Take Cr ef Your Ilomes Firm 2iote, Ktc. Suggestions Of sud For the Season. f American Agriculturalist No fanner needs to be told tlhat this is a month in which work presses, but many of oar readers will find this year (that a large share of the work of two months is crowding into one. Over several of the Western States the late and lingering snows have delayed work disastrously, and the ground has not been fit for the plow'until long after the usual time. In a season so unseasonable as this, in such localities, careful laying out of the work is more than ever necessary. Fortunate are those who prepared the land for spring wheat last fall. In many cases farmers may be compelled to let this crop go by, and give more attention to corn. Early sowing is on many accounts desirable, yet good crops have been made in "ew York State when the sowing was not done until May 20. Oats rarely do well unless sown very early. The crop may be much improved by care in preparing the seed. Fass it through a fanning mill to blow out all the light, imperfect seeds. Corn planting will be the leading work throughout a broad area. It is a matter of common remark with those who observe the weather, that, take one year with another, the 1st of July will find vegetation about qually advanced, no matter how backward the early part of the season may have been. Corn land is to be put in readiness as soon as may be, but the seed must not be planted until the soil is warm, and the grain will start into vigorous growth at once. There is often serious loss from planting too early; the grain remains dormant, or rots in the ground. It is often the case that a field planted in April will in June be far behind one planted two weeks later. The old rule is: "A sol for corn." One can not always follow this; besides, in many cases grass land is too valuable as such to be plowed up for another crop. The American farmer is learning that meadows and pastures furnish the most valuable crops. Corn does admirably on stubble land; the extensive experiments referred to by Profes-sor Atwater and others how that it does not matter what the preceding crop has leen, so long as the soil is in good tilth and abundantly supplied with the food element! which the corn plant requires. There is aa much difference of opinion as ever as to whether it is preferable to plant in hills or in drills. Corn can be kept free frem weeds with greater ease when flanted in hills, as the cultivator or horseioe may be run in two directions, and thus leave a much smaller part of the work for ttie hand-hoe. There is the advantage in drills that the plants rre more evenly distributed -ever the grot nd, each stalk has more Immediate room to itsoif. A larger crop can he grown with the corn in drills, but it is chimed that, in most cases, this is more than offset by the increased labor in tending it, especially if the land is weedy. The imiortan"e of selecting seed-corn has been so strongly set forth at the proper season, that it is presumed that this lint step toward a successful crop was taken intime. If one ha a variety that he has improved by careful selection through several years, he should be slow to change it fur a new kind, though we would by no means discourage the testing of new varieties of promise. The root crop increaaesin importance, and a greater acreage is devoted to it each year, and it must advance in favor a the country becomes older and our method are forced to adapt themselves to the change in our condition. Roots do best in a loose, friable soil, with a gravelly sub-toil. They require deep culture, and the soil should be ploughed to at least ten inches. If the soil is not rich, give a good supply of well-rotted manure; boned list, guano or superphosphate, at the rate of .'JOO to ft) pounds per acre, may be applied with profit. All such concentrated manures should be sown on the surface and harrowed in. or otherwise thoroughly mixed with the soil. Maneel-wcrzels are the most important root crp. They should be sown by the middle of this month. After mangels come sugar beets and blood beets, which may be sown early in June, but do the best, usually, when fut in the ground the last of May. The eading varieties of yellow-fleshed mangels are: VTebVs yellow globe, yellow-fleshed Tankard and the long yellow. The red varieties are less solid. With the fodder crops sown in April, and the corn and roots in May, there is little of the farm land unoccupied. A small portion may be devoted with profit to fodder corn for June, July or August, after the ea-ly rye and clover. A topdresfcinjeof fine barn-yard manure, or artificial fertilizer applied to the grass land, either pasture or meadow, will often give new life to the grass, and return the expense many fold. Flaster often produces excellent results upon young clover fields. Thus applied, it will help increase the crop to be plowed in as green manure. One to eight bushels per acre may be sown broadcast This should be done as early as possible this month. Do not let the animals go to pasture until the ground is settled and firm. Batter Making. Miss Fanny G. Morley, the young lady who carried off the grand sweepstakes premium at the American Institute, New York, for the batter on exhibition in the United States or Canada, has written an excellent article on butter making, from which we take the following: A few days since I received a postal from the Secretary of the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association, then attending a dairy meeting ia üoniKno, iuwa, in wnica ne says: rue Iowa folks talk big about their butter, and they have a rijrht to, for they make a great deal of it," That sounds as though Iowa was taking the lead in this profitable industry, and if in reality she is. I think it is due in a large measure to theextensive introduction and use of improved apparatus together with the new fashioned methods of butter making. Our pride and ambition to be first as a dairy State have not deserted us yet, and we do not contemplate standing aside and allowing mem tne loremost place. A great change in the process of butter making is rapidly taking place, new ideas and theories are wiping out old-time no tions, the aged little milk-pan and clumsy ian-cuurn are going to wreck, and the mnic itseii is oeing auoraerged. The result is. we make fully three-ouar-ters of a pound of butter more than is obtained from the pans, to each 100 pounds of milk. It was quite startling to realize the fact that we were feeding out in our sour milk between thirty and forty pounds of gut-edge butter per week, yet that is virtually what we were doing. Instead of these lanre pans holdincrsorae TOO oounds of milk we are using cans for raising the cream. We strain the warm new milk immediately into them, and submerge in cold water about 43 Far., letting them remain eleren hours, at which time the cream is all separated from the milk. . The philosophical explanation of the scientific principles involved in this sub merging process for raising cream is very simple. Water being a better conductor of heat than air, the warm milk being submerged in very cold water cools more rapidly than if placed in air equally cold. iCapid cooling makes the milk heavier, and in de scending it forces up the lighter cream, and I suppose that by the time the milk is thoroughly cooled the cream is all at the top. The weather can exert no influence upon milk set in this way. The result is always uniform if the same conditions be observed, and all practical butter-makers ap

preciate the value of a uniform quality of

cream and butter. For cunne cream we are now using a heater, which proves to be the right thing in the right place. It consists of a galvanized iron tank, large enough to contain two thirty -gallon cream cans, supported by a wooden frame work above and connected with a small boiler, constructed on the same principle and very similar to that commonly used under a cheese vat. That is, the fireplace in the boiler, surrounded except at the ends, by a water chamber, which is connected by meaasof two pipes to the tank above. Of course, you see that when the water around the fire begins to heat, it will ascend in the other pipe to fill its place, eo that the water in the tank can be warmed sufticiently in a short time and with the use of but litile fuel. The tank also has an aperture near the top, so that if desirable we could have cold water running through it Hence the cream can be kept at the desired temperature both summer and winter by the aid of this arrangement. It is important that the cream should be stirred frequently and allowed to stand eight or ten hours before being churned, as if new cream be added during that time it will not have become properly cured, and hence may be lost in the buttermilk. Sixty-two Fahr, seems to be the right temperature for churning cream in the winter, since if colder I rind it requires a longer time in churning, and if at a higher temperature a less amount of butter ia obtained. We are using a square box churn, which we like very much, as it does its work in the best possible manner, is well made and is easily managed. It has a capacity of 125 pounds of butter, is run by a horse power and usually requires about forty minutes to bring the butter. As soon as the butter will permit, and while it is yet in fine grains, the buttermilk is drawn from the churn and cold brine poured over the butter to wash it There seems to be great difference of opinion entertained by butter-makers concerning this washing operation, many claiming that it should be washed and vice versa. Washing removes all this foreign matter and leaves only the taste of the butter pure and simple. Those who prefer the butter to that of the foreign ingredients mixed with it like the washed butter best The flavor of butter consists of fatty matters, which do not combine with water at all, and, therefore, can not be washed away by it The effects of washing upon the keeping qualities of butter depends upon the purity of the water used. If the water contains no foreign matter that will affect the butter, it keens the better for having the buttermilk washed out instead of worked ou- Evidently the grain of the butter will be more perfectly preserved ll the buttermilk be removed by careful washing. The grain is such an important factor in the make up of hue butter that it is necessary we hould be very particular not to injure it in uny way if we should ex cel in the art of butter-making. Hut to re turn to our butter. After being washed it is salted at the rate of ounce of salt to one jwund of butter, while yet in the churn, and the salt evenly distributed throughout the butter by re volving the churn forty-eight times around. It s then taken out oi me cnurn, auowcu to stand a few hour, carefully worked over. and packed. Take Care of Your Harness. I Wisconsin Farmer. Mor edama-'e is done to harness during the rainy weather than during all the rest of the year. Saturated with water, covered with mud. and often frozen stiff, so as to almost break when bent, in neces-sary hand ling, unusual care should be taken to keep t'ieiu well oiled and hunt: up in proper shape when not in use. Thus treated, it will not only last mucn longer, dui iook even better than when neglected in the usual manner. As to the kind of oil, we know of nothing better than neat's foot or the daubin used by tanners. To give the black color characteristic of new leather, a little lamp-black may be added without detriment, though it is better not to use this until the second going over. .... isefore putting on the on, however, mere are two important considerations which must be observed cleanlinessand dampness. The necessity of the first is obvious, and the last ia not less important, since the oil can not penetrate the leather and make it soft and pliable if put on when it is dry and ard. One of the best ways to give the leather the requisite degree of moisture is to wrap up the several parts of the harness in wet cloths a few hours previous to oiling. But this trouble is unnecessary where washing has been resorted to for cleaning, as the oil may then be applied before the leather is entirely dry. The oil should be rubbed in briskly with a brush or cloth, so as to in sure its absorption. Varnish Miould never be used, as it closes the pores and renders the penetration of oil more difficult. Vegetable oils are hardening in their effects, and should never be used for that reason. Finally let the application of oil be as frequent as needed, not once a year, as is the rule with some, or almost never, as is the practice of many. Farm and Workshop Notes. The United States is the best market Can ada has for horses. The nualitv of the feed regulates the dual ity of the manure heap. There is said to be some $15,000,000 in vested in the manufacture of oleomargarine. A Jsixty-five-year-old tree on Belgrade Ilil 1 .Mainr. is c 'edited with an aggregate yield of MJO bushels of Ualdwin apples. Mr. A. Johnson. Pulaski, Ky., killed a bronze turkey gobbler, eighteen months Ohl, that, according to sworn statement, weighed nity-tive rounds. Ta prevent sows from crushing their voung 1 t & m . . nan a ooaru aoout one iooi wiue 10 me sides of the pen. The board miiit be put on like a shelf, so that the little pigs can run un ler it to get out of the way. The crops that do best on rather stiff soil are potatoes, onions, celery, late cabbnee. late bean, Hubbard squashes and fruits of all kinds. When well drained, such soil will often produce good early cabbages. The best runs for poultry are where grass and gravel are plentiful. Grass runs are of great value where they can be had. but they must be large if the fowls have constant access to them, or the grass will soon cease to grow. Rain water brings down nearly about twelve pounds of ammonia per acre of ground. 10 supply an equal amount of sulphate ammonia at six cents a pound would cost the farmer f iöü an acre, which is therefore the manural value of the rain. The tent caterpillars con be easily de stroyed ii, wnen they are nrst seen to form the web, you ascend the tree to where thev are located, either after sundown or early in the morning, and with an old glove on your 1 1 i A II 1 I . - , . - . uauu jusi, roii mem in ineir weoana squeicn them. If there arp any of these pests on the end of small twigs which troubles you to reach, tie a cotton raj; to the end of a lone stick, saturate it with kcroseno oil and set it on fare; apply this to the web uad sure destruction is the result and without injury to tne tree. Farmers who are intending to soil their cows this year must get in a crop of spring rye as soon as possible. Many who soil their cattle neglect this crop, or entirely ignore it. Though spring rye does not produce very srood milk or butter, vet it is the fiintcrnn to follow winter rye, while if a quantity of luciuu Btrcu lucai ia useu wie quality oi miiK is greatly improved and the quantity in creased. Eye, like fodder corn, is an imner feet food and does not contain nitrogenous food equal to the amonnt required by the amount oi siarcn and sugar which it car ries. Cottonseed meal contains a large amount of nitrogenous matter, compared

with its starch and sugar: it also contains a

large amount of oil, thus forminga very important feed if it is desired to economize either the rye or corn fodder. By feeding a little cottonseed meal in the combination we extract more nutrition from either rye or corn fodder and more from the cottonseed meal than if it was fed alone. The first materials converted Into ensilage in France, where the silo was introduced, were beet leaves and the tender branches of grape vines. Soon afterward the pulp of beets, from which sugar had been extracted, alfalfa and maize or Indian corn, were added to the list of materials to be preserved. On the introduction of the silo ino this country the immature stalks and leaves of corn produced by sowing the seed broadcast or in drills were employed. A fashion once set is as likely to become general in agriculture as anything else. As a consequence, corn (odder lias generally been employed for this purpose. TUE FIRST STAR ROUTE. Governor Gilpin Tells a Story Concerning th Original Overland Mall Line. Denver Tribune, May 4.J "A pretty buzzard's roost the Senate of the United States is making of itself," said ex-Governor Gilpin to a party of gentlemen standing with him in the Windsor rotunda festerday. "But it is net the first time that have known the Senate to descend into clownishness and to spend weeks and months over nothing. It was as bad in 184.V4G just as bad, as I have reason to know, as I was interested in the proceedings to some extent That is to say, I was there and came in for a share of the Senate's consideration myself. It was tee Texas-Oregon question which was then claimingattention, and which soon afterward led to the war with Mexico. There were then no less than forty-two public men on the floor of Con gress who were l residential aspirants, and all of whom have dug their own graves in the sands along the Atlantic." "But you ejoke of having some connection with the discussion what was it?" interrupted some one. "Oh, simply this: It was about a mail route a great Transcontibental mail service, concerning what you may call the original Star Koute. It was in the days of giants, of Benton, Clay, Calhoun, Randolph, Dallas and Webster. I knew them all. I had been across the continent as a Lieutenant in the Army, and had returned wth a recommend ation that a mail route should beestabhshed overland from Independence, Mo. then the extreme western point of civilization in the United States to the . mouth of the Columbia, some 3,000 miles across the plains and mountains. Senator Mies, of Connecticut, an old friend and an old-time Democrat, was Chairman of the rostoflice Committee, and had asked me to write a paper to be sub mitted with the Committee s report. 1 did so. I told them of the vast, the limitless do main which stretched out to the westward from the great Mississippi River; of its great Fdains, great mountain ranges, big forests: linted at the mineral resources; calculated for them the number of wild animals; buffaloes; told that the country would some day be covered with a net-work of railroads, and suggested that ere the lapse of a century the travel and the mails to Eastern Asia and Australia would pass through this sec tion. "Laughed at? Yes, I was. I was ridi culed. The Boston Traveller, the New York Herald and the Baltimore American denounced the schema as wild and visionary, But that made no difference. The people wanted the information. Well, tbe matter came up in the Senate. My report had been printed and sent in with the Committee s recommendations. The motion was to print 10,000 copies of my report. I saw that there was a hurried consultation between several Senators, including Calhoun, Webster. Dayton and others, and I soon had the conference explained by a motion by Dayton the most powerful of them all in the use of irony to expunge the entire matter as irrelevant and unworthy the dignity of the Sen ate. He made a speech of some length, in which this now fair section of country was treated inamost disrespectful manner. Dayton was followed by Benton, who took the other side." "Were the proceedings reported?" "No, sir. Some of the Senators took it upon themselves to go to the reporter and represent that the matter was unworthy of record; and I will show you some of these days where in the report such an entry was made and where it is stated in great glaring, big letters that 'never before in the history of the Senate had such merriment been indulged in that grave Senators actually shook their Bides with laughter at the preposterousness of the proposition.' And thev did. It was a jolly time in the Senate, sure enough." "Hut did Calhoun speakr' "Yes. I was sitting just behind him when he arose, looking a perfect thunder storm. He addressed the presiding officer and continued for fully half an hour to pour the vials of his wrath upon the proposition and upon me. He looked as stiff as if a rum rod had been thrust down him denounced me in open terms as a visionary, and was ter ribly severe ujon my presumption in venturing to come into the Senate with a report which had, he declared, been surreptitiously ntroduceu. There I was, a young man, he said, almost - beardless, willing to throw oft my Lieutenant s epaulettes and take a seat among the gravest and greatest of the men of the nation in the Senate." "And Webster?" "Yes, Webster spoke, too; rose in his usual austere manner and began deliberately with a denunciation of the measure, closing with a few gratuitous remarks concerning the country at large. 'What do we want' he exclaimed, 'with this vast worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts of deserts of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts or those endless mountain ranees. impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the Western coast a coast of 3,000 miles, rock-bound, cheerless, uninviting and not a harbor on it? What use have we for this country? The young man should be sent home at once.' These were the opinions of the leading minds of the country less than forty years ago concerning a section of the Union now inhabited by 10,000,000 people, and which has added hundreds of millions of gold and silver since that time, as well as other products, to the world's wealth which has grown into popularity and developed as if under the influence of an universal magician's wand. It is gratifying to add that the motto was adopted in spite of the opposition of Web ster, Calhoun and Dayton, though many years elapsed before the mail route was established. Pay of Pullman Portent. The Denver Republican recently intei viewed an official ef the Pullman Falace Car Company on this subject with the following result: "Why is it, Mr. Shields, that the Pullman Company have tire reputation of paying their portent miserable salaries, thus making them dependent on the liberality of passengers In a great measure? l'hat la not the case. Tbe public eniertaln a wrong idea of the matter. Porters are not dependent upon pnraenRers in the slightest, and are amply paid for their work. They receive from 15 tof:0 a month, according to the service performed, the latter amount being paid to what we term porters-in-charge, or, in other words, porters who perform the duties of conductor and porter at the same time a 'work that is not infrequently done. When a porter is employed, it is only on the best of recommendaUon and with the most stringent provisions. He is first given the rules and regulation governing bis service, and i made to thoroughly appreciate one clause therein before going ou duty. This clause is that he ask no person for money or use his position to blackmail passengers. If he violates either of these provisions he is first suspended or reprimanded, and a second offense Insures him a discharge. However, on the other hand, porters are allowed to accept voluntary contributions. The salary given t lese men Includes board, and, bavins no lodging expense, I think it is sufficient."

AN OLD FKAUD.

Judge nijglnbotham Talks Loud About Orth and Venezuelan Xatttrg. Something About the Actors In the Big Swindle, od How it Wm Done. Washington Capital. lie was a large, full-bodied man, and by his side, evidently distressed at his paroxysm of wrath, were a couple of friends, one of whom was furnished with an ear trumpet appendage. lie waved his hands aloft and said, in an ante-room of one of the smaller hotels: "No use talking to me about it I've stood this hypocrisy long enough, and now I'm going to get my work in. Here I've been for years past holding in my safe at home letters and papers that would blow this man Orth out of water on those Venezuefan frauds!" "My God! Judge, don't talk so loud," pleaded the man with the trumpet "I don't care how loud 1 talk," persisted the Judge. "They can't use and then abuse my confidence year in and year out and expect me to bear it without a kick. I tell you I know the business from cellar to garret and could give the whole clique away I was on the point of doing it five years aeo. when the bees were buzzing in Orth bonnet and we had to haul him olf the ticket for Governor. It was party policy that held me back. I tell you he got off too easy then, my boys, and it ought to have been a lesson to him to resjtect all who held the issues of life and death against him, as I do. The lat straw has been placed on this camel's back, and if things don't run my way mighty soon he'll hear something drop." Impressed with the pungency of the above remarks, delivered in such spirited language. I took the pains to find the name and whereabouts of the enraged orator, and soon learned to my surprise that IT WAS JCDGK HIGGINBOTHAM, Of IXDIA5A, who lives in Orth's home at Lafayette, or did until recently, and has for years been' one of the most prominent and influential republican managers in that partoLthe State. He bears an excellent reputation. has never been criticised for any act but very extreme partisanship, and has been for a long time the attorney and trusted personal and political friend of Congressman Godlove S. Orth. The intimacy of his rela tions is quite enough to give a powerful flavor of truth to any claim he makes about being possessed of Orth's secrets, and, hearng his threat, it was impossible to throw ovei board the hope that our country, smirched and disgraced by these Venezue lan frauds, would before lonir. be able to vindicate her own honor and seek revenge at the hands of those who had stained it As in every drama of fraud enacted on the Eublic stage, the spectator who views it' from eforc the footlights will fail to catch the side remarks made on the wings and in the green-room by the rogues in secret cauow, and to observe the artistic scene-shifters at their work. What can he know of the delicately arranged unweaving ot the plot compared with those who know the end from the beginning? lears before any Committee of Congress put its pitchfork into this Venezuelan fraud the actors in it had ample time to arrange how the drama should be played had the intluence at court to help them play it as decided upon; and what is of more consequence, had a mutual interest in playing parts that would dovetail in the plot. With all his energy, Mr. Springer failed lamentably in bringing this rascality to light, for the simple reason that he exam ined no witnesses but rascal, and they all had a piece of the pork. Without arising to rehearse all the details of this steal, let me give some portions of its unwritten history: In 1!"Mji a treaty was entered into between this country and Venezuela to settle certain claims of American citizens against the latter Government; Andy Johnson, in gratitude for Tom Stilwell'a espousal of him and his cause, opened the way for him to square accounts by giving him the enezuela Mission. TOM 8TILWELL WAS THE NABOB Of ANDER SON. INDIANA, one OI tnose plausible, Imperial creatures who can nse the personal magnetism of their natures and the assuming patronage of good manners to inspire confidence against all lurking suspicion, and turn all about them into pliant instruments of their will. He had a glorious, glittering reign, and was the very embodiment of American daring and impudence. His expenditures and sup posed resources were boundless, lie levied contributions on rich and ioor to sastain his pageants, and then credited his private account with to much fame. His end was sudden and retributive. One morning a bullet came along, and Tom's career was ended. The man was gone who could lift a mortgage with an assuring wave of the hand, and reason away a debt with a cocktail. ISehind the death lay the facts. Grouped together on a background of fraud were broken banks, broken promises, broken fortunes, broken friends. Like Lorenzo, the Magnificent, Tom had all this time been simply gilding his subjects' chains. Previously the commission had been formed by the appointment of General David M. Talmage, of New York, on the part of this country, and J. G. Villafane on the part of Venzuela. Tal mace owned a family and a coal -yard, both large; was a high liver, had magnificent command of strong oaths, could drink and recover arms like a thoroughbred, and was a regular "hurrah sort of fellow." Villafane was a young, weak, unprincipled cur, who would sell his native 'land for a pittance and throw in himself. W. II. Murray, a brother-in-law of Stillwell, whom the minister chose for his Secretary of Legation, had a slighter attack of principle than anybody in the company. Here, then, was a combina tion and a crowd, indeed, to give the world assurance of a job. IT WAS THIS BROOD OF 8HYL0CK8 that went under cover of the American flag to make terms with a weaker sister Repub lic sending her very life-blood to keep Jn surgents from her throat. Mr. Murray visited the claimants, and stipulated that for Kn er cent he would en gineeer their claims tiirougti the commission; and it should now be stated, as it never before has been, that only such claimants as consented to Murray s "attorney fee were recognized. In order to adjust doubtful claims an umpire was needed. He was obtained in the person of Juan Michado, who had large wealth, plenty of leisure, and rather enjoyed doing a favor for such "jolly dogs as Stilwell, Talmage and Mur ray. It lias been shown that every one of these American ratals had bonds. During a ' law trial in Ander son one of the witnesses produced $S.r,(X0 in these bonds as assets of Tom Stil well's ier sonal and defunct bank; Talmage disgorged SjO.uuu ot them in the presence of Hon Austin Blair, of Michigan, when Senator Sumner, on the basis of a letter received from one of the claimants, explained to the State Department that much of the vil lainy, though the great men never lived to go to the full depth of the frauds. Now for a side-show from one who was on the wings. MS. AL KLINE IS I GENIAL RHEUMATIC OF ANDERSON, whom I had the pleasure to meet once under sunnier skies, lie was for a long time the cashier of Stilwell's defunct bank, and lost heavily when it failed. He went to Caracas with the commission in some capacityAssistant Secretary, I believe but soon had a disagreement with Stilweil, and returned. When his short stay at Caracas was referred to, he stroked tne rheumatic leg he was nursing, and pointed to a small photographic mvmr, htinirinff aKnvo Vtim rtr, tViA wall "fioA that group? There's Talmage and Tom and Murray and Pry ne and yours truly,

I guess the crowd was about two-thirds

fun when that was taken. Pryne was a fast New Yorker, who had taken a good deal of interest in the world, the fleth and the devil, and his father prevailed on Tom to take him away to bnild tin. H built' When Tom lit out he left the business in that fellow's hands. Know Seth Diggs? Think I do; the old miser. He was a South American trader from New York, and would gouge i very one he could lay his hands on. nenieniDer that big diamond Tom used to wear on his shirt? Weli. he rmt un an old Jew diamond dealer to beat Diges out of mat stone, ana Moses talked it down till Tom got it for a song." (And Kline laughed tin a leiegram to quit came from his leg.) "Driggs got&WO.OOO from that commission. and all the rascal lost in God'a world was a span of horses! Yes. sir. that s a fact I heard them talking about it before I left; and I see he has the cheek now to squeal because Tom and Talmage wanted a slice. No ose believintr anything that fellow says. He'd lie straight aneau lor a week without meals or sleep. Then there was the Widow Adams. She had big cocoanut plantation back of Caraca.. and when the Insurgents tramped over it and let the milk out she put in a claim for fjO.OOO damages. Tom told her she didn't know her business, and suraested &S0.000. On further consideration Tom and Talmage agreed on $100,000, and in went the widow's mite at double her own figures! Know Micnauo.' on, yes. Jit WAS A LrXl EIOt'S M0CXTAI5 GOAT, by the way. The fellow was a reeular Span iard, tall, dark and lithe, a perfect gentleman in his manners, and n peat man for the ladies. I think he inherited his money nyhow he had the most corneous planta tion around there. Among other things, such as costly wines, a full stocked menagerie, and anv nuantitv of rare hint, hn IimT a cascade on his place, where the water fell from a great height, splashing through ravines, till it landed in a large basin cut from the solid rock; and here, in the cool of the day, Michado and his friends used to bathe with a choice collection of divine Castilian girls. He could tell lots about those crooked times. , "Tom had a cheeky way about him." con tinued Mr. Kline. "I remember the time that Talmage was out here and we drove to thegravel pits. He had been prodding Tom for some time about the $(,000 lie owed nni, and while we were driving over that afternoon he opened on him again. It was something about Venezuela bonds, but I couldn't get the exact situation. Well, Tom bantered him till we got to the pits, when he pointed to my $J0U horse and said: Damn It, Talmage, what a iO.OOO between gentlemen? Take that horse of Kline's and call it square.' " JOHN A. STEIN, ORTH'S BROTHER-IN-LAW, was the reputed lawyer betöre Congress for these rascals; so I. asked Mr. Kline: "So Stein was the attorney?" Here is his answer: "ies," replied he with a sly wink of the eye, "he was the one they corresponded with; but, of course, he couldn't have done anything without Orth!" coolie Having me least lumnianiy wuii uns whole job will doubt the correctness of Mr. Kline's remark; and if Judge Higginbotham Will be patriot enough to open' his private Safe to the public and plat e those letters on exhibition, we shall soon see that whole brood of rascals gnawing hies. We may be able to learn what consideration induced Morton to champion the validity of those infamous awards in the Senate, while Orth did the business in the House. WHY IT WAS THAT MORTON TOOK SUCH A PRO FOUND AND SLEEPLESS INTEREST in the matter that hourly telegrams were sent to Tom Stilwell informing him of the prosjiects; how It was Orth aipeared before the State Department as the attorney of Stilwell and Talmage, when neither of those worthies had legal claim to a dollar a worth of these bonds; andwhy Orth should later explain before a committee of congress that "the name of Talmage did not appear in the correspondence as the person for whom he was acting, but the name of Thomas Brown did j" and what it had to do with the Dr iwn business when Charles Dresher, a former clerk in the Anderson Bank, when con fronted with various entries in the name of Thomas Brown, testified, with his head down, that Drown was a man of straw and the entries were dummy ones! Judge lligginbothatu, a man of respectability and honor, owes the truth to his outraged fellowcitizens. Will party consideiations lead him to still further shield Hon. Godlove S. Orth, or will he out with the facts and case his conscience? A Romance of Oar Own Day. Kansas City Times. CHAPTER I. Pi ton was in trouble. His cheek was wan and his eye lusterless. He bit his moustachios nervously and gazed abstractedly out of the shop window. The sun was shining. The birds twittered merrily in the trees. The human tide poured down the street, some laughing, all happy. But Pitou wa sad. Nobody came to do business wi h him. Nantne entered. She was Pitou's daugh ter. She was also sad. There were traces of tears about her. "Where are you going, my child?" asked Pitou. "Nowhere, papa," replied Nanine; "I am waiting." " "aiting? And for whom?'' inquired Pitou. "Jacques," answered Nanine. ''Ah!" said Pitou. CHAPTER II. Jacques was Nani ne's lever. He was also in love with Julie, the daughter of Pierre. Jacques was a pleasant gentleman, but he was poor, lie was ambitious to link his destiny with a mademoiselle of financial ability. Jacques stalked gloomily down the boule vard. He intended to visit Nanine, but Pitou s shop wore a deserted appearance. The people passed it by and surged in great swelling billows into Pierre's shop. Jacques was quick to detect this, lie was a man of the world. "Mon liieur 1 have had a narrow escape," he said to himself as be passed Pitou's door and entered that of Pierre. CHAPTER III. "You have come," exclaimed Julie, as Jacoues clasped her to his bosom. And you love me?" asked Jacques, eiving a hasty glance at the crowd of patrons in the shop. .Lre she could reply. Pitou and Xsanine stood in their presence. "Monsieur, you are a rascal! ' said Pitou. "You have broken my Nani ne's heart." "rso, Monsieur," said Jacques, "it is you who have done this. Look around you. This is Pierre's shop. All is thrift and pros perity. Wealth pours in. customers come leagues to buy of Pierre. Return to your own shop ana look around you. iou see deserted space, goods unsold, and bank ruptcy star'ng you in the face. Is it not so?" "Monsieur is right" said Pitou, bowing his head. "Leave me with Julie," said Jacque?. 'Go back to your shop. Advertise in the daily paiers as Pierre has done, and you may yet prosper, and Nanine may yet find a husband. CHAPTER IV. ' Fi ton went Next morning he had a dou ble half column in the Times. That week he sold 00,000 francs' worth of dry goods. and bought a corner lot in Mulkey's addition. In two months Nanine married a Slumber, and now lives in a palatial resi ence, and is the happy mother of twins. "Ah," says Pitou softly, "I did well to lo I low jacque sadvice. Pitou's head is level. Well, yes. We should smile. "Hi! where did you get them trousers!" asked an Irishman of a man who happened to be passing with a remarkably short pair ot trousers, "i got them where they erew. was the indignant reply. "Then, by my conscience," said Pat, "you've pulled them a year too soon.

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StnkBg- Doings of m Strange Woman In Paris. rarls Correspondence New Orleans Plcayune.1 W e have seen an oeresa, a live ogress, in Paris this week, bot who she is, whence she came, what year born, her father's name, her mother's birth, her kindred, nobody, not even wie ponce, -can nna out. And yet she has been known as a paintress copying pictures in the Louvre; she has been known as a contributor to Paris newspapers; still who is sue 7 gets no answer, not even from those heirs of Argus' eyes and Briareus' hands the police, bhe pretends she issues from an ancient and noble Norman family. De Gravas. No such family is known in Normandy. When scarce fi'teen her family forced her to marry a septuagenarian, Baron de Liver niere. who lived in his own mansion. Rue de Berry, but who soon after marriage beggared himself to gratify actresses' caprices. No Baron de Liverniere ever lived in Rue de Bern'. Nobody in Paris ever heard the name of one of the persons she mentions as habitual visitors of her husband s house. But the police found out this about her: In IS?.) she had attracted the attention of the police by the rapidity with which she changed her home and by the number of dupes she made. She wrung money from one by palming herself off as a wealthy Norman-landed proprietress: from another as a rich farmer's wife from Domfront; from another as cousin of the Queen of Spain; from another still as having had her chateau, near Dreux, burned during the German War; from the clerk of the Justice of the Peace, whom she made believe she was a land owner of great wealth in temporary straits of fortune, and who would lavishly reward anybody that befriended her in hours of distress. Becoming convinced she was a swindler, this clerk had her arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced eo a year's imprisonment in the Woman's Penitentiary. hue undergoing this sentence she made in Jail acquaintance with a woman named llouton, a photographer, undergoing punishment for the sale of obscene Dhotocrranhs. She, with her blarney, so fascinated this wo man that the latter oliered her bed and board at the expiration of her sentence. She repaid this hoepitality by alluring away Mine, Bouton's son, a lad of eighteen, with whom she really became deeply enamored. She is "seven-and-thirty." if she be believed, but as the police say that on her arrest in J. 875 she was then "seven-and-thirty," and looked every hour of fifty-five, she can scarcely be younger now. She tried her best to pet this lad to marry, and to decide him to this grave step she daiiy increased the size of her waist, until one day she went to the Lying-in Hos pital, gotacquainted with a maiden who was about to become a mother, and persuaded her to give her the new-born bastard, dazzling her by promises that tbe child should be enormously rich, bhe laid a thick coati of actress' whiting on her face to make her look very pale. Staggering she entered an omniDus, wnere sne nan tainted, and upon recovery interested un vieille demoi selle Amcricaine who had come to Paris to visit the exhibition, and to whom she told she had just had "the little stranger" in an apothecary's shop. The stupid vieillie demoiselle Americaine was fool enough to insist upon the young mother's quitting the omnibus, and taking a cab, in which she (la vieille demoi selle Amcricaine) saw her home, loung I Jo u ton was delighted to be a father, though only 19, and adored bis child; unfortunately the baby died a fortnight afterward. She determined to get another. She went to the Foundling Hospital, hovered around it until sue met a maiuen wuo wanieu to De nd of her child, and said to her: "I am Mme. ft. Marc, a midwife in Vincennes. I want a child for a noble, rich lady, who has just given birth to a still-born son. She is still asleep witti cnioroiorm. conhde your child to me. It will be placed in the cradle, and will be happy and rich, and you will have all you want I he maiden consented. What became of tnis child? Tne iolice have been unable to find out Thev believa the child, a boy, was carried to England and there sold to a childless mother, lhe tramc carried on in children for this puriose and nefarious objects is incredibly active. I re cently told of the rich apothecary who save uO,ooo for a child, lhe i-rencu law oilers an irresistible premium to secure at least one child to each marriage. I instance one case because it is famous. Möns, de Genoude stood so high in favor during tbe Res toration that he was able to marry his son to whom he pleased. lie chose an heiress of Bordeaux, worth $GOO,0o0. The revolution of KM) ruined him. Soon after his daugh ter-in-law died childless. AH her estate reverted to her family, and her husband lived miserably on $300, clerk's salary in a Joint Stoca Company's oftice. To return to the ogress. She not only stole children, but pillaged the furnished lodg ings she tenanted, one ot the pictures can't you imagine the daubs to be found on the walls of furnished lodgings in Belle ville?) she vainly tried to sell to the Louvre as "a l'oussin given Dy tne artist to ner great-great-great-great-grandfather, Marquis de Gruvas." She was more fortunate in Kncland, where she found a buyer for her daub. She had managed to wriggle into cood society across the channel. The police seized in her possession a good many intir mate letters from Lady raget, bhe speaks Enirlish. German and Italian fluently. The police suspect that she is a governess who has Gradually supped down to crime, it may be mentioned as evidence of the ver satility and fertility of the resources of this woman that totheastonisbmentof the police and Prison authorities, she appeared in the lock, after an imprisonment of two years, perfumed, painted, hair dyed black, the tum keys themselves unable to guess whence she drew accessories of the dressing table. This make-up led to a scene worth telling Judee Do vou recoenize the accused? Wit ness Why. yes. to be sure; but it seems to .... .V .... me that when I saw her before the Examin ing Magistrate she was very gray, while now she has not a gray xiair in ner neaa. rrosecuting Attorney (smiling) She has felt her self unworthy to wear gray hair after all the misdeeds of which she is guilty, bhe has been sentenced to the Penitentiary for six years and to be watched by the police for ten years after her discfiarge from Prison. Luncheon Parties. London World. A new terror is being gradually added to our social life. Luncheon parties are be coming an institution. What used to be a modest meal is expanding an elaborate function; and one is expected to string one s self up to concert pitch hve or six hours in advance of the time ordained by nature and hitherto sanctioned by custom. If things go on at this rate one will soon be asked to take one's matutinal cup ot tea at 8 o'clock, be fore a distinguised company habited in gorgeous dressing-gowns. Parties will be or ganized for the public consumption of the noontide egg beaten up in Bherry. society may as weil make up its mind at once to live in an incessant state of table d hote. Hos pitality is in itself not a bad thing, but it may be carried too far. I he luncheon party is at best an inconvenient excrescence upon our social organization, and if it, is no pruned away its name will become as much a by-word as tne breakfast party. Kidney tlsena. Kidney diseases nfllict the greater part o the human race, and they are constantly on the increase, but where the virtues of Kid ney Wort have become known they are held in check and speedily cured. Let those who have had to constantly dose spirits of nitre and such stuff give this great remedy a trial and be cured. In the dry form it is most economical, in the liquid the most con vement Philadelphia rress. Lieblg Co.'s Coca Ileef Tonic. "It !a far superior to the fashionable and 11 lusive preparations ot beet, wine and Iron," says Professor F. W. Hunt M. D., Honorary Member imperial ueaicai society oi ot Petersburg, Kussia, eve, etc.

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