Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 30, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1882 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY APRIL 12, 188Z

FARMER'S COLUMN.

Too Manj Varieties Cattle Farm Leases. Yard.-! A Peculiar Fence Breaking Prairie Sod Fish Cultivation. The LIcntntnc.RfKt Peddler ts a Strok Early Lambs Farm and Workshop Noten. Too Many Varieties. The desire to produce a large number of varieties causes many persons to fail in raising a supply of fruit for their families, and prevents them from haying any to sell. If they set out an orchard they first look over the catalogue of a nurseryman and select about as many varieties of apples, pears, cherries and plums as it contains. Inexperienced persons sometimes set out an orchard that co.itains as many varieties as it does trees. Such an orchard is never profitable, for the reason that it is not productive.- Only a mall proportion of the trees ever produce any fruit, and of these many are shy bearers. Commercial orchardists plant but few varieties, and the longer they continue in the business the more thv are inclined to reduce the number of varieties they cultivate. Experience and observation show the kind of trees that are profitable. Few persons can afford to sup port a horticultural museum. They ant an orchard mat win prouce fruit, nurserymen Keep a large number of fruit trees on their lists chieily for show. They are glad to sell va rieties that are not in favor with profession al orchard ists, as there is little demand for tiem. If their opiniou is asked, however, they will, if they are conscientious, recom mend the planting of but few varieties. The owner of the largest orchard in this State recommends but three varieties for general cultivation. He finds that no kinds of trees are profitable that are not in the highest de gree bardy and productive, lue most ex tensive pear raiser in the country now lim its th varieties to six, though be com menced with sixty. In most localities two varieties of berr.es and two of plums are as many as will prove to be prohtable. What is true of the orchard is also true of the vineyard and the plantation of small fruit. JL few good varieties are preferable to a large number of doubtful character. In this latitude only a few varieties of grapes are hardy enough to live without winter protection, or productive enough to be profitable. Two varieties of currants, goose bersies. raspberries ana DiacaDerneii are enouch to atl'ord a change, and as many as will be found highly prolitable. One inav raise several kinds of strawberries for home Cinsumption, but only a few varie ties will be found prolitable to raise for market. Only epicures will pay what it costs to raise the choicest varieties of grapes and berries. Only an amateur who has a plenty of time and money can afford to experiment with a large number of varieties of doubtful character. The more varieties a person undertakes to cultivate the more time, trouble, and ex pense will be required to take care of them Experience gained in cultivating one kind will be of little service Jn the management of another. Each has different habits and modes ot growth. One requires much pruning, another a little, and a third none at ail. i tie like is true in regard to protection and the application of fertilizers. A perSbn who raises but a few varieties can be come an expert in tne management, but con stant care and study are required to manage great many varieties. I'ersons who are enaged in general farming can not raise what are classed as "fancy fruits ' without neglect ing their held-crops, which they can not afford to do. They should content themselves with a few varieties, and these should be the most hardy and productive. The lists furnished by State and local horticultural societies should serve as guides to persons of little or no experience. I'ersons who have had experience in other localities would also do well to consult them. A. large variety ot corn, small grains.;rotatois and garden vegetables is generally undesirable and unprofitable. It is better V to raise one kind of tield-corn than several. 1 11 uinerent Kind are planted on tne same I a. ä 11 1 1 . .Ml i larm iney win mix ana me crop win not bring as high a price as could be obtained for corn of any one variety. Indeed, it is better to have aU the corn planted in one neighborhood of the same variety, as it will be likely to be stored in the same elevator and shipped in the same cars. Fences beJoorn from passing from one farm to another. II corn is to oe saved lor seed it is 1 u . : v ' i farmer needs raise both early and late potatoes, but one variety of each will generally be found more profitable than several. Fotatoes will not mix in the hill, as many persons believe thev will, but they will eet mixed in the bin and reouire labor to sort them lor planting or the market. A l nixed lot of potatoes will sell no better than ii similar lot of corn. One variety of wheat, oais, i je, uaney, auu ouc&wneai is easier managed than several, and generally gives better satisfaction. It is very difficult to raise several varieties of melons, pumpkins. Squash, and 'cucumbers on the same farm without having them mix so that the seed vill produce fruit of a monerel character. .me early and one late variety of cucumber and squash can be raised with advantage without much danger of mixing, as the time of blossoming is different. The like is true of u late and early variety of cabbage. Improved Catile Yards. A barn-vard in this country is a sort of out-of-door prison designed to keep stock om wandering about and getting into ischief. It is composed of a fence on the outside and a collection of mud, water and manure. ' The ground is generally so soft and wet that cattle, horses and sheep can not lie down without, being made very un comfortable as cvell as dirty. InGreat Brit ain improved stock-yards have recently been htted ud that give good satisfaction. A large portian of them is covered by a roof that pro tects the ground beneath from rain. As lumber is high, this roof is generally made of sheet metal covered with paint, it is held in place by iron columns or supports of masonry. The ground beneath the roof is raised and covered with cement or clay. LThe eround outside the roof is paved, so that Ithere is no mud. The watering-trough Is uni der the roof, as is a vessel for holding salt. I Permanent feeding-racks are located under Und outside the roof, lards of this kind 'Wnsure comfort to stock during storms r; rain and snow. They also prevent waste Af food. The manure placed beneath the roof is kept dry, and. of course, does not leach. It is thought that the saving effected In the matter of manure isufficient to pay the cost of making the rof. There is also a great leaving in feed. These covered yards afford I1 the comforts that stables do. and allow Uock an opportunity forexercise in the open Lir. Their cost is trilling wnen compared (with the good they accomplish. An improvement in stock yards is greatly needed a this country. As at present constructed jthey cause the waste of food and manure. and are a source of discomfort to the animals confined in them. I Farm Leases atad Tenants. J A New York farmer notices that the best jlenants in that State are persona who have leased land in Ptrat RritAi-i for a nnmU rr V ears, and have been compelled to work it - - ;n compliance with the specihed conditions. I He also finds that Enelish tenants make exreiieni larmers wnen mey come to own land

of their own. Some of the large landed

proprietors in New York specify in their leases how land shall be worked, what rotation shall be observed, and what disposi tion shall be made of the products of the farms. They are, of course, made in. the interest of the proprietors. Others let land and allow the tenants to manage it as they choose. Tenants like to obtain land from the latter class. It is noticed, however, that the tenants .who have been bound to the conditions of bard leases make good farmers, and that those who have been allowed to have tneir own way in the management of rented land become very poor farmers. The conclusion drawn is that conditions that are designed to be beneficial to the proprietor are in the long run beneficial to the tenant. iney ordinarily requirein general terms mat me iana be so tilled that its fertility mill be retained. They specify that the hay be eaten on the place: that a large proportion of the land be kept in grass; that a given amount of man ure be anDlied to tne land, and mat stocz do restrained from running at large. These re quirements are necessary in order to keep the fertility of the sou and to preserve me trees that may be on the place, Persons who Ikav-e been compelled to practice a irood syr-tern of husbandry on land belonging to others practice it from cnoice when iney come to own land themselves. They see the advantages of it and follow it They are benelited by the training the hard leases imposed. A Peculiar Fence. There is a kind of fence in use in some of the districts in Queensland which are in fested witi marsupial, of which an ac count is given in a recent number ot the (jueenslander. The fence is made of wire and saplings, the latter being used in the same way as palings. There are various ways of constructing this fence, but the most popular method may be described as follows: Round sapling posts are procured f durable timber from seven to eight inches in diameter and nine to ten feet long. Three auger holes are bored in them, one aroui lour ieet aoove the ground and the other two within a loot 01 eacn otner ai me uppermost end of the post, beginning about six or nine inches from the top. Ihese posts are insert ed in the ground from two to three feet, ac cording to the nature ot the soil, and at twelve feet distance asunder. One wire of No. G gauge is then run through the lowest holes and tightened. Next saplings of brigalow, iron-wood, ti-tree or iron bark are procured, and if too stout for use as cut, are split into two, three or more pieces, until light eno2h to answer os palings. iney are generally cut from six to seven feet in length, fo as to allow from six to ine inches for inserti in in the sou, and to leave no less thAn five or six feet above. A second wire of No. 10 gauge is then run through the same hole as contains No. 0, anl is left slack. After making the trench lor the foot of the palings in lines be tween each post, these are placed in po sition along the trench, and against the tightened wire as close as possible, and the smaller slack w ire is passed around each paling and round the tight wire, proceeding thus until the whole space between each post is tilled up snug and close. The earth thrown out In forming the trench is tuen put back against the foot of the palings and pressed or rammed in. In the two remain ing BUger-holes above the palings wires of No. gauge are next passed and properly tightened, and a marsupial or dingo-proof fence is the result. Karly Ianil and Chickens. It is reported that a movement ha? com menced in the South, which should have commenced years ago, for supplying the Northern market with early lambs and chickens. No farm products sell for so high a price as these articles. They raDk among the most expensive luxuries. To bring the highest prices, however, they must be in the market very early, in England young fowls are kept in well lighted buildings dur ing the latter part of the winter and made to attain a sufficient size to be used for broil ing at Easter time. Of course the trouble and expense cf keep ing them, to this way are great. but raising early fowls in this manner is found to be profitable, as they almost always bring fancy prices. With our present rail way facilities it is comparatively easy to bring Iambs and chickens from the South and to have them in Northern markets long before they can be raised here, without great trouble and ex tnse. Chickens, large enough f jr the gridiron in March or April, will sell for more than fows will that are kept till they are a year old. I5y having them in . . A 1. 1 a condition to send to market eariv a large amount of time, truble and feed is saved, and all danger ol loss is obviated. The freight is less for small birds than for large ones, and the money received for them comes at a time when farmers are likely to be in need of it. hat is true of spring chickens is also tiue of early Iambs. They will sell quick at high prices when mutton sheep hnd few buyers at low prices. There is every reason lor believing that the production of early chickens and Iambs for the Northern market could be made very proht able in the South. With suitable cars they could be sent alive, and. if the weather is tolerably cool, they could be sent after they are drcs&ed. Breaking Prairie Sod. In timbered sections of the countrv'farmers know that it is necessary to clear the ground of trees bef jre they can raise a crop of grain, corn or grass. In the prairie regions they think that it is necessary to destroy the old sod before they can make much out of the soil that it covers. They desire to raise "tame grass," and believe that the only way to raise it is to destroy the "wild grass," root and branch, as preliminary to sowing the seed that is to produce it. Now, that prairie grass is becoming scarce in the parts of the West that have been longest settled, farmers have commenced to appreciate its value. Many now acknowledge its excellence for stock in either the .V 1 . mi . 1 , i .1 . . ereen or urv aiai. inev ininK mat n ai - lords the most healthy food for stock of all kinds, and that it is especially valuable for horses. Many have also found out that the caicv naj h; uuiaiii vuinvaivu grasses JOT grazing purposes is to sow the seed on an un- .-; . . i. . : i . i . i broken prairie sod. 4ty so doing they re tain tne prairie grass till such times as they have something else to take its place. Many of the mo t intelligent dairvmen in Illinois declare that they have obtained their best pastures by leaving the prairie sod and gradually introducing the best pasture grasses and clovers. They find a firm sod and partial shade favorable to the germination of small seeds like grass and clover. When sown on loose soil, the surface of which is bare, the seed does not germinate at all, or the young plants die shortly alter tiiey make their appearance. rarmers should hesitate before thev con clude to break a prairie sod with a view of obtaining a better pasture. The operation is an expensive one and does not always resuit in securing the kind of pasture they want. Kami and Workshop Xotes. vne minion six hundred thousand acres are devoted to beet cultivation in Europe. It is now estimated that the deficiency in last year's hog crop will reach 1.000. 1jO head. Common salt is a special manare for asparagus beds when used with rich barnyard composts. The Manchester, a new varietv of straw berry, is said to be better adapted to sandy sous man most otners. Kncourage the little wrens by building suitable boxes for them. They are invaluable as insect destroyers. Fruit is a regulator of thesvstem. Tt will keen the blood in Order, the bowels regular I . . - -n na wne op tne stomacn. Soft coal ashes are used to prevent the ravages of the currant worm. They are scattered thickly around the currant and I

gooseberry bushes, care being taken to keep (

the bushes well supplied with tbem ai long as there is danger. Orchard grass is very early in growth and furnishes good hay. It starts out fresh immediately after each mowing. The best of the Jerseys are being brought to this country. It would. not be a surprise if the Jersey breeders resorted to us for cattle after we have further improved them. In rotating vegetables, the land should not be used for crops having a similarity to those preceding them. Cabbages, for instance, should follow peas, and celery follow cabbages. A spoonful of Paris green in a pail oi water is recommended for killing canker worms. It siiould not besprinkled over plants of which the leaves are eaten, such as lettuce, etc. Red raspber.les slunld be set two feet apart in rows, and, when kept well worked the first year, they will fill op and form a continuous hedge of plants good for ten years or more. Cabbages respond quickly to frequent hoeing. It is one jf the crops ujon which too much labor can not be bestowed. They should be cultivated often even when there are no weeds among them. To prevent sows from crushing their young, nail a board about one foot wide to the side of the pen. The board is to be put on like a shelf, so that the little pigs can run under it to get out of the way. Certain varieties of evergreens, such as arbor vide, are furnished with a thick mass of roots, lhese should be cut away somewhat, in order to admit of close contact of the soil round the base of the plants. A New York chemist declares that the refuse fat of a iork house in that city is sent to artificial butter factories. lie has also found in oleomargarine horse grease and other refuse suca as is used in making can dles. A good polish for walnut wood is to mix two parts of good alcoholic shellac varnish with one part of good boiled linseed oil, and apply with a pad formed of woolen cloth. Hub briskly till the polish apiears, using only a little at a time. G. II. Itugg. of Ottawa, 111., mulches strawberries with chips from a planing-mill lie puts it on the rows two inches deep in the early part of winter, and in the spring rakes off about an inch of it, leaving the re mainder to keep the ground moist and clean. A method of preparing corn for hogs is to soak it. The soaking causes the com to undergo more or less fermentation, and it acquires a peculiar sweetness from the con version of a ortion of the starch into glucose. Soaked corn is better assimilated than when fed in a dry state. 11 L. Emery, of Omaha, Neb., says that the secret of success In fruit growing in the I pier Missouri alley is to mulch heavily in summer to keep the ground moist and the weeds aown. Mulch heavily in winter to keep the frost in the ground late, thus preventing early starting of buds and dan ger from Ireezing. Captain J. B. Moore, of Concord, Mass., is authority for the statement that a gentltman in balem, "with plenty of manure and water," raises the asparagus, peas, corn and other vegetables netded in a family of seven, also the summer keep of two cows and hay and mangel würze Is enough to win ter them all on one acre of laud. Washing the leaves of the wax plant oc casionally is the very best treatment for it. When washing, brushing with a soft bruh about the axili of the leaves will tend to keep the plant free from mealy bugs, one of its worst enemies. Y hen the plant com mences its giowth supply it once a week with weak manure water. Soiling cattle is acknowledged, to be the most economical method for those who practice high farming. All disputes have subsided regarding the system except the cost of labor required, some farmers claim ing it to be the better plan when land is high priced and labor cheap, but unprotit able when land is cheap and labor high. Test your onion seeds by placing a little in moist sand, cotton or moss in a warmish room. If fresh, it will soon (in about three days) sprout. Onion seed should not not be more than one year old, and the difference in the crop from new and old seed is such that all onion culturists should test their own seeds before -sowing. Kural New Yorker. A correspondent oi me liiacksmith and Wheelwright says: "The best remedy that i nave ever iounu ior norses clicking or striking their hind shoes against the forward ones is to put on high toe-calks and low heels on the hind shoes. If my brother smiths are incredulous concerning this rem edy, I advise them to try it and be con vinced." The United States Consul at Bristol. En gland, is sanguine in the belief that Ameri can high grade flour will ere long take al most complete possession of the English market, lue lngiisii journals, however, are of the opinion that their own millers will speedily come to a realizing sense of the situation, and improve their work ac cordingly. A novelty in the utilization of wire fences cons.sts in insulating one of the continuous wires and connecting its ends with the op posite poles of a battery. Animals coming in contact with this wire will receive shock from the electric current which wil effectually debar them, it is saia, from at tempting to break down or override fences of this description. The selling of calves when but a few days old is a loss to the farmer. The milk 13 ropy and unfit to be sold, while the calves should not be sent to the butcher at that age to be used as food. The loss to the farmer or dairyman arises from the fact that calves make very rapid growth when young, and will pay for themselves handsomely if kept until they are really fit for veal. I Takln Tim. ltw Ifn.aln.b I -"-- - J :.vn. I iDetroit Free Press.l At the battle ot Greveton Stonewall Jack I son tried an experiment which nearlvfrieht I , Ti i . - . . o ened a Tederal division out of their boots. Bars of railroad iron were cut up into foot lengths and fired from some of his heaviest guns, and the noise these missiles made as they went stealing throuch the air was a sort of cross between the shriek of a woman and the bray of a mule. The Federals listened in wonder at the first few which banged through the tree tops, and presently one of the pieces fell just in front of a Pennsylvania regiment A Captain stepped forward to insject it, and after turning it over he rushed to his Colonel with the news: "Colonel, them infernal rebs are firing railroad iron at us!" "No!" "They are, for a fact'" "Captain, advanc; your Company to that nuge and deploy, and the minute v-ou lind Jackson is getting ready to fire freight cars at us send me word. I don't propose to have my regiment masned into the ground when it can just as weli be decently exterminated in the regular way!" The Floods on Mr. Yznaga's Plantation. Washington Post. Mr. A. l znaga, father of the New York belle who became Lady Mundeville, Is among the sufferers by the Mississippi floods. He writes as follows from liaveswood, La., to General J.'rloyd King, of Washington "On my places nine of the double buildings are floating now, and I fear that they will go to-morrow, including my dwelling house and barns. All of my live stock are drowned, except fifty-six mules from all the places. lhe balance were all drowned The panic among the negroes can not be described. I have all my people on the gin houses, and believe that is the best place, for if they congregate in the towns they will die of cholera and other diseases, as they did during the war."

THE LOVE OF AN HONEST MAN.

SIAID MILLIE. There' many a thins? that the maidens wish. At they Journey alone n me, A they take their part in the busy world. And hhare In Its cares and strife ; Perhaps they wih for a cosy bouse, Wlib furniture spick and span But to crown Uie whole tbey care the most 1 or the love of an honest man. Yes, pretty maiden, where'er you are. 1 n palace or n urn Die cot, Whether your life is fair anil bright. Or trial and toil your lot. Whether your name is Flora May, Or homely Mary Ann, You will be In luck if yourwln that love The love of an honest man. O, a maiden may prize her diamond set, Or dresses of latest style: Or inhabit a house of costly build. w Ith carpeta of velvet pile ; But the greatest blewing to a woman's lifeLet her gain it while now she can From her golden lockt to her silver hal s, la the love of an honest man. MISS BREWSTER'S UKEEX SILK. Harper's llAzar. Mrs. deacon Lewis and Mrs. Davis, the postmistress, were conferring together in mysterious whispers as they leaned over their mutual back-yard fence, bald .Mrs. Deacon Lewis: llCAAin' ij Vlftvin' rvT daa T aViniil.-l tsar est as you do, that it conldn t be true; but I est stepped into Miss Badger's to see what she'd charge to fix over my b'ack alpaca I wa'n't in any hurry for the alpaca, but I dnd of got an idea that there was somethin' in the wind, and I thought mebbe I could find out what it was there and there I saw it with my own two eyes, all over pleatin'i and rufllin's that it seemed a burnin' shame to cut ud good thick silk into, and fixed up in the back so't I could n t have the heart to set down on it. And Miss Badger, for all she s so close mouthed, she up and told me who it belonged to, and says 1, ' lou don t say sol' and savs she, 'Yes I do,' and then she pursed her lips up kind ot provokin , as if she could tell a great deal more if she was a mind to. But I've got wit enough to put two and two together, if folks is close mouthed, and says 1, right out for there ain't nothin' sly about me saya I, 'Then Cordilly Brewster is a-goin' to get married.' And Miss Badger she never denied it. "Well, it does beat all," said Mrs. Davis. "This has been a eing'iar year, what with the comet and the terrible happenin'a all Aund. and now Cordilly Brewster settin' up to have a ijreen silk dress, when she hasn't worn anything else but bombazine and al paca and her one old black silk for nigh upon twenty years. It 8 enough to upset any body's ideas altogether, and make 'em think the world's comin' to an end. Though I can't say that such extravagance looks much like the millennium. ..Urs. Deacon lewis shook her head m solemn censure. 'A good black silk would have been much more suitable and becomin to a woman most forty years old, to say nothin of the wear and the makin' over, and for a minis ter s wile ' "You don't say that she's goin' to marry the minister?' exclaimed Mrs. Davis. ""Why, I suppose so. cf course. Who can it be, if it isn't the minister?'' "I nevor saw any sign of their koepin' company, l awon Ureeley is too speritual to marry a woman that crimps her front hair with hot slate pencils; and she never nut more trian three eercs into those cus tards that she carried to the donation party. I should think more likely 'twas somebody that she picked up when she was down to Haverhill visitin. or John Parmenter that used to keep company with her when they was young, and has kind o been dorn' it, off and on, ever sence." "Oh, she wouldn't have John Parmenter, even if he had spunk-enough to ask her, which he hain t. lie is a good fellow, John is. but ho'll never set the world afire, and bo's been runnin' down hill terribly lately; has had to mortgage his farm, they do say." 'CordiJIy's money would come in just right, then; but, as you say, I don't sup pose she would have him. It's likely that's what's made John turn out so poorly, her not bavin him. uut i can't reany DOiieve J 9 Sammy Greeley, the minister's youngest hopetul, who was engaged in "shianing up a neighboring telegraph pole with the am bitious design of attaching his kite to the wire, descended somewhat reluctantly to the earth, and obeyed Mrs. Davis's beckon ing finger. Sammy was a freckle-faced uriin, with a turned-up nose, the expression of which wa3 contradicted by a pair of preternaturally solemn and innocent-Iorking blue eyes. In spite of his eyes, Sammy was generally regarded as a "limb." and he and his three brothers, Moses, Rosea, and Jo seph, caused tne old proverb concerning ministers' sons to be often repeated with solemn head-shakings by the towns-people. "bmmy is your father goin to be mar ried?" asked Mrs. Davis, with her hand af fectionately placed on Sammy'6 shoulder. "The old gent? He couldn't remember to. Nobody would have him either. He's as bald as a door-knob, and he asks a blessin' any where along between the meat and the pud' din'. And Joe and me would fix her, anyAAV ""Wouldn't you like to have him marry a nice, kind lady like Miss Cordilly Brewster? bhe would toach you how to behave ' "Know how good enough now, and I d wring her old parrot's neck! I don't believe it. anyhow, but I'm goin' to find out. And off went fcammy, regardless of his kite, and burst, breathless, into his father's Study. "You ain't goin' to marry Miss Brewster and her old green parrot that swears, and have her always clearin' up and dustin' and losin' your papers, are yerf demanded bamnay. lhe minister turned irom his sermon writing, and regarded Sammy with mild amazement. Gradually his expression changed to one of perplexity. He removed his spectacles. from his eyes to the top of his head, and then he tapped his forehead with the tips of his fingers, as if to summon .forth eome straying reco.lection 'That must be the very thing that I was trying to remember! "Wait a moment. I must have set it down somewhere." And Parson Greeley drew from one of the pigeon-holes of his desk some loose sheets of foolscap paper which had evide illy been usod as a diary. Several pages w? re devoted to memoranda; these the minister read aloud: " 'Mem. To confute the infidel peddler's argument by bt. Paul, and "'Mem. -To tell Deborah, mildlv but firmly, that so much saleratus is not con ducive to health. "Mem. To punish Joseph and Samuel for unseemly conduct at prayer-time. "Mem. To admonish Brother Bates (gently) that he ia becoming unsound in doctrine. " 'Mem. To endeavor so far as lies in me to restore peace to the singing seats. " 'jiem. i o endeavor lo exercise such a measure of wholesome restraint over Moses and Samuel that they may not become a cause oi scandal to the neighborhood. MMem. To devote a greater measure of attention to worldly matters, such as ap-

plying blacking to myboota and and brush

ing my raiment. 'Mem. To consider prayerfully whether the use of hair-dye u incompatible with the Jrincipies or the Christian religion or the uties of the Cnrietian ministery. raiem. itat the sinnine seats are in the hands of God, and that lie causes even the wrath of man to praise Ilim. "'Mem. lo consider prayerfully the subject of contracting a matrimonial al liance with Miss Cordelia Brewster.' ''That is it I I knew I was not mistaken: and I felt that I bad leadidirs from the Lord in thatdireation; and yet. in the midst of manifold cares and distractions, it wholly lipped my mind, weak and erring mortal that 1 am. But it mav tot be vet too late." And the minister seized his hat, giving it a hasty brush with his sleeve, and hurried to the door, turning, however, to lay his hand witn unwonted tenderness upon his eon s head, saying solemly, "Samuel, I thank you lor this suggestion, and I would that I could perceive in you as lively signs of the workings of grace as 1 do of wisdom and dissernment beyond your Jyears." Samuel, leit alone, looked after his father with a most lugubrious fce. xcr a feller to go and do it himself, that's the worst of it I I hadn't better let on to More aid the rest that I did it. No more fun if she comes here; she'll want a feller not to tear his clothes, and have his clothes and have his hair brushed every minute, and no pie or cake between meals. We'll make it lively for her. though Mose and Hose and Jo and L" All unconscious of what was in store t?r her. Miss Cordelia Brewster was encased in inspecting and admiring her new dress, which had just been sent home from the dressmaker's. Miss Cerdelia was a plump little woman, with & pinkish bloom still lingering on her cheeks, and no tiace of Time's frosting upon her chestnut locks. Why she had never married was a mystery r or ten years atter her father, the viuage doctor, had died, leaving her a modest com petence, the gossips had been on the look ut for sighs of matrimonial in tentions on her part. "When she had passed thirty, and was still Miss Cordelia, people gradually ceased to speculate about her. For some inscrutable reason, they decided that Miss Cordelia meant to be an old maid to the end of the chapter. It was observed that even John I armen ter, who bad some what indefinitely "hung round her for years, "kind o' dropped ofl".; he no longer sat in the singing Beats, where Miss Cordelia still serenely kept her place, despite the ri valry of younger choristers; so they were not so frequently thrown together, and he was seldom seen to walk home with her from the weekly pTayer-meeting; his old sorrel mare was very rarely seen fastened to the hitchiDg-post bffore Miss Cordelias door cf a Sunday night: and only once or twice had he been seen Bbyly to offer her nosegay ot southernwood and cinnamon ks, whfch grew to great perfection in his ewden, and of which, in her girlhood. Miss Cordelia had been vcrv fond. Many other admirers had Miss Cordelia, but she had turned a cold shoulder upon all. and seemed perfectly contented to live on in her comfortable old house, with trim box bordered flower beds in the front yard, and lilac bushes crowding in at the windows with her handmaiden Tryphosa, who was not as her name suggested, a blooming and romantic young maiden, but an ancient and angular spinster, who believed in signs and omens, and always "felt '.coming events "in her bones.' Tryphosa was now gazinsr at the greensilk with a melancholy expression of countenance. 'Green means forsaken; there ain't no deryin' it. And oaliny W uson. that was merried in green, wa3 laid out corpse in it betöre the end ot the year; and Jlertildy Lyman, that was merrid in a white muslin sprigged with green, and green bunnit strings, she had a drunk en husband that fell off the haymow, and dislocated his spinal column, and everybody knew her twins wa n t bright; and ' "But I am cot going to be married in it you know, Trvphosa," said Miss Cordelia turning a merry face up to Miss Trvpbx sa's doleful one. " 4 Perhaps it is only unlucky as a wedding dress. As for being forsaken there doesn't seem to bo anybody left to for sake mo but vcu, and I am not afraid that all the green dre$ss in the world could make you j0 tnat '' "There ain't no luck about green robow," !5d ?Wh "If W la vie ck, now, or a handsome brown : I suppose I really ought to have had black," said Miss Cordelia meditatively; 'but some way the spring coming on, withev6rything so tresh and bright, made me feel as 1 nsed to long ago, and I've made believe to myself I wouldn't own it to anybody but you, lryphosa but 1 ve madebeuev I was a girl again. And that is why I had this green silk." "And that's why you've been putting posies in your hair. Well, it beats all what a difference there is in folks. Now spring puts me in mind of house-cluanin' and soapbilin and hitters .Land sakes! it there ain t Parson Greeley a-comin' up the walk, and nothin' but the old cropple-crown for din ner, and all SKin and bones at that, and ' he a-comin' in the yard this blessed minute!" Miss Cordelia whisked the green silk out of sight, and smoothed her crimps demure ly down, as ehe hastened to greet her visitor. It happened that Miss 1 oily Watkins, who went about the villiage peddling a concoc tion known as Watkins'f Unapproachable Liniment, was so fortunate as to be passing just as the minister opened Miss Cordelia's front-yerd gate. "There I knew well enough that there wa n't never so much smoke without some fire. MU Badger needn't think the could make me believe that green silk gown with a train didn't mean something. So it's the minister. Well, men-folks is terrible short sighted creturs. There is tbem in Westfleld thit wouli make him a good sensible wife." Mis3 Polly was to unhappv as to go on for nearly a quarter of a mile before she met anybody to whom she could tell her news, and then it v as only Dr. Ramsay, jogging along Denina nis old white norse, and between him and Miss Polly "there wa'n't,r as she expressed it, "no great likin', no more'n there was apt to be between t 'o of a trade." But still news was news, and Miss Polly could not resist the temptation cf an opportunity to share it. W?ll. things do turn out mieprl" said rVia doctor to himself, meditatively flickirc a flv ... . . off his old white horse as he jogged alon I wouldn't have thought she would have had anybody, let alone the old Parson. If I had thought AVhy, I'm ten jears jounger'n he is, and a sight better calculated to piease the fair sex. And that's a snug bit of property of Miss Cordüly's, 'and she's a .wholosome-looking. eood-tem-pered woman, to say not mag of being handsome, which don't signify. I believe! can cut cut the parson if I try. I always said mat i wouia die a Dacneior, but u s wise man that changes his mind." And the doctor actually whipped his horse out of his accustomed jog into a lively trot, and everybody ran to the window,, for the doctor in a hurry was a Bight that the oldest inhabitant had never seen. in tne mean time juibs irony bad met Abner Phillips, one of the "back folks; who lived three miles frcm the village. . . . . . .... . ' uut Abner could not have been more inter ested in Miss Polly's news if he had lived next door to the possessor of the green s'lk.

His homeward way led him past John

Parmenter's house, and John was hoeing in his ear den. "Wa'al, now. Parson Oroeley ia eoin'to do a prettv eood thinsr for himself ain't he?" drawled Abner, after the usual com ments and inquiries concerning crops had been exchanged. "lie knows which side his bread is buttered on. Parsons einerallv docs." "What is he going to do?-' induired John armeiiter. 'You don't mesn to say vou hain't heard? Wa'al, I declare, you don't know wtat's goin' on so well as back folks doos! lie's gom to marrv Misi Cordilly Brewster. He's turrible tejus. the old Parson is, and she'll have to step around lively to fetch up them boys. But women-folks always doos set by a minister." After Abner had gono, John Parmenter dropped his hoe, and stood wiping his fore head with bis handkerchief with a bewildered ook. "I don't know why I ehculdn't have expectod she'd marry, but somehow I didn't. never thought of such a thing. I don't know why I should feel eo about it. If I badn t the courage to ask hor when 1 was young and prosperous, surely l could n t now. 1 always began to bo a coward the minute I came in sight of her. I never felt bo before any other woman: but then 1 never cared anything about any other. Any way, 1 can't rest until 1 find out whether it s true or not. Cordelia can t meet to telline an old friend. Madam Humor rales this village, and she's very apt to bo mistaken." roJohn set out to call oh Miss Cordelia As he passed the bed of cinnamon pinks, he found that, although it was early in the season, three had blossomed that vtry morning. and ho made them into a little nosegay with some sprays of the fragrant southernwood. And be was in such haste that he forge t to conceal them from the public graze bv a bit of paper, as feeling that it was eomewhat ridiculous for a stout old bachelor of forty five to be carrying about little bouquets he had done on other occasiora. The doctor was driving away irorn Miss Cordelia's door as John approached it, the horse going at his old-fsshioned jog, a3 if jnere were nothing in tne world teat was worth hurrying for. "I hope she isn't ill thought John, an j then a sudden suspicion siezed him. Here might be another rival, and a more formid able than Parson Grecly. "Were rivals springing up around him like mushrooms, wten Le had never thought of the possibil ity of the existence of onef MUs Cordelia's cheeks wero verv much flushed and they grew redder still at sight ot John's nosejray. Joh, straigo to say, cid not Mush or stammer as he presented it. Rivals Eeemed to be wonderful stimulus to his courage. ' Cordelia, I heard tfcat vou were goin: to marry Parson Grccl7. It isn't true, is it?" There was something in tho tor.3 of hi3 voice that made Miss Cordelia start. Was John going to speak, alter being dumb so long? "No, it isn't true," said Miss Cordelia, and cast down her eye. "Dior nor anybody el.?oY' John was stammering now. Was tu courage gom - tj fail? "No. nor anybody el?o.' said Miss Cjr delia. 'Thatii " Trypfcoa, comisg into the kitchen from the hick yard at that mament. saw a sight which caused her to drcp the cropple crowned rooster, but just deceased, into her pan of dough. "Elviry Kimball needn't have knocked me up at five o'cltck this mornin' to inquire if that creen silk drcfa hsd a train. 1 snould tbink it did havo a trs.i.1?" said Tryphos grimly. . Mineral Resource of the S.-n J aau Region Harper for April. In introducing some account of the chir actenstics of this region as a District pro ducing the precious metal., it is to be said in the first place, that a3 yet it is chieily region of "great expectations." Its pros pects are well founded, but up to the presen time its inaccessibility and other cisauvan tages have been obstacles to the development that under moie favorable circumstance mieht have occurred. The scrutiny to which it has been subjected by sharp and knowing eyes, and such digging as has been done by no means a small amount in the aggregate exhibit the fact tha one region is remarkable for ita general richness. Profitable ores are to be h nearlv everywhere within its limits; hardly a volcanic hill can be mentioned where veins carrying ore do not occur. Every mile of its fifty miles souan may be said to hold one or more eood mines. It is doubtful if anywhere else in the world there is so lare a region over which the precious metals are so generally diffused. Generally speaking, these are all fissure vein?, and the gangue, or matrix, constitu tine the veins in which the desired metals are mixed, if quartz, instead of any of th lime soars or ferruginous materials with wnich silver and gold are often associated The ore itself that is, of silver, lor gold is scarce is principally galen3, frequently en iched by gray copper (teiranedntei. ims high percentage of lead makes smelting the most rational proceJsof treatment. It' several localities, however, of which ParroU City and Mount PnetTels are chief examples, rich ores of silver occur nearly or quite devoid of lead. Thcfe come mainly into the groun of antimonial ores, with chlorides and sulphides also. Popularly these ores, barring the chloride, are termed "brittle silver." The ar unfit; for smelting, on accjunt of the ab-rnoe of lead, but must eventually be treated by a milling process in which the pulp is subjected to the action of mercury in amalgamating pans, where the silver is separated from the quartz and collected by the quicksilver. Antimonial ores, prior to amalgamation, will require chlorination (roasting with salt), as is done in the Ontario Mine, Utah, while the chlorides and Bulphides of silver can be treated directly without roasting, as, for example, at the mines of the Comstock Lode, Nevada. A skeleton In a Tree. IXorth Georgia Citizen. Two men in the northern part of Gilmer Couuty chased a fox to his covert, which proved to be an immense hollow trunk, charred and blackened by forest fires. It was comparatively but a huge stump, being not more than twenty feet high. The wily robber of the hennery had entered an aperture near the base of the tree, and all efforts at smoking him out had prpved futile. As a last resort one of them proposed barring the fox's mode of entrance and then felling the tree. This plan was adopted, and a few vigorous strokes of their axes sent the old shell crashing to the earth, and Reynard, in trying to make his escape, was eummarily dispätched with an ax. As they were preparing to take their departure, one of the men discerned something white glistening in the old, hollow stump, and upon examination was horrified to behold the bleached bones of a dismembered human skeleton. On closer inspection a nowder horn and bul let pouch were brought to light, together with a few moldenng articles of raiment. but nothing else was found that would tes tify as to who the person had been. President Arthur' Admiration. Philadelphia Special to St. Louis Globe-Democrat.) The Philadelphia lady, Mrs. Craig Wadsworth, formerly Miss Lena Teters, who is said by many Washington gossips to stand first in the regard of President Arthur, is a brunette of large, handsome hgure, with dark-brown hair, a woman of queenly presence, who would do honor to any executive mansion. She is a granddaughter of Judge

Peters, whose homestead is at the old Bel

mont mansion (now Broskaurers.) Here it was that General Washington paoed many of his happiest moments in the (Quaker City. Mrs. Wadsworth is a daughter of rranciS Peters, and has passed most of her time abroad in Paris and London, where she was the reining belle of society, as she always was in this city. The Peters familv resid ed in fiirard street some years ago. Their re ceptions were of the most magnificent description, and there was a perfect scramble among ambitioi'.s swains tobe invited, so as to have the opportunity of escorting Miss ena to supper. At last she was captured by Craig Wads worth, son of General Wadsworrtb, of ew lork, a descendant from revolutionary stock like herself. Her hus band lived but a few years, and left as her nheritance two bright bovs, James and; Craig. For several winters Mrs. Wadsworth has resided in Washington. Troublesome Children, That are always wetting their beds, ought not to be scolded and punished for what they can not help. They need a medicine having a tjnic effect on the kidnevs and he urinary orcans. Such a medicine in Kidney-Wort, it has specific action. Donot fail to get it for them. Exchange. ins DIAMOND DYES. The BiarDlcvt.Cliea.neat. Strongest uid most bnliums 0 O1BU0I VUCAV iwkarewlll color mora roods than any IS er 8 5 ct. dye ever sold. Sipoimlmr color. AST OTie can crVr nv fabric cr limey article. Bend fbr color want'da'Sd beeonVnced. Fa-cvcr-rd. aaniT!'-of 1e. irMn'W. t'Vf, eM f-r 1 0 en. HAS BEEN PROVED thousands and tens of thoriMr.ds all over the country to be the BUHEST CCUB ever discovered for all KIDNEY DISEASES. Socsalame back ordiBC&TM urine lad 1-1 U rate tna you are aviran y viUiSI XJO ZiOTI X HESITATE; use Kidney-Wot atoace, (every) .llruTC-st wiu recomi&eal O and it . kpeedily overcome tae 1 era and Incontinence or retention of vrlne, brlclJ Idust or rory deposits, and dull drap?in;paiiiJ pu pecaiiy yield to iu ccrattve power. nilCE $1. SOLD BT D3TTGOTSTS 8TO?IACn For a quarter of a century or more Hostetter'e Ftomw h Iii iters has been the reijenin? specific fir indicestion, dyspepsia, fever aud acne, alops nf physical stambia, liver com plain t. atjl ether disorders, and has been most emphatically indorsed by medical men as a health and strength restorative. It counteracts a tender.c to premature decay, and sustains aud comforts the agtd and intirm. rV.r sale bv all drneglsts and dealers generally. 1331. 1882. THE INDIANA SESTII FTi.i nT-rovi (i until u lini the . l-l-i KLbT iier pa, lish-t 1 ( t'w -.. Tlifc I.KKLY SLXT.'NT.Ii i in all rrgards a sup ri-'n.-iphi pMga Svcoiuuni Ku?r. The ineri'.sof the Sor.tnit las a peroral ne pai-err.re Siwe!i known, that potcniKlatioin it is jt-vc-.C't Eup-- rtluii'k-v. V, o n iil sdd. fcee that tne nuiiifi-cwcnt h.:s i.rrin:nl f-dful detorniircd thati.o p.-ipi.r vhr.ll fünuM. im. gre i-rnc::-nt valu to i'.s y.i'.ir-.,:, ! r ".Sic ra.no. In lis I'ftW!". its t-iiii.. .rial. it iitcrsry ami mi-rr;.r.iv-in a wr1. i.i lus !Hr;;l nv.-'.ii g it thall t;.H liMirp:i.-M.-'l ' 3 T'! er circiihlU J in the .Male. It will be p-'nu-i:! ir Hdr.i t. d to the fanfc11" cir"1.'. No rcii.li' K. th:-' n s mm in the t-talo--; 'i f. to v. i;h i 1 1! v '.Wk'.v tlUi.eLai tfc.;iv.all- tuiv h:h iti-.f-.riiisi- !. "iiii; Honl ln.'l v. ill coiiti:me to Te tl -aiiie iiiniM 1 v-nt'? of tu:-? Ar.orlca:i !tm TiH'y i 1 1 i'! f 'l i i.j tl.nt it r.üfi hveu ii the js incKl,it pr.jcs ! hit tie. iiusrcvi,;or..J'y tfci jvor ii'-'üu.-t t!i3 p"fv.f ec'i'rf.Hz.itii.' an. I ce r'lti'.i Vast 1T .i .-s ;ih -.1 control U iriiv.l. ic-pn ri-r.v. a..i in tm? n.virc, sn u : '.-e tlnni lMPr Ciat . uo.i.1 tLo illicit Tl'.Tn' "' f S"- (''l i. "IIo:I f&"t to tnw I,. , vr : i .V'.t . I. i!'iiM nn i . c riJiir.ly m iU-l lcifei-. i vw.l uluuatvlj bo With tho 'lho lpn""1i'-"n T".rt v r-t pot rvivo its crin "s 'i ..L.i:w-; I l.J-j'-i:c- c-t thtir Mi-'l i'.v.-.rt It o iH.t l. J. t ifu-u '-i 11 poliii r.iv.i vis arc hor; lll a t i 's -oW-a1 ciir.w. i.iM'i.iT i f'"-M iniHi rr.iid lwi:i:il kvt. t iv.vi:w.'.-l .:. ;::'(.i, l-"! i lhe d.s v in n Cri hievc-s ore... :ä. d tru- V hi'l.y Iti. sf i rti-eaa .uptlon f :..!. to Ud!( .'.i's tti.j'Cl Jm be nark 1 tv fvny r.t. e- i y Uy. V: Tai'.da vhr" J-'hn :: n ! ?-t Vr,r. lotlctsi -.rj'irios tOFCiitll' fi::ius h:i ci.'ilowr.l eacn '.i.ei in rapid siimsiw.. 1 1 o lltnl tide of .hlcvpry has ft.-l grn- ;;r. T iore hnvc been ar Ko'llo t'riiv. F, Tri i-ui v tliu Navy le-srtT.t-.it tH:cs War iX-jurt:" t thk'Yts, an(l ' i.TJiil i-erviro thU vts, and Indiana has hr " .rsey, the l.otorlov.s Star Kon:e thief, ai d fc r-uy of the K - uMim-.i N'ali . uihI tVTim tw i l' tliti .Vr.tc, C7;'';.r.li jr cine to Curry the Ml ?-;ni:islthe wi lt.f thul ;. c. Tlie Kntiucll t ivito tho i.e. ;! of luiiii.:! to coute tt plate tnt F!.-"i:biie:!,i ruih. ds to ol.-niii m.d niniuti i.-.ver. Jt wilt kten its res-Uis ir.iunned wl .card to I: , ub'.cjiu fv;hls f r .il. the mntr J.nuiKiflti":inof its l!K(i..i. th. ir criminntif rhA recriminations, thnr inuti'ul hutos v-hj culminated in the nsfs-in.i:ion of lte J'rof ii thereby cr.ppinr; the ii:nui of hoirorsand p'otir-s lhe ork f inf-:r:y. With tins record ot crime, the Republican t rks for a new lcnce of povror, and .t will t3 hlih ambition of the sent iv.el M Icfeat it purl .t:id cmiuiCiha'ce the country frou iu debauch 1 lie Heut Incl, In addition to It snperloii'.y. is, rioiciVcr, nu luditum peptr, devoted to and specially represents Indiana's interests, t litical und oihcr iso. a no foreign txiper yelt or can do. and oucht, then-lore, to hare p-eiey etice over the paper of other it&te, and we tiomoers's trthetrtrits in raina. ana wirn i OWN STATE r.UT.ltwhcn you Come to take scrijtio'.:s r.:.d nuke np lubs. T E TL 2.1 S : WEEKLY. inglo Copy, vriihout Premium Clubs or 11 for Clubs of 23 - - Clubs of 30 DAILY. 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