Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1883 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEUNEblA i". MABCIII 11883.

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Preparing Treat for Planting-. Farming Statistics The Protection Fallacy Lim Beans A God Word for Oataaeal Faeta Worth Kiowlag Farm Jfotea, Ete A Yolce From the Farm. BT XDHCSD LT05S. "Too i sy that my life 1 a round of toll?" The stalwart farmer said. That I scarce can wrest from the eft-tilled toll My pittance o( dally dread? Well, what you tell mo In part U true, I am seldom an Idle man, Bat I value the blewiing of rest, as you, Who have muck of It, never can. "And, larelj, I hare never worked la vain. From tue spring to the golden fill; The harvest hau ever brought waving f rain. .Enough and to spare for all. And wiitn la tae erecting, freed from care, I see si my farmhouse door My wife and little ones waiting ther. Oh. what has the millionaire morel My children way never have hoarded wealth; Tbetr Uvea mr at times be rouga ; Bat If In their aomes tney bare 1 jve and health They will find these rlcaes enough. The only land they will ever own Is the land that the strong right arm And the patient, fearless heart aiene Can till to ft fertile farm. I hare nothing beyond my simple wants And a 11 '.tie fur cloudy dvs; But no grim specter my homeeteid haunts, Such as silver aid gald might raise. Around me are eyes mat wiw sparkling mirth . Or with placid contentment shine And no wealth-clogged lord upon all the earta Has a lot mere bltsed tnaa mine. "Ob. ye. I am laboring all day lone. With the mind and tne muscles, too: But 1 thank the Lord, who has made me strong And given me work to do. Tor what. Indeed, is the idle d-one But a Tampire ou the land, Reaping fruit that by others was sows And not by bis own right hand!" Clipper. " Preparing Tree a for Planting. Dr. George Tharber gives valuable advice en tree planting in the American Agriculturist for March: "Nurserymen, while they sometimes deprive a tree of a large share of its roots by hurried and careless digging usually send the purchaser the full quantity of branches. The inexperienced tree planter judges of the quality of a nursery tree by the size of the top. When he is told that at least one half of the top should be cut awav before the tree ia planted he thinks he know3 better, and sets out the trees just as they came from the nursery. The many poor, straggling orchards all over the country tear witness to the general neglect of the proper preparation of the trees before planting. A notice has a great reluctance to use a knife on the trees. It seems a great waste to cut off any part of the trees that he iiaa bought, though he gives hardly a thought to the roots he has paid for. and which are left in the soil of the nuraery. It is within bounds to cay that even when a tree is carefully dug, at least onehalf of its small fibrous roots tne really useful and feeding roots are broken or cut fT in the operation. This would be of little consequence were the tepof the tree reduced in the same proportion. Even those who have given but little study to the growth of plan tu will admit, in a general way, that the root takes up water from the loil, and. that the leaves evaporate the water thus taken up. It should need no argument to show that if half of the absorbing roots are gone, and all Of the evaporating surface (the leaves which will soon be produced from the buds) remains, this will bo in excess, and make a demand upon the roots which they can not aupply. Most persons will admit that trouble will soon come if they spend snore than their income, yet they persist in placing their trees in tne position of a spendthirft There is no one thing so essential to the future success of an orchard as the proper cutting back of the tops before planting. Before the trees are taken to the (round some careful person, who will use tome thought as well as a sharp knife. should go over them, one by one. Taking ach tree in the left hand, let him turn the roots upward. If any of the larger roots show a rough end, from being broken with a dull spade, let them be cut smooth, making a slanting cut on tne lower side. If any roots are much longer than the others, let them be shortened. The roots being cared for, turn up the tree and inspect the top. If any of the branches are badly shaped or crowded cut them out alto gether, and cut back each branch not less man a tmrd ot its length; and, as a rule, it will be better in the end to cut away onehalf." Facts About Seeding. The quantity of eeed for a row 150 feet long is as follows: Bush beans, 3 pints; Lima, IK pints; pole. J pint; cibbae, 'A ounce; cauliflower, i ounce; Brussels sprouts, i ounce; broccoli, 11 ounce; celery, IK ounces; lettuce, VA ounces; parsely, 1 ounce; raddish, 3 ounces; salsify, 2 ounces; spinach, 3 ounces; carrots, VA ounces; onion?, 1 ounce; egg-plant ounce; corn, 14 pint; cress, 2 ounces; cucumber, 2 ounces; watermelon, 1 ounce; musk r.nd citron, i ounce; pumpkin, 1 ounce i quash, VA ounces; peas, 3 pints; turnip, 4 ounces; tomato, i ounce; pepper, i ounce. The quantity will vary in proportion to length of rows. Have your earden as long as you an north and south, making the rows parallel the whole length. The width does not matter If it is sufficient for the number of rows required, though, if it be wider, the surplus width can bs profitably used for asparagus, herbs or potatoes. The TVorld's Harvest Dates. January Ilarvest is ended in most dis tricts of Australia, and shipments have been made of the new crop. Chili, New Zealand, Argentine Republic. February Upper Eypt, India. March Egypt, India. April Coasts of Egypt, Syria, Cyprus, India. Persia, Asia Minor, Mexico, tuoa. May Persia, Asia Minor, Algeria, Syria, I ex as, Florida, Morocco, mid China, Japan, central Asia. June Californts.Oregon, Southern United States, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Hungary. luraey, Koumelia, Danube, south Russia, South of Fiance, Danubiau Principalities, Greece, Sicily. Louisiana. Mississippi. Ala bam a, Georgia, Carolina. (North and South), Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Kansas, Arkansas, L tab. Colorado. Missouri. July Southern, Eastern and Midland English Counties, Oregon, Nebraska, Minne sota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, New England, New York, Virginia, Upper Canada, t rance, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, Kus sia. Poland. August United Kingdom, France, Ger many, Belgium. Holland, Manitoba, Col um bia (British ). Lower Canada, Hudson's Bay Territory, Denmark. Poland. SeDtember Scotland. En eland Hons and roots. America Maize. Athabasca Wheat, barley, etc. Sweden, North ltussia, France Beetroot, buckwheat. October Scotland, America Maize crop, France. Germany v mtage. November Australia (north), Peru, South Africa, December Australia (south), Chili, Ar gentine Republic. Farming Statistics. Census. The following tible shows the number of farms in the United States ia 1830, and the somber in 1870: 183. Total nti nit er cf firms 4,oe,907 Utjtfer 1C0 acre. 2,208,371 Ooe hundred to 500 arret. ...1.C95.9A3 Five huDd'ed to l.OuO trrrt 75,972 A thousand acres and cver. M.57S The increate In the number 1870. 2,to9 9SS 2,07.S,!T8 3.5,054 15.S73 2,72 of farms since 1870 has been entirely among those of

fifty acres and over. Of smaller farms there were more in the earlier year. There were,

for instance, in isso three times as many farms of from 100 to 500 acres as there were in J 370, and the increase in tae number of farms of still greater area was in much higher proportion. The State which has the largest number of farms of 1,000 acres and over is Georgia, 90 2. Then follow in order Alabama, C96; Virginia, 641; South Carolina, 432; Mississipi, 481; Louisiana, 371; North Carolina, 311; California, 2G2; Illinois, 194. In is ew York the number of farms of so great extent is only twenty-one. The total land in farms in the united States was 536,081, 835 acres in 1830, against 407,735,041 acres in 1870. Of this land 284,771,042 acres were improved in 1SS0, and 183,021,099 acres in 1870. The value of the farms was $10,197.090 776 in 1330. against $9 2(13.803 861 in 1870. The value of farming implements and machinery was $400 520.055 in 1880, and $320,878,423 in 1870. In all comparisons of values between 1870 and 1840 it should be borne in mind that in the former ytr gold was at an average premium of 25 3 per cent. The enormous in crease in the chief productions is shown by the lollowing comparative n eures: 1880 1870. 29 761,805 9.841.721 760.941.549 asiH'7.157 16.9H.795 287.715 628 8 011.96 100.1W.3S7 143.337 473 21.73,824 Barley 43.W7.455 n.K7,itt7 1.751.591.67 407.Vs,VJ9 19.831,695 459S3 237 5, 755 SäO 1&5.6S1.751 169.4'VJ K9 83,878,6 85.2U5.7I2 472.061. U7 777.25 1.2X7 27.272.4Si Buckwheat.. Indian coro Oi'J Rye Wheat Cotton Wool Potatoes. Irish Potatoes, sweet. Hay, tons '47.316,0 Tobioco, pounds..., 2i,7i.Sil M1.0UW3 63.4'A153 13S0 was Butter, pouads Cheese, pounds The value of the live slock in 1.500.4Ä4.C00. against $1.525.276.457 in 1170. Here there is an apparent falling on; but the premium on gold hi 1870 must be remembered, and, as will be seen from the follow ing table, there was a great increase in the number of live stock in 1880, aa compared with 1870: 180. 1S70. Horses I0,357,4.ss Males and awes- 1,812,A'J8 7,145,370 1.125,415 Worein oxen 993X11 l.ai 9.271 Silica COWS 12.4tS.l JO 8.935.3S2 Other cattle... ZM-iS.toO 35,192.074 47,681.700 1 $.56,005 snetp... Swine... 28,477.951 25.134.5CJ The "Protection Fallacy and the Fanners. Grand Rapids, Dak., Letter. 1 should like to know in what manner Western farmere are benefited by the high tariff policy. Does it increase the price of the grain we raise? .No, sir; tbe Govern ment of this country does not adopt a policy that enables us to get trom 25 to 50 per cent, more than our gram can be pro duced for. The only protection that we get is a hich tariff on the lumber we buy and the woolen goods that we can not do without, and all the material used in tbe manufac ture of the machinery that we use is highly protected: but tbe evil does not stop here. Manufacturers seit the exclusive right to sell their machinery in perhaps a dczenor more Counties to one agent, and here tbe farmers are imposed ou agiin. Wheat an oats are chit ny raised here, and is-It any wonder that the best of our farmers fail to obtain more than a mere pittance when they have to pay $325 for a harvester and sell their wheat for seventy-five cents a bushel, with all other machinery in proportion? Why is it that when the protectionists plead the cause of the laboring classes they do not re member the estern farmer as well? The fathers of this country would not abide un just taxation, bat asserted their rights, and won them; aad why should we sit still ana have our rights and our liberty taken away little by little till we are but little better than the slaves of ancient itomer l am glad to see two stepi taken in the interest of the public, one by the Cbicazo lribane and the other by the Anti-Monopolists. A COJiSTAKT KKADEB. . Limit Means as a Farm Crop. Tbe Lima, the most popular among ama teurs and market gardeners, is slow in find ing its way into the gardens of farmers. Tbe dry beans cell for several dollars a bushel, and the market has never been adequately sup, hed. Lima beans are easily raised, and yield as bountiful as most other pole beans: and they continue to blossom and bear until killed by the frest We know of no reason why they can not be made a specialty, like hops or tobacco, and grown on a large scale. They would require better sou and treat ment than the common held bean, but as the price is three times greater, these could well be afforded. A neb gravelly or sanay loam suits them best, and the phoephatic manures are well adapted to them. On this kind oi soil we have not found them to run too much to vines, even with heavy dressings of comport prepared from muck and stable manure. The vine it a strong grswer, and requires abundant nourishment. The pods are formed euite thickly front the top to the bottom of tne poles. iney want the fall benefit cf the sun, and the rows running north and south, should be four fet apart and the hills f jur feet apart in the row. In planting we prefer to put the eye down ward, and not more than one inch deep The first of June is early enough for this latitude. This bean needs frequent culti vation, until the vines thade the ground, This crop is well suited for farmers remote from cities and markets. The market gardener will not grow Lima beans to sell dry, because they are worth more in the ereen state, and he can Bell all he can raise, But the farmer, however remote irom iot city, can market his whole crop in the winter, and be well paid tor his labor. A Good Word for Oatmeal. American Agriculturist. 1 The oat cron. which is so prominent in our farming, is rarely utilized for farmers' tables. In a aomewnat long acquaintance in the rural districts, we do not remember to have ever met with oatmeal cooked in any form. This diet is a favorite at the breakfast table in our large cities. In the form of mush, and, eaten with sugar and milk, is an appetising and wholesome article of diet. But upon the farm, the oat crop is very largely a money crop, sold in the nearest manei or at me ranway station. If used upon the farm it goes to the horse without grinding, or, if ground, as provender for the pies. Almost everywhere we meet wun corn products upon tbe table, Indian bread. the convenient johnny-cake, hasty pnading, samp, hominy, coru bread, and that finest of U summer disnes. Buccoiasn tne sweet - . . 1 At. . A corn mingled with the savory juices of the bean. The wheat plant is well represented in bread and oth ir forms of cooking, though it has ceased to be a product of many Northern farms. In all the region where rye has taken the place of wheat, rye bread . 1 . . J- A. f , 1 I W . - n a staple article ot uieu ctuteu ueaus are about as popular as ever, in the rural districts, and are likely to hold their own with the coming generations. But oatmeal is ignored as a food fit for men. Among the people who use it, and In the analysis of the chemist, it stands confessed as one of tbe most nutritious and economical foods that can be used. The Scotch people are living examples of what oatmeal will ao to make an athletic race witn plenty ot brain, bone and muscle. The Scotchman a average daily ration is two and one-balf pounds of oit meal and a pint of milk. On this he thrives and performs the labor of the farm. Analy tis shows that oatmeal is very rich in nitro eenous matter, and comes much nearer wheat flour in nutritive value tban is gen erally supposed. The following table shows their comparative value: Oatmeal, Wheat flour. Nitrogenous matter .... 2.16 Carbo-bj'lratei.-.."-.... .. 63.C6 10 8 70.5 30 Fstty matter . auv Saline matter 1.00 Mineral matter . 1.7 Water .. - 15-0 15.0 There can be no doubt that oatmeal cooked in its various forms mig'it be added to the list of our dishes in toe farming districts with great advantage. It Is tee 01 the Desi

muscle in the list of human Facts Worth. Knowing:. I Hall's Journal of Eeslih. That aalt fish are quickest and best freshened by soaking m sour milk. That cold rain water and soap will remove machine grease from washable fabrics. That fish may be scalded much easier by first dipping them into boiling water for a minute. That fresh meat, beginning to sour, will sweeten if placed oat of doors in the cool air over night. That milk which has changed may be sweetened or rendered fit for use again by stirring in a lirtle soda. That boiling starch U much improved by the additlen of sperm, or salt, or both, or a little gam arable, dissolved. , That a tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with your while clothes will greatly aid the whitening process. That kerosene will soften boots and shoes that have been hardened by water, and will render them pliable as new. That clear boiling water win remove tea stains; pour the water through the stain. nd thus prevent its spreading over the fabric That salt will curdle new milk; hence, in preparing milk porridge, gravies, etc.. the salt should not be added until the dish is prepared. That kerosene will make your tea-kettle as bright aa new. Saturate a woolen rag and rub with it It will also remove stains from the clean varnished furniture. That blue ointment and kerosene, mixed in equal proportions and applied to bedsteads, m an unfailing bug remedy, and that a coat of whitewash is ditto for a log house. That beeswax and salt will make your rusty flatirons as clean and as smooth as glass. Tie a lump of wax in a rag and keep it for that purpose. When the irons are hot rub them first with the wax rag, then ecour them with a paper or cloth sprinkled with salt. Farm Motes. Both Illinois and Iowa are now importing corn for farmers' use to make up the de ficiency on their own crop. Much of the Il linois corn was so immature when winter set in that the corn froze on the ear, destroying tbe geraa. It' will therefore be worthless for seed. There is likely to be an increased planting of potatoes in the South for the early North era market this year. The business has been very remunerative for two years past. Late potatoes do not succeed well in the South, owing to hot weather at the time for forming the tubers. As an illustration of the profits of corn culture ilk Loa Angeles County, California, the Anaheim Gazette cites the case of a farmer who last year sold 1,150 centals of corn from thirty acres. He Roid it for $1 63 per cental a total of $1,874.50 ind his cash outlay was barely $150. Layering consists 6imply in bending down a branch and keeping it in contact with or buried to a small depth in the soil, until roots are formed. The connection with the parent plant may then be severed. Many plants can be far more easily propagated thus than by cuttings. Tbe best time for shipping bees any con siderable distance is in April or quite early in May, before the combs are too heavy with brood, though with proper care in preparing them and ordinary usage in handling, they may be shipped at any time with comparative safety, except in quite cold weather. The milk of a cow in ber third or fourth calf is generally richer in quality than a younger one, and will continue so for sev eral years. In dry seasons the quality is generally richer, although cool weather favors the production of cheese. Hot weather Increases tbe yield of butter. Farm, Herd and Home. The poorer the condition of the cow, good feeding being supplied, the richer in gen eral is the milk. If a cow be milked only once a day tbe milk will yield more butter than an equal quantity of that obtained by two milkings, and even less by three. Morning milk is of better quality than that of the evening. Farm, Herd and Home. It should be remembered that no matter how good and rich a milker a cow may be it is nnreasonable to expect the qsantity and richness of the product to be kept up unless both the quantity and adaptability of the food are matters of attention. Do not ex pect impossibilities, even if you are the owner of prize milking animals. Tbe Navajo Indians in Arizona have 900, 500 sheep and 2j0,000 goats, the result of an investment ot fcW.000 tor them by tbe Government two or three years ego. This here tofore expensive tribe reeuirea an appropri ation of only Jo.ooo a year and are now con 6iuereu Beii-sustainicg. iney occupy an immense tract of land, however, which is held tor settlers. A writer in the Fruit Recorder makes the statement that one of the neighbors planted some cabbsga plants among his corn where the corn nmsed, and tbe butterndes did not find them. He has, therefore, come to tb conclusion that if the cabbage-patch was in the middle of the corn-field the butti flies would not find - them, as they lly low and like plain sailing. There are fewer cattle now in Colorado than there were three or four years ago. The prohts of herding were great, and there was a rapid increase until arougnt and subse quent severe winter caused tne les of thou sands of head from starvation and exposure. It is probable that Colorado will not in many years nave as many head of cattle as it had before this disastrous experience A fruit grower in Western New York sold the part season $3, C00 worth of quinces from an orchard of 10,000 trees which have been bearing three years. Every year hereafter the Sales Will, or Should, largely increase. So far the only manure used has been ft mixture of salt and ashes. The orchard is kept cleanly cultivated, and the trees are now too large to grow other crops among them. The ereatjr part of the water found in plants, and the earthy or mineral ingredients, including the nitrates, enter the plants by means oi tne roots, rrobabiy gaseous matter may also be absorbed by the roots. Absorption of naids by the roots is due to diffusion, by virtue of which liquids of differeiit densities have a tendency to mix, the thinner passing into the thicker liquid through the cell-walls. Sandy soils are, in the average farmer's Bense of tte word, the lightest of all soils, because they are the easiest to work, While in actual weight they are tbe heaviest soil known. Clay, also, which we call a heavy soil, because stiff and unyielding to the plow, is comparatively a light soil in actual weight Peat toils are light in both senses of the word, having ! tie actual weight and being loose or porus. The sheeD is a cIoe grazer, and even pre fers short pastures. It is scrupulously cloan, though not very select in tbe choice ol tne herbage on which it feeds. Wool, being a highly nitrogenous substance, requires a larger supply of albuminoid food for sheep than other ruminants demand. Wo being the chief rvrofit of sheep farming, it will be economy to feed oats or oil-cake prtty free ly to secure a liberal growth of una staple. I think the value of flax straw for feeding stock depends generally on how much seed there is in it, 1 have sucked upon my plats Beventy-five or 100 tons of Dax straw. I havealso'a quantity of prairie nay, which I do not value very higmy ior the wintering of stock, and I was obliged to fence it in to keep it from being eaten up, while my flax straw went untouched. 1 would not give fifty cents a ton for flax straw for feeding stock, as there is not any substance in it. II. N. Norman, Miama County, Kansas, in Farmer's Review. Gladiolus bulbs should be planted in suc cession at inter i als of two or three weeks hrough the months of April and May. The f hould be planted about three inches deep. little pure, BOil or sand being laid over each

sus'siners of foods.

before the earth is closed in about them, an arrangement which may be advantageously followed with bulbous plants generally. In hot summer weather they should have a good mulching of half-rotten manure, and, as soon aa the tiower spikes are produced, liquid manure may occasionally be given them. American Cultivator. I find coal ashes to be a very valuable article to be used for many purposes. I iave used them' for three or four years on currant bushes for the destruction of the currant wortd, and find no necessity for the hellebore or any other poison. They are as effective as oucumber vines to keep off the striped bug. Last year I used them on cabbages, filled tbe head full, and had no further trouble with the worms. The cabbase headed well, receiving no injury from the asbea The a$hes are better to be sifted through a fine sieve. s i. AN OPINION OP C-EDCCATItN.

The Strong Ground Taken y Eev. Dr. Dix. In his Friday evening Lenton talks at Trinity Chapel, in West Twenty-fifth street, regarding the proper sphere el woman, Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix. takes the strongest possible ground against "woman's-rights'" as tbat phrase is popularly construed. He said last night that there was not in society to-day any more dangerous public- enemy than the woman who, under the pretext of lifting herself up to a higher plan of public rights, not only deliberately unfitted herself for social and domestic duties, but persuaded others to follow ia the same course. The two "catch" terms, higher education and co-education,, which are so commonly used in the public agitation of the socalled woman que9tiun,.Ir. Dix considered to be insincere and meaningless. There was no intelligible explanation of what was meant by the higher education of women, and the term- "coeducation," if it meant anything, was-expressive of the mischievous doctrine that the young ot both sexes should be taught in the same schools, in the same classes, on equal terms, and to perform the same duties. Such a doctrine was calculated to aid in tbe disintegration of the present social system. The speaker protested against and denounced the "coeducation" of the texas as dangerous and unnatural. Men and women bad not the came destinies and they were not fitted to perform the same duties. Young women. could not be trained in coitspany with young men except at the sacrifice of all those modest, delicate qualities that formed the peculiar and essential charm of womanhood. It was wrong to ' attempt to treat young girls as if tbey were the same sort of creatures as young men. Nature protested against such a proceeding. There are physical reasons why a young girl should- not be subjected to the same oourse of training applied in the education of a young man. There were moral and social reasons why the youn? people of both sexes should not be thrown together on a common level in matters of everyday concern. At the ages when the passions have their fallest play tbe sexei shouVi be kept apart by the barriers of social restraint and the natural instincts of maidenly mod esty should be respected. Decency, propriety and delicacy were the elements that should be chie(ty considered in any plan of relationship between the seiet, and those elements demanded for a young woman the watchful presence of her mother. Any man who would want to have his daughter educated in the same meaner as his son would deserve to be stamped as a fool. 3o parent in his right mind could be so mif raided as to the respective duties he owed to a son and a daughter, as to desire them to-be trained exactly alike, as if they were boys. It is absolutely necessary that men and women should be trained under entirely different conditions and in most respects by different methods. Each sex deserves to be treated in accordance with the laws of nature. A woman could not learn to think, speak ank act like a man unless she surrendered her womanhood, and even then she would be but a poor imitation of a man. Women wr daatgnea oy tne creator to be women, to do women s work and occupy a place in the world that men could not occupy, it was eminently proper that parents should undertake to have their sons and daughters educated equally well, but it was not necessary to the accomplishment of such a desire, to have them taught by tbe same teacher, at the same time, and in the same channels of knowledge. The idea, waich was forcing its way even into respect able society, that it was proper for young men and women to meet on common ground and hear and talx about everything in common, was absurd. A woman should be trained to be true to her home, and to make it all that it is capable of being. If ma j is te be tbe bread winner, let woman be the home-maker. The home is the beginning and tbe basis of civilized society. Dr. Dix firoposed to show in the two remaining ectures of his series how the home is menaced and what processes are at work now to undermine it. TENNOK'S STORM PitKDIClIOJfS. Fierce Rain and !now Falls Announced for Maxell A General Bulletin. Moxtkial. March & Vennor's weather predictions for the month of March are a mc8tas startling as those published by vviggins. Hesavs "The month will be one of tbe stormiest experienced in a long period of years, and there is a probability of great destruction of life and property. The storm period of the 10th to the 12th will undoubtlv be tevere land widespread, but the heavy rain anu winu etorts ot tne tu tu tue ouui may cause the greatest harm, particularly Ward New York and the middle seaboard. , 1 . J AI A-.L A . 1- - , 1 . L From the 10th to 12th, very general and severe snowstorms and blockades, extending far to westward. Rains and snow falls in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Tremend ous snowdrifts in Western States. 17th to 20th General heavy enow and ram storms South to New York and Washington. Snow blockades again West. On 20 th or Zlst great windstorm at Isew ork. 27th Another general storm period. Snow and rains. Newfoundland snowblockaded. 30th and 31st General snow, wind and rainstorms. Heavy blow and rains. New York and Middle States seaboard. Snow and rain storms. Maritime Provinces. The following is HIS version of the proba bilities for 1 . 4 year: braino. April, advanced warmth toward middle of montn and favorable rains. Cold er toward closing days and entry of May, May will enter cold and white and continue so through hr&t ball ot month, with snow falls and cold rains. Brief periods of sum mer warmth. Scmmcb, Jnne is likely t be a warm summer montn ana tim-jar 10 mat 01 last vear. In fact, tbe whole ot th coming sum mer will probably follow in tbe track of last year's weather conditions. Somewhat sever j relapses to cold woather and frosts may occur in parts of July and August AcitMN. After advanced cold weather aad snowfalls in October and November, the autumn of the year is likely to remain unusually open and f tie up to a late date with general scarcity oi snow in nearly all sections through lfcener ana probably much of January. 1nS4 Oar present view is that the autumn of tbe present vear will Euch resemble that ci the year 13Zt in the various sections of tbe country. And S They Uav rcbkMto Times. 1 It is just about two years ago this time that Dorsey was cined at Delmonico s. What cba v'es tb two yeass have brought forth! Tho man for whoa Dorsey earned Indiana, and who expressed regret tbat h could not attend the celr brated banqur.t, in a coffin guarded by United States troops at an expense to the Government ol Siss a month. Chester A. Arthur, who ikiterruptedMi. Dorsey 1 explanation of hit cam paign methods with "laughter," is president of the, United Slates. The rest of the euasts are scattered and gone. Dorsey himself stands alone dishonored ar4d abandoned. while the shadow of the Prison lies acrou f his pfttb.

G. M. D.

A Medley, a Mystery, jl Harr! and a Ulracle." The Story of a Dreavoa " " et money honestly if yon oaa, but get OC money," was a foolish father's advice to his son. Get money, if '7001 can honestly, makes but a slight alteration in the order of the words, but varies the-sentimeni considerably. There is no hana in making money. It answereth all firings. Used lightly it is a power for good; and there is money enough in the world to form a lever by which the mass of humanity could be lifted, to a certain extent,-out of' its depths of sorrow and despair. Money we must hare, for money makes the mare go. Some can make money who have no Acuity fer savibg. Would you save, -yon: must know how to denr those who would borrow and never repay, as well as those who beg simply because they are too lazy to work. There are men who never want to see J30 eicept to ask the favor of a loan.- They will ask for just one word with you. andi that one word is sure to be money. An imperanlous fellow met a rich acquaintance, and, not likingtoaskdirectlyforaloan.saM1: "Friend Smith, it yon had ten-dollars in your pocket and I was to ask yon for the loa od Urs. bow many would remain in your pocket!" '"Tea dollars, to be Bure," replied the rich man, without a moment s hesitation He had gumption, and knew too much to part with his money by any such rule-of subtraction. Ol see, raid the impeeuniou rsan thus rebuffed. He was able to owe. He was one of the Micawber sort aiTayrs waiting for something to turn up. How like some people who are sick. They think to get well by letting disease take care ot itself. But diseases do not heal themselves, and too late their victims often find thisout to their sorrow as death seizes upon thacn. Had they been wise in time they might Lave added many years to their lease of life. Tbe cure was nigh them, as it is nigh to all who read this medley. These paragraphs tell the story, as a patient perusftl will prove. Those who have keen insight and can read between the lines may solve the conundrnca the sooner for it; but upon all light will dawn ere they read the final word of our story. Light will dawn, we said, and so it will light of hope and help- Light is what a certain individual wanted. Mr. Jones, we will call him. He was very siak. Consumption bad fastened its fangs-upon him. lie had long neglected icatarrh, and laughed at the idea of taking anything.- for it when advised to do so, and so went from bad to worse. His lungs became diseased, a hacking, churchyard cough, racked him almost to pieces, and he was fast wasting away. A mere shadow of his lormer self, he scarcely slept at all at night or slept only to dream horrible dreams. Talk ol nightmare! A whole circus troupe, .horses and ail, seemed to make his bed the arena of their wild per formances. In this cato-money did not make the mare go, for he spent a (Seal of money on doctors and Physic and was nothing bet tered. He ate little, and was iastgoingdown to an untimely, crave, leaving his wife a idow and his four bricht children orphans. a ben. lo! on one eventful night he dreamed for once a bricht and happ f dream, which our next paragraph -will relate. Death, the black-visagea monster, bad until then stared him in the face, but the dream brought him hope. He saw a bright, white-robed angel in his dream, who said: '"I come to bringjyou good news. Here is yonr cure sure safe, harmless, prompt and reliable. Get wall, and seek to take health thereby toothers. Behold the cure!" With these words- th angel was gone, but ere tbe trail of light which followed him had vanished the dreamer saw glittering in the lieht three- ailden letters G. M. D. "What can it mean?",he said to himself, as be awoke from his si unober. "I have had Good Many Dreams.biit never such as this." Startled and surprised, he aroused bis wife and to her related his vision. Alas! she could not solve the problem. Remembering all the medical advice, and tbe physic, and the xpense involved since her husband became hick, she expressed the hope that the letters were not intended to suggest that Good Many Doctors must yet be consulted in addition to all that hat) been interviewed He groaned in, reply, and remarked that if he bad to consult any more there would have to be a Gold Mine discovered in order to pay them. Every day for a week he and his faithful spouse- searched diligently for a key to the problem. In the dictionary, in such newspapers as they happened to have, in books, on placards on tbe walls everywhere thev sought, hoping to rind a clue. Letters stand for words, and tbey hoped to light n Don the words that should suigpst a cure They Grieved Many Days over their lack of good luck, as they said, and the Good Man Dreamed again and again, but saw no moro angels. Hope deferred mak&th the heart sick. "Oh, tbat the angel had Guided Ma Definitely and Given More Jhrectionr, he exclaimed, again and again. "Vj early two weeks had elaosed Bince the JL night cf the Great Mysterious Dream,, when there came to the house a pamphlet. Tired with his exhausting office work, which he still pursued, determining, if possible, to die in the harness, Jones vjas about to throw the- pamphlet in the fire, when something prompted him to exnine it. Burely, thoofht he, here can be nothing that will Pierce this Gloom Most stressing, o? Give Me. Disheartened, any relief. Poor man he had worked letters ovr in his mind, and made so many combirons with theo, that they occurred in almost every sen nce ne uttered. They entered even into his prayers. Heaven Grant Me Deliverance, te. would sav, nor let disease itind Me Down, and so forth, ad infiniturA.aad a miia orrtwo be--' vond. Mentally tortcjediand suffering in every fiber of hi body, what wonder tbat he read page aftcrpage of tbe prjaphlet It was a work oca diseases, and i a the morbid state of his mind -its contents seemed to suit him. It spoke o'j almost every disease that rlesh is heir to, bat, oh, loy r-as he road a Glimp?eMostBligbtfulof ligütstoleir.upon, him. "Eure'ia!:Kareka!" hccried. "Wife I have it'. I baye-isr Evervbodyjn tie house heard Urn. crjc "Eureka !"'d rushecLto the loom to hear what he haw fonnd. All expected so see some Great iracie Do3. and Uencei tbe explanation. Simple, of course, but way had be nttthcght of it before? Oh, wJsai a revelation !: Here was Vpe fo him, and for all oonsuaptives. Ere, hope- for suffering frinds &ed neighbors. That nigst he scarce oould sleep, but when naia,ugain saw a. bright vision of golden letters, u fact a Glistering Jlonograra Decipaerea resuuy, and readiag G. M. LX : and again. P. P. P. ; andyet again, F. P., and one huge P., around whfth tbse others -ere entwined, ana then W. D. M. A. A! the letters blended, yet eaah was distinct All he- bad fsen in the book, all he again saw in h vision. ream Most Glorious. D. M. G. G. M. Arain he ranz the changes; back ward, forward, every way. Gold Medal De served. M. CL D. Misery's Great Deliverer till time would fail to tell them alL P. P P. stood for Perfect Peace Promised for srilferers, and sweet release from Pro3trating Purgatorial Pains. And again, F. P. was Freedom Promised, aBd backward, P, F., it became. Pain Flees. Now he could pet well, and once well be would be a xairfsionary, a Glad Missionary Devoted to the work of telling othsrs how thej might get deliverance. II went through the list of diseases among those of his own acquaintance, from

John Robinson whose-torpid liver gave him constant neaaacrje and severe biaoua attacks, on through the list of those suffering from nlcers, coughs, weak and diseased lungs, to nis iriena umersi v , who was as near the grave as he. And for all these, as well m vi 1 m ... h iur Ulms!!, tae urave Aiay .uissppear from present vision, aad each may be Given More Decides of life than they had hoped to have years. Against the milder cases he marked P. P. P. Against the serious cases he marked G. M. Dnot the-Grixzly Monster ueain, which he so long. had dreaded, bo, something oh, so much better, as we shall presently see. Jn a short whilei our hero was well, and went everywhere amen this frienda and neighbors, telling them of his-good fortune, and showing theeicl and the suffering how they might be healed Some lauehed and continued to suffer", refusing to be healed. More were wise, took his counsel and proved his vision of the night as he had done. 'A vision leas bee-niVinv fcr Than wsklug dreazxs by daylight are." an anything be -more deliehtfnl than health after, sickness?" lb W 1 well man, to feel pare blood coursing through your veins, to know that Iudcs, lirer. kid neys, and all the Grand Maehinerv TVa it. duty perfectly in one's body; to carry health's ruddv mark en the- cheeks. Ah, this is Good Most Däeidedly. This was our nero s case, and thousids can tell the same story. The good angel has come to them. They have Seen the letters GleaO Most Distinctly before their eyes, and,. Going Most uenmteiy to work in- pursuing the instruc tions given, they have- recevered that great blessing Health. G.M. D. has been to tbem a channel of good. Good' Mysteriously Done, and tbey have aid their Bick friends do what all the sick should do, namely, nt lueiuteivea 111 communication With tbe W. D. M. A., Which Done Most Assuredly will A a 1 a 1 TT T a a . . put tbem in the Way Desired Most Anxiously. a Alas, that hnmansturei80 8low to believealas, that men and women are bowed down with th harden ot complaints of which they might be rid consumption, bronchitis, dyspepsia, -heart disease, kidney disease, malarial cow plaints, sarofnlous diseases, skin diseases. tumors-, nlcers, and many more. It woa. seem as though some 11 deity had given every letter of the alpha bet as many diseases as it could possibly de sire, thus forming an alphabet of sorrow, suffering and woe. Happy tlkey who. the Great Mystery discerning have escaped the clutches of sad diseases. . Looking back upon his past experience, Mr. Jones feels Grateful Kost Decidedy, and continues telling the old story of his sicknefs, his vision, and his restoration to health: for all the sick are not well yet. But he has had the pleasure of seeing, as he says, Good Miraculously Done to hundreds upon nis personal recommendation. I ear reader, tear with ua awhile if light JL- hasnot vet dawned on to tir mind. The mystery will soon be revealed. If the key be not on your right band it is at least on your lefti in lette clear as daylight A Good Many Delighted have discovered it and opened the portal to a long life and a useful one. Initials of words-that staad for all that is sorrowful nd sad. letters, the self mm letters, .are often initials of words that breathe of hope aad benediction. Search -but aw hale and you will find the boon, the blessing and the benefit. The mystery of the three P's, of the F. P., of the G. M. D., and I the W. D. M. A., Will Dawn Moat Auspiciously upon you. loinmbua discovered America and won Vx high honor, and immortal fame, and they who have lesrned the secrets of the I wonder before your eyes, good reader, Give Most Delightful testimonials of their gratiInda Of all sad words-of tongue and pen ' saddcitare these it might have 0 sayeth.th3.p0eU. When we think of thsmyriads that might have been saved froia untimely graves had they seen Mr. Jone' vision and aought hia way to health, we feel sad. Yet we can not but rejoice at Grest Many Delivered from death's door ay G,,M. D. and. that Pain's Positive Peir Mil lion has been esoaped sgain and again tj P. r. r. "TTIrtue unnumbered serve to make G. M, V Lthe Greatest Mercy Deigned by favoring providences for tbe relief of afferere. and its discoverer feels P. P. P. 1 Perfect ly Pardonable Bride in telling of the Crow ibg McuitudA Delivered from tb' Grasp most ijreaaiui.oi ureeay .uournru J Death. Br very sics, person is mtereste- i in the theme before us, and every - eil per sou, too, jor woo ooes not Know eome one who is sick, and needs, therefore, the rood . 1 1 . 1 news t;t-aeaitn mat 13 uiven Aiany uatly. LJeader,.my3tiBed reader, we will detain J.Uyoa no longer. Perhaps yon have Guessed iMosb Deftly the hidden, meaning. P. P. P., you know, stands for P? .easant Pur gative Pellets, curing constipatit n, torpidity of the liver, .headache and mn3 r other comriamts.. tVJK,. 01 course, is Dr. Pierce's Favorit Pres aription, that has proved such a P. F.. Prime Favorite and Pr cious Friend to. ladies;, safe, easy to take, w ort in? like a Charm curing the peculiar - weaknesses in cident to theu sex. lhelett rs W. 0. M. A. stand for the World's Di (pensary Medi-I cal Association, at Bufralo, J S. Y., with its imposing structures, its t jiay of medical men, ppeaia!3t3 all of then 4, and its Presi-. dent 1. It P. Pierce (the J rge and central P of Mr. Jones second vis' on), all at the ser-vice-of the sick and suffe ring, every whee; while Oi M, D. is well r jaithe initials of tne paragraphs of this ar dale and you will see that U M. D. is Gold en. Medical Discov-ery,.the-1oon of the d ist jeaed. Thiswondertol medicine cures all humors, from the worst eorafula to a com ocon blotch, pimple or eruption. Erysipel as,, salt rheum, fever seres, scaly or rough s' tk, in short all diseases o&oeed by bad b lood. are conquered by thia-powerful, puryf.' rfcig and invigorating medioioe. Great eat m ulcers rapidly beal under ta benign infl .ueaces. 13 specially, has it maosfested its po tsncy in curing tetter, boil&v earbuncles, sr oo'alous sores and swellings, white swellir iga, goitre or thick neci, and. alarged glanr Consumption, whioh is sorofulous disease oäthe lungs, is promptly an positive! v an td and cared by this sovereign and Go cVgtoen remedy, if taken jbwtors the last st aea are reached. Eor weak ltra&s, spitting- c f "blood, consumptive nightssasats and kind rd affections, it is a sovereifm remedy. lr indigestion, dyspepsia and torpid livf r or "biliousness,"- Golden Sfudical Disco fsry has no equal,. as it effests perfect and ra toal cures. Ton will fle well if afflicted with any chronn Disease to write to the Association for sdv ce, describing youn malady as wen as you wk Many casos are- suooesafully treated through correspondence and no fees are aharged for consultation. For one dollar and a half yon can secure-a copy of the iTOpI1 Common. Sense Medical Adviser,' seat post-paid to your address. Its purchase will repay you. In this is Given. J fare Iirable information than yon can tin & in. any other work of a similar ma ture. Do. Lawyers Cr-arg Hlx Keea Philadelrhla Pres.. Ajitr lawyers can aharge fees too? For example, it I fchoul J charge, the Press in the tame proportion that lawyers chare for t jir time, I should get about $1,00 for this IfeUer. Here is a case: Mr. It L. White. laow editor of ths. Providence Press, and I 1 --..- - . u - wer associated as correzpwuueuui vi tue New York Tribune. The Alabama treaty. on whose provisions two continents hung breathlessly, had been signed and sent to the Senate. This was many years ago. A copy came to us as legilimately as any piece ol news com ef. into tbe Pres office, but it happened so ttt we oould not tell where it came form. "Wa were brought before the Senate and senk to a Committee, and we refp jed to answer and tell where the treaty, as. printed in the Tribune, came from. We w ere locked np for about a fortnight The reat public v&s with us, aud we had more, applications

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for our autographs than we could psy poetage on, and tre-had cases of wfcsevcassr ? t brandy, demijohns of whisky, boxes of clears, woodcock terrapin, canvas back ducks, flowers, and such things galore. Senator came to our rooms for drinks and lunches, and the whole thing from- begimning to end was a great joke. Bat and here comes the point we were of course released by a tremendous msjority of the Senate,-bzt 'there were certain legal points to be disposed of. We had been indicted for disrespect to the Senate, or something of that kind. We engaged a lawyer, and he went into Court and asked that tnr indictment be quashed. That was all, and the indictment was quashed. How muco, Mr. Editor, do you think he charged for that five minutes' work. He charced and T mmiA him $500 for that fob. and I have hi tuns on my check to show it Suppose a -news-psper man had -taken $500!' : WeM, 0 know what Pisto) said when he was--com pelled to oat the garlic a nave a moral, it is: Study law.'. John Stuart Mill on Prohibition. The eminent ZTiBeliiih rHilnastrhr TAt, Stuart Mill, in his work on political econ omy, thus discourses on prohibitory laws: -exiling fermensed liquors is trading, and trading is a social- act. Bnt . the infringement complained 01 (by those opposed to prohibitory laws' ia not on the lilwrfrT-the seller, but on that of the buyer and consumer, since the. 3tate might justsswell forbid him to 'drink wine as purpcwly to make it imnosaible for him tn oH! H C 1 is claimed, he say that "I aa a citizen-have aright to legirlate whenever my social rights are invadid by the social. ast of another. If anything invades my social rights, certainly the traffic in strong drink does. It destroys my primary right of 1 security by constantly creating and stimulat ing social aisorder. it invades my -rinnt of equality by deriving a profit- from tbe cre ation of a miset v lam taxed to support. It impedes my nght-to free moral and intellectual development by surroundiog.- my path with dangers and by weakening and demoralizing sod at y from which I tave a rizht to claim mutual aid and intercourse." Thus statine Ce argument in favor of the law with auch, more than the usual force, he says that it is "A theory of social rights the like of which, probably never found its way into distinct - language being not nine short of this that it is the absoluta right of every individual tbat every other individual shall aofe - in every respect exaotly as he ought; that whosoer fails thereof in su.a..a Y T tviaica DUJ1K1 right and entitles, me to demand of the Legislature the .-removal of tbe grievance. So monstrous principle is far more dangerous than en y single interference with liberty; there :s no violation of liberty that it would not justify; it acknwledgas no right to any freedom whatever, except perhaps, to that of holding opinions in eewet without aver disclosing themv for the nomext an opinion i consider ncarous. passet any one's lip-, it invades all the local rights attributed to ne. The doctrine - ascribes to all mankind c. vested interest in ach other's moral, intellectual and even physical perfection to be defined by eacli claimant ac cording to bis own standard.' Cashier Ahead.. Wall Street Ken a J A new hank, which had Leen estabiuhed ia Indiana, had engaged th-servk9 of a watchman who came reevrunended. but who did n:i..se-m overec 3 erienoed. The President therelo e sent foi him.to rx)st him up a bit, a:ul. began : "James, this ia your CrsLjojb ..ol the- kind, n'tit?" Yes, sir' 'jance." y "Yes s.' II i-r t ''You fi.at duoy must I tv-to. c-zercSse vig'Iwill,.ir. 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