Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 30, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1884 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 1884.

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Stacking Grain Corn in a Drouth. "What a Farmer Nesd9 Preparing1 Green CornA Cure for Founder. Poor, Tools Oraf. Inj Small Farm Profitable HfMV to Plow an Orchard Houvehold Ulnts Farm 'ote. Etc. Stacking Grain, f South an d West. The great secret of succesalul stacking ia to keep the center of the stack fall aad high. This ia the very point in which sj many" sta;kers fail. To keep the middle of the stack as hia as it should be is not an easy matter by any means, for the more elevated the center ia the greater the tendency of the outside courses to slip out and spoil the stack. But the stacker must remember that as the stack settles, the middle, bearing the greater weight, sinks the most, and two weeks after the stack ia built will b9 much lower than at the beginning. If the middle sinks so low that the outside course of sheaves inclines inward, the heads of the sheaves being lower than the butts, tbe stack will spoil, as rain will pass into the stack instead of passing ofT it. Each inside course should cover the bands of tbe sheaves in the course outside of it; this, If followed out honestly, will keep the middle of the staak high enough. In laying the outside bundles, stick each bundle inti the one below it, using considerable force, but being careful not to displace the lower sheaf. This is the only effective way of laying tha bundles to prevent slipping, and at times it is not sufficient. "When such is tb.3 case pTace a Hat beard against the offending bundls, and stay the board with inclining preps, if below the bulge; or lean poles against the sheaves if above the bulge. Tbe second point to be observed in the ruilding of a stack is to shape the bundles; that is, put the buti3 in that position which will suit tbe shape of the stack. While standing in the shock the sheaves have inclined inward toward a common center. This has given the butts a diagonal shap3. This makes one side of the sheat lonsrcr than tbe other. Ilelow the bulge lay tbe long side of the bundle up: above the bu!ire lay the long side down. Whei the bundle? are laid in this way tbe stack is smooth, as it should be; not because it looks nicer, but because there are no sharp projections to catch the rain and carry it into the stack. This may seem like a small point, but it is of sutüciect importance to be observe I by tbe man who desires to but up a stack whicii will preserve the grain. SiiiyII Farm Profitable. Orange County Farmer. The owner of fifty acres of good ground who thoroughly understands his business is better situated than hi3 neighbor wha owns '2li0 acres and farms according to the oli theories. Tbe small fanner has less investment, pays less taxes, and cultivates more caefully than the large farmer. In France and Germany the farms are generally very small, often not a fourth of the size of average American farms, but thy are worked so carefully that, while steadily increasing in fertility, they still produde a great deal more per acre than our own. The owner of many acres is apt to neglect the poorer portions of his ground, and thus manuring, rotating and cultivating are reduced to a system that produces the best possible results. An example of German gardening will illustrate tbe point. "Within three miles of I'oit Jarvia lives a German family consisting or six or seven persons. For years they have lived on a strip of sandy land less than two acres in f ize, a part of which is covered by tbe dwelling, a bar and out-houses. The woman of the family, an able-bodied and intelligent person, who had learned her work in Laden, cultivated this piece of ground, and for a series of years suppKed her table with vepe tables and sold from :100 to $100 worth of vegetables annually. Every inch of room was occupied. From early spring to late autum crop after crop of lettuce, beets, spinach, cabbage, potatoes, corn, beans, niansrold wnrzels. asnarasrus. onions, endive. gg plants, peppers, salsify, cauliflowers and otter plants appeared. .hvery bit of waste material fit for tbe purpose was thrown on the compose heap or turned into liquid manure, and the naturally sterile piece of ground was made to pay for itself over and over again. The fences were bailt in trellis iorm to support grapevines, and not a square inch of ground eacaiet the payment of tribute exacted by the indefatigable woman who tilled it. Her methods are those in steady rise in Germany, where overcrowded population has rendered necessary the thoroughest working ot the soil. Her plants for setting are the first in the market, and she 13 the lost in the autumn to offer fresh vegetables for the table. To such a farmer fifty acres ot good land would be a fortune. It is such tillage as this which makes it possible for French, German. English and Italian holders of twenty-acre or thirty-acre farms to earn a living, while American holders of farms of equally good land, ranging from 100 to 500 acres, work about as hard, and are forever ender mortgage and on the very verge of bankruptcy. The future will certainly witness a great revolution in American farming, and one of the features calculated to bring about a better state of affairs will be the division of land into smaller farms and the consequent improvement in agricultural methods. Preparing Green Corn, Etc. Rural New Yorker. Many are the inquiries received at this season of the year for directions for canning or drying green corn, to meet which we have hunted up the subjoined, which are from what we deem good authority. Canning Sweet Corn. The New York Times remarks the fact that canning sweet corn Is a yery particular and difficult operation, and for its success requires very carefal manipulation. The peremptory conditions are a degree of heat which will serve to thoroughly cook the corn, to destroy all the germs of ferments which may be present in it or 'n tbe cans, and to expel every 'particle of air from the can and its contents. A simple boiling heat is not sufficient for all this unless it is kept up for a long time, several hours in fact. The method of preparation is as follows: The ears are first put into boiling water and boiled for at least five minutes. This thoroughly sets and solidifies the "milk" of tbe corn. Tbe corn is then fcbave d from the cob, and the cob ia scraped to take oiT the germs of the grain, in which some of the sweetness exists. The corn is then tut into the cans and soldered down; a small pin-hole ia made in the cover for the temporary purpose of cooking. The cans re then boiled for four or five hours until tn? requisite purposes of the long boiling are allected. In tbe canning factories the cans are boiled in a solution of chloride of lime, which boils at a much higher temperature than water, and the cooking and expulsion of air are completely effected at the higher degree of heat in thirty minutes. The cans are taken from the boiler and wiped dry, and a drop of solder ia quickly fixed upon the pin-hole and closes it. If all I? done well, the corn will keep good for j ears. Grafting How to Do It, Every armer boy should learn to graft. Pew occupations give more pleasure or a realer reward. To convert a wild aad

thorny tree into one bearing large and delicious fruit ia a wonderful and fascinating process. The kind of grafting most likely to be practiced on the farm is that known a cleft grafting. The process is a simple one. Saw off the limb to be grafted where it ia an inch or less in diameter; trim the edges of the "stub," smooth and split it with a lar-e knife orciever made for the purpose. The cleft should not be more than four inches deep at the most. A wedge is now inserted in the center of the cleft, and a cion is eet on eacu side of the cleft. Tbe cions are made of twigs of last year's growth. They should be cut before the trees show any sign of starting in the spring. When the cion is prepared ready for the setting, it shonld contain about three buds. The lower end ia cut wedge shaped by slicing off eacn side of the cion. On one side of this wedge shaped portion, and m'.dwar between its top and bottom, there should be left on one of the buds. When the cion is set this bud will be covered with wax; but, being nearer the source of rourishment. It will be the mo?t apt of any buds to grow, and it will readily push through the wax. The cion is set into the cleft by exercising great care that the inner surface of the bark on the stub. A line between the bark and the wood may be observed. The line on the cion, in other words, should match this line on the stub. Wax the whole over carfully and thoroughly. Do not leave any crack exposed. Grafting wax is made as follows: Melt together resin, beeswax acd tallow in equal farts and spread on cotton cloth. Tear into slips and wrap around graft. What a Farmer Needs. The Homestead. I A farmer needs his vacation just as much as any man of business needs one. A week's run to town after the busy season is over, will do him a world of good. And they need to vis.it other farmers, to learn, if possible, easier or better methods of farming or living. They need to attend farmers' conventions and organizations to gain new ideas something to broaden or enlarge their views of life. They need to attend the fairs. People who always stay at home are sure to see tbe dark side and shadows of their own lives. They need to learn and to realize that storms and droughts and thunder showers and freshets visits other farms besides tbeir own; that weeds and insact3 thrive in all dearees of longitude; that Hies and dirt accumulate and ansoy other households besides theoue they preside over. In short, they do not learn how other people live. Con Id farmers manage so as to be confuted less to their farms; could they work more in partnership, as do men in other business, or could they believe it profitable to employ a higher grade of laborers men whom they could trust a'one for a day or week or could they earlier train their sor.s and daughters to La a care and an interest In the affairs of thr household, they could oftenfr find the opportunity for leaving tbe farm for a short season of recreation and eujoyment, and thus be in reality what they have tte came of being the most independent clüs of people in the world. Tli White Sheep of the Illaine Fam'.ly. Chicago Times. J Neil G. Maine, who asserts that he is the eldtr brother of James G , and carne3 the documents in his carrot sack to prove it, is at the Grand Pacific Hotel on his way Kwt. In conversation with a reporter of the Times last evening Mr. Blaine claimed that he had bfen the subject of many unjust attacks iu the newspapers. 'They fay, sir." said he, "trat I am the black sheep of the family. Fy , I am the white theep. I have never drawn a dollar of public money in my life, never hid any political patronage j.'iven me, and I don't, expect it if Jim's elected. I am an Lotest farmer, live four miles from Salem, in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, and I can pay for what I can get. I am not sttkiug notoriety, but I am endorsed by Governor Moody of Oregon and the Secretary of State, and it's a sham' tbat I should be ridicule 1 by the paperä. I saw Major Maine and visited hi;n on my way through Montana, and I have another brother who is curator in the Department of Agriculture at Washington. I'm not going lla-st because he's been nominated for President, and I don't want any favors. Iam a gool republican, but I don't know anything about politics." Mr. Blaine bad evidently been having a good time with some friends, and at the conclusion of the interview sought the repose afforded by one of the luxurious sofas that adorn the hotel rotunda, and tank into a gentle slumber. A Cure for l oucder, A recent writer gives this remedy for lameness occasioned by inflammatory fever in the fcot of the horse, with the assurance tbat it is a perfect cure: "Clean out the bottom of the foot thoroughly hold up the leg so as to bring the bottom of the hoof upward, holding it firmly in a horizontal position, and pour in. say a tiblespoonful of spirits of turpentine, if the cavity of the hoot" will hold that much if not, pour in what it will hold without danger of it running over; tonch the turpentine with a red-hot iron; this will set it on fire: hold the hoof firmly in position until all burns out. Great care must be taken tbat none runs over on the hair of the hoof, lest the ekin be burned. If all the feet

are affected, burn turpentine m each of them. Kelief will speedily follow, and the animal be ready for service In a short time." It is aCirmei that animals treated ia this manner have been promptly relieved. In one case, although mileting for more than twenty-four hours when applied, in less than an hour afterward the animal was fit for use ami traveled some distance, all lameness disappearing. Corn in a Drouth. Corn in time of drouth, however rich the soil nmv be by nature, or fertilizing appliance?, has no agencies aside from rain which wilt keep up the vigor and growth of the crop, save the diligput use of the hoe and horse cultivator, tsoil kept open and loos will absorb moisture from the air, and drink in all the dew that falls npoo it. Theie ia another important thin? in tbe growing of this crop that we have noticed for years, and that is, giving the crop a thorough dressing with doable plow or cultivator just as tbe esrs are forming, or about the time the "silking out" beeins; cultivation at this time appears to give new impetus to tbe growth of the stalk, and the ears are made heavier than they would otherwise be. 'J ben it appesrs tbat thorough culture is important in all seasons, and at all stages in tbe f rowth of corn; in wet season to keep weeds down; in dry seasons to suoply moisture; while tbe crop is vorm to invigorate, and while maturing to give it new lifs and extra development. How to Plow an Orchard. Willamette Farmer. Whether to plow the orchard to the trees each year, or to turn the sod in opposite directions in alternate years must depend on the soil and location. It ia only in exceptional cases that the former course shonl i be f)ursued. In poorly drained orchards, on ow, black land, this practice of heaping the sod about tbe trees has the advantage ot favoring drainage. Even in this particular, however, it is doubtful if tbe benefits will overbalance tbe inconvenience resulting from such a practice. Better tile the orchard and keep the surface even. Drainage is not al ways secured by the deep dead furrows. The ground muse have a good natural slope or deep pools will be formed in the dead furrow just where the young roots demand warmth and drainage. Tbe constant lowenng of the dead furrows cuts oil" the smaller roots and drives tbem deep into the subsoil where there is little nutriment. The valuable surface soil ia piled up around about the trees, where it does no good Hoots feed largely upon the valuable elements which reach down from the surface soil. The most active roots cf large trees are far from the trunk. An even surface in an orchard ia a constant source of aggravation, especially in picking time, when one must enter it with a wagou Windfalls roll into the dead farrows, aad be

come bruised, wet and decayed. The sod does cot usually strike close against the body of tbe tree. As a consequence, a little depression is formed there, into which drifts litter, forming an attractive bone to insects and mice. There is in danger of injuring trees by plowing away from tbem and close to them if one has tiained his trees preperly and if he exercises care. If tbe practice of close plowing be inaugurated in young orchards the roots will stBrt deep enough to avoid the plow. It is not necessary to plow deep. Trees should be trimmed high. Low-headed trees are an abomination, and they present hardly an ad-

L vantage over high tops. Even the oft-re peated assertion that they are easier to pick from I have usually found very wide of tbe n ark. To have comfortable picking one must bave room under the tree in preference to a top so low that he can step into it. With moderately high-topped trees, short whit'letrees, low hames, a gentle team and a careful man one need not fear about injuring trees. Plow one year east and west, the next north and south; one year to the trees, one year away from theiu. Poor TooN, A story is told of an old-fdshioned farmer who had an old axe and saw stolen from his shed. At first he was disconsolate, as he had the tools in use nearly fifteen years, but necessity compelled him to purchase new ones in their place. lie was so much surprised at the ease with which the new tools worked that, of his own accord, with no agent urging, he went to a hardware store, purchased anew kit of all tools that he wanted, aud threw the others eway. lie had lest more value in time working with poor tools than would buy new ones twice over. Tiibune and Farmer. not sKiioi.n hints. Young Eeels Wash, but do not cut them, as mis destroys their sweetness; put them on to boil in water deep enough to cover tbem, and let them boil until they are perfectly tender; then take them up, pesl and slice them, and season with ealt, pepper and a little melted butter. Later they are treated as a salad, or with vinegar, and without butter. How to Treat Tasteless Early Apples. Take four pounds of apples (weigh them after they are peeled), two pounds of sugir, half an ounce of cinnamon in the slick, onequarter of an ounce of cloves and one pint of vinegar; the vinegar, spices aud suar come to a boil; then put in the whole apples and cook them until they are so tender that a broom splint will pierce them easily. lice Cake. Scald one quart of corn meal, with just enough boiling water to make a thick batter; stir in two large spoonfals of butter; beat this a little before mixing it with the butter so it will rise readily; aid half a teaspoon ful of salt. This should bs baked at least three-quarters of aa ho ir; butter tbe tins well m which it is baked. Serve hot. t;Eakcd Corn BreaJ. Beat two eggs, whites and yelks tcgether, pour the milk on tu the ecS, and thicken with about ninfttabletpoonfu'd of sifted corn meal. Put the pn in which it is to be baked on the stove with a piece of lard the bin of an egg. Wlin icelted pour in the batter, edl a teaspooafal of salt, stir well and bakj Ten. a toes with Macaroni. Tat a quantity cf tomatoes, cut them up and remove frcni each the pips and watery substance ttcy contain; put them into a saucepm, with a saall piece of batter, pepper and salt; add a few spoonsful of either stock or gravy; keep stirricg on the lire until they are reduced to a pulp; puss them through a hair siieve and dress th macaroui with this eaoce and plenty of Parmean cheese freshly grattd. Chow-CLow. Two large caulillowers, two quarts of green peppers, three quarts of gr3en tomatoes, three quarts of green cucumber. th;ee quarts of small onions; slice a bo tit half an inch thick; sprinkle with salt alternate layers of onion?, tomatoes and cucumbers. Boil the cauliilower about five minutes: set over night, then strain all well and free from water; place in jars and make the seaoniog as follows: One pound of mustard, one-half pound of white mustard seed, one-half pound of allspice, whole, one-half pound of whole black pepper, one pint of beef brine, one gallon of vinecar, one-half stick of curry powder. Boil bard fifteen minutes, then pour over the vegetables. If too thick, add vinepar; put the spices in a bag closely tied. Mustard and spices must boil together in the vinegar. I arsnip Oysters. Three graced parsnips, three epps, one teaspoonful of fait, one teacup of sweet cream, butter half the size of an tgg, three fablespooafuls of flour; fry as tancskes; Silsify "may be used in place of parsnips. Staffed Egg riant Parboil them to take off their bitterness; then slit each one down the side and extract the seeds; have ready a 6tufilDg made of grated bread crumbs, butter, miüced sweet herbs, salt.' pepper, nutiLfg and beaten yelk of eg?; 11 11 with it the cavity wbenr e you took the seeds and bake; serve Ik era up with a made gravy poured into the dish. Cccoanut Tarts. Line small tins with a nice light crust and rill with this mixture. Dissolve a quarter of a pound of sugar in a little water, add a3 much grated cocoanut as you can &tir in. and have well mixed with the sugar. Let this simmer slowly for a few minutes; then when it cools add the yelk of two eggs. Fill the tins and bake for ten minutes in a quick oven. Cover the top with a meringue made of the whites of the eggsand two tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar; brown in the oven. If preferred; the whites and yelks may be put in with the cccoanut and sugar. Preserve Puffs. Boll out puff paste very thin, cut it in round pieces and lay jam ou each, fold over the paste, wet the edges with white of egg and close them, lav them on a baking sheet, ice them, and bake about a quarter cf an hour. Cheap Fruit Cake. Cnp and a half of brown sugar, two cups of flour, three-fourths of a cup of butter, three esrgs, three tblispocnfuls of sour milk, half a teaspoonful of foda, half a cup of fruit jam blackberry is best one cup of raisins chopped tine. Beef Omelet. Three pounds of beefsteak, tbree-fctirths of a pound of snet chopped tine, ta't. pepper and a little sage, three efgs, six Boston crackers rolled; make into a roll and bake. Old-fashioned Minute Pudding. Let sweet milk come to a boil, then fctir in rlour which yon bave salted ; this must be done very briskly or it will be lumoy. Stir every moment ur.til tbe pudding is about like mush. Serve while hot with sugar and cream; flavor tbe cream with nutmeg or vanilla. BoDed Loin cf Veal. Take about a fourpound loin of veal, remove all the bones, and in the boles where the bones were place pieces of bacon; make a stuffing of sveet herbs, parsley, bread crumbs and suit; bind with the yelk of an egg; place a layer of the stuffing inside the veal; roll up and bind with carrow tape or string; roast before a c lear fire for two hours, basting thoroughly. Iftbeoutside is incline 1 to become burnt, cover with a sheet of battered paper. Serve on a hot dish, with slices of bacon rolled and fried. Cuetard Fritters. Beat the yelks of. four eggs with a dessertspoonful of Hour, a little nutmeg, salt and brandy; add half a pint of cream, sweeten it to taste, and bake it in a small dish for a quarter of an hour. When cold cut into slices, dip into batter made with a quarter of a pint each of milk and cream, the whites of four eggs, a little flour and a little grated ginrer; fry tbem alight brown, grate augar over and serve as hot as possible. To Preserve Plums Whole. Pierce the skins of the piuma with a large needle; take one pound of auear to one pound of plums, boil the sugar with a teacupfal of water for twenty minutes, pat in the plums and let tbem aimmer very gently for twenty min uteaor half an hour f put into pots; if in a day or two the sirup looks watery pour it off, boil again twenty minutes, and pour over tbe plums.

TAR5I KOTES.

Milk is 3 per cent heavier than water, as a vessel holding 100 pounds of water will hold 103 pounds of milk. The Jersey cow Medrena 3,239 (nine years old), lately tested nineteen pounds twelve ounces of butter in seven days. In mowing laws, allow a gradual higher growth as autumn approaches, to as to have a thick mass for enduring winter. Good seed ia one of the most important thipgs on the farm, and a poor article is one of the most disastrous to the farmer. There are said to be 50,000 sheep running wild on the San Juan Islands, oil Washington Territory, which can be sheared only once in four or five years. Flowering shrubs should be pruned after llowering, excepting those that bloom on the new wood, which can be trimmed in the early spring or late fail. The reason why sows sometimes destroy their pigs is co9ttveness, and the way to avoid this ia to give the sows plenty of wood ashes, salt and charcoal. Colerado will th'a year import 5,000 bulls. By a law of the State a bull must be as good as a quarter thoroughbred before he can run at large on the public domain. A good harrow should do more than to simply scratch the surface an inch or two. It should remove the young grass and weeds, and render the whole surface fine and clean. A plan suggested for eradicating thistles and daisies is to cut them on a wet day and sprinkle salt liberally oa the stubs. They should under no circumstances be allowed to ripen tbeir seed. Peter Henderson Bays that he has sold $300 worth of early cabbages from a single crop on one acre of land; that he followed it with a crop of lettuce which brought $140, and the lettuce with celerv, which sold for $100. With grapevines, overbearing is the usual cause of imperfect ripening. When the fruit does not mature well well it is certain that the wood is unripe. It should be cut back Eeverely and the canes covered lightly with earth or brush and straw. A farmer who had considerable difficulty from the heating of wheat which had oeea put np in damp condition states that by mixing one bushel of salt to fifty bushels of wheat the heating was not only prevented but he was not annoyed by weavil. A good plan for storing white potatoes is to place them on a loft or I.or where there is a circulation of air underneath, and while piÜDg them up scatter a little lime (slacked) throughout the lot. Should any potatoes show Eigns of decay they should be picked out. Pinch o.TJthe tops of your raspberries and blackberries early, and serve the side shoots the same way early and ottea to make a compact bush. If you wait to head back later the .strength of the vine, which has been thrown into the top, is all wasted, aad you bave lewer fruit spurs. Goffart, the inventor of the ensilsge system, says that he does not hold that butter niade from ensilage u as good as when fed on fresh maize; but while winter bvitter is always inferior to tbat made in the summer, that from ensilage is of better iuality than that from any otuer feed. The depth of setting milk should varv with the temperature; the lower it is the deeper milk may be set; the higher, the shallower it should be. Milk should never ba set shallo v in a low temperature, nor deep in a hija one. Setting deep in cold water encourages time, labor and space. A light seeding of buckwheat, not more than one-half bushel per acre, is ample where a grain crop is desired. Th3 plants, when standing thinly, aortal more widely, so as to cover the ground aud produce mora seed than a greater number of plants standing so thickly as to crowd each other. A writer in the Rural New Yorker siys: "To get rid of the cabbtge-worm I hava successfully used buttermilk a:id water the lt two years; about one-third of the former to two-thirds of the latter. My cabbages were also badly infested with lice, but two applications freed tbem completely." "r. B. F. Jobrson is credited with the rart:.rk that if deforesting the country goes on, and tile-draining increases as it has during the last live years, '"the channels and bo,toms of the Ohio and rivers tribuu-y u it will become uninhabitable, being torrus iu the wet season and deserts in the dry." J. Klaine vs. Indianapolis Sentinel. IPiincttou Democrat. James G. Blaine has brought a libel suit agaiLst the Indianapolis Sentinel. A story concerning Blaine's life before h'a marriage while teaching school in Kentucky ha3 long had a wide circulation. It got into public print in 17'. if not earlier, and that too through Republican newspapers. Before the Sentinel published the article for which it is sued tbe Kentucky story had been published in leading papers in many State?. Among others in the New York Herald, the Chicago Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Emporia (Kas.) Republican. The editor of the Emporia Republican is 8n ex -Republican Governor, the editor of a Blaine Republican paper and his name is ('. V. Eskridge. He eays editorially : "It has been published in previous campaigns that quite soon after, when young Mr. Blaine moved from Kentucky to Maine he was followed by an irate Kentucky gentleman and bis daughter, and beiDg found by tbem at Bangor, marriage vows which had been exchanged in Kentucky, were speedily consummated and the propriety of which soon became apparent to all parties concerned. Letters to Chicago and Louisville papers by correspondents who were upon the ground in Bourbon County,Kentucky,where Mr. Blaine's transactions" are said to have taken place, giving in detail the circum stances and corroborating the story concerning Mr. Blaine's character that has been so long current, have also been published. The article published in the Sentinel contained ro more than was in other articles. It simply referred to lhe fact that the rumor was current, and inquired if it was true. If the charges against Mr. Blaine were unfounded, the most natural and easy way for him to bave cleared it up and saved the honorof hia family, would have been to have "told the truth." Mr. Blaine and his wife were school-teachers Tbey know where they were married and when, and who was prerent. They know the date and the place of the birth of their children, whether deal or living. It is tbe most common thing to give a history cf public men and their family em bracing the date and place of marriage and names and birth of children. Mr. BSaine or any other man would shrink from the idea of having even a suspicion resting upon his family lelations would have said to h s friends under the circumstances, "tell tha truth about this matter. Write a little history of the facts. Put me in the right light before the American people." Mr. Blaine did not either by himself cr through his friends give the American people this little bit of history. He did not undertake to follow the advice of Cleveland, "tell the truth." He did not undertake to clear np the matter atence, as Cleveland did, by having the trnth told. Instead of that, six days after the publicatioa in the Sentinel he sent a blistering telegram to Indianapolis to sue the Sentinel, and attempts to pose before the country as Injured innocence. Ordinarily men who did not want to make money or political capital out of a law suit would be slow to rush into court with such a case for the mere purpose of vindicating character. It is a thing that can be so much more readily done by simply telling the truth where" the truth vindicates. Wby did Mr. Blaine not bring a suit against the New S'ork, the Chicago, the -Emporia, aod the Louisville papers? Is not the character of hia family aa much in need of vindication in New YorK, in Kentucky, in Missouri, Illinois and Kansas aa in Indiana? There is but one answer to the question. Indiana ia regarded aa a close State, while the others are not The suit ia brought not for the purpose of eliciting the truth but for the purpose attempting to prerent the facts from be

ing investigated and the trnth known. The suit can not be tried and will not be tried till after the election. Mr. Blaine hoped by such action to muzzle the presa ot Indiana until after that event. He could have bad no other purpose. The Sentinel has the backbone and nerve to continue to pour into him cold lead. And we glory in its spunk. The Republicans papers are whining about the fact tbat it involves hia wife. We say to them, "those that live in glass houses must Dot throw stones." Tbe Democrats did not begin this manner of warfare. A most indecent attack was made upon Grover Cleveland's private life. A foul slander was perpetrated ppon him in ila preparation and circulation, and Mr. Mitchell, Blaine's intimate friend, took a prominent pert. This attack upon Mr. Cleveland did not cease until the facta were investigated and the truth waa told. The slander found its way into every Blaine paper not only by direct statement but ty that meanest of all modes of libel by mean, sneaking, dirty insinuations. Grover Cleveland, it is true, waa not married, but he is a man with sisters and with family relations tbat are no doubt dear to him. He was the nominee of tbe Democratic party. The editor of this paper belongs to that school who does not believe in suppressing facts and current rumors in return tor such treatment as that inflicted upon Grover Cleveland and through him upon his supporters. We do not believe in permitting our political enemies to falsely teach children through public journals that their fathers are supporting immoral men, and then permitting the same enemies to hold out the idea that they are the saints of creation, the Gd and morality party, following an immaculate leader, when the truth is otherwise. It is a debt we owe tbe followers of Blaine to compel the truth of this affair to be known. A WILD GOOSE CHASE.

limiting in Maine for Irish Democrats Who Ar ltlaine Men. Poktlanp, Aug. 2". According to the Republican papers the Irish Democrats are going over to Blaine in droves. The writer was told that there was a great movement of this kind in Maine, but everywhere he went in that State he found that the Irish Democrats who are for Blaine were not there but ia the next town. At Biddeford be was told that there were none euch, but that all the Irishmen in Portland were Blaine men. At Portland he made diligent inquiry and found that the only Irishmen for Blaine were one two officeholders and a coterie of the lowest grade of grcg sellers. He was assured, however, tbat in Lewiston the woods were fall of Iri3h Blaine Democrats. Arrived there he found the report absolutely false, the Irish Democrats I eiDg solid for Redman for Governor and Cleveland for President. "No, we haven't many Irish bolters here," said a Republican wire-puller, "but there are lots of them in Bath." Investigation in the latter city proved the falsity of - the tory. "We bave never looked for much Irish help here," remarked an ardent Baine man, "because it was here tbat our Know-nothing fanatics, of which organization Governor Robie was a Grand Sachem, and Blaine himself a stout supporter, burned an Irish Catholic Church. In Rockland you will tind a different state of thiDgs; there the Irish voters are all going back on the Democracy." At Rockland the f-rst Irishman found was one of the most prominent in the city, a member of the City Council and a Republican for many years. He said be would never Tote for Blame, but would probably vote for Butler. Nearly every other Irishman in tbe city, including one who had been reckoned as t reliable Democrat, wss found enthusiastic for Redman and Cleveland. No, there were few Blaine Irishmen in Rockland, but there were quite a number over in Ellsworth, right under Judge Redman's nose. The investigation made there aroused the indignation of the men talked with. "Wby," eaid one, "it was right here tbat Father Bapst wis tarred and feathered by the Republic an Know-noihingfor the crime of being a Roman Catholic. No Irishman or Catholic here will vote for Robie or Blaine. Every man of us is heart aod soul for John B Redman and Cleveland and Hendricks." Before reaching Elsworth your correspondent had considered that, like the jack-o'-lanterns, the Irish Blaine Democrats were always in the distance, but being told by a leading Republican there were fifty such in Bangor, he went to that city. There it was the same old story one young man, a "tonsorial artist," had signed a card, said to have been written by a Republican of the place, in which he gave his reasons far rallying for Blaine, and called upon others to do so. Nobody else rallied. At Bangor the job of hunting down Irish Democrats who will vote for Blaine was abandoned. It was said, however, tbat there were quite a number'of such around Mattawamkeag, Wytopitlock and Pa3sadumkeag. Turn the rascals out and let no more rascals in. That Suit. ' IKnknmrt Dispatch. J I do uoi remember having exchanged a word with Mr. Shoemaker concerning the suit of James G. Blaine, but from others I have learned tbat his action in the matter was the result of no sudden impulse, but that he made np his mind after mature deliberation. It is bardly to be supposed that he knew the Republican nominee would do him the honor to institute proceedings for libel or make any such species of donkey of himself; but the proprietor of the Sentinel determined to make the charge, al ter extensive reading, thought, and consultation with one of the acknowledged great men of Indiana (who Is in no sense a politician), as to what the Republican campaign out-put would be. He knew that it would have a marked influence in eliminating personalities from the campaign and it has. But he was perhaps wiser than he knew. More than aby other American journalist, Mr. Shoemaker has contributed to the elevation of the political literature of 1SS1, by bringing one par:y to a realization of tbe fact that the other was loaded. The discovery of gunpowder largely softened the savagery of war and prolonged tbe life of man. "The pistol," says Myron W. I.eed, "is the weak man's "right-of-way." Firearms encourage Christianity and bring about such benign epochs in the history of nations as the Geneva Arbitration. I think the partisan press will early come to see that it is the Republican and Democratic party on trial tbe official, not the private life of the two candidates. A HAN1WOHK DONATION. Nathan Trimble I'reaeats a Fine White fcter. I Shelby DeinocraLl Mr. Nathan Trimble came to the city this morning, and hunting up the Committee on Arrargments for the barbecue, told them that he desired to make a donation out ot tbe respect be entertained for his old fritnd, Hon. Thoncas A. Hendricks. He stated that Mr. Hendricks had been his warm personal, political and professional friend for years, and that when he was the victim of persecution at the hands of the Republicans of Shelby County Mr, Hendricks came to his relief and helped him out of hia troubles. Mr. Trimble informed the committee that he had on hia farm a beautiful snow white steer, which he had refused for on several occa sions, as he did not care to sell the animal. It weighs 1,-00 pounds and is one of the finest in the county. He told the committee that the steer was at tbeir service, as be desired to donate it to the barbecue. He was handed a paper and wrote: "N. Trimble, one white steer." He was thanked oyer and over again for his generosity. The Acceptance in Connecticut, (Hartford Times. Here we have a manly and statesmanlike letter of acceptance. It is of the Jeffersonian type, straightforward, clear, explicit. There is no demagogism about it ; no attempt to scatter all over tbe earth to scrape in a vote. Governor Cleveland tells the people plainly just what he believes in, and what he has believed ic and practiced. He wastes no words for party effect.

BLAINE'S RAILU0AJ) PASSES.

He Loans One of Tbem to Bis Secretary. The KailroaA Company Takes It Atray From Uint, Hut It ia Returned to Avoid His Opposition. (Philadelphia Record (Ind.) During the service of James G. Blaine as Speaker of the House of Representatives, among the passes which he held over different lines of railroads was one over the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company's lines. This pass wa3 renewed every year, and the printed conditions upon its back contained the statement in bold letters that if it were transferred it would be forfeited. Mr. Blaine rode upon this pass so often that the conductors on the road became very familiar with his face. There was no trouble with the pass until 1T0. Mr. Blaine was then in the very plenitude of his political power; his influence was at its zenith, and when a stranger appeared on a train of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad with the pass of Speaker Blaine in his possession he was in formed that the pass would be taken up and that he must pay his fare or get off the train. He preferred to pay his fare and continue the ride. A few days after this tbe President of the company was in receipt of a letter from Mr. B'aine stating that he was sorry if he had violated any rule of tbe company, but that he had loaned his pass to his secretary without a knowledge of the fact that it was "not transferable." Tbe:passwas forwarded to Mr. Blaine again, and he was told that the company always took np passes when they were tendered by any one but the person in whose name they were made out, and that he should read the conditions under which it was issued. It was not a very great while after this tbat the pas3 was again presented by the Secretary of Mr. Blaine, and, as before, it was taken np and turned into the ollice of tbe company. Not many days afterward the oflicers of the company received a letter from Washington from a friend of Mr. Blaine, stating that he was sorry that the pass had been taken up, but that Mr. Blaine desires its return. By this time the President of the company had not only lost patience in the matter, but was surprised that a person of Mr. Blaine's intelligence should have treated the pass as he bad done. He also wrote to Washington expressing his feeling, stating that be felt hurt, and intimating that there would be no chance for a repetition of the offecsc. Tfcis was the beginning of a corresponderce, and among this correspondence were letters from several persons acting in the interest of Mr. Blaine and authorized to speak for him. They stated thet the railroad company was pursuing a very foolish policy, 8Dd intimated in terms which were unmistakable that if it desired the aid of Mr. Blaine, instead of his opposition, it would be well to comply with the request for a return of the pass. An oiheer of the company, who furnishes the information, stated in relating the circumstances to a reporter of tbe Record, that it was at a time when the company had large interests before Con eress It was interested in the mail service bills, and also in the proposed National Line of railway from Washington to Philadelphia, New York, Bo3ton, and other points. The success of the latter scheme would have been largely prejudicial to the welfare of both the Philadelphia, Wilmirgton and Baltimore and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Companies. Both of these companies, at the time of the correspondence with Mr. Blaine and his friends, were using tbeir utmost efforts to defeat tbe scheme of the National Line of railroad especially. "We certainly did not desire tbe opposition of the Speaker of the House, with all of his influence," said the officer of tbe company. He then continued: "I conferred with the Baltimore and Ohio people, and told them that our road was certainly entitled to some respect; but after measuring our strength I found tbat we could not afford to incur any opposition. On the 9th of July, 1870, 1 reluctantly complied with the lequest of Mr. Blaine, and forwarded him his pass through Hon. G. Twichell, of Massachusetts. We retained Mr. Blaine's friendship, but at a cost more bitter than one's honor and dignity like to pay very often." Will Ulaine ltesign? Tbe following letter was a few days since handed to the editor of the Albany Argus, with permission to print the same. It bears out what tbe dispatches report concerning the depressed state of mind in which the Republican candidate seems to be indulging: .Bascok. Me., Aug 20, 11. My Dear : In reply to your t'avor of Aueut 15. uskine me H tDe report of Mr. Blaine's de pression is true, I would say that I have sen him twice lately. ud I mast fty he acts like one without hope. Ills general iiealth seems good, but there la over him a sort or gloom which we nsver noticed before. A gentleman toli rue within a weelc that but for the influence of his party managers he would even now withdraw, iilkini and others have begeed him to write a letter explaining the MuiliRau letters. He hut refused point-blank, to to this. The Prohibitionists in this Saile are working teeth and nail for bim. General Dow, indved, claims that with their help the majority for iilajne in September wi:l be phenomenal. Henry G. . This Time It Is Sore Throat. New York Herald. Mr. Blaine ia badly needed in Indianapolis, where his personal presence is essential to his success in a certain libel suit which he has instituted against a certain newspaper published in tbat city. How extremely unfortunate it is tbat just at this important moment Mr. Blaine should be seized at Bar Harbor, Me , with a severe attack of sunstrokeno. this time it is sore throat! Mr. Blaine's physicians insist that tbeir patient must bave at least a week of perfect quiet. And in tbe meantime that Indianapolis libel suit may come to grief. How sad! Show the Hooks. Brooklyn Eagle. The conviction strengthens that it would be a crime to keep the Republican party, with its record of corruption, in power lor another four years, when there is a chance to turn it out. The books must be opened for inspection, the accounts must be investigated and tbe foul places mad? cla n. To accomplish this there is but or e way, ani that is to elect Grover Cleveland. Hood's Sarsa pari 11a Is designed to meet the wants of those who need a medicine to build them up, give them an appeMte, purify their blood and oil up the machinery of their bodies. 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