Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 30, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1884 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE 8ENTINEL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1884.

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Eorgbum as a Profitable) Crap. Tie Parmer's Hog Packing Butter In Brine. fraaOMrry Oultnre Preserving Stoeep ft kin estimating Ceroflelda Household Blatt and Farm Notes. orghana as a Profitable Crop. J Philadelphia Record Ecrglnm growing should receive the attention of every f Armer wb.0 grow 3 corn, .lltbcngti a soarce from which angar may be btained, sorghum is also profitable for its 'odder and seed alone, and when the farmera begla to realize tlia islae of the ground seed aa food for Block it will be a regilar crop wherever it can be prodnced. Dr. Co' lier, tte late Chemist of the Agricultaral Department, states that sorghum can be grown in any climate or oa any soil that produces corn, and, while corn produces eeed and fodder, sorghum produces sasd, fodder and sirup. The sj3iem of cultivation is the tame for both corn and sorghum, though at the time of putting ia the seed orgburu demands less labor. The quality of sorghum seed ia nearly the earns 83 that cf eora, but ia valuable In a dietary point of view, while a mixture of ground corn and sorghum seed is superior to either when fed alone to stock. The yield of seed per acre is about the same w that of corn, and :s as easily harvested; but a little more labor is required in order to separate the seed in the tarn. The fooder is s wee tar than that of corn, possessing, therefore, a greater proportion of nutriment, and will keep in a green or sndciant condition much longer than corn fodder, which i3 a very important item. It is not necessary to strip the talks early, xoristherea loss of saccharine matter by allowing the fodder to mature, as the most available sirup is obtained after the seed are thoroughly ripe. When stalks are strippt d of the leaves and the fodder bund !fi and cured under the system known as "blading" it makes the cleanest and bebt provender known, and even after the stalk i are ground and pressed they may be utilized for feeding pnrpes?s, as it is im possible to completely deprive them of their saccharine matter. la making 6irup the common method now pej seed is for farmers to combine and proru;e the necessary machinery, or for a fsrruer to procure each for him?elf, and et an: a a commission to his neighbors f ir grinding the cane and extracting the sirup; or, as it is done with the thrashing machines, there are those who makes a bn-üne ot extiactinz the simp, the cost of making the sirup varying from twelve to twenty five certs per gallon. Each gallon cf sirup yield about six ponnds of sugar, but as experiirenta are annually cheapening tha cost of manufacture, in a short timo the exp eases will be but very little. "We do not, however, value eorzaum for its sugar alone, bat also for its sirup. Ia the Pcuth duriDgthe war sorghum sirup was a common article, and proved an excellent substitute for rnolaase. There was no li faculty in its manufacture, for on every lrm was a rude taill which pressed the juice from the cane, and this was in a few huurs bailed down to tbe consistency of sirup. No sugar wsa n.ade, however, as the method of crysta izing the saccharine matter from sorhaoi whs then unknown. With the improved methods and machinery of the present dy there is no reason why every farmer sboa'd not grow his own sirup, and at a small expense. With the advantages in favor of eorgham of being a valuable sied producer, and the excellence cf the leaves for feeding purpose, with the conversion of the sUiks into snsrar. It should share with corn a ccrtioa of the pace on every farm, especially as it stands droughts better and germinates sooner when Blanted, as well as being quicier in grouts and less liable to injury from lrosts than ccrn. The Farmer's Hog. Breeders' Journal. The different breeds cf hogs have their fast friends, and no doubt they each fci7e what their friends admire in them, but the average feeder who do3 not care to raise pigi to sell for breeding purposes, Bhould strive to get a hoc that will make Lim the most money for the feed put into it. Ia the first place a beg should have a good coat of hair; not bristles, but hair. A b'ack ho? will not pet scurvy on his back; the sun will net blister him. A hog should have a good constitution, with round sprung rib and good girth around the heart, short neck and head well put on, short face and nose, tail put oa not way up on his back nor yet too low down, hams round and well filled, not too slavish disposition nor jet tcowild. Bythe purchase of the right kind of a male pig the feeder can raise just such pigs as he want3 to fe;d, and have much more protable and beaitby acirnaü than he can buy. The brood sows can be ran on clover pasture in summer at very little expense, and if provided with eorue good clover hay ia winter it will reduce their feed bills. Not etoDi-'h attention is paid to provid-inc; good pastures for pigs; they are generally ke pt in a barren lot with a generous sized mud hole in it, in which the water is eo fol that jast the smell cf it is sickening; let alone having to drink it. As for a cbaase of paatare, it is never thought of, on accoantot taetroaMe nf fencing it. The sensible way to provilo for them is to have enough land devoted to their nee so the piers can have a a good ewef-.t pasture of clover all the time. Do not keen them on the same old poisoned ground for . ten years, but when the grass gebj run oat plow it and take off a coupls of crops; then re seed to clover, and then let their hogsh'ps take fresh comfort, health and fat from tha new fresh ground andgTaäa. Thi3 round will then supply the living for the pigs, while i i the other way of doing the pig lot is full of weeds, bare of grass, and the bare ground cot ere d with mud and hog wallows. Packing: Ilutterln Urine. JTbe Dairyman. J A method of packing butter for its more perfect preservation, and one wbloh ia very effective, has long beea In use in England. It has been recommended in this country, but has not beea adopted, bo far as we know. It is to pack trie butter in cylindrical bags of mualin, which are pat in a mold for the purpose. Thane bss hold about two pounds, and when filled are titd tightly and packed away in brine in tubs, pails or casks, and are headed up just as pickled pork ia. The bntter will absorb no more salt; is perfectly free from atmospheric exposure; is enveloped in an antiseptic fluid, and ia therefore entirely sal from change, excepting so far as this may occur Internally from within by the natural process called ripening, and which is dee to the change of the milk sugr (lactose) in the butter into rallk (lactic) acid, and this into butyric acid by a well "undertood chemical transformation of theelsroentB. Bat this change goes on so slowly that the butter merely acquires a high and agreeable flavor, and no strong scent or tiste is developed which would approach rancidity. This manner of packing butter has long beea in cm in some districts of England, and the supplies furnished to the large universities of Oxford and Cambridge hare been put Tip in a similar way for many years. Tbe butter is made In long rolls about two inches in diameter, and theao are wrapped in muslin and the edges secured by some stitches, the ends being tied. This form ot roil is wall known as "college batter," and is found very convenient for uyby catting oTtbin slices, each of wLUh Is a ringle ration for a tHitlt. it Silfrl l fVUSd Tl TJ tief oj fce;a

for the nf of hotels and caterers, who would be relieved of the trouble of molding their ewn cakes, which to some extent injures the quality cf the butter. Cranberry Culture. The eranherry crop has not yet entere! very folly into tbe agricultural statistics Of Matachusetta, which, as gathered in the census report, are not exact enough tobe much quoted. In 18C5 the number of bushels reported were 34 C21, and tbe value $101,5oS; )u 1875 the quantity had increased to 110,184 bushels, of which 45,207 were raised in Barnstable County alone the total value tbe re bein? 1 113 813, and in the whole State fJSS.llX This year, sajs the Boston Journal, the croo of Barnstable County alone is estimated to exceed $300,000 in value, while in Plymouth County the crop may be as large or nearly so chiefly in tbe towns of Carver, Rochester. Plymouth, Pembroke, Duxbury and a few more. The town of Carver alone, which in 1S75 reported agricultural products to the extent of only $21,0o0, may produce any good year cranberries enough to more than double this whole value of faim products. It would be needful that the three hundred acres, more or less, of the Carver crsc berry neadows should yield fifty barrels per acre, which, at present prices, would net $120,000, or more than rive times the reported farm products. There are p'enty of other towns in the two counties which will soon give a better acoount of their cranberry income than all the rest of their faming. Preserving Sneep-Sklns. 'Where farmers kill but a few sheep during the season they can make better use of the tells than to sell them if they know how to preserve them. For mats take two longwcoled skins and mak9 a strong audi, using hot water; when it is cold wash the skins in it, carefully squeezing them between the hands to get the dirt oat of the woo!, then wash the soap out with clear, cold water. Then diceolve alum and salt, each a halfpound, with a little hot water aufheient to coyer the skins, and then let them soak in it over night for twelve hours, then haog over a pole to drain. When they are well drained spread or stretch carefully over a beard to dry. When a little damp have one ounce each of saltpeter and alum pulverized, and sprinkle on the fleah side of each tkin. rubbing ia well, then lay the flesh sides together and hang ia the shade for two or three days, turning the under skin uppermost every day until perfectly dry; then taste the fieh side with a blunt knife to ren ove any remaining scraps of desh. Trim oir projecting points; rub the flesh side with the hand. They also make good mittens. Lamh-skiE3. or even sheep-skins, if the wool be trimmed off evenly to half or three fourths inch long, make beautiful and warm u.ittens for ladies and gentlemen, and the girls with a little practice c&a make them. IT9tlmntiug Corn Flehte. Dr. Stnrtevact, ia a late bulletin, oils attention to the fact that the small-c ibbed early ripening corn will furnfca more mer cbantable corn to the hundred pound of bam St ears than will a large-cobbed, lateriperiing variety. In comparing the yield's of d lTerent varieties trown uader equivalent circumstances, the harvest must nescev f arily diiler in weight according as the com is more or le ss lipe. Therefore in compua tive testa we must expect ofteutime to liad our reuUs nnlesä rationally interpreted, uioie misleadine than useful. In most sea bor 8. sue a as we have ia this region, deal coins, ripening later than Hint corns, wilt certain more water at harvest, and therefore in comparing the amount of crop yielded ujn two adjacent areas even if both sorts yie.'d precisely the same amount of tner-ch-ntah'e corn, yet the deat corn will ao pareMly give the larger yield. Aliintearof corn that will abell from the ear 4 ait a read ily may contain ZO per cent, of water. A large-eared dent corn which will shell f qaalJy as nadily may contain 33 or more per tent, of water.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS. To Keep Cider Sweet By Keenest. To a barrel of cider add one teaccpful of mustard seed. Put tbe mustard in a bs.3 if desirable. Those who like the cider slightly fermented 6hould add the mustard whan It suits their tAt. Ham for Breakfast. Fried ha'ri for breakfast is particularly nice when the slices are cut tbe night before and are allowed to soak all night in a cup of water to which a table spoonful of eugar has been added. This softens the meat and takes out the oppressively palt taje. Graham Purfs. Graham puffs for breakfast are richer and a great deal nicer tnan the plain gem. Take one pint of sweet niiik, one pint of Graham flour, half a teaspoonful cf ealtand one egg; biat the e,;, then add the milk, and then the llour gradually; beat it very briskly for four or fivi minutes, then pour into buttered gem pins; hake in a hot oven. Pickled Apple?. rare a peck of sweet apples, but leave them whole; tat three pounds of brown sugar, two quarts cf vinegar, one-half ounce each of cinnamon and cloves: mix together, boil part with the apples till tfcey are tender, but not broken. Then take them out, beat the remainder of the vinegar and su-rar well together and pour over thero. Seal up the oottles till wanted. Cream Sauce Takeone pintof hot cream, one tablespoonful of batter, two o! flour, a half teaspoontalot salt and the half of a raitspoonful of pepper. Melt the butter, bac do not brown it; teen aid to it tha Hour, stir until wbll mixed, pour oa the cream and let it boil until thick, stirring slowly. Lastly add the ral: and pepper. The eaace is very nice for cauliflower or other vegetable?, and ocay be made with mi lie ic steal 0 cream, using a tril'.e more flour. Ilollid Beefijtf ak. Uoiled beefsteak is a very pood way of cookine aa inferior steak. Take a round ete&k. brat and spread with a dressing, such as 13 used for poultry. R$in atone esd and roll it neatly, tying it to kep it in shape. Put it in a büke pan with a little water and bake until t!ie meat is trader, bastirg it frequently. Thicken the gruvy in the pan with a little flour wet with cold water and season it nicely, adding a little catsup or ßauce of some kind. Poar it around the meat. Out it as you would a berry roil, slicing oT the ends neatly. Lemon Shortcake It your family liks a good srrong lemon flavor it will be a delicious dish. Make a bhortcako dongh exactly I'ke a ttrawberry sLoncoke. While tht 13 baking prate tbe peel of a lemon and sqieezo every drop of juice from it ioUi a bowl; th? n take half a cup of sngar and half a cap of moJawe. a teacapful of water, a little lump of butter and ft tablespoonful ot flour. Let this toil until it is j cat about as thick as boiled custard. When tbe ßborteake is bafeed cut it ia two parts and pour the mixture over the lower one; then lay the upper parts on tbi.o, bottom side up. and cover that ahso with the custard. Braised Ducks with Turnips. Obtain a pair of fine, young and fat ducks. Trass them as for roasting and place them in a stflwpan, together with two or three slices ef bacon, a carrot and a little thyme and parsley. Eeasoa with pepper and cover the whole with a broth made of fluid beef, adding to tbe broth a gill of white wine. Place the pan over a gentle fire and allow the ducks to simmer until done, basting them frequently. When done remove them from the pan and place them where they will keep hot. A turnip should then be cut np and fried In b-.tter. When nicely browned drain the pieces and cook them nntil tender in the liquor in which the ducks were braised, f-'ow strain and thicken the gravy, and after dUhin-r up the duces piur it ovar them, garnishing with pieces of turnip. Tbe Caterer. Indian Pudding Qave'one quart of milk in a stewpan over the fire, just ready to boil; stir into this four tablespoon fnla of line corn mea), which has been moistened in cold milk enough to render it of a Iampkws, creamy consistency. After it is thoroughly mixed In the hot milk a id three tablespoonfula of xoofasaes; add a teaspoonful of salt tSltill im KclJtf rapidly tu ua ci JLUtta

mimte, and yon are ready to pour into t well-buttered pudding dien. It will bate S3 as to be as grod as the average in two hours, but remember those brick-oven puddings that cat in the oven all night and were tbe better for it, and, after it baa baked thoroughly, set in the "hot closet" of your range and give it all the time yo'i can afford n?ore the better. 8ix hours it 'Jiree times as well as two. Add butter now and then to keep the top from burning. Wafftea. Wa files are an old-time supper dieb. To a quart of MoarsJr aquart of sweet milk and half a cup of melted baCer, with a teaspoon even full of salt and one of sugar. Add half a enp of yeast, and when .the wattles are very light two eggs. Beat well ard let the mixture stand twenty minutes, when it is ready to bake. French pan cakes are made in the same way, but are baked oa a tin spider in round cakes, like grid lie cakes. Sprinkle powdered sugar over each cake as yon bake it, squeeze lemon juice over it, and roll up and serve at once. Hot Scotch scones will occasionally be acceptable at a simple meal: Silt half a spoonful of coda into a quart of flour, and mix in rich buttermilk enough to make a dough as stiiT as for soda biscuit. Roll out half an in :h thick, and bake on a hot griddle In to large cakes the size of dinner plates. Serve with dishes of Dnndee marmalade.

FARUNOTEsY The average weight of the hogs received in Chicago during September was -33 pounds. When feeding bay It is a bad practice to let the horse stand with a rackful of hay before him all the time. Including imported and native-born, it is claimed that there are now in this country about 20.000 registered Jerseys. Bee culture is a business, and its successful management Is a matter requiring earnest thought and considerable courage. Flax is a South Dakota crop. The high price at which it was marketed laityear caused a large increase in the average this jear. Now is the most favorable time in the year for collecting all sorts of vegetable refuse and muck for winter use in yards and stables. The ground should be plowed at any time during the fall and winter that tbe weather will permit, as the frost is an excellent pulverizer. Parker Earle says the worst insect depredator on the strawberry plant this year was tbe crown-borer; last year it was the tarnished plant-bug. During cold weather the water used for watering plants shoald be tepid. It is highly injurious to give tbe house plants a sprinkling of very cold water. The dividends from sheep come oftener than from other classes of stock, exc?pt dairy cows, tbe fleece, lambs and mutton reaching market at different periods. An open 6hed, facing the south, is an excellent arrangement for all classes of stock, as tbe open air is preferred by them at some periods instead of the stables. It is stated by those whose pens have beea visited by hog cholera that when tha carcasses of the hogs are not burned the buzzard?, which feed upon them, carry the disease to remote points. An experienced dairyman says the groin of bntter may be spoiled in churning where great haste is used. A stow, regular stroke is absolutely necessary and indispensable ia . rxanufacturing a first class article. A cattle ra'ser of Illinois has so far change h:'a system of feedin that he no feeds ccrn ever day all sumxer to bis steers In pasture. He has experimented nntil he 1j convinced that this way of feeding pays best. A spring colt ehould be weaned a little before winter, in order that It may become used to the change of food while the weather is werm and while plenty of succaiant fooJ can bd had. Ensilage is an excellent feel for maintaining growth of colta aui othjr young Block. The best way to rid a hirw's ears of warts is to rub them well with a coarse cloth and then touch them well with a little nitric acid every alternate day until you have aiministered three applications. A single droa cf the acid will be quite euGcient for the smaller ones. Ht. John S. Thompson, an experienced sheep breeder of Arcona, Ind., is of the opinion that a cross of Shropshire and Marino sheep is all that can be desired, the lambs being vigorous and healthy, and if the tic cks are well kept may consist of 500 or 1.100 head. The California wheat, fruit and wine crops have lately been estimated as follows: Tne total wheat production at CO, 000.000 bushels, gainst 54,040,000 bushels in Tbis is the largest crop ever produced in any State in the Union. The fruit crop, with the exception of peaches, is enormous. Wine shuns a great increase over every previous year. The total acreage In wheat is given at 3,350,000. After deducting for seai and fconje consumption there will be a surplusof 0.000.000 bushels, or 30,000.000 cental 8. To manage sheep, says tha Farmers' Call, give the lambs a little mill feed ia the time cf weaning. Never frighten sheep if possible to avoid it. Some rye for weak ones in cold weather if you can. Separate all the weak, thin or sick from the strong in tho fall and give them special care. If any sheep is hurt catch it at once, wash the wound, and if it is in ily time apply spirits of tarpentine daily and wash it with something healiog. If a limb is broken, bind with Eplinters tightly, loosening es the limb swell. The American Cultivator estimates the annual prcdact;on cf dip se in the United States to be XO.O GC-,000 poand9. ad tht of butter 1 500,tXK p. uuda the value of th two being .59,000,000 more thai tbe whet crop, one seventh more than the hay cro. one-third more than the cotton crop, an i only cne fifth Je3 than the corn crop. If this ia true of the Statt 8. the principal wheat producing country in the world, how easilv. with our lare herds of prime cattle, co ild we make oar dairy produce oae of our chief exjcr 8 to say nothing of supplying thi honie market. Utah has now 10,000 small farms averaging twetty-fiye acres, and the whole must b irrigated. There is only one large farm in the Territory, and it is owned by a company. The Great Salt Lake, according to Elder Cannon, contains enough ealt to supply America for centurlea. Alt that is necessary in preparing it for the market ist drive to tbe edge ot tbe lake with a wagon, and a man with a pair of rubber boots can load it with a shovel. The salt lies on tbe bottom of the lake in email, ccarae crystals. After loading it is taken to a grinding machine, and alter being ran through It Is lit for the table. Three-fifths of all the cattle in tbe Units i States, other than milk cows, are west of the Mississippi Valley. Minnesota. Iowa, Nebraska. Missouri, Kansas aad Dakota have 6.30 C00 this year, against 3.810,000 in ltH-', showing a gam of nearly 10 per cent. The gain in the ranching section altogether reaches G per cent. Five States, which have jutt begun tbe dairjieg business Mississippi, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska increased the number of milk cows by 215,(00 in the year, equal to nearly 10 pr cent. Iowa, which has nearly half the whole number, shows a gain of 12 and Nebraska one of 21 per cent. We still see In European and In some American journals long directions for miking permanent tree labels of zinc, to be wired on the tree after the name had beex written with a ctrefully prepared chemical prepar ation of nitrate of silver, sulphate of pota9b, or otber composition, requiring much care and labor, if not expense. We have given on former occasions tiaa mode by which complete labels may be made, by a tin-maker, from scrap sheet zine, as fast as he can cbop with his shears, the name being written with a common lead peneil, and last half a century, acd tbe label being permanently Krured to a small aide branch by one" pr two coils of the nerrow end without any Deceslit fox wilt loop Country Gentlemaif,

Cctton eeed Is veryrioh in all the valuaVe elements of fertilisers. The ash of the hulls contain 33 to 25 per cent, of potash and 8 percent of phosphoric acid. T meal o( tbe seed, free from hulls, contain 7 per cent, of nitrogen, 1 per cent of potash and 3 par cent, of phgephorio acid. A tan of ech would thus contain 14 pounds of nitrogen, equal to about 170 pounds of ammonia, 51') pounds potarh snd 22 pounds pbospborio seid. Ooe ton of Pen: - an guano contains 2tX) pounds nitrogen, 21 1 pounds phosphoric acid and 40 pounds pota-.h The cutton seed hull ash and tbe meal together are. therefore, worth mere than half as much Peruvian gnano. A potato that has been greened In the snn is spoiled for eating, but for seed it is aU the better. Snch potatoes will be from a week to ten days earlier than others of the am variety planted at the same time. With late varieties they will produce a largercrop, as the growth will be more vigorous on the same kind of land This secret of exposing potatoes to sunshine for a time before plaat in g has been worth fortunes to the potato growers who learned tt It may be done with the hills selected for seed by partly uncovering the potatoes white still attached to the roots, taking care that it be done in not very hot weather, and that potatoes so exposed be dug before danger from froct. American Cultivator. The old idea that the sap of trees descends into tbe roots in the fall, remaining there through the winter, i3 an error, with no foundation whatever, says Mr. A. 6. Fuller. As the wood and teaves nnen in the autumu the roots almost cease to imbibe crude sap, and for awhile the entire structure aopears

to part with moisture and doubtless does bo through tbe exhalations of the ripening leaves, bods and smaller twigs, but as warm weather again approaches and the tempera ture or tbe sou again increases, tbe roots stain commence to absorb crude sap and force it upward, where it meets eoluble or. ganizcd matter, changing its color, taste aad chemical properties. If this were not the case we could not account for the saccharine properties of sap, as in the maple. U0T1I A3l" GOSSIP. A Ten rortralture of the PresidentElect. Gossip Aßoat as to HI Posoible Marriage Toxin er Mutresiie of tne White House. Boston Uerald New York Letter. Assuming that the vote of New York State, given by a most insignificant majority to the Democratic column, has elected Grover Cleveland President of the United States, and that thereby the peace and prosperity and comfort and general progress of the country are made certain, a very interesting portraiture forces itself before the public mind. Who and what Is the President-elect? Who and what will be the cabinet? Mr. Cleveland is neither an Adonis nor an ourang-outang. He is a man about the or dlnary height, inclined to corpulency, with a line of faculties which are not bright nor sharp, nor acute, but are correct, well-mean ing, honeet and well-based. Circumstances with which the public have nothing what ever to do have induced him thus far to remain a bachelor, and his home life ia molded and guided by bis Bieters and their friends. In Buffalo, where he lived many years, where he was elected to such offices as tbe county and city had at their disposal, he was never known as a society man nor a club roan, lie was always reserved, reti cent, but notably laitntnl in the execution of his public duties. It would be folly, in these days, to deny that there is euch a thing ks lnck, and Cleveland was a1wav9 a lucky candidate, so much so indeed thatthat element entered very largely into the bat ting calculations of professional sporting men, 1 cid not believe, personally, he would carry New York State, and an analysis or the vote cast shows very clearlv that, had nuuer ana et-Jonn neen reiegatea to private life, the Republicans would have won this battle, so far as New -York is concerned: but in speaking of it I have always said, un der ordinary circumstances 1 don t see hov Cleveland can hope to carry New York State, for under the present influences New York is Kepublican in a general election, by about twenty thousand votes, nevertheless the quality of luck, that thus far has attended Cleveland, may again demonstrate it3 po tency, and place the scepter of power In his chubby right hand, and it did so, I know many people who are intimate with Govern or Cleveland, and they all like him person ally. He Isn't what would be regarded in emtured circles in Boston, a gentleman by birth and social breeding, but he is very cer as everywhere else, a straightforward, well meaning, honest, active man, whoe person al ideas and ambitions are merged in his rig id and inflexible determination to dis ctarge faithfully his duty, at whatever ex pense of mental disturbance or phvsical fa tigue. If we may predict the future upon the juesent, Cleveland will be an industriom President, whose action will be guided very largely bv his conscience. He laboroussv in veitigates details where ether men would be content with reports 01 subordinates, givic? generalities snd large data on which to bsse judgment aiid 6ib3tq;ent decision. ("UEVEHND's rEOEAELE MAEEIVjE, There is some gossip afloat as to tbe Governor's probable marriage prior to the 4th of March next. We have never had a President married in the White Houe; in fact f don't recall any marriages there, except that f Miss Nellie Grant, and, it the Governor contemplates matrimony, I think tha entire feminine vote of the country would be cast in favor of the postponement of tbe wedding until alter his inauguration as President, iu order that the White House may be graced by wedding festivitiee, and enlivened by the merry mneic of marriage bells. Of one thins the public may b certain. Cleveland will carry with him to Washington the simple tastea and habits of Jackson and Jefferson. Much thereafter will depend cpon the peculiarities and preferences of Mrs. Cleveland, should the President be so fortunate as to really take to himself a wife. Outsiders have very little conception of the iniiucuoo tue Presidents' wives have upon Washington society, more especially the official part of it Washington is divided into two very widely contrasted parties the old timers, people who have lived there, and their fathers before them, for the past hundred years, families whose parlors have been the social centre for generations on the one band, and the constantly shitting kaleideccixmic political medley on tbe other band, iie such a man as Horatio King, for Instance, who for twentyfive years was al tbe head of the Poatoülce Department and subsequently Postmaster General in Buchanan's term. He has lived there forever and, al though not a man of wealth. Is well fixed in lite's goodie, and bis home is every winter made delightful by his his old-fashioned hospitality, which is not confined to gayety, frivolity aud epicurianism, but reaches out with liberal hand aa a patron of tbe arte and sciences in every line. To his weekly receptions, which are literary in tone, row a lecture, then a concert, at times a discussion, at others an ordinary intermingling of distinguished people, he is a fair type o tbe quiet, conservative, non-guahlng Wasbingtonian, who draws the line at Congressmen, and even they are marvellously scrutinized and thoroughly diagnosed before the doors of the modest home are thrown open to them. The President and his Cabinet, the foreign contingent and Congress are the other set. Naturally tbe President la at the head of everything social as well as political, but even hU life is greatly modified, molded, baped, directed ky the b earing I hi wile, is Jtteiit was

always an invalid and distressing event of

yrxpatby of the nation, made it lmpo for ber to entertain. In consequence, the White Houee was during Frank Pierce's reg;me a not psrtiealarly pleasant place to visit. When Buchanan defeated Fremmt In 1$53 tr?J? was great mourning in Washington, Dere Mr?. Fre mont, formerly Jessie Benton, daughter Ol tbe famous old .Missouri an. Colonel Benton, wasalwsjs a great favorite, made so not alone by ber social position the danghter of one senator and tbe wife of another bnt by resfon of her great natural wit and intel ligence, her cunual eulture and tue tren endous impetu she gave to every society matter in which she took an interest. Mr. Bnchanan was a bachelor, bat a delightful bott, a genial compaion." His household was preftiutd over by Mies Harriet Lane, a lady of rare phvsical beauty, very stately, of distinguished manners an 1 dvote4 to her nrcle s fortunes. Although the ecg of seces sion was in process of incubation during Buchanan's pretidency, and southern feeling ran ramr ant from end to end of Washington scciety, the ladies of the South for twentybve years prior to the war having ruled ftbeclutelv in the capital of the-Nation and it is a fair judgment that the leaven of south ern feeling is still potent in Washington it was a brilliant season that, for many reasons. Buchanan's cabinet was composed of unusually able men, many of them dangerous, all of them determined, as was evinced by their conduct in the early part of 1801, when the rebel flag wa3 boldly flaunted, and the very Capitol itself wa3 made the headquarters of treaeon and rebellion. Döring Bcchacan'B incumbency the Prince of Wales si.d his suite were guests of the head of the Na:ion, and by him were escorted to Mt. Vernon, where, with uncovered heads they Btocd in tbe presence ot all that was left cf tbe first President and wbere Albert Edward kindly condescended to plant a little tree. TBE U5C0LK BSG IMC. When Lincoln went to Washington everything was in disorder. The inauguration ball was a fizzle, a dreary, dismal outlook confronted the good man, and at first thrladies of his household had but little oppo tcnity to disclose themselye. I madelü-. trfpfrom Springfield, Illinois, with Mrs. Liiicoln, the children, Mrs. Lincoln's sisters and her nieces. It is a good while ago, but, unless my memory has gone back on me, there was a Mrs. Helmaley, subsequently interested in contracts for saddles, a Mrs. Franklyn, and a very pretty joung lady, Mrs. Baker. That Mrs. Lincoln's head should be turned by her sudden and unexpected elevation rather surpristd n.e, for I admired her very much, tihe wbs not pretty nor distinguished looking, but a good, square, matronly, domestic woman, in wbofe good sense I expected the President would find immense relief and aid and comfoit. Ordinary women have no conception of the pull, the strain, the wear and tear that the god lady endured. Her husbar d was in io sense a society man. He was great, be was good, he was honest and faith(ul and true, but ren:enber wbat was put upon his shoulders; remember the years of fctrnpgle, of sorrow, cf wondsr, of apprehens'.cd, of despair at times He bad no inclination, in the first place, to entertaiD, and l e didn't know anything about it anyhow. There was a great carcafs there of plunder, Ld tbe vultures of the Cnioa flew each to get bis bile. Mr p. Lmcnjn and the lalics who were with her were tiattered from the soles of tbeir feet to the tops of their head. They were mtde to believe the y were tbe men beautiful, the most charming, the most agreeable persons this bide of the heavenly ridge Itelf. They were given to understand it was their dny, in the face of a terrible rational disorder, to be cbeerlul,to brace up. and to indicate by their manner and their bearlrg, that everjthifg was lovely and thai the goose of national prosperity was 'way np upon the tip top limb. To do theai justice, they tried hard. I ws.s stationed there as correspondent for a New York paper, and eaw them every day. I caw the deep lines furrow into Lincoln's face, and knew that the red hot iron W23 in his 8cul. I saw how the troubles and the strangles and tbe anxieties and the sleepless nights were wearing upon his susceptible ratnre, and I also raw that he failed to anderttand why it was that tha ladies of his household were apparently running in an absolutely different direction. Perhaps a few stern and kind remarks explaining the situation, disapproving of this, that and tbe ether, would have made a difference; but he was too busy he was too much worked, he was pulled down to the lowest step of the ladder to give his personal attention to matters which began to attract unfavorable con ment, first in society, and after a while in the public press itself. It was not a happy hon e; it wasn't a pleasant place to visit, for in the efllce eat the statesman, gloom v and desi airing, while in the parlor and the saites devoted to public receptions and general social developments were frivolities andgayeties which might much better have been omitted under the circumstances. Deep plccm, however, bad its way. and it waj evident to Mrs. Lincoln that Washington was no place for gayety during the progress of jj civil war. Then came the terrible end, ßd the bereaved widow attended by the. sympathies of . millions, Eought rest and a rcanjption of normal mentality on foreig shores. Many unkind and bitter word ave been written about that woman. bt how any man who wbs born of a moher, bow any man who Las ever Buffered, how any man who has aa affectionate nature a millionth part cf an inth lon could lend hlstar.gue, mnch less bisjwn, to afflict the widow of Abraham L.EColn, to the abuse or even criticism, of a -Koiv.au who bore what sho endured and who patsed through the dark waters that engulfed her fragile nature, is utterly beyend my conception- When l.fi.coia died, Andrew Johnson took the helm. I forcet whether Andrew was a bachelor er a widower. There wont much inclination on tbe part of Washington ecciety to take the President up, and, beside that, it required the full length of his term for tbe cation to be rehabilitated, and throw a?ide its weeds cf mourning for the memory of tbe lamented Lincoln. GRAST AT TUS HEtV. Then came tbe Grants. Well. Grant had two terms, you know, and it would be impossible to speak of the White House daring those eight years in a Bingle sentence or with cne characterization. The first term was not particularly brilliant Mrs. Grant is a woman of great natural good sense, but of very little early polish. You see, the early days of Blotter Grant were not conspicuous for their prosperity, and. although the family of a poor man Isn't necessarily unhappy, the neglected family of a poor man must of L-ecesbity be uncomfortable, to say the least, and when added to the daily wonder as to aeah and shoes aud flannel petticoats ia the daily distress over the ccre'etsness of an idle husband atd father, tbe unpleasantness of the fituatiou rapidly, aad not vaguely, develops into trouble, disappointment worry, and sooner or later a certain degree of physical and moral deterioration. Down to the day when Grant accepted his com mis eion in tbe times of tbe civil war, he was what tbey call out West no good, and his family were in the same condition. That, however, was in LsOl, twenty-three years ago. Soice of his children were very young; others, were old enough to participate in their father's new employment Given an opportunity, Grant soon bounded to the front, and as be ascended the scale of usefulness and rank his compensation waa increased, and his family naturally shared the benefits which occured to him. Now, a woman of natural good sense and fair common echoolleg can very easily adapt herself to unaccustomed surroundings, but when a person of that nature ia rata pul at ed into the first position known to the country, and is expected to pose as the leader of society and the arbiter of social customs in the capital of the nation, she is given a task before which ordinary women of any country would naturally f brink, so that Mrs. Grant ought not to be J edged by the first few 5 can of ber husband's presidency. They were not marked by good taete or even familiarity with euatonae that cblaised In the tret! grade I aacterj, bat

Grant himself, being of a stolid nature, with face lite that of asphnix with an expression as set as that cf a marble statue, could go through the rguaiole of foreign potentialities atd h:gn born nobles without embanssf ments, because be wouldn't know, in tbe first place, if he did make a mistake, and be wouldn't care in tbe next plee. Ladles, however, as a rule, are not to constituted, tbexk fortune, and Mr?, Grant la of a sensitive nature. Howevfr, she was takn hold of by the ladies of her husband's (.abinet, 8Dd proved an apt pupil in all the necessary lingo and higbfalutiR'sni of her position, s that before tbe second term closed it was gereraiiy conceded, even by the most hyperiritical and tbe mst tenacious observers in Washington, that sbe made a very creditable hes'efs m the White House. Probably the years 1SC2-3 4 were the mcst corrupt ever krown in the city of Washington. They were tbe jears when contracts were given out when all manner of army and navy business aCorded special inducement to rascals and unusual opportunity for fraud. Grant's second term stards second and almost on a par with those years as an era of corruption, of political chicanery, of pecuniary infamy ia every line of national outlay, The city was filled with frauds, with sharps, with scoundrels of both Eexes. Lobbyists flaunted through the streets liM princes. Contractors metaphorically paved u streets with gold, charlatans of every name and style and indication bad their own sweet way in life, and the treasury poured forth it3 millions into the capicious pockets of public plunderers. The city was alive irem end to end. Never was the line di awn so broad, so deep, so unquestionably between the society or politics and its par'rer. the society of ill gotten wealth, and the old time WaOiirglea residency, as then. They gave emphatic protest whenever an impellent attempt was made to cro?s the quiet portals of respectability, aud made tbe carrion crows feel that the domestic health was noplace for them forest on, and the quiet homes of decent people no place for vic even though gilded, to pose

I I'HZ GARFIELD S. t.leve Washington would have i. ,vJ IL supremacy of the Garßell home. V o v.w't discuss Garfield personally at all in this connection. No man knew him better than I, with his big head, well stored with available material, his warm heart his cenerous hand, his cordial welcome to Tom, Dick and Harry, as well as to Th na?, Kichard and Henry. No man wastoori:b, too great, too high, for Garheldto companion with. No man too poor, too low. too small, for tim to gre et with a 4hail, fellow, well met" But be and his wife bad lived for rxany years twenty. I think m Washington, and he was always a conspicuous member of the dominant party. They were not known to society, and beyond a very few friends, chiefly people from Ohio, they had no visiting &cqaintances. Mrs. Garfield is a pic in. quiet, unassuming, neatly dressed woncrr. he poseesEes ordinary intelligence ant? tr an unusual familiarity with the advanitd literature of the ti'jjes, about which she heard her hubband taic, aud of which pessibly she read. Bat, inordinary parlance, the wssn't a woman of culture, far lees & woman who cared anything whatever for ecciety. New, a it is in individaal lifn it is in public life. If you want to make a woman find of you, you must let ber see that 3 on are fond of her. If you wHh society to welcome you, yon must b? ready alirats to entertain society aiid to welcome it. it would be Uo much to ssk that society.whiii bad ignored Mrs. Garfield for twenty jeaö, wben she was tbe amiable and esteemed wile of the ttuidy ard foremoet pleader 10 tie Heme of Representatives, shorJl ruth to welcome her and to rceke much of her, sbe rttaining her retiring demeanor and modeit charac! eristics, simply becausft sbe ws tie wite of tbe President of the Tnited Bta'e), Hor or, respect civilities, courtesies, yes, bst recognition of leadership, a willingness b follow in the train of suggestive entertaifiment, not at all Mrs. Garfield is an estimable woman. She was a good wife and a s4licitous mother, but the Lever would hafe shone at the White House any more than the did in Washington during tbe mary yesrs of her previous residence there. Naturally TEEFIDEXT ASTOrs's AnSirSlSTHATIO.V, lrt Inning under a cloud, caused by the dfth of Garlield and an undeniable feeling of UQ certainty aud nnsettledneaa throuRb.01 the country, was cot at first notable for its brilliancy. Then, too, the fact tpt .there was no miBtress to do the horora in the White House had its effect. TheP'esident's sister has been ot great service J kim, and I learn from the old-lime peopk i Washington that she has tbe respect ,"d esteem of tbe best elements in the C-oital. 60 far as public dinners go, President Since the time of Buchanan 1 ev?r attempted tbe proper thing, nr1 President Arthur's inauerratien." ae üa3 made that a specialty, and univ'al commendation indorses the verdK f "Well dene, good and faithfal fco Bless my heart, was there vr a better illustration of the utter ImbecJity and nse!es!ness of President Hayes tkan this? Heie I have been racking my memcry to recall the ladies of the White House, and I actually forgot there ever was such 1 President as Hayes or an administration over which he presided. Now, wasn't that I unny? Mrs. Hayes is a well-born, well-bred woniaa, a little cranky on tbe temperance question, peifcaps, but very much above theaverageof the wives after all. Had her husbaad been made President under any other circumetanres than those which unfortunately attended his success, her opportunities would Lave been gr atcr, and the circumference of ter social achievement larger. As it is, her supremacy was a kind ot milk aud watery aflair, a fit parallel to the amiable, but utterly unefftctive administration of the accidental Preeident, her husband. Now, then, we come upon another run of baotulorhood, with another eifeter at the head cf affairs social, nnlecB the rumor be well grounded which gives a doir.et'c partner to tbe Tresi-dent-fclcct. Let'a hepe rumor is correct Captain Mitchell, of tbe bark Antonie Sala, New York and Havana trade, came bon e la May, entirely helplets with rheumatism. He went to the mountains, but receiving no benefit at his wife's request began to take Hood's Sarsaparilla. lie immediately began to imcrove; in two months hia rheumatism was all gone, and he Bailed in command cf his vessel a well man. Hood's Sarsaparilla will help vou. Sold by all druggiats. Epurccon expresses the belief that men grow bitler as the world grows old. Death of Lllaa DePauw. The New Albany correspondent of the Courier-Journal gives the folio -ving account of the death of Miss Jennie DePauw, on Thursday evening: Miss Jennie, the interesting daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C DePauw, died yesterday afternoon at the home of her parents, on Main street, aged fourteen years. Miss DePauw had been ill for some time with typhoid fever, and during the past few days she had shown such a decided improvement that she was thought to be out of danger. Yesterday, however, ehe took a change for the worse, and died shortly after noon. She was a great favorite with her father, resembling him very mnch In appearance and disposition. She was a genenl favorite among her schoolmates, and was loved by alL The death of eo interesting and promising a child is of cook e a source of great bereavement to Mr. DePauw and hia family. The time for the funeral has been fixed for to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. - RhtnmatUm, Ooat and XeuraJgta. It is scientifically settled that rheumatism, gout and neuralgia can not be cured by rubbing with oils, ointments, hnimenta, lotions, eta, for the reason that these diseasei are caused by nrio acid in the blood. The only pre para ilon which nnileruily expels this acid la Parker's Tonic Pabduee pais at twee, jtj It

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