Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1885 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE i SEK Tl X EL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER II 1885.

OUR FARM BUDGET.

IcjitTWieiit cf Plaits Care cf Horses. Mn In Agriculture How to Break a ColtHow Vegetable are Wintered Household Hints and Farm Note. Improvement of Plautf. , ITbiUdclphi Record. The constant advice given to farmers ref ardicg the importance of improving their stock, though bavins the efl'ect of inducing iL em to realize greater profit'?, should not attract their attention from the matter of the iMjrovement of the plants grown as general CCF3. Few farmers realize the fact that Tffceat is very easily improved by selection, two seasons being ample time in which to tifcct 8 marked change in the quality and yield, while but a few seasons are necessary Icr accomplishing the same with corn and tita. Unless the seedsmen introduce nevz Tftlleties we axe not usually favored with tlC-C cr superior character, owing to the JSPglect of the farmers in selecting seed. The Celebrated 1'nlU wheat, now so well known, the result of a farmer, goics into his wheat field and selecting the best seed, singling out particular heads and stalks at the same time. Thus an improvement was made in Iii 3 wheat every year; and Professor Ilount claims that any farmer can, by SSJectinjr in the same manner, add ten bushels more per acre to the yield in comparison Tfith what the crop would be without such Cl?e and selection. O'reat improvement has also been made in Cm and oats in the same manner, and even rye has been increased in 3-ield by following the practice for several consecutive season?. 3ie farmers can do more for themselves than Cia be done for them by others, for the realen that by careful selection they can" improve a crop and adapt it to their own section. The originators of new varieties can yiot produce a kind that will prove a valuable acqusition everywhere. Climatic influences and diversity of soils are hinderance, and hence the reason why varieties ilat have been highly recommended in some quarters have been failures in others. But each farmer can do the same work as the seedsman who constantly experiments. Dy attempting the improvement of those ilant-j which he has found by experience to be the best adapted to his soil and climate he begins with one-half the difficulties removed, and the path, is clear of all abstacles except the labor of selection, the result of which, however, is to increase the yield and improve the itiality of the plants experimented npon. In the case of potatoes, strawberries and ctber plants that are improved by crossin, or by accidental production, the chances for success are not encouragimr, and exierienee is required. Hut witli those crops that can be improved by simply selecting the best the tak is easy, and if every farmer would determine to use only selected grains th result would be a large addition to the productions of ail farms. Election will not only cause the grains to be plump, the heads large, and tUe stalk lirni and strong, but hardiness and ability to withstand droughts will be. increased. There is much in the variety that suits the farm, as no amount of cultivation can comiensate for mistakes made in growing crops unadopted to the climate and soil, while a reverse condition saves labor and protects against loss. Careful selection will improve the crops as well as the stock, and the process is easy, cheap and economical, while much anxiety that arises from using teed of which the farmer knows nothing may be averted. After selecting the seed it should be carefully preserved during the winter, so that it may germinate upon the most favorable opportunity and secure an early start. T im in Agriculture. Lime is a specially valuable agent in the French mode of farming. Inquiries have , been instituted to poll, as it were, French agriculturists a to their views on that substance. Their Tplies have been summarized, as bearing on the physical and chemical action of lime on soils. The explications of science are not quite satisfactory so faa Added to clay lands liaie opens and renders them more friable, permitting in dry seasons the moisture to ascend and bathejthe parched soil, while preventing fissures and all caking. Chemically, lime induces decaj in orgauic matters dirticult tobe decomposed, transforming them into assimilable food. Perhaps it facilitates the liberation of potash in clays. In the form of carbonate it favors the process of nitrification, but not so powerfully as in the sulphate state. (Quicklime acts contrarily. A . mixture of lime and manure is held by" very many to be inimical, as it expels ammonia. But some remembering that azote exists in three states in manure, and in that primarily of assimilable nitric acid, whose formation lime promotes, such a gain is not to be ignored. Again, lime, according to competent authorities, renders also phosphoric acid astimilable. Swiss scientists hold lime is necessary in the soil, to induce the action of potash. On eaty land lime corrects acidity; in this case :t should be applied in the quick form. For meadow top-dressing, lime must ever be applied in the corniest state. If farm-yard manure be added, the earth and lime ingredients are mixed apart some time previously. The pasturaves of Nornian.lv attest the excellency of this fertilizing agent. In the case of tired land, lime should be applied in small and repeated doses. How to llreak a Colt. A farmer in Ohio writes: I have two Norman colts, one yearling and one three-year-old. "When the latter was nine days old I made a halter for him. bedded a stall by his mother, and tied him in it. He gave a Ion?, steady pull, fell two or three times, got up and shook himself, and that was the end ef it. lie has never tried to break away since. I jetted him. gave him a little bran and oats, and never ierniittel Kim to follow his mother when at work. Ina few weeks he wouid go to his mother for his milk and then march back to Ins stall to be haltered. I fed him regularly as 1 did the other lior-es, and he oon began to paw and ask for food with the rest. I placed the feed-sack on his back and let him stand and eat until lie grew accustom: to it. Next I put on the saddle, and next the harness, and by the time be was a year old he was not afraid of anything. I tied him to the work horses to fro to and from water. When twenty months old I hitched him with another horse to the sled good sleighing, no load, drove m-xleratil v, and he never scared, lie was so thorough!) accustomed to the harness that there was no trouble whatever. I now work him on the ;near side with checks. He takes a fair, straightforward pull, which I regard as on? . of the highest qualities in a work horse. I consider him a better worker and more reluvbie at three than many that have been in fcad hands for ten years under the whip, half-fed. half-harnessed, and poorly trained; do not let a colt run till three or fonr years old, and then half kill him in breaking, and perhaps ruin him for life. The Care of horse. The Hon. J. K. Russell, secretary of the lassachusetts Hoard of Agriculture, lias reen lecturing in Worcester 011 the horse. Here are some of the points he makes: The fat that the horse has no power to store hilt indicates the great rapidity of his dipction and power of assimilation. For sv.ch reasons he should be fed as frequently as convenient, and I consider, if a rule can r-e applied, that a horse should he allowed rot mere than 2 percent, of his weight a

day in food that is a horse wcighiufr one thousand pounds should have twenty pounds cf food a day, half ef which, when at hard work, uuay be grain. This is an abundant allowance, and in idle time should be reduced at least tEe-fourth. He should have what salt he requires, himself to be the judge. While I never turn him to pasture, he should have some green food in summer and carrots in winter. Indian corn, whole or in meal, Is unlit food for horses; it is heating and fattening. No horseman wishes to see a fat horse. Fatten steers, sheep, or hogs, but not horses or men. Oats are the te-t grain for horses, and the cheapest in the end; if we had some means of crushing or bruiting them they would be worth '25 per cent, more to us. "if I was a miller I would put in a set of rolls and crush oats, and in six months I would have ill the business of my region. -No man that has ever used crushed oats will have any other. The best time to water a horse is an hour before or an hour and a half after eating. Suppose his master takes him to the watering-traught immediately after eating and his stomach is full of food and he drinks a pail or two pails of water. The consequence is a portion of the food is forced out of the stomach and is swept along into the larger intestines without assimilation. In .France I saw some hors3 feu coarse heans, immediately after allowed to drink all the water tkey would, and then killed and dissected, and some of the beans were found twenty-six feot distant from the stomach iu the intestines.

Uow Vegetable are Wintered. lririe Farmer. Only a few vegetables can be wintered outdoor in the North without protection. Parsnips are anioup the exceptional 'vegetables which the winter does not destroy, and, except, for ue while the ground is froren, may be left in the soil. Salsify, or vegetable oysters, is of similar nature, but beets, turnips and carrots will not stand excessive eold; to retain the fresh, cmp flavor they should be taken up as late as possible ami placed in a cool cellar, or in pits, with earth and staw enough over them to prevent freezing. The latter is the method most in vogue with market gardeners, who usually know how best to present their vegetables in the finest condition. Artificial heat in any form spoilsthe flavor of vegetables generally. The sweet potato is an exception, and will not rot in a temperature below .VP, while dryness does not injure it. Cabbages may be pulled up roots and ali, turned upside down and the heads packed together in beds six feet in width, and the ground between the rows thrown over the heads. In extremely frosty weather thev can not le reached, and enough must be left in the cold root cellar for winter me. Onions require a dry barn or loft, and should nt be packed more than eight or ten inches deep, with a foot of straw over thorn to keep out frost. In the extreme North some lire pro tection may be necessary, l or lamuy use, astrintr can be kept hung in any part of the cellar. Onions will stand 2 of frost without injury if dry. Celery is best when taken. from I he open ground, but should be taken up and placed clwe together in beds, wilh earth and litter over all to keep from freezing. Winter squashes require a ury place, free from frost. HOISKHOU) HITS TS. Omelet with Cold Meat. Almost anv cold meat beef, mutton or t hicken r-mav Ve chopped line, seasoned a little, spread upon the omelet before it is doubled toirether. makin? a very excellent dish and af.'ording varielv. Apple Cake. One heaping enp of sugar, one large tablespoonful of butter, two eggs, half a cup of milk, two cups of Hour (or enough to make a nice, thick, soft batter), one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, half a teaspoonful of soda. Ihiswill make three layers, if the pan is not too lanre. Killing for Layers. Two lance apples (reenlings are best, or any tapt apple); peel and grate; then grate one lemon peel; squeeze juice and grate the pulp; to this add one cup of sujrar and one white of cg:: put all.iuto a till nip and cook tliorong"1"-": then riri-?,l between cakes as jelly cake. Home Farm. Cranberry Sauce. Pick over one quart of cranberries; mash and put into a saucepan with one cupful of water; stew slowly for about one hour: if thick by that time, strain through a colander; then sweeten with t'ne white sugar. Flace in a mold that lias pre viously been wet with ice-water j let stand until ready for use. Small potatoes are very nice cocked in this way: 1 eel them and boil in salted water; do not let them boil until they are soft. Ileat one egg and have ready some fine cracker crumbs; roll the potato in the egg, and then in the cracker, and fry in butter until a light brown; turn frequently that the color may be uniform; or the totatocs may be dropied in hot lard. In this case a cloth should be laid over a plate and the jotat"es should be drained for a moment in this be fore sending them to the table. Ouince Marmalade. Doil the quinces tin til they are soft: then peel them and rub them throngh a sieve or on a grater. To each pint of pulp allow one p;nt ot sugar. and boil for two hours, stirring it frequently. It is well to place the preserving kettle where there is no danger of burning, but where the boiling is continuous. The" long hoi ling causes the color to become a rich red. An inferior marmalade may be made by leaving the skins aud cores and pressing turougu a sieve, proceeding as above. . Sweet Apple I'ickles. Take seven pounds 01 sweet apples; pare ami steam until tender, Fut them in a pan with three pints of vine gar, three pounds of sugar and one-half pint of ground spices in equal quantities of cloves, cinnamon, allspice, tied loosely in a cloth, and cook them as vou would preserves When done place them in a jar, boil down the liquid and pour it over them. If there is not enough liquid to cwver them nicely mate more sirup in the same proportion The i'ickles inurt be well covered. quince mea t is uencious. io improve the color allow one apple to every six quinces, ltoil the iuinees and apples in water until thev are soft; then peel them and remove the cores and press the pulp throngh a sieve. To every pound of pulp allow one pound of sugar. Clarify the sugar and then put in the pulp, adding a little finely-grated lemon eel. IJoil until perfectly stitl. stirring constantly. Then place in molds or paper cases and crv in a cool oven The bread must be still enough to cut in slices. Orange and Apple Tie. rover a tin pie plate with pu ft" pas try, and place a layer of slued oranges, with the pips removed, on it, and scatter sugar over them. Tkeu put a layer oi sliced apples, with sugar, an cover with slices of oranges and sugar l'ut an upper rust of nice pastry over the pie and bake it for half an hour, or unti the apples are perfectly soft. Take the ie from the tin plate while it is warm, put into a china plate and scatter sugar over the top. Juir.ce I'ickles. Wash, jteel, quarter and core the quinces. For seven i-ounds of the fruit allow three and a hall pounds of sugar, half an ounce of whole cloves, half an ounce of stick cinnamon, a little white allspice, a blade of mace, and one pint of pure vinegar, Boil the quinces gently for fifteen minutes in just water enough to cover them; loi the vinegar, spices and sugar together for five minutes: drain the quinces and put them carefully in the simmering sirup o vinegar, sugar and spice, and boil gently lor live minutes; put into jars, covering as soon as cold. Spanish Cream. I'seone ounce of ising glass the kind that comes in long pieces and is clear one quart of milk, four eggs and sugar to taste, dissolve the isinglass in the milk. I!eat the yelks of the eggs to a cream, with a I.ttie sugar; stir in the dis solved i.singlas; taste to see if it is swee enough, then stir it over the fire until it is just ready to come to a boil. Ileniove it at once, and ravor it with vanilla or wine Have the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth, and stir them Into the custard as soon as it is removed from the tire. They will re

main partly on top. our. the nurture into mold", and set it m a cool place. In twentylour hours it will be ready ior'use. The top should look clear as amber land the custard should be below, forming the separate lay

. ...... ers, it should ue served witn sauce. . . Apple Shortcake. One ouart of sifted flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, ball a teaspoonful oi salt, one-quarter of a pound of butter, milk or cream enough to make a stifl batter, mix all well, roll in one sheet, bake it well, when done split open, butter well, cover with nicely-seasoned arp'e sauce, some thick cream and nutmeg, place the other half of the cake on this, crust side down, butter the top and spread with more apple sauce aud cream. This is. delicious either for a pudding or for a tea. nd filled With well-seasoned chopped chicken it is a very nice disii. Ftrg Tie. Make two vcrv think cakes of Indian meal, t!our and soda, just as for corn bread, and wet It v:th sour milk, and bake them in a quick oven. Make a gravy ot" one tea.-poonful of butter, the same of flour, a cup of mil ic and silt and pepper, VWien it is boiling drop in cold, sliced, hard-boiled eggs, leave them in long enoueh to heat. but don t let them boa up or they will lall to pieces, liuuer one of the hot Indian cakes, lay it'in u round pan or dish, pour on the gravy and eggs and lay on the xuhcr cake, buttering it oa ihe top and sprinkling on pepper and salt. A Pelieions Side DUli. Cut this remnants of cic-ld boiled or roasted chicken in small pieces. Miike a saueo of one pint of cram. two ounces of butter, the yelk of 0110 egg, beaten, and a tablcspooni'ui of cornstarch or arrowroot, seasoning with 'wit alid white pepper, a little . sugar, one-teapoonfu! of ancnovy sauce' and on -boy-leaf Tut the pieces of flii-.kcn in this saucer in a sttwpan and simmer for half an hour. Stew some rice iu"te soft in milk, seasoning with salt and pepper. Put the chicken iu the centre of a dini place the rice around it as a border and erve. rork and Kggs. Urown a half doen or dinary slices of salt pork, take up and layon a deep platter and cut into two-inch Bquares. Then fr...m your frying pan drain through a strainer into your dili oi cake or pie-shortening ail the oil that has fried out of your pork. (Never waste a sjiooniul of sweet pork grease.) This leaves your pan with the salt and meat juice crusted over the surface. Have at this ioint three eggs beaten lightly and stirred into cups of sweet milk; set th"? pan back on the stove, and soon as hot again pour your milk and eggs in, stirring briskly; as soon as it "creams'" pour over your pork. Serve, this with baked or j-oilcd potatoes or Saratoga chips as preferred. In no easier way will the same number of eggs and a bit of salt pork make a satisfactory meal for six or seven persons. To pour the eggs and milk into the pork fat 'will render the dish unpalatabie and unhealthy. FA KM NOTES. Too much grain is often sown when seed ing and too little grass seed. Tiiese aro two common errors. Orass grown on nutritious soil is cften as good for horses or cattle as oorer grass fed :i:i gram rations. N-.-W is the best time to mulch apple trees with manure, which will encourage the formali'.' of fruit buds f-.r next season. Late advices from Sandwich Islands state that the cranberry crop thereabouts is greater by 7,'M) barrels than that of any previous season. An Illinois farmer has n sixtv-acre" straw berry bed, from nine-acres of which he gathered m one season i,V) quarts of berries, which is at the rate of about ".7 bushels per acre. An Ohio farmer has a cornf'cld of twelve acres upon which the stalks are said to average twelve feet in height, and will vield not less than twenty-five t-ms of ensilage per acre. Pcd top gras is regarded as a very good grass for pasture, and of some value for hay if cut early, although the yield is not as large as of some other ednnif-f pood or better grasses. There are 22.0'0 Catiio ''luo Jersey, cows and heifers in this country, ami not over P - W) cows on the Island of Jersey. Tbc place to get good jerseya is not Jersey but, the i nueu Mates. Py sowing a bushel of salt to the acre, a Fayette County Missouri) farmer believes ho has succeeded ia keeping his average of twenty-live bushels of wheat to the acre maintained for years. What to do with the superabundant crop of apples is to evaporate them or make tider of them, which may be converted into vinegar or apple-butter. The hogs and sheep should le allowed to consume tho; not lit for use in any other manner. Turkeys should not be confined to he fatted until about ten days beforj they are to be sold. They will gain rapidly in riesh for about ten days, but after that time they begin to lose i!esh, owing to becoming restless and uneasy from confinement. Jn u-ing cold dips for the scab and other diseases of sheep, unle-s the dipping is done in a thorough manner the solution will not penetrate close compact wool and reach a'd the parasites on the skin, owing to the dirt and other matter in tho wool. ; - Draining can be carried to execs-, and often, perhaps, on account of certain pecu liarities of the soil and surroundings be of no bene.it to the land, but these cases are few, and much more draining could be done to advantage on almost every farm, Professor Prown, of the . Ontario Experiment Farm, rinds, after niry years experimentation, that a bullock gained on permanent pasture 'J.V't onnds per day at a co-t of two cents per pound, and that this was the cheapest of the twenty ways of feeding tried. The average value of the corn crop for the past twenty years has been 40 per cent, of the tsggregate value of all our leading crops, while the acreage devoted to corn has equaled 4o jier cent, of all the cultivated land in the I'nited States, including those lands in grass. . Fast season Mr. Ii. W. Pressov. of Hammonton. N. J., raised 4,xh) chicks in incu bators, the rare and attention having lwen given them by his two daughters. This season lie has n:ule extensive preparations. will begin hatching in a few weeks, and ex pects to double the number. Trees usually die when trans-planted from lack of moisture. The advantages of planting in the fall is that the heavy rains carry the earth in and around the roots, and moisture is plentiful. I.xcessivelv cold drv ing winds, however, are injurious. IfpossiDie very young trees snouiu he staked. The best flour for a sfable, says the Pural Era, is one, made of an egg shape, set on end. on a graded lloor, well rammed down and tilled with sand and hydraulic lime cement. so as to make a smooth surface. This is saturated with hot gas tar, and when drv makes a hard, durable, smooth water proof rlour. In planting set early as possible. Pootlets will grow until frost stops them. A newly set tree wants all the rootlets it can get. No matter bow well we may work the earth in about the rootlets there will be manv where earth does not touch, but the growing rootlet pushes in and the earth is in contact over Its who ie surface. It is well, every autumn, to carefully con siderand decide what fields will be im proved and what injured by fall idowinsr. and all that are of a character notto be injured by it should be plowed, thus helping along the spring work at a season when work is not ns driving as in the spring. -Jiascacuusetts l iougiiman. The experiment of milking cows three times h day was tried at the Iowa AgriculturM College, and the average daily gain of the herd was four pounds, or half enough to pay for the extra trouble and expense. The increase in milk is not considered suilicient to pa ' for the labor and expense, even when cows yielding over twenty quarts daily are used. The only advantage is that the cows

jsrill have to be kept in the barnyard and toikd, thereby effecting a greater saving of manure. Do not cover the lawn all over with stable manure which is to remain there all winter as an olTense to the eye, the nostrils and the feet. There is nothing more disgusting than this turning a lawn into a barnyard, and there is no necessty for. it. Stable manure i.s worth as much for garden crops as it is on the lawn, and it is doubtful if anypne has too much of it for the former parpose. ' A good dressing of bone-dust or ammoniated superphosphate earl 3' in the spring will keen up the fertility of the lawn, and will not Do noticed. A writer in the London Garden, referring to the well-known fact that new seeds usually germinate more quickly than old ones, says that many old ones will germinate well with heat that would perish in cold ground a fact which should be borne in mind by those who are testing seed this year in warm rooms. Among those which maybe kept two seasons are named onions, salsify and some others, while lettuce, tomatoes and artichokes will continue good three seasons: cabbage, turnips, spinach, kales, tc, four easons, and melons, cucumbers aud beets live or six seasons. There -are several reasons for butter becoming strong. 'Among them are: Csdng pails and pans that are not thoroughly cleansed from stale milk; Mjttingthe milk in damp, badly ventilated cellars or milkhoues; keeping the mi!k too long, until it gets very sour; keeping the cream too lor.g; churning too. slowly, or in an unclean churn: not taking all of the buttermilk out oi the butter; keeping the butter in a warm, badly .aired or moldy place; these: all cause the butter to le strong, which is the erTect of decomposition in it'. The food or water of. the cow will also cause this trouble. . Hoard's lairyman. Fach hen in .1 house should have one foot

of space on the roosts. One hundred hens would require four roosts twenty-live feet long, and to prevent the hens crowding too much on the top roosts these should all be on the same level. The roo-t should be one loot apart, and be arranged in a frame hinge to the wall, so they can be lifted ami hooked up for the purpose of cleaning. The roo-.ts M ill take up fonr feet, and there should be eight feet more floor space; thus a house of PM) bins should be:Txl2 feet on the lloor inside, and should bo at least six feet high in the mar and nine feet ln!i in the front, witli. ampje ventilation. Professor 00k, in his pair on economic cntomology.read before the American Pomological Society, says the reason why im ported insect pests are for a time more de structive than native species is in the fact that the' have fewer parasites or prcdaceous enemies to contend with. f 11 the course of a few years these enemies increase in such numbers as to hold them in check. He said that new insect j-ests arc learning to feed upon plants not heretofore disturbed by them, so that, thcentomoigist. has constant work before him. Another thought was that, as insects increr.se in varktv and num ber, ins etieides are multiplied in e jual if not greater projortioii. An Iowa correspondent of the (Jermantown Telegraph describes the way in which he makes a gate fo occasional use in a fence of barbed wire: The farmer sometimes bus need of a gab1 in a barbed wire fence, and which is used bur seldom: he must, nevertheless put up a substantial hinge or slide gate. I have seen a good g;te put in a barbed, wire fence with very little trouble, in this manner: Puild the fence without referent 0 to the gate; then select the location lor the gate, and staple the wire securely to the two gate jHists, -Q n oan nct slip. Cut the wires at one pest and fasten the ends to a light piece of wood as high a the post. Set one end of this piece of wood in a shallow hole beside the post and place a wire loop over it and the Post at the top, and your gate is flni-hed. It can be opened in a mo ment, and lor occasional u-e is as good as a hinge gaic. LAfsGTRY'S STATEMENT Of Injustice II Suffered I'rom IJiitUH No. hility Where the Idly Was Discovered, and ly What Means Slie W.n Ad. mittcd to Loudon 'society. New York Special,! The recent London lawsuits which resnlted ii the dolaration that Mrs. Langt ry paid her husband a salary on condition that he docs not molest her Las ca ised some comment here, where the facts of Mr?. Lnngf ry's social ostraei-.ni while in this country are still remembered. A prominent New Yorker, who has consideral.de knowledge on the subject, said to-day: "Some two or three years ago Mr. Langtry, you will remember, came to this conntry, but refused to give any very satisfactory reason for his visit. During his sta3' in America he was for the greater part of the time my guest. He talked with me ery fftely, and I feel at liberty, undeOho present circumstance, to give publicity to the facts gathered from him. According to his story, the lirst discovery of Mrs. Jmrtry in the Island of Jersey was made by the Duke of IVdford. The Duke was very much struck by her beauty, and paid her a great deal of attention. At that time Mr. and Mrs. Langtry were living in afUueut circumstances on an income whi.h amounted, he claims, to 4 ,. W. On his return to London from his visit, the Prince of Wales heard so much from Pedford of the extroardinar3T beauty of Mrs. I.argtry that at his request that gentleman accompanied him on a trip to Jersey for the purpose of meeting the beauty. The Prince was as much pleased with Mrs. Langtrv as was her friend, and he suggested that she make ner debut in London society, ottering to make it his business to request eertain ladies in London society to act as her sonsors. The oiler was accepted by the lady, whose head was already a little turned by the attention her charms attracted. None of these proceedings were looked upon with favor by Mr. Langtry, who foresaw that he was about to bid farewell forever to Iiis quiet, peaceful life. Mrs. langtry'?. London life was always distasteful to her husband. His wife's extravaganee soon wijn'd out fortunes. Mr. lingtry told her lie was ruined financial I y. "This fan e," he said, "is played out. You married me for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer. You have had ail the fat, you must now take the lean. I have sutticient influence to secure a Government apjointment. We will retire from soeiety, take a small house and settle down like respectable people the rest of our lives." Mrs. l.angtr refused to go, and declared she would go on the stage lird. Mr. Langtry informed her that if she did he would not live with her. rshe retorted openly that the o'uly man she' ever cared for was ir Oeorge IJWicfwynd, and ended by running off to the t . . : 1 m..:i. j t I 1 .1. . v umiiiriii u mi iirin.vuu, Minie iiic iiueled tinder an assumed name. Naturally, when they returned to London the doors of society were closed. Mrs. Paget, the daughter of Mrs. Paran Stevens, knowing these facts, saw to it that Mrs. Langtr3''s introductions were ignored and that she was not received in society' in New York. At this time Mr. and Mrs. I .angtry separated. Fnder the laws of Jersey there is no such thing as a divorce. A man who recently sold his house and furniture in an interior Canadian town reached Toronto on ti, way to I-'ngland, when he remembered that he had left $!,10 in cash in the drawer of a table that he had sold for cents. He tramjted back to his home, found the purchaser of the table and recovered his money, much to his surprise and joy. An a proof that a good thing is always recognized anil sought after, it is a curious fact tliat Pond's Fxtract, the great family remedy for I'auis, Inflammations and Hemorrhages of all inscriptions, has received more real and beneficial advertising through people who have used and tested it, than through all other sources.

AMERICA'S NAPOLEON.

Geieral McClellan's Death the Cause cf Wideeprtad Sorrow. Opinion of th Press ns to His Character and Military Ability The I'el of the Army. n'Cueral George P. McClellan will always be a historic character, identified' as is his name with some of the principal events in the most stupendous struggle or modern times. The measure of 1Ü3 fame is, however, to be determined upon the page3 Ol impartial history, yet to be written in a time remote from that of the clash of military criticism and the bitterness of partisanship, which still renders a clarified judgment of his career dj.i'.cult and well nigh iinxssible. Py his admirers, he islousidcred the greatest military genius on the northern side, lacking only the men, the resource, and the opportunities which it is claimed were showered upon Grant and conspired in the success he achieved. Py his troops, Mc lellan was passionately loved, and thousands of men, with supreme devotion, would have followed him in a forlorn hope, which led through the heart cf the Confederacy in its palmiest hour, or, had he sowiüe.!, to the Capital oL Washington, to d:.-icise the Congress at fiie joint of the bayonet. He never so willed, and there is no reason to doubt his essential patriotism, fjthough the most serious check to his pcrsor.iil ambition were interposed by the Federal administration. Pochester (X. Y. Democrat and Chronicle. A STKVT TKIKt TE. The Cinefnna'i Commercial Gaette saj's: 'It would be a difficult question yet to siy what rank McClellan will take among military commanders. It is conceded that he excelled as an organizer, but the time was when there was a tempest of indignation, in which nearly all men participated, because there was so much time spent 111 prepann an armv to invade Virginia. The cruel sto ries of McClellan's treason aud personal timidity have no support in serious history, though a good deal ol his corrcspondenee is wide opt-n to grave misconstruction. Such fanta-tie accusal ions as that he was in secret correspondence with the Confederate mili tary leaders once lately circulated and be litved, lind no longer any pla"e. even in the gossip of toe day. We believe it is not in the hearts of the American ik?op1c to deal liar.-hly with the memory of "Little Mae,' or dole out scanty 'notice to him. He was one who served his country in dark days. If he did not wic-M the thunderbolts that struck down the rebellion, he forged them, and they came from his bands with the temper that made victory possible. EKNf'EKr.! VAU-U'-LK STItVICE. That General McClellan rendered most val nable service to his country during the lirst year of the war is unquestionably true. Jt was his gallantry that secured him a vote of tnanks by Congress and led to his promotion to the high iosition of Oeneral-in-CJdef, a position in which he failed to satisfy the reasonable expectations of the country. W bat might have happened bad he been continued longer in command belongs to the domain of speculation. What he did is known, and history will doubtless accord him full justice when time shall have softened the asperities engendered by the war. His death will be sincerely lamented by every American citizen, North and South. Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. AN K.VCELLEXT 0ROAMZEB, The iolitical and military animosities once entertained toward General McClellan have well-nigh disapieared beneath the healing touch of lapsing years. Iiis coun trymen now perceive that it was quite as much his misfortune as his fault to have failed as a commander in the war. He was a great organizer not a strategist or leader in the Held. Had lie been the chief of staff of some such General as Grant, or Sherman, or Sheridan be would have won and retained undying fame as a most successful soldier in a sphere of action peculiarly suited to Iiis qualities. Troy (N. l.) Times. Hf. T.AEORKD tXDEK IUFKICl I.TIEs. It has alwa3's been patent that those who shared 111 the alleged mistrust 01 enerai McClellan s loyalty were either rascally par tisan hypocrites or their duies. McClellan was not treated by the administration as magnanimously as General Grant, but t is is to be attributed not to ai!3 partisan prejudices of Mr. Lincoln, perhaps but to the machinations of others, who influenced him b' disguising their motives and aims under various plausible pretexts Louisville our-ier-Jouriial. A t.iMili MAX, HIT XO SoJ.PlER. The Bu Halo P.xprcss says; Asa military student Mc leilan was undoubtedly far 6uierior to Grant. Few men of our day have. imb ed, had a better theoretical knowledge of the art of war in all its branches and de tails than McClellan. If books could make a general. McClellan would have been a great one. Put nature had made him a student and an engineer, not a soldier. Nobody doubts that McClellan was a patriotic and conscientious man. 1 Ie was sadly mistaken, and very wrong-headed and strong-headed in his errors. Promotion had turned his head. lie was not content to be subordinate to that really great man, Abraham Lincoln The death of George P. McClellan removes from life's stage one of the greatest warriors of the century. He was a patriot as well as a soldier, wise" in council and masterly in the field. Among all other Federal commanders he stands out for those qualities of the head and heart which go to make the General which made him like Lee, his great antago nist. The restored Union owes as much to Geonre P.. McClellan as it owes to any one of the leaders who carried the old Hag through unto the end. His service found scant thanks. Fven when that service was fresh in the memory of the republic, he was tui shrl aside for others. History, however, will surely give him the credit that military critics have already accorded to him. Tardyjustice will be done to a commander who bad not full justice in his life. St. Louis Pepub1k an. WIIT POSTERITY Wil l. PO Posterity whose justices, if slow, are sure will cive McClellan his due place among the respectable but unlucky com manders whose fortunes were not commen surate. with their merit. It will cleae his figure from the confusing mists of extrava gant detraction and unmeasured praise, do justice to his motive?, and record the purity

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and unselfishness of his professional character. It will say of him that the Lands with which he wrought so busily at so many callinp, all tending to the public advantage, were clean ; that he was worthy of the demotion with which he insured "those who were associated with hirrt in the gloomiest dajs of the war, and that it was a well-rilled life, and one worth living, which closed yesterday as the. soidier would have had to close in fullness of bodily strength and intellectual vigor, surrounded by those he loved.

and with profound peace and perfect nnion throughout the Nation. Philadelphia Kecord. AN HONORABLE AM) I.OYAL M AX. The war is ended, the victorious Armv of the Potomac has been disbanded, and its "two most lamous Generals are at rest. W hatever conflicting opinions ruay have prevailed as to Oeneral McClellan's military genius, the unanimous verdict of Iiis countrymen will be that he was an honorable man and loyal to his country. Political differences should le forgotten as the Nation stands with uncovered head to pay the last tribute of re sect to the man who organized the armies which saved the Union. St. Paul Globe. HIS FAME WILL INCREASE. General McClellan's retirement was the inevitable result of the stern locic of war. whose success is always measured by results. The work which he began was carried to a finish by others. To his successors he handed over a magnificent army of veter ans which he had manufactured out of raw and ragged recruits, a lield for campaigning whose toiograpby was thoroughly" known, and a National Capital surrounded by a strong and scientific line of defenses. His tory w ill not fail to give him the credit for iinisjrtant achievements. Great as an en gineer, effective as a disciplinarian, brilliant in all tliose qualities which go to make up a valuable and etticient staff oiticer, he rilled a place in the great conflict which will grow more and more in importance and in the estimation of students 01 the civil war as the j-cars roll by. TOO POOR TO PAY. A (.otliam Itaelielor with an Income of Tea Thousand Yearly N Unable to Settie a Little leut. A New York telegram of October 22 to the Cincinnati Tinies-Sitar says: The suit brought by Nicholas Kilroy to recover $l,JOi from AV. S. Wood, a well-known club man, was continued 3-esterday before Judge Donahue in the Supreme Couit, speeifd sessions. Mr. Wood is a member of the Fnion and other New York clubs, and enjoys Cue income of l'.Vt.i .in, a fortune left in trust for him bj' a relative some years ago. He is a bachelor, about forty-live years old, and nobody is dependent upon him for support. The suit is brought to recover a loan of .l,iMo and interest. The justice of the bill was never disputed by Mr. Wood, but he nt-v?r found it convenient to pay. Mr. Kilroy tailed uiKiii him at the I'r.ion Club very often, but he could never get any satisfaction. At lirst Mr. Wood merely postponed the date of payment from o:ie month to another, but the i:.-1 time he was visited he thought his croi.tjr was boring him bo. much and beeam- abusive. I went to the eiub, where he bad been indulging in an expensive wine dinner," said Mr. Kilroy. "and politely asked him if he would not settle his just indebtedness. '! it.' said he. 'why do you come around to bother me iu this manner'.'' shaking his list in my faee 'I coins to-night at your own lequest," 1 said; 'you said you would settle on this date.' 'Well, I can't do it, so you better get out.' 1 was very much provoked by his im.rner, ami told him that I had called for the last time, and would at once proceed to get a judgment against him for the amount due." The judgment was obtained at the time, about two years ago, but was never paid. Since then Kilroy has brousht three supplementary proceedings. The defense, which was c.lways made by the trustees of Wood's estate, was that the income derived from the property was not sufficient to maintain hint in the elegant style of living to which he was accustomed and which other club men are able to enjo3 Kilroy's attorney, Ihtvid Mitchell, took the ground that Wood's yearly income must be over $10,000, and that he could manage to live quietly for a few months on $."oO without suffering any great privations and save the amount of money necessary to pay the debt. Mr. Wood was placed on the stand and closely questioned as to the amount of money he found it necessary to spend during the jear. He seemed ver3r adverse to testifying, but did not seem to regard his ex penses as luirticularly extravagant. "Do you rent a house.'' asked the plaintltrs counsel. i ' No. I only have a bedroom, a sittingrocm. and toilet-room, for which I pay $-30 a 13' nth." "How much do your meals cost you?" "Well, I cannot answer that exactly, as my expenditures vary so much. They cost a great deal, however." T. "Do you give dinner parties to your friends : "No; but sometimes, of course, I invite a few friends to have supper with me at the club." "And your clothes, how much do they cost you?" "I cannot tell without calculating. "Do you spend $)" or 70on a suit "I always spend more than that." "How many suits do j-ou buy a year ?" "h, I suppose I get seven or eight suits." "Do vou have any traveling expenses?" . "Yes, fully si-fioo a year, including a short trip to Lurope. He was further questioned as to his ex penditures for theaters and all minor pleas tires and necessities, all of which was suiplied in the most lavish manner. One of the trustees of the estate testified that since the judgment had been filed the income de rived by Mr. Wood was less than 7,'Mi ier annum. Attorney AI ltciieil argueu inai W od: should be made to curtail his ex penses and a certain amount of the income should be retained every month by the trustees and paid to the" creditor until the amount was settled. I'rotret ionlsm a ('oimii in. IV...... V...1- 1 Protection is half communism. It is a communism by which the monoi-oii-is uir;.l. D-itli lio'inrn.nr üii.l nrt isnil while thcY , i V 11 . . . . . " .... - - - ' have anything to divide; but as soon as he reduces them to beggary he impri ons them as tramps. In referrm to Madame Judic's wardrobe. a correspondent says: "There are gowns of evprv imaginable description, from the most elaborate court dresses that are duplicates of tliose OI present ruling sovereigns in i. to a charming little hussar unilorm of pale blue worn in "La Grand Puchesse, and tue peasant dress worn in "La Mascotte." A . I .-.. ai.i t. K iiioileled from :i court tOll?t worn by the Czarina of Pussia is one mass of splendid embroidery done in silver thread an. I .!ri,il with lace made of golden threads. be whole made over a skirt of ieach colored satin with an enormous train of satin of the imperial purple of the ancients, the embroidery alone occupied 10 of the (inest needle workers in i ans tor iour nmnms. Tim KfnfHRl of Yleor. The most important step in this rocvss is the restoration of the functions of digestinu and assi milation to fall aud uninterrupted exercise, since it Is upon tlieiractivity alone tkut the system can denend to reMenisti its dwindling store or energy Anion? tonics which the Voice 'f the Kopie Mild hinh itrnfeKsioiiHl indorscnie-i'tiM'proYeHs reliable, ) I rtostelter" Stomach Hitters has Ions ln-cii recog nized as-the best. lt properties as a medicated stimulant commend it to nil persons surJering from the effects of fatigue, mental or bodily, as an l ... ... r. n .if i.ikii 11 lit .! tl it tlla.tr I'll 1 T-t Hilllll.llllll uivnil.'l l.mnn mi iJii ..x.. . and in cases w here loss of viirr t tmribntuj'le to fcUdi weakening cnronic causes iisH's.n. ...... ,.f tiiA L iilnfi-. .in! l.lailfli.r aifl the in lli'lin 'A ll't 11.11 - n .... .-..-... .. - - - lirniities peculiar to age. It produces perniauen.lv IH IK IH IT 1 I mil J li't (HUI v Jo nin.Ml y it. Jt rImj prevents mvl cures injur 1 mi iimv.

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