Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 51, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1886 — Page 6

THE INDIANA BTATE SENTINEL "WEDNESDAY- JANUARY 0 11.86.

OUR FARM BUDGET.

Ca of -Arjaals in Wörter To Kcie Eoys 'rKiodfarccfra "Wiitfr Eiits. Silags rf 'aiiu Laborers A lod I.Lto A w Creamery jsteiu EciMbo)l Hicts c! r'ariu Nute. Care of At.inia.ls ib TViater. The .Ainerican Humane Association o'Trs I fcilcwicg sutrgertion" relative to fowls, bxres afcd cattle to persons having these in charge in northern latitude virini; tne witter months. Do r.ct ceccr-el domestic fowls to roost i:i trees. A title from danger of being capture J by owls arjd other enemies, the swaying of the I ranches upon w hich are sitting will preTtntthern from getting rest; while in the severely cold weather, thus ex posed, feet an-1 combs are frozen and the bird is so benumbed as to rcaie It impossible for it to be of much profit on the farm. Securely sheltered from wird nrXL storm, and allowed to sit oa a broad roost, U et are thus kept warm, refreshing rest is obtained and the fowl is much stronger, healthier a id more profitable to its Owner. Do rot eL'p hoT-s during the winter Xnonths. "With the tame propriety we miirat cut the hair from a, cz or shear a iheop at this season ol the ytar. The argument in lei ail of the practice is that the horse in j eriirat!t,n will dry more juiekly if the La. r ;s short. If the animal is thoroughly blanketed acd kept in a sheltered or warm j.lace. alter beir. Jriyen, no danger results from jt-rspiratiun. whatever the length of tair; while the horse that has been deprive! cf its (cat in the winter linie ulfers perpetually while being exposed to tue cold. It isa cruelty inflicted upon beautiful carriage horses for the purpose of style. Blessed is the ordinary work horse, in the winter time, for, however ranch it may perspire, it is allowed to carry its full growth of hair uuritg the old weather. l o i.ot leave cattle to stand shivering, while extremities often freeze, in the snow storm? arid seere winds of winter, when a little time would sutrlce to construct of leeres, rails or joles, a support upon and croi td which may be placed hay, straw or weeds, thus making a shelter that may co;nfortatly protect them. Cattle kept in fairly warm condition tfcror.gliout the winter will, 3 milkers, give a larger and better yield of ulk, and as beeves will take on flesh much rtore rapidly than if left exposed to inclement weather. Aide from a i".etion of humanity, the rtoie attention and care that is bestowed pon animals, with a view to their comfort, the icre will they be of service and a source cf jTtfit to their ownn-s. To Make Hoy liotxl Farmers. The Indiana Farmer has tnis sensible talk to farncer? about their boys: From the lirst, toys on the farm should be induced to take an interest in the farm, in the stock, in the implements, and in all that pertains to the Icsicess. Tell them your plans, your successes and failures; give them the history of Tcnr life and what you did and how you lived when a boy; but don't harp too mu;U on the degenerate character of the yo ing xctn of the present are. 1 'raise them when yen can and encourage them to do better. Let them dress up in the evening, instead of tilting around in their dirty clothes, as is too often the case. Set an example before them of attending church on .Sunday, and puch other times as are convenient, and take them out enough in the world so they will rot be bashful, awkward, or ignorant of tte ways of genteel society. Bnt do not encourage strolling over the country, in com j any with other boys, on Sunday, or allow them to go where they please of nights. Tley may think you a little strict, but in rcature life will thank you. In order to interest them on the farm, and make their lives agreeable and pleasant, give them a piece of ground to cultivate as their oarn, and allow then? to have the money for their j roductiors. A boy who is industrious bc a use he is af rail of being punished can't amount to much ;as a farmer. Such a boy won't stay at home any longer than he can help it. When they secure money from any source which is the fruit of their industry, help the boys to invent a good share of it in a pig, cow or colt, and allow it to grow up on the iarrn as theirs. Show them the folly of ft ending their money foolishly for everytr.irg they ee, but encourage them to invest a share cf their earnings in useful books and 1ocls. for their instruction and amusemetit. l'rovide warm and neatly furnished sitting ar.d 1 edrooms and brilliant lights. Teach them industry, economy, morality nnd (Lr:st:anity, and steady, tempe -ate habits. 2 Savings of Farm Laborers. In the interesting life of the late Henry Fawcett a comparison is made between the jrovidenc of the peasant proprietors in France and the improvidence cf the agricultural laborers of Fngland. The large subterir tion to the French loan by feasant proj rietors was demonstrative proof that beyond the little land they possessed there was a reserve of rrsonal property ready for investment in Government securities whenever the national exchequer tempted it forth, irrespective of the nature of the Government in authority at the time. Fawcett writes to Professor Cairns in favor of peasant proprietorship in England, and says: "I am staying in the midst of one of the most prosperous agricultural districts in England. It would be almost impossible to find a laborer who Lad saved a sovereign, and not one in a thousand of these laborers will save enough to keep him from the poor-rates when old age core jls him to cease work." How can this be matter for surprise? A laborer in tiiis country earns on an average fourteen ttiilinsrs a week, out of which he nrobablv has to feed, clothe and house himself, a wife and an average of four children. Allowing four thence a day each for the laborer and his wife, and two j-ence a day each for his four children, sixteen pence out of thetwentvfcur is absorbed in providing a minimum of food by which life can be sustained. The wonder is not that the laborer does not save. but how he can possibly manage to procure the bare necessaries of subsistence out of his peanty earnings. Lady Verney, in an interesting description of peasant propertie in France, sketches a melancholy picture of the poverty of the peasant proprietors; but there remains the fact, which strongly im pressed iTOlessor x awcett, that tbe t rench peasant proprietors can and do save money for investment, while the English peasants can not. How to help the latter to better Bis condition is a problem well worthy both the politician and the humanitarian, and any government mat may come intooiJice. Winter Hint. Country Gentleman. There are several srnall items of work and farm oirations which may or ought to be rerfoxmed during winter, and on which we offer a few familiar suggestions by way of re minder to farmers. Among these, easily performed bat important, are putting all too. s in good order by thorough cleaning, polishing the metallic parts, oiline or paint ing the wooden portions, repairing fractures and selecting ana securing tbe Ih?s. in tbe ruarket. A lalorer spends a large amount ol ceeeless work t y using heavy, rusty, lull implements, wh'-n he might as well bare liffct, fharp and erhcient onps. Nothing pays better for tbe "mail cost than soaking all wooden work liable to exposure to the weather with a copious supply of crude peIn those Spions of country where' wood N etierly employed for fuel, the advantages of tisirg it crJy when wed-seasoned shoal't be lull understood. Green wood contains at

least ore-fourth of its weight of such water as thcrccch seaMnirc drives out. Of the 123

cubic feet in a cord of green wood, there is at least twesty cnbic feet of water, weighing 1.ÄO pounds. The teamster, therefore, draws over half a ton of needless weight with every cerd cf wood, which he would avoid if it were seasoned. For evaporating these twenty cubic feet of water, the strength of the wood is wasted in changing it from liquid to vapor. The latent heat thus required wouitl neai nearly hundred cubic feet of water from freezirc to boilinc There is, however, one advantage in using preen wood. For onen r.re-plaee. largely mnel witn other wooi, it regulates the flame and prevents the heat from rapidly running up the chimney when a v ry hot nre is not wanted. Uut for kind ling a ure on H rom jiiuiuiufj must ytrvpc will prefer the dry fuel to the green. Farmers should, therefore, cut and split their wocd in time for it to become well reasoned, preferring windy and exposed places to shady and sheltered ones for piling, where the evaporation will be carried on rapidly. In the orchard, some useful operations may be performed in the milder days of winter. Vhre limbs have been sawed on in pruning and the wounds left exposed, a coat of common paint will be of great use in preventing the water or rains from entering the racks in the exposed surface and causing decay. A light" brown or white paint is better than a dark color, which absorbs heat in summer and cracks the wood. For this reason coal tar, which would otherwise be useful, does not answer well for this purpo?e. Orchards which were set in autumn should have all the sorts regis ered in a book before the labels are lost from the trees. If ea?h kind has been set in rows, the registering will be comparative'y simple and easy. If this work is neglected and tne names lost before the trees bear, confusion and mistakes will be likely to follow. In some winters mice are abundant, and when they can get at the bark of apple and pear trees, they will do great harm in a short time. A neighbor had over a thousand ri ne pear trees just coming into bearing girdled under a temporary fall of snow in March, in two or three days. Ground clear of weeds and grass is less liable to such disasters, and small, compact, conical mounds of eaith beaten smooth late in autumn around the base of each tree will shut out the mice. But if the trees have not received this care, special attention should be given whenever there is a fresh fall of snow, which should be trodden hard around every tree. This will keep the mice from them. Improvement may sometimes be given to lawns, even in the depth of winter, when there is but littl now on the ground. Since hand lawn mowers have come into common use. it is important that ground over which they are passed be smooth and even. A rough surface may be rendered smooth by spreading sand, and depressions rendered level if not more than an inch or two deep. The eras will soon nnd its wav up through the sand, and thus deep holiows may be successfully tilled. A sand hole is easily kept from freezing in cold weathr with two or three bundles of straw. In this way sand is easily obtained for rendering heavy garden soiN lighter. If lawns require enriching, it ruay be easily done in ojen weather by spreading evenly and uniformly any iinely pulverized manure, which will be washed among the roots of the grass by winter and spring rain and assist a tresh and green growth. Dut the practice, sometimes witnessed, of defacing lawns with coarse manure in large lumps, and rendering them repulsive instead of ornamental, .should he avoided. . Vrtitj Good rota to Yield. New Ecglaud Farmer. Mr. Charles Eadgcr, wno repjrted a yield of potatoes from a single square rod ejual to !:u bushels per acre, and who showed a full five bushels of the marketable potatoes at the recent Franklin Farmers' Club Fair, gives us an account of the method of cultivation pursued. The land was in corn last year, and was well manured. Tbe character of the soil is a sandy loam. It lies in a valley, and though never too wet, seldom suffers severely from drouth. Last spring a good horse load of stable manure, from a barn where horses, cows and hogs are kept, was spread and spaded in, the work being thoroughly done. On the ISth of May it was furrowed out as closely as the furrows could conveniently be made with a spade, ten rows to the rod. A half bushel of seed was used, cut into from two to three eyes or more, nit iium-sized potatoes being cut into two or more pieces. The pieces were dropped about a foot apart, four or five inches below the surface level. After covering lightly with earth a light mulch of saturated litter from a hog sty was laid over the rews and three common water pailfuls of fertilizer spread over the whole. At hoeing time a dressing of pulverized hen manure was sprinkled along the rows and worked in as the weeds were cut out with the hand hoe. The yield was five bushels of large and one bushel of small potatoes. The trial rod was a part of a held of three-fourths of an acre planted to jotatoes, . with every sixth row left for marrow squares, which were planted when the potatoes were hoed. There were 210 bushels of potatoes and four tons of squashes on the field. Fifty pounds of the squashes grew upon the trial rod with the six bushels of potatoes. The square rod was planted to lleauty of Hebron uotatoes, the three-fourths acre to Karly Itose and lleauty of Hebron. A New Creamery System. At a Farmers' Institute recently held at Fort Atkinson, "Wis., a comparatively new method of operating a creamery was de scribed by Mr. G. H. White. In the course of his remarks he spoke of the difficulties incident to the cream and milk gathering systems of conducting factories, and particularly of the rare that justice to milk-produc-ers involves. The latter have variou bree.U ot cows, and feed and cart for theru differently. In his ease, the farmers follow their own tarie and judgment in the matter of breeds and of creaming the milk, and each delivers his own cream at the factory once in two days in warm weather, and once in three days in the late fall and winter. Each patron's cream is churned by itself, and thj pounds of butter it actually makes is credited to the patron. The weighing is done after the butter is salted and has been rolled only enough to express the brine that readily runs off. When it is found to be all right, the butter of each man, so far as it will till the dillerent-si.ed tubs or butter-boxes used. Is again worked and packed by itself, and receives the factory brarid. The little remainders are worked together, so as to till other boxes. If there i any defect in any batch it is kept separated and fold without the brand, and the net receipts cred ited to the patroa that furnished the cream. So each man gets just what he would make for himself on his own farm. The advantages are the uniform excellence of the manufactory part, the relief to the household of the farmer, a price much above that the average farmer can obtain, and the retention of the skimmed milk on the farm in the best condition for feeding. The method has thus far given great satisfaction, and may be one of the blades to cut the Gordian knot in the butter-making districts. In answer to questions, Mr. White explained that there is much difference in the yield of butter from the Bame number of pounds of cream. This he credited partly to the sea son and weather, but more largely to the difference In crtaraing methods on the farm, some having good facilities, some poor, some Having ice, ouiers none. HOl'SKIIOLD HINTS. "Willow chairs should have thinly lined flat velvet cushions tied on the seats, and an oblong cushion, similarly treated, on the baca. Rabbit Ftew. All rabbits, after they are skinned, cleaned, and cut in pieces, should lie in salt and water for an hour before cooking. Chop Dp a half pound of ham, put it in a frriog-pan with two sliced Onions, or a clove of mashed garlic and a bay leaf, tom salt . and . pepper, and Irl the rabbit cook twenty minutes over a quick lire; then add

some milk and hot water, and t immer until tender; thicken with flour smoothed into the gavy. A pleasing decoration for the top of an ebony milking stool is a bunch of scarlet poppies, wheat, oats and grass carelessly thrown together and painted in oil colors; bright red ribbon about two inches in width is loosely drawn around each of the legs of the stool and terminates in a bow and loops. Raked Indian Pndding. Boil a qoartof water, stir in three giUs of Indian meal and beat until smooth; add, while still boiling, a half pint of molasses, and let all cool. B Itter a deep earthen dish, sprinkle over :t a quarter of a pound of chopped suet and a tablespoonful of ground ginger; bake three

hours. Boiled starch is made by adding cold water to raw starch in the proportion of one cup of water to three-quarters of a cup of starch and then pouring on boiling water till it has thickened to a smooth mass, constantly stirring as you pour. Boil ten minutes. A bit of butter is added by many good laundresses, the bit not to be larger than a filbert. Anything starched with boiled starch must be dried and sprinkled before ironing. If silverware is washed always in hot suds and dried at once, it need never be rubbed offener than enceamonth. If egg has discolored spoons a little whiting removes it at once. When formal rubbing is required, make fine whiting into a paste with hot water or alcohol, and rub on thoroughly, using a small brush for all corners or intricate work. Let tbe pieces stand till dry; then lolishr with a eharrois-skin, using a brush to remove the whiting from the cracks. Clock Scarf. This is simply a strio of material to fit under a large mantle clock. It should be long enough for the one decorated end to fall from twelve to eighteen inches below the mantle. A pretty scarf of the kind is made of dark green felt, with an added piece six inches deep of sea-green satin, the joint being concealed by an embroidered vine in autumn colors, the leaves spreading upon both materials. The end is finished with a close chenille fringe the shade of the satin ; above it is worked in dark preen silk the legend, "The noiseless foot of Time steals swiftly by." An Odd Scrap Basket. For this the American Agriculturist must have the credit. The scrap basket is made of a straw bathing hat. First soak the hat in warm water; this will make it flexible, and allow it to be bent into the shape desired. Press the creases in the rim with a hot iron to form a square. When the hat is dry give it a coat of thin gluewater, and gild it on the inside and out; fasten a bunch of natural cat-tails on the front of it, tied with a bow of brown satin ribbon, to match them in color. Place a loop ( n the con. er of the basket to hang it upbj (if it is desired to have it a hanging scrap basket), or stand it in a convenient place where it will catch the odds and erids. Work Bags. A work bag Is always a very acceptable frift to a woman who uses her needle, and there are few women who do not. Square bags are made of rich brocaded silk, with satin lining showing in the broad frill above the casing run in for the ribbon strings. More fanciful bags are made in circular form, with a wide puff of satin or velvet encircling and connecting two central disks, which are made of pasteboard covered with silk or kid and decorated with embroidered floweis or other design.- Another work bag has at! it, teaplatc-sized bottom covered with enamelled cloth or leather on one side and thick silk ox the other, and bound all around with silk galloon; six little square bags made of silk, like the lining of the circle, are sewed all around it, and each bag is caught together lightly by a ribbon passing around. The little bags are each drawn up with cord or narrow ribbon, and are intended to hold spools and other necessaries, while otter articles find room in the central space. Prune Jelly. There are probably many persons who do not know the good qualities of prunes. Mrs. A. M. Wells says in Good Cheer: "Prunes are not generally appreciated. They are very easily digested, will be accepted by the stomach when nothing else will, and are often given as a remedy by fbysicians for incarnation of the stomach or their soothing, coolling properties. Trane jelly is a most agreea".!3 dessert, eaten with cream, and is very er;"y made. Stew slowly two pounds of prunt - insufficient water to well cover them till soft and will done; then pour through a colander to cool, returning the liquid to the kettle. Into the liquid put one coffee-cup of sugar and two ounces or one paper of Cooper's galatine, soaked for half an hour in a little water. While this is simmering, take out the stone3 from the prunes with a knife and fork; then return the prunes to the kettle and simmer all together for ten minutes and then )our into wet moulds. When cold set upon the ice. This, too, is an acceptable dish for invalids." FARM XOTKS. It should not be forgotten if straw is fed that more grain must be given with it than with good hay or fodder. The greatest profits is in bringing the stock to maturity as quickly as possible, and at the minimum of expenditures. Tasture range is what makes the alternate streaks of fat and lean in the bacon, which greatly increases its palatabieness. One of the reasons why small groves of forest trees on old land make slow progress is because the vegetable matter in the soil is exhausted. . The escaping ammonia from the manure, unless stables are kept clean and pure, often causes sore eyes and lung troubles in the animals sheltered In then It has been proved by repeated experiments that warming the water given cows to drink in winter time causes a perceptible in crease in the quantity of milk. The Surjreme Court of Pennsylvania finds that the act prohibiting the manufacture and sale of oleomargaring comes within the police powers of the State, hence the act is constitutional. All crowding at feed time should be avoided. The desire to steal food is about the only thing that will make ordinary oon s fight. Keep them out of temptation by feeding them separately. It is said that "a Connecticut farmer, who plants potatoes very early in the spring and digs them , as soon as the top leaves on the vines iudicate that they are attacked by fungus, never loses any by rot." ' L. II. Bailey, Sonth Haven. Mich., discussing the subject of nut-bearing trees, makes this statement: "A few years since I planted out thirty-five chestnuts, four years old, not one of which died." Professor Budd states that the success anticipated from the introduction of Russian apples has not been wholly realized, and the attempts to improve the ordinary race by crossing with the Siberian race were a'.ike unsatisfactory. In Fngland the direct supply system among farmers is spreading. Many of the farmers are killing their stock and selling the meat direct to the consumers, and it is said that the cheese-makers are also going in for the retail trade. Not so much is said lately about the Keifer pear, the productiveness of which was once thought likely to make it supersede all ethers for market. Like most things so easily grown, it is scarcely worth the trouble it costa. American Cultivator. The cause of abortion in cows, which generally occurs between the third and seventh juonth of pregnacy, is still imperfectly understood. Among the causes which contribute to this result are wet seasons, lack of wholesome for aee and also an excess of rich food especially oil cake. Abortion is not confined to any breed or country, but prevails in Europe as well as America. Secretary Chamberlain, of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, writes very encouragingly of a trial of ditchers operated by steam recently held in that Htate. The Committee ot Award recommended these mar hin es, eacb of which had excellences of its ewn, but no

ere combined all. The Jlecnie ditcher, made. in Canada, seems to make the best ditch, and is best adapted to working in stony ground. TVood ashes can often be purchased cheaply ot theses who have no ianu to nse them on, or do not know their real value, and it is well to collect all of them that can be collected conveniently and spread around the fruit trees, especially the peach trees. The Wisconsin sheep owner who brought suit against a bee keeper for damage to his flock, caused by attacks from bees, lost the case. Had a verdict been rendered in his favor, it would have caused much uneasiness among extensive bee keepers in various parts of the country. Kansas corn fields were effected in 1854 with blight similar to that from which Illinois farmers have suffered loss the past season, and in several instances where stock was turned into the field after harvesting and fed upon the blighted ears they were poisoned so as to cause death. Some farmers who regularly salt their stock in summer neglect it in winter. This is cot a wise or economical plan, and leads to loss of appetite among the animals. A little 6alt should be given twice a week, if each meal is not suitably seasoned as is the food of the human animal. Wheat is a plant 'that thrives best in cool weather, and often considerable growth is made during waim spells in winter. It will sometimes make root growth under the snow, and a covering of this is always beneficial, as it prevents injurious effects from alternate freezing and thawing. In localities where alsike clover is grown its blossoms make excellent bee pastures. It continues in bloom longer than white clover, and makes as cood honey though not quite so light in color." It extends the season when honey bees can work, which, when drouth dries up the white clover is apt to be

tco snort lor proht. "The Australian wools recently received here have," says a Boston paper, "proved as weak as water under test. They are vet y tender and can not stand any pressure. They may be good enough to make tine shawls for children, but they do not count for much except mixed with other stock of more strength and elasticity." Young cattle may live through the winter running to a straw-pile and fed a few nubbins, but they will not grow and mature; rather they will become poor and lean, and be smaller in the spring than at the commencement of winter. This is just six months of time lost in maturing the cattle for market, and in nine cases out of ten destroys all chances of profit. Notwithstanding the increased attention raid to poultry raising, the home supply is still insufficient for the demand. Lat year the United States paid Canada $2,000,000 for ll,5X,Ux dozen eggs, breeders importing millions of limed eggs from Germany and Holland. Kvery firmer can add to his income by the judicious keeping of at least a small f.ock of hens. It will not do to apply coarse manure to newly-seeded clover. No other plant is more easily smothered, and. while the ground will be fertilized under the mulch, it will lose the greater benefit from the growth of clover roots to the subsoil. But manure applied ia top dressing before clover seed is sown is always beneficial, and is one of the best ways to insure a good catch. A cow usually caries her calf the full period of nine months. In old cows this time is prolonged several days, and it is believed by some that when the latter partof the time of gestation is during winter the period is still further prolonged. However, if dates have been kept, as they should be, the cow will need extra feed and care from and after eight and a half months following the time uen gestation began. Many of the large crops per acre which are reported are grown on very small patches, and the crop from these multiplied by the number required to make a full acre. A single hill of potatoes may thus be taken, and this multiplied by 4,s00, the number of hills on an acre at three feet distance apart. Taking a quarter, or at least an eighth, of an acre is a much better test. The eggs of the cut-worm are found generally in the latter part of the summer on low plants, near the food which they are to devour. In the early spring the worms begin their depredations. Then they burrow into the ground, to rise again in perfect state. This insect has a varied taste, and will attack very many of the products of the field and garden. Corn is a favorite food plant for twelve or more species, and as many as sixty individuals have been taken from a single hill. CHICAGO SPECULATIVE MARKETS Wheat was Feverinh and Excited, Corn Featureless, While Provisions Developed Considerable Activity. Special to the Sentinel. CmcAf.o, Jan. 16. The wheat market on 'Change this week has been feverish and excited almost panicky at times and the deal seems to have gone all to pieces. The local "bear" crowd forced the light throughout and holders were kept on the run, millions of "long" stuff being thrown over at an enormous loss. From the shirt the crowd appeared to have made up their minds that the market was in a rotten condition, aud the inherent weakness was shown by the fact that even with a practical htoppogc of receipts by snow blockades, a fair decrease in the visible supply and reports of extensive injury to the winter wheat crop, the "bulls" were unable even to hold their own. No new or special "hear arguments wtre developed. out everybody suddenly become imbued with the idea that there wn. too much wheat in the country and that bcfon;he market could rest on a healthy basis values must decline to a point where some of it would be moved out ami carrying chances reduced. At first the loads were shifted to the shoulders ot other "buliE," but tbey In turn quickly became disgusted as prices seemed to have started on an enrtlc tumble, and soou a search warrant would have been required to find a trader who was willing to acknowledge that w heat had any value. Cables continued Itat and the amount on passaee showed a material increase. Counselnian, flamill. Brine, Jones and McCormick kept up a continual drive at the mAiket,and their principals were id to be wealthy New Yorkers. Toward tne las, there "as something ol a recovery, due. however, more to the covering of "shorts" preparatory to putting out fresh lines, and a story tnat Woerishaffer, tne noted Wall street bear, wis buying heavily, than to aiiv eiicoiirHirinz chance In the Situation. Thus the close was barely steady, and the mere fact that mere nas been a heavy decline appears tne ouiv arcument for hijrher prices. Speculators nave all along talked that the short erop must cause dear wheat. This conclusion has been reached without a calculation of what the rest of the wheat producing countries of the world could or would do, and now. with half the eron vear of is,svi irone. stocks are larger than ever before In the history of the trade, with the consuming countries of the world practically independent ol Ataer ican train. Exporting houses admit that for the first time In a year wheat Is right at or very near an export basis. but tbey so row fully add that there is no orders here, tue explanation being that the property would have to be sold abroad for next moutlrs delivery, and offerings ahead weuld be certain to depress the huelish market, still there has been a numticr of good-sixed lota taken for export at tke seaboard the past few days. If, however, prices are pushed up before stocks are materially reduced the situation will be as bad as ever. l orn has teen about featureless, with hardly enough trading to make quotations. Sympathy with wheat has bad a weakening influence, but mis was about onset by limited receipts. 1'rovislons have developed consiuerble activity. but the range of prices hasn't been great, aud the close is steady. The Louisiana State Engineers have been notified of a serious cave-in of the levee at Kermoville, twenty miles atove New Orleans. During severe 'weather, Fond's Kxtract should he in every family. It is not always convenent, or even desirable, to calf a physi cian tof" every little ailment, and in many cases it is not only inconvenient, but impos sible to reach one promptly. Having Fond's Kxtract in the houe, you have a physician always at bad. It is easy of application, safe and reliable. For Sore Throat and Lungs, Chapped Hf Jids and Face, it is of inestimable value. Frosted Limbs and Chilblains are promptly relieved by I'onJ's Kxtract. .For tale everywhere. Be sure to get the Genuine.

OUR EUROPEAN LETTER

Cur CcmrporieEt on tn Eitetfed Foct Tear Tkrccgh the Tyrolese Alps. Spit CkJckens A landlord Who Witnessed the Firrt Xapoleon't Invasion Inn brück Mountain scene and Scenery Klauben. f Special Sentinel Letter. I 31 es ich, Jan. 1. After the quiet and restfulness of Schwaz, a nomadic spirit took possession of tis, which would be satisfied with nothing less than an extended foot tour through the beautiful Tyro'ese Alps. En dued with the importance of our under taking, and stimulated by the discouraging prophecies of friends, we (that is, baby, nurse and myself) began to put ourselves in train ing. For a week or more we undertook al most daily tramps of ten to twelve miles a day into the country or neighboring villages, where we often had the most delightful ex periences. Upon one of our skirmishing expeditions we came to an old fashioned roadside inn, where we learned young chickens, cooked n a spit, could be had, provired they were ordered a day before hand. This novel experience we determined should be ours, so a dinner of spit chic&cns was ordered for another day, when a party was organized for their consumption. On that eventful day the black, but immaculately clean kitchen was invaded, and the entire force mounted guard over the spit, where the tender victims frizzled and sputtered before the clean fire, while the butter was being dipped up on f the little pans underneath, and po'j- 1 them as they were browning. The a long iron rod, which pierced the fowls, and rested at either end on a little rack. There were two of these rods, one on each side of the lire, terminating in handles, which were constantly turned. At the end ot about three hours our chickens were pronounced done, and at the end " of four hours, they had become one with us, and the most delicious bit of meat that ever tickled mortal palates was the final verdict sent in. While we were waiting and longing we alternated our inspection of the spit with levies on the landlord's stock of information, lie was a funny, little old man of nearly ninety, in a black skull cap, slick and stiff with age and use, and smoking his huge pipe, the inseparable companion of the Tyroler. He was chuck full of reminiscences, and his chief glory, aside from tha; of his age, was having been an eye-witness to TUE TEEKCH INVASION by Napoleon's troops, who had passed his home, leaving the scars of their cannon balls m the house where he still lives, while he himself, then a mere boy, was concealed in the mountains. But to return to our own reminiscences. In clue course of time we reported ourselves to the head of our little family as in good marching condition and asked that he leave his peasant interior for a week to command our forces. We had set the 15th of September as the most favorabre time for setting out on our expedition, as then the weather is neither too hot nor too cold. It was with anxious misgivings, however, that for tw Weeks beforehand we saw it rain in the valley and snow in the mountains every day. Kvery day, then, for two weeks we sat shivering in cur rooms, peerin out into the heavy, chilling fog and deliberating upon the question of to go or not to go. The peasants on the mountains who are born weather prognosticates told us, however, that when the suu came out and the clouds once lifted, showing the mountains white with snow, that we could then be assured of fine weather for a couple of weeks at least. On Sunday morning, the 14th, the sun rose clear, the clouds and fog were gone, and behold! the mountains had on their white caps. Monday morning then found us on our way rejoicing, with a few necessaries packed in our baby-wagon, and, as is the way of all good packers, the most necessary article of all (the baby) placed on top. Our dress was as light in weight as we could possibly make it, and our shoes old and easy, with low, broad heels. At night, after the day's travel, in addition to the usual bath, the feet were trated to an extra bath of strong salt water, which prevented soreness and blisters, so that at the end of nearly one hundred miles' tramp our feet showed no sign of bruise or blister, but, on the contrary, the sKin had. become tough like leather. The first day we walked a distance of only twelve miles, as our commander, who is a prime walker, had warned us against overtasking our strength at the outset. This brought us to Halle, an ancient town, with a fine old tower rising conspicuously above all the other buildings of the place, and so old that no one could tell U3 when nor why it was built nor to what use it had formerly been put. The next morning we went on to IXNSUBVCK, the capital of Tyrol, and spent the remainder of the day in seeing this beautiful city. Innsbruck is situated in the middle of a valley, with high mountains on all sides. It is one of the loveliest cities of Europe, and "every foot of ground in and around it teems with historical associations. Some of the greatest rulers and Fraperors of Germany and Austria have held their courts here, and not a few notable personages are buried within her crypts. Among the latter is Andreas llofer, the peasant leader of theTyrolese in their struggle for independence and against the inroads of Napoleon. There were so many things to see and know about in Innsbruck that it would be imjKissible to notice them in a limited space, unless simply to enumerate them. Even this we forego lest we be found guilty of plagiarizing on guide book literature, fcuttice it to say that Innsbruck is wondrously beautiful in her surroundings, and in her historical associations and souvenirs of the past, more interesting, perhaps, than any city of her size in Europe. On Wednesday morning we set out on our J'ourney with renewed enthusiasm, for at nnsbrack we took the road over the Brenner Pass, down through Southern Tyrol. Our destination was Hotzen, about eighty miles from Insbruck, which we hoped to reach by Saturday evening, giving onrselves four days to make the trip. This road across the Alps is the oldest leading into Italy, and is mentioned even in the lines of Horace. In tbe Middle Ages it was still the great commercial'highway, and the only thoroughfare between Venice and Germany. It is now a perfect roadway, the ascent and descent over the Brunner being so gradual that little or no difficulty was experienced in propelling our baggage and baby. It wbs with pleasurable sensations that we pictured in our imaginations the long trains of merchandise as they thronged this road in former days, and contrasted them with our little caravan, consisting of a single wagon, containing a single treasure, a jewel, priceless, but not marketable; neither the object of covetous greed ; our treasure was not guarded from the attacks of lawless rubbers, but attended by keepers, happy and free from anxious care, a pleasing contrast indeed to the heavily laden wagoss gToaning with the riches of Venice and Italy, accompanied by armed men, ever cn the alert to ward off the frequent assaults of outlaws and robber knights, who lived by murder and plunder, and who came down from their castles in their rocky fortresses to waylay merchants in the narrow passes. The cooine and crowing of a little child, happy in its new surroundings, and delighted with , the bye-bye that seemed to ; have 1 no end, cow resounded from rocks and ledges

which net a hundred years ago had echoed with tke clasbiEg of arms and the tramp of Napoleon ; the quick rifie shot of the Tyroleve from their hiding places in the mountains and the crashing of stones upon the dense ranks of Napoleon's Frenchmen below. Nearly every narrow defile of this road had been tbe scene of some dreadful encounter with the French, in which ANDREAS HOFEB atd his followers almost invariably won the day by their mountainous mode of warfare, which always brought confusion into the racks of the best trained soldiers.

As we walked on and on new objects of interest, new scenery, with all the variations. from lovelv. pic turesque, dreamland views, to the gloomy, savace grandeur of high mountains and ruhing streams, made us unconscious of tired limbs. Castles in ruins, castles in all their original completeness, still crown many a lofty height. In fact, during the middle ages these castlei constituted a chain of castellated forts, which stood on the sites occupied by the hill forts of the Romans. They were so situated as to be visible from one another, or were provided with isolated watch towers, from which a foreign invasion could be quickly signalled by means of lire at night or smoke by day from one end of the great valleys to the other. What a delight to be able to gaze up at these old hills of romance and tragedy, with their walls and rowers now broken and overgrown, their many hidden passages filled with debris, or their secret chambers and cells exposed to the light, which had never penetrated them until ruin came. The peculiar custom, which is also a relic of the Middle Ages, and in perfect keeping with the time .when these old castles were peopled with a fanatic and superstitious folk, is the making of pilgrimages, as an absolution of sin. Not a few of these devoted peasants did we meet on the road, singing, praying, sometimes begging, on their way to some distant church or chapel, where was a wonder-working relic or picture, or whose pilgrimage led over a steep roadway, which represented the Mount of Calvary, the reverent ascent of which insured an unequivocal answer to praver. Men, women and children perform these voluntary penances through the blistering sun, foot sore and weary, in pain and distress, leaving a dear sick one at home, perhaps, from whom the death angel will be warded off through their own sacrifices, or is undertaken tor themselves, in the sincere hope of obtaining that eace which passeth all understanding. THE BEAUTY TREAD OCT BEFORE IS, and heaped up beside us, made us glad that we had been born. Glad, though, that we had been born in the nineteenth century, and could be secure in our enjoyment; that it had not been our lot to have lived in those days where danger and treachery threatened on every hand; when an Emperor, one of the greatest and one of the crudest Germany has ever known, sick and racked with pain, hurried from his bed in the middle cf the night, had traversed this same ro3d, pursued.by his own subjects, lleeing in the midst of a frightful storm, whose lightning Hashes alone revealed the plunging and dashing of horses spurred to the utmost, stumbling and falling in the pitchy darkness, but ever on and on, up the Brenner, down again, never halting until the boundaries of Italy had teen reached. On Thursday noon we reached the summit of the Brenner, and Friday evening we. came to the picturesque town of Klausen, having walked a distame of twenty-six miles thasday, the last five miles by moonlight. Klausen is a very old and a very queer town, squeezed in between the river and the mountains with a single street, which affords room for only one carriage to fass. On a projecting rock, 700 eet high, overhanging the town as as it were, stands a very old nunnery, with two churches on the site of a temple of Isis, as is said. Here a tragedy was enacted, in that a nun, during the struggle between the Tyrolese and the French, to escape the brutalities of the latter, precipitated herself to the rocks below. Luxuriant vineyards now clothe the mountain sides until they gradually grow nearer together and more precipitous, ending in a gloomy pass, whose massive rocks lift themselves perpendicularly from the very roadside, fairly oppressive in their grandeur. It was with a feeling of relief that we saw them begin to separate again and the beautiful valley of the Odige spreading out before us. Botgen lay in the center of this valley, with several castles looking down from their heights above. The peculiar sharp peaks of the Dolomite Mountains, rosy in the glow of the setting sun, towered far up behind the nearer Alps in the background of this lovely picture. It was the last day of our walk, as the sun was shedding his last rays over the mountains, that we entered this charming town, where flourish the orange, fig and pomegranite, not less jubilant over the success of our undertaking than over the delights of our journey. Sunday was a day of rest in the fullest sense of the word, but Monday found us thoroughly refreshed, only regretting that our foot tour could not be extended, and full of antipathy against the conventional railway travel n which we now were dependent for transportation to tkhwaz. J K, A Remarkable Female. Fokt Smith, Ark., Jan. 16. The notorious Belle Star, of the Cherokee Nation, walked into the United States Marshal's office yesterday and surrendered herself into the hands of the law, there being several writs out against her for horsestealing. She came prepared to give bond, w hich she soon did, and has returned to her home to await trial. She said she had heard there was some writs out for her, but that the did not propose to be dragged around by Ieputy Marshals, as she was innocent of the charges and thought she could prove it. Belle is quite a remarkuMe female, her name being lamiliar all over the Indian Territory and in portions of Texas, she claims to have been at one time the wife of Cole Younger, aud figured conspicuously as a member of the notorious Vouncer gang. After Cole was thrown into prison she became the wife or mistress of Jim Reed, the notorious desperado who met death at the hands of officers in Texas, in ls74 or ls . After Keed"s death the went to the Indian country are married ain Star, and since then has been conuot tcd with and reigned a vertible queen of different bands of outlaws. About three years asro rhe aud her husband, Sam Star, were tried in the Federal Court here for horse-stealing, and sent to Detroit for one vear each, serving out the time, tbey went back to their rendezvous on the Canadian Iiiver, which Bell calls Youbger s Bend, and soon gathered aronnd them some bard characters, amone them tbe notorious John Middleton, with whom Belle became infatuated and deserted her husband to become Middleiou's mistress, she staited to leave the territory with Middleton about the 1st of last May, and he wai drowned in the l"ateau. Belle soon afterward returned to the territory and again joined Sur, who is now on the scout for horse-Rtcaling and robbery. Belle is a native of Missouri, is a fearless horse-woman, a good shot, and is said to rule the men she has about her in a most remarkable manner. Weekly Bank Statement. N'ew York, Jan. 16. The weekly bank statement of the associated banks, Issued to-day, shows the following changes: j ucrcase. xA-n-nc. Loans...-......... Ppeeie. .. Ix-jral tenders t ÖJT.SO0 tl.'.VO.lOO ..... 2.S01.700 , 6,."ft,0UO I)eiosits Circulation ........ Reserve - 4,005,5. The banks now hold $33,811,913 in excess of the 25 per cent. rule. A (deutle Stimulus Is imparted to the kidneys and bladder by llostetter's Stomach Bitters, which Is most useful la overcoming torpidity of these organs. Besides Infusing more activity into them, this excellent tonic endows them with additional vigor, aud enables them the better to undergo tbe wear aud terof the discharging function imposed xipon them by nature. Moreover, as they are the channel for the escape of certain Impurities from the blood, Increases their usefulness by strengthening and healthfully stimulating them. In certain morbid condition of these Important organs, they iall into a sluggish state, which Is the usual percursor of disease. What then can be of greater service than a medicine which Impels them to greater activity when slothful T No maladies are more perilous than those which aflVt tbe kidneys, and a medicine which averts the peril Rhould be highly esteemed, '

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