Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 32, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1886 — Page 6

THE ' I H 1) fcfi NA VBTATB SEKTlNELvWEDNESDAY 5TEBH1MKY' 54 188G.

OUR FARM BUDGET.

Tne Hessian Fly Tupelo Gam ini Ocwcak. Carüe in St&li. Fields. Heads and .TilingFarmers as Gardners The Cost cf Corn I Old Beef Toogn? Household flints and Farm Noteft. ,.' The Hessian Fly. San la Rosa (CaL) Pnioc.-at There is some talk among the tanners that the Hessian fly has made its appearance in this immediate section already this spring. 5 me early wheat, in a fceld three miles west f this city, has been badly damaged, and a investigation the proof strongly points to ikat devastating little 'nuisance, although thing but their eggs have been found. We are informed by the farmers that tire has no eflect en them, several having tried barning their stubble fields, but to no effect. One gentleman suggests the idea of ttarvinjr them at by cultivating grass, corn and vege tattles instead of grain. The Tupelo Gam and Willow Oak. Considerable attention has been lately directed to the commercial and industrial value, at least prospectively, of the tupelo gum and willow oak timbers of Mississippi. Alter various and thorough tests the first named has been pronounced almost as soft and light as cork, and the whitest timber in the valley. It is extremely l:ght, can not be plit, while at the same time it is very tocgb, tenacious, and will bear 3 heavy strain, its various qualities rendering it specially valuable for buckets, pitchers, trays or yokes, and almost all kinds of water vessels, as well as for many other purposes. The water cr willow oak is said to Ye second only t the live oak, is almost as hard when seaeeced as is the latter, and for the rim and epckes of wheels is alleged to have no superior, while for shipbuilding it will almost r.al the live oak in its firmness and durability. Tests have been made of the crashixg capacity of this wood, and also of its transverse strength, with remarkably favorable results, the published data showing that it is one-third stronger than any white, red or black oak, and only one-eighteenth less than live oak. I OKI Beef Tough? Drover's Journal. A correspondent says: "I wish here to protest apainst the prevalent idea that old seat is tough. Never was there a greater fallacy. The age of the animal has nothing to do with it; and the fact is, the toughest and most tasteless meat is that of a two-year-id rtear, kept fat from birth and then shipped to market, where he will arrive in a shrinking condition. On the contrary, the XEOit tender, juicy, highest-flavored meat is that cf an old animal, cow, or even a work teer no matter how old if fattened rapidly and killed when in a thiiving condition. All neat is more or less tough when the animal is losing flesh, and the opposite tender and juicy if the animal is gaining rapidly; and, as all your (Chicago; meat is killed ten the animal is losing rlesh, you never et any really good meat. The change can e noticed in the meat before the eye uetects it in the acimara condition." Cattle in The italic FieM. American .fiockman.J I do not turn hungry, starved cattle into a fresh stalk held to remain longer than three hours, and when taken out give them plenty cf good, clean water and a little salt. Every time you turn them in allow them to remain from a half to an hour longer, giving plenty of water and a little salt when taken out. Continue this until all the corn is gathered up, or nearly gathered up, to prevent found ering, inen let them remain in the held, providing they have plenty of clean water and salt two or three times a week. Experi ence nas taugnt me tnis to be the only safe ' way of pasturing stock in fields. If you or any of the readers of the Rural will follow this plan your loss of cattle from feeding on stalk fields will be not one. It is the dry leea taken into the stomach that absorbs all the moisture of the stomach, and in a short time tne animal becomes feverish and shows Eirns of weakness, sometimes in the knees, Bometimes in the loins, and there are various ways the disease manifests itself. Then the cry goes out that there is a new disease among the cattle, when it is all caused by the derangement ol the stomach, which de- , rangement is for the want of pure water and salt sufficient to keep the stomach moist and the digestive organs healthy, Koada and Tiling:. ICoIeman's F.uml World.) The Illinois State Board of Agriculture is about to bold a meeting of the Road Super Tisorsof that State, and will bring together at the same time a large number of the tile makers with a view to determining some means by which by the combined etforts of the two the fanners of the State may be proTided with better roads. Colonel Mills, Sec retary of the Board, met with the tilemakers at their recent annual meeting in the capi tal and submitted the plan to them, and not only secured their indorsement, but enlisted ti?eir hearty co-operation. There are three Road Com'missioners to every township in the State, and if but a goodly number of these are able to attend, and to jointly dis cuss road making with the tilemakers, they will be able to reach 'some plan by which the road adjoining every man s farm shall be so made and tile drained ai to give them rood roads all the vear round, and as well demonstrate to a certainty the value of tile drainage to every farmer. The undertaking is one promising immeasurable advantage to all concerned, for the farmer wants good roads as much as he wants any other" one thine, and the tile makers will find in such a call a demand upon their resources that will very largely stimulate their just now sutterine industry. There are 3,-XK) J load Commissioners in the State, and more than GOO tile-makers; and it is but reasonable to suppose that such a body of men will be able to suggest a means by which their present bottomless roads may be drained and graded and thus made pass able at every season of the vear. Jo State needs good roads more than does the State of Illinois, unless, indeed, it be that of Missouri, and here is an example set worthy of imitation. What lo the farmer of this State think of it? Farmer aa Gardener. Vick'i Magazine for February. The remark is often made that farmers are poor gardeners, and it is too true in most cases. Farmers families, as a rule, are far more poorly supplied with vesetables than city residents. IVot more than a quarter of the farms of this region show anything bet ter in the way of garden produce than a lit tie sweet corn and some bush beans and a few tomato plants, and, possibly, even these last are wanting. The field crop is depended upon to supply the potatoes that are wanted, and, perhaps, some turnips will be raised in the fail, some years, as a second crop. What a miserable showing is this for those who are situated so that the choicest vegetables of the garden, the various kinds in their sea son. might appear in abundance on their tables, provided the necessary care and labor should le given to produce them. But this picture is not overdrawn; it is, unfortunately, too true, and it is not less true that if we inquire about the family frnit supply for country tables we shall find this quite as deficient, or even more so. There is no necessity for this condition of thing", and it is op posed both to the physical and financial in terests 'of these families. No part of the farm can make greater returns for the labor and other expenditures than the vegetables and the frnit garden. If we inquire into tpt cause cl their neglect we ebaU find, in

many cases, that their importance is measurably comprehended, and the want of them is felt, but the labor and attention

they require are somewhat dißeretu irom that of the farm crops, and also the garJen interferes to tome extent with the farm work when it is not properly planned and manaced, as for the most part it might be, so as to cause little or no inconvenience in the performance of the regular work. And for this purpose we now ask our country ana village rtadtrs who are directly interested to give the necessary thought for the prepara tion ol a good garden at tnis season oi comparative rest. What shall the garden consist f? How and when shall it be prepared? "Who shall have the direct supervision of it? These and other questions can be considered and decided upon, and when the time of action comes there need be no delay. The Cost of Corn. IC'im iiiEftti Commercial Gazette. Mr. Bonham. of the Oxford Farmers' Club, said the cost depended much on the season. and condition of soil. In favorable seasons and on good, clean, rich land, the cost per bushel is not one-third of that on poor land, stiff clay or in an unfavorable season. The condition of the soil the farmer can, in a large measure, control, but the weather is a factor he can not handle. The crop in general is cheapened by the best of culture and jrood implements. The threehorse plow, the planter and cnecs.ro wer are essential to cheap corn culture as the drill and binder to wheat raisinp, or the mower and horse rake in hay-making. Then, too. the shape of one's fields is very important. The field with parallel sides, so as to have no point rows, and with a length of not less than eighty rods, can be mowed at less cost per acre than one where there is more ti me occupied in turning. His lield3 arc about 110x40 rods, and it costs one-hall more to plow it the short way. It takes three days with the U-o-horse cultivator to go over his 24-acre fields the longer way, and four and a half days the shorter way. He advocated the removal of more fences and study to remove obstruction in the way of open dit he-i. gullies, stumps, old trees, bushes and the like, as a means of economy and comfort in cultivating all crops. It pays to remove every obstruction to a free use ol best implements, me day is past when we can go, dodging around among stumps and brush and stone with a one-horse plow. Eetter work and more of it is the road to lessen the cost per acre and per bushel. He cave the cost of a corn crop, on a twentyfour acre neid, no rods long: Breaking stalks ...... KaViDL' ami burning 1 1 2T 5 3 2 ; 5 Ten days' rlnuing Two and one-quarter days' harrowing......... ne and nue-balf days' planting . Three bushels seed Replanting Ko'lintr. two lavK.... Two cultivating, loug way, three days .... Two ouitivatings, short way, lour and one hall lays Thinning , 1 50 : 00 Total cost of cultivating...... 208 2 Ercht days' b'iskinc four meu and two teams. 56 00 One-third tax ou farm 24 2 Interest on laud or rent - la) 00 Total.. (.'est icr acre, in crib 11 7 om to cultivate and gather 5 20 Estimating the crop by the wajjon-load. when husking, there were 1,440 bushels, worth at the time of husking sW): worth per acre. 'l.-; averape bushels per acre, . cents, tie said tne ground broKe up very mellow, and the cost of preparing lor planting was the least possible. In average seasons he lind it necessary to roll and harrow bfore the planter, but it was not necessary to roll this vear. . Jiis stand was excellent, and when laid by he anticipated a large crop, but a drouth set in and lired the corn before the rains followed. The satter part of the season was too wet. In lact, tfce season was wroncend foremost. There was a rank growth of blade and stalk, many barren stalks, an unusual amount of smut or black funirus, and much rotten corn. None of his corn was as well filled out as it was last year, and the feeding value of the crop is not nearly so good as that of last year. In fact, he considers his crop not a fair average. Nor cau he see how he could have prevrnted this. He planted ;Iay ! and 10. It lie bad planted two weeks later his cron wor.M irbt have been so in jured by the drouth. As a general rule, however, early planting does best Here. Mr. McCullouph said he had corn on both rich bottom lands and thin upland. The latter is far the best this year. Usually the crop on his bottom land isthebest. He had a well-prepared estimate of the cest of his crop, which your correspondent regrets he forgot to ask him for. Mr. Otstot gave his estimate of his crop cost per acre Plowing . ?J Ofi Harrowing J" Marking out for drill - 1 drilling 20 ed 10 Cultivating four times., Hulking i:ent 1 CO ... 1 ... 00 Total lit Mr. Brown said he could not keep the run of his business if he did not keep a journal in which he noted work done each day, and where it was done, on what crop, and the time spent on it. HOUSEHOLD MINTS. How to Make a Pudding (Juick. Split a few crackers, lay the surface over with rais ins, and place the halves together again, tie them closely in a cloth and boil hi teen mm ntes in milk and water. With a rich sauce, it is elegant. Mock Cream. (1.) Beat two exr one ounce of sugar and a small piece of butter, with one pint of warm milk; then put it into hot water, and stir it one way until it acquires the consistency of cream, (i) In stead of eggs, as above, use a spoonful of ar rowroct, with a little cold milk. Corn Starch Cake. One cup butter, two cups suear, one cup sweet milt, one cup corn starch, two cups tiour, the yolks of four eggs, the whites of five, one tablespoon baking powder; beat sugar and butter together; add milk, volks of eirs: beat whites of eirirs seoaT y ' KJJ I rate and add last; mix the baking powder with the hour before mixing. Yorkshire Pudding. "When roasting a piece of beef, lav it on two sticks in your baking pan, so that the juice from the meat will drop into the pan below. Three-fourths of an hour before the beef is done mix the following pudding and pour it into the pan under the meat, letting the drippings con tinue to fall upon it: One pint of milk, four egys well beaten, two cups of tlower, one teaspoonful of salt. Mock Fried Oysters. These arc made of one bunch of salsify or oyster plant, two eggs, half a cup of sweet milk, and Hour enough to make a thin batter; wash and scrape the vegetable, then grate it In the bat ter, drop a spoonful at a time in hot lard, and fry until brown: serve hot and dry. Mock stewed oysters are made of salsify also. It should first be boiled for a few minutes in weak vinegar and water; then cook unti tender in clear water, and lastly put them in milk and season, and stew in the usual way. Fancy Work Hints. Table and work .bas kets of wicker-work and curled supports of the same are made very attractive by inter lacing ribbons, tasseiled edges, with era broided lambrequins beneath, fringed with beads of colored glass and gold ; handles of corded silk, ornamented with ribbon bows. A pretty lamp-mat may be made by cov ering a aound. oval or hexagonal piece of cardboard with velvet and giving It a border of feathers approxiraatimr to flower designs in sprays. Tall scran baskets of birch bark may be tastefully decorated by fastening a wide band of satin ribbon through the center and term mating it in a large bow with loops and ends in the bow may be caught bnnches of grasses and thistle balls varying in color, . - In making wall book racks the shelves may be .slightly sloping inwards, so as to hold the books more securely. Jnstead of a

solicLintk, chert pieeesof wood, two inches

hi&n, lor eacn seen win sumce. ine aDgie thus given to the books is provided for by. two. triangular pieeesof wood attached bebind the sides. This -is a new arrangement: Mo make Japanese cement for fancy paper work, intimately mix the best powdered rice with cold water and then gradually add boilre water until the proper consistency is ob tained, keeping it well stirred all the time, then boiL This glue is a beautiful white and does not discolor. Various Hints. There are many dishes which call for intricate . manipulation. In these even adroit cooks may be pardoned it they sometimes faih But many housekeepers seem to lack gumption in preparing some of the simplest viands. They can not boil potatoes properly, can not bake bread twice alike an advantage possibly when they never mase good bread and can not produce a tasty and edible milk pudding. In cooking vegetables, such as carrots, parsnips, cabbatres and turnips, many cooks deal sparsely with the water and are often compelled to pour on more after the vegetables have begun to cook. This is a mistake. Give plenty of water at the start, and when the vegetables are cooked thoroughly, which is an ea?y matter to decide, stop cooking them. Water-logged, dark-colored vegetables are an abomination and present a roost unpalatable appearance. In the matter of bread much has already been said in this department, but the knack for making it may be wanting even when one has read volumes on the subject. How many persons fail in'that fundamental culinary art mak ing bread ! Take again the simple matter of preparing oatmeal. Much of the oatmeal put upon our tables is like boiled sawdust. Lumpy or half-cooked, and so dry and taste less, it is repugnant to many persons: so much so that the name is disagreeable to them. One secret of making oatmeal is to cook it thoroughly. That is the simple, practical prose of the matter. Bread when kneaded ( hrst.made up) should be thoroughly worked or" kneaded; when light and being moulded should have no more Hour added than just possible to mould the loaves into shnpe for the baking-pans. Uather small-sized loaves are the best. It is more than careless, it is criminal to leave any poison within the reach of a child. A locked box or cupboard should be the receptacle of all drugs, especially of all that are poisonous, bince we do not know when any particular drug or medicine may be needed it is advisable to have all such as the house possesses in a place at once safe and handy safe from the children, readily accessible to the powers that be. FA KM NOTES. It is stated that 1"4 bushels of corn have been hauled and cribbed within eleven and one-quarter hours. It has been determined that 8,10) pounds cf corn products, including grain, cobs and stalks, is equal in nutritive value to !,J12 pounds ol hay. Strong brine is reported to be taking the place of alcohol for preserving specimen fruits. They keep size as well and preserve their color better. The Burlington company that is making milk sugar from whey finds the demand out growing the supply, and has sent West for material to make the sugar Df. At the Union Stoek-yards during the.year isv.-) almost IO.OOh.Ü) animals of all kinds were received to be exact, !,sr27,.V7. About two-thirds of the whole number were hogs. A farmer of Xorth Belgrade, Me., says three bushels of plaster on grai land 19 as pood as six. He would apply it just after the ground becomes bare in the spring, and just before a rain, if possible. The Chinese mix hight soil with dry argile; form it into blocks or "loaves," and sell these at lairs. The Chinese pulverize these before using, and attribute the exemption of their hind from weeds to their employment. The Pipestone Star reports a farmer a saying that he can "keep one stove going" six months on the sr.n Mower stalks produced on one acre of land. The seed produced is fed to fowels, which pays for all cultivation. The barbed-wire manufacturers have agreed upon an advance in price of one-half cent per pound, the rate now to be four cents per pound free on board at Chicago and Kast St. Louis, for fifty-ton lots, and four and a half cents for smaller lots. The wages of farm hands in Switzerland, exclusive of board and lodging, average for males about $.V5.25 a years; for females, $2'Yr.0. In;the United States the wages of the farm ca ids, including board and lodging.average from &10Q to Söo. Diversified farming means fields of grain, meadows and pasture; a kitchen garden and orchard; a lawn with trees and Mowers; breeding mares and milk cows: sheep, swine and poultry. Live stock is the groundwork, and will hold the soil fertile. The Chicago Tribune says: It is unquestionable that the present generation is leaving the farm in large numbers and that the next will leave in stil greater, and that wore it not for the accretion of foreign agricultural labor our farms would sutler very heavily. The wheat record for last year is as follows: Minnesota, .i4.s25.OiX) bushels; Michigan, 31,201,000 bushels; Iowa, 00'3J2,0OO bushels; then Dakota, 27,01:1,000 hushelsof wheat. Last year Dakota increased her wheat area by over OW.OOO acres beyond that of the year previous. Mill maize should be planted in a good, rich soil, and given a good cultivation. It will make a good growth, and furnish considerable green food if cut off and fed, or if allowed to stand longer it can be cut and cured for fodder. Yet it will not furnish auy more feed than good Kansas orange cane, which will easily ripen seed, and is that much better. Mr. Edward M. Teall, in the Breeders' Gazette, upon feeding ensilage to cattle, says: "When fed to bulls it makes them sluggish and indifferent, and in the majority of cases of service the bull fails to get the cow in calf. When fed to cows long in calf, say one to two months before calving, the calves have the rorst kind of scours, and in a large majority of cases the calf dies." ; No wonder capitalists are willing to lend the farmer money at 6 per cent. What is the result? The farmer gives his surplus crops to the capitalist in the way of interest. One or two failures of crops or disease among stock, and the capitalist takes the farm and the farmer goes W est. ow, what are we to do? We have not the capital to go and invest in line live stock, and it is a question if stockraising will pay in this climate: and is there not too much capital invested in land to keep ns from making stock fanges if we are so disposed? Experience in farming and stock-breeding in the West proves the merits of improved stock. By selecting the best and discarding tne poorest animals on tne farm every year, the stock will, of itself, improve in quality. But life is too short to make such slow prog ress. It is much quicker and more profitable to use full-blooded sires, and grade up prac tically. High grades are thus soon obtained that for practicable purposes are little inferior to full-bloods. Such grading up is within the reach of all western farmers. During the winter months procure all the manure you can, especially stable manure; even if you have to pay lor it by day's work. do so, for this is a most important item in farming. Convey all you get home at once and throw it in a compost heap, under shel ter, and if on the held under shelter, of course would be a saving ol time and labor. Make your comrost heap by throwing on alternately manure, leaf mold, rich alluvium, or leaves, if nothing better, which will aug ment the quantity as well as improve its fer tilizing efficacy, rurningthe heap ouceor twice would hasten its decomposition and render It friable. A farmer in Norfolk County hired a pasture last year for $1.25 an acre. It seemed very cheap, but he thinks the result does not bear out this appearance. The pasture is three-quarters oi a xatie irom ms &rn, 10

go and aoioe eoets eaon cow a mile and a halt of travel each day, an4 the man who drives them three miles. A dozen cows make eighteen miles of dibtance covered by them alL This does not pay. i The-cow gets exercise enough in feeding over the pasture, and the journey, to and fro, is at the expense of the milk and muscle. Of course the man has exercise enough in regular farm work, and three miles travel- is about one-tenth of a day's work. Mr. A. H. Gaston, Marshall County, Illinois, always, found that when pumpkins or squashes were fed with corn the animals were more healthy and thrifty than when receiving corn alone; it also required less corn, and the hogs were free from disease. He noticed that the hogs ate the puninHns or squash seeds first, showing that they irnished something particularly needed. ' Ir. Gaston advises swine-growers to try the "fruit of the vine." .He has grown what is known as the Valparaiso squash, a very prolific variety, said to have sometimes produced sometimes thirty tons per acre, an amount he considered equal to 300 bushels of shelled corn. He thinks the seed maybe had of some of the seedsmen. This squash grows well in an early potato patch, planting about the middle of May. rut one seed in a place, ten feet apart; they begin viniug about the time the potatoes are dug, and thus give a profitable second crop. Charles Abbott showed us (Jefferson County Union) a bucketful of willow roots taken from the well of Charles Garrison, near the high school, at a depth of forty-one feet. The pnmp was so thoroughly wound about with the fibers as to require the use of a sharp-eded tool before it could be drawn out. About three bushels of the roots, none of them larger than a wheat straw, "where taken out. A large willow tree stood a few feet from ths well, and the tap-root which sent forth the fibers did not break through the stone curbing to the well until it had reached

a depth of thirty-six feet, which point was at the usual surface of the water. This is the most remarkable case of root-growth we have heard of. The well was dug twelve years ago. The couple making daily use of it are one of the most aged pairs in town, Mr. Garrison being now eighty-eight, and his wife about the same. The water has appa rently had no injurious effect on them, as they are both remarkably healthy and ac tive, considering tneir ages. Several years ago, writes a correspondent of the Country Gentleman, I saw a system of mushroom culture which was very successful indeed, and I have never seen any descrip tion of this method perhaps you will permit me to give it herp. The man who had adopt ed the plan had been seeking a simple way or securing mushrooms all the year round with the least possible trouble, and his efforts had resulted in his finding that for which he had sought. The modus operandi was as follows: He obtained a good sized crate, strong, and with a good bottom, such as hardware is ent t y rail in. The staves at one end were all cut out, simply leaving the top iiin to keep the thing together, for without that the crate could not have supported the bed laid upon it. The crate was turned upside down, and the bed prepared and spawned in the usual way, so far as the outer crust of it was concerned. But there was not nearly so much manure used as in the ordinary hot bed, for the heat was obtained in another way. When the bed was made, the in si do of the crate was hollow. But the open end htd been left uncovered, the close end being all built over with the bed. The method of heating was by placing in the crate the grass cut from the lawn. Trrs within a few days generated suilicient heart to develop the mushrooms in the bed. "When the heart appeared to be exhausted, the spent grass was taken out and fresh placed therein. This it will be at once seen is a very simple plan, and one that could "oe worked almost anywhere. Of course, the grass will not last nearly as long as a wellmade mushroom bed, but there is no limit to the number of times it may be renewed. The gentleman at whose place I first saw this method adopted, told me that he had found his beds last three or four times as long as under the old system, and that he secured by means of it a more regular and better supply of mushrooms. It can be employed either indoors or outside, though it is per haps more suited to the former conditions. Skepticism a to the Sncredness of Wealth. Hon. J. B. Weaver iu the Forty-ninth Congress. If one of these prehistoric gentlemen, about whom our scientific men know little or nothing, bad been born exempt from mortality AK00t) years B. V. (Before anderbilt), and had made an average saving of $1 per day during all that perion, Mr. Vanderoiltthe day before his death could have bought him out and then had $1,000,000 left to invest in the Nickel-Hate Bail way. Tnese figures will not lie, and you can make the calculation for vourseiyes. Mr. Vanderbilt's executor, if it were in accordance with the terms of the will, could give 200 men employment at $1 per day each Sundays and all for 3.0 0 vears. and then nave $1,000,000 left. Estimating the total wealth of ihis country at .W.0)O.G00.000, you can only give 0,00") persons Siu.ooo,000 t ach if you divide .the whole countrv equally between them. If you were to di vide the estimated wealth of this Nation (.(.jOO.OOO.OOO) equally between Ö00 men twenty-five less than belong in this Ilöuse. giving each an amount equal to Vanderbilt 3 wealth there would not be a larth ing left for the rest of mankind 1 Fortunes like this, sir, are the legitimate outgrowth of this conspiracy and or the pernicious system of monopolies which it has fastened upon us. It is not necessary for me to describe here the wonderful growth of monopolies during this eriod of national bank rule, nor need 1 stop to show that they now rule with an iron rod all the leading branches of bust ness within the Bepublic. Every man who has given the matter even a glancing look knows these things to be true. A I'hysirian's Confessiou. A Young St. Louis Physician. You frequently see funny expressions in print about doctors killing their patients. Well, the thing is often true. I, myself ac knowledge to having killed two patients. I killed them outright, and make no bones of confessing the fact. One man 1 killed by prescribing morphine at a time when his system was not strong enough to stand the drug. He left an estate, and there was some excitement about deviding the estate. His wife was charged with having poisoned him, and the remains were exhumed, and there was a great to-do about about the matter, but 1 pulled through it all right. The other man was suflering from a prolonged spree, and I gave mm cuiorai, wuiui aiiieu w out an out murder, but the Coroner held an inquest and attributed his death to jimjams. These two people know I killed,, and, as I am yet young, and there are more active poisonous agents than those 1 have so far ex perimented with, J exiect to kill more peo ple before I die. What Would They Think of a Blizzard ? Philadelphia Telegraph.) Taris was surprised the other morning by the fiercest snow storm that has occurred there for several years. It only' lasted for two or three hours, but the snow came down in such a manner as absolutely to paralyze the life of the capital. The flakes, which were driven by a .violent wind, were quite blinding. The horses refused to move, because they could not see, and the few cabmen who had accepted fares were obliged to lead their steeds. Ina short time all the animation of the boulevards vanished, and the picture became strangely fantastic and picturesque. To Artisans, Mechanic, and all Workmen. There is no remedy in the world equal to Pond'a Extract for any disease where pain existi It Is acknowledged by many of. the zreatesl medical men of the dav. as being the best kndwr remedy for all of the complaints for which jI it recoavmended.- it should al ways ba kept in. readiness. For Di juries 6r Accidefrtst uruises, linrns, unts, woanus, etc., it Is'worth its weight in gold.- '; e sdfe

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-His EeccUectocs 43 siCul) Printer. Be Dellgnta th. tX-pothoate with Remin iscence of Ilia Boyhood pent in a Country Printing Office. It was. at the dinner of the .Typo theate, held at Delmonico's, in New York, that Mark Twain delighted the hearts of his hearers by the following, in answer to the toast "The Compositor." "I am staggered by the compliments which have been lavished and poured out on me by my friend en my right (Mr. Bailey). I am as proud of this compliment as I am staggered. It is uncommon in my experience. It is the first time that anybody in my ex perience . has stood up in the presence of a large and respectable assemblage of gentle men like this, and confess that I have told the truth once. If I could return the compliment I would do It. Laughter at Mr. Bailey'3 expense. "The chairman's historical reminiscence of Guttenberg have caused me to fall into reminiscences, for I myself am something of an antiquity. I Laughter.! All things change in the procession of years, and it may be that I am among strangers. It may be that the printers of to-day is not the printer of thirty-five years ago. I was no sti anger to him. I knew him well. I built his fire for him in the winter mornings; I 1 1. A .I A t 11 Ml V urougu i ms waier irom me village pump; i swept out his oßice: I picked up his type from under his stand ; and, if he was there to see, I put the good type in his case and the broken ones among the hell matter, and if he wasn't there to see, I dumped itall with the 'pi' on the imposing stone for that was the lurtive lashion 01 the cub, and I was a cub. I wetted down the paper Saturdays, I turned it Sundays for this was a country weekly; I rolled, I washed the rollers, I washed the forms, 1 folded the paSers, 1 carried them around at dawn Thursay mornings; 1 enveloped the papers that were lor the man we had 100 town sub scribers and 350 country ones; the town subscribers paid in groceries and the country ones in cabbages aad cordwood when they paid at all, which was merely sometimes, and then we always Btated the fact in the paper, and gave them a puff; and if we forgot it they stopped the paper. Every man on the town list helped edit the thing; that is, he gave orders as to how it was to be edited ; dictated its opinions, marked out its course for it, and every time the boss failed to connect HE STOITED HIS TAPER. We were just infested with critics, and we tried to satisfy them all over. We had one subscriber who paid cash, and he was more trouble to us than all the rest. He bought us, once a year, body and soul, for two dollars. He used to modify our politics every which way, and he made us change our religion four times in five years. If we ever tried to reason with him he would threaten to Stop his paper, and, of course, that meant bankruptcy and destruction. That man used to write articles a column and a half Ipng, leaded long primer, and sign them "Junius," or "Veritas," or "Vox l'opuli," or some other high-sounding rot; and then, after it was set up, he would come in and say he had changed his mind which was a gilded figure of speech, because he hadn't any and order it to be left out. We couldn't stand such a waste as that; we couldn't afford 'bogus' in that office; so we always took- the leads out, altered the signature, credited the article to rival paper in the next village, and put it in. Well, we did have one or two kinds of 'bogus.' Whenever there was a barbacue, or a circus, or a baptizing, we knocked off for half a day; and then to make up for short matter we would turn over ads: turn over the whole page and duplicate it. The other bogus was deep philosophical stuff, which'we judged nobody ever read; so we kept a galley of it standing and kept on slapping the same old batches of it in, every now and then, Uli it got dangerous. Also, in the early days of the telegraph we used to economize on the news. We picked out the items that were pointless and barren of information and stood them on a galley, and changed the dates and localities and used them over and over again till the public interest in them was worn to the bone. We marked the ads., but we seldom paid any attention to the marks afterward; so the life Of a td' ad and a 'tf ad was equally eternal. I have seen a 'td' notice of a sheriff's sale still booming serenely along two years after the sale was over, the sheriff dead and the whole circumstance become ancient his tory. Most of the yearly ads were patent medicine stereotypes, and We nsed to fence with them. Life was easy with us. If WE TIED A F0EM we suspended till next week, and we always suspended every now and then when the fishing was good, and explained it by the illness of the editor, a paltry excuse, because that kind of paper was just as well off with a sick editor as a well one, and better off with a dead one than with either of them. He was lull of blessed egotism and placid self-importance, but he didn't know as much asaü-mouad. He never set any type ex cent in the rush of the last day, and then he would smouch all the poetry, and leave the rest to 'jeff for the solid takes. He wrote with impressive flatulence and soaring con fidence upon the vastest subjects; but puff ing alms rifts of wedding-cake, salty ice cream, abnormal watermelons, and sweet potatoes the size of your leg was his best hold. He was always a poet, a kind of poet of the Carrier's Address breed, and when ever his intellect sppurated, and he read the result to the printers and asked for their opinion, they were very frank and straight forward about it. lhey generally scraped their rules on the boxes all the time he was reading, and called it 4hog wash' when he got through. All this was thirty-five years ago, when the man who could set 700 an hour could put on just as many airs as he wanted to; and if these New York men, who recently on a wager set 2,000 an hour solid minion for four hours on a stretch had appeared in that office, they would have been received as accomplishers of the supremely impossible, and drenched with hospitable beer till the brewrv was bankrupt. "1 can see that printing office of pre-his-toric times yet, with its horse bills on the walls, it's 'd' boxes clogged with tallow, because we always stood the candle in the . box nights, its towel, which was not con sidered soiled until it could 8tandialone, md other Signs and symbols 'that marked the establishment of that kind in the Missis sippi Valley: and I can see also the tramp ing 'jour who flitted by in the summer ana tarried a day. with his wallet stuöed with one shirt and a hat full of handbills; for if he couldn't get any type to set he would do a temperance lecture. His way of life was simple, his needs not complex; all he wanted was plate and bed and money enough to get drunk on and he was satisfied. But It may be, as I have said, that I am among strangers, and sing the glories of a forgotten age to unfamiliar ears, so I will 'make even' and stop." The Woman of Influence Colonel T. W. Fligglnson in HArper't Bazar. In these days one is certainly impressed with the prominence of literature as a sphere for the Woman of influence. when we think oi the thousands of high schools and academies throughout the land in which. next graduation-day, some maiden in white will read an essay on "The Genius of George Elliott,'1 we may well say, with Kufus Choate, "After all, a book is the only immortality." And surely the reader is impressed with the way in which a young wo-.-aw'm MAntna A .-. A V. 1 1 if 4Vi. i.A. ImmVaaI IIJBU B CUIUS, V WJ AA UUt UA UV AAlUlr order, may retain its bold after her death, on seeing the late statements of ix, Jiout-

ledge, the great publisher of cheap books in England, , as to the continued demand for Mrs. Heroin's poetry. In the last generation the pure and melodious muse of this lady had great reputation ; her American editor been the custom to speak of her popularity was Professor Andrews Norton, father of the present Professor Charles Eliot Norton, and one of the most cultivated critics of his day; and it appears from the late memoirs of Garrison that strong and heroic mind. Yet it has

asatning of the past. .Now comes Mr. Koutlidge and gives the figures as to his sales of the different poets in the year ending June 12, 185. First comes Longfellow, with the extraordinary sale of 6,000 copies; then we drop to Scott, with 3170; Shakespeare, 2,700; Byron, 2,S0; Moore, 2,276; Burns, 2,250. To these succeeds Mrs. Heman's, with a sale of 1,'JOO copies, Milton falling short of ter by fifty, and no one else showing more than half that demand. Hood had 0S0 purchasers, Cowper NX), and all others less; Shelly had 500, and Keats but 40. Of course this is hardly even an approximate estimate oi tne comparative popularity of these poets, since much would depend, for in stance, on the multiplicity or value of rival editions; but it proves in a general way that Mrs. Hemans holds her own, in point of readers, fifty years after her death. WThat other form of influence for man cr woman equals this? Yet there may be other modes of action. That of. Florence Nightingale, for instance, modestly vindicating a woman's foresight against the dullness and red tape of a whole War Department; and returning from the most superb career of public service that ever woman had, with ruined health, but with such universal love and reverence from the Crimean army that a statue would have been erected to her by a penny subscription had she not refused it. That of Clara Barton, or Dorothea Dix, or Mary Livermore, or Jean Lander, or Mother Bickerdyke, in our own civil war. That of many a worker in the Associated Charities of our large cities; or of those special organizations which were almost always carried on. thirty years ago, under the official leadership and treasurership of men, but which have been steadily falling more and more, during that period, "into the hands of women. That of many a woman of society, so called, who recognizes in "society" itself a sphere for conscientious duty so that the tone of a whole town or city may sometimes be said to be kept up or let'down according as the leading "society woman'' is a person of character or a doll. That of many a woman in some log cabin on the frontier, whose "soeiety" consists in a dozen children of her own . and perhaps two or three more taken in from charity; the woman who, nameless and noteless, maintains that average quality among our American people that can always be relied upon to send from obscurity a Lincoln or a Grant in time of imminent need. Beyond all these, perhaps, in total influence, ranks the great army of women teachers, spreading their unseen and daily labors through every school district from Cape Cod to the Golden Gate; smoothing the waste places, equalizing all our civilization, doing the most for the poorest; and again, in the upper regions of education, rising into the work of such missionaries of the highest training as Mary Lyon in the past, or Alice Freeman in the present. Compared with these, how petty seem the little struggles for position and etiquette. What Statesmanship Suggests. Hon. J. B. Weaver in the Forty-ninth Congrcss.l Ah, Mr. Shaker, a theery that declares money redundant when millions of pockets are penniless; that declares a country overpopulated when hundreds of millions of acres of tillable land have never felt the touch of the plow-share ; a theory that accuses labor of the sin of overproduction when millions of laboring people are destitute of every comfort of life, is so monstrous that I do not know how to adequately characterize it. If all the vigor of all the tongues of the earth were concentrated into one single sentence, it would not then be sufficient to properly blast and wither and condemn such a monstrous theory. The nearest I can come to it is to use the old expression, where the vigor of the Greek and the Syriac are said to combine let it be anathema rnaranatha. Sir, instead of closing our doors on the downtrodden of the world and turning them back into darkness, I would say to the land speculator, to the usurer to the monopolist, to the untaxed bondholder, to the stock gamblers and to the speculators in money, who now have the power conferred upon them by law to make money artificially scarce; to the cattle syndicates in our Western Territories, 1 would say to all these and to kindred classes, you must cease forever your criminal methods in this Bepublic. Following the example of the Nazarine, I would cast out the devils and cast them into the sea. Then, when you get rid of these criminal classes, you will find more room for poor people here. There can be no such thing as an overpopulation of bona fide citizens in this country, if you will only give the safeguard ot a humane, economic system. God has created two hands for every mouth, and two hands, if they are not manacled, can easily feed one mouth and have plenty left for a rainy day. But you can not stop the growth of our population any more than you can stop the flight of time. Within twenty years or less we shall have 100,000 of people in this country! They are almost here. If I had the power of the old prophet of Israel I would pray God that he might open the ears of these his servants that they might see that the air is full of chariots and of horsemen. If we will but listen we shall hear the quiet yet majestic march of forty millions of additional human beings who are rushing in open us like an army to stay forever. What preparations are we making for their reception? In the name of God, what order of statesmanship have we fallen upon? Why, even the lower animals make preparation for the coming of their young, but we stand here with the absolute certainty of thit increase staring us in the face, yet we are as dumb as beetles and make no kind of preparation for the stupendous event. An Army Male Retired With Honor. lOaklaud (Cal.) Times. No mule is better known or more "revered" than "Old Goose," of Leavenworth, who is now at the Shell Mound farm, near Alameda, where Government horses are taken care of. She is now over forty years old and has not yet given np her mulishness. "Old Goose" was brought to this coast in 1843 by General Kearney. She has been through flood and field and has borne some of the bravest our heroes on the war path. Captain Moore was mounted on 4 'Old Goose" when he was killed at San Pasquale. She has done good service at most of the military posts on the Coast, and is well known by all the old army officers who served on the Pacific Slope. General Sherman, on a recent visit to the farm, recognized this old pack mule and said that this faithful servant should be pensioned. She is now retired from service and draws ner regular rations. Base Ball In St. Loots. St. Lous, Feb. 20. 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