Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 32, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1886 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1886.

OUR FARM BUDGET.

Early Chickens 1 Model Kitchen Balding Street Potatoes. Getting Rid or Sprout Unsalted Butter Breediag; Males A Scale for Any Breed Hot Corn Household and Farm Notes. . Early Chicken. Massachusetts Ploughman. To raise early chicken successfully, and With profit, requires not only a Kood location, bat a house that is well adapted to the "business, and even then a failure will be the wie unless the person who is to care for the bens and chickens is adapted to the business, and is deeply interested in it. Chicks that are to he hatched out as early as Febraary will not bear the slUrbesc neglect. To hare them strong and healthy, the greatest care must be taken to prevent the egcs, while in process of hatching, from being chilled. Sometimes the exposure of the eggs for ten xainutes to a cold atmosphere will effect the health of the coming chick ; therefore it is important that, during the winter, the hens be set in a tight building where the temperature will be very even, and where it will be very quiet. When more than one lien is set, it is always best to keep them separate, for, if permitted to come together, they will juite frequently both try to set on one nest, leaving the eggs in the other neglected; but if each hen has a small enclosure to herself, she is much less likely to Tefnse to sit on her eggs than if permitted to svasn where ste pleases, and where other hens have been set. In a warm, well-arranged house- chicks may be hatched out in winter almost as well a3 in warm weather; but the trouble comes alter the chicks are hatched. If they happen to hatch out in zero weather they must be very closely looked arter or they will get chilled. If they are kept in a building artificially heated great enre must be taken not to over-heat it, for a chick will die by being kept in confined, heated air almost as tjuick as by very cold air, therefore, while it is very important that tbe room where the young chicks are kept during the first week should be warm, it is equally important that it should be thoroughly ventilated. After the chicks are a week old they will endure the cold better, and if they are to be kept healthv they must have the fresh air every day, and, above all, plenty ot sunshine. A honse thai is net so constructed as to have a covered yard, where the chicks can stand in the sun and yet be sheltered from the cold winds, is cot what it should be. Whatever is fed to chicks that is to be moistened with water, should be fed while warm, and what is not eaten at once should be removed, to be again warmed before given to the chicxs, for even in warm weather it is not good policy to keep moistened food be fore chicks; if any food is to be left it should be dry, cracked corn or millet seed. When chicks are several weeks old they should have whole corn, wheat, barley, oats, etc. Never try to raise early chicks unless you like the business, are well located and have the proper buildings. A Model Kltcbeu. Xcsiah Shelton.1 A model kitchen can rarely be attaine 1 finless perfection was the aim in its original construction. Usually, ingenuity and tact must make the best of some one's errors. Primarily a kitchen should be ofcoollv dimensions, that clutter may not be a necessary evil ; as the second aid to cleanliness it should be well lighted; u possible it should bass in the morning sunlight, as the health of the kitchen laborers is the foundation upon which rests the well-fare and comfort ot the household. Let the walls and ceiling be refreshed each year with a light smoke-tinted lime coat. Let the finishines and floor be of hard Dine. oiled and shellacked; this simplifies the labor called "cleaning." STOVES. A quick, steady baker should be secured: then next, think of a warm closet and plenty of shelves about the pipe. Nothing conduces so much to comfort in the kitchen as to avoid, as far a3 possible, smoke and greasy odors. Avoid these bv nsin? natent steamersor pipe-kettles that conduct the steam back through the stove. Then fry sausage, ham, eggs, et2 , in the oven. Use soap-stone griddles for batter cakes. Throw the iron spider at the first impudent tramp or cight-sinzing cat that annoys, au J invest in a sheet-iron frying pan; it heats more reauiiy and is scarcely heavier than tin. cheet-iron, zinc or granite ware kettles, even copper-bottomed tin kettles should drive the old heavy boilers into the first junk cart that stops. Let the.gude-mon complain if lie choose. that .they will not last like the iron and are therefore more expensive. Ilemind hirn that lifting sixteen-pound kettles is condu cive to a large crop ot second wives, which are not always cheap luxuries, and will surely entail new house-furnishings in the effort to put out of sight everything suggestive of the first wife! Ik) not buy every foolish thing that is of fered at yoar kitchen door as "the most convenient thing out," but do get such im . rrovements as will aid. .RirRJGERATOES. The ice-chest should b built into the end of the kitchen hall, and its drain should pass out of the house. The ice compartment should open out of the hall, and it will keep the ice man and the ice drippiDgs out of the kitchen; the food compartment ought to open from the kitchen to save steps. If considered in the designing of the building, this hall can be at the farthest poini from the etove. Check Reins. f American Ajricalturist for March. Check reins, as a general rale, are of little use on the road, except in the case of in veterate stumblers. These it is necessary to sometimes check no hish. so as to make them lift their feet, and besides, if they do inp, me cnecK rein punisnes them severely, fc'tumbling is chiefly due to bad shoeing, hence this use of the check savors of need less cruelty. If a horse shows a tendency to stumble, pull on nis shoes and drive h;rn barefoot, beice careful not to break his hoofs. He will soon tet over the tendency in all probability. When the feet wear, if they uo, so as to necessitate shoeing, if it is summer weather put on toe clips only, and renew them often. The check rein i used to make a naturally down-headed horse carry his head high, or as high as his mate, and it is often made an instrument of wanton torture by unfeeling grooms and drivers. The real use of the check is to prevent a horse getting his head to the ground when eiancing. u is 01 no use at an. except as above exrlained, when traveling. Every horse works better without one, whatever wer a ce does. Leddiftg Sweet Potatoes. From my experience in bedding sweet poiawes, i torn many taKe more pain than is really necessarv. I have not failed to have success in nine years of gardening as a business. About the 1st of April make a frame of board, the sides to be about fifteen inches high, lare enough to hold the desired nuin tity of seed or potatoes. This box is to be Mied with forest leaves, fresh manure is hauled from the stables, and placed on the loaves some eight to twelve inches deep, The weight of the manure will press the leaves down sufficiently. Stamp the manure until it is firm. On this put two inches of well rotted compost or forest moid, lhe potatoes are placed on this. A

small potato is preferred for plants, although

I believe large sexl will produce large pota toes, but will not yield as many plants. The potatoes are covereu aoout lour incnes ueep. Seed covered too shallow will come up more quickly, but the plants will not have as good roots. Manure from last year s bed is preferred to cover with. Any rich compost or o'd forest mold will answer. Covered four inches de-p the plants will have plenty of strong roots by the time they are larire enough to transplant. x do not wait for the bed to get warm, but I put the potatoes on as soon as the bed is ready. The soil in the bed is then covered with boards and a roof of boards placed across the frame to shelter from rains. The bed is closely watched. If it is not warm enough, an old carpet is placed on the bed and the boards replaced ; if the bed is too warm, take oil the under layer or board. The bed is kept moist until the plants are up: then watered freelv with tepid water. Draw the plants as soon as they are large enough to set ; the bed will yield more plants bysodoirg. Some varieties yield more than others; The bed should be thoroughly saturated with water before drawing the plants. Jventucky. Ihomas u. jjaird. Scarcity of Corn in the South. While corn is forty-three cents a bushel in the City Of New York, and thirty-six cents in Chicago, it is titty cents a bushel m isortn and South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee. And yet corn is a Southern plant, and thrives in a semi-tropical climate, torn is neeaea to make pork and beef, and when one grows corn the fodder supplies the roughness to feed with it. lherei3also the cotton seed available for feev, which Southern farmers are selling for &9 a ton, and less in many cases at the oil mills, while Northrrn farmers arc paving fcM to a ton for the meal after the oil is taken out. for feed and for fertilizing purposes. The farmers in the South certainly need to turn over a new leaf in this respect, and the hrst turn should be to plant and feed more corn as a beginning. If it was persevered in, it would be the beginning of a - 1 !a I.I -I 1 new era, in wnico prosperity wuuiu aouuuu as it never did in the palmy days of cotton growing and slavery. (Rettins Rid ot Sprouts. At great expense and with much hard labor, we clear off our lands, break them up and put them into crops, only to have to clear them on again every spring, or else try to farm all summer through an almost im penetrable forest of sprouts. These come up almost simultaneously with our crops, every siump. root or rootlet furnishing its quota, and thrive along with them if, indeed, not ahead of them, until in the fall we are apt to tind more sprouts to garner than we have of crops proper, the worst species to thus sprout up are the sassafras, sumac and hael; indeed, these are quite prennial and never dyjDg, while tue dirierent species oi oat, hickory, elm, redbud and briar are not very far behind them. Cut anv of these down in the spring when breaking the ground, as is too often the habit, as well as the seeming necessity of the most of our farmers, and you will have without fail, the same performance to go through with the spring !ollowmg, and so on ad infinitum. I his super ticial stirring of them up seems, as if sen tient creatures, only to make them the more deiermined to stay by w, and only adds zest to their sport ol gnawing. As is most generally known by farmers. cutting these sprouts in July or August does awav, lor the greater part, with all this an noyance and trouble. Thus treated, they veiy seldom sprout up again more than 'ace. unless it is the hazel, and then but feebly and scatteringly. Cutting them oil thus when the sap is up, and exposing the tender stumps to the hot rays of the sun, is most likely what does the work. I he ob jection to this plan is that it is not only nearly always at a busy season, but, if much is to be done, with the thermometer at OS degrees in the shade, it is hard work. Few farmers can stand it, and their help won't do it unless they are well paid for it. Doit then early in the season before spring ploughing begins. L'nsalted Butter. f American Agriculturist. It is a sound rule that everything should go to market as soon as it is ready to ship. This rule applies with particular force to such a perishable article as butter. It can be kept, but it requires some latitude of lan guage to even call such butter sweet. To make it keep longer than thirty days it must have a liberal allowance of salt to neu tralize the effects of the buttermilk that can not always be gotten out. The French and Eriglish markets for the highest grades of butter require that no salt whatever shall oe put in it. The best markets of this country are tending in the same direction, ihe bighV. 1 llV, I'MU AVA VUW UUIrlVit AA ttJ M 1 If will be tolerated in it. Such butter is very hard to make, and must be marketed and should be eaten within four or five days from the churn. The compensation for this haste and extra labor is that more of it is consumed, . and the price is generally much above that of the highest market quotations. We have here tofore described the proceess of making "granular Dutter" This is simnlv but ter which is chilled in the churn when it is in the mustard-seed or wheat grain condition. before it has gathered into larger masses. The buttermilk is drawn off and cold water, or even ice water added. Then it is washed with cold water, removed from the churn to a barrel or stone jar without mashing the grains, and the vessel is then filled up with strong brine. Eefore shipping, the first brine should be changed, as it will dissolve con siderable casein and look turbid, and a sec ond brine will probably remain clear. While in the brine, the butter must be covered by a circular piece of wood, nearly fitting the barrel, or by a plate if in a stone jar, and weighed so that it will be kept submersed Such butter will keep for weeks, and when removed from the brine and rinsed well with water, becomes virtually "street butter." and is easily worked into rolls or prinrs to suit the market. If worked without wash ing out the brine, the very slight flavor of salt is to our taste an improvement. Breeding Mates. It has alwavs been one of the most rtrofi.a ble of farm occupations to breed mules. The demand tor them on southern Plantations. where they meet their congenial companion. the negro, has always been steady and remunerative. At the North there are large numbers of mules worked in mines, on street car lines, and as factory teams. The mines generally require small mules, plantations and car lines medium, and for citv draft, the largest size. Jn breeding, the size of the nie, in a ereat measure, is resulat id bv the size of the Jack ; though ot course the size of irare has much to do witbzthe form and weight of the colt ; and as size alone regulates the price of the animal, it is best to procure the services of the largest Jack that can be obtained, and use large, robust mares. Mules do not vary greatly in form, and color does notenect their value. They have no style, are not rivals ol the hor3e in the Jove and af fection of the owner, until the hard useso adversity teaches him that "handsome is a handsome does." Itasping and Greasing Horses' Hoofs. . The horse is one of the moo-t superbly perand he occupies, besides, an exalted position among animals as to his intelligent and moral qualities. Jt is, therefore, most pain lul to see how, under the handling of intelli gent ( ?) man, he is maltreated and e?en abused. He submits his neck to the voke nn complainingly; he accepts the iron plating vi ma ieet, anu ne anows the galling check upon tne movements of the head, and ve gives man his best service even to tho doitth The icrnorant smith has his views as to what should be the shape of his feet; so he cuts anu rasps, and forms them to suit himself, He has an idea that the hoof is roaue on purpose for him to ra?p . and Ehoe, and exercise the tools of his trade upon. So he makes a i eioe ana tits the hoof to it: he re

moves the natural polished exterioT, which by its tough elacticity defends th tender

parts from injury, is nearly impervious to wrter. and permits a little evaporation of in-, ternal moisture, by which it is kept normally pliable and vitalized to the very surface. He rounds and smooths off the new surface; leaves it in a condition to allow the moisture of the hoof to pass off rapidly, and the hoof to dry and crack, and thus he recommends the application of tar and grease and lampbit ck, as if he were trying to render an old boot pliable and presentable. The greasing may be well enough better than nothing after the mischief is done. But why do sensible horse owners allow the evil which their pertmptoiy orders, if not their mere remontrancef, would prevent.' A Scale for Any Itreed. We give below a standard, and scale of 11 points, as formulated oy a Doted Laglisn breeder. Mr. John Fisher, ot Carhead, and designed, as we anderstand it, for use on al most any breed: Head and !Lars. The head should be wide in front, ears erect, and pointed forward: chops rounded, and well tilled up to the brisket, 8. Crest and Shoulders. Crest wide, and rising well to the shoulders; shoulder-blades well sloped backwards, 8. Kids and Loins, Kibs well sprung; loins wide, and slightly arched, 11!. Hindquarters. Hind-quarters not to slope, nor narrow toward the tail, 10. Hams. Jlims rounded outwards, well let down, and full at the twist, 10. Chest, Chest wide, with elbows wen out, 10. Fore-ribs and Flank. Fore-ribs wide underneath; flank well let down, straight, and well filled to the stifle, 15. Legs and r eet. Legs straight and small m the bone; feet small and compact. 10. Hair and Color. Hair plentiful, bright and vigorous: color to denote purity of breed, 10. Tail. Tail entire, thick at root and tapering. 5. Size. Size, according to the breed, 10. Hot Corn. (Our Country Hornel If you want to make your fowls feel good and thankful, give them hot corn for supper just as hot as they can eat it. To find out hew hot it should be, pick up a handful and hold it tightly in your closed hand; if it bums, of course it is too hot, but if after holding it a minute, it makes your hand feel warm and nice, it is just right. To heat the corn, put it in an iron pan or kettle in the stove oven, and stir occasionally. If your wile has biscuits in the oven yoü had better put the kettle on the back part of the stove, and stir the corn often. Mind now. I don't mean that you are to put water in with the corn ; I mean hot dry corn. If some kernels at the bottom of the kettle should happen to get scorched, or even charred, the hens will eat it, and it will do them good, too. All nonsense to fuss warming corn? Well, you may think so, but I think it is inhuman to give lowls a supper of cold corn in cold weather. How would you like it? Kxeiclse, Kxercine, Kzercise. The horse, more than any other animal, requires exercise. The youDg colt especially must stretch its limbs, aiMl it is in great danger of getting unsound unless it has a run frequently in the yard. To keep a young colt confined on a plank floor is to invite ringbones and other diseases cf a similar nature. A box-stall, or a stable with a gravel bottom, where the colt can run loose is the right thing, and if a farmer is goinsi to rear colts it will pay to furnish such stables. There is, with them, scarcely any danger of injury ever coming to the colts, and the relief from anxiety is a great deal, When running free in such a stall, colts need not be turned into a yard for exercise, as they can take it in their quarters. It is not always safe to turn colts out, as they are liable to run and slip. They are often ruined in this way. One colt thus injured is rf duced in value, often, enough to pay for a box-stable which would last a lifetime and save other colts. Such stables are useful for cows, mares with foal, or to put any horse into. A good farmer ought to have a number. A long shed can be constructed with a half roof and divided into stables with very little cost. Uy battening it may be made warm. The Wheat Crop. Wheat is the staple grain food of the civilized world, and of all the ve-etable foods, this has the gratest financial influence on the money market. The glut in wheat means low prices and a hard winter to many farmers all through our immense wheat belt, while shortage and a strong market, bring gladness to a multitude of producers. Estimates on the world's wheat crop for 1SSÖ, embracing twenty-seven countries, are before us. The estimated crop u l.OTO.UuO.OuO bushels; average crop for thepastliveyears,2,lGV GO0.O0O bushels; net exports of wheat and flour, !2bJ,000,000 bushels; net imports of wheat and flour, 2Sö,C28,U00 bushels; population in all these countries combined, 5VJ,Nj0,( "00. The United States and Canada rank first in productiveness in 1883, growing 3U2,000,000 bushels, while France holds second place at 301,000,000, British India and Russia coming next in order. The United States and Canada produce about one-fifth of the wheat grown by the twenty-seven countries. HOUSEHOLD HLSTS. iuick .Muffins. One pint of milk, three eggs, butter the size of an egg, two teaspoonf uls ot baking powder. Still' as for fritters. Soft Gingerbread. One cup of butter, one cup of sugar, one cup of milk, one cup of molasses, two eggs, one tablespoonful of ginger, one of soda; flour enough to makea very soft batter. Milk Toast. Wet the pan to be used with coidj water, which prevents burning. Melt an ounce of floured butter; whisk into it a pint of hot milk, add a little salt; simmer. Prepare four slices of toast; put them in a deep dish one at a time; pour a little of the milk over each, and over the last one pour the remainder of the milk. Doughnuts. Two eggs, two cupsful tugar, two and one-half cupsful milk, one cupful butter or a little less, one pint of yeast, nutmeg; knead stiff like bread at night; keed in a warm place; in the morning knead again, cut into cakes, let them rise again till so light they will not sink in the fat, and iry; the more you knead them the better they will be. Ice Cream Cake. One cup of suger. half a cup of butter, one cup of flour and the whitos of three eggs beaten to a stiff froth, mix very lightly and bake in two cakes. When cold, or nearly so, spread between and over them the cream made of the yolks of two eggs and a coffee cup of powdered sugar mixed together with a teaspoonful of vanilla. Decorated Notes : In dining-rooms where the furniture is oak. light golden brown upholstery and leathers are handsome. Kosewood etain: Boil one pound of log wood chips in one gallon of rain water; add one ounce salts of tartar; use hot. Gold borders are effective on most pictures. Dark oak stain: Mix in porter burnt umber and a little Venetian red. Ozone bleach is good for cleaning old and soiled engravings. Mahogany is now said to be fashionable for cabinetwork. It is a striking satire on the hollowness of fashion that one of the finest woods which ever grew has got to have the indorsement of style to be put to its legitimate use. leather chair seats may be brightened and revived by rubbing them with the white of an egg. leather book bindings will also be improved by the same treatment. To Clean Bedroom . Looking-G lasses. Wash with a soft sponge dipped in warm soap-suds. Dry carefully with a cloth, and then sprinkle with fine powdered chalk or whiting tied in a piece of muslin, and polish with a leather. Laree mirrors may be done in the same way. To give it a better polish before applying the chalk, dip the sponge in clean water and qneeze it out, and then dip it into spirits of wine and rub over the

glass. Only take care that the sponge doe not touch the fromes, if varnished; but if varnighed they may be cleaned with the rpirits of wine as well as the glass. If white spots appear on varnished furniture hot coals held at some little distance over the part will take them out. Care, of course, must be taken not to scorch them or to injure the surface of the wood. China or glass vessels are the best cleaned with the finest fuller's earth. If they have any close smell powdered charcoal will Temove it. If washing with it does not succeed, leave the article with the eharcoal in it for a few days. Hanging Baskets. A pretty novelty is made in this way: Get a cocoanut shell that has one end sawed off. and bore four holes, through which run some protty cord or narrow ribbon. This is to suspend it by. Cover the outside with lichen, the kind that grows on the trunks and branches of trees, fastening it on with mucilage. If you have a variety of lichen, as I have in mine, you will have a beautiful ornament for any room. I have a number of pictures and photographs framed with lichen. Make the frame of pasteboard and sew on the lichen until it entirely hides it. Pretty rustic irames for small pictures may be made from the small branches of old trees that have become thickly coated with this. A tree branch arranged over the dining room mantle, with a few birds' nests posed upon it, is a pretty bit of decoration for a country boese. A. Pretty Dressing Table. A deal table is the foundation, which must be covered with colored glazed cambric. Over this is a cover of linen, ornamented with designs in cross-stitch woiked with crewel or embroidery silk; the spaces between the designs have the threads drawn to form an insertion. The border corresponds, and is edged with a handsome friuge. The drapery is arranged in plaits, with a cross-stitch design on each. A pretty circular cushion is placed in front of the glass; this is of cambric, the color of the lin

ing of table cover, ornamented at the top with an applique design, edged with a llounce of lace, finished by a ruche of satin ribbon. The hair-pin cushion, a very necessary article for a lady's toilet table, is a little basket filled by a cushion covered with knitting and ornamented by a drape of embroidered cloth. This same design for a table can be carried out in cretonne. It looks exceedingly pretty at a trifling cost. The coyer can then be edged with a box-plaited quilting, instead of fringe, if desired. FA RAI JiOTKS. llow do you provide green food for the hens? Did you ever try feeding them hay cut in small pieces? Try it once. It is evident that the demand for thoroughbred merino lambs is looking up. For tae past year or so they have been almost a drug. It is well to remember that the turkey must have wide range. Confinement is deatn to him. He will fhow his gratitude it permitted to forage, cy making most of his living. Professor Tracy, speaking from careful experience, says there are no beans which are unquestionably superior to the old golden wax, black wax, valentine, horticultural and dwarf kidney. People used to say that the amount of an animal's food should be estimated by its live weight. It was said that 3 per cent, of the live weight daily would support life. This is not a reliable doctrine. J. J. II. Gregory remarked at a late meet ing of farmers, as reported in the Massachu setts Ploughman, that there was a time in the early agriculture when barnyard manure was ust as much an innovation as our commercial fertilizers are now. An egg is the natural produet of warm, sunny weather. It is produced in winter only when the hen is induced to believe that summer is coming. The ordinary hen accepts as evidence warmth, ability to exercise, variety of food and cleanliness. The calves will be making their appear ance soon. Have things ready to give them a welcome. Get over the idea that calves are produced simply to be knocked on the head. You cah make money by raising the little fellows on skim milk, oats and meal, it you only think. so. Broom-corn Tour has been use'd for mak ing bread, which, though dark-colored, is .... . 11T very paiataoie. a process nas Deen aiscov ered very recentl y for hulling the eeed and making a hne, white flour from it. The in ventor of the process says that it is destined to revolul Ionize the entire ceral-growing in dustry of tte country, but the invention has not thus far been fully tested. Mr. Kinsley, of Benton Harbor, Mich., is of the opinion, as expressed in the Horticulturist, that it is bi t er to plant a good tender blackberry and protect it than to rely upon "hardy" sorts without protection. The "hardy" varieties, after last winter's cold (20 below zero), were found to be almost entirely killed, while the Wilson and Lawton came through all right, and yielded a bountiful crop. The bee has lone been a tvne of the in dustrious worker, trat there are few people who know haw much labor the sweet hoard of the hive represents. Each head of clover contains about sixty distinct nower tubes, each of which contains a portion of sugar not exceeding the 500th part of a gram. Some patient aptarian enthusiast, who has watched their movements, concludes that the proboscis of the bee must, therefore, be inserted into 500 clover tubes before one grain of sugar can be obtained. There are 7,000 grains in a pound, and as honey con tains three-fourths of its weight of dry sugar, each pound or honey represents 2, 5,0ti0 clover tubes sucked by bees. Ne braska Farmer. Why should eggs be sold by the dozen? Every one knows there is a great diliewnce in the size and weight of eggs, and to sell a dozen large Brahma eggs for the same price that a dozen that does not weigh more than two-thirds as much is unjust to the owner of the Brahmas. There is no good reason for retaining the ancient mode of marketing eggs, but it is hard to change customs SO long established. A basket of eggs can be weighed much more quickly and with much less liability of makiag a mistake than if counted out by tne dozen, and every one would receive pay for all they brought to market and no more. We see no way of having tms change made unless the owners of large breeds of fowls, those which lay large eggs, make a stand and say they will only sell by weight. It i3 for their interest to do so as much as it is for the growers of heavy cattle and hogs to sell by weight. Kural World. The winter squash crop is one of consid erable commercial importance, its Ion" keeping qualities giving it an advantage over more perishable Kinds of vegetables, For the culture of winter squashes a rich soil is imperative. Indeed, it can scarcely be made too ruh in the hills. It is very common to rIant in hills eight feet apart. but a distance of ten. or even twelve feet is better if the soil is what it should be. The hills should be made broad and the soil eu tirely removed to the depth of a foot. Be fore replacing the soil mix it with plenty of strong fertilizer tne best comes irom tne poultry house and with it fill the hole to within an inch or two of the top. Level up with clean, line earth.sow the seeds and cover with another inch of the same soil. It is well to use plenty of seed for contingencies. but before the vines begin to run they should be thinned to three or four in a hill. Prepared in this way one hill will produce a greater weight of squashes than half a dozen planted without care. By the January count there were 100,000 paupers in lxmdon, and stui they wonuer at such crimes as riots, Do not forget it when you are su tiering with pain, inflammations or hemorrhages of any kind; do not forget that Pond's Extract for more than forty years has been curing just such cases as your own, and it can cure you quicker than anything else, Be sure to . get the genuine.

"OSTLER JOE.

The Poem Which Shocked Washington So ciety. Washington Capital. Mrs. James Brown Potter read a beautiful and striking poem by George R. Sims, an English writer, at the charitable entertain ment at secretary Whitney's residence on the 19th inst. We publish this poem in lull to-day in order that certain prudish people who have fancied that they were shocked on hearing the poem read may peruse it and he assured that there was nothing improper either in the words or the tone of it. We have heard "'Ostler Joe', called "Swinburnian" in character, but such a reference to it would be made only by persons who either never read this poem, or else never read Swinburne. If the object of a public reading be not to put a lot of stupid people to sleep, but to produce a dramatic enect, tnen Mrs. Totter exercised a correct and praiseworthy judgment in her selection of this poem: I stood at eve, as the snn went down, ty a grave wnere a woman lies. Who lured men's souls to the shores of Ein with the licht of her wanton eyes. M ho sang the song that the siren sang on the treacherous Lurlev height. Whose face was as fair as a summer day und whose hearten as as black as night, Yet a blossom I fain would pluck to-day from the garden above her dust Not the languorous lily of soulless sin nor the blood-red rose 01 lust. But a sweet white olossom of holy love tnat grew in the one green Kpot, In the arid desert of Phryne's Ufe, where all was parched and hot, 9 O s In the sunnier, when the meadows were aglow with the blue and red. Joe, the 'ostler ot the Magpie, and fair Anna 8mith were wea. Plump was Annie, plump and pretty, with a cheek as unite as snow; lie was anything but handsome, was the Magpie's 'ostler, Joe. But he won tne winsome lassie. They'd a cottage and a cow. And nefinatronboca fat lightly on the village beauty's brow. Sped the months and came a baby such a blueeyed baby boy! Joe was working iu the stables when they told him VI X11S JOf. He was rubbing down the horses, and he gave them then and there All a special feed ol clover, just in honor of the heir. It had been his great ambition, an he told the horses so, That the Fates would send a baby who might bear tne name oi joe. Little Joe, the child was christened, and. like ba bies. grew apace: lle'd his mother's eyes of azure and his father's honest lace. Swift the happy years went over, years of blue and Ciounlt's kkv. Love was lord ot that small cottage, and the tempests passed them by. Tasseil them by for years, then sviftly burst in fury o'er tlicir home. Pown the lane by Annie's cottage chanced a gen tleman to roara ; Thrice he came and saw her sitting by the window with her child. And he nodded to the baby, and the baby laughed and smiled. So at last It grew to know him little loe was nearly four: Ue would call the "pretty gemplin" as he passed the open ooor; And one day he ran and caught him, and in child's nlnv nulled him in: And the baby Joe ad prayed for brought about the mother s sm. 'Twas the same old wretched story that for ages birds have sung. 'Twas a woman weak and wanton and a villain's teinptine tonsrue: 'Twas a picture deftly painted for a silly creature's eyes Of the Habylonian wonders and the ioy that in mem lies. Annie listened and was tempted; she was tempted ana ne ten. As the angels fall from heaven, to the blackest depths of hell; She was promised wealth and splendor and a life oi guilty siotn. Yellow gold for child and husband, and the wo man leitincra ootn. Ilome one eve rame Joe the 'ostler with a cheery cryoi "wne:" Finding that which blurred forever all the story of bis life; She had left a silly letter through the cruel scrawl he spelt : Then he sought the lonely bed-room, joined his corny lianas ana Knelt. "Now, 0 Lord, 0 God, forgive her, for she ain't to blame!" he cried; For 1 owt t'a seen her trouble and 'agoue away and died. Why, a wench like her God bless her! 'twasn't likely as her'd rest With that bonny head forever on a 'ostler's ragged vest. "It was kind o' her to bear me all this long and happy time. So for my sake please to bless her, though you count her deed a crime: If so be I don t pray proper, Lord, forgive me; for you see I can talk all right to 'osses, but I'm nervous like with Thee." Ne'er a line came to the cottage from the wjman who had flown ; Joe the baby died that winter, and the man was left alone. Ne'er a bitter word he uttered, but in silence kissed the rod, Saving what he told the horses, saving what be told his Uod. Far away in mighty London rose the woman into fame, For her beauty won men's homage, and she prospered in her shame; Quick from lord to lord she flitted, higher still each prize she won. And her rivals paled beside her as the stars beside the sun. Next the made the stage her market, and she dragged Art's temple down To the level of a show place for the outcasts of the town, And the kifses the had given to poor 'Ostler Joe for nought With their gold and costly jewels rich and titled lovers bought. Went the years with flying footsteps while the star was at its height; Then the darkness came on swiftly, and the gloaming turned to night. Shattered strength and faded be,auty tore the laurels from her brow: Of the thousands who bad worshiped never one , came near her now. Broken down in health and fortune men forgot her very name. Till the news that she was dying woke the echoes of her fame: And the papers, in their gossip, mentioned how an "actress" lay Sick to death in humble lodgings, growing weaker every day. One there was who read the story in a far-off country place, And that night thedying woman woke and looked upon his face. Once again the strong arms clasped her that had clasped her long ago. And the weary head lay pillowed on the breast of 'toiler Joe. All the past he had forgotten, all the sorrow aud the shame; He had found her sick and lonely, and his wife be now could claim. Since the grand folks who had known her one and ell had slunk away, lie ronld clasp his long-lost darling, and no man could say him nay. In his arms death found her lying, In his arms her spirit fled; And his tears came down in torrents as be knelt beside her dead. Never once his love had faltered through her base, unhallowed life: And the stone alove her ashes bears the honored name of wife. That's the blossom I faiu would pluck to-day from the garden above her dust; Not the languorous lily ot soulless bin nor the blood-red rose of lust: But a sweet white blossom of holy love that grew in the one green spot In the aird desert of Thyme's life, where all was parched and hot. THE STAGE KISS. A Done First by a Living; Firebrand and Second by a Living Icicle. New York World.) The last time that the beautiful Adelaide Neillson played Juliet in New York she had bade Romeo a lingering farewell and was turning away from the balcony when a sudden whim seemed to seiv-e her, and wheeling about swiftly, she caught his ace ia both

her hands, and. leaned forward, gazed into his eyes. The honse was still as death. The audience, already seriously wrought upon, and feeling parched, arid and uncouth, leaned forward nervously. Two thousand eyes were rivited upon the actress. There

was a long wait; then she slowly pressed her lips to Borneo's and seemed lost to everything around her. The people sat like stones. A Programm a floated down from above and fell athwart a woman's bonnet, and she did not raise her hand to remove it. A spinster coughed. Juliet raised her head slowly and glided away, looking back over her shoulder as she disappeared with an expression that no man who saw it will ever forget. There was a long silence, and then the play went on. But no one paid the slightest attention to it. One by one the people relaxed their strained and intent attitudes and leaned back in their chairs. There was no rustle or noise. The woman did not notice the programme on her bonnet until the curtain fell. Miss Anderson played "Juliet" here when she returned from London recently. and in the fourth act she kissed "liomeo." As she approached the event th5 bald headed man in the orchestra who habitually dawdles with the base viol rose from his seat and looked over the footlights. Everybody knew the kiss was coming, and when the actress leaned forward frigidly and resolutely placed her face in the immediate proximity of "Borneo's" the house was all attention. She 'leaned back again. The deed had been done. The bald-headed man in the orchestra sank back in his chair, shivered a bit, and turned up his collar. The lights flickered. Another sneezed, and tiptoeingsoftly to the door, he put his hand across the crack to see if he could find out where the chilling draught, came from. Then a howling swell rose from his seat, blew upon his fingers, pulled on a fur overcoat, went out into Thirteenth street, and wished audibly that he was dead. SAM SMALL'S CONVERSION. Sam Jones' Able Lieutenant Tells His Own Story.to a Chicago Keporter. Chicago Inter-Occan.l "It was this way. The 13th day of last September (Sunday) I took my wife and children and went from Atlanta, my home, up to Cartersville, fifty miles away, to hear Sam Jenes preach in a big camp meeting. It was a kind of Sunday excursion. Any change of life up to that time? No; there had been no change of life up to that time but for the worse. I heard Sam Jones F reach and I was convicted of my sins, was awakened. This was on Sunday. I went home and got drunk again, and 1 stayed drunk until Tuesday afternoon. Then I went into my library at about 4 o'clock, and I prayed until I felt that I saw my way clear. 1 had been thinking about my condition, and I felt that the time had come to stop. 1 was getting over my depth. I looked the whole thing in the face, and I surrendered to the Lord. Then I went out and had 3,000 circulars printed, announcing that 1 would preach that evening at the corner of Marietta and l'eachtree streets. The first job printer I went to thought I was crazy. You see, I had been on a drunk, and my friends had often thought I would go crazy from drink, and so this man thought the same and wouldn't print my bills. So I went to another place and I got them printed at last I had them distributed, and at the place mentioned a great crowd assembled when it came time for me to speak. I told them what had happened, what I was going to uo, and tout them I meant business. They could stand olf and see me do it. "As soon as Jones heard about what had happened he telegraphed me to come up to Cartersville and speak for him. Well, I preached the next two nights in local churches, and on Saturday I went up and F reached for Jones. From that day to this have lost about a dozen days, speaking some days from one to four times, i ester dav." and here was another complete over turning of the erroneous theory of his being convcrtea some time ago, studying with Bishop Beckwith, etc., "yesterday I was five months old in the Gospel." "How are you satisfied with your work?" "Thoroughly, thoroughly. My best friends said l ought to nave been in this work long ago. My mother prayed and prayed for it till her death. 1 fought it as long as I could. My work has been uniformly pleasant, and I feel that it has been blessed with success." "Now, how many have you converted?" "Well, you mean the two of us, since I have been working with Jones? It's hard to tell ; it can't be told, but I can give you the estimates of our work together. In St. Joseph, Mo., 2,200; in Birmingham, Ala., 1,300; in St. Louis, well, we can't tell, but by the best calculation by those in the churches. about l,C00j in Cincinnati there's absolutely no tehing. The names of probably 2,000 people in Cincinnati were 'handed in, but there were many, many people who had been formerly connected with churches who did not care to have their names given. It is thought that the lives of from 20,000 to Ö0.MJ0 people were affected by the meetings "I am thirty-fiye years old, and was born in Knoxville, Tenn., on the 3d of July, get ting in one day before the celebration of the Declaration of Independence. I entered Kmory and Henry College, in Virginia, a Methodist college, in lSOy, leaving college in lbT. 1 then went into newspaper work. first in Nashville, being engaged in various places, in ew Orleans and other points in the South. I was in all kinds of newspaper work, running several papers of my own, sometimes into the ground, or retting the Sheriff to run them for me. I began the 'Old Si' papers in 1876, during the Presiden tial campaign. In 188 I went with my family to Lurope as an attache of the Amer ican Commissioners to the Paris Exposition, I travelled about a good deal in France and England, and saw all shades of life. In my earlier youth I was thoroughly trained and indoctrinated in Bible truth, which now comes back to me, and I bring all the bal ance of my knowledge to bear upon the en forcement of the truth." "What of the future?" 'There is no future but Chicago. We are going to get through with it first. We take the work nearest our hand hrst." Fatally Shot. Kingston, Tex., March 6. W. B. Howard, editor of the Bunt County Chronicle, deliberately shot A, R. Kussell on the street near noon yesterday Howard discharged both barrels of a shotgun at Russell. The stray bullets hit a spectator named Overholt and a boy named Kirkpatrick. Howard left immediately on horseback. He was pursued half an hour later by the Sheriff. Russell, Overbolt and Kirkpatrick are all fatally wounded, and will probably die within twenty-four hour?. A. K. Russell is City Marshal of Kingston. Howard was an eccentric youne man. As an editor he bitterly assailed the saloon-keepers in his paper, charging that Marshal Kussell aad other oflicers were gam blers. Phis caused Russell and a couple of salon keepers to visit Howard's olliice a few days ago and chastise him. Smarting under their redress, Howard threatened to attack Kussell on sight, On several occasions on meeting both men came near drawine their weanons and hrinp. i esterday, when Russell was returning irom the l'ostofhce, Howard suddenly emerge! irom msomce and fired both barrel at Kussel! s back. I-ater Kussell atd ieorge verholt are both at the point of death. Mauv citizens defend How ard's action, and fay be is high strung and was driven to desperation by tne taioon-kcepcrs ana tneir incnas. Not 8ymitni, but the Disease. ft would seem to be a truth appreciable by all, and especially by professors of the healing art, that to remove the disease, not to alleviate iu symptoms, should be the chief aim of medication Yet, in how many instances do we see this truth. admitted In theory, ignored In practice. The reason that llostctter's Stomach Bitters is successful in so many cases, with which remedies pre viously tried were inadequate to cope, is attribut able to the fact that it is a medicine which reaches and removes the causes of the various maladies to which it is adapted, indigestion, fever and ft sue, liver complaint. Kout. rheumatism, disorder ol the bowels, urinary affections and other maladies are not palliated merely, but rooted out by it. It goes to tne fountain head, iiisreaiiy, not com inallv. a radical remedy, and it endows the svs tern with an amount of vigor which is its bestprottcuon a;B urease. - ---.

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