Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1887 — Page 6

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THE INDIANA BTATE BENTINEL' WEDNESDAY MARCH 53, 1857

THE FARM BUDGET.

Ccliiutig Bpriiz Grxin Tie Horseradish Culture. Fctatfi A Gool Business for fanners Clover and Timothy ar)y Vegetables Orapes Oaloos Rubbish rrm Notes. Farmer Grn1ge. Old Farmer Grudge was determine! to trudge lu the same old way that hi lather went; To toil and to lave.to pinch and to tare Nor to spend on plea-care a Riegle ceut. Eis tool were few, and so rust, too, For want of the needed drop of oil. That creaky and lo they were forced to go, And added mu:h to hi daily toil. Bis crop s were went, for he wuld r.ot plant Enough to cover his harrow field; Int grumbled an 1 growled and always scowled At harvest over tie meeeer yiel, lad fiom the w:ry töre oa tho threhing floor. From g-plng mow aud nf s'eotod lin, '?di1 voices cry as b; pnse-i act bj: '7ou can't Use ou; what you don't put Id." Cd Fa-mer Grudge wu a doleful drudge, And in bit dwelling and on bis Kn.i 'Twas plain to be seen he was shrewd and keen And manured all with a miserly bard. There was little wool, there was Utile food; Oh. bare, indeed, was the pantry shelf, Plnoe be took no heed to another's ute 3, fco be was warmed and well Ud himself. Tbe wire, It is trie, would seiicp and screw, Fitce and patch and in some way plan, As women will with amaring skill, Wto is tied for lifo to a s:iogy man: Int oh, ho she t-lehed for the tb.lr.gs donicd, Tfce toons and comfort; and larger life Of which sue dreamed and for wfclch she cßeined When cons, n ting to be Faricer Grudge's wile. But Farm r Gri-'.gs not an iL. h would bu.:ge From the path his pecurior.s f.itner trod; Ect, though very ri h. woj d work in adilch Ail day and at dnk in tho comer would ncd; And hlsgiris and his toys, beref; of tue joys That others nad. were diszosed to roam, A r.d to spend, profus, uor to put to ue The lessons they hsd been taught at home. Kentucky Live atock Record. Cultivating Spring Grain. i Practical Farmer. Kone cf the small grains are regarded as hoed crops by the average American farmer. In England a few years ago wheat was commonly hed in the sprinar, partly to clean the land of weeds and partly to benefit the cror. Wih fair prices for wheat farmers thought the expense well repaid. Of late year, however, hoeing wheat has gone into disuse in England, as prices of wheat will not warrant the expense. Scarifying the surface with the smoothing harrow or common drag has superseded the slower and more expensive hoe. This is an American idea, and originated in a wish to accomplish cheaply what the hoe does expensively. It is practically quite as efficient as tee hoe. The very slight scarifying of the surface answers every purpose in titling in licht and air to the soil which the deeper pulverization of the hoe accomplishes. In one respect scratching the surface with the smoothing harrow, the teeth of which slant backward, is better than hoeing. It does not destroy fall-sown seedrr.ass; which by the time the srojthins Larrow Can IZ ?ed in the spring his sufficient root to be bfinreu rather than injured by the operation. Wö C?ld Pot t?e a drag or smoothing harrow a:vr 8pnnjr.g0"ii grass or clover-seed had sprouted. Yet ustd befere sowing grasa-seed it i9 a great help toward securing a good catch. Ckmr never fails where wheat fields are duly harrowed in spring before sowing. Waiting for the ground to dry enough for this sometimes delays seeding. bit the f nely pulverized surface gives the young plants an advantage which repays tae loss Harrowirg spring gm. P a stUl neer idea, but destined, we beN A populären""'- - "'A' 4fo cayy soils. The neces-?. ties vi oats, barley and spring wheat are a s?edso early that it is always followed by cold, wet Weather, which compacts the surface, greatly to the injury of the plant. Come farmers wait until fine, dry, warm weather before sowing oats and barley. They want the young grain to grow without a setback. Bat in practice they nd that tnis late sowing makes a rank, strawy erowth. The straw breaks down and tb leads are JiUed with shjiveled, imperfect .kernels. Tte grain is älso much thinner On the ground, warm, dry weather causing the plants to shoot up rapidly, instead of spreading at the root, as it is the natural tendency with spring grain sown earl. The only difficulty about the early sowing of spf.ng grain is that the surface i3 rretobe compacted by rains or snow. This evil is effectually remedied by harrowing. On ground free from stones or eods no plants are injured to any extent even by the common drag, though it tears the soil more deeply than is necessary. The smoothing harrow breaks the hard crust which keeps light ar 1 warmth from the roots, and that is ail that is essential. It is possible that in this operation some leaves are broken or bruised to such aa extent as to check tbeir growth. This U en adTinta?e rather than an injury. The shoots so arrested in their growth ere replaced by two or three times as many sent up by the more vigorous root. If we can stimulate the roots to greater vigor, as we can by cultivating the surface, wa shall inevitably make the stand of grain much heavier than it otherwise would be. Cultivating spring grain is adapted to that sown very la'e as well as that sown early. The effect of running the drig or smoothing harrow over grain is to thicken it on the ground, causing more hea is to grow from a single seed. As thij cultiva tion increases the available supply of plant food, the heads will be larger and the berry more plamp. A stimulated growth of a large number of stalks and head from light seeding, with cultivation, is every way preferable to sowing seed thickly to produce this desired result. The closelysown grain acts as a weed to diminish the erowth, but where single plant3 are made to cover the ground the e fleet is inu'j'u. bet ter. No one could guess from small, loi terfect nubbins on thicklv sowed earn how large ears of the golden ?rain coahi ba pro duced Dy planting thinly and cultivating thoroughly. priDKram, especially mat early sown, is in the greatly improved condition of the coil for fall plowing. In many places oats and bailey occupy the ground which in the fall la to bo plowed for winter wheat. rwv i . . . . inty ar? nurnea in wuue tue ground is wet, the surface rolled to make it emoDth or the reaper, and Ion before fall th surf&ce is more like a brick than like tillmil toil. Harrow this eu.-tace oac-j after the . rain Is up, ard then rolL The finely-pil-ver.za earin on tue surface n a ruuicti wh?eh keeps the soil beneath in triable condition. It in just what lsneeieito save labor and plow-points in breakln? up cat or isney s:uooia lor wneat. were there no advantage to the grain from t'.i3 cultivation cf the surface, the benif.f in rrep&jrin for succeeding crops woull be alone sch'icient to justify it. f'otato Culture. i oiaioes may De cui ana sprouted wiierver they can be placed upon, a heap of .Lorse manure, covered with a few inches of ec;L and then taken up and set in the hills "Where they are ready to grow. Some farmera plant large fields in this way. It makes considerable extra labor to do this, as the sprouted pieces must be taken up and handled very carefully to prevent breaking on" of the sprouts or roots, and must be set in ineir places by hand. Those who have tried it claim that the extra prices paid for the earnest potato In the market will pay ier mis extx law. Thev also claim an other advantage In getting the crops cut of me way Derore haying and In season to pat In a second crop upon the same land. which la an object where land i3 high Triced and gardens are small. Many gsrdeiers upon such lands c'.aim that they

irculd make no proft if tbey only grew one crop In a reason upon tbeir gardens, and often contrive to grow three, by baring one planted and partially grown before the other is removed. The farmer who has plenty of land usually considers that it takes more manure and labor to grow two crops upon one acre than it does to caltiTate two acre9.

Horse-ltadlsh, Caitare. Charles E. Tarnell, of New York, writes to Our Country Home: "In ordr to obtain a satisfaotory crop of horse-radish, it is absolutely necessary that it should be grown in a very deep loamy soil, and one tbat has been deeply and thoroughly cultivated for a previous crop. This soil should be given a liberal dressing of well-decayed rraaure, and it should be as deeply and thoroughly incorporated with tne soil as possible by means of first the plow, and then a harrow so as to level it olf a3 nie sly as possible; it should then be marked oif intö rows about two feet apart. In these rows the sets are to be planted some sixteen inches apart, which sould be done as early as the ground can be properly prepared in the spring. The planting is performed by making a hole from hve to seven inches in depth with a long stick or crowbar: into this hole the set is dropped in such a manner that the top is about two inches under the surface, at the same time pressing in enough earth to 11 up the hole. As soon as the crop is up so that the rows can be distinguished, a slight hoeing should be given, after which keep the crop clean and free from weeds until the midileof November, when the crop can be taken up and stored for winter use. After the crop is dug all of the small rooü should be broken off and reserved for another season's planting. The large or main roots should be p&cked in boxes filled with sand and stored in a cool cellar. If the ground has been properly prepared the main root should be eight or ten inches in length and we:U about a half pound. The rootlets should be cut into pieces or .'ei3 about four or tive inches in length, the top end being cut square and the bottom etid slan tire, so that there will be no danger of settirg the root upside down in planting. They should be buried in the ground out of doors until wanted for planting in the spring. A Hood Dusines for Farmers. Journal of Agriculture. A very intelligent farmer of Iowa gives it E3 his conviction, after closely observing the drift of things in that State, that dairying has been the salvation of Iowa. We can readily believe that such the case. It is only ä few years since, owing to the general failure m the wheat crop in that fctate, 8gricultu.e was at a very low ebb, and the farmers fell terribly far behind. The soil of the State had made such generous returns in wheat, that the farmers, as most people for that matter are very apt to do, "killed" the goose tbat laid the golden eg," by destroying its capicity for wheat by consUnt cropping with it. Trobabiy it was fortunate in the end tbat it was so: lor with the failure of wheat a great many went into dairjing, and they have made a great deal of money. The farmers of Missouri may well profit by their example. Few States have better markets within their own bordeisfcr dairy products than Missouri, yet the farmers of the State supply only an extremely small portion of the demand. Tn view of the fact that butter making does lets ihan almost any other farm pursuit to take ÄwaJ the fertility of the soil, this alone ought to be a poweriul incentive to to into the bu:ines, even if there were cot large j refits in it. Hut since in addition to that, the large demand for butter at good prices within the State, will slfo make the bnsIriP" vr(: rofitalle, tlere are very strong inducement's ' i?..W.U5W to xl dajryin? more. Probably three-fourths Tf & e butter sold In St. Louis couies from poinU i culbide the State and farther away than any part of the State. If the parties who make this butter and Etil at a profit after shipping so far make money, of course our ftrmersjean do likewise, provided only they make the butter good. The dairying business, especially zlL'r Jairyln?, grows better, fthd" 6ngnt to induce farmers to go into it-. Ii one will only begin in a small way and learn to do everything well and make only the test product, he can not fail to make it pay. n heat and. other products are worth only half as much as five or six years sgo, but butter Is just as high, if not nigher. There is money in making good butter. Clover and Timothy. .American Agriculturist. Clover and timothy are the main reliance cf most farmers for meadows and pastures. with the hope that the natural grasses will come in and take the place of the kinds sown when they die out, as they often do, in a few years. Clover scarcely survives longer than two years, and the timotny lingers along; gradually disappearing, until in a few years, on light soil, it is all gone. Where the aftermath of timothy is not pastured offi, the roots wul retain their told on the soil longer: but when the crowns are left bare, it is not uncommon to see a whole field killed out in one winter. In very rich ground, clover may be kept alive for several years, but it can not be depended upon longer than for a second crop, iioretay can be nad irom the usual seeding oi clover and timothy than from any other. The clover occupies the land the Erst year almost exclusively; the fol lowing year it becomes thinner, and the timothy forms most of the crop each yp:ir afterward, inen Its place is gradually taken by red-top, blue-grass, or the more common wire grass natural to all o: the I-astern and Middle States. liar) j Vegetables. If one has any means for forwarding his vegetable plants he can do much to hast?n his crops. Not many farx-gardeners make use of hot-beds or cold-lrame3, yet these, by starting their plants in window boxe3, can gain some weeks in earliness over those who sow their seeds in the open a.r. e e'able seeds are hardy and teuder. Those of the hardy class may be sown thh month, wniie tue tender kinds can not be safely sown until the time to plaut Indian corn The vegetables belonging to the harly class, usually cultivated in family gardens, are: oeet. carrot, caooage, jetluce, onions I arsnip, parsley, peas, radish, turnip and sjirach. The seeds of any of these may be sown in the open garden as soon as the so:l is ilry etioutt to be worked. Of coarse some of these, especially cabbage and lettuce, are had much earlier by rahing the plan's undr glass and setting out the ymt'g plants at the tin e that seds are s- w iin the ot-en eround. I?7 the U38 c window boxes one can rai.eall th plants U' usily needed In the family garden. Such plants may be purchased, but raising them is cheaper. Oue who takes pridi in his garden win avail himself of whfctev:r mears tbat will allow lurx to be a little ahead of his teigLbor. New Hints on floaeo Clentilug. (American Agriculturist.! From several years of observation of the diüerent methods employed by women ia tLtlr annual house cleaning, we are convinced that most of them make themselves a irreat deal of unnecessary hard work when putting their "houses in order." The usual way is to go at it as if the late-of the Nation depended on having it done at a certain time. "Taking Jt-leisurely," Is something they do .not seem to think of. "Moving" is always dreaded by the menfolks, and house cleantmr, as a general thiag, is about as bad. We'kriow one womm who has completely revolutionized the old system. She begins wifh, the closets. Sbe empties one at a time, cleans it and its contents, returns them to it, and goes on o the next, never hurrying the work, and consequently never making nerself sick by overdoing, as so many women do every pring. When ti e clo jets are in apple-pie

order," she begins with the rooms, taking those up-etairs first, one at a time, and Working her way down to the cellar. There is no bustle, no confusion, no "picked-up" meals, and consequently so outbursts of wrath en the part of the men-folks, who would not know tbat anything was going on if they were not asked to help move heavy furniture out of one room into another now and then, and carry out the carpets, or bring them in after they had been beaten and aired. When the bouse is cleaned in this leisurely fashion, it is easy to get the men to help put up the shades and curtains, because they do not get "out of sorts" from the general topsy-turvy condition of things. When the work is completed, the woman of the house is not "all used up." She may be tired without doubt she is but she soon "rests up," and is "all right again," while in many cases the woman who cleans house in the old fashion, pays for her overzealous ambition by sickness brought on by not "going slow," and working according to her strength.

Yield of Grapes From an Acre. An acre of vines, in rows six feet one way and eteht the other.will give in round numbers Ü0O vines per acre. In three years they will average enough over two pounds of fruit to yield a ton of fruit per acre, and when in full bearing may be kept at this distance apart, to an average crop of ten pounds per vine. This is 9,000 pounds, or four and a half tons. Even at two cents a pound, for which grapes may be profitably bought for making into wine, this would give $1 SO per acer; or far more, after deducting expenses of management and cultivation, than can be made from ordinary farm crops. Detrojlng Kabblnh In Gardens. Gardens are commonly visited very early by the various kinds of noxious insects that destroy the vegetables grown in them. Oae reason for this is tbat they remain dormant in their hiding-places under the weed?, pieceB of boards or clods of manure. It is a common practice to change the garden spot occasionally, so that the plants, when they appear, will not be immediately disturbed by their insect enemies', The better plan is to remove all weeds, litter and rubbish from gardens. Then, late In the fall, plow the soil, leaving it loose as possible, and sometime during the winter cover liberally with manure. This will give plenty of time for the soluable fertility of the manure to leach into and be incorporated with the soil. 1'reparing Uroan J for Unions. Onions are a crop that may be planted year after year on the same ground with good success. Eut where their culture Is to be commenced some preparation in previous heavy manuring and cultivation in a heed crop is necessary. Manure clover sod heavily this spring plant with potatces, and cultivate thoroughly to keep down the weeds, and it will be in excellent condition for onions a year hence. Land for cnions should always be fall plowed. It will then have a natural, rich seed bed on the surface in the spring, and the seed may be put in with verv light cultivation Of the soil. This will make a shallow but mellow seed bed, with a hard stratum beneath to induce bottoming. With deep plowirg in the spring it is more difficult to make a good seed bed,asd the result of having tco deep soil is to make more scullions than onions of the proper shape. HOUSEHOLD HINTS Hothouse strawberries served in a Charlotte Ilusse make the prettiest decorative dish for a Maren luncheon. To cook black-eyed peas Boil one quart of the peas in four quarts of water, with our smp.il onions, a banco, of celery and a bit of bacon tt a nam-bone. Season id the taste. EreVfan mllerane cupof boiled rice, one ninlof Hour. Ants '?r,::."UIUUl Bai' two ergs beaten lightly, tWoTfeaftörirais Ci raking powder stirred into the flour. and enough milk to make a thick batter. ry like griddle cakes. Uisque of Lobster. This is quite an eco nomical dish, because most of the flesh of the lobster can be kept to make a salad for the next day. Pick the meat from a boiled lobster, throw away the head, stomach and blact vein; pound all the rest; shell small claws and all the matter found in the large shell (green, white or yellow), so as to break it all small; put a little butter in a saucet an over the fire, and when melted put in tte pcunded lobster and stir for ten minutes; simmer for twenty minutes, then strain ; put back on the fire and add three cups of boiling milk that has been thickf ned with a Jarge tabiespooniui oi uour, and cook gently for five minutes. If there be any coral in the lobster, rub it nne and put it in the tnreen, with some dice of fried bread and half a cupful of the meat of the lobster cut small; turn the bisque over these and serve hot. Mrshed Tarsnlps. Boil the parsnips until tender, then strain and mash them very fine. Warm in a stew-pan with a little milk, a good piece of butter, pepper and salt; when warm put in the dish in which they are to be served, smootn the top nicely, brush over with beaten egg and put m a hot oven to brown. Crumpets One Way. Take a quart from the bread doutrh very early in the morning, beat three fresh eggs, separating the yolks from the white, and whip them each to a frcth. Mix them with the dough, altertately, with luke-warm water, until you have a batter, which set to rise until break fast time. Cake in thin rings on a hot griddle. Steamed Tudding, rare and quarter ripe, tait apples; place them In a deep dish aiding a little water; make a crust as you w ould for biscuit: roll about an inch thick. B'ace over the apples and steam an hour. Serve with sauce made of one-third butter, two thirds sursr, stirred to a cream. Any kind of fruit may be used to make this puddlrg. Totato Souflle. Boil and mash a .mart of potatoes, moisten with a pint of boiled milk; beat separately the whites and yelks of three egg?, add the yelks to the potatoes and a little salt; whisk the whites to a froth and add just before cooking the dish. Pat the mixture on a large dinner-plate and bake fifteen minutes; serve as soon as taken frcia the oven. Eanana Fritters. Remove the skins from four large vellow bananas; cut the fruit in two crosswise, then lengthwise, In not two thin slices; dip them in batter, fry in hot fat. and serve with a sweet sauce flavored with kirsch or other üquour. Make the batter as follows: Feat the yelks of three rggs and add a gill of milk, a salt spoonful cf fift.t, four ounces of sifted Hour and mix thoroughly. Suet Pudding. Oae cupful of suet chop-Tf-d fine, trrinklc a little Hour over it to keen frnm sticking together; two f:nd onehalf cupfuls of Hour, one teaspoonful of t aking powder, one cupful of apples chop ped finely, one cupful of raisins, three f's, whites and yolks beaten separately, one teaspoon each of cinnamon and cloves one-half cup of mckssrs. Steam or boil two hours. Serve with sauce. A rood coUKh sirup 15 made of one round of fies, one pound of raisins, three lemon?, one half pound of rock candy. one half pound of loaf sugar and one quart cf cider brandy. Split the fruit and slice the lemons and put them in a Mason jar, in layers; divide the sugar and rock candy evenly between the layers and pour over the whole the cider brandy. Allow it to stand three cavs before using, lake a wine-glass full three times a day, FARM KOI Hit J. A. Smith, of Collinsville, Conn., set a barrel in a hole in Lis garden last tall, leav ing about ten inches above the ground, filled it with russets, left It unheaded. merelv tdacine over it a cover of sheet Iron in rHnde the srw und rain. The middle

of March they were found nearly all perfectly sound and in better condition than apples stored in the cellar. Sudden changes of weather cause' disease among fowls much sooner than long continued cold or warm weather. Koup, a very contagious disease, is usully due to dampness. Well conducted experiments in beet-feeding, says Trofessor Fear, of the Pennsylvania State College, are greatly needed in this country. Farmers could realize from them what they have lost by so long neglecting a crop entering in the rotation of all well-managed farms. If potatoes be kept in cellars which have damp bottoms they should be stowed in shallow bins raised slightly above the cellar bottoms. They keep best in cool, welldrained underground cellars. Carriages and farm wagons might be made to last twice as long if only a few moments were spent each week daring dry weather In tightening up the bolts that hold the wsgon together. Should spring open early and the grass start, do cot be tempted to allow the stock to graze on it until it is well under growth. Tramping on young grass does more damage than grazing it closely. Whenever it Is noticed that the hogs eat gravel it is a sign that something they need is lacking. A few pieces of coal or charcoal will probably be a cure, while the food should at the same time bo varied. The hop crop last year was about 02,000 tons, while the estimated consumption is M,000 tons, leaving a surplus of 11,000 tons. Yet, as the hop crop is sometimes very uncertain, prices may go up again before the close of 17. Farms in some sections of Tean-ylvaaia maintain the fertility of their soils by applying ICO bushels of slaked lime to the acre once in five years, it is said that fields which have been subjected to this treatment for the past 100 years are as productive now as when the experiment was first tried. This application depends for its value much upon the original character of the soil. The following preparation applied to the surface will prevent any rusting on plows or any other metal Burfaces: Melt one ounce of resin in a gill of linseed oil, and when hot mix with two quarts of kerosene oil. This can be kept on hand and applied in a moment with a brush ur rag to the metal surface or any tool that is not going to be used for a few days, preventing any rust, and saving much vexation when the time comes to use it again. A writer in Gardening Illustrated says he has found sulphide of potassium an efficient remedy for mildew on the strawberry. Sulphur and old tobacco leaves burned in the poultry house, the house being closed perfectly tight, will clean out the red lice. A contemporary suggests that a cow can be easily led by a halter which commands her nose, but with difficulty by a rope around her horns. The more rapidly air is brought in contact with cider the faster the latter turns into Tinegar. Draw out a little cider daily and ittnrn it t the barrel, if for vinegar. It I remarked that the agriculture of all countries which produce large numbers of live stock is in a flourishing condition. They are rather buyers than sellers of forage grain. As a sow's litter improves in size and quality as the dam becomes older, and their milk usually increases, it is better to keep old sows for breeding than, to fatten them for port. One of the best supplementary fee is with corn fodder is wheat bran. Usuallv it can te bought cheaply at this season and is even better in the winter as a supplementary feed for cows. Sheep in the field seek the highest knolls for sleeping places. These are generally v sheen will unnn pnrloh thrr

fSrcrasVisseter tcere, Lhi most healthy in such localities. Rules for easy subjugation of Canada thistles are plentiful, but not practical. Every attempt to eradicate this weed must be continued throughout the entire season of growth, or it will fail almost surely, and all its cost will be wasted. No thrifty farmer will permit coarse weeds, thistles, briars or bushes of any kind to grow by the roadside adjoining hi3 fields. One or two days' worst each year for two or three years with a stout bush scythe, will cause these uprotitable varieties of vegetation to give place to valuable grases. The great flow of milk of cows is truly artificial. In a state of nature the cow gives only the necessary quantity, and necessary time to sustain gives It only the the calf. The greater and longer yield of milk is the result of better feeding, better treatment and longer manipulations of the teats. Hence to increase the yield of milk, feed and milk well. It is asserted that a mixture of lime in clay soils has the effect of making them porus and friable, hence by such treatment they are made more workable ana are net ter fitted for nourishing the nie oi plants. Clays that harden into solid Iump3 after a shower of rain are little better than rocks, in so far as the food of planta is concerned. A writer in the Farmer and Fruit Grower advises against the planting of fruit trees, especially peaches, near together, saying from twentv to twenty-two leet is not too far apart. lie claims the wider plantina makes better shaped trees, witn better ac cess of air and sunshine, while the tree ha3 a greater area from which to draw root supplies. ACCIDENT AT A CHURCH. A Flat f oi m Crowded by Met, Women and Children Gives Away. Cna Aoo. March 17. A pan'c occurred at the Roman Catholic Church Of the Nativity, corner ot Dashiel and Thirty ninth streets this forenoon. The church was completely crowded, and outside by the steps leading up to the church was a vast crowd unable to gain admittance. All at once there was tm Düna a-r v i V iviiv T va j j m aw i iuviiuq crash, and fully 200 men, women and children were precipitated fully ten feet, the enti re platform havinp given war. Twenty' tnree people in all received more or less in juries, airs. Kern, an agea woman, nad her bact broken, and rat uconnor naa both lees broken. Many people were in jured by being: tramped on about the head and otherwise badly bruised, lae people inside the church were at first inclined to rush for the door but were calmed by the officiating priest. An old woman named Burns had her baek broken and Joan Qninn, of 3S Emerald avenue, sustainel a similar injury and neither can live. John Sheridan, tixty years of agp, sustained severe Internal injuries which are regarded as fatal. GRANT AND M'CLELLAN. The Discovery ot a Partnerah'p That was Almost Concluded. I Near York Sun.l In the examination of the pspera left by the late General McClellan the discovery has been made that he and General Grant, although they bad been anything else than accordant as soldiers, entered into a re markable partnership a3 civilians: it was a deeply cherished ambition of Grant's to crown his achievements with the accom plisbment of some great enterprise In civic affairs. Among the innumerable schemes that were brought before his attention the one that attracted him the most was the Nicaragua Canal project. He was convinced that the Leneilis to commerce from an interoceanic canal would be an illustrious monun ent to the man who would secure the completion of a waterway. It may not be generally known that there have bcn

nearly a score of surveys made of proposed routes for such a canal, the various lines crossing the country from points on the Mexican and Central American coasts, and even from the Gult of Orinoco in South America. Ths latter scheme involved an immense cut through a lofty part of the Andes Mountains. Of all these sug?ested routes two or three have met with sufficient favor to warrant the organization of companies to prosecute the work. During General Grant's administration a commission was appointed to investigate the several canal projects and to make a report and recommendations. The commission was headed by Admiral Ammen, and, in a voluminous report declared that the Nicarauga scheme was the most available. It is reasonable to suppose that men have forgoftea that old Cortez, the original Cortez, who took a bird's-eye view of Mexico in the sixteenth century, alsi recommended the Nicaragua scheme. It is a fact, though, an l Cortez argued so effectively on the matter with the King of Spain tbat a survey was not only authorized, but directions were given that the work should be undertaken. Thea one of those medkeval unpleasantnesses arose in the shape of War, and the King was furnished with diversion more exciting than ditch-digging. By and by Cortez died, and then the project was abandoned. But years afterward the Portuguese got interested in It, and, though no actual work was done, a survey and favorable report were made; and as the centuries rolled along the idea that there might be eometoing in a canal across Nicaraugua reached England, and presently Admiral Nelson was sent out to make a survey and undertake the work of construction. Then, just as Nelson had begun to get familiar with the situation, England got in'o a bit of shindy with France, and the Admiral had to get home es fast as he could. No one can say that General Grant did not know all the history of the Nicaragua scheme by heart; at any rate, he was convinced that it was a good one, and when he had retired from pubhc life and had settled down to business, and was looking about for some great enterprise with which to connect himself, it occurred to him that it wa3 tha best thing he could take hold of. and there was, of course, do difficulty in taking hold of it, for the projectors of the enterprise were only too glad to enroll him as their figurehead. McClellan was to be associate 1 with him in the prosecution of the work. Grant was to be the President of the company and McClellan was to be at tie head of the engineering department. The arrangements of the scheme took time, but at last, after . numerous conferences, papers were prepared that were satisfactory to all parties, and Generals Grant and McClellan met in a New York oülie to sign them. It should be mentioned incidentally that with General Grant at the head of the enterprise, the firm of Grant S: Ward would naturally have been its financial agents. The papers embodying the agreement received a final scrutiny and some diacusion ensued. Then General McClellan, who held the documents passed them to General Grant. The latter had taken a pen ia his hand to affix his signature when a messenger entered hurriedly and hr.nded a dispatch to him. It announced the failure of the Marine Bank. The General rese calmlv, and, handing the message to McClellan. remarked: "In that case I think I had better not sign, for if the Marine Bank has failed that means Grant & Ward." Grant fc Ward had already failed, but the General had not heard of it. McClellan looked at the dispatch for a moment and then replied : "No; in that case I don't believe either of us had better sign, for I don't believe either you or I want to be found in the assets of Grant & Ward." The remark was made with, no knowledge of its deep significance, Dut it was the en 1 of General Grant's connection with the Nicaragua Canal. I. - .

WHOLE HERDS DEAD. lias a Fatal Tear Come to the Cattle Kings of the West? Fort Asslntboine, Mon., Special to the WorlJ.J The present winter marxs, witnoui a doubt, an epoch in cattle-raislHg in the Northwest, Despite tae stories ot Arctic rigors of other winters, "'way back in the '00s," told by an occasional old-timer, It is doubtful whether this country has seen for twenty-five years any season more severe. Nowhere has its effects been more seriously felt than In Montana. The Territorial pa pers are full of the tale of disaster to the ranges, but in the dispatches to the press much of the truth is naturauv suppresses. The losses of cattle up to March average throuehout the Territory probably not less than SO per cent , and although the situation gives sign of improvement, yet hundreds of thousands more must succumb ere the snow entirely disappears. For over two months the stock has been almost en tirely without food and exposed to intense cold, and when the spring thaw does come numbers of the worst sufferers will be too weak, and, as etockmen say, "too dia couraeed." to recover. The thermometer has recorded as low as 57 below zero in Northern Montana, and for many weeks has remained steadily at extreme low figures. For the first ten days in February the average w;is uoj below. This extreme temperature, combined witn lack of grass and hard crusted snow two feet deep, has exhausted even the hardiest animals on the ranee. Many thousands of foreien cattle, Ux, were driven into the Territory la9t summer, and among these, unacclimated and wearied by driving, tne havoc had been fearful. At no time was stock ever less prepared for such a winter than dunce: the past autumn, ihe ranee, already half bare in many sections from over-stocking, had been shrivelled by drought, the like of which was never known before. Grass was scorched as If by fire, and springs and creeks never dry before in the recollection of the oldest set tier presented to the thirsty animals ur to the time of the first snowfall nothing but beds of sun-baked mud. Large numbers of cattle, through some agreement between their owners aua tue agents were unveu upon the large Indian reserves of the rth. where feed had not been entirely consumed, but where thousands of them have since met death upon the open, un sheltered prairie. Stockmen who have recently ridden the rar ces are verv reticent, but occasionally a wnif pered report is heard, from a reliable source, revealing a irignttui sta:e oi an-urs. At some points hundreds cf cattle have been found dead In a single coulee, find one man. recently in from a trip up the Mis souri, claims to have counted several thous . m l i "I ill. and carcasses In nve days oi travel, bailie men of sound and conservative opinions fpprt their belief that the average loss will be futlv Görer cent for the whole territory under the most hopeful issue of affairs. Sheep-raisers are suffering to almost the same extent as the cattlemen, despite the extra shelter and feeding that their bands get. Now, all of this disaster, nnnrecedented as It is. has long since been expected and foretold. Frank Wilkesoa's letters foreshadowed the situation in the nrr ss durinar the rast year, and in some cases cattle-owners themselves, seemingly struck by a presentiment of the future. made liberal offers last fall to purchasers or inaureas of their herds. One of the largest of these owners near Helena offered I'JOO.OUO for such insurance without nnd in? anv takers. r,v the blind confidence hitherto dis played in what is called out here the "rust ling" system of wintering cattle, the greater TKJrtion of the whole wealth of the vast Territory of Montana has been staked each year as if it were upon the sincle turn of a die. Such a winter as the present may happen any year; but "sixes'' have been IXirowu uerijr b n cu ijr uiuca iu iuw-otivu, and the stake has each year been doubled . . . i ' i J l witn the gamblers nniaiung cennaence ia his ability to turn the lucky number for ever. Now, on the first trick of the die he

loses his entire pile, minus perhaps what he has spent on cigars and drinks during the game. His losses involve thousands cf friends who have backed his lack. Among these the banks are the principal sufferers. In the town of Helena alone, it is said, loans upon cattle Eecurity inflict most serious loss. In the territory itself, the money depression, extending as it does to nearly all branches of trade and empleyment, will be felt for years to come, ana, of course, many eapitalists in the East are severely injured. The result of all this is inevitable and will soon appear. Stock-rais

ing on the "rustling" plan must cease and stock-farming take its place. The days of the cattle king are virtually over here, as elsewhere. Many of the Territorial naoers are already urging a chance in the system of raising, both on the ground of pecuniary policy and what is really singular and indicative of revolution in Western ideas of humanity to the stock itself. Their agguments will receive especial respect at the present moment, fcr a few well-known raisers have for a year or two past practiced the feeding system, and the coitrast be tween their experience and the general iuin of the rest during thie season points a moral mat an must read. Another transcontinental line will push its way across North Montana during the coming summer, and in very few years the vast ranges and their wealthy kings, the round-up and the cowboy, all of the ro mantic features of "Cattle raising in the Far West," will have become but traditions, and in their stead will reign the prosaic but humane, thrifty and successful methods of the Eastern cattle farmer. The President's Unbidden Gaest. Baltimore American. 1 An amusing little incident that occurred at Red Top on Saturday night wa3 talked about and lauzhsd over at the Whiba House to day. As already stated, the President, together with Mrs. Cleveland end their friend, Mrs. Jewett. went to Red Too to spend Sunday. It was perfect luxury to tho President to be able to get away from the cares of his office and get a good night's sleep; eo the family retired early. It so happened that an old friend of the family who owned Red Top before Cleveland happened in Washington, thinking he would like to Epend Sunday with bis old friends. determined to walk out to their place. He did not know that the place had changed hands or that the President was out there. Tt also happened tbat the new lock intended for the cuter gate had cot arrived, and so the stranger was able to walk right ia witbont Hindrance. Hector had been left at the White House, and so there was no watchdeg on guard. The stranger, unmolested, walked up to the-front porch. The ebanges wrought by the architect's hands when the house was remodelled last sum mer were not observed in the darkness and the old gentleman stumbled up the steps and fell, making a great noise. This awoke the President, but not the servant When the man tried the door and otherwise attempted to affect an entrance, the President thought it about time to investigate. Ti 6 appearance of the President in dishabille, carrying a lighted candle down stairs is descnoed to-day as decidedly picturesque. r inally, the man servant was aroused, and by the time the TreBident had found the bulldog pistol kept at Red Top by Mrs. rolsom to keep off tramps, the nightly visitor had explained his mistake and departed. The explanation wa9 given to the President tnd he again retired. It is stated on good authority to-day that the President savs when he poes to Red Tod again Hector shall be taken along for a watchdog. Keen as a Razor. Somerville Journal. Countryman That feller in the telegraph effice up there thought he was mighty smart, but I fooled him. Policeman Did you? How? Countryman Oh easy enough. You see I went in here yesterday to send a message to St Louis, and told him what 1 wanted. "All right" set he, "75 cents." So I paid him the 75 cents and I'll be darned if he did a thing but rap that old brass clicker of his fifteen or twenty times, and then harg the message on a book. Policeman ell, do you call that tool ing him? Countryman l ou lust hold on, and 1 11 tell you. To-day I wanted to send another message to St. Louis, but I'll be goshdarced if I wanted to pay another 75 cents. So I went up to the office, kinder politelike, an' sez I Mister, say I, "There a young lady outside as sez she wants to speas to you. I'll tend office for you while you ?e tone." Well, eir, he bit right away. Od e went in a hurry and before he got back I had plenty of time to clink his old brass machine all I wanted, and hang my mesease on the hook just as he did the day before. I know they get it, too, at the other end, for the minute I got through the old machine went to clicking like blue blazes, s much s to say, "All right, old man, we hear you." Oh, I fooled him good. I did. Your Uncle Peter lives in wayback, but he ain't no fool, he ain't, not by a long thalk, no-sir-ee! Not Had tor Irving. Philadelphia Press. Cecil Clay, manscer of the Yokes comanv. told ni9 the following characteris ic ;torv of Henry Irvine: "The story is not mine, but the cniet actor in n, air. xien;ey, tells the storv oa himself. Henley is now . . . . . m i a ar if 1 . a member of Wallace's company, and was seen here two or three years ago with Erie Bailey in 'Impulse. A couple OI seasons - T m since he was playing at the London ia'.ety in ore ot the burlesques which are peren nial at tnat house, and in which Nellie Farren has dslighted Londoners for vears past. Henley gave an imitation of 1 Ving during the burlesque in question hieb. set all London taitin?, tne papers wer juii of the matter and discussions in print were frciuent Adonis Duey had not ye- ap peared in the English metropolis, so lfeuIev had a clear field to himself, and, so to sneak, felt bis oats considerably. ' One night at the Garrick Club, after 8Tirner. the treat trasedian and his imitator louna tnemseives siue Dy siue, neu soon iieniev pecan xo lay aown me i touching upon a dozen topics ot interest in the world of the drama. Irving listened attentively, agreed in the main with his ffhbor's views and evidently be came interested in the conversation. Irv ine, vou know, is an all-night man and is m fre,h at 4 a. m. as most men are at or before midnight Well, It was past when Irvlnar rose to no nome, ana, smkidc hands, said: Mr Henley, I have been much interested in our conversation; you evidently know your subject. iy me way, are you, too. an actor.'' United Labor Party Couventlon. Cincinnati. March 19. The convention Of the United Labor party adjourned at midn'gbt after indorsing the platform of the L nlon Labor 1'arty aaoptea nere last month. W. II. Stevenson was nominated forMarnr Rnd Jacoö Haas lorjuageoi Police Court. Disorders Which Affect the Kidneys Are amens the mot.t formidable known. Di abetes, BrigM's disease, gravel, and other com plaints' Of the urinary organs, are not ordinarily cured In severe cases, but they may te averwi fcy timely medication, A useful stimulant of the urinary glands has ever been found lu Ho?itir'Rtomach Bitters, a medicine which not only affords the requisite stimulus when ihey become Inactive, but Increases their vigor an I secretive power. By increasing tho activity of the kldnevs and bladder, this mediciue has the additional effect of expeUIn from the blood im purities whicb it Is the peculiar omce oi thoe r.rpnn to eliminate and bass off. The Bitters Is alko a winfler and strenethencr of the bjweN, n invlgorant of the stomach and a matchless remedy for billiousness and fever and asue. It counteracts a tendency to premature decay, and sustains and comforts tne aged ana lnnrm. a tot's Rircanarllla is h lehlv concentrated, an l tbe most economical. blood purilier that can he med.

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