Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1887 — Page 4

THE INDIANA fcTATE SEXsTlN-EL. AVJi'DISHDA"j'SEPTEMBEll 28 1887.'

BT W. J. CBAIQ, THK1X3 PER YEAR. Single Copy, without Preminxa dab of tlx tor 11 00 5 00 YFe tst Democrata to lear in mind and select their own Bute paper when they coma to tike fnbacrlptlona and make up clubs. Agenu mttlDg op clubs seud lor any laloriaatton desired Address INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Indianapolis, Ind. YajtPhoj Leb, a converted heUnen tella, in the North American, why he is not a heathen. In a previous number of the North American, Mr. "Wong Ching Foo gave his reasons for being a heathen. Yan Phon Lee says to Wong Chin Foo: "thou teachest." RxpoBTshare it, that Fredericksburg, Ya., has secured a bonanza In the business of plckfbg cucnmVera. The number of pickles fer the present season is set down At 30,000,000. The farmers in the neighborhood of Fredericksburg snpply from 200.000, to 1,000,000 each, and it is understood that cucumbers are more profitable than tobacco. The Boston Herald compliments Mr. Justice Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, because baying been appointed to the high office aa a Republican, he has been wise enough and honest enough to set iqu&rely downoa some of the pernicious doctrines of the Republican party. Judge Miller seems to be a mugwump. Bisscakck once asked Mr. A. D. White TFhen that gentleman was United States Minister to Prussia, the cause of the success of Carl Bchmz in this countrythe Prince was told that it was becau3e Mr. Schurz was philosophical in his treatment of the slavery question but the fact is, ür. Schurz was successful, because he always crged a good round price for his philosophy, and took care that he got his pay in advance. Plxasast stories are told of Edith Kingdon, now Mrs. George Gould. She was a poor girl, and by her own unaided efforts rose from a subordinate position in a Boston theater to a commanding place on the New York stage, and it was her cleverness . that attracted Mr. George Gould, the eon of Jay, the millionaire the man of many Tailroads and bushels of stocks. From a cheap boarding house in Boston she became the mistress of New York palatial residence. She had great merit as an actress, but it required, after all, something besides merit to win a contract from Mr. Dally, the great New York manager. The New Yorker being in Boston, Miss Kingdon asked for an ierview, and the boon was granted. She read the note granting the audience and went straight to the Adams House, hired a suite of rooms, decorated them with bric-a-brac borrowed from willing friends, donned a tea gown that good Rachel Noah pressed upon her, and then sent for Mr. Daily. He came, and before he left Miss Kingdon had her contract. Just how she managed to catch Mr. George Gould is not stated, but when the big fish was hooked, the clever actress secured a fortune and everybody congratulated her. WAR-LIKE. Gen. Boulanger tells the officers of his command that "they have to-day more need than ever of the qualities of a warrior" and his words are thought to be of bloody significance and have created a sensation. Europe is always on the "eve of war." Great standing armies are simply machines constructed and kept in repair for killing people, and every nition in Europe Is specially concerned about keeping this murderous machine in perfect order lor quick and decisive work. It may be interesting to the reader to know ths strength of the standing armies of European nations on a peace and warfooticr. The figures are given aa follows:

Kei?'ilar Army Amy 5ATI0S. r'.mce War Fjotirg. Fting. ' AustTlA-Hungfcry..... irst.oTi i,i',90i iJeli?ium. 4MSt 214.657 Denmark .... 35,7i7 .v),52i France MM.i'.J 3, 752,16 1 GfnniDT , 4I4"2 1.-.J1.10I Great Bri'.aln Ht,'.7l 611.7K Greece. & W Italy 7:0.765 l.OHi.Gl'J Netherlands. leyow Norway 175 vnra PortURal &1.7JI 73,021 Rouraanla 1 0J 1 2 1 iO.OCJ Kusia 7S'.0SI 2,30." 01 Eenria l0oo 210.0 FpalB i 15WJ 4.t.0J Sweden 40,758 191.919 Switzerland - 117.500 2tS(V)J Turkey - 1ÖJ.417 6W.20 Total ' S,7QK.G77 U.i6CC

It will be observed that in time of prof unnd peace, provided Europe at any time experiences such a condition of things, there are constantly under armi 3,708,677 men. These armies cost the people, annually, nearly $700,000,000, and should there be a general European war, immediately more than 11,000.000 soldiers are equipped and the expense is quadrupled, and the war machine is made to do its bloody work to the fullest extent of its capacity. Under such Circumstances, when General Baulanger tells hia ofnsers that France, as never before, needs the qualities of warriors In her imj, it is not surprising that Bismarck tells the soldiers of the Prussian army to examine their guns and be ready. I WOMEN AND THE BALLOT: In a government of the people it is the ballot that declares war; hence it will bs observed, that there is an Intimate relationship between the ballot and b ayonet, the ballot box and the cartridge box. If women were to have the ballot they might be able so to shape policies, measures and events, so aa to bring on War. Having brought about war, what could women do to defend their country, their homes and their children? When the clarion of war sounded and the bugle called to arms, because of woman suffrage, would the women form themselves into companies, regiments, brigades and army corps, and march away to the music of fife and drum to defend their country against domestic or foreign enemies? They certainly would not, because they could not. They are not made that way. They may have fighting qualities, .unfortunately many of them have they may have a martial spirit fortunately nch If the ca3e but they are not constructed to bear arms; their high mission

is to bar children and when the great misfortune of war overtakes a nation, there is deep solicitude for the welfare of the women and children it is always women and children. In such matters women are always associated with children as helpless and dependent, and they occasion the men folia great anxiety. It is a correct theory in human affairs that individuals Bhail take the fullest measure of reeponsibility consequent upon their acts. But we have stated a case in which women cannot assume such responsibilities. What do women, who demand suffrage, reply? They do not reply. They do not discuss such phases of the subject. They are sufficiently shrewd to let such propositions severely alone, and yet the fact that every citizen is held responsible for the consequences of his vote, is fundamental. It is a bed-rock proposition.- It may be said, and doubtless is said, that in case of war, all the men do not shoulder arms, that many remain at home to supply the "sinews of war." True, but some do go to war, while no woman goes to war. It may be said that women make good nurses, etc., but good nurses are not soldiers. They do not storm batteries ; they do not repel invaders; they do not conquer armies nor win victories. Now, it may be right to give women the ballot, but yet there is something in the proposition that those who wield the ballot, shall, in all cases, be responsible for consequences. As in some cases women cannot be responsible, the question arises : Is not a limited suffrage for women, a suffrage, for instance, which relates to educational affairs, about all that is required? The question is up for debate, and those who are inclined can state their views. R. B. HAYES. R. B. Hayes, at a meeting of the International Prison Congress, which assembled in Toronto on the 10th inst., enlightened the delegates by pointing out some of the difficulties in the way of prison reform. That R. B. Hayes should be at the head of a Prison Reform Association, or a Prison Congress, is to be accounted for only upon the theory that the average Republican monstrosity is never so happy as when it is most conspicuous. If R. B. Hayes had been simply the beneficiary of a crime which denes exaggeration, his position would have been sufficiently infamous to have gratified any ordinary villain of the burglar breed, but when he and John Sherman raped the treasury of the people to reward ths sans-culotte scamps who perpetrated the frauds, forgeries and perjuries which made the consummation of a crime possible, then R. B. Hayes gravitated to the depths of dishonor, disgrace, Ignominy and obloquy, reached by no other American, living or dead. This R. B. Hayes told the Prison Congress that one of the obstacles in the way of reform of convicts is the disinclination of the people to have confidence in him when released from duress, and the New York Tribune, in commenting upon the subject, mo3t graphically depicts the condition of R. B, Hayes. It is a condition which the Tribune well says "cannot bs cured by legislation." The position of society toward the released convict is one says the Tribune, "of inveterate distrust and antipathy." The position of R. B. Hayes is that of a man, who by pooular verdict, is the most notorious poltroon the country has ever produced. He accepted a etolen office, knowing it to be stolen he pocketed the salary and perquisites of the ofHee.knowing the emoluments belonged to another man. The sentence of the people has been pronounced, and though R. B. Hayes escaped imprisonment, he has not escaped conviction and as iha Tribune says of other criminals far less guilty than Hajes, "they are made to realiza that society has not pardoned and never will pardon them: that wherever they go they must drag their disgrace and forever be liable to ruinous disclosure," R. B. Hayes, the Republican ex-President is a living exposition of Republicanism, methods and

its crimes its corruption and its rottennee a. That such a man should seek to place hiinself at the head of any sort of a Prison Reform organization is beyond ordinary explanation. Perhaps Hayes is trying to reform himself upon the theory that a man by tugging away at his boot straps can lift himself over a fence. Bat R. B. Hayes, after all, lives for a valuable parpose, since when anyone wants to know what Republicanism is, they have only to know by what crimes he occupied the office to which the American people elected Samuel J. Tilden. , GETTING TO BE SERIOUS. There is a portion of Indiana, where if reports be half true, a condition of things exists which demands a speedy change. We are hearing much, not too mach, possibly, nowadays, about anarchy and anarchists, and the demand is made that anarchists shall be hanged, not only because men have been killed at their meeting, but because their doctrines, teachings, ideas and expressions lead to violence and blood shed. It is well to have a correct Idea of anarchy. Webster says, Anarchy is "Want o! government; the state of society where there li no law or supreme power, or where the laws are not efficient, and individuals do what they please with impunity." Hence, an Anarchist, says Webster, is "One who excites revolt, or promotes disorder In a state." The Counties of Harrison, Crawford and Orange are, if reports are true, in a state of anarchy. These counties have an area of 1,179 tqnare miles, and an estimated popu lation of 51,014, and If reports are true, or, if they approximate trath, then the laws of the counties named, the laws of the State of Indiana, "are not efficient," because "in dividuals do what they please with impunity." We are informed there are organizations known as "white cape," or "white cappers" who have taken charge of these counties In matters of great importance, in which all law is set i&Idft, and rules and regula tions made by themselves are put into operation. Homes are invaded, men and women are dragged forth into the darkness and whipped unmercifully. It goes for rothiog to say that In some cases. or In numerous cases, these flagel lailons are deserved; in no regard doea it palliate the offense, unless society Is ready to justify anarchy. There are occasionally Instances when

the moral sense of entire communities Is so shocked, so outraged, by the enormity of crime that men become impatient of the alow processes of law, and indignation usurps the fealty to law and some demonized culprit is hanged or otherwise disposed of, but we no discuss a state of aJalrs quite different. Organizations, known by secret signs, go about the country at night and scourge those who are la any wise inimical to them, drive them out of the country, exile them, and that, too, for offenses which, if known to the law, are punished In a way entirely different from that which the "White Caps" have devised. Manifestly, such a condition of affairs can not long exist without producing total demoralization, a reign of terror, if indeed such an unenviable situation has not already been reached. The difference between being taken out and whipped until the flesh is lacerated and the blood flows freely, and being killed, Is not worth discussing of the two we would much prefer being killed by a bomb, and by all the gods known to heathen and savage, that is just what the White Caps would be required to do in nnmerons cases that it would not be difficult to cite. We have said that the population of the counties where the White Cups do what they please with impunity" is estimated at 51,014: Bay one-half are men, 25 507 say that one-half of the malts are capable of bearing arms, 12.753.

fhese 12,753 men owe it to themselves, to the good name of their counties, the good name of their state, o yo it to their children, owe it to all things of good report known to American citizenShip, to disbaul ths "White Caps," to pnt an end to anarchy, and anarchist, and if they can't do it, then the State of ndiana should at once take the matter in hand, and establish order and inaugurate a government of law. Indiana cannot afbrd to have such a stigma cast upon her good name. It is an outrage of terrible proportions, and until the press of In diana and the people of Indiana bring about a change, and know that order has been restored and the supremacy of the aw established everywhere in the State, the disorders and disturbances n other States can with eminent prudence be dismissed. SOME THINGS WORTH TALKING ABOUT. ; The Republican Press of Indianapolis, we refer particularly to the Journal and the News, is ceaselessly seeking to make it appear that the Republican party is in the hand ol managers, who, by their boot straps have lifted themselves to the top of the sunburniahed delectable mountains, where they are in constant converse with angels and that Indianapolis and Marion County have their full share of these subimated mortals. Bat it turns out that these etherialized Republican bosses, when anal j zed, are not straight gooda they may be a yard wide, but they are not No. 1 material. We hear much about the "Sim Coy gang'' in local politics. Now, we ask what "gang"' put forth Sam Hanway? Sam was and Is a sublimated Republican, but be got away with a pile of the people's money, rne journal says his books were examined three times, and the other day Sam agreed to pay back $7,500 of the peo ple's money, he had had for eight years, but the people did not get back what was due them and never will. When Sam went out of office his books were examined bo says the Journal and the amount due the County was paid over, so Bays the Journal. But that was not satisfactory. The people demanded another examination, and still another examination and it was discovered that the books when properfy overhauled showed that Mr. Hanway owed the dear people, say $30,000. Then suit was entered, some of Hanway's securities died, others gave up the nnanciai ghost, but finally $7,500 of the, say $30,000, wai se cured. Now, then, what Republican "gang" forced Sam Hanway upon the people? Will the Journal name the gang? We want to compare the gang with the 'Sim Coy gang," and our word for it, the facts will show that "Sim Coy and his gaDg " are men ci more integrity stand higher in this community than Sam Hanway and his gang. Sullivan, it will be seen, if books are compared, is a better man than Sam Hanway. It will be seen that the "Harrison gang" is, in point of integrity and book keeping, vastly superior to the Hanway gang. The Sentinel has asked the Journal to name the man who kept Hanway's books, and this is what the Journal says in reply : Mr. W. K. Sproule, Democratic auditor of Marion County, who was in office during the entire term of Mr. Hanway's incumbency. It will be seen that the Journal d sdges the question. Mr. W. K. Sproule, Demo cratic Auditor, did not keep Mr. Hanway's books his cash account, Mr. Sproule was not responsible for Hanway's accounts. A more cowardly subterfuge was never attempted. The Democrat says "Mr. Lige Halford, principal editor of the Journal, kept Hanway's books." The Jour nal does not deny the action, will not deny the assertion. We have it from other sources that Mr. Hal ford kept Hanway's books, and it i? therefore not surprising that the Jour nal flies to Hanway's relief. Will Mr. Halford deny that he kept Hanway's books? We et allenge him to deny the Democrat's assertion. H he did keep Hanway's books, if he did make the cash entries, we want to make a few comparisons between Mr. Hal ford and Sullivan and Sim Coy and the "Harrison gang." We engage to demon strata that if Mr. Halford did keep Han way's books, that Sim Coy and Sullivan an 1 the "Harrison gang" stand as much higher than Mr. Halford as a giraffe stands higher than a cockroach. We engage to show that the Republican gang in Indiana' polls and Marion County is the embodi ment of corruption, rottenness, dishonesty. unquestioned scoundrelism, and that the gang is constantly putting forth men for office who don't know how to keep books correctly. Who but the Republican gang put forth Pattison tor city treasurer? Pattison was a representative member of the gang. He was as decent a man as the gang could name, and yet this Republican beauty, this lily, this daisy, this Republican sun flower, was a defaulter In ths sum of 1112.

000. His securities paid $00,000 and the city lost 52,000. Pattison was a specimen brick from the Republican temple, and it is said of this Republican boss, this "God and moral! ty"specimen of Republicanism, that when he went to California, he took with him $10.000. The Sentinel has "some facta" upon which to base assertions, and is ready at a moment's warning to compare Sim Coy, Sullivan and the "Harrison gang" with Sam Hanway, Pattison, and the man who kept Sam Hanway's books. We will at any time permit either of these gentlemen or all of them to mass all they can say about maggot, cholera, hogs, strawberries, eta, and after they get through we pledge ourselves to make Hanway, Pattison, the man who kept Hanway's books, and the Republican gang, whether it be the Halford gang, Hanway gang or the Pattison gang, as much more detestable than "Sim Coy, Sullivan and the Harrison gang," es a car load of asafectida Is more offensive to the smell, than a bank of violets.

What it Coats to liaise a Boy. Buffalo Express. "My father never did anything for me," recently remarked a young man, who a few weeks ago had finished his school life, and Is now seeking a good business opening. Judging by the words and the complaining tone in which they were uttered, the member of the firm who heard them is prone to believe that the young man's idea of "doing something" is an outright gift of a thousand dollars in a lump, or the purChase of a partnership iu an established concern. This young man, to the knowledge of the writer, has never done one month's actual work for others in his entire life. His life has been passed in the pleasant pastimes of the home circle, In reading, study, huntlrg, fishing, ball-playing, yachting, aod other employments not particularly beneficial to others. He is the type of that class of boys whose parents are sufficiently well-to-do to keep servants to attend to the household drudgery, and whose fathers follow avocations in which no use can be made of the boy's spare hours. Like most bovs of his class, he looks noon his board and clothes for twenty years, together with his pony, jewelry, bicycle, etc , as mat ters of course. The writer, while the com plaining remark was still ringing in his ear, had the curiosity to make a conserva tive compilation of what it costs to raise an o'dinary boy for the first twenty years of nis me, ana here it is: tlCO per year for the first five years 3 ,VV) t!50 per year lor tne second five years 7v3 f0 per year for the third five vears..... l.aw 8 too per year for the next three years 5)00 low per year lor the next two years .. 1,000 4,159 Yes, this is a moderate estimate of the financial balances again&t the boy who complains that hi3 father has never done anything for him. The Baby Heaver's Dam. LewUton Journal. "I know of a naturalist down in Eastern Maine." said a well known Maine c ollege profefsor yesterday, "who wouldn't be con vinced that beavers could build dams till he caw it done with his own eyes. He is an awful incredulous fellow, anyway. I bought a ba&y Deaver oi a hunter wao traps tbem, one day, and sent him to my sceptical friend. He grew greatly attached to tne little leiiow and kept him in the bouse, but he often wrote me that his beaver didnt enow any propensity at all for dam building. One Monday, washinz day, his wife set a leaky pail full of water on the kitchen floor. The beaver was in the kitchen, he was only a baby then, too, and he saw the water oozing out of a crack In he pail. He scampered out into the yard, brought in a chip and began building his dam. The naturalist was summoned. He watched the little fellow, thunderstruck. Said he, Leave that pail there, wife, till doomsday, if need be, and let's see what the little fel low will do.' The beaver kept at it four weeks, until he had built a solid dam cleaa around the pail. My naturalist friend is quite a beaver man to day. They Bay, you know, that way down .Last there is a beaver dam that $200,000 couldn't build the like of. Oh! men don't know every thing. The wasp knew how to make piper before we did." Thoroughly Characteristic. Washington Critic. "What is all this racket?' asked a trav eling man, as he got off the train in Phila delphia "They're celebrating the signing of the United States Constitution." "Why, that happened a hundred years ago"Yes." "And thty are just setting on tfl? Well, if that ain't Philadelphia all over." Likely to be a Close Contest. New York Sun. First Citizen Which of the twopatriyachts, Sherman and Blaine, do yon think will be selected to try to get back the Presidential cup? Second Citizen Well, I dunno. So far it seems to be a drifting match, but the political probabilities are to the effect that on the day appointed for the decisive trial there will be an enormous amount of wind ; so I am inclined to think it is about; six of one and half a dozen of the other. . Up for Swindling. INew York Sun Visitor (to convict) What are you In for, my friend? Convict I got ten years at hard labor for swindling. Visitor Swindling is very bad. What labor do you have to do? Convict I'm in the shoe department, sir. I cut out the pieces of pasteboard which are put between the soles. She Was Not to Blame. The JuOice. Jack Ethel, I am ashamed of you. I saw that Frenchman in the conservatory kissing you repeatedly. Why didn't you tell him to step?" Ethel I couldn't, Jack." Jack You couldn't? Why not? Ethel I can't speak French. A nolher Son of Bis Father. Boston Globe. Charles Dickens, son of the great novel 1st. will sail for America October 9. If he desires any information reiative to working the Bon-of-his father idea he may addrees in strict confidence R. T. Lincoln Chicago, or F. D. Grant New York. The Next Thing to It. Harper's Bazar.'l Guest (to landlord) I say, landlord, have you got such a thing as an encyclopedia about the house? Landlord No, sir, we have not; but there is a gentleman from Boston in the reading room. Colored Men Think of This! New York Freeman. Why should the colored voters of New York State vote for Fred Urant? This man said no colored man should graduate from West Point while he was there, and he has kept his word. Moit and Dil Solidarity. ISt. Louis rost-Dispatch. Johann Most becomes excited In telling all Anarchists to attend their "solidarity." Most thinks so much of his "solidarity' that he takes it in with him when he crawls under bed to avoid arrest.

FARM NOTES.

The theory that lima beans will germinate if placed on the ground edgewise is refuted by Prof. Halsted, who has conducted a series of experiments in order to determine the claim. He 13 of the opinion that the seeds should be laid flat on their Bides. By ploughing two farrows on each side of the hedge not only will the roots be shortened but the loosening of the soil will benefit the hedge as well as clean the surface of the ground. While a hedge fence well kept is very attractive, the harboring of weeds at its base makes the farm very unsightly. Old bones and old cast-away shoes put on a pile of dried brush, the trimmings af trees and vines, with any half-rotted wood around the place, and the whole converted into ashes, will make an excellent fertilizer for the garden. A little limestone, if obtainable, added to the pile, will Increase the value of the "remains." Where old peach trees have borne but little fruit, and the main limbs show evidences of decay, cut them back so aa to allowforan entire new growth. Provided the borer be not allowed to establish itself, and the soil be kept clean, the peach tree will endure any amount of cutting back. Wocd ashes should be need freely in the peach orchard, and ground bone applied once a yew. The fence corners are the pest-holes of the farm. From them spring nearly all the weed seeds and undesirable grasses which are scattered over the fields. Rill fecces are expensive on account of the ground they occupy and the weeds they protect. If necessary, the hoe should be brought into requisition to clean out the spaces along the fence. It it useless to save seed from large, first-claes melons if more varieties than one are growing on the came location, aa no reliability can be placed on such seed mxt season. Net only will varieties of aterriielcns mix. but it Is unsafe to grow tbem in the 1 n'.qhborhood of pumpkins. Corn of dißerf ' t varieties will elao mix, even when tep-nied at great distances. rrof. E. W. S vart says that one ounce or less of oil ) al to a gallon of warm eweetwhey w 11 make it nearly equal in feeding value tu whole milk for raising o'. a calf to three weeks old, and after that another quarter of an ounce may be safely added. The oil meal should be dissolved in hot whey before mixing with that of the rijht temperature to feed. An inquirer asks how to destroy the Canada thistle. As stated previously, they must be kept down as fast as they appear. By preventing growth of leaves (the lungs of plants) they will be smothered. It is a persistent plant, and two or three seasons may be required to eradicate it, but if the young shouts are destroyed as soon as they appeals the plant cannot live. The old strawberry beds produce fruit a little earlier than do the plants of the first year's growth. The old beds will require hand-weeding In the rows if the grass and weeds are to be removed. If this be not done, the seeds of weeds will be left to grow the next season. Cultivate between tbe rows well and train the runners In close to the rows if a thick bed of plants be desired. Sheep that arficcnstomed to a shed will run to it of their own accord when it rains, end it is well that they should, says a writer. Water never yet did a sheep good, externally administered. No sheep is better for a wetting.but rather worse, no matter what tbe time of year. The wool in a man's coat is injured by rain, and so, only to a Ices degree, perhaps, is the living fibre on tbe sheep's back. Wire grass Is a pe3t that proves very troublesome, as every joint produces a new plant. If it overruns a field the surest mode cf killing it is to keep the ground well shaded with tome thickly-growing crop, euch as millet, buckwheat or peas. Wire grass delights In plenty of sunlight. If it becomes thickly rooted the erouni should be ploughed and harrowed, and a ehading crop put on as soon after aa possible. Do not attempt to use kerosene and water together, aa the two liquids will not mix. Hence some plants may be sprayed with pure kerosene, and others with the water. If the kerosene be first mixed with milk or strong soapsuds, and water then added, an rmulsion may be obtained that will be well mixed. Many plants are often killed by impioper modes of making the emuhion, and too much care in regard to the use of kerosene cannot be taken. The proof is within easy reach that three acres, two acres, and even one acre of good land can be made to grow all the grain and for ape any cow can eat in 305 day 3. and her ekiui milk or whey will pay for all the foreign substance she needs to balance the ration that the land produces. The one, two or three acres will be required according to tbe present condition of the farm, snd the degree of intelligecce and energy theie is iu the man or woman at tbe helm. Raie Better Ilorser. American Agriculturalist Fashion has brought about many charges in horse breeding among American farmer?, and no race has set the style more forcibly cr to larger purpose than the American trotting norse. lne American trotter is a horse capable of every service; there is, in almost literal truth, no limit to the speed in which he can trot one mile, and his capacity of end arance, whereof such contests ara most exacting proof is accepted as a fact in the minds of all observant men, while his patieDt temper, and good size, combined with the extraordinary muccularity with which true systems ot breeding nave endowed him render him an exceedingly valuable animal for any work of labyr and routine. Tbe farmer who is looking forward to improvement in in his stock, must be careful in making selection of his breeding animals, and, herein, it is of the utmost importance that the sire chosen be an available, valuable, and in every respect, a choice animal, possessing individuality and ancestrally the best qualities which the offspring is desired to possess. Bird Helpers. Mrs. Mary Treat, the well-known ento mologist, writes in the American Agricult mist for October, prefatory to her enlarged volume on Injurious Insects of the Farm atd Garden: I wish to add my testimony in a few words, by way of preface, in favor of tbe varicus birds that visit our gardens and or chard s, In the capacity of helpers, as they feed upon some of tbe most noxious Insects which we have to contend with. Fixstand foremost among these helpers is the Durnle martin. It is tbe general im pression that this bird takes insects only b a At, t . a A T on the wine, out u uoes more man wis. j saw numbers of them this past summer taking the rose-buga from the grapevines. They swooped down and picked them oil Without ElJgQUDg. iUKf cirtiBU aruuiia iu companies, back again to the same vine, each one snatching off a bng as it passed. And not only the rose-bug falls a victim to its appetite, bnt it even stoops to take the Colorado potato-beetle. This has been seen by others in our town, as well as by myself. Put en boxes for the martins, and see that the English sparrow does not get noRsession. The oriole Is another great helper. It knows how to pul! the bag-worm from Its case, and does It sv 6matlcaliy ana rapia lv. The tent-caterplllar and fall web-worm it also has a liking for: it ruthlessly tears the tents ard webs to pieces and destroys ntitold ncmbers. Allow no gunner to shoot one of these beautiful, gaily dressed birds on ycur premlsrs not even if the lidy cf bis choice is pining xor a axeieion to tip ich on her hat. For several years past the leaves of our elm tree hvs been ruined by the elm-r-retie. Lst year I noticed the cedar bird devouring: the beetles and larr. Jhla

year our elms are comparatively free from the rests. They hunt over the trees in Email flocks. They also destroy many other in jurious creatures. This bird likes ehernes. liaise enough for them as well as for yourselves, and they will pay you back with Interest. The catbird and red-eyed vireo both eat the unsavory pear-slug. But it Is not necessary to mention the good services rendered by our more common birds, sush as the robin, brown thrush, catbird, bluebird and wren, as all observing horticulturists are aware of the good they do. Oar winter birds are also doing good work. The seedeating ones pick up great quantitiee of the seeds of noxious weeds, while onr woodpeckers, jays and chickadees are constantly on the lookout for hibernating insects. Spare and encourage the birds, both winter and summer, about your home grounds and fields.

Forest Tree Seeds. Many of those who attempt to raise forest trees from the seed meet with disappointment, from not preserving the seeds properly, or from not knowing that some trees ripen their seeds in spring or early summer, and that these mut be sown as Boon as ripe. Success in raising forest trees from seeds depends upon having tbe seeds properly preserved during the winter. They must not be allowed to get too dry, nor must the moisture and temperature bs such that germination will be commenced before they are sawn, nor should they be exposed to Buch a low itUierature that the vitality of tüft embryo will ba impaired. When in doubt tow to best preserve a tree seed, mix it with ebout twice its bolk of damn sandrot wet eand, but good sharp sand, juit as it is dng out of a bank:. The seed thus relied with eand should be placed whera it mill beat an even temperature of a few degrees above freezing, and where m'cj or other vermin may not get at it Nnls of the bard-shelled kind, especially, snould not be allowed to get dry; tbe hickories, walnut end huMernuts sooold te placed in beats of a few bushels, and carefully covered with sods from an old pasture, and the turt covered with several inchej of earth. It turf is not readily procured, cover the heap with straw, and plaos on this several inches of soil. These heaps must be la a dry place, where water will not accumulate, and iu one where vermin will not disturb '.them. Chestnuts, which are apt to get too dry, may be preserved in s&eu, as mentioned aDove. Clover as a Honey Plant Terry County (Mo.) Bun. The white clover that grows and blooms naturally all over the country hereabout furnishes a hne pasture for noney bees. It is one of the best honey -producing plants we have. Combs built while the bees are gathering honey from white clover is of a clear, creamy yellow. The honey also has a yellow tinge, and is very rich and sweet. Bed clover also furnishes a great deal of honey, but the petals are so long that the honey bee cannot reach it; however, the Italians sometimes gather heney from the Becond coop, as the blooms are smaller and petals shorter than those of the first. The red clover furnishes a fine pasture for bumDie-Dees. The Alsike is a cross between the white and the red clover, and while it furnishes fully as much honey as the red the petals are bo short that the bees hnd no difficulty in reaching it. if you imagine a large bead of white clover with the extremities of tbe petal tipped with pink you will have a very good idea of the Alsike. It is a beautiful sight to eee a field of Alsike in full bloom and the busy Italians from thirty hives working on it ; and there is also a handsome proht in It when a man can extract from ten to fifteen gallons of honey per day and really hnd sale for it at $1.40 per gallon. We have seeded hve acres of our land in Alsike, and are now busy sowing American silver hull buckwheat. We intend to make a chicken and bee pasture of our forty-sere farm. It is important to distinguish in plants the difference between what may be termed the vegetative and reproductive stages in plants, says ilr. Thomas iieehan. If a branch on an unfruitful tree be "ringed," or in some other way injured, that branch is at once brought to the fruitbearing or reproductive condition. S far there is an antagonism between the vegeta tive and reproductive Btages. Vhen the reproductive stage is reached there Is another subdivision. The part to which nu trition mcst ireely flows produces chiefly female flowers, while the part to which nu trition nows less freely yields chieny male flowers. Any one can see this who exam ines a larch, a spruce or a pine. A successful lurfcey-raiser gives us the following most excellent plan for raising turkeys: In tbe hrst place give two grains of black pepper when first taken oft the nest, then feed them on cus'ard made of eggs and milk (no sugar) until about two wees a old. After this give them e? cornbread soaked in milk, alternated with scalded clabber, 'pouring off the whey. TLey will soon learn to pick up grains of wheat. I put ashes in tbe pen for them to dust in, and it is amusing to see them throw the ashes all over their bodies while they are awaiting for the dew to go off the grass eo they can start on a foragiag expedition. I also furnish them lime to pick, and plenty of fresh water and milk to drink. A correspondent desires information re garding the destruction of the first blossoms on tomato vines, and wishes to know if it will improve the yield. The tomato is a plsnt tbat contains blossoms, green fruit and ripe iruit at tne same time, ana continues to blossom nntil frost. It is not ad visable to pull off the early blossoms, but the vines may be pruned of surplus branches and staked to prevent falling on the ground. The earliest fruit is when the plants grow on warm soil that is not too rich. Liberal manuring conduces to growth of vine Pinching off the extra blossoms and shoots will cause larger trait, but will not increase the yield in number. Cutting. Tid-BlU. Mrs. Haseltine and her dearest friend have had a tilT, and the air is getting a little lurid. "No matter what you say as to my perEonal appearance, good judges often speak of my startling resemDiance 10 marie a.ntnlnette: bo there!" "Yes, you do resemble her wonderfully; that is, at the somewhat late period of her I can't say life when she lost her heal." History Eepeating Itself, f Norwich Bulletin.! The popularity of the Joggernsut festiVai at urissa, inula, is lapmiy utuHuiujs, tint thu nriARtinn of the in? or not will ccme npas nsoal at the Connecticat elec tions next montn. Tbe Carlisle Contest Setttet. IChambersburg, Fa., Valley Bplrit (Dem.) . Don't worry, anxious Republicans, about Mr. Carlisle not getting into Congress, lie was elected ana win ne eeaieu. That is the Qaettlon, From the Omaha Herald. ThM ( i acq real fntareat in the Question' as to who wrote Shakespeare's plays than IU me one aa to wno anau aci meiu. Down With the Internal Kerenue ! Rochester Democrat. Down with the internal revenue as the only aafe and practical measure for the.reductionot the surplus: Where Their Memories Are Strong. Boston Jouraal of Education. Some women'" memr' ar tronet . I . J .IV.. Mm Mit. 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