Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1889 — Page 5

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL... WEDNESDAY. MAY 8. 1889.

ABOUT COVERING THE CORN

OTHER INTERESTING FARM TOPICS. T.rmln On Sheep Seed -Corn Self-Bleaching; Celery Cabbage After Knrly Pot. toePlntft Seed-Corn Seven Good Keclpea Farm otea, fctc. When the pround '3 dry, corn requires a Leavier and firmer covering, says the America AjriculturUt. It is sometimes said that the later the planting the heavier and firmer should be the covering; but this is true only so iar as it holds good that the later in the season the drier the ground. Sometimes the ground contains more moisture in May than in April; then the May covering 'should be the lighter and looser. Generally, however, toward the close of the planting season the ground has lopt so much moisture thr.t not only should the covering be heavy, but it may well be compacted by a stroke with the hoe or even by tramping upon it. If the planting is done with a twohorpe planter, the runners are properly set to go deeper, and the firmintr action of the wheels is not disturbed. In fact, if the ground is unusually dry, it is advisable to go over the field with a heavy roller two days after the corn is planted. Germination lias not yet reached the Btapo w here the displacement of the earth by the roller w ill prove injurious to the corn, while this displacement will kill myriads of weeds that have just started near the surface. If used early enough, a roller is a good weed-destroyer. If, on the other hand, the gronud is damp, as it is most likely to be early in the peason. less covering is required, and the covering should not bo compacted with the hoe or foot. It the planting is done with a two-horse planter, the harrow should follow close after, to loo?en the covering compacted by the wheels. The amount and density of the covering should also be modified by the character of the soil. A light, loose toil therefore one that dries out rapidly may well be compacted aove the seed when a heavy, clayey soil should be kept loose; and the covering of the former should be heavier than the latter. The general principle is that the covering should be punieient to keep moisture about the seed, but not of a character to retain an excess of moisture or to shut out the warmth of the sun; and the shallowest covering that will secure the essential conditions of germination is the !est. Cabbage After I-arlv Potator. American Agriculturist. 1 To get a good crop of cabbage after early potatoes, it is only necessary to have good ptrong healthy plants to commence with. To obtain such, sow the seed in drills, not less than one foot apart, and thinly in the row, the last week of May or the first week in June. One ounce of seed will produce 2,000 plants, and if properly cultivated on good Hil will produce the best plants in thirty days orbyJulv first. After disging, the potato patch should be freshly plowed, and the soil thoroughly pulverized. My plan is then to open furrows four feet apart and apply COO pounds of pome zood fertilizer per acre in these rows, covering with a corn coverer, and set the plants three feet apart on these ridges. Cover them deeplv. even if the leaves are partly covered, should the soil be dry or a dry spell be likely to follow, tramp around each plant after ?ettitr. It is best to lift the plants itb a digging fork rather than pull them from the seed bed, especially if at all dry. Iat year I sowed both flat 1'utch cabbage and cauliflower peed on June 1, had tine plants to set out June .) and had both cabbacre and cauliflower ready for market Sept. 13. Seiertins Soel-Corn. In selecting seed-corn, be careful to reject grains the outside shell or pulp-sac of which is broken, for the germinating power of such Peed is impaired. Ileject also alo all i!I-shapen kernels. Most farmers reject the tip and butt kernels, but it is pretty well demonstrated that this is no improvement. If the ears are quite fully developed and well filled out, it is claimed with considerable truth that to discard the butt and tip grains has a tendencv to shorten the ears. In hih northern latitudes, however, where the dent varieties are mostly grown, the tip seeds are usually discarded because of an alleged tendency to degenerate into the flint variety. Test all seed-corn thoroughly by fprouting in damp cotton or in a box of earth in the house; at leat ninety out of every 100 kernels should grow, and many farmers are diss?tisfied unless 0-3 to OS per cent, germinate. eir-Blarjr hing Celery. The new golden pelf-blanchiug celery and the white plume are by many persons regarded as identical, but this is a mistake. The white plume is a stort from Crawford's half-dwarf, and like many other sporting characters it apjieared in several places the same season. The jrolden self-blanching ia a sport from the Fandringham, and appeared in two or more places the same season. The difference between the two is as marked as is that of the parents. The Sandringham being the richest in flavor, has imparted that quality to the "sport," which makes the golden self-blanching the better of the two. While both are good and very beautiful, neither is as good without earthing up as with it. For tenderness and flavor eartLing is a necessity. The Young thick. It is very easy to overfeed a brood of young chicks. This produces various diseasesdysentery, which destroys to many; paralysis, which prevents the use of the limbs and causes the chicks to flutter about helplessly and perish ; apoplexy, which causes them to fall oyer and die suddenly, and others which kill off fully one-half of thern. A chick, or a younjr turkey, or duck, requires food a little and often; a tablespoonful is enough for a dozen of them, and the food should be piven six times a day. riant, in Tin Cam. Not long sinco we called on a farmer whose wife was passionately fond of flowers and had the finest geraniums we ever Kaw outside of a greenhouse. When asked the serret of her success she replied: "It is because I grow my plants in tin cans, and in these they do not dry up as they do in porous pots; in the tins I only water two or three times a week, while in iots they niu.-t be watered twice a day, and no plant will thrive if under -atcr half the time." Termin On Sheep. A subscriber inquires for protection against lice and other vermin that afflict his sheep. We know of nothing better than fcnuff or very fine tobacco. Dipping nheep is cruel and should never le practiced except when other modes fail. Some farmers may ditler with us, perhaps, in regard to dipping, but the best authorities oppose it. Foar flood Keelpea. Pot r.oat Put a thick piece of beef, with a irtle hone and fat, an onion, and. if liked, a llieed carrot, over the lire in a pot; jjiist cover with boilingr water. Put on a tiicht lid and boil trendy for fonr hours, replenishing the water a. It boils away wh't lust enough to keep the meat from burninz, o that there will be b&rdly any water left; wbea it U tender tura occasionally.

ard let it brown in its fat when done. Take the meat ont of the pot and make a gravy with the drippings; pour over the meat and serve. Orange Custard Peel and slice six oranges; Jnt them in a deep glass dish, with alternate ayer of sugar, and let stand for two hours. With one pint of milk and the yelke of tiiree etrgs make a soft-boiled custard; weeten and flavor with prated o ran ere peel. YVL..M1 it has cooled a little pour the custard over the oranges. Serve cold with a meringue made of the whites of the e(f?s. Sweetbread Pattiei Wash one pair of sweetbreads, throw them into boiling water and immer gently twenty minutes, then thro- then) into old water to blanch and cool. When cool pick them into email pieces, rejecting all the line membrane. Chop line a half can of mushrooms. Put a lartre tablespoonful of butter in a saucepan to um-It without brownincr, add an even tatih-gpoonful of Hour, mix until smooth, add a half pint of cream, stir continually until it boil, add a half tcaspoomul of Kalt, a dash of white pepper, the mushroom and sweetbread mix and stand over boilinz water for live ruinate. Serve ia paper cases, silver shells or in puff-paste vaaes. Cream Sponye Cake A very nice and simple cream sponge may be made" after the following: 5?erarate four egx add to the yelks a cup of powdered suirsr, and beat until very, very liht; then add the well-beaten whites, and mix in caiefulJy one cup of lightly -sighted tlour and a level teaspoonful of bakinir powder; turn into a greased, shallow hukiner-pan and bake in a moderately quick oven. While the cake is baking put a half pint of milk in a farina boiler. Moisten a tableaponnful of corn starch in a little cold milk, add it to the boiling milk. Heat the yelks of three ecs with two table spoonfuls of sii:ar until lit;ht, add them to the milk, cook a moment, take from the fire and add the grated riud of an orange. As "oon ai the cake is done turn it carefully from the pan anl let it stand until botli it and the tilling are cold: then pread the fiiline carefully over the whole cake, cut the cake in halves and fold the bottom together, thus having two layer of cake with a thick layer of tilling between. Cover the top with orange icinsr. Tut one cup of itowdercd sugar in a bowl, add the crated yellow rind of an orange, mix thoroughly with the uj;ar, and then add ufticient orne juice to thoroughly moisten. Spread this on the top and stand away to harden.

Farm Notes. It improves bran to f-cald it before feeding it to stock. Feed no corn to stock at the beginnin; of warm weather. It will not pay. The weak pis of a litter may need nursing and food if tha tow has too many of them to nur. Give the sow and piv ome of the early rye as a chancre of diet. Chop it line, and feed sparingly at lint The ca!f cn he easily taught to drink from a pail by using a nipple, and will cause but little difficulty in man teraent. All material for building should be kept tinder cover. Hoards absorb moisture, and swell or shrink according to circumstance. Pure fresh water for stock must be the first essentiid from now on. lrinkin? from mud puddles and other filthy places will cauäe disease. Grade up all approaches to the barn and outhouse if you wish to avoid flush. Open all ditches and af;ord easy opportunity for tue surface water to flow off. Chestnut rails make the best and most lasting fence of wood, but wire is cheaper and more easily made into a fence. No animal will attempt to pass a barbed-wire fence. Thin spot in the pasture may be seeded. Use plenty of seed, rake the ground over, if it can be done, in order to cover the seed, and do not turn stock on until the grass has covered the bare places. As the warm weather approaches vermin will begin to multiply. Xo kind of stock is free from lice, and especially if in poor condition. If herded too closely, or not riven an opportunity of wallow ing in dry dirt, lice will attack the stor k. Ueddings for sows and pigs should never be made of course material. Leaves are best, but if they cannot ! had use cut straw or any other tine material. l'nles the pigs can have an opportunity to move about without difficulty the sow may crush them. I'se the dry food libendly now, as grass will soon be ready. Cut it fine and make it as palatable a possible. Nearly all kinds of dry food will be relihed if cut aod scalded, and a rcall quantity of suit sprinkled in it. A handful of linseed meal, occasionally added, will improve the iiiality of the- weis. Muslin frames for protecting yonrg plants can be made at very little cost. A few melon plants, if protected at night with su h coverings, cun be made to grow before the reason becomes warm. Tomatoes and other plants may be protected in the same way. Muslin will not last as long as glas, but it is much cheaper. The hog can be made to attain a very 'urge size. A Vermont farmer killed a cow, eight years old. that Ircssed 77 pounds, but a bog, only two years old, owned by another Vermont farmer, dressed pounds. Large hogs, however, are only desirable for producing lard. The best prk conies from hogs that wc-teh about I V) pounds dressed. He careful in handling the working stock when the busy season opens. Galls, sores, lameness and other difficulties will result if the animals bave been kept too closely confined and giveu but little exercise. Wheu the horsts begin work for the season they should be evamined every day in order to avoid chafing from the collars or harness. The early plants and grasses largely abound in water, and contain but a small proportion of nutrition. They assist in regulating the system, and promote better digestion of the dry food. All changes from dry to green food should be made gradually, in order to avoid bowel trouble. Cows that provide milk for infants should be fed very carefully at this season. The eilo enables the fanners of the Last to compete with the West in raining corn. Hy feeding the corn ensilage to stock it is converted into beef, butter, milk and other products. We have the advantage of markets, and should convert unsalable products into something tlict is salable. P.y the use of the silo corn fodder can be stored away until a more favorable season. Good butter sometimes sells for $1 a pound, but it is given by a class ot customers who know from whom they buy, how the butler is made and who have tested the quality. The most important essential is cleanliness. The dairyman who curries and bruhes his cows, washes the teats and udder before milking, and provides clean beds for his cows, gets Ids pay in the price obtained for bis butter. The best way to keep down thistles is to cut them off as fast fu they appear above gronnd. No plant can endure such treatment, and the thistle is no exception. They will in time become exhausted and die. The work must be done at the proper time, how ever, and must not be neglected, as a single plant, if allowed to grow, will canse extra work. The thistle must never be allowed to mature seed, and if the tops are kept down the roots will be given extra duty and luil to spread. Persistent warfare, however, is necessary. Hanging Woman In Australia. Sydney Bulletin. The execution of Louisa Collins for the murder of her husband took place at Darlington frison. New South Wales, on the Mh ult. Colins was found guilty of having poisoned her husband, whose life was insured. Two women warders walked alongside the culprit as the procession went to the scaffold, but Collins appeared to be the left t a!:eeted of the three. The cap was placed over her head and not being right she raised her arm and adjusted it. The rope was then placed around the neck and the executioner signalled to bis aisfstant to pull the lever. This he did, but the drop would not act. The pin which held the lever was fast in the slot The assistant pulled but could not move the pin. All this time the unhappy woman was standing on the trap expecting every iustant to be launched into eternity. Finally it was necessary to obtain a mallet and give four or five blows to the pin before the lever could be worked, when the culprit received a drop of live feet. To the horroe of the spectators a stream of blood was seen to appear on the white cap and run down the dress of the culprit. A further examination showed that the windpipe had been severed and that the body wu practically hanging by the vertebra. Death, however, was thought to have been instantaneous. William Robert, M. I F. R. C. P.: Trer.ancy is a fruittul cause of ISright'a diitease. The relative proportion of cases between the ages of twenty and forty-five is eighty women to every Vß) men, while after this period the mortahtv falls to fifty-nine women to every 100 men." 'oineu during pregnancy are especially liable to contract kidney disease, which if neglected will terminate in Bright's disease. Keep the kidneys active and maintain a healthy flow of urine by the frequent uso of Warner's 8afe Cure during the period of pregnancy. It will keep the kidneys healthy and active.

DUDLEY AND BROTHER BEX

THAT LETTER TO "DEAR OLD SAM." The Relations of the Inventor ot the Blocks of Fie" System of Hribery to the Trestdent of the United States Comments of th Newspapers. The publication of CoL Dudley's letter to 'Dear Old Sam" of Anderson, Ind.. in which "Brother Ben'" ingratitude to the man who had done more for him in the last twenty years than any other person had. Las provoked a good deal of interest throughout the country. The newspapers discuss the matter freely. The general tenor of press comment is illustrated by the followinjj extracts from representative newspapers: 5. Y. Time. The interesting information given in our news columns about the relations of the president with our old friend Col. Ihtdley, sometime commissioner of pensions, and author of the tactics for floaters, in which the unit of formation is a block of five, suggests that the cob onel bad some ground for his libel suits. In that form of au action for libel which is know n to books as "per quod aininit," lie would bave a tangible grievance against everybody who printed his celebra'ed letter if only he hod written it. For thai the publication has inflicted loss and damage upon him no man can question who takes note uf his "bitter cry" to "dear old Sam," ei'.her in the version which he disclaims or in that which he furnishes. Jt would he quite absurd to suppose thnt he has lost influence with thia administration because he organized a scheme for bribing corrupt voters. What else was Quay doing throughout the campaign, aud for what other service was he allowed to name a cabinet officer in the person of a liberal patriot who collected money for this purpose? Quay, however, was wise and fortunate enough to rid himself of all compromising letters and accounts in the fainouä conflagration of his papers with which he concluded the campaign. It is the peculiar misfortune of Dudley that be has violated the eleventh cominandmeut and been found out It is lor this that, as be pathetically puts if, he does not "tak dinner at the white house.'' It is to be remarked, however, that gentlemen who do dirty work in polities are very apt to be disowned by their beneficiaries. : Still, it is very interesting, though also rather pu-zliug, to conshJer the principle of discrimination involved in the withdrawal ot i.ivor from Dudley. The French duelist who fought his tailor and declined to fight his cook, remarked that one must draw the line somew here, and that he drew it at cooks. Among the appointments already announced a-e thobe of some of the most disreputable politi ians in the United States. The exclusion of Dudley can certainly not be described s str.iining at a gnat, but it is plain that camels as large and unwieldly and double-humped as himself have been swallowed by the president w ithout any visible qualms. Thanks to the judicial promptness and versatility of Judge Woods, Dudley has not even been indicted, but has left court without a stain on his character, and holds his head as high as ever in the vestrv meetings which he adorns. It would be enlightening, and might be useful to other ofiiee-seekers, if the president would publish a brief statement of the principles by which he is guided in drawing the line at Dudley. Louisville IVst.1 It may be possible that Col. Dudley has told the truth and that the first version of his letter i a forgery. It is immaterial whether he calls Harrison a coward in a private letter or whether he doesn't. He thinks of him as a coward just the same, and he doesn't hesitate to dub him as au iugrate when talkirg to his intimate friends. And Col. Dudley is right, too. No one conversant with the features of the last campaign can fail to recognize the debt of gratitude which Benjamin Harrison and the republican party owe to Col. Dudley. It was through the votes of Indiana and New York that Mr. Harrison ws elected president, and these two states went republican chiefly because of the votes that were bought. In all of this business Dudley acted as purchasing agent. He distributed the boodle to his agents aad he instructed them bow to go about buying the votes-. He dragged his name into the mire of corruption and practically ni;ide a criminal of himself in order that he might pull Ben Harrison into the white house. Under this state of the case is it any wonder that Col. Dudley feels keeuly the ingratitude of the man he debased himself to elect He would not be human if he feit otherwise. The scornful snobbish airs of the rhurinee in the white house must be particularly offensive to the man who earned the contempt of the whole country to elect him to his office. Whether Dudlev declarel the president was a "coward," or whether he did not, he believes him to be one, aud a great many people who do not admire Dudley join in the belief. Hartford Times. This epistle is full of suggestiven.. By Col. Dudley's own coufession the president ha repudiated him. Is this to be accepted as a repudiation of his methods, and as authenticating the celebrated campaign letter? The same confidential communication assures the waiting Simuel that two months hence a more liberal office-giving spirit will pervade the white hone and the departments. Does this mean that the president's conservative policy is to be overthrown, and that he is to yield 6uch independence and individuality as he has shown? One of the distinguishing features of American politics is that whether it be "the boys," the w ard politicians, the boodlers, or any other group higher up in the catalogue, who go wrong, one scapegoat is selected upon whom the burden of all the sins is placed. This distinguished office seems to be allotted to Col. Dudley, and no one can measure the extent of his vicarious suffering. It is pleasant, however, to see a man under such circumstances as those surrounding the colonel, still hopeful for himself and friends: for he tells his "Dear old Sam" that the statute of limitation imposed by virtue, prudence and policy will run out in two months. "There will be just as good chances two raontln hence." Charleston Newg and Courier. The current explanation of the president's conduct is that lie is an honest man, and, as such, cannot condone the "methods" of his late lieutenant. This is well enough, aud is highly creditable to the president's rectitude, but why should he repudiate Dudley alone? The Dudley methods were not confined to Dudley's practice, by any means. He only carried out the plan of the republican national committee. He was selected as the agent of that committee because lie was Dudley, and because they knew his methods and approved and accepted them; and he whs only one of many such agents. lie was neither more nor less guilty of corrupt election practices last year than were scores of other eminent rcpub licans who could be named, some of whom are in high favor with the president, and not a few of whom hold high places in his administration. The men, for instance, who fried the "fat" out of the manufacturers and applied it to the wheels of the republican machine have not been repudiated. N. Y. World. But there is nothing strange in this, nor in the strained relations sail to exist between the f resident and the other instrument who "made larrisoti's election possible" the redoubtable Matthew Quay. Men who have risen to power by questionable means bave ever been prone to kick away the ladder by which they climbed. In the old times kins got rid of their superserviceable tools by having them beheaded. In latter times they ignore and make scapegoats of them. Dorsey was banqueted snd praised for saving Indiana by the use of "soap and tracts" in the notorious corrupt campaign of 10. But the unco good Garfield, and even the chivalrous Arthur, had no uue for Dorsey afterward. President Harrison thinks more of his reputation than of his obligations. He may give Dudley the cold shoulder and shake Quay, but he will hold on to all the proceeds of their roguery. Wash. Cor. Courier Journal. The snub to Dudley shows the ingratitude of Harrison. Dudley has been his friend through thick and thin for a quarter of a century. It is absurd to suppose that Dudley or any member of the national republican committee played a card, concocted a scheme, or deviled a plan to rntch a vote in Indiana last fall that Benjamin Harrison was not fully advised about. I assert without tha fear of successful contradiction that Cicn. Harrison knew about the celebrated "blocks-of-five" Dudley letter before it was publicly exposed. Had the notorious letter escaped public exposure, Dudley today would be the most influential republican in Waiihicgtou. Tut very day that tkut kttci-

was made public. Dudley received from Harrison a warm, cordial, affectionate aud eulogistic letter on his admirable management ot the campaign. lt. LonU lU-public.'i Dudley is no more responsible, perhaps, for the frauds in Indiana than Quay or Clarkson, who co-operated with him in carrying them out, but he alone was detected. He eiposed himself and the frauds in a letter over his ow n signature; and though the frauds were consummated; though through them Indiana was carried for Harrison, he, us president, would be guilty of the grossest indecency in rewarding a man who not only gave him his seat by fraud, but did it in such a wsy as to put the btigma of fraud upon it. In a word, Dudley was caught. So also was Blaine, whom Harrison at once made secretary of state, but he could no more avoid doing this than be could avoid appointing Windom. Wanamaker. Proctor and Clarkson. It was necessary, however, todraw theline somewhere, und the inference from Dudley's latest letter that he has drawn it at Dudley is extremely gratifying to that by no means inconsiderable class of people w ho believe that the president of the United States should have a seuse of decency. Cleveland PIsindnsler. Col. Dudley laments to an old comrade that because of his little performances in Harrison's behalf in Indiana ''Brother Ben doesn't seem to feel that he can aflord to recognize me as an acquaintance," and consequently Dudiey in't able to do much in the way of oflice for his old comrade. But if "Brother Itcn" cuts the colonel socially he has doue him good service, through Judge Woods and the II. S. district attorney in Indiana, in keeping him out of the clutches of the law. Would Jndge Woods havo stultified himself by reversing his own instructions to the grand jury if it had not been out of the consideration lor the services rendered "Brother Ben" by Dudley, which services the grand jury evidently considered to be dead against the law under the judge's first instructions? Dudley should not be hard on "Brother Ben." lie probably thinks matters are even now. Brooklyn F.a?le. Col. Dudley's letter to Mr. Van Belt of Anderson, lud. "Dear Old Sum," as he calls him was an exceedingly touching letter. Jt could not bave been written by a very bold, bad man. That it melted Sam's heart there can be no doubt, unless he has a heart that is impervious to pathos. But the question of interest is: What effect has it had on "Brother Ben's" heart? The sweet, sad repro3chfulness of his reference to the president as "Brother Ben" was as good at least ns a cupful of tears, is there any feeling tugging away in (Jen. Harrison's bosom thai wasn't tngging there before he read that letter? And if there is Mich a feeling, what is the character of it, and whateffeci would it have if "Dear Old Sam's" case should be laid before the president "two months hence, when the chances will be ju-t as good and a little better as they are now?"

THE SCHOOL BOOK LAW. Bids Coming In Action of the Marlon County Hoard. From the Pailr of Ma'v 2.) The county Ward of education met yesterday in annual session, but on account of the delay of the state board of education in the matter of the new school-book law it adjourned to meet again upon the first Monday of Juue, by which time it is expected that the state board" will have decided upon some plan of action. The fact was developed yesterday in the discussion upon the matter that all the trustees composing the board had been favored with circulars by Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. of Cincinnati, but judging from the remarks dropped by the recipients the Cincinnati b use is not likely to succeed in its schemes w th the Marion county board. If it hud a representative at yesterday's meeting he did not make his presence known. Although the time of a number of the books used in the county schools is now out, th board determined not to take any final action in regard to their renewal until the June meeting. The new law seemed to meet with favor in the eyes of the majority of the trustees. SupL Ulick is now engaged in arranging for the enumeration of school children, which is coming in, nd will be completed in a few days. The reports thus far received show a decided falling oil in the out townships, but considerable train in Center township and the suburbs. In Wet Indianapolis especiaJy there has been great increase, the enrollment this year being "), whereas last year it was only -12.". Two new schools bouses of four rooms each are to be erected there, tiains are observable along the gas belt, where mains p.re being laid and workmen employed in so doing. The lecreasj in the out townships is attributed by Mr. Flick to the advent of improved farming machinery and the consequent falling oil in the number of farm hand. Many of the tenement houses in this district are now empty. The great interest that is taken in tiie new school-book law is show u by the manner in which the state superintendent' ollice is flooded with inquiries concerning it. The inquiries come by the hundred. Atty.-Gcn. Miehener has decided that the school-book commissioners may demand bond of th contractors for the faithful performance of their contracts. Among the seekers for information are twenty-five prospective bidders on tho contract for supplying books to the Indiana schools. It will be remembered that during the. time the schoolbook question wa before the If gisdature the representatives of the trust were vociferous in their assertions that no I ids won'd be received. Like a good many other statements of the lobbyists this has proven false. 31illr Will ncreed Matthews. Washington Special. It is the opinion of men whose opinion is worth having, however, that the most dangerous candidate for the place ia the man who is not a candidate, and in this category they mention the name of Atty.-Gen. Miller. The attachment which exists between the president and his law partner is very strong, and ther are many who think the attorney-general ere long will hand in his portfolio and take a life position on the supreme court bench. A Shameless Exhibition. fX. Y. Weekly.l Great Journalist (in dime museum) "What is that man remarkable for?" Manager "He is the editor who never claimed that the circulation of his paper was constantly increasing." Great Journalist "Poor fellow! It would be a mercy to confine him in an asylum at once, instead of standing him up there to be stared at." Declared n Dividend. CHICAGO, May 1. There was a meeting of the Irish-Catholic colonization association of the United States at the Grand Pacific hotel to-day. Bishop Spalding of Peoria, Bishop O'Connor of Omsha. Gen. Lawler of Wisconsin, the Ilev. J. J. Kiorden, W. I. Bend, Michael Cudahy and W. J. Onaban of Chicago were selected as directors. A dividend of 0 per cent, was declared on the stock of the association. Horrible. Clother and Furnisher. First Dude "Bah jove. old boy, ye know, I got a terrible shock yesterday." Second Dude "How did it happen, old boy?" First Dude ' i e see, some of the varnish rubbed off" my stick, ye know, and I was netually obliged to touch the bare wood with my hands. Horrible, wasn't it?" 4 Will Now Leave the Town. Cl.RVELAXn, O., Slay 1. White Caps demolished the saloou of John Messmore at Hawson, Hancock county, last night. This is the second time Mcssmore hss been visited, his saloon having been wrecked about two months ago. He had been w arned not to resume business at Bawson, but paid no attention to the warning. He has now decided to leave the place. Nominated For Congress. Siiawneetown, 111, May 1. The democratic convention for the Nineteenth congressional district was held here to-day. Judge J. iL. Williams of White county was nominated on' the second ballot. The election takes place May 21, and is occasioned by the death of Congressmen Townshend. Oratorical Content. Des Moines, Ia., May 3. At the sixteenth annual contest of the Interstate oratorical association, at Grinnell last evening, F. H. Hughes of the Wesleyan university, Delaware, ., was awarded first pnze; Blarsdell of the Btloit (Wis.) collece second: Wickertharn of ! Del'auw third.

HOUSE CLEANING.

Same Practical ami Timely Observations t pon as lUicomfonabt Subject. Theoretically, the process of taking 'the domestio machinery out by the roots, shaking off the dirt and replanting it is nothing much. It Las been used to point morals, and it has served the fagged story-writer as an ornament, nothing weightier for the required several thousand worded monthly story. The sanitarian will prose by the hour on the best methods of house-cleaning where to begin and what to begin with, how much lime, soap and salt to use, and bow long to keep the carpets and matting beating themselves into tatters in the sun and wind. The writers of articles for newspaper syndicates have ventilated their ideas at great length. About everybody who nevtr cleaned house has laid down the. law for it. For once, one w ho knows whereof she speaks desires to be heard. If Ca-sar conld fight his battles over again with bis pen. why may not a les ambitious person for once substitute a lead pencil for a scrubbing brush? Practically, house-cleaning is a nightmare, a cyclone, a nerve-rating, muscle-torturing, soulscufiing, tyranous institution of civilization! Ii we all lived in tenU, or even in log-cabins, house-cleaning would be immeasurably simplified. The more carpets and curtains and pictures and mirrors and plaques and chairs with plush finishings aud satin bows we bave, the more troublesome is this semiyearly crusade. And whether all these abominations are at their best and shiningest.or whether they are dim with the "bloom of time," in viw of the weariness they have caused, I cry, " Is our civiluaticn a failure? or is the Caucasian played out?" That women do the greater part of this work is a sud fact, a fact that militates against the boasted chivalry of the American man. The practice is a remnant of the old order of thingi in savage life. True, the men most usually come in to lift stoves, swear at the stove-pipes, eat their dinners, and such like heavy work, but the residue of their timef at this season, they occupy in praising the saints that they were not boni wom-jn. House-cleaning is like many other earthly things. In the distance it is rather deirttb!e. It is a sort of stopgate (whatever that is) against which to push disagreeable little pieces of work thut would so cut up tho days. How easv it i, as the cleaning season draws near, to reter dirty spots on the paint, or carpet, or curtains, a refractory window shade or a broken picture card to that time of general information. So there are many things that bave no names on the housekeeper's conscience when the tornado is in blast. Theorists will advise the managing oi the cleaning so as to leave uod'.sturbed the ordinary habits of the family. They tell us to thoroughly renovate and put iu order one room at a time, leaving the remainder of the house in its usual f-tate. This may be done when the work is carried on by the regular household force at the regular expense; but when the "extras" are employed at not less than a dollar a day and "found," it is well to economize time, even if for an evening or two the master shall miss his chair and slippers from their accustomed corner, or it Le be invited tf) dine down-tow n. Most usually, too, there are ciianges to be made with the seasons that necessitate the shaking iuto chaos of two or more rooms at the tame time. The chief thing is to have one person who possesses "the monarch mind, the mystery of commanding, the God-like power, the art Napoleon," to manage the campaign and see that no time is frittered away, but that the work goes steadily forward. There are always the niceties, the finishing touches to be given to make a room tasteful after it is clean. This, if one be not utterly worn out, is pleasant work; but. generally, the muscles are too full of aches, the fingers ton much like graters, and the months look so short till all the cleanliness will be foul again. The arranging of draperies, and the artistic shading of doors and windows, teem at such times the veriest delusion s. borne women profess to a feeling of intense comfort when surveying their well-finished work. May be they have. The difference of souls and bodies accounts for many things. For myself if to-night I received the order: Creep imo thy narrow bed. Creep, and let no rnoro lie said, I think death would be robbed of his siicg. I have done my whole duty by my honse. It is so clean my own mother would never s'iejteet me of liternry tendencies. I have been patieut with mv husband and son through it all, because they stayed down town from daylight till dark, nnd "if I should die to-night," I should never have to clean house again. Makurf.t Holmes. THE REVIEW OF TRADE. Centennial Celebrations Rave Made Past Week Nearly 1 lUank. New Yokk, May 3. II. G. Ihm & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: The unprecedented interruption ot business by centennial preparations and celebrations hea made the week nearly a blank in commercial or financial respects. At New York accumulated orders gave a surface appearance of greater activity on Thursday and Friday, but it is yet too soon to judge which way the tide will turn, and the reports from other cities, though nearly all hopeful in tone, do not indicate the expected improvement. The situation seems better at Milwaukee, satisfactory at Omaha, good at Cleveland as to most branches, but questionable as to iron, rather dull at Kansas City aud St. Paul, and less encouraging at the centers of the grain, iron, coal, and leather trades. Collections aro "far from satisfactory" at Milwaukee and not improved at Detroit, but in other lines there, and at other cities generally, they seem fainy satisfactory, aud at New York some dry goods dealers complain that collections are "too good" buyers keep so far within means. Keports about tha wool trade are contradictory. A reiort that the treasury may rot decide the woolen worsted question for months disturbs importers who have quantities of goods locked up because collectors wait for a decision. Otherwise the woolen trade shows a little better movement. Silks are quiet, but linens are quite active. A fair business in boots and shoes continues. The paper trade is active. The slow improvement continues in drugs and chemicals, llecent signs of improvement in iron and steel have not been sustained. Here and at Boston southern No. 1 pig baa been offered at Jin, and though by new compauies to introduce their products, the erlect on prices of other iron is felt. At Philadelphia, though sales are "hard to make," it is said that then) is a very remarkable feeling of confidence, but at Pittsburg prices are lower, sales of manufactured iron more difficult, and a large sale of steel rails at 2i is reported here to have been made by a Pitt' burg milL Coal is dull; the reported increase in stocks for March is oO.OOO tons, and a strike at Pittsburg is expected. Wheat goes lower yet, having aold at S2li cents; corn has declined 5i of a cent and oats I cent since laat week ; pork is unchanged, with lard and hogs a shade higher; cotlee and sugar are unchanged, but oil is 4 of a cent higher. In general, the course ot prices still tends downward, but many products of large importance are now so low that not much further decline is expected, while a quick advance might follow a revival of demand or speculative confidence. Stocks have been nf gleeted and dull, but a little stronger in price, with a disnosition to believe that the next considerable movement must he upward. The future of the market probably depends much upon the movement of money and the feeling of foreign investors, and for the moment both favor holders, but bankers look upon a considerable outgo of specie as not improbable, and the policy of Secy. Windom. as tar as it has been made known, does not seem likely to cause large disbursements before July. The only favorable feature is that merchandise exports are still large. The treasury has taken in during the week $1,S"JO,000 more than it has paid out. The business failures number 214 for the the week and lil3 for the week previous and 24J the week previous. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 234. Consumption Surely Cared. To ms Editor riease inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy kkee to any of your readers who have consumption if the4 w ill send ine their express and P. O. address. Respectfully, T. A. S1.0CVM, M. 0, 181 Pearl-sL, New York. Harry Robinson of Fort Wayne, the young son of Henry Itobinson, attempted to jump from a moving train Tuesday and was killed. The value of a reme dy should be estimated by its curative properties. According to this standard, Ayer's Sarsaparilla is the best and most economical blood medicine in the market, because the most pure and concentrated. Price SI. Worlu & a bottle.

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UHACOv'AINTED TH THE CCOOPPVV OF THC CCUTV WHX cstain hjch isfcp.MATicK ra; a bi cf thi mas cf th n GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE C, R. 1. 1 P. and C, K. & K. Ifys.) West. KorlhwMt and Southwest. It inrlnrte CHICAGO, JOLirT. PCCE I3LAND. DAVTJJroF.T, 13" -j :-Tor:i:s. cou:;ctl ri.cyjKS. wa-TT-KTCATN. 6I0C FAX.X.S. WrSNZAPOXIS. FT. PAUL. ET. JOSSPn. ATCHISON. iWOF.IH. IUVN9 43 CITY. TO?EKA, COLO&ADO 6PLLIJ;03. DENVER, PUEBLO, and bunclreds of prtpercua cit iof" an J t-nvus traversing vest area of ti,o riciiest furir.mg lasls in the west. SOLID VESTIBULE EXPRESS THÄIKS X-eaüir n!l competitors In tiientlcr and luxury of ocotnraoiniona i:.'i1v bf-twcea CHICAGO nc-i COX.02AD3 SPRINGS. ErrrVEK and PTJ-ei-rllv ra.n;i2ccnt VISTIIiLLE TR.M ervlcs Mailv) btween CHICAGO end COTTNCH. X?L,TJPT3 (OIIAIIAV and between CHICAGO and KANSAS CITY. Modorn Day Coacb. elegant DtniuT Car? (acrvir Uelicltws rccals Btccfnti pnc?f rpiifwl Keclmiii) CJiair Cars scats rXLKIJ and Fain.:- E!?p:r!ar Cm The dirwt line ä NELSON. nOHTJV. 1TUTCHTNSON. WICHITA, A3ILENE, CAT.riWT T.r. ad oU roints tn Southern ICe'-.rafli. Kaaa.is. Colorado, tte Indian Ter r'tory and Texas. Caliiorru Srcursiona daily. CLotco of routes to tno t aciiio coat. Tho Farrcus Albert Lea Route 2.uns EopsrWy equipped Express "Trains. daCr, botwooa Ciict-o, St. Josepb. Atcbi.on. Leaven, worth, nimas Ci'y, and Kinuefiryolia and BU tauL Tb popiüar tc-irist linetotcrccnicresort rod fcuatinar and Sayn? fTfur3fl cf tt e r.orUawent. Its Vntcrtown .-d Siotx Folln trrrnch tTBTrrsaa tio proit "WinSAT AIvD DAISY BELT" of ?Cortiiaml3w Southwestern MinnosotaoadCast Central Skata. Tbo Short Uns via Eacca and ITan&alte oCarw faclli;!cs to tr-.vel to and from IncL&napoiie, Cincoaati and or Sautnera points. For Tickets, trp?, Felder, ordeoirjd Inform, tion, appl7 at ony Coupon Ticket Orl.ce. oraddree E.ST. JOHN, E.A.HOLOBCOX, Knl Manager. OexJ Tki. & Pass. AfX CHICAGO. Tlx. QTATKOF INMANA, MATUOX COUNTY. SS.: In tlie S'jp rior t'ourt of Marion rmintr, in thm Mate of Ind ana. No. 3,4r.9. Ilo jiu 2. Ooui!aiot in lorec!""- ire. -tc. Lllcn V. Wri.ht Jolin II. Button anl the unknown hi'irs K 'b. rt L. Motth, dtroe!. Is it knowu tliat on ill dav of April. 193, i the aV)ve-tiaiur-l !uinlift, hv hr attnra-y, tiled in ; the otiiceof the Cl rk of the Vifo'rior Court of Marion ' toiMitv, in the Ma:o .f Indiana, her complaint ; ajsinrt the alicirt-named d"!t ndanti, and the said .;; t i i It having al.- tilM iu ssid Clerk's pftiee the jni irrit o( a competent person. ho-iri( that the : idvrices of !ai.i defendants, John li. Luttou and ; ':.e unknown heirs. Hohert L. m 1 1 h. do a-d, rw ! urknown and catiimt te appertained thouch dilivnt search and inquiry therofor has be n made. anJ that tid defendants are believed to he non-roslden'i ot the state ot Indiana, and tViit said action is to foreclose a raortve on r-al estato aud for other raw lief, and that said d frndnnH sre noevarv partie. thoreto. and. herras ni 1 plaintif having hr in. dnif iuent on caid complaint required said defendant toanr-ear in snid court and answer or dinur tLereio, on the 17th dav of Jim. lvv. Now, therefore, hy order of ald court, said defendants laM above named are htrxl-y notified of th filing and pendency of aid mmpiaint ajrainst them, and that unleis they ar--ar aui answer or demur tlierr to. at the ca 1 1 i n t; of ai caueon the 17th of Wine, lsna, the same heing the thirteenth judicial day of a term of said court, to h hesun and held at the court houe in tho City oi Imliannpo!; on tb firft Monday in June, said complaint n the matter, and thine therein contained and alleged, will be heard and de?erir.infd in their absence. JOHN K. VlliN, Cierfc. A. Seidensticker, Attorney for Plaintiff. l-3t X 'OTICE TO IIEir.S, CHKDITOR5. Ete. In th? matter of the tat, of fphia Brown, deceased. In the Marion Circuit Court. Mv term, 19. Notice is here hy piven that Crauville M. Ballard, as administrator of the estate of Sophia Brown, deceased, haa prenied and filed hia ac:onT.t and vouchers in tinal p-tthnient of paid estate, and that tie- same will come up for examination and action of sjii.l Circuit Curt on th '.'uth r!ay of My, Ins.', al which time all heirs, creditors or legale of ssid etaie are re-uire'l to ap)W'ar in aid court and show erme, if any tb"re 1. why said account and Toucheis should ti'it Ik' njrocd. And the heirs of .aid estate are also heri hy r-juired at thr lime snd p'ae aforesaid, to apiar and make proof of their heirship. 1-Zt I.KANVIUi: M. li.UA.tUIi. Admr. mjT1CK TOULir.S, CRKDIT0ÜS, tte. In the matter of tho estate of Charlc A. D. W" lit) if, deceased. la the Marion Circtit Court. May ttrm, Notie" is hei-ehy ived that .lohn L. K f"teeg, administrator of llie estate of t'rarlra A. fi. Wwlmc. d eea.ed, has j.r nied ami liie1 his account and vouchers in final oettit 1111 nt ot wi t state, and that the vanie will roine op f-r eraminati n and action of sid Circuit Court 011 the 2uth day of Mav, 1kS., at which time ail h.'.r", cre'.l.tors or h-aiee ot said e. tarr are nquir.fi to pt. ar in ssid curt and phow 1111', if auv there lw. why aai I a -cunt and Touchers should not he approved. And the heirs of said estate are also hen-i.v required at ihc time and p'ac) loresaid, toappear änd mal pr.H.f of their heirship. .HMIN L. K. .-ll.i:;. Administrator. Walls Wails, Attorneys. l-'-'t X 'UTICK Tt) HEIHS, KF.MTOOS, ETC In the matter of the estate of Ilnry ;. ;ertlef. dex-eased. In the Marlon circuit court. May terra. Notice is hereby tive n that f'srah Y.. titrstlcy, m a luiini.tratri o! the estate o! Henry i. tJcrstley. dH-aset, has presented and ßle.l bcr acooint and Touchers in i'tiialsettl. n.enl of aidefiat. and that the same will come tip fo evsmination and action of iaid circuit emit on the lthdsy of May, l&sii, at which time all heirs, creditors or legatees ol said estate, are required to apps-ar in said court and show ranee, if any there why said account und voucher ebould liot le approu-d. And the licirs of said etate are also hereby riNjuired at the time and place aiorcfai'1, to :.pper od tnne proof if their heirship. ,-AKAll H tiKIt-n.l'.Y, AdtuiiiistralMx. Van Vorhia & Seneer, Attorneys. 1--faRAPE VIHESES13 Mr .jwsi-iltj forxiycsn. (K,-r law Ke.t n. .U JA 'il Kiuj.trs Mete, I ittriH.nU. J 1 1. Vjki-it. WfK Mover. Nuurnni, W it!. Ntru r !ec., M.s.rs . I nr v. Nisr-tur. I'.ityhon. Pm-fclint-ton. lu'iRBrc. twtswba. I .'rs;. iv.ss.etc. Nliv nie, Inno ji Conconls I I er IOU. Alo. sriiiTi-s Kiere.. II, tV:ii.s. I ;.M-.wl-, l- Ml.ij No-ri..-.t. fcr't I'Utut l.tw e. 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