Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1889 — Page 5

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, JULY 3. 1889.

UPOX THE FACE OF ERIN.

ANTIQUITIES TRACED BY A TOURIST. Mr. TTaimn' Faarth Letter From Irelnn'l Paean Supnlrtirnl Flrmnins CromUch, Mounds, C:iun, liittii and Iub ffuiii:-.- f;-i;init!-r. Ak.v.ksh, ii-c-liC'.i, -Tune 17. Special. At the sides ot Iriah roads are found every few miles walled compartments, open to the highway, called "stone-pockets'' for storing broken etone required from time to time in road repairs. Xurnberlesa times in my tramps throupli Ireland I have come to these and found an old pensioner breaking etone, as he had done halt his life at a shilling a day. Many a cheery chat have these etone-breakera and I ha-l tocether; and one, on the highway between Gal way and Oughterard. with whom I one day divided the scant lunch in my knap-sack, felt he must make an effort to interest and recompense me for , civility. The royal Irish eners have a purveyor's mark or . which is chiseled into stono if Buch be found at ancles of survey. It is called the ''crow's foot" or "broad arrow," sDti consists of a tiny circle from which tc diat?, like the sti-fc of a fan, three arrowlike indentai Jona. Brininar me to one of these with great dignity, the old man withdrew his hat, and, pointing to the broad arrow, asked with impressive solemnity, "D'ye mind that?" "I do," said I. "Thim prints?" said he. "The same," paid I. "Thim, sor" and here the old man seemed a foot taller for the momentous revelation upon his lips "thim, sor, wor the tread of the aie'e before the flood!" This forgivable phantasy of the old stonebreaker was but an echo of the consciousness oi the surpasiner aje traced in countless ways upon the face of 1'rin, among even the mo?t icmorant of the peasantry ; for not a half mile from where we stood,' ftretchins away toward the black moors of Iar Connauiht, covering the sides of the valley sweepine past the prim ruin of Aucnsnure, and showing jrray and white toward the gleaming waters of Lough Corrib, were innumerable cromlechs and cairns, their surrounding little anil great circles composed of druidic stones of ail sizes and shapes. Here, 2,000, yes, perhaps 3,000 and 4.000 years before w e stood there, fathered pagan hosts to witness druidic rits, and stand in awe before the weird spells and nij-steries their incantations evoked. For myself I originally hai no faith in Irish antiquities. And I know that is the general feeiinz of iconoclastic Americans. But for nearly a whole year every day my eyes had opened upon some new and astoundinsr monument to prehistoric peoples in Ireland; and my only apology for the temerity in so humble reference to those antiquities as can only come within the bounds of a newspaper article, when the subject has occupied the attention of learned societies, archreolopists and antiquarians for centuries, it that 1 have seen these antiquities myself, and perhaps a greater number of all classes ot them than any single perFon w ho ever wrote of them ; and also because I would be glad if I could influence some of the thousands who annually visit continental Europe in search of like study, to turn aside from the worn, musty ways, for a season of wondrous winsomenesa and delight, in a land where every square mile possesses the sweetest and noblest examples of scenery, and the richest and most impressive antiquarian remains possible to come upon anywhere else in the whole wide world. Ina broad sense the prehistoric antiquities of Ireland comprise pagan sepulchral remains and military monuments. The former consist of cromlechs, pillar stones, o?ham stones and sepulchral mounds and cairns. The latter only furnish raths and duns. Archnr-ologists have for centuries disputed over the application of the word cromlech. Some believe it risniries "the stone of Crom," a deity of the Irish druids representing fate; others, that it. is derived from "Crom," a circle, and "lech,"' a stone; and still others, believe it derived from "Crom liagh," ancient Briton and Irish for a crooked stone, so adjusted to permit the blood of sacrificial victims "to run off freely." However this may be, 22i pagan monumental remain.-, called cromlechs, may be found in Ireland, 1S1 of which I have personally incited. Notwithstanding the tremendous research which archieoloL'ii-ts have devoted to the subject, no definite concluFicn as to their origin and use has been reached. The concensus of opinion poin's to one of two uses, that of paan tacrineia! tabies, or altars, for druidic rites, or simply as a pazan form of eepulcher and monument for the dead. The curious fact exists, however, that the prevailing idea involved in local names for cromlechs, is that of a bed or final resting-place. Nor has the question been disposed of whether they were originally covered with earth, or built precisely as thev stand to-day. Their form, however, seldom varies. Three or more huge stones from six to ten feet high, etood endwise or sidewise, from supporting pillars. Upon these is laid another monstrous stone. The whole forms a rude half-open stone chamber. In many have been tound entire skeleton and perfect' preserved calcined bones. These cromlechs are scattered indiscriminately, over Ireland, fifty-five being found in Leinster, forty-six in Ulster, eighty-two in Connaught, and forty-three in Munster. The largest of these interesting remains is probably that near the old church ot iulteran, about seven fi from Dublin, on the Knniekerry TKa vrarinr ct rtr A rf t K i a Vitirrch ch is six and one-half feet thick, ec.ictcen in breadth, and upward of twenty-three feet long. I found a much emaller, though far more perfect, example in county Down, near the public road, but half mile west of the little village of 2rcad?tone. The cap-stone is a perfectly flat slab. Formerly this cromlech was covered by earth. This was recently removed and a cinerary urn was discovered within the structure. Other splendid specimens may be found at Carrowmore, eountv Shco, at Ballygilbert, and on Island Ma?"e, in county Antrim. The pillar and Ogharn stones which have been discovered in various parts of Ireland are now regarded without dissent as monuments to the pagan dead. Their age is variously placed at from one hundred to one thousand years behind the Christian era. One eplen.di.d specimen of the pillar stone, sixteen feet in circumference, may be found near the great sepulchral mound at 'ewgrang3, near Drogheda; that at Ballynacraig measures twen-ty-lour itet in circumi?rence; ana otners may be seen in th valley of Glanismole, afevrmiles from Dublin. Quite a number bear inscriptions in the Ogham character. This was a species of writing known to have existed in Ireland previous to the introduction of Christianity; and it existed, at least for the purpose of mom; mental inscription, to an extent after tic.: date, as'has been proven by the disco v i. of an Ogham inscription on the cap-stone C'f an ancient cromlech in Kerry, ad jti correlative in the debased Latin of the period chiseled beneath it, tell that the structure is the tomb of Contait, son of Curoi, and was erected by the latter. A fine specimen of the pillar toic. oa vihich xay bo ccta aa example

of the Ogham writing, is still preserved in the museum of Trinity college. Dublin. Cairns and sepulchral niounds are found in every Irish county. The most stupendous are thone of Newgranse and Dowth, on the river Boyne in Meath, a few miles west of Jlrogbcda. That of Newgranjje i the most wonderful of its class now existing in western Kurope. One writer has aptly remarked of this vast structure that were it found uponthe banks of the Nile instead of the Boyne it would be styled a pyramid and considered older than any of the pyramids of Kgypt. From my own inspection I should judge it to be nearly one hundred feet high, and it presents to the eye at a di-tance a eharply-delined shrubbery-covered hill rising boldly from a gentle grassy elevation upon the banks of the murmurous Boyne. A circle of enormous stones formerly surrounded its base, and a mighty obelisk once rose from its summit Kntrance to the mound was accidentally discovered in lu'.)'-. The huge ra und consists of a huge cairn or hill of small stones, coverint an area of two acres, calculate'! at 1S0H) tons weight, covering a cruciform chamber nearly sixty-live feet Ion?, twenty-two feet broad at the transverse crypts, and about eighteen feet high at the head of the crops. The stones forminj? the side walls and covering are simply stupendous; thev bear evidence of having been transported to the spot from very remote points; and many are enriched by rude carvings both in relief and intajlio. Vast hollow stones, evidently sepulchral urns, are still seen within the huge structure; while a gold coin of Yalentinian, and one of Theodosius, as well as two ancient gold torques and a golden chain and two rings, with the residue of incinerated human remains, have been discovered within this massive sepulcher, which may well claim equal interest from tourist and antiquarian with its no more inspiring brethren of Sac kara and those beside the Nile. Ireland is exceedingly rich in pagan military remains. The museum of Trinity college, and the rooms of the Royal Irish historical and arch:eological society, in Dublin are great store-houses of the most interesting relics of this character to be found in any land. To myself has been more deeply interesting in the huge rath, lis, cathair, dun, or fort, as it is variously termed where the mystieh people gathered their herds, women and other treasures, and fought for their saving when the world was young. I have visited a score or so of the smaller, and three of the greatest, of these Don Aengus, on the largest of th Aran islands at the entrance of Galway bay ; the Staigue fort, in Kerry; and the Grianan of the Aileach, a few miles from old Londonderry, in the North. The Staigue fort (.taigue an-or, the "staired palace of slaughter") crowns a rieing ground in a deep hollow surrounded by mountains opening only to the sea, about five miles southwest of the village of Jsneem. county Kerry. It consists" of a circular wall of uncemcnted stones, nearly one thousand feet in circumference, twelve feet thick, and from eighteen to twenty feet high. The single doorway is composed of unhewn 6tones with a horizontal lintel, and the inner surface of the structure furnished with regular flights of stone steps leading to the top of the immense walls, while a great ditch or moat defended its exterior. On the remotest point of Arantnore, the most desolate of all of Ireland's islands, where the limestone ciifia pitch sheer hundreds ot feet into the howling Atlantic, out of sight of single human habitation, and where for centuries no sound more human than the sea-gull's shriek or the puffin's gurgled whistle has been heard, stand the grim remains ofthat tremendous pagan stronghold, Dun Aengus. The proioundest archaeologist Ireland ever produced, Dr. Petrie, pronourfces this '"the most magnificent barbaric monument now extant in Europe ;" yet how many Americans ever set eyes upon it? Three great walls, tho first over ftjO feet long, twelve feet high and nearly twenty feet thick, at irregular distances apart, form the iuclosure, the whole representing a little more than one-half of an irregular circular. Between the different huge lines of ramparts are acres of tremendous jagged, spike-like stones, pointing outward, an inconceivably mighty and awful chevaux de freise. The walls of the inner stronghold are still nearly thirty feet high, and quite as thick. The legend goes that these stupendous Cyclopean defenses and keeps for on the Aran islands alone I visited the remains of five other forts, Dun Oghil, Dubh Cathair or Black fort. Dun Conchover, Dun Onaught and the Dun of Inisheer were built by the flying and fated Firbolg?, from lXK) to 1,500 "years before the Christian era. No matter about the legend. There they stand to-day, more weird, suggestive and awe-inspiring in their dread secrets of the people that were, than ever could lie in the silence of the Libyan sphinx. Tho mystic Grianan of Aileach stands bleak and lone on the peak of a conical denuded hill, nearly one thousand feet above the sea, six miles northwest of the city of Londonderry. In tho Dinmvnchas I find these lines: Ailesch-Firin, plat of the king-rath royal of the world ; Pun, to which led horse-roads, through five mighty ramparts. And so they did. You can trace three of these ramparts and one of the roads as clearly as a path in your own garden. And that one road leads squarely to-day to the one narrow stone doorway into "the Shining Dun," "the Boyal Neat," the Grianan. It is a massive walled circular inclosure, ST0 feet in circumference, with walls fifteen feet thick at the base and seventen feet high. Stone 6teps lead right and left to the first platform : the second is similarly reached, and the last or grand, platform is ascended by seven stone stairs irregularly placed. Two intramural galleries, one seventy and the other forty feet long, for retreat, exist beneath the walls. This grand antique, which can be seen through the valleys of the lonely region for thirty and forty miles with the aid of a field-glass, is clearly located as the Begia of Ptolemy; while, as Eochy Ollahir, the Dagda, known to be its one-time possessor, exactly synchronizes with the Assyrian monarch, Darcylus, its existence can be definitely traced to the period, 1,003 before Christ. What a thrill flashes through one when standing alone upon the Grianan's somber walls I On the crests of these circling mountains burned the signal fires in the dim days, a tiara of llame to wake the helots and their herds. Hither they streamed, these skin-clad hordes. Within these very ramparts huddled the affrighted women and the flocks. Within these very walls kings watched over battles. Here were the feasts of victory; the wailings and lamentations; the weird, wild rites all a thousand years before barbarous man looked beyond the god of day to the one great God. But what can be adequately said of tho innumerable pagan, semi-pagan, early Christian, Danish, Norman and Elizabethian antiquities of marvelous interest and beauty meeting the eye and enchanting the mind at every hand? What marvel; of contemplation, what miracies of speculation and disputation, in those grim old round towers alone. From eighty to 110 fet t high, from thirty to fifty feet in circumference at their base, these majestic monuments to early Christian artaud effort in preservation of sacred relics raised their lofty heads all over Ireland to the known number of 1 18. Built from 1,000 to 1,200 years ago, but thirteen are wholly destroyed, eighty-one are existing in a not altogether imperfect state, while fourteen bUmd &j crandly perfect m when their

rude builders fashioned what no modern art or wealth has surpassed. Along the northern Blackwater and the Boyne, pass the desolate Hill of Tara, to Drogheda and the sea are such vast aggregations of antiquities from the remotest pagan, to the torch-burning Cromweliian, era, as do not exist in other like compass beneath the sun. At Armagh at Cong, at Trim, at Kells, at Pownpatrick, at Killamey, at Cashel ; in every city, hamlet and vale and on every mount; beside every river and stream, are rath, cromlech, tumulus, ruins of abbeys and castles, in such bewildering number, so beautiful in setting of scene and ivies, and so rich in ethnologic and heroic lore, that the traveler or the student can not but pause in dismay at the wondrous surfeit. Wander where you may, upon the howling coast of the West ; among the misty peaks of the North ; within the grewsome wilds of Connaught; in the matchless vale of (ilendalough ; along the storied Shannon, Blackwater and Lee; or beneath the very walls of brilliant Cork and Dublin themselves; it is ever the same. Tinio and all other destroyers can not eflace these splendid remains of a splendid past. And as p;iss the centuries, thoo who love these silent old presences will more and more throng to these entrancing shores for their lovirif? study and' frentle contemplation; and then shall the very present desolation and poverty of this land become its most shining mantle. KdgabLWakemak. COWBOYS JUMP A TOWN.

They Take Possesion of rying Teloof (iolrt Ouartz. Black foot City, M. T., June 29. Grave fears are entertained of a general uprising and wholesale butchery in the Oro Fino mining district on account of the operations of an organized gang of town site claim-jumpers from the east and south. The gang consisti of two brothers named Moore, one from Brooklyn and the other from St. Louis;, Alexander Weir and J. II. Andrews of New York, and about twenty. Kansas cowboys. Last Saturday the Moores jumped the town site of Granite, where, in sinking an artesian well they uncovered what was supposed to be the richest vein of gold and silver-bearing quartz in the territory. Declining an offer from the Granite company to compromise for a third interest in the find, the brothers set to work to develop their claim, while Weir and Andrews, who are in on the deal, moved over to Champion, a new town a few miles west of Deer Lodge. They started in boring a well and as a result of their investigations and with the aid of the Moores and their cowboys they to-day jumped the whole town site under the mineral laws. It develops that pay dirt was struck twenty feet from the surface, the ldc;e running north and south for nobody knows how far. Dozens of claims, each running 1,005 feet with the ledge, have been staked out by the jumpers who have dispatched a mounted messenger to Helena for aid to enable them to retain possession of the property. There is a great deal of excitement over the a flair, aud old miners who have seen the quartz ledge uncovered by the gang, say it is richer than that at Granite which is estimated to be worth $5,000,000. The sheriff' and a poe of deputies have gone to Champion to prevent trouble. ERIN TO COLUMBIA. The Dublin Freeman of June 15 has a striking cartoon, suecested by the Johnstown calamity, presenting the figures of Erin and Columbia, the former in an attitude of sympathy ami compassion. Til E Sentinel is indebted to Mr. D. K. butler for a copy. Accompanying the cartoon ore these touching, versei: COLl'MBI A. MOUBSS. ERIN TO COLUMBIA. SLtr, I ean not bid the- dry thy tears, Words csn not to thee consolation bring. When sorrow such this the bosom seats Loud sympathy becomes n idl thine! But If I win not drive these chiuds away In solitudq thy grief shall not be borne, Lo! I will share it, by thr Hide will etay And a a sister for thy children mouru! But words alone my Rrivf shall not expro. At such a time 'twere mockin; to deplore The blow, and prate of sympathy, unless By aid orompt aid I proved thy deeds of yoreFood for the hungry, aid for the opprest, When Famine's cloud loomed darkly o'er my land Hath wakened gratitude within my breast, Would to express it more I could command! Ye, I will mourn with thee, oh. sister desr! What grief could tourh thee that I would not feel? In this dark hour my place is by thee, here, Sharing thy woe as I have shared thy weaL Of thi dire sorrow let me hear a partWould that my power were greater to relieve ThebitUr pain that wrings thy anguished heart, But, since I ran not, let me with thee grieve? A Vision. I stood above aniidat the creeping shade W here ghost-like hands upon my h ad seem laid. That pointed long, whit's fingers to dark wind's Circling around me with weird flutterings. Outlined like frightened birds against the sky; Now brushing close mv shoulders. .Shudderingly I threw my arms protecting o'er my head And from those glittering eyeballs fled. But ever to my quickening face they sped Like lost souls doomed to nights uncomforted. I cry to Proserpine: "What ate these ill-starred thin.??" And she, from out the gloom this answer brings: "They are the spirits of all idle words, "Fated to Gil the air like frenzied birds, "That must flee on forever 'gainst the-night, "Haunting the memory with untiring flight; "The carol. s words that human lips have sown "Like thoughtless children flinging seeds, windblown; "Hopes slain with thoughts by dread injustice strewn "The siu for which no victim can a'one." And I, with sad heart, turning from her knew The dumb reproach that tears could not undo. O words, undying as the sunlit highls, Etay, lest ye wing your way through starless nights! Ida May Davis in Inter-Ocean. An Awful Lot of Practica. Chauncey Depew spoke one evening during the last campaign at a town in the interior of this state, which it is not necessary to name, says the New York Tribune. The next morning the chairman of the local committee took him in his carriage for a ride about the place. They had reached the suburbs and were admiring a bit of Bcenery, when a man wearing a blue shirt and carrying a long whip on his shoulder approached from where he had been piloting an ox-team along the middle of the street, and said: "You're the man that made the rattlin' peech at the hall last night, I guess?" Mr. Depew modestly admitted that he had indulged in tome talk at the time and place apecitied. "Didn't yon have what you said writ out?" went on the man. "No," replied the orator. "You don't mean to tay you made that all rieht tip as you went along?" "Yes." "Jess hopped rieht up there, took a drink of water out of the pitcher, hit the table a whack, and waded in without no thinkin' nor Bothin!" "Well, I suppose yon might put it that way." "Well, that beats me. You'll excuse me for atoppiu' you, but what I wanted to say was that your speech convinced me, though I knowed at the time it was the peskiest lie that was ever tole. I made np my mind to vote your ticket, and I'd a' been willin' to bet a peck o' red apples that no raa could stand up and tell such blamed convincin' lies without bavin 'em writ out. You must V had an awful lot o' practice." Keeping Cool. Puck. Howell Gibbon "Aw, I'm quite shocked, Tom, to see you going around the streets without a vest!" Tom Bit:bee (wipinc his brow) "Whew! When a man wears a flannel shirt to keep cool, Howell, he mustn't wear any thing else that he can possibly dispense with!" Easily Profitable. ruck Miss Setrreen "I don't see how the ocean steamers ean aßord to transport people such a long distance, and board them, too, at buch a low price." Mr. I'tgreen (who has been across) "Board doesn't cost much." This is the best time of the whole year to pnrify the blood, because now you are more susceptible to benefit from medicine than at any other season. Hood's Sarsaparilia is the best medicine to take, and it is the most economical. Vas handled doses M,

FA1ÜI ASD HOME COLUMN".

SWINDLING IN THE WHEAT WEIGHTS. Other Topics For Oar Agricultural Friends Lrge iTenitonis OfTervtl Keeping Butter Sweet Farm and Garden Notes Summer Desserts, Kte. Quite a sensation has been produced among the farmers of the north part of the etate regarding eertain transactions exposed recently in a dispatch from New Carlisle, Ind., which eaya that tho Lake Shore &. Michigan Southern railroad, or a certain set of its officials, seem to have been for a long time engaged in systematic and deliberate robbery of the toiling farmer. Iy the free use of false weights they have been regularly swindling the grain dealers all along the line of their road. At this Ptation, and apparently at every other one on the line, the surplus grain out of which they have swindled the farmer accumulates iu the warehouses, and once a year the houses are cleaned out and this turpi us is shipped to Toledo. Sometimes it amounts to nearly a car-load. Who gets this grain or the money for it is a question which the road will now have to answer before the interstate commission. It is not believed that the higher officials of the road are actually aware of what does become of this grain, but the indications certainly point to a guilty knowledge on the part of certain officers of the grain department. J. B. McComber has been for thirteen years in the employ of the road, and for the last seven years agent at this place. On the 7th day of this month he was discharged. He eavs that hia discharge was directly due to the fact that he refused to steal enough grain from the farmers to eatisfy the railroad company, and the facts, as far as ascertained, seem to bear out this etory. McComber is a man of thirty-two, of unusual intelligence, with honest, frank, blue eyes, which look one pquarely in the face and seem to carry in them the conviction that he is telling the truth. In the community here his character is of the best, and the farmers are unanimous in according their fullest belief to his etory. "A man's record as an agent depends entirely on the report of the traveling auditor, whose name is J. T. Ilayden," eaid Mr. McComber. "In 1SS4 his assistant fround some fault with the surplus I returned. I will explain that the surplus is the grain that accumulates in a warehouse over and above the amount necessary to meet the orders against it and keep the warehouse clean. The grain is received in wagon-loads at the foot of the tramway, dumped into a hopper and hauled upstairs, where it is weighed ou the company's scales. We give receipts to the farmer according to the weight there registered. The farmer takes these receipts to the buyer, and w hen the latter gets a lot on hand he ßhips it, surrendering these receipts to the agent, together with a shipping order on which are entered the numbers and weights. "Last year there was a shortage of 14.500 pounds charged against my elevator. I have openlv accused the elevator management at Toledo and the traveling auditor with being dishonest, and have every reason to believe that at the Toledo elevator they 'have it in for me,' for they don't pet such large corrections at the other stations. If they had not taken so much from me at Toledo my house would have shown a surplus. They have taken it out of me in that way. As it was, my grain account when checked up showed a shortage of 1,175 pounds. "Some time last fall, in loading a car of wheat at the depot, the dooal freight in switching came in on the side track and carelessly knocked the car from its moorings and strewed the wheat all along the track, where it could not be picked up. That loss was through the carelessness of the local freight man. The grain clerk came here in December and issued a receipt out of my house to fill that shortage. I consequently had to steal enough wheat from the farmers to make that up. They issued that receipt for 1,140 pounds. If it hadn't been for that I would have come out ahead 76ö pounds. "At Holling 1'rairie, seven miles weft of here, 10,(40 pounds of surplus wheat were found in the agent's houe when he cleared out this spring, and I don't think he shipped as much as I did. Terre Coupe, a mile and a half east of here, kept up its Toledo corrections, and gave them over 0,(XX) bushels surplus." Mr. McComber produced these Toledo "corrections," and explained, as shown by the face of the returns, of which he had the duplicates, that on nearly every car he had shipped to the Toledo elevator a correction was returned to him, showing his weight Ehort from 200 to 300 pounds. That simply meant that he was short that amount, although his receipts were already issued hero for the full weight. Consequently he virtually had to ship the grain over again, and in order to get it had to steal it from the farmers. "Suppose," he said, "for the 6ake of argument, that the Toledo corrections at those two stations would have amounted to about five thousand pounds. If they have taken one car-load of 25,000 pounds from these two stations, what have they taken from the seventy-five other stations? It is reasonable to suppose if they have encouraged these agents to make that large amount of surplus, they must have encouraged others to do the same thing. If Rolling Trairie and Terre Coupe have given them about ten thousand pounds apiece this year, 1 don't know why it cannot be reasonably expected that they do so ererv vear. My surplua account in 1884 wäs "3,520 pounds; in 18S5, 2,410 pounds; in 1886, 2,110 pounds; in 1887, 3,340 pounds: in 1888, 410 pounds. I gave them 2,750 pounds of barley this spring because I did not ship any barley to Toledo. If I had shipped barley'there I would not have had any surplus"" Mr. McComber then produced a flat disc of copper, which he said he had taken from the scales in hia elevator;- It was on the scales when he came . there in 1882 and had been there ever since. With it on the scales there -waa a difference of twelve pounds on each load against the farmer. "I know," he said, "that these false weights are in use at other stations on the line, for L. Ballinger, scale-tester of tho road, told me that he now had several in his possession which he had .taken from scales along the line." KEEPING BUTTER SWEET. II Trill Never Tarn Kancld If the Milk Is Treated By This Process. The agricultural editor of the New York Timen says every dairyman who is an expert at his business has heard of Devonshire cream and butter. The "clouted" or thick cream is sold as a luxury to be eaten with fruits or pies, or it is made into butter which has tho reputation of exceedingly long keeping. In the journal of tho ljath and West of England society, recently published, is an account of this cream and butter, and the value of the process in fine dairying. There is nothing new in it, but it recalls at an opportune time a subject of much interest to dairymen. The process is as follows: The milk is set in the ordinary way in shallow pans for twelve hours. The pan is then set in a hot-water or a Bteam bath for twenty minutes, until the milk is hot and the cream "crinkles," but is not suffered to boiL (To be precise. th temperature

is 180 degrees, but we do not know this is bo Riven in any work on dairying.) The pan is then returned to the dairy and remains twenty-four hours for the cream to rise completely. The cream is then quite thick, aud, if churned, makes a very sweet butter which keeps a year without change, the heat having dissipated the volatile oils which, by their decomposition, produce rancidity. There is trouble, of course, in doing all this, but there is a compensation for the labor in having butter which will keep eweet for months. This Looks XCncouritcins;. The management of the "New Era exposition," which will open at St. Joseph, Mo., Sept. 5, and continue ten days, has offered some special and splendid premiums, as follows: Best dozen ears of corn, plaited together in one bunch with the shuck, "00; second best, $230; third best, 125; fourth best, $62.50; fifth best, $31.2."; sixth best, ?15; seventh best, $0. For the best agricultural display, by county, or by organization within a county, $ 1,000; second best, $5u0; third best, $250. Large premiums will be offered for all products of the farm, including fruit, live stock, bees, poultry, etc The list and rules governing exhibits will be mailed on application to tho New Era exposition management, room o postofiice building, St. Joseph, Mo. Summer Ices and Desserts. Ices are very refreshing and healthful desserts in warm weather, and quite as economical as any other, if the housekeeper has her own ice, cream and fruit the more so. the only expense being the sutrar and flavoring. They are also a saving of labor as, with a patent frr ezer, only a few minutes will be required to freeze any kind of an ice lor dinner, and as it may be made early in the day and pet away until ready to use, it is very little trouble and very convenient. Of course the first consideration is to have the materials all of the best quality. Good cream or milk, pure extracts for flavoring, and ripe, sound fruit will insure a perfect dish. Then a good freezer is necessary. The old-fashioned freezer is slow in performing tho work, aud never does it so satisfactory, therefore a patent freezer is a great convenience. The best fruit creams are made by first scaldinp the cream and dissolving the sugar in it. Very good fruit creams may be made for family use of rich milk, or milk aud part cream. When the mixture is ready to freeze, it should be poured into the can and cooled. The ice should then be pounded in a coarse sack and nut with rock salt in alternate layers in the freezer bucket. A four-quart cream freezer will require about five pounds of ice and one quart of 6alt. It is not best to freeze fruits too fast. Fruit water-ices require longer time than creams to freeze. After freezing all ices are improved by being set away for several hours to mellow. For company dinners and extra occasions icos may be molded in various handsome designs, which make attractive table ornaments. The following ices are all novel and delicious : Stawberry Parfait "Whip into a froth a quart of sweetened cream, add half a pint of strawberry juice, mix ' carefully, pour into an icecream mold, cover, pack in ice and freeze two hours. Orange TouffJe Cover half a cup of gelatine with half a cup of cold water, work one hour, then add half a cup of boilins water and stir until dissolved. Mix the juice of twelve oranges with a pound of sugar; beat the yelks of six eg?s very li.trht; whip a quart of cream; mix all tocether, let stand on ice until it begins to thicken, pour in a freezer and freeze. Tuitti Fraitti Chop any candied fruits in small pieces, freeze a quart of lemonade, remove the dasher, stir in the fruit and beat thoroughly, cover and stand away two hours. Cherrv Ice Stone and mash a quart of cherries, boil a pound of sugar and a pint of water together, let cool, pour in the cherry juice and freeze. Current Ice Add a pint of red currant juice to a quart of sirup. Freeze. Raspberry Ice To one quart of red raspberries add a pound of sugar and the juice of two lemons with a pint of boiling water; let stand an hour, squeeze and strain; turn in the freezer and freeze. Strawberries, blackberries or any small fruit may be used. Frozen Teaches Pare two dozen ripe, soft peaches and remove the stones; pound the kernels to a paste and mix with two pounds of sugar; pour over a quart of water and boil five minutes, strain and cool, add it to the peaches, well mashed, put in a freezer and freeze. Frozen Mixed Fruits Mash one pint of strawberries, raspberries and red currants each, add a pound and a half of suzar and the juice of two lemons, let stand one hour, pour over a pint of ice-water, stir, pour in a freezer and Ireeze. Farm and Garden Notes. Clear off the pea-vines and put the ground in late potatoes. Corn prows fastest on very warm nights, and thrives with frequent cultivation. The cabbage delights in being well cultivated. Hoe around them and keep the 6oil loose. Don't pull your lettuce up, but cut them off, as they will shoot up new sprouts and give a continued supply. Lima beans should be fastened to the poles with striugs as soon as they begin to run. They will then grow more rapidly and permit of working the hills. It is a waste of time to attempt to preserve eggs unless they are known to be strictly fresh. An egg that is over a few days old will not keep if packed in warm weather. Broilers at this season are sent to market dressed. They at e dry picked, cooled in icewater and packed iu ice, in barrels or boxes. They should be shipped by express. Butter can be made cheaper now than at any other season. Less labor is required in caring for the cows, and the best yields of milk and butter are when the cows are on grass. Tomato vines should be staked, or tied up in some manner, in order to prevent the limbu falling on the ground and rotting the fruit. It is best to arrange the stakes or other supports while the vines are young. Ilake around the rose bushes and dahlias and stir the ground. Dahlias should.be well grown by this time. A shovelful of manure around the dahlias should be applied if the plants are backward and of slow growth. Sponging the horses at night, after a day of hard work, will greatly invigorate them for the next day's service. Keeping the skin clean allows them to "sweat out" more freely, and relieves them of the excessive heat. During very warm weather the pigs will suffer if they have no fresh water and shade. Some breeds of hogs, such as the Yorkshires, hare very tender skins, and it will benefit them to give them a good washing occasionally. Damp, wet locations for sheep are promotive of foot rot. and damp quarters at night cause' colds. A sheep very quickly succumbs to disease, and too much care cannot be given the flock in providing dry quarters, shade and fresh water. Rose-bugs are destroying the roses this season, and it is almost impossible to prevent their ravages. The roses may be partially saved, however, by an application of Persian insect powder. It should be used as often as may be required. Hun the cultivator between the strawberry rows and loosen the ground. It will not only kill out the grass and weeds, but permit the runners to take root more easily. The bed will be benefited by an application of ashes now. which will assist the runners in making rapid growth. A liberal application of a mixture of equal portions of air-slaked lime and wood ashes will often cause the ground to produce grass when other methods have failed. It is difficult to secure a stand of grass under trees, as the trees take all the nourishment of the soil from the grass. Lime and ashes will prove beneficial to shade trees also, and as such fertilizers are cheap they should be used more extensively. Saved. A fine family of children were all afflicted with scrofula. Two died earlv; the rest would soon have followed, but for the timely and pert.eve ring use of Ayer's Sarsapnrilla, which built them up into a healthy and vigorous manhood. Consumption Surely Cured. To tiik Editor riease inform your readers that I have a positive renmly for the above named disease. I'y its timely use thousands of hopeless enses have been permanently cured. 1 shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy FRc.n to any of your reader who have consumption if thevwi!l send mo their express and P. O. address. Respectfully, T. A. Sloccm, M. C, 1?1 Pearl-st, New York. Dr. Henley's True Invigorator. 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AdW,v. r, ELKHART, PTATE OF INDIANA, MAEION C0UXTY, S: vJ In tho Superior Court oi Marion county, in tha htato of Indiana. No. H9.4G9. Complaint in foreclosure, etc. E.len C. Wright vs. John II. Button nnl the unknown heirs of Robert L .Smith, decease J. Be it known that on VJl day of April 1., the above-named plaintifl, bv her altornr, rled in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Mari-m county, in the State of Indiana, hor complaint against the above-named d"fendants. and the said pTsintift havin.fr also tiled In said Clerk's ottice the affidavit of a competent pt-rson. showing that the residences of said df leo htnts, Jr.hn H. button and the unknown heirs of Robert L. Hmith, deceased, are unknown and rannet be ascertained though diligent search and inquiry therefur has been rua-Je, and that said defendant) ore believed to Im non-reeidrnts of the state of Indiana, and that sid action is to foreelo! a morteajre on real estate jnd for other relief, and that said defendants are necessary parties thereto. Now, therefore, by order of said court," said defendant, last above named are hereby notilied of the filing and pendency of said complaint aaint them, and that unless they appear and answer or demur thereto, at the calling of .aid cause on the 2d day of September, 18S9, the same heinu the first judicial day of a term of said court, to be liejun stid held at the court house in the City of Indianapolis on the first Monday in ?eptrmber, is), said complaint and the matters and thinjrs therein contained aud alleged, will be heard and determined in their ab.cnce. JOHN R. WILSON, Clerk. A. Seidennticker. Attorney for Plaintiff. 19-:st STATE OF INDIANA, MARION eorXTY. S3: In the superior court of Marion cour.tv, Mute of Indiana. No. 33.6SU. Complaint in attachment, etc. ieor?e M. Doyle, Samuel Ioyle vs. Thomas J. Murdock. Be it known, that on the Hth diy of June, 159, the above-named plaintiits, by their attorney, filed in the office of tho clerk of the superior court of Marion county, in the state of Indiana, their complaint aeaint the above-named defendants, and the said pUinlitls having nlo tiled in .ti i il ckrk's oilir j the affidavit of a competent p- rson, showing that raid dtiendant. Thomn-i J. Mtirdoek, is not a rest- ) dent ol the täte o! Indiana, ami that aui action is founded on contract, and i an attachment and garcishnient. Mow therefore. By order of said court, Htd defendant, lat a'xftve nametl, is hereby notice! of the film? and pendency of s;iid complaint aainH him, and that unles he appear ana anrr ord1mur thereto, at the calling of said mum; ou the 2d day of September, 1)9, the anio being the tirt i'udkial day of a term of said court, t i bc-un and ield at the court-house in the city of Indianapolis on the first Monday in Sept?inler, said com plaint and the matters and things then in contain 'd and alleged, will be heard and determined iu his absence. JOHN R. WILSON. Clerk. McCullough A Harlan, Atlornevs for I'laintirts. U'-3t STATE OF INDIANA. MARION COCNTV. S.S.: Iu the Superior Court of Marion County in the State of Indiana. No. 39,7i0. Complaint for divorce. John Weiler vs. Mattie Weiler. Be it known that on the i2d day of Jan, lcs3, the above named plaintiff, by his attorneys, tiled in the cflif of the Cierk of 'the 8'ipcrior Court of Marlon County, in the State of Indiana, his complaint iraint the above named defendant, and th said plaintiff having also tiled in said Clerk's office the affidavit of competent person, showing that said defendant, Mattie Weiler, is not a resident of the State of ludiana, and that said action is for divorce, and whereas eaid plaintiff having bv indorsement on said complaint required said defendant to appear in said court and anwer or domur thereto, on the 21 day of September, Now therefore, by order of said Court, snid d?fendant last above named is hereby notified of the filing and pendency of said complaint aainn her, and that unless she appearand answer or demur thereto, at the calling of said cause on the 2d day of September, $ the same beim? the tint judicial day of a term of said Court to be bejtunand held at the Court House in the City of Indianapolis, on the lt Monday in September, 1?S9, said complaint and the matters and things therein contained and alleged will be heard and determined in her sbnepce. JOHN K. WILSON, Clerk. Walls 4 Walls, Attorneys for PlaintU. -'V3t SWAUTHMOUK COl.I.KfiK, SWARTIIMOUE, PA. Open Oth Month, 10th. Thirty minutes from Broad St. Station, Philadelphia. I'uder the care of Friends, but all others admitted. Full roltejre rours) for both Hfirs. Classical, S-ientific and Literary. Also, a Manual Training and a Preparatory School (2 classcsl. Heathful location. Lux grounds, new andextensive building and apparatus. For Cataloirue and full particulars, address. EDWARD II. MAtJlLL. LI 1., President JOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Notice is hereby (riven that the undersigned ha duly qualified as administrator, with will annexed, of the estate of Mary J. Kcnne.ly, late of Marion county, Indiana, deceased. Said eMate ie supposed to l solvent 26-3t JOHN CODURX, Administrator. s 'OTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Notice is hereby triven that the undersigned has duly qualified as administrator of the rotate of Viola How, late of Marion county, Indiana, deCeased. Said estate Is supposed to be solvent. CHAS. J. P.ICUANAN. Admr. Pritehard 4 Tincher, Attorneys. 2-:.t JOTICE OF APPOI NTMCN T. Notice Is herebyglven that the undersigned has dulv qualified as administrator, with will, etc., of the' estate of J. William Mitchell, lr.te of Marien County, Indiana, deceased. Saidestate is suppose I to be solvent WILLIAM SIMCO, Adminiatrator. A. W. Wlshard, Attorney. 2i-:u FOB SALE. TARGE TRACT OF HEAVY POPLAR TIMBER j land in Tennessee. W. W. Perron, SM W. New York -et 3a REE feto

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