Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1889 — Page 5

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THE INDIANA. STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 14, 1889.

FROM THE FROZEN NORTH.

MORE OF LABRADOR AND ITS PEOPLE. ETry Mt, Woman and Child Killing Seals A Great Industry Esquimaux Bay Population of tli Extrem North Talk With at Missionary. Ox Board the Schooner "Sophie," July 20. Copyrighted, 1S89. At Mingan islands vre had the pood fortune to find a man and brother in distress. This was a wild and hairy missionary of the W'esleyan methodist persuasion who had been expatriated from his 6unny home in some pleasant English village, to pass four years in tireless, and he confessed almost useless, mission work along these wretched shores. "Discarded by the cannibals !" seemed to be written in every line of the poor man's face. He had been wiiting at Mingan harbor more than a -,kiith for opportunity for reaching Chateau bay, at the shoulder oi the howling Atlantic coast, and we gave him free passage, JvVffifr on general grounds

of liberality to tue cloth, but in consideration of the added dignity a chaplain would give the schooner Sophie, as well as because he knew much of the Labrador folk and their customs, and was not averse to telling what he knew. Altogether he was excellent company; and what he told U3 of the sailing industry alone proved valuable and entertaining. He related to begin with, that a children's game callod "copy," similar to that of your own children who "follow the leader." a wild and dangerous pastime but heartily encouraged by parents, as at the basis of all succis in seal hunting. When the ice begins breaking up in March, all Labrador and Newfoundland children hail the arrival of their annual play-spell with joyous delight. "Copying" consists of leaping from one floating slab, r pan of ice, to another. The most daring of leaders are selected, and the sport is followed with tremendous vigor so long as the floating ice remains. Its utility lies in its educative power. The very expertness and bravery thus engendered are the supreme requisites in youths and men ea Feal hunters. Only a few years ago seal hunting was carried on in these waters exclusively from echooners, built of enormous strength, whose home ports were the little villages of the Labrador and the northern Newfoundland coasts and St John's, Newfoundland. But immense pealing steamers finally supplanted these, causing a desperate state of want among the native fishermen. Latterly the pteamers have been given up to some extent, those worn out or lost being abandoned, owing to the lessening number of seals; but the success of last year's work, has given a new activity to the industry. The total "take" was nearlv a half - million seals, worth $300,000. The "take" of the sailing steamer Neptune of St. John's was, alone, 42,000 peals. She was loaded to the gunwales, men even resigning their sleeping berths fo that the fat could be stowed away. The poor sealers alongshore, who are called "seal-shovers," to distinguish them from the s.eamer eealers, took fully 300,000 seals. Every man, woman and child who could wield a club, gun, knife or any other possible weapon, was at work from Mingan islands, in the St. Lawrence, around to the White and Notre Dame bays, on the east Newfoundland coast, killing, skinning and dragging the seals ashore. Our dejected missionary friend, himself, captured forty-five in one day; a parish priest killed and skinned seventy in one day, and an indomitable widow of the north shore, born m old Galway, who not only fights the wild elements of Labrador but everybody else successfully, unaided, captured, e'kinned and dragged ashore 175 seals in three days a little fortune in itseK in this region, as her "take" netted her about S300. The seals are taken in three ways. They are followed ont to sea in vessels and killed from email boats on the ice-floes ; they are hunted by "shovers" along the coves and bays in boats or upon the still eolid ice ; or they are netted in coarse nets, with an S-inch mesh, almost precisely iu Ihe manner that herring are taken at Lastport and around Grand Manan. These nets are moored off a favorable cove, with one end fastened to a huge windlass on shore. Then a careful lookout is kept, and when a herd of seals has entered the inclosnre, the net is hauled in behind the seals, and boats follow, with men shouting and driving the impounded creatures to the beaches and rocks, or back into the strangling net, when the scene of clubbing and butchery begins. Cape Mectina, to the west of Ifa-Ha bay on the Labrador coast, is a famous resort for seals. At La Tabatiere, the fishing village near, the "shovers" own a stand of nets "whose total length is 4,200 feet At Natashquan and Esquimaux Foint the sailing-fleet numbers only about sixty schooners; and it is evident that unless the huge sailing steamers are soon wholly abandoned, at no late date half the now trifling population of the St. Lawrence Labrador coast must be driven from these 6hores. Some other interesting facta regarding the seals themselves came to light through our hairy missionary friend. The young are brought forth on vast floating fields of ice in March. The baby seals are born 0 with white hair which soon changes to a Eoft. silky brown fur, and they nestle upon their frozen beds of ice as long as they are suckled by tbeir mothers. When from five to six weeks old thev can exist in , oraler. Then they begin following their mothers about, rca'jr. .Vter the fashion of human babies, for theiA attention and the food of fish which tJtrey most dutiifally provide. During this period the mother seal is au alert and hardy fisher. She will attack the most active and powerful fish of these waters, save the shark; and we had the testimony of Capt. Deschampe that inetances have been known where battles between the food hunting mother seals and these rapacious ruffians of the deep resulted in the defeat and death of the latter. They are powerful rwimmers and will forc themselves up the most rugged salmon-leaps to attack the largest salmon. When the young seals are from five to six months old they are left to shift for themselves. Nor are they given up gradually. Of a sudden the mother seems to determine that sufficient time and energy have been expended upon them, and instantly ehe is a stranger to the cub, and any farther attempts at intimacy are resented in the most savage manner. The gulf of St Lawrence and the Newfoundland coves begin to fill with great herds of Greenland seals in November. During the entire winter these break up into lesser herds, in search of icebergs upon which to live. Here they remain till aftet the breedinz time is past, straggling along the coast until May or June, wben thev disappear into the Atlantic and" head for Hudson's and Uatün's Bay's Their migrations are as regular as those of birds, and incomparably more certain than those of the herring and mackerel. The harbor seals (I'horn vituhnn.) are found along these coasts at all Beacons of the year; and as out schooner threads the mazes of coastwise islands, or glides past reef and ledge of jutting headland, they we constantly seen in their sremingly

lifeless basking in the sun, upon shewing rocks, occasionally turning and flapping their shining flippers for easier position in their siesta, or skimming through shallow waters and surf, while turning their almost human heads from side to side,

liko a bevy of surprised and questioning xnermaidd, astonished at our approach and untimely intrusion. On the afternoon of the third day after leaving Mingen harbor we dropped anchor in that great arm of the gulf known as Esquimaux bay. There are no maps or charts extant "to give an interested student of these shores any proper idea of the areas of these occasional tremendous indentations among the Labrador coast. But our captain and chaplain were sure that this inlet was one of the largest of the southern Labrador 6hore. Grandly wild and impressive as was the scenery of its islands and the shore-side mountains, terrace on terrace of everlasting stone blended by the magic of distance into fairy peaks of green, but showing their hard, sterile remorseless actuality through rifts of sickly moss and stunted spruce on near approach. It was a relief to find morning and a slight Pugge6tion of human association in the occasionally-seen fisher's sail upon the mighty gulf again ; and we sped gaily along in company with gurgling gulls and roystering porpoises below, making our course toward the exquisitely beautiful Bradoro bay. Ruminating upon the inconceivable hardships of this Labrador coast and people, 1 fell into a critical and interrogative mood, in which the Yankee timber explorer, by this time heartily hateful of everything upon which our" eyes might rest, was my proud and enthusiastic ally. I asked the missionary how many people could be found in the lower Canadian portion of Labrador, between its shore limits at Point Neuf on the St. Lawrence and L'Anse Aux Blancs Sablons, near the entrance to the straits of Belle isle. "About 4,500," he replied, thoughtfully. "And this is a distance of about 000 miles?" "Yes, and of these fully 1.000 are Montagnias and Nasquapee Indians. To illustrate how thinly scattered they are, I may instance the locality of my work along the straits, from Blanc au Blank eastward. There are twelve houses there. Three miles further is L'Anse and Clair with 9 houses; the next, Fortcaux, 8 miles with 17 houses; L'Anse au liOup, ( miles, 12 houses ; Pen ware River, 3 miles, '2 houses ; St. Modiste, 3 miles, 9 houses; Carroll's Cove, G miles, 4 houses; Red Bay, 4 miles, 25 houses; Wild Cove, 10 miles, '2 houses; Chateau, 20 miles, 8 houses; Camp Island, 12 miles, 8 houses; Capo Charles, ? miles, 8 houses ; Battle Harbor, 3 miles, 25 houses ; and the next and last, Fox Harbor, 4 miles, with 6 houses; so that in a distance of is" miles there are all told but 157 houses, or barely enough for one village of moderate size. "But is there no population behind this?" "Not a soul between these people and the north pole. They could not by any possibility exist." "And this is the only result of 400 years' exploration and attempt at settlement, and of a whole century's imperial and provincial outlay amounting to millions of pounds, costing tens of thousands of lives, and compelling indescribable human sacrifice, hardship and misery to those in duced to come and compelled to stay?" "It would seem so;" meekly responded the missionary. But our English tourist was quicker with reasons. He was quite near official circles, he said. He understood the imperial policy quite clearly, you may believe. He even scornfully resented our Yankee opaqueness with a snort " H'England don't care a rap for all these cattle. She's after bigger game, ve know. And Canada's a chip of the old block, ye see. We pay bounties and give h'annuitics. and keep all these bloody hams along these coasts for much 'ei"tier things than fish. Blow the fish, h'any'ow! It's you bloody Yankees we're mindin of. We'll 'ave a bloody rumpus with you h'Americans yet, me boy. Then we'll 'ave these Labrador and Newfunlun lads at ye from 'Alifax 'arbor lively enough, ye know. H'an w'en they're dancin' 'eavy 'orn pipes on Bost'n common, ye see, and up h'an' down Broadway, ye know, with St George's cross above 'em, you bloody Yankees'll know why h'England's cub, Canada, keeps hup their quota at any cost, me boy!' The missionary smiled a 6ickly smile of bilious approval ; but I am sure my timber-exploring friend from Boston would have then and there begun the impending struggle by setting the English tourist camp chair and all s juare into the Gulf of St Lawrence, had 1 not quieted him; but he would not be deprived the privilege of enthusiastically presenting him with innumerable hearty offers to so accommodate him for the magnificent sum of "jist three red-hot cussed American cents!" Whatever special form of financial inducement may have lurked within this ineietive offer, with varying and various interesting happenings of a similar nature, we passed the noble Bay of Bradore, with a glimpse of the straggling village of Point Jones, the bay's innumerable islets separating the roadstead into grand expanses and divisions; saw the place where over four hundred years ago stood the French fishing city of Brest, now utterly effaced ; gazed with delight upon the mighty terraces behind, crowned far to the north by the mystic, cloud-wreathed peaks of Bradore; rounded Point Amour as the setting sun was lighting up its ragged sides, and left the day with the great Amour light twinkling on our port quarter, as we lessened sail to carefully thread the Straits of Belle isle, while the night brought such glowing 6tars as seemed to descend and pulse and throb into one's very soul, and the great northern lights quivered behind inscrutable films like half-hidden planets swung in the hands of the infinite God. The olden key of the entire northern fisheries, Chateau bay, was reached all too soon, for we had come to feel a warm affection for our hairy friend, the simple missionary, who here, before debarking, pointed out with inexcusable and modest pride some of the many beauties of the wild and splendid scene. Back to the far south in a dark line against the purple horizon were faintly traced the dreary Newfoundland shores. Away to the east, like a speck upon Atlantic's breast, was the fierce and lonely 6ea-sentinel, Belle isle. Back along the gulf, beneath millions of white-winged gulls, sped toward us the plumy crests of a million emerald waves. Over there to the left is that strange castle-like basaltic rock, rising in vertical columns Of five-sided prisms, with tremendous detached clusters at its base; almost as curious a geologic specimen as the farfamed Giant's causeway. To the right looms High Beacon, l,0ii0 feet above the bay. Through the majestic Temple pass the steel blue waters of Temple bay lead the eyes to softly blended bights beyond above which are again the eternal hills of Labrador. Here and there about the bay cluster the tiny white houses of the descendants of those who once fled from fire and sword at sunny O rand Pre. Between headland and headland are long rows of decrepid fish-stages where picturesque fisher-folk toil as for dear lite at all hours in the short summer season. Here and there are sloops, smacks and schooners, coming, going, at anchor, or noisy with the labor of unloading their great though almost valueless stores. Here lies a princely yacht, there a government corvette, yonder a great hulk of a trading bark. From time to time the

mists come and half hide and half reveal, though over all rests a clear and cloudless ky. One hears close and far through these filmy curtains the sharp tone of the Scot, the grunt of the Norwegian, the hearty voice of the Englishman, the guttural exclamation of the Nasquapee, the liquid tones of him from Acadia, and, closing one's eyes to measure it all with the finer sight of thought, the curlew's calls from a myriad bird-throats come in Chateau bay as if in some magical moment to transport the wanderer from these ever desolate shores to the quaint old beaches of Brittany to sunny Azore cove, or to some dreamful tropic isle of song. Edgar L. Wakemax.

NOT SUCH A FOOL AFTER ALL. The Old Darkey Had Learned How to Duck During the War. N. Y. Sun. From whore we sat on the tavern veranda we could look right across the Mississippi river, although at the edge of the river, on our side, there was a bluff forty feet high, with a ßtrong current below. All along this bluff were commons, and we had an unobstructed view. We were talking and smoking when a goat came around the corner of an old abandoned warehouse and began to feed toward us. Five minutes later an old white-headed darkey, using a cane to help him along, came out from behind the same warehouse and stood almost on the edge of the bluff and appeared to gaze across the river. "What a fat take that goat has got, if he only knew it!" whispered one of the party. "What a fool of a nigger to take such a risk!" growled a second. We ought to have warned the old man, who seemed totally unsuspicious of danger, but we didn't. Human nature is just that way. He had been there two or three minutes, when the goat observed him and began to twitch his tail. It was none of his business that the man was there, and no law compelled him to kick up a fuss, but we all saw that he meant to do it. As he gathered for a run every man rose up to warn the victim, but no warning was uttered. It was human nature to want to see the fun. The goat shot away like a flash, and as he drew near he made a long jump to give full force to the intended blow. Next instant both had disappeared, and we ran down expecting to see them struggling in the muddy watero. As we reached the bluffs the old man rose up from a pit dug within two feet of the edge, and grinned and lifted his hat and said: "Mawnin', gom'len.' Spected to fiad me down dar', I reckon." He pointed to the goat, which was swimming wildly about as the current carried it down, and one of the party replied : "Yes, wo certainly thought you were a goner. You dropped in there, eh ? You must have been pretty quick about it." "Wall, sorter, but dat was no trick at all. Doorin' de wah, when de Yankee gun-boats lay ober dar' an' frowed shot at de guns up heah, I war one of de cull'd gem"len who handled de shovel an' de sand-bags. Pat's whar' I 'larned to duck. Dem Yankees didn't know me, an' dey kept tryin' to kill me, an' I had to duck an' dodge so often dat after de wah closed I nebber got straightened up agin. Ize bin layin' fur dat goat more'n two weeks, an' now he's dun gone an' won't lodder nobody no mo'. I used to cuss dat wah when it was goin, but now I see what a blessin' it was. Whar' would de old man be now if de Yankees had not frowed ten tons of cannon balls at him an' l'arned him to duck?" SOME GOOD RECIPES. Not Cake One cup of sugar, one-half cap of butter, one and one-half cups of flour, onehalf cup of cold water, two ee?s, two and onehalf teaspoons of baking-powder, two cups of hickory or walnut meats. Jumbles One cup of iujjar, one-half cup butter, two esrjrs, one cup sour milk, one-half teaspoonful of soda, one tablespoon.'ul of caraway need, flour enough to roll; form small round cakes and bake a lujht brown. Lemon Cheee Cake One pound of sugar, one-half pound of butter, juice of three lenon, grated rinds of two, yelks of six fggs, whites of four; beat thoroughly, put in a jar and place in a pan of water, and boil till thick; turn in a mold; nerve cold. Vegetable Marrow au CJratin Parboil two marrows, quarter them, drain thorouehly, and place them on a buttered dish; sprinkle over grated Parmesian cheese, pepper and alt to taste, and a little grated nutmeg; lay small pieces of butter on the top; cover with finelypowdered bread crumbs, bake for twenty minutes, and serve very hot. Croquettes of Fowl Mince the remains of a cold fowl, carefully removing all skin and bone, and fry three shallots in one ounce of butter; add the minced fowl, dredge in one teaspoonful of pounded sugar, and suiticient white sauce to moisten it; stir to it the well-beaten yelks of two eggs, and set aside to cool; make the mixture into balls, dip in egg and bread crumbs, and fry a rich brown. Tomato Soup Wash, scrape and cut small the red parts of three large carrots, three heads of celery, four large onions and two turnips; put them in a saucepan with a tablespoonful of butter and a half pound lean ham ; let them stew very gently for an hour; then add three quarts of brown gravy soup and a little black pepper, with eight or ten ripe tomatoes; let boil for an hour and a half, then strain through a sieve; serve with fried bread cut in dice. Tomatoes a l'ltalienne Dip some tomatoes in hot water, peel them, cut them in half, and remove the pips; put a little olive oil in a baking-tin, place the tomatoes in it, and cover them with the following mixture: Two parts bread crumbs, one part ham finely minced, and parsley, garlic, basil, thyme and marjoram to taste, chopped finely, sprinkle with pepper and salt; pour some olive oil over and bake. Tomato Omelet Beat six eggs to a froth, mix two tablespoonfuls of flour in a little water and add some salt and pepper; peel and chop very fine four ripe tomatoes, stir this altogether, put a piece of butter half the size of an egg in a frying-pan, heat it very hot, turn in the mixture, then let it stand to brown three or four minutes, fold it in half, put on a hot plate and serve very hot. Tomatoes au Gratin Dip the tomatoes in hot water and peel them; cut them in half and remove the pips; rub a baking-tin with garlic, butter it. lay the tomatoes in it side by side, and fill each naif with the following: Two parts of bread crumbs, one part mush-rooms finely minced, a little parcel y chopped fine, pepper and salt to taste ; put a small piece of butter on each. Bake from ten to fifteen minutes and serve. Tomatoes Sautees Cut four ripe tomatoes into quarters, remove the pips and watery substance; cut an onion into the thinest possible slices, put these into a stewnan with a large pieee of butter, and keep shaking the stewpan until the onions are cooked, but not browned; then add the tomatoes, with butter and salt to taste, toss the whole on the fire till the tomatoes are cooked, which will be in about ten minutes. Serve on toast or with sippets of fried bread. Braized Leg of Mutton Line the bottom of a braizing pan with a few slices of bacon, pat in four carrots, three onions, a little parsley, a bunch of herbs, pepper and salt to taste; over these place a small leg of mutton; cover tha whole with a few more slices of bacon and a few veal trimmings, with half a pint of water; stew gently for four hours; strain the gravy, and reduce to a glaze over a brisk fire; after having glazed the mutton with it send to table; garnish with braized onions. Scarlet Beans Saute Cut two pounds of beans into snreds an inch and a half long, throw them into cold water with a little salt in it, and let remain for an hour; drain and put into fastboiling water, with a tahlespoonful of salt, and boil very fast (uncovered) for fifteen minutes; drain in a colander, then place them in a stewpan with two ounces of butter, a little chopped parsley and chives; let simmer gently for ten minutes, tossing the beans over every few minutes; add a little white pepper and serve very hot. "Weak and weary" describes the condition of many people debilitated by the warm weather, by disease or overwork. Hood's Sarsaparillais just the medicine needed to build u p and strengthen the body, purify and quicken the siuggUh blood and restore the lost appetite.

AN. AUGUST FARM "BUDGET.

STOCK-RAISING'S VALUE TO A FARMER. Other Topics For Our Agricultural Friends Among: the Poultry Garden sod Field Notes Some Good Recipes Household Hints For tha Sick-Boom. Whether the keeping of stock is for the purpose ol conducting a dairy or for the sale of meat, says the Philadelphia Record, the farm itself is made more valuable, and for this reason it is doubtful if a loss occurs in etock-raismj? when the receipts and expenses are nearly equal. The farmer views only the amount he has received from Bales, and compares it with the sum expended. If there is no profit the venture is considered a loss. But it is a truth that all materials brought on a farm remain until removed, and though they may change in form yet they possess value for some purpose. The farmer who buys large amounts of bran, middlings and other refuse of the mills brings on his farm that which remains as an investment until it can be converted into some other salable product. Every ounce of food procured for the use of stock is converted into beef, mutton, pork, milk or manure. In the shape of meat and milk the farmer disposes of it at an increased price, but the expenses are to be deducted. All that remains on the farm unsold, after the cost of the whole has been secured in the Bales, is just as much a matter of profit as that which h&s been marketed, and this surplus is the manure, which can be converted into food the next year. The farm is, therefore, increased in fertility and at the same time increased in value, the profits being expended on the farm as manure. If the value of the manure annually made in this country could be estimated on some basis the figures would be startling, and they would show that the farmers create more wealth than the estimates given in the crops only. It is an old proverb, "More stock more manure; more manure more crops; more crops more stock." There is, of course, a limit to be reached somewhere in the increase, but the farmer who engages in stock-raising is sure to reach a point where bis stock cannot dispose of the productions of the Boil by producing meat and milk, and his expenses are then reduced by rea-son of his abundance and independence of the necessity of buying elsewhere, which increases the profits from sales and gives the farm a greater value, due to its capacity of production, and in that respect he may be storing up the profit of each year to reap it at a future time in the shape of the surplus crops sold over and above the amount required for stock. The farmer whose farri "s abundantly stocked with all the anirr. 1 ; he can accommodate, and who sells his hay, is not always as unwise as is sometimes charged, as the hay in tiroply a portion of the surplus which has been added to the farm in the manure, and which now becomes profit. Among the Poultry. The Republic Türe water is necessary to health. This month is a good time to hatch bantams. Clipping one wing will generally prevent living. The Plymouth Rock is one of the best general purpose fowls. Gather eggs once a day at least and sell as often as twice a week. - Young turkeys should be fed Tegularly now in order to keep them growing. A clean, comfortable house has much to do with securing eggs in the fall and winter. Where the fowls are running out one rooster to every dozen hens is all that is necessary. From now until the holidays ducks sell at a low price ; except for home use, either for the table or for the feathers, it will hardlv pay to raise them. Guineas are not often sent to market; those that are raised are either to keep for layers or to use on the table. Watch the market. It is as much an item to pell well as to raise economically. At this time it is often the case that the turkey hens will be coming np with young turkeys that thev have hatched out in the weeds. These should have good care and be kept out of the weeds while the dew is on. In building the poultry house the size of the breed of fowls, as well as the number, should always be considered, as this will, in some cases, make quite a difference. Poultry food should always be seasoned, but not too highly. Salt and pepper are oth beneficial in moderate quantities, but should not be given to excess. While the weather is so hot attention must be given to the houses, the runs and the coops kept clean ; use plenty of Ihne, keep dry; use drv earth as a deodorizer. If you would know to a certainty whether or not the poultry are profitable, keep an account of the cont; then when they are sold the difference between the cost and what they bring will be the amount of profit or loss. Xow is a good time to purchase whatever breeding stock is needed. A better selection can be made, letter prices secured and with the stock on hand you can manage as suits you best. It is not a good plan to use a Fekin drake with the common ducks. The offspring do not do as well, nor will the eggs hatch so well, as if the breeds are kept pure. A cross of the Aylesburgand Pekin will do, however. Farm and Garden Notes. In making a fence do not forget that the rigiag fence leaves many corners for harboring weeds. Growing pjes may be fed buttermilk and whey, but the principal food at this season should be grass. A row of raspberries 100 fest long will give an abundant supply for an ordinary family. Plant a few red raspberries this falL . The German prune and tha plum are so nearly allied that they should not be grown in the same orchard or they will hybridize iu fruit. The summer is the time to put the barn in condition for winter. Painting should be done now, and the roof should be made tight and close. The breed is an important factor in stockraising. The breed adapted for the object sort will give better results aud at a lower cost proportionately. When "scours" occurs with animals feed nothing but rut hay tor a few days. iScald the hay aud add a little salt to iL Diet is better than medicine. It is very difficult to keep toads out of wells, and this matter is an important one if pure water is desired. Toads drown, siak to the bottom and there decompose. All baron should be so constructed as to allow the family cat to go anywhere under or in it, as a precaution against rats and mince, which destroy more than may be supposed. The early turnips may now be cleared off and another crop grown on the same ground for family use. Use plenty of mannre, pull np the grass and weeds if the plot is small, aud have the soil made deep and fine. Wire fencing for poultry yards are cheap and good, but the lower part of the fence should be of boards, in order to avoid quarreling of the males in adjoining yards. The boards also serve as a wind-brake in winter. Corn in the glazing stage makes the best fodder. If cut wben the ear is hard the stalk is then, to a certain extent, woody, and if cat verr young, before the ears are formed, the stalk abounds in water and is lacking In nutrition. When the ear is about filled and beuncjr to

glare the cutting of the corn at that stage arrests the nutritive elements in the stalk, and the fodder is then equal to hay, being fed to stock with the ears on the stalk or cut up in a cutter. The fodder from the early sweet corn is one of the best foods that can be used for milch cows. The fodder is improved if cut and stored in the barn, so as to be kept clean and bright. If cut up with a cutter cattle will eat every portion of the stalk. Stagnant pools of water in the fields should not be relied upon as the sources from which the cows are expected to derive water. Impure water not only affects the health of the cows but renders the making of choice butter an impossibility. . Wethen intended for market can be made fat in a short time if separated from the flock and put in a pen for a week before sending them to market. The ewes not intended for breeding should be fatteued at the same time. liaising mules pays for the reason that it costs less to raise mules than horses, and, being hardier, there is less risk of loss. Where there is plenty of pasturage a young mule will secure nearly all the food he may require. Sheep are not profitable if kept as a "side business." A flock that is given the same attention that is bestowed on other stock, and kept as a business venture, will pay a larger profit for capital invested than any other class of stook, but sheep pay best when bred for mutton rather than for wool. When the branches of the tomato vines look as if the leaves had been stripped oft make a close search for the green worm, which is about two inches long and half an inch in diameter. Unless the worm is caught it will eat np all the foliage, and as it is nearly of the color of the vines it is easily detected. It will not pay to attempt to farm with fewer horses than are really required. An overworked horse may be reduced in value more than the sum that may be derived from the crop he prodnoes. Every farmer should hare a spare horse or two in order to rest the hard worker, especially in summer. An excellent mode of ridding animals of lice is to add one quart of kerosene to ten quarts of soapsuds, and with a hand sprayer or nozzle of any kind spray the emulsion on the animals. It will kill the lice and the eggs. A thorough sprinkling with potato water (water in which J potatoes have been boiled) will cause lice to eave, but will not kill them. Strawberry beds that have not been kept clean since the berries were off will be quickly overrun with grass and weeds. If the weeds are id possession of the bed they may be mowed down. Grass will be more difficult to remove, and the best that be done is to clean between the rows thorough in order to allow room for the new runners to root and grow. To secure flowers successively the bushes and vines most be kept in flowering condition by not allowing the flowers to remain and go to seed. When a plant produces seed it has accomplished its object, and every seed pod formed lessens the number of flowers. AU flowers should be cut off before they begin to fade or change color.

Household Hints, That cool rain water and soda" will remove machine grease from washable fabrics. That ripe tomatoes will remove ink and other stains from white cloth; also from the hands. That a tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with white clothes will aid in the whitening process. That boiled starch is much improved by the addition of a little sperm salt or gum arabio dissolved. That kerosene will soften boots or shoes that have been hardened by water and render them as pliable as new. That salt will curdle new milk, hence in preparing milk porridge, gravies, etc., the salt should not be added until the dish is prepared. That kerosene will make tin tea-kettles as britrht as new. Saturate a woolen rag and rub with it. It will also remove stains from varnished furniture. That clear boiling water will remove tea stains and many fruit stains. Pour the water through the stain, and thus prevent its spreading over the fabric. That blue ointment and kerosene mixed in equal proportions and applied to the bedsteads is an unfailing bedbug remedy, as a coat of whitewash is for the walls of a log house. That beeswax and salt will make rusty flatirons as clean and smooth as glass. Tie a lump of wax in a rag and keep it for that purpose. When the irons are hot rub them first with the wax rag, then scour with a paper or cloth sprinkled with salt. Suggestions For Sick. Rooms. A large, sunny room should be selected for the invalid; if without a carpet so much the better. Sunshine, as a disinfectant, is worth bushels of chloride of lime. The bed linen should be changed at least once in three days; the blankets once a week, those that have been removed being hung in the open air for a few Lours, then thoroughly aired in a warm room. The room should be kept thoroughly ventilated and at a temperature not lower than 64 degrees nor higher than 70 degrees. If the pntient is kept warm air may be freely admitted without the least danger. The carpet of a sick-room should be lightly brushed once a day with a wetted broom. The furniture and woodwork should be wiped with a damp cloth. Dry dusters and feather brushes are worse than useless. The cross sheet sbould invariably be kept free from crumbs and wrinkles, as these are a frequent cause of bed shores. Whenever the least rendness shows on the patient's body the skin must be at once bathed with alcohol, thoroughly dried and dusted with powdered oxide of zinc. A sheet folded once lengthwise, laid across the bed, with the upper ede just touching the pillows and the ends tightly tucked under the mattresses, will be found to add greatly to the patient's comfort. It does not wrinkle like a single sheet, and crumbs may be readily brushed oil it The nurse's dress should invariably be neat, tasteful and prelty. Slippers or boots of felt should be worn. To be continually smoothing the bed, pestering the patient with sympathy, and saying a dozen times an hour: "How do you feel now?" is enough to drive a sick man wild. Meals for invalids should look as tempting as possible. The tray should be covered with the whitest napkin, and the silver, glass and china should shine with cleanliness. The patient should not be disgusted by a display of too much food, and should not be consulted beforehand as to what he will eat or drink. In bathing the invalid never uncover too large a surface at once. Pin a blanket round the shoulders, fastening it behind, and remove the night-dress under that. Put the hand ander the blanket and sponge the skin, a small portion at a time. A woman's hair should be combed every day, if she is able to bear the fatigue. If it has become tangled a little sweet oil will loosen it Household troubles should be kept far from the sick-room. Above all, an invalid or an apparent convalescent should be saved from his friends. One garrulous acquaintance may in half an hour undo the good of a whole week of tender nursing. In long illnesses a small bedtable will be found indispensable. Every cup, glass, spoon and ntensil used should be taken out of the room and washed as speedily as possible. As to walking on tip-toe and whispering, nothing can disturb a sick person more. t Different Points of View. Sheffield Telegraph. A minister, with a rather florid complexion, had gone into the shop of a barber, one of his parishioners, to be shaved. The barber was addicted to heavy bouts of drinking, after which his bands were consequently unsteady in his work. In shaving the minister on the occasion referred to he inflicted a cut sufficiently deep to cover the lower part of the face with blood. The minister turned to t1 s barber and said, in atone of solemn severity: ''Yon see, Thomas, what comes of taking too ; nch drink." MAy," replied Thomas, "it makes the skia Terra tenner." Culture in tha West. Wt-stem School Journal. A teacher who had asked a girl to purchase a f ratnmar received the following note from the ittle girl's mother: "I do not desire that Mattie shall ingage in grammar as I prefer he r to ingage in more yousful studies and can learn her to speak and write proper myself. I went through two grammars, and I can't say as they did me no good I prefer Mattie to ingage in German and drawing and vokal niusio on the piano." Ayer's hair vigor gives vitality, gloss and fresh u ess to the hair, and restores its beauty. The correct way is to buy goods from the manufacturer when possible. The Elkhart carriage and harness manufacturing company, of LI k hart, Ind.; have no agents. They make first-class goods, ship anywhere, privdege to jtodiA See irertucineot.

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Notice to Creditors. CIRCUIT COURT, Eac Claire Col sty, Wiseuxsis. In the mattPr of .Tamos A'lam. by whom a petition for the discharge from his lr'nt. unrl r Chiutr 173 of the Ilovi-iori Matuto of Wisconsin aai Ach amendatory thereof, wa.i niado on the 17th da' of Mar, A. I)., 1S;U. Isotice is hereby plven that in pursuance of an onler of the Circuit Court of Kau C:airc county, "ironsin, niadt on tho day a;or' rid, all crod toM of the aid James Ada;us a.-; required to show chu 1: any they have, boforo the sail Circuit Court et tli court-hou In county 01 Kn !a!re r.t a pen'-rul term thereof to be held on tu"2:I A iv of Scitiii!er, 18"!), at 9 o'clock in the for-.n nin of "thru day, or a oon threaiter m couaol on ba hoard, why raid James Adams should not be adju V-1 to lear 'inolTent debtor within the mirview of Chapter 17'J of the lleviel statutes of V iscwiüin, aul why :in aii;i)ment of the estate of such Insolvent debtor should not be made, and why he should not ho dio!iar-tl from his debts, and such other an-t further order should rot bo made a. shall be just in thf premises. May 17, A. l. 19. J AM Ks iMUtil.AS, 12-lCt Attorney for said Petitioner. QTATE OF INDIANA, MARION COUNTY, O lathe Suierior Court of Marion County iu tho Mt of Indiana. fo. S0,7i. Corajdaint for iliTorce. Anna K. Ftone ts. William O. Stone. Be it known that on the CM day of July, 1-v), the aboro named plaintiff, by her attorney, tiled in the ofBe of the Cierk of the Superior Court of Marion county, in the Mate of Indiana, bor eouiplaint against the above named d feodant, William O. Stone, and the said plaintiiT havinir also tiled iu aid Clerk's office the affidavit of a competent person, showing that said defendant, William O. Hone, is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and thr.t Mid action is for divorce, and whereas i-aid plaiutifT having bv indorsement on said complaint required said dfciendant to appear in said court and answer or demur thereto on the 7th day of October. 1!. Now therefore, said defendant last above named i hereby notified of the filing and pendency of said complaint against him, and thst nnlo he arxav and aniwer or demur thereto, at the railing ot said cause on the 7th day of October, lSs'U, the same lein the first Judicial day of a term of said Court to be betrun and beld at the Court House in the City of Indianapolis, on the ürsl Monday in Ootler, l,v;9, said complaint and the matters and things therein contained and alleged will be heard and determined in bis abeenoe. JOHN R. WH.SOS, Clerk. Jamea L. Mitchell, Attorney for I'lainttf. ".l-.it JOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has duly qualified aa administrator of the estate of Ain u W. Craig, late of Marion county, Indiana, deceased. Said estate is mrpoed to he solvent. CHARLES A. RINGER, Admr. W. W. Woollen, Attorney. 81-3t SCHIFFKANH'S ASTHMA CURE tnotantlv rolloves th meet victct Mtsck. Kp MfAirf nor ffir r 1 1 1 tu It i.m imm'xii-ste.dire.-l aid certain, snd cure iv lherejir.lt "i in all eiim'.d caie A sirrle rA eonvl;iceh 1 j the most sknntical. IT'olV. find J I .(, ot ti dnngisto or W wilt IVisI psrVa; ; fV to n i ' p dc!' d(3Tvan !.. K.MHIFKM A X. Si. fan' Htnnf-; S-ooot Mmp. M ajres 'er Iay. rrati.Bi pc-iiioa. S. aa.wered. -"1 . nj cnj for advertising, trc Centennial Manufacturing Co. Cincinnati. O.

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