Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1889 — Page 5

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER (5, 18811.

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, HOWARD LITERARY.

A VOICE FROM ILLINOIS. K Friend Sends Word of Encouragement From Sinter State. Dear II. L. C. Friends. My first visit to our new home suggests to me a new, warm and loyal greeting. Strange, is it not, that so few of the old writers aro F-nuncr on the page? Avoid delay, as 1 purely do, my K. I C. friends. I cäme not invited, although ' one we wore united. The same fraternal heart is b ating. All things ready, a new homo I'm greeting. When the club was scattered end Storni alone, no tidings came only of faint hope and long delay. A fold without a shepherd, did I compare it. But hope, a tron;r anchor, did not fail me. With loy al hearts its growth increased. Aew lue arrayed in council met. ot apart in strifo did they appear, but all working for tho pood of the club. Not alone do I rcjoice, but others more worthy praised tefore me the budding of new hopes in soil well prepared, a building of moral growth. May feelings forcicn evade the J I. I. C. as lonsr as a Cornishman is able to sing th famous ballad f "Trelawny." ilnw often do we mv strife and contention blotting the good name and best intents of our hearts. It is a picture bearing upon mv mind of that kind, which was ercn in the land of chivalry, where cotton and slaves grew fide by fide, "although there were no people at that time more kind and hospitable than they." One p!e:iant evening a couple of young ladies and grandpa were fitting on the old-fashioned portico enjoying the beautiful K-en'ry'epread before them, and, judging by the" way the smoke curled as the old gentli-man purled away at his pipe, it was not the leni-t of his enjoyments. In one corner of the yard ftood "the negro quarter?. Here a chorus of meloUy enlivened the stillness of the nisht, while busy fingers separated the cotton end the se'ls. All seemed to be happy, and vied with one another in trying to please Mar. Lane. Hulda, a young negro girl, acted a-? maid-ot-all-work fur the white folks, and during a long stay there nothing happened to disturb the usual quiet, until one sultry evening a storm aro-e suddenly. Seeing a caged songster on a limb near the door, Hulda was told to brir.g it into the bouse, which she did, and left it on the floor. The lady told her to hang it on the wall, which was Jone. "Now," fays one lady, "you mind me, and take that cace down."" Says the other one: "We will see who i boss now? Don't you touch it, Hulda." Down went the coge, and then up again, and bo on alternately for a time, until the girl commenced crying, and ru-bed out of the room. Poör Hulda, she did not escajK-. She was punished, for what they called dio yingordf rs. for both bad agrievanee. Happily, repentance often follows to heal the wounds of rashness, but not always; they ran never be forgotten. I join with all iri thanking the editor for the use ct his excellent paper. "Howard," sent an interesting letter for the good of tho J I. L.. i". Not larking in that respect, are the letters of "Cheerful Invalid," "Cate Stoves," "Incog" and others. Tlease come forward, "Essie;" you write a good letter; so does "Maud Maple;" will you come? A KAN MORE. IViry, 111., Box 1'.". A WILLING HAND. Chat!ertox" Calls For n Home-Warnung in:l a Good Time Generally. Dear Howaro Friends I did not get to attend the reunion nor did I get a letter ctf injtime to be read, as I had intended ; but I ara willing, head and band, to help along tho cause. So here I am to help fix np our new quarters, and very nice they are, to be sure; plenty of room, but rather bare as yet. Come ail ye II. L. C. maidens and let's arrange and have everything cozy and nice. Oh ! yes, we want the boys, too, and Howard may assist at his carpet now. No, you need no talk ; we ran do that nicely and with the aid of this "carpet stretcher" (a woman's invention, by the way, ) we can do all the work. We only want a man around in case we smash our fingers. Men can pave us from becoming gentlemanly by "swearing high as gosh," as the small boy -ays. Nice to serve about house-cleaning time, I think, don't you? Leaves all the dirt for the new-comers in the old house, vou see! That is not charitable, did y6u cay, "Sappho?" Well, hang our motto right there where I ran fee it. Here in the bay window we must reserve a place for the invalids, and "Inrog" will arrange those lovely house plants here, for she not onlv possesses a ready hand, but a sympathetic heart. Why, "Elba," those books are arranged splendidly; who but you would have thought rf fixing them all around? So -it makes one feel like thev would get them all read i-orne time, and f think lots nicer than the old way of massing them all together. Se many hands at work, we are almot-t done work and how nice it looks. The "round table" in the center as of old. The "long bench" over there seems lonesome without "xpectrnore." It is growing dark ; we will have to do our best to "light up" with smiles until Albion brings his "gas," that is if we can persuade him to come. Oh ! yes, I see the ruotto and will return to the safe side at once and Feriously say I hope all of the old members wiil come and let's have a genuine house-warming soon. I think the editor is so generous he will give us the whole page if we fill it up fitly. I'll eend my dues promptly, don't know much about how far back I am, but I think I settled up about a year ago. With best wishes for one and all. with great hopes for the Euccess of the band, I am as ever Chatterbox. St. Paris, O., Oct. 27. MORE CONTRIBUTIONS WANTED. Boiln Is Satisfied Hat Wants Kverybodr To Write a Letter. Dear II. I C. Friends I am glad that members, one by one, are returning to the II. L. C. with their cheerful contributions. It is a consolation to know that Ihe Ion?, cold days of winter will be brightened by reading the good letters of distant and unknown but none the less dmired friends. The editor of The Sentinel has our warmest than kg for allowing us epace in his paper. New members will be greeted with cordiality, and old ones hailed with delight. It would be proper for some one of us who has pat in the "silent corner" during most of the heated summer to ftand in the middle of the floor and propose that the II. I C. vote a resolution of thank3 to the faithful and energetic members who, in spite of serious opposition, have successfully mantained ourcluborgaflization. Their devotion reminds one of the sentiment of the poet, when he wrote with such eicquence and beauty, of life's "golden mile-stone." We cannot bay with gold the old associations." Th'-ir fidelity will find its reward, for the aim of tho iÜ L. C. ia on which, beinz

directed for the advancement of humanity, must merit the approval of all who sympathize with earn

est efforts exerted for the exaltation of Christianity, for the promotion of education, for the elevation of morality, and for the refinement of society. It is the duty of each of us to come forward with some tlought which will help to brighten the page. Seeing the letters of many who hold pens more gifted than our own," w e often hesitate nbouj making an appearance. Don't stay for that reason. We may say but a few won Is only, but those few words may be just what is needed to bring forth something sublime from another. Sometimes we feel that all we can sav is known by the others, so that it Is unnecessary to take time and space for the purpose of repetition. But what is worth saying once is worth saying twice, and the repetition may make an impression on a mind and cause it to express one of the immortal thoughts. "WilminaV thoughts on character are good and very appropriate. It can truly be said that the citadel of true manhood and true womanhood is character. Head the following beautiful lines written by a Welsh poet: "Take thou no thought for auxht gars truth and riktht; Content, if such thy Ute, to die oWure ; Youth fail, and honor; fame mar not endure, And loftier souis soon wear of dtl gdt. "Keep innocent! he all a true man ought! l t aeither plens ire tempt nor pain appall. II ho hm this, has all thin.s, having naught; Who has it not, baa nothing, having all." We hope we may hear from gome better known memliers. With best wishes for the prosperity of the II. L. C, I subscribe myself, 3'our friend and ßister, Ireland, Ind., Oct. 2S. Kosixe. LIFE'S DISAPPOINTMENTS. "Sunset" Suggests a Remedy For Trial and Tronble. Dear II. L. C. Friends A greeting to all. Happy to meet you. I have come to give a few thoughts on disappointments. Disappointment is a defeat in a purpose, an overthrow of intention. There are defeats of mercy and of judgments. It is sometimes directly from the Almighty, and sometimes by the agency of man. To the human mind it is a fearful cyclone that carries everything within its reach in the opposite direction from which it was intended, leaving us in a dreary desert without even an oasis in eight," thickly overshadowed by impenetrable clouds and our minds tormented by demons of despair. .Such is disapjxintment to the worldly minded. Hut to the Christian the Comforter whom Christ promised is ever faithful. The angel of deliverance bidding us look up, we with gladness behold that the dark cloud which was only interspersed with here and there faint glimmers of light, has been transformed into bright letters of gold. Those letters are connected, spelling: "His appointment." Then, we would conclude that disappointment is the defeat of human purposes by the carrying out of God's designs. Had not Milton been deprived of his sight, probably, we would never have had his ' Paradise Ixst." Had not liunynn been thrown into prison, vre would not have "Pilgrim's Progress," a book surpassed, probably, only by the bible. Had not Christianity been eo persecuted it is quite likely that it would not be so widely dispersed as at present. "God, nothing does, nor sutlers to be done, but thou, thyself, wouldst do, couldst thou but see the end of all he does as he." I am glad we have found a home in The Sextixei., and we are all very thankful for the friendly otTer. "Sunset." Westfield, Ind., Oct. 31. KNOCKING AT THE DOOR.

A w Contributor it Clamoring- to Get Into the Club. Pear II. L. C. Being a silent though a much interested reader of these columns tänce their first appearance in The Sexti2 el, I can no longer refrain from seeking admittance. One of the necessary qualifications for membership is "sense." So says your honorable executive committee. In compliance with this requirement, I have forwarded twenty-five cents to your recording secretary, hoping it will secure me an active membership ticket. I have been a constant reader, and contributor of the Kriruirrrg "Fireside" for some time past, but acknowledging the superiority of The Sentinel as a medium for such an organization and admiring the brotherly, svmpathetic feeling which seems to exist between members of the II. L. O. much more than the criticising spirit of "The Fireside," I have concluded (with your consent and welcome of course) to join you. Fome time I desire to answer "WilminaV article in last week's issue. While differing from her in principle, I admire her pluck in presenting her views so fearlessly. Come again "Comet,'- "Eevergreen,"' "Bachelor," "Romping Kose" and others, greeting. "Cocxt Claudio." Indianapolis, Xov. 3. Consolation. Robbed of bis crown, the rightful king. In a damp and dismal dungeon mused; Nothing but dark storm clouds above me lower, oh piteous Lord, L-eal Justly with those who have thia wrong Infused. Abstränge sunbeam cams straggling through hli prison door. The breezes gently wafted freedom's victorious strain ; Soon from that prison cell a song broke clearly forth Joyous and mirthful, not one tad refrain. Without Are, one chill November night, An aged, lone, helplei couple sat ; 'Beg bread or starve," the anguished husband aaid, And both their cheeks with tears were wet. No, no, their only son, long mourned as dead. Came and bid them dry their streaming eyes; He owned a princely home beyond the seas, " There they should dwell neath emerald kiei. A maiden thonehtful of one early violet, Blooming near the garden's shadowy wall, Betook herself to capture the first prize, Waitimnot for the thrushes' faintest call. What should she find but a dismembered stalk? Some other hand had plucked the first fair flower, So she caressed a bud that grew beeide its parent stem, Saying "sweet Is the pleasure of a later hour." A youth whose every wish had been his mother's will, Ktood hopeless, speechless by her open grave, In his weak mind, he could not comprehend ; There only visible where sorrows tempest lave. A venerable white-haired preacher rose, and from God's book Read the sweet promise to ns mortals given; He smüeJ this youth then looking upward said, "Farewell, sweet mother, we'll meet in heaven." A pigeon dove all dressed in pi a ms gay. Proud in the possession of a rnow-whlte mate. Whoso presence brought continual happiness, "Had her torn from his side cruel her fate. She fall a prey to eagle's insatiate desire, Disconsolate he mourned, all food den; T, Butlo! ere many days himself consoled Another far less fair bocame his chosen bride. Ah! This dear burdened ones ia quite enough, T.i lift our thoughts beyond the ken ot men, And feel that we on day will enter port. Although we may not know just how or when. The buiden lifted from our aching limbs. Our present cross exchanged a Jeweled crown to be; We'll suffer all that thou dare send oh, Lord! At last to live and relga with Thee. C Ckcill Bhowk. Sit. Hope, W. Va., Sor. 2.

NOVEMBER FARM TOPICS.

THE LIVESTOCK DU RING THE WINTER. An All Important Subject Wheat For Fooltry Milking Trials and Hutter Tests Household Hints Among- ths Poultry Uecipea Farm Note. Under present eonditions, if cattle are fed to maturity, eays a correspondent of the St. Louis Republic, they must be fed as economically as possible. During the growing season this can bo done, in a majority of cases, by providing good pasturage. But during the winter dry feed must lo largely depended upon. It does not pay to stint the feed ; while it is neccessary that they should be wintered as economically as possible, this does not imply that they should be fed only enough to keep them alive. If the best profit is realized from the breeding, feeding and fattening of stock for market, a steady growth must bo maintained from birth until they are marketed ; Every day that they aro fed and no gain is made is a double loss; at the name time it is necessary to secure this gain as economically as posdible. One of the most important items in feeding for profit is eood shelter. A certain degree of animal heat is necessary to sustain animal life, and this can be secured at a much less expense by providing shelter than by supplying feed. If shelter is provided, grain must be fed in order to supply heat; but with good shelter the amount of grain necessary to secure a good 'gain can bo materially reduced. Corn is the principal dependence of the western farmer for wintering his stock, and it is one of the cheapest foods that can be used, if properly managed. The whole plant can be utilized and it comes nearer to making in itself a complete ration than anv other one plant. There are few if any materials that furnish all the element of nutrition in the proper proportion to 6C' cure the best gain at the lowest cost; and, as a rule if any one material is depended upon a lareer quantity will be required than if a combination is used. Yet with pood corn and fodder cattle can be kept gaining Bteadilv, and at a reasonable cost. Ilav, straw and bran can be used to add to the variety and to make up a more complete ration, and will add little a anything to the cost. In winter, at least, work is nearly al ways cheaper than feed; and providing comfortable shelter, feeding and watering regularly, and iurnisbinjr a variety will lessen tho quantity of feed required to keej the stock in a good thrifty condition. CJ rowing stock need not be fat; better health and a more rapid gain can be se cured if the stock are not kenttoo fat. Mill less feed will b required if the rough provender can all be run through a cutter, There is alwavs more or less waste in feed ing fodder, ftraw or hay whole. This waste can be lessened considerably by cuttins and providing tight rucks for feeding Bran can be added and the amount of grain lessened. Bran with hay, straw or fodder cut up fine makes a very good feed for growing cattle. In the coldest weather some corn meal can be added with profit. Bran is one of the cheapest feeding materials that can be supplied to cattle, tor the reason that it adds to the value, or rather makes with the other materials, a more complete ration ; and when it is an item to winter cattle or sheep economically, more or less bran can nearly always be used. Lessening the waste and making up more complete rations reduces the cost of feedine. And with good shelter, a good variety of feed, regular feed and M-aterlnar, cattle can le wintered at a low cost and yet a steady gain be secured. If the stock is not sheltered and the food is supplied on the ground at whatever time suits the feeder's convenience, if the water is supplied by cutting a hole in a creek or pond, and the cattle under this treatment weigh less in the spring than in the fall, all the feed given during the winter M ill be lost and the cattle, counting the feed at its market value, will have cost more than it will bring when ready to market. MILKING TRIALS AND BUTTER TESTS. Jersey Cows Beat the Guernseys at the British Dairy Farmers' Exhibition. The Fi. id. The records of the milking trials at the Islington exhibition, as usual, played havoc with the reputations of those who had, upon their private judgment, attempted to arrarge the milch cattle in the order of their merit for dairy purposes. Cows, proved afterward to have extraordinary dairy qualities, had been passed over altogether; and others had been promoted to cups and other honors which could not get even into the second class as yielders of plenty or of rich miik. Among Jersey cows" was the wonderful cow of the show, he," too, had been put the lowest of a group of live island-bred Jerseys which had lieen selected for chief honors in ä fine class; but in the milking test she distanced them all indeed, no one of the other four got a milking record at all. Baron's Progress had a grand total of 117 pounds thus beatinc both the shorthorns and claiming the position of the best milker in the hall. Her per centage of butter fat was fully 8 per cent., and she proved that she was giving butter at the rate of twenty-three pounds five ounces weekly. This is bv far the largest record yet made in public in England, though it is behind what has been reported from the United states of America. The best Guernsey record fell far lehind the Jersey indeed was not equal to the beet two shorthorns or the best red-polled cows. The best Guernsey, like Baron's Progress, had not got into the money of the original awards, but she won 98.5 points, and beat all of her own breed. The best Ayrshire return was 0G.8, and the best Holstein or Dutch cow (to gain which for town dairymen's use such grievous risks to the health of the national stock of cattle have been run) only scored 72 points i. e., was quite ft third-rate dairy animal where quality is taken into account. A Jersey, for the first time, gets to the very top ; but the second and third milkers were unpedigreed short-horns, which thus (until we have all the particulars of the feeding) are able still to challenge all rivals as the best English-bred of dairy cattle. The tests, instituted by Guernsey breederswhich were made by the churn and not by the chemist corresponded generally with those of the milking trials. It will be seen that, wherests, in the judge's selection by appearance, all the money went to imported cows, the test of the churn placed three English-bred cows above the wholo of the imported prizetakers. All the Guernsey records aro below thoso for Jerseys. Baron's Progress is a pomewhat long-legged, yellowish-gray, six years old ; very Jersey-like, yet not having to any marked degree the external characteristics which wo are assured by show

yard judges are necessaries for the buttermaking Jersey. -.u Wheat For Ponltry. American Poultry Yrd. This is one of the best grains for poultry. The kernels may bo fed whole, crushed or cracked. The wheat may also be swelled in cold water for three or four hours. The tailings, or screenings as commonly called, may be used and are richer in flesh-forming material than the better wheat, but unfortunately they often contain a portion of weed see Is of various kinds, some of which are valueless as poultrv feed ; and also broken grains of wheat, which are apt to be somewhat rancid, for the covering of all grains when intact shuts out the air and is essential to good keeping. Bran may be given scalded or stirred into a mash with hot potatoes, but should be alternated with grain. Bran live parts and middlings one part make a mixture much preferred to meal. Moistened bran seems to sour more than the whole wheat. Wheat-meal has about tho same qualities as the erain. Wheat is a dear article of food, generally, but is very much liked by fowls. It is rich in material for growth, and stimulates the egg function. " It seems to be easy of digestion although too much of it fed suddenly, sometimes sets up a diarrhoea. It should be given less freely than corn. Wheat screenings, as above mentioned, are full of seeds and fine dust ; all this must be eaten if the screenings are ground; therefore it is best to feed them raw.

An All Important Subject. It is worthy of attention, says the Ripley Jottnvil, that the crop-producing power of cultivated land in this p?rt of Indiana, as well as of that throughout the eastern and central parts of the United States in general, is rapidly decreasing, and some steps ought to be taken to arrest this decrease before the point of absolute sterility is reached. Crop reports running back over the last decade show a total falling off in large sections of the country of nearly ö(J per cent, and this fact ought to be sulhcient to rouse us from the lethargy in which we have fallen regarding our future interests. There are at present many portions of the earth's ßurface ab solutely barren, but which were at one time noted for their tenuity, uch will, in time, be the case here unless something is done to prevent it. Any good farmer knows how to keep Iiis farm from running down, but onlv a few of them make a practical application of their knowledge. Amnnr the Ponltry. The Republic. Poultry can be fattened cheaper now than later. When sold by the ponnd. raising the laree breeds for market will be found the most profit able. liy keeping in srood condition now the fowls that are to be wintered over, it will cost less to winter them. Warmth and a variety of food are necessary if a supply- of eggs is to be secured through the winter. Geene do much better if they can have the run of a good grass plot. They like purslade and plantine, however. A sprinkling of coal ashes nnder the roosts can be given with benefit wnea tney can be readily had. Ducks aod peese should not be picked too late in the fall or they will sutler from the cold. it will add considerably to tae cost oi winter ini? the roultrv if a lot of vounir cockerels are wintered over. They should be marketed rea sonably early. It the poultry are obliged to walk in wood ashes it will make their feet sore; hence it is not best to use them in the poultry-house ex cept as a dust-bath, and then they should be kept in a box. -An air space between the1 trails will add considerably to the warmth ot the house; in building or repairing for winter this should be remembered. The most profitable duckaare tho?e of the larger breeds, and they, if properly managed, can be made to return a good per cent, on the money invested. Late pullets will rarely lay until spring, so that if there are more than is desired to keen through tho winter, it will be better to seil them than the older hens or eaiier pullets. By this time all the poultry should be trained to roost in the house. There is alwavs au increased risk or loss when they are allowed to roost outside, while the fowls will be much less uncomfortable. In feeding condiments salt, popper, ginger. or anything of that kind care Bhould be taken to mix thoroughly with the food. This will be found much better than to attempt to give alone. A bundle of wheat or oats and a head or two of sorghum seed, hung np in the poultryhouse, put high enough to compel tiie fowls to make a good jump to reach it, will add materially in giving them exercise. Keep the ducks and other fowls out of the hog pen. It is mnch easier for a hog to acqnire the habit of eating poultry than to break him of the habit alter it is once formed. Fowls will keep healthier if they can have a supply of green food during the winter and now is the time it should be gotten together and stored away. Cabbage, turnips, beets, car rots or potatoes can all be used to advantage. It requires much more care than the average farmer can well give to attempt to Keep a large number of poultry. A moderate number will. as a rule, prove the most profitable, but a good variety will certainly pay. It is the care given during the next four months that largely determine the amount of profit that it is possible to realize from -the poultry. After you are obliged to begin feeding the quicker the surplus poultry is marketed the better. As the weather gets colder the cost of keeping is materially increased while there is usually very little if any advance in the market price. Only a siur.ll number of ducks, turkeys and guineas should be wintered over. A good supply can be obtainen next year and the eggs are not so valuable at the time they will lay. More chickens should be kept than any other variety, as with good treatment they will give a supply of eggs during the winter. Ducks lay next best to hens, usually beginning in February. J Farm Notes. It is very difficult to clean grass seed, and the farmer who buys his clover and timothy seed will always be liable to have his field seeded with weeds. In cases where the seeds are coarse it will pay to thoroughly hand-pick the seeds on stormy days, so as to have them clean by spring. It is a tedious kind of work, but in some cases is a necessity.. Every season the weight of fleece increases. A weight of forty-five and one-fourth pounds is now reported for the fleece of a merino ram four years old. The fleece was for 3(i5 days growth. Heavy fleeces, however, should be washed before weighing them, as grease and dirt add to the weight. In some cases the weight of the fleece is one-haii that of the body. Hemp can be easily grown in nearly all sec tions of thia country, but the obstacle to its successful cultivation is the labor of preparing it for market. There is a wide field for inventive genius in devising appropriate machinery for specially treeting hemp and other fibrous plants which demand more labor than can be profitably bestowed on them. Cold water will absorb, according to ihn "American Dispensatory,", used by all druggist, about ;W per cent of its own weight in salts, and boiling about 40 percent This makes what is known as a satnratea Dnne, wnicn always means all the salt which the water will dissolve. In salting butter the brine seldom is made stronger than 30 to 34 per cent of salt Soapsuds on the manure heap is beneficial. The suds not only adds the so. I a and other ele ments of the soap to the ber.p, but also induces chemical changes, during which processes the ammonia is, to a certain extent, prevented frora escaping. The alkaline matter also largely ansists in rendering some of the solid matter soluble, and reduces the whole to a finer condi tion. Stands should be made ready for the tender plants that are to be kept in the house over winter. Geraniums, coleus and other plants must be potted without delay. The roots of dahlias should be stored where the frost will not reach them, as also those of cannas and the bulbs of wladiolus. Tha roots of hardy roses

left in the ground should be well covered with earth by banking around them. A peculiar vehicle on which to draw cornstalks consists of four large wagon wheels with a tongue and axles seven or eight feet long, with a large platform swung under, about afoot from the ground. This will hold all any team should draw. Thus equipped, two meu soon clear a large field, drawing about 1,000 hills to the load. The many advantages of gathering corn in this way are plainly to be seen. 'arm, Stock and Jlomc A physician of our acquaintance who has a large practice where roads are of very hard gravel, and who drives his horses very bard at time", has worked them for several years without shoes and with advantage. Of course, draught horses drawing heavy loads over stony or very hard roads or pavements need heavy shoes with calks, but there are many farm horses in the country that we believe would be more serviceable as well as comfortable without shoes, except in icy weather. Matsachxuctu Ploughman. Get good road-grading machines, make a few miles of road in each township every year, as the work is readily done, encourage wide tires to keep the roads good, tile-drain, macadamize or brick-pave the roads, and show to the world our characteristic American enterprise in our public roads as in our private works. Sörthicestcrn Agriculturalist. Some Good Recipes. Winter Succotash This can be made of dry Lima beans and canned corn which may be left from former dinuers. Warm them over together with a little milk and butter, and thicken tho milk with a little flour. Brown Bread One pint of Indian meal, onehalf cup molasses, one tablespoonful salt, twothirds cup of yeast and one pint of hot water; mix, let it rise, steam three or four hours and brown the top a little in an oven, Hazel Tudding Beat two egars very well; add to them one gill of new milk, two ounces of castor sugar, one ounce of finely shred orange peel, aud enough pounded nuts to form a stitf paste. Bake in a buttered dish for an hour. Baked Steak A good way to cook steak when the top of the stove is occupied is to place it in a tin, season with pepper and salt rover with another tin and bake one hour. To those that relish them, onions placed between the slices make another dish for the table. Roast Partridges Fluck, draw and wipe dry, cut off the head, leaving sufficient skin on the neck to skewer back, rub with salt and pepper and sprinkle a little sage inside, bring tho legs close to the breast, pass skewer through

the thick part of the thighs, roast thirty min utes, baste with butter frequently, and serve with gravy and fried br.s of dressing. English Muffins Make up over night one quart of flour with cold water as soft as you can handle it Put in a little salt and a quarter cake (dissolved) of Vienna yeast. Stir together and set aside in a warm place. The next morn ing beat up one egg, yolk and the white sep arately, to a still paste, rut it in the mixture and beat well with a spoon. Bake in large muffin rings on a griddle. Chicken Potpie One pair of chickens, Joint them and boil in three quarts of water, with a few slices of sa't pork added; season with salt and pepper. When they are nearly done add a crust made of one quart of flour, one saltspoonful of salt, four teapoontuls of baking powder, mix with water or milk to a stiff batter and drop into the kettle while the chicken is boiling; cover very close and cook half an hour. Head Cheese Clean and scrape the pigs' heads, boil them in salt water until the flesh loosens from the bones. Take out the meat season with salt and pepper in the proportion of one oHnee of pepper to four of salt and any herbs you prefer sweet basil and thyme are good stir thoroughly, tie in a thin cloth and hanff it to drain. When perfectly cold and dry take it from the cloth and put under pres sure to snape it lor slicing. Household Hints. For poison oak, bathe in cream and gun powder twice a day till cured. Wash gilding with water in which onion has been boiled and dry with a soft cloth. If the eggs you have to use for frosting are not quite as fresh as you could desire a pinch ot salt will make tbem beat stiller. Strong muriatic acid applied with a cloth, and the spot washed thoroughly with water, is recommended to remove ink 6tains from boards. To remove white spots from furniture rub them with a cloth wet in weak spirits of camphor, and afterward with a very little lin seed oil. The repeated application of oil of cinnamon will cause those ugly excrescences warts to disappear. Rubbing them with salt is also rec ommended. For polishing windows and mirrors use a teaspoonful of ammonia in each pailful of water, or enough to make it feel soft; dry with a clean cloth or soft paper. A very convenient way to poison rats and mice is to mix arsenic with melted tallow and cool it into a cake. Have the tallow barely melted, not hot when the arsenic is put in. A bottle or jar, unpleasantly odorous, can, it is said, be cleansed by filling with buttermilk, leaving a day or two, or longer, and then washing well with warm soap-suds. In very bad cases it may be necessary to repeat the process several times. To purify a room, set a pitcher of water in the apartment, and in a few hours it will have absorbed nearly all the respired gases in the room, the air of which will have become purer, but the water utterly filthy. The colder the water the greater the capacity to contain these gases. At the ordinary temperature a pail of water will absorb a pint of carbonio acid gas and several pints of ammonia. The capacity is nearly doubled by reducing the water to the temperature of ice. Hence the water kept in a room for a while is unfit for use. KNOTTY PROBLEMS. Onr readers are invit d to furnish orl;l aal enlgmas.chara'ies, ri'iillo, rebuses, and othor "Knotty Problems," addressing all communications relative to this department to E. U. Chadbourn, Lewiston, Me. No. 2931 Numerical. Kntrod for prire. a raovERB. 111 Jh 21,13,14,4,12. 10,16,7,8. 26,1,20,6. 27,I9,5A3. 17,25,23,6. 15,22,24,2 iT i,9,24,3. Mis sue Hixoaa. No. 293 Almost a Tfedding. Entered for prize. Once Upon time, so I've heard say. An awkward woman was taking her way Through forest shady and meadows green Where da.sies and lines were otten seen; When a rural god. residing near by. This woman ungraceful, happened to spy, Like many another, in love he fell. For what eartuiy reason do -.norm can leu; His suit so earnest, no denial would take. Such passion as his through all bars will break. At last she conseniea to oq wea on me spot, So a parson was sumraonea to mere tie tue Knot, Symbolic of union through fair and foul weather, lie made them first, their hands join together, When, strange to relate, like lightning flash, The punishment came for action so rash Tliey both disappeared, and now on the spot Was only pudding all steaming and hot"; The parson surprised such, wonders to see, h.-grined, indeed, at losing his feo. Hut delicious steam his iioMrils in tinted, Tempting his appetite now to be sateL The ruddinz lis found was made up In slices Of apple and bread with plenty of spices, A nd that day, at learnt, it could not be said That praying and fasting he went to his bed. . I ja. t. Vr OODFORD, No. 2933 Arithmetical. I. A school lad, Orecnlea' was my joy, And L it vooreteotious bov.

for Infants "CatttorlA is so wtl adapted to children that t recommend it aa superior to any prescription kaowa to me." IL JL Aacnia, 21. D., HI 8o Oziord St( Brooklyn, K. Y Could tell the real from alloy However groat the mix. The grare professor in our school Taught mathematics, as a rale, I a wars that germinate the fool. For ovr and tit made liiiy-tU. IL It was a most pecuiiar place. This country srhool-buuM, Toid of grace, And rural scholars in the race Just figured up eleven. Put all are pone, and I Ion Am left to tell how it waa done; The grave professor taught each one That "tiset Ihre made netm!" J. E. M. No. 2934 A Hunch of Keys. 1. What key will admit you to the lock-up? 2. What key will let you out again after your term has expired? 3. What key is hard to turn? 4. What key will turn itaflf ? 5. What is the key to the dining-room on Thunksgirinfr day? 6. What ii the key to the southern question ? Ethtu No. 2935 Several Pairs of Twins. (Entered for prize. To show you what I mean by twins Takerr, if you pleas; This I would rail two furs or tkins. That make a scalp disease. r. Two common flounders from ihe sea, Alike from head to tail. In plumage, Toice and shape will be The Persian nightingale. ii. Two drones, as exiles from the swarm, Each mad enough to froth, Proceed to India, there to form A kind of cotton cloth. III. Two sailors, on the shore discerned, Securely apprfhend; And now the laugh oil you is turned, You're caught yourself, my friend. Two hands (of course yourself and I Hare ne'er them so traduced). Will make a tree a scor feet high, In climates warm produced. Two nicknames, rarely Wring hoys Tdl thoy bar men become. Will show vou bv a deaf'ning noise A large. Cat Hindoo drum. VL Two buls note, of strains quite short, That on your hearing steal. Will njake a bird of sparrow sort, Whoso home is in Brazil. Vli. Two hedges, such as 'rim a lawn, Or yet a garden bhicl.i. Ikcome by use oi bra n and brawn, A fence or bank concealed. Till. Two aromatic coffee trees That nourish ne r the Nile, Produce a sugar-rluia with ease, On which all children smile. Menu's; ISo. 2936 Charade. Mande waa a beauty Of radiiDtprinwi, And a fair frond In pose or in rhyme. She aspired to le total iler blunder excuse. railed sue to mind her MP'." .I I,, I I'. WiLPEMAX. 'o. 2937 Sqnarc. Entered for prize. 1. Confidence. 2. A large farming establishment 3. To uncorer. 4. Frightened. S. To pilfer. 6. A fusible nietallc composition for uniting the surface of metals. CointLess, Bloomington, Ind. So. 2938 Anagram. I asked a "teacher," frail In health, If his profession led to wealth. "O, no." wud hn, "I labor hard. And small, indeed, is my reward ; Stern poverty I have to face, 'A Rude Cot' is my dwelling place." Nr.LSOKiAr. The Prize List. These prizes are to be given for the best lots of three original puzzles, of the specified kinds, received before the cioseol the year: 1. Puzzles of any kin I, ?13. 2. Illustrated puzzles, t large aths of the world. 3. "Korms" of inr kind, 5. 4. Transpositions or anagrams, fi. 9. Charades, ?2. 6. Numerical s, 82. 7. I-Uer enigmas, SJ. S. Decapitations, Si 9. Curtailments. Si 11. Diamonds, ?i 11. Squares, J2. 12. Htars, fl. 13. Double or triple acrostica, SI. 14. Half squares, SI. 15. Hhoraboids, tl. In addition, ten fine books will be awarded a special prizes. The first picture puzzle entered for prize 2 is No. 2,931. Who will send the next? Answers. 2922 Divide the year 13." in equal parts by a horizontal line, and you have 1000 in each, the cube root of which Is ten. 202J STATES TALENT , ALPACA TEAPOT ENCORE STATED 2924- Ureka Bakery. 2925 S: 12 78 39 4 N Y M P FI 292 Sheepish. 2927 AORTA THROW HELOT A Z O P n N K C H O I I I. K K K L V I N L E T if K Particular; articular. 2.9291. Lord Alfred Tennyson. 2. Thomas Alva Edison. 8. Gen. Iku langer. 4. Corporal Tanner. 6. r ather Iamion. 6. tirorer Cleveland. 7, Benja min Harrison. 8. John JJoyls U iwiily. 2,930 lip-top. Didn't et the Money's Worth. Harper's Weekly. Minister "Uncle Peter, you have never paid me the $2 for marrying you, and its over a year now." . w we a . saUncle 1 eter I inotr i nasn t. 6an: l know I hasn't. But I wah jrwine ter ast yo Mistah Goodman, if yo cudden't negotiate fo' er reduction. Yo' see de lady 'tained er divorce as' week, an' it 'pears ter me, sah, payin' out $2 fo' er weddin' ceremony dat only lasted one yere am mo'n it's wuth deed it am 1" A Tlorrld Insinuation. London Exchange. T shored like to have a coin that bears the date of my birth," said a maiden lady of an uncertain a?e to a male acquaintance; "do you think yon could ret me oner' 'I am afraid "not;" he replied doubtfully. "These old coins are rare, and only to be found in valuable collections." And yet he can not Bee why when he met the lady next day, 6he did not recognize hia. Household Art Made Kasy. Time. Uncle Epb "How de do, Aunt Sue? Been Eapering de wal wiv newspapers since I was ere last, eh? Why don't yo go on an' plete de hull house?" Aunt Sue 'Ise waitin' fo' de next Sunday 'dition ob de newspaper, Uncle Eph." All In a Name. Time. Brown "IIullo. Siinpkins, got a new horse? "What's his name?'' Si mpk ins "Well, I call him Balaklava." "That's a deuced queer name for a horse." "Yes, you see the charge was six hundred, don't yer know." Tie Fined the Preacher. Epoch. Preacher "Ye generation of vipers!" . Umpire (wakiDg up) "No back talk theretan dollars!"

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Castorf enres Colle. Consttpatloa, Potir Stomach, I'larrhopa, Eructation. EiUs Worms, rives sleep, uxl promote ! gstion, TOUmmii injuriotu medication. , Tra Cotacr Compart, 77 Murray Street i. Y. 3 A ROMANCE IX REAL LIFE. THESTRANGE STORY OF TWO SISTERS Orphaned and Separated la Childhood, They Find Each Other By Accident After Lone Years An Incident Connected With the War. During the war, sa)-s the American Trib iure, a man by the name of McCloud enlisted from Marshall county. Indiana, and died in the service. Shortly after Mrs. ' McCloud dipd, and tho children found homes among strangers. One of the little jrirls, Annie, went to the home of Dexter Brooks, in AVabah county, and a younfl pister, Mary, w as piven to William Craven of Fulton county. Years came and went, ' ami the memories of the past faded from th eir minds, though a recollection of other homes waa not altogether obscured. Mary remained in Fulton county till rhe irrew up to womanhood. In 1S73 ehe married "William Spurgeon, near Rochester, and eeven years ago they moved to Kokomo, Ind., where they have since resided. They have three children. Annie was taken to IiU.h county ia 1875, Two years later she married J. K. Galloway of that place, and they, too, came to Kokomo later on, and have been living there for the past year, residing on Fre-mont-st. They have five children. The two bisters who have not seen each other since infancy and whose memories o early childhood were as but a dream, were thus brought almost face to face. Fop the rast several months they have many times, douMlewt, passed each other on the street. They have worshiped in the same church, and their children have mingled together in the fame schools and play -grounds, yet they knw not that they were kin. Chance brought them together a few days ago. Mr. Galloway, husband of one of the sisters, and Mr. Spurgeon, a brother-in-law of the other, were at worlc together in the northwest part of town, fpurgeon was walling a well, while Gallo way was paintiDg a house. In passing the well Galloway accidentally let a piece of brick fall in. Spurtroon then remarked that te knew a man in Marshall county who came near n np killed that wav. This allusion to Marshall county, the original home of his wife, led Galloway to inquire If he ever lived in that county or was acquainted there, to which the former replied that his brother married a girl named Mary McCloud, who was born there. Thia, with a few following remarks, convinced Galloway that the lost wa found, and he rushed home to convey tha glad tidings to his wife. The joy brought by this news wa only equaled by that of meeting the long lost sister, which was only a few minutes later. And what a meeting it w&! As they laughed and talked through their tears,"the memories of the past came up before them with th vividness of but a day. Incidents of twentyfive years aero, when they last looked into each other's eyes, came back to them the little old cradle in which their mther rocked them to sleep; the trundle-bed ia which they flept, and of the times when they were hustled into it early by older sisters when their beaus came to see them. This happy discovery reunites the surviving members of the family. The older children have passed to their long home. There are two brothers living (a fact k known to Mary), but a revelation to Anni who, after as diligent search as she was j able to make, concluded that all her relatives were dead. The brothers and sisters, likewise, had given up Annie as loft. rr i ill ! j 1 jnerewui i a iamuy garnering as soon, as the brothers can be summoned to rejoice over the discovery of the long lost sister. Chrysan themaras. Lay down your nVmal scrtbe and gla.-s, O, Life's rrleot!es warden. And take me to my childhood bark In memory's g'.owing garden. For well in tho bright days I loed The rhanping autumn weather That brought the sweet chrysanthemums And firelight's glow together. Since last thr garden paths at home I roamed amid mr treasures And wondered with a girl's food faith If life wa made of plisnres I've oonnted, when each fading year Its au tu mil robe was donning, A round of mingled joys and pains, Lite's varied lessons conning. But never yet October brought. With all its pomp and splendor, A weeter gift .than these dear flowers, Or dream no true and tender As that which calls the pat to life In all her lonely beauty. When once more love and happiness Stand hand in hand with duty. And these remembered scenes I know These flowers are now adorning, As when I gaily said farewell One sunny autumn tnori.icg. Through mists of time fsitrliar forms My eyes are tili dicening; SMLl waits the brood within tbe nest Thei; truant bird's returning. Iear ones, though on these little flowers My idle tears are falling, I will not hold you to the pat Thit's gone beyond recalling. For on some brighter day to come, In just such sunny weather. In this lifeor a better ona We yet shall be together. Indianapolis, Ort. Z (Mesa Ervp Ooav. yuue t opn:ar. Time 4 Parker "Did Simpson go along with y"d to Oklahoma, Tucker? I've forgotten." , Tucker (just froni Oklahoma) "Yeejhe wnl out there as a ;'itician." "How did he come out? Did he haTe many followers?" - , "Followers? He did that Why, they nay it was the largest funeral the place ever knew" Purely a Matter of Sentiment. (Tim. "May I see you alone for a few minutes, Mr. Allcash?" "Certainly, Mr. Ilardap. Is it on a matter of business?" '2o, sir. Merely a matter of sentiment I wish to ask for the hand of your daughter." nd Hoped So. 1 Merchant Tiaveler.J "Pid you read my last play?" inquired aa aspiring young author of a friend. "I have always hoped so since I read your