Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1892 — Page 5

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL,

"WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1892-TWELVE PAGES. 5

President Will E. Strawn, lfontpaller, In. Fint Vioe-prssideot Kobert N. Moulton, Wintersville, Ind. Sseood Vice-president Miss Sua C. Parker, Kaiona. I. Recording Secretary Mrs. Dora Older, Adrian. Mich. Corresponding Seorstary Miss Emma L. Herker. Lmtrj, 111. Treasurer Min Mary J. Felley, CampbellsIowa, O. Executive Committee A'omo Finley Jacobs, Graancattl, Ind.; Torrence M. Jackson. New Lancaster, lad.; W. S. Koker.dorfer. Montsvallo. Mo.; J. C.McIonald. MeiiDa,Tenn.; Mrs. J. P. Barnes, Bruceton Mills. V. Va. OBJECTS. See. 2 of Article 1 of Constitution The object of the Howard Literary Club is to encourage pure literature.strcogthen morality, stablisb sociability, increase a desire for mind lmproremeat and literary attainments and to Mteni tin work of reformation. MEMBERSHIP. ßee. 1 of Article 2 af Constitution All persons of good moral character who are Interested in the cbjecta of tbU organization and are willing to work in accordance therewith are eligible to membership. We most eordia.'ly invite every one truly and vneompromitiugly interested in our objects to Join our o'.nb. Letters of inquiry should be addressed tie Corresponding Secretary with stamp. The Howard L terary has neither salaried officers nor contributors, and depends wholly Upon its merit and principles for sacoes. Members only are entitled to the rare benefits of our book catalogue. All letters xor publication mail be carefully written on one aide of the paper only, accompanied by the writer's real name and address, as well as the noin de plume, and plainly addressed to the editor, C. G. Stewart, Sentiiiel office. Indianapolis. Ind. Members in renewing subscription for Tux eT15EL will please be sure to send $1 to the Howard Literary Treasurer, as the einb is allowed a small commission. Due credit and prompt action guaranteed. READ CAREFULLY. Born Important Sac-g-aatleas from tha President af the CI ob. To the Howard Cixb I want to thank oar mcst worthy chairman of the executive committee for his very valuable letter in last issue which I am confident will pro?e agreeable to all. I most heartily indorse it, especially the important facte? stated about constitution, badge and our next reunion, which I am eure you will consider favorably. Our recording secretary, Mrs. Older, has kindly consented to mail free to every member a copy of the constitution with an application blank, which will greatly assist you in tne work of rapidly increasing our membership. We hopa that every member will speedily bring a friend to the dub. I believe all can do this ere the reunionLet us do our bent. Time spent in the interest of the club is time well spent. Five hundred copies of the constitution were printed. All members who can use more than one copy to advantage may have them upon application, with stamp, to the recording secretary. Officers will keep a supply on hand to use as opportunity affords. Are ycu all ready for our new bad?e? It is certainly very beautiful and very cheap. It has cost your officers no small amount of time and labor. It costs you but 1.-5. Mr. Jacobs has been very fortunate both In price and design. The club is under many obligations to him. Cannot every member make it convenient to buy a badeatonce? And let us one and all take a wider, deeper interest in the welfare of the cub. Type and symbol belong to earth; let us honor them, the divine reality of noble deeds to heaven. Attention! I have something special to teil you. Atl."5 each for the badge there is practically no profit left to the club, after cot of mailing is paid. On condition that ICO are paid for at once the manufacturer has agreed to make a special discount, and the Greencastle jeweler, of whom our chairman secures badges, gives the club his services in securing exceptionally low terms free of charge no per cent, whatever. This proposition, if yon will be kind enough to advance the money so that it can be accepted, will place a snug sum in the Ii. L. C. treasury which would otherwise arc rue to the manufacturer and jeweler, very penny of the profit thus made would go into the treasury. Mr. Jacobs desires me to inquire if a sufficient number of members will advance the money for their badges $1.25 each to enable na to buy 100 badges outright and thus secure the extra discount. I am glad to serve the club in any way possible. I believe you are, too. Therefor, I request you to eend your badge money to me immediately, conscious of the fact that it will not do me a penny's worth of good unlets I emigrate to Canada, and that would hardly pay. Let me persuade those who in Und buying badges soon to do so now. Please be to kind, friends. You might be needed in securing the extra discount. Understand tl.'-'d is the established uniform price of badge. It can, of course, be secured at any time. There will be a constant demand for theta from new members. But the sooner present members are supplied the better. Friends, it is for 70a to say whether 1 shall realize my most earnest desire that the club receive thLi extra discount. Let none delay in ending me their badge money. Kindly consider me emphatic on this point. Address as below. I am infermed that 100 badges will be ready for us aa aoon as we raise the money for them. Please read aiairj the reunion poragraph of your chairman's letter of last week. Facts well stated. He also desires my opinion about the time and place ot the reunion, which it seems proper to respectfully submit to the club. The tiz I think, should be during the last hall of August. The place, the Indiana natural gas belt. I believe that no place in the etat, or out of it, will insure a larger attendance at reunion than Muncie, Ind.; therefore, I desire the reunion to be held At Muncie. I have given yon my suggestions to the executive committee, who will decide the time and place of reunion in favor of a majority of the advices received by your chairman from members who will attend. This verdict will meet my hearty approved, whether It coincides witk my wishes or not. 4 axfxicad, ltji with, ertr tacreajia

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delight that I enjoy the sweet intercourse of mind with mind through the medium of the club, and thus honor those aspirations which coo form to a nobler, happier destiny. How I wish I could persuade you all to write soon and often enough to fill the page every it-sue. 'Tis a goal 1 long have ardently desired. It is enjoined upon all to recognize the highest standard of moral and social issues. May this duty prove a pleasure to all. Society In fevorish. The Howard literary club will continue to increase existing forces for good and add to their efficiency. To this end we ruav, we must receive deeper impressions from lofty ideas received by exercising the power to arouse the conscience by the force of truth. Yv'e have many club heroines and heroes. May they increase both in number and efficiency. The pages of heroic deeds alone make human history endurable. Thought and mind is incomparable to matter. Then why not give a little more of your time to the Howard club, to the sweet delights of intellectual attainments, to the banishment of the wrong? Away with the cold criticism tiiat resolves the dearest truths of Christianity into mere ligurea of speech ! Mind is to progress eternally, filled with the perpetual satisfaction of every purified desire, approximating ever toward infinite dimensions. Intellectual and spiritual life gathers its images and kindles its tires from the purest associations of the mind, weaving into the web of life the refined gold of true sentiment in colors endlessly varied. Then let us not wrontriu.lv diminish the value of all of earth that is great and glorious. And this includes cub objects. Let us all help to assure a little enthusiasm for ciut objects, growth of club and the reunion. Kespectfuily submitted. Faithfully yours. Will E. Stkawx. Montpelier, Ind., June 10. FROM WEST VIRQINIA. A Fleasaot Letter from "Cam ill" Coaoarn. Ids; Virtue. Däar H. L. C. Fkiends Virtue is a human quality. It is of pure thought, awake to the observance of truth, the honesty of the action, the justice of the cause, and does right simply because it is right. Where viitue reigns supreme there the earth has no blight or milldew. It drives away all useless shadows and, like a gilded hauging picture, it gladdens the heart and invigorates, elevates and beautines the soul. It is a cup of quiet joy, a fountain of endless happiness that never ceas-s to flow. A virtuous person is upright in bis conduct and will not willfully trespass against another. If his enemies assail him he will do no wicked thing against them. He will not do evil for evil in order to retaliate. When a kind action or noble deed is done it is not for the purpose of being esteemed charitable by men, but by pure motives prompted by duty. All alma are freely given because it lies in the path of duty o do so. Virtue ia opposed to vice, and the vain and idle speeches from the mouth of the flatterer causes a deeper wound than the bite from the tooth of the serpent. Virtue is the only true source of happiness; like the iure, bright mountain stream it is eternally liowiug, keeping the heart glad and free. In the home where virtue dwells the family ties are sacred; the inmates can safely trust each other. There are roses without thorns, bees without ftings. There home is a place of joy and love, of innocencH and tranquility. Envy, suspicion, jealousy and remorse are not found within its walls. Love never grows old and fades away, but like a garment that has been made of good material time does not cause the luster of its appearance to vanish. Lach feels a sense of pleasure at seeing the happiness of the others. The heart is open to confidence and pleasure forgetful of eorrowe, cares and disappointments. The good man of the house is not of a vain and h-artful pirit, aiming to keep up a false show u:itii he becomes bankrupt and ruined as a r.ult of it. Not to ßeem to be, but to bo is bis object. His devoted wife is too sensible to be a spendthrift, and has no desire to go beyond her means in an attempt to outshine those with whom she is socially connected. She is not unhappy when she meets another more fabicnablr dressed than what she can sfford, or adorned with more of the gild and glitter which money can buy. the feels that her friends all know her true worth, and she is too honest to desire to appear other than what she is in reality. The price of virtue is to her far above rubies, and contentment and benevolence glow from her cheerful countenance, and truth and wisdom are the lesons she teaches. She is to her husband a helpmate, providing well for all who have the good fortune to be a member of her well oriered household, and is ever awake to the ciies of the poor and needy. She is not content to live in lazy luxury eating the bread earned by another. The humblest cottage when lit up bv virtue will leave a lasting impression upon the minds of those who go forth from the shelter of its roof to encounter the responsibilities and perils of life, and often and often will come back to the heart the longing for the good old time to return the days of yore when many happy hours were spent in a lowly cottage home, where deception and the craving to excel was no part of their practice. It would be much better if people wer content to live lives of simplicity, admiring the many beautiful things which divine providence placed hereto cheer ui on our way, than to pine away, brooding over the vanities and follies of this life, which only prove a source of regret, failing to prepare us for the change that takes place, as eternity dawns upon us, and the vain delusions of the receding v?orld are forever vanished out of ßight. Camilla.' Bruceton Mills, W. Va., June 7. Frna m Lutl Girl. Dear Howard Friends I am a little girl leren yean old. I have been a reader of the letters to the page for some time, mi thick theaa vsry intereeUng, bat hii

not the courage to try writing for the page until I had the pleasure of reading a letter from "Lorena." May I enter your parlor this morning? There has been a shower, and the trees, grass and flowers all look beautiful. The clouds are sailing away, leaving the eky clear, and the warm, bright sun breaking through the clouds tells us that mild, sweet summer has come at last. The blackberries are now in full bloom and the strawberries are beziocing to ripen. Yes, "Gano," tell na about the people and their customs in Spain. I enjoyed reading your description of that country Very much. '"Lorena," remember your promise to "come again if any more little girls wrote." Success to The Sentinel and the H. L. C. Who will welcome "Vida." West Virginia, June 9. RAIN RAIN, RAIN.

"iTea," New Member, Makes Bla First Cob tri ballon. Dear Feiekds of tub H. L C Ab I am now a member of the club, and have twice received an invitation from "Incog" to write to the page, and as we are compelled to lay aside our work on Account of the enormous rainfall, I now have the leisure and opportunity to write. As rain and water, thunder and lightning have been absorbing the most of our attention for the last two months, I thought I would give you a synopsis of the kind of weather we have had here in in Delaware for two months paat. ' AJTRIL, 1. Cloudy all day, rain at night. 2. Clear. 5. Rain all day, vary heavy thunder. 4. liain afternoon. 6. Cloudy. 6. Clear. 7. Cloudy. 8. Driizly rtin. 9. Snowed. 10. Cloudy, cold. 1L Clear, frost. 12. Clear, cold. 13. Clear, cold. 14. Drizzling rain till noon turning to soft now. 15. Cloudy, chilly. 16. Cloudy, warm. 17. Cloudy, threatened rain. 18. Drizzly east rain with cold wind. 19. Hazy with a cold east wind. 20. Fine rain all day. 21. Cloudy, rain ail morning. 22. Cloudy. 23. Warm, clear. 24. Clear, very cal:n. 25. Hazy. 26. Ciear. 27. Cioudy, warm. 11. Cloudy all day. 29. Warm and cloudy. 30. Warm and dreary. MAY. 1. Cloudy and warm. 2. Heavy showers all day, thunder and lightning also. 3. Kam most all day. 4. Cloudy, f og?y. 6. Cloudy, warm. 6. Rain at night. 7. Clear, sooier. 8. fcuuday a bright, beantiful day. 9. Cloudy, rain ia afternooa, also rain at night. 10. Clendy all day, some rain. 11. Fine misty rain all morning. 12. Cold and cloudy. 13. Rain nearly all day. at night also. 14. Rained continually all day. 15. Rained heavy ail morning. 16. Clear and frost. 17. Cloudy all day, frost. 18. Cloudy all day. 19. Rain all day. 2a Cloudy. 21. Warm and hazy. 22. Clondv all day, some rain. 23. Cloudy, 24. Sprinkled ones or twice, rain at night. 25. Rain in the afternoon. 2ri. Rain in the afternoon, soma hail. 27. Cloudy. 28. Clear in the morningj a shower In the afternoon; rained very bard just at dark. 29. Clear mot all day. 30. Sprinkled once or twice in the afternoon, then it raiuei from 8 p. m. te 10 p. m. very hard, also, from 1 o'clock till daylight. 31. Cloudy ail day. The rain fall on the night of the 30th wai over tour and one-half inches. There was more water next morning on the surrounding country than I ever saw before. o far in June it rained everyday till today, June 4. Very little corn is planted and little of that is up. I wilt stop for this time. Wno will welcome "Iven" of central eastern Indiana. Iven W. Fer ADVANCING AND 1MPROVINO. "Comet" Concrntiilat. th Clat en Many S 1 n of Prngrss. Dear Howard Brothfrs and Pisters Such a strong desire is felt to agnin mingle with you that I approach the Howard parlor portals and kindly ask admittance to intrude only for a brief period. It has been some time since 1 was afforded the happy privilege of being with you, yet while this has been the case I have watched the improvements of tue club in various directions with unabated interest. In noting the progression of the club one cannot but see "that truth is mighty and must prevail." While we see officers and members advancing hand in band, working out the best interests of the club with a strong love for right and justice, with a strict adherence to standard and unwritten principles, .we must see not through a gla-a darkly that this is indeed a year of prosperity to the Howard literary. United efforts and combined co-operation will chase vapidity far into the oblivion of the past. We, aa members, should feel thankful that our lot has been anchored where ' we can do some good for the upbuilding of humanity. Our arena may be comparatively email, but be it ever so small, all may do some good. A kind word or a gentle act may cheer a drooping spirit. Tne very smallest deed of kindness, the very smallest amount of sympathy, sometimes brings the greatest remuneration. Hence, let small deeds of kindness make up our earthly pilgrimage, and we will in no wise loose our reward. I am well pleaped with the design of the badge whi(-h our worthy chairman has sel-cted and submitted for consideration. I pronounce it something beautiful, and Mr. President, don't look too critical in dealing with this design. I rnunt terminate by speaking to a few members. "Advance," I have not forgotten your communication; will answer soon. Also "Aunt fcue," you still linger in my memory as one to whom I owe a letter. Be of good cheer in the hours of your affliction, by welcoming each new contributor and member, and giving a hearty handshake to all old ones, I will depart. "Comet." Of the Missouri Branch. Monteyallo, Mo. Tha First Violets, Long, wtary hoars of restless pala Of gloomy thoughts and elondsd skies, To tesr dimmed eyes so dark the nicht. Kot e'ea the star of hope eould rise With gentle tread, a loving hand. An offering on my pillow lay, A gaeridon of summer skies Ii;d by the brerse lit by eseh ray. As loeense stole the subtle breath Along tha pulse's laoquid flow, A fiask ot light, a barst of song, A memory of long ago. The weary eyes booIom and view. The r eh green leaf and velvet flower, Distrust and gloom like mornlag dew Yield to the magte of Its power. iMaa. B. E. tens.

FARM AND HOME AFFAIRS.

THE ANTI-OPTION BILL AND FICTITIOUS VALUES. How tha Grain OtmbUri Opora.Se FalrTiew Farm Ppr No. 7, by DutM" The Cantaloupe Fertilizers for Corn Favorite ltrda of Horsea Wutttm.lao Saad Tests of Ensilage A Collection of San tioel Polntera Some Seasonable IieeIpea Valuable Health Hints. The anti-option bill now before congress has excited a great deal of discussion, both before the committee having the bill in charge and in the public Dress. The intent of the proposed legislation is to put a stop to sales of fictitious quantities of agricultural and other products. The Chicago grain exchange is the center of this species of gambling in agricultural products. While the farmer has learned to anathematize these dealers in grain that has no actual existence, not a few have quite an indistinct idea of the character of the operations of these men or the manner in which the farmers' interests are harmed by reason of them. An example may be given typical in a general way of the transactions of the grain gamblers. X, believing that wheat will soon drop in price, either because of the supply or through manipulation, offers to sell 1,000,000 bushels of wheat to be delivered in June at the seller's option as to the exact day of the month. Hence the name "option dealing." Y, believing that the price in June will be higher than it is now, buys this 1,000,000. The reader understands that X owns no wheat, and does not expect to deliver any. Xeither does Y expect to receive it, nor does he want it. If wheat is worth 80 cents when this "sale" is made, and is worth 75 cents on that day in June that the seder desires to close the transaction, then X wins 5 cents a bushel and Y pays that amount over to him. No wheat is needed in this deal, and there are nocharges for storage, insurance, shrinkage, etc., but the whole matter reeolves itself into a bet as to th future pi ice of wheat. In this c&e X, who became a "bear" when he sold for future dolivery, wins; and Y, who was a "bull," loses. There are modifications of this plan by which deals are settled every night through a "clearing boii"e," and there is the "bucket shop" method cd gambling, but all methods are mere facilities for betting upon the future price of the farmers' grain. Some one may ask, "How do these men harm others than themselves?" We have not space for a lull reply, but will mention several ways in which they are a curse. The moral side of the question we leave untouched. All men will agree that a large gambling institution is harmful to any people. A fud record of breaches of trust among all classes of men, dub to the allurements of this great institution would be appalling. The victims are numbered by the thousands. But we desire to note only some of the injuries reaped by the farmers. On May 10 an avalanche of postal cards was sent to the members of congress by the farmers, demanding the passage of the anti-option bill now pending. uch concert of action indicates strong feeling, and the causes are not hard to find. In the first place dealing in futures has destroyed legitimate speculation. Dealers do nt care to buy the surplus that harvest brings upon the irarket 'and store it for future use unless they can g-t it at exceedingly low prices, as it is within the power of half a dozen men in Chicago to "bear" the market pries at any time to a disastrous low figure by oaring tens of millions of bushels of fictitious wheat and causing a panic among the "bulls." Legitimate speculators do not care to invest in a commodity that is the plaything and gambling tool of millionaires. It is too hazardous. Most dealerl are bears because profits come most easily on that side. It is easier to brealt the market by fa'pe reports than it is to build it up. The country folk that make deals in Chicago by wire are constitutional "bulls'' because wheat for years has been o low that they have not thought the market cou d get worse. The professional dealer must be a "bear" to fleece these "lambs." When the country is loaded up then thecombination breaks prices and pockets the profits. This bear influence at Chicago means that unscrupulous but influential men are moving heaven and earth to break the price of wheat. Their influence ia baneful. A millionaire dealer may believe that the state of supply and demand justifies an increase in price of 20 cents a bushel on wheat, but this does not make him a "bull." The very fact that all small dealers see a reason for a rise and "load up is the sufficient cause for a combination with a few other millionaire leaders break prices and winthe money risked by the masses. This ia easily done through false reports and by brute force of immense wealth. The offering of immense quantities of wheat often many fold the total visible supply is depressing in its effects upon prices, although known not to be in existence. If they "had to be actually delivered then would they not be offered. There are many other ways, somewhat tedious in explanation, by whicn the grain gamb!ers become the foes of the farmers' interests. Their business, like the Louibiana lottery, should be suppressed by the strong arm of the law. Then would legitimate purchase of the farmers' wheat for future use become less hazardous. The matter ia in the farmers' hands. If they will continue to send such postal cards to their representatives and senators in congress, demanding that they vote for the anti-option t ill, it will be done. Send such a card today, my reader. It means the abolition of a great evil that affects you financially. It is also a moral duty. The Sentinel farmer urges every reader to send a card today to both representatives and senator. Then send duplicates next weekBe insistent. Fnlrvtaw Farm Papon, fs. 7 Br D't11 The vegetable and fruit garden on the farm should tnrniph one-half of the table supplies, and the supply is not only cheap but it is more wholesome and palatable than most city people can procure. Freshness of flavor is lost by most fruits w ithin a few hours after gathering. The expense of caring for a good - garden is nut as large as many seem to imagine, and I think no greater mistake is made by 50 per cent, of our farmers than in neglecting this source of table supplies. I can raise eight bushels of strawberries on seven rods of ground, and this amount Is none too gr?at for a large family that is fond of the fruit. It comes at a time when the system craves a supply of fruit three times a day. I find it best toset out a new bed each year, plowing up the old one the second year. Plants should be set in the spring or early summer in rows thirty to thirty-fix inches apart, and about eighteen inches apart in the row. The soil should be rich and fined to a depth of eight inches. With an iron rake I can stir the top soil of my bed in twenty minutes, and this should be done aa soon aa cruet begin to iotox titer every rain.

The mulch of fine earth keeps the plants thriving, and by picking of all -bloegoma and runners a lartre stock of vitality aoaccumulates in the plant. In August, alter a d -ep stirring of the soil, I let the runners form new plants in a row ahout ten inches wide and give little further attention other than to keep the middles clean. During the first heavy freeze I mulch the ground with leaves, which is preferable to straw, as they tontain no eee.Is. In the spring this mulch is raked on" the rows into the paths, leaving enough to keep the berries off the ground. No cultivation is given in the spring, and the plants then make their best yield. The berries ar large an imfortant point to the picker. After the ast picking the bed is ready to be turned over for cabbage or other vegetables. Raspberries follow strawberries. Each season after the last picking the old canes should be gathered and burned to destroy the insects, and three new canes left for the next year's bearing. When five feet long the tips should be cut otf, thus causing growth of laterals. In northern latitudes it is best to lay the canes down in early winter and cover with straw, staking them up the next spring. I write of these two berries now. but all desirable fruits and berries and vegetables should be grown in abundance on the farm, and if given attention needed, am.!! plats of ground suffice for each variety. A rich soil, ather thm planting and frequent surface cultivation pvoduces large yields of the finest flavored fruit for the ones most deserving of them the farmer and his family. Knatlage Teat. Skeptics continue to deprecate the value of eneilage, but one of the best proofs of its superiority over dry feed in the dairy is found in the fact that many of our most progressive dairymen continue to use their silos and encourage others to build. It is now pretty well admitted that the silo gives greater profit to dairvmen than to feeders of other 6tock, but ensilage is feed with profit on many other than dairy farms. The feeding tests of ensilage have been very conclusive as to its value for producing milk. Ifuac Bndlow of New York reports the following test of ensilage feeding in a Wisconsin paper: "Selecting from my herd two of iuy bet butter cows, a Jersey and a Shorthorn, that dropped their calves in October previous, I weighed and kept a record of these two cows' milk for twentyeight days ending Jan. 31. I found the Jersey had given S59 pounds, the Shorthorn 4ßl pounds. Total amount of milk for twenty-eight days on hay and meal, S10 pounds. This milk was set in a Cooley creamer and made into creamery butter fifty-one pounds and sold at '62 cents a pound, $16.3-'; "50 quarts of skimmed and buttermilk oid at 1 cent per quart, 3.50. Sales lor the twentyeight davs oi January. $19.82. Cost of keep on hay for twenty-eight days, thirtysix pounds per day at $6 per ton, $3.02; twenty-eight days on meal at 20 cents, Sö.50." Total cost of feed, $S.G2. Profits for twentv-eight days above cost of feed, SI 1.20. On the first of February I withheld the meal from thee two cows, giving them each fifty pounds of ensilage, with all the hay they could eat; no other feed. On this f et d the Jersey in twenty-eight days gave 393 poumi6 of milk; the Shorthorn gave 501 pounds. Total weicht of milk in twentv-eight days on ensilage and hay, 8'3i pounds. Amount of butter made, fifty-five and three-fourths pounds; sold at 32 cents per pound, $17.84. Skimnio 1 milk aud buttermilk sold, 30 quarts; at 1 cent per quart, $3.80. Total sales for twenty-tight davs in Februarv on ensilage, J21.H4. Cobt'of keep, 2,S00 Pfunds of ensilage 'for twenty-eight days, at 10 cents p6r hundred. $2.80; thirty-six pounds of hav for twentf -eight davs at $i per ton, $3.0'2. Total cost ot feed, $5.82. Profit of salesover cost of food, $15.82. I not only sustained thc-e two cows on ensilage and hay for twenty-eight days for 2.8'ilefls than it cost twenty-eight days on meal and hay, but the cows gave 6ev-enty-four pounds more milk and the product eoli for $1.82 more money."

Fertl'ls-re for Cirn. Soils differ so widely in their requirements that no rules can be laid down for the fertilization of any particular crop. Nothinar but a farm test is decisive. There are, however, three facts that point to a lack of potash in many soils. When barnyard manures do not contain the liquid excrement of stock and are subject to leaching rains before appiied to lands, they are found to be deficient in potash. Alco, when fertilizers have been applied in the pf.pt the rule bus been to buy phosphate! that is, fertilizers rich in phosihoric acid and containing little or no potash. Ali-o pasture grasses an i hay are rich in potash and their general production has creatly tended to diminish the potash in the lend. An eastern station has instituted farm tests of fertilizers for corn in many counties of the state, and the nearly universal gain in yield when potash was used has led the station to recommend that in breaking up sod land for corn if fertilizers are to be used, those rich in potash should be auplied. If a special fertilizer be used apply only a moderate amount and add to it about 123 pounds of muriate of potash per acre. If ordinary barnyard manure,, from which the liquid part has been leached, be used, add the muriate of potash. It is found that potash helps the srrowth of fodder even more than the grain and, therefore, its use in growing fodder corn or corn for entilaL'e is especially recommended. Unless the farmer knows that the soil is deficient in potash, we would advise that, if commercial fertilizers are used for corn, one acre receive a dressing of 100 pounds muriate of potaoh in addition to the fertilizer, and a te-t be made that may lead to profit for the future. If we u.?e fertilizers we should show business tact in determining just what amounts of plant food it pays us to buy. Tti Caotalorpa. The cantaloupe delights fn a rich soil In can be grown in either clayey or sandy loams if the soil is fertilized. Many put the hills too far apart. Unlike most plants the cantaloupe eeems to do best when thickly planted, say from four to five feet between rows, and two or three feet between hids in the row. The planting should be done as early as the season will permit, and all cultivation should be shallow. The roots aro surface feeders and deep cultivation injures them. For shipment they should be pulled with stem attached just long enough to reach their det-tination before becoming mellow, but not green enough to wilt. For home uso they should be pulled when the stem readily loaves the melon under gentle pressure, and they will then mellow in about twenty-four hours. The varieties having a thorough netting and green flesh are best. Those having yellow flesh are often sweet, but usually deficient in flavor. Vfatermelea iSssd. Melon growers have always been in some doubt as to the relative productiveness of seed from the various parts of the melon, and a careful test hag been made by a southern station to determine the matter. Seed was taken from the stem end, and the middle and the blossom end of the melon, and planted under identical condition! Tha melons grown from the seed of the middle ripened more than week earlier than those crown from blos

som-end seed. The vield of this lot was also about 40 pr cent, greater than that from either stem or blor-soin ends. The eed for this experiment was Raved from the melon when in cood condition for eatins. It is possible that if the melon had been permitted to ripen more fully the result would have been different, as the ends of the melon mature last. A eingie test is never decisive, but as most farmers save eeed from the melons eaten on the farm, it would doubtless pay well to cut oat the central third of a few choice specimens and save 6eed from these sections only. Kegardless of this test, reason would suggest this course. A week's gain in earline68in ripening is worth much to the melon grower. Market gardeners should try this plan. Favarlta Breads of Horses. Every elass of horses bas its advocates, and it is often difficult for the farmer who breeds only a few farm mares, intending the colts for market, to choose the breed that he is iure will give him the bet returns. Popularity is not always proof of merit, but it will Interest our "readers to learn what types are mögt popular, as judged by the relative number of stallions. From the stock report Isued by the Ohio state board of agriculture we learn that the returns from 404 townshiis in that state show that 25 per cent, of the stallions are trotters. 22 per cent, are French draft, 12 per cent, are Clydesdale, 9 per cent, are Entlieh draft, 2 per cent, are thoroughbred running etock, and 30 percent, are of unknown breeding. It is fair to presume that three-fourths of the grades, or animals of unknown breeding, are the draft class. Assuming this, we find that two-thirds of the stallions of Ohio are draft animals. As many of those of the trotting claps are not kept for extended service, it is probable that the percentage of draft colts is even greater than the figures would indicate. "Santln!" Tolntars. Are you a good manager? Woven wire makes a cheap garden fence. Mulch the plants with an inch of fine, looso earth. A few ornamental shrubs add much to the appearance of a home. "He that tilleth the soil shall have plenty of bread," said Solomon. lengthen the sweet corn, season by repeated plantings at intervals of ten days. Continued growing of cabbftga on the same ground is liable to produce club root. If you want hands to take an interest in your welfare, take a like interest in theirs. Does your neighbor pay lax on a worthless dog, and then think that he is too poor to take Thk Sentinel? Corn for ensilage should not be planted very thick, l ight or nii.e quarts to the acre is about ri?ht. Let it manure the ear fairiy well. If the oat field is Teedy and tho land is thin, plow the growth under for manure. There are worse waya of building up the fertility of the farm. It is said that tomatoes bagged sron after they set will ripen ten days earlier than they would otherwise do. It may pay to give this method a trial. Ii you cannot trust a man to work out of your sight let your neighbor have a monopoly of him. He will only harass you and spoil your temper. Vah sb liaalth Uinta, Need for Sleep "The crying need of American women," says a physician whose specialty of nervous diseases brings him in contact with plenty of the nervous type of the sex, "is sleep. Over and over I tell ny women patients: 'Sleep all you can, nine, ten hours every night, and( no matter how much at night, sleep surely ono hour of daylight.' Many of them reply: 4I don't have time to sleep during the day.' "Take tbue,' I say ; 'you'll get it back good measure, pressed down, running over.' Then they 'can't sleep in the daytime.' That is nonsense. They may not the finät few days; but very soon, after persistently making the effort every day at a certain time, the habit will be formed and will be dilScult to break. "1 be ieve ii the women servants in our houses were allowed a haf-hour tia; every day, if more seemed i..!pos.5i:-lo, the mistress would find that she wm more than repaid in better service, liiu evtry woman who can control her tb:.- ! bo arrange her duties hs to t-:ieid an bo:ir asleep every day. Take it of r- ruething your ;'n?y wirk. your r-Iin, your rhi dr-!.. ho-, tout i-!d.:!:-;' "teai a :'-w zii.tin'.e lrM. ha i a i;:n o Lnpssi.on i p'.it Oiekl into the reirt'f -lüieiit whii.ii only rVp cm brir.i:, an i you wj!l f., i h.-i-.hl. i r, : I'.Uorn-r

wo. :iar., a ! r-'.; r i iniAn. Hi t ci cwusiderable more us.4 in tho wi-rl-d ia cwry way." Ureathing Through the Nose. Dr. J. M. Buckley, who has beeu writing a series of articles on "I'hyeical Culture" for the Chiut'ivqunn, eaye that breathing exercises are of great .value, most easily practiced, and give excellent results. It is not necessary to have an elaborate system. The nostrils are the proper organs of breathing. Man. unlike some other animals, is capable of breathing through the mouth if tho noglrila are obstructed, and many from habit or debility continually do so a practice, whether by day or by night, attended with many evils; whereas every breath of pure air a man inhales through his nostras is a breath of life. One exercise, requiring fifty or a hundred timeä a day, requiring n moie than ten minutes all together, ia of the greatest advantage and can be done out of doors as well as in. at almost any season of the year. It consists of inhadng through the nostrils a deep breath, retaining it a few seconds, and then with the lips adjusted as if one intended to whistle, expelling it slowly through the contracted orifice. There ia no physiological objection to exhaling through the mouth; there are no mnscles whereby the course of the breath can be restrained through the nostrils, but the lips contain sufficient muscular strength for this purpose. If students would rise from their studies, bookkeepers from their desks, women from their sewing or reading, two or three times a day and take from fifteen to thirty snch breaths the result would surprise them. Consumption mav be cured, if it has but a slight start, by the strict observance of common-sense rules of health which are known to everyone almost without teaching. Oftentimes physicians' warnings and instructions fail to impress the sick one. She waits until death stares her in the fsce before she heeds advice. Hut it is not always those best fitted to cave life that succeed in doing it. An outside observer that never had seen a work on physiology or any other medical work, and had never heard of the tubercle bacillus even, may be just the person able to eect the cure of a lung disease. How? How? you ask. By appealing to the vanity of the patient, or that of the patient's mother. This succeeds best when the consumptive is a young girl. If the child, is inditlerent to her personal appearance her mother will be. One cannot create a beautiful face, but she can make herself moat attractive by cultivating a fine carriage and taking such exercise as will develop a good figure. During the growing period (which is from childhood to twenty-five years of age) both girls and boys should be obliged to it erect, the should be thrown back, the head held up, the mouth should be kept closed, and the breathing done through the nose. In walking step quickly and firmly lasgina. swaggering steps caver

yet sent blood bounding through the blood veescds. A sluggish stream does not fertilize or sustain a vital part. No lung's can Ik-ht against disease unless they are nourished by rich pure blood. A stooj ing posture, a mail pace, cramped and shut oil' from the internal orirans, e?pccia!ly the heart knd lungs, fully halt of the vitality they need. Good food, plenty of sleep avail much, but unles every orgn is freed from pres sure, such as is caused by ftoopicg and lacinp, health cannot be maintained noi disease prevented or cured. So to effect a cure of consumption, moat of all carrf yourself well, take a course in calistbeni exercises, cultivate the habit of admiiin fine forms and princely and queenly car riage. Fancy yourself the envied ruler oi the universe," if possible, and try to loolC the character. The dullest imagination cau picture what that person's outward cliRrms should be. At the end of three months the finely poised head will look as if it belonged to a veritable queen. The Value of Mas?ae Treatment Un doubtedly the greatest value of mossage is3 in the treatment of sprains, luxations and juxta-articular fractures. It has beea general y conceded that the beneScial re suits from massage in these conditions; have been due to a stimulation of the cir culaiion and absorption, but its exact ao tion has not been demonstrated until Dr. Castex reported the results of a series of careful experiments to the society of biology of Paris, at a recent meeting. The question Castex ßought to answe was as to what scientific explanation) could be offered by the lesu'ts obtained by massage. Castex proceeded to produce a variety ot traumutisms upon large dogs, such as sprains, contusions, luxations, etc The injuries wera always made eymmet rically, that is, similar injuries on two cor responding parts. The one part to bm massaged and the other treated otherwise. Both the immediate and ultimate) obvious results were carefully studiedand finally the muscles, both massaged and not massaged, were carefully exam ined microscopically. The nerves and blood vesseis in the region of the trauma tisros were also examined. The entire) course of the experiments extended otof a year. The inimed.ate results of massagft were a les-ening of pain and a diminution of swelling. The latter results wer chiefly an absence of ultimate atrophy of the parts. The dislocated shoulder of m dog which had been masagd ultimately measured SO centimeters in circumference, while tbe opposite shoulder, which had been siiuilarly injured but not massaged measured only 1:8 centimeters. The h stologieai examinations of the part yij ded most intere-tinj results. Th muscles ot the traumatized region on th, side that had not been massaged ehowed, first, a dissociation of the mascuiar fiber we 1 marked by longitudinal striae; second, a hyperplasia of the neighboring connective tissue; third, a slight enlargement of the muscular fibers; fourth, the sarcob in ma was usually found intact. Or the contrary, the muscles of the traumatized region of the side that was massaged were entirely normal. The vessels on lh non-massaged side ehowed evidences of a. hyperplasia of their outer walls, and thi nerve branches near the injury were irri tated and gave evidence of perineuriti and en'ioneuriti. On the side maesaged both arteries and nerves were normal. These results were found to be constant. Dr. Castex' experiments are of sufficient importance to awaken the interest oi every practitioner, especially those wha have made use of massage with satisfies tory results; and they certainly deservt supplementing and extension by other in veetigators. rluladc vki i Medical and S'ur gicai lleporler. Sasonabla Reelpaa. Strawberry Tümplings rut one plnl of sifted Hour into a bowl and rub into the Hour two ounces of butter, a id a teaspoonful of salt, a heaping teespoonful of baking powder, tnd sufficient milk to moisten; take out on a board, and roll out into a sheet a quarter of a inch thich ; cut into cakes with a biscuit cutter, put about three Etrawberries in each cake and steara about twenty minutes. Strawberry Cream Put three pints of strawberries in a deep dish with one cupful of sugar. Ssason three pints of cream with a cut iul and a half of augar. and two tät igt- !!.. Is of i:.e. i reeze this. Take :ut 1 1 io benter sn -1 draw the frozen r.r-.i:n u iIjc. eM s of :h ire .'zer. Fill tha fp.-iee i i tho c nur wi;i th fi.iwberries ati I stir, which cover v. i.h frozen cr-a-r,. r;t oi. the t-ver and !-et away for on .-'iz or iifire. ' In n ti.e rream is tnrred -ur, ; a'.-.i&L: tr.o bne, if you like, wiih strfts i eiTU-s. . ti X' iu.ii z cive for strawberry shortov? is is f Vi-..v-,: !e:r. two quarts of p'r.1 l.err.f'-, . Ae-len t.) ti.fct?, atid iaa?a the u s L'.iiy with a wood. j ppoin. Rub. tH) ooiMf- : i.iiiuT ut a quart of llour, thi :i d i two :..-," n.'u'a o: baking powier. onu tc-poo.-i il of salt and sufficient miik t-j ruuke a toil dough ; mix quickly, ruli out about one inch and a half in thickness, put into a greased baking-pan, and bake in a quick oven for twenty minutes. When done take from the oven, split ia halves, and spread each half lightly with butter. Place the iower half in a deep dish or platter. Put half the berries oa this, then cover the other half of the shortcake; cover this with the remainder of the berries, pour over them a quart of cream and servo at once. Strawberry Pudding Ono of the most delicate batter puddings is made of tha beaten yolks of eight eggs, half a cup of fionr, a quart of miik end the whites of eiirht eirg-i. The milk is heated to the boiling point in a double boiler, the flour a-Jded and coked ten minutes, constantly i-tirred, the etfs ndded tvery care-, billy, lest they curdio the mixfure), in etaut!y r moved and stirred till cooled, and the whites of three eggs added la.t of all, with a little salt. The pudding ia now poured into a floured and buttered bag and boiled for an hour. At the end of this time it is served with a strawberry sauca made bj beatinf half a cup of butter to a cream with a cup of sugar, adding a basket of strawberries mashed and beaten to a pulp, and, if vou wish, the beatn white of two eggs. The golden pudding and crimson sauce are very pretty together. Another dainty sauce is made of a basket of strawberries strained as described for a mousse, and added to a pint of whipped cream. Such a sauce may be served with blancmange, a frozen rice pudding, a white or yellow custard, or any delicate desert. Sun-Cooked Strawberries Pick over the strawberries and weigh them ; then put them in the preserving kettle. Add to them as many pounds of granulated sugar as there are etrawberries. Stir and place qn the fire, and continue stirring occasionally until the mixture begins to boil. Cook ten minuteF, counting from the time it begins to boil. IVur the preserve into larger platters, having it about two inches deep, and place in the sun for ten hours or mere. The preserve is now ready to be put into jars and place in the preserve closet. It will keep without sealing. Remember that these preserves are pat into the jars cold; that no water is used ia cooking them, nothing but the etrawberries and sugar; and that they will be verr rich, so that only a email quantity need be served to a person; The flavor of this fruit is perfect. Only fine, ripe strawberries should be used. The platters of preserve can be placed on a table in a sunny window, or on a sunny piazza. It is so early in the svason that there is not much, trouble with flies. I do not see why tha fruit could not be put in the jars and tha jars placed in the sun for two day a. I shall try it this year with some of the preserve. It would make the work muck. eaEier, Good Uouuketping.