Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1893 — Page 5

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1893-T WELTE PAGES.

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OFFICERS. President WIM E. fftrawn. Mcmtpelier. Ind. . First Vice-Pre:idf nt Torrence M. Jackson, New LannstPr, Ind. Second Vice-President Mil's Sue C. Parker. Kalona. Ia. Recording Secretary Miss P?ra Wenner, Pleasant-ave., Indianapolis, Ind. , Corresponding Secretary Miss Emma" L. Merker, Emery, 111. Treasurer Miss Mary J. Kelly. CampExecutive Committee Alonzo Finley Jacobs. GreencKStle, Ind.: William A. Clark. Anthonr, Ind.: Y". H. Kokendoffor. Montevailo, Mo.; J. C. McDonald. Mflina, Tenn.; Mrs. J. P. Barnes. Bruceton Mills, W. Va. OBJECTS, faction 2 of Article 1 of Constitution The object of the Howard Litera.ry Club Is to encourage pure literature, strengthen morality, establish sociability, increase a desire for mind improvement and literary attainments and to extend the work of reformation. MEMBERS. Section 1 of Article 2 of Constitution All neraons of good moral character who are interested In the objects of this organization and are willing: to work in accord ance therewith are eligible to membership- j We most cordially invite every one truly and uncompromisingly interested in our objects to join our club. Letters of inquiry should he addressed to the Corresponding Secretary with stamp. The Howard Literary has neither sal aried officers nor contributors, ah 1 depends j wnony upon its merits ana print-lines iur success. Members on'y are entitled to the rare benefits of our book catalogue. All letters for publication must be carefully written on one side of the p n-r only, accompanied bv the writer's real 'me and address as well as the nom d r' ""! and plainly addresst-d to the e-l'r C G. Stewart, Sentinel office. Indian i . Ind. j w V I I . 1 . 1 ..lemoers m renewing sun- .n iur Tlie Sontinl will please be 1 " send T. to the Howard Literary T -r. as !he club is allowed a smr.!! i sion. D credit and prompt action - teed. Members, en sending their ' to the editor for reproduction on tbi- . must "nd norn de plume an 1 r name snd "aldres. Th? latter will i s published except by request of the s k-r. XOTICK. The eighth annual reunion of the Howard Literary Club will be hell at Michigan City, Aug. 16 to 2, inclusive. Ail members are earnestly requested to be present and ail friends of the club are cordially Invited to be present. DOHA DICKENS, Secretary. XO FARM I.IFG FOB HIM. "Paul Qunre" nntl His Ideas of Life In the Conn try on n Hut Day. ESTEEMED II AWARDS I .wiöh I owned all the poets and other idiots who continually chirp about the glorious, free, happy life of the farmer. If I die, when some of these days mercury crawls out of the tube and goes to hunt a fan I would waltz them out of their esay chairs on the shady side of the house and put them In the harvest where old Sol could have a fair show at them and fry them in their own fat us they merrily tripped round a forty-acre wheat field to the tune of a six-foot buckeye dropper. They would learn a hew tune. If they could get enough rweat out of their eyes to restore vision they would cast a wistful glance at the shade of the sugar tree just across the fence and in that one glance they would Eee more poetry in that little shade than all the poets combined ever wrote about the merry life of the farmer. It is nice to sit ia the pleasant shade and talk about gathering In the golden harvest, and drink ice water and wag a palm leaf fan, but when you get out into the golden grain and begin to girdle it up with itself and pour your perspiration on each bundle till you think it will rot in the shock, you will hold your hands to your throbbing brow and wonder If the tune don't change keys somewhere. Oh. ye warbling poets, try it. Come out of your shady nooks, tie up your long locks, don your overalls and try it for one day. Get up at early dawn and hustle, hustle, hustle, till fair Luna is smiling down upon you. Then seek your humble e-ouch, and as dead in spirit but alve with chiggers you toss a number of sleepless hours away, wonder how on ?arth you are ever going to do all in one day that Is absolutely necessary to be done on the morrow. Next morning, instead of pouring forth a song about the jolly farmer who grows wheat at a rost of SO cents per bushel and sells for 0, you will sing of the cramped up city man who buys the farm-'s wheat for 50 cents and sells it for 7. Life on the farm is not what It is cracked up to be. The farmer Is no more a lord of creation than the blacksmith, carpenter, merchant or anything else of the kind. He is not as much of a lord of creation, for for what he buys he must pay the other fellow's price, and for what he sells he must take the other fellow's price. The millionaire, who don.t know corn from horseweeds In the field, is the man who is independent and lives on his own resources. He la fat and sleek, hi3 stomach was never punched by the plow handles and he never felt the heat of a midsummer's sun, and. notwithstanding all that was ever written against him. I'd give up every enchanting bliss and sweet communion with nature that lurks on the farm where I stay, and throw in my wages besides, to trade places with him. Free and glorious indeed, when viewed from afar by jongnhaired, romantic loafers, but if these fellows will go onto a farm and make a practical analysis they will find that ail this concentrated extract of bliss resolves itself Into work of the genuine article. I notice In the latter part of "Tuscumbia'a" communication he mentions my name. but. alas! ray dictionary was thumbed to pieces long before I reached that part, and I know not what he means. It is possible he was alluding to . the Schasterasterschenderwhencowhopperllte In Schaff elooster's schanschandercooperoodle, yet I tenow not, for I know not "Tuscumbia." However, I dread to think of the dire consequences should a copy - of Scfcurrusterwhackcr-

bill's Alacterlactershackemshockumparalyzemawle fall into his hands and he should go to yanking out extracts for the page. "PAUL QUACE."

A COLORADO LETTER. No Rnln for a Year The Silver aad Other Questions. HOWARD FRIENDS After a period of almost a year we had a light rain ard feeling that since the occasion demands some recognition I make It by writing to you. No doubt you are all reading of the silver market ard listening to all sorts of argument regarding its money propensities, etc.. etc. I happen to be (fortunately or unfortunately, owing to which way the cat jumps) in the silver belt, in a state whose principal wealth is centered in silver mining. Fruit is raised quite extensively but as yet only local markets in our mining towns have been nought, whi' h has proved a good ahd remunerative one. Now that silver has proven fickle our mines hive all suspended operations and business is at a stand. 'ihose men who found it close work to s: m the tide at its usual volume have succumbed to the crash and have left a birren skeleton tor their creditors to pick from. Sound commercial houses have found it necessary to suspend business uniil sucn time as they could realize on tfcir papr. Here we see dally an Increasing number of idle men moving, no one knows where; men who have lost their positions and have no funds, wandering anywhere to find subsisance. money can scarce be obtained at any figure, ami loans, where they are made, get as high as 5 per cent, per month. Just think of it, 60 per cent, per annum. Is it any wonder men fail? The averasre rate would not exceed 10 to 12 per cent, in legitimate busines but a few sharks get money out at 60 per cent.. This state has no limit on loans the interest is regulated by the demand, all one can get for his money. It is no wonder men are poor, and get poorer when such things as thee stare him in th face. And when a crash comes like the present one it is no wonder or surprise that the country is flooded with tramps. Conservative men say they have never before encountered such stringent times in money matters. We hope for some degree of relief from the special session called for August 7. What the future may bring forth no one can conceive. Ere this may apppear in print I may be numbered with those who are sacrificed to lower expenses. 1 cannot teell. Kvery man who Is not an absolute necessity is being let go. If I join the procession 1 will mount my "wheel" and pull fi.r the East. Not on a tour across the continent, but on an errand bent, not from choice. If I should pull into Michigan City don't be surprised. I shall nit want more than a handout. However much I should like to join the reunionists -there. 1 should not like to join vou just that way. for it would no doubt have a chilling effect on some who may have some slight fe.ünirs for humanity in general and some maybe in -i rtiular. Wishing r.n a verv happv time I close still yoi-r brother. " "ALLEGRO." Delta. Col.. July 12. A AVoril from the President. To the How.ird Literary A. F. Jacobs, Grvnc.isilc. Ind.. has been chosen chairman of the committee cn reunion program. AH conmitnlcation i s-ho'.M be sent to h rn. A".! who v. ill att-nl reunion and all wao v.-ill contribute an essay or poem s: ul 1 notify him ?.r.mod:.-trly. Thank yen for nauv l-.nd p?rsonil lett rs and the fpir pro-ipect ef a successful re.:n;:n. Sincerely yj..rs. WILL E. STRAW.V. Montpelier, lud., July 17. II I) y i:i:ielie. Baby Blanche, witn soft blae eyes. Deep as the hue of sunimrr ski;s. Hither an I thit'ier like bird on the wing. Only sunshine her footsteps bring. Dainty apron, now fillel with bloom Then for the kitties barely room. In al! the changen nature brlr.gs, Seeing only the loveliest things. So when the rain came pattering down. The gray clouds wearing their darkest frown. i No doubts assailed the wise young head. "They are only angels' tears," she said. While the fairest, sunniest, brightest things, From the bird that paused on Its glancing wings To the tiny flower In its woodland grace, Found only in the sweet young face. MKS. Ii. K. SMITH. A Ilnllad. It was a simple, little ballad. Sung in a simple way, No roulades, no canzote, A glad young voice at play. But over the careless throng, In the heated, crowed room. Fell the hush of the evening's calm. As the breath of rich perfume. While the song birds in the heart Joined in the sweet refrain, And the sky of life grew clearer As after the summer rain. MRS. R. K. SMITH. He Won't Be Expelled. Mouldy Mike "By all the saints, has yer lost yer mind? Wot you carryin' that saw ferr Ragged Robert "It's all right I stop at houses an' offer to saw some wood fer me dinner.' "You'll be expelled from the Travelin' Gentlemen's Union." "No. I won't. After dinner I tell 'em I can't work till I file me saw. They lend me a file an' tell me to go way off where they won't hear me filin'. Most any saloon will give a drink for a good file." N. y. Weeklw. Room at the Top. Merchant "Have you had any experience in china ware T' Appllcant-"Years of It, sir." "What do you do when you break a valuable piece?" "Well er I usually set It together strain and put It where some customer will knock It over." "You'll do." N. Y. Weekly. I prescribe Simmons Liver Regulator, and it deserves all the praise it receives. Dr. D. 'W. Atkinson, Siloain, Ark. .

FEEDING VALUE OF WHEAT.

THE LOW PRICES HAVE LED TO AX IMPORTAXT IXdriRY. Other Matter SnjfB-tel for the Information of Our Agricultural Friends Condition- Pott der Corn Culture and Varieties Making Clover Hay Care of Bees Malchin: Yonnn- Fruit Trees X'ote from Practical Farmer Some Things "Worth Knowing Recipes. The extraordinary low price of wheat, leaving no profit at all for the grower, has turned the attention of farmers to Its feeding value. There are few scientific tests for reference, as wheat has not been regarded primarily as a stock food. We know by analysis that it is more nitrogenous than corn, being, therefore, a better food for growing stock, provided its percentage of digestibility is as high. In coming to a decision about the matter of selling or feeding wheat we must depend chiefly upon the experience of the few who have fed wheaL The Sentinel probably can serve its readers no better this week than by giving a sort of summary of these experiences, at the same time urging its readers to add to the stock of information at hand by giving us any facts they may have gotten in their own experience. . Mr. C. R. -Doolittle says In a leading journal: I know of several farmers that have already fed wheat and are still feeding, having become convinced that, all things considered, it is the cheapest feed we have. The writer has already fed about 300 bushels, and if all other Ohio farmers had fed in the same proportion, the problem of 'what shall we do with our surplus? would be partially worked out. Perhaps it will interest my brother farmers to learn how and to what I fed the 300 bushels of wheat, and what the results fire. Having a lot of pigs and young hogs, I tried feeding to them, first soaking and feeding whole, and then grinding and feeding in the form of porridge. I fed to one bunch of pigs, from .five weeks to six months and fifteen days old; to another bunch five weeks to eight months old. They had no other grain till the last montn, when we varied their rations to about one-half corn. Weight of first lot at slaughtering, 185 pounds, dressed. Weight of second lot at slaughtering, 211 pounds, dressed. The last lot were not so well cared for äs the first. We were agreeably surprsed at these results. The wheat paid us at the lowest estimate one dollar a bushel. We shall continue to feed wheat, considering it the nearest to a perfect ration for young pigs and shotes, fitting and ripening them for market at an earlier age than any other feed, which at present and prospective prices is quite an important item. In feeding, make into porridge, either with factory' whey or water. Keep it In a mild acid, but never longer than 24 hours after, in warm weather, or 48 in 'cold. Then clean up and start anew. Brother farmers, try feeding wheat and note results. According to the National Stockman, Mr. O. A. Cory says: Wheat will make one-third more pounds of pork to the hundred than any other grain I have ever fed. It should be ground as fine as coarse flour or middlings, and soaked from one feed to another, that is, mix in the morning what you feed in the evening, and so on. It is better to mix one-third meal and then you can feed more without making them sick. Be careful not to feed too much at the start or you will sicken them. I cook mine and feed it wet. I expect to feed 300 bushels this summer. One writer says: Reduce the visible supply by holding and feeding, and prices must appreciate, and then European buyers will clamber over each other to buy. The old economic law promulgated by Gregory King was that a shortage of 10 per cent, will raise prices much more than 10 per cent., say 20 to 30 per cent, and vice versa. Let us now by feeding wipe out the surplus of 10 per cent., or the belief that there is one, and let us, all over the older wheat states at leart, refuse to sell at what we all know is below the cost of production, to say nothng of profits. If the move Is made at all general it is sure to win and can not lose. "He that is low needs fear no fall." F. H. Valentine thinks that it would be wise for breeders to be looking for substitutes for corn as stock feed. There Is no questioning the fact that in many of the corn growing sections grain has been fed too exclusively. It is valuable if fed wisely, but it should not exclude other and equally valuable givins. Then again its proportionate Klüng price has been higher for the i past few years. Wheat is becoming j more and more unprofitable. It is a i t 1 - . l . . . 4 1 j umttisauy gruvoi yi.iiu, iinu our Aiueiil run frnwers meet cnmnetltion from a'l parts -of the earth where labor is cheap ad the cost of production small. Kut of corn growing, we might almost be said to have a monopoly. Corn is generally supposed to be indigenous in this country, and nowhere else does it thrive as here. Especially on our western prairies is It the standby of the farmer. Our government is making encouraging efforts to extend its use in the different countries of the old world, and with its Increased use as an article of food at home, it is likely to become more and more profitable as a market crop. This being the case it is wdse to find other grains to take Its place as food for the domestic animals, and thus increase the marketable amount of what Is on many farms the most profitable grain crop. , Brother farmers, let us test this matter carefully. Condition Powders. When we have reached that stage of civilization in which people will be willing to pour all manner of combinations of drugs into their bodies regardless of effects, provided the bottles are labled "patent medicines," it is to be hoped that more attention will be devoted to the highly scented combinations of sawdust and saltpetre that are put upon the market under the name of condition powders for stock. Some condition powders are effective in certain cases, but the most popular ones are made on the "cure-all" plan. Just as if one would combine a cough sirup, castor oil, sarsapanlla and' a bunion cure Into one decoction for suffering humanity. While a few of our condition powders may be a full assortment of all known remedies and will cure, if they do not kill, many of them are so diluted that they are very costly. Usually the effectiveness of any powders for any particular case depends upon one or two ingredients. If horses need any drugs they should be given what they need. Nine times out of ten when horses are not thrifty they need a laxative and less heating food. They do not need a condition powder made of a list of ingredients as long as the moral law, nor do they need scented sawdusL Iodide of potash Is nearly a perfect blood medicine. When one buys it he does not have to pay for other drugs that the horse should not be given, but that are necessary components of a cure-all. If talt cost 5 cents an ounce, and was known to us common folk only as chloride of sodium, it would be prescribed as a condition pow8er by all veterinarians. It is too common and cheap. If acetlo acid had to be Imported from some island of the sea it would be the most popular remedy for bruises and epralns, but, being In vinegar. It is not costly enough. External applications of salt and vinegar and internal applications of salt alone for stock, and the hot water cure for man. If usod when needed, would lessen the number of our

learned fellow-citizens who ride in gigs and write orders on druggists in poor Latin,

Corn Culture and Varieties. i One rarely pees a more valuable station report than No. 25 of the Illinois station. The following is equally applicable to In diana: I The resuts of many trials suggest that ( most farmers in central Illinois have attached undue Importance to early planting and frequent cultivation, and have j done harm by too deep cultivation, espe cially after the corn has made a fair growth; and that they have attached quite too little importance to securing a uniform stand, with at least 12,000 stalks per acre. At the- station good yields have been secured from planting any time in May, and corn planted at a comparatively late date has required less cultivation to keep the ground free from weeds. A good condition of the soil at the time of planting Is more important than early planting. Thick planting reduces the size of the ears, but larger yields have been secured in many trias where the number of stalks at the rate of one kernel each nine, inches in rows three feet eight inches apart than from a thinner stand. Little or no gain has Deen observed from planting in hills, with equal numbers of stalks per acre. While "thinning" corn is a troublesome process it is probable its cost would often be abundantly repaid. The weight and good quality of the stover are increased 1 by rather thick planting. For the soil and climate at the station grounds varieties are preferred which have stalks eight to ten feet high, of medium thickness, with sort Joints and abundant foliage, producing ears at a night of from three feet six inches to four feet, the ears having short shanks. It is preferred that the ears , be from eight to ten inches in length and about two and one-half inches in diameater, nearly uniform In diameter, except near the tips .well filled at both ends, with from sixteen to twenty rows; the kernels thick rather than thin, somewhat wedgeshaped and with little space between the rows. The cob may be from one to one and a quarter inches in diameter. I Making Clover Hay. Many famers find great difficulty in getting clover cured properly. From experience we can vouch for the following method, as described in an eastern paper: We start the machine in the afternoon, and if we wish to cut only one or two acres, not until after 5 o'clock supper. There is no moisture on the clover at this time, and it is so late that It does not wilt at all that ntgKt, and so the dew does not Injure it. The next day at 11 o'clock we turn it, and again at 1, and an hour later rake it up, and by 5 'clock we have It all in cocks. The next day, after the outside ia thoroughly dry, we open the cocks and invariably find them damp, but we shake them out so that the sun and air have access to every part, and when this second moisture has dried out we know that our hay is so well cured as to be. safe in the mow. Should the day prove cloudy or a poor hay day, we do not disturb that cut the night before, but leave It in the swath, for It will endure a long rain with but little damage in this shape, but if It has been dried and then stands out through a rain, either in the cock or winrow. it is greatly damaged. On Saturday last I put in clover hay in good condition which had lain In the swath from Monday night till Friday morning through several heavy rains, but when we turned it on Friday we found It had not wilted underneath, and it cured out almost as bright as fresh-cut hay. I also take a good deal of pains in mowing the hay. We do not leave it in the mow in the great bunches which the horse fork drops, for it is almost sure to mold, but I have two hands inthe mow, and every load the heavy fork drops is taken apart and evenly spread before the next one comes. Managed In this way all parts of the mow settle alike, and when we wish to take it out to feed it comes out as easily as though It had been pitched off by hand. Usually two men can do this as fast as it comes, but if necessary we let the horse fork wait a little, for I want this job done well, even at the sacrifice of a little tie time. Timothy hay does not require this second drying, but in good hay weather we can begin to draw in by 1 o'clock that which was cut the previous evening. I have never used a hay tedder, but know how they work. and think that by the use of one timothy hay could be cured in three hours if perfect hay weather. Care of Bees. Mrs. L. Harrison, the well-known writer on bees, says that wh?n they have the swarming fever it ia no use trying to cure it; it will cost more than it will come to, and it is well to let them have their own way. There is no time to spend sulking when honey is to be gathered in the fields. Let the bees swarm once, then after-swarming can be prevented at the option of the manager by removing queen cells. After the first swarm has issued, some remove all queen cells but one, but others, knowing . that every queen cell doe not produce a good queen, prefer to let a second swarm Issue, and then remove all cells and return the swarm, or hive it and place it on top of the one from which it issued. After sundown return it and the queen cells will all be destroyed by morning and no further swarming will follow. Where a colony throws off five or six casts, all after the second one will be too small to survive the winter. They have young queens. If the manager desires increase, and will hive them upon comb or foundation, feed liberally dur ing a cessation of the honey flow, and assist them with combs of chipping brood, they may be strong enough to winter but no surplus will be stored. WTiy so many swarms emigrate yearly to the woods, Is owing In a great meas ure to bad management No ringing or bells or creating of uproar is necessary, or undue haste, but as soon as bees are quietly clustered they should be put into a new clean hive, and placed in the shade. Yesterday a large swarm issued, and as soon as hived they were removed to their permanent stand. They were hived upon combs and as soon as they realized that mother was with them. they marked their location nad went off to the fields. I never before realized the importance of moving bees to their permanent stand. This swarm was hived before any scouts left the cluster to hunt a home. They were off to the fields without loss of time, at the longest not morethan half an hour Mulching Yonnjr Frnit. The first season after the young fruit tree has been transplanted from the nursery to its permanent home in the orche-d is a critical period in its existence, and it Is hardly too much to say that on its growth during this perod depends in a great measure the future value of the tree. If it receives a check at this point in its career Its full possl ble perfection will probably never be realized. Of course much of the first season's success or failure depends upon the care or carelessness with which the transDlantinK has been done in the spring, but still the summer w ill have much to do in helping the tree through the first season. The greatest danger the tree will en counter is the scalding effect of mm summer heat, and the weakening of its vitality by a drying of the earth about the roots. The first difficulty will be at least partially obviated and the latter almost wholly by taking care that the earth Is made firm about the roots when the tree is transplanted and kept thoroughly well mulched. The mulching .should be spread on thickly and as far out from the trunk of the tree as the roots run. and if carried considerably farther it will be all the better, as the moist condition of the soil beyond the extremities of the roots will Induce root growth. Am. Agriculturist. Notes From. Practical Farmer. A good lawn about the house will increase the value of any farm. Equal quantltes of clean red-top and blue grass make an excellent mixture for aeedlne.

Sow at the rate of two bushels per acre upon a soil that is level, smooth, compact and of fine tilth on top. A plant may starve to death as readily as an animal. Some men will be surprised to learn this, although they have seen examples of it upon their own farms. The average barnyard is a place from which much of the profit of the farm leaks out. A movement for improved barnyards is as much in order as is the good roads movement. Overcrowding of the plants is a poor way to increase the yield of any crop. And if you are going to thin the plants out do it while they are small so that those which remain may have every facility for growth from the start. The same valuable substances are taken from the soil by weeds, that we put there at so much expense for feeding the valuable crops. This has been proven by the anyalysis of the ash. It is not good policy to feed worthless crons. A good work upon land drainage should be in the library of every farmer. A thorough understanding and application of the principles of drainage would greatly increase the value and productive capacity of very many farms. Almost all the wool which enters inn

our woolen manufactures is adulterated to some extent. This may help to a. count for the low price of wool, as certainly does for the poor quality oi some so-called woolen goods. It is a great mistake to think that any crop will take care of itself after it is once started. Every crop should be carefully watched. if nothing more, until harvested. Insect pests and disease are always lying in wait for crips that are not looked after. Our corn crop is so slightly in excess of the home requirements that a very small percentage usually remains for ex port. But that proportion often controls the price for the whole. The government's effort to broaden the foreign market should be continued. Worth Knowing. To relieve pains from bruises and pre vent discoloration and subsequent stiff ness nothing is more efficacious than fomentations of water as hot as can be borne. Strong carbolic acid is sure death to bedbugs. It is also one of the very best disinfectants. A bottle should be kept on hand, out of reach of children, and a few drops occasionally put down the sink drain and In slop jars. A. convenient article for the sickroom Is a long, low shelf supported at either end by broad stanchions. It spans the Invalid s lap without touching her, and enables her to eat, when propped up in bed, with the same convenience as though she were not deprived of diningroom comforts. Flatirons should foe kept as far re moved from the steam of cooking as possible, as this is what causes them to rust. When purchasing new ones, be sure and get those with movable handles. A towel rack made with several arms fastened to a half-circular center, which in turn fastens to the wall, is a convenient place for drying dish towels. A home-made paste that can be re commended in unqualified terms Is made of two tablespoonfuls of laundry starch and one tablespoonful of gum arable. Dissolve these in a little warm water and pour over them about a pint of boiling water. Stir rapidly over the fire for a few minutes and set it aside to cool. When the paste is nearly cold add three drops of oil of cloves to keep it from moulding or being discolored. Sieve Recipes. Boston Brown Bread. Two cupfuls of entire-wheat flour, one cupful of corn meal, two-thirds cupful of molasses, one large cupful of sweet milk, one cupful of sour milk, salt, one teaspoonful of soda, bteam three hours and bake one hour. Ideal Gingerbread. Ideal gingerbread has these ingredients: One cup of butter, one cup of sugar, two cups of molasses, one cup of milk, two eggs, one teaspooonful of soda, one teaspoonful of ginger, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon and three cups of Hour. Molasses Cake One cupful of molasses, one half cupful of boiling water, one teaspoonful of soda disolved in the water, one large teaspoonful of melted butter, one teaspoonful of salt, oni and three-fourths cupfuls of entire wheat flour, one teaspoonful of ginger or cinnamon. Fruit Ice Cream. Canned apricots, fresh bananas,' peaches, strawberries or pineapples make the best varieties. In using these, be careful to add sugar in proportion to the acidity of the fruit and to add the fruit, after It is mashed finely, to the cream after freezing. After adding the fruit a few turns are all that is necessary to thoroughly mix fruit and cream; then pack well. Tea Biscuit. Sald one pint of milk. While hot add one tablespoonful of butter. When lukewarm stir in one-half of a cup of yeast, one beaten egg and one quart of flour. Beat and work until smooth. Set in a warm place until light. When risen work softly and roll out gently. Cut into small biscuit, let rise again for thirty minutes or until light, ana then bake in a quick oven. Chocolate Cream. Soak a box of gelatine in half a pint of cold water for two hours. Put one quart of milk in the double boiler and place on the fire. Shave two ounces of chocolate and put it in a small pan with four tablespoonfuls of sugar and two of boiling water. Stir over a hot fire until smooth and glossy, and then stir into the hot milk. Beat the yolks of five eggs with hal,f a cupful of sugar. Add to the gelatine, and stir the mixture into the hot milk. Cook three, minutes longer, stirring all the wrhile On taking from the fire add two teaspoonfuls of vanilla and a half saltspoonful of salt. Strain and pour into moulds that have been rinsed in cold water; set away to harden, and serve with cold cream. Tinman Xatnre. Yellowy "Just see that old drunkard they're taking into the station there! What a Ä-reck he is!" Brownly "Yes, rum appears to have drowned him." "It's the way with 'em all. Once they start there Is no knowing where they will stop." "That's so. Well, as It's a pretty cold night suppose we go in and take a drPtk." Texas Siftings. Too Obnrrvlng. Wee Maiden-I think that photographer is real mean. He paid he'd do something so my freckles wouldn't show in the picMother Well, I declare! Didn't you want him to take the frevkles out? Wee Maiden Yes'm, but I. didn't want him to know he was doing it. Street & Smith's Good News. He Threw Tliem l". "I tell vou, sir, when I heard the train robbers say, 'Throw up your hands,' it made me sick." "No wonder It made you sick. And what did you do?" "Threw up my hands." N. Y. Press. A Question of Odds. May Blume (scornfuly) "I hear that you have wagered mon?y that you will marry me." Van Ische "Yes; will you marry me?" May Blume "If you wagered enough I wilL,r Puck. A Chanrr to Make Money. I have berries, grapes and peaches, a year old, fresh as when picked. I use "Hood's improved process;" do not heat or seal the fruit, just put it up coui. Keeps perfectly fresh and costs almost nothing; can put up a bushel in ten minutes. Last week I sold directions to over one hundred families. Anyone will pay a dollar for directions when they see the beautiful fruit -samples. As there r.re many poor people like myself I consider it my duty to give my experience to such, and feel confident anyone can make one or two hundred dollars, around home. In a few days. 1 will mail sample of fruit and complete directions, to any of your readers, for 19 two cent stamps, which is only the actual cost of the sample, postaere. etc., to me. . Mrs. W. M. Griffith. New Concord. O.

TERRE HAUTE CAR WORKS.

AX ASSIGXMEXT MADE TO PROTECT ITS CREDITORS. Nine Ilnndred Employes nod an Annual Business of $3,000,04 M An Immense Kusines That Sprung From n Small Keginning Only n Few Years Ago o Preferred Creditors An Early Resumption of Work Confidently Expected Vice-President Cox's Clear Statement. TERRE HAUTE. July 11. Special. The Terre Haute car works and manufacturing compafy, one of the largest concerns in the West and probably the largest in Indiana, employing upward of nine hundred men and doing an annual business of J3.0O0.0O0. assigned this evening to Harry J. Baker, an attorney. Inability to realize on gilt-edged securities because of the severe stiingency in the money market is the cause of the assignment. The company is a stock concern, the present company being organized July 19, 1875, out of the original company, which was started in 1&67 on ä small scale. Out a small machine shop has grown the present concern, which has been one of the prides of the city. The officers are: President, James Seath; Lewis J. Cox, vice-president and treasurer; secretary, Clarence W. Gillespie; superintendent, R. S. Cox. Mr. Lewis J. Cox this evening gave the following statement, which was concurred in by the assignee: "Our liabilities are $191.165.30, and our contingent liabilities are JS4.467.91. These contingent liabilities represent the amounts on which we are endorsers for Post. Martin & Co.. the car trust banker's of New York City. We do not anticipate having to take care of this amount, as we believe Post. Martin & Co., will eventually take up this paper. "Our liabilities represent bills payable and open accounts for material. We do not owe a cent of money to any of the Terre Haute banks, and but a very small part of our liabilities is for borrowed money. "Our principal creditors are iron and lumber companies in various parts of the country. Our assets are $099,052. or three to one of our liabiUties. if the contingent liabilities are excluded. Including them there i3 two for one. We have built a great number of cars, and when the stringency in the money market came on and the companies were unable to pay for them, we found ourselves in a tight place. Good paper did us no good for we could not realize on it. "Two hundred cars were recently built for the Hicks stock car company of Chicago. We still held them, because we could not get the money. "There are no preferred creditors and all will be treated alike. We have fears that the company will not pay readily, and we shall at once ask the court for an order to resume work. We assigned to protect our creditors and to give them all a fair show. "Had it not been for the tightness in the money market, making it impossible to realize on assets of the first character, this need not have been necessary, and we hope that when matters ease up that in the fall we shall be on our feet again." Fakes Wouldn't Do. Caller "Say, want a petrified man?" Museum Manager "Indeed I do, right off." "Well, I can do the petrified man act so no one will ever gues? it." "You won't do. I don't want any fake. I want a genuine, living, petrified man, not an imitation." "Nobody will know the difference." "I don't want him for exhibition. I want him for cashier." N. Y. Weekly.

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IN DEFENDING HIS MOTHER

YOl'XG HARRY AILT KILLS It EXT 51 1 LEV AT ALFORD. PETERSBURG, July 17. Special. This usually quiet little city was startled yesterday afternoon by the news that Prentice Keith, a ton of Clayborn Keith, a farmer living near town, was drowned in White river, near town, whfle''in bathing with a number of his friends. vYoung Keith was about twenty-two years of age and a well respected. Industrious young man. His body was recovered about 9 o'clock last night. Before the people on the streets had ceased to discuss the drowning they were shocked by the news that Harry Ault had shot and killed Rent Miley. Ault is a young school teacher of this county and a son of Henry Ault, a prominent farmer and stock dealer who lives about, five miles east of town. Miley was a farm hand and lived with and worked for the Aults. The cause of the tragedy as detailed to your correspondent i& that yesterday (Sunday) Miley rode into tow-n. He was drinking. He then went to Alford, a village two miles east, when he met young Ault and late in the evening they both went home together and retired for the night. Young Ault's mother was sleeping in an adjoining room, alone, her husband being absent in Cincinnati with a shipment of stock. About midnight young Harry Ault heard a noise in his mother's room. Ha realized that some one was making a criminal assault upon her. as he heard a man say: "I'll shoot any that comes la here." Young Ault, who Is a cripple, seized his revolver, struck a match, and seeing the form of the man shot and Instantly killed him. The victim was Rent Miley, Ihe farm hand, who had been for soma time employed in the Ault family. Ault made no effort to escape, and h says very little about the deplorable affair. He has just been brought In ta town by the deputy sheriff. The Ault family is one of the" most highly respected families in this county, and young Ault one of the most quiet and agreeable young men. IIa rankg high as a school teacher. The coroner has Just completed th tn quest of the body of the deceased, tmt, has returned no verdict yet. Almost A Murder. BRAZIL, July 17. SpeciaL A eert?9 of family brawls nearly resulted In a, murder at Donaldsonville, a small town east of here, last night. George Jack son a very black negro, who married af white woman, was shot three times In the back, but not fatally wounded, Tjji Robert Howard, another colored mär; Mrs. Jackson had been quarreling withf her colored neighbors, insisting that eTem if she had married a negro, she was better than the negroes. Last evening sha r-ssaulted Howard's family and swore; that she would cut Howard and hia wife to pieces, and blow up the house with dynamite. Howard armed himself and called on Jackson. Bitter vords passed and Howard drew his revblver. Jackson turned and started to run, and was shot as he ran. While ha was running he seized a shot gurf and discharged it at his pursuer, doing but little damage. Howard is in JaiL nig Damages Demanded. RICHMOND, July 17. Special. William Gantz, whose wife and two children were killed on a crossing by a collision with a Pan-Handle train, has retained attorneys and will institute suit against the railway company for $25,000 damages.

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