Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1893 — Page 5

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL: WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8, 1893-TWELVE PAGES.

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OFFICER3. - - rresWont Will U. Strawn, Montpeller, Ind. First Vice-President Torrence M. JackSon, New I.ancaster. Ind. Second Vice-President Miss Sue C. Parker. Kalona. la. Recording Secretary Miss Tora enner. Plasant-ave.. Indianapolis. 1ml. Corresponding Secretary Miss Emma L. Marker. Emerv. 111. Traurer Miss Mary J. Kelly. Campbellstown. O. Executive rommltttee Wimnm A. Clark. Ianville. Ind.. Ix.x !": V'. S. Kokendoffer, Montevallo, Mo.: J. C. Mci'onald. Molina, Tenn.; Mrs. J. P. Harnes, Pruceton Mills, V. Va. OTIJECTS. Section 2 of Article 1 of Constitution The obje-ct of the Howard Literary Cliin Is to enourage pure literature, strengthen morality, establish sociability. Increase a desire for mind improvement and literary attainments ami to extend the work or reformation. MEMBERS. Section 1 of Article 2 of ConstitutionAll persons of good moral character who ure Interested in th objects of this organization and are willing to work In accordance therewith are eligible to membership. Ve most cordially invite every on truly and une-ompromisinsly Interested In our objects to Join our club. letters of Inquiry should bo addressed to the Corresponding Secretary with stamp. The Howard Literary has neither salaried officers nor contributors, anil depends wholly upon its met its and principles for UCCe-MS. MmNers only are entitled to the rare lnflts of our 'book catalogue. All letters for publication must be carefully written on euo side of the paper nly. accompanied bv the writer's real name and address as well as the tiom d" plume, and Plainly addressed to the editor, J. Stewart. Sentinel office, Indianapolis. Ind. Member In renewing subscription for The Sentinel wll! please be sine to send Jl to the Howard Literary Treasurer, as the club Is allowed a xmall commission. 1ii credit anil prompt net ion guaranteed. Members, on sending their photos to the editor for reproduction on this pace, must send nm do plume and nr-o real name nd address. The latter will not k pubbshd except by request of the sender. A 1)11 MP.lt. TuseHiiibla" n lit I On find Tells About II. lear Howards If ymi will h tcend from th bights to which yu liave been boosted by the astonishing iloipienci of the giants who have pieTin mo and will lend ine your oars, I will give you th unvarnished tab? of my last ilnam. for I am a great clreamist and could ghe "Iiyron" tea points and beat him every time. My ' wets of Imagination, always equal to any occasion In every day experience, are a-s much brighter when I sleep a.- a new trade- dollar is brighter than an old copper cent; therefore, a.s a dreainist. I am without :i rival from 6 to 7 In the morning. At 7 I am sure to come out of my realms of fancy and have iifVt-r failed to have a gooel appttlte for three ups of coffee, ten buckwheat cakes, fl e eggs, a dish of fried potatees and a mammoth hunk of odd chicken, but I won't keep yon in suspense, so I will proceed. Ii-st nftrht while I was lying l.i eh-cp mathematical thought, seriously trying to rind out If ten cows and ten hh-p added together make twenty cows or twenty sheep, I lost myself in the profundity of t'.guns and before I was coiilrous of it I went to sleep like a little lamb. When I awoke I found 1 bad slept a little longer than I wanted too, and my almanac said it was 10n, or just 1) yenrs later. I was really startled at t he discovery and In great vexation, fr I had promised to pay my tailor the- next morning and I wouldn't have broken mv word for anything with hini. The spirt of progress had been pretty active during my little- nap and gr-at change. had taken place. No man was cbllg-sl to work for n living; he hoarded at his nöishter's. A man could talk 4,')"0 worein In a minute and his wife could go hint l.noo or 2t0 letter. The frull barque of the' populists floundered on free- celnage; the filthy wl was foiowed under, ami trusts, combine and rcoler tariffs were abolished; a ton;i file pfetry writer, on the principle of a fype-writer, was in tin ossefson C everybody, and rhynit went off by the mile, and the- beauty of It was no ene to eonipellol to reael them; rverylKily w- a mine! reader, and young men were saved the trouble f waiting twe or three year to Und out how much thHr pweeth-art were thinking of Vw. m- Vi rt n rrt i n Ii tdfr w a nikiii If a 1 iinii , i it ii n iiio-ii ''. v mo o j-jft i inthere wefe Khrjs where he could go and iret meiusurd for a rvaely-maeb on, qually a.s K""1 as th eld one, assertMl tlz'n kept con5tantly on hand; a perfect system had ton invented for getting Into thf house at night without your wlf knowing you had been out at all, and keeping you awake the balance of the nticht to make all worts of exeuses, good r bael; people wore ear trumpets fui finely adjusted that you oeuld hear Just what yeur nelghtMrs were aying Hbout you a pleasant pastime. Dangerous aoeesslons had' lexn made to the ranks of the prohlbs, when tho manufacture and pale of all manner of Intoxicants, adulteratel and otherwise, ceased, and pure wines were substituted Inr lieu thereof, when the organization weakened and faile d to elect a president. The old way of sticking shirt tuttens on With mucilace w.a abolished, and every hlrt would have at least two or three tuttens on when they came frem the washwomen. Your country friends comInjf to visit you wouldn't bring more than one or two of the neighbors along, with a broken dozen of eggs and a short jxund of butter, and they never stayed longer than they wanted te. Persons who were hung were always brought to afterward, no that a great deal of the inconvenience of hanging were avoided. The luoser men's pants frrew, the tighter pull-back skirts grew, until finally the pants became eklrts and the sklrta Lcame pants, and that was the fashion of the day. A new way of pay- . InfT debts without money had been Lnventeil, and no man had a right to dun yeu with a shot-gun, under pain of l.th. 9 a creditor didn't get more Invitations to call again than even your best friends, as It H now. Street, cars were made of Irdiair rubber, so there wm always room for rme more, as the Uore would remark, and the family

hail hpcnme more numerous than the Smiths. A man falling from a roof had a perfect right to call out to them to spread a mattress below. If a man should happen to fall and Injure his reputation there were shops handy where he could get It repaired and make it even better than it was before. Hired girls always stayed more than a week. Yeu could almost believe what your neighbor said. They had invented a kind of hash which a goenl many people could eat. and it didn't hk like it had Ioen manufactured at the wig-maker's. A hole in your stocking was not onsidered a cenventlnal necessity. When you marrieel you did not have to marry the old lady, and the old man. rftnd the re-st of the girls. A milliner didn't put more money than llowers oiv a bonnet and the tailor would make a coat almost in the way you would tell him. Every man had a cast-iron elllgy. to whleh he would set hook age nts and life Insurance men talking, anil they had been known to last a year without wearing enit. Ladies In church all carried hand lookingglasses for the purpose ef looking at eithers behind Ihe-m. and apartments were in every church for the aeeomntoelitloii eif worshipers who desired to slee j their sins eT. Nobody needeii an e-du atlon."fr every man had a diamond encyclopaedia with him, ami a man was allowed to tell Just as many truths as he cuii.il, It really semed to be a delightful Mate of affairs, and the euily thing that marred my pleasure was the terrible fact that I had md bad a chance to pay my tailor the next morning after I went t sleep away ba k In lVi.l; it haunted me1; and, ladies and gentleme-n, that was my dream. Was It prophetic or dyspeptic? I will add incidentally that ere the lie'atn was dream d eut some one hammered n my eloor and wakeel me up. I went to the door anl found my tailor, lie said he had asked me fifty times to set lb, but I -ould only re'eall forty-eight times, and we raised a dispute', and en this account I wouldn't settle. I will pay no mart who will tell a deliberate tory: told him I'd bo pleased to see hini again, but hope before he -onies around the forty-ninth time to divam ut somo mode e.f settling without the intervention f filthy lucre r eb-based coin. "TITSCUMIUA." AU AK I : AM A It IS i:. Alse Some S ugliest Ion feir School Oi-ni ntiD tiiial llrrre-ntliiim. Dear Friends of the II. L. C Awake, arise! t'e-me forth In all yeuir wordy arlay and drive the "ads" front the II. L. f '. page. Your h'thargy h;m -almost e-auseil theon to usurp the major portion ef the page and their encroachments are actually appalling, more especially so when It Is thrugh no fault of the-lr own, but owing to the negligence of the members. "Morning niory," from Ilooneville, Ind., lately wrote a letteT to the club asking some Information about "Opening l"x'reises and Ite-cn'atlons," and no one has answercel It. Here are some meth-e-ds use'il In conducting eipning exercises as prae-ticed by the write-r (a former pedagogue), and which he hopes may be e.f assistance to "Morning tilory" and others engaged in the profession of tea hing. The reading of short stories and articles clipped from the children's department ef newspa.ers or sede-cted from juvenile magazines may be made an In-ter-sting and profitable feature of th opening exercise. The writer has several in rap-books containing short Ktorlesand descriptions clipped from the papers, and they have proved especially Interesting and have lx-en an unfailing fountain if delight 'for his pupils and he might add for older heads, too. In n"atly every newspaper something of interest may be found and should be prese-rved from the Jaws of the wastebasked. The newspaper is a golden treusury of useful information and good thoughts. The wireless reader, after a misty p"nisal, consigns the sheet to the waste basket anil In so doing very often throws away something of value that if preserved In nhaH for ready referene-e would le of Interest and value at some subsequent time. The writer do not advocate an Indiscriminate reading of newspepers, tim is too valuable for that, merely this, that such articles be preserved until the time fe.r their use arrives, and Ik' assured It sometime will. In many of the weekly pajicrs, especially the Chicago Inter Ocean, Louisville Courier-Journal and Cincinnati Commercial Cazette. there are "Children's Department." where rn or more short stri's or Interesting article's ap-iH-ar euch week written for children. Of course, with the meager salary paid the teacher for his services he could not afford to subscribe for all these pn-pe-rs, but one paper supplemented with either Harper's Young People. St. Nicholas or the Yeuth' Companion, would furnish nbundant material and more than repay the teacher for the outlay. If the school Is so fortunate as to own a good library (and every school should have one) It may be drawn upon with happy results. The library of the Itockport city schools of this state where the writer was engaged In "teaching the young idea" some two winters has in excellent library whic h has been Increased materially under the able supervision of Prof. J. II. Tomlln. It now contains several thousand volumes of history, travel, poetry, romance, etc., for the u.-te of the teachers and pupils and the number Is augmented each year. The tefteher, If he Is pruelent In his selections, will find that the pupils will manifest a growing Interest In the owning exercise, the - tlrsl two results of K'uxl will Ih a decrease In the numler of coses of tardiness and a material change In the amount of time required for the pupils t cotne to order after entering the room and taking their seats. Now this reading' has a far better purpose than the two mentioned. They are results, but not the result to be attained. To furnish the pupil with something Interesting and Instructive Is geod, but unless you can awaken the self Interest of the child so that he will of himself seek these fields and find pleasure therein, and have aroused In him an appetite for the beauties of literature, you have

accomplished no more than If you had given a toy to a little child to appease It for the passing moment only. The writer holds and believes others will bear him out In saying1 it that if the pupil's thirst for reading is started and kept In the tight channel during the formative period he will very seldom be found stranded In the quagmire of evil and vicious literature. The pupils will soon manifest their Interest In the morning exercises and will bring articles which they have read and found attractive, and which they desire to have read to their schoolmates. They take great interest in this and as a rule their selections are very good. They should be encouraged in this and whenever for any cause their selections do not meet with the approval of the teacher the pupil should be apprised of the fact in such a way as not to wound his feelings, but to assure him that a happier choice would have fared differently. These selections by the pupils may be read and discussed freely and the children will soon be taught almost unconsciously how to select their reading, and this is an educational feature of much value. Without realizing It the pupil will explore hitherto unknown fields, although they hadj been within his reach all the time. Among the very best book that may be read aloud to pupils are the following: "Startland." 'The Nine Worlds," "The Swiss Family Robinson," "Little Women," "Little Men," "An Old-Fashioned Girl," "The Water Uabies," "(Ireek Heroes," "Tales of a Grandfather," "Zigzag Journey." the "llodley Hooks." "The Peasant and the Prince." "The King of the (Jolden Itiver." "The Frince and the Tauper," "Tanglewood Tales." "The Bird's Christmas Carol." "A Summer in a Cannon." "The Story Hour," "We Girls," "The Other Girls," "Boys at Chequasset," "King Arthur." "Little Pussy Willow," "A Dog's Mission," "Seven Little People and Their Friends," "Dream Children," "Stories from My Attic." "A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls." "Twice Told Tales," "Nights with Uncle Remus," "A Christmas Carol," "Wake Robin." and "Black Beauty." This does not by any means exhaust "the list, but these volumes should be In every school library. The morning's exercise may be varied by' having different objects of nature, things of every clay life placed before the pupils, which should be discussed, the objects and points brought out, later forming the basis of their composition weak. To get the most good out of the discussion perfect freedom and sympathy must exist between pupils and teacher. The writer has devoted some space In answering "Morning Glory's" Inquiry, but bHlevcn there are a numlier of ledagogues who have felt the same need and very likely quite a numlx r of them are Sentinel readers. The writer has lotst two articles descriptive of objects in the state geological museum and one on "Deborah, Poet and Prophetess." Will not some? member kindly mention the Issue In which the-y may be found, or If they prefer exchanging coph-s for ioems clippeil from the nowspajwrs an from such authors as Riley, Kugene Field. Bolton, Whittler, Ioi-.gfellow and Tennyson, tlrsf address by postal card as below. Hearty good wishes for the II. L. C. "BKN AltUY.i," Appellato court, Indianapolis.

TO MKT" At.AI. Members. Itentl What Hp line to Snv ( About the 4 lull. Dear Howard Friends When I opened my paper and turneel to the page I was deeply convinced by the stern fact that we, the members of the H. L. C. (upon whom rests the success or failure of the club) are grossly neghx-tlng our obligation to the c lub. Yes, War with me, dear friends, when I put It thus. Wherein lies the ciitise, and who Is responsible for this state of affairs? Kehn returns to us vlth the same words no explanation to light the darkness now hoveling like a cloud over the club. Truly the affairs of the club are In a very bad condition, but. members, where are our love for club principles If we, from this cause only, shirk our duty and allow our beloveel organization to sink Into oblivion? We should hold such strong relations to it that we will not tdep aside, if tin oHicer or member, either through negligence r by an everslght bring trouble upon the club, but lve It the more, thereby lending It aid sulllcient to re-establish it again. Krlemls, am I not right? Can we not see where we should stund? I sincerely hop' that a gentle breeze, by oensclence wafted, will so fan the spark of love for club objects that It will become an increasing flame. May we hceme so enthusiastic over the opportunities being held out to us to make life a blessing, that we will completely banish this state of misjense. The work tf making out a new ballot Is tedious, and you are aware of the necessity of proceeding with care. Then please bear with us. Members, ar you ready to lend lis your aid? We hope fo. Remember vour obligation to the club. Remember the page. With this I am yours for the right. "COMET." Montevallo, Mo., Nov. 3. The Old f hnlr. Aye, store It away in the garret, I trow 'tis u useless thing. For with you no thoughts of the beautiful past To the old-time relic cling. And it mocks with Its homely look The treasures rich and rare. That wealth and love In eage-r quest Have brought to your mansion fair. Hut once again by the casement. As the soft air fans my brow, I sit and dream of the long ago. As I then dreamed of the now. When with gentle motion lulling A blue-eyed labe to rest, I watehe-d a tiny mother Guarding her sllk-llned nest. And thought how soon the birdlliif, Would take their airy flight Of lif and lone an empty homo Would only greet our sight. j But T pressed my darling closer. As I thought of the coming years. So many and bright the fancies, No room for doubts or fears. Shall I tell how the vision faded? No; never a plaint or word; Tis only the old. old story. Longing lor hope deferred. So store It away In the garret, Tls part of my tender past. Part of the sweet, bright fancies1 By cloud and glm overcast. MUS. R. E. SMITH. Story Tel II n r. Tell me n story, grandma," Haid a falr-halred. tiny girl. The blue of her yes. like summer skies. And fair aa an ocean pearl. "Well, what shall it be, nTy elarllng? Of the dark-browed Indian maid. Who years ago that you naught can know. In the depths of the forest played? 'Or the dusky little maiden That southern suns have kissed. Who, light and gay as a frolicsome fay. No gleam of the sunshlnv mlsseel'" ;No. tell us the pretty story Of your home beyond the sea. Where you laughI and played and tung When you was a girl like me," So I told of the quaint old village, Klch In historic lore. Of the castle grim that the ages dim Had lightly glided o'er. Of the hedge-row's fragrant beauty. The bridge o'er the streamlet flung, Where the birds as they bathed their burnished wings. The sweetest carols sung. i And all forgot the maiden As I Jived the dear life o'er. And I start at the pleading whisper, "Oh, grandma, tell us more." MUH. It. K. SMITH. I Cure rvonnri mid Constipation. Dr. Shoop's Restorative Nerve rllla sent free with Medical Book to prove merit, for 2c stamp. Druggists, 25c. Dr. Bhoop, Box X, Itaclne, Wis.

WHAMS THE BEST CROP? i OXE OP TUB MOST IMPORT AMT IS BOYS AD GIRLS.

Different Modes of Kelncatlon rlsouHBeel One of Some Ynlunhlr Kind Xeoennar j Protim in th- I)nlr The Yield of torn Hard Timet Mlxeel FnrmlnK- The Ilond Problem Jooit Wordi for Holsteins Stock; Xotew How to Manage Otcik The liath Spönne Some SfW Kesclpes. It has been said that the best crop raised on the farm Is that of the boys and girls. Unless we have gotten a perverted view of lif one of our best reasons for caring for stock and crops is that we may have the means for caring for this extra "crop" to tit It for usefulness in life and to put it on a higher mental and moral plane than may have been possible to ourselves. But not a few seem to forget what their object originally was and glory only In the fact that their boys are getting large enough to enable them to care for more stock. They have gotten matters turned around, and the means have become the end. The colleges throughout the lalid have thrown open their doors and thousands of farmers' sons should enter such of those institutions as can lit them for places of usefulness and enable them to enjoy the higher things of life while earning a livelihood In a contest with others that grows more severe as our country grows older and more thickly populated. Our learned rrofessors in eastern institutions are using the prominent reviews to prove to their own satisfaction that all true education must be based upon ancient languages, and it does not become a farmer to criticise aught they say, but If such an education were desirable fr farmer loys, it Is beyond the. reach of nine-tenths of those who should gt oft the farm for a year or two or three and cultivate a taste for study that they can carry with them through life and acquire Information that will be directly helpful to them in their work. A boy can "go up" according to Xenophon's "Anabasis," encamping a few "parasangs" farther each night, can wonder whether Socrates ever said half that Plato alleges and learn to "scan" Homer much better than to understand him, but It does not tench ono how plants feed, or how to lay by money for the education of his son in turn while raising sixty-cent wheat or three-cent cattle. A study of ancient languages may enlarge a boy's vocabulary, but that Is not an Implement needed overmuch on the farm. The (Quaker's "yea, yea" and "nay, nay," an fully as forceful. It is true that the chief aim In seeking an education Is not to enable ene to get rich, and the worshiper of a dollar Is fast losing aste among those whoso good opinion ene cares particularly to have, but the majority of the farmers sons who t-hould attend some Institution ef b-arning this fall tend winter ne'eil a prae-tleal education that will enable them to elo better work Instead ef be-ing compelled to go ba-k to tbo A B C'h of agriculture when they red urn to the farm, as elo tboso who spend their Itoyhexxl In a classical college. But It is , not so much the character of the college we would discuss as the e'eslrabllity and eluty of giving the- boys some kind of an education. It Is so ve-ry estsy to ieiniit a few years to slip by, hoping for Indter creivi and more niony. and thi-ii It Im too late-. Tlv boy is out ef the notion, and the hchool etays are over. One of the smldest results of the depression through which agriculture luus (asse'd, r shall we say, is passing. Is that a ge-noratlon of farm lwiys an not gi-tttlng the. educational advantage th-y would have gotten if the pnii ity of the two decades ago had continued until this time. IVople are readingmore than pvit before, the daily parn-ra are going into farm houses everywhere and nur ji-olleges would have oiill their capacity if all who nie Inte-resfitl In education thought they could command the means to educate their children. But many more student could be furnished by the farmers than are If the.se who are able to educate their children would do so. While It Is a matter of private Judgment, a matter that parents decide for themselves, yet the writer knows boys and girls who want better educations than local mhools give and who value menial acquirement more than meney without them, that could be made happier and be'tttcr by the expenditure of some mney now than by tvceivlng a hounled sunt when too late to use it as they now could, and parents who live and work for their children may sometimes serve the-m by studying and supplying legitl--mate wants In eiildhod. One hears so much about the boys staying on the farm. They should not be educated away from It. but If eno's natural bent Is In another direction, and his moral stamina is sufficiently great t enable him to ! a man anywhere, why should not a farmer boy have a chance to mark out his career Just as well as the town boy? In a college town of which we have some acquaintanee It is nt thought improper for a boy to undertake to fit himself for any caieer he may choose, but In many country districts the boy would bo lidlculd who proposed to become a scientist, an editor, or even a hrst-olass horse doctor. It doees not soem right to try to make farmers out of boys whosv grain runs the other way. The farm is the place for those who like it. but the day is near at hand when It will be safe-st to make doctors and lawyers out of the dullest of the.ni. If they iean that way. Soberly and seriously, the most Important question to ta divided on many farms this fall, whether It Is realized or nt, 1m the one whether tho minds of the children shall have a year or two of solid study to enable them to catch up in growth with their muscles. Profils In Hie Dairy. I am a believer In the profits of dairying, writes Waldo Brown in an eastern Journal, nnd that it will remain so to the man who will give the dairy that attention which will Insure a first-class article of butter, and that the fertility of the farm can be easily maintained In this way. Selling only butter and cream, the farmer can raise his own cows, and they will be cheaper and better than he can buy. CJood butter Is worth and will command profitable prices, ani Is easily made. A few points quickly learned, rememleered and practiced, will insure butter as gooel as .ny one could desire. To begin with, good cows, preferably Jerseys, well fed and kept clean, are the essentials in the stable. Next, and none more important. Is control of the temerature of the milk. I would not advise any one to begin dairying unless he can have an abundant supply of water, either naturally very cold r coedeel with Ice. To get the best and most cream in the shortest time, requires that the milk be quickly cooled to 50 degrees or If Ice Is used, 40 degrees I better and kept at that temperature until skimmed. This can le best accomplished by using deep cans, water-sealed; to provide a tank and cans for ten to twenty cows will require but a moderate outlay, and they will last for many years. I estimate that cans and tank will cost less than $2 per cow, and with fifteen cows I would Include a first-class churn. These water-sealed cans give you cream free from any atmospheric taint, and uniform in quality. The cream should never remain on the milk more than

I twenty-four hours, and U vou use Ice I

would always skim at twelve hours. The cream should be thoroughly stirred three times a day until churned, and always churned as soon as ripe. One advantage of the water-sealed plan of setting milk is that the milk can be kept near the well, in a very inexpensive dairy-house. A good roof and a cement floor, -with latticed sides, and grapevines on the south and west, is all that Is needed. Mine is on a level with anorth porch, and the well Is In the center, so that we pump directly Into the tank. There Is no carrying milk down and up stairs, and Ihe dairy-room is always cool to churn in the morning.

lleel Fn ruling. A farmer who uses his brain as much as his hands said: "I have dropped wheat from my rotation. It doesn't pay the cost of raising. I have all the machinery necessary for growing it on a large scale, but it is carefully housed where it will keep. I shall grow only about ten acres just enough for my own use until there is a change in prospect. People are eating so many things that wheat doesn't cut the imiM.rtant figure it formerly did. Just see how the use of the various preparations of oats, corn and barley have Increased in the last few years. And canned goods, corn, vegetables and fruits millions of cans put up and sold every year. Of course they are consumed, and that means less bread. To be sure there are vast quantities of flour consumed, but let the price go up 23 or 50 per cent, and you will see how the other cereals and vegetables will supply its place. "Only specialists are making money now. The man whose specialty is corn and hogs is in the swim, to a certain extent. The dairyman who has a good private butter trade is in It, too. So is the man who is situated in a locality especially adapted to the production of any kind of fruit, while the person who thoroughly understands the management of poultry is not far lehind. The lxeor mixed farmer is left, especially if his animals are scrubby and his tools and implements antiquated. "Yet. bad as times are, a young man can start in on a farm with good animals, and the Kst labor-saving tools and make some money If he understands his business, is industrious, careful and eeonmical. Iyts of them are doing It. The main thing for him to lie careful of Is not to bite off more than he can chew." ' Ilnrel Times. So many attempts have been made to account for the close financial time? business men have lately cxpe rience'd that we take pleasure in giving what we bedieve to be the true cause, as slated by Mr. (Irundy, a leading Illinois farmer. He dates the beginning of the panic back several years. Says h: "Merchants, manufacturers, traders, simulators and bankers heard the complaint of the farmers, but paid little or no heeel to it until they, too, were caught In the vortex. They are now learning the fact that owing to the low prices eif the leaeling farm products the purchasing pow-r of the vast multitude etvjage'd in agricultural pursuits has diminished until it Is almost nil. Farmers bought for cash as long a.s they were able, and busin-ss hitome'd and eolleciions were 'easy.' Then they bought on credit, and w he'ti payday eanie they we-re unable to meet their obligations and asked for 'time.' The re'tailer was e-ompellcd to make the name request of the wholesale merchant ami b ef the inanofai-turer, who called on the batiks for assistance, and .the banks carried him as long six they -ould and t In -n e haos resigned. Th farmers are 'good' for their elebts, but llie y must have lime to grow tin produce to buy the money to pay thin with. Hence collections are 'extremely slow.' Until they are able to pay up the re-taile-r must be 'aei'oininieati'd' by th Jobbe r, and he by tU manufacturer, who is now without fuiffls to buy raw materials, and hence business Is stagnated and money 'tied up.' The other day I overbeard a rural philosopher remark: 'Tli trouble with the t lines Just now Is that everybody Is owtn' everybody, an nobedy Is able to pay anybody.'" The Hoiiel I'rolelem. Mr. B. F. Johnson, the well-known farmer and wrile-r. says: There are indications and they nra unmistakable that the electric street car line's that now ply In almost every city or town of nnre than 4. inhabitants In Illinois, will soon be extended Into the country, and in that way will the hard-road problem bo shorn of most of its dilficultie'S. I am told that In Ohio 'electric railroads have been run out into th country froai three or four Interior ilies. and farim-iS living on Ic-ejstJy, Wiellgrad! roads, employ them In preference to hauling freight f any kind by hoise-s and wagons; and for visits to town and the neighborhood, to the t wet-horse family carriage or the single horse and buggy. It is not elitlicult to Imagine n large an ex tensi m of electric roads and so much broadening ef their uses that on tars made for the purpose horse's with leaded wagons und carriages and their contents will be taken into town with no more turns of the wheel than in going to and from stations. It has always be-e-n my thought that the road problem would be solved, or practically so, in some- unexNcted way. Exj'rlm-iits and efforts have be-en made for the last thirty years to nscertaln If then were not smtv ine-ans jf making hard roaels in soft weather, at a ee.st that would not come near t confiscating landeel property. No success has come t these experiments; hard, smooth and lasting rads cannot be made in the country at a less cost for the same width than In tho cities, that for a forty-foot wiele pavement pay from $5 to $7 a running foot. The Yield of Corn. The average condition of corn, owing to the drought, has fallen every month since Ihe July report, when It stood at IK1.2. In' August It declined to K7. in September to 7ß.7 and this month it stands at 7S.1. The drought wis very severe, especially In the surplus-pmducing; states, cutting off the yield and impairing the quality. The frost has caused but little damage, and that only in the northrn and western states, much of the corn having been prematurely dried up by the drought, placing It beyond the reach of the frost. The rate of yield varies greatly in the principal orn states, frem "worthless" to "the best crop" and from five bushels to sixty. This variation1 Is clue to no Inconsiderable extent to the condition of, the ground when the corn was planted and the drought struck it. The soils that were In the best condition at the time of planting' withstmul the drought much the best. The dry weather continue'd In the states above referred to until the last of September, when the drought was broken and the country visited by a general rain, -which was excessive In seme sections. The rain was too late to aid corn materially, as the givater portion of it had pat-seel from the growing stage to that of rli e-orn, and a. gre-at jeortlon of it was cut up and in the shock. (leiiiel Worein' for HolnteliiN. I'very breed of cattle has its advocate. The following Is frem the jn-n of an authority In dairy matters, Mr. Newell: "A few years ago the Holstein breed of milch cows began to be generally adopted by dairymen In central New York. Dairymen in that region are soinj of the foremor.t In the United States, and at that time their milk was almost exclusively manufactured Into choose. When the Holsteins were Introduced they came to stay, and It did not take but a few years time for the characteristic red hue of the old common breeds to become tinged with black by the infusion of the new blood. Th3 Holsteins were found to be excellent cheese cows, for they were soon proved to be prolific milkers, their milk containing a suflkient amount of butter

jE y blue mondayT A-' A 11 Was dubbcd blue Monday 7 'OfX By old Mrs. Grundy W e A long time ago. y ''. ' f wonder tnat under. jv -j if This serious blunder' jgrcl A The working was slow, ' ''''. A But Mondays have brightened ; 7 ' J Work lightened clothes whitenedix- ) y Since housekeepers know, Jrr" . " I Without further telling, : f O r tte? I What Fairbank is selling. jr'-l-ffi earople below. ZF

im ir of fat with the casein to make a rich cheese. Times have changcvl In that region since, but it is significant f her worth that the Holstein cow still remains and holds her original prestige. "Butter manufacture began to creep fn. and now creameries are springing up beside the cheese factories. It is thought In many quarters that the Holstein is a poor butter cow, but in the face of this butter manufacture Innovation she still remains and llourish. Still another new change came to test her worth. Milk began to be shipped to the city and a standard of solid for the laot?al fluiel was establish. With but few exceptions this milk came up to this test bravely, and most of these exceptions had the tide turned so that they passed the legal mark, by an impoVed system of feeding. Subjected to the most sevre tests, Holstein milk, when coming from well regulated dairies, has met the requirements of all legal and common nttils. "I am not bragging up the Holsteins to the detriment of other breeds, a-s I have no ax to grind, but 1 wish to state the facts as above, where this breed has been ttie-d and not found wanting. When a gtvat dairy region, like that in New York, thoroughly tests these black and white e attle, and does not find enough fault with them to reject them. It Is a prelty good ivcomniciidatlon." Slocl. Xofe. One advantage of having thoroughbred stock is that it leads one to practicethe.renighbreel feeditlg. Did it ever occur le) you that there is scrub- feeding as well as scrub stock? Well, then Is. The whob value of corn meal is not utilized whe-n fed by itsif. as it Is not well masticated and consequently does not digest perfectly. It Is best to mix it with bran, or feed In conne tion with some rougher food. i:xclusivu grain fe-eding may pay well for a few years, but in the e'lid the sternly eleibtion of the soil will cause a collapse?. Ciood live sto k should 1 an adjunct of the grain farm with every man who is in the business to stay. (lood fe-e'dlng is a necessity for profltnblo stock-growing. I'.ut all that is ib--sirable cannot Im acconiplllii'd by that alone. There must b. a proper basis In tlu structure and development of the animal frame, which will enable it to assimilate to the liest purpose the food given. Here, It Is blood that tells. 'Tanner's stock" is something; that no farmer can afford to produce, but from th amount ef it that comes to this market It would appear as if somo mn thought It a very profitable industry. "Harly maturity" is not secured by allowing cattle to shift for themselves while young. It is something that does not come about unless we exert ourselves to attain the elesind end. Don't talk about It unless you work for It with good feed and good care. Cull your herds closely. Wcid m t a bail animal as you would a weed that consumes valuable plant food without giving any adequate return. The same. principles apply all the way through, to the care of stock that do to tho cultivation of crops. COMKKMMi OVi:S. liner They Are Mnnngeel hj Careful Cmikti, The conelitlon of the average stove oven fn which food and pastry are baked Is nut such as to Inspire admiration. In f.ict a perfunctory sort of sweeping Is about all the cleaning our Ftove ovens over receive. In a great many cases remnants of dishes which have boiled over reonaln for months charreel on tha oven bottom. Now, all this negligence In the caro of the oven undoubtedly affects the food cooked in it. In some parts of Kngland where brick ovens are used the walls of them are whitewashed. This purifies them, as common whitewash, it i.s well known, Is an excellent disinfectant. Of course, it would not l possible to treat an ordinary Iron stove oven In this way, a.s the lime would corrode the oven. In some parts of Kurop the ovens are tiled, nnd thse may be easily washed clean. There Is no ossllle objection to washing out the oven of an iron range. If this Is elone systematically at least onoo a week from the beglnning the oven will never get In the black, sooty condition in which it is so frequently found. When anything boils over in the oven it should be allowed to burn to a char, as It then may be easily scraped off and brushed out. After this the oven should be thoroughly aired. It Is a great mistake to bake delicate dessert or cake or pie in the same oven with a dish of meat which has been flavored with onions or strorjg spices. The flavor of the meat will invariably affect the more delicate dishes. Tho shallow closet under tho baking oven, comnumly called the heating cleset, where dishes may lo temporarily kept warm after they are cevoked, should bo kept as clean as the stove oven. It is certainly a very elisagreeable and a hard Job to clean a stove which has been neglected, but It Is a small matter to keep a stove dean If you begin at the be ginning and never allow it to bi'come clogged with soot and dust nnd the debris of thi fmxl. The flue-s of every oven should be cleaned out once a month. N. Y. Tribune. ' IIjiIIi JC-Mintte. Nothing In the bath room should be so carefully lookcil after as the sponge. That but little consideration Is given it Is daily shown in the foilorn and mgleoted condition of this very neeessary adjunct to cleanliness. Instead of Ining left to dry In the spemge basket It Is, a.s a rule, dropped down in some corner and allowed to soak or given a onesiibHl chtnee on the fill outside the room. It Is simply uselcs to expect to keep your sponges in a t-ce-t and wholesome condition so long as they ar treated In this manner. In the first place, they must net. only be thoroughly washed, but In order to prevent their becoming- foul each part of the sponge should be exposed to the air. Fastidious women Bee to It that this toilet article Is each week cleansed by dropping it Into water In which a large lump of soda has been elissolved. afterward boiling It for thirty minutes, when it Is rinsed in cold water and given a sun bath until nearly dry. Always rinse all f.oapy suets from your sponge and then throw It In your basket, which should be- hung jusi outside the bath

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Chicago, roake it. room window. A sponsrc csrel for U this fashion will i.nir be slimy, sour ot musty. Philadelphia. Record. Some w Recipe. Pippet Pudding Cut slices of bread very thin, butter the tn and lay in a baking dish (butter the dish first), strewing over them citron, rwisiis and currants with fugr. Put in alternate layers of bread and in fruit. Pour over the whole an unboiled custard of milk and eres as sue-et as you like It. Add a glassful of brandy and bakes a. light brown. Oit.Iet I'll läne a baking pin with a pastry, and fill with the livers e.f chickens or pigeons t km led in the water left from cooking, mlx'il well with yokes of twi hard-tailed ckv.s. ce-lery chopped bno, parsley, thyme, sage, black pepper, and a little onion to suit the tas-te; one cupful of cream and on sjoonful of butter. Cover with pastry and bake. The jjizzard may be usd with the livers 11 the tooth p.erts are reinovd; also the: hearts of the cttck-c-ns. French Mustard end Mi lted Putter It li well to keep this happy combination always at band, for with half a ib zen hard-lniiii-1 ei; what drlieloij". iipp'-tlzing littlo elishes cun be arranged in a lew minutes for any oevasion. In every ca- tin yellows are sU'-eZ'-d through a ji-ii.no press, then mix with the mustard, tieii . I butter nnd a litllle salt and p- pi r. A half-cnn of united butter and a hc.ipin-T I bl'-si-ooti-ful of mustard is not too inia 'i for a half elozi-n ggs. The French nri-' t'l coiiis in little importe.il j irs; tho ooon iry mustard will not elo. Wafers Mix four FpoonfuN of fi'iur, the same( quantity of suir:ir ;ui ! the same 'f cream, with ore spoonful of butter, and Selisoll With onillü' i 1 ' ratnl. inaee and nutmeg. Cn-am th- Imu-r nr?-t, toll hiigar. Hour, cream and s- i-onitur. net bent We'll. Pike ill Water I rolls. rolling while hot. and afterward tilling ith la pberry or straw betry jam. Thii oldfashioned dainty is one of i,,y i 'nMhivul i herlsheil memories: Hrst. vMo'iini? them mad", and then the taste tli-i afterward ns they incited in my mouth. CJood JioUSe'kiiplllg. Patter for Fruit Fritters Four tabb-f-'tH um luls of flour, a plne-h of salt, one cuir, half a teaspi"iful f baking powder, niiltc to make a rathe r thin batvr. Tin y must be frini over a hot, clear tire r uu oil Move, und a soon, as done placi-d In a, Hraliur und kept warm till .rved, which should be as soon as possible. A ftead bent necessary for the nr. .per frying i f fritters and th" pan should le hot nefor tiny an put In. F.vcilent fritters aro made by outting firm, tip" tomatoe in slice's, sprinkling thttn with salt. and. after bating them utand ten miuutc. dipping them In butte r made by above clip' lions, anil frying in the same wiy. Knulish Muthns I'issolvi one-bslf rake of yeast In one quart e.f tephl wao-r, in te-aspoonful f salt, and eiioiu-h Hour b maWo a thin batter. Pet it st.uid Ii Muht. Kiirly next morning ln-at the batt.-r well; set in a warm pl.iie. and It it rise. Pake on a grid-lie, turning only once. Sinipl as thl reclfi sound it reoulres xperience to teli tin rb;ht -onilMeiu-y of tic Kilter, and just the riht hmt nt which to i'ook the muthns of our nrnJidmot hers. They present rather u. Miapcle appearance, as they are dropped from a hp-wn, but tiny should be crisp, light, and without a suspicion 'f loiu'hiiess. If wed made they are delicious. elood Housekeeping. peefste-ak soup F.sc any scraps of beef-sHe-ak for this soup. Put tho meat from. Ihe bones', and Mowly 1miI together i ti e-houich water to ci.mt them, until th" meat is so tender It c;in be rubbed through a sieve with a potato riash-r; scrap all the mejit from the lne , and rub it from a Kleve, usin the water la which It was boiled to moisten it with. Allow a cupful of this meat pulp for each quart of soupby meat pulp we mean the moit softened in the water in which it was loilnl ami a table'spounful ach of butter and dry flour; .Mir the burter and Hour together o'er tie fire In a thick saiicepHti until they brown, tint avoid burning them, and iln-n gradually stir In the nn-at pulp and enough of the water in which the meat was boiled, or hot water, to in.üe a soup nlUt ies thick as pea soup. Sm.miI! In soup with salt and cayenne, and it, will b" ready to serve. Salmon with Tomato Sauce Fe for this 1 sh 1'anned salmon and canned tomatoes, taking Kith out of the cans dinctly the are ojieiinl. Put tin tomatoes over the fir to Stew with salt, pepper. H. few leaves f ccb-ry or parsley, a small onion, siloed, half a dozen whob doves and allspice, and a sprig wich of any sweet In-rb except sag", nnd stew them until tender tnmiuli to rub through a sieve with a potato tn.uiher; then melt together two table, spoonfuls ach of butter and flour for each can of tomatoes, and mix thoroughly wlUj them; add rtimiirti twiling water to make e pleasant saue and let it boll four or fv minute-s before using It. After putting thi omatoes to cook eipe n the salmon, arrant the plee-es neatly upon an earthen dish which will stand the In-at of the ove-n and can be sent to table; just K fore th" saue Is done put the salmon over a. kettle Killing water or In a steamer to hint, un i when the saeu-e Is ready pour a su'Heient quantity over th salmon and put it inbj the oven for live minutes before erv lng it. Mutton Thick A shoulder of tender mutton dri'ssed as follows really tastes a little like due-k, particularly it Merved with Jelly. The resemblance to duck chb ly depends upon the extreme, end of tin l"r bone remaining: if the last foint has been cut off by the butcher the duck will ha vet ne bill; tho houldr blade trimmed flat and scallopisl at the broal end constitutes the tail. Phoose then, a shoulder of mutton with the lone intact; working from the under side, cut out first the shoulder blade, and then the b'g bone, down to the tlna! section, which Is to le trlmmid In tha shape of a duck's bill: after the cut mado to e xtract the shoulder blade the flesh has to be turned over the Kme as it Is cut, like a glove finger being turned from the hand; if any accidental rut Is made through the flesh It must le sewed up. as it would permit the escape of the stuffings. Mix brmd softenul in coll water with an onion slii-ed nnd fried with two triMcsiioonfiil of butter snd a palatable M H.vaiinn of s:'t, pepper ard round saiie, and sew It within the mutton, trussing it tn the form e.f . duck, .tying etown the bill In front cl"S to the iioly of the epiet r bird; cover this head, fornint by tin bending of the bll and the ne-tk, with buttern! paper lo prveuit burning, and bake the ipuk in a moderate oven about an hour r.nd a half. Th"ii remove the eords used in trussing nnd serve with jelly or Ith .l Kassian salad. Ihe Unit)' lied. For a young baby's bed nothing 1$ prettier than the wleker bassinet, trlmme'd with muslin and hue and with a canopy to nvutch. llnwt vir, tin muslin adornments soon lose their crispjie'ss, and it Is be tter to purchase a rattan or iron crib which an bi usd until the child Is ne huisrer a baby. Tb-sa can be obtained with a frame or rod fnm which to suspend curtains of China silk or Fume pretty washing map rial, held In plnee with bows of ribbon ti match the ceilor eif the room. Iiv-n tHh( patnte-d in white anel gold, or white withi knobs and finishings, are very tffectlvo. Elizabeth Jlebinson Scovil. Titer aIiif of n Krirnd. OOKNKLI A, La. For over six years I was greatly troubled with constipation, and biliousness and was often unable to) work. At the suggestion f a friend I ttiexl Simmons Liver Itcgulator and am now free f the'se troubles. Harrison Tarleton. Your druggist sells it in peiwder or liquid. The powder to bt taken dry or made Into a tea.