Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1894 — Page 5

TIIE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 12. 1894.

crisp and smith

Inaugurate the Campaign in the South, Taking Opposite Sides on the Silver Question. FORMER FOR FREE COINAGE The Speaker We'l Satisfied with the Work of Congress. Secretary Smith on the Condition of the Treasury. Jle Places the Responsibility n the Harrison Administration in So Fur m Politic Has Anything; to Do with It The Creed of the Third Pnrty "Wlld. ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 7. A mass meeting' of democrats was held in this city Ulis evening-. The features were th3 speeches of Sp-aker Crisp reviewing the work of congress and of secretary Hoke Smith against the free coinage of silver, gpeaker Crisp declared hi? personal preference for the free coinage of silver, luch enthusiasm was displayed. Speaker Crisp spoke as follows: "When the Fifty-third congress met in August of last year it was confronted with difficulties which seemed almost Insurmountable. Trade was paralyzed, manufacturing had almost ceased. labor was idle, our banking institutions were failing and the confidence, life and soul of commerce was utifSy destroyed. In 60 far as this deplorable Vendition was attributable to legislation the republican party was responsible. For mre than thirty years that party had made our financial and economic laws. Until- the meeting of the Fifty-third congress the democracy was without power. The condition which corfnni.d us. while not wholly, was very largely due to evil legislation. In li7:: the free coinage of silver had been di-eotuinu id and gold became the standard of value. In 1S7$ partial coinage was resumed. In l!o this law was repe lel rind soon thereafter coinage of sii-r prai-tieally ceased. These acts of the n-puMU-an party resulted in so l?.--ening the volume of money of final redemption .s to decrea the price of all .nia.odiii.-s. increase the burden of all debtors and Impair the confidence of the pe.; in the power of the government an.! of banking institutions to redeem outstanding obligations. . ' w -a. j.ruii-e wiiich allows a ci " "'.'.en t t his obligation to the government i. silver and at the turns tim-- p --nui'-' . on t demand gold in redeiiip; i i.i is i.i .niiVslly unreasonable and un.iu.-t, ..nd in the nature of the case mu-i inrntlr confidence and tend io j-r ki..-e j .mi. . "'For tc.y y.-acs :'i r. rublicans ha 1 been buildia-r i.; t.itili." walls ar .iiiid the country and in K') pastel wha: they termed a p-.i'ec: j.i -i live tariff liw. A Jrtective t.iii'i n:-:ri.:s trade and commerce, it b;.:i:s the market in which we runs', buy c.r.d dci.re.-v s the m irket in which We must S'-.i. li is :t tax 117 an a foreign product, whi.-a the consumer here must pay. I!y taxing his foreign comIetItor you . r.ible t ie domestic nnnufacturer to inert use : :e p. ice of his wares to the extent of the tax and this, too, the consumer hen- m;:-t pay. When you buy foreign z .0 1 a 1 1 pay the duty, it fTes int j the tv .vry anl Is called a 'tax;' when sou bjy he d omestic product and pay the ii.. tim -d price, it goes into the packet of the Anj"n'f.in minufacturer and is called -pr- -t. .;-,.' "The location 0' inc manufactory determines the T-.aaie. but the rate of the duty determlnf-s tue price. Under such a tariff ou must buy in a. market where competition is ilestioyel and wh:-re scarcity is created by law. You must sell at prices fixed in a marke: where free trade and the law of mi,. ply and demand prevail. Trade and commerce is the exchange of omincuitic.-. A protective tariff prevents us tr- m exchanging our surplus of cotton, corn, wheat, meat and other farm products, for the surplus of manufacture 1 goods abroad. We freely export our product, but that for which we exchange i: I-; so heavily taxed as to make the exchange unprofitable. Commerce ceases when faith is gone; one cannot buy unless he can sell, nor can he sell uiV.e3s hv can buy. Commerce and agriculture go hand In hand; when one ceases the other languished. The laws which destroy the ore make the other unprofitable. Taxed cruie materials injure and depress manufacturing. It wants the markets of the world, but under the protective tariff has not been able to enter them. A protective tariff fosters and builds up trusts and monopolies. It creates no wealth, it only prevents its natural and just distribution. Thirty years of such a system did much to produce the conditions existing when the Fifty-third congress met. "What has that democratic congress bo far done for the people? The first matter considered was the financial question. What should or could be done on the silver question? We had pledged ourselves against the makeshift Sherman law and in favor of both gold and silver as the standard money of the oountry. By an agreement, arrived at between democrats, we determined to take the sense of the house on the free and unlimited coinage of silver at several ratios. After full debate a separate vote was had on each, and on the repeal Df the purchasing clause of the Sherman act. The rtfult you know. While not professing to understand the question fully in all its bearings, I have always been in favor of the free coinage of silver I am in favor of it now. I believe the fears of our friends who oppose It are largely imaginary, and I believe the enactment of such a law w-ould afford gTeat relief to the people of 'the country-. So feeling. I need not say that to me the result of the vote on free coinage of silver was a great disappointment. Thi3 question is not settled. The Tariff Strnjcsle. With our great struggle for tariff reform you are familiar. Thirty years of class legislation had built up In this country large trusts, large monopolies and large combinations of capital. All these interests were arrayed against us, ajid in the bitter contest through which we passed were earnestly and actively aided by a compact republican minority. All that wealth, all that energy and all that great intelligence and capacity could do, -was daily and hourly done to defeat the cause of the people. Un Jer these conditions our progress was slow. The house framed and passe! a 'tariff bill. This went to the senate. After a long and tedious struggle the senate passed thlfl bill with amendments. "Finally the question was presented in euch fashion that we mus either acc?jt the same amendments or have no bill, thus permitting the odious McKinley . la.w to remain upo-n the statute books. When we were convinced such was the true situation we did not hesitate a moment; we accepted the senate amendments, aji-d 30 the bill became a law. Thi3 bill is not all we hoped for. It contains provisions we deplore, provisions -which the house, by separate bill. Immediately repealed, and yet taken as a whole, it goes further in the direction of relief to a tax-ridden people th?n any iill that has been considered in any congress since the war. If3 reduction of rates Is gretter thin those proposed In either the Morrison bill or in the Mill bill. It places wool, copper, tin, lumber, salt, binding twine, -oags and bagging, agricultural implements and many other articles on the free list. In nearly every schedule there are targe reductions. In tjxe iron, steel and woolen scJiclaJla

there are many .-eductions exceeding 75 per cent. On the basis of the importation of lS92-!3, on woolen manufacture alone, there is a reduction to the consumer of more than $163,OOu.ooo. On cotton, on felt3, on common velvets and on hundreda of other articles the reduction is greater than 50 per cent. "The bill places a tax on sugar. A large majority of the democrats in the house opposed this, and as the bill passed the house sugar in all its forms is on the free list. The cane grower got no aid from the government, the sugar trust got no ail from the government. "I hive thus outlined merely the provisions of this great reform measure. It strikes at the trusts and monopolies. It reduces the cost of the necessaries of life. It to some extent opens our m.irke:3 at home and enlarges our markets abroad. I: promotes agriculture. It encourages manufacturing and it will add to the comfort of millions of our fellow-citizens. We, voted upon a proposition to repeal the tax upon the circulation of state bank currency. I believe that our people would derive more immediate benefit from the repeal of that law than from almost any other legislation that could be had. Against us on the question were found many democrats, all the republicans and all the populists. A majority thjs constituted defeated our efforts and the repeal bill failed. This question is not settled. "We have repealed all federal election laws; laws which permitted the interference of outsiders with our domestic affairs and which were used only to defeat the will of the people. Henceforth Georgia, as well as every other state, will manage elections in accordance with their own laws, and elections will be free and fair. "We have passed a law which subjects to taxation by the states more than $500,000.000, which sum, under republican laws, wa3 exempt from taxation, thus relieving to some extent the burdens of the tax-payer. We have reduced public expenditures $40,000,000 for the current year. A Record l'unannllnhle. . "With this record who can assail us? Our ancient adversary", 'the republican party, though not strong in this state, is the enemy we must meet. When democracy suffers defeat republicanism will be triumphant. Here at home we are challenged by the people's party. This organization has candidates, and it has a platform of principles. Of its candidates I shall say nothing. They are presumed to be as good. I hope they are better, than their platform. That platform contains some planks which are new and some which are old. Thosv? which are valuable are not new, and those which .are new are not valuable. Our populist friends want to buy the railroads, the telegraph lines and the telephones. The thousands of millions vf dollars necessary to do this does not st.i- -t-r them. The great army of orTleeh Mers necessary to manage and pro1 -t these enterprises dovs not embarrass T'n-m. Our populist leaders deal with millions- as ordinary pple deal with dollars, and a for offices, they all want them. While we have not done all we hojrrd to do, we have done more in the pa-t year to redress the wrongs of the people, we nave done more for their relief than was ever done by any party in th same length of time In any countryunder the sun. These are bold words. yet I held myself at all times ready to dtfeivl them. "Coming into power at a time of panic, when business was at a sta.ndst.ill, when labor was unemployed, when our treasury was empty, with courage and fidelity we entered upon a struggle with the enemies of the people; we emerged from that struggle victorious in this: We have repealed the McKinley law. We have greatly reduced taxation. We have made living cheaper. We have made all money taab!e. We have taxed surplus incomes. We have restored frteiom of elections. We have reduced public expenditures, and we have declared undying hostility to all trusts and monopolies organized for the oppression of the people. On these foundations we 'build our house; on these issues we go before the peopj. For them we have 'fought the good ficht;' to them we have kept faith, and of them we have no fear."

snrniiTAHY smith's speech. lit Oppose Free Colnnpre ind Thinks the Popn Are Wild. Secretary Hoke Smith followed. In opening his remarks the secretary reviewed the financial troubles of the past eighteen months and congratulated the South, as well as Georgia, upon the excellent showing made. The attention of the commercial world had been attracted and he predicted for the section a period bf development and marked prosperity such as were never before experienced. The international exposition would prove of great assistance in this work, but the attention of capital once secured its confidence must also be won, and it was, therefore, of the utmost Importance to the future welfare of the state that In the coming election the people of Georgia should show the world that the wild theories of the populists had no foothold amongst them. Calling attention to the recent experience of the great states of Kansas and Colorado under populistic rule, the secretary asked who wished to see Georgia follow the leadership of a Le welling or a Waite. Bad as was the record of the third party in the West, the crazy theories of their leaders in congress were enough to stagger comprehension and shock thoughtful men. They sought disbursements amounting in the aggregate to over $35,000.000.000. The people of Georgia could not afford to indorse such a party. The state would be disorganized locally and discredited before the world if It appeared to have even listned to their impracticable theories. Few of the.r beliefs were worthy of discussion, but there was one which seemed to have appeared attractive, although when carefully investigated it must be classified with their other theories as almost equally wild and impracticable. Concerning: Free Coinage. He referred to the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 by the United States alone and declared it to be a plan utterly at variance with sound business principles and frought with incalculable evil. He did not wish his position misunderstood- He was a thorough bimetaJlist, strong In his faith, and no one could be more unalterably opposed to the adoption of a single gold standard. Such a course would bring about a contraction of the currency calculated to cripple Industries and to lesson the demand for supplies. The injury Inflicted by a single standard currency had been recently demonstrated abroad, and the evil effects had been felt here upon products of this country raised for foreign consumption. He believed these evil effects would be lessened by preserving the present per capita of currency here, but where three-fourths of our great cotton product goes abroad, three-fourths of the Injury could not be reached except by the success of bimetallism in the places of consumption. Currency in the United States had not been contracted, but on the contrary the per capita today was $24.19 as against an average of $14.85 from 1850 to 18G0, ' The secretary then described the eight different kinds of money now used in this country and maintained that the instant any of these went to a premium it would become a commodity for private sale and contraction would follow, hut by preserving them upon an equality and by an increase equal to t'he growth of business and population contraction would be prevented. This could be accomplished, first, by changing the bullion in a silver dollar so as to require a hundred cents' worth of silver In every dollar. Second, by International agreement which, if secured, would prevent the necessity of changing the ratio, or, third, by calling in all money of small denomination, say $10 and less, not consisting of silver and giving silver the right-of-way. He especially urged the repeal of the 10 per cent, tx on state banks as a remedy within control of the United States of great value. The History of It. After sketching the history of silver demonetisation by Germany in 1871, and subsequently by Norway, Sweden. Den

mark, Holland. Russia and the nations comprising the Latin union. Secretary Smith said: "In the meantime the United States had changed from the coinage of only 8.031.690 silver dollars in eighty years up to 1S73 to the coinage of 419,75'i.OOO standard silver dollars and to the purchase of silver upon which treasury notes were issued, making a total coinage value of $570.000,000 of silver used in this country during the last awenty years. From an average of $100,000 a year, the United States had changed to ntarly $30,0C0.0o0 a year. The annual product of silver in the meantime had changed from $S0.000.000 at coinage ratio in 1S73 to $2'M,000.000 at colnag? ratio in 1R92, and depreciated in value about 50 per eent. From these facts several conclusions are irresistible. First, the people of the United States have the use of seventy times as much silver as money of full legal tender, at present, as they had before 1873; second, the depreciation in the value of silver is due to causes other than its treatment in the United States. "It is, therefore, evident that silver, at a ratio of 16 to 1, If unlimited coinage i was attempted in this country, must either flood our mints with enormous quantities of F'lver, which would at once depreciate the value of our money, or it would be coined only in reasonable quantities, and then could not substan tially affect the mercantile value of the bullion throughout the world. In either event we would be forced to the exclusive use of a dollar worth only a little more than the present dollar. "It would cause the settlement of all contracts at the rate of 50 cents on the dollar. It would require the reorganization of all prices to be adapted to the new depreciated currency. It would compel a change of all legislation in fixing salaries. "It would necessitate the readjustment of the private and government business of the United States to meet conditions caused - by a degraded dollar. The confusion incident to such "changes could scarcely be descrhbed. Commercial disorder, business WTf-ck and ruin must at once be precipitated. No panic from which our country ever suffered has been comparable to the one which would be Inflicted upon the industrial interests by sueh action. The fear that the government of the United States would not be able to maintain it3 various moneys upon a parity, but that we were öpon the point of being forced to the silver rtandard wdth results similar to those just described, materially contributed to the panic of last year. Record of Hnrriitoii'M Adminislrntinn. "For the condition of the treasury which led in part to this fear the republican administration was responsible. The whole administration of Mr. Harrison, with the exception of the first year (which received its impetus from the excellent financial conditions existing at the close of ..Ir. Cleveland's term), wa one of falling revenues, increasing expenditures and a heavy exportation of gold. TJie receipts during the Cleveland administration were $f2.003,OnO lcs than during the Harrison administration, while the total expenditures were over $2S1,000,000 less; $22.000,000 in gold were imported into this country in excess of the amount exjrted during Mr. Cleveland's term, while Mr. Harrison retired from office with a net gold balance against us of nearly $t5StiH),00U. The net exerts of gold during the last three months of Mr. Harrison's administration amounted to $36.000.000, while , the net exports of gold during the fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1S"4, amounted to but $4,5S0.000. During the republican administration expenditures Increased at the rate of ?60,(m)0.ooo a year, while the revenues decreased more than $18,000,000 annually. Mr. Cleveland retired leivinjt a surplus in the treasury of $230,348,f)OO. Four years of republican misrule reduced the surplus to $'i2,450.000. with charges fixed for the ensuing year amounting, in round numbers, to $0.1,000 000 in excess of the revenue. Canned Alarm. "The condition of the treasury known to the financial world caused alarm lest .he government could not longer maintain at par the enormous burden of 420,000,000 silver dollars, intrinsically worth about 65 cents on the dollar, and $130.fNt0,000 of Sherman notes, predicated on silver of the same character. This was no: the only causa- of the depression. Financial panics may b? expected about every twenty years, Judging by the past history of this country, and one was due in the early nineties. The Maring failure in Iondon. aläo, was ltrgely responsible for 'the demoralization of business, but th fears were Intensified by the fact that the government, already carrying an immense volume of currency, intrinsically worth less than Us par value, conll not stand the additional annual purchase of $60,000,000 provided for by the Sherman act and maintain its silver at par. It was apparent that unless these purchases should cease the day would surely come when gold and silver dollars could no longer ba maintained at a parity and would reach their commercial value rather than their legal value, driving gold at once out of circulation anl bringing this country to a single silver standard, with the same evil consequences that would follow the free and unlimited coinage of silver atthe ntlo of 16 to 1 by the United States alöne. "The repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman bill stopped the panic, and where money could not be had at any price in the summer of 1S03, it can now be readily obtained at low rates of interest. And yet. with the terrible experience of last year fresh in our mlnd3, it Is proposed to open the mints without a limit to the flow of silver that would certainly produce monometallism. The fear of silver monometallism materially contributed to las: year's panic." Mr. Smith .closed his speech with an appeal to the voters of the state to remain true to the democratic principle of sound money, inaugurated by Jefferson, supported by Jackson, and preserved by Cleveland.

KMLED HIS YOUNG WIFE neenune She Left Him on Account of Cruel Treatment. JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. Sept. 5. William F. Hayes, a young white man twenty years of age, a fisherman by occupation, murdered his sixteen-year-old wife and dangerously wounded his mother-in-law,' Mrs. Susan Mason, last night in East Jacksonville. Hayes's wife had left him cn account of cruelty several months ago and gone to live with her mother. Last night Hayes appeared at the house and was admitted. Without provocation he began shooting, wounding Mrs. Mason twice in the head and once in the side. His wife -ran behind the bed and he followed her, shooting her through the back, the ball passing through her heart, out of her left breast and through her left hand. Hayes then calmly reloaded his pistol and walked out. This is the statement of Mrs. Mason. A watchman, who roomed at the house, discovered the dead and wounded pair this morning. Searching parties are now after the murderer. CASHIER HOOKSIS SHORT. Prominent Railroad nud Society Man of Atlanta Is Arrested. ATLANTA. Ga., Sept. 7. Business circles were shocked this morning by the arrest of Edwin G. Hooks, cashier of the freight department of the Seaboard Air Line railroad. The warrant charg-es him with embezzlement of $5,000 of the company's money. He was placed in jail. It is thought the defalcations will amount to a larger sum. He has been a prominent member of the best society. Hi3 close friends say he has been leading a fast life for six months. A Liberal Construction. Governess "Jennie, what is music?" Jenny "Melted architecture." Governess "What?" Jenny "Yessum. Didn't you say the other day that architecture was frozen mu.ic?" Chicago Kecord. Dr. Price's Cream Baking: Powder World's Fair tllz'aat I.leCal tnd Diploma.

WHEAT AS A STOCK FOOD."

HOW IT COMPARES "WITH THE OLD STAXn-BV AD It ULI AHLE CORX. Their .Nutritive Values Experiment That Have Demon st rated the Particular nnd Special Properties of IOnrh Kind of GrainFarm .Notes, Hints to Housekeepers nnd n Collection of Valuable Recipes. Attention, says the Philadelphia Record, is being attiaeted to wheat as food for stock, every section of the United States being intercs-ted. Corn has heretofore had the preference because it was lower in price psr bushel, and corn is more extensively grown because the large amount of stover adds to the va!ue of the crop, and less outlay Is required for implements in harvesting. A home demand for corn as stock food has also assisted to give it the preference over wheat, hence a larger area has been devoted to corn and oats than to wheat, and greater crops of those grains have been grown. The fact that but little corn is exported, comparatively, though the corn crop is usually three times as large as that of wheat, indicates that the amount used for t'tock is enormous, and when it is considered that oats also find sale at home, the total amount consumed on the farms, of all grains, mostly as stock food, is perhaps greater than that used for consumption by the common family, and requires less handling and transportation. Comparing corn and wheat analyses show that wheat contains 9.3 per cent, of protein and corn 7.1 per cent. Pro? tein is the muscle-producing s-ubstanee. Corn contains 4.2 per cent, of fat, and wheat 1.8 per cent.; of starch corn contains 62.7 per cent, and wheat 55.8 per cent. Both the fat and starch are heatproduclng and f3t-forming substances. It will thus be noticed that while corn contains a greater share of those substances which are suitable for producing fat, wheat excels in the anuscle-maklng elements, yet wheat Is but "ittle behlni corn in fat and starch. Wheat, as it contains more protrin than corn, is better adapted for horsts that work, for young stock that are growing and for cows that are producing milk, while corn is more suitable for rapid gain in fat. Experiments in feeding wheat to hogs at the Canada experiment station showed a gain of about one pound of pork for every nine pounds of wheat fed. and at the Oregon station a mixture of equal parts of oats and wheat gave a gain of one pound for every 4.8 pounds of the mixture fed. Cattlemen contend that a . bushel of wheat is equal to one and a third bushels of corn; that is, sixty pounds of wheat are equivalent to seventy-five pounds of corn. It i3 not recommended to feed whole wheat. Sheep can eat the whole grains, and so can horse3 that are young, but it is better -to have it coarsely ground, the grinding mills used on farms being capable of reducing it. When fed to hogs it should be ground and soaked, f or cows it should be ground and fed Cjth equal parts" of corn and oats, or the whole may be ground together. If bran Is added to the ground mixture the food will contain -more mineral matter and protein, thus balancing the ration. As all grains shoij'.d be fed in connection with hay and other coarse foods, wheat is no exception. The feeding of wheat to stock will have an influence on the "visible supply" J frequen-tly alluded to, as a large proportion will be used for stock instead of being (found into flour. -- All A rou ikI the Farm. Scientists claim that ripened cream contains as many as 100,000 bacteria in a single drop. Just think how many of the tiny things could He side by side without crowding in the dot of the letter i. Beet pulp, it is said. !is used extensively in California for cows In m.ilk with the most satisfactory results. The beef of cattle thus fed is said to be as tender and juicy as the best eastern statl-fed. Fears are ready to be picked when the stem parts readily from the spur when raised by the hand. The fruit should always be picked by thus raising it up, instead of pulling it off. Aim to leave the stem on the pear. Water the hors? before you feed him; the water rapidly leaves the stomach and the gastric juices have full play. Water with the food weakens the digestive fluids. His stomach is small, therefore do not let him get too thirsty and drink too much. Boil three pounds each of sulphur and freshly-slaked lime in six gallons of water, until there Is but two gallons' of iL Pour off the clear water and bottle for use. A gill of this in five gallons of water makes a solution, which, sprinkled upon plants, will prevent mildew. A high site should always be selected for pear culture. Better drainage is thereby procured and the trees ripen their wood earlier in the fall, and are therefore, hardier than on low soils, and the trees are longer lived. Fungus growths trouble them less In these conditions. . The farmer must have some knowledge of the laws governing animal and vegetable life. He must know something of the elements of plant food in the soil; how to utilize, to conserve and to restore these elements to the soil. He must study the science of breeding and feeding stock. , w In Germany, where they quitted ways of wastefulness long ago. In a silo was found a little of everything turnip tor, carrot tops, green corn, gren mustard, grass and autumn sown clover. The cattle relish this, and there is no ill flavor in the milk. Let us learn to waste le3s. It will tend to profit in breeding and fattening if farm stock is fed separately, using the halter for horses and stanchions for cattle. If this Is not practicable, separate Into small groups, putting animals of like physical strength and dlspositon together. Be just as careful to do this with hogs and sheep. A writer says that many fail to understand, while yet it Is the fact, ihat when cows are on good pasturage is when they need salt the most. The better plan is to keep a supply in a convenient place where they can help themselves. One advantage with rock salt is that it does not waste to any great extent if left exposed. A French method of preserving grapes is to place a shoot bearing a couple of bunches of sound grapes in a bottle filled with water containing charcoal in solution. The bottles are then hung along the edges of notched shelves in a dry place. It Is said that If the waiter be renewed from time to time the grapes will keep until April in good condition. A farmer's home, with house plants in the window, ilowers on the lawn, and a succession of small fruits from a garden planned, planted, pruned and protected with aid of wife and children, giving each child control of a particufar plant, bush or row, will do more to make children love the old horn js lead and keep the boys on the farm than all the precepts ever taught them. The average American eats twice the amount of mutton he did ten years ago. The greater the attention paid to supplying the markets with well-fed animals of -the best mutton breed, the more popular such food will become; the better breeding and handling have made the average fleece weigh more than it did twenty years ago. The best pays in all things pertaining to stock. Under the rules of the Oregon dairy commission all butter or milk fall below the following standards: Butter that contains more than 14 per cent, water, iliik that contains more than

87 per cent, water. Milk that contains less than 3 per cent, butter fat. Milk that contains less than 12 per cent, volume of cream, or less than 1,035 specific gravity after the cream has been removed. Melon-grower3 have a new enemy to guard against. Those in some parts of Delaware found large holes pecked in the melons and were at first unable to decide what was responsible. Watching the patches closely they tound a colony of crows walking over the field at early morning and pecking the melons just enough to make them unsalable. One hundred melons were thus destroyed in one field before the thieves were recognized and driven away. United States Statistlcan Henry A. Robinson gives a review of the wheat crop of the world. He credits the North American continent with 6S4.501.0O0 bushels, South America with i.O.OUO,000 bushels. Europe with 1,208.620,000, Asia with 341.C11.000, Africa with 42.612,000 and Australasia with 32.S39.000 bushels respectively. The grand total reaches 2.3t4,197.000 bushels. This Is but about two and one-third bushels per capita for the world's population. When all have according to their wants there will be no spare wheat. Wheat reports show a smaller yield than last year, excepting in the northwest, but there may not be as much demand for export, as the total crop in Great Britain and France is larger than last year, and that of Russia is certainly quite up to the average with latent reports indicating a considerable increase. France and Germany may not have as much as usual. Present Indications do not warrant advice either to hold on hard, or to let go quick on the grain crops, but point rather to a steady market for some months, excepting as it may be disturbed by speculation. Every farmer who has had experience with underdrainlng knows that at the outlet of drains, no matter how clear the water may be, there is more or less sediment. This gradually accumulates, and as the bacteria In its multiplies there is danger that the water may become offensive, if not actually filthy. This has occurred in the water mains of Jersey City. Neglect to blow out the dead end? caused the water to become fo bad that there was great complaint. When the water mains were blown out the -putrid mass that appeared in some place.s was a sufficient explanation why the water had been bad. Fall is t best time to use phosphates, for this mineral requires a great deal of moisture to make it produce its best effect. If a drought occurs just after phosphate is applied it often does no gd at all that season, and by next year it will be so locked up in compounds with lime that the crop can get but little of it. In a drought this change of phosphate to Insoluble conditions occurs very quickly. A soil full of humus or vegetable matter generates carbonic acid gas and this helps to .make the Insoluble phosphate available again. This is the reason why phosphate is so helpful on mucky soils, and does little good on dry sand or gravel, where there is not only too little water, but also a deficiency of vegetable matter. To preserve corn stover make a great bin beneath the barn floor, cut the corn into short bits by machinery and let it fall through the floor as fast as cut, filling the bin to the floor. Fodder that is brought in in good condition and cut right into the bin usually keeps well. If there is any fear that it will not keep, an excellent method is to haul it and cut it mixed with one-third oat straw directly after the oats are threshed. If the threshing is done early and the corn fodder is not- sufficiently cured, the straw should be carefully preserved for mixing with the fodder. All stock eat this combination eagerly. It has been found a safe and economical provender for horses not being severely worked as well as for cows, oxen and young cattle. Farm and Home. The farmer should feed from the barn, or better still by soiling with green herbage whenever the pasture fails in even the slightest degree. Not only should he do this, but the farmer should anticipate a period of shortage, and prepare for it in advance. To a great extent this is done by good farmers everywhere. It is not only safe but good policy to stock pastures so as to have them eaten down closely during June and early J fry. Unless this is done some of the pasture is overgrown and stock will not eat it unless starved to it, while if eaten down while in its best condition a new growth springs up which is so much clear gain to the feeding capacity of the field. There is no economy In pasturing so lightly that much of the grass becomes dried hay on its roots, with its value washed from it by every rainfall it receives. One of the worst difficulties in growing squashes comes from attacks of the borer. Poisons are no use against him. as he burrows beneath th" stem cf the vine, where no poison can reach him. The best way is to prevent his attacks by applying strong tobacco water tc the roots of the vine and also to the stalk during the season. This will prevent laying the egg, which does the mischief. The tobacco water is also excellent manure for the vine. Stable manure attracts these borers and hills of squashes with composted stable manure about them are the worst sufferers. The borer can be cut out with a knife, but b the time he is discovered the vine has usually been ruined. It will help such vines to peg the joints into the soil so as to facilitate the formation of new roots. This Is a good plan, anyway. American Cultivator. Ilia is to Housekeepers. Almost every soup or stew i3 better for a little vinegar. To make whites of eggs boat quickly, put in a small pinch of salt. Silken fabrics should never be kept folded in white paper. The chloride of lime which Ls used to bleach the paper causes a chemical change in the silk and injures the color. The best purpose to which coal ashe3 can be applied, in town or country, is in nuking garden walks. If well laid "clown, no weeds or grass will grow, and by use they become as solid and more durable than bricks. Hundreds of lives might have been saved by a knowledge of this simple receipt, large teaspoonful of made mustard, mixed in a tumbler of warm water, and swallowed as soon as possible, acts as an instant emetic, sufficiently powerful to remove nil that is lodged in the stomach. Mildew may dp removed from aw-nings etc., with the following preparation: Mix well together two tablespoons of soft soap, one of salt, two of powdered starch, and the Juice of a lemon. Lay this mixture on both sides of the stain with a painter's brush, and then lay the article on the grass day and nisht until the stain disappears. Those whose houses are infested by that troublesome domestic animal, the rat, should heat plaster of parts in an iron vessel until it is done boiling, then mix it half and half wlthIndlan meal. It Is said the rats will eat of this compound f reel y, and that it ?ftr, in their little stomachs and kills ;herr, without the danger of poison. When linen has turned yellow, cut up a pound of fine white soap in a gallon of milk, and hang it over a fire in a wash kettle. When the soap hds completely melted, put in the linin and boil it a half hour; then take it out. Hive ready a lather of soap and water; wash the linen in it, and then rinse it throuah two cold water, with a very little Hue in. the last. An experienced cabinet maker, says the bes-t proration ' fnr cleaning picture frames and restoring furniturev especially that somewhat m-arred or scratched, Is. a mixture of three parts of linseed oil and one part spirits of 'turpentine. It not only covers the disfigured surfaee,but restores wood to. its original color, leaving a lustre upon the surface. Apply with a woo!.n cloth 'and when dry rub with woolen. Eggs can be kept for years In lime water, made like commoi' tvliltftwarh. A pine barrel or tub is the bert thing to put them in. First maks your whiteWash Which must stand two or thice weeks before using, or it will cook th2 eg-gs then put the egr.i i,ilo a barrel.

and pour on the lime wa'ter. The lime settles around the eggs, and the water should stand over them three or four inches deep. Always keep water on the top, and they -will keep for years. If desired. There is nothing that so quickly relieves the pain of small burn on the hands, from flatlrons or contact with the stove, as the application of court plaster to entirely cover the spot Water proof, flesh-colored court plaster Bhould always te kept in the kitchen for cuts or burns; also a bottle of some oil healing to' larger hurts. Baking soda will relieve pain of burns if appiied in a paste with cold water, but it takes time to tie up small burns, and one often cannot spare this time; the court plaster is then an unspeakable relief. To take the stains out of linen: Stain3 caused by acids can be removed by wetting the part and laying on it some salt of wormwood: then rub, without diluting it. -with more water. Or. tie up In the stained part some pearl-ash, then scrape some soap into cold, soft water, to make a lather, and boll the linen till the stain disappears. Recent stains of fruit may be removed by holding the linen tightly stretched over a tub, and pouring hot water over the part. This may be done before any soap has been applied to it. As soon as the stain Is made on the table linen, etc., rub on it common table salt, before it has had time to dry. The salt will keep It damp till the cloth is washed, when the stain will disappear; or, wash the stain lightly when the cloth is removed.

Valuable Recipes. Mock-Oysters, or Corn-Fritters One pint grated corn, one cup cream or milk, one cup flour, one egg and a piece of butter the size of an egg. Fry in butter. Grape Preserves Pulp them, boil the pulps until soft enough to strain through a colander; weigh the skins and pulps after the seeds are removed, adding sugar pound to pound; boll about ten minutes, until the skins are sufficiently cooked. Relish for Tea Three pounds good beefsteak chopped fine, three soda crackers grated, two tablespoonsful salt and one of pepper,' one egg beaten, one teacupful milk; press It down into a baking tin or bowl, and let it bake an hour; when cold, slice thin. Charlotte Russe Cake One and onehalf pints of cold, rich cream, sweeten and flavor with vanilla to taate. Beat until quite stiff, then add one-quarter of a box of Cox's gelatin? dissolved in a little water, and continue beating until it is stiff enough to put between layers of sponge cake. Cauliflower 'Lay them top down an hour or two in cold salt and water. If they are strong pour off the water when they are half done, and add fresh boiling water and a cup of milk. When done drain thoroughly, put It in a deep dish and turn over in some drawn butter, made of milk. Just here let me say that good drawn butter can never be made with boiling water. S Ladles' Cabbage Boil a firm white cabbage fifteen minutes, changing the water then for more from the boiling teakettle. When tender, drain and set aside until perfectly cold. Chop tine, and add two beaten eggs, a tablespoonful of butter, pepper, salt, three taolespoonfuls rich milk or cream. Stir all well together, and bake in a buttered puddlng-dlsh until brown. Eat very hot. Swiss Meat Omelettes A good way to use cold meats. Cold meat chopped tine with raisins, allspice, nutmeg, salt, lemon peel and juice. Add one egg, one tablespoon ful sugar, cloves. The above mixture is the middle of the omelettes. Three eggs, one pint milk, two teacupfuls flour, make the batter thin. Fry in a little lard; put a spoonful of the chopped meat in the center and fold the batter around it once. Tutti Frutti Put a quart of brandy in a two gallon jar, then as they come into market add one pint bowl of strawberries and the same of sugar; then cherries in the same way, and blackberries, peaches, pears, currants, pineapples, bananas, oranges; one-half pint of lemons and one pint of su?ar. Remember to always put in the sugar every time you put in the fruit, and Ptir well from the bottom of the Jar. A double quantity of peaches may be added if desired. Keep in a cool place well covered. French Tomato Soup One quart tomatoes, three pints boiling water, one e?en teaspoonful soda, pepper and salt, each; butter, the size of an egg; one small onion, minced; one quart of milk. Put tomatoes and onion over fire with the hot water; strain and rub through colander. Meanwhile boll the milk, stir in soda and butter, and after one boil keep hot. Put pepper and salt with tomatoes, simmer five minutes and then stir in the milk; serve at once. Omit onion and you will have a fine mock-oyster soup. Flummery One pint cream, one ounce gelatine soaked one hour in one cup cold water, one cup milk, one-half cup sugar. Heat the milk to boiling, put in the gelatine and sugar and stir five minutes, or until they are thoroughly dissolved. Strain through thin muslin, pres"injr the cloth well. When cool beat In the cream, a little at a time with aji egg-whip or churn in a syllabub-churn until thick and stiff. Wet your mold, put in the mixture and let it stand seven or eight hours in a cold place. Flavor with vanilla. Rennet Custard Beat the yolks of three eggs with two spoonfuls of sugar and whip the whites to a stiff froth. Put this into the dish in which it is to be served, and add one quart of milk and a few drops of vanilla or peach Havering, and when these are well mixed, stir in a spoonful and a half of rennet wine. In cold weather the milk should be warmed a little. It will harden soon, perhaps in five minutes. Sometimes a spoonful will be sufficient. It is more economical to warm the milk a little, sweeten it. and add only the rennet wine, and grate nutmeg over the top. Unique Preserves Gather young cucumbers a little longer than your middle finger, and lay in strong brine one week. Wash them and soak them one day and night in fair water, changing this four times. Line a bell-metal kettle with vine leaves, lay in the cucumbers, with a little alum scattered among them; fill up with clear water; cover with vine leaves, then with a close lid, and green as for pickles. Do not let them boil. When well greened drop In ice water. Wheh perfectly cold, wipe, and wirh a small knife slit down one side; dig out the seeds; stuff with a mixture of chopped raisins and citron; sew up the Incision with fine thread. Weigh them and make a sirup, allowing a pound of sugar for every one of cucumbers, with a pint of water. Heat to a lively boll, skim and drop in the fruit. Simmer half an hour, take out: spread upon a dish in the sun while you boil down the sirup, with a few slices of ginger-root added. When thick, put in the cucumbers again: simmer five minutes and put in glass jars; tying them up when cold. An odd and also a singularly delicious fweet meatOne of the best of the old-fashioned jellies, which was formerly a feature of the preserve closet, is green grap? jelly. This Is made from the wild fox grape which used to grow commonly enough in tha thickets and over woodland trees. It is the grape from which the Isabella., Concord and CUav.ba all spring. The grape is picked at the beginning of September, ween it has attained full sire, but befor? it his turned purple. A peck of grapes is a good quantity to put up in this way for family use. The jelly is a pleasant substitute fcr currant jelly, and looks pretty on the supprr table, but it is not as jsroorl to serve with cake as currant or crab apple. The jelly may be nude from th? green cultivated grape of either the Concord. Isabella of Catawba variety, 5ut it i3 not as nice as wh?a madi from th? wild fox grape. T make the jelly, free th? grapes from the stems and put them In an earthen pot, set -in a kettle of bailing wit?.. Cmk them In this way 'from three-quarters of an hour to an 'nur, er untit :h? Juie hi3 h?sn entlre'.y drawn out of fee fruit and they b?con 1 pulpy ir.i. on pressuir?. Then sinln the grapes through a clot a. Measure the jutce "and a'.Low a i .und of sugar to every pin;, of Juice. 1'u: the juice over tasj lira ti boil 1.1 a p wlaln-lLT?,! k:;tla and thä ougir in t.:e c . e.i ta act.

1 Stir the sugar and the juice occasionally. When the Juice has boiled down twenty minutes, add th? suar. and after one moment's boiling ;h? jelly should be ready to put into bowls. Test It by cooling a little on ice. and if It has not "com?" boil it a moment or two longer, when it will certainly b? ready. If the grapes are gathered at exactly the right time, this Jelly will not have a tinge of purple about it; and if i: is not already the right color, it may b made the exact color of the M:)iga grape by a few drops of spinach green added just before the Jelly Is ready for the bowls and after the color has been tested. Green fox grapes are never found in the market, anl must be obtained from the country. For those who live in the country near some wild thicket where these grapes grow the trouble of picking and the cost of the sugar will sum up th? whole expens? of the Jelly. Peaches and Whipped Cream Take half a driven large freestone peaches, yellow, fair and, smooth. TMiee them in a dish and cover them wKh very hot water; let them stand ir. the scalding water for a half or three-quarters of a minute, then cover them with cold water and add a lump of ice as large as a co.tcoanut. Let them remain In the water for ten or fifteen minutes, then lift them out one by one and remove "the skin by start ing it with a knife and pulling it geivtly with the fingers a one does in peeling tomatoes after a similar treatment. When the skins are removed put the peaches into a large earthen dish, 'being careful to pile them on top of each other a llt-tle as possible, and place the dish in the refrigerator. Take one pint of cream, half a tumbler of sherry and sugar to taste. It should be Et Httle weeter thin for ordinary whip. Stir till the. sugar Is dissolved. Set the creem in a dish of Ice and beat it with an egg-beater thick and smooth. Take the peaches from th refrigerator, carefully cut thorn In harr, remove the tone, cut a little pWce off the round slle of each half, and place them on a flat dinh with ihe Inelde cf the pacfh. uppermost. Lay a tablespoon ful of the whipped cream In each cavity and pu a border of the whipped cream aro-and .the dish. This makes a very delicious .s well as ornamental dish.

MURDERED BY BURGLARS. Safe Blowers Kill ersrt. Sheeham v of tb-r Cleveland Police. CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 5. Polic SergL Nicholas Sheetan was murdered this mornrng at daylight by two burglars whom the oScer was pursuing. Th burglar opened free on the eergeant anl he fell to the sldowafk deal with a bullet In his breast. The murderers ar still at large and the police have as yet no clew to their Identity. Later It wa found that the burglars had made an unsuccessful attempt, to blow open the raf in the ofnoe m the Ohio provision company. WHAT DO KS IT MKAf Furt or Fiction. About Two Great Fair Awards. A newspaper paragraph denounces as "false" the claim of a baking powder company to an award at the World's Fair. Whom can it mean? Certainly not Dr. Price's. Why? Because, as the records show. Dr. Price'a exhibited, competed and received the highest award, both at Chicago and the California Midwinter fair. The award in California included Gold Medal. The official examiners pronounced it the strongest, the purest, the most wholesome and efficient of all the baking powders. Its title to confidence is unquestioned. Can it be the manufacturers of a Xew York jHowder, fictitiously labelled "absolutely pure" who are making "false" claims? That would be strange indeed, inasmuch an they were not even considered in the awards. Was it Ammonia in the New York powder that prevented its makers from competing? If not. what? The Old Man Humble Tart. "What's Dick doing now?" "Well, Dick, he's a-doctorin'.' "And John?" "He's horse tradin'." "And William?" "He's a savin' of souls." "And Tora?" "Well Tom he's sorter politlclanln aroun'." "And you?" ."Well. I'm sorter farmin" an' a-feedin of Dick, an' John, an' William, an Tom." Atlanta Constitution. .i-i.?"'' SM.KHÄMS Vegetable Compound Is v. positive cure for all those painful Ailments of Women. It will entirely cure the worst forms of Female Complaints, all Ovanaa troubles, Inflammation and Ulceration, Falling and Displacements, of tba Womb, and consequent Spinal Weakress, and is peculiarly adapted to the Lltangt of Life. Every time it will cure Backache. It lias cured more cases of Lcticon riicea than anv remedy the world has ever-known. It is almost infallible in P'ich cases. It dissolves aad expels Tumors from th Uterus in an early 6tage of development, and checks any tendency to cancerous tumors. That; Bearing-down Feeling causing pain, weight, and backache, is instantly relieved and permanently cured by its use. Under all circumstances it acts In harmony with the laws that govern the female .system, and Is as Larnikss as water. It removes Irregu!arityf Suppressed or Painful Menstruations, Weakness of the Stomach, Indigestion, Bloating, 1'looding, Nervous Prostration, Headache, General Debility. Also DIzzinesG. Faintness, Extreme Lassitude, "don't care" and 'want to bo left alone" feeling, excitability, Irritability, nervousness, sleep-l-vsness flatulency, melancholy, or tiio blues." nnd Lackcche. These ira fcure indications of Female Weakness Bocie derangement of tbo Ulerus, or Wemb Troubles. ThC TTliolo storv, however, i? toU la r,r illustrated Koolc cr.lit!o.l ' Guide t3 lloalth," bv Mrs. I'iukham. It contains over 00 paefj of most important information, which every woman, married or i :o, should know about herB'llf- beiida two-cent stamps or - Kicfcey Complaints end n-tfr.-ho of ttthcr ccx llio Vcnatr.bic Ccmiouncl 53 unequa'ed. 1 Al ilru-rsri rtll Lyna 1 1.1s. .ni j . ri or srr. 1r ,tKi:ch?.2!:c. -iLÄ r - - . " ' j , t if 14 a tri rcC lOii Ca ai.". -I-JCtt-st oo:ti. '.once, LYi,i L. Hitl. IS tw.i d"j i

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