Ligonier Banner., Volume 24, Number 51, Ligonier, Noble County, 3 April 1890 — Page 3

The Ligonier Lanmer,

LIGONIER, = ¢ : = INDIANA

A CHANGE OF OPINION.

A lovely ball! Ah, no—we canit agree” It seems a sleepy, spiritless affair— Quite dull and flat as.far as I can see, And then, I féel so vexed about my hair,

I know ’tis not becoming, dressed like this, O, dear! the mirror stares one in the face: I can't help seeing what a mop it is—"Twould take Diana’s self to give it grace.

This dress, too, Helen! I'm so sorry, now, I did not wear black lace, and braid my hair, I wish I'd stayed at home. - I'll make a vow Henceforth against—O, thanks, I do not care

To waltz again! That stupid Sidney Brown— He'd like once more to drag me from my seat; I am so glad and thankful to git down; He ahnost killed me with his clumsy feet.

No, I don’t mean to dance again to-night; Such wretched mugic; and the floor is poor; The room’s too hot. Besides, I'm just a fright. What, Helen, what? O, darling, are you sure?

You are jesting? Look again and see— I would not look for worlds. O, téll me trne. The dear, dear fellow! Yes, indeed! ’tis he, Ah; now he sces me—he's delighted too!

How well he looks—a prince 'mong other men ‘' Ah, Harry, so you managed, after all— Of course I'm dying for a waltz, and then I'm glad you came. 7{'s such a lovely ball!. ol . —Domestic Monthly.

WAS IT KLEPTOMANIA?

How the Identity of the Thief Was Revealed by a Letter.

I am a lawyer by profession, and, when occasion demands, an amateur detective. ! ;

In 187—, following my graduation from a law college in the KEast, I started for the West to seek a good location for the practice of my profession. For a time I had little. to do, more than earning a bare subsistence. DBut my patronage continued growing, until at the end of two years I had earned the reputation of being the best lawyer in the place. This distinction also-gdve me a high place in social circles, all of which was very satisfactory to me, of course. My income, at this time, had reached a figure sufficiently large to warrant me taking a life partmer to share my good fortune. : Mabel DBriston, a handsome young lady of eighteen summers, and daughter of a retired merchant reputed to: be worth a half million, attracted my attention. I cared nothing for Mabel’s wealth, her sweet digposition and unaffected ways alone being the charm I sought. It was love at first sight on my part, and I felt that shereturned the affection. One invitation to call at her home succeeded another, until my visits became a settled thing. Finally, I proposed, and was accepted. :

- Robert Briston had risen from the ranks of poverty by his own exertions, and expected every young man with grit to do the same. So when I called upon him requesting the hand of his daughter Mabel, my proposition was met with a firm refusal. 2 g

‘““When you have acquired a reasonable amount of wealth, Harry,” said he, ‘‘you may have Mabel. Just at present you have a fair income, but that is not sufficient. I have no objections to you on any other score, and if you so desire, you may wait upon her as usual.” Acquainting Mabel with the result of my mission, I went home rather lowspirited and dissatisfied that night. But a still darker cloud soon came to cast a gloom over my spirits—a cloud with a silver lining. ; One morning, while on my way to the office, I saw Mabel turn a corner near by and come in my direction, and, when she saw me, retrace her steps and cross to the other side of the street.

This action on the part of one I dearly loved, made me feel very uncomfortable. Had her father turned Mabel against me? No; she loved me, too well for that, I knew. Still, it seemed very strange.

Entering my office I sat down to think it over. A feeling of heart sickness drove out all ambition for business that day,+Bo I had no, sooner settled down than I was up again, preparing to leave. Btepping out, I came face-to face with Mr. Briston. ‘

“Well, Harry,” said he, extending a hand, “I called to have a talk with you.” A great wave of joy swept over my soul, as I replied: : , “Very well, Mr. Briston; step inside, please,” offering’ him my easy-chair. “I hope you have reconsidered your answer, sir.” “That is not what I came to talk about, Harry, although Mabel is the one concerned.” .

“You wish some legal advice, then?” “Yes, in a measure. Some curious, and, I may add, very annoying whims, have taken possession of her lately——7

“She must have had one of them this morning, as she passed near me on my way to the office, and never spoke,” I interrupted. : Mr. Briston took off his specs, polished them with a pocket handkerchief, and, replacing them, éyed me critically. ; ‘“You saw Mabel? - Why, I left her at home only an hour since.” - “Yes, sir, I did, and I know she couldn’t help seeing me. That's what worried me when you came. I was about to clese the office for the day.”: ‘“Young men should never worry; it makes them grow old so much the faster. But to tlie object of my visit.” “I’'m all attention, Mr. Briston.”

**Very well. Now, Harry, I’'m worried myself over Mabel’s capers—not her love for you, remember, but something far worse. I fear she is given to—to kleptomania, and——"’ “What! Mabel?” said I, indignantly. *“How dare you accuse your daughter of such a thing?” ’ “That is what I came to talk about,” he replied, calmly, “Surely, you do not mean it, sir,” said I, in a husky voice. ‘“There must be some mistake.” : “*No mistake about it. Smith, the dry goods dealer, and Brown, the jeweler, have both called on me and laid charges of theft against her--the taking of bits of lace, ribbons, pocket handkerchiefs, and other nick-nacks from Smith’s, and a costly brooch from Brown’s. Now what do you think of it?” I wes too stunned to think of any thing, and told him as much. “Well, 1 don’t know what to think e#ither,” he continued. ‘‘Of course I paid ‘them for the articles stolen, but that won’t stop the infernal gossip now #preading.”’ { Ey - “T’ll eall on Mabel at onmce, Mr. Briston.” A ' - “Do s 0; and if you succeed in stopping ‘this thing you may have her.” “Thank you, sir. I'll do my best.” . Then woe parted. Gons R ey

“Why these tears, Mabel?” 1 askedremoving her hands from her face and imprisoning them within my own. She gave me a quick glance, quietly withdrew her hands, ard looked away from me, _ ’ “Mabel,” I repeated, ‘“‘can you not con= fide in me?”’

*‘Did papa call on you this morning?” she asked, her eyes upon the carpet. | ‘“Yes, Mabel.” “Then he told you all?” . : SN eN = ‘“And do you believe these charges true, Harry?” her lips quivering. / - “No.” I thought it best to prevaricate just then, . j

*O, Harry! how good of you. I have one friend to stand by me,” said she, hiding her face upon my shoulder. “Now tell me, Mabel, what foundation have they for these charges?” I asked, gently stroking her fevered head.

She raised her face to mine, and looked me straight in the eye. ‘I do not know, Harry, any more than you do. I never heard a word about the thefts until papa told me last night,” " *‘lt is strange, very strange,” said I, abruptly. “Smith and Brown declare the articles were stolen. They are both honorable gentlemen, and could have no motive. in preferring false charges. Have you offended the clerks in any way?” = ¢ S 0, no; at least, not to my knowledge. Ihave always been kind and considerate, more so than the majority of ladies on shopping expeditions.” . . *Still you may have incurred their displeasure. Well, I have -a plan—? then her strange action of the morning came to mind. ‘‘Before I unfold it, however, I wish to know why you slighted me this morning.” i “Why Islighted you, Harry?” “Yes; is an explanation necessary, Mabel?” i

“Really, Harry, I do not understand,” she replied in genuine surprise. “Mabel, -you do not mean to say you did not see me this morning?” I asked, coldly. “Ido. I have not left the house this morning.” : : : “More mystery,” I thought, completely puzzled. In addition to theft, was Mabel guilty of falsehood?

“Now, Harry, explain yourself,” said

“Well, I saw. you this morning while going to the office, and you crossed the street without a sign of recognition—— ‘““You are mistaken, sir,” she interrupted, in a tone of coldness. “As I said, I have not been away from home this morning.” ‘ 2

“Pardon, 'Mabel, I must have been mistaken.” °

“Without a doubt, Harry. But let us not quarrel. What is your plan?” Her answer was not satisfactory, but inorder tosatisfy myself that the charges made against her were either true or false, my plan should be carried out. Reflecting a moment, I asked: ' “Have you any shopping to do, to-day, Mabel??

“Not to-day.” ; ; ‘“T'o-morrow, then?” ‘“‘Perhaps—why?” - - ‘““Answer this, first, Mabel! Where will you go shopping.” : " “Not at Smith’s, most assuredly.” “Why notat. Smith’s, Mabel?”’ ‘“Because I'm disgraced enough now.” “Well, in order to carry out my plan, you must go to Smith’s.”

A moment of silence followed before she spoke: “It will be hard to do, Harry, but if it isabsolutely necessary, I'll go to Smith’s. The charges are false, anyway, and being innccent, why should I fear to show my face.” o . “You certainly should not, Mabel. Well, go there to-morrow, and the next day to Brown’s. Continue this programme for a week or so, going to Smith’s and Brown’s alternately. We may be able to trap the clerks—if they are the guilty ones. x Manage to be at these places at a certain hour each day —say two o’clock or three. Understand?”

““Yes, Harry, and I'll endeavor to carry out my part to the letter. Will you be theieve: - “I may, and again I may not. You fulfil your part, and leave the rest-with me.’’

“You may rely upon me, Harry—that is, of course, if sickness does not interfere."”

*‘Very well, Mabel. ‘“I’ll trust you,” I replied, feeling, however, that if she could tell a falsehood in one instance she could in another. Repeating the arrangement, I bade her good-night, and left. ’

In the disguise of an old gentleman with long white beard, and donning a pair of specs, I appeared at Smith’s the following day. Previous to this I acquainted the proprietor with an outline of my. plans, and had called ‘on Mr. Brown, the jeweler, also, stating what I intended to do. :

. At two o'clock, Mabel entered the store. - She went to the same counter, the clerk of which had accused her of theft. I was at the opposite counter. She looked around, and failing to note my presence, a shade of disappointment srossed her face. ;

Making a small purchase, she left. I watched the clerk withoutattracting hig attention. He looked over the open boxes, still upon the counter, and returned them to their. proper places upon the shelves. Mabel had not taken any thing, nor had the clerk. : Remaining awhile I was surprised to see Mabel return to purchase something she had apparently forgotten. I watched her closely, and saw her abstract a piece of lace from :a box, when the clerk had his back toward her. Then she paid for the articlesbought, and left. The clerk went through the same operation of examining the boxes, and this time made a note in his book.

Convinced that the charges were true, and that the clerks were innocent, I left the store and returned to my office, feeling that all was over between Mabeland myself. Still, I concluded to follow up the programme, and see Yo what extent she would go. That evening I called, and asked if she had been at Smith’s. She replied she had, at two o’clock. ‘‘Smith said you were there,” said I, watching her closely. T ‘“Yes; about five minutes. I expected to see you there.” 7 “But you did not see me.” ' “-NO.” i e 5 “About halt after two 1 was there, and they say you left five minutes before.” il ' “““It was longer than that, fully twen-ty-five minutes, by the watch.” ‘ ‘“They say you returned to make more purchases,” said I, carelessly. 0, no; I was there but once.” . ~ ‘“*You did not return then?” , - “*Certainly not. What do they mean by making such assertions, I'd like to krow, Harry?” : ‘‘Can not say,” I replied, knowing full well that she had returned and stolen

the piece of lace. After chatting fifteen minutes or so, I took my departure, wondering how a young lady of her standing in society, with ample means at her command, would stoop to falsehood and theft. The blow was a hard one, indeed, to my ambitions. .

The folowing day I resumed my disguise, andfxfi%&d‘fi&)w\ws, although I felt that I had seen enough to conwvince me. .

Mabel appeared at three o'clock, inspected some fine rings, and departed without making a purchase. Nothing was missing; nor did she return. - She made some purchases at Smith’s next day, returning shortly to look over some silk handkerchiefs. Directing the clerk’s attention to some article in the next case, she slipped a handkerchief in her hand-bag. - : . :

I concluded not to call at her home until the programme was fulfilled, and then I should bid her farewell, and leave town forever. : ;

Saturday came. This was her day at Brown’s. Some gold watches were set out for her inspection, and when an opportunity offered, she stole one. I was now convinced that she was a thief, and following her out, determined to tell her so. She was a few yards in advance of me, and before I reached her she got aboard a street-car. Shouting. to the driver, and forgetting for a moment that I was sugposed to be an old man, I ran nimbly enough, and caught up with the car. :

Clearing my. throat—for I was nearly choked with grief-—I wasabout to speak, when a letter upon the floor, and which she had probably dropped, attracted my attention. It lay near the door, and far enough under the seat to escape her notice. : :

‘Arising, I walked over to the spot, picked up the missive, noting the address, and handed it to her. .

0, Mabel, poor Mabel,” I sighed, inwardly, ‘“how could I have mistrusted yous The letter had revealed all! -

With a feeling of unspeakable relief, I sat silently noting the appearance of the lady opposite. ‘“Why did Inotthink of it before?” I asked myself. Yet, I had no reason to think $/¢ was here.

When the car stopped to let her off, I followed, and saw her enter aneat little cottage. Taking down the street and number, I returned, and hurried to call on Mabel. :

Of course I found ‘her at home, and disclosed the discovery I had made. Mr. Briston was delighted, and insisted upon an immediate marriage when the whole thing was settled. Mabel wept with joy, and her mother threw her arms about my neck and kissed me.

The lady at —— street and No. —, was placed under arrest, the following Monday, but at the earnest solicitation of Mabel, was let out on bail furnished by Mr. Briston. - .

It was Annie—my Annie of' college days gone by, who had proved such a flirt that I discarded her. This was one of my-reasons for going West. She diseovered my whereabouts and followed me up, assuming a disguise and watching my movements. Hearing of my love for Mabel Briston, and our engagement, she was ready to do any thing to frustrate the marriage. : ¢ The striking resemblance she bore tc Mabel and sufficient to deceive the store clerks, and in turn myself, decided her plans. She would work up a charge of kleptomania against Miss Briston by purloining articles from' the stores where she traded. Annie was the one who had returned in all cases, the clerks supposing it to be Miss Briston. ' Luckily, her scheme failed to reach a climax. She it was whom I had met that morning. Mabel, kind soul that she is, called to see Annie, and forgave her, requesting her to leave town, and not bring disgrace upon all by a trial.

Annie concluded to take Mabel’s advice, and left; Mr, Briston chlieerfully paying the forfeit and bail. I have never met her since. . -

Mabel and I were married the day following Annie's departure, Mr. Briston placing a handsome sum to my credit in the bank.

We are happy now, but can not refrain from allewing our thoughts to wander to the absurd charges of kleptomania made in days gone by, when it was all revealed by a letter.—M. J. Adams, in Yankee Blade.

QUEER BIBLE BLUNDERS. Peculiar Errors in if_u—r-ious Ed.itions-of the : ley Scriptiu:es. . THE BREECHES BIBLE. “Then the eies of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they séwed figge leaves together and made themselves Breeches.” Gen. iii., 7.. Printed in 1560. ' THE BUG BIBLE. ‘“So that thou shall not nede to be afraid for any Bugges by nighte, nor for the arrow that flyeth by day.” Ps. xci., 5. Printed in 1561. THE TSEACLE BIBLE. " “Is there no treacle at Gilead? Isthere no physician there?” Jer. viii.,, 22. Printed in 1568. . TRE ROSIN BIBLE. ‘“ls there no rosin in Gilead? lls there no physician there?” Jer. viii.,, 22. Printed in 1609. ' ' THE PLACE-MAKERS’. RIBLE. ‘‘Blessed are the placé-makers; for they shall be called the children of God.” Mat. v., 9. Printed. in 1561-2. THE. VINEGAR BIBLE. ‘“The Parable of the Vinegar,” instead of ‘*“The Parable of the Vineyard,” appears in the chapter heading of Luke xx. in an Oxford edition of the authorized version which was published in 1717. THE WICKED BIBLE. " This extraordinary name was given to an edition of the authorized Bible, printed in London by Robert Barker and Martin Lutas in. 1631." The negative was left out of the Seventh Commandment, and William Kilburne, writing in 1659, says that owing to the zeal of Dr. Usher the printer was fined £2,000 or £3,000. . THE EARS-TO-EARS BIBLE. : “Who hath ears to ear, let him hear.” Matthew xiii, 43. Printed in 1810. ¢ THE STANDING-FISHES BIBLE. . “And it shall come to pass that the fishes will stand -upon it,” etc. Ezek. -xlvii, 10. Printed in 1806. THE DISCHARGE BIBLE. L - “] discharge thee before God.” =1 Tim.,v., 21. Printed in 1806. e THE WIFE-HATER BIBLE. ““If any man come to me, and hate not his father, * * * wvyea and his own - wife also,” etc.—Luke xiv., 26. Printed dn 1810, ; ' REBEKAI'S-CAMELS BIBLE. : ‘‘And Rebekah arose, and her camels.” ~—Genesis xxiv., 61. Printed in 1823, o i TO REMAIN BIBLE, - o 0 - “Persecuted him that was born after the spirit to remain, even so it is now.” bRI A 2% o 0 e

FARM AND GARDEN. . A MILKING PARLOR. _ The ;Importance of Having a Nice, Clean Gt Milking-Room. = - - Perhaps the thost disagreeable and often filthy task about the dairy farm is milking. It matters not how nice and clean the stalls are kept, when the milker starts on a row of cows quite a number of them are sure to commence dropping manure, and the whole rcom is filled with an offensive odor that will pollute the milk, to say nothing of the discomfiture of putting your foot or milk pail into this filth. A *“‘milking parlor,” as we call it, should by all means be provided. This may be a room or stall cut off from the cow stalls. Mine isa small house ten by twenty feet, conveniently located in the yard between the cow barns. In this building there are two large mangers arranged with selffastening stanchions, and hinged to the wall opposite and above the flank of the cow is a kind of a clasp with pin holes, etc., as shown in the engraving. The side of frame that projects downward is intended for holding an unruly or kickihg cow in position while milking. As soon as the cow’s neck is secured in the stanchions, this clamp or antivoiding attachment is swung around like a gate over the cow’s flank, and the drop is adjusted to rest on the cow’s

- i g —— Ll d .'i' , ;«—-‘—,—"‘";', ?‘. ) ® = 0 | o N . M ; . LR > )ey 4l g R ——— e A , . MILKING PARLOR. back, which effoctually prevents her from dropping filth while milking is done. When finished milking, the drop is raised, clamp swung back against the wall, and stanchion bars thrown open, when cow steps out and another takes the place. : My milking room is arranged for two milkmen, one operates at each end, door in the middle, milk shelf, with a soft brush for cleaning the udder, and broom to sweep floor. A 'small boy qmay turn bars and hook up the cows in the barn as fast as thep are:called for; and the cows soon become drilled in systemneic habit that is excelled only by the military discipline of the soldier, and they march from their stalls to milk roem at the word. By each manger is a barrel of ground feed, some of which is kept in the manger while the cows are milked.

The floor,; and in fact the whole building—which s®uld be used exclusively for milking purposés—may be kept as zlean as a parlor, and instead of milking being a drudgery, it may be a really at tractive and int#resting piece of work.— Country Gentleman.:

TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE. A Dreéad Disease — Its Consideration an Important Matter with All Stockmen. Tuberculosis in a herd of cattle—especially in a valuable herd — is a very serious matter, says a writer in the Country Gentleman; serious not only from the immediate consequences, but more from ¢ prospective injury. Once in a herdl and no one .can tell where it will stop; indeed, according to our best authorities, even the herdsman in such cases is not without -considerable danger. Every one owning stock should read and study carefully Dr. Law’s able address at Springfield, 111., on this subjeck It seems to- me that every agricultural paper should print sither the entire address or a full abstract, that all stockmen may know the importance of this subject. If, as now seems demonstrated, tuberculosis is caused by microbes, which are coughed up with the sputa, and are thus sasily scattered to new fields—the lungs of other animals yet healthy—surely then, in view of the terrible fatality of this malady, no probable case even should be permitted to remain where it would endanger other yet healthy animals. The fact that whole herds in the United States have been sacrificed to such dall§ying with this fearful plague emphasizes the importance of more decided action. If one of my cattle were to show a chronic cough, especially were this attended with apparent ill health, I should certainly isolate such an animal at once from all others in the herd; should thoroughly disinfect the stall where it had previously stood by a most thorough serubbing with dilute carbolic acid; and in case it were a bull, I should not use him any more till he recovered. ~This would be the least I should think of doing. I believe it would be wiser to kill such an animal at once, closely examine the lungs, and in case the tuberculoys condition appeared in the form of bagsof thick mucus I should carefully watch to detect any spread of the malady in my herd, and stamp eut any subsequent case as soon as it might put in an appearance. When an animal is killed, it should be burned or buried, that the infection be not® scattered. 1 speak as one who has had some experience and more observation. lam sure that this disease is in many herds in the country. KEvery one should know of its symptoms and its terrible fatality. Every stockman should be so thoroughly warned that in every case of its appearance active measures should be taken to thoroughly stamp it out.

We do not positively know as yet that this disease is hereditary; yet the probabilities are so strong in that direction that every wise breeder will hesitate before he wuses any animal with a c¢hronic cough. As Mr. Warfield recently stated, this is one of the most important subjects before our cattlemen of to-day. « :

LIVE-STOCK NOTES.

HAvVFE a clover and blus grass pasture for the swine if possible. Grow pumpkins for the hogs in winter. They make a'good and cheap food. . NEVER breed from a lumpy-jaw cow. Never breed from a diseased animal of any kind. . ' Tune Texas mare is a good one on which to cross our thoroughbreds, without a doubt. : y WHEN your horse has colic, first consider the character of its food and second the way he eats, and see if you do not find the cause. : ‘WueN Government compels the railroad companies to lower their rates for shipping live stock, to offset the low prices, it will be doing justice and doingis duty. =~ He ; ‘““TrorRoUGHBRED feed” is an expression sometimes used. ‘‘Thoroughbred feeding” expresses the idea better; and, by the way, that presupposes a thoroughbred feeder. .

. A CATT.LE BARN. Directions for Utilizing a Bank Barn for : .~ # Cattle Feeding. : The points to be considered in utilizing a bank barn 40x80 feet for cattle feeding 'are economy of space, ease and time in handling ;food, and comfort of animals. To carry out the first point, if dry feed is intended to be used, the entire basement should be used for cattle. : ~ 80 feet. Qg Qs ; ; : §§ §§ §§, 2 g 7 e e 8 = g f gl g . 5 Divide it the short way, 10 feet for cattle, then 10 feet for feed-room, then a double row of cattle, i. e., 4 feet 8 inches from manger to manure ditch, then 3 feet space for cattle to walk in and to run your wheelbarrow on in wheeling out manure, then 16 inches manure ditch, then 4 feet 8 inches to manger, making 15 féet in all. ’ If used exclusively for feading cattle this would accommodate 75 head. But some box stalls should be built, and if there are calves and yearling cattle the distance from mandre diteh to manger should be shortened to 4 feet, and the space allowed to each, 2 feet 6 inches.

If many cows are kept, several box stalls should be built. If all feeding cattle, not so many are necessary. Calves do not need so large a manger, so the feed-room might be encroached on and gain another foot, making 9 feet lost space. Ifdry feed is used a crib and bran bin should be built over each feed-room, with box chutes to bring graindown. Stairways from feed-rooms to second floor should be directly under mow hole so that one pitching will land hay in feed-room. ,

Several writers in the XFarmer are sound on most subjects, but when it comes to fastening cattle they are ‘‘off.” Sam, “he’s all right’’ until you come to svalling cattle. We are surprised that a man who has so much experience and traveled over the country till you would suppose he had seen every barnin Amerca, would make such a-mistake. Our grange expects to have a farmers’ institute next winter and Sam can afford to come ‘“‘free gratis’ for what we will teach him about fastening cattle. Three feet is sufficient space for each beast, and they should be fastened with what I call a Fleming stanchion. Mr. Fleming not being satisfied with the old rigid stanchion or any of the patent ones he had seen, scratched his head a few times, laid awake a night or two, and originated a stanchion for his own use. This stanchion turns, is adjusta. ble, and any farmer who can use a saw, hatchet and nails, and bore a few holes, can make one. 1 made thirteen last winter at a cost, counting every thing, of thirty-five centis each, and they will last a life-time. This is no theory, as the few cows we have, and one hundred head of cattle in the barns of ‘the originator of this stanchion and his father will testify this cold night as they comfortably lie chewing their cud. In the morning they will get up and lick themselves and not care if it rains, snows or blows.—Ohio Farmer.

Cleansing Musty Cider Barrels. The California Fruit Grower gives the following directions: ‘‘Putalump of quicklime which will weigh about two or three pounds into a three-gallon pail filled with clean, pure water, and let it remain until the dregs have settled to the bottom. Pour off the clear liquid.. Get two clean trace chains and fasten them together. Tie a strong leather string firmly to one end of the chains. Have the free end of this leather a half inch or more in width. Plug the spile hole and vent of the barrel and pour the lime water into the bunghole. Introduce the trace chains, leaving a portion of the leather string outside, and drive in the bung so firmly that it will hold the string in place. Roll the barrel around and churn it back and forth so that the chain will comie in contact with all parts of its sides and weat off the mold if any has collected. ~ Set the barrel on one end and work it back and forth, then reverse ends and continue to work it about until the friction of the chain has worked every part clean. When this has been accomplished remove the bung, take out the chains and pour out the lime water. Putin a bucketful or two of clean water and rinse thoroughly, pouring off the water, and renew a few times. Lastly, add a quart of whisky. 'Shake and ' roll the. barrel about until the whisky has come in contact: with every portion of the interior.”

: A Secure Gate-Fastener. Our illustration, furnished by Rev. John Morrison: Ontario, Can., to the American Agriculturist, show a fastener for either large or small gates which ‘will defy the most mischievous animal to open. The gate is hung on the center of the pdst and may be swung either B ok ! lpßsssasesciisgn | | R e e ORI A SERVICEABLE GATE-FASTENER. way. The fastener (B) is made light on the top so it will fall of its own weight into place, and the curved top makes it convenient to take hold of with the hand. A half-inch iron pir in the face side of'the gate goes between fasteners (B B) and keeps it fast. At the right hand is shown the face side of the gate-post, with one swing latch in position and the other raised for opening or closing the gate. - For the first week after coming oft the nest or incubator the chicks should be kept on a clean floor and have a pan of fine gravel which has been heated in ‘the oven, to dnust in. This is said to be .a good preventive of gaps. ‘ For swelled eyes, bathe,the eyes with a warm solution made by dissolving a teaspoonful of powdered boracic acid in a pint of water, and then anoint with a few drops of glycerine. Repeat this daily. 3 oo ' Tuere is plenty of room for good draft horses, good coach horses and thoroughbred cattle in this country. Have no fears that the supply is too ‘great for the demand. ~ Banrey makes good pork, and its cheapness this year has caused much l‘ barley to be fed to swine o

THE VANISHING SURPLUS. . Millions Wasted by Greedy Republican : Money-Grabbers. e In less than four months’ time after getting full control of the Government the Republican party has succeeded in more than disposing of the surplus and placing itself jn such a position that it must either repudiate all its pledges to the soldiers or place a heavy burden of debt upon the country. In an interview ex-speaker Carlisle says: “It is already apparent that the appropriations for the ordinary expenses of the Government for the next fiscal year will be largely in excess of the Secretary’s estimate. It has been stated on the floor of the House by a Republican member of the. committee. on appropriations that the sum of $442,099,110.30 will be required, and if this is correct there will be a deficit of $57,090,110, instead of a surplus, even if none of the extravagant appropriations (new pensions, Blair bill, direct tax, etc.) that I have mentioned shall be made.” When asked whether or not all these bills would pass, the ex-Speaker responded: = .-

Of coursp it is impossible for me to say whether d%?ey will or not. But one thing is certain, and the country ought to understand it. They will be passed if the Republican party wants to pass them. It has the Senate, the House and the President, and the rules have been sochanged that the Democrats can neither defeat nor delay any measure that the majority may see proper to introduce. The pension bills can be taken up any day and passed, and so can all the others. If the repeated pledges made to the soldiers and others by the Republican party are not redeemed at this - session of Congress, it will be because that party does not want to redeem them and does not intend to do so. It has no excuse whatever for a failure to promptly pass all these bills, and if this session closes without their passage, it will be useless for it hereafter to pretend that it.is in favor of them. The time and opportunity have come, and the party must take the whole responsibility for action or non-action. It is true that the passage of these bills, or any considerable part of them, would make it absolutely necessary to impose additional taxes upon the people, or largely to increase the public debt by the issue of new bonds; but the Republican party knew this just as well when it made its promises to the soldieis as it knows it now, and, therefore, itccannot escape responsibilities on -that ground. :

Mr. Carlisle might well have said that, so far as the pension bills are concerned, they will not be passed: The Republican party cares nothing for the old soldier after it gets his vote. The only pledges the Republican party ever redeems are those made to the corporations, monop: olies and trusts. These will be redeemed though the veterans die in the poorhouse.—lndianapolis Sentinel. e

M’KINLEY’S ““* REFORM” ‘BILL.

1t Reduces the Revenues Without Reducing Monopoly Protection. 7 The bill of the ways and means committee for reducing the internalrevenue and the tariff, now ready to be reported to the House, goes far toward redeeming the promise of the Republican party to make the leading vices'of the country free and prosperous. The removal of the tax from alcohol used in the arts is equivalent to free whisky, as no method has yet been discovered for preventing frauds under such a law. Manufactured tobacco is to be fouf cents a pound cheaper, and the tax on snuff is repealed altogether. These changes are presumably among ‘the great moral ideas for which the Republican party claims distinction.

This alleged reform of the tariff includes a large increase of the tariff on wool, causing clothing and carpets to cost the consumer more than ever, and offers the farmer as a solace an increase of the tariff on butter, eggs, barley and buckwheat, which are ' imported in such small quantities as not to affect the great mass of the farmers at all. The bill makes a cut of from 50-to 60 per cent, in ‘the duty on sugar and of 25 per cent. in the duty on molasses, because these reductions will benefit the wealthy North and West at the expense of the “‘infant industries” of the South, and because the tariff on these articles was almost an entirely revenue tariff, as distinguished from a monopoly-protecting tariff. The tariff on tin-plate is raised to a prohibitive point thereby cutting off entirely the 6,000,000 revenue which the Government has hitherto derived from that source, and at ‘the same timé enabling the infant tin-plate monopoly of this country to double its prices if: it pleases. Such are the effects of intrusting the reformation of the war tariff to the scheming villains who first devised it. SE S

The important point in this bill is the fact that it reduces the revenues of the Government without reducing monopoly ‘“‘protection.” Its policy all the way through is to build up and enrich the Eastern manufacturers at the expense of every other industry, and especially at the expense of the Western farmer.— Chicago Herald. e

OUTRAGEOUS FRAUDS. Wicked Schemes Formulated by Selfish Surplus Busters. 2 Those organs which are pretending: that the proposed pension bills ‘are for the benefit of needy veterans, or which are denouncing those who do not believe in squandering the people’s money in undeserved payments to deserters, are sowing the wind and .may reap the. whirlwind. If it had ever been necessary or proper for the people to pay $100,000,000 a year to the deserving pensioners, there would not have been a. voice raised against the moss liberal appropriations. But when itis announced that the pension rolls are to be increased that the surplus may be dissipated; when it is proposed that the safeguards adopted by the Grand Army shall not be applied in the payments of pensions; when such blatherskites as Tanner -and Dudley shall be foisted upon the country as representatives of the soldiers, it is time for honest citizens to take ‘the alarm,and speak for those whoare really deserving of the Government’s attention. Every name wrongfully placed upon the pension rolls is a disgrace to worthy veterans. The long list of men who are drawing from the Federal treasury monthiy stipends which = have been allowed by scoundrelly officials,” forms: a menace to the very existence of a pension system. It is beyond the bounds of possibility that the people will permit this disgrace to outlive the term of the Harrison-Dudley administration, and it is the part of those who believe in the full performance of the people’s pledges to the soldiers to guard their interests in this matter against the worse than rebels and traitors who have been placed in power by Mr. Harrison.—Chicago Leader. e An Illustrious Precedent. - “Lige,” said Mr. Harrison, ‘‘they call me a ndpotist because I look after my family.” : e _ “That’s about the size of it, sir,” re-. plied the private secretary. =~ ‘‘Well, it's too bad. I am simply following in the steps of Washington. ‘He was the Father of his country, and I'm blessed if he didn’t look after his country the first thing.”—N. Y. Sun, e CoR R R SRR R

-~ AN ABSURD REPORT. Bouthern Congressmen. Will Not Treat - * with Republican Revolutionists. Commenting on an absurd report from ‘Washington of some sort ¢f ‘‘dicker” between the Republieans and some of the Southern members of Congress the New York Times says: ; “The fact is, and it is bécoming ‘more and more plain every day, that the best policy for the South is patience. Time is its great and powerful ally. It has very little to gain from any positive legislation and very much to gain from waiting. Itis slowly but surely settling the -race problem. Little by little at ‘various points it is learning how to divide the negro vote, It was done last fall in Virginia, in some portions of Mississippi, Louisiana and Elorida,and it can and will be'done more and more as time goes on. ¥ ¥ * The day that it is récognized ‘in the. North that division and neot sup-~ pression of the vote of the negroes is the poliey of' the South, the Southern question will ‘entirely” disappear.. Even now it has so - far - disappeared that the majority in Congress: will not be able, and will hardly dare to try, to pass any election law deected _ against’ the South alone, or capable of being worked agdinst the South alone. The schemes of the leuders—the Chandlers, Shermafs, Reeds —are mischievous in appearance, but they are vain. It would be a very bad bargain for Southern men to try to defeat them by making concessions in other matters, for they would have every thing to lose and nothing substantial 46 gain.” > ; i

The talk of ‘“‘concessions” from Southern Congressmen is ridiculous.. They are not ‘‘treating” with the Republican revolutionists. The South is in the Union; it is an integral part of it; it has equal rights and equal duties. It isin~ terested just as the ‘other sections in sound legislation, and can pay its pars to the piper for saturnalian dances. It proposes to protect its interests openly and beldly, relying on the American people.” It has no favors to ask of, and none to give to, the Republican party managers. Legislation good enough for the North may be bad, truly, but we can stand® it as long as can any other section.—Touisville Courier-Journal. OUR CHINESE TARIFF.. The Effect It Has Had on. Sheep-Raising Wit in the United States. 5 Exeept -during ‘the civil war 'sheepraising has been for fifty years a declining. business in . this country for reasons .beyond the control of legislation. The number of sheep’ per capita of population was nearly 50 per cent. greater in 1840 than in 1850, and at the latter date there had been thirteen years of the highest ‘‘protection” for wool known in our. history. Here are the official figures: i 1 i o - Sheep . Population.- Sheep. per Head. 1840, .00 (017,069,453, o 19,311,974 1.13 1850 was v 1. R 3,101,876 7, 221 793,220 .936 1800 v oo 081 443821 v 82 4l TS 14 18700 .0 yuo /2. 38,508,371 . 28,477,951 .738 1880....... ... 50,155,783 35,192,074 701 The- »current census will show a greater disparity ~between Ppopulation and number of sheep than existed in 1880. - In" 1840 there were 2,000,000 more sheep than people in the United States. In 1890 there are, it” is estimated, 22,000,000 moré people than sheep. Whatever else protection has done it has not built up the sheep industry. It has been demonstrated that no tariffs can do this. The industry could scarce1y decline more rapidly under a policy of absolute tree trade than:it has done under the system of Chinese protection. —lndiana State Séntinel. - :

- POLITFICAL POINTERS. . ——Now that Harrison is safely out of the race, who will get the Republican ' nomination in 18922 —Atlanta Constitution. 3 ; :

——*“What to do with the surplus” will soon be changed to “What to do to get -another surplus.”-—Washington Star (Rep.): S : , : ~———As riches are reliably stated to have wings, no serious difficulty is anticipated in. making the surplus fly.— Philadelphia Record. .

- ——Where the Democrats left a surplus of $100,000,000 the Republicans are preparing to leave a hole in the ground. ——Atlanta Constitution. e

——The exertions of Colonel Dugley and Dr. Harrison to bring about a pure ballot are making 1890 a great year.— Louisville Courier-Journal. s

——Protection, if anywhere in the world, - has ‘done its perfect work in Pennsylvania. - But thete is no other State in the ‘Union in which there is greatet - deprivation among laboring men. The accounts of the suffering in the coal regions are heart-rending.—Phil-adelphia Record. ——The Republican organs new engaged in ridiculing Senator Blair and denouncing his educational bill ought toreflect that it comes to them with the double commendation of the indorsement of the Republican platform and the denunciation of the Democratic platform. - It is a distinctively Republican and distinctively un-Democratic measure.—Nashville American.

——Between tha necessity -of humgugging the farmers with sham protection and sham reduction of the tariff and the necessity of satisfying the monopolists with real protection and no reduction, Mr. McKinley’s committee is ‘twixt the devil and the deep sea. But that the monopolists, whose. liberality made. Harrison, Reed, McKinley and their associates. what they are, will be satisfied there can be no doubt.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. , : _——There are pending before the House committee on pensions over 200 general bills, which would take $700,000,000 annually from the treasury if passed. Besides there.are 2,000 private pension bills. ‘But the Republican problem is not alone how to keep these promises made to the soldiers but how to satisfy other demands made on the strength of party promises which would absorb more than twice the amount of ‘the surplus without allowing a dollar’s worth of tax reduction. No wonder, as. one friendly correspondent observes,. the party leaders are ‘‘very much. preplexed.”—Springfield Republican.

: Sherman on Negro Suffrage. _That was a significant remark of Sen~ ator Sherman in’ the Senate the other day, that he thought perhaps it would have been better had the amendment giving the negroes the suffrage not been adopted. 'This was his conclusion after an experience of twenty years. There is no doubt that it was at the time a distasteful expedient to the Senator and many of those who acted with him. I& -was not a measure calculated to pros mote the immediate interests of the emancipated slaves, as they were utterly ignorant and unfit for the duties involved in domination at the ballot box. It was not such a pelicy as Abraham Lincoln would have favored. He would have made the approaeh to that prerogative gradual and the result of preparation. But the partisanship of the hour was intolerant, and its work is a finality. Mr. Sherman can not recall it if he would. No wonder there has been friction and disorder at times, and in loealities, as the sequence of the sudden advent of a million of untaught men at the polls, inspired by delusive and chaotic dreams.—3t. Paul Globe, Shmas e e R