Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 4, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 June 1894 — Page 7

ON THE WAR PATH, Ohio Miners Prevent the Hauling of Soft Coni by Stopping Trains and Catting Oat Cars Containing the Objectionable Freight—Business Being Suspended at Many Points by Reason of Scarcity of Fuel. * Jackson', O., June 3.—'To use a popular expression, the miners of this u county have been on the war path for the past two days. They have congregated in large, numbers at the various railroad towns in the county. Each crowd has its leaders and keeps the American flag floating to the breezes while they are inspired by a band of music Dr. W. S. Hojvof Wellston, O., while he is not employed in any capacity at the mines, is the prime mover and promoter of the aggregate body. Dr. Hoy is a defeated candidate for county coroner. Last evening he marched 1.000 to 1,500 miners from Wellston to Hamden and stopped every train from the limited express down to local freights. All freight rains passing Hamden of^r the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern during the past twenty-four hours have been held up and seals on ears broken.®* Hoy, with 200 of his followers, stopped the east-bound limited express and demanded free transportation to McArthur junction. The conductor refused to signal his train out and Train Dispatcher Scully received orders to have the train sidetracked udtil the mob could be induced to get off. The^ doctor did not vacate the coaches until lie was told that he was detaining a United States mail train. The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern officials then agreed to transport 100 of the miners to McArthur ahd return upon the promise that they would give the company no more trouble. Freight trains on the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo were held up and gone through. All coal found was cut off and sidetracked. The crowd assembled at Hamden, has disbanded leaving in charge a patrol committee that holds up every freight train that passes. A half dozen cars of anthracite were set off to-day but finally they were permitted to go, as it was-not in competition with soft coal production. The miners, in their demands to the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, ask that not a lump of coal be hauled on the Parkersburg division, but agree to allow two cars a day over the Portsmouth division to be used in firing that company’s passenger engines. This the railroad officials have not granted, but have agreed to stop hauling soft coal in competition with the local market. The miners also have patrol committees at Jackson, Coalton, Wellston and McArthur junction inspecting all freight taken on the various roads leading through those places. So far the thousands assembled have been peaceable and orderly. Men are continuing to join the crowds assembled at the varipus towns. However, there is no probability of any violence at the places named except at Glengean on the Norfolk *fc Western. It has been reported that this railroad will refuse to stop hauling West Virginia coal, which action will probably incite the crowd to use violent means to bring about what they are demanding. Coal is becoming so scarce that nearly all business is suspended. The Baltimore *fc Ohio Southwestern have taken off all passenger trains but one, which carries the United States mail. Most all the freight traffic is stopped and railroads talk of a temporary suspension of all business until there is a change. A crowd of 300 miners at this place marched out to the Pocahontas mine, a half mile south of Jackson and demanded the suspension of business at once. This was refused and it looked much like bloodshed. Miners with their work tools as weapons threatened the crowd and charged them, but by timely advice of leaders, serious trouble was avoided/ A compromise was affected, the miners agreeing to run no more coal after to-morrow. There are now, in the various places in Jackson county, fully 3,000 miners on the alert, ready for any action necessary.

THE INSATIATE MISSOURI • Engulfing the Prosperous Little City of Winthrop, Mo., in Its Turgid Channel. St. Joseph, Mo., June 3.—As a direct result of the high water in the Missouri river, which will not begin to recede for some time, the once prosper ous village of Winthrop, thirty milet south of St. Joseph on the Rock Island, Hannibal & St. Joseph, Missouri Pacific and Kansas City, St. Joe & Council Bluffs railroads, will soon be wiped of! the face of the earth. The Missouri river when it first began its spring rise this year, began cutting the bank at the edge of the town and adjacent to it, and to-day half the place has melted into the river, together with half a dozen farms of 160 acres each. The channel of the river was a half mile west of Winthrop last year, but to-day that channel is a sand bar and the new channel occupies what ' was once the main street of the village. Assisted by the citizens, the railroad companies have been spending thousands of dollars in an effort to stop the cutting of the river, but the efforts have "been in vain, and the work has been given up. The water is now within a few rods of the tracks c f the four companies which run parallel to each other at that point, and is rapidly eating its way into the railroad right of way. All four companies are preparing to abandon their roadbeds and enter Atchison from a point further north. In such an event the §100,000 railroad bridge connecting Winthrop and Atchison will be abandoned. Winthrop, which was * town of 1,500 people, has already lost most of its population, and as the houses cannot be sold they are | being torn down and carried into the country. The work of demolition of the Methodist church, a structure which cost 5*0,000 a year ago, is now going on, it having been sold to a farmer for $50. Farmers who owned farms valued at 98,000 and 510,000 a month ago arc without an acre of ground to-dav.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. —Rice Pudding-.—One quart of cooked rice, one pint of sweet cream, a half cup of butter, two well beaten eggs and a cupful of granulated sugar. Mix all together in one vessel and grate in a little nutmeg. Bake to a delicate brown. —Indian Pudding,— Eight tablespoonfuls of meal, six eggs, one quart of milk, six ounces of sugar, one tablespoonful of lemon juice, and four ounces of butter. Scald the milk and pour it over the meal; add the other ingredients. Bake in a slow oven two hours. Use no sauce*—Good* Housekeeping. —Rhubarb Dumplings.—These are made in the same way as apple dumplings. Serve with a sauce prepared in the following manner: One quart of sweet milk, three tablespoons of sugar and a tablespoon of cornstarch, dissolved in some of the milk. Boil together, and flavor with nutmeg or va- * nilla. The sauce is best cold.—Housekeeper. —Tenderloin Steak With Oysters.— Moisten the bottom of the chafing dish with butter. When very hot lay in the tenderloin, which should be an inch thick and nearly free from fat. Sear one side and turn. Turn often. In five minutes remove to a hot plate and season with salt. Put one pint of oysters in the pan without any of the liquor. Stir until the edges curl. Add one tablespoonful of butter creamed with an equal amount of flour, salt, pepper and one tablespoonful of lemon juice. Let it thicken. Pour ovel- the hot steak and serve at once.—Christian Inquirer. —Stewed Fish.—Cod, Halibut, shad, and most other kinds of large fish, make a choice dish, easily and quickly prepared in this manner: Cut the fish in slices or steaks an inch thick, or in squares of two or three inches, removing the bones so far as possible. Put a pint of boiling water into a broad saucepan; add to it a tablespoonful ol butter and one of ‘flour rubbed together, and smoothly blended in a little of the hot water before pouring in. Salt, and stir until smoothly dissolved. Slice a small onion and add, with three or four cloves, peppercorns and allspice, a sprig of thyme, a bay leaf and a bit oi red-pepper pod. Of course these condiments may be varied at will, but their spicy flavor as a whole is a very great addition in cooking fish.—Country Gentleman. —Mrs. Whitney's Wild Strawberries. —The wife of Secretary Whitney taught one of Washington's society belles how to serve wild strawberries in a novel way; To the juice of half a lemon add one cup of wild berries and rub through a sieve, and add one pint of thick cream, one cup of sugar. Whip to a stiff froth, and pour the mixture into an ice cave, piling on top one quart of berries. Cover carelessly with their own vines and leaves, after sprinkling with sugar. Tuck the red berries and vines into all possible ^cracks and crevices to the crystal cave, which is simply a square block of ice hollowed out with heated irons into the si/e and shape needed. Oyster caves have long been the fashion, but fruit is a most beautiful decoration. Serve with a silver fruit knife or ladle the frozen fruit creams, on small cream plates, with eakes.—Detroit Free Press. LIFE ON SMALL FARMS.

Some inuucement® onerea to rnose t nror tunateft in Town. The owner of ten to twenty acres of iand within convenient distance of city op town is very fortunate. The Philadelphia Ledger of a recent date says: “The demand for small farms has been greater than ever before. Properties of from thirty’ to fifty acres and less are wanted—the farmers holding them say they can make more money and live better upon a few acres than upon a large farm.” This same state of affairs is noticed in all the eastern states, and especially is this the case in our own state. The low’ prices obtained for the leading staple articles, such as corn and wheat, and with a probability of these prices prevailing for some years yet to come, accounts for this change in farm management. Poultry raising, early lambs, trucking, bee keeping, small fruit culture, and dairying in all its branches will be followed more closely—more money being made and a greater degree of comfort being obtainable. A larger population will be supported, a more systematic and careful cultivation of the soil, better roads, well managed public schools, churches, lectures, and all social enjoyments will follow in due course of time. A friend who two years ago bought a small place in the country, sstys: “I write this under my own Concord vine and apple tree and from beneath a roof of my own; I am a landed proprietor, a taxpayer, the owner of a bit of ground and a horse and stable. We have paid Dut hundreds of dollars in rent, and have lived in some sort of fashion, but now’ we are fixed. My interest and taxes are not much more than onethird the amount I have been paying in rents. I have one cow (this gives ul tw’o gallons of delicious milk every day,) one dozen hens which supply us with eggs, half a dozen apple and peai trees, and a few currant and rasberry bushes. The past year our garden gave us all the vegetables we needed, and Some to spare for our city friends; and such vegetables!—just fresh from the garden, not like the stale stuff you see oi\ the market-stalls. “My wife looks healthier, is much more contended, and the children are the picture of health. They have a home—a place that they can love and remember as home throughout all their after-lives. It is a positive pleasure for me to walk up ence a year and pay my taxes. I am a happy man and don't mind the extra work I am called upon to do when I see the happv results of country life. My only wish is that the hundreds of clerks that are living in the city in rented homesjcould be induced to follow my example and pome out into the country, where pure air, plenty of sunshine, green fields, contentment and happiness await every one that desires to ooroe.”—lialimore American. t

THE FARMING WORLD. THE BRONZE TURKEY. Best of Breeds But Objectionable on Ao count of Site. The bronze is always placed at the head of all the varieties of turkeys c>n account of its being the largest and the most hardy. The breed was produced by a cross of the wild turkey upon the common turkej’ hen, the produce being improved by careful breeding and selection. The plumage is mostly black, and shows in a bright light reflections of the most brilliant bronze, with rich and changeable col ors. The bronze turkeys are good layers. ivery easily raised and make rapid

— " " iMAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEY'. growth, the chief objection to them being that of size. The gobblers of the -improved bronze breed, generally known as the mammoth bronze, average forty pounds when full grown, and the hens from twenty to twenty-five pounds, so that a moment's thought will convince anyone that they are unsuited to the average family. Where the market demands birds of such size it will ptfv to raise the mammoth bronze, but generally the smaller breeds are more in demand. The hard times which were so mueh felt during the past winter seriously affected the market. Large birds were practically unsalable, and for the smaller ones prices were disastrously low. Cold storage alohe saved the market from utter demoralization. A shipment of turkeys was recently made to England, and it is hoped that this is but the entering wedge, and ,that an outlet has been found which ’will relieve the market and send it booming upward.—X. Y. World.

BLAQK LANGSHANS. Description of One of the Best Fowls for the Table. The Langshan is a Chinese breed of fowls which has been known and appreciated in England for the last twen-ty-five years, though their introduction into this country is comparatively recent. The Langshan is a strikingly handsome as well as a most useful fowl. In color they are a jet black, with a beautiful greenish tint on neck and back. The male carries himself well up and has a well-spread tail, with long sickle feathers also of a green tint. The average weight of the cocks is from nine to ten pounds, while the- hens weigh about eight pounds. They are the most rapid growers among the Asiatic breeds and resemble the Black Cochin in many respects. They are active^ mature early, lay well and are good sitters and mothers. They are much less inclined to sit than the other Asiatic breeds. The flesh of the Langshans is white and they have a verj- thin white skin, which causes them to be regarded most unjustly as second-rate poultry in those markets where golden-yellow carcasses are In demand. They begin S

US.-. -5=BLACK LANOSHAXS. to lay at about five months old, the eggs being of a good size, generally of a rich brown color, and, it is claimed, the best flavored of all eggs. As winter layers they are equal to the Brahmas, whom they rival in many other respects. The Langshans stand confinement better than most breeds, are quiet, gentle and very hardy. As table fowls the pure Langshan is equaled only by the Dorking and some« Varieties of game.—N. Y. World.

NOTES ABOUT HORSES. While good breeding will not of itself sell a bad individual for a good priee, it is a woncferful help with good ones. Hobse breeding is profitable to those who cater to the wants of their . localmarkets instead of trying to raise stock to suit themselves. Quinine, judiciously administered, is a great remedy for a horse seized with a sudden cold or fever. It is equally efficacious for man, horse or dog. Horseshoeing is as much of a science as any of the learned professions that require^not only adaptability but close study on the part of the successful practitioner. According to the current Year Book 143 sons of Hambletonian, 89 sons of George Wilkes, 88 sons of Almont and 50 sons of Belmont have sired standard performers. If colt handlers realized their responsibilities more fully there would be more well-broken, really useful horses. By kindness, firmness and perseverance the horse can be taught todo almost anything.

THE FINE ARTS. The Artists’ club of Denver bus taken permanent quarters in the north gallery of the Fine Arts building of that city. Munich will have its usual summer exhibition at the Crystal palace. A special feature this year will be rooms devoted to works in black and white. The Pennsylvania academy of fine arts has applied to the city of Philadelphia for a grant of ten thousand dollars, in return for which the academy will provide fifty free scholarships in its art schools, the recipients to be nominated by the city. Relic hunters have at last taken into consideration the wreck of the world’s fair, and are now paying roundly for 1 objects modeled in staff taken from the principal buildings. The angels on the Woman’s building are said to be in so much demand that they will fetch high prices when taken down. The salvage company that dismantles the* building is reaping a good harvest. ' At Hartford the drawing, by E. 8.; Woods, for a life-size standing statuej of Col. Knowlton, of the revolution,! has been approved, and the commis^ sion will be awarded if the model isj equally satisfactory. Other decora-; tions of the capitol will consist of fouij* more medallion portraits on the eastj side, namely, Joseph Barlow, the poet; John Trumbull, the painter; Jonathan; Edwards, the preacher, and Edward Hopkins, second governor of Connecticut.

WISDOM. - r • Variett alone gives joy; the sweetest, meats the soonest cloy.—Prior. ~ The truest eloquence is that which holds us too mute for applause.—Bulwer. Ideas are like beards—men do not have them until they grow up.—Voltaire. ■ To eternity itself there is no other handle than the present moment.— Anon. Be always employed about some rational thing, that the devil find thee not idle.—Jerome. Learn to say “No.” It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.—Spurgeon. Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.—Lava ter. Avoid multiplicity of business; the man of one thing is the naan of success. —Try on Edwards. The sway of Chastity over the senses makes her queenly; her light and peace render her beautiful.—Joubert. ’Tis the man’s face that gives him weight. His doings help, but not more than his brow.—Charles Buxton. In a vain man, t?ie smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.—Hume.

TRUTH’S LAUGHS. Fat.—First Lady—“I cannot help looking- eagerly for a change in the prevailing styles.” Second Lady — “Have you tried dieting?” -s' A Museum Episode. — Mabager — “What’s the row in the dining-room?” Waiter—“The Two-Headed Wonder has got all tangled up eating macaroni.” After the Ball. — The Chaperon (pleasantly)—“Well, what are a debutante’s sensations?” The Debutante —“That’s just what I want you to tell me, for I suppose every one will ask me.” • • Suitable.—Blim—“Why is Philadelphia called the City of Brotherly Love?” Slim—“Because it is such a nice place to love in I guess. So quiet and undisturbed, you know.” Deceit.—Jackson—“You keep a private cash account, don’t you?” Currie —“Yes. It is the only means by which I can conceal from my wife the amount of my expenditures.” ABOUT THE WOMEN. Queen Victoria has sixty pianos at Osborne, Windsor and Buckingham palace. Many of them are hired. Princess Victoria of Wales, according to her father, can concoct a more tempting Welsh rarebit than any other woman in England. Rose Coghlan, the actress,has applied for a patent for a safe in which she so disposes dynamite that if a burglar attempts to break into it, he will blow himself un.

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—Improving slowly at all points during the last three centuries, fencing has become far-more general in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and parts of Germany than ever before, and is making rapid strides in the United States. Since the foundation of the fencers’ club in New York twelve years ago the number of instructors has rapidly increased; the overflow has supplied Chicago, Boston and New Haven. Clubs have been formed of late in Boston, Montreal, New Orleans and Salt Lake City to practice fencing as a game. A little monthly called Swordsman is the organ for the Amateur Fencing league of America. Fencing among undergraduates is no longer confined to the military and naval schools.—Harper’s Weekly. To Cleanse the System Effectually yet gently, when costive or bilious or when tlib blood is impure or sluggish, to permanently cure habitual constipation, to awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity, without irritating or weakening them, to dispel headaches, colds or fevers, use Syrup of Figs. “Ma,” said a discouraged? urchin, “I ain’t goingto school any more.” “Why, dear !” “'Cause ’tain’t no use. I can never learn to spell. The teacher keeps changing the words every day.” No specific for local skin troubles equals Glenn’s Sulphur Soap. Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents. Tor just (in Oklahoma)—“What is the population of this town!” Alkali Ike (promptly)—“Eight hundred and sixtyseven souls and thirty-one real estate agents. ”

“It certainly has done 8ih» good to line the church,” said Mrs. Corntossel. “Pm glad ter hear it,” said the visitor, “but how kin ye tell?” “He went fishin’ yesterday an* owned up ter not gettin’ a bite.”—Washing? ton Star. It may seem paradoxical, but to be accorded a warm reception and to be roasted are entirely different things.—Philadelphia Record. . a YAcrof is an air-rid space.—Rural New Yorker. ,

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