Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1880 — Page 4

Rensselaer Republican. MAJOR BITTERS * SOM, r*ktu»*n mud Prafrilmn. RENSSELAER, : : INDIANA. ' ■ .* - *

DRIVING SOME TEN COWS: r Oct of the ctorer «nd blue-eyed »im, He tamed them Into the rlTer-Une; One after another he Jet them pass. And fastened the meadow ban again. Under the wlßows and over the hill, He patiently followed their sober pace; The merry whistle for once was still. And somethin* shadowed the sonny face. Only a boy f and his father had said He never would let his youngest go; Two already were lying dead. Under the feet of the trampling foe. But after the evening work was done. And the frogs were loud in the meadow swamp. Over his shoulder he slung his gun And stealthily followed the foot-path damp. Acmes the clover and through the wheat, With resolute heart and purpose grim. Though cold was the dew on the hurrying And the' blind bats flitting startled him. Thrice since then bad the lane been white. And the orchard sweet with apple bloom; And now when the cows came back at night. The feeble father drove them home. For news had come to the lonely farm That three were lying where two had lain; And the old man's tremulous palsied arm Could never lean on a son's again. The summer day grew cold and late. He went for the cows when the work was - done; But down the lane, aa be opened the gate. He saw them coming, one by one. Brin die. Ebony. Speckle and Bess, Shaking their horns In the evening wind; Cropping the buttercups out of the grass— But who was it following close behind? Loosely swung In the Idle air The empty sleeve of army blue; And worn and pale, from the crisping hair, Looked out a face that the father knew. The great tears sprang to their meeting eyee; For the heart must speak when the ups are dumb. And under the silent evening skies Together they followed the cattle home. —Kate P. On/uod, *n Utica Observer.

THE WHITE MARE.

Ik the vallev, about six miles above ne forks of t&e Teton River in northern Montana, is the Blackfoot Indian Agency. A high stockade of split logs standing on end, deeply sunk in the earth,, incloses about two acres of ground. Heavy gates, opening outward, sway harshly on great iron hinges. They keep the Indians out o' nights. A well of water is in the center of the inclosure. Low log buildings, covered with earth, are scattered along the stockade. A couple of sandhill cranes stood expectantly at the well waiting patiently for a thirsty man to draw water. A white-tailed" deer, with a broad blue ribbon on her neck, walked daintily around. Her cool, black muzzle, studded with drops of dew, brilliant in the slanting rays of the rising son, was slyly thrust into my hand, giving me a slight shock of surprise. By the stables stood a cowmoose, standing so awkwardly with crooked legs and humped back and the pendulous lip which Mark Twain calls “ the Hapsburg,” that very ugliness excited my pity. A moose cal?— her -miniatnre in ugliness stood stupidly at her side.- Standing at the well, facing the grand Rocky Mountain range, I drew a bucket ’of water. Drinking deeply, repulsing the while the advances of the female crane with my moccasined foot, I got the reward of all men who reject the advances of the tender sex. and was soon engaged in repelling a furiops attack on me bv tho long-legged twain. The attack was fierce. Their long, hard bills clashed viciously as they scornfully scolded me, and I was on the point of beating a disgraceful retreat when I heard “Ho, Frank! come have a mouthful of whiskyT’ Recognizing the voice, I gladly left the cranes in undisputed possession of the waterbucket, and walked across the parade to the store of the Fifr Company. Bidding Burr “Good morning,” I declined the whisky on grounds unnecessary to state.; yet the barrel had a yellow head, and —anti—well, I knew the tap. I sat and talked to Burr, who was in charge of this extensive store, and before breakfast • he went over it with me. A carious stock. Everything you could not find in an Eastern country store was here. As we walked he explained the business to me. Alluring? Not at all. He, looking at his watch said: “We have yet time before breakfast to look at my mare.” The sudden change in the expression of the voice, the softening of the eyes, as this hard Indian trader spoke of his horse, excited my curiosity,’ and I went with him. He took me to a low loc stable, the chinks carefully mudded, the open shutter and door well made and carefully fitted,.so as to exclude the buffalo gnats in season. A few short heavy chains, stretching from post to post, kept the horse in and the other animals out. With breast .pushing against the topmost chain, with her handsome broad head thrust out and alert ears cocked forward, stood a snoww hite mare. She was looking at the moose with a surprised expression on her face, as much as to say: “Well, you have not grown handsomer during the night.” Burr whistled, and with a joyful neigh the mare turned her head toward him and bade him welcome. The greetihg between man and animal was almost tender. The mare rubbed her nose gently against his breast, and the man stood softly stroking her delicate neck. Unlocking the chains, they dropped. Bure walked toward the well. The mare, with dainty steps, arched and flecking tail, followed behind him, or, caressingly advancing to his side, rubbed her body against *lns, as though the mere contact with the man were grateful 4*> her. His arm, it seemed to me, instinctively lifted and dropped across her neck. Ine two walked on together, unconscions of rar incongruity. A bucket of water stood at the well. The highbred creature smelt of it, and, detecting my previous presence, disdainfully refused to drink after me. Empty in nr the bucket, Burr drew another, and of this the mare drank slowly, her white face gradually sinking into the shallow vessel. All across the parade, on the return to the stable, the love scene was re-enacted. As they passed me, the mare showed her aversion to a stranger, by laying back her ears and thrusting out. her white-toothed muzzle towaro me in a vicious manner, causing me to step hastily back. They pass into the darkness ,of the stable. Bure comes oat with 4 backet, puts up the topmost chain, and goes after barley. The mare, with outstretched head, looks after him with kind eyes. Again she saw me, and with tkide-openeu mouth reached around the post to pay me the attentions of her dislike. Returning to the stable with a full bucket of baney, Bure passed in. , I heard him pour the grain into the feed box; I heard him speak to the mare as his “dear girl,” and I heard him—kiss her!

A singular gentleness had come over this hard man, steeled to human suffering and . woe, whose business it was to impoverish Indians, to destroy their morals, to brutify them with the devil alcohol. He sat at the breakfast-table, silently thinking, with his antelope steaks and trout untested before him. etching the softened face, I wondered what was the story. So I asked: “Burr, why do you love that white mare?” He looked kindly at me, and, with a sad smile, replied: “To-night after the men are in bed, I will tell you the story.” Then, briskly: “Frank, this is not business. Eat, my boy, then clear out. You will find some fool hens

ill the big willow thicket about five miles below here. I saw them the other day. Sboof some. To-night we will here ft feast, and I will open my two last bottles of sherry, and we wifi talk.” His face hardened. The cold, deadly look returned to the gray eyes, and our breakfast was soon finished. Shouldering my rifle, I stepped out of the stockade and slowly walked down the valley. On the distant killsides antelope graced; down the valley before me I could see a few deer running for cover to the willows by the stream. Now and then a grouse rose before me and flew rapidly away. Resisting all temptation to shoot at anything, 1 walked steadily on. Climbing a hill. I sat on a red rock and musingly gazed at the vast plains to the northeast, at the foothills of the range, and at the rugged r»cky range beyond. I love the Rocky Mountains and never tire of their face. I wasted hours in looking and thinking of the many tales I had heard of the range. When the sun was high above me i started for the willows. There I neatly shot the heads off of six grouse. Then jointing a light trout-pole, I whipped the clear pools of the south fork of the Teton, and was soon rewarded by a string of fine halfpound trout. Then came the pleasant walk back through the 000 l dry air and over the crispy grass of the north. What a luxury life was in the valley of the Teton! I turned my spoils over to the smiling Indian woman who acted as cook for Burr. The rest of the day I spent on horseback, running antelope with a number of half-blood Indians. At eight o’clock supper was served and eaten. The sherry was brought out, and I scattered on the table a handful, my last, of Rosa Conchas, that had never paid duty, and as we sat smoking Bure told me this story: “In the fall of 18681 thought it might be profitable to start a trading-post in the i ellowstone Valley. Learning from the Blackfeet that the Sioux were camped on the south side of the river, I determined to ride over and see what arrangements I could make with them. I crossed the Belt Mountains, and, riding down the valley, was soon at their camp, I on the horth side of the river, they on the south. I sat on my horse and hailed the camp. No answer. I could see plenty of Indians walking about, and again I hailed. No answer. I shouted myself hoarse, and the only notice taken of me was by an old buck, who walked to the river bank, looked at me, made an insulting gesture, and slowlv walked off. I went there to trade, and, having got angry at the treatment, though I well knew that 1 ought to leave, the valley at once, I, like a fool, resolved to cross the stream and brave the danger. So I forded and rode into the camp. I spoke to no one; no one spoke to me. The sullen braves turned their backs on me as I rode up the street. The young girls looked curiously at me. Riding slowly along, I cooled rapidly. I saw that I was not wanted, and I at last fully realized that I was in danger. I did not dare to ride to the south, out of the camp, nor did I have courage enough to attempt to recross the river.

“ Before me stood a great tent made of buffalo skins. It was the largest I had ever seen. I halted, dismounted, and stood silently at my horse's head. No one noticed me. Indians went past me, apparently not seeing me. At last a young woman came and stood before me. Looking right into my eyes she said: ‘ What do you want?’ I .looked her coldly in the face and made no reply. Smiling, she asked: * What brings you here?’ Steadily I gazed into her eyes and was voiceless. She left me and departed into the great lodge. Soon an Indian warrior in full paint, with bow and strung arrow in his hands, came to me. Speaking Blackfoot, he said: * Why are you in this camp?' To him I replied: ‘*l wish to trade with you.’ More men camel They took my horse, and seizing hold of my arm they led me into the great lodge. Here I was seated and a council was held- I sat and listened to them talk of what was best to do with so presumptuous a white man. Some were in favor of trading. The large majority of the Indians were in favor of torturing me. It was soon decided that I should be tortured; and they sat and disenssed the many methods. After a two days’ talk it was decided to burn me. I was in a strange condition mentally. I would listen to a plan of torture, as though it were some other man they were talking about; and I would comment to myself on that Jilan as giving the chap but little chance or his life. But when the dusky brave, who talked Blackfoot, told me that 1 was to die by fire the next day* I understood perfectly that I was the man they had been talking about, and I replied: ‘I know it!’ Clustering around me they asked me if I had understood all the talk. ‘Yes; I had.’ ‘Then why not answer the maiden, when she spoke to you? 1 4 1 came, not to talk to squaws, but to trade with men.’ No use; I could do nothing by soft' talk, and having played my hand, resigned myself to my fate. “ 1 noticed that the girl who had first spoken to me in front of the tent was watching me. She would quickly glance at me and then drop her eyes on the buckskin shirt she was embroidering with Crow hair. Several times I noticed this, and once I replied with a smile. The lodge emptied. All were gone except the girl. She quicklv came to my side, apparently to refold some buffalo robes, and in a whisper said: ‘You are to die to-mor-row. To-night I will have the best horse in the camp saddled and standing on the outside of the lodge. I will have the tent cat from the outside. You jump through, mounl and ride for your life. You may escape. You will burn if you stay.’ Then, with a smile: ‘ The mare is mine. She is the fastest animal in the Valley of the Yellowstone. I give her to yon.’ She left me and quickly resumed her work. As she wove the hair of many Crow scalplocks into the shirt, I sat looking thankfully at her. She never looked at me agjiin. As I saw a chance for my life, my heart beat so loudlv that I thought it would be heard. I calmed my face and waited. I ate fairly of supper. I smoked a pipe. All were very kind and attentive to me. Night was passing away, and still the Indians lingered, looking at the man they were to burn on the morrow. I leaned back against the tent to rest myself, when I felt a hand gently pushing me forward. Sitting whistling, I felt the ooint of a knife come through and strike my neck. I did not flinch; I could feel the blood trickle down my back; I could feel the knife carefully drawn down until it hit the ground. Still whistling, I waited, *my heart thumping, my blood on fire—waited a minute to give whoever cut the tent time to escape. Then, quieting my heart and nerves for an” instant, I gathered myself and turned backward through the opening. Instantly jumping to my feet, I vaulted into the saddle that was on the back of a white horse that stood there, and, in the midst of veils, of rifle shots, of a pack of howling dogs, we rushed out of the camp. It seemed to me as though a thousand horsemen were in pursuit of me instantly. We galloped up the river to a bend I had seen. Dashing in, we forded it under a fire that made the water boil around us, and were out of water and on the level land to the north of the river before any of the Sioux were half way across. Striking the trail to the Bozeman Pass, I took it, and, knowing it, pushed boldly on, and, though hotly pursued, my horse outlasted theirs, and I escaped. I never drew rein until I dismounted to the wast of the Pass. The

girl saved me. With any other home I should have been recaptured and burned. I hare not got the girt The lore I hare for her the mare has instead. I returned to my post, and made no trade in the Yellowstone that year. “Again. Last winter the snow was on the ground in January, and lor three days I had been hunting dr running antelope. The sun was very bright and my eyes hurt me. I saw specks floating about. Little chains with small links were constantly before me. My eyes burned smartly when I returned to the agency* Daily while hunting I had seen the low black clouds in the north that indicate the formation or marshaling of the winds of the frozen north. Daily the south wind swept them beyond the northern horizon; but the next morning found them looming portentously in the northern sky. On my return to the agency I found a runner had just got in from Belly River, in British America, with important news for me. It was necessary that I should go up at once. I started the next morning. My eyes hurt dreadfully.

“I always go to the Belly River when the snow is ou the ground, by the way of the Sweet Grass Hills, and there I camp one night. One side of the hills is always bare of snow, and there is a spring of good water on the northern side of the central hill. A strong south wind was blowing when I started, but by noon I saw the clouds to the north suddenly rise up. I knew that the marshaling of the north winds was completed! and they were eager for the assault on the soft south wind. On came the black cloud. The south wind still blew fiercely, but it could not stem the assault from the arctic region. Birds flew south before the storm, antelope and deer were running for shelter. I had reached my camping ground, and stood looking far off to the north, seeing the landmarks disappear one by one as the head of the ‘ blizzard ’ reached them and shrouded them in its icy breath. A calm. Then, with a mighty rush and a loud noise, the head of the ‘ blizzard ’ swept past me. The air was filled with particles of ice that cut through almost horizontally, and seemed as if thev would never fall. Colder, even colder, grew the wind, and denser the air as the ice particles thickened. I sought shelter in the rooks. Buckling the clothing on the mare I turned her loose, knowing that she would not leave me. Then I lay down on my blankets, and, wrapping my beaver cloak around me, I tried to sleep. I began thinking, and could not sleep. The buffalo had not come south that winter; and the wolves were gaunt and hungry. As they follow a horseman over the plains in the summer, so they do in the winter, only more of them—and those great, gaunt famine-breeders, the gray and black ones, go in largely increased numbers. I had had a pack of them at my heels all day, and now they cropped up in my thoughts. “Finally I slept. When I awoke it was dark. Holding up my naked hand, I felt the icy sweat of the * blizzard’ strike sharply against it. The roar of the wind still continued. I could not go to sleep again, and I lay waiting for dawn. I waited, it seemed to me, for hours, when I suddenly felt my mare paw my breast. I spoke kindly to her, saying she hail made a mistake. Soon she pawed me again, and I arose to find that all was dark, that I could'not see the white mare. Alarmed, I struck a match under my cloak and looked down to see the blaze. I saw nothing, but the match burned my fingers. With a desolating despondency I realized the fact that the glare of the snow encountered for the past few days had made me snow-blind; that I that I was fifty miles from the nearest honse, and unable to see; that a furious storm was raging. “Stupid, almost wild with horror, I thought I could hear the snuffing of the wolves, and the soft patter of their feet below the wild shriek of the arctic winds. I was simply benumbed with terror. With my eyesight in full power I should have thought the situation dangerous. As it was, I considered it hopeless. The mare recalled me to myself by rubbing her cold muzzle against my face. She saw, that something was wrong with me; but what she could not comprehend. I resolved to saddle her, to feed her, and, after she ate, to mount and let her take her own course. So I fed her the remaining measure of barley and waited for her to eat. Then I saddled up, and, without bridling, mounted, and wrapping my cloak around «me sat steadily in the saddle, awaiting the fnsky action of the highstrung animaL She stood trembling until I told her to go. Then I felt her turn until the ice drops struck obliquely on my right side and back, and she rapidly walked off. Not a motion or movement did she make to discompose my seat.. Wrapped in my cloak, with hood drawn over my face, warm and encouraged with hope, I patiently sat the horse. I could now hear the snarling of the wolves, and my only fear was that they, rendered desperate by hunger, might attack the mare. I dismissed the thought, would not think of it. If they did attack us, we were lost; if they did not, I thought we were safe. All day the ‘ blizzard’ raged and tore icily around and on us. The mare walked rapidly or cantered slowly on. It appeared to me that we had been traveling for days, for weeks, even, when the mare stopped and neighed loudly. Reaching forward I felt the rough stockade. Dismounting, I felt the hinges of the gate. Loudly I called. Then I took my rifle from the saddle and rapidly I handled cartridges into it. At last a sleepy voice from the inside called, ‘ Who is there?’ I answered ‘ Burr—and I am dead snow-blind. Come to me.’ They came, and I was saved—saved for the second time by the white mare. Do you wonder that I, not having the Sioux maiden, love her mere?” 1 sat by the bright fire with my feet high on a stool, and did not answer—simply sat and smoked, and thought of the girl, of the man, of the mare. Leaving me thinking, Bure went to sleep in his chair with a softened face.— Frank WUkeson , in N. Y. Sun.

FACTS AND FIGURES.

The Leadville Herald feels safe in predicting that from January, 1880, to January, 1881, there will be shipped from Leadville alone $50,000,000 worth of bullion. The quantity of coal raised in Germany in 1878 was 89,429,308 tons, and in 1877 it was 30,428,774 tons. In 1878 the quantity of lignites raised was 10,471,117 tons, as compared with 10,644,927 tons in 1877. A fact worth remembering in connection with sealskin is that after it has been exposed to rain or snow it should be first well shaken and then hung up to dry in a room where there is no artificial heat. If dried by a fire or furnace heat the fur becomes matted together and defaced. —Miss Corson. With regard to the degree of temperature at which men can work in tunneling high mountains, Professor Dubois Raymond says that it is possible that work can be carried on for a short time at sixty degrees centigrade if the atmosphere is dry, but not beyond forty degrees when the air is saturated with moisture. Up to noon on December 29th there were during 1879 in New York 28,821 deaths, 25,428 births and 8,402 marriages. Consumption carried off 8,954 victims. The Registrar of Vital Statistics says contagious and zymotic dis-

mam have been the moat fruitful canaaa of death during the year. Consumption is really the moat formidable disease that prevails in New York as re garde fatality. The improved drainage caused some reduction in the mortadity fron the disease. Pneumonia and bronchitis also contributed largely to the mortality. The disease of measles has recently become more prevalent than usual, and seems to be of a malignant type. The mortality has been more prevalent in tenements than in any other olass of dwellings; from small-pox there hare been more deaths than usual. The health of the city has not been better than in 1878, which was an exceptional year, but New Yorkers have had comparative immunity from contagious diseases of a malignant "Tuk following interesting table has been prepared at the Agricultural Department from estimated and reported crop returns for the season just closed: 1878. Product, VSml Wheat, bu 420,128,400 833ft.345.424 Com, bu.... 1488418,750 44UJH,406 Oats, bu. iiaamjoo M>],otMao Rye, bu .... 25.842,780 13482428 Barley, bu 42.246,50 24,483415 Buckwheat, bu 12.14ft.KJ0 ft,454,120 Cotton, bales 5418.009 . 1*1,864,041 Tobacco, Ibe .. 8924*8,700 22,187,428 Hay, tons w.oOftJss 285448,788 Potatoes, bu..... ..... 121,128,050 78,068,125 Total 81,488470400 1870. Prr diet. Value. Wheat, bu 448,755,000 24HH.00840 Com, bu 1444400,000 5*>.250,C00 Oats, bu 804458,000 120,865400 Rye, bu 28,648400 16,608,000 Barley, bu 40,184400 23,825400 Buckwheat, bu 18,146, fiso 7,800,488 Cotton, bales 6.020487 231,000400 Tobacco, lbs 884.06d.ft60 21415401 Hay, tons 85,848,000 325.851,280 Potatoes, bu 181400,000 78,971400 Total 81,904,480450 The statistician of the Agricultural Department is gathering material upon which to base a careful estimate of the total increase in certain other values during the year just closed. This will include the increased value of real estate and of mining property. He expresses the opinion, based upon material already gathered, that it will not fall below 91.000,000,000.

The Maine Legislature.

The following is the Associated Press account of the first and second days* Sroceedings in the Maine Legislature, anuary 7 and 6: The largest crowd that ever made Its way to the State House began to move thitherward as early as eight o’clock this morning. The police at the Capitol were without badges, and had no appearance of bearing arms. Thero was a perfect jam In the corridors and halls and stairways, and It was with great difficulty that those allowed to enter the Legislative nails pushed their way thither. There were very many vacant seats In the House, as the Republicans carried out their programme and kept away, a few only movingabout In the rear of the halL There was no disturbance whatever. IN THIS HOUSE. At a quarter to nine the Assistant Clerk of the House, W. E. Gibbs, called the roll for the selection of seats. The Republicans did not respond to their names; neither did the Fusionists who have been reported as non-afilll-attng. Mr. Hale claimed that certain elected members of the House from cities wore not on the roll, and moved that they be included. He supported his motion In a long speech. Great excitement prevailed during Mr. Hale's remarks, and uproarious applause followed. Objections were made to the motion from the other side, and Mr. Hale was ruled out of order by the Assistant Clerk, who refused to put the motion, on which the Republicans withdrew from participating In the proceedings. A message was then sent to the Governor and Council, stating that a quorum of the members of the House was present, ready to be qualified. After the notification to the Governor that a quorum was present, the Governor appeared and qualified the members. He then announced that seventy-six members, being a quorum, had taken and subscribed the necessary oaths, and were regularly and duly constituted the House of KeDresentatives. Tbs' announcement was received* with wild apDlause from the outside. Governor Garcelon said he now put into their hands the opinion of the Supreme Court, as well as the petitions of gentlemen from certain cities claiming seats, and Invoked their careful consideration of the same. Three cheers were given for Governor Garcelon, followed by prolonged hisses. The quorum Is made of seventy-five Fusionlsts and one Republican—Eugene Hale. The Fuslonists not participating are Sprout, of Veazie; Voter, of Farmington, and Snow, of Skowbcgan. The House proceeded to organize by the election of John C. Talbot as Speaker by a vote of 72—no quorum. Mr. Hale objected. Overruled, and Mr. Talbot was conducted to the chair. Three cheers were given for Mr. Hale. W. E. Gibbs was chosen Clerk by a vote of 74. Mr. Hale again raised the point that no quorum voted, but was again overruled. The Republicans ol&im fraud in counting a quorum, and that names were signed to the list of persons not present. H. Carlton Cheevor was chosen Assistant Secretary by a vote of 88. Again was the point raised that no quorum voted, and again was it overruled. The question of notifying tho Senate of organization was debated, Mr. Hale taking the ground that there bad been no legal organization of the House and no other bony oould be Informed thereof. Overruled. The protest of members from five cities was presented-by Mr. Hale, who proceeded to address the House in an Impressive and telling speech, urging that the people of Maine are waiting with most intense anxiety for a settlement of these cases. The only way to allay the great excitement prevailing is to admit these members, who are dearly elected according to the expressed decision of the Supreme Court. This course will alone propitiate the people of Maine. He moved that the House go Into Committee of the Wholo and consider the cases. This Legislature ought not to take a single step until even-handed justice Is done. The House refused to go Into Committee of the Whole, five voting In tho affirmative, nnd the matter was referred to the Committee on Elections, when such committee Is appointed. Tho Farmington and other cases were also referred. Mr. Dickey remarked that the Supreme Court had nothing to do with the action of the Legislature, which drew forth a plea from Hale, defending the Court and asking that Constitutional barriers be not swept away. He said that the election of officers and the 'laws passed by this body as now constituted would not be legal. At three p. m. the House adjourned. IN THE SENATE. At ten o’clock the Senators-elect were called to order by Samuel M. Lane, Secretary of the last Senate. Prayer wifeeffered by Rev. Samuel Upjohn. The roll was called, and all the members, responded to their names. £•419 Locke, of Cumberland, at once ■raCTed the hour and read a protest from the Republican members against the Senate proceedings. The Secretary refused to entertain the motion,' and a message was sent to the Governor and Council informing them that the mem-bers-elect were present for the purpose of being qualified. The Governor and Council appeared and the oaths were administered. Senator Locke then renewed his motion, but the Secretary would not entertain it. The election of the President of the Senate then began, the Republicans refusing to serve on committees or participate In the election of the officers. The Senate elected James D. Lamson President. « A protest was put in by the Republican members that the election was not by the legally-elected members. ■ SECOND DAT. __ Both branches assembled at ten o’clock. There was no comparison between the crowd and that of yesterday. Immediately on the opening of the Senate, Senator Hobson, of Lincoln, offered the following: “ Ordered, That a joint select committee of three on the part of the Senate, with such as the House may appoint, be appointed by the Chair to investigate the charges of bribery and Intimidation alleged to have been attempted on members of the Legislature since they received their certificates, with power to send for persons and papers; and that the oommittee be instructed to commence its investigation to-day on the adjournment of this session, and report as soon Rif may be.” This order was opposed by Senators Locke, Harris, Berry and other Republicans, on the ground that there was not even a street rumor for the charge of bribery on the part of the Senate. If so, they would gladly appoint it. If members of the House had been bribed or intimidated, then the Investigation !>h< >uld begin there. The order was passed. On the opening of the House, the Speaker invoked good order, and intimated that the scenes enacted yesterday by outsiders would not be repeated. He had scarcely finished speaking when the doors were opened and the windows thrown up, and the Impatient crowd rushed in. After the people entered, quiet was again restored, but at one time trouble seemed imminent. The records of yesterday were read, and showed the fact that not more than seventytwo votes were thrown for any candidate voted for. Mr. Hale announced the presenoe of sixty certified members, being the Republicans who Withdrew yesterday, who were ready to be They were conducted to the Coun®J} Chamber, but Acting-Governor Lamson defined to qualify them at present, as he did know the extent of his powers In thst direction, but should inform himself. The House then quWtly adjourned.

—The correspondent who asks if there was ever a four-dollar greenback is answered in the negative. Yet we once heard a man sine •• The tv Green.”— Exchange. K

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

To cub* chilblains, cat two white turnips, without paring, into thin slices; pot the slices into a tin cop with three large spoonfuls of best lard; let it simmer slowly for two boon, then m—l. through a sieve; when cold, spread it on a soft linen doth and apply to the chilblain at night. — Exchange. A good way to keep cut flowers fresh is to lay them in weh cloths. Take them oat of the vases arnight, sprinkle with cold water, and then wrap them in doths made very wet with cold water. The weight of the doth will not crash the most delicate flowers, while it keeps out the air and prevents their falling to pieces or opening farther Exchange. Cork-soled boots, while admirable for walking purposes, do not make for children suitable shoes to wear to school, where the child must sit with them on all day. They heat the feet unduly, rendering the wearer liable to take cold on going into a lower temperature. For school putyoees a good walking shoe with double sole, to be worn with rubber overshoes in rainy weather, is preferred by many persons. The overshoes should be removed immediately on entering the house.— N. Y. Post.

Cusubk Havaneko. One paper corn starch, three tablespoonfuls butter, three eggs well beaten, three tablespoonfuls fine sugar. Mix the butter and sugar; add the well-beaten eggs; then by degrees add the oom starch, turning with a wooden spoon until you need the hand work, or knead it until you can roll it without breaking; make some long rolls the size of lady-fingers; flatten with a knife-blade; cut any size you like, say about a finger and a half long, and mark with cross line and with the back of knife. Put in a tin baking pan in a moderate oven, as for bread. If you like you can put flavoring in the paste.— N. Y. Times. A humane man has invented an improved mode of confining cows without stanchions or stalls. He uses small posts. 4x6 inches, set up where the stanchions would be, 3 feet 2 inches from center to center. On the inside of these posts, 14 inches above the floor, a f staple, 12 inches long, is driven into each post. A \ inch cable chain, stretching from staple to staple, with a ring on each end, slides up and down on the staples, with a ring in the middle into which the cow is to be fastened. A leather strap 1} inches wide, with a strong breast-strap slipped on, is placed around the cow’s neck and riveted on with three small copper rivets. The cow is brought between the two posts and the snap fastened to the ring in the middle of the chain, which holds the cow in the center between the two posts, but the slack of the chain and the chain slipping back and forth upon the neck enables the cow to move forward and backward, to turn her head, and she may lick or scratch herself from shoulder to rump. And when she lies down, it may be in the natural position with her head upon her shoulder. The cow carries the strap upon her neck, and it is not as much work to fasten her as with a rope. —Kansas City Times.

Beef should be of a bright red color, well streaked with yellowish fat, and surrounded witbr a thick outside layer of fat. Good mutton is bright red,with plenty of hard, white fat. Veal and pork should be of a bright flesh color, with an abundance of hard, white, semitransparent fat. Lamb of the best kind has delicate, rosy meat, and white, almost transparent fat. Fresh poultry may be known by its full, bright eyes, pliable feet and moist skin; the best is plump, fat and nearly white. The feet and neck of a chicken fit for broiling are large in proportion to its size; the tip of the breast-bone is soft and easily bent between the fingers. Fish, when fresh, have firm flesh, Dright, clear eyes, rigid fins and ruddy gills. Lobsters and crabs must be bright in color and lively in movement. Roots and tubers must be plump, even-sized, with fresh, unshriveled skins, and are good from ripening time until they begin to sprout, All green vegetables should be very crisp, fresh and juicy, and are best just before flowering. Never use skewers, as they cause the meat juices to escape. Never touch lettuce with a knife, as it impairs the flavor and destroys the crispness of the leaf; always tear it apart with the fingers.-—Mss Corson.

Disagreeable but Necessary Work.

The bulk of the hog crop of the country is sold on foot to drovers and shippers to be slaughtered at the immense packing establishments near all large cities, although experiment has repeatedly proven that in many, if not all, localities the farmer realizes more profit by marketing the cured product. This fact is accounted for largely in two reasons. One is, growers need the money represented in the year’s hog crop, and prefer to realize on it at tne earliest possible time rather than wait for the process of curing. Ignorance in regard to slaughtering, curing and preserving the pork, with poor facilities for this branch of business, constitutes the other reason.

On nearly every farm at least as many hogs are butchered annually as are needed for home consumption; it would therefore pay each farmer to provide himself with suitable scalding vessels, gambrels, scaffolds, sharp knives, etc., and acquaint himself with the operations of butchering, packing and curing, so that this most onerous dut\ shall De made as light as possible to all concerned, with a desirable product gained. A good scalding vessel for farm use, ana commended by Cobum in his manual bn “Swine Husbandry,” is a heavy box, six or seven feet long, thirty inches wide at the bottom and twenty to twenty-four inches deep, with sides somewhat flaring. This is provided with a sheet-iron bottom, well supported on the under side, and should be set over a stone or brick foundation, in which there is a chamber for making sufficient fire to readily heat the water, and by which it can be kept hot for the required length of time. At its rear end should be a pipe or chimney, and the sides may be Danced up with earth. On the bottom of the vat must be laid wooden strips on a slatted frame to prevent the hog from coming in direct contact with the iron bottom. When this or a similar vessel is not practicable, a box sunk into the ground or a hogshead partly let into the ground and slightly inclined will answer, though difficulty is experienced with such arrangements in keeping the water at the right temperature. A stout pole or rau scaffold sloping up from the scalding vessel ’to a height of three feet will facilitate both cleaning of the carcass and lifting it. Hogs should be forced to fast for twelve hours before slaughtering to assist the process of “ridding” the lard. A very cold temperature is not desirable, but it should be low enough to secure a freeze at night, with prospect for several days of clear weather. A cold northwest wind with clear sky indicates suitable weather, but an east wind, no matter how cold, implies an .unsettled condition, with prospect of moist atmosphere. A mean daily temperature of forty degrees is considered favorable by experienced butchers for curing pork. After the hog has been secured for sticking it should be turned square on its back, with the head held firmly so that the striker will be sure to sever its main arteries without allowing the knife to penetrate or injure either shoulder. Coburn does not consider it desirable to pierce the-heart, but prefers to let the animal die from loss of blood, which it will do in the space

of about five minutes, ft properly stuck the blood will immediately leap from the gash in a stream. A mode largely employed is making an incision across the neck, just in front of the breast-bone, and inserting the knife directly into the heart, and then turning the victim loose to bleed and die. Knocking on the head with an axe is objectionable on the soore that it makes the brain braised and bloody, and thus injures a product esteemed by many persons. Only so many hogs should be killed at one time as can be scalded before the blood becomes cold and clotted. When these are scalded, cleaned and hung up, another lot may be butchered, and so on until the entire number are dispatched. In scalding the animal is immersed for a few seconds, and then by means of a rope or other contrivance raised out of the water to allow the air to strike it thoroughly, and then immersed again. When the hair readily leaves the skin, especially on the head, legs and feet, the hog should be removed from the water at onoe and speedily stripped of its hair. Sharp knives should follow, scraping every part from the head towards the tail, the way the hair grows; the reverse motion of the knife will cut the skin when warm and soft. The authority already quoted advises when this is done that the hind legs be freely cut into below the gambrel joint to reach both main corns, under which the gambrel should be entered. It is also recommended that the gambrel be of strong wood—hickory or oak is best—and from 24 to 30 inches long, according to the size of the hog; it ought also to be notched on the upper side of each end to prevent the legs from slipping off. Posts or forks should be so set that a strong pole resting on them will be'in part over the platform about six feet from the ground, and on this the hogs can be hung and slipped along towards either end o9t of the way after they have been thoroughly scraped and washed down with warm water. Opening the hog should be done by some one familiar with such work, and inexperienced hands are advised to receive tneir first lesson from an expert rather than from written instructions. As fast as the entrails can be rid of the lard they should be removed, the mouth propped open and all blood carefully washed out with cold water from mouth, neck, and interior of the carcass. The next, and an all important point, is to allow the carcass, well spread on the gambrel, to hang until relieved of animal heat. It must be thoroughly cold in all its parts to insure successful curing.— N. Y. World.

Fresh Eggs During Winter.

The people of the United States will Surchase forty-five million eggs every ay during the cold weather, if they can obtain them fresh. It is therefore desirable to know how to obtain new and fresh eggs during the winter. Give hens warm and comfortable sunny quarters, plenty of suitable food, and the means of keeping themselves free from parasites and diseases, and they will furnish a bountiful supply of eggs. Hens one, two and three years old will lay annually from one hundred to one hundred and thirty-five eggs. Before and after this age not so many. Poultry raisers differ about the food best suited to hens. Com is better to fatten than to produce eggs. Finelyground oats, scalded, about the consistence of mush, are highly commended as a staple article of food. Frequent feedings of buckwheat and barley, unground, are valuable. Hens should also have free access to some succulent vegetable, such as cabbage, turnips, squashes, pumpkins, and the. like, scraps of food from the table, especially bread, potatoes and fresh meat. At least once a week hens should have a good feeding of liver, well-boiled, chopped, and sprinkled freely with cayenne pepper or common warm peppers chopped fine. Burnt bones and oyster shells, well-pounded, lime and sand mortar, should also be constantly within their reach. They should have constant access to large boxes of woodashes and air-slacked lime, and always a plentiful supply of pure water. Hens are very much like human beings as to their food —they are the most licalthy and perform the most labor on a good variety of nourishing, stimulating food: Feed them regularly, treat them kindly, protect them from cold and storms, give them plenty of air, sunlight and exercise when the weather is fine, collect the eggs every day, and they will be found among the most profitable animals about the farm-house or the barn.— Drover's Journal.

Don’t Do It.

Don’t cuff a fighting man’s boy. Wellbred men are kind to children. Don’t spend all your time in reading novels. Rowing and croquet should not be neglected. Don’t let your wife split wood. She will be snre to dull the ax. Don’t sleep through the morning service. Your minister will bear watching. Don’t try to see yourself as others see you. It may destroy your faith in human wisdom. Don’t respect a man simply because he has money. Captain Kidd Was wealthy. Don’t covet an editor’s pen. Many of them are only ten by twelve, with low ceiling and no place for a bay window. Don’t imagine that you can settle the financial question. Men who-have devoted their entire time to the subject find it difficult, even, to settle with the bar-keeper. —Kokomo ( Ind .) Tribune. —Joaquin Miller has lived nearly fifty yea rs.—N. Y. Herald. And yet they call Americans hot-tempered and impulsive.—Boston Post. ,

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