Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1888 — Page 2

$Hc gltpublican. On. B. M aw»hall, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - INDIAN*

Ocrexchangee are still puzzeld over the number of boy preachers, and evangelists, and converted drunkards. The latter class jt.Baid not to be as popular its it was, bill bov preachers are' on the increase. One paper bluntly says: Ihe business pays. We have known several dead ducks in business, not to mention a few consummate rascals, who have done well at it. Most of the ‘boys’ are from 30 to t>o years old. They were hove once, td be sure.” This is a rough way of putting it. But while there are some nqble exceptions, it is, probably about the truth in general terms. What we need is business honesty and common, honesty and less gabble 'about pur sins in Adam, and the consequences a thousand years from now. We arc 1 suffering for a deluge of every-day religion over the counter and in the count ingroom.

It is a curious illustration of monarchical institutions that the German condemnation of Dr. Mackenzie is based largely on the fact that lie held free intercourse with the press. It is considered as highly odious and indiscreet, as well as demeaning to hisdignity. Whatever takes place, and whatever opinions are held about the Court circles,%nay be guessed at by the press, but no one of rank must speak to a reporter, even to correct an erroneous rumor. It is cveh said that “the press considered that Sir Morell Mackenzie showed weakness and condescension in communicating with its representatives.” Bah! All this belongs to the cowardly old tumble-down system of mediaevalisoi, that was safe only in the dark. The press condescends when it gives space to the ricketv concerns of kings and queens.

We owe the Boston Transcript the interesting report of an experiment made by a Paris philanthropist to determine how large a proportion of beggars are really desirous of working, if they can get work, and how many are professional mendicants. This gentleman first secured good openings for a large number of laborers. Then he assembled as man}’ as 737 of the “unemployed" aud offered them work at remunerative prices. About one-half went to work for a day, or half a day, and then clamored for pay and quit. At the end of three days, exactly, eighteen men proved by their attention to business that they were genuine. The experiment should systematically be tried in this country. It is probable that of our tramps, anarchists, street orators, professional ranters, and other disaffected and troublous sorts, the proportion would remain IS to 736 of honest laborers. Will Mayor Roche see of what stuff the Chicago anarchists are made?

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

New Albany claims 23,680. Greenfield votes for water works. i There is scarlet fever at Huntington. Flower thieves infest Michigan City. Burglars are burglarizing Shelbyville. A savings bank is talked- of for Anderson. The towns of the State are full of tramps. Terre Haute faro banks are running, wide open. Idaville young ladies have organized a brass band,' The Crawfordsville Y. M. C. A. has 237 mem here. Wabash is assured that it will have gas for winter use. Bartholomew county has.a big apple crop this year. The Pendleton window glass company has been incorporated. *_ The Texas fever has broken out among the cattle west of Brazil. Warren Jones fell through a hatchway at Wabash, and was fatally injured. Farmers around Portland are suceumong in largenumbers to organ swindlers. Crawfordsville working girls are accused of "rushing the growl&r” too frequently. -• Cutler cizens elevated their saloon with powder, Sunday night,* totally destroying the building. - The child of William Alford, who live6.hear GonnersvUie, was bitten by a pet cat, and shows symptoms of hydrophobia: It is said that the 654 sections embraced in Allen county are divided up into from 7,000 to 8,000 parcels of the size of ten acres and upward. Private Wm. Hoynes, a professor of law at Notre Dame University, has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the thirteenth district.

Some one entered Sheriff Bence’s bed room at Corydon on Saturday night, secured ,the keys to the jail and liberated John Dillard who was confined on a charge of larceny. , .... Miami county will have one of the largest com crops ever known. A magnificent appearance is presented by tl e fields, the stalks in many cases rising to a hight of fourteen feet The Republican State Central Committee has a list of nearly 2,000 local speakers, ayeraging twenty to a county, who will deliver occasional addresses after the Ist of next month. The State House Commissioners announce that the Capitol building is absolutely completed and they are ready o turn it over to the State, which they

will do as soon as the Legislature meets. Michigan City people waste a good deal of money on lotteries, and the fact that a peddler jin that place drew $5,000 a few days ago encourages further investment . It is said that $20,000 in lottery money has gone froip Michigan City in six months. John M. Cassadav has brought suit in the Huntington Circuit Court against the Chicago A Atlantic railway, claiming $20,000 damages for the loss of a legwhile in the employ of the company as brakeman. The company will, it is understood, allege carlessness on the part of the plaintiff. The patent roller flour mill of the Ellsworth Milling Company, near Terre Haute, burned Thursday. The building was entirely consumed, the new machinery destroyed, and 10,000 bushels of wheat and 10,000 barrels of flour burned. ' The loss is placed at $50,000, with $25,000 insurance. Salamonic No. 3, a powerful gas and oil well, has broke loose two miles east of Montpelier, and the farmers within a half mile radius of the well are panicstricken. No fires have been lighted at their homes since the well broke loose, and it is unsafe to strike a match within half a mile of the well. The fields and outstanding crops are saturated with oil over the entire section. Patents have been granted to the following Indiana inventors: Solomon Draper, Sullivan, cultivator, Harmon H. Fulton and W. F. Cornelius, assignors to Da L. Whittier r Indianapolis, liquid mixer; James Miller, South Bend, hose coupling; James W. Park and W. E. Sanders, Sullivan, gate; Chas. M. Keed, near Connersville, and \V. C, Frazee near Clermont, spring motor for pumps; Jolm G. Shaffer, Clay City, post dor veranda railings.

The wheat in Wabash county is practically all threshed and nearly every bushel has been marketed. It is stated by elevator men that the total receipts of wheat which will grade No. 2 red will not exceed 10,000 bushels, while the receipts of all grades are not more . than one-third those of last year. Millers there are having some trouble in procuring enough to run on and farmers have already began importing wheat from the North and West for seed. Corn is in magnificent# condition, and is out of danger so far as weather influences, excepting frost, are concerned. .The exercises of the Maumee Valley Association, held near the site of old Fort Wayne, last week, was very interesting. In his address, ex-President Hayes paid a glowing tribute to the late Chief Justice Waite, who \yas president of the association. Chancellor J. F. Long read on exhaustive review of the early settlement of the valley. Judge Cox, of Cincinnati, delivered an interesting address, aqil General Lee, of Toledo, read the annual report. The guests were welcomed to the State by Judge Zollars, of the Supreme, Bench, speaking for Governor Gray, and to the city by Mayor Mulder. Hon. F. T. Randall, of Fort Wayne, was elected President and Colonel E. S. Robertson Vice President for the ensuing year.

The Grand Lodge of Indiana Knights and Ladies of Honor, convened at Indianapolis last week. The officers, reports show the order to be in the most prosperous condition of its history. The membership during the past year has-grownJrom. 2,tiM ta 3,21>5 _ and the lodges from 40 to 52._ This is one of the largest beneficial organizations in existence. In the ten years since its organization it has grown to a membership of 00,000, distributed oyer nearly all the States! in the Inion. An average of SBOO,OOO per year is paid in benefits, requiri ng an income of above 82,000 per day. The average cost to members is sl2 per year to the SI,OOO of insurance guaranteed, though this varies greatly* according to the age of the person payin £- ■} *

A remarkable and accidental discovery of natural gas was made at Petersburg last week. The Fair Association had ordered a well to be dug at the grounds for water, and when the diggers had reached a depth of 100 feet they were startled by a sudden, sizzing, steam-escaping sound. Becoming alarmed, they hastened out of the well and informed the managers. Having a suspicion of the true cause, they threw a lighted match into the well, when the gas ignited 'arid shot up a flame ten feel above the surface. It continued to burn, and reports from the locality state that it is still burning with increased intensity. This evidence of natural gas so close to the surface is almost ineomprehensiole, and it is said to be the first instance of the kind vet discovered.

On the first day of September a party of thirty-one young men will leave Indiana for Washington Territory, where they will form a stock company for the purpose of carrying on a stock ranch. A peculiar feature of their agreement is that no member of the firm can draw his moneys out of the general fund during the first five years after the date of organization. Any one leaving the business Will forfeit his investment of; SSOO, which is the sum put in by each member. The young men will do their own herding, branding and dealing, and will thus be enabled to avoid the expense of employing a large number of cowboys. It is a noteworthy fact that every one of the party is politically a Democrat Those interested in the move live mainly in the vicinity of Richmond.

TROUBLE ON BOTH SIDES.

ONE TROUBLE AT A TIME MAY BE CONQUREp. ■- But When Tb&y Cl me from AllgiiUt It U (imply Awful—The Only Ktfuge and Comf i t Are by Way of the Crusi. » Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Subject: “Trouble on Both Sides;” and his text: “There was a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rook on the other side.” —I. Samuel* 4. My friends, you have been, or are now some of you, in this crisis of the text. If a man meets one trouble lie can go through"with it. He gathers all his energies/concentrates them upon one point,and in the strength of God, or by his own natural determination, goes through it. But the man who has trouble to the right of him and trouble to the left of him is to be Did either trouble come alone he might endure it; but two troubles, two disasters, two overshadowing misfortunes, are Bozez and Seneh. God pity him! In this crisis of the text is that man whose fortune and health fail him at the same time. Nine-tenths of all our merchants' capsize in business before they come to forty-five years of age. There is some collision in commercial circles, and they stop payment. It seems as if every man must put his name on the back of a note before he learns what a fool a man is who risks all his own property on the prospect that some man will tell the truth. It seems as if a. man must have a large amount of unsalable goods on his own shelf before he learns how much Easier it is.to buy than to sell. It seems as if even- man must be completely burned out before he learns the. importance . of always keeping fully insured. It seems as if every man must be wrecked in a financial tempest before he learns to keep things snug in case of a sudden enroclvdon. When the calamity does come, it is awful. The man goes home in despair, and he tells his family: “ We’ll have to go to the poor house.” He takes a dolorous view of everything. It seems as if he never could rise. But a'little- time passes, and he says: “Why, I am not so badly off after all; I have mV family left.”

Before the Lord turned Adam out of Paradise, He gave him Eve, so that when he lost Paradise he could stand it. Permit one who has read but a few novels in-all his life, and who has not a great deal of romance in his composition, to say, that if, when a man’s fortunes fail he has a good wile—agood Christian wife -he ought not to be-despondent, “Oh!” you say. “that only increases the embarrassment, since you have her also to take care of.” You are an ingrate, for the woman as often supports the man as the man supports the woman. The man may bring all The dollars, hut the woman generally brings the courage and the faith in God. Well, this man of whom I am speaking looks around, and die finds his family is left, and he rallies, and the light comes to his eyes, and the smile to his face, anil the courage to his heart. In two years he is quite over it. He makes his financial calamity the chapter in a new era of prosperity. He met that new trouble—conquered it. He sat down for a little while under the grim shadow of the rock Bozez; yet he soon rose and began, like Jonathan, to climb. But how often it is that physical ailment comes with financial embarrassment. When the fortune failed it broke the man’s spirit. His nerves were shattered. His brain was stunned. I can show you hundreds of men in New York whose fortune and health failed at the same time. They came prematurely to the staff. Their hand trembled “ with incipient paralvsis. They never say a well day since the hour they called their creditors together for a compromise. If such men are impatient, and peculiar, and irritable, excuse them. They had . two troubles; either one of which they could have met successfully. If, when the health went, the fortune had been retained, it would not have been so bad. The man could have bought the very best medical advice, and he could have had the very best attendance, and long lines of carriages would have stopped at the front door to inquire as to his welfare. But poverty on the, one side and Sickness on the other are Bozez and Seneh! and they interlock their shadow's and drop them upon the poor man’s way. God help him! “There is a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side.”

Now, whffTls such a man to do? In thejiame of Almighty God, I will tell him w hat to do. Do as Jonathan did—climb; climb up into the sunlight of God’s favor and consolation. I can go through the churches and show you men who lost fortune and health at the same time, and yet who siug all day and dream of heaven all flight. If you have any idea that sound digestion, and steady nerves, and dear eyesight, and good bearing, and plenty of friends are necessary to make a man luppy, you have miscalculated. I suppose that these overhanging rocks only made Jonathan scramble the harder and the faster to I get up and out into the sunlight; and 1 hjs combined shadow of invalidism and financial embarrassment has often, sent

a man up the quicker into the sunlight of God’s favor aud the noonday of His glorious promises. It is a difficult thing for a man to feel his dependence upon God when.he has SIO,OOO in the bank anil $50.000 in Government securities and a block of stores aud three ships. “Well,” the mart says to himself, “it is silly for me to pray,' ‘Give me this day my*daily bread,’ when my pantry is full and the canals from the West are crowded with breadstuff's destined for mv store houses.” Oh! my friends, if the combined misfortunes and disasters of life have made you climb up into the arms of a sympathetic and compassionate God, through all eternity you wi'l bless Him that in this world “there was a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side.” Again, that tuan is in the crisis of the text who has home troubles and outside persecution at the same time. The world treats a man Well just as long as it pays to treat him well. As long as it can manufacture success out of his bone, and brain, and muscle, it favors him. The"world fattens the horse it wants to drive. But let a man see it his duty to cross the track of the world, then every bush is fall of thorns and tusks thrust at him. They will belittle him. They will caricature him. * They will call his generosity self-aggrandizement, and his piety sanctimoniousness. The very worst persecution will some time come upon him from those who profess "to be Christians.

e ’« • • > • Now, a certain amount of persecution rouses a man’s defiance, stira his blood for magnificent battle, and makes him fifty times more a man than he would have been without the persecution. A certain amount of persecution is a tonie and inspiration, but too much of and too long continued becomes the rock Bozez, throwing a dark shadow' over a man’s life. What is he to do then? Go borne,von say. Good, advice, that.. That is just the place for a man to go when the world abuses him.* Go hpme."... Blessed be Got! for our quiet anil sympathetic homes. «But there is many a man who has the reputation of having a home when he has none. Through unthinkingness or precipitation there are many matches made that ought never to have been made. An officiating priest can not alone unite A couple. The Lord Almighty must proclaim banns. There is many a hofne in which there is no sympathy, and no happiness, and no good cheer. The clamors of the battle may not have been heard outside, but God knows, notwithstanding all the playing of the “Wedding March,” and all the odor of the orange blossoms, and the benediction of the officiating pastor, there has been no matriage. Sometimes men have awakened to find on one side of them the rOck of persecution, and on the other side the rock of domestic infelicity. What shall Such an one do? Do as Jonathan did—climb. Get up on the heights of God’s,consolation from which we may look down in triumph upon outside persecution and home trouble. Again, that woman stands in the, crisis ofllie text who has bereavement and a struggle for a livelihood at the same time. Without mentioning names, I speak from observation. Ah! it is a hard thing for a woman ’to make-an honest living, even when her heart is not troubled and she” has a fair cheek and the magnetism of an exquisite presence. But, now the husband, or the father, is dead. The expenses of the obsequies have absorbed all that w T as left in the savings bank, and, w y an and wasted w ith weeping and watching, she goes forth—a grave, a hearse, a coffin behind her —to contend for her' existence and the existence of her children. When I see such a battle jas that open I shut my eyes to the ghastliness of the aiectaiie. Men sit with embroidered ippers and write heartless essays about women’s wages, but that question is made up of tears and blood, and there is more blood than tears. O, give women free excess to all the realms where she. can get a livelihood, .from the telegraph office to the pulpit. Let men’s wages be cut down before her’s are cut down. Men have iron in their souls and can stand it. Make the way free to her of the broken heart. May God put into my hand the cold, bitter cup of privation, and give me nothing but a widowless hut for shelter for many years, rather than that after I am dead there should go out from my home into the pitiless world a woman’s arm to fight the Gettysburg, the Austerlitz, the Waterloo of life; for blood-. And yet how many women there are seated between the rock of bereavement on the one side, and the rock of destitution on the other. Bozez and Seneh interlocking their shadow and dropping them upon her miserable way. “There is a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the’other side.” What are such to do. Somehow, let them climb up into the bights of the glorious promise: “Leave thy* fatherless children: I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in Me.” Or get up into the heights of that other glorious promise: “The Lord preservetli the stranger and relieveth the widow' andthe fatherless.” O! ye sew'ing women on starving wages. 01 ye w idows turneif out from the once beautiful home. O! ye female teachers, kept on niggardly stipend. O! ye despairing women, seeking in vain for work, wandering along the docks, and thinking to throw yourself into the river last night. O! ye women of weak nerves and aching sides, and short breath and broken heart, you need something more than human, sympathy; you need the sympathy of God. Climb up into his arms. He knows it all, and He loves you more than father or mother or husband ever eouhl or ever did, and, instead of wringing your hands in despair, you had better begin to climb. There are heights of consolation for you, though now “there is a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side.” Again, that man is in the crisis of the text who was a wasted life on the one side anil an illuminated eternity on the other. Though a man may all his life have cultured deliberation and selfpoise, if he gets into that position all his self-possession is gone. There are all the wrong thoughts of his existence, all the wrong deeds, all the wrong words — strata above strata, granitic, ponderous, overshadowing. Thafcvrock I call Bozez. On the other sido-are all the retributions of the future, the thrones of judgment, the eternal ages, angry with his long defiance. That rock I call Seneh. Between these two rocks Lord Byron perished, and Alcibiades perished, and Herod,perished, find ten thousand times ten thousand have perished, - O! man | immortal, man redeemed, man bloodr bought, climb up out 6f those shadows. Climb up by the way of the cross. Have your wasted life forgiven; have your eternal life secured. ‘{This morning just take one look to theipast and see what it has been, and take one look to the future and see what it threatens to be. You can afford to lose your health, you can afford to lose your property, you can afford to lose your reputation; but you cannot afford to lose your soul. That bright, gleaming.glorious, precious, eternal possession you must carry aloft in the day when the earth burns up and the heavens burst, ..

You see from my subject that when a man goes into the safety and peace of the gospel he does not demean himself. There is nothing in religion that leads to meanness or unmanliness. The Gospel of Jesus Christ only asks you to climb as Jonathan did—climb toward God, climb toward heaven, climb into the sunshine of God’s favor. To become a Christian is not to go meanly down; it is to come gloriously up—-up into the communion of saints, up into the the peace that passeth all understanding, up into the companionship of angels. Relives up; he dies up. O! then, accept the wholesale invitation which make this morning to all j the people. Come up from between your invalidism and , financial embarI rassments. Come up from between a | wasted life and an unlimited eternity. Like Jonathan, climb with all your might,Jiristeid of sitting down to wring your hapds in the shadow and in the darkness - “a sharp rock on the one side I and a sharp rock on the other side.”

THE FARM AND HOME.

CrKASS. There is no doubt (observes the Maryland Farmer), but that of all food for the dairy, grass is the and best, taking she cost of production into Recount; but this does hot prove but that even in the times of “flush” feed, a ration of grain, especially to the buttermaking dairyman, is not decidedly unprofitable. There is no question but that growing grass supplies the finest of flavors to’ butter, and gives it good color., lut at the same time there is an element lacking that contributed towards making quality in batter which is supplied by meal. Grain is a part ration, has great value in both promoting and maintaining the milk flow, and giving not only firmness to the butter, but also extra weight. It is not wise to take the grass-fed cow and begin at once to feed her a daily ration of six or eight quarts of hearty grain food, but in thirty days the feeding of grain could safely be increased to a point that the owner might mark as the limit of profitable feeding. Rarely does it fail to be profitable to feed a grain ration to the butter cow, and even when butter is low, for 8 pounds of butter per week on grass alone or 12 with grain, soon tells just how much grain can be profitably fed to cows on grass.

MODERN IMPROVEMENT IN FARMING. Among the many helps to make farming easier in-the last few years, says a farmer in the New' York World, the windmill should not be forgotten. It is one of the greatest boons to the stock raiser that has ever been in use. Where fifty or seventy-five head of cattle are kept—and this is not an unusual number —to water them for one day sufficiently, would require the time and strength of one man at the pump for two hours, and nothing is more fatiguing, whereas with wind power it is easily done. Ten years ago a windmill was quite an unusual sight, now the Western prairies are dotted over with them. Wherever practice has shown their imperfections they have been improved. Some are made so that when the wind is too strong the fans that compose the wheel, close together, so that it must needs go slowly. Some wheels are made so that they turn edgewise to the wind when not pumping, thus being safer from damage. A lever keeps them in gear when the wind would otherwise throw them. out.

The tower, in whose top the large wheel is fixed, must needs be 1 higher than any adjacent tree tops or they will intercept the wind When it is desirable to turn the mill, unless the tower exceeds the gable in height, the wind when in some quarters, will come w'hirling around the building to the risk of damage to the wheel. Many dig the large stock well over which the mill is reared, in front of the barn, and with iron pipes conduct the water underground, after it has been pumped, to the vats in the different yards where the cattle are kept. Tins plan gives the cattle purer water to drink than if the well was sank in the yards. One of the greatest inconveniences attending the use of w'indmills are the ice storms which occasionally occur. The ice adheres to the fans .in the wheel, obstructing the working of it, and nothing can be done to remove it, but wait until it thaws, which is usually hut a few hours. 1 The wheel at intervals needs oiling, and it needs a cool head to mount the ladder, which is always a part of the frame, and oil the works.

' Sometimes a gale will strike the wheel, which is .usually about ten, feet across, with such force that it falls to the ground and is demolished, when it must be replaced by a new one. It is found that the higher 1 the tower on which the wheel rests, the less it is likely to be injured by high winds, as a gale expends its force for mischief nearer the earth thanjg supposed. Windmills wear much faster on account of the wind power which runs them.

NOTES. Plant flowers—plant something for beauty. Plows in the fence corners are a sign of “farm for sale” within ten years. A vegetable crop that is gathered green draws but little fertility from the soil. The fruit-eating population of the whole United States is increasfng more rapidly than the fruit-raising population. ■ Lime, in a fine condition, sprinkled on tbfj vines around them, will greatly “assist in protecting cucumber and squash from bugs. Saltpetre (a teaspoonful dissolved in a quart of water, is also a protection. The warmer the weather the more rapidly lice and all other kind of vermin multiply. At this season it often happens that an animal or bird is apparently sick when it is really suffering from the attacks of vermin. The practical corn raiser says: “My opinion is that the main root or stalk of corn never reaches below where the grain or seed is placed; also that all stocks have three whorls of roots, on the main root, which"are the feelers; again that no roots should be broken by cultivators. Plants renew their ' roots when the tops are cut back to a certain extent. A fruit-grower claims that- even old strawberry plants, if the old leaves are

cut off close to the crown when transplanted, .will renew themselves and rfval the younger plants next season. It takes nerve, says The Farmer, to pull out the stocks from a crowded hill of corn, but' doing it secures a better growth, larger ears, and more bushels of good shelled corn. It takes nerve to pluck one-half of the young fruit from a bearing tree, but in the end it often secures more perfect fruit and more of it.

It requires a large bee pasturage where many bees are kept. It is estimated that in order to produce one pound of honey nearly 4,000,000 visits to flowers must be madefy the bees. Yet, in a favorable season, some colonies will increase the honey in the hive at the rate of from one to two pounds per day. The old farms in Canada that command highest prices are said to he those on which sheep have been kept from the time they were first occupied. The pastures on them are comparatively free from bushes and YVeds, while the soil is firm and produßive of the best sort of grasses. X farm on whieh v a large number of she'Cp have been kept for many years is vepr desirable for dairy purposes. A,-writer in the Mirror and Farmer declares that the farmers are governed to much by acres and, not enough by bushels. They decide to plant so many acres and then make the manure go over it. and it is apt to be pretty thin. The rule shoulcThe to put on all the manure the crop can use, and stop when the manure is gone. There should never be any necessity for killing weeds as they should never be allowed to grow. The frequent use of the harrow and cultivator will destroy them in their early stages, as they are then very tender and cannot stand disturbances of the soil. If allowed to become well rooted, however, a large amount of labor will be required to do what can be done with ease just after the weed seeds germinate. Beside the large daily consumption of fresh milk, a large amount is used by the condensing and canning establishments for use in places and at times where the liquid article cannot he had. This business has assumed large proportion, and the American condensing establishments turn out large quantities of milk condensed to a nearly solid form and canned for exportation as well as home consumption. This form of milk is used by travelers, explorers and armies all over the world, affording thus at once both a necessary article and a luxury. —

wTien to cut timber. 'The best time to cut timber is when the foliage is mature, or in September, before it is injured by frost; the tree is left intact with branches and leaves undisturbed, so that the sap is evaporated completely through the leaves. When the leaves are dried and withered the tree is cut up. The timber is then free from sap. The bark should then be removed and the tree oubup as intended. If logs are made these should be put into water, as a pond, but better in a running stream, until winter, when they are sawed up or split into posts. The lumDer or posts thus made should be piled up loosely to dry, and will season very quickly. Timber so prepared has been found as durable as that which has been treated wdth antiseptic preparations. Fence posts are made very durable by saturing the ground part in slacking Time, by standing them on end in a pit wdth fresh quicklime about them, and then pouring water to slack the lime, The heat drives out air -from the pours of the wood and coagulates the albumen; and cooling the lime solution is forced into the wood and causes it to resist decay. When setting posts the holes should be made large and filled with stones rammed hard, among which air may circulate and assist ip keeping the wood from saturation wdth water and in drying quickly after rain.—New York Times.

Indiana's State Officers.

It is somewhat remarkable, is the ignorance that prevails generally regarding our State officials. • The salary of the Governor is $5,00 ) per year with $2,000 additional for clerk hire and messengers. The Treasurer of State is paid $3,000 a year for caring for the State’s finances. He has two deputies whom he pays $2,250, The Superintendent of Public Instruction and the AttorneyGeneral each receives $2,500 a year salary. Each has two deputies, costing the State $4,300 per year. The Secretary of State is paid $2,000, and he is allowed $3,400 per year for his three deputies. The Auditor of State receives only $1,500 a year, and he pays his three deputies only $4,0 0 a year. The State Librarian receives $1,200 and is allowed $750 for an assistant. The library contains 25,000 volumes and 7,000 pamphlets. The State Geologist draws SI,BOO a year, and his assistant $1,500. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics receives $1,200 a year, and his assistant SI,OOO. The Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture receives $1,500 a year for expenses. The Board of Health receives $5,000 for expenses, 'fhe State House Commissioners receive $5 a day including Sundays, and the Soldiers Mofaument Commissioners receive $4 per day for actual service. There are employed about the Capitol building, also, thirteen janitors, three men on the lawn, two watchmen an engineer, a fireman, and an elevator boy. Altogether the State employes require an expenditure of $219,360 per fear.