Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1892 — Page 5

FARMS AND FARMERS.

Saving Manure—Covered Barnjnr.t. I note in a recent issue Mr, Geo. Jackson’s report of his failure with a covered barnyard, writes G. W. Farlee in the Country Gentleman. It seems to me that manure preserved under shelter requires a good deal of attention to avoid Gre-fang-ing. In fact. I very much doubt the economy of t®is method of treating barnyard manure. I much prefer the plan of getting the manure on the field where it is to be used as it accumulates. I use the bulk of my manure on corn ground, and it is cartel and spr< al during the winter as it is made. The weather or soft condition of the ground occasionally interferes with the eartlng, but we rarely have more than two weeks’ uccummulation in the yard. If it freezes before we can get it out, we continue its removal, and if it is lumpy, break up the lumps in the field after a thaw. I need my barnyard in the winter for simbath9 for my cattle on warm, sunny, days; besides, if I postponed carting the manure a field until spring, I. am sure that I would be lute with my spring crops. As it is, with the spring manuring accomplished in the winter, I have to keep pushing my men to get my spring crops in in season. *** spring seeding and planting done as early as the season will allow,so os to have ample time for cultivation before - haying and harvesting come on. Many a crop of eorn suffers for lack of cultivation during haying and harvesting which wo feel must not be neglected. The ordinary rottfon with us is corn on sod followed by oats and theu wheat or rye, and I am satisfied if you practice this rotation, the crop on which to use the manure is corn. If artificial fertilizers have proved of benefit in the neighborhood, I should like to use a little on the wheat or ryo as well for the grain as for the grass seeded with it. If I were going to use it on wheat,l should pile it in winter, when the men are comparatively idle, with a layer of earth or muck four to six inches deep every two feet in depth of the pile. I have rarely seen a farm on which there was not a wet spot or patch of meadow land that would be improved by an open ditch. Opening or making the' ditch would give you the material necessary for preserving all the strenght of the manure, and in fact adding to its value. I would, if you have it, use the earth or muck more freely than I have indicated. In this connection let me say that . very few hired men—or farmers for that matter—know how to make an open ditch properly. The sides should be sloping, otherwise the frost will cause the sides to crumble and fill up the ditch. The best plan for a ditcn three feet deep is to have it four feet wide on the top, and a foot or fifteen inches on the bottom. With an open ditch three and a half feet deep and one or two short underdrains. I have lowered the water level of a medow fully 18 inches, and reclaimed and made good medow of a patch that grew nothing but bog grass. Doe* it Par to Raise Horses f This question was asked me a few days since. After answering it in the affirmative I thought the matter over carefully, and here are the results :

1. I am working a farm of 140 acres, and need three horses to do everything conveniently. 2. It does not need any more coital to have two of the threo horses brood mares. 3. Judiciously managed, I need not lose a week’s work of eithor of them on the farm In the year because of their foaling a colt. 4. It does not require any extra help on the farm to care for the colts as it does with an increased number of cows. Now, as to how I managed the breeding, etc. I have two mares at the present time—one foaled her colt the Ist of May, the other will foal hers about the Ist of September. In this way I have one of them in shape for heavy work in the spring, and the colt weaned from the other ready for the fall plowing and other heavy work. There is often a mistake made in thinking that to breed good horses the mares must not bo worked. My own experience proves this, as I have tried both methods. ' When io sell ? I have always sold when somebody wanted to buy badly enough to pay mv price, whether it ' be for fbiir mouths, a year, or whatever age it might be when the customor comes. It has always been my plan to ask for & colt just what 1 would be willing to give for it were 4 wanting to buy, and up to the age of two or three or four years nothing short of that price would buy. This matter of selling Is where many make a mistake and really make the breeding of horses un unprofitable business Another thing—when I find that I am using a sire that makes a good cros3 with a dam I am perfectly satisfied to keep on raising that hind of a horse. Another great mistake is nearly always made-that of breeding worn out, unsound and many times vicious mares. Don't nse such as these, but have young,sound, gontlc, well trained mares, and your colts will then Inherit only good qualities, and will moke a class of horses that will never go begging a customer. Brother farmers, don’t be afraid to breed horses; there will always be a demand, and no horse sells better than a good horse. Just think of it! Now York city alouo loses by death about fourteen thousand horses annually, and as many more get lame and disabled. Add to this the losses In other cities and the country, and what would the number be? Does it pay? I soy yes, and emphatically, too.—Country Gentleman. Thinning: Minna Fruit*. ! Improved methods of doing business, in all kinds of husbandry, are being adopted every day. The writer in youth, used the sickle, then the mowing machino, then the reaper, then the reaper and raker. Now my ncigbors sits on his reaper and bluder sad turns the standiug grain out in bound bundles. The ti.osi notieo-

er in our successful peach belt, Op* ana county, told me one of bis peach trees commenced to bear at three; when six years old it bore so many peaches it died. He said with much emphasis that he was well satisfied with that tree, it had paid for itsolf over and over again. Now we do not let our trees bear themselves to death, we thin them. By thinning we mean, pick off the green peaches when quite small. If you have a small orchard, pick them off, especially if they do not hang very full. If a large orchard, it is a slow process. If heavily loaded trim the tree tolerably severe, especially when the twigs stand close together, cut soifao of them out; if some limbs are stretching out ahead of the rest cut them back, and the limb that hangs directly over another limb full of .fruit. Instead of picking, them off use a pair of shears; in tbiUwway they can be cut off very fast. After you have thinned as high Up into the tree as you can reach, drive a light wagon under the tree and stand mor on that. This should be done two or three times; in fact you should go through your orchard, to every tree, as ofteu as once every two weeks, not only to thin them, but to trim, bolt, grub them, etc. They should not be nearer than four inches, in some cases five inches is bet|er. Thin them thoroughly this year, and next year you will thin them still more. Have had ten years' experience and have 5,000 fruit trees planted in the village.—Coleman’s Rural World. “ —' Growing Hemp. At the present time, says the Farmers Review, not only ,is the hemp industry centralized in a single .State, but it is concentrated in a very small group of counties, four of them producing 59,48 per cent, and six others 31,94 per cent of the total hemp crop of the country. There is therefore but 8.58 per cent of the entire crop raised in the remaining 24 hemp producing counties of the eight hemp producing States, and yet the time was when the State of Missouri from which a total of 31 tons is now reported, produced over 67 per cent, more hemp than is now produced in the whole of the United States. The highest State average is that of New York, 1,192 pounds, and lowest that of Ohio, 678 pounds. Of individual counties, the highest average yield per acre is that of Meroer county. Kentucky, 1,264 pounds,and the lowest that of Saline county, Missouri 480 pounds. The county having absolutely the largest production is Fayette county, Kentucky with a yield of 2,773 tons, or 24.09 per cent of the total amount reported from tbo eight hemp producing States.

The Prospect. Wo may be satisfied that as mutton has become such a prominent factor in the food of the American people, that sheep husbandry will be largely increased, and that a good demand will be found for breeding stock, so tiiat fanners having surplus ewes will find ready customers at fair living prices. The prospect is encouraging for this great industry. The consumption of fat lambs and good young mutton is immense, and the demand is sura to keapupwith the supply for some time to come. * ® Sheep Sheering. Sheep with overgrown hoofs never do os well as they might. Country wool buyers do not al' ways buy wool on its merits. Shropshires are not only%apltal nurses, but they are very prilfic. A flock of well cared for scrubs is E referable to the same number of alf-starved thoroughbreds.

Never have the troughs so low that the sheep can get their feet into them or they will waste feed, i Do not place too much dependence on either wool or mutton alone, but rather a combination of the two. If tho best profit is realized, not only the wool, but the mutton and the lamb must contribute their part. Poorly kept sheep will not make the owner rich or do much towards building up the fertility of the soil. The pian who thinks of how is the best jfian of having an easy time of it has as a rule no business attempting to handle sheep. ... In any locality where the land is broken to be cultivated to good advantage sheep can nearly always be mode profitable. "With care in breeding the ewe lambs should keep the number good so that the wethers can be readdy marketed when properly matured. Have an ideal sheep and then breed to it and follow up until you can see the result of your labor, and then you can determine whother you arc right or wrong. Whenever it is considered necessn ry to feed grain to sheep the better plan is to commence with a small umount at first and gradually increase.

Horn* Hints. Good Housekeeping. A towel wet at one end and pinned around tho neck will cure sore throat. □Scratches and bruises may be removed from furniture by using the kernel of a walnut or butternut. To make the eyebrows grow better rub common salt into them every night before going to bed. Clean white sheepskin rugs by scrubbing them withoostilo soap and water, drying thoroughly in the sun. Headache, toothache, backache, or most any other ache will be relieved by heating the feet thoroughly with the shoes on. Pino may be mode to look like Borne beautiful wood by giviug repeated coats of hot linseed oil and rubbing hard after each coat. Many a man, aud perhaps more womeu, would have been saved from iusanitjr if they had resolutely obtained sufficient sleep. I’or a disagreeable breath, put a few drops of tincture of myrrh in a tumbler of water and thoroughly riots the mouth with it. A whits cashmere or chudda may bo nicely and easily oleaaed at home by using soap bark, which may be £ >; - i Hit f 1/ ... v 'ST!!. . . mi

FLOODS ALONG THE AMAZON.

Features ‘of tbe Annual Del age In the Vnlley of the Great River. San Francisco Cronicle, The worst inundations ofLouisana and eastern Arkansas are but spring freshets compared with the monster floods that visit the Amazon Valley every year with-a regularity equaled only by astronomical events and tax collections. Tho rainfall of northern Brazil is about three times that of the webfootiest counties of Oregon, and in midsummer the thunder showers that drench the woods every afternoon resembfe a . dally clouaburst. On the Northern Pacific no other word would be applied to an atmospherio waterfall, darkening the air like a London winter fog for hours together, and swamping a house, if the roof should leak, through an aperture of a few square inches. Rains of that sort are apt to occur day after day for a series of weeks, and their effect on the lowlands can be only imperfectly indicated by the fact that the Ama.on drains an area of more than 2,000,000 square miles. The Mississippi, too, drains half the slope of a country larger than Brazil but its largest affluents are dwarfed by the third class tributaries of the South America father of waters. Not such flowing lakes as the Rio us, the Yavari, the Qurua, the Hiu go, the Papajos, and dozens of other streams rarely mentioned on this side of the isthmus, enter the main river through a delta miles in width and deep enough for the largest river steamer of the St. Lawrence. About tbe middle of summer these streams begin to rise, those from southwest first, those from the northwest and north a few weeks later, and a fortnight after the arrival of the second supplement the valley of the Maranon, the “wild hog river, - ’ as the early colonists called the Amazon, becomes a paradise of swamp-loving brutes. The tapis,

the peccari, the fish otter celebrate the picnic season of their summer life, and herds of wild deer-begin their western exodus. Near Monte Beira, in the province, (now ‘State’) of Matto Grosso, the woods in midsummer getfullof game, as a hundred years ago the foothills of the Southern Alleghenies swarmed with wild pigeons when the forests of the north were burled in the snow. A more than usually sudden rise of the flood cuts off many of these fugitives, who are thus reduced to the alternative of making for the highest accessible ground, further east, till every knoli becotpes a hill of refuge, crowded with timid brutes whose survival depends on their escape from the giant cats and boas who may approach their stronghold by swimming, if the water should have submerged too large a portion of the continuous forest. About two months after the boginning of the rainy season the del uge of the lowlands reacheß its maximum. Thousands of square miles are submerged so effectually that canoes eau be paddled through forests apparently free from underbrush since only the taller trees, with their network of climbing vines, rise Juke islands above the surging waters. The swolen rivers have found new currents, and broad, gurgling streams twist and eddy through the leafy wilderness, tearing off wliole groups of trees with all their roots, but making amends by depositing hUlocJjferof driftwood, which soon get covered with tufts of new vegetation. The pressure of the surging flood against theso mounds of alluvium soon becomes enormous, but the deep rooted stems of the adansonia and the canoho tree may resist till new deposits of driftwood consolidate a number of mounds, thus forming good-sized islands with a down stream base of perhaps half a mile, but a narrow head deflecting the current left and right, like the wedge-sbaped frent of a; stout bridge pier. At the time of their incipiency these new islands may be tenanted oriTrby rtvertlzards, but necessity is tue mother of successful explora tion, as well as invention, and a week after its birth the driftwood hill swarms with animal refugees, hogs, deer and capybaris, jostling each other in their struggle for a base of opertions, thus often getting noisy enough to attract the prowling carnivora.

The climbing talent of the great cats saves them the trouble of emigration. The jaguar and the ocelot become entirely arboreal, traveling like monkeys from branch to branch, and making themselves at home in the tree tops; so much so, indeed, that some of them go to housekeeping and raise a litter of cubs in the cavitv of a hollow tree.

Their larder is replenished by all sorts of pheasants and woodnens, who make their headquarters in the underbrush, but who are now obliged to take up lodging on the lower branches of the submerges trees. By climbing around tliestem and rising suddenly into view and ocelot can scare a roost of gallinaceous fowl out of their wits and strike down two or three of the clumsy youngsters before tho whole flock contrives to take wing. A swimming deer la these submerged angel woods has no chance at all against the pursuit of an enemy that can leap from branch to branch or climb along the viaduct-like cables of the great liana vines, and a jaugar would not begin to regret a phenomenal deluge till the waters had closed over the tops of the tallest palms. Tho Brazilian antbear survives the rainy season in a peculiar way of its own. His favorite hunting grounds, the big ant hills of the underbrush, are soaking under twenty feet of water, and tho tree ants hug the nooks of their dens during theseason of constant showers. In spite of his big claws their enemy is not prepared to rip big trees in quest of his food, bud his proficiency in climbing cannot compare with -that of the great cats, but his talent for long fasts is unravelled even In this era or Tanner freaks. One drink per week will do him for a period of ten or. twelve weeks, during which he husbands bis vital resources oU the principle of minimum expenditure. With his bushy tail coiled about his nook he dozes away the rainy day nnder the roof of a fallen tree, while u *rz‘-■*&.’**“ v ' - Vt-t-

his physical torpor jg not apt to bej offset by an excess of meata! activity. Pet dealers often warn their customers against the blunder of mistaking that lethargy for a symptom - of disease, and An experienced menagerie keeper oneeioUi itnautbak ho would nojt waste a cent on stimulating, drags tilt the patient should consider ten days too long a time between drinks. It has been asserted that the antbear's forelegs are powerful enough to hug a panther to death, but it is probable that a jaguar could break his head at tho first blow, and at all events the tyrant of the Brazilian forests must find it much harder to cope with the agility of the tree climbing monkeys. .In daytime they elude his pursuit so easily that they will finish a good meal of wild grapes before deigning to notice his approach, and in the exuberance of his confidence the ring-tailed Capauchin monkey will often turn on the wouldbe murderer and follow him for hours with jeers and whoops of defiance. At night the owl eyes of the cat are, however, apt to turn the scales and the horrible uproars of the moonlit forests can in nine cases out of ten be traced to the panic of a monkey swarm waked out of their best sleep by tbe screech of a dying reISE, tive and yelling with might and main in hopes of confusing, if not The only compensation of these midnight horrors is the circumstance -that during the rainy season a mon key can drink anywhere and is not obliged to approach the prohibition districts of the river shore, where the eyes of the lurking cat shine with a forbidding gleara and where a thirsty visitor is apt to “see snakes" in a most realistic sense of the word..

QUEER OLD CUSTOMS.

Sluggard-Wakera and Dog-Whlp-pors in Church, It will be news to the readers of the Free Press that there was once a time, a long timutoo, extending over several centuries, when there was a salaried official in church to waken sleeping members of the eongrega tion expel dogs from' the sa cred edifice. These individuals are alluded to in the records as aluggard-wakors and dog-whippers, and the fees paid them were very liberal, their annual salary beifig a mere pittance. . The custom, which was frequent In England, was also practiced in America more than two centuries ago. The Rev. Dr. Samuel Whiting, a minister of Lynn, Mass., was provided with a sluggard-waker, one Allen Bridges, who brushed the faces of those inelined to sleep with a fov’s tail fastened to a long staff, like-wise a sharp thorn wherewith he may be most sound. A certain Mr. Tompkins, being thus admonished, sprung up with a good deal of force and to the Wonder of all did, so says the record of the day, ‘ ‘prophainlie” exclaim in a loud vcico, “Buss the woodchuck and seized and bit iiis hand. “And I think,” continues the chronicler, “he will not sooneagaine go to sleep in meeting. The women may sometimes sleep and none know it by reason of their enormous bonnets.”

Women as well as men served in this capacity. Betty Finch, of Warrington, occupied this position at Holy Trinity Church in ltiifij a comparatively recent period. She walked majestically up and down the aisle during the service armed with a long stick,like a flashing rod, with a “bob” on the end of it. With this she angled for sleepers. The term “bobbers” was used for this service and Betty’s son, one of the family of officials, used to recite for the amusement of the tavern goers: mv father's a dark, -» sister'* a. singer, My mother* a -boblww." —*—-t Ana r am a ringer. ’ The dog-whipper was to bo found in every county in England, and is still at his work in the churches in some remote places. Indeed there is a church in Wales where “lazy tongs” with spikes in ibe ends are still used to drag the uuconsecrated animals out of the sacred edilice. The. dog-whipper at Brav in Berkshire Was provided with a ‘:ierkin” to indicate his official position, at cost of six shillings and four peucc. the item paid to Richard Turner for whipping the “doggies” out of a church at Morton, in Derbyshire, in 1622 was one shilling. It is believed that the well-known sexton of Peterborough, Old Scarlett was one of the first dpg-whippers in the country. His portrait ou the wall of the cathedral depicts him with a whip in his belt. Ho died in 15UJ. In some churches tho dog-whipper was only alowed to drive out truant dogs, the dogs of the gentry being furnished with a pew where they were admonished to keep ordor. In Nortborpe Church, which was a depeedeuey of Northorpe Hall, there was a Hall-pew for the Northorpe canines who were of bluer blood than the collies of the shepherd, and were more highly accommodated as wall as being safe from the<taws of the dog-whTpper.

Bile of an Ancient City. A ichtKon Globe. The remains of an ancient town can be Seen on the Col. Brown place, a mile west of Atchison. Tho city covered the space of at least three acres and was inhabited by a race much tnoro intelligent than the Indian of the present time, as pieces of broken ppttery, containing figures, can be picked up in many places on the old site. The pottery resembles that which was made by tho Maba race, of New Mexico. The site of the ancient city Is on a level tract of land which Is considerably higher than the other ground in the vicinity. Atchison roar oe on the site of the oldest city in the United States.

A Fish Story.

C ao l Newr, Papa—Did you,catch any fish? Little Bon—Only one, but It was a big ope. «... _ Very big? Oh, awful big. Did It get away? , No, but it 'most broke the pole pullin’ it out. swr- 1 *". ,

zOLLICOFFER'S DEATH.

How the Hebei Leader Wm Shot by the lots General Frye. PMUfieTphi* Telegraph. The event which first made the dame of General Speed S. Frye famous was’the killing of Brig.*-Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer, of the confederate army at the battle of Mill Springs. Jan. 15, 1862. A member of General Frye's staff once wrote the following account of the tragedy: ~ '*’* ■ •‘lt was a gray, foggy morning, and as the battle began about daylight the woods were soon filled with smoke, which, added to theTdehla fog, caused much confusion to the troop 9on both sides. About 8 o'clock General Frye was sitting on his horse in a narrow country road some distance in advance of his troops. Suddenly General Zolllcoffer at the bead of bis staff dashed up. fie thought he was still in the confederate lines, and supposing Frye was a confederate ordered him to stop the firing on his men, as they were firing on their own troops. Zollicoffer wore a white rubber coat, and Frye, believing him to be a federal officer, turned to obey. As he did so young Bailie Peyton, son of the Tennessee Representative and famous turfman, who was one of Zollicoffer’s aids, saw his mistake and fired his pistol at Frye, the ballet going through his horse’s neck. Frye, too, then realized his mistake, and turning his horse quickly rode full tilt at Zollicoffer, both sides firing as he approached. When within a few feet, General Frye took deliberate aim at his foe, and sent a bullet through his breasts Zollicoffer fell from bis horse and died in a short time. Hearing the firing, Frye’s men came to his aid, and in the fight young Peytqp, who fired the first shot, was killed and the confederates routed. Frye’s action was considered one of the nervies personal feats performed during the war »

FLASHES OF FUN.

- ~ 3 Fair Soprano (having finished tier trial) —Do you think my voice will fill the half? Grim Manager—l fear rt would have just the opposite effect. —Boston Courier. *• Why don’t you eat your crack-' era, Jack ?” “I don't like crackers.” “ Why, you ate three a little while ago. ’ 7 “ Yes, but that was between meals. I like everything then.— Harper's Young People. He—“ I have decided to ask your father’s consent by letter, Pauline. Now, what sort of a letter would you advise me to make ? She —I think, Horace, that I would make It anonymous letter. “Here is the ring,” he cried, “now wfll you bo From this time forth engiged to marry mes" "Wait till pap* can see it, said the elf, "I'm not a judge of diamonds myself." He threw his arms around h?r neck, And strained her tb his breast, —— And there they stuck, for he had oaught !,„• His Whiskers in her vest —Clothier and Furnisher, I were to try to kiss you what #suld you do? She—Scream. He—D?> you mean it? Sho (impressively)—lndeed I do, so you had better wait until we are out of hearing of the hotel. “Thore’s one thing I don’t understand,” said Little Harry; “that’s why good tasting things like pie make me sick, while bad tasting things like medicine make me well. It ought to be the other way.”—Harper’s Young People. There were many supremes in the Iron Hall, but of the greatest supreme of all, to wit,the supreme gall the officers of the (dis)order have little to say. It is amply able, however, to speak for itselr. Mrs. Terwilliger—They are advertising building lots at fifty cents a week. Do you think they are intended for women investors? TerwilUger—No, my dear. If they were you’d see them marked at forty-nine cents., Penelope—l don’t like to see you dangling around with mere boys all the time. What do you find that’s so interesting in that smooth-faced youpg Faris? Perdlta—Why, Pea, his face isn't so smooth as It looks. Henry—T meant to call on you last evening, Mary, but reallv, I —I —fact is, I don’t know what to offer as an excuse. Mary —Oh, don't feel annoyed, Henry. Any excuse you care to offer will be amply sufficient. Wanted to See Him. —Clara—l got a note from a drummer the other day who said be would give the world to kiss me, Maude —What did you reply? Clara —I told him to call on me with a full line of samples.

A Stcry Without a Moral.

St Louin Globi-Democrat. ‘‘During tho lute unpleasantness stories were rife about the lives of young soldiers being saved by a mother's Bible worn over the heart," said Don Bellamy, the only surviving private of the lost cause. “Perhaps the stories were all true; I don’t know. But Ido know that a pack of greasy playing oards once kept me from going hence with a Yankee lead mine located in my anatomy. 7 j “It was during the tirst day’s fighting at Shiloh. 1 bud succeeded iu winning every cent my messmates bad at the little game of drawpoker, and had filod the pasteboards away in my inside breast pocket for future usefulness. Wo were crowding Grant's columns back to the river, and they were fighting with that uglv sullenness characteristic of a bulldog that knows he’s whipped, but won’t surrender, when I was lifted off my feels thrown a dozen yards, and landed with my head in a clump of bushes. I thought sure that a aix-pouud shot hud gone through me, and lay there wondering why the dickens l didn’t die. In a few 1 minutes 1 felt better and proceeded to investigate. There was a ragged holo In my coat and vest, but none in my hide. The bullet had bored into the pack of cards and stopped against the knave of spades. I wrote u|T the story two or three years ago and sent it to a religious weekly, but it was declined with thanks. I was once called upon to address a Sunday school. I told how I had been miraculously preserved, and now when I meet the superintendent we maintain aa uproarious alienee aa we pass by." t

WITHOUT A SOUL.

Our Glorious Government as a Debtor l» a Scoundrel. J The United States of America as a debtor is the most unconscionable scoundrel on the earth, write* Col. Van Horn, the veteran editor of fee Kansas City Journal, fa a Washington letter. A claim against the government is like an ancient case in chancery, —and much of the importunity of congressmen is from people, poor, in distress, want and poverty, to whom the government has honestly been in debt for a generation. 1 would like to see a president and a congress elected oh the direct issue of paying the honest debts of the nation. Then, how to pay, instead of how not to pay, would become for once the publio policy. I know men in congress who have made a national reputation as economic statesmen, because of their long and pertinacious objecting to the payment of money, hi whose shoes f would not stand in the heteafter for all the honors ever heaped upon them or their kind since the nation was founded—norwould I sleep with the conscience they ought to have for all the honors a generation of kindreds souls could bestow. And nine times in ten this affected zeal for the publio treasury, that sends scores and hundreds to suicide, crime or paupers’ graves, is the merest studied demagogism. I know there are fradulent claims before congress and it goes with proverbial unanimity that they are mom apt to be paid than the hodestonds 4rfov they ean- be prosecuted on contingent fees, while honest debts cannot afford to pay—but even these pretexts ought not to be regarded so as to control the policy of congress. If the people of the United States could for a moment see and realize the terrible wrongs perpetrated by the men they send to congress, they would Vote money enough to pay the claims etc masse, rather than see and know the suffering, the wrong and the in'amous cruelty perpetrated against legitimate creditors of the government I know on® ease of a man who'was an inmate of tho house I make my home here, who litorally starved to death a little more than a year ago, ah accomplished man, a scholar and n gentleman, to whom the government owed an adjudicated claim of $70,000, money advanced on its own authority out of his own pocket because he could not get congress to appropriate the money to pay it And this ease, infamous as it was, is only a sample of scores and hundreds of others. I have said that as a debtor tho United States is the most infamous scoundrel on earth—and don’t such a case as this, as far as it goes, sustain tho allegation? WILL NOT LEAVE) LOUISIANA.

Wbat f*resident Conrad Has to Say About the Big Lottery. New Orleans, Aug. 26. President Paul Cdnrad, of the Louisiana Lottory Company, was interviewed to-day about the dispatch regarding tho company's attempt to purchase a location in the Sandwich Islands. He said: It is a ‘fake’ sensation pure simple, or a malicious concoction, designed, perhaps, to prejudice the company in the minds of the people of the United States by creating the impression that our business is to be removed bythe legal restrictions and accountability it is now under by the virtue of the laws of Louisiana, Wego the Louisiana State Lottery Company to become a Hawaiian instead of a'Louisiana concern, of course it would be practically an impossibility to enforce claims against; whorCas, being a duly chartered corporation of this State, it Is amendable to the Laws. Obligations can be enforced through the courts against it the sames as against any lawful and responsible company. ’ “But what are the company’s plans for the future? Might not their negotiations be carried on without your koowlege?" “Scarcely such vast sums as talked of are not carried in one vest pocket nor expended by one member of a concern without consulting his associates. The owners of the Louisiana Lottery are now scattered over the globe seeking peace or pleasure, according to their condition or taste. Mr Morns, With friends, have been for weeks cruising about on his yaet, and I doubt if any one has communicated on business of any description. Certainly.he is not giving himself any concern about lotttery business, and I repeat there is simply nothing in the alleged San Francisco story except idle gossip, so far aa I know and I think I know all the facte. The Louisiana Lottery Company will live out its allotted time as fixed by its vested rights, say a couple of years longer, doing its business hers as it always has, and abiding by the popular decision in the recent contest.’’— 27 th.

The Leader of the House.

It la Interesting to watch the development of a loader of the dominant party, says a Washington letter. At the opening of aongress, before the committees are announced, there in nothing especial for him to do, but there is this by which be can be recognized: When the time comes he thinks proper for such a motion he silences the damor of the rest of the house with bills and resolutions “to be referred*’ by rising in his place and calling in a clear voice: "Mr. Speaker." The Speaker then turns from all others and recognizes the leader. "Mr. Speaker," the leader says. “I move that when the house adjourns It be to meet on Monday next" His party at once vote for this motion, or nobody •ays either yen or nay, and the speaker declares the motion carried. The leader .then prooeeds to move an adjournment out before he has got that motion well out some member asks him to let a certain resolution gq in for reference. This he Is apt to consent to, and then the house adjourns on his motion. The man who moves tha adjournments, the reoeeeae and seta the time to whloh they shall adjourn Is the leader always.

A New Wrinkle.

Paint from potatoes is a wow wrinkle in the arte and setenoea Kuhlow's Trade Review gives the manner of preparation. 801 l a kilo of Kled potatoes in watsr; after mashdllute with water and pass through a fine sieve. , Add two kilos of Spanish white diluted with four kilos of water, and the result will be a beautiful milkwhite. Different colors can be effected

HISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

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Major Stofah is a fat and frolic- .. some bachelor, who still loves to linger in the dangerous light of youth and beauty. Not long ago he was lingering about half-past ll o’clock when the young woman’s father returned from down town. “Ah, Mr, Wilkins,” observed the Major effjn sively, “you get in late." “Weif” said Wilkins ungraciously, “I can’t, get in quite as late as you get out," aqd he went on up stair leaving the Major with a bad tasts in his mouth. —Detroit Free Press. Borne Australian hlacks who were imported for show purposes and are detained at San Francieco, are wonderfully clever with the boomerang. One of their most interesting performances is the throwing of the boomerang so as to describe tbeflgure 8. One line crosses the other aa quick as a flash, ana the boomerang, K°T having proare faster than that of a firing fishS and it strikes at the end of Its journey with tremendous force. The Baldah Indians, of British Columbia, gamble with stleks of spruce wood, about five inches in length, carved or stained with totemic devices. The game is played by any number of persons. A “dealer” sits on the ground, with a pile of shredded cedar bark in front of him. and with much ceremony draws out the sticks, one by one, without looking at them, and passes them to the players in turn, who sits in front of him. Each devices counts a certain number, and the winning Is by high or low, or difinite or specific amounts.' small New Yorker, but nourished in I a free-thinking family she has absorbed the agnostio theories of her elders; has decided opinions of her own—in short, is an out-and-out small atheist. For some time past she has been much interested fa ill little recent acquaint from the child. Being pressed for explanation she at last gave it “Well, I’ll toll you why. I just^can so hSl°”—New York Sim" The latest novelty in the dramatic line is a play in which cannibals are to be a feature, when produced at? ; Vienna. Its author is Mr. West*! mark, who has lived In Africa, an# his play, “Among the Anthropophagi, is an attempt to put on the stage something approximetlng what he has seen in Africa. Stanley and Deßraza are among the characters, and if they are true to life they will certainly have a quarrel before the plav ends. The action commences in Brussels wish.Jhe departure of explorers bound for the Congo. There are scenes at Leopoldville and Other stations, but the crowning event is a battle with cannibals.

THE CHINA CLOSET.

Chess was Invented in China. Silk was first made in China. Gunpowder came from China/ . Fans were first used in China. The compass came from China, j nese. **^3gPiira»' by the Chinese. We get the art of making poro«4g lain from China. India iuk Is Chinese; so are vett| mllion and Indigo. China’s foreign trade aggregaMU lost year 1250,000,000, 4 Chinese control almost th shoemaking business In CftllfofiUft, The malleable propeMLw of goffM 1 _ n„, k/ Wji r i ifftrSlffl were first dUcovaw* / ***** , / fef?-* :