Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1894 — Page 6

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A mysterious disease is killing sheep Bear Hope. , ■ • —~ The estimated population of Terre Haute is 40,?5L _£i—__ —j— Hobart will build a $6,090 addition toits school building. Greencastle will have a new $12,000 Christian church. A train load of fruit jars has been sent from Marion to California. Ex-President Harrison arrived at Indianapolis, Saturday afternoon, from California. A saloon will occupy the room recently vacated by the Salvation Army at Valporaiso. A Lincoln League Club has been organized at Muncie with seventy-live charter members. t South Bend Anglo-msniacs will endeavor to popularize the game of cricket there this season. The crazy antics of an ouija board caused a Winamac young lady to tempdrporarily lose her mental balance, last week. Vermillion county does not owe a dollar It is able to pay on demand, and the county tax is but 30 cents on the SIOO valuation. A North Manchester husband has been granted a divorce because his wife, during the past year, struck him with pokers and flatirons. During a friendly fencing bout between two young Hammond men, the other night, one of them had his eye poked out. ad coxoY notes. Edward Workman, of Lebanon, shot his wife and then attempted to kill himself. Tuesday, Both are seriously wounded and can hardly survive. Jealousy. The Democracy of Monticello, nominated a city ticket, and then forgot to serve legal notice with the clerk. If the ticket is voted, it must be by pasters. The boys employed in the Thompson bottle works, at Gas City, who were rereceiving 69 cents a day. struck for 75, and after two days the management capitulated. John H. Scott, pf White River township, Johnson county, has a severe case of varioloid, contracted he knows not how. There is considerable alarm in t.ho neighborhood. A South Bend glutton, who is said to have eaten an eleven-pound roast at one sitting, has made a novel wager that he will suck eleven dozen eggs in thirty-two minutes if his candidate for Mayor is defeated. ... ■ C A number of well-to-do people of Anderson, styling themselves the “Coxey Contingent,” are negotiating for a special train to Washington, leaving Anderson on May 10 and‘‘remaining during the fun.” The train will be first-class.

Albert T. Beck, a well known lawyer of Indianapolis, was found dead in his bed, with a bullet hole in his head, Tuesday morning. There is a mystery about the affair, and it is not known whether it is a case of suicide or murder. An Anderson cat has given birth to four kittens whichjwere all joined together a la Siamese Twins. Two of the kittens have died, but they were separated by the surgeon’s knife from the two others, which are getting along well, and will live. Frank Benadum, proprietor of the saloon in Muncie in which Lawyer Bailey was murdered. Saturday night, made a confession, Monday, that his barkeeper, Michael Gorman, had killed Bailey by hitting him with a pair of brass “knucks.” /A hen belonging to Henry Otto, of Indianapolis, was so badly “rattled”, presumably because of the arrival of Frye’s Commonweal army, on the 26th, that she laid “twin" eggs—one weighing three and three-fourths ounces, the other one-third of an ounce. . A farmer named Tivetts, residing near Alexandria, comes to the front with a double-bodied calf that has eight legs and one head. The bodies are distinct, and are of the opposite sex. It can stand, but cannot walk. The two bodies want to go into opposite directions. The C. W. <fc M. railroad bridge over Lily lake, near Laporte, went down, Sunday, carrying with -it 15) feet of track. Nearly a hundred car loads of pine logs have been put in this sink hole but they served merely to hold up the bridge for a few hours. The hole seems to be bottomless.

Eighty acres of beautiful ground between Clarksville and New Albany, will be donated by the citizens of New Albany provided the Government will establish a military post thereon, A bill has been introduced in Congress looking to the appropriation of $50,000 in aid of the propposition. Sherman Waggoner, of Martin county, who deliberately murdered his young wife, some four months ago. and who took his time leaving his old neighborhood, is still at large. Recently the authorities began making some stir for his arrest, but it is the supposition that he is hiding in Texas. < A mob destroyed the only saloon at Burlington. Thursday night. A crowd of 100 men battered in the front doors, emptied the liquors into the gutter, and burned the furniture in the street. The proprietor, Bert Willis, and his bartender, were held, bound and blindfolded, while the work was done. Judge Brown, of the Marion County Circuit Court, Monday, rendered a decision in the case of A. W. Wishard vs. the clerks, auditors and sheriffs of the State, being a case to list the cohSlitptionality of the apportionment law’'holding that the matter was one within the discretion of the Legislature and therefore constitutional. The boiler at the tile-mill of Houser A Foust, about eight miles east of Huntington,, blew up, Tuesday morning, killing an employe, Arthur Benson, and fatally wounding both proprietirs David Houser anti P. Win. Foust. The boiler-room was completely blown away, and fragments of the debris could be found half a mile distant. f> As a result of the preliminary trial of Frank Benadum, Michael Gorman and William Watson, of Muncie, arrested for • the mtirder of Lemuel Bailey, the magistrate discharged Watson and committed Ren ad pm and Gorman without ball. Benadum and Gorman mutually accuse one another of the crime. Balloy was beaten to death by “knucks." Charles L. Henry, of Anderson, whom the Republicans'of the Seventh Congressional district have nominated for Congress, received a great ovation upon bls return home, the members ol both parties ■ailing in a demonstration his honor.

A similar demonstration marked the return of the Hon. Leander J. Monks to Winchester, in recognition of his nomination by the Republican State conventioi for one of the judges of the Supreme bench. “ The Kelly Axe Works, which is removing its plant from Louisville, Ky., to Alexandria, employed a number of colored men-of Louisville to assist in the-removal. Recently notices were posted by unknown parties, directed to the foreman of the works at Alexandria, warning him that unless the colored men were discharged the factory would be blown up, the colred men would be lynched and the foreman shot. 6Capt. Addison Barrett, who has been ordered to San Francisco, has been in charge of the military store-house at Jeffersonville since IS7). There is but on» ot.her person in the United States occupying the position of military store-keeper, and upon the death of Captain Barren and this man no successors will be named as the office expires with them. Captair Barrett was formerly stationed at San Francisco. He will be succeeded at Jeffersonville by Capt. Frederick Von Schrader, of Schuylkill Barracks, Pa. There was a dramatic scene in thf courtroom at Kokomo, Saturday, when Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, the wealthy German woman, was arraigned to receive a ten-years’ sentence for killing her tenant, Oscar Walton, last October. On hearing the momentous words the woman exciteely jumped to her feet and called down the wrath of the Almighty on her enemies, invoked vengeance on all connected with the trial and predicted an evil fate for them. She left the room shaking her fist at the. court and with curses and imprecations for all her enemies.

FRANK EPPLY.

Of Anderson, the smallest Odd Fellow in Indiana. Patents were issued to residents of Indiana, Tuesday, as follpws: G. C. Ditzler, Uniondale, bag or fodder tic-; D A. Foster, Indianapolis, vehicle running gear; C. Henley, Richmond, lawn mo ver; J. I. Hoke, South Bend, pivoted tooth bar; A. Johnson and W. S. Campbell, West Point, safety switch; A. McKuin andW. Seburn, Indianapolis, pneumatic straw stacker; W. E. Murbarger, Indianapolis, combined shaft support and thill coupling; L.Rastetter, Fort Wayne, spoke attachment for vehicle wheels; J. Schenerecker, Indianapolis, assignor of seven-eighths to W. A. Miles and O. H. Perry, Columbus, 0.. E. E. Perry, Indianapolis, and J. W. Hahn, Toledo, 0., apparatus for manufacturing ice and for refrigerating. Trade marks— H. W. Bond. Fort Wayne, wheat flour.

A GREAT SENSATION.

The Jury Discharged In the Haughey Bank Case, There was a tremendous sensation in the U. S. District Court, at Indianapolis. Wednesday. At the opening of court Judge Baker addressed the jury, before which the trial of the Indianapolis bank wreckers has been proceeding for some time, stating that it had been brought to his attention that a member of the jury had corruptly consented to enter into negotiations with a defendant in the case to hang the jury or procure a verdict of acquittal. The jury was then discharged from further service, except Juror Armstrong, who was placed under arrest. Mr. Armstrong is a resident of Deal, Lawrence county. The affidavit charging him with having made corrupt advances through Frank O. Stannard to Mr. Coffin, was sworn to by Mr. Claypool, one of the defendants’ attorneys. Stannard was also arrested. Both men were arraigned Wednesday afternoon and plead “not guilty." Stannard was admitted to bail, but Judge Bakerat first refused to admit Armstrong to bail, and held him for contempt and conspiracy to corrupt the jury. Later the Judge relented, and Armstrong was released on two bonds—s4,oo3 for conspiracy and $3,000 for contempt.

Mil SPENCER’S SISTER.

Family Appointment* Don’t Go Wlt-b Hoke Smith. Indiana’s new Pensian Agent, on succeeding to tho office, appointed his sister to a clerkship. The patronage of the office had been conceded to Congressman McNagny, but Congressman Cooper put in a claim for. recognition, and urged the appointment of John Duncan, of Morgan county. The appointment of Miss Spencer was brought to the attention of Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith, and was promptly disapproved. The Secretary informed Mr. Spencer that an order had already been issued prohibiting the"" appointment by pension agents and other officers of members of their own families. It is understood that Mr. Duncan will be given the place of Miss Spencer in the office, which she will bo compelldcl. to vacate Aug. 1. Mr. Ensley,, thp retiring agent, had three members of his own family employed in the office—a son and two daughters— who drew salaries aggregating $4,000 per annum-

WANT AN INDIANA SHIP CANAL

Uooaler Society of Civil Engineer* Petition* ConjrtM to till* Effect. The Indiana Society of Civil Engineer; has forwarded the following petition to Congress: “By direction of the Indiana State Society of Engineers the undersigned respectfully petition the Congress of the United States to provide for a preliminary survey for a ship canal to connect Lake Michigan to the Wabash river and to restore such portions of tin Wabash and Erie canal as may be advantageous to continue said ship canal to Lake Erie, and ass to improve the Wabash, Ohio and Mississippi rivers fiir navigation in connection with the canal. “We further petition 1 that a commission of three persons of the United States be apjwiintod by tho President to take general charge of this survey and the Investigations necessary for a full report -m tbe ta Congress.”

THE CAMPAIGN.

Th© Ruinous Character of -!*ropposed Tariff Legislation* Why the President Falters.« Tndianopolta journalThe deficit of the Treasury is going on at the rate of $75,000,000 a year. If the Wilson bill shall become a law —a tariff neither for protection nor revenue, this deficit will continue. If the Senate committee bill, with its sugar duties and withal something of a revenue tariff measure, shall become a law, the deficit of the Treasury will be stopped, in time, but not until a deficit of $75,000,000 or $100,000,000 shall have appeared. This deficit must be met. The first issue of $50,060,000 of bonds will be used to meet a part of it, because the coin notes which Mr. Carlisle redeems with the proceeds of these bonds must be paid out again. That $50,000,000 will not be much more than half the amount needed, and much less than half if the House bill without a duty on sugar shall become law. The issue of bonds is very unpopular with the mass of the Democracy of the South and West, because it is an increase in the debt. • Instead of issuing bonds it would resort to irredeemable treasury notes, which, appearing as money, would not be counted as debt. A proposition to that effect has been made in the House. This element of the Democracy, which controls the. party, is out with the President and Secretary Carlisle because they have already issued $50,000,000 of bonds. They have told the Secretary if the so-called seigniorage could be coined, giving §58,000,000 of silver certificates and dollars, the Secretary would not be compelled to sell bonds to meet currency expenses. Knowing that much more will be needed than the money -derived from the saleof the $50,000,000 of bonds, Mr. Carlisle has, it is said, committed himself to the Bland seigniorage bill. If the bill becomes a law by the President’s signature another $50,000,000 of bonds will not be issued. llf he vetoes it Mr.’.Carlisle will be compelled to issue another $50,000,000 of bonds. To increase the public debt $100,000,000 a year to meet current expenses is an evidence of maladministration which even Mr. Cleveland does not care to furnish. If silver bullion which does not belong to the government can be coined to pay half of the deficit no more bonds will need be sold. True, the government vaults are bursting with silver dollars; and it pays out silver certificates to have them return at once, not being legal tender money’ and redeemable in silver. Most of Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet favor the seigniorage device. Between his gold monometallistic maxims and an escape from putting another load upon the market the President falters. It may be added that if Mr. Cleveland would send word to Congress to drop tariff agitation the revenues would increase at once to a figure that would prevent a deficit.

The McKinley Tariff Not a Principle. Indianapolis Journal. Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, delivered an excellent speech on the tariff question a few days a<ro. Senator Quay is sometimes called the ‘‘Silent Man.” He certainly never talks for the sake of talking, and when he does talk he says something. He is a much abler man than he generally gets credit for. He is a read er and thinker, and few in e n in public, life are better posted oh public life than he. At one pointrm his speech he referred to the common charge that the Republican party was irrevocably committed to the McKinley tariff as the ultimate expression of legislative wisdom and a perfect formula of protection. On this point Senator Quay said: The McKinley bill was not a principle; it was an experimental application of a theory. The exact results of its operations could not safely be predicted, because no one, not even those who were experts in the various schedules it embraced, could understand with absolute precision the exact measure of protection which it would extend to each article catalogued in its hundreds of paragraphs. The. McKinley bill was designed as an exemplification of the Republican idea of what fostering encouragement was-due to American capiital and American labor. As finally placed upon the statute books it was still subject to every modification which its operation in practice might show to be necessary in the equitable interest of the producer of raw material, of the manufacturer and those he employed, and of the national treasury, to which it promised revenue. It is not perfect, nor considered by its authors to be perfect. It was felt and was stated that, as would be the case with any tariff law, its application of the principle of protec tion would develop faults of detail with time and experience. Nothing is more certain than that, even had not the Democratic party succeeded in 1892, a revision of the McKinley law at the hands of the party which enacted it would nevertheless in time be necessary. I am prepared to make this admission freely, and even to carry it so far as to state, speaking for myself, that if the present Congress could devise a reasonable measure, which would permit the continued employment of American labor and capital at living wages and fair profits, even though involving reductions, in some instances perhaps large reductions, from present rates of duties, with the understanding ll »*- was adeteruainatiiMi

of our dispute for a term of years, 1 would not oppose it. This is true. The Republican party should not allow itself to 5? put in the position of maintaining that the McKinley law is absolutely perfect and tod sacred for amendment. Circumstances have made it their line of battle at present, and as an honest expression and application of the doctrine of protection they do well to defend it. But there will be other protective tariffs after the McKinley tariff, and perhaps in some respects better ones. 'As Senator Quay well said, "the McKinley bill was not a principle; it was an experimental application of a theory.” What Republicans are fighting for is the principle of protection, not any particular application of it. If the Wilson bill should not pass it may yet devolve on a Republican Congress to revise and amend the McKinley law. In that case it will will be done on protective lines and in such a way as to benefit instead of destroying American . institutions. No tariff can be framed which will not develop some defects, and in the course of time require amendments. Senator Lodge’s Great Speech. Chicago Inter Ocean. The speech of Senator Lodge upon the tariff question is one of the few that merit careful study. It is not enough that it should be read; it should be conned, and should be preserved for frequent reference. The pressure upon our columns prevents us from giving more than a synopsis of it, but it is sure to be published as a campaign document, and if the Ameriaan Protective Tariff League have funds on hand it should be printed and sent to every voter in the land before political excitement runs high. Its argument is masterly, its tone is temperate, and its facts are unimpeachable. The trouble with the free trade people, college professors included, is that they have ceased to learn and never have begun to observe. They are bound in the meshes of philosophy that had served its purpose fifty years ago, and they do not see that it was a philosophy adapted to the needs of a country, as well as of a time, very different from that in which the American people live.. They fail to discern also that nowhere, under no circumstances, can political economy truly make claim to the conditions of a fixed science. It is, at best, a science of applied expediencies. But it is in vain that one attempts to argue with a theoretical free trader; he is one of the gentry who "know it all”. His creed is, "As it was in the beginning, is now’, and ever shall be, world without end,” and he fixes "the beginning” in the era of Adam Smith. The theoretical free traders, however, are a few and a feeble fol k. Votes are not determined by theoretical but by practical considerations. The British workman did not agitate for "free corn” —meaning free wheat —in 1846 because of his belief in the theories of Adam Smith, but because he knew that the population of Britain had become so great that the soil of the country could not feed the people of the country; so he agitated for "free corn,” which was a protectionist agitation, for it is protectionist policy to import freely all that a country cannot be made to produce for itself.

In like manner the British manufacturers did not vote for repeal of the tariff on manufactured goods because they believed it to be a scientific axiom that free goods leads to larger sales, but because they found that eighty years of rigorous pro* tection had given them manufacturing supremacy to such a degree that few manufactured goods were imported to their country, and because. they thought that other countries would follow their example,and because they knew that if other countries did follow thbir example the supremacy of Britain as a manufacturing nation was assured. But other nations did not follow their recent example. Other nations followed the older British example of protection, and by following it approximated the British results. The manufacturing supremacy of Britain is threatened by France and Germany in Europe, and in the department of iron it has been overthrown by America, which now is the greatest iron manufacturer of the world. History, to which free traders turn a deaf ear, tells that no nation, ancient or modern, has become a great manufacturing power by any other agency than that of protection. History tells us that wages are high or low in proportion as the profits ol manufacturers are great or small. History showsi that wages have fallen 15 per cent, in England during the past twenty years, and have increased greatly in the United States. History further tells us that the wage earners in all countries have sought, and wisely, to protect their pi o its by the. formation of unions and leagues that sought to obtain special advantages for their members. History tells us that Great Britain, long after abandonment of protection by tariff, has continued a form of protection by bounties to ships under the name of “mail subsidies,” and that such protection has insured her naval supremacy, as her centuries of tariffs fostered her manufacturing supremacy. History proclaims protection to be the natural law of nations and of ‘persons. And history is now tolling that the United States is suffering the effects of disobedience to this law. We regret that space prevents our publication of Senator I<odge’s admirable statistical illustrations of these truths, but console ourselves by the. certainty of their wide diffusion in pwcphlet form.

FARMS AND FARMERS.

Culture Under Glass. There is no reason why vegetable culture under glass shorn I not now become of equal importance with floriculture, and this means many thousands of dollars annually added to our productive resources. Sub-irrigation was first used with lettuce in order to avoid watering the foliage, thus preventing the much-dreaded lettuce rot. It was found that the lettuce grew much better by this method of watering than when water was applied to the surface of the soil. Operations were then enlarged until entire houses are now supplied with water in this manner. Some later experiments show that the same principle may be extended successfully, beginning as soon as the seed is sown. The seed is sown in shallow boxes with slatted bottoms. Both radishes and cucumbers flourish under the same treatment, although they are not benefitted to such an extent as lettuce. Tomatoes respond less than any other crop, but they show sufficient gain to pay for fitting up the house for sub-irri-gation. Experience has shown that a subirrigation plant pays for itself in one season, or 100 per cent, on the investment. This estimate is for greenhouse crop in general but for lettuce alone the profit is greater. Under the benches the space may be used for mushrooms, dandelion, pie plant and asparagus. The mushroom crop is about as profitable as any that can be grown, and yet it requires no light.

Grapes Under Glass, Meehan s Monthly. The extensive graperies erected by Mrs. Hettie Trimble at West Chest er, thirty years ago, and now owned by Mr. D. McFarland, are still in perfect health, notwithstanding a single vine—Muscat Hamburg—produces about 5,000 pounds of fruit a year. There are two lean-to houses 180x20 feet each, and two span-roof of fifty feet. Thousands of bunches of Gros Coleman were hanging on the vines early’ in December. They are not forced, but simply protected by glass. It is a cool grapery. Th© Grapevine Disease. No greater evidence of the immense value of scientific knowledge to the practical man has ever been adduced which is so conclusive as that in relation to grape culture in France, where thousands of acres of grapevines became absolutely useless. Mainly through the scientific labors of our own Prof. Riley, the existence of a root insect —the phyioxera—was discovered and its whole history decided. It was found to be an American insect, which had perhaps from the creation been in connection with A merican vines with-'

out any serious injury to them. The phylloxera transferred itself to the European vine, which was qpable to resist as the American vines had done. It was only necessary, therefore, to introduce the American vine as well as the Amercan insect, and graft the European forms on the American roots. The InspectorGeneral. Georges Conanon, of the French Department of Agriculture, now states that in consequence of these practical deductions from scientific truths France will soon regain her old position as. a great wine-growing country. The. French wine grower no longer fears the insect. Plantations are now being made with as much confidence as they were before the existence of the insect was known.

Feeding Stock. The following paper by L. Denning was read before the Farmers’ Institute, in Clearfield, Pa. : For instance, take the cow, flesh, bones, muscles, hide, hair, etc., discarding technical names, we will group them in albuminoids, carbohydrates and fat. Now the animal body is composed of these in the ratio of about 1 to 4, 1 pound of albuminoids to 4 of carbohydrates. The nutriments contained in the vegetable foods grouped are composed of about the same, 1 to 4. Every fodder used in feeding animals is composed of more than one nutriment, and these nutriments are contained in very unlike proportions in different feeding stuffs. To feed skillfully we should study to combine these different foods so as to make up a mixture meeting all the wants of the animal. It takes so much of these foods to sustain life, and if the cow is giving milk we have to feed enough to make up for the butter fat contained in it, let it be more or less, and the experiments that have been made in feeding show that the profits come fW>m the last one-third of a full ration, and this full ration has been decided, I believe, to contain from nine to twelve pounds of grain feed to from fifteen to fifty pounds of hay, •traw, corn fddder or ensilage, ac • cording to what you feed. Suppose we take a few of well balanced rations and the feeder could use as much as he thought would pay the best daily, per cow: Ten pounds hay, ten pounds straw, four pounds wheat bran, three pounds cotton seed mealy.four pounds corn meal. Or, sixteen pounds meadow hay, eight pounds wheat brail, three pounds linseed meal.i five pounds corn weal. Or, eighteen pounds corn fodder, six pounds wheat bran, three pounds

cotton seed meal, four pounds corn meal. Or this: Fifteen pounds straw, five pounds hay, three pounds cotton seed meal, four pounds bran, four pounds corn meal. Or, ten pounds porn fodder, ten, pounds oat straw, two pounds linseed meal, two pounds cotton seed meal, 6 pounds corn and oat meal. Or, forty pounds corn ensilage, ten pounds hay, four pounds bran, three pounds cotton seed meal, three pounds corn meal. Cows for beef, should be fed ta make all parts grow evenly. They might get a balanced ration from straw, but it would take three or four hundred pounds daily to get enough of some parts and an excess of others, and as it is impossible for them to masticate so much daily we should mix some more nitrogenous food with it, such as bran, oil meal or cotton seed meal. I believe if we would feed onefourth the hay that we farmers generally feed, and mix a little grain with it, such as bran or oil meal or cotton seed meal, we would reduce the cost of keeping them one-half. I will give a test that I have been making with my driving team which travels fourteen miles a day. Onehalf the hay that I have been in the habit of feeding with bran, corn meal and oil meal. The cost of the grain food has been for two months seven cents per day per horse. They are fat and lively. Farmers, I am convinced that the most profit lies in keeping your animals comfortable. Have a warm place for all. Rhubarb From England. A remarkable feature in the vegetable market of New York, for 8 week or two preceding Christmas, was in the shape of several tons ol forced rhubarb, of which it is said that over ten tons were received from Liverpool. It is something rare to have vegetables exported from the Old World to the New.

MADE HIS OWN WHEEL.

A Maryland Boy Who Was Not Balked for Want of Money. “They come high, but we must have ’em,” in what John Mayne, s Lainganore mountaineer, thought when he saw hundred’s of wheelmen riding over the smooth roads o Frederick county., Md., several months ago, John is only sixteen years old, but he thought he would be able to ride a bike. All that was necessary was to get the “bike,” and that he made up his mind to do. He soon learned that a wheel would cost him from SIOO to $l5O, and that was a little more than he felt able ta pay. His funds were a little low,

JOHN MAYSN[?] AND HIS WHEEL.

but he had made up his mind to have one, so he concluded that he would start to manufacture one. In his part of the country the roads are as smooth as concrete pavements, and John had often pictured himself passing along on his silent stead, leaving the fast horses in the rear. His cash did not increase in proportion to his desire for a wheel, and so out there on the farm in the mountainous country he went into his father’s shop and started to construct a racer. He worked early and late, until he had finished the construction of the wheel, and now he is seen on the road trying to keep pace with some of the riders of pneumatic-tired iron horses. The entire wheel, with the exception of an old iron tire from a carriage wheel, was made by the boy. The rear wheel was made of a solid piece of oak, while the handle bar and seat are made of lighter wood.

Hall Settles.

Harper's Bazar. The common laundry table is much used for hall and piazza settles, and when stained and cushioned it bears no small resemblance to the antique “monks’ benches'* which have been revived of late. A table of this sort maybe purchased for 14 or $5, and by pasting strips of lincrusta along the edges and applying oak stain a very good effect of carved oak may be obtained, but it must be well polished to give a satisfactory result. Mirrors are sometimes set in the high back, which add much to its elegance, and with a cushion of dark green corduroy for the seat a really effective piece piece of furniture may be secured. These benches are often ornamented with poker work, which is easily mastered; but nail-head decoration is the simplest and most showy of all, as no skill whatever is required, only mathematical accuracy in drawing the pattern and a certain regularity in driving in tho nails. For piazza use this settle is very popular, but treatment of the sort first mentioned would be elaborate, and a simple application of dark red paint, with a cushion of corduroy or linen to match, is all that is necessary.