St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 28, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 30 January 1892 — Page 2

AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Work Should Always Be Done In Season —An English Writer on the Management of the Horse—Simple Feeding Huies—Poultry Notes— Household. Doing Work in Season.

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from late planting than from all other causes put together, and when a tree or plant, owing to some favorable conditions, does manage to survive transplanting, its growth for the rest of that season is but a very trifling and miserable one. For complete success, trees and plants must be put into their places while dormant and before the buds start, and to do this other and preliminary operations must be performed early, such as preparing the ground, etc. Thus, be who is behind in the first steps of his spring’s work is, as a natural sequence, behind in the last, and he is fortunate indeed if he catches up by the close of the year. A Big Help in Clearing Land. I have invented an attachment to my stone-boat by which the team is compelled to do the loading of heavy stumps, rock, etc., which facilitates the moving of large quantities of rubbish, the leveling of knolls and filling of cradle holes. As will be seen in the engraving, the right-hand rail is removed from the common stone-boat and the boat-plank is attached to the boat by a heavy hinge. This extra plank is drawn by a chain attached to the team the same as the main boat. We will suppose a heavy rock has been pried out of the sod or earth. The chain of the wing is loosened and attached further back on the main chain, while the block at A is inserted to separate the wing

from the boat. The boat is then driven beside the rock, and as the team proceeds it will frequently take its place on‘the boat without effort on the part of the driver, the wing tending to force it in place. If, because of its shape this is not readily done, a very little prying while the team is in motion will set it where it is desired. Meadow land which is to be leveled must first be plowed, when the attachment will quickly take up a load if the boat be weighted. If there is very much of this scraper work to do, the edge of the wing should be shod with a strip of steel, like an old cart tire or .piece of saw blade. The outside rail of the wing also should.be higher than for stone. The hinge should not be too loose. It should keep the wing on the ground by the weight of the boat. —A. C. West, in Farm and Home. Keep the Cultivator Going. Whether weeds appear or not there is great advantage in constant use of the horse and cultivator, and if it needs weeds to remind farmers of their duty to stir the soil,then blessed be the weeds, they may well say. How cultivating warms the soil may be noted by the much larger surface which is exposed by the rough ridges the cultivator leaves after it has gone through. Besides it turns the warmed soil on the surface two or three inchs deep, where it is in just exactly the position to feed the roots. This, when the cultivation is done on a hot June day, affords no inconsiderable amount

of heat to the roots of corn in the t middle of the rows. Some of these roots may be cut off, but enough j more will start out to more than E make good their loss, especially if the soil be rich and moist. ( ■ j LIVE STOCK. j Management of Horses. An English writer says that the • question with the farmer is how best to feed the horses required on the • farm. The food of the horse is nat- ' urally grass, and this will be the food : of the young horse, with the addition : of some hay in winter. As the horse increases in age, so will it increase in 1 working capacity, and its food will have to become correspondingly! richer. Os the richer food, hay, oats j and beans have been used from time । immemorial. The hay is first cut fine in the chaff cutter, and then is termed hay fhuff; straw chaff may also be given to the horses with advantage. miked with its other food. Turnips and clover well cut up .aid the former pulped, or even mashed, may be used with advantage in the winter and early sprim;. Subsequently vetches or tares will supply ! an early and valuable green food be- j

fore putting the horse out to graze. A horse must be fed frequently, and its food being prepared for it, grain being crushed, and hay, straw, roots, etc., cut up. The stable must be well ventilated, and contain a supply of fresh water. Such is briefly the main outline of farming with regard to livestock; the objects which the farmer hasin-v’ew, how to attain them and how science has helped him. In the treatment of stock the main object on all farms will be to keep them healthy, and that at the present day is becoming more and more difficult. Everything which tends to the abnormal growth of the animal tends also to weaken it and render it liable to disease, and less able to resist disease when it comes. Hence the greatest precaution should be taken by the farmer to prevent disease, the principle, “Prevention is better than cure,” being the invariable rule with him. Os the predisposing causes to disease, want of cleanliness may be placed first as most frequent and most unjustflable; secondly, inefficient shelter; and lastly, contagion. The worst diseases which live stock are subject to are undoubtedly contagious; therefore, as in man, so in animals, the best possible thing when the least disease occurs in the stock is to thoroughly isolate the affected animals. So important to the general agriculture of the Kingdom is this subject of contagious diseases in cattle, that the Government takes it up, but not efficiently, for though something is done to prevent the spread of disease, little is done to prevent the introduction of disease. THE DAIRY. Simple Feeding Rules. The live weight of an animal decides its ration of support. It should bejequal to 21 per cent, in dry food ( matter; or not less than thirty pounds . per day of good hay, or. its eqinvalent in grain, straw ensilage or roots for a , thousand-pound cow. ’ No definite details can be given for 1 feeding a good cow. Her food will „ depend on the owner’s supplies, her appetite, digestion, and the value of i her marketable goods. For a standard quality cow of 800 to 900 pounds weight at flush, making L twenty-five pounds to thirty pounds , of milk per day, or one and one-half ' pounds to two pounds of butter, it . will be safe to feed, her rich, digesti- . ble food. Her bran should be about ’ | per cent, ofjher live weight, . peas and oats ground, about 1 per cent., and cotton-seed meal or a mix- ’ ture of linseed cak^ mead and cottonseed meal in equal proportions, equal to A per cent, live Weight, clover hay, 1 per cent., ensilage,\oots, as carrots or mangels, or green feed in summer, according to their quMity, such a quantity as will yield not less dry matter than 2percent, of Hve'wejg'ht. The above ration has beeiusu* —h&go >7=o If, repie^nts a srodH om it:vi' rat A <>r

HIERE i s no more fatal habit among horticulturists than that of tardiness. Some men are i always behind in Itheir work, and (when this bad ’habit, for it is really nothing but a habit, gets in its work on spring planting the result is a very serious one. More trees and plants are lost

and will pay for a standard (fotateenpound) cow. The value of manorial residues must always be born in mind in choosing 1 food. The richer the food the higher the manure value, and the greater the care required to preserve it. The ration here given is a winter one, and a cow as good as the one in mind would earn from 60 cents to SI a day in milk, cream or butter. How much to feed and how rich the food should be must always be : governed by the produce and its value from calving to drying off. Intelligence and discretion must be exercised from day to day. Weigh and register every day, or at least every ten days, the cow's products. Reduce or increase her food supplies, according to her condition from calving and earning power of her produce. The net food cost may be taken at about two-thirds the value of the ration. The balance is the value of the manuie. Always give salt in the food, never

less than one ounce per day, or | per I a cent, of the live weight per month. ; The length of the milking period of a ] ■ well-bred and well-fed cow depends I e j on regular and persistent milking by ' r f her attendant. It should be 300 to ■ c I 350 days, or within a month of calv- i f ’ ing- J1 ’ Never feed turnips, cabbage, or any-; t } thing which taints milk. Make 3 changes gradually. .

Dairy Dots. 1 The more succulent foods make * the more watery milk and oily cream, j , which churns the easier. Hence en- ■ silage and roots are favorable to but-1 ter-making, the oils principally giving | ’ butter its flavor. I ' The cow must not have to travel a ' long distance for water. If she does ’ ‘ she will go without it u-ntil she gets I very thirsty and feverish and then * drink until she is painfully uncom- i ' sortable. Both conditions are un- j ; favorable for milk secretion. Shade is almost as important in ■ summer as shelter from cold in win- . ter. See that the cow has plenty of ! feed and clean water while in pasture, j so that she can fill her stomach in a i short time and then lie down in the shade, chew her cud, enjoy herself . and make milk. i Mixed pasture grasses, including ; i clover, make a well-balanced summer ! ' ration; but a little dry food is relished ; ; exceedingly, and is beneficial. Some ’ ;of the best dairymen not only feed ! ■ hay, but cornmeal and bran, or some other form of grain, all summer, to advantage. In case of trouble about churning, look first to the temperature. A higher or a lower one mav remove the trouble. Next, see that the cream is not too thick. If it is, thin i with water of the churning tempera- , ! turc. Using skimmed milk would ’ । only be adding more of the same j

“ . . ' f viscous material. But if the cream is not viscous, but simply lacks fluidity । the addition of skimmed milk may' do. i THE POULTRY-YARD. j Ground Bones for Poultry. Ground bones and cut bones are different. A fresh, green bone cannot well be ground. It may be crushed or pounded, but not easily ground. Hand-mills are in usr that permit of grinding bones that have become hard and dry, or have been steamed and heated, but the green bones must be pounded or cut in fine pieces with knives. There is a great difference in the value of fresh bones from the butcher and those that have been exposed until they are dry. Green bones contain quite a proportion of meat and cartilage, and are greedily eaten by all classes of fowls. \ Poultry Notes. The Mottled Java is a very good fowl for market and they are fair layers. Japanese farmers are usually great lovers of poultry and breed large numbers of market fowls. In Tokio you may see them driving and sometimes carrying in coops supported on their heads a flock of marketableHStock. They always sell live poultry. Corn contains 86 per cent, of heat and fat forming elements so that it is very poor egg food. Good second crop clover contains twenty times as much lime for shell material and pound for pound it is worth more as an egg producer than either wheat or corn. The young women of Hammonton, N. J., are competitors in raising chickens and the town has more poultry' than any other in the State. One has had as many as 8,000 broilers under a single roof at once, besides 2,000 hens. This town has sent 65,000 birds to market in on«e season. If you want the poultry to be tender and juicy let it be fattened quickly. It should be well fed during the months previous to going into the fattening coops; then two weeks of liberal feeding will make the meat heavy and just right for the popular taste. Dry pick all fowls for the table. It does not destroy the texture of the skin like hot water. Broilers also look better not shriveled up in appearance. Disease in winter and vermin in summer are the obstacles encountered in poultry keeping. No poultry man is free from them, the most careful breeders having more or less trouble in this direction. Your experience is no harder than others’, so don’t be discouraged. A cross of a White Wyandot cockerel of good breeding with a White Plymouth Bock hen will in a number of the offspring bring a Wyandot comb which is more compact than that of the Plymquthltock and less liable to ’freeze in Thiscross,

the drinking waltffTww^^W^dnW^ This is absurd and of little value. O,n cold winter davs, how long will it r®main tepid? One would have td 7 heat the water eyery half-hour to meet this suggestion. The little a hen drinks of the coldest water will never hurt her. A bird afflicted with'cholera lives but a few hours, the disease being so ! contagious as to mow down an entire . Hock in a week. Two tablespoonfuls ' ■ of sulphur in proportion to ten quarts | of soft feed twice a week with clean I pure water supplied will prevent most ! of the trouble from this disease. THE HOUSEHOLD. The Family Doctor. Stye on the Eyelid.—rut a tea- ; spoonful of tea in a small bag; pour ; on it just enough boiling water to j moisten it; then put it on the eye , pretty warm. Keep it on all night,

and in the morning the stye will most likely be gone; if not, a second application is sure to remove it. To Purify the Blood.—A wellknown physician says that he considers the following prescription for purifying the blood as the best he has ever used. One ounce yellow dock, one-half once horseradish, one quart hard cider. Dose, one wineglassful I four times a day. Boils. —These should be brought to a head by warm poultices of camomile Howers, or boiled white lily root, or onion root, by fermentation with hot water, or by stimulating plasters, j When ripe they should be destroyed i by a needle or lancet; but this should ' not be attempted until they are fully | proved. Hot Milk as a Stimulant.—ls i any one is fatigued the best restorative is hot milk, a tumbler of the beverage as hot as can be sipped. This

is far more of a restorative than any alcoholic drink. Household Notes. Greasy kettles wash much better if taken while hot. Most fruit stains can be taken from table linen by pouring boiling water over the stain before wetting the cloth in cooler water. An exchange recommends bunches of green tansy strewn around, as a remedy for red ants in the house. Another recommends dry salt or brimstone. Neat housekeepers do not use the dish towel about the oven, or to lift hot dishes from the stove. A stove cloth is as important as a duster or dish towel. The fragrant pillows area comfort, if only they are not covered with so much finery that one cannot use j them. White covers that admit of । being washed are the most satisfac- • tory. Sweet ferns, pine needles or | hops are agreeable.

'apologize or fight. I j THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN INSULTED President Harrison’s Message to Congress Deprecating th© Attack on Our Sailors— Minister Egan Upheld—Reparation and Apology Demanded. Uncle Sam’s Demands. Chili must apologize or fight. That is, in brief the declaration of President Harrison, ■whose long-promised message, with the mass of correspondence bearing upon the issues involved, has been submitted to Congress. The ultimatum, which was made public, points distinctly to a resort to arms unless an apology s for.booming. The capital now rings with talk | of bloody war. Battles on the seas and bloody ] conflic s on i bilian soil are thought to be clo e at hand. And everybody enjoys the prospect of the just chastisem nt of the South American bantam that for months past has dared to llap its wings in the face of your forbearing Uncle Sam. Speaker Crisp called jthe House to order, struck the desk and the business of the d y began with the usual prayer irom the blind chaplain, who, despite the war rumors, made nr reference to them. In the expectation of list ning to the i hilian correspondence and ihe President’s message a large crowd filled the galleries to overflowing. Private Secretary Pruden with a large bundle under his arm. pushed the doors aside and entered the House. Speaker Crisp at once suspended the call of States for the introduction of bills and nodded to the President's private secretary. The latter made the usual announcement that he bore a message of the President, and handed the armful, consisting of the message and correspondence, to the doorkeeper, who carried the heavy load to the Speaker, the babble of tongues, which had been so loud as to drown the voice of the clerk, ceased. A hush fell upon the House, and amid a stillness which could not have been greater had the big chamber been empty, the clerk began to read. The reading of the precious document, printed in pamphlet form, was listened to witn rapt attention. THE MESSAGE SUBMITTED. To the Senate and House ot Repre^en’atives : In my annual message, delivered to Congress at the beginning of the pro-cut session, alter a brief statement of the facts then in the possession of this Government tom bing the assau.lt in the streets of Valparaiso, Chili, upon the sailors of the United states steamship Bal imore on the evening of the 16th of October last, I said: “This Government is now awaiting the result of an investigation which has been conducted by the Criminal Court at Valparaiso. It is reported unofficially that the investigation is about completed, and it is expected that the result will be communicated to this Government, together with some adequate and satis- I factory re ponse to the note by which the at- j tention of Chili was called to this incident.- If I these just expectations should be disappointed or further needless delay intervenes, I will, I by a special message, bring this matter again to the attention of Congress for such action as may bo necessary.” In my opinion the time has now come when I should lay before the Congress and the country the correspondence between this Government and the Government of ( hili, from the time of the breaking out of the revolution against Bal- l maceda, together wit > ali ether facts in j the possession of the Executive Department relating to this matter. The diplomatic correspon cnee is herewith transmitted, together with some correspondence between the naval officers fcr the time in command in t hilian waters and the Secretary of the Navy, and also the evidence taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard since the I arrival of the Baltimore at San Francisco. 1 | do not deem it necessary in this communication to attempt any full analysis of the correspondence or of the evidence. A brief restatement of tbe international questions involved and ot the reasons why the responses of the Chilian Gove nment are unsatisfactory is all tha. 1 deem necessary. It may be well at the outset to say that whatever may have been said in this country or in Chili in criticism of Mr. Egan, our Minister at Santiago, the true history of this exciting period in Chilian atlairs, from the outbreak of the revolution until this time, discloses no act on the part of Egan unworthy of Lis position or that could justly Le the occasion of serious animadversions or critic sm. He has, I think, on the whole, borne him; elf, in v« ry trying ciicuui- • stances, with dignity, discretion and courage, and has conduc.ed tbe correspondence with ability, courtesy and fairness. . It is worth while also at the beginning to say ; to pvu shelter in the । rfnin adherents of tth* Pahnaceda i

u t ha. andbMn'oKHlor thesnrrert- » der Win ! nee>l of avium is shown by Mr. Egan s note of । August 24,1891, describing the disorders that pro tailed in Santiago, and by the evidence of ‘ Captiin Schley as to the pillage and violence । that prevailed at Valparaiso. The correspondence discloses, however, that the requist of Mr Egan for a safe conduct from the co n- i try in le'ialf of these refugees, was denied. ! The precedents cited by him in the correspondence, particularly the ease of the revolution in I Peru in 1865, di i’not leave the Chilian Governj ment in such a posi ion to deny the right of j asylum to political refugees and seems very clearly to support Mr. Egan’s contention that a I safe conduct to neutral territory was a necessary : and acknowledged incident of the asylum, i | These refugees have very recently, without ■ formal safe conduct, but Ly the acqui escence of the < Lilian authorities, been ; ! placed on board the Yorktown and are now be- ! i mg conveyed to Callao, Peru. This incident | might be considered wholly closed, but for the ; I disrespect manifested toward this Government ' I by the close and offensive police surveillance of i

the legation premises, which was maintained j during most of the period of the stay of the refugees therein. After the date of myannual message and up to the time of the transfer of the refugees to the Yorktown, the legation premises seem to have been surrounded by police in uniform, and police agents" or detectives in citizens’ dress, who offensively scrutinized persons entering or leaving the legation, and, on one or more occasions, arrested members of the Minister’s family. Commander Evans, who by my direction recently visited Mr. Egan at Santiago, in his telegram to the Navy Department, de- ; scribed the legation as a "veritable prison,” and I states that the police agents or detectives were. ; after his arrival, withdrawn during his stay. It i appears farther from the note ot Mr. Egan, of i Nov. 20, 1891, that on one occasion at ! leart these police a tents, whom he ■ declares to be known to him, iai vaded the legation premises, pounding on i its windows and using insulting and threateni ing language towards persons therein. This i breach of the right of a Minister to freedom i from police espionage and restraint seems to ' have been so flagrail that the Argentine Minis- ! ter, who was l ean of the Diplomatic Corps, having observed it, felt called upon to protest against it to the Chilian Minister of Foreign ■ Affairs. The Chilian authorities have, as I will be observed from the correspondence, charged the refugees and the inmates of the legation with insulting the | police; but it seems tome incredible that men j whose lives were in jeopardy and whose safety could only be secured by retirement and quiet- : ness should have sought to provoke a collision ; which could end only in their destruction, or to 1 aggravate their condition by intensifying a i popular feeling that, at one time, so threatened ; the legation as to require Mr. Egan to appeal ‘ to the Minis) er of Foreign Affairs.

But the most serious incident disclosed by rhe correspondence is that of tse attack on the sailors of the Baltimore in the streets of Valparaiso on the 16th of October last. In my las annual message, speaking upon the information then in my possession, 1 sail: "So far as I have yet been able to learn n r other explanation of this bloody work has been suggested than that it had its origin in hostilit y to these men as sailors of thr United States wearing the uniform of th ir Gcvt rnment, and not in any individual act or personal animosity.” W e have now received from the Chilian Government an abstract of the conclusions of the Fiecil General upon the testimony taken by the Judge of Crimes in an investigation which was made to extend over nearly three months. I very much regret to bo compelled to say that this report does not enable me to modify the conclusion an nounced in my annual message. I am still of the opinion that our _ sailors were assaulted, beaten, stabbed and killed, not for anything they or anyone of them had done, but for what the Government of the United States had done, or was charged with having done, by its civil officers and naval commanders. If that be the rue aspect of the case, the injury was to the Government of the United States, not to these poor sailors who were assaulted in a manner so brutal and so cowardly. Before attempting to give an outline of the facts upon which this conclusion rests, I thml it right to say a word or two upon the lega aspect of the case. The Baltimore was in the harbor rs Valpa raraiso by virtue of that general invitatioi which nations are held to extend to the wui vessels of other powers with which tney hav, friendly relations. This invitation, I think must be held ordinarily to embrace the privi le<»e of such communication with the shorea 1 s’reasonable, necessary, and proper for th' comfort and convenience of the officers am men of such vessels. Captain Schley testifia that when his vessel returned to \ alpaxaisc

on September 14, the city officers, as is customary, extended the hospitalities of the city to his officers and crew. It is not claimed that everv personal collision or injury in which a sailor or officer of such naval vessel visiting the shore may be involved ra.lso< an international quest onj but I am clearly of the opinion that where such officers or sailors are assaulted by a resident populace, animated by hostility to the government whose uniform these sailors and officers wear, and in resentment of acts done by their Government, not by them, their nation must take notice of the event as one involving an infraction cf its rights and dignity; not in a secondary way, as where a citizen is injured and presents his claim through his own Government, but in a primary way, precisely as if its Minister or Consul <r the flag i self had been the object of the same character ot assault. Tbe iffi.'ers and sailors of the Baltimore were in tiie harbor of Valparaiso under the orders of their Government, not by their own cii' ici. They were upon the shore by the imp ied invitation of the Government of < hili and with the approval of their commanding offices, and it docs not distinguish their case fro n that of a consul ihit bis stay is mere permanent or that be holds the express invitation ot th ■ local government to justify his longer res deuce. Nc r does it affect tho question that the injury was the act of a mob. If there had been no participation by the police or military in this cruel work and no neglect on their part to extend protection, the case would still be on 0 , in my opinion, when its extent and character are considered, involving international rights. Ihe incidents of the ass ir are briefly as follows : On the 16th of October last, Capt. Schley, commanding the United States ship Baltimore, gave shore-leave to 117 petty officers and sailors of his ship. These men left the ship about 1:30 p. m. No incident of violence occurred; none of our men were arrested; no complaints lodged against them; nor did any collision or outbreak occur until about 6 o'clock p. m. Capt. Schley states that he was himself on shore and about the streets of the city until 5 30 p. m. ; that he met very many of his men who were upon leave ; ti at they were sober and were conducting themselves with propriety, saluting < hilian and other officers as they met them. Other officers of the ship and Captain Jenkins, of the merchant ship Keweenaw, corroborate Captain Schley as to the general sobriety and good behavior of our men. The Sisters of Charity at the hospital to which our wounded men were taken when injured, stated that they were sobtr when i received. If the situation had been otherwise, we must believe that the Chilian police I authoiitles would have mads arrests. : About 6 p. m. the assault began, | ami it is remarkable that the investigation by the Judge of Crimes, though bj protracted, does not enable him to give any more satisfactory account of its oiigiu than is found in the statement that it began between drunken sailors. Repeatedly in the correspondence it is asserted that it was impossible o le ru the prec'se cause of the riot. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Matta, in his telegram to Mr. Montt, under date of December 31, states that the quarrel began between two sailors in a | tavern and was continued in the street, persons | who were passing joining in it. The testimony of Talbot, an apprentice, who was with 11 ggin, is that the outbreak in which j they were involved began by a Chilian sailor i spitting in the face of Talbot, which was resented by a knockdown. It appears that Riggm and Talbot were at the time unaccompanied by any others of their shipmates. * * * * * * After summarizing the correspondence up to a certain point he says : The communications of the Chilian Govomj ment in relation to this cruel and disastrous attack upon our men, as will appear from the correspondence, have not in any degree taken the form of a manly and satisfactory expression of regret, much less of apology. Tee event was of so serious a character that if the injuries suffered by our men had been wholly tbe result ot ah accident in a Chilian port the incident was grave enough to have callI ed for some public expression of sympathy and regret from the local authorities. It is not enough to say that the affair was lamentable, for humanity would require that expression even if the beating and killing ot our sren had be-n justifiable. It is not enough to sav that the incident is regretted, coupled with the sta ement that the affair was not of an unusual character in ports where foreign sailors are accustomed to meet. it is not f<r a generous and sincere government to seek for words of small or equivocal meanings in which to convey to a friendly power an apology for an offense so atrocious as tuis. In Ilie case of tbe assault by a mob in New Orleans upon the Spanis i * onaviate in 1851, Mr. Webster wrote t tbe Spanish Minister, Mr. Calderon, that the acts complained of were "a disgraceful and flagrant breach of duty and propriety,” and that his Government “regrets them as deeplj’ as Mr. Calderon or his government could possibly d >;” that “these acts have caused the j President very great pain and he thinks a —is dno to her-MAieatV.”

,■ i a t rentraenuW.the government of < hili of this assault wonia have been more creditable to the Chilian authorities ; and much less can hardly be satis actory to a government that values its dignity and honor. In our note of October 23d last, which apI pears in the correspondence, after recei^ngthe rep-ort of the board of officers appoimbd by < antain Schley to investigate the affair, the Chilian Government was advised of the aspect which it then.assutued and called upon for any facts in its possession that might ten 1 to modify the unfavorable impression which our report had created. It is very clear from the corre- ' spondence that, before the receipt of this note ! the examination was regirded by the police as- ; thorities as practically closed It was, however, reopened and protrac ed through a period ; of nearly three months. We might justly have i complained of this unreasonably delay, but in I view of the fact that the government of Chili I was stiff provisional and with a disposition to | be forbearing end hopeful of a friendly termin--1 ation, I have awaited the report which has but recently been made. On the 2lst inst. I caused to be communicated to the Government of Chili, by the American Minister at Santiago, the conclusions of this Government, after a full consideration of all the evidence and if every suggestion affecting this matter, and to th-se conclusions I adhere Thev were as follow s : 1. That the assault is not relieved of th? as- ] ect which the early information of the event gave to it, viz : That of an attack upon the uniform of the Uni ed States navy, having its origin and motive in a feeling of hostility to this Government, and not in any act of the sailors or of any of the men. 2. That the public authorities at A alparaiso flagrantly failed in their duty to protect our men. and that some of the police and of tho Chil an soldiers and sailors were themselves guilty of unprovoked assaults upon our sai’ors before and after arrest. He ithe President) thinks the preponderance of the evidence and the inherent probabilities lea 1 to the conclusion that Riggin was killed by the police or s Metiers. 3. That he (the President) is therefore compelled to bring the case back to the position taken by this Government in the note of Oct. 21 last, and to ask for a suitable apology and for some adequate reparation for the injury done to this Government. A claim for reparation has been made tn behalf of this man ; for, while he was not a citi- ■ zen of the United States, tee doctrine so long held by us. as expressed in the consular regulation,! :"3 he principles which ar • maintained by ' this Goveinm-nt in regard to the protection. , as distinguished from the relief, of seamen I are well "settled. 11 is held that the circuml stance that the vessel is American is evidence that the seamen on board are such; and in every regularly documented merchant vessel > the crew will find their protection in the flag

that covers them.” I have as vet received no reply to our note of the 21st instant, but, in my opinion, I ought not to deluv longer to bring ihese matters to • the attention of Congress for such action as i may be deemed appropriate. 5 [S gned] Benjamin Harbison. j Executive Jlansion, January 25,1892. ' The above is President Harrison’s . presentation of the Chilian affair to f Congress. The voluminous correspon--1 I deuce slows on the part of Chili evasive ‘ duplicity, covert sarcasm, inso- ° lence, and about all the ofc fences that can be committed un- , der the forms of diplomacy. With all s this there was nothing expressed nor 6 implied to intimate that Chili intended j to apologize for its misconduct in surg rounding the American Legation at San- ' tiago with police spies; for the impudent j i letter of its former Foreign Minister, •- I nor for the murder of our sailors in uni- £ | form. k I The little republic has evidently de--11 J pended on its distance, the difficulty in i making an offensive war against it, possibly on the wretched help of a peace ir ! party in the United States, and on the ■o ■ intrigues of the nitrate trust to delay, b discourage ami finally defeat the dels mands of the United States. This misw take will pr bably be rectified soon. ld What is substantially the ultimatum o* of the United States—its last peremp-

tory demand before adopting war measures i —has been sent to Chili. The President asked the immediate withdrawal of Matta’s insulting note, an apology for the assault on the sailors, and the payment of damages. Not receiving a favorable reply the President asks Congress to declare war and to authorize its prosecution. This is the purport of the President’s message. Aluminium Cooking Utensils. When are we to have aluminium cooking dishes? Here is a metal as cheap as copper, when you consider its greater bulk, light, beautiful in a; - pearance, tarnishing as little as does gold, that can be pressed into any shape, and that would make extremely durable utensils. And here we are using “tins,” of w..ich the coating wears off leaving an iron base that rusts badly, and granite wares that are expensive and that flake and i crack with careless handling, leaving a base exposed that affects food, and that is poisonous to an extent it is just as well not to know as long as it is our best ware. Verily we need an improvement. A year ago when the price of aluminium was dropping hopefully, it was supposed that the good time of the kitchen was near. We were promised a trace of the metal in the iron of stoves, just enough to prevent any tendenc; to rust, and to do away wit h blacking. But the housewife still waits for this blessing as well as the other in the shape of clean, bright, wearable cooking utensils. The first article made from this I metal was a baby rattle for that imperial child whose life ended shortly ,in Zululand. At that time aluminii um, though the commonest of metals, I was valued higher than gold. As the means of extracting it have become simpler and cheaper, the price has become lower and lower, till now it would seem quite within the reach of the manufacturer of household gear. —Newport News. How the Luggage Steward Apologized. A lady passenger much annoyed the luggage steward by having her luggage got ready for being put ashore at various places of call. At each place the passenger seemed to alter her mind and to form the idea of going on farther. At last she said she would go on to Inverness. Then the luggage steward said: “Oh, go on to the devil!” The lady, in a high state of indignation, reported the man to the captain. That gentleman told the steward he must find out the lady and apologize to her. The steward consented to do so. At luncheon he appeared, and accosted the first lady at the table thus: “Were you the lady I told to go to the devil?” “No,” said this lady and several others, all equally surprised ' and amused. At last, by a series of ! separate interrogations he discovered ’ the right lady. She responded with i an indignantly virtuous air: “Yes, I • am the lady.” “Ah, then,” said the . steward, “the captain told me to tell ; you that you needn’t go.”—Spectator. 3 x Africans Like Copper. - Os other metals which ace. used

ci aH y n copper ”of one inch diameter. Expeditions to the territory of the Niam-Niam, therefore, have generally been forced to include several coppersmiths, and these men, as soon as the Niam-Niam land was reached, applied themselves to transforming the bars of copper into rings of sizes varying from that of a bracelet to that of a tiny fingerring. And so great is the love of the Niam-Niam for these baubles that even one of. the small copper fingerrings (value.lggs than a cent) would purchase a fat eijicken of them. Germany’s White Kiephant.

Germany is not making any profitable use of that portion of the island of New GuMpIS which she appropriated five years’HffO:- K She is not getting along well ^^h'^e natives of that part of eastern has fallen under her control. YeWhe is desirous of getting hold Os ^jiie of the islands of the Samoan group and the Marshall group in the Pacific Ocean, and the Marquis ot Lorne has proposed that she shall, establish a protectorate over the Argentine Republic. A New Raspberry. Professor Britton, of New York City, has examined specimens of a thornless raspberry, sent to him by Professor Miilspaugh, of the West Virginia agricultural experiment station. It grows luxuriantly in Randolph County, West Virginia, and bears fruit, but no briars. Professor Britton pronounced the berry new to horticulture, and named it Rubus Miilspaugh, after its discoverer.

A Startling: Comparison. It is said to have cost the Englishman who bought ten buffaloes from f “Buffalo Jones,” of Kansas, $25,000 to purchase and get them across the Atlantic. They were bred in Manitoba. Their new home is the park of Hagerston Castle, in Northumberland. But think of the price when millions were butchered for fun twenty-live years ago. Oil from Grape Stones. The extraction of oil from grape stones promises ■ to develop into a ' permanent industry. For a long ■ time it has been known that oily matter was present in considerable ■ quantities in the stones of various descriptions of grapes, but only recently lias the question been definitely investigated. Turn ace Heat. The upper part of a room heated by a furnace is always hotter than the floor. The difference is not a uniform amount, but varies with the ' temperature outside.the colder weatner making a greater difference between i the floor and ceiling temperature.