St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 20, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 December 1892 — Page 7

REAL RURAL READING WILL BE FOUND IN THIS DEPARTMENT. Some Well Recognized Principles of Breeding—A Convenient Sawbuck—l I the Hogs Turnips—Buy Good Cattle— Farm and Household Notes. Breeding Matched Horses. There are few men, even among those actively engaged in the horsebreeding industry, says a correspondent of. the American Agriculturist, who fully realize the long and expensive searches that are made by horse dealers and by the agents of wealthy men to secure well-matched pairs of horses for carriage driving. It is not essential in a great number of these cases that the horses be fasu trotters, but it is of the first importance that the pair match well, and after this that they move with a stylish, high-stepping and highpiritedgait. Such horses, matched, are worth very much more than double their price when sold alone, owing to the difficulty that is experienced in attempting to cater to this desire on the part of wealthy people to indulge their fancy in an attractive pair of carriage horses. The following of the well recognized principles of breeding will go far toward securing well matched pairs. If one could use breeding mares, of an established standard of form and color, such as has been se- • cured in the breeding of the Hackney Coach, French Coach, and Cleveland Bay, and could make use also of stallions that had been thus bred, he could count quite confidently on producing what was desired But the average breeder has no such facilities at hand. He must use such mares as he has, or can readily obtain, but even under such circumstances there is an intelligent way to proceed. A well-shaped mare may be bred for two years in succession to a sire whose prepotency has been shown to be so strong that his offspring, as a rule, strongly resemble him in form and color; or, what would be still better, two mares of as great similarity as possible may be bred the same year to such a sire, and the chances will strongly favor the securing of a well-mated pair. If one is breeding I horses as a pait of his farm operations it is not difficult to secure mares that bear a close resemblance to each other, which, if a person is limited to the use of only one mare, he may, as suggested, breed for two years in succession to the same sire, or may arrange with a neighbor, having a mate somewhat similar to his own, to breed both the same season to such a sire with a view to the increased profit to both if a well-matched pair be thus obtained. A French Coach, cr a Cleveland Bay sire possessing line style and ' spirit, is preferable, for there is a strength of breeding in the case of! such sires that makes the handing I ■down of their own characteristics to I their offspring quite certain, even I when the dams arc not altogether ' similar to them in form and color. ; These two breeds arc specially noted | as possessing such form, spirit and good “action - ’ as to make them par- j ticularly desirable as carriage horses, i Good results in breeding for matched ; pairs may c mic when well-built trotting bred stallions are used, but the past breeding of such animals usually : makes the chance of uniformity of i form and color in the offspring de- j cidedly remote. Attempting to secure such uniformity can certainly result in no loss, if the attempt be made as sugge f ed, while it may re-• suit in a quick sale and a largely increased profit. Agricultural Atoms. Plant deep in dry weather; shallow in wet. Keep the weeds out and the crust broken. Cut your grass early, it is more appetizing. Grow such crops as are adapted to your soil. One can plant more than he can ! cultivate. It is better not to stir a porous soil too much. Right planning saves both time and labor. Do A little thinking and contriving every day. Broad tires on the farm save the . moist turf. Foor feed and care are worse than ' hard work. I Have a field of clover growing j every year. Grow a little something else be- I sides wheat. Don’t plant corn until the soil is well warmed. Insoluble fertilizers are of no practical use. All fertilizers should be well mixed with the so : l. Plow deep, according to the character of flic soil. There are no weed seeds in com- i mercial fertilizers. Small farms do best because they ; they are best tilled. A clay soils needs much care to • keep it from baking. It is a great mistake to stint in amount oPgra-s seed. Turnips Instead of Slop. A correspondent says: Last year I had an acre that was too wet to plant in corn. About the 15th of Au- j gust I sowed two-thirds of it in i turnip seed. I would have sowed all of it, but 1 did not want to fool away so much time. Late in the fall I pulled 150 bushels of turnips. 1 tried to sell them in the home market. One merchant finally offered to take one or two bushels a week at fifteen j cents a bushel, provided 1 would take j

it all in trade. As I did not know what to do with so much merchandise 1 let tne trade to by. 1 was feeding 100 head of hogs on corn and slop made of wheat middlings. I fed turnips instead of slop and found they did as well on corn and turnips as they had done on corn and slop, I cut with a corn knife a bushel basketful of them twice a day and fed to four milch cows. There was an increase in the milk. The flavor of the milk from three of the cows was unchanged, while that from the fourth one (a greedy eater) was considerably tainted by the turnips. With a favorable fall a good crop can be raised, if sowed as late as September. The Sawbuck. This cut, Fig. 10, shows a sawbuck extension, useful where the timber is long. The same principle of construction is shown in the ordinary ® // A buck, Fig. 11. In Fig. 12 we give an improvement to the ordinary buck that will bo apparent to any one who would like to work his big two man cross cut saw alone. The sawing arm into which the saw is inserted is slotted, as the saw will require freedom to slip up and down in the slot and is fastened by a pin through the cross slot.—Farm and home. Successful I'lanting.

A good experiment was made in timber planting by B. Hathaway of Michigan, which he reported in the Prairie Farmer. He set 150 trees, alternating with sugar maple and white pine, one rod apart, along the roadside. They were placed on the west or windward side of his cultivated farm. They have served as a windbreak for twenty years. He has also set a line entirely of maples which he procured from a natural growth some miles away. The maple being an easy tree to transplant, very few were lost. From these maples he has made syrup and sugar for ten years without harm to the trees. This reminds us of a plan partly carried out by another person. The public road passes through his farm with a slight and uniform ascent. Planting a line of sugar maple trees ten feet apart along the border of the road he proposes to tap them for sap as soon as they arc old enough and to connect them all by a small wooden or tin trough extending from tree to tree, and thus collect the sap from the whole in these successive troughs at the bottom of the descent into a suitable evaporating pm, where the pure sap can I eevaporated into white and crystalline sugar.—Country Gentleman. Notes From the Dairy, A poor cow is a dead weight which will drag a man to the bottom of the slough of despond. Better buy your milk and butter । of the neighbors than to keep a cow ; that will not pay her keeping. j Educate the butter-maker and | slaughter the po r cow, if you expect i to make any money out of dairying. | Short pasture makes a short yield of milk unless supplemented with a i grain ration and plenty of fodder । corn. I Do unto voir cows as you would have them do uut > you. If you arc ■ stingy with feed they will be stingy ; with milk.

I There is no grain equal to oats for i feeding to cahes, and mixed with ; ground corn there is no better fool ■ for milch cows. : There is hope for poor butter- ' makerp as thevcan be educated; but , lor poor cows there is none, as they ' cannot be made over. j As well expect to reach the top of ; a flight of stairs by climbing up two ' steps and failing down three as to ex- . pect to make any profit on a poor I cow. j The axiom “A penny saved is | worth two earned” is practically illusi tratcd by feeding unthreshed oats to ■ cows and calves. Try it once, and i you will never waste any time, money, ! and labor in threshing oats. j Os course, after milking your cows ' all summer you know what each can j do, and whether you are milking her I at a profit or a loss, so you will have I no trouble in telling which c.. s to j sell to the butcher. i Ir is easier to keep a cow up to her i regular flow of milk with a little feed : than it is to bring her back to it j after she has shrunk off it, with a ; good deal of feed. This is an in- ’ stance where “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”—Corre- । spondent Farm, Stock and Home. Pruning Shrubs. i Late summer and fall blooming 1 shrubs may ba pruned this month and । make a much better appearance ’ through the winter. They may be ! pruned as sharply as desired, for the i bloom coming on the young shoots will then have an opportunity to grow i between spring and the blooming i period. The novice will note that ■ this fall pruning applies tolate bloomingplants. Spring blooming shrubs j should receive their main cutting

soon after blooming, in order that the young wood on which will come the following season's flowers may have an opportunity to get the required growth. Serious mistakes are often made on the season for pruning, as the thousands of llowerless shrubs throughout the country bear mute witness. So-called landscape gardners (self-stvied) are at the bottom of the mischief, going over grounds in the early spring and ruthlessly cutting without regard to the season for blooming. Buy Good Cattle. We have advised dairymen who wish to improve their herds to attend public sales of pure-bred dairy stock and buy cows or bulls, if they can do so at reasonable prices. At a recent sale of Guernseys, in Philadelphia, the average made was about 380, some cows selling mu Ti below that figure. A good pure-bred dairy cow is worth from $75 to SIOO if she is fed and cared fur as she ought to be. This is not mere say so, but can be proved by figures from actual practice. We don’t advise anyone to buy a pure-bred cow with the expectation of having her prove her superiority over a scrub unless she be given a fair chame to do so, for disappointment will be the result. But if one is capable of giving a cow generous treatment (and this includes care as well as feed) he will find the most profit in keeping the best cow he can buy or breed. At the sale mentioned, we noticed that a bull < aif sold for $9, which was low cnofl^l to suit the purse of almost anyone. We don’t understand why it is that so many dairymen will breed to common or grade bulls when pure-bred ones can be so cheaply bought. It is about time that the prejudice against “fancy” stock was (’one away with. Fancy stock, nowadays, means the most profitable sto k that a farmer can keep. Think it over; ask your pure-bred sto -k-keeping neighbor for figures; read the papers and compare results from keeping the best stock with those you have been content with so long.—National Sto 'kman. A 1 odder Drag. Take two poles 14 feet long, 2 cross pieces, 2 standards, 3 standard braces, 2 cross braces from standard to the runners; another cross stick: all secured with bolts. Take the hind wheels off a wagon, make a tongue for it, mount the drag with pins through the end Ise a Ij-inch augur for holes. With this contrivance one man can haul as much fodder as two men with a frame on a wagon.—Practical Farmer. Aly Year's Profit. Alj' poultry account for 1891 was not large, but it shows that poultry will pay for itself if eared for in the right way. The feed cost $27. 04, find they were credited with eggs sold to the amount of 6.79, chicke. ; 26.25, eggs used 26.53 and 5 bbls manure at 75c, 3.75, making a total in -ome of 63.29, and leaving a profit of 3 .25 Th" account docs nut include the chickens eaten, and values the eggs eaten at 25c nor doz. i have kept 18 hens most of the time. My hens are Barred Plymouth Kocks, which 1 think cannot be excelled for all pur poses. It took me only about2o minutes each day to take care of them, or three hours a week, wh ch gave me 2(c an hour. 1 set 82 eggs and hatched out 78 chicks. My hens laid 1605 eggs, or 133) dor., an average of 89 1-6 eggs per hen. The her* were kept shut up from April to September and let out a few minutes before dusk two nights a week. I change cockerels every ) lar and think this is the reason the egg. hatch so well. — W. IT. Miller, Jr., Westchester Co., New York. Hints t I< -. sekee->crs.

Pct salt on th:'hot clinkers in vom stove or range after raking down the fire, and it will remove them. I Orange peel drie 1 and grated makes a yellow powder that is delicious tor favoring cakes and pud- : dings. Flint glass ground to a powder and ' mixed with the white of an egg I makes one of the strongest cements I known, : Galvanized ai tides may bocleaned ' by a solution of one part of borax to i eight parts of water. Hub on well with a brush. To remove bits of paint from win- ' dow glass, put some sola in very hot ! water and wash ■ the glass with it, using soft flannel. One of the easiest ways to catch up a superfluity of water on y air ' color picture is to lay on a clean sheet ' of blotting paper. Dark brown sugar slowly dissolved in a little water on the stove fur- : nishes a syrup scarcely inferior to the , product of the maple. Peel off the yellow skin of a lemot : rejecting the white, cover wit h alcohol and in a few days a pure lemon extract will be ready for use. j Wet boots and shoes may be. kept i from shrinking out of shape when drying, if. as soon as taken off, they I are tigh: y tailed with newspapers. If the .-d vepipes are found to be 1 rusted when taken down, rub thoroughly with lard. The good pipes may also be preserved in the same ! way. Oilcloths should never be washed iin hot soapsuds, they .should first be washed clean with lukewarm water, | then rubbed dry with a cloth wet in milk. Water without shade loses half its value to the hogs: both are necessary in the pasture in the summer.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSON. Reflections of an Elevating* Character— Wholesome Food for Thought — Studying the Scriptural Lesson Intelligently and Profitably. Work Among the Gentiles. The lesson for Sunday, December 4th, may be found in Acts xiv. 8-22. introductory. Here is an experience more or less familiar to teacher and preacher. We all of us have had our attention called to some individual in the class or congregation to whom we have more directly addressed ourselves. The homiletieal professor sometimes advises su h a course. The alert or convicted listener certainly stirs the speaker to new and unwonted interest. The writer recalls the experience of a classmate, to which he has been more than once prompted to make reference. “I was preaching along.” he said—(it was in the sort of trial preaching of student ar.ys) — “in a dull, heavy way, trying to find my bearings, and, with no help from my audience, pulling myself along by main strength. All at once from over back of the stove, on the left of the house, there came a sonorous ‘Amen!’ You ought to have seen me go for that man! He waked me up, and from that time on I had a good time.” More than one halting discourse las teen saved in this way—God bless the good deacon! And more than one of us has glimpsed the responsive t ar in the eye of conviction or persuasion, and Iras gone on to new illumination of the truth. May the man ready to be healeJ be found and felt in church and Sunday-school to-day. WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. There sat, or was sitting. Imperfect tense. Impotent. A direct translation from the Greek (byway of the Latin); literally, unable. He was a partial paralytic. Walked. From the Greek here comes our peripatetic. Speak, or speaking, talking, present participle. Steadfastly behol ling.— Looking with fixed attention. A word of frequent occurrence in Ihe New Testament. Luke 4: 20; Acts 3: 4; Acts 11: 6, etc. Faith to be healed, i. e., saving faith. Infinitive with the article. Loud voice. Greek, great voice. Upright. Flace 1 last in the Greek, more emphatic, And he leaped and walked. Stronger in the original; leaped up and went to walking. What Paul had dore. As the world saw it. To us The preposition of nearness or association: i. e., to dwell with us. Jupiter. Greek: Dios or Zeus.Mercurius. Greek: Hermes. The Latin terminology is used in the translation. Mercury was the son of Jupiter and the messenger and interpreter of the gods, the patron of eloquence, etc. Before the city, i. e., his temple was there. Would have done sacrifice. Or wished to do sacrifice. A complacent and accommodating religion, ready to adopt innovations. Christianity is, on the contrary, uncompromising. Stood around about him. Or, encircled. A pathetic touch. It -would wake up a good many fainting pastors to have the church stand about. Taught many. The word means to make disciples. Confirming. Signifying etymological-

Ay l^CUUiv to rest or lean upon, to settle upon.- We must, tr,it is neceseary. Thus forewarning and so foreariqing. The word and before exhorting is added by the translators. The sense is rather tl at the d sciples were confirmed by means of this wise exhortatk n. WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. Faith to be healed. Let us not make a mistake. It was not quantity but quality of faith; it was not faith enough to be healed, but rather was it healing faith. The Christian herald does not ask how much faith, or what amount, in proffering salvation. Degree of faith counts for something, but later on. Here it is kind of faith, genuineness and reality of faith that is scrutinized. The woman who touched the hem of Christ’s garment had a very little faith, but it was the real thing; and that is wonderfully efficacious under God. So here this lame man had but one thing, a small thing but specific, definite—he had faith to be healed. Let faith keep pace with need. This is the simple, humble life in Christ. “Believe ami keep on believing. ” The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. What if they had accepted the homage, and settled down to enjoy their advantage, making the most out of it! It has been done. Our brother pastor has been telling us of the Unitarian missionary dispatched to some part of Japan. The word presently comes back, “Send us another: this one has turned Buddhist.” Likely enough, if there be no divine Christ to constrain. The test came to Faul and Barnabas, and right there they proved the divineness and other worldliness of their faith. It is a common missionary experience. There conies a time when by yielding, but a little, it would seem, to the Fagan spirit he can apparently win much for his cause. But beware. Witness Catholicism abroad, and its wicked conformities and perversions. Nay, do not these things. “Worship God!” Ho left not himself without witness in that he did good. God’s goodness is his prevailing witness. So long as men live they have testimony of God in the daily mercies enjoyed, in this sense there is no man without tho ever-present and persistent proofs of God’s guard and guide. Only sin dulls us to the apprehension of it; and so a Savior is sent suited to sinners, fitted to arouse them out of sin's lethargy. But here is a truth that ought oftener to be emphasized. The natural man is without excuse. God’s speech is all about hit 1. God besets him behind and before, His mercy endureth. To accept Jesus, as intimated in last Sunday’s lesson, suggestively at least, is but to “continue in the grace of God.” Does not the goodness of Co l lead to repentance? Confirming the souls of the disciples. Have a cate, pastor, teacher. It is not enough to snatch a soul from tho burning. Tho foul must be built up and strengthened, settled, in the life of godliness. Here comes in pastoral work. No pulpit occupant can dispense with it, if ho cares for the souls committed to his charge. Here come in the teachers’ visits in tho home. Every instructor should follow up his teachings. Most of all, perhaps, to-day, our churches need this sort of “conlirming.” Next lesson—“ The Apostolic Council.” Acts 15; 12-29.

THEY ARE PLEASED. Prohibitionists Satisfied with Their Showins: at the Polls. “Leaders of the Prohibition party are very much encouraged over the results cf the election just passed,” said C. L. Stevens, editor of the Lever, the official organ of that party. He continued: “We think the National vote will run to about 325,000, against 250,000 for 1883. In the Western States, such as Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota, where the People’s party movement was very strong, we lost some from our vote of four years ago. On the other hand, in most of the States east of the Mississippi River, and in lowa ami Cali ornla, we made substantial gains. Nearly every Sta'c shows so-ne increase over 1888. I belie, e that the official returns will show the increase in Illinois to be the greatest of any State. Indiana made good ga : nand also New lork, including New York Ci y, and most of the New England States." The Vote. Mr. Stevens gives the so lowing table as a conserv .ti e estimate of the Prohii bition vote by Sta es. 18x8. 1802. । Alabama 553 &:to Arkansas (14 I.COO California 5,7(1 15,000 Colorado 2.1 1 2,200 Connecticut 4,.;54 4.000 Delaware 4'o 800 Florida 417 800 Georgia...., 1,808 1,800 Idaho COO 1 Illinois 21.6^5 30,000 1 Indiana 9,581 16,000 i lowa 3,(50 8,000 ■ Kansas 6,779 7,000 I Kentucky 5,223 8,000 ' Louisiana ico 150 i Maine 2,691 4,000 ; Maryland 4,767 7,000 ! Massachusetts 8,701 9,000 ; Michigan 20,043 21,0CX) Minnesota 15,316 16,000 Mississippi 218 2,000 i Missouri 4,539 5,000 I Montana 400 i Nebraska.. 9,429 9,500 I Nevada 41 ICO New Hampshire 1,594 1,700 i New Jersey 7,939 10,(XX) New York 20,231 41,000 North Carolina 2,787 5,000 North Dakota .... 1 Ohio 24,356 30,000 : Oregon 1,677 2,000 Pennsylvania. 20,947 26,(XX) Rhode Island 1.251 1,800 Tennessee 5,369 6,000 Texas 4,749 7,000 Vermont 1,469 1,700 Virginia ’.683 6,000 Washington 8,000 West Virginia 1,084 I.COO ^Visconsin 14.277 15,000 j Totals 249,945 827,350 FOUR MEN KILLED IN A WRECK. Negligence of a Switchman Causes a Fatal I Accident in Nebraska. A Grand Island, Neb., dispatch says: At Alda Siding, eight miles west of ! Grand Island, expiess tra n No. 8, going : at a speed of forty-live miles an hour, ' crashed into an extra freight train standing on the switch. i The passenger train, which was duo here at 5 o’clock and at Omaha at 10:40, ■ was nearly one l our and a half late, I and, striking the grade west of Alda, ‘ Engineer McDonald determined to mako up some of the time, and pulled the j throttle open. The freight engine had been doing considerable switching on the siding. After the work had been completed the engine was comparatively : dead at the head of the siding. The morning was feggy, and unmindful of danger and secure in the thought that j the switch was properly placed, the engineer and fireman of the extra waited • for the passenger tra n to rush by. I But the switch had not been closed and the passenger train brought death to four men and fatally wounded three others through criminal negli ence of the switch tender. The men killed were: J. W. Keller, conductor of the freight. Grand Island. He leaves a widow and two children. Barney McDonald, engineer of the passenger, Ni rt 1 Platte. • Leaves a widow, but no children. Gus Barrett, engineer of the freight, North Platte. Leaves a widow and three children. Ira Owens, fireman of the freight, North Platte. Leaves a wife and five children. The injured are: William Costeila, fireman of the passenger, Grand Island; single; badly scalded; both ankles fractured and will probably die. William Sutherland, brakeman on the freight, Grand Island; single; caught in wreck and feet broken. A. M. Lyons, mail agent, Kearney; head wounded and leg fractured. No passengers were injured. Both engines are wrecked, while the mail and baggage cars are badly damaged. In-ide of half an hour a relief train from Grand Island was on the scene with physicians to look after the wounded and all passenger and baggage were transferred from the wreck to the relief train, which reached Omaha at 3 o’clock. MRS. LEASE IS WILLING. If the People of Kansas Desire It She Will Become a Senator. Topeka, Kan., special: Mrs. M. B. Lease has just made the first authoritative statement concerning the use of her name in connection with the United States Senatorship. She arrive! in town last night, and this morning she held a reception at her hotel. She announces to all callers that she would accept the Senatorship if it was offered her, but she would not engage in the scramble for the place. ”1 shall not enter the ra e for the place,” she said. “The office should seek the woman as well as the man. When I say I shall make no fight I say it with this proviso: That I am not attacked { solely because lam a woman. There is one very peculiar fact connected with my candidacy. I have received hundreds of letters of encouragement from men since the announcement of my candidacy, tut not one from a woman. I am the only woman who has e\er been mentioned in connection with a place of this kind, and I naturally expec:ed some encouragement from my sex. A letter from Miss Anthony, fcr example, or a word of encouragement from Mrs. Joyns. Single-handed and alone I have done more for woman suffrage than all of them. I had a suffrage plank incorporated in the Populists’ platform, Ind I forced the Republican party to do the same thing. If the politicians see fit to attack me because o . my sex I shall fight this thing to a finish ' as a matter of principle. ” Sparks from the Wires. A foot of snow has fallen at Duluth. The Cuban sugar crop is estimated at l 974,575 tons, | It is said Chairman Harrity has been offered a Cabinet position. I Mr. Blaine is recovering from his ! recent attack of illness. ' Seventy people left Enterprise, Kas., to form a colony in Mexico. i The Little Rock Commercial College, at Little Rock, Aik., has assigned. Judge Cooley, of lowa, left an es- ■ tate of $350,000 to his wife and childrea.

NATURAL GAS FAILING MANY RESERVOIRS OF THE FLUID ALMOST EMPTY. Pressure Fast Decreasing—Warning Cir* cular Issued by the Fort Wayre Company—The Supply May Give Out Entirely —Farmers Going West. In the Gas Field. That the reckless consumption of natural gas during the last ten years has almost emptie i the vast subterranean reservoirs of this inflammable fluid seems certain. From many points where natural gas Las for years been aln ost the only form of fuel used come accounts of decreasing pressure in the wells, constantly failing supply, and in many cases total cessation of the flow of gas. At Lima, < hio, Fort Wayne, Connersville and other Indiana towns the deficiency has been so great as to compel the closing of many factories. In hundroJs of instances families which relied on gas for heating and cooking purposes haveTcen obliged to recur to coal stoves, and occasionally suffering has been caused by lack of fuel where adequate precautions against a failure of the natural-gas supply had not been tak n. Warning Circular Issued!. Th) following clrcu’ar, recently sent cut to its patrons by the Salimonie Mining and Gas Company of Fort Wayne, Ind., one of the largest purveyors of natural gas in the State, shows the straits to whi:h consumers are reduced: To Our Pati-ons:

The supply of natural gas is certainly failing throughout our field, and the experience of cities in Ohio promises to be duplicated in Indiana. After considering the matter for some time our board reluctantly consented to the expenditure of ilio.eoo more for the betterment of our supply and service to consumers. The expense is both great and hazardous in view of the experience cf ether cities. The additional lines and wells are now being pushed as rapidly as possible, and with fairly good weather we hope to give better service in the next three weeks. We fear from present indications it will be necessary to turn off all factories, but this step will not be taken until absolutely necessary. In the meantime we would advis j all manufacturers to secure a supply of coal and be prepared to have gas turned off at any time on short notice. We sincerely hope our friends will bear with us and do their utmost to assist us in the present emergency. Lima. Ohio, three years ago had a rock pressure on her line of 3io pounds, being much above the Indiana field: to-day it has fallen to 0 pounds and pumps are being put in to help force the gas to consumers. All her churches, school houses and public buildings have been shut off entirely and not a boiler is supplied at any price. This circular is not issued to alarm the public, but to enlist their co-operation and bring about a pi oper use of gas and avoid all waste and extravagant use of the same. Natural gas is certainly the “champagne of fuels" and should be so used. He who wastes a foot, of it now is not only an enemy of the company) but also a public enemy. We are arranging for a display of gas-saving appliances, which we will have ready by the latter part of next month, of which you will bo duly advised. Salimonie Mining and Gas Co. GOING FARTHER WEST. Large Numbers of Illinois and Wisconsin Agrieul t urist s Moving. The movemeat of Northern Illinois and Southern Wis onsia farmers to Northern and Western Towa, which has been an important factor in the development of these portions of lowa during the past two or thiee years, is extending further west, says a Sioux City, lowa, correspondent, and this fall hundreds of farmers from Illinois and Wiscons n, and not a few from the Mississippi River counties in lowa, have made purchases in Northern Nebraska and Si.nth with the intention of making their homes in these States in the future. The farmers came out on tho annual harvest excursions given by the railroad companies. Most of them come from about Council Hill, Galena, Pecatcnica, from Kane County, and from the southern counties of Illinois. They invariably buy the Lest farms here and pay cash for them. They sell their old homes lor from S4O to S7O an acre, and are able to buy the best farms here for irom 318 to S3O per acre. This leaves them enough money to put on good improvements after paying cash for their farms and still have a neat balance left to their credit. B ‘tfer Farmers. This movement to the West has had a great deal to do with its development. It is an un leniable fact that the Illinois and Wisconsin men are Letter farmers than those they found in possession of the country. They use more machinery and give more attention to the breeding of stock and to dairy farming. They are responsible for the wonderful growth of the dairy business throughout lowa, and are developing it as rapidly in the new fields they are seeking in NeLraska and South Dakota. They build 1 etter houses and their farms are neater in appearance. A person can come very near to picking out their places in driving through the country. Those who 1 ought this fall already have under way or are planning improvements that will add greatly to the value of their places and at the same time enhance the value of surrounding property. Real estate men agree in saying that it is this immigration that has had more to do than any other one thing in advancing the prices of raw lands in this section, from $1 to $6 to $lO to sls, and of improved lands from $lO to S2O to from sls to $25 during the past two years. Their cor dug has been a relief to many a mortgage-ridden Western farmer, tvho has received from them the money in exchange for ids farm with which to clear away his indebtedness and s’art anew on a gooc fcothold. The farmer who sells generally buys cheaper lands in the same neighborhood er raw lands and starts in again. This year the sales to Illinois and Wisconsin farmers have L^on 40 per cent, greater than ever before, and it is estimated that the farm population of the country within a radius of 150 miles of this city will, in the next eight months, be increased by at least 8,000 persons, because of their removal to purchases made in this ar c a. The fierce competition of rival water companies has enabled the people of Denver to get their water for nothing, and they are looking anx- ; :>iy fur a similar outbreak of rivalry am<ng the saloon men. Since his victory over Sullivan in the prize ring Corbett is said to have shaken hands with four million people. all of which goes to show that the man appointed for the removal of the unwise is not doing his work as he should do it. It is utterly impossible for the best men to please the whole world: and the sooner this is understood, and a position taken in view of this fact, the better. Do right, though you have enemies.