St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 30, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 11 February 1893 — Page 5

agricultural Tories. A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. No Necessity for a Big Crowd of Men to Dress a Few Hog*—Gomi Way to Tighten Wagon Tiros—Raising Valuub o IlorsesGencral Farm Notes.

improved Method of Slaughtering Ilogs. There is no necessity to have a crowd of men about, to kill and dress a few hogs, says a corresj undent of the American Agriculturist. There is no reason why a farmer with his dozen pigs may not make use of some of the simple mechanical appliances that are used by the great slaughterers. Os course it is not suggested that he should have any costly apparatus, but the e are some readilvmadqdevices by which one man may do as much as three or four, and. with one helper, the dozen pigs may be I made into finished pork between j breakfast and dinner, and without ; any excitement or worry or bard ' work. It is supposed that the pigs : are in a pen or pens, where they may I be easily roped by a noose around one j hind leg. This being done the ani- 1 mal is led to the door and guided into

box, having a slide door to shut it ( > The bottom of the box is a i .^aged lid. As soon as the pig is j ,*<*ntely in the box and shut in by sliding down the back door, and fasten-' ing it by a hook, the box is turned over, bringing the pig on his back. | The bottom of the box is opened im mediately, and one seizes a hind foot, to hold the animal, while the other sticks the pig in the usual manner. The box is turned and lifted oil from the pig, which, still held bv the rope, is guided to the dressing bench. All this is done while the previous pig is being scalded and dressed, or at such a part of the work that as soon as one pig is hung and cleaned, the next one is ready for the scalding. The scalding vat is a wooden box with a sheet iron bottom, so that a small tiie may be Kept under it to maintain the proper heat of the water. This is 180 degrees Fahr, or 82 degrees C. Or the vat may be replenished wit h hot water from an adjacent boiler. This vat is placed close against the diessing

table, so that the carcass may be rolled on to a barred table that is immersed in the Lot water the full depth. This haired table may be made in various ways. It may con- i sist of slats, fastened at each end, ! and the middle to chains, by strong I staples, so that it is pliable, and the । hog may be embraced by it and easily turned out of the water by two short rope handles, or one attached to a ' pulley block on a bar over it. As the I carcass is dressed it is lifted bv a hook at the end of a swivel lever, mounted on a post and swung around to the hanging bar. placed con-j veniently. This bar hassliding hooks, made to receive the gambrel sticks which have a hook permanently attached to each so that the carcass is l -quickly it'moved from the swivel lever to the slide hook on the I ar. The upper edge of the bar is rounded and smoothed and greased to help the hooks to slide on it. This serves to .hang all the pigs on the bar until they are cooled. If lour persons are employed, this wore may go on very quickly, as they may divide the work between them, and one pig be scalding and cleaning while another is being dressed. The entrails should be dropped into a wheel-barrow, as they are taken from the animal. Where ten or twelve pigs are dressed everv year it will pay to have a suitable building arranged for it. An excellent place may be made in the driveway between a double corn-crib, or an a wagon shed or an annex t o the barn where the feeding pen is placed. The building should have a stationary boiler in it, and such apparatus as has been suggested, and a windlass used to do the lifting.

How to Keep Wagoa Tires Tight. Wagon tires get loos? in very dry. ' hot weather from two causes, the •chief of which is the shrinkage of the wood of the felloes. It is a no or 1 plan to wet the felloes and thus swell • the wood, for it will very soon dryout .and leave the tires as loos' as ever. If, however, the wood be soaked in boiling linseed oil it will he swelled and the tires tightened as perman ntly as though cut or upset by a : blacksmith. A writer in the Ohio । Farmer gives the following mstrue- - tions for doing this: "Make a trough a little wider and a little deeper than the felloes of the wheel. Heat linseed oil to the boiling point, and ; at this temperature pour in the trough. Have everything so arranged ! that you can immediately turn the ' wheel slowly through this boiling oil. Two or three revolutions are sufficient. Then take the next wheel, i One heating is sufficint for four wheels, if the work is rapidly done. ! Better, however, add a little boiling oil after the second wheel is soak, d. . Have sufficient oil in the trough to I cover the felloes. After the wheels arc all attended to the oil may be poured into a vessel and kept till the next occasion. The skeptic of course says it will do no good. The oil cannot contract the tire. It is immaterial whether the oil contracts the tire or expands the wood. We do know that it makes a perfect job. On one occasion it so firmly tightened the tire that the spokes beyy.n to bend. This process of tightening tires is far preferable to that of the blacksmith. The wheel retains its original shape better. If wagon wheels are so treated once a year ' they are able to endure the hot and dry season. The whole cost will be a few cents' woith of oil to the wheel and a few minutes’ work. ” Raising Valuable Horses. Many farmers seem to be in donut as to what kind of animals they bad

better raise. Some men like dogs far better than any other domestic animal. All such men had better deal in dogs. Some men have no inclination to own and marage any' animals but horses; others think more of sheep, and still others care for no live stock except neat cattle. Occasionally a man says: “I prefer bees to any other live stock, or to any mechanical industry.” ordinarily a successful apiarist would not succeed satisfactorily at raising horses, neat cattle, ;or sheep. When a man cares more i for a horse than for any other live : stock, he will seldom succeed in tihe ' management of sheep or bees. It will require a much longer time and far more care and lai or to acquire a thousand dollars by raising horses than to produce a thousand dollars’ worth of neat cattle, sheep, or dogs. If one raises sheep and produces wool and mutton, he can get cash returns for early lambs and the wool and mutton every year. If he raises bullocks for the beef market, be will be required to wait at least three years before he can dispose of his animals at satisfactory prices. Ordinarily a horse will not have attained to his most valuable condition until he is from four to six years old. Rut in order to succeed with horses one must be an expert and intelligent manager. When the writer was a young farmer, his only team consisted of two breeding mares which did all the work on a farm, going to mill and market and places of public resort, and each one reared a colt every season. But those mares were never banged around before or after foaling. They were driven quietlv at a moderate gait. If I were about to raise colts again, I would calc date to.have the colts foaled in autumn or winter- -a season of the year when the mares would have little labor to perform. The de- ■ maud is for sound, strong, and large horses. Let beginners recollect that । it will cost no more to rear and train I a horse that will bring a paving price than to rear and train a scrub that nobody would care to purchase at any price.

General I arm Hints. Look out for the colts at pasture when the storms come on. i If you own a g o<>l oar he never i should be allowed to be taken oil the ■ farm. Ie your hogs are not profitable investigate and see if your system of management is at fault. I lx buying a creamery get one that j has plenty of ice space so that big : chunks of ice can be put in. I Many farmers wear out fifty dolj lars worth of horse flesh in a year trying to save buying a ten dollar plow. Manu re can be hauie i out and ap- • plied at any time during tl.c fa: and I winter when the other work will per- । mit. I Dried perspiration should not be ; allowed to remain on the purse: it conduces t > skin dbea-" and para- । sites. j t^sLixcs are the easiest of any i young fowls to rear. They al- > row : more tapidly than oti.i r loath re ' thing. On the average farm it is a < ' ' plan to p ant out a few fruit tree: every year in order to ke p up tin supply. G ion shelter will reduce flu amount of load re jtiired t •winter. ■ and consequently reduce the cost o both mu'ton and wool. j A hard, dry floor, that never be comes a puddle in rainy weather, anc i that can be swept or raked clean oma j a day, is a good floor for a pou'tij house. j It costs more to winter than t< summer a calf that must be fed or , : milk, and a fall calf is ready to taxi advantage of grass in th? spring while a spring calf must, be winterec ' on dry feed. B ines make a valuable fertilizer i and may easily me made available ' for use by burning and crushing them ! Do not stiller them to lie around, e I nuisance and an eve-sore, but utilize ; them to make crops grow.

I’or the Housewife. To cure insomnia eat onions, ran if possible, and Lathe tiie feet iu ho' water, just before retiring. The wise picture framer will paste light manilla paper oycf the back o' every frame, as it effectually prevents dust from reaching the pictures. .a ti asboonfi l of lime water in a cup of milk is an excellent reined} for delicate children whose digestion is weak: it is al-o beneficial to persons suffering from acidity of the stomach. It gives no unpleasant taste to the milk. A corn cure that is simple and said to be very effective is to apply a pinch of common white chalk scraped to a powder. Bind it against the corn with a linen rag. Hepeat this for several days, and unless very obstinate the corn will come off like a shell. A simple device for cooling the -tore clo ct when it open- oilt of the k tchen and is located on the .-tinny -Ale of the house is to have a hole cut in the floor, covered over with wi.e netting, so as to ] ermit the cool air to pass out of the cellar into the closet. The cool air coming in contact with the warmer air ot the Kitchen makes a ccn taut circulation. An eminent children’s physician is reported as saying that infants generally whether brought up at breast or artificially, will in warm, dry weather, take water every hour with adva .tage. and the r frequent ff’etlulness and rise of temperature are often due to their not having it. In teething, spoonfuls of water given every hour oroftencr, cool and soothe the gums, and this with larger cooling evaporation, often stops the fretting and rcstfulness so univeisai at this period.

A CHANGE IN TIIE FIRM IT WILL SOON BE "UNCLE SAM & DEM." Immense Interests Involved In the Shift of Administrations—Actual Expenditures Amount to Ten Millions a Week, Whichever Political Party Is “lu the Concern.” Machinery of the Government. Washington correspondence: In a very short while the firm of “Uncle Sam A Bop.” will be dissolved. The business will still be conducted at the old stand, but now managers will come in and take the places of those now in control. This is the mightiest business transfer the world has ever seen. No other nation lias such vast interests, measured by the amount of money or number of people involved. Great Britain would be an exception to this if all the operations of that empire wore managed from the central seat of government in London, but they’ are not. Three-fourths of Iho empire is colonial, under homo rule, except in certain matters This is the only nation which do s a “business” every year of $500,000,000. Fix an adequate conception of a sum of money like this in your mind, if you can. The chances are you can’t. The greatest business house in the world, that of the Armours, of Chicago, handles a million dollars a week; the greatest tailway system, the Pennsylvania, including all lines, $3,600,000 a week. Uncle Sam's transactions in actual expenditures reach the astonishing total of about $10,000,000 a weeA. This amount must necessarily increase A GREAT GOVERNMENT MVBEAV. as the years go Uy. Not only is the country growing at a prodigious rate, but the fun tions of government are being extended to fields unheard and uuthought of tyfew years ago. ■ Here is a city of 250,000 souls built up wholly ! y government Tako away from Washington the public employment and there would bo little left Every third family in town draws its support from the Government pay-roll and the other two live by supplying Un' wants of the first. Stand on one of the main thoroughfares of the capital at 6:45 in the morning and you fall to see the throngs of people rush ng to their work which are present nt that hour on the streets of other cities. But just two hours later every sidewalk will be traversed by crowds of men and women moving toward the doors of the great Government departments, l ive minutes niter 9 the streets arc almost desorted. T wenty-five hundred people have gone to their desks in the Treasury Department, marly two thousand in tho Pension oTo e, tw© thousand la th" big War. Stsile an i Navy Building, a thousand in the Interior Department, another thousand in the Government ITmtlng Office, and thousands n ore in the other department*- and bureaus. 1 he visitor to Washington finds a convincing obje t lesson in the tanu n-ity of his Government, for after ho has ma lea tour of the well-known departments and institute ns, tract rsed their long corridors ami seen literal acres of desks and square rods » f ojen ledgers anti records, ha stumbles upon many other Governmen’ bureaus in unexpi vied places. All over the city he finds big buildings rented by Un-ie Sam and converted into hives for the transaction of his almost infinite business. Scattered about each of the prin .pal depa tments are from three to a dozen rented build.ngs into which the business of the bureau has oversown after tilling the s ace originally set apart for it from cellar to garret. To tell the truth, the Government is rapidly outgrowing all of its quarters and many of its methods. The Capitol isn’t leg enough, notwithstanding the recent building of a million-dollar addition in the shape of terrace, and adjacent buildings are bought or rented by Congress. The Census Office, which f 40 w 04 it? ''OrWw w WAITING TO SEE the secretary. has had at times 3,000 employes in this city, has occupied half a dozen buildings, scattered all about. The White House isn’t big enough and will have to be enlarged. The Treasury, which was big enough for all the offices under its lontroi twenty-five years ago, is now dreadfully crowded, though bureau after bureau has moved out and found quarters elsewhere. The Congressional or National Library, now housed in the Capitol, is one of the strangest jumbles of literature and rubbish you ever saw, with books piled all over the floors and filling every nook and cranny. The finest library building in the world will soon be ready for its occupancy. To describe for you even in the most general and rapid way the great variety of functions filled by Government would take pages instead of columns of type. Take, for example, the Department of the Interior. It has become one of the most prodigious of all the Government bureaus. For a quarter of a century it has been the dump-heap into which everything that could not be elsewhere

attached has been thrown. The result is that it has grown to cumbersome proportions. It is unwieldy, and a movement is on foot to take many of its bureaus and organize them into a new , Partment to be called the Department of Commerce. This would mean a now cabinet officer, and when the office ik created and fill'd its incumbent will find plenty to <V>. The Secretary of the Interior has un. uer his direction so many huge Government concerns that he can give little or no attention to any of them. Each, therefore, becomes a sort of independent bureau, nominally (ontrolled by Lu. ^ CC 4:® tnr y’ ^ ut avttaly “umning » 4u 16 tradition and organization of the department are su h that the nominal head becomes little else than a chief clerk. He must attend to so much routine business in order to fulfill the law, must sign so many letters and nominally pass upon so many reports and documents, that his energies are spent in labor almost entirely clerical. Under such circumstances it is inevitable that more important duties will bo more or less neglected. While other employes finish their work at 4 o’clock sharp and hurry homeward, the Secret<uy remains till fi or 7, and then takes home with him for examination and study matters which he should have attended to during the day, but which it was physically impossible to reach. Imagine a Cabinet officer sitting down to his desk, as the Secretary of the InteHor does every morning, w,th pigeonholes opening before him with such n*rks as “pensions," “railroads,” “publii lands," “Indians,” “census,” “pat ents,” “education." Each of these tiy"S signifies that a vast department of>h®—government demands his attenti>i. The Pension Office pays out meney to a million pensioners, in all $14t»,000.0(10 a year; the land-aided railroads in particular and all railroads in general are under the inspection of the railroad oTco; the millions < f acres of public lands, agricultural and minerai, with their surveys, settlements and litigation, form u responsibility delicate from the human and vast from every other point of view; $7.003,000 a year is the sum spent upon the Indians, and theoretically all th > survivots of the aboriginal American race are under the fostering care of the Secretary of the Interior. The Patent Office is a great de] artmenf in itself, and so is the Census Office. But this is not all. The Secretary of the Interior has charge of the Geological Survey of the great nat onal parks, of irrigation of arid lands,of distribution of funds to ag- I ricultural and median cal colleges in tho ! States an i Territories, of public docu- 1 ments, and of certain hospitals and eleemosynary Institutions. He also exorcises certain lowers and duties in relation to tho Territories of th" United States. And the Secretary of tho Interloris a mere human! As the Government expands it is evident wo must increase the number of our departments an 1 of their responsible beads or Caldnet officers. Every one of tho present Secretaries is sadly overworked. A crowd of people is alwavs waiting to see him. A ie-k full of letters and documents remains .V I Rhl t z I JI ' SlOKlNtl TWO TH r<ANI> LETTERS A DAT untouched. Stenograph-rs and s "retaries await tho moment when th* ir chief may have opportunity to dictate letters to them. Department assistants have Important matters to consult with hin about, and as he talks and tries to think the overworked official must perform the drudgery of "signing the mail," so that the wheels may be kept in motion. An assistant passes the sheets an i manipulates the blotter, thus savin g the Secretary a little manual toil. B what is needed is a subdivision of everincreasing work and responsibility of Government, so that the men who are supposed to lead and direct may have time to think. Lively Competition. A man recently offered to carry the , mails between Boonsborough and Keedysville, Md., daily, except Sunday, free of charge. The distance between the two towns is about three miles, and the bidder th ught thaf he bid low enough to secure the contract. It was not awarded to him, however, for an dher man offeied to do the work for an annual compensation of one cent, and to him the contract was awarded. The man who ^offered to deliver the mail free of charge is now wondering why ho was not permitted to do so. How’s Your Proportion? There are two fixed rules for proportioning the human form; just two. । They are that eight heads (that is, skull lengths), make the total height of the figure and that the invariable center of the total length of the whole figure should be the front termination of the lowest part of the pelvia. Unlucky Engine. The Erie’s old broad gauge No. 74 was regarded as the most unlucky engine that evM- ran on the road. It was used in the Susquehanna yards and is said to have killed thirty-nine persons, including four women and three children. In addition to this seventy men were crippled by this ; engine. l*luo Grass in Georgia. Senator Don Cameron has seeded i 100 acres of his Donegal farm, near i Marietta, with Kentucky bluegrass, ; which he believes will do as well on ' his ground as it does on the historic soil where it is indigenous. He intends to put the nutritious pasturage to the use of fancy blooded stock. Pleasant dreams are the sunshine of the night. ■

IF YOU ARE LN QUEST DF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING: Important Happenings of tiie WeekCrimes aud Casualties — Suicides— Deaths—Weddings, Ltc. Minor Stato Items, The young people of Boonville demand l public library. Diphtheria has disappeared at Tipton and tho quarantine has been lifted. Waterworks carried at the Fair- । mount election by a vote of 422 to 120. ! The >lant will cost £30,000. | Cory L. Briggs, who was injured bv l i bursting emery wheel at South Bend, has died from tho resulting inflammation. '1 here are 4,163 physicians in Indiana, who are actually engaged in the practice if medicine. | It is stated that the narrow guage di* j vision of tiie Monon, between Bedfotd I and Bloomfield, is to be widened to tht | standard width, work to commence about . March 10. J. N. VYestrex, a farmer of Winchester Township, Porter County, has filed ! suit for £5,000 damages against A. J. ’ Bowser, editor of the Charleston Tri- . bune, for libel. William S Crain. Sr., a retired grocer of Lafayette, died of tho infirmities ■of age. He was born in Greene County, ■ Ohio, in 1812. and moved to Tippecanoe County in 1829. James Garrett, aged 23, a young ' farmer of Adams Township, living a few miles south ot Anderson, fell dead while working in a corn field. He had been subject to heart disease. Near Wheatland. Miss Fannie Kensler. while crossing Flat Creek on a log, slipped of! into the water and was 'drowned. Miss Kensler was 17 years chi and was soon to have been married. The barn of Judge B. F. Parks at Valparaiso, was set on tire and entirely destroyed. Sparks set fire to the barn of Mrs. George Pearce, which was badly damaged. Loss, $1.2(>0; partially insured. Joi M< Grannahax. aged 17, was on a hill coasting in Anderson and his sled struck Mrs. Thomas Barnett, knocking her a distance of twenty feet. She struck on her head and was insensible when ’ taken home. , A FEEh.HT train broke through a , I ridge on the Chicago aud Eastern Illim>is road at Atherton. Eighteen cars, loaded with coal and merchaudise, tilled < the ditch. 'Uh" trainmen jumped and escaped with severe bruises. Titi: Executive Committee of the Seventieth lb giment, at Martinsville, <1 eided to change the place of holding tiie reunion next summer from Bethany Park to Indianapolis. Tiie date fixed u Wednesday, Sept. 6, the week of the National Encampment. Pap’ ks Lave I eon signed and now tjnivk City, the latest Indiana boom town, ba* a new factory. It is a mammoth glass concern, winch will, when in full operation, employ upwards of 20 ) skilled workmen. The now company , wei mak*' a 'p.-. .aity *: fancy glassware • and bottles. At Uv* Indiana Iron Works, Muncie, 'J> hn Smith, a roller on t-he ten-inch ’ ini!., had his le*t arm torn oft bv getting ' aught in the "ouplirg. He was othcr'’•Se :r ~la:,. . not recover. Jack .Xi.,"n. Sm tii's help r, I y a superhuman •rt, pull. I him out and prevented tho ii fr *ai i । ing ’ >rn to piee < Ni \K Lak. vU’e, St, Joseph County, Ed - aid I* .K'-ntseher was found lying in tii-* su,,. . [n hf^ hand was a revolver ;;iid in hi-* heg-1 a bullet-hole. He was in h r artc-t - me years ago for the mur- " i <>f ins brother, but was released. '1 i i-, t- z- tl witii money troubles, was ;t >'■ a'dv i l . ■ < ause of the suicide. Jip.i T\ i i on, -.f the Circuit Court .I l ii li.: t", Las rendered an iin- ’ :’a ’ . affecting the State tax ia>v. The First National Bank had a-i I:■r an order restraining the countv and city Teasurcrs from proceeding to collect taxes in) th • assessment made by tae Stat B .arlof Tax Commissioners. Tlu Judge hel 1 that the State Board did not have original jurisdiction to alter the assessment made by the County Board. Under this construction of the law. unless there te an appeal from the action of the County Board, the State Board cannot change the assessment. The bank's assessment was increased more than 8100,000. The Terre Haute brewery had also asked for a restraining order on similar ground. i Tin: formal opening of the new clubhouse of the Fort Wayne Club,which has | just been completed, occurred recently, ' and was the most notable event in Fort I Wayne society for years. Over 1,500 invitations were sent out and a large number of guests from the surrounding cities of this and adjacent States were present. The now home of the Fort Wavne Club, is without doubt the finest clubhouse in Indiana, and there are few cities which can boast a finer one. At present it has a membership of 400 and is rapidly growing. The site, which was purchased immediately after the formation of the club, cost 816,000, the building $20,000, and the furnishings and decorationsslo,000 more, making the total value of tho property acquired by the club about $46,000. j A tramp called at the kitchen-door of Joseph Hardesty's residence at Munce, and the generous elderly housewife in- । vited him in to supper. After the fellow ■ had gorged himself on Mrs. Hardesty's good things he insisted that lie had brought an overcoat in the room. Mrs. Hardesty said tnat he had not, and ordered him out. The fellow then grabbed Mrs. Hardesty and pulled her out the door, just as her aged husband ’ appeared. The latter snatched up an old-fashion shoo-hammer, and was badly worsting the tramp until ho got hold of a jug with which he dealt Mr. Hardesty’ a severe How, knocking him down. Tho tramp then lied, but was arrested • later, and is now serving a sentence on the stone-pile, with a very sore head. The tramp gave the name of John McCarty. । J. 11. Weigan, a farmer in Bartholo- ■ mew County, the other day delivered in ; Columbus fifty head of hogs which aver- ! aged 450 pounds and which brought the I handsome price of $1,600. This is the : best average lot of hogs that has been ; sold in that county since 1865, and the • price is the largest paid since that date. Miss Ti de Stafford of Shelbyville, with her brother attempted to replace a leg ot a stove, when it upset and pinned her clown until one whole side of her body was burned. The brother was able to lift the hot stove off and she was unconscious aud । a dangerous condition v lien released.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. V> ithout a dissenting voice the Senate ilonday passed the bill placing the appointve power of Trustees of benevolent instimtions in the hands of the Governor. Previous to the final passage the Senate aerepted amendments placing the appointment of Metropolitan Police Commissioners .n all cities where the law is operative also under control of the Governor. There was a lively whirl in tiie House over | Mr. Hord's bill making it a misdemeanor to i discharge a man or refuse toemployone be■ause 1 o was a non-unionist It was called on a me t on to reconsider the vote by which it had previously failed of engrossment. The reeonsiderai ion was ordered by a vote of 53 to 22. During the afternoon, however. | after another lengthv deba’e the Unionists i were successful in defeating the engrossment of tiie bill by a vote of 44 to 42. I . .Governor Matthews to-?ay vetoed tho i>ill (his firs’ veto message) introduced by Representative McMullen, requiring courts to continue cases where it is shown that an attorney on either side was a member of tho Legislature and in attendance upon his duties as a legislator. The Governor took the ground that this bill was intended to meet the convenience of lawyers rather I than that of their clients or the public, and j that it might result in great inconvenience ; to witnesses and the courts if it was suffered to become a law. A vote taken on tiie Governor’s message resulted in the veto being sustained—s 4 to 22. Chairman Deen, the Labor Committee, who visited the Prison North, has returned, strongly advocating radical reforms. Ila found that harness was manufactured in the prison which was taken out and labeled with the name of the Columbus (Ohio) Buggy Company, and the shoes made in the prison were labeled as if made by a firm in Chicago. He also found that a firm running a cooperage shop inside the prison walls has one on the outside where discharged con- • riels are employed at $1.25 per day, while i other shops, not so fortunate are paying $2 and $2.25 for honest labor. j The House, Tuesday, sat down hard on the State l.i juor League by killing its pet I ni'-asure, the ••Speak-Easy” bill, designed , t> *omi>eil a'l druggists and otlmrs haudlirg ; liquors, to pav the State saloon license of SIOO. i New hills wore introduced as follows: To i regulate paxing ami sewer building in i towns: t" amend road laws; to regulate easi ing and plugging of gas and t>'l wells: to abolish capital punishment: to provide for I grading streets in unincorporated towns; ; providing for recording of town ordinances; I to exempt farm lands in cities from city tax- । at ion: to prohibit overcharges on freight; providing for monthly reports from State Pri -ons. i Mr. Culbip's insurance bill, requiring companies d pay the fail face value of policies when property is destroyed, or full pro rata o*i th" los- su-tzined, camo upon thirdread- , ing ami was passed. I The Populists and Prohibitionists are to have no watchers at the polls in Indiana. Th<* Senate argued an amendment to the I ballot law providing for this, all day, but it ■ was finally laid on the table. Senator M"Greggor's bill providing for . the payment of ti e home guard, who to-day , are the creditors *f the State for 515,000 was ! taken up. Tito bill passed on a vote of 23 i to I:J ’ Fhe H*»isc W ednesday passel the Comni in Carriers bill, making the company originally receiving a consignment responsible for the safe delivery. Among the important idils pu~sed i*y the Senate was one making it a misdemeanor punished bv fine and imprisonment to sell tobacco to be smoked or eiv-wed. ‘ > any person under 14 years old. A bill also pas-ed making it unlawful to kill quail i»< tween New-Year and November 10. The first thing that engaged the Senate Thursday, was the postponement or House Dill 99. reportart by the committee on agriculture. This bill provides that seining can b" doin' with seines having meshes not i th:m <<ne and ore-ha'u inelu a ator Bai ne- introdu ed a Mil monument over the grav * of ex-Govern dJennings. Sen: *r Barnes moved that the , rides ).e si;-p *nd *d for the bills passage. which prevailed. A short memorial on the $ • • 1 wa« presented Ly the Senator I from Clark County. In the Hotis** th" following bills wore engr *-.-"<l without d"l>ate; AUMtillen’s eonI i erning eivi! proceedings, Higbee’s to let ib'iimpnnt tax ii-t- to lowest bidder. Barn* iii -t i: 'Ey bill. Cravens’ tax amendment. ’lench’s concerning civil proceedings, Ader - concerning change of venue before justice-of the peace, Askren’s authorizing the county commissioners to guarantee turnpike bonds. Brown's township trustee- to accept donations of ground for cemeteries. Richter's to legalize the ur"i meats of certain railroads. Hoagy's ixing in: i* *-t on sehoolfunds.Ader'srefuiring th • rceerding of bills of sale. Terlinm ’s to prevent the adulteration of sorzhum. and 'D al's affecting real estate tran--actions. Senator Gifford's bridge bill ami ; lena: M- Morgan's township trustees bill I were advanced to third reading. Friday, the House passed the bill makng the terms of all officers in cities not ! operating under special charter, of four i years duration and extending the terms of I those now in office until after the election I >f 1«M. j Mr. Bench offered a resolution which put I it rest tiie incipient talk about an extra I session. The resolution declared it to be ; lie sense of the House that no extra ses- ‘ sion is necessary. It was adopted without i iebare and with no dissenting votes. | The following bills were introduced: To . ippri priate a small sum to pay a judgment i 'gainst the state; providing for indexing i records of Supreme Court: concerning the ' laving of street-car tracks: to amend the :ix law: to amend the railroad waiting-room i ict; to appropriate money for a small : Haim; to amend school law. | The following bills were introdueced in h" Senate: An act coneerningbooks;ConI -erning tho papers of the Indiana Academy I if Science: Concerning fair or eneampmeni : irounds: providing for the examination of j the records of county officers: fixing the ’ lumber of districts into which a town may | ie divided for the election of officers: regu - i ating the consumption of natural gas. I A method of preventing pitting in ' small-pox is given in the Gazette des i Hospitaux: A mask is made of very i pliable linen cloth, leaving apeitures for the eyes, nose and mouth; and the i inside of this is smeared with a certain ' liniment prepared in either of the three : following ways: One of these consists ■ of carbolic acid, four to ten parts, forty parts olix’e oil and sixty parts prepared > chalk; another, live parts carbolic acid, ' and forty parts each of olive oil and pure starch; and a third, two parts thymol, forty of linseed oil and sixty •cf chalk in poxvder. The mask should ! be renewed every twelve hours, and ; compresses impregnated with one ol 1 hese mixtures may also be placed on ’ the hands, and on any parts of the face which the mask does not directly i touch. Economy is xvealth. It takes a child ; six or seven years to learn to read or : spell intelligently. But an English ! gentleman says his little boy of 4 years will read any phonetic book xvithout the slighest hesitation, not even balking at the hard names in the Bible. His father taught him to read after this method in eight hours. Another genileman says that he has taught pool children in Glasgow to read the Sermon on the Mount, phonetically, in the course of six hours’ study. Time u money.