St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 40, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 21 April 1894 — Page 7

agricultural news A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR rural readers. _ , Should Be Increased in This Country ’ fourfold - Breed Good Koad Have the Best Butter. The Best Butter in Market. n-h? process of making butter is an draw off the buttermilk, and then add cold water. Turn the churn a few times and draw this watci off. Add more water, turn the ^burn several times until the_ butter

is gathered into lumps. Take out the butter and place it upon a hiaible sabor a maple butter worker. Lake . vour paddle and press and squeeze the butter, but don t pat and mix ■ , This sens the grain. After the but-! termUk is entirely out, weigh the butter. Spread it out upon the table, and add one ounce of fine Ashton , salt to each pound of butter, poub.i . the butter over, and mash and ; squeeze it until the salt is well । WO tk -*fcthrougb the mass, luttbc butter into a cool place until the next day It Should then he reworked as before, taking n sniuli niece at a tirue, spreading it out flat and Squeezing it, und then qutH it is all i "** - *ulie first working will take ten minutes, and the second about fifteen minutes. Such butter will break with a coarse, uneven fracture, and

will appear of a granular texture. If the cows have been well fed, the ■cream properly cared for and churned, ■at a temperature of sixty degrees, the butter will keep splendidly, and have a sweet and fragrant scent, quite free from acidity of any kind. If it is packed for future use, pack in stone jars; scald the jars first, then rinse in cold water. Wipe dry, and pack the butter in with the paddle. »Sj read a clean doth over the top, and on this cloth put a half-inch layer of coarse salt Then tie a clean cloth over this, and set away in a ■cold dairy. An ice-house is better. Butter so made and packed will keep for months, and, when eaten, will be found of exquisite flavor. Not a parXicle will be wasted.—Baltimore American. Cood Koad Horses Scarce. The lack of good road horses in<dicat.es that stallions ca; able of siring such animals are few. It is too ' true that the qualities which go to make up a good driver are seldom ! found combined in the product of breeding farms, and only a wide I •search would enable one to find such -a stallion. Present stagnation in the horse market has made the ordinary breeder apathetic, and he has adopted the unprofitable policy of allowing his mares to go idle or else breeds them to inferior stallions because The service fee is nominal. This condition would prevent those who un- ■ derstand it from buying a stallion capable of siring good r ad horses, | and the result is that there is not a ! ■decent sire in many localities to which ■mares can be bred. ^Progressive breeders who would like to improve their stock aie prevented from doing so by i the action of their brethren who be- j Heve a horse is a horse, and if one is better than another it is due to a •special dispensation of Providence. The Scotch have a plan which •could be profitably adopted in this j country and would be the salvation of small breeders. In brief, it is the leasing of a.stallion for the season on the guarantee of a certain numb r of mares at a price agreed upon. Farmers there form associations and secure the services of the best stallion the ■class of mares in their vicinity will | warrant and there is not another country where small breeders are so uniformly successful. Let farmers in any district in this country form a co operative organiza- : tion ,of this character and send a competent committee to some prominent breeding locality and select such a stailion as will serve their purpose. Lease him for one year or teim of i years and the production of road

horses, as far as their vicinity is concerned, will be a question solved.— I’arm and Home. fson, or tho department of Agricul- ■ ture, is a rather sad thing to read, says the Independent.

A country that boasts of being the richest in the world in agricultural 'nroducts averages only 22.6 bushels per acre of corn, 12 bushels of wheat, 72 bushels of potatoes, and other crops in proportion. It is no exaggeration to say that a different system of farming, which should include irrigation in time of drouth, judicious rotation of crops, a mixed husbandry incuding dairying and fruit growing, would easily in" crease these staple crops three or four-fold. The present system of farming probably pays, or it would be abandoned speeddy, but it is hard to see where the profit comes from a crop of wheat worth about $9 per acre, or of corn worth §lO to §l2, or even of potatoes worth $35, especially when we consider that these crops are constantly decreasing under the present system, or lack of system, which depends for profit on working very large areas by machinery without any j manure, and without regard to the : consequent impoverishment of the I land. It sounds large, indeed, to talk of the inexhaustible fertility of the prairies. One need not be a very old man to remember when the same was said of the wheat fields in the Genesee Valley in New York. But in

less than forty years these product, ive farms have been robbed of their surplus fertility, and now demand judicious treatment to yield a profitable return, it wdl not be long before the Western plains and prairies must be worked more thoroughly and judi iously, and then they will support a population three or four times as large as at present, and still leave as large a surplus as now for export. Our land has never yet been worked so as to even approach its capacity for productiveness. Give the Farm a Name. । We like the idea of giving the farm I a name. A great many people w.th j exceptionally line or large farms do this; but we wish it were more general. No doubt, as a rule, those who do name their farms are proud of them because of their beauty or size or fertility or some < ther valuab.e qual ty.

Men who build up good, reputable herds of hogs, cattle, sheep, horses, | etc., give the herd aspeciilc name and . frequently the name of the herd is a guarantee or quality. We don t sec ■ why every farm no matter how small, ! I should not le honored with a name. , '. it would cause the owner .to take ( : more pride in his surroundings, lie i would keep his house painted, is । fences in better condition, his trees dressed. He would take more pnde in the roads of his vic stock would be. graded up, his lana inc eased in fertility, and all his en- | vironments, including even the minds | of his children, would be improved cneheadofw?Ta!Tffrr*9ffl!Ttrwr«ww Wß J the boys partners with him, and have nice letter heads struck, with the names of the firm at “Rosedale,’' or

whatever the name of the farm is. This would lend increased enchantment to the home, and all would be interested in so improving the house and barn and the surroundings generally till they would want a picture ; of their - ‘place” on the letter heads. The boys would get a share of the ■ profits of the farm, and would feel as j much interest in its management as । the “senior partner.” We ho.e our : readers will think of about this matter. It would tend to make people I farm in away they would not be ashamed of their farm or its yield of products.—Journal of Agriculture. Clover anil Timothy. I mi_ unereisgood reason for the common practice of sowing both clover I and timothy in seeding land. A . mixture of the two makes a better I hay for feeding on the farm than either alone, and as the timothy I checks the clover growth the hay is mere easily cured. Besides, it often i happens than when a field is seeaed I it may not be convenient to plow it । again under several vears. Clover alone <annot be depended to keep a good sod and produce a fair crop after j the second year. As it dies out June I j grass or weeds come in and occupy 1 1 the vacant spaces. Clover Is absolutely beneficial to the timothy seed- i ing. It loosens the subsoil, and as the clover roots decay after the plant ' dies the timothy will maintain a good i sod two or three years longer than would be possible if it had been own । a one. Odds un I Ends. j A little fiour dredged over a cake before Icing it will keep the icing l from spreading and running off. A small bottle of camphor or a little aluinn and water wdl aid in 1 drying up pimples that have been ; tampered with. When massaging the face, rub lines under the eyes from the nose to ' the temples. This is the rule. In washing the eyes, wipe them from the temples to the nose. This Issaid to prolong s ght Fok a bad cut or scratch from a dog or cat one of the speediest remedies to draw out poison and at. the same time heal the wound is tobacco, Moisten a little chewing tobacco, either leaf or linocut, an I bind it on the wound. Unless very serious, you will hardly know at the end of twenty-four hours that you have been hurt. Powdered French chalk is recommended for cleaning light summer woolens. It is very inexpensive, and inav. therefore, be used lihomllv

LllUlvlViC, C7V lioCLl AJU V T <ll 1J . • j Cover the soiled parts thickly with ! the chalk, let it remain ,3 q-in »u uuir claimed that in this treatment will cause I the spots to disappear entirely. ! Ixorder to have light pancaues it is absolutely essential to have a

quick tire and the griddle or pan smoking hot. For those who have many cakes to cook at a time a high, narrow tin pale with a long spout and a handle at the back near the bottom is convenient, but one can i manage with a pitcher that has a good lip. It is not wse to try to mix the batter in the pitcher, for itcannot be d me thoroughly. A very convenient mucilage can be made of onion juice. A goodsized onion, after being boiled a short time, will yield, on being । pressed, quite a larg * quantity o” very adhesive fluid. This is used quite extensively in various trades j for pasting paper on to tin or zinc or even glass, and the tenacity witli which it holds would surprise any- I one on making the tlrst attempt. It ’ I is the cheapest and best mucilage for । i such purposes, and answers just as i well as many of the more costly and 1 ' patent cements. j Horse Strength and Pavements. A horse can draw on metal rails I 1 one and two-third times as much as l | on asphalt pavement, three and one. i third t ines as much as on good Bel- i gian blocks, live times as much as on j good cobblestones, twenty times ng much as on good earth roads and i { forty times as much as on sand. g

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL! — i AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUO I TIVE lesson. Reflections of an Elevating Character Wholesome Food for Thought - Studying the Scriptural Lesson Intelligently and Profitably. Joseph Ruler in Egypt. The lesson for Sunday, April 22, may । be found in Gen. 41: 38-40. । INTRODUCTORY. Joseph aimed high? Wai lie not ' right? He belonged high up in God’s appointment, and he simply I tought his own. Our lesson to-day is ' an encouragement to every young man and woman to f eek the best and to I realize to the large t the divine be-

hest in the life. Like 1 aul, pre^a . forward. It is an occasion of surprise 1 to some of us to read of the steadfast and sometimes painful persistence by 1 I which certain great men have.attained the eminence which is tnoiis. । Few know, perhaps, that Gen. Grant H ’ ever figured as a waiting applicant at • i Washington. At the opening of the h ' war ho was keeping books in a tan-yard U 'at SCOO a year. But he had the tram-1 inc, ho knew how to fight, and he oe- L ' lieved ho was needed. He kept on un- | til at last the War Department sent | him out West with a Colonel’s eommis- P ^ign, as it Is said, to got mol i Bui J commission was all he require. wfft [ i Donolson, Corinth. Vicksburg, the Wil^ , derness, Appomattox! "From c j to strength," because it w > I T " ipan ror the hour. 1 ' , ITaraoTiw?rT'"fTrTrrvTT-r^ j last of the shepherd-kings in Egypt. i He himself was of a foreign race

i which came into the land of the Nile, I like Joseph, from the East, and like j Joseph, again, presently gained tupremacy. | Joseph came int i Egypt about the year 1730 before Christ, it was a time | when he was needed for the exigencies . of the hoar, and in the trying vicissitudes to which he was subjected he proved himself ma ter of circumstances, and equal to the demand. He was God's man prepared for the hour. It was now thirteen years since Joseph had been carried away from the , pit into which his brot hers had cruelly .east him. Ten years a slave, three i vears a prisoner in a dungeon; certainly this was strange tutelage and tutorage for a ruler. But such sudden change < are possible under a despotic reign: in this case, considering the eternal titn ‘ss of things, providential. i And th ■ clue to such sagacity is well spoken here: Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so [discreet and wise as thou art." This not simply becau o of his supernatural i in-ight into the realm of dreams, । through which undoubtedly God often , spoke of old, but because of the large prudence and disci etion with which i Joseph viewed the emergency. He was a man taught of God in the highest school of instruction. “The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him.” HINTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. The story of Joseph is one cf the most Interesting if not altogether t|^ i most entertaining in all the oH Tcstament. It is a Iwautiful lif • to sketch, , and the lessons are s » manv and am parent that little need be safd by wav of suggestion here. Each one will perhaps choose for himself as to the salient lessons to be inculcat -d. For our own I part, we pref. r to let our illustrative thought this week go in two pari ticular directions, ore -ocular, if the distinction may for convenience bo made, the other sacred. But both are . sacred, since Go I rules over all and is । in all, and both are, in the estimation ( of the writer, nt least, of unspeakable m ment and importance. 1 hem that honor me I will honor.* } It pays to servo G< d, ;a;,s in this life as well as in the life to come. The . Sabbath question is before the people in a praeti alway. By on-us>s of the day »>f test we are, as a nation and as individuals, either honoring or dishonoring God; and as we plant we shall presently harvest. It shall be L>r outselves honor or dishonor, ac ording as .wo honor or dishonor God. Just now in a certain citv we are doing what we can. by a concerted effort, to resist the encroachment of the Sunday new-.pa-pers, an evil that gr ws daily more op'n and shameless. At first some thought wus entertained of quietness. Xow the peaceful morning hours are startled with reitTant cries on all the ■ [streets and by-ways, and even the orderly pro'-ssion o. Sabbath worshipers, all t> o small to-day. are importuned to purchase as thev wend their ways to the house of God. At first there se mis t) have been an effort t> introduce

>ome religions : t l fl a: e T "*** given over. Tk . • rs of the Sunday press hate den a steed that is running- a»av them, an I in the mad gallop thevwredropping and 1 >sing al! the moral powe« tHoy oik e had and should have amon the peep e. 8 But now let us make ame -k, if posib e, by being practical in another di‘t i e., as respects the work of the Kingdom. \\ honi does God honor in the tervice? Those that honor imn 11ns d< es not n ean faintness or slackness. They were talking about ambnmn ln the ministry the other day. a company of pastors. Patience, humility, was the burden of their plea. i ■' tosentlx an old soldier of the cross Isi tting quietly by, was appealed to.’ . ''° ddto God there was more am>.hon, he sai l, “in the minis‘ry, more t ager ne-s. energy, more seeking to 'Mn souls and to glorify God.” Verily dat dl ^ » h A is V He “ went about doing good. Ambition is from ambio. a , oat ’ Gn thren. let us go about it. go about as if we meant it: go about it as Jesus did. O, for a high and holy i ambition, akin to Christ's.' I r/mn 1 le ?, s °n—“Joseph Forgiving His Brethren. Gen. 45: 1-15. Shear Steel. The will and not the gift makes the giver. SOME wish they did; but no man disDC 1 .O\ OS. j V> hen all else is lost, the future still remains. । Be careful how yeu handle the name ' , of a woman. He who never drives his work is always driven by it. Stinginess and economy are not 1 i akin to each other. 6 '

IV — — ^s, OUT OF THE PARTY. 1 ^ natop Darld B. Hill, of New York, j j* 3 Breaks Away from Democracy, Washington dispatch: Not since the ' exciting days of the silver de- ’ fate last fall has there been such a

crowd in the Senate as was present Monday to listen to Senator David B. Hill, of New York, on the tariff question. The Senator did not begin i ntil 2 o'clock. The galleries were crowded to their utmost capacity. The public I •galleries were all filled; the diplomatic * gallery, too, wag I crowded, and the

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Icats set apart for the families of the I , president and Vice President wore

hlso occupied. Outside the halls the i yorridors were thronged with visitors ' (anxious to sret into thn

‘ 1111,0 luo galleries, and , f ney stood in long lines awaiting their turn. I On the floor of the Senate were fully । pity members of the House of lie pre- ■ jentatives, all anxious to hear what i the Senator fr< in New York had to ’ %ay upon the tariff question. Mr. Hill’s Speech was disappointing in that it i ■nude no definit > announcement as to ' Ibis purpose regarding the final vote on Wie tariff bill, if such a vote is ever : j|ea.ehed. It. wai exreeted that he 1 »>uld attack the President and some ; W the views of the adminirtratbu, I It WttS a lso anticipated that hs ! Ei^UHnolently assail the chairman of & Finance Committee and thememU-« s who Lail dii ci-tel the formation I ■ft.be tariff bill. | ^Tho Senator met the expectations ! ispn those points, for the opening । paragraph of his speech contained a irect reflection upon the President, ^ter along he criticised the Hawaiian j sicy of the administration and paid

.3 respects to Secretary Gresham ith the declaration that the Secreiry of State was not a Democrat, ventually he got ar mail t > Mr. Vooraes and the Finance Ccmmittee, and |o pitched in o the < hairman in rather jointed language. His re narks in this larticular were not such as are caleuated to create harmony between the opposing factions on the Democratic ide of the Senate regarding the pendng tariff bill. Senator Hill Is criticised even by some of his friends for having indulged juch a course at so critical a time. Mr. Fill 1 read his speech from printed proof slips, though he ajipeared to need the jopy only for oc a ional guidance, his lehvery being as free and natural as f he was speaking extemporaneously, His voice and pronunciation were such is to render every sentence distinct ind forcible. He was fre ,u mtly interrupted by applause. The main portion of his sp ech was in argument against the income tax, and it is regarded as unusually strong, bew of the Dem cratic members, lowever. lielievo that the income hx provision will be stricken out. 2he Senat r cL arly intends to vote Igainst that provision of the bill, and it is now under-t -od that he will vote itfainst the entire measure if the in*ome tax is retained in it. In view of ibis fact it Is reasonably certain that Senator Hill may be counte i among ^l6 opponents of the o il upon its final yassng«l That is the calculation by ffie friends of the nua-uro since hearing his speech. Mr. Hill's speech on Mondav marks the beginning of a jritic.l period in the history of the pending tariff legislation. AHEAD OF LAST YEAR. Winter Wheat C rop In Various Section* Makes a tioocl MitHvin? The condition of winter wheat on the first of April, as reported by the statistician of the Depiu tment of Agrihulturc, averages Mi., per cent, for the entire country, la t year tl.o average b ing 77.4. In 1*92 it was M. 2 and 9> ; .9 for the y« ar of I*9l. The corresponding average for r ? o is 9*. Ij er cent The averages of wheat for she principal State- are as follows: Kent icky, S 3; Ohio, 9°; Michigan, *3; Indiana, 9A; Illinois, *7; Missouri, **: Kansas, 72; .Nehru ka, lowa, 87. The average date of -f ding in the Ohio and Mississippi \ alleys was late, owing to the dry neither. In teneral, however, the conditit ns < f soil were not unfavorable to planting and germination. Very littl ■ damage is reoerted from the Ho-sian fly, au l that only in sections of Ohio, Michigan. Illinois, Missouri and Kansas. The weather from seedl ig time until recent cold waves swept over the country, except in cases hereafter n ted, has been very favorable to the growth of ti e plant. In the I astern, Northbrn, ant Northwestern States mow covering has afforded protection in adiitiun to that of a mild temperature.

*r<’ho returns in regard to the effects 1 /®?on wheat result ng from the. recent j jpld spell are not so satisfactory nor so Mgmelusive >;<3rW®. • ' CJt respondaccompanying tne report would rn t > Indicate that the full extent of Bj-damage ' va3 11 f fully determinable : of transmission. In the East- ' <4rn an I Northern States the damage •^as comparative^ slight. In the >uthern Atlantic and Southern States the damage is marked and decided, with perhaps the exception of lexas. V hue in the States of Ohio, muiana, Michigan and Kentucky the injury from fresting is con.-iderable, the extent, of same is contingent on future meteorological conditions. The returns indicate that freezing to the ground was quite prevalent, especially on low and rich moist land, but with roots left untouched, or at least alive ^ith good prospects of recuperation on tue recurrence of favorable weather. S * ate3 °f Kansas, Nebra-ka and California the impaired condition of r™ ^ops has not resulted so much I l rOst asfron cold weather, nigh winds are also noted by Kansas correspondents as nnn. nf

' nnf Q ™ ii , Ino causes of need'-d ' aW ° Condltlona ' Kain is much Telegraphic Clicks. yS E Mrs - G F - Coster - of lotk, wihbe contested. Her estate amounts to SI,OCu,OJO. r- f H^ S n ER i X iai lroads realize that a it has been reached where further c . tung means destruction. d ^v ap . olis doctor has discovf iphtheria bacilli on the cover cf a vuolic library book. nJ-ii,, 0 ' Sum *\ i ® rs » the express robber, again escaped from the Jackson, Miss. guard' time with the aid of a

AROUND A BIG STATE? BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDIANA NEWS. What Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of Genera’ and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes—Personal Pointers About Indianians. Minor State Items. Nappanee expects to get a shoe heel ' । factory. I Fruit trees are planted for shade at ' i Seymour. 1 is out of debt aud ha s ' Sb,COO in the treasury. I Winches er school l oard has estab- ■ lished a tree kindergarten. | A STRANGE epidemic is puzzling the doctors around Moore’s Hill. The town of Marmont, on Lake Maxinkuckee, is to be incorporated. V INCENNES is preparing to hold a [ mammoth Fourth of July celebration. I An electric light plant and a telephone system may be put in at Valpa- , raiso. j Trafalga, Johnson County, is gi eatly excited over a supposed case of leprosy. 1 of ’acendiary origin did ■ JO damage to the Hotel Doxey at Anderson. , Noblesvji .i.k houses are to be numbered and the names of streets put up at crossings. | -Bill” Greene, sent up for life for I murder at Kokomo, is dying in the Michigan City prison. I Lee Esslinger, well known voiin" ' man of Evansville, fell dead. Brought I on by cigarette smoking. ° j Mrs. Harden Mt Geary of Seymour, !

has a cat that has adopted four young ' squirrels, captured in the woods near ■ that place. | A Washington doctor is employed by prospective husbands to analyze biscuits made by yc .Kg ladies who be- , long to the cooliinjjmlubs of that place. | Willie Swails, the 6-year-old son ■ of Elmer Swails of Lebanon, was । thrown under the wheels of a loaded wagon by a runaway team and instantly killed J The man named Mahon, who fought ■ a duel with Mr. Morgan and killed him near French Lick springs, has been indicted for murder by the Orange County grand jury. Fireman Mi Roberts, on a Big Four passenger Irain. was seriously injured near abash, by a side iod on the eni gine breaking, tearing away his side , of the cab and striking him on the head. 1 A freight tram ran into an open switch at Hartford City, and the enI gine and nine cuts were badly wrecked, j A. W. Benthin. brakeman, was killed 1 , and Engineer Phillips and Fireman I Tucker seriously injured. John Cvnxingham. an old residentof i ( j Crawford County, was killed near Bos- . ! ton. on the Air-Line, thirty miles west >[ of New Albany. The remains were , [ taken to his home near English. He [ I was al>out GO years old. L Frep Ml iKKWK's grocery sto: e ' near Mt. Vernon was wrecked by the • explosion of a o-pound can of powder i Milton Brookins, George Lang, and i I William Curtis were taken from the I । j ruins unconscious and may die. While ieturnir»^on the special train from the Methodist Conference at Bluffton, Claude Roebuck, a young man lof De utur. fell from the train and broke his leg. He also received internal injuries which will prove fatal. । A through tram on the Panhandle mu over Mrs. Vineyard at Florida, a । few miles south of Elwood. She was crossing the track in a buggv and was i killed instantly. The buggy was broken into fragments and the horse escaped unhurt. Jvim.e Wiley, of the Benton Cir- | cult Com -1 , has decided that the fee [ uni salary law of 1891 is uneonstitu- . tional and xoid in that it omits to in- [ elude the Treasurer, Auditor, and Re- । । corder of Shelby County within its 1 provisions. | While Omer Perkins, a farmer liv- j { ing six miles north of Lebanon, was I shooting birds his gun kicked and I slipped from his shoulder and the ham- [ mer struck his nose, cutting away all | the flesh from the member and dis- [ figuring him for life. Dea< on A. Reed and Rev. Marion Pickering, both colored, were arrested in Jeffersonville, charged with the [ murder of Stephen Geer. March G, ami . both confessed their guilt. They said . they were trying to steal chickens and were afraid they would be caught.

Joe Carmack, once a prominent . stock dealer of Franklin, attempted । suicide by shooting himself through the head. The act was committed in teitq,,.. r.baH entered the right che ek. His reaitms' for wishing to the were that he had no money and was tired of iife. The mystery of the extensive robbery o‘ valuable mail at the South Bend postoflice. which has been goinoon since last July, was cleared up the otuer day by the arrest and confession of Edward Boone, a married man and son ot Phillip H. Boone. The prisoner has been a resident of that citv all his life, and until recently was employed in the postottice. He was forced to resign on account of his bad habits Edward Berger, whose house Boone hau occupied until lately, found an epen letter containing a money order for 52.1,. jiayabie to (buntv Treasurer > enn, and a letter from the remitter Henry C. Shure of Mishawaka. A Guplicatc order had been issued bv 1 the Mishawaka pcstoffice and raid Mr. Berger took the stolen order to the postoffice an 1 Boone was arrested 1 at the M incisor Hotel. He confessed

- V WIIACOStJU. opening that letter and others, but would not say how many. The fl-year old daughter of James V est. residing four miles west of Scottsburg, was playing outdoors with fire, when her clothes caught and she was so horrible- burned that she died The child's mother was also seriously burned about the arms in trying to save her daughter. At Vincennes, Henry Fossmeyer in attempting to break a balky horse, attached a chain to the animal's lower jaw and hitched it behind a wa^on drawn by two horses. The refractory animal refused to go, and was dragged until its jaw was pulle 1 off. It had to be shot to put it out of its misery. 1

CURRENT COMMENT. Col. Breckinridge. Col. Breckinridge will like thelatesi English novels.—New York World. Col. Bneckinridge should have gone M est in early life and grown up with. Ltah.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. There is reason to believe that one of j Col. Breckinridge's favorite books is “How to Ee Happj- Though Married.” —New York World. Any man who dic’a’e > his love letters to a stenographer is an 18-karat chump, whether he has a silver tongue , or not. —Chicago Dispatch. ! Col. Breckinridge and Madeline Pol- । lard are probably better acquainted i with each other now than they were when they were more friendly.—Atchi- [ son Globa. I _ Breckinridge, by his own confession, is a bad man, but some of his loudest . critics are g Tag to have a mighty hard time squeezing past old St. Peter.— Daily Amer ca. Mary Ellen Lease. Mr. Lease is still wondering why total strangers will pay big money to be scolded by Mrs. Cease.—New York World. The gentlemen Ma ons, having heard what Mrs. Lease knows about their । order, are too gallant to display much annoyance over her. determination to establish one lor ladies.—Exchange. If Mrs. Lease’s scheme to organize a | Masonic order for women proves su.cI cessful the dry-goods market will undqubtedly be affected. White aprons I will be all the rage, and a slump in ( ginghams must necessarily follow.— ; Baltimore American. I Now that Mrs. Lease is making । money, does she go home Saturday ' night and put half of it in her husi band’s lap? Does she put her money ’ in the sugar-bowl and let her husband - help himself? That’s what the women say the men should do? —Atchison Globe. Bismarck's Birthday. The German Emperor sends official dignity and a gift of armor, serene in ' “he knowledge that Bismarck is too old to make use of either. —Washington Star. Bismarck appears to have received a great many casks of fine wines on hia birthday and not a single temperance tract, so far as heard from. —Boston Herald. Bismarck will probably not hava many opportunities to test the suit of armor given to him by the Kaiser. His battles have all been fought.—Philadelphia Call. Bismarck assures William that ha will wear that steel armor. That's what the Emperor wanted. There'g nothing like a cuirass weighing something less than a ton to keep an old man quiet.—New York World. Springtime in Georgia. Spring threatens to come from behind the stove and do some more capering on the lawn.—Atlanta Constitution. Peach trees are now in full bloom, A great many old people say that peaches in bloom are rarelv ever killed. j in light nights.—Columbus Sentinel. This bsautiful weather, with its balsarnie breezes, falls like a velvet hami mer upon the emaciated constitution of the average northern visitor. —All bany Herald. The chirp of the early chicken, together with the recent May-like weather, is a reminder, however faint, that picnics will be in order in a few weeks. —Walton News. Bombs in Faris. No menu in a Paris restaurant nowad tys is complete without a few dynamite bombs on toast.—Boston Herald. When you enter a Paris case you should ha e your mind made up as to how you will have your dynamite served.—New Y'ork Advertiser. The latest Paris bomb injured most setiously the anarchist orator who declarel that the victims of an explosion were of little consequence so long as the anarchist idea prevailed.—Kansas [ City Star. | A French anarchist who was injure! by the explosion of a bomb intended [ for other people has changed his views. i This is one g o! effect from a bomb. — ! Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. Fate of the Kearsarge. This inglorious end of the doughty ' ccrvette was not entirely unexpected. —Philadelphia Record. Much as the patriotic people of the United States will regret the total loss of the stout old ship, it is just as well that the destruction of the Kearsarge is complete and final. Its career was over.—Philadelphia Times. A good many persons will think that

the fate cf the Kearsarge has its consolations. To fall into decay tied to the end of a wharf is not a dignified enl. It is better, as Dr. Holmes said of Old Ironsides, to be given to the god । , r , ..j; 11 tn in j- and the siaie. —x ruvideace Journal -—- Coxey. Congress may not be able to secure a quorum to receive Coxey.--St. Louis btar-Saymgs. Coxey can plead a time-honored precg^ose once saved Rome.— Chicago Tribune. The onlj- terrifying weapon possessed by Coxey s army is Carl Browne’s vo cabulary.—^ew York World. i® t 3 ^ lr ' Cox0 ?® interest to .ce that his moving army does not come in contact with Uncle Sam's standing army.—Chicago Tribune. Gov. Tillman. Perhaps Gov. Tillman may effect a compromise by selling a better quality of whisay.-Chicago Tribune. The chief trouble with Gov. Tillman w- i at he _ vlews the world with his blind eye.-New York Advertiser.

0-1 t 0 re £ ulate the telesJaph, Gov Tillman put his fino-ers on tlw wronff key.-xe,,- York Ro"co r de r *2 Carolina"Dispensarr law" has one good feature. It discourager ISraTd !On 1U ° ther State3 -~Baltimore Peru anti Her Afflictions. 1 eru has two presidents, one dicta-->r and a revolution. A*d still Peru, tor some reason, is not happy.—Kansas city Journal. And now it is unhapny Peru which is rent with civil strife and afflicted with a surplusage of presidents. Periods of peace in South America are few and soon broken.—Boston Journal. i