St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 46, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 8 June 1895 — Page 2

TOPICS FOR FARMERS A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Surface Cultivation for Corn Will Give | More and Earlier Grain—No Profit in Home Mixing of Fertilizers —How to I’rune Fruit Trees. Corn Culture. Surface cultivation for corn is in the air, and the inanfuacturers of cornworking tools are working along that line, and the company that will give us the best is the one we want to patronize. lam so fully satistied that surface cultivation will give us more and earlier corn, says S. Favill in the Prairie Farmer, that 1 believe the time will soon be here when the intelligent farm- , er will no more allow the corn roots to be broken if he can help it. than he . would allow the leg of his call or pig to be broken. My plan for planting the ] corn is this: First lit the ground nicely, have it firm and free from lumps, the j rows only one way. This will save all ( checking and marking. Would prefer ] it put in drills, kernels ten Inches apart. In this way one can be plowing, fitting and planting at the same time fit he has teams enough); if it is a small farmer, with only one team, he can fit any part of the piece and plant it, and then fit the rest. In that way part of the corn will be growing and ready for the cultivator as soon as one can get to it. lam in favor of a free use of the common harrow on the field corn. Commence in a day or two after the planting is done and harrow till the corn is four to six inches high, but do not commence in the morning after the corn is up, till the dew is off, for the corn will break easily when it is wet. But. after the sun is on it awhile, it gets tougher and will stand a good deal of knocking around without breaking. Be sure and go over the whole field before the corn is up and level it down, and then the after harrowing will be less likely to cover any of the corn. Do not be scared if it does look a little bad when you first go over it—l mean when the corn is up; unless there is a lump or a sod on it, it will straighten up and take care of itself, and the harrow will break any crust that may be formed on the ground that you cannot break with any kind of cultivator, and, besides, you can kill weeds much faster i than with any other tool, and kill them, too, before they start much. So keep the tine tooth harrow going as long as 1 you can, and it will do you good. Home Mixing of Fertilizers. ; Nothing can be gained by the pur- < chase of mineral fertilizers and mixing j them by hand. All the large establish- t ments where fertilizers are made have facilities and machinery for grinding and mixing the fertilizers, so that the work can be done much more cheaply than it is possible to do it by hand. The competition among dealers insures a low price for all commercial fertilizers. Thirty years ago, when phosphate began to be used iu the Northern States, the price by the ton was $65, and in small amounts it sold at 5 cents per pound, or at the rate of SIOO per ton. We think that at this time Southern farmers got their phosphate somewhat cheaper than this. They bought by the carload for growing cotton, and paid as high as S4O per ton. Competition has reduced the price. Owing to strict State Inspection of fertilizers there is less cheating than there was then. All fertilizers have their guaranteed analysis marked in each package, afid they are almost invariably what they are represented to be. Pruning Fruit Trees. In pruning fruit trees attention has to be given to the manner in which the particular kind bears its fruit The cherry and the pear both bear their fruit on short spurs, and in trimming, therefore, the effort should be to produce a large quantity of healthy fruit spurs. Summer pruning does this admirably. The branches that we want to remain as leading shoots should not be touched; but the weaker ones may be pinched back, about midsummer, about one foot or two-thirtls of their growth. This will induce the swelling of a number of buds that will produce flowers instead of branches, and in this way, fruit spurs can be obtained on comparatively young trees; but with such kinds as the grape vine, the fruit is borne on the branches of last year's growth, so the effort should be to throw ail the vigor possible into those growing branches that we want to bear fruit the next season. To do this we pinch back the shoots that we do not want to extend, or even pull these weak shoots out altogether. A little pruning is then necessary, in the winter, to shorten back these strong, bearing canes, or to prune out weaker ones that we check by pinching back during the growing season. Cultivating the Small Grains. English farmers have learned that there is great advantage in spring cultivation of winter wheat. But the English method of hoeing the grain by hand labor is much too expensive to be afforded at present wheat prices. What is quite as good as hand hoeing, and much less expensive, is thoroughly harrowing the surface in spring before sowing grass and clover seeds. Rolling should follow the harrowing. With spring grain the rolling ought to come I first, and compact the soil around the I young plant. It is a mistake to roil as soon as the seed is sown, as is often done. If rains follow after this compacting of the surface the young plants do not easily break through it, and are weakened. Rolling the surface after the grain Is up operates differently. It breaks any crust that may have formed, and presses the soil closely about the roots. Then in a day or two run the smoothing harrow over the rolled surface, and it will be as good as running the cultivator through young corn to

Increase Its growth. After the grains is up heavy rains will not coippact the surface soli, for the force of the rain drops Is broken by the leaves, and no crust over the surface will be formed. If clover or grass seed is sown with spring grain it should be aftdr the roll- । ing and cultivating, else the small seeds will be covered too deeply. Irrigating the Garden. ; The subject of irrigation of the garden is one of present interest. The garden Is the most productive part of the farm, but quite often the product is greatly reduced by a few dry days’ during which young plants are destroyed for the want of water, or the olden ones are so weakened at the blossoming time that they fail to set fruit. That? mpst important crop, the strawberry,' especially suffers from the want of wa-’ ter, and it has been found that some simple method of irrigation has tripled,' the average yield, with an equivalent) improvement in the quality of the fruit. It has been shown by scientific experiments that the yield of any crop is in proportion to the quantity of water l passing through the plants. This is not only reasonable, but easily demonstrable, as the only food available to plants i is that dissolved in water, and if the 1 water is deficient iu supply the plant is starved to the extent of the deficiency, while the contrary applies equally. So that a short supply of water in the soil is equivalent to a shortening of the supply of food, and the most fertile soil cannot yield more than a meager crop. It is the same as if the soil were deficient in fertility. It is usually proper to irrigate most garden truck at the blossoming period, especially if the soil is dry and the weathen warm, and it is again essential to water when the fruit, is set.—Denver Field and Farm. Black Minorcas, This breed of poultry is rapidly growing in favor in this progressive age of poultry culture, as their good qualities arc better known. They are of Spanish origin, and have been bred for many years 1n England. They are the largest nonsitting breed in existence, and excel as egg producers, both In number and size of the eggs, says Ohio Farmer.They combine two points that render them especially desirable, xiz.: utility and beauty. They have large single combs, red face with pure white ear lobes, lustrous black plumage, and are proud and majestic. The American standard weight for Black Minorca cocks is eight pounds, and for hens six and a-half pounds. They are very hardy, mature early, pullets begin to lay when five months old, 1 and continue through the winter. Their ability to fill the egg basket is recognized not only by the fancier, but by- - practical farmer. Butternuts for Profit. It does not take long to bring a seedling butternut to bearing. About sixteen years ago, says the Vermont Farm Advocate, we planted a few butternuts in the rows with apple seed planted to grow stock for grafting, and these trees have been bearing very fine nuts for several years. There is l s great deal of difference in the size of nuts on different trees, and the larger ones can readily be grafted upon trees bearing inferior ones. The whole business is very simple, aud we believe that growing butternuts will pay, at least, as well as growing apples. At any rate, we do not find any difficulty in getting $1.50 per bushel at the stores for what nuts we can spare. The whole subject is v.’orthy of more attention than it has yet received. Bruises and Wounds of Trees. Nothing is better for covering the bruises on trees than oil shellac with, perhaps, a little flower of sulphur and a few drops of carbolic acid, which last ingredient should bo used very sparingly. The mixture can be applied with a paint brush. For the exclusion of the air from wounds, it is suggested that a grafting wax, made of four parts of rosin, two parts of beeswax and one of tallow, melted together, poured into water aud immediately worked and made up into half-pound rolls, is convenient to have ready for use. Heid in tl e hands so that it is softened, a small lump of it may be spread over a wound, and it will remain for some time and kc^p out air and germs of disease. If the wound is large the application may need to be repeated.— Rural New-Yorker. Feeding Whole Grain to Horses. As horses grow older and their teeth are poorer they bolt their grain more greedily and do not attempt to chew it as they should. Whole grain fed thus does little good. Grain for horses whose teeth are poor ought always to be ground and given with cut hay. Even,, when yonngw harbor, Ai-S*' ..A. HR?’ grain some finely-chopped hay should will make them eat more slowly and they will chew their food better. But for horses of any age feeding whole grain is wasteful however it may be given. A great deal will pass through them and give them very little nutriment. Kose Growing. A rose grower says: “I would never mix stable manure with soil for roses. It may be used when thoroughly decomposed as a top dressing, but in the soil it is bad. I have seen beds in which It was used so full of white fungus they I were fairly matted together. Sheep ! manure 1 consider one of the very best fertilizers we have, either in liquid foim or mixed with soil at the time of planting. It should not be added to the coinpost heap, for too much of it in one place is sure death to all vegetable life. Keen Cows on Dry Feed. Tn a majority of cases, the better plan is to keep the cows on dry feed until the pastures have made a sufficient growth to furnish a full feed, and then make the change from dry to green feed gradually.

THEY MET iFpEAQFANIMOSITIES OF WAR BURW 0 AT OAKWOODS. Blue Joins with the Gray in eating a Monument and Decorafi®*C Soldiers’ Graves —American All —Funeral of Secretary Gresh®* ll . Former Foes in Reunion. ■ Memorial Day in Chicago was like nothing in the history of nations. It sculpt in the same line the victor and the vamwfished, each with garlands for its own ■»my of dead, with the uncounted thousalnds from the heart of the city to Oakwaods cheering for the memory of heroes! of friend or foe. It was the first time Wnce the first shot that warriors fromlith o North and cavaliers from the Southlf or . got entirely revengeful bitterness by a kind of public demonstration of u*. It marked an epoch. The multitudes ha ’ j upon the same winds plaudits for the t ( who died for their country and thel ( H which led the hardest and bravest eil; e that ever faced lire. They stood bn red heads in the presence of iff' 1 * ' 1 graves of victims of their own Dol 1 ^ prison or shouted in salvos of patri«R' aa at the sight of the thinned ranks huW? ni the humble mounds marked by It was this unique feature that to the city a crowd which barely standing room in the stretch of dedicated to the ceremony. nory Thursday the surviving veterans | , two mighty armies which for four the years faced each other in bloody _ __ strife HAMPTON. LONGSTREET. ■ pledged anew their faith in a corjr —- country’ and a common ling bosid^ n * )n pallid shaft which marks the ri camping ground of fallen BOldierMr™®^ pined and died beside the great Non lake, brave and uncomplaining vinP^ 1

of merciless civil war. It was a long to be remembered, and may bc eno garded as the final epitaph upon thef of sectional strife and sectional merit. ~BngeAt Cottage Grove avenue and Tl. fifth street, then at the outskirts, bin ! ‘ r ‘^’ in the heart of this city, a Stockard now built during the civil war and J waa Camp Douglas, and there many thowT 1 ” I '?' of Confederate prisoners were confine«£L ds tween the years 1862 and 1865. Thej held there under the restraints whicflP en Jail captives of war bad spent theirZ- ’ in the balmy climate of the sunny I , and the rigors of a Northern winta ’ ou ”’ upon them severely. As a conseq to d 5/)00 of them were liberated by deaf lonc ® were buried in Oakwoods cemete 1 un< Cottage Grove avenue and Sixty-s^ ' a ? street. It was to the memory ofr’." 11 thousands who died in a military in an enemy's country that the mon«*'‘ son was dedicated by their comrades ponents in arms on the spot wIu^KAMM lie buried. It Is the first monlMJJw U* Confederate dead erected in the event was perhaps without aUk, in history. It does not appear tBK where else on the face of our rotHM^' 1 ' ’’ within a period of thirty years JP 1 _ A / ■ f. ■■ < • • (Yr* K ■■■ ■ • M CONFEDERATE SHAFT AT CU It A(t'^ “ x close of a bitterly fought war, tli® van ‘ quished have ever before erected a ^ on yment in the memory of their comra® 3 111 arms in the heart of the victor’s tert^ 01 /- Especially ha the sight ever been " lt ' nessed of the victors heartily joinim, vanquished in doing honor to the v® ,r the vanquished dead. Gen. Wade H im P* ton delivered the dedicatory address. THE DAY IN NEW YOBK Grand Army Parade Review^ Prominent Officials. J Veterans of the Union army York city celebrated “the day 9

Arm y t sta P I'lazn at FiftW% ’ nue and Fifty®*' street showed the ravages thirty years made in the ra^ the voluntee® re ' 1861-65. Tl* at viewing stanc 10 ®* Twenty-fifth B ex * was occupied b?'” n ’ President Hair Gov. McKinleyr yor

LEVI P. MORTON.

Morton and S 0T - Strong. While reviewing the parade and Morton was overcome by the heat fainted. un '

The services at Grant’s tomb der tho auspices of U. S. Grant 1 A. R., and included a memorial add*J Gov. McKinley of Ohio. Contr/b t qr to make this affair noteworthy, the States cruiser Cincinnati was anc hWK’ the river near by, by order of the> e tary of the Navy, and fired saiuteg ’ etatue in Battery Bark of John the designer of the monitor, was adoi with flowers in honor of his distinguh services for the Union cause. p 1 Kansas City, Mo., will have a nulf i encampment from Sept. 80 to Oct. j

WITH MILITARY HONOR. ^ re ^h an *’ a Remains Tem» W fC? y . l,ei!OHited in n v anlt. amoni ostentat * on > befitted his life and cFvD n but with military foot with h° mpai , U - nientß which ran eyea jurist aS J f acllleveni ents as soldier, ter O P statesman, the remains of Walmi?; ?hT^\ in ' general in the Uui « a and 4’ h ? 3udge of the Federal courts ^ Secretary of State of the United Oakwo O X ere tem P° r arily laid to rest in a'te™™ Chicago, Thursday afternoon amid the flower-strewn graves of his comrades in arms-graves decorateu by the hands of men who had fought them on many a bloody field—and in the LEAVING THE STATION. shadow of the monument just dedicated in honor of the valor of those who had given their lives for the Confederate cause. It was a most remarkable juxtaposition. In the early hours of the day Federals and Confederates had joined in the unveiling of a monument to the 5,000 Confederates who had died in the military prison at Camp Douglas; the ex-Confederate Association had strewn on the graves of the Union soldiers buried there a mass of flouers brought from the ground over which they had fought less than a generation ago, and the Union veterans had placed upon the graves of their fallen comrades in the other cemeteries about the city the flowers which grow in our own latitude. Almost the echoes of the volley fired over the Confederate burying ground by the first regiment of State militia and of the bugle blare could be heard and "taps" were still sounding, and the smoke from their rifles was still floating over the

A’j -MW THE VAULT AT OAKWOOIIS. field of peace, as the cortege of the dead i «l«l ... Ibrousl. tb.l the remnrkabU ceremonies which had ’ just closed that the remains of the man j who claimed the allegiance of both the | North and the South should be deposited there, the keystone to the arch of re-ce-mented friendship whose visible sign had just been unveiled there. For as a soldier he had won the respect of those who fought him; ns a jurist he had gained the love of the common people, and as Secre- . tary of State in a Deinoeraiie adminisfra- I tion lie had commanded the support of the I people of the South as well as of the North. The special funeral train arrived from . Washington in the afternoon. The proves- I sion was formed, headed by the escort of i honor, consisting of the troops of all arms from Tort Sfieridan. These were follow- . cd by the honorary pall bearers, and next ■ came the funeral car with the active pall- | bearers walking on either side. Next rode ! the members of the late Secretary's family j and the Presidential party, and in the rear I of the cortege brought up the members of the Loyal Legion, G. A. R. veterans, judges of the courts. State and municipal officers, civic societies and citizens. The entire line of march was crowded with people who respectfully bared their heads as the cortege passed. Arriving at th* cemetery chapel, the casket was removed from the funeral car and borne within by eight sergeants of marines. The services conducted by the Rev. S, J. McPherson, of the Second Presbyterian Church, were impressive but simple, consisting merely of scriptural readings. There was a hymn by the choir and prayer. The remains were temporarily deposited in the receiving vault of tha cemetery. No salute was fired, the cars' monies concluded with “taps.” Tin train had been held ami the Presidential party returned to it and at once started on the return trip to Washington.

FAIR MON IS FIRST. Officially T>eclr>rcd Winncr-.eL, ; ~ v..'. iiTTfr r vmo, was declared the winner of the road raepr Trom Chicago to Evanston and return. a distance of about twenty miles. Edwin Fry, who came in a Imad of him, was disqualified, the judges having decided he had not covered the full course. Fairmon’s time was 54:36. George Emerson, of the Englewood wheelmen, won second and the time prize, his time being 52:14. Reports say the race was woefully mismanaged. Mrs. Catherine Adney, who has resided near Lebanon, Ind., for the past sixtyfive years, died at her home in that city. 1 She was 97 years old.

Freight cars with every modern improvement and capable of carrying sixty tons can now be bought for 20 per cent less than the prices of 1892. Prices vary because of the standards of different reads and the necessities of the manufacturers. The average for the best curs in round lots is under sso*). By order of the President, the payments of claims of the Nez Perce Indians, amounting to $600,000, have been held lup. The reason for this action is not known at the Treasury Department

TORRID ZONE BURSTS. [ PAST WEEK HAS BEEN A RECORD BREAKER. Mercury Climbs Up and Fecpa Over the Top of the Glass-Many Deaths and Prostrations Reported-Crops in Many States Burning Up. Hottest in Years. There is not much in the way of weather nut the United States cannot dish up iu the course of twenty-four hours. Indeed coincidently there may be every conceivable variety fashioned into a sort of meteorological mosaic, making up what may be styled one unified aggregation of universal climates. As a matter of fact the American weather nowadays is not strictly speaking, weather at all; it is aii assortment of samples, no sample wari anted to “hold.” According to former rules of computation ami average it should be intensely hot down South; whereas the region of the magnolia has been deliciously cool, refreshed by abundant and frequent rains, with now and then a delicate barely perceptible pinch of frost in the air’. In New York, where a reasonable degree of heat would have been admitted, but cool breezes were normal, all records have been broken for hot May weather. YVhile New York was sweltering in this way Colorado had lost herself in eight or ten inches of snow. While Texas was being deluged with rain Indiana was burning up with drought. Other sections pined for a patter of rain upon corn leaf and wheat ear, and a cloudburst came along to drown out a part of Nebraska. Now, all this is indicative of bad management somewhere. The distribution is performed in a bunglingly incompetent manner. This business of turning on a burning glass where the earth is already parched and the people baking, emptying clouds into lakes, and sending a surplus of rain into a State that has an instinctive aversion to water, has been carried to a stupid excess. It is time a stop were ordered. Record for the Week Appalling. Tuesday's torridity was the climax of a hot week that broke the record of twentyfive years. In Chicago every day the mercury climbed up to the 90 mark, and several times took a peep over the top of the glass. Not since the bureau began

regulating the weather had the corresponding week let loose so much calorie. The excessive heat was due to the south wind, the scorching breath from some Mexican inferno that so often sweeps across Kansas and Nebraska, leaving death, destruction and mourning in its track. The record shows a remarkably high temperature from an early hour and a striking drop during a shift in the wind. Chicago did not get the worst of the heat, for at Indianapolis, Louisville and ('harleston. S. C., the thermometer registered 100, making the first century record of the season. It was 08 at Washington and Norfolk, \a. The maximum of 06 was reached at Detroit, St. Louis, Springfield, 111., Cairo, Nashville, Memphis and Cincinnati. New York, as usual, played a second to Chicago, with only 04. Boston had a lucky day, having n sea wind which kept the record down to (So. At 7 o’clock at night Ohio and east- ■ ern Indiana were still sweltering under a I 1 temperature of UU to 02. , I «r-. .. . .. , . . . , I | week. Beyond lowa ami Minnesota he ' temporature v as down to 6(1 or below. In j । Colorado and Wyoming it even went as ' I low as 50. There were general rains, with | more or less thunder, in lowa, Nebraska | and Colorado, ami those sections will i probably get more showers later. This I is likely to prove the longest spell of wet ; weather the arid se<rfion of the West has I had for years. Cairo and Nashville also I reported showers. Government correspondents sent in the : following as the highest marks for Mon- ! day; I Abilene s-- Little Rook 94 I Blsninrck 52 Louisville 100 I Boston f>o Marquette 72 | Buffalo 71 Memphis pi; 1 Cairo tMi Miles City fit; Cheyenne 50 Milwaukee 7s ; Chicago Pit Mlnnedosa G 2 i Cincinnati 9G Montreal 70 ! I Cleveland 90 Moorhead si> j ; Davenport 92 New Orleans si i Denver *>•: New Y’ork !H ' J ies Moines s t Omaha S 2 ' Detroit 9G Oswego so Podge City GS Palestine 90 Imlv,tii tu> Pierre -is Ei Paso S 4 Pittsburg 94 i Erle ss Port Huron 94 : Galveston si; Pueblo 72 : Grand Haven 90 Rapid Citv 54 ' Green Bay 7S St. Louis 9>t ’ Helena 60 St. Paul so । Huron Go Salt Lake City.... GG ; Indianapolis Phi Sioux City 70 I .Jacksonville 92 Springfield. 111.... PG j Kansas City si Springfield, M 0... ss Knoxville !C. Toledo P 4 I La Crosse SS Washington ti.S | Many cases of sunstroke are reported, i In New York it is safe to say that at least I twenty-five persons have died during the | last five days as a result of the heated term, and that over 150 have been prostrated and taken to the different hospitals of the city. In Chicago four persons died Monday from sunstroke and many others overcome by heat will not recover. Philadelphia reports seven deaths am! nearly fifty prostrations as Monday’s ad- | dition to the heated term fatalities, while i T? 1 nnd I*i per

Baltimore amt i irrsuurg eacn recont tour . x-iiseS., . The mean temperature tojnJlrv fi-om ISSO C 5 JBB3 toM 61 Lssu. .. ~'5 7 - I'^- 51 IS9O. ... l s <4 ;>s i 5.8.3 53 189] ... , 1875 54 1.8,84 56 IST’ m I 1885 53 isus;;;;• ; I s l< 1,1 1.^6 57 18! 14. 5y l s,s lb*! 00 1895 1879 58 The highest notch reached during May 1595, was 94 degrees, the lowest being 32 degrees. On seventeen days the tempera* ture was above normal, and on fourteen it was below normal. The weather has been more freakish during May this vear than in twenty-five years before. On four days-May 4, 29, 30 and 31-the records were smashed, the mercury beating its competitors in former years.

Crops Burning Up. The most serious condition which ever confronted the farmers of Illinois, Indiana, lowa, AVisconsin and Michigan reigns in many localities, and every crop is threatened by serious danger—wheat corn, oats and hay. There has been less than half the usual rainfall this yea”, aiid many of the smaller streams are now dry. while wells and cisterns have been dry for weeks. The hot wave of this week has made the condition more alarming. So long as it was cool the growing vegetation heA its color, but under the influence of

the sun and wind of this week vegetation of all kinds is withering. Many of tho meadows are already in August brown. The blue grass pasture will not much longer afford grazing for the cattle, the farmers say, and tho wheat and corn are both in danger of being destroyed. RUIN IN MEDICINE VALLEY. The Dreadful Effect of the Flood Plainly Discernible. Death and destruction rushed hand in hand down Medicine Valley, Neb., on the crest of a raging flood. Swelled by the heavy rains until its banks could no longer withstand the strain, Curtis Lake burst from its restraint, and Monday’s sun shone iqion a valley of desolation through southwest Nebraska. Thousands of dollars’ worth of railroad property has been destroyed, miles of meadows that covered the earth with a carpeting of green are now a muddy waste, dotted with wrecked buildings and drowned live stock. No lives were lost. Most of the damage is to crops where the fields were flooded. 1 he first intimation Curtis citizens had that the locality was threatened with disaster was the bursting of the lake’s banks with a roar that could be heard several miles, and a wall of water ten feet high rushed down the valley, earning everything in its path. Houses, Height ears live stock and a mountain of debris were caught up and dashed about like feathers. The fine roller mills which occupy the east side of the great ravine received the first shock of the torrent and the building was ruined. A few hundred yards below the mills Medicine river passes under the railroad tracks of the Burlington. When 'ho flood struck this narrow defile its progress was impeded, but only for an instant. Then the heavy embankments gave way and the wall of water rushed through, cutting a path 100 yards wide. JThe railroad company’s loss is about $25,000. As the wall of water passed beyond th® city it rapidly spread out over an immense territory, and its powers of destruction were correspondingly decreased. The damage, however, was merely shifted, as the extensive alfalfa meadows for many miles to the south were flooded several feet deep, and all details from the south where the torrent passed indicate very extensive damage. Farm products of every description were engulfed ami in many instances where the homes of the farmers were in the immediate vicinity of the valley the disaster was almost ruinous. Small buildings were washed away ur undermined in such a manner as to be ren-

dered worthless, and in some sections the water rose so rapidly as to seriously menace the lives of families. FEELS THEIR PULSE. Tbe New York World Polis Congress on Money Matters. The New Y’ork YVorld publishes a telegraphic poll of the next Congress, as far as obtainable, upon the silver, tariff an 4 income tax questions. The YVorM sums up the result as follows: In a general way it may be said that out of 116 members who gave unequivocal answers to the silver question, fifty-five are unqualifiedly in favor of free coinage, forty-four favor bimetallism, generally with a proviso of an international agreement. Only seventeen can fairly be classed as favoring a single gold standard, and the attitude of some of these' even is not definite. Sontte and far western States are almost unanI imous for free coinage. The South Cenj tral States are almost unanimous for fro® 1 oixai is moi;, wnn an internStiouaTDl- ■ metallic qualification and it is only in 1 New York, New England ami adjacent । Eastern States that there is ary avowedI ly gold standard men. In regard to the tariff, only twenty- | eight members are against ail changes, while thirty-live want moderate changes, I and thirty-eight are pronounced for radij cal changes. Few are free traders. ! Moderates are chiefly those who think I changes will be necessary in order to in- : crease the revenues. The income tax question brought out many sharp and piquant answers. Forty-nine Congressmen say they favor the principle of the tax. Forty-seven oppose it. .A great many evaded the question or failed io answer it. A few details by States will be interesti ing. Alabama, Arkansas, California, ColI orado, Florida. Idaho, Mississippi, Mon- . tana, Nevada, North Carolina. South CarI olina. South Dakota. Y'ir^in a, YVashing- • t 'n and Wyoming are solid for silver, so I far as heard from. The bimetallists are | chiefly in Delaware, Georgit. Illinois, In- ■ diana, lowa. Kansas, Louisiana. MichiMit Missouri, Nebraska, 1 Ohio. Pennsylvania ami West Y’irginia. 1 New York. New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Rhode Island. Massachusetts and Y'eri mon: have gold advocat> s. Alabama. Arkansas, Texas, the Carolinas, Georgia. ! Louisiana ami most all other Southern ; States are solid for the inc; me tax. New ' Y’ork and the East are generally opposite. . Elsewhere the division is nearly even. GRESHAM’S DEATH MASK. A Perfect Plaster Cast of the Face of the Late Secretary of State. The plaster cast of the face of the late Secretary Gresham has been completed and the sculptor, U. S. J. Dunbar, has i made two photographs, giving effective I front and side views of the cast. To the man who will be unable to see the face

of the dead these pictures will give a striknr iw ■ -...-■• ■. ~ ' " r ' n i» o-atl), with the lineaments of strength, firmness .’ ■' ; ■ j * w •,-Y\ -<- ' । • jH OhATlt MASK OF GBESIIAM.

and dignity still present. Aside from the tn U < Ot tk 6 ^”5 as a representation of e secretary s features in death, it will i have its chief purpose as the most accu- । rate guide lor the perfected bust of Mr. resaam. The east is but a mechanical process, but the hand of the sculptor will now fashion the clay into a complete representation, giving lif H . to the eves and expression to the features. One’of the last acts before the remains of the Secretary were robed for death and committed to the casket was to make the plaster cast of the features.