St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 35, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 20 March 1897 — Page 7

A VEGETABLE GARDEN EEST LOCATION ISON HIGH LAND FACING THE SOUTH. Directions as to the Proper Fertilizers to Use —It In Best to Grind the Corn for Stock —The Farmer’s Tool Cheat.

Mellow Soil Ie Necessary. The ground for the garden should face the south or southwest, and should be high and dry land. If the ground is low and flat, it should be drained. The best garden soil Is a sandy loam for the early vegetables, and a clay loam for mid-summer and late vegetables, and a clay loam for mid-summer and late fad vegetables. Sandy lands are easy to work, have fewer weeds, and areadickly warmed up; but they quickly lose fertility and suffer Iwidly froix drouth. Such lands can be greatly livproved by spreading a thin coat of clay over the ground in the fall, and by keeping the soil covered with a crop of rye, to be plowed down early in the spring. By following this system for a few years, the ground can be deepened every fall about half an inch, and the rye will fur-

nish a good part of the vegetable matter that will be needed in growing the crops. After such crops are filled with vegetable matter, the fertility of the soil can be maintained by a yearly application of 500 pounds of dissolved bone and 400 pounds of kainit spread to the acre. The bone should be used in the drill, and the kainit spread broadcast in November. Clay loams are particularly suited to growing late peas, cabbage, tomatoes, pole beans, and all the root crops. Ground that has never been in garden should first have an inch coat of long manure spread over the soil. The early fall is best. If the work is delayed until spring, have the manure well rotted. The manure should be plowed down with a strong team of horses, plowing the land at least six inches in depth. Let the ground be well harrowed both ways, and after each harrowing give the land a good rolling. The secret of profitable vegetable culture is In having a deep, rich, mellow soil, planting the crops that suit that soil and climate, putting the seed in at the right time, with the proper quantity of manure, and giving frequent and thorough culture.

Grind the Corn for Stock. Ground corn is more easily, and much better, digested than whole corn. Where the corn is grown on the place, and most of it is to be fed out at the barn, it will pay to buy a good horsepower mill. The steel sweep mills that can be had for SSO will grind two thousand bushels of ear corn with one set of plates. With two heavy horses fourteen bushels of ear corn can be ground per hour. If the corn is sent to the mill, half the day is lost going and coming, and the grinding has to be paid for In addition. The same time spent in going to and from the mill would do the grinding. Where twenty cows and young stock are wintered, and corn commands $1.40 per barrel, it will pay to grind the corn ami mix it with bran. Better feeding results can Im> had, and the full value of the corn and bran will be utilized by whatever stock to which it may be fed, and a far richer manure made from the stock so fed. Some of the small dairymen slice their ear corn, and then boil it for several hours; it is then mixed with millfeed and cut hay and thrown into a heap to ferment for a few hours before feeding. The grain and cob is made quite soft, and is very palatable to the stock. The corn and the water that It is boiled in being mixed with the hay and millfeed is easy of digestion, and there is scarcely any waste. Those farmers far from a mill, and having a mill of their own, will find this method of preparing their ear corn a very safe one. Farmer'* Tool Chest. No good farmer, especially among the younger ones, should do without a suitable work bench, furnished with the common kind of tools most wanted for use. Have a place for these where work can readily be done as wanted. Have a supply of hardwood sawed in different dimensions for whiffletrees, eveners or many other things that will be wanted in the way of repairs or otherwise. Have also receptacles for nails of different sizes, as well as for screws and bolts. These are all cheap, are often wanted on the instant, and. if at hand, will save vexation and expense. A supply of copper wire, rivets, clout nails or tacks should lie kept constantly on hand, and will be found of great convenience. A combined anvil and vise, weighing forty pounds, can -or could once —be bought for so. and will be found one of the handiest appliances in the shop. Thus equipped at little cost, the farmer will be able to do many small jobs that will effect a considerable saving in time, travel and money that would, necessarily, otherwise be incurred. Besides this, the moral and educational effect upon the boys on the farm will be of a beneficial kind and should never be lost sight of. —Practical Farmer. Experience in Somlnim. Last spring I sowed three acres of sorghum for fodder. It yielded between four and five tons per acre and makes one of the best feeds obtainable. Horses and cattle like it, and in the winter whenever no other green stuff can be obtained pigs will eat it. Sow four or five pecks per acre. It will then grow’ thickly and be fine and easy to handle. Let it stand until ripe, as the sugar w’ill be formed and the fodder relished by the stock. It is very difficult to cure. Sometimes it will lie in the field three or four weeks while the weather is comparatively dry and yet be too green to be put into a stack. After cutting, allow it to remain until

wilted, then rake, leaving It In the windrow a couple of days, when it will be ready to shock and use. If not waD] <*d until late in the winter or spfti it may be stacked after it has stf s _ the shock for six or eight y Orange Judd Farmer. mm, Tumworth com in g rids British breed hay two vpars forward rapidly the y , . y mm, ~ . Ary that scrubs Ihe agricultural pmie / b h t mihst go. and thev/* 111 11 ’ L breed J be put In their oreed of swine Z „ „

1 Place? The ma/ y °/ ^J™^ 8 *“ nt I a breed whk/y ’ develop rapidly, , , and will rals< lth llttle care more P ork ’ In a brief*"" 10 ’ ^ oas feed- than < the pres^ standard breeds. I believe i tb it bi^' eu t* l ® f anc y breeds and the i scrut^® 8 a large field, which is claim- ' ed the Tam worth hogs. They are ' In color, have long, straight bodies, ' well sprung ribs. full neck, full jaw, ( are wide between the eyee, have good , backs, good hams, good bone and stand straight on their feet. With ordinary ] care they are quick growth, can be fattened at any age, and reach large size, if kept to maturity, at nine or ten months. They are very vigorous, always ship well, and will rough it better in any kind of weather than any other known breeds.—Agriculturist.

An Electric Form, A farmer In Germany does all bls work by electric power. A small brook furnishes all of the power needed to run the dynamos, which, in turn, drive all of his farm machinery, pump hie water, and light his house and outbuildings. Every operation for which steam or horse-power was formerly used Is now performed as well, or better, by this electric plant, which has also the advantage of being always ready for any call upon It. The brook Is dammed, and, with a six-foot fall, drives an eighteen horse-power turbine, the prime mover in the circuit of machinery.—Massachusetts Ploughman. Black Walnuts for Fowls. Take a hammer and mash up a bucketful of black walnuts, throw them in the poultry yard and you will see the fowls leave any other food to get at the walnuts. A bushel of these walnuts—in the hull—is worth as much as. or more than, a bushel of oats for poultry food, yet the farmer will allow twentyfive bushels of them to wash away down the hollows and at harvest will “skin around" among the briers and bushes to get the last head of his oats crop.—Portia nd Transcrlpt.

Kaffir Corn. Indian corn has a foreign cousin that is coming to the front rapidly in the West —Kaffir corn. Over a hundred thousand acres will be garnered thia year in Kansas—twice the average of last year. It grows where the old variety will not. and is sure to make a crop If it has half a chance. It makes fine feed, nnl ihe cat th' arc fattened on it as easily as on the Indian maize. It blds fair to help revuluthmize the farming of the semi-arid region. And It strengthens the power of the princlpal ruler strength-giving, prosperity- i bringing King Corn. Shelter for Pitre. The Kansas experiment station has been experimenting with hogs sheltered and without shelter. The sheltered hogs made a gain of one pound of flesh for every five pounds of corn fed, but the unsheltered hogs made no gain at all. The station also refers to the necessity of having shelter In summer, as the animals suffer as well from too much heat as from too much cold.— Agriculturist. Odd* nnd Endn. Sprinkle coal liberally with salt, ns It Is put into the stove or furnace; It will burn more evenly, last longer, and there will be fewer clinkers. To clean a sewing machine, cover all the bearings with kerosene, run the machine rapidly a few minutes, then with a soft cloth remove all the kerosene and apply machine oil. 1 st' a caudle in a sickroom in place of the kerosene lamp, which emits a disagreeable odor when turned low. A email, steady light may lie secured bv placing finely powdered salt on the wick until the charred part is reached. Table cloths that show signs of "wearing through" near the center can be prepared for longer service by cutting several niches from one end, rehemming and using the pieces cut off to put under any thing place*, Th«se places should then be darned with the ravellngs saved when drawings threads for open work or hemming. To remove iron rust spots in the ab- | senee of sunshine, soap them well, I place a wet cloth on a very hot Iron; | when tlie steam rises lay the spots on | the cloth and immediately rub with a j crystal of oxalic acid or a damp cloth dipped in powdered crystals. When tile I spots have disappeared, wash at once i in several waters. Guard the acid well, j as it is a deadly poison. Where there is no bathroom and the bath must be taken in the bedroom a ! bathing rug will prove a great convenience. It should Ire about a yard I and a half square. The upper side is made of Turkish toweling and the underside of heavy colored cotton flannel. The two are tied together here and there, the tie coming on the underside with colored linen floss. The edge can be simply bound with braid or worked around in buttonhole stitch with yarn, ora scallop can be crocheted. Table linen of course should be hemmed by hand. A very satisfactory way is to fold as for ordinary hemming, then fold once more in such a manner that the edge of the hem come against the body of the cloth, and then hem as if sewing an overandover seam. In this way the thread used in hemming lies the same way as those woven in the cloth, and hardly shows at all. A letter in old English or script can be worked in the corner of each napkin. It should be about an inch long and done with linen floss.

Angledand slain. i SEVEN PEOPLE DIE IN A RAILROAD DISASTER. Back Water from White Rivar Un-[ dermines an Embankment Near H»-‘ zelton, Ind.—Engine and Two Car* Plunge End First Into the Stream. I’ Nashville Limited Wrecked. The south-bound Chicago and Nashville limited train over the Evansville and! Terre Haute Railroad was wrecked about 4 o'clock Wednesday morning at a t toilet about a quarter of a mile south of tike railroad bridge across White river, whi®7 is two miles north of Hazleton, Ind. Tl^ exact list of dead could not be ascertained^ as several bodies had undoubtedly bee^’ washed away, but it may aggregate eighfl or ten persons. Those known to be dead! are: I Herbert Allen, late doorkeeper Indiana] House of Representatives, home in Evans j ville. | George A. Sears, conductor. | Joseph Boleinnn, fireman. Four passengers, bodies seen floating i away in the wreck -and not recovered. I The wounded are: I John K. McCutchan, engineer, scalded.! John B. Haneisen, brakeman, foot! crushed. Baek water from the river had risen to within a few feet of the roadbed. wlddL is on a high embankment of the love® Other trains had passed over tins place* few hours previously, and the railroaa was then thought to be safe. This ills fated train crossed the bridge and way running about twenty-five miles an houn, when suddenly the embankment gave war under the train, precipitating the engine and the combination mail and baggage and the smoker into the ditch. In an mstant the water from up stream rushed with terrific force through the break, tearing the levee away rapidly. I The mail car went down end first and the smoker plunged under it. Conductor George Sears was in there and probably four or five others. All met death either by th(> concussion or by drowning. The ladies' coach was derailed, but did not turn over, and all the occupants escaped to the sleepers on the rear of the train ami were taken back to Vincennes. The engine. No. 94. in charge of Engineer John McCutchan and Fireman Joseph Boleinnn, turned over on the east side into five feet of water, McCutchan was thrown westward mid fell into the water, but swam out. Fireman Holemnn jumped with the engine nnd was caught when It fell. The wrecked smoker sank from view several hundred yards from the track. Baggageman Harry Hili had a miraculous escape nnd was not injured. His car lies buried in the water. The wrecking train, with railroad officials, arrived after some delay, nnd n large force of men was put to work trying to keep the remainder of the embankment from washing. Waves fifteen and twenty feet high leaped through the breach and all the sand bags that could lx> secured seemed to be of no immediate effect hi stopping the washing. During the day n large section of the levee wns washed away, sending the baggage car ami telescoped smoker down into the water. The baggage car revil'd ‘jpr fifty feet from the levee and was half ! submerged. The smoking car toppled, I floated down with the current through the washout and then sank out of night. GRAND OLD MAN OF CRETE, Costn Velnndakea, the Father of the Present Cretan Revolution. Costa Veloudakes in the grand old man of Crete and the father of the present revolution, lie is regarded by the Crettn* with tHmudn confidence, nnd in bin capacity ns president of the revolutionary assembly has been a good guide and n great comforter to the patriots. Vekmdnkea is 95 yearn old. but his faculties are as clear and his head ns strong as n man half his age. He comes of the finest ('retail families and linn done more than any other one man to keep alive the revotOS nrw CC ST A vFI O1 ’nAK FS. hitionarj f< < that lias nt 1 trfumpln d. He Ise taken part in al'^p the Cretan r< . -t-c ago Klß2l be was the head of a strong force o frebels and distinguished himself by liberating sixty-eight ('retail women who were kept prisoners in a Turkish fortress. He has the courage of a lion. At the battle of the Fountains in 186 G he was fighting at ■ the side of his two sons, when a bullet came along and killed one of their. The father did not flinch, but ordered Riat the body be taken from the field, and &en resumed the battle. In the revoltlion of 187 S Veloudakes was made comtnander-in-chief of all the revolutionary forces on the island, and did very well in that capacity. Ho was one of the three Cretans who went to Berlin to be present at the drawing of the Berlin treaty and to represent the side of the Cretans in the issues at stake. Hugh Smith, aged 75 years, of Madison, Fa., lias been arrested on the charge of murdering Matilda Snyder, an 18-year-old girl, in 1869. No suspicion attached to Smith until recently, when, it is said, trouble arose between him and the man who assisted him in disposing of the body. Elizabeth Gibson, alias Lizzie Henry, aged 28, was arrested at Cleveland by St. Louis officers, on the charge of being a fugitive from justice. She is accused of complicity in the murder of William Stewart, an aged and wealthy man of St Jjouis, night of Feb. 7.

j THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, j THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CALM 1 REFLECTION. i "— ~ , leaaant, Interesting, and Instructve Leaso n , nntl Where It May Be H ound—A Learned and Conciee Review of the Same. for March 21. eth “ Kv ery man that strivthings ” aittßtpry temperate in all ChH^r 1 Cor - 9: 25 - ’ Os course t> y . yeHIK nft(> r his conversion. J the time t 0 " 0 * 1 " will b e familiar with 1 -57 Enh P ° f wriHn « the epistle B “Unto th/T US ’ tl F< missionary journey. I tha? nrl J , eWS .' ' ' 1,8 a Jew ' •• • t<> them I b. nderth r lnW ' HH llndCT tbe law”: ■ Pa. e’Decml call was to Gentiles, ■ 1 au| remained always hi touch with Jews, K and knew full well how to appeal to them; | ne felt deeply the contrast between the W splendid possibilities of Judaism and its | actual failure and rejection of Christ, as j'is shown in chapters 9-11 of Romans; he I was well aware of the legitimate ndvanI tage possessed by those who had been I-brought up on the Jewish scriptures, even I so perverted a form of the law ns was Pj taught in that day; and in all arguments Iwith Jews we may be sure he used to the full this bond of agreement between him and his hearers or renders. “This I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you": the last word, “you,” is supplied by the translators and does not appear in the revised version—"that I may be a joint partaker thereof." The thought is plain, and a noble thought it is: (1) Christian self-re-straint wins men; (2) He who wins men becomes in a new sense a sharer in the gospel; he shared in its benefits nt conversion and ever since; he shares now in the joy of spreading the good news nnd so becoming a “joint partaker" with Christ, ns well ns with other disciples, in active nnd beneficent service. Here the apostle's thought takes n new turn. The first point in the chapter was, “I have a theoretical right to do many things which I refrain from doing;” the •econd, “1 retrain from them in order to win men.” Now his mind turns to the intensity with which he has for nearly a score of years pursued this self-denying service; am) from defending his own course ho turns to exhorting his readers. In n smaller man it would bo boasting. In Paul it is the self forgetful utterance of a consecrated man. "Have you not beheld my race?" ho cries to the wrangling nn<l sinning Corinthians. “Have you not seen mo striving year after year for this one thing, the fitting of myself for service ami the performing of that service?" Tho athletic festivals of the Gre "inn world Impressci] deeply the imagination of Paul. He was doubtless familiar with them from childhood, for Tarsus was a Grwk city; and had witnessed them frequently nt both Corinth nnd Ephesus. The Isthmian games nt Corinth were among the moat famous events of nntiquity, second only to the Olympian games. They included leaping, discus throwing, running, boxing, wrestling. racing and chariot racing. The running nm-s were the most famous, and victory in them was a distinction fnr greater than that attained by any champion ball player or bicycle racer In our day. “The festivals were ntivnded by immense crowds from all the Greek States, and from even the ni”«t distant coloniea. The various States «cnt embassies, am) vied with each other hi the splendor of them and of the gifts they brought. The victor waa received home by a triumphal procesI sion, entered the city by n new o|>ening I broken for him through the walls, was taken in a chariot to the temple of the guardian deity , am) w< loomed with songs. “Not as uncertainly": the successful runner is the one who looks only at the goal, not at the spectators or at his antagonists "So tight I. not as one that I beateth the air": nnyltody who has ever seen a boxing match between a strong but unskilled man and a scientific boxer will get Paul's point. The big, burly fellow makes a great show of his arms, keeps them waving in the air most of the time; but he has no skill, and every time he strikes out a terrible death-dealing blow at the other man's heml, the other man ducks or dodges or guards and the big fellow finds himself spinning around with I the force of his own futile blow; he is | beating the air. When he lias tired himself out his opjxinent makes short work I of him by a few quick, unexpected blows. Paul compares himself to the scientific boxer in such tin encounter. He saved his strength, and hit hard when the proper time came. Teachinc Hints. The theme of the lesson is not self-re-straint as an end. but self-restraint as a means to the service of other men. Let not this be forgotten. Self-control was one of the Greek virtues; it appealed to cultivated pamins merely because it seemed the course best in accordance with the I principles of beauty. A man ruled bv his (Missions is unbalanced, om-sided. distorted, Ugly. But tlie virtue of which I’aul speaks, sometimes under the name "temperance”—which of course has a much wider meaning than abstinence from in- ' toxicants—is desirable because it enables one to serve his fellow men and through 1 them to serve his Master. By emphasiz- ' ing this point you can make this an interesting lesson: by neglecting it you will be likely to fail. Dispense with pathetic temperance stories for once, and make the pupils feel this sense of responsibility, at once honor and burden, which the famous college athlete feels. The responsibility, in our case, instead of being to a college or a school, is to Christ and to the world. We may waste much time arguing whether a man has a right to use his body as he sees fit if we regard each man as an isolated unit: but when we get Paul's point of view, “all things to all men, that. I might by’ all means save some,” argument becomes unnecessary. Next Lesson—Review. The instinct of the soul is to reach out after God. Just tlie same as the plant which is placed in tlie window reaches out after the light; and if you turn the plant around so that it bends Inward toward the room, it will only be a short time until by its inherent, hunger for the sunlight it will bend over again toward the window—so we turn our thoughts, our hearts, our minds, toward the world and away from God, but our spiritual nature reaches out intuitively towards the divine light of the Son of God.

RECORD OF THE WEEK INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Some Vandal H ns Stolen the State’. Numl.matic Collection-Secretary of a Loan Association Goes to PrisonPathetic Scene in a Decatur Court Indiana Robbed of Rare Coins. Uunng the temporary absence of the employe m charge of the State Geological Museum at Indianapolis someone broke the glass ln the showcase in which the states rare coins were kept, and secured the entire number, about forty, which are valued very highly on account of their age and historic memories. A colored boy’offered an old coin at a pawnbroker’s, and it is thought that a clew to the thief may be thus obtained. The collection contained some of the earliest English ami French coins used in this country and others used by the early Spanish in Mexico. Voluntarily Confessed His Sin. Hugh Campbell, secretary and treasurer of the Bee Hive Savings and Loan Association of Indiana]—>lis, voluntarily went before the Grand Jury and confessed that he had embezzled $3 and. $4 weekly for several years from the association, giving the shareholders proper credit, but changing the amouivs on his books. The Grand Jury was loth to accept his confession, but the books of the shareholders were found to bear out his plea and ho was indicted for embezzlement. He was present when the indictment was returned, and at once entered a plea of guilty’ and was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. Three* years ago his wife was stricken blind. Campbell immediately began drinking to excess, which continued until recently, when he reformed. Then his conscience preyed on him. Ho was well known in contracting anil building circles. All Over the State. Edward Schoonover was instantly killed at the Paragon paper mill, north of Muncie. He was knocked from a rafter while at work. James Higginbaugh, while trimming trees near Pleasant Lake, fell to the ground, a distance of thirty feet, and died within an hour. He was a farmer. Nels Gravel, of Goodhind, who carries mail between Goodin nd and Mount Ayer, was drowned near Foren-an Station, while trying to cross a bridge which had been damaged by a flood. Jesse W. Sinelser, ex-representative of Rush County, has a ewe which produced five lambs, nil of them alive and doing well. Mr. Smelser is very proud of the lambs and is taking extra cure of them. Samuel Gnretson, wanted in Anderson, Liberty nnd other points for horse theft nnd swindling Red Men. lodges along the Ohio, from Cincinnati to Wheeling, was arrested at Delphi. He has been a fugitive from justice for two years. Edward F. Pfeiffer, bookkeeper for Fairbanks, Morse & Co,, was found dead in the elevator at Indiamqiolis. Whether h<» whs crushed or fell in an epileptic attack nnd smothered is not known. Mr. Pfeiffer recently came from Chicago. I'red Reed, aged 17, of North Manchester, was accidentally shot and killed while hunting. He climbed upon a fence to rest, the g in slippis! from his hand and the hummer, striking a rail, the gun was dischargixl. the load entering his stomach and breast. The will of County Commissioner Joseph W. Buxick was admitted to probate in the Wabash Circuit Court. The estate is valued nt considerable over SIOO,(<M). Allen G. Busi< k. an ndopted son. is given sl<i.<MHi, nnd the remainder of the property is dividisl among Mrs. Kate M. Buslck. Mrs. Mudge Bailey, and Gillen D. Busick. A pathetic scene took place in the Decatur court room during the progress of a trial. Henry Colerick, a prominent attorney of Fort Wayne, and a lawyer in the case on trial, ns-eived a telegram stating that his son, W. E. Colerick, also a prominent attorney of Fort- Wayne, had killed himself and his sweetheart. Mr. Colerick was almost crazed with grief and. throwing his arms around other attorneys in the case, implored them to tell him it was not true. Ex-County Treasurer Fair was arrested at Butler for embezzlement and his bond put at $22.<XX>, which he could not raise, and he had to go to jail. He turned the ofliee over to his successor $12,000 short. His son, who was deputy, is also under arrest for forging, but is out on bail. This makes the seventh ex-county officer to be placed under arrest in connection with De Kalb County crookedness, an I it is said that several private citizens will be added to the list. For many years the invisible course of the famous Lost river, which suddenly sinks from view at a point near the town of Orleans, has incited scientific inquiry. No trace of this underground river was ever discovered until the recent heavy rains. It is now believed that Lost river runs directly under the town of Orleans. This belief is based mainly upon the fact that during the recent flood the water burst forth from what was supposed to be a small cave in such volumes that the town was flooded. The water has now ceased to flow from the eave, but anyone standing near the entrance can hear the rushing of the torrent, apparently hundreds of feet below. Daniel Lonabaugh of Lima, O„ representing the Standard Gil Company, closed oil leases on over 1.000 acres of prospective oil lands in the northern part of Madison County. These are the first oil leases the Standard has secured in Madison County. Heretofore the company lias not ventured so far west into the center of the gas belt and it shows that the territory is slowly but su-ely coming west. While Madison County has always held the distinction of being the greatest natural gas producing county, but little oil traces were found until two weeks ago, when old gas wells along I’ipe creek suddenly began to throw out oii. Rev. T. E. Covington of Fort Wayne has accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Lagrange, and will at once enter upon his duties. The Indiana Iron Company of Muncie has informed the employes of the nut and bolt department that a reduction will be made in their wages amounting to from 3 to 15 per cent. The reduction is to do away with the advance made last summer as a result of the slowness of trade in this line. The men now regret that they withdrew from the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, as they will be forced to go it alone.

There is a great difference between chean jingoism and sound Americanism. —New York Advertiser. “A new whisky combination.” It can’t beat the old one, with lemons, sugar and hot water.—Evening World. The power of money and the lust for power are now making cowards of all the great nations of Europe.—Salt Lake Tribune. It’s a great thing to be a sultan! Whenever you get into trouble all the powers <h the earth get together to help vou out. —New York I’ress. ,^ rcoee shows a king high flush, and there is a suspicion that the powers haven’t got the necessary full hand to beat *(•—Chicago Tribune. The other wonders of modern surgery pale into insignificance beside what has been done to tlie broken backbone of winter.—Detroit News. ' The millennium is at hand. All the National Baseball League magnates profess satisfaction with the new playing sehedule.- —Boston Traveler. Os course, if bachelors are to be taxed, j the fellow who tries to get married and ( can t should be entitled to a pension.— g Chicago Times-Herald. A Kansas legislator has happened on - the ten commandments, and likes them so , well he wants them incorporated in the 1 State law.—Chicago Tribune. The sale of a “blooded hog” for $4,000 ’ is reported from lowa. Some of the poli- ■ ticians will welcome this news as an inI dication of their growing value. —Chicago । Tribune. ' The skeptical doctor in Washington who hffers one hundred dollars “for a well-au-thenticated case of hydrophobia” can secure one cheaper by tackling the right dog.—New York Advertiser. There are peiyle temporarily in this town who are firmly committed to the notion that there can be no material return to prosperity until there is a general distribution of offices.—Washington Post. The question, “What shall we do with our ex-Presidents?” need worry us no longer. Our ex-Presidents have settled it themselves. They are devoting all their leisure to the noble business of rearing wives for future Presidents.—Cleveland Leader. Concerning Congress. President McKinley has a number of tough things on his hands, but the toughest is the United States Senate. —Buffalo Express. j One pleasure we shall derive from readhig the reports from the Fifty-fifth Congress will be the absence of the name of David B. Hill.—St. Louis Star. The I nited States Senate will do well to take the advice of Vice-President Hobart, and decide to transact its business in a business-like way.—Baltimore Ameri- ' can. How korrified some of the^ld-line Senators must frave been at Vice-President Hobart's audacity in hinting that the Senate ought to have business rules.—Ros- ‘ ton Globo. ’ Lives there a man with imagination so vivid that he can place his hand on hia heart and say that one year ago he fore1 saw Marcus A. Hanna in the Senate? —■ Cleveland Plain Dealer. More than 10,000 bills were presented in the House during the life of the Fiftyfourth Congress. It is evident that the members wished to busy themselves aoout * any old bill.—Buffalo News. The United States Senate is now drift- ’ ing along in a Pefferless, Briceless, Blackburnless, Irbyless, Duboisless, Palmerless, Cameronless, Pughless, Voorheesless, Gibsonless, etc., less condition.—Washington I’ost. The notion that the gold Democrats will not ask anything ct the hands of the McKinley administration is a choice piece of fiction. Quite a number of them are on hand and all are in a receptive mood.— Washington Post. Chance of Arlminiatration. The retiring administration has been a clean one. — Boston Herald. The inspiring part of it all is that much 1 like the same thing will be done over again four years hence.—Chicago Tribune. It doesn't seem quite right for Washington to get all that money. Why not pass the inauguration around occasionally ?—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The man who seems to be least concerned about the departure of Grover Cleve- , land from office is Grover Cleveland himself.—Chicago Record. r Notwithstanding the presence of a number of Chicago aidermen in the city, but , comparatively few cases of pocket picking are reported.—Washington Post. The fact that Washington is still crowded is probably explained by the further fact that the original McKinley man has remained over for a few days.—Baltimore American. It might simplify matters were Mr. McKinley to insist that the office seekers arrange themselves in battalion formation and make their attack in an organized fashion. —Chicago Record. President Cleveland leaves the presidency incalculably richer than when he first assumed it. Who can estimate the value of a queenly wife and a trio of happy, charming children?—Detroit Free Press. It must astonish some of the Old World people to learn that a dinner was given to the incoming President by the retiring President of the United States without the services of a food taster.—St. Louis Republic. Sir G. O. Trevelyan's retirement from Parliament and political life bids fair to tall out to the advantage of letters. A new edition of "Lord Macaulay’s Life and Works” is announced by the Longman's under his editorship. The appointment of Circuit Judge McKenna as Attorney General causes considerable gossip as to his successor. It is stated at Tacoma, Wash., that the appointment has been tendered B. S. Grosstip, attorney for the Northern Pacific at that place. W. A. Johnston, who is now associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, serving his third term, once was a baseill pitcher. Dr. Nan-en has refused an offer of ibO.DOO marks for 100 lectures in Germany.