Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 December 1897 — Page 3

STOPPELAGIC SEALING

SENATE COMMITTEE PRESENTS A BILKi'TO PREVENT SEALING.

Heavy Penalties to Be Imposed on Citizen* of This Country Who Inht* .•«*•wvmse&m duige ia It.'•-•^srdjg ws M£@t£g&SM{! .. ftiSK

Washington, Dec. 8.—The senate committee on foreign relations today authorized a favorable report upon a bill prohibiting pelagic sealing by the people of the United States. The bill is another production of thp,state and treasury departments and its passage is asked upon the ground that with such a 14w upon the statute books of this country the administration will be in a better position to ask the prohibition of the pelagio sealing by other countries. The bill received the affirmative votes or all the senators present but its provisions were discussed at considerable length.

The bill was reported to the senate later in the day. The first section of it is as follows: "That no citizen of the United States nor person owing duty or obedience- to the laws or treaties of the United States, nor any person belonging to or on board of a vessel of the United States shall kill, capture or hunt at any time or in any manner whatever any fur seal in the waters of the Pacific ocean north of the 35th degree of north latitude and including Bering sea and the sea of Okhotsk."

The bill also prohibits any citizen of the United States from equipping, using or employing or furnishing supplies to any vessel engaged in killing or hunting fur 6eals and declares that no United States vessel shall be employed in this work. The penalty for violating the proposed law is imprisonment for not more than six months, or a fine of not less than $200 nor more than $2,000, or both, and the forfeiture of vessels so engaged.

The fourth section of the bill is as follows: 'If any vessel of the United States shall be found1 within the waters to which the act applies having on board fur seal skins or bodies of seals or apparatus or implements suitable for killing or taking seals, it shall be presumed that such vessel was used cr employed in the killing of said seals or that said apparatus or implements were used in violations of this act, until contrary is proved to .the satisfaction of the court."

The United States courts in Alaska, California, Oregon and Washington are given Jurisdiction over cases arising under tho act. It is specially provided that the act is not.to interfere with the privileges of coast Indians nor with the taking of seals on tbe iPribtyloff Islands.

Officers of the navy and revenue cutter service are empowered to seach suspected vessels. The importation by any person of. seal skins taken contray to this law is prohibited and all such skins so imported are to be seized and destroyed.

Representative Hitt, of Illinois, chairman

of the committee, on foreign affairs of the

It was supposed that this was a universal prohibition to our citizens. But the Parte court of arbitration held that the United States had no property in the seals outside of the three mile limit of the Pribyloff Islands. In construing this, the Supreme Court held that as the United States had no property outside of the three mile limit the law prohibiting the destruction of seals'"ia the waters of Alaska" did not apply to pelagic sealing on the high seas. In consequence poaching by American vessels was in effect legalized and quite a number of American vessels have been sealing in Bering sea although the government has been seeking to sho^ that this sealing was unJustifiable.

It Is expected also this step by the United States will have a salutary effect on the negotiations new in progress with Gerat Britlin and Oanada.

Mr. Hitt will call the bill up at the meeting of the committee on foreign affairs tomorrow and the purpose is to have it reportid and passed with theleast possible delay.

LETTER FROM FRED BELL.

He is Now In Central America But Will Soon Go to Alaska.

Fred Bell, son of John D. Bell of this city, ias written a letter to his father which will Interest many Terra Hauteans who know the young man. Fred Bell is engaged in the mining business in Central America but proposes to go to Alaska in the spring. He is at Juticalpa, Honduras, at present. In lis letter he says: "According to all accounts Alaska Is the laming big gold producer, everybody it s»ems Is getting ready to go up yiere. I am thinking very strongly of going myseif next spring ind if I can so arrange my business here In all probability will make the trip. "Ever since y«a first mentioned to me twenty years ago that in your opinion there ivouM be richej diggings discovered in Alaska than had been known in the palmy days of California I have had that country on ny mind, and have paid particular attentiorf to the different accounts coming from there, including articles written by the Slacial Students and I am of the firm belief that a great many of the rich deposits (these Bn the tops of mountains, for instance) in California, were brought down from the north during what is called the 'Glacier period." Of course, California has numbers Df rich veins which contributed their share to the gold in its streams, but on the other hand gold has been found in places wher# It would seem improbable that it could have some from local veins. "And then again take the famous "Blue Lead' there is no doubt in my mind that ihe source of the river that formed it was somewhere in Alaska. "The longer I mine the more I am a believer in the old saying 'Silver and lead runs in leads, but gold is where you find it, and* It matters not where it came from, where they are finding it is a good place to prospect, and as the shipments from Alaska have, demonstrated they are finding it there, that Is the country for a man to go to if he wants to engage in gold mining. "While I am of the firm beliel our seven million dollar country will prove to be immensely rich, at the same time the excitement is so great, I am afraid there will be great deal of suffering. Aa the winters are so long and severe, the discoveries will sot be made fast enough to support the thousands who are preparing to rush in. I have no doubt the country in time will produce enough of the yellow metal to giw employment to several millions•.of miners,

as

it 18 a. very extensive territory, but it

will take several seasons to open it up so it will take care of the crowd that is prepar-. ing to rush in next season. "My opnion is the majority of those going will have barely means to enable them to reach Dawson, and a great many of the inexperienced have the mistaken idea that if they can get to the diggings they will be all right they don't seem to realize that the hardships are to come after they get there. "The trip is nothing in comparison as they go over a beaten trail, but when they get there they will learn, that in order to find gold they will have to hustle out on their own trail where nobody else has been, as those creeks that are known to be rich have been gobbled up long ago, it is very easy to get on a railroad train and ride thousands of miles, but building the road is a different proposition entirely. "On the same principle it is an easy matter to follow the trail where thousands have traveled before «to the mines that are already found, but as the owners of these same mines are not giving them away, one will have to hustle out and rough it as they have done, and there as you know is where the hardships come in."

TWILL BE A HARD FIGHT.

Alexander Owens Employes Three More Lawyers to Defend Him It begins to appear that the trial of Alexander Owens for the murder of Alexander Lawrence last Tuesday evening is going to be one of the fiercest legal battles witnessed in the courts of this county in many a day. Owens was not satisfied with having the firm of Lamb & Beasley to defend him and yesterday retained Sam R. Hamill and McN'utt & McNutt. The slayer of Alexander Lawrence has been, brought face to face with the fact that his case hangs by a very small thread. In the trial that is to be Owens will be the only man who will testify in his deferse While on the other hand the prosecution has'fhe sworn statements of three eye witnesses to- the act.

There has been not a little talk to the effect that Owens' attorneys Would ask for a change or venue from this county. The attorneys for the defense are non-committal on this subject. The prosecution does not care apparently, whether a change is taken or not. They rely wholly on the strength of their case against Owens to insure a conviction' in any county.

It develops that Lawrence was a member of Wiona Council of Red Men. Wiona Council is the woman's degree of the order, though any Red Man in good standing may become a member. The members of the council have taken an Interest in the case and like the members of Tammany Tribe, have ordered a sum of money set aside to be paid for assistant counsel. The sum to be paid by the Red Men will not be large it is thought, as petition will be sent to the court t.i have him appoint additional counsel at the expense of the county, thus leaving the Red Men with little to pay.

By the action of Wiona Council last night David N. Taylor becomes interested in the case for the defense, as the members of the woman's degree passed the following resolution

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uou«36, introduced & sinsilar bill in the house, council, for whom all had a kindly regard This measure supplements the diplomatic was brutally murdered November 30th negotiations which have been going on for last while in the discharge of hte duties

some time between the United States, Grea Britain, Russia and Japan. Throughout the negotiations the representatives of Great Britain contended that an effort was being made to have British citizens stop pelagic sealing "While at the same time, the United States permitted its own citizens to carry on this destruction. When the American commissioners urged that pelagic sealing wag

nnntmrv tn /Holies of humanitv thev

contrary to tbe dictates or numanity tnej

were invariably met with the answer- that .. this inhumanity was sanctioned by the laws of the United States. The state department desires to overcome this objection. The law as it sands permits citizens of the United States to take seals outside of the three mile limits surrounding" the Pribyloff Islands. This was never intended but has come about through a Supreme Court decision respecting the Paris awards. The law reads that citizens of the United States shall not take seals "in the waters of Alaska."

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LawnSccmetery^r this cUy by Alexander

Owens, and Whereas, We believe thsU Owens should be diligently and vigorously prosecuted, for the offense charged against him therefore, be it

Resolved, That this council employ George I. Kisner and his law partner, Judge David N. Taylor, to assist In the prosecution of the case against Owens, and that the Pocahontas and keeper of

records direct a letter to the judge of the

Circuit Court and to the

prosecuting at-

torney of this county under the seal of this council requesting and recommending that the law firm of Taylor & Kisner be appointed to assist in the prosecution and that the'judge make &n appropriation to assist in the payment of the attorneys who assist in the prosecution of the case.

HALF A MILLION HAS DISAPPEARED.

George Lemon's Estate Dwindles to Small Proportions. Special to tlie Globe Democrat.

Washington, Dec. 7.—When George E. Lemon died he was accounted a milliouaire. Now his executors are unable to find the assets of which they are sure Mr. Lemon possessed shortly before he died. Mr. Lemon was for many years the leading pension attorney of Washington. He also published an old soldiers' paper, which had a very large circulation. He made a good deal more money than he spent. Whenever he found his bank account swelling he bought a block of bonds or stock of gilt-edged character. The brokers through whom Mr. Lemon made his investments say that they bought for him several hundred thausand dollars worth of these securities, and they never knew that he disposed of any of them. Mr. Lemon accumulated money steadily up to the time of his death. Having no family, he made will covering a number of bequests. His will provided that whatever remained should be divided among four persons—a brother, a sister, Mrs. Logan Tucker, daughter of the late Gen. Logan, and a lady in Wisconsin. It seems that the bequests will about eat up the estate, which, instead of being $1,000,600, will not be more than one-half of that. Little will remain for the residuary legatees., The executors do not think that the sureties were stolen of misplaced. They have reached the conclusion that toward the end of his life Mr. Lemon concluded to distribute some of his wealth to friends instead of naming them in his will, and that he. parted with $.600,000 in this way, leaving no record.

MISS IRWIN'g CLOSE CALL.

A Weil-Known Actress Seriously Injured By An Electric Wire.

Kansas City, IVo., Dec. 8.—As Miss Flo Irwin, the scar of the "Widow Jones" company, tripped on the stage at a local theater last evening, in the middle Of the third act, her foot caught on an electric light wire that had carelessly been left exposed across the floor from her dressing room to the stage. She was so shocked by the current that she fainted as she reached the stage.

The curtain was rung down and the performance closed abruptly. Miss Irwin was carried to her room. It required twenty minutes persistent attention to Restore her to consciousness and it was an hour later before she was able to be taken to her hotel. This morning she was apparently none the worse from her experience.

Bjr the Wholeiale,

Is what chronic inactivity of the liver gives rise to. Bile gets into the..•blood and imparts a yellow tint, the tongue fouls, and so does the breath, sick headaches, pain beneath the right ribs and shoulder blade are felt, the bowels becomes constipated and the stomach disordered. The proven remedy for this catalogue of evils is Ho6tetter's Stomach BiUers. a mcdicine long and professionally recommended, and sovereign also for chills and fever, nervousness and rheumatism.

Hatpin In Its Heart Killed a Cow. Veterinary Surgeon A. M. Goats oi Binghamton, N. Y., was recently called tc New Berlin, N. Y., to find ettt what caused tbe death of a cow that had deputed thii life rather mysteriously. The surgeon per formed an autopsy and found in the stom ach of the animal a -hatpin inchei long, which had perforated the pericardiun: and entered the heart-

Care a Heartache In 15 Minute* By using Dr. Davis* Anti-Headache, druggists.

FARMERS' INSTITUTE

ANNUAL. MEETING OF VIGO COUNT* UBANGBK8 AND TBEIB WiVKS.

First Day of the Convention Held WodDW" day In tbe Superior Court Boom Addresses.

The regular annual meeting of the Farmers' Institute of Vigo County convened Wed•Icrday morning in the Superior court room. A large number of farmers with their', families were present and the attendance increased with the continuance of the meeting- r-i

The Curry orchestra furnished good music in the intervals of the speeches. An opening prayer was offered by Judge Stimsdn. The recollections of farming life by the judge, who was reared on a farm, werejreceived with great applause.

The next speech was delivered by Mr. T. B. Curry, one of Ohio's successful farmers. •His subject was "Increasing Fertility by Clover Raising." His remarks showed the most thorough experience in agriculture. Mr. Terry is a. farmer by choice and has farmed on scientific principles. He advocated clover growing in prefernce to any of the grasses and advised crop rotation with hay1 or corn.

An interesting discussion followed his speech, and all the questions asked Mr. Terry were answered most satisfactory.

Hon. I. N. Kester followed with a brief address on "Rotation of Crops." This Interesting and vital subject was treated by Mr. Kester in a very satisfactory manner.

Hon. H. C. Morgan followed with an address, "Sheep on the Farm." The speaker ds himself a successful sheep raiser and wool seller, and his remarks were made from the most extensive experience.

THE AFTERNOON SESSION The first address in the afternoon was made by Professor Noyes, of the Polytechnic. His subject was "Fermentation,*' and it was a speech which held the most strict attention of the audience, the professor making clear to many the reasons for many things which the people on the farm see every day and yet had not fully understood.

The next on the programme was Mr. H. C. Hanna, of this city, who read a paper on "Best Horses for Farm and Market." The paper contained a great amount of good things worth thinking about. A portion of it is given below:

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About one year ago it was my pleasure to read a paper before this institute on what I considered from my experience was the best horse for the farmer to raise. I have been asked by the management to re-read the paper, but not having retained a copy of the manuscript, I am forced to give you such points as recollection brings upi In giving you my ideas, it is not my desire to be taken as an authority they are simply those that have come to me during an experience of a lifetime as a farmer, raiser, user and dealer in horses. In no class of business does sentiment govern so much as in raising and selling of horses. It is customary in all lines of business to produce what the public demands. In the raising of horses it is a too common occurrence to let sentiment Indicate type and to produce what the individual inclination is for, unsupported by what the market demands. A student of the markets is the successful one, be he a buyer or producer of horses, cattle, hogs, wheat, corn, in fact any commodity. Study what is in demand and then produce it regardless of your own opinion. You may be right- but you can not force a market to taxe fhat it does not want.* The chances are every time that you are wrong. Your opinion is but individual, the market Is the opinion of tens of thousands of people who know what their needs are, and then again the money is with them. In selecting a type of horses for the farmer to raise for use and profit there are two factors that must not be overlooked. First, his adaptability to farm work second. as an article for sale. In the first place as all commercial affairs are at rock bottom, prices on all farm products are on a low basis, the economy of production now is the keynote of success on the farm as it is in all commercial undertakings. If we, by the selection of a type of horses can increase in any measure their efficiency for farm work and do* more work with fewer horses, then exactly that much good has been done. What we need for the farm is a type of horses that will do more work, be less liable to disease and at the same time is in demand, and when the farmer takes one at the end of a halter to town he comes back with enough money in his pocket to pay a profit on the raising. The special horse is not wanted. One that is only good for the plow. We must have one good for the plow for the wagon hauling the grain to market, for the man driving the cattle to market, for the buggy, carriage, etc., in fact for general purposes. One th%t can today do on the farm any work that may come up and the next day can tie hitched to the farmer's buggy or carriage and take the people to town and do it in a clean and workmanlike manner. This is an age of doing things quick and the farmer that takes too much time in doing his work, going to town or in fact anything, is soon left behind. Of all animals on the farm less attention has been paid to the breeding of horses than any of the others. The law of rigid selection has received but little attention and the mating has been on the hit or miss plan! If a good colt was not secured it was citotf as a case of hard luck. There is no such thing as luck in breeding "as you sow, so shall you reap, neither can you gather figs from thistles.

It is a fixed law of creation that like produces like, or the image of some ancestry, and there is no deviation from it. As certain as the water runs to the sea are its workings. It is of too common practice for the farmer to consign to the breeding ranks a mare unfit, sell his best stock and the mare he can not sell, breed. If he has a vicious or unsound mare that can not be worked or sold, she is bred, and the result is a country full to overflow with no account horses that are not worth their feed.

Instead of breeding up we have been breeding down and the farmer's horse of today, as a rule, is much behind the horse of thirty years ago. ..

Let you of my hearers who have Uvea in the Wabash valley for the last thirty years, recollect the best breeds or horses of the days gone by. What were they? Why they were the Red Buck, the George Bell horse, the Copperbottoms, the Almonts, the Idlers, the Marshall horse, the Doctor Herrs and others, every one of which was from the same foundation that has made the American trotter. Go into any section of the country and ask the farmers what horses have been the best for the farm and for sale, and they will tell you the get of some one or two horses. Then look those horses up and you will find that they are full of blood of the American trotter.

My experience extending over thirty years as a buyer and raiser of horses is that the horses standing 15% to 16 hands and weighing from 1,100 to 1,300 pounds, is the one. for the farmer in this country where roads are good, to raise, and the breed that comes nearer to filling all the exacting needs is the American standard trotter, a type that has its origin and development in this country and has grown up with the needs. The standard trotter has mere quality, better legs, better feet, better lungs, better circulation and better attributes in every respect than any type of horses that has ever come under my notice. He is less liable to disease and lion hearted, will do more hard pulling or traveling than anything on top of ground and the next day be ready and willing to do it all over again. Individually he stands head and shoulders above any other breed, and what is more he is each day reproducing himself with great regularity. The high prices to which the trotters went a few years ago resulted in much harm. They were so valuable that the emasculating knife grew to be an unknown article and many defective sires went into the stud that should have been cast aside, but with the financial depression and the corresponding reduction in prices of horses the knife again came into use, and the colt of today that escapes the knife must be of very high quality in every respect and particular. This more than anything else will weed out the poor individuals for there are poor individuals among the trotting bred horses same as in other breeds, but there Js not so many, and the foundation in my opinion is the be^t one to build from a type of horses that will find a market in any part of the world. The carriage and coach horse, good knee ictors with style, not the long legged horses, but those with quality and substance are in good demand. For this type the Eng-Hackney with his spluttering gait is too small and beyond filling a fad that is fast playing out has no util­

ity. Even the rolled-up-pants brigade whose highest ambition is to do something that is "English you know," are giving him the shake. At the horse show at Madison Square Garden in New York city last month, where the best horses of each type contested for honors, the American trotter beat the coacher and backpay in their own classes.. They out showed them in gait, quality, style and every single point. In recommending the trotting bred horse for the farm I ado not expect the farmer to train and race his horse and buy a sulky, that is for others to do. The racing of the trotter has done much towards making the breed what it is. It has improved the quality and stoutness. Those that could not stand the fiery ordeal of the race track were dropped and it was a survival of the fittest that was n-served to perpetuate the type and the standard trotter of today is made up of ti.e horses that have raced and whose ancestry has been selected on account of good limbs, feet, back, gait, intelligence, stoutness, gameness, In fact every quality that goes to make up a good horse and one that is in deman'd. The same qualities that go to make up a race horse are -those needed on the farm, in the cities, in the park to a carriage, is the horse that is for war, in fact for whatever use intended or needed. Of course so much speed is not absolutely necessary, but I have yet to see a person that refused to buy a horse because he had too much speed, other qualities being all right.

Right here I wish to impress upon you all the importance of selection. Pick out your best mares to breed, not your poorest or one wore out with work or disease. Recollect that like produces like and you can not breed a good colt from a poor mare or stallion. A $30 mare bred to a $30 stallion will produce a $10 colt. Any unsoundness in a mare or .stallion will show 4n their offspring. It may not always be in their first generation, but it will come out in the second. It is wonderful the manner a mare or stallion will hand down unsoundness, little vices and traits of disposition. Don't breed a poor horse no matter what his pedigree. The same rule applies with equal force to the mare. There is no longer any excuse for breeding to the cross roads stallion. There are plenty of good ones. Don't let anyone explain away the faults, saying "he does not breed them." If he has got them he will breed them. The horse to raise is the horse that has a use that will make the demand. There is a great shortage of good horses and I can sell them as fast as I can pick them up.

We Are confronted by a singular condition right now. There are plenty of poor horses yet we are on the eve of a horse famine. The consumption of horses in street car and other service is a thing of the paSt the only place where the medium or inferior horse has a use is in the states south of the Ohio river. Outside of Kentucky and Tennessee none of these states produce horses, but on the other hand use them up very fast, but the sur~ plus is too large for them to absorb. The cheap horse has no friends. The buyer shuns him and the raiser cannot get his feed out of him. On the other hand the good horse is very scarce and growing scarcer each day. There is a great demand all over the country for good horses. Buyers from Ei.gland, France, Germany, etc., are at all tne centers and are pickin go or he an It much easier to sell a horse worth from 1200 to $1,00# than it is one worth $20, and it does not cest a mill more to raise one than the' other I know a farm in this county that has this year sold $9,000 worth of horses and none of them had special speed or were sold at fabulous prices. Can anyone believe that there was not a large profit

lin

this? People will not now pay

the prices they did formerly for poor horses. The prices of good horses has depreciated less than that of any other mechantable cocmodity it is the poor horses that have gone down to the level of their use. It costs no more to raise and keep a good horse than It does a poor one. The department of agriculture in a recent report places the number of horses in the United States at 15,124,057, with a total valuation of $500,140,186. the lowest number and the smallest valuation since 1891. These are startling figures. The money alone spent on the keep of these horses for a year will total up more than the valuation. If, as stated as above, we increase the efficiency of the horse one half, by breeding to a higher standard, and thereby cut down the cost of keeping one-half, we would have in one year from that item alone a saving of over $250,000.000, sufficient to pay off the public debt in a very short time.

There is nothing to take the place of a good horse. Electricity has displaced thousands of cheap horses and there Is now no demand for them, and we have got to stop raising them. The effect of the bicycle upon the use of the horse has been greatly exaggerated. The wheel is chiefly used by those people who never did and never will own a horse. Occasionally a man may sell his horse and adopt a bike, but the change is only temporary and as soon as the exhilerating novelty of the wheel wears off the horse Is reinstated." The bicycle will always have a business utility, but as a thing of leasure It is a fad and is not continued long. The foreign, market has opened up a wonderful field for our horses, not our poor ones, but our good ones. More horses have been exported this year than" in any two previous years. The foreign market will continue to be a good field to dispose of our surplus of good ones. The foreigners are very discriminating buyers. You have got to give them their money's worth. We can with cheap feed, etc.. raise horses for the world. All we need is the gyading up of our stock. The making of a good horse is not all in the breeding.

There is something for the farmer to do ljeyond this. No matter what.the ancestry of the colt may be or his individuality if he is starved and left to rough it, he will make a poor horse. If the 'farmer has cattle or hogs to sell he is careful of their condition. So he must be with a colt if good results are to be secured. The old plan of turning a colt out to take care of itself has long been exploded, but I am sorry to say it still has many fellow-

?rs. ift breaking colts. It is taistily done. The OOlt is slapped in beside an aged horse of good manners and is dragged along. After he gets over rearing and throwing himself and knows enough to go straight ahead, he is called broke. Breaking a colt is not in the vocabulary of the wellposted horseman of today. The term is Educating. Breaking meant to break the spirit, etc., so the colt would be easily handled. Educating means to leave the spirit, with gentleness teach confidence in man so that the colt, will be a willing slave. They do not spoil as many horses in these days as they used to. but even now there are too many. A well educated horse should have a good mouth educated to obey the slightest touch of the rein. The head should be carried high and the general carriage one of style. This all comes with education. Too little attention is paid to the condition of the horse when sent to the market. If as much care was given the horse that is sent to carket as is given one sent to the show ring at the'country fair, farmers would be surprised in the advanced price received. Nothing helps sell a horse as much as con-, dition. Thirty per cent, is not too much difference between the price of a horse out of condition and in. In the remarks I have made I have given you simply my own ideas as, developed through my business as a buyer of horses for the different markets, and if by them I will have benefited anyone or raised the grade of horses in this country lnflnltesimally, I will be amply repaid. The matter Is for the earnest thought of evervfarmer. The raising of the horse is not the thing for the farmer to quit. There is money in it for him. The breeding of the country has been less in the last two years than ever before. In some localities it has almost ceased. There is a shortage of horses coming and it is not far off. When it does come it will take fully five yeac®§§ the supply to be brought up to the'Pemand. Right now is the time to begin breeding and it is my candid opinion that the ones that do so and do it on the lines laid down in mv remarks wilt have results that will exceed their highest expectations. I thank you for your kind attention.

they make as hlgbas $300. But they do tha work right. "The quality of batter is best found by churning the cream from etch cow separately. Some persons rail at this idea, but I know that the best is made in just this way. "The best thing you can do for a cow is to provide her with a kind, gentle and swift milker. A good cow with such treatment should yield at least three gallons of rirh milk & day, enough for a pound of butter. This is ^providing the kind of food is right also. "They say that cleanliness is next to godliness, and I think that in dairy work it is really godliness itself. "The butter should be worked twiee, enough to get out of it all the water and the«sour milk. But do not work it enough to make it oily. "Many farmers sit on the kegs at the grocery or somewhere else and complain about the poor markets and the pcor cows they have, while those patient animals shiver in the breeze or stand on the sunny side of a barb wire fence. "New gras9 pastures are the best for milch cows and the b€st for butter."

Following Mrs. Jones' address Mr. Terry spoke a second time, using as his subject, "The Wife's Share." Mr. Terry is a radical advocate of woman's rights, and especially so when it comes to the farm and its duties. He spoke in no concealed terms of satire and indignation of the way some men treat their wives, who do more than their share of the work in .preparing the meals and attending to the house. He said it was his belief that when two young people entered into partnership for life and went to work together, that there should be no-withhold-ing of the shares of profit by the male member of the concern. He thought it queer that one must ask the other for money, when she wanted it.

He said he thought this was the last vestige of the curse upon woman, and that he wanted to do his part to free her from the last vestige, and set her on the level of man.

AT THE INSTITUTE LAST NIGHT There was not so good an attendance at the session last night, though a number of residents of the city helped to swell the audience.

The Curry orchestra again played several good selections for the meeting. The prin cipal address of the evening was by Prof. Mees, of the Polytechnic Institute, who gave his viewS on the farm life extemporaneously. His address was very interesting.

After an interval while the orchestra played, Prof. A. W. Bitting of Purdue Uni versity spoke to the gathering oh various subjects connected with dairy work and the care of stock. He illustrated his speech wish stereopticon views.

MISS BRADLEY'S ACCEPTANCE.

Patriotic Letter In Regard to Christening ot the Kentucky. Washington, Dec. 8.—The difficulty that has arisen in relation to tne christening of the battle-ship Kentucky has been settled, is indicated by the following letter:

Hon. John D. Long. Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C.—-My Dear Sir: Kentucky, the "first born of the Union," is justly proud of the distinction conferred in giving her name to the magnificent battleship soon to be launched at Newport News. It may be inappropriate or vain to say that tLe valiant record made by her sons on land and sea entitles her to the compliment. Kindly accept my sincere thanks for the honor with which you have clothed an unpretentious but ardent Kentucky girl, who loves her state only second to her country. It will give me much pleasure to assist in the ceremonies of the occasion, which should serve if possible,to bind the sympathies of every citizen of Kentucky more closely to the nation. I have the honor to be. yours respectfully,

ry

Then again not enough care is taken

One of the most instructive papers read was the one which Mrs. S. T. Jones, of Honey Creek township, delivered. Mrs. Jones is known far and wide as a most successful dairy woman." .She makes butter which all the people about scramble for as for hot cakes. Many of her thoughts were instructive and a number humorous.

A few of them were: "I consider life one which brings ha as sure a way as any wealth and health. 'tf/g "Electricity and the bicycle tbfcy be planting tlie horse, but we need, never fear that It will supplant the cow. "The best of care is as nec£siSry for the cow as it is for any other animal. "In selecting cows the greatest care should be exercised. I prefer Jerseys myself, but other breeds are considered as good by many people. "The cow brings no inconsiderable income to the farmer and the firmer's wife. I know of two young women ia this county who make more thaa their spending money with four cows. The butter they make and sell, the calves, and the milk average about $250 year.

With good prices for the products

Christine Bradley.

Washington College, Deceml-er 6, 1897. v, Pensions For Indianians-

Snecisrt to the Indianapolis News.

Washington, Dec. 8.—Pensions have been granted to the following Indianians: Original—Thomas Hough, Muncie, $8 Per­

Klinger, Kokomo. $6 Joseph Hallowell, National Military Home, Grant, $10 John M. Barker, Avon, $8 Ralph Earle, New Harmony, $6 Daniel T. Duchemin, Lebanon, $8.

Restoration and Increase—Lucius Luce, Warren, $10 to $12. Restoration and Reissue—William Roland, Lynn, $30.

Increase—James Donaldson. Wabash, $8 to $12 George W. \vaiKer, vvorthlngton, $8 to $10 Jacob Haas, Lincoln City, $12 to $14 William A. Wallace, BoonvUle, $17 to $24 Simon P. Strow, Waterloo, $10 to $11 Abraham Junker, Lawrenceburg, $10 to $72 Alby Hines, Clay City, $8 to $17 James Wood, Loogootee, $30 to $50 Richard M. Poole, Attica, $30 to $50 William M. Leach, Newburg, $8 to $12 Nelson Scudder, Middjeburg, $12 to $14 Joseph Hoover, Macy, $8 to $10 Charles Winter, Lafayette, $12 to $14.

Reissue—John -Allison, Monrovia, $10: William R. Sterling, Riley, $14 William R. Berry, Crothersville, $17 Edward Bales, Kinkman, $12 Joseph D. Halbert, Columbus, $14.

Original Widows, Etc.—Katberlne D. EJberle, Sweetser, $8 reissue, Mary J. Cole, Lafayette, $17 Elnora Lacey, Upland, $12.

Crawfordsvlile Mall Kobbery Case J"* Judge Baker last evening set aside the judgement against Guy M. Steele, Crawfordsville letter-carrier, who was indicted with William O. Sidener, a cferk, for robbing the mails, and pleaded guilty. It was was shown to the court, that he did not understand what he was doing, and that he had nothing to do with the theft of the particular letter on which the indictment was found. He was placed under $500 bond until the next term of court. Sidener will go to prison for a year and a day.

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Failure at Chicago.

Chicago, Dec. 8.—Horton, GUnoore, MeWilliams & Co., wholesale hardware dealers. 172-176 Lake street, assigned to. the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank todjiy. The liabilities are $300,000 and assets $210,000.

The establishment was one of tlm largest wholesale hardware firms in Chicago. It is said the firm has been doing a losing business for three years.

Scab" Miner Caases a Strike,

V^.1 to the Express.

Bradii.lirH lec. 7.—The two hundred employes of the U/awford Coal Company's No. 2 mine at Center Point quit this morning because they discovered one non-usion man at work and four others who had lot paid their dues. General Manager Risher refused to discharge the men complained of and all quit.

Ill* lloilr Middled With Ballet*. Carson, Dec. 7.—Adam Uber, who killed Hans Anderson, at Gardnerville, last week, was taken from the Genoa jail at 2 a. m., stripped of his clothing and hanged. His body was riddled with bullets by aa angry mob of 25 men, supposed to be fro* Gardenville

STATE B6ARD MEETS

l.. A, W. STATK OFFICIAL!* Sir IX JLKUISLATION Vk'KINRSI)AY NKiliT.

Cliarles T. Nebf One of tbe Delegates tm the National Assembly in •. St. Louis.

The state board of the League o£ American Wheelmen met Wednesday in the Grand hotel at Indianapolis, to hear the reports of the state officers and to elcct representatives to the national assembly of the L. A. W., which will convene in St. Louis some time in February.

According to the report ot the secretarytreasurer, George C. Stacey, it was found that the total receipts of the state division for the past year have been $1,450.53, The total expenditures have been $1,434.73. This leaves a small balance on hand of a little less than $16. The board approved the idea. of the state division issuing monthly their

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pamphlets. Mr. Chas. T. Nehf, of this city, and one of the five state representatives, was appointed as a committee of one to prepare the honor and officers badges for the division. This is a new departure wlta the Indiana division. The badge for the officers will be^s worn by each officr and handed to his sue-"'"-, cessor as he steps down and out. Tfie design for the badges was also left to the discretion of Mr. Nehf.

A resolution was passed by the board thanking the press of the IvtatMfor their -support of the division during ne past year, both in the agitation for arid the reports of the state racing meet, the incidents of the year and the agitation for the national meet for Indianapolis. I

The delegates eledted'to attend the national asseml^y, the congress of the wheelmen, were as follows: Wallace Sherwood, chief consul, Indianapolis: Walter B. Hassan^, vice consul. New Albany George C. Stacey*: secretary-treasurer, Indianapolis and state representatives, Chas. T. Nehf. Terre Hauresj Merrill Moores, Indianapolis, and Chas. Lev ering, Lafayette. At the national assembly^ it will be announced as to the place for the national racing meet.

There is little doubt that Indianapolis will land the prize which she has been fighting for so strongly of late. The lassitude and the lack of interest which characterized her wheelmen last summer and the city is alive with wheelmen who are working with might ,, and main for the meet. ajji

Indianapolis alone will send in 102 new' names of members next week. A scheme for the purpose of enlarging the list of members over the division has been decided upon at Indianapolis, though its character will be of the entire state. A list of valuable prizes will be made for those who send in the greatest number of names to headquarters before the first of next August. Already a $125 wheel, of the Indianapolis Wheel company, a $15 suit from the When Clothing company, and a $10 lady's pin from the Boston Badge Manufacturing company, have been put up.

An important change was made in the bylaws of the state division by the board last night. Hitherto all the city or local consuls have been appointed by the chief consul. The board decided to take from him this power and hereafter each club will have the right to elect its own consul.

STATE Y. M. C. A. COMMITTEE.

H". Townley Appointed a ^Member of tht State Finance Committee. The state committee of the Young Men's Christian Association

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in Indianapolis

Tuesday night. The athletic c&tuHiitt'ee 'recommended that all associations in the state having physical culture departments become associated with the Athletic League of North America, also that arrangements be made to have their athletic teams at the annual encampment at Winona next August.

The following standing committees were appointed: Colleges—Dr. Joseph Swain, Bloomington Prof. C. A. Waldo, Lafayette and Pcof. W. R. Synder. Muncie Railroads—C. H. Newton, Ft. Wayne, J. F. Wallick, Indianapolis M. Lindley, Terre Haute A. Galloway, Cincinnati, and W. J. Lewis, Evausville. Athletics—Prof. C. A. Waldo, Purdue G. L. Reeves, Columbus, and T. Brooks, New Albany. Endowment—H. P. Townley, Terre Haute Dr. J. K. Jameson, Shelbyville, and W B. Pratt, Elkhart. Finance—J. F. Wallick, Indianapolis O. M. Gregg, Crawfordsville H. P. Townley, Terr® Haute, and E J. Bufflngton, Anderson.

Fir® Alarm Sounded by a Bag. It was aftor 2 o'clock on a recent morning and eneof the young ladiee was transmitting a message to the local room when that faraway "Wait a minute!" cameover the wire. A moment later she explained that an alarm of fire was striking off, but she oould not tell the box. Now the telephone girls know the lire alarm system better perhaps than anybody in New Orleans, and whsn a minute or two after the first alarm a second came over tbe wire, different from the first, they decided that something must bo wrong.

An investigation followed, and it was found that an electric light bug had flown into the big gong which sounds tho alarm and by moving about among the wires bad touched off the alarm. Attracted by the elcctric lights on tho top floor of the Exchange building, he had flown in and caused all tho trouble.—New Orleans Times-Democrat.

& Has Kept an Apple Thirty Years. Dr. E. J. Puckett of Muncie, Ind., has in his possession an apple that was piuoked by him SO years ago. Before the doctor went into the army he planted an apple tree on the grave of his mother in the cemetery at Teetersburg, Tipton county, Ind. Four years later, when he returned home from the war, the tree was bearing fruit, and he pulled off one of the apples and has preserved it ever since.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

Federated Clubs Elect Officers.

The election of officers of the federated clubs of the city was held at Normal HaW last night and resulted as follows:

President—J. B. Wisely. Vice President—Mrs. Theodore Kemp. Secretary—Mrs. Allyn Adams. Treasurer—W. A. Keerns. Tbe officers and also the presidents of the different clubs will hold' a meeting in a few days to decide on the date of toe next meeting. ..t

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