Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 14, Bloomington, Monroe County, 16 August 1884 — Page 2

Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA. WALTER a BRADFUTE, - - Pobushbi

THE NEWS CONDENSED. THE AT.

Two lnssRS -were killed and a third

was fatally injured by the fall of twentyfive tons of top-coal in a colliery at Shenandoah, Pa The dyestuffe firm of Gifford, Sherman & Innes, of New York and Poughkeepsie, N. Y., has been forced to the wall for lack

business The corner-stone of the Bartholdi statue, on Bedloe's Island, in New

York harbor, was laid last week; Owing to an old fend, Theodore T. Howry fatally shot Elmer E. Howry at Woonsocket, EL L, and then sent a bullet into his own brain. Ths arrest of four young men at Schenectady, N. Y. who were involved in a disturbance with the Salvation Army, resulted in the assembling of a mob who threatened to throw the policemen into the canal and bum the army's barracks The drug trade in New York has been unsettled by the failure in London of Meier & Co., dealers in quinine. The foreign article has fallen oft 10 cents per ounce, but American quinine is steady The bodies of the officers and men lost in the arctic expedition were received at Governor's Island by Secretary Lincoln and Gens. Sheridan and Hancock, the forts firing a salute.... A locomotive struck a carriage containing five persons, who were returning from a funeral, at Connors Station, Pa., killing four persona and the two horses, and demolishing the vehicle.... Texas fever and pleuro-pneumonia have appeared among cattle in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. ....The failure of Altman. Demelman & Fuehs, wholesale liquor dealers, at Boston, with $75,000 liabilities, is announced. Thb valuation of the property of the city of Boston, as returned by the assessors, is $682,648,000, and the rate of taxation is $17 on $1,000, which is the highest ever known. The decrease in valuation in the last ten year? amounts to $116,000,000. George W. Jacoby & Son, extensive marble dealers aft Philadelphia, made an . assignment, and Shimer, Frets & Co., owners of the Home Woolen Mill at Allentown, Pa., failed for $160,000 For posting Socialist proclamations, three men were fined $5 each at New York. A notorious Communist paid the fines. A severe shock of earthquake was felt along the Atlantic coast on the afternoon of the 10th inst, extending from Philadelphia to Portland, Maine, and as far inland as Cleveland. The shock lasted about ten seconds and caused very serious alarm, particularly in New York City. No serious damage was done, though houses were badly shaken and some ceilings were cracked. The people in the tenement-house districts

were almost frightened out of their wits, children screamed, women fainted, and prayers and imprecations were mingied. Before the shock heavy, dark rain-clouds appeared in the sky and there was a rush of wind such as usually precedes a heavy rainfall. It was some hours before the people got over their fright. Many nervous persons were prostrated by the occurrence. A

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The Texas fever is spreading among the

ttlein Southern Kansas. Gov. Glick intends to issue a proclamation prohibiting 0te importation of all Texas cattle into the fet6v He wiUpemit them topaesthroagh feat State only by rail under stnet regulations The Governor of Montana has issued a proclamation quarantining Texas cattle form northern ranges. . . . In a report to Gov. Hamilton on the Texas fever, Dr. Paaren, Veterinary Surgeon of Illinois, recommends that most of the Southern States, with Missouri, Kansas, and Indian Territory, be proclaimed as in fected, and railroad companies be prohibited from bringing eattle from these places into Illinois until Nor. 1, unlets they certify that the shipments are healthy and have been outside the infected districts for sixty days. . . . A fire at San Francisco destroyed the establishment of Schmidt & Co., the principal lithographing firm of the Pacific coast. The shop of Tatum k Bowen was also destroyed. The total loss is about $270,000. . . . .George Pearson, who claimed to be an old pioneer, was hanged for murder at Boose City, Idaho. Upon the gallows he called on the pioneers in the district to avenge his death. ' At a meeting of the Central Dakota Press Association, at Huron, resolutions were adopted for a division of the Territory and the admission of South Dakota as a State under the Sioux Falls constitution. CoL ConkHn, of the Watertown News, was elected President.... The Peoria Base Boll Club has disbanded. A Tofkka dispatch reports that "Gen. Hatch has encamped with six cavalry companies at a point twenty-five miles southeast of Caldwell, Kan., and proposes to clear Oklahoma of two thousand invaders." Two sqtjabboks of United States cavalry descended upon Oklahoma Payne's camp at Bock Falls, Indian Territory, arrested the leaders; and started them oft! for Fort Smith. The women, children, and new offenders were escorted to the Kansas

line. Of Pavne's naner. which was readv

to go to press, 100 copies were printed, when the machine waspocked up and load ed into a wagon. The boarding- house, drug store, and some other cheap structures were burned, and not a vestige of the settlement was permitted to remain. Payne, who had been bloodthirsty in his threats, was docile as a lamb under arrest. Ths annual tournament of the Western Bifle Association will be held at Western Union Junction, near Milwaukee, Aug. 25-27. A large number of money and badge prizes have been arranged Nineteen lepers who arrived at San Francisco by the Pacific steamer Oceanica were ordered back to China. One attempted to escape, but was captured. Gov. Sheldon, of New Mexico, has issued a proclamation placing the Territory under cattle-quarantine regulation on account of the outbreak ox the Texas cattle fever in adjacent States and Territories. Got. Giack, of Kansas, has called a meeting of the Live-Siock Sanitary Commission, in consequence of the appearance of Texas fever in the State, to devise ways and means to prevent the spread of the epidemic. He has invited the railroad Superintendents and the cattle-yard Superintendents doing business in the St ate to the meeting..... Texas fever is killing cattle atLemars, Iowa, the disease having been brought

there by cattle shipped from Kansas

J. De Graw fe Sons, lumber merchants, doing business at Minneapolis, St Paul, and Cumberland, Wis., have made -an assignment. The debts are $40,000; the assets $23,000. A runaway horse dragged ex-Sheriff Colbath and Mrs. Leatherman on to the railway track at Lima, Ohio, and a switching engine killed both of them, the horse escaping The police of Mattoon, HI., have issued orders forbidding ladies to wear Mother Hubbard dresses, unbelted, under penalty of arrest. A dispatch from Helena, Montana, says: "Meager particulars are received of another slaughter of horse-thieves in the Mussel shell region, 150 miles northwest of here, last week by cowboys. While in pursuit of stolen horses a log-house was discovered in the timber on the mountain-side. It was secretly watched a day or two, during which time several small parties of men came and went, some by day and others by night, having in their possession horses evidently stolen. It becoming evident that it was a horse-thieves rendezvous, the cowboys congregated, and last Moil day night crawled up to the house and attacked it. Fourteen horse-thieves were about the premises at the time. Nine were killed and five escaped. The cabin was set fire to and burned." Tse Iowa State Veterinary Surgeon pronounces the disease which has appeared among the cattle in the vicinity of Lemurs to be Texas fever. He says that he has no fear of the spread of the contagion if ordinary precautions are taken ...John C. S. Harrison, the Indianapolis banker, has been indicted by the grand jury for embezzlement His bail is reduced to $10,000, and the police were withdrawn from his house when the bond was signed by his brother-in-law. The Treasury Department has issued orders to Collectors of Customs that hereafter when a vessel carrying rags arrives at any port it shall be the duty of the importer to produce positive evidence that the cargo is from a non-infected port, and is free from the germs of disease. The difficulty of producing such evidence virtually prevents the introduction of rags John B. Dawson, a clerk in the Pension Bureau at Washington, died last week. He weighed 438 pounds, and his body had to be placed in a grape arbor until a coffin could be made.

THE SOUTH.

AFobtWobth (Texas) dispatch says: "It is a well-known fact at El Paso and points west of there that the yellow fever is raging at Nogales, Arizona. Nogales lies ninetv-three miles southwest of Benson and 252 miles from El Paso. While the Taxas authorities are maintaining a rigid quarantine along the Gulf lino and the border line near the mouth of the Bio Grande, they are practically leaving the western boundary line unprotected by any restrictions whatever." A Southern dispatch states that "5,000 veterans of the Union and Confederate armies are encamped at Dallas, Texas. A special train was tendered to Jefferson Davis, who contented himself with a lengthy letter, his wife accompanying it with astatement that the physical condition of the ex-President prevented him from meeting his former comrades. Mr. Davis complains that the veterans of the war with Mexico havf. been the subjects of special discrimination.'' Emma J. Harrington secured a divorce at Baltimore from Bobert Fearing, whom she married in Castine, Me., in 1879. Fearing claimed to be a Creole, but a letter from Southern friends contained a picture of a

mulatto boy, whom he unguardedly said was his nephew. Mrs. Fearing began an investigation, discovered that her husband's relatives were full-blooded negroes, and as the laws of Maine and Maryland prohibit marriages between Africans and Caucasians, was granted a decree. Thb New Orleans Postoffice has received a thorough inspection by a special commission, which reports that there is neither organization nor discipline; that mail-sacks were found made into hammocks or sold to junk-shops; that a son of the Postmaster holds a sinecure; that the porter is a fraud, and that salaries should be readjusted at once. . . .The New Orleans Exposition Managers will negotiate to have Bartholdi's statue exhibited at New Orleans before it is placed in position on Bedloe's Island. G. H. Huiiii, & Co., of Louisville, have addressed a circular to the pig-iron men of Pittsburgh, asking them to bank all the furnaces in the country for four weeks, in order to increase the price by a restriction of the production. . . . A fire which broke out in a warehouse at Catlettsburg, Ky., destroyed five large brick buildings. James McKenzie, David Sinner, and John Graham were caught under the falling walls of the burning buildings and killed. Bobert Miller and Samuel Kelly were fatally injured. Some others were seriously hurt.

The total value of exports of domestic cattle, hogs, and beef, pork and dairy products for the six months ended June 30, was $43,837,419, against $55,357,704 for the same period last year; beef and pork products for the eight months ended June 30 $57,570,538, against $67,679, 841 for the corresponding time in 1883; dairy products for the two months ended June 30, $2,662,966, against $2,990,420 for the same period last year. . , .The number of immigrants that arrived in the country during the vear ending June 30 was 509,834, being 82,4M less than for the preceding fiscal year, and 260,586 less than the year ended June 30, 1882.

POLITICAL.

Thb Illinois Greenbacker- have issued a coll for a State Convention at Bloomington on the 27th of August A Boston dispatch says the Massachusetts Greenbackers of that State will hold a convention for the nomination of State officers Sept. 4. The State Committee feel confident that Butler will accept the Presidential nomination tendered him by their party. Gen. BuxzjEB has written the following letter: Boston, Mans., Aug. 6'. To the Hon. Chas. A. Dana, editor New York Sun. New York City: Dear Sib: As a means of reaching more querists than I can do In any other way, I write this note tor such use as you choose to make of it Answer I do intend to stand by the nominations of the Greenback - Laboring men and the Anti-Monopolists, and I hope everybody will vote lor me who thinks that it is the best thing to do. I will give the reasons for my action which are controlling to the pnblic as boob as I can have the benefit of Mr. Cleveland's letter of acceptance, so that wherein I disagree with him I may do him no injustice. Very truly your friend and servant, Benjamin F. Butler. Gov, Cleveland visited Mr. Tildes at Grey- , stone on the 6th inst., and had a talk with him abont the letter of acceptance. Gov. Cleveland left for the Adirondack Mountains on the following day.... Mr. Blaine

was tendered , a reception by the business men of Portland, Me.i on the 6th inst Portsmouth (N. U$) dispatch: Calvin Page, Democrat, was chosen Mayor over W. H. Size, Republican, to-day, by a vote of 1,003 to 434, the smallest Republican vote ever cast in the city. The Democrats for the first time in seven years elect a majority of the city government, securing thirteen out of the nineteen Connctlmen, and sis out of nine Aldeimen It is understood that Mr. Blaine will be entertained at a grand banquet by prominent citizens of Boston next month. The Republican Congressional Convention in the Eighth Ohio District balloted 574 times before effecting a nomination. .A dispatch from Old Orchard. Me., says: "It is estimated that 25,000 persons were on hand to attend the encampment of the Grand Army, When Mr. Blaine arrived in the morniug he was enthusiastically received. He held a reception at the Old Orchard House, where a great many passed in and shook hands with him and Gov. Robie. 'He afterward addressed the veterans." Washington telegram to Chicago Times: "A great deal of quiet work is being done by the Republican Campaign Committee to overcome the Democratic majority in the House. The Democratic majority in the present House is seventyseven. Those who have been occupied in looking over the field say that by actual figures there are seventy-eight districts which can be turned by 500 votes. If forty of these can be earned by the Republicans this fall they will have a majority in the next House. To secure this money will be spent in certain Congressional districts like water.". . . . William L. Scott has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Erie District of Pennsylvania D. Wyatt Aiken has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Third South Carolina District. Gen. Butlek, in an interview at Boston the other day, is credited with saying; "I see they (the Democratic leaders) complain that I have deserted the Democratic party. There's no way of satisfying them. The last time they complained it was that I had captured the Democratic organization. Be it so. Then I have only let my captives loose. I have a great debt of gratitude to the people of Massachusetts, but none to any Democratic organization, State or national. In no campaign did lever receive aid from the Democratic national organization, nor did any National Democrat from the outside ever come here or say a word in my f svor or in favor of the Democratic party, while I was the unanimous nominee. Whenever I have any use for the organization of the Massachusetts Democracy, I will get it."

The Wabash Railway directory met at New York, approved the plan of reorganization, accepted Jay Gould's resignation of the Presidency, and elected J. F. Joy, of Detroit, to the position. An American railway company operating in Mexico has received information that diplomatic relations between that country and England, which were suspended on the death of Maximilian, have been fully resumed. To ALiiAY sensational rumors, the Canadian Minister of Railways states that the Pacific Road can complete its track across the continent with the remainder of the loan in the hands of the Government.

FOR13IOZY.

CORNWATJj, French, and Dr. Fernandez, of the Coldstream Guards, have been indicted for immoral practices by a Dublin Grand Jury. . , .The meeting of the Emperors of Germany and Austria at Ischl, on the 6th inst., is regarded as a strong guarantee of continued friendly relations between those countries. It is reported that John Daly, recently convicted at Warwick, England, of dynamitardism, has submitted to an interview in jail, in which he said he was one of foui conspirators whose movements were directed irom America. The bombs found in his possession were delivered tc him at Liverpool by a fellowconspirator. He was to deliver them to a third conspirator for use not in Liverpool, but in London. Daly thinks that the plot was revealed by one of the trusted conspirators. The agents of the Irish secret societies ar6 watching this person, and, as Daly says, will "interview him."

Negotiations for a treaty of peace between France and China have been broken off. England declines to join European mediation in the troubles between the twe countries. Admiral Coubert's squadron is said to have taken possession of the harboi of the treaty port of Kee Lung, in Formosa. . .. The Earl of Northbrook, First Lord of the Admirality, has been appointed to go to Egypt with instructions to report upon the condition of affairs The police of London are watching for a Catholic priest who is said to be on the way from the United States as the agent of a vigilence committee A credit of 300,000 for the Soudan expedition passed the English House of Commons by a vote of 174 to 14. It is quite probable that the Chinese Government will accede to the terms proposed by the French Ambassador. The American Minister, Mr. J. Russell Young, will be called upon to settle the quarrel between the Gauls and Celestials A hurricane at Sebastopol killed twelve persons and did great damage to property. There was a hail -storm in two districts of Austria, which swept away a number of buildings. . , .The Queen of Madagascar has declared negotiation with the French at an end, and ordered her people to prepare for war. , . .The Belgian Government has quarantined against all Mediterranean ports. According to the report of Capt. Moncrieff, one of the British agents, the condition of the Egyptian fellaheen is deplorable on account of the heavy taxes imposed upon them by the agents of the English bondholders Capi Moncrieff suggested several remedies which have not been acted upon. All of them looked to a lowering of taxes. .... Stellmacher, the murderer of the bankers Lienhart and Eisert, was hanged at Vienna last week. . . .The Belgian Chambers has passed the bill proviiling for a renewal of the diplomatic relations with the Vatican. The Franco- Chinese complication is beginning at last to come to a head. The time of the French ultimatum, Aug. 4, having expired, and there being no signs of the indemnity forthcoming, the French Admiral the following day bombarded and subsequently occupied the town of Kelung, in the northern part of the islan of Formosa, off the eastern coast of Chins. The French Minister has llotlfied the Chinese Government that the period of occupation will depend upon the payment of the indemnity, which increases every time we hear from it.

having now reached the respectable sum ot

$16,000.000 Consul Mason, of Marseilles, sends an official statement that medical science and sanitary skill have made but little progress in dealing with Asiatic cholera. The press dispatches show that the epidemic is slowly spreading, over France and Jltaly A form of cholera known as English cholera has broken out in several places in the Lancashire (England) district. Two hunched persons have been attacked, and there have been five deaths W, H. Hurlbert, formerly proprietor of the New York World. was married to Miss Catherine P. Tracy in England. JJDMTIONAIj news. The Wall Street Bank of New York has closed its doors. The shortage is said to be about $200,000, and was caused by the cashier, J. P. Dickinson, absconding with some of the collaterals of the institution. Thb Postmaster General will personally inspect the factories at Hartford and Springfield, where stationery is made for the Government under contract. It is believed that frauds to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars have been perpetrated, with the collusion of Government inspectors. Locusts ore reported to have destroyed the crops in Southern Mexico and Yucatan. Thousands of families will have to depend on their Governments for support in consequence Only three-eighths of the railfurnaces of the United States are now in operation. The harvesting weather throughout Europe is very fine, and prospects of a large crop are reported good. ...The British forces in Egypt, now numbering 8,000 men, will be raised to 10,000. . ..Recent heavy rains in Upper Hungaary have done much damage. Many villages have been almost swept away and 6ome persons drowned. Mrs. , Samcetj Bbanch, residing near Wyandotte, Eos., heard screams for help from the room in her residence occupied by Henry Glass, a friend of the family. She pushed open the door and found Glass surrounded by flames, his bed having caught fire. He was unable to move. While she was dragging him out of the room the fire reached a shotgun standing in the room. The ,gun was discharged, the contents striking Mrs. Branch in the face and inflicting a fatal wound. Glass may survive. A Washington dispatch to the Chicago Times says that Gen. Grant will support Blaine and Logan, and will, in all probabilito, take an active part in the campaign. "Mr. Conkling," says the some authority, "has absolutely refused to have anything to do with Blaine or his canvass. He is reported to have said some kind things of Logan, who is one of his old and warm friends, but for Blaine he has only the bitterest and most biting sarcasm. Conkling is rather incline to favor Butler's candidacy." Solon Chase, the noted Maine Greenbacker, has written a letter indorsing the candidacy of Blaine. . . .The Rev. Mr. Boll, of Buffalo, the Baptist clergymaa who was partly instrumental in placing the story of Gov. Cleveland's immoralities before the public, has brought suit for libel igainst the Boston Herald for having published a dispatch which insinuated that he was not a clergyman in good standing with his denomination and other matters derogatory to his character. Damages are laid at $25,000.... A Buffalo dispatch says: "A local committee composed of John M. Cowie and fifteen other Independent Republicans of this city have issued an address to the Independent Republicans of the nation giving the result of their investigation into the Cleveland scandal. They say that they have felt it their duty to examine these stories in detail, not to satisfy themselves, but to satisfy others. They say that the general charges of drunkenness and gross immorality which were made against Gov. Cleveland are absolutely false. His reputation for morality has been good. The charge that he has recently taken part in a drunken and licentious debauch in Buffalo on the occasion of it visit here is entirely false. The facts of the Halpin case show that the woman was not seduced and that the allegations respecting her abduction and ill-treatment are entirely false. The circumstances occurred years ago. The woman in question was at that time thirty or forty years old and had two children."

"An American lady married to an Italian prince a year ago has left him." We suspect her fortune became exhausted, and she was too high-toned to go out scrubbing and washing to support him. Norristown Herald. A fashion journal says "very stout kids with loner wrists are in fashion."

The longer the wrist the easier the kid can get into the preserve jar THE MARKET. NEW YORK. Beeves $ e.oo 9.50 H KJ 5.50 tg 6.25 MiOUIi Extra 4.50 $ COO Wheat Xo. 'Jt Chicago 8: (H Ml No. 2 Jied 04 ( .lti6 ConN No. -J G3 (") .05 OAT WJ.lV 42 ifr .47 Pons New Moss.. 1G.75 17.25 CHICAGO. Ueeve.C1ioW to Prime Steers. 6.50 $ 7.25 Good Si.nj!inif 6.00 0.50 Commcn to Fair 4.50 s.&i IIOtiR 5.75 tf 6.23 IXouir i uncy White Winter Ex 5.25 5.50 Good to Choice Spring. 4.50 i 6.0 J Wheat No. 2 Sirins 81 e .12 No. 2 lied Winter .$ CO'IN No, 2 54 itf .55 Oats No. 2 25 t& .30 KrE Xo. 2 00 iT .A3 IUUI-KY Xo. 2 fl 3 .03 BUTTEH Choice Creamery VJ ,20 Fine Katiy i:s & 15 CHEKftE Full Ci-earn 0sV;i . ui Skinvmed Flat us M Tjh? Fres h 14 v'f .15 roTATon.- New, per brl 125 ('? 1.50 I'O'KK Mess 23.50 24.00 LAUD 07 v; ,0T,ls TOLEDO. Wheat Xo. 2 Red 83 tfft .80 COIiN Xo. 2 55 Mhz Oats Xo. 2 36 .37 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. a 81 1$ .82 GnKN-No.2 54 ( .56 Oath Xo. 2 6 .37 Barley No. 2 Spring .54 .56 VOIVKMess 15.25 115.76 LAKD 7.25 & 7.50 ST. LOUIS. Wheat To.2 85 & .87 CoTiN Mixed 48 & .50 OT! No. 2.,... -42 Kyr, . 67 itf .5'J POIIK Mettfl 1G.75 CINCINNATI. Wheat No. 2 Red 85 Co fS 5 5 Oats Mixed :i5 POKK-Mew ".25 LAitD .07 .07? DETROIT. Flour C.00 6.50 Wheat No 1 White & 1.00 COKN-MtXO'1 J & M O ATP No. 2 Mixed .84 .3 Poke NewMes 1C25 iG.75 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat No. a Red, New B3 0 .84 Coi-.K Mixed -rl & Oats Mixed r & EAST LIBERTY. Cattle -Best .5 7.oo Fair 6. Op 11.50 Common 4.50 fft 5.00 HOOfl... r-r. UW Sheep k.... 6.00 5.50

AGBICULTUR4L.

How to Gain a Chop of Asparagus. Many market gardeners advocate the application of Bait on asparagus beds. J. 13. Moore, a Massachusetts grower, says that salt is no use to this crop. His plan for growing a full asparagus crop is brieSy as follows: Plough deep, manure heavily, plant in furrows eight inches deep, gradually rilling up as the plants grow. The rows are marked four feet apart, and the plants are placed twenty inches apart in the rows. Keeping Seed Beans and Peas. I have saved my seed beans and peas for the last two years from the weevil by shelling out the seed and putting in empty baking-powder cans along with small bits of gum camphor. Before I tried this remedy I lost nearly all the seed I saved, but since then I have had no trouble. Three pieces the size of a bean are sufficient for a pint can, one in the bottom of the can, one in the middle and one on top. By the way, I tind these empty baking-powder cana very handy and convenient for keeping seeds, Rural New Yorker. Scale Insects. A "writer in a London exchange says: "For plants under glass, infested witfi bug and scale insects, parafiine has proved a most efficient remedy, and will do more in an hour than could be eftected in a day bv sponging and brushing. But its pow erful nature should never be forgotten, and it must not be applied too strong, or without continual stirring. The crudest and least pure oil, being' heavier and less inclined to float on water, is best. Two or three tablespoonfuls to a gallon of water is strong; enough to kill any of the above-named insects. For bugs on wood-work it is used unmixed and brushed over like paint into every crack. On some tender growths it mar prove hurtful even if largely diluted." Saving Squashes from Bugs. In former years I have been greatly annoyed by squash bugs, and sometimes lost my entire crop by the maggot. Last year I was entirely successful in combating these enemies. My method was as follows: Spread the main part of the manure upon the land and plough under, putting one shovelful of finely composted manure in the hill, with a handful of salt thoroughly mixed with it. If the maggot should appear, pour water mixed with Paris green about the roots of the plants. My trouble with bugs was to the extent o;f two applications of Paris green in water, requiring but little time. As these applications are made before the plants blossom, I see ncf d .nger. Farmer, Way land, Mass. Charring Posts. Some years ago I built a board fence, and before putting in the posts (oak) I burned them to a hard coal where they came in contact with the ground. I am impressed with the idea that they will last several years longer by so doing. I would be glad to hear from others in regard to the subject, as it is an important matter. The old-fashioned rail fence Inusb soon give way to young America, and consequently farmers must use posts of some kind, and if we do, let us get the most possible service out of them. The old-fashioned rail fence is the most ex pensive that the farmer can build, and it takes too much ground for it to stand upon. The cheapest and best fence we can build is posts twelve feet apart, four smooth wires and pickets four feet long woven into the wire. Levi Rising er, Preble County, Ohio. Work Horses. The following item from the Western Plowman ehould be considered by every farmer who thinks it is policy to "save"' by cutting down the feed of his working teams during the winter : By all means have your work animals in good, sound, healthy condition, and fine flesh before the spring work sets in, or it will be utterly impossible, no matter how well the animals are fed, to ever get them to lay on flesh while they are kept steadily at work. A work horse which commences the spring work poor will continually get poorer, and not be able to do as much work as one which has com

menced in good, healthy, heavy flesh, even if all are . fed equally well during the work season. Farmers, it is no! yet too late to put your work animals in fine working trim before the spring work opens up. It will not merely pay you to do this, in the decreased appearance and value of the animals, but they will do much more work and easier than a lean, light, and under-fed animal. Marketing or Feeding Grass Crops. One of the questions in agricultural economy which will perhaps nover be settled to tho satisfaction of all concerned, is wAeiher it is better for the grain raipiT to market his crops direct or feed thsn to his stock. Notwithstanding tttfifi the weight of testimony is in avor of the latter plan, a great many frs'giers persist in clinging to the former one. Granting that an occasional man is so situated that it is advisable for him to sell his grain altogether, and that there is an occasional phenomenal period of ayear or two in which feeding appears to be in some degrees a sacrifice of strain, there is no doubt whatever that nhe average grAin raiser should also be a stock raiser. The cases referred to are only such exceptions as can be found for almost any generally accepted agricultural rule, and do not in any sense disprove of a claim which is substantiated by the best farming brains and experience in the country. It is hardly necessary to argue at this day that stock raising and feeding, taking any considerable term of years together, will pay, or that land that is cropped without feeding will in a term of years lose its productiveness and value, unless fertilized in some other way, generally more expensive and less satisfactory. These things are pretty well understood, and yet some men find that in Iheir own experience they do not get the value out of their grain in feeding, although they see in the experience of others that this use of itis profitable. Excepting the off years (each branch of agriculture having its off years :in which it fails to pay) the man who fails to profit in feeding his grain must be at fault in method, must be lacking in eufenomy, or must in some way fail to properly manage his business. When two feeders, similarly situated, one sno-

ceeds aud the other fail, the difference must of necessity lio in the men, and the failure of one furnishes no argument against the general average profit of raising, feeding, and marketing domestic animals. Pittsburgh block' man. HOUSEKEEPERS .HELPS Yorkshire Pudding. One pint of flour, three eggs, one and three-quarter pints of milk, salt two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; pour in;o a pudding diah spread with beef drippings ana bake one-half hour. Parsley and Bctter. Wash and pick leaf by leaf some parsley, out a teaspoon ful of salt into half a pint of boiling water, boil the parsley about 10 minutes, drain it on a irieve, mince it quite fine, and then bruise it to a pulp; put it into a sauce boat, and mix with itbydegreea about one-half a pint of drawn or melted butter. Serve in the sauce boat. Stewed Chicken. Se.ison and stew a chicken in a quart of water until very tender; take it out on a hot dish and keep it warm ; then put into the liquor a lump of butter the size of an egg; mix a little floor and water smooth and make a thick gravy, season well with pepper and salt, and let it come to a boil Turn oyer the chicken ar:d serve hot. Oat Meal Gems. Take one cup q oat meal and soak it over night in 1 cup of water ; in the morning add one cup of sour milk, one teaspoonful of saleratus, one cup of flour and a little salt. They are baked in irons, as other gems and muffins. If on first trial you find them moist and sticky, add a little more flour, as some brands of flour thicken more than others. Fruit Cake. Five eggs, one-half cup of milk, five cups of flour, flavoring to taste, three cups of sugar, one cup of butter, one-half pound of raisins, onehalf pound of currants. Work butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs well beaten, the flavoring, and sift the flour, stirring thoroughly, flour the raisins and currants and stir m last. Bake slowly in a moderate oven, two hours. Breakfast Cakes. One and a half cups of Indian meal, one and a half cups of flour, half cup of sugar, butter, teaspoonful of soda, milk, and one egg. Mix the meal and flour together thoroughly, then butter, sugar and egg; stir cream of tartar in the flour, and dissolve the soda in a little cold water; mix all this quite soft with milk ; bake in shallow pans. To be eaten hot with butter, and is very nice. Tomato Sauc& Peel and cut in small pieces one dozen large, ripe, and juicy tomatoes; add six small green peppers and two medium-sized onions; chop these very fine, stir in a coffeecupful of vinegar, two or three tablespoonfuls of brown sugar, a heaping tablespoonf nl of salt, a teaspoon each of ginger, cloves, allspice, and cinnamon ; stew the tomatoes and all the ingredients but sugar and vinegar five minutes before taking from the fire. Peaches Canned. Pare and stone your peaches; put them in a syrup made of two cups of water to one cup of sugar. Just let them get tender, and while boiling hot fill into your jars and seal; make only enough for two jars at a time ; measure the raw fruit after it is pared and cut into a jar, making it full, and then allow half as much again for the shrinkage after boiling; thus one and a half jarfuls raw will make one jarful after boiling. Surgeon-Dentist Barbers I was astonished the other day in my barber's shop. I was just about to leave when a woman entered whose left jaw seemed to be indisposed It was considerably larger than her right jaw, and seemed to be inflamed. There were tears in her eyes. My sympathetic heart was touched, and I put on my overcoat and my gloves leisurely so tbat I might discover the cause of her trouble. She said something in German to my barber, and my barber led her to a chair in the center of the shop. On this chair she sat. My barber then pushed her head back, said something to her in German, and she threw her

mouth open. I knew all about her trouble then. She wanted to have tooth pulled. I have had several pull ed myself, and I know something about that delightful sport. I sympathized with the woman, but I left before the fun commenced. My barber is one of the regular old-fashioned surgeon-barbers. They will not only pull a tooth for you, but they will cup you, set your arm or your leg, patch tip your head, amputate your finger, or straighten your eyes. They are employed to do these things only by the poorer classes however. There are some of the best surgeons and dentists in the world in Saxony. Letter from Chemnitz. Both Wrong. One day two foxes who journeying together came across a track in the dust which much astonished them. 'I believe it is the track of a rhinoceros," observed one. "1 think it is that of an elephant," replied the other. 'I say rhinoceros!" "And I say elephant." "Then I travel no longer with such an idiot!" "Then you can travel alone with a fool!" They were cuffing each other about in a lively manner, when along came a wolf and asked the cause of the trouble. "Why, that bigot stickn to it that this is not the track of a rhinoceros I" shouted one. "And he, the narrow-minded Muldoon, won't admit that it is the track of an elephant," added the other. "Gentlemen," said the wol', as he examined the spot, "this is simply the place where a fat man struck a banana peel and sat down to reflect. You are both wrong and both fools." Moral: Men are ever willing to fight in defenss of what they don know. Detroit Free Prfss. . Theodoee Parker once said of Wendell Phillips that whether he believed in the "five points" of or ihodoxv or not, he practiced one of them, the per? ever-' ance of the Saints, which was better than a belief in tho other lour. In reality, Mr. Phillips waa a li-vid OaU vinist,