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The National tribune., 1882-09-02
THE HORSE ON THE PRAIRIE.

a young farmer came galloping over the
prairie to us while we trOtted along. Now,
if you have never seen the horse on the
pIairies, you have never seen him at all.
He belongs there. Until you see him in
his home, you can never realize how tame
picture he makes curveting in the street of
a city, or prancing through the thronged
drives of park. But out here-the day is
full of sunshine, the air of December is brac-
ing and pure, and on these plains it is exhil-
Grating as champagne. As far out on the
pale brown prairie as you can distinguish
objects you can see the moving speck ON the
horizon, and watch it coming into clearer
view as you see ship sail in sight at sea.
The figure of man and horse seems one :;
the motion of the easy gallop is regular
as music, rising and falling in perfect Ca
dence. AS they come nearer, the figure of
the horse, perfect in outline, and graceful in
every movement, the long tossing name, the
easy seat of the rider, riding with straight
knee and long stirrups, and by and by the
muffled futter, rather than clatter of the
hoofs on the turf, and back of and around
all this the background of far-reaching
prairie dimpling in all shades of brown, and
the setting of sky as blue as turquois, with
the wide, wild sense of perfect freedom, a
universe in sight, makes picture that you
never want to forget, and could not forget if
you would. We all wanted to shout as the
rider galloped up, and, with a CHEEKY HelIo'
to our driver, went swinging on. 1 have seen
beautiful saddle horses in Fairmount Park,
and l have watched riders in Central Park
pounding their saddles with the trip-ham-
mer ease of the English riding school; have
seen the flyers" and their wonderful jock
eys, throwing the miles away like so many
seconds In Jerome; l have seen armies of
cavalry sweep across the battlefield, while
the ground fairly rocked and trembled I'M
der their charging feet have watched,
thrilled with excitement, a six gun battery
go wheeling and laundering into position in
the very face Of a charging column at time
when minutes meant hours, but | think /
never saw the horse when he seemed so
much a part OF the landscape; when all the
freedom and beauty of earth and air and
sky seemed to be made to harmonic with
him, his strength and beauty and grace,
until | watched him sweeping over the great
sky encircled prairies of the West.-Burling-
ton Hdwkcye
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bottom of the tureen, also the sagO and large
tablespoonful of grated Parmesan cheese, and
pour the boiling stock upon these and send
to table.
GREEN TOMATO SAUCE.-Slice tomatoes:
put them in a weak solution of salt and water
for two days; then scald them well, as the salt
is not to season but to tougher them little.
Put them in a kettle with water enough to
Just prevent them from burning and let them
slowly cook for an hour; then add quart of
vinegar, one tablespoonful ofpowdered mace,
alspice and cloves, one tablespoonful Of mus
tard seed, one teacup of brown sugar, and a
few slices of onion. A little celery seed or
other flavOring of celery is an improvement.
Pour this on and cook half-hour longer.
This is an excellent relish.
SWEETBREADs WITH TOMAToEs.-Take
sweetbreads and parboil them, put them in
a stew-pan and season with salt and cayenne
pepper to taste; place over a slow fire; mix
one large tablespoonful of Drowned flour with
a small piece of butter, add leaf of mace;
stir butter and gravy well together and let
ali stew for half an hour then set the stew
pan in the oven, and when the sweetbreads
are nicely Drowned place them on dishpan
Pour the gravy into half pint of stewed
tomatoes thickened with teaspoonful Offour
and a small piece of butter, and season.
Strain it through a wire sieve into the stew
pan, let it come to boil and stir until done;
then pour over the sweetbreads, and send to
the table very hot.
PLAIN PLUM CAKE.-Four pounds offlour,
one pound ofdripping, the same Of good moist
sugar, three pounds ofsultana raisins, quarter
ofa POUND of candied peel, one teaspOonful of
mixed spice, two small tes-poonfuls Of bicar-
Donate of soda, one quart of sour milk or but
termilk, and a small pinch of salt Rub the
dripping well but lightly into the flour, then
throw in the sugar, raisins, peel and spice, and
mix all well together; dissolve the soda In
tablespoonful of water and add it to the
buttermilk just before wetting the cake with
it, which must not be until you are quite
ready to put it into the oven. Have your
tins well creased with good butter and half
fill them with your cake mixture; bake as
usual. Cake made after this recipe will be
found very light and wholesome. Caraway
seeds or currants may be substituted for
the raisins.
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SALT AND LIME.-The following is recon-
mended as an excellent combination for
fertilizing purposes: Mix one bushel of salt
with two bushels of dry lime, under cover.
and allow the mixture to decompose Grad.
ually, thus forming an intimate chemical
union of the two materials For this mr.
pose the mixture should lie at least six
weeks before use, or, still better, two or
three months, the heap being turned over
occasionally. This salt and lime mixture
when applied at the rate Of twenty to thirty
bushels per acre, forms an excellent top
dressing for crops. 1t acts powerfully on the
vegetable matter Of soils. Fifty bushels ap-
piled TO turnip-feld have produced as large
a crop as twenty loads of barnyard manure
1t is also very destructive TO insects and grub-
in the soil. Like salt, it attracts moisture
from the air, and has been found useful
against drought. Its decomposing power is
remarkable, and if three or four bushels OF
1t are mixed with a cord of swamp muck
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Production AND CONSUMPTION OF
WHEAT IN FRANCE-The French peonle
are great users Of bread, and by preference
use wheaton bread of good quality, especially
in the larger cities, but the production Of
wheat in France does not nearly suffice for
the wants of the people, and although
recourse is had to importation to consid-
erabIe extent, the supply does not equal the
demand, assuming wheaton bread only to
be used. NJ DubOst has contributed to La
Nature some facts and calculations in refer
ence to the production and consumption of
wheat in the great European Republic,
which show that through extended and i'm
proved cultivation the annual yield of wheat
in France has nearly doubled since 1870.
The average production is now about four
teen hectOliters per hectare, while in 1920
it was barely eleven. In the period from 1920
to 1864 there was a continuous increase in the
yearly average from "a 100000 to more than
100,000O00 hectoliters. For the period Just
before the war it fell below 980OOOOO ;
from 1871 to 1875 it rose above 1O1 100000:
but from 1876 to 1880 it fell below 100000.
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LARGE WATERMELoNs.-It is said that
some growers of watermelons, in order to
get large fruit, cross them with pumpkins,
and while the cross is an unusually large
and externally handsome melon the heart is
fibrous, after the manner of pumpkin.
The cross is made by dropping pumpkin
seed in every tenth hill, and the pollen car
ried from the flowers of the pumpkin to
those of the melon produces the desired re-
suit. These, however, meet with few buyers
after they have once tested the experiment
Eaters of watermelons do not care to get
size at the expense of quality.
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the latter will soon be reduced to powder.
composed and made fine. Sour, wet muck
thus treated and composted with barnyard
manure constitutes fertilizer almost as
valuable as the unmixed manure of the
BARNARD.
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SUGAR-MAKING IN GERMANY. 1t is
stated that during the last season fifteen
new factories have been started, and next
year probably eighteen more will go into
operation. Besides these eighteen, which
will be ready for work before the sugar
making season begins, about thirty new ones
are in contemplation.
1t is reckoned that the quantity of beets
that will probably be worked up in Germany
in the season of 1883-84 is estimated at
about seven and a half million tons; that is
the German production has doubled in four
years. The increase in production is greater
than the establishment of these new facto-
ries would indicate, for the old ones have
added considerably to their powers of pro-
duction; and the yield, owing to the i'm
provements in cultivation and manipulation.
tends to increase every year.
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Increase of Pensions.

Pension laws are more liberal now than former
ly, and many entitled to higher rate
than they receive.
From and after January 1881, I shall make
charges for my serriceS in claims for increase OF
pension, where no new disability is alleged, unless
successful in procuring the increase.
The National tribune., 1882-09-02
ANTIQUITY OF THE AMERICAN MAN.

ANTIQUITY OF THE AMERICAN MAN.
How long has man been on this planet ? is
a question often asked, but the answer is
always unsatisfactory. The remains of i'm
plements and articles used by human beings
have been found in strata hundreds of thou
sands of years old. Ages must have passed
since the savage man first emerged from q
semi-brute condition. Mr.. Wiggens of Wa
verley, New jersey, found on the top of the
Allegheny Mountains in Perry county, Penn
sylvania, piece of metamorphic limestone
upon which was clearly visible the print Of
the right foot of human being. The i'm
preston is about an inch deep and shows
the five toes and the perfectly formed foot of
a man. This piece of stone has been sent to
the Smithsonian Institution. The rock is of
great antiquity and must have antedated
the oldest memorials of Egypt 1t certainly
is the earliest trace of man in America.
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War of 1912.

All surviving officers and soldiers of this war,
whether in the Military or Naval service of the
United States who served fourteen I4 days; or. if
in battle or skirmish, for less period, and the
widows of such who have not remarked are en-
titled to pension of eight dollars a month. Proof
OF loyalty is no longer required in these claims.
The National tribune., 1882-09-02
HOUSE oE REPRESENTATIVES.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. MGTch |, 1873.
We, the undersigned, having acquaintance
with Captain GEORGE E. LEMON for the past few
years, and knowledge of the systematic manner
in which he conducts his extensive business and of
his reliability for fair and honorable dealing
nected Herewith cheerfuly commend him to
claimants generally.
A. V. RICE Chairman
Committee on HUdlid Pensions House Reps
W. +. SLEMONS ". c.,
Second District Of Arh.
w. p. LYNDE. NJ. c.,
Fourth District Of His.
r. W. TOWNSHEND, NJ. c..
Niaeteentb District Of III,
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HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES,

W NAsiIINNIUNl q, 4ItJTCN
From several years acquaintance with Captain
GEORGE +. LEMON of this city, cheerfully COM
mend linn as a gentleman of integrity and well
qualified to attend to the collection of bounty and
other claims against the Government. His expe-
rience in that line gives him superior advantages.
W.P. SPRAGUE, NJ. c.,
Fifteenth District of Ohio.
JAS. d. STRAWBRIDGE, NJ. g.
Thirteenth District of Pennsylvania.
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REFERENCES:

As this may reach the hands of some persons un-
acquainted with this House, we append hereto, as
specimens of the testimony in possession,
copies of letters from several gentlemen of political
and military distinction, and widely known
throughout the United States:
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Rural Topics.
CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM SAUNDERS,
WASHINGTON, D. @.

correspondence issolicited to this columns. Com
muuications addressed to the Rural Department
of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, 6l5 Fifteenth Street.
Washington, D. c., will be appreciated.l
The National tribune., 1882-09-02

KILLING POTATO BEETLES. A New
Hampshire farmer indorses the following
plan: Il cut potatoes in thin slices and roll
them in Paris green and put the pieces in
old pans or boxes and set them out in the
field among my potatoes as soon as they can
be seen. keep the pans supplied with the
bait, and the result is astonishing. Some
times the slices viii be all eaten up and the
bugs will be three or four inches deep all
over the pans or boxes. l have this season
kept these bug-killers in my field until
now, and ! have done nothing else TO kill
the bugs, and l have now no bugs and can
find but few eggs Have practiced this
method two years; it works well, saves time
and labor and kills thousands of them. If
everybody would practice this method We
would soon have fewer patoto bugs. If
potato raisers were compelled to put this
method in practice both spring and fall the
immigrants from Colorado would soon be
Scarcen
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Widows, minor children, dependent mothers, IA
theirs, and minor brothers and sisters in the order
named, are entitled.
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AGENTS WANTED.-The grandest scheme
Il of a lifetime; profits larger than have ever
been made by agents at any business; adapted
for any condition of life; old and young mar
ried and single, all make money faster than
competition; no capital required Seize this
golden chance without delay. Send your adj
dress on postal to-day for full particulars.
Address GEO. De LARA, 757 Broadway, New
York. 35-17t
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CLAIMSI CLAlMSl
This Claim House Established
in 1865!
GEORGE E. LEMON,
ATTORNEY
Office, 6l5 Fifteenth ST., Citizens National Bank
WASHINGTON, Dc.
P. o. DRAWER 325.
GEORGE E. LEMON
Pensions.
Heirs.

If wounded, injured, or have contracted any dis
ease, however slight the disability, apply at once.
Thousands entitled.
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CURE FOR GAPEs.-It is said that small
portion Of camphor placed in the drinking
water in the poultry yard viii insure
chickens from having the gapes.
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Restoration to Pension Roll.

Pensioners who have been unjustly dropped
from the pension roll, or whose names have been
stricken therefrom by reason Of failure to draw
their pension for period OF three years or by
renewed by corresponding with this House.
The National tribune., 1882-09-02

THE CORNELIAN CHERRY.-The COrngs
mGseula, or cornelian cherry is a desirable
ornamental fruit bearing shrub or small
tree. Although but seldom seen in cultiva-
tion it was in former times better known
than it seems to be at present.
Its flowers have no beauty further thin
that they appear quite early in spring. TFe
fruits ripen towards the last of the summer
months, are nearly as large as cherries, and,
as the common name indicates, the berries
are very beautiful in color. They have a
harsh, acid taste when ripe, but are some
times used for preserves, and for this purpose
they are common in some European markets.
There is q variegatcd form of this plant
which is the best variegated-leaved hardy
shrub we know anything about The sill
very leaves Of this shrub maintain their
beauty all through the summer, and the
fruit is also striped with white. This plant
may be procured in most nurseries, and is
worthy of place in all collections of orna-
mental shrubs.
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Bounty and Pay.
Collections promptly made.
Property taken by the Army in
States not in InSurrectiOn.

Claims of this character will receive special at
tention, provided they were filed before JanuaryI
1880. If not fled prior to that date they barred
by statute of limitation.
In addition to the above prosecute Military
and Naval cai inns of every description procure Pat
ents, Trade Marks, Copyrights, attend to business
before the General Land Office and other Bureaus
of the Interior Department, and all the Depart
ments of the Government
We invite correspondence from all interested as
surins them of the utmost promptitude energy
and thoroughneS5 in all matters intrusted to our
hands.
GEORGE EI LEMON.
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GATHERING GRAPEs.-Many good varie-
ties Of grapes are injured in their reputation
from being gathered and eaten before they
are fully ripe. Most persons consider that
a grape is fit to eat when it has colored which
is a great mistake. The coloring is process
towards ripening, but it is not by any means
an indication Of full maturity. Some grapes
Ices Seating and Clinton for example, are
pretty well colored black for weeks before
they are fit to eat. This is one reason for
diversity Of opinion upon the merits of
grapes; any one who eats the IUes grape i'm
mediately after it turns black will certainly
not have very high opinion as regards it's
quality. The same applies even with greater
significance to the Clinton grape. Although q
late ripening kind it changes color as early as
some of the most forward sorts, and if eaten
when il first turns black it is as acid as the
greenest of grapes, although when permitted
to remain on the vine until ripe it is one of
the best of very late grapes 1t is also a
good keeping grape, owing to the large per
ccntage of sugar it contains. There are but
few varieties of native grapes that show so
large an amount of sugar in their juices as
that to be found in a ripe Clinton, as analy-
sis has frequently demonstrated, and yet the
general opinion is that it is so acid as to be
worthless as Il table fruit. IT,
The maturity of the shoot upon which the
fruit is growing is safe guide as indicating
ripeness. When the wood becomes brown.
and hardening towards maturity, the fruit is
also approaching to ripeness. A ripe bunch
Of grapes cannot be gathered from green
shoot; no matter how much the berries NAV
be colored, the unripe shoot upon which
they are growing is proof of immaturity.
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A BALLADE OF SUMMER.

The air is browsing in n swoon,
Unbroke of sound, while golden rays
OF sun divide the afternoon
In sleepy hues and sullen haze
Across the fields through woody ways,
A faint breeze stirs with listless feet;
The beetle drones. the rosebush sways-
Methinks the summertime is sweet.
hear the bees low murmurous tune
As from pale bloom 10 bright ne straysi
He comes too oft but leaves too soon,
No single blossoms love allays;
The brook with broken bank weeds plays,
Fallen flowers and blown blades ofwheat
Wee birds sing little songs of praise
Methinks the summertime is sweet.
Anon the night Of leaf-lit June
Brings down TO many flowery msze
The cooling kisses Ofthe moon
To ease the spiteful stings of days;
The fields lie bathed in mellow blaze
OF silver; now haste to greet
The true love that my heart Obeys-
Methinks the summertime is sweet.
ENVOY.
Reader and lover love portrays,
All seasons in fair hues complete:
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JERUSALEM ARTICHOKEs.-In Brittany
Jerusalem artichokes, twenty-three pounds
per day rations, are competing with parsnips
and carrots in the feeding of horses; they
produce sleeker coat, and the animals
relish them better; then they remain more
juicy at the end of the season, when parsnips
and carrots become dry and insipid. These
roots are easily grown, produce abundantly
and are eaten by all kinds of livestock; they
are also good dish for the table.
The National tribune., 1882-09-02

SOFTENING HARD WATERFALL the Hen
ley-On-Thames Water Works, which partly
supplies the city of London, the water is
obtained from the chalk formation and is
extremely hard; normally it is 900 OF hard
ness. After being treated by Il process
called the Atkins process, the hardness IS
reduced TO nearly 4o, which means beau
tifully soft water. This process consists
Of introducing a small jet Of lime water into
portion of the water to be sOftened, and
the two are blended in a mixer, from whence
they flow into a sOftening tank into which
the bulk of the water to be sottened is con-
Quoted. From this tank the water with the
lime in suspension flows into rotary disc
filters, in which the solid particles are ar
rested by an ingenious system Of cloth
covered discs placed within tank, and
which present very large area for filtration
within very small compass. The purified
and softened water is conducted from the
filters to storage reservoirs ready for use.
The effect of the lime water is not only to
purify and soften the water in bulk, but to
cause any clayey matters that may be held
in suspension to coagulate, thus facilitating
their removal. The water passes from the
outside to the inside of the filters through
the cloth-covered discs, the surfaces of which
become in time coated with deposit con-
sisting of carbonate of lime and impurities.
These surfaces are quickly cleaned by means
of series of brushes which are brought
into contact with the discs. The brushes,
which are fixed on a spindle, are rapidly re-
volved, as are also the discs, but in opposite
directions, the result being that in few
minutes the filters are cleansed and ready
for work again. The apparatus now in
operation is calculated to soften and purify
rather more than 100O 900 gallons of water per
working day of ten hours. 7ar-a- as
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correspondence invited.
Prisoners of War.
Ration money promptly collected.
Furlough RationS.
Horses Lost in Service.

Amounts due collected without unnecessary de-
lay. Such claims cannot be collected without the
flIrlough.
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Claims of this character promptly attended to-
Many claims of this character have been erro-
neously rejected. Correspondence in such cases is
respectfully invited.
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ENVOY.

Reader and lover, love portrays,
All seasons in fair hues complete;
Love lives when gold or fame decays,
And love, like summertime, is sweet!
s. H. UpSted.
The National tribune., 1882-09-02
Land Warrants.

Survivors of all wars from 1890 to March 8, 1855,
and certain heirs, are entitled to hundred and
sixty of land, if not already received. Sol
diers of the late war not entitled
Land warrants purchased for cash at the highess
market rate, and assignments perfected.
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DeSertiOn

from one regiment vessel and enlistment in an
other, is not bar to pension in cases where the
wound, disease or injury was incurred while in the
service of the United States, and III the line OF
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PRODUCING RAIN BY ARTIFICIAL MEANS.
that it might be well to test conclusion" "
as a method of promoting rainfall. He says:
"Wby does it almost always rain on or about
July 5th? Why was it that after any Of the
great battles of our late war, as so many Of
US remember, that rain was sure to follow? 4?
Why is7t that the records Of the history of
all greet battles tell the same story? Why
was it that after six weeks drought and
Chicago had burned, that thousands Of un
sheltered people were drenched in a heavy
rain the very next night? The air is full
of moisture even in the warmest and driest
time, which is well proven by the pitcher Of
ice-water sweating upon the table. 1t
has been said that there is more water gen
eraIly above the surface of the earth than
below it. How shall we get it. Circum-
stantial evidence strongly points to concus-
sion. In the very advance of the heaviest
showers is placed heavens artillery the
heaviest rains accompanying the heaviest
thunder and lightning. Battles are expen-
sive in the use of powder, and destroy life
and property; powder burned in the inter
ests of agriculture-and that means the in
tsrests of all other classes as well-might be
expensive, but it would be far less expensive
than the millions burned up by an extended
drouth. Who win figure the value TO our great
national crop corn Ofa thorough, soaking rain
just as the ears are shooting, or the millions
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BEST EVER MADE,

EMORY'S LITTLE CArHARTIC PILLS. No
family should be without them. Pleasant to take,
no gripping. Druggists sell thenl by mail for Is
cents box in postage stamps. Standard Cure
Co., Ia Nassau-street, New York. 1y36
Mention this paper.