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Philadelphia Record.

fhiiaoelphla hecord.
Winter is supposed to be a season in which but
little work can be done on a farm but there is
much to be done in spring that may be facili-
tated by a previous preparation before the busy
season sets in. One of the most important mat
tiers in the spring is the selection of good seed.
The value of future crops depends upon the
terminating quality and purity of the seeds.
Corn is crop that causes a greater vexation
than any other as the seed is subject to MANY
Influences during the process Of curing that in
terfere with its early termination and thrift
while growing A late backward spring, which
delays complaining till J une, shortens the grow
ing season, and no time can be lost replanting or
renewing the hills 1t is now n good time to
make thorough examination of the
seed, culling out every imperfect grain
and using only that which is sound and
well dried. Such work done now
is a saving of time hereafter and the work can
be done more thoroughly in advance than when
about to plant One of tie earliest crops is
onions and more failures are attributed to bad
seed and frozen sets than to improper cutiva-
ton The seed is no easy substance to handle,
yet it can be improved by good cleaning The
sets may be kept, even after being frozen, by
placing them where they viii not quickly thaw;
but they should be handled as little as possible
Warmth is to be avoided with frozen vegetables.
for gradual return to ii proper temperature is
required in preference to giving them warm
location. Peas may be assorted those affected
with bugs discarded if the damage is serious;
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water and some on the upland. The YOU rice
4 plants are first sown in bed until about six
| inches high, and then they are transplanted in
May or June in small tufts Of eight or ten plants
| in rows about eight inches apart. The harvest
/ takes place in September or October and the
land remains fallow until the next spring; else
/ the water is let OFF and wheat, barley beans or
other plants are grown and harvested in May,
! when the rice is set out again.
The ordinary method of cultiVating the field
is by means of a matlock or hoe, with which the
| soil IS dug up and prepared for the seed. A
similar instrument is also used for removing the
weeds and keeping the ground in order In all
such work the woman are frequently seen at
| work with the men. In some sections cows and
horses are Employed in ploughing; but ii is a very
slow and imperfect process, as the plough con
sists of only forked stick, or frame, with an
| iron point attached
The rice and all Other grains arc cut with a
sickle The kernals of rice are separated from
the straw by drawing the heals between long
teeth fixed on the frame for the purpose. The
husk of the rice is removed by pounding. This
Is sometimes done by water power, but the most
common method is for men to step upon one end
of a lever, and so lift the other, which has Il
wooden pestle attached. and which falls upon the
rice placed in a followed section of a tree scoop
ed out as to form mortar. A rude farming,
mill is used for separating the husks from the
rice after the pounding process.
Wheat and millet are threshed with fail and
the chaff is blown away by means of large fans
joined by piece of bamboo and worked by hand.
The grain is allowed to fall from a height, dur
ing which the fans are worked and the chaff
blown away.
There are no fences in Japan, and the fields are
divided by slight ridges OF earth. When the
grain is at full height the divisions often hid
den, and there is the appearance of only one
large field
As a rule the farmers of Japan are exceedingly
conservative, and reject all mechanical improve
ments adhering rigidly to the old methods of
cultivation, however rude and labolioUs they
may be.
A striking feature of every japanese farm is
the cleanliness and order everywhere prevalent.
Each man seems to take a pride in keeping his
land in perfect order and clear Of everything in
the way of weeds. Upon lands unsuitable for
cultivation pine and oak trees are planted. and,
after 10 years of growth cut for fire wood, and
then set out with trees again.
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the lap with pleasure. If desired pockets for
silk, needle book, etc. can be stitched ON the lin
ing before it is sewed in.
Hemstitch handkerchief make very pretty and
serviceahle pillow shams. 1t requires for pair
eight handkeTchiefs-fou for each shanl-which
are joined with two rows OF lace insertion. one
running across aud one up and down. These are
finished on the edges by lace to match the inscr-
ton, or with a row OF lace and insertion. Very
pretty bed spreads can be made the same way.
Starch which will not stick in white patches
on y u dark cambria dress, is made thus: Take
the very best fine starch you can get, mix it the
proportion Of two tablespoonful to as little wa
ter as will make a smooth paste, and to this add
pint Of clear coffee; let it boil for ten minutes.
Stii Is with a sperm candle, strain il through a
piece of muslin and Il is ready for use and will
be found very satisfactory.
Dried California plums are an excellent fruit 10
use in making roly poly pudding. Let them soak
well; stew slowly in a very little water. The
dried or evaporated fruits are much more econ
omical to buy than the canned fruits, and for
many purposes they are preferable. IF they are
soaked long enough and cooked properly the
flavor will be intense, and they are better for
pies and buildings than the ordinary canned
flmt
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The Meat Inspectorship.
the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal

To the Editor of the indianapolis journal:
Has the Office of meat inspector which is
about to be constituted, already been disposed
of Was it disposed of by a self-appointed ring
to one of their members, before the ordinance
was introduced is question asked editorially
in yesterdays Journal. aaa va
The ordinance was drawn by City Attorney c.
S. Denny, under the instructions of DR. e. S.
Elder, and a number of honest butchers of this
city. I was requested by DIR. Elder to introduce
the same to Council After reading the ordi
nance over carefully, and finding the city was
not called on for one cent Of expense by its pas
sage, l consented to present it. AS the ordi
nance now reads the power of appointing
meat inspector is invested in the Board of
Health and the parties for whom the inspections
are made pay the inspector. l assure you |
have no knowledge of any one being
promised the position. l heartily
in favor of the ordinance providing there
is a thoroughly competent man selected
for the place. He must be man who has had eX-
perience in the stock business, and man in
whom the citizens will have entire confidence.
am in favor of making some changes in The ordi-
nance in the way of compensation to the inspec-
tor AS the ordinance now reads the inspector
receives ten cents per head for cattle, and five
cents for hogs. etc. The number of cattle, hogs,
etc, killed in this city per day at the above rate
would pay the inspector not less than $40 per
a salary of 500 or 1925 per month, and turn his
fees into the city treasury which will add con
siderably to the revenue of the city.
JOHN K. PEARSON
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To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
the peoee nre eo@peed to Submit for In
nal, Jan. 3, 1884.
And how long that time is to continue de-
ponds upon the time of a recasting of our State
constitution Telephones, and telegraphs, and
railroads and gas companies were unknown, or
We're very feeble hundred years ago, when our
present constitution was adopted, measuring
time by the events of the last thirty years. If
for no other reason, there should be a new con-
stitution under which the people could protect
themselves against the various forms of monop-
olies that are grinding the face of the poor
which were wholly unknown, or at most so
feeble, when the present constitution was adopt
ed, as to excite no alarm. u. l.. SEE
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Agriculture in Japan.
Yokohama Letter.


Agriculture in Japan is claimed to be of divine
origin. For this and other reasons agriculture
has always been held in high esteem. In the
classification of the people the farmers rank next
to the official and military class, and above the
artisans and merchants. Four-ffths of the
population are engaged in agricultural
pursuits, and whole sections of the country have
the appearance Of gardens. In recent journey
of twenty miles between Toxic and Yokohama
the following articles We're to be seen in the
fields, and all yielding profitable returns: Rice,
beans Several yarieties millet three varieticsl
Indian corn, broom corn, hucIlwheat, onions,
endives tomatoes, beets, rdshes. tulmips, par
SHIPS carrots. satisfy artichokes, dock, sweet
potatoes, Irish potatoes, cabbage, cauli-
flower, spinach, egg plant, rhubarb, taro upland
VARIETY ginger root cucumbels, squashes,
gourds, horse raddsh, red peppers, sesame, sun
flowers, edible sarsaparilla, edible bamboo, shire
leaves used for coloring pickles, chestnuts,
pomegranates, oranges kumqual, 1.-THE small
orange used for presarves) pears, grapes, iujube
fruits, persmmons, tobacco, cotton, hemp, tea
plants, mulberry trees for feeding silk worns),
and mushrooms.
Among the various products, rice is the most
important of them all One of the names OF
Japan means ''the land of the prosperous ears of
rice for 1900 autumers.' There are several va
rieties Of rice, some of which are grown under
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INDIANAPOLIS.


The Temperance Discussion in the journal.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal
The MonitorJoulnal says that the Indianapo-
lis Journal is the guardian of the liquor traf-
ic for the reason that it published an article by
a saloon-keeper in defense of his business and
an article by DR.. Dio Lewis, 1.-THE father of the
crusade" against prohibition. 1t is very rare in
deed that saloon-keepers attempt to defend their
traffic in the public press; it would be mean and
cowardly for any newspaper to deny them a
hearing. If one saloon-keeper, or all of them
united, can overthrow the temperance cause, it
ought to be overthrown If DR.. Dio Lewis,
that prince of cranks" as the
Nj. calls him. can demolish prohi
bition let it be demolished. We'do not want
to hold fast to any principle doctrine that will
not bear the attacks of the brightest lights
Much less should we cling to principles that will
not endure the attacks of saloon keepers and
.'cranksr
DR.. Dio Lewiss argument on the words 'vice"
and crime" are not sound, in my opinion What
is called vice to-day may be made crime to-
morrow. AS we grow i'll grace and the knowl-
edge Of the truth innocent indulgence becomes
wee, and vice becomes crime. Once it was
only fun to get drunk: then it became a vice:
now it is a crime. Once it was not a crime to
sell Intoxicating liquors to minors and drunken
men; to-day it is crime; tomorrow it will
be made a crime to sell Intoxicating liquors as a
beverage to sober men. The light of Christian
ity makes questionable pastime a vice, and ell
hghtened public opinion causes our lawmakers to
make vice a crime.
But ADLER pens than mine have shown up the
weak points in Dio Lewiss article, and that. too,
in the indianapolis journal. The Indianapolis
Journal is broad. liberal andindependent news
paper in which all questions that agitate the pub
licmind are presented and fairly considered. The
Journal is not a temperance paper, but, GER
talnly the temperance question is receiv
ing that attention and consideration
in its columns that its Importance demands,
The Monitor Journal is a temperance paper but
recognizes none as temperance men but Prohi-
bitionists. 1t will not unite with successful
party to carry local option, but viii unite with
score Of men, a defunct party, who will re
solve in favor Of prohibition. 1t is expected by
''some" that the Greenbackers "will adopt strong
resolutions in favor of prohibition Suppose
they do. There are no "Greenbackers." There
is only one in this part of the State and his OBJ
stinacy sent an anti submission Democrat to the
State Senate from Huntington and Wells coun-
ties. As well talk about the Free Soil party
resolving"
Take what you can get, and get all you can is
a good motto S. NJ. MINNICH.
ANDREWS Jan 3
We have had occasion before to say that the
Monitor-Journal was edited by fool, and the
statement quoted by our correspondent is an
other proof. If temperance people can stand
the MI. their organ, certainly the Journal
can have no reason to complain.-Ed. Journal
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The "Belled BuzZard."

To the Editor of the indianapolis journal:
l saw, under date of Dec. 10, that in New
York some one had seen belled buzzard and
the question arises, who belled itl A few years
ago my nephew, William Clark who was at
tending school in South Carrollton, KY, and
Mr. Alfred Ross caught a buzzard in trap, and
the school-boys went out in town and bought a
bell, and, with strong buckskin thong, fastened
it securely. They then turned it loose. 1t was
seen and known here as 'the belled buzzard'
for long time. 1t was also seen in adjoining
counties and in Tennessee. but finally dsap-
peared and has never been heard of 1t may be
possible the one seen in New York is the same
belled buzzard of South Carrollton, Ky.
Fl CLARK
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The Week (Cincinnati) improves with age. Its
illustrations are numerous and excellent
The Keynote weekly, 80 East Fourteenth
street, New York; is the best publication on mu-
sic in the United States.
Ignatius Donnelly the erratic but entertain
ing amateur philosopher, has paper on "Hered-
ity' in the last Current (Chicagol.
Among the contents of the current Littells
Living Age are "Wraxalrs Memoirs" THE
Baby's Grandmother" THE Literature of Seven
Dials," ''In the Wrong Paradise" "A Dancing
Epidemic, and The Clerical Caste in Scotland"
The English Illustrated Magazine (Nacmlan
& Co., New York; has for its frontispiece clear
cut portrait of Matthew Arnold. Some pretty
views of Dartmoor scenery are given, from the
pencil of l.. r. O'Bren. An interesting article
on '''The Pianoforte and its Precursors" with
fourteen illustrations, gives an entertaining his
tory of that instrument.
The January number of the Wide Awake d.
Lothrop & Co., Boston, is beautiful and good from
beginning to end. The reading matter-stories
poems, etc.-s as good as the best, while the ex-
cellent engravings leave nothing to be desired
by young people. Eighty pages of pictures and
most delightful reading make up this superb
number. The queen of juvenile magazines.
The first number of the second volume of the
Educational Weekly, J. NJ. Olcott & Co., pub
lishers and Eli Z. Brown, editor, indicates sue
cess and ability. Its digest of educational news
from week to weeks well prepared and compre
hensive. A feature of this number is the able adj
dress before the State Teachers Association of
Professor W. H. Payne, of Ann Arbor. Every
educator in Indiana should carefully read it. It
is full Of thought and suggestion.
The January number of the Indiana School
Journal opens its twenty ninth volume, eleven
of which have been issued under the editorial
care of Prof. w. A. Bell. Educational journals
as rule, are shortlived; of those issued prior to
1870 only three survive. Twenty-Five years of
age and usefulness best attest the worth and
value of the Scrool journal The present num-
Der contains articles by Prof w c. Larrabee
formerly Superintendent of Public Instruction.
and by Hon. E. E. White eX-president of Pur-
due, the latter having two one areview of school
jurisdiction and the other technical or indus
trial education. new feature is the depart
ment of Pedagogy, under the editorship of
Prof. Geo. P. Brown, president of the State
Normal. The Journal is the official organ of the
State Board, and publishes the official decisions
of the State Superintendent
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Harper & Bros. have added the following to
the Franklin Square Library series; ''Thirlby
Hall" novel by w. E. Norris; 25 cents; 1.-THE
Millionaire" a novel; 20 cents.
The Philadelphia Times has issued its annual
almanac, containing much valuable matter eee-
ton returns statistics etc. Tie figures are pre-
pared with great care, and may be accepted as
trustworthy in every detail. While the great
body of the book is taken up by things pertain
ing to Pennsylvania there is enough of general
interest to make it indispensable.
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stead, his own house. in the United States, there
are 100 without it in England
| have stood in the great commercial and great
manufacturing centers of Great Britain among
her workmen, and have inspected their homes
where they have full employment. have seen
whole families work together in mines and fac
tories and l have seen an ignorant, illiterate
and unhealthy population, whose only refuge in
sickness was the public hospital, and in the time
Of Unemployment the work house. In Great
Britain, well as here, come days. and weeks
and months when the mills stand idle and the
factories are closed. Here there can be glut of
overproduction with high wages, as there can be
a glut of over production with low wages. The con
sequences of misery are not the same. Were free
trade proclaimed as the law in the United States,
tomorrow, within year the pay of the work
ingman would be so reduced that strikes would
be as numerous, and as rlIinous to his independ-
ence as they are in Great Britain If the wages
of the workingman can be raised by placing cap
ital under cOmpulsion nothing better can be
done, and let the Hon. Mr. Mcdonald undertake
the task. If they not, free trade remains
for him for trial and he can see whether it will
not reduce the value of the labor of the work
ingman in the United States to the same rate as
the pauper labor of Europe.
CATHOLIC REPUBLICAN.
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Homemade yeast that is losing its leavening
properties from age-or in the words of old
fashioned housekeeper lis running 0ut"-may be
renewed by stirring into it little New Orleans
molasses, in the proportion of one tablespoon of
molasses to a quart Of yeast Let it thoroughly
ferment, and then take it to start new yeast
with.
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Phosphate: Il have been enabled to devote my
self to hard mental labor from shortly after
breakfast till a late hour in the evening, without
experiencing the slightest relaxation, and | would
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CURRENT LITERATURE.


THE MORTIMER; THE SEA-KINGs AND VIKINGS.
BY Paul G. Sindng of Copenhagen, Denmark,
member Quebec Historical Society. Pub
lRshed for the author
Professor Snding, who for some weeks has
been making his headquarters in this city. is
the author of one of the most agreeable, enter
tanning and valuable histories ever written of
Denmark and Scandinavia. Beginning with
the earliest history, the invasions of the Goths
from the shores Of the Baltic and the Sea of
Azov, he has followed this peculiar warlike PEG
pie down to the present day, giving the reader
the closest insight to the mythology, religion,
social customs and wars of this aggressive people
The opening chapter is devoted to the myths
Of the Scandinavians as recorded by the sagas
or ancient poets, a source of rich discovery TO
those in search of poetic beauty. In what the
author denotes the first period, he considers the
history of the Danish kingdom from its founda-
ton until A. D. 1912 This includes the Incl
dents connected with the collection of the separ
ate provinces into one body, and recites the first
endeavors to introduce Christianity. and closes
with the death of Valdemar Victor and the issu-
ing of the Jutlandish law. The second period
embraces the time from the death
OF Naldemar the COnqueror, and the be-
ginning of the disputes about Seheswig
until the introduction of the Reformation, 1896.
The third period according to the author. eX-
tends from the acknowledgement of Lutheran
ism as the established religion of Denmark until
the introduction of the absolute sovereignty.
1860. The fourth period brings the history down
to the present time, including all the that
have changed the map of Europe, their causes
and ultimate effects. The reader is put in pos
session of such facts as are necessary to the com
pletest understanding of the subject in hand,
and he acquires the information almost
unconsciously, since the style of the author is
SO agreeable and easy of grasp that it is recrea-
ton to peruse the handsome volume. composed
as it is of 800 beautifully printed pages Prof.
Sinding by this one work alone has won an
enviable position among the worlds historians,
and has thereby contributed valuable work to
the worlds literature. 1t is sold only by the
author and should find ready buyers every
where
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