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be guided by them. The reports are
admirable a far as dealing with ad-
ministrative details and changes is
concerned. At the same expenditure
for that will not be less-a more
effective Government is promised.
But what is more urgently wanted in
the Islands is the enforcement Of
sound economical principles upon
which the social fabric must ultimate
ly rest. Administrative changes and
political systems, however admirable
in the abstract, will not give them the
life, the energy, and the prosperity
they now lack.
The Islands can only be made pros
porous by being made attractive to
the capitalist and the labourer, and to
accomplish this it is only necessary to
carry out the principles for which
England is famous at home and in
the markets of the world. The re-
tention of the food tariffs is monstrous
in these islands, where the people
must largely depend on foreign sup
plies for their most ordinary wants,
and they have the further i'll effect of
encouraging the United States and
other Governments in their protec-
zionist views against them. Ameri-
can growers and dealers see II CO.
lonies place duties on their bread
stutfs. 1t is useless to tell them this
is done for revenue purposes, when
the most elementary view of the posi-
ton will show they nre wholly unne-
cessary for this object, This food
tax falls most heavily on the agricul-
tural Iabourer, and therefore Ultimate
ly on the PLANTER. Were the produce
of an acre of land worth only half
what the Commissioners show it to
be, the Is. or Cd. land tax might be
we'll increased. There are, however,
plenty of other methods of taxation
available.
1t will be desirable also to know
whether the Government mean to
abolish the Encumbered Estates Court,
for until this be done most ~asSuredly
ne capital from fresh sources will be
invested in any Of these colonies.
The great panacea of the Commits
sioncrs is the introduction of coolies
by State aid. But the population or
our West India Islands is already
more than enough to raise four times
the produce now grown, and the latest
accounts show that the negroes are
leaving jamaica as fast as .hey can
find transport. With free food and
no restrictions on the inflow of capt.
tai our planters would be able to sue
cessfuIly compete with npighbouring
countries in the Iabour market and in
the raising Of produce. We shall not
ultimately succeed in keeping down
wages by the artificial means of State
introduced coolies. The negroes
would NOT leave their homes in our
colonies unless circumstances were
adverse to them. The coolies them
selves will object to receive less than
current wages. No Government has
a right to interfere arbitrarily in mat
ters which must in the end depend on
supply and demand.
Up to the present the British pub
lie have embarked more capital in
the bankrupt States of Central Ameri-
CA than would be required to make
, 1884-09-20

FarIS, AUBUSI III
Chance, which is the best of schemers,
caused me to meet NJ. Jules Ferry yester-
day at the house of one of the few diploma
lists still in town. The four or five casual
visitors whom l found there all belonged
in different ways to the diplomatic world;
and as I entered the conversation appear
ed rather animated. After a moments
, 1884-10-08

Reparationen b~egyndes med, at Grofterne oprenses og
mddybss, til de 1 faa Oct n refte iTr@rprOhl, SAINT Diet fOrnod In
S~teenkister og Underl6b. bet Materiale, som fremkommer
we'd denne Oprensning, maa like lagges paa Vejene uden
Veitilsynets Tiladelse, men skal Strax bortki0reS, forsaa-
vdt Diet we'd vedkommende Lodsejers Tlladelse i~ndlegges
i Marker we'd Siden af Vejen maa Diet like yere nermere
end 1O fra V~ejgr0ften. We'd Gr0fterneS Oprensning
iagttages Diet, at Vejterranet like indsnevres.
Vejbanen renses we'd Lugning og Bortskaffen af alt
Slags Afald og Overfaden af den tildannes paa den i
s l angivne Made. GrHus- og Steenmaterialet maa like
oplegges i Bunker langs Vesiden, men skal spredes paa
Kj0rebanen, saa smart Diet er hent0rt til B~estemmelSes-
stedet; Materiale, der er for stort, maa derfor itusIaaes,
linden Diet kj0res paa Veen. Dog kan VejkommiSsionen
tilade, at Stene knuses langs den enc Side af Yeien,
naar Diet kan skee udPn Hinder for FRrdSelen. We'd
Paaf0ringen at Stenmaterialet erindreS som a|lmindelig
Regel, at, forsaavidt der HAYES Materiale af f~6rskjelig
Beskaffenhed, Dor Diet haardeste og S;0rste Materiale
anvendes Fordybninger, Diet mindre haarde Materiale
paa de oph0iede teder.-Fordybningern Dor, fornden de
tyldes, ON %forn0dent, ophuggeS og renses, saaledes at de
kunne heelt optage Stenmate1ialet, uden at noget af Diet
springer formeget frem.
, 1884-10-08
G. III.

IAN BTdt7ce
Connecticut western news., 1884-04-23
The Base Ball Business.

One can scarcely form an estimate, says the New York Herald, of the vast extent to which base ballis being carried until glance is taken at the respective championship tables. In the five leading professional associations alone there will be over 2,60O championship games played. The American Association and the Northwestern League and Union Association will each play 4is games. The Eastern League, which comes next in importance, will play 392 games. There are a number of other professional associations, of less importance than the above, in the arena at present, and the club members of each of these associa- tions are competing for a championship of their own. The most prominent of these smaller professional associations are the Ohio League, Massachusetts State Association, the Keystone Associa- ton, the Western League and Western Interstate Association. Besides there are an endless number of college and amateur associations in the field of con test, and their club members are putting forth their utmost efforts to win their respective championships. The American College Association is the most promi- nent among the college associations,
 while the Long Island Amateur Associa- tion is one of the oldest and most widely known among the amateur associations.
Connecticut western news., 1884-04-23
Steamed or Cooked Food, Profitable.

Mir. B. J. Stone, Westboro, Mass, has for twelve years fed steamed food to his herd of forty-f animals, from early fall until pasturing time the following spring. He has twelve-horse power boiler in the basement of an l. adjoin- ing the barn, over which is six-horse power engine, plunge pump that raises water into the boiler, and tank near the steam box and mixing trough. In the story above there is large power cutter, that cuts all the corn-fodder, straw, and second quality of hay used. It Is cut into one inch lengths To three hundred lbs. of this cut fodder, one hundred lbs. of grain, four qts. of salt, and enough water to moisten 1t are added, and mixed in lots of eighty lbs. each to insure thorough mixing. This provender is pitched into the steam box, which holds enough for one days feed ing. The first feeding is at seven p. m. the second at seven the following morn- ing. At noon the animals are watered, then fed one hundred and twenty-five lbs. best quality of dry hay. The water which settles under the false bottom of the steam-box, from about eighty gal Ions used at a steaming, is converted into a hay tea. This is mixed with suf- ticient wheat bran to make a mash, and is fed to mich COWS and young calves. Tbis food being well seasoned, is very palatable, readily eaten, and quickly di- gested. The warm food, together with the warm stable, keep up the animal heat, and large flow of milk is the re- suit. The cause of so many failures in steaming food is, in part, due to not using any grain, and allowing the steam to come in contact with the feed direct from the boiler. Here the steam is let into the bottom of the steam-box, and softens the whole mass. The cooked grain is taken into the stomach of the animal, masticated with the cud, and nearly all of its nutriment thereby ex- tracted. Below is an estimate of the daily cost per head. One-half of the fuel consumed, has been deducted and charged to the houss, as this same boiler supplies steam, and heats sixteen | rooms
Connecticut western news., 1884-04-23
\ FEW PRESS NOTES.

TIE Rev. Oliver Dyer does the "An- swers to Correspondents" in Bonners Ledger.
 MR. DANIEL GOODWIN of the old print ing house of Baker X Goodwin, of New York, died at his home in Ridgewood, N. J.
 STREET X SMITH bought the New York Weekly from Amos J. Williamson twenty-five years ago for $40, 1000. Both became millionaries.
 MANY of the poems of the late Ma thaniel G. Shepherd are floating through country newspapers spuriously credited. Shepherd wrote some of the sweetest poems in the English language. He was reporter on the Tribune. He died over twelve years ago.
 ENGLISH editors receive good salaries. The editor of the Times receives S25,- 900, the Standard pays S15, 900, Daily NeicS, S20,000, senior editors of the T6lcgraph receive S17, 800 each, Man chester Guardian Sl5,O00, PdH Mall Gazette, Spectator and Saturddy Re- uie,O each S10,0CO, St. James Garette, S9, 900 and Punch Sl5,000.
 TIE New York City Press Association pays its reporters fifteen and twenty dollars week. Reporters on the city papers make from $7 to $50 week, S25 being the average. Many of the re- porters work on space, receiving from S4 to SS per column for such matter as is pub- lished. They would do well if editors did not cut their copy so.
 Two HUNDRED and fifteen Typograph- ical Unions are in existence in the United States. These have member ship exceeding 12,000. The number of non- Union men, in the localities where the Unions exist, is estimated at 5000 Allowing an additional force of 5000, in the small towns, we have 10000 compositors. There are 1000 women mostly in the Eastern States employed in setting types.
 A coRREsPoNDENT of the Journalist suggests that newspaper men should form a mutual benefit life assurance company, which should extend all over the country, the receipt of money being contingent upon death only. There are in the United States not less than 100, 900 men who make their living directly from newspaper work. And such an as- soeiation properly conducted would be of immense benefit.
Connecticut western news., 1884-04-23
The Better Man.

There must have been ten of us sit ting on our trunks in a dismal passen- ger station in Arkansas, waiting for the inevitable night train. Some of the drummers tried to tell funny stories, but it was no go, and those who were not nodding and dozing were mad enough to fight, when a negro came ill and flung a lot of wet coal on the fire, exiting uish- ing the little we had been shivering over.
 "See here, you internal nigger, you ought to be shot l" growled man in the county map business.
 "Who's 'fernal nigger?"
 "You are 70
 Better look out, white man I'm & better man than you is P
 The prospect of another civil war woke everybody up in a second, and it didn't seem as if the clock had licked fifteen times before the map man had his coat and vest off and his ears work ing for business.
 "What you gwine to do, sah ?" asked the negro as he stood gazing at him.
 "I'm going to see who is the best man Boys, look out for splinters :"
 ''Hole on, sah !! Hole on, sah P called the other. "Ize de bettah man, an I kin prove it See heah, sah p
 He pulled from the pocket of his old coat fair-sized cocoanut, the bark of which was highly polished up, and opened his mouth and tossed the nut into the cavity, rattled it around over his back teeth and then dropped it into his hand with the remark:
 'White man, come to taw If you am de bettah man let's see you circum- locute dat cokernut aroun' in your moui like I did p
 The proposed bloody struggle ended right there. The map man put on his garments, the whole crowd rose up, and during the rext twenty minutes that "nigger" scooped in ninety-hve cents by rattliDg that cocoanut and adding tc it any punches of keys or pocket knives the boys could hunt up and hand over M. QUAD.
Connecticut western news., 1884-04-23
Horses in Kentucky.
BILL ME.

A member of Gen. Shaler's staff, who went to Kentucky to buy saddle horse, concluded not to purchase. He landed in the town of Berry, and while walking along the street with upturned nose at the lack of hustle, encountered a citizen. The citizen promptly drew a revolver and with equal promptness shot and killed man who was walking at the side of the officer. The man hastily left town. On the following day the officer was in the Phoenix Hotel at Lexington, Ky, when a bullet crushed through the paper he was reading and perforated 9. man who was seated in an adjoining chair. It was merely a commercial traveller pay ing his compliments to a brother "drum- mer," but the New York officer was of tended and left the room. He was about to keep an appointment with a gentle man in the evening when he learned that the gentleman had been unayoidably de- tained, having been ventilated during the afternoon by the bowie-knife of another gentleman. The next day, while taking a ride, the horse ran away, the buggy smashed, and the gallant son of Mars tossed into the mud. He concluded it was altogether too lively country, and, packing his gripsack, started for home. The Troy Times says that he has since been heard to remark that "There are many good points about New York horses"
Connecticut western news., 1884-04-23
Thinning in the Garden.

The novice in gardening matters rarely gives his plants, especially his roots, sufficient room. He cannot see why he should SOW twenty or more seeds for every plant that comes to perfeetion If we were to dibble in a single carrot seed every six inches in row, it is probable that very few of them would appear as plants. A large number of seeds are sown in order that, by their united ef- fort, in germination, they may break through the soil and allow enough plants to see the light to make a stand. After the plants are up then comes the thinning, and we cut out with the hoe large number of beets, parsnips, etc, and finally leave one in place at intervals of six inches to foot, according to the va- riety. Onions seem to do we'll if left in little clusters to crowd one another, and John Harris says that this is the best treatment for short kinds of carrots. But these are exceptions, and as rule the more room roots have the quicker they grow and the more tender they will be. Take spinach, for example, though not a root, it needs judicious thinning. The first thinning may leave the plants two or three inches apart in the row; second time, the plants may be left six inches apart, then every other plant may be taken for use. and the final cutting of we'll developed plants will be the best of all. Salsify, at best asmall root, may be had much larger than we usually see it, and moro convenient for the cook, by giving it room, As a rule, our garden crops are too much crowded for the best results.-AgriculfUriSt for May.
Connecticut western news., 1884-04-23
The Egyptian Mahdi.

An Austrian dealer in wild animals writing from Kassala to friends in Vi- enna, gives some information about the Mahdi, whom he knows personally, and with whom he has frequently transacted business, the Mahdi himself having for years dealt in wild beasts for the differ ent geological gardens. He Is described by the writer as a very cunning impos- tor, and as an instance, it Is related that a short time ago he suddenly appeared with a number of warts on his right cheek, these having been artifcially pro- duced with the aid of German called Schandorper, formerly clown and afterward hair-dresser, now in the ser vice of the Mahdi. The reason was that the legends about the expected Mahdi speak of him as having such marks. Like the beasts he formerly deait in, the Mahdi sleeps during the day and trans acts business during the night.
Connecticut western news., 1884-04-23
THE BABY'S PRA YER.

She knelt with her sweet hands folded; Her fair little head bowed low; While dead vines tapped at the window And the air was thick with snow. Without, earth dumb with winter;
 Within, hearts dumb with care; And up through the leaden silence
 Rose softly the baby prayer. ''Bless all whom love, dear Father,
 And help me be good" she said. Then, stirred by sudden fancy,
 She lifted the shining head Did she catch on the frozen maple
 Some hint of the April green, Or the breath of the woodland blossoms. The drifts of the snow between2 ''The beautiful trees" she whispered, ''Where the orioles used to sing; They are tired of the cold, white winter, Oh, help them to grow in spring; And the flowers that loved to gather, Lord, bring them again in May, The dear little violets, sleeping
 Down deep in the ground to-day" An, earth may be chill with snowhakes, And hearts may be cold with care, But wastes of frozen silence
 Are crossed by the baby's prayer; And lips that were dumb with sorrow In jubilant hope may sing; For when earth is wrapped in winter, In the heart of the Lord 'tis spring.
Connecticut western news., 1884-04-23

ey-not enough, at least, to operate w4.-; but he had knowledge of some things that were going on ''in the street." and he was desperate enough to do anything for anybody or against any body for the sake of recouping hlmsof.
 But fortune drowned on him; every one knew he had been 'tin" Twin Angel stock; everybody knew what had hap pened to Twin Angel, so everybody worth talking to let him alone. Down town next day he had similar experience. Then he became desperate; he borrowed thousand dollars from a personal friend who knew nothing about the stock market, and went into the Mining Exchange to make "quick turn, but his hand seemed to have lost his cun- ming for he lost 1t all.
 From being desperate he began to be frantic; looking his affairs squarely in the face, he found that all the money he had in the world, or was sure of hay ing, was about fifty dollars. He was now quite equal to speculating with other peoples money, but, unfortunately for him, his customers had deserted him.
 The General locked himself in his of- flee and subjected his memory to searching interview. Something must be done or he would not be able to look his wife in the face. Had he ever im- 4l,ok eI, IaI Qf f heart about the conditions of their mar riage he would have-but never mind; she was his wife, and he adored her.
 That evening the General made careful collection of his most portable personal property-watches, diamond studs, gold-headed canes, etc., and early in the morning, before any one whom he knew was awake, he visited places where three gold balls indicate the na- ture of the business done within. At the end of his tour he had nearly three hundred dollars in his pocket, enough to operate slyly in securities in which he had faith. Suddenly he remembered that payment on life insurance policy was past due, so he hurried to pay it, and by so doing he almost emptied his pockets. What to do then he scarcely knew; he paced the floor of his little office, his brow contracted aud his countenance so black that even the om. nipresent match-vender was frightened away by his appearance.
 Suddenly a telegraph boy entered with a message. and Chartus read |: 'Hurry home; have you forgotten this is my reception day? LEAH"
 Chartus uttered a great oath, and then fell to the floor. The telegraph boy called for help, which soon arrived, but was of no use.
 Mrs. Chartus was remarkably hand some in full mourning, and she did not forget her husbands good qualities, for she wrote to friend: "The General promised to be and do whatever asked, and he always kept his word. And wasn't it providential, dear ?--he paid a past due premium on a ten-thousand- dollar life insurance policy the very day he died r'--The Hour.
Connecticut western news., 1884-04-23
DRIFTW00D.
LONDON has 5000, 900 working people.
 LONDON has $500 cabs and Paris

LONDON has $500 cabs and Paris $500.
 There is strike in the Royersford, Pa., foundries.
 KEROSENE oil is soldifed in Russia and made into candles.
 THE oldest peer in Great Britain is the Earl of Buckinghamshire.
 RIcHLY-oARvED dining chairs are up- holstered in alligator skin.
 NATURAL gas is to be used for fuel at the Pittsburg water works.
 AT Atlanta, Ga., buildings to the value of g., 900, 900 are under way.
 THUS far Uncle Sam has received $200, 900, 900 for public lands.
 FIRE destroys an average of ninety churches year in this country.
 THE costs of the Belt-Lawes case amount to little over 925, 900.
 THERE are now 160 miles of shelves of books in the British Museum.
 WITHIN five years Denver has grown from 25, 900 to 75, 900 inhabitants.
 THERE are stored in the vaults in Wall street not far from S1, ,0O0, ,O0O,00O
 VoN MoLTKE is called "the man who can be silent in seven languages.
 IN nineteen private galleries of New York, arc pictures worth $6, GOO, 900.
 SIX sawmills in Minnesota hope to cut 100, 1000, 900 feet of timber this year.
 SIX THOUSAND slaves were liberated in a single province in Brazil last year.
 THE marble quarries around Elliiay, Ga., are among the finest in the world.
 SENATOR MILLER, from California, owns the finest residence in Washington.
 THE Pittsburg green bottle makers are at work an the same wages as last year.
 A CHICAGO journal complains that in temperance is greatly increasing among women.
 A NEW Russian loan of $7,500, 900 will be devoted to the construction of railways.
 THE Soudan is the Ethiopia of the Bible, precisely, according to an English authority.
 CALIFORNIA grapes, it is stated, sell in Paris for 50 per cent. more than native production.
 THERE are 419 type-setters, besides apprentices, in the U. s. Government printing office.
 THE Fall River Mills strike continues. The Amalgamstsd unions have donated $3O, ,0OO to the men.
 ON roller skates, Victor W. Clough covered 100 miles in hours and 55 min utes, at Geneseo, Ill.
 CLEVELAND, O., Iauudrymen have combined to drive their Chinese com petitors from the city.
 THE Princess Louise replied to an in- vitation "The Campbells are coming, " and shocked the Queen.
 THE horses used in the armies of Great Britain during the time of peace number about 5000 head.
 EIGHT brothers reside in Berks county, Pa. Their combined height is AS feet inches, and weight 1, 40 pounds.
 THE Chicago cable roads draw 1SO cars, carrying 27,OOO,OOO passengers yearly, on twenty miles of railway.
 THIS is considered good year for h. Dor legislation. Thirteen States have abolished the contract convict labor sys- tenn.
 THE Broadway Tabernacle pays S1, 238 year to keep the life of the pastor insured for $50, GOO, in addition to salary of $16,0O0.
 A DEs MONIES man in a card says that "as many citizens have failed to solicit me to become a candidate for of- flee. I have concluded to offer my ser vices to the voters for the office of," etc.
Connecticut western news., 1884-04-23
PLENTY of room. Robert Griffin of

PLENTY of room. Robert Griffin, of London, is afraid that the earth will not be large enough to hold the population it will have in few years. If Robert Griffin should come to this country, get stranded somewhere between Omaha and San Francisco and have to walk back, he would change his mind. d.-Phila- deiphia CaU.
Connecticut western news., 1884-04-23

A FAMmY.-An English physician tells of case of remarkable fecun- dity"-a lady who had thirty-nine chil- dren, who all lived to maturity. She married at sixteen and died aged sixty for.--Dr. Foote's Health Monthly.
Connecticut western news., 1884-04-23

Forty-five animals at five dollars and forty cents daily, gives twelve cents per head day.-Anaerican A9ricultwist.
Connecticut western news., 1884-04-23

BAD WEATHER effect on the merchants: "No use spending money on advertising. People won't go out unless obliged to-" Its effect on the public: "There are no bargains or nov elites advertised in the papers. We have seen all the old stocks. No use going out. "-Phiid. Call.
Connecticut western news., 1884-04-23

A LITTLE girl of three explains the Golden Rule to her sister: "It means that you must do everything want you to, and you mustn't do anything don't want you to.
Connecticut western news., 1884-04-23

WEIGH thy words in 8 balance and make door and bar for thy mouth.