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Cohee.

NEW YORK Sept. &c. Cohee-Spot lots duh;
options points lawer sales Of 10 $50 bags Septem
8. doc December S.35c january, s.40c; April, $500;
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OIIs.

PITTSBURG. Sept 26.-The petroleum market
was steady; United pipeline certificates opened at
7sc declined to 7119c rallied to 72c and broke to
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LIVE STOCK.
indianapolis Market.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 2

INDIANAPoLIs Sept. 20.
CATT1E-Receipts. 400; shipments, 300 Heavy
supply; butcher grades and fair quality market very
duh and prices Is to 25 cents lower than last week.
but few shippers here and selling very slow.
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Poisoned Cheese

iCieans out all rats. mice, reaches, water bugs
bed bugs, ants and every species Of vermin that
infest buildings. 15c. Druggists.
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Bulk meats Shoulders, 6l4c; clear ribs Ice; clear
sides 105sc. Bacon-Shoulders &c; clear ribs lie;
clear Sides I2iec Hams-Sugar cured, Is 12c. Lard
Refined kettle, 9loc
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TRADE AND CoaIMERCE.
Business Slowly Improving in an Parts Of
the Country, with a Hopeful Feeling.

Business Slowly Improvine in AN Parts Of
the Country, with Hopeful Feeling.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept 90
Business agencies report general trade better
in the Western, Southern, Middle and Eastern
States, and after careful canvass Of the situa-
ton, the belief is general that the worst is past
The advance in old Indian corn Is bringing out
whatever remains Of the last years crop. and
pays the farmers remarkably we'll All cereals
are now assured. and there are signs Of dispo-
sition to bring forward. the new corn with
rs little delay as possible. Money. is plenty,
confidence is rapidly being restored, and this
means better times Locally, trade opened quite
active to-day and promises to increase quite
handsomely next month. Country merchants,
however, buy with extreme caution and shun
making large bills Budd & Co., in their price
current report poultry weaker IN price on q
break in Eastern markets., and butter and eggs
firm at quotations. gfeeeee4s rep6ft coffees ff1n
and buyers ofishs our quotations being barely
sustained
GRAIN
TO say that we have locally an active market
$ no.exnfeefation. Not at any time for months
Fave dealers shown more interest The Board
Of Trade Price Current says Of vheAt Local
markets are buoyapt under light receipts, and
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fetal ........ sos, 84S. 294 Decrease 40 1
Outside New York 217, SS1, 294 Decrease 13
At Philadelphia the clearings are for the week ended
Sept. 20, 1854 as compared with the corresponding
week In 1889
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Wabash. 81. Louis & Pacific.
Indiana. BLOOMINGTON 3 western.

PEORIA DIVISION.
Depart-Paciic Expires and Mail. ...-....-. 1880 am
Kansas and Texas Fast Line, r. Co.. 800 pm 7
Burlington and Rock Island Ex.
press, daily r. e. and lilo pm
Arrive -Eastern and Southern Express,
daily r. 6. and s-----------.-.-. $50 ana
Cincinnati Special r Ills am
Atlantic Express and Mail. s...-.. Clio pm
ST. LOUIS DIVISION.
Denart- Nfoorefela Accommodation $50 am
Mail and Day Express ---.---.-- sos am
Night Express daily r. c.--.....-.1I 90 pm
Arrive-Eight Express. daily r. 800 am
Mail and Day Express --,---.---- 6s00Pm
Moorefeld Accommodation. ....-. 6:10pm
EASTERN DIVISION.
Depart--Eastern Express Mail, daily s, 4;2O am
Dav Express LAS am
Atlantic Express r. c..--...---.. 6:45 pm
A,.r;ve-Pnciic Express r. c.---.--.- TOO am
Western Express. 4:45pm
Burlington and Rock Island Elk
press daily, and r. q -....---1 1925 pm
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indianapolis & St. Louis.
r,a,or+. rax cypress daily. e c. ITO am
paris Fxnress .'.. 3:50pm
Boston and St Louis Express, p 6;z9 pm
New York and st. Louis Express.
daily. s. and G. g. .lOs07 pm
daily. q .. 600 am
local PASSENGER. D. ....---.---- $50 am
indianapolis Express --.--------- 5l2 pm
Day Express c. c., daily ---------- oz0pm
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RECEIPTS BY RAIL PAST TwENTY-FoUR HOURS
Corn, bushels ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1000
Oats. 1000
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Chicago, St. Louis 4 Pittsbur1.
pepart-New York, Philadelphia wash.
iRgton, Baltimore aud Pittsbure
Express, daily A,1E.-
Dayton aud Columbus Express, ex.
cept Sunday 10. AZ -
kichmond Accommodation . 400 prl
New York, Philadelphia Washinc
ton, Baltimore and Pittsburg Ex.
press, daily, s., h. A.5sr.,
Layton Express, except SUNDAY 4.5551n
SsiFs--isehnond Accommodation, exoept
Sunday 9,eO.n.
NeW York, Philadelphia Washing
ION, Baltimore and Pittsburg Ex-
press, daily 1.37 am
columbus and Dayton Express ex
Nee sept v Sunday 4s5pn
ton, Baltimore and Pittsburg Ell.
nI press, "a daily. le0Opn
Dayton Express, daily. except Sun.
CHIC. day 1O20pn
Denart sl .35 VIA KokoMo, p. G. ST. I. = T.
and Chicago Express
l1.15a am
Louisville and Chicago Fast Ex
press daily, II.0Oum
Aer1Ve-chicago and Louisville Fast Express
daily. ,.,s.sS- s.5a am
Chicago aud Louisville Express,
P e,s--.--.-*.. .-----.-...-..-.- S3Spm
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Wheat Corn. Oats. Rye.
Elevator 49, n, 30oI 11400 35 9O0t 500
Elevator BE-. %, 700i I000 ID ZOO 5000
Capital Elevator 100000 80. ..-... 49,,
West Elevator, %, 300l 4,500 $500 .-.-.,
Total 13s, 800 5000 So, Loo $500
last yeas.... 23s, 600 2soooI $4,000 10000
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Apply by the little finger into
he nostrtls. BY absorption it
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The New York Market Strong and Higher on
Small Business.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-11-20
Avoid Farm Mortgages.

Money at seven per cent. will double
vested. If the farmer carries a mort
gage of say So 900 for thirty years, it
will cost him at seven per cent. about
$35 900 for the use of the $4,000. This
enormous figure obtained by the COM
putting of interest at seven per cent. on
the amounts paid, is no more than fair
estimation of the cost of such mort
gage, for the farmer can always doubt
less invest his money in something
which will yield him seven per cent.
Therefore II. Do not mortgage the
farm unless it seems absolutely neces-
sarv. But, as a general rule, it is less
valuable than particular one. it may
be we'll to specify by adding 2. Do
not mortgage to build fine house. BY
so doing you will have to pay money
for an investigation which does not
bring money. 3. Do not mort
gage the farm to buy more land.
Where there is absolute certainty
that more can be made out of
the land than the cost of the
mortgage, this rule might not apply.
But absolute certainty is very rare, mis-
taken calculation common. 4. Do
not mortgage the farm unless you are
sure of the continued fertility of the
soil. Many persons borrow with the
expectation of payment based on an ex
perience of the lands virginity only,
which on failing, may leave the land
less productive, and the means of re-
payment thus removed. In this way
trouble begins which may result in the
loss of the farm. Keep very clear of
mortgages.
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orr fed to them in the mud.

corn fed to them in the mud. ]
viii venture the assertion that there are
more farmers who make less than six
pounds to the bushel Of corn than that
make ten pounds to the bushel As a
general thing farmers are poor calcula-
tors. They worry and work along I'M
til they get fright smart" lot of hogs
together, then they Calculate" that it
will take fright smart of corn" to
feed them out. Finally, they get their
hogs ready for market, and that, too,
perhaps, after feeding them through
the very worst season of the year,
regardless of cost, and possibly
get them to weigh 800, 400 or
500 pounds; they sell them at the
top of the market, and, of course,
get fright smart sum of money for
them, and away they run TO the first ed
itor they can find and report their sale
In the next issue OF this paper the said
editor gives wonderful account how
Farmer So-and-so is getting rich raising
hogs, and hog raising pays, etc. when
probably if he had kept q correct ac-
count of the cost of these hogs those
very twelve hogs thar averaged Ala
pounds which Joe Anderson's faith
err sold for $500 each, cost
the said Joe Anderson's father
over $50 per head in corn and grass.
There have been hundreds of hogs mar
keted within the last three months
that, although they we're sold at high
price, vet the corn required to feed
them would have brought more money
had 1t been marketed the same time the
hogs were sold. and for these reasons
we conclude that even if farmer sells
heavy hogs at high price 1T is not con-
elusive evidence that he makes money
thereby. Take the figures Of the Chicago
fat stock show and You will soon see that
there is no money in feeding stock until
they attain such extra heavy weights ;but
when we hear of farmer sellins hogs
at 6 and 7 months old that weigh from
225 to $50 pounds each We think we
can figure out little profit in hog rails
ing, or when we hear of farmer sell
ing hogs at from eight to nine months
old that average from 800 to $50 pounds
each, we conclude there is some money
in them; and, further, it is proof posi-
tive that such farmers are good feeders,
and that they keep the best breed of
hogs and understand their business.
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Feminine Fortunes.

Somebody says that the wealth of
this country is rapidly accommodating in
the hands of women. 1t is certainly a
fact that if Newport bears any relation
to the rest of the United States, this
semi facetious statement is true. 1t is
almost monotonous when the roll is
called in the morning at the Casino and
at the afternoon drive, for it is the
roll of wealth that is called and
one is able to appreciate here to
certain extent. as foreigner
does, our worship Of the national god.
Actually recalling the experiences of
the season thus far, / can not recollect
any other distine uishing trait having
been mentioned. The accumulation of
riches among women here is certainly
in its way impressive. There is Mrs.
Gammell. who enjoys, or at least we
will hope she does, the national repu-
tation of being the richest married
woman in The country. The golden halo
which surrounds Miss Catharine Wolfe
is also recognized in the length and
breadth of the land. These ladies
between them represent at least
$4,000, 600. Mrs Paren Stevens GER
tainly stands for 81 900, 900. Mrs. Will
liam Aston. by the death of her two
brothers, is herself the mistress of 81,
DOC, 900. Miss Florence Lyman has
the disposition of 81 900, 900, and Miss
Ellen Mason and her sister divide
several millions between them. There
must also be reckoned the wealth of Miss
Rachel Kennedy and of Miss Emily
Gibbes and her sister. / should have
mentioned, even before these, Mrs.
Gardiner Brewer, of whom L can
tell you nothing new, and Mrs.
Bruen, whose noble estate is ON
Bellevue avenue. Here also must be
enumerated Mrs. Edward King. nor
forgotten the little maid Perkins at
Lawnfield, and Mrs. Eleanor Harris
horne, her neighbor. In town again
are Mrs. Isaac Bell, Jr. and Mrs. Dun
can Pell, Mrs. Kernochan and Mrs. Adj
miral Baldwin, all Independently rich
of their husbands estates. Again are
Mrs. E. d. Morgan and Mrs. S. s. Whit
ing. These by no means exhaust the
list, but memory halts before the EN-
barras sment of riches.-Newport Let
ter.
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Small Farms Profitable.

From the Orange County Farmer
The owner of fifty acres of good
ground who thoroughly understands his
business is better situated than his
neighbor who owns two hundred acres
and farms according to the old theories.
The small farmer has less investment,
pays less taxes, and cultivates more
carefully than the large farmer. In
France and Germany the farms are
generally very small, often not fourth
of the size of average American farms,
but they are worked so carefully that
while steadily increasing infertility they
still produce great deal more per acre
than our own. The owner of many
acres is apt to neglect the poorer por-
lions of ground, and, thus manuring,
rotating aud cultivating are reduced to
a system that produces the best possible
results.
An example of German gardening
will illustrate the point. Within three
miles of Port Jervis lives German
family consisting of six or seven per-
sons. For years they have lived on a
strip of sandy land less than two acres
in size, part of which is covered by the
dwelling, barn and outhouses. The
woman of the family, an able bodied
and intelligent person. who had learn
ed her work in Baden, cultivated this
piece of ground, and for a series of
years supplied her table with vegeta
bles and sold from $500 to $500 worth
of vegetables annually. Every inch of
room was occupied. From early spring
to late autumn crop after crop of let
tuce, beets, spinach, cabbage, pota-
toes, corn, beans, mangoH wurzels,
asparagus, onions, endive, egg
plants, peppers, satisfy, caulifiowers
and other plants appeared. Every bit
of waste material fit for the purpose
was thrown on the compost heap or
turned into liquid manure, and the nat
urally sterile peice of ground was made
to pay for itself over and over again.
The fences were built in trellis form to
support grape vines, and not a square
inch of ground escaped the pay
ment of tribute exacted by the indefati-
gable woman who TILED it. Her meth
DDS are those in steady use in Germany,
where overcrowded population has rem
dered necessary the thoroughest work
ing of the soil. Her plants for setting
are the first in the market, aud she
is the last in the autumn to offer fresh
vegetables for the table. 70 such
farmer fifty acres of good land would
be fortune. 1t is such tillage as this
that makes it possible for French, Ger
man, English and Italian holders of
twenty acre or thirty acre farms to
earn living, while American holders
of farms, of equally good land, ranging
from 100 to 500 acres, work about as
hard and are forever under mortgage
on the very verge of bankruptcy. The
future will certainly witness great
revolution in American farming, and
one Of the features calculated to bring
about better state of affairs will be
the division of land into smaller farms
and the consequent Improvement in
agricultural methods.
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History Rewritten.

An anecdote in Lippincott's Magazine
illustrates the proverbial pride of
Frenchnan in their own country, and
their belief that most OF the good
in the world has been done By their own
nation. The remark of the Italian lady
is witty, but is far less characteristic:
One day Charlie came home from
school in estate of mind.
What do You think Monsieur Agis,
one of the pions, told our class to-day"
he asked Indignantly. "He told them
that the United States would have been
an English colony to-day I,it for the
French and Lafayette, and that French
was the principal language of the coun-
try. being spoken both in Canada and
New Orleans. I rose in my seat to ask
if he had ever heard of George Wash
ington; to which he answered,
"sOh yes, Washington was brave
man: but it was the French who beat
the English
Whereupon Charles mamma told us
a little anecdote of her experience in
Italy.
"You Americans have so much better
accent in speaking our language than
the English have" said an italian lady
to her one day. AIsuppose it is because
an Italian discovered you.
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THE HOME CIRCLE AND PARd.
Parna Notes.

"New milk weighs, " says the Boston
American Cultivator. @Spour DIS s ounces
per gallon; skinned milk, pounds 8
ounces; cream, s pounds 4 ounces; but
terrnilk, pounds 81 ounces, and wat
er 8 pounds 5 ounces. Those who be-
Heve in testing milk by the lactometer,
or any specific gravity test, will OBJ
serve that 3 gallons of skinned milk
and / gallon OF water will have the
same specific gravity as gallon OF
milk"
When it is decided to fatten farrow
COW, the sooner milking is discontinued
the sooner will she be ready for the
shambles, and the better will be the
quality of the beef The best beef is
that quickest made, and the formation
of flesh and fat cannot go on rapidly
when the nutriment of the food goes in
to the milk-pail.
In Northern Dakota, recently,> o
traction engine drew eight plows, turn
ing a sod four inches thick as evenly
and well as could be done by horse
power, and at rate of over twenty five
acres day.
The American Agriculturisit gives the
wise advice to farmers not to strike
matches for any purpose in the barn.
If the lantern goes out it is better to
feel ones way out than to run the risk
of burning the barn down, with its valu-
able contents.
Mr.. Goifart, the inventor Of the ensil-
age system at his farm in France, tried
ensilage twenty-one years before he
said much about it. 1t costs him SO
cents day to feed a cow, and he estim-
ates the cost of ensilage at 80 cents per
ton.
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calm reflection induced him to fol-
low Sums shrewd example, and the re-
suit was that both gentlemen the
following Saturday carried with them
propitiatory offerings to be sacrificed on
the alter of congual affection.
On reaching Eastbourne they were
met by their wives in the carriage, and
Mr. Battledore, at all events, felt by no
means grateful for this little attention.
However, he and Sam took their seats
opposite the ladies, trying their best to
look as if they had nothing Oh their
minds, and above all no guilty secret.
But before Mr.. Battledore had time to
recover his self-possession, his wife said:
Joseph, you remember my speaking
to you about letter wrote to you last
week?"
"Ye-yes," said Mr.. Battledore, win
cling at nudge from Sam.
well, / never sent it, after all! On
" this morning discovered it among
the leaves of my blotting book. / for
got to post it. :"
at is of nc consequence of course, !"
chimed in Mrs. Newell only you viii
be the loser, Sam, Mrs Battledore wrote
to her husband to buy you new cigar
case on my behalf, and to have your in
itials engraved upon it. Tomorrow,
you know, is your birthday"
Mr.. Battledore was by NO means reas-
sured by these speeches. On the con-
trary, he realized that lie was in a worse
fix than ever, since he would now be
called upon to explain what he meant
by saving he had received the letter. A
sort of sickly feeling came over him as
his wife said:
by the way, Joseph, you said you
had received the letter, and talked as
though you knew all about it.
"And you, Sam, said Mr.. Battledore
had mentioned the subject to you;
and l was vexed at the time, as OF
course it was secret, interposed Mrs.
Newell.
"The fact is" said Sam, coming gal.
lantly to the rescue, for Mr.. Battledore
was at loss to find words, "as Joe
said to me afterwards, we have been at
cross purposes. We each had a secret,
and we thought you had discovered
ours. Joe let out that blue was the
color he had chosen. When tried to
find out how the land lay from my wife,
she nearly made me betray every
thing by asking questions. However,
dare say neither of you guess what it
is"
"No, indeedi" cried both the ladies,
considerably mystifed by this incoherent
explanation, and on tiptoe of excite
ment.
well, here, Maria, he said. produc-
ing a bracelet, like conjurer. EN-
eralds, you see. Don't you remember
my saying it was a sort of blush green
or something. Well, Joe's offering, /
believe, has blue stones turqoises."
Mr.. Battledore took the hint, and
handed to his wife the bracelet he had
bought as a peace offering, inwardly
marvelling at his old friends wonderful
tact and impudence, and beginning to
breathe quite freely again. In fact, it
was evident that Sans extempore dis
course, followed up by the bracelets,
had satisfactorily explained what was
mysterious in their recent behavior,
and the secret of the unhallowed expe-
dition to Paris seems unlikely ever to be
revealed. London Truth.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-11-20
Ammonia as a Fertilizer.

A correspondent of The London Gar
deners' Chronicle reports noteworthy
return from use of Ammonia as Fer
tilizer. He purchased from chemist
but will hereafter try agricultural am
monia, which is much cheaper:
II put four chrysanthemum plants by
themselves and gave them teaspoon
full of ammonia in a gallon of water
twice week. In a fortnight the re-
suit was most ptriking, for though [
watered the others with liquid COW
manure they look lean when compared
with the ammonia watered plants,
whose leaves turned to very dark
green, which they carried to the edge
of the pots until the flowers were out.
As matter of course the flowers were
splendid. / also tried it on strawber-
ries, with the same satisfactory result,
the crop being nearly double that of
the others"
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Are Heavx Hogs proftahle2

This question is asked by the Swine
Breeders Journal, and it proceeds to
discuss the matter. 1t says: "The
above question is often asked and then
answered by referring to some person
who has sold lot of heavy hogs at the
very highest market price. just as
though it cost no more to raise 400 or
500 pound hog than it does to raise one
weighing 200, when at the same time it
is q well-established fact that it costs
nearly if not quite double per pound,
to raise hog weighing 500 than
it does to raise one that only
weighs 300 pounds. Now, it takes very
good feeding, ordinarily, to make ten
pounds Of pork to the bushel of corn,
and very often requires a good deal of
"housesIop" and grass mixed in to make
even that gain, and at that rate it takes
fifty bushels of corn to make 500 pounds
of pork. The corn at so cents per
bushel-the present market price
would be worth S25; 500 pounds of
pork at cents per pound would be
worth $50; here then you have So for
your trouble and risk in the hog, house
slops and grass thrown in, not an
extra profit for the labor and
risk incurred, say you? But, then, it
is a fact, well understood by care
ful feeders, that you can't make ten
pounds of pork per bushel if you feed
your hogs till they weigh 400 or 500
pounds, and | here venture the asser-
ton that In most instances where such
heavy hogs are marketed they have cost
more than they bring on the market.
Take the average farmer who carries
his pigs through the Winter as stockers
runs them on grass the next summer
and then feeds them ont IN the Fall so
as to weigh from 400 to 500 pounds or
even 800. and in large majority of
cases the corn and grass they eat is
worth more than the hogs woud sell
for, especially so where hogs are
kept IN q muddy pen and the