The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-08

was found dead with his face in the brook; he
was eighty years old, and very strong, mentally
and physically. The next night after that the
alarm of fire was heard in the village for the
first time. The saw mill was in flames, and
burned to the ground. 1t was fred by Merritt,
the saver, who on the following day paid the
purchaser the value Of the mill, saying that he
had turned the water on the wheel the first time
and had sawed every log sawed in the mill. Mer-
rift left the village forever. He had never been
away before since he first came there. Lumber
man.
The blows delivered US by Yankee farmers are
mighty. American cheap grain is upsetting our
husbandry. The Russian peasant is paralyzed.
What shall we do? The stern voice of Uncle Sam
is heard from beyond the Atlantic, replying:
Give to each peasant one hundred and sixty
acres instead of eight acres. Give him light
taxes. Never sell his cattle, grain or farming
implements for taxes. Never unroof his house
for debt. Protect him against thieving agents.
Build no more military roads. but build farm
roads. Advance money, not to spectators, but
to peasants" American hardware is undermln-
ing our Russian hardware, and has made panic.
Our iron manufacturers fail, our mechanics
become paupeTS. We cannot make hardware
cheaply like the Americans, because We use no
steam power, no machines, no division Of labor.
Our people send their gold to America to buy
farming implements, sewing machines, pistols,
guns and locomotives.-RusSian Minister of the
Interior.
Pullman has solved the sewage problem. The
land Of Pullman is flat, yet its cellars are dry
and sewage gas cannot exist there. The Pull
man sewage runs into a ventilated reservoir
from which it is pumped upon a farm that 1t.
tertlllzes. The great, new sewage works OF
Boston cost So, 1000, 900, and the Boston sewage is
only turned into the ocean, where it is wasted
and where it will be washed back upon Nantas-
ket beach in the surf. The Pullman sewage
works cost only $50 900, and the profits on the
farm fortified by the sewage are $500 per
year. a good per cent, considering the great
ha1apEt IN 4ha would af co1viYnn tho caxvara 1,Ynh-
lem. The Pullman sewage works have been
managed with great intelligence and after the
latest dictates of science, because its govern
ment was autocratic. Dirt. laziness and igno-
rance have no power to obstPuct the sanitary
system of Pullman by litigation or injunction.
Pullman's sole ruler is George NJ. Pullman.
There are no lawyers nor policemen in this city
OF Pullman.-Plumber.
A farmer drove up to The mill. His wagon was
covered with old, dry mud. His horses were
ill-fed and uncurried. His harness was patched
and brittle-looking; it had never been oiled. The
farmers wife sat beside him with her ninth
baby in her arms. The eighth. a two year-old, was
behind her. The other seven were at home,
the oldest girl washing the dishes in a slow. re-
lieved, dilatory sort of ~way-mother, babies and
confusion being away. The boys were loafng III
the barn; there was work for them to do there.
They would have gone ont to play only it was
easier on their conscience to be near their work.
They had a fight during the day. The farmer
calculated the value of his load several times on
his way to the mill, making it different each
time. He jumped from his wagon, unlocked
his trace-ehains and tried to straighten back his
broad shoulders. He had the same uncurried
look as his horses. the same cracked old mud on
his clothes as the wagon.
Whats wheat worth to-day?' asked the
farmer Of the miller.
''Ninety-eiglt cents"
"Never sold wheat for less than a dollar!'
The miller looked at the wheat, found it musty,
and paid 50 cents for the ot-Northwestern
Miller.
In the fall the foreman of the logging camp
collects his men. and with several teams loaded
with camp supplies starts for his scene of winter
work. After leaving the Travelled road a tote"
road is cut through the woods. While cutting
the tote road the men camp wherever night
overtakes them. When night comes on, a bon
fire is made, hemlock boughs are set up to break
the force of the wind. hemlock boughs are laid
on the ground for beds, the cook takes the cook
stove from a wagon and cooks q supper of fried
pork, hot biscuit and syrup. After supper the
men wrap themselves in blankets and snore till
morning. Dayhreak finds breakfast eaten with
the loggers' craving appetite and the men at
work on their winding road. When the place
for the logging camp Is reached near some creek
where water is handy, the camp Is built. A log
house is built six logs high, "a roof is put on and
covered with cedar bOughs, a door and-two win
dows are put in, cracks are "chinked on the
outside with mud and on the inside with moss;
= floor is laid OF poles smOothed OIL with an
adze. hunks are made on one side of the
shanty and a table is built on the other,
a sheet-iron stove stands in the center,
and the cook-stove in one corner, and the build
ing is complete. Similar hutS are made for the
horses, the oxen and for their feed. and for a
blacksmith shop and for a provision store-house.
Next, smooth and level roads are made through
the woods, and now the choppers begin to cut
down the trees. After the choppers come the
savers. who saw the felled trees into logs.
After the savers come the 'swampers, who cut
a road to the logs from the main roads and trim
the logs. Last come the teamsters. who load
the logs up on oXsleds and drive them to the
landing. The provisions are the very finest, and
the cook IS frst-rate. Northwestern Lumber
man.