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The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-11-03
Cutting and Curing Glover.

-ror. :. A. Knapp gives the follow
ing directions for cutting and curing
clover: Start the mower at 3 o'clock
p. M, and cut until 8 in the evening.
If it should rain the following day
the clover would not be wilted enough
to receive any great damage; should
the weather be fair use the tedder
from 10 to IL the morning after the
clover is cut: Immediately after din
ner rake into small win-rows; place
in shock before the dew falls; on the
following day air and draw to barn.
We have in red clover one of the
most valuable fodder plants in the
world, but our present method of cur
ing by exposure for a long time to a
hot sun reduces the crop in value to
pod hay and in flavor to an insipid
weed. A ton of the best clover hay
costs the farmer less than one-third
that Of a ton of corn, and all things
considered, its food value is about the
same.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-11-03
FOR THE FARM AND HOMI.
Row to Lift Plants.

Got some good rotted manure from
the barnyard and mix it with equal
parts Of sandy loan. Then Of the
plants you are about to dig up, cut off
all the longest branches and trim very
close. Don't be afraid TO cut It, as
the more you cut off the sooner it will
commence to grow again. Now dig it
up, being careful not to break off any
of the tender roots, as it is those that
will supply the plant with the strength
to start again. Get a pail of water
and wash the soil completely off, dip
ping the plant up and down until all
the soil has left the roots. This will
remove all worms and every rootlet
touching the new soil will be ready to
start. Then pot and water it. and
stand it in the shade for at least three
days. In a short time the plant will
commence to show signs of new life.
Our Country Home.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-11-03
save the Corn Stalks.

Of the many things I admire in my
German neighbor, none excite my re-
spect more than the very successful
way in which he manages his corn
stalks.
His plan does not differ from that
generally adopted. He husks his corn
in the field, ties the stalks into bun
dies, stands these bundles into stocks,
and when dry, draws them into the
barn. or makes them into a high, mar
row stack, that is pretty much all roof
The Deacon and 1 do the same thing.
The only difference is, that We propose
to draw them in tomorrow, or the
next day, or as o as convenient,
and the result is, that something hap
pens to postpone the work, and before
we know it the stalks are wet, and we
must wait until they get dry again.
And sometimes we repeat this process
of waiting for a convenient time, and
November snow finds the stalks still
in the field. Not so Mr.. Jacobs. He
does not wait. His stalks are fire.
quent1y secure in the barn or stack,
before some Of us commence to husk.
His cows and young stock are in the
field, picking up the stray ears and
scattered fodder. before they are in
jured by the rain, and before we real
ize what has been done, the field is
narrowed to level down the stubbs,
and the next day the boys are plough
ing. and getting the land ready to SOW
barley next spring.-Joseph Harris in
Agriuclturist.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-11-03
"Swill Pork.o

There is in some localities a grow
ing sentiment to the effect that pro-
ducers of pork by wholesome processes
should not be compelled to compete
with the degraded product from city
swill Those who supply grass and
corn cannot realize the profit gained
by persons who, within easy reach of
large towns, are enabled to secure
garbage OF hotel refuse at low rates or
even for the hauling. The Massachu-
sets Ploughman considers this sub
ject at length. intelligently, and shows
that it touches not only producers, but
consumers and the general welfare.
and has even a bearing upon our ex-
port trade. First the passing swill-
cart is ian indescribable stencil and
a menace to health. as are also, to an
aggravated degree, the hogpens where
this fermented or rotting slop is shov-
elled out to the abused swine, amid
.%'sickening odors" against which long
suffering. peace-loving neighbors hest
tate to make complaint. Again, it's
use promotes disease-as hog-cholera
and possibly trichine-and the aver
age housekeeper is not able to detect
by appearances the difference between
this meat and that fattened by decent
methods. Moreover, the swine mala-
dies, spread from herd to herd, down
stream or by other means of transit,
cause the innocent to suffer, and mill
tate, withal, against the reputation of
American pork products abroad. Our
contemporary finds in these suggestive
facts warrant for Legislative r~estric-
tons upon sale. If not upon produc-
ton; at least the Objectionable pro-
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-11-03

duct should be labelled "SwILL PoRK,"
so that buyers averse to taking risks
may avoid it, and raisers Of granted
pigs be relieved from the unfair COM
petition.-Nea1 York Tribune,
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-11-03


Salmon Salad.-One cup canned
salmon, n cup crackers broken into
bits. one large onion chopped fine; salt
and pepper; moisten with vinegar; stir
all together lightly and serve.
Indian Meal GrueL-BoiI one pint
of water in a saucepan, put one-half
teaspoon salt in it, mix two even
tablespoons meal with enough cold
water TO smooth and thin it, stir this
into the boiling water. Boil gently,
stir carefully half an hour, and add
teaspoon or so of cream or milk if
liked. Boil up after milk is added.
Stuffed Egas.-This is a good break
fast dish. Cut some h 'rd-b, lied eggs
in halves; take out tho yolk and
mash it smoothly with an equal
quantity of grated ham, "a little
parsley, pepper and salt to taste, and
a small lump of fresh butter, Fill
the cup-like whites of the eggs with
this mixture, pour over them a little
melted butter and heat in the oven.
Serve with each half egg placed on a
neat square of bread nicely fried in
butter.
Tea Cakes.-Rub one heaped tea
spoonful Of baking powder into a
pound of flour. Add two ounces of
butter. also rubbed in. a quarter of a
pound of sugar and two ounces of
currants. Mix it with two eggs well
beaten and stirred into half a pint Of
buttermilk or new milk. Roll out and
make of the quantity six tea cakes.
Bake in a moderate oven, and when
half done wash over with the yolk of
an egg beaten up with a teaspoonful
Of milk. These tea cakes are very nice
cut In slices and buttered cold for
tea.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-11-03
Household Hints.

Household Hints.
Bake crackers until crisp to be
eaten with oysters.
Corned beef and ham should be put
in boiling water.
The luster of morocco is restored by
vanishing it with the white of an
egg. Apply with a sponge.
stovepipes al be cleaned by putting
a piece of zinc on the Goals of a hot
fire. The vapor produced carries off
the SCOT by chemical decomposition.
BY rubbing with a damp flannel
dipped in the best whiting, the brown
discoloratien may be taken off cups in
which custards have been baked.
Tar stains should be rubbed with
lard or butter, and then be washed in
warm suds. If you rub soap directly
on any stain it will tend to set it.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-11-03
To Grovv Plants from Cuttings.

To Grow Plants from Cuttings.
The old way of roofing cuttings in
a small glass bottle filed with water
is a good method when a hotbed IAN
not be used; but the bottle should not
stand sc close to the window as to
become hot, and thus scald the root
let's. A little cotton wool within the
rim of the bottle will prevent evapo-
ration. In two or three weeks the
roots will be plentiful, and then the
cuttings may be transferred to thumb
pots, or, If the season suits, into the
beds. AS each cutting is taken from
the bottle, dip the roots into a little
warm sand until each fiber is coated:
this will keep them apart and prevent
whiting. If pots are used, nearly fill
them with a rich sandy compost, and
press it to the sides, so as to leave
o in the center. Put the roots in
gently, and give the plant a little twist
to spread the roots, or separate them
with a hairpin. Then put in more
soil, and press it about the roots.
Tight pressing is one of the secrets of
success in raising plants from cuttings.
Water the young plants well, and
shade them at first from the sun.
Cuttings can be also started in pots
of sandy compost, with a glass tumbler
placed over them to confine the moist
ure. and keep from the sun for two
or three days; then place the pots in
the warmest window exposed to the
southeast. Wet sand is also good for
growing cuttings, and they will start
quicker than in compost. A shallow
pan is preferable; fill it up with sand
(not sea SANDY sopping wet, then press
in the cuttings tightly, and keep them
wet. When new leaves show them
selves. in two or three days transplant
into pots filled with light sandy loan.
After shading a day or two, they may
have ample sunshine and sufficient
water to keep them moist. Cuttings
taken from the fresh growth of a
plant strike best. It is better to break
off a branch of a geranium or verbena
than to cut it (if it breaks readily.
Cuttings of roses, heliotrope, ETC., will
grow better If taken off at the juno
ton of the old and new wood, and
should be cut off just below a joint or
bud, as the roots start from that point;
and if a bud is not left near or close
to the base, the cutting is liable to
decay in the soil.-Scientyfc american.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-01
LOATHSOME AVARICE.

The press has for days been making men
ton of how one Mrs. E. II. Green, the rich
est woman in America" appeared in the
banking house OF John J. Cisco & Sons of
New York, and after receiving from them
about S26.0O0,000 in frst.class bonds from
their trust-fund vaults, rolled on the floor
and screamed like catamount because the
banker retained $500 600 az security for her
husbands debt to them. He had borrowed
money of them upon securities which
deprecated. She had guaranteed the pay
ment, and yet though worth some $4,000
900 she fell into the orgies OF wild beast,
because she could not force the giving up to
her OF 100000, which her own promise jus.
titled the bankers in holding.
Who will envey this woman the possession
OF her wealth If with it must come her de-
grading svsrice? Ir is said OF her that, with
all her wealth. she barely provides comforts
for her children. She walks in the worst OF
westherrather than pay shilling for cab.
She sends one OF her bows out to buy two
cent morning paper, and as soon as she has
read the financial column sends him out on
the corner to resell the paper. What des-
picable passion for any one. especially q
woman, to be possessed of. If millions thus
degrade their owners, let Us all be happy We
are not millionaires.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-01
THE QUESTION OF HE'LL.

In the North American Review q Rev. Dr.
Sbedd defends and justifes hell ia the
widest and deepest and hottest sccsptstion of
the term. He seeks to make the human
conscience witness for his theory by claim
ing that it instinctively breads eternal pun
ishment. He says: Notwithstanding al the
attacks made upon the tenet, men do not
get rid OF their fear Of future punishment"
DR.. shedo is decidedly uncharitsble il not
discourteous toward many clergymen when
alleging what he does. There are many of
the cloth todeclare their non belief in the ex-
istence OF q material hell. There are scholars
and scientists. consistent members of
the churches who affirm the impossibility of
an immaterial soul burning in material
fire. There are parents with hearts full of
desire for the happiness, present and future.
oftheir children, who teach contra to the
tenet of DR.. shedd's hell. Surely these
parents, scholars and ministers are not hold
ing and instructing in defiance OF their con-
sciences:
Robert Burns penned q couplet-
''The fear o. hells hangman's whip
To baud the wretch in ORDER
which receives the sanction OF vast num-
Der of the Christian family. Whether
Scotia's bard or Rev. DR.. Shedd is correct is
rot the province of this paragraph to dis
cuss. But We doubt if we err in saying that
the poet has as many indorsers among
church people to-day as the contributor to
the North American.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-01

former associates, and they llsten to him
when they would to 10 one else, for they can
not doubt his sincerity.
MISS DRUNsooLE has been elected En-
crossing Clerk of the Tennessee Senate. The
lady is newspaper correspondent, aud Ii Is
malicsously limited that she owes her ap-
pointment to the very generous and judicious
distribution of taffy in her letters just prevl-
ous 10 the election.
THOMAS CROSBY. a well-known architect OF
Newark. n. j., recently returned from q
visit 10 Europe. While passing through q
street in London one day, with tin box in
his hand be was stopped by policeman who
desired to know If the box contained dyna-
mite Mr.. CROSBY told the officer that he
misht open the box and assure himself that
il did not. The offer was declined aud Mr..
Crossey permitted to pass on, bat not until
he had declared on his honor to the officer
that there was no explosive in the box.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-01
A QUIET GROWTH.

In an editorial in last Sundays Sentinel,
entitled "a Wonderful Agitation" we pre-
sented one mode of religious worship.
Under the above caption we present COM
panion picture illustrating an entirely dill
ferent method.
During the last seven weeks the Christian
Church OF Columbus. Ind, has been con-
Quoting special services every night. The
pastor, Elder z. 7. Hweeney, who has been in
charge of the church for fourteen years, hay
ing held eleven protrscted meetings before
this one, has done all the preaching. There
has been nothing Of o sensational character
to mark the services, all OF them consisting
simply of the regular programme for Sunday
service. A great part OF the time the pastor,
owing to the condition OF mis- health, has
had to keep in bed during the day that he
might be able to preach at night The re-
suit OF the meetings up TO last Thursday
evening has been Ill additions, comprising
some of the best citizens Of the community.
Not one has been unduiy excited. but
calmly and quietly he or she has accepted
and obsyed the Gospel preached. Nearly
one-hslf the number are heads OF
families and only very few are under fif-
teen years of age The audiences have
ranged according to the state of the weather
from 200 to Zoo. averaging about 500.
The first picture, presented by us on last
Sunday, shows what excitement the religious
feeling will often produce, and this one
shows that religious progress does not neces-
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-01
GOOD LUCK FOR FRED.

Fred Douglass seems to be lucky No
sooner does the time draw near when he
will probably be succeeded officially by
some other capable person OF his own race
and color than lady dies and leaves him
quite a snug fortune. We wrote "dies."
She committed suicide in the famous Bots de
Boulogne of Paris. As the details OF the
bequest and the reasons that led TO ii are in
teresting, We give them to our readers as We
get them from the New York Sun. 1t seems
that Henry Bsrgh, OF New York, the distin-
guished member of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals" was named
by the lady sole executor of the viii.
Her name is Miss Attilia Assing.
For many years Miss Assing and her sister,
Miss Lindmuller Assing, lived In Hoboken.
They spent their lives in literary work,
from which they earned enough money to
considerably increase small fortune their
popular German works were made by them.
Ten years ago they went to Europe and
never returned. They spent the greater
part OF their time ia Paris. In August Miss
Attilla Assing committed suicide in the Bots
dc Boulogne in that city. She had been
suffering from cancer OF the breast, and, in
despair, she took q fatal dose of laudanum.
A paper was found sewed in the bosom OF
her dress IT proved to be her will. In 1t,
after some minor requests to friends. she
leaves her fortune of $4,000 to Frederick
Douglass, ex Marshal of the District Of Co
lumbia, for life. At his death 1t is to revert
to Mr.. Bergh's society. Mr.. Bergh has de-
clined to qualify az executor, who will be
named by the proper Court. 1t LIS under
stood that the bequest is in recognition oil
the services of Douglass in the anti-slsvery
cause. The lady bequeathed to him also her
pens and other souvenirs.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-01

Tar wheat crop of 1883 was 10000, 900
bushels, which ut 81 II, the price January 2,
1854, made the market value of the crop
$40, 600. The crop Of 1884 Is SOC, 0OO, 900
bushels, price January ., 81 cents, market
value, 1920. 600 Goa loss on the large crop
- compared with the smaller OF last year of
Fifty million dollars ESQ, 400 900. The
corn crop of 1855 was $50. goo 600 bushels,
price 81 csnts, value se92, 0o0, 900. Crop of
1884, 800 000. 900 bushels, price SO cents,
value OF crop, s95f, 900, ooo-s loss from last
years smaller crop of $3S. 600. 600. or Q loss
on both wheat and corn crops, as compared
with those of 1883 at prices January in
each year OF SIS. 100000. Had there been
no increase in amount OF crops, the
fat I'm prices of wheat would have entailed
slox Of Sill. 200 900, and In corn Of $40,
10000. or IN aggregate loss on both of
$2s7 100000. Steel ct s27 per ton, pig iron
at $ls. wheat ct 20 cents, ara unparalleled low
VFio4 ye$ they were down to those prices.
Eat the lon or Shrinkags on grain crops is
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-01
PERSONALS.

THAr giddy young girl, the shspely Lydia
Thompson, admits that she is ffty.three.
SIR HENRY BEssEmER has lately celebrated
his seventy sscond birthday anniversary.
We have heard of Gentleman George"
Psndleton, but never OF Gentleman John"
Mclean.
III is expected that Archbishop Gibbo, rs, of
Baltimore, will be created cardinal the
coming May.
Miss ia LEWIS, the Lime Rock heroine. is
among the contributors to the fund for =
monument to Grace Darling.
Mrs. GRASr always calls the General Hi
RAM That is his name. By clerical error
he acquired the name OF Ulysses at West
Point.
Mrs. LANerRY's newest photographs repre-
sent her clad IN seaiskin from stop to toe, !"
and she looks '.iust too lovely for anything"
Most peple In sealskiD do.
MIS-. GEN. Tow THUMB is reported to be
about to marry again, and the prospective
bridegroom is said to be the diminutive
Count Rosebud, who exhibits in public
the by no means uncommon spectacle of q
small mar with big title.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG once mistook the
late Governor Coburn, of Maine, for jani-
tor Of the Capitol, and engaged him to fetch
drinking water for her from q spring. She
did not discover her mistake until the work
was done and she wanted to pay him.
MISS EMILY FAITHFUL is lecturing in Edin-
burgh on Mormonism, and Miss Kate Field
is lecturiDg in this country on the same sub
jecr. Both these ladies. Judging from their
prolonged and persistent state of single
blessedness, are averse to man having 9
wife at all.
"BILL" NYR invites the Prince OF Wales.
son, who has just come OF age, TO be hi:
guest when he visits this country. 81
tender you" he writes, ''the freedom OF my
double barrelled shotgun during the prairie
chicken holocaust. know where the angie
worm grows rankest and the wild hen
matches her young"
Az old house in Louisville, KY, that was
the home Of Audubon. the great naturalist,
when he lived in that city, is now occupied
by Rev. Stephen Holcombe, once one OF the
gambling princes OF the South. and the only
man who Is said to have known q certain
method OF winning at poker. For years and
years he travelled over America, and he even
! vent to Europe, making a fortune and
spending it with the prodigality of such
men. He returned to Louisville and went
to hear q Methodist preacher, who converted
| him. He became missionary among BIZ
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ing next

An Orange County. New York. jury recently
awarded $500 damages for broken beer wagon
and S125 for the negro's life who was driving il,
And Jet law and order leagues continue 10 be es.
<ablished In the rural parts OF New York State.
1t il to DO hoped that for the credit of ouz
civilization that verdict may be set aside and
Orange County. Nothing less than race
prejudice could have sctuatsd such . jury
finding. The shame is all the more glaring
from occurring in . rural New York district
and in . town % reputed Tor wealth and in
tslligence az Newburgh. No section can
psate of friendship for the colored race
which WI permit such verdict to stand,
There il no such record reported from q
Southern court.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-01

TIMOTHY NJ. HEALx. NJ p. is authority for
daily becoming more convinced that the
seif-government of Ireland would in no sense
be danger to England. II the Irish parlia-
ment was opened tomorrow. as in the days
of Grsttan, England would still have her
forts and armies in the country. We have
ne wish to 60 beyond that. We want moth
ing but the management of our own affairs,
leaving the wider imperial question to the
imperial parliament.