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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
THE JOURNAL. MONDAY SEPTEMBER Z.

works only forty weeks year. The saving
working rarely loses a week, and
he makes over time" as often as possible.
Moreover, he does not pay $l5 per month
for house rent, as Truman does He takes So
house if he rents there plenty of them in
this clty-and saves the odd SO to buy home
with. AS to his food, this may be said: All that
Miss Parloa, Miss Carson, Count Rumford and
the chemists, Swans and phianthrophists put
together have proclaimed on the subject of
cheap and nutritious food is good for nothing
compared with what the saving workingman
knows on this subject. You can't tell him and
his wife how to spend money for food. They
know exactly what is best to buy, and their
management of their table is simply marvellous,
and In the highest degree credtable to their
sagacity There is more sound horse sense
shown on the tables of our saving working peo-
pie than anywhere else in the world. They
have scores of excellent dishes at slight cost, as
anyone knows who has looked into this topic;
and can easily afford an occasional feast
with their friends For example, among the
cheap, good dishes on the table of the saving
soup-bone," lightly thlekened with -four en-
riched with vegetables, and favored with the
housewives favorite herb. Psychologists now
say that this soup-bone's gluten is highly nutri-
tlous: she knew it before they did. Another
good dish is ''10-cent plate piece" judiciously
seasoned and stewed long time in tight
covered dish in the oven. Notwithstanding all
the foolish things that cranks have said against
pork, the workingman knows the value or pork.
He salts down half hog in winter. Pork fried
to nicely, with its gravy properly made, and
potatoes cooked right, are enjoyed in perfection
only in a house where there is no hired girl A
kind of cheap imitation of butter is made from
leaf lard by seasoning it, before it eoolS, with
apple, onion, pepper, salt, and Spices it tastes on
bread like cold sausage gravy and is excellent.
Numberless are these cheap yet good dishes. by
means of which the saving workingman slaves off
want and saves up money. When his children
are mostly 'out of hand" the saving working
man can go into business for himself, if he feels
that he has the ability. Otherwise he plods
away at his job, accommodating the means Of
living comfortably in his old age. Thousands of
such men live in this city, They are the very
marrow of the Republic. Their children will
hereafter be the owners of the big warehouses
and huge factories, and will be our natural
rulers, only they will be so head over heels in
business they will not bother themselves with
politics. In that future period the children of
the unthrifty will still be asking, "How can
save money out of $l2 week.!
JOHN RANDALL.
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Freight Traffic Continues Heavy.

Plenty of business if we were only getting
anything for hauling it, is the common remark
among freight men. The fact is that both east
and west bound traffic are heavy beyond parallel
for early September, and the calls for cars indi-
cateIthat the heavy movement is to continue
unless there should chance to be- what is hardly
likely to occur, sharp advance in rates. The
ugly attitude assumed by the Pennsylvania peo-
pie within the last few days certainly leads to
the belief that a restoration of east-bound rates
is not near at hand, while it is well known that
st-bound rates cannot consistently be advanced,
30 numerous are the contracts out
many of them extending through the year
The roads deserve credit for the promptness
with which they are moving business notwith-
standing the fact that they are losing money on
every pound they carry at the prevailing through
rates. 1t is pleasant to turn from the East and
West to the North and South lines which are
doing good business, and under the workings
of the Chicago and Ohio River pool, are getting
very fair rates freights carried. Another ia
yorable feature is the fact that local business is
heavy, and better rates are maintained than at
the corresponding period last year-Indianap-
oils agents evidently having come to the con-
clusion that from local traffice the roads must
obtain the revenue to pay operating expenses.
Below is given the number of cars received and
forwarded at this point in the week ending Sept.
B, as compared with the corresponding week
1884:
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Higher Coal Rates in Prospect.

The prospects, as intimated few days ago,
are good that the Western coal dealers will soon
be obliged to pay decent rate for bringing the
anthracite Goals on to the Western market
The Erie announces that all present tariff and
special rates for coal will be Cancelled
at the close of the month"; and a
new land probably advanced) schedule
go into effect on Oct. l. 1t is said that
none of the roads are making contracts to ex-
tend beyond Sept 80, before which period, it is
stated, the railway presidents will have placed
rates a more renumerative basis TO themselves
and their stockholders.
At meeting of roads interested in the trans
portation of coal from Salamanca. Buffalo, Black
Rock and Suspension Bridge, held at Cleveland
last week, the following resolution was unani-
mously adopted
Resolved, That the rates on anthracite coal from
Buffalo and points taking Buffalo to all points be
restored Wednesday, sept Ia to the full tariff of July
and that no reduction be made from said tariff rates
on any sales mad alleged to have been made, or
upon any other basis without first calling a meeting
of the representatives of roads interested and doing
by mutual agreement.
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A Lesson of the Hard Times.

J. III. Stahl. in New England Farmer
A very valuable lesson is that the farm gives
as sure prosperity as any business. While times
are brisk other occupations may apparently offer
more but when the.times become hard we see
that nothing else is so safe as the farm The in
dustrious farmer can always have enough to eat
and wear at least; both may be coarse, but he is
never confronted with the spectacle of his wife
and children hungry and ragged, while he is un-
able to exchange his labor for clothing and food.
When so many of our young men are leaving
the farms for city occupations, when the glitter
of the city dazzles the eyes of many of
our young farmers, hard times become a
good thing when they show the sure,
safe returns from tilling the land So many of
the New England boys have grown tired of dig
glng IN the stony, not very productive earth.
and have gone into stores and banks and pro-
LESSONS till salaries have been brought almost
TO starvation point and until manhood and
principle are often sacrificed in the wild scram-
bic for place, that anything which will turn
their eyes towards the paternal acres they have
fo-saken, cannot be an unmiXed evil. Farmers
have felt the hard times grievously; but they
have Jared so much better than those in other
occupations that the farm cannot do otherwise
than gain some of the honor it has lost; aud
though learned in the bitter school of experience,
the lesson that it Is rarely wise to forsake the
farm will be well worth all it has cost
One more fact brought out more prominently
by the hard times, is that what farming is to
other occupations, good farming is to farming in
general. The man who has given his farm the
best of tillage and has managed his affairs
shrewdly, has scarcely felt the lard times. The
good farmer has experienced less inconvenience
than any other person. Deep acres and fat cat
tie have kept the pocket-book in better shape
than anything else. Doubtless good farming
will in the future receive more attention be-
cause its benefits have shone all the brighter IN
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Sand would seem, by this table, to be very
poor substance to use in stables. Compared to
peat it would take forty seven times as much to
absorb the same amount of liquid.
Practically, however, there is not this differ
ence. Peat used in the milking stable looks less
tidy than sand, and when wet is hardly less
filthy tina cow manure 1t is not fit bedding
for dairy cows, unless it is very dry, is used
freely and renewed as soon as it becomes wet
with urine Under these conditions it will be
found most excellent, and if readily obtainable
should be laid up in large quantities. Dried
moss, or sphagnum, is becoming an article OF
commerce. but it is used at present more by
nursery men for packing around the roots of
plants than for stable bedding: 1t is not very
readily dried in the open air.
1t will be some time before it will come with
in the means of ordinary dalrymen for use as an
absorbent in stables.
Grain straw has been the chief and almost
universal bedding and absorbing material in
years past but cattle feeders learning that 1t
is too valuable as food to be used freely as it
has been in the past. Sawdust and wood shaw
ings have been coming into use in stables quite
rapidly within a few years. There was strong
prejudice against them, particularly against
sawdust. which is most abundant in many local
ities but the prejudice is being removed as the
necessity for its use becomes apparent. Chem
lists have pronounced it harmful and poor oh
servers have charged it with breeding" worms.
We would prefer fnely-cut straw, an abund
ance of dry leaves, but would make sawdust,
perhaps the next choice. But sawdust is not
abundant everywhere, and in some sections it is
in such demand for this and other uses that
it sells for more than many would be willing to
pay if it had to be carted much distance
Dry earth can be had almost everywhere, and
any kind of dry soil will make a useful absorb
ent the more sandy the more clearly, but great
er quantities will be required than of loan or
CLAY.
During dry weather spot should be chosen
and narrowed over repeatedly till an inch or
more of the surface becomes dry. This should
be scraped up and stored under cover, and the
process repeated on the same, a new spot,
till more can be collected. We annually laid up
nearly a whole years stock of dry earth or other
material, and built a tight sh I'd expressly for
storing it, and it proved one of the most profit
able investments on the farm. The shed should
join the stables, to be handy and to save going
outside tor the material in winter or in rainy
weather
We will quarrel with no one as to what they
shall use for this purpose or how they keep it;
but we do urge all to use something that VIII
keep their stables sweet and wholesome, will
save the fertlizng matters that would otherwise
be wasted, and to lay up the material in abund-
ance. And now is the time to think about it,
and. having decided what is best to be done, do
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
THE SUNDAY JOURNAL

Is a paper of twelve pages, sold for five cents.
The SUNDAY JOURNAL reaches every town
and city in Indiana and the surrounding terri
tory The circulation of the Sunday edition is
the largest and best of any Sunday paper printed
in Indiana, and it has made itself the Peoples
Paper The SUNDAY JOURNALis without
competitor in the State in the character and
variety of matter it presents it's readers. The
best writer's in the State and country freely
contribute to its columns. In its enlarged
and improved form it is absolutely without q
rival or peer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
A Variety of Bedding Material.

New England Farmer.
We admit that good absorbing and bedding
materials are not always obtainable without
more effort than many farmers willing to
put forth. 1t requires some study and fore
thought to decide what, under the circumstances.
is most available.
In many sections sand is as 'cheap as dirt, !"
and, although not in every respect the best
material, it should be used freely by all who can
conveniently secure it.
In recent number of the New York Tribune,
DR.. G. c. Caldwell gives table showing the
relative absorbing power of nine different kinds
of materials used in stables as litter. The
amount of water given is what 100 pounds of the
air dry substance would hold without dripping
when pressed together box. The straw was
cut in pieces about two inches long
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THE PERCENTAGES.
1tages were as follows:
Big Tumble in Earnings Of Pennsylvania
Lines.

1t is said that the earnings of the Pennsyl-
vania system for August will drop fully $500, 900
behind those of August, 1884 In commenting
on this "bear" rumor, the Philadelphia Press
says: Usually the street is not accurately in
formed as to the earnings at such an early day,
and it is likely to be mistaken, though it is Ger
tain that the month of August was a poor one
for profits for all roads, and the Pennsylvania is
not an exception. The bear stories may be cir
culated for the purpose of breaking the force of
the loss when officially reported, which will most
probably be found to be less than is now be-
lieved The public, which incorrectly expected
an immediate improvement in earnings on the
announcement of the trunk line settlement, are
disappointed, and are likely to remain in that
condition for some time. 1t is impossible, as
was said in this column at first, that the direct
and immediate result could be more than an adj
vance in local rates on the New York Central
The improvement of trunk-line affairs generally
depends on thorough harmony, which has not
been accomplished by the settlement between
the Pennsylvania and the New York Central.
The Baltimore & Ohio and other roads are vet
to be brought to see that harmony is the best
policy, and practical results can only be effected
by means of thorough going, honest pooling of
business
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LahOrerS, Money.

To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journals,
The discussion between Truman Beeman and
Mary Cardwill, on workingmen, brings out this
fact 1t is of no use to try to tell people how to
save money. The workingman who saves money
does so because he has hereditary, constitu-
tional, and instructive love of saving. The
workingman who does not know how to save,
but asks, in the words of Truman Beeman
''How can l save anything out of $l2 week, y
never can be taught the art of saving, and.
therefore, it is of very little use to preach long
sermons on saving 30 him. Happily we have
thousands of workingmen in our midst who do
save money, and raise families on $12 a
week, and thoy are prosperous and happy
people This is how they manage: A working
man of the saving sort begins to work at twelve
years of age. He marries at about twenty-five
During his single years he saves something
to buy a home with. He marries a
girl who has saved something to
furnish it with. He does not begin
his married life with ''six children" strange as
1T may seem; in fact, it j. five or six years before
he has even so many as three. And at the end
OF twelve years, as general thing, his last baby
is born. That is, in the average family, the
babies are all born during period of twelve
years. When his Oldest child is twelve years
old 1t begins to earn money, and henceforth the
laborers burdens are lghtened, and his income
is increased by his childrens earnings. More
over his wife is In her prime, and she often earns
small sums or money during this hard yet happy
period of her life, which sums she prizes highly
and spends wisely The saving workingman
does not smoke cigars, nor play pool nor use
tobacco and beer inordinately. Truman Beeman
says he loses twelve weeks year so that he
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

10 increase Live BLOCK
The general freight agents Of indianapolis
roads now show disposition to make an effort
to increase tho live stock traffic, both of a
through and local character. This is
a class of business they have allowed
in measure to drift away from them.
For years past, as hog market, Indianapolis has
headed the list. Better prices are paid for hogs
and better accommodations furnished shippers
than at any other Western market. Ohio Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, New York and New
England all have buyers here, and with our own
packing houses. Kingan & Co. killing thousands
of hogs daily, glutted market is hardly posi-
bility. But as cattle market indianapolis has
hardly come up to the mark, and it is gratifying
to learn that this oversi yht is to be remedied,
and that Indianapolis is to be made good cattle
as we'll as hog market Several of the largest
cattle buyers in New York and the New
England States have, or will shortly place
representatives here who will purchase all good
STOCK shipped to this market at the highest
prices paid, and reship it to Eastern markets.
The railroad companies as we'll as the manage
ment OF the stock yards, have taken hold of the
enterprise in manner which insures success
and will give such rates that Chicago will no
longer have any advantage in that direction,
and a steady. healthy increase of this class of
traffic may now be looked for. Within the last
forty-eight hours three Illinois heaviest
cattle shippers, who have for years past
sent all their stock to Chicago shipped thirty
carloads to Indianapolis, all of which they sold
at better prices than they would have got at
Chicago, and the stock is now well on the way to
seaboard markets. No one will question that
the Indianapolis Yards offer better facilities for
feeding and resting cattle, and certainly no one
will question the matter of time. Stock shipped
from central Illinois western Indiana, or even
st. Louis via Indianapolis will reach an Eastern
market twenty four to thirty six hours quicker
than via Chicago, allowing ample time for rest
ing and feeding
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zinc Monthly Exhihit Observation-Disclosures.

vi the roads reporting earnings for August
thus far, only one shows any gain, and that is
canadian Pacific, the mileage of which is largely
increased, While the old conservative Chicago 81
Alton lost over $l35, 900. The feeling is growing
that THESE statements, coming out from day TO
day showing heavy losses, compared with last
year. indicate that the prosperity of the country
Is not nearly as great as has been represented in
Wall street and yet. in fact. many of the roads
are doing poorer business than they did in
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IHE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL
NEW ANNOUNCEMENT.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL is rec
ognized everywhere as the leading newspaper
of Indiana. No proper expense is spared to
maintain this undisputed excellence and to
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THE JOURNAL was never so well equipped
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complete than ever, and we have added some
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THE JOURNAL is the only paper in Indi-
ana that prints regularly the full reports Of
the Western Associated Press, which are now
more comprehensive than ever covering the
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tention to that which most nearly concerns
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est and most reliable intelligence from Wash
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Editorially THE JOURNAL is Repub-
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The citizen, whatever his political faith can
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Texas Railroad Matters.

GALVESTON, Tex, Sept 5.-The executive
committee of the Texas Traffic Association adj
journed tonight, after two days session spent
in adjusting local rates. They have now agreed
upon rates of all classes to every competing point
in the State Rates have been raised and in
many instances lowered. The new tariff will 90
into effect on the 10th inst
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

By special arrangement with the authors
the INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL began with
the present year the publication Of a series of
original stories from the pens of the most
noted writer's in the country such as w. ID.
Howells, J. T. Trowbridge, E. P. Roe, T. B.
Aldrich, Frank r. Stockton, Mrs Helen Hunt
jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett and others of
equal celebrity. This series is now being
printed in the Saturday edition.
The JOURNAL OF MONDAY of each
week prints special report of the sermon Of
Rev. Dr. Talmage, of the Brooklyn Taberna-
Gle, preached the previous day-which sermon
is not published in other papers of the Stats
until the following Sunday. This is only one
feature showing the excellence of the Jour
nails arrangements for the prompt publication
of news
In the SUNDAY JOURNAL are printed
series of original stories written by the most
celebrated authors of the world We receive
these stories direct from England, by a special
arrangement with the writer's. We have al
ready published stories by "Ouida," William
Black, Mrs. Oliphant Joseph Hatton and
Miss NJ. E. Braddon, and are now printing
series of three short stories, written by the
late Hugh Conway.
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the gloom of last year. And when to this we
add the lessons already enumerated and many
not here spoken of, we see that out of the evil of
hard times may grow many good things.
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cent. higher thar at present The fact is that
the "bears" have excellent grounds to work
upon, and the situation with the railroad inter
ests of the country at the present writing is that
matters are becoming worse and worse.