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The Osceola times., 1886-11-20
THE BSkLEMM lNU
Curious Landed Interest Fasting N q
small Province of Holland.

There is small province in Holland
which has been called by travellers the
peasants paradise. Peasants are the
kings and masters Of the country, but
they do not own the soil. They own
only the right to till the soil. and the
crops it produces. This peculiar hold
ing OF the soil is known as the Bes'cm-
nina, and nothing just like it is known
outside the province of Groningen. A
very similar leasehold was formerly
common in Lombardy, and still later in
Portugal. An &C cunt of this mStitu-
ton by NJ. Havard will interest many
persons, at q time when the relations
between land and labor are under dis
cuSsion.
The Beklemmiag constitutes to some
extent, a proprietorship over and above
the original freehold 1t is the right OF
working the estate, and is a valu' tina,
can be inherited or bought, and in the
contract for which the original propri.
etor has no right to interfere, and for
which he can exact nothing beyond a
fixed and unyarying rental, as cons der
alton for the holding OF his property
under certain conditions
In order perfectly TO understand this
working of such an institution, itisncc-
essary to 90 back to its origin. Al that
time two men appeared upon the scene,
the original proprietor and the cultiva-
tor.
"The soil is of no value" said the
latter. at brings you in nothing. Give
it up to me. BY my labor will icrtilize
and make it productive; tut as it is not
just that YOU alone should profit by my
efforts, let MS stipulate that all the inn
provemcntsI effect upon your property
shall be for my benefit: and for the pay.
ment OF fixed rental, which shall ney OF
be increased, | alone shall forever have
the right 20 work your land.
This right at my death shall be trans
missible to my heirs. During my life
must have the right TO dispose of il in
any way may think fit; to sell it, to
conccde it or give TO whom please,
without your having the power to n-
tcrlcrc, and this on the sole CONDITION
that my heir or grantee shall under.
take to pay YOU the stipulated rental. -
lOHthS Companion.
The Osceola times., 1886-11-20
CARE OF SWINE.
Unsanitary Surroundings the Cause OF "n
Contagious Hog Diseases.


As every effect has its producing
cause, it is we'll to ascertain If possible
the cause of certain prevalent diseases
among hogs. 1t is now a well estab-
lished fact, that all zymotic or contagi'
Gus diseases among human beings have
their origin in unsanitary conditions
and surroundings. The large majority
of the aforesaid diseases are rightly de-
nominated filth diseas eS!" Doubtless
this term is as true in relation TO hogs
as to men. Pure air, water ana ioOd
are as essential to the health OF
brutes rs well as their masters. Take
hogs. for instance, that are kept under
a barn where it is constantly dark,
damp and filthy; this is a sufficient
cause during the hot days OF summer
TO develop ''hog cholera. wonder
that some hogs, however proof natural
IL AGAINST disease, succumb TO such IN
fernal environments! For weeks and
months living in a semi-puirid puddle OF
filth, breathing the poisoned air, with
little or no exercise, the marvel Is that
any of them can survive TIL released
from their bastile Imprisonment by the
f1erciful knife of the butcher. What
wonder that some hogs in such pens
should occasionally develop n ''cholera
plantation from which the cholera mi
crobes 90 forth on Their mission OF
death through the whole country, at
tacking in their flight even hogs which
are kept in clean pens and have whole
some surroundings
Would il not be well to have health
commission for animals, and thus com
pei ignorant and careless men TO do
their duty in this regard? Hogs should
not only have clean pens, but they
should have yards, or. better Stlll, lots
in which TO exercise Their muscles,
especially when young. Trichina, |
am convinced, has its origin in an IN
famed, gouty and discriminating
condition of the muscular system. in-
duced by want of exercise in pure Air.
Suppose a hog does fatten a little
faster when deprived of exercise and
kept in a dark place? What gaio is
that if we must eat diseased pork a. the
result at the risk of our lives? The
best pork the writer of this ever put in
a barrel was raised and fattened on
sanitary principles. Even If he did not
get quite so many pounds OF lard, he
had pork that was free from the smell
or taste OF filth and the tant OF disease.
N 4. Farmer.
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VALUE or WATER.
How Good Nicid of MIX Can BE Ma
tanned During Cold Weather.

How Good Weld of MIX Can he Main
tanned During Cold Weather.
Observing dairvmcn have noticed that
the quantity of milk "a COW yields Go-
ponds very much upon the quantity ol
water she drinks. Almost invariably n
good mixer is q free drinkcr. NJ. Don
eel reported to the French Academy OF
Science that he found, by a series of en-
pcrimcnts, tina, the quantity OF water
habiually drank 10y each COW during
twenty-four hours was criterion to
Judge of the quantity of milk that she
would yield per day. And COW that
does not habltually drink as much as ~
quarts of water daily must be a poor
mixer. giving only from b! to quarts
per day. But all the cows which con-
sumed as much as 80 quarts Of water
daily were excellent mixers, giving
from X to % quarts of milk per day
He gives u confident opinion that the
quantity of water drank by a cow is an
important factor of her value as u
mixer.
Prof IIorsfall found that n COW CIV
ing only 20 pound, of milk day drank
40 pounds more of water than tattenlng
cattle Of the same weight Here j. IL
clue TO the excellent effect noticed by
hose who have warmed the water Tor
their cows. The cows very naturally
drank nearly the usual quantity, ana
the result was an increase OF % per
cent. more milk of good quality
Hodrd's DdirymdR.
The Osceola times., 1886-11-20
MisC,;ltANEous.

EfEi'sit.t NEOls.
Iris rcptlei that Mexican authorities
refused 10 eiys up the remains Of Hulett
Criucr. tie American killed in Mexico
several days ago.
THE Vatican /, rlePar.ny an oncyolical
condemuiag AMI st.cmgtizing the Italian
Cove nment.
TrE spinaer' s'rik' a. Darwin, Lam
casAi-c. ha, been settle I, and the opera
tlves viii at once rcsu ne work
TuE Cuban sugar crop of lSSI-SG, It is
thou .ht. viii bs the laig st ever raised on
that islam l.
tn F.r,rE .tional Bank OF indianapolis,
Ind, has decided to go into liql.dation.
OK the N j tha tweu'y-iirs, annual
mee,ins OF tn Il. Board % Church eN-
tension wa, bel In rhila lelphia.
As Amer'cm woman, who refuses to
divul3c her name, has en,e,ed upon a
twenty days fast AZ Paris.
a sraiTE is rra,ene among the colic-
workers ~ the Conn li,yill, trn) region.
Hos. =. 81. Bell, superintendent Of
Foreign Mails, Is a warm advocate OF an
international pTcc's-p-s, p system.
THr u Hmniln Gpyn.nm'nt is said to be
considering ID question * q treaty with
the SanlVicr islands.
4 PauuNUNr ulllc e Of the pennsylva-
mia Railroad Company asserts that the
recent rumor th.t The Pennsylvania rail-
road surplus voull Zee use Tor the pur-
chase at G N rolling Interest in the Chi-
cage q Nor,hNcde.n Railroad Company
is with. "a up lation.
TnE Colouil rxlihl,ion A. London has
been closed Tao total humber Of visitors
was 1850 1ll aud the average daily at
tendance numbered 30 $40
THr Cleveland a Pittsburgh freight
train men Lave askc for an increase Of
wag,s aud for an adiu ,ttAent of other
complaints in retnrl 20 hours aud srrg.
ice. similar TO the grievances lately set
forth ~ the Now York, reunsy lvania &
Ohio men.
A ,TIra furry has been oocasioned
IA the mysterious Frisco express rol.
tery c,se hy The reception at the
ofiice of the 80. Lluig E,P1biicaa of
u package of papers, documents, etc,
to the S.lHe of ah at l,uD1 10 the
owners, FROM "Jim Curminss," aceom-
panied b. a letter, an also another letter
from "John lsronson," whp claims TO be
The thir parry, aud q hlve 900 ns his
share oi the swng.
a YEAR ugo Harrison Lopcr married
Cora lirown, aged thirteen years. lie lied
on tho 10 h in ilc village Of Shrub Oak.
Wes,ches'or Couny, y. y. The widow,
who still wears short clothes, has a two
mon hs' baby.
IL is stated that The pending negotia-
tions ctwecn the nrlisa ambassador 60
Turkey ard ihc Porte, relative to the
Egyptian qaes i,n, win now be completed
forthwith.
A pisrArca from Rome OF The 1ith
statci tia. shre, llaiiaa ironclsds had
been ~ ,ore 10 joia tie iifiti,l, fiset now
stationed At ....aiia.
The Osceola times., 1886-11-20
MEXICAN PEONISM.
s system of serfdom More Hopeless Than
Was That of Russia.

Penonism in Mexico is voluntary
slavery, and comes about in this wise:
a lahorcr borrows sum Of money
(perhaps to get married with, or to pay
for the baptism of his child, or for the
funeral ccremonials of a rclative-which
demands lonus Of not less than nine.
teen dollars) and offers himself. l. e.
his labor, for security. II is needless to
add that the debt can never be paid,
the mortgage is furecloscd and the OBJ
legation dcscends from father to son.
Poems, whose ancestors contracted
debts with long dead proprictorS, con-
tinuc 10 live upon the samo estate, and
their children and grandchildren after
them, in condition of serfdom more
hopeless than that Of Russia. because
the victims themselves have no desire
90 rise above i. Generations come and
go, but the shackles never fall, though
no record remains Of the original obli-
cation.
The peon is paid for his labor on an
average Of twelve cents per diem not
in money, but in lcalhern checks. which
pass current at the "storc, which is a
feature of every hacienda on about the
same plan that agents aud traders deal
W tli Indians in the United States OF
course the proprietor can charge what
he p.caScs for all the necessarics If life,
aud il generally happens that those who
are completely in his power become
deeper and deeper in debt as the years
60 by. To the casual observer the
wretchedncss Of pcon poverty seems SO
great that it, shadow obscurcs the sun
light In fair Mexico, but after long res.
idcnce here am not sure that this Sys.
TEN, which borders on the pairiarchal,
i, not best for a naturally idle and ire.
sponsible people At any rate. to he
suddenly turned adrift from their homes
within the hacienda walls. where at
least they are sure Of food, shelter and
protection. and left to shift for them.
selves, would be- the greatest misfortune
which could beiall them to-day. - Fan
ME h. Ward, ia CinciAnatj En9a,rsr.
The Osceola times., 1886-11-20
scandal IN High Life.

WHEELING. W. Va. Nov. l5.--The town
Of New Martmsyille has sensation which
Is the allubsorbing topic tuday. Num-
bercd among the best citizens az" the
families of Travis aud Higgins, who have
heretofore been ON very friendly terms.
A night or two ago Mrs. Higgins, mother
u Edward Higgins, attacked aud
beat Miss Temp Travis on the
street causing q great sensation.
Miss Travis immediately brought suit
against Mrs. Higgins, charging assault
and SANDER. Mrs. Higgins retorted by
alleging charges rejecting upon Miss
Travis reputation. The affair has created
the iveliest interest GA account Or the
standing Of The parties.
The Osceola times., 1886-11-20
The Chicngn ..narchIsis.

CHICAGO, Nov. ia letter from Colonel
Robt G.. lngersoll says that he has not the
time TO connect himself In any way with
the Anarchists, and therefore viii have
nothing whatever TO do with the ease.
The certificate of evidence Of the bin OF
exceptions has at last been signed and put
on record in the ofiice Of the clerk Of the
Criminal Court. To-day the papers, o.
bale Of paper, win be transcribed TO the
Supreme Court. The defense viii
then proceed 10 reach the ear
Of member of the Supreme bench
as the court is not now in session.
and from him endeavor to secure a super
scdcas 10 RESTRAIN the execution ~ the
sentencn
The Osceola times., 1886-11-20
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

On the l0lh when the ease Of WIN. Hem
derson, alias "Carson," alias "Gentleman
George" the notorious safe-barslar, was
called In Justice Naehr's court in Brook
lyn. the prisoner failed to appear. lie hal
been charged with ti,l-isppin Z. aud was
released on s2)o bail, which was declared
forfeited.
OK the nth three men were poisoned.
one fatally, by drinking alul,erated beer
nesr Saginaw, Mich.
THE rivers Po aud Adige in Italy have
,vet flowed the banks and submerged the
country along their courses.
AT Boston on the night OF the nth
tLieves went through the pockets of VIII
son Barreti's troupe while performing,
taking . LOT OF jewclry, ETC., most OF whie-.
40 rerovered.
|r ~ In Ne Chicago Avenue Church,
knpRn - Nocdy's church,
4 ~ 0sN y ths ex:cut Of
IL&
The Osceola times., 1886-11-20

When hard-iinished walls have
been kalsomined the soiled coats should
he washed or scraped before new one
is put on. s'his is the most disagreeapie
part of the process. The furniture
should be covered. as the lime makes
spots that % removed with difficulty
especially upon black walnut tf'
hTHy,.
The Osceola times., 1886-11-20

Vienna horse ears have two com.
partlnents, one Tor those who smoke
and one for those who do not.
The Osceola times., 1886-11-20

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MY 81

p'' and dusty, sly,
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The Osceola times., 1886-11-20

The residence and all the contents, except
one let and "A trunk, belonging to the
Steonc brothers, hi sbly respectable farm
ers, were destroyed by fire. Mr.. John
Gvens, young man about twenty year,
old. was visiting there, and was sleeping
upstairs, an IN coming down the stair
way the stairs fell in and he was prscipi.
tated into tha seothing mass below and
burned tn death.
Charleston continues to quake
Nearly all the cattle associations of
Texas have appointed Colonel e. G..
Slaughter to represent them IN the Ma
tional Cattle and Horse Growers Asso-
ciatIon,iwhich convenes in Chicago on the
17lh inst, and Colonel John h. Simpson
has been appointed alternate.
During heavy wind and rain storm ~
Pet erslurg, Va, few nights ago, clr-
Gus tent was blown down while the per-
Torrance was at its height The failing
Of the tent created panic among the att
dience, who rushed wildly for the doois
and out into the rain, which was fal,lR
IN torrents.
Low prices for cotton suggest mixed
crops for future farming operations.
At n ratification at Burksvile OF the
election of DIR. Godfrey Hunter, the sue.
cessful Congressional candidate in the
Third Kentucky district, few nights ago.
an anvil exploded, aud killed Walter iIag-
gard. Jas. Jones, the county iailer, VIM.
Hudson aud VIM. Richie were also seri-
ously injured.
Captain Wm. II. Gardner, president 81
the Mobile (kla.l Mutual Insurance Com
pany, while seated at his desk a few days
AGO, uttered an uninteiligible exclamation
and fell forward, dead. lie was an
Alabamian by birth, end had lived in Mo-
t.'e since 1854.
The Northern tourists are returning 10
their homes for the winter.
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and upon good grounds, that the Mormon
government has decided to fill the State of
Nevada with their people until they get
electoral control Of the State, under belief
that the question as it would then relate to
the United States Government would be-
come SC complicated from the number of
constitutional questions it would involve
that the country would let the
peculiar institution alone. OF course
we do not believe in any such result.
Such a sophiscation of constitutional guar
antees would not be allowed to stand. Yet
it can not be denied that the Mormon power
is daily growing stronger. in spite of all the
opposition before it. and it Is daily growing
more difficult to deal with it. 1t has been
temporized with ever since the close of the
war, but without result. 1t was hoped that
the Pacific Railroad would introduce such a
strong Gentle element that it would soon
overcome the polygamic population, bat 1t
has failed to have an appreciable effect. The
institution has thriyen in spite Of everything,
and Ii is now so strong as to make the ques-
ton of its regulation a matter of extreme
difficulty. 1t can not be taken strongly in
hand moment too soon.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-03-10
Get i've of your neighbors to take Sentine
and your own will be paid for.

WHY not have the next Legislature fix the
price of moving machines? They are pat
ented; they are a necessity. and they are
dedicated to a public use. There are more
harvesters in use than there are telephones
Journal.
OF moving machines there are legion.
Competition, and not wholesale monopoly
has fixed their price. Had the Government
given an exclusive privilege to an individual
or firm in such way as to effectually prevent
any one else from making moving ma
chine of any sort or pattern, the cases would
be similar ia fact as they are in principle.
The principle involved is clear 1t is whether
or not the State or the Government has any
right to enact laws for the protection of the
people-whether the people can take any
measures of self-protection whatever, but
must suffer any conditions that may be i'm
posed. In defense OF this principle the peo-
pie can afford to forego the use of the tele-
phone for a while. 1t were much better to
do this than to submit to unjust extortion.
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bility for the acts of the man that any dere-
liction of the latter reacts directly upon the
agent" To which the Evening News dissents
as follows:
We hold that the people have more than
subsidiary interest" in an Office filed by
Executive appointment. Its duties affect
the people only. The President is not con-
cerned, except to see, by himself or proper
representatives, that they are not abused.
The people are acted upon directly by them.
Who is hurt If laundering revenue officer
misapplies his powers Who is disturbed or
damaged by carelessness in postoffice? The
people, and they only. The President, as
we say, is only Indirectly affected, so far as
be may be blamed here or there for appoint
ing such man. Everything done or posi-
Bile goes straight to the people, acts directly
on them, and directly on nobody else. Be-
ing the chief or only "parties in interest" in
the execution of the duties, the people have
a right to know why the man who discharges
them is taken away from them.
As we see it, our neighbor has furnished
the material for an answer. True, the peo-
pie are acted upon directly by officers filled
by Executive appointment. If theT are
hurt, do they censure the officer2 No, they
Immediately howl at the administration"
If laundering revenue officer or postal
clerk abuses his power, or becomes careless,
the administration" is Immediately asked
to discharge the man, and censured if it fails
to put man in the Office who is equal to its
duties. The people can not act in this ca
pacity for manifest reasons. If the Offices
were electoral, then, indeed, the people
would be directly responsible in their
choice. But the people could not apply
remedy if the officer elected were unfit or
unfaithful. except at stated times. The peo-
pie who really employ the officer are too i'm
personal to exercise the choice or effect the
discharge. They have preferred to elect
man who shall do this for them, and that is
among the principal reasons why Presi-
dent is elected at all. They hold that Presi-
dent responsible, and discharge both him
and his party if he and it fail to properly
provide for these offices according to the
popular demand.
The government of a people of sixty mil
lions, spread thinlY over an enormous terri
tory, is very serious thing. Complicated
as some of our commercial enterprises are,
and difficult to manage. they are simplicity
itself compared with the Government. Its
methods are clumsy enough, and response
bility is divided enough now, the Lord
knows, without interposing an additional
check to executive action. If the President
in effect must be compelled to ask "the
people" before he may assume the response
bility to discharge recalcitrant postal or
revenue clerk, it would take somewhere
near four years before all the various parts
of this Government from the people up
could act upon it. The line must be drawn
somewhere, and it had better be left where
a century of habit, good results and trial
has left ito the President.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-03-10
PERSONALS,

SAMUEL PLINsoLL NJ. P, is looking about
him in Florida.
CONGRESSMAN WIN. L. ScoTr, one of the
wealthiest members, began life as page in
Congress.
SENATOR EvARTs will 60 to Ann Arbor
during his Northwestern trip to lecture to
the students.
BISHOP BOWMAN, in opening the East Penn
sylvania Methodist Conference, at Reading,
Thursday, delivered an emphatic address on
temperance, denouncing the use of tobacco
as well as whisky. The conference passed
resolutions forbidding members to chew or
smoke.
DR.. VAN GALLHAM has cured insomnia in
himself by bandaging one of his legs to the
knee with layers of wet calico and covering
these with sheet of waterproof cloth. The
vessels of the leg were dilated and the amount
of blood in the head diminished, and sleep
followed.
LOYAL FARRAGUT, son of the Admiral
Farragut, has offered to return to Captain
ID. Johnson, of Savannah, the sword he sur
rendered to his father on the 9Th of August,
1864, when the Confederate ship Tennessee
was captured in Mobile Bay. The offer has
been thankfully accepted.
JOSEPH Cook advocates for the working
men, in his Monday lectures at Boston, CO.
operative banks, stores, building societies and
trade unions, to enable them to cope with
capital. The laborer, he says, should also
have the frankness to demand natural wages,
which means that he should receive at least
double what he has to expend for food. He
also says State Board of Arbitration would
be wise provision.
WILLIAM H. HIbLIARD, the distinguished
American painter, has recently returned
home after a long residence in Europe.
Among his pictures is very beautiful one
of the burial place of John Howard Payne
in Tunis. The scene is the Protestant ceme-
terry, with the high walls enclosed by italian
Expresses and showing in the foreground
the square tomb, overhung by the graceful
branches of the pepper tree, which resem-
bies our own weeping willow. On the dis
tant hillside the mosques and towers OF
Tunis are seen lying in the broad sunlight.
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A POTENTIAL RuMoR-

All sorts of wild fumors are current rs to
the intentions of the Chinese Government in
the matter of reprisals for the outrages
against Chinese subjects on the Pacific Coast
The very fact that the Chinese Emperor bias
50 many subjects In the United States
should teach the remedy. We do not give
credence to the statement that that govern
nent has demanded capital punishment and
pecuniary indemnity in toto. The matter of
indemnity is in our control; the matter of
capital punishment depends upon catching
the culprits and proving the crime. We do
not argue that this would not be just, for
that is the measure decreed by our own laws
for murder, and, If possible, it should
be melted out. But the Chinese
hordes should be told to go, and
nothing should be allowed to obscure
this :rnain point. We can not admit their
presence in the country under the present
limitations to their immigration. Whether
the international complication is imminent
or otherwise, it is always potential under
such anomalous conditions. The plalnest
dictates of safety and self preservation show
that the present occasion should be seized as
the most convenient opportunity to press the
matter to at least prospective solution.
Wholesale eviction is unnecessary. The
country would survive without disorder if
none were actually evicted, provided that
no more were admitted. They would go of
their own accord as soon as they had saved
sum of money.