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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-09
Tho Senatnrshin.

Special to the INDIANAPOLIS journal.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 81 don't see how Gov
ernor Gray can be candidate for the United
States Senate in Indiana" said Representative
Matson, of that State, to a reporter to-day. "His
election to the Senate" continued Mr. Natson,
"would elevate the Republican Lieutenant-gov-
ernor just elected TO the governorshlp. 1t is
scarcely probable that the Governor would want
to go to the Senate at such a cost" Mr.. Matson
added that, according to his information, Joseph
E. Mcdonald would be elected to the Senate.
An impression generally prevails here, however.
that Senator Harrison will succeed himself.
Col. W. w. Dudley, who has just returned to
Washington from Indiana says the Republicans
have undoubtedly elected majority of tho
Legislature, and that Senator Harrison will be-
reelected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-09
Prominent Twelfth District Democrats Write
Letters Expressing Their Enthusiastic
Delight at the Defeat of Lowry.
Gov. Gray, Ex-senator Mcdonald, Gen.
Harrison and the SenatorShip.
The Republican Success Challenges the Atsen.
tiOn of the Entire COuntry-COmments
of the General and the State Press.
AT WASHINGTON.
Ex-senator Mcdonald Gives His Views as "a
the Cause of the Defeat.

Ex-senator Mcdonald Gives His Views as "a
the Cause of the Defeat.
Special to Courier-Journal.
What, in your opinion. was the principal
cause of the Democratic disaffection"
ut was undoubtedly principally due 60 the
appointments, and yet they say that in Indiana
more of the rascals have been turned out than
in any other State. The Democrats of Indiana
are dissatisfied with the administration, not be-
cause it enforced the civilservice law, which the
administration is bound to do, but because 1t
likes to enforce it. and because it enforces it with
an appetite which is TOO great for the digestion
of Indiana"
But Civil-service Commissioners Edgerton,
who has just lately returned from Indiana, de-
clares that the State is complete convert to the
civil-service laws"
"The civil-service law is very unpopular in
Indiana, and it is as unpopular to-day as it ever
was"
"Do you see anything in the elections to indi-
cate growth OF protectionist ideas in Indianalr
Nothing. Indiana will never be in favor Of
protecting products from any possibility of
finding their way to foreign markets Protection
per SO is dead It cannot survive A policy Of
protection is narrow and short-sighted. 1t is
not policy of intelligence, civilization. or Of
progress"
Somebody has said that if Mr.. Cleveland is
to be elected for second presidential! term it
must be without the vote of Indiana. What Go
you think Of that?"
'Oh, thiEk the disaffection of Indiana Demo-
Gratis does not extend so far as that am sure
that when presidential election comes around
the Democrats of Indiana will rally round the
Democratic candidate. We are now paying tho
penalty of Office and patronage. We are passing
through transition period with very disagree.
able experiences"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-09

The Peculiar Situation in the Legislature
Talk of the State Press.

The Peculiar Situation IN the Legislature
Talk of the State Press.
Chicago Tribune.
Indiana generally makes great deal of naise
during the campaign and then subsidies into po-
litical mediocrity, but this time it is just the
other way. So long as the fight was actually on
hardly a ripple passed over the broad expanse of
water. No sooner, however, had the contending
meme of-war stopped firing than the billows begin
to rise and toss 1t looks very much as II our
sister State jealous of the post-election no
toriety her next-door neighbo- Illinois achieved
in lS84-'85, when it was confronted with sena-
torial election by General Assembly which was
a tie between the two great parties, with no third
party man in position to break the deadlock.
A truly honorable election was a sheer impossi-
bility until what the law terms AN act Of God"
changed the situation and gave the Republicans
a majority of one. There was more rejoicing
over that one member born out of due time'
than over all the Republicans originally elected
The parallel between the two States will hold
good, so far concerns the central fact of tie.
if DR.. Taggart, Republican, is elected State
Senator over the present Democratic Senator
Mcclure. The latter is ''ioater, or joint SEN
ator from Jefferson and Clark counties. Ae-
cording to the original returns the Democrats
won by two votes. OF course there will have to
be a recount in both counties before hnalty
can be reached. It's claimed that there were
fourteen or fifteen Taggart votes thrown ont IN
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-09
HALTER AND FURRlER.

from mouth and nose and painting heavily, when
the police rushed through the ropes and stopped
the fight Kilrain was not touched, while Hearld
received cut on his upper lip and another
his nose. The short work and the two-ounce
gloves used showed conclusively that both men
meant business, and that, instead of wanting
scientific points, they wanted to see which was
the best slugger. The principals were at once
hustled off to the club-hou and the crowd dis
persed.
After returning to the city, referee Harding
decided the fight off because of police interfer-
ence, and the recepts, which amounted to 81, 900,
after deductng expenses, were divided between
the fighters
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-09
knights of Labor Machinists.

CINCINNATI, Nov 8-The first national con-
venton of Knights of Labor Machinists ever
held in the country was called to order this
morning at Hibernan Hall, by j. E. Hall, of
New York. B. W. Herker of this city, was
elected temporary chairman. Nearly all the
Eastern and Northern States are represented.
The convention will continue four or five days.
Two sessions day will be held, and many sub
iects of Importance to all grades of machine-shop
employees will be discussed. and acted upon.
The convention has in view the bettering of the
workmen's condition and settlement of differ
ences between capital and labor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-09
Suicide of wen-Known Cincinnatian.

Special to the indianapolis JournaI.
CINCINNATI, Nov Sherman Eckles, jr.,
aged thirty, of the assistant librarian Of the
public library, graduate of the naval academy,
and highly educated, shot himself in the head to-
night at his fathers residence. No cause what
ever is known for the deed He was a very quiet
man, had no love affairs and no business trouble
so far as is known. He left the supper table,
and was in his own room for an hour when the
shot was fired, and the family found him dead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-09
Obituary.

MOBILE, Ala, Nov. 8-Capt w. H. Gardner,
formerly president of the National Cotton Ex-
change, and leading business man here died
to-day.
BROOKLYN. N. Y, Nov. 9-Robert Caldwell,
architect and builder an old and prominent citi
zen, died to-day, aged sixty four. He was born
in Hudson, N. Y.
WILMINGToN, Del, Nov S-Mrs. Nellie
Jones. aged ninety eight years, said to be the
oldest member OF the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union in the United States, died at
Smyrna, Del, yesterday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-09

PITTsBURG, Nov 8--The United States postal
authorities have about abandoned the search for
the registered mail pouch that was stolen. last
summer, between New York. Pittsburg and In
dianapolIs. Several clews have been followed
for weeks, but none resulted in the apprehension
of the thieves the recovery of the stolen prop
erty. All of the parties who had packages in
the pouch have not been heard from yet, but it
is said that, thus far. the value Of the known
contents aggregated over 800, 600.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-09
LAWYER Elected by six Votes.

CHICAGO, Nov. S-Frank L,wler, Dem. is
reelected in the Second Illinois district The
official canvass was completed this evening. He
has Just six votes more than his opponent,
Gleason, United Labor The result was not
officially declared by the canvassing board. At
ter consultation with Messrs. Lawler and Glea
son, the announcement was withheld, pending
the examination of the judges and clerks of five
precincts who were cited to night to appear to-
morrow morning and explain all discrepancies
appearingon their books
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-09
why Indiana Democrats Are Disgruntlea.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
WAsHINGToN, Nov. S-Col. Dick Bright, in
discussing the result of the election in Indiana,
said, to-day, that the reason that the Democrats
of that State are dsgruntled is not because OF
the distribution Of patronage there. but because
the local leaders of the party in that State are
tired of working hard for the success Of the
partv and not getting all of it"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-09
Safety of the Manhattan.

GREENPoRT, L. l., Nov. S.-The revenue cut
ter Manhattan. which was reported lost arrived
here yesterday afternoon and will leave to-day
on a cruise.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Calling.

1t has been remarked that true words
are often spoken in jest. That is one
of the important uses of wit and humor
to get little truth into otherwise inn
pervious minds. The following obser-
vations of Mr.. w. Nye upon " calling"
illustrate truth that many of us are
made to feel, at this season, in way
that is no joke at all: " In calling there
are two important things to be consid-
cred: First, when to call, and, second,
when to rise and hang on the door
handle. Some make one-third of the
call before rising and then complete
the call while airing the house and
holding the door open, while others
consider this low and vulgar, making at
least one-fourth of the call in the hall
and one-half between the front door
and the gate"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Some Questions.


Dear Household Will the sister who
gave the recipe for making baking
powder also give directions for using
in what proportion to the flour, etc.? If
it is nice article, think it will meet
the wants of many of us. - Can
some one give me her ideas of the treat
ment of Carnations? Last spring /
sowed a package of seed, from which
l had several nice plants. Last fall 1
removed some of them to the house,
wishing to learn if they would blossom
this winter, leaving the rest undis-
turbed. The former are now budded
but they are long, ungainly shoots, and
the plants, though thrifty, are far from
shapely. Should l have pinched off
the tops at first? And is there a way to
improve the general appearance of the
plants? have a double white
Bouvardia in blossom. 1t is pretty and
delicate, but not fragrant. - 1
greatly enjoy the Household depart
ment, and that reminds me, will some
one send recipes for cake without eggs,
and oblige? 1. F. L.
North Calais.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Gods Titled Land.

Mr.. Beecher preached his Christmas
sermon from the text Corinthians
iii: 81, " Ye are Gods husbandry :"
Qiterally, Goods titled land ", and put
these questions to his hearers, which
may be read with profit by all farmers
There are a great many men that own
great deal more land than they ever
cultivate; so do you. Who has brought
in any uncultivated land this year? Who
has cleared up any patch? 1t ran to
alders, to thorns, to briers. Who has
torn them down, moved them, and
brought in the pillow, and planted good
seed? Who has redeemed anything in
himself? How many of you have
fenced off any part of your precious
selves this year, so that casual wan
dering evil shall not make intru-
sions upon you, and shall not desolate
the fair elements which you are seeking
to cultivate in your spiritual life? How
much is in cultivation, and for that pur-
pose have you drained anything this
year; have you rooted up old stumps?
Have you cleansed out the fence cor
ner? Have you dug and sunk or en-
ployed the stones that stood in the way
of cultivation? Then what have you
planted? You know that this brings
us right to the very pivotal point of my
ministry and that is the figure in
Galations V: g The fruit of the Spirit"
Did you ever think of the words, " fruit
of the Spirit of God?" That is, God is
a gardener, and is raising fruit. You
are all of you parts of Gods garden.
The fruit of the spirit is I" love-" Has
yours been deepened, has it been puri-
fed, has it had wings that bore it toward
heaven, has it brooded and brought
forth ten thousand infections of love?
That is one fruit that hangs from the
bough of regenerated love, with the
Spirit of God like the sun shining down
upon it. Has the garden of the Lord
in your possession been fruitful of Joy
within you? And so l might
go through the whole catalogue: " Love,
joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, temper
ance." DO you know that that is God
Almighty's creed? These are the ar
ticles of the creed of Christ. And this
is the inside of the spiritual celebration
of Christmas-time-the examination of
what state you are in; what the year
has done; what you have done for the
year, and what your soul is as garden
or a farm
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Counterfeit Eggs.

The ingenious liars who amuse them
selves by soaring the public about their
food have Matched a new falsehood,
asserting that imitation eggs which
cannot be told from the genuine are
now manufactured, at cost of half a
cent apiece, by a firm in Newark, New
Jersey. The unagricultural editor of
the Maine Farmer swallowed the tale
whole. 1t ought to be a warning to
him to leave such matters to the proper
man. Probably Brother Gilbert's flesh
crawled when he saw the article. But
the inside editor of the Ne,o England
Farmer was not so simple, and Brother
Cheever can congratulate himself on
the fact that the matter was as nicely
ventilated by his associate as he could
have done it himself This writer.
after noting Chemist Wiley's lie about
artificial honey-comb, and some i'm
provements thereon by later hand,
says the egg story was set agoing about
year ago, but that the revised version
gives the details of an exhibition of the
artificial eggs lin the Darkroom of a
Broadway office" describes the diff
Guilty OF distinguishing them when
whole from the genuine fruit of the
hen, tells how nice dish of scrambled
eggs was prepared for them, and re-
peats very dramatically the enthusiastic
EXPLANATIONS of approval with which
the dish was received by those who
were privileged to taste. Even the
composition of the artificial eggs is
given, "the white being made of al
bumen and the yolk of ground carrot
and saffron The most delicate little
bit of shading, however, is found in the
very maize statement that the eggs do
not boil well, and the honesty of the
whole business is guaranteed by the
quiet little remark that the health in
spector had taken specimens for analy-
sis. People are fond of the marvellous,
and after the health inspector in ques-
ton shall have found out, as he will, if
there is any basis of truth at all in the
story, that the so-called artificial eggs
are simply eggs that have been sub
jected to some preserving process, there
will still be lots of persons who will
always implicitly believe in the exist
ence of an egg-foundry somewhere in
the wilds of New jersey.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Corn Behavior.
Allentown, Connecticut, correspond
ent of the Homestead saws:

Allentown, Connecticut, correspond
ent of the Homestead says:
planted the Rural Nep Yorker
corn, last spring, and found it did grow
six feet high;' that is, the ears grew
that high. In all other respects it is as
Mr.. Carman said, small cob, large
kernels, ripe in ninety days, two ears
upon stalk sometimes. Now can
not think that Editor Carman meant to
have us believe the stalks grew only
about six feet high 1t must be that
our soil is over-rich or the Rural farm
over-poor. Stalks too large for ordin-
airy cattle, and not quite long enough for
fish-poles, are not what we want"
Ever since our boyhood we have
heard old farmers say that it did not
do to move corn more than fifty miles
or so, north or south, at a jump. Prob
ably these old farmers did not exactly
know the reason, but they knew the
fact, and in that they were ahead of a
good many modern agricultural writers
and editors.
Corn that has adapted itself to its To-
cality has formed the habit of maturing
its seed with the summer heat of the
locality, " be the same more or less"
Take the seed a hundred miles north or
south Cor, which is equivalent, change
the altitude in the same proportion) and
the corn " don't seem to know how to
behave" If carried north Cor up) il
will not find heat enough to mature its
seed, but will use up the material
gathered by its roots in stalk and leaf
growth. The Virginian corn that
won't get into roasting ears in Connec-
ticut will grow much higher there than
it does at home. And even corn from
the vicinity of New York city will play
a similar caper, it seems, in Newtown
Conn, only about fifty miles north, but
probably considerably higher up.
Seed corn is often advertised to ''ma,
ture in ninety days." without the least
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20

reference to the facts above stated
We have planted corn the first of July
in Kentucky, and had it ripe the last
week in September; but that very
same corn planted in Vermont wouldn't
have got into the milk in the longest
season between frosts that was ever
known in the state-just simply be-
cause there wasn't heat enough to do
it. But it would grow clear up to the
caves of the barn in rich soil, though
in Kentucky it was only seven or eight
feet high.
When seed corn is taken from the North
southwark, or from an elevated region
into a warmer valley (say from Orleans
county to Grand Isle, or from Northern
Vermont to Southern New England)
another result is produced, equally un-
favorable to a crop. 1t finds the sun
too hot for its constitution, and before
it can properly set its ears and produce
pollen to fertilize them the corn is
sun-struck," and produces nothing
but chaffy, half-filled nubbins, though
at home it was good for sixty to eighty
bushels of sound shelled corn to the
acre. The experience of the editor of
the Rural New Yorker and of ourself
the past season with the d" Angel of
Midnight" corn, grown in Eastern Mas
sachusetts, illustrated the matter per-
fectly. Mr.. Carman announces it as
the earliest corn he has ever seen, with
very short stalk, while on Lake Mem
phremagog it grew about nine feet
high, and did not ripen an ear.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Tested Recipes.

A kind West Randolph correspond
ent, who promises to continue her
kindness to the Household, sends the
following recipes, which she "knows
to be good" We shall be glad to hear
from her again:
CHOCOLATE CAKE.-One-half cup of
butter, two cups of sugar, one cup Of
milk, three cups of flour, one teaspoon
full of soda, two tea-spoonfuls of cream
of tartar, two eggs. Icing-One-half cup
of chocolate, one-half cup of water, one
cup of sugar.
FILLING FOR LAYER CAKE.-One
cup of stoned raisins and one peeled
lemon Seeds ouD chopped together,
one-half cup of cold water, one cup of
sugar. Beat well together. If the
cake is baked well, with a crust, put the
layer on when the cake is warm.
EXCELLENT SPONGE CAKE.-Three
eggs, beat till very light; add one and
one-half cups of sugar; beat; one cup
of flour, with one tea-spoonful of cream
of tartar stirred into it; beat; one-half
cup of cold water, with one-half tea
spoonful of soda; beat; one cup of flour;
beat; bake, the quicker the better and
not burn; frost it and it will keep
moist.
ELECTION CAKE (good).-Two cups
of raised dough, one cup of sugar, yolks
of two eggs and white of one egg, one
half cup of butter. Beat the butter
and sugar to a cream; add dough and
egg and beat thoroughly together; add
one-half tea-spoonful of soda, dissolved
in little water; beat; add one cup of
stoned raisins, one tea-spoonful of Gin
namon, one-half tea-spoonful of cloves,
about the same of allspice and nutmeg;
beat well and bake at once.
CoFFEE.-One heaping tea-spoonful
of coffee to each person. Put into a
cup and stir into it part of an egg,
and enough cold water to moisten it
well. Then put it in the coffee-pot and
pour over it one cup of boiling water
for each spoonful of coffee. Let it
just come to boil, then put cloth in
the nose of the coffee-pot, to prevent
the escape of the steam, and set on the
back of the stove till time to serve. If
too strong, add more hot water.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
agricultural.
T. H. HoskINs, N. D., Editor,
Newport, Vermont.

THE New York Experiment Station
has backed up by careful testing what
all farmers knew long ago, and what
the cattle have always known-that hay
injured by bad weather is poor stuff.
Chemical analysis showed that the
quantity of albuminoids, the element
upon when relative food values most
largely depend and by which they are
usually measured, had not suffered
much diminution by exposure and was
practically the same in both kinds of
hay. This was somewhat surprising,
and test was then made to determine
whether any change had taken place in
the albuminoid elements by which their
digestibility was affected. 1t was found
that the sound hay (clover) contained
1852 per cent of albuminoids, of
which 10.1S7 per cent was digestible
and 1925 per cent indigestible; the
best of the damaged hay contained
12.1S7 per cent of albuminoids,1, of
which 1896 per cent were digestible
and G.192 per cent indigestible; while
the poorer sample of the damaged hay
contained 13.S43 per cent of albumin
ODDS, of which $3.50 per cent were di-
gestible and 1908 per cent indigestible
In other words, nearly seventy-four per
cent of the albuminoids in the sound
hay were capable of digestion, while in
the damaged hay only about forty-nine
per cent were capable of digestion.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
A Good Complexion.

A Washington letter-writer says:
"Quite a discussion is going on among
our society bellies as to the best thing
for the complexion. One young lady,
whose skin is marvel of purity tells her
friends that she uses nothing but rain
water upon her face, neck, arms and
hands. She ascribes her beautiful com
plexion entirely to rain-water, with
plenty of good out-of-door exercise. She
has her followers, but there is another
lady, with equally as fine skin, who
laughs at the rain-water idea, and says
she wipes her face with piece of fine
flannel, dipped in warm water, morning
and night, and, instead of drying with a
towel, she presses her skin to keep
it soft and pliable. This lady also pre-
scribes out-of-door exercise. One thing
is certain-neither of the prescriptions
can harm any one, which is more than
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Maine Agricultural College.

Superintend Gowell reports the
grain crop, just threshed at the college
farm, as twelve hundred and fifty
bushels, consisting of nine hundred
and thirty bushels of oats and three
hundred and twenty bushels of barley.
One oat field of seven and half
acres, seeded two bushels per acre
and stocked to grass, produced five
hundred and thirteen bushels, or sixty
eight bushels per acre. The varieties
of grain grown are " Hogan " oats,
" Hulless" barley and Mensury "
barley. An experiment comparing
light and heavy seeding with oats, using
two, four, six, eight or ten bushels
of seed per acre in each instance, and
duplicating the tests, showed the aver
age yields for each quantity of seed to