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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-06
An Economical Farmer.

There lived not very many years ago a
short distance from the town of Beaver,
Pa, very mean farmer. One day as he
was starting to do his weekly shopping
his wife came out and asked him to buy
her darning-needle.
whats the matter with the needle
bought you last winterY
THE eyes broken out" she replied.
Bring the needle here" said; I'm not
going to allow any such extravaganza.
I'll have the needle mended."
The woman was wise in her generation
and made no protest. She brought out
the broken needle.
The economical farmer rode into Beaver
and stopped first of all at the blacksmith's
shop. He took out the needle and handed
il to the blacksmith. II want that
mended," he said
The blacksmith knew his customer, and
keeping his face pretty straight, said that
the eye should be made whole in an
hours time. The farmer rode away, and
the blacksmith walked across the street
and bought new needle for a cent or
two.
When the farmer called again the black
smith gave him the new needle. The
farmer looked at the smooth, polished
surface of the steel and remarked that it
was good job.
GLOW much will it be ?" said he.
''Ten cents" said the blacksmith, and
the farmer as he paid it remarked that he
knew that the needle could be mended,
but his wife would have gone to the ex-
pense Of buying new one if he hadn't
interfered.
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FARM AND HOME AFFAIRS.
ABOUT THE TARIFF AND POTATOES.
a Big Tree-Not Rare PIant-NIice in
H0t-Beds-The Dairy-StOck Notes
horticultural and Household
Hints-Other Items.

Most OF the markets IN the country are
now being largely supplied with potatoes
from Scotland, says the Chicago Times A
few protection papers are advocating put
ting higher tariff on potatoes for the
benefit OF American farmers. To do this
would simply add to their tariff burdens.
More than half the farmers in the coun-
try are represented as using foreign pota-
toes at the present time or going without
this most useful vegetable Chicago is
obtaining potatoes not only from Scotland
and Canada, but from half dozen states
and territories. The potatoes obtained
from Utah and Dakota are generally of ex-
cellent quality. Illinois is poor state for
potatoes, as it is for fruit. With rapidly
increasing population, there is decrease
in the production of potatoes. In the
southern and central portions of the state
but few late potatoes are raised. During
the past few years the yield in the north
ern part of the state has been small The
soil that produced good potatoes when it
was first brought under cultivation now
gives very poor returns for the seed
planted.
Indiana is in about the same condition
as Illinois in respect to raising potatoes.
They have never been a paying crop in
Kansas and it is not likely that they ever
will be. Both the climate and the soil are
against them. At present Michigan, Wis
cOnsin and Iowa raise potatoes enough for
home consumption and some to show. As
towns in these states increase, however,
it is doubtful if they will raise more po-
tatoes than will be required for the home
market. Dakota, Utah and some of the
other territories, where the soil and
climate are well suited to potatoes, have
an excellent opportunity to profit by rails
ing potatoes for supplying most of the
markets in the west. In the near and
distant future potatoes promise to pay
better than wheat. In Dakota the climate
is very unfavorable to keeping potatoes
over the winter, and there are great diff
culties in the way OF procuring good stor
age for them in cellars. 1t may be practi-
cal to keep them in buildings having walls
similar to those erected for keeping ice
and supplied with heating apparatus.
Perhaps it will be more economical to
send them to market when they are dug
out, and to store them in large quantities
in the cities where they will be sold.
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ACTORS in oLDEN TIMES.
The Strange Position Occupied by Stage
People in France.
Nineteenth Century,

Nineteenth Century.l
Strange contrasts and anomalous situa-
tons were the result of the familiar inter
course of all classes, and contributed not
a little to make the society OF that time SO
amusing to us. Perhaps the greatest
anomaly of all was the position of actors
and actresses. An antiquated law de-
prived them OF all civil rights; they could
not appear as witnesses in court nor fill
any public post. They were sent to
prison for the slightest peccadillo on
the mere whim OF the court author
tiles, and if they died while fol-
lowing their professions were refused
religious rites at their burial. Adrienne
Lecouvreur was taken out at night in a
cab by two porters and buried in a hole
hastily dug at the corner of the street.
Yet Adrienne LecOuvreur was so sought
after in her lifetime that she complained
she could not comply with all the invita-
tons she received from the great, and that
theirattentions prevented her from enjoy
ing peaceful and quiet life. The actress
Clarion was an intimate friend of the
Duchesse de Nilleroi and the DuchesSe de
Duras Not only actresses, but actors, in
fatuated the leaders of society. The actor
Mole received from Marshal Richelieu a
costume worth 10000 francs, and Fleury
from noble friend a dress that had only
been worn once and for which $1,000
francs had been paid. Two ladies-one
French, one Polish-fought duel for an
actor The Frenchwoman was wounded
and locked up in convent. Quaint incl
dents of all kinds illustrate the relations
between the stage and its patrons.
Actresses were sometimes present
at state concerts, and on one
occasion Sophie Arnold was seated next
TO duchess, who exclaimed, disdain-
fully: Honest women should wear badges
to distinguish them" "Tien you would
WISH" replied the actress, ito give the
public a chance of counting them" \
young able, accompanied by two young
and pretty women, entered the box of the
marshal de Noailles, who was known for
his misfortunes ON the battlefield. The
marshal soon afterward came and claimed
the box. In the height of the dispute the
able called out to the pit, which had
looked on with much interest: Gentle
men, appeal to you. Here is the marshal
de Noailles, who has never taken a place
in his life, and now wants to take mine.
Am to go?" 'No! now cried the pit,
and the marshal was forced to give way.
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hope, are there not countless causes? Man
feels shame. What does this prove? He
pities himself What does that demon
strate?
The dark continent of motive and de-
sire has never been explored. In the
brain, that wondrous world with one in
habitant, there are recesses dim and dark,
treacherous sands and dangerous shores,
where seeming syrens tempt and Jade;
streams that rise in unknown lands from
hidden springs, strange seas with ebb and
flow of tides, resistless pillows urged by
storms OF flame, profound and awful
depths hidden by mist of dreams, OBJ
scure and phantom realms where
vague and fearful things are half re-
vealed, jungles where passions tigers
crouch and skies of cloud and blue where
fancies fly with painted wings that dazzle
and mislead, and the poor sovereign OF
this picture is led by old desires and
ancient hates, and stained by crimes OF
many vanished years, and pushed by
hands that long ago were dust, until he
feels like some bewildered slave that
mockery has throned and crowned.
Col. Ingersoll concludes his reply as fol-
lows:
Science is the enemy of fear and credu-
lily. 1t invites investigation, challenges
the reason, stimulates inquiry and well
comes the unbeliever. 1t seeks to give
food and shelter and raiment, education
and liberty TO the human race. 1t welcomes
every fact and every truth. 1t has fur
nished a foundation for morals, philoso-
ply for the guidance OF man. From all
books it selects the good, and from all
theories the true. 1t seeks to civilize the
human race by the cultivation OF the in
tellect and heart. 1t refnes through art,
music and the Thanksgiving voice and
expression to every noble thought. The
mysterious does not excite the feeling OF
worship, but the ambition to understand.
1t does not pray-it works. 1t
does not answer inquiry with
the malicious cry of "blasphemy" Its
feelings are not hurt by contradiction,
neither does it ask TO be protected by law
from the laughter of heretics. 1t has
taught man that he cannot walk beyond
the horizon-that the question of origin
and destiny cannot be answered-that an
infinite personality cannot be compre-
hended by a finite being, and that the
truth of any system of religion based on
the supernatural cannot by any possibility
be established-such a religion not being
within the domain of evidence. And,
above all, it teaches that all our duties are
here-that all our obligations are to senti-
ent being; that intelligence, guided by
kindness, is the highest possible wisdom;
and that "man believes not what he
would, but what he cam
And after all, it may be that Ito ride an
unbroken horse with the reins thrown
upon his neck"-as you charge me with
doing gives a greater variety OF sensations,
a keener delight and better prospect OF
Il l.
astride of dead one, in "a deep, reveren-
tal calm" with the bride firmly in your
hand
Again assuring you of my profound res
pect, remain, sincerely yours.
RoRFRT O. INGFRSOII
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horticultural HINTS.

A few stakes around a young tree, with
barbed wire wrapped around the stakes, Will
protect the tree from animals. With this
method fruit trees may be planted in field
given up to stock.
crop of big strawberries to fighting weeds n
couple of years and getting inferior fruit. He
says drainage not only causes better crops, but
also hastens npening at least four days.
A Vermont man has a plum tree which pro-
duced six and one-half bushels Of plums last
season. And the chances are that the tree will
not survive this overlooking, If it does it will
not bear even moderate crop for several
years.
Severely cutting back the dead wood on the
peach trees will start them into new life. If
the trees be dead at the top, and the wood near
the trunk green, the new buds will soon give a
new top. BY keeping all the injured old wood
cut away, the tree will do service much longer
than is usually the ease with peach trees
Here is a bit of advice from n Connecticut
experiment station which, If followed, would
benefit every owner of an orchard. Says Mr..
p. NJ Augur, official pomologist of that state:
when YOU look at a branch on young tree
that can now be taken off with a knife, imagine
it to be six inches in diameter, and ii in that
case IL would crowd, why take il off now, and
let all prospective growth cut off so hereafter
where il is needed. There is an almost univer-
sal neglect to thin out young trees enough, and
not until the trees become perfect tanCle is
cutting begun. when it mutlates the tree badly.
Again. now while pruning you can leisurely
inspect the trees and remove the eggs OF myriads
of insects"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-06
CHERIFFs SALE.

BY virtue Of a certified copy Of decree 20 me dc
rccted from the Clerk of the superior Court OF Mariou
county, Indiana, in No. 1871, wherein janet
+. Darnall ct a. plaintiffs ard Arthur l. Wright
e. al. defendants, requiring me 10 make the sun
of sixteen hundred aud thrtyseyen dollars and fouH
cents ISL G370N, with interest on said decree aud
costs viii expose at public sale 10 the highest bid
der, on
SATURDAY, THE 28rd DAY OF JUNE, A d. 1853,
between the hours Of 10 o'clock a. m. and o'clock
n m of said day az the door OF the court house or
term not exceeding seven years, OF the following
real estate, tO-wit:
lot number eight go and the east hall Of lot nun-
Der fifteen 49, and all of lot mum Der sixteen 10 in
A. J. Wrights subdivision Of HOhn, administrator :
subdivision OF outlot number one hundred and
twenty-seyen on in the city oil indianapolis; ana
also. an undivided one-half interest in lot number
thirtv-two 1921 in Alvord Co.'S subdivision OF But
Ter and Fctchcrs addition to the city Of lnoianapo-
lis: and also. lot number nine 90 in 1albotts add-
ton 10 the city OF Indianapolis and also, an undi-
vidcd one-half interest in one hundred l0J ieet or
OF the north end Of lot number four "a in square
number seveniy-one ll i'm the city OF indianapolis
all situate in Marion county, Indiana.
II such and profits viii not sell for sufficient
sum 10 satisfy said dccree, interest and cost WILL
at the same time and place, expose % public sale the
fee simple of said real estate, much thereof as
may be- sufficient discharge said decree, interest
and costs said sale viii be made without any reflex
Whatever from valuation or appraisement lave.
ISAAC KING.
Sheriff OF Marion County.
MAY 80, A. ID. 1855.
Hammond & Rogers, Attorneys for Plaintiff
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Mice in Hot-Beds,

A correspondent of the Country Gentle
man writes: Several years ago L planted
a hot-bed with peppers, tomatoes, cabbage,
and a few pieces of inverted sod with
melons, cucumbers and lima beans. They
all came up nicely and were doing finely
when one morning went out TO the bed,
after it had been kept closed two days on
accounted the weather, and to my sur
prise the plants were scratched out and
the seeds all gone. Mice holes were to be
seen, and knew what had done the mis-
chief. | replanted the bed, and got two
or three sauce dishes, filled them with
corn meal, sprinkled with arsenic, and
placed the dishes in each end of the hot
bed. The mice ate the meal and died be-
fore they got out of the bed, and l had no
further trouble with them. Since then l
put the dishes filled with the poisoned
meal in the bed when | plant the seed,
and have never been troubled with either
mice or rats. plant melons, cucumbers
and beans on inverted pieces of sod and
place them in the hot-bed because | can
have them two or three weeks earlier than
if / waited until could plant them in the
open ground.
Nv object in using meal instead cheese
or bread is that where the bed is left open
there is danger of cats or dogs getting the
poison if on either bread or cheese. There
is no danger with the meal.
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Reform Needed at Foulke's Home.


Wayne county is the home of the Hon. w
Dudley Foulke, the great apostle (0 of reform.
One would think that this fact alone would
keep the officials in the straight and narrow
path. Such, however, does not seem to
be the fact, as the grand jury has Just
brought in forty indictments against
the ex-auditor and three county COM
missioners, all republicans, charging the aud
itor with receiving fees not allowed by law,
and the commissioners with allowing the same.
The amount of illegal fees allowed this repub-
lican official aggregates nearly $4,000. Would
it not be a good idea for reform(0 FOulke to
quit firing at long range and turn his batteries
upon his party friends and associates in Wayne
county? Reform seems to be needed badly in
that model republican county
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"0h, Charlie" said Mission bride to
her young husband about a month ago,
81 have found such prize. 1t will be
such an ornament to our little parlor when
it comes up" and she pointed to a flower
Dot on a stand near the parlOr window.
"What is it?" said Charlie
cit is an Australian plant. 1 bought
the seed to-day of an English sailor. lie
says all the best people OF Australia have
one or more of these plants growing in
their parlors. 1t grows very last and has
a beautiful flower"
Charlie and his bride watched the pot
carefully, and in nearly every house west
of Twelfth-st. a similar pot was observed
daily by the family. At length little green
shoots were seen peering through the
surface of the earth in the pots. The
plants seemed to like the glorious climate,
and they grew until they were about four
feet high.
Then it was discovered that the ingenu-
Gus sailor had been selling common hemp
seed at the rate of 10 cents apiece. All
the women in the mission are nursing
their Australian plants carefully, and they
hope to grow enough hemp to hang the
sailor if he should come around again.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-06
Stock Notes.

An animal is never at a standstiIl. Ii is
either increasing or decreasing. The rule
should be never to allow an animal to fall of.
To gorge an animal with food only serves to
oyerwork the stomach in the attempt TO digest
more than il is really able 10 do and as q re-
suit much is avoided by the animal and goes TO
waste
A New York stock breeder had an imported
Holstein-Fnesan bull which was covered with
hundreds of warts. He removed them in less
than six weeks, without sore or scar, by wash
ing with pure strong cider vinegar.
Good clover hay, or a variety Of grass in the
pasture, viii give better results than an eNclu-
sively grain diet to any kind of stock. Ii is
the variety of food rather than the quality and
quantity that promotes digestion and health.
Shropshires are quite similar in type and
general character to the SOuthdOwn, but have
darker faces and legs, are somewhat larger,
and clip more wool OF q superior quality. They
have neat heads. with rather short, muscular
neck, long, level, broad backs and round bodies
well set upon short legs.
For growing stock, clover is better than grain.
Clover contains more lime for the production
OF bone and more nitrogen for the production
or flesh than corn. A liberal allowance OF
bulky food is always best for young growing
stock. Grain should only be given once day,
and sparingly, oats being preferred.
1t is claimed for the mutton breeds of sheep
that, with the same method OF keeping them
the farm as is in use in England, land worth
as much as 800 per acre might be prohtably
devoted TO sheep, and that if farmers would
hurdle them, instead of giving them the range
of the farm, large profits could be made.
Fietd and Farm SAYS: There will he little
trouble for the next few years TO sell all of the
grade Shropshire bucks that NAV be offered in
these parts. Big sheep are coming to the front
in Colorado, while mutton continues to pay, as
now it does better than wool The ShrOps are
bapou1inp ronular x1,ith ba Aoel-
White clover is the best pasture grass that
can be grown for sheep As white clover is a
short grass it is more desirable thar red clover
for grazing, as sheep detest long grass, prefer
ring to crop close TO the ground On mixture
grasses in a pasture cattle and sheep may be
grazed together, as the grasses that may be
Objectionable to the cattle will be appropriated
by the sheep.
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sATuRpAY. THE 10Th DAY OF JUNE, A. D. 1858
cHERIFFs SALE.

Rv virtue OF a certified copy OF decree upon the
foreclosure OF mortgage 10 directed IRON theCierk
of the Superior Court of Marion county, Indiana, in
cause No s. 0Sf wherein May Connolly Is plaintiff,
and Mary T. Friesner ct al are defendants, reqdlr-
ing me 10 make the of three hundred and twen-
tv-nine dollars and seventeen cents $3.50 10 with in
tereSt on said decree and COSTS viii expose at public
sale 20 the highest bidder on
SATURDAY, THE 10th DAY OF JUNE, A. d.
1sSS between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4
O'Clock D. m. OF said day at the door OF the Court
house of Marion county, Indiana, the rents and pro-
fts for a term not exceeding seven years OF the fol-
lowing real estate, tO-wit:
Lot number thiriy-three (s3l in Clifford Place, an
addition 20 the city Of Indianapolis, made by
William Wallace receiver Of Fletcher sharpe, sit
uate in Marion county. Indiana.
III such rents and profits viii not sell for sufficient
sum TO satisfy said decree interest and costs, will,
as the same time and place, expose 70 public sale the
fee simple of said real estate much thereof
NAV be sufficient 10 discharge said decree, interest
and costs said sale VIII he made without any relief
Whatever from valuation OF appraisement laws.
ISAAC KING,
Sheriff Of Marion County.
May %, a. D. 1SSs.
u. A. Myers. Attorney for Plaintiff
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Song of the shirt.

"What are you reading. John? inquired
Mrs. Blankersby of her husband as she looked
up from her mending and saw him book in
hand stretched at full length upon the sofa.
at is the Song of the Shirt"
'Srhe Song of the Shirt%"
"les; you know how the tune goes, don't
your he SAID in an attempt to be witty.
'No, John" she replied gently, 81 can't say
that ] know how the tune goes, but / should
imagine ,hat she words are something like
hole has been ripped out of this dod gasted
wristband for the last three weeks"
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The Dairy.

Do not says the Ne,o England Farmer, let
butter stand to get hard between the first
and final working and printing or packing for
market An hour is long enough for the salt
to dissolve, and long enough to wait between
the workings.
Milk fever is more prevalent with overfed
COWS than with any other. After the COW is
dried off she should be given plenty of hay or
allowed on the pasture. She should have no
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hygienist, and the moralist, in his turn,
sometimes assumes an uncalled-for hostil-
ity against the creed of the estheticist;
but future and better culture ought to
illustrate that the opinions of these three
teachers may be combined into a perfect
unity. MILE MODE.
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BY virtue of a certified copy Of decree upon the
foreclosure Of mortgage ana proceedings m attach
ment 10 me directed from the Clerk Of the superior
Court Of Marion county, Indiana in cause No. 3d.
S67. wherein William Gall j. plaintiff and Michael
Odinott and John T. Bailey are defendants. requir-
ING me 10 make the sum Of two hundred and thnty-
five dollars and thir;y-three cents S2as with in
tcret on said decree and costs will expose AZ public
sale TO the highest bidder, on
SATURDAY, THE 10th DAY OF JUNE, A. D. 1883,
between the hours Of 10 O'Clock q. and O'Clock
ID m Of said day. at the door OF the Court House OF
Marion county Indiana. the rents and profits Tor a
term not exceeding seven years, OF the following
real estate, tO-wit;
lots numbered seventy l70), seventy-One (sl) and
seyentv-four (1Il in Hubbard, Martindale and Nc
Cartvs subdivision OF lots one two seven aud eight,
in square eleven m in the southeast addition to the
CITY OF indianapolis, situate in Marion county, In
diana.
fsuch rents and profits will not sell for sufficient
sum satisfy said decree interest and costs will,
al the time and place expose 10 public sale the
fee simple of said real estate, or 30 much thereof a.
may he sufficient to discharge said decree, interest
and costs said sale win he made without any re-
lei whatever from valuation or appraisement laws.
ISAAC KING,
Sheriff Of Marion County.
v. &. a l. 0. Clifford, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
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looking for Something Choice.

emmy good butter?" inquired the old lady
OF the grocer.
There's never any flies on our butter,
madam"
Then the old lady, whose knowledge of En-
gish is limited, said.
'Well, if flies VOL at it, faint good nough
for me-" and she went across the way where
only the choice brands are sold.
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Unexpected Wealth.

Old gentleman (who has given tramp a
ell-Now, my man, what win You do with
all that money-spend it for whisky?
Tamp-No, sir. l need food and clothing
more than / do whisky. ] shall take that
nickel and buy a three-button cutaway coat
and vest, and what there is left of it | s'pose
DelmOnico will get. a poor man, sir. can't
drink whisky and be dressy at the same time.