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Modest Salaries in the Old Days.

There was not a postoffice in the
United States in 1889 that paid better
salary than $4,000. That was the salary
at New York, and there were twenty
other Offices with the same salary.
Pennsylvania had four of them. James
Page was Postmaster at Philadelphia,
James Peacock at Harrisburg, Robert
Cochran at Erie and Robert Lynch at
Pittsburg, all drawing $4,000. A
notable thing in connection with the
postoffice at Lancaster, which then paid
S14S3, was the fact that Mary Dickson
was postmistress, almost the only instance
of the blue book of 1889 of woman
holding a profitable Government office,
-Pkilalelphm Press.
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RAPID DECAY OF POSTS.

A farmer who has long cultivated q
sandy farm remarks as one of the expen-
sive incidents of this land the increased
cost of fencing it. Posts set in sand rot
out much more quickly than in heavier
soil, mainly because with every rain the
water settles down, the air follows, and
tits exposed to constant changes. Sandy
soil is, through the summer, generally
warmer than other land, and this pro-
notes speedy decay of anything in it.
The farmers had once set posts that did
not last more than eight years before they
rotted off, the decay occurring justa the
surface of the ground. Posts of the same
kind set on heavier soil, wet most of the
season, were good after fifteen years of
service. Chicago Times.
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CARE OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
The cost of agricultural implements is
one of the most expensive items to the
modern farmer. The one-horse farmer
has only few Of the old implements
which his forefathers used before him;
but upon the larger farms costly ma
chimes and implements must be used, and
these can be had only by costly outlay
Of capital. Farm implements as rule
are supposed only to last seven or eight
years, and one cannot wonder that they
are so short-ived when he sees the now
.eg machine and seed-drlll standing in
|the fields during a greater part of the
year. The proper care given to these
implements will preserve them as long as
similar machinery in manufacturing
houses is supposed to last. When the
Implements have finished their seasons
work they should be carefully cleaned
and the iron and steel part secured from
rust by applying with soft flannel cloth
. mixture of two parts of tallow and one
part beeswax melted together. This
should be done at once, and not put off
for week or two, Tor one or two sum-
ner showers might damage the machin-
cry to the extent of several dollars. They
should be housed then Immediately in
dry and airy Toulouse, and not in barn
cellar, or open, foorless shed. A damp
place will soon ruin the iron and wood
Work.-NeU York Voice.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
PICKING GREEN PEAS.

The labor of picking peas for use
green constitutes large share Of the ex-
pense in growing this crop. With the
competition that is sure to come in SELL
ing from distant places the farmer, grow
ing peas for market, ought first of all
to make sure that he can get plenty and
not too expensive help at picking time.
Early gem peas cost usually five cents
per bushel more fer picking than the
large podded varieties, and they also
yield less. No wonder, then, so few
gems are found in the market when the
price is little better than for other varie-
ties.-NeU York Herald.
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tended for. If one variety gives an equal
yield of grain and a greater amount of
stalks and blades, then of course it should
be preferred, for fodder and ensilage
purposes, to the variety that gives the
less stalk and blade; but it will be found
that as a rule the larger yield of grain,
the larger will be the yield of stover.
Finally, the fact should not be lost sight
of that wood and water alone are not
good foods for animals, and that they are
expensive products to handle.-Bulletin
XVI, Ithaca (N ~ Experiment Sta
tion,
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Keep the burdocks down.
Better not sell the best pigs.
Cut wheat before it is fully ripe.
Bitter milk comes from bad feed.
Destroy the thistle tribe on sight.
Putin big patch of sweet corn to cut
up for the hogs.
In agriculture brain work is as essential
as physical labor.
1t is not all of farming to learn to pro.
duce from the soil.
Tie up the grape vine. Ifleft to dangle
it will stop growing.
Nitrates applied to the soil have little
effect in dry season.
The largest amount of ears to the acre
makes the best silage.
If the slugs are at your pear trees,
douse them with dust.
Pumpkins are valuable food, and every
swine producer should have patch of
them.
Give oleo its distinctive color. and then
punish any dairyman who attempts to sell
butter under that color.
Horses and mules thrive best on
timothy or red-top hay, while sheep and
COWS do better on clover and millet.
No food is better for work teams than
oats during the spring and summer, and
they should be vel! supplied with them.
Spray the hen houses thoroughly with
kerosene. This is better and cheaper than
whitewash. A spraying bellows will soon
pay for itself.
If the dog can't be broken of the
abominable habit of rushing out at pass
ing teams his funeral should be appointed
and the body ready on time.
A crop of oats cut when the seed is in
the milky stage and cured is excellent
for stock and serves as On agreeable ad-
dition to the regular diet in winter.
When shipping live poultry to market,
see to it that the coops are in good con-
dition, for they are sometimes handled
roughly, or slat off may lose fowl or
two.
The men who make the most money
from farming are not the ones who
work the hardest or the most hours, but
those who manage with the greatest Wis
dom.
If you are sending mixed lot of hens
to market it will pay to grade them so as
to have each coop as evenly as possible.
They will sell more rapidly and at better
prices.
s Do not forget your coal oil can this
warm weather; put coal oil on the roost
early in the morning, about twice week,
and thus keep out the lice from among
your fowls.
Look out for the rats and other YER
min. These things greatly lessen the
proit of the poultry business. For stop
ping up holes broken glass in cement or
mortar is excellent.
Are you crowding too many chickens
in one roosting place2 Are you permit
ting chicks under four months to roost
other than on floor or coop2 If SO, cor
rect these mistakes.
The housewife who makes a practice
of giving fowls mixed mess of warm
mash and vegetables with scraps of meat
and crumbs of bread will quickly dis
cover that it is superior to an exclusive
diet of grain.
When the hens appear droopy, and yet
show no indication of disease or injury,
remove the roosters, especially if the
hens are fat. Eggs from hens not in
company with roosters will keep longer
than fertile ones.
Sunfower seed, which can be easily
grown in profusion around our fences
and walls without any trouble save the
covering of the seed in spring, is an ad-
mirable Alternative, and fowls are ex-
tremely fond of them.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
no PREVENT HARDENING OF SALT.

A small quantity Of corn-starch, say a
quarter of a teaspoonful to q heaping
tablespoonful of salt, will be a delight
full surprise. Whether you like salt or
not, it will be a positive pleasure to use
it, after the struggles caused BY its hard
eninn Prairie Farmer.
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A Fuct Worth Knowing.

No horse need die Of collie if DR.. Tobias's
Venetian Liniment is on hand when first the
animal is attacked a single dose revives an
overheated horse, and puts new life into him
1t quite cures gals, sprains, old sores
scratches, sore throat, etc.
The Derby Condition Powders are used also
by the best horsemen in the country. They are
no cheap article, but manufactured from the
best ingredients that can be purchased, and
are perfectly innocent. No one has ever used
them but continues their use and recon-.
mends them to his friends.
All druggists and saddlers.
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WHY THUNDER STORMS AFFECT MILK.

WHY THUNDER STORMS AFFECT MILK.
During electrical disturbances it seems
that cream and milk are put into a con-
dition to sour easily. The probable
cause of this, the editor of the Albany
N. " Cultivato, explains as follows:
The effect of an electrical discharge is to
decompose portion of the atmosphere,
by which ozone is produced. This SUBJ
stance has secular properties from its in
tense activity as an oxide of oxygen, and
its action is often believed to be, and may
be, the cause of the souring of milk, beer
and fresh wine during what are known
as thunder storms. The ozone is diffused
through the air, and is believed to be
the cause of the strong acid odor which
prevails after the storm is passed. No
NAbt if the milk is submerged in water,
and access of air is prevented, no result
of the kind need be apprchended; and as
the more milk is exposed to the air the
more it will be affected by the ozone; the
milk in open shallow pans will be acidi-
fed more readily than that in deep pals,
although these may be open. In our long
experience; however, the writer adds, we
have never had any milk affected in this
way, either in shallow pans or deep pals,
and are of opinion that tho heat of the
air preceding thunder storms is more di-
rectly the agent in the souring of the
milk than the ozone that may exist in the
air after the storm is passed. Carefulness
to maintain proper temperature, by
closing dairy houses and cellars against
the outer atmosphere, will be means of
safety.
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makes the worlds quill tootbpicks,
PIense Don't FORGET II.

That DR.. H. James Cannabis Indica is pre-
pared in Calcutta, India, from the purest and
either in that country or this that viii posi-.
lively and permanently cure Consumption,
Bronchitis, Asthma, Nasal Catarrh and Nervous
Debility or break up fresh cold in twen-
ty-four hours $3.50 bottle. three bottles for
$3.50. Craddock & Co., Proprietors, 1U2 Race
street PHILADELPHIA
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THERE are thirty electric launches on the
River Thames, London.
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For washing .f1nnels, ,Dobbins's Electric Soap
Is mdrrel0,la. Blankets and woolens washed
with it look like ne,r, and there Is absolutely
do such nsrfect work. Give II trial nO1r.
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E. B. Walthall G. Co., Druggists, Horse Cave,
KY, say: Halls Catarrh Cure cures every
one that takes It." Sold by Druggists, ,LI5c.
A MUNICH Bavarial carriage is propelled by
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FITS stopped free by DR.. KL1NE's GREAT
NERVE REsToRER. No Fits after first days
use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and 80 trial
bottle free. DR.. Kline, 93l Arch St., Phila-, Pa.
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The first permanent settlement of Ohio
was at Marietta in 1888.
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If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp-
sons kve-water. druggists sell at pc. per bottls
Evening journal., 1890-07-19
storIea of the pnr.

The gate keeper st tho entrance to
Harlan 4 Hollingsworth Company's
works carries large stick, which Is a
terror to all intrudera. A reporter who
sought an interview with man engaged
In those works this morning, on seeing
the open entrance attempted to pass
through without an explanation, when
there arose behind him a howl which
caused his blood to cease coursing, his
pulse to stop beating, and his heart to
bound into his throat. and man with
wide open mouth came bounding for
ward, his huge stick poised In the air as
II ready to descend on the unfortunate
culprit's head. Bis first impression was
that he was TO be devoured by a maniac.
and tried to put himself In an attitude
of defence, when all at once he learned
he was committing breach Of rules by
entering without permission. The gate.
keeper turned out, however, to be a
rational animal and perfectly disposed
to give any information he possessed,
but any person who tries to make hts
way inside these works without his per.
mission had better look out
Evening journal., 1890-07-19
MUNICIPAL COURT.
Drunk amd Dissrderly People Have so
PAy-Coiored "scrappers."

At this mornings session of Municipal
Court Charles Walton. drunk, was ane5
81 and costs John Pickey, drunk, was let
oil on payment Of costs; Thomas McCRnR,
drunk, was fined 81 and costs. John
Malone an aged man was found on the
coast drunk by officer Weldin. John
said he was very weak and took a drink
or two to strengthen him He WAS let
of on promise to leave the city
Jesse Jones, colored, was charged with
being drunk and beating his mother.
His mother appeared In the witness
stand and told the court that Jesse gets
drunk all the time, and every time he Is
drunk he gets into a fight. Yesterday
he came home drunk and beat her In q
shameful manner. He got $40 and costs
Charles Gibson was charged with the
larceny Of chest Of tools containing rip
and cross cut saws, planes. oil stones,
chisels, try squares, bevels hatchets,
sore v-drivers, ETC., from Joshua Dick
erson. William Church, who keeps a
secondhand store at No. 1876 TAtnall
street, testified having bought the same
tools. Gibson was held in 5000 bail.
Graham Jewell, John Foreman and
John Cannon Jr, were charged with dis
orderly conduct by William B. Hickman,
keeper of Third street bridge. Hickman
charged the boys with swimming In
front of his house and using profane and
indecent language, Officers Welsh and
Gainor said they had seen the boys into
swim, but had never heard them use
profane language. Harry O. Turner ap-
peared for the defence and said the boys
had abided with the law by properly pro-
tecting their person. The case was dis
charged.
Charles H. Scott Colored, was charged
with assault and battery on Mary James.
also colored. Same time ago Scott lent
Miss James a ring and on Sunday last
Scott went TO Miss Jamess house a. No.
227 East Liberty street. and demanded
his property In a disorderly manner.
Miss James refused to give the ring,
Whersupon Scott struck her. He was
fined 81 and costs
Mary Gray, colored was charged with
assault and battery on Catherine Daley,
colored. Katy came around the house OF
Miss Gray in weak condition, probably
suffering from the effects Of drink and
began to raise a disturbance. Mary went
up TO her and in a playful manner gave
her push, which sent Kate over
stove and landed her on a
tin can, which took quite an
amount of skin off her nose The case
was discharged The colored women,
who were witnesses In the case were
quite happy at the decision Of the Judge
and one of them passed around snuff
box, Of which they all partook of the
contents Nathan Christon, colored, and
john Fletcher and Augustus Myers, two
small boys, charged with the larceny of
$50, were held in 500 bail to appear at
Mondays session.
Evening journal., 1890-07-19
cITY NEws IN eRIEE.

James II. Beggs, of the firm Of j. Fl.
Beggs & Co., is visiting Atlantic City.
Mrs. Wilmer Dotts, who has been visit
ing friends here, returned to her home in
Philadelphia to-day.
The flooring for the encsmpment tents
Is at Brsndywine Springs and the tent
poles are expected to-day.
Miss Alice Flemming of Front and
Van Buren, streets Is visiting friends for
few days In New Castle, Del.
Charles Began was arrested this morn
ing at 10 o'clock, for the larceny Of q
sum Of money from Charles E. Evans.
New car No. SO was placed on the
Riyerview electric line yesterday to re-
place car No. 20, which has been re-
moved.
William Calhoun had his right hand
badly mashed while at work at the
Jackson g. Sharp Company's shipyard on
Thursday.
Sixteen carloads of material are on the
siding Of the Philadelphis, Wilmington
and Baltimore railroad for the contrac-
tors of Kirkwood Park.
Mrs Henry Pusey died at her resi-
dence at Lancaster avenue and Scott
streets last evening, of asthma. She
was well known in her community.
The First Congregational Sunday
school will take an excursion to Silver
Grove on the steamer Champion on Wed
nesdsy, August 9 Rossv wi'l 'eava King
ssreet wharf at . a. Ia. Tickets 10 and
Is cents,
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MARINE MATTERS.

The schooner Alaska is having her
deck caulked at Moore's shipyard.
The barge s. J. Fleming win be hauled
out on Tuesday at Moore's shipyard.
The w. 4 N. railroad foat win be
launched at Moore's shipyard to-day and
the barge BERTHE will be hauled out.
The three-masted schoonerS. p. Bacon
is discharging cargo Of ice at the Ken
nebec Ice and Coal Company's wharf.
The coal barge Edna Miller arrived az
this port this morning and is discharg
ing her cargo at Shipley street wharf.
The big iron steamship Serapis,
which has been repaired at the Harlan
and Hollingsworth Company yard, was
finished yesterday and cleared from the
dry-dock.
The scow for the North American
Dredging and Improvement Company Of
New York. which was launched on Thurs
day at the jackson and Sharp Company g
shipysrd, will Ds toTed Go New YorE on
Monday,
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MR.. ogle on the old Mems Home.

Thomas NJ. 0gle was seen to day con Z
cerning his offer Of site whereon TO
build an old mans home. He had not
much to say, but he thought the idea Of
the gentleman who wants $50, 900, and
two or three acres Of ground whereon to
build site, was impracticable, for the
simple reason that so much money could
not be raised for such purpose. The
Odd Fellows, he said, were opposed to
the erection Of such a home, for what
reason he did not know, but II
an Odd Fellow was approached on
the subject, he would declare that his
society intended to build homo for
their own members He did not believe
those assertions were sincere, and he
shought the unRccountRble hostility OF
the Odd Fellows would postpone to an
indefinite period, the erection of such a
home. He did not believe in the theory
subscription of man in the Morning
News. He said such an idea was very
good for beneficial association, but not
for the erection of a home.
Evening journal., 1890-07-19
PUBLIC OPENING Or FaE= BATH.
The emAn Boys Disport Themselves In
the Water for the Firat Tins

Aho email boYo 0laport themselves In
the Water for the First Time.
The Raymond free bath house which
JOB n. Jackson, president of the Jackson
and Sharp Company. presented to the
Free Baths Association last Saturday
afternoon was opened to the public yes
terday afternoon
Tho bath house WAS towed to tho
southwest end Of Third street bridge
several days since by the tug Taurus.
The bath house has been placed about
eighteen feet from the bank at high
water. The bath house Is held in place
by piling at the four corners Of the house
and the latter is secured to the piling by
ropes which allow 1t to rise and fall with
the tide.
The entrance 20 the bath house is at
the south side Of Third street bridge,
steps having been placed there which
lead 10 platform on level with
the door OF the house. The plat
form was built and the piling driven by
Henhoeffer & Vaughan.
All day crowds of boys fingered about
the house waiting until the doors should
be opened.
Superintendent John G. Jackson, who
has charge OF the bath house, opened
the doors at A. 80 o'clock and admitted
about sixty five boys, who had scarcely
divested themselves Of their clothing
before they were in the water enjoying
themselves as only boys can.
The boys dived and swan In all con-
ceivable manners and made deafening
noise Each one seemed to think II his
duty to shout louder than the boy near.
est him, and from the noise which they
made there is no doubt that he succeeded
II the noise had been stopped, as the rules
command, no doubt the boys would have
preferred swimming In the creek outside.
At the end of half hour this lot Of
bathers was called out and second batch
was admitted. This time there were
about one hundred boys who diaported
themselves in the water.
Some Of the boys thought that half
hour was too small time for a bath
such as the small boy delights in, and
several tried TO go ia twice but were sur
prised when recognized by the superin-
tendent.
Superintendent jackson says: "The
boys certainly enjoy themselves In here.
From 4.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon
until IL o'clock this morning, 1862 per
sons ranging in age from years to 40
have bathed in the house. / have no
trouble with any Of them and they obey
me Implicitly
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senator Reagan ApoIoclzed.

WASHINGTON, July 19.-The senate dis
posed Of sixty-three pages Of the sundry
civil service bill and adopted several
amendments 10 it, During the debate Mr..
Reagan referred TO Mr.. Dolph as being al
ways on the side of special privileges and
advantages. Mr.. Dolph roundly scored
the Texas senator, comparing him to the
Pharisee who thanked God he was unlike
other men, and 6eied the senator to point
to any act of his in the interests Of the land
spectators. Mr.. Reagan then admitted
that his remark was one which he ought
not to have made, and he asked that it be
tmitted from the official report
Evening journal., 1890-07-19
The Msorenera Cnne

In the Orphans Court yesterday after
noon the arguments in the McGreners
case were resumed before Judge Grubh
by Mr.. Davis, for petitioner. He went
over the whole of the evidence on both
sides, and after pointing out tAe coin
cldences in the Testimony, contended that
an alibi had been proved by the petitioner,
and she was therefore entitled 10 the
dover of her husband. At the elese OF
Mr.. Daviss remarks Judge Grub an
nouneed that on account Of the extraor-
dinary amount of contradictory evidence
offered he would be unable to make
known his decision Hntil the next session
OF the Orphans Court, which would take
place On September @.
Evening journal., 1890-07-19
I TNPRECFDENTED ATTRACTION
~ OVER A MILLION DreTRfnfrrf
I.ouIaiana state Lotterr comnnnx

Incorporated by the Legislature, for Educa-
tonal and Charitable purposes, its fran
chise made part Of the present State Con-
stitntion, In 1879, by an overwhelming popular
vote, and
The Pennsylvania Railroads excursion
sunday 20 Tolchester offers beautiful
rail and steamer ride, and at the beach Ia
every attraction for adelightfal day. Special
Train leaves Wilmington at n a IN. Round
trip rate, only 81 90.
To continue until
January LIST, 1895.
It's MAMMOTH DRAWINGS take place
Semi-Annuhlly, dune and Docemberl and
its GRAND SINGLE NUMBER DRAW
lNGs take place in each Of the other ten
months Of the year, and are all drawn IN
public, o. the Academy Of Music. New
Orleans, Ia.
FAMED FOR TWENTY YEARS,
FOR INrEGRIrY or ITS DRAWINGS. AND
PROMPT PAYMENT or PRIZES
Attested as follows:
I'VE do hereby certify that we supervise the
arrangements for all the Monthly and SEMI
annual Drawings Of The Louisiana state Lot
terry Company, and in person manage and con 4.
troll the Drawings themselves, and that the
same are conducted with honesty. fairness,
and in good faith toward all parties, and we
authorize the Company to use this certificate,
with facsimiles OF our signatures attached, In
lie adycrtisCmeuts.n
Evening journal., 1890-07-19
Funeral Of DR.. stout.

The body Of Or. Henry w. Stout. whc
died Of paralysis on July II, was taken
from this city at s o'clock this morning
by few Of his near relatives. The fun
eral took place at o'clock from ghe Pres
byterian Church at Dover, Del. Inter
ment was made at the Presbyterian
Cemetery at that place Mr.. Stout was
member Of Liberty Lodge,A o. U. W..
which met last evening to make arrange
ments to attend his funeral. His death
is the first that has occurred in the lodge