VOL. XXVI.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., JAN. 10, 1891.
NO. 2
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HOW TO MAKE   SOMETHING THIS f
WINTER. ^"~
Why Not Usa the Idle Time Profitably.
The Indiana Farmer Wants Agenta
Where None are at Work.
We have arranged for over §3,000 of
premiums for those who will use a little
time this winter in making up clubs for
the Isti ana Farmer, and want agents
■where there are none now at work in
this line.
Take subscriptions at one dollar each
for the Farmer one year, for any sized
club. You can easily win one of the
following premiums.
You have till April 1st to complete
your club, but can send them in as you
get two or three names.
The bigger the club the more valuable
the premium you will get. Here is a
condensed
: "4       LIST OF    PREMIUMS,
to be awarded to Agents April 1, 1891.
Standard trotting bred horse.
Five octave Sterling organ.
Wind engine, derrick and all complete.
Wind engine, complete outfit.
i**2*Btl mill and power combined.
Six feet center draft mower.
Graindrill, II marker complete.
Champion mill, sheller and cob splitter.
Devon Bull, young fine bred.
Corn planter, outfit best made.
Gold,watch, SpriDgfield movement.
■Silver watch, inlaid gold case.
Silver watch, Springfield movement.
Silver watch, Springfield movement.
Steel land Toller, complete, best made.
Sulky plows, best made.
(There are three of these, one to each agent)
Reversible hay carriers.
Ensilage machines and cutters.
The best cultivators made.
The great commentary on the Bible, 5
vols.
Fence building machines.
Broad cast seeders.
Harrows, hay carriers, fence machines.
Tank heaters, several garden clipper
plows.
Breech-loading shot guns.
Chilled, and other plows.
Combination feed cutters, etc.
Buggy harness.
Hay stacking outfits, truck and feed
carts.
Also a great number of other useful
articles, such as washing machines,
shovel plows, etc.
LIVE STOCK, FOWLS.ETC.
50 pure bred Poland China, Berkshire,
Chester White, Duroc Jersey pigs, to be
awarded singly and in pairs, all fine
breeding animals.
12 pure bred Shropshire, Southdown,
OxfoidDown, Merino, and Cotswold
fine breeding sheep.
Some Collie dogs and Fox Hounds.
Plymouth Rocks, barred and white,
Brahmas, Wyandottes, Brown Leghorns,
Cochins, both of chicks and eggs in great
numbers; also Bronze turkeys, and the
Duck tribe till you can't rest.
large number of Niagara and other
kinds pf grape vines, and nursery stock.
Out £f .these 200 or more articles, an
active agent ought to be able to secure a
good premium, that will pay him well for
his time and work.
Sample copies of the Farmer, blanks
and fullinformation will be sent you on
application by postal card. Go to work
reader and make up a club, if no one is
doing the work there. Address
i Indiana Farmer Co.,
I Indianapolis, Ind.       I
FARMERS AND THE COMING
REVOLUTION.
Pulpit Review of Current Events
BY REV. THOMAS DIXON, JR.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr , according to
bis usual custom, before the delivery of
his sermon, discoursed to his large congregation which filled Association Hall, Sunday morning, on the following review of
Current Events.
TnE FARMERS   AND THE   COMING REVOLUTION.
The farmers have always been the foremost representatives of conservatism.
They have overwhelmed the voi-*e of the
restless, dreaming city, again and again.
On this rural content or stupidity, men
who believe in the divinity of that which
is have long reckoned with certainty.
At last the farmer has broken the spell
that has bound him. He has smashed the
traditions of centuries, he has broken the
dash board, kicked out of the shafts and
is running away. The men who have
driven him with tight rein from their traditional seats are being hurled into the
ditch and ground beneath the wheels. It
has been so sudden, they hardly know
what has struck them. Some say it is a
cyclone, and will soon blow over. They
think it is too severe to last. Old man
Tradition rubs his hands, forces a smile
through his chattering teeth, says he
knows it is a cold day now, but then he
looks for warmer weather to-morrow and
things will move on as usual. Says he
has seen "granger movements" before,
you know, and nothing ever came of it.
And yet while he retails to you these stale
observations, you will note that from the
restless, uncertain manner in which he
glances at the darkening sky, he is not
sure of his own prophecy.
The trouble is the people have begun to
think—the masses of the people—the old
farmer, the patient beast of burden
through the years of plenty and prosperity
for others who have reaped what he has
sowed. When masses of people begin to
think, it shakes the world.
It is this mighty movement of masses
that is shaking, today, the very'foundations of the civilization of the 19tn century, and even now drawing in' dim out
line the new civilization of the 20th century. The time was when all eyes were
on the great and powerful. Kings
and mighty warriors only
history. Poets sang only of
Literature fawnid in
fixed
and   nobles
could make
them and for them
The Farmers' Alliance of America is a
gigantic wave of this world wide move ment
of the race. It holds in its hands not only
the possibilities of a higher life for this
generation—it holds the hopes of unnumbered generations yet unborn. Their organization is superb. It is the strongest
social and political machine built in
America in the last 20 years. They are determined to lift up the toiling hosts and
make their life worth the living. They are
teaching and will teach more emphatically
than ever, that it is just as honorable to
hew wood and draw water and plow a
field, as to make laws, practice medicine,
run a bank or a roalroad. They have
doubtless many crude ideas as yet about
law and finance. But whose fault is it
that they are ignorant? They will learn
as they go along. Absurd demands will
take reasonable shape in the red hot forge
of public debate and education. Demagogues will mislead for a time; but they
will kill two demagogues where they
nourish one. Their only danger lies in the.
possibility of selfish intrigues in politics,
in which their lofty principles will be
forgotten in a mad struggle for immediate
power. Holding fast to their principles,
they will sweep this nation ultimately in
triumph. They represent the grandest
moral issues of the age. Standing firmly
on those issues, they aro as sure tq win as
that God is, and that good shall ultimately
triumph over evil.
Let the demagogues, deadbeats and
bummers, who are trying ever to learn
whieh way the wind blows that they may
trim their sails to meet it, take warning!
The cyclone has only begun. They had
better seek shelter.
the dirt at their feet. The poet thankfully
ate the crumbs that fell from their table,
and was proud to be called a slave of the
great.
To-day all this i3 changed. The eyes of
the world are now on the weaker classes—
the masses. The history of a nation is the
story of their condition. The poet sings o
them. The "Song of the Shirt" thrills the
heart of a world. There are mighty forces
beneath lifting up these millions into new
life. They are themselves at last becoming
conscious of their capacities aud needs
and with their capacities as the lever and'
their needs as the fulcrum they are tugging
away at the very foundations of social,
eaonomic and political life. Our civilization, to-day, quivers from foundation to
flag staff beneath these assaults. The nations of earth all feel this new power.
The Czar of Russia shivers in his palace,
puts a new lock on the door, adds another
regiment to his body guard, and trembling
awaits the next explosion to see whether
he is dead or alive.
The Emperor of Gemany, seeing the
handwriting on the wall, hastens to "make
friends of the mammon of unrighteousness." The drum beat of the Salvation
Army echoes around the world, calling
mankind to the rescue of the submerged
millions of England and all the earth.
THE CHICAGO MABKET.
E. A. Bigelow  &  Co.'s  market  letter,
dated Chicago, Friday, Jan. 2d, says:
The markets opened strong, grain especially so. There were strong and higher
wheat cables and local buying was good,
but the market failed to hold. The weather in the West is turning out betterfor winter wheat, the midwinter rain having been
followed by heavy snows extending over
a wide area. A,"pointer" was out that the
final Government estimates would make
the crop considerably over 400,000,000 bu.
The "pointer" was totally without the
shadow of a claim of authority, bat it had
its effect just the same, and shook confidence to some extent.
Monday's circular says: The wheat
market was exceedingly nervous and
ragged to-day, but the tendency of price?
was upward and closing quotations show
an advance of about half a cent as compared with Saturday. The public is watching the wheat market with increasing interest, but seems inclined to wait for the
Government report giving a final estimate
of the crop before taking hold in earnest.
The rumor bureaus had a story out to-day,
which found many believers, that the report was out and g*ave the crop at 418,000,-
000 bushels The story broke the market,
but on flat footed denial of the truthfulness of the yarn values again turned up
strongly, lost ground being more than recovered. Toward the last there was quite
a furore to buy, shorts beiDg the bc3t
bidders.
Corn was strong at the start and bulged
one-fourth cent, but sold off under heavy
pressure of long property, the slide being
accelerated by heavy speculative offerings.
The country movement of corn is not increasing and stocks in sight are very small.
The break to-day looks strained and we
think corn a purchase on soft spots, for a
good profit.
After the rally of 80 cents in pork and a
corresponding advance in other products,
it was only natural to expect the reaction
that came to-day. On the advance leading
packers became sellers and prices yielded
under the pressure. Outsiders gave the
market strong support and indications
point to a great popular awakening in
provisions. Should this promise hold
good, prices must advance sharply as the
market is in shape to give quick response
to general speculative activity for public
account. We think provisions a purchase
on reactions.
THE FEE AND SALAEY BEDuCTIOir
QTJESriOrT.
Hon. C. R. Faulkner, of Ripley county,
informs us that he is an original advocate
for tho reduction of salaries of county officers. When a member of the House in
1879 he introduced a bill to place all officers
on fixed salaries, which was defeated. He
will work for such a measure at the present session.
During the same session, 1879, Judge
Osborne, of E.khart county introduced a
similar bill, and judging from promises
made Mm by members whom he approached on the subject, he thought it
would carry by at least a two-thirds majority. When the day arrived for calling
up the bill, as announced in the papers,
lo, and behold! over 300 county officers
from all over the State had assembled and
were doing some lively lobbying with
their legislators. When the vote was taken
it was found that two-thirds the members
were against the bill. At that time a
county officers' association was organized
and an assessment was made to keep a
wide awake lobby here during sessions of
tho Legislature therpafW, in orderto_pre-
vent or thwart any attempt to revise
the subject. This lobby will certainly be
present during the present session, and
will use all their skill to defeat a genuine
bill for reducing the salaries of the men
who employ them. Spurious bills will
no doubt be introduced, bills that seem to
be right, but in reality are tricks and
frauds or contain loopholes, and if enacted
will be ineffectual. We must not let them
cheat nor defeat us.
How to Rid the Country of Hawks.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Many farmers every year, meet heavy
losses by hawks carrying oil chickens,
and many say thoy don't know how to
get rid of them. Will give the many readers of the Farmer, my way of destroying
them, and this is the time of year to do it.
Kill a chicken, strip part of the feathers
off, and while warm, pierce the flesh with
a knife and put in about half the bulk of
a grain of corn of strychnine, it will soon
strike all through it. Tie with a stout
string, to a limb of a tree, up out of the
way of cats and dogs, or on the top of a
hay stack, as this is a place that hawks like
to sit on in winter. A rabbit is about as
good. This will also work a destruction
on crows. I have tried this for a good
many years, and found it the best way to
get rid of these pests. Summer time
would not do, as the bait would soon
spoil. I tried this on crows, a few weeks
ago, and had a crow down in less than 20
minutes. Don't use livers or lights from
hogs or beeves, as the little birds are very
fond of it, and it would work a terrible destruction on them. A hawk, or an owl
can be caught in a steel-trap, but not a
crow. If the farmers would follow this
up closely, they would not be long in exterminating the hawk family.
Worthington. Henry Baker.
James Dick, of Canton, Ohio, was run
down by an engine; he laid flat on the
track and as the engine passed over him
he grasped the occentric rod. The engine
was stopped and he was taken out none
the worse, save that his black hair had
turned perfectly white.
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Mrs. George Bain, near Irwin, Pa., arose
at 6 o'clock and drowned herself in a well.
Three weeks ago her lovely young daughter went crazy. This drove her husband
insane and he died in a mad-house Deo.
30th.