VOL. XXVI
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., OCT. 3,1891.
NO. 40
WEATHER CHOP BULLETIN*.
Of the Indiana Weather Service in co-opera-
lion vnthlhe UnitedStates Weather Bureau
for the week ending Saturday, Sept. 26,
1891.
■ Hot, dry, sunny weather continued*, no
rainfall; thirteen days in succession now
the maximum temperature each day was
above 90 degrees, a climatic freak not remembered to have occurred 1 efore in the
month ot September in Indiana; corn in
nearly every field is beyond injury from
frost; most of the tobacco crop is under
shelter and the rest will be within a few
days; no rain fell sin,ce the 5th of the
month; streams begin to get low and
wells dry; live stock suffers; pasturage,
newly coming up wheat, late vegetables,
etc., need rain very much; the ground is
so dry that wheat sowing has been temporally interrupted.
SOUTHERN PORTION.
Worthington, Greene Co.—Nearly, if not
all, of the corn is beyond the reach of frost;
quite a large acreage of wheat has been
sown, although the first sown has come
up well and looks fairly well, it needs
rain badly; I am feeding now new corn;
only 0.54 of an inch of rain fell so far this
month.   No rain.
Seymour, Jackson Co.—The excessive
heat every day and abundant &vd generous sunshine have done wonders in the
maturing of corn; the great crop.issafe
beyond any possibility of injury; the
early sown wheat is up and growing nicely but needs rain at present; sowing is retarded and streams and wells are drying
up, while late vegetables, pastures and
live stock are beginning to sutler from the
continuous drouth; much com fodder has
been saved; vegetables are plenty and unusually cheap; of noxious insects only a
few grasshoppers have been seen. No
rain. •
Vevay, Switzerland Co Another week
of uninterrupted dry weather has hastened the maturing of corn, which already is
regaded beyond inj ury from frost, should
such occur. Immense crops of tobacco
are under shelter and with another week
of favorable weather the remainder will
be secured. Daring the entire harvest
season, the farmers have not sustained
any. reverses. At the meeting of the
Switzerland Horticultural Society there
was a display of the finest variety of apples, pears, peaches, plums etc., besides
two stalks of raspberries, bearing the second time this season.   No rain.
Monnt Vernon, Posey Co.—Corn ls safe,
a full average crop will be gathered. Very
little wheat has been sown, most farmers
think it is too early yet; a large acreage
will be planted. It is very dry and dusty
and rain is needed much.   No rain.
Columbus,Bartholomew Co.—The weather continued clear and warm; corn has
dried very fast; pastures and early sown
wheat begin to need rain; the grasshoppers are working in some of the wheat.
No rain,
Marengo, Crawford, Co.—We have had
the hotest weather of the season; corn' is
out of danger of frost; wheat, pasturage
and almost every growing thing but corn
needs rain very much; many are waiting
tor rain to sow wheat while some are done
sowing and gathering apples.   No rain.
DeGonia Springs, Warrick Co.—Corn is
ripe enough to cut; wheat sowing has
fairly commenced; the roads are getting
10 be very dusty; pasturage, cisterns and
newly sown wheat need rain.   No rain.
. ri-ceton, Gibson Co.—Corn is out of
danger from frost; farmers are sowing
wheat, aud although dry most of the
ground js in fair condition; the temperature has been 90 and above every day during the week; ** '■» remarkably dry and
lusty and rain is much needed.   No rain,
CENTRAL TORTION.
Indianapolis, Marion Co—Dry, hot and
sunny weather continues uninterruptedly; corn is safe; pasturage and winter
wheat need rain; the temperature was
every day above 90 degrees.   No rain.
Mauzy, Rush Co.—The weather continues hot and dry; the maximum temperature ranged from 80 to 92 degrees. No
rain of any account since the 5th; the
ground Js getting dry and roads very
dusty; pasturage is getting short; most
of the wheat is sown.   No rain.
Sheibyville, Shelby Co.—The extreme
heat of the past week has been phenomenal with no rainfall since the 5th; this
weather has effectually made tho corn
crop all there could be made of it; it was
planted late but is now already out of
"Jack Frosts" reach; new wheat needs
rain much and the insects will play havoc,
it is feared with much of it.   No rain.
NORTHERN PORTION.
Angola, Steuben Co.—The weather has
been remarkably hot and dry, for a week
or more the themometer read 90 and above
which is very unusual for this time of the
year; corn is all cut np in good shape;
corn can not grow, it is too dry and hot.
No rain.
Lafayette, Tipptcinoe Co.—Corn is mostly out of danger of frost, except some on
low lands, which yet could be injured by
heavy frosts; wheat is nearly all sown but
the weather is is too dry for it "to come
up well; pasturage and w .eat need rain
much.   No rgin.
Michtgan City, LiPorte, Co.—The warm
dry weather during the past week has been
favorable to the corn crop which is now
about out of danger of frost; the fall grass
is very dry, causing a great scarcity of
milk and butter. The average temperature during the past week w as 77°; the
themometer registered 91° at three o'clock
last Sunday, the 20.1*..
H. A. Huston,
Director Indiana.Weather Service.
Per. C. P. K. Wappenhans,
U. .. Weather Bureau Assistant.
Heart Culture.
Editors Indiana Farmer-
One of the^mysteries to an unsophisticated mind like my own, ls the unquestioned fact that heart culture does not
keep pace and combine with mind culture. My own thoughts ever being led
by an inborn instinct or a paramount
sentiment, into channels wnere the heart
and intellect can expand together, it is
one of the almost insurmountable ob
structions in the path of my work in the
humann cause among the more intellectual classes, that itis next to impossible
for me to realize that in many cases where
the mind is highly cultured, trained and
disciplined in various branches of knowledge, the heart beats sluggish, the manner is cold, the hand grasp (if it might be
calle done,) is chilly, and a general fixedness
about the whole make up and manner,
that repels any warmth or enthusiasm before it can find expression. We are making great strides in intellectual advance,
and the world has not seen such a time
for the development of the mind of
my own sex. And all honor to grand
free America; no other country on the
globe offers such opportunities to woman,
as that haven upon whose shores the hopeful millions of down trodden aliens, subject of decaying despotisms, find peace and
competence. Bat the heart is not keeping pace; I greatly fear it is falling far behind. If it were not all a too painful subject, I would here illustrate this forcibly
by going into detail on the horrible practice of Vivisection.
Science professes this fiendish cruelty Is
absolutely necessary to the greater knowledge of the workings of the organs of the
''uman system, and advocating that ber-
barous doctrine that "the end justifies the
means," pursues the heinous practices to
the utter destruction of the sense in
man that makes him other than a
demon, that allies him in any sense
to the nature of God, in whose image
we are told he is made. "Where igno
ranee is bliss it is folly to be wise," as
sumes a significance here, unthought of
by its author, and. many that we meet in
the higher walks of life, might well envy
the sweet and happy lives of those whose
minds are comparatively uncultured, but
whose hearts beat time to merry music,
and melt at the sight of pain and sorrow
of man or brute. Some might say right
here, what folly to assume a brute can
sorrow. No one ever called me a sickly
sentimentalist, and yet I assert the brute
creation feel and envince sorrow, as also
joy, shame or any other passion supposed
by many to be the exclusive prerogative
of human kind. I have loved the so-called
lower animals, (F. Marion Crawford, the
popular novelist, takes a decided stand
that man is the lower animal in the scale
of creation, and I often feel he is not far
wrong, in my study of both creatures)
from my childhood, and since arriving at
middle life have suffered much more than
is healthy at the thought of the cruelties
practiced upon poor trusting brute creation. Could my faith in God be shaken
it would be dispelled entirely by the sight
and knowledge of humankinds cruelties
to these loving, dependent, faithful friends,
The lukewarm in humane societies put
up the plea that people are thoughtless,
not intentionally cruel. Have we a right
to be thoughtless? The trouble Is not so
much with the mind, it is largely in the
heart. The tender sympathetic heart
needs no promptings of the intellect to
lend a helping hand or speak a courageous word for the down-trodden or abused.
It is a step in the right direction, which
I am hopeful will lead to marked results
that our school boards are introducing
readers into the schools almost entirely
filled with matter teaching love and kindness to the lower animals. It is the chil
dren we must work with largely, and we
must not faint and grow weary by the
wayside because we cannot mould the
characters of older persons into finer stuff.
If we, by diligent effort and stratagem
can turn a few of the more stubborn
characters into the better path occasionally we must be content. How many
self-sacrificing pioneers in any noble work
for the amelioration of suffering have
lived to see their Ufa's work bear fruit in
abundance? We must be patient, diligent
toilers, schooling ourselves to the thought
that life is short, and be noble enough to
work to the end, that our cause may
triumph when we are no more. Yet it
may come sooner than we think. It is a
great time in which we live; the greatest.
It is dazzling to the senses to run the
mind backward over the past 25 years and
sum up the wonders that man and science
have developed. Who knows but God
may raise up some one like "Abraham
Lincoln", in the cause of the brute creation, and carry the whole human race up
on to a higher plane of thought and life in
this matter. Let us hope on and work
diligently and faithfully, trusting all will
be well. Evelyn McCormick.
Washington Letter.
From Oar Regular Correspondent:
There is a wide discrepancy between
statements made by two prominent citizens of North Carolina, both at present in
this city, as to the present attitude of the
Farmer's Alliance of that State towards
the third party movement. One of them
Senator Hansom, who ia strongly opposed
to both the demands of the Alliance and a
third party, says there is no third parly in
the State and that there will be none,
because the members of the Alliance, with
the exception of a few demagogues, are all
democrats and will continue to be. The
other gentleman, Col. L. L. Polk, whs is
President of the National Farmers'
Alliance and presumably acquainted with
the intentions of the organization over
which he presides, says that the Alliance
in North Carolina as well as in other
Southern States, is prepared in a certain
contingency toenter heartily into the third
party movement. The contingency is"
that both of the old parties shall refuse to
recognize the demands of the Alliance.
Which of these men ought to be best posted on this subject?
Kx-Representative ("Deacon") White,
who was at the head of the New York firm
that went under this week on account of
its failure to corner September corn, was
well known in Washington, where he
served two years in the House of Representatives, nominally representing a
Brooklyn district, but in reality directly
representing the speculators of Wall street.
He has been charged, and his actions confirmed the charge, with having purchased
a nomination and election to the Hovue
for the single purpose of gaining an entree
to the floor to look after the interestsof him*
self and other speculators. While a mem=
ber of the house he was never heard iron}
except when there was legislation up that
affected his interests. Then he never
failed in a Bingle instance to stand up un-.
blushingly and advocated what would put
money in his pocket. Since his term ex--
pired he has visited the capital as a lobby-.
ist whenever there was any likelihood of
legislation affecting Wall street. It is a
bit of retributive justice that he should
have lost his large fortune in grain speculation, after he had been instrumental in
defeating the bill, which was before the
last Congress to prohibit dealing in
"futures" and "options" on Agricultural
products: It was charged at the time that
he was the disburser qf a large fund raised
in Wall street to "Hang up'' the bill, whicji
had been endorsed by the Republican
caucus, and wliich appeared certain
to become a law. He openly made
his boast tbat ht* had succeeded in
puttiDgthe t*ill where it would not be
heard from, and it was not heard front
again, notwithstanding the ttforts of its
author—ex-Representative Butterworth.-
and others to get it before the House.
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A Peculiar Piece of Land.
Editors Indiana Fanner:
I have some land that has grown oorn,
millet, rye and hluegrass, that seems to
lose its productiveness. The blue grass
dies as the soil decays and settles. These
dry seasons we have not been able to get
anything to grow. The land was a very
wet and mirey marsh beforebeingditched.
It was ditched four feet deep and more,
and the muck is much deeper. It has de.
cayed since I seeded it to blue grass, so
that logs that we plowed over when we
farmed it are on top of the soil, and the
soil seems to have decayed like straw, as
there is not much change in the compactness of the surface soil. We have used it
for pasture for ten years and mare, and
have hopes when it decays to damp soil it
will improve, aa there were some small
ditches made that have been allowed to
fill up, so that the blue grass seems to remain green and grow when our uplands
are so dry that fire would run where there
is any old grass. We are working ours
with harrows, spring cultivators and anything to help to keep them level and
break the old sod. We have had blue
grass sod so tough, that water ran oft the
higher places, and would not wet it, but
after a heavy rain it would be perfectly
dry. I think we must pasture and harrow and keep it as level as we can that wa
mayget the benefit of the moisture, as my
land gets dry as dust and would burn uny
time these dry seasons.    J. S, Mather,
Elkhart Cj.