VOL. XXVI.
Vg/%    ,y.      INDIANAPOLIS, IND., NOV. 28,1891.
NO. 48
Written for the Indiana Farmer.
Wise Saws ln Single Lines.
by h. c. c.
Patience is the key of content.
Living well is the best revenge.
All noble thoughts are prayers.
Common sense is the gift of heaven.
Every man's life is a plan of God.
Youth is the seed time of life.
One flower makes no garland.
Titter no thought that demands regret.
Reprove not a soorner lest he hate thee.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Depend on conduct, not on fortune.
Vanity ruins more women than love.
Every mail has his own hobby.
Refinement is superior to beauty.
Time is generally the best doctor.
Industry is fortune's right hand.
Soft words scald not the tongue.
Idleness is the parent of many vices.
Nothing excellent is wrought suddenly.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Industry conquers all enemies.
Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
To be over-polite is to be rude.
He serves all who daies to be true.
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
Its not the gay coat makes the gentleman.
..Nothingis impossible to a willing mind.
Deserve success and you shall command it,
Idleness is the parent of want and shame.
A good character shines by its own light.
Ne'er speak ill o' your bread and butter.
A heait unspotted is not easily daunted.
Friendship is a seed that needs tending.
A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.
Resist temptation till you conquer it.
Morality Is but the vestibule of religion.
Everyday is best day in the year.
Rule the appetite and temper the tongue.
THANKSGIVING P_.OCI____A.TION.
Thursday, Nov. 26, Appointed as the Day.
The following proclamation was issued
by the President:
It is a very glad incident of the marvelous prosperity which has crowned the
year now drawing to a close that its helpful and reassuring touch has been felt by
all our people. It has been as wide as our
country, and so special that every home
has felt its comforting influence. It is too
great to be the work of man's power and
too particular to be the device of his mind.
To God, the beneficent and all-wise, who
makes the labors of men to be fruitful, redeem, their losses by His grace, and the
measure of whose giving is as much beyond the thoughts of man as it is beyond
his deserts, the praise and gratitude of the
people of this favored Nation are justly
due.
Now, therefore, I. Benjamin Harrison,
President of the United States of America,
do hereby appoint Thursday, the 26th day
of November present, to be a day of joyful
thanksgiving to God for the bounties of
His providence, for the peace in which we
are permitted to en j-)y them, and for the
preservation of those institutions of civil
and religious liberty which He gave our
fathers the wisdom and knowledge to establish, and ns the courage to pres aire.
Among the appropriate observances of the
day are rest from toll, worship in the public congregation, the renewal of family
tiea about our American firesides, and
thoughtful helpfulness towards those who
suffer lack of the body or the spirit.
In testimony whereof, I have here unto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this 13th
day of November, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
one, and of the independence of the United
States the one hundred and sixteenth.
Benjamin Harrison.
By the President.
James G. Blaine, Secretary of State.
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Fanners' Institute for November.
List of State Farmers' Institutes, with
oounty, date, and postoflice address of the
chairman:
SERIES   A.
Adams, Not. IS, 19, J. T. W, Luckey, Decatnr.
DeKalb, Nov. 20 21, A. B. Walswotth, Auburn.
Montgomery, Nov. 23, _, If. B. Waugh, Colfax.
Knox, Nov. 27,28, Eobt. McCord, Jr., Vincennes.
SERIES B.
Owen, Nov. lt 17, P. D. Badger, Spencer,
Johnson, Nov. IS, 19. John Tilson, Franklin.
Dec.tur Nov. 20,21, Chas.  I. Alnswurth, Greens
burg.
Jasper, Nov. 24,2., D. II. Yoeman, Rensselaer.
White Nov. 27,28,8. T. Virden, Guernsey.
INSTITUTES IN DECEMBER.
SERIES   A.
Warrick, Nov. 30, andDec. 1. Rice Wilson. Boonville
Vanderjurg, Dec. 2,3, Dr. D. H.  Kennedy, Evansville.
Posey, Dec. 4,5, J. B. Elliot, New Harmony.
Floyd, Dec. 7,8, M. V. Hanger, Edwardsville.
Wabash, Dec. 10, 33. W. Pewell, Wabash.
Washington, Dec 8,10, _. N. smith, Salem.
Tipton, Dec. 14,15, J. J. Paul, Tipton.
Grant, Dec. 16.17, Joshua Strange. Arcana.
Jay, Dec. 18,19, S, K. Bell, New Mt. Pleasant.
Boone, Dec. 21,22.1. N. Barker, Thorntown.
Ollnton. Dec 23,21, D. F.Clark, Mulberry.
tiHay. Dec. .8,2s*. _Taj. C. W. Moss, Ashboro.
Dufiols, Dec. 30,31, Sebastian Anderson, Ireland.
SERIES B.
Howard, Nov. 30, and Dee. 1, Wm. Mitchell, Bassett
J. ton Dec. 2,3, Augustine. Hlsey, Tl. .a.
Carroll, Dec. 4,5, Isaac Kennard, Delphi.
Wel.s, Dec. 7,8, Bronson Weaver, Bluffton.
Allen. Dec. 9, ,0, J. D. Qloyd, Ft. Wayne.
Noble, Dee. 11,12, Orlando Kimmel, Klmmel.
Park, Dec. 14,15, Jas. A. Allen, Rockville.
Vermillion, Dec. 16,17, Hon. E.  A. Lacy, Percy «-
ville.
Benton, Dec. 18,19, Leroy Templeton, Boswell.
BIpley, Dec. 21, 2_, T. G. Day, Correct.
Martin, Dec. 23,24, John Ra.ey, Loogootee.
Switzerland, Dec. P. J. Cotton, Moorefleld.
Jefferson, Dec. V. K. Officer, Volga.
W. O. Latta, Supt. Farmers' Institute.
Purdue University.
She 'gnxm.
Postal Card Correal ond.nce.
I_DIA_A.
LaPorte Co., Nov. 20.—Corn nearly all
hu8ked..L->ts of rain and a little snow now
and then. Ground not frozen any till Nov.
13 and on the 10th we had a small blizzard,
wind west, cold and some snow, with 16
above zero. To-d»y—raiD, wind south and
warmer, 40°. Apples keeping very well.
Chickens and turkeys plenty "and nice.
Mbs. B. A. Davis.
J LI. I .NO IS.
Ogle Co. Nov. 21.—Have had lots of
rain the past two weeks and it makes rather oad husking or other farm work. Great
need of rain, however, for the wells, cisterns, etc., as well as the soil for next
year's crops. Corn pretty nearly out, and
fair yield; hog market very slow so far;
oats 30 cents. Cold wave last Thursday.
Mercury fell from 45° to 6° .above, stiff
Northwest winds; four Inches frost in
stubble, but is almost all out now.
C. B. S.
OHIO.
L__an Co., Nov. 20.—There was a full
average crop of wheat put out this fall,
and sines the rain has set In it has been
coming on finely. The drouth was broken
in the fore part of the present month.
The corn crop is well nigh all In. The
crop is large, above average, the quality is
very flue, above average. Stock of all
kinds are looking well. Prices: Wheat,
90 and 95, cDrn 35, oats 30, fat cattle 3K and
upwards, hogs 4 cents. Business im-
proveing. Don't have so much talk of
hard times. Had the first blizzard of the
season the first of this week, and it was as
hard a one as could be gotten up without
more time to arrange matters.
O. Fawcett.
Clinton county farmers are heavy
losers by hog cholera.
Dont't fool with Indigestion. Take
Beecham's Pills.
The mild weather of the fall developed
a second crop of strawberries on Jacob
Dralra's premises at Vincennes.
Mrs. Anna Batchelor, of Goshen, aged
eighty-seven, is dead. She was a resident
of Elkhart county sixty-seven years.
It is asserted that no section of country
on the habitable globe can raise such a
diversity of crops as northern Indiana.
Scarlatina is raging in certain localities
in Clark county, and the t-chcol at Bethany, near Charlestown, has been close 1 on
that account.
Hamilton Blanton, of Morgan counly
while riding on a load of hay, collided
with a freight train on.a railway crossing
and was fatally injured.
The venerable Samuel Myers, a resident of Anderson over half a century, and
the father of Capt. W. R. Myers, slipped
and fell, fracturing his hip.
W. P. Whittaker, of Noblesville, quite
wealthy but a few years ago, has been
removed to tho county asylum, all of nis
money having been squandered in drink.
A gifted young'writer of Hanover notes
that catfish were found on the streets there
after the rain the other night, and it is his
opinion that they were drawn from the
Ohio river by the sun's rays.
Kingan A Co. began their winter pork
packing by diposing of six thousand
hogs. They are packing about five thousand nowjand they expect to average not
fewer than four thousand dally during
the season.
The water dropped eighteen inches in
the Michigan City harbor one Dight this
week, and for many hours Michigan C ty
was seriously inconvenienced in its supply
of water. The Michigan Central railway
was also put to considerable trouble.
Gustave Ka'zman, near Osgood, upon
returning home at night, found hismo'her
missing, A search has revealed that she
was lying dead in a lane several hundred
yards distant from the house. The cause
was heart trouble. Mrs. Katzman was
aged sixty* eight.
TIII.OV<-I- NtTKX.
Bonapart broached the plan of re-cutting
through Suez. Half a century later Engineer DsLssseps did it. He actually
changed geograpy. He broke a continent
in two for the world's commerce. An old
man now, Count Da Lessep3 writes for
The Youth's Companion, in humorous,
charming vein, how he came to build the
canal.
and securely peeked ln the bottom of the
trunk wero 110 half-pound packages of
smoking opium.
At Witt, 111., a number of deaths from
typhoid fever have occurred, in some Instances whole families having died. The
schools have been closed.
Flames wlpeei out three of the largest
retail stores in the West at St. Louis.
Total loss will reach ?1,000,000 which is
fully covereel by insurance.
Indictments wero returned at Chicago
against Swift A Co. and Freight Agent
Spriggs, for receiving rail giving rebates
in violation of the interstate act.
Farmers' Alliance members around
Mascoutah will permit no quail hunters on
any Alliance territory. Next year they
will petition the legislature to prevent
the killing of quails altogether.
The American ship, Shenandoah, has
arrived in Havre with 5,000 tons of wheat,
109 days from San Francisco, winning the
race in which threo other foreign ships
started.   These havo not yet arrived.
The rivers are rising, and there are fair
prospects for relief of the coal famine in
the South and West by shipments of coal
from Pittsburg. Fully ?15,000,000 worth
of coal is awaiting a boating stage of
water.
Lo. Angelee, Cal_
Gen. W. E. V*>azio writes as follows,
"Witb (Julnn's Ointment T have removed
swelling on llock Joint which has been
there three years, also used it for Splints
on a number of my Colts. It has taken
tbem off in every case." For Curbs,
Spavins, Windpufl.., nse it. Trial box 25
cents silver or stamps. Regular size, $1 50
delivered. Address W. B. Eddy A Co.,
Whitehall, N. Y.
ttSzxxzxtxl Mzvas.
J. G. Whittler will be 84 years of age
the 17th of December.
Russia has prohibited the export of
wheat, beginning Monday last.
William J. Florence, the actor, died at
the Continental hotel, Philadelphia, No
vember 19.
Beginning next month, the State of Illinois will pay a bounty of 2 cents each
for the heads of English sparrows.
J. A. Obllngtr, owner of the bank at
Arlington, Minn., has taken tho deposlts
of his customers and converted them to
his own use. They will lose from {15,000
to f20,000.
Harry A. Hutchinson, a Canadian, was
arrested at Chicago yesterday on a charge
of smuggling opium into the United
States.   Hutchinson's trunk was seized,
World's Fair Notes.
Montana's World's Fair Commission has
set aside ?5 000 of the State's appropriation of |50,000 for the use of women.
Mr. Sell, the London advertising agent,
has applied for space to exhibit specimens
of all tho leading newspapers of the world
which have been printed during the last
two centuries.
Mr. Sell, the London advertising agent,
has applied for space to exhibit specimens
of all of the leading newspapers of the
world, which have been printed during
the last two centuries.
Mr. Takahira, the Japanese Consul-General in New York, who was specially commissioned by the Mikado to look into Exposition matters, has made a formal application to Director-General Davis for
121,100 square feet in the several buildings and on the Midway Plaisance.
The pier, extending 1,000 feet into the'
lake, is already c -mpleted. At its extremity, in place ol Ceisino, will be erected a
tower 250 feet high. This will be of iron,
covered with staff, and will resemble a
lighthouse in appearance. From its summit, electrical displays of exceeding brilliancy will be made, and by means of
electric "search-lights," the grounds, or
any partitular portion of them, can be
flooded with light on fete nights.
To the F. M. B. A.
It is with no small degree of pleasure
that I note that Farmers' Institutes are
growing in favor every year, and that
during the coming winter they will be
held in almost every county in the State.
If there is any class of men that deserves
to be benefited by whatever good may
come from these Institutes the members
of the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association can lay just claim to recognition.
Therefore, my brethren, I have no hesitancy In requesting you to attend every
Farmers' Institute in the State that you
can reach.        Fraternally,
C. A. Robinson.
Prest. State Assembly,