Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 30, 1880, Page 9

* the'h THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TL GERMANY. Observations and Incidents of Foot-Trips in the Father- F land.” Bohiller’s Cottage—Tho Field of Til- ly's. Defeat by Gustavus Adolphus, : A Boautiful Little Church—Get- ting a, Dinner under Dif- ficulties, A@ ‘Mountain’? Sixty-two Aeot High —Eilenburg—A Shooting Festival. FOURTIL PAPER » Bptetal Carresponience of ‘The Chieaga Tribune, Luma, Germany, Marely 2—I1f a person Siving in thls city wishes to see any sort of a Di, ho must take a Journey hy one direction or another, forthe environs: of this goodly town form n vast plain, unbroken by the slightest elevation for many iiles, This no wonder, then, that L should relish keenly a aweek’s escape from tine to the out of the dark streets and ancient Hbrartes, ‘To-day 1 shaliendeavorto put into the space of 0 slngle letter some few senttered Ineldents of perhups 2 fortutghts munble in the country, ‘A streetcar shiells mo from the observa- tion ordinarily exeited on the “Promennile? by a walklug-sult, und helps me on my way ns farns one of the suburbs to the north,— setting me down, fn faet, just before 4 SCINELEI COTTAGE, + where forone stmmer this puryst nnd noblest of songsters livert In that little attic chamber, composing his * Ode to Joy” aut of the full- nessof aheart overflowing with a strong ideal love and the pride of opening manhood. Just opposit, nian bas built a restaurant, calling It the ‘£1 ttle Sehtiler Castle,” where: hegives Sunday batls, What a contrast! Pere 1s 1679,—n dingy, smoky ball-roum sor the lower classes, smelling of beer anil to- haven. We only cross the way, sit down In Us onken chatr, close our eyes, and we are back once more fu 1785. About the windows are climbing vines and the whisper- ings of Love; we even seem to hear the Pact: Himself, ns of old, with a full glad votco singing: . “Joy from out Truth's flery mirror 3 Greots the seckor with a anite, And to Virtue's rugged mountain ' Guldes tho taller's ateps the while! Lol upon Faith's sunilt hillops Sco her banners waving fairl Through tho renta of aluittcred coffins ‘Soo her in the Angol-Choir!” (Excuse, my own trinshition; I have no ather at hand.) Bah! Ihave no appetite for Yoer in such a place, If wo mgt have Materialism in Its plain week-day garb, let us af least hide it from view, not push ft for- ward side by sido with Art and Beauty. I would fain pass the cottage uncovered, as the French pass by when they meet the dead on the road to burial. “Keeping on from hora a few miles to tho north, we-go by a very old church in a Ittle village, which church tho villagers scem to regard with some curiosity. ‘They say that in tho Inst’ century certaln weird-looking monks used to visit tho church “oll-yearly,”” jn partictilar prostrating themselves, before tho north ‘-wall,—why, the people could nevor learn. - However, Bismarck and monks ect on but indifferently well, and so the holy fathors, like the swallows, have tuken to Wwarmer,climates, t % Continuing our walk a Jittle farther, wo cross ong of the inany battle-felds of history. Hete, in the Séventeenth Century, ” TNR TWo onuAtes ATS OF TINE ' AGE, ’ each tll then invinelble, metin a, death- strugele. Gustav Adolphus (whon the Catholics at firsteatled the Snow-King), the pride and hopo of the Protestants, advanced do anect the old lon ‘Tilly, that savage vet- eran of 73 years, whose ‘boast nd always been, :** never-to have insted wine, never to havo loved » woman, aud never to have lost a battle? Ilere, on tha 7th of September, 1631, he was doometl to lose the battle, and almost his. life, .Let ‘us’ be just, however. ‘The sturity old hero lost it bravely, fighting stilt at the head of his lines with three bulls In Bis body, refusing tobelleve that defeat was possihte, ‘he Swedish King and hits hardy Northern. soldiers’ won here an honorable Vietory, paving the way for tho Protestant triumph of 1648, When the heutof the con- filet “was over, lie sat down to dine at tho Uittle villageinn w trifle farther on, where they still shaw you his table. ‘Tha followlng: generations, grateful to this bold antagonist of Rome, have plieed on tho battle-lield o atone inscribed with these words: * “Cuatay Adotph, Christhin, Herd, + s Thexuued fore, at Hreitenfold, Freedom of Conscience for tho Work! A. glunce, nt the ehurehyard; a glass of milk at the“ Rittergut’? near by, where tho portly matron wonders what pleasure there ent bon. traveling about the country on foot under a burning August sin One of the hands is colng 0 inile or go with a wagon and afine palrof grays, T never miss an oppor tunity. of talking with the country peonle, and so accept his invitation to * get in? quite asm matter of course, He told ime, in the way of conversation, that he took ine to be a Dutcher,—an opinion which, however flatter- Ingis quite Inexpllenble to. me. He thinks: no ian would travel on foot {€ he had a sixs ences left, and finally offers me a glass of eer, On leaving him, Ifind a man beside tho roud gathori ne turf for a lawn, if6 sita down, to lunch, and Cnear him. Io offers me some of hisprovistons, consisting of “black bread? anda awallow of rum. ‘Tho litter he regards wistfully us he touders ft, und E leave it atl to him. , He complains bitterly of Ind: thaes; says th great many Polis live come dawn at Jute * to take the brend ont of honest Inborers? mouths,” These, he tolit me, could work More cheaply tik the othors,—of which he Hglily disnpproved. Across the fields In the distance thora rises A WMAUTIFUL WITTE Brinn, #0 finely chiseled, so delicately, polsed, that could not put coumpare it to the charming wers of Ste, Clotilde of Paris, or some alry Innaote of the Milan Cathedral, Strangely nough it contrasts with the sober Germain Tandsenpe to the rahtand Jeft, L have sel- dom been so. strikingly reminded of an Aimerican “meeting-house.”” ‘Tha little church could hardly stand snore ple- turesquely than it does, hetween the houses of the pastor and school-teachor,—ity altar to the cast, its portal looking out over the green fields extending unbroken for iniles, Einust confess that I like the serapulous care which the Germans use to place the altar in ie Fast,—looking toward Bethlehem, whither 10, Star lod the suges of the Orient, (Thisis 6 use With St. Paul's at London, the Ca- thedra! ut Cologne, Notro Dime at Paris; put in many others it has not been observed, . Lthink not oven In St. Peter's at Rome, Arrived before tho church, of courso I tindt Welosed and locked, ‘The pastor Is not wt home; so 1 apply at tho schoolmuster’s, whose wood dume evidently regards ine with no BMmull degree of suspicion, However, tho teacher Js just coming round the corner, Taking ‘the keys, he conduets mo about the raveyatd and Into the church, su lata Othie structure of the Fifteenth Contury,— amall, simple in style, but of ‘wonderfully + syminetrical proportions, and white as snow, something yery rare for a chureh here, -In the veatibule were uiany slabs fuseribed with 2 nanies of Hlustrious persons whose ashes hud bean. plucod inside the walls. Above ese the villagors had hung a garland about fablet t nearing the auemias ot soldiers fallen war. ‘The interior of tho sanctu- yaminds ma of ie lisy Church of Ste. iG, near the library of the same name a Bie panteen St Fars, although ny it or than at Paris. Thero Bog tie Shag iene” of “the enurahy -whole length of tho church; on fhe fustde of those, perhaps fifty paint= ings taken from Bible-history, evidently very old, - ‘There, on elther side, are the separate Pews, bullt liky an opera-stull, for the mag. Dates of the neighborhood and the pastor's funily,—stately all of them, and soberly mare uificent. ‘Phe chancel rises on the right side, lildyruy of the nave. ‘he ehureh fs Jn poss sesslun of one of the test movable altars | Tave’over seen in Germany. Behind it there 43 & drumhead hanging on the walla rele of the Dattle mentioned above. Ao dying Kolebt lid iraeed na last farewell non the Wruntiened with st finger Upped. in his own bloods "The: sehoolmaster beats Jaden, and, clhnbing up to where the memento Dang, b deciphered tt almost entively, bit hot withont ditleulty. This sotdlers death niu thatet his eonrades brought vietary to thelr onuse: and today, when Protestantisnr stands slie hy: side fi equal honor with Rome, Ws brethren tn the pure and shinple faith for whieh he died guard thistoken of ls sacrl- flea with reverent care, Let us leave this treasure of antique beat tys dn truth wv rare treasure, —we shall not find ts Hike soon agei. Sts atmosphere of pence and holy enim follow ta in spite of ature Mus we cross the brook and strike out over the fields once snore, Tt steh fs Me that homely every-ttiy neeessities—the want of bread asd butter, wine or beer—witl ea us nway from the falrest landscapes, the oat, exalted contemplations, ‘Che question 0 QETTING A DINNER Deains to assume more ons proportions, and D regret not having tnvited t Cina, roundabout wity to the selioolnaster's (able, After awhile £ come upon nv villages: but there is ie Sie of a tavern, not ever a beers suloon, Tan astonished beyond measure, “oupture? the most intelligent-looking pons> antiohe fond, andtask hin if they wtrder all thelr travelers fy that town to sive: the ex- pense of fins, mind Hf all the good peaple have atened the temperaneesniedie, tn whieh ea Dam persiaded their neighbors would hang them for high treason! ‘The eountry muy laughs atiny poor wit, and tells me with a doleful countenuice that they all have te go to the next village for thelr Heer, as the fine keeper there has inherited frome tong tne of ancestors “of blessed memory? (this good fellow seoms to take me fora clergyman, hot n-butelier) oa becrnrivile ce, by. means of whieh he ean compel all the owners of vere tain houses to frchase: exclusively of hit. Those not fantilar with German private hiw mnny wonder what this privilege is. But a many steh have been conferred by ttle vil- lunges on thelr. millers, furriers, and) tie keepers. ‘They are — not. only a slit pio monopoly to exelude other trid- ers of tho. smo deseription, but they netually foree whoever lives in i certain house fo buy of them, or notte buy at all, "Shere still exist a few such ancient privileges that have been handed 2s Neirloones for t dozen generations or more, perhaps, 1, too, sorrow with this goud peasant, and journey hunerily on, "The next Hamlet has fndeed’ a tavern. but thittavern has also a dog of very decided convictions. Lim determined to get some dinner, however, and sizive to soothe the national prejudices of that misguided animal, showing film at the same tine my heave cane og a reserve Jf he should go to extreml- thes, ‘Miis. enterprising “town? contalns: five houses. [feel sure that, when the ods counted out the intelllzence to be distributed In this eonumunity, they only: nade four parts, and mine Capito ton late, [sug rested some dinner, ‘Tho landlord consulted iis wife, and their united efforts brought to light some abyminable ehvese. 1 witnted going NeAt—he Shad none: some eees,—he had nones ‘sone fowl,—thore was none to bo had, Lasked him wrathfully what he fed his travelers on, . “THEY DIDN'T NEVER, COME NO TRAVEL- ans,” transIntes his answer. I was growing des rate, Ltook out n couple of silver dol thalers), and sald “Gooso’l Atfirst his oyes spar! ed, but he and his wifesoon shook heir heads mournfully. I pointed: to the . 2, nut told them to buy or steal and kill, but to bring 9 gonse.. “Chey had never thoughtof that hefore. 3iadamosprang with undreamed-of nallity across the flelds, brandianing a ‘formidable knife; and in process of timo I dined. | Kiso that a og might h Uvon Jeaving I found ave been in danger, that n man who find bought a whole goose could not escape without considerable atton- tion from the five houses of the village. ‘Ton or twelve miles moro bring us to n lit tle city not unlike what Lhave described In nformor Ietter, It still preserves its mont, behind which there aro yencrable ruins of 8 most unstately wall. in Hardly, he tivo feet thiek, although eight or.ten high. may perhaps have resisted well cnowsh tha ussaults‘of medieval armics, but I should feel far from sufeit it had to protect the front tinangry bull. ‘he elty contains a enthedral of some Interest ancl first-class hotel (1), which indeed furnishes mo an excellent sitp- | per aria a gand hed. : Thus ing we have kept upon the plain, In walking on L remember thatthere is. mount nin of some note bit a few miles away, This Tdetermine to visit, Do you suppose I ean find it upon the horizon?” O'dear, nol You inlaht walk-over ft quite unwittingly. A tite Ue boy. Jendaino to tt, fora grosehen, This reinarkabie mountuln ts sixty-four feet high! "The miniature “inemtain? (the Germins cull itso) guards on its summit a church as venerable, perhaps, a8 anything to be found In Germany south of the dlnrz, It dates from tho ‘Tenth Century,—being older than the Palace of Hopry TV, at Goslar (whieh T deserlhed for ‘Tire Tammunn in: 187). Alt about the base of the hill thers were fortiil- cations In TUR THUTY YEARS! WAT, remains of which one ean still trace out. ‘The people had ratiied here and inade a fortress of It. The clinrch itself {sof course very plain, with hardly an attempt ata tow- er, and forms a shinplo quadrangle, gray and weather-heaten; without any minor projec- tlons at all, “As Tappronch Teateh the re- fran of a ‘Te-Deum from within, Lam inno mood to enter now; 80, paesing slowly about. ue phurehyard, hatin hand, [continue my walk, . Igain the bank of tho quaint little River Parthe (ono of Saxony’s sminllest. strenms), which winds about. charmingly, hollowing n valley for itself, and entlemny by its Irrigation from the reluctant soil a beautiful alley of willows and shrubs‘ along its way. A fow iniles farther und the conntry becomes more hilly, some very respectable mountains ap. pearing in the distance, Here isa town built on a side-hil so steep that you haveno choice for it but to ellmb up the Jong Meht of stone steps, Look down from here with mo; let us fancy for nmomentthat thowhle green tlelds ara tho smilllngs Tay of Naples, let n cloud hang Jowon the monntala, make the elear blue sky justashade biner, and you aro on the little ‘Island of Capri, Vesuvins is simok- ing over beyond, and you might almost hear tho Italian peasunt-women beating thoir pa- tlent donkeys below, ani erying: “* Muccare- ni, macearont, corazeiol” Some inites farther on we reach a city curious enough. It aveuples an Island formed between two arms of the River Mule de, ‘The tittle Island goes straight wp in the alr like a pyramid; on the top there fsa rulued castle, built Inthe Fourteentt Con- tury on the sie of annneiont Imperial fort ress af Henry the Fowler's time, Tho elty, isentled EMenhurg—Castlo Mastlonts bo cause (as one of the eltizens told mo) In old. on times, when tho river used ta rise in the spring, and before the people had Sinproved thelr dikes, thoy wore often driven out of thelr houses and forced to “hasten” for thoir Hyves to the “Castle” (the Burg) on the hill. ‘There are HUT BEW OLDER CITIES IN GUNMAN, Edlendurg having been founded by someot tho Eastern tribes In the year of our Lord 451. ‘The ruing of the enstle afford a inag- ultleent view of the plujn intersected by the river, and of various mountaln-ranges fh the distance. Tere, too, the Nineteonth Century hag come, and has set up inthe ancient Ducal park—1 bees-gardent for many years tho eltizens of the sturdy little town mado an fin- mensoe deal of money by brewing a certain beer, which enjoyed a great: reputa- tlon, But now, fer some reason, they havo Jost this advantage, and have directed their attention to cotton-manu- fnetres, so thal in the lower town the din of looms und other machinery almast rivala fanchester, I got the best coffee here that I ever drunk in a German hotel. LT Jeurned that the proprietor had served un ap prenticeship ina French house—which ex- pliins the good coifec, After uh hour's nap I join the throngs of old and young Who are going slong 1 foat- path beside the fiver to a shooting festival, Chose festivals ato great days in the life of a easant, ‘ho best inarksinan gets a prize rity welitele he fastens (0 Ms burn or hause asa trophy of victory, Ido not ‘understan muah about it, but am told they shoot quite well, We might glance at this curious gathering, since It lies on our way. One large hali in Se ae ey Tad orarily, and forms o dul steady dan- ai gator I soud my card to the Se ° Ee par with al ny nea I can muster, ta ol aegualntance of mfne, I having. hen dined ina hotel in anothor town: od man fs as cordiales could wish, and kea me into. tho Improvised kitchon, whore he Immediatoly sets lils wife ana the sorvants nt wark to make ino a huge pan- cuke,—telllng the boy to bring bottle of wine, He goes all over the establishment with mo, and says he patd 400 thalers ($375) to et the booths and decorations put up. But he sahkl the people had danced wood deal, and: (us he frreverently expressed ft) they hud “DRUNK DUVILISH WELL” for three days, und “he yeekoucd he should ars | del Iwan SDAY, MARCII 30, 1880—TWELVE PAGS. re all sorts, benny then make welenr thimgot tt.” ‘There of diversions for the child tres, Wooden horses, alrsuns, and the like, What partlenlarty moused me wits the sly away of “takhig 1? would-be-wieked peat, yorths, whlel oa shrewd stroller hac lilt Upon, He had built, a gindily-decorated booth, with digs and large slens advertising at“ Paristan Sensational Gallery ?——© Darke ness brought to Mahl? Evil anvelled,”? for a grosehen or filing peasants entered that te thelr hearts ayay down tn thelr shoos, thelr conselener repronel ing then Eisen ng to see visions of that awtnl but Indetinit wiekediess with whieh many: worthy people believe Pats to he esp ‘laly favor ‘Thetr tilignation was great wheit the stufling shownnir bade thent Tonk mt an finocent photograph of the Are de'Trlomphe, orn pleknueket arrested by melr pollees mat Continuing along the mendow-path, keep. Ing the river ii vlew, Peome ton bari ehateny, with an esecedingly beautiful: part and wn ormngery, making, ont the whole, ry very falr miniatire of Versnittes, This chin. tent, fn the eourse of the Seven Years’ War, been! property of tha Count Bruen), that ete nolteman whose Lonses tr gardens Frederick the Great destrayed so wantonly at Dresden, "The manner hi whieh the great Prussian sold at anetion many works of art belonging fo Trueh), here snd at his pat of Nisehwitz near by, reflects About as much eredit_on. Frederick as hts Frey i verses, which Voltaire could hardly earreet, Not. far from hore an old mill stands alone, —the only sten of a village tone since desert- id tutterly sone tot record left of these villigers” homely life, their Inbors, perlians thelr suiferings In the holy cause of Geran Mberty. Even their nives ire neglected and forgattens but the fittte nil} bears witness yet to human indis- try aul thrift, though its wheel docs turn idly to-day in the hurry! [es B Kina, YLE Stident of Law. THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Talons * To the altar of The Chicago Tribune. Cincado, Marek .—The word Ilo (although a ainall one) is tts expressive ns any to be found In our langue; it olfends tho quickest nnd wounds the deepest. Mow soon wo learn to despleo nomun when wo fod him untruthful, nud yet there xcoms to be a cluss of lying whieh purses unnoticed, For instance, we rend the fuming “ ads" of our ambitions tradesmen, and find almost everyone to contain a falsehood. Our milk wogon ‘is beled & Elgin Dalry,” and we know the owner pr half-dozen swill-fed cows in the ‘Town of Lnke, Another bears the words “pure inflk," and wo: ‘buy ft, knowing at tho thme that pure mlk"” wis never served from catreet-wason at Bix A qttart. “Connecticut ples, fresh every day,” eat Hon rdeateat erie HE from my.hougsr, notwithstanding the fuct that Lt live some (00 miles from where thoy are presumed to be baked, Were I to tell my employers that I am from New York, and ‘thoy ascertnined [was from Boston, thetr confidence in ine would cease from that moment; and yot they ndvertise the * lows eat murket prices” nud Insteucé me to get the Hipage. Lsell “first"-clusa goods, and they. ship them nn “fourth,” thus lying to the rail- rond compantos daily, ‘The rendor. no douht, can readily recall many siinilar exumples, and I would simply nak, Can wo not follow our different calllngs and yet avold this constant system of Sue SENS A Pork Revival. ‘To ths Editor of The Uhicaga Tribune. Curcago, March. 2.—Pricos of all agricult- ural products hayo-been aopressed to a point so low that a sharp and powerfitl reaction must oro Jong onaus. On Saturday, pork alone began toshow signs ‘of recovory,‘udyancing fully 24 cents per barrol, while other articles declined, It fa notstrange that pork should bo tho first to manifest symptoms of a healthy revival, ng any ono who knows anything about souling pork oust be awnro that its munufacturo nt tho prose ent prive of hogs would only bo effected at aloss $2 per barrel to tho packer. ‘his loss, made..goo) to those packers who nave been apovilatiiy in the product, who sold “short” when tho prices were higher, aud who are now beginning to cover ut the decling which thelr own “short sales” tented to bring 0 about. ‘This fa ane of the tricks of th trade, and . explati simple-minded out. siders how: -juekers» can minke — money oven. whon selling thelr product at less than {¢ cost thom to manufacture ft. But there {8 un ulthnnte Hit beyond whieh prices: cntnot be forced without Uno hazard of a aude den and strom recovery. | “Chut point fn tho opinion of the writer, was reiched two or threo: divs nga, when 3 pork struck S104) for M Jt mnst.be gear to all who_step to think that, when any article {3 forced so far be- low the costal its production,.Jn the mature ‘of things -n reaction mast set in, and tt not une frequently Sapeue thag under the Intinence of auch rebound prices aro carried sumotinies Higher than they ought to go. The greater the pression, the Kharper the reaction, American incuts are cortal to be wanted abroad, and wt avodd peices, a8 tho stocks in Englund and on tho ‘Continent are unurually light at present. The sengon Of Lont belws now over, a lurgely t evense demand. muy vory soon he cont looked for, und this great consuniptive demni ‘will be certain to udyance prices ubrond ug Ae home, Facts Concerning Wublle Schools ‘TW the Laltor of The Chicago Tribune. CnreAqo, Moreh 20.—Tho nvowed purpose for whlch public schools were Inatituted was for tho Doneltt of that class of people that could not at- ford to pay for the education of tholr children. Now wo hear of childron belonging to this cluss of people, and) of all clusses indeed, being crowed out of schools, ‘This 8 tho Inevitable rosultof huving German, drawing, and musio fuught in the public schools, Inorder to sup: ply tho funds necessary to mect the expense of supplying thesa ornamental branches for tho benotitot the higher: classes, tho mumbor of teachers in. tho primary, and, intermediate de- partments must be Truited to a number ono-hatt Teas nt lenst than is positively necessary. Bo far us tho study of tho aforesald being frve to all, it amounts to nothing té the people for whom puliila eehools are professedly mutntained. fhoir children cannot spend half a lifetime in the sehool-reom, Hy thy ting they lave vce qulred a knowledge of tho. commul branches, and long before (ander the present régime), they are obliged to leave school, and enter upon some course of lubor in order to live, Conre- quent! ye thoy are cheated ont of the fow yours they might devote tetho acquisition of thoes Dranches so exsentiat to thelr success in after Mfe,—and for the logs of which thore {fs no after conipensation, And yet we havo tho audacity to boost and ho proud of aur. public achoolsy, with thovands anong ug ait know them to bo but © Dead-sen apples. 1 tho wealthive chisses want to give thelr children nn on nhl eduention, let them not attempt to accomplish this purnose by defriuuding tho rar thole rlchtful birthright, in this dund of ay sehools, at ih common-schoot education. | When those favored with fortune, In common with these lees frvercd Ones, have nequirod a knowledio of the common Branches, and are ambltlous to efit at higher the hill of Kelence, let thous to go ut tholy ownexpense, If they pay taxes only that, thole sons and daughters nay be cdueated at hone, thoy nro tho purtios benetited, and this iia style of phitanthraipy tt fa cliitlenit to nppreetnte, It is tho duty of the Kducational Hoard to seo to it that th 1d roo enangh provided and teachers ¢ that all can bave tho benoll a thorugh knowledge of tho comes mon-schoal bruiches, ‘Then if there is 6 sites ys of tho public funds, 1ewilt by consitont und in hurmony with the fitness of things to devote it to the acquisition of tho ornamental. 2. Tompson, Unhappy Ircland. To the Editor of Ths Chicago ‘Tribune, Cuvado, Murch 20,—Thu Rev. Rt. B. Popu do- Nborately deolnres from his pulpit that tho pres- ent soptonntul Irish fninino fs largely due to the vielous habits of that poopte, proniuent aniong: which {8 drunkenucss, Ho may be, apd I dare say In, doubtless posyessed of infurmation wure ranting him im bls aweeplog Ilbel of the Irish yuce, und yet neither Bir, Redpath, of the New York Zribune, nor the Ney. George Hep- worth, of tha Herald Committeo, bas so far mado avy montion of that fact, ‘The chargo Mr, Pope brings agninst tho Trish people is 4 BoYero ano, ANUIE hols possessed of trustworthy Information on tho subject we would like to have hin reveal its nature. 1 caro nothing for hla attack on the religions belief of this peoplo,—that fs entirely theic busiiesd; but Jf that country ty and waa Inbabited by a nution of drunkurds, os Mr, Pope would have us bus Move, wo woutd like to know it. It ta strange that {n tho reports of all tho monster land moct- ings that havo been held no mention f4 made of oven the semblanoa of thaterimo, A hundred trustworthy and reltablo peuple have writton on the unfortunate state of affairs ex! in that. unhappy country, and yet Mr. Popo is first to solve satisfactorily, co far at loast as ho ta con- malt ory that undoubtedly exists there, ton with this theory of tho Rev. Popo, it seems ular that the ruinshop, except tn three cities in Treland, fe closed from Suturday night to Monday morn, and that this meusure of reforin tho peopl wrung from their rulers ugitation of ten yours’ * durits when it ds known that tho nt Knglish Chungellor of tha Exchequer rely a presided ut a mectiuys ot tho Inngattude of this trimmph, Mconed apparent, During tha bast a the British Partlainent: Me, Popo she kuown thit Irish inembers of that bod: : ed petitions eign by, mue-teutis oF tia nifter “an tion; and seUte augalt intimate knowledge of. the enth population of Ireland, hese dens a inary, ed was the fitet that those ot toes matt Fatlered wit demand Fri nn Rs aud Monday clostt i hows thine the comninption of antent apirite in Ireland wos texs fn 189i thin in any pres coding yents He shonld know tht no coniro- fon tn Tredaned, front Clene, forever was distur F worship with the drt fren mural show,” with wie, atinis within a stone'a they of thot place Muneting. Cun ‘Trinity Muttinllst claton w 1 derma Hat uz, tit. ave Weidnienditss, fie early aged of tho ft fitntne it clues eit eervers, to whieh Mr. Delon, malntatned that any peaple of {wh religions denomination, for while the 1 prowend contempt tht ta aliost Of fa dreadful etfects, nether. and el SOO viethne fo Donegan from County a With lense Ligerits from Cavin, Ar ed) Ferree ‘aimitios, representing qi and. stayly re wh Vigtorts etenentinatios re ving, i. io what were hitherto regurled he nest pro= peruts portions. of tho country, defeated this i 1 ienorane the It ia to be xt avant eagy ata ehives fo app je poverty, and henee thule beatings. 1 stautl bo w¥L that thie dindlords of thi rely responsible for the pres conditton of Things there, and 4 have not in the pst exereleed any dlxerintiiis Hon on necmint of al vietin's religions. bel hence fambio strikes ite vietlne alle indise « amsatiaied with Te THLE NE Us, «of this Rtite- Cif famine wore Haation as wo those exempt Hing to senate av has heen done sn t ane tit roland withio n yery few alstent: Methodlets, Mr. Pape: it am shieerely grateful ta Mr, Popevor rather io bls cougregation for what they lave done for the fntne faa ad enn aeaire them: from 1 mest subseot thie re fell For the sarunteelny them, there fs uauestionably erelae of tholr bentvole! na Mr, Pope expresses ft, tlt "not one penny shult yo assiat tho tyrant of strong drluk or help to swell the revenues of lton 3 Mare. Navigation on Canals. * To the Editor of The Chteaga Tribune, Srrnpixa, Uh, March 23,—In Tie Tamoxe of the 2ki inst. au extract from the anual report. of the Hon. Horatlo Seymour, Jr., State Enginver and Surveyor ot tho Stato of New York, 1s pub- Usted relutive to the Erlo Cunal. You refer to the same In an editorial of that dato in speaking of tho Increased current to be produced on tho Milnolg & Michigan Canal by pumping water: {nto tho canal at Hridgoport. You stato that with an nidditfonal depth of three or four fect of water, and tho curront suoreascd from ono-halt or two-thinis of u mile per hour to onc anda half miles per hour, it will bo easier navigation thin at presont, In proof of this you quote from Mr, Seymour's report os follows: “The enual from Buffalo to lochester will average elght fect in depth, and over this portion of the route one-third better time was made with unc- half of tho cost than over n Iike distance with feven fect depth of water, This was illustrated inthe trip of tho steamer Kiimma and her con- sort lust aenson.” Mr. Seymour refers here to experiments indo with eteamers ou the Erie Canal, and $a advocating the increase of the dopth of water on the canal to eight fect, or one foot mors than present depth. i ‘You muko him to sny'that this will reduco tho cost of transporting wheat ori suld cand one vont por bushel, by reneou of the lighter pull and the swifter motion of the boats; but what he docs say 4, " If bonts in use could draw ono foot moro of wator, thoy would mako a raving of one cont on every bushol of wheat carried.” Now the facts are (which Mr. Seyniour does not atate) that the Erle Canal is supplied with water from nko Erie, alinost entirely, during the dry senson of the year, from Buflalo to Montezuma, a distance of about 160 mites, and the canal hod to be coustritoted of dimensions suitable to pass this large quantity of water; and of course thoro qnust be a very strong current in this part of the canal towards thite-water, or casterty. ‘This very materially alded the speed ot the bonts, and re- duced tho power and eos of propuision, on the trip referred to by Mr. Soymour, This purt of tho cnnot 1s:moro Ike v farge river. “My reals Iectlons are, that it is ton feet deep and 100 feet wide to Lockport, and diininishes pradnally in size to seven fect deep and seventy fect wile at Pocestih a distunco of sixty miles without jocks. . fe P - Experience and experiment teach that n ca- anti must he of certain dimensions to enable a Vout to mivigate ft as easy ox inn wide river or an Indotlalt, expinse of water, und there are very few, if any, canals In. this or any. cador country that have te proper rutlo of dimen sions ta secure this cusy propitaton or traction, A proportionate snerenso in whith and depth lessens the propel! power required, byt ft is die to eng. temler-nngelrounatinsen thara boat cin be propelled. aseusy with the sume power nyalnst a current of one and it hntf miles per: Lon usit enn be tgatnst wcurrent of one-hult or two-thirds of a tile per hour, with fess width, and depths Inall tho experiments with steam propellers: on the Eris Canal the report of empucers tuke into the necount the curront ne one of the hin portant factons, and In towlng allowance is made forthe velocity of the cerrent to ascestain tho motlvqpower required, In all cases the stern bonta Rave more power fn the engine than ts Necesury to use fe atil water, and are thus pro= Pared for n current when tho sume iy met, If n towlngy team of flve or six horses or mules: evn tow a bout and cargout tho rato of twoaniles per hour aginst a currentof halt mile per hour, the same tedin coud osly move tho bout one mile per hour against a current of one and oneehult mites per hate, There {ano doubt butan inoreased depth and widthof water the Hlinols & Michigun Canal will make 1 differences In the ense of Jasine a bout agalust.aslinilar evrrent, but as you tn= crenso the depth and width of water, with the sume declivity on the bottom of the canal, tho eurvent will bo Iner and therefore wu ne erenas of motive po will bo required to pro- pel the bont ut the samo speed, It fs imposslblo to proye that, with the addi- ton of water which will be nuuta fa the canal by: restoring puinping works at Bridgeport, av bont will tow cusler than it docs at the present ume. DANIEL C, JENNE. Formor Englncer Erio Cunul, << : Laziness the Foundation of Soclullsny Soclillsm fs 0 diseniso of a state of civilization in which 2 trio xciunee of society seircely Ox- ists, in which false notiony of: of the relas tlon of the Judividual to the ty und tho saclety and the State, are widespread, ind in which all ranksare honey combed by sentimental notions of what ought te be, and cin he, in this world, Since Rousset, & certain set af doce tries hes heen permeating madern sactety, have no troth fn history or fact at all, bat iat e YUH HatdrY wd re sure to be isu thoy make Hyht of education, entre, capltal, Hinge, and wil the exce! cies which, being alt very hard to get, raise: bl who his them abeye hin whe has them. not. The sume doctines teach, per contra, that tho untratued: man fs tho normal type, and standard, xo that mon, instead of bas Ang Uriged 10 a SLOCUCHOR NEO ENLOUTS aged to bellever thi vives supertor, without ‘them, to those who huve ther Buch is the out- of tho doctrine of equality, and, ax ft hi nid, fehus only grown mare poplar, ts propagated more and more fulhicles, wad shift eal more and moro rotly inte a thirst unde. und for (eqn enjoyment of material et 2 ciuliai ie anelor: ‘te gratify this thirst In Kom other way than by ushyg it as an incentive todndustry and ceonomy. Obviously, thers ts no othor Way, Unters ft conslsts fi takine away: the means of material enjoyment from those who hive produced and eaved thom, and giving thent to those whe have tot produced and saved thom. Every step ft that direction {5 4 stop. tor ward universal Impoverishment and barbarism, and ovary step will huve to be won by war, ‘Pho Koclullsts assume that tholr vietors’ in that war Is certahi, but it is certain that (hoy are entirely nilataken.—Seribner's for March, * ————— The. Young Republilcana-Still Others of Then Not for Graut Ta the Kattor of the Duvenport Gazette: Notles Jag ih Pik CHicaGa THIBENE OF Shireh 25, 1880, oreditod as ec] froin tho frarette, a letter fro Fulbeficted, signi Youn: Republlean,” und exe pressing hin cE cic heen to Gen, Grant a6 nominee for V1 pnt, und usking for an exe pression of the young mun of fowa, L whiluek your indulgence thut Dinuy give you tho, views popula 9 Ct Of n Jargo circlo of youuy Iepublieans in Water - Jon, A We are almost to a man opposed to Gen, Grunt, and are for James G, Hinino for first choles, We have Just completed the organizu- tion of a Republican club, and aro now dis- cussiug the advisnbility of cotumencing a Blaina “hoon "th by & massmecting Asm starter. We, the young men,—and thoro are dozens of us here—want this. but whathor wo de this or not weshall sce that Hick Hawk County sends a liluine delegation to the State Convontion instructed to wse every hon= orable offort to have a Blaine doleqution from’ this Stato to the National Convention at Chi- ougo, + = Wo ‘would bo greatly disappointed if Blaina Were nok fie Rech e of pi: "Onicago sony bie on, im noe) A ween! enn state,. that wwe ewould pub Washtanmne and Borasia need of Gen. Grant, anc Johy Stormay, but we aro id af 060 tor’ Bletno test, test 16e | ‘J A * Witlinm Smonk of Orangeburg County, 8. C.. has 10 Bylo child WA grundebildren, Gl great-grandehildren, aod 40 great-y1oot-grand- childrens, waking bn all living dese besides 16 dead, Io boasts thut fucre shrankard wong thes ' EGYPTIAN CORN, Or Pampas Rice—The New Grain for the Dry Plains of the ' . West. Numerous Strong Testimonials Prov- ing Its Great Ability to Stand * Drought. A Cereal More Nutritious than * Corn, Oats, or Rye. Kast antumn, Mr. Bross, of Tas Trmusr, wrote n letter to this paper from Las Veus, New Mexico, and published tn ‘Tas "Earn use of Oct. 7, In whieh he gave a brief ace count of the new cerent called "Egyptian Corn, or Pampas Nice? whieh he had found growing tuxurinntly In Western Kausas, where other cereals, hicluding corn, had withered and dled from the extreme drought that aflicted that region, We copy an exe tract from Mr. Bross? letters “As the farts in relation to this new cereal are new, curious, and interestity, they ure here glven In detail. Mr. Hollingsworth, of Shicago, butght, o couple of yenrs ago minelyof some 1,500 aeres three or four mites south of Kinstey,.on the Aehison, Topeka & Sante Le Railway. Kinsley ds situated fn the Valley of the Arkansas, bn what fs often ened the “dry belt? 316 mfles west of Kans sas City, and about the same distinee enst of Puello. Mr. Mollingsworth’s son and son- in-law occupy the place, Last year a nelghe borof the Hollingsworth rane rafged some of the rlee corn, and lids suceoss fudlieud Mr. Jloltiesworth to recommend tts introduc. thon to dis ri 1. We had forty aeres of sod turned over last spring, and having proenredd several quarts of the seed, with an ordinary sved-planter he deposited two or three grains: wv foot or two apart in the sed, ‘There had not been a drop of rain for the previous eight months, and it did not rain for five weeks after the planting: yet the seed feruinatet, The corn came up and grew finely. After it got falrly started, the hot blasiseame up fron the Lhe Estaeady (Staked) Plitus), barn dng up the grass and every green thimg In the: sardens, scoreline Ike the Dlnsts from in furnace, yet itd not affect: the new-comer from Egypt a partiele. It grew right along inspite of the heat. ‘Then’ the rains came on, and the sturdy grain wasequally biditters enbto that. It krew right on and ripened about the Ist of September, yleldin Hollingsworth thought, some sixty tothe sere, welghing sixty bushel. ‘The stalk isn than corn-stalks, and makes as good fodder algo, Its fuel qualities inthis treeless region vast of the inountains isa most important fact, as afew neres will furnish fuel fora famlly for an entire winter. From the top ot the stalk issues 0 tuft something like that of sorghum: this soon droops over, and the qwhols bunch is ane mass of the grain. ‘The kernel is about tho size of a grain of wheat, perhaps a Iittle sinaller and more tegrly round. Enaeh one is inclosed ina shudkK or independent capsule. ‘The grain ean be ‘ound into an excellent flour, from which bread and other feed can be made; | Dolled and eaten as rice or era and in fact can be used for any purp which our ordinary ecreals are employed neighbor of Mr, Hollingsworth, who raised a. small crop Jast yenr, assured "him that tt fat- tened pigs faster than he had ever known cominon corn or ay other food to do it. “Now, the only thing about this story is that t acems almoat too good tobe true. No estimate can begin to rate ita value if all that Mr. Hollingsworth claims for it should prove true. From New Mexico to the British line there are tens of thousands of square niles. too far away from the mountains to be suc- cessfully irrigated, and yet—thus far, at lenst —too far beyond reliable rainfall to be used for any other purposes than pasturage. And now comes dlp African plant apparently adapted to furnish both food and fuel for af this vast country, If it should fulfill the promtse thus far given, its value to the eoun- try and to humunitynust be told tn thou. sands of nillions of dollars, * Mr. alte worth-thonght the seed was brought to this country from Southern Russian by the Men- nonites; bub beyond tis he knows nothing its history, Toan find no account of it fit “yclopedins, unless it be a species of, , to the deserlptlons of which it seems to bear some. resemblance, It seems very strange Initeed that no. traveler or foreign Consul hag brought tte valug before the pub- Te, Ind notso reliable a gentleman as LT know dames Ifollingsworth to be given me the above facts, I should not have dared to have given this necount to the publle,”” The above Jetter caused a great deal of in- auiry concerning the “Egyptian Cor” from various parts of Colorado, Western Nebraska, Dakota, Northwestern ‘Texas, and us far West as Utah, We tind the following letters and_testt- montals about the new “Corn” in the “Quarterly Report of the Kansas. State Bourd of Agriculture,’ recently Issued at ‘Sopeka, which give all the information and benr all the testimony that any one can want respecting the merits of * Egyptian Rice”; bushels, pounds to the better far fuel EGYPTIAN COUN, OR VAMPAS NICK, Frum the Oficlat Hemrt. . Mneh attention has been called to the new grain known by the above names, and also sometimes called “ Rlee Cor,” especially tn the western es of the States and from tho reports re Lit would seem ta be o! mueh value to farmers, a crop that will ylekt well even indry seasons. Herewith Will be found oxtrnets from the regular. cor- respondents, of this office, and also some statements from persons who have experl- mented with It, Reports relative to it have been recelyed from twenty-three western counties, In Barton County small quantities were raised. “In some cnses it was ground into neal for table use, and mine palatable foud. 1tis as sure a crop as sorghum,” From Dickinson one writes that “ riee-corn was ralsed here In small quantities 1 few years ago. It stood droughtas well ag broom: vorn, and perfected its seed? Mr. Abram Kaer, of Abilene, says: “Wo have raised riee-corn for several years, 16 grows very: if tk, and ylelds abundantly, with little In- OE In Edwards County several parties raised itthis season, One account says: 4 Le scons: to stand drought better thin Midlanecorn; Is excellent feed for vattle ind hones? ting not. iroved so goal for huge? Seme who have rled itfor food say iLisexeellent for.“ cakes? “Jt produces a fair crop when ft isso dry that: Jndisn-evorn withers up! 5. W. Boyntos a writing from Kinsley, Western Kinsis, says: “Last spring 1 planted all the riee-vorn £ could get in the local market; planted with n common hand corn-planter, 4x4 feet, on forty acres of sod, alight sandy soll; gophers destroyed about hult: of treceived 10 further attention until Invest, when it was cut up like ordinary field corn, the heads cut offand threshed in wanaching, ylelding over 300 bushels, Millet, Irish and sweet potatoes, melons, puupking and squashes, plinted hy tha sido of this corn, failed abnost entirely onaccountot the extreme drought. Under sttuilar clrenmstances, Indian corn would not have produced # tuubbin?’ After cut- tIng, a new, rank growth poraue up from the roots, aud jf the season had given us ant avernge rulufall, L could have got two good crops from the same planting, 2. . It should recelye the samo cultivation as com. inon corn, and L belloye will, produce from fifty to 100 bushels, Ehuve fed this corn ta all kinds of stock, aud belleve It as good as Jndtun corn, For table use, bolled and eaten with milk, or ground und made duto bread, ete, His ut least 100 per cent better thun com: mon corn. I shall plunt a larger erop this . year than tugt, Mr. J. W. Hdwards, of Offerle, writes: “1 lunted about four Acres last May on frei proken sou, Pare came up soon utter plant. Ing, but most of tdi neteame up Ul the! lustof dune. Weather was very hot and dry: during August and Segtember; byt wheit other crops hegin to wither and die, to my surprise the Egyptian corn seemed to grow all Mie more rapldly, and continued to grow until tha lust of September, when I harvested, n good sron T havo fed it to hogs, horses, cows, and cl iekens, and all seem to relish It, und todo og well as on Judiancorn. Itoan ho used ag My opinion fa, it will. prove &- valuablo stop to the woatorn part of tho State, and toa! a) that are aubjoct to drought. The farm ors herg will plant lt.generally next season in Orn. 4 UY DGRy place of corn.” 3/85 . Br, E. Bartlett, of Kinsley, says: “Planted clght aerca of rice corn about May 5; cul- tivated [t only ancos season so dry thut other. crops totully failed; ‘harvested a little over twenty bushels per acre. Usa {t for horse and hog feed, and consider tt better than Luis dian nm. Stands drought equal to sor gh Mr. George W. Taylor of Olferle, writes Planted two aeres Of ree corn lust Redon y hot whids did) not affect ity thrashed out eighteen bushels to thy acre; think (ewll} article of dict in various ways, | turn off in geo seasons thirty or forty bush- els, Jt is splendtld feed for stock, aul also makes very niece men. Think it Just the crop farmers necd; shall plant itteen acres this seasons Charles EK, Willets, Kinsley, says: ties corn was planted June 10, 187; treated fn all respects ay Indian corn, Was very dry when planted, yetiteameupin due time without rin, Fed the heads to stock, all eathng it with avidity, Past season wis excessively try in. thes’ ion, but all lee cornfields: ylelded miele better than nny other grain, Teantyedt with an paul part of whent-four, it mukes most deliclous bread. Constder it the most valuable grain yet Introduced for a alry ellmate.? a (no Ellis County, I othe dry dis trict, this grain matured where corn in. conseanenes of the drougtit. Saito “It 1s good fur min and benst,” says one re- port. J. M. Post, of Hays City, in the dry belt, writes that he planted three reres on. sod, fave fed the heads to entitle, and think: they do better on it Uh athereorn; haye also fed it to fowls, and they Hke Itech, Have used iton the table, enoked ti various witys, and Sind At good, Hetieve it will make a superior ality of meat? A farmerin Ellsworth County, In the dry strict, writes that "it has been planted tr sina, quantities, and Is salt to have done yell. From Ford County the report. fs, that the “rlee corn stood the drought better than Tit dianecorn. Tt is tse for all purposes: that commen corn is, ‘The yleld was frou fifteen to forty bushels per tere. Large brendths WHT be planted In this county thiy season”? A Q Speareville, says Think tt ex tfond for diin and beast: will mu aerop when no other grain w Those trled it Jast yenr are well pleased, and yntany will plant Ut this season?” dn Jesferson County It has’ been enltivated ton Ihnited extent. stands the drought w Tn Kinguinn, rice corn was grown by nv number ot persons in considerable guantl- tes. Itts reported na being “ valuatle for bolle food and fuel, Stunds the dry weather yell, in Tabette, a correspondent. says “that agimall quantity was grown in 1877 ns an ex- periment. It was used, by some nga substl- tute for hominy, and found tobe very pul- atable.”” From Lyon Comty, ncorrespondent write: “7 tried “some of this grain with suecess. Found ft very. prolifie ands as hardy as a sored, standing drought very well.” Tn both Marlon wid Mitehell Counties, it ts reported that sinall craps were ralsed Iasi season, C31, Stolp weit that “it is better to ralse ri stock thin ants, as it is more productive! In Norton County considerable was ratsed Jast season, the resitlt be i ery aaitlatnntorye Teport. says those who, have tried It claim that a bushel will make more flour thin a bushel of wheat? and “very many farshers will plant rice corn the coming sen- son. From Oshorne County, one correspondent writes: "There was some tiee corn raiser here this season, It stands drought well. Think It will yleld as much per acre as com- mon corn’? In Pawnee County, says one report, “a Great deat was raised, On -welteul- vated ground {t thrashed forty bush- els: BO and - poorly-ciltivated round, ten to — twenty hushels, tstood drought effectually, and made a fair crop where “corn burned up.’ Another writes: “Nearly every farmer had o small fle of Easptlan com, It ylelded about twenly-fve tishels per nere, and stood the drought much better than Indian’ corn.” SUL “another writes: “I have raised it (Egyptian corn) for three years, It is an excellent foed for all kinds of stock. Am feeding it to my horses and hogs, und belleve that three pecks Is better than o bushel of the Indian corn rained here. It will, stand the drought better than Indian corn, hiriy or forty bushels Isa good. yield. Think ft does better on sod than on old ground.” HLT, Stiller, writing from Garfield, In afar Western county, soys: “Raised some Eeyntlan corn the past season; pianted it on fod q Ms reporter says, “It on middle of dune; had very little rain till was gnthered. Corn planted along. side. ‘irled up. ‘Think Mt will, yleltt Most on sol in a dry season. Can be i a Mttle closer than Indian corn, bushels of heads cut close will shell onv bushel of carn; worms do nog seem to trouble it. Fattens hogs and other stock quite as soon as Indian corm. Mak id meal or flour for family us stalks make a eood, fuel, us they ar Ing than Indian carn stalks.” The Hou. 111, Walte w Some of my neighbor: ete suceess- ful with rice corn this year. It Is quite pro- Iific, and is -best: sown In drills, with a cort- planter, vist tou thiek. ‘The, grain is small, white color, and round. Fowls, hogy, ne cattle are fond of it. V from Larned: When round inte flour It makes good pancakes, Drought docs not geen to affect H, as it holds ity calor when Tndian- corn wilts, ‘The stalks are worth- less for fodder, though cattle eat it some before It ears, I consider it a alanis crop for the western part of the ue, . FromRooksCountyacorrespondent writes: © About tho 20th of May {planted three and one-quarter acres on newly-proken got; Oct, 15 gathered theerop, ud threshed out thirty: five, bushels. Have had several bushels ground into meal, finding It of exeellent quality and fn mnny respects superior to corn, It supplles the place of hominy perfectly; 1s an excellent feed forall kinds of animals. Thhik it will stand tree or tlrce thacs the drought that Indian corn will; ta beyond a doubt. qrasshopper and teorm proof, When: ever you plant res corn pow are sure of crop. Many suall patehes.were plinted in various parts of the county this season with font results, and now. that {t line become Known as ono of our most valuable agri- cultural products, a Jarge aren willbe planted next season; one nun, L know, will plant xeventyeftve aeres, A bushel of seed will plant fifteen or twenty neres, It 1s pire pris tnd weighs sixty pounds to the tishel.! From Sinith County the report comes that “some Iittle was rilsed ”; stands the drought will ill when Ludian-corn would fall? Tn Sumner County, the report saya: “ Kayptian com was ratsed in small patches. It stands the drought as well as sorghum, Is used as a sitbstitute for rice tn soup.” Ju Buifalo County, it 1s considered a yal- unable crop.” ; In Meade, “sinall patches were: raised, en- tirely on sod, Stands drought 100 per cent better than Indian corn”? is 2), C, "Terry, writing from Norwalk, King- main Conmtyy aay Thave raised rlee-corn for two ye It is supertor to hominy, and ae good! substltute for Dens.” £ TL White, Kingman: " Lbolleve ries corn Isa sure crop, even. in very dry seasons: it ls very good feed for cattle and hogs y for fal. Jytise we flit very palatable; when ground, 43 aqua to corn stareli,” Joli Bull, of Mugan, Buifalo County, says: “Trabsed my first crop af tee corn the pas seasons found It would stand drought better than niost other crops, maturing large, wells filled Lends, Somo af the heads have shelled outa pint ofthe grin, My crop was ralsed onsod, Lhave tried it as feed for cattle, horses, and poultry, and find itnuch relished by all Of them; it iatlens hogs well, and the ork Is excollents horses wilt pick the heads vom ree corn and ent them first, TL think it is worth more for horse feed than elther Ine, dian corn or nate, us itis very rich, and yet not. heating. i is very palatable - boiled and” served ka rlee. On okt ground {6 should be planted in rows ag near togethor as van be cultivated, drop- sing ong or two Keeds KIX to Len inches apart; tin ground should bu thoroughly prepared and well harrowed; cultivate as soon as yon ean Collow the rows, with a hurrow-tooth cultivator, keeping the ground stirred often (ill the heads begin to eome out.” unuel 2 Woud, Postmaster at Muson, rul sired ys erop of rice cory last denson, On BOM He says: 1 think, on old ground, plunted und cultivated like other corn, it will yietd fifty to seventy: bushels per nere, It makes good feed for horses and hogs, and cattle do. well onit, [tis gaol cooked as you wont: rice, Some are uxiug meal from it, and say {tmakes good bread and griddlevakes.? ‘| YY. McCreary writes “trom Otfertas "1 planted about eight acres of rice corn last yeur,—somy in April, and some os Jato 18 Tune, Ital) matured well but a small pore the last plinting. Fod four hogs ex vely on ittast full, and find it mukes pork equal: to common com, All kinds of took rel ish It well, It appears to bo un affected y droneht, 1 havo so much falth feo corn that jptane to plant it In place on Lyman ©. Smith, of Smith Centre, saya; it {ued riod corn In sinall. quantities for the Inst four. Pra as nearly as I can judge, it will yield from forty ta alxty Dush- old per acre; have used it to feed all kinds of stock, and itis liked by all; wo think it an excellent substitutetor huckwheat, Tt docs well planted on god. Planting Jn hills one foot ane way and three the othey, three to five kernels Iya hill, fy the best way; If too lose, the heads will be sinall” “As Will be seen by the ubove, there has been butt Httle trint oF I fu tho west- em portion of the State, which ts the drought-atlileted part, and the result gf the coming 8 expertinents will be watehed With muel futerest. CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF NICE CORN, To the State Dourd of sAgrieutture—GEs-, TH 2 a4 tequested by ‘your former See retary, the Inte Ifon, Alfie Gray, Chava submitted to ehemlenl analysiy a sample of teat mate from the so-called "rico corn,” Tho corn from whiel tho meal examined was mile, was ralsed the past season hPaw-’ nee County, Kanga iS inval resembles: that of Inulin corn, and In color 1s interme alate between the yellow and the white varl- elles of the latter, re : Defore analysis, the sample was abr-tti for several weeks ina warm room,\a fac! {hat may necount for the small amonitt of moisture present,.as compared with tho anmints given in tho annlysis of other grata, which are quoted betow. Tn all prob ability these latter resulls were obtajned with freshly-cround seeds, In order to hest exhibit tho relation of rico corn to other grains as iarartiele of food, 1 have arranged the fallowing. table, giving tho An ge composition of the moru commen Heel Indian arn enene: [117 Rye,| ate, 18 Destrine Albutasnold ' Extractive matter.) 11 Anh, AAG “Tho rent varintion tit poreentnan of calli tose te due, In pact at lnust to the fact that hha mattis te of determining this abetance mre not quite ra From these flaures it will bo seen that rico corn stands well ns mnartlels of fool, Tn its bercentaxy of “fat formers”! or “ heat-pro- tlucers,"=E v., starch, fut, dextrine, and: su. gtr, —It comics very favorably with all the rays tent ned, while in Sts contents af nl humtnoids—the tlesh formers” so called it surpasses all tho Indinn corns of which find anntyses, and takes rank with wheat rye, and oats. ‘The sinall percentage of eellntose orwwooly fibre fy also remarkable, and must be con- sidered an item in favor of rlee corn, slice cellulose Is atarost entirely nou-nutritions, In conclusion, £ ysny that I lave used thig meal somewha! certify that It imal more palatable tom dian corn, Lam, ve ‘¥ respectfully, yours, G, E. Parnick, Cremican FAnonAtony, Uxtvenstry oF KAxe BAS, Fob, 1, 1680. THE MILLERS’ EXIIBITION. Cincinnatits Innugural of tho First In- ternational Display of Ceroaln, Flour, and Millers? Machinery. Bpeeial Corresponitence of The Chitago Tribune, CINCINNATI, March 2%.—On the last day of May this year the Millers’ Natlonal Associa- tion will inet in annual conventionIn Musle- Tall, this elty, and in conjunction with § wilt be inaugurated the first International Millers’ Exhibition. ‘I'he Convention will last 5 week, while the exhibition will continue for four weoks, or until the 26th of June; the former occupying tho Springer Music-Hall, and the Intter tho two wings of tho building, or what are better known ‘as the Cincinnatl Expost- tion Buildings. With everybody in this country, and, indeed, throughout tho civyil- ized world, nt-all connected with the grain and flour’ interests, this Convention and this exhibition will perhaps be the event of 2 Ilfo- time. Provisions havo boon made for the. entertainment of over 50,000 millors and manufacturers from this country, while. be- tween 1,500 and 2,000 Europeans engaged ia the milling interests have signified their in- tention of belng present. The preliminary arrangements ara: being rapidly pushed by o Board of Commissioners composed of several of the ropresentative men of thts city, and theso Commissioners are backed by’ the ofilcers of the National Assoclation,—George Bain, of St. Louls, President; S. H.Scamans, of Milwaukee, Secretary and ‘Treasurer; J. A. Christinn,:of Miunenpolis, Chairman Ex- eentive Committees and F. 3. Mills,. of Mik watikee, Assistant Secretary, Ags was. before stated, the Convention proper will occupy the first week of June, atter whieh the Muste-lIall will be vacated to make room for the Democratic Nationa Convention which will follow in close suc. 2 itud from which the millers in the it t buildings expect to draw largely In mtrouige, ‘Every State in the Union Is to be represented at the exhibition, and every State, it saxpected, will make nn elaborate alsplay both of cereals and flour. | Manu- fucturers und grain-raisers from Buda-Pesth and Berlin, from England, Switzerland, and from along the Danube will also ba on hand with their evidences of industry, ag willalso many eltizens of Itussia and from the region of the Rhine, Even tha owners of the Egyptian grannries will send | repro- sentatlves to Cincinnatl to learn of Amer- feat Industries and American ingenulty, ‘Ten completo flouring-mills will be sct upinthe Exposition Buildings, and two of them will bo frum Europo, “Six 200 horse- power attomatic engines will constitute the motlye machinery. Atl kinds of modorn milling contrivances, together with the an- clents’ grinders from the pestle and mortar np, will constitute features of the exhibition. Even an anclent wind grist-mill 1s promised for the occasion. An ofMteial baker with .as- aistants will be present during the four weeks of the “show,” whose business shall be to make tho finest of bread and pastrics, and thus test the qualities of the flour thors man- wfactured. ‘Tho baking of crackers will con- stititenlarge share of this baking depart ment. In the display of grain and Inneliltiery: many of the Western rallronds. are expecte to taken liand.” The manufacturers of milk ing minchinery from oll over this country are expected to personally supervise displays in thelr own partinning departinents,. ‘To ene courage nnd facilitate the enterprise, the rail rods linve, offered special rates, und oven some of tho occanic steamship Hues ‘have beon a8 generous, Tho projectors of this exhibition are san- pale that tt will be the menns of introducln; nto Aimerles higny new yarleties of whea! which Europeans have found best adapted to flourmanufacture, besides being instrus imental Inthe adoption of a great variety of now und unch-necded machinery, Indeed, they ara sanguine that there fs not only to be derlved from it a mutual benetit to miling- machinery manufacturers and to millers, but . that the public—the consuiners of flour—are ulsé to be benefited bya future superior quality of grain sind the Of conrse competition wil be encouraged by alist of premiuns, many of which have a ready been offered, fn! the words of those really hu ested’ In the milling interests, itis hardly nevessary to enlarge upon the Iniportunee of this exhibition and the bene fits to be derived from it by all Interosted classes, It will bring together all who are connected with the hundling | of + wheat and flour Agriculturigta,- millers, manufacturers of mil) machinery, flour-denlers, und bakers will ull bo represent. ed, and the ndvuntaxe tint each class will iin by contaet with the representatives of he others Wil be Incaleulable.” ‘Tho snitlor will haye an opportunity to inspeet ma chinery inactual operation and showing re- suits. “Bakers and lour-dealers will have a chanee ta exams an array of flour samples such as this country hus nover seen; and, aldes this, ottr millers will be enabled to come naire the products of their inills With those of heir nelghborg and with the tails of forelan countries. Ono polntshould not be forgot ten by iniilers and dealers in mill-machinery. An the past few years wu remirkuble degree of Interest has been developed in, Europe. in Ameriean four und machinery, ‘his has been especlully true of the year that has just pussed, Never before In’ our history hes wre been such # demand for our flour and ftour-lll muchinery. Never before have eo jnany foreign millers paid visits to: this coun- try far the purpose of inaking a personal in- spection of our mill-nachinery, Thero is hurdly a doubt but that the Intlux of foreign millers and flour-dealers to this country will be very great dutlng tho Exposition. 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