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ment. Except that the trees are leafless the 
country presents the aspect of August. 
of the lambs on cows’ milk is necessary, it au¬ 
gurs an unfavorable result, and the evil should 
be speedily remedied by a more judicious 
treatment, as indicated. 
The same paper says that perhaps the best 
milk-producing diet for ewes, in the absence 
of green spring crops, is one consisting of oats, 
bran and linseed-cake, together with an allow¬ 
ance of roots and a small quantity of fresh 
hay. After the ewes have lambed, a change 
to early grass or green food of some kind is 
especially desirable, both for creating and 
maintaining a full flow of milk. 
gether Mexican, although largely patronized 
by everybody. Every night,unless the weather 
is bad, long tables are spread in the military 
plaza, set with flowers, salads, bread, cake, 
roasted fowl and meats, tea, coffee, etc., while 
the purely Mexican dishes axo chili con conic, 
tamales, tortillas and encldllidas. The tables 
are very clean in appearance, and brilliantly 
lighted with lamps. Back of them were camp 
fires over which were placed a kind of iron 
stove without a bottom. All the food is pre¬ 
viously prepared, and warmed up on these 
stoves. The tortillas, a thin kind of pan-cake 
made of corn soaked in lye, mashed by hand, 
and then baked, were warmed by being laid 
on red-hot coals until slightly scorched. They 
were served as an accompaniment to chili con 
came and euchillidas. Anaximander gave an 
order for the former, while I asked for the lat¬ 
ter. Tamales we hail eaten in California, as 
readers of my Housekeeping Papers may re¬ 
call. Like the tamale, I think I might in time 
become rather fond of chili con came , if my 
stomach held out long enough, but it is de¬ 
cidedly a fearful dish for the beginner. 
Euchillada is still fearfuller—a tortilla rolled 
around chopped onion (raw), Mexican cheese 
and over it poured Chilian sauce. I ate it with 
the same kind of fascination that tempts one 
to perilous things. I neither liked it nor dis¬ 
liked it. The very fact that these Mexican 
dishes differ from all others under the sun, en¬ 
dows them with a peculiar interest, and if 
people like them at all they usually become 
very foud of them. All during the evening 
ladies drove up in carriages, and were served 
with chili con came. Most of the waiters at 
the tallies, both men and women, were either 
American or able to speak English well, while 
the cooks and stove tenders were Mexicans. 
On the balcony of a theatre facing the plaza, 
a baud discoursed gay music, and the scene, 
was anything but Puritanic, although orderly 
throughout. These tables are continued 
throughout the entire night until nine o’clock 
in the following morning, and they form a 
cheap, convenient and pleasant place for any 
one to get his supper or breakfast. As we re¬ 
turned to our lodging, we dropped in at a 
Presbyterian church near by, and listened to 
the fag end of a very good talk from a young 
parson who had lately been married. 
Of course, we had grave suspicious as to what 
our dreams that night would be, but oue must 
risk something for an experience. However, 
1 paid rather dearly for mine, and left the 
beautiful and exceedingly interesting city of 
San Antonio next morning in a dilapidated 
state of body, but I couldn't regret, withal, 
that we had eaten of chili con came, ot cetera. 
Indlnns. 
Wabash, Wabash County, April 14.—There 
is'much alarm in this part of the State over 
the possible failure of the wheat crop, caused 
by the unprecedented dry weather at this sea¬ 
son of the year which has prevailed for over a 
month. Up to March 10 the outlook was fa¬ 
vorable, but a succession of thaws and freezes 
caused the roots ef the plants to be exposed 
and winter-killed. jr l. 
Virginia. 
Richmond, Henbico Co., April 10.— It is 
reported that the contract for buying leaf to¬ 
bacco for the Austrian Government has been 
awarded to a Richmond German firm, the 
name of which will appear later. So far as 
tobacco is concerned there is little to report, 
transactions being small and unimportant. 
The best long dark leaf sales are at about 13 
cents, while the average range for prices for 
leaf is from six to eight cents; good lugs of 
common leaf at three to five cents. What 
the planting should and will he is the general 
subject of discussion among tobacconists, 
planters and the papers, and the result is that 
all agree that another poor crop will be ruin¬ 
ous to all alike. It is known that planters are 
financially in a worse condition to raise a 
good crop than for ten years past. The ques¬ 
tion is will they or can they pursue a suicidal 
policy? The belief gains ground that not 
much over a half crop will be attempted in 
Virginia and North Carolina this year, and 
that only such grades as the market needs will 
be aimed at. The seasons thus far are back¬ 
ward, but there is no want of plants any¬ 
where. The tendency is when the patch is 
full of vigorous plants to put them out any¬ 
how, even upon poor land, and trust to luck 
and seasons and haphazard labor, but the can- 
vased plants are said not to stand transplant¬ 
ing as well as those raised without covering 
So the elements are against these plants to 
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Palm Sunday in San Antonio; negro deter¬ 
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Continental Sabbath; a merry Sunday 
evening ending sedately; demoralization 
on quitting the place. 
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Oub second day in San Antonio fell on 
Palm Sunday, and we did as do the San An¬ 
ton ians-vre went to church in the morning, to 
the park in the afternoon and to eat child con 
came iu the military plaza iu the evening. 
Anaximander wanted to go to a Protestant 
church, but I led the way to the Cathedral 
which was packed with people of all shades of 
color from white to black. No matter how 
ragged the people were, each man and boy 
had in some way mustered a clean white 
shirt, which was occasionally decorated with 
a ruffie down the front. The services con¬ 
sisted chiefly of the people marching up to the 
altar and being given a small branch of greeu 
as a synonym for a palm, it was to be sup¬ 
posed . The Cathedral is an agreeable build¬ 
ing architecturally, hut lias no striking fea¬ 
tures. 
We went to the park by a one-mule car and 
fell into conversation with a fellow passenger, 
a Texan cattle dealer, who treated us with 
very pleasant courtesy. He pointed out the 
various trees, blackberry, persimmon. Magno¬ 
lia, pecan, Wesafcch (!) resembling larch, cot¬ 
tonwood, Mesquite, elm and a Mexican tree 
which he didn’t know how to spell, but called 
it quahany. When in the park (called San 
Pablo Springs, because the river rises there) he 
led 11 s aroun I to see tbo birds and animals, 
the “flying horses” and the ‘‘roller coaster.” 
He talked very freely of the “wall”—how 
“bawd” it was to see the negroes set free and 
to endure their uppishness—a nigger could 
never be anything but a nigger any way [, He 
admitted that the colored people were doing 
very well; but his remark that the present 
generation was far inferior to the fathers and 
mothers of it, both in industry and honesty, 
I had subsequently eoufirtned by every person 
with whom I talked—both white and black. 
The Texan cattle dealer said, auctit stock 
raising in Texas, that the profits had fallen 
off largely withiu two years. Cattle that 
brought $20 a head, now sold for $10. The 
ranches were eaten off, and the cattle had to 
be driven to distant pastures—to New Mexico 
aud elsewhere. He spoko of attending to 
business on Sundays,and I remarked that per- 
hap«ho had never learned the ten Command¬ 
ments. He laughed and said that be had; 
that lits parents were good old Methodists 
and he had been “raised” in the Sunday 
school, but circumstances required him to 
keep his office open on Sunday morning. All 
the while we were in conversation ho hud a 
quid of tobacco in his mouth, which he tried 
to keep out of sight by skillful wobbling. I 
noticed that most of the boys, both black and 
white, smoked cigarettes. Mexican women 
arrayed in Sunday garb wore black crape 
shawls over the head. The German and his 
frau were Ihcre and beer stands abounded. 
Everything was quiet, however; a baud 
played respectably; the park (a natural grove) 
was charming, and in the river were line 
large fish ami colonies of small turtles. Sati 
Antonio has three plazas, large open squares 
without grass, where markets are held, and 
all sorts of vehicles congregate with various 
wares, and remain for nearly the entire day 
iu the beating sunshine, waiting for sales, in 
the afternoon ieo-crenm stands with awnings 
are put up on the outskirts, and one can sit 
under the shade and regale himself with tol¬ 
erable ice-cream (frozen custard) at five cents 
a plate. 8o far as 1 was able to observe, the 
plaza vendors are Mexicans aud they speak 
almost no English, 
After puttiug the laddie to bed in the even¬ 
ing we went out to what is familiarly called 
chili con came , which, in plain English, is 
uieat with Chilian pepper made into a kind of 
stew. This chili con came is a distinctive 
feature of life iu San Antonio, and is alto¬ 
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April, 9 1887. 
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Illinois. 
Chicago, Cook Co., April 14. —So far the 
month of April has been a remarkable one, 
and will be referred to for many years as the 
driest and warmest. Ever since Sunday the 
mercury has been run fling all along from the 
seventies to the nineties, and Tuesday the 
weather was decidedly hot. This has been a 
great spring for getting in the crops, but we 
greatly need rain. March was one of the most 
trying months, since lss5, that the winter 
wheat crop has had, aud the month of April 
has shown no improvement. For the last few 
days the reports from Ohio and Indiana have 
shown up very badly, and there has been no 
improvement in Kansas. Illiuois and Mis¬ 
souri seem to be holding their own remarkably 
well, and there has been very little ruuuiug 
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ports are almost unanimous so far that the 
ground has beeu in excellent condition for 
plowing and seeding. The oats have been put 
iu in extraordinarily fine shape, and I believe 
the acreage in Illinois will lie the largest on 
record. The spring wheat season has fairly 
opened in Northern Dakota and Minnesota. 
I think the acreage will run about this way: 
Where farmers lost their crop last year by 
drought ami have been obliged this year to 
buy seed., the acreage will be decreased, but 
wherever the crop was good last year, as it 
was in the majority of places, the acreage to 
be sown this season promises to be a very 
large oue. Kansas reports are to tho effect 
that the largest proportion of the ground for 
the corn crop has all been plowed, and over 
50 per cent., of the corn planted. Complaints 
are still very general as to the dry condition 
of the State, and how essential timely rains 
must be, not only to the crops that have beeu 
seeded, but which will be put in the ground 
during the next 30 days. N. w. 
Bloomington. MoI<ean County, April 14.— 
The drought throughout. Central Illiuois to¬ 
gether with the great and continuous heat is 
unprecedented. Nothing like it has beeu 
known for a great many years. It lias not 
rained for six weeks. The thermometer reg¬ 
isters nearly niuety degrees in the shade daily. 
Many farmers are obliged to haul water for 
their stock, and pastures furnish little nourish¬ 
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