Decatur Democrat, Volume 27, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 21 September 1883 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVII,

(The ipcnion*nt OFFICIAL paper of the county. ROTH & CUMMINS, Editors and Prop’s. TERMS: Per Year, in advance $1 50 Per Year, if not paid in advance 2 00 B B. ALLMow, Preset. W. H. Niblick,Cashier. B. Studarakri, Vice Proe't. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, Thie Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tf PETERSON & HUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ! DECATUB, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining coanlies. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are No Uries Public and draw deeds and mortgagee Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. 0 0. F. building. 2Sjy79tf F.. ILCOVERDALE, Jtttdrney at Law, —}and(— NOTARY PUBLIC, DECATUR INDIANA. Office over Welfley’e grocery, opposite the Court Houee. JT. FRANCE, Pros, Atty. J. T. MhUKYM AN, Notary Public. -FRANCE & MERRYMAN,Attorneys at Law, DECATUR, - - - INDIAN/ 01 FICE.r-Nos. 1 and 2 over Stone s W ware Store. Collecting a specialty —R> B. It. FREEMAN. MI). J..' I’.' O’ EPS '! D. Drs. Freeman & Beyers, .......nit, INDIANA, 1 practitioners of Medici*. ~nd Surgery. Calls promptly attended v> day or night. ’ Office over Dorwin & Holthouse's Drug Store. Residence on Third street,between Jackson and Slouroe streets. W. H. MYERS, IrifA* A' Stone Jlason < ontrac'i DECATUR, INDIANA. Jolicits work of all kinds in his line. Persons contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, “SEYMOUR ”l'kP EN ’ a Letioneer. - Ind. Will attend to all calls in this and adjoining counties. A liberal patronage solicited. n3Ctf. AUGUST KRECHTER CIGAR MANUFACTURER, BeCATUR, - - INDIANA. B A full line of Fine cut, Plug, Smoking ■obacco, Cigars, Cigarettes and Pipes of ■ill kinds always on hand at my store. I G. F. KINTZ, Civil Engineer and Convey ancer. Jee Is, Mortgages, Contracts, and all legal instruments drawn with neatness and dig* patch. ■Special attention to ditch and grave Wa i petitions. Office ovft Welfley’s Gro■ry Store, opposite the Court House, DeW’ir, Indiana. 87-m6 ByjUTS AxND SHOES O«e Door west of Niblick, Crawford and Sods, Henry Winiics, DECATUR, INDIANA. ■One of the best selected stock of Boots, ' 81 s, new and Seasonable Goods, eto., inch. ing everything In his line, and prices ■ih ran teed as low as can be found in this ®|rket. Come and see for yourselves, ta ■ 18 A SPECIFIC CUnE FOR ALL DISEASES OF THE SKIN, ESPECIALLY SALT RHEUM OR ECZEMA. SCROFULA, SCALD HEAD, TETTER, flh'ES. RASH, DANDRUFF, BARBER'S ITCH, S-ES. BOILS. CARBUNCLES. ULCERS, -JRvTCHES. CHAFING AND SORENESS OF W ALTS ANO ADULTS, BURN OR SCALD, stings, plant-poisoning and POISOJED WOUNDS, PIMPLES, ROSE-RASH, ITCHH*c Or THE SKIN, RINGWORM, SUNBURN A?: FOR ALL SYPHILITIC ULCERS AND Eruptions this remedy is a positivi ■re without the use of INTERNAL ”|mED|ES, ■<'- A SPECIFIC CURE FOR CATARRH ACMITE or CHRONIC, COLD IN THE HEAD HA'. FEVER, SNUFFLES AND SNEEZING ALL DISEASES OF THE NOSE ARE CURED FAIL BY THIS SOVEREIGN r 4<EDY IT IS THE ONLY SURE CURE FOL hAV FEVER AND ROSE COLD. SKIN AND CATARRH CURE DC NOT or BURN, BUT SOOTHE AND HEAL KO'ICE. PUT UPON A RAW SORE, OR EtMl-DEO FLESH. IT RELIEVES THE PAIN *EDIC‘Nt EVER PREPARED. AN INFANT can Jake a whole bottleful and it W| t»NOT DO IT ANY HARM IT IS A SPEFOR WHOOPING COUGH, AND ®*OHCHIAL pR WINTER COUGH. IT CONTAtNS -|3 |=e CAOi TARTAR EMETIC, PRUSSIC *o*o, OR ANY DRUG OR CHEMICAL DIRECTIONS IN TEN languages OJBaIE BY DRUGGISTS. PAPILLON MFG. CO . CHICAGO ■ r<T Sale by A. B PEARCE * CO.

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THE CONVICT TO fllS MOTHER. Within the prison walls, mother, Shut in a convict’s cell, I’m often thinking now of yon, My thoughts no tongue can tell. I’m sure ’twill break your heart, mother, And end your days in woe. When you hear that I have fallen— God only knows how low. I know you gave me good advice. You taught me what was right. But I slighted all your counsels. So I am here to-night. I fell into bad company. And soon began to drink, To lie and swear and steal, mother— In sin I fast did sink. ■ I didn’t seem to realize That from the flowing bowl A bitter, bitter curse would Come . To blight my inmost soul. I followed in the nath of crime, Without e’en a thought 1 Whether the things then enjoyed f To me were dearly bought. Until the hand of outraged law Brought, me liefore the Judge, Tb answer the charge made . Against me—not for grudge. I felt my degradation then; It pierced me through and though, And oh, 1 prayed within my heart • g It might be kept from you! I- The Judge was a kind-hearted man, ( . He looked me in the face, And said, “Young man, I much regret e To see you in this place. k- Th-re is no crime stamped on your brow—- » I think you're led astray — Guilty or not,” said he, “are you? Tell me the truth, I pray.” “Guilty, your Honor,” I replied, “Show‘mercy, if you c«n— My sin has beed my vanishment. I’m now a fallen man.” Yes, I have fallen, mother, dear, God only how K»w; t I’ve sent a dagger to your heart— A cruel, fatal bl®'" ■ There’s another one, dear mother. That’s ever! ll m >' mind; e I left her P* « foreign land, * And mj* to her unkind. I treat/-* lier most shamefully, - An/still she usedme well—,rt" never value heaven aright rntil they pass through hell. ~ /Send a message to her, mother— Say that you’ve heard from me—- ' That by bad associations ( I lost my liberty. Urge her to forgive me. mother— It will console my mind When I know that I’m forgiven ) For treating her unkind. Within the prison walls, mother, I am con hued for life— How dark the future looks to me. It is with sorrow rife; But 1 11 strive to do my duty Until the final day. So when the toils of life are o’er I’ll meet you o’er the wav. ■ The Three Good Gifts. "Lili, Lili! run to the There’s some one com’’ i rO /,, .ed to her feet with Liu Pentield.fhlesslv destroying all ' ■ ’ olls which had built themj |he brio, around the glowing logs in r ' chimney. “How much is it for a foot passenger said she, calling up the narrow, Wooden stairway. “But it isn’t a foot passenger,” irritably retorted Delia, with het mouth full of hairpins. “It's old Miss Merrydeer, Uith her donkey cart. Ten cents.” It was a stormy March sunset, red sud threatening along the west, with a frozen breath of icicles in the air, and black masses of cloud piled overhead, through which old Miss Merrydeer’s oart seemed to advance. Lili Penfield stood on the toll-house porch, looking with surprised eyes at the gaunt, pld woman, who sat on a heap of cut branches and whipped up a phlegmatic donkey in front of her. “Oh, you’re always ready enough to •top,” sarcastically remarked old Miss Merrydeer, as the donkey came to a lead halt in front of the toll-bar. “Now, then, youug woman" (to Lilli, “why ain’t I to be allowed to go on ?” “Ten cents, please,” said Lili, timidly holding out her hand, with all that Bae had ever read, dreamed or heard about witches coming back into her mind at the sight of the yellow, old ] face, with its fringe of white elf-locks, ' the red cloak and the npse that was hooded like a bird of prey. “Ten cents!’’ shrilly shrieked 014 Miss Merrydeer. “And for what, I should like to know ?” “It’s the toll-gate, please,” explained I LIH, wishing more than ever that her Jousin would come down stairs. “I don’t know anything about tollrates,” said Miss Merrydeer. “Stand [side and let me go through. The toad was here long afore they built the toll-gate, ft’s swindling—that’s what It is. Get up, Neddy!” She settled herself back among the ' green spruce boughs and protruding foots with an air of determination, and jhirruped to her drowsy steed as if she I tneant to ride rough-shod over all opposition; but just here Della Penfield tame running down stairs and swung the bar back to it’s place. “Ten cents, Miss Merry deer,” said i she, “or you can’t pass. That’s the law.” Miss Merrydeer uttered a curious j grunt of dissatisfaction. “If it’s law, it ain’t justice,” said she, fumbling in the pocket of her tattered old co^t —a garment which had evibeen cut down from a man’s ster. “There, as true as you live, that there dime has fell out and got lost in the woods!” “That's nonsense,” said Delia, tartly. “Ten cents—and do hurry. I can't stand here in this wind all night.” “Bui Iliain't got it,” bluntly spoke out the old crone. “Lemme pass!” “Not without the 10 cents,” said Delia, resolutely. “I've pa’s orders, ilid I must stick to 'em. If you haven’t got the money you must go around by the mill road." n “But that’s four miles further, said the old-woman, despairingly. “And Neddy’s dead tired, and so am I And it’s growin’ colder every minute, and these March winds is hard on my rheumatics.” , , , “Yon should have thought of that be- | fore,” said Delia, indifferently. “Delia, why don’t you let her pass whispered Lili. “She’s so old and—“Old?” pettishly repeated Delia. “Why, she's the worst old harpy in the , country. We always have just this wrangle every time she goes through th And she bolted the gate with ostentatious noise. Old Miss Merrydeer was slowly and reluctantly turning he donkey's droojimg head around, when Lili herself came to the rescue. “Stop a minute. Miss Meirydeer. said she. “Here is a 10-cent piece. 14 seems such a pity for you and the poor old donkey to go so far around this bitter cold night. And-and you can , pay me the next time you come this | “Eh ?” said Miss Merrydeer, shrilly, i “Who are you?” “I’m Lili,” said the girl. Mr. Penfield's niece, from Omaha.” “Mi said the old woman. v eu, whoevrn- you be, you’ve done a kmd and merciful deed this night. And you’ll get vour reward for it too. shall I tell your’ fortune?" once more stopping ’the donkeyasbe wm batf'YS though ths toil-gat. to D.lia Pwflold •

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 1883.

infinite disgust. “Oh, yes, I’ve a charm. We that live in the woods find out many a spell that other folks know nothing of. Well, here it is. Three good gifts for you. There’s a lover coming; there’s a gift of money coming, and there’s a clear conscience to go to bed Upon this, night. Good-by—good by-" And the donkey trotted awav over the frozen roads, his hoof's ringing like muffled bells, while Dell adjusted the bars with a laugh, and both girls ran hurriedly back to the glow and shelter of the fireplace. “Is she crazy ?” said LiH, earnestly. “Not half so crazy as you were to listen to her,” said Delia. “It’s old Miss Merrydeer. Every one knows her. She gets roots and herbs from the woods and boils them into drinks. There axo families around here that would rather have Miss Merrydeer in sickness than any other doctor in town. And she's a nurse, too; and some thinks she sees and hears more than other people. ” “How old is she ?” 4 “A hundred at least,” said Dtdia. “Now, let us make haste and get'the tea ready, for pa will be half frozen when ho comes. ” "1 wonder if my three good gifts will come true?" said Lili laughing. “Oh, undoubtedly I” Delia answered, with the most marked satire But Delia Penfield herself was surprised, about a week subsequently, when a letter arrived for Lili from “the lad she left behind her.” “What do you think, Lili?” he wrote, “I am coming East lam coming to the very same pari of the country where you are. Do vou know the old red mill? Well, Oriel Hall has bought it and we are to run it in partnership. And when we have saved a little money, Oriel is coming back West for the girl Ye is engaged to, and I—well, Lili, you know the rest. It may be several years first, but we must be patient ! for the present, dear, it will be enougA for me to be near you.” “There’s the lover!” cried Delia, as Lili sat radiantly dreaming over the letter “And the clear conscience wo'll take for granted. Now, if only old witch Merrvdeer wqubi •"u’l’V money, I should ro-»y believe in her. ~j .Teboram Hawley, the man,’«'ho had come in at this moment with a pot of glue to warm over the kitchen stove, “that old Miss Merrydeer won’t supply many more things in this world. She’s at death’s door with pneumony. That’s what I’ve heard.” “Is she, poor old thing ?” said Delia, carelessly. “Take care Jeboram, don’t spill that glue!” “She’s got a lawyer’s clerk there a making of her will!” chuckled Jeboram. “He's to take out his pay in four bottles of Ague Spruce Cure and a gaUon of root beer. But law ! there ain't no use —she’ll never die! She’ll fly up on a broomstick some day, or disappear in a flash of lightning. ” The next day, however, came a tattered little messenger to the toll-house —a bright-eyed colored lad. “Ohl Miss Merrydeer wants to see the young woman as she give the three good gifts to, ” said he, rolling his cof-fee-colored eyeballs around. “I’m to show her de way. Bight off, please.” Lili looked at Delia in amazement. “Shall I go?” said she. “Oh, surely I ought.” “It’s a lonely spot,” said Delia—“up in the woods without a neighbor’s house in sight. Jeboran had better follow you at a little distance. Old witch Merrydeer may turn you into a white dove’or a red fawn, for all that I know. ” She laughed, but there was a certain vein of seriousness that underlay all her mirth; so Lili started out in the gray March afternoon, with little flurries of snow pricking her cheek like frozen needles ever and anon, and the rimpy frost crackling under her feet, while, some few paces behind, trudged Jeboram, charged to look as little as possible like au escort. “For nobody knows,” said Delia, “what the old witch may take offense at.” But, to confess the truth, Lili was frightened when she entered the little one-storied cabin, one side of which was all away with the force of many a winter’s tempest, in whose low-ceiled apartment old Miss Merrydeer lay dying. ' “Is it my bonny girl ?” she said, lifting her glance to the new comer’s face. “Yes, it’s she as gave me the dime. Out of her own pocket she gave it to me. Everyone else turned their backs upon me ''nd laughed to see the old witch go by. No one ever gave me anything before but sneers and curses. For what good to anybody was eld witch Merrydeer? But she’took pity on her, Lord love her! And I promised her three good gifts. I’ve made her my heiress, that’s what I’ve done. Como here, pretty one, and put your hand in mine.” But even as Lili ‘touched her warm palm to the old crone’s fast-purpling hand, she gave a quick gasp, turned over, and died. Lili closed her eyes, tied np the poor old toothless jaws with her scented pocket handkerchief, crossed the hands on the pulseless breast, and went home again, leaving Jeboram to do what he could for the watchers and attendants. And, as she walked, she carried the strange, aromatic odors of pine and birch, and dried penny-royal bunches in her dress, curious remembrances of old Miss Merrydeer. They buried her on the mountain side in a quaint little graveyard, where the cows grazed at will, picking their way among the moss-grown tombstones, and where the fence had long ago fallen to ruins; and people laughed at the idea of Lili Penntield being constituted heiress of the dead woman’s estate. “Oh, yes; the will is all right and tight enough,” said I'ncle Penntield. "But, after all, what dots it amount to? An old hovel crammed chuck full of yarbs and roots, twenty gallons o’ root beer, four dozen bottles of ague cure that never vet cured anybody, and four acres of land with the stones so close together on’t that even the sheep can't get their noses down to browse. Taint much of a fortin’, according to my way o’ thinking I” “But she meant kindly toward me, poor thing!” said Lili, softly; and all because I gave her a-—dime! ’ The next afternoon, however, I'ncle Pennfield came back from town with a beaming face. “Look here, Lili,” said he. “You’ve got the fortin’ after all. AAnat dye think ? Old Witch Merrydeer had SBOO in the savings bank, and it’s yours. I declare I never would have believed there was that much money to be made out of roots and yarbs !" “Eight hundred dollars!” cried Delia, springing to her feet. “Then Lili can marry Tom Catesby after all, when he comes East.” For to these simple people SBOO signified a fortune. j

So this gentle-natured heroine ini herited the good gifts after all. Tom Catesby came East and set up in life ns a miller, with Lili at the household helm. And of course tin y lived happily ever after. Who ever heard of a pair of true lovers that did otherwise? ■Wiiiie t.h" neighbors all marveled ex’cecrlingiy and remarked, with various nasal inflections and wagging of the head, that it was “most extraordinary, but old Miss Merrydeer always was queer!” Frightened tn Heath. Few people seem to properly estimate the great wrong of frightening children. Nearly every household has its “ugly old man,” or its “great old bear." This terrible old man and this great old bear are powerful factors in nursery discipline. “Come along hero now.” a mother or nurso will say to a child, “and let me put you to bed.” “I don’t want to go now,” the child replies. “You’d better come on here now, or I’ll tell that ughv did man to come and take you away. There he comes now. “ This has the intended effect, and the child, trembling in fear, submits at once and goes to bed, probably to see in imagination all kinds of horrible faces. , The sad death of a little girl, which occurred recently, shows what a strong impression these “boogers” make on the minds of Children. The little girl was a beautiful child, and everyone at the fashionable boarding-house where her parents were spending the summer months loved her with that pmity of affection which a child so gently yet so strongly inspires. She would stand at the gate and clap her little hands in glee when her father came to dinner, and when he would take her on his shoulder, she would shout and call to every one to look how high she was. One day a large, shaggy dog came into the yard, and when she ran to him and held a flower to his nose, he growled and turned away. She was terribly frightened, and the black nurse, who stood near, was not slow in making a mental note of the impression the dog had made. Several nights afterwarJ, when be,l time came, the child was unusually wakeful. “Yer’d better come lieah an’ git in dis bed,” the nurse commanded. “I don’t want to. ” “All right, den. I’se gwine out an’ call dat ole dog what growled at yer. When be comes an’ fin’s yer onten de bed, he’ll bite yer head off.” The little girl grew deathly pale. “Nuthin’ would suit dat dog better den ter git a chance at yer. "fother night he cotch a little girl across de road an’ eat her all up.” The child screamed. “Como on here den, an’ I won’t let him ketch yer.” The poor little thing obeyed. Her father and mother were at an entertainment and there -was no appeal from the negro woman’s decision. When morning came the little girl did not awake ■with her glad “good mornin’ papa an’ mamma.” She had tossed all night i and a hot fever had settled upon her. She grew rapidly worse, and the next day the physician declared that there ! was no hope for her. She became delirious, and struggling would exclaim : .“Dog shan’t have mamma's little girl?” It was a sorrowing circle that surrounded her death,bed. The parents were plunged into a grief which none but the hearts of fathers and mothers i can feel. Her last moments were a series of Struggles. How hard the beautiful can die. She wildly threw up her little hands'and shrieked: “Go away, dog 1” A gentle hand wiped the death froth from her lips. Again she struggled and shrieked: “Dog shan’t have —” but she died ere the sentence was finished. — Arkansaw Traveler. How the Farm Help Were Tired Out. “The help we get nowadays don’t amount to shucks. Time was when the I help you hired in haying time could dd a decent day’s work, but this year > they’re wurs’n ever.” Old Farmer Smith was getting in hay at his farm in a suburban town, and had two or three men at work with him. The old man continued: “Tell you what it is : old as I am I can pack , more hay on a wagin than any two men ! of the present day can fork up.” “Suppose you try it, old man,” suggested one of the men, at the same time tipping the wink to his mate on j the opposite side to “sock it” to the old ' man. The old fellow needed no second invitation. With a bound he mounted the cart, and was stowing away hay at I a tremendous rate. Up came forkful ; j after forkful, first on one side and then . , upon the other. The "help” was' put- | ting in its best licks and the old man was kept squirming around in lively style, much to the amusement of all bauds. The “help” was rapidly getting tired: - it would never do to give up and allow* the old man to come oil' victorious. Something must be done at once. “When I put up a heavy forkful on this side, give him all you can lift from the other end, and knock him out,” I said one of the men to the other in an j undertone. « The plan worked well. One of the men lifted an extraordinary big forkful, just putting it upon the edge of the load, and, while the old man was leaning over endeavoring to get it in place, the fellow on the other side threw all he could lift upon the back of -the old I fellow, which, of course, upset him and sent him sprawling to the ground. “Hello! what are youdown here for?” I asked help No. 1, endeavoring as well as lie could to conceal his merriment. Quick as a flash from the old man came the answer: “After more hay?” This answer tired the help completely.— Boston Globe. The Stars on Our Flag. It is to a woman that the United States is indebted for having a star with five points on their national flag. Her name was Betsey Ross, and she was an upholsterer by trade. The committee of Congress authorized to design a flag came to her to perform the work, and she suggested that the five-pointed star would be better for i their purpose than the six-pointed. ' She was created flagmaker to the Gov- i eminent* and her business descended to her children, but was at last relinquished by her daughter, who joined the Society of Friends, and did not, wish to have her handiwork used in war.— Boston Budget. Ax Alabama girl, 3 years old, on going to 'the window early one foggy morning, cried out: “Oh, come here and look, mamma The sky is all i examined down to tho ground I”

AGRICULTURAL. In Ohio the farmers have abandoned the old plan of working out the road tax. The roads are kept in repair by contract and the result is much better roadways, really costing no more money thap. under juq old system. To protect tomato and cabbage plants from being cut off by the cutworm, wrap a bit of paper about the stem extending up an inch or so and low enough to be held in its place by the soil. The first paper to baud, whether wrapping or newspaper, will answer the purpose. Where worms are troublesome this simple method of protection pays. In Vermont the dairy interest has been more intelligently conducted than in most other sections. The result is that the butter yield of cows has increased the last fourteen years tin average of fifty pounds per cow. This increase is nearly all clear profit, as the cost of keeping a good cow is no more than that of keeping a poor specimen.— Chicago Journal. If the evaporation of sweet-corn can not at present be called an important industry it bids fair to become one. One bushel of sweet-corn will make twelve pounds of evaporated product, selling at from 15 to 25 cents per pound. Great cure must be taken not to get the corn too old, because that which is too ripe to be used green becomes tough and dry after evaporation. In cold climates it is best to have fruit near the ground to promote the process of ripening. The earth radiates heat during the night and the fruit has the benefit of it. Apple trees should have low tops, while grapes and tomatoes should be trained so that the fruit will be not more that a foot from the surface of the earth. Fruit on high branches and vines is very likely to be injured by the wind. A cobrespondent of the Bural New Yorker advises the use of a two-gallon sprinkling-can, with a rose-sprinkler on the nozzle, for ajipl.vine paris-green tines. He puts in the can a I little more than a spoonful of parisgreen, fills with water, stirs the mixture I with a few strokes, and starts on his work of annihilation. Ten cents worth of paris-green is enough for an acre. A practical farmer near Chicago has found that applying the poison to each alternate row of vines was as effectual in ridding the whole field of beetles as was an application to each row.—Chi- | cago Tribune. The Hon. C. M. Clay, in a long and elaborate article upon the supremacy of Kentucky live stock, makes the statement that this result has been secured first, and maintained secondly, by a system of eontifmons high feeding •—and when even this vigilance is allowed to be relaxed, there will be a corresponding falling off in the value and superior qualities of their stock. He then adds: This is the only road to improvement in stock. Let no man take i an animal from a rich pasture to a poorer one, or from a system of generous feeding to a scramble . for life! i But by high feeding, I by no mfhns mean stuffing or over-feeding; for all feeding should be in unison with the laws of health. A too fat animal does not breed at all, or brings a poor and feeble issue. This fact drives most breeders from the show ring, where I that abuse of natural laws too often takes the premiums.— Chicago Journal. The United States Veterinary Journal says cracked hoof is the general result of a dry state of the hoofs, which makes them weak and brittle; and the trouble may arise from fever or other causes of degeneration. Among the more prominent influences which tend to produce cracked hoofs, are an uneven bearing of the shoe, calking or other wounds, or injury to the coronet and the drying of the wall of the hoof. In the first stages of the trouble an even-bearing bar shoe will generally relieve the trouble, and a pitch plaster should be placed over the injury. If the crack is more pronounced and of long standing, then it will be necessary to close up the crack by clinching a thin nail or a fine wire at the top and bottom of the gap. It would also be well to. burn a groove just below the crack, quite deep, and to blister the coronet at the top of the crack. An , application of Venice turpentine should '' be applied to the affected parts. Dr. Sturtevant, of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, has of late been experimenting to discover | the effect of the food of a cow on her milk. To him it seems certain that the influence of the food is to be detected more readily in the churning of the butter from the milk than from the i study of the actual butter-fat in the milk. He says during forty-eight days’ trial, from Jan. 2 to Feb. 18, under different kinds of food, he possesses an analysis of the milk yielded daily, and a determination of the butter obtained ;by churning from the daily yield. The ; percentage of fat in the milk, aecord- ■ ing to analysis, varied from 1.47 to j 5.99; the percentage of bntter, as ob- ' tatned by the churn, varied from 2.40 I to 5.97, and it will thus be seen from these figures that the variation in the j butter obtained is here greater than is the variation in the fat in the milk. I Taking the average of the last three : days of the period of feeding, says the Director, in order to obtain the influence U|>on the butter and the fat, we have the fat percentage varying from 4.87 to 5.87, while the percentage of | butter obtained varied from 3.42 to 5.87. ; Or, expressing these facts in another form, while the variation between the [ maximum and the minimum determina- j l tions for the fat was but 10 per cent, j from the average, the variation in the amounts of butter obtained was 52 per cent, from the average. HOUSEKEEPER'S HELPS. A CHARMING way to flavor custards is to beat fruit jelly with the whites of the eggs; red raspberry jelly and i quince jelly are especially nice for this. Spiced plums are delicious. To eight' pounds of plums allow four of sugar, | one teaspoonful each of cinnamon and i cloves, one small cupful of vinegar. I Cook until they are as thick as jelly. I If the paper which is put over jelly j I and jam is wet in the white of an egg, I it will, when dry, be tight and firm ! and keep the fruit from molding with | much more certainty than if it is dipped in alcohol or brandy. The paper which is laid next the fruit is meant, not that which is tied or pasted over the glass. Tomato Piikles.—Slice the tomatcas over night and salt them. Drain, I and chop one-third of a cabbage. For ' three gallons of pickles: One table- ! spoon of all kinds of spice, three I pounds of sugar, one quart of small peppers or five large cues, and vinegar

to make moist. Add the sugar and vinegar together and heat till dissolved. Put in the vinegar and cook awhile. I Add the tomato and cook till tender: add one handful of whole cloves. Orange Fritters.—Sift one pound of Hazall flour into a dish, pour into it one pint of sweet milk, with a pinch of salt in it. and one-quarter of a pound | of melted butter mixed with the nr Ik. j Stir the flour and milk into a smooth batter, and add three eggs beaten very lightly. Peel four oranges, taking oil all the white, pithy skin, and divide into pieces without breaking their skins. Put a piece into each large spoonful oi batter, as it is turned into a kettle of boiling fat, and fry to a light brown. Sift powdered sugar over them while very hot, and serve hot. These are excellent for a side dish, or for thej lunch or tea table. Yankee Plum Pudding.—Take a thin pudding boiler that shuts all over tight with a cloth. Butter it well. Put at the bottom some stoned-raisins, and then a layer of baker’s bread cut in slices, with a little butter or suet, alternately, until you nearly fill the tin’ Take milk enough to fill your boiler (as they vary in size), and to every quart add three or four eggs, some nutmeg and salt, and sweeten with half sugar and half molasses. Drop it into boiling water, and let it boil three or four hours, and it can be eaten with a comparatively clear conscience. Spruce Beer.—One gallon of water, one quart of good molasses, one-hall ounce whole cloves, one-half ouucq white ginger root, one-half ounce whole all-spice, one-fourth ounce sassafras. Boil all well, say three hours. After taking it off the fire, pour it into a clean tub and add one and a half gall lons of water. Let this stand tilj milk warm, then add two table-spooni fills of baker’s or brewer’s yeast; then stand away in a cellar or some cool place during*the night, covering it. The next day it will be fit for bottling. One or two “ raisins, with a few holes punched in them with a fork, placed in each bottle, add greatly to its flavor. Put it into strong bottles, cork tightly and tie down with twine. Set it in aj cold cellar and in three or four days itj w ill be ripe. So says a housewife in the Orange County Barmer. ' Burglars’ Tools. For heavy work the “jimmy” is aj favorite tool of the burglar. It is a' modified iron crowbar, often made ini sections in order to be more convenient] for carrying on the person. The ends] are made of the finest steel, usually! wedge-shaped or chisel-shaped, but; frequently having sharp cutting edges. I With two or three large sectional! jimmies thieves can open the strongest! store shutters and doors. Burglars’ tools are made of the best materials,, and the mechanical workmanship dis-’, played in them is of the best. Most of! them can be used readily as deadly] weapons of offense and defense. 1 Several of the best jimmies at police headquarters were made by Adams,| alias Moore, the bank burglar, now in! prison. Other implements made bvj him are fine, diamond-pointed drills,’ bits and braces. Persons who rely on 1 iron bars, set across the basement! windows of their houses, to keep out! thieves, would be astonished by the) working of “dividers,” long screw on which are nuts attached to hooks.' : A few turns of the bolt, by means of a elver, will spread bars far enough apart to permit a man to enter. When robbers wish to open doors i without breaking them, they often use picklocks or skeleton keys, of which there are many specimens at police headquarters. Keys left in locked- . doors are turned from the outside easily ! with a pair of sharp pincers called' “nippers.” Occupants of houses can protect themselves against the use of such implements, however, by a simple device recommended by the detectives. 1 A piece of strong wire about a foofi long, bent over the handle of a door and] passed through the ring of the key,! I will make it impossible to unlock the} door from the outside. Burglars laugh 1 at the fastenings of windows which are' not guarded by strong shutters. Oh windy nights they quickly cut out pieces of glass near the fastenings, using a piece of putty to deaden the sound and to keep the glass from falling inside the window. The noise made in the operation will not waken a light sleeper. Large pieces of wooden shutters are removed by the use of fine augers and greased saws. When proper openings are made the thieves can remove ordinary window fastenings : and even heavy cross-bars, without arousing the inmates of a bouse. In the collection of articles used by thieves also are dark-lanterns, face masks, pistols and knives, leaden mallets, rqpe ladders, bits and braces, and many tools commonly used by carpenters and machinists. — New York Tribune. Babies’ Feet. Babies’ feet are objects of unlimited admiration; the soft curves and outlines and the perfect nails do not in the least suggest the cramped and misshapen, form they will take after awhile, in all human probability. Thoughtlessnessand a mistaken notion of economy cause' the lack of beauty and the sense of discomfort about the feet of the half-grown' boy or girl. Children are frequently! ’ made to wear shoes that they have outgrown because they are not worn out. “Best” shoes are almost always too small when they are purchased, and, as they are only worn occasionally, the ’ feet change and enlarge, and are injured, by the ill-fitting shoe. Thenails should be looked after by the mother just as : conscientiously as the morals of the child. Many an hour of acute pain to' the man or woman may bo charged to the neglect of the nails in childhood. If the discovery is made that the shoe is oppressing the foot and crowding the nails it would be better to remove the shoe and let the child go without rather than continue its use. If there is danger of a toenail pressing down in the flesh it can be avoided by cutting a scallop or point in the center of the nail. This will certainly prevent ingrowing nails. Afraid They'd Eat Him. “I'm so alarmed, Lizzie,” exclaimed a St. Louis girl who was engaged to be married to a young army officer. “He hasn't written to me in three days.” There’s no occasion to get excited,” was the reassuring reply; “he’s out of the reach of Indians, there is no epij demic prevailing where he is stationed, and when-he wrote you last he was in perfect health.” Oh, yes, I know all that, Lizzie, ” said the timid, agitated creature, “but there’s the army-worm.”— Brooklyn Eagle. The French have taken a railroad idea from America. One company has a system of dinner cart on its liae-

PITH AND POINT. [Morrison Herald.] They have discovered a greater curiosity than the sea serpent at Newport. It is “the married man who pays attention to his own wife!” It is very strange. But perhaps he has to. An Altoonamiau claims to have sec a veritable hoop snake near that place. It is strongly suspected that he devoted considerable time to inspecting the contents of the barrel before he saw the “hoop.” A Western paper says: “Sam Weldon was shot last night in the rotunda by Henry Parsans.” About the worst place a man can be shot, next to the heart, is in the rotunda. It invariable proves fatal. An exchange speaks of a Sheriff “holding an elephant for debt.” He must be a very strong Sheriff- and a brave one, too. It is not easy to hold an elephant—if the animal takes a hotiou to move on. But if the beast Jias cont racted a debt, it should be held until it discharges the obligation. A news item says that the brain of a circus employe, found dying near Middletown, “weighed fifty-six ounces, the same size as that of the first Napoleon and of Daniel Webster.” Os course he was the man who wrote the circus advertisements. It requires a genius with a Webesterian brain to perform such a task. The King of Italy says if he wasn’t a King he would be a newspaper reporter. Kings, after all, are only human, like the rest of us. They are ambitious, and want to get into the most exalted and honorable positions in the world—albeit the salary of a King, we’ve been told, is a few hundred dollars more than that of a newspaper reporter. (Carl Pretzel's Weekly.] i The weathercock is a vane thing. A waiter resembles a race-horse when he runs for steaks. The only poverty that is observable about the great pleasure resorts is a poverty of brains. When a young man gets his mustache to do just as he wants it, it may be termed broke-down. Blessed are the dining-room girls, according to the Bible, for verily they | are the piece-makers. Full many an hour of sad reflectionis spent in regretting the number of schooners that have gone down amid the storms that sweep 'across the bar. “Two prints with but a single thought, two tramps that beat as one,” said a compositor, as he and his partner marched valiantly up to the bar. Woman never had her rights. When a woman stands in front of a mirror for ten minutes she is called vain, but a I man can stand there half a day when shaving himself, ami the rest of the family imagines that he is telling the ; truth when he is cussing at the razor. “A few moments sometimes make a ‘ man change,” yells the Boston Post. I “A man with blue eyes was seen going into a beer saloon yesterday, and when he came out he had black eyes.” We have often heard of a man having black and blue at the same time. [Chicago Cheek.] A depressing feature —a broken nose. Whisky has a “rising tendency" when a man drinks too much. Unde* the title of “Thoughts on lbs Sea,” a poet has unburdened himself. One’s thoughts on the sea are often of a very retched characier. “A person loses one pound during a night’s sleep,” says an exchange. This must be applicable to Americans. The pnglish papers chronicle accounts of persons losing hundreds of pounds during a night's sleep. Tickle away, you fly; pestiferous aarniverous, you tantalizing fly. The Yost and the winter’s coming and you’ll poon lie down and die. Jump in the glucose,drink the milk,contaminate the tea. You’ll soon leave this festive earth, a fiy angel to be. King Omom, once husband of 706 African damsels, is dead. If the grief of each widow equaled the display made by American women at the funerals of their husbands, the mourners must have followed the king to his last restplace in boats. Honesty Winning a Fortune. Not long ago a rich man died in Brussels, leaving nearly all his fortune to a young woman who was entirely unacquainted with him. This is how jt came to pass : He was a very eccentric man, and set out like Diogenes in ! search of au houest man. His tub was I jin omnibus, and his lantern a small coin. In the omnibus he used to take his seat every day near the conductor, and always showed himself very obliging in passing up the money of passen- ] gers and returning the change, but to the latter he al ways managed to add a franc or half-franc. Then he would watch those to whom it came. They would count it carefully, notice the extra coin, and invariably slip it into their pockets. No one had any thought : of the poor conductor, whose meager : palary of 3 francs a day could ill support such a loss. But at last a young woman passed hers back with. “Conductor you have given me half a frano too much.” Diogenes, delighted, followed her home, made inquiries, and as the answers were satisfactory, made hi'- will in her favor, though he never ! gave her warning that her half-franc i was going to bring her half a million. By Their Names They Are Known. A certain young Hebrew traveling > man, w ith an elderly companion, bought j a sjiecial ticket of a scalper, and got aboard the train. When the conductor uune around he and looked at the name, and then at Jsa ic, shook his head and “aid: "What's your name?” “Let me see my ticket. ” “Can't you tell your name without seeing the ticket? This won't do. You’ll have to got off at the next sta- ; tion or pay your fare.” This agitated Isaac profoundly, and i he turned to his companion and said: “Moses, I've forgot my name that was on the ticket. Can you tell me what it is?” “Vill you let me see dot ticket, Mr. ; Doondogtter?” inquired Moses. The | eonductor showed it to him. “Mein Got. Izaak, vot name is dees? Pat- , lick Moriarity! No vonder you dond feeomember dot name! Dond you jet’er get some more teekets of dem | ichoolpers mit dot name on. Dey viU •11 de times gif you avay.—T/ie Drum- \ mer. Ir is said that cholera seldom invades ; I spin* forasL I

NUMBER 25.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Dr. J C. Bennett, a prominent physician of Montpelier, died of apoplexy. Isaac Wilson, the oldest resident of Shelbyville, was severely bitten on the street by a vicious bulldog. The corner-stone of the new Porter county Court House Will be laid with proper Masonic ceremonies Oct. 24. The attendance upon the public schools of Indianapolis the first day of the year was 10,342, against 9»767 last year. The Bloomington Progress predicts that in twenty years Bloomington will have four railroads and a population of 10,000 souls. Arrangements have just been completed for a grand reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic of northern Indiana and southern Michigan, to be held in Goshen, Oct. 16, 17 and 18. The old comrades of the Fifty-first Indiana regiment will hold a grand reunion at Briceville, Oct. 22 and 23, the first date being the same as their original enlistment into the Union service. I The directors of the Jacksonville and New Albany Turnpike Company have determined to let the contract for the work only as far as Clarksville. The estimated cost of the work to that point is $30,000. The Indianapolis local Board of Health have issued a stringent order requiring physicians to issue certificates of death within a limited time, and undertakers to take out a burial permit from the Board of Health before removing the deceased. Lewis Brown, son* of a leading Carroll county farmer, was arrested at his home on a charge of horse stealing. He gave bonds in SSOO for his appearance at the next term of court. The theft was committed Monday night, and the horse was recovered. John Palen, an aged and highly respected farmer, near Columbus, at breakfast complained of severe pains in his chest, but afi ter taking some slight remedy, went out to feed some stock. Not returning, search was I made, and he was found lying on the ground I dead. At Indianapolis changes in the channel of the river threaten to leave the mouth of the main trumk sewer hundreds of yards away from any water. It will probably result m changing the course of the sewer, carrying It further down the river, at an expense of about SIOO,OOO. Jack Lyons, a tramp, who maliciously shot an inoffensive citizen of Loganspoat, 'named * ■ Christian Hanson, on the 4th of July, was tried here and got; five years in the penitentiary. The fact that Lyons was drunk when he shot Hanson helped him in the trial. Hanson has recovered from his wounds. A few miles north of Muncie, workmen who are excavating a large ditch, found at a shallow depth, a few days agp, the skeleton of a huge mastodon, the femur measuring over four feet in length and eighteen inches in diameter, the ribs were over four feet in i length. The bones are in a good state of preservation, and are a curiosity. The discovery of a new cave near Marengo, in Crawford county, on the line of the Air Line railroad, is reported. It was said to have been discovered by two boys, who found the entrance by accident. Parties have explored the cave a distance of several hundred yards, and pronounce some of the scenes equal to those in Wyandotte or Mammoth cave. Drs. Pugh and McMahan, of Rushville, were called to Connersville, as counsel in the case of Will Radican, who has lost his reason. He was city operator until Friday, when ne began to show symptoms of insanity, and he resigned at once", saying he was “gone to pieces.” Cause, too much work. It will be remembered that J. L. Langdon, operator there, went the same way about two years ago. He is still at Longview. , A fire at Jamestown began in the rear of the post office about 2:10 a.m. The fire spread rapidly, and by 6 o’clock the whole block was in ashes. The loss, as far as can be estimated, is about $20,000, with an insurance of $12,000. There were six twostory business buildings, besides several smaller buildings destroyed. This is the third this place since Jan. 1. The Star publishing house and Jataiestown Tribune were completely destroyed. Frank Colvin, a young married man, living in Wabash, was standing on the Wabash railway track at the crossing of Huntington street. A freight train was passing, going east, which drowned the noise of the approach of a local that was switching in the yard. Colvin was knocked down, and fell between the rails, several cars passing over his body. When the train' had been stopped it was found that his spine had been broken about the middle of the back. This is a fatal injury, and the wounded man cannot survive. A Lafayette correspondent writes : “Western Indiana has been pestered nigh unto death by horse-thieves, and for years they have fattened and flourished irrespective of the Detective Association, officers and Courts. In Tippecanoe county the local gang, believed to have been an organized band, was broken up through the individual* I efforts of ex-Sheriff Taylor, but on the outskirts tile stealing continues with alarming regularity. Robert Baker reports the theft of a valuable horse seven miles north-west i of Battle Ground. From indications it is believed that the thief came with a stolen horse to Baker's, stole another and escaped.” Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows: Martin L. Bramhalt, LaPorte, weather strip: Gilbert H. Bunch, Lakeville, plow-colter; William Dietrich, Indianapolis, compound for roofing buildings; Elijah Frazier and N. J. Edwards, Winchester. post and well auger; Benjamin J. Hall and J. E. Mustard, Glen Hall, cultivator; Charles B. Hitchcock, Indianapolis, valve; H. P. Hook, Indianapolis, saw handle; James C. Brookston, Monon, steam ditching apparatus; Alberti. Osborn, Newpoint, fence; William N. Burnley, La Porte, threshing machine separator traction engine; James B. Snyder, Pickard's Mills, churn power; William H. Turner, Indianapolis, attachment ' s for Harvesters; Charles Van Duzeu, New Albany, automatic car-brake; Gustavus H. , Zschech, Indianapolis, belt tightener and shaft coupling. Auditor of State Rice has completed the official tabulation of voters required every six years for reapportionment purposes. In" 1877 the voting population was 451,026; ift 1883, 499,833, showing an increase of Ib.lf 7. Os the increase 46,565 were whites and colored. The total number of colored voters is 10,298, an increase of 25 per cent in six years. The white vote in 1883,489,5.35, shows an increase of a fraction over 10 per cent The white population of the First District, comprising Gibson, Perry, ■ Pike, Posey Spencer, Vanderburg and Warrick counties, and the Eleventh District, comprising Adams, Blackford, Grant, Howard, Huntington, Jay, Miami, Wabash and Wells counties, shows the greatest increase, the former increasing from 34.594 to 44,166, and the latter from 39,479 to 45,519. The Seventh (Indianapolis) District shows the largest colored' vote and the heaviest increase, and the Twelfth the lowest, having only eighty-nme votes m 1883 against seveuLy-ono in 1877 Some ot the districts show a heavy deer. a.-*-la the colored vote, but all *hov a m white vetee.