Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1892 — Page 3

Pair of Jacks.

BYLVIV Jamisgn.

CHAPTER ATl—Continued. Contrary to this devout wish, Beverly was. again disturbed a few mornings later by a, somewhat timid knock at his door. “Who’s there?” he called, not with the best grace in the world. “Me, sir,” came ungrammatically from his landlady. “Will you be kind enough to wait a few moments, Mrs. Shrimp? I am not yet dressed." . “I’m sorry, sir. Don’t wish to interfere with your arrangements for dressing. But there’s a man down stairs, and there .ain't no getting clear of him. Says he’s in a hurry, and wants to see you, sir. I couldn’t get him to state his business.” “I commend his good sense in that particular,” muttered Beverly, sotto voce. “Just send him up, Mrs, Shrimp, and mildly inform him that this is not a fashionable calling hour. I’d be forever grateful if that woman would get a decent pair of shoes,” he continued, as the sound of Mrs. Shrimp's slipshod feet echoed d9wn the hall. After a few moments they returned, accompanied by a firm, heavy tread. Beverly had gotten coat, and smoothed his hair into fjmething like order, and, thus arrayed, ho opened the door to his unexpected guest. If his intellect shines as brilliantly as his trousers, he thought, with a glanco at his portly visitor, “he is certainly an accomplished old gentleman. “I believe I have not the pleasure of your acquaintance,” he added aloud, closing the door. “You will find my name there, sir.” “Ah! Mr. James Cox, solicitor,” read Beverly from the somewhat crumpled card. “You are in good company, Mr. James Cox. I am a solicitor, too. A pair of rogues together, as it were. Excuse my spirits, please. Force of association, no doubt. The case before the court is Business vs. Pleasure. T don’t know your opinion, but my verdict is in favor of the plaintiff. Curiosity is a quality, which, in our profession, at least, frequently loads to great results. By all means, -then, let mine be gratified. Have I your permission to continue my toilet? I can listen with earnest attention, I assure you.” “My business is soon stated,” was the quiet reply. “Asa member of the bar, let me hope you will the more readily agree to an amicable settlement of our difficulty. May I sit down?” “By all means. Difficulty, you say? Is it possible that But no fnatter. Sit down, I beg. Take your choice of chairs. That one by you has a weak back but a stoady bottom, I believe. That old rocker there, looks innocent and comfortable. Don’t trust it. This thing is ornamental, but apt to lose a leg on slight provocation. Perhaps the bed’s the safest. Once more excuse my spirits. So delighted to have you with me.” Mr. Cox regarded Beverly with a slightly dubious air. Such lightness was not, in his estimation, in keeping with legal dignity. “I- am not here to trifle, sir,” was his reply, as with some hesitation he took possession of the steady-bottomed chair, sitting bolt upright as a precaution against its weak back. “I am here,” he continued, in the same dignified tones, “on behalf of my client, Mr. Bailly, whose bill you ” “That bill again,” groaned Beverly, pausing in the tying of his cravat. “What under heaven possesses the man to keep at me in this way? I never bought a pin’s worth from him in my life, and I certainly will not pay what I do not owe. Charity begins at home, and I have no money to throw away, I I assure you. You may tell Mr. Bailly so.”

Mr. Cox appeared slightly surprised. “I don’t understand your denial of this claim. Mr. Bailly declares that he himself measured you for the articles mentioned, and that you offered to settle at the time, but .that he, in view of your standing and prospects generally, preferred to keep the account open.” “Mr. Bailly is mistaken, and under the circumstance, I refuse to pay this bill. Good morning, sir.” Mr. Cox frowned at this cold dismissal. “If this is your last words,” he said quite calmly, “I have.to inform you that my client will not receive it. He is not anxious to be involved in the trouble and expense of a lawsuit. Yet, if other means fail, he will not hesitate at extreme measures. Good morning, sir.” “Good morning, and good riddance,” added Beverly, under his breath. “Nothing but a swindling outrage,” he continued, when his visitor had departed. “Of course, Mr. Bailly cannot get this S6O out of me, but he can give me no end of trouble, just at this particular time too, when I want to be free and easy. Upon the whole, it will bo bettter to call upon him personally. Perhaps I shall get to the bottom of this business.” The same afternoon saw him in confidential conversation with Mr. Bailly. “I cannot understand the mistake,” that gentleman was saying. “The Mr. Beverly I have in my mind is about your size, though different in general appearance. He left his order last April, and it being the first time he had patronized my house, I was anxious to do my best. Several weeks after he dropped me a card with his address, and the information that he would be out of town for a month or so. Under the circumstances, your answer to my letter decidedly puzzled me. I felt there might be. something behind it, and for that reason I sent Mr. Cox to you. I regret having given you this annoyance and trouble, and I really don’t know what to make of the matter. Beverly was also puzzled. “The man tells the truth,” he reflected. “Not the slightest doubt of that. But what of this other Jack Beverly? Does he really exist, or has some clever scoundrel imposed on Mr. Bailly? I should like to get at the bottom of the "whole thing. And, by-the-way, those letters might possibly be explained. ’Pen my word, there’s some mystery here. I wonder if I’m the man the Millards take me to be. Positively I don’t know, and I don’t believe I’ll try to find out at this stage of the proceedings.” CHAPTEK VIII. “Grandpa, you have not admired my new hat. I have been here five minutes, and you have not noticed it.” “Haven’t I, my dear? I find the face beneath it so much prettier that I must spend all my time on that.” “Oh, grandpa, what a flatterer you are!” Mary’s arms were about the old gentleman’s neck, and a bear-like hug was the recompense for his compliment. “But to return to my hat, because I

must be going in a minute. Do you like it?” “Very much. Is it your selection?” He pretended to -examine it critically. “No; I really had nothing to do with it. Jeannette took upon herself to buy it; and what do you suppose she did with my old one?" “I really cannot protend to guess.” “Well, she burned it; actually put it in the kitchen stove. I was so mad. I did not care for the old thing, but her impudence was more than I could stand. ” “She thought it had outlived its usefulness, Mary. Certainly this one is an improvement. Where are you off to now?” “To drive with Mr. Beverly. I should have been ready a half hour ago, but life’s too short to hurry.” “Better late than never,” Jack when Mary found him two minutes later. “I’ve boen pjactieing patience for the last quarter of an hour. “A good thing to prifctice,” commented Mary, as they drove oT. “What did you think about while you waited?” “Well, I thought it Jbout time for me to be leaving, for one thing. I’ve staid an unconscionable tipe. Do you want me to go?” “What a strange question. Do you doubt grandpa’s sincedty?” “By no means. I wish I were equally sure of your feqjings.” “I have no feelings to be sure of,” she rejoined, with some haste, and the consciousness of a new jtrange sensation at her heart. “I fear Frank has proved himself a poor student of human nature. May I tell you what he said of you?” “You may, but I shall not feel greatly interested, as I have riot the slightest idea who Frank is. ” “Not know who Fran* is,” he repeated, turning a surprised loot upon her. “Of course you do.” “Of couse I don’t.” “But you must,” insisted Jack. “You’ve forgotten him. He’s a fine fellow, but rather light. He likes you immensely, and admires Mr. Millard more than any man he knowi, he told me.” “Does he? He is an appreciative youth. I begin to like him,” “Then please watch this growing attachment, or I shall become jealous. There’s a fine view, but to appreciate it, we should be out of this carriage.” “Lot us get out then. I’m tired of sitting, anyway. Aren’t you?” “Slightly. You never tire of sitting on a horse, though. Do you? Who taught you to ride, Miss May?” “Toby. When I was a baby he used to take me to the fields and tie mo on the horse’s back. I loved it even then.” “I certainly congratulate your teacher. Ho should go to New York and go in the business. ” “You forgei his style is not New York style.” “True, we must consult fashion and not taste.”

“I don’t see why. I have no respect for peoplo who think only of fashion. Besides, I don’t like the New York style of riding. I prefer even mine.” “Do you?” he asked quizzically, and then with a daring he regretted immediately, he added, “Which style? You know you have two.” “Which?” she repeated, unable for one brief second to comprehend his meaning. “Ah,” she added, with lips quivering, and eyes filled with passionate reproach, “You are generous.” “I am a brute,” ho answers 1 penitently. “Forgive me, Mary, lam so sorry.” He approached her as he spoke, but with a gesture of abhorence she moved away from him. “Don’t come near me,” she cried in a half smothered voice. “Don’t dare to come near me. I won’t believe you are sorry. You—you are only too glad to pain and embarrass me. You Don’t interrupt me; I will have my say. You talk to me as you wouldn’t dare to talk to those other girls you think so much of. They are not a bit better than I am—not one bit. I hate every one of them. I hate you, too. I hate you so much it almost suffocates me.” And as if to verify her words Mary sat flat on the grass and gave way to an angry burst.of weeping. “Mary,” pleaded Jack, somewhat unsteadily, “you are making me feel awfully bad." “I wish I could make you feel a thousand times worse,” she returned indignantly, dashing the tears from her eyes. “I am a little fool to care. I don’t care for what you said, but it is because you dared to say it that I feel ready to kill you.” « “Mary ” he began again. “Don’t call me Mary,” she interrupted with passionate-emphasis. “I will never be Mary to you.” “I have hoped to call you by a dearer name,” he answered in a voice whose tenderness thrilled her, despite her determination not to be moved.

He came closer to her, and took one of her trembling hands. She snatched it quickly away. “I told you not to touch me,” she said, but her voice was not as firm as she tried to make it. Evidently Jack found some slight encouragement in this fact, for he did not retire immediately. “You are not fair to me,” he said, in some reproach. “I wish you could see the state of my mind.” “It was so ungenerous of you,” was her rather weak rejoinder, as she turned her face aside. “It was, indeed,” he agreed, getting hold of her hand for the .second time and managing to retain hie advantage. “It is so cold,” he continued, referring to the hand, which he proceeded to stroke tenderly. “I wonder which is dearer to you, Mary, my love or your pride? Do you know that while you have been imagining my desperate admiration for those city girls, I have all the while been thinking of a little country girl infinitely more lovely and lovable.” "It is hard to believe,” she protested, feeling her anger melt before Jack’s pleasant way o£ expressing his sentiments, “and I do wish you would forget that dreadful thing. I know I should rather die than do it again. Don’t look at me, please.” '“I can’t help it, Mary. So you don’t take to unladylike actions naturally,' do you?” And Jaek, growing momentarily bolder, slipped his arffi about Mary’s waist, and despite her resistance lifted her blushirig face to view. "Haven’t you a word to say to me, darling?” “I don’t know what to say,” she returned in a slightly smothered voice. “You might say ‘Jack, I love you,’ ” he ■suggested. “Well, I do,” was thelow, half-audible answer. “Oh, Mary,” he cried, drawing her into a long, tender embrace, “I have ail I desire.” Twenty minutes later Mary’s healthy appetite begau to assert itself, and with sudden remembrance the two lovers remembered Maje and the waiting carriage. The independent Maje, however, growing tired of a performance in which he played so unimportant a part, had unceremoniously departed for home, taking tho carriage with him. ‘The old reprobate,” said Jack, as they

set out upon their two-mil* walk “t should like to thrash him.” CHAPTER IX. All next day Mary felt really lonely. Jack had gone to New York by an early train on what he called a matter of business, and she did not expect him to return before the next day. Meantime she decidedly missed him, though the suggestion of such a possibility would have been rejected with scorn a few days before. Now it came to her quite suddenly, and with an intensity that was equal pain and pleasure, all that Jack had become to her. A dozen timos during the night she had started with a sweet thrill of pleas-, ure, to find herself thinking of him. In a brief space the whole complexion of her life appeared changed. Her horizons grew broader; new hopes and ambitions came to fill her heart. Jack’s wife might have many things to learn, she told her; self, but she should not be found wanting. She had not confided her secret to her grandfather yet, though she know he would be so pleased to hear it. She had determined to wait until Jack should return and they could tell him together. In the meanwhile .sho would hug it to her own heart with the happy sense of sole proprietorship. Several times, however, in spite of her she was on the point of breaking out with her news, but she managed to control herself in time, and without awaking the suspicions of her grandfather or tho more observing Jeannette. After dinner, feeling the necessity for active employment, she started for a walk. It was a cool afternoon, and she moved along briskly, her busy mind quite heedless of her surroundings, until after a long time she glanoed up with a decided start. “What a walk I’ve had,” she said in surprise. “I do believe I can see Weston, and I am positive that is Mrs. Thomson’s cottage just ahead. I think I must go in and ask for a glass of milk. I wonder if she’ll remember me? A few steps brought Mary to the little gate, which she opened, and passing up the narrow walk she knocked, half timidly, upon the unpretentious door. “Don’t you know me, Mrs. Thomson?” she asked, with a bright smile, of the pleasant-faced woman who answered her summons. “Know you?” repeated the woman, with some hesitation; then with ready recognition she added; “To be sure I do, Miss Mary, though I ain’t seen you in an age. Come in, miss, and rest. You must be tired with walking.” “Only a little. I had no idea of coming so far when I started. Indeed, I was quite surprised when I found myself so near your house. But under the circumstances I thought I’d come in for a chat, and —well, I must tell the truth — a glass of milk.” “You shall have one right off,” responded the hospitable Mrs. Thomson, as Mary made her laughing admission. “I have some gingerbread, too,” she added. “Baked this morning. Would you like ” “Oh, wouldn’t I,” responded Mary enthusiastically. “You know my weakness, Mrs. Thomson.” [TO-BE CONTINUED.]

MICHEL ANGELO.

The American Engraver Colo on the Groat Artl»t. I remember a picture by Gerome that represents Raphael in his first visit to the Sistine Chapel—that stot len visit recorded by Vasari, and in which Raphael is shown to be shrinking to the ground as he steals along with his head raised to the stupendous creations above him. Something of this feeling of shrinking always comes over me when I go into the Sistine Chapel. I have been much impressed, while engraving the “Cumman Sibyl,” with the incessant movement of Michel Angelo. It is endless, but most subtle. All is form with him—grandeur of form. Yet he has grand repose—the repose of the ocean—never at rest. If he should give way to the terrible within him. But he is always contained, and they are, to my thinking, mistaken in him who say he always “letshimself out.” Where is there any such excess about him? It would be the height of all absurdity and weakness, found, no doubt, among his followers, with whom let those compare him who think he is “all blow,” and they may then, perhaps, see or feel the profound depth and grandeur and forbearance he is possessed of, and the terrible inward power he suggests. Note the marvelous finish of his things, '.even to the minutest portions. His flesh is so highly finished that you feel its softness, and, when he sets his hand to finish, he slights nothing, and it is amazing what delicacy he can give. He paints the twisted thread in his “Three Fates” with the utmost fidelity; you note its twisted character throughout, and the light upon it, relieving it from the drapery here and there, and then the bunch of flax in its sheaf, most remarkable for lightness and delicacy of touch. I could not reproduce, should I engrave never so fine, the amazing quantity of work he puts in, and the finish and delicacy he gives to everything. Michel Angelo’s coloring is not what is generally known as rich, but it is perfection in the harmony and softness of tints. The frescos of the Vatican have darkened from dampness and smoke of incense, but it is easy to see that they must have been light in coloring—painted in a very high key. The highest lights even now approach pure white, while the darkest portions are gray and soft. The scheme of coloring in the whole is very refined; nothing is pronounced or, positive. The tints are laid in broadly, arid float tenderly into one another. The backgrounds to the figures acd the skies are gray, the lightest portions nearly pure white, while the coloring of the robes is sometimes blue of a fresh, pure, delicate tint, red of a fine, soft, grayish tone, [fSßow inclining to old gold, and green of a most delicate soft gray tone; and then there are mixtures of these tones of fine subtle hues impossible to describe, but darkish and gray in tone. His flesh tints are finely worked, of a darkish warm gray tone. It is a grandeur and depth of coloring quite befitting the nobleness of the theme and execution. —The Century.

No Use for Them AIL.

The asteroids that lie between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter have become so difficult to keep track of, since' they have been discovered at the rate of about twenty a year, that astronomers have recently decided to reject them, excepting the nearest and the most distant. The latter are important in observations of Jupiter, while the nearer ones are useful in more accurate calculations of the earth's dirtance from the sun.

HAVOC IN ITS COURSE.

FATAL WIND-STORMS SWEEP THE COUNTRY. A Kansas Town Wiped from Off tho Earth—Many Ara Killed, While the Injured Reach Into the UuudreiU—FataUtleg In Chicago, Etc. Work of Furious Wind. A tornado, attended by the greatest number of fatalities ever credited to a single storm in the State, swept over southwestern Kansas, leaving in its wake death and destruction. The storm seems to have first descended upon Kiowa, and jumped from there to New Haveii, Sumner County, through which oounty it cut a swath nearly a mile wide wherever it descended to earth. Jumping' SedgwiokCouuty the wind next bombarded Butler Couuty, to the southeast, and almost obliterated tho villages of Augusta and Towanda, leaving so ’ little standing in tho latter that it is a marvel how a soul escaped. But one building was left intact in Towanda, a place of 300 souls. Five people were killed outright. Ten more are fatally Injured aud a half hundred or less seriously maimed. Aj> Augusta ~tJiree were killed. One of these was a child of Will lihodes. The child was blown out of its mother’s arms, and its ]}<;ad and body were later picked up a hunflrod feet apart. Rhodes is fatally injured, and liftoen others were badly hurt. At Kiowa, the Missouri Pacific depot and a large number of buildings were demolished, but no loss of life is reported. Sumner county suffered largely both in loss of life and property. For fifteen miles everything the wihd came in contact with was razod. Near New Haven Ben H. Maple and son, J. Morehouse and Frank Shephard are repprted to have been fatally injured. South of Wellington William Little’s house was blown to splinters, and Littlo and four children were killed. Joe Showalter’s house was picked up, and, with its thirteen occupants, carried 300 yards and dumped in a heap, all the people being seriously, some fatally, hurt. Near Portland John Bristow was killed. South Haven suffered severoly from the storm, both in the way of material damage and in the number of lives lost. The -house of John Moorehouso was leveled to the ground, and Moorehouse and one child were killed, other members of the family escaping. John Burmaster’s house was crushed like an eggshell, and tho whole family was killed in an instant. They arc: John Burmaster, wife and three children. Mrs. Frank Shephard was killed by flying timbers. A score of other people were injured in the storm. It is believed that not half the casualties have been reported. The wires have been down in all directions, and it will necessarily take some time to get full reports from the rural districts. Hundreds of farmhouses have been demolished, granaries Overturned and grain scattered, and a large number of cattle and horses have been sacrificed.

At Norfolk, Neb., the Episcopal Church was entirely destroyed. The Congregational Church was unroofed and its steeple and bell carried away. Wheaton’s planing mill was partly wrecked and fifteen houses and barns were demoralized. The cyclone swept a track through the city three blocks wide and ten blocks in length. Many wore seriously injured by falling debris. Telegraph wires all over the State are prostrated and it is impossible to obtain news of the extent of the cyclone. The storm traveled 150 miles over the richest grazing section of the State, dotted with small towns and villages. At Merrill, Wis., a number of children from 13 to 15 years old were assembled in the German Lutheran Church, when lightning struck tho building, knocking four of them to the floor. Ottilio Olman had one shoe torn off and was badly burned and Lena Kunkel was burned from head to foot. The others were not seriously injured. All will recover. After leaving the church the current killed a horse in a stable near by. lowa was swept by the terrific windstorm. In Des Moines damage was done to hundreds of buildings. The wind blew sixty miles an hour, and at brief intervals reached as high as one hundred. A section of the ornamental stone cornice was blown from the Sneer Building and crushed to atoms at the feet of a pedostrian. Advices have been received from the towns of Guthrie Center, Panora, Dexter, Earlham,Greenfield, Menlo, Casey, Adair and other places to the effect that buildings have been unroofed and great damage done. A passenger train on the Burlington and Northwestern narrow-gauge road was blown from the track forty miles west of Burlington while running at full speed. A baggageman, a mail clerk and two passengers are reported seriously injured. At St. Joseph, Mo., therods hardly a house not damaged more or less, and many barns, outhouses and fences are leveled. The loss will aggregate $50,000. In Chicago. Death came with the storm in Chicago. A fury of rain and wind swept across the city early in the evening. At 14 and 16 Pearce street, on the West Side and close to the river, a tall brick building stood in tho open, with little cottages clustered all about it. Tho seven-story giant, rising in the midst of the squatty frame buildings, was battered by|the full force of a hurricane that caught the falling sheets of water and tore them into shreds. It was an unfinished structure, and the terrific gusts of wind pushed into the open .windows and actually tore the fresh walls apart. The building fell. Great masses of brick crashed upon the houses all about and ground them to pieces, bringing death and ruin to a half dozen families. At least five people are known to have been killed. Ten were injured, two of them fatally. All night busy workers toiled at the heaps of debris, clearing away wreckage and recovering the victims. The killed are: Horace Mott, 5 years, 12 Pearce street, head crushed; Edward Mott, 2 years, 12 Pearce street, body crushed; David Hulett, 6' months, 18J Pearce street, head mashed by bricks; Mrs. James Gowan, 12 Pearce street, body not found; William Gowan, 10 years, body not found; Samuel Barsdale, mechanic, 214 West Harrison street, visiting the Gowan family, buried in the ruins; Mary Welch, Joliet, 111., cousin of Mrs. Gowan, buried in the ruins. The building, a seven-story brick, fronted on 14 and 16 Pearce street, was 118 feet long by 50 feet wide. It was erected by Street, Young A Kent, manufacturers of brass work. It was practically completed, the rcof having been finished the day before the storm. The doors and windows had not yet been put in, but the woodwork throughout the building had been finished and the company expected to occupy the building in a few days. Path of the Storm. That the storm was one of the most searching and destructive on record is borne out as fragmentary scraps of information straggle in from the Northwest, the far West, and Southwest over tho badly crippled, almost unworkable wires whieh escaped the fury of tho warring elements. The justly famous though not popular “Kansas cyclone" seems in this Instance to have comprehended a vast expanse of territory upon which to wreak its fury, and any estimate approximating the amount of da/cegc done to property or

the nn.uber of lives lost Is out of the question. The area of low barometer which has hovered so long over the lake region and Northwestern States seems to have shown this onward rush of high pressure, the weather map indicating two distinct storms, branching from a point apparently in Northwestern Texas like a huge “V," and taking their course one northerly and one northeast. In the onward march northward in swirling, shrieking eddies “Bleeding Kansas’’ first fell under its mighty power. Death and destruction marked its baleful progress from the moment it left the rolling prairies of the Indian Territory. Grasping in its pitiless clutch the pretty little city of Towanda, Kas., it bounded on with ever increasing volume, leaving In its wake a mase of shattered buildings, a ecoro of manglod corpses, and a hundred torn and bleeding victims. Wellington, Caldwell, Augusta, and Kiowa, Kan., then furnished their quota to the death harvest. Passing northward through Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota the traok of desolation, milos in width, marks its passage, and foeblo walls straggle through fag ends of prostrate wires from Interior towns anxious to tell their tale of woe. Poliowing the northwest prong of this remarkable! atmospheric outburst the south and east portion of Kansas is shown to have been attacked with the same Irresistlblo force that characterized the movement of the disturbance in the northward tangent. Kansas City was again forcibly reminded of the Lathrop school-house horror of 1886, in which many little children wore crushed and numerous homes wero wrecked and made desolate by the “heavy hand of doath; when the building, at Fourth and Main stroots, collapsed, adding five victims to the list of fatalities, and when tjie great Hannibal and St. joe bridge was blown bodily from its massive stone foundations into the treacherous Missouri, Reports Indicate that another school-house has been wreoked, four unroofed, and untold lesser damage done, though happily no loss of life is yet reported from there. Not a wire remains thenoe to the southwest, the damage and loss of life being purely conjecture, though the wildest rumors are rife.

OIL AND CAS.

How a Well la Drilled Thousands ol Feet In Depth. When a gas or oil well is located, says S. A. Felter in the Indiana Farmer, the first step Is to build over it a derrick, which is a frame from 60 to 90 feet high, built of 2xß timber in the form of a square pyramid. In this is erected a “walking-beam,” or horizontal rocking shaft, pivoted in the middle 20 feet long, one end of which is connected to the crank shaft of the engine, to the other is suspended the “drill,” or boring tool. The drill “bit” consists of a steel chisel blade, obtuse but sharp, about 8 inches wide, with a shaft about 6 inches in diameter, about 6 feet long, weighing about 250 pounds. The lower or cutting part is of steel; the shaft is of iron. The “stem” is an iron rod of the same size as the shaft of the hit, into which it is screwed, and is 33 feet long, and weighs over 2,000 pounds. In the upper end of the stem is a ring by which the whole is suspended by a 21 inch raanila rope. The drill is raised about three feet for a stroke, the weight being about 2,300 pounds, and let fall on the rocks beneath. The number of strikes average about forty-thr.ee per minute. The hole is 8 inches in diameter at the start, and the drill chops its way down as far as possible—sometimes from 100 to 200 feet; when water or sand prevents further progress by caving, it is necessary to case the hole with sections of iron tubing, having an inside diameter of 5f inches, which are screwd together and driven down to the bottom of the hole. Then a smaller drill, fitting the inside of the casing, Is again set to work as long as possible. When again obliged to stop, the casing is withdrawn and a “reamer” or widening tool is put down, and the lower portion of the hole is enlarged to 8 inches. Then kthe casing is again put down to the bottom. In this way the work progresses until the desired depth is reached. The “sand-pampi” which Is used to clean the sand and pulverized rock from the hole, is simply a tube 20 feet long and 5 inches in diameter, the valve being an iron or copper ball 4| inches in diameter. This tube is let down, and when filled is drawn out. The sand-pump is used about every five feet, and a sample of the rock cut is put into bottles, numbered, and labeled with number of feet and character of rock.

FACTS ABOUT RAILROADS.

Big Figures Which Represent the Work Bone by These Corporations. To gather statistics from the great corporations which operate the American railroads is not a simple work of a day or so, but takes time. It is only just now that we know, from the Government reports, what the railway business amounted to for the year ending June 30, 1890, eighteen months ago. The mileage at that time was 163,597, an increase during the year of 5,838 miles, says Harper’s Weekly. This Increase, it is of interest to noto, was greatest in that group of States formed by Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, wheFo were built di r.ng the year 1,370 miles, or 23 per cent, of the whole increase. In the State of Georgia the increase was 438 miles, and this was more than in any other State in the Union.

These roads are owned and operated by 1,797 companies, but about one-half of the mileage is operated by forty companies. The gross revenue of these roads for the year mentioned was sl,054,877,632, but 80 percent, of this revenue was divided among seventy-live roads. Large roads must do cheaper work than smaller ones, as these seven-ty-iivo roads carried 83i per cent, of the passengers and 85i per cent, of the freight. To operate the railways required the services of 749,301 men. This was an increase of 44,558 men over the previous year, and added an average of twenty men to the operating force on every hundred miles of road in the country.

In arriving at the capitalization of these great properties accurate statistics have been obtainod on 156,404 miles, mhe capitalization of this mileage is $9,437,363,372, or $60,340 per mile. At the same rate the capitalization of all the mileage would bring the total up to about $10,000,000,000. This is certainly a great amount of money; but dividends were not paid dui ing the year on 63.76 per cent, of the capital stock. The surplus from operating these roads was $12,070,383, a decrease of $7,387,155 from that Of the year before. The passengers carried were 492,430,805, an increase of 20,259,522, and the average Journey of each parsenger was 24.06 miles

THESE ACTUAL FACTS

ALL FOUND WITHIN THE BORDERS OF INDIANA. - ■■ 1 1 ———— An Int«r«*tl»g Summary of thn More Important Doing* of Our Neighbor* Crimes, Caauaitlea, Deaths, Etc. Minor State Item*. HammonpJs after a street railroad. Brownsruro is having a building boom. Lee Keene pulled a gun through a fence near Crawfortlsville. His face was blown off. Enos Mustard, a farmer near Anderson, was run down and fatally hurt by a freight train. David 11. lloovkr, once editor and publisher of the Huntington daily and weekly News, Is dead. David Lint of Goshen, sprang from a Lake Shore train at Mlllerbury, and was almost Instantly killed. Charles Webber, a German inrmer near Madison, was so badly injured by falling from his wagon that he died. Dixon C. Williams, the Anderson revivalist, holding mootings In Porn, has caused a sensation by denouncing dancing clubs. William Sullivan, Logansport, has sued the Pan Handle railroad for $35,000 damages. Had an arm mashod while coupling cars. Caleb Abrury and Oliver Blythe quarroled over a jog of whisky near Jeffersonville. Blythe will die from cuts received in the abdomen.

The Crawfordsvlllo Star has changed from a morning sheet to nn evening paper, and now tlioro are three evening dailies In that place of 7,000 inhabitants. An engineer on tho Evansville and Richmond railroad reports that throe dogs deliberately committed suicide by throwing themselves in front of tho cars last week. Mrs. Kktsi.er, an aged German of Aurora, fell with a bottle of wine in her hand, and a piece of glass entering her wrist, severed an artery, and sho nearly blod to death. Volnky Garrison is In jail at Bodford. He serenaded his divorced wife with a French harp. Tho tune was “Homo, Sweet Homo” and sho bad him arrested for it. William Ferguson of Dubois County, murdered Joseph Garland, his brother-in-law, in Crawford County, with a blow of tho (Ist on Garland's neck, that burstod the jugular. Prof. John H. Luckktt lost a pocketbook containings3,soo at English. Ho offered SIOO reward and a boy named John James found it, but on returning tho money to Luckott refused to accept tho reward. Albert Bible, son of Alexander Bible of Wnynot.own, was Jumping on a wagon and his legs got caught In tho spokes. Before the wagon could Do stoppod Ills leg was broken and his knee-joint ,torn from tho socket. V, While William Tomlinson, in Delaware County, was breaking a horse to a wagon, the animal became so vicious that It attacked Its mate, and with Its forofoot broke tho lattor’s neck and back, causing Instant death. The Oil City Glass-sand Company of Montpoller, has boon organized for tho purpose of developing a sand pit. Tho company will put In a largo crusher at once which will give employment to 300tuon, and in a short time will put in a largo glass plant. George Endkrs, a carpenter and contractor, was crossing tho Lake Snore & Michigan Southern tracks at South Bond with a wagon, when a fast eastbound passenger train struck the vehicle, throwing It Into tho air. Enders had both legs broken and may die. Joseph Lamb and Robert L. Downs, two convicts, escaped from Jeffersonville Prison by scaling tho south walls. Lamb Is from Daviess County and has nine months to serve. Downs Is from Vandcrbtirg County and has one year to serve. A one-hundrod-dollnr reward Is offered for their capture. A prominent young farmer by tho name of Richardson, residing in Scott County, was killed by a vicious stallion, Tho animal had got out of tho stable and attacked another horse loose in tho barnyard, almost Instantly kllllug it. Young Richardson then attempted to capture tho maddened broto, and was also killed.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has prosentod its voucher at Crown Point for the first installment of taxes for 1891, which will become duo the third Monday in April. In making this payment they refuse to accept the assessment made last year, but, on the contrary, take the old assessment as a basis, and will bring suit enjoining the Treasurer from collecting the balance, amounting to about $14,500. This company pays on the Pittsburgh. Fort Wayne and Chicago, the Panhandle and thn State-Line and Indiana City railroads. The total assessment ot the three roads, taken last year, Is $2,277,040 In Lake Countv alone, and the total tax is $27,107.99 for tho first installment. The new assessment is more than double the old one.

Illegal fishing has been carried on to such an extent In Laporto County that State Fish Commissioner Dennis caused a warrant to be issued to a local officer directing him to visit English Lake and the Kankakee River and search for seines. He was absent three days and capturod twenty-eight gill-nets, varying from fifty to two hundred feet in length. In some cases the fish were literally fenced out by nets and prevented from passing up or down the river. Tho names of many of the owners of the nets wero learned, and they will all be prosecuted. The penalty; lor violating the fish law Is a fine of fifty to five hundred dollars and imprisonment, at the discretion of this court. The violators have been sending their fish to Chicago, Logansport, and other markets, and have been doing a thriving business. That exploded chestnut and impossible story of a family being chloroformed and the house burglarized springs up anew In Seymour. At Evansville, Madison Bausley pleaded guiitv to murder in the first degree, and was sentenced to State's prison for life. On the 4th of last June Baasley, prompted by Jealousy, shot his rival, E. Richardson. They both loved Sallie Lester. He made his escape, but about three weeks ago was captured in the interior of Louisiana and brought back to the scene of his crime. He is 41 years old and takes his sentence coolly. Rev. Winters of Brazil Evangelical Church, after taking a vote of bis congregation on whether or not the Indianapolis Conference would be recognized, fired two-thirds of the house because they did not vote in favor of it. He explained that such was his duty. Ax accident which terminated fatally, occurred at Knightstown. While Miss Ann Hattie,an elderly unmarried woman, was burning some trash in her yard, her clothing caught fire, and had burned her Tery severely before it was extinguished. The right side of her face was burned horribly, her ear being burned to a crisp, and her right side and arm burned until the skin peeled. She died next morning. She was 67 years old.

Montpelier has a new oil well estt mated at 600 barrels per day. Geo. Cole. Terro Haute, has a broken leg. Pile of lumber fell on it. Tf.vis Jennings, Scottsburg, goes t* the Pen. four years for horse stealing. A. G. Austin, South Bend, whiU trimming a troo fell and broke tbrM ribs.

A boy named Cody, Mancie, had a leg cut off by tho cars. He tried U catch on. Amos Bartholomew was killed and his daughter fatally injured by a falling tree, at Clark's Hill. The peoplo of New Market, Montgomery County, have voted favorably for’incorporating that place. Boomer Shock, one of the oldest citizens of Monroe County, was found dead in his bed at Steubenville. Stephen A. Burk, Connersvllle, became Insane and near.lv killed his wife by beating her op tho head. 1 First sermon preached in Hamilton County was in 1820, by John Finch, in a cabin two miles from Noblesville. William Newcomb, who was bitten by a horse near Richmond last week, had his arm amputated at tho shoulder Joint. While attempting to secure some vak uable papers from Ills residence, al Evansville, Judge R. Y. Bush was fatally burned. “White Caps” took Isaac Wltherald, a Boone County man, out of his house, and whipped him. Said he circulated bad reports about a girl. Henry Vest, recovering from a long spell of sickness at Nabb’s Station, on tho (X &M„ attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat. Ashley C. Perrin, a prominent cltizon of Fort Wayne, died suddenly of hearl failure. Mr. Perrin was one of the best known horsomon in Northorn Indiana. Nathan Smith, of Thomas Smith & Son, quarrymen at New Paris, was killed by a falling dorrlck. Ho was 28 yeari old. and leaves a wife and two children. The pastor of the Froe Methodist Church at Knox has resigned his pulpit rather than part with his (lowing mustache, as tho congregation had requested him to do. .Farmer James McElrath, near Rochester, awoke and found his wlfo missing. Search revealed her lifeless body hanging from tho limb or an apple tree in the orchard. The city of Wabash has authorized the issuing of SB,OOO 5 per cent, school bonds, running two and four years. They will bo SSOO bonds, uqd plaeod on the market the Ist of May. • . Workmen at Greensburg while tearing down an old brick building on tha public square, found an oppossum under the Door. It had escaped from its owner last winter and hibernated. 1 The 4-yoar-old child of Charlei Woolen, an engineer on the Rig Foul accommodation running between Aurora and Cincinnati, was drownod at Lawreneoburg. Woolen’s home Is on the river bank.

Joseph Stevenson, who was Injured through t.lio carolessnoss of a brakoman dn tho Cleveland. Chicago, Cincinnati & St Louis railway, was awarded judgment at Lebanon for $4,000 against th« railway company: “James Allen. Sn., of Ilalnbrldge, met with an accident In Grcencastlo that may rosult fatally. He was driving through the city, when a team of runaway mulos ran Into his buggy, throwing him out and mashing his head. At Munclo, Patrick Burns and two companions, of Anderson, attomptod to board the wost-bound passenger train while in motion, and Burns fell under the cars. Ills left foot was badly mushed, and ho was otherwise badly In Jurod. John Williams of Wayne County, whoso two-year torm at Jeffersonville was up tho other day, was so stubborn ho would carry » 100-pound bag of sand on his shoulder for days rather than perform his task as moldcr. He hid by burying himself In tho ground, and remained there for days, until starvation drove him out of his burrow.

Luklla, tho 10-yoar-old daughter of Thomas Holmes, of Lebanon, who, it Is claimed, was abducted by Win. Sicks and married recently, has applied for a dlvorco. Their marriage, his incarceration hi jail and her application for dlvorco all took place within twentyfour hours. She,claimed to have signed her father's name to the article which favored the Issuance of the license, aud now says she did wrong and is sofFyj Sicks Is still In jail under bond of S2OO. Aujutant-gcnkral Ruckle called together at Indianapolis a number of artillery officers of tho State Militia, in order to deliver some Instructions relative to their branch of the service. The artillery battalions aro to bo given more work In tho State drills. There were prosont from tbo Indianapolis Light Artillery, Capt. Curtis and Lieutenants Thompson and Gerrard; from tho Zollinger Battalion, Fort Wayne, Capt Mungeu and Lloutenant Ranke; from tho Rockville Battalion, Capt. Lambert. Tho Light Artillery had an exhibition drill at Mozart IlalL The noxt State drill will probably bo hold at Martinsville

Patents havo boon granted Indiana inventors as follows: Timothy L. Bozart, assignor to Yaryan Fifth Wheel Company, Indianapolis, fifth wheel; Thompson Dillon, assignor of one-half, to J. Caven, Indianapolis, mast-arm switch for electric lamps; Albert H. Gleason, assignor to Perfection Manufacturing Company, Warsaw, corn poppor; Nicholas A. Hull, Peru, ornamented wood veneer; Andrew E. Jones, assignor to A. E. Jones & Co., Richmond, vehicle heater; Melvin L. Jones, Yorktqwn, wire fence machine; George A. Kerr, Columbus,centrifugal starch-refining and separating machine; Zabby Lasser, assignor of two-thirds to C. C. Dunn and F. Moore, Stiuesville. channelling machine; Addison A. Nanney, Evansville, steam actuated valve for engines; Henry D. Robinson, Chester, tension device; John Speakman, New Castle, wire and picket fence. A freight train on the Panhandle struck Enoch Mustard, one of the oldest citizens of Madison Counny, near Florida, a small station about nine miles north of Anderson. Tho man is fatally injured. On Salt Creek, in Brown. County, Mr*. A. S. Swerlng, whose husband was at work in a field, locked her two children, a boy and a girl, aged 2 and 4 years, in their residence, and went to visit a neighbor. She remained longer than she intended, and when she started back saw her homo In flames. Before she reached the house her two children were burned to death and the burning residence was falling in on them. Mrs. Mary Brown of Paoli, was dfv'orced from her husband, William Brown, given her maldeu namo, Slaton, and, before the sun went down, had married Thomas J. Walk, thus possessing three names in one day. Patrick Conner’s residence, near Hoosierville, was destroyed by fire. The family was away from home, leaving Mr. Connor, who Is crippled with rheumatism. alone in the house. He lay in bed vainlv hoping for assistance, until he saw the deadly flames coming closer and closer to him, then with a great effort he succeeded in crawling from the burning building, and was found shortly aft<*rwards, suffocated. The loss will amount to $3,000; no insurance.