Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1892 — Page 3

A Pair of Jacks.

BY LVIV JAMISON.

chapter XII. “Mr. Beverly’s down stairs, and he’ ■wants to see you. Mercy, look what you have done.” “No; your fault, Jeannette. You spoke so suddenly.” “Well, who thought you was going to jump up in that style. You might have killed the kitten, besides putting a grease spot on the carpet, and breaking the saucer." Yes, I know; but I didn’t, you see. Which one is it?” “It belongs to the best set, and there ain’t but four- —’’ “Oh, I don’t mean the saucer.* I’m talking about the man. Is it ” “It’s Mr. Beverly. The Mr. Beverly, if that’s what you mean. Don’t fly up again now, and I hope you’ll soon be going down too, or he’ll wear out the carpet with his walking. He don’t seem able to keep still.” “Angry,” thought Mary, dashing some cold water on her cheeks. “I wonder if I had not better change this dress. I have made it so wet.” This change or costume was a longer process than she had bargained for. So many wrong hooks got into so many wrong eyes, that both time and patience were required to set them right, and after the task was finally accomplished her face was so red and so hot as to necessitate another application of cold water. “I hope he is angry,” she said under her breath, as she reached the lower hall and heard the rapid walking that Jeannette had rather deprecated. “If he is angry he may say something which I can answer back, and then I may get rid of this dishrag sort of feeling. ” “Good morning,” she added aloud, though in a slightly unsteady voice, as she eame to a sharp standstill in the doorway. “Have you seen grandpa?” “Yes. But I didnoLcome to see him. I came to see you. Will, you dome in, please, and sit down?” invited, Mary took possession of a chair near the door, and Jack retained his standing position in the center of the room.

“I received your grandfather’s letter,” he continued after a second, during which her face had turned various colors qnder his glance, “and your message—acknowledgment, rather. Have you nothing to add to it, Mary?” The tone, more than the words, gave Mary such a spasm of contrition that she cried quite vehemently. “I do want you to forgive me, if you only can.” The next second Jack had lifted her burning face to the light. “I believe I can,” he returned in a tender voice, “though you have been so -cruelly upon me. How could you think me such a villain, Mary?” “Don’t lookatme»in that way!” she ■exclaimed, trying to cover her face from his sight. “I can never, never be sorry enough. I know I’ve been hateful, and jealous, and sus ” “No more adjectives, please. I will ■simply add, for my own gratification, that you have been a very proud girl, who wou'.d not give poor Jack a chance to vindicate himself. That comes with .good grace from me, but you must not -call yourself names. I cannot allow it. You are too precious to me."

Here J ack found bis face so near hers that he thought it expedient to give :some extra proof of his assertion. “If you care to be precious to me,” ho added, after this slight interruption. “I think you are a very generous man,” was Mary’s only answer. “Am I? I don’t know that I deserve very great credit. My generosity is wholly selfish. But, such as it is, I’m waiting for you to reward it. I feel that I have been in the lowest depths for the last two or three days, and am only beginning to enter heaven. Repeat the promise you made before, Mary. Darling, ■say you will be my wife.” He clasped his arms about her waist, .and drew her toward him with passionate intensity. “Oh, Jack,’’.she cried, with considerable protest, “you have such a—way.” “I can’t help it,” he returned. "I must show you how dearly I love you. You have not answered my question, either. Will you ” “You know I will,” was her highly convincing reply, as her face dropped out ■of sight on his shoulder. “It is all I wish,” he responded, happily content. “What a happy man you have made me. And yet,” he added, with much reproach, “you would have allowed me to mope in misery, rather than eay, ‘ Jack, I want you.’ What a proud, cruel girl. I have had to make all the advances.” “And I am very glad you have,” replied Mary, frankly. “You could doit, and I couldn’t. How did I know you cared any longer? I thought you might not; and suppose I had said, ‘Jack, I want you,’ and you didn’t want me.” Mary sighed over the bare suggestion of this prospect. “Impossible possibility,” rejoined Jack, “if the remark be not*paradoxical. I think I must punish you for even entertaining it. Though I don’t half believe you did. You really could not in conscience, you know.” “I won’t think .so any more,” she promised by way of reparation. “I intend to improve very much. You don’t know how good I am going to be. ” “Don’t I,” he whispered very lovingly. “‘My own darling, I don’t care to know. I am satisfied with you as you are. The "thorns only make my rose more sweet. ” “May I come in?” asked a quiet voice at the door. "Certainly,” responed Jack wholly unabashed. “You find us in quite a botanical vein. ” “You don’t believe him, do you?” cried Mary, leaving Jack rather precipitately, and placing her hand half shyly in her grandfather’s. “You can guess a gredt many things, can’t you? I suppose you knew he was here.” “Yes, my dearest,” was the old gentleman’s reply, as he placed his arm around her and looked with kindly eyes upon her happy, shining face. “I saw him first. But I will say that he only gave me time to assure him that, though he is not the son of my old friend, he has nevertheless won a place in my heart which no one can take from him,” “A most encouraging assurance,” put in Jack. “It leads me to "hope that you may the more readily receive me as a grandson. I have decidedly set my heart on that relationship, and Mary can not make up her mind to do without me. ” “I always said he had assurance,” whispered Mary, rubbing her cheek against her grandfather’s sleeve. The old. gentleman smiled upon her with inexpressible affection. Then, giving his hand to Jack, he said very earnestly: "Mary’s face tells its own story. You

are a most fortunate young man. She is worth her weight in gold. ” “A jewel without price,” added Jack, emphatically. “If you will excuse me, grandpa, I think I had better be going. It is rather embarrassing. ” “No, no, Mary. Stay, my dear. We have reached the climax, I am sure. This is the old story repeated. We old men guard and love our children for years, only to have them leave us at last for the first likely young man who comes along. ” “Oh, grandpa!” cried Mary, throwing her arms about his neck, “how can you make such a remark? Before him, too! You know there isn’t any young man I would leave you for. I hope he understands that.” “He does,” assured Jack, with undisturbed gravity, “though he would prefer a more complimentary designation of himself. ” CHAPTER XIH. “I had a letter from my namesake this morning.” “Did you?” asked Mary. “What did he have to say for himself ? ” “Oh, ever so much. He is groaning over the prospect of an early return to New York, which reminds me thai I must be jogging, too. He also suggests the propriety of a double wedding at an early date, and advises that the two Jacks decide upon some plan of action, to prevent all mistakes on the part of the world in general, or of their respective wives in particular. ” “I heartily Indorse the proposition and agree with him that in this age of protection there should bo protection for Jacks, as well as for other industries, articles, or individuals.” “Didn't you send that man Are, Jack?” “What man?” “That Mr. Beverly.” “No, ma’am. He came of his own free will. ” “But you knew he was coming, and you suspected I had heard something, and you rather hoped his explanation would make things straight. ’’ “ To each and every one of those questions I answer yes. ” “Well, and what did you expect I would do?” Jack laughed heartily at the question so earnestly put. “Really,” he responded, stroking his mustache, “I wouldn’t risk expecting with such an extraordinary young lady, but I am satisfied with what you did do.” “I did nothing. Please remember that. You did everything. ” “All right; I’ll bear the responsibility. Now, I want to do something else. I have something I got in New York the other day. I took the chance of its fitting. It will be a tangible proof that I am about to take a life interest in you. Hold out your hand, sweetheart.” As he spoke he drew a ring from his pocket and held it between his forefinger and thumb. “Now, before we put it on,” he said, “I wish it to be understood that I am not engaged to any more beautiful or more brilliant young lady, and further ’’ “Jack, if you insist upon recalling things I shall grow angry, and then you will not be engaged even to me." “Even to you! Why make yourself so insignificant. I foresee we must hasten the wedding, or that lamentable prospect may come to pass. “However, we’ll keep to the matter in hand, being this ring, and my little observation made with the sole view of satisfying your very active mind. That point being attained, we’ll proceed with the ceremony.” Taking the hand, which she half reluctantly held towards him, he kissed the ring and slipped it upon her finger. “This for the present, my darling," he added, with tender earnestness. “In a little while I shall place the seal of our union there.” Then, folding her in his arms, he continued, very lovingly: “Oh, Mary, can you guess how dear you are to me?” “I think I can,” she answered, resting her face upon his shoulder, “because I know how dear you are to me. Is that a thought I shouldn’t express?" “No, indeed. That is a thought you should express,” returned happy Jack, kissing her fondly. “It completes my happiness, for it assures me that nothing stands between us. That you are all mine “Until the sun grows cold And the stars are old And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold. ” [the EnA |

The case of Dr. Palmer, recently sentenced to the penitentiary from Racine, Wis., for petty burglaries, is a safrone. In the prime of life, of tine family, highly educated, well up in his profession and honored ih politics, he blasted his life in a manner that he, of all men, should have avoided. He was an opium fiend, and under the Influence of that drug lost all sense of moral responsibility. Inquiry develops the fact that the number of physicians who yield to the seduction of some demoralizing drug is incredibly large. Whether this is the result of familiarity with the pernicious narcotics through dispens-’ ing them to patients, or comes from taking them at flist on account of overwork and exhaustion, does not affect the tact. Invalids to whom has been administered opium, morphine, cocaine or valerian, as required by their maladies, have some excuse for yielding to undue indulgence, but it does seem that physicians, who know the nature of these drugs, would avoid the terrible consequences of becoming slaves to, them. Every little while there appears in the press the story of some brilliant physician who has gone from eminence to the asylum or the gutter because a victim to some enticing drug. What tragedies may have resulted while doctors have been practically under such baneful influence can never be known, for they bury their mistakes. But one who will so far lose his self-con-trol as to break into a corner grocery store to steal a few pennies, for which he had no earthly need, as did Dr. Palmer, is scarcely such a physician as one would want when hovering between life and death. Some conservative practitioners have raised the question as to whether opium, morphine, and the quicker poisons, arsenic and strychnine, are not administered too frequently and without proper regard to possible consequences. Certain it is that the number of those who have an inordinate craving for stimulating or soothing drugs is on the increase, as are those who suffer shattered nerves, unbalanced minds, or death, in consequence. The first teat of love is its willingness to suffer without complaint.

COLD AND BACKWARD.

SPRING CONDITIONS UNFAVORABLE FO,R CROPS. Reports Indicate a General Lateness and Backwardness Injthe Season All Over tlie Country Spring-Seeded Crops Come Out of the Ground Slowly. Condition of the Crops. So far we have had a poor spring for getting anything into the ground, and it seems almost an impossibility to get It out even after it is in. This situation has been brought about by an excess of moisture, a lack of sunshine, and a low degree of temperature. The grass has made slow growth, the winter wheat ditto, and the oat crop is now only beginning to break through the ground. These conditions have been general all through the lower lake regions, the Ohio Valley, the Upper Mississippi and the Missouri Valley, and when we travel into the extreme Northwest we find all these conditions in a much more aggravated form. A year ago at this time all over these areas the weather was favorable, the growing crops in excellent condition, the oats were practically all seeded, and plowing for corn was in progress. The last week of April, 1891, closed with the whole Northwest and Southwest under full headway. The wonderful revolut'on in farm machinery as applied to putting in and gathering the oat crop has pushed this important crop rapidly to the front during the last few years and In area it now comes next to the corn crop. Oat seeding commenced the present season the lust weea of March, but before much was put Into the ground heavy rainstorms put a stop to seeding. Since April 1 the weather has been cold, cloudy, and wet, and as”" soon as the ground would get into condition to work more rain would follow. The consequence is that, taking the country over, not the usual acreage has been put in this spring, and a large proportion of that has been sown under great difficulty. On low, flat land, where the water has stood, the crop has more or less rotted. Last year, although the seeding of oats was late, the crop was all in the ground by April 15. The seeding of oats will end practically with this week. In one sense of the word the cloudy weather, with the ground so full oi moisture, has been a favorable character in the history of the newly-sown crop; on the advent of warm, clear weather we ought to see rapid growth in this crop. There are, however, few fields to-day which look green and-show an evpn stand. Nebraska reports that they are only now just finishing up the seeding of the crop, that the job so far has been poorly done. A large percentage of it was practically “mudded in,” and the earliest sown is coming up slowly. The ground and atmosphere are cold and damp and warm sunshine with occasional showers greatly needed. In lowa about two-thirds of the oats are now in the ground. On account of the low temperatun vegetation of all kinds is making little headway. Spring: Wheat. West of the Missouri River in North Dakota spring wheat seeding is going on. On the east side of the river, owing to so much moisture, they have barely commenced. Under the most favorable ci.cumstances, through the Red River Valley on the Dakota side, it .will take three weeks of most favorable weather for the ground to get into condition to let farmers onto the ground. Of course there will be isolated places where some spring wheat can be seeded, but general seeding cannot begin before the first of May. This is a month or six weeks late, and with these conditions frost is liable to catch the crop in August. In South Dakota the wheat is practically all sown. The seeding is somewhat later than usual, but the soil is in fine condition, which will counterbalance that, probably, in the end. The weather, however, keeps cold, with more or less freezing every pight. There have been some few reports of seed rotting in the ground. In Central Minnesota about one-half of the spring wheat has been sown. None of the early sown has come up yet. Seeding will not be finished until May 1. The situation in this portion of the State indicates an increase of acreage, due more to the opening of'new farms than to increasing old oneH'' In Southern Minnesota most of the farmers are entirely through sowing wheat. There has been little oats or barley sown yet. There is plenty of moisture in the ground, and wheat is just coming up. The weather is cold and warm growing weather greatly needed. Winter Wheat. Telegraphic reports from San Franciso show that drying winds have impaired previous favorable conditions. Prospects still, however, are fairly good with ordinarily favorable weather next month. Texas reports that the young wheat will average ten inches high; the extremely late-sown wheat does not look as well. Corn is now large enough for plowing. What little wheat now remains in farmers’ hands is still being firmly held. Farmers are all up with their work. In Kentucky the early sown wheat is about knee-high. There is some complaint that it has been injured by frost within the last ten days, but this will, however, not amount to enough to make any serious loss in the aggregate. On account of the lack of sunshine and the excess of moisture wheat has made slow growth. The opinion seems to be now that the crop will be about as good as the one made last year. This statement is based upon the fact that the late wheat will turn out well. Ohio reports that they need warm, dry weather for wheat at the present time. The average height of the crop is now from four to six inches. On low lands wheat is poor and spotted. In the northern portion of the StSto the cold weather is holding wheat* back. Fields are spotted and many of them will not produce more than half a crop. On the river bottoms in Southern Indiana the early sown wheat is now high and looks well. 4 Late sown wheat is poor and thin on the ground. In Central Indiana wheat has done well during the last ten days, notwithstanding the weather has been cold, cloudy, and wet. The late sown wheat has improved some, though more or less spotted. In Northern Indiana late wheat is decidedly thin on the ground, but the early wheat promises to do fairly well. In Central Illinois wheat has made but little growth during the last fourteen days. The color is good and the crop now averages from six to ten inches in height. In Southem Jl’inois the general condition of the crop shows little improvement over that of fourteen days ago. The weather has been so wet and cold that in some of the best counties in this important area of the winter-wheat belt the crop has a sickly appearance, and some fields are turning yeliow. In Michigan the weather has been eool and wet. Wheat has made slow growth, and, on the whole, the crop has held its own. Spring work is backward, and there have been but few oats seeded yet. Farmers are selling but little wheat, and millers are carrying small stocks. Prices are low, and fanners will carry over a good deal unless the prices advance considerably. Central Kansas reports during the last few days that there has been some slight improvement in the winter wheat

situation. It is still small in growth, but is stooling out well. In Northern Kansas harvest will be ten days late. The crop has made slow growth, as the ground is packed from too much heavy rain. The general conditions are not as good as those of a year ago. The season Is late and the outcome mixed. Southern Kansas reports that they have had little growing weather so far; that the wheat harvest will be from two to three weeks later than last season. The late sown is a better stand than the early. Southern Missouri reports that the wheat is still small, and that with hot and dry weather in the neat' future the crop will not amount to much, but if the weather continues cool and damp the prospects are ter a good crop; not as large as was made last year, however. A correspondent from Central Missouri says that “he goes a good deal on’ the pulse of the farmers;’’ they are quiet now on the wheat question, and so long as they keep quiet he considers the crop in fair shape; but the crop is not as good by 20 per cent, as it was this time lust year. Condition of Corn. By the end of the third week in April at least two-thirds of the corn lands of the great corn surplus States of the West ought to be plowed and ready for planting. Such, however, was not the case this spring. It is only on lands which have been underdrained, and those are lands confined to the States of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, where there has been any progress in plowing for corn worth reporting. In Kansas and Missouri there has been a little corn planted, but no matter how much land was ready, with the ground cold, wet, and soggy it would be simply the height of folly to attempt to put the seed in the ground, for It would only ro t an d have to be replanted. There has been little land plowed for corn in lowa, and the great surplus corn State, Nebraska, has made no headway with this most important crop. The reserves of old corn in farmers’ hands are still firmly held, and with the lateness of the season, the backwardness with the work on the farms, and the uncertainty which must necessarily follow a season like the present, farmers will not be inclined to sell their surplus after corn planting, as they usually do at that season of the year. Hence the surplus corn this spring will be carried over until late in the fall if not until the opening of 1893.

Men and Women.

Eveby woman is a hero worshiper—or ought to be—so far as her husband is concerned. A woman living near Holly Springs, Ga., has given birth to thirteen children in nine years. The widow who weeps most violently naturally uses up her supply of tears in the shortest time. A Chicago woman the other night chased a burglar three blocks and assisted in his capture. IT never makes children better to tell them a dozen times a day that they are too mean for any usie. A man accustomed to public life feels lost out of it. lie feels neglected when no one is lying about him. Eveby man has an ax to grind, and looks upon every other man with an eye to inducing him to turn the handle. She: “Since my return from Florida I’m another woman.” Sarcastic friend: “How delighted your husband must be!" You can’t convince a girl by arguing that a man is not an angel. The only way to convince her is to let her marry him. To be wiser than other men is to be homester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to sCe and speak the truth. 1 A foreman in a factory in Williamsburg, N. Y., has been arrested because he struck girls under him for singing at their work. “That man is notoriously unreliable!” “Why, I like the looks of him.” “He brfeaks his word so.” “How is that?" “HA stutters. ” Pobtland, Me., is admiring a man who has carried the same jack-knife for sixty-nine years, resisting all temptations td “swap.” Thebe is much that is birdlike about .most young girls; the pity is they arc not taught that there is so much that U catlike about the men. The gray hair of an Elbert County, Ga., woman, 87 years old, is falling out and being replaced by a luxuriant growth of jet black locks, so it is said. A baby, two months old, and weighing but four pounds, is reported from Georgia. It it , said to be perfectly healthy, and the best baby alive. Penelope, sighing: “Ah, the men ftre not what they used to be!” Tom: “I’d like to know why not?” Penelope: “They used to be boys, you know.” A coboneb’s jury in Peoria, 111,, it is said, brought in the following verdict: “We find that the deceased came to her death by being found dead in her bed." In a skating match which occurred resently in North Plain, Conn., between young men, the prize contested for was the hand of a young woman in marriage. When a woman falls in love you.can’t make her believe all men are alike, and when she has been married ten years you can’t make her believe that they ara hot. See that your child never leaves any task half done or slovenly finished; and therefore give not too many tasks. Thoroughness is the corner-stone of success. The town council of Sellersburg, Ind., has passed an ordinance requiring al) boys under the age of 16 years to be in their homes by 7 o’clock p. m., under pain of arrest and imprisonment. It is said that a Paris laundryman has discarded all soaps, sodas and boiling powders. He merely uses plenty of water and boiled potatoes, and can cleanse without employing any alkali the worst soiled linens, cottons, or woolens.

Notes and Geanings.

The pendulum was first attached to the clock in 1656 by Huyghens. Chlobide of ethyl is being successfully used as a refrigerant and local anaesthetic. When the belt gels saturated with waste oil an application of ground chalk will soon absorb the oil and make the belt workable. Bismuth melts at a point so far below that of boiling water that it .can be use 1 for taking casts from the most destructible objects. The largest dam of any kind in the southern hemisphere is that at Be jtaloo, Australia. It is built of concrete, has a capacity of 80,' 01,000 gallons, and cost $585,000. Sugab is being extracted from the sap of the sugar pine tree in the mountains.of Northern California. The sap is light-brown in color, and contains a large per cent, of saccharine matter. A perfect opal, with a movable drop in the center, was found in California recently. A negro at the Kimberly, South Africa, diamond mines found a diamond of the same character in 1888. Thebe are schools for teaching watchmaking at Geneva, Neuchatel, La Chaux des Fonds, Locle. Bienne, St. Inner, and Porrentrui. In the last six years the number of watches exported from Switzerland has increased from 2,723,334 in 1885 to 4,431,301 last year.

JUST GLANCE OVER THIS

AND ASCERTAIN ALL THE LATE INDIANA NEWS. A Catalogue of the Week’* Important Occurrence* Throughout the state—hires. Accident*. twines, Suicides* Lie. Minor State Item a. James Pinnkll, aged 76, a pioneer, died at Lebanon. A new magnetic sulphur well has been struck in Orleans. Milo Pearson of Wabash, was badly in lured by being kicked by a colt. A man named White, near Edinburg, bad a horse, valued at $1,090, drowned. John Niemann of Kort Wayne, was caught in an elevator and had two ribs broken. Miami County voters downed free roads. Say they are already taxed enough. The Indiana Department of the G. A. R. will locate Its State soldiers' home at Warsaw. Mrs. Jud Rock of Valparaiso, was badly hurt by a cellar door blowing shut on her head. Mary Johnson, an old, respected woman of near ;!azlewood. Hendricks County, was found dead recently. Chaki.es Alexander claims to have been healed of fits at a revival just closed at Trafalgar, near Frank hn. Henry Moon, who had his skull split open by a planer-knife at Ellis’ sawmill, Plainfield, died from his Injuries. What is described as a daring thief was captured at Jeffersonville with a box of eggs, which it is supposed he had stolen. Little Blue River, English, has flooded the town. Logs are floating in the streets and fifteen stores are In water five feet deep. Joel Walters of Paxton, Ind., committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Ho had been a heavy drinker. Tramps burned Charles Ashcraft's house in Jay County. They were pursued across the Ohio line, and will bo lynched if taken. Ed Banknfenger, Evansville, had his thigh fractured and ills left arm broken in two places being thrown from a wagon during a runaway Prof. Sheridan Cox has been reelected Superintendent of the Kokomo public schools, his twentieth continuous year in that position. Co’RNelius McCurp.f.v, a prominent contractor of Elkhart, fell dead at his supper table, lie was a strong man and had been in his usual health. Merchants of Cohimbus have petitioned the Pennsylvania railroad not to run cheap excursions to Indianapolis as it takes shoppers out of tho city. Capt. Atkinson of Wabash, has prepared a memorial for the Christian Church of the United States, asking that the World's Fair bo closed on Sunday. On a corner-stone of a church in Rich--mond the word chapel has been carved “chapla” Tho stonecutter, says Twas not bls fault, because he followed copy. Louis Browning filed a suit at Seymour, for $5,000 damages, for Injuries received when thrown from his engine in the yards at Seymour one night lust fall. Thieves entered the store of J. F. Snyder, in Columbus, and carried away SIOO worth of watches, which had boon deposited with him as security for small loans. During a severe electrical storm at Princeton a 4-year-old daughter of William Duncan, four miles from that city, was struck by lightning and Instantly killed. The people of Waveland have organized a driving-part; association, and will build a half-mile race track. There is also a driving-park association at Darlington. The Columbus City Council has fixed a penalty of SIOO against peddlers who go from house to house with their wares. City and county farmers and gardeners are excepted. Tramps burglarized S. N. Felt’s store at Blaine, Jay County, made a meal on cheese, eggs, crackers and apple-butter, after which they carried off a wagon load or so of goods. The Monon railway 'has paid the daughter of Benjamin Bamberger, who was killed in the wreck near Crawfordsville, Jan. 11, the sum of $3,300 In full of all claim. The- daughter lives at Indianapolis. Representatives of tho Illinois Steel Company of Chicago, are prospecting along the upper Wabash River for limestone suitable tor use in the manufacture of pig iron in their furnaces at Chicago and Joliet. '■ The meanest man yet hoard from lives inSharpstown in Southern Indiana. He tore down the upper story of his brick house and sold the material because he didn’t need tho upstairs on account of ills small family. Mrs. A. F. Miller of Indianapolis, lost a gold watch at Spencer last summer, and suspicion rested on a young girl at the bath-house. Tho other day the watch was found amid the debris at tho month of the sewer which carries the water away from the mineral springs, where it had probably been dropped by Mrs. Miller while drinking from tho fount. Two suits were entered in the Federal Court at Indianapolis recently, In both of which Isaac C. Walker Is the plaintiff and tbe defendants tho cities of Evansville and Fort Wayne. These suits are similar to tho ono brought by Walker a year and a half ago against tbe city of Terre Haute. Ho is the assigntyi of Robert Bragg, the patentee of an electric appliance for opening fire engine and patrohhouse doors, at tho top of the gong. In the Terre Haute case the court granted a decree for the plaintiff at the rate of SIOO for each 1,000 inhabitants. Rating Tqrrc Haute’s population at 30,000 this gave Walker judgment for $3,000.

M. A. Steele, a stockman from Omaha, cn route East with several cars of stock, arose from his sleep and walked off a caboose platform. Just west of Huntington. The train was running twenty miles an hour, and his injuries are very severe. His colar-bone and several ribs are broken. While driving at Muncie, Emmett Beall ahd John Burk of Honey Creek, Henry County, were thrown to the ground and seriously injured. The horse scared, at a bicycle. Burk sustained a fracture of his right leg. Beall was dragged sixty yards over the hard road“and was seriously cut and bruised. Ten Sioux Indian children have just arrived at Wabash from South Dakota to be educated at the White Institute, the well-known Indian manual-training school near Wabash. The entire party are what is known as the “blanket” Indians, and they are said to be as wild as can be found in the West Will Dean, one of the Dean brothers, the great fruit men of Marble Hill, near Jeffersonville, says that, in spite of the many frosts, the buds are not materially damaged and that the prospects for a good crop are very favorable. Reports from Pekin, Washington County, Memphis, New Providence, and the knobs agree that so far peaches, grapes, and otner fruit have not been hurt

Aurora streets will bo lighted by gas. Wellington Dawson, aged 73, fell dead at his home in Liberty. Tramps are beginning to make life a burden for Richmond people. Mad dogs are becoming numerous. Michigan City has killed ono. A passenger train ran into an open switch at Eckerty. Nd one hurt. Some one stole Amos Gambell’s dun mare from his barn, in Greenfield. Chicago parties will establish a large slaughter establishment in Fort Wayne. The body of an unknown man has been found in the river near BrooksI burg. ; Luke Sims committed suicide by shooting in Edinburgh. Hard drinking was the cause. A new gas well, yielding 8.000.000 cubic feet per day, has been shot in Delaware County. Rev. W. I* Riley, graduate of Franklin College, has decided to go to Africa as a missionary. Frank Parish, Richmond, snatched a roll of money out of John Reed's hand and is now in jail. The enumeration of tho school-chil-dren of| Columbus shows an increase over last year of 877. George Snyder, while attempting to cross the railroad track in Fort Wayne, was run over and killed. The Baptist Church congregation at Crawfordsville have decided to erect a new church this summer. A flock of sheep belonging to Henry Bowbrink were washed away by the high waters of tho Wabash. John Montgomery, a deaf mute, was killed by the cars In Seymour. He was crossing a brigo when run down. David Rhkdin, a brakeman, has brought suit against C., C. C. & St. L. railroad for $20,000 damages for injuries. Luke Sims of Edinburg, trie! to go honceward by shooting. The bullet lodged in ids lungs and ho cannot recover. The tooth of a mastodon has boon found near Shelbyville. It Is four and one-half inches across tho crown and eight inches long. A Jack the Eavesdropper of Jofforville, was soundly thrashed for peeping in a residence and than spreading a scandalous report. Material for the new aluminium factory, lately located at Yorktown, is arriving, and work Is progressing rapidly. Throe gas wells have been contracted for. The business mon of Lebanon have organized a branch of the Merchants’ Mercantile Agency of Chicago, tho object being protection from losses on account of bad debts. Oliver H. Still and Mary 11. Long, aged 86 and 51, respectively, wore married at Valparaiso after being estranged twenty-five years, both in tho meantime ha ving been married. W. T. Thatcher, the well-known Chicago coal-dealer, attempted to board a passenger train at LaPorto, but camo In contact with a switch, and received injuries from which he died. James Dawes, whoso homo Is near Mitchel), was found on the Monon track south of the Mitchell depot with his body badly mangled, bearing evidence of having boon run over by several night trains. John Lark was crushed in tho Nickel Plate mine, near Brazil, by falling slate. It took several mon to raise tho slate from Lark's body. Both of his arms and logs were broken, and no hopes of his recovery ere entertained. Joseph Bertrand, an Indian of the Pokagon tribo of the Pottawattamie*, died at South Bend, aged 110. Ho was thought to be the oldest man In Indiana, and was a noted character. Tho town of Bortrand, Mich, was named after him. Burglars entered tho drug store of C. C. Reynolds at Milford, and tried to break into tho safe, but failed. They then rilled tho money-drawers, securing 250 pennies, and took from tho cases four or five boxes of cigars. The new college building of tho Northern Indiana Normal school, at Valparaiso, will bo dedicated Tuesday, May 10. Gov. Ira J. Chase will deliver tho oration, and Governors McKinley, Fifer, and Winans are expected to bo present Fire in William Leavitt’s barn at Brazil, destroyed all tho contents, including ten tons of hay, two top buggies and farming Implemertts. two horses valued at $250 each. Loss, $3,000; Insurance, $025, in the Germania and Underwriters’. Will Irvin, a brakeman on the Clover Leaf road, while switching in the yards at Kokomo, got Ids skull crushed by striking the iron spout, of the water tank. He will proably die. Ho is an old railroader, 45 years old, and has a family at Grand Rapids, Mich. His headquarters are at Frankfort, where he was taken. Rev. Eli Abernethy, aged 97 years, now a resident of Shelbyville,recently of near Columbus, is one of tho oldest sons of the Revolution now living. Tho old gentleman Is well preserved mentally and physically. His father fought three years in tho Revolution. receiving three dangerous wounds Patents have been granted to Indiana inventors as follows: Peter Anderson, Fort Wayne, house door letter-box; Joseph A. Haley, Fort Wayne, slide valve; John I. Hoke, South Bend, harrow; John N. Kailor and E. L. Williams, assignors to Reeves & Co., Columbus, casing tor cloverhullers; Charles N. Leonard, R. B. Roberts, and W. D. Allison, Indianapolis, said Leonard and Roberts assignors to said Allison, surgical table; William Moore, Kokomo, apoaratus for separating natural gas from oil, water, etc.; Joseph U. Morgan, Dublin, assignor of one-half to M Shew and J. R. Bond. Cambridge City, bicycle hub; Joseph M. Pierre, Fort Wayne, spoolholder; George W. Smith, Montpelier, swing; David P. Stlrk and J. Summers, Indianapolis, gas-burner for stoves; Rupert Strasser. Fort Wayne, motor for fans; Daniel H. Talbert, Spiceland, bottle-stopper; Judson S. Wertsbaugher, assignor of one-hakf to W. L. Logan, Fort Wayne, hair-curler. William Fulton, who was so terribly mangled last week by being dragged across a field on the point of a plow by a runaway team, has since died. Hfs sufferings were worse than death, and It was a mercy to be relieved from his agony. The Wabash City Council has ordered the hnmediate removal of all telephone poles and wires from the streets and alleys of that city. The lines have been neglected ever local service was discontinued several years ago and several accidents have occurred by the crossing of the wires with the electric light wires. Solomon Carter, of Grant County, charged with attempted murder, has been acquitted. He stabbed one of two men who assaulted, him last winter, it has since been asserted, with a view of robbery. Miss Emma Kocgel, employed in Fox’s Candy Factory, FortWavne, was probably fatally Injured, by being caught and crushed in the elevator. Miss Koegel attempted to step in the elevator as it was ascending, but she caught between the lift and the shaft and was carried upward twenty feet, until her body became so firmly wedged as to stop the ascending car. She was removed unconscious and taken to her home. It is thought she cannot recover.

After Years in Earth.

The tomlkof Edward I. of England, who died in 1307, waa opened on Jan. nary 2, 1770, after 403 years had elapsed, and his body found to be almost perfect, the face even retaining its expression. Canute, the Dane, who crossed over to England in 1017, was found in 1770 by the workmen who repaired the Cathedrals His reposed in the grave for nearly 750 years, but was perfectly fresh and life-like. In 1569, three Roman soldiers were dug out of a peat bog In Ireland, where they had in all probability lain at least 1,500 years, yet they were perfectly preserved even to skin, hair, eyes, and nails. In the reign of James 11. of England, the big church at Warwickshire fell. In clearing away the debris it became necessary to move the tomb of 'Thomas Gray, at one time Marquis of Dorsetshire. When this had been done it was found that the body of the Marquis was as fresh as a corpse newly buried, the jointseven being pliable. This discovery was made exactly seventy-eight years, three months, and two days after the burial, says the Philadelphia Press. Robert Braybrook, who was bishop of London in 1381, and died in 1404, was found to look perfectly natural when removed from the tomb aftlfei the great London tire of 1666; even the color of the eyes could be distinguished.

"Many Worser Giris.”

Prof. Chapman, professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College, was ths bright, particular*star of tho alumni dinner the other night. He boomed the little Institution "away down in Maine” in a manner that delighted the boys. “Bowdoin may have some failings,* he said, “but I’ve known many a worse alma m.ater than she. In this respect I feel like the little daughter of a friend of mine in Portland. She had Just mastered the art, of express Ing herself in intelligent sentences. One day she had done something for which her mamma had to reprove her. The lady gave her daughter a sound lecture, and then told her to go upstairs, alone, In her room, and ash God to forgive her for her error. Ip a few minutes she was surprised to-see the liaby conic down stairs again, appear in the sitting-room, and stand back with a grout deal oi seriousness. "Well, did you go up and do what J told you?” asked the fond mother. “Yes," replied the guilty one, “and God said: ‘Great Scott, Elsie Murray, I've known a great .many worser girls than you. ’ "- Boston Herald.

Oil Fuel on Steamers.

The experiments with liquid fuel on one or t wo English steamships and on several belonging to tho Italians, is again calling the attention of the engineering profession to possibilities in tho use of that fuel. In the English torpedo boat, the Sunderland, this fuel was used with considerable success. The boiler was of the locomotive type and was fitted with thirty-one burners. Tho oil was carried in a tank of suitable capacity and thence pumped in a small cylindrical tank; from theneb it was forced to the oil burners under a pressure oi thirty-five pounds to the square Inch; at the burners it met jets of air delivered under forty pounds pressure, by which the proeess'of atomizing was effectively performed. The combustion is said to ba so perfect that there was neither smoke nor smell from the oil, and no deposit wai formed in tho tubes or elsewhere in the boiler. The, Italian government, it is stated, will continue its experiments in this direction, pud it Is also reported that the Peruvians will da some experimenting for themselves.

A Maritime Wonder.

In 268 B. C. Archimedes devised > marvelous ship for Hiero of Syracuse. Her three lofty masts had been brought from Britain, whereas ouj ships’ masts are of iron or obtained from New Zealand or from Vancouvei Island. Luxuriously fitted sleeping apartments abounded, and one of hei banquet halls was paved with agatt and costly Sicilian stone. Othei floors wore cunningly inlaid with scenes from the “Iliad.” Stab'lesXoi many horses, ponds stocked with nv« fish, gardens watered by artificial rivulets, and hot baths were provided for use or amusement. Ptolemj Ph I lopater possessed a nuptial, yacht, the Thalamegon, 312 feet long and 4! feet deep. A graceful gallery, sup ported by curiously carved columns, ran round the vessel, and within were .temples of Venus and of Bae chus. Her masts were .one hundred feet high, her sails and cordage ol royal purple hue. <

Other Carnivorous Plants.

Among the other plants that catch and digest Insects Are the pitchei plants of the Sierra Nevadas, North Carolina, and Borneo. The bladdei wort also catches insects, as does th* sundew. The latter has long, sticks leaves, of a sweetish nature, which curl slowly around tho captive. li the tiy happens to light away from the center of the leaf, the tentacle it touches bends over towards th* center, where all tho tentacles grasj and hold it while a Sort of acid is poured over it, which dissolves tbe food part. One full meal win last the plant nearly a week, if the food is of the right kind. Dr. Darwin fed a-sundew on cheese,, but it soon became sickly arid died. . When milk was given, the tentacles bent over to absorb it, while the leaf itself be 1 came more cup-shaped, Venus’ flytrap is another example of carnivorous plants. lt

For Mail Delivery.

Contra Costa County, California, has originated a system of numbering country houses which deserves attention. Like every other Western device of the sort, it is simple and practicable. All the country roads are divided into blocks, ten to a mile, by imaginary circles radiating from the county seat, and each block is given two numbers, the odd number for the left of the road and the even for the right. Of Course in the West, where the counties are nearly all square blocks, the choice of a central point is much easier than in the East. The Postmaster General has the plan under considerattor in connection with the free-delivery system tor general adoption.