Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — Page 3

HEARTS OF GOLD THE HEIRESS OF MAPLE LEAF FARM

CHAPTER 111. A STARTLING ACCUSATION. “Something’s wrong!” Paul Dalton uttered the words more than once upon, the day that preceded the meeting of two precious rogues at the Ridgeton tavern. ' The field hands repeated them as they east askance glances at their master. Farmer John was ‘‘out o’ sorts,” “in the dumps,” with a temper “exceedingly coirtrarlwise,” and a face that lowered like a rain-fringed cloud. All that day he barely spoke to Ruth; he treated Dalton with gruff incivility; and woe betide the laborer whom he caught shirking his duty. “Wheat’s gone down.” "No; he’s been caught on a bad horsetrade.”

“Mebbe it’s Dalton. He’s getting rather spoony on the girl, and you know Farmer John has set his heart on a match with Ralph Prescott.” These and like gossipy explanations floated on the air—all very far from the [true solution to the mystery of Farmer John’s bad temper, however. Meantime, with Ralph Prescott nursing and developing his spite, and Farmer John storing up wrath for a near explosion, there were two happy, unconscious souls that saw only gold in the dazzling sunshine, and fancied the songs of the birds the sweetest music, in harmony with hearts vibrating to new and delightful emotions. They loved, these two, Ruth - and Paul; they had loved long and purely, but in unexpressed fervor. Now, with the revelation of the white violets, their eyes spoke; a tell-tale flush, an ardent glance, a murmured term of endearment brought them to the threshold of life’s sweetest, holiest experience. If a memory of a false position and a mysterious past shadowed the lover’s heart momentarily he drove it away. If a thought of the stern will of the erratio grandsire, of her stubborn father, with eyes blinded to the deficiencies of Ralph Prescott, came to Ruth’s mind she blotted it out with a realization of the great bliss that had come into her life to overshadow it all. So these two golden hearts, with unseen barriers already placed between them, glided on to the bitter fate that man’s subtlety and the workings of a stern, merciless destiny were weaving for them. “I’ll not speak,” muttered Farmer John as he entered the house for supper, "I’ll not make a mistake and accuse an innocent man. I’ll wait once more. I should miss a penny the way I have fixed things, and I’ll watch again. The next thief who visits my room gets caught.” He was silent and unsocial all the evening meal. Had he been less absorbed in his grim suspicious thoughts of those present, however, he would have noted the lurking figure of Ralph Prescott as he stole Into the house and then stole out of it again. The meal over, with a quick glance at Ruth, Paul Dalton left the room. The far lifer supposed he had gone to his own apartment and sat down to read the weekly newspaper. At his task—for it was such that evening, with fiis mind tom with conflicting doubts —Farmer John moved restlessly, lay down the paper, took it up again, pondered, dozed and finally fell into a nap.

He was aroused about nine o’clock by the entrance of Paul Dalton, apparently from up stairs. A minute later Euth appeared, her cheeks flushed, her eyes vaguely questioning the keen glance her father fastened upon her. About to ask her if she had been to visit a girl friend on the next farm, John Elliott -was interrupted by the entrance of two farm hands. They had decided to leave his employ with the morning, and, according to agreement had come for their pay. “Better stay in a comfortable home for the winter, boys,” spqke Elliott, always considerate to his help. No, the men were obdurate. They had quite a little store of savings, and their ambition was to try the attractions in the way of money-making of the great, magnetic city. “All right. What do I owe you?” queried the farmer, “He’ll tell, he’s got it all down in black and white,” returned one of the men, with a nod to Paul, whose figures never made a mistake in their admiring conviotion. Paul got down the books and stated the amount. Farmer John took out his keys, and, lamp in hand, proceeded to his room up-stairs. Those below heard a startled cry a minute later. Then the angry tramp of a hurried man’s feet, and John Elliott re-entered the room. His face was white with passion, his eyes were terrible. Absorbed with some overwhelming emotion, he seemed on the verge Of choking. In one hand, he. bore the lamp, in the other, a roll of bank-notes. Placing the lamp on the table, trembling like a leaf, A pent-up volcano of rage, he counted out several of the bills, and extended them to the wondering Paul Dalton. “There’s your month’s pay,” he said, In a tone that grated on Buth’s alarmed ears until she shuddered. “Take it, pack your traps and go!” “Mr. Elliott!” cried Dalton, in dumfounded bewilderment, “what does this mean?” “Go!” snapped the farmer, savagely. **Be wise, young man, don’t tempt me to speak! You know why. I’ve found you out. Go, while you may, before I forget that you were once honest, once a help to me. Go!” “Father, are you mad?” cried Euth, advancing to Elliott’s side. “This ain’t your place to speak,” interrupted the farmer sternly, putting her away with his hand. “Paul Walton, I have no time to waste on you. You’ve heard me —go!” “Not until I know what this extraordinary accusation means,” responded Walton firmly, and flushing with indignation. “What does it mean!” fairly roared Elliott, losing all control of himself. “You will have the truth, will you? You Won’t leave matters as they are? What

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does it mean? Dare you ask me, ingrate, hypocrite?” Ruth Elliott turned frightfully pale, but an indignant flush appeared on either cheek. “Father!” she cried reproachfully. “Do not forget that Mr. Walton is a gentleman.” “A gentleman!” biased out Farmer Elliott. “No, I call him —a thief! ”

CHAPTER IV. DENOUNCED. The scene that ensued to the wild declaration of Farmer John was a startling tableau. Somewhere back In Paul Walton’s life there had been a time when that proud spirit of his would have sprang to arms in a flash, at the touch of the goad of injustice. His flashing eyes, his quiokenlng breath showed it now, as with clenched hands he strode forward, as If to lay the author of the daring accusation at his feet. Then, with superb control, and remembering that his accuser was the father of the woman he loved, the young man folded his arms calmly and said, In clear, steady tones: “Mr. Elliott, you will regret those unjust words. You are laboring under some honest mistake. lam no thief.” John Elliott tided to crush the speaker with a single look of utter incredulity and contempt. Then, firm in the conviction that audacious hypocrisy deserved its fate, with merciless roughness he told his story. He had missed various sums of money for a month past, first a trifle, then quite a large amount.

Someone was in the habit of feloniously entering his room and rifling the cabinet in which he kept his money. At six o’clock that evening he had visited his room, assured himself of the exaot contents of the cabinet, and had looked it securely. Since then, no one had gone into the upper portion of the house except the accused. At this statement, Dalton’s lips moved as If to speak. Then with a start and a glance at Ruth, he allowed it to go unoontradicted. When he went up stairs to obtain the money for the men, Farmer John peroeived to his amazement, as he opened the cabinet, that two packages of banknote, representing nearly four hundred dollars, were missing. He had entertained grave suspicions of his superintendent before. Impulse drove him to enter his room. A disarranged pillow on the bed directed a searoh. Beneath it he had found—one of the packages, the one now in his hand. More than that, on the floor of the room he had picked up a key. It fitted to the cabinet. Paul Dalton was an accomplished thief. “You entered my room to-night,” was the unwavering accusation; “you stole the money.” “He is innocent!" A wild, convincing cry, expanding with the certainty of proof, sentient with the trustfulness of a loving woman’s heart, the words rang forth from Ruth Elliott’s lips. She knew! Oh! with happy, fervent delight she realized the frail rook of certainty upon which her prejudiced father had erected a stupendous fabrio of suspicion. “Girl!” scowled Elliott angrily, “I told you once that this is no concern of yours.” “No, it is mine alone,” interrupted Walton quickly. “Ruth,” he whispered tumultuously, “silence! To reveal the truth, in his present mood, would invoke his deepest anger.” With a moan Ruth Elliott sank to a chair, her face colorless, her heart fluttering like an imprisoned bird. Paul Walton had spoken truly. He was innocent; she knew it He had not been near his room that evening. A loving tryst at the moonlit glade had filled' in those two precious hours, and her lips were sealed, because he had bade her be silent. . But he was innocent. Oh, the joy of it! Standing there, accused, mute for her sake, her heart went out to him in strengthened love. “You can give up the other package of money or not, as you ohoose,” spoke Farmer John. “I shall not have you arrested on account of your past services, but you must leave this house tonight; you must go at once.” “Innocent or guilty?" murmured Walton.

“Innocent? Does the key show it? Does hidden plunder show it?” “I never saw key or money before. Some one placed them in my room, some enemy ” “Bah!" scornfully interrupted Elliott, “you have heard my decision —go!” “He shall not go.” Trembling all over, yet with resolute face, Euth stole to the side of her accused lover. She caught his hand in her own. Love, unmistakable, unhidden from all the world, spoke in her words, manner, and attitude. “Are you crazy?” exclaimed herfather, staring vaguely at her glowing face. “Girl!” in a terrible tone of suspicion, “what does this mean?” “It means that I know him to be innooent—that, in one word; I can prove it. He did not steal your money because he was not in the house to-night—he was was not in the house to-night ” “Euth—Euth, silence! Do you not see that this will anger him ” “ I will speak! He was not in the house, because he met me at the stile. He met me there because our troth is plighted, and I love him against all the world, against all your cruel unjust accusations." She flung herself into his arms as she spoke, and then, woman-like, her strength, resolution, and defiance vanished, and she burst into tears. Into the amazed face of John Elliott blazed a furious rage. With a cry more like a roar than anything else, he tore Euth from the clasp of her lover. Boaring like a madman, he confronted Paul Dalton, menacing him, anathematizing him, ready to crush him with uplifted hands. “Thief! Miscreant! Hypocrite!” he fairly choked out. “Oh! I could forgive a thief of money, but this —you serpent, with your smooth, wily ways, to steal my girl’s heart—go, I warn you, or I will do you harm!” The two astounded laborers, well knowing Farmer John’s ungovernable temper, pressed Dalton toward the door. With a last look at the crushed and weeping Euth, the accused turned upon her father.

"John Elliott,” he spoke firmly, almost sadly, “some day you will regret your unjust accusation—the truth concerning tbai will come to light soon. As to Ruth, a heart of stone could not help loving her. You drive me from your door, ruined in reputation and happiness. I will never darken its threshold again until I can stand before all men, by your own words proven innocent of the hideous charge you bring against me.” “That will never be. Don’t be in a hurry, Mr. Paul Dalton. I have something to say to you.” The Impressive tableau was rudely disturbed by the jeering, bantering words. The door had opened, and, his face flushed with drink and excitement, his malevolent eyes glowing with the certainty of a mean and crushing revenge, Ralph Prescott entered the room. “What’s this?” thundered Farmer John, his brows knit frowningly. “I’ve heard your talk from the outside,” explained Prescott, glibly. "I’ve heard this highly indignant gentleman’s high-flown talk, too. He’s innocent, is he? Then he’s changed from what he once was. Time to find him out, Mr. Elliott—time to get him out ol the house where he’s lurked, a hypocrite, a serpent, so long." “What do you mean?” demanded Farmer John, dubiously. “I mean,” replied Prescott, his face aflame with concentrated delight and malignity, “that Paul Dalton is worsa than a thief! ” “Worse than a thief!” repeated Elliott, excitedly. “Yes, I charge him —and I dare him to deny it—with being an ex-oonviotl" |TO BE CONTINUED. I

Lafayette’s Home.

The Chateau de Chavaniao is on a high hill, and in the misty background are the slopes of Mounts Dome, Laguet and Cantal. A lovely wide avenue at least a mile long leads to it from Paulhaguet. The avenue Is (bordered by poplars, ash and elm trees, all of which were planted by the General. The chateau itself is a rather new building, for it stands on the place of one that was burned in the eighteenth century. It forms a parallelogram, each side of which is seventy-five feet long and with a height of about forty. The principal front faces the north, but on each side several doors offer easy exits. The construction lacks elegance, and if it were not for its fine situation, the lovely site on which it stands and the ancient trees that form a splendid framework, it would present a rather heavy physiognomy. The ground floor is only occupied by kitchens, pantries and wine cellars; the first story is divided into several fine rooms, and on the upper floor are the bedchambers, most of which have, however, remained unoccupied since 1829, when Lafayette made his last visit to his native place. The most important room on the first floor is about forty-two feet long, and has served in turn for dining hall and ball-room. In it are the family portraits, most of them modern, and several busts, among which are those of Washington, Franklin, Jean Jacques Eousseau, Montesquieu, Yoltaire, Caesar, Brutus, Cicero and Socrates. The library has perhaps a thousand volumes, and the books still bear the “ex libris” of the General’a arms, and “Cui non?” his proud device.

When He Came Home.

i '‘Why, Jeremiah Brown!” exclaimed Mrs. Brown, as her husband returned •from a short railway journey, “is this you alive and in the flesh?” “Why, in course it’s me,” replied Mr. Brown, testily; “ain’t this the time when I said I’d be back?” “And you ain’t been in no accident and got killed?” “Do I look as if I had?” “And you ain’t lost both legs and both arms?” “No, I ain’t.” “Not even one leg or one arm, or an eye?” “No.” “And you didn’t so much as get hurt enough so as you can sit in the house and not work for a month or so?” “How many times have I got to tell you there ain’t nothin’ happened?" “Well, you do beat all! There you went and paid money for an accident insurance ticket just before you left and you haven’t done anything to get money out of it. The money just wasted for nothing! And you might just as well have made SI,OOO if you’d only got killed. Nice manager you are!”

The Indian.

The popular idea of the Indian roaming over the prairies, living on the fruits of the chase and just what he can gather, does not properly characterize all of the tribes. Some of the Indians of the South and Southwest ’ were excellent agriculturists. In Georgia and Alabama, when the white man first went among the Natchez Indians, they found them all cultivating maize, beans, sunflowers, sweet potatoes, melons, pumpkins, and a large number of the native fruits growing in orchards persimmons, honey - locusts, mulberry, black walnuts and shell barks of the best kind were sorted and planted by them. Many of the New Mexican and Arizona Indians were also far advanced in the agricultural art.

The Daisy.

In Scotland the daisy was, and in some parts still is, regarded as a healing plant; and if the sick man can only put his foot on a fully expanded daisy, he has hopes of recovery, just as in some other parts some mountain stream or quiet spring is supposed to possess magical powers. Faith, no doubt, has a good deal to do with the cure, and the thought that touching any given object would effect a cure would do much to accomplish the same. It is further believed that if the farmer kneels down and bites off the first daisy of spring a plentiful crop will be the reward. The more we reflect upon the unspeakable meanness of the mah who stole a fine overcoat belonging to a distinguished New York clergyman while he was preaching to a Chicago congregation the more firmly do we become convinced that the thief was some bitter and unforgiving St. Louisian who committed the act in order to bring reproach upon Chicago. Ths low volcanic island which rose so suddenly out of the sea near Palermo, Italy, and from which fire was emitted, has entirely disappeared, even the water that covers It having ceased to boil.

FARM AND GARDEN

HSLPFDI* HINTS FOR BERRY GROWERS. In setting out new beds of raspberries or blackberries cut back the oanes to about six inches above the surface of the soil. Throw all the strength in the plant and-get a good sturdy cane this season for next year’s fruiting. Plant as early in the season as possible, while plants are dormant. When setting strawberries in spring cut back the roots one-third with a sharp knife; this starts a new fibrous growth quickly. Let the soil be rich and deep. When strawberry plants are reoeived and it is not convenient to plant at once, let them remain in their packing of moss out under a tree or shady place in the light. Current cuttings ought to be set so that the top bud of the cutting is on a level with the surface of the ground. Prune bearing currant bushes, cutting back last year’s growth. The fruit is borne on wood of two years old and more, and the cutting back develops the lower buds and causes larger fruit Remove all old, unproductive wood and thin out so as to adroit light and air freely into the centre of the bush.— Orchard and Garden.

ROSEBUD BAIT. The object in planting spires as in the vineyard or garden where grapevines are growing is for the purpose of attracting the rose bug or rose beetle. This insect, as is well known, is very fond of the flowers of the grape and will soon destroy them, and thereby cut off the crop of fruit; but they are also very fona of and seem to prefer the flowers of cert&n species of the spirsa. They will usually desert the grapes, and duster upon the spiraas if afforded an opportunity, and, as these shrubs and herbaceous plants cost little or nothing, we may use them freely as bug traps or bait, and from which the insects may be shaken dally into hot water or a little kerosene and water. The two beet species of the spines for this purpose are the Borbusleaved, a hardy, early-blooming shrub from Siberia, and the Goats-beard, a native vigorous growing herbaceous species. There are also several Japan species, with fine whito flowers, and . blooming at the same season as the grape that may also be employed for the same purpose, but the two wo have named seem to answer every purpose. —American Agriculturist. A PAIB or STEERS FOB THE BOVS. On a medium sized farm a pair ot steers may be raised with no great trouble or expense. Bo guy colts, indeed, biit the steer* will never carry the boya to tiie racecourse. Let their training be the boys’ pastime and pride. The steers will grow up between the boys and the city. . (Boys who have a little yoke of steeis,;and a little cart, a little sled, and a little atoneboat, all of their own manufacture, will not pine to forsake the farm. Before the boys are men, the steers may be great, powerful oxen, well able t<i perform a kind of labor always in demand.—Hartford (Conn.) Times. A PLUM ORCHARD. No doubt a plum orchard will be a profitable investment if it is taken care of as it should be. The trees are set eighteen feet apart, and seme good kinds are the Lombard, Green Gage, Yellow Egg, German Prune, Damson, and Jeffersoqt with some others of local reputation. Wood ashes or lime is an excellent fertilizer, and to prevent damage from tho only dangerous iosect enemy, the curculio, which is such a persistent enemy of the plum that it is almost impossible to grow this suit unless the fowls are kept among the trees, or the trees are sprayed with Paris green. One hundred and thirty trees may be planted on an acre at tha. distance mentioned.— New York Tunes.

SETTING OCT TUBES AND PLANTS. So far as is possible early planting is the best, but it is no advantage to set out trees or plants until the soil is in a condition to work into a good tilth. About the only exception to this is evergreens; these can be set in the mud and will grow and be none the worse for it. A good plan with all trees and plants is to have a bucket or tub of water convenient and dip the roots of the plants carefully Into this so as to wet the roots thoroughly. Before doing this all of the bruised or damaged roots should be cut off and the top cut back In proportion to the roots. Two men can set out trees to the best advantage; one to hold the tree and work the soil in among the roots with the fingers and the other to find and shovel in the dirt as needed. No kind of manure should be applied so as to come in direct contact with the roots. If the soil is not naturally rich the best plan of applying manure is to work it thoroughly in with the soil before filling in the roots. It is important to tramp the soil well after the roots are covered, so as to keep the tree firm, or the winds we usually have in the spring will tend to loosen it. If necessary to stake, when the tree is set out is a good time to set the stake. A piece of rubber shoe or boot put aroond the tree'where the cord is fastened will aid materially to lessen the risks of in. jury by chafing. Wool twine will be less liable to injure the trees than hard twisted hemp twine. Set the trees at the same depth that they grow in the eryWith plants grown either in the hotbed or seed-box, care should be taken to harden them off before transplanting. This oan be done Teadily by leaving them Axnosed two or three davs and nLzhts before transplanting. It tne sou is ary, e good plan is to water the plant! thoroughly an hour or two before taking them up. With early plants this< is no! usually necessary, as there is generally plenty of moisture in the soiL Set the plants down to the first leaf. This can be considered a safe rule with all plants, and if the plants have made a long, Spindling growth even deeper setting than this will be advisable. It is important to see that the soil copies in close contact with the roots. Generally with all garden plants it will be best to do ths transplanting late in the evening.—St. Louis Republic.

ITOTBB ON THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. Oftentimes very little forethought is given tor the plan of the vegetable garden, and yet it is one of the most important considerations connected with gardening. The great' object ahould be to plant in such a manner as to facilitate the use of all horse-power possible. Very few farmers find much time to use the hoe, while many of the gardens are so planted as to admit of no other means of cultivation. In the hands of many the hoe is not the belt cultivator; it does not have the desired effect of loosening the soil, and is often good only in finishing up after the plow. For many plants the soil needs to be deeply and thoroughly dug. Frequent stirring prevents a crust forming, wnich is so detrimental to plant growth, it shutting out the air from the roots. When too much dependence is laid upou the hoe a great deal of neglect will naturally result. I'he weeds get a start, the ground becomes baked, and in a very brief period the crop is put beyond recovery, and the yield greatly lessened. This taking a rainy day to “mind in” a garden will result unsatisfactory. Soil worked ovef at soon a time becomes baked in clous and unfit for seeds, or the tendor roots of plants. Too wet to plow corn, meani too wet to stir the garden. Plants that bavo been grown in a hotbed should be transplanted in rows in the open air before being set out, and given protection from the sun and drying winds until they become well established. By this method of management they grow more stocky, and make healthiei and larger growth in the garden. For most vegetables the long row system will be found best. • Tomato plants ought to have a distance between rows of about three feet and a half, and two feet and a half in the row. Some might think the distance too great, but with the large varieties, such as the Acme, Trophy and Livingston, the ground will be pretty thoroughly covered at thi time of maturity. With plenty of room it is possible to secure large, well-ripened fruit. Cabbage needs less room. Rows two and one-half feet apart in the row for large varieties will be found a satisfactory distance.' AH plants of the garden should bo so put out aa to make horse cultivation in part, at least, available. The value of potting plant* to secure a good set of roots, cannot be overestimated. All who have tried it regard the plan most favorably. Plants put in pots should not be left too long, for in that case the roots become cramped, and that is a detriment rather than an aid to its growth.—American Farmer, FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Keep the cattle off the plowed land. Parker Earle is generally conceded to bean excellent strawberry. Plenty of water.and grain should be furnished to ewes in milk. Set out the strawberry plants as early as the ground can be prepared. The Souvenir de Congres pear is large in size, good in quality and matures early. Toung chickens that are just beginning to run about should be fed regularly every day. If the egg shells are fed to the poultry, care should always be taken to crush them thoroughly before feeding. The syringa is a most solublo shrub, and by planting the late flowering sorts the season may be considerably extended. Marshall P. Wilder is a rose of vigorous growth; the flowers aro full, wellformed, lragrant and cherry-carmine hue. A ben pays in proportion to the number of eggs she produces; therefore it is an item to feed so as to secure plenty of egg*In ehipping young poultry at this time see that they are well watered and fed before cooping, and do not crowd too many into the coops. When desfred to fatten rapidly there is nothing that will equal good corn meat Fowls should be given all that they will eat up clean. One can depend with close, carefu plucking, upon an average of one pound of feathers per bird from a flock of common geese per annum. If the weight of the fodder in the silo will complete its perfect packing after it has been well tramped, by settling it several inobes, why need it be tramped any more than is necessary to insure its being level and of uniform solidity! But tins uniform solidity cannot be secured by any other than a persistent tramping and crowding by faithful help. The advocates of not tramping say that it might be obtained by the use of some method of delivery which would send it to all parts of the silo in equal quantities, but would not this cost more than the spreading and tramping by careful men!

WISE WORDS.

Ricbee-do not insure wealth. Call any man what he Is and it makes him mad. When a man attempts to freeze you out. freeae right back. A man’s acts are the shadows cast long or short by his beliefs. The blind cry for light and declare the fallacy of the belief in its existence. If you whip a boy, ho will hate yi>u; if you .don’t whip him, you will hate him. A man finds his warmest welcome at the place where he spends the most money. Some people imagine that the world stands still until it has heard their side of the story. > The bigger fool a stranger in town is, the more money he usually has on him to be robbed of. He that buildeth a bridge shall walk on it, Qe and his posterity. Therefore let him look well to its support. There is nothing unlovely about love save the process of unloving, and unhappiness is half happy until deprived of hope. It if unfortunate that people d» not bate the seme faculty for getting out of trouble that they have for getting out of work.

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AND ASCERTAIN ALL THE LATE INDIANA NEWS. A Catalogue of the Week's Important Occurrences Throughout the State — Fires, Accident*. Crimea, suicides, Etc. The Northern Prison. J. W. French, warden of the Indiana State Prlsion North, has submitted tho quarterly report of the institution for the quarter ending'April 30, as follows: Convicts—Number in prison Feb. 1, 1892, 807; received during the quarter, 104; whoso time expired, 89; pardoned and paroled, 11; furloughod, 1; remanded for now trial, 2; deaths, 5; in prison April 30, 1892, 803: avorago number In prison during the quarter, 813. Financo—Earnings for February, $9,625; earnings for March, $10,269.55; earnings tor April, $10,365.42; total earnings for the quarter, $30,359,97. Expenses for February, $7,700.10; exponses for March, $8,066.69; oxponses for April, $8,315.78; total expenses for tho quarter, $24,082.57. Net earnings for tho quarter over all expenses, $6,177.40. Samuel Hensley was nearly killed by a falling limb near Connorsvllle. Small fish woro picked up on tho pavement at Scottsburg after a lioavy rain. Jacob Crakes, who was shot and seriously wounded by hisjfuthor, near Brazil, has diod. Crawfordsvili.e’s total receipts last year wore $113,108.33, and her expensos wore $79,417.82. “Uncle Jimmy” Koiins, ono of tho first whito settlors In Northorn Indiana, died at Peru, aged 101. Richmond ministers aro aftor the prize fighters who Indulged In a scrap near that placo recently. Jacob Wertz’s 4-years-old child, Muncle, drank concentrated lye and died after suffering horrible agony. Prisoners In Washington Jail say it, is haunted by tho ghost of a woman who hung herself thore three yoars ago. Toughs throw rocks through tho windows of Mrs. Alice Buser’s house in Colfax. She is a peaceful mlllinor. William Johnson, Franklin, while cutting wood, caught Ills ax In a clothes line and a bad gash was cut in his head. Indiana has a candidate who, it Is said, with proper training, can lick Sullivan. lie is F. P. Francis, of Metamora. John L. SunuM.'tho administrator on the ostato of Madam Van Ropey, at Crawfordsvillo, has sued tho Monon for SIO,OOO.

The little 2-year-old daughtor of Zack Wood of Mitchell, visiting at Washington, walked into a curbloss well and was drowned. A OBASs-wiDOW of Jeffersonville, has just drawn $30,000 In a lottery, and Is announced as being willing to wed roost any minute. Lemuel Yeager, Marlon, had his leg caught by a belt at tho Marion Brickworks. It was drawn into two heavy rollers and ground to pieces. Mbs. Elizabeth Shirley, aged 70, died near Orleans. She was tho wifo of George Shirley, one of tho most Influential citizens of Orange County. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company paid $9,577.35 for tho death of William Riley, Columbus. He was klllod three years ago while acting as brakeman. Thomas Sutukrlin, a prominent citizen of Russell Township, Putnam County, while standing in his barn lot, was killed by lightning, togothor with a team of horses. Armenitis Myers diod at Tunnolton of heart failure. Ho has considerable property and was ono the largest men in tho State, having weighed 470 pounds a short time ago. The body of M. M. Scott, the Now Albany merchant, who disappeared some woeks ago, was found In a creek at that place. Supposed bo committed suicide on account of financial trouble. Henry Lloyd was Instantly klllod by a fall of slate In the Parke County Coal Company’s Mine, No. 0, near Rosodale. He was the father ot Frank Lloyd, who was killed by Riley Baxter three woeks ago. James White of Lebanon, Is suing for ?5,000 damages Androw and LemUis /aughnor. Tho grand Jury recently returned an lndlotmont against White for petit larceny on complaintof tho Laughners. He was acquitted on that charge and now asks damages. George Minnick and Mosoph White, aged 15, while spearing fish in the “old bed” of tho Mlama River near Lawrenceburg, took rofugo from the storm under a cottonwood tree in tho open field. In an instant the tree was shattered and young White was Instantly killed. Minnick was paralyzod and will die. William R. Carter of Soymour, has purchased a pair of trained blood-bounds of a noted detective at Birmingham, Ala., and they arrived by express recently. Mr. Carter took them at once to the sceno of tho murdor'of Mr. C. W. Doerr, near Brownstown, but owing to the length of time that elapsed and heavy rains since the murdor it was Impossible lor the dogs to scent the trail. Quite a damaging accident occurred on the Evansville & Richmond railroad, a few miles northeast of Seymour. As the passenger train was nearing Reddington one ot the axles of the tender broke and tore through the baggage and passenger coaches. No passongors were seriously hurt, and the baggage-master, although covered up with trunks, escaped with only slight bruises.

During a heavy thunder-storm at Cicero 'Squire G. T. Barnett had a rathor remarkable escape. Walking along Cass street during the storm, the lightning struck close by the side of a small maple shade tree, not injuring the tree, but tearing up the ground all around It. 'Squire Barnett was not five feet from the tree at the time, and although felled to the ground he was uninjured. A pipe that he was smoking could not be found afterwards.

Joseph Grimes’ Jersey cow, near Crawfordsville, died after giving birth to twin calves A post-mortem disclosed the unparalleled fact that the botlne contained six other calves In a state of gestation. Eight v thousand dollars out of a capital stock of 5100,000 has been subscribed in Peru toward the erection of a wind-mill factory. The concern will employ 100 men from the beginning, and be increased to 200 Inside of six months. Most of the capital represented is home money. The Dow works, which have been standing idle for several years, will be utilized. Walter Gregg, a farm-hand near Bosedale, Parke County, In attempting to board a freight train on the Chicago and Indiana Coal road fell between the cars Both legs were amputated above the knees, and he will die. William Kinsley, a wealthy young farmer residing near Areola, was driving to Fort Wayne with his wife and baby, ‘ when the spirited horse run away. The buggy was overturned and the occupants dashed to the ground. The wife and Infant suffered only slight Injuries, but Kinsley’s head struck a stone and fractured the skull. A portion of the skull was caved In. An operation was. performed by surgoons, bat death, it is thought, will eutue.

Luther Teteb was kicked to death by a horse near Noblesvllle. Harry Herrick, Valparaiso, lost twor fingers by a “didn’t know It was loaded.” Gypsies are wandering in Southern Indiana. -f-r-Tilman A. Andrews, aged 75, died at Lebanon. A new twenty-pot glass factory will locate at Pendleton. Henry Reimers, Vincennes, had an arm broken in a runaway. During April 62,870 dozen eggs were shipped East from Seymour. Henry Dutch, aged 69, Elkhart, says ho was never sick In his life. Commissioners of Cass County have ordored all gravel roads bought. John Louderrack, Valparaiso, was thrown from his buggy and severely hurt Internally. Moses McCullough, of the Indiana Paving Brick Company, at Brazil, was fatally crushod by an elevator. Rev. Henry Eschmeykr, pastor of the German First Presbyterian Church at Shelbyville, died of grip, aged 73. The school enumeration of Marlon shows 3,553 children of school age, being a gain of 500 over the enumeration of 1891. Edward Bossleb, a Nickel-plate fireman, running between Cleveland and Chicago, was found dead Jn b?d at' Fort Wayne. Misr Anna Walker, a recent college graduate, committed suidlde near Madison. Grip Is thoughtto have unbalanced hor mind. i . Dan llaViland escaped from the Crown Point Jail. He bbriiefd his burn and was waiting to be taken to the Peni-. tontlary for two yoars. . Amos Honston, a school-teacher, was. probably fatally Injured at, Lobajion, by a heavy gas-pipe falling from a derrick and strlKing him on the head. George Bays, a painter, ol Chrisnoy, while painting a house fell from his ladder, a distance or twenty foot, striking his head on a rock and causing* Instant death. At llooslorvllle, south of Brazil, lightning went down John Bolin’s chimney, and shuttered the bed In which his granddaughter was sleeping, without hurting her.

JothmailCroaspale. aged 79 years, died In Brazil of old age, lie had been a resident of that city for a number of yoars. and was the second wealthiest man In tho County. , j An unknown man run oyer and instantly killed by a train oil tho E. &T. 11. railway, )ust south of Sullivan. He was apparently a laborer, and about; forty years old. They move people In a hurry In Union City. Tho Maloy family had been told to go and they didn’t. A crowd threw their furniture out Into tho street, and told them to “git," which they did; David Kingsley, a recent Inmate ms the Doloware County Poor-house, wboreceived word of having fallen heir to $60,COO In Ireland, was arrested for altering*, a pass on the Big Four from Muncio to Cleveland, and trying to soil It. John Campbell and Samuel Flannagnn were caught In tho act of cutting through the levee, along tho Salamonio River noar Wabash. Tho loveo is to retain badk water from the dam. The men’s motive was thought to bo that ot flooding 30 acres of bottom land so it could be reclaimed. Both made their escape. " The citizens of Rushvllle met‘in mass convention to tako stops to retain And robulld tho factories of Jortes, Pearce & Co., and of Foutz and Moffitt that woro destroyed by fire the other flight: Melodlan Hall was filled until many stood up, and the money and means will forthwith bo provided to rebuild the factories named. Plans for the locating of othor factories will be matured, and tho work of town Improvement be begun in earnest. Thomas Harneb, a farmer was suddenly klllod at Spartanburg, four miles oast of Lynn, while on his way home from tho G. A. R. meeting. He was In a cart, driving a very gentlo farm-horse. At the western suburb be met a gang of wandeting Turks leading a bear, at which his steed became frigbened. Mr. Hamer was thrown from the cart, and tho lines being entangled in some way about his limb, ho was dragged several rods by tho frightened animal.

The family of Samuel Munsou of Smithland, wont to a neighbor’s, leaving at home tho 3-year-old girl, Etta, a sister of 6, and a little son of Dr. Freese. In some manner the children got hold of an old double-barreled shot-gun which was accidentally discharged, the contents of both barrels lodging in the back of little Etta, killing her and almost tearing her to pieces. How the accident occurred the other children are unable to explain.

One month ago David Wright sold his farm in lowa, and brought his wife to Wingate to visit relatives until ho should re-locate. Ho left, and two wcoks ago bis wife was taken 111. No person could find the whereabouts of Mr. Wright, as he was constantly moving, and telegrams lallcd|to reach him. His wife died, and the funeral was about, to take place. Just before the services commenced be arrived In town, and went up to the house, intending to surprise his wife. He walked in, and In a jolly manner asked whore was his wife. When Informed of the circumstances he swooned away. Some time ago the County Commissioners of Bartholomew County decided to build an orphan’s home, and advert tlsed for sealed proposals for land on which to erect the same. Ten or more proposals were received, and the prices asked ranged from S6OO to SB,OOO. When the last one was opened and read, Mr. R. Thomas of the cereallne n\llis, came forward and made a proposition to donate the required amount of land if he would be permitted to name the home when It was completed. The Commissioners at once accepted the proposition. The site is In a suburb known aa East Columbus and cost $2,000. The home will be named for Mrs. Thomas, deceased, whose every act through life was to aid the poor and distressed. Patbolman Fox, Terre Haute, saw a man In a back yard, and, thinking he was a burglar, started to make the arrest. The man was Alsley Bixby and subject to fits. He bad one just as the officer grabbed him, and Fox beat the poor fellow ovei*tbe head with his club. Fox will be released from the force. The Indiana Oolitic Limestone Association, composed of a number of companies, have voted to furnish, free of charge, all the rough stone, two finely carved doors, three pairs of steps of blue stone, and a very elaborately carved mantel of buff and blue limestone, for the Indiana building at the World’s Fair. The Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Patterson of Vincennes, Iborn three weeks ago, has five fingers and one thumb on each hand. The extra fingers are outside the little finger. To all appearances the supernumeraries are pq?sect, but they seem to be connected With the hand by flesh only and do not have any joint. • . Willie Anderson, aged 17, son of the late Rev. J. H. Anderson of Newport, was accidentally shot by, Ote Boren, a playmate. The boys were playing with a revolver, and Ote Boren, not knowing it was loaded, picked it up and snapped it. The ball entered Willie Anderson’s right breast, penetrating the Jung. It is thought he cannot recover. •