Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1892 — Page 6

®l)f motratitSf ntiiif 1 RENSSELAER, INDIANA. 3. W. McEWEN, Puhlisher.

THE RUSSIAN FAMINE.

HOW THE RELIEF WORK IS CARRIED ON. Sufferings of the Pea»ants—Seeking Imprisonment and Banishment to Siberia to Avoid Starvation—A Case of Canni-balism-The Russian Character. In the Czar's Land. Few are aware how many causes have Operated to handicap the Russian Government in its efforts to relieve the famine sufferers. Even the endeavors of private individuals in the same direction have been purposely hampered by the malignant misrepresentations of enemies, writes a St. Petersburg correspondent in the Globe Democrat. False-

hoods and slanders have been industriously circulated through the news agencies and other sources orignating in the resentful malice of anarchists and other unscrupulous individuals, having for their object the stoppage of charitable contributions. . The gross laxity of all Government departments in Russia and the utter absence of proper administrative methods, joined to the flagrant and oftcondoned corruption and dishonesty of all grades of officials, naturally makes the Government helpless for all practical purposes in the face of a sudden and, great disaster like the famine. The peccant and peculating bureaucrat is one of the greatest curses in Russia.

Russian Ways. The condition to which public administration has been reduced is strikingly illustrated in the following account of two very recent occurrences in St. Petersburg: Within the past three weeks a baker was brought before the courts charged with adulterating his bread by the admixture of sand. With appalling effrontery he admitted that he did use sand in «naking bread, adding that it was downright beneficial to the consumer! Justice of the Peace Borodin, who tried the case, handed down a decision practically to the effect that no doubt the accused was an unappreciated discoverer of scientific truths; that doubtless he had “scooped” his contemporaries in the baking trade in this instance, and that henceforth sand would be recognized as a valuable addition in the composition of breadstuffs. The accused, in short, was a benefactor of the race! 11l tho second example Justice of the Peace Busoff looms up as ail equally perfect survival of the classic Dogberry. Before his august tribunal was arraigned a .Hebrew grain dealer accused of giving false weight. With pompous. and ponderous deliberation Justice Busoff delivered his masterly exposition of the law. “The defendant,” he declared, “In giving light weight was merely engaged in a purely commercial transaction, and hence did not come within the scope of the criminal code.” In startling contrast to these extraordinary proceedings is the report of another trial. Here tho accused was a rich merchant, charged with the adulteration of oleomargarine. The fine irony of this indictment will be apparent to ■s who have ruled oleomargarine out of our markets altogether. Judge Palgunoff, who presided, holding the offense proven, sentenced the offender to thirty days’ imprisonment, saying that the infliction of a fine would not satisfy justice in a case of such enormity. Lo and behold, a large portion of the press at once launched forth denunciations against ibis terrible judge, holding him up to popular execration as a veritable Russian Jeffreys—a man whose severity was tempered with 'no trace of clemency! Such is Russian administration of toiay, a»d such, unfortunately, is Russian public opinion, as expressed through many newspapers of the country. Viewing these developments from a distance,

RED CROSS AGENTS DISTRIBUTING ROOD ON THE ZLATOUST RAILWAY.

M We do, their ludicrous and incongruous side is, first of all, apparent. But We must not lose sight while indulging enr sense of amusement of the somber and portentous aspect of the general .social condition which is capable of producing them. Whatman be expected of an autocracy, which, centralizing in Itself the direction of the necessary—the .Indispensable— offices of gojrenment, is, therefore, directly responsible for the action of all its official subordinates? ▼hen a famine-stricken people turn with despairing eyes toward q. paternal government, which through Centuries Mm forced them into the position of bens dependent on its aid, the outside can. easily comprehend, in the aa are above recorded, ;

B[?]ENE oF THE BLOODY BREAD RIOT AT KAZAN.

its failure to adequately respond. History is more convincing than theory, and however sincere and well-disposed the Czar may be, as he unquestionably is, to promote the relief and well-being of his subjects, the difficulties besetting him in the accomplishment of his benevolent intentions are evident when his will and its ukase must filter down through the impeded channels of a worse than useless bureaucracy and judiciary, caring and working solely in their own interests and behalf. In the, Famine District. But it Is time that I should touch upon the actual features and phases of the afflicted districts and their unhappy population under tho darkening shadow of want. For months a warfare has been waged against the encroachments of famine, and the interest of tho globe has awakened at the tales of distress whose harrowing details have almost monopolized the channels of international communication. It is in the many-sided region of the Volga —the land on which time and its changes have set their unerring seal; where history has been made and empires reared and extinguished; where

| the fierce struggle for race denomination i waged for centuries, involving in its , varying fortunes both Aryan, Semite ■ and Turanian; it is here, in these later [ days of this nineteenth century of our j Christian era, that human beings have ! had to die like sheep for lack of common 1 sustenance, for want of necessaries of ] the most ordinary kind, whose procure- ! rnent to us would be a task of the simplest nature, and which we would scorn, save as the unadorned accessories of our ordinary diet. All the A olga country from Kazan to Astrakhan has been visited by the famine, and Russians, Tartars, and Mongols have been numbered among its victims,

as well as the thrifty German colonizers, who have always been more prosperous than the rest of the population. A good deal has been said and .written about Kazan, Astrakhan, and other parts of the famine country, but I am enabled to supply some facts about the condition of an important section hitherto ignored in the printed aocounts, but which is located in the famine center. Keller Work*. The Government of the Czar, in casting around for ideas suggesting practical schemes for relieving the distress, could hardly fall to adopt the favorite resource of most governments under similar circumstances and decide upon starting relief works. These in some cases have taken the form of railroad construction, and apart from the benefit they will immediately confer upon the people, will prove a future source of good to the very toiler now engaged in pushing them forward to completion. In fact, they will prove a safeguard against one of the roost potent causes of the present distress —the want of adquate means of transportation. Were it not for the sad lack existing in this respect many lives could have been saved from the holocust of famine. Ac-

cess to the depots of relief has been so : difficult in a majority of cases that'people died before succor could reach them or they could reach it. Had a comprehensive system oi railroads existed an incalculable amount of suffering might have been averted, afi<L numberless cases of hardship brought within the sphere of official aid. Hence the peasantry work with a will on these | railroads, rejoicing in the task. Letters just received by me contain accounts of the railroad-now being constructed from Zlatoust, east of Samara, to Tcherliabinsk, in 'the Very heart of the Ural : district. It will form a branch of tbe_Samara-IJfa-Zlatpust Railroad, and its route.ifes through at most picturesque region. •It traverses hV banks

of, and In some Instances crosses, the S&tka, Sim and Yoursany Rivers, It is hoped that this project, now well under way, and which has a line of operations extending through some of the very worst of the famine-ridden districts, will prove a great blessing to the people, who are flocking in numbers to seek engagements on the works. Seeking Vood. Zlatoust is a groat entrepot and base of supplies, where relief is dispensed to the famine sufferers. To show the difficulty of intercommunication in many parts of Russia I may mention that thiß town has been literally overrun with famished peasants. They have traveled in some instances as far as 400 versts in their little carts, numbers fulling by the way worn out and exhausted', while their overtaxed animals dropped dead in their traces. There were at one time as many as 10,000 oarts gathered at Zlatoust, whose owners had braved all kinds of hardship and fatigue in their toilsome journey in search of grain. Arrived at their destination, they fiercely fought among themselves for places in the long line of applicants waiting to be served. Many were detained at Zlatoust for a period of sixteen days awaiting their turn. It was a striking and pathetic scene that this multitude presented, congregated around the squares and in the streets of the town, sheltering as hest they might from the severity of the winter weather, content at last if their wants were supplied and they could commence their return Journey to undergo a repetition of the hardships encountered on their way thither. As described in my correspondent’s letter, all this was worthy reproduction on the faithful canvas of a Verestchagin or a Repine, Russia’s two greut realistic painters. The combined effects of privation from insufficient food and exces-

GENERAI, ANNENKOFF, CHIEF OF THE FAMINE COMMITTEE.

sive fatigue were plainly visible upon the faces of these devoted people. A Cm« of Cannlballnn. The region stretching from Zlatoust to the Ural distriots is on the direct route to Siberia. The condition of its inhabitants has recently been such that the efforts of philanthropists were turned

COLLECTING MONEY IN THE STREETS OF ST. PETERSBURG.

toward the task of alleviation. What Count Tolstoi has done in other districts in establishing soup kitchens and relief stands is duplicated here by Prof. Schmurlo. This humanitarian deserves

PEASANTS’ HUTS IN KAZAN.

the highest praise for his noble work, in the prosecution of which he has expended his time, money and thought, grudging nothing in liis desire to give a relief. The people he has labored for owe him a heavy debt of gratitude. To show the state of the district where the professor has been working more especially on the Petrofskoi estate, near Tcherliabinsk—my informant describes some incidents that came under his own observation. One day, in company with one of Prof. Schmurlo's attaches, he visited the hut of a distressed family. While interrogating the woman who greeted them the visitors were surprised to see some bones in a corner of the room lying upon a board, and which bore the" appearance of having had fresh meat recently cut ttom them. Knowing the utterly wijetchcd state of the family and the impossibility of their having any means of procuring meat, tjie visitors were impelled to question the Woman, and to their intense horror at last elicited the truth that the boDeswere from the arm of an 8-year-old child, which had wandered into the hut from some other family, aimlessly casting around in the hope of relief, and had finally succumbed from lack of sustenance, whereupon the half-crazed people yielded to the uncontrollable impulse of cannibalism. Overcrowded Prison*. So frequent has the commission of crime become since the advent of the famine that the prisons are crowded with culprits who have either been tried or are awaiting trial. Goaded to desperation by the pressure of want, the ordinarily self-contained and patient moujik has resorted to the commission of offehses, most of which are of a petty nature, but bring him within the operation of the law ail the saipe.- If the distress does not very soon begin to sensibly abate it loojts as though the Government would be forced to erect additional prisons.. The fact that crime is prevalent proves the terrible state the people are in. Men prefer to be sen- j teneed to Siberia rather than’languish j under brief sentences in the local Jails. |

where the food la worse than poisonous, and In order to force their Judges to Inflict terms of Siberian exile upon th«HL they resort to various tricks, becoming violent in court, cursing the judge and using insulting language toward toe law and its administration. A man named Nerilskoi was arrested for theft at Baratof recently, tried and sentenced to six

INSIDE A PEASANT'S HOMO.

months in the local prison. Before he could be removed from the court-room he pointed hie finger at the jury-box and exclaimed: “Gentlemen, you are a mere set of pigs—pigs—pigs, and fit only to try pigs.” Thereupon he was promptly sentenced to five years’ banishment to Siberia, and departed rejoicing. He had'attained his desire and was as pleased as though he had secured a prize. The Moujlk. The other Volga districts prosent a series of physical contrasts, both racial and topographical. The seeker after a conglomeration of opposite types would have a hard task to discover a greater variety than can be found in this region. The Russian peasantry predominate over the other races, and have many interesting characteristics. They may be described as a people of undeveloped possibilities, a dormant oapacity for receiving and displaying the advantages of refinement and education lying beneath their rougher exterior. The Sclavonic race, whoso very name is derived from a word signifying “glorious,” has, indeed, within itself the material from which glorious things are evolved. Opportunity alone is wanting to transform the simple Slav of rural Russia into a being capable of taking a prominent place among the peoples who year by year are creating all that the world possesses of progress in the arts and sciencesi. Physically the Russian peasant, or to give him his more familiar name, the moujik, is a remarkably fine specimen of humanity—tall and proportionately built, of strong and powerful frame, robust and enduring. He generally wears a beard and long hair, cut short at the back to display the powerful neck. His face is very attractive, having a peculiarly pleasing expression, of mingled amiability, tender-

ness, and candor. Over it all there flashes now and then an unconscious gleam of barbaric wildness that imparts a kind of picturesque fierceness to the keenly expressive countenance. In character he is by instinct simple, patient, social, and good-tempered. The moujik lives under conditions sufficiently trying even during ordinary times to make it seem as though fate would consider him to have his full share of hardship, without forcing upon him a lot of still greater severity.

Coal In the Twentieth Century.

We are using coal in this country, It appears, at the rate of about 150,000,000 tons a year, and with qn annual increase which will carry it up to 200,000,000 tons a year at the beginning of the next century. The question has been raised, what will become of the coal, or rather what will become of the country without any coal, in the course of the twentieth century, supposing the rajdo of increase in the consumption to continue unchecked. It has been calculated that the annual requirement a hundred years hence, under the conditions named, will be in the neighborhood of four thousand millions of tons, or about eight times as much as the entire yearly production of the world at the present time. This is a formidable prospect, truly; but if we indulge in looking forward too far, whether as regards'the coal supply or any other requisite of civilized life, we are pretty sure to run into a difficulty of this kind. The twentieth century will have to paddle its own canoe;, and if it is as bright and smart as the nineteenth century has been, it may be trusted to meet all its liabilities promptly at maturity. Besides, in the course of the next hundred years a hundred things may happen. In the matter of coal in particular, there is an immense margin.for the exercise of inventive skill and scientific inquiry to the end that its capabilities of heat and force may be more closely utilized, and a remedy found for the large percentage of [ waste now incurred. This is one of the possibilities which are in sight, so to speak, and there may be others of ten-fold great importance beyond it. Let the twentieth century work out its own salvation. —Mechanical i ISews. ’ '

A Difference of Opinion.

Rivers—l always admired Borus. 1 think he is a remarkably gifted man. Banks—l suppose he is, but lie's tiresome. I wish he wasn’t always trying to show off his’elocution. Rivers —Why, great Caesar, man! That’s his gift. Did you ever notice that the man who tadignantly inquires ‘•What has posterity ever done for me?” is tile one most likely to need the support of his grandchildren in old age?

THE POSITIVE TRUTH

THAT ALL THE HOOSIER NEWS IS HERE. IlkM Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Intel esi—Accidents, Crimes, Suicide, Etc. Running Out Saloon Keepers. The latest attempt to start a saloon at Fairuiount was that of Luthor Morris, a saloonfstof Marion, who undertook to establish headquarters there for the sale of liquors by the quart. The populace was at once aroused, the church bells were run*, the people met, a committee was appointed to confer with Mr. Morris, and ho was informed in language that could not be misunderstood, that he would not be permitted to carry on such a business in that place. For awhile be tried to bluff himself through the ordeal, but ho finally came to the conclusion that it would be best to give it "up. He informed the committee that he would leave the place in a week if left undisturbed till that time. This was agreed to on condition that he undertake to sell nothiiu; in the meantime. An idea of the spirit That animated the people of Fairmount may be obtained from the fact that when he asked to be compensated to some extent for the expense to which he had already gone, the reply was firm, but decisive, “Not one penny.” At the meeting at which this decision was announced the report was received with the long-meter doxology. Marion Is to have three new railroad depots. Madison merchants have organized into a society. Edinburg has a training school for school-teachers. A schoolhqusk to cost $12,000 will be built In Jonesboro. Fowler will have electric lights to help brighten up the town. Edinburg is to have a new council chamber and a new jail at once. Fire destroyed the 81,800 barn on the J. L. Stutz-estate riear Spencer. A SIO,OOO soldiers’ monument will bo placed in a park in Michigan City. There are 6,384 school children in Morgan County according to the last census. ’ <• A horse was killed in Terre Haute by stepping on a trolley wire that had become loosened. William Neal, Franklin, fell from a hammock and so injured his arm that it is now. almost paralyzed. Marion Jaynes, town treasurer of Fulton, has gone insane over a shortage of 60 cents, in his accounts. A colored desperado named Sims was shot and killed in New Albany, by John Davis, also colored.

UThe badly-decomposed body found in White River at Mitchell is supposed to be that of an old German who disappeared from Medora last winter. John Daily, a well-known street contractor, who was Injured while trying to climb between two freight cars, at Terre Haute, is dead from his injuries. Dr. J. T. Shields of Seymour, arose at 3 o’clock a. m. and made a professional call., Returning at 5 o’clock he found his wife dead in her bed from heart failure. Newton Anderson, a young man of Harmony, was instantly kilKid by falling slate in Zeller & Sigler’s mine south of Knightstown. This is the second accident this week. Henry Mallow, aged 72 living near Wawpecong, Miami County, endeavored to ascertain if his rifle was loaded by cocking the gun and blowing in the muzzle. He will probably die. Ex-Auditor Lavelle, charged with burning the Washington Court-house, has been refused a new trial and goes to “the pen” for eight years. The case will be taken to the Supreme Court. Frank Brinkley of Clark’s Hill, made a vicious kick at a cat, which was getting the best of his dog in a fight, but the feline dodged. Brinkley went over backwards, ana now has a broken wrist. Creeks nearand rivers Columbus are being cleared of mussels. Oyster dredges pull them ashore, the mussels are left to feed fish, and the shells are shipped to Anderson for the manufacture of pearl buttons. Saraii J. Heaton of Knightstown, who sought SIO,OOO damages for breach of promise from John W. White of Wilkinson, took SSOO by way of compromise and agreed to pay her own court costs at Greenfield. A man near New Ross, while drunk, purchased a monkey from an Italian. He attempted to take it home with him, when the animal objected and gave the man a whipping. The animal is now at large In a neighboring forest Samuel Lease, at Anderson, shot at a bird while driving in a wagon, but the bullet crashed through a window and shattered the arm of Mrs. James Brown, narrowly.missing some children at play on the porch in front of the window. The W. C. T. U. Home for Indigent Girls, at Hadley, for which Addison J. Hadley and Martha Hadley gave $5,000 in 1890, will soon be constructed according to the conditions of the bequest, one of which was that $5,000 more should be raised.

A sad accident befell* pretty Mary Campbell and her young husband at Brazil, within ten minutes after the solemn words had been spoken. Miss Mary Carter, the accomplished daughter of E. A. Carter, and William Campuell, a young farmer living two miles east of Brazil, repaired to the Bee Ridge Church, where a large number of friends witnessed the marriage. After the ceremony the young couple left in a carriage for the groom’s home, three miles distant They had gone but a short distance when the team became frightened and ran off, turning over the carriage and dashing its occupants to the ground. The bride’s right arm was broken and mangled, and she was otherwise badly hurt. The groom received several ugly, but not serious wounds.

Last January Daniel W. and Eden Smith, half-brothers and farmers residing near Lowell, this County, had a fight in which Daniel was severely cut with a knife, his lung being penetrated. From the effects of this wound he has never recovered. He has brought suit against his brother for $1,500 damages. Charles Patzeler of Crown Point, being a Hebrew, refused to sign an assessment sheet on Saturday, claiming that the day was the Hebrew Sabbath. The case has now got into the Lake County Court, and may be carried higher to determine what legal standing the Hebrew Sunday has in Indiana. Justice Moss, a molder, at Marseilles, disappeared after perpetrating a fearful double crime. While drunk he jumped on his wife, who was taken violently ill, gave birth to a premature child, which died, and the mother, after terrible sufferings, soon followed. The transfer of 200 acres in the northeast corner of Lake County to the State of Illinois fora military camping ground has just been closed. The track extends from the Northwestern railroad to the lake, and on it will be built a railroad station, barracks, parade grounds and a rifle range. Baily Bcrtt, a farmer of Clark County, while at work in a field, was struck by lightning, and still lives.

A flowing oil well has been struck to Washington. Joseph Targetter, Brazil, was cut to pieces by a train. An unknown man is scaring Madison people nearly to death. Gas will be advanced $1 per 1,000 feet in Terre Haute, ’tis said. The town of New Richmond, Montgomery County, Is to be incorporated. Mrs. William Link of Jeffersonville, found her daughter Goldie dead in bed. Coal miners say they want no more strikes. They call them a disastrous luxury. Charles Hendrix, Brazil, found an old Spanish coin dated i7Bl in his garden. It has been decided that all Indiana glass factories will close for the summer May 31. Daniel Beasley, aged 74, died at Mitchell from heart failure, resulting from grip. Benjamin Brown ot Franklin, was severely burned while starting a fire with coal oil. James Targart of Brazil, fell between two cars and his right leg was cut off below the knee. The Chicago Natural-gas Company has decided to pipe gas into Peru from the mains in Kokomo. Several young ladies of Laporte are making arrangements to walk over Indiana this summer. A juryman In a case at Logansport who could not keep awake In court was sent to jail for contempt. Three mysterious murders have been committed In Bartholomew County during the past six months. “Hoss” men are not in love with the weather we’re having. Not a “hoss” has done a track this spring. So many Indiana towns are now talking of a boom that it is going to be hard to tell which makes the most noise. The 3-year-old son of William Cornell, residing at Transitville, fell into a tub of boiling water and was scalded to death. A well at Yorktown that produced mineral water at a depth of 200 feet turned out to be a gas well on reaching 900 feet. It Is said that In Madison there are forty-nine widowers, seventy-three widows, thirty-four bachelors and old maids, and several heudred young maids. The jury in the SIO,OOO damage case of Abijah M. Jenkins, against ex-Mayor Edgar C. Wilson of Noblosville, for false imprisonment, returned a verdict for the defendant. The barn of A. J. Doyle, near Marion, was destroyed by fire. Three horses and a quantity of hay, wheat, and a number of farming utensils were burned. The loss is $1,000; insured. The saloon-keepers of Valparaiso have compromised the SIO,OOO damage suit of a Mrs. Robertson by paying her SI,OOO in cash. Her son committed suicide while under the influence of liquor. E. O. Smith, Evansville, and a boy named George Zacharias were poisoned by eating gravy which had been made of corn meal in which was rough on rats. The boy is dead and Smith is in a bad way. Ditchers on the farm of George Wright, near Bunker Hill, Miami County, in the midst of a large swamp, have excavated several skeletons. The general opinion is that they are the bodies of some venturesome travelers, Simon Bates qf Delaware County, who shot and killed a tenant on one of his farms twenty years ago, was admitted to bail ..and forfeited $5,000 to his bondsmen, has just oeon heard from as one of the victims qf a .cyclone in Arkansas. Boys wers plavlng Buffalo Bill In a Madison back yard. Willie Rogers had a revolver, which he thought was unloaded. He took Michael Garber, 13, lor a buffalo ana the revolver went off nearly killing the play buffalo by making a hole in his head.

Miss Jessie Fox, 15 years old, was found floating in the White River near Noblesville. She wss drawn from th® water uncohscfous, but was resuscitated, and will recover. It is not definitely known whether sho attempted sulcldo, or accidentally fell into the river. Bloodhounds are proving a bonanza to Seymour in hunting down criminals. At Medorathe other day they located a fugitive, and recently a negro and two whites, who had been tracked from Frank Cox’s store, that was burglarized, were arrested in Franklin and returned to Seymour. The negro, Benjamin Melton confessed that the whites, George and James Reed, had put him up to breaking in the store. Patents have been granted Indiana inventors as follows: Jno. L. Barnes, Keudallville, feed mechanism for sawmills; Augustus Bruner, Indianapolis, electric conduit; Frank E. Butts, assignor of one-half to I. P. Walts, Winchester, measuring funnel; Joseph Chaplin, assignor of one-half to W. Voght, North Manchester, fence machine; Jerome O. Cook, Huntington, boilercleaner; Malcolm Dickerson, Fort Wayne, lightning arrester; Leonard HincKle, Indianapolis, combination tool, Chas D. Jenney, assignor to Jenney Electric Motor Company, Indianapols, dynamo electric machine or motor; John W. Kailor, assignor to Reeves & Co., Columbus, blase-board for clover-hulling machines; Chas. S. Kellog, Chesterton, device for keeping stalls clean; Grant Merritt, Franufort, fence; Irenffius P. Nelson, Muncie, jar-sealing device; James M. Norris, Pierceton, plow clafis; Thomas H. Parry and C. C. Stull, assignors to Parry Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis, balance for vehicle top; Silas B. Rittenhouse, Liberty Mills, wrench; Phineas M. Sparks, Zanesville, stoPk fence; Andrew H. Tarris, Marion, assignor to N. C. Richardson and L. J. Tarris, swinging gate; Edward J. Updike, Mishawaka, planter; John Wall, and J. J. Mack, Terre Haute, railway frog; John F. Weist, Huntington, solar camera; Jones & Hill Company, Elkhart, chewing gum;'Miller & Newton, South Bend, medicine for the blood and digestive system; National Card Company, Indianapolis, playing cards. Two women of Huntington, who were separated from their husbands, were driving in the country with two married men of the town when the horses ran away, and Mrs. John Highland jumped from the carriage, receiving injuries that resulted in her death. Two tramps, one drunk and one sober, terrorized the women and committed a burglary at Rockville. One, who says he was born in Philadelphia and gave nis name as Frank Bills, broke into Lincoln Wimmer’s house and helped himself to an overcoat and suit of clothes. The Marshal captured Bills in a running fight, knocking him down twice. The late frosts seem to have done the fruit in the southern part of the State r good instead of damage, and saved the growers a good deal of labor by thinning out? the crop. Last year fruit was not as good as it might have been, owing to the immense quantity. This year it is believed by the present Indications, that peaches, apples, pears, etc., will be larger and of much finer quality, and that there will not be much less fruit, because, as the trees are not heavily loaded the fruit will be much larger than the crowded state of trees wonld permit last year. The fruit-growers are very well pleased with the outlook and believe that there will be as much money in their crops this year as last, if not more

HUMOR OF THE WEEK.

STORIES TOLD BY PU>4nY MEN OF THE PRESS. Ku; Odd, Curious. and Laughable Phases of Human Nature Graphically Portrayed by Eminent Word Artists of Our Own Day. A Shocking Mistake. Mrs. D’Avnoo—“Oh, the awfulest thing has happened! Clara, who never could deign to look at anyone in trade, has just discovered that the man she has married is a dry goods clerk. ” Mrs. D’Fashipn—“Horrors! I should think she might have found him out by his talk. ” Mrs. D’Avnoo—“That’s Just how the poor girl was deceived. He never seemed to know anything about anything and she supposed, of course, he was a millionaire’s son. ” —New York "Weekly. No Wonder Ho Wm Happy. Stranger (addressing native) — What’s the matter with that old gray-headed man? Is he drunk? Native—-Oh, no; he was never drunk in his life. “Well, why does ho kick up his heels that way?” “He’s happy. ” “Lottery prize?” “Oh, no. His grandfather wrote an article for a magazine and it has j ust been published. ” —Texas Siftings. Ample Justification. Guest (at Oklahoma hotel) —Wasn’t there some shooting at the other end of the table a minute ago? Waiter (replacing his smoking revel ver) —Yes. Dude from the East. Wanted 0 napkiD. Say, if you’re done with that knife arid fork why in thunder don’t you pass ’em on to the next man? He Knew Her Qualifications. Mrs. Chinner—“ Poor Mrs. Cherub has lost her husband.” Mr. Chinner—“ Yes.” Mrs. Chinner.—“ She’ll have to earn her own living now.” Mr. Chinner—“l suppose so.” Mrs. Chinner—“ What should Ido if I were left so?” Mr. Chinner—“l suppose—er—you might—er—become a lecturer.”—* New York Press. Pa Was Equal to the Emergency. Son—“ Say, pa!” Father—“ Well!” “Is a vessel a boat?” “Yes.”

“Say, pa!” “What Is it?” “What kind of a boat is a bloodvessel?” “It is a life-boat. Now run away to bed.”—New York Ledger. She Tried Them. Mrs. Young Husband—“ Dear, you will have to give me $lO extra this week. ” Mr. Young Husband—“ Why, Clara! Did I not give you the necessary amount, $18? That is $3 a day.” Mrs. Young Husband—“ Yes, but I have been trying some of those recipes published in the papers for keep* lng a family on $6 per week. ”—Exchange. ■' i"; ’ Let Him Try. A man may face a lion Or twist a tiger’s tail. May wrestle with a grizzly. Nor know what ’tis to quail; May face the darkest horrors And at their grimness laugh. But I’ll bet three hundred dollars 1 hat he cannot feed a calf. —New York Herald. ■■ ■ • ■ - ' - ‘ ' j Theatrical Note. Bald-headed gentleman In the parquet to young lady in dress-circle during an affectionate passage in the play: “I respect your emotion, ma’am; you are shedding tears on iny head.” —Texas Siftings. Lone Star Reverie. Fanny—Pa, was Gen. Grant killed in the Alamo? Parent—No, my child; what makes you ask such a question? Fanny—Nothing, except I read so much about what a long time it takes to build his monument. Siftings.

An Important Query. Mrs. Pewrent—“l saw Mrs. Freechurch to-day. She’s a strict Episcopalian, you know, and of course sho is wearing sackcloth now. ” Mrs. Giddibody (with deep interest) —“Indeed' v How has she got .it trimmed?”—Puck. A Daring Spirit. Ethel—l wonder whom Mr. Dashing will marry? May—A dynamite bomb, I guess. Ethel—What do you mean? May—He is so brave he courts nothing but danger. Household Monthly. Business Is Business. “Ye must begin and cut down our oxpenses, Jakey.” “Yat for, ladder? Pizness is good." “Yah, Jakey. and ye must make it a lee tie petter!”—Puck. Information. “Papa, the paper says ‘the marriage took place at high noon.’ What is high noon?” “High noon, my son, is—um—is noon among the —er —among the higher classes. ” Cold Comfort. Mr. Slim purse—To—to tell the truth, I am a—a little afraid to—to ask your father for your hand? Miss Chargit—Oh, you needn’t worry. He' says lam ruinously extravagant.—New York Weekly. Just Hls JLuck. Miss Flyppe (quoting cosmetic advertisement)—‘Wouldn’t you like to be as beautiful^,Dresden china? Harold Flyppe—What’s the use? I I’d go broke just the same.

celery for the Nerves.

Celery probably stands first as a j nerve food, and when eaten in quantities by those suffering from nervous exhaustion it proves of inestimable value. There are many medicines made chiefly out__of. this vegetable Which cost considerable, but tney are never so effective as the genuine article itself. The celery need not be at the table, bub the-stalks should be kept handy so that they can be chewed at any time. Eaten in the morning they will nourish the nerves for the day’s trouble.