Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1892 — Page 3

AWOMANS INFLUENCE

BY LULU JAMISON

CHAPTER XlV—Continued. When Margaret reached home after her ride, during which her thoughts had not ceased to dwell upon her late bitter knowledge, she found that Brian had -arrived. Believed at the intelligence, yet feeling the impossibility of meeting him in her then, state of mind, she determined To feign a headache. Indeed her imagination was not geatly exercised for this end as a dull pain in her temples gave reality to, her excuse. If Brian had known the moment of her arrival she would not have escaped so easily, but he was in the library at the time, and Margaret was thus enabled to reach the w r elcome seclusion of her own room, from which safe retreat she listened for any chance sound that might reach her ears. Nanny had assured her that Brian had been made comfortable, and she also confided that he looked paler than usual and had been asking every live minutes if Margaret had returned. “The old refrain," thought Margaret, with a sigh. “He can spend days,away from me without regret, but if I leave him a minute here he complains.” Nanny was sent with the message that Margaret was indisposed, and hoped he would excuse her for to-night. She returned with a few lines that Brian had scribbled on the fly-leaf of a book. “Dear Margaret,” they began, “I am so sorry you are not well. Let me come up and sit with you. I promise to be very quiot, and my presence cannot hurt you. I miss you so much. It is dull down here, with only my thoughts for company. My miserable thoughts. Let me see you, if only for five minutes, Margaret. I am eating my dinner all alone. ’’ All alone! Poor Brian! “Let him see her, if only for five minutes.” A simple request, easily granted, and yet even five minutes was more than she could bear to-night. And so she answered the note. She thanked him for his sympathy. Her illness was nothing more than a headache, for which quiet was the best medicine. She could not see him to-night, though she was sorry he was lonely. She had eaten her dinner alone for two weeks. Arid Brian read these written words, but,he could not read between the lines.

CHAPTER, XV. Margaret discovers her needofchange. Margaret could not make her headache serve her another day without arousing suspicion, so she was forced to come to breakfast next morning, where she found Brian before her. He greeted, her with a warmth that expressed a variety of emotions, while she endeavored to show no change in her manner toward him. “I hope the headache has quite gone,” he said, taking his cup of coffee from her hand. “Yes, entirely,” she answered; “I feel ■quite well this morning. ’’ Her appearance belied her words, and so Brian thought as he regarded her rather Intently from his end of the table. Then a constrained silence fell between them. Margaret searched her mind for some remark. She found nothing but the question which she regretted as soon as it had passed her lips. “Did you enjoy yourself '” A change passed over his face, and he answered with an embarrassed air: “Perhaps you wouldn’t call it enjoyment, Margaret. I don’t know. Sometimes I wish I could think and act like you do. I would at least bo spared the misery of regret, and I daresay I would be happier.” “Indeed you would,” she interposed, quickly. “Not to think and act as Ido precisely. I do not mean that, of course, because I could never set myself up as an example; but if you would only be different. If you would not do the things which bring regret. ” “That is easily said, Margaret. I should be perfect if that were the case. I am unfortunate in the possession of a discontented nature, aud it can’t be well helped now. I believe people are born to certain things, and I am born to nothing. There’s Wilson. I was talking to him the other day. He’s a good fellow, but a crank in his way. I call him a natural doctor. Takes to it like a duck to water, and is in his element when he's tending a lot of sick, dirty children. Of course people admire those things; call him noble, unselfish, and all that. Well, I do, too. Yet I can’t do what he does. I’m of different caliber, I suppose. Some time ago lie told me he could get me in a hospital. It -was a splendid opening, no doubt, and any number of fellows were hung y for it. So I told him I’d be charitaole and let some other poor devil have it. He couldn’t understand my refusal. Why? Because his ideas and habits aredifferent from mine. I am sorry it is so.” “And I am sorry you have thrown away so many advantages, Brian. It is really a shame. I can have no patience with you. ”

Brian was silent under this outburst. Margaret’s ideas might be right in the abstract, but he had no desire to practically apply them to himself. “You blame me for a very common failing," he said after a moment. 'There are any number of men in New York today who have no business of any kind. Tney are well-to-do, of course, and they find plenty to fill their time. Here, however, it is different. There are no diversions, and one—“Must go to the city to seek them. I understand," said Margaret. “Under, the circumstances it is surprising that you honor Elmwood at all. Why not take up your residence in New York?'’ He regarded her with more than surprise. “Would you wish such an arrangement’” he asked, with much warmth. “Are you so ready and anxious to be rid of met How would you like the neigh- . borhood to discuss our affairs, and *’ Margaret laughed bitterly. “The neighborhood has already discussed them to its heart’s content. Be sure of that. I don’t believe I can be hurt more than I have been on that point. As to getting rid of you, you talk without reason or sense, Brian. There’d be no getting rid of y.ou, even if I regarded you in the light of a millstone around my neck; which I don’t —quite. Now, I’ve been thinking a great deal, and I have decided that as you cannot endure life here I’ll have to endure life in New York. lam going the*e next week. ” “To New York," repeated Brian, scarcely able to credit his ears. “I thought you said it would break your heart to leave Elmwood."

Margaret dropped her fork and stooped to pick it up before she answered: “Don’t bring up things I’ve said,” she returned, with sdme impatience. “One can’t be accountable for every word. I am determined not to be talked about, and I want to see something of this wonderful New York, where ‘life is so flexible that it can bend to every caprioe.’ Your expression, sir. You will have to find me a resting place. Not a house; that would be a bother. A small apartment will be best; please look for one, if you can find time from your important social duties.” “Yes,” said Brian, gradually recovering from his surprise. “I’ll do what I can, notwithstanding your sarcastic reference to my duties. Those sweet lips weren’t made for sarcasm. Don’t frown. I know I’m a daring fellow. I wish I could understand th : s sudden Whim of yours. It is sensible; I can’t deny that. I’ve thought several times that it would be delightful to spend our winters in New York and our summers here. I shall be happy to enjoy your society and the city at the same time.” Margaret did not reply to this, and when she spoke again it was on another topic. Brian found time to secure an apartment which seemed to Margaret suitable in all particulars, and as the time she had fixed upon for departure drew nearer she began to realize the cost of leaving Elmwood. Her life was so thoroughly identifiod with this home she had learned to love so dearly, her mind and heart so fully wrapped up in all connected with it, that it was a hard and real sacrifice to break up old associations, and look forward to an indefinite stay among comparative strangers and uncongenial surroundings. But the sacrifice had to be made, and it was better to make it soon, she argued. Dwelling upon it only made it harder, and after the actual leaving was over, the bitterest part, she could force herself to be contented in that great, busy city, which held no allurements for her.

She would have stolen away quietly, to have avoided the pain of saying-go jdby to her friends, but this was not possible; so the unpleasant experience had to bo encountered. The tearful grief of the rectory children, who had grown to look upon her as a second mother, tried her strength and resolution severely, and left her rather dreading her visit to The Cedars, in which she was sure to find the Colonel eo kind and sympathetic that it would be impossible to bear up. “If he only understood how it hurts,” she thought, making her wav to Alice’s room, “he would be only hard arid cold. People call the world cold and unsympathetic, but it seems to me that ” “I am only advising you, Alice; such tempers are hereditary, you know." These light words broke rather rudely upon Margaret’s melancholy reflections, and notwithstanding her state of mind, she was compelled to smile. “Nell, I declare,” she soliloquized, pulling aside the portiere and entering the room, to find the irrepressible young lady seated on a table, her feet dangling in the air and her laughing face suggesting the mischief her words had expressed. “Merciful fates! if here isn’t Miss Margaret!” she cried, jumping from her perch and rushing to greet Margaret. “You didn’t expect to see me? Well, I guess not, but here I am, as big as life and twice as natural. Thank heaven you’ve come. Take off your hat and coat. That’s right. Now you feel more at home. You’ll . Stay to lunch, of course? CUf, yesfyou will. You must; I’m a goner otherwise. Why my anxiety, you ask? Ye gods! what a want of comprehensicgi! 'And you know the old bear, too; have seen his little ebullitions of wrath, and noted the delicate pink that overspreads his expressiye features when somebody like me has an opinion—that dear, mild, beloved uncle of mine who tried to box my ears this morning and may be looking for me even at this moment. See, how I tremble,' and shiver, and shake. So stay, I pray you; stay to i aim the fire of his passion and throw oil on the troubled waters, as it were, Did you see him in your wanderings through the hall? Did you catch a glimpse of his seraphic, cherubic ?” “For mercy’s sake, be quiet,” put in Alice, interrupting Nell’s flow of eloquence. “You would set anyone crazy. Sit down, Margaret. I’ll try to keep you from being talked to death. You look tired already. ” “Generous creature,” retorted Nyell. "Take this chair by me, Miss Margaret. You’ll be safe, really. Yes, uncle and I had a glorious quarrel this morning. I can’t remember what about. I ventured to express an opinion on some subject, I dare say. He differed with me. So we had a regular battle. He ‘fit,’ as poor old Tom says, and I defended myself against the venom of his tongue. Alice merely grinned. When you came in I was trying to tell her that such tempers are hereditary, and therefore she’d better look out.” “Did she thank you for your advice?” “Thank me? Not she. Her nature’s too ungrateful. There now! I had a question to ask you, and I’ve forgotten it already. Oh, yes! Is it really true that you are going away? I heard so this morning. ” “Yes,” answered Margaret, with a sigh, “I am going 10-morrow.” “So soon?” asked Alice, coming behind Margaret’s chair and putting her arms around her neck. “How shall I ever get on without seeing you every day or so. I can’t let you go. ” Margaret clasped Alice’s hands in hers.

“If it is hard for you, how much harder it is for me,” she answered, “Please don’t be melancholy." begged Nell, with a quick glance at Margaret’s face. “Alice, go and sit down. You give me the blues, if I may be allowed so to speak, as one of my friends would remark. My disposition is really most solemn. I cry so easily that the slightest effort will bring an ocean of tears. Then my nose gets red, my freckles grow larger, and I’m a sight generally. So don’t make me weep. If you are going to .New York, Miss Margaret, I envy you. ’Cause why? ’Cause you’ve got money and can have no end of ,fun there. It’s different with us. We are poor, as Alice has no doubt told you, and it’s a nasty, mean, contemptible feeling. Poverty was the reason for our moving to Philadelphia, nothing in the world else. Our friends were told that we liked Philadelphia; lhat the air agreed with us—we are all so healthy we’d thrive in a pig-pen—when the real, unvarnished truth is the low rents agree with our pocket-books. I tell you, you don’t half know our tricks.” “Oh, Neil!”

“Just hear Alice say ‘Oh, Nell!’ as though she doesn’t know as well as I do the tricks of the guild. The guild means poor people, you know. Not poor washerwomen, need le women, scrubwomen, and such poverty-stricken wretches, but poor people like us, trying to keep up appearances on nothing. I abominate them, and I despise poverty so heartily that I’d rather be rich than go to heaven. Now it’s Miss Margaret’s turn to say ‘Oh, Nell!’ and how shocked she looks in the bargain. It’s evident she doesn’t know anything about scrap-

ing and soratohlng. It she'd lived in cheap flats I bet she’d agree with me. They are simply horrible. And when it comes to furnished flats —Lord, be meriful to me, a sinner! "We’ve had them, and I know whereof I speak. I remember one, especially. The greatest cheat on record. Handsomely furnished, the owner oalled it. We hadn’t been in it three days before all that handsome furniture tumbled to pieces. A case of familiarity breeds contempt, very likely. Now, I’ve grown suspicious. If I see a tidy on a sofa I want to know what is under it; and no matter how innooent the chairs-and tables may look Bitting around in their Sunday clothes, as it were, I know it’s ten to one that the tables will shed a leg and the chairs give up a back or seat just when one is seeking such support. You see, experience is a good teacher.” “Thanks for your oration,” remarked Alioe, as Nell paused for breath. “Your tongue, my dear, is one of those infant industries not in need of‘protection.’” “Nell’s experience rather frightens me,” remarked Margaret, with a glance at the late speaker. “Think of my furnished apartment, and what is probably in store ” “A furnished apartment,” broke in Nell quickly, “is as different from a furnished flat as a crow from a partridge. Don’t laugh at my comparison, please. I consider it particularly happy, and to return to the apartment, you probably pay from two hundred to three hundred dollars a month. Now we never aspired to anything so respectable. A flat, nothing more nor less than a flat, was the object of our ambition, and therein lies the difference. It is to enable me to one day live in an apartment like yours that I am now diligently searching for a husband. Beauty and blueblood desired. Money indispensable. If he’s young, well and good. If he’s old, so much the better. He’ll ’’ “No more, please,” begged Margaret. “I came hero expecting to be doleful, and you’ve made me laugh so ” “ ‘Comfort the sorrowful,’ ” quoted Nell. “A corporal work of mercy, my dear. I’ve performed a good action unconsciously. I’m an excelent young person, and, as you say, I can’t imagine how they manage to spare me at home. But to tell the truth, May is the important one just now. She is soon to be married, you see; and by some curious sort of reckoning, her value is increased fifty per cent. It is really a hard case. The two beauties of the family going off in this style, and leaving Bess and me to single blessedness. I rebel against such unjust decrees; I wish I was beautiful. Oh, don’t I wish I was beautiful! I’d like people to tumble into fits just from looking at me. What’s the matter, Alice?" “I’d be glad to make a few remarks,” was the answer, with affected meekness. "Poor child! Have you been waiting for my permission all this time? Certainly you can talk. Don’t pull down yoiu chin in that fashion. It reminds me of old Spenser when he indulges in Scripture. Scripture being something I’m totally unacquainted with, I don’t want it mentioned in my presence. Spenser ornaments his conversation with Biblical quotations;' therefore I hate Spen’ser. Besides, he says ‘Hadn’t oughter;’ and any man, woman, or child who says ‘hadn’t oughter’ ‘had oughter’ be shot: My private opin What, Ben! Luncheon! Grae!ous, I’m glad. I’m as hungry as a bear. Miss Margaret, pray take me under the shadow of your wing. Alice, lead the way. I smell fritters. Oh, my!” Expressing a mild hope that the combined influences of the fritters and her uncle’s presence might silence Nell’s busy tongue, Alioe did lead the way. |TO BE CONTINUED.;

A Michigan Decision.

The Michigan Supreme Court has handed down an opinion in Mitchell vs. St. Paul German Insurance Company. The plaintiffs sustained damage by Are upon manufactured lumber in their yards to the amount of $176,000 and upward,upon which they carried an insurance of $133,500 under concurrent policies. The market value of the lumber was $10.64 per 1,000, but they should he entitled to recover only for the actual cost of producing the lumber, $3.65 per thousand less than the market value. In other words, they were not entitled to recover for the profits. Settlement was made on the above basis, and suit was brought against defendant company, which carried $2,000 upon the lumber, to recover the balance, all/the other companies agreeing to abide by the result. The company was beaten in the court below, and the Supreme Court now affirmed the judgment. Justice Long writes the opinion and says in substance; “The contract must be construed the same as though the insured had no stumpage or mill of their own, and that they should recover the market value at the date of the Are. Any other would mean a different construction upon policies of persons' differently situated. Had the Insured not been manufacturing lumber no question would hs raised. Had the insured sold the timber and removed the mill, as they had a right previous to the Are, the measure of damage would have been the cost, of replacing in open market. If the theory of defendant be true the contract would be construed one way on its inception and, by change of circumstances, another at the time o/ the Are.”

A Milliner’s Drummer.

Women have long been drummers for articles of female apparel. Many milliners send their representatives from one small town to another to take orders for hats and bonnets. Such women have a right to be enrolled in the noble army of drummers without further question. I knew a milliner s drummer once, says Charlotte Adams, in the New York Journal. I met her at a New York boarding-house. She was a very pretty girl and she wore a pea-green cashmere gown made with slashed sleeves and plenty of diamond jewelry. I took her to the theater and ice-creamed her freely after the performance. She was also a buyer of milliners’ goods, and her business at New York was to purchase for half a dozen business houses. The last time I heard of her she had taken a young man to support. Why, indeed, should women not be drummers? They are quite as able and active as the men, and have far better manners. They do not ogle ladies, they do not run after actresses, they do not run up hotel bills at the expense of their employer and they do not buy new elothes out of the money allowed for “extras.” CoMPiiiMEXTs which we think are deserved we accept only as debts, with indifference; butthose which conscience informs us we do not merit, we receive with the same»gratitude that we do favors given away.

REAL RURAL READING

WILL BE fOUND IN THIS DEPARTMENT. How Green Clover Can Bo Safely Stored In Barns--Relative Value of Wheat and Butter-Handy Baking Table General Farm Reading. Storing Green Clover in Barns. There is some risk in storing green clover hay in a barn, it being almost impossible to shut away the air from the sides of the mow, and unless this is done the clover heats, says the American Agriculturist The escaping air inviting the entrance of fresh air from the outside a current is established, slow combustion provided for, and the clover “burns out,” just as a heap of horse manure is Are-fanged. To cure clover in a mow without previous wilting to evaporate part at least of the sap in it, requires a tight mow that is a close approach to a silo, so that the air cannot como in at the sides and bottom. Without a fresh supply of oxygen, there can be no combustion of the clover. The fermentation ceases, which, with a supoly of fresh air, would go on until the clover was a charred mass. To get the best results, the clover mow should be boarded close on the sides aud Aoor. The clover cut should be as clear of rain, or dew, as possible, and evenly spread over the mow. When all but two or three loads of the clover is in, make the top of the mow as level as possible and then roll strips ot tarred paper over the surface, lapping the strips. Do not tread on it to-break the paper; and scatter on the remaining loads for weight A layer of boards will be as effectual as the paper. The object of this layer of hoards, or paper, is to prevent the escape of the heated air, and if the air is imprisoned in the clover, there will be no entrance of fresh air from the outside. In the silo, where the walls are higher than the silage, the air that falls upon the surfaco is met oy the ascending current, and only a few Rurface inches of the silage are affected. In the mow whore the sides are somewhat open, the entrance of the air can be prevented to a great extent by checking the egress from the top of the heated air. This is accomplished by the lightly-weighted cover. With old hay at command, to alternate the layers of green clover with other layers of the hay, using about a third as much hay as clover, is a good plan. In curing, the escaping dampness of the green clover is absorbed by the old hay. In raking clover for hand pitching, it is not generally known that it is a great saving of “backbone” to rake the Aeld twice. If one has two horserakes, one may follow the other, and pull the windrow along a few feet. This rakes up the clover that was left untouched at the bottom of the windrow, loosens up the bunch, and makes the pitching easy with no sticking of hay to the ground. Barn Door Fastener. The doors will never warp or get out of shape. A light tap with the hand or foot, will loosen or secure them. After your doors are made, get a light board 1J inches thick, 4 inches wide in the center, and 2 inches at the ends, and just long enough to pass nicely between the Aoor and

ero3s-tieover head. Secure this board to center batten with bolt; get two long staples made of $ rod-iion, for the fastening to work in at top and bottom batten. Nail apiece in shape of figure 3, 1 inch thick, and 2 inches wide, in center on floor , and two pieces at top same thickness and width as below, but open in center as figure 2. I never saw but one fastening of this kind, and it has been In use for a number of years, and the doors are as straight as when first made.—C. E. Barns, in Practical Parmer. Exhibits at thn County Fair. Every farmer who possesses good stock or farm produce should show them at the fall fairs. Begin now to make the necessary preparations and selections. With roots, plants and fruits, the spring and summer work should have been well done. Animals to be shown should be selected and extra attention paid them. A superior animal, may not win unless it receive undivided attention up to the final hour of awarding the prizes. Encourage the boys and girls to show their poultry and pets, their flowers and fancy work, or their crops. Overcome the attractions of the race track bv displays of fruit, flowers, grain, thoroughbred stock, and other products of home and farm. How to Train Children. Be very vigilant over thy child in the April of his understanding, lest the frosts of May nip his blo36oms. While he is a tender twig, straighten him; whilst he is a new vessel, season him; such as thou makest him, such commonly shalt thou find him. Let his first lesson be obedience, and the second shall be what thou wilt. Give him education in good letters, to the utmost of thy ability and his capacity. Season his youth with the love of his Creator, and make the fear of his God the beginning of his knowledge. . If he have an active spirit, rather rectify than curb it; but reckon idleness among his chiefest faults. As his judgment ripens, observe his inclination and tender him a calling that shall not cross it. Forced marriages and callings seldom prosper. Show him both the mow and the plow, and prepare him as well for the danger of the skirmish as possess him with the honor of the prize. —Quarles.

The Scratching Hen. It is better to feed only once a day and compel the hens to scratch, than to feed two or three times a day and have the hens sit around and wait for you to bring them their meals. It is the active hen, the one that scratches

and works, that lays, and not the one that gets the most food. A litter of out straw is the best place in which to put the grain, and the hens will be sure to And all of it. Wheat ami Mutter. An agricultural journal recently compared dollar wheat with 25 cent butter in this way: “When the farmer ships, a thousand dollars’ worth of wheat, he pays freight on thirty tons of his nroduct. When the creamerytuan ships a thousand dollars’ worth of butter, he pays freight on two tons.” This is one advantage of the creamery over the granary. A much greater advantage will be seen by considering the fertility taken from the farm by wheat and butter. Take the three important constituents of nlant-food at their market rates in commercial fertilizers: I.bs, Vbluo. TCtionf l Phosphoric acid 52a<3) .07 #1(0.01 l ILU bushels' 307© .05 13.33 I.OcO bushels j NitrosßD l.oio© .15 150.71 sJuB.o7 Blitter ( Phosphoric acid ) 4,000 pounds | NUrogen Balance alt in favor of tho butter. Again, the one thousand dollars’ worth of dollar wheat can be grown on forty acres of land; ono thousand dollars’ worth of 25 cent butter—four thousand pounds—can be produced by ensilage and clover, or by ensilage balanced with proper grain rations, from eight acres or less. Haiuly Baking; Table. The arrangement shown In tho illustration would please any housekeeper. The whole, table and cupboard, is 6 feet high, feet wide; table 2J feet deep; cupboard 1 foot deep The table should bo high

enough for ease In working. A BTJ are drawers for flour, meal, and graham; D is a shelved closet for tins, etc.; E is a space for tho mixing board; Fund G are closets for spices, etc.; H is a drawer for knives, rolling pin, etc.; 1 is a pocket for papers to to line cake tins. On the doors are books on which to hang spoons, cutters, egg-beaters and cook-books. Sheep NlimirlnnM. t Bkkkd only mature ewes. Don’t get the lambs stunted tho first year. It is always an item to keep sheep as quiet as possible. Sheep cannot thrive on filthy food or in filthy quarters. When possible, It Is better to keep In not very large lots. In using a young ram it is generally best to begin in good season. Change tho flock to fresh pastures occasionally, they will thrive better. Sulphur, salt and sulphate of Iron in equal parts is good for worms In lambs. It is always an Item to have the sheep thrive well at the lowest mil imum of cost. Wrrn sheep, as with other stock, the best feeding is a good variety regularly and liberally given. The earlier the sheep are matured the less chance they will have to eat their heads off while growing. While a few sheep can ne kept on almost every farm, they should not be yarded with the cattle and horses. While not often necessary, yet if the pastures get very short, it will be best to feed the sheep some soli ing crop.

Poultry Picking*. Thicken the buttermilk with meal. It makes splendid feed. Clatter of the guineas scares away hawks and saves the chicks. When there are no bugs and insects for fowls, feed a little meat. Feed the chickens early. It is the bird's nature to rise and eat early. All mud and no dust or gravel makes lousy and unhealthy chickens. CnorPED clover in bags is one of the new feeds in market for poultry. With proper feed and care chicks will double their weight every ten days until forty days old. It costs about one cent a week to raise chicks up to ten weeks of age. To keep old fowls costs two cents a week. Nothing could be more cruel than tying a hen by the leg to keep her from roaming with her brood. It costs very little time to make a small house and yard for her. Water the stock twice a day during hot weather, and once a week scald out the drinking vessel. Nothing will breed sickness so quick as filth in the dhnking water.

Miitoellaneou* Recipe*. Pie Crust.— One heaping teaspoonful of baking powder, two quarts of flour, two teacupfuls of water, a pinch of salt. Mix well and sift a little flour on the molding-board before rolling it out. This will make enough crust for four or five pies. Corn Fritters.— To two cups of grated green corn add two eggs, one cup sweet milk, a pince of salt and a tabiespoonful of melted butter. Stir in flour to make a thin batter, and just before frying thin as you would batter cakes, add a teaspoonful of baking powder. Coffee Ice-Cream. Take one pint of sugar and a pint of water; boil twenty minutes, then add onehalf pint of clear, strong coffee and the yolks of five eggs; beat this until it begins to thicken like 6oft custard; then set it away to cool. When it has become cold, add a quart and a half of cream and freeze. Baked Tomatoes. —Having selected those of equal size, fresh and ripe, wash and cut out the hard centres. Place them on an earthen pie dish, and put a little sugar in the core of each as you would for baked apples. Bake in a quick oven for about twenty minutes or until tender. Grated cracker or bread crumbs could be sprinkled over them If liked.

GOOD-BY TO WOODEN WHEELS.

Horsemen Are Having Their bulkier Altered to the New Style. There is a panic in the sulky market Horsemen are stampeding in the direction of the bicycle factories to get bicycle wheels and pneuaiatic tires. Two whole seconds for the mile have been stolen away from the old woodeu, lron-tlred, 64-inch buggy wheel by the lowly 30-inch bicycle wheel with Its fat tires. “There is a perfect avalanche from trotting-track headquarters,” said a carriage man to a Chicago News re. porter, as a race-track patron came In oarrying a sulky frame while a companion held a bicycle wheel In each hand. “The horsemen are trooping toward the sulky-builders’ shops to havo pneumatic-tired wheels fitted to tho old frames, for the sun has surely set upon the day of the old wooden wheel with Its Iron tire. About two weeks ago we fitted out Mr. Gerome’s sulky with the ‘blown-up’ tires and a trial on the Washington Park track had the effect to send other turfmen to me for a similar equipment. “It Is tho revolution of the trotting race and record,” said the carriage

SULKY WITH PNEUMATIC WHEELS.

builder, “and when I sart in the grand stand and watched Nancy Hanks go around the curves with tho wheels of tho sulky following as accurately as If they were running in grooves, I knew that there was record in those wheels.

“If I had been in tho sulky business when tho first trials woro made with the bicycle wheels I should have taken summary steps to patent a complete sulky with frame and wheels specially built, and had a caveat in work before an hour had elapsed.” The pneumatic-tired sulky follows the horse around the curves without tho slightest tendency toward “skidding,” and although it looks queer, the drivers say that the usual sliding and creaking of wheel parts is entirely absent, and tho long-endured jar has gono away to be hung up with the wooden wheels on a peg In the paddock. Tho bicycle riders are feeling badly in one sense and jubilant In another. They are now five and three-fourths seconds short of the horse record, toward which they have been striding for years, but they are entitled to the

RIVAL OF THE NSW SULKY.

credit of mating the pneumatic wheels and presenting them to their rivals, the horse men, thus helping to defeat themselves. Tho bicycle record has gono down one minute and forty-two seconds, while the horse record has been improved only eight seconds. The improvement of bicycle mechanism has, however, been largely instrumental in the marvelous improvement of speed, ajid yet, under the same conditions, with the pneumatic tire, in two years 2:20 has given place to 2:11. The original adaption of the bicycle wheels to the sulky frame was by Sterling Elliott, the maker of hickory blcyles at Newton, Mass. The regulation steel bicycle wheel is, however, perfectly adapted to the purpose.

Heady tor Business.

To be diligent in business Is commendable, but surely one may err on the side of too great diligence by being ready for a trade at an unsuitable time. A map-peddler, in pursuance of his vocation, chanced to stop at a hotel in a Long Island village. A friend, whom he had known elsewhere, seeing him at the hotel, invited him to a party which he was to give the same evening. The map-peddler came, and when received by his host at the door, was found with three maps in his hands. “How de do?” he said. “Got any nails? I though®, as there was to be a good many folks here to-night, I’d hang up some of my maps here and let ’em look at ’em. Good chance fer business. Maybe some of ’em would like to buy ’em, and I could explain ’em just as well as not.” His host endeavored to persuade hUn that it would not be a suitable place to urge his business, much to the man’s surprise. “Now, you don’t understand," urged the peddler. “’Twould amuse and interest ’em, they’d be pleased, and besides tbat, being visitors, they’d feel sort of ’bilged to buy.” But he was then spoken to so plainly tnat he was forced to abandon—greatly to bis surprise as well as his regret—his project of mingling business with entertainment.

A Diamond Hole.

The diamond is a brilliant thing, but the place it comes from is dismal enough. A traveler recently from South Africa gives an account of the crowds of the diamond seekers who poured in after the first discovery. The mine is situated in the midst of a plateau, high, wide, and barren, and consists of nothing more than “an enormous hole nine acres in extent.” This hole is about four hundred feet deep, and visitors seldom descend into it on account of the dirt and danger. It is from this disagreeable aperture that the gems are brought which glitter and sparkle upon the persons of lovely women. It is doubtless nice to own a #40,000 horse—until it drops dead, as one did in Kentucky.

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AND ASCERTAIN ALL THE LATB INDIANA NEWS. A Catalogs* of the Week's Important Oeourrenoee Tbrongliont the State— Eire a. Accidents, Crimes, Suicides, iito. Minor State Items. South Bend will open a new national bank soon. Montickllo put up 75,000 cans of corn and tomatoes this year. John Wait of Lafayette died of injuries received In a runaway. Ai.i.en Wallace of Greenfield, was murderously assaulted by foot-pads, t The Twenty-third Indiana Regiment will hold Its reunion In New Albany, October 12 and 13. Mrs. Rebecca Garrett, a Fortville pioneer, was discovered dead In bed. She was 75 years old. A 3-year-old son of 'William Carter was fatally burned at Goshen while playing with matches. John Vanzant of Liberty, aged 84, hung himself because of the loss of & fortuno by speculation. Mki.villk Joses went through abridge with a thrashing machine near Madison, and was badly Injured. "Aur” Mriumiv fired three shots at “Saph" Keene, at Groencastle, ono of tho bullets takiua effect.

Peter McGurgAN, aged 52, waa literally cut to pices by an engine on the ,< I. & St. L. track, near Perth. Ghanpihon Crosby of Washington, charged with murder, was acquitted after a three days’ trial In Vincennes. Dr. H. W. Helms of Carlisle, is dead. He went to Sullivan County in 1817 and for forty-nine years practiced medicine there. Fire in Cass A Weir’s office, In the Salyer Block, at Valparaiso, caused a loss of #1,700 to tho bulldlug and contents. There Is groat activity In tho Indiana oil field, and 50,000 acres of land are under lease la Jay, Adams, and Wella counties. The big gas woll at Jerome Is still spouting water and Hooding tho streets, while tho residents of tho village are without fuel. Timothy Donnaiiu, a well-known cltlzon of Brazil, was, perhaps, fatally Injured by falling slate In the Jumbo mine near Brazil. Marion Newton, a farmer near Richmond, was killed by lightning. His two sons woro also stricken, and wore unconscious for several hours. Stella, tho young daughter of C. Anderson of Tipton, fell from a tree, alighting on a paling fence, and sustaining Injuries which will result fatally. Fort Wayne thought that she felt an oarthquako, a sow days ago, but It was only a man hunting a gas leak with a torch. Ho found It and the town tremblod. Tiie Coronor’s vordlet oxplalns the mysterious death of Charles Jones, a farmor near Whoatland, Knox County. Jones’ body was found In a stablo, and It was believed to be a case of murder or suicide. When tho remains woro viewed a circular bruise on tho side showed that he had boon kllloa by a Kick from his horse.

The 7-month-old child of James Early a prominent iarmer near Burdick, was sitting on the stoop playing, when the mother came out of the house carrying a tub partially filled with boiling water, .iufli as sho was passing the child a handle on tho tub broke, throwing tho wator on the little one. it was fearfully scalded, and aftor four days’ suffering died. Dr. J. H. Hensley, one of the leading physicians of Vincennes, was injured by a vicious horse on the stock-farm of John Monlfclo, east of that city. Mr. Monlclo and‘George Barrowrnon wore handling tho horse, when the animal backed them Into a dangerous position. Dr. Hensley, seeing their danger, sprang to their rescue. He saved both his friends, but he himself was Injured. As the second section of the special train carrying the horses from Richmond to the races at Columbus, passed over Flat-rock bridge, a stranger who was riding on ono of the cars, was struck by the timbers of the bridge and Instantly killed. He was hurled Into the stream below, Into water six feet deep. The unfortunate man is believed to be from Keokuk, la. The annual reunion of the “Old Persimmon Brigade,” composed of the One-hundred-and-ftftoenth, One-hundred-apd-sixteenth, One-hundred-and-soventeenth and Onc-hundred-and-etghteenth Indiana Volunteer Regiments, together with the annual reunion of each regiment separately, will be hold at Lebanon, Boono County, on Wednesday and Thursday, tho 12th and 13th of October. H A. MjLT.ER.a druggist at Hoagland, Allen County, returned to his store after a short absence the other night, and found It In the hands of a gang of tramps, who were ransacking the place. Millet at onco attempted to glvo an alarm, but was caught, bound and gagged, while tha bold gang went through his pockets and took everything of value. The thieves then departed, after administering a jevoro beating and loavlng him partially mnseless. Mr. Miller was not found until next morning. Patents havo been granted to Indiana Inventors as follows; Jacob Albtn, Seymour, carpet-stretcher; Edward W. 'Ansted, Connersville, machine for bending and forming springs; Thomas Dillon, assignor of one-half to J. Caven, Indianapolis, suspension bracket foi electric lamps; Michael Glynn, Otterbien, sulky plow; Elijah Havs, Warsaw, horsedetacher; Milton Klmberlln, Nabb, harvester; Josso S. Malln, I. D. and J. H. Welst, Portland, game for amusement; Daniel D. Mayfield, Sullivan, weathei strip; William Nehrlng, Evansville, lock; Charles W. Pierce, Union City, carmover; James A. Williams, Walkerton, machine for cutting the ends off spindles, The annual reunion of the Eightysixth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, wifi be held at Frankfort, Oct. 11. There will be speaking by CapL H. M. Billingsley, Col. J. M. Dresser,Gen. J. R. Carna hau, Dr. Flavius J. VauVorrls, T. H. R McCain. Ben Carpenter, Col. G. F. Dick; and Judge S. H. Doyal. Mentzer Brothers' ’bus team rat away at Attica, and A. J. Augustine, t passenger, fell while attempting to gel out, and Is still unconscious from concussion of tho brain. The chances ar« against his recovery. The injured mat is a salesman for Duhrae & Co., of Cincinnati, and his home is In that city. Frank Miller and Joseph Roach wert arraigned before Judge Kirkpatrick it tho Tipton Circuit Court recently, on t charge of personating an officer, and ot a plea of guilty were fined SSO and sea tenced to tho State Prison for one yeai each. Frederick J. Denton was killed ii the Big Four yards at Upton City. Ht was a young man and has been telegraph ing on the Indianapolis and St Louii division of the Big Four. His parenfe reside in Winchester. In attempting t« get on a freight train to go home h> struck a switch-stand and was throwi under the traiu. Both legs and one ara were cut off, while his head and bod; were mangled.