Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — Page 3

In Sheep's Clothing.

BY Capt Ormond steele

CHAPTER V—Continued. While the dancing was In progress Captain Fox found an occasion to draw Frenauld to one side, when, without attracting attention, he whispered: “I say, Frenauld, I want you to have a care. ” “I don’t understand,” replied Frenauld, not at all surprised at the mysterious manner of his commander, with which he had become very familiar. “I mean you must not stop on Denham's toes." “On Denham’s toes?” “Yes; some one of these girls must be nearer to him than all the others.” “His sweetheart, Captain?" “Yes!” “If you can point her out among all these beauties,” said Frenauld, nodding' -at the many pretty girls now drawn up •on one side for a contra dance, “of course I shall take care not to offend the gentleman by showing too much attention to the lady. ” “It is one of the two, and I have been puzzling my brain and exhausting my -observation to find out if Miss Hedges •or Miss Conditis the favored one."

“Miss Condit is his adopted sister, ■Captain. ” “So long as he knows she is not his sister by the blood, their relationship will be an incentive rather than a bar to love. ” said Capt. Fox, shaking his yellow head as if still puzzling his brain over the strange question he had proposed to himself. “It really looks to me,” responded Frenauld, “as if that dark-eyed, dashing Miss Hedges were the favored one. I’ll swear to it that she has bestowed a score of kindly glances on him to-night, to one on any of the rest of us.” The unexpected appearance of the two young ladies under discussion put an end to the conversation. “Ah, Capt. Fox,” said Lea Hedges, “you have grown weary already of the dance, though it lacks an hour of midnight. ” “And Mr. Frenauld quite forgot that I was to have been his partner in this set/’ laughed pretty Ellen Condit, blushiug in the most becoming way at what she imagined to be her own audacity in addressing the swarthy young officer in this way. “I was about to seek you,” replied Frenauld quickly. “I should never forgive myself if I let this opportunity pass.” He gave her his arm, bowed to the Captain and Lea Hedges, and led Ellen to the center of the room, where the young people were going through the stately figures of Sir Roger de Coverly. Alone with Lea Hedges, and Captain Fox came back to the salutation with whtch she had first accosted'him.

“Weary of the dance, Miss Hedges,” he said, with a quick, bold glance of admiration that brought a heightened color to ner glowing cheeks; “it is not that, but I am so bewildered by my surroundings, so happy to be among the ladies and gentlemen of my own country again, that I forgot what 1 should do to give expression to my delight. We sailors are apt to err on points of etiquette, and the ladies, in sympathetic admiration of our advantages, always look over our ships and see the hearts behind them. ” “We are anxious that our guests should enjoy themselves, as these our older friends are doing,” said Lea, waving a graceful arm in the direction of the officers of the Sea Hawk, who were now drawn up in a row, as if on parade, “but at the same time we are most anxious that they shall all enjoy themselves in the way that to them is most pleasant.” “Ah, you have there given in one sentence they key to all true hospitality, though I aid not need your kind words to be assured that it was to be found here. And now, to carry out my wishes, what say you to a promenade, or is it too cool?” Capt. Fox turned to the window, by which they were standing, and drawing the heavy curtains further back so that both could look out, he pointed to the .bay now gleaming like a silver mirror in the moonlight and continued: “The land is beautiful, but it is most beautiful where the water flashes in its front like an eye, or reflects its outlines as if it held them in its heart.” “I doubt not, Capta n,” replied Lea, archly, “but you write sonnets at times or match rhymes in your idle moments with your officers. But we shall stroll down to the beach; it is not far and the air is not too cool.” Lea left him for a few moments and reappeared with a scarlet scarf thrown ever her shoulders in a way that enhanced her loveliness as a proper frame brings out the beauty of a picture. She took the Captain’s arm, and they walked out through the garden and felt on their laces the soft wind laden with the odor of apple blossoms and sweet violets.

The regular beating of dancing feet, the rise and fall of the music, the murmur of the tide, like the drowsy sound of sea shells, all forbade conversation. They walked to the sea shore, where Lea sat down on the gunwale of a stranded boat, against which the Captain leaned. “Ah,” he sighed, “since my earliest memory I have tried to fancy what heaven is like, but without success; hereafter I shall have no difficulty; I shall only have to recall this night." “I am glad you like this place,” said Lea, her eyes on the water, and the moonlight showing the frank expression of her face. “It is to me the most beautiful place in the world; but perh«ps that is because I know no other land. ” “Nor do you need to.” replied the Captain, with well affected rapture. “It has been my good fortune, or my cruel fate, call it what you will, to see every land under the sun where men dwell, but though my acquaintance with your beautiful island is brief, I must confess the pleasure of being here is only clouded by the thought that I may at any moment be called to leave.” “Is this your first visit to America, Captain?” she asked. * The question was evidently unexpected, for the Captain coughed slightly and hesitated; he thought she would ingke some comment on the words of praise, which ho had delivered for effect, rather than with any idea of their truth, for, in this respect, he was like all other men of the world. “I have been on the American coast before, particularly along the South American coast, and through the West Indies, but this is my first visit to the province of New York.” “Then you have not seen New York City?” *No; but I hope to do so unless or-

dered to the West Indies to look after the pirates. ” “An undertaking that is as dangerous as it is thankless,” said Lea. Then, with a sigh, “the Sea Hawk has just returned from duty, though many were fearing that she would never come back. ” “She has in Denham a brave captain, and the crew are, without doubt, worthy of him,” said Capt. Fox. “True; but the Adventure Galley was a fine ship, and Capt. William Kidd, who took command of her in Bermuda, was said to be a very brave and competent man—he came from England for that purpose, yet Capt. Kidd and the Galley have not been heard from since. ” “He is supposed to have been wrecked or destroyed by the pirates,” said Capt. Fox, as if he were uttering an opinion about which there could be no disagreement. “Yes, that is the general belief; at least it was until the last few months.” “And it is changed?" “It is changing.” “From what cause?” “They say, that is, those that should know, that Captain Kidd is still alive and his vessel still afloat.” “Then he must be unable to find a port, like the mythical Flying Dutchman,” laughed Captain Fox. “But how do the people account for his absence?” “They say that instead of fighting the pirates, in the Spanish Main, he joined them, and is now their chief, ” said Lea.

“Impossible!” “I simply told the story as ’twas told to me. The news came from New York only last week that the Adventure Galley was recently seen off the coast of the Carolinas. But,” she added, with a slight laugh and a changed manner, “what should wo care if there be one pirate the more or less. They will not trouble us I am very certain.” “And if they should do so, Miss Hedges, may I be there to see. He would be a very rash pirate, indeed, that dared to enter this bay while the Sea Hawk and Wanderer swing at their anchors, with shotted guns and strong ariys to man them. The true sailor never courts a fight that can be avoided, but I cannot imagine anything that would inspire us to action' like the defense of these shores, and their hospitable—l will not add charming, inhabitants.” “Thanks. Shall we go back? the music has ceased,” said Lea, rising and taking his arm. “As you say, though it seems to me that I could never weary of the place or the companionship,” “The novelty would soon wear off ” Lea started, for a figure rose from the shadow of the boat on which they had been fitting, and hobbled directly in front o» them, and came to a stand. “Hah!-' exclaimed the Captain, releasing his a,'m, and stepping to the front, with his r.and on the hilt of his sword, “whom have we here?”

“It is only old Dinah,” said Lea, who, now that the intruder came into the moonlight, recognized an old neg o woman, who for some years had been living among the Montauk Indians, whose lands were near by. She was old, crippled and repulsive; and not even the Indians, though her coming was comparatively recent, could or would explain who she was, or where she lived before they adopted her. The superstitious red men cared for her, and held her in awe, if not in veneration. She spoke English imperfectly, and claimed to have been a voudoo priestess in Africa, from which land she was carried to the New World as a slave She still practiced tho voudoo incantations and repulsive mysteries, which gave her unbounded power over the sim-ple-minded Indians. The crone saw the motion of Captain Fox’s hand to his sword, for she raised her staff to warn him rather than to defend herself, while, in a vpice that sounded like an old man’s, she called out: “Is de dead come to life, en whar’s all ez hez gone en died at Bermooda?” “She is insane,” whispered Lea, again taking the captain’s arm. As they turned towards the house, the old woman stepped nimbly out of their path, but one trembling hand shaded from the moon the bleared eyes which were sternly fixed on the captain’s pallid face.

“De wisest ain’t dem es knows de mos’. Es I go up to de bukra house, honey, kin I get eating? Ize offen hungry now!” said the hag, in tones at first insolent, then whining. “Certainly, Dinah, I am sure Mrs. Condit will be glad to give you all you want to eat. But why are you so late?” “ ’Taint late, Miss; en es it was, late en early’s all de same to me, sept w’en de moon’s at de full, en de black snakes crawls from dar holes, en don’t know Dinah's darwid de forked stick foh to cotch ’em.” D inah stamped her stick on the ground, and broke into a low chuckle, which ended in a wheezy, asthmatic cough. “Why,” said Lea, when she and Captain Fox came into the light from the parlors, “your adventure seems to have alarmed you. ’’ “Whatmakes you think so?” he asked with a little laugh. 11 You are pale.” “I am glad of it, for I can lose much tan without being as white as those who do not face ocean storms. But the adventure, as you call it, did startle me, I must confess. Y’ou see, Miss Hedges, when one has a precious treasure under his charge he becomes alarmed at shadows, while those without such a care can pass on, singing and thoughtless. ” “Dinah is eccentric, but I am sure she wonld not harm any one.” “Where have you truants been?” asked Lieutenant Frenauld, appearing before them with Ellen Condit on his arm. “Bambling to the shore,” replied Lea. “Proving that sailors soon weary of the land.” “No, Miss Condit,” said Captain Fox, with a gallant bow, “but the night was beautilul and I could not resist. And then we were repaid with quite a little adventure with a certain old Dinah, who practices the art of prophecy, or something of the kind, for the neighboring Indians." “En I kin tell the futch-ah foh de bukra. Ho, ho! all wait en see, in de good time, wat all tings I kin do.” This was croaked out by Dinah, as she hobbled past,with her grinning face still turned on the group.

CHAPTER VI. CAPTAIN FOX RETURNS THE COMPLIMENT. Captain Fox and Mr. Frenauld made a most favorable impression on the generous, hospitable islanders. Even the reticence of the officers was looked on as an evidence of that modesty which is popularly supposed to accompany great bravery and decided merit “Most gallant and accomplished gentlemen,” said Dr. Hedges, when, a few days after the arrival of the ships, he was discussing the merits of the strangers; “I tell you again, neither the mother land nor the colonies need to fear, so long as their shores are defended by sailors who are at once patriots and gentlemen." Squire Condit, before replying, tapped his sliver snuff-box, touched » spring,

and the lid flew open, and then handing it to the doctor, who took a pinch and bowed as he raised it to his nose—just as men bow when about to drink wine—he took a pinch himself. This done, he imitated the doctor by taking out a red handkerchief, that looked like a goodsized flag, and they inclined their heads toward each other and blew bugle blasts of great vigor and resonance into the hankerchiefs. “I agree with you, my dear Doctor," said the squire, replacing the handkerchief in one of the side-pockets of his velveteen coat.- “The officers of tho Wanderer are .gentlemen tried and true, 6f that there cannot be the slightest doubt; and I am right glad to welcome them here. But I cannot see that in any of the essential requirements of gentility or seamanship, or even in those exterior qualifications that rejoice the eyes of women, and which men are pleased to behold, that they surpass our own people, the officers and crew of the Sea Hawk.”

“Well said, Squire Condit,” said the doctor, taking out his snuffbox and presenting it in turn. “Perhaps, one who has a brother and a nephew among the officers of the Sea Hawk is not competent to judge impartially between the merits of these sailors; but I would not fear, were they foes opposed to each other—which may heaven forbid—as to the result of the contest.” “Nor would I,” replied the squire, helping himself to a pinch of snuff from the doctor’s box, and preparing for another blast by taking out his handkerchief. “Kalph Denham is as dear to me as if he were flesh of my flesh and bone of my tone. It is not for me to say what the Condlts are or have been, and, I pray, ever will be; but, though I know not Balph’s antecedents, I am sure if they ever are known that they will prove to be quite as good as mine, or yours, or any one else’s in the provinces.” “I think, my dear Squire, that you made a mistake in not giving him your own name, when that stranger first placed him in your oharge——” “I could not; the boy was too old then, and would have remembered,” replied the squire. “How old was he?” “A little over five, the stranger said.” “And that was twenty years ago? ■ “Twenty-one years ago—let me see; why it is. twenty-one years ago this blessed first of June. Ah, now I recall; my wife spoke of it this morning, and told me that we always celebrated the event like a birthday. Captain Fox has invited us aboard his ship this evening, so, after all, Ralph’s arrival, as we call it. will be made much of. Of course, your family will be there, Doctor?" said the squire, stamping his feet as if preparing to move on. “Yes; Mrs. Hedges and Lea are great admirers of the new comers; and then, you know, Valentine Dayton and my brother can’t well refuse. Sailors, though informal in their ways with landsmen, are said to be very rigid with each other. ” Dr. Hedges mounted his pony, and rode off, to visit his patients on the other side of the bay, and Squire Condit walked briskly to the eastward, where he had a large farm and many hands to oversee. |TO BE CONTINUED. |

Discovery of Gold.

In 1848 James W. Marshall, who was employed in a California sawmill, was one day shutting off tho water, when he discovered particles of shining dust in the race-way. He was a man in whose imagination had for a long time floated visions of gold, and now, almost beside himself with excitement, he began to examine the rocks and water. He soon collected at least an ounce of gold. Then he mounted a horse and dashed away to report to Capt. Sutter, his employer, who was forty miles distant. It was late at night when Marshall reached his destination, and the rain was descending in torrents. Leaping from his horse, he whispered, wildly: “Captain, I want to see you alone.” Sutter conducted him him into a vacant room and closed the door. “Are you sure nobody will come? Lock the door!” cried Marshall. Then he stepped up to the table and poured from a pouch his ounce of gold. “Gold! gold! it is gold!” he exclaimed, hardly knowing whether he was in the flesh or not. “Where did you get that?” asked Sutter, and when the events of the day were rehearsed, he added: “But you don’t know it to be gold. I have my doubts about it. ” After some discussion, the substance was tested with aqua fortis, and was proved to be genuine precious metal. Marshall’s excitement was now fextreme, and he would not hear to Sutter’s proposal that he should spend the night. Back to the mill he rode through the driving rain, and when Sutter in the morning followed him, he met Marshall on foot, ten miles away from the millrace.

“What are you here for?” exclaimed Sutter. “I had to come, I was so impatient to see you,” was the feverish reply. When they arrived at the mill-race they found the men employed there excitedly gathering gold. Captain Sutter called them together, and exacted a promise from them that they would Keep the matter a secret for six weeks, during which time they should attend to their accustomed duties at the mill and ranch. But such a secret could not be kept. In a few days the region was thronged with gold-seekers. Sutter’s flocks were stolen, his crops ruined, and his land seized upon without apology. Before the close of the year five thousand men were at work in the mines of the new Eldorado, and the product of their labor was five million dollars. But the discoverer of the gold and the owner of the land where it was found both died poor.—Youth’s Companion.

Between Two Dangers.

Freddie Gray and his Aunt Helen, who was visiting the Grays at their summer home, wore one day crossing a pasture together. When they, were half-way across, the lady noticed two oxen and paused doubtfully. “I don’t know about going past those oxen, Freddie,” 6he said. Freddie tightened his hold on her hand encouragingly.. “Don’t be afraid of them Aunt Helen," he said. “They won’t hurt us. The first time I came down here I was afraid of them. I didn’t dare to go behind them, and I didn’t dare to go in front of them. And I didn’t want to go back and never go through the pasture at all. So I thought of a way to get by,” and the 3-year-old sage looked brightly up into Aunt Helen’s face. “I just crawled under them. ”

A salad described in Mrs. Burton Harrison’s new story is of lettuce, sprinkled with violets and old Bordeaux.

AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.

A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Can are Usually an Abomination on the Farm—Farmers Not Successful as House Trainers Hop Should Ilavo Warm Quarters—Home Hints. -1 ■ ■ The Farm. I know a home, outlined with atono, Within4ge seems a dream ; The liveaaU chord In one sweet tono, With love snd peace their theme. The feath'ry people olau their wings, And in shriU tones rejoice; And to the beast great joy it brings, To hear their master's voice. The hill gives charming scenos to viotv, That spot the artist lOvoa; The sun. the sky. the lake so blue, Lit up with white-winged doees. The rushing brook, iho woods, tbs rock, Down by tbe old atono mill; When winter's cnimed from Nature's clock. The poet lingers still. The golden heads weave in their woalth, Until the harvest moon ; The beaded dew breaths forth good health But gone nt summer s noon These seasons and their pleasures passed; Conies one with joys anew. The old year cannot always last, And now, it bids ‘•Adieu.” Just step across this "stony” line, Some dreary winter’s night, And peep within where light doth shino, You’ll Bee a happy sight Old rye and yoiitu aie seated there; The music hath a charm; With games and nuts, they all declare,— There's no place like tho "Farm.'' •-Farm Journal.

Farm Gates auil Oars. hiffe sometimes thought that it was a pity that the man who invented bars did not die when he was young, writes John M. Stahl, in the Practical Farmer. Bars are not much improvement over a gap in the fence, and they cost almost as much as a gate. Except in places where entrance will he very infrequently desired, it is cheaper to have a gate than bars; but, as first indicated, there are places where bars are justifiable. There is an easier way of maxing bars than by cutting mortises through a post. To do this one must have an auger, chisel, etc., and the work is not inconsiderable. A much easier way of making a bar post, is to straighten one side of it,

and then cut spaces in the edge, as shown in the cut. Tnese spaces are easily cut Saw into the edge of the post, and split out the block with a hatchet. It is an advantage to have a chisel, as with it the split surface can bo smoothed down better. Then, against the edge of the post a strip of tough wood —a strip sawed from an inch oak board answers very nicely is firmly nailea or bolted. Anyone*

can make this bar post bah post. Split bar rails are much better than sawed ones, for the reason that the split will follow the grain, whilo the saw does not. The saw will frequently cut across the the fibres, weakening the rail. * Of course, the lighter the rail is. with the requisite strength, the better. In the West hickory is the best available wood. If cut and split when the bark peels off, it becomes very hard and tough, and is light. Where it is to be had, Chestnut doubtless makes an excellent bar-rail. Any farmer can make a first-class farm gate. Every gate should now be made wide enough to admit a selfbinder. It pays to use planed lumber in making gales, and to paint them. In the minute depressions and under the small slivers of unplaned lumber, the moistuye collects and remains, and rots the wood. The pieces of a gate should be given one coat before they are put together; the places that are joined together should have a second coat. It is best to ' put the parts together while this coat is yet wet All the tools needed in making farm gates are saw, hatenet, small augers, and monkey-wrench—certain-ly tools that every farmer should have, and that he can use. It is not necessary to have the endposts made by cutting mortises in a solid piece of timber. Lay the

boards down in place, and then bolt on each . side of them a piece of tough board one inch thick and six inches wide. One may tit blocks in between the boards, if he desires to make a neater job. The cut shows a square end vi;w of the gate, showing ihow the two boards are made to answer for an end post, having mortises cut to admit the horizontal boards of the gate. I prefer to use small bolts in ’fastening the vertical

Gate made boards in place, but ion*? of Boards, wrought-iron or wire nails, that can be driven through and clinched, answer the purpo-e as well. A gate made in this way is strong enough, if strong enough at other points. Much depends upon the proper bracing of a gate The brace should run from the lower part of the

GATE PROPERLY BRACED—HINGE-END TO RIGHT. hinge end to the upper part of the latch end. When it runs from the upper part of the hinge end to the lower part of the latch end, it does not brace, and is of very little benefit, indeed. To have the braces run to

GATE IMPROPERLY BRACED.

and from, an upright piece in the center, as shown in cut, greatly weakens the brace, without any compensating advantages. It is well to use two boards for braces, one on each •ide, bolting tneni together, the bolts

passing through the horizontal boardi of the gate, also. Farmers as Horse Trainers. When farmers read of Nancj Hanks and other fleet-footed horses breaking the world's reoord in tbeii special classes, and soon after commanding in the market the combined value of a dozen good farms; the tomptaticn is great for themselves t< turn hoTse trainers. While the development of the horse speed is com mendable, the American Agriculturist says, it is a vocation in itself, and is fraught with such dangers of flAun cial disaster that but lew farmers can long withstand the strain. 1: living In an old settled community, run back over memory’s • pages fol twenty years and you will see thai very few- of the men ar.d boys wht imagined they possessed a trotter, and tried to develop the same in thi usual way. were successful, llockon ing their time only as valuable as that of the hired man, there would bo a loss in nearly every case, to saj nothing of the evil habits contracted by associating with the rough ele ment that is too generally a part oi the racing fraternity. There Is al ways more money made by the first owner, if he simply drives his horses on the common road, and if they do velop into good steppeis or show ; good gait, they readily find a pur chaser at a fair price, often for more than the animal as worth, or will evei sell for again. Any farmer who continually neglects his farm operations to develop the speed of a green horse on the race course almost invariably in after years regrets tho course then pursued. Another serious point in the case is that as soon as a horse shows a good gait, he is favored in every way possible, has tho best care and attention, and if worked at all is given the long end of tho double tree when perhaps his mate, if given an equal chance, would have provod the fleetest of tho two. Always remember thero is uo short road tc wealth, even in the development oi trotters.

Warm Quarters I'or Hogs. Every farmer knows that it cost! more to make pork in winter than in summer, says tho American Cultivator. Hogs have generally short thin hair that poorly protects the skin from the cold. So they keop warm by huddling together, thoso inside gotting too warm except as they are jostlod out of place by thoso on the outside trying to get in. If provided plenty of straw for bedding, or, better still, a coarse, strong manure, pigs will in cold weathci root themselves completely under the warm covering, where their own heat will make the manure ferment the more rapidly. After a night thus warmly covered the hogs are routed up to feed and often take their breakfast of cold corn on the ear to a chilling zero blast on their unprotected sains. Is it any wonder that hogs thus treated do not thrive well? Make the pen where thoy are kept warm by stopping all the apertures where cold winds might enter. Thnn give a smaller amount of bedding and the pigs will keep warm enough without becoming too warm. Tho feeding trough should also be sheltered. For sows with young, feed should be fed with warming to or slightly above blood heat. It is the warmth of dishwater added to milk, rather than its nutriment, that makes it valuable.

Bucket for Cleaning Cow*. In cold weather, cows are, or at least should he, housed In comfortable stables, and every owner of a cow

fore milking, have a bucket with a hook on ono side to carry a spongo, and a cigar box fastened on the othei side, in which your cloths are kept Now the flr6t thing to do is to clean awav all droppings, then litter with clean straw, next card your cow, then wash her udder clean with sponge and water, and dry with cloth. A Neglected Fodder Crop. Peas are an excellent fcod for milch cows, or for hogs. Take a piece ol fall plowing and harrow it well tc make a good seed bed. bow broad cast two and one-half bushels of the small Canada peas, or three bushels of marrowfats, and plow under four or five Inches. The pea i» a deeprooted plant and should be put well down. Sow on top of the ground one bushel of oats to hold the peas up. For hogs they come in as a green forage after clover, and may be cut with a scythe, and thrown in to them, or a movable fence may be put around a small portion of the Held. Good success has been obtained by putting the peas and qats in the silo. Or they may be cut and cured, thresned and ground into meal. Try two or three acres as an experiment.

Home Hint*. Oil door latches and locks occasionally. Milk that stands too long makes bitter butter. A little paraffine rubbed on screws will make them enter wood more easily. Nuts taste sweeter and are more easily digested if lightly sprinkled with salt. When making mush, sift in the meal from a dredging box with large holes. When the color has been takeu from cloth by an acid, apply first ammonia, then chloroform. Thebe are some people in this world who would not be satisfied il ttoey were perfectly contented. When putting away saucepans, pots, and boilers, do not put the lids on closely or they will retain the heavy odor of cookery. Put in a wedge of wood next the sash so the cold winds will not blow in. A space as wide as a straw will let in a volume of cold. When your shoe soles are worn thin or rough on the inside, slip in a postal card, bend it to the , propel shape, cut out and (It in.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

The bill to stop the printing of sample ballots in newspapers again, came ijp for consideration in the House. Monday, and was passed by a vote of 78to 2. Tno two members who voted against the bill wore Messrs. Ader und Rodabaugh. The Ilarnes bill to abolish horse racing in Indiana during the wintor months was passed by a vote of 73 to 1. In the Senate two legislative apportionment bills wero introduced, one by Senator Fulk. Democrat, and one by Senator Wisbard, Republican, the latter ot which will bo supported bv the Republicans. Sonator Fulk'a bill will not receive support from any quarter, as the official Democratic bill, now In course of construction by a caucus committee, is a very different bill. Senator Fulk’s bill changes tho old apportionment in the following places: The Senatorial districting is ohanged in tho case of Brown County, which would be taken out of tho distriot now composed of Browu, Morgan, and Johnson. Representative districts Lawrenoe and Orange are placed together: Jay and Adams are given one representative each, and Wells and Blackford are given a joint representative. Tuesday, the Deery bill to abolish tho prison contract labor was- defeated by a vote of 44 to 34. The following bills passed: Requiring railroads to give employes eight hours’ rest after twenty-four hours’ work: to preveut township trustees from hiring touchers for terms to begin after tho expiration of the trußtoos term of olfioo: fixing tho interest to be charged on school funds at 0 per cent.: to prevent tho adulteration of sorghum molasses; authorizing township trustees to purchase not to exceed live acres for coraotory nurposos; to describe promissory notes taxed as "notes owing” instead of “notos duo."

Mr. Honoh's bill to fill a long-felt want in criminal praotioo was passed. Wlion tho Supremo Court reverses a decision in a criminal case tho prisoner is returned to the county Jail. Then, if a rehearing is ordered, and the Supreme Court rea-ersos itself and affirms the lower court, there is no provision for getting that prisoner hack to tho penitentiary. Mg'. Honoh's bill is to correct this defect. Tho Senate wrangled for some timo over the report of tho Committee on Elections on Senator Kopolko’s bill, wbich proposes to reject tho section of the election law which provides for tho printing of snmplo ballots in not loss tliun two newspapors in oaoh county. - Tho committee’s majority report proposed a substitute for the Kopolke bill, which fixed tho printer's foes at 50 cents por square for tho first publloutiou and ‘25 cents fbroaoh succeeding publication, being just half tho rate now provided by law. The minority roport favored tho passage of the bill, ana it was on the motion to substitute the minority ropet-t tliut tho Senato tangled up in a debate that lasted the greater part ot tho day. The majority report was adopted. Both iiousos, Wednesday, advaneod a soore of bills to engrossment, and passed a number of minor measuros. The plmrmucy bill, which requites tho employment ot a registered pharmacist in every drug storo in compounding proscriptions, failod In tho Senate for want of a constitutional majority. It was mado tho special order for Friday, Tho Houso, by an overwhelming majority, passed tho autl-olgarotto bill, as it is called, which mukos it a ralsdomonnor to sell tobacco to any person under sixteen years old. Tho bill to change county Boats was defeated.

The following bills passed tho Sonata Thursday: Extending tho oondltions under which suvings banks may loan their surplus funds; providing for the appointment of “Investigators of the poor,’’ at a salury not to exceed in townships having apopnlation of 25,000 or more: dividing counties into throo road districts, and giving ouch county commissioner charge of one district: requiring tlio publication of the date when property is to l>o sold to satisfy a school fund mortgage; requiring employers to furnish seats for female employes; authorizing the collection of a tax of 15 coma on tho SICO in oitios and towns for electric light purposes: providing for tho title and custody of certain school property; requiring notailos of public to indicate with each attestation the date as the expiration of thoir commissions; providing that Judges as woll as juries may declare persons Insane; providing for tho refunding of surplus gravel road funds among the tax payors from whom it was oolloctod: providing for tlio punishment of persons wiio bring stolon property into tho State; legalizing the note ofNotarios whoso commissions havo expired; providing for long-hand transcripts and short-hand evidence at public expense in oases whore tho litigant is not able to pay for it; raising the age of consent from twelve to fourtoen years. Houso bills passed: Requiring railroads to give employes eight hours' rest after twonty-four consecutlyo hours of employ* ment; regulating tho weighing of wheat in testers. The House refused to reeonsldor the vote by which it passed the McMullen bill, whicp Is Intended to roach for taxation the foreign money loaned In the Htato on farm mortgage. Tho bill provides that where suit is entered to collect a note the plaintiff must prove that tho note hus been listed for taxation else it is void. The vote to reconsider was a tio. 4*2 to 42. It is not likely the bill will pass the Senato. The foo and salary bill received considerable attention Friday in thp Senate on the roport of tho committee adverse to a bill introduced by Senator Kopelko, proposing an amendment by which tho salaries of all the officials in Lako County will be increased. Tho committee adhered to its determination to rocommend no change In the law until It had been thoroughly tested. A nnmbor of senators, however, seized the oppoitunity to attack the law. It was shown that in Delawaro County, whoro the Rocorder was paid but SI',T(X), and In Grant County, whore tills official receivos SI,BOO, each was required to employ four deputies, and that the recorders had served notice .upon the county that the salary of the office would not pay deputy hire. Those officers, unloss the Legislature gives rollof, will discharge thoir deputies, and, after doing what, individual work they can, will let what is undone pile up for the official of the future. Other instances wore cited of similar embarrassments.

knows that that moans cx tra care if cleat milk is wanted for cows as t rule arc not ai cleanly as om would like t> have them. Fc an apparatus ti I wash and dr; her udder bo-

In the House Representative Hench HtruoU a blow at the lobby which U fighting tho co-omploves bill. Ho arose and said: •‘The struggle between-the corporations and the people has got to be (ought out in the Legislature, and I move that the co-em-Sloyes liability be made the special order (or tonday at 10 a. m.” The corporations have a strong lobby working against the co-employe bill, und it will novbo passed without a struggle. A new dog bill passed tho House, wiping out ttll enactmnnts now in vogue, ana imposing hn annual license on all dogs. This bill went through with a whoop. One ol Its peculiar provisions ig that nnv person at anytime Is authorized to kill unlicensed dogs. Representative Fipnln's bill was engrossed. providing that the death penalty may be imposed upon persons who place obstructions upon the traek or mfsplacs switches to wreck trains.

Minor State Items. The Franklort attorneys contemplate organizing a bar association. Richmond labor unions forbid their members patronizing Chinese laundries. Richmond has a school teacher who fills a child’s mouth with cayenne pepper for punishment. The expense of maintaining the 2,200 organized and enrolled militia of Indiana during the year 1892 was 924,844.36. Fabmkb John Clabk of W ashington Township, Delaware County, had his fine residence wholly consumed by fire. Herr von Madai, who was for many years the President of Police in Berlin, was vain of his many decorations. No man in the country, outside of the royal princes, and Bismarck, and Von Moltke, could display so many decorations on his breast Every sovereign who came to the capital as a matter of course contributed a decoration to Von Madai. “Is this photograph not good of you?” once asked a young lieuteuanc. ‘‘No,” replied His Excellency. “I then had only fifteen decoration, and now I have sixteen.’ 1

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TO BE FOUND IN THE STATS OF INDIANA. Qlflnt a Detailed Account of tlie Hamer* oum Crimes, Casualties, Fires. Suicides* Deaths, Kte., Etc. Minor State Items. - The citizens voted for water work# a* Martlnsvill by.p majority ,of 300. The State Farmers’ rii&tttiite will bo hold at Ladoga, Montgomery County, Feb. 33 and 24. , Four Wayne sportsmen are considering the feasibility of restocking Allen County with quail. Thomas Kepler, a large land and mill-owner, living four miles north-west of Centorville, was found dead in the woods. Mrs. Mary Ferguson, a widow, of Frankfort, has filed suit against John F. Blanch, a prominent farmer ?f Clinton County, demanding $5,000 damages for. trifling with her affections. The largestgas welt in the State has been bored near Mon .pellor. The sound of oscaplng gas is unendurable. A man residing a few rods from the monster has boen compelled to abandon his home. Wn,i.iam Roberts, a brakeman on the Big Four.had his foot crushed at Waynetown. Ho was thrown between tho cars by tho train breaking in two. Roberts was taken to his home m Indianapolis. At the Howard County Farmers’ Institute, the following officers wore elected: President William Mjtchell; Vico President. W. 8. Elliott; Socrotary, Mrs. Emma H. Davfs; Treasurer, Frank Haworth. i, The imposing depot of the Vandalii Railroad Company, at Sonth Bond, was partly destroyed by lire, causing tho loss of many valuable records besides an amount of personal property. There was no insurance. Farmer .Sip Cox, living near Columbus, Is a heavy losor by tho recent thaw. He owned one of the largest fish ponds in tho State. A sow days ago tho lovob supporting tlie large pond gavo way,and about 0,000 carp wore setfreointo White River.

Tint output of the Indiana oil field for January was over ninety thousand barrels, Jay County furnishing threefourths of tho amount. As most of the wells flow, the waste of gas goes on steadily, and is greatly deplored by gas consumers. John Harper was awarded 51, 200 damages, In tho GnanF'Dlrcuit Court, against the Panhandle Railroad Company. for building a sidetrack along the premises of Harper and U. M. Rock, and on land claimed by them. Hock has also brought suit. Grant Schew alter, Summitvlllo, looked for a leak of gas with a lighted match. Tho first thing ho know he and throo other members of tho family wero lying undor an Immonso pile of debris. Thoy wore not seriously Injured, but the house is a total wreck. A lad of 5 years, of Michigan City, ohsorvod Ills father hiding a bottle ot ilnn old rock and rye tho othor day. When tho parent bad gone tho youngster secured tho bottlo and was joined by a little sister In swallowing the stuff. A doctor saved tho two precious llvos, but tho roc < and ryo was ruined, Andrew T. Kkfleh, familiarly known as ‘Tona’’ Keller, one Of the oldest sottiers In Wayne County, was found dead in the woods, a short distance from his home in Harrison Township. Ho was suffering from mental weakness incident to old ago, apd wandered away from home. He was about 75 years old, and has lived In Wayne County since 1830, The stockholders of the Bedford Fair and Trotting Association held a mooting recently, and It was decided to odor $3,000 In tlie speod department at the annual fair, to be Kept. 13 to 10. The following officers wore elected: A. C.| Vorls, President; 8. T. Zollman, Vico President; James McClelland, Treasurer; Georgo W. McDaniel, Superintendent; Frank Ktannard, Secretary. At Cassopolis, a town a short distance north of Elkhart, two men discovered some dogs worrying something, and on examination the object was found to be the dead body of a negro child, which had been partially devoured bythedogs. Suspicions pointed to a married woman named Mary Clems, who was arrested, and confessed that she placed ner 3-raonths-old child under a barrel in her wood-shed, ana that aurfng the night it froze to death. Becoming alarmod the - next day, she took the body to a cowstable and burlea It under some fodder, whore It had been found by the dogs and,, dragged forth. >

The fourth Bank has just been organized In Muncie. The last is the Merchant's National Banking Company, with 9100,000 capital. The Directors are Samuel Martin, James W. Meeks, Frederick Klopfer, George W. Maring, Frank A. Brown,Hardin Roads, and Lewis S. Hooke, with the following officers: President, Hardin Roads; Vice President, Samuel Martin; Cashier, Frank A. Brown; Assistant Cashier, George Wood, of Aurora, lud.; bookkeeper, Arthur L. Shldelcr. Mr. Roads came to Munclo from Hillsboro, Ohio, two years ago and engaged in tho wholesale grocery business. Fob the oast month experts of Chicago and Cincinnati,have been in Clay Countv looking over some hll y land south of Brazil, which, some time agb.-wai flbwed bv experts who claimed t>y'‘fln4r > tf 'small quantity of silver ore. The affair, however, was abandoned until recently, when the present experts began digging in the soil In search of the precious metal. They were also about to give up the search when, to their surprise, they strpek an immense vein of silver ajnd, zinc ore. Thoy claim the indications arufayorable for an almost inexbaustable product of as rich ore as may be found }n t Colorado. Brazil is greatly stirred up over the affair, and Mr. Carpenter, who Towns the land where the mine was found, has been offered a big price for his ground by tbe inspectors. A portion of the ore has been sent to Chicago to be assayed. H abman Uttebback. who has resided near Crawfordsvllie for sixty-five years, died at the age of 81. William Toby, a workman at the Westerraan rolling-mills, Marion, was instantly killed recently. He was standing near a mass of manufactured product when tbe supports gave way, burying him under about eight tons of iron. William Step, another workman, was seriously injured, and his recovery Is doubtful. Charles Cadawak, another employe, had just stepped from under the falling mass, and thus saved his life. Toby was about sixty years old. He leaves a wife and seven children. Two witnesses from Baker Township testified in the Morgan Circuit Court, at Martinsville, that they do not know the name of the connty In which they have resided for years. They were grown men and appeared to be of fair intelligence, though quite illiterate. Chbistmas eve at Fort Wayne, Mrs. Mary Noonan and Mrs. JohnSwadner were killed In an elevator accident in Simon Bros.’ store. Suit was threatened by the husband of Mrs. Swadner, but was compromised for a small sum. The other day, in the Allen Couatir Superior Court, suit was entered by George J. 1 Daah, administrator for the estate of. Mrs. Noonan against Ha ary And Herman Simon to retfiver SIO,OOO damage, i