Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — Page 3

In Sheep's Clothing.

By Capl. Or mond Steele

CHAPTER Vll—Continued. They had gone but a few yards from ,the house, when a slender, well-clad' elderly man, with piercing gray eyes, touched his hat and motioned to them to stop. This man had a military bearing,. and was accompanied by a young black man, who carried a large double valise, slung over his shoulders like a pair of huge saddle bags. “Would you please to tell me where one Squire Condit resides?" asked the stranger, in well-bred tones, his keen eyes fixed the while on Balph’s face. The Captain pointed out the house, and said: “You can see the squire from here, working in his garden. ’’ “Many thanks; I see you are both officers in her Majesty’s service. Permit me to introduce myself as Col. Graham of Gen, Churchill's Staff.” The young officers gave their own names and shook hands with the Colonel, who, taking two steps in the direction of Squire Condit’s house, stopped, turned and asked: “Is the Wanderer in port?” “(. apt. Fox’s ship?” “Yes, Colonel.” “There she is,” said Capt. Denham, “and a finer ship never entered this bay. By the way, sir, if you are to make any stay at this end of the island, it will afford me pleasure to receive you on board of the Sea Hawk, a colonial cruiser, which I have the honor to command. ” Col. Graham raised his hat, said he would be honored and delighted to visit the Captain, and then resumed his journey, followed by the sturdy black man.

CHAPTER VIII. COL. GRAHAM VISITS GAPT. FOX. Squire Condit was out in his garden looking over his fine array of roses, now showing their rare colors through the bud tips, and filling the air with their first delicious odor, when he .saw the gray-haired, soldierly looking man upproaching, with his servant just behind him, as was the custom of gentlemen making a journey on foot or horseback in those days. Col. Graham and his servant had come to the place on horseback, and left their horses and all the burden of a pack animal, the big saddle-bags excepted, at the “King’s Arms,” the principal inn of the place. Squire Condit, seeing the stranger entering at the front gate, took off his hat and advanced to meet him. “Does Squire Goodwill Condit live here?” asked Colonel Graham, touching his hat, and letting his hand drop inthe direction of the cosy, rambling old house. “He does, sir,” replied the Squire. “Would you please tell me if he is home?” “He is home, Colonel Graham,” said the squire, his voice tremulous, for he recognized in the stranger the man who, twenty-one years before had brought a little boy to him, and, after giving him into Iris care, suddenly took his departure. “Ha! you recognize me then?” said the Colonel, extending his hand, a motion which the Squire could not have seen, for he made no effort to meet the salutation in like manner. “I do; your hair has become white, but your eyes and voice have not changed. Will you walk to the house and be seated for a bit?” said the Squire, loading the way, like a man who finds duty compelling hin) to a disagreeable task. “I have official business with Captain Fox, of the cruiser Wanderer, now in your harbor, and as my time is limited, I cannot make you a very long visit. Would you do me the favor of a few minutes’ private conversation? I hope to give you more time hereafter.” “Certainly,” replied the Squire, and motioning to the black man to remain seated on the wide porch, he led Colonel Graham to the apartment where he presided as magistrate when the differences of the settlers were submitted to his judgment. “Can we speak here without fear of being overheard?” asked Colonel Graham, glancing about him before taking the chair on which his white right hand rested. “We can, sir,” was the answer. Sitting down, with the air of a man much fatigued. Colonel Graham said: “You have often heard from me, but I presume you never expected to see me again?”

"I have heard from you, and I have at interest every dollar you ever sent to me for the care of the boy, whose name you told me was Balph Denham; but, as to expecting to see you again, I must confess I did not, for we do not voluntarily expect what we do not wish for. ” Without appearing to notice the bluntness of the Squire’s speech, Colonel Graham went on, and there was in his voice and manner something that told he was conscious of his own superiority, and could not permit himself to be annoyed by an inferior. “I do not come to trouble you now; I desire to compensate you further, if what I hav.) given is not enough. ” “ Stop, Colonel Graham; I will return all you have given, and the interest also, if you never show your face here again,” said the Squire, with much spirit. “I can assure you, Mr. Conait, it is her Majesty’s business and not my own inclination that brings me to America. Strangely enough, the arrival of the Wanderer, or rather her being ordered here, is the reason for my coming. My real object is to see Captain Fox and give him further instructions; but, being here, I felt prompted to call on you first, and learned how it fared with the boy I left in your hands twenty-one years ago. ” “And you have learned?” “I heard that he was now capta'n of the volunteer cruiser Sea Hawk, fitted out by the province of New York for the suppression of piracy.” “Ypu were rightly informed; there is not a more able or gallant officer on the ocean than Balph Denham, if I do say it. But do you propose to tell him all about the past?" “What have you told him?” “Nothing?” “Has he never inquired about his parents?” “Never; he seems to dread the subject. If there is anything that you can tell him to increase his happiness, do so; if not, keep away from him,” said the Squire, with mucn force. “I could tell him that that might make him miserable all his life, and if you do not aid me in a certain matter it will be necessary for me to do so,”

What is the certain matter?” asked the Squire, rising from his chair and confronting his visitor. “The certain something which you can do for me, and to save Ealph Denham from a knowledge that may embitter his life, I cannot explain now, but I shall do so before I take my departure,” said Colonel Graham. “Suit yourself about that. Will you answer me one question?” asked Squire Condit. “What is the question?” “Are you Ealph Denham’s father?” The Squire shot this out with a force that nearly upset Col. Graham, for he gasped, turned pale, and for the instant lost his self-control, the very power in which he lelt he was vastly the superior of the more natural man before him “Did I ever say or write aiight that would lead you to —to infer “ stammered the Colonel. “That is the mischief of it; you never said or wrote a word from which I could infer anything,” said the Squire, now master of the situation. “But you have just told me that Ealph cared to know nothing " “So I did, but I am not Ealph Denham; if I were, I might feel just as he does. One more question before you leave,” said the Squire, as C6l. Graham rose to take his departure. “What is it?" “Are the parents of Ealph Denham living?” “One of them is," replied Graham, now on his guard. “Which one?” “I am not at liberty to tell." “Why not?” “I cannot explain.” “Another question," said the Squire, coming between his visitor and the door. “Well?” “Again, are you Ealph Denham’s father?"

“I am not,” with another start. “Are you of his blood?” “N—no." *ls he legitimate?” asked the Squire, bringing down his arm, as if to imply that this was his lact question. “What matters that to you; why should you wish to know?” “For one good reason—the happiness of Ealph may depend on his being of legitimate birth.” “Be good enough to oxplain.” “Ealph Denham loves a beautiful girl, she is of good family, and I feel that if the cloud wore lifted from his antecedents, so far as m show that ho came of honest parents, that his suit would not be rejected." “Is the young lady your daughter, Squire Condit?” asked Col. Graham, with a smile, that had in it something satanic. “I cannot answer that till you havß answered me.” “Then you will never answer, nor shall I suffer anxiety for tho lack of knowing who Ealph Denham’s ladylove is.” Col. Graham took another stride in the direction of the door, and came to a sudden stop. Without looking at the Squire, he continued: “You are a man of sense, and so I need not impress on yqu the importance of keeping our conversation to yourself. If you have Ealph Denham’s happiness at heart, you will not tell him why I called. We shall meet again, and very soon. ” With a frigid bow. Colonel Graham left the room, and, addressing tho negro as “Othello,” bade him follow him Othello threw his burden across his shoulders, with an ease that showed wonderful strength, and followed, with the long, swinging stride that manifested endurance equal to his strength. When Colonel Graham reached the town of Sag Harbor, an hour or two before his appearanoe at Squire Condit’s, he dispatched a messenger to Captain Fox. asking him to send a boat for him. This boat, under the command of Lieutenant Frenauld, was now waiting on the beach. In a minute more, the Colonel and his servant would have been on board, and on their way to the ship, but an incident that astonished the Colonel prevented his progress for some time. Old Dinah, who had been talking, in her disjointed way, to Ellen Condit and Lea Hedges, left the group, with the intention of going to her home, some miles away. ■ She caught sight of Colonel Graham approaching, and she came to a sudden halt, raised her lean, black hands, and shouted:

“Lod Pallton! Lod Paliton, or de dead! Where hev you come from, wanderin’ back en foth ” “Hist, Dinah!” said Colonel Graham, rushing toward the old woman, and speaking in a whisper, indicative of alarm. “Do not speak now; do not know me yet awhile, and you shall have gold ” “Blood-red gold! b’.ood-red gold. But who’s dis? Who am de black boy? She ran at Othello, and took off his cap revealing a circular scar on his forehead. “Hello! hello! de son of my darter!” The old woman caught the young black man in her arms, and kissed him, and oried and laughed alternately, while he, still supporting his burden, asked in a perplexed way: “Is you my granny ez ran away from Bermuda nigh outer twenty yeah agone, and all said was drownded?” “Ize yer granny, ’Thello. Har lis in de flesh, or wat’s left of me. I’m the mudder of yer mudder. But tell me, is you de sarvint of dat man?” she asked, pointing a skinny, black finger at the perplexed Colonel, who was now biting his gray mustache, and looking anxiously from Dinah to the waiting boat. “Ye-yas, he bought me foh foive ’unerd,” replied Othello, his face showing that the unexpected discovery of his grandmother did not afford him any great amonnt of pleasure. “En —en yer both a-gwine to dat ship?” said Dinah, pointing to the Wanderer. “Ye-yas,"responded the still astounded servant. Coming close to Colonel Graham, the old woman whispered: “You’ve got to see me soon agin.” “But where do you live?” asked the Colonel, glad to see his way to getting rid of the crone. “’Mong the Montauks. Ha, ha, ha! I yvas a black woman in Bermooda; hea' Ize a Hinjin priestess-ess.” “I’ll see you again, ’’said the Colonel, motioning for his servant to follow him. “You’ve got to see me agin. Ye’ll be ’bleedged to see me. Now go to see Cap’n AVolf. Good-bye, ’Thello, come en see yer granny, honey. ” Chuckling to herself, as if she thought she had said something humorous, Dinah grasped her stafT aDd hobbled away in the direction of the land of the Montauks. Colonel Graham and Othello hastened on board the boat, where Frenauld, who was in charge, saluted the former with a deference that amounted to obsequiousness. “Tho Captain is anxiously awaiting you,” said Frenauld, as the" oarsmen pulled for the ship. “You have been here eight day’s,”said

the Colonel, as if he were quite indifferent to the reply. “Nine days, my lord ” “You mistake, sir,” said the other In a stern whisper. “I am Colonel Graham." “Beg your pardon, sir; I forgot for the instant,” stammered Frenauld. “Such forgetfulness proves the ruin of many men, ” responded the Colonel, the line between h s eyes deepening, as if Frenauld’s apology had' increased rather than lessened his displeasure. , “It is hard,' sir, for one accustomed to calling another the name by whioh the world knows him, to change to a different name at the order of the individual, and to be censured for a slip of the tongue,” said Frenauld, evidently but little pleased by the Colonel’s manner. “I iully appreciate what you fay,” replied the Co.onel, condescendingly, but still with that -manner of ostentations superiority whioh marked everything, he said or did. “But Graham is my family name, and I hold the commission of colonel in her Majesty's service. You know the rest, and, as I pay you to use this knowledge for my benefit, it holds, sir, that I should not he annoyed at any breach of the contract on your part, or on that of your supperior officer.” This was said in a low lone, but the noise of the oars iu the clumsy rowlocks in use at that time would have prevented the sailors from overhearing, had they been so inclined. |TO BE CONTINUED, |

A Desperate Situation.

In my younger days, says an Oriental traveler, I acquired a taste for country sports, and when I went to India, where field recreations were of a more serious kind, I soon became expert at hunting the jackal, leopard, and tiger; but it wa- not for a year that I tried my hand at elephant hunting. When the eventful day arrived I was assigned to an elephant, and when the party reached the grove Tagore, an expert elephant hunter, called my attention to a tremendous lellow which we at once attempted to capture. Allow-; ■ ing our trained elephants to attract the wild elephant’s notice, Tagore skillfully fastened a rope around his leg and to a large tree, and then we retreated to the rear and waited for him to tire himself out. Instead of that he broke the rope and made for us; and, as my elephant stood stock still as if paralyzed from fright, I promptly climbed into the nearest tree, while Tagore and the others ran for their lives. I Imagined that I was secure for the time being; but, to my horror, the elephant begun to batter the ireo with his hoad, and with such violence that I was nearly shakon from my perch. Finding that I still clung on, tne animal changed his tac- • tics and began tearing up the tree by the roots. I saw the tree would soon fall, and could perceive no possibility of escape. Finally, having loosened the roots, the beast again began to push again With his head, and I felt the tree yielding to the pressure. I fairly shrieked in despair as I felt it falling, but to my inexpressible joy, the tree fell against a much larger one, and the topmost branches become entangled. I quickly scrambled into the new place of refuge, and then I think my nerves must have given way, as I remember nothing more until I heard the sound of bring below, and found that Tagore and his men had returned to my rescue and driven away my besieger. But I have not cared to hunt elephants since that day.

Snow Irrigation.

No doubt the recent famine in Eussia was principally due to want of irrigation. The usual process of carrying irrigation works lrom neighboring streams is too costly and slow, and besides is quite impracticable in South Eussia, on account of excessive small falls in all tho rivers in this part of the country. Tho streams, moreover, have very little water during the summer months, when the irrigation is principally wanted. Now in several parts of Siberia the water obtained from melting snow is used for irrigation. Tho climate of these parts is quite continental, with very hot, dry summer, a severe winter, with plentilul falls of snow. The snow irrigation is managed in the following manner: At the first warm winter day arter a plentiful snowfall, the whole village, not excepting women and youngsters, meet at a previously appo.nted spot in the field situated on a slope of a hill. One portion, consisting of stroDg men, collect and carry the snow to form a large bank, while others press the enow down and spread it evenly. This operation is repeated several times during the winter, and by spring a large bank of compressed snow is formed, a dozen feet deep and weighing several hundred tens. With the first approach of spring, the snow bank is covered with pine branches, straw and dung: if such material is not at hand, earth and sand are used as covering, but in the latter ease the layer has to be about eighteen inches thick. The same plan of irrigation would be quite applicable to Eussia, aud for' countries where snow falls in abundance. For regulating the flow of water from melting enow in the bank, a ditch is managed on the lower side of the bank with two openings, cne to be used as an overflow, in case the water is not wanted for irrigatirp, the other leads to the irrigation ditch distributing the water cn the fields. The number of able-bodied men now under arms in Europe, and, of course, withdrawn from the channels of industry is simply enormous and is steadily growing larger. With the increase proposed by such countries as France, Germany, Russia, Italy and Austria, Europe must soon have over twenty millions of men, almost, Immediately available for military duty. The European national debts are steadily growing larger. If this condition of things continues general bankruptcy and widespread ruin must result. Germany will soon have 5,000.000 of soldiers with which to meet almost as many for France. It is simply a terrible state of affairs.

The total flow over Niagara Falls is 265,000 cubic feet pe*r second. A flood that would raise the surface of Lake Superior nine inches would take six months to run off at the falls. The work of utilizing some of the power of Niagara, which is drawing near completion, will not in all probability use more than 10,000 cubic feet of water per second, not enough to lower the water two inches at the crest of the Horse-shoe Falls. Of course, only a small percentage of the power of the falls can be utilized. The company engaged in this work obtained rights of way giving facilities for generating 450,000 horse power, or not a tithe of the power that all the water would develop if it could be used. The ruby, the diamond, the sapphire and emerald seem to owe their formation to similar causes as do the masses of metaii Volatilization in fissures of igneous rocks turned these stones into crystallizations. Recently a theory has been- offered that diamonds are of meteoric origin.

REAL RURAL READING

WILL BB FOUND IN THIS DEPARTMENT. Benefit or Finutr’i Clubs— Randy Arrangement for Taking Gp R.rb Wire—‘Selling Part of the Farm—Live Stock and Dairy—Horticultural Notes, Etc. Reel for Taking'Gp Barb Wire. According to a reader of the Practical Farmer a convenient reel for taking up barb wire may be made in the following manner: Take a pair of cultivator wheels, make an axle to flt, out of 2x4 oak, 30 inches long. Side pieces should bo 14 inches by 2 inches, 4 feet long, o£ hard wood. Bolt to axle securely. The.uprjghts Sfibhld be 2 inch by 4 inch pine, securely bolted to side pieces, aud high enough to reach above wheels. The-

cross bar may be 1J inches square, ends rounded for handles. The whole (see Fig. 1) should be well braced, as it must be strong. For windlass axle (Fig. 2), take oak, 1} inches square, 26 inches long, tit crank on one end; for reel, take barb-wire reel, cut hole through it square to, tit axle.

To take up wire, fasten„end to reel, take cross bar in left band, turn crank with right. The cart is propelled bv winding wire on reel; when one reel is full, slip off and put on another. The Former’s Club. Every town should have a farmers’ club! Every farmer should attend it faithfully. ** well-conducted schoolhouse club stands next to the agriculture paper as a means of disseminating useful knowledge among the farmers. The club can deal with tho local Issues of the particular section of where it is held, while the paper must needs be more or less cosmopolitan. It is a simple matter to have a club. A few good, earnest, active members are all that is needed. There is very little need of a lengthy constitution, or of wasting time over obscure points of order. There needs to be a chairman, who shall preside at the meetings, and a secretary to give the required notices of the gatherings. Long papers, as a rule, are not desirable, but if every one will go prepared to bring forward a single subject, the program will be full, and the meeting an interesting one. Occasionally some one from another piub may be invited to speak at some length, and it is a poor meeting that will let him sit down with all his ideas unchallenged. The club should be attended by the whole family, and not simply by the men folks. The women are as able as any to make the evening interesting, and often more so. Removing; the Gape Worm from Fowls* When the gape worm becomes established in the throat of a chicken, , according to the American Agricul- , turist, death will result, unless, the ; worm is*Bobn removed. One plan is | to introduce some liquid substance in the throat that will kill the worm, or cause it to loosen its hold upon the membrane of the throat. For this purpose, kerrsene or turpentine are the common remedies, being applied with a feather which Is dipped in the | liquid. The shickeu’s mouth is held

HORSE-HAIR LOOPS FOR GAPE WORMS. open with one hand, and the feather introduced into the throat with the other, being given a twirl between the thumb and finger, thus putting the oil on all parts of the throat Such applications usually add to the inflammation of the throat, and death is often hastened thereby. A better plan is to loop a hair from the mane or tail of a horse. A simple loop is shown at Ain the illustration. The three round dots ard bits of wax co hold the hair in position. At B, several loops are placed in the end of a small split stick and held together by wax or thread. These loops are introduced into the bird’s throat, when by twirling, the worms are Loosened and qs some of the mucous in the ,throat will attadh to the loop the loosened worms are readily withdrawn. The operation takes about a minute and saves the life of the chicken.

Keeping; Apples. I have had the care of 500 bushels of apples each successive season for forty years, says a correspondent in the National Stockman. I have found a cool, moderately damp cellaT the best place to keep them. After rejecting all unsound fruit I store immediately In cellar, if it is a cool one: if not, in an out-building constructed of heavy lumber, the object being to keep them cool. They must be cool if expected to keepi Warmth hastens ripening, and eventually decay. When there is danger of freezing remove to cellar. I have kept them on shelves, in barrels, In small, medium and large boxes. I have succeeded best In’ using boxes holding about ten bushels, having kept them until May with a loss of only three bushels in 500. In a continued experiment of sixteen years I saved one-third more using the ten-bushel box than with barrels. The reason is Obvious. The quantity is large enough to prevent them from becoming thoroughly cool, yet large enough to remain in that •condition, while small boxes or barrels become warmed through with every mild change of' atmosphere. In using large boxes it s difficult to get the fruit cool throu; bout Clover. The farmers of the 1 fiddle States are accustomed to spe ik of clover seed as the cheapest f< rtillzer they can use. It is. Carefi f experiments have been made, she ring that an

acre of very good clover sod contains within six inches of the surface nearly 3} tons of clover roots, which would contain nearly 100 pounds of nitrogen, fifty pounds of potash, and more than twenty-five pounds of phosphoric acid. While not much New England soil would grow such clover, yet the half or that amount would be a liberal manuring, and farmers who will sow clover with their spring grain and grass seed, or upon the grass which was sown last fall, need have hut little feac of their fields running out if the clover gets a good hold. It will also pay to sow some of the thin places in the old meadows, first scratching them with a light harrow, to allow the seed to reach the earth. Sow upon a light snow, or after the straw’httMione and the ground is soft with the coming out of the frost. The spring rains will carry the seed down to the ground, and it will germinate and take root if the soil is good enough. TJhus a welcome addition may be made to this year’s hay cron, and at the same time the soil may bo made richer for other crops. Select Your Grass Seed. We read every day how to improve the quality of our corn and other seed plants by carefully selecting the very beat seed to plant. Any tyro in farming knows that is very important. Why not do the same with our timothy, clover, and other grasses. In passing through any field of timothy or clover one is sure to observe a great difference in the strength of growth as well as in tho length of the heads in different stools of tho same grass. It would pot be a difficult thing to do to go through the field and select a few quarts of tho most promising v seed. Hoy% hero is a chance for you to do a little intelligent brain work on the farm. Coax your father to give you the use of a quartorracre of ground next season, Select the finest heads of timothy you can find until you have enough to seed it. Then select the finest and longest heads from that tho next year and see if you cannot secure a much better quality of timothy than the old farm ever produced before. It Is a flue piece of work to do, and there are lots of smart hoys who can do it, too.

To Sot Egg* in Winter. Raise a sufficient quantity «of sunflower seed lor the hens to feed upon during the winter, and you will have lots of eggs. Tho host way to raise sunflower is to plant with potatoes; then you can also plant butter beans or lima beams, which will run up the stalks, and save the expense of poling. The sunflowers will shade the potatoes and make them grow better and ba much sweeter, so that these crops can be raised off ono piece of ground. Cut your sunflower up, when ripe, at the bottom of tho stalk, and set them up on theends, with their headscloso together, near your fowl yard, where the hens can run under the stalks and pick up ohe seeds as they fall down. All Around the Farm. Build as few fences as vou can get along with. Tiie sweet-brier is suggested as a hedge plant Hot-heds should not be permitted to grow weeds. Clover, corn, and almost any kind of stock go well togethor. Smaller farms and lntenser farming would bring more profits. Try bettor feeding and sco if your cows are doing their best.. There Is more money in 150-pound pigs than a 300-pound old hog. Give plenty of food and a good chance to exercise to all domestic animals The best sheep produces not only better mutton or better wool, but both. It Is no advantage for the farmer to keep poor horses because they are cheap. Feed a fair amount of grain and let the animal complete the ration on coarser food, The animal, tho feed, and the pr> duct vi the same, changed only in form or combination. Crops must be made, not simply grown. The farmer’s business is to combine the needed elements. WnAi the plant draws from the soil will of course be found in the plant, and may be returned..

Miscellaneous Keel pel. Massachusetts Indian Cake.— Three cups each of Indian meal and flour; ono cup each of sour mllk and molasses, sprinkle with salt; dissolve one teaspoonful of soda In mflk; mix all together. Bake In a moderately heated bake-kettle or oven. Rice Cohn Bread, —One cupful of rice, two cupfuls of sifted white meal,‘ three eggs well beaten, one tablespoonful of lard or butter, as much milk as: will make a stiff batter, a little salt. Boil the rice perfectly soft, and pour it hot over the’ meal; add the butter, eggs, and milk, beat it well and bake It in well buttered pans in a quick oven. Indian Bread. —Two cups of fine Indian meal, two cups of rye flour, two cups of graham flour, one cup of molasses, one-half cup of yeast, one .teaspoonful of baking powder, two teaspoonfuls of salt. Mix as stiff as yiou can with a spoon, using tepid Water, and when well mixed, turn ibto a well outtered bread pan and set to rise. Bake slowly three hours. Custard Cream. —Boil half a pint of cream with a piece of lemon peel, a stick of cinnamon, and eight lumps of white sugar. Beat the yolks of four eggs, then mix the eggs and cream very gradually together. Simmer it gently on the Are, stirring until it thickens, but removing it the minute it begiiW to boil. The addition of a glass of brandy beaten up with it adds to the flavor. Rice Custard. —Sweeten one pint of milk, boil it with a stick of cinnamon, stir in sifted ground rice until quite thick. Take off the fire, add the white of three eggs, beat well; stir it again over the fire for two or three minutes,then put it into cups that have laid in cold water: Do not wipe them. "When cold turn them out and put them into the dish in which they are to be served. Pour round them a custard made of the yolks of the.eggs ana a little more than half a pint of rniUc

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

The following bills passed the Senato Monday: Authorizing ftbe Governor to spend as much as $50,000 for the suppression or prevention of tne coming or the jspread of the cholera during his term of offioe; providing that tho County Commit sioners shall open to competition all bridge contracts: for the incorporation of loan fund and savings associations; permitting cities to take stock in water companies established bv privato individuals, with the power to issue bonds to fund their indebtedness; compelling gravol-rood superintendents to make quarterly .'reports to tho Board of County Commissioners; establishing boards of childrens’ guardians in thb counties of Vigo, Allen, and Vandorburg; concerning the duties <A clerks of the Circuit Courts ot the State in regard to registering fees, oto., paid out and taken In: to aiiow watchers, appointed by the campaign commitees of Populists and Prohibitionists on election tottrds. The House gfStlrim arjfcMKyflo over the patronage bill and spont most orthe day debating It. It finally passed by a vote of 63 to 87. The bill to legalize Ashley. DeKalb County, passed. The joint convention of the House and Senate went through the formality of electing Miss Ahern State Librarian. Durino tho House sossion. Tuesday, a number of minor bills wero passed, and some progress was made In considering tho various appropriations aa reported by the Ways and Means Committoo. Among the bills passed was one providing for the general sale of school books. Two important bills wero approved by the Senate, to-wlt: Providing that wardens .of State Prisons shall not accept bids for dontract prison labor at loss than '.15 cents per day. and providing for tlie Incorporation of loan, trust and safety deposit companies, and when so Incorporated, with a capital of not loss than SIOO,OOO, permitting them to act as guardians of minors, lunatics, tyabltitul'druiikarda, and tho estates of deceased persons. The Speaker sprung tho Patronago bill, which has caused so many heartaches, on tho House Wednesday, lteprikontatlve Adler. who hits opposed It from the start, moved tho previous , question on the passage and the roll call resulted In sixty* two affirmative and twenty-nine negatives. The Demoerat|o mcmbors divided ovonly, and Republicans voted solidly for the' measure. The bill will go back to the flonato for concurrence in an immaterial amendment which has been made, and it wlllthon become a law. Tlds bill gives the Governor the appointment pf the boards of ponn land benevolent Institutions, each board consisting of throe members. Tho house voted down the Erwin amendment to tho gehoral tax law and ordered the bill engrossed as rocoiUmonded by the State tax commissioners. Much time was spont ill consideration of the general appropriation bill. The donate accomplished a good deal of routine work, and rushed through a number of House bills. At 4 o’clock both houses udiourned in recognition of Washington’s birthday. The Erwin nntl-insuranco bill to prohibit the employes’ insuranoe operated by the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio railroad companies was handed down on third reading in the House. Thursday, and passed without debate.

The bill by Johnson of Dearborn, limiting the number of days county assessors may be employed and grading them according to peculation, passed. Dailey's bill to put a Democrat on the Monument Commission to succeed Gon. Bennett was read tho third time and passed without debuto by a party vote. Ader's celebrated bill for licensing drummers, brokers, clrcusos. and wire dancers was read tho third time and passed. Dr. Passage's road bill, requiring owners of toll roads to have eight inohes of gravel on them came up on third reading and passed without debuto. The Houso legalized the incorporations of Cayuga. Crothorsville. and West,Shoals in a bunch. The following bills passed tho Houso, Friday: Tho administrative tax bill; providing for tho tuxution of sloepiug-oar. (olograph, telephone, express, and freight dispatch companies; for handling school supplies just ns school books arc sow handled under the law of 1889; prohibiting the collection of 10 cents premium onrush railway fares; providing for the iiicirporation of voluntary live-stock lnsuruuie companies. The balance of the day was consumed In considering the appropriation bills. Senate—Bills passed; Providing a now charter for Evansville; changing the name of Circle Park io "Monumental Place," providing for the punishment of trespassers or demollshments of the property, and to allow tpo completion .of the monument without any additional appropriations; abolishing Che printing of sample ballots; providing for metropolitan police force system in all aitlos between 10.000 and 36,000 Inhabitants; Co amend an act concerning the weight of coal; allowing people who have an open ditch to convert the same into a tlie drain: authorizing tho county commissioners of tho different counties to increase the salaries of circuit and superior judges to as muoh as $4,000, including their salaries received from tho Btute. Minor State llama. Franklin citizens are protesting against street paving with brick. Joseph Ahuott. a retired business man and prominent Frcomason, died at Elkhart, aged 07. Dan Mise. aged 30, caught betwoen two logs at Maley’s sawmill at Sullivan and was crushed to death. Owen I*. Scarff of Madison City, har been appointed Government Guager jtnd assigned to dutv at Hammond,' Ind. Mrs. Havens, a Montpelier woman, aged 70 years, fell on the ice breaking both legs and fracturing her shoulder. The gardeners and farmers around Seymour are preparing to engage much more extensively than usual in the raising of strawberries this year. William Moore of Nashville, Brown County, who was shot by bis nephew a few days ago, has died, and young Joe Moore, the murderer, has been arrested.

An Innocent Little Cherub.

in a certain aristocratic family in Austin there is a young lady, and she has a beau, and the presumption is he is not particularly bashful when he and the apple-barrel of his affections are , alone, or think they are. What . strengthens this view of the case is the fact that the young lady has a small brother named Jimmy, and the other night there was a tea-party at the ■family mansion, and the supper-table was very much crowded—so much so that Jimmy’s younger sister was crowded up very close to him, whereupon he made the remark out loud: “Mamma, sis trowds me so close I can’t breeve. I ain’t her beau, am I?” If Jimmy should become unwell, that beau would not lie the proper person to send for a doctor in a hurry. —Texas Siftings.

The Testimony of an Expert.

In discharging a boy who was acquitted of shooting a companion, on the ground that, though he handled a loaded revolver carelessly, the shootifeg was accidental, Judge Gildersleeve, ex-Cap-tain of , the American rifle-team, said: “You should not have a leaded pistol upon your person or about you. I may claim that I have had an extensive experience in handling fire-arms, yet I ■ t would as soon have a rattlesnake near me as a loaded gun, and one is likely to be as dangerous as the other.”

Aphorisms from the Quarters.

Your luck ain’t always ekul to de lenk o’ your fishin’-pole. Grass don’t grow high roun’ de corncrib. De man ain’t put together right dat don’t lub his own dorg. It takes a hones’ miller to keep lean shotes. . % Don’t kill de old goose in sight o’ d« fedder-bed. De full moon is i po’ han’ to keep secrets. 'Old hen got ’nough l’arnin’ to tell hex own Chilian in de da?k. — J. A. Macon, in the Century.

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AND ASCERTAIN ALL THE LATH INDIANA NEWS. A Catalogue of the Wtik’i Important Oeourronoao Throughout tlie State— Vitae, Aeetdenti. Crime*. JjuMfde*, Ete. v' Minor New*. Washington is talking Of starting & paper mill. - / Spotted fever has bfroken out ih.au epidemic form at P^tdloton. The dry goods and clothing houses at Laportenow close at 6 p. m. The revival at Thorntown has lust Closed with 207 conversions. The new bicycle factory at Cambridge City wlli soon begin operations' Benja'shn^Buffma n. aged 74 years, ' died noar Mahaiaavllle, of heart disease. Jake Hobbs, aged 28, was sentenced to State's prison for his third time at Muucie. David M. Rodgers, agod 60, of Rochester, was caught under a falling treo and Instantly killed. St. Joseph County has lost one of Its earliest settlors In tho death of David Bowman, residing near South Bend. C. a Cottingham, after fifteen years service as Assistant Postmaster at Kokomo. has resigned. M. S. Holman takes bis place. John Whitlock. 18 years old, was probably fatally injured at Noblesvtlla by his horse slipping on the ice and falD lug on him. Two strangers, wearing rubbet boots, are wading around In the streams In Brown County looking for gold. Thoy claim to bo from Maine. Charles Chastekn of Anderson, who a few days ago hod a leg cut off while in tho employ of tho L. E. & W. railroad Company, has sued for $25,000 damages. E. F. Hawkins, a notorious Indian doctor of Cannelton, was sentenced to five years In the penitentiary for crlroInally assaulting a little colored girl at Tell City. A natural-gas stove carolossly loft burning over night In the two-story brick schoolhouso at lllountvllle, Honry County, destroyed the building by fire; loss, SI,OOO. Wabash has sevoral cltlzons who claim to bo logal heirs to tho estate of Henry Yeslor of Soattle, Wash., valued at $1,500,000, and they aro clamoring to got a slice of It.

Harry Jones, an employe of tho Munctq Pulp Company, who sued the company for SIO,OOO becanso of Injuries received by a fall In their pulp mill, wa9 allowod $1,680 uy tho court. William Colbert, a brakomau on tho Big Four, whoso parents reside at La* gro, Wabash County, was latally InJurod whllo coupling cars at Nllos. Ho was caught botwoon tho buffers. The farmers of Cass County have boon swludlod by the lightning rod agont who contracts to put the rods on their houses for $7.50, but tho bill turns out to bo $750 and thoy have to fork It over. A few days ago a dispatch statod that a man named Gulloy had just died in California, leaving an estate of #1,500,000. John Oulloy, a farm hand noar Columbus, Is the only heir to this vast, estate. A bio doal botwoon Andorson pooplo sud Chicago and Eastern capitalists was consummated In tho former city recently. They sold 200 acres of land near tho city for #230,000 to the syndicate, which wilt erect factories on tho site. James Manner, tbo woll-known old gas woll driller, who was reported as dying very suddenly of heart trouble a few weeks ago Ip Hummltvllle. Is In Muncle, arid says ho know a 110 when he read it In tho papers. J. M. Fender’s team ran away at Llborty. and struck a buggy in which Albert Conklin was going to town. After tho collision voung Conklin was fished out from under the horses more dead than alive. He Is very seriously hurt. Henry 1 D. Lawshk of Somerset, Wabash County, father of A. L. Lawshe, editor of the Converse Journal, died of old age, be being over 77. He: had lived In Somerset nearly forty years.and was one of the prominent cltlzons of the county. ** During the funeral of Joseph Weaver at tho Christian Church In Noblesvlllo, the bnlldlitg was discovered to be on fire, add tho alarm came noar causing a panic. The fire department was callod out and the fire was extinguished without material loss.

Robert Lenfehtey, living about three miles east of Marion, undertook to repair a natural-gas regulator. He entered the building with a lantern, when an explosion occurred, t&rowlng him out of the building. He was seriously burned and tho building wrecked. Citizens of Fortville are agitating a scheme whereby a strip of territory one milo wido would be taken off ot Hancock County and annexed to Madison County, thereby straightening the north line of Hancock, which would locate the town of Fortville within Madison County.. W. G. Hildridth. conductor on a passenger train which runs between Brazil ond Momence, 111., on the Chicago and Indiana Coal Road, was klllod north of Brazil. In attempting to cross from one coach to another, Mr. Hlldrldth’s foot slipped, and be fell between the coaches, and was ground to pieces. He leaves a wife and family at Chicago. Patents have been granted Indiana inventors as follows: John H. Beck and E. G. Reilly, Peru, milk cooler; Frank P. Brewer, Angola, pruning saw; Frank E. Herdman, Indianapolis, electric elevator; Asa R. Hoy, Indianapolis, lubricator; Mary G. Minor, Colfax, dust pan; Marion Powers, Lexington, garden tools; Frank M. Reed, assignor of one-half to E. Shaw, Anderson, generator; Elwood F. Stephenson, Cartersburg, brick or tile Kiln: John L. Dish, assignor of one-half to W. P. Jones, Wabash, belt tightener; Albert M. Vaught, Portland, feed roller; David Wheat, Kent, Incubator; George W. Zigleii Anderson, burner for lighting or beating with natural or artificial gas. The dwelling of Fiem McCray, near Brick Chapel, burned with nearly all Its contents. The wife of Ellsbury O’Hair, in running to the fire, fell upon tbe tee and broke her leg. The jury in the case of tbe State against John Donavan, who, a month ago, assaulted and brutally beat Ftsher Ferry, city editor of the Wabash Times, who had “written him up," rendered a verdict of guilty, and fined Donavan $55 and costs, amounting to SIOO. Judge Cowgiil increased the bond to $l5O, and, in default, Douavan want to jail. John Ivory, who assisted in whipping the editor, got S2O and costs. Felix Haskins, 18, of Jasper, in company with two other boys, went out coon hunting. They treed a coon and proceeded to cut tbe tree down, when It fell and broke the limb of an adjacent tree, which struck young Haskins on the head, killing him almost instantly. B. F. Johnson, an employe of the Star woolen mills. Wabash, was caught while attempting to throw a belt on a rapidly revolving wheel, and carried un against tbe ceiling and around a shaft several times. Every stitch of clothing save hte shoes was stripped from his body, and when be fell to the floor he waadelirious. Strange to say, he was not dangerously hurt His vest, containing a gold watch, was wrapped tightly around the shaft