Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — Page 3

In Sheep's Clothing.

By Capt. Ormond Steele

CHAPTER XXVl—Continued. The Bound of gnawing, whioh had stopped while the officer was present, was again resumed, and Kalph Denham was on the floor, close to the place from which the souDd came. Outside the bustle and noise of boats being lowered, and the deep, gruff orders of the sailors could be heard. Captain Fox was preparing to conceal more of his treasure on shore. Tired of his position on the floor, Captain Denham went back, and was talking in a whisper with one of his men, his eyes still bent in the direction of the partition, when he saw a light that almost seemed dazzling after the darkness.

Out from the opening, as If carried by this stream of light, came Don the cabin boy. Rushing up to Captain Denham, the only man not in a hammock, Don said eagerly: “I've loosed the plank, and you can come through. Oh, lam so glad that you know your danger, for my heart has been sore for you. ” “We came with a full understanding of the danger. We do not want to get on deck now, but when the time comes we desire you to be near to guide us, ” said Captain Denham. “How shall I know the time?” “When you hear a gun fired on board the Bea Hawk. She will be close by soon after daylight.” “I'll try. sir,” said Don, who recognized in the voice of the man addressing him a ring of command, such as he could not associate with an ordinary sailor. “But I’ll go back and close the place from the other side, and if I am pot near when the signal is given, go through and turn to the right; there will be plenty of daylight then. You will pass through the store-room and armory, where you can got arms if you’ll need them. To the left are the steps leading to the deck. ”

“God bless you, Don. We’ll And the place, and reach the deck. Now go, go!" The Captain’s voice was nervously imperative; for in the distance he could hear a vigorous knocking, accompanied by the call: “Don! Don! What the blazes are you sleeping for when the Captain wants you?” Don darted through the opening, and put out the. light. As he pushed the plank into place, he called out with admirable presence of mind, for his voice sounded like that of a sleepy boy: “Aye, aye, sir! Coming!” and the next instant the banging of a door could be heard: As Don ran out, a man shouted to him: “The Cap’n’s been a callin’ for you, youngster; you’ll be mighty luoky If you don’t get a right good lashin’ with a rope end. ” Don heard, but made no inquiry till Jie stood before Captain Fox on the deck. With a savage oath the captain demanded: “Where have you been, you dog?” “I was about to turn in, sir,” replied Don. “Did I toll you to?” “I thought you did, sir.” “You have no right to think. Next time you are not on hand, you young dog, 111 keelhaul you. Do you understand me?” “Yes. sir.” “Very well. Leap into that boat and bear a hand,” said Fox, pointing over the side, where in the darkness the dim outline of a longboat could be seen, with a number of men in it.

Don leaped into the boat and took the post of coxswain. All night long Lea and Ellen, who occupied the same stateroom, could hear the boats ooming and going. To say thfij wore frightened would but. weakly across the state of their feelings. Could they have seen their own white faces, a common sympathy would have Increased their terror. But they knew that Kalph Denham and his gallant men were on board, and they tried to cheer each other by reiterating their knowledge of this fact. Had they known Ralph Denham’s actual condition they might not have drawn so much comfort from his proximity. At length the boats took their last load to the shore, and Captain Fox, who had been superintending the concealment of the booty, came back with them. Day dawned, and the distant headlands and the island under the lea seemed to lift from the dark waters by the power of light. Two of the boats were left alongside; and now Fox and Frenauld entered the cabin and called in excited tones for their visitors to come out.

Lea and Ellen tried to obey, but they found to their horror that they were locked in. They raised their voices, but amid the din and uproar outside they could not be heard. Dootor Hedges, supposing that his daughter and Ellen Condit had preceded him, was about to descend to the boat, when an eager glance told him they were not there. Turning to Frenauld, who stood near, he asked: “Where is my daughter and Ellen Condit?" “They will follow you. Hurry up. There is not a moment to spare. Captain Kidd is in sight! ” A number of sailors on hearing this burst into a loud roar of laughter. The Dootor, now completely beside himself, wa3 seized bodily by strong hands and lowered into the boat “Pull away, my lads,” shouted Frenauld to the men in the boat. “But my daughter. Oh, heaven, my child!” cried the Doctor. Seeing Captain Fox, he continued: “Send down my child and Ellen! I can see no sign of the pirate!" “Then I will show him to you,” laughed Fox, “Look well at me, my old friend." The Doctor raised his white face and imploring eyes, and the outlaw shouted: “I am Captain Kidd, and your daughter’s in my keeping!” Again Frenauld shouted for the men to pull away. And as they did so, Doctor Hedges fell back in the boat and looked to be dead.

CHAPTER XXVII. THE SEA HAWK COMES UP, AND THE SIGNAL GUN 13 FIRED. The town of Sag Harbor was excited to its center by the conduct of Captain Fox. All the families in the place were related by blood, or ‘connected by marriage, or united by those ties of friendship, equally strong, which they had in-

herited from their sturdy ancestors. The people carried off by the Wanderer were among the very best in the place, the flower of its soolety. No reason could be given for Fox’s conduct. It was evident to the most simple-minded that the act was deliberate and therefore malicious. The people gathered in excited groups, and their spirits rose for a while, when they saw the ship come about and try to beat up the harbor. But their relief from anxiety was only temporary, for again the Wanderer tacked and headed for the open water. In the midst of the excitement a coach and four, guarded by a number of horsemen, drew up before the inn, and from it, aided by a provincial officer, descended a stately lady in black. She wa3 about five and forty, and the face still retained Its nobility of form, though lines of care had seriously marred a countenance that must once have been of surpassing loveliness. The landlord came out and the young officer addressing him, said: “I desire apartments for the Countess of Pallton. ” The overpowered landlord rubbed his hands, bowed himself double and was about to lead the way into the house when the lady stopped him by asking: “Can you tell me if Lord Pal—l mean one Colonel Graham, is stopping here?” “He is, my lady,” said the landlord. “And a gentleman named Captain Ralph Denham lives here?” “Yes, my lady, but he is not here now. Ho is in New York.”

The lady looked at the landlord sharply, as if going to deny this, but, changing her mind, she motioned for him to show her the way. As the party entered the inn, old Dinah amazed the crowd by raising her hands above her head and crying aloud: “Oh, praise en bress de Lor'. She libs, my lady libs!” “What do you mean, Dinah?” asked one of the bystanders. “ Conscious that she had been hasty, the old woman soized her staff, and muttered, as she turned away: “I can’t talk en ’splain at de same time. ” The coming of the coach with Its outriders did not lessen the excitement. The arrival of the Countess, her inquiry for Kalph Denham, and the fact that she bore a striking resemblance to the young Captain, were talked about and commented on by those who forgot, for the moment, the departure of the Wanderer. It was now quite dark, and all the people in town were on the street; women wailing for their lost ones, men armed and anxious to use their weapons, and frightened children clinging to their mothers’ skirts, and wondering what it all meant. But the subjects of talk and wonder were not yet over. The boys, believing that they should do something to show their interest, had lit bonllres all along the street, and by their light the people saw what appeared to their excited imaginations to be a great army entering the town. The young people had never seen the Montauks in war drees, nor heard their war songs, but the older men reoognlzed in the sound that struck their ears one heard in their childhood, and never forgotten. The boys, in their excitement, threw morefuel on the fires, and as the flames leaped up they flashed on the noble form of CJntilla. who marched at the head of her warriors.

On her head was the plume of Wyandauch, and in her right hand the silvertipped spear of the mighty chief. With measured step, two hundred armed men came down behind her. The red paint that distinguished their fierce ancestors in battle they had discarded, owing to their higher civilization: but the stirring war song which they shouted was the same which the united Montauks and Pequots had sung when they had repelled in days past the invasion of the Narragansetts, or went in their war canoes to the homes of their ancient foes. Untilla turned neither to the right nor the left, and paid no attention to the salutations that greeted her tilj she led her warriors to the shore. While all this was going on in the town, Lieutenant Hedges and Valentino Dayton were not idle on board the Sea Hawk. They saw the W r anderer sailing away with their friends, but they were powerless to prevent an act that filled them with anxiety. The moment Fox’s ship disappeared from the harbor, Lieutenant Hedges said to Valentine: “Now, my lad, the time for hard work has come. ” “And how shall we begin?” asked Valentine, who had unlimited confidence in his uncle’s capacity and courage. “We must get these cursed pirates out of the way—l’d like to hang them at once. ” “How are we to do it?” “First, how many sets of irons have we on board?”

“Enough to ornament the men sent from the Wanderer, replied Valentine. “Good! Now have them called in by fours to the ward room for enrollment. Disarm them, for the dogs, as you will see, are lined with knives and pistols; then put them in irons, and place a guard over them,” said Mr. Hedges, his blue eyes blazing with anger. The Wanderer’s men on board the Sea Hawk were comforting themselves with the belief that not a shade of suspicion attached to them. They expected to be enrolled, as their names were not yet taken by the officers of the Sea Hawk; but they were somewhat astonished when Mr. Dayton prdered them into the ward room by fours. Those who went smilingly down were searched and ironed at once, and so could not communicate with their mates on desk. But even If they had been able to do so they could not have made a successful resistance, for the Sea Hawk’s men were at their posts, ready to shoot down the first man who showed a sign of insubordination. At length the fifty men, who had expected to play so important a part in the capture of the Sea Hawk, were all prisoners in the hold of the ship, with armed men to guard them. Valentine Dayton having completed this task reported the fact to his superior officer. Mr. Hedges had received Fox’s instructions just before he sailed to follow in the morning. As the understanding with Fox was that the Sea Hawk should not sail till the supply ship came, he was puzzled to know why the pirate had changed his mind. However, as he had planned with Captain Denham to follow at daylight, and begin to fight with the Wanderer the moment he came within reach. Fox’s order did not annoy him. “And how do the wretches take the situation?” asked Lieutenant Hedges, when Mr. Dayton returned. “They don’t like it; they are swearing like pirates,” replied Valentine, smiling at his unpremeditated joke. “The dogs! I am glad they can be true to themselves in something. Now, Mr. Dayton, get all the boats ready to transport Untilla and her people on board,” said Lieut. Hedges.

The Sea Hawk’s men were sn the alert; they knew just what was wanted of them, and they Were as eager as their officers to do all In their power to insure the success of the desperate venture in whioh they were embarked. The five boats were soon lowered away, and properly manned, and under the immediate direction of Mr. Dayton they pulled for the shore. Under Untilla’s lead there were 217 young men, tbe flower of the Montauk tribe; men who would have followed Uncas to the death, as they did his sister, had he shown himself worthy of leadership. Lights were hung along the bulwarks of the Sea Hawk, and the remnant of the sailors on board met their red allies in full uniform. The first person to reach the deck was Untilla, and so glad was Lieut Hedges to see her that he could have caught her in his strong arms and kissed her. The gallant sailor was even more In love than he had imagined. At length the last of the Montauks engaged in this expedition was on board the Sea Hawk, and assigned to quarters where they could be comfortable for the night. Lieut Hedges was so thoroughly acquainted with all these waters that he could sail them as safely on an ordinary night as under the full light of the sun. He was about to give the order to get under way, when a boat came alongside with Squire Condit. The squire saw the preparations going on about him and understood their objeot. He was sorely troubled about his daughter; but there was a great deal of iron in his nature, and now that a blow was to be struok at the wretch who had so violently disturbed the peace of the town and endangered those dear to him, he was not the man to force his own troubles Into prominence. To defeat Fox he was willing to risk, and, it need be, to sacrifice his own life; but he knew that his presence was not necessary on the ship while It was in the distracted town.

“I’ll only detain you a moment," said the Squire, as he held Lieutenant Hedge’s hand. “You know, old friend, how all my life and happiness are involved in the oontest. On that pirate’s ship are my adopted son and daughter; advise your men to watch for them when they shoot, and if possible to aim to one side. That’s all. ’’ The Squire shook hands with Valentino Dayton, told him to keep a brave heart, for God would preserve Ellen, and then left the ship as suddenly as he had come. “The wind and tide are in our favor," said Lieutenant Hedges, addressing Valentine, “and they may not be if we wait for light, so we’ll up anchor and drop down, and beat about till daylight shows us the pirate. ” “May I ask, sir, if you will fight at long range or close quarters?” asked Valentine. “We can’t use the Montauks at long range. No, sir; we shall run alongside, grapple, ana drop anchor. Muzzle to muizle, hand to hand, and eye to eye. We must get to our Captain, lad, and you know where he is?” “On the deck of the Wanderer,” replied Valentine, catching his unde’s spirit. Up rose the anchors, and the loosened sails came down and fluttered In the wind So well did the sailors know what was wanted that they anticipated orders before they were given. Every light on board the Sea Hawk was extinguished, and she turned in obedience to the helm and shot down the harbor, the courier of a righteous vengeance. |TO BE CONTINUED, j

AT THE ’PHONE.

She Was a Nervous Woman and Wanted to See Her Husband. “Hel-lo!” said Mrs. Van Smith sweetly as she took down the telephone receiver without thinking to ring. “Hello! [A pause.] Oh, dearl Hei-10-o! Why don’t they answer? [Another pause.] Oh, I forgot to ring. How absurd! [Rings.] Hello! Is this Oh. why are they so slow? Hello! Say, hello! [Rings again.] O, that’s them at last. Well, say, is this Mr. Van Oh, hello’. [Sundry rings and pauses.] Is this Mr. Van Smith? [Another pause.] Is this Mr. Why don’t you answer? Oh, hello, hello! Who—is—this? [Pause.] Oh, central office! Why, I dont want any central office. 1 want the Van Smith Consolidated Cheese 'Company. 1 want Mr. Van Smith. V-a-n-s-m [lnterruption and pause.] What number? How do I know what Directory? Telephone directory? Where? Tied to this ’phone? Oh! All right! [Espies telephone directory at right of transmitter and opens it.] Let’s see; Van, v—p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w—v comes between u and w. Oh, here it is; the Van Smith Consol Main number 4022. [lnto the ’phone.] Say, hello! Oh, my good gracious! I’ve got to ring again. [Sundry further wild rings and 'subsequent pauses.] At last! Is that you? [A paused] My, what Impudence! I mean, who is this? We]U, give me—[Aside] —where is that telephone book? Wait a minute! [Consults directory.] Give me main number four thousand and twenty-two! Four, yes, four, that’s it” [Long pause, varied by moaned and muttered “hellos.”] “Say, who is this? Is this Mr. Van Smi ? Well, say, who—what—why, I am close to the ’phone —as close as I can get [Louder.] Is this Mr Van Smith? Well, is he there? Well, say, will it be too much trouble to let him know that if he’s there somebody wants to see him? Tell him I want to see him. Yes, I! It’s me wants to see him.” [Saddened voice, barely audible, coming from the ’phone: “Madam, will you kindly gather together your intellectual forces to explain who you are? The supply of is practically unlimited.”] [Mrs. Van Smith continuing.] “Oh! the mean thing! I’m Mrs. Van Smith. [Long pause.] Who is this? [ecstatically ] Charley? Yes, dear. Well, say, Charley, I just wanted to know if you were there. You are there, aren’t you? Well, that’s all. Good-by! Good-by!” [Goes away leaving the receiver hanging down.] —'Chicago Record. Presence of Mind. There is nothing like presence of mind after all. The other day, during a tremendous shower, a gentleman entered a fashionable ciub, bearing a splendid ivory -handled silk umbrella, which he placed in the stand. Instantly another gentleman, who was mourning the abstiaction of just such an article, jumped up. “Will you allow me to look at that?” he said sternly. “Certainly,” remarked the umbrella-carrier. “I was just taking it to the police-station. It was left in my house last night by a burglar whom we frightened off. I hope it will prove a flrst-rate clue. * And, though the exasperated owner could plainly see where his name had been scratched off the handle, he sat down and changed tbe subject

REAL RURAL READING

A DEPARTMENT FOR OUR LOCAL AGRICULTURISTS. Farmers Should Carefully Consult the Markets—A Homemade Row MarkerVariety In Pasture —Cheap Feed Rack— Gooseberries and Currants—General Farm Notes. Consulting the Markets. To meet a demand for special product's, one must know what the demand is, writes a correspondent of an agricultural journal. The special requirements ot a market may be nothing better than a mere whim or caprice, but they must be met If a ready sale is expected. If the market requires brown-shelled eggs it is folly to offer those with white shells. Tho latter may l e just as good as the former, but so long as the former have the call they are the ones to lie furnished. Or if the market requires yellow legs and yellow skin on dressed poultry, it is unwise to oiler poultry with white skin and dark or white legs It is true that people do not eat the shanks of fowl-, and some of the best table fowls in the world have white, or dark shanks and a white skin, but .-o long as the fancy of the buyer demands the yellow color, that is the color to supply. One cannot afford to spend his time educating people out of their whimsical notions, if he expects to make money out of his trade. So long as no principle is sacrificed, so long us their notions can harm no one, not even themselves, the poultry rai er Is not hound to saerice his profits in attempting to remove the prejudices of his customers. He is raising fowls for businoss/not for fun, and must adopt business methods, always remembering there is some good reason for the public taste and fashion. A Row Murker. To insure straight rows in field or garden, the ground should be marked before plant ng. a convenient implement for this purpose is shown in the accompanying illustration, from the American Agriculturist. A sixinch pole twelve feet long, of red elm or white oak a has a tongue pinned below it and braced by an old arch of a two-liorse cultivator morticed through the pole and pinned above the tongue. A second pole b four inches through is attached to the Ar t by pieces of oue-fourth by one and

A HOMEMADE MARKER

one-fourtn inch strap of iron passing loosely around the front pole, but bolted to the blocks e which are twenty inches long and six Inches through, and pinned above the back pole. The holes for the marker p'ns should be bored where needed. Wood pins need one and one-half inch holes, iron pins one-half inch. These holes should be so bored that the pins wjll slant back while marking. The pins d which fasten the back pole to the connecting blocks e should be made six inches longer for this purpose. A double tree can be attached to the tongue in the usual manner. By using a heavy back log, an excellent clod crusher, leveler, or weed and cornstalk breaker can be made. Fanner* as Speculators. “Talk about speculators,” said a produce dealer the other day; “tho;e Isn’t a greater speculator out than the fanner. If the price of any product goes up he never wants to sell; no matter how high the price, he always wants more. After the price begins to go down ho wants to sell, and usually gets a lower price than he might have obtained.” Unfortunately there is too much of truth In this statement The dealer in question c ted several instance* in support of his statement Every seller wishes to get all possible for his wares. This is natural and light, but it isn’t always easy to tell just when the right point has been reached. It is generally better to sell on a rising than on a falling market When an unusual higu figure has been attained, it isn’t reasonable to suppose that that price will be long sustained.—Rural NewYorker.

Gooseberries and Currants. Gooseberries and currants do best when planted on a north or east slope. Too much sun is not good for them. But both gooseberries and currants must have good culture and the worms must he killed as soon as they are hatched. They hatch out on the lower leaves about blooming time, or a little later. The grower must keep his eye peeled, for it only takes these pests about two days to strip off every leaf, and that means no crop. There are several broods of them in a season. The first coming before the fruit is formed may be killed with paris green; later broods with hellebore. The successful growth of any of these fruits for market demands constant care and attention, and also knowledge and skill.

Variety in Pasture. Farmers do not either for meadow and pasture seed down with sufficient variety to make the best feed. Only amateur wealthy farmers sow the sweet-scented vernal grass. Yet who has been over a field that has had even a little of this in haying time, who has not been delighted with its fragrance. It is good, too, in the hay mow, for the sweet perfume permeates the entire mass, and stock of all kinds eat it better. Besides, with a variety of grass there is sure to be a good stand, one succeeding where another has failed. It is far better to have a vaiiety of the best grasses in pasture than a scattering of timothy and clover and all the bare spaces filled with weeds. Over Manuring Grain Crop*. The fact that stable manure contains too much nitrogen and too little potash and phosphate makes it unsuitable for manuring the small grains. To furnish thj mineral elements that grain crjps require an overdose of manure must be given, and this makes an excessive growth of straw. If the stable manure is applied to corn and potato crops, the crops of oats, barley, or wheat grown

the second or third years will need only mineral elements. This is especially true of winter wheat It is sown after more or less summer cultivation which has developed nitrogen from decaying matters in the spiL An Idea for a Feed Rack. Tnis feed rack, described in Farm and Home, is simply a square box, no bottom in, and open at topi It is 10 ft long, 3$ ft wide and 4. ft high. The letters A show the lower part boarded up 20 in. The letters B show the top board' Ixo in. The letters G are the upright boards Ixox4 ft. long, all well nailed together with wrought nails and clinched. Each side of the rack is made separately, then hooked together with book and

staples at each corner above and below. The feed is thrown in at the top Cattle reach in through the spaces between the boards Cto eat This rack is intended for hay, corn, fodder or feed of such kind. It is far better than the old X rail racks, as cattle do not need to roach overhead to eat and get their eyes full of dirt, but reach down, which is natural. Neither can they run over their feed and dirty and waste it if intended for sheop made the spaces for reaching the feed smaller or tho sheep will jump inside. Clean Cultivation of Small Fruits. Strawberries, raspberries, and other small fruit plants require frequent and clean cultivation to produce the best results. When grown In largo quantities, they should ho so planted as to admit of horse cultivation. On land free from stones, a caroful man with a steady horse and the use of the improved cultivators tho work can be so neatly and closely done that but little uso of the hand hoc Is required. The great point is to commence the cultivation early, when the weeds are small and easily destroyed with shallow stirring, which disturbs no roots.

Work for Rainy Day*. It is so often necessary to work over hours in pleasant weather that when a rainy day comes In summer tho farmer may profitably devote It partly to intellectual liup:ovcment. Ho can at least then tako time to estimate carefully wh:it needs to bo dono and plan as to the best way of dping it. This will require study and prove the best possible Intellectual exercise. It least requires as much executive ability to keep everything on a largo farm in order and working smoothly as it does to manage a manufacturing or commercial business. Rapid Cooling: of Milk. The housekeeper always sets milk in a cool place, not merely as she says “to keep It better,” but to Insure the more rapid separation of croam from the water and casein with which in milk it is always mixed. Tho creamery does this by enclosing the milk in ice, so suddenly cooling it that the cream rises without having the milk soured. Its process is patented; but tho idea is not, and explanation of the principle will helD housewives to make more and better butter, even though they cannot afford to buy a creamer. *.

Cause of Sour HUago. One of the principal causes of sour silage is cutting corn too green. Dr. Miles tell us that sour silage may often be caused by too rapid tilling, excluding the air, so that the temperature is not allowed to rise high enough to kill the bacteria causing the termentation. Oases are cited where slow tilling and loose packing have resulted In excellent sweet silage. It is probable, however, that the maturity of the corn has more to do with its acid condition than the manner of tilling. Planting Tree* In Orchards. The idea that by any care in management young peach trees can be planted In squares between the center of rows of fully-grown apple trees, and made it to grow, is a grave mistake. No matter if you “Intend to dig out the apple trees next winter.” The tree will not grow any better for that this yea”. If young trees are bought for such places, plant them In some rich location where they will have all the ground to themselves, and transplant In the fall or spring.

Sheep and Wheat. Where plowing is done for wheat, sheep are the best stock to keep on the plowed land to compact its surface. They will eat down weeds and the growth of scattered grain, and thus prevent any need of cultivation which makes the soil too light Their manure is scattered more evenly than that of any other stock. Sheep can be put on wheat in the fall to crop its growth with advantage to the crop. Poultry Notes. Dust is death to lice, and the fowls should have free access to it Once a week parch a little cracked corn quite brown and feed to chicks. Chickens, like sheep, • cannot te crowded together in large flocks without breeding disease and becoming an easy prey to death.

A Pekin duck lays from 120 to 150 eggs in a year, and it is not hard to make a pair of young Pekins weigh ten pounds when ten weeks old. They are a profitable fowl. Linseed meal is exce!lentrfor>poultry, containing, as it does, portions of nitrogen that is of benefit to fowls. It Is not intended as a regular daily ' food, but once a week is not out of place. The annoyance of having too many males among the flock of hens ought i to cease soon after the egg for early chickens are dropped and set Few people make anything from the lateset eggs, and the hens will produce more eggs If not made fertile than ',hey will if the rooster is always In their company. Great numbers of moderately good people think it fine to talk scandal; they regard it as a sort of evidence of theli ®wh goodness. - P. W. Faber

A STAGNANT COUNTRY.

The Sultanate of Morocco, Africa, Under the Curse of Inaction. One of the most stagnant countries in the world is the Sultanate of Morocco, Africa, a territory that under an enlightened government and

GATEWAY IN LARACHE

with an ambitious people might become one of the most progressive as it is one of the most fertile regions of the earth. But everything there is stationary. The mineral wealth of the country, which is very great, is undeveloped; agriculture is primitive: manufacturing business is little carried on; the maritine commerce Is wholly carried on by foreigners; and education is at a low ebb. Tho interior of the country Is but little developed and there are but few roads except in tho vicinity of towns. Most of tho towns are little better In their appointments, modern Improvements being taken into consideration, than mountain hamlets. Some of them, however, contain neat buildings of Moorish architecture. Wo present two Illustrations, one showing a Moorish gate, called tho Gate of Justice, in the town of Laraclio, the other the interior of a hotel or fondak, In tho town of fondak, In tho town of Mcqulnez. It should be noted that in Morocco hotels are

INTERIOR OF A HOTEL IN MEQUINEZ.

often used as exchanges for commercial business as well as for the purpose of affording food and rest to strungers.

PERPLEXING THE DEPUTY.

Hurd Work to Summon a Ctoorglu Woman to Court. Summons serving is nevor a pleasant task, and it Is often a dangerous one. In Georgia there is a generally antagonistic spirit on the part of the citizens toward the court officers. Ono of these unfortunates named Frank Hall recently went to the town of Effle to servo a Summons on Sirs. Clark. When he reached her house he told her he would toll her his business If sho would not got mad. After taking her vowy he pulled out the summons and gave It to her. She would not take it, and he threw It down on the table. She picked It up the fire tongs, and smutted him trying to put it back In his pocket. He started home; she followed, threatening to shoot him If be did

A DIFFICTLT MISSION.

not stop and take the summons. He outran her to the mill, got on his horse, and left.

A Sagacious Dog. There Is a prominent business man In Washington, says the Post, who is somewhat of a dog fancier, and takes pride in a pair of English setters that have held a prominent place In several bench shows In the country. Some months ago one of them developed an incipient case of ophthalmia and was taken to an oculist for treatment just as naturally as would have been any other member of tire family. The treatment, which consisted of drops to be put in the patient’s eye, proved quite successful and relieved the trouble for a time, but after awhile it came on again, and a second expedition was planned to the doctor’s. Film Flam seemed to know where he was going, for on entering the square where the oculist had his office he raced ahead of his master and got up the steps where he had been but once before, and on the door being opened bolted straight for the treatment room, instead of waiting his turn downstairs, as two legged patients learn to do, to their sorrow and impatience. This time the treatment was a zinc solution that was very severe and brought the water in streams from the patient’s eyes, but he took it with his nose in the air, never wincing, and the only sign of feeling he made was to hold out one paw pathetically for his master’s hand.

AROUND A BIG STATE.

BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDU ANA NEWS. What Our Neighbor* Are Doing—Matter* or General and Local Interest—and Deaths—Accident* and Crime*—Personal Pointer* About Indlanlans. Not Exactly Enoch Arden. Twenty years ago Aaron Steinbach tv as a prominent farmer near Plymouth, (Marshall County, this State. He owned a farm of fifty acres and had considerable cash deposited in the county-seat bank. About that time he decided to leave the farm and abandon his wife and two baby boys, but before he did that he deeded the farm to his wife and gave her SSOO in cash. He was not heard from until the other day, when ho appeared at the doors of the Home for Feeble-minded Youth in Fort Wayne. He stated that aftor ho left Marshnll County he wont to Kansas and purchased a farm and there married a second wife. Years rolled on and tho deserted Mrs. Steinbach married again. Her second husband was not thrifty, and squandered the farm, and she died a broken-hearted woman. The twin boys were “sent to tho Soldiers’ Homo at Knightstown, and afterwards transferred to tho Feeble-minded Home. The boys always thought that both thoir parents were dead. The gray-haired man at tho Feeble-minded Institute said that ho was Aaron Steinbach, and tho father of the 20-year-old twins, and ho wanted to take them back to Kansas. The officers of the institution will release tho boys as soon ns they are assured of the Identity of tho old man.

flrtaf State I tenia. Jackson County’s melon crop is good. The now town of Ingalls lias annexed 240 acres. Gas City and Jonesboro are now called tho “twin cities.” There are fifty-three inmates In Franklin’s Orphan’s Homo. A valuable mineral spring has hoen discovered nour Charleston. Tippecanoe County wheat is said to ho almost 20 per cent, short. The Second National Bank of Vincennes has commenced business. Toll roads in Wayne County have been abolished by a popular voto. Pike County Commissioners have ordered tho building of a now jail. Five houses and several barns at Goshen wore destroyed by lightning. Old settlors of Knox County have a grand reunion at Vincennes, August 3. Washington Brunemer, a farmer near Franklin, was killed by lightning. SHARPERS are working northern counties by soiling bogus territorial privileges for a windmill. Vide Thornhurg, a wealthy farmer, aged IX), near Farmland, was soriously injured in a runaway accident. Houleham &.Stump’s hardware and carriage house, Crawfqrdsville, wasdesroyoa by an incendiary lire. Loss, *25,000. Earl Shirley, a popular young man of Elkhart, was drowned while bathing in tho river. Tho body was recovered. The wooden brldiro across White iUvor, at Martinsville, destroyed In March by a cyclono, has been replaced by a 14,000-dollar iron structure. At Knightstown, Ira Martin, a lad of 12 years, died a painful death caused by eating groen gooseberries. It is supposed thut poison used oil the berry bushes was tho causo. An attempt was made to wreck a passenger train on the T. H. & L. road near Itoekvillo, by placing ties on the track. Tho obstruction wus noticed in time to Hag tho train. Loganspout citizens are roaring mad over tho proposod plan of tho natural gas companies to put motors in the consumers’ houses and charge so much per thousand feet. Wheeler brothers wero threshing wheat near Murtinsvlllo when sparks from the engine sot fire to and destroyed tho thresher, stacker, and other machinery. Loss, $1,000; no insurance.

Mitfi. Helen O’Bannon, ono of tho principal witnossos in tho famous Reynolds will case, is now an Inmate of the Logansport hospital. Her mind becamo unbalanced by the excitement of. tho trial. Thousands of dead fish have accumulated in tho Mississ'.nowa River, between Marion and Gas City and the stench is terrible. Thought that the rofußO from tho now paper mill at Gaa City bus poisoned therju Miis. Catherine Reynolds and daughter Nellie, who live five miles cast of Vernon, were driving to town tho other morning. The horse became frightened, ran away, throwing the occupants out and badly injuring Mrs. Reynolds about the head. The daughter is so badly injurod internally that her life is despaired. A Lafayette gas syndicate has leased 1,000 acres four miles north of filwood, f.nd will sink to supply that city with gas from the Madison County fields. It is understood that $2 per acre was paid for the lease. This action of local parties leasing gas lands to foreign syndicates is meeting with great disapproval and the farmers are being “roasted” for so doing. The engine of a Big Four passenger train, while passing Emanuel Grossnicklo’s wheat field, near North Manchester, set fire to the wheat and burned over ten acres of grain. The wheat had been harvested and shocked, and was remarkably heavy, but the stubble was so dry that the entire field was on fire, and all that was saved, about two acres, was done by plowing 1 a few furrows across one end, which stopped the spread of the flames. Edward Elkins, a baker, fell from the third-floor window at No. 418 Third street, Logansport, and was killed. He was in tho habit of sitting in the window when he could not sleep on account of the heat, and it is supposed he went asleep and fell out. While the fire that laid Princeton to the ground is a great blow to the people, they do not seem to be discouraged in the least. Tents are being pitched in all parts of the city, and business is going right along. The Western Union telegraph office is located in a livery stable, and Dr. Gilmore is pulling teeth under a tent. IN White River, just south of Columbus, Josiah Wentworth, aged 14, was drowned while in bathing. A number of companions were with him, but they were so excited that they failed to render him any assistance. The Adjutant General has made arrangements with Henry < raser, general agent of the Big Four, to carry the Indiana militia and their baggage and accoutrements to Markets, now known as Forest Park, on the occasion of the State Encampment. There will be eight carloads of freight. Forest Park has been fitted up at an expense of nearly $50,000 by citizens of Terre Haute, who wanted that city to have a park near bv.