Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — Page 3

AN IDYL OF HONOLULU.

A Bold Stroke for a Husband. Written for This Paper.

CHAPTER Vl—Continued. “And now for a serious word with you,” said Bullet, as he drew his chair close to Alma’s. “Has Benning' proposed yet?” “Not yet, father.” “Why don’t you fetch him to the point?’’ “I’m doing all I can.” “Well, you must do a little more,” said Bullet, with unwonted gravity. “If this marriage does not soon take place, it will never take place at all. There seems to fee a little leak somewhere. There are two or three sailors hanging around Honolulu who have seen the young man here, and who seem to know all about him. At least, they have a great deal to say, especially when they are in their cups, and I begin to fear that the secret may in some way reach Benning’s ears, or at least the ears of some one who will comprehend the situation and come here and claim him. As the case stands, something must be done immediately. How can we contrive to give him a shock—an impetus in the right direction—an awakener?” “I don’t know, I’m sure,” replied Alma, “unless I pretend to kill myself ” “Hush! What if he should hear you? Try to think of something practical. By the way, can you account for his coldness?”

“Certainly. He’s bound up in a desire to know who and what he formerly was, who are his relatives, and how he came here, and so on.” The old sailor looked startled. "Things are getting to a very critical pass. I see," he whispered. “Try to think of something over night that will concentrate his thoughts upon you.” - The “awakener” so ardently desired by Bullet and his daughter came sooner than it was expected. Impelled by his unrest, our hero again rambled off into the hills early in the forenoon subsequent to the conversation we have just recorded, and was absent several hours —so long, in fact that Alma again went to look for him. Following a trail which she supposed to be Ralph’s she advanced into the heart of one of those great solitudes which characterize so much of the interior of the island, when the snapping of a twig at her side caused her to start and look up quickly. Keeri was again beside her. The Kanaka was smiling now, but it was a grim sort of smile—one that rather convulsad than relaxed his features.

“I am glad to see you again,” he said, half mockingly. “I have just been selecting a snug retreat for you in one of the hills away here to the northward.” “For me?” cried Alma. “Yes, for you. And as I know that you will not honor it with a visit of your own accord, I shall take you thither against your wishes.” “Villain! don’t come a step nearer!” “But I will, though!” With this he seized her. We need not relate the details of the struggle that followed. Suffice it to say that her hands being duly secured, and a gag plaoed in her mouth, the girl was led away in the direction indicated by her desperate admirer. About an hour thereafter, having come home to dinner, and experienced the double shock of finding both his daughter and Ralph absent, the old sailor conceived a lively suspicion that something was wrong, and at once took down an old musket from a peg and started for the Creeka place, to learn if any one there knew anything of these unusual absences.

To his great surprise he found the premises in question utterly deserted. This third absence was significant in the highest degree, and it was in a perfect whirlwind of apprehension that Bullet began scouring the adjacent hills and forests. He had not gone far, however, when he beheld a Bight that brought him to an abrupt halt—Ralph Kemplin leaning against a tree and engaged in such a profound revery as to be utterly unconscious of everything around him. “Still thinking about his former self, I suppose,” thought Bullet. “Wonder if I can’t startle him into thinking of Alma ?” The case being at once stated to the young Chicagoan, he became as agitated as the old sailor cared to see him. The girl had not only been very kind to him, but had rendered him great services, especially in the matter of his new education—services for which he designed, as he had often assured himsell, to always treat her as a sister. “Yes, that cursed Kanaka has carried her off to some den in the mountains,” was the assurance with which Bullet concluded his harrowing tale, “and all because she has refused his offer of marriage, and because he suspects her of being engaged to you.” This was certainly putting the case upon a footing that touched our hero closely, and the zeal with which ho joined Bullet in a search for the missing girl can be imagined. During the remainder of the day, and all the subsequent forenoon, the couple scoured the great solitudes of the interior for some trace of the missing girl and Keeri, but all in vain. It wes not till the close of the second afternoon of their search that a clue was vouchsafed them, but it came at last. Just as the day was closing, and they were about to retreat from a narrow ravine into which they had descended, they saw a man emerge from a cave and look cautiously around. This man was Keeri, and the searchers at once comprehended the situation. They had traced the Kanaka to his lair.

CHAPTER VII. MARRIAGE HER ORUV PROTECTION. At sight of Keeri, so plainly revealed and so unsuspicious of any hostile presence, the old sailor smiled grimly, and his whole frame shook with a convulsion of joy and relief. “Cautious!” was his warning whisper. “At last we have him! We’ve only to finish as cleverly as we have begun. ” “His presence here is a sufficient indication of his business,” returned Ralph. “He’s not merelv hiding, but is here as Miss Bullet’s jailer.” “Of course—of course. The minute you set eyes on him you know that Alma is not far distant. I dare say we are within a few rods of her person. Take care that the infernal Kanaka does not see or hear us. He’d probably sooner murder the poor child than permit us to take her from him.” By this time the Kanaka had finished his keen survey of his surroundings, without detecting the presence of the two men, and commenced making his way down an abrupt declivity toward a small steam that wound its shining course along the bottom of the narrow valley. A pail he carried in his

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right hand indicated clearly enough tnat he was seeking a supply of water for himself or for his captive. “We have him!” breathed Bullet in Ralph's ear, as his grim smile gave place to a look of the sternest resolve. “You see the point for which he is making? From our present position we can almost drop ourselves upon him at the instant he is filling his pail. Do not hurt him any more than is necessary. He’s almost crazy, you know, with his love for Alma—and it’s little to be wondered at, for she’s a girl of a million.” The sternness of the old sailor’s countenance showed that this suggestion was more designed to influence Ralph than to spare the Kanaka. “Do just as you see me do, my dear Benning,” added Bullet, when Keeri had nearly reached the brook, “and we shall have him safe and snug in less than a minute." The event proved the justness of the old man’s calculations. At the very instant Keeri stooped beside the stream to fill his pail, the two men hurled themselves upon him. The contest that followed, however, was as desperate as it was short. The supple Kanaka exerted himself so violently that Ralph and Bullet had to set themselves earnestly to work before he was overpowered and bound securely. “So you’ve gone to keeping house in the hills, have you?” sneered Bullet, when at last the Kanaka lay panting and helpless at his feet. “Where is my daughter?” “Don’t you wish you knew, old man?” was the spiteful answer.

“We shall have to extract the desired information from him, I think,” suggested Ralph, quietly. “A good sousing in the nearest pool will probably loosen his tongue.” “I dare say. Let’s try it.” The two men laid hold of the Kanaka immediately, with an air which showed how earnestly they were in quest of information. “If the water don’t fetch him, we’ll tie him up by the thumbs, sailor fashion,” muttered Bullet, as he and Ralph bore their prisoner toward a considerable pool, which had formed at a bend in the stream. “He must tell us where Alma is or we’ll souse the breath out of his body. ” The determination of his captors could hardly have failed to affect the Kanaka. “Hold on!” he suddenly muttered. The two men stopped. “I’ll tell you where the girl is,” he said, “since I have been such a fool as to allow you to nab me. She is here with me—living in one of t!\ese caves. She is now my wife, Mr. Bullet. Partly by scaring her and partly by coaxing I have induced her to marry me.” “You had better tell that to the marines,” said Bullet, coldly. “I know Alma too well to credit your impudent lies. Your coaxing and. threats have been equally useless.” “You forget, old man, that Alma has been betrothed to me for years," said the unscrupulous wooer, as he turned his malignant glances upon Ralph. “She has always thought everything of me, and has long been deceiving you and the young American ’’ “Shut up, or I’ll throw you into the brook," interrupted Bullet, alarmed lest these falsehoods should have the effect intended: that of making trouble between Ralph and Alma. “All you have to do is to show us where the girl is, and we’ll hear what she has to say about these matters. And the sooner you tell us where she is the better it will be for you. ” Keeri bit his lips vengefully, but soon mastered his rage and mortification.

“She’s up there,” he muttered, jerking his head toward the spot where the two men had first seen him. “If you’ll set me free I'll show you the way to our hiding-place.” Ralph and Bullet exchanged glances. “I see no objections to setting him upon his pins,” said the latter, “so long as we keep a sharp look-out upon him. ” The feet of Keeri were accordingly free, and he was assisted to an upright position. “This way,” he enjoined. “If you leave me in this fix, however, you’ll have to help me. ” “Oh, we’ll help you fast enough,” returned Bullet. “Take hold'of him, my dear Benning. Between us we shall be able to manage him. ” The trio began the ascent of the declivity Keeri had so lately traversed, and were soon in a most difficult and dangerous spot —a narrow ledge upon the face of a precipice that towered fifty or sixty feet above the bottom of the valley we have mentioned. And then it was that the Kanaka suddenly precipitated himself against his captors with all his might, in an attempt to tumble them from this elevation into the rocky depths below. It was only by the watchfulness and vigorous dexterity of Ralph that this attempt was thwarted. “The treacherous snake!" muttered Bullet, when he had recovered his foot. “If he does that again, tumble him down the rocks without any ceremony. ” Keeri saw by the manner of Bullet that further violence would react upon himself, and that not the least credit would be given to any further falsehoods he might utter. He accordingly choked down his wrath, and assumed as resigned an air as possible. “I’ve played and lost,” he muttered. “But I dare say, old man, you won’t kill me for thinking too much of Alma?”

“That depends upon how you have treated her, ” returned Bullet sternly. “Lead on to the cave. ” The trio speedily reached the spot where the Kanaka had been discovered, and from this point a long and narrow opening into the rocky ledge became visible. “This is the place,” cried Bullet, after a single look around him. His voice was followed by a scream that came, faint and echoing, from the depths of the rocky passage in question. “It’s Alma,” added the old sailor, flushing with joy and relief. “We’ve found her.” Torches were hastily lighted, and the two men plunged into the rocky passage, Which was visibly the entrance of a cavern, dragging their prisoner after them. Ere long they came to a stout door, locked and barred, which had been fitted into a casing of heavy timbers at the narrowest point of the entrance. / “Are you here, Alma?” demanded Bullet. An inarticulate cry of joy was the first response to this query, but the words speedily followed: “Yes, I am here.*

•Safe and well?” ” Yes, safe and welj.* The old sailor drew a long sigh of relief, as did Ralph. It occupied only a few moments to find the key of the door in Keeri’s pocket and to use it, thus bringing the captive and her rescuers face to face. The scene that followed was sufficiently emotional, the girl not only clinging sobbingly to her father s breast, but also throwing herself impulsively into the arms of Ralph, with joyous cries and tears. And it was not without an answering emotion that he received these grateful effusions for his share in the rescue. As he had long been oblivious of oven Maida Stepp’s existence, no former memory preserved him from the full effect of Alma’s exaggerated gratitude. He did not love the wily girl, but he was gra.tful to her for all the interested kindnesses she had shown him, and he was neither so stony nor so wooden as to receive her demonstrations unmoved. To the contrary. as he found her arms thrown tightly around bis neck, at that moment of joyous excitement, he became conscious of a deeper interest in her than he had ever before experienced. Even Keeri perceived that he had lost more by his violence than he had gained. “How has the Kanaka treated you?” asked Bullet, as soon as Alma, with well-acted confusion, had withdrawn from the arms of the young Chicagoan. “Oh, very well,” replied Alma. “He has kept me a close prisoner and has tried to coax and scare me into marrying him, but he has not been particularly intrusive or dangerous. ” “What shall be his punishment?” “I think he’ll be punished enough if you take good care that he does not get hold of me again,” returned the scheming girl, with a stealthy glance at Ralph. “I’ll take good care for that—with Mr. Benning’s aid,” said Bullet. “But what a curious place the rascal fitted up for you here,” he added, waving his torch around him and marking the extent and contents of the cavern. “Everything indicates that he has taken time to prepare for vour long residence in this hiding-place.” “Certainly. He has been engaged for weeks in fitting up the place, and he has declared again and again that I should never leave it, unless under a solemn promise to marry him. But all his threats did not trouble me greatly, for I felt sure that Mr. Benning and you would find me.”

“Touching faith!” muttered Bullet, as he drew the back of his hand across his eyes. “But in this case it was not fallacious. Mr. Benning and I have indeed found you, never again to lose sight of you in such a way as this, if human foresight can prevent it. ” Leaving Keeri in the cave, so secured in well-knotted ropes that several hours would be consumed by him in setting himself free, the rescuers and Alma took their way homeward, Bullet leading the way, and the girl leaning heavily upon the arm of Ralph. That she had suffered from her captivity was apparent at a glance, her features being much thinner and paler than usual, but the fresh air, coupled with the excitement of the hour, soon brought the color to her cheeks. An easy walk of a couple of hours brought the trio to Bullet’s dwelling, where they proceeded to rest and recuperate from their fatigues and trials. |TO BE CONTINUED. |

The Deadly Lockjaw.

One of the most violent diseases that we have, lockjaw, has at last been found to be curable, and where 99 per cent, of those who contracted the disease were before sure to die, we now can rely upon nearly as large a percentage of cures. This disease has been a mystery until quite recently. Why one should contract lockjaw by running a small tack, splinter or other substance into bis body, and another escape all trouble, no one could understand. It was supposed for a long time that certain people had a predisposition to the disease, and the least wound inflicted this way would cause lockjaw. But now that the bacillus of lockjaw has been discovered we know differently. This bacillus Is in the shape of a drum-stick and contains a deadly poison. The bacillus Is found everywhere in the surface soil of the streets or fields, and every time we run any foreign substance into the body we run the risk of getting lockjaw. The germs are all around us in the dirt of streets, and this is why nails that are run into the feet when walking on the roads are apf to give the person lockjaw. The bacilli have congregated on the nail in great numbers, and when introduced into the system they get up a violent poison. A curious powder has now been obtained after a long series of experiments which will instantly kill the bacilli of lockjaw, and when patients are suffering from the dreaded disease an inoculation of the substance will generally eure the disease. The discovery of the cure quickly followed the discovery of the bacilli, and its habitation, and methods of growth.

How Do the Newsboys Manage?

The names of the Russian newspapers are noted for their brevity! and the ease with which Englishspeaking people may pronounce them. Here are a few specimens: Wjedomosty Gradonatshalstwa, Olonetzkija Goubernskija, Pskoffsky Gorodskoi Listok, Jekaterinoslawsky Listok, Wastotshuoje Objaaflenij, Estlandskija Goubernsk Wjedomosty, The tongue of the newsboy, which is seemingly capable of pronouncing almost everything unintelligible, would certainly require a great deal of twisting to shout the names and latest editions of these papers. Among the various periodicals all over the world there are papers devoted to no less than eighty-two separate and distinct trades, while ol class papers and those devoted to religious dogmas, creeds and scientific theories, there are 253 distinct groups. It is an interesting fact, quite worthy of mention, that newspapers of the United States are printed in more languages than those of any other country, no less than twenty-one being used at the present time. In Austria-Hungary sixteen languages are used. In India sixteen, Russia ten, Germany four. The five principal languages used in the world’s newspapers in the order of their importance are English, German, French, Spanish and Italian.— Providence Journal.

Why Not More?

There are, it seems, about 300 women undertakers in the United States. There are 1,850 cities and towns in this country which have electric lights. The best rubies come from Buraah.

OUR RURAL READERS.

SOMETHING HERE THAT WILL INTEREST THEM. Points That Must Be Observed In Order to Secure Profit—Plan of a Coop for Chicks A Serviceable Wheelbarrow— Keeping Winter Apples. Winter Apples. Winter apples will keep all the better for being left in an open, airy place as late as it is safe to do so. Where there are but few apples to barrel a press can be made at home that will serve very well. The Philadelphia Farm Journal suggests the one here depicted. This press can be

PRESS FOB BARRELING APPLES.

quickly rigged by using a plank or scantling with one end under a stud reaching to the shed plato and temporarily nailed in place. The barrel to be headed forms the fulcrum. Be careful not to press the apples too hard. A reader of the journal quoted says that the best apples of the season In Bucks County were brought out of a milk vault Feh. 7, 18s2. They were Fallawaters, of a rich yellow color, with characteristic shading. They were remarkable for size, but more remarkable for their perfect preservation. Compared with apples kept in the cellar of the same house they were in far better order. The inference is that the deeper milk vault maintained a more uniform temperature. The vault had a small ventilator direct to the open air. The temperature as near as could be ascertained was about 55 degrees.

A Double-lioarti Coop. A correspondent of Farm and Fireside sends a plan of a double-board coop, for two broods of chicks. The coop is four feet square, the back being eighteen inches high, and the highest point (center) being twenty-four inches. It slopes iu front from one foot high at the center to two inches. In the 111 useration, A is a sash, fastened with hinges to the front’of the coop (B), the sash being raised or lowered as desired. This sash may he made

THE DOUBLE-BOARD COOP.

of wire cloth of about seyen-eighths-inch mesh, to allow warmth, air, and light to enter, and also to allow of arranging a center board between the two broods. The frame of the coop is fastened to the floor with hinges at the back part, so as to allow of raising it at the back also, if desired. No glass should be used in the sash. If the weather is severe, cover the sash with boards or tarred paper. C and D show the upper and lower sides of the coop, and E the two-inch board in front The coop protects against rats, cats, hawks, eta Profit In Agriculture. In order to secure profit from the crops produced upon the farm, there are several points that must be observed, and these are in the line of direction of reducing the cost of production, says the Germantown Telegraph. When a crop of any kind is worth no more than the cost of production, nothing >bas been gained. But the cost of production may be reduced in different ways; first, in the proper plowing of the land, or rather, in the preparation of the soil for the seed. Entire pulverization is an important element in succe>sful culture; without this, there may he a loss in lack of germination of seed, and there certainly will be required more labor in tne subsequent cultivation and with imperfect seed ng the crops will be reduced. Th s, then, should be avoided, as it may be, by the exercise of proper care and the use of suitable implements in preparing the soil. With a well pulverized soil seeds come in contact with it and the moisture it contains and germination is complete. But this brings us to a second consideration, and that, the quantity of seed; if a soil is capable of carrying to maturity a full crop of any kind, if the seed is so poor or immature as that only two-thirds or one-half will germinate, then there is a loss, and for that reason only the very best seed should be used so that the chances of full germinat on may be of the best. A third means of increasing a crop and hence the profits, is by using an abundance of fertility and of a character to insure success. It cannot pay tc plant crops in a poor soil for the reason that the yield will be light while the labor will remain about the same as for a heavy crop Another consideration is an application of fertilizers in a manner and at a time best adapted to the wants of the crop being grown. The re quirements of different crops vary in this direction and a course that would he advantageous to one crop would avail nothing when applied to some other. Still another point to be observed is reducing the cost of production to a minimum by the use of la-bor-saving implements ants machinery in the planting, cultivation, and harvesting of crops. Common sense must be employed. The exercise of good judgment usually insures success, while the exerc se of bad judgment brings failure.

Drought and Corn l Corn is never injured by drought early in the season if the ground has been properly prepared But there is a critical time when it Is silking during which too much or too little rain often proves very destructive. If a

rainy spell occurs just then the pollen from the tassels is washed off and the silk is not fertilized. That means a deficiency of kernels and late ripening. It is a curious fact that corn ears not fertilized do not harden, and the grain on them is usually soft when ears that have a full set of kernals are fully ripened and glazed. The other extreme of injury by drought more often results in the tips of the ears being defective. This shows that dry weather has spoiled either the latest silk at the end of the ear or the pollen from the tassel. A plentiful supply of suckers with tassels that blossom later will often make the corn on the mam stalk fully rounded to the end with kernels. Thus the suckers may add materially to tho crop while not themselves producing any ears.

More and lletter Fruit. It Js practically impossible to force profusely-bearing varieties to become annual bearers without weakening the vitality of the trees and shortening their lives. If we could be assured of prices that would justify hand thinning there would be much less difficulty in securing annual crops in a well-managed orchard. Hut even when we have thus secured comparative evenness, everything will be at times thrown out of gear by the destruction of a crop from climatic causes, such as continued rains during blooming, untimely frosts, the Inroads of new sorts of destructive insects, or fungi, so that a crop will be destroyed and uniformity disturbed for several successive years. But good care will give us mope and better fruit in nearly every year, and where this Is practiced it will often occur that a moderate crop on the odd year, or every year, will bring more money than alternate years of full but inferior crops. If we could get English prices for our apples wo could afford to lay out a good deal more labor upon them.—Ru al New Yorker. Serviceable Farm Whee barrow. A strong wheelbarrow Is shown in the illustration from the American Agriculturist. It casta, be made of any size. The one fqjeetched has a large box, four feet logpjdn top, two feet six inches wide>BsMi eighteen inches deep, and is bfldd l; Of six-inch pine fencing. The WhSgl'fe set into the box, as shown in'*t#l§ sketch, tho

HOMEMADE WHEELBARROW.

axle being stapled directly to the lower front edge of the box. A hood, made of boards with sheet iron top, is placed, over the wheel inside tho box. The wheel is two feet high. The legs are ten inches long below the box, and form the framo of the box The handles arc two feet long, and the same boards may be made to project forward far enough to hold the axle of the wheel, If one does not want the wheel to set into the box This barrow is light and strong, and will carry heavy loads of farm materials when It is not convenient to use a horse.

Starting a Nursery. There are many opportunities of making a prontahlc business in the growth of l'ruit and ornamental trees in all rural localities. To be able to procure trees near by is an object for every planter, as the trees may be had the day they are planted, and the ilsk of injury and mistakes,ln the varieties are escaped. The method to be followed is first to select a piece of good land, and sow seeds of the trees, or procure cuttings of those grown that way. The young trees are then grafted, and cultivated as a crop or corn is, until they are old enough for sale, which is when two or three years old. If the best kinds for the locality are selected, and the trees are grown with care, they may be sold with excellent profit at half the prices charged by tho peddler. The most profitable kinds of trees are evergreens, which are so bulky as to cost too much for transportation to sell well unless they can be procured close to home. A plantation of young pines, spruces, and other evergreens has made more than SI,OOO an acre to the nurseryman.—New York Times.

Water for Hogg. Hogs are more often sufferers from lack of good water than any other stock. The milk they eat curdles in their stomach, and then its caseine does not look so much like drink as like food. The dishwater mixed with bran for middlings is more or less salty, and this makes more intense thirst than before it wasdrauk. It can do no harm at least to offer the hogs, especially those in pens, ail the water once a day that they will drink. More will drink than the owner is apt to suppose. Poultry Notes. Just think of it, chicken costs less than pork, and is much better. Sort your, eggs as to color, if you want them to look and sell well. Thoroughly whitewash the inside of your poultry house. D) not complain that it is too' hard work, but be thankful that you are able to do it. Furnish sitting hens with good, fresh, clean nests in a darkened place, and put them on in the evening. Ducks lay at night or early in the morning Don’t let them out until after 9or 10 o’clock. They seldom use a nest a little charcoal mixed with soft feed will aid digestion and prevent disease It is a good purifier of the blood and system. Little chicks will do better in the garden than any other place if you can confine the hens to prevent their making trouble. The indestructible stoneware drinking fountains are as good as any kind we have seen, and have the advantage of being cheap. Common every day dust is the best exterminator for chicken lice. Give them plenty and place it where they can revel in it. Sitting hens should have food, water, some exercise and a good dusting every day, and if they won’t gel off the nest take them off.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Onr Neighbors—Wed. dings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties aw} General News Notes of the State. tlooslor Happenings Disastrous forest fires in Crawford County. Thieves are making life miserable for Osgood people. Francis MURPHY is fighting liquor at Cambridge City. Treasurer Armstrong’s shortage at Tipton is $43,320.73. Hancock County crops suffer from a> overdone of grasshoppers. Clover-leap switch engine killed Samuel Cornihwaith, Frankfort tailor. Two honest, sober, citizens of Marion have seen a wild man noar that place. A. J. Ralph’s residence, at Dana, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $2,500; no insurance. Rev. William F. Pettit, the wife murderer, is reported to be dying, in the prison north, of consumption. A team of horses, driven by John Raab, was struck and killed by u train and Raab seriously injured west of Elkhart. Muncie Council gavo a thirty-five-year franchise to the Consolidated Street Car Company, and there’s some kicking. Immense clover crops are reported from all parts of tho State. At present there is more money in clover than in wheat. The 18-months-old son of Robert Jones and wife of Salamonio Township, Huntington County, fell in a boiler of water and was drowned.

The Eel River Gold and Silver Mining Company has its shalt down sixty feet, and claims to havo recently taken out some vory valuable metal. William Jackman, a pioneer of KokOmo. was fatally injured in a runaway. Ho is 77 years old, and the father of Rev. Taylor Jackman. Charley Richey was seriously injured by a wheat separator running into him while deoconding a hill with a traction engino near Roanoke. The barn of Dwight Dickinson at Bourbon, burned, together with thirty tons of hay, a quantity of grain anil farming implements. Loss, $3,000. Masked burglars tried to rob the Monon station at Haskells, but got nothing more than a sight of tho telegraph operator’s frightened visago. Siieluyville pupora are in the midst of a bitter war over the question: “Was Prof. Donley’s orgun recital a blooming sucooss or howling failure?” While out hunting frogs with an old revolver Charles Nuulng of Elwood, a 14-year-old boy, accidentally shot himself in tho fleshy part of tho right thigh. Chekles Warren and John Hampton, near Crawfordsvlllo, havo sued tho Monon for a quantity of hay and fences burned up. Warren wants $250 and Hampton s.'>oo.

The Delphi Manufacturing Company, which has been closed down for several weeks, will start up ulioiit the middle of September with a reduction of from 10 to 20 per cent, in wages. Charles Baker, aged 10, was kicked by a horse and dioci from tho effects of his injuries at Vincennes. He was a son of Frank Baker, a farmer who livos throe miles south of the city. At Peru, Joel Burnhart, in attempting to save the life of his 8-year-old daughter, jumped with her from a buggy behind a runaway team on tho river bridge. Ho was soriously inlured and his daughter was instantly filled by striking against an iron girder. Arrangements havo been perfected for the reopening of the Diamond Plate Glass Works at Kohomo, that havo been closed down since May 10. The mills, formerly operating 800 men, will begin next woek with half the regular force, and increase as fast oh conditions justify. A YOUNG man named Bailey was instantly killed at Memphis by the north-bound P. C., C. & St. L. train. Ho was returning home from Jeffersonville in a wagon, when his horses became frightened and ran across the track. He fell out of his wagon in front of tho train. IT is now an assured fact that Fairmount will have three railroads ip tho near future. Work has been begun on the Chicago and .Southeastern and a line is now being established that is a branch of the Pan-handle, to run from Gas City to Frankton, Ind., passing Fairmont on the east.

The papers havo been signed for tho location of tho Raub Locomotive Works in Elwood. The deal includes ail the platted additions in and around the city and consists of 10,000 lots. The buildings will cover sixty acres and employment will be furnished for 2,500 or more workmen. A free college, with $500,000 endowment, for the benefit of tho citizens of Elwood, is In the contract. Work on the factory will being in ten days. A determined case of suicide took place in the County Jail at Lafayette. A man slated under the name of John Daily was put in for safe keeping. Shortly after he was locked up it was discovered that he had succeeded in cutting his throat, making a ghastly affair of it. It is supposed he had a razor in his shoe, as he had been searched both by tho policeman and the turnkey. When found he was already dead. The wound extended completely around his nock, and was a clean cut to the backbone. He had considerable difficulty in cutting his windpipe, but had sawed and hewed at it until the razor went through it. In White County the Monon Railroad has been made defendant in seventeen suits for failure to bulletin the trains, as provided by statute. For failure to do this a railroad company is liable to a fine of $25, one-fourth going to the informer. A SCHEME has just been brought to light at Wabash that discounts any fraud that has ever been perpetrated in that neighborhood. It is said that a Chicago firm has been working certain Wabash and other County School Trustees by selling them school maps at $67.50 each that are not worth $5. It will be thoroughly investigated. Two YOUNG men named Hall and Taylor, of Redkey, were seriously injured at Dunkirk by jumping off a train going forty miles an hour. The prospects are still brightening for Ingalls. Every day foundations are being laid for new houses, to supply the fast increasing demand. A large chemical works has been located by Indianapolis' capitalists, and they will begin tne erection of their plant immediately. A large brick livery stable is contracted for, to begin at once. Gas-well No. 4is being sunk at the north end of town. Several carloads of machinery are on the grounds for the Crescent Glass Works and the zinc smelter.

STANFORD'S SU CCESSOR.

George C. Perkins, Vttioin Gov. Markham Appointed Senator. George 0. Perkins, whom Governor Markham has appointed to succeed the late Leland Stanford as Senator from California, is a millionaire wly> has for years taken a lively interest In the politics of the Golden State

EX-GOV. GEORGE C. PERKINS.

and was honored with the Governorship. Senator Perkins was born in Kennobunkport, Me., in 1839, ram away from homo at the ago of 12,i took to the sea and made several voyages as a cabin boy to all parts of the world. In 1855 he sailed for California, and arriving there went into tho interior and settled there, engaging in farming and mining. Subsequently he became a clerk in a store at Oroville, was after a while admitted to partnership and then became solo owner. In 1873 became a partner in the firm of Goodale, Nelson So Perkins, which has since become the Pacific Coast Steamship Company. In 1870 he was elected to the California Senato and served six years. In 1879 he was elected Governor and servod four years.

A STEAM QUADRICYCLE.

Liverymen In Danger of llelng Knocked Out by a Yankee Inventor. Clarence L. Simonds, a Yankee inventor, has just made a steam buggy which promises tp knock out tho liverymen. Imagine two safety bicycles, the wheels about tho size of ordinaries, Joined catamaran fashion, with a small boiler and engino and a complicated rigging of machinery hanging between the rear wheels, ai scat for two persons up in front, with a steering wheel for the driver to grasp Instead of rails, and the carriage is revealed. Ten mllos and more an hour is the speed expected, and hill climbing will be as easy as roiling off a log. The little boiler will stand moro than a 100 pounds of steam generated from a throo-Jct naphtha llame, the fuolsbelng carried 1 In a tube bent around the boiler like a stove with elbow joints. It holds four gallons, enough for a seven hours' run. The throttle valve,

THE STEAM QUADRICYCLE.

steam whistle, steam cocks and other controllers are under the hand of the man on the seat as he steers the buggy. All complete, the total weight of the vehicle is 400 pounds.

A Capacious Maw.

It was In the summer time. Ao Englishman of gentle manners arrived. at a Swiss hotel. Tired with his Journey, he sat down at the dinner table, placing his bag on the chair next to the one he occupied. When he had finished his repast, he called for the bill, when he found that ho was charged double the amount. “llow Is this?” he inquired, and was told in reply that his bag had taken up the room of a guest at the table. Upon receiving this information he; quickly paid the bill and took his departure. A couple of days afterward the same Engllsman returned to the hotel, where, as before, he took his scat at the dinner table, and as before placed his bag on the next chair. The dinner was served. The Englishman ate a hearty meal, and so did his traveling bag, which received its full allowance of every dish that was brought on tho table. General merriment among the guests, our English tourist all the while observing a grave and silent deportment. The waiters looked In blank astonishment. The bag was getting fuller by degrees. At last the landlord, in a towering rage, appeared on the scene. “Sir, how dare you! I never saw anything like it In my life!” Then the taciturn diner got up and observed in his blandest tones: “My traveling bag is in better condition now than it was three days ago. It is sorry that Its appetite was none of the best on the former occasion. ” A dark mist overspread the eyes of the landlord, whereas the l'ght seemed to dawn upon the rest of the company. The Englishman told them all what had happened. Loud laughter! Shouts of applause! Disappearance of the landlord!

Handy to Have in the House.

“Every well-regulated family," said Mrs. Billtops, “ought to have a saw. We’ve had a hammer as long as I can remember, and why we haven’t had a saw I don’t know. They are so handy to have in the house; to saw off curtain poles with; to saw off tha legs of chairs if you want to shorten them; to make things out of boxes, window seats and things like that; to saw old boxes into kindling wood, if one Is economical, and for lots of other things. I must get Mr. Billtops to buy a saw to-morrow.”—New York Sum ? A Tennessee child talks Incessantly. It is thought that he will have a great career as a champion pugilist—Baltimore American.