Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — Page 3

AN IDYL OF HONOLULU.

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

CHAPTER IX—Continued. That Kesri had foreseen about how the matter would turn, was sufficiently evinced by his conduct. Beyond the observations we have recorded, not a word escaped him; but he stood leaning calmly against the door of a pew, in the attitude of a man who considers himself master of the situation. As to Alma and Ralph, they had taken very little notice of the intruder, the prompt action of Bullet having assured them that he Would do all that could be done in his own interest and that of the bridal couple. Alma, it is true, could not refrain from darting sundry glances of scorn and indignation at the rejected suitor, and Ralph was only restrained by a sense of dignity from the instant chastisement of the intruder; but both of the contracting parties may be said to have rather endured than resented the intrusion. “Well, what 1? decided?” whispered Alma to her father, as Bullet returned, flushed and excited, to. her side. “We must go home immediately,” was the answer, in a correspondingly low voice “The conveyance in still in waiting. “I’ll explain all as soon as we are by ourselves. ’ This conclusion was so different from that expected by Alma that she could neither restrain her tears nor her anger.

“Is that tawny rascal, then, so high and mighty that we must be his humble victims?” she demanded, excitedly. “Hush! Let us have no further scene here,” enjoinsd Bullet, nervously. “Nothing is particularly amiss—if you do as I tell you. The priest has given me instructions. We must leave at once." The gravity of her father’s tones impressed the girl even more than the words, and she no longer delayed the departure. Keeri waited in his serene attitude until the bridal couple and Bullet had returned to their carriage, and then he stalked quietly away, paying little heed to the suppressed jeers and reproaches of which he was the object, from the younger portion of the guests, whose pleasure he had thus troubled. In three minutes more the little church was deserted, and the bridal party were leaving the town behind them. “To go home is our first step, of course,” whispered Bullet, indicating by a nod unwelcome listener in the person of the driver of the carriage. “It’s only at home that I shall be able to talk with you freely. ” Hardly a word passed until the ride was over, although it was one, it will bo remembered, of nearly an hour’s duration. “You may wait,” said Bullet to the driver, when the party had alighted. “I shall probably require your services further.” The bridal couple were soon seated with Bullet in the privacy of their little sitting room, ana then the bold and still angry eyes of Alma turned inquiringly to her father. “I can now tell you all,” said the exsailor in a whisper, after looking nervously around. "That wretched Keeri had the basement of the church full of sailors from the dock and Kanakas from all points of the compass. He must have had, the pastor thinks, fifty or sixty armed men at his heels, and he came there intent upon an unheard of disturbance. To kill Mr. Banning outright, and to carry you off again to the hills, Alma, wore two well-defined points of his plan; and my own life, of course, was not accounted of the value of a feather. To save not only our own lives but those of our invited guests, the pastor enjoined me by everything sacred to take the course I have taken.”

'You have done well in heeding the pastor’s advice, of course,” said Ralph; “but it is not necessary that Alma and I should abandon our idea of getting married. We can all slip off quietly to some near village of the interior, and there have the marriage ceremony performed, and the whole affair ended, I should say, within two or three hours.” “The very course I was intending to take —the very course, in fact, advised by the pastor,” cried* Bullet, jubilantly. “It was in this view that I have kept the carriage in waiting. In this way we shall turn the tables completely upon Keeri; for after you are once married, of course, all his schemes and machinations will fall to the ground, for the simple reason that they will be utterly futile.” “Let us be off at once,” proposed Alma, arising. “There’s the little ohapel on the other side of Pearl Bay — Mr. Hapgood’s—scarcely five miles distant, and that is probably as good a place for us as any other.” “At any rate, it is the place I have mentally selected,” said Bullet, giving his daughter a look of secret intelligence. “You and Ashley had better look to your toilets, and we’ll be off for Mr. Hapgood’s in a few moments.” It seemed to Ralph that Bullet was anxious to say a few words in private to Alma, and he accordingly availed himself of the suggestion about his toilet to retreat to his own apartment. Alma, in like manner, was about retiring to heV room when her father intercepted her on the stairs. “Just one word, but a very important one," he whispered. “All I’ve said about Keeri’s band of desperadoes is a lie, made up under the spur of the moment. The real difficulty is, as the pastor informed me, that Keeri came to the church with the intention of declaring who Ashley is, and with the further intention of showing that we also know who and what he is.” , 'But how can Keeri have learned Ashley’s identity?” breathed Alma. "The Lord only knows: but, perhaps, from the three sailors of whom I have spoken —the three who have been hanging around Honolulu all these weeks, and who have shown clearly enougn, in one way and another, that they are in the secret of Ashley’s identity. You see, therefore, that it was very considerato of the pastor not to force Keeri to bawl out all he knows about Ashley, and you also see that it was equally incumbent upon me to beat a retreat. “Exactly!” breathed Alma, with a fiercer look of reserve upon her countenance -than Bullet 1 had ever before seen upon it. 'I see! I see! No time is to be lost. Let us be off for Mr. Hapgood’s at once. By this movement We snal} beat the Kanaka and make a Success of our project.” In five minutes more the trio were dn their way in the carriage around Pearl Bay to the little chapel of Mr. Hapgood. Not a soul had been seen approaching from the town, and the hearts of Bullet and his daughter beat high with the hope that their conspiracy would be crowned with success.

BY LEON LEWIS.

But Keeri was not to be so readily beaten. The carriage had reached a lonely point of the road, in one of the valleys bordering Pearl Bay, when three ruffian-ly-looking men suddenly bounded from a place of concealment by the wayside, and hurled themselves upon Ralph and the ex-sailor, while the driver of the carriage turned like a tiger upon Alma, thus showing that he was in Keeri’s service. That Ralph fought with as much ability as courage will be taken as a matter of course, but what could he do against such odds and at such a disadvantage? The old sailor fell insensible at the first onslaught, and a crashing blow upon our hero’s skull soon stretched him beside Bullet. Of what further then and there followed he knew nothing. At least two or three hours must have passed subsequent to this furious assault before Ralph recovered his senses, but he finally gathered himself up into a sitting posture, after sundry preliminaries, ana bent a keen glance in every direction around him. “The villains!" he ejaculated. “They’ve fled, of course! They’ve not only given me the ‘oompliments’ of Hank Ripple, as they said, but they’ve doubtless robbed me 1"

He felt hastily in his pocket. “Yes, they have taken purse and papers, ” he added. “And Maida? Ripple, too? Can it be that he has smuggled himself aboard the Nor’wester, as these deserters stated?” Wiping his bruised head, he arose to his feet and bent his steps in the direction of Honolulu. He had gone scarcely a hundred rods, however, when he met Kulu, that other Kanaka of our acquaintance—the servant of Bullet —the very man, it will be remembered, who had first encountered the younfr Chicagoan after the memorable injuries, many weeks before, which had robbed Ralph of his memory. “Can I be of any use to you, Mr. Benning?” asked Kulu, after looking the wonder he felt at seeing him in such a plight. Ralph halted with an inquiring glance. “Are you speaking to me, sir?" ho asked. Kulu nodded. “Then I beg to inform you that my name is not Benning, but Kemplin— Ralph Kemplin!" “Oh, indeed!" The Kanaka was silent a moment, recoiling in his amazement, and then he cried:

“You are aware, of course, that Mr. Bullet has been seriously injured—taken home in an insensible and dangerous condition?” It was now Ralph’s turn to recoil in astonishment, as he replied: “No, I know nothing of any Mr. Bullet. Never heard the name before.” “But surely you must know that Miss Bullet has been carried off to the hills again by Keeri?” “Miss Bullet? Keeri?” repeated Ralph, wonderingly. “Never heard the names before. I know nothing of these parties. What are they to me? Are you drunk or joking? Or do you take me for a fool?” The Kanaka was reasonably brave, as we have asserted in a former page, but things were now getting too mixed for his comprehension, and he turned and fled in silence. “Well, let him go,” muttered Ralph. “He probably finds his fool’s game a losing one. Let’s see —let me think a little. This business with these three ruffians has really confused me. Ah, I have it all now. Maida —my dear Maida—has just sailed in the Nor’wester for the Arctic Ocean. The Yokohama is to sail for China to-morrow. Feeling lonely and gloomy I came out here to look at the fish-ponds and other curiosities, and here I have been nearly murdered, at Hank Ripple’s suggestion, by those three runaways from the Nor’wester! Well, well,” he added, with a glance at the sun, “there are still several hours at my disposal, and it will be strange if 1 cannot bring the villains to justice before. I leave the island!"

With this resolve uppermost in his mind, he started anew at a brisk pace for the capital. , “And Maida? How can I reach her? How save her from that vile Hank Ripple?” As indicated by his words, the recent blow upon Ralph’s head had counteracted the injuries he had received from a former one from the same assailants. All that had passed since that memorable day was now in its turn utterly obliterated from his consciousness, while his old memory had been restored! He no longer knew anything about Benning, Alma, or Bullet! In a word, he was “himself again!”

CHAPTER X. THE BITUATIOX CLEARING. As Ralph Kemplin, “clothed and in his right mind,” although bruised in body, continued his brisk walk towards the capital, he was struck with the length of the road. “Seems to me I ought to have reached town before now, or at least be In sight of it,” he muttered. “Queer enough!” He continued to trudge on resolutely, notwithstanding the weakness induced by his injuries and the heat of the afternoon, and at length came out upon the crest of the hills adjoining Kalika Bay—the scene, it will be remembered, of the first assault he had experienced at the hands of Ripple’s three ruffians long weeks before. From this point Punch Bowl Hill is plainly visible, looming up behind and beyond the capital, and the amazement of the young Chicagoan, as he saw where ho was, almost took away his breath. “Why, I’m further from town after all these miles of travel than I was when these ruffians attacked me,” he exclaimed, involuntarily. “Yes, yonder is the spot where they waylaid me! Doubtless I shall see our traces in the sand and other indications of the struggle.” He failed in this expectation, of course, but he-did not relax his steady pace toward the town. “Thay must have carried me inland a few miles to rob me at their leisure,” was the conclusion he soon reached. “It may be they had a wagon in waiting.” As this theory made the whole sitnation plain to him, he dismissed the subject from his mind and began to look forward to what he should do upon his arrival at the capital. “I’ll first see the agent of the Nor'wester, who is also the agent of the Yokohama, and he will assist me in setting things to rights,” was hie

speedy and natural reflection. “As W the question of money, that can be managed readily enough, even if I do not recover my drafts and other papers.” He held to his course with suoh resolution that he made prompt entry into town, arriving there before the agent to whom he had made reference had left his office, although it was now late in the afternoon. [TO BE CONTINUED. 1

Beards.

The Moors hold by their beards when they swear, in order to give weight to their oath, which after this formality they rarely violate. The length of beard seems to weigh with them more than the stock of brains. Admiral Keppel was sent to Algiers to demand satisfaction for the injuries done to His Britannic Majesty’s subjects by their corsairs; the dey, enraged at the boldness of the ambassador, exclaimed “that he wondered at the insolence of the English monarch in sending him a message by a foolish, beardless boy.” Tl*e admiral, somewhat nettled, replied that “if his master had supposed wisdom was to be measured by the length of the beard, he would doubtless have sent the dey a he-goat.” This answer so enraged the dey that he ordered his mutes to attend with the bow-strings, saying that the admiral should pay for his boldness with his life. Nothing daunted by this threat the ambassador took the dey to the window, and showing him the English fleet said, ”If it was his pleasure to put him to death, there were Englishmen enough in that fleet to make him a glorious funeral pile.” The dey, who wore a long beard, took the hint from the man who had none.

The Secret of Success.

Signor Scarem, the noted wild animal tamer, had put his trained tigers through their tricks. He had driven them round and round their cage, and they had crouched in a corner at the word of command, though he was but a weak human being, and they were mighty wild beasts, and could have torn him liml* from limb had they realized their power. He had no weapon in his hand, if we except a short whip which he occasionally cracked over the tigers’ heads. His performance being ended, amid breathless silence on the part of the spectators, Signor Scarem stepped from the cage unharmed, and then the tumultuous applause broke forth. People crowded about him to praise his courage, and one man said: “Don’t you regard that as very dangerous?” “Not at all,” replied the trainer. “Tigers are not dangerous as long as you keep on the right side of them. ” “Which is the right side?” asked the questioner, quizzingly. “The outside,” replied the trainer, as he strode away to the dressingroom.

Clergyman and Baker.

A clergyman in* Scotland desired his hearers never to call one another liars, but when anyone said the thing that was not true they ought to whistle. One Sunday he preached a a sermon on the miracle of the loaves and fishes, and, being at a loss how to explain it, he said the loaves were not like those nowadays; they were as big as some of the hills in Scotland! He had scarcely pronounced the words when he heard a loud whistle. “Wha is that,” says he, ‘‘ca’s me a liar?” “It is I, Willy MacDonald, the baker. ” “Well, Willy, what objection have ye to what I ha’ told ye?” “None,” said he; “only I want to know what sort o’ ovens they had to bake those loaves o’ bread in.” —New York Ledger.

No Use for a Bed.

“I have never slept in a bed since the war,” remarked an old soldier recently. “The reason,” he continued, “is not because lam a crank. I simply am unable to go to sleep in a bed, and for twenty years I have not tried. During the war I was in service four years, and in all that time never slept in a bed. I had no home and consequently had no furloughs. The habit of rolling in a blanket and sleeping grew so fixed with me that when I got back from the war and settled down a bed was a nuisance. I have rolled and tossed and tried hard to sleep night after night, but was not able to keep my eyes closed until I sought the floor. For ten years I have tried to reconcile myself to a bed, but it was no use. Finally I gave it up, and now in my home in Boston I sleep in a room in which there is no bed. I simply roll myself in a blanket or two, according to the temperature, and I sleep soundly. My health is good, and I am sure that I shall live just as long as if I slept on a down mattress.”

Life Compared to a Circus.

Take it all and all, writes “Amber," life is something like a circus tent pitched on the shore of the big blue lake of eternity for a fleeting day. If,, as we stroll through the show, we persist in stirring up the tigers and aggravating the lion’s whelps we need not complain that to us there seems to be nothing but wild beasts and snarling flpngs in the big exhibit. If we spend Our time in the sawdust ring laughing at the clown, or if we find our fancy chiefly tickled by the sylphs who bound through paper rings and cling like flies to the gleaming backs of galloping horses, our minds will take a different coloring altogether. But if we slip away often to the outlooks, where from out the rim of loosened canvas we can catch strong whiffs of a purer air and gaze far out upon the peaceful sea, then indeed shall we keep serenest minds and most healthful bodies.

What “Bankrupt” Means.

The word bankrupt comes from two Italian words, signifying a broken bench. The populace of Venice, Florence and other Italian cities often became greatly incensed with the money lenders, who were frequently Hebrews, and bursting into the market places, would steal the change and break or overturn the bench. A broken bench implied a money changer without funds, hence the term.

A Watch's Tireless Mechanism.

The main wheel of a watch makes 1,460 revolutions in a year; the second or center wheel, 8,760: the third wheel, 70,080; the fourth wheel, 625,600; and the fifth or scape wheel, 4.731,860, The number of vibrations is 141,912,000 in a year. Alexander and Julius Caesar were both accustomed to whip their wives on the slightest provocation.

REAL RURAL READING

WILL BE FOUND IN THIS DEPARTMENT. How the Traveling Public May Have Convenient Watering Places—Too Much Potaah la Harmful—Value of Agricultural Fairs—Calf Weaner. Roadside Watering Troughs. Whenever practicable, watering troughs should be located at convenient distances along the highway.

FIG. 1. PARALLEL WITH ROADWAY.

In some States any one of the residents who will establish and maintain a watering trough along the highway is exempted from a certain number of days of road tax. This law proves such a convenience to the traveling publtc as well as the residents that it should find a place upon the statute books of all the States; however, to aid those who desire to erect the best forms of troughs, the accompanying sketches from the American Agriculturist, are presented. In Fig. 1, the trough is placed parallel with the roadway, as often there is no room to extend It in any other direction. Whenever possible let the water enter near the bottom of the trough, as the upward flow keeps the water continually agitated and purA The outlet or overflow pipe should have its mouth as near the top as possible, and in no case let the surplus water overflow the trough and run upon the surrounding soil to form mud holes. The plan in Fig 2 will prove more convenient, and should be imitated whenever practicable; its form not only allows both horses of the team to drink at once, but a team may also drive up at the opposlde side. This trough need not be over five feet in length, and should be placed four feet from the ground, that horses may drink without being unchecked; how-

FIG. 2. RECTANGULAR WITH ROADWAY.

ever, It Is best to provide a single plank platform ten feet long upon each side, as shown in the illustration. Often the overflow may conveniently supply a trough In the adjoining field, or be conducted in underground pipes to the farm buildings. In exposed situations, provisions against freezing should be provided. The foundation should be as firm as possible to guard against the trough being moved by horses crowding against it. A well-arranged watering trough adds greatly to the attraction and value of any roadside. Agricultural Fairs. In nearly every county one or moro fairs are held each autumn. Farmers and their families, says the American Agriculturist, should endeavor to spend one or more days at these annual gatherings. There is certain to be something of great interest and benefit to every branch of farming. In fruit or vegetables, If anything of merit is observed, find out the name and price and test it for next season. Follow the same with grain or other products of the fields. Talk with the producer, if possible, and obtain valuable points or hints that will aid in future labors. Look o<'er the improved breeds of stock, and decide whethera thoroughbred animal could be used In your neighborhood with profit The machinery and implements will receive their .‘hare of attention. You usually meet many of your friends, and make new ones, and thus add another link to the evidence of why you should attend the fairs, both local and State. Take something with you to exhibit, and whether you obtain a premium or not, you have aided in the display and success of the exhibition, and in the future, by this course, be more deeply interested.

Too Mach Potosh. That veteran agricultural writer, B. F. J., reports in the Country Gentlemen an experiment in which hard wood ashes made by burning an 03age orange hedge and spreading thickly on sod land did more injury than good. It is quite likely, however, that in this case it was excess Of nitrogen rather than of potash that made his potatoes grow large, luxuriant foliage, and hiscorn agreat growth of stalks with much smut and few perfect ears. Ashes are a solvent and promote rapid fermentation. A large amount applied to sod land that was evidently very rich before made the excess of nitrogen in the soil This produced the results he describes. The potash Itself ought to make corn ear better, and as analysis Bbows it is found plentifully in potatoes, both foliage and tuber. A little potash in the bill has often prevented rough and seedy potatoes, while parts of the Held not so treated were made nearly worthless by this cause. Quality of MUk. Dr. Voelcker, the well-known chemist of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, regards the popular idea that morning’s milk is of a better quality than that drawn in evening as a fallacy. As far as his experience goes, he says the result depends on the quality and quantity of the food which is given to the cows four or five hours before milking. “If the supply of food given in the daytime be good and plentiful, and that furnished in the evening be unnutritious and scanty, the evening’s milk is of the better quality. On the other band, when the cows get a good supply of rieh food in the evening and are stinted or fed upon very watery food during the daytime, the eveuing milk is the poorer.” To Fasten Wagon Tires. Dry, hot weather makes trouble with wagon tires, in the hot season

blacksmiths have all they can do setting tires, and with some old vehicles the job has often to be repeated the same summer. It is possible to save much of this cost and vexation of spirit by the plan of, the New York State farmer who every spring treated his wagon tires to a soaking in linseed oil brought nearly to the boiling point. The oil is poured into a trough about two inches wider than the tire and an inch or more above the felloes; The wheel with the tire was revolved in this oil until all was taken up that the wood could ahsorb. Tbo oil kept out the water. There was no swelling of the wood, however damp the weather came. The operation was repeated every year, and proved a good preservative of wheels from injury and at very small expense. Calf Weaner. The illustration presented herewith, from the Orange Judd Farmer, represents a v,ery cheap and effective weaner. Take wire tenpenny fence nails and cut off from the pointed end qbout one-third their ordinary length and file the outer ends sharp. Take a stiff piece of leather six to eight inches long and press the nails

HOMEMADE WEANER.

through about an inch apart, as shown at band B and G in illustration.. This strap is then fastened to the front of an ordinary halter headstall either by rivets or sewing. When this weaner is placed upon the calf the cow will prevent further sucking. Things to Know, That meat should never be placed directly on the ice, as the juices will be absorbed; put it on a plate and set it in a coal place. That if dish towels and cloths are boiled up in water with ammonia every second day, there will be less trouble with sticky dishes. That oommon salt rubbed in the roots of the hair will remove dandruff; rub a little in at night, and in the morning the salt will be all gone, and after a few applications the dandruff too, leaving only a slight dampness. That piece of chamois fitted to the heel, bound on the edges with tape, and kept in place by an elastic worn over the stocking, will save much mending. That castor oil applied to warts once a day for from two to six weeks will remove them.— Country Gentleman. To Can Pearlies. Select freestones; put them into a wire kettle and dip the kittio into boiling water for one minute; then takeout and peel with a silver knife, cut in halves, make a syrup with one quart of water and one pi»t of sugar cooked together; drop in peaches enough, when the syrup is boiling hoU for one can; when tender II ft out with a wire spoon into a heated‘glass jar; when full pour enough syrup from the kettle to fill the jar, then screw the cover on; then cook enough for another can the same way. Infusing peaches for canning it is better to use only one variety in a can. The lightcolored peaches, although not as rich looking, are very nice when canned and excellent for dumplings. Good Disinfectant.

The much-advertised disinfectants are usually catch-penny nostrums and unworthy of notice. One of the very best known disinfectants is old-fash-ioned “copperas” or sulphate of iron, which can be had very cheap. A barrel of copperas would probably weigh 400 pounds, and can be purchased at wholesale tor 1$ cent per pound. And every family ought, especially in warm weather, to have a supply of it on hand. A couple ot bandsful of copperas, If thrown Into a bucket of water, will soon dissolve, and it can then be used freely, and is a valuable disinfectant Burning vs. Plowing Stubble. When spring grain stubble Is plowed for wheat it Is usually much in the way, keeping the furrrow from compacting and thus leaving the soil too light for a seed bed. If there are not many weeds it is better to burn the stubble, first plowing a few furrows around the field so that, however the wind may change, fire will not spread to any adjoining land, fences or buildings. The nominal value of grain stubble, aside from its ash when burned, is very slight. Not So Bad After All. If wheat is cheaper than it was a quarter ot a century ago, says an exchange, it must not be overlooked that at the present time a farmer can sit on a seat and drive the harvester and binder over the field, accomplishing in a few hours, unaided, as much as formerly required as many days and with considerable outlay for assistance. He also rides on the cultivator in the cornfield, and his labor and the cost of production is reduced, in many other ways. Like a Choice Article. Regular customers for choice tatter, pure milk and fresh eggs are ready for him who can supply the articles. The farmer who will make it a point to gain the confidence ot his customers by never allowing an inferior article to pass his inspection, •will never have cause to complain of prices. Customers are always willing to pay something extra for choice articles. Good Live Stock Necessary. There is no soil so good that exclusive grain farming can be maintained upon it for very many years. It may pay for a time, but finally there will be no profit in it, and the soil will be so depleted that you will find it an expensive task to restore it. Good live stock should be an adjunct to every grain farm. Clean the Cattle Trough. The cattle trough may become filthy and slimy. At least once a week the trough should be scrubbed with a broom and. well rinsed with clean ! water.

COWBOYS’ PERIL.

Line Riding in a Blinding Blizzard on th« Plains. Line riding is the most disagreeable duty of the cowboy, and is usually attended with peril. In win-

A LINE RIDER.

ter cattle very often drift before a raging storm, and unless carefully watched they are liable to continue their march until scores of miles away from the ranch, and not infrequently do many of them perish from exposure. To guard against this camps are established in a straight line, which marks the boundary beyond which cattle are not to stray. These camps are usually for two men, and are some fifteen or twenty miles apart; then, in the morning, its two men ride out in opposite ways, each going until he meets his neighbor of the next camp nearest on that side, when lie returns. In riding over the beat each man drives any cattle that he may moot well within the boundary, for if the cattle once begin to drift in massos before an icy galo it is impossible for a small number of men to hold them, and the only thing to do is to lot them go, and then organize an expedition to follow them as soon as possible. Lino

CATTLE DRIFTING BEFORE A STORM.

riding is very cold work, and especially dangerous when tho men are put in a blinding blizzard. Occasionally one sees reports of how some brave cowboys have perished of cold. In the worst storms on the plains it is impossible for a human being to llvo long.

IN MEMORY OF LINCOLN.

SoottUU-American Veteran* Honor the Great Liberator. The monument of Abraham Lincoln recently erected in Edinburgh, Scotland, by Scottish-American soldiers evidences the truth of the saying that great men belong to no single country. The making of the statue came about in a curious way. A Scotchman named McEwen,who had fought in the American war, died in 1891,

LINCOLN MONUMENT AT EDINBURGH.

to Consul Wallace Bruce the idea of securing a burial place in Edinburgh for Scottish - American veterans. Americans in Scotland were at once interested in the project, and a site was soon selected and marked by the Lincoln monument, which represents the martyred President freeing the slaves. The monument is fifteen feet in height and the bronze figure is of life size. George E. Blssel was the sculptor, and the entire cost was about SO,OOO.

Untrained.

She was dressed so showily that everybody’s attention was arrested by her the moment she entered the car. She was very thin,, very pale, and her voice was weak and high-pitched. She sank into a seat with a sigh and a murmur of discontent, and at once took from her a sachel a lemon and began eating it. By this time it wfas discovered that she was a young girl. She ate the lemon, and announced to her companion that it was the third she had eaten thatr day. Her complexion suggested pastp, she was so nervous as to arouse sympathy, so irritable as to produce a feeling of pity for anyone who had to live with her. A few years will find her a physical wreck. She quoted from “mamma” so loudly as to make one familiar with that unwise person’s views on every subject, and at the end of two hours one knew the condition of her wardrobe. The journey began early in the morning, and for the lover of lemons ended about four In the afternoon, and she never stopped talking for longer than five minutes, and she ate lemons in that Interval. Temper, voice, manners, appetite, all were left untrained by unwisely indulgent parents. One shuddered when one thought of the kind of woman that must result from such a method, or lack of method, of rearing. Shame on the mothers who allow their children to develop so unnaturally. The end of each child’s training should not only be the developing of that child, but should look forward to the educating of the fathers and mothers of the next generation. The benefit conferred on posterity is not confined to tree-planting.

Soda for Mortar.

Ordinary soda of commerce has been successfully used in France as f substitute for salt water Sa mixing cement or mortar during cold weather. The results have been very satisfactory.

SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITHFULLY RECORDED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important DoUgs of Our Neighbors —Weddings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties and General News Notes. ' Condensed State News. ) Nine cars were derailed on the Big Four road at Batesville. Mrs. Henry Vandiver, near Franklin, was found dead in bed. A man was fined $1 at LaPorto for pointing a revolver at a polieomun. Large huckleberry marsh, near Laporte, destroyed by fire. L6ss, 9.1,000. Farms and forosts near Houston are being damaged considerable by fires. . The Presbyterian Church of Goshen has engaged a chorister from Scotland at S3OO a year. Diphtheria in a malignant type prevails in Marion. Five deaths have been reported. The Richmond Register has gotten out an illustrated supplement of the city of Cincinnati. Harry Hillabold, aged 9, was accidentally shot in tho head by Louis Cohen, aged 15, at Madison. James Robinson, 15, was thrown from a horse in a running race near Genova, and was futility injured. Daniel Nunemacher, aged 28, while suffering from delirium tremens at New Albany,shot and killed himself. Union City officials had a good deal Of trouble in running out of town two negroes from the smallpox district of Muncio.

Frank Bruce, one of the safeblowers at Torre' Haute, was given a sontenco of nine yours in tho penitentiary and SSOO line. Joseph Trusty, a farmer, accidentally shot himself with a shotgun while attempting to climb a fence, near Pittsburgh, this State. Edward Fahnestock, a notorious character of Lafuyotte, was caught burglarizing a store at Culver’s Station, in Tippecanoe County. This sensational breach of promise case of Surah G. Davis against Chariot Rawlings, at Noblosville, was settled by the oouplo getting married. Samuel Roby, aged 35, committed suicide at Odon, near Washington, by taking an overdose of morphine. He loaves a wife and throo children. This son of John Eiselo found SSOO in u haymow near Lafayette, which his father hud placed there before he died. The old man was thought to be penniless. Stewart and Bonjamln I)erft, two young men of Wahush County, are In jail at Wabash for alleged rape of 10-year-old Blanche Mills, a neighbor girl. George Staytes, a veteran flagman of Muneie, has finished twenty years of service, and no ono lias over been killed or hurt at u crossing guarded by him. While Mrs. W. C. Clevenger wat filling the tank to a gasoline stove ut Union City the oil Ignited and set fire to the house. It wus extinguished with small loss. L. W. Cordes, a harness doalor ol Mlehigun City, fell under a Mlohigun Central train which ran over his right arm and leg. Two hours later ho died during amputation. Jacob Pressy, a farmer in Knox County, throe miles northwest ol Petersburg, while fighting a burning meadow, fell from exhaustion and his body was found burned to a crisp. William Lambert, a fireman on the I. & I. S. R. R.. was instantly killed in a wreck of a freight train noar Sullivan. He loavos a wife and several children. His home was at Effingham, 111. Martin Kendall, aged 00, and a loading farmer of Tipton County, was thrown from a wagon by a runaway team, the wheels passing over his body, crushing his hoad and Inflicting fatal injuries.

and was buried In a pauper’s grave in one of the Edinburgh cemeteries. On the following Sunday, when the widow went with her “bairns” to place flowers upon the grave, she found that it had already been desecrated by having another body rplaced in it. The story suggested

William Meadows, a well-known young man of Bloomington, died recently from injuries received on the head with a stone, thrown by Mrs. George McAfee, a colored woman. The trouble occurred Aug. 22, when Meadows and the son of Mrs. McAfee were quarreling, and the woman interfered and throw a stone, striking Meadows over the eye. Mrs. McAfee is now in jail on the charge of murder.

A cold-blooded duel with shotguns was fought north of Brazil, near Coxvillo, a little mining town. The principals were James Valvan and a man named Johnson. It is claimed the trouble originated over a woman with whom both men were infatuated. They mot thoroughly armed to settle their trouble, Valvan having a double-barrel shotgun. Only a few words weije exchanged when they commenced firing. Shortly Johnson fell mortally wounded, with two charges of shot in his body. The affair has created intense excitement and every effort is made to capture Valvan, who quickly made his escape after emptyingnis gun. Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows: Hughes it Hull, Indianapolis, lock spring ditching machine; William Hatfield, Fort Wayne, device for side dressing circular saws; Solomon F. Crull, Dublin, propelling attachment for garden plows; Charles C. Martin, West Franklin, self-setting animal trap; Ray G. Jenokes, Terre Haute, hominy mill; . James J. Duret, Noblesville, calculating device; John Freel, Whiting, retort for stills; David E. Meyers, Indianapolis, motor; Alva L. Kitselman, Ridgeviile. wire fabric machine: Menfee and Ertel, Fort Wayne, cistern cover; Zadox* B. Hendrix, Anderson, mail bag fastening; George J. Cline, Goshen, wire tightener. The ten-thousand-dollar damage suit of Mary J. Pratt against Frank W. Talbot for the death of her husband and son, some months ago, caused by the explosion of a boiler in the Peru basket factory, has been compromised by the payment of SI,OOO. Miss Minnie Tull, aged 18, a highly respected young woman of Hanover, committod suicide by drowning herself in the Ohio, eight miles below Madison. Her body was recovered. There is no cause assigned for the deed, but those acquainted with the young woman say she had a great sorrow. At Roann the sawmill of Job Tilman caught fire from a spark of a passing locomotive and in a few moments was a mass of flames. The southwestern portion of the town was in great danger, and was saved only by the efforts of the lire department. The loss of the mill and its contents was nearly SIO,OOO. Mrs. Ed. Elliot, who lives near Knightstown, was driving home the other night, when she was met by two men in a buggy, who opened fire on her. One ball struck her in the back and may prove fatal. The cause for the deed is unknown. If the ruffians are caught they will be summarily dealt with.

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