Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — Page 3

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CHAPTER IL •WHEM WB -TWO PARTED ” Sir Cyprian Da venant and James Wyatt went back to town by rail, and parted company at Waterloo, the baronet going westward to his bachelor lodgings in one of the shabbier streets about Grosvenor Square, the lawyer to the big dull house on the coldest side of Russell Square, which his father had bought and furnished some fifty ' years before. Sir Cyprian had work to do after the Richmond dinner, and was occupied till long after daybreak with letterwriting and the last details of his packing. When all was done, he was still wakeful, and sat by his writing-table in the morning sunlight thinking of the past and the future with a gloomy face. Thinking of the past—of all those careless hours in which one bright girlish face had been the chief influence of his life; thinking of the future, In which he was to see that sweet face po more. He began to walk slowly up and down the room, thinking. “There would be just time for me to do it," *he said to himself, presently; “just time to run down to Davenant, and see the old place once more. It will be sold before I come back from Africa, if ever I do come back. And there would be a chance of seeing her'. I know the Clanyardes have gone back to. Kent. Yes, I will run down to Davenant for a few hours. A man must be hard indeed who does not care to give one farewell look at the house in which the brightest years of his life have been spent. And I may see her again, only to say good-by, and to see jf she is sorry for my going. What more can I say to her? What more need be said? She knows that I would lay down my life for her.” ' He went to his room and slept a kind tof fitful sleep until 8 o’clock, when he iwoke with a start, and began to dress for his journey. At nine he was driving through the streets in a hansom, and at midday he was in one of the woody lanes leading across country from the little Kentish railway station to his own ancestral domain, the place he had once been proud and fond of, but which he looked at now in bitterness of spirit and with a passionate regret. The estate had been incumbered when it fell into his hands, but he knew that, with prudence he might have (saved the greater part of it. He entered the park by a rustic gateway, beside which there was a keeper's lodge, a gate dividing the thickest part of the wood from a broad green valley, where the ferns grew deep under the spreading branches of grand old oaks, and around the smooth silver-gray trunks of mighty beeches. The Davenant timber had suffered little from the prodigal’s destroying hand. He could better endure the loss of the place than its desecration. The woman at the keeper’s lodge welcomed her master with an exclamation of surprise. I hope you have come to stay, Sir Cyprian,” she eaid, dropping' a rustic •courtesy. “No, Mrs. Mead. I have only come for a last look at the old place before I go away from England.” 1 “Going away, sir? that’s bad news.” Cvprian cut short her lamentations with a friendly nod, and was walking on, when it suddenly struck him that the woman might be useful. “Oh, by the way,” he said, “Lord Clanyarde is at Marchbrook, is he not'” “Yes, sir; the family have been there tor the last week.” “Then I’ll walk over there before I go on to the house if you’ll unlock the gate again, Mrs. Mead.” “Shall I send one of my boys to the house with a message, sir, about dinner, or anything?” “You are very good. Yes, you can send the lad to tell old Mrs. Pomfret to’ get me something to eat at 6 o’clock, if you please. I must get back to London by the 7:30 train." “Dearv me, sir, going back so soon as that?” * The gates of Marchbrook were about a mile distant fijpm the keeper’s lodge. Lord Clanyarde’s house was a dreary red brick habitation of the Georgian ‘ era, with long lines of narrow windows ,looking out upon a blank expanse of pasture land, by courtesy a park. An avenue of elms led from the lodge-gate to the southern front of the house and on the western hide there was a prim Dutch garden, divided from the park by a ha-ha. The place was in perfect order, but thei e was a cold, bare look about everything that was eminently suggestive of poverty. A woman at the lodge informed Sir Cyprian that there was no one at home. Lord Clanyarde had driven to Maidstone; Miss Clanyarde was at the village. She had gone to see the children at the National School She would be home at two to lunch, no doubt, according to her usual habit. She was very fond of the school, and sometimes spent her morning in teaching the children. “But they leave school at twelve, don’t they?” demanded Sir Cyprian. “Yes, sir; but I dare say Miss Constance has stopped to talk to Miss Evans, the schoolmistress. She is a very genteel young person, and quite a favorite with our ladies. ” Cyprian Davenant knew the little schoolhouse and the road by which Constance Clanyarde must return from her mission. Nothing coifld be more pleasant to him than the idea of meeting her in her solitary walk. He’turned away from the lodge-keeper, muttering something vague about calling later, and walked at a rapid pace to the neighboring village, which consisted of two straggling rows of oldfashioned cottages fringing the skirts of a common. Close to the old Ivycovered church,with its massive square lower and grass-grown graveyard, there was a modern Gothic building in which the village children struggled through the difficulties of an educational course, and from the open windows whereof their youthful voices rang ,)oudly out upon the summer air every morning in a choral version of the multiplication table. Miss Clanyarde was standing in the little porch talking to the schoolmistress when Sir Cyprian opened the low wooden gate. She looked tip at the Bound of his footstep with a sudden blush. “I did not know you were at Davenfnt. Sir Cyprian,” she said, with some ttle embarrassment, as they shook ands.

BY MISS M.E. BRADOON.

“I have not been at Davenant, Miss Clanyarde. I only left town this morning. I have come down here to say good-by to Davenant and all old friends." The blush faded and left the lovely face very pale. “Is it true that vou are going to Africa, Sir Cyprian? I heard from some friends in town that you were going to join Captain Harcourt’s expedition." “It is quite true. I promised Harcourt some years ago that if he ever went again I would go with him.” “And you are pleased to go, I suppose?” “No, Miss Clanyarde, not pleased to go. But I think that sort of thing is about the best employment for the energies of a waif and stray, such as I am. I have lived my life, you see, and have not a single card left to play in the game of civilized existence. There is some hope of adventure out yonder. Are you going home?" “Yes, I was just saying good-by to Miss Evans as you came in.” “Then I’ll walk back to Marchbrook with you, if you’ll allow me. I told the lodgekeeper I would return by-and-by In the hope of finding Lord Clanyarde.” “You have been to Marchbrook already, then?” “Yes; and they told me at the lodge that I should find you here." ■ After this there came rather an awkward silence. They walked away from the schoolhouse side by side, Sir Cyprian furtively watchful of his companion's face, in which there were signs of a sorrow that seemed something deeper than the conventional regret which a fashionable beauty might express for the departure of a favorite waltzer. The silence was not broken until they had arrived at a point where two roads met, the turnpike road to Marchbrook and a shady lane—a cross-coun-try road, above wnich the overarching branches of the elms made a roof of foliage at this bright midsummer season. There was a way of reaching Marchbrook by this lane—a tempting walk corny a ed to the high-road. “Let us go back by the lane," said Cyprian. “It is a little longer, but I am sure you are not in a hurry. You would have dawdled away half the morning talking to that young woman at the school, if I hadn’t come to fetch you; and it will be our last walk together, Constance. I may call you Constance, may I not, as I used when you were in the nursery? I am entitled to a few dismal privileges, like a dying man, you know. Oh, Constance, what happy hours we have spent together in these Kentish lanes! I shall see them in my dreams out yonder, and your face will shine down upon me from a background of green leaves and blue sky; and then I shall awake to find myself camping out upon some stretch of barren sand, with jackals howling in the distance." “What a dreadful picture!” said Constance, with a faint forced laugh. “But if you are so reluctant to leave England, why db you persist in this African expedition?" “It is a point of honor with me to keep my promise; and it is better for me to be away from England.” “You are the best judge of that question. ” Sir Cyprian was slow to reply to this remark. He had come down to Kent upon a sudden impulse, determined in no manner to betray his own folly, and bent only upon snatching the vain delight of a farewell interview with the girl he loved. But to be with her and not to tell her the truth was more difficult than he had imagined. He could see that she was sorry for his departure. He believed that she loved him, but he knew enough of Viscount Clanyarde’s principles and his daughter’s education to know there would be something worse than cruelty in asking this girl to share his broken fortunes.

“Yes, Constance," he went on, “it is better for me to be away. So long as I am here it is the old story of the insect and the flame. I cannot keep out of temptation. I cannot keep myself from haunting the places where I am likely to meet the girl I love, fondly, foolishly, hopelessly. Don't look at me with those astonished eyes, my darling; you have known my secret ever so long. I meant to keep 'silent till the very end; but, you tee the words are spoken in spite of me. My love, I dare not ask you to be my wife. I dare only tell you that no other woman will fill that place. You are not angry with me, Constance, for having spoxen?” “Angry with you—” she began, and then broke down utterly and burst into tears. He drew his arm round her with a tender, protecting gesture, and soothed her gently, as if she had been a child. “My darling, I am not w r orth your tears. If I had been a better man, I might have redeemed Davenantby this time, and might have hoped to make you my wife. There would have been some hope for me, would there not, dear, if I could have offered vou a home that your father could approve?” “I am not so mercenary as you think me,” answered Constance, drying her tears, and disengaging herself from Sir Cyprian's encircling arm. “I am not afraid of poverty. But I know that my father would never forgive " “And I know it too, my dearest girl, and you shall not be asked to break with your father for such a man as I. I never meant to speak of this, dear, but perhaps it is bettor that I should have spoken. You will soon forget me, Constance, and I shall hear of you making some brilliant marriage before I have been away very long. <Gdd grant the man may be worthy of Wu! God grant you may marry a good man!” “I am not very likely to marry,” replied Miss Clanyarde. “My dearest, it is not possible you can escape; and heaven forbid that my memory should come between you and a happy future. It is enough for one of us to carry the burden of a life-long regret” There was more talk between them before they arrived at a little gate opening into the Marchbrook kitchengarden—fond, regretful talk of the days that were gone, in which they had been so much together down in Kent, with all the freedom permitted between friends and neighbors of long standing, the days before Constance had made her debut in the great world. Sir Cyprian did not persevere in his talked-of visit to Lord Clanyarde. He had, in truth, very little desire to see that gentleman, who was one of the most pompous and self-opinioned of noblemen. At the little garden gate he grasped Miss Clanyarde's two hands in his own with one fond, fervent grasp. “You know the old story,” he said: ‘lt must be fcr years, and it may be forever.’. It is an eternal parting for me, darling, for I can never hope to call you by that sweet name again. You have been very good to me in letting rpe speak so freely to-day and it is a kind of consolation to have tbld you my sorrow. God bless you, and good-by;” I This was their parting. Sir Cyprian

went back to Davenant, and spent a dreary hour in walking up and down the corridor and looking into the empty rooms. He remembered them tenanted with the loved and lost. How dreary they were now in their blank and unoccupied state, and how little likelihood there was that he should ever see them again! His dinner was served to him in a pretty break-fast room, with a bay-window overlooking a garden that had been his mother's delight, and where the roses she had loved still blossomed in all their glory. The memory of the dead was with him as he ate his solitary meal, and he was glad when it was time for him to leave the great desolate house, in which every door closed with a dismal reverberation, as if it had been shutting upon a vault. He left Davenant immediately after dinner, and walked back to the little station, thinking mournfully enough of his day’s work and of the life that lay before him. Before noon next day he and his companions were on the first stage of their journey, speeding towards Marseilles. ' ITO Bl COMTUrCBDU

THEY COME HIGH.

Commercial Value of Wild Animate for Circus Purposes. Few people have a correct idea of the commercial value of wild animals. The price is fixed by menageries and circuses, because these are the largest buyers. We give the value of some of these animals as estimated by a prominent showman. Tne famous Jumbo cost $10,030 and this sum was increased to »28,000 by sutsequent expenses, such as transportation. The elephant was worth to his owners $3V,000 a week. Giraffes are quoted at $6,000 each and hippopotami are valued at $4,000 each. A rhinoceros with ore horn cost $3,000. Another horn adds just SI,OOO to his value. Lions range from SBOO to $1,200. A lioness costs SI,OOO and tigers are quoted at SI,OOO. Grizzly bears are becoming scarce, and ai e hard to keep in captivity. A really fine specimen is worth SI,OOO, and they range from that down to ssol'. Polar Lears come at SBOO. Other bears range from SSJ to S2OO. A camel with ode hump is worth $350, and two humps brings the market value up to S4OO. Ostricnes are valued at SBOO apiece. Gnus, which don’t attract much attention, are found in every flr.T-class menagerie and cost S7OO The American buflalo is worth SSOO, just sloo more than his Indian brother. The Rocky mountain goat is quoted rather high, SSOO, while panthers and leopards are plenty at $250 each, and hyenas and pumas go for $175. Antelopes range all tte way from $lB5 to S3OO, and deer from $75 to SIOO, while a moose brings ssbo, the same price as a nylghau. An ant-eater is worth »4ik; hartbeests (a kind of antelope), wart hogs and sloths, $350; cheetahs, alpacas and guanacos, $300; tapirs, S+OJ. Sea lions bring from S3OO to S4OO, while seals are worth but SSO. Zebus are worth $250; llamas, $200; emus, $175, and mountain lions, SIOO. Armadillos are to be had for SSO, and porcupines for half that amount. Wolves come a little higher. They average $75. Kangaroos have increased in valve of late years. They are now quoted of $l5O. The more valuable monkeys range from S2O to $75. Horses are very valuable in a show and these animals trained for circus purposes are worth $2,500.

Militia of the States.

The entire organized militia of the various States number 112,190, divided as follows: Alabama, 2,960; Arkansas, 981; California, 4,9++; Colorado, 827; Connecticut, 2,751; Delaware, 330; Florida, 1,011; Georgia, 3,535; Idaho, 232; Illinois, 4,777; Indiana, 2,633; lowa, 2,315; Kansas, 1,666; Kentucky, 1,‘331; Louisiana, 1, 249;.Maine, 1,064; Maryland, 2,118; Massachusetts, 8,566; Micnigan, 2,801; Minnesota, 1,801; Mississippi, 1,705; Missouri. 2,415; Montana, 526: Nebraska, 1,086; Nevada, 493; New Hampshire, 1,255; New Jersey, 3.915; New York, 12.810; North Carolina, 1,782; North Dakota, 479; Ohio, 6,125; Oregon, 1,575; Pennsylvania, 8,614; Rhode Island, 1,476; South Carolina, 5,440; South Dakota, 779; Tennessee, 1.794; Texas, 2,784; Vermont, 784; Virginia. 3,221; Washington, 1,702; West Virginia, 900; Wisconsin, 2,721; Wyoming, 415; Arizona, 470; New Mexico, 46y; District of Columbia, 1,563. The aggregate men available for military duty unorganized is given as 8.223,697. Of this latter class New York and Illinois contribute the largest numbers, being put down for 650,000 each.

A Grand but Unique Memorial.

The monument wh’ch has been erected upon the battlefield of Solferino is one of the largest, if not the largest, of its kind in Europe. It consists of a tower seventy-four meters high, surmounted by an electric lamp, and rises in seven stories, each representing a campaign in the struggle for the independence of Italy. Each separate story contains all the names of the generals and other officers, as well as the men who fought in that campaign. No fewer than 700,000 names are thus inscribed on the inner walls of the monument. On the ground floor are the busts and portraits of all the leading generals, and the chief ornament in the center of the ground floor is the colossal monument in bronze of Victor Emmanuel, by the Venetian squlptor Dal Zotto. The tower stands in grounds beautifully laid out, and constitutes a magnificent memorial of Italian unity. Beneath the structure repose 2,000 skulls and other remains of soldiers of the three nations who fell on the field of Solferino.

Hard Times Affect Society.

Young clubmen in New York are complaining not a little of the loss of many good dinners, which helped to eke out their small incomes so comfortably of yore; and fashionable married couples are enjoying a Darby and Joan sort of existence which may or may not be acceptable. The great lack of dinners this winter in New York is most striking, and the traveling Englishman has fallen upon evil days indeed. “I was told that your people were so extraordinarily hospitable,” said a newly arrived Briton the other day, “and that I should be asked to dine somewheie every night, but I have been asked out only a couple of times, although I have presented all my letters and have been in New York for the last ten days.”

Hot in Australia.

The weather in Australia during the present antipodean summer has been unusually hot and oppressive. In Adelaide, during December, the thermometer several times registered over 100 decrees in the shade, and one day it climbed to 107 in the shade and 163 in the sun. In Melbourne the hundred notch has been reached more than once, and the scorching north winds have made the atmosphere exceedingly oppressive. The foregoing figures are from weather observatory readings, and probably do not represent by several degrees the temperature of the city streets. At the present rate of increase there will be ($3,000,000 people in Canada in fifty years’ time, and 190,000.000 in the United States. *

AGRICULTURAL NEWS

A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. How Poor Land Slav Be improved—Wall Arranged Hooaea—Slow- Kreding Box for Veracious lloreae—To Make Fence FoeU Durable—Farm Note*. Improving Poor Land. If a man understands the methods necessary to accomplish it, and has the time and capital to devote to that purpose there is profit In buying worn lands at a low price and bringing them up to a state of productiveness at which they can be 1 cropped. One way of helping run down land so that profitable crops can be raised is by applying commercial fertilizers. These, if properly used, will very often materially increase the growth and yield of crops, but it is questionable if they add any appreciable permanent fertility to the soli. There is one way, however, by which the use of this class of fertilizers can be made an advantage, and that is by increasing the yield of the crop for which it is especially applied. A larger amount of feed may thus be procured, and thia affords an opportunity for making more manure, and the more animal manure that can be procured the better is the chance for the permanent upbuilding of the soil Clover is one of the best materials that can be used to improve the land, and where this can be grown the soli is not past redemption, but some soils will not grow clover. It has become so devoid of vegetable matter that the clover plant will starve out, and in this case either of two plans can be followed—one is to use commercial fertilizers and the other is to seed to rye, and as soon as a reasonably good growth is secured plow under and sow to buckwheat. It is not to be expected that land so poor that it will not grow clover will have sufficient available plant food to grow even a fair crop of rye, but the plowing In of even a light growth will supply some vegetable matter, and generally sufficient to make a crop of buckwheat procure a fair growth.— Philadelphia inquirer. Feeding Box for Voraclona Homes. Many horses are such rapid eaters that much of the oats and other grain enters the stomach without being broken, and consequently passes oft undigested. The feed box illustrated herewith, obviates this difficulty. The improvement consists in simply attaching a small box, c. to the outside of a common feed box, a slot being cut Into the feed box proper, at a. It is plain that grain placed in the box c will follow the inclined bottom of the box, and

FEED BOX

gradually fall into the feed box, but only as fast as It Is removed from the aperture a by the animal feeding. It is a simple and very effective arrangement, and should find a place in many stables It saves grain by causing the animal to feed slowly, without throwing the grain, as many horses da Well Arranged House*. In independent houses there is absolutely no sense in being obliged to go through any room to get into another. Only the most faulty architecture makes this possible. With sufficient ground space the hall should be so planned that every room is accessible from it, and under no circumstances should angles and cupboards be permitted to shut off the easy entrance from this main artery of the dwelling. As plans now are, it is quite the usual thing to go through the dining room from kitchen to sitting room, and in some cases the bath room is reached only by passing through a kitchen or sitting room, This is among the most awkward of arrangements, and can only be accounted for on the theory that whoever planned the place must have been an amateur of the most amateurish sort. In a case in point the bath room opens out of the kitcnen, all travel to it must be from parlor through sitting room and dining room. The changing of a single partition would provide a hall quite wide enough to afford entry to this necessary accessory. There is urgent need of reform in building plana Chimneys for winter ■fires are put on the outside of the house, where a great portion of the heat is wasted on outdoor air. Chimneys for the kitchen range comes up between two of the best bedrooms, and the summer occupants thereof suffer tortures in consequence. When people get wise enough to make provisions for keeping in the warmth in winter and letting it out in summer they will have learned some things of which they seem at present profoundly ignorant—New York Ledger. la Case of Poisoning. In poisoning by opium strong coffee should be given, the victim be-* ing kept roused and awake, if possible, until medical aid may be obtained. The antidotes to. arsenic are table-spoon-ful doses of dialyzed iron, magnesia and castor oil. Carbolic acid; Give a tablespoonful of Epsom salts stirred in water, and repeat Oxalic acid: Give chalk, lime, water or magnesia freely. Corrosive sublimate: White of egg and milk in quantities In poisoning by acid the use of alkalis is indicated, as soda, magnesia, chalk lime, and soapsuds When the mischief has been wrought by strong alkalis acid must be used, as vinegar, lemon juice, or hard cider. When the mucous membrane of the mouth is much Inflamed or destroyed, give raw eggs, flour stirred In water, flaxseed lea, arrowroot or jany-soothing drink. Stimulation cffn be applied by means of hot water bottles or bags to the feet, and over

the heart, and by rubbing the eitremetiea Alcoholic stimulents should be administered very cautiously. Rough Bark* On Old Tree* fruit trees are properly cared for tueYe will be no rough bark on them, even aster they grow old. Thrifty growth causes the tree to slough olt the dead unused growth in which sap does not circulate. Make the trees thrifty by liberal feeding, and there will be no rough bark on them to furnish a harbor for the codling moth. Stripping the rough bark from the apple trees will doubtless expose many cocoons of this insect and insure their destruction, as they will perish when drenched by the spring rains, as they most certainly will be if uncovered from their hiding i lace We do not regard this rough bark as of much advantage for protecting the trunks of trees from cold in winter or the sun's rays at all seasons. If it were necessary young trees would be easily injured, whereas they are generally more healthful than are old trees. Dairymen Arou»ed. The movement to perfeet a national organization of dairymen for the purpose of regulating or if possible atiollshing the manufacture and sale of the fraudulent compounds called dairy goods, is a commendable undertaking and should be prosecuted with vigor. There is no more reason for allowing the rich packers to till the pure products of the farm with their cheap and filthy refuse than to permit the counterfeiter to till the gold or silver coins with a supurious metal by which to defraud the people. It does not seem possible that the honest producers would have quietely submitted to the robbery during the years that are past, and if they continue it* would not complain of the ruinously low prices to which they must continue to submit Did the consumers know that they were eating butterlne they would rise up in rebellion. Because the stuff is natural in smell and taste there is nothing to arouse suspicion, and the contamption increases. To Make Fosta Durable. The pract'ce of the following method is said to greatly Increase the durability of fence posts, hop poles and grape posts. A pit Is made ol convenient size and depth and poles and posts are set upright in it. Lime is thrown In among the timber, and when this pit is filled water is poured on the lime which Is slacked, and, of course, generates heat, by which the water and air In the timber are forced out and as the timber cools afterward the lime is absorbed into the pores of the wood. The lime has the effect of decomposing the albumen of the wood, and thus prevents its decay, to which the rotting of the timber is chiefly due.

Growing Pea* In Orchard*. The pea prop Is a soil renovator, with the advantage over clover for orchards that It does not drain ths soil of moisture during summer, but helps rather to keep the surface moist and easily permeable to all the rain that falla 'lhe pea crop gathers nitrogen from the atmosphere, and when the crop Is fed off by hogs, the pea vines make an excellent cheap and rich mulch. With a diet of peas and fallen apples hogs always thrive I and the pork thus made has a larger proportion of lean meat than has pork made from a corn diet. Good Seed. It is an axiom that poor seed without costing anything Is always dearer than the best at high prices. This is especially tipie of the cabbage. It is easy and inexpensive to grow poor , seed. Any stump from which the I head has been cut will send up shoots and seed abundantly. But very little of this seed will produce good heada The right way to grow cabbage seed is to select the best heads and plant them with root ana head attached. The seed thus grown will be plump, and will produce plants that head welt x , Condemn Check Rein*. Over five hundred veterinary surgeons have signed a paper condemning tight check reins, so painful to horses, and causing distortion of the windpipe to such a degree as to impede respiration. Paralysis of the muscles of the face, megrims apoplexy, coma, and Inflammation are some of the resjlts. By holding the head upward, it puts the muscles of the neck on a constant strain, and exposes the eyes to the direct rays of the sun. Agriculture. Plant both fruit and ornamental trees; also shrubs and vines. Especially when on dry feed sheep need a good supply of water. Feed fowls systematically two or three times a day, summer and winter. It is estimated that of the world’s population, 280,000,000 are farmers, representing a capital of #224,000,000000, with its annual production of #20,000,000,000. Skim milk is of value in stock feeding, but never at its best when fed alone. Use it in combination with bran, meal, or even whole corn, and you will get the best price for it Arrange the windows m stables so that the light will not fall directly into the eyes of the stock, and the ventilation so that the animals will at no time be exposed to a direct draught* Have a separate room for dairy work on the farm. A cellar which, contains fruit, vegetables, etc., is a poor place to keep butter, milk, and cheese. All dairy products take up foreign odors readily. ANYONE who will observe the beauty and flavor of the strawberry would surely be convinced that it takes abundance of rich food to produce them, and that few soils contain this food in sufficient quantities, and must be or should be supplied by manure. One trouble with our wool business is that so much of it is sold to couni try merchants, who do not under, stand the difference in grades and qualities. This prevents growers from getting the price that they should for country products. When sold to a regular wool merchant, quality and cleanliness bring their own reward Exchange

GIVE UP IN DESPAIR.

POSTOFFICE DETECTIVES ABANDON SOUTH BEND. SUU Robberto* Coattnne Unabated tn Spite of the Effort* of Foetal Inspector* to Find the Thieve*—Stealing* Said tn Amount to SIO.OOO. Pilfer* Their Mail. Mysterious mail robberies, inscrutable detectives who cannot find the thieves, and hundreds of angry correspondents whose money hat gone astray, have lately been making life miserable for certain venders of patent medicines and cosmetics at South Bend, Ind. More than $10,090 is said to have disappeared in some mysterious way from the letters sent to Soutn Bend, and, notwithstanding the efforts of the poetoffice inspectors, the leak has not been discovered. Federal detectives have prowled around the postoffice in the Indiana town and have sent decoy letters through the mails. The thief L thieves declined to handle the decoys, and this scheme of catching the pilferers failed. The sudden disappearance of the inspectors caused a ferment among the sufferers. When they learned that the detectives had given up the job in disgust the medicine men threw up their hands and wondered whether they would have to go out of bnsinn**— complexions were being ruined irretrievably and there was no possibility of suing for damages. But the hardest loss is said to have fallen on the Indiana Traveling Men's Accident Association, which has its headquarters at South Bend. Secretary E. B. Russell reports the loss of l f (,00 letters, each containing #2 or more. Angry members claim they cannot be held responsible for the continuous theft of their dues and the association has suffered severely. Still the pilfering goes on. It reached its height when the inspectors had just warmed to their work. Audacity of the Robberies, However worked, the scheme of the thieves is one of the most audacious in the history of postal robberies. Every smploye in the South Bend postoffice has been watched and tested. Over the entire case an impenetrab e shroud of secrecy has been flung by the postoffice departments. Though complaints were filed in Washington months ago and inspectors had been sent down to South Bend, nothing else was apparently done. Letters are still being purloined and robbed of the ourrency they contain. Money orders never reach their destination and are evidently torn up by the thieves, as the presenters would be instantly detected. South Bend is the home of the ratent medicine man and the fair but elderly vender ot cosmetics. The latter is usually the wife of the former. Chief of Police Rose claims that there are 175 patent medicine and cosmetic factories in South Bend. The mail sent to the city is enormous, letters containing remittances being forwarded from every State in the Union and from Canada. where the letters have been diverted from th sir Intended destination is part of the mystery surrounding the thefts. Four postoffioe Inspectors have failed to discover at what point the letters drop out ot sight. Trawling Men Robbed. It was not until late in the fall of 1893 that the Indiana Traveling Men's Accident Association began to miss the i dues sent in by members. Dues for September failed to reach the secretary's hands, but he did not notice it until the next month's payment fell due. Then he notified the delinquent members and in reply he received a bushel of letters from indignant members who declared they had sent in their September dues. Secretary Russell wrote to Washington and was referred to the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. Three weeks ago he went to Washington and pressed the investigation. Two inspectors had already been sent to South Bend, but their mission had soon become known and they had to return to Cincinnati. Shortly after Mr. Russell’s visit to Washington Chief Inspector Salomon, of the Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky division, went to South Bend and looked over the ground. Soon afterward Inspectors Fletcher and Holden established themselves in South Bend. Fletcher had 200 decoy letters sent to himself under the name of Wilson, but not one of them was touched. It was said more letters, " however, were stoleh while the detectives were at work than ever before.

SENATOR COLQUITT DEAD.

Georgia Statesman Fame* Away Surrounded by Family and Friend*. United States Senator Alfred Holt Colquitt, of Georgia, died at his residence in Washington Monday. Around the bedside when he passed away were Senator Gordon and daughter, Mrs. Jones; Senator Colquitt's private secretary, his nephew, Mr. Bunn; his •on, Mrs. Colquitt, three unmarried daughters, and his daughter, Mrs. Marshall, of Chicago. Senator Colquitt was stricken with paralysis in July, 1892, and from that time forward was unable to walk around without assistance. Senator Colquitt was born in Walton County, Georgia, the son of the Rev. Walter T. Colquitt, an eminent minister in his day, April 20, 1824. He was graduated from Princeton college in the class of 1844 and admitted to the bar, in 1845. During the Mexican war he served as a staff officer, with the rank ot major. He was a member of the Georgia Legislature in 1859 and was elected to the House of Representatives in the Thirty-third Congress. He was a member of the secession convention of the State of Georgia, and later entered the Confederate service as Captain and was soon promoted to be Colonel of the Sixth Georgia Infantry. Later he served as Brigadier General and was commissioned as Major General. He was elected Governor of Georgia in 1876, served four years, and was re-elected under the new constitution for two years. At the expiration of his term as Governor he wis elected to the United States Senate for the term commencing Mafbh 4, 1883, and was re-elected in 1888.

Minor Mention.

The New England maple sugar crop was a failure. A bandits’ cave was discovered near Winfield. Kan. I Frank Snell perished in the bliasard at Groton, S. D. Missouri courts sustain the Indlnaa receivership of the Iron HalL By an explosion of a paraffine lamp in a London dwelling-house, five persons were burned to death. Two women were fatally hurt and four others badly bruised in a runaway accident at Holidaysburg, Pa. It is denied that there is any proeEct of a famine among the men ilock- ? to the Rainy Lake gold fields.

HUSTLING HOOSIERS.

ITEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAa Intereating Summary ot the More Im. portant Doing* of Oar Neighbor*-Wee-ding* and Death*—Crimea, Cbih.iuct and General Indian* New* Notea Minor State Item*. A stock comnany has been organized at Noblesville to bnild a canning factory. Hereafter Wayne County will charge traveling circuses a license fe® to snow in that county. Farmland has decided to extend its city limits one-half mile in all directions, to make room for the growing town. The remains of a man supposed to be John Hovey, Brazil miner, were found scattered along the Big Four road near Shelbyville. A boycott has been established at Greenwood against a man who opened a saloon there. No one willjboard him or sell him goods. The 8-year-old son Foster Fletcher, living near New Richmond, fell from a fence and ran a stick down his throat, resulting in death. John Carpenter fell off a load of hay in Elwood and broke bls leg. He now sues the city for #t 00, claiming the miserable street was the cause. The safe in the P. J. Kern's Carriage Factory at Frankfort was cracked by burglars and six stores in the town burglarized. The thieves got little. The merchant tailors of Fort Wayne have agreed that all their bad debt accounts should be sold at public auction at the Court House door April 24. Elias M. Smith an< wife have lived on the same farm near Crawfordsville for fifty-eight years. On March 13 they had been married sixty years. A Goshen man loaded some sticks ot wood (or wood thieves. One of the sticks got into his own stove and hfi is now having one side of his house repaired. John Martin of St. Paul, an old German, aged 70, jumped seventy-two feet from tne Big Four bridge acroas Flatrock Creek, near St. Paul, and was killed instantly. The old man was deaf, and had no known relatives in the world. The other uay he placed himself in front of a train to be killed, but was saved, only to take his life as above. The Citizens’ Bank, just organized at Matinsville; has for its directors Sylvanus Barnard, John H. Jones, E. 8. Huff, Charles Hamilton, C. S. Cunningham. and F. W. Woods of that city: O. H. Bake of Mason, O.; F. W. Whittaker of Hamilton, 0.;,j, F. Cunningham of Greensburg, and W. S. Fraser of Richmond. , J. F, Cpnnlngham is President and W. S> Frazer Cashier. Tne capital stock is 8100,000. An atrocious murder was committed at Tolloston recently. The victims are James Conroy and William Oleary, who were employed as watchmen In the Tolleston,Shooting Club grounds. The men in some way be, ame Involved in a quarrel with Albert Tooker; and were getting the bert of the argument when the latter drew a big navy pistol and fired six shots, killing both men. After the murder Tooker took to the woods. A vigilance committee was immediately organized, and ten minutes later about Seventyfive farmers, armed with shotguns, rifles, clubs, and hayforks, began scouring the woods and swamps. James M. Reynolds, of Lafayette, has been appointed a trustee of Purdue University, to succeed Colonel Dresser, whose recent death left a vacancy on that board. Mr. Reynolds is a man ot large means who is engaged extensively in real estate operatious. He is thoroughly in sympathy with Purdue's success, and appears to bo just the man for the place. President Smart, and others prominently identified with the institution, favored the selection of Mr. Reynolds, whom they , regard as a valuable man for Purdue. He is a Republican, and the nonpartisan character of the board is thus maintained. H. O. Huffkr, a young schoolteacher of Farmland, has invented ' new machine for the prevention ol thieves entering and destroying watermelon patches. The machine is a piece, of gas pipe, with string attachments running in each direction through the melon patch, so that when the strings are touched a lever Is thrown and a heavy discharge of whatever the pine may be loaded with 1# scattered in all directions for a hundred yards. It will throw shot hard enough to go through a half-inch board. He has sold a machine to Hamilton Pursley, who is a large melon raiser tn that section, and who has been greatly annoyed heretofore in this manner. The mystery surrounding the many incendiary fires tn Peru the past month wae solved the other night by the arrest of two young men, William Koob, aged 22, ana John Gould, aged 20. Both are sons of well-known people. About 10 o’clock another fire occurred, by which the barn of Joseph Buffert was destroyed. The pent-up indignation burst forth and 500 people started out to discover the incendaries. They were caught about midnight by two special policemen. The boys showed fight, and, flourishing large revolvers, eluded the officers for a time, but were found several hours afterward hiding among the freight cars. Both confessed to setting fire to all the buildings burned. Dime novels and excitement are given as the incentives. Thousands of dollars have been destroyed and the city has been in a ferment for the past month. As high as two and three alarms in one night have been sent in, while dwners of property nightly petroled their premises. Fire originating from the smoke stack of a" neighboring sawmill destroyed the barn of John Oswalt, four miles north of Wabash, together with three horses, a quantity of grain, hay, agricultural implements, and three horses will have to be shot. Loss. $2,000; no insurance. There was a serious wreck oh the Baltimore and Ohio road a few miles west ot Milford Junction. While an eaet-bound freight train was running rapidly an axle broke, and ditched ten cars. The track was blocked for several hours, trains making a detour via the Big Four and Pennsylvania. The Diamond Plate-Glass Works, with a capacity of eight hundred men, and the American Strawboard Mill, working 125 operators at Kokomo, are preparing to reopen after being closed ten months. John H. Perkins of Lebanon, received a letter the other day containing $26 and a note, saying, “I send this fpr Jesus Christ’s saire.” There was ho signature to the note. About eight years ago Mr. Verkin's store was robbed and about twenty dollars worth of goods taken. The supposition is that the money he received was sent by the robber, who has probably been converted since. The letter bears the Chicago postmark.