Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — Page 3

UNITED AT LAST

CHAPTER IV. •OrrEUD HEB AND SHE KNOWS NOT HOW TO FORGIVB Three days after the little dinner in Half-Moon street, Mrs. Walsingham sat at her solitary breakfast-table rather later than usual, dawdling over the morning papers, and wondering drearily what she should do with the summer day before her. She had seen nothing of Gilbert Sinclair sincq the dinner, and had endured an agony of self-tor-ment in the interval His name appeared in one of the morning journals among the guests at a distinguished countess’ ball on the previous evening, and in the list of names above Mr. Sinclair she found those of Lord Clanyarde and his daughter. There had oeen a time when Gilbert set his face against all fashionable entertainments, voting them the abomination of desolation. He had changed of late, and went everywhere, raising fond hopes in the breasts of anxious mothers with large brocds of marriageable daughters waiting for their promotion. Mrs. Walsingham4at for some time looking vacantly at the long list of names, and thinking of the man she loved. Yos* she loved him. She knew his nature by heart; knew how nearly that obstinate, selfish nature vergea upon brutality, and loved him nevertheless. Something in the force of his character exercised a charm over her own imperfect disposition. She had believed in the strength of his affeotion for herself, which had been shown in a passionate, undisciplined kind of manner that blinded her to the shallowness of the sentiment. She had been Intensely proud of her power over this rough Hercules, all the more proud of his subjugation, because of that halfbidden brutishness which she had long ago divined in him. She liked him for what he was, and scarcely wished him to be better than he was. She only wanted him to be true to her. When he had asked her. years ago, to be his wife, she had frankly told him the storv of her youth and marriage. Her husband was five and twenty years her senior, a man with a constitution broken by nearly half a century of hard living, and she looked forward hopefully to a speedy release from a union that had been hateful to her. She had believed that it would be possible to retain Gilbert’s affection until the time when that release should come without sacrifice to her reputation. Had shfe not believed and hoped this, it is impossible to say what guilty sacrifice she might have been willing to make rather than lose the man she loved. She had hoped to keep him dangling on, governed by her womanly tact, a faithful slave, until the Colonel, who led a stormy kind of existence about the Continent, haunting German gambling tables, should be good enough to depart this life. But the Colonel was a long time exhausting his battered constitution, and the flowery chain in which Mrs Walsingham held her captive had faded considerably with the passage of years. A loud double knock startled the lady from her reverie. Who could such an early visitor be? Gilbert himself, perhaps. He had one of those exceptional constitutions to which fatigue is a stranger, and would be no later astir to-day for last night’s ball. Her heart fluttered hopefully, but sunk again with the familiar anguish of disappointment as the door was opened and a low, deferential voice made itself heard in the hall. These courteous tones did not belong to Gilbert Sinclair.

A card was brought to her presently, with James Wyatt's name upon it, and “on special business, with many apologies, ” written in pencil below the name, in the solicitor’s neat hand. “Shall I show the gentleman to the drawing-room, ma’am, or will you see him here?” asked the servant. “Ask him to come in here. What special business can Mr. Wyatt have we me?” she wondered. The solicitor came into the room as she asked herself this question, looking very fresh and bright, in his careful morning costume, with a hot-house flower in the button-hole of his perfectly fitting coat. He was more careful of his toilet than many handsomer men, and knew how far the elegance of his figure and the perfection of his dress went to atone for his plain face. “My dear Mrs. Walsingham," he began, “I owe you a thousand apologies Sor this unseasonable intrusion. If I did not think the nature of my business would excuse ” “There is nothing to be excused. You find me guilty of a very late breakfast, that is all. Why should you not call at half-past ten as well as at half-past two? It was very kind of you to come at all." “I hold it one of my dearest privileges to be received by you, ” he replied, with a certain grave tenderness. “There are some men who do not know when they are happy, Mrs. Walsingham. 1 am not one of those.” She looked at him with a* surprise that was half scornful. “Pray spare me the pretty speeches which make you so popular with other women,” she said. z You spoke of business just now. Did you really mean business?” “Not in a legal sense. My errand this morning is of rather a delicate nature. I would not for the world distress or offend you by any unwarranted allusion to your domestic relations, but I believe I am the bearer of news which can scarcely have reached you yet by any other channel, and which may not be altogether unwelcome.” “What news can you possibly bring me?” she asked, with a startled look. “Would it distress you to hear that Colonel Walsingham is ill—dangerously ill, even?” Her breath came quicker as he spoke. “I am not hypocrite enough to pretend that,” she answered. “My heart has long been dead to any feeling but anger—l will not say hatred, though he has deserved as much—where that man.is concerned. I have suffered too much by my alliance with him." “Then let me be the first to congratulate you upon your release from bondage. Your husband is dead.”

BY MISS M BRADDON

Clara Walsingham's cheek blanched and she was silent for some moments, and then she asked in a steady voice, “How did you come by the news of his death?” “In the simplest and most natural manner. My business requires me to be au courant as to continental affairs, and I get several French and German newspapers. In one of the last I found the account of a duel, succeeding upon a quarrel at the gaming-table, in which your husband fell, shot through the lungs. He only survived a few hours. His opponent was a Frenchman and is now under arrest. Shall I read you the paragraph?* “If you please,” answered Mrs. Walsingham, with perfect calmness of manner. Her heart was beating tuVnultously, nevertheless. She had a dismal conviction that no advantage—that is to say, not that one advantage for which she longed—would come to her from her husband’s death. How eagerly she had desired his death once! To-day the news gave her little satisfaction. Mr. Wyatt took a slip of newspaper from his card-case, ana read her the brief account of the Colonel’s exit from this mortal strife. Duels were common enough in Prussia, and the journal made very little of the sanguinary business. “As many of my friends believe me to have been left a widow long ago, I shall make no fuss about this event; and I shall be very grateful if you will be good enough not to talk of it anywhere,” Mrs. Walsingham said, by and by, after a thoughtful pause. “I shall be careful to obey you,” answered the lawyer.

“I wonder how you came to guess that I was not a widow, and that Colonel Walsingham was my husband. .He took me abroad directly after our marriage, and we were never in England together.” “It is a solicitor’s business to know a great many things, and in this case there was a strong personal Interest. You accused me just now of flattering womem; and it is quite true that I have now and then amused myself a little with the weaker sex. Until about a year ago I believed myself incapable of any real feeling—of any strong attachment—and had made up my mind to a life of solitude, relieved by the frivolities of society. But at that time a great change came over me, and I found that I too was doomed to suffer life’s great fever. In a word, I fell desperately in love. I think you can guess the rest.” “I ana not very good at guessing, but I suppose the lady is some friend of mine, or you would scarcely choose me for a confidante. Is it Sophy Morton? I know you admire her.” “As I admire wax dolls, or the Haidees and Zuleikas of an illustrated Byron,” answered Mr. Wyatt, with a wry face. “Sophy Morton would have about as much power to touch my heart or influence my mind as the wax dolls or the Byronic beauties. There is only one woman I have ever loved, or ever can love, and her name is Clara Walsingham. ” Mrs. Walsingham looked at him with unaffected surprise. “lam B?rry that I should have inspired any such sentiment, Mr. Wyatt. I can never return it." “Is that your irrevocable reply?” “It is,” she answered, decisively. “You reject the substance —an honest man’s love —and yet you are content to waste the best years of your life upon a shadow. ” “I don’t understand you.” “Oh, yes, I think you do. I think you know as well as I do how frail a reed you have to lean on when you put your trust in Gilbert Sinclair.” “You have no right to speak about Mr. Sinclair,” answered Clara Walsingham, with an indignant flush. “What do you know of him, or of my feelings in relation to him?” “I know that you love him. Yes, Clara, it is the business of a friend to speak plainly; and even at the hazard of incurring your anger, I will do so. Gibert Sinclair is not worthy of your affection. You will know that I am right before long if you do not know it now. It is not in that man's nature to be constant under difficulties, as I would be constant to you. Your hold upon him has been growing weaker every year.” “If that is true, I shall discover the fact quite soon enough from the gentleman himself, ” replied Mrs. Walsingham, in a hard voice, and with an angry cloud upon her face. “Your friendship, as you call it, is not required to enlighten me upon a subject which scarcely comes within the province of a solicitor. Yes, Mr. Wyatt, since plain speaking is to be the order of the day, I am weak enough and blind enough to care for Gilbert Sinclair better than for anyone else upon this earth, and if I do not marry him I shall never marry at all. He may intend to jilt me. Yes, I have seen the change in him. It would be a vain falsehood if I denied that I have seen the change, and I am waiting for the inevitable day in which the man I once believed in shall declare himself a traitor. “Would it not be wise to take the initiative, and give him his dismissal?” “No. The wrong shall come from him. If he can be base enough to forget all the promises of tile past, and to ignore _ the sacrifices I have made for him, his infamy shall have no excuse from any folly of mine.” “And if you find that he is false to you—that he has transferred his affection to another woman—you will banish him from your heart and mind, I trust, and begin life afresh.” Mr. Walsingham laughed aloud.

Yes, I shall begin a new life, for from that hour I shall only live upon one hope.” “And that will be " “The hope of revenge.” “Revenge is a hard word,” he said, after a long pause. “Redress is much better. If Mr. Sinclair should marry, as I have some reason to think he will " “What reason?” “Public rumor. His attentions to a .certain young lady have been remarked by people I know. ” “The lady is the beautiful Miss Clanyarde." “How did you discover that?” “From his face the other night.” “You are quick at reading his face?” "Yes. I believe he is over head and ears in love with Constance Clanyarde, as a much better man, Cyprian Davenant, was before him; and I have no doubt Lord Clanyarde will do his utmost to bring the match about." “How long has this been going on?” “Since the beginning of this season. He may have lost his heart to the lady last year, but his attentions last year were not so obvious.” “Do you know if Miss Clanyarde cares for him?” “I have no means of knowing the lady’s feeling on the subject, but I have a considerable knowledge of her father in the way of business; and I am convinced she will be made—induced is, I

suppose, a more appro or iate word—to accept Sinclair as a husband. Lord Clanyarde is as poop as Job and as proud as Lucifer. Yes, I think we may look upon the marriage as a certainty. And now, Mrs. Walsingham, remember that by whateve means you seek redress I am your friend, and shall hold myself ready to aid and abet you in the exaction of your just right. You have rejected me as a husband. You shall discover how faithful I can be as an ally.” “I have no doubt I ought to be grateful to you, Mr. Wyatt,” she said, in a slow, weary way, “but I do not think your friendship can ever be of much service to me in the future happiness of my life, and I trust that you will forget all that has been said this morning. Good-by. ” She gave him her hand. He held it with a gentle pressure as he answered her. “It is impossible for me to forget anything that you have said, but you shall find me as secret as the grave. Good-by.” He bent his head and touched her hand lightly with his lips before releasing it. In the next instant he was gone. “How she loves that snob!" he said to himself as he walked away from Half-Moon street. “And how charming she is! Rich, too. I could scarcely make a better matph. It is a case in which inclination and prudence go together. And how easily I might have won her but for that man! Well, well, I don’t despair of ultimate victory, in spite of Gilbert Sinclair. Everything comes to the man who knows how to wait.” [TO BE CONTINUED. I

THE SUPREME COURT.

The Majority of Cases Brought Before It Are Simply for Delay. That august body, the Supreme Court of the United States, has been dubbed “ the great mechanism of procrastination ” and to call it by that title seems to do it no injustice. It is said that nine out of every ten cases submitted to this high tribunal are carried up to it not for the purpose of obtaining the reversal of decisions rendered by lower courts, but purely and simply for the sake of delay—or ordinarily to keep people out of money which they have won bv law. How effective this plan is may "'be judged when it is considered that after the briefs in a case are filed four years must ordinarily elapse before the latter can come up for’ consideration. There are 4,000 cases on the docket now. No other legal tribunal that ever existed has possessed such well nigh absolute power as is wielded by the Supreme Court of the United States. It can even overthrow any law passed by Congress and signed by the President, if it chooses to discover a constitutional flaw in the measure, and from its decision there is no appeal. Such awe does it inspire that lawyers of great reputation and experience who plead before it are often seized with fright, turn pale and forget their words in its presence. A distinguished legal luminary from New York confessed the other day that, after arguing a case at the bar of the Supreme Court, he always goes straight to his hotel and changes his underclothing, because it is soaked with On the other hand, it sometimes happens that a country attorney who says “drawed” and “ain t got none” will exhibit the utmost sangfroid in addressing the august row of black gowns.

Haman Resemblance to Animals.

There is a very curious point connected with the more pronounced animal faces—namely, those in charge of animals grow to be like them. Thus, a hostler, in charge of tramway horses has himself a fine Roman-nosed horse type of head, growing day by day more like his horses. Men in charge of nattle on the farm become essentially bovine, and in Shropshire it has often been remarked that the sheep breeders resemble their own rams. I cannot explain these singularities, which, however, are wholly or part'y true. The sheep type of man is not indicative of great intelligence, and it is usually found in remote agricultural districts. The bulldog characters in man denote courage without refinement, but in the case of a lady-like her favorite pug dog—with nez retrousse, the refinement was not wanting. The Eskimos or Lapps in the water are so like seals than a man has been shot in error, the wistful expression of countenance being common in both, as the head only appears at the surface of the water. I have seen a comfortable-looking bear man in the train and a wizened, bat-faced old woman once in Brittany.—Pall Mall Gazette.

Unappropriated Syllables.

In the early days of the gold excitement in California a young German from Michigan departed for California, and after prospecting for awhile, settled there. His name was John G. Almondinger, and wishing to Americanize himself as much as possible he applied to the Legislature of California, and had his name changed to John G. Almond. A few days later a man named John Smith applied to the same Legislature, and after reciting a long catalogue of the ills to which he was subject, owing to his unfortunately common name, he said in conclusion: “And whereas I have noticed that you have curtailed the name of J. G. Almondinger to J. G. Almond, and have not disposed of the “inger,” which seems to be lying around loose. I respectfully request that the came ma? be added to my name.” The result of this appeal is not stated.

A Remarkable Clue.

A gang of horse-thieves were captured at Altoona, Pa., the other day, by the aid of a very extraordinary clue. The day before the capture they had robbed a grocery store and while ransacking the place one of the robbers took a bite of cheese. A shrewd policeman, noticing the peculiar teethmarks in the fragment of cheese from which the bite had been taken, afterwards spotted one James Feeney,whom he suspected of having had a hand in the robbery. He made Feeney’s acquaintance and by clever management made the fellow take a bite of some cheese he was himself eating. The teeth-marks were identical and the policeman nailed his man, who not only confessed his own guilt but named his confederates.

How Canada Got Its Name.

The orgin of the word “Canada” is curious enough. The Spaniards visited that country previous to the French, and made particular search for gold and silver, and, finding none, they often said among themselves, “AcaNada" (there is nothing here'. The Indians—who watched closely—learned this sentence and its meaning. The French arrived, and the Indians, who wanted none of their company and supposed they also were Spaniards come on the same errand, were anxious to inform them in the Spanish sentence, “AcaNada.” The French, who knew as little of Spanish as the Indians, supposed this incessantly recurring souna was the name of the country, and gave it the name Canada, which it has borne ever since.

DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

TOPICS OF INTEREST TO FARMER AND'NOUSEWIFE. Faßßera ShoKld Um the Whitewash Brash Freelr-Care of Early riant.—How to Keep Pastore Springs Pure-A Powerful Lok Jaek. Hints for Sugar Makers. As a rule we believe a sugar orchard inclining south and east will produce the most sap, while those with a northwesterly slope produce the best quality of sugar. No sugar maker can afford to use any but the best apparatus for boiling. The quicker the evaporation the less the expense and the better the quality. Do not wait until your buckets are full before gathering. I think it a good rute to gather often and boil immediately. Do not have tbo much storage, for with a modern evaporator and good dry wood a man should be able to boil nearly as fast as a team and two men <an gather. Always maxe your plans to have tne works well cleaned every Saturday, even if it does require extra labor. Strain your sap through a flannel strainer as it runs from the tub. Skim often while boiling and reduce to the required density before drawing from the evaporator. Do nothing by guess. Test your syrup by an accurate thermometer or hydrometer. 219 degrees by the thermometer while boiling and 32 degrees by hydrometer will give you syrup of 11 pounds net to the gallon, the standard syrup. Strain through a heavy flannel or felt strainer and can at once while boiling hot and screw the top down tight to exclude air. Put up like this syrup will hold its flavor and will not crystallize. Use none but full-size gallon cans and never practice any deceit in regard to you product Farm and Home. A Powerful Lou Jack. The cut here shown illustrates a log jack that any Ingenious farmer 'an make. It consists of two hard wood planks nailed nearly close together. Holes are then drilled in which two iron pegs should slide easily. A lever of hard oak wood or of iron Is then required with a short chain and hook. A chain is then hooked to the top of the plank, passed under the log to be raised and hooked to the chain on the lever. The lever

LOG JACK.

Is then worked similarly to a pump handle. When lowering the handle and allowing the weight to rest on the outer pin, move up the pin in front to a hole higher. When the handle is raised with the weight on the front pin, raise the back pin. By this plan a ton may be easily raised bya single person, as the leverage is only about half an inch with a six foot lever.

Grading Comb Honey. The method of grading comb honey, adopted by the last convention is, perhaps, a good one, and may stand. However, it amounts to nothing in the transaction of business, and is of no practical value, though, it gives employment to theorists. I have no use for the word “Fancy’’ in relation to dark honey. The fact of comb honey being dark excludes all “Fancy.” 1 prefer to use its proper names, such as WhlteClover, Alfalfa, Basswood, Mangrove, Sage, Goldenrod, Aster, Holly honey, etc. These and other distinct varieties sell according to their qualities. Others are classed as dark honeys. Buckwheat belongs to the latter, of course, but being of a distinct variety, it is called “buckwheat honey.” By these means it is possible to convince buyers that the flavor and color of honey is determined by its source. The result of this is that customers do not doubt the purity of the article when a strange flavor is discovered. Sugar syrup tastes unmistakably like sugar syrup honey for it has no other flavor. Producers who ship honey, extracted or comb, should endeavor to prevent leakage, for it is a loss to all concerned and an injury to trade. —Ex. Lime Water. The uses of so homely an article as lime about the household are almost innumerable. One sees the hodman on a new building keep his drinking water in a pail coated with lime and one thinks it is a poor receptacle for the universal beverage. Yet it would not be so good or so pure served in a silver ice pitcher. A teaspoonful of lime water in a glass of milk is a remedy for summer complaint It prevents the turning of milk or cream, and a cupful added to bread sponge will keep it from souring, Allowed to evaporate from a vessel on the stove, it will alleviate the distresses due to lung fever, croup, or diphtheria. It will sweeten and purify bottles, jugs, etc. Lime itself, as every one knows, is invaluable as a purifier and disinfect- : ant. Sprinkled in cellars or closets where there is a slight dampness it will not only serve as a purifier, but will prevent the invasion of noxious animals. It is one of the notable instances of the economy and the bounty of nature that this article, so common and cheap, is serviceable in so many ways.—Philadelphia Record. To Destroy Lice on Cattle. A correspondent writes the Breeder’s Gazette that ordinary water lime or cement dusted over and rubbed into the hair of animals is a cheap, eas.ly applied and safe remedy and an absolutely sure preventive of lice. This is doubtless partly true. Lice

cannot thrive among hair that M tilled with lime dust but the dost will not eta/ upon all parte of the animal, particularly the sides of the neck and the under parte of the body. A bit of rubbing with kerosene or other oil over these parte will be needed to make a thorough job of it. And, by the way, it is not necessary to wait till water lime can be procured, which is not always readily obtained, for any kind of fine dust* sand or clay from the highway will answer about as well Lice cannot live long in either dust or oily surroundings. But one application is never enough. It should be repeated frequently till the dlfliculty is removed. Meeplair Pasture Spring* Pure. Xoo many of the sources of the water supply of our pastures are contaminated by cattle wading in the springs and dropping their excrements within the basin in which the spring is situated, into which all loose material is washed by the rains of summer. Such contaminated water supply is highly undesirable for

SPRING HOUSE AND WATERING TROUGH.

any stock to drink from, but most decidedly undesirable for the use of dairy cows. There is almost always a descending stretch of ground, or a descending open ditch, from pasture springs, which permits the keepiug of the water supply pure. The spring should be completely enclosed and roofed over, and the water conveyed by a pipe to a tub or trough below, as shown in the accompanying illustration. Such a plan not only serves to keep the water pure at all times, but also to keep it cooler in summer and warmer in winter, if the spring is ever used for the winter watering of stock. Early Plants. However desirable it may be to secure early vegetables by setting out those started in the hotbed or in the living room of the house, the work of setting should not be attempted too early in the season. It must be remembered that house or hotbodgrown plants are tender and not susceptible to such a degree of cold as is frequently experienced in the early part ot the season. It is therefore safer to omit transplanting until the weather is quite uniform in temperature. Potted plants may be hardened by putting out of doors and so sooner prepared for transplant ng. Earliness of product is governed largely by uninterrupted growth, the setting should therefore be so attended to as to prevent any shock to the growth.

Cherries. The cherry is a profitable fruit If trees of it are located where cheap labor can be obtained, and near a good market The crop of a large tree has been known to sell for 825 at a price of 4 cents to 5 cents a pound. Young trees will not bear heavily, but It is a fruit that begins to bear early, and will soon pay its way. It requires a dry and heavy soil Too much wet causes it to be unfruitful, and sandy soil cannot supply the amount of potash this fruit requires, without heavier potash dressings than most will think It necessary to give. Points In Driving. To drive well you must keep your eye and your mind on the horse. Watch his ears. They will be pricked forward when he is about to shy, droop when he is tired, fly back just before he “breaks" (into a gallop), and before be k cks. Before kicking, too, a horse usual.y tucks in his tail and hunches his bacz a little. When you observe any of these indications speak to him and sharply pull up his head. Odds and Ends. Pudding bags should be made of heavy jean. In packing bottles or canned fruit tor moving slip a rubber band over the body of them. Great improvement will be found In tea and coffee if they are kept in glass jars instead of tin. Cold cream is apt to make pim pies and vaseline used on the face will give one a disfiguring growth of hair. To clean the dingy rattan chair that has never been painted, wash it in hot milk in which a little salt has been dissolved. Stand a wet umbrella on the handle to drain; otherwise, the water collecting at the center, will rot the silk. A large rug of linen crash placed under the sewing machine will catch threads, clippings, and cuttings, and save a deal of sweeping and dusting. When your face and ears burn so terribly bathe them in very hot water —as hot as you can bear. This will be more apt to cool them than any cold application. There is false economy, which costs more than it returns, such as saving old medicine bottles, partially used prescriptions, the tacks taken from the carpet* or working days to save or make that which can be bought for a few Fqr pimples on the face, bathe it occasionally in a soothing lotion composed of a weak solution of borax and warm water. At night use very warm water on the lace; then dry, and rub in the pores an ointment made of flower of sulphur and lard. Always use cotton holders for irons. Woolen ones are hot to the band, and if scorched, as they often ae, the smell Is disagreeable. In ironing a shirt or a dress turn the ' sleeves on the wrong side and leave them until the rest is done, and then turn and iron them. Steel knives or other articles which have become rusty should be rubbed with a Lttle sweet oil, then left for a day or two in a dry place, and then rubbed with finely powdered, unslacked lime until every vestige of the rust has disappeared, And kept in a drv place wrapped up in a bit of flannel

MODEL HOUSE PLANS.

THINGS TO. CONSIDER BEFORE BUILDING A HOME. Plan* Are Hera Presented for Substantial Honsea of Effective D**lgn and with ArtUtlo Interior* - All Hava Modern Convenience*—Erected at Small Co**. A SI,SOO Cottage. This very attractive design is from Pallisers' American Architecture, and is intended to give ample accommodation at a low cost for an ordinary family. The cellar is placed under the

PBRBPECYIVR VIEW.

kitchen and hall, which was thought in this instance to be sufficient to meet the requirements, though it is generally considered, in the Eastern States at least, to be poor economy not to have a cellar under the whole house, as It only requires about one foot in depth of additional stone work to secure a cellar, it being necessary to put down the stone work, In any case, so that it will be beyond the reach of frost The kitchen is without a fireplace, the cooking to be done by a stove, which, if properly contrived, is a very effective ventilator, and preferred by many housekeepers for all kitchen purposes. ‘ The parlor and dining-room or general living-room are provided with the healthy luxury of an open fireplace. They are built of buff brick, with molded jambs and segment

P[?]AN OF FIRST FLOOR.

arch, and in which a basket-grate oi fire-dogs can be placed for the desired |fire, and in this way large rooms art kept perfectly comfortable in cold weather without heat from anyothei source. These fireplaces are alto provided with neat mantels of ash, and which are elegant compared with ■the marbleized-slate mantel, which is a sham, and repulsive to an educated taste. Qn entering nearly every house in the land we find the same turned walnut post at the bottom of the stairs, with tapering walnut sticks all the way up, surmounted with a flattened walnut rail having a shepherd's crook at the top; however, in this instance it is not so, but the staircase is surmounted with an ash rail, balusters, and newel of simple though unique design; and now people are giving more attention to this important piece of furniture we

PLAN OF SECOND FLOOR.

may look for a change In this respect. The house is supplied with a cistern constructed with great care, the kitchen sink being supplied with water by a pump, and there Is no more easy method of procuring good water for all purposes of the household. For a compact, convenient cottage with every facility for doing the work with the least number of steps, for a low-priced elegant cottage, the architects say they do not know of anything that surpasses this. Such a house as this, if tastefully. fur. nisbed, and embellished with suit, able surroundings, as neat and wellkept grounds, flowers, etc., will always attract more attention than the uninviting, ill-designed buildings, no matter how much money may have been expended on them. It is not necessary that artistic feeling should have always a large field for its display; and in the lesser works and smaller commissions as much art may find expression as in the costly facades and more preten. tious structures. Copyright by Palllser. Pall liter & Co., N. Y. Experiments in the controlling of hemorrhage by electricity have been in progress some time with varying success. The Electrical Review says that Dr. Augustine Goelet of New York has now found a method of application that is quit secure, ft is called “cupric electrolysis.” A copper electrode, placed in the vicinity whence the flow of blood proceeds, is decomposed by the action of the positive pole of the electric apparatus. This liberates an astringent salt, the oxi-chlorlde of copper, which produces coagulation and checks hemorrhage. Even when the times are not bright it is best not to croak. Cheerfulness brings comfort.

NEWS OF OUR STATE.

A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. What Are Doing-Matter* of General and Local Interest—Marriage* and Death* Accident* and Crlwie, - Pointer* About Our Own People. Minor State Item*. A Davis County husband wants • divorce from his wife because she threatened to pour melted lead in his ears. James Winter, the farmer who deliberately shot a girl near Muncie several months ago, has been captured, near Jonesboro. John Hickey, Anderson, has deeded a valuable tract of land near that place to the Sisters of Mercy for the erection of a hospital to be maintained for the benefit of that city. Burglars secured over 8300 worth of goods from the general store of H. Devores at Denver, Miami County, also, a quantity of stamps and money from the postoffice. A.T Wabash the residence of Thomas Clary burned, including SSOO, which Miss Nan Clary, sister of the owner, some months ago withdrew from a bank and concealed under the carpet. CoLUMgus citizens have secured the services of a detective to run down the author of a number of annonymoua letters that have recently been received by many of the leading men of that city. A Burglar, supposed to be a tramp, was shot and instantly killed at Palestine. George Werrick, a Palestine merchant, surprised the robber in the act of burglarizing his store, and opened fire on him, with fatal effect. Mrs. William Jamison of Peru, died of lockjaw, caused by an ulcerated tooth. The case is unusual, from the fact that she lived seven days after the jaws had set. Medical evidence shows that four days is the usual course of this ailment. Mrs. Elizabeth Addington, aged stl, for several years a devotee to the morphine habit, died at the county infirmary at Muncie. They would not furnish her with the drug, and she died a horrible death three days after entering the place. The corner-stone of the first brlcl’ school building erected in Wabash was removed the other day, and the tin box which had been placed therein May 12. 1858, was opened. The Bible ana written lists of the prolesslonal and business men in the city at that time were in good condition. The following institutions drew their March maintenance from the State Treasury, as follows: Feeble-minded, 88,553.92; Soldiers’ Orphans’ Jlome at Knightstown. $9,480.84; Blind, $2,588.38. The Reform School for Boys drew $5,200 for this month, and the Indiana University its quarterly appropriation of SIO,OOO. Four children of Frank Bilski, a farmer, wholiyqs on Chimney Pierre hills, tpp ffiues sdtllh of Vincennes, poisoned. The father ip plowing, plowed up some poke root. The children ate the roots, thinking they wore Parsnips. All took violently sick, find a little boy died, nnd the three others are lying in a critical condition. THEUnltcd States Fish Commissioner has beed asked to place 500,000 black bass minnows in the three streams of Wayne County—Whitewater River, Nolan's Fork, and Green’s Fork, and William »Iliff of Richmond, Indiana Secretary of the National Bird, Game and Kish Protective Association, says that the prospect of securing them is good. sr. Iliff is preparing to send out circulars to every township trustee in the State touching the work of the National Association, the aim being to secure their aid in reporting violations of the game laws. W. H. McDoel, General Manager of the Louisville, New Albany ana Chicago Railroad has attached his name to the contract which binds the railroad company to build, maintain, and operate its machine and car shops in Lafayette. The shops and improvements are to cost $300,000, and the township has already voted a donation of SIOO,OOO, the contract being that the railway company shall put in two dollars for each dollar donated by the township. The payments are to be made in two years, and the work to be completed within that period. Albert Williams, aged 23, and his young wife attended church at New Corner, and drove to their ho mg, a mile distant. They drove a spirited horse, hitched to a cart. When they reached home Williams got out to help his wife out; the horse frightened ana started to run. Williams grabbed for his wife and succeeded in pulling her out, but in doing so ho was caught by the vehicle and dragged to death. The horse ran a quarter of a mile. When found the young man was lifeless. His head had struck a rock, causing a fatal fracture of the skull. Mrs. Williams ' fell violently to the ground, but was only slightly injured.

Patents have been issued to the following citizens of Indiana: Mary L. Garr, Indianapolis, baby carriage; Walter G. Burns, Fort Wayne, game appartus; Isaac L. (Jarman, North Salem, assignor of one-half to J. H. McGee, Max, tire tightener; Robert 8. Carr, Hamilton, Ohio, assignor to F. C. Ball, Muncie, jar fastener; Frank E. Davis, Columbus, assignor of, one-halt J. B. McCoy. Indianapolis, piano truck; Columbus Mills, Gas City, device for heating and ventilating rooms; Joseph W. Nethery, assignor to Indiana Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis, pneumatic straw stacker; T. Reeves, assignor to Reeves & Co., Columbus, straw-stacking machine: William H. Rickaback, assignor of one-half to W. L. Huston, Misnawaxa, elevator; Albert E. Whitaker, LaPort, motor. Thomas Cook, aged 13, was bitten by a dog at Fort Wayne. Soon afterwards he fell to the ground and frothed at the month. He was taken to his home and the attending physicians pronounced it a case of hydrophobia caused by fright. At times it took four men to hold the youth in bed. William Bennett says that he has made a thorough investigation as to the damage fruit has received in Delaware Countv, by the recent severe weather, and he finds that the buds on apple, neach, pear, and cherry trees nave been killed. The loss is much more serious than first believed. Contracts have been signed whereby the plant of the John Ripley Washboard Manufacturing Company of Ripley, Ohio, will be removed to Eaton as soon as suitable buildings can be erected. Work on the buildings will be begun at once and pushed to completion. One of the sisters of St. Bernard’s Church of Rockfort, met with a painful accident, her hand having been almost torn from the arm by the explosion of a glass jar. An artery was severed and she came near bleeding to death ‘ before a surgeon could be summoned. She was using the jar for a churn and it is supposed it contained nitroglycer. ina