Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — Page 3

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CHAPTER Vl—Continued. At Marchbrook everything went pleasantly enough for the plighted lovers. Lora Clanyarde had filled the house with company, and his youngest daughter had very little time for reflection or regret upon the subject of her approaching marriage. Everybody congratulated her upon her conquest, and praised Gilbert Sinclair with such a show of enthusiasm that she began to think he must be worthier of a •warmer regard than she was yet able to feel for him. • She told herself that in common gratitude she was bound to return his affection, and she tried her utmost to please him by a ready submission to all his wishes; but the long drives and rides, in which they were always side by side, were very wearisome to her, nor could his gayest talk of the future, the houses, the yacht, the carriages and horses that were to Ibe hers, inspire her with any expectation of happiness. I They rode over to Davenant with [Lord Clanyarde one morning, and explored the old house, Gilbert looking at everything in a business-like spirit, iwhich jarred a little upon Constance, remembering that luckless exile who had loved the place so welt Her lover consulted her about the disposition of the rooms, the colors of new draperies, and the style of the furniture. “We’ll get rid of the gloomy old tapestries and have everything modern and bright,* he said; but Lord Clanyarde pleaded hard for the preservation of the tapestry on the principal floor, which was very fine and in excellent condition. “Oh, very well,” answered Gilbert, carelessly. “In that case we’ll keep •the tapestry. I suppose the best plan will be to get some first-class London *nan to furnish the house. Those fellows always have good taste. But of course he must defer to you in all matters, Constance.” “You are very good,” she returned, listlessly. “But I don’t think there will be any necessity for my interference. ” “Don't say that, Constance. That looks as if you were not interested in the subject,” Gilbert said, with rather a discontented air. The listlessness of manner which his betrothed so often displayed was by no means pleasing to him. There was a disagreeable suspicion growing in his mind that Miss Clanyarde’s heart had not quite gone with her acceptance of his offer, that family influence had something to do with her consent to become his wife. He was not the less resolved on this account to hold her to her promise; but his selfish, tyrannical nature resented her coldness, and he "was determined that the balance should be adjusted between them in the future.

“Perhaps you don’t like this place, Constance,” he said, presently, after watching her thoughtful face for some minutes in silence. “Oh, yes, Gilbert, I am very fond of Davenant I have known it all my life, you know.” “Then I wish you would look a little more cheerful about my intended purchase. I thought it would please you to have a country-house so near your own familv.” “And it does please her very much, I am sure, Sinclair," said Lord Clanyarde, with a stealthy frown at his daughter. “She can’t fail to appreciate the kindness and delicacy of your choice. ” “Papa is quite right, Gilbert,” added Constance. “I should be very ungrateful if I were not pleased with your kindness. ” After this she tried her utmost to sustain an appearance of interest in the discussion of furniture and decorations; but every now and then she found her mind wandering away to the banished owner of those rooms, and she wished that Gilbert Sinclair had chosen any other habitation upon this earth for her future home. October came, and with it the inevitable day which was to witness one more perjury from the lips of a bride. The wedding took place at the little village church neat Marchbrook, and was altogether a very brilliant affair, attended by all the relatives of the Clanyarde family, who were numerous, and by a great many acquaintances of bride and bridegroom. Notable among the friends of the latter was James Wyatt, the solicitor who had been employed in the drawing up of the marriage settlement, which was a most liberal one, and highly satisfactory to Viscount Clanyarde. Mr. Wyatt made himself excessively agreeable at the breakfast, and was amazingly popular among the bridesmaids. He did not long avail himself of the Marchbrook hospitalities, but went quietly back to town by rail almost immediately after the departure of the newly married couple on their honeymoon trip to the south of France. He had an engagement in Half-Moon street that evening at eight o’clock. The neighboring clocks were striking the hour as he knocked at the door. Mrs. Walsingham was quite alone in the drawing-room, and looked unusually pale in the light of the lamps. The solicitor shook his head reproachfully as he pressed her hand. “This is very sad,” he murmured, in a semi-paternal manner. “You have been worrying yourself all day long, I know. You are as pale as a ghost. ” “I am a little tired, that is all.” “You have been out to-day? You told me you should not stir from the house.” “I changed my mind at the last moment. Anything was better than staying at home keeping the day like a black fast. Besides, I wanted to see how Gilbert and his bride would look at the altar.” . “You have been down to Kent?” “Yes; I was behind the curtains of the organ-loft. The business was easily managed by means of a sovereign to the clerk. I wore my plainest dress and a thick veil, so there was very little risk of detection. ’’ “What folly!" exclaimed Wyatt. “Yes; it was great folly, no doubt; but it is the nature of women to be foolish. And now tell me all about the

BY MISS M E BRADDON

wedding. Did Gilbert look very happy? “He looked like a man who has got his own way, and who cares very little what price ne has paid, or may have to pay, for the getting it." “And do you think he will be happy?" “Not if his happiness depends on the love of his wife. “Then you don't think she loves him?” “I am sure she does not. I made a study of her face during the ceremony and afterward; and if ever a woman sold herself, or was sold by her people, this woman is guilty of such a bargain.” “Perhaps you say this to please me," said Clara, doubtfully. “I do not, Mrs. Walsingham. lam convinced that this affair has been brought about by Lord Clanyarde’s necessities, and not the young lady’s choice. But I doubt whether this will make much difference to Gilbert in the long run. He is not a man of fine feelings, you know, and I think he will be satisfied with the fact of having won the woman he wanted to marry. I should think matters would go smoothly enough with him so long as he has no cause for jealousy. He would be rather an ugly customer if he took it into his head to be jealous. ” “And you think his life will go smoothly," said Clara, “and that he will go on to the end unpunished for his perfidy to me?” “What good would his punishment be to you?” “It would be all the world to me ” “And if I could bring about the retribution you desire, if it were in my power to avenge your wrongs, what reward would you give me?” She hesitated for a moment, knowing there was only one reward he was likely to claim from her. “If you were a poor man, I would offer you two-thirds of my fortune,” she said. “But you know that I am not a poor man. If I can come to you some day, and tell you that Gilbert Sinclair and his wife are parted forever, will you accept me for your husband?” “Yes,” she answered suddenly; “break the knot between those two; let me be assured that he has lost the woman lor whose sake he jilted me, and I will refuse you nothing. ” “Consider it done. There is nothing in the world I would not achieve to win you for my wife.”

CHAPTER VII. “GREEN-EYED jealousy.” It was not till early spring that Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair returned to England. They had spent the winter in Home, where Gilbert had found some congenial friends, and where their time had been occupied in one perpetual round of gayety and dissipation. Constance had shown a great taste for pleasure since her marriage. She seemed to know no wearine s of visiting and being visited, and people who remembered her in her girlish days were surprised to find what a thorough woman of the world she bad become. Nor was Gilbert displeased tfiat .it was so. He liked to see his wife' occupy a prominent position in society, and having no taste hims elf for the pleasures of the domestic hearth, he was neither surprised nor vexed by Constance’s indifference to her home. Of course it would be all different at Davenant Park: there would be plenty of home life there—a little too much, perhaps, Gilbert thought, with a yawn. They had been married nearly four months, and there had not been the shadow of a disagreement between them. Constance’s manner to her husband was amiability itself. She treated him a little de haut en bas it is true, made her own plans for the most past without reference to him, and graciously informed him of her arrangements after they were completed. But then, on the other hand, she never objected to his disposal of his time, was never exacting, or jealous, or capricious, as Clara Walsingham had been. She was always agreeable to his friends, and was eminently popular with all of them; so Gilbert Sinclair was, upon the whole, perfectly satisfied with the result of his marriage, and had no fear of evil days in the future. What James Wyatt had said of him was perfectly true. He was not gifted with very fine feelings, and that sense of something wanting in such a union, which would have disturbed the mind of a nobler man, did not trouble him. They returned to England early in February, and went at once to Daven ant, which had been furnished in th modern mediaaval style by a West End upholsterer. The staff of'servants had been provided by Lady Clanyarde. who had bestowed much pains and labor upon the task of selection, bitterly bewailing the degeneracy of the race she had to deal with during the performance of this difficult service. All was ready when Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair arrived. A pompous housekeeper simpered and courtesied in the hall; an accomplished cook hovered tenderly over the roasts and the stew-pans in the great kitchen; house-maids in smart caps flitted about the passages and poked the fires in bed-rooms and dressing-rooms, bath-rooms and morn-ing-room, eager to get an early look at their new lady; a butler of the usual clerical appearance ushered the way to the lamp-lit drawing-room, while two ponderous footmen conveyed the rugs and newspapers and morocco bags from the carriage, leaving all the heavier luggage to the care of unknown underlings attached to the stable department. Mr. and Mrs, Sinclair dined _ alone upon this first evening of their return, under the inspection of the clerical butler and the two ponderous footmen. They talked chiefly about the house, which rooms were most successful in their new arrangement, and so on; a little about what they had been doing in Rome; and a little about their plans for the next month, what guests were to be invited, and what rooms they were to occupy. It was all the most matter of.-fact conventional talk, but the three men retired with the impression that Gilbert Sinclair and his wife were a very nappy couple, and - reported to that effect in the house-keeper’s room and the servants’ hall. Before the wtek had ended the great house was full of ccmpany. That feverish desire for gayety and change which had seem ad a part of Constance’s nature since her maniage in no way subsided on her arrival at Davenant. She appeared to exist for pleasure, and pleasure only, and her guests declared ner the. most charming hoste.-s that fever reigned over a country housel Lavish as he was, Mr. Sinclair opened his eyes to their widest extent when he perceived his wife’s capacity for spending money. | . “It’s rather lucky for you that you didn’t marry a poor man, Constance,” he said, with a boastful laugh. She looked at him for a moment with a strange expression, and then turned very pale. “I should not have been afraid to face poverty," she said, “if it had been my fate to do sa"

“If you eould have faced tt wfth the man you liked, eh, Constance? That’s about what you mean, isn't it?” “Is this intended for a complaint, Gilbert?" his wife asked in her coldest tones. “Have I been spending too much money?" “No, no; I didn’t mean that I was only congratulating you upon yout fittei- for the position of a rich man’s wife.” This was the first little outbreak of jealousy of whicn Gilbert Sinclair had been guilty. He knew that his wife did not love him, that his conquest had been achieved through the influence of her family, and he was almost angry with himself for being so fond of her. He could not forget those vague hints that had been dropped about Sir Cyprian Davenant, ana was tormented with the idea that James Wyatt knew a great deal more than he had revealed on this point. This hidden jealousy had been at the bottom of the purchase of the Davenant estate. He took a savage delight in reigning over the the little kingdom from whicn his rival had been deposed. Among the visitors from London appeared Mr. Wyatt, always unobtrusive, and always useful. He contrived to ingratiate himself very rapidly in Mrs. Sinclair’s favor, and established himself as a kind of adjutant in her household corps, always ready with advice upon every social subject, from the costumes in a tableau vivant to the composition of the menu for a dinnerparty. Constance did not particularly like him; but she lived in a world in which it is not necessary to have a very sincere regard for one's acquaintance, and she considered him an agreeable person, much to be preferred to the geneiaity of her husbands chosen companions, who were men without a thought beyond the hunting field and race-course. Mr. Wyatt, on his part, was a little surprised to see the manner in which Lord Clanyarde’s daughter filled her new position, the unfailing vivacity which she displayed in the performance of her duties as a hostess, and the excellent terms upon which she appeared to live with her husband. He was accustomed, however, to look below the surface of things, and by the the time he had been a fortnight at Davenant he had discovered that all this brightness and gayety on the part of the wife indicated an artificial state of being, which was very far from real happiness, and that there was a growing sense of disappointment on the part of the husband. He was not in the habit of standing upon much ceremony in his intercourse with Gilbert Sinclair, and on the first convenient occasion questioned him with blunt directness upon the subject of his marriage. “I hone the alliance has brought you all the happiness you anticipated?” he said. “Oh, yes, Jim,” Mr. Sinclair answered, rather moodily, “my wife suits me pretty well. We get on very well together. She's a little too fond of playing the woman of fashion; but she’ll be tired of that in time, I dare say. I'm fond of society myself, you know, couldn t lead a Solitary life for any woman in Christendom; but I should like a wife who seemed to care a little more for my company, and was not always occupied with other people. I don't think we have dined alone three times since we were married. ”

ITO BE CONTINUED. I

CIVILIZED SAVAGES.

African Tribes Who Have a Good Idea of the Mechanical Arts. Most people think of the natives of tropical Africa as naked savages, without any of the resources of civilization, says an ex-missionary, but the fact is that many of the tribes are acquainted with not a few of the mechanical arts. You a e probably aware that the mining and working of iron have been understood by the natives of that part of the world ever since prehistoric times. In Liberia the Mande are smelters of iron and workers in gold and silver. They are also tanners of leather and weavers of cloth, and they make an infinite variety of domestic articles. The Makolos are excellent wood carvers, the Djours are skillful iron workers, and the Bechuanas are good metal workers, fur dressers and architects. The Baganidas of Victoria Nyanza do beautiful work in brass, copper and ivory. On the slave coast the people of Dahomey, who otherwise possess an unenviable reputation, are accorded a very respectable position in industrial artisanship. Glass-making is not unknown among them. They make cloths of cotton and many other textiles, and their dyes of bluej red and yellow owe their peculiar richness to native coloring substances. Tanning they also understand, and they obtain salt from sea water by evaporation. The Mandegnas have attained a considerable degree of cultivation and knowledge of the common arts. Their musical instruments are the flute, zither, harp, bell and drum. The Veis of Liberia, having obtained an acquaintance with letters from contact with Arabs, have invented an alphabetical primer of their own language, original and independent both of the Arabic Aid English characters. This is th# greatest effort ever made by an African tribe toward the advancement of culture. The Veis make pens of reeds and use indigo for ipk.

Called Lord Salisbury a Crank.

Although Lord and Lady Salisbury make a point of spending the major part of every winter and spring at their chateau of Beaulieu, which is close to Monte Carlo, yet both of them carefully avoid ever setting foot on the property controlled by the managers of the Casino. This is due to the treatment to which they were subjected a few years ago. Walking up ths steps of the Casino with his wife, Lord Salisbury was directed, as is always the case with strangers, to apply at the office for a ticket of admission. Lord Salisbury is exceedingly careless in his attire while the marchioness is equally dowdy-looking in her dress. The consequence was that when, in reply to the usual request to state his occupation, Lord Salisbury replied -that he was prime minister of Efigland —which he was at the time—he was greeted with a shout of laughter and an invitation to “get out,” on the ground that “cranks and wags and people like you” were not admitted.

Thrifty Norwegian Immigrants.

No country contributes so many immigrants to the United States in proportion to population as Norway, ft is chiefly the rural Norse that come to America, and the immigrants are for the .most part under 30 years of age. The Norse are good farmers and thrifty citizens. They, as well as their neighbors, the Swedes, have a strong desire to rr ake homes for themselves and to have land and the conveniences of life. They frequently return to visit their native country, but they become parmanent citizens of the United States. Most of those that come are of marked peasant type. White sheepskin rugs may be cleansed by scrubbing them with Castile soap and water, and drying thoroughly in the sun. Football players are not allowed to smoke cigarettes while in training.

OUR RURAL READERS.

SOMETHING HERE THAT WILL INTEgfST THEM. Plana for a Modal Dairy Barn—Tho Future of Farming—Kind of Horses WantedFood Box for Poultry _ Ths Former's WUe. A Model Dairy Barn. The proper care of a winter dairy involves a great deal of labor, and it is difficult and expensive to so iearrange old barns that both labor and produce may be used to the best advantage. When there are such buildings on the farm they may be fitted for horses and young stock. The plans shown in the illustration are

GROUND PLAN.

from the American Agriculturist and are for a building for dairy cows only. Fig. 1 shows the ground plan of the stable with partitions between the cows, going back half way from the manger to the drop, and parti-

tions between the c o w s’ heads. Their is also a stairway leading from the stable to the floors above. Fig. 2 gives a section of the

barn and its approaches, showing the manner of constructing the frame. Fig. 3 shows the exterior of the building. The frame is 36x98 feet, with twenty-two foot posts above the stable, which has accommodations for forty cows, giving a width of three and one-fourth feet to each cow, and leaving a passageway across the center. This barn is built on sloping ground, making it easy to gain access to the barn floor, which is fourteen feet wide and is placed eight feet above the stabla The space lietween this floor and the stable Is used as a granary, and especially as a storage place for bran and other feed, which may be pur-

PERSPECTIVE VIEW.

chased cheap in the summer and stored for winter use. The binsaie filled through trap doors in the barn floor above, which saves a great deal of labor in handling. The grain is passed to the stable by wooden shutes which deliver it Into a box on wheels in each feeding alley. As the top of a load of hay is twenty feet above the bottom of the mows, the unloading is mostly pitching down, which makes another great saving of labor in a busy time of year. Reparlng Fences. There is a great deal of work that can be done on a farm to good advantage after farm pork proper is finished. There is no better time in the year to put the fences in good shape than when the ground is frozen. It is easy to get about the fields with material, and the work has just exercise enough about it to make it pleasant A fence that is gone over every year seldom needs repairing. Yearly attention keeps in gqpd condition, but neglect it for a few years, and it will require as much labor to put it in good trim as it takes to build a new fence. Poultry Feed Box. This style of poultry house can be made of any length to accommodate as much poultry as is kept It will be found to not only prevent waste, but to keep the feed perfectly clean, thereby promoting the health of the birds. It should not be so wide but that the poultry can reach to the cen-

FEED BOX FOR POULTRY.

ter from each side. The cover should be wide to prevent the poultry standing on it Constructed as shown in the cut, they will slide off every time. Lath can-be used for slats. Any one who can nse tools can make one of these feed boxes, The Future nt Farming. The so-called bonanza wheat farms of the Northwest and the big farms of the California valleys grew out of transient conditions that no longer prevail—the California farms out of the old Spanish land grants and the Minnesota and Dakota farms out of the congressional grants to railroads. The history of the Northwestern big farms is that the land was purchased from the railroad companies with depreciated stock, and cost originally about SI per acre. The low price of wheat and the higher price of land have changed the whole aspect of large farming. There is no bonanza in the big farm now; it makes but a moderate profit on the capital it represents m average crop years, and with a bad crop it barely pays running expenses. It requires as care ful management as a factory. I believe that we are now in a transition period in agriculture. The inflpence of ms.ohinery has been fully exerted.

CROSS SECTION.

There arS*no mon fertile lands on the globe to be conquered by civilization and to Increase the food supply. With growth of population will come better prices for farm products. Farm life will become more attractive. The tendency to large farms will be checked. A hundred acres, even with exclusive gvva farming, will afford a good living to a family. Better times for American agriculture are not tar off.—E. V. Smalley, in Forum. The Flrmfr'i Wife. 1 can see her, a .faded, haggard, sallow woman, tired from the weary rising in the dark winter mornings, to the crawling from the unfinished pile of mending to the told rooms up-stairs, at night Her husband is k.nd to her; but he has his own work; and her back aches, she is dizzy and faint, and life grows a heavier load on her shoulders every day. She does not consider that her health is part of the home's capital; and she is sure that they cannot afford to hire help, behindhand as they are, they can't afford a doctor (who would ride ten miles and charge 15,) but she remembers that the last time she was at church she heard one of the society speak of a patent medicine that helped her last spring, and she will send for the medicine. Or else she writes to the household paper (price 50 cents a year) which she takes, asking the editor’s advice. What pathetic and suggestive things are the correspondence columns in these humble Journals! How the ineradicable womanly longing to be attractive comes out in queer prescriptions to prevent the hair falling out, to remove freckles, or to make over old gowns with small sleeves into the flamboyant style of the day; how the woman’s heart peeps through Its thin disguise in those pitiful letters describing lonely livesand love that the strong years conquer, and the daily jar and fret of disillusioned toil, and all the rest of the dismal story. I seem to see the broken woman, who was a joyous and amb tlous girl, tugging over more wearily at her Sisyphus stone of duties, growing more irritable, more complaing as strength and heart fail, until the day shall come when the tired mother will not creep down-stairs. Then the, neighbors will watch and nurse by turns, and the doctor, who might have helped years ago, will be called in to witness properly the end he cannot avert. —Scribner.

Rolling Meadow Land. Billing the meadow, and sometimes the pasture land, as soon as the frost leaves the giound in the spring, is often done by practical farmers. The action of frost often throws many stones to the surface, and when the ground becomes settled these impediments are thus left in a position to cause serious injury to the cutting apparatus of the mowing machine. Upon land liable to heave by action of frost the surface soil Is left uneven, many tufts of timothy are nearly thrown out of the soli, and these the roller presses down smooth, and only Insuring a better and more healthy growth, but leveling the Held for the more economical (fathering of the crop Fall sown wheat and rye fields are often benefited by rolling, which should be done the same day that the field is seeded to clover, or soon after, as the action of the roller, in crushing lumps and mellowing the surface, makes a good seed bed, and covers a large proportion of the clover seed. Newspaper Holder. A strong pocket for holding newspapers as seen in the sketch herewith can be made of a Japanese splasher. Select one with a design near one end as this must serve tor the decoration on the x ujiper part of the pocket. Line trie whole, with bright sateen to give additional

SERVICEABLE PAPER POCKET.

strength; fold up three-eighths of the lengths and sew the sides shut to form the pocket; turn over the other quarter, letter on “newspapers” In liquid gilt; sew on stout rings to hang it up by, and hide these with full hows of No. 9 plcot-edged ribbon. Trim the front or flap with loops and tassels of rope about the thickness of a lead pencil. ♦ ————— Hint* to Housekeeper*. Cut Ungers and bruises of all kinds if wrapped in ciotb wet in alum water will heal very rapidly. j Paper will stick to walls that are washed in a solution of one-fourth pound of glue to a gallon of watdr. Kid shoes may be Kept sbft- agd free from cracky., by rubbing them occasionally with- bpye’glycerine. /'■ ’ '' To purify greasy sinks an£ pipes, pour down a pailful of boiling water in which three or four pounds of washing soda has been dissolved. , . By rubbing with a damp flannel dipped in the best whiting, the brown discoloration may be taken off cups in which custards have been baked. To take stains and spots out of mahogany furniture, rub with a cork dipped in oxalic acid and water. After the color is restored, rinse with clean water, wipe dry and polish as usual To keep iron kettles from rusting when new boil a piece of pork in them and let the solution cool before emptying; or simply grease them with the pork rind and heat it in thoroughly. For washing embroidery in crewels or silk, pour ,a gallon of boiled water on one pound of bian. v Let it stand for twenty-four hours, stirring occasionally; strain and use. Ink stains may be removed from white goods by saturating the spot Sth water and then covering with unded salts of lemon. Put in the sun for five minutes, wash with soap and rinse.

INDIANA REPUBLICANS.

they meet in convention at INDIANAPOLIS. Hon. Rirhard W. Thompson Presided *n Kx-frv»ident Harrison Sounded the Keynote of the Campaign—Full Text of the Platform Adopted—The Candidate*. The Proceedings. Indianapoiisspocial: Forovcrtwelve hours Wednesday, without a single recess for a bite or a sup. the seventeen hundred delegates to the Republican State Convention devoted themselves to the making of a party ticket to be voted on in November. This extraordinary session was due to the fact that there were no less than fortythree candidates for the ten nominations,and taking their kevnote from the speeches of ex-President Harrison and ex-Secretary Thompson, both of whom suggested that a Kepubliean nomination in Indiana this year was equivalent to an election, the supporters of each candidate fought to the last ditch for their favorite. Three, and in some cases four ballots were required for each nomination, and every inch of ground was contested. The Hon. Richard W. Thompson, of Terre Haute, was chosen Chairman, and Charles E. Wilson, of Tippeeano, Secretary. After short addresses by Chairman Thompson and ex-President Harrison, ex-State Senator O. Z. Hubbell, of Elkhart, roaa the. report of the committee on resolutions, as follows: 'rtiK plati'obm. We, the Republican* of Indiana, in delegate convention asaeuibled, reaffirm our faith in the progressive principle* of the Republican party. We believe it* pollcie*, pant and pro*ent, beet calculated to promote the happineae and pro*. parity of the people. The administration of President Harrison and the Congressional legislation of that period were wise, pure, and patriotic, and we point to the marked contrast between the home and loreign policies of that administration and the present travesty on government tntlicted upon the American people. TABIPI'. We believe in the Republican doctrine of protection and reciprocity, which furniehe* a home market for the produotn of our factories and our .farms, aud protects the American lalrarer against the competition of the pauper labor of Europe. We denounce the (inline and unpatriotic action of the Democratic party in attempting to eliminate the reciprocity principle from our tariff system, thereby cloning a larg* foreign market to the products of American farms, and depressing agricultural interests. We denounce the preesent attempt of a Democratic Congress to overthrow and destroy the American industrial evetom. a course that, with the general fear of a violent leadjustmaut of ths country's business to a free trade basis, has increased the national debt, has plunged ths country into the most disastrous business <lefiresalon of its history, has closed larg* sum>ers of bank* and factories throughout ths country, has thrown an unprecedented numbsi of American citizen* out of employment, baa compelled thousands of able-bodied and industrious men to humiliate themselves by aaking for charity, and ha* tilled our broad land with fr.-e soup houses and food markets. StONIY. J£We believe in a currency composed of gold, silver, and paper, readily convertible at a fixed standard of value and entirely under national control; and we'favor the imposition of increased tariff duties upon the imports from all foreign countries which oppose the coinage ot silver upon a basis to 4 be determined by an international congress for such purpose. We denounce the avowed purpose of the Democratic party to restore the ere of "Wild-oat" money.

gKNKIONH. , We believe in a liberal construction ot on* pension lyws, and wecondemn the unjust policy of the present administration in depriving exsoldiers ot their pensions without a hearing, a policy intended to dast odium upon loyalty and patriotism. We believe it to be tha duty of the Htate, a* well as the Nation, to make suitable provision for the care and maintenance ot all indigent soldiers, their wives, and widows ■ we therefore favor the establishment by the State ot a suitable soldiers’ home for the reception of such soldiers, their wives, and widows, as may be overtaken by adversity. IMIfIOnATION, We demand a rigid enforcement of all existing immigration law* by the National Govern. meat, sma demand such further legislation as will protect our people and Institutions against the influx ut Ute criminal and vicious classes. HAWAII. Wa denounce the unpatriotic action of the Cleveland administration In hauling down the American dag at Hawaii, and condemn the arrogant assumption of ]x>wer displayed in the effort to restore a tyrannical queen over a tree people who hud thrown off the yoke of despotism. PATBONAOB. We condemn the outrageous bargain and sals of federal patronage by the Cleveland administration in its unblushing efforts to usurp ths prerogatives of the Legislative branch ot tbs government, to force favorite measures through Congress, and compel the confirmation of Presidential appointments by the Senate. EXPENDITURE*. We condemn the reckless and extravagant administration of the financial affairs of tbs Htate, whereby the people are subjected to unjust and unnecessary taxation, by an increased assessment of properly and an increased rate of taxation and by a multiplication of offices to be supported by the tax-payers of the Htate. STATE INSTITUTIONS. We believe that the benevolent, educational, and correctional institution* of the Htate should bo placed under non-partisan control. PBOTF.CTION or MMPLOYEB. We believe In such legislation, State and National, as will protect the lives and limbs ol employs* of railroads, mine*, and factories. APPOTTIONMENT, We condemn the policy steadily pursued by the Democratic Legislature* of Indiana, in so gerrymandering the Htate as to deny the peopl* a fair representation of thelrfVlew* in the Htate, Legislature, and National Congress, thus Imperiling the foundations of our institutions. The convention then proceeded to the nomination of candidates which resulted as follows: Secretary of State—W. D. Owen of Logansport. Auditor of State—A. C. Daily of Lebanon. Treasurer of State —F. J. Scholz ot Evansville. Attorney General—W. A. Ketcham of Indianapolis. Clerk of the Supreme Court—Alex Hess of Wabash. For State Statistician—S. J. Thompson of Shelbyville. For State Superintendent of Public Instruction—D.M. Geeting of Madison. For State Geologist—W. S. B'.atchley of Terre Haute.Judge of Sujireme Court. First District—J. M. Joi’vMui, Martinsville.

Stable Floors.

Have you examined your stable floor recently, and do you know that the planks are sound and strong, or are they weak and rotten? If the latter, you need not be surprised if your wife elbows you in the ribs some of these nights and tells you she hears a racket at the stable, and if you find an Injured horse as a reward lor your neglect you will have the satisfaction of knowing you are reaping what you have sown. Supplying your animals with plenty of bedding will add materially in making them comfortable as well as to keep thep clean—both items of sufficient Importance to be looked after. ; v We want young horses with muscle and bone; hence, exercise during the winter must not be overlooked. If they are fed at the same time every night, they will usua’Wyj 'come up to the stable of their owq accord; however, if they should not, go and get them. The loss of feed and exposure may bring on coughs, colds, and distemper. Careful wintering is most important to all young stock, and more especially to horses. More damage can be done in one winter by neglect than can be repaired in the lifetime of a horse.— Qrange Judd Farmer

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS

NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Our .Neighbors are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marrteges and Deaths—Accident* and Crime*—Par* sonal Pointers About Indtasniaiu. | ’ Minor State Items. Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell, weighing over 400 pounds, died suddenly at Lebanon. Gold found In a gravel pit near Lebanon has been sent to experts to be assayed. The Anderson City ’Council has ordered all tramps found in the city to be vaccinated, hoping to clear the town oi hobos. Some one has stolen the corner stone of the U. B. Church, at Burket, Kosciusko County. It contained S2O and some relies. The 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Warawell of Elwood was fatally kicked in the forehead oy a vicious nor.-e. A.N attempt was made to assass in ate John Grist at Elwood the other night. Some unknown person shot at him, but the bullets flew wide. James Rhoda, a drayman, crossing the Lake Shore tracks in a wagon at Chesterton, was killed by the fast train. Both horses were killed. William Worley, proprietor ol Worley’s omnibus line, dropped dead upon the street at Vincennes. He was an ex-Holdior, aged s<i years. At Eaton, a horse owned by Mr. Charles Younts ran away and ran into a barbed-wire fence, cutting his own throat. He died in a few moments. The $75,000 damage suit against the Wabash Railway brought by the Logansport Manufacturing Company, has I won compromised at Kokomo for Mrs. Elizabeth Schlettnbr, who was knocked from a Big Four Railroad bridge at Yorktown bv a freight train, died from L«r injurfes. She was 00 years old.

William Black, a farmer near Decatur, uncovered a skeleton while plowing-. The evidence points to a foul crime years ago, when an old house stood on the spot. Muncie police were supplied with whips to drive tramps out of town! They found a gang of hobos and used the lash with telling effect. The blood poured out of one man's back. The State Milita Encampment this summer will be held ut Fairview Park. Indianapolis, ft fe expected that 2,300 soldiers will be in camp, und tho expenses ot the encanipment will be reduced by holding; it in the center of tho State. Horace Dubharp, an employe at the glass factory, wuh killed at the Panhandle crossing of pigh street, Hartford City. Dushart is ajjelgian, aged 45, and, it is thought, walked to the point where the train struck him in his sleep. George Moore, a Pennsylvania, brakeman, who resides tn Richmond, met with a fatal accident on the Chicago division. When near Nolan's sidings some distance northeast of Richmond, he was missed by the conductor, who, on goihg back to look for him, found him with his head crushed und one limb torn to pieces. Thomas Collins, a freight brake* man on the Wabash, performed a heroic uct, saving the life of a child in thetetard at Wabash. The engine of Collins’s train was backing in on a siding, and a 3-year-old son of George Pfell run en the track in front of the locomotive. Collins was riding on the break beam, and, seeing the peril of the child, held on with one hanu and, reaching down with tho other, lifted the youngster out of harm's wav as the mother came screaming down to the track.

Right of way has been granted by the Commissioners of Jay County to the Ohio Gas Company to lay ten-inoh gas lines across the county for the purpose of using Indiana gas to supply the cities of Dayton, Lima, Piqua, Springfield, Sidney, Troy, and Van Wert. Seventy-five wells are under contract to be drilled in Jay, Blackford, and Delaware counties, where the companies have thousands of acres of land leased. This project is a heavy blow to the Indiana gas Held, as it will use more gas than the Chicago pipe line. A terrible accident has occurred at Berne. As the funeral procession was conveying the remains of George Stuckey, to their lastrestiag place, the team gt a farmer uyaed Warner, attached to a tvagon containing his family, became frightened at the hearse and ran away. This caused two other teams in the procession to become frightened, and all three teams and vehicles, containing eleven people, were dashed madly together. Elevon people Were seriot sly hurt. Mrs. Warner received injuries from which she died shortly after being removed from the wreck. Three others whose names could not be learned, received wounds about the hit, ' and breast and cannot recover. Patents have been issued to residents of Indiana George C. Ditzler, Uniondale, bag or fodder tie; David A. Foster, Indianapolis, vehicle running gear; Mica.ah C. Henley, Bichmond, lawnmower; John I. Hoke, South Bend, pivoted tooth bar; Alfred Johnson and W. S. Campbell, West Point, safety switch; Arthur A. McKain and W. Seburn. Indianapolis, pneumatic straw stacker; William E. Murbarger, Indianapolis, combined shaft support and thill coupling; Louis Rastetter, Fort Wayne, spoke attachment for vehicle wheels; Joseph Schenerecker, Indianapolis, and J. W. Hann, Toledo, Ohio, apparatus for manufacturing ice and for refrigerating. Trade marks -H.enry W. Bond, Fort Wayne, wheat flour. The Wabash Railroad has settled all damages and claims caused by the great wreck at Kingsbury, last September. wherein twelve passengers were killed. The amount foots up $360,000, Of this sum 8160,000 was paid the families of the killed and to the injured. AT Lebanon a. warrant has been issued for the arrest bt Charles Elder, charging him with passing a forged check for 8100 with Farmer Aaron Goodwin’s signature. He purchased S6O worth of clothing at Smith, Dodson & Co.’s, receiving the difference in money, and escaped before detected. While Mrs. Francis Thomas was milking a cow at the home of her parents. John and Mrs. Pearce, pear Greentown, hey brother, Marion Pearce, made an atrocious attempt to murder her, firing two shots that passed through her hair, making scalp wounds. The father prevented further shooting by wrestling the revolver from the would-be murderer. Two years ago the woman, then but 16 years old, eloped with Thomas. Her brother then threatened to snoot her if she returned to the old home. She came this week to wait on her sick mother. The Pearces are wealthy and prominent. The brother, who is--30 years old’, gd'fe $5,000 bonds.