Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — Page 3

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CHAPTER XIV. SIR CTPBIAN HAS HIS SUSPICIOUS. Sir Cyprian Davenant had not forgotten that dinner at Richmond given by Gilbert Sinclair a little while before his departure for Africa, at which he had met the handsome widow to wham Mr. Sinclair was then supposed to be engaged. The fact’ was brought more vividly back to his mind by a circumstance that came under his notice the evening after he had accepted Lord Clanyarde's invitation to Marchbrook. He had been dining at his club with an old college friend, and had consented, somewhat unwillingly, to an adjournment to one of the theaters near the Strand, at which a popular burlesque was being played for the three hundred and sixty-fifth time. Sir Cyprian entertained a cordial detestation of this kind of entertainment, in which the low comedian of the company enacts a distressed damsel in short petticoats and a flaxen wig, while pretty actresses swajger in costumes of the cavalier period, and ape the manners of the mu-dc-hall swell. But it was 10 o’clock. The friends had recalled all the old Oxford follies in the days when they were under-graduates together in Tom Quad. They had exhausted these reminiscences and a magnum of Lafitte, and though Sir Cyprian would have gladlv gone back to his chambers and his books, Jack Dunster, his friend, was of a livelier temperament, and wanted to finish the evening. “Let s go and see ‘Hercules and Ompha e at the Kaleidoscope," he said. “It’s no end of tun. Jeem-on plays Omphale in a red wig, and Minnie Vavasour looks awfully fascinating in pink satin boots and lion-skin. We shall be just in time for the breakdown.” Sir Cyprian assented with a yawn. He had seen fifty such burlesques as “Hercules and Omphale” in the days when such things had their charm for him, too, when he could be pleased with a pretty girl in pank satin hessians, or be moved to laughter by Jeemson’s painted nose and falsetto scream.

They took a hansom and drove to the Kaleidoscope, a bandbox of a theater screwed into an awkward corner of one of the narrowest streets in London—a street at which well-bred carriage horses accusto ned to the broad thoroughfares of Belgravia shied furiously. It was December, and there was no one worth speaking of in town; but the little Kaleidoscope was crowded, notwithstanding. There were iust a Brace of empty stalls in a draughty corner for Sir Cyprian and Mr. Dunster. The breakdown was just on, the pretty little Hercules flourishing his club, and exhibiting a white round arm with a diamond bracelet above the elbow. Omphale was showing her ankles, to the delight of the groundlings, the violins were racing one another, and the flute squeaking its shrillest in a vulgar negro melody, accentuated by rhythmical bangs on the big drum. The audience were in raptures, and rewarded the exertions of band and dancers with a double recall. Sir Cyprian stifled another yawn and looked around the house. Among the vacuous countenances, all intent on the spectacle, there was one face which was out of the common, and which expressed a supreme weariness. A lady sitting alone in a stage box, with one rounded arm resting indolently on the velvet cushion —an arm that might have been carved in marble, bare to the elbow, its warm, human ivory relieved by the yellow hue of an old Spanish point rufne. Where had Cyprian Davenant tee a that face before? The lady had passed the first bloom of youth, but her beauty was of that character that does not fade with youth. She wa i of the Pauline Borghese type, a woman worthy to be modeled by a new Canova. “I remember,” said Sir Cyprian to himself. “It was at that Richmond dinner that I met her. She is the lady Gilbert Sinclair was to have married. ” He felt a curious interest in this woman, who-e name even he had forgotten. Why had not Sinclair married her? she was strikingly handsome, with a bolder, grander beauty than Constance Clanyarde's fragile and poetic loveliness —a woman whom such a man as Sinclair might have natural 'y chosen. Just as such a man would choose a high-stepping chestnut horse, without being too nice as to fineness z and delicacy of line. “And I think from the little I saw that the lady was attached to him," mused Sir Cyprian. He glanced at the stage-box several times before the end of the performance. The lady was quite alone, and sat in the same attitude, fanning herself languidly, and hardly looking at the stage. J ust as the curtain fell, Sir Cyprian heard th.e click of the box door, and looking up,Jsaw that a gentleman ri ad entered. The lady rose, and he camt forward a little to assist in the arrangement of her erminelined mantle. The gentleman was Gilbert Sinclair. “What do you think of it?” asked Jnck Dunster, as they went out into the windy lobby, where people were crowded together waiting for their carriages. “Abominable,” murmured Sir Cyprian. "Why, Minnie Vavasour is the prettiest actress in London, and Jeemson’s almost equal to Toole. “I bog your pardon. I was not thinking of the burlesque,” answered Sir Cyprian, hastily. . Gilbert and his companion were just in front of them. “Shall I go and look for your carriage?” asked Mr. Sinclair. “If y< u like. But as you left me to sit out this dreary rubbish by myself all the evening, you might just as well have let me find my way to my carriage. ” “Don’t be angry with me for breaking my engagement. I was obliged to go out shooting with some fellows, and I didn’t leave Maidstone till nine o’clock. I think I paid you a considerable compliment In traveling thirty

BY MISS M E BRADDON

miles to hand you to your carriage. No other woman could expect so much from me." “You are not going back toDavenant to-night.” “No; there Is a supper on at the Albion. Lord Colsterdale’s trainer is to be there, and I expect to get a wrinkle or two from him. A simple matter of business, I assure you.” "Mrs. Walsingham’s carriage:” roared the waterman. “Mrs. Walsingham," thought Sir Cyprian, who was squeezed into a corner with bis friend, walled up by opera-cloaked shoulders, and within ear-shot of Mr. Sinclair. “Yes, that's her name. ” “That saves you all trouble," said Mrs. Walsingham. “Can I set you down anywhere?” “No, thanks; the Albion’s close by." Sir Cyprian struggled out of his corner just in time to see Gilbert shut the brougham door and walk oft through the December drizzle. “So that acquaintance is not a dropped one,” he thought "It augurs ill for Constance. ” Three days later he was riding out Barnet way, in a quiet country lane, as rural and remote in aspect as an accommodation road in the shires, when he passed a brougham with a lady in it —Mrs. Walsingham s carriage again, and again alone. “This looks like fatality,” he thought He had been riding Londonward, but turned his horse and followed the carriage. This solitary drive, on a dull, gray winter day. so far from London, struck him as curious. There might be nothing really suspicious in the fact. Mrs. Walsingham might have friends in this northern district. But after what he had seen at the Kaleidoscope. Sir Cyyrian was inclined to suspect Mrs. Walsingham. That she still cared for Sinclair he was assured. He had seen her face light up when Gilbert entered the box; he had seen that suppressed anger which is the surest sign of a jealous, exacting love. Whether Gilbert still cared for her was another question. His meeting her at the theater might have been a concesdon to a dangerous woman rather than a spontaneous act of devotion. Sir Cyprian followed the brougham into the sequestered village of Totteridge, where it drew up before the garden gate of a neat cottage with green blinds and a half-glass door—a cottage which looked like the abode of a spinster annuitant; Here Mrs. Walsingham alighted and went in, opening the half-gla : s door with the air of a person accustomed to enter. He rode a little way further, and then walked his horse gently back. The brougham was still standing before the garden gate, and Mrs. Walsingham was walking up and down a gravel path by the side of the house with a woman and a- child—a child in a scarlet hood, just able to toddle along the path, sustained oh bach - side by a supporting hand. ■' “Some poor relation's child, perhaps," thought Cyprian. “A friendly visit on the lady’s part” He had ridden further than he intended, and stopped at a little inn to five his horse a feed of corn and an our’s rest, while he strolled through the village and looked at the old-fash-ioned church-yard. The retired spot was not without its interest. Yonder was Coppet Hall, the place Lord Melbourne once occupied, and which had, later, passed intAthe, possession of the author of that splendid series of brilliant and various novels which reflect as in a magic mirror all the varieties of life from the age of Pliny to the eve of the Franco-Prussian war. “Who lives in that small house with the green blinds?” asked Sir Cyprian, as he mounted his horse to ride home.

“It’s been took furnished, sir, by a lady from London for her nurse and baby. ” "Do you know the lady’s name?” “I can’t say that I do, sir. They has their beer from the brewer, and pays ready money for everythink. But I see the lady s brougham go by not above ’alf an hour ago." “Curious,” thought Sir Cyprian. “Mrs. Walsingham is not rising in my opinion. ” CHAPTER XV. “THEY LIVE TOO LONG WHO HAPPINESS OUTLIVE.” in accepting Lord Clanyarde’s invitation, Cyprian Davenant had but one thought, one motive —to be near Constance. Not to see her. He knew that such a meeting could bring with it only bitterness for both. But he wanted to ce near her, to ascertain at once and forever the whole unvarnished truth as to her domestic life, the extent of her unhappiness, if she was unhappy. Rumor might exaggerate. Even the practical solicitor James Wyatt might represent the state of affairs as worse than it was. The human mind leads to vivid coloring and bold dramatic effect. An ill-used wife and a tyrannical husband present one of those powerful pictures which society contemplates with interest. Society represented generally by Lord Dundreary likes to pity just as it likes to wonder. At Marchbrook Sir Cyprian was likely to learn the truth, and to Marchbrook he went, affecting an interest in pheasants, and in Lord Clanyarde’s conversation, which was like a rambling and unrevised edition of the "Greville Memoirs, ” varied with turf reminiscences. There was wonderfully fine weather in that second week of December—clear autumnal days, blue skies, and sunny mornings. The pheasants were shy, and after the first day Sir Cyprian left them to their retirement, preferring long, lonely rides among the scenes of his boyhood, and half-nours of friendly chat with ancient gaffers and goodies who remembered his fattier and mother, and the days when Davenant had still held up its head in the occupation of the old race. "This noo gentleman, he do spend a power o’ money; but he’ll never be looked up to like old Sir Cyprian,” said the gray-haired village sage, leaning over his gate to talk to young Sir Cyprian. In one of his rounds Cyprian Davenant looked in upon the abode of Martha Briggs, who was still at home. Her parents were in decent circumstances, and not eager to see their daughter “suited” with a new service. Martha remembered Sir Cyprian as a friend of Mrs. Sinclair’s before her marriage. She had seen them out walking together in the days when Constance Clanyarde was still in the nursery; for Lord Clanyarde’s youngest daughter had known no middle stage between the nursery and her Majesty’s drawing-room. Indeed, Martha had had her own ideas about Sir Cyprian, and had quite made up her mind that Miss Constance would marry him. She was therefore disposed to be confidential, and with very slight encouragement told Sir Cyprian al! about

that sad time at Scnoenesthal, how her mistress had nursed her through a fever, and how the sweetest child that ever lived had been drowned through that horrid French girl's carelessness. “It's all very well to boast of jumping into the river to save the darling." exclaimed Martha; “but why did she go and take the precious pet into a dangerous place? When I had her, I could see danger beforehand. I didn t want to be told that a hill was steep, or that grass was slippery. I never did like foreigners, and now I hate them like poiscn." cried Miss Briggs, ss if under the impression that the whole continent of Europe was implicated in Baby Christabel's death. “it must have been a great grief to Mrs. Sinclair,” said Sir Cyprian. “Ab, poor dear, she‘ll never hold up her bead again," sighed Martha. “I saw her in church last Sunday, in the beautifulest black bonnet, and if ever I saw anyone going to heaven, it's her. And Mr. Sinclair will have a lot of company, and there are all the windows at Davenant blazing with light till ]>ast 12 o’clock every night—my cousin James is a pointsman on the Southeastern, and sees the house from the line—while that poor, sweet lady is breaking her heart.” “But surely Mr. Sinclair would defer to his wife in these things.” suggested Sir Cyprian. “Not he, sir. For the last twelve months that I was with my dear lad}' I seldom heard him say a kind word tc her. Always snarling and sneering. 1 do believe he was jealous of that precieus innocent because Mrs. Sinclair was so fond of her. I'm sure if it hadn’t been for that dear baby my mistress would have been a miserable woman.’ This was a bad hearing, and Sir Cyprian went back to Marchbrook that evening sorely depressed. ” |TO Bk CONTINUBD.I

ITALIAN BANKS IN NEW YORK.

The Way the Italian Bankers Bob Depositors of Their Money. The Italian banks, of New York, of which there are about 132, are patronized by the most ignorant Italian laborers. The bankers, who are of a little higher grade than the laborers, do a great variety of work, sending money to Italy, writing letters, acting as adviser ana sometimes changing the office into an employment agency. Money is given to a banker by the laborers to be sent to Italy. If he chooses to send it right away, he does; if not—he waits till he gets ready, sometimes never sending it All the customers' letters come to the banker and. as very few of the depositors can read, he reads to them whatever he wishes to. The bankers are expected to work without compensation, and so they swindle the customers to obtain it. If a depositor wishes to go some place he has a banker buy his ticket and is overcharged by that person, who keeps the surplus for himself to pay him for his trouble. During the past eight months fourteen Italian bankers absconded in New York. The reason that so many got out is on account of the hard times. The depositors, being out of work, go to the bank to get their savings, but the banker, having probably been juggling with the money, is unable to meet the demands and is forced to run away. Of course all of the bankers are not dishonest. The fact that $5,000,000 annually passes through their hands shows that the criminal element is not in control.

A Touching Demonstration.

Shortly after the surrender of the Southern army Gen. R. E. Lee was riding along one day through a rather dreary stre.ch of country in Virginia when he espied a plain old countryman, mounted on a sorry nag coming toward him. As they passed each other both bowed, as is the fashion when strangers meet in out-of-the-way places, but the old farmer in the home-spun suit stared hard at the soldierly figure as though not quite certain of recognition. He went his way a little further, then turning his horse around, cantered back and soon came up with the General again. “I beg pardon, sir, but is not this Gen. Robert Lee?” “Yes, lam Gen. Lee. Did I ever meet you before, my friend?” Then the old Confederate grasped the chieftain’s hand, and with the tears streaming down his face, said. “Gen. Lee, do you mind if I cheeryou?" The General assured him that he didn't mind, and there, on that lonesome, pine-bordered highway, with no one else in sight, theola rebel veteran, with swinging hat, lifted up his voice in three ringing rounds of hurrahs for the man that the southland idolized. Then both went their way without another word being spoken. It was a display of affection which the General never forgot.

Common-Sense Entertaining.

There are two or three commonsense rules that would save a would-be entertainer a lot of heartache if she will only heed them. The sensible housekeeper never tries to make her dinners and teas more elaborate than her circumstances would consistently permit. It is always a source of annoyance to attempt to do things that are beyond the limitations of your coo!| or yourself. If your guest is one whe is used to the ministrations of a French chef, you will probably please her best by giving her some of the dainty home dishes for which you have a reputation beyond your home, and of which she has heard. Make things pleasant in your own simple fashion and you will be a success —that is, if you have displayed spotless linen napery, shining* glassware, and burnished silver, and have had the good taste to invite only those who are congenial to each other.

Truth Spoken in Jest.

Baron Ferdinand Rothschild tells an amu. ing story about the late L<vd He tford. He lived in Paris during the last twenty years of his life, ana as he usually went to bed very late, his valet was under the strictest orders not to disturb him in the morning. “You may call me at eight if there is a revolution,” was the command, “not otherwise ” By this his lordship probably meant that he was not to be aroused at all. On the morning of the 24th of February, 1848, however, he was called at eight “What's wrong?” he grumbled; "is there a revolution?” “Yes, my lord, there is,” the valet replied. This was the fact. It was then that Louis Philippe, the Citizen King, tied from Paris and found refuge in England, where he died. The name “Indian” was given to the inhabitants of America by Columbus, from his belief that the country which he had discovered was an extension of India, the country known to occupy the extreme of the Eastern hemisphere. The earnestness of life is the only passport to the satisfaction of life.— Theodore Parker. Count Tolstoi maintains that a man cannot be both a Christian and a patriot. Honor to those whose words or deeds thus help us in our daily needs.

DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

TOPICS OF INTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Bow to Oonitrnet ■ CoßTenlent Bee Hive— Summer Care of Iloreee A (.arden Marker—Serviceable Chicken Coup—Farm and Household No tea. The Simplicity Dank*troth Hire. Some twenty years ago I owned my first colony of bees. ~I was then attacked with a severe spell of the bee fever, which left my mind fertile for invention. My first swarm was placed in a Buckeye hive. Imagine me hauling the entire inside of this hive out, bees and all, every day or two to see whether my bees were aoing well, or perhaps to obtain a glimpse of her majesty, the queen. My improvements consisted in constructing a hive with a double deck. My frames instead of resting on a monster moth trap for a foundation, as the frame of the Bu keye, slid into my hive upon strips nailed on the sides of the hive a proper distance from the bottom board. The upper story was serarated from the lower story or brood chamber by an inch board with holes in it, for the bees to pass through. The honey boxes were much like a cigar box in form.

This hive being an infringement upon many other hives, I failed to get a patent. From reading, observing and experimenting for twenty years, I believe that the beginner who does not adopt what is known as the Simplicity Langstroth hive makes a grave mistake. This hive is too well known to require more than a brief descript on. It may be constructed by making the hive like a box, by rabbeting the corners, or ny dovetailing them, the latter way being preferable. Lumber should bo seasoned, dressed on both sides and i in. thick. The hive with 8 brood frames is my favorite; many prefer 10 frames. The 8-frame hive when putjtogether is 20 In. long and 13} in. wide outside measure. The depth is 9} in. Hand-holes are made in the ends an Inch from the top The ends are rabbeted inside at the top clear across to the depth

of i In. and far enough back to receive the top bar of the frames, which are 19 io. long. The Langstroth frame outside measure is 17$ by 9$ in. The top of the hive is level, allowing the Moore case, or the famous T super, to be placed on the top. The cover is a board, a little larger taan the top of the hive, cleated to keep it from warping. The bottom board is the width of the hive and 2 In. longer. This board with cleats 2 in. wide nailed on each end forms an excellent base for the hive to set on, the 2 in. extra forms the alighting board. When using this hive for comb honey, I use the breakjoint honey board. No beehive made contains more points of interest.—J. F. Michael, in Farm and Home. A Garden Marker. The vegetable garden, and in fact all growing crops, should at all times be laid out with a system. To a successful gardener, every break in the straightness of a row of growing crops, especially garden crops, is of-

A GARDEN MARKET.

fensive to the eye. The cut shows a marker that may be easily made by any gardener of ingenuity. Take one inch boards, cut to a circle and bevel the edges. The,wheels revolve on an iron lod, and are held at the desired distance by pieces of 4x4 inch scantling, through the center of each, lengthwise, is bored a hole of corresponding size. A handle fastened to the centerpiece and braced by iron rods completes the toot _____ Keeping Hillsides in Sod. On tillable, sidehill land there Is usually a heavy loss every time the land is newly plowed, as the rain qf even a moderate shower is not absorbed as fast as it falls, but by its own gravity rushes down the hillside carrying with it much of the surface soil, and if the soil be soft, often deep gutters are formed. If such slopes were well seeded to timothy or clover, but little Injury would result, and if properly managed a timothy sod may be kept in good condition on sidehill pasture land for many years. L’sually the soil in such places is naturally thin, hence previous to plowing apply fertilizer in some form, preferably well rotted barnyard manu e. This will keep the timothy in good health for many years. Should any portion become thin, let

the whole grow to a Ijclght of six or eight inches, when either commarcial fertilisers or well rotted manure can be applied to the thin portions. Thus guarded, even heavy rains will not carry much fertility away, but cause it to lodge against and become absorbed by the growing plants. Hillsides should never be pastured very closely. Dry Goodi Box Chicken Coop. The illustration herewith shows how dry goods boxes have, for a number of seasons, been adopted by a correspondent of the American Agriculturist for use as chicken

SERVICEABLE CHICKEN COOP.

coops. The box is placed in its natural position, one side being made higher by a single board. This provides for a sloping roof, the central portion of which is hinged as a door tc give access to the interior of the coop The space left open at the ends is slatted to keep out Intruders, and to give good ventilation to the coops in warm weather. Sutnturr Care of Hone*. There are several things which a horse needs in abundance in order to maintain perfect condition. Among them are air, light, exercise, pure water, and the right kinds of food. Let him lack for any one of these, and he will not long remain at his very best. During the busy season it sometimes happens that a farmer finds It almost Impossible not to overwork hls horses a little. This Is to be avoided If possible, but, it not, as soon as the opportunity comes pull off their shoes and turn them out for a fortnight's run upon good grass. Keep him comfortable hv providing good shelter where he may hide from the sun during the hottest part of the day, and supply him with a little grain. If he is at all off his feed be very careful as to the quantity of this, increasing it gradually, and getting him back to full grain feed before he returns to work, lor farm work it pays to have horses which are naturally good workers. Perhaps this is more desirable than any other| one quality. Those who have n«.ver tried may not know how much more work can be performed by a fast walking team than by a slow one. Take extra good care of the horses during tbe working season. Sponge the shoulders and other points where the harness bears whenever the horse has been used enough to sweat at all. When ai> work give them water in the middle of the forenoon and afternoon as well as at feeding time. The horses need shade in the pasture in summer, and if there are not convenient trees a rough shed should be built into which thev can go to escape tbe burning sun at midday. It the hornfly comes around or if other flies are troublesome, either keep them in tbe stable during the day or put on something to keep away the flies. Almost any kind ot grease will do this, but It will be better If a little carbolic acid is put withit.—Wisconsin Agriculturist

Harrowing Ont the Weed*. Don’t forget to harrow the potato field. The best horrow for this work Is the smoothing harrow. It mellows the soil, but does not cut the sprouts. Two or three harrowings may be jflven before the sprouts break through the surface. When the potatoes are up the harrow should be stopped, as the sprouts are very brittle and will break off easily. The harrowings not only mellow the soil, but kill thousands of weeds Just sprouting—and this is the time to kill wends, just when they are starting into growth. When the rows of potatoes can be seen, run the cultivator through the rows, once in each row. To do this to advantage widen the cultivator to its full width, take off the cultivator teeth and put on the harrow teeth. Now attach the horse and run through each row but once. This will stir tho entire sol), and do more good than running twice in each row. The editor follows this plan of working hls potatoes, corn, and vegetables. . He finds that tbe oftener he can stir the soli the better it is for the growing crop The motto should be, cultivate often, keep the soil mellow, and allow no weeds to grow. Farm Note*. It requires time to convert substances Into plant food, but fertilizers are readily soluble and give almost immediate results on nearly all cropa It is stated that forty-four out of every one hundred persons In the United States are agriculturists; tlfty-six in Canada, forty-eight in France, seventeen in Germany, and seven in England. A distinguished fruit grower, in an address before the agricultural students of the Ohio State University, gave it as hls opinion that you can sell 5,000 bushels of pears of one kind more easily than you can dispose of one load of mixed varieties. A stockman says that sulphur should always be kept in handy reach of the sheep bouse. It is a preventive of many ills. A few pieces of roll brimstone should be always found in the horse and cow troughs Insects and vermon do not like sulphur. If a team pulls uneavenly the trouble may be remedied by unhitching tbe inside traces and crossing them so as io have tbesame horse attached to tbe same end of each swingletree. One case is kndwn where many a heavy load has been pulled by adopting this expedient The value of a garden does not depend on what the crops may bring on the market but upon how much such vegetables would cost for a family it they were bought The best market for garden crops is at home, on the farmer’s tabic. The farmer who will buy his vegetables and small fruit when be can raise tbem pays twice as much for his luxuries as he should.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. An Intere«tln< Summary of the More Important Dolnyi of Oar Neighbor*—Wedding* and Deaths —Crime*. Caaualtle* u< General Neva Note* of the State. tlooaler Happening* The postofflee at Wilkinson was burglarized. Dogs have killed many sheep near Crothersville. Wabash is talking electric street rai way again. H. E. Door.rrTt.E, veteran W. U. telegrapher, dead at Lafayette. Mrs. J. A. Brown of Lebanon, wae severely burned in u gas explosion. Tipton has let the contract for a water works system to cost 122,307.60. Geo. W. Humphrey, an old soldier, killed by a freight train at Princeton. JOHN WILSON, 14, Anderson, was drowned in White River, while fishing. Mrs. Wm. Bracken, 70, Greensburg, fell down stairs, and was seriously injured. John Harrel, Richmond, fell down stairs, and broke his neck; died instantly. Frankfort is congratulating her self on the scarcity of burglaries in that city. Columbus. Edingburg, and Franklir talk of combining to secure natural gas by piping. The count at the northern prison Is 036. the largest in the history of the institution. Connersville business men are urging that sowers and paved streets be put down. Counterfeit dollars, halves, and quarters Have made their appearance at Summitville. Franklin says she will soon have the finest streets of any town of her size in the State. Terhune citizens will organize a "White Cap*’ band to stop family quarrels in that vicinity. The second trial of Cyrus Brown, the Columbus wife murderer, has been postixmed until September. W, R, Roberts, employed in a saw mill at Suminltvillo, was caught in a belt, and probably fatally injured. Bread is now Belling at 2 cents a loaf at Co umbus. owing to the oread war, and it will probably go down to 1 cent. The.work of the assessor in Wayne Township. Wayne County, shows a shortage in values of more than 91,000,000. While Miss Bess Kersey driving in a buggy near Lebanon, she was struck on the nead by u limb and seriously injured. James Coile, Lebanon, realizes that ho is insane, says ho has a desire to kill some one and has requested that he be restrained. Estimates made by wheat growers of Spencer, Warrick, and Perry Counties show that the crop has been cut short at feast 30 per cent, by the recent freezes. At Shelbyville, Joseph Williams, aged 64 years, retired in nis usual good health and was found dead next morning. Rheumatism of the heart was pronounced the cause.

Mbs. May Pollock, formerly of a wealthy and prominent Ohio family, attempted suicide in the Muncie jail by taking laudanum. She had been fined and was despondent. TWO grandchildren ot James Morrison, Richmond, who died recently leaving a 9600,000 estate, have filed suit to set aside the will, claiming that hls own child should not get all the wealth. A horrible accident occurred at Milroy. Frank Rice was riding on the beam of a blow being guided by his older brother, and, slipping off, the plow point entered his bowels in such a manner as to cause death shortly afterward. Allen T. DeWitt, aged 40, died at the home of his mother east of Shelbyville. The cause of death is said to have been inanition. He was afflicted with sortie trouble of the throat and unable to swallow food for several days. He leaves a widow and an estate valued at 910,000. R. T. McDonald, general manager and a heavy stockholder in the Port Wayne Electric Company, applied to the court at Fort Wayne for a receiver for the plant, which is valued at 9500,000. H. J. Miller of Fort Wayne, and L. J. Hawthorne of Boston, were appointed receivers. Articles Of incorporation of the Fort Wayne Electric Corporation, with a capital of 91,500,000, were immediately filed, with McDonald as President. This is the culmination of the contest between the Fort Wayne Company and the General Electric Company ot New York, and the move is believed to have been made hv McDonald to prevent the electric trust from getting cohtrol of the original company. John Wilhelm, sent to the Prison North in May, 1893, for stealing some tools out of the Big Four shops in Haughvllle, has been paroled by Governor Matthews. Wilhelm is nearly BO years old and has been a "trusty’’ in the Northern prison, where he attracted the attention of the Governor on the occasion of the last visit of the executive to the prison. He was formerly employed by the Big Four, end while intoxicated committed the theft for which he was sent up. Hls family in Haughville has bebn in a distressing condition. The wife is now sick at the City Hospital, and the children are a charge on the county. Wilhelm's time would have been out in a few months more, and it was deemed a case worthy of executive clemenpy. One ot the largest deals of the State has just come to.ligfrt, in which a Mr. H- Norton Beach of Raleigh, is concerned. It has .been known for some time that Mr. Beach had invented a hydrocarbonate gas generator, but until lately nothing has been known of it. It is now learned that Mr. Beach sold one-half interest to Eastern men for 9100,000. Mr. Beach is a bright but poor young man, not more than 30 years old. and one of Rush County’s promising men. He has spent most of nis life on a farm and teaching school. Wm. Hup F, next to the oldest man in Clay County, is dead. A pleasure party of about a dozen took the steamer Latronia, owned by the Shepard Brothers of the paper mills at Vincennes, and started for Seven Mile Island on Wabash River. When about five miles north of this city, the launch struck a heavy log and the boat was upset, throwing the entire painty in the waiter. All were saved except Miss Mataie Miles, who sank after repeated efforts to hold her to the capsized boat were made. Miss Miles was a prominent society young woman of that city, possessed of a large fortune and a member of one of the oldest families in Vincennes. Her shocking death causes the utmost sorrow

MODEL HOUSE PLANS.

THINGS TO CONSIDER BEFORE BUILDING A HOME. Plan* Ar* Her* Preaented for Subetanttal Hunte* of Effective Design and with Artistic Interior* All Have Modena Convenience*—Erected st Small Coat. An Attractive Residence. The simplicity of plan, and the simple manner in which the design expresses it, is fairly shown in the picturesque exterior here illustrated; its constructive features are fully represented in the gables, cresting, finials, chimneys and porches. The house stands on a brick underpinning. and is a good example of one of the half-timber and tile designs of the Jacobite period, though, unlike its prototype, shingles cut to a pattern are substituted for tiles from the second story up. The first story shows what has the appearance of * timber construction, although it is only formed in the ordinary manner of finishing frame buildings, by continuing the belts through and connecting them with angle-boards, being clapboarded with narrow clapboards between, in tbe customary manneron frame buildings, the frame being first sheathed, then covered with waterproof paper. The second story is arranged so as to form a hood over the first, being furred out by a molded cornice about

PERSPECTIVE VIEW.

eight inches, at which the shingles are curved outwards. There Is also a similar cornice and curve at the head of tho second story window casings, which project six inches, thereby giving a deep recessed window on the iaslde. Tho first story windows have stained glass transom lights, which are filled with foliated centers and gothic borders In leaded frames, which lend a charm to tho interior not otherwise obtainable. Tho floors in vestibule, conservatory, bath-room and dining-room are of ash and walnut; tho doors have pine stiles and rails with butternut panels: architraves of butternut, with pine doorstops and Jambs, architraves having cut-work, picked out in color; inside blindsof butternut; trimmings

PLAN OF FIRST FLOOR.

of real bronze. The work on second story all pine; and the whole of the woodwork throughout, Including hardwood floors, finished in natural color of the wood and varnished. The mantels are of hardwood, in design corresponding with the interior finish. The plant cabinet is placed on the south side, and connecting as It docs with both sittingroom and dining-room, makes it very desirable, and renders it an easy matter to keep it warm. The general plan suggests Itself as being very economical, there being no waste of room, as everything is fully taken up and used to the best advantage. The attic room, over kitchen and scullery, will be found useful for storage. The roofs are

PLAN OF SECOND FLOOR.

shingled and' painted black. The exterior walls ar ® painted—body of the work Venetian red add trimmed with Indian red, and cut-vvork in black; sash cut in with yellow; pan els under veranda doors yellow. The cost of this house as built was only $3,000, and certainly is a model of neatness, and a grCat change from the Stereotyped style of the buildings generally erected. (Copyright by Palllser. Pal User & Co., N. Y.)

Telltale Shoes.

Travers Look here, those shoes you made for me squeak. Shoemaker They always squeak at the end of thirty days, sir, if the bill isn’t paid.—New York Herald. 1