Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — Page 3

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CHAPTER XXVl—Continued Gilbert Sine air felt as if this world and this life were one inextricable confusion. The anonymous letter had told him where and v hen to watch and the writer of that letter had kept Jaith wit <. him so far. since he had not watched in vain - bat this suectacle of Innocent repose, the mother sleet ing near the child, was hardly in keeping; Gilbert paused irresolute, and then went to his wife’s bedside and roused her roughly with his strong hand unon her arm. The dark blue eyes opened suddenly and looked at him iu.l of bewilderment. “Gilbert. Baek to-night? Ididn'texpect you. Why do you look at me like that? What has happened?” “Can’t you guess? You didn’t expect me. You had made your plans accordingly. You had made an appointment with your loves'.” “Gilbert, are you mad?” “He has not disappointed you—he is here. Get up and come see him. Quick. He is waiting.” “Gilbert, what have you been doing? Where have you been? Calm youreelf, for Heaven’s sake.” “Come,” he said, grasping her wrist, *1 am too much a gentleman to let vour lover wait yonder—on the threshold of his own house, too. Strange that he should try to sneak in like a burglar, when he will be master here In a few days.” He dragged her into the next room, and to the balcony. “Pra.v, don't be so violent, Gilbert. I will come any where you please,” she «aid. gravely. From the balcony she saw that prostrate figure at the foot of the stairs, and gave a faint cry of horror. “Gilbert, what have you done?” “My duty as a man. I should loathe myself if i had done less.” She followed him down the stairs, trembling in every limb, and clung to him as he knelt by the motionle-s figure, and turned the face upward to the faint light of the new risen moon.

“Gilbert, what have you done?” repeated Con dance, sobbing hysterically. “Murder” answered ter husband, with a stolid despair. “I hated this fellow badly enough, but I didn’t mean to kill him. I meant to kill Sir Cyprian Davenant, with whom you had made an appointment to night, counting on my absence. ” “Gilbert, what have I ever done that you should think me the vilest of women? I have never wronged you by one thought about Cyprian Davenant which you might not know, I have never spoke a woid to him which you might not hear—you and all the world. Your jealousy oi him has ended in murder. ” “I have been trapped somehow. Some enemy has set a snare for me. ” “What are you to do? Oh, Gilbeit is he dead?” “Yes; the bullet finished him. I aimed under his shoulder, where I knew it would be fatal. What am Ito do?—cut and run, I suppose.” “Yes, go, go: it is your on’y chance. No one knows yet. Go, for God’s sake, this moment.” “And leave you with a corpse on the premises—rather cowardly that.” “Don t think of me -it is life or death for you. You must go, Gilbert. There Is no help. Go, or you will be taken and tried and hanged,” cried Constance, clinging to the iron rail, trembling, very cold, the ground reeling under her feet.

“Yes, that's the natural sequence. Fool, fool, fool! An anonymous, scribbler. "What can have brought him here, and to the windows of your room? ■Constance, what does it mean? To you know why this man came?” But Constance could not answer him. She had fallen, fainting, on the iron stair. It was not quite midnight when Mr. Sinclair drove up to his hotel—a small house in St. James’, chiefly affected by men about town. “Room ready, James? Yes, of course it is. You got my telegram ye terday. Been dining with some fellows. You can bring me a brandy and soda up stairs. That’s all.” “Sorry the horse lost, sir,” said the man, with respectful sympathy. “What hor. e?” asked Gilbert with a vacant look. “Eeg your pardon, sir—Goblin,'Sir. Thought he was safe to win the cup. Took the liberty to make my litt e venture on'him. ' You bein’ an bld customer, you seo, sir, and all of us feelin’ interested in him on th t account.” “That was agood fellow. The ground was top hard for him —goes better in the dirt.” He went up to his bed-room after this brief colloquy, leaving the head waiter under the impression that Mr. Sinclair had been dining rather mare freely than usual. “.Didn't seem to understand me when I snoke to him about his owu ’oss,” Bail the waiter t> his friends in council: “stored at me reg’lar mazed.” “Ah, pore feller, he’s 'it pretty ’ard to-day, you may deeped.” Mr. Sinclair’s last order to the waiter . who carried the brandy and soda to his bed-rc< m was to be called at half-past re:;.’; morning. “You’ll have a cab at the door at a quarter past 7,” he said: “I want to catch the 7:10 train into Kent. I ought to have got home to-night if I could have done it.” “Yes, sir—half-past 7, sir. Anything particular you would like for breakfast?” “Oh. am thing.” “A bit of ii h, sir, and a spatch-cock, or a devil?” suggested the waiter, pertinaciously. Nothing can subdue that solicitude to obtain an order which is the waiter’s ruling passion. “Fish—flesh—anything," cried Gilbert, kicking off his boots. “A salmon cutlet, sir, with Dutch BOSS?" “An elephqnt, if you like. Get me the cab at a quarter past seven. A hansom, with a good horse.” “Yes, sir; an 'ansom and a fast ’oss. Yes, sir. Tea < r coffee, sir?” Mr. Sinclair banged his door in the waiter's face. “The ‘Baron Osy’ starts at eight to-

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morrow,” said Gilbert, referring to his Braishaw, the only literature he carried about him constantly. “I shall be in Antwerp on Saturday.” Then, after a pause, he asked himself: “Might it not be wiser to hold my ground and trust to the chapter of accidents? Who is to bring taat t aitor's death home to mo? I sleep here tonight. No one saw me at Davenant.” He went to the mantel-piece, where a pair of wax ca idles were burning with that air of elegant luxury by wnich your skilled hotel-keep jr seeks to reconcile his customers to the extravagance of his ccarges, and to k James Wyatt’s letters out of his breast pocket. The first three or four he looked at were business letters, chie.jy entreaties to "renew” or carry over, or provide for some little bill just falling due, “like tee best of good fellows.” These Gilbert lail aside after a glance; but there was one at which he started as if he had touched a snake. It was in the same hand as the anonymous let.er that made him a mutderer. This, in plain words, was the gist of the letter—badly spelled, with a foreigner's uncout i orthography: curiously worded, with a mixture of foreign idioms and iliil erate English. “You tell me that all your promises anouit to nothing—that you never neant to marry me. Bather hard to discover this after having nursed my decision so long. I was to be a lady. I was to take my place in the world. Bah. all lies! Les, like your pretended love —your pretended admiration. You ask me to go back to ray country, and promise if I consent to this 1”shall be provided for—handsomely—with nfty pounds a year for life —whether I remain single or marry —an independence for a girl like me, you say. Soit. But who is to secure to me this independence? It may be paid for a year—two years perhaps—and then cease. It must that I see you, Mr. Wyatt. It must I hear of your own lips what you mean. Yoar sol t tongue is too strong for me. You could p<r uade me to do anything, to go anywhere, to serve and obey you at your slave, but I cannot obey to your letters. Ido not understand. I want to see things clearly—to have your views explained to me. “You say that I am passionate—vindictive—and that when last we met—and, ah! how kind it was of you to come here at my request—my violence almost frightened you. Believe me, I wi 1 not so offend again. Come but once more —only come and assure me with your own lips that this miserable pittance shall De paid to me honorably year by year—give me but your word for that, and I will go back to my friends in the south of France—ah — co si me ce sera loin de toi, m n ami—and you shall hear of me nei er again. “ You tell me that you are no longer friends with Mr. Sinclair, and that you eann .t c me to this house, and that if I want to see you it must be that I come to you That is not possible without throwing up my place alt - gether, for the housekeeper here is of the most tyrannical, and gives no servant leave to absent herself, and I will not give up 1 his service until I am assured of my future. Give me, then, a proof of your go d faith by coming here. Give me my pittance a year in advance and sh ,w me how it is to bo afterward paid me, and I will trouble you no more.

“It will be very easy for you to come on the evening of the 1 th. Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair are going to Ascot on the 15th; they will be absent some days. You know your way to the balcony room. I shall be waiting for you there between 10 and 11 on Thurscay evening, and I wi 1 show a light in the center window as' a signal that the coast is clear. “Come if you wish me to trust you. Come if you do not wish me to betray you. Yours, as you treat me, “Melanie Dufort." This letter showed Gilbert Sinclair the diabolical trap that had been set for James Wyatt and for himself. He had been made the instrument of the French woman’s revenge. In the face of this revelation what was he to do? Carry out his intention; go to South America, and leave his wife in the powsr of this fiend. Gilbe t Sinclair was not bad enough for that. “I’ll risk it, and go back to Dave nant, ” he said. “How do I know what this wretch might do? She might lay her lover’s death at my wife’s door, drag my wife’s name in the gutter. No; at any hazai d to myself 1 must be there, and. if nece-sary, this letter must be shown at the inquest.”

CHAPTER XXVII. CROWNBB’S QUEST. “What a horful thing!” said one house-maid, and “Who could have done it?” ejaculated another, as the news of the catastrophe spread through the house. Who was to tell Mrs. Sinclair?” Martha Briggs took that office upon herself. She had just filled Miss Christabel’s bath, but the darling was not awake yet, and Mrs. Sinclair was most likely still asleep. “111 teli her when I take her cup 'of tea at half past seven.” said Martha, looking pale and scared. “Where s Melanie?” asked the upper hpuse-maid. “She aiked leave to go to London early this morning to get herself some things, as if Maidstone wasn’t good enough for her. She wanted to go by the first train to have a long day of it, she said. The first train goes at fix. She must have left this house at half past five.” “That's queer,” said the house-maid; “but I never had much opinion of foreigners.” “What could have brought Mr. Wyatt heie last night, and t > the bottom of those steps?” speculated Martha Briggs. “Why didnt he gj io the hall-doer as usual? It seems so strange .” “it seems stranger that there should be any one there to shoot him,” remarked the house-maid. Mrs. Sinclair heard of the morning's disc >very with a calmness which astonished her hand-maiden. “I must telegraph for my husband,” she said; and a telegram was dispatched without dela/addressed to Gilbert at his hotel in St. James’. The police were on the alert by this time, examining the scene of the murder. The coroner appointed 3 o’clock in the afterno m for his inquiry, which was to b? held in t -e hall at Davenant. This would give time for summoning the jury. Constance was sitting at breakfast, very pa e but quite self-possessed, when Gilbert Sinclair walked in from the lawn.

“Gilbert,” she cried, “what folly! I thought you were miles away—across the channel by this time." “No, Constance, I am not such a poltroon. We have not been a very happy couple, ycu and I, and God knows I am heartily tired of my life in this coun-

try, but I a-n not base en ugh to leave you in the lurch. Who can tell what scandal might arise against vou? No. my dear, I shall stop, even if the end shall be a rope.” “Gilbert, for mercy’s sake! Oh, Gilbert!" she cried, wringing her hands, “how could you do this dreadful thing?” “How could I? I thought I was doing my duty as a man. I was told that a man was to be here—your secret visitor. The man was here at the very hour 1 had been told to exiect him. I saw him entering your room bystealth. What could I think but the worst? And thinking as I did, Iha 1 a right to kill him." “No, Gilbert, no. God has given no man the right to shed his brother’s blood.” “Except Jack Ketch. I suppose. God has given men the instinct of honor, and honor teaches every honest man to kill the seducer of his wife or daughter. The inquest was held at three. Gilbert and several of his household, notably the gardener who found the body, were examined. Dr. Webb gave his evidence as to the nature of the wound, and the hour at which death must, in all probability, have occurred. "Did you sleep at Daveaant last night, Mr. Sinclair?” asked the coroner.

“No; I only came up fr m Ascot yesterday evening, and spent the night in London. ” “ Where?” “At Hildred’s Hotel, Jermyn street.” “Did you dine at the hotel.-” “No; I dined at Francatelli’s." This was a venture. 1< rancatelli’s would dou itless have been crowded on the night after Ascot, and it would be difficult for the waiter 3 to assert that Mr. Sinclair had not dined there. “ You dined at Francatel i's. Where is that?” asked one of the jury with rural innocence. “It is a hotel and restaurant in Piccadilly.” “How long were you at Francatelli’s?” asked the coroner. “1 really can not tell. My horse had been running at Ascot, and losing. I was somewhat excited. I may have gone into Francatelli’s at eight, and gone out again between nine and ten.” “And from Francatelli’s you went to your hotel?” “No,” said Gilbert, ‘eeling that there was a hiatus of a couple of hours here. “I went into the Haymarket Theater for an hour or two. ” “If this fellow asks me what I saw there. I'm done for,” he thought; but happily the coroner was not so much on the alert as to put that question. “nave you any idea what brought the deceased t > your house lad night, when you were known to be absent?” “1 have a very clear idea.” “Be kind enough to tell us all you can. ” “Coming from the station this morning by a foot-path through the park, the way by which the decea ed always came to my house when he did not drive from the station, I found a lettei which it seems to me that he must ■ have dropped there last night." “You f und a etter dropped by the deceased in Davenant Park.-” “I found this leiter addressed to Mr. Wyatt, which I cone ude must have been dropped by him last night.” |TO BE CONTINUED. |

Elaborate Traps.

On nothing has the inventor more frequently exercised his ingenuity than the miking of traps to catch mischievous insects, animals and men. The rat has received especial attention. Some of the contrivances made for his undoing are so elaborate that no full-wit-ted rodent would go near them. A trap recently seen consists of a double chamber, one chamber has a glass end through which Mr. Ra.cees two or three imitation rats having a nice time with a bit of cheese. Wishing to join them, he runs around the box, gets into the other chamber and is caught. There are numerous devices which employ mirrors for the purpose of alluring the rat to his fate. He mounts on top of a barrel anl sees a toothsome bit of cheese. As he appr aches it he beholds another rodent —in rea itv his <7wn reflection in a piece of looking-glass—coming for the cheese from the opposite direction. He makes a dash to get there first, and a pivoted board drops him into the cask, which is half full of water. Conti ivances for catching thieves are more interesting. One o'them is designed to discourage bank sneaks. The sneak puts his hand in through the teller’s window, and unintentionally a tuates a mechanism which causes a slide with spikes to close sudden y upon his paw and im ale it. A trap of a somewhat similar characte - is a steel shutter for a house window, so disguised with covering and fringe as to look like an ordinary curtain. If a burglar tries to ente - at night, it shuts down upon him, the spikes hidden by the fringe helping to hold him fast.

The Last of the Miamis.

The only surviving son of the last of the chiefs of the famous Miami tribe of Indians, James R. Godfrie by name, died the other day on the reservation of 1.900 acres of land given him by the government in 1819, and on which he lived and farmed with his children and grandchildren for the past sixty years. His father was Frances, a chief who succeeded Little Turtle in command of the Indian forces in the Maumee and Wabash Valleys. His mother was also the daughter of a chief, John Baptiste Richardsville. The deceased left a large lamily, and seventy-two of his descendants are now occupying the reservation, which is a valuable tract of land four mi es south of Fort Wayne, Ind. The youngest is George, a prominent citizen of Fort Wayne, who is one of the few Indians who ever joined a secret society, and is the highest in Masonry of any Indian in the world, having taken every degree in both rites, excepting the thirty-third, and is anxious to take that.

Raising Corn in a Day.

“The Navajo Indians are wonderfully adroit at juggling, ” says an Arizona man, “and sometimes perform feats quite as wonderful as those of the famous Hindoo magicians. The crowning achievement that I ever saw performed by the Navajo magician is the growing of sacred corn. At sunrise he planted the enchanted kernel before him in full view of the audience, and sat solemly in his place, before it singing a weird song. Hr smtly the earth cracked, and the tender green shoot pushed forth. As the magician sang on, the young plant grew 'visibly, reaching a height cf several inches tn an hour, waxing thick, and putting out its dreo ing bla.es. If the juggler stopped his song, the growth of the corn stopped, and resumed only when he recommenced his chant. By noon the corn was tall and vigorous, and by sunset it was a matu e plant, with tall stalk, sedgy leaves and silk-topped ears of corn."

A Murderous Thing.

A retired French naval officer has invented a rifle which is capable of firing two kinds of explosive bullets at once. The first siuare book? are said to have been-made by order of King Attains, of Pergamos, who directed this plan to-be followed for the greater convenience of readers.

WOMAN’S DEPARTMENT

At the Indiana State Fair.

The Woman’s Department of the Indiana State Fair which will be held this year September 17 to 23, promises to be more Interesting than ever before in the history of the State. Many new features will bo added to the already beautiful and commodious building, and the arrangmentE of the exhibits will be made with a view to the pleasure of the visitors. This department is always full of interest to the ladles of the State, and many competitors for premiums reside outside of our great commonwealth. The building is one of the finest of its kind in the country. It is large and constructed with a view to the best and most comprehensive exhibit of woman’s handiwork.

NEWS OF OUR STATE.

A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. What Our Neighbors Are Doing—Hatters of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths Accidents and Grimes— Pointers About Our Own People. Minor State Items. James Cooly, aged 68, of Columbus, was struck by a J., M. & I. train, anl wdl hardly recover. Mrs. Sarah Lovell’s dress caugbt fire from a cook stove at Noblesville, and she was burned to death. Cliff Mason's house, at Dublin, was burned, including so ne of his housobold goods ana a» out SSO in money. Farmers near Goshen are organizing to protect themselves against hunters who trail over the r premises without perm:s-ion. PA serious head end collision between a ] assenger and freight train occurred on the C. E. &I. road, near Hillsdale. Both engines were wrecked. No one injured. Secretary W. E. O’Haven of Greenfield, announces that Company A. Fifty-third Regiment, will hold its annual reunion at Greenfield on Sept. 19. All members of company and regiment are especially invited to meet. Half-fare rate nas been granted from Indianapolis and return. William Adams, a carpenter residing at Fort Wayne, boarded westbound passenger train No. 43 on the Wabash to go to Huntington, but changed his mind. While the train was passing Fairfield avenue he jumped off, rolled under the train and was almost instantly killed. He leaves a large family.

Gotleib Fricke was killed by the accidental discharge of an old musket near Fort Wayne. With a party of friends he started on a shooting trip. Six miles in the country the voting men stopped at a farm house to get a drink. Fricke was stepping from the wagon when his pants caught the trigger of the musket, causing it to explode. The back of his skull was blown off and death was instantaneous. The remains were brought to his home. Mrs, Lizzie Newton was instantly killed in a runaway accident on the Fairland and Shelbyville road, near Fairland. She was in a buggy in company with her sister-in law, Mrs. James Gray. The horse became frightened,turned the buggy over, and threw the two women to the ground. Both of them were dragged a considerable distance. Mrs. Gray was a so seriously hurt and may die. She is about 60 years old, while Mrs. Newton was 72.

In the war of the rebellion Indiana had 156 regiments and 34 companies infantry, 115,775 men; 1.3 regiments of cavalry, 21,605: 12 companies and 25 batteries of artillery, 10,096, total. 208.367. These troops were in 308 engagements. In Virginia. 90; Tennessee, 51; Georgia, 41; Mississippi, 24; Arkansas. 19; Alabama, 18; Kentucky, 16: Louisiana, 15. Missouri, 9; North Carolina, 8: Maryland, 7: Texas, 2; South Carolina, 2; Indian Territory, 2; Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, 1 each. Total 11 States At a revival at Monticello recently all who paid their debts were asked to rise. The rising wts general. Then those who did not were a ; ked to stand U'. One individual arose and explained that he could not pay because all the rest of the congregation were owing him. ' J -

a i.ody of masked men broke in a I building in Wilkinson, owned by 1 Charles Eakin, formerly used for a ■ saloon and rented to parties to open I out again next week: The pool table and all the furniture and fixtures were completely demolished, aggregating a loss of about 4300. O. M. Carver, a prominent farmer northwest of Greencastle, died from injuries received in an accident. He was riding a horse, which fell on him, causing internal injuries. He was 32 years old and married. The 5-year-old daughter of Leander Alger, fi.e miles north of Wabash, w_s burned to death. With her I brother and father she went out in the I teld burning stubble and while her j lather was away firing the straw the ! tames surrourfded the child. She tried j -to tight her way through, but was j c.ri en back, and when her father, i hearing her screams, reached 'her sho I had fallen over and was unconscious, i dving an hour alt •.•ward

Moses Rose, aged 14, whi’o stealing a ride on a P., C.. C. & St. L. passenger train, fell beneath the wheels und was fatally injured at Jeffersonville. Henry Vodde, a fifteen-voar-old lad, was almost instantly killed at Fort Wavne, by falling under a Wa bash train while trying to run across ahead of the logomotive. Louie Hatch, aged 3, got a tobacco tag m his throat the other cay, and suffered great agony. The tag was forced nto his stomach, and was thrown from his stomach by an emetic. AT the American Tin-Plate factory, Elwood, Major Stewart, employed In the tlnn-ng department, accidentally dropped some water in the ac'd flux, causing it to explode, flying all over his hands, head and face, and possibly destroying his s’ght. If he recovers he will be disfigured for life.

The great Burton family,numbering 150.000 injthe United States, and about eighteen hundrei in the vicinity of Mitchell, held their annual reunion in a beau'iful g 0 e nea” that city. Prof. G. H. Hall of Franklin, made the annual address. At noon dinner was served by the Burton family. Many after dinner speeches- were made by prominent members of the family. A shocking accident happened at the Marti canning lactorv, Tipton, which will result in the death of Mrs. George Teague. She was feeding the can filler and her hair caught in a line shaft above her. The entire scalp, including her forehead and one oar, was ierued off. There is not a hair on her head nor eyebrows that are left. The surgeons dressed the wounds, but they say that there is no possible hope for her recovery.

A case of extreme cruelty to a child came to light recently at New Albany. A few nights ago Mr. and Mrs. Jordan Harris had a fight at their home on Water street. Mrs. Harris was worsted, and in a spirit of revenge she seized her t» vear-old stepson Charles and threw him on a redhot stove. Both arms were badly burned before Mr. Harris could pull him off. He drove his wife from the house and the little boy is being cared for by relatives. Complaints will bo preferred against Mrs. Harris. Secretary Bicknell, who has just returned from a visit to the Southern prison, says the abolition of the lockstep there is regarded as a move in the right direction. Through the lock-ste ) long-time prisoners acquired a peculiar gait that branded them all their lives as ex-convicts. The Northern pri: on w'll soon follow theexample of the Southern prison in this respect. The new wall around the latter institution has been finished. It is thirtysix feet high, and extends seven feet under ground, resting on a b se several feet wide. The prison is in an overcrowded condition.

The State Tax Commission is giving attention to the allowances that have to be made to the attorneys who carried the railroad and other corporation tax eases to the United States Supreme Court. The total amount of piopertv in controversy was oyer s2£,000,000, said to be the la gest amountever in litiga'.ion as to t xatioiL The tax on this amount reached nearly $4,000,000, and the attorneys consequently expected a big fee* Jt is said that the board intends to distribute $2:',000 among three attorneys, giving John W. Kern $10,000,W A. Ketpham, SIO,OOO, and A. J. Beveridge SO,OOO. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin. Shaw, residing five miles west of Somerset, i .were fatally injured as they were be- ' Ing driven home. On the road the old i Jamily horse threw his tail over the ' tines, and when the boy endeavored to ; release. them the animal began to kick. The heels of the excited horse struck ' Mr. Shaw, breaking three ribs and tearing others loose, while he was hurt I internally by the fall from the vehicle, i Mrs. Shaw was thrown out of the ' buggy on her head and received in- , juries which she will notsurvive. Mr. i Shaw is $2 and Mrs. Shaw 05 years of age. Two loaded motor carson the Hammond, Whiting, and East Chicago Electric Street Kailway collided near Whiting. Chas. Mashino, motorman, and Gustav Peterson aud A. E. Faulkner, passengers, were fatally injured. Several persons were more or less bruised. Only eight of the ninety-two counties have reported to the State Board of Election Commissioners the number | of voters in their precincts. At the i last election tickets were distributed ' to 1.017 townships, 2,946 precincts, and i 544,360 voters, two for each voter. ' This year tickets enoflgh will be' sent out to supply 750,000 voters with ' two each.

REAL RURAL READING

WILL BE FOUND Ifll THIS DEPARTMENT. Good Method of Gathering the Corn Crop— Quadruple Step-ladder for Picking Fruit —Conditions t’nder Which Cereal Crops are Profitable—Nitrate of Soda Free. Harvesting the Corn Crop. I plant my corn in sections of twelve rows, skip three, plant twelve more, skip three and so on, writes A. 11. Watts, in Farm and Home. 1 plant potatoes, peas, or anything that can l>e harvested befoie the co n in those three rows. For a harvesting wagon I take the Axle A A and wheels of my hay riging, and take two stout poles B B and attach them to the rocker and hind axle the same as to a hay rigging and then bore four holes CCC

i C in each po o. I then put four stakes DD D I) in each pole underneath and let them hang down eighteen inches from the top ot the poles, then put the cioss pieces on from ono stake to the other and pin them fast, and lay a couple of boards on the cross pieces for the bettom and put one on each side Put a piece in front rnd one behind and that forms a-box Use wooden pins or bolts to fasten the pieces together, j This rigging is drawn to the first 1 gangway, a bar dr ven in the ground ' aud the horse hitched. I pick the ears of « orn first and put them in this rigging. 1 take six rows on each side I of the gangway and when 1 come to the next gangway I do the same and so until the piece is covered. The ears of corn are put in a large open chamber and husked at my leisure. Then 1 made a horse for shocking corn. Take a small pole and bolt the legs to the pole and bore u hole for the pin. The cornstalks are shocked as Igo along. I take six rows, three : oh each side of the horse, and bind

HOCHE FOR SHOCKING CORN.

the shocks with rope. There will be two rows of shucks in a secton. I use the same rigging to draw my cornstalks to tne burn and the shocks are easily taken off. I put my cornstalks just where I want them and do no not disturb them until fed out. There is no waste In feeding, I do my work all alone without any help. This Is the cheapest way and best to harvest the corn crop that I know of. Wire Cabin for Carrying Water. In the mountain regions of Vlr. glnla an ingenious contrivance Is used to bring water from distant

springs to the house. The springs are often at along distancedown i very steep hills, but as the water is very puie and good, they are preferred to wells close by, which would have to bo deep. The 11 ustratlon, which >s taken from the American Agriculturist, shows the different parts of this ‘ water telegraph,” as it Is called. A large post, a, is set In the ground near the house. A bent iron rod, b, is

WATER TELEGRAPH.

fastened to the post, and to the upper end of this, rod is attached a strong wire, c. over which runs an ordinary sash pully, I, which is attached at h to carrying arms, d, which are so bent that the bucket of water will swing under the pully. The other end of the wire is attached to a similar post at the spring. To a bale on the pully is attached a small rope, which is wound upon a windlass at the house, and being unwound allows the bucket to go down hill on the wire.and reach the spring, Into which it dips by Its own weight and is filled. The windlass is turned, and winding the rope brings the bucket full of water up to the house. A similar contrivance is often used carry coal and ore from mines down the mountain side, or across gulches. Convenience in Fruit Gathering. Designs for fruit ladders are legion, some good, some bad, and some indifferent. The quadruple stepladder here illustrate 1 must be classel

QUADRUPLE STEPLADDER.

among the good designs, for obvious reasons Placed under low, branching trees its use permits one to move about within reach of a large portion of the whole side of a tree, because of its four sides, about which one c n freely step. Moreover, when not occupied as “standing ground,” the topafior- s an excelle.it resting place tor the basket. It should not be made strong, but light, so as to be itadily mov d about. Cereal Crop*. As a result of five years’ continuous < ulture of wheat and oats, eight trials of wheat and twenty-one of corn on soils varying widely in character, the Chio Station has reached the conclusion that at present prices of cereal crois and of fertilizing materials respect!'ely, thfo profitable production of corn, wheat, and oats < pon chemical or commercial fertilizers or upon barnyard manure, if its cost be proMO.tionatc to that of the chemical constituents of fertility

found fn commercial fertllf era, is a . hopeless undertaking, unless these crops be grown In a systematic roUr 1 lion with clover or a similar nitro gen-storing crop; and the poorer the soil in natural fertility the smaller the probability of profitable crop production by meahs of artificial fertilizers. Experiment* with Corn. The experiments at the lowa experiment station last season as to the proper time tor < utting corn may be worth remembering. Plats of corn were cut Sept. 17 and 21 and Oct. T, 8, and 15, respectively, aud shocked in the field, sn ad owning plat of equal size was left standing until le. 17, when it was ha vested. The <orn from all plats was husked Lee. 17 and brought in, at wht h time samples were taken of the corn and fodder from each cutting and analyzed. The yields ot t e dlflernt plats ranged from forty three aud a half to sixty-tour bushels per acre, increasing gradually up to the fourth date of cutting. The largest amount of fry matter in the sto er was secured at the time of cutting the second plat, Sept. 24. The greatest amount of dry matter secu.ed in the kernel was reached at the time of cutting the third plat, Oct. 1. The bluest ag regate of dry ma ter from an acre ot both stoier and kernels was 6,782 pounds, and was secured from the second cutting, hept. 24, and the next highest f,515 pounds from the third cutting. The above results indicate that the best time for cutting corn according to these experiments is between Sept. 24 and Oct. 1. The loss resulting from leaving corn in the held until December amounted to nearly half the total yield in weight besides in deterioration in feeding matter.— Hartford Courant.

Coal-Chewing l’g«. Pigs like to chew coal, and they do it from a natural Instinct. Among ths causes of indigestion, diarrhea, and other functional disturbances of the digestive organs, is a state ox abnormal acidity. To satiate a consequent craving for an anti add. says the Massachusetts Ploughman, we often find horses licking the earth or 1 mo washed walls when opportunity occurs, and probably for the same reason pigs will evince a desire for crumbling coal or coal clndeis. In coal hydrogen Is the predominating element, and It is also probable that when pigs are fed for any length of time on lood which Is deficient in nitrogen, instinct prompts the animal to evince a desire for bituminous coai. Coal also contains sulphur, which, to some extent, servos a beneficial purpose In the animal economy. A desire to consume indigestible material Is not Infrequently met with in all our domestic animals, but this evidence of a depraved appetite Is due to some functional derangement or disturbance ot the digestive or gans. A Convenient Table. The cut herewith shows a table that some sou or father might well undertake to niaao for the mother ot

the family. The construction is simple, and the con leniences to l:e thus secured for the sewer are many. Whlte>wood is the be-t material for such a purpose, as It is easily wroked.and is comparatively

HOMEMADE SEWING TABLE.

inexpensive. It may bo stained a handsome rod. and varnished when completed. Theextra lease provides for increased top room, when such room is desired, while the variety and the abundance of drawn s will prove a great convenience, us sewing materials, darning materials, materials for crocheting, etc., may find separate accommodations, and yet all be within reach of the hand.

Farm Notes. Somebody has said ‘ you must feed your feed if you want it to feed you." and this is true. If you keep taking off your farm and never putting anything back you are breeding poverty for jour children. Farming is largely experimental, and must be so long as soils differ. We learn successful cropping in part from others’ experience, but largely from our own. Where such a course brings profitable results we know that it is good practice. An Ohio man who fed twelve hogs on wheat estimates that he got 467. z 0 for fifty bushels of wheat by marketing it in the form of porg, whereas if he bad sold it he would only have received $26. He advises buying hogs, even at a good price, to feed the wheat to. It will never injure land to have it near two crops a year, it two applications of manure or fertilizer, in sufficient quantities to teed the crops, are applied. There is no limit to the possibl Ity of tiie land, provided all the conditions are favorable. It will always pay to grow two crops Instead of one, but not unless the farmer thoroughly unde: stands how to do it.

An acre of ground may yield by poultry raising from SIOO to $1,000; but the management has much to do with the pro ts. A bright, energetic Yankee can oftentimes bring about resu ts that another would say was impossible. A certain Massachusetts lai me* makes $4,000 per annum from poultry because he knows how to go about it He makes it pay better than farming, and keeps bls flocks on the land that used to feed his cattle. If you pull out the feathers of* fowl- new ones will grow in their place; but If they are cut off such will not be the case till next molt. Sometimes it is necessary when a sick fowl requires bracing that the tail feathers be pullsa out, which stimulates blood action, and the fowl usually improves and picks up. If a hen flies much then the wing primaries should be cut with a scissors. An interesting contest recently took place In Rochester, N. Y. public scho >ls. Prizes were offered for the students and the school whl h could collect the greatest number of cocoons of the tent caterpillars. One school actually collected 4,191,489 of . these cocoons. Some expert has figured out that that means the destruction of 7,500,000,000 eggs! The pupils who collected these cocoons received handsome prizes, which were well deserved.