Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — Page 3

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CHAPTER XXVlll—Continued. Mrs. Sinclair's telegram informing him of- her husband’s death, and entreating him to go to Marchbrook, disturbed the placidity of her father’s temper. “Poor Sinclair!” he muttered, with more fretfulness than regret. “Pity he couldn’t have died at a more convenient time. I hate crossing the channel in an equinoctial gale. And what good tan I do at Marchbrook?However, I suppo-e I must go. Women are so helpless. She never cared much for him. poor child, and there's Lavenant still unmarried and devoted to her. An excellent match, too, since he came into old Gr vftin’s money. Providence orders all things for the best. I hope I shall have a fine night for crossing. ” He was with Constance early on the following day, having lost no time in obeying her summons, but he was unprepared for the accusation she brought against him. “Upon my life, Constance, I was only a passive instrument in this whole affair, just like little Webb. It was put to me that this thing must be done to save your life, and 1 consented. ” “You let a stranger take my destiny into his hand:,?” cried Constance, indignantly. “He was not a stranger. He loved you dearly—was as anxious for your welfare as even I, your father.” “The German physician, the whitehaired old man who told me to hope? Why he had never seen me before in his life.”

“The man who told you to hope, who persuaded me to agree to the introduction o£ a spurious child, was no German doctor. He was neither old nor whitehaired, and he loved you devotedly for years. He heard you we e dying of a broken heart, and came to you in disguise in order to see if love could devise some means of saving you. The German doctor was Cyf rian Lavenant. ” This was another blow for Constance. The man whom she had believed in as the soul of honor was the originator of the scheme she had denounced as wicked and cruel, and yet could find no words of blame for him. She remembered the gentle voice that had penetrated her ear aid mind through the thick mists of madness, remembered the tones that had touched her with a wondering sense cf something familiar and dear. Ho had come to her in her apathy and despair, and from the moment of his coming her life had brightened and grown happy. It was but a delusive happiness, a false peace; and now she must go back to the old agony of desolation and incurable regret. “You can at least tell me who and what that child is, papa,” she said after a long pause. “Indeed, my love. I know nothing except that Uavenant told me she belonged to decently born people, and would never bo claimed by any one. And the poor little thing looked so thoroughly cleaned and respectable—of course at that age one can hardly tell—the features are so undeveloped—the nose more like a morsel of putty than anything human—but I really did think that the child had a thoroughbred look: and I am sure when I saw her last Christmas she looked as complete a lady as ever came out of our Marchbrook nursery.” “She is a lovely child,” said Constance, “and I have loved her passionately.” “Then, mv dearest girl, why not go on loving her.-” pleaded Lord Clanyarde. “Call her your adopted child, if you like, and keep her about you as your pet and companion till you are married again and have children of your own. You can then relegate her to her natural position and by and by get her respectably married, or portion her off in some way.” “No,” said Constance, resolutely, “I will never see her again. ” And all the while she was longing to take the afternoon train to Hastings and rejoin her darling. After this there was nothing more for Constance Sinclair to do but to submit to fate and consider herself once more a childless mother. Sir Cyprian wa3 away, no one knew where, ana even had he been in England Constance felt that there vvou d be little use in knowing more than she knew already. The know edge of the strange child’s parentage could be but of the smallest importance to her, since she meant to banish the little cne from her heart and home. Lord Clanyardc and the lawyers did all that was necessary to secure Mrs. Sinclair’s position as inherit r of her husband's estates. The Newmarket stables and stud were sold, and realized a considerable sum, as the training stable was supposed to be the most perfect establishment of its kind—built on hygienic principles, with all modern improvements—and was warmly competed for by numerous foolish young noblemen and gentlemen who were just setting out on'the broad road which Gilbert Sinclair had traveled at so swift a rate. Things in the North had been gradually improving: the men were growing wiser, and arbitration between master and men was tak : ing the place of trade union tyranny. Constance Sinclair found herself in a fair way to become a very rich woman, eating about as much for the money her husband had left as for the withered leaves that fell from the Marchbrook elms in the dull, hopeless autumn days. What was the use of wealth to a childless widow, who could have been content to live in a lodging of three rooms, with one faithful servant? ICHAPTER XXIX. AFTER YANV DAYS. A common specific for a broken heart when the patient happens to be a person of handsome fortune—for your pauper, hard work is your only cure is foreign travel. Lord Clanyarde, who hated Marchbrook, now suggested this remedy to his daughter. He felt that it was his duty to afford her the benefit of his protection and society during the first period of her widowhood, and it struck him that it would be more agreeable for both of them to lead a nomadic life than to sit opposite each

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other on the family hearth and brood upon the sorrows of this life or read tne fami;y Bible. “It would be quite the right season for Rome, love, if we were to start at once,” said Lord Clanyarde, soothingly. Constance yielded' to her father's suggestion with a graceful submission that charmed him. She cared very little whither she went. The little girl was still at Hastings with hon?st Martha. She cried sometimes for mamma, but was hapny,upon the whole, Martha wrote: wondering very much why she and her charge remained so long away. Martha knew nothing of the change that had taken place in her darling s position. “Very well, dear,” said Lord Clanyarde. “You have only to get your boxes packed: and, by th'e way, you had better write to your banker for circular notes. Five hundred will do to start with.”

Father .and daughter went to Italy, and Constance tried to find comfort in those classic scenes that are peopled with august shadows; but her heart was tortured by separation from the child, and it was only a resolute pride that withheld her from owning the truth — that the little one she had believed her own was as dear to her as the baby she had lost. Lord Clanyarde and his daughter were driving on the Corso one sunny afternoon in the Easter week, when the gentleman's attention was attracted by a lady who drove a phaeton with a pair of cobs caparisoned in a fantastical fashion, with silver bells on their harness. The lady was past her first youth, but still was remarkably handsome, and was dressed with an at tistic sense of color and a daring disregard of fa hion of the day—dressed, in a word, to look like an old picture, and not like a modern fashion plate. “Who can she be?” exclaimed Lord Clanyarde. “Her face seems familiar to me, yet I haven't the faintest mea where I’ve seen her.” A few yards further on he encountered an acquaintance of tho London clubs, and pulled up his horses on purpose to interrogate him about the unknown in the Spanish hat. “Don’t you know her?” asked CaptainFlittsr, with a surprised air. “Yes, she s handsome, but passee; sur le retour. ” “Who is she?” repeated Lord Clanyarde. Captain Flitter looked curiously at Mrs. Sinclair before ho answered. “Her name is Walsingham—widow of a Colonel Walsingham—colonel in the Spanish contingent—rather a bad egg: of course I mean the gentleman.” A light dawned on Lord Clanyarde's memory. Yes, this was the Mrs. Walsingham whom peorle had talked about years ago, before Sinclair's marriage, and it wa * Sinclair's money she was spending now, in all probability, on that fantastical turn-out with its .lingling bells. Lord Clanyarde felt himself personally aggrieved by the lady, and yet he thought ho would like to see more of her. “Does she stay long in Rome?” he asked the club lounger. “She never stays long anywhere, I believe; very erratic; likes artists and musical people, and that sort of thing; has reception every Saturday evening. I always go. One meets people one doesn’t see elsewhere: not the regular treadmill, you know. ” Lord Clanyarde asked no more. He would be sure to meet Flitter at one of the artists’ rooms, and could a k him as many questions about Mrs Walsingham as he liked.

Tho two men met that very evening, and the result of their conversation was Lord Clanyarde's presentation to Mrs. Walsingham at her Saturday reception. Sho was very gracious to him, and made room for him on the ottoman where she was seated, the center of a circle of enthusiastic Americans, who thought her the nicest Englishwoman they had ever met. “Who was that lady in deep mourning you were driving with yesterday?” Mrs. Walsingham asked Lord Clanyarde, presently. “My youngest daughter, Mrs. Sinclair. You knew her husband some years ago. I think. He is lately dead. ” “Yes. I saw his do ith in the Times, in that dismal column where we shall all appear in due course of time, I suppose.” “Yes, he died in South America. You heard the story, I suppose. A most unfortunate business—his confidential solicitor shot in Sinclair's own | garden by a little French girl he had been foolish enough to get entangled with. Tho jealous little viper contrived to give the police the slip, and Sinclair saw himself in danger of being brought unpleasantly into the business, so he wisely left the country." “You believe that it Wd3 Melanie Dui ort who shot Mr. Wyatt?” Mrs. Walsingham exclaimed, eagerly. “What, you remember the girl's i name? Yes, there can hardly be a doubt as to her guilt. Who else had any motive for killing him? The creature’s letter luring him to the spot was found in tho park, and she disappeared on the morning of the murder. These two facts are convincing, I should think,” concluded Lord Clanyarde, somewhat warmly. “Yes, she was a wicked creature,”! said Mrs. Walsingham, thoughtfully: | “she had a natural bent toward evil.” I “You speak as if you had known ! her.” Mrs. Walsingham looked confused. “I read the account of that dreadful , business in the newspapers, she said. i “I hope Mrs. Sinclair has quite recov- j ered from the shock such an awful , event must have caused her.” ;■) \ “Well, yes: I think she ha 3 recovered from that. Her husband's death following so quickly was, of course, a j blow, and since then she has had an- | other trouble to bear. ” “Indeed! I am sorry,” said Mrs..Wal- i singham, with a thoughtful look. 1 I “Yes, we did all for the best. She 1 was dangerously ill, you know, about a year and a half ago, and we —well, it was foolish, perhaps, though the plan succeeded for the moment —we made her believe that her little girl had been saved from drowning at fechoenesthal, in the Black Forest. You may have heard of the circumstance.” “Yes, yes.” “It was quite wonderful. She received the strange child we introduced j to her with delight—never doubted ; its identity with her own baby—and all went on well till poor Sinclair s death; but on his death-bed he wrote a letter telling her ” “That the child was not her own!”* exclaimed Mrs. Walsingham. “That must have hit her hard." “It did. poor girl. She has not yet I recovered the blow, and 1 fear never will. What I most dread is her sinking hack into the state in which she was the winter before last.” “Where is Sir Cyprian Davenant?” ! asked Mrs. Walsingham, somewhat irrelevantly. “At the other end of the world, Isup-

pose. I believe he started for Africa last autumn.” “Was there not some kind, of early attachment between him and Mrs. Sinclair? Pardon me for asking such a question." “Yes, I believe Davennnt would have proposed for Constance if his circumstances had pei mitted him to hope for my consent.* “Poor fellow! And he carried his broken heart to Africa, and came hick to find a fortune waiting for him, and your daughter married. Do you not think, if he were to return now, Mrs. Sinclair might be consoled for the loss of her child by reunion with the lover of her girlhood?” “I doubt if anything would rec ncile her to the loss of the little girl. Her affection for that child was an infatuation. ” , A pair of picturesque Italians began a duet by Verdi, and the conversation between Mrs. Walsingham and Lord Clanyarde went no furthor. He did not make any offer of bringing Constance to the lady’s receptions: for the memory of that old alliance b3tween Mrs. Walsingham and Gilbert Sinclair hung like a cloud over her reputation. No one had any specific charge to bring against her, blit it was remembered that Sinclair had been her devoted slave for a long time, and had ended his slavery by marrying somebody else. As the weeks went round Constance showed no improvement in health or spirits. Pride was making a sorry struggle in that broken heart. She would not go back to England and tho spurious Christabel, though her heart yearned for that guiltless impostor. She would not suffer another woman’s child to hold the place of her lost darling; no, not even though that strange chile had made it elf dearer to her than life. Mrs. Sinclair’s doctor informed Lord Clanyarde that Romo was getting too warm for his patient, whereupon that anxious parent was fain to tear himself away from tho pleasures of the seven-hilled oity and those delightful evenings at Mrs. Walsingham s. “Our medical man threatens me with typhoid fever and all manner of horrors if I keep my dauglitsr here any longer,” he said, “so we start for Engadine almost immediately. You will not stay much longer in Rome, I suppose?” “i don't know, ” answered Mrs. Walsingham, carelessly; “the place suits me better than any other. lam tired to death of London and Paris. There is some pleasure in life here; and I should like to be buried in the cemetery where Keats lies. ” “Yes, it’s a nice place to be buried in, if we must be buried at all: but that’s rather a gloomy consideration. I should strongly advise you to spend the summer in a healthier climate, and leave the burial question to chance.” “Oh, I dare say I shall soon get tired of Rome. I always get tired of places before 1 have been very long in them; and if the artists go away, I shall go too.” ITO BE CONTINUED. |

A Changing Sea.

The Caspian Sea lies eighty-five feet below the level of tho Black Sea, and is the greatest body of water in the world lying below the sea level. It is remarkable not only for this fact but for the changes that have occurred in its level. About tho first century of our era, there is no doubt that the level of the sea stood eighty-five feet above its present horizon, and, of course spread over a vastly more extensive area than at present. The Russian Geological Society has printed a treatise, written by N. M. Philipof, on these remarkable'changes of level. Since the eirly part of the Christian era, a general and gradual decline of the le\el of the sea has taken piace. In the eighteenth century, however, there appear to have been a few periods when the level rose. From the beginning of the present century thore has been a fall, but since 1865, judging from recent observations, the level has been higher. Lieutenant Sokoloff, a naval officer, while working in the Caspian region from 1843 to i«4B, collected much information. Ho found that in the present century it had risen, causing great apprehension among the inhabitants of an inundation, and giving rise to the belief in periodical variation every thirteen years. Lerch, while in Baku, in 1734 and 1747, found submerged buildings which had stoed on dry land thirty years before, and he mentioned a saying of the Persians that the sea rose and fell alternately every thirty years. M. Bhilijo: has made a special study of the whole question. Inquiring into the causes of these changes of level, he finds a variety of influences at work, such as the wind driving the water towards certain coasts, temperature of the air causing in summer, evaporation and consequent fall i& level. Rivers, rain and earthquake© are also among the active agenciec causing fluctuations from month to month and from day to day.

Tim’s Kit.

It surprised the shiners and new* boys around the postoffice the other day to see “Limpy Tim” come among them in a quiet wavi and to hear him say: “Boys, I want to sell my kit. Here’s two brushes, a hull box of blacking, a good stout box, and the outfit for two shillins.’ ” “Coin’ away, Tim?” queried one. “Not ’zactly, boys; but I want a quarter the awfullest kind just now." “Goin’ on a ’scursion?” asked another. “Not to-day; but I must have a shilling,” he answered. One of the lads passed over the change and took the kit, and Tim walked straight to the counting-room of the daily paper, put down the money, and said: “I guess I kin write, if you’ll give me a pencil.” With' slow-moving fingers he wrote a death notice. It went into the paper almost as he wrote it, bnt yoa may Hoi have seen it. He wrote: “Died—Litul Ted, of scarlet fever; aged three years. Funeral to-morrow, gone up to Heven: left one bruther.” “ Was it your brother.'* asked tho cashier. Tim tried to brace up, but he couldn’t. The big tears came up, his chin quivered, and he pointed to the notice on the counter, and gasped: “I—i had to sell my kit to do it, b—but he had his arms around my neck when he d —died.” He hurried away home; but the news went to the boys, and they gathered in a group and talked. Tim had not been home an hour before a barefoot boy left the kit on the doorstep, and in the box was a bouquet of flowers which had been purchased in Ihe market by pennies contributed by tho crowd of ragged but big-hearted urchins.

England Leads.

Norway ranks second to England in the number of. her sailing vessels of fifty tons and over, the United States third.

Our Savior Walked.

An elevatol- up Mount Calvary is in construction for the benefit of pilgrims.

Very Comfortable Income.

The King of Bavaria has a salary of $1,412,000 a year.

OUR RURAL READERS.

SOMETHING HERE THAT WILL INTEREST THEM. A Low-Down Wagon for HarTMUng EnsUage Owning n. Renting Land—Durable Outside (tnUar Stair- Hran Dearer than Wheat—Pure Water for Poultry. An Ensilage Fort .l it Rack. Although the growing of a good crop of grain as well as fodder and allowing it to ripen for ensilage gives us much better ensilage than the old plan of growing fodder only and cutting and canning it green, it does not, in the least, aid us in the solution of the problem of transporting our ensilage material from the

HARVESTING ENSILAGE MADE EAST.

field to the cutter. The long stalks with large, heavy ears, are" very difficult to handle. Many devices have been gotten up to aid in handling this fodder, and one of the best which we have seen is a low-down wagon described in the Ohio Farmer by F. P. Stump of the Ohio State University Farm, as follow*: The plan Is to lit the ordinary farm wagon with a rick, low enough to allow one man alone to load conveniently, a fair load. It requires for material two pieces of pino sx6inxl6 ft, one piece of oak 5x0x12 in. four pieces of pine 5x6x15 in. About 50 or 60 ft of inch lumber and four good, strong standards, of oak preferable; then four bolts jx26 in; one l j-in jointed king bolt with two iron keys, one iron plate 4xßs in, four iron plates each f-xHxj in, eight standard hands—four large, four small—with two small in bolts for each. Then a long chain completes the outflt, though the chain is not essential. The front bolster, rear hounds and coupling pole or reach must be removed lrom, the wagon and the rack bolted under the rear axle, and suspended from the front axle as shown in the cut. We find this rack extremely convenient for many other uses on the farm. It comes in very useful where one stooks his corn and draws it to the barn to husk, or In drawing the stalks to tho the barn after husking in the field. The Outside Cellar Stairs. As usually constructed, the outside cellar stairs become very much dolapidated after a few years of use, and many serious accidents occur by falling or slipping from and on the decaying steps. If stones of the right length can be obtained, they are the best possible material for the steps, the next best being plank, though neither can be depended upon unless the whole space underneath the steps, down to the level of the cellar floor, be laid up in masonry. Where

DURABLE CELLAR STAIRS.

only small stone, either round or fiat, is at hand, lav up the stairs of this material thoroughly imbedded in mortar, making the steps of the needed height When this is done, cut a plank step of the needed width and length for each step, and place them on top of the stone step, as shown in the accompanying illustration. Upon each side fit a retaining board, and the result will be steps that are durable and generally satisfactory. If possible, make tho steps from two inch pine plank, covering the whole with folding doors, in the usual manner.—American Agriculturist. Bran Dearer Than Wheat. The value of bran as food has been so greatly exaggerated by some agricultural writers that the demand has put it beyond the reach of farmers who are not carried away by this new fad. In truth, bran as made nowadays h mainly the husk of the wheat grain, and it is not worth nearly so much as it used to he when much of the gluten went with it Then bran was really valuable. Now, though worth hut little, it sometimes sells at more per pound than does wheat A Can;fcla farmer took a few bushels of wheafrto mill and intended to return with a load of bran. He found the bran was sln per ton, or nearly a «ent a pound, while his wheat would hardly bring as much. He has concluded herealter to use ground whole wheat and leave bran to the fancy farmers who may prefer it. OwnlnK vs. Renting: Land. Statistics show even in the West that a large proportion of farmers Yent instead of owning their land. It is probably due to the retirement of those who have passed the three score and ten limit, and yet hold on to their farms as a safe means of securing revenue for their remaining days. We iannot believe that the renters will not buy the farms if they have a good chance. The money Is safer on a mortgage than the rent would be. When a man works rented land there is constant temptation to take from it all lie can and leave it poorer than he found it. Ownership gives an interest to make the farm better, and this is the condition that is best for both parties.—American Cultivator. Corn Suckers. Nothing of late years is said about the once common, P actice of suckering corn, that is removing the suckers so as to give the main stalk a better chance. It was always a pra tice of doubtful advantage, and cost a gieat deal of labor that could be better employed. The corn that produces the most suckeis is that whose early growth was stunted. When midsummer heats come on, developing more plant food in the soil than the single stalk could dispose of, one or more suckers were put forth to

utilize the surplus. Sometimes ears are (frown on these suckers. Uneven stand* of Corn. No small part of the failure of corn to make a (food crop comes from poor seed. It operates in two ways. The farmer who doubts his seed is tempted to plant more In a hill, thinking that some may not germinate. if half the seed failed entirely the crop would bo better. But poor seed does not operate that way. If its vitality is wholly destroyed the appearance of the seed shows it, and it is usually rejected. The consequence is that the hill has a numoer of feeble stalks crowding each other so that not one in the hill can set an ear. The poor seed ought not to have more than two stalks in a hill, and if the soli is poor also, thinning to one stalk would be better still Water for Poultry. The ordinary, V shaped trough B, shown below, made from ordinary fence boards, shows a simple method of supplying the poultry regularly with pure water, saye the Farm and Home. It may l>e made of any desired length, but eighteen inches is sufficient. In this at one end invert a live-gallon or jug A, which has previously been tilled with pure water. To keep it erect, drive two stakes at the end of the trough and lean the

TROUGH FOR POULTRY.

can against them. If further support is necessary, tie it to the stakes. As soon as the water is lowered in the trough below the opening in the can, a little air is admitted and water flows out to take the place of that consumed. By this means water can be kept pure and wholesome und it the vessel be made of earthenware and placed in the shado It will keep' cool for a long time. Held of Honey. A writer In the Orange .Judd Farmer has thoroughly .tested his colonies, and says that when ho runs them for comb honey he ho has not been able to got any large number to average over 50 or 60 pounds to tho colony, but colonies in tlio same yard, run for extracted honey, have averaged from 125 to 160 pounds In a season. The bec9 run for extracted honey were given empty combs as rapidly as they could fill them. Ho keeps his queens clipped and has little or no trouble from swarming, m this way with the self-spacing frames in the hive, he claims to be able to care for 400 colonies, and do it easier than he could handle half that number in sections. Homo-ltrod Cow ft. A cow bred on tho farm where it is to be kept is more contented and will give better results than sho will on a strange place. This Is a strong point in favor of breeding cows for tho dairy, Instead of relying on purchasing them. Besides, it is every year becoming more difficult to buy cows of the best milking strains in tho numbers required for any dairy. The value of the test cows is more highly appreciated! anil they bring prices that make it pay for breeding them. By using a thoroughbred bull a herd of natives may be Improved rapidly, and this increase in value of the herd makes the farming profitable, even though tho dairyman gets little above his current expenses in sales of milk, butter, and cheese. Unimproved Land*. In South Carolina,of a total area of 1.?, 000,000 acres, 5,000,0U0 are lmp:oved and 8.000,000 unimproved. In Georgia, of a total of 25,0011,000 aoics, i'.OuO.OOO are Improved and 15,500,000 unimproved A similar proportion exists in Florida. In Illinois tnere are 30,000,000 acres of farming lands, of which 4,000,000 acres are Idle. There is a much larger proportion of unimproved land in North Carolina,Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, than there is in Texas, which will surp ise people. An Kmlljt Made Wagon Jack. This wagon jack should he made of hard wood. The large end of the lever should be covered with strap

A WAGON JACK THAT HOLDS.

iron or an iron plate set on its upper surface where the axle rests. To bold the lever, a bolt may be puo through the upright and the diagonal piece notched to At. thus regulating the use of tho jack to high of low-wagoos. Shearing by Machinery. It is said that the steam sheepshearing plant located at Casper, Wyo., is receiving liberal patronage on account of the superior work dime by the machines. The operator la not able to make as great speed with the machines as by hand clipping, but he is able to do much better work, taking off more wool per head and leaving it in better condition, and with less injury to the sheep Sheep resheared by machinery yield about three-quarters of a pound of wool, so it is said, after having being hand sheared. Fall I’lantlnff. Plow the ground for wheat as soon as you can. When the weeds come up work the ground over with the cultivator, and work it again should more weeds appear. Spread out the manure and work it into the plowed ground. By the time the wheat is to be seeded the land will be in excellent condition for the seed, and the ciop will start off well. It would be impossible to catch cold this kind of weather; there is no cold to catch.

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS

| NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. “ ' | What Our Neighbor, are Doing—Matter* of General and Local Interest—Marriage* and Death*—Accident* and Crime*—Personal Pointer. About Indlanlan*. Minor State Item*. Flat Rock creamery, near Shelbyville, burned. Loss, $5,000. Grant County contains more than #270,000 of taxable glass works property. I Valparaiso papers think that town is a regular heaven new because tho saloons are closed on Sunday. A Lapori e justice of the piece fines any man who spits tobacco juice on the floor during the progress of a trial. The Diamond Plate-glass Factory at Xlwood has started up the remaining departments of the plant, and it la now running at full capacity. At the homo ot S. J. Jett, Lebanon, Robert Jott was shot dead by his cousin, John Fleenen of Virginia, who was visiting him. Fleenen was shooting at a hat thrown into tho air. Coroner Porter rendered a verdict of accidental shooting. William Scott, aged forty, was smothered to death in Hoosier slido, Michigan City. Ho was engaged la loading sand* at tho foot of tho big sand hill when a cave-in occurred burying him. Ho was taken out two hours lator. Scott leaves a wife and child. Mrs. William Miller of Brazil wub pouring coal oil In tho stove when tho fuel ignited, making a feaful explosion, enveloping her in llames. Hor cries for help wore not reapondod to for a short time, and when neighbors reached hor every stitch of clothing was burned from her body and hor flesh was burned to a crisp, sho cannot recover. Ben Caldwell of Lewisville, has an clock, eight foot high, that tells tile tiinoofdu.v, day of month, and tho moon’s phusos. Tho clock was made by Mrs. Caldwell’s grandfather, 75 yours ago. Ho cut tho wheels from brass plates and hammered out the steel pieces. Kvcry piece of work about it was made in an old grist mill near Connersville. John Harris, an ox-soldier and night policeman at Noblosvlllo, while on his rounds discovered burglars had gained an entrance into Metsgwr’s pluning mill office. Harris was iirod on and wounded in his right thigh. The burglars ran past the electric light plant when they lived utLirvillo, on employe, who was standing In the door, alter which thoy escaped, going west. The Whitewater River, down below Richmond, is tilled wlthdoud anil dying fish, alleged to be due to contamination from tho city’s sewage. They are scooped out by the shovelful, and residents along tho river for miles coinplain that lish are seen dally floating on the surface, and tho stench arising from tho mass is dreadful. The State Fish unu Game Protective Association has boon appealed to. John Lewis’ 4-voar-old child wus saved fioui instantdoath atGroonfleld, tho other night, in a very peculiar manner The little fellow was sitting on tho Panhandle tracks when the limited mail came thundering along. When within a few foot of the child a small dog tried to jump across tho track. The engine lilt the canine unil knocked It against tho child, tho force being groat enough to land it out of the way of the train. Tho dog was killed.

Col. 0. 12. Bbiant of Huntington. Ind., und Adjutant Allan 11. Douirall of Fort Wuyrn), have issued tho following call to tho comrades of tho EightyEighth Jndianu Volunteers: “Tho annual reunion of tho Eighty-Eighth Indiana Volunteers, infantry, will bo held at Fort Wayne, lndiunu, Wednesday, Octol er 10,1894. Hegimental and company meoting ut 10:90 a. m. Reunion ut 2:00 p. m. Camp (ire at 7:00 p. m. Wo would be pleased to have you all with us onco more and your wives and fauiil es. Please notify tho Adjutant whether you can be present.” Ran Giles, one o' tho oldest citizens living two miles oast of French Lick, was found dead In his potato patch lato tho other evening. He is supposed to huve been murdered while digging potatoes. When found by his son he was lying on his face, with his hoe yet in his hand. At the Coroner’s inquest ho was found to have had so . ere blows on tho hack of the head; also a wound on his side. There was no sign of any struggle, and ho seemed to have boon killed instantly. Ho was known to have had about $36, but when found only sll could be found on his person. lie was over 80 years old, and is supposed to have been murdered for his money. There is no clew to the murderer. . A wreck occurred on tho P., C., C. & St. Li. at Middletown. Local freight No. 75 was on tho main track and No. 19, tho fast mail, in charge of Conductor Case and Engineer Charles Bunnell, was due. This train does not stop there, but usually goo» through at u speed of forty or fifty miles an hour. Tho flagman hud gone but a short distance, when the fast mall came down the hill at terrific speed. The day was foggy and Eng neer Bunnell did not seo tho i'ag until within a short distance. Ho reversed his engine, but too late. The passenger crashed into tho rear end of the local freight, and tho caboose and two box ears were ground Into kindling wood ana others were damaged. The passenger locomotive was partially off the track and was badly damaged. Noone was hurt save 'Fireman Jones, who jumped and was slightly bruised. Engineer Bunnell remained at hii post while the locomotive plowed Us way through the crashing cars and came out unscratchod. In three hours trans were pa-sing. The Vigo Agricultural society has decided to hold a fair at Terre Haute tho first week in October. Tho usual fair week in August was devoted solely to the big race meeting, and the October week is to provide the agricultural fair. The nineteenth annual reunion of the “Old Brigade” Association, composed of the Eight and Eighteenth Indiana Infantry Veteran Volunteers and the First Indiana Battery, will be held at Winchester on the l£th instant, thU date being tho anniversary of the battle of Opequan, or Winchester. Va. William Cole, a larmer, died suddenly at Brazil. He was seated in a buggy, when seized with a fit of nausea. Sheriff Ring was passing and noticed the sick man rapidly sinking and hastened to him. He died almost instantly. Panhandle freight, No. 79, westbound, in charge of Robert Lashley, conductor, and C. C. Jenkins,engineer, was wrecked at Knightstown, by a broken rail. Head brakeman Healy was killed and eight cars were demolished. The train was heavily loaded and was running at a high rate of speed. Healy was a new man on the road and his home was at Noblesvillo.

BRECKINRIDGE IS BEATEN.

W. C. Owen* Carrie* the Ashland Coagiwe* ■tonal Dtetrlct In Kentocky. Congressman W. C. P. Breckinridge, the silver-tongued orator and defendant in the famous breach erf

promise case in which Madeline Pollard appeard as plaintiff, has been defeated for re- . nomination in the WAshland, Ky., dis- | triot by W. C. tOwens. Mr. Owens, by the majority of the women of Kentucky, and supported by the

W. C. OWENS

men of the State who have not hesitated to express their disgust at the attitude of the Congressman both during the famous trial and throughout tho heated campaign, has won. Mr. Settle, who has never been considered a formidable Issue in the campaign, cut bit little figure in the primaries outside of his own county. In those counties where the feeling was most bitter, notably Bourbon, Franklin, and Woodford, money flowed like water, and the oombined expense of the day is plaoed by many at #100,060. In Fayette County at several of the polls there were fights, but cool-headed men prevented the use of revolvers. Throughout the entire district there were probably 100 or more men injured. No election or othor ocoa ion ever cau-od such a general suspension of business. For months tho district has been agitated in the most bitter personal agitation. It was not a political, not even a factional, fight. It was a moral oonteat for w. eks and months, and during the last few days it became intensely personal, so much so that the nomination was not. tho only is-ue. Col. Breckinridge was fighting for U e, and ho never before had made such speeches or displayed suoh executive ability in organlzaFon. he marshaled evory man he could command, but he

could not command ihe, women. They had no votes, but they were the controlling dement in the file. Tho women prayed, tho men voted, and B r e c k i n r idgo was j beaten. There's no use

quarreling over tho ques-BHBcxiNßiDom lion as to whother it was tho prayers or the votes that did it. Breckinridge is beaten. William C. Owens is a native of Scut# County, and one of tho woalthiost men In tho bluo gruss region of Kentuoky, where ho lias lived all his life. lie la 44 years old and unmarr od. 110 graduated from tho Columbia Collego Law School in the class of 18/2. Two years lator he began his political career in a successful nice for County Attorney of B'oott County. He was rent to the Logls aturo for five consooutive terms., Mr. Owons was a Democratic doctor! for his district in 188 i and was a dele-gatc-at largo from Kentucky to the National 1 craoorutlc Convention at Chicago in 1802. Ho was ohoson temporary chairman of that body.

SCANDAL IN HIGH LIFE.

llri. .1. Coleman Drayton and Her Notorious Conduct —I* Socially Ilnnlßhnd. Scandal in “high society” is verv com inon these days. Tho papers had not yet exhausted their stock of dis-

gustlng storios anent William K. Vanderbilt's domestic troubles, when there came the announcement tnat J. Colemun Drayton had sued for divorce f i om his wife, who is an Astor. This Drayton scandal is not altogether new. Newspaper readors will romember that there wus much talk about it two years ago,

MRS. J. C. DRAYTON.

when the conduct of Mrs. Drayton with Hi Alsop Borrowo, over In Paris, led to vory amusing talki about duels, etc. The matter was finally permitted to die, but last week ugly stories were revived when Drayton filed his suit for divorce in a New Jersey court. His wife answers this with countercharges of infidelity. Charlotte Augusta Drayton is a daughter of William Astor, of tho family of which John Jacob Astor was the founder. Some fourteen years ago she married .T. Coleman Drayton, a gentle* man of education, refinement, studious und quie - habits, and good position. She became the mother of four children, was a loader in society, and had everything in the way of tho luxuries of life that heart could desire. Yet she accepted, if the allegations of her husband be trie, tho attentions of Hallett Alsop Borrowe, a good-for-nothing young man about town, and for yoars carried on with him an affair which lacked oven the grace of discretion and concealment. After the expose and the scandal, whl h finally resulted in world-wide notoriety, she had tho assurance to try to force herself back into tho social circles from which talk occasioned by her conduct had drivon her. But society—vain, frivolous, phar saioal though it be — refused to receive hor. and she has been forced to fly to Europe.

Telegraphic Clicks.

People near Defiance, Ohio, are hunting for a bear raid to be roaming about that section. G. C. de Bkonkart, the Belgian consul at Denver, Polo., died suddenly while visiting in Chicago. E. A. Simmons, sheriff of Howard County, Ind., tendered his resignation to Governor Matthews, to take effect at or.ee. T. P. Keating was nominated for Governor and G. E. Gignoux for Con-gro-sman by the Nevada Democratio convention. Holders of rebute vouchers of tho whisky trust met in New York and appointed a committee to look after their interests. Joseph Bechtelheimer and his wife received probably fatal in;uriesin a runaway accident near Young Americo, Cass County, Ind. The Duluth Gas and Water Company offers to sell out t ) the city for $25 1,000. the city to assume the bonded indebtedness of $1,812,000. The Middle Georgia anl Atlantic Railroad was sold under foreclosure at Atlanta. It was bought in by representatives of the stockholders. The American Terracotta and Ceramic works were burned at Elgin, IIL Loss, $25,000. The fire was started by tho explosion of a barrel of oiL At a meeting of the Duluth Gas and Water Company a proposition was made to sell the gas and water plant to the city on a valuation of $294,000. A receiver has been asked for for the Gibson House at Cincinnati on tho ground of insolvency and mismanagement. Horace Dunbar is manager. Private information from Rome is that Mgr. Satolli is made a cardinal, Mgr. Tomnasi, sub-Secretary of State at Rome, will succeed him in America. Thomas A. Smith and Mrs. Elizabeth Worley were married at Columbia City, Ind., by Rev. Milton Frances. The groom is agea 45 and the bride 70.