Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — Page 3

Silence

By Miss Mulock

CHAPTER 11. Roderiok Jardine was not, I hope, a worse young feliow than most others of his age, or less soit-heaited. Yet when he had fairly bade good-by ’to his good, tearful mother —who, he knew well, would do anything in the world for him, except let him do what he felt was best for him self —this parting once over, he- breathed more freely than he had done for many weeks. His ' wild-goose chase" had resolved itself into a deliberate purpose, or as much so as was possible to his nature, -and at his age. He had not been to Blackhail—he haraly knew why, except that his mother had thrown a .good many impediments in the way of the journey, so that perceiving that .she aid not like it, he gave it up. But ■he had a long correspondence with Mr. Black, the old factor there, who knew ■all the family affairs. From him Roderick discovered that there had been, half a century back, three branches of Jardines—represented by Silence Jardine, Archibald Jardine, and Henry Jardine, his father. Thence Archibald had suddenly disappeared abroad, talcing his little patrimony. After many years he was heard of as a “pasteur””in some Swiss canton; no very great change, he having been intended for the Scotch •Church; and he was said to be married, with a family. But he had never revived acquaintance with either of his cousins, and wnat were his present •circumstances, whether he were a.ive •or dead, nobody knew. He had only been able to catch one •clew whereby he mightfind his cousin. Mr. Black, the B.ackhall factor, a strong Free Church man, had taken som'e interest in a similar disruption in the Swiss Church, and in one of the controversial wt iters therein, a “professeur” or “pasteur,” or both—the good man’s ideas on the subject were misty—at Nouchatel. To this M. Reynier Roderick brought a letter of introduction, but, on delivering it, found the family were still at their summer retreat in the Jura Mountains. So he •decided to make the best of a bad business, and amuse himself till they came •back. He knew the language—that was one comfort—and he was not of the stoiid Saxon temperament, which refuses to take in any new ideas, or to •«ee any perfection in things to which it is unaccustomed. He was a true Celt, impressionable and flexible by nature, ready to love, quick to hate, until the experience of life should teach caution in the one and tolerance in the other. “The world will go hard with you, my boy,” his father had sometimes 6aid, half tenderly, half pensively; and Roderick, shaking his black curls, had only laughed, airaid ■of nothing. Is or was he discouraged or afraid now. In fact, he rather enjoyed this dropping from the c.ouds—oh, what soaking clouds!—into a new place and new people. Not so very new after ail, for when on Sunday morning he followed the dripping multitude up the steeD street which led to the cathedral —now a Protestant church —he found everything so like home that but for the language he could have imagined himself “sitting under” his mother s favorite minister at Richerden. Only when the psalm arose, to a quaint and beautiful tune, and it was a beautiful psalm, too, for he read it out of his neighbor’s book, beginning

“Grand Dieu, nona te louons, nous t’adcrons, Selirneur. ” it contrasted favorably with the nasal hymns which so tormented him in Scotland. It was sung not badly, especially by one pure high soprano, a few seats hehind, a voice so good that he yainly tried to catch sight of the singer; and in its sweet musical French it «eemed to express what he missed so often at home, the sense of cheerfulness in religion. To the last verse — Nous n’esperens, O Dieu, du'eu ta grande bonte; Tu seul peut nous aider dans notre adversite. Rendre noi jeurs heureux et notre ame conte aw, the invisible singer behind gave such pathos that it went right to his heart. The young man, called often “irreligious” by his mother, because his religion lay very deep down, longed earnestly for those jouas heureux, that ame contente, and wonlered if, by any means, he could attain to the like—he, aii alone, with nobody to he p him to be good, hundreds ready to allure him to be bad. It was a s-mall thing, one of those trifling incidents which befall us all—only some of us note them and others do not: but long afterward he remembered it with a strange solemnity, like a person who, believing he was walking in his own way, on his own feet, finds out that hands unseen, unfelt, have been leading him all the while. Plunging back through the muddy streets “homo”—what a lidiculous word —to the dreary hotel, Roderickmade up his mind to give one day's more chance to the weather, and to the absent Professeur Reynier, upon whom, all his famille charmante, the garcon dilated enthusiastically; for everybody seemed to know everybody in this innocent little town. If. on the morrow, it did not cease raining, andifiome token did not come in answer to h J s letter and card, Roderick resolved to change his quarters, and try “fresh woods and pastures new”—take, in short, to pleasure instead of duty, and pursue the search after this vague distant cousin no more. But the next day in rising, behold a change! And such a change! The mist had entirely lifted off from the lake. Its wide "bosom lay, still gray, but motionless and clear in the soft dawn. And beyond, their intense purple sharply distinct against the bright amber of the sky, was the long line of Alps. Through one deep indentation, between the Jungfrau and the Fenste t horn, the sun was slowly rising, dyeing the snows rose-color, and then, as he mounted above the ■cle f t, pouring a sudden stream of light right across the lake—that “golden path ol rays,” which always feels like a bridge whereon delivered souls might wa k—they to us or we to them—tho ; e that on earth we see no more. Roderick, as he gazed, was conscious of the same sensation which hdd come over him a few days before —that intuition of approaching late— b iss or ba e; which by those who have it not is esteemed mere fancy, and supremely ridioulous; and even those who have it have need to be rather afraid of it, just as a very imaginative person would be lesi ini fear of the ghosts he

beheld than of the ghosts he oreated. “Abelt omen," murmured Roderick, as, having stood in an ecstasy, watching the gorgeous sunrise, he saw it melt into common daylight, as all sunrises do. in November especially. A dull, rainy mist began once more to gather on the distant peaks. “Another wet day, after all. Richerden itself could not be worse than this. Shall I go home agamy" But it was so Ignominious to go home, having done nothing, seen nothing, that he thought he would make an effort at least to get to Berne and back before the short day closed. And descending, beside his solitary plate at the dreary table d'hote breakfast he found a letter, the daintiest, most politely worded billet, inviting him, In the name of M. leProfesseurand Mme. Reynier, to pass the evening at their house. “Six o’olock, and a soiree! What simple folks they must be here!” But hnding, he could be back in time, be accepted the invitation in his very best French, and started off to the railway station, on his little bit of solitary sight-seeing. No one shared his carriage—abroad there is a saying that nobody travels flrst-clas- except fools and Englishmen —so he admired all alone the picturesque country which skirts the long chain of lakes; very comfortable, but just a trifle dull. Not that Roderick aislikedfhis own company; on the contrary, he preferred it to that of most people he met —but he had had so much of it lately. It would have been rather pleasant to have somebody to whom he could say that Berne was a most curious old town, with whom he could have thrown bun 3 to the bears, tho e important personages,“rentiers” on their own account; still better, when inquiring his way to Terrasse, and finding the view hopeless, the mountains being again “couverts,” he had to content himself with admiring the river which flows below it. circling the pretty todla like a tender arm. Still more would he have liked somebody, anybody, beside him, with whom he could lean over the low wall and argue about the sensations of the man on horseback, who leaped down—Heaven knows how many feet—without being killed; and what sort of sermons he preached—since, the inscription says, he at once entered the Church and was a minister in it for many years. “Suppose I, Roderick Jardine, were to jump down now, just to feel a sensation, or create one—Folly!” And laughing at himself, and his inordinate vexation at the dull gray day, the miserable mountains, the solitude, everything! he went to feed at a restaurant, and lounge away the time till return train.

Just before it started, by a sudden impulse, hoping against hope, ho walked back to the Terrasse, and turned a last look in tho direction of mountains. One instant—one wonderful, bewildering instant —and than—“lf, alter my death, I open my eyes in Paradise, I know. I feel, it will look like that.” Such was the thought which passed through Roderick’s mind—tlie only thought, for every feeing was absorbed into mere, gazing—drinking in through eyes and soul a vision, utterly indiscribable to those who have never seen it. The Jungfrau in the sunset, spiritualized by a clear anther glory, till it resembles nothing earthly, only that new Jerusalem 'coming down from heaven like a bride prepared for her husband"—Roderick gazed and gazed, almost out of himself with ecstasy, thinking of nothing, seeing nothing, though there was a little group beside him gazing too. But he never noticed them, till, stepping backward, he came against somebody, and said, “Pardon, madame”—then turned and taw it was not madame at all—mademoiselle. She had never observed him —not in the lea-t. Her eyes were too fixed upon the mountains, in entire absorption —large, calm, blue, almost English eyes. And her short, curly fair hair might have been English too. But when at the second "Pardon” she turned, there was an unmistakable foreign grace In her slight acknowledgment. She and her companion, an older lady, exchanged a word or two, but it was French, spoken with the purest of accents. So if Roderick had had any hope of finding a countrywoman it faded out at once. laded—as the lovely vision of the Jungfrau and lensterhorn already had begun to fade. Yet still the "little grouD stood silently gazing, in a common sympathy. Roderick never looked even at his young neighbor, until, suddenly turning, their eyes met. Both were full of tears:

“At the first sight They have chauged eyes.” People dispute this truth, and yet it is a truth to some people and under some circumstances. Startled to a degree that almost annoyed him—bowing instinctively, and then blushing deeply to think that he had done so, that he had taken such a liberty with any strange lady,Roderick hurried away, having indeed waited so long tha; his swift young feet and the happy tardiness of Swiss railways alone saved him from losing his train and the Reynier soiree. “But I will come back to Berne tomorrow,” thought be. “Jt is a far prettier town than Neuchatel; and —I wonder if sh 9is a Bernois? I wonder if I shall ever see her face again?” Just then—was it possible/—in the dim light a gray gown passed him and slipped into a third-class carriage. And he had an impression that she wore a gray gown. “Nonsense!” laughing at himself as he lounged back in his luxurious wagon; “a creature liko that couldn’t possibly travel third-class." So he tried to forget her, and think only of the Jungfrau; then secondarily, of the means he mu&t take to interest M. Reynier in his search for Archibald Jardine— in wbom.it must be confessed, his own interest was fast dying out. Anything tedious, or dull, or unpleasant, was so ne w to him. He did not appreciate it at all The train being late, he had only i'ust time to dart out and fly to his lotel to dress for the evening. He had a fine face and a graceful figure, a bearing that was “every inch the gentleman”—and manners—well, he could not have said a harsh or discourteous word to a woman any woman, high or low, ugly or pretty, young or old—for his life: Thus he appeared as he entered the salon of M. le Professeur Reynier. It was very dimly lighted, with shaded lamps, so that at first Roderick distinguished nothing; then he became aware of a gray-haired gentleman, a matronly lady.'and a cloud of young people of different ages, down to quite small children; of a courteous and kindly reception, and of pas-ing into a salle-a-manger, where was laid out a simple but abundant meal, corresponding to the “hungry tea” of Scolch habit. Everything, indeed, was extremely simple— bu. so pretty! from the shiny parquet floor to the taste

fully deraolated table, with its dainty china, flowers, and fruit. One missed a little the bright English fire, and the stove gave a certain closeness to tfce room—a sense of warm darkness, which, however, was not unpleasant; there was a sort of mystery about it, and youth likes mystery. Roderick glanced round him at the party, evidently quite a family party. It was an odd thing, a very odd thing; but dropping down as if from the clouds upon this little town which j a week ago was to him a mere dot on the map, he felt himself quite at home there —die a Cambridge man and a man of fortune—more at home than he had done in Rioherden society all his days. And when, re-entering the salon, he found a few other guests, scarcely visible in the dim light, and was introduced expressly to a “Mees Somebody from Edimbourg, “ who responded, with painful blushes, in the broadest of • bcotch accents, he heartily wished his own oauntry-people were—well, that they were all tafe at home! “And here, monsieur,“ continue! his host, loading him up to another lady, j mi idle-aged—“here Is one of our best friends, though but newly settled near j us, who 1 doubt not will have the 1 pleasure of conversing with you in your own tongue—Monsieur Ardon—- | Madame ” Roderiok was so amused by the transformation of his own name that he scarcely caught the lady’s, but he was too shy still either to correct the one or inquire about the other. “Monsieur Reynier is very polite,” said his neighbor, still speaking in French. “But he forgets that it is my daughter who knows English so weli; her papa took the greatest pains to teach her. For me—l was always too busy, and too stupid. Besides,’’ with a slight sigh, which directed Roderick’s attention from the gentle face to the widow’s mourning—though not exactly “weeds”—“my husband loved French best. It was the language of his adopted country.” “He was not Swiss-born, tnen?” asked Roderick, sitting down by her. She was neither beautiful, nor even pretty, never could have been; but there was a charm in her manner—a mixture of French grace and Swiss earnestness which attracted him I much. “No, monsieur, he was English, or ! rather Scotch, naturalized here. My | daughter!”—but no translation can exi press the tender intonation of that word ma fille—“will you come and tell 1 this gentleman tho name of the place —I cannot pronounce it—whore your papa was horny” Roderick's gaze followed madame’s to a ta 1. slender girl, dressed, not like her mother, in b aek, but in pure white; no floppy, flouncy musltn, b.it a thick, Boft woolen material, up to the throat and down to the wrists. She had a small, well-set curly head—actual curls like a chids—and turning quietly rounl she met him with tnose calm, blue eye-', the very same eyes which had filled with tears at the sunset beauty of the Jungfiau. Once more the young man started, absolutely started. He seemed taken, nay, clutched, by the very hand of destiny itself. For on entering the room he had looked into every fresh lace of these ploasant Swis‘s girls, vaguely hoping to find again those wonderful blue eyes. They faced him in entire unconsciousness and with a direct, child-like simplicity, corresponding with the childish curls. “Mamma,” she said, bowing to the stranger a grave, dignified, self-pcs-sessed bow, more like a young English woman than those timid foreign maidens. “Pardon. lam just going to sing with Sophie Reynier; but I will come back presently, as Mr. Reynier desired me, and speak English with this gentleman, if he wishes it. ” |TO BE CONTINUED. I

HOW HE BANISHED RATS.

The Quaint German Legend G s the pi C( * Piper of Hamelin. There are few more curious legends than that of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a subject that has been im. mortalizod by the poet, Robert Browning, and which attracted the artistic brush of the eminent painter, William Von Kaulbach. Hamelin is a town of Hanover, Germany, and towatd the close of the thirteenth century was infested by rats. They were so numerous that in the words of Browning They fought the do„'s and killed the cats And bit the babies In the cradies, And ate the cheese out the vats And licked the soup from the cook’s own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats. Made nests Inside men’s Sunday hats And even spoiled the women’s chats. While the mayor and authorities were in consultation over means to rid the city of the pest a strange figure, dressed in yellow and red, entered the room and offered for 1,000 guilders to expel the rats. The offer was accepted, end going into the street he began playing on his pipe. Theu out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rat 3, gray rats, tawny rats. Brothers, sisters, husbands and wives Followed tbe piper for their lives. The piper led the way to tbe River Weser into which the rats plunged and were drowned. Returning to the mayor the piper demanded his 1,000 guilders but was refused. He again entered the street and began playing another tune. Immediately children began to flock around him and he led, under the spell of his music, toKoppelterg Hill, where they entered through a door that suddenly opened and were never again seen. Numerous effortswere made to discover the whereabouts of the piper and have him restore the little ones, but the piper was never again heard of. A Vast Ruined City. A party of scientists have recently explored the ruins of the great city of Ancor, or Angor, situated in what are now the almost inaccessible forests of Cambo.iia, Tnese ruins were discovered _ only a short tme ago, comparatively, though rumors of the existence of such a place have long been current in the country. The ruins as described would indicate that Ancor mu-t have been one of the largest cities in the world, if not the largest. Temples, palaces and edifice tof vast size in a fine state of preservation lie scattered over a wide territory, intermingled with mounds and masses of crumbling stone and brick. Large forest trees are growing upon the debris and in the courts of palace and temple. Little is known of the history of Ancor, though it is-stated that it could send forth a million or more fighting men. The portions of the walls still standing are cyclopean. How it should have fallen into such complete desuetude it is difficult to conjecture. Deserteis from the Navy. The statement has been recently made that 1,20(1 sailors deserted from the navy last year. This is in proportion of one desertion for every seven enlisted men. The explanation is that we cannot keep men in the service without some encouragement; that the men realize there is no future for them; that they get discouraged and desert in order to enter some other vocation. A woman will gi«e up anything for ove except the man she loves.

HOME AND THE FARM.

A DEPARTMENT MADE UP FOR OUR RURAL FR ENDS. Th* Experience of Farmer* with Homs Mixed Commercial Fertiliser* Select heed Corn H hlle llnflttni Drinking Trough for Calves—Agricultural Matters in Uenentl. Commercial Fer: illxers. When it Is realized that the farmers of the United States buy * 0,000,i 000 wo.th of commercial fertilizers every year, the need of analysis of ' fertilising materials will be uifder- ! stood. The standard- required by \ law in the different States, vary, so ; that the valuations contained in bulj letin Ma 102 of the New Jersey station, are only of use inside the limits !of that State. In other respects the bulletin will prove an exieilent guide to farmers in ail sections. The fact I that “it pays quite as well, proporI tionately to u?e good business in the purchase cf fertilizer supplies as in the sale of produce" is not grasped by the general farmer who does not realize that “those who carefully study the source of supply and make up their orders early, and purchase con-! sideraole quantities are able to get better quotations than those who buy at the busiest season of the year, in small lots at a time and of tho nearest dealer.” Inquiries as to the advantges of home mixing brought replies from sixty farmers, fifty three of whom tlnd that it pays them well lo huy raw materials and mix for themselves. But three farmers report any disad- \ vantage. One states That there was considerable loss from handling, j another that it is difficult to procure I the materials in small quantities at a \ reasonable price, while a third con- ! siders It a disadvantage to pay cash. 1 This summary of practical experience j should be sufficient evidence of tho ! vaiue of home mixing and of the I adoption of this method of purchas- j ing supplies. Drinking Trough for Calves. The drawing represents a handy pen for feeding calves. It consists .simply of a plank trough raised to :i convenient drinking distance from ! the floor, with partitions in it. The stalls are made from each partition large enough to admit the calf without allowing it to turn around and are made high enough to prevent

Stealing from or interfering In any way with its neighbor. The advantage of this arrangement is the calves do not have to be taught to drink. Take them from the cow, turn them into the stall, put in the milk and they will soon learn to drink without aid.—Farm and Home. Tho Fodder Shooks. Corn cut off at tho ground and shocked after heavy rainstorms, is apt to become twisted, and some of the shocks will corkscrew and fall over. All such shocks should be broken down as soon as they have dried d»it, and the : talks set round the upright shocks. If left partly fallen down, they cannot dry out, the fodder will mold, and then the grain will become heated and will quickly spoil. Tnis Is a little matter where only a few shocks are lost, but it is a great loss when the shocks blown over are many. Each large corn shock will husk from a half to a barrel of corn. The fodder is also valuable. Corn, owing to the shortage in the "West, will tornmand better prices this winter, and clean, bright fodder is worth 85 per ton; tberefo.e, it is well worth saving in the best possible manner.

Feeding mouldy grain, or mouldy fodder, is dangerous; it is injurious to the stock. If fed to milch cows it Injures the quality of the milk, and if the grain is fed to hogs It is apt to produce disease. Horses will not eat mouldy corn. Fodder shocked properly will shed water readily, and neither fodder nor grain will be damaged, even after ral days’ rain. Good twine tarred makes an excellent tying mater al. It is strong, easy to handle, and costs hut a lew cents per pound. It can be used for tying the shocks first, and then, after the corn is hu-ked, it is useful for tying the fodder in bundles. If cared for, it will lad; two years.—Baltimore American. Better for tlfte Business of Farmers. Farmers’ boys have, as a rule, succeeded in all occupations, but how much more able, influential and respected would the farming community be to-day if it were made up of those same talented and educated sons, asks the Farmer's Review. If my education will aid me in other vocations, while will it not serve me as well as a farmer? That is a fallacious doctrine which teaches otherwise. Is not the knowledge of agricultural chemistry, methods of plant giowth, and the nutritition of so ds of practical use? An educated mind —that Is, an athletic mind—is trained to think. Hoes it not pay thp farmer to think? rolished Moldboards. A plow that will not scour is a vexation of spirit, and the fault generally lies with the previous user, who did not wipe off the moist soil, or else left In the furrow, or with the polished surface upwa: ds to catch the r»in. When stopping work, both at noon and night, the plow should be taken out of the furrow, wiped bright with a bunch of grass and turned over on the edge of the share with the land-side up, to prevent injury to stray stock and to keep the moldboard dry. When the plow is to stand unused for a time, it is well to coat the polished surface with castor oil to prevent rust. Beef for Kngland. The value of our English market for beef is shown i y jthe f;<ct that wc exported to Great Britan 31,500 tons of dressed beef and 106,000 live cat tie during the first five months of 1 his year, valued at 822,500,0:0, or 815,000,000 for live cattle and $7,-

I 50% 000 for dressed beef, a consider' able increase over the exports for the corresponding time last year. Added to this is 65,000 sheep, valued at ! $600,000. The export of hog products for the month of May was 28,445,000 I pounds. The total value of ail pro- | visions and live stock exports Tor May was 815,045.000, or $2,U00,000 more j than May, 1893. The But Way to Batcher. Butchering is a piece of work that must l>e done once a year among ' farmers. To kill the porker .the best way is to use a gun, says the National Stockman* A breech-loading rifle is best and handiest, as the loadsare all alike. I use 22 caliber with short shells. Shoot in forehead in line about an inch above the eye. When shot roll on back, start the knife, which should have a keen edge, about four inches front of breastbone and in center, holding knife at about halt pitch. Cut toward breast, four inches is deep enough. Take a sled or scaffold, make right height, place scalding barrel on end, put in water enough to go fully half way upon hog. But in about quart of wood ashes to soften water, also about tablespoonful of pi-e tar. Have derricks with hioks on inside of outside p»eces, lay derricks on ground with hog between, slip hamstrings on hooks, and two men can hoist any ordinary hog with case, need no gambrel stick and take down half of hog if wished. Select Bf<»d Corn While Hiuklng. The progressive farmer always breeds from his choicest stock, and plants seeds selected from tho best of the crop. By this means he overcomes the constant tendency to degeneration, and secures strains of varieties and breeds which are best adapted to the soil and climate of hls farm. This is especially true of maize, of which only the best filled ears from vigorous stalks should be used for seed. Athusking time, this selection can do made to the grouted advantage. Whenever a choice ear from a good stalk is found, tho husker should throw it into a separate pile, or into the front part of the wagon. When unloading, these best ears may be thrown into barrels or boxes, and when re-sorted may bo stored in a dry room for the winter. Such continuously selected seed corn will soon make a neighborhood reputation for improvement. Country Road*. Roads should be surfaced every time they become rutty and uneven. By cutting out and (jpenlhg the waterways on the sides 6f the road the first great thing in building or rebuilding a road is accomplished. After a roadway is put in proper shape, if it can he rolled over four or Uvo times with a heavy roller of live or seven tons in weight, It will form a crust from four to six Inches thick that is so hard tha tho prints of a horse’s foot or the wheels of a hea. y loaded wagon will hardly make an impression and will prevent rutting for a long time to any great extent Country roads should bo gone over with these machines as early as possible In tho spring after the frost is out to prevent deep ruts from forming.

Hugar Tlio Nevada station has issued a bulletin containing its final report on the suitability or the sail at that .State for the growing of sugar beets. This industry is excitinggroat attention all over the world. The Eng. lish farmers wore the last in E.uropo to interest themselves in the subject But they are now aroused, and say that with proper government encouragemeut they could cultivate enough beets to supply the country with sugar. This would enable them to give up raising grain to a considerable extent and would furnish work to the large number of laborers now out of employment It would also enable them to retain the $70,01)0,000 now sent out of tbo country for the purchase of sugar, mostly in France and Germany. Food for the Horse. The horse’s natural food is grass. There is nothing else upon which he will no so well or live so long. Ills internal ec nomy can accommodate itself to the dried, seedless stalks of winter, the luxuriant foliage of spring or the highly nutritious seed pods of summer. The stalks preserve his health, the green foliage fattens him and the seed pods invigorate and fftrengthen him. No horse, however lightly worked, should be fed on bay alone. The ration should includegrass or roots, and when the work is hard enough a suitable quantity of grain. No. horse that is lightly worked should be highly fed on grain. It is a common and costly practice which causes many a horse to be discarded long before his time.

Milk Typhoid. The recent enormous extension of the creamery business, involving, as it does, the mixture of the milk from whole districts, evidently brings with it many dangers. Formerly milk typhoid was characterized by • sudden outbreaks, widely spread I among the consumers of infected : farms, but under the creamery system. by which each farmer receives back his proper proportion of skim milk from the general stock, enteric fever on any one farm tends to be ; rapidly distributed throughout the | dairies served, by the creamery, and j it becomes quite obvious that* if the creamery system is to be safely worked, a very careful and thorough system of inspection of the farms must go along with it Year's Wheat Crop. According t>o the Agricultural department at Washington the world's wheat, rop of 1893 was 7,000,000 bushels less than in 1892 and more than 21,00 c, 000 bushels greater than the world’s crop of 1891. But the crop of .North America was; last year only 447,000,000 bushels, as against 574,134,000 bushels in 1892 and 084,- | 500,000 bushels in 189]. The greati est Increase was in Europe from I 208,680,000 bushels In 1891 to 1,433,i 600.000 bushels last year, and In South America, which increased from 50,0. 0,000 bushels la 1891 to 81,040,000 bushels in 1893. Ne.uily every liar out West has promised to semi us a mess of ycung prairie chickens.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES DURING TMPAST WEEK. An Interaittng Summary of the More Important Doings of Oar Neighbors—Wed. dings and Deaths—Crimes. Casualties and General News Notes of the State. rioosler Happenings Hog cholera is prevalent near Petersburg. Columbus has twenty-three saloons and the proprietor of each is getting rich. Meridian fancy glass works, Anderson, after two years’ idleness, has resumed. The small-pox epidemic at Walkerton, has cost the county about S9OO up to data. ‘‘Buck*’ Smith, a well-known char acter of Rockville, dropped dead from heart diseaso. Dunkirk has let a contract for an electric light plant, to be completed in ninety days. The large Madison woolen mills, recently sold ut public auction, will rosume operations soon.

A heavy wagon crashed into a buggy occupied by F. M. McMillan at Rushville. Ho died shortly afterward. Madison is said to have a suicide club and already some half a dozen members liavo “joined the silent majority.” Richard Watts, while working in a gravel pit near Walash, was caught under twelve tons of gravel and fatally crushed. A farmer near El wood has built himsolf a bicycle. Tho wheels are from an old wagon and tho frame is made out of old plow beams. South Bend’s wants aro very numerous. Among them are a new hotel, a public library building, and suppression of gambling dens. Chak Ray, u farmer near Atwood, found the dead body of an unknown man near a straw stack on his farm. Ho had evidently died of starvation. William Stevens, an engineer otnnloyod at tho Diamond Plato-glass factory ut Elwood was caught In the machinery, and his back so badly injured that ho will probably dlo. A warning to the offoct that tho Fox woolon mills, I aporto, would be dostroyod by fire was found, rocontly, nailed on tho building. Two special watchmen huve boon hired to watch tho property. Matt Hindman ot Haggorstown,was killed in tho Panhandle yards ut Kokomo, his foot catching in a frog while making a coupling. Ho was .single, 21 years old, and leaves a .widowed mother. Mrs. M. Smith was granted a divorce from her husband, Rev. Dr. Smith at Anderson. Two years ugo, while preaching at Winchester, Rev. Dr, Smith became infatuated with Mrs. Fred Holtn. Mr. Helm, Btrangely enough fell in love with Mrs. Smith and the result was a trade in wives. Tho case caused quite a sensation at tho time.

Louis Marquis, an aged citizen of Kokomo, committed suicide in a novel manner. He was a helpless puralytio and wus confined w his bed, tumble to move hand or foot. Ho Induced his 6-yoar-old grandson to become his oxocutionor. The lad Innocently passed a saucer to his lips containing a carbolic solution. Thu old man drunk it down and died in an hour. The homo of Charles Furrier, colored, on Hart street, Vlnconnos, was blown up With dynamite. Tho house, wus badly wrecked, but no one wus killed. There aro various rumors(oncorning the probable cause, but no lucid explanation is known. Mr. and Mrs. Furrier are ouiot and inoffensive colored people. They own their homo, and are comfortably lituutod. The husband wnsu Union soldier and draws a pension which supports him and his wife. Mrs. Furrier has tho confidence and respect of all her neighbors, so fur as is known to tho public. They hud a snug four-room cottage nearly new. It Is now badly wrecked. The aynumito was pla od upon a buck porch, and shattered the entire roar portion of the house. Timothy Crowley, an eccentric character of Peru for many years, aged 83, an old soldier, died fi’oni heart lailuro, at the home of John Devine, where he has lived for the past five yours. For ten years or more ho bus boon considered un objoet of charity. When the undertaker began changing his clothes he made a discovery of wealth. Throughout all the clothes on Crowley's person, including the undorgarrnonts, were found cunningly contrived pockets, in which were secreted gold, silver and greenbacks to tho amount, of 81,000. In another pocket wus found a certificate of deposit in tho First National Bank to the amount of 82,000. Crowley wus an old soldier and lias always posed as a poor man, anu has practically lived on charity for ton years. There aro no immediate relatives to the estate. JohnKoeppen, for twenty-five years connected with tho mailing department of fho Indianapolis Journal, died reiently, a victim to the Christian Science craze. A few days ago Koeppen contracted a bad cold, but thought if ho could convince himself that there was nothing the matter with him he would in reality be in good health. He talked to a number of tho brethren in the iaith, und they assured him that he was on the right track. His condition beeanio alarming, and ho consulted a physician, who told him ho had an attack of congestion of the lungs. Koeppen was advised to remain in his room, but ho aga'n took the advice of tho Christian Scientists, and went about his work- He determined to fight it out on that lino, and remained on his feot as long as he could stand. He finally went to bed, and in two hours was dead. Jack Stevens and William Henine had hot words over a glass of beer at St. Maurice, near Groensburg. Stevens drew a revolver and shot Henine dead. This was the third murder in that neighborhood within the past vear. “ After a five weeks struggle, the Kokomo City Council passed an ordinah e prohibiting the use of screens in saloons. The measure permits tho use of screens during,legal hours, but at nights, Sundays and r legal holidays screens or anything that otstruets the view must be removed so the officers can see the entire interior of the building. Jacob Derr, a wealthy farmer ol Lawrence County, was killed by a Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern passenger train while returning home from Vincennes at the Twin trestles while crossing the track. His body was hurled ICO feet. Death was instantaneous. 1 James Seward, aged 76 years, mot with a serious accident at Columbus. He was driving a spirited horse that ran away, throwing the old gentleman against a barbed wire fence. One arm was broken and the torn in such ( a manner that amphtacion was necesi sary. An ear was torn loose and there were other injuries that make his recovery doubtful.

NEW MODE OF EXECUTION.

Connecticut Murderer* Will Hereafto Hint Themeelvee. ■ The new automatic gallows which has been adopted in Connecticut in pursuance of an act of the last general assembly is considered an Improvement in some respects on that of Colorado. By reference to the accompanying cut the working of the machine can be easily understood. Through the doorway can be seen the steel cage (G) In which the condemned man passes his last days. A Is the platform under the noose. It Is raised an eighth of an Inch above the level of the lloor, hardly enough to be noticeable by the man as he steps upon It. Immediately three denuties will pinion the man’s legs r place tho cap over his head and adjust the-nocse. The warden occupies a position dK rectly in fiont of the condemned man. In this position he has a cleat view of tho prisoner, and also of a dial over the door through which the man must pass. Instantly tne platform settles a lever Is worked which releases an adjustable sliding valve at the bottom of a cylinder (C), containing fifty pounds of shot. Like the sand in an hourglass, tho runs out of the openiug. This allows a plunger (B) to drop slowly into the cylinder. As this falls it pulls a cord (E), attached to which 14 a compound levej (F), and also works the dial, giving warning as to the progress of tho machine. This mech-

THE AUTOMATIC HANGING MACHINE

anlsm can be set foranyttmo desired.’ As tho cord tightens and is pulled downward by the plunger it slowly opens tile compound lover, which at a oertuin angle, perfectly adjusted, pulls a bolt, and the great dead weight (D) Is released. As tho big weight falls down the grooved track to the ground under tho building the hempen rope, running over pulleys on across beam (F), will quickly jerk tho condemned man seven feot Into tho air. On the drop there will bo a rebound, and the man will bo suspended with his feet about two font from tho lloor. The mechanism Is Inclosed by a pttrMtlon along the entire side, so that ’nothing can bo seen by tho condemned man except tho nooso. The machine works noiselessly, and tho weight falls upon soft dirt.

BERLIN’S YOUTHFUL GIANT.

Il« 1* 14 Yenrii Old, 0 Feet Tall, and Weigh* 380 Pound*. A boy of gigantic proportions, such as has novor before been equaled by stmllar objects of curiosity, is being exhibited in Berlin, says a writer in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His name Is Carl Ullrich, and he was born In September, 1880. His father is a man of small stature, and hts mother and thelrsoven other offspring show no unusual proportions. Up to his third year Charles grew normally; from that time on he took a spurt toward an unusually rapid development. He Is now nearly six feet tall and weighs 330 pounds. His head measures In circumference 27 Inches. Hands and feet are enormously developed, tho middle linger of each hand being In diameter tho size of a silver dollar. Professor Virchow, who has closely examined this juvenile monstrosity, states that

THE GIANT BOY.

all the bodily organs perform th'dr functions normally, and that In all probability the giant youngster will surpass all giant men when he reaches his majority. Carl was a bright and active pupil at school, and converses intelligently with his audience, although be has been in the museum but a very ehort time. The Alligator. The alligator does not attain his full length until he is 50 years of age. When 1 year old his length Is about twelve Inches; at the age of 15 he has grown to two feet. Temperance Item. A prominent English physician of long experience with drunkards says that he can recall hundreds of recoveries among men, but only five among women. Tensile Strength. The tensile strength of wrought iron rods varies as the square of the diam eter. A 1-inch rod will support 7,000 pounds and a 2-inch rod ,28,000 pounds. _____ Too Valuable for Farming. Some long leasehold property in Cheapside, London, sold the other day at a price equal to SIBO per su* perflcial foot