Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1895 — Page 3

GOWNS AND GOWNING.

Women give much attention TO WHAT THEY WEAR. •Brief Glaacea at Fancies Feminine, Frtvolone, Mayhap, and Yet Offered in the Hope that the Heading May Provo Restful to Wearied Womankind. Goaalp from Gay Gotham. New York correspondence:

E A L L Y stylish skirts depend for ■V their correctness ■ > more upon their flare than anything else, but this can be accom- ' plished in various ways and the aceompanying pictures show’ sev- \ eral of fe\ bringing it about. \\ In all of them it will be noticed *%that, in spitp of jb-i the skirt's side flare, it swings

toward the back, so that as the wearer .stands at her toes are dose to the Jiem iir front and a long way from back and sides. This is characteristic of all the best skirts, thl? matter of “swing” being as important as that ■of “hang” and cut. Oh, the ambitious woman who thinks she can be all right with a hastily selected garment must consider more things thap its price and its being lined throughout With these^ points in mind, It will be well to see that, while skirt and bodice do not match in an old-fashioned way, they are planned with reference to each other. This, of course, leaves entirely out of the calculations the fancy waist that will go with any old skirt, afid applies exclusively to brand new outfits. First to be considered is the initial picture’s gown, which is especially suited to the combination of solid and all-over-open goods. It is equally well adapted to wash goods, to wool and

COMBINING SOLID AND OPEN-WORK GOODS

perforated cloth or to solid and perforated silk. The skirt hangs in a wide front pleat that flares at the foot, three narrower pleats stand out on either side, and at the back three others fall at either side of a top middle pleat that lies flat to correspond with the front. These pleats are all the result of cut and shape and there is not a tape or a “tack” on the under side. A deep band of the open-work material Is set along the hem of the skirt and is at its widest at the round of each pleat It is in the presence of this band and its shaping that the newness and style of the skirt is expressed. A modification or elaboration of this is a skirt having the front pleat not <iuite so wide and three pleats on each side" that swing a little more fully to the front and round more gently Into each other. This model appears in the second picture. At the back are seven pleats of one size, three at either side of a central outstanding one. Like the (first example, this employs lace, perforated or open-work goods with plain material. A novel use is made of the latter by slashing the front pleat as high as the knee and inserting a vandyke, set point up. This is the touch to prove that the skirt is planned to harmonize with a certain bodice. The ■beauty of the skirts that “go with anything” is by no means lost forever, only in an entirely new gown it is better to let the skirt proclaim that it is really made for just one bodice and not to do hack duty for many. The bodice shown with this costume Is especially quaint, the loose effect of the pleats in front being quite new, but could the ordinary woman resist tucking handkerchiefs, fans, gloves, love letters, powder puffs and goodness knows what down those inviting opentop pleats? The entire suggestion of a gown worn over an under dress of

PLEATS THAT CONSTITUTE A COMPROMISE

the perforated cloth is artistically carried out, but it does seem unreasonable to see’a skirt planned to show solid .goods draped over lace, while the bodice presents the solid goods appliqued, or some like contradiction. It also seems inconsistent to make the main part of the skirt a light, transparent or lacy material and the chief part of tbv accompanying bodice of heavy stuff. But the best of ’em are designing costumes in this way, and that means that the best dressed'women will jwear qtich get-ups. Eyery skirt sketched here shows in some degree—Cut the third more clear-

ly. perhaps, than the others—that stiffened linings are a compromise. Not long ago the coming of hoops was heralded, and womankind gave to the prophecy a reception that made Its fulfilment hopeless. But the spread of folds was not to be avoided, even if the hated wire trellis was downed, and it brought with it an item of cost that makes a serious inroad upon light purses. “Haircloth $5” is the item oft repeated in current dressmaking bills that shows how dearly women bought their independence of hoops. This third skirt spreads as widely and almost as stiffly as if hoops filled it out. but judged by present standards It could hardly be improved upon. Of glace silk, its skirt has three pleats on each side of the plain front and four more in back. At the top there are

A MARVEL AND BRAND-NEW.

small fitted panniers of guipure. The bodice has an 1830 yoke of guipure with draped fronts that are gathered into points at the collar, and the back is made to match, except that the pieces are undraped. The full sleeve puffs end in long lace cuffs. But little short of a marvel of construction is the skirt that follows in the artist's depiction. It is made with a boxpleat in front with one at either side, the sides are in three single pleats, and the back is set in boxpleats to correspond with the front. Each boxpleat is gored to shape, all unnecessary material is cut away on the under sldo and each boxplcat widens towards the foot to suit the flare of the skirt. This means transcendent skill on the part of the cutter, and for the wearer that serenity of mind that only a clear conscience can bring. Such a skirt can never make over into any other style and that is one thing that lends to the wearer the lasting peace that a very long pocketbook devoted to the demands of dress permits. What if such a skirt is horribly heavy! Will not the thought that each boxpleat appears to be caught under a buckle at the waist band suffice to give the wearer strength to bear the weight? Of course it will! What if yards and yards of material are necessary! Will not the fact that the design necessitates the cutting of priceless lace for a band on the hem counteract that misery by a .greater one, and the combination create perfect happiness? To be sure! Now for the prettiest design in the world for a skirt of soft silk or any delicate fluffy summer material. It is

AS NOVEL AND LIGHTER.

almost wicked to stretch dainty lawn, Dresden or Japanese silk over stiff hair cloth and take all the character out of the goods, and it is not always easy to plan loose drapery. This design meets the case exactly. You may use as many yards of material as you like in this skirt There is not a gore, not a cut anywhere, and when seamed together the skirt is as wide at the waist as it is at the hem, which is saying a good deal these days. Ten vandykes of lace are set point up about the hips. Under the vandykes the fulness of the skirt is largely gathered, between them the rest of the fulness lies in close tucks, and from the big end of the vandykes the fulness escapes in a soft, loosely rounded fold to the hem. Only the deft hand of a fully equipped maker can induce all these yards of material to conform themselves to this plan, but when the plan is successfully impressed upon the material, the result looks as surely the natural thing as a successful design always does look. This use of material conforms to the needs of gauze, chiffon, soft crepe, of the more delicate silk crepons, to all manner of soft and wash silks and to some of the more delicate cotton and muslin goods. The skirt gored to the knee and round from that point down is still worn, a very thick ruching marking the division line, and one or two imported dresses show such skirts with the upper part of matched plaid silk, and the lower of a solid wool material, the ruche being of silk of all the colors found in the plaid. But as a rule whatever divisions or breaks there are in the skirt are made up and down. The fashion that adapts itself delightfully to make-overs is that of the skirt open in front to show an under petticoat of a contrasting color. Vandykes are also quite correct and two materials may be used, the lower part of tho skirt being of one material divided Into vandykes that end at the knee. The second stuff, which finishes the skirt to the waist, shows above and betiveen the vandykes. Copyright, 1895.

HAS A POOR MEMORY

M’KINLEY NOW CONVENIENTLY FORGETS MANY THINGS. Author of the High-Tariff Law Had the Honor of Helping to Provide for the Country the Panic of 1803-Other Evil Heritages. Gov. McKinley's Fallacies. In his speech at Hartford, Conn., Governor McKinley distorted wellknown facts in his usual manner, but to an unusual extent. Pointing to the circumstances that in 1804, under the new tariff law, Internal revenue receipts were $155,000,000. while customs receipts were but $131,000,000, he drew the moral that taxes are now laid more on our own people than formerly and less upon the imported goods of foreign countries. He omitted to call attention to the fact shown in recent official report that both Internal and tariff taxes per capita were lighter in 1894 than under the McKinley tariff law. In 1890 and 1891 the per capita internal tax was $2.28; in 1892, $2.35, and in 1893, $2.41, whereas in 1894 the burden upon the people per capita for

Grover Cleveland, officer of the snard, protects the business interests of the nation against the menace of an extra session.—Chicago Times-Herald.

internal taxes was but $2.15. The Democratic law has accordingly benefited the people even in the species of tax which the Governor cites as a Democratic instrument of oppression. As respects tariff taxes, the relief per capita was much greater. The burden of tariff taxes per capita in 1892, under the McKinley tariff, was $2.66, and in 1893 it was $2:97, while in 1894, under the Democratic tariff, it was but $1.90 per capita, showing that tlie people have been appreciably relieved of their burdens. In another part of his speech Governor McKinley makes the astonishing and wholly untruthful statement that th<A Harrison administration in March, 1893, turned over to the Cleveland administration a surplus of $124,000,000. The fact is that there was no surplus of available cash turned over, apart from the gold reserve, and that was being so much diminished that Secretary Foster gave orders for the preparation of plates from which to print bonds to be sold for gold. What the Harrison administration really left to its successor was bankruptcy, caused by the unwise repeal of the revepue tax on sugar and the extravagant dependent pension act and other like reekless legislation. Besides this evil heritage Mr. McKinley had the honor of helping to provide for the country the panic of 1893, which was caused chiefly by the Sherman silver act, passed through the House under Mr. McKinley’s leadership. He forgets these things conveniently now and promises the country a re-enactment of the McKinley tariff if his party succeeds in 1896. But the people have better memories.—Baltimore Sun. Reed Is for Economy. Ex-Speaker and to-be-Speaker Reed is not so much disposed as he once was to sneer at economy in Government expenditures. He says “it is sincerely to be hoped that any effort made by the next Congress to keep down the appropriations may have the support of public sentiment and popular forbearance.” But how does he propose to keep them down? By asking the grab bers to please not to grab, the jobbers not to job, and the log-rollers not to log roll. He remarks: “If each portion of this country should be reasonable in its demands, the total also would be reasonable.” That’s as clear as a sum in simple arithmetic, but who is to determine what is reasonable? who is to hit the unreasonable snouts a rap and make them back away from the trough? Mr. Reed does not say. Yet nothing can be more certain than that the hungry mob in the next Congress will trample on their nominal leaders, just as they did in the last Congress, unless some clear and resolute plan to hokl them in check can be devised. With his great prestige and power as a Speaker, Mr. Reed will have a great opportunity to make the next House an economical House—either by changes in the rules or in the organization, or by his personal control, or by extending party discipline to the appropria-, tions. In this respect, and in directing currency legislation, he has his political marring or making in his own hands, and it will be Interesting to see If he has in him the stuff of a true leader.—New York Post.

The Increase of Wages. The increase of workmen’s wages in the woolen mills of the State may be traced more directly to the lowering of the tariff than ts often usual in

similar instances. We are not among those who believe that the tariff, whether high or low In its rates, affects wages to the extent that politicians are in the habit of claiming. Its op-, eration is much more upon the cost of living. But in this case the taking off the duty upon wool has enabled woolen goods to be manufactured at greater advantage. an<j has thus created an Increased market for them. This has had its effect in inducing a greater call for labor, and under it the law of supply and demand has come in to operate, sending up the price of labor, as it inevitably does in all such cases.— Boston Herald. The Tide Has Turned. The several advances of wages which have been noted in the dispatches within the past few days are in the nature of the one swallow which does not make a summer. We build no extensive conclusions as to the state of trade on them, but they undoubtedly justify opinions as to the direction things are taking. The advance of wages in the coke trade, headed by the largest of all the concerns, indicates the belief on the part of some of the most successful operators that there is to be a marked improvement in the iron business that will enable the men who are carrying

ON GUARD.

it on to pay higher prices for their fuel. We take it that Mr. Moses Stevens and Mr. Thomas Dolan would not have raised wages without a definite impression that they would be able to sell goods at figures that would justify this; in fact, as wages are generally fixed, we conclude that an increase implies that an improvement in business has already occurred. Several concerns of less note, both in textiles and metals, have advanced wages, and In other enterprises the men and the companies came together some time ago on rates lower than the men had asked but higher than the companies had named. Wages were pretty promptly cut two years ago when the depression came on, and their advance here and there gives evidence that in places the ttide has already turned.—Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin.

Even in Their Home Markets, The Iron Age publishes the following in its weekly review of the iron and steel industry: “An incident occurred this week which shows that we are beginning to step on the heels of even the Germans, who have been the most aggressive sellers in recent years. An order came into this market for 1,000 tons of barrel hoops. An American mill bld as low as any German works and would have obtained the order if there were not a duty of about $7 per ton on hoops in Germany. In other words, with equal rates of freights and short credits we can meet them successfully In neutral markets.” The Germans, we understand, are able to underbid the English on such orders, and now this report shows that American manufacturers of hoops would have undersold the Germans in their home market if the German tariff duty had not barred the way. Is the duty on hoop Iron in our present tariff (30 per cent) too low? The Iron Age also says: “What our present low prices mean is shown by the fact that wire is being shipped from Pittsburg for the manufacture of wood screws in a large plant in England.” That is to say, American manufacturers, even under the handicap of railway charges from Pittsburg and ocean freight rates, are underselling the English wiremakers in their home markets, and also the Germans and Belgians in that market. W’e understand that the American manufacturers of screws have for a long time been able to procure at American mills the wire which is their raw material at a cost no higher than the cost of foreign wire to screw manufacturers abroad. But while we are underselling foreign producers of wire in their home market, our tariff Imposes a duty of from $8.96 to $16.80 per ton on wire rods, a duty of S2B per ton on wire, and a very high duty on screws. Are these some of the duties which the followers of McKinley desire to increase?—New York Times.

• Short on Details. The esteemed McKinley organs are not especially dwelling on the big sale of New England woolens just held in Bradford, England. They are willing to admit as a generally that times are picking up, but as for going Into tho trivial details they have no stomach for such tuppenny business.

HELPFUL FARM HINTS

SUGGESTIONS FOR THt- AGRICULTURIST AND STOCKMAN. Bow to Make an Ice Box at the Coat of One Dollar-Mendins Fence* ia'the Spring—Habita of Beca-To Prevent Balter Pulling. An Inexpensive Ice-Box. Refrigerators and their plebeian cousins, plain ice boxes, ate now sold In the stores at prices that are within the proverbial "reach of all,” so to speak, but there are some people, nevertheless, that find it advisable. If not convenient, to make one at home. For their possible benefit the accompanying cut Is printed, with a description of how to make the box therein shown. The arrangement consists of two boxes,” the larger one about three feet square and the smaller one just enough smaller to allow a space of about three

CHEAP ICE-BOX.

Inches between the two around the four sides and also at the bottom. This sjjace should be filled closely with sawdust, or with fine charcoal. Line the inside of the inner box with zinc and through the<bottom bore a hole that will admit a half-inch lead pipe. The lead pipe must be long enough to carry off the water that will come from the ice. This box will be found a good preserver of Ice, and It should not exceed one dollar In cost, If made at home. Oats Too Kxpensive to Grow. The low price of oats is due to the fact that they can be so easily grown. They are sown In the West especially on fall-plowed land, or after corn without any spring plowing. If the season is favorable this easily produces a good crop. But when we consider what the oats take from the soil, It is found that this easily-grown crop Is very nearly the most expensive that the farmer can sow. Oat roots fill the soli much more thoroughly than does any other spring grain, not excepting wheat. The oat leaf is not broad, and if it were the plant Is not one of the kind to extract from the air the nitrogenous elements with which the grain is filled. We do not wonder,therefore, that many Eastern farmers are dropping oats out of the rotation. If It Is not convenient for them to buy what oats they feed, they can grow enough for home use. But for most kinds of stock a mixture of oil meal with ground corn furnishes the oat ration in a much cheaper form than it cab be got In the oat grain.— American Cultivator. A Movable Plfrpen. The Illustration, reproduced from the American Agriculturist, shows a very complete pigpen that can be moved about from place to place to Secure fresh ground. The construction is well shown In the sketch, the only point not shown being the partition that divides vthe pen Into two equal parts, the part under the roof being thus shut in to provide a shelter against

SERVICEABLE PEN FOR PIGS.

cold and storhis. The trough pulls out like a drawer to be filled, or may be made long enough to be left half within and half without the pen. There Is, of course, no floor. Mending Fences. Every spring there is sure to be some trouble with fences. 0 Winter winds have more free sweep than they do while trees are. in full leaf, and the freezing and thawing of the soil is sure to tilt posts that are not deeply set In the ground. These should, be driven down with a heavy beetle while the ground is still soft. It takes but a few blows to put the post where It belongs and compact the soil around it. Loose boards and broken wires can now be replaced. The breaking of wires is caused by the contraction of the metal during severe cold. When the wires are set on the posts in warm weather some slack should be allowed for this. Working Farm Horae*, A fault In handling farm horses, of which not a few of us are guilty, is to keep them idle much of the time, If work is properly managed, horses can be used 234 days out of the year. Ground can be plowed in the fall, fence material be hauled in place, wood bo sledded up and gullies be filled in the winter. When work is so managed, less horses will suffice than when their work is put into 180 days of the year. I find that our horses work on an average of above 230 days of the year and have lasted an average of fifteen years.

Apple Orchards. A hillside is the best location for an orchard. Many of our best orchards are found on land that can’t be plowed. Where the land is suitable for tillage first prepare the soil by raising some hoed crop. Wood ashes are a very good fertilizer for trees. Have but few of the best varieties for market. The Ben Davis is not a good apple for home use, but one of the best selling apples we have. The Baldwins and the greening are always wanted and bring the highest prices. March and April is the best time to prunq trees. Coarse. Feed with Grain. Grain is, so far as nutriment goes, quite as cheap as hay, and hay is even cheaper in proportion to its nutriment than is straw. But some portion of the less nutritious food has to be given with grain as a divisor, lest it should heat in the stomach and do Injury rather than good. With a very concentrated ration, as with oil meal or cot-

ton seed meal, good bright straw Is bet* ter as a divisor than Is the ASest'hay. Well-cured clover is itself a strong food, and contains besides its woody material toq large a proportion of nitrogenous matter to be the best divisor for linseed or cotton seed meal. Petoah for Corn. We hear s great deal,about the need of potash for the potato crop, but It is quite as necessary for corn. The latter crop requires a great deal of potash, and if the mineral can be given In the form of wood ashes it has an additional benefit in making the vegetable mould decompose more rapidly, and thus become available I’or the crop. Potash and decomposing vegetable matter make nitrate of potash one of the most stimulating of all manures. It is ,usual to drop a handful of ashes on each hill after the corn is planted. That is rather late for the best effects. A much better way is to use rather more potash, and broadcast it over the corn ground as soon after It is plowed as you can. This will mix the ash thoroughly with the soil, and set the vegetable matter to decomposing by the time the corn is planted. Extra Manuring for Strawberries. The strawberry ripens earlier than does any other of the small fruits. It begins to flower and make its growth before the air has imparted much warmth to the soil and when its stores of fertility are therefore smallest For these reasons extra manuring is required to produce the best crops of strawberries, no matter how rich the ground may be. There should be a good supply of mineral manure, especially of potash. This is necessary to keep the foliage healthy and to promote ripening of fruit. If stable manure is used for strawberries It should be well composted and be applied very early in the spring. In this way, the nitrate It contains will be dissolved and carried to the roots. Wood ashes with composted stable manure furnish what the strawberry plant needs and in its most available form. <• Trough Under a Pump Spout. When pumping is stopped water will usually drip from the spout and when a person is in a hurry he at once removes the vessel and allows the dripping water to fall near the pump. The consequence Is a slippery platform and muddy ground all around. This can be avoided by a trough under the spout like that shown in the illustration. It

THOUGH UNDER THE STOUT.

does not interfere with lining the pall and will catch all the water that drips. It is connected with the well by a box reaching through the platfprjn.i or It ’ may connect with the pump box. Habit* of Bees. It Is said that under favorable circumstances a colony of 30,000 bees may store about two pounds of honey in a day. Of 30,000 bees In a hive, which is a moderate sized colony, half of them stay at home keeping house, tending the babies, feeding the queen and guarding the stores. In line, clear weather, a worker may gather three or four grains of honey in a day. As large colonies contain as many as 50,000 bees, it may be seen that possibly 25,000 individuals are out seeking honey. The amount each one brings In is infinitely small, but there is strength in numbers, and one can readily imagine, by watching the little workers pouring into a hive, that even the tew grains at a time will till up the cells quite rapidly. But a single bee would make slow work of It, and would, If continuously occupied, require some years to gather one pound of honey.—New York Ledger. Canning Peas. Green peas are readily salable nt all seasons of the year. Recently one of the largest vessels that ever came Into Philadelphia brought hundreds of tons of canned “French" peas from England. They do not differ in the least from the kind grown In this country every year. Why cannot farmers grow peas in large quantities for canning purposes? By co-operative effort an outfit for canning peas could be Introduced in every community, not only providing a profit to growers, but also affording employment to many In pickling and hulling the peas. Halter Pulling Prevented. To break a horse of halter pulling use a strong halter and pass the tie through the ring In a post or manger and tie to one fore foot at suitable length. I improvised this plan when I

CUBE FOR HALTER PULLING.

saw a mustang pulling badly and it broke him in a short time. The strap around the leg should not be sharp or stiff and the limb should be protected by a piece, of thick wool or cloth.—H. B. Frink in Farm and Home. To Secnre Early Potatoes. Better than early planting, while the soil is still cold, is such preparation of the seed as will make it come up quickly after It has been planted. Potatoes exposed to the sunlight in a room where frost Is excluded will turn green ind the buds will be of the same color, If the potatoes are cut and left to dry one or two days before being planted the cut places will harden and there will be no danger of the seed rotting, however wet and cold the weather after planting may be. Thai exposure of potato sets to sunlight until the buds are nearly ready to burst into leaf makes the crop earlier by a week or 10 days than from seed planted, the same day without such preparation.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITHFULLY RECORDED. An Interesting Ssmmary of the More In. portant Doing* of Onr Nelghbors-Wa*. ding* and Death*—Crime*. Coaualtie* an* General New* Note*. Condensed State New*. □ Miami Count.y’s talkijyj,about buying the toll roads. Elwood gas company will lay an entire new system, costing $60,000. Three towns in Miami County are named Chili, Ebenerer and Gilead. Frankfort has decided to put down brick pavement on its principal streets. The residence of John Freisheimer, a pioneer of Delaware county, was destroyed by fire, i,m Mrs. Snare, near Loogootee, accidentally fell in a barrel of water and was drowned.

Richard Hart, a Panhandle brakeman, was crushed to death by a switch engine at Richmond. J. E. Wolfe, editor of the Terre Haute Journal, was found dead in a bath tub. Heart disease. Gfohge W. Kigar, in Warren County, was almost instantly killed in an accident at his saw-mill. Hknry Berning, an Allen County fanner, was fatally injured in a runaway near Fort Wayne. Oscar Ham, laborer, fell from a wagon at Lebanon, and was impaled on an iron rod, fatally injuring him. Stephen Gregory, a farmer east of Brooklyn, was found insane wandering over the streets at Brooklyn. Addison Albertson, a farmer near Muncie, fell under a wagon loaded with tiling, and was instantly killed. Thomas Hurt, a prominent Miami county farmer, committed suicide by hanging himself in the barn with a log chain. A child of the late widow Spoonmoore, of Star City, fell from the hotel porch, a distance of fourteen feet, and suffered injuries which proved fatal. . Tyjs third gas company has just been cap ganized at Farmland with James K. P. Gray, president; B. L. Wilson, secretary; A. W. Conyers, treasurer. Prof, T. O. Mott, of Richmond, superintendent of the Wayne County Schools, lias been elected to the superintendency of the Madison, Ind., schools for next year. The farmers of Wayne and Henry counties, near Dalton, are making an attempt to head off robbers and thieves. Bloodhounds will be purchased by popular subscription. byv Scott Stivers, insane, Liberty, imagined God had ordered him to torture himself, and lie gouged 150 wounds Into his body with a knife. It took several people to overpower him. May die. Mu. D, A. Coulter, cashier of the Farmers’Hank, of Frankfort, has contracted with an Indianapolis firm for aten-thousnnd-dolhir mausoleum to be erected on his lot at Greenlawn Cemetery. John Albomhon, fifty years old, while hauling tile to his farm new Farmland, his team ran away and the leaded wagon passed over his body, breaking his back and otherwise injuring him. He cannot recover. It is announced from Ingalls that there are more families in town than there are houses, and some, people are living in woodsheds until houses can be completed. Ingalls promises to have a relapse of the boom fever.

"Buck” Stanley, of Logansport, Ind., is conducting a tern iterance campaign in Boonville. The meetings have fairly begun and over two hundred have signed the total abstanence pledge. A good citizens’ club will be organized. Du. Tiros. B. Redding of New Castle, widely, know in methodist circles, fell into a cistern, and was downed. lie was M years of age and had attained considerable prominence as a scientist. Was formerly a newspaper man and later a lawyer. Department Commander Shiveley, of the G. A. R., has made known the following appointments made by him: .Senior aid-de-camp, Henry C. Tinney, of Lafayette; department inspector, Joseph Gill, of Washington; judge advocate, B. F. Williams,of Wabash; chief mustering officer, A. F. Spaulding, of Wabash; colorbearer, C. M. Sailers, of Wabash. Baptism very much out of the ordinary was conferred on four babes at the First Presbyterian Church, Muncie, by Rev. Hays. A few weeks ago Mr. and Mrs. John 11. Hartley returned from a twelve months’ trip to foreign lands, and while gone visited the River Jordan. Mr. Hartley secured a quantity of water from the stream, ana this was used by Rev. Hays in administering the sacred rites. In a gas explosion, three miles north of Elwood, three men, Tom Dialer, Frank McGuire and William Gates, were badly burned. It is thought all will recover. The explosion occurred at a newly-drilled gas well and the men were engaged in packing it. The explosion wrecked the derrick and the well continued to burn long after the derrick was in ashes. The foreman of the gang of drillers, whoso names is Claver, then rigged up some-pipes and connected the steam pipes with tlie gas well and succeeded in deluging the escaping gas with steam, extinguishing the flame.

Patents have been Issued to the following persons in Indiana: Melvillß. Bondinot, Vincennes, wagon; Philip G. Decker, Anderson, means for separating gas and water or gas and oil; Winfield Dunckei, Terre Haute, tilting hoist; Asa R. Hoy and H. D. Harris, said Hoy assignor to V. H. Lockwood, Indianapolis, valve lock; Walter A. Scott, Evansville, gig saddle; Charles N. Teetor, Munoie railway velocipede; Martin Wanner, Yorktown, process and apparatus for refrigeration; Dwight W. Williamson, F. J. Milholland and C. A. Kessler, assignors to D. W. Williamson & Co. and Adams & Wi lliamson,lndianapolis, pressure plate for veneer cutting machines; James J. Wood, Fort Wayne, electric switch. John Smith of Kokomo, went insane, and, after burning his clothing and furniture, tried to kill his wife and children, but the prompt arrival of the police prevented the tragedy. John Reed, a young man of Union City was killed by an electric light wire. Just how the accident iiappened will probably always remain a mystery, but it is supposed that he took hold of the cable which holds the street lamp, forming a short circuit. His streams attracted attention of people passing on the street, who say his body was thrown a distance of fifteen feet. The accident happened only a few yards from his home. The barns on the dairy farm of Martin & Armentrout were destroyed, by ( fire at Crawfordsville. The loss will amount to about $2,500, with but light incurance. Sb ven horses and twenty-seven cows perished in the flames. At Marquardt’s Crossing of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago road, ten miles east of Fort Wayne, Casius Smithley, a young farmer, was driving to church with, his sweetheart, Miss Lucy Van Buskirk, when the buggy was struck by an engine, and both occupants were hurled sixty feet, landing in a swampy spot. The young farmer alighted on his hsad, striking s rock, which penetrated the skull. Death was instantaneous. Miss Van Buskirk vu not injured.