Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1895 — Page 3

ALL ABOUT THE FARM

SUBJECTS INTERESTING TO RURAL READERS. Device for Bemovia* Backs and Wagon Beds— Arrangement for Winding Barbed Wire—Cheap, Portable Poultry Fence—Farm and Garden Notes. - *n~* A Useful Contrivance. The accompanying Illustrations, from the American Agriculturist, represent a contrivance by which heavy racks

FIG. 1.

the hook should have an opening of 2Vj Inches. Drive an old bolt into the lower end of each upright, so that the frame will stand secure. Now set four posts, f (Fig. 2), 12 feet apart each way, nail strips of boards, e, on each side at lhe top, to keep the crosspieces in place. When you w want to unload or load tho rack, drive or back In between the posts. Block the hind wheels, set the pulley frame directly behind the wagon, fasten the hook to the hind crosspiece of the rack, and with the crank hoist it high enough so that the crosspiece, d, can be put in place. Do the same with the front end, and you will have your rack high and dry. In loading hoist only high enough to ppll out the crosspiece, then let the rack down on the wagon only one end at a time. The posts must be of sufficient height to permit of the wagon with the rack on being driven underneath the cross-

FIG. 2.

pieces. The rack should be kept under shed or shelter and will then be in service for several seasons’ usefulness. Anyone handy with tools can easily construct" such a device, the use of which will soon save enough time and hard work to pay for itself. To Grow the Largest Melon. The Watermelon Bulletin gives the following directions for growing the largest melon: Select your hill or hills that you want to try for largest melons in your deepest and clearest sand, that has been well fertilized to begin with, not allowing more than two plants to the hill; one is better. Now perforate the ground with holes, such as a broom handle would make, from near the hill to three and four feet in circumference; then with a liquid fertilizer from stable or cowpen, fill in these perforations, rakei the surface and repeat once or twice: during the progress of vines, to cover ground. Give for your largest melons the form, or young melons, with the largest and stockiest stem, as indicating its capacity to draw on the parent vine. Poultry for Poor Lands. In New Jersey the largest number of ducklings and broilers are produced on the lightest sandy soil where grass cannot be grown, and where each rain seems to disappear in an hour, so porous is.the soil, says the Mirror and Farmer. Even “grit” has to be purchased, as well as all kinds of food, yet those who have gone into poultry have made it pay. With cities, towns and villages every few miles there is no reason why the unprofitable farms of New England cannot be devoted to poultry and with less cost in proportion to profit than by attempting anything else. The markets are right at the doors of * the farmers, and feed is as cheap as could be desired, giving an advantage to our farmers that should not be overlooked. For Rollins Barbed Wire. Tho illustration represents a very simple and convenient method for taking up and winding barbed wire. It is made simply by driving two forked sticks into the ground, so that the forks will be three feet above the surface. In these forks lay a stick two and one-half inches in diameter, and

BARBED WIRE WINDLASS.

on one end of this stick fasten a cultivator wheel. Attach the wire to the stick, and by simply turning the ■wheel it can be secured in a compact roll. If a device of this kind is arranged on a frame and placed on wheels, the wire can be quickly rolled up. By attaching to the loose end and turning the cultivator wheel the machine will be pulled along as the wire is taken up, and the work is done very satisfactorily.—Orange Judd Farmer. Fitting a Horse Collar. How properly to adjust the collar of a horse; Asays the Agriculturist, is a knowledge that all men do not possess, and many disagree on important matters. ' Some inen keep the inner surface of the collar and pliable. Every time the collar is put on it is pressed and pummeled until it is soft Others, equally as good farmers, never soften the wearing surface of the horse’s collar, but simply rub off the accumulated hair and dandruff. The latter plan is most'practiced. The wearing surfaces

and wagon beds can be taken off and on without much difficulty. In Fig. 1 the uprights, a a, are 4x4xß timbers. The crosspieces, b h, are oneinch bpgrds. The crank, e, is from an old self-binder. The timbers at the top are sectired by a 12Inch bolt, which also bears A ."pulley. At the bottom the -uprights are 2% feet Apart The rope may be of any convenient size, and

of ox yokes are as hard aa seasoned wood can make them. In purchasing a horse collar take the horse with you and have the collar fitted. A short collar will choke the animal and cause distress. If a triflp too long it will do no harm if raised up at the bottom by putting a pad under at the top. The hames should always be buckled close and fitted snugly at the collar. Using the collar on other horses runs the fit Cultivation of Corn. Practically without exception the experiments conducted in a dozen States, by practical men with scientific accuracy. have given results In favor of the shallow cultivation of corn as compared with deep cultivation. In every case cutting the roots of the corn reduced the yield. The best results are got by a thorough preparation of the ground before planting, and after that stirring the ground to a depth of only two or three inches —enough to break up the crust that sun and showers form on the surface and to root out the weeds. Dry Bordeaux Powder. For some years a dry powder similar to bordeaux mixture, that is, consisting of copper, sulphate, and lime, has been on the market under the name of David’s power. In 1887 it was hesitatingly recommended by the Department of Agriculture for the use of potatoes. It has. however, been entirely superseded by Bordeaux mixture, since the latter is more economical, adheres better to the foliage, and, according to the experience of most growers, says the Connecticut Experiment Station, is easier to use. Intelligent Breeding. The animals intended especially for breeding purposes should be fed in a manner different from those that are being fatted for market A very fat animal is not suitable for breeding, and many valuable mares, cows, sows and ewes that are very high in flesh either die in giving birth to their young or fail to produce vigorous offspring. The many cases of milk fever which occur among cows and ewes may often be traced to the use of too much concentrated food and a lack of judgment in feeding.

Do Not Thresh Barley at Once. A brewer of Petersboro, Ont., sends this word to barley growers: “When you cut your barley don’t thresh it out at once, but let it stay in the stack or mow for a month before threshing to sweat. This sweating is a chemical process which greatly improves barley for malting purposes. Barley threshed as soon as cut never malts well. Barley is better for being cut slightly green and alowed to stand in the field until dry enough for housing.” Poultry Fence. Poultry fence making is often considered a great task and therefore many choice specimens are practically spoiled for breeding purposes. For portable fence construction as shown below, take a piece Ix 6 inches and 3 feet long and another piece Ix 3 inches and of sufficient length to reach from ground to top of upper rail of panel. Nail these pieces together at right angles and a support is made. Drive a 30-penny spike nail into the edge of the upright deep enough to hold firmly and bend up-, ward to form a hook on which to hang the panel. Drive the spike so that whep each section rests on it the pickets will clear the ground. The pickets or panel may consist of lath nailed to light scantling. By the use of this fence. 1 you can regulate the size of the yard

PORTABLE, SECURE AND CHEAP.

and if no fence is wanted, it can be taken apart and stored under shelter. —A. F. Whitright, in Farm and Home. To Kill Squash Bugs. The bisulphate of carbon could be applied in the spring when the young vines are being attacked by the newly hatched Insects, says the Philadelphia Ledger. Any tight covering sufficiently large to cover the vines should be placed over the hill, and a very little bisulphide in a shallow dish placed under -it, and allowed to remain for an hour or two. Agricultural Notes. Improved farming improves the farm. Don’t fail to make that damp cellar dry. Keep air-slacked lime in your coops and about your houses. One advantage .with ducks is that if they are properly fed they are rarely sick. Turnips and potatoes are best fed by boiling and mixing with wheat bran. The best results are obtained when not more than 100 fowls are kept on an acre of ground. For egg production there can be no mistake in selecting either the Leghorns, Mlnorcas or Anconas. One advantage with sheep is that they will pick up a good living in places where cattle would nearly starve. You are liable to infect sound trees by using on them a knife with which you have cut out diseased wood. It is difficult to decide which is the best strawberry. A variety that succeeds finely in one locality may be a failure in another. When plants are set in the ground great care should be taken about watering. In the vast majority of cases evening is the best time. Chopped raw onions given 'to the fowls two or three times a week act as a stimulant to the blood and an appetizer. They will do no harm at any time.

The health of a horse depends on the soundness and proper adjustment of his teeth. They are the millstones that grind his food, and frequently need attention. Good cows, well cared for, and their butter product well made and judiciously marketed and all the by-pro-duct used to the best advantage comprise one of the most profitable branches of all our agriculture. When meat production of any kind is profitable, mutton production must be. The sheep is a double source of income, and to produce a pound of mutton certainly costs no more than to produce a pound of any other meat

GOOD TIMES ARE HERE

PROSPERITY UNDER DEMOCRACY HAS COME TO STAY. The Country Recovering from the Unfortunate Administration of Benjamin Harrison with Its Shermanism and McKinleyism Accompaniment. Calamity-Howlers Dumfounded. In the canvass of last fall, the country over, the Republicans sent Mr. Dismal on the stump. Republican committees fairly revelqd in what they called the calamities of their country. The instructed stumper of the dismal tribe was adjured to advise electors who had voted for Democracy and tariff reform in 1892 to eat the roosters they wore in their caps after the triumphant election of the opponents of special privileges. Wearing hat bands of crape and screwing his features into an expression of profound commiseration, McKinley went out crying, “I told you so.” The calamity howler was heard all over the land. The administration was responsible for all the woes that had come upon America. Democrats had interfered to some extent with the God-given right of protects to enjoy benefits not granted to the rest of their fellow citizens, but paid for by them. The Republican administration had nothing to do with the hard times, so the stumpers averred. Republican demagogy on the silver question, the high taxation which they had enacted in the McKinley law, none of these had aught to do with the distress which was obvious. The blame must be laid at the door of a party which proposed to relieve Americans in soipe measure of the burden of taxation. Times are changed 1 and changing. The country is recovering from the unfortunate administration of Benjamin Harrison, with its Shermanism and its McKinleyism. Under the Wilson bill, which it was said would ruin industries, industries revive. Under the Democratic policy which these dismals declared would rob the wage earner Increase of wages comes to operatives in rehabilitated industries. The commerce that calamity howlers declared was devoted deliberately to destruction in the Wilson bill is moving steadily and cheerfully. For nearly a year the Wilson law has been in operation, with the result, which Republican Jeremiahs declared could never be attained thereunder, that times have vastly improved. We now hear even McKinley sniveling that the Wilson bill is, after all, but a vindication of his high protective policy. In 1888, says the Chicago Chronicle, the hired campaign orators of the Republican party organized themselves after what they called glorious victory into an association of “spell-binders.” They were so eloquent that, according to the report to their employers, they hade held their audiences everywhere and were mighty proud of their achievements. In 1892 these mercenary “spellbinders” became dismal calamity howlers. Where they had-an audience cheering when engaged in the great spellbinding act they had the satisfaction later of finding their eloquence of disaster calling for continual groans. Tariff taxation had been reduced and the country had gone howling to the devil, where Democratic headquarters are in continual session. If the Republican party proposes to go into the campaign with these orators next year, still crying that disaster attends Democratic policy, that industrial chimneys smoke no longer, that wage earners are starved, that the land is ruined, they will talk to empty benches. They can no longer revel in their dire prophecies. Prosperity has come to stay.

Not Caused by Republican Victories. With one accord the high tariff organs are shouting: “We told you so; the Republican victory last fall has brought good times and business prosperity. We did it all.” This confession on the part of the protection organs that trade and industry are reviving, and that wages are going up, is very welcome to Democrats, who want, first of all, to see an end of the long era of depression caused by McKinleyism. As the repetition of the statement that it is Republican successes which have brought about the present industrial boom, may delude some of the unwary, it may be worth while to briefly examine their pretensions.

According to the protection theory everything good comes from high tariffs, and everything bad from free trade. But it is only of late that protectionists have been so bold as to claim that their nostrum works both ways; that it makes times bad when Democrats are in power, and the threat to restore it makes them good just as soon as a liepublican Congress is elected. It is a notorious fact that the great panic of 1893 was brought on under conditions created by Republican, legislation. It is equally well known that the country began to revive from the exhausting effects of high taxation and restricted trade as soon as ever a measure of tariff reform went into effect. It is to break the force of these damaging facts that the Republican papers are taking credit to their party for tiie happy change in the industrial situation. But it will not work. Their humbug is too transpar. ent. Business is improving because thpre is a demand for more goods of all kinds. Factories have got rid of their overstock, caused by high tariff stagnation, and are trying to catch up with their orders. Men are making things because other men want them, and have something to give in exchange for them. People do not buy things merely because a Congress which has not yet met happens to have a few more Republicans than Democrats. They buy because they need things and can sell their products to the men who produce what they want. Party politic? has nothing to do with it, except in so far as every additional restriction removed from trade helps make business of all kinds better. It is not the threat of re-establishing McKinleyism, but the natural working of less hampered industrial forces, which has brought about the great improvement in business. And the high tariff, “no trade” organs only make themselves ridiculous by their antics. He Who Runs May Read. In August, 1894, the Wilson"; tariff bill, reducing the tariff duties, became a law. Immediately factories opened. Idle men were,set at work, wages, inareased. mills were crowded to the ut-

moet capacity to supply orders. In tho schedules including iron and woolen goods the reductions were greatest In iron the average reduction was 37 per cent and in woolens 50 per cent. Yet in iron and woolen factories is the greatest increase in activity noted and in these two branches are the advances in wages most general. The lesson IS very plain. It does not require a Solomon or a Newton to discover it It is simply this: High tariff leads to low wages; low tariff is accompanied by high wages. The proof is overwhelming.—Utica Observer. Farmers Not Benefited by Tariffs. Realizing that the old “home market” cry will not again fool the farmer into voting for a restoration of McKinleyism, the protectionist organs are now trying to devise a scheme for a high tariff on farm products. In spite of the fact that our agricultural industries have been established from one hundred to two hundred and fifty years, the professional “friends of the farmer” are working the same old “infant industry” dodge which they used eighty years ago in regard to manufactures. According to these protectionists we have been reading our histories all wrong. Instead of the generally accepted theory that agriculture was the first industry of the country, it appears that the reverse is the case. When the first settlers landed on our shores they found here a number of kind capitalists with factories all ready for operation. Being truly benevolent, as all manufacturers are, these capitalists tosk pity on the settlers and gave them work. After awhile some of the settlers heard that land had been Invented in England, so they sent over for a few shiploads, and spreading it out, proceeded to grow crops on it The crops grew so well that they decided to make some land for themselves, and being naturally ingenious, succeeded in a short time in manufacturing a large quantity. In the meantime the number of factories having increased, there . was a demand for some more land to put tjiem on, and to grow food on to feed the operatives. In this way the farming industry has been gradually built up, so'that it is believed that a protective tariff on wheat, cotton, corn and beef would lead to the importation and production of large areas of land.

As America already exports great quantities of all these staple products, It may at first sight seem doubtful where the benefit to the farmers will come in. Skeptical free-traders, who believe that thirty years of protection nearly ruined our farmers, will very likely sneer and say that to talk of helping agriculture by high tariffs is all humbug. They will claim that in the long run the prosperity, of any country depends on the condition of its farmers, and that to attempt to protect an industry which sells its surplus products in foreign markets, is the silliest kind of nonsense. And they will also assert that it was the great agricultural industry of this country, established without any government pap, which was the formation for all our prosperity. But there is no use in arguing with these theoretical free-traders. The facts are all on their side, and anyway, they never could be brought to see the wisdom of making everybody rich by taxing everybody. Let the good, unselfish protectionists stick to their doctrine that the way to help the farmers is by killing foreign trade, and in the course of time they will be regarded as merely innocent victims of a harmful superstition. To Shut a McKinley Mouth. Considerable anger has been aroused in the celestial minds of some protectionists over the question of imports of woolen goods under the new tariff. We are now importing a disastrous quantity, they say, such as no truly American tariff would ever allow to come in. One answer to this Is to show that even greater amounts came in during a corresponding period under the McKinley tariff. The Wool and Cotton Reporter publishes comparative tables this week showing “a heavy Increase” in the imports over the past year or two, “but as compared with those of the fiscal year 1892-’93, the returns for the ten months of the current year make a far less discouraging showing, especially on dress goods and cloths.” This is the way to shut a McKinley mouth. The way to shut a merely rational mouth is to take the position that if we import woolen goods, it is because we want them, and have something to give in exchange for them, and can spend our time to better advantage than in making them ourselves. The bigger the quantities we import, the greater amount of things we have to give in exchange for them, the better our wag s and profits and general prosperity.— New York Evening Post.

Tin Industry Given a Show. According to a Republican contemporary the number of tin plate plants has increased from thirty-two to fiftyfour, or nearly 100 per cent. It was not to be expected that the tin plate industry would make much progress while the McKinley law was in operation. That economic monstrosity ppt a prohibitive duty on tin plate, but a moderate levy on the tin and the plate. The result was that a number of firms established the business of Importing the tin and the plate and had the dipping done here. That was a profitable but fraudulent business which gave satisfaction to no one except those engaged in it.—Kansas City Times. Women in a Protected Industry. Under the heading “Women Tofilng in Iron,” the New York Press publishes a detailed account of the employment by the Monongahela Tin Plate Company of a number of women to assist in making tin plate. Had this been in Wales,, or England, we should have had from the Press denunciations of the terrible effects of free trade In driving women into such disagreeable occupations. But as it is in Pittsburg, the chief manufacturing city of Pennsylvania, and as the industry is a pet one of the protectionists, we suppose it is all right. How do American workingmen like the idea of their wives or daughters “tolling in iron?”

An Outworn Issue. Senator Quay expresses the opinion that there is about one moire campaign in the tariff question. A greater man than he once thought that there was about one more Presioency in the bloody shirt, and found that he was mistaken. It seeps very difflcult-for some politicians to know when an issue is worn Journal.

DANIEL BOONE’S LIFE.

ROMANTIC CAREER OF THE PIONEER. , i Stands Prominently Forward Arnone American Adventurers—Captured by Indiana and Adopted Into Tbeir Tribe —Escaped and Saved Settlement. Died in Missouri. AMONG the romantic characters which the early history of our country has furnished Daniel Boone stands prominently forward. He was one of that large band of pioneers whose tolls and privations, heroism and courage have gone far to make the country what it Is. That we to-day enjoy civilization and peace Is due In a great degree to these men’s labors. 1 Daniel Boone was In Bucks County, Pa., Feb. 11, 1735. His father was an Englishman who had come to

this country with his wife and here settled. Daniel received the barest rudiments of an education, but he became well versed in ;all the knowledge jof a trapper and hunter and Inured 'to the sufferings land hardships of ‘pioneer life. When ’he was 18 he moved with his family Into North Caro-

DANIEL BOONE.

llna and here he married Rebecca Bryan and passed several years as a farmer. After a time this life palled on him and he wearied of the monotony even of this seml-clvllizatlon. Accordingly when he was Invited, in 1769, to loin an exploring party to Kentucky, he eagerly accepted. Boone in Kentucky. The party traveled to the banks of the Red river and there they halted for several months. Hunting, fishing and encounters with Indians filled their days. In December Boone and a companion named Stewart were captured by the Indians, but with great Ingenuity managed to escape and rejoin their friends. They were soon recaptured and Stewart was this time killed, but Boone got away again. In 1771 he returned home with the spoils he had taken and settled down again for three years. The spirit of adventure still was strong In him, however, and In 1773 he sold his farm and In company with his own family, bls two brothers and five neighbors and their families started to Kentucky to settle. They met with much opposition from Indians on the way and were even forced to retreat to the Clinch River In Virginia, where they encamped for several months. However, they all finally arrived safely at their new home and began preparations for a settlement. Boone erected a stockade fort on the Kentucky river, which he called Boonesborough, and hero the family made their home. Captured by Indiana, In 1778 Boone went to the Blue Licks to obtain salt for the settlement, of which It was greatly In need, and here the Indians captured him and took him to Detroit. His knowledge of the Indian character enabled him to make his captors friendly to hhn and he was adopted into one of the first families of the tribe. He had not been

BOONE'S GRAVE.

living with the Indians long when he discovered that the British had laid plans for an Indian, attack on Boonesborough. He managed to elude his captors and returned to his fort, making the journey in the short space of five days. lie successfully repelled the attack which was soon made, and achieved a great victory over his enemies. While he was at Detroit, Boone’s family, hearing no news of him, supposed he had been killed, and moved back again to North Carolina. Here Boone found them, and great was the joy of all at being once more restored to each other. In 1780 the family returned to Kentucky, where they continued to live until 1702. Kentucky was at (that time admitted into the United States ana much litigation arose as to the titles of lands held by settlers. Boone lost all his possessions and in disgust he retired into the wildness of Missouri, settling on the Femme Osage river, about forty-five miles west of St. Louis, where he resided until 1804. This region belonged to Spain, and Boone was appointed commandant of the district, receiving a large tract of land for his services. This also he subsequently lost possession of. In 1812, however, Congress bestowed on him another tract in recognition of his eminent public services. Boone’s later years passed uneventfully at the home of his son-fn-law, Flanders Callaway, in Missouri, and here he died Sept. 26, 1820. His remains are buried in . Franklin, Ky., wherv they were removed from Missouri in 1845, and over them an appropriate monument has been erected by the people of that State. Food and Wages Two Centuries Ago. “’The question of prices in those days, the first quarter of the seventeenth century, as compared Id these lFfiill t>f

Interest to and It Is satisfactory to find that food was not fabulously cheap in the days of our forefathers. aa wo <re often led to believe. Mary Verney writes to Ralph at Blois complaining bitterly of the dearness of provisions in London. Beef Is 4d., veal and mutton Bd., while Pen Verney reckons Bs. a week too much for her diet, which is afterward fixed at £6 a year. Twelve pounds a year seems a great deal for willful little Betty, aged 13, to spend on her dress, but country bred as she was, she declines, Mary writes, to wear anything but silk. The sum of £3O claimed by Nancy Denton, who was a,spoiled child and rich man’s daughter, is far more appropriate to her position. In fact, the febs earned by physicians in those days were far in excess of what we should give now, in spite of the exceeding simplicity—not to say remarkable unpleasantness—of their pharmacopoeia and treatment Dr. Theodore Mayence, the fashionable doctor, left £140,000 (equivalent to over half a million) behind him, and Sir Ralph is miserable because he cannot afford to pay Dr. Denton the £SO which Is the ordinary fee for a confinement A Venetian mirror costs £4O, a portrait by Van Dyke £SO. A maid’s wages come to £3, but the pair of “trlmed gloves," with which It is the fashion to reward any extra services on her part, come to £lss.—an absurdly disproportionate present. The price of Sir Edmund's Covent Garden house is £IOO, and many horses fetch as much, while £2OO a year is the usual price for a boy’s board and teaching in a good French family.—Longman's Magazine.

TWO-STORY CARS OF PARIS.

Run by Electric Storage Batteriea and Are Culled a Success. There are no trolley or cable cars In Paris. The storage battery electric cars seem to have been made a success there. They are much larger than those which for a time were In operation on the Madison and Fourth avenue line In New York, being literally

A PARIS DOUBLE-DECKER.

two stories high. The outside seats are roofed and are protected at the ends by glass screens. The approach of a cur or omnibus is not heralded by gongs, ns It is In America." Each of the big, lumbering vehicles Is provided with a horn, which the driver can sound by pressing l rubber bulb. These toot and toot and toot, wherever one inny go.

The Tourainers.

The Touralners themselves are comforting to behold—a stalwart, brownfaced people, with contentment deep set in them. The women In their blue cotton gowns, white mutches, and uqwleldy wooden shoes, are picturesque enough for anything, If their sloeliko eyes and ready smiles be also taken Into account. Ono sees fair faces among the younger girls—Madon-na-like faces. It wore easy to fancy that Agnes Sorel, “the fairest of the fair,” resembled the best of them when she too was young and had not yet caught the eye of a king. As for men, they are what one would expect them to be In such a natural garden—a hardworking class, prone to rejoice in all the festive leisure they can obtain. They love their native province passionately; it is difficult to realize what they must have felt when, a quarter of a century ago, the Prussian soldiers trod their fields and vineyards under foot and burned their homesteads. “I do not believe," said one of them to mo the other day, “there can be any other country in the world better to live In than Touralne. We have so much sun even in winter. The climate is so mild, and all things grow In it.”—All the Year Round.

Cooked Breakfast While Asleep.

Somnambulism has In all ages furnished many curious illustrations, and among them may be noted one that occurred in a West Utica residence a few days ago. ' The husband and wife were aroused by the breakfast bell ringing in the middle of the night They arose and discovered that it was 2 o’clock, but on hastily dressing and going down to the dining-room they found breakfast ready and waiting for them. They were greatly alarmed at the condition of things, for they at first imagined that the hired girl had suddenly gone insane. After a few minutes, however, they discovered she was asleep. She had got up, started the fire, prepared the morning mehl, and had it ready for serving, but was sound asleep all the time. The only unusual thing wad her failure to put on typr shoes.—Utica Observer.

All Weathers Suited Dr. Johnson.

Dr. Johnson stoutly pooh-poohed the i notion of the effect of weather on the mill'd.' '“To temperance,” he wrote, “eyery day is bright; and every hour 14‘ prqpitlous to diligence.” Johnson, however, was little given ,to analyzing the influences of nature, or any other influences, upon himself. And it may well be that this disposition on his part was in the spirit of the Stoics and in defiance of his own feelings, to which he disdained to give way. It seemed to him a sorry thing that “a being endowed with reason” should “resign his powers to the Influences of the air, and live in dependence on the weather and the wind.”—Temple Bar.

Seldom Miss a Train.

Foreigners traveling in India cannot fall to be. impressed with the crowds of natives to be found at every railway station. As a rule the people hare no idea of time, but they have learned that trains do not wait for tardy passengers, so they begin to gather hours before the time for the train to leave. "

Suppose One Can’t Sneeze.

Chinese dentists rub a secret on the gum over the affected tootA' ana after shout five minutes the patient is told to sneeze. The tooth then falls put. Many attempts have been made ropean dentists to secure this powder, but succeeded in doing MO. I ■ '

ABOUND A BIG STATE.

BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDI-. ANA NEWS. What Onr Neighbors Ara Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes—Personal Pointers About Indlanlau*. Minor State News. Elwood has located a big machine shop to employ 100 men. Albert Whetstone, a giant weighing 482 pounds, a native of Atlanta, Hamilton County, is dead. Miss Virginia Lockridge, recently injured in a runaway accidental Greencastle, died of her injuries. Charles Mclntire, aged 4, fell from a fence at New Albany, and died in a few minutes from concussion of tiie brain. Jacob Davis was cutting wheat.near Delphi, when his team ran away, dragging the binder over him, causing instant death. Fred Shafer, while riding on an L. S. & M. S. freight train, near Elkhart, was brutally assaulted and robbed by tramps. The barn of Curran Bell, south of Elwood, was struck by lightning during a thunder-storm, and burned up. Loss $1,200. The Union Steel Works, of Alexandria, employing 1,600 men, has increased the wages of their employes ten per cent, all around. The signing of the now tin-plate wage scale insures steady employment for the army of workmen is the American Tinplate Works at Elwood, John Shuerenbrand, a tinner, committed suicide at Boswell, Benton County, by hanging himself. He had been in the Insane Asylum several times. Albert Berry, the 14-year-oldson ol Prof. N. Berry, was drowned in Eel river at Logansport, while bathing with two companions. The body was recovered. Haul Lacey, aged 4, was drowned in a pit nt Jeffersonville. The boy was missed from home,, and he was located by the moaning of his big dog near Hie edge of the pit. Lee Kuhns, who found a valuable bed of aragonite, or limestone rock, on his farm near Ingalls, has begun the construction of kilns, looking to the manufacture of commercial lime.

The Elwood Oil Producing Company has drilled in another 100-barrcl well on its land near Geneva, and six more wells will be put down immediately, as the field gives exceptional promise of richness. At Cowan in a runaway accident Mrs. George Kcltner, of Muncie, was dangerously injured and her B-year-old daughter had an arm broken. A Mrs. Vorice, who was in the carriage, had an arm broken. New wheat is beginning to come into market nt Wabash earler, by nearly ten days, than was ever known before. The yield runs from seven to fifteen bushels per acre, and the quality generally is rather poor. The Marion Circuit Court has decided Hint the Adams Express Company can only be (axed on personal property in tills State. The .State Tax Commissioners hud assessed the company au a mileage basis, and tho . company prayed for an injunction. The case will goto tho State Supreme Court, and probably to the United States Supreme Court for final settlement. Henry Lucas, a farmer, aged 20, was probably fatally injured at Knightstown in a railroad accident. He attempted to cross the track in frontof the Pennsylvania limited, when his vehicle was struck and demolished and the horse instantly killed.’ Lucas was hurled a distance of ’ thirty feet. He is severely injured and recovery is doubtful. At Mick McCarty’s saloon, Muncie, Thomas Rodgers was accidentally shot in the left groin by William Everett. The wounded man cannot live. The two men are Hint-glass blowers andjemployed at tho Muncie ilint-glnss works. A crowd of men were in the saloon, and Everett was recklcssJy flourishing the self-acting gun, when it went oil. Both wore the best of friends, but had been drinking. Chinch bugs in large numbers have appeared in the eastern part of Bartholomew County, and are doing great damage to the growing corn. In some localities since the wheat lias been harvested these pests have become so numerous that the cornstalks are black with them. At Burnsbill aquart of the bugs was gathered and shipped to Prof. W. C. Latta.. of T’yrdue University, to be inoculated with chinch bug cholera. These bugs will be returned and scattered among the living ones with a hope of thus exterminating.them.

While Otto Logan was drawning off a barrel of varnish in the barn of W. A. Williams, Wabash, the fluid, from some unknown cause, exploded. Youqg Logan was burned about the face and hands, but hastened to turn in an alarm. The department responded quickly, but everything was very dry and the bam and contents were destroyed. Two valuable horses were lost. The flames communicated to W. R. Collins’s stable, which was also consumed. Total loss, $1,200; insurance on Williams’s barn, S4OO. State Gas Inspector J. C. Leacli has returned from Alexandria, where he has been trying for a week to conquer an obstreperous gas well owned by the DePauw Plate-glass Company. Three weeks ago the well was anchored, andsoon thereafter the confined gas began blowing the water out of all the water and gas wells in the neighborhood. The gas evidently escaped through a b> oken casing and found its vmy—through the shale and clay to the surface of the ground. Residents of the vicinity were alarmed to find their houses, cellars, wells and outbuildings filled with the fluid, and only utmost care prevented many explosions. To prevent accidents the officers ordered the well opened again, and it lias for three weeks been blowing off 3,500,000 feet of gas daily. Threeexpert gas-well men refused to undertake the job of restraining the “runaway.” Contractor Decker was Anally induced, and he has the machinery on the ground. Mr. Leach and D el’auw people hope to have the well under control soon. The escaping gas is boiling up in Pipe creek, half a mile away. The Union City Council has authorized the School Board to issue bonds to the amount of SIO,OOO to build a new schoolhouse. The present forty-five-thousand-dollar school building, built in 1892, is overcrowded.

Wm. 11. Artman and Joseph Paxton, two life-time convicts in the prison south, died, the other day; within 15 minutes of each other, while lying side by side in the prision hospital-. Artman was the victim of consumption, while Paxton died from the effects of an assault by a fellow-convict. Artman killed his wife and son, at Tell City in 1898. Taxton murdered Spencer Bryant, at Jeffersonville, In 1888. General order, No. 2, Indiana National Guard, has been issued preparatory for the annual military encampment, July 21, lasting for a week. It will be held atFairview Park. Brigadier General McKee will be in command. None was heli last year because so many of the companies were detailed to quiet the riots during the strikes, and saw some actual service in the line of duty. The encampment, therefore, will serve as a reunion of those who braved the rioters. There will be forty-eight cqmpanies in the camp, numbering about 3,000 men. Each of the five regiments wiR have a brass band. Sunday afternoon there will be a dress parade, and during, the week Governor Matthews and his staff will inspect the camp. ' '