Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1895 — Page 3

ALL ABOUT THE FARM

HOW THE CORN CROP IS NOW HARVESTED. Latest Machinery for Taking Care of America's Greatest Money CropSubsoil Attachment tor Plows—Adjustable Jack for Farm Wagona. A Modern Corn Binder. The great American money crop la Indian corn. It Is without much doubt native to the western continent, where Its production is practically controlled, as no other country possesses the soil and climate suited to Its best development The fertile land of the central west Is its natural home. Here it brings wealth and prosperity. A loss or

FIG. 1. THE IMPROVED CORN BINDER OF 1895—REAR VIEW.

partial failure of a single crop amounts to a calamity. Machinery for preparing the ground, planting the seed and cultivating the growing plant has been Improved upon from time to time; but the one great drawback Is the lack of a practical implement for husking standing corn. This has not yet appeared. However, the same object is being partially accomplished In a somewhat roundabout way by means of th<> com binder and the combined husker and fodder shredder. All corn cannot be husked by this plan, as It necessitates cutting, shocking and running the cured fodder through the husker, but improved corn binders have made this practice more common than would have been possible a few years ago. The greater appreciation for corn fodder as feed for all kinds of farm animals, and its wide use, have created a demand for better corn harvesting machinery. A good idea of the 1895 corn binders can be had by carefully studying the accompanying illustrations. Fig. 1 is a view of the complete machine as seen from the rear. Where the corn is very tall an extra set of packer arms is provided. Fig. 2 shows the ffont part of the machine tilted forward In order to enable it to pick up lodged or leaning stalks. As soon as they reach the elevator chains and packer, these stalks are easily taken care of. The whole machine is light, simple and easily

FIG. 2. TILTED FORWARD TO PICK UP LODGED CORN.

operated. Various home-made contrivances for cutting corn have been devised also. Have bnt One Breed of Chickens, It Is much better for the novice or amateur to keep one good variety of fowls than three or four, for the first year or two at least. It prevents the possibility of their becoming mixed, gives you an opportunity of studying the particular points in breeding to feather, size, etc., and, last, but not least, it does away with the many little details that are bound to be associated with four or five varieties. There Is no business that an amateur can take hold of and make a success unless he begins at the bottom, says the Poultry World, and learns the many little details. The chicken business is no exception. Start with one good variety, study Its wants and merits for the first year with care, and then, as you become familiar with the business, add other varieties. It pays to keep three or four of the most popular, and at the same time it is pleasure to see them. Adjustable Wagon Jack. This wagon jack is made of white oak, the sill (a) 2 by 4 by 18 inches, the post (b) IVi by 4 by 28 inches. One Inch must be cut out of the post (b) half way down for the lever. The Iron brace to go through the lever is 1 by 3 by 42 inches. The crescent-shaped and toothed iron (d) passing through the center

FOR OILING FARM WAGONS.

of the post connecting with the lever Is 1% by % aid 30 Inches iong. It Is crescent shaped with notches about inches apart. The notches rest In a bolt and three holes should be made in the upright (b), thus Insuring adjustability to almost any desirable height for oiling ordinary farm vehicles.—Farm and Home. The Flavor of Batter. The flavor and aroma of butter are caused partly by the direct Influence of the feed and partly by ripening of thfe cream. To some extent, says Hoard’s flavor may be secured by the feed. It would be difficult to produce fine-flavored butter from the cream of cows fed on straw alone. For fine flavor In butter, clover hay (properly cured), pea meal and commeal, with bran and a few mangels, would, in my judgment, be best feed, and proper ripening of the cream, together with the exclusion of all bad flavors. Hogs Need Fresh Water. ; No animal suffers more from neglect jof something to drink than does the jhog. The slop and milk which ore comdconly given to pigs confined In the pen

are not good substitutes for water. The slop thrown Into the swill barrel from the table has too much salt to make a good drink, and the milk Is too solid to be a substitute for water Try the pigs at least once a day with clear fresh water, and you will be surprised to find how much they will drink of it. Hold inn Farm Produce. A correspondent of the Country Gentleman has found one advantage in prompt sales of produce. Every farmer knows, or should know, how much money he should receive for sales each year to meet the ordinary expense. If receipts are 4 eut down by small crops and low prices, he must plan to cut down expenses, or at least not to incur any extra expense. When a big crop is stored, in the expectation of better prices, one naturally figures receipts at the expected price, and if it Is not realized, there is disappointment, to say the least. By converting crops Into money as soon as they are ready for market, it seems possible to do a safer business. There is less care and worry. On the other hand, when convinced that any product is selling temporarily at a price far lower than conditions justify, the profit that is obtained by holding goes to the one most deserving it—the producer. An Automatic Gate. The ideal gate is one that will shut Itself and open each way. Such a gate was described in the New England Homestead as follows: A shows the irons for the upper hinge. B shows the lower hinge, which has double pinions, while C shows the catch driven into the post with the spring. To open and shut itself the gate must be hung about 4 inches out of plumb, having the lower hinge (B) project out Trom the post that much farther than the upper one. It shuts then just like a wagon rolling

A GATE THAT SHUTS ITSELF

down hill. The lower hinge (B) must be 8 inches from slot to slot. Picking Applen. Gather when the pips turn to a brownish color, and the fruit parts easily from the twig when turned to one side. As the fruit is gathered It should be laid lightly, not droppod, into a biisket, and be just as carefully removckl ftojq the basket to the storeroom. A," blow or knock will cause a bruise, which will be succeeded by rot. Store on straw on a dry floor. A bed of three inches of straw Will suffice. Lay the fruit quite thinly at first, and add another course when the first sweating is passed; later on the apples may lie three or four thick. When sharp frost threatens, cover up the fruit with straw, bags or something of that kind, to protect it from frost. A Subsoil Plovr Attachment. The accompanying illustration shows an attachment by means of which three, subsoil plows may be readily brought into use by the driver whenever needed. Suitable cranks, levers and crossbars serve to make the triplicate attachment conveniently adjustable, either vertically or laterally. The whole thing is controlled by a lever fulcrumed on the rear of the plow beam, a thumb latch being provided

FOB SUBSOIL FLOWS.

which engages a rack on one of the handles. Farmers will all appreciate the advantages offered by this new device. Fertilizing Value of Wood Ashes. Hard-wood ashes from mixed timbers average, when fresh and not exposed to the weather, ten per cent of potash, three per cent of phosphoric acid and thirty per cent of lime, with some magnesia, soda and silica. They are an excellent fertilizer for every crop grower, lacking, of course, the nitrogen needed to make a complete food for plants. Ashes are excellent for grass and clover, all the vegetables grown in gardens, and for corn. They may be applied in any quantity up to forty bushels per acre, and at any time of the year. Peach Meringue Pie. Peach meringue pie. is delicious and is Line a deep earthen pie plate with a rich pie crust that has been rolled thin. Peel and slice enough peaches to fill the plate very full and sift sugai* over them. Crack half a dozen of the peach stones and take out the meat, blanch, chop fine and scatter among the fruit. Bake in a moderate oven. For the meringue use the white of two eggs beaten to a stiff froht and two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Spread over the peaches and return to the oven and brown lightly.

Potatoes aa Stock Feed. The farmer who grows potatoes does not have much time to spare in growing other root crops. But in every large crop of potatoes there will be a considerable portion that is too rough or too small to sell, and these can be profitably fed. No kind of roots is economical as the main feed. They are only used in small quantities as an appetizer, and for this purpose the small potatoes unfit for market are as good as roots of any kind. They Lack Persistence. Many amateur growers plant trees with enthusiasm and then grow discouraged over borers and rabbits; over spraying and pruning; over curculio and knots and lice and mice and grubrfj They are growers who will never glut the markets. They are a great help to the nurseries and give the progressive orchardist a chance to sell his superior products.

HISTORY OF A PARTY.

THE G. O. P. RECORD IS ONE OF POLITICAL CRIME. Period Cannot Be Far Distant When It Will Be Driven Out of Power and Out of Existence—No More Tariff Tinkering. Story of It* Shame. Neither in this country nor in any .•ountry where the semblance of free government exists has any other political party retained power as long as the Republican party has done with such an utter uafitness for the possession of power and with such a record of abominable abuses iu its exercise. It is a marvel in the history of politics. To go bnt little more than twenty years backward brings us to the Credit Mobilier corruptions, with which the names of a score of the most distinguished Republican leaders were connected. Two Republican vice-presi-dents, Wilson and Colfax, were exposed as partners iu the fraud. Garfield was one of its beneficiaries and the Republicans afterward made him President. Blaine escaped the Credit Mobilier scandal, but was involved much deeper in a similar scandal, of which the Mulligan letters preserved the facts. The “trusted leaders’’ implicated in this rascality committed as great crimes in falsehood and perjury to avert condemnation as they committed iu accepting the bribes. The back pay corruption of about the same period was a flagrant and inexcusable use of legislative power. The Republican members of Congress increased their pay and made the increase retroactive, by which each man voted into bis own pocket thousands of dollars more than the salary at the time of his election. This was an unexampled fraud. Acts of Congress had been repeatedly passed before that time increasing congressional pay. But no previous act of the kind authorized back pay—a rascally grab of money after the term of service for smaller pay had expired. The defalcations of Republican officeholders for thirty years form an appalling record. In 1875 lists of shortages, embezzlements and thefts In the internal revenue service alone were ■published aggregating $8,000,000. The bank frauds of a few years ago in New York, Philadelphia and Boston, caused by losses through derelict United States officers, are recent events in the chapters of crime. Frauds In the public land department, corrupt railroad grants and subsidy legislation of various kinds have depleted the treasury and have given to corporations more ‘than an empire of the public domain which should have been reserved for the homes of the people. The rascalities of the Republican car-pet-bag governments at the South were without measure. • The devastation which they caused was greater in extent than that of the war. The desolation of the cities and fields, of commerce and industry by the war was a less calamity than that of carpet-bag and scalawag rule for ten years.

Republican tariff legislation was a mere system of robbery. It was larceny from the many to enrich the few. It aggrandized individuals while Impoverishing communities. It was brigandage in all but name and the protection of law. The disfranchisement of vast numbers of voters through gerrymauder acts in the various States Is a Republican crime of great magnitude. No fraud at the ballot box is as great as a law which enables a small number of Republican voters in one congressional or legislative district to elect a representative while a far greater number of Democrats in another district are deprived of just representation. This catalogue of political crimes—of crimes of maladministration and crimes in office—might be indefinitely extended. But it would be incomplete without a reference to the instances of scandal and corruption in the local Republican administration. From the murder of inmates In the county Insane asylum to the fraud on the civil service involved in the disfranchisement of veteran soldiers for employment and from the prostitution of the police force in political uses to the investment of county and city money for private gain there is no species of misgovernment and public immorality of whiph the Republican machine administration in the city and county is not guilty. It is a monumental wonder that a party with this record—and much more that is as bad or worse—is able to command, year after year, a majority of the votes in many of the great States and often in the nation. It is certain that a reckoning will come at some time. Two national defeats within ten years and defeat in many States have already resulted from popular effort. The period cannot be far away when the Republican party will be driven permanently out of power and out of existence.—Chicago Chronicle.

McKinley as a Disturber. The dissatisfaction shown by Ohio Republicans witli the opening speeches made by McKinley in the State campaign is not surprising. They are anxious to succeed, and it is patent enough that for McKinleythe campaign means ap opportunity to help his presidential prospects regardless of the effect on the Republican party. The McKinley faction is composed of a comparatively small part of the Republican party in Ohio. Ohio sheepgrowers with capital enough to own ranches in Texas sympathize with his objections to the prosperity of the woolen industry on a basis of free raw material, and no doubt there are others who share his extreme views, but there are not enough of them to count for much in the politics of the State. The element which McKinley cannot control is that powerful conservative wing of the party represented by Senator Sherman in the guarded but unmistakable protest he made against McKinleyism in the Senate at a time when a few favored campaign contributors were forcing the bill on the country. The conservative element which in Ohio and elsewhere gives the Republican party its vitality is opposed to

McKlnleylstn at any time, and more especially at the present time when the business interests of the country de mand the suppression of agitators, fanatics and demagogues whose recklessness threatens to prevent the return of prosperity and to keep tlx -mutry in the condition It was prior to the repeal of the McKinley law. It is safe to say that by attempting to make himself an Issue in Ohio politics McKinley is not promoting his presidential prospects. Republicans with the business interests of the country at heart are earnestly In favor of keeping him in the background as much as possible.—New York World. Trying to Fool the Farmers. The high-tariff press is engaged in an attempt to coax the farmers back to the doctrines of high taxation and monopoly prices for manufactured goods, aud poluts to the reduction in duties in farm produce as a reason for the restoration of McKinleyism. To make a ease for protection the Republicans are elaiming-that under the Wilson tariff a flood of foreign farm products is taking away the markets of our farmers, and that these Importations are much greater than under the tariff of 1890.

A comparison of the imports of farm products during the first year of the McKinley tariff, aud the first year of the Wilson law, shows that there is not the slightest basis for the claim of the Republicans. The official statement for this fiscal year 1891, during which the McKinley tariff was iu force for nine months, gives the total value of animals Imported as $4,945,9(55. For the year 1895, in which the Wilson tariff was in operation for ten months, the value of imported animals was bid $2,738,292. Of breadstuffs the imports in 1891 were worth $4,484,449. In 1895 they were worth only $2,859,449. In 1891 eggs to the value of $1,184,595 were Imported. For 1895 their value was $324,133. Hides worth $27,130,759 were brought in in 1891. The last fiscal year’s Imports were $2(5,122,942. In hops there was a much greater falling off under the Wilson tariff, only $599,744 worth being imported, while in 1891 their value was sl,797,400. Vegetables of the value of $7,070,374 were imported Iu 1891. Poi 1895 their value was only $3,971,445. In 1891 provisions worth $2,108,891 were imported. In 1895 they were valued at $2,028,058. The only farm pnsfuct which shows an increase in 1895 Is wool, of which $25,550,421 worth was imported, against $18,231,372 worth in 1891. But this increase is explained by the very small imports of 1894, when, owing to the McKinley panic, the woolen Industry was practically stagnant, and imports of wool were only valued at $0,107,438. Democratic prosperity brought a Remand for more wool than our farmers could at once supply, and imports were therefore temporarily greater. Including wool, the total value of these farm products imported in 1891 was $07,757,211. Those of 1895 were valued at $59,012,028, a decrease under the Wilson tariff of $8,745,183. Thus do the official figures contradict the high-tariff assertions that free trade Is ruining the farmer. High Tariff Chestnuts, With the advent of autumn comes once more our old familiar friend, the mouldy high tariff chestnut that “protection” caused the great decline iu the price of steel rails. The New York Tribune has just beard about the wonderful results of protection Iu the stee'. rail industry, and hastens to tell its readers all about it. “Twenty years ago,” says the Tribune, “the city of Cincinnati paid SBO a ton for steel rails. Now rails are less that S3O per ton. This Is the result of protection.” Certainly. Protection did it all. If caused Sir Henry Bessemer to Invent the method of making steel which has so vastly cheapened that product. Of course it happened that the new process was discovered by a wicked freetrader in trade country, but Hie Tribune says protection did it, aud that paper ought to know. The ldgli tariff also caused the invention of improved rolling mills and other machinery which have been adopted during the past twenty years. At the same time it put great deposits of coal where it fould bo easily mined, and created the rich Iron mines of the Northwest. At least, It must have done these things If the Tribune is right, for It was due to their existence that Ihe price of steel rails has fallen. Only the Tribune forgot to say that steel rails are now about $5 a ton eheaper In free trade England than In this country. If protection puts down prices here, what caused them to fall in England? Not our competition, for our prices are still higher than abroad. No More Tariff Tinkering. The “Ohio idea” about the tariff, as set forth in the speeches made by the leaders of the party at the opening of the campaign, not only falls to evoke any enthusiasm, but encounters sharp rebuke in other States. The Buffalo Express coolly serves notice upon the McKinleyites that “the Ohio Republicans must not expect that the people are going to rip business all the way down the back for their benefit.” The President of the Massachusetts Senate says that in his opinion “the general revival of business Is occasioned by the confidence that the business men of the country feel that there Is to be no more tariff tinkering for many years.” It Is true that be adds as an element In the case the confidence of business men that, “if the tariff is to be readjusted In any particular, it wilf be done by the friends of protection to American industries,” but this last clause Is evidently thrown In only to “keep in line." The weakness of Ohio’s candidate for the Republican nomination lies In the fact that McKinley stands not merely for “tariff-tinkering,” but for an entire overhauling of the present system.— New York Evening Post.

Pointer for Farmers. It will surprise those farmers who advocate the “building of a wall around the United States and import and export nothing” to know that threefourths of the exports of the United States are farm products, and that England alone buys 59 per cent of this. —Huntsville (Ala.) Mercury. Fearful of a Punctured Tire. Mr. Reed steadfastly refuses to get out his campaign bicycle while there is so much energy displayed in distributing political tacks over the boulevard.

THE BIG ELM IN SAVANNA, ILL.

W !• Twenty-three Feet end Nine Inches in Circnoiferencei end la Bnppoaed to Be Three Hnndred and Thirty-live Years Old.

On the banks of the Mississippi in Savanna, Ili., stands an elm tree that la the pride and wonder of Carroll County. It is probably the largest in Illinois, If not In the United States, taking circumference, height and spread of branches into consideration. The famous elm of Boston, which was destroyed in 1870, was twenty-two feet in circumference at the base, while the elm of Savanna is twentythree feet and nine inches. Its height is eighty feet, and the spread of itß branches shades an nrea of 100 feet in diameter, it was a large tree when the present city of Savannn was laid out in 1828. Indeed, if De Candolle, the Swiss botanist, was correct in placing the age of the elm

A GIANT SLOTH.

An Extinct Creature that Once Flourished in South America. The Megatherium Americanum In the name scientists have applied to a gigantic mammal that once flourished In South America. On the flat alluvial

AN EXTINCT MONSTER.

plains south of Buenos. Ayres, Argentina, the remains of this monster have been found and from them casts of the strange creature have been made. The Megatherium was allied to the sloths and ant eaters, and perhaps to the armadillos. Its bones were more massive than those of the elephant and It was endowed with wonderful strength. Instead of climbing trees for Its food as modern sloths do it sat on Its huge haunches and tall as on a tripod and grasped a tree In Its powerful arms, breaking the trunk. It then devoured the succulent vegetation, after which It repeated its work until Its appetite was appeased. The Illustration represents n cast of the skeleton.

Grumblers

How full this world Is of grumblers. Many of the same people who are scold-' lng this summer, because It Is warm, will scold next winter because It Is cold. There Is no point between zero and the nineties that suits them. Whether the gray clouds yield rain or snow makes no matter—neither is wanted. If skies are clear somebody’s cistern needs rain; if the showers descend somebody’s feathers are mined. It would add much to our happiness and detract much from the fatal tendency to grow old If we would strive after con ten t-

at 335 years, this hoary giant must havt sprouted soon after Do Soto explorod ths Mississippi in 1542. The figure of a matt in the trunk view serves a double purpose. It illustrates the size of tho tree as compared with tho body of a large man, and at the samo time shows the past of the nation in the person of one of tho oldest pioneors, Pliny Taylor, who has lived under the shadow of the big elm for fiftyfive years. To D. L. Bowen, the oldest living pioneer, who coma Jo Savanna in 1836, is duo the predlt of preserving the big olm in later years. Curiously enough, tliere is no scar or mark upon this tree to show that it has ever been struck by lightning, although trees all around it have been shivered repeatedly.

rnent and cease worrying over the Inevitable. Tho truly happy are the hap-py-go-lucky, who take everything as It homes and make tho best of It If It rains all that 1s left to do Is to put up our umbrella, If we are so fortunate as to have one, and trudge along. Wot feet and bedraggled sklrtß won’t kill one any more than poverty and drudgery will, If there is something within us too sunshiny for poverty to cloud and too noblo for drudgery to debase. The person who spends his life scolding because things don't go to suit him U like t|ie fly on the king's chariot wheol. Things may not be plannod exactly for the comfort of the fly, but his protest will never stop the procession. Tho best tactics for flies and grumblors to pursus Ul t° bike what comes along and be glad ft 1b no worse.—Chicago TlmesHerald.

NOVEL BICYCLE BUILT FOR TWO.

Only One Must Know How to Hide the New Contrivance. Bicycle manufacturers seem inclined to Introduce some sort of a machine that will take the place of tho tandem wheel now In use. Tlie majority appear to favor a wheol on which two riders can ride side by side. Several wheels of this character have been manufactured, but they have been on the blcycl* type and not much fancied. Something new on the bicycle market

THE LATEST BICYCLE BUILT FOR TWO.

is what Is called the Companion, a bicycle, as shown In the accompanying cut. It seats two persons, being of the ordinary type of safety with two wheels. At a glance the construction of the wheel would lead to the inference that this bicycle would upset with two people; but, on the contrary, one person can ride it, and, on account of Its lightness and admirable outline, it Is becoming very popular.

HONORS ARE EVEN, NOW.

HUSTLING BOOSTERS.

ITEMS GATHERED FROM OVER - THE STATEXn Interesting Mammary of the Hare Ins. portent Doings of Oar Neighbors—TVed. dings end Deaths—Crimes, Casualties, and General Indiana News Notes. Returns to Hia Family After Thirty* Three Yeara Absence. ’ Thirty-three years ago Aaron Swain ot Kokomo, went to California, leaving behind a wife and infant daughter, promising to return from the gold fields with a fortune. Twenty years rolled by. and, no tidings of the absent husband coming to the ears of the family, Mrs. Swain married again and is rearing a second family. The infant daughter deserted by Swain was married to George Conner eighteen years ago, and she now has children grown. The other day Swain, after a third of a century’s absence, reappeared on the scene, calling first at the home of his daughter, the wife of his youth being now the wife of a prosperous farmer in Ilcnry County. On being told that she was presiding over another household and the mother of a second set of children, the old gentleman manifested no gTeat concern. • “Well,” said he, “she has got none the best of me on that score. I have another wife and Children in California myself.” All parties are on friendly terms, and there is much sjieculatlon as to the outcome of the matrimonial tangle. The old gentleman is puzzled to know which wife to keep. The old lady will probably decide the matter.

Minor State Items. El wood is to have a $60,000 theater by Christmas. Tho next .State turnfest will be held at South Bend in July. Hannibal Fletcher aged 73, was found dead in bed at Slielbyviiie. Oliver O’Neil, u Brazil butcher, fell into a vat of boiling lard, and was fatally scalded. Chiefs of Police of Indiana met at Terre Haute, Tuesday, and effected a permanent organization. Mrs. Marion McKay was thrown from a runaway buggy at Slielbyviiie, and fatally injured. During the centennial Fort Wayne will give bicycle races In which $1,500 iu prizes will be awarded. Tito silverware found in a corn field near Elwood Ims been identified as that stolen from a Noblesvllle jewelry store. Tho s!ate Convention of the Young Women’s Christian Association of Cltiea and Colleges will be held In Hiohmond, Oct. 17. In trying to climb on the cars at Jonesboro, Randall Chimttkln fell under the wheels and lost both legs. Ho was only 11 years old. A. J. Hlnkiey, aged 04, a patient In the Central Hospital for the Insane, at Indianapolis, committed suicide by hanging himself with a towel. South Bend board of education lias introduced the teaching of Swedish into the public schools. A night school twice a week is field for that purposes Tho strike at the, plate-glass works at Kokomo Ims ended disastrously for the men. The compand put men in tlie pluoe of the strikers and the plant is in operation again at the old wages. Tho Elwood Police Board lias issued an order closing up all the gambling rooms In the city and ordering the proprietors to keep them closed jn the future, or have all tho fixtures burned in the streets. The order is being obeyed. Patents have been issued to residents of Indiana as follows: Edward Brewer, Greenwood, rotary photograph album; George Pederson, neck yoke; James Simpson, Veedersimrg, gate; James C. Burgess, Yountzville, bolt clipper. Sheriff Burk investigated the Shelbyvlllo Jail and discovered that the bars had been sawed away from a window, and that a wholesale delivery hud been planned. A saw and a file were found In one cell. Among tho prisoners are two alleged murderers. The s'.wen-months-old child of O. P. Kerr of Brazil, who was given a tablet of corrosive sublimate by its grandmother, who thought It was a tablet loft by the doctor for the child, Is dead. The aged ludy who gave tho poison is distracted with grief. The Rev. Nathan Caldwell McDlll will have completed his forty-third yearns pastor of the United Brethren Church, at lilcliland, Rush County, In November. Ho is now 71 years old, but continues In the active discharge of his duties as pastor. Ho has been marrfed three times. The private bank of C. D. Porter, of Geneva, lias been reorganized under the title of the Geneva Bank, as a State Institution, witli a paid-up capital of $(10,000. The officers elected ure: A. G. Briggs, President; 8. W. Hale, Vice President; C. D. Porter, Cashier, and Eugene Ash, Assistant Cashier.

State Ous Inspector Leach gives the cheering Intelligence that the gas companies will furnish satisfactory services this year. lie says that experienced men are at the head of the companies now, and he does not believe that patrons will have cause to complain. Inspector Leach has liegun a number of prosecutions against those who use gas recklessly In the field, and will push them. He has had considerable trouble over the flambeau light, and most of his prosecutions will be directed against those who have refused to abandon this practice. The people of Posey township Clay County, are exoited over an oil find made there. When the tipn of B. Roberts & Pro. was sinking a well on :he Jeff James farm, a mile and a half southwest of Staunton, 'the men were suddenly driven out of the well by a flow of oil which gushed up from (lie bottom and filled it to a depth of twelve feet. -The oil was struck at a depth of thirty-five feet. Property has already risen to ten times its value. The find was made about a mile from where Terre Haute people fwo years ago made an unsuccessful attempt to find oil. While Jos. Pye was hauling gravel at Oaklandon, his team ran away, throwing him under the wagon, which passed over his body, killing him almost instantly. Mr. Fye was a son-in-law of the late D. G. Ilanna. He was a member of the 1. O. O. F. and leaves a wife and one child. Clinton Miller committed suicide at the fair grounds at Marion by shooting himself through the head. He left a letter stating that, having spent all of his wife’s money as well as his own, and having otherwise grossly misbehaved, he felt that the best thing he could do was to put an end to his existence. - A costly fire broke oiit at Fortville, and destroyed a half-dozen storerooms and two residences before it burned itself out. It started in a bakery, whiclj was quickly a mass of flames, and soon spread to adjoining buildings. The loss will reach probably SIO,OOO, with very little insurance. The means of fighting fire were totally inadequate. Veiia Crlsman, aged 12, of Middletown near Muncie, is dead. Six years ago she swallowed a pin and for four years has had intense suffering. About a year ago the point of the pin was found protruding from her back and was extracted. After her death it was found that four of the vertebrae had decayed, leaving several ribs without support.