Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1896 — Page 3

FARMS AND FARMERS.

Cider Makin&r. Strictly speaking, cider is the juice nt apples after it has been extracted from the fruit, carefully filtered, clarified and fermented, and should contain not less than G per cent, of alcohol. In this country the term is applied indiscriminately to apple juice from the time 1t leaves the cider press until acetic fermentation,or the process of vinegar

DOUBLE HAND MILL.

(making, begins. It is commonly made ilrom refuse apples of all varieties, little attention being given to their condition 'when taken to the mill as to the degree !<>f ripeness, freedom from insects or (proportion of tart to sweet apples. The (result is a juice which quickly begins to ferment, then acidify, being often uu■jialatable and insipid. For vinegar ’■making it is not so necessary to look after the details, but even for this product there are certain points which •must be observed if a prime article is desired. The apples ought to be mature. Undeveloped fruit will make a cider which •contains a large per cent, of water and but little fruit sugar. It will not only lie unpalatable as cider, but the vinegar resulting will be weak and of poor quality. Apple butter made with this kind a>f juice will also be unsatisfactory for home use, and practically unsalable on the market. If the apples are full grown but yet unripe, the quality can be greatly improved by ripening in piles. Remove all decayed specimens, collect in heaps containing two to five bushels, and put them on a layer of straw, hay or fence rails. Allow the apples tb remain here until they begin to mellow and lose their excessive tartness, or in iOther words until a part of the starch .in the apple has changed into fruit sugar. Mixing the fruit so that the flavor •of tile sour apples will supplement the body and sugar of the.sweet ones, gives the best results. If the cider is to be (made into ax>ple butter, the sooner it is used after it comes from the press the better. If it is to be .kept for vinegar, put into strong clean barrels, tilling about two-thirds full, leave out the bung and cover the hole with a piece of muslin so that insects cannot enter, but air may be admitted freely. Put on supports under a tree during warm weather, and in a cellar or fruit house after freezing temperatures appear. If the cider is to be kept for drinking purposes it must be carefully filtered by means of muslin and charcoal filters, clarified and fermented so that the fruit sugar will be turned into alcohol. When this process is completed, the product must be placed in air-tight vessels or bottles, so that acetic fermentation will

POWER GRATER TO CRUSH APPLES.

not take place. When properly prepared the cider will remain good for many years. • Old Idea of the Farmer. Tl’.c old, brutal notion has not yet been liven down that a laborer needs only to be a huge "mass of meat and bones,” six feet by two. that can hold a plow, fat a steer, feed a pig or drive a jaek plane, or swing a trowel. A workingman used to be valued like a bullock—for the size and toughness of his muscles, and the number of pounds avoirdupois he might chance to weigh, anti to some extent he is a valued so yet. The voice-of history from the days of Grecian and Roman helots down to modern staves and ignorant plowboys—proclaims the damning truth that the world estimated brute force, and power of brute endurance, all that the laborer needs to make him accomplish his mission—that mind and thought are as useless to the man who works as the fifth wheel would be to a wagon.— Janres Shaw. , Take Care of the Lambs. Tbe care of lambs does not end with the period of the first few days of their lives. If you can, provide them with n place as free as possible from flies. If they pasture on hill and valley land, they will protedf''ttiemselves, as they will tie much uptfu the elevations where cooling breezes will play around them, and These will help keep the flies at bay. Where they have no such choice of situation, try and give them the shelter of a darkened shed If you can during! The-heat of day. But there should be openings hi It through Which the breezes can play. And by all means give them water. There Is no place where they want, it more than in the late summer, when the grasses are jia relied a<nd dry. The poor things suffer when they have no water, and all

suffering in domestic animals is a hindrance to well being. Weeds and Good Farming. Occasionally a farmer is heard to ask how the weeds can be killed, but he does not realize that if by some rapid process they could all be dispatched new legions would fill their places at once if the conditions which they enjoy remain. What farmers need to comprehend is that without some radical mistake in the management of their land the daisies would never have gained such a foothold. All plants. Including weeds, settle and thrive where the competition for life is such that they can enter into It and prosper. A good stand of grass leaves no room nor any hope for weeds. It is not in well tilled fields tjiat Canada thistles flourish, but in neglected pasturesand by the roadsides. In the contest with the best agricultural practice they cannot prevail. The remedy for weeds is to keep the land busy with a good crop on it, and this means that the farmers must give persistent and connected thought to bis business. If the daisies crowd out the grass, it is because the meadow has been neglected and the grass has begun to fail, and wherever there is a vacancy by the failure of the grass every enterprising weed finds a rightful opportunity to establish itself. If the farmer asks, therefore, what will kill the daisies, there is one answer: better farming. Mistakes in Marketing:* “It is a mistake to market your fruit in flour or meal bags when you can get clean ones; better use the clean sacks for oats or wheat, and put fruit in good clean baskets, boxes or barrels. It is a mistake to try to put a quart of berries into a pint-and-a-half basket, or a half bushel of peaches or pears into a twelve-quart basket; they shrink in getting them out. It is a mistake to put all the samples in the bottom of the basket; most people take them out before they use them; besides, the large ones on top have a crushing effect, if not upon them at least upon your honesty as a fruit-grower. It is a mistake to send soft fruit to a distant market. It is a mistake to send fruit to a commission man whose honesty you know nothing about. It is a mistake to expect prompt payments from every commission man you send to. It is a mistake to send off fruits to be sold on commission, if you can get a fair price for them near home.” Loadin" Corn Fodder Made Easy. The accompanying illustration, taken from Farm and,Home, shows how fodder may be loaded without much exer-

RIG FOR HANDLING HEAVY BUNDLES.

lion. Place an ordinary rack on a lowwheeled wagon or sled. To the rear of the rack hinge an apron of sufficient length so that when one end is on the ground the slope will not exceed 25 degrees. Fasten a pulley, a, to the front end of the rack at the middle. Back the wagon or sled close to the shock. Turn down the apron. Make a loop on one end of a strong rope and place this over the shock, b. Run the other end through the pulley on the front of the raek. then back to a stake or iron pin, c, driven into the ground. Start up the team slowly and the shock will be pulled on to the rack. Poultry Notes. Non-setting breeds lay white eggs. The hen pays for herself in a short time. Large eggs indicate that the hens ape too fat. During hot weather water your fovyls three times a day. Beware of overfeeding; it is a variety of feed and shell producing materials that give the best results. Give the hens proper care, but this does not Imply that you must be continually fussing with them. There is little or no difficulty in raising young ducks or goslings if they can be kept dry until well feathered. Geese are very hardy, are easily raised, require less care and expensive food than any other breed of fowls. Bantams make nice pets, but thev should be kept in separate yards, as they are very annoying to larger fowls. A sandy soil is the very best for poultry. Where this is impossible the yards or runs should be cleaned at least once a month. If the drinking fountains are scalded out each week there will be no slime in the vessels, and the water will not carry disease. When the comb of a heir is large and bright colored, showing it to be full of blood, it shows her to be in a godd, healthy condition.

Horticultural Hints. Diseases are contagious among plants, and should be watched and promptly treated. Canada papers report a large hang of fruit in the orcharas, particularly apples- prospects are for a good crop. The small trees should be cultivated, especially during dry weather. In fact, all cultivated crops will be benefited by shallow cultivation during dry spells. ' Small-fruit growing is not straining to ’he land’s fertility; in no other crop will so much satisfaction, gratified taste and good health be secured at so small a cost j The striped cucumber bug can be driven away by dusting the vines with a mixture of one part of flour to four Paris Insect powder. Ashes, plaster, lime, ete„ are good to prevent its attacks.

TALMAGE’S SERMON.

THE PREytfCHER TALKS OF HUMAN KINDNESS. It Is a Means of Defense as Well as of Usefulness-Enemies Mar Be Conquered with a Soft Tongne—Sympathy Is Potent with Sinners. Help of a Kind Word. In these days, when satire and retort and bitterness till the air the gospel ear<4 of this sermon will do good to all who read and practice it. The text is Proverbs xxv., 15, “A soft tongue breaketh the bone.” When Solomon said this, he drove * whole volume into one phrase. You, cf course, will uot be so silly as to take the words of the text in a literal scuse. They simply mean to set forth the fact that there is a tremendous power in a kind word. Although it may seem to be very insignificant, its force is indescribable and illimitable. Pungent and all conquering utterance, “A soft tongue breaketh the bone.” If I had time, 1 would show you kindness as a means of defense, as * means of usefulness, kindness as a means of domestic harmony, kindness as best employed by governments for the taming and curing of criminals and kindness as best adapted for the settling and adjusting of international quarrel, but 1 shall eall your alfrstion only to two of these thoughts. And, first, I speak to you of kindness as a means of defense. Almost every man, in the course of his life, is set upon and assaulted. Your motives are misrepresented or your religious or political principles are bombarded. What to do under such circumstances is the question. The first impulse of the natural heart says: “Strike back. Give as much as he sent. Trip him into the ditch which he dug for your feet. Gash him with as severe a wound as that which he inflicted on your soul. Shot for shot. Sarcasm for sarcasm. An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth.” But the better spirit in the man’s soul rises up aud says, "You ought to consider that matter.” You look up into the face of Christ and say, “My Master, how ought I to act under these difficult circumstances?” And Christ instantly answers, “Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you." Then the old nature rises up again and says: “You had better not forgive him until first you have chastised him. You will never get him in so tight a corner again. Y’ou will never have such an opportunity of inflicting the right kind of punishment upon him again. First chastise him and then let him go.” “No," says the better nature, “hush, thou foul heart. Try the soft tongue that breaketh the bone." Have you ever in all your life known acerbity and acrimonious dispute to settle a quarrel? Did they not always make matters worse and worse and worse? About fifty-five years ago there was a great quarrel in the Presbyterian family. Ministers of Christ were thought orthodox in proportion as they had measured lances with other clergymen of the same denomination. The most outrageous personalities were abroad. As. in the autumn, a hunter comes home with a string of game, partridges and wild ducks, slung over his shoulder, so there were many ministers who came back from the ecclesiastical courts with long strings of doctors of divinity whom they had shot with their own rifle. The division became wider, the animosity greater, until after awhile some good men resolved upon another tack. They began to explain, away the difficulties, they began to forgive each other’s faults, and, lo! the great church quarrel was settled, and the new school Presbyterian church and the old school Presbyterian church became one. The different parts of the Presbyterian order, welded by a hammer, a Httle hammer, a Christian hammer that the Scripture calls “a soft tongue.” The Applause of Conscience.

You have a dispute with your neighbor. You say to him, “I despise you." lie replies, “I can’t bear the sight of you." You say to him, “Never enter my house again.” He says, “If you come on my door sill. I'll kick you off.” Yoy say to him, “I'll put you down.” He says to you: “You are mistaken. I'll put you down.” And so the contest rages, and year after year you act the unchristian part, and he acts the unchristian part. After awhile the better spirit seizes you. and one day you go over to the neighbor and say: “Give me your hand. We have fought long enough. Time is so short, and eternity is so near, that we cannot afford any longer to quarrel. I feel you have wronged me very much, but let us setle all now in one great hand-shaking and be good friends for all the rest of our lives.” You have risen to n higher phitfohn than that on which before you stood. You win his admiration, and you get his apology. But if you have not conquered him in that way nt any rate you have won the applause of your own conscience, the high estimation of good men and the honor of your Lord who died for his armed enemies.” “Bnt,” you say, “what are we to do when slanders assault us, and there come acrimonious sayings all around about us, and we are abused and spit upon?" My reply is: Do not go and attempt to chase down the slanders. Lies are prolific, and while you are killing one, fifty are horn. All your demonstrations of indignation only exhaust yourself. You might as well on some summer night, when the swarms of insects are coming up from ths meadows and disturbing you and disturbing your family, bring up some great “swamp angel,’’ like that which thundered over Charleston, and try to shoot them down. The game is too small for the gun. But what, then, are you to do with the abuses that come upon you in life? You are to live them down! I saw a farmer go out to get back a swarm of bees that bad wandered off from the hive. As he moved amid them they buzzed around his head and buzzed around his hands and buzzed around his feet. If he had killed one of them they would have stung him to death. But he moved in their midst in perfect placidity untik-he had captured the swarm of wandering bees. And so I have seen men moving amid the annoyances, and the vexations, and the assaults of life in such calm, Christian deliberation that all the buzzing around about their soul amounted to nothing. They conquered them, and, above all, they conquered themselves. “Oh,” you say, “that’s a very good theory to preach on a hot day, but it won’t work.” It will work. It has worked. I believe it is the last Christian grace we win. You know there are fruits which we gather in June, and others in July, and others in August, and others in September, and still others in October, and I have to admit that this grace of Christian forgiveness is about the last fruit of the Christian soul. We hoar a great deal about the bitter tongue, and the sarcastic tongue, and the quiek tongue, but we know very little about “the soft tougue that breaketh the bone.” We read Hudibras and Sterne and Dean Swift and the other apostles of acrimony, but give little time to studying the example of him who was jeviled, and yet reviled not again. Oh, that the Lord, by his Spirit, would endow us all with “the soft tongue that breaketh the bone.” Kindness Is Useful. I now to the other thought that I

desire to present, and that is kindness as A means of usefulness. In all communities you find skeptical men. Through early education, or through the maltreatment of professed Christian people, or through prying curiosity about the future world, there are a great many people who become skeptical ju .religious things. How shall you capture them for God? Sharp argument and sarcastic retort never won a single soul from skepticism to the Christian religion. While powerful books ou the evidences of Christianity have their mission in confirming Christiin people in the faith they have already adopted, I have noticed that when skeptical people are brought into the kingdom of Christ it is through the charm pf, some genial soul, and not by argument at all. Men are not saved through the head; they are saved through the heart. A storm comes out of its hiding place,, . says, “Now we’ll just rouse up all this sen." and it makes a great bluster, but it does not succeed. Part of the sea is roused up—|>erhgps one-half of it or one-fourth of it. After awhile the calm moon, placid and beautiful. looks down, and the ocean begins to rise. It comes up to high water mark. It embraces the great headlands. It .submerges the beach of all the continents. It is the heart throb of one world against the heart throb of another world. And I have to tell yoq that while all your storms of ridicule and storms of sarcasm may rouse np the passion of an immortal nature, nothing less than the attractive pOtvejj of Christian kindness can ever raise the deathless spirit to happiness and to God. I hare more faith in the prayer of a child 5 years old in the way of bringing nn infidel back to Christ and to heaven than I have in all the hissing thunderbolts of ecclesiastical controversy. You cannot overcome men with religious argumentation. If you come at a skeptical man with an argument on behnlf of the Christian religion, yon put the man on his mettle. He says: “I see that man has a carbine. I’ll use my carbine. I'll answer his argument with my argument.” But if you come to that man, persuading him that you desire his happiness on earth aud his eternal welfare in the world to come, he cannot answer it. A Glorious Sentiment. What I have said is just as true in the reclamation of the openly vicious. Did you ever know a drunkard to be saved through the caricature of a drunkard? Your mimicry of the staggering step, and the thick tongue, and the disguising hiccough, only worse maddens his brain. But if you come to him in kindness and sympathy, if you show him that you appreciate the awful grip of u depraved appetite. if you persuade him of the fact that thousands who had the grappling hooks of evil inclination clutched in their soul as firmly as they now are in his have been rescued, then a ray of light will flash across his vision, and it will seem as if a supernatural hand were steadying his staggering gait. A good many years ago there lay in the streets of Richmond a man dead drunk, his face exposed to the blistering noonday sun. A Christian woman passed along, looked at him and said, “Poor fellow!” She took her handkerchief and spread it over his face and passed on. The man roused himself up from his debauch and began to look at the handkerchief, and lo! oft it was the name of a highly respectable Christian woman of the city of Richmond. He went to her, he thanked her for her kindness, and that one little deed saved him for this life, and saved him for the life that is to come. He was afterward attorney general of the United States; but, higher than all, he became the consecrated disciple of Jesus Christ.

Kind words are so cheap it is a wonder we do not use them oftener. There are tens of thousands of people in these cities who are dying for the lack of one kind word. There is a business man who has fought against trouble until he is perfectly exhausted. He has been thinking about forgery, about robbery, about suicide. Go to that business man. Tell him that better times are coming, and tell him that you yourself were in a tight business pass, and the Lord delivered you. Tell him to put his trust in God. Tell him that Jesus Christ stands beside every business man in his perplexities. Tell him of the sweet promises of God’s comforting grace. That man is dying for the lack of just one kind word. Go to-morrow and utter that one saving, omnipotent, kind word. Here is a soul that has been swamped in sin. He wants to find the light of the gospel. He feels like a shipwrecked mariner looking out over the beach, watching for a sail against the sky. Oh, bear down on him! Tell him that the Lord waits to be gracious to him; that, though he has been a great sinner, there is a great Savior provided. Tell him that, though his sins are as scarlet, they shall be as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. That man is dying forever for the lack of one kind word. There used to be sung at a great many of the pianos al! through the country a song that has altnost died out. I wish somebody would start it again in,our social circles. There may not have been very exquisite art in the music, but there was a grand and glorious sentiment. Kind words never die, never die, Cherished and blessed. Sympathy’s Loving Grace, Oh, that we might in our families and in our churches try the force of kindness! You can never drive men, women or children into the kingdom of God. A March northeaster will bring out more honeysuckles than fretfulness and scolding will ever bring out Christian grace. 1 wish that in ail our religious work we might be saturated with the spirit of kindness. Missing that, we miss a great deal of usefulness. There is no need of coming out before men and thundering to them the law unless at the same time you preach to them the gospel. The world is dying for lack of kindness. These young people want it just as much as the old. The old people sometimes seem to think they have a monopoly of the rheumatisms, and the neuralgias, and the headaches, and the physical disorders of the world; but I tell you there are no worse heartaches than are felt by some of these young people. Do you know that much of the work is done by the young? Raphael died at 37, Richelieu at 31, Gustavus Adolphus died at 38, Innocent 111. came to his mightiest influence at 37, Cortes conquered Mexico at 30, Don John won Lepanto at 25, Grotius was attorney general at 24, and I have noticed amid all classes of men that some of the severest battles and tile toughest work come before 30., Therefore we must have our sermons and our exhortations in prayer meeting all sympathetic with the young. And so with these people further on in life. What do these doctors and lawyers and merchants, and mechanics care about abstractions,of religion? What they want is help to bear ties of patients, the browbeatftigjof legal opponents, the unfairness of who have plenty of fault finding for every imperfection of handiwork, but no praise for twenty excellencies. What does that brain racked, hand blisterril man care for Zwingli's “Doctrine of Orhjßaal Sin" or Augustin’s ‘‘Anthropology^*'\\Yon might as well go to a map the pleurisy and, pot on his side a plaster made out of Dr. Barr’s “Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence.” In all out sermons there must 1 be help •for every’bhe Somewhere. YOW ge into an apothecary, stoYe. We' see others being waited on. ’ Wedb ntt complain because we do not inimediately get the medicine. ! ' ’ 'V

We know our tnm will come after awhile. And so while all parts of *Mw;iaotKJuay not be appropriate to our case, If we wait prayerfully before the sermon is through we shall have the divine prescription. I say to these young men who are going to preach the gospel, these theological students, I say to them. We want in our sermons not more metaphysics, nor more imagination, nor more logic, nor more profundity. Lend a Helping Hand. What we want in our sermons and Christian exhortations is more sympathy. When Father Taylor preached in the Sailors’ Bethel at Boston, the jack tars I felt they had help for their duties among the ratlines and the fofecngtles. When Richard Weaver preached to the operatives in Oldham,.England,,all the workingmen felt they had more grace for the spindles. When Dr. Soufh preached to kings and princes and princesses, all ths mighty men gud who heard him felt preparation for their high station Ds you not know that this simple story of a Savior's kiudnes»<is to redeem all nations? The hard heart of this world's obduracy is to be broken before that -story. There is in Antwerp, Belgium, one of the most remarkable pictures I ever saw. It is ’’The Descent of Christ from the Cress.” It is one oMtubens' pictures. No man can stand and look at that “Descent from the Cross,” as Rubens pictured it, without having his eyes flooded with tears, if he have any sensibility at all. It is un overmastering picture—one that stuns you find staggers you and haunts your dreams. Due afternoon a man stood in that cathedral looking at Rubens' “Descent from the Cross.” He was all absorbed in that scene of a Savior's Bufferings, when the janitor came in and said: “It is time to close up the cathedral for the night. I wish you would depart.” The pilgrim, looking at that “Descent from the Cross,” turned around to the janitor and said: "No, no; not yet. Wait until they get him down." Oh, it is the story of a Savior’s suffering kindness that is to capture the world. When the bones of that great behemoth of iniquity which has trampled nil nations shall be broken and shattered, it will be found out that the work wns not done by the hammer of the iconoclast, or by the sword of the conqueror, or by the torch of persecution, but by the plain, simple, overwhelming force of "the soft tongue that breaketh the bone.” Our Eternal Heritnnce. Kindness'! We all need more of it in our hearts, bur words and our behavior. The chief characteristic of our Lord was kindness. A gentleman in England died leaving his fortune by will to two sons. The son than st aid at home destroyed the father's will ajqt pretended that the brother who was absent wns dead and buried. The absent brother after awhile returned and claimed his part of the property. Judges and jurors were to be bribed to any that the returned brother and son was no son at all, but only an imposter. The trial came on. Sir Matthew Hale, the pride of the English courtroom ami for twenty years the pride of jurisprudence, heard that that injustice was about tq bo practiced. He put off his official robe, lie put on the garb of a miller. Ho want fa the village where that trial was to takq place. He entered the courtroom. He somehow got impaneled as one of the jurors. The bribes enine nround, and the num gave ten pieces of gold to the other jurors, but ns this wns only a poor miller the briber gave to him only five pieces of gold. A verdict was brought in rejecting the right of this returned brother. He was to have no share in the inheritance. “Hold, my lord!” said the miller. “Hold!We are not all agreed on this verdict These other men have received ten pieces of gold in bribery and I have received only five." "Who are you? Where do you come from?” said Judge on the bench. The response was: "I atn from Westminster Hail. My name is Matthew Hale, lord chief justice of the king’s bench. Off of that place, thou villain!” And so the injustice was balked, and so the young man got his inheritance. It was all for another that Sir Matthew Hale took off his robe and put on the garb of a miller. And so Christ took off his robe of royalty and put on the nttire of our humanity, and in that disguise he won our eternal portion. Ndw are we the sons of God—joint' heirs. We w'ent off from home sure enough, but we got back in time to receive our eternal inheritance. And if Christ whs so kind to Utt, stirdly we can afford tb be kind to each other.

A Very singular Fish.

“The strangest fish story I ever hoard was an experience I had mysolf,” said Judge Sctiddcr, of Ataluma as he settled himself Wack In bls biff anndhatr, while a reflective look passed his open countenance. “Itwasln the summer of 1882,1 thiuk that an Easterner and myself started out on the warpath for flkh. Salmon creek afforded fine fishing for salmon, trout and salmon trout as well. “We had good sport—fine luck, In fact—for two days, and on the third day I chose a very wild spot and seated myself on a large “rock overhanging the creek- I fished with a line and rod, using the same old-fashioned sort of worm I did as a boy. There was no need to use the more scientific fly when fish were so easily caught. "The Easterner was downstream a little way, and everything was intensely solemn and quiet. When I felt a fierce pull on the line I roused up at once, and, pulling up, what should I see coming bobbing to the surface but a human skull, which, to all appearances, had swallowed the bait through Its eyes! Naturally my otherwise steady nerves were considerably shaken, and with a sort of howl I started back suddenly, which motion swung the grewsome thing rather sharply against a rock, whereat It cracked apart, and several pieces—to my relief—slid off into the stream, leaving dangling on my line a most peculiar-looking fish, almost white, and forming an almost perfect ring. "I quickly jerked the hook out of its gills and let it drop into the clear water, where it went through the strangest motions, still keeping its circular shape. It was unable to swim, but twisted around in the water or moved with a whale-like motion. My frlencj,. w|io had been attracted by my howl, arrived Just In time to see some of the eccentric gyrations, and I really believe if .he hadn’t actually seen it he would aiwayaihave said it was a <CaMfornia' yarn. • 1 • ' “We afterward came to the concltf-' pion that the fish, when small, had strayed Into, the skull, ftiicC probably through some inottpn of Its-pwn had turned the ruin over, fipd £o closed Its mpde.jpf egress,, though it could easily survive* and grow on therfood which camefioatlng by, and there it continued to grow, only hi a ring, until the worm, falling through one of the eye sockets, presided a mode of relief from it# cramped quarters.” ~ ' Give every man thine ear, but, few thy. voice. .Take each man’s but reserve thy judgment <

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD, Mrs. Self of Laporte Becomes Crazy Over Her TrouMn-Runaway Race Horse Injures Many People on the Fair Grounds at Rnshv|lle. Loses Hnsband and Home. Mrs. Charles Self, of Laporte, has been driven insane by the destruction of her house by-taiviidinries ami the belief that her husband had been foully dealt with. Self lias disatipearOtt. nnd there Is evidence to support the theory of foul play. Tuesday night there was a fight in the Self house and Self and an unknown man left the place. A number of shots were tired, but with what effect is not known. At n late hour that night the Self house was burned to the ground, having been tired, it is alleged, by enemies of the family. Wednesday morning Self was missing. He had Considerable money on nis jierson, which strengthens the lielief he was murdered. Wednesday Mrs. Self gave evidence of derangement, and her condition is now pitiable. Mrs. Self declares her purpose to find her husband. dead or alive. Sheriff Small is working on the mystery, which many believe will unravel n crime. -- Runaway Horse Injures Mnnv. During the raivs at Rushville Thursday many people were hurt, many of them s«4iously, aa a result of a runaway on the track. Mamie Woods, driven by George B. Von I’hul, of Greensburg, collided with i'ziirettn, driven by William of Rushville. Mamie Woods was knocked down and her driver hurled ten feet. Von I’hul was then run over by Czar, driven by Clell Maple, who wns but two. length behind when the collision occurred. Maple was thrown, from his bike and it struck the body of- the prostrate Von I’hul. Mamie Wood ran nround the track, driverless nnd ut a dead gallop, nnd then dashed out through an opening gap into the crowd. MojhjfApmen nnd children were trampled under fw>t. Women shrieked and fainted and consternation reigned supreme. There were ulsiut 2,000 at this spot, and in the jam tthat followed the rush of Mamie Wood many were hurt. All Over the State. Frederick Honstrettor, near Seymour, kicked by a horse, is reported dying of lockjaw. In a runaway accident, near Farmland, Roy Goings and his sister Lillie were thrown out, nnd the last-named was seriously hurt. At Laporte, Rosa Schmidt, 12. years old, is confined in jail on n charge of forgery, it being alle.-.ed tthat she forged the name of ‘Rev. Dominick Shttnk, a (’ntholic priest, nnd that her peculations represent a large amount, . The old seniors of Madison County held tlreir annual meeting in Anderson. Mayor Dunlap made the address of welcome. Mrs. Lucinda Harden presented the association with a gavel made from the first apple tree ever planted in the county. There wits a series of ten-minute reminiscences. followed by historical sketches. The officers elected for the coming year are: President, Samuel Harden; Secretary, J. L. Forkner; Treasurer, Daniel Rntiyn n.

William Sriilth, of Sodom, in Crawford County, was bitten on the left hand by what is known in thht commutiity ns a "[tersiiiimon worm." Within half an hour ho cb'mplalnetl of nausea and went to bed. A fpw hours later he wns dead, by which time his hand, arm and side had swollen greatly nnd hail turned a brownish color. The worm resembles a tobacco worm, although much larger, with horns and beak, and a speclmci) has been sent to the State health authorities for classification. It feeds exclusively upon the leaves of the persimmon tree, hence its name, The village of Richland has had a sensational elopement. John Coffee, n contractor, since the death of his wife, one year ago, has been greatly smitten with the charms of Miss Mary Hobbs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hobbs, well-to-do farmers. Coffee is 4S years old, with four children. Miss Hobbs is but 17. Coffee's suit has beewkliseountenanced by the girl's parents, who did all in their power to break up the coutrship. Clandestine meetings were held and an elopement planned for Hunday night. Miss Hobbs went to a neighbor’s, presumably to spend tile night, but after all had retired she stole out through a window and safely got away with her lover. They have not since been beard of. A gang of whitecaps visited the homo of William llpy, near Modesto, Monday night, broke into the house while ho was asleep, and took him forcibly from the bed. He was hurried to a forest near the village, and, after being tied to a tree. Was given an unmerciful whipping with a stirrup leather. After the beating he was covered with a coat of tar from head to foot ami a bug of feathers wns then emptied over his head. The whipping of Ray is alleged to have been caused by his neglect of his family for a woman who was whipped in the same neighborhood a month or more ago. Ray has a wife and three children. He was terribly bruised by the strap, and the tar placed upon the fresh cuts caused him intense pain. John N. Clark died suddenly at Shelbyville Friday. He had been a resident of that city for sixteen years, was a reputable citizen ami the head of a family. A local paper states that Clark has been leading a double life, and that his name was not Clark, but Peter Brooks. Monday morning Bartholomew D. Brooks, who assert* that he is a son of deceased, arrived from Indianapolis afirt Misclosed the fact that he was Clark's son, and that his father had separated from his mother in Mattoon, 111., twenty years ago without having secured a divorce.' He states that his father went from Mattoon to Pana, 111., and was there married again. Mr. Brooks, who is n well-to-do business man in Indianapolis, says he is Clark's inly son, and will demand a share of the large estate left by the dead man. James McCirthy. near Brownsville, committed suicide because of disappointment in love. His attentions had been rejected because of his dissipated habits, It has just learned that Clark whose aged mother resides at Selma, gijj. miles east of Muncie,.,was one of ttlig' victims in the St.’ Louis cyclone. He bpsbeen,,.missing since the great storm, and after a careful description of hijn wAfi<»ent,,to t,h e authorities i$- was learned that he was among the unidentified dead.; A tattoo on one of his arms wns the An abandoned gas well on the James Kincaid farm, near FortviHc, has developed into an oil producer. Barr, of Forf Wayne, fooled with i companion who was sharpening a pencil, and the blade of the knife cut an arjery jp hia hajid, fy-om,s hicjl narrowly, escaped bleeding to death. ' , _,‘ r At the last term .of court a.t South Bend a few weeks itgp George 11. Stover was given a divorce and $2,100 all-' mony, and jo yeaume. her old ume. because drinebmpptibifify. Saturday ttiii coupte” surprised fevetyj prie by I remarrying, are well krtpvvi}, husband being a wealthy farmer. ’ Both had been niarried before.

BIRDS AS WEATHER PROPHETS.

Some Ef«ns by Which Close Observer* Sjt < , s Ifbirds In general pici fhefr feather*, wash themselves and fly to their neats, expect raltf. " ■'*' When birds cease io sing, rain and th’nrfder will probably occur. * • "Blfffs and f&wl olltog their feather* indicate rain. .. . - --. Birds flying in groups during rain or wind indicate hail. Blackbirds bring healthy weather. Blackbirds' notes are very shrill in advance of rain. r j t ' c - A solitary turkey buzzard at a great altitude indicates rain. If the rooster crows more than usual, or earlier, expect rain. Roosters are said to clap their wing* in an unusual manner before rain, and hens to rub in the dust and seem very uneasy. If the crows make much noise and fly round mid round, expect rain. The crow flying alone is a sign of foul weather, but it crows fly in pairs, expect fine weather. Cuckoos hallooing on low lands indicate rain; on high lands, fair weather. The cuckoo In April opens his bill, in May he sing* all day. In June he alters Ills tune, come August, go he must. When fowls roost in daytime, expect rain. When the hen crows, expect a storm within and without. When you seo geese In water washing themselves, expect rain. Geese wash aud sparrows fly In flocks before rain. When the roosters go crowing to bed, they Will rise with watery head. If a rooster crows oigthe ground. It Is a sign of rain; if he crows on the fence. It is a sign of fair weather. A crowing rooster during rnln indicates fair weather. Birds singing during rain Indicates fair weather. Buzzards flying high Indicate fair weather. Domestic fowls dress their feathers when the storm is about to cease. Kites flying unusually high are said to Indicate fair weathpr. Larks when they sing long aud fly high forbode tine weather. if owls hoot at night, expect fair wen t her, if owls scream In foul weather, it will change to fair. When quails arc heard In the evening, fair weather Is Indicated for next day. If storks nnd cranes fly high nnd steady, expect fair weather. When the thrush sings nt sunset, afnlr day will follow. When tnen-of-war hawks fly high, it Is a sign of a clear sky; when they fly low, prepare for a blow.-—Boston Transcript.

They Were Separated.

Several years ago a young colored stndent wns admitted Into the freshman class nt Ynle. He was assigned In the classrooms a seat next to the son of a prominent New York business man. whom we may call, for convenience. Smith. Now, young Smith did not relish the Idea of sitting by a "nigger,” as he put It, so ho wrote to his father complaining of the Indignity. Mr. Smith, the older, taking the same view, at once wrote an angry epistle to the faculty, demanding that his son be relieved fixnu such close association with one of an Inferior race. The professor* were puzzled, but one of thetu, with long experience !n class work, undertook tn answer the lettor satisfactorily. Ho Informed Mr. Smith, most politely, that no Interference was possible, but that In a few weeks, when the classes were rearranged and graded, lie eoulrt assure him that the desired change would certainly be mude. Mr. Smith was satisfied with this assurance, young Smith whs appeased, and the farseeing professor had no difficulty whatever In keeping his word, for by the time the doss wns graded the young negro had proved himself so superior a student tlint he wns among the loaders of the first section, while Smith was an inslgx ulflcani unit In the third. The Joke wasi too good to keep, and the whole college laughed over it—except Smith,"who, naturally, did not seo iqueh fun in the situation. But his father wrote no more letters to the faculty, tit ahy rate.—Boston Journal. ■ ,: i

They Bounced Him.

Sothem was once playing “Ixjrd'fiunidreary” in a small town, whoso regular playgoers plumed themselves on their imperturbable demeanor lu the theater. A joker who lived in that town had just returned from New York, and gravely put in circulation a hint that it was extremely unfashionable to. laugh at comedians. The hint “took.” Sothern played the first act in a frigid atmosphere. He could not understand it, but lie called the company together before the second act, and implored them to “pitch in and wnko ’em up.” They did their utmost, but without perceptible result. Utterly beaten, the great laughtermaker dived into the dressing-room. Presently the manager of the house joined him. “Shake, Ned, old boy!” he exclaimed. “You’re doin' great. Got ’em sure. Never seen a more delighted ordience.” “What!” the dazed response. “Delighted be blowed! They haven't cracked a smile.” “Laughed, sir!” replied the manager. “I should hope not. There was one man that snickered, and we bounced him out afore he knowed what ailed him.”

A Subterranean City.

The “City of the Sa|t Mines” is situated several hundred feet below the surface at, Wlejicska, Galicia. This wonderful subterranean city has a pop. ulatlon of over 1,000 men, women and children, scores of whom have never seen the light; of z ob the surface. This remarkable city has its town hall, a theater and its assembly room, as well as a beautiful church, decorated with statutes, all being fashioned from pure crystallized rock salt. It has well graded streets and spacious squares, all well lighted with electricity. ‘ There are isolated cases in thia underground city, where not a single individual in three or fbqr successive generations has ever seen the sun or has any idea of. how people live on the outside of the earth. Their rock salt houses are said to be petfect sanitariums, and t,he average longevity of the de.iUzens oit of Mines” tp exceed surface ha., iMablUntsefGaUcia. -i