Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1893 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1893 T WELTE PAGES.

THE CROPS OF THE YEAR.

lWFOIOIATIO.V ABOUT TUB YIELD OF - THIS SEASOVS CORN. ArrriiKe Pep Acre Only n. Trifle Lens Thnn n Year A? The Yield In Vnrloui State In the Mllkln stable . Fattening Poultry Storing Seed Potatoe I nnacceKftf al Farmers Root In Drain Tilen The Profitable V.KK Hen Have A e It en cited the Limit HInta to Sfnlni; Women Valuable Reel pea. During the severe drought In the cen tral states last summer The Sentinel re minded its farm readers that this was a very broad country- of ours, and that It would well not to place too much confidence in the predictions of pome extremists that the corn crop would be an almost entire failure and prices correspondingly hi?h. However much we would like to see good paying prices all the time,, we tan not change conditions, and so would help our farm readers by recording- the facts just as nearly as pot-sible. We now find from the report of the national department of agriculture that the average yield of corn per acre for the entire country is only one and a half bushels less than the average for ' the decade ending with the year IS!), and only one buphel lens than the average for the three years since HS9. The averag-a yield this year is 22.6 bushels per acre. However, our readers will remember that a shortage of one and a half bushJels per acre, as compared with a tenyear average, is a serious shortage after all. The lowest yield in the ten years was 20.1 bushels in 1SST. The big crop years have given us several bushels above Uie average. One and a half bushels shortage per acre on our entire acreage is a large amount, and the market price should be considerably ' above the average. The highest rate of yifli, according to the estimates, it appears, was in the four New England states Maine, New Hampshire. A'ermont, Massachusetts and the western state of Iowa. The yield in New York is well above the average for the country, but only moderately fair as to quality. In Pennsylvania, taken for the state, quality is poor. In New Jersey the weather was unfavorable for late maturing crops, detrimentally affecting both yield and quality of the crop, so that the merchantable proportion will be lower than usual. Thi is also true of Delaware. In Virginia drought reduced the yield and the great rainfall in the months of September and October impaired the ciuality, causing rot and mold. The crop in Illinois, one of the heaviest surplus states, is reported of good quality, sound and dry. Iowa shows well as to quality of crop except in a few counties, where it is chalTy. owing to drought. In central Michigan the yield of corn was very light, but fair in quality. In the southern counties of that state the show Is inferior, and the early frosts did mure damage than was at first supposed. In the northern part of Dakota, in addition to the light yield, thf cr-p is reported as inferior in quality caused by excessive drought. Potatoes have yielded somewhat better than was ami ipated. a fact due to the autumn that favored the late crop more than many had dand to hup. The yield per acre as averaged for the whole country is 72.2 bushels. This is 7.8 bushels less than the average for a tfn-yiar peri xl ending 1SS3, about twenty bushels less than in our large crop year, and ten bushels preater than thf product of lat year. The general quality is shown to be good, and though th dry' weather tended to reduce their size, the tulvers are generally sound and mealy. The percentage of quality stands at In New England the yield is reported good and the quality excellent, except In Vermont and Connecticut. Kot ajpears t be prevalent in se tions throughout New York and complaints of this trouble have leen received from Kentucky. Arkansas and Missouri. The southern states were particularly fortunate in the early crop f potato', but late rlanted suffered from drought, and the same is true of a few sections of the West, but there both early and late varieties were much reduced in yield. Many counties in the central West report importations of potatoes for consumption. The mountain states report good crops, especially where irrigation was used. The Pacific states have an average1 crop of good quality. The average yield of hay is reported at 1.32 tons per acre, as against 1.17 a year ago, 1.1S in 1S91, and 1.20 tons in 1830. The consolidated returns from the tobacco growing states make the estimates yield per acre f.:5.3 pounds, as against 6S2 iounds a year ago and 74S pounds In 1S91. This year's yild, as well as last year's, is below the average of the last decade, and with the slight reduction in the acreage during the present season, the crop of 18U3 will probably be about equal to that of last year. The estimated yield of sorghum per acre is generally lower than reported during the past few years. The reports as to the yield of buckwheat give a general average of 14.7 bushels per acrp, as against 14.1 in 1892 and 15.3 in 1831. The season just ended has been a. tad one for the production of large fruits, with the one exception of grapes, which have yielded abundantly. Frost, wet, drought and high winds have successively interfered with projer bloom, set, growth and maturity and at the time of harvest a greater part of the orchards of the country were bare, or nearly so. lusuccessful Farmern. Writing about some unsuccessful farmers of his acquaintance, Waldo Brown says: "They keep cows that go dry four months in the year and make a bare hundred pounds of butter; steers that at three years old sell fo less than as many dollars as they are months old; hogs kept to a year or more old to attain a weight which our moot enterprising farmers get at six months old. and twice as many horses as would be needed to cultivate the farms under a wiser system of management. The first step toward improvement on mot of these farms would be to seel at least three-fourths of the land in grass and clover, and begin to cultivate a limited acreage, and to do it better. Do not atempt to grow crops which everybody else is growing and which on your land will produce $10 to the acr but grow crops that will pell for V,Q to J100 or even more per acre. This will Include potatoes, both Irish and sweet, tomatoes, early and late sweet corn f( r the table, berries of several kinds, and many other thing of which you will perhaps grow but a fraction of an acre, such as lima beo-ns. pea, beets, cucmbers, nutmeg melons and cabbage. Above all, try to make the farm supply the family wants, and until you have found one or more special crops which you are sure that you can produce at a good profit and with a certain market, grow a little of a good many things. Thourands of thene poor farms can be profitably devoted to poultry, and if wisely managed on business principles there is a large profit and a steady income from this branch of farming. Many others can adopt dairying and either sell cream or butter, keeping the. milk at home to

raise calves and to make the best and cheapest pig pork; and, this Is sure to prove profitable under wise management. Success is far more certain on a small farm ' than on a large one." t . .' . .Storing- Seed Potatoes. Concerning' "the '".winter storage, of potatoes, Mr. T. Greiner writes in Farm and Fireside as follows: Any person who has a dark, frostproof cellar can easily and successfully store the few potatoes which his family may want until new potatoes are ready, and possibly a little surplus for sale. The problem becomes more serious when the potatoes to be kept are intended for seed, and it is a very serious one for the large planter. Seed, potatoes may be exposed to the light, while potatoes for the table should not; but they require a low temperature and moderate moisture (of the surrounding atmosphere) to keep them from emitting sprouts prematurely, and also from wilting. Cold storage seems to solve the problem to perfection. The potatoes of the 1892 crop which I saw at the Canada vegetable exhibit at the world's fair in June, had been thus kept in cold storage, and were plump and apparently in sound and excellent condition for planting or table. Mr. Woolverton of Grimsby, Ontario, the secretary of the Ontario fruit growers' assoclatiorrtoid "me 'that these potatoes had been kept continuously In. a temperature of a few degrees above freezing, probably at or near degrees." Ordinary cellars under dwelling houses, when the time of planting approaches, usually warm up too much for -the good of seedpotatoes'. In some localities people have a chance to hire cold-storage room, proprietors of cold-storage plants usually charging 10 cents per tmshal for, keeping onions sets, potatoes, .ete. Such opportunities are too gtod to be neglected. If this storage will insure you perfect condition of your seed-potatoes, .or of onion sets, etc.. at. planting time, the 10 cents a bushel is but a trifle compared with the advantages and results that may be derived from the transaction.

In the IllklnK Stable. A paragraph is going the rounds of the papers to the effect that a farmer discharged a hired man who would talk all the time he was milking, arid the result was that at the end of the week the Increase of milk was equal in value to the man's wages. This may be true, or it may be a little overdrawn, but John Gould says that the success of a dairy depends upon the fixing of a set of milking rules and making thm the governing force of the stable. The rules, to seme extent, are applicable to the summer as well as the winter. In the first place the Ftable Fhould be kept clean at all seasons. When the cows are brought to the yard, let them stand five minutes before the stables are open for them, and this, in the summer, will make a vast difference with the cleanliness of the stable. He regular in the hours of milking. Keep the mangers dean at all times, and once a day, best at night, feed the cows a little mc-ss of some kind to "hire" them to be in calling distance when wanted to milk, and which will prove far less expensive, and twice as profitable as a dog. Cows should be tied every time in the same plac and soon they will look upon it as their own home, and be quiet when standing there. Feed the mess before milking so not to keep tne cows In waiting expectancy for their feed, and as fast as milked let them go out into the yard. It the milker milk the same cows every time, unless some cow shows an unwillingness to let a person milk her. when a change can be made, and with profit, as some cows never take kindly to some milkers, and when milked by another show their pleasure about it in many ways. Fattening Poultry. A noted poultry wiitr says that no operation connected with the poultryyard requires greater attention and experience than fattening fowls in coops. Oatmeal and barleymal alternately, mixed with milk, and occasionally with a little dripping, is a good food. The feeding troughs, which must bo kept constantly scoured, should be placed before the birds at regulär intervals, and when they have eaten sufficient It is better to remove them, placing a little gravel within reach of the coop to assist digestion. Oats and rice re far inferior to oatmeal in their flesh-forming properties. Keeping the birds without food for some hours after they are put up frequently induces them to take it more readily afterward, but sufficient attention is rarely bestowed on the various details of preparation and supplying the food; hence, the complaints of the fowls deteriorating in th fattening ien are far from uncommon. Access to water should be allowed at all times. Fattening must be completed in ten days, for after that period they begin to lose weight. The best ages for u ble birds Is when they are from four to six months old. The coop should be three feet high, two feet wide and four feet long. This will admit from six to eight birds, according to their size. The bottom and front should be of bars, three inches apart. A board outside the bars in front, six inches wide, will serve as a stand for the food and water troughs. The coop should be in a well-ventilated outhouse, and if kept dark between the times of feeding, all the better. Have AVe Reached the Limit f A writer in the X. Y. Sun concludes from a study of the statistics that the production of corn in America has reached its maximum. As the production of hogs depends almost entirely upon the corn crop of this country, he concludes that the production of hogs has also reached its greatest limit, and that with the continual and rapid Increase in population the corn and hog crops will fall to keep pace with it In fact, that present high prices of hogs are due to the fact that for some years 'hograising has not kept pace with this Increase. These arguments sound very much like those which were advanced a few years ago by a writer who argued that the world had reached the maximum production of wheat, and that thenceforth' prices must advance, under a universal shortage of breadstuffs. Not only did his figures prove fallacious, but wheat has since that gone lower than for many years. The conclusions in regard to Lie hog crop are equally misleading. In the first place, the area devoted to the production of corn in this country can be greatly extended at any time, and with paying prices of hops the number in this country, will be rapidly multiplied and the price again go down. The' reason we do not have as many hogs now as needed is because a few years back we had a great many more than could be produced profitably The United States is today in position to produce a greater number" of hogs than ever before in its history, could the farmers be assured that they could produce them profitably. There is a limit to the profitable production of corn and hogs, and whenever this limit is overstepped there will be a reaction, which will result in a shortage like that of the present. National Stockman. Root fn Drain Tile. Some striking Instances are given In the New England Farmer of the choking of water courses and tile drains by the roots of trees. In these cases the roots entered at the joints between the pieces of tile. To prevent this clogging, it is regarded as Important to make the ditches straight, so that the tiles will come In close contact at the ends. There is no doubt that it may be well to lay the Joints in water lime cerr.nt for some time before the ditch Is filled, when trouble Is expected. The importance of packing the earth well around the tile to prevent It from becoming displaced In filling should be well understood. The roots of willows are found to be specially troublesome, and have spoiled

the value of wells In this way. with' a mass of roots that seriously obstructed the flow of water. Mot of the tile that is manufactured Is sufficiently porous to admit the entrance of water through the sides when the joints in water lime cement for some the nature of the ground prevents making the drains perfectly straight, very long curves should be resorted to which will allow the ends of the tile to be brought Into close contact. The writer of the article which we have referred to, who appears to have examined marry cases, says that however formidable the roots of willows have proved, he has known of no instances where roots from fruit trees have proved seriously troublesome; and he urges a special reason why drains should be straight beside that given, in that a crooked, tile drain is sure to cause sediment to settle at the crooks and eventually to choke the drain entirely.

The Profitable E-rra; Hen. This is the time of the year when poultry literature abounds in copious recipes to make the old hen lay when eggs are 23 cents and upward per dozen. From the food recommended andT'.tha manner of preparation, one does not know whether they Intend to feed feathered or human bipeds. Alfred Shirer says that when poultry raisers give us their experience In feeding, as a rule they fall to give us the most essential -points whether the fowls are confined, have a free or limited range, and if confined, the number of square feet allotted to each; also the breed. One is almost forced o believe, after reading the experiences of sonw thit a person can take any two-legged animal that answers the description, of a hen and give her the right ration, and she will fill the egg basket. Either the above theory is wrong or the people do not follow it. because the higher the eggs the scarcer. 1 do not wish to be understood that it makes no difference what we feed, but it makes all the difference to have the right machine to feed. If we have a flock of fowls that is bred for egg production, then we have a machine that will convert the egg food into actual eggs. As every cow is not a profitable ! butter cow, neither Is every hen a profit able egg hen. HOISEIIOI.D HIVTS. Ideas for Ilotmervl ve Who Munt Do Their Own Mending. To the busy housewife who must do her own sewing or any considerable portion of it much advantage may be gained by planning it rightly. When she is to have a long afternoon to herself, the children occupied with newgames, or away for a visit, or perhaps, the rain precluding any interrruptions from callers, she should not work on that garment of which the most difficult part has already been accomplished, and only buttonholes and the general "finishing off" remain; but take this time to cut and plan and do the most trying portions of some new garment. The other garment ra.i be easily fiinished sometime when she is likely to have interruptions or must have other cares on her mind. To avoid the confusion of having many kinds of work around at once, have several work-baskets, and keep each kind of work by Itself, instead of having all tog-ether In one large basket. These need not be large or expensive; peach and grape baskets may be made into quite pretty and serviceable workbaskets with a imle paint and silicla for lining. A neat little darning basket is nothing but a long grape basket, painted blue with gold trimmings and lined with gold-colored silesia. with pockets for balls, pads for needles and a cushion for pins. Wh?n the mending is brought in. lay aside, those things which may be most easily repaired in the evening, especially ly everything in white or light colored goods and which d'n not require close work. Hunt up the pieces, buttons, etc., that are required, put all in a basket together and have ready to do in the evening, while the husband reads bits from the newspaper, or talks over the day's joys and trials. You will not )e obliged to constantly interrupt the reading or conversation to find the things needed, and one will accomplish twice as much as though she did not take this forethought. Do mending and sowing rn dark material, and all fine darning in good daylight. It is the worst pos.iblt economy to strain the eys on such work by lamplight. Always have in a convenient ' place some light, easy piece of work with needles, thimble and all things necessary nt hand, ready to take up and work at on a moment's notice. The number of times it can be picked up and a little accomplished, when otherwise nothing would be done, will surprise one who has never tried the experiment. You have a long call from an intimate friend and can take a few- stitches while chatting, If there is some work handy, without committing any breach of etiquette. Perhaps a neighbor drops in to spend a few hours and brings her work along, when, if all the work you have ready chances to be cutting and fitting or seaming on the machine, you will accomplish next to nothing. It is often an advantage, when tired and nervous over some pieces of sewing, to charge work. Have a pleasant, easy piece of fancywork near by to take up and rest yourself. If possible keep the sewing ahead of you. It saves a vast amount of wear and tear upon the nervous system if one can avoid the worry and hurry of needing garments before they are finished. Although "woman's work is never done," a little planning and forethought will render it much easier and make it possible "to drive your work instead of letting your work drive you."' Degin early to teach the little girls to do their own mending, and to help with the easiest parts of their sewing. Even as young as seven and eight years of age, they may be taught to do some parts of sewing very nicely, and If the work of teaching is judiciously done it will be a pleasure to them to thus help mamma, and not a distasteful drudgery. It may take a little more time at first to guide the awkward little fingers then, to do the work, but .if will -very soon be found that the little hands .are a help instead of a hindrance, and it is vastly better for the little daughters to learn habits of thrift and industry' than to have unlimited playtime. The oft-repeated advice against unnecessary trimmings is very applicable to the woman who does her-own sewing with a multitude of other cares. Tucks and ruffles are not worth the muslin and nerve and brain worn out. In their manufacture. Above all, remember that actual pleasure and culture may be found In the little humdrum duties of everyday life if they are done in the right spirit and with the determination to do evey thing in the best possible time and way. Good Housekeeping. - . Valuable Recipe. Mock Cream for Coffee Beat the yolk of an egg with one tablespoonful of cold water. Heat sufficient milk for six persons and pour over the egg. stirring constantly, and still stirring when the hot coffee is added. Cinnamon Bread-rTake enough of your good bread dough to make a loaf. Kneed In three-fourths of a cupful of sugar and one-third of a cupful of lard. When well mixed, roll out about half an inch thick, cover with sugar, sprinkle cinnamon over the whole. Degln at one side and roll up. Put Into a bread pan and let it rise till twlc-s its size. Bake. When cut, each slice will have a handsome spiral line. Oyster Rtew Equal parts of oysters, water arid milk. Let the water boll; salt; add the oysters; pepper, a little celery salt. If desired, one-half cupful of rolled cracker crumbs to each pint of oysters. When they have come to a boil add the milk which has been made hot J by setting in a dish of boiling water.

The Boy's Brigade and its Boys We all listen now when Prof. Henry Drummond talks. One of his favorite themes is the Boy's Brigade, on which he writes an admirable article for c Programme next Year Brighter thaa Ever. FREE "SWEET CHARITY,' a lieautifnl picture of Colonial times, in colors, 14 x 21 inches in size, presented to all New (or Renewing) suhfecrilers. All 2fer Subscribers sending 1.75 now, get The Co?rrAMox Free to January 1, and a full ycur from tliat date. Sample copies free. Eoston, Mass. Finally a large piece of butter. Take at once from the stove and serve with good oyster crackers. Oyster Sausage (copied from Sense in the Kitchen) One pint of solid oysters, one-fourth pound of veal, one-fourth pound of suet. Pepper and salt. Cur the oysters into small pieces. Chop the veal and suet very fine. Mix with enough cracker crumbs to make Into cakes. Dip into beaten ejrp: and fry in butter. (This is good with salt pork. In place of suet, omitting the salt. If wished, roll In crumbs after dipping in the eerg. Very fine). .Cornstarch Cake Cream one cupful of white sugar with one-half cupful of butter; stir Into it half cupful of sweet milk and two-thirds of a cupful cornstarch. Add the well-beaten whites of five cpgs, a teaspoonf ul of extract of rose, and a cupful of f.our in which is mlxd a large tfaspoonful of baking powder. Hake gradually in a paperlined cake tin. A thin icing, flavored with a few drops of rose, may be spread over the top. Eat within twenty-four hours. Pineapple Snow Half-box of gelatine, one cup of boiling water, one cup of cold water, juice uf two lemons. Take one can of pineapple, cut in dice. Stew in the juice until tender, and sweeten to ta.ste. Heat the whites of the eggs very stiff, and when the jolly begins to set add the eggs, and beat until very light and foamy. Pip a mould in cold water, and arrange the pineapple and Know in alternate jayers, u.-inp snow top and bottom. Set on Eat w ith whipped cream: or a enMJJfd, made of one pint of milk, one-half cup of sucrar. and yolks of three eggs. Flavor with grated P"ol of a lemon. A baked Indian pudding is always the proper dessert to serve with a boiled dinner, and this is how I make mine: I take two quarts of milk, a large teacup of meal, half a teacup of molasses, a large teaspoonful of salt, half a taspoonful of ginger and the same of cinnamon. To mix it boil three pints of the milk and set it off the fire; beat all the other Ingredients with tln pint of milk not boiled, then stir them into the hot milk. P.ntter a stone or earthenware 'dish, and when the mixture is a little cool pour it into this dish, put !t into a moderate oven, cover w ith a plate and bake four or five hours, basting every little whil with cold milk. This pudding is eaten hot and requires no sauce; butter is generally eaten with it. Lamb Sweetbreads Not every one knows that lamb sweetbreads are almost as delicious as those of veal. They are considerably smaller, however.. They may be cooked in aInost any way that a veal sweetbread may. The New York Tribune tells us how. They must be blanched before they are cooked In any way. To blanch them, let them soak in cold, salted water for three hours, changing the water at the end of each hour. Then throw them into cold water and bring them to the boiling point, letting them simmer for five or ten minutes, according to size. They are very nice fried and served around a mound of green peas; or simmered in a little well-seasoned white stock in the oven for about fifteen minutes, and, when well browned, served with the gravy around them; or, more delicious still, with espagnole sauce. Orange Chips and Orange BiscuitsTo make orange chips cut the oranges In quarters and carefully squeeze all juice through a sieve. Soak the peel in Water, and the next day boil it till tender; drain, slice the peel, put it to the juice, weigh as much sugar aud put all together into a broad earthen dish, place over the fire at a moderate distance, often stirring, till the chips candy, and then set them in a cool room to dry. They will not be dry under three weeks. Orange biscuits- are made by boiling whole oranges in two or three Waters; divide them, and take out the pulp and Juice; then pound the peel -(previously dried) very fine in a mortar, and put to 'it an equal weierht of double-refined supar, pounded and sifted. When perfectly mixed to a paste, spread It thin on rhina dishes and set them in the sun and before the fire; when half dry. put it into whatever form you prefer and dry both sides. Keep in a box with layers of paper. Boston Globe. Crystallized Orange Peel The best oranges for thte purpose are the Mediterranean and sweet-rined Valencias. It would be a waste of time and material to attempt to crystallize the i'.avorless Florida orange peel. Put the peel in cold w-ater and set it away for at least nine days. Then scald it up In the water In which it has been soaking. It must be kept, while it Is soaking, in a cold place, but not where It will freeze. When it has been thorotghly soaked, boil till It is tender, dr? in it out of this water, dry It with cloths and cut it into long strips of uniform size. Make a thick syrup, in the proportion of a pint of suKar to a pint of water. When this syrup has boiled ten minutes, put the peel in it and let it boil down slowly until it begins to shrivel, and the syrup Is reduced to a rather soft candy. This can be ascertained by testing the syrup. When it forms a soft, creamy ball between the tinkers It has cooked enouprh. Irain the peel out, spread It on greased papers, taking care that the strips do not touch each other. When they are thoroughly dried make them into little sheaves, tleing them around the center with a narrow ribbon of white satin or pale orange color. They look very pretty piled on a low bonbon dish. N. Y. Tribune. You've .o Idea J How nicely Hood's Sarsaparllla hits the I needs of people who feel "all tired out" or "run down," from any cause. It i seems to oil up the whole mechanism of , the body so that all moves smoothly and I work becomes delight.

TWO YOUTHSSTRETCH HEMP

rXEClTIOX OF HARVEY PATE AXD FIIAXK STIRES AT DANVILLE, ILL. Both on the Scaffold Calmly Await the Knliil Drop Unsupported Pryrra and Sonjsa by Twn Minister Story of Their Crime of Murder. DANVILLE, 111., Dec. 8. Harvey Fate and Frank Stires were hanged today for the murder of Henry Ilelmick, a wealthy farmer of Pilot township, on the night of Aug. 25 last. The young men, who are but twenty-one and twenty years of age respectively, passed a quiet night after bidding farewell to their relatives and were composed when the sheriff came in at 11:50 today to read the death warrant. At 12:50 the procession was formed in the corridor, the ministers leading, followed by .the two boys in the custody of deputies. Both stood upon' the scaffold calmly waiting the fatal moment and unsupported. Two long prayers followed, but there was no nervousness on the part of the boys. Pate said he was sorry for the deed a,nd he wanted to warn all boys against bad company and bad books. Stires merely said: ! "That's right; I hope to meet you in heaven." Pate remarked: "This is the happiest day of my life." to which Stires responded, "You bet!" At 1 o'clock and two minutes, while the ministers sang "Nearer My Coy to Thee." Sheriff Newton raised a heavy hand-ax. cut the rope and the drops fell with a crash. The fall was five feet and the necks of both men were broken. Pate's shoulder and body shook convulsively a few seconds, while the legs slowly swung about. Stires hardly moved after the drop. Doctors noted the pulses and Inside of eight minutes pronounced both dead. A great crowd of people were about the jail, and there was much curiosity to see the bodies, but the sheriff put them into coffins and in covered wagons and had them conveyed away. The manner In which these two boys, one twenty-oae and the other nineteen years of age, met death is only explained by the religious excitement which held them up. They went onto the scaffold humming religious hymns and to the prayers of the ministers responded, "Amen I" "Bless the Lord.'" etc. The crime for which Pate and Stires were executed today was committed Aug. 25. lStf. Four young men. Harvey Pate, a tred twenty-one. Frank Stires, nineteen, Flias Mclunken. eighteen, and Charles Smoot, seventeen, were great readers of flash literature, and Pate had served two years anionic the cowboys of T-xas. The four conceived the idea of holding up Henry Helmick. the wealthy farmer. The boys walked twelve miles fro: the city and met Helmiek and his wife, who were In a buggy. Helmick struck his horses when a demand for money was made and Pate shot him dead. Young Stires confessed to complicity In the deed, and upon arraignment all four pleaded guilty. Pate and Stires were sentenced to hang and McJunken and Smoot to the penitentiary for life. The crime was committed on Friday. On the Sunday following Smoot confessed and on Monday the indignant neighbors of the murdered man made an unorKanized attempt to take the prisoners from Jail. They were dispersed, but afterward organized 400 strong to take revenge should the sentence tie less than hanKin?, They were satisfied with the result of tlie trial. Today's execution Is the first In the history of this county. A kt( Ha need. GALVESTON. Tex., Dec. 8. A Cold Springs, Tex., special says: "Alf Watson, a negro, was hanged today for kl 11j ing his mistress. AVatson said his sen-te-noe was a just one. The hanging was witnessed by about 3.000 persons. Watson made a short sieech from the scaf- , fold. The trap was sprung at 2:30. Iiis neck was broken." Von M'.HVOIS OKIUMTV. I sc llnraford'n Acid Phosphate. Dr. F. M. Abbett of Indianapolis, Ind., i says: "I have prescribed it in cas. s of I nervous debility, and they seemed to ; improve so much that I have prescribed j several bottles in the last few months with apparent gcvd results." I Mr. Wluxlow' Sotliln(r Sjrnp" I Has lioen used over Fifty Years by mlllions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the Gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the bowels, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists In every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, 20c a bottle. r I II A reroedv which. If used by Wives nbout to experience the painful ordeal attendant upon ChllJ-b-rth, proves an infallible pecific for.&ndobTiates the tortures of con. finement, leeeenine the dan kits thereof to both mother and child. !-cld by all drurrists. Sent by of rrioe, S1.50 per bot tie, charges pr paid. " " ULATOft CO.. ti.it. O ADHI.MSTUATOn'S SALK OP PERSONAL PROPEHTV. State of Indiana, County of Marion. f In the matter of the Estate of William Sanders, deceased. ' . . . t 1 . 1 , . k - rr!an Hof tVii nnjlAr sljjned. administrator of the estate of William - Sanders, deceased, will offer for sale at public auction at the late residence of said decedent, in Decatur township, in said county and state, on Thursday, the 21st day of .December, 1893, the fersonal property of said estate, consistng of horses, cattle, hogs, milk cows, four brood sows, corn in crib and in shock, oats in bin, hay in mow, fodder in shock, about thirty (30) acres of growing wheat, one two-horse wagon, one spring wagon, one top-buggy, one sulky plow, one breaking plow, single and double shovel plows, one corn drill, one corn planter, one marker, one two-horse wheat drill, one set double harness, one pair slnple harness and other articles too numerous to mention. Sale to begin at 2 o'clock p. m. of said day. Terms of Sale All sums of Five Dollars and under, cash in hand; over Five Dollars, a credit of nine months will be given, the purchaser giving his note therefor, with approved security, note to bear six per cent, per annum interest from maturity until paid, and if not paid at maturity to bear six per cent, per annum Interett from date of sale. JOHN SANDERS, Administrator. Samuel Reagan, Auctioneer. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS. U. S. PATENT FOR VALUABLE PIECE of machinery, or will trade for good farm land In Indiana or adjoining states. E. J. Thlckstun, Belmont. Ind. ASOl.CBMEXT. SOMETHING PRACTICAL THE IMproved Daisy Fence Machine and the New Daisy wire Reel. Address Ziegler & Harmon. Anderson. Ind. 13 4) XOTICE. NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that lawrence Lodge. No. IC of II.. will elect their trustees on Wednesday evening, Dec. 27. 1S9J. JAS. K. WHITE, Reporter.

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