Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 44, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 August 1895 — Page 3

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TEE FARM AND HOME.

MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. HaTC a Blacksmith Shop on the Fanu -How Quack Crass Can lie Killed 11 lit Cherry 'freed hy the Kondslclc Notes. Farm Machine Iicpairinir. , Oa n!I well-conducted farms where touch machinery Is used, farmers spend a great deal of time running to ami from IhL blacksmith shop. There are so niaay different tools usetl that something ives ut almost every day. Now. a groat deal of this expense may be saved by having a small shop 0:1 the farm, says a writer iu the Agriculturist. A portable forge can be hail for $1. This will answer every purpose, although it is not advisable to get one too small. Secure a hand anvil weighingabout 100 pounds, a good hammer, a ten-jjownd sledge, a sice punch, and a good blacksmith's vise, and you are ready for almost any job but horseshoeing. Of course, a beginner cannot expect to do skilled work at tirst. but with a Irttle practice time and money can bo saved. My outfit contains several tools in addition to those mentioned above, and eosr me about ."0. The money is well invested. A farmer should not be without an assortment of good carpenter tools. I say good ones, because I believe the fanner ought to have as good ones as the carpenter. Many a dollar can be saved by their use. If the farmer does not care to do his own repairing, perhaps the boys (iT there be any) will lake hold, and to them it will soon become more of a pleasure than a task. How to Kill (aack Grass. If you must plow quack-grass land, plow for corn, lit thoroughly and plant in hills, with a handful of good phosphate ia every hill, cultivate as soon as possible, and keep cultivating and hoeing until the corn is too large, says the Country Gentleman. In the fall, after removing the corn, plow shallow and harrow, if possible, with a lloating spring tooth harrow. Next spring plow again as early as possible; about the first of June plow again, and plow deeplyas deeply as you can; lit thoroughly and plant beans. You can begin cultivating the beans in a week's time after they are planted. Three times cultivating if you have a good tool, and work close to the evop, will bo enough. I can safely promise 3-011 a clean field and a good crop of beans, also a good preparation of the land for any following crop. If you do not wish to raise beans, you can put in potatoes, giving the land the same treatment, with the advantage that potatoes will bear rougher treatment than will the beans, but you cannot begin cultivating the potatoes as soon after planting unless you make deep, plain marks, so that you can follow the rows before they come up. "Cherry Trees by Koadsidc. No kind of fruit tree thrives better under neglect than does the cherry. It needs no pruning except what the cherry pickers naturally give while harvesting the crop. Unlike other fruit trees its crop is not so easily gathered that it would be apt to be stolen by passers by. The picker earns fully half of all lie can gather. It will greatly add to the attractiveness of country drives in neighborhoods where1 the cherry is planted, and the passer by will not feel as he phvks this fruit and eats that he Is wronging its owner, who from what is left can make the roadside give him greater prolit than he could make with any other crop. A Good Device for Farmers, "Not long ago we were at the home of a very neat farmer and saw a device in his tool-house that struck us as being pretty good. On one of the walls there was placed a large blackboard, cays Farm News, with chalk convenient, and on this blackboard were various records of the operations under way on ihe farm. At one side was written the name of -every vehicle on the farm, beginning with the farm wagon, and going down to the wheelbarrow. Against these was written the date when they were oiled. In another place was carefully noted the time when various sets of harness were oiled, and other matters that might need referring to were noted on the board. The operations of the farm for the week were noted, and the owner told us that once a we;k he set down In a book all the notes that were of permanent interest. I.y tills means the work of that farm is kept track of. Fap Sprouts on Apple Trees. Many old apple trees are nearly mined by the growth of suckers from their trunks. These come from buds that arc usually dormant, but which any Injury to the bark causing a stoppage of sap will set to growing. If the sprouts are cut bade lfore the leaves start new shoots will spring up from the base of the sprouts, even when it Is cut into the bark and no buds are visible. F.ut If, after the new sprouts have brown three or four inches, so as to be in full leaf, they are pulled off very few will jeproHt a second time. Two or three, clearings of the trunk through the Stimmer will eradicate the buds so that scarcely any will appear the following season. Wasted Fertility. The seepage from the manure pits at the Iowa Station was collected In barrets and sprinkled on growing corn, increasing the yield twenty-three bushels per acre on the area where applied; the liquid also made the plants more vigorous than those not so treated; they endured the drouth much better, and altogether the experiment was regarded as very marked. And yet, says the w York Tribune, thousands of dol

lars worth of most valuable plant food is running to waste on farms, and then replaced, in part, with costly commercial fertilizer. Every ounce of both

solid and liquid manure ought to b? : scrupulously saved.. To do this, we need clay or cement floors In stables, and large sheds under which manure may be stored. Where the manure is hauled out as made, or permitted to accumulate In boxstalls, the loss is reduced to a minimum; where it lies spread over a large yard, exposed to rain and snow, wi.-i the water from the barn roof running noon it for six or eight months, little of value is left. "(lather up the fragments that nothing be lost," applies here. Rellins ÜHttcr vk. Sellin? Milk. In a New York farm institute Mr. F. E. Dawley stated in a striking way ihe advantage of the butter-maker dairyman over one who sold milk. A ton of butter removes only -18 cents worth of fertilizing elements, while a ton of milk removes S: cents worth. It takes on an average 10 pounds of milk to make a pound of butter, so that to sell milk enough to make a ton of butter removes ?-S worth of manurial elements from the farm. Herein is one of the advantages of using the butter separator. It saves the milk for home feeding without wasting it by souring. Tin separated sweet milk is worth more for growth than is that which has all its butter fats in. as this will make growing animals fatter than they should be for the best growth. lUmdlinc Uriisii. Win n piling brush use a long-handled fork. I it no other place are the advantages of a l.mg handle over a short one more apparent. To lift and stretch in vain to make a forkful of brush swing clear of the earth is the severest labor known. 1'rush often contains grape and other running vines, as well as briers, which make it hard to handle. A short handle has convinced many persons that brush cannot be handled with a fori;, but such is not the case, j Clear m and burn everything in the j form of brush before snow falls. After j the snow is gone in spring work will be pressing, and the clearing has to wait . until after haying, to the detriment of the mowings. American Agriculturist. Green Foliajjc for Fowls One of the first things to be done in spring is to plow a small patch near the hen yard to be sown thickly with some kind of spring grain. A mixture of oats and peas, or barley and peas, or of all throe grains together, and covered by being cultivated under the surface, will furnish plenty of work for the fowls. They will roll in the freshplowed ground, will eat such of the grain as they may lind, and when what escapes them comes up, it will make excellent green feed for them. When it gets too large to bo eaten readily, plow the patch again and sow a second or third crop. The peas are the best grain to use for this purpose, but for the fact that the grain is so large that very few of its seeds will escape tins fowls to grow. Why Stained Karley Is LiKht. It is nearly impossible to make stained barley hold out to standard weight, 4S pounds per bushel. The grain Is very rarely much above that weight under the most favorable circumstances. The barley that is much stained Is usually that which has b?en kept until dead ripe, and this never fills so well as barley that is cut while the stalk is somewhat green. There is another reason, in the fact that the wetting which is necessary to staining swells the barley and starts it towards germination. This increases the bulk without incroas Ing the weight of solid matter. When the grain dries out it tills up more space in proportion to its bulk than it did before being wet. There is also a difficulty in malting stained barley evenly, and this is one reason why it is objected to by brewers. Paint Saved the Poultry, A New Jersey woman painted the heads of her chickens with a vivid green pigment a few days ago. and the result Is that she has back in her coop all the poultry that had been stolen from her, says The Massachusetts Ploughman. Her forty chickens had been taken In one night by a gang of young men, several of whom were arrested and locked up. One of the chicken thieves confessed that he had assisted in the theft of nearly live hundred chickens, which had been sold alive to persons on the outskirts of Newark. Detectives who were sent out to hunt up the stolen fowls could identify only Mrs. Kraemer's green heads. Remedy for Garget. Garget Is one of the things that everyone has remedies for, and still it keeps light on ruining the best cows by droves every year. We doubt If j there is any better remedy than liberal applications of hot water and a large amount of hand work in the operation, and when through amdv a liberal .mollv j i -" 1 cation of lard, and at the same time j withdrawing all grain foods anil feed ing non-stimulating milk rations. Fall Strawberry Pia 11 tine. Strawberry plants can be set out In the fall of the year from the young runners, but the' cannot be depended upon for producing a crop the next spring. The advantage of making the bed in ! August or September is that the work j can be done better than when the hurry of spring operations may retard the ' transplanting which should be done j early. Milk Good for Laying Hciifl. Remember that milk !n any form Is . good for laying hens. It contains all the elements of egg food, in almost the proper proportions. If the fowls have a free run, give them a light feed of grain in the morning and a full feed at night, and they will find the extras dur- ' Ing the day, '

THE MODERN DOLLAR.

WHO OWNS IT AND WHAT IT WILL BUY. Unjust Discrimination Against American Farmers Cincli Which the Gold Syndicate Has Upon the People Mexico a Sample Silver Country. Cost of n Gold Standard. It is generally conceded that the aggregate of all classes of American debt held abroad is live billions of dollars, and that the interest on this account, which must be pai l in gold, reache.22Ö millions annually. In IS)-' the world produced SllKj.tiOö.UüO in silver, and $130,817,000 in gold. Deducting 40 per cent, used in the arts and sciences, we have left for money purposes only $190,404,000. With the output of both gold and silver for the whole earth aggregating only 197 millions, how can we pay annually to Europe 22' millions in gold? Surely no one would advise a new bond issue every time the interest fell duo; even a Zulu would stand aghast at such a proposition. Hut howare wc to pay this interest? It is a serious question, and touches the very life of the American people. The foreigners who hold the debts and their American agents non-producers nearly every one of them sec clearly that if this interest could be paid in the products of labor cotton, wheat and corn-that the gold would remain in this country to be manipulated as they see lit. S for, they have enforced this policy, and make it possible for England to say to us with brutal frankness: "I want cotton, wheat and corn to clothe and feed my millions. You Americans raise a very superior quality of these articles. Put them, to me cheaper than they can be produced in my own India and Egypt where labor is only ten cents per day else I shall buy from them, and destroy your national credit by demanding your interest in gold." Thus do American wheat, corn and cotton go abroad in settlement of at least S5 or 90 per cent, of our foreign indebtedness. No wonder those conditions suit the corporate greed of this country, and that it is lighting so hard for a perpetuation of its interests. Pile up the debt. Continue the promises to pay in impossible gold. What care they? The farmer's products, competing with India and I'Sypt, pJty the foreign interest, and a pittance of gold remaining here, as a basis for the expansion and contraction of national bank paper, gives them another lever for reaching the property of the mechanic, the carpenter, the brick-layer, the stone-cutter and every class of labor. Notwithstanding these facts, so well known to the world, the greedy holders of these tremendous credits, with their horde of agents, tools and puppets, have the temerity to stand up and declare that thoy advocate the use of an 'honest' "truthful" dollar a dollar which, as far as the masses are concerned, might as well have no existence. Thus, then. Is made possible a gold standard in this country, but at what a frightful v'ost to the producer. That it will drag him down to the level of the ten-cents-per-day labor of the Orient there can be no doubt ; but in the fall of the farmer, be it remembered, all things else must share his fate. Every class of propertyeven in the city is now beginning to feel die pinch. Nor can we benefit mattors in the least by resorting to a high tariff. Tor the sake of argument, let us grant that such a policy would drive labor up in certain manufacturing centersin the East, for example to three dollars per day. This, however, would si ip. pi 3 defer the inevitable for a brief space, since the producers of the South and West, competing with India and Egypt, and selling their products on a basis of ton-cents-a-day labor, could not long continue to purchase the output of the more expensive producers of the East who were drawing three dollars per day. Such a policy would eentually work as much min as a ierpettta! bond issue. Thousands are now putting to themselves such questions, and being unable to give satisfactory answers, are turning to silver as the only reined. It can work no. harm, they argue, since if we had the whole world's output of both gold and silver, it would not sullice to pay our interest abroad. If the advocates of "sound money" will elucidate just this one point. It may be predicted with safety that there will be no more ''silver craze" to worry the life out of us, and to drive to distraction the patient and watchful souls of our great (?) politicians. The World's Money, The total production of gold and silver in the world from 1492 to 1SÖO was: Gold $:;.h;2.:j2:.(km' Silver . . . '. G,1V.7,9." M )o Total both metals .9,4:H'27:t,00 Statistics show that about 40 per cent, of gold mined is coined into money, and 40 per cent, of silver mined. According to these percentages of coined money. In the year 18Ö0 there should have been in the world: In gold .t?l,irl.;;s..-iso In silver Lo07,bS0,00 $:t,!H;i.sts,rso The total output of gold from the year 11912 to 1S912, according to the same authority, including the United States mint, was $SJOI,.".o:,000; 4 per cent, coined gives $:;,77:J.979,.1S0; and had the world demonetized silver in 189:2 this amount would represent all the primary money in the world, or $1S7,K09J00 less than the world had in ISoO. An English statesman made a speech before the Scottish Agricultural Society a short time ago, wherein he stated that the increase of population in the world during the last twenty years had been 200,000,000, and it will be safe then to call the Increase for the past fortgr-two years (from 1850 to ISO'J) at

least SOO.000,000. The present population of the earth is estimated at 1,000,000,000. On this basis the population forty-two years ago was only 1JOO,000,(m. Now. l.r,KUMUXö is just onefourth more than th. number of people In 1SÖ0, and with that number we haven't as much money on a gold basis by $lS7.SdO,200 as they had in 1S."0. w hen we should have, according to the increased population, one-fourth more, 2I0S1J1,r,2;;ul'7-r' instead of only S-V 7o.ti7J,.1SO, showing a real shortage of .?1.17S..1.11,.143 in 1892. as compared with 1SÖ0. The opening up 0f China and Japan and large portions of Africa to civilization will naturally increase the demand for sohl primary money. Already China and Japan are showing symptoms of a coming civilization by calling for sold, and with a known shortage of largely over $1.00b.OiK,000 as compared with 1SÖ0. it would bo. surprising ere many years pass by if we did not have a money panic such as the world has never before passed through.

Silver Mexico. We don't hear so much lately of the silver-stricken people of Mexico. Although Mexico is a free coinage country, yet all the silver of the world is not "dumped" at her mints, as is the phrase of the gold people. As a matter of fact, Mexico is prospering as sho never has done before, and it is gradually get I ing into people's heads that it is because she has and uses the money her mines and the industry of her people supply. As the rate of "exchange," which the sweating process of the London clearing house is called, is all against her, she is turning her attention to manufacturing and supplying her own wants. And thus the very policy that hurts us and deadens enterprise and industry, stimulates that of Mexico, and is making her prosperous as never before in her history. Mexico doesn't have any trouble in meeting the interest on her silver bonds or silver debts, llathcr than depress the prices of her lands, of her labor and of her products to meet the usury of the foreign bondholders her treasury simply buys the "exchange," puts it to the profit and loss account and allows the people to go on undisturbed in their business. Her statesmen don't demonetize silver in order to sweat the discount out of her people, nor does her Secretary of the Treasury keep the silver piled up in his vaults and pay out gold for everything the financial policy of the Mexican treasury is not run that way and hence there is "no trouble" in its condition. In short, the situation in Mexico is but another illustration of the fact that when people have plenty of money, when it is readily obtainable and is beyond the ability of a few bankers to corner and control, the people are encouraged to enterprise and the creation of wealth for themselves, which brings prosperity to the country generally. It is almost incredible that with the facts of the past staring us in the face, with such examples as Mexico and all silver countries before us, and the depression in all gold countries, so sharp as to give life to the anarchist movements, and threaten revolt itself, that men of intelligence should be so blind to the logic of things. Why. even the boasted money power of England is fed from the profits of its silver using possessions. Yet such is the fact. Her wealth is from the discounts collected from the production of other countries, and the gold crusade under which our American prosperity now lies crippled is but an effort to add our great productive wealth and trade to that from her other victims. No word but victim expresses the condition we are in. Mexico is far wiser than we. She has in her own mountains her own money.and even with her infant industries, not one-hundredth part developed as ours are. she can pay these discounts with purchased exchange, and at the same time is working out her independence by keeHng her own money, her mines and mints free to her people. The American people cannot be long deceived by "sound' money cries, which mean no money to the masses unless it is borrowed and pays interest to somebody that lives in a foreign land. Mexico, with one-sixth of our numbers, with her industries almost primitive, is prospering, while we have been wading through bankruptcies. Why? liecause she has sense enough to keep to her own money and its free production. Scales JJoetorod to Suit th Trade. "You would be astonished," remarked a Hour and ftvd dealer yesterday, "at the number of people who come here to get weighed in the course of a week, and at the comments they make if the number of pounds Is not up to their expectation. )p.e of my customers, a very thin woman, came here yesterday and asked me to weigh her. Four months ago she had tipped the scales at IK'., and she remarked that she would beat the record this time. I thought so myself, for she Insisted on holding a satchel and an umbrella, but to my surprise the balance struck at 101. After roundly berating me, the scales and the Hour and feed trade In general, she llounced out, and I lost a good customer. Sometimes, however, the balance is to the good, as in the case of a stout woman, who found she bad lost throe pounds, and was so tickled that she ordered a barrel of Hour and said she would call in again to be weighed In a week. The scales are all right, but I'll have to fix them for her benefit. In order to compensate for the loss of the thin woman's trade." Philadelphia Itecord. In Scotland P. was for a long time U4ual to place 01; a man's tombstone the symbols of. his trade. Especially was this the case at Dunblane, where, In the burial ground of the abbey, it has been found that of those tombstones which are from 100 to 200 years old aiout one-fourth are thus marked, tho symbols being in low relief.

FIND3 A SUBSTITUTE FOR WOOD.

"Planks Made of Cork Are to He Utilized in Our Warships. Several months ago the Board of Inspection and Survey of the Navy Department wa3 directed to make an investigation with a view of obtaining some practicable substitute for wood In fitting naval vessels. The desire for a substitute was the fact that a lighter material was wanted If possible, one that would not take so much space in the vessel, and more than anything else, a material that would not splinter. It was also desirable, to have a noncombustible substance. The board has made a report to the Secretary of the Navy, and some of its recommendations have been adopted by him, and it is probable that several of the new ships will be fitted with the new material as a substitute for wood. One of the best materials whi h has been found by the board is a wood substitute composed of waste cork, or any cork. This is subjected to 400 degrees of heat, and It is then pressed into blocks of any required size. It can be sawed into thin strips or handled very much as wood is handled. Cork has a gum which heat melts and glues its particles together in a compact mass. After being pressed It sticks together as tightly as if it had grown that way. The cork boards may be made heavy or light. Some of the lighter kinds are used in the walls of refrigerators. It is a non-conductor, and can scarcely b made to burn. This material is used in the place of wood in German vessels. Commander Ilradford, who made the search and examination of this particular substitute, found that the Germans were using it under a patent taken out by John Smith, of New York, and that companies in the United States had obtained rights for its manufacture here. Washington Post. Full of Wonder. Mrs. Paton, the Scotch missionary's wife, in one of her letters from the New Hebrides, humorously describes the simple-hearted astonishment of the natives at some of the wonderful things shown them by their new teacher. Two rooms have been added to our Island home, one a little study, which has to serve also as a drawing room. The Auiwans call this tho Great House, and are perfectly lost when they get inside, four rooms being quite too much for their comprehension. And although they saw them being built, the- ask in each room, with bewildered faces, whether they are north, south, east or west. Sometimes we have to take them through the house several times a day; and it is genuine fun to watch them a perpetual play, without the wickedness of attending theaters. Some of the scenes are truly dramatic. One fellow, the other day, got so fantastically excited, when I set the sewing machine going, that he performed a war dance in the middle of the floor, flung his arms all about, and called lustily for his dead father. A skeleton timepiece, under a glass shade, comes in for a large amount of interest. They will stand and watch the pendulum go for ever so long, and a?k all sorts of questions. "The path of the sun" was what they called it, after we had explained how the hands and figures indicated the sun's course In the heavens. Yesterday I tried to explain that It was the earth and not the sun that was going round, but was promptly informed that I was a liar! Country Justice. "I went out fifteen miles In the country onco to try a case," said ex-State's Attorney Joel Ixngenecker, "and I took the Legal News with me, which contained a decision right In point, and which, as I told my client, I felt confident would win our case. I triumphantly re-ad the ease e.s stated in the law organ, and was proceeding to bring the point to bear uinm my argument, when the lawyer on the other side got up aud said that I was imposing uion the court reading to him out of Chicago newspapers; and the court said that was not the law, and that he was not bound by any law that was tiot in a bound book. He said it was an outrage on justice for me to try to make him believe anything was law simply because it was printed in a Chicago newspaper; and lie ruled against me." Chicago Inter Ocean. Can Preserve Hodies for All Time. Thomas Holmes, of P.rooklyu, an expert on enibalnmig fluids, claims to have perfected a process by which tho human body can be petrified. Ho says that within two weeks he will make tests at Nellovue Hospital. Dr. Hohnes has in his office a petrified arm, which looks like a piece of marble. He claims (hat antiseptic gas can now be manufactured as cheaply as any fluid in use for embalming. After the gas has been Injected, the doctor says, the body will gradually solidify and turn while as marble, even to the nails and hair, but the latter only close to the skull. Dr. Holmes is now 78 years old. He said: "I believe I have discovered a process of embalming superior to the old Egyptian." Growth of Public Libraries. The growth of public libraries In tho United States Is one of the remarkable features of our system or progress. There are now nearly 5,000 of them; and a recent writer points out the significant fact that with the single exception of the county, there is not a single civil division of our government that has not adopted this form of educational service. When an 18-year-old girl says her mother won't let her accept an invitation to a party, it Is certain that tho wrong person has asked her to go

HUSTLING IIÜOSIERS.

j rTEwlS GATHERED FfiO.Vi OVER THE STATEAn Intereftlng Summary of the More Ira. portaiit Inui4 of Our Ne iltlor Wetl. Uius; aatl Deaths Crimes. CasualtU'J, and (ioiiiTil Iii'iiütit New Note. Minor State Nctm. Mn.o Tuma iir-rdware store at Corunna is :n akes. Los. .fl.l.ooo. A V.i:.-:: !'a;;i bought 7".)0 f "l of fuM-clavs growing tiiiiber within the city limits of Va!.:ih. Only one rl'-r for the i--li"f t;f j--.r has been ;;.. 1 ju rss t -worship. Clay county, during the I;i ;ive e;i:s. Tin: shepnrd C;:mi:iu Works, of Anderson, which bnrtii'il. is preparing to ivl.uiM the pk.nt ;-.t :tn xjenc of $7.0o. I !.i-;;:N, i' Cjvsto. wh' "as ciTohed ;ihi!ot lo death ! y a sewer caving in on fa'ni a :.r :.ge. is now violently insane. I ! 1 : v . i. P. IYmiN has resigned his prttoratc i f th- i'ij-u-t Chvn-h at CrawJ'o:d iiie, where l e has been for eight year. r f MmIImh Co;:nty l-e'ieve tlr.it the corn crop w ,!I net be whut was exj-e-.-teil ;. lVv !;u ago. ow ing to the intense lival. Hknky S:...i.i.. :i bev abcut I years old. was re. 1 1 down by :t '!'! ie. M. I.o;ii tt Kansas cü y thteugh freight train near Decatur and ü'.iaot iu';u)tly kille 1. Sa ;i ;:i. Ci.::- i n. North ClinT-.u. do-id from burns received w hile lighting tire in his wh.stt ;ield. He worked so h ird that lie became eh;n:t ' 1 and fell into the lire. Tin.!::: :ire thirty-live ea.-e of typhoid fever at l icl:i:io:id. but no d Mllis h;ive o;1cunvd. The trouble i aid to be lue to impure water u.-ed by tho dainnieii for theif cattle. Lori lJi;oKs, owe of the be!-!:uovn young men in Gohcu. v.a rim over by a Jlaltimore ic Ohio express at Lake Wawasce Mid instantly hilled, his head K'ing severed from the body. Thomas N; m.. aged V. an in-nate of the Sohl. rs Ibnue. at Marion, was .druck by an electric e-ir and received fatal injuries: Iiis skul! and right leg were cru.-hed. Null w as iiiioxie te I an I fell under the w heels of a passing car. Tit k :J-ye:r-u!d daughter of Kohcrt Marly, three mil 's south of Wabash, fell from a second sdory window and received injuries which the doctor fears w ill prove fata!. The child was res-ore-l to consciousness, Lut her condiiion is critical. Tin: Twenty-tifih Annual Reunion of OM Settlers of Hamilton County met at Kagletown. Twelve or fifteen thousand people wer" present. Prizes were awarded to tiie ol -lest in in, ninety years, an 1 t lieoldest woman, eighty-seven years. Tin: Indiana State Poird of Charities has announced a program for the Fourth Annud Indiana Conference of Charities. to be held at Port Wayne, Septemler 15 to 17. Circulars have been sent to all the Township Truste": calling their attention to the meeting, and re.piesthig their attendance. Jesse Smith, a well-known fanner of Monroe County, met with a terrible death. He and .lames Douglass were running a trac tion engine, w hen it got out of order, and Sniilh craw led under the machine to icpair it. Th ; ponderous machine started backward ;.n 1 the rear wheels cut his I ody in two. He died in a few hours in terrible agonv. Si:i:i:max Xoiu.t:, an employe of the American tin -plate works, at Klvvood, w hi'e at work met w it li a bad accident. A sheet of wet tin dropped into the both of acid t!r.x and melted tin. causing the mixture to explode and liy all over his head and ehe.!, bv.rning him in a terrible manner. He will recover, but will le scarred for life. A x epidemic of glanders is ragingamong the horses of Perry Township, Clay County, although every eli'ort is being made to stop it. The Stale Veterinary l:ard, accompanied by Drs. ."uell and Kale of 1 Jra.il, w ent to th- .-coin' and saw about thiiiy-iive horses suii'ering from the disease. Tin-board ordere;! four of the animals kot and the rest UHranti!ied. Tin: premium 1M for the forty-fourth annual Strde Fair 1 as been issued. The exhibit w ill be hell during the week beginning Monday. Sept. 1 V. Ti e Hoard of Agriculture h?!s e5 ap-;ri Tuesday as Old Soldiers' and Children.- day, w hen school children and veterans wiil be admitted free. Wednesday w ill be music day. and Thursday will be known as Indiana day. Patkxts have been granted to Indianians as follows: ,iapcr L. Ackermau, Motion, measu'hig device: Stephen (I. llaldv.in, Marion, ink well: Charles A. llcrtsch, Cambridge City, liutal-shearing machine: .lohn lt. Car-ield. assignor of one-half to A. N. Wilson, Indianapolis, .shaft Mipport for vehicles: William L. Cas.sad.iy, South Ueud. Wheeler gang plow; Andrew Krieger, Indianapolis, detachable tooth saw: John Salary, South liend, axle skein: Joseph S. Urban, assignor of two-thirds to A. P. McKee and W. 11. Jones, Anderson, fan attachment for rocking chairs. At the request of Yicomtc K. de Comely, director of the foreign department of tiie Mexican International Imposition, which will open in Mexico City, April 2, lS'.h. and continue for six months.d'ovcrnor Matthew s has made the follow ing appointments of commissioners to represent this State: James Studebaker, C.eorge Ford and Ilenjamiu Iinlse!l, South llend: John II. iiass, Kurt Wayne; Italph IL Hemengray, Muncie: John J. Cooper and Volney T. Malott. Indianapolis; James IL Willard, Bedford;"; Fran eis J. Keitz and llenjainin Vonlichreii.llvansuille; John F. Ilegus and C. W. Hement, Teno Ilaute; "eorge Pence, Columbus; Walter Mvans, Xoblesville; llenjamia Starr, l'iehmoml. The nun, are, for the most part, manufacturers, w ho intend to make exhibits at the exposition, ami would probably attend anyway. This makes twenty-two States that have appointed commissioners to this exposition. Tin: new gas well drilled near Swaysw by the Wabash Fuel Company, is one of the strongest in the State, its daily How as measured being 4,)0:),X)1 feet. So powerful is the gas pressure that five hundred feet of casing was forced out of the hole and it was with the greatest difficulty the well could be anchored. Ann.vxuKMKXTs are lnung made to have a battalion of two hundred veterans go from Craw fordsv ille to Louisville on JSept. 10 to the (J. A. K. National Encampment. They will go via Indianapolis and will be in command of (Ion. Lew Wallace. Their banner will bo inscrilod: "Lew Wallace Veteran battalion, Indiana.'

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