Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1898 — Page 7

A TANGLED SKEIN

MRS. ALEXANDER

CHAPTER VI. Next morning the sun was shining. ■Mabel declared herself better. She promised to drive with Paul Standish when Tie came as usual after breakfast. Dorotthy set off to keep her appointment with Miss Oakeley, and, their diligent practice over, several idlers dropped in to 'lunch, among them Major St. John and Standish. Lunch finished, Dorothy refused a pressing invitation to drive with Miss ♦Oakeley. “Well, if you will not come, pray take this programme to your sister, and the advertisement. I have just put down what I want to say; she must polish them up, T have no turn for grammar! There,” her neck to look out of the window, “there goes Aunt Callander in state. Lady-in-waiting, lap-dog and all! I know she is going to inquire for Mabel, and inspect her proceedings. Where is Mr. Egerton to-day? I have seen nothing of him since, oh! since yesterday!” “Well, you warned us all off the premises as you wanted an uninterrupted morning. I was afraid to show myself even at one o’clock, until Standish gave kne a lead,” returned St. John. “Well, I must run away now! lam going to drive over to Beach Hall. I want to persuade Lady Geraldine to play the violin at my concert, she would be a great catch. Will you come with me? Do —do, Dorothy.” ~* “I am very sorry, but I cannot, Mias Oakeley. I must go back and support Mabel.”

“I will walk across the common with you,” said Standish, following her into the hall. “Yes, do. please,” she returned, feeling a sense of strength and comfort in his companionship, and longing to be able really to» pour out her heart to him—if it were possible to put her vague uneasiness into words. Even if she were—but Standish was speaking. “You are quite right to hurry back to poor Mabel’s rescue. She is by no means ■equal to encounter her mother-in-law single handed.” “You are right. I don’t think ahe is equal tn anything,” said Dorothy, sadly. “What!” he exclaimed, struck by her tone, “you are not seriously uneasy about her?” “There is no reason I should be, but—oh! I can’t explain my indefinable anxiety —I dare say you would laugh at mesif I could.” Here they were interrupted by a young lieutenant of St. John’s regiment, a warm, though silent, admirer of Dorothy, who returned with them unasked under the plea of imparting the project of a regimental ball, for which he hoped Miss Wynn would hold herself disengaged. They were almost at the gate of the Knoll before he left them, and they did «iot reqjrme their conversation. “Is Mrs. Callander in?” asked Dorothy of the man who answered the bell. “No, miss. Mrs. Callander —the Dowager Mrs. Callander —called before she had finished luncheon —she and Mr. Egerton —and they all went out in the carriage together. “T>id not my sister drive thia morning?” . „ “No, miss. The mistress went out with .nurse and the children. Mr. Egerton came back with her.” “It is probable ahe will not lie back for -some time,” said Standish. “Let us go •down on the beach, Dorothy, you look as If you, too, wanted to be taken care Of, and the open air will do you more good than sitting in a room.” “Very well,” and she turned from the house to go through the garden. “But I am quite wkell, only a little worn out with my practice and two whole hours of Miss Oakeley’s enthusiasm.” “I can imagine it. High pressure—hey ?” “Yes, very high.” They walked on siHently till they reached the water’s edge, when Dorothy instinctively turned her back on a more frequented part of the ■ common and exclaimed: “Let us get as far from the madding crowd as possible.” “By all means, especially as I want a little private talk with you.” “Do you ?” in an alarmed tone, “I hope not a scolding!” • “Do I ever scold you?” reproachfully. “Well, no!\ But just now I always anticipate evil.” “The terrors of an awakened conscience, I suppose?” “I think I am more imperfect than wicked,” said Dorothy, with a sigh. Standish laughed. “Conscience is hard at work, I see. No, Y am not going to scold—why should I? You are really a very good girl, so far I see. I am going to cross-examine .you.” “That is bad enough,” and Dorothy bent her head, her naturally pathetic little face looking so sad, that Standish involuntarily drew closer to her. “You don’t imagine, my dear Dorothy, that I would willingly distress you? I think you can trust, me! Now,” with a . -change of tone —“Tell me, are you aware that I have received overtures for a matri- > monial alliance with my charming ward —from an unexceptional parti?” “I am,” very seriously. “It seems you have refused Egerton. /May I ask you the why and “T don’t like him.” “But why?” urged Standish. “I think,” began Dorothy, thoughtfully •and slowly, “that Mr. Egerton might be charming—perhaps irresistible if he loved —but aomehow or other I feel quite convinced that he does not love me!” “My dear Dorothy, what an absurd Impression. Why should he ask'you to ■marry him? Why seek you at all, were not strongly attracted? You have no -particular advantage, of rank or wealth— Indeed, Egerton wants nothing of that ■Wind.” . “Yes, IMs all very, curious, I know It

seems absurd to say so, but I feel quite sure he does not care a straw for me.” “How do you know? What is at the bottom of this preposterous conviction?” ■ “Nothing at all that any sensible person would consider proof,” returned Dorothy, in a deliberate tone, dwelling on her words, “but there is no love in his voice or his touch—or—oh, no!” breaking off suddenly, “there is no love in him for me, or I could never be so indifferent to him!” “Do you mean to say,” looking at her rather sternly, “that you would love any one whom you felt or fancied loved you?” “No, Paul; but if I felt that a man was really in love with me, I should be sorry for him, and feel kindly towards him, and wish I could make him happy and “You feel none of these amiable emotions tow'ard Egerton?” “Not one! Ido not like him. And now you will promise not to trouble me any more about Mr. Egerton—that is finished.” “I suppose so. I will not trouble you. Dorothy, but Egerton will; and Callander, he is rather keen about the affair. For my part, I ajH a little disposed to be on your side. Still, I think the fellow is in love with you.” “And I —though I cannot argue about it—feel sure he is not”

CHAPTER VII. A few days later Callander presented himself at the hotel, when his mother was resting after her drive before retiring to her room to drees for dinner. “Why, Herbert! I did not know you had returned,” she exclaimed; ‘‘you were not expected till to-morrow.” “I thought I had better break away, as I have had a reminder from my old enemies, fever and ague, and every day something turned up to delay me.” “I thought you were feeling much better. I can’t sny you look it.” “I was greatly better, but the bad nights I get now are against me. I found an empty house, so I came on here.” “Exactly! any port in a storm,” said Mrs. Callander, with a dry laugh. “Yes, the whole party are out in Mr. Egerton’s yacht. They are coming back to some sort of supper at your house. They generally end their very Bohemian excursions there.” , “I suppose so,” he returned. “Mabel ought not to send her friends empty away.” “You are a most Indulgent husband, my dear son; indeed, Mabel ought to think herself the happiest of women; probably she does. We have-seearaomewhat more of each other since you were away. I have frequently taken her out to drives, and I think if she were away from that flippant sister of hers, she ” “I see no, room for improvement in my wife,” returned Callander, coldly. “Of course I should like her to be a daughter to you.” His mother sighed obtrusively. “I am sure I am her truest friend if she would believe it.” Then Mrs. Callander wisely digressed to some other topics connected with friends and acquaintances, and got little more than monosyllabic replies to her questions. The children were at tea when the Colonel reached The Knoll, and received him with rapture. Little Dolly was made quite happy because “Father” sat dawn beside her, and took some sips out of her cup. Then the new toys were produced, and Callander seemed a very different man from Mrs. Callander’s taciturn visitor of half an hour before.

When, after dusk, Mabel and her guests reached home, Callander was most warmly greeted by the whole party, and much desultory conversation ensued in which he took his part. Then Miss Oakeley took possession of his, declaring she had some business matters to discuss, and they, or rather she, talked for a considerable time in a dim comer of the drawing room till Standish announced that he was quite reedy to escort Miss Oakeley to her hotel. Callander seemed to have communicated his talent for silence to his friend Egerton, for he scarcely spoke. Dorothy felt infinitely relieved when they were alone. As soon as she had made a few affectionate inquiries as to Callander’s health, she bid them goodnight, hoping that a little private talk would clear away any shadow of misunderstanding between husband and wife. Next day Oirllander produced some trinkets for each sister, and, after looking at the papers, went off to join the children on the beach. As soon as Dorothy was alone with her sister she asked, “Is it all right with Herbert?” “Yes, quite right. I told you he would not mind. We will try and make him as comfortable as possible now.” “Yes, of course! but, Mabel, he looks awfully bad.” “He does, poor dear fellow. It is this horrid ague; When I bid him good-night he was trembling all over. It is some time since he had had such an attack. We must get his old prescription made up. I will join hipi presently xm the beach. ■What are you going to do, Dorothy?” “Oh! there is the everlasting practice with Henrietta.” “Then I will tell Paul to go and takeyou away dt one o’clock. Herbert would like to see you at luncheon.” Dorothy sped awity with a light heart. The clouds she fancied so threatening were breaking, and behind them lay clear blue sky. The holiday so much enjoyed by Paul Standish was nearly over. Egerton contrived to prevent anything like tete-a-tete interviews between him and his ward during the last few days, to Dorothy's great disgust. There was such a thorough sense of companionship between the two that any third person spoiled their frana intercourse, and Egerton’s third was particularly unpleasant to Dorothy. It was, then, a great relief to her mind when Paul presented himself, unaccompanied, in Miss Oakeiey’s sitting room at the time appointed, and they walked leis-

urely back to “The Knoll,” talking pleasantly of many things. “So Callander took his disappointment about bis intended-second edition of the ‘honeymoon’ very calmly,” said Standish. “Very kindly and calmly, though I think he was wofully disappointed. Perhaps he is better at home, as he has had a return, of fever and ague. He is a dear. I think Mabel is so lucky to have found such a husband!” “I think she is. What shall Ido when you marry, too? - My occupation will be o’er, without a willful ward to manage.” Thus talking they reached the house, and in the hall they found Mrs. McHugh, the nurse. “Has Mrs. Callander come in?” “No, miss; she was going out to meet tifle Colonel early, but just as she was putting on her hat in the hall, two outlandish men came*to the front door —by good luck I hadn’t gone out, so I waited with the missus, for I must say they were ugly customers. They belong to that foreign ship there, and I say they ought not to be let rampage about, frightening respectable people. One was a great, tall, wild-looking fellow with-eyes like a tiger, in a manner of speaking; the other, a fat little ch*ffp, with curls; both nearly as dark as niggers; the little one spoke a queer sort of English.” "What did they want, Nurse?” asked Standish. "Well, sir, they came inside the door as bold as brass, and the little fellow, he asks for the ‘other young lady.’ So I up and says, ‘What young lady?’ for I saw my missus was frightened, and he says, ‘The young lady as came to the ship with the gentleman what speaks Spanish.’ ‘She’s not at home,’ says I. *Then,’ says he, ‘maybe this lady would look at what my comrade here has to show.’ With that the tall one pulled off his red cap, and took a little bag all sewn with gold and silver, but very dirty, and took out a queer green stone all covered over with figures. ‘This is a something,’ I can’t remember the word, ‘a charm,’ says the little man, ‘that belonged to the Moors.’ Now’ I knew that was a lie, for the Moores are an old Irish family, my mother’s people, and no such things as that ever came out of Ireland.” “What did my sister do?” asked Dorothy. “Oh, she took it, and looked at it, and asked if the young lady wanted it. So the little man said the young lady wanted curiosities, and they had none, for they had forgotten this thing, which hung round one of their filthy necks, it seems; anyhow, Mrs. Callander was taken with it, but when the little man asked two pounds for it, I just told her it was throwing away good money. So we bargained a bit, and they agreed to let us have it “for twenty-five shillings. Then the missus says, ‘Stay here, Nurse, I’ll go fetch my purse.’ Then back she.comes, and gives the gold piece and five shillings, With a sweet smile, and says she, so gentle and sweet, ‘I hope it will bring me good fortune,’ says she. ‘How long are you to be here?’ and the little man answers that they might sail any day. • All this time the big, biack-looking sailor never took his eyes off her. I saw him glance at her beautiful rings. I can tell you I was right glad to see the back of them.” "I must show you your amulet,” said Mabel, when they returned to the drawing room, and she took it from the drawer of her work table. It was a dark green stone, roughly shaped in the form of a beetle, and covered with tiny hieroglyphics, and some square, primitive-look-ing characters. One end was perforated from side to side, as if for a chain. “It looks Egyptian; it is very curious.”' said Standish, examining it. “You ought to wear it constantly, Dorothy. It may bring you untold good fortune.” (To be continued.!

DARWIN AS A PUPIL.

Ile Preferred Chemistry to the Old Greek and Latin Verses. Thirty years ago Dean Farrar, at that time plain Mr. Farrar and merely a master at Harrow School, delivered a lecture in which he attacked the system, then in vogue, of spending much time over Greek and Latin verse. He urged that the practice should be abandoned in yase of boys who had no aptitude for sjuch work. In place of this artificial drilling, the lecturer advocated the study of science and natural history, as likely to benefit boys who cared nothing for Greek and Latin versification. Of course the lecturer was opposed by those who were believers in the old classical system. But he lias received his reward. Then there was but one well-known school in England which had a “Science Master;” now there is scarcely a school of note which has not. Then the “Latin verse” system was universal; now it is almost entirely abandoned. He, also had the pleasure of receiving from Charles Darwin a letter of historic Interest in the annals of English education, wherein the great biologist relates his own experience, while a pupil, in being snubbed because he preferred chemistry to the classics. He writes: “I was at school at Shrewsbury under a great scholar, Dr. Butler. I learned absolutely nothing except by amusing myself by reading and experimenting in chemistry. Dr. Butler somehow found this out, and publicly sneered at me before the whole school for such gross waste of time. I remembef he called me a pococurante (careless, indifferent fellow), which net understanding I thought was a dread ful name.” Dean Farrar, commenting on Dr. Butler’s mistake with regard to the greatest intellect which ever passed under his tuition, calls it a fault of the times and not of the man. In those days boys described chemistry as “Stinks,” and Darwin’s nickname at school was “Gas.”

New England’s Great Industry.

Shoemaking is a great business in Now England. The latest returns show that in 1890 there was manufactured in New England $167,000,000, Germany $158,000,000, Great Britain $144,000,000, France $110,000,000. The value of boots and shoes produced annually on the ratio of population is for Great Britain $4 per inhabitant, France and Germany $3 each, and for New England S3O per inhabitant.

TOPICS FOR FARMERS

A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL- FRIENDS. Directions for Spraying Fruit Trees— Wood Ashes Not Good for Potatoes —Different Varieties of Smut-In-competent Horseahoera. Spraying Fruit Trees. Mr. J. C. Blair, assistant horticulturist at the University of Illinois, gives the following directions for spraying fruit trees: “The first application of solutions for the controlling of fungus diseases should be on the dormant wood before the buds have expanded. This consists of copper sulphate, one pound to fifteen gallons of water. The object of this is to kill the mycelium and spores of the apple serab fungus or of other diseases which may be present on the twigs and branches. It has been wholly impracticable to make this application on account of the excessive spring rains. Do not apply copper sulphate after the leaves are out. The second application, and the most important, is that of Bordeaux mixture and paris green, which should be applied when the leaf buds are open, but before the flower buds expand. This solution is best prepared by dissolving six pounds of copper sulphate in a bag of coarse cloth hung In a vessel holding six gallons of water, so that the bag is just covered. Slack four pounds of lime in one to two gallons of water. Then mix the two above solutions, and after straining add forty gallons of. water. In case of peach foliage two pounds of lime should be added to lessen the caustic effect of the copper sulphate. To this solution should be added four ounces of paris green for each fifty gallons for the purpose of_destroying the larvae of the bud moth and of the codlln moth, which may have made their appearance. The third application which, with respect to the codlln moth, is the most important one, should be made as soon as the blossoms have fallen. For this application use Bordeaux mixture with paris green added above. If these three applications are made to fruit trees promptly and thoroughly by far the most important enemies to our fruits will be kept in check.”

Wood Ashes for Potatoes. For a good many years farmers have believed wood ashes to be an excellent application for potatoes. Scientific men held the same opinion. Within a short time the Rhode Island experiment station has reached a different conclusion. It is said that “potatoes have sometimes produced a slightly greater total yield from liming, and usually a much greater percentage of merchantable tubers; but owing to the fact that wood ashes and water or air-slacked lime (hot gypsum or land plaster) increase the virulence of the potato scab to, a setious degree, lime in these forms, if used at all on potato fields, should be applied in small quantities, seldom exceeding half a ton per acre. The seed tubers should also be treated with corrosive sublimate solution, or with formalin, the new remedy tried successfully by the Indiana experiment station in 1896.” The advice is, on account of the tendency of lime to increase the virulence of potato scab, not to apply it to potato ground, and also not to apply wood ashes on account of the lime they contain. Wood ashes contain potash in a valuable form for potatoes, but their application to the greund and some other crop a year liefore potatoes are planted ,is now recommended. Varieties of Smut. There are several varieties of smut, known as the “stinking” smut, or bunt, attacking the kernels of wheat, while the variety known as “loose” smut attacks the whole head, converting it into a mass of loose, dusty spores. The loose smut of oats is also another variety, and is very similar to that of wheat. Barley is attacked by two smuts and rye by one. Corn smut does not do as much damage as the other kinds, but is more widespread. There is no known remedy for corn smut. Experiments made in treating the seeds of wheat, oats, barley, etc., show that by preventing smut the yield of crops is greater, even when the disease is light, thus demonstrating that there is an effect exerted on the producing capacity of the plants when smut is not apparently present sufficiently to do some damage. All the smuts, except that which attacks corn can be prevented by the farmer if he will carefully treat his seed in some manner to destroy the spores, but, unfortunately, the majority of farmers do not use precautionary measures, and thus the negligence of only one or two persons in a community may neutralize the efforts of many. It should be the aim of every farmer to do his part in the matter of ridding the community of pests.

Horseshoeing. Every country blacksmith Includes horseshoeing as a part of his business, but many of them do not understand the confarmatlon of .the foot of a horse and frequently do harm. Each foot may require a special shoe, and there are peculiarities and individual traits of horses which must be considered. Horseshoeing is rffidlx a matter requiring skill, and in some States the question is being agitated. In favor of compelling all blacksmiths and horseshoers to pass an examination and work under a~license before they can put shoes on horses. z Apples for Cold Climates. This is a subject of a bulletin of the Vermont agricultural experiment station. The limit of successful apple culture has been moving steadily northward ever since the occupation of this country. Factors In this progress have

been the planting of carb applies, the introduction of the Russian varieties, and especially the selection of native hardy seedlings and the adoption of better orchard practice. Any given variety, more or less sensitive to cold, can be grown from 50 to 150 miles north of its natural limit by reasonable precautions, such as the following: 1. Plant on land sloping south or southeast and furnish good wind breaks to the north. 2. Secure thorough atmospheric drainage by choosing moderately high and sloping land. '3. Secure thorough atmospheric drainage. If the subsoil is not porous enough to carry off all extra water it must be underdrained. 4. Buy trees on hardy stocks. In most grafted or budded trees the character of the stock is wholly unknown, but to grow a given variety at its northernmost limit a perfectly hardy Stock is required. 5. Graft the chosen variety in the tops of very hardy trees. Varieties recommended for planting where hardiness Is a principal consideration are Yellow Transparent, Red Astrachan, Longfleld, Oldenburg, Fameuse, Mclntosh, Wealthy, Scott Winter, Pewaukee, Arctic. American Squashes in England. The squash is a vegetable which cannot be successfully grown In the open air in England, and its vines take up too much room to make It profitable to grow in hothouses. Unlike other tender vegetables, the squash will bear long transportation. Therefore, Mr. James J. H. Gregory of Marblehead, who is the originator of the Hubbard and Marblehead squashes, tried an experiment a few years ago. He sent about a ton and a half of fine Hubbard squashes to the London market to be sold on commission. When the returns were in Mr. Gregory found that he had somewhat more money than the squashes would have sold for a>t home. But it did not educate English taste to like the squash, for instead of making the squash into pies, as Mr. Gregory gave directions, the London shopkeepers exhibited the squashes in their windows as curiosities. Maybe after one or more trials of the excellence of the Hubbard squash our English neigh- < i»rs may find it better to eat than to look at. Mr. Gregory tells in the Tribune how he later tried to repeat this experiment But a mistake was made, some poor squashes were sent, which arrived in bad condition, and the result was a loss.

Tomatoes. There is no garden vegetable that will respond more markedly to rieh land and good cultivation than tomatoes. A tomato plant will grow on a manure pile and flourish all season there, and in planting them it pays to take some pains to have them stand on a very rich soil. Make the plot where the tomatoes are to stand very rich with manure, and then dig a hole and dump two or three shovelfuls of fine manure in the bottom of it? and set the plants above this. Drive a stake by each plant as soon as it is transplanted, and keep the plant tied to it with strips of cloth, and the fruits will not rot when they begin to ripen. The tomato is one of the plants that does better for transplanting, and, if they are transplanted two or three times, they only grow more stocky and produce better. There is not a bit of danger of losing tomato plants by transplanting, as they will grow from a slip almost as well as from a rooted plant. Keep them well cultivated, and, if tbe weather comes off dry, give them plenty of water, and the crop is certala and large.—Farmers’ Voice. Money from Herbs. A great deal of money can be made from common garden herbs. Sage, thyme, marjoram and even catnip all have their devotees. Most city cats very rarely see catnip, except as a package. If it is purchased done up in a closed and sewed bag, and given them to play with, the antics they will perform with this plaything are extreme-' ly amusing. In the country cats find enough catnip growing around houses. If farmers’ boys would gather some of the leaves and sew them up in balls they could make some money out of the business. There is nearly always a good demand for herbs used in making the dressing for fowls and other baked meats.

Modern Methods. Farmers have for hundreds of years been engaged in opposing every attempt to improve them in their methods of farming. Hundreds of farmers’ wives work daily at churning in a manner that is most laborious, taking an hour or more to do what could be performed In a few minutes if they were not too prejudiced against “fancy farming’’ to use a thermometer. They have no faith in “book farming,” and pay dearly for refusing to be convinced. The Quality of Pasture. All the grass roots which root near the surface make the best early pasture, for these only get much warmth In the early spring .months. June grass, red top and timothy pasture are best in the .order named. Clover Is very poor, innutritions feed until It begins to blossom. Then it very rapidly increases in value, but should be cut for soiling rather than pastured, as stock will tramble down clover In blossom and waste more than they eat. Profit in Early Spring Beans. For an easily grown crop early string beans are almost always profitable. The hlHs should be protected while the plants are small, and there Is danger that frosts will nip them. Common card boxes placed over the hills bottom up can be very cheaply procured. They will keep off frost as well as more expensive coverings, and can be kept from blowing away by putting a stone or a little earth over them at night.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THK I PAST WEEK. Prohibitionists Put in Nomination* State Ticket—Horrible Suicide of adg Goshen Woman White Demented— Great Electric Railway in Operation; Prohibition State Ticket. About 300 delegates attended the State 1 prohibition convention, which nominated J n full ticket, at Indianapolis. The usual | declarations against liquor as inimical to ,1 the public welfare were made in the plat- , form, which also made a demand for equal | suffrage. Following are the nominations; Secretary of State, Aaron Worth, Jay County; Auditor, M. A. Parr, Putnam County; Treasurer, J. F. Kinsey, Tippecanoe* County; Attorney General, B. F. , Watson, Marion County; Superintendent | of Public Instruction, E. A. Devore, ;■ Wayne County; Clerk of the Supreme Court, D. W. Welch, Posey County; Ge- | ologist, V. E. Baldwin, Miami County; Statistician, J. O. Ledbetter, CHnton County. The candidates for judges of the Supreme and Appellate courts will be appointed by the State central committee. Gas Belt Hallway System. The Indiana Gas Belt Electric Railway has been put in operation between Anderson and Summitville and Marion and Fairmount, leaving but five miles to connect up to complete the Marion-Ander-son line. The Elwood line is well under way and the Muncie line will l>e started at once. The Indianapolis branch will be built this fall or early next spring. This is Indiana’s first electric railway and when completed it will be the longest system in the country, covering over 100 miles. The equipment is high class. CoiA gressman Henry is at the head of the system. Nail Mills Reopen. The American Wire Nail mills, a trust concern, at Anderson, is in full operation again, with 7(10 men and the Hazen Wire Nail mills, recently purchased by the United States Nail Company of Philadelphia (anti-trust), has again been put in operation, after a three-year shut-down. These are the only two natural gas fuel mills in the country. A wire mill is being built as au addition to the latter. When in full operation 300 men will be employed. Burns Herself to Death. While temporarily demented the wife of Rabbi Weinstein of Goshen committed suicide. While the family- slept Mrs. Weinstein arose and, going out of doors, injured coal oil over her gown, thoroughly saturating it from head to foot, and then applied a lighted match. Her screams finally attracted attention, but she was fatally burned before the flames' were extinguished. Within Our Borders. Logansport is considering the Pinyree potato patch plan. Company I of Crawfordsville is to become a part of the regiment being riised by J. Frank Hanly of Lafayette. A large barn and a residence occupied by a tenant, belonging to Abraham Nicholson, four miles north of Fortville, was burned. The sawmill and plant of the Morion Hardwood Lumber Company at Vincennes was burned. Loss, slo,oooj no insurance. Indiana spiritualists announce July 19 as the opening date of their annual cfmip meeting at the State camp grounds vast of Anderson. Timothy B. McMahon, traveling salesman for the Seth Edwards Shoe Company of Boston, and the Keystone Shoe Company, committed suicide at Covington by drinking carbolic acid. Judge Advocate and Col. C. L. Jewett of Jeffersonville, who left for the Philppines with Gen. Merritt, was presented with a handsome gold-mounted sword by the New Albany lodge of Elks. The Red Men's lodge at Yorktown has erected a handsome monument at t-le cemetery in memory of the late D. W. Flowers, a former brother of the order at Yorktown who died five years ago. Mrs. Herman Hohnstreiter, aged £B, and residing with her husband and eiglt children on a farm northeast of SeymotlT, committed suicide by taking carbolic ac'd. Mrs. Hohnstreiter had been despondetat for several days. Harry Williams of Peru has invent’d and constructed a flying machine in which people can ride. It is propelled by el*?Ctricity and moves at the rate of two mises a minute. He is trying to bring about a deal with the Government.

At Lebanon, the jury in the case of George Pence against the L. E. & W. Railroad Company for $1,999 damages for injuries received by being struck by a locomotive rendered a verdict for the plaintiff, awarding him SBOO damages. During the high water the old dam at Jerome gave way. It was the six mbbs of backwater that partially at least caused the collapse of the Wildcat levee in Kokomo that resulted in so much damage. The Jerome dam was built fifty years ago. At Ridgeville, Mrs. Milton Abernathy was returning from a visit to the country in company with her brother, Edward Green, when the horse took fright at a bicycle and ran away, throwing both out of the carriage, breaking both of Mrs. Abernathy’s ankles. J. J. Burns of Chicago bought of Naugle. Holcomb & Co. of Chicago, franchise and right of way of the Elkhart, Goshen and Southern trolley line between Elkhart and Goshen. Burns owns the electric railways in Goshen and Elkhart, and will' build an interurban line this summer. A press dispatch from Washington to the effect that ex-President Benjamin Harrison has been retained by the Government of Venezuela as its counsel before the board of arbitrators to settle the boundary dispute between Venezuela and Great Britain has been verified at Indianapolis. At Shelbyville, the sensational SIO,OOO. damage suit of Henry Taylor vs. H. P. Gordon for alienation of Mrs. Taylor’s affections was compromised, the plaintiff receiving $5,000. Patrick Dugan and George Sowers, residing on the Hamilton County line, just west of Anderson, were killed about the same time by lightning. The former was Out milking his cow and the latter was driving his cows home to milk. Every bone in Dugan's body was shattered. Sowers was struck on the head, the lightning running down to hie chin and than on to his breast.