Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1895 — Page 3

TALMAGE’S SERMON.

HE DISCUSSES A QUESTION OF UNIVERSAL INTEREST. Favors Woman Suffrace, but Says His Chief Anxiety Is Not for This,bn t that Woman Shall Appreciate the Glorious Sights She Already Possesses. The Queen of Women. Dfc. Talmage, while on his Western tour, preached in St. Louis last Sunday, and discussed -a subject of universal interest, viz., “Woman’s Opportunity,” his text being, “She shall be called womau,” Genesis inra:- — - God, who can make no mistake, made man and woman for a specific work and to move in particular spheres—man to be regnant in his realm; woman to be dominant in hers. The boundary line between Italy and Switzerland, between England and Scotland, is not more thoroughly marked than this distinction between the empire masculine and the empire feminine* So entirely dissimilar are the fields to wnich God called them that you can no more compare them than you can oxygen and hydrogen, water and grass, trees and stars. All this talk about the superiority ■of one sex to the other sex is an everlasting waste of ink and speech. A jeweler may have a scale so delicate that he can weigh the dust of diamonds, but where are the scales so delicate that you can weigh in them affection against affection, sentiment against sentiment, thought against thought, soul against soul, a man’s world against a woman’s world? You •come out with .your stereotyped remark that man is superior to woman in intellect, and then I open_on m.v desk the swarthy, iron typed, thunderbolted writings of Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Browning and George Eliot. You come on with your stereotyped remark about woman’s superiority to man iu the Item of affection, but I asked you where was there more capacity to love than in John, the disciple, and Matthew Simpson, the bishop, and Henry Martyn, the missionary? 1 The heart of those men was so large that after you had rolled into it two hemispheres there was room stili left to marshal the hosts of heayen and set up the throne of the eternal Jehovah. I deny to mam the throne- intellectual. I deny to woman the throne aflfeetional. No human phraseology will ever define the spheres, while there is an intuition by which we know a man is in his realm, ind when a woman is in her realm, and when either •of them is out of it. No bungling legislature ought to attempt to make a definition ■or to say, “This is the line and that is the line.” My theory is that if a woman wants to vote she ought to vote, and that If a man wants to embroider and keep house he ought to be allowed to embroider and keep house. There are masculine women, and there are effeminate men. 3Jy theory is that you have no right to interfere with any one’s doing anything that is righteous. Albany and Washington might ns well decree by legislation how high a brown thrasher should fly or how deep a trout should plunge as to try to seek out the height and depth of woman’s duty. The question of capacity will settle finaliy the whole question, the whole subject. When a woman is prepared to preach, she will preach, and neither conference nor presbytery can hinder her. When a woman is prepared to move in highest commercial spheres, she will have great Influence on the exchange, and no boards of trade can hinder her. I want woman to understand that heart and brain can overfly any barrier that politicians may set up, and that nothing can keep her back or keep her down but the question of incapacity. Universal Suffrage. I was in New Zealand last year just after the opportunity of suffrage had been conferred upon women. The plan worked ■well. There had never been such good order at the polls, and righteousness triumphed. Men have not made such a wonderful moral success of the ballot box that they need fear women will corrupt it. In all our cities man has so nearly made the ballot box a failure, suppose we let woman try. But there are some women, I know, of most undesirable nature, who 'wander up and down the country—having no homes of their own or forsaking their •own homes—talking about their rights, and we know very well that they themselves are fit neither to vote nor to keep house. Their mission seems merely to humiliate the two sexes at the thought of what any one of us might become. No one would want to live under the laws that such women would enact or to have cast upon society the children that such women would raise. But I shall show you the best rights that woman can own *he already has in her possession; that her position in this country at this time is not •one of commiseration, but one of congratulation; that the grandeur and power of her realm have never yet been appreciated; that she sits to-day on a throne so high that all the thrones of earth piled on top of each other would not make for her a footstool. Here is the platform on which she stands. Away down below it are the ballot box, and the congressional assemblage, and the legislative hall. Woman always has voted and always will vote. Ourgreat-grnndfnthers thought they were by their votes putting Washington into the Presidential chair. No. His mother, by the principles she taught him and by the habits she inculcated, made him President. It was a Christian mothers hand dropping the ballot when Lord Bacon wrote, and Newton philosophized, and Alfred the Great governed, and Jonathan Edwards thundered of judgment to come, j How many men there have been in bigb political station who would have been insufficient to stand the test to which their moral principle was put had it not been for a wife’s voice that encouraged them to do right and a wife’s prayer that sounded louder than the clamor of partisanship? The right of suffrage, as we men exercise it, seems to be a feeble thing. You, a Christian man, come up to the ballot box, and you drop your vote. Bight after you comes a libertine or n sot—the offsconring of the street—and he drops his vote, and his vote counteracts yours. - But If in the quiet of home life a daughter by her Christian demeanor, * wife by her industry, a mother by her faithfulness, casts a vote'ln the right direction, then nothing enn resist -It, and the influence of that vote will throb through the eternities. Woman and Home. My chief anxiety, then, is hot that woman have other rights accorded her, but that she, by the grace of God, rise up to the appreciation of the glorious rights she already possesses. First, she has the right to make home happy. That realm no one has over disputed with her. Men may . come home at noon or at night and then

tarry a comparati rely little while, bat she all day long governs it, sanctifies It. It ia within her power to make it the most attractive place on eartb. It is the only calm harbor in this world. Yon know as well as I do that this outside world and the business world are a long scene of jostle and contention. The man who has a dollar struggles to keep it. The man who has it not struggles to get it. Prices up. Prices down. Losses. Gains. Misrepresentations. Underselling. Buyers depreciating; salesmen exaggerating. Tenants seeking less rent} landlords demanding more. Struggles about office. Men who are in trying to keep in; men out trying to get in. Slips, Tumbles. Defalcations. Panics. Catastrophes. Oh, woman, thank God you have a home, and that you may be queen in it! Better be there than wear Victoria’s Oertniet. .JfeefcL ter be there than carry the purse of a princess. Your abode may be humble, but you can, by your faith in God and your cheerfulness of demeanor, gild it with splendors such as an upholsterer’s hand never yet kindled. There are abodes in every city—humble, two stories, four plain, utfpapered rooms, undesirable neighborhood, and yet there is a man who would die on the threshold rather than surrender. Why ? It is home. Whenever he thinks of it, he seesangels of God hovering aroundJt. The _ ladders of heaven, are let down to that house. Over the child’s rough* crib there are the cliantings of angels as those that broke over Bethelhem. It is home. These children may come up after awhile, and they may win high position, and they may have an affluent residence, but they will not until their dying day forget that humble roof under which their father rested, and their mother sang, and their sisters played. Oh, if you would gather up all tender memories, all the lights and shades of the heart, all banquetings and reunions, all filial, TraTefnal. patcrnai and conjugal affections, nnd you had only just four letters with which to spell out that height and depth and length and breadth and magnitude, and eternity of meaning you would, with streaming eyes, and tremjbling voice, and agitated hands, write it out iu those four living capitals, H-O-M-E. What right does woman wdnt that is grander than to be queen in such a realm? Why, the eagles of heaven cannot fly across that dominion. Horses, panting and with lathered flanks, are not swift enough to run to the outposts of that realm. They say that the sun never sets upon the English empire, hut I have to tell you that on this realm of woman’s influence eternity never marks any bound. Isabella fled from the Spanish throne, pursued by the nation’s anathema, but she who is queen in a home will never lose her throne, and death itself will only be the annexation of heavenly principalities.

The Grandest Woman. . When you want to get your grandest idea of a queen, you do not think of Catherine of Russia, or of Anne of England, or Marie Theresa of Germany, but when you want to get your grandest idea of a queen you think of the plain woman who sat opposite your father at the table or walked with him arm in arm down life’s pathway; sometimes to the Thanksgiving banquet, sometimes to the grave, but always together—soothing your petty griefs, correcting your childish waywardness, joining in your infantile sports, listening to your evening prayers, toiling for you with needle or at the spinning wheel and on cold nights wrapping you up snug nnd warm. And then at last on that day when she lay in the back room dying, and you saw her take those thin hands with which she had toiled for you so long, and put them together in a dying prayer that commended you to tne God whom she had taught you to trust—oh, she was the queen! The chariots of God came down to fetch her, and as she went in all heaven rose up. You cannot think of her now without a rush of tenderness that stirs the deep foundations of your soul, and you feel as much a child again as when you cried on her lap, and if you could bring her back again to speak just once more your name as tenderly as she used to speak it, you would be willing to throw yourself on the ground and kiss the sod that covers her. crying: “Mother! Mother!” Ah, Bhe was the queen! She was the queen! Now, can you tell me how many thousand miles a wjoman like that would have to travel down before she got to the ballot box? Compared with this work of training kings and queens for God and eternity, how insignificant seems all this work of voting for aldermen and common couueilmen and sheriffs and constables and mayors and presidents! To make one such grand woman as I have described, how many thousands would you want of those people who go in the round of fashion and dissipation, going as far toward disgraceful apparel as they dare go, so as to be arrested by the police—their behavior a sorrow to the good and a caricature of the vicious, and an insult to that God who made them women and not gorgons, and trampding on down through a frivolous and dissipated life to temporal and eternal damnation? O woman, with the lightning of your soul, strike dead at youtr feet all these allurements to dissipation and to fashion! Your immortal soul canwot be fed upon such garbage. God calls you up to empire and dominion. Will you have it? Oh, give to God your heart; give to God all your best enemies; give to God all your culture; give 'to God all your refinement: give yourself to him. for this world and the next. Soon all these bright eyes will be quenched, and these voices will be hushed. For the last time you will look upon this fair earth. Father’s hand, mother’s hand, sister’s hnnd, child’s band, will no more be in yours. It will be night, and there will come up a cold wind from the Jordan, and you roust start. Will it be a lone woman on a trackless moor? Ah, no! Jesus will come up in that Hour and offer his band, and he will say, “Yon stood by me when you were weE; now I will not desert you when you are sick." One wave of his hand, and the storm will drop, and another wave of his band, and midnight shall break into midneoa, and another wave of hi* band, and the chamberlains of God wilt come down from the treasure houses of heaven, with robes lustrous, blood washed apd heaven glinted, in which you will array yourseßf for the marriage supper of the Lamb. And then with Miriam, who struck the timbrel of the Red sea, and with Deborah, who led the Lord’s boat into the fight, and with Hannah, who gave her Samuel to the Lord, and with Mary, who rocked Jeans to sleep while there were angels singing in the air, and with sisters of charity. vtio bound up the battle wounds of the .Crimea, you will, from the chalite of God, drink to thy soul’s eternal rescue. Woman’s Dominion. Your'dominion Is home, O woman! What a brave fight for home the women of Ohio made some ten or fifteen years ago, when they banded together and In

many ot the towns and cities of that State marched in procession and by prayer and Christian songs shut up more places of dissipation than were ever counted. Were they opened again? Oh, yes. But is it not a good thing to shnt up the gates of hell for two or three months? It seemed that men engaged in the business of destroying others did not know how to cope with this kind of warfare. They knew how to fight the Maine liquor law, and they knew how to fight the National Temperance Society, and they knew how to fight the Sons of Temperance and Good Samaritans, but when Deborah appeared upon the scene Sisera took to his feet and got to the mountains. It seems that they did not know how to contend against “Coronation" and “Old Hundred” and “Brattle Street” and “Bethany”—they that they could not accomplish much against that kind of warfare and in one of the cities a regiment was brought out all armed to disperse the women. They came down in battle array, but, oh, what poor success! For that regiment was made up of gentlemen, and gentlemen do not like to shoot women with hymnbooks in their hands. Oh, they found that gunning for female prayer meetings was a very poor business! No real damage was done, although there was threat of violence after threat of violence all over the land. I really think if the women of *the East had as much faith in God as their sisters of the West had, and the same recklessness of human criticism, I really believe that in one month three-fourths of the grogshops of our cities would be closed, aud there would be running through the gutters of the streets burgundy and cognac and heidsick and old port and schiedam schnapps and lager beer, and you would save your fathers, and your husbands, and your sons, first, from a drunkard’s grave and, secondly, from a drunkard’s hell! To this battle ForTiome let all women rouse themselves. Thank God for our early home. Thank God for our present home. Thank God for the coming home in heaven.

The Home Eternal. One twilight, after I had been playing with the children for some time, I lay down on the lounge to rest. The children said play more. Children always want to play more. And, half asleep and half awake, I seemed to dream this dream: It seemed to me that I was in a far distant land—not Persia, although more than ori- r ental luxuriance crowned the cities; nor the tropics, although more than tropical fruitfulness filled the gardens; nor Italy, although more than Italian softness filled the air—and I wandered around, looking for thorns and nettles, but I found none of them grew there, and I walked forth, and I saw the sun rise, and I said, “When will it set again?” and the sun sank not. And I saw all the people in holiday apparel, and I said, “When do they put on workingman’s garb again and delve in the mine and swelter at the forge?” but neither the garments nor the robes did they put off. And I wandered in the suburbs, and I said, “Where do they bury the dead of this* great city?” and I looked along the hills where it would be most beautiful for the dead to sleep, and I saw castles and towns and battlements, but not a mausoleum, nor monument, nor white slab could I see. And I went into the great chapel of the town, and I said; “Where do the poor worship? Where are the benches on which they sit?” and a voice answered, “Wo have no poor in this great city.” And I wandered out, seeking, to find the place where were the hovels of destitute, and I found mansions of amber and ivory and gold, but no tear did I see or sigh hear. I "was bewildered, and I sat under thq shadow of a great tree, and I said, “What uni I, and whence comes all this?” And at that moment there came from among the leaves, skipping up the flowery paths and across the sparkling waters, a very bright and sparkling group, and when I saw their step I knew it, and when I heard their voices I thought I knew them, but their apparel was so different from anything I had ever Seen I bowed, a stranger to strangers. But after awhile, when they clapped their hands and shouted: “Welcome! Welcome!” the mystery was solved, and I saw that time had passed, aud that eternity had come, and that God had gathered us up into a higher home. and I said “Are we all here?” And the voices of innumerable generations answered, “All here!” And while tears of gladness were raining down onr cheeks, and the branches of Lebanon cedars were clapping their hands, and the towers of the , great city were chiming their welcome, we began to laugh and sing and leap and shout, “Home, home, homer* Then I felt a child’s hand on my face, and it woke me. The children wanted to play more. Children always want to play more.

Doors Mape of Glass.

Two Boston inventors have secured a patent for a process of making glass veneers which have many pecuHar properties. This invention relates primarily to the production of ornamental glass, which may be either semi-trans-parent or opaque, and is made to represent highly-polished wood of any description. It is intended to be applicable for veneering wherever required, and is particularly adapted for vestibule and other doors, the exterior of the glass having the appearance of highly polished wood, while in the interior of the house it will appear semi-trans-parent. In carrying the invention into practice, a sheet of ground or plain glass la taken of any desired: size and clouded the same on one side with a liquid dye of the proper color to represent any desired wood, which dye in applied by means of a sponge for delineating the grain of the wood so as to appear upon the surface of the glass. The shading ia softened by means of a badger brush. Photographers.’ varnish. Is then caused to. flow on the glass, and leaves the grain clear and fast without the necessity of using any gelatinous substance, which would render It liable to crack and spoil the effect. To complete the operation the glass Is then slightly heated, and the varied shades of dyes required four the partlc- ■ ular wood to be represented are caused tofloir over it by means of a syringe. The glass is heated in order to prevent the shadings from merging into each other. The whole is then made semitransparent by applying another coat of photographers’ varnish, so as to prevnent the dyes from being effaced, while the exterior surface presents the appearance of a highly-polished, solid wood finish. _________ The devil won’t let a stingy man have any mercy on himself.

THE FARM AND HOME.

MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Sorghum Needs More Attention than Corn—Valuable Information in Bee Culture—Secret of Making Good Butter—lmproving Bented Land—Notes. The Sorghum Crop. Sorghum Is usually planted in hills about three feet apart each way, or If the ground is not too weedy, in drills three feet apart, leaving the stalks at the last tblnning abont four tosix inches apart-te-the-row. If the crop Is to be used for sugar or syrup, the stalks should be about six Inches apart In the drill, or about five stalks in the hill. Six or seven stalks could be left in the hill where the crop is to be used for forage. About two quarts of seed of the ordinary varieties are required per acre, when planted in hills, and somewhat more than this amount When sown in drills. Early orange or early amber or some of the other early varieties, says the Country Gentleman, would probably be most sure to give a profitable crop. On land specially adapted to corn or sorghum some of the larger or later- varieties might be grown, as they yield much heavier crops; but if any of the crop is to be cut so early as August, the later varieties will not do. The crop needs considerably more attention at the start than corn, but perhaps less after it is a foot or more high. The growth is rather filow for the first few inches, but very rapid at the- close of the season. The outer glaze on the stalk is harder than on maize, and the stalks should pre-‘ ferably be fed whole rather than cut into short pieces, to avoid risk of cutting the animals about the mouth. The cane, when mature, will stand for a long time without much deterioration In quality, even after a severe frost, provided warm weather does not follow the frost, or alternating periods of warm and cold occur. Sorghum can be made into ensilage, but will not mntu as good ensilage as mature corn, being usually quite sour. Some growers have reported keeping sorghum for many weeks cut and set in large bunches in the field.

Items in Bee Culture. v - Following are questions asked and answered at the National Illinois convention of beekeepers and reported in the American Bee Journal: Is it best to put the colonies on the old stands when taking out of cellar? Most thought It best if possible, though some did not do it. Is the eight or ten frame Langstroth hive the best? About half use the eight and the balance the ten frame fylve. Is it advisable to supersede queens or let the bees do it? Most of the members thought It best to let the bees attend to it, and let the beekeeper watch them, and to supersede when the bees do not attend to it Which is better, thip or extra thin foundation for sections ? Thin. How many use full sheets of foundation In sections? Only one.—Dr. Miller uses full sheets. How many wire brood frames?' And is it best? H, W. Lee thought it was not necessary, while others thought that it was. What is the best section holder? Dr. Miller thought the T super, with a follower and wedge, the best Where a division board is used in the hive, will the bees work as well in the sections over an open space? Not so well. Care for the Cows. When you are not running your cows for all there is in them, are you not making a great mistake? Can yon honestly say that daring the past winter your cows have had the best of care that you were capable ol giving them? Can you say that you have made' the best butter that it was possible for you to make? It not, why not? Have you all the money that you want? Have you all the farming implements that you would like to have? Your cows would help you reach this desired end If yon gave them' the best ears that you eoukl.

There Is no secret in caring for cows or in making good butter, says the National Stockman. Any one can do it If he will only try. It is hard to get out of the way of doing, certain things ia certain ways, but when there is money in getting, then, “let’s git” lit eosts no more to make a pound of batter that will sell for 30’ cents than it does to make a ponnd of butter that we have trouble in disposing of for 10i It eosts less to get a quart of milk from a cow when she gives ten quarts, than when.she- gives five* Why, then, don’t we make her give ten, and make thirtyfive cent butter from, the ten quarts, where we formerly made ten-eent butter from live- quarto? It Is slow work at the bottom, of the ladder, It is rough always under the harrow; but oar cows, if we onty have two or three, wiU help us if wo only give them the proper care.

Thick or Thin Seeding. We remember two experiments in drilling oats which gave exactly contrary results and yet taught a valuable lesson. On the headlands, where the oats were in places twice seeded so os not to make a vacant space, the part where the seeding lapped gave the first year a much larger yield than the portion which had only one seeding. As we were then drilling at the rate of two and one-half bushels per acre, the yield was best where nearly or quite five bushels per acre was sown. But wc forgot that the season was very wet and the land was rich, so that on the light-ly-seeded part much of the grain fell down. Next year we drilled the oats both ways, sowing two bushels each way. The oats came np well, and looked finely until the time for heading out Then a dry spell came and the oat* were a very light crop, Thick or thin seeding depends on the condition

of the soil and the amount of moisture that may probably be expected, in very rich soil thick seeding of grain except in very wet seasons prevents it from growing too rank and the straw breaking down with its own weight— American Cultivator. Improving Bented Lands. " - A really good farmer wiU not leave the farm poorer than he found it, even ■if he only rents instead of owns the land. But in this country every improvement made on rented land goes to the owner of the property, and this fact operates to prevent those from renting who know that their methods of farming make the land more productive. In European countries most of the farming is on rented land, and recently the laws have been ehanged so os to give the occupant who makes improvements a considerable part of their value. This Is reaUy better for both parties. It is not to the advantage of any owner of land to lease it so as to make temporary* profit, but have its value constantly decrease until it becomes too poor fdr anybody to waht to rent it Scientific Tomato Growlnsc. Prof. W. W. Munson, of the Maine Experiment Station, says of tomato growing: “The seedlings started in flats are, as soon os they begin to crowd, removed to three-inch lots, later to four-inch, then to the field. Frequent handling has with us been beneficial. Midsummer trimming has hastened the ripening of the fruit then set. Totash in the soil tends to increase the acidity of the fruit, while phosphoric acid produces a larger percentage of sugar, and nitrate of soda, in small amounts, increases the yield without delaying the ripening. Nitrogen is the ruling element in the growth of the tomato, although its best effect depends upon the presence of a full supply of other elements. The best fertilizers for the tomato are those that hasten growth early In the season. Failure to fruit well is due to insufficient pollen on the stigma. The remedy for this is, on bright days, when the atmosphere is dry, to give each plant two or three sharp taps withal flat or padded stick.

Dairy Farming in Virginia. Mr. R. B. Chaffin, who has a dairy farm of 575 acres three miles from Richmond, Va., detailed his methods and showed how he kept 500 cows on 400 acres of land, says the Cultivator. He has made butter, but is now sell Ing milk at wholesale, getting sixteen cents per gallon for six months, and fourteen cents for six months. He depends largely on soiling, and gets three crops In the season, mainly of rye, German clover and turnips. He has had some difficulty with labor; finds negroes unreliable, Inclined to quit on receiving a month’s pay, and finds a partial remedy in making the month’s payment on the 15th of the next, and enforcing his rule of forbidding more than two to leave at one time. He only employs them for field work, and pays $lO per month. In the bams, he onljr employs whites, paying $1 per month for each cow milked and limiting the number milked by one man to forty. Pruning Trees in Leaf. A great many farmers defer pruning until the trees are in leaf, In order to prevent “bleeding” or running of the sap, which occurs when the pruning is done earlier. It is probable that not much barm is done by this practice, though it is well to know that pruning in leaf is always a great check to vitality and vigor. It should therefore bopracticed only on trees that are making too strong growth and whose wood, is growing at the expense of fruit, There are some very vigorous varieties of apples, which, while young, are better for being pruned while In fuU loaf. The Northern Spy is one of these. It is slow in coming into bearing when the young trees are set on very rich ground and have nothing to hinder woodgrowth. Calculate the Cost of Your Butteiv Do you know how much your butter eosts per pound? A little calculationmay point out better and more economical methods.

Notes. Bitter milk comes from bad feed. The rag weed, which follows a crop of ryo or oats, dog fennel and the like, although but little may be eaten, will: often, impart a bitter flavor to the milk of cows pastured in such a field. Bran is an excellent ration for horses,, especially if fed with cut bay, as it is not as beating as com and contains more mineral matter than the whole grain. Bran and ground oats, mixed, make an excellent combination for summer. When a horse refuses his food it Is a sure indication that something is wrong. It Is better, however, to delay giving any kind of medicine until a few hours have been passed, unless it is a case of emergency, as the cause may be due to some slight ailment that wilL soon correct Itself. The attendant who enters a stable to milk a cow with a pipe in bis mouth is not the proper man to perform that duty. Milking should be regarded as the cleanest and most important work on a dairy farm, as milk mot only absorbs odors, but is also quickly affected by any foreign substance. Plant more peas for a later supply, and use the varieties that are not of the dwarf kinds. The Champion of England la excellent, but not so prolific as some others. If space is not limited more of them may be planted to compensate for sky bearing. The ground for peas should be rich and in fine condition.

Plaster Is excellent in the hills for corn as a starter, and costs but little. It is claimed for It that it attracts both moisture and ammonia, and as it glyes the young plants a green appearance, there is no doubt that It is beneficial in some manner. Its cheapness puts It within the reach of all, and 100 pounds is sufficient for one acre.

HUSTLING HOOSIERS.

'TEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAn Interesting Summary of the Horu - portent Doings of Onr Neighbors—Wed. dings and Deaths—Crimea, Casualties, and General Indiana hews Notes. The Centennial Commission. Governor Matthews has announced thr hames of the men Selected by him to compose the centennial commission. By a joint resolution of the last general assembly he was authorized to appoint a commission consisting of thirty persona, two from each congressional, district, and., four _ from the state at large. This commission is to formulate a plan and arrange for a centennial celebration of the organization of the territory of Indiana to be held in 1900. The commission is to report to the next general assembly. The appointees arc: State at Large-Col. Eli Lilly and E. B. Martindale, Indianapolis; Hugh Daugherty, Bluff ion; DeFoe Skinner, Valparaiso. First District—Philip Fry, Evansville; James Burkett, Caunclton. Second District—Thomas Buskirk, Paoli; John Weathers, LeavenworthThird District—Charles L. Jewett, New Albany; Dr. 11. C. Hobbs, Salem. Fourth District—John H. Basse, Lawrenceburg; William Cumback, Greenfield. Fifth District—John W. Cravens, Bloomington; John T. Irwin, Columbus. Sixth District—Arthur W. Brady, Mancie; James N. Huston, Connersville. Seventh District—U. S. Jackson, Greenfield; Charles T. Doxey, Anderson. Eighth District—Thomas J. Mann, Sullivan; Frank'BlCKeen, Terre Haute. Ninth District—Eli Martin, Frankfort; C. S. Shirley, Kokomo. Tenth District—3l. 31. Hathaway, Winamae; Joshua C. Hadley, Logansport. Eleventh District—Harry B. Smith, Hartford City: H. L. Goldthwaite, Marion. Twelfth District—Charles 3lcCulloeh, Fort Wayne, and Sol. A. Woods, Angola. Thirteenth District—James A. Arthur, Goshen; George W. 3latthews, South Bend. The commission will meet as soon as all the appointees have accepted the appointment and effect an organization.

Bllnor Bn»t«r flew*. Is ,4AC Joy’s C-year-qld daughter died ot blood poisoning, near Urbana, Wabash county. James Nolton was literally cot to pieces by a Pennsylvania freight train at Jeffersonville. Etamsyille is to have a packing house ■with a capacity of 20) head of hogs and 200 head of beeves a day. Tnr. Gas City Good Citizens League has caused the rejection of six applications lor license to sell liquor there. While Wm. Fix, farmer near Sftelbyville, was down in a well, a heavy piece of timber fell and seriously injured him. AEM a Cain, in trying to put out a fire in a saw mill at Frankfort was seriously burned. The mill' was- greatly damaged. Fred Warner, young farmer near Brookston, died of a broken heart, having grieved himself to death over being swindled out of SI,BOO by lightning rod sharks. Counterfeit niekles are flooding Anderson, and scarcely a businessman has escaped the spurious coins. It is thought that the notorious Peyton gang is at work. Basil Sharp, 10; made a dive into- St. Joe River at Fort Wayne, in shallow water. Ilis head stuck in the muddy bottom, he could not extricate himself and was drowned. Lake County Commissioners- threat.ened to raise Treasurer McCay’S bond 1 to $400,000, at their June session, and he told them to take the office and run. it, whereupon they backed down. John Jones, the Elwood tin-plate worker who recently fell heir to an estate of $8,000,000 in Wales, has left for Liverpool to take the necessary legal steps to put himself in possession of the money.. JonN Evaht, Blackford County farmer, is slowly dying from a peculiar disease; Thousands of worms in his flesh are gradually eating his life away. Physieians are baffled and no relief can lie given him.. James Bowman, aged 60, while- attempting to flag a train moving through Evansville, was struck by a runaway team and was so badly injured that he; died a short time later. Bowman’*- home was at Vincennes. C. lleim, extensive fanner of Warrickj county, gives a discouraging report of thd i wheat crop ih.Southern Indiana. Several 'samples of wheat! gathered in. thred idifferent- oounties show up badly! •Harvesting will begin shortly. In-many (fields birders will not enter at all. He attributes the present condition to frost. i While throwing down hay from a barn loft, G. E..Leazenbee,a young man of near ; Headier,.fell through an aperture.- in* the ‘mow, and, striking upon the prongs of an upturned fork, sustained injuries of a frightful and fatal character. After his fall, he lay in an unconscious oonditioit for twelve-hours before being discovered, and was by that time so weak from boss of blood’ teat? recovery is hopeless.. ' Joseph Subtler of Rockportv is dying from- die effects of a dose of corrosive- sublimate, taken by mistake. Since taking , , the poison* he has lost tm voice, the drug destroying the vocal chords. Soon after : taking the do*sc his wife gave him the white of ai egg every few minutes and greatly neutralized the poison. The drug was dispensed to Schuler by an Inexperienced drag clerk, a mere boy* in the drug store of Ik. A. Sexton. The comparative exhibit of the state charitable and correctional institutions for the six months from November 1, 1894, to April 30,1895, has been issued by the state board of charities. It is compiled from the quarterly repons. The grand net total expenditures for maintenance and construction of charitable and correctional institutions for the six months ending April 30,1895,was $506,500.91; for the corresponding six months last vear the expenditures were $528,172.25. An indictment was served against the Muncio Pulp Company for damming and polluting Buck Creek. It is the result of a complaint made by Robert Chiggisb, ditch commissioner of Henry County. Mbs. Joshua W. Berry, sixteen miles south of Kokomo, met an awful death recently. She was smokiug a pipe while at work in the garden. Her clothing took fire and she ran partly across a meadow, attempting to reach her father’s house, but fell, setting fire to the dry grass. When found she was in a terrible condition, all her ololhing, with the exception of her shoes, being consumed, 9ho lived tart % few hours. " „ a ~ •- - - —* • ■ ***»->