Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — Page 7

TALMAGE’S SERMON.

THE PREACHER FINDS CONSOLATION IN GOD’S WORD. A Sermon from the Very Appropriate Text, “And God Shalt Wipe Away All Tcari from. Their Eye >"-Tlie Comforte of Religion.Uses of Affliction. Rev. Dr. Tnlmage could not have selected a more appropriate subject than the one of last Sunday, considering the bereavement that has come upon him and his household. He had already prepared his sermon for the day, selecting as a topic “Comfort” and taking as his text, “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”—Revelation vii., 17. Riding across a Western prairie, wild flowers up to the hub of the carriage wheel, and while a long distance from any shelter, there came a sudden shower, and while the rain was falling in torrents the sun was shining as brightly as I ever saw It shine, and lTholiglit, What a beautiful spectacle this is! So the tears of the Bible are not midnight storm, but.pain on pansied prairies in God’s sweet and golden sunlight. You remember that bottle which David labeled as containing tears, and Mary’s tears, and Paul’s tears, and Christ’s tears, and the harvest of joy that is to spring from the sowing of tears. God mixes them. God rounds them. God shows them where to fall. God exhales them. A census is taken of them, and there is a record as to the moment when they are born and as to the place of their grave.

Tears of bad men are not kept. Alexander in his sorrow had the hair clipped from his horses and mules and made a great r.do about his grief, but in all the vases of heaven there is not one of Alexander’s tears. I speak of the tears of God’s children. Alas, me, they are falling all the time! In summer you sometimes hear the growling thunder and you see there is a storm miles away, but you know from the drift of the clouds that it will not come anywhere near you. So, though it may be all bright around about you, there is a shower of trouble somewhere at the time. Tears! Tears! The Uses of Tears. What is the use of them, anyhow? Why not substitute laughter? Why not make this a world where all the people are well and eternal strangers to pains and aches? What is the use of an Eastern storm when we might have a perpetual nor’wester? Why,, when a family it put together, not have them all stay, or if they must be transplanted to make other homes, then have them all live, the family record telling a story of marriages and births, but of no deaths? Why not have the harvests chase each other without fatiguing toil? Why the hard pillow, the hard crust, the hard struggle? It is easy enough to explain a smile, or a success, or a congratulation; but, come now, and bring all your dictionaries and all your philosophies and all your religions, and help me explain a tear. A chemist will tell you that it is made up of salt and lime and other component parts; but he misses the chief ingredients—the acid of n soured life, the viperine sting of a bitter memory, the fragments of a broken heart. I will tell you what a tear is; it la agony to solution. Hear then, while ,1 discourse of the uses of trouble. First, it is the design of trouble to keep this world from being too attractive. Something must be done to make us willing to quit this existence. If it were not for trouble this world would be a good enough heaven for mo.' You and I would be willing to take a lease of this life for a hundred million years if there were no trouble. The earth cushioned and upholstered and pillared and such expense, no story of other worlds could enchant us. We would say: “Let well enough alone. If you want to die and have your body disintegrated in the dust and your soul go out on a celestial adventure, then you can go, but this world is good enough for me!” You might as well go to a man who has just entered the Lduvre at Paris, and tejl him to hasten off to the picture galleries of Venice or Florence. “Why,” he would say, “what is the use of my going there? There are Rembrandts and Rubenses and Raphaels here that I haven’t looked at yet.”

No mnu wants to go out of this world or out of any house until he has a better house. To cure this wish to stay here God must somehow create a disgust for our surroundings. How shall he do it? He cannot afford to deface his horizon, or to tear off a liery panel from the sunset, or to substract an anther from the water lily, or to banish the pungent aroma frprn the mignonette, or to drag the robes of the morning in, mire. You cannot expect a Christopher Wren to mar his own St. Paul's cathedral, or a Michael Angelo to dash out his own “Last Judgment,” or a Handel to discord his “Israel in Egypt,” and you cannot expect God to spoil the architecture and music of his own World. How, then, are we to be made willing to leave? Hero is where trouble comes in. After a man has had a good deql of trouble he says: “Well, lam ready to go. If there is a house somewhere whose roof doesn’t leak, I would like to live there. If there is an atmosphere somewhere that does not distress the lungs, I would like to breathe it. If there is a society somewhere where there is no tittle tattle, I would like to live there. If there is a home circle somewhere where I can find my lost friends, I would like to go there.” From Genesis to Revelation. He used to read the first part of the Bible chiefly, now he rends the last part of the Bible chiefly. Why has he changed Genesis for Revelation? Ah! he used to be anxious chiefly to know how this world was made and all about its geological construction. Now he is chiefly anxious to know how the next world was made, nud how it looks, and who lives there, and how thfy dress. He rends Revelation ten times now where ho rend Genesis once. The old story, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” does not thrill him half as much as tho other story, “I saw a new heaven and a new earth.” The old man’s band trembles as he turns over this apocalyptic leaf, and he has to take out Ids handkerchief to wipe his spectacles. That book of Revelation is a prospectus now of the country into which he is soon to immigrate, the country in which he has lots already laid out and avenues opened and mansions built. Yet there are people here to i whom this world is brighter than heaven. dear souls, Ido not blame you. It is natural. But after awhile you will be ready to go. It was not until Job bad been worn out With bereavements that he wanted to see

God. It was not until the prodigal got tired of living among the hogs that he wanfed to go to hfe father’s house. It is the ministry of trouble to make this world worth less and heaven worth more. . Again, it is the use of trouble to make us feel our dependence upon God. Men think that they can do anything until God shows them they can do nothing at all. We lay our great plans, and we like to execute them. It looks big. God comc-s and takes us down. As Prometheus was struck him it opened a great swelling that had threatened his death, and he got well. So it is the arrow of trouble that lets out great swellings of pride. We never feel our dependence upon God until we get trouble. I was riding withjny little child, along the road, and she asked ST slMTßTfght drive. I said, “Certainly.” I handed over the reins to her, and I bad to admire the glee with which she drove. But after awhile we met a team, and we bad to turn out. The road was" narrow, and it wots sheer down on both sides. She handed the reins over to me and said, “1 think yon had better take charge of the horse.” So we are all children, and on this road of life we like to drive. It gives one such an appearance of superiority and power. It looks big. But after awhile we meet some obstacle, and we have to turn out, and the road is narrow, and it is sheer down on both sides, and then we are willing that God should take the reins and drive. Ah, my friends, we get upset so often because we do got hand over the reins soon enough.

Prayer in Trouble. After a man has had trouble prayer is with him a taking hold of the arm of God and crying out for help. I have heard earnest prayers on two or three occasions that I remember. Once, on the Cincinnati express train, going-at forty miles an hour, the train jumped the track, and we were near a chasm eighty feet deep, and the men who, a few minutes before, had been swearing and blaspheming' God began to pull and jerk at the bell rope, and' got up on the backs of the seats, and cried out, “O God, save us!” There was another time, about SOO miles out at sea, on a foundering steamer, after the last lifeboat had been split finer than kindling wood. They prayed then. Why is it you so often hear people, in reciting the last experience of some friend, say, “He made the most beautiful prayer I ever heard?” What makes it beautiful? It is the earnestness of it. Oli! I tell you, a man ia in earnest when his stripped and naked soul wades out in the soundless, shoreless, bottomless ocean of eternity. It is trouble, my friends, that makes us feel our dependence upon God. We do not know our o\vn weakness or God's strength until the last plank breaks. It is contemptible in us wlien there is nothing else to take hold of that we catch hold of God only. Why, you do not know who the Lorjl is! He is not an autocrat seated far up in a palace from which he emerges once a year, preceded by heralds swinging swords to clear the way. No. But a Father willing at our call to stand by us in every crisis and predicament of life. I tell you what some of you business men make me think of. A young man goes off from home to earn his fortune. He goes with his mother’s consent and benediction. She lias large wealth, but be wants to make his own fortune. He goes far away, falls sick, gets out of money. He sends for the hotelkeeper where he is staying, asking for lenience, and the answer he gets is. “If you don’t pay,up Saturday night, you’ll be removed to the hospital.”

The Last Resort. Getting there, he is frenzied with grief, and he borrows a sheet of paper and a postage stamp, and ho sits down and he writes heme, saying: “Dear mother. I am sick unto death. Come.” It is ten minutes of 10 o’clock when she gets the letter. At 10 o’clock the train starts. She is five minutes from the depot. She gets there in time to have five minutes to spare. She wonders why a train that can go thirty miles an hour cannot go sixty miles an hour. She rushes into the hospital. She says: “My son, what does all this mean? Why didn’t you send for me? You sent to everybody but me. You knew I could and would help you. Is this the reward 1 get for my kindness to you always?” She bundles him up, takes him home and gets him well very soon. Now, some of you treat God just as that young man treated his mother. When you get into a financial perplexity, you call on the banker, you call on the broker, you call on your creditors, you call on your lawyer for legal counsel, you call upon everybody, and when you cannot get any help, then you go to God. You say: “O Lord, I come to thee! Help me now out of my perplexity. ” And the Lord comes, though it is the eleventh hour. He says: “Why did you not send for me before? As one whom,, his mother comfortetli, so will I comfort you.” It is to throw us back upon God that we have this ministry of tears. Again, it is the use of trouble to capacitate us for the office of sympathy. The priests, under the old dispensation, were set apart by having water sprinkled upon their hands, feet and head, and by the sprinkling of tears people are now set apart to the office of sympathy. When we are in prosperity, we like to have a great many young people nround us, and we laugh when they laugh and we romp when they romp, and we sing when they sing, but when we have trouble we like plenty folks around. Why? They know how’ to talk. Take an aged mother 70 years of ago, and she is almost omnipotent ip comfort. Why? She has been through it all. At 7 o’clock in the morning she goes over to comfort a’young mother who has just lost her babe. Grandmother knows all about that trouble. Fifty years ago she felt it. At 12 o’clock of that day she goes over to comfort a widowed soul. She knows all about that. She has been walking in that dark valley twenty years. At 4 o’clock in the afternoon some one knocks at the door, wanting bread. She knows all about that. Two or three times in her life she came to her last loaf. At 10 o’clock that night she goes over to sit up with some one severely sick. She knows all about it. She knows all about fevers and pleurisies and broken bones. She hns been doctoriug all her life, spreading plasters and pouring out bitter drops and shaking up hot pillows and contriving things to tempt a poor appetite. Drs. Abcrnethy and Rush and Hosack and Harvey were great doctors, but the greatest doctor the world ever saw is an old Christian woman. Dear me! Do we not remember her about the room when we were sick in our boyhood ? Was there any one who could ever so touch a sore without hurting it? Written In Tears. Where did Paul get the ink with which to write his comforting epistle? Where did David get the ink to write his comforting Psalms? Where did John get the ink to write his comforting Revelation? They got It out of their own tears. When a man

has gone through the curriculum and ha* taken a course of dungeons and imprisonments and shipwrecks, he is qualified for the work of sympathy. When I began to preach, my sermons on the subject of trouble were all poetic and in semiblank verse, but God knocked the blank verse out of me long ago, and I have found out that I cannot comfort people except as I myself have been troubled. God make me the son of consolation to the people! i would-rather be the means of soothing one perturbed spirit to-day than to play a tune that would set all the sons of mirth reeling in the dance. ,v- - lam an herb doctor. I put into the caldron the Root out of dry ground, without -form or comeliness. Then I put in the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Then I put into the caldron some of the leaves from the tree of life, and the Branch that was thrown into the wilderness Marah. Then I pour in the tears of Bethany and Golgotha. Then I stir them up. Then I kindle under the caldron a fire made out of .the wood of the eross, and one drop of that potion will cure the worst sickness that ever afflicted a human soul. Mary and Martha shall receive their Laz.Jtru3 from the tomb. The damsel shall rise. Aud on the darkness shall break the morning, and God will wipe all tears from their eyes. 1 Jesus had enough trial to make Him sympathetic with all trial. The shortest verse in the Bible tells the story, “Jesus wept.” The scar on the back of His either hand, the scar on the arch of either foot, the row of scars along the line of the hair, will keep all heaven thinking. Oh, that great weeper is just the one to silence all earthly trouble, wipe out all the stains of earthly grief. Gentle! Why, his step is softer than the step of the dew. It will not bo a tyrant bidding you to hush up your crying. It will be a Father who will take you on bis left arm, his face beaming into yours, while with the soft tips of the fingers of the right hand He shall wipe away all tears from your eyes. Friends, if we could get any appreciation %f what God has in reserve for us, it would make us so homesick we would be unfit for our everyday work. Professor Leonard, formerly of lowa University, put in my hands a meteoric stone, a stone thrown off from some other world to this. How suggestive it was to me! And I have to tell you the best representations we have of heaven are only aerolites flung off from that world which rolls on. bearing the multitudes of the redeemed. We an•alyzc those aerolites and find them crystallisations of tears. No wonder, flung off from heaven! “God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” Funeral on Karth, Jubilee in Heaven. Have you any appreciation of the good and glorious times your friends are having in heaven? How different it is when they get news there of a Christian’s death from what it is here! It is the difference between embarkation and coming into port. Everything, depends upon which side of the river you stand when you hear of a Christian’s death. If you stand on this side of the river, you mourn that they go. If you stand on the other side of the river, you rejoice that they come. Oh, the difference between a funeral on earth and a jubilee in heaven—between requiem here and triumph there—parting here and reunion there! Together! Have you thought of it? They are together. Not one of your departed friends in one land and another in another land, but together in different rooms of the same house— the house of many mansions. Together! I never more appreciated that thought than when we laid away in her last slumber my sister Sarah. Standing there in the village cemetery, I looked around and said, “There is father, there is mother, there is grandfather, there is grandmother, there are whole circles of kindred,” and I thought to myself, “Together in the grave—together in glory.” I am so impressed with the thought that I do not think it is any fanaticism when some one is going from this world to the next if you make them the bearer of dispatches to your friends who are gone, saying, “Give my love to my parents, give my love to my children, give my love to my old comrades who are in glory, and tell them I am trying to fight the good fight of faith, and I will join them after awhile/’ I believe the message will be delivered, and I believe it will increase the gladness of those who are before the throne. Together are they, all their tears gone. My friends, take this good cheer home with you. These tears of bereavement that course your cheek, and of persecution, and of trial, are not always to be there. The motherly hand of God will wipe them all away. What is the use, on the way to such a consummation—what is the use of fretting about anything? Oh, what an exhilaration it ought to be in Christian work! See yon the pinnacles against the sky? It is the city of our God, and ,wc are approaching it. Oh, let us he busy in the days that remain for us! I put this balsam on the wounds of your heart. Rejoice at the thought of what your departed friends have got rid of and that you have a prospect of so soon making your own escape. Bear cheerfully the ministry of tears and exult at the thought that soon it is to he ended. “There we shall inarch up the heavenly street And ground our arms at Jesus’ feet."

Pine as Heavy as Lignum Vitae.

Probably nothing in the world can be said to exceed in structural w’onder of Its kind the labyrinthian system of subsurface timbering peculiar to the Comstock mines, the sum of $55,000,000 being considered a moderate estimate of the cost of the same from the opening of the mines to the present time. The size of the timbers varies from the huge pieces 10 iuches square and 24 feet long to the smaller pieces 8 inches square used In cribbing. The species employed are chiefly yellow pine, fir and cedar, fully two-thirds of the whole amount being the first named- a favorite timber, In fact, with mine carpenters on account of Its exactitude In Joining. Cedar, of course, is Inferior to no known timber, not even excepting redwood, for its lasting qualities underground; but it said that yellow pine has been taken from the lower levels of these mines so compacted by the enormous pressure it has withstood as to have a density and weight exceeding those of lignum vitae. None of the timbers in the Comstock mines have yet badly decayed, and their life there cannot be accurately determined, but the heat and vapors of the mines surcharged with mineral atoms appear to have a decidedly preservative effect upon the timbers.—New York Sun. If there Is a virtue In the world we i should aim at It la cheerfulness.

THE FARM AND HOME.

MATTERS OF iNTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. — • 7 Have a Blacksmith Shop on the Farm How Quack Crass Can Be KilledPlant Cherry Trees by the Koadslde —Notes, ~ ’ " ’ . . Farm Machine Repairing. , On all well-conducted farms where much machinery is used, farmers spend a great deal of time running to and from the blacksmith shop. There are so many different tools used that something gives out almost every day. Now, a great deal of this expense may be saved by having a small shop on the farm, says a writer in the Agriculturist A portable forge can be had for sls. This will answer every purpose, .although It la not advisable to get one too small. Secure a hand anvil weighing about 100 pounds, a good hammer, a ten-pound sledge, a steel 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 first, but with a little practice firne and money can be saved. My outfit contains several tools in addition to those mentioned above, and cost me about S3O. 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 farmer ought to have as good ones as the carpenter. Many a dollar can be saved by tbeir use. If the farmer does not care to do his own repairing, perhaps the boys (if there be any) will take hold, and to them it will soon become more of a pleasure than a task. How to Kill Quack Grass. If you must plow quack-grass land, plow for corn, tit thoroughly and plant in hills, with a handful of good phosphate in every hill, cultivate as soon as keep cultivating and lioeing 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 floating spring tooth harrow. Next spring plow again as early as possible; about the first of June plow again, ants plow deeply—as deeply as you can; fit thoroughly and plant beans. You can begin cult!-, vating 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 crop, will be enough, I can .safely promise you 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 gania traiiimani, 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 thje rows before they come up.

Cherry Trees by Roadside. . No kind of fruit tree thrives better under neglect than does the cherry. It needs no pruning except what the cherry picket’s 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 he can gather. It will greatly add to the attractiveness of country drives in neighborhoods where the cherry is planted, and the passer by will not feel as he plucks this fruit and cats that he is wronging its owner, who from what is left can make the roadside give him greater profit 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, says Farm News, with chalk convenient, and on this blackboard were various records of the operations under way on the farm. At one side was written the naifae 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 wheu 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 week he set down In a book all the notes that were of permanent Interest. By this means the work of that farm is kept track of. Pap Sprout* on Apple Tree*. Many old apple trees are nearly ruined by the growth of suckers from their trunks. These come from buds that are usually dormant, but which any injury to the bark causing a stoppage of sap will set to growing. If the sprouts are cut back before 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. But 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 sprout a second time. Two or three clearings of the trunk through the summer will eradicate the buds so that scarcely any will appear the'following season. Wasted Fertility. ' The seepage from the manure pits at the lowa Station was collected In barrels 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 New York Tribune, thousands of dol-

lars* worth of most valuable plant food Is running to waste pn farms, and then replaced, in part, with costly commercial fertilizer. Every ounce of both solid and liquid manure, ought to be 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 Ilea spread ever a large yard, exposed to rain and snow, wi.a the water from the barn roof ranning «pon it for six or eight months, little of value is left. “Gather up the fragments that nothing be lost,” applies here. Selling Batter vs. Selling Milk. In a New Yorkfarnx-Institute Mr. F. E. Dawley stated In a striking way the advantage of the butter-maker dairyman over one who sold milk. A ton of butter removes only 48 cents worth of fertilizing elements, whileji ton of milk removes 2.80 cents worth. It takes on an average 1 O bdunds of ttillk"f dTnak6~ a pound of butter, so that to sell milk ' enough to make a ton of butter removes S2B worth of manorial elements from the farm. Herein is one cf the advantages of using the butter separator. It saves the milk for home feeding without wasting it by souring. The 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. — — Handling Brush. When piling brush use a long-handled fork. In no other place are tlie advantages of a long 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. Brush 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 fork, but such Is not the case. Clear up and burn everything in the form of brush befbre snow falla. After . the snow ls gone in spring work will be ! pressing, and the clearing has to wait ‘ until after haying, to the detriment of j the mowings.—American Agriculturist. 1

Green Foliage for Fowl* 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 three 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 find, and when what escapes them comes up, it will make excellent green feed for them, w nen it gets too large to be 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 tho. fowls to grow. Why Stained Barley I* Light. It is nearly impossible to make stained barley hold out to standard weight, 48 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 been 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 Increasing the weight of solid matter. Whet) the grain dries out it fills up more spac« ip 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 Paved the Ponltry. 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 per 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 five 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. ICraemer's green heads.

Remedy for Garget. Garget Is oue of the things that everyone has remedies for, and still It keeps right on ruining the best cows by droves every year. We doubt If there Is any better remedy than liberal applications of hot water and a large amount of band work In the operation, and when through apply a liberal application of lard, and at the same time withdrawing all grain foods and feeding non-stimulating milk rations. Fail Strawberry Planting. Strawberry plants can be set out In the fall of the year from the young runners, but they 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 can be done better than when the burry of spring operations may retard the transplanting which should l>e done early. Milk Good for Laying liens. Remember that milk in any form Is good for laying bens. 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 during the day.

HUSTLING HOOSIERS.

fTEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAa Interesting Summary or tbe Store la. portant Doings of Oar Neighbor*—Wed. 1 dings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties, and General Indiana Nows Notes. Minor State News. Mu.o TribjtAA* hardware store at Corunna is in ashes. Loss, $15,000. A Wabash milling firm bought 73,000 feet of first-class growing timber within, the city limits of Wabash. O.u.v one erder for the relief of poor has been issued in Cass t wn3hip, Clay county, during the last, five years. The Shepard Canning Works, of Anderson, which burned, is preparing to rebuild the plant at an expense of $7,000. Patrick Patigkn, cf Orestes, who was crushed almost to death by asewer eaving in on him a year ago, is now violently inTBUie. 1 -nr, • o-. - , ■ ■ • 6 Rev. G. P. Feson has resigned Ms pastorate of the Baptist Church at Crawfordsville, where he has been for eight years. Farmers of Madison County believe that the eom crop will not he half what was expected a few days ago, owing to the intense heat. . . llf.xry Seagi.e, a boy about 16 years old, was run down by a Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City through freight train near Decatur and almost instantly killed. Sami ei. Ci.tntox, North Clinton, is dead from turns received while fighting afire in his wheat field. He worked so hard that be became exhausted and fell into the fire. Tiierf, are thirty-five cases of typhoid fever at Richmond, but no deaths have occurred. The trouble is said to be due to impure water used by the dairymen for their caltle. -i - - Loris Brooks, one of the best-known young men in Goshen, was run over by a Baltimore & Ohio express at Lake Wawasee and instantly killed, his head being severed from the body. Thomas Nui.r., aged 60, an inmate of The Sold refs’ Home, at Marion, was struck by an electric car and received fatal injuries rhissiruH and right leg were crushed. Null was intoxicated and fell under the wheels of a passing car. The S-year-ohl daughter of Robert Early, three mUes south of Wabash, fell from a second story window and received injuries which the doctor fears will prove fatal. The child was restored to consciousness, but her condition is critical. The Twenty-fifth Annual Reunion of Old Settlers of Hamilton County met at Eagletowu. Twelve or fifteen thousand people were present. Prizes Were awarded to the oldest man, ninety years, and the oldest woman, eighty-seven years. The Indiana State Board of Charities has announced a program for the Fourth Annual Indiana Conference of Charities, to be held at Fort Wayne, September 15 to 17. Circulars have been sent to all the Township Trustees calling then* attention to the meeting, and requesting their attendance.

I Jesse Smith, a well-known fanner of Monroe County, met with a terrible death. He and Jame 3 Douglass were running a traction engine, when it got out of -and. Saiiili. under the.machine to repair it. Th j ponderous machine started backward and the rear wheels cut his body in t ; >vo. He died in a few hours in terrible agony. Sherman Xobi.e, an employe of rhe American tin-plate works, at Elwood, while at work met with a bad accident. A sheet of wet tin dropped into the both of acid flux and melted tin, causing the mixture to explode and fly all over his head and chest, burning him in a terrible manner. He will recover, but will be scarred for life. Ax epidemic of glanders is raging among the horses of Perry Township, Clay County, although every effort is being made to stop it. The State Veterinary Board, accompanied by Drs. Xussell and Fate of Brazil, went to the scene and saw about thirty-five horses suffering from the disease. The board ordered four of the animals shot and the rest quarantined. The premium list for the forty-fourth annual State Fair has been issued. The exhibit will be held daring the week beginning Monday, Sept. 16. The Board of Agriculture has set apart Tuesday as Old Soldiers’ and Childrens’ day, when school children and veterans will be admitted free. Wednesday will be music day, and Thursday will be known as Indiana day. Patents have been granted to Indianians as follows: Jasper L. Ackerman, Monon, measuring device; Stephen G. Baldwin, Marion, ink well; Charles A. Bertsch, Cambridge City, metal-shearing machine; John K. Carfield, assignor of to A. N. Wilson, Indianapolis, shaft support for vehicles; William L. Cassaday, South Bend, Wheeler gang plow; Andrew Krieger, Indianapolis, detachable tooth saw; John Salary, South Bend, axle skein; Joseph S. Urban, assignor of two-thirds to A. P. McKee and W. £. Jones, Anderson, fan attachment for rocking chairs.

At the request of Vicomte R. de Comely, director of the foreign department of the Mexican International Exposition, which will open in Mexico City, April 2, 1896, and continue for six months, Governor Matthews has made the following appointments of commissioners to represent this State: James Studebaker, George Ford and Benjamin Birdsell, South Bend; John 11. Bass, Fort Wayne;. Ralph 11. Hemengray, Muncic; John J. Cooper and Volney T. Malott, Indianapolis; James H. Willard, Bedford Francis J. Reitz and Benjamin Vonbehren,Evansuiile; John F. Beggs and G. W. Bement, Terre Haute; George Pence, Columbus; Walter Evans, Noblesville; Benjamin Starr, Richmond. These men, are, for the most part, manufacturers, who intend to make exhibits at the exposition, and would probably attend anyway. This makes twenty-two States that have appointed commissioners to this exposition. Tiie new gas well drilled near Swaysee by the WaUash Fuel Company, isoee of the strongest in the State, its daily flow u measured being 4,000,000 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. Arraxoemkxts are being made to have a battalion of two hundred veterans go from Crawfordsville to Louisville on Sept. 10 to the G. A. R. National Rneampment. They will go via Indianapolis and will be in command of Gen. Lew Wallace. Their banner will be inscribed: “Lew Wallace Veteran Battalion Indiana."