Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — Page 3

TALMAGE’S SERMON.

Words for the bereaved and FAINT HEARTED. He Glowingly Pictnres the Attractions of the World Beyond —The Health, the Splendorß, the Eennions and the Song of Heaven. Glories of Heaven. For the bereaved and faint-hearted there could be no words of stronger consolation or encouragement than those of the sermon prepared by Rev. Dr. Talmage for last Sunday. His subject was Splendors.” With inimitable touch, he has pictured the glories and ■attractions of the world beyoud the skies in a way to bring joy to believing souls and to fascinate even thi thoughtless and indifferent. The text chosen was, ‘"Eye bath not seen non ear heard.” I. Corinthians it. &. * i.:.. . “I am going to heaven! I am going to heaven! Heaven! Heaven! Heaven!” These were the last words uttered a few ■daysogo by rny precious wife as she ascended to be with God forever, and is it not natural as well as Christianly appropriate that our thoughts be much directed toward the glorious residence of which St. Paul speaks in the text I have chosen? Corinth, The city of Corinth has been called the Paris of antiquity. Indeed, for splendor the world holds no such wonder to-day.. It stood on an isthmus washed by two •seas, the one sea bringing the commerce ■of Europe, the other the commerce of Asia. From her wharves, in the construction of which whole kingdoms had been absorbed, war galleys with three banks of oars pushed out and confounded the navy yards of all the world. Huge handed machinery, such as modern invent tion cannot equal, lifted ships from the sea on one side and transported them on on trucks across the isthmus and set them down in the sea on the other side. • The revenue officers of the city went down 1 through the olive groves that lined the beach to collect a tariff from all nations. The mirth of all people sported in her Isthmian games, and the beauty of all lands sat in her theaters, walked her porticoes, and threw itself on the altar of statue and temple bewildered the beholder. There were white marble fountains, Into which, from apertures from the side, ■there rushed waters everywhere known ■for health-giving qualities. Around ■these basins, twisted into wreaths of atone, there were all the beauties of sculpture and architecture, whiie standfngTas if to guard the costly display, was a atatue of Hercules of burnished Corinthian brass. Vases of terracotta adorned the cemeteries of the dead —vases so costly that Julius Caesar was not satisfied until he had captured them for Rome. Armed officials, the “Corinthiarii,” paced up and down to see that no statue was defaeod, no pedestal overthrown, no bas-re-lief touched. From the edge of the city a hill arose, with its magnificent burden ■of columns and towers and temples—l,ooo alaves awaiting at one shrine —and a citadel so thoroughly impregnable that Gibraltar is a heap of sand compared with it. Amid all that strength and magnificence ■Corinth stood and defied the world. Paul’s Text, '■Oh;Tt’was'ttdt turustlcs'who had never seen anything grand that St. Paul uttered this text. They had heard the best music that had come from the bostjnstnnnonts In all the world, they had heard songs floating from morning porticoes and melting in evening groves, they had passed their whole lives away among pictures and sculpture and architecture and Corinthian brass, which had been molded and shaped, until there was no chariot wheel in which it had not sped, and no tower in which it had not glittered and no gateway that it had not Ah, it was a bold thing for St. Paul to stand there amid all that and say, “All this is nothing. These sounds that come from the temple of Neptune are not music compared with the harmony of which I speak. These waters rushing in the basin of Pyrene are not pure. These statues of Bacchus and Mercury are not exquisite. Ton citadel of Aeroeorinthus is not strong •compared with that which I offer to the poorest slave that puts down his burden -at that brazen gate. You, Corinthians, thiuk this is a beautiful city; you think .you have heard afl sweet sounds and seen all beautiful sights; but I tell you ‘eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for him that love him.’ ” Ypu see my text sets forth the idea that (however exalted our idens may be of heaven, they come far short of the reality. Some wise men have been calculating how many furlongs long and wide heaven ■is, and they have calculated how many Inhabitants there are on the earth, how long the earth will probably stand, and then they come to this estimate —that after all the nations have been gathered to heaven, there will bo room for each aoul, a room 10 feet long and 15 feet wide. It would not bo largo enough for me. I am glad to know that no human estimate is sufficient to take the dimensions. “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,” nor arithmetic calculated. Health in Heaven. I first remark that we can in this world .get no idea of the health of heaven. When you were a child, and you went out in the morning, how you bounded along the road •or street —you had never felt sorrow or sickness! Perhaps later—perhaps in these very summer days—you felt a glow in your cheek, and a spring in your step, -and an exuberance of spirits and a clearness of eye, that made you thank God you were permitted to live. The nerves were harp Btrings, and the sunlight was a doxology, and the rustling leaves were the rustling of the robes of a great crowd rising up to praise the Lord. You thought that you knew what It was ♦o be well, but there is no perfect health -on earth. The diseases of past generations come down to us. The airs that float now on the earth are unlike those which floated above parndise. They are charged • with impurities and distempers. Ttae»most clastic nnd robust health of earth, compared with that which those experience before whom the gates have been opened, is nothing but sickness and emaciation. Look at that soul standing before the throne. On earth she was a lifelong invalid. See her step now and hear her voice now. Catch if yotl can one breath of that celestial air. Health in all the pulses! health o* vision; health of spirits; Immortal'health. No racking cough, no sharp pleurisies, no consuming fevers, bo ■ exhausting pains, no hospitals of wounded men. Health swinging in the .air; health flowing in all the streams; -health blooming on the banka. No head-

aches, no sldeaches, no backaches. That child that died in the agonies of croup, hear her voice now ringing in the anthem. That old man that went bowed down with infirmities of age, see him walk now with the step of an immortal athlete—forever young again! That night when the needlewoman fv#|d away in the garret a wave of ihesjpife.nly air resuscitated her forever —for everlasting years .to nor fatigue “Eye hath not seen it; ear hath not heard it.” f plendora of Heaven. I remark further that we can in thinwork gettno just idea of the splendor of heaven. St. John tries to describe it. Ho says, “The 12 gates are 12 pearls,” and that “the foundations of the wall are garnished with all manner of precious stones.” As we stand looking through the telescope of St. John we see a blaze of amethyst and pearl and emerald and sardonyx nnd chryso'prasus and mountain of light, a cataract of color, a sea of glass and a city like the sun. —St.John bids us look again, and we see thrones —thrones of the prophets, of the patriarchs, thrones of the angels, thrones of the apostles, thrones of the martyrs, throne of Jesus, throne of God. And wo turn-round to see the |lory, and it is—thrones! Thrjnes! Thrones! St. John bids us look again, and we see the great procession of the redeemed passing. Jesus, on a white horse, leads the inarch, and all the armies of salvation following on white horses. Infinite cavalcade passing, passing; empires pressing into line, ages following ages. Dispensation tramping on after dispensation. Glory in the track of glory. Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America pressing into line. Islands of the sea shoulder to shoulder. , Generations before the flood following generations after .the flood, and as Jesus rises at the head of that great host and waves his sword in signal of victory all crowns are lifted, and all ensigns flung out, and aIF chimes rung, and all hallelujahs chanted] and some cry, “Glory to God most high.’l and some, “Hosanna to the Son and some, “Worthy is slain” —till all exeloijwrfKms of endear-( ment and the vocabulary of' heaven are exhausted, and there come up surge after sir/e-of “Amen! Ameni”" Amen!” T ~ \ “Eye hath iiot seen it; ear hath not heard it” Skim from the summer waters - ree brightest sparkles, and you will got-no-idea of the shebn/of the everlasting sea. Pile up the splendors of earthly cities, and they would not make a stopping stone by which you migliVmqunt to the city of God. Every house Is Every step a triumph. Every goring of the head a coronation. Every n&al is a banquet. -Every-stcoke from the-tower-is a wedding bell. Every day is a jubilee, every hour a rapture, and every moment an ecstasy. “Eye hath not seen it; ear hath not heard it.”

Reunions in Heaven. I remark further, we can get no idea on earth of the reunions of heaven. If you have ever been across the sea and met a friend or even an acquaintance in some strange city, you remember how your ble<xl thrilled, and how glad you were to see him. What, then, will be our joy, after we have passed the seas of death, to meet in the bright city erf the sun those from whom we have long been separated! After we have been away from our friends ten or fifteen years, and we come upoir-tlietnr we see how differently they look. The hair has turned, and wrinkles have come in their faces, and we say, "How you have changed!” But, oh, when you stand before the throne, all cares gone from the face, all marks of sorrow disappeared, and feeling the joy of that blessed land, methinks we Will say to each othef, with an exultation we cannot now imagine, ‘‘How you have changed!” In this world we only meet to part. It is good-by, good-by, farewells floating in the air. We hear it at the rail car window, and at the steamboat wharf good-by. Children lisp it, and old age answers it. Sometimes we say it in a light way— “good-by”— and sometimes with anguish in which the soul breaks down. Good-by! Ah! That is the word that ends the thanksgiving banquet; that is the word that comes in to close the Christmas chant. Good-by! good-by! But not so in heaven. Welcomes in the air,. welcomes at the gate, welcomes at the house of many mansions—but no good-by. That group is constantly being augmented. They are going up from our circles of earth to join it—little voices to join the anthem, little hands to take hold of it in the great home circle, little feet to dance in the eternal glee, little crowns to be cast down before the feet of Jesus. Our friends are in two groups—a group this side of the river and a group on the other side of the river. Now chere goes one from this to that, and another from this to that, and soon we will all be gone over. How many of your loved ones have already entered upon that blessed place! If I should take paper and pencil, do you think I could put them all down? Ah, my friends, the waves of Jordan roar so hoarsely we cannot hear the joy on the other side where their group is augmented. It is graves here and coilius and hearses there. A Dying Negro Boy. A little child’s mother had died, and they comforted her They said: “Your mother has gone to heaven. Don’t cry.” And tho next day they went to the graveyard, and they laid the body of the mother down into the ground, and the little girl came up to the verge of the grave, and looking down at the body of her mother said, “Is this heaven?” Oh, we have no idea what heaven is! It is the grave here, it is darkness here, but there is merrymaking yonder. Methinks when a soul arrives some angel takes it around to show it the wonders of that blessed place. The usher angel says to the uewly arrived: “These are the martyrs that perished at .Piedmont. These ware torn to pieces at the Inquisition. This is the throne of the great Jehovah. This is Jesus!” “I am going to see Jesus,” said a dying negro boy. “I am going to see Jesus.” And the missionary said, “You are sure you will see him?” “Oh, yes; thnt's what I want to go to heaven for.” “But,” said the missionary, “suppose that Jesus should go away from heaven —what then?” “I should follow him," said the dying negro boy, “But if Jesus went down to hell — what then?” The dying boy thought for a moment and then he said, “Massa, where Jesus is there can be no hell!” Oh, to stand In his presence! That will be heaven! Oh, to put our hand in that hand which was wounded for us on the cross, to go around amid all the groups of the redeemed and shake hands with prophets and apostles and martyrs and with our own dear, beloved ones—that will be the great reunion. We cannot imagine it now, onr loved ones seem so far away. When we are In trouble and lonesome, they don’t seem to come to us.

We go on the banks of ths Jordan and call across to them, but they don’t seem to hear. We say, “Is it well with the child, is it well with the loved ones?” and we listen to hear if any voice comes back over the waters. None! None! Unbelief says, “They are dead and extinct forever,” but, blessed be God, we have a Bible that tells us different. We open it -.and fled that they are neither dead nor extinet; that they were never so much iilive asjiqw; that they are only waiting for our coming, and that we shall join theip on the otb?r*side of the river. Oh, glorious reunion! we cannot grasp it now. “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard nneither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” The Song of Heaven. I remark again, we r can in this world get no idea of tho song of heaven. You know there is nothing more inspiriting than music. In the battle of Waterloo the Highlanders were giving way, and Wellington found out that the bands of music had ceased playing. He sent a quick dispatch, telling them to play with the utmost spirit a battle march. The music started, the Highlanders were rallied, and they dm>ied on till the day was won. We appreciate the power of secular music, but do we appreciate the-power of sacred song ?j There is nothing more inspiring to me than a whole Congregation lifted np on the wave of holy melody. When we sing some of those dear old psalms and tunes, they rouse all the memories of the past. Why, some of them were cradle songs in our father’s house. They are all sparkling with tbe morning dew of a thousand Christian Sabbaths. They were sung by brothers and sisters gone now, hy voices that were aged and broken in the music—voices none the less sweet because they did tremble and break. When I hear these old songs sung, It seems as if the old country -jaceting-houses joined in the chorus, and Scotch kjruanil sailors’ bethel and western caoinsNmiiil the whole continent lifts the scepters of eternit/ beat time to the music. Away, then, /with your starveling tunes that ' v «hilPThe devotions of the sanctuary and 'fliakuthe awple sit silent when Jesus is ’ oosan na. uyCfhjemls, if music on earth is so swfeetpwbat will it be in heaven? They all know the tune there. Methinks the tune of heaven will be mode up partly all our hymns and tunes going to add to the song of Moses and the Lamb. All the best singers of all the ages will join it —choirs of white-robed children, choirs of patriarchs, choirs of apostles, morainr stars clapping their cymbals, harpers with their harps. Great anthems of God roll -on, roll-on,-other empi res joining the the harmony, till the thrones are full of it and the nutions all saved. Anthem shall touch anthem, chorus join chorus, nnd all the sweet sounds of earth and heaven be poured into the ear of Christ. David of the harp will be there. Gabriel of the trumpet will be there. Germany, redeemed, will pour its deep base voice into the song; and Africa will add to tho music with her matchless voices.

I wish we could anticipate that song. I wish in (he dosing hymns of the churehes to-day we might catch an echo that slips from the gates. Who knows but that when the heavenly door opens to-day to let some soul through there may come forth the strain of the jubilant voices until we catch it? Oh, that as the song drops down from heaven it might meet half way a song coming up from the earth I

COULD NOT FLY.

After Fifteen Years’ Imprisonment the Red Bird’s Wings Were Useless. Out in Eden park a few days ago was enacted a little scene that makes some people doubt the wisdom of the law In one particular, though In general no exception oan be taken to the workings of the-statute In question. The law referred to Is that which makes the Imprisonment of song birds punishable with a fine. Ex-Deputy Sheriff Gus Schilling has an uncle living at Xenia, 0., and fifteen years ago the uncle cahght a yopng redbird and gave it to his nephew, who kept It up to a few days ago, when It was set at liberty In Eden park, by order of a constable, who claimed to have been sent from Mount Washington to free the bird. After ordering the bird set free the constable left, saying that If he was not Informed of the bird’s being freed in a few days he would arrest the owner. Mr. Schilling, rather than fight the law, repaired to Eden park with his pet and placed it upon a limb of a tree and started away. No sooner did he turn than the bird flew to his shoulder. Again and again the bird was placed upon the limb and each time flew to Its master’s arm. • Finally It fell to the ground, and becoming tangled In the grass, was left to Its fate. Mr. Schilling now Insists that cruelty has been done the bird, which cannot fly long distances, and will l)e unable to gather Its food. He says the bird was an easy sleeper and would awaken at the least sound and whistle. Several young men In the house adjoining Mr. Schilling kept late hours some days In the week, and when they came home at 1, 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning, as tho ease might be, the bird invariably whistled and gave them away. Recently one of the boys was censured by his parents for being out late and was told that the redbird had whistled when he came In. Nothing more was said on the matter till along came the constable, hence Mr. Schilling Is Inclined to think that it was spite work that caused him to lose his bird.— Cincinnati Tlmes-S>tar.

Persistent Hallucination.

As an example of hallucinations which he attributes to disease of the parts of the brain where memory is located, Dr. Starr mentions the case of a young woman who was once frightened by a white mouse, and for yeats afterward saw it pmolng about her. She was shown that the mouse was unreal by being requested to push one eyeball up a little, the effect being to make real objects- -but not i maginary ones—appear double. Hbme persons hear Imaginary voices uttering commands, and have been driven by them to commit suicide.

Railroads Run by Receivers.

Receivers are operating 150 railways in this country, representing a nominal caultal of $25,500,000,000.

TOPICS FOR FARMERS

A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Clover Hay, Pea and Cornmeal, and Bran Produce the Best Flavored Butter Transplanting Weeds About Soap-Mnlt lug, Bie Flavor of Butter. * The flavor and aroma of butter are caused partly by the direct influence of the feed and partly by ripening of the cream. To some extent, says Hoard’s Dairyman, flavor may be secured by the feed. It would be difficult to produce fine-flavored butter from the cream of cows fed on straw alone. For fine flavor in butter, clover hay (properly cured), pea meal and cornmeal, with bran and a few mangels, would, In my judgment, be best. Feed and proper ripening of the cream, together with tho exclusion of all bad flavors, ABd-^eareful-handling oT cream and

butter, are needed to secure the proper flavor. The “sweet cream flavors” and the turnipy flavor, etc., are mainly produced by the feed. Butter fat from’ fresh cream has a flavor of the ripened cream butter. Proper ripening of cream will overcome the flavor produced by Indigestion. My opinion Is that the milk becomes tainted with the odor of the foods more by the Inhalation than by direct absorption from the food. “Starters” are quite valuable in fine butter making, and especially so where poor or bad flavors exist in the cream, as they overcome these to a greater or less extent, and assist in Improving the flavor of the butter, though they may not remedy It altogether.

Transplanted Weeds. Weeds should not be hoed during wet weather. The moisture on their leaves wlllprevenf them from drying up, while the roots against the moist and loosened earth will get a hold and send out new fibers. A weed once or twice WansplantedJs-almost as difficult to kill as a perennial. The only way to kill such a weed is to cover it while wet with moist soil. Then the sap In the weed will cause it to rot, and this will effectively cheek new growth of the root

~ Leachfn« Asfiea for Soap, ” There are still many country places where the housewife annually sets her leach tub to- make the yearly quota of soap for household use. Generally it will pay better to use the unleached ashes as a fertilizer on the land and buy for soap making the concentrated potash that Is now sold in every country store. There is a great variation in wood ashes, and the boughten potash is much more certain to make good soap’ than is the snpply of potash in the ashes from the winter fires. The old-time soap grease was also a very ill-smell-ing and unsatisfactory product to handle. ’ It was refuse scraps of fat and lard from afr sources,, kept with no regard for cleanliness, it being supposed that the ley would correct the smells and make Into soap maggots with which the rotten mess usually abounded. All kinds of fats are now so much cheaper than they used to be that even those kept scrupulously clean are not very costly. With boughten potash and clean fats for it to work up the muebdreaded and disagreeable business of soap making will be so changed that those who remember the old times will be surprised at the difference. The gain to fruit crops from using the unleached ashes In the orchard will many times repay the cost of the boughten materials for soap, or, better still, will enable the farmer to buy his soap by the box already made, as many farmers now do. • r ”

Small Cucumbers. Small cucumbers, or “tiny Tims,” are worth six times more per pound than are large ones, and the more you pick the more there will come. Many growers are only just now putting in the seeds, says the Philadelphia Ledger, and expect a larger and more profitable crop than is sown earlier. The worst of the bug pests, they say, are out of the way for the time being, and before a new lot comes the plants started now will be far advanced as to withstand their attacks. Pickles should be cut daily and at once be cared for. The smaller they are the better. If cucumber plants aro to be reset, do It before tho runners start, and In this way: Set a piece of stovepipe over the plant and press It Into the soil to the depth of three or four Inches. Run the spade under and remove all to the new bed. When set withdraw the stovepipe.

Digestibility Measures Nutrition. We can make no advice in scientific cattle feeding until we start on the basis of the equivalence of like food elements from whatever source obtained. As the Maine station puts it in one of their “Science has given practice no safer or more useful conclusion than this: Cattle foods have nutritive value In proportion to the digestible dry matter they contain.” In other Words, a pound of digestible fat from ono food Is of just as much value as a pound of digestible fat from each and every other food, and the same of the digestible starch, cellulose and albuminoids. Moreover, the rule can be made wider, and Include digestible dry matter as. a whole, without reference to the proportion of Its parts, 1. e., the digestible dry matter of timothy bay, for instance, Is just as valuable, pound for pound, as the digestible dry matter of cornmeal, roots or any other food material. Spraying Vegetables. That paris green and kerosene emulsion still remain the leading insectides, and that the Bordeaux, mixture Js the I best remedy for plant disease, Is the experience of the New York station at I Geneva. The knapsack sprayer Is gen-

- ' erally useful, though extensive growers need a machine of greater capacity. The suction-pipe should always enter the tank at the top, and tbe pump should be of brass or reed lined. Hand pumps should allow the weight of the body to be used on thehandle while at work. Vermorel nozzles give a better spray than the disk machines. For spraying potatoes and tomatoes a nozzle is needed which can be lowered between the rows and directed sw as to foree the spray up through the vines. The agitator is needed to keep the poison in solution. The best forms work np and down in an upright tank, like the dash In an old churn. Where the pump piston has a packing, this should be often renewed. For killing cabbage worms and insects, no liquid has been found equal to dry parls green applied with a hand sifter. Powder guns are useful for applying dry powdered poisons, pyrethrum, tobacco dust and sulphur. Bamboo extensions should be used in spraying large trees. Preserving the Stones of Fruits. During the season for peaches, plums and apricots, those who wish to can increase and improve their orchards by a careful selection of the best stones of these fruits. These stones may be sown Immediately in 12-lnch rows in good garden soil, or they may be preserved until fall or next spring by placing them in moist sand or earth in some shed or cellar. The best way is to mix stones and sand together and then place In low flat boxes, and put these boxes In the cellar in earth up to a level with the top of the box. They will keep excellently and without Toss. The usual plan of wrapping the stones up in paper and keeping them dry until fall Is a bad one, as the fruit kernel dries out and few will sprout when planted.— Baltimore American

Cutworms. While tobacco farmers are greatly annoyed by the cutworm, there are many other field and garden crops that are liable to be destroyed by the pest A small number of plants In a garden may easily be protected by a simple device that could not be applied on “a large scale without involving a good deal ofTabor. Take bands of any kind of tough paper, and place them around the plants when transplanting, so that the lower part of the band will be an Inch or two below the surface soil, and the upper part an inch or so above. This will keep the worms away and never interfere with the plant Mixed Crops for Fodder. Dr. Goessman, of the Massachusetts station, advises growing mixed crops, say summer vetch and oats, as they produce larger yields than when grown singly. Sow together forty to forty-five pounds summer vetch to four bushels of oats, and seed early In June. The fodder is highly nutritious, and may be cut green and fed for two or three weeks, or cured for hay. Sow at various times; it will grow through the season. ___ :

Notes. Those who ridicule the “razor-back” hog of the South are guilty of keeping cows that compare as unfavorably with the pure breeds as the razor-back hog does with the Berkshire or Chester White. The striped cucumber beetle attacks cucumbers, melons, squashes and pumpkins, and 19 not easily destroyed, Spray the vines with a solution made by dissolving a gill or saltpeter In a gallon of water, and then apply fine tobacco dust around the base of the vines. It Is said that charcoal will absorb 90 per cent, of Its bulk In ammoniacal gas, hence if used freely over compost heaps It not only prevents unpleasant odors, but renders the compost more valuable by retaining the ammonia which would otherwise pass off. The quantity of corn fodder Is almost unlimited, but it Is criminal to waste any of It, as has been the woeful fashion. Cut up, shedded and baled, It keeps green and sweet, and is a rich, nutritious food; it, in this shape, promises to be an Important item of food In the future. Whale oil soap Is something that should be kept in a convenient place for use on house plants. The wellknown mealy bug is destroyed by a solution of whale oil soap, if It Is sprinkled on the plants, and It is also an excellent preventive of lice on animals. Being cheap as well as harmless to plants and animals, it should be used as often as desirable. It looks as though the future offered excellent Inducements for meat products, not only In the form of beef, but also as pork, mutton and poultry. It Is an excellent opening for profit; and, as stock-raising provides a home market for much that Is grown on the farm, there is something gained In that respect, while some manrtre and increased fertility of the soil will result from the keeping of stock. The poorest farm can be made fertile without manure or fertilizer, If time Is no objection, for nature slowly restores all soils, as has been demonstrated by the fallow system of resting the land. This can be done more speedily, however, by growing something to turn under. Of course, the true remedy is manure and fertilizers, but if they are Insufficient, keep the land covered with something, if ouly of scant herbage. Nearly all of the .most successful farmers are those who make a specialty of milk production, and they are the only ones who get rid of mortgages and finally bring their farms up to the highest condition of fertility. The best dairymen are those who discard the scrub and use cows of tho highest producing capacity. When the herds are Improved so as to Increase the milk supply, the cost is reduced, because fewer cows, less labor and smaller expense for shelter will Increase the profits.

HUSTLING HOOSIERS.

TEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATE--4a Interesting Summary of the Hare la. portent Doings of Our Neighbor*—Wed- “ Singe and Deitthe—Crimes, Casualties, and General Indiana News Notes. Minor State News. Typhoid fever is on the increase ai Richmond. Ax unknown man wa3 literally ground ! to pieces by a Vandalia train, at Terre liante. White Rivep. in Madison County is Ift- , tie better than a stagnant pool, so intense is the drouth. Ax unknown tramp was caught by a Vandalia train at Terre Haute and literally tom to pieces. Jortx Isiiam and John Moore were fatally burned by a gas explosion in the coal mines near Chandler. QrixcY Smai.ey, a farm hand near Union City, was Ricked In the stomach by a mule, dying Instantly. A boy at Crawfordsvllle bought a horse for 5 cents at'a sale and sold the animal to the rendering factory for S 5 cents. Sidxey Cook, an employe of the Lebanon furniture factory, was probably fatally injured by being drawn into the machinery. Ciias. Kiseti. a farmer near Lebanon, fatally shot bis wife, recently. She had gone into the yard, and he thought she was a dog. James Leer of Elwood, while shooting at pigeons, fired toward August Munehenberger’s house, seriously injuring him and his .daughter. The Wabash County Township Trustees have decided that they will not obey the new law in having reports of their official transactions published. Suit has been instituted against them. Oxe week ago the 8-)'ear-otd daughter of Policeman W. Geery of Decatur, was burned to death. A week later her twin brother fell from a tree, breaking both legs and his back, and will die. A bicycleis was run down by a passenger train on the Lake Shofe, near Swant6n. and his body was tom to nieces. A fragment of an envelope in his possession bore the address of Charles Ware of Toledo, Ohio. TnE sixth annual retmion of the Bell family was held at the Morris Springs, one mile southeast of Dublin. A large number of descendants of the family were present. A bountiful dinner was spread and the program included reading of papers, recitations, singing, letters from absent ones, speeches, exhibition of relics, etc.

The mangled body of Robert Leonard, of White Pigeon, Mich., was found by the side of the railroad track near Richmond, where he had been struck by a train. He was in charge of a carload of horses enroute from New Castle to the Kendallvilte races, llow the accident occurred is not known. A boo fire three miles south of Ander son that has been burning for three months past has now assumed alarming proportions. The groundfor two feet is red hot and the fire is slowly spreading in all directions. It has already reached high land in several -places and is -firing the witheredgrass, fences, and all else in its track. Water is being hauled from the water works in Terre Haute to Paris, Charleston, and Mattoon, 111., and to the mining town of Fontanet, Ind., on account of the scarcity of the supply in those places. Tbe Big Four shops at Mattoon were stopped until water was received from here. About thirty tanks of water are sent from here to the several places every day. Many building associations have failed to make their reports to the State Auditor, a* required by law, and this official is now sending out copies of the law bearing on the question, with the information that longer delay will subject the delinquent associations to a fine of SIOO. A failure to file a report of the condition of the association also calls for an enforced examination under the direction of the Auditor. Farmers in Northern Indiana are trying to solve the disease which causes their cattle to go stone blind in both eyes In a seconds time. The disease was first discovered among David Stewart’s herd of cattle, consisting of ninety head of fineblooded short-hon;3. Veterinary surgeons believe it is caused hy some new insect. It is estimated that tIO.iDO worth of cattle have been ruined in the past tpn days. Joel Kkrblixg, an insane prisoner at the county jail at Logansport, was found suspended ill his cell, having bung himself with a rope formed of the sheet from his bed. lie was found in a short time after he swung off and, with some trouble, was revived. He at once attempted to repeat the painful experiment, saying “Christ calls me, and I must go to Him.” He has lieen placed in the Northern Insane Hospital. Some workmen in a gravel bank, near the Elkhorn mills, Richmond, found a huge skeleton of a man. A half of one of the jaws was found, with the teeth preserved. The jaw was sufficiently large to fit over the outside of the jaw, flesh and all, of a man of ordinary size, indicating that the original possessor of the skeleton was a man of great physical mold. It is expected that all the parts will be found upon further search. A scaffold in the new Strauss Block at Seymour, gave way. Mayor Joseph Balsley, the architect of the building; John Humes, a member of the firm erecting the building; Henry Barkraan and Andy Heyob, carpenters, fell to the floor below, a distance of eighteen feet. Mayor Balsley sustained a fracture of the right leg and is suffering with concussion of the spine. lie is in a critical condition. John Humes’ right ankle was fractured, and he is also suffering with concussion of the spine. In the descent Andy Heyob’s head struck the wall and a large part of the hair was torn off, laying the scalp bare. He is suffering pain. Henry Barkman is badly bruised, but the extent of, the injuries which he sustained cannot be learned. All are suffering with concussion of the spine. Mr. axd Mrs. Charles Hitesmax, a well-known aged couple ot Elkhart, have been singularly unfortunate with their children. Seventeen years ago their son John was burned to death. In 1888, while returning from a dance, Edward jumped from a train at a crossing and was so badly injured that he died in a few hours later. In 1880 William was killed in a runaway, and in 1881 George was blown into the tops of some trees by the explosion of a rotator m the combination board mill there being conAned to his bed for a year and rendered a cripple for life. The other day Asa, tbe remaining son, fell forty feet from a tree and cannot live.