Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — Page 3

THE CRY OF ARMENIA

DR. TALMAGE RELATES HORRORS OF THE MASSACRE. I .. ', r The Turk Placer No Value on the Life of a Christian—Heroic Work of Mis-sionaries-Duty of the Nations to Stop Persecution. Our Weekly Sermon, It was appropriate, that in. the presence at his Washington church of the chief men of this nation and other nations Dr. Talmage should tell the story of Armenian massacre. What will be the extent or good of such a discourse none ctm tell. The text was II Kihgs xix., 37, “They escaped iato the land of Armenia.” —I nßiWe geography -t his is the first time that Armenia appears, called then by the same,name As now. Armenia is chiefly a sea, and sn one of its peaks Noah's ark landed, with its human family and fauna that were to fill the earth. That region was the birthplace of the rivers which fertilized the garden of Eden when Adam and Eve lived there, their only roof the crystal skies and their carpet the emerald' of rich grass. Its inhabitants, the ethnologists tell us, are a superior type of the Caucasian race. Their religion is ■ founded on the Bible. Their Saviour is our Christ. Their crime is that they will not become followers of Mohammed, that' Jupiter of sensuality. To drive them from the face of , the earth is the ambition of all Mohammedans. To accomplish this murder is no crimp, and wholesale crelsaTnatreroFeiithusiastieapprobation and governmental reward. The prayer sanctioned, by highest Mohammedan authority and recited every day throughout Turkey and Egypt, while styling all those not Mohammedans as infidels, is as£ollows: “O Lord of all creatures! O Allah, destroy the infidels and polytheists, thine enemies, the enemies tJI the religion! O Allah, make their children orphans and defile their bodies! XJause their feet to slip, give them and their families, their households and their women, their children and their relatives by marriage, their brothers and their friends, their possessions and the race, their wealth and their lands as booty to the Moslems, O Lord of all creatures!”

Turks at the Old Business. The life of an Armenian in the presence of those who make that prayer is of no more value than the life of a summer insect. The sultan of Turkey sits on a throne impersonating that brigandage and assassination. At this time all civilized nations are in horror at the attempts-of that Mohammedan government to destroy all the Christians of Armenia. I hear somebody talking as though some new thing were happening, and that the Turkish government’had taken a new role of tragedy on the stage of nations. No, no! She is at the same old business. Overlooking her diabolism of other centuries, we come down to our century to find that ,in 1822 the Turkish, government slew 50, 000 anti-Moslems, and in 1850 she slew 10,000, and" in 1860 she, slew 11,000, and in 1876 she slew 10,000. Anything short of the slaughter of thousands of human beings does not put enough red wine into her cup of abomination to make it worth quaffing. Not is this the only time she has promised reform. In the presence of the warships at the mouth of the Dardanelles she has promised the civilized nations of the earth that she would stop;her butcheries, and the international and hemispheric farce has been enacted of believing what she says, when all the past ought to persuade us that she is only pausing in her atrocities to put nations off the track and then resume the work of death. In 1820 Turkey, in treaty with llussia, promised to alleviate the condition of Christians, but the promise was broken. In 1830 the then sultan promised protection of life and property without reference to religion, and the promise was broken. In 1844, at the demand of an English minister plenipotentiary, the sultan declared, after the public execution of an Armenian at Constantinople, that no such death penalty should again be inflicted, and the promise was broken. In 1850, at the demand of foreign nations, the Turkish government promised protection to Protestants, but to this day the Protestants at Stamboul are not allowed to build a church, nithough they have, the funds ready, and the Greek Protestants, who have a church, are uot permitted to worship in it. In 1850, after the Crimean war, Turkey promised that no one should be hindered in-the exercise of the religion he professed, and that promise has been broken. In 1878, at the memorable treaty of Berlin, Turkey promised religious liberty to all her subjects in every part of the Ottoman empire, and the promise was broken. Not once iii nlj tfij? centuries has the Turkish government kept her promise of mercy. So far from any improvement the condition of the Armenians has become‘worse and worse year by year, and all the promises the Turkish" government now makes are only a gaining of time by which she is making preparation for the complete extermination of Christianity from her borders.

Blot Out Mohammedanism. Why, after all the national and continental and hemispheric lying on the part of the Turkish government, do not the warships of Europe ride up as close as is possible to the palaces of Constantinople and blow that accursed government to dtomsT In the name of the eternal God let the nuisance of the ages be wiped off the face of the earth! Down to the perdition from which it smoked up sink Mohammedanism! Between these outbreaks of massacre the Armenians suffer in si-., lence wrongs that are seldom if ever reported. They are taxed heavily for the mere privilege of Kving, and the tax Is called “the humiliation tax.” They are compelled to give three days’ entertainment to any Mohammedan tramp/ who may be passing that way. They must pay blackmail to the assessor, lest he/report the value of their property too highly. Their evidence hr codrt is of no worth, and if 50 Armenians saw a wrong committed and ono Mohammedan was present the testimony of the one Mohammedan would be taken and the testimony of the 50 Armenians rejected. In other words, the solemn oath of a thousand Armenians would not be strong enough to overthrow ♦he perjury of one Mohammedan. A professor was Condemned to death for translating the English “Book of Common Prager” into Turkish. Seventeen Armenians were Sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment for rescuing a Christian bride frnm the bandits. This Is the way the TnrfcMi government amuses itself in time of peace % These are the delights of Turkish cijjlisation. ;

' ' ' ' : ' _ ..... « 4 But when the days of massacre eome then deed* done which may not be unveiled in any refined assemblage, one speaks of the horrors he must do so in tveH . poised and cautious vocabulary. Hundreds of villages destroyed! Young men put in piles of brushwood, which are then saturated with kerosene and set on fire! Mothers, in the most solemn hour, that ever comes in a woman’s life, hurled out and bayoneted! Eyes gouged out and 'dead and dying hurled into the same pit! The slaughter of Lucknow and Cawnpur, India, in 1857, eclipsed in ghastliness! The worst scenes of the French revolution in Paris made more tolerable in contrast! In many regions of Armenia the only undertakers to-day are the jackals and hyenas; Many of the chiefs of the massacres were sent straight from Constantinople to do their work, and having returned were decorated by the sultan.y' Turkish Murderers Decorated. To four of the worst murderers the snltan sent silk banners in delicate appreciation of their services. Five hundred thousand Armenians put to death or dying of starvation! This moment, while I speak, all up and down Armenia sit many people, freezing in the ashes of their destroyed homes, bereft of most of their households and awaiting the club of assassination to put them out ui their misery. No wonder that the physicians of that region declared that among all the men and women that were down with wounds and sickness and under not one wanted to get well. Remember that nearly all the reports that have come to us of the Turkish outrages.have been manipulated and modified and softened by the Turks themselves. The story is not half told, or a hundredth part told, or a thousandth part told. None but Goil and our suffering brothers and sisters In that faroff land know the whole story, and it will not be known until, in the coronations of heaven, Christ sha 111 if t.to. a specia 1 throne of glory thesc heroes and heroines, saying, “These are they who came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb!” My Lord and thou didst on the cross suffer for them, but thou surely, O Christ, wilt not forget how much they have suffered for.thee! I dare not deal in imprecation, but I never so much enjoyed the imprecatory songs of David as since I. . have heard how those Turks are treating the Armenians. The fact is, Turkey has got to be divided up among other nations. Of course the European nations must take the chief part, but Turkey ought to be compelled to pay America for the American mission buildings and American school houses she has destroyed and to support the wives and ' children of the Americans ruined by this wholesale butchery. When the English lion and the Russian bear put their paws on that Turkey, the American eagle ought to put in its bill.

Missionary Heroes. Who are these American and English and Scotch missionaries who are being hounded among the mountains of Armenia by the Mohammedans? The noblest mbn and women this side of heaven, some of them men who took the highest honors at Yale and Princeton and Harvard and Oxford and Edinburgh; some of those women, gentlest afid most Christlike, who, to save people they never saw, turned their backs on luxurious homes to spend their days in self-expatriation, saying good-by to father and mother and afterward good-by to their own children, as ■ circumstances compel them to send the little ones to England, Scotland or America. have seen these foreign missionaries in their homes all around the world, and I stamp with indignation upon the literary blackguardism of foreign correspondents who have depreciated these heroes and heroines who are willing to live and die for Christ's sake. They will have the highest thrones in heaven, while their defamers will not get near enough to the shining gates to see the faintest gHnt of any one of the twelve pearls which make up the twelve gates. This defamation of missionaries is augmented by the dissolute English, American and Scotch merchants who go to foreign cities, leaving their families behind them. Those dissolute merchants in foreign cities lead a life of such gross immorals that the pure households of the missionaries are a perpetual rebuke. Buzzards never did believe in doves, and if there is anything that nightshade hates it is the water .lily. What the 550 American missionaries have suffered in the Ottoman empire since 1820 I leave the archangel to announce on the day of judgment. You will see it reasonable that I put so much emphasis on Americanism in the Ottoman empire when I tell you that America, notwithstanding all-the disadvantages named, has now over 27,000 students in day schools in that empire and 35,000 children in her Sabbath schools, and that America has expended in the Turkish empire for its betterment oyer $TO,OOO,()0iJ. "Has riot America a right' to be heard? Aye! It will be heard! I am glad that great indignation meetings are being held all over this country. That poor. weak, cowardly sultan, whom I saw a few years ago ride to his mosque for worship,* guarded by 7,000 armed men, many of tffem mounted on prancing chargers, will hear of these sympathetic meetings for the Armenians, if not through American reporters, then through some of his 360 wives. What to do with him? There ought to be some St. Helena to which he could be exiled, while the natiqps of Europe appoint a ruler of their own to clean out and take possession of the palaces of Constantinople. To-night this august assemblage in the capital of the United States, in the name of the God of nations, indicts the Turkish Government for the wholesale assassination in Armenia and invokes the interference of Almighty God and the protest of eastern and western hemispheres. Duty of the Hour. But what is the duty of the hour? Sympathy, deep, wide, tremendous, immediate! A religious paper, The Christian Herald of New York, has led the way with m'unifleent contributions collected from subscribers. But the Turkish government is opposed to any relief of the Armenian sufferers, as I personally know. Last August, before I hud any idea Of becoming a fellow'citizen'with you Washingtonians, $50,000 for Armenian relief was offered me if I would personally take that relief to Armenia. My passage was to be engaged on the City of Paris, but a telegram was sent to Constantinople, asking if the Turkish government would, grant me protection on such an errand of mercy. A cablegram said the Turkish government wished to know to what points in Armenia I deaired to go wijh that relief. In our reply four pities were named, one of them the scene of what had been the chief massacre. A cablegram came from Constantinople saying that I had better send the

money to the Turkish government’s mix-< ed commission, and they would distribute it. So a, cobweb of spiders proposed a relief for unfortunate flies! Well, a man who would start up through the' mountains of Armenia with $50,000 and no governmental protection would be guilty of monumental foolhardiness. The Turkish government has in every possible way hindered Armenian relief. Nfiw where is.that angel of mercy, Clara Barton, who appeared oh the battlefields of. Fredericksburg, Antietam, Falmouth and Cedar Mountain, and Under the blaze of French and German guns at Metz and Paris and in Johnstown - floods, and Charleston earthquake, and Michigan fires, and Russian famines? It was comGerman emperor decorated her with the Iron Cross, for God hath decorated her in the sight of all nations with a glory that neither time net eternity can dim. Born* in a Massachusetts village. she came in her girlhood to this city to serve our government in the patent office, but afterward went forth from the doors of that patent office with--a divine patent, signed and sealed" Jy God himself, to heal all the wounds she,could tdbeh and make the horrors of the flood and fire and plague and hospital fly her presence. God bless Clara Barton! Just as I expected, sho lifts the banner of the Red Cross. The Red Cross of Mercy, Turkey and all nations are pledged to respect and defend that Red Cross, although that color of cross does not, in the opinion of many", stand for Christiahity. In my opinion it does stand for Christianity, for was not the cross under which most of us worship red with the blood of the Son of God, red- with the best blood that was ever shed, red with the blood poured out for the ransom of the world? Then lead on, O Red Cross! And let Clara Barton carry it! *The Turkish government is bound.to protect her, and the chariots ofGod are 20,000, and their charioteers are angels of deliverance, and they would all 'ride <lbwn at once to roll overand trample under the hoofs of their white horses any of her assailants. May the;, $500,000 she geeks be laid at her feet! Then may the ships that carry Atlantic and Mediterranean seas be.guided safely by him who trod into sapphire pavement bestormed Galilee! Upon soil incarnadined with martyrdom let the Red be planted, until every demolished village shall be rebuilded, and every pang of hunger be fed, and every wound of cruelty be healed, and Armenia stand with as much liberty to serve God in’ its own way as in this the best land of all the earth we, the -descendants of the Puritans and Hollanders and Huguenots, are free to-worship the Christ who came ,t° set all nations free. Doctrine of Helpfulness. It has been said that if we go over there to interfere on another continent that will imply the fight for other nations to interfere with affairs on this- continent, and so the Monroe doctrine No, no! .President Cleveland expressed thh sentiment of every .intelligent and pat--riotic American when he thundered from the White House a warning to all nations that there is not one aero or one inch more of ground on this continent for any transAtlantic government to occupy. And by that doctrine we stand now and shall forever stand. But there is a doctrine as much higher than the Monroe doctrine as the heavens are higher than the earth, and that is the doctrine of humanitarianism and sympathy and Christian helpfulness which one cold December midnight, with loud and multitudinous chant, awakened'the shepherds. Wherever there is a wound it is our duty, whether as individuals or as nations, to balsam it. Wherever there is a knife of assassination lifted it is our duty to ward off the blade. Wherever men are persecuted for their religiop it is our duty to break that arm of power, whether it be thrust forth from a Protestant church or a Catholic -cathedral or a Jewish synagogue or a mosque of Islam. We all recognize the right on a small scale. If, going down the road, we find a ruffiin maltreating a child, or a human brute insulting a woman, we take a hand in the contest if we are not cowards, and though we be slight In personal presence, because of our indignation we come to weigh about twenty tons, and the harder we punish' tho villain the louder our conscience applauds us. In such case we do not keep our hands in our pockets, arguing that if we interfere with the brute, the brute might think he would have a right to interfere with us and so jeopardize the Monroe doctrine.

The Ark of Sympathy.The fact is that that persecution of the Armenians by the Turks must be stopped, or God Almighty will curse all Christendom for its damnable indifference and apathy. But the trumpet of resurrection is about to sound for Armenia. Did I say in opening, that on one of the peaks of ArArmenia of speak, in Noah’s time the ark landed, according to the myth, as some think, btlK according to God’s “say so," as I know, and that it was after a long storm of forty days and forty nights, call mJ the deluge, and that afterward a dore went forth from that ark and returned with an olive leaf in her beak? Even so now there is another ark being launched, but this one goes sailing, uot over a deluge of water, but a deluge of blood —the ark of Armenian sympathy —tfhd that ark, landing on Ararat, from its window shall fly the dove of kindness to find fiic olive leaf of returning prosperity, while alf the mountains of Moslem prejudice, oppression and cruelty shall stand fifteen cubits under. Meanwhile we would like to gather all the dying groans of all the 500,000 victims of Mohammedan oppression and intone them into one prayer that would move the earth and the heavens, hundreds of millions of Christians’ voices, American and European, crying out; "O God Most High! Spare thy children. With mandate from the throne hurl back upon their haunches the horses of the Kurdish cavalry. Stop the rivers of blood. With the earthquakes of thy wrath shake the foundations of the palaces of the sultan. Move all the nations of Europe to command cessation of cruelty. If need be, let the warships of civilized dotions boom their indignation. Let the crescent go down before the cross, and the Mighty One who hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written ‘KThg of Kings and Lord of Lords.’ go forth, conquering and to conqne/. Thine, O Lord, is the kingdom! Haflelujab! Amen!” The old gunz of 16 and 20 inch caliber at Fort Hamilton, New York, are giving place to weapons of smaller bore. But the new cannon will carry a shell ten miles, or four times the range of tbe old ones, and con also be fired vAtk much greater praclaieQ,

FARM AND GARDEN.

BRIEF HINTS AS TO THEIR SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT. : » “J. , i ~ A Practical and Convenient Poultry House— Hpw to Matte the Pump Frost-Proof—Movable Sled Shoe for Soft Snow-Breeding Hornless Cattle. Sod or Lumber Poultry House. The exceedingly practical and convenient poultry house, an illustration of which is here reproduced fromTarin Home,-is 30 feet-long by 24 feet wide and can be constructed of so|d or lumber. As shown in the ground plan; the space is divided into four main parts.. The principal Toom occupies tire entire right side of the building, as shown in the ground plan In which F. F. are roosts 14 feet long; B, a box b by oJect for straw in which to throw grain in winter to ihduce exercise, and H, a coop 4 by 6 for shutting up sitting hens. In the left-hand upper corner of the grotfiid plan is the laying room 10 by 12 feet with nests all about the sides. Just below it is the room 6

A CHEAP POULTRY HOUSE.

by 12 feet for sitting hens, while in the lower left-hand corner is a room 10 by 12 for chickens. I Is a box in which to put lime and oyster shells. L. L. L. are feed boxes and troughs; V V receptacles for green feed; M M M are drinking vessels; A A are. nests 18 inches square. Windows and doors can be arranged as shown in the illustration or to suit the taste of the builder. There is a partition in the room for chickens, dividing it into two parts, one for those quite small and the other for larger ones. A lath door between this room and the main room allows the chickens to pass. Timothy Is Exhaustive. Tri a recent letter Theodore B. Terry quotes Mr. J. S. Woodward as saying that he would not sow timothy on his farm on any account, and that he would shoot any man whom he caught sowing timothy on his farm. That, however, was a time whep wheat in Western New York was a safe crop for twenty-five to thirty-five bushels per acre, and worth SL§O a bushel/ There, was good reason in those days in alternating clover with wheat, and growing as little timothy as possible. But witli the decline of wheat to a cent a pound or less it is not so paying a crop to farmers near to market as is good timothy hay. If the land can be fertilized to grow wheat it will pay equally well to fertilize it for timothy and to sell the product. But even where timothy is grown, experience has shown UiatMhe grass keeps in the ground longer without running out if red or alsike clover is sown with it. The timothy hay will be nearly free from clover after the second year, and the first year’s growth will be better for home feeding than all timothy.—American Cultivator. Frost-Proof Pump. A box of the right size and shape is procured, and, with one end removed, is set about the firmly and tightly fastened to the platform. The cover is hinged to form the front, and a longer spout is used instead of the one that belongs to the pump. This long spout can be bored out of a piece of pine in a few moments. The inclosed air about the pump will keep it from freezing, even in very severe

A PUMP THAT IS FROST-PROOF.

Weather If the door to the box shuts Inugly, and no other cracks let in the cold air. Weight of Fodder per Acre. . As an acre of land contains 43,560 square feet, a yield of two tons of hay per acre, which is’considerably above the average, ought not to be thought extraordinary. It is only at the fate of one pound fpi; eleven square feet. The green grass of course weighs more than this, but it loses fully half or more of its weight when dried into hay. Considering bow large an acre Is, the yields of twenty or more tons of fodder corn per acre ought not to seem incredible. Twenty-two tons is really only one pound i>er square foot. English farmel’s on very rich land grow still heavier crops of mangel wurtzel and of rutabagas. But with l>oth fodder corn and roots the large yields are best gained by thin seeding, allowing each plant to make the best,development of which it is capable. If two roots grow side by fide neither will amount to much. It is not uncommon to grow roots which will singly weigh three or four pounds, and each take up less space than a square foot. But there must be room between

the plants to do this. Trying to grow a three-p®un<J 'root on every square foot will make at failure of all. Early Application of FertilizersIn applying fertilizers my observations go to favor as early an application of all fertilizers as possible, in order to be ready to feed the crop from the start to the finish, says B. F. Codd, in the Ohio Farmer.' AUthesummer and fall make of bam manure should be mixed with the soil before the ground closes up for winter, in order to obtain heat results In the following crops. Artificial or commercial fertilizers! for.hoedcrops, if. properly applied k may as,well bp used.at planting and save time and labor of the latter application. We eannot afford to plant without these artificial fertilizers after applying as large a quantity of the best quality of barn manure that we can produce. Cottonseed meal fed to stock and land plaster used for absorbent and disinfectant increases the value of barn manure greatly. Horn’ess Cattle. A herd of horned cows was bred to a polled bull, whose mother wore horns; ninety per cent, of the calves had no horns, says the Wisconsin Agriculturist. These young hornless heifers never had a horned calf. This shows how easily the horns may be bred auay, and, although slow, this way is the best of all. Horned cattle require twice as much stablg, room as polls, for the young cattle of the latter kind can be herded in a pen like sheep until ready to drop their first calves. No chains, stanchions or halters; never disturbing one Another as they crowd around the feeding trough. If we look through stock yards we shall find the horns actually gone from nine-tenths of the stock brought there. Whether this is due to the chemical dehorner, the saw or to breeding, it shows that horns are no longer the fashion. The chances are that they never will be again.

, To Grow Profitable Crops. “A windmill to irrigate such land, with all the necessary material for utilizing the water need not cost more than SSOO. In one season the crops will more than pay for this cost, says the Connecticut Farmer. Several years ago a dry spell swept over Long Island and Eastern Jersey, almost ruining the market gardener’s props. Only a few had their land irrigated by windmills. The prices for all farm crops went up amazingly in price, and the few who could raise their crops made sixty per cent, more than usual. In short, they made enough to pay for their windmills seyeral times over. It is not a good plan to mortgage the farm for anything, but if there is any cne thing that will be sure to bring in the money to pay off the mortgage and interest it is a good windmill and a perfect irrigation system.” Sled Shoe for Soft Snow. After a light fall of snow’, or when the snow has softened by reason of a thaw, the comparatively narrow run-

MOVABLE SLED SHOE.

ners of the ordinary farm sled cut down deeply, greatly iippeding work. The accompanying illustration shows a wide shoe that can be put on and off in a moment. Its use will prevent the sinking of the sled, even in light snows, the wide shoe serving the sled much as a snowshoe does the hunter. The iron strap at the rear end passes through the shoe, but is filed off smoothly with the under surface. The strap in front moves quite freely, so that the sled runner can be slipped into the rear strap, when the pne in front can be put into position. Two light wedges make everything firm.—Orange Judd Farmer. Let Each Farmer Help the Roads. Select the worst piece of road over which the people of your neighborhood frequently travel, and see bow many of your neighbors will join in covering It with gravel or broken stone, urges the Maine Farmer. Or, If there is no good road material to be had, see who will join in ditching a road so that it rinay dry quickly. At this season Tarmors’ teams are often idle, and in many neighborhoods the farmers can easily be induced to turn out for a few’ days of volunteer work, making a short piece of good road at a point over which they all travel. And if this is kept up for a few years, an effective object lesson as to the value of good roads will be furnished, while the very act of doing volunteer work will arouse enthusiasm on the subject. .

Don’t Frnne in Zero Weather. Much has been said about pruning trees during the mild days on the winter, says the Agriculturist. Now I wish to protest against any pruning until the zero weather is past. If the young orchard tree has one central trunk, and side branches eight inches apart coming out at right angles, very little pruning will be necessary! Cold Storage for Farmers. Cold storage is used more and more every year in Boston, and not only by the dealers, V u t als ° by farmers, who rather than take whatever price is offered during a glut, prefer to store their fruit or produce in one of the big freezing rooms and hold it for better prices. Th 6 public employment bureaus in thq leading Ohio cities are pronounced by those acquainted with their workings a growing success. How generally they are being patronized is shown by the fact thatin all the cities except Cleveland and Cincinnati the private agencies have been entirely driven out

RECORD OF THE WEER

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY "J-TOLD. ' Detective Believed to Have Been Man* acted and Burned by Connterfeiten. —Fee and Salary Law la Now in Effect—Yonns Matthews’ Self-Denial. Man Dies a Terrible Death. The cabin abandoned two weeks figc> by the Carson gang of counterfeiters, seven miles south of Rushville, burned. Wednesday night. The unrecognizable remains* of a man were found in the cellar, Tho ’ Carsons had been under surveillance for some time, as considerable counterfeit money was afloat. Secret service officers —- were on their trail and they knew of it. The hands of the man found burned to death in the cellar were manacled and he met his horrible death deprived of even making an effort to, save himself. No ono is missing from the neighborhood and the officials find it impossible to identify, the victim. The general surmise is that the man was a secret service detective who had got in with the Carsons for the pur. pose of securing evidence. They were aware of who the man was and took-him to their cabin. t Once inside the three brothers are supposed to have overpowered the detective, placed the handcuffs on his hands, and then throwing him into the cellar the cabin was fired ar.i the man left to a death of horrible torture. Keller, who lives two miles from the cabin, says that he saw four men hu bouse on horseback on a dead run. He could not see who they were. In a short time — he heard an exchange of shots coming from the direction of the burned cabin. Sheriff Wilson says he will spare' no means to apprehend the Carsons,, as he thinks they committed the murder. saves Big Money for Indiana. The foe and salary law, which does' awgy with fees entirely for the State officers and places each upon a straight salary, is now in full force and effect, and hereafter ail fees accruing to the offices will be turned over to the State Treasurer. It is generally believed that the State will be the gainer by this system of not less than-SIOO,OOO per annum, and this sum represents in the aggregate what the State officers will lose by the change from a fee system. The Attorney General’s office was worth from $25,000 to $35,000 a year, and the State Auditor has made not less than $25,000 per annum. Each of these officials is now on a salary of $7,500. The State Treasurer is the only officer who secured an increase of salary under the new law, and he is now to receive $6,500 per annum, and it is declared that hereafter legislatures will make rigid inquiries into the management of the State funds, and in the event that the money is loaned will require the ihterest to be turned over to the State. If this is carried into effect it will probably result in from $15,000 to $25,000 being received by the State, while heretofore the Treasurer has appropriated to his own use all moneys collected as interest. *

For Sake of His Betrothed. The indignation which was aroused throughout Fulton County by the action of Arthur Matthews, a prominent young farmer, when he left home on the evening of liis wedding day, has given way to admiration of the young man’s character, and friends have begun a vigorous search for him, with a view to inducing him to return and take again his position in society. It appears that Miss Gertie Reed, whom he was supposed to have deserted, had another suitor, to whom her parents objected, and her marriage to young Matthews was to be in conformity with their » will and not to her wishes. In the evening that Matthews disappeared the young lady candidly informed him that she loved another, but that she Would marry him in obedience to her parenths’ demand. Matthews then disappeared, and Miss Reed and his' friends now see that he sacrificed his own feelings in order that he might not longer stand between the woman he loved and the man of her choice. Desperate Fisht at a Revival. The report has reached Terre Hau ie that at the conclusion of revival services at a'~church near Lockport two you »g farmers, Charles Lane and George Burkhall by name, quarreled over the treat ment each had accorded the other's girt In the altercation Burkhali drew a razor or keen bladed knife and slashed his opponent several times across-the face and body. It was reported that Lane’s wounds would prove fatal. William Thompson; a prominent farmer and member of the church, attempted to separate the two combatants and his hand was almost sevwAV-Ssy one of Earkhall's thrusts., All Over the State. A sitting of the Federal Court Is being held >t New Albany. A medium flow: of natural gas has been struck near Hagerstown. William McCall, of Frankfort, was robbed of S3O while asleep. Sixteen children are carect for in the Cass County Orphan Asylum. - Andrew Gardella. of Ft. Wayne, lost $650 while walking on the street. Mrs. Turner, mother of Mark P. Turner, of Anderson, bus been seized with paralysis. The family of Joseph Hamilton, of Ft Wayne, narrowly escaped suffocation by gas. Mrs. Ann Quigley, living alone at Richmond, was found nearly dead from ex-, posure. , ' The wire and nail nplls of Anderson, closed down for repairs, has resumed operations. Mrs. 'Rebecca Hyatt, 65 years did, of Howard County, committed suidide with poison, ' «- Three boys, daring each other to venture on thin ice, reused the drowning of Ross McClure, at Evuusville. Boone County farmers are said to have tried boiled water ata remedy for hog cholera, with good results. The Citizens' National Bank of Crawfordsville has $25,000 in gold to invest •in the new government bonds. Fifty-one remonstrants against granting a liquor license to John R. Maao»rof Russiaville, have asked leave to withdraw. »Earl Dailey, of Lebanon, son of the State Auditor, had a wildcat caged' on his father’s premises in that city, and it) escaped from confinement. The wood* ore being scoured for the animal. 1