St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 15, Number 42, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 April 1890 — Page 3

topics. jnformation for the husbandman and housewife. gome Practical Suggnstions to,- the Farmer, S tock-Breeder, Poulterer, Nurseryman* and Housekeeper. THE FA KM. Beet Sugar. The American Cultivator says: “The beet is far more promising than sorghum a8 a source of domestic sugar supply. Beet sugar has passed the experimental stage in European as well 'as American agriculture. The problem for solution is to secure a supply of beets from the farmers. Capitalists will build factories ■with certainty that farmers will grow beets. ” Agriculture in Schools. At the recent annual meeting of the Maine Board of Agriculture the following resolution was passed: Resolved. That it is the belief of the State Board of Agriculture that the principles of agriculture should be introduced and taught in our common schools as soon as may be practicable. A committee was appointed, to act with a like committee of the State Grange, to aid in devising political measures to earn- this resolution into effect. _____ Feeding Corn in the Stalk. It seems a wasteful method, but it certainly saves labor, to feed corn in the stalk- Some Western farmers are trying it, and report that they get better results from their corn than ever before. The stalks are in better condition, and the I best of them are eaten with the grain as ’ well as the leaves and husks. The corn in this ease was cut before fully ripe, while much of the nutriment that would have gone into the grain remained in the husk. This has been found the best time to put corn into the silo, and it is reasonable to suppose it is also best for I corn and fodder to be fed dry. Oats cut ! rather green aie also eaten much better when they are to be fed in the sheaf, making a saving of thrashing. — American Cultivator. Peanut < ulture. “Will you please give us directions for peanut culture?” The usual mode of cultivation is to plant in drills three feet apart, one nut in a place twelve inches apart. Keep clear of weeds, and j when the plants are in blossom the drills ; should bo bedded up so as to make a i mellow surface for the young nuts to strike in. When ripe the vines are pulled and dried, without getting wet. the nuts whipped off, cleaned up in a I common fanning mill and sacked for market. A light soil, not very sandy, is I best adapted to their growth.—C. A", Dewey, in Chicago Inter- Ocean. Cabbage After Early Potatoes. To get a good crop of cabbage after early potatoes, it is only necessary to have good strong plants to commence 1 with. Io obtain such, sow the seed in ! drills, not less than one foot apart, and i thinly in the row, the last week of May I or the first week in June. One ounce of seed will produce 2,000 plants, and if j properly cultivated on good soil will produce the best plants in thirty days ©r by July 1. After digging, the potato । patch should be freshly plowed, and the soil thoroughly pulverized. My plan is then to open furrows four feet apart and apply 500 pounds of some good fertilizer per acre in these rows, covering with a , corn-coverer, and set the plants three feet apart on these ridges. Cover them deeply, even if the leaves are partly i covered. Should the soil be dry or a dry | spell be likely to follow, tramp around i each plant after setting. It is best to i lift Uie plants witl a digging fork ; rather than pull tb< in from the seed! bed, especially it’ at all dry. Last year 1 sowed both Flat Dutch cabbage and cauliflower seed on June 1. had tine plants to set out June 29, and had both cabbage and cauliflower ready for market Sept. 28. — American Agriculturist. THE mCK-KA.WiI. Horse for the Farmer. No dov t there are two sides to almost every im^ -taut question. This is certainly true of the discussion by the Hon. F. P. Root in the New York Tribune. relating to the economv of using heavy i horses on the farm, incidentally Mr. Boot touches the question of best breeds । of horses. There are some points, in j this connection, that he loses sight of, I such as endurance, temper, value of | such stock as may be turned off, not ! only when no longer needed but iurais- j ing young stock, as many farmers desire ! to breed more or less for their own use. I Fifty years ago, writes Mr. Root, half i the heavy work of the farm, now done j by horse-power, was performed by hu- j man muscle. Think of mowing, raking, i tedding and pitching our hay; cutting i and binding our grain, threshing and 1 cleaning the same; hoeing and weeding ; corn, potatoes and other cultivated J crops, all by hand labor. How' depend- i ent agriculture and commerce are on the j patient, obedient animal! And despite ! the achievements of steam, no greater i value was ever put upon a good horse ' than now. Compared with other farm ! stock, his relative worth has rathex - appreciated than declined during the past thirty years, and there is much to encourage increased attention to the raising of good horses. If high speedcould be reliably bred, and would bear up fancy prices, there would doubtless be largest profit in breeding for speed, but the speedy horse is practically an accident, and only one in many bred from the same strain will come up to the standard. The large imported breeds of English and French draft horses are the most powerful, and useful in moving heavy loads, or enduring hard service, but they are specialists, fitted mainly to one branch of service. As to substituting the Percheron or Clydesdale for our American farm teams—allowing that a span of these heavy animals will draw a plough or a heavy load where three of our lighter horses would be required—will it be a gain to the farmer? A pair of Percherons will sell for SSOO or S6OO, ox - more, for special use, as truck horses, a larger price than three common American farm horses sell for. Moreover, the three will be kept more cheaply, or, at least, at no greater cost. If all farm work required the heavy team equal to three common horses, the difference would not be largelv in favor of a twohorse heavy team or a three-horse lighter team. But more than half our farm work requires only a light team; all the light harrowing, cultivating between rows of corn, beaus and potatoes, is done with one light horse, end will usually be done one-third faster than by a heavy Percheron. A light American horse, weighing I,looto 1,200 lbs., is more active on the farm, and when wanted on the road can travel at a speed unknown to the heavy foreign breeds. The horse capable of work, that can be ready for farm or road, a fast walker, and the span able tv take

[ L S i'° 00 Ibß ’ load to market, is the profit nbl9 team for the farm. I have in my farm experience of fifty veiun „ “, y . t»Jv. to an.» he । aggregate a large number ol homey and must say that a 1,200 pound horse has done me better service n.mi . profitable, tb„ n I I THE DAIRY. A Ration for Milch Cows “W tOput a little bought upon the teed we give our milch cows,for Ue ame grains and sod !ers differentiv en’n giv . e .‘Afferent results, and we caix often combine the foods we have on s U tS in H BOi,Bto ^ better results tor the same money value than we ! are now getting. If a fj mor ^s p“nh । «°^ lover ? ay he may i coin with good results than if he is feeding timothy. It we have to buy I some teed to piece out what we have on ! handweshouhl consider what will be the most economical for us to get to voTnt’^H lth What Y e haVe - A 01180 iu the answer Prof. J. W. Sanborn an I ^ l through the Breeders' Gazette to KT" dair ynmn who asked: What is the best combination of food to be fed O ,w Uß u Wlth brewer’s grains, of which the cows have got all they can eat, my obto produce the largest quantity of milk at least possible cost; clover is worth $o per ton, timothy $7 to $8 So™; 111 ®? 1 Io 4, « rouud sl6, bran shorts $9. 1 have no hesitation in recommending clover hay and shorts at the prices named as the cheapest foods. Their direct feeding value is greater than the I other foods named, while their ma- । nurial value is greater than the other । foods. The shorts for manure are worth twice as much as the corn-meal, while j they contain more nutrition per dollar’s worth of food by any known theory of food valuation now recognized. My own trials of corn-meal against bran have shown that a pound of bran will not make as much milk nor as much butter as corn-meal, but the difference I was but about 17 per cent., while the . difference in the cost of corn above that । of bran is 55.5 per cent. Clover at $5 per ton is 33J percent less costly than timothy, while it contains but about 16 per cent less digestible matter. Clover is a well-known milk producer. A ration of brewer’s grains, bran and clover is a very rich one in proteine. It is not a bad failing for a cow giving milk. Cows receiving a ration containing as much proteine as : the above ration will eat a considerable I amount of straw and stover or corn- ' | fodder if it is placed within their reach. They will eat these foods more readily ; than they will on a rich ration in corn j meal and timothy. 1 would give them i opportunity to consume all these foods that they will readily, for each pound of ■ straw or stover thus eaten will become nearly as valuable as the timothy hay. To gratify the natural desire of a cow for a change of food I should give some timothy along with the foods named as they seem to desire it. More will be eaten when thus ted, thereby increasing ! the excess foodconsumed over the above i : maintenance ration. Any means of ' j feeding that induces cows to eat a pound ' I of food over and above what she other- I : wise would have eaten gives to that > j round a value double what it would j । have been if a part of the limited ration ! to which it was added. This is true, . because maintenance ration is ordinarily ' one-half or more of the total ration. The oats are the most costly food of i the ration. 'The cows should be watered regularly ' anti often, and fetl morning, noon and night, and be kept warm, or not below 50 deg. The water drank has a direct j bearing on the amount of milk given, | I although I do not mean to say that the j , largest possible water consumption is j । attended with the largest milk flow, ex- I , cessive water consumption may be in- ! duced by skill and at a sacrifice. THE Ml EEf FOLD. Sheep Shearing. From an exhaustive article on sheep । shearing in New South Wales, by Wm. ! Watson, published iu the Brcedi r's Gazette, we make the following extracts i that will be suggestive to American ! flock masters who desire to have their j wool go to market in good shape. Sheep should always bo shorn on smooth, clean floors. We cannot over- I ‘ rate the importance of close and even | clipping. If the fleece is not taken off | evenly, but tufts left here and there I which require clipping off afterward, it will be deteriorated in value, and the ! scraps of wool taken off by a second clipping will be consigned to the locks' and will sell for a lower puce than the ■ fleece wool. Another consideration is ! to avoid cutting the skin of the sheep. Whenever a sheep is cut the wound should be covered with tar as a prot ■- ; tion again the fly. When a large num-, her of shearers are employed, a boy is j usually iu attendance with a pot of tar, j and runs at the call of any shearer who ; wants him. Another point that requires I great attention is not allowing the fleeces to be broken. It is generally i the result of gross carelessness, espe- i cially in men running one another or । striving who will shear most. The ; shearing boards should be kept con- j stantly swept and kept clean from pieces ■ and locks. Let the brooms in use be [ of good quality, so that fibers may not break off and get stuck iuthe wood, doing much harm. All sheep after shearing are branded conspicuously with one or mote of the initial letters of the owner’s name. The mark is made by a simple instrument consisting of a wooden handle with au iron shank, at the end of which are the capital letters used. A few use tar, others paint, but a mixture of ruddle and greese is preferable to either. The rain has little effect on it, and it remains perfectly legible and conspicuous from one shearing to another, and on the application of hot water it becomes soft and easily washed off. By j branding in different places you can i have a distinguishing mark by which to know at a glance the age, sex, etc., of any particular flock. Fleece wool is classed under the generalheads of combing and clothing, and these classes are again subdivided into two or three different sorts. Where the quality of the wool reaches a supertino standard, it is usual to make three sorts of each, but when the fleeces do not reach that standard two sorts of each willbe sufficient, viz., first and second combing and first and second clothing. When the staple is less than two inches in length, it is placed in the clothing class, and anything from two inches upward goes into the combing class. Sometime the Australian still further class under the head of “dingy,” which contains all the stained and discolored fleeces. Lambs’ wool is divided into first, second and sometimes third class. Greasy wool which has missed the general washing is also kept separate from the rest. The large pieces taken off in skirting go under the head of “pieces,’ and what is swept off the shearing floor from under the wood table is called “l^cks.” The men appointed to roll the fleeces spread them on the wool table with the

clipped side downward. They first of suoh r nS°d Ve 811 eltranec ®« substances, null off d " ng ’/ r, ‘ 89 °r burs. They also p 11 off any stained portions, anv coarse of| kei ^F y x PUrtß '. al8 o th « belly wool, and all matted portions are thrown aside. .<his done rhey are folded iu the followr'm ™ u uner: Each side ought to be folded oyer toward the middle of the neece. the neck is then folded toward the breech and the breech toward the i I 1 / 30 ’ . ben folded close and compact a । string is passed round it and tied so as o prevent any disarrangement in its passage to the press. i fleeces should never be thrown a >out but carried carefully and placed ! oompactlv in the press. The bales ; should be as near one weight as possi- ' ’ colonial bale of washed wool i will run from 280 to 300 pounds. As । soon as a bale is turned out of the I press it should receive a temporary । mark to indicate the description of wool it contains. In branding the bales it is a good plan to put each class of wool under consecutive numbers. AVool Packing and cleaning ought to be done in the best and most thorough fashion. A bale of wool is the product of a whole yeax-, and has not been got without a deal of trouble and expense. the household. Nature’s DiHiiifectant. With the approach of cold weather nearly all germs of disease in the air become either inactive or are destroyed by nature’s great disinfectant, frost. It is well known that yellow fever and some other diseases positively disappear at the frost-line. On the cont rary, the dangers from cold and diseases of the throat and lungs seem to be increased by cold weather. This increase is not due so much,our w isest physicians generally believe, to cold as to the fact that people are housed up more during tins period and breathe impure air, and in this enfeebled condition go from warm, often over-heated rooms into the outdoor coVL The’ fact that the inhabitants the Arctic regions are less subject o lung diseases than the children of sunny Italy seems to be proof that some other agency than cold is at work as a destroyer. It is unhappily the rule, rather than the exception, for people to live all winter iu rooms which are never systematically aired. I’he average housekeeper feels that her duty is done if she keeps her house warm. Every room iu which the family live or sleep should be thoroughly and daily aired by opening the windows, so as to secure a I current of pure outdoor air for at least five or ten minutes. If the room is occupied all day and evening it should be aired twice a day. It is as necessary to health to "wash’’ out a room in this way l with fresh air as it is to heat it. The foul germs of diphtheria, which proceed from defective sewerage and unclean drains, mouldy scraps of dust anil debris or any of the well-known filth sources of this frightful scourge, find ready lodgment in the warm atmosphere of unaired rooms, and ready victims among children weakened by close confinement in overheated houses. It ' is a matter of statistics that this disease | prevails more in the wealthy districts ot : the cities than in the poorer: and the reason given has been that it is pecu- । liarly a disease arising from defective sewerage, and there are no stationary washstands and complex systems of sewerage iu the dwellings of the very poor. The unwholesome degree of heat maintained generally in houses fitted with modern improvements has probably more to do with this than even the sewerage. English people, who have not generally adopted the cellar heater in their houses, consider our over- ! heated houses exceedingly unhealthy, ! and the cause of frequent eases of pneumonia and other lung diseases, which : are far more prevalent in England, noti witbstunding its unwholesome east winds, than here. We have not yet learned the value of cold as a disinfectant and health giver. It is a mistake to keep children in the house anv day in winter because of the cold. Wrap them well, giving them plenty of space ; to breathe, and never cov-rmg their : laces w ith a veil, and let them feel and ; enjoy to the full nature s great medi- ! cine, the snow and frost. .Veu’ Forfe , Tribune. lllntn t<» If windows are wiped off once a weik on the inside with a slightly dampened cloth it will save washing so often. When Irving to thread a sewing-ma-chine at twilight or in any imperfect light, place a bit of white cloth or paper back of the needle eye. By this method the eve can be found and filled much easier. Sing thread is soaked in acetate of lend to increase its weight, and persons who pass it through the mouth in threading needles, and then bite off with the teeth, have suffered from lead | poisoning. To t’KEi’AKE a mustard plaster: Mix ! the mustard with the white of au egg, ! instead of water. The result w ill be a plaster which w ill “draw” perfectly well, but will not produce a blister, even upon the skin of an infant, no mutter how long it is allowed to remain upon the part. THE KITHCEN. Broun Brend. Two cups of corn meal, three of rye meal, 1A cups of flour, 1A cups of molasses, 3', cupa of sour milk, two teaspoonfuls of soda and a little salt. Steam three hours, and bake one-half hour. _ Cookie;*. One cup of molasses, one-half cup of butter,one teaspoonful of cinnamon,two teaspoonfuls of soda, or salaratus, dissolved in a very little lukewarm water, and flour enough to roll. Cut in small cakes and bake in a quick oven. Sugar take. One cupful of sugar and a tablespoonful of butter, mixed together; two cupfuls of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one cupful of xuilk, a little salt aud one well-beaten egg. Flavor with nutmeg or lemon and bake in a loaf. A Poli-h Dish. Cut in very small pieces any sort of baked or roast meat <veal, mutton, or beef), add soft-boiid eggs and finelyminced onion, lettuce or endive. Mix all thoroughlv with a dressing of oil, vinegar, mustard and pepper and serve. Snla<l DressingBeat one raw egg in an earthen cake dish until it is smooth, then add olive oil, a very little at a time, carefully stirring it into the egg with the right hand as you drop it in with the left. When the egg and oil make a thick mixture pour a little vinegar over it, then stir in ’ more oil, and so on in this way until you have the desired quantity of dressing; season with lemon juice, pepper, mustard, pickles or onions chopped very fine, or with celery, watercress, parsley, capers, olives, or with any flavor you choose. Hard-boiled eggs may be added also.

—~-~.-fm.umi 1 INDI INA HAPPENINGS. Events and incidents that have? ’ lately occurred. An IntereMinc Summary of the More liuportant DoiiiKH <>t Our Neighbors— Wed- «, n^;s Deaths—Crime, Casualties and (general News Notes. Rewards ot Genions. Patents have been granted to Indianians as follows: George Adams, assignor of one-half to J. H. Statzenberger, New Albany, steam engine; Joshua Admire, assignor to W. Presser and L. Carroll, Smith’s Valley, eornplanter; Ludwig Gutmann, Fort Wayne, choking electro-magnets; Daniel Hershberger, Huntington, assignor of onehalf to J. Ulrich River, device for wiring fence pickets; Abraham Kimber, Indiananapolis, railway tie; Nathan A. Long, Muncie, rain-water silt er; Samuel Maxfield, assignor of one-half to C. Clinton, Angola, implement for recovering lost pipe from tubular wells; Geo. 11. Morrison, assignor of one-half to J. C. Ertel, folding clothes-bracket; Oscar E. N. Richburg, Marion, farm gate; Frank Schefold, New Albany, assignor to W. C. DePauw Company, of Indiana, meaus for transferring molten glass; Wm. L. Smith, assignor of one-half to AV. H. H. Ayres, Indianapolis, car-coup-ling; Frederick Ulrich, Peru, vehicle axle; Charles H. A’an Epps, Scott, fence wrench; John G. Zeller, Richmond, elevator gate. Minor Mate Items. — James’ Reeder, a pioneer resident of Howard County, died at Kokomo, aged 85 years. He came to the county in 1810. —V illiam Justice, aged 45, a farmer living near Yorktown, was instantly Killed by a falling tree. He leaves a wife and five children. —George M. Schultz, a prominent politician, while chopping kindling at Brazil, was struck in the eye by a living splinter. The muscles of the eye were paralyzed, causing total loss of sight. —At Vincennes, Mrs. Ann Kise, an old lady about seventy years old, fell into an open fire-place, and before she was discovered her face, and neck, and breast were terribly burned. She cannot long survive her injuries. —Frederick Wesson's residence, iuthe outskirts of Fort Wayne, was destroyed by fire. A tall wind-mill stood beside the house, aud Wesson, climbing upon it, was stifled with smoke aud fell into the fire, sustaining fatal injuries. —Robert L. Matthews, employed in the Jeffersonville car-works, slipped aud fell into a kettle of boiling pitch at that institution, audsuffered serious injuries. His neck and left arm were burned almost to a crisp. —I he Commissioners of Tippecanoe County have rescinded the right of way of the electric street railway over the new bridge across the Wabash at Lafayette, and ordered the track removed from the levee. Litigation will result. —Alice, the 2 year old daughter of Edward Alexander, living eight miles north of Shelbyville, was fatally burned by her clothes catching fire from the stove. Mrs. Dorsey, a neighbor, had her bauds and arms burned while trying to extinguish the flames. Dr. Alfred S. Remey died at his sidenee six miles southeast of Greensburg. at the age of 70 years. He practiced medicine since early manhood, several years at Rushville, and amassed j quite a fortune. Last November he was I stricken with paralysis, and has been helpless since. —The Ohio and Indiana Conference of the Evangelical church at Portland, adopted strong resolutions indorsing Bishops Esher aud Bowman, and expressing approval of their course iu the existing trouble in the church. Similar resolutions have been passed by other conferences. While Samuel C. Driver was engaged in feeding a circular saw at Fort Wayne, the brace upon which the wood rests gave way and struck the saw. A i crash followed and a piece of the saw, i eight inches long, was imbedded in ! Driver s breast and penetrated his lung. He cannot recover. —*l'hoxnas Hutsel was killed in the old McCoy grist mill near Warren recently. In putting the belt on the wheel which turns tie bolter his coat was caught by the shaft and wound up until he was choked to death. He was dead when found a few minutes afterward. He formerly lived at Rochester, and was an old miller by trade. A wife and eight children are left. —A serious injury recently befell 'William IL Woodard, contractor on the Monon from Orleans to French Lick. He was at Orleans and was setting a brake, when, by accident, he fell to the track of the moving train, injuring him very seriously. He is a son of W. R. Woodard, formerly Superintendent of the Monon, but now General Manager of the Louisville Southern. —The farmers in the neighborhood of Wheeling have been victimized out of about S4OO by a walnut-stump shark. This robber represented that he was buying stumps to be used in veneering, and paid $1 each. For every stump he offered a twenty-dollar gold-piece, and received sl9 in good money. From twenty to twenty-five purchases were made, and then the stump-buyer fled the country. The twenty-dollar gold-pieces which he worked off wore all shown to be counterfeit. —Charles Hill has been brought from Louisville to Terre Haute to answer to wholesale hog-stealing. Hill had been operating largely in hogs, aud is said to have stolen more than fifty animals during a space of time extending over less than one month. — The school enumeration of Crawfordsville shows that there ere 2,131 white children there; of this number 1,242 are boys and 1,219 girls. There are also 153 colored children of school age, seventy-eight being females and seventy-five males.

—The Ministerial A^h,ociaticn of the Crawfordsville district will meet at AVaveland on April 28, 29, and 30. i Twenty-two papers will he read. —A passenger on the Muncie Poute road, ran into Mrs. Farrell, aged 45 at Sheldon, near Fort Wayne, horribly mangling the lady. She was walkingon the track and did not get off at the engineer’s alarm, which wa» heard by passengers on the train. She lived not one hundred feet from where she was killed and was crossing the track from her son’s home. —Govenor Hovey has pardoned Melvin Tyler, who was recently convicted of bigamy in the Delaware Circuit Court. Tyler married au estimable young lady of Muncie, claiming that he bad been divorced from his first wife in New York. It afterwards tianspired that no decree had been entered in the case, and he was indicted and convicted. The Governor believes that Tyler acted in good faith in the matter, and pledges have been made that he will remarry his Muncie wife as soon as he can legally do sou —Captain Henry Tower and his business partner, Chas. Cravens, were driving iu a buggy on Main street at Madison, when their two horses, frightened at a passing street-car, ran away at breakneck speed. The lines broke and the animals becoming uncontrollable both gentlemen jumped out. Cravens received slight injury, but Tower is dangerously hurt. The team ran noon the sidewalk, running over and possibly fatally injuring Miss Alta (.rates, daughter of Geo. Gates, of North Madison, who had come to town for medicine for a sick sister. Striking an electric-light pole, one of the horses, valued i t SSOO, was instantly killed and the buggy demolished. To Miami County farmers belongs the honor of the establishment of the first farmers’ institute in the State, together with probably the largest average attendance and general good features. As a fitting climax to their successful second year meetings the closing session on April 4 and 5 was an immense affair, devoted to general business, but principally to the subject of butter. Brizes aggregating many hundreds were offered, special rates secured upon railroads entering Peru, and attendance was large from all over the State. The butter exhibit was held iu the public hall of the city. There was also a grand exhibition upon the streets of the country’s fine dairy cows. Holman Davis, a colored man, living six miles north of New Castle, found a stake driven in the ground iu his dooryard the other morning, on which was a AN hite Cap notice, embellished with a death s head and bundle of switches, warning him to leave the country within fifteen days on pain of receiving 100 lashes at the hands of the Regulators. Davis is au inoffensive and respected man, and no cause is known for the warning except that his black skin is offensive in the eyes of the Virginia Bourbons who populate that neighborhood. Davis has armed himself heavily, and will give the desperadoes an interesting reception if they undertake to execute their threat. --The faculty of Wabash College held au important meeting at Crawfordsville to take action in regard to the oration of Perry J. Martin, who sesured the Baldwin prize of S4O by using the speech of another person. Martin had confessed his guilt and returned the money, and said that he never | dreamed of securing the prize, and only wanted to make a creditable showing He asked to be permitted to graduate next June. It was the unanimous decision of the faculty that Martin be dismissed from the college, and notice to this effect was sent to Martin. It was not decided who should get the Baldwin prize, but it is probable that the second best, Mr. Cain, of Danville 111., will receive it. —Grant Sheirman, of Pulaski County, was lodged in the Cass County Jail at Logansport on the charge of horsestealing. For some time a gang of horse-thieves have been operating in the counties of Cass, White, Fulton, Miami and Pulaski without detection. Recently three horses stolen from Cass County were found in the possession of Sheirman. His mistress who had been terrified into silence, told the officers of his connection with the stealing and he was arrested iu Wabash County. Sheirman threatens to implicate others of the gang, and it is possible that an extensive combination of two or three in each county will be brought into the toils. Over fifty horses are said to have been stolen by the gang. —Patents have been granted to Indianians as follows; Albert Abraham, Evansville, burglar alarm; Charles Anderson, assignor, to South Bend, ironworks, South Bend, reversible moldboard plow; Wallace H. Dodge, Mishawaka, pulley; Henry B. Doolittle, Doolittle Mills, stump-puller; J©l*i Goedel, Cambridge City, saw; Charles D. Jennack, Indianapolis, dynamo electric machine; George AV. Keller, Goshen, car-pet-sweeper; Thos. A. Kennedy, Monticello, assignor of one-half to J. E. West, Fairland, mail-pouch fastener; Oscar Kitchett, Valparaiso, assignor of onehalf to W. H. Curtis, Chicago, shipping car; Joseph S. Locke, Spartanburg, assignor to A- P. Glunt, Union Citv, wire twister; David Meyers, North Manchester, automatic boiler-cleaner; Henry W. Taylor and C. W. Mellman, Sullivan, relief type; David D. Weisell, Fort Wayne, foot power. — Warren Rowley, of Goshen, who was injured in an accident on the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan, in 1889, has brought suit against the railroad company to recover $5,000 damages. —Albert Burnett, a colored boy, 18 years old, was run over by a switch engine, in the Pittsburgh yard, at Fort Wayne, and both his legs were taken off. He died after being taken to the hospital. Burnett had been in the habit of jumping on switch engines to take a ride, and fell under the wheels while engaged in that dangerous pastime.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSON CONSIDERED. Reflections of an Elevating Character — D holesoine Food f<» r Thought — Studying the Scriptural Lessons Intelligently and Profitably. The lesson lor Sunday, April 13. may b« lound m Luke 7:11-18. 7 intuopuctop.y. this incident, as related, is peculiar t< nuKe. ami we have here illustrated for ut ‘. a V? rtan ! P ur l>ose. served lor us bv tin oui-lold cord oi the gospel narrative. Whai omits another tells, occasionatly all uniting in reporting from dis. mi-mt standpoints the same cireumstanct ' d"’ 0 ?' 1 ™?- 11 is interesting also to not< natu al it is that this miracle shouk n a narraier in the beloved physician Lieh man snoke freely of the thinae which mn-rcs-ed him most; all together the) the things the Spirit would have imWH.4T THE LESSON SAYS. Touched. This is the word used of corm promi.-mg contact (apto) in Col. 2- 21- ’ co 7; i; x 5 . lb> , rbo bier _ Or ’ uru They that bar « b , -rl hlm 18 not in the Greek. Literally. 1 hose bearing, or the pall-bearers. toed stilt One word; stood, i. e. came to a stand.- Young mail. The suddenness of tn is direct address to tip dead, most startling in the narrative, as given. 1 say unto thee. In the (ireef the thee comes lirst. emphatic Arise. Seem what follows, the effect of taut one word of Chi Ist. And ne tnat was dead sat up. The Greek is even mo e expressive: And sat up the dead. I’he latter word is the term for dead body or eoipse (nekios) Began to speak or to talk (laleo). W^at were his first winds'? A mere writer of legends would nave told us Delivered. The word is gave. A strikingly suggestive one here. There came a fear on all. Literally, a t’eai seized all Glorified God. Praised God. It is Irom this word (doxazo) that our fadoxology comes. A great prophet These were the signs which marked the career of the great prophets Elijah and Elisha. 1 Kings 17: z 2; 2 Kings4:3s. N isited his people. In visible and tangible power. See Luke I:Gci. 'dhe verb means, literally, to look upon, or, more idiomatically. look in upon. This rutnor. Or report. 'The Greek word is (logos). This was the first miracle ot the kind. i. e., the dead, raised to life, in Christ’s career on earth Throughout all Judea. Where perhaps it produced the greatest sensation All the region. It spread also through other parts. And the disciples of John. Here is a case of bad paragraphing; this verse more properly beginning the next circumstance narrated —Showed him. Told him. All these things. Not this one incident, merelv, but as suggested in v. 22 below, all the wonder-works recently performed. WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. Behold, there was a dead man carried out. An interrupted funeral. As some one has suggested, Christ while on earth broke up every funeral he met. Going into that city of Naiu. over eighteen hundred years ago. he stood right, across the path of bro-ken-hearted grief and changed mourning into joy, giving the garments of praise lor the spirit ot heaviness. Christ does not give us back the dead bodies of our dear ones to-day, but he stays us on the way to the tomb to teach us the same sweet lesson which ne taught then, although not now with the physical demonstration. He whispers to us of larger life beyond, he brings for us lite and immortality to light; and as we listen, literally, death is swallowe iup of life. O. bereaved one, why did you not see Jesus at the gate? Lo, he is there now. on the way to the graves of our deal. The Lord saw her. It is need that catches the savior’s eye. The procession may have been a very fine one, the decorations and uruishings very tasteftil in the eyes ot tne multitude who journeyed with him. One thing shone out for him with the distinctness of a gem or a star in the midst. It was the woman’s grief. Be sure, poor sorrowing one. th» eye of the Master will iv t, has not passed by you. There are in the company, it may be in the congregation, in the corner ot some class in the Sunday- • school room, his compassionate eye finds , you. And if you would only look up. look up in faith, you would see him standing right over against yon and saying with lov- ■ ing accent. "What is it, child? What wouldsf | thou of me?" Will you answer? Weep not. Tears seemed to deeply touch l our Lord. His sensitive heart here seems to give a great throb of pain at sight of the woman's distress and he appears instinctively. almost involuntary, to exclaim, "De > not we-p!"—for such is the force of the original. The tears ot God’s children are not unnoted. If the heart ot an earthly parent is moved by the tear-stained face ol his offspring what must be the tender and , compassionate heart of him whose name is 1 ove? Our tears are in his bottle; he pities us with a sympathy that is ineffably deef , and strong. That sympathy, rightly apprehended. should assuage our own grief aud lift us above repining, X cannot always trace the way Where thou, Almighty One, dost move, But 1 can always, always say That God is love. He touched the bier. That touch was slight, but it stayed four pair of feet. II was the touch of omnipotence,: there was unfathomed promise in it. The bearers looked up, saw a rabbi coining. “See, he is not withdrawing like the rest of his class from tear of corruption or ceremonial unoleanness out of the wav. Why there, he ; has touched the bier—set it down!" Christ’s , religion, mark you. is the only religion that touches the bier. Other masters star back in alarm or with hiding of face, or fall in behind with the “nirvana” of virtual despair upon their lips. Christ's mission • is directly to the sick, the down-fallen-yea. to the dead. He but touched the tomb itself in Joseph’s garden and it became a portal of p.i’ adise. Young man, I say unto thee. And will he , speak thus to the dead? Our Ordinary English translation falls far shoit of the ' graphic power of the Greek in the narrative. Up to this point it is a thing, lifeless, insensate, that is borne upon the bier. At the opening of the lesson it is not so much "a dead man” as a dead body that is being carried out. At verse 14 it is not they that bare him that stood still but simply the bearers. The man was nothing, dead, gone. And in verse 15 it is not "he that was dead" that sat up, but. point blank, the corpse. 0 marvelous transformation! Christ speaks and there is a response from beneath the shroud of death. What has been treated befor ■ as a dead thing lie looks upon as a living soul. He stops and speaks to it. Speak to us and ours. O Lord, and the dead shall live! And he delivered him to his mother. Twice givqn. Once at his birth now here again from life out of death. O the joy of the hour! Thore is a transport like unto it. the unspeakable joy that fills the parental heart when the child of our tenderest care received with gladness as from the Lord is pressed again into the arms of our love as born again from death into lite. Have you known that delight, parent? Have you helped toward that joy, son or dau rhter? If to be born but once is to die twice and to be born twice is to die but once, and that to enter into a larger life, why not answer the voice that speaks? Next Lesson: “Forgiveness and Love.” Luke 7: 86-50. Aids to Goodness. New Orleans Picayune: The man who gets up and talks like a book is too easily read. Reading Telegram: If you want to live to a good old age be good while you are young. NVashington Post: There are some men to whom a loss of their reputation would mean mighty good luck. Atchison Globe: A man is like a ' chicken; he will leave a plate of meat to run after another chicken with a bone in Its mouth.