St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 15, Number 44, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 April 1890 — Page 3

e e eA e o B e "DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 4 ,USEHOLD AND AGRICULTURAL Hate TOPICS DISCUSSEL, ; = gndget of Useful Information Relating ; Qto the Farm, Orchard, Stable, ®arlor, and B Miebes e THE FARMYy e A Less Areas © 1y order to realize a profiv when prices o e low the cost must be reduced. In cases this can be done by reducing fl;}he area. Plant a legs_ac.reage, but re- £ geive & larger yield. This is one very imfi‘"‘portunt item 1n reducing the cost with ;‘;“'»*'iq“ite a number of crops. In attempting . o farm o work too large an area the wy work of preparing the land, planting, ! geeding and cultivating the Crop is not ~ gopeinn th'orough manner or in good | _geason. and 1o consequence the yield is ~ light and the profit small. As a general £ qulea light yield indicates a higher cost | gban o good crop. It is possible, of . gourse, to 8O to the other extreme and | jperease the cost to such an extent ~ that the profit is reduced. But in the | majority of cases there is less risk of ‘:—,givjng too m_uch work than not enouvh. . ®with oultivated crops, especially, a . Jjittle more work inthoroughly preparing the soil before planting the seed, and a ~ more thorough cultivation afterwards ~ gill pay well. Qften two more cultiva- _ -tiops wouald have flddgd materially to | ~ the growth and yield if given in good . geason, and it would have added but a . gmall amount to the cost. In cuitivat- ~ jng more land than can be managed well, | _ there is often less opportunity for doing | ~ thorough work than when everything is I ~ erowding, and it is often the case thatl ~ ten acres given good treatment from the ~ gtart will yield a larger profit than sis. ? teen poorly treated. It is easy to at- ~ genmipt too much, and any one who has ;; peen accustomed to skimming over will ~ be hard to convince that more profit can ‘ e derived from a less acreage, ~ In addition to the lessened profit in i attemptingto cultivate too much ground ~ jg the wearing out of the fertility. ~ Better seed to grass and let grow up in ~ weeds and plow under a portion of the ~ farm than to attempt to farm were thor- ~ .ough work cannot be done. The avail- | ~ able plant food in the soil, at least, will ’ ~ pot be wasted, but if a green crop of any | - kind can be plowed under it will add to ~ sthe fertility and aid to secure larger - yields next year. 1 : Farm Gleanings. }‘ : PLENTY of straw should be used inl . .stables to absorb the liquid manure, - -which is the most valuable. - MAPLE syrup is more profitable than - mapel sugar, commanding a higher relastive price, and being produced by less | labor. | - ProrEssOß HENRY concludes that . ithere is a saving of 40 per cent. in cut- ! - ing up coarse, large corn stalks for - cattle. ! A MACHINE for nerating milk has been l ‘tested and Improved by New York dairy.men. Cheese made from aerated milkl is said to be of extra guality. THE Chinese are the greatest fowl ‘ raisers in the world. 1n fact nearly all | Asiatic peoples give much attention ito poultry, and the finest breeds of America and Europe originated in the ‘Orient. THE total corn crop of this country in ‘1859 is estimated to be 2,200,000,000 bushels—over 180 bushels for every family of five persons in the United States. No wonder there is a surplus, | and prices are low at points distant from markets. I AN experienced sheep raiser says one | ‘bushel of corn will produce a pound of | ‘wool. That is better than selling corn for less than 20 cents. The same man, ;says one acre of corn, yielding 40 . bushels, cut and feed to a flock of sheep l is worth S2O. If thatestimate is correct, i :the man who raiscs eorn to ship abroad | at the average price of recent years is very unwise. , WE have received a sample of sugari .made from beets at the Medicine Lodge Sugar Works, forworded by Secretur,\" " Hinman. He says: “We planted 4.4 ' _acres of beets and it produced 60.80 tous, from which we manufactured a little ' -over 10,000 pounds of sugar, like sample : this day mailed. In regard to beet cult- ! are we feel some like exclaiming ‘Eu- | reka,” and feel perfectly confident thut’ it, with sorghum sugar, will make Southern Kansas in the near future a i ‘very great sugar producing countryv.”’—Kansas Farmer. . THE APiARY, Stavting an Apiary. ' . That veteran apiarist, A B. Mason, | gives in the National Stockman the tol- | ‘lowing swggestions to those who are not | keeping bees that are very fond of | honey, and would like to keep a few | -colonies so as to have what honey might | "be wanted for use in the family: It will | be the part of wisdom to sturt right. To -do this it will be a good plan to visit | ;some intelligent and successful apairist | and learn all he is willing to tell you. | Bee-keepers, as arule,are willing to aid | those who are desirous of learning. It is a fascinating pursuit, and if you are ' -one of those who want to know the “why | and the wherefore” of everything, if you ’ are not careful you will become so | enamored of it as to make a sort of | “hobby” of the business, and neglect | other things for the purpose of caring | for the bees, and so, financially, be a| loser by it; so if possible avoid making ! -a hobby of it. A farmer who makes his | land to “flow with milk and honey” ; must certainly be prosperous, for the ‘stock will consume the grasses and | grain, and the bees will gather the nec- l tar from the lowers and store it away | for fature use on his table. ( About the first thing to be decided | upon will be what kind of a hive to use. | Put it down as an axiom that it is not necessary or advisable to invest in any ! patent hive or any other patent things [ ‘to be used in the apiary. The most de- | -sirable hives are not patented. At any ! rate use a movable frame hive if you f wish to Le able at all times to examine | ‘the condition of the inside of the hive. | I believe the bees will winter on the | summer stands quite as well as a rule in ! & box hive or a log “gum” as in a frame ! hive, and it properly handled, perhaps | yield as much surplus honey; but it will | wot be as conveniently done. Whatever | style is used, by all means have but one | kind. ] From one to three or four colonies are better to begin with than a larger number, and these should be procured l as near home as possible, so that you may know just what you are getting. ( And if possible deal with a responsible ' andl reliable party, and there are plenty | of sucii. g f In purchasing bees it is well to take | into account the most desivable qlle\ll— ! ties of the different races, For quiet- | ness of dispesition and active, wide-a- ; wake business qualities, the Italians are | not excelled. It is eclaimad that the Carnolians are equally as quiet in dis- }

| ponition an the Ttaltann and boacdss oo &’Efi?&“{mm the | JIBCKS only an experienced bee-keeper is nble to tell tho %m@%&?‘l&“%fii few such can do it. As the bee-keeper's golden rule is “keep all colonies strong,” of course it is not economy to purchase any but strong colonies. As I have said before, a locality that will not furnish a fair amount of surplus heney for a sow colonies, must be & very }l)oor one indeed. A locality Plentifully supplied with clover and Eausm)od (Linden) is a paradise for a | bee-keeper and his bees, THE POULTRY YARD. o l?lack Minorcas, : Ang breed is an old and favorite variety in England, and was introduced Into this country about three years ago. They are a Spanish breed having large, bright searlet single combs, long pendulous wattles, red face, white ear lobes, lustrous black plumage, a majestic carriage, close compact body low on the legs and of a stout square build. They are quite a large breed, cocks woighing seven to eight vounds, leas five to six pounds. 1t is claimed by both American and English breeders that no fowl will surpass them in egg production, } both as to quantity and size of the eggs. They lay from 180 to 225 eggs per an- ‘ num; which are white, and those from ' adult fowls generally weigh two pounds !to the dozen. This breed stands con- | finement well, but will muke good for- ) agers when given arange. The Minorca | 18 a hardy breed, easily raised, and quiet lin disposition. Being a non-setter, the l hens seldom become broody. The { pulletsbegin to lay at an early age, from ’ four to four and a half months, when hatched quite early in the spring. ' Their table qualities are fair, but not a8 good as those of the Asiatic breeds. | Black Minoreas are highly thought of l wherever known, and are worthy a trial by poultry keepers. i Poultry Notes. THE Java is a good egg prc .9 ag well as a very handsome fowi The black and also mottled varieties are favorites with many. As a farm fowl they are considered good. It is wisdom to encourage rapid | growth among young chicks. It means ieconomy in feed and profit before hot weather comes. This 18 the way to come !out ahead. If you look to this it will repay vou. Winp Biuu, Colorado, writes: “Would like to ask if any of your readers can tell me what will kill mites on chickens. They are not lice but much smaller—small and red color; hens will often die while sitting on the nest.” Here is a remedy given by C. W, Woodruft, Colorado. Every morning as soon as the fowls were off the roosts, I would take i kerosene and pour it on the roosts, and set it on fire. As soon as the ooil was done burning I would extinguish the flame. Then I would put coal tar on all knots and roosting places for the lice. I sprinkled the fowly with sulphur, and l burned it in the roosts. l THE DAIRY., Temperature of Cream. I One of the most, if not the most, im- ! portant conditions of churning is the temperature of the cream, for on that, at least that is my experience. says W. H. O. in National Stockman and Farmer depends in a great measure the quality of the butter. As a rule the warmer the cream the sooner the butter comes and , the poorer the quality of the butter; and 1 [ if the cream is too cold the butter will 1 take an extra long time to come and | will again be poor in quality. Now the | ‘ happy medium cannot be given defi- ‘ { nitely, but must be determined by ex- | , perience. For thick sour cream churned | i & warm room, or in summer, about 60 | , degrees to 62 degrees Fahr. and from | there to 66 degrees in winter, or possi- ‘ | bly a little higher, according to the de- | i gree to which the cream is ripened or ' soured, bearing in mind the temperature | of the room in which the churning is ’ done, is about right. | I Just why a high temperature in churn- | ing will injure the quality of the butter , wedo not know, but nevertheless it does, f and just here we find one cause of the | so-much-complained-of white speeks in | ‘ butter, namely, churning thick, sour, | unstirred cream at a high temperature. | | Os course, the temperature must be as- | | certained by means of a thermometer. ’ A dairy thermometor costing fifty cents ! will pay tor itself about as quickly as | i any implement that can be bought. A neighbor of ours not long ago had his hired man churninyg for a half day, for which time he paid him sixty-two and a half cents, to say nothing of the injured quality of the butter, and all this be- ; | cause his cieam was not the right tem- | | perature. | % Dairy Notes. I | SYSTEM is the soul of success in the | i dairy. | ' WHITEWASH in the cow stable makes | ' things look cheerful and tends toclean- | liness. ! It is of nomore use to feed cows on ' poor feed than it is to put poor wheat | into a good mill; the machinery in both | '! cases will turn out poorand unprofitable | product. | i WHEN you have milked two teats un- | til it is necessary to strip them don't do | | it until you have milked the other two, | ' then strip the first pair milked and fie | ' nally the last pair, But when you hav- | ! done be done, and go and sit down be- | side the next cow. i | M. M. ROGERs says: “I am always in- | terrested in anything pertaining to but- | !ter, especially that that will make it ' | better. Have tried the "salting in the | grain” method. Wken dry salted can- | ' not get the salt in evenly with out work- | ing, when saturated brine is used can- i not taste the salt after it is drained. | [ Wherein do I fail? Can you give the i precise methods of the experts?” We, can tell you how it is dene by one expert | ' whose butter is sold on yearly contract | at big prices to private families. When : l the butter is in the granular state | | —as near like fish eggs in looks as any- | ' thing we can think of—it is taken from | ' the churn and laid in layers upon the | butter table or worker. We say in lay- | E ers for a portion is spread out thinthen | ' salt sprinkled evenly upon this, then ' more butter granules, then salt and soi on until all the butter is out of thechurn. | } This mass is set away until the salt I‘s i dissolved, it isthen worked over, enougn ! to only take the water out and packed at | once in boxes or paiis. The amount of | galt used is governed by the taste of the | customers. - : ‘ & THE HOUSEHOLD, ‘ ‘ Uncomfortable Days. : o . There are so many things occurring in ! the household of a family of any size to rufle the feelings of the housewife, that it is not a very easy n'mtt'c‘r for her ’to be agreeable at all times. _l hey are | usually little things, too trival to be | hardly bpoticed by most people, nor | would they be by the housewife at ()therl ' times, but, when she is in a hurry or i tired and exhausted, it lis the little !

i wp&gm M; | feoling with everybody und overything | around her. She fecls that day is going 1 to be a hard one and it always is. | Everything goes wrong. Everything seems determined to annoy her. Her head aches; the baby is crosser than usual; everything she tries to cook » bnrx}s; the fire is either too hot or it " won't burn at all. In fact, the whole | house has an air of topsy-turviness and | the hOuseke%per’a nerves are in the same state. When speaking to the children qhe does 80 in a quick, nervous, lmpatient way, and the little ones know lustantly mother is not well, and they 1 try and be as still as they can coming in | and out, but let them be as careful as they will, there is always some thought- | less thing they will do, that at another time she would no" notice, but on a day such as this calls from her a sharp reproof. At the end of the day she is sick i and discouraged. 1t is at the close of & day such as this you will hear her say: Oh, dear; T am heartily discouraged, T have worked all day long and it doesn’t { seem as though I have done anything. |'m tired to death of it all. I wish I ’ could go away where I would never see a bit of housework again.” It wouldn’t be well for any one to suggest her livting at the I'iji Islands, nor would it i be 1'9:111)_7 fni’r, for if left alone, after a lgo_od vight’s rest, she will wake up bright and be her old self again. In the lives of all housekeepers occur such days, though less frequently in some than in others. It is too bad that there should ever be days such as this, where the comfort and peace of mind of E)oth mother and family are spoiled. I The mother really feels worse over the | mistakes and impatient words uttered than any of the family, and her consclence 18 sore on their account, yet she excuses herself by saying: “I couldn't t help it my nerves were all out of order.” There must have been some cause for the nerves being out of order, and this is usually found ip the day preceding. On this day she arose feeling fresh and bright to begin her day's labors. She fe»lt just like working and went about it |\vx'llmgly and cheerfully. When the afternoon came she felt tired enough to ] stop, and that is what she should have done. But no; she kept right on bel cause there was something she wanted l'to finish, and at the end of the day she t i was too tired to eat any supper, and l went to bed exhausted in body and | mind, to arise next morning with nerves [ unstrung, to spend a miserable day heri self and make the rest of the family un- | comfortable. | When a woman feels like working, | why, to be sure, if she is able, that is l what she ought to do, but when she i feels tired enough to sit down, it is | time she changed her dress and toek a | little recreation. To le sure. there are | some things that once begun cannot be | conveniently dropped until finished, and the housewife cannot helpbeing exhavsted when they are done. In a case such as this, and, in fact, any case when she arises with her nerves out of order, and a distaste for the housework, the best remedy is to get through the day's labor as easily as possible. No matter {lf she does neglect something that she i thinks ought to be done. She should i take all the rest she possibly could, for { that will be what she needs most. By doing this she will save herself and ‘ !fumily a great deal of annoyance and { discomfort. { i THE KITCHEN, | | Composition Cake. l ! Oneand three-fourths pounds ot flour, ] one and one-half pounds of sugar, ‘ three-fourths of a pound of butter, one [ pint of milk, five eggs, one nutmeg, two | i pounds of raisins, two pounds of cur- | rants, one teaspoonful of soda. This i will make several loaves. i Head Cheese, i | Take a hog's head, ears and feet, and | ' clean thoroughly; boil them tiil you ean | i pick all the bounes out; chop the meat, | | add a cup of vinegar, a littie salt and | | pepper, and pack in a pan or cheese | { hoop; when cool it is ready for use. It . | 1s very nice served in slices cold for the ! tea-table, or fried for the breakfast. ? § Cold Meat Pudding. ! | Rub half a pound of beef-dripping | { into one and a half pounds of flour, | { with a little salt. Moisten the paste | | with water and roll it out haif an inch | { thick. Mince any kind of cold meat; | | season it and add a few spoonfuls of | I gravy. Spread the minced meat on the , | paste and roll it up. Tie it up in a cloth | | buttered and floured and boil for an hour | | and a half. | 2 Beef for Roasting. , { If vour beet for roasting does not | [ scem as tender as it ought to be, it may | |be improved in this way: Put the meat ; in a tureen, mix salt, pepper, two tablespoonfuls of chopped parsley, four { sliced onions, the juice of half a lemon, | ; two bay-leaves and four tablespoonfuls { of sweet oil; put haif of the mixture | { under the meat and half over it. Cover | ! the tureen and let the meat remain in [ it for two days in winter and eighteen ! hours in summer. | Orange Cake. | Six egus (reserve two whites for the | | icing,) two teacups of sugar, three tea- ! | cups of tlour, one teacup of cream, two | ! teaspoons of bread borders (or half tea- | | spoon of soda and one heaping one of | i cream of tartar.) Scason with a little | !of the orange juice and bake in | i jelly-cake pans. Filling- To two un- | ! beaten whites add the juice of one good- | | sized orange, beat for a few minutes, | {and then gradually add a pound of ! | sugar till it is all beaten up smooth. | | Spread this between the layers and over | : the t\‘p. E i To Preserve Raspbarries Without Boiling. , ! The ‘ruit should be gathered in the f | middle of a very warm day in diy | ! weather. Stripit from the stems imme- l diately; weigh and turn it into a pan; ! { bruise it gently and mix with an equal | | weight of fine, dry, sifted sugar, and | put at once into wide-necked bottles. | Cork these firmly without delay, and { tie bladders over the tops. Keep in a | cool place or it will ferment. The mix- | ; ture should be stirred only enough to i iblumi the sugar with the fruit. The | !bottlesshould be perfectly dry and the ’ { biadders moistened with a little brandy | onthe side next the cork. ' i Minced Ch.cken. l i Take the remains of a coll roast | ! chicken and cut oftf all the white meat, l which mince finely without any skin or ] { bone; put the bone and skininto a stew- | . pan, with one oaion, ablade of mace, a | | pint of water, a handful of sweet herbs | ‘ (tied up.) Let it stew for am hour, then strain and pour oft thq gravy, putl ting in ateaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce. Chop two hard-boiled eggs very fine, =-ix them with the fowl and ‘ gseasoninc, also half a teagpoonful of very finely minced lemon peel and one ! tablespoonful of lemon juice, the tlour | made into a smooth paste with a little ' cold water, and let the whole just boil; | {gerve with small sauares of toasted I i bread.

T iy Y 'LATELY OCCURRED, 4n Interesting Summa¥ of the More Ymportant Doings of Our Neighbors—Wed- . dings und Deaths—Crime, g%ulmltlu and General News Notos. ; O c—— Queer Sort of an Impostor. The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad officials .rve looking for a man giving his name as C. H. Watts, who has been traveling on the engines of the company on the Fort Wayne division for several weeks, representing himself as the new traveling inspector of engines. He was thoroughly posted on the machinery of an engine, and would have them cut loose from the trains and run down the track and watch them closely. He would then test the valves and other parts of the machinery, and did it so well that he was not suspected of being a fraud. The other day he sent a message to Crestline ordering Engineer Horning laid off for not taking proper care of his engine, although Horning is one of the best engineers on the roand. The order was, strange to say, carried out, and it was not until Mr, Horning telegraphed to the superintendent at Fort Wayne, asking the reason, that the fraud was discovered. The fellow borrowed money from different railvroad men. He evidently learned that he was discovered, and he has not been seen since. A reward will Lo offered for his apprehension. Knights Templar, Before adjournment at Indianapolis, the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar elected the following officers: Henry H. Lancaster, of Lafayette, Grand Commander; Irvin B. Webber, of Warsaw, Deputy Grand Commander; Joseph A. Manning, of Michigan City, Grand Generalissimo; James DB. Safford, of Columbus, Grand Captain General; James D. Stanley, Terre Haute, Grand t Prelate; Simeon S. Johnson, Jeffersonville, Grand Senior Warden; Charles W. Slick, of Mishawaka, Grand Junior Warden; Joseph W. Smith, of Indianapolis, Grand Treasurer: William H. Smythe, of Indianapolis, Grand Reporter; “Lon” E. Smedley, of Greencastle, Grand Standard Bearer; W. I'. Darbin, of Anderson, Grand Warden; Roger Parry, of Indianapolis, Grand Captain of the Guards. Minor State News, —Mrs. Mary Helkenrich dropped dead at Vincennes. — Blufiton is working to secure alarge beet-sugar factory. —Thomas Duekworth, residing five miles west of Martinsvilie, was kicked in the side by one of his young horse. A rib was broken and he was bady injured internaliy. ‘ —Clarence Briant, colored, familiarly | known throughout Jeffersonville as i “Six-bits,” fell off the excursion steamer Sunshine, at the the foot of Wall street, l and was drowned. —Robbers broike into the Park House, I at Muncie, and went to the room of the { proprietor’s son, Harry Steele, and stole all the young man's clothing, nearly FIOO worth, and escaped. —Alpha Towmy, the 3-year-old child of | James Tomy, of Richmond, pulled a | tub of hot water over on itself, scalding !it frem its chin to its toes. It lingered [in great agony 11 pext morning, when | it died. l —David Mock, a farmer, living three { miles north of Jeffersonville, has a Jersey sow that a few days ago gave birth |to eighteen pigs. One was accidentally ! killed, but the other seventeen are alive { and doing well. | A jail delivery was effected at Le- { banon by prying the jail door off its j hinges, and five prisoners out of the | six confined therein made their escape. | Charles Miller, who is in jail awaiting | trial for murder, is the only prisoner { who remains. | —Twelve of the leading citizens of | Wayne County have filed a complaint in the Wayne Circuit Court against the Board of County Commissioners to en- | join them from building a new court- | house, which acecording to the plans of Architeet McLanghlin, of Cincinnati, ' will cost when finished, $300,000. —The J, M. & 1. train ran over and | killed an unknown man, supposed to have been a tramp, at Stite's Crossing, i two miles east of New Albany.” At the | place where the accident occurred there | is a double track. The man stepped off | one track just in time to be struck by | the train on the opposite track. His | body was so horribly mangled that rec- | ognition is impossible. | —lt is still feared by the frieadsof Elsn:w White, residing five miles from : Paoli, in Orange County, that the White ; Caps will make another assault on the | old man, and a guard of Grand Army | men, of which he is a member, keeps ! watch over his premises. In the latter | part of February he was brutally treated l by masked men, and is still suffering | from the wounds inflicted. —Mrs. James Hazzard, a well-known lady residing at Scottsburg, was perhaps fatally injured at her home in that city. | In passing an open fire-place, her dress | became ignited, and in attempting to } quench the flames she ran into the open ’ air. In an instant all her clothing was i ablaze, and before assistance could l reach her, her body and haunds were ’ frightfully burned. Her condition is serious. ] —Mrs. Ranze Sylvester and two chil- | dren, Emma and Luther, living on ! mile south of Newberry, were ° | burned while rendering gre: stove. The grease caugh’ while the mother was tn guish it her clothing c: ‘ burned off her, and burned about the '’ childgen, in tryi were also ba’ i and arms I critical iniu

| crashed throng w‘f*‘* | tself in the wall whero Mrs. Langdon | had been sitting just a moment before. | —A bleady battle of vicious stock took place in the western part of Bartholomew County recently. A heifer with a young calf was set upon by hogs and both devoured. A drove of fat cattle in an inclosure near by became infuriated at the odor from the slain cow and calf, broke through the inclosure, charged l on the hogs in their bloody work and gored them so viciously that ten were killed and many others badly hurt. ‘ —The Farmers® Mutual Benefit Association row c¢lanims a membership of 1,050 in Clay County. Ex-Representa-tive I. J. 5. Robinson is President. A ! secretsession Os the eight lodges in Harjmony Township was held at Clay City l recently. Officers were elected and | committees appointed, and it is rul mored that steps were taken to estab- ! lish a trading station. The order seems 1 to be growing throughout the country. :i —David Hosen, an old and resjpecte: | ' farmer of Barr Township, Daviess County, was taken from his house bv a | l masked mob the other night and | whipped to insensibility, over 100 blows .‘being administered. Hosea caused the iarrest of a local politician at Comtnel- ; { burg on a charge of attempting to: buy | votes, and it is believed that the White- , l cap oulrage is the outgrowth of this | | trouble. The man is seriously injured | ! and may not recover. Several arrests - l will e made. l —Henry Herns, living two miles west ’ of Dana, accidentally shot himself, inflicting probably fatal injuries. He was | , | out hunting with some companions, and : l had loaded his gun and rested it on the : | ground, leaning it agaiust his body. It 1 | 18 supposed that in lifting the gun wup | | again it caught in his boot-strap and | | discharged the gun, the charge cutting ' (his ribs apart and exposing his left | lung, then tearing off the left side of l I his face and skull, through which his - | brain protruded. He cannot recover. I —A serioug case of poisoning,causing | loss of life, occurred at Pennville, three - | miles east of Cambridge City. Francis | Oldecker and family of six after eating - pork and beans for supper were taken ‘ I violently ill, and serious doubts as to their recovery were entertained. Mr. " | Oldecker died after two hours of suffer- | ing, but the others were somewhat relieved by vomiting. As to where the l poison came from, and the true character, nothing is definitely known, but ' is supposed to have been in the pork. | —A murderous “tough,” named Grant Cress, called at the office of county phy- * | sician Stunkard, at Terre Haute, de- | manding the release of his father from - | the hospital. When the doctor refused - | to Issue the order, the man attacked the E physician witha knife. He made several | deadly rushes at him. in one of them l 5 cutting the doctor's hand. The doctox ' | bad nothing with which to defend him- » i self, and was alone, but be fought the .umn as best he could till a policeman | arrived and arrested him. Cress was ) E crazy from liguor. ’ | -~ Patents have been granted to Indi- | anians as follows: Ezra Bowman, Rem- : | ington, car-pusher or pinch-bar; Will- | iam G Frost, Lebanon, fence; Frederick | Graft, jr., Fort Wayne, compound for 5 | cleaning jewelry; John Jones, Elkhart, l'ruilwuy crossing; Frank and J. Hein, ‘lJoseph Jasper, flexible cover for cylin- { der or roll-top desk; George W. Marble, % assignor of one-fourth to W. W. Simouns, s I Plyvmouth, metal roller forging machine; | George W. Shyman, Terre Haute, ' ! muftler; William Teamer, Evansville, | koy-biolt and washer for railway joints. | —A horrible accident occurred near ! Macy, a few days ago, in which Mus. | Martin Weaver, a most estimable lady, ) é iost her life. Her clothing caught fire | in the sugar camp, and notwithstanding | the most desperate efforts every shred : i was consumed and her entire body was | terribly burned. In her agony she lay | there two hours before relief came. A | dinner-horn was close by, but so ex- ' hausted had she become that she was | unable to make a sound to attract the attention of her husband a short distanc: ‘ { away. | —Mus. John G. King died at Sweetzer fthc other night Irom injuries suffered l | in a collision between a FPanhandle | freight-car and a street-car in which the | deceased was riding. Mrs. King was » | thrown violently against the side of | the car and rendered unconscious. ' The accident occurred two months | ago, buat the injured woman never | atterward left her bed. Soon after | the accident Mrs. King entered | suit for $5,000 against ‘ue streets | car and railroad companies. These will L | be dismissed and other suits for larger » | amounts will be entered by her adminis- ) | trator. | —At Wabash Marshal Ellis arrested 5 | George DBrown, a well-known colored .' | resident, and janitor of the Presbyter- ; l ian Church, on a ¢harge of administerr | ing medicine to Annie Huddleson, of ! Rich Valley, Wabash County, that } ‘ caused her death. The warrant was 3 1 sworn out by Will Huddleson, brother . [ ofthe girl, who asserts that Brown was ; | a regular visitor at the house, that he ) , conveved the drug from Brown to her, .| and that she informed him she had ;i.s'\\'u.llmved the medicine. When 1 | covered the girl was iyiug ur i and died twent— " "= h¢ 3 | Brown, [th i arrest

S T BT S i@g%» | AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE ' LESSON CONSIDERED, ; Reflections of an Elevating Character— Wholesome Food for Thought — Study=~ ing the Scriptural Lessons Intelligently and Profitably. I'ne lesson for Sundayv, April 2 found in Luke 8: 4-15: ¥BB . INTRODUCTORY. We nave in the piesent lesson our first parable, unless the story of the two debtors ! tue last lesson, or Christ’s use of the miraculous draught of fishes, eurlier still, be themselves tuken us such. Luke abounds in these; and in mentioning this first disHnet parabl:-s:rmon he marks a new and unlarged spuere in our Lord’s preaching. He speaks now 1o the great muititude and hls teachings are in such atorm that all will hear, though all may not heed. Christ becomes the great fisher of men, taking them not now with hook «nd line, as heretolore, but with the net, drawing in great schools avd casting away that which is nog good. The parable takes a great priveiple and lavs alongside of it some simple lumi~ nous datail o life. Those who are carnally minded will ve interested in the object or story, without going fuither; those of spiritual discernment will {o got the inc.dent in the larger approhension of the truth conveyed. How many of ths lagter shall we find in our classes to-day? . WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. Now when. Marking a somewhat distinet transition in the ministry ot our Lord,-— Much people, or a great crowd. The people began to peess about him now in larger masses than ever.——OQut of every ocity. Suggesting another feature of the new proclamation. The fume of Jesus hag passed now beyond mere local bounds, —— By a4 paravle. Same word in tue G.eek: para, beside: ballo, to cast or lay; paraballo, to lay besile, to compare, illustrate. A sower. Properly the sower, i. e., the tvpical seed-sower.——As he sewed; literally. in tho sowing.——Someo felt; the word translated “some” is the simple article, the or this, See Variations. ‘the meaning is there was that which fell.—— Wayside. The trodden path. There ware no iences to bar out pedestrians.——Trodden down. or +im= ply trqdden upon. It is this sams word that is used at Matt. 5: 13, where the salt is “trodden underfoot of men,” and ut Luke 12: 1, where tue multitude “trode one upon another.” ——_Dewvoured it. Lying thus exposed upon the hard surface of the ground. A rock, rather, tne rock. A thin coating of soil over rock.——Sprung up, i. e., germinated (phuo), indicating some alvance apon what has gone before.——Withereth, Lo purch or dry up under the sun's rays. See James 1: 11.— Lacked moisture, literally. through the not having moisture. 't ha under-rock held none of nature's refreshinz in store. So far astheseod was concerned, it was dead earth. : WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. : Ho spake by a parable. H» has always 80 spoken. Naiure is one extended parable. The things of curth are laid alongside of tao things of the kingdom. “The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by t:e things that are made.” Yea, the deepthings o God, “even His eternal power und Godhead; so that they are without excuse.” What we go to tho heathen for, indeed, the occasion for our appeal to all men, is to interpret this universal parable. Read the nineteenth Psaim, the parable Psalm, and ses how God's attributes are | made the half-hid theme of the heavens and firmament. “Their lme is gone out through all the earth,” A sower went out to sow his seed. The | simple annals of tue gospel years, eighteen centuries of Christian lListory epitomized. Os every laborer for the Master in everwy | age this may be said. The siory of vour lite and mine, Christian worker, and our suflicient epitaph at tha close of life's labors. Wesow by all waters and cast the seed | forth on God's winds, trusting him for its safe lodgment as well as for its suce fruitfulness. And this our eonstant inspiration | and eucouragement, that the dear Lord himsolt could do no more., He went forth as the Great hower, letting his tiuth fall on ull side=. Here it was rejected, there received, men's hearts allowing or disallowirig. Yet God gave ingrease. He gives it still. Sprang up with it and ghoked it. Com- | panionship ot evil. So itis with us. Our own familiar friend is risen up against us. Look at the thistle and the wheat blade as | they litt their heads at the first just above the ground, "They look not much apart_in kind, growing together perhaps quite cosily, But presentiy they have shown their unlikeness—the hostility of the one to the other—and the stronger destroys the weakor. (hoked by cur bad friendships, ruined by evilassociations, the very thiags we bave cherished grown up to cause our overthrow, So tha world serves us. Suech the deceitfulness of riches. Satan does not now make a sudden onset to destroy us, for then hs would find us prepared to meet him. He comes in guise of light, in social amenities and allurements. He makes himself one with us ere he puts forth his hand to choke and kill, He that hath ears to hear let him hear, 1t is God’s appeal to all men. Notto some select band, an esoteric guild, favored above their tellows in that to them is given a faculty and power tar removed from others. It is “whosoever will, let _h_lm. take.” The “will,” the “will” is the decisive factor. Look into the original of this passage and we get new light on its significaunce. Itis not ears in order that he may hear, but simply ears to hear, like our a mind to do. If any man has an ear for Christ’s message, he may bave the message. It he is disposed to give it no hee'd. that he may also do. 'the option is man’s. The truth itselt has no sovereign or overbearing power. It comes wooing 'and winning, not foreing. Sclemn truth, it sounds | through every gospel appeal; it speaks out. | between the lines of every Scripture. man’s | grave responsibility of choice: “He that i hath ears to hear, let him hear.” . No root. Here is the secret of many a | fruitless life—no root. Greater folly there never was, to think to find fruit above with- | out root below. We came, in our closer | reading, upon a new and stirring truth of | God’s word the other day. Here itis at | Col. 2; 7: “Rooted and buut up in him;" i. ] s built down and built up. The up-buiid-ing is in accordance with the _dmvn-bmlz.!- | ing; the super-structure matching the foun- | | dation work. Hence the apostles say here, “As ve have therefoie received Christ | Jesus, so walk ye in him.” and the prosressive walking will be aceording to the faithful receiving. Have voa the root of | the matter within yourselves? . Keep it and bring forth fruit with patience. | Take hold of one of the little wheat-blades out in the field and pull at it; you will have | practical parable of this truth under eye | and hand. "he little bit of green life will | resist your offort with allthe strength of its | tiny fiber. Earth and seed have knit them | selves together and hold on to each ot | with what we call a death-erip. That} | ing, keeping power is the measure power that will presently bring fort' ' | the patience with which leat and | Bist the pelting rain and th'o drir part and parcel of that vigor that., ere long, speaks fort J fep it ohova, Mav God gi- ' learning ¢ nce fron b M: wi