St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 15, Number 45, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 May 1890 — Page 3

RURAL TOPICS. INFORMATION FOR THE HUSBANDMAN AND HOUSEWIFE. Some Practical Suggestions for tlie Farmer, Stock-Breeder, Poulterer, Nurseryman, and Housekeeper. THE FARM. To Get Kid of Kats. Sprinkle copperas freely on cellar jfloors and wash the walls with carbolic acid. This will cause rats to leave the premises, and is better around the house than poisoning them, which cannot be done without danger of killins something else, nor without offence from their dead bodies after the rats crawl into their holes and die. Sinking Large Stones. The cheapest and most effectual way to rid the land of large stones is to dig a hole beside them, roll them in and fill up, adding enough additional earth from the roadside to make the surface level, it seems queer that after rolling a large stone in a newly dug hole that more dirt will be needed to fill it up, but in most soils experience shows this to be the fact. Digging pulverizes the soil, enabling it to pack more closely than before. Fence-Row Trees. It is becoming every year more and more the practice to plant fruit trees in the corners of the fence rows, not along separating fields, but along the roadsides, and as they become of sufficient size ’to train barbed wire to them, making a fence by which the old and unsightly worm fence is dispensed with, the landscape beautified and the value of the farm much enhanced. Particularly are nut-bearing trees esteemed for this puripose, because making in course of time valuable timber where the natural growth of that article has been consumed. — Exchange. Boarding City Horses. Farmers who live reasonably near -cities can often do a paying business in taking for board the horses of their city friends. The price charged for this ^service in city livery and boardingstables is always high, much above the cost of material, as the liveryman does not wish to encourage encroachments on his own line of business. If the horse is not to be used except for exercise, a small amount of grain daily will keep him in good condition. In all •cases the farmer should be exempt from losses by accidents, only obligating himself to take reasonable care to pre- I vent them. A cheaper way of keeping horses is to let them run loose in a yard, with access at straw during the day, and a little hay and grain at night. This is the regimen given to canal horses and mules in New York State, and in many cases the grain is omitted until just before time to put the team at work again, when the canal opens in spring. Neighborhood Specialties. So far from farmers being jealous of each other, and trying to keep their neighbors from imitating and sharing their successes, they ought rather to rejoice in and encourage this. Often the combination of a number of farmers in one specialty helps to create a market for it, and make it a success, where, if they’ grew it alone, it would prove a failure. It is, therefore, the interest of farmers to make public their successes, so that those in their neighborhood may • share in them. AH crops have their especial adaptations to certain locations, and when these are discovered it is everybody’s interest that the knowledge be made as public as possible. There need be nothing selfish in the farmer’s conduct of his business, as the demand for his products is always larger than he can supply, and generally increases in proportion with the amount produced. Besides, as this business of growing and marketing special crops increases, more is learned about them, and they can be produced and sold more cheaply- In this way, each locality is fible to retain a profitable monopoly of its speciality. A Pound of Pork. Prof. Hunt, of the Illinois College Farm, after a series of experiments, has the following to say regarding the amount of food required for a pound of pork: 1. It required 13.80 pounds of skim milk to produce 1 pound of pork when fed with cornmeal, ratio 1.117 to fattening hogs. 2. Skim milk could not be economically fed to fattening hogs unless it was a product which could not be otherwise utilized. 3. It required on an average4A pounds of shelled corn to produce 1 pound of pork during an average period of four weeks, or 1 bushel produced 131 pounds. 4. It required 41 pounds of cornmeal i to produce 1 pound of pork, or 1 bushel j of corn made into meal and fed will I produce 12| pounds of pork. 5. When dry, shelled corn is more economical than cornmeal to feed fat■tening bogs. 6. It required 7A pounds, or J bushel, of ground oats to produce 1 pound of pork when fed with equal parts by weight of cornmeal. 7. One bushel of cornmeal is worth nearly three bushels of oats as food for fattening hogs. 8. Corn-fed pigs gained 41 pounds per week and ate about 21 pounds of corn per 10(1 pounds of live weight. 9. Pork was produced during the cold weather, with corn at 28 cents per bushel, for less than 3 cents per pound. 10. Indian corn is the most economical pork-producing material during the winter months in regions where extensively grown. THE STOCK RANCH. Ven I. Every one knows that tuer color of veal lias much to do with getting good prices for it. The National Stockman says the color of the meat may be ascertained during the life of the calf by looking at the color of the blood vessels of the mucous membrane of the eyes. If of a delicate, light pink, the veal will be clear and white; but if of a dark > red color, the meat will be of a reddish- i yellow color. The meat of calves slaughtered too young will be dark red, and feel slimy when handled. The meat of strangled calve is of a bluishred color. sulphur Dip and Angora Goats. AVe always welcome the testimony of those who have had experience in any line of farm work or who have found out any new thing that is helpful, as we consider such information the most valuable; therefore it is with pleasure We publish the following from the pen of Mr. AV. 11. Steele, Texas: In answer to the inquiry of James Hare, Texas, about sheep dip, I will say ‘that after un eq erieuce of sixteen years

with many kinds of dips, 1 and none equal to the lime and sulphur dip. It is cheaper than any, as effective in cur- . ing scab as any, and does no harm whatever to the fleece, if used shortly after shearing. Sheep with much " wool should not be dipped in it, as the lime . cuts the grease in the wool and leaves , th ® Bt «Plo dry and brittle for a time, and will lighten the weight of fleece at shearing. The least amount of lime that will dissolve the sulphur, is the proper proportion. AVe use here twenty pounds of lime to eighty pounds of sulphur, . cooked in 100 gallons of water, for sev- . , eral hours until the sulphur is disi solved. The liquid is then a black , green color. One gallon of this mix- , ture is diluted with five gallons of water and used either hot or cold. I prefer it hot. Soak the sheep two minutes in vat, and dip again in ten days, and a complete cure should be the result. Aly experience with Angora goats is, they are tender and delicate, will not stand the storms of winter like sheep. The fleece is very light, one pound bei mg a fair average of any flock that I hayA seen, and in Texas they shed their hair so early in the spring, that shearing must be carried on at a dangerous time on account of cold rains, therefore a barn must be provided for them. AVhen poor, they get afflicted with lice, and need to be dipped. They rarely have more than one kid, and they do not herd well with sheep, as their tastes differ. As an old Scotch shepherd said of the Angoras, “they’re bu-ti-full things! Peety ther’s nae money in ’em.” THE DAIRY. Dairy Temperament in Cows. At the New York Dairyman’s Convention Gov. Hoard, of Wisconsin, gave an address on the "Dairy Temperament in Cows, from which wo make the following excerpt^ Dairying, more than any other pursuit on the farm, calls for discretion, judgment and intelligence because it deals with the maternal function. Don’t lay all your troubles on the West. The West is in the boat as well ns you. My son and I have two creameries. They are patronized by over 100 farmers. ’ One receives S7O a year per cow for bis cream and his sweet skim-milk is worth sls more, others get only S4O per cow. The difference between the SBS man and the S4O man is not hardness of hand, but hardness of head—brain. The farmer is not a producer, but he is a manufacturer. Price we cannot control, but the ; cost is in our hands. AVe are land-poor and cow-poor. We are caningtwoacres to do the work of one. AVe keep two cows to do the work of one. I* do not ; believe the cow is to be studied in any other line than that of physiology. I find that all breeds of beef cattle give evidence of a lymphatic temperament. I find that a dairy cow recedes from this lymphatic temperament and takes on the characteristics of the nervous temperament. She has a different conformation of bone, of muscle, and of motion. I mean by the dairy temperament I those specific characteristics which indicate the nervous temperament. The Arab horse and the race horse have the nervous temperament. Dairymen do not understand the laws of heredity. You could not convince the jockey that it would enhance the value of his trotter to cross her with a draft horse. There is not a boy in the country who would hunt birds with a fox hound or foxes with a setter, yet a father will work for years to get butter from a beef cow. The dairy function is • the function of maternity which is j strictly a nervous characteristic. The udder is covered with a set of nerves called the sympathetic plexus which centers in the brain. A cow accustomed to kind care dropped 15 per cent in butter fat as the result of a slight roughness from the milker. The dairy cow should have a clean, wide, large muzzle, a large, full eye, a large brain. I want to see the processes of the spine high and prominent. The shoulder should be sharp. The ribs should not spring like a barrel. The pelvic arch should be high. A relaxed condition of the muscular system. I don't want a cow to be hardy, but I want her to have a constitution to transfer in feed into milk. Don’t be worried about exercises when a cow is turning out . pound or two of butter per day. Isa.:’ an English surgeon selecting men for the army by their umbilical development, because he wanted men who would be able to stand hardships. Constitution is inherited and is shown by the umbilical development. THE APIARY. Bees Under the Bed. J. E. AA r alker, writing from Shaown, China, to Gleanings in Bee Culture, says: I have something a little odd to tell; but in order to tell it well, I must first tell a few other things. One very common way which the people in this particular corner of the world have of • building their one-story or story-and- । a-half houses, is as follows: A foundation of cobble stones having been laid where the side walls are to stand, and perhaps also where the back of the house is to be, two broad planks are fastened on their edges between upright poles set in the ground, on each side of the foundation, and damp earth is put between them and pounded down hard. The planks are then raised one course higher, fixed firmly in place, and more earth put in and tramped down, and so on till a height of ten feet is attained. Then a wood frame is put up inside these walls. If the house is designed for a shop or store, the whole front consists of movable boards sliding in grooved pieces at top and bottom. This is the general plan on which many a Chinese inn is built. To economize space, the tavern keeper generally has a box bed for his own use. This consists of two boxes, each one about three Uy three and one-half feet in length and breadth and two and one-half feet or more high. These two boxes set side by side, make as good a bedstead as most Chinamen have. I was resting in front of a tavern one day last February, when I observed a string of bees pouring in and out through a crack between the corner post and the earth wall on my right. Through the obligingness of my landlady I was enabled to investigate the matter. There in the corner f stood one of these box beds. Bats had «nawed a hole in the lower corner of the box at the bottom, close to the crack, anil through this crack and rat-hole the bees had come in and taken possession i !of the box. The landlady told me that they came of themselves in the previous May, and that she cut out their stores last fall. They had nearly a bushel ot new white comb partly filled with clear honev. Rape, which is much cultivated here as a winter-spring crop for making rape-seed oil, was just coming into bloom, and the bees were doubtless at work on this. In fact, ten days of mild weather had started a number of wild plants to blooming, and the bees were booming. Chinese bees always seem very docile. Rape honey is said not to

• be equal in flavor to tea honey. Tea- • : plant blooms in December. THE HOUSEHOLD. [ Evoke the Be<t Talent in a Child. . Nearly every child is endowed by nature with a faculty or aptitude for some special work, varying as the temperaments and individualities differ in each member of the family. It is here where । the fine discernment and discriminating judgment of the parents should be exercised to evoke the best talent, to encourage and foster its manifestation by every means Calculated to bring it to perfection. Is it musical ability? Then । see to it that patient drudgery of daily j practice is honestly performed, not . alone by oral command, but by personal I supervision, for it is natural lor chil- । dren to shirk labor. The rule applies to boy or girl indifferently. AVhatever the bent-—even if opposed to your own i preferences—if decided talent or skill j is evinced, cultivate it in a practical I manner for contingent practical necessities. Teach your children something, and teach it well and to the utmost limit of his or her capacity.— Rural Californian. What a Hostess Wants. A hostess who wants to make her dinners popular may have them as simple as she likes, but there are some laws she must observe as strictly and with as much fear as were those ot the Medes and Persians. Sho must not have tepid oysters; neither must ice bo served about them. She must not have the napery starched i until the man with a young mustache feels that every time he puts his napkins to his lips, he is risking the destruction of the pride of his life. She must not bake what ought to be roasted, not serve a fillet until nobody knows whether it is a rubber shoe or a piece of oilcloth. She must not have a servant who is interested in anything except good serv- I ice. He shouldn’t smile if the witI tiest man in the world told the funniest I story, nor should he appear interested I if a political secret on which hinged I the future of Ireland was heard by him. She should count the sweets of the least importance, and not believe that a bad dinner can be bolstered by a very much decorated cake or pudding. She should see that her coffee is as clear as her conscience, and as strong as her love. She should not ask anybody whether they will have cream or not, for people who go out to dinner should learn to do without it. She should not attempt to elaborate a menu, for she wishes each dish to reach the height of perfection, and when the successful dinner is achieved, she should give the cook a large dose of encouragement, a medicine pleasant to take. The woman who understands the art of dinner-giving is the women who is past mistress of the art of keeping her Irusband at home.— New York Sun. Hints to Housekeepers. For children there is nothing better than saffron tea for teething and fever. For dyspepsia try wandering milkroot, and it will stop the burning sensation almost instantly. It is said to be a sure cure for this painful disease. Canned fruit should always be kept in the dark to preserve its rich color and flavor. Tomatoes will often spoil in glass jars, becoming thin and watery simply from |the action of the light, and preserves thus lose much of their j richness and flavor. Try keeping all i fruit in a covered chest or trunk down j celler, if you have no enclosed cupboard there. To clean black dress goods, take an old black kid glove, cut into small : pieces tuid let stand over night in a j pint of hot water. In.the morning add ! us much more warm water as will be needed, also a few drops of ammonia. Have the goods well brushed, then with a sponge wet them on the right side with the water and rub quite hard; smooth with the hand and hang out of doors in the shade; when nearly dry iron on the wrong side. THE KITCHEN. Milan Cakes for Tea. Half a pound of sifted flour, a quarter of a pound of butter, six ounces of sngar, two tablespoonfuls of thick, sour cream, and one egg. Mix a paste of i these ingredients, roll it out and cut it ' in diamond-shaped pieces; glaze with | egg and bake in a hot even; when cold | place a bit of jam or jelly in the center of each and serve. A Nice Breakfast Dish. Cut in strips four mushrooms, one small onion and one clove of garlic; fry them in two ounces of butter; add a teaspoonful of flour; stir a moment, then add half a pint of broth; boil gently until reduced one-half, and then put in the pan eight or ten hard-boiled eggs, cut in dice; boil one minute and serve; the yolks mav be left whole and only the whites cut m qn e. Steamed Rhubarb. AVash, peel and cut the rhubarb into inch pieces. Put it into a granite double boiler, add one cup of sugar for a pint of fruit, and cook till the rhubarb is soft. Do net stir it. AVhen the rhubarb is very sour steam it without sugar until the juice flows, then drain it, add tht sugar and steam again till the sugar is dissolved or pour boiling water over it and let it stand five minutes, then drain and steam. Sardine Sandwich. Open a small box of sardines and drain off the oil in the colander, and | then spread on thick, soft paper to absorb the rest. Remove the back-bones, i and, one by one, scrape them into bits with a silver knife and fork—steel will give them an unpleasant taste. AYork into the picked fish a little cayenne pepper, a tablespoonful of melted butter and the juice of two lemons. Spread this paste between slices of buttered bread. Lyonnaise Potatoes. Take cold boiled potatoes, slice intc small dice, chop an onion fine, also have some parsley: heat some butter in a frying pan, put in the onion, fry one moment, then put in the potatoes; there should be butter enough to keep them from sticking to the pan, and they should not brown; add the parsley with pepper and salt, just before yor take them up; drain ‘ perfectly by shaking them to and fro in a heated colander; serve on a hot dish. Veal A.oaves. Take three and one-half pounds of veal, fat and lean, one slice of thick, fat . salt pork; chop the whole fine; take six I common crackers, pounded fine, two eggs, one-half-cup of butter, one tablespoonful of pepper, a little clove, and : any herb to suit the taste; mix it well j together and make into a loaf like bread, ; piit it into a shallow baking pan, with a little water; cover with bits of butter, and dredge with flour; bake slowly two i hours, basting it as you would meat. This is nice cut in thin slices for a tea dish. It will keep a long time.

INDIANA HAPPENINGS. Events and incidents that have LATELY OCCURRED. I 4n Interesting Summary of the More Tin- • portant Doings of Our Neighbors—Wed- ; dings anti Deaths—Crime, Casualtiesand General News Notes. —Josiah AVade was run over and killed by a train, near Jeffersonville. He had just been granted a pension, with SI,OOO back pay. —AVilliam AVoods, of Raysville, an employe at the paper-mill in Knightstown, fell into a boiling lye vat ■while at work and was horribly' scalded. —The drillers struck a fine How of artesian mineral water at C. Fletcher’s residence at Spencer. The water pours out, by actual measurement, one hundred and eighty barrels per hour. —The spring trotting meeting which was to have been held in Fort AYayne in June has been declared off, as satisfactory arrangements could not be made with the other cities of the proposed । circuit. —A little dan ghter of Mrs Henry H. Snyder was frightfully burned about the head and shoulders bv the burning ■ I of an apron which she had wrapped around her neck while playing near a bonfire. —State Fish Commissioner Dennis will institute proceedings in the Dubois County courts against persons who have been violating the fish laws by seining in Patoka and other rivers of I that county. —AVhile using some alcohol near a j lighted lamp Nirs. George La Comty, ; living near Syracuse,Kosicusko County, I was seriously burned by the fluid igniting and setting fire to her clothing. It is thought she cannot recover. —John Dillman, a young man aged 17, residing in Mitchelltree Township, I Martin County, accidentally shot himself with a rifle, the ball striking the muscles of the side and lodging in the shoulder. The wound is very severe and probably fatal. —Ashbury Torrence, a colored man, has sued Frederick and Alice Carson, of AYashington, for malicious prosecution, asking for $2,000. The defendants caused the plaintiff's arrest last winter, charging him with having assaulted Mrs. Carson, but he was acquitted. - AVilliam Bryan, 10 years old, sou of M. L. Bryan, a grocer of Portland, while attempting to jump on a moving train on the G. R. A I. Railroad, lost his balance and was thrown under the cars. One of his legs was horribly mashed and his life is despaired of. —AV ill Reed, employed in the sawmill of his brother, C. E. Reed, at Swayzee, was instantly killed. A ragged । sleeve caused him to be caught in the ; machinery. His right arm was jerked i off. both legs were broken in two places, I and be was mangled beyond recog- j nition. Deceased was 23 years old and j unmarried. —Mr. and Nirs. N. F. Sykes, who re- > side near the government weather station at AYeed Patch Hill, in Brown ■ I County, have a 4-year-old midget. Ihe ( little boy is eighteen inches in height , and weighs but twenty pounds. He has never known what it is to be sick any length of time. The father and mother , are rather portly and of the average height. —A large oak saw-log hauled in to I Maley s saw-mill, at Columbus, from the woods, which was cracked and some- | what windsbaken in th heart, while j being quartered up, fell apart, and : blacksnakes began running in every i i direction. Twenty-seven of the reptiles | of all sizes were killed, besides several i that got away, the largest of which measured six feet seven inches in length. —The suit of Joel Brown, for SIO,OOO, against the T., St. L. A' K. C. Railway, was decided in favor of the railroad m the Montgomery County court. This is the second trial. Brown claimed that he was riding in a freight car, and that the brakeman reached over the top o the car and shot through the side of the i car, hitting him in the eyes, thus de- | stroying the sight. The portion of the ! car was in court, and showed that the j range of the bullet was upwards, and | not downwards. —The AVelker Colored Plato Glass Company, of Findlay, 0., has closed a contract with Rekley citizens to establish a glass plant there within ninety days, giving employment to fifty men. The bonus given them is five acres of land, free gas and $6,000 in cash, the ; company binding themselves to employ j I 100 men in one year from the first fire, I ■ and to keep the plant in operation at j । least five years. The money has been I raised and the land secured, and the enterprise is an assured fact. —A slow fuse caused an explosion and the death of one man, and the serious injury of two others at the stone quarry at Gheeu’s cement-mill, seven miles from Jeffersonville. Thomas James, foreman, and Samuel T. Chappel and R. C. Livingston, workmen, had prepared a blast, and after igniting the fuse, retired at a safe distance to await thse explosion, which did not occur as toon as they expected. They returned to examine the fuse, and the explosion I occurred while the men were making the examination, instantly killing James, and wounding the other two, —Mamie, the handsome little 3-year-old daughter of James Masterson, a prominent farmer living near Pulaski, was playing about a burning stump in a I patch of ground where they had been clearing, when her clothing caught fire. i Before her father could reach her she • was so badlj- burned and the flesh on her little limbs so completely cooked : that it fell in great bunches from the bones, when they lifted her from the ; ground. In this condition she lived for a-few hours, when death relieved her of • her pain.

—W. A. Parker, a farmer residing near Azalia, Bartholomew County, while in Columbus, stepped off a side-track to avoid a freight train. He stood near the i cerealiue-mill, where he was struck by a j switching engine and pressed against a ■ wall with such force as to cause death. —The gas well being drilled on the farm of Benj. Foust, south of Knightstown has developed into a great salt producer. At a depth of 800 feet a volume ot water burst forth from the well, and has since been flowing at a height of fifty feet, bringing out with it an abundant supply of pure salt. The contractor of the well said that it was producing one hundred barrels of salt a day. Major Doxey was informed, and will at once make arrangements to utilize the valuable production of the well. Immense crowds viewed the novel sight. —AYilliam A. Parker, aged 74 years, a millwright by occupation, who resided at Azalia, in Bartholomew County, was, standing on a switch used by the J., M. &I. Railroad Company, entering be- J tween two brick walls to the large ’ cerealine mills, when suddenly a switch : engine, pushing a large freight-car, I dashed in upon, and caught him be- ’ tween the box-car and the brick wall, in a space of but ten inches, and in a : standing position, rolled him a distance of thirty feet, crushing the bones of his ; chest, and causing his death in thirty ‘ minutes. —The other day at Muncie, Melvin H. Tyler took out a license to wed Miss Emma Heffne r. Tyler, whe is a prominent manufacturer, came to Muncie two years ago and wedded the same lady, with whom he lived nearly a year, when a former wife from Portland, Me., whom he had deserted, had him arrested, convicted and sentenced for bigamy. Tyler s popularity and failing health secured a pardon for him from jail, where he was serving the lowest possible sentence. During the trial wife No. 1 agreed to get a divorce and free him if SSOO alimony be allowed her and her child, which was done, and Tyler has recieved the papers that made him free to wed Miss Heffner, which he will do. —Pension Agent Ensley has made out and forwarded to AVilliam Bohley, of Linton, Green County, a voucher of $13,636.80, the largest amount of pension money ever paid to any one man in the State of Indiana. Bohley was a private in Company F, Thirty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Gen. Crust's regiment. and is now blind from a disease of the eyes contracted while in the army. He is a German, about fffty-two years old, and owns a little farm near Linton, which place is largely made up of Germans. Until Bobley’s claim of $13,637.^0 was ordered paid, the largest pension granted in this State was that of Owen Flaherty, of Terre Haute, who, on Feb. 20 last, was given $13,079.07. ‘ Flaherty is insane from wounds received j in the service. —The L., N. A. A C. had a disastrous j freight wreck at the iron bridge, across ; Sugar Creek, two miles north of Crawi fordsville. As the south-bound freight : was crossing the creek it was discovered that a ear was off the track. It was as--1 eertained that the second trucks of the eighth car had broken down a quarter of a mile before the bridge was reached. This car was loaded with hides. This let the trucks down upon the rails, and this and the speed of the train carried tbe car across the bridge, the derailed . car pushing all the ties on the bridge ; to the south end, making a solid floor of them. After this derailed car foli lowed ten other cars, which piled upon I each other until the wreckage stopped ■ the balance of the train. These cars | were thrown upon the iron work of the : bridge and greatly damaged. —Two years ago a fine-looking young fellow, named Charles Shephard, came to Elkhart from Michigan, won the affections of Miss Lulu Horton, daughter of Dr. Jolin Horton, and later married her under duress. As soon as the marriage ceremony was over Shephard disappeared, and, though his wife did all in her power to discover his where- ; abouts, she did not succeed, and at last ured a divorce on the ground of de- , ->^rtion. The other day, however,Shepi hard voluntarily,apparently conscience- | stricken, put in an appearance, won anew j the affection of his disheartened wife, j secured a license, was remarried by ! Judge Henderson, and the happy couple went to Grand Rapids, where he has a good position. Shepard’s family is wealthy and influential, and, it is understood, had something to do with his return to the girl he had deserted. —A bold attempt at jail delivery was discovered at Fort AYayne by Sheriff I Vieberg. The principals in the scheme | were Elmer AV. Mitchell, the swindler j who was recently arrested at Indiana- ■ polis for defrauding Labor Unions, and Charles McCarty, his pal, who claims Lima, 0., as his home. Mitchell was placed in jail to await trial on numerous charges of swindling. Last week McCarty called at the jail and asked permission to see Mitchell representing himself as a lawyer from Lima. His request was graned, but after his departure it was foundthat he had passed into Mitchell’s cell a bottle containing nitric acid and some steel tools. The other day McCarty called again, this time leaving a steel knite. He was placed under j arrest, and is now in jail in default of I bail. He is undoubtedly an accomplice of Mitchell in his swindling operations. — One of the teams belonging to the omnibus line at Greencastle took fright at the-north depot, and, running north | on the Monon track, knocked down the section boss, John Sharkley, killing him instantly. He leaves a wife and seven children. —Clinton Anthony, aged 60, an in- ‘ sane patient in the Delaware County Asylum, has been granted a pension of $24 per month with arrearages of $2,- | 914.63. His insanity was the result of a wound in the head received in the serv- I iee in Februarv, 1863. |

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. ENTERTAINING DISSERTATION ON serious SUBJECTS. A Pleasant, Interesting, and Instructive Lesson and Where It May Be Found—A Learned and Concise Review of the Same. The lesson for Funday, May 4. may be found in Luke 8: 41-42, 49-56. intboductory. V o have in this lesson the second miracle of life out of death recorded in the series that we are pursuing. The personage prominently before us is Christ at the death-bed. And observe how lordly he is here. There is none of that conlessioa of helplessness that comes to the sturdiest of mortals in iiuch a presence. Christ stands forth still i as master. His was a larger range of knowledge and power. The horizon of those about linn reached no farther than death’s shadows. One thing only they k»ew—"she was dead.” How significant the words. Knowing that she was dead.’ It is all we noor earthlings, of ourselves, know at the last. No wonder they laughed him to • scorn. Ihere was the fact, the awful and tremendous fact of death before tbeireves, obliterating all else. But there n-e facts j behind facts, and thanks be to God that f there stands One with us who. looking far- • tner and deeper than we. tells us Os other I great realities, brings life and immortality to light! WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. And behold. Christ has but recently returned from the country of the Gadarenes I across the lake, and is now discoursing in the house of Matthew at Capernaum. 1 (Matt. 9: 9, 10, 18). A man named Jairus. । Obtaining easy access, as with the woman ; that was a sinner, in the lesson two weeks j since. Ruler of the synagogue. Having charge of all the affairs of the sacred edifice. Like our trustee Felt down at Jesus’ feet. In Oriental exuberance of reeling, this is a token of respect or of entreaty rather tha i of worship. Besought. A word of imploration, frequently rendered exhort (Acts 2: 40). Into his house. Doubtless one of the better residences of the place. Only one daughter. A touch of human tenderness and sympathy frequent in Luko 7:11. Literally, only begotten. And she lay a-dying. The emphasis seems to be upon the word “she.” Only one daughter, and she about to die. As he went. Literally, in the going. Thronged him. I'he sama word used in the last lesson of tue thorns; there translated “choked* (Luke 8:7). Laughed him to scorn. Or deride,d. intimating the heartlessness of their sorrow. Knowing that she was dead. Their knowledge was correct. It was faith they lacked. WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. He fell down nt Jesus’leet. It is the right place to the great men of earth. The ruler of the synagogue has acknowledged a yet higher Ruler. The prince has become a child again, “Be wise, now, th.ere ore. O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with lear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the son lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way. when nis wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put the-ir trust in him." Yes, blessed is the standpoint of the trusting child. That ruler never lifted his soul higher than when he prostrated himself at Jesus’ feet. There was the place of honor: ♦ here was the place of strength. Now was he become t>-ue ruler of the synagogue, master of his own heart’s temple. In this sense too. better is he that "ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.” Accept the counsel ot James, "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up." That he would come into his house. He is ready now to have Jesus come in. ready at last. So many of us wait, like Jairus. until trouble, sickness, bereavement comes ere we go and ask Jesus to cross the threshol I. But then at last he is a welc .ae guest. AVith death’s shadow on the hearthstone. then at last wo cry, "Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life." Oh. it was a happy hour for Jairus when he was minded thus to beseech Jesus. The coming of Jesus into his house was the coming of life. To-day may this prayer go up from many a lather's heart. There are under the roof-tree those already dead in trespasses and in sins. AVe are lost and undone without Jesus in the homa Say to-day: Come in, come in, O, Savior dear, Cornu in and dwell with me. Thy daughter is dead; tiouble not the Master. The argument of hopelessness. There is no use to seek further help from the Great Physician. AVhen the eyes are closed in death, then tve eease to ask for earth’s medication. AVe remove the lotions from the bedside, and we send sad word to the doctor. "You needn’t come any more. She is dead." Yes, so we might do if Jesus were only, as some faiths seem to hold him, an earth’s physician, one to ease life's pains and make the present existence a little more tolerable. But Christ is Lord of life. His scepter is over all the realms of the universe. "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow ot death I shall fear no evil, for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” Dear hearts, trust the sympathy and care of Jesus. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." Trouble not the Master? He is troubled already for them. Verily he has sacrificed his 11 e that they might live. And now he says for this life and the next. “Because I live ye shall live also.” Fear not. Two blessed words Christ spoke in the presence of death. This was the first. Standing alongside of his disciple expectant of the grim messenger, he drew forth his sword and smote down death's ■ dread attendant, Fear. No longer now should the Christian tear death. Faith’s sword has slain tiiis enemy ot souls. And so we see the martyrs going to the stake unshaken and composed. So we see our blessed dead go forth, their trust complete, their faith serene. No man should covet death, neither should anvone be terrified By it—no one in Christ. The worldling may well shrink and cower, for he has defied not only the prince of death but the king of life. He meets the palt monster alone and unshielded. Alas for him! But for the Christian death is swallowed up in victory. He can say. "O, death, where i.s thy sting? O, grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin—Christ took that away—“and the strength of sin is the law”—Christ fulfilled that. And so we cry, "Thanks be to God, whichgiveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” AVeepnot. This is Christ’s second comforting word at the bedside of death. It is not ouly "fear not.” but "weep not.” Tears abide while life lasts and parting scenes keep coming, but they are no longer the tears of hopelessness. “He wept," we say. "that we might weep.” In another and. perhaps, truir sense he wept that we might not weep. In the dropping of our Lord's tears at the grave we catch the rainbow glints of hope and promise beyond. Even here, by faith, do we apprehend the blessed promise: "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." And this is the assuagement of our grief—that we shall meet again. Liie is not ended: friendships are not forever sundered. In him the broken ties shall be reunited and we shall know as we are known. God give us grace to see beyond earth’s vale of tears. God enables us to pierce by faith even now the clouds and dimming mists of earth and behold with radiant lace, when days are bright or days are dark, “the beauty of the hills.” Next lesson: “Feeding the Multitude." Luke 9: 10-17. — Wayside Thoughts. Freedom is lost with too much responsibility and seriousness. Talk always brightens up with tha addition of a fresh crackling stick to the fire. A man had better be silent if he can I only say to-day what he will stand by ! to-morrow. It is the most difficult thing in the i worM to reconcile religious associations I with the real or artificial claims of social I Jifc.