St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 15, Number 46, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 10 May 1890 — Page 3

DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 3 e S———————————————— " TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE, e et s, ‘Some Valuable Information for the Plow. man, Slockman, Poulterer, N urseryman, and Everybody Connected with the Farm. ! THE FARM, ; Heating of Cut Cornstalks. 1‘ Most farmers know that cornstalks, ‘ ‘thouglh apparently dry, will heat when cut and stowed away in large heaps. As | this is usually done in cold weather the | heating does no injury, and it is rather a benefit to the coarser portions, making ! them softer and more readily eaten. In | such a winter as the present the heating I may go teo far and form mould, unless | dhe heap is frequently turned over with -a barn-stiovel or dung-fork with close tines. such as is used for shovelling soil. Taking the cut stalks out warm | from the " pile, cows will eat them | - heartily, especinlly if a little meal is ’ added as an uppetizer. 1t is better than -ensilage for cold weather. ’ Apple Wood for Fuel. f In most old orchards there are some | ‘trees that have become stunted, and ex- | cept with extraordinary attention will | never pay their way. The better plun’ is to dig them out root and branch and ase them for fuel. The extra care con- . centrated on the remaining trees will | bring far iarger returns. Most orchards ’ -are planted much too closely for the best results. Where the tree was dug ‘ out fill in with rich dirt from the road- ; side, and the trees on all corners from ! the old one will show in their increased | products how much they appreciate the ’ wider range given their roots. Apple ! tree wood makes excellent summer fuel, ! and is especially rich in potash. { Cleaning Horses by Steam Power. f The brush and currycomb are indis- | pensable littletools for cleaning horscs; | but they involve the expenditure of so | much elbow grease that a substitute | worked by steam is sure of favor. lui the Palmer House livery stables in | “‘Chicago are steam brushes, cylinders in | form. and revolving on a stick which | may be held inthe hand. With this the ; operator passes rapidly over the horse, | smaking dust ‘and hair fly at a rate that ’ keeps the air thick. Two men work at ; one horse, one on each side, and they , will go over an amimal in forty seconds. | A wo: ctition of the cleaning leaves so | little dust thata white handkerchief may ‘ be passed over the coat without soiling | it. This horse-cleaner is often operated i ¥y steam. Sowetime probably the stor- | ing of electric power will be so perfect ! that surpius power collected from wind- | mills or waterfalls may be kept con- | venient to houses and barns to furnish | ‘ power for any small force that mayv Dbe ! desired. cleaning horses or turning| grindstone in barns, or churning, wash- g : ing, or running the sewing-machine in | the house. ‘ :

Feeding Horses. An English veterinary surgeon recommends that those who have charve of horses, especially furm herses, should be taught that the stomach of a horse is not like the rumen of a cow. a mere reczptacle for food, but an essential organ of digestion of limited capacity, which does not need to be crammed lin order to perform its proper {unctions, and that it caunot be so treated without -danger to the animal; that the teeth of the horse are provided for the purpose of masticating the food, and that the food which does not require mastication shovld be sparingly, it ever, used. He | further recommends that no horse be pat o work immediately after a full meal, and where s horse has done a heavy day’s work it should be allowed to stand in the stable until it is cool and comfortable before being fed. A little water may be given, and if a little good hay be put into tue rack it will occupy his attention, and besides re|qeiving proper mastication will further | have the effect to slightly stimulate the stomach to secretion, and prepare it for | the reception of the feed which is to follow. Should a horse require morc tood than usual to supply the extra waste cf tissues caused by hard work, | give it by all means, but let it be in ex- | cess 1n its albuminoids, and let the horse be fedottenerand not in inereased | quantities at a time. f THE STOCK RANCI, % Elements of a Successfui Horseman. | To be successful in any undertaking | there must be two conditions—first,pro- | ver judgment, nerve and taet centered | in the m=an; second, these must be so | applied as to bring the business 1n hand | to its highest point of usefniness or SAgATIO AW ESETR L IIRETET iy

remuneration. ; i In applying these conditions to the | horseman, an eminent fitness is observ- | able. In a contest between mind and | matter the mind may devise its own ways | and means for the accomplishment of: it object. But with intelligence against | intelligence there must be a nicety of ! adaptation of ways and means that will | prevent any unnecessazy iriction and | sacrifice no good quality in either. | ‘Good judgment 18 the foundation for all | good results, whether it be in handiing! horses or any other business. | In bandling a young horse good judg- i ment is essentinl in determining for! what purpose he is best fitterd. all thinugs | considered. Toimmake a poor draught | horse of a good roadster, or a poorroad- ; ster of a good draught horse, would not | be the mark of a successful horseman, | -even though the training was as well I done as ecircumstance would admit. In Ibe second place, upon the nerve a man ’ has, depends the energy and firmness | with which he will carry out any plans | he may devise. A whoiesaleapplication | of this principle, however, would be a f fatal mistake. Isa man i subject to! nervous excitability, for instance, he | never will make a successful horseman; i his patience woul!d give out just when | it was most needed. Quiet and patient I repetition will do more to overcome fear ! or vindictiveness than any amount of | whipping or inflicting of pain in any ? way, and a quiet and steady nerve is indispensable to carry it out. Put a nerv- | ous man and horse together and there : is sure to be trouble. When aman gets ; excited and mad it is time for the exer- | cise to close. Above and beyond all is | tact, that indiscribable thing that adapts I, itself to all circumstances and emergen- | cies, and does the right thing at the ’ richt time. v 1 Zinles almost without number have | been laid down for handling borses and | providing tor the cure of all manner of evil ways .that horses fall ! into; but unless a man has the right tact | ~ im carrying them out they will be a fail- | ure. lln most cases if the right tact had | been used in the first place, no set rules ; wouid have been needed. An intimatel | and practical knowledge of borses can | only be had by coming in contact with them. And whether a man has any ‘ 1 special adaptation for handling them or | ! not will soon be manifest. It can be § .

feuly seid, that horsemen, like pocts,are ‘ born, not made. However, education is not to be ignored. And it is necessary | for a great many men to handle and drive horses who have no special liking | for it, they can do much to smooth the i way by making a careful study of their | animals, and getting the right idea of {howto go to work with them. The greatest trouble is with men who imagine that they are great horsemen, | and work on the principle that it isa | mere question of mind against matter; , if it was not for this class of men a society for the preventicn of cruelty to | animals would scarcely beneeded. } It those who have young horses to | train would be careful to putthem inthe ‘ | hands of menwho do not make exces- I | sive use of the whip, much abuse of { them through their lifetime would be ! ! avoided. A horse is naturally a very | excitable animal, and the more quiet he ! is kept, the better he can be controlled, | and bis attention and desire to please | be retained. « The whip is sometimes needed for cor- | rection, but one stroke will domore good | {than a dozen. A bully may delight in | ! making his horse dance and prance and ‘ | “show ' off,” but the snccessiul and| iworthy horseman will be best pleased] with a steady, quiet gait that will show { the matural spirit and intelligence of | vi his animal. In so doing he will win the | approbation of all lovers of horses and I |be worthy the patronage of all horse | owners.—C. L. Beach. ; ’ THE POULTRY YARD, } Freics | i The Loss ot Chicks. i ‘ There are but few farmers that know | how many chicks they lose in a year. i ! They set every hen that desires to hatch, | ' & large number of chicks come out and i they are carefully attended to; but later | i in the season when the farmer begins to : - inform himself regarding the number on | hand, he is surprised to find a large | majority missing. Gone—the hawks, { { rats, erows, snakes and fami s cat have | decimated them to a very few. Chicks | ~should be raised on business principles. | They should be so managed that the | farmer knows how many are hatched, | and if a single one is missing, he should | at once Investigate the cause and en- | deavor to avoid further loss from that | source. If this was done there would | be more profit, and poultry would pay.— | Foultry Notes. | Irone don’'t understand the markets he | had better not go too extensively into | poultry until he does. There are only | two markets or avenues for sale, the one | for fancy towls for breeding purposes, | and the other the market for food sup- ! ply. In the one big prices mre paid for ‘ really fancy fowls, in the other ordi- i nary price are paid for fowls in good ! condition for table use. ‘ SWELLED headsand eyes, hoarse breath- | ing and discharge from the nostrils, are | all signs of roup. It is very difficult to : cure and is caused by exposure to cold | winds. damp weather and currents of | alr in the pouitry-house. The remedy | that is best is to keep the birds in a dvy, | warm place. Once a day annoint the face with &« mixture of one part spirits of |

B R S NPO YR SSO TN CREIS IMRetB SR | S i |ATTP UL ot R R T IR, e, T o F ' turpentine and three px:xrts g{)'(fcx'iuxe, : and inject one or two drops ineachnos- | ; ! tril and ten drops down the throat. ; i ORANGE or lemon boxes are sugoested | |‘ as convenient for nests. They can be ! ; purchased for a mere trifle, and each | j box:will make two nests. Put them on | | a shelf under the roosts, Iny them down | | on the openside, with a lath, oranything, | {to keep the straw in; then, when they | I need cleaning, take them outside, build { & fire and hold the box over the tire for i a short time. which will destroy nits, ! ’ lice, or anything else that should not ; ibe there. \hen they get toofilthy, burn |. { the box, lice and all. ! [ IN either raising poultry for market i i or for their eggs, or tor tancy purposes, % i zood health is the great cousideration, | { for unless your fowls show good health, | ! your success in the poultry business can | ‘ only be a failure, A dozen real healthy | | chickens are preferable to any pumber | { only indifferently so. In rearing | | bealthy birds there are three important | i considerations: Proper houses, with | | gcod runs, proper food and pure water; | i and proper breeding with a male cross. | {By proper houses is-not mnecessarily i meant expensive ones. One built of | | common lumber, large and roomy, with | i good water-tight root, well built so as | | to exclude all draft and moisture, with { roomy nests and smooth roost will an- | ' swer every requirement. When your | ! birds are fully established in their new | § home, be careful and keep it scrupu- | i lously clean from all droppings and ver- | i min. The run should be large enough ! { to enable twelve fowls to circulate about | t freely. | . Gl e \ g THE DALRY. _; ! Maxims for Milkers, ! ! After yon have brushed the udder;

i clean milk the cow us fast as vou can, | i and milk her clean to the las: drop. ? | I more than one milker is emploved ! |do not converse. You or he will have | to stop and ask, “What do you say?” i If you nre musically inclined you may ! | hum in a tow tone. The cow will like | | it and commence ruminating. ! | Never drive mileh cows or fattening | stock faster than a walk. | | You bave no need ot a dog in bring- | i ing the cattle home from pastures. ; { Do not allow or force milch cows to | ’ drink ice cold water. ’ | Your cows will certainiy fall off in | - their miik unless housed 1n a warm sta- | ble during inclement or very cold: weather. f . If you desire your cows to do their! best ot the pail, give them a change of ! food as often as possibie. i ! To sell milk pays better than to make | ‘! it into butter or cheese and sell it as | ' solids. l ~ If your cow is in heat and has been| served keep her contined away from the | herd. I ~ If you sell milk breed into it Ayr- | shires or Holsteins. If you make butter j forsale breed into the Channel Island | cattle. Neversell a heifer calf to the | butcherif it 1s possible for you to raise | it. When gently used, the curry-comb ! and brush are just as needful for milch cows as they are for work horses. i Sixty cents will buy a pair of rubber | shoes. Buyapairand wear them while | you are at your stable “clean-| ing. Before you enter your dwelling or | milkroor leave 'he rubbers in an out- ! house. Then the madam will not need | to hold her nose to avoid taking in the odors of the barnyard.—Charles W. , Murtfeldi, in Republic. ’l Divided Milkings. } It is very commonly known that the | last milk obtained duriug the milking | i the richest. An experiment was untaken to get light upon the question as | to whether this can be advantageously l | utilized in practice. Six cows were: milked daily at 6 o’clock in the morning ' and evening. During each milking the | milk was divided by guess into two lots | | as evenly as possible. The “first halt” | and “last hali? of the milk from all the | cows were put into separnte vessels. ! Portions were analyzed which showedlh

, an average of 2.41 per cent. of fat in the ! l first half and 4.28 in the last. In other ! | words, the percentage of satin the milk last drawn was nearly 50 (43.6) per cent. greater than in the first half. The butter value of the second half of the milking therefore appears to Le 43.6 perl ‘ cent. greaterthan the value of the &.<t half of the same milking. By mic-.scopical examinations we I | learn that the character of the fat glob- { ules, as well as the proportion of fat, affects the value of the milk for butterl making. Inorderto obtain a more com- | plete idea of the results of dividing, } samples of the morning’s miik of a Jersey and a Holstein cow, both full- ‘ blooded, were divided, and the fat Ig]obl_lles of each part examined miero- { scopically. The globules of the second | half of "the milking were in general larger and more homogenious than those of the last half. Awong the conclusions are the following: | 1. Since the amouunt of fat can differ | a8 much as 43.55 per cent. between the ‘ first and last drawn parts of the milk ; doringa single day, there seems to be | very great economy in taking the first ! part ot the milk for family use. | | 2. When feeding calves it is quita ]suflicicnt to give them milk from th. ; first part drawn, and to supply the | } further fat necessary for keeping up the ' nutritive ratio by using the cheaper fat ! in the meal of the ol containing seeds . | of grains, ' ; J. If we can obtain milk with a more | | homogenious size of fat globules, the latter will all rise in the same time; the ripening of the cream before churning 'will be more even, and the time re- - gquired for this ripening more easily ’ controlled. ~ This experiment indicates rather than ' provesthe results; but it is certninly safe | to advise the farmer always to divide i the milk at milking, especially since ' the only additional trouble requirec ‘g ! the use of two sets of mik pails. Awe | the results seem to render the dairyman | independent of some of the gre:ltvstl difticulties with which he has to con- | tend, especially in the making of but- ! ter.— Bulletin oj° Indiana Erperiment | Station. | THE MOUSEHOLD, | ¢ Using the Teeth. Thé law of deterioration from disuse obtains with the teeth, as well as with other things. The constant and regular k use of them in masticating hard food tends to make them continually grow harder and stronger, and better able to resist the influences that make for decay, while, on the other hand, living on , solt food and neglect of mastication makes them tender, sotftens the enamel, ' and renders them ecasily susceptible to g corroding effects. Tuis 18 sum:,tilm'si especially shown in the case of people | after o long illness, who find their teeth tender and sore when they begin to re- I turn to a diet of solid hard food. A dentist, speaking on this subject, says: | "Some men have healthy teeth all their i lives because they were given good, i hard Tood during infancy. That is the | pertod to begin to save the tecth. Moth- l ers and nurses ¢ive children soft food.

B e RO ISR o, ST RIS TIO Yo TN DOO NP TS SYND LS P WNEAS - WIS Ry s utterly ignorant in many cases of E the result. Crusts and hard stuffs ' should be given to children as soon as | they can eat them. In this wayv the teeth begin to grow healtby, and grad- | unlly harden with time and use. The - chewing-gum girl gives her molars l plenty of wholesome and unwholesome exercise. But chewing gum is not especially healthy, because only part ot the teeth are used. It is jaw exercise ‘more than anything else. Dut in eating ~hard, wholesome food all the teeth come in contact with the substance. Tobacco chewing is not healthy for the teeth, because the tobacco is generally placed in one location, like chewing gum, and | there remains until thrown out. The ! Southern negroes have better teeth than most any race, because they use them from childhood up in wasticating herd ! food.—Good Housekeeping. | Items on Housework i (GGood housekeeping consists in cone i tinual care for small things, which in | themselves are notning, but in the total I make up the comtort of home life. 1t | 1s a simple matter to see that all the | house stores are on hand, that each | match-box about the premises is filled, ! : that every room has a convenient receptacle for matches. Yet the neglect of so doing may cause some one, hunting | in the dark tor a match, an enormous ’ ] amount of annoyance. A gocd supply | of nice brown papers laid away care- i fully, and a bag or box containing dis- [ ferent kinds of twine, cost a house- i keeper nothing. as they may be saved | ! from parcels; yet such a huabit will find | ready appreciation when some one is in - need ot paper and string to tieup u par- I - cel. There 1s nothing so unsightly as | an old newspaper for such a purpose. l There areso many good uses thatold | !

| newspapers can be put to, that brewn i paper should be always kept on band to i Wrap up parcels. There 1s nothing better than old newspapers under a carpet to soiten the tread and keep the hard ‘ floor from wearing outthe carpet. There { seems to be some ingredient inthe print- ' er’s ink that drives away wmoths, and for . that reason newspapers are betier than | anything elde vo wrap up fars anid woolens duringthe summer. They should i never be destroved after they are read j unless used for kindling, but should be kept in a straight pile, It is a wise pre- - caution to keep a roll of okl linen, one -of old cotton and veedles and thread in E the kitehen drawer, where it can be ' readily found in case of a burn or cut. A step-ladder on hand to reach to high places saves a great deal of troubie. A step-ladder table, which may be covered wken not in use, or a wooden-seated chair, should be on every floor except ‘the kitchen floor, where the ceilings are usually so low that any high place can be reached by standin® on the kitchen chairs, whicih are always, or sbhould be, made withi wooden seats that may be scrubbed and washed. Allthese matters are small, but a series of petty vexations are more liable toirritate the tewper than genuiue trials.— New York Tribune. A THE KITCHEN, Fizz ed Beef. . : Cut some beef into shavings, as much as will fill a small teacup. Puta pint oi milk, thickened with a little flour, in a frying-van; when it is warm drop in the beef, and let it simmer for a few minutes, taking care that it does not curdle. Pour iuto a dish, season with pepper and salt, and a small piece of butter on the top. | Kidneys ala Maitre D’Hotel, ‘ Plunge some mutton kidueys in boiling water; open them down the center but do ot separate them. Peel and plece a skewer across them tokeep them open. Pepper, salt, and dip them into melted butter. Broil them over a clear ' fire, on both sides, cooking the cut side first. Remove the skewers; have ready j some maitre d'hotel butter, that is, but- | ter beaten up with chopped parsley, | salt, pepper and a little lemon jzice. Put sowe or this butter into the bcllow of each kiduey and sexve hot.

'—'-"?'.—————- e———— oL 7 ¥ | INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ e —————————— , EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE | LATELY OCCURRED, | I 4n Interesting Summmary of the More Tm- ’ portant Doings of Our Neighbors—w Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and ' General News Notes, ' G { -—Charles Allison was accidentally | wounded in the leg by George Yard, at l Kokomo. ' —Carl Tiederman, a merchant, of! ' Goshen, was clubbed into insensibility by foot-pads. l —George Grinup, switchman, was | struck by 2 train at Logansport and dangerously hurt, —Theodore Hull, Grand Trunk yardmaster at South Bend, was fatally - crushed between cars. i f —¥rank Golding was terribly cut | -about the neck and back by the breaking l | of aheavy sheet of plate giass, at Ko- | . komo. I ! —Dennis Barrett was kicked in the face by a horse at Terre Haute. His‘ nose was broken and several teeth were | dislodged. ! | —Millard Kennedy of Union Township, i Johnson County, required three days to i recover ¢onsciousness after being kicked P by a horse. ! i —A 4-year-old daughter of Carl Hus- l - fer, residing near Muncie, was kicked in the head by a horse and dnnger-l ously injured. i —Philip Vassen, a plumber, of Fort]' Wayne, upset a pot of moiten metal, | which splashed into his face, bliudingi both his eyes. | —A. Yeager was fatally hurt at Wal- | cottville by a smasi-up of 11):1chineryg in the mill where he was employed. A ! chisel was driven into his head. I —Mrs. Robert Parr, residing noflr} Greencastle, was kicked by a mule, the | animal’'s heels laving bare the frontnl# bone of her forehead. Her injuries will | result fatally. ‘ —2A large fish pond, owned by J. M ; Troutman, near Crawfordsville, was | dynamited during the past week, :llhl! hundreds of fish killed. The affair is|

being investigated. —The drillers struck a fine flow 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 beeu held in Fort Wayne in | June has been declared off, as satisfac- ‘ tory arrangements could not be mwade with the other cities of the proposed'! circuit. I —Benjamin Long, of Xogansport, |

aged 17, bhas won the Youth's Companion prize of 3100 for the best essay on “The Patriotic Influence of the American Flag When Raised Over the Public Schools.” —~-The ownerof a bus line at Crawfordsville 1s “Walkup,” and heis in a peck of trouble over what to place npon his vebicles, because his own name might suge« gest to travelers an invitation to “walk up” from the devots. — Will Higgins got his hand caught in a machine att Ball's tin-stamp works at Muncie, and lost a finger. A few moments Inter Charles Valentine., another vouth, went to work at the same place, and lost theindex finger to one of his hands and badly cut another. —The children's disease which is reported from Muncie, and pronounced LaNona, has appeared in Greenfield. There, are four Little girls suffering with the trouble—vomitingand purging with no apparent cause. It is hoped that it may not become generally epidemic. —A terrific natural gas explosion eccurred in B. W. Skelton’s cracker factory, Fort Wayne, which resulted in SSOO damage to the building. N. C. Foulks, a baker employed in the factory, was badly burned. He had turned the fire in the oven too low, and the flame was extingunished while Foulks was at dinner. On his retun te explosion cccurred. —A bkuge live war eagl- ¥F . onths old, was captured in Crawvford County

1 3 by one of the hill dwellers of the ' | county, who managed to escape the huge ‘ | E bird’s taions by throwing his overcoat { ] over it. It measures seven feet six , | inches from tip to tip, and weighs fifty | : ! pounds. This kind. of eagle, while i '{ found in abundance in the mountains | | ’ of the Western Territories, is very rare ! | in this part of tlie country. ; | ' —Charley Phillips was aceidentally shot i | by Everett Henley, at the farm residence of Nixon Henley, one mile east of Mon- , | rovia. Everett was examining an old- | | fashioned “pepper-box” revolver, when ' | from some unknown cause the weapon i | began firing, one ball penetrating the i face of Phillips near the right cheek- l [ bone, ranging downward through the | parotid gland, making a serious a:md| ? ugly wound. It is thought that he will l recover. l | —One of the wealthiest farmers in l‘ Ohio Township, Bartholemew County, | cailed at the Moore's Vinevard postotlice | ! recently to buy a quantity of postnge‘ stamps at a reduced price. He offered | one and a half cents fortwo-cent stamps i and one-half cent #or aone-cent stamp. | The offer was refu. 4, and he became | enraged and was re~crained by friends | from an assault on the postmaster. The i stamps were not for the farmer’s use, but were sent for by a young lady stop- I ping at his house. The farmer hoped| to turn an honest penny by making a | per cent. on his investment. } —David Tumbleson, of Marshalfield, Warren County, was visited by \\'hite{ | Caps, cruelly whipped, and ordered to| leave the country or receive a coat of ( tar and feathers. He filed a number of ' affidavits against his assailants and then left for the South. ' —W. A. Parker, a farmerresidingnear | ! Azalin, Bartholomew County, while in‘? 1 Columbus, stepped oft a side-track to | - avoid a freight train. Hestood nearthe | cerealine-mill, where he was struck by a ’ ‘ switching engine and pressed against a | wall with such forceas to cause dent\h. |

[ —lsaac Lavender, a brick-layer of Evansville, while on his way to his work was run down by the cars, having his head | cut completely off and his body badly Imnngled. He was about fifty years of ‘ age, and leaves a large family. —A large oak saw-log hauled in to Maley’s saw-mill, at Columbus, from the ',woods, which was cracked and some- | what windshaken in the heart, while | being quartered up, fell apart, and l blacksnakes began running in every lldirection. Twenty-seven of the reptiles | of all sizes were kiiled, besides several that got away, the largest of which measured six feet seven inches in length. ~——The other day at Muncie, Melvin H. Tyler took out a license to wed Miss Emma Heffner. Tvler, whe is a proms- ' nent 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, copvicted and sentenced for bigamy. Tyler's popularity and failing health se- ‘ cured a pardon for him from jail, where | ! he was serving the lowest possible sen- i ! tence. During the trial wife No. 1 | agreed to get a divorce and free him if iss()o alimony be allowed her and her child, which was done, and Tyler has re‘cieved the papers that made him free to ) wed Miss Heffner, which he will do. | ’ —Pension Agent Ensley has made out and forwarded to William 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 ¥, Thirty-first Indiana | Volunteer Infantry, Gen. Crust’s 1-e,¢.:i-i ment, and is now blind from a disease ; of the eyes contracted while in the | army. He is a German, about fifty-two i years old, and owns a litcle farm near | Linton, which place is largely made up | of Germans. Until Bohlev's claim of } $13,037.80 was ordered paid, the largest | vension granted in this State was that | of Owen Flaherty, of Terre Haute, who, | on I'eb. 20 last, was given SU,UTH.UT.[ I'aberty is insane from woun ~ ggaeived | in the service. ~ A contract has [been close ¥ ¥ Anderson by whichthe entire plant of the Covington Wire Nail Mill will be re- ’ moved to that city at once, together with i 150 eperatives, with their famiiies. The | establishment,- when completed, which | will be earty in the summer, wili cuts eight hundred kegs of wire nails per | day. This American wire-rod, wire and ' wire-nail-works in Anderson will furn- ! ish employment to about 500 skilled | men. Thbe Novelty Wire and Fence l

Company have broke ground for their factory, and a large force of men are at work. The factory will employ thirty skilled men, a number of whom have purchesed lots and are building pretty cottagesin the vicinity of the factory. Negotiations are pending for a number of other valnable factories. —The year 1890 vromises more for Portland than any previous year. Easteru capital has become interested in the construction of the Chicago, Portland & Wabash Railroad, and articles of association have been forwarded to Indianapolis to be filed. Elections will be ordered in Wayne Township and Penn Township at once, and if the aid 18 voted and the required amount raised the road will be constructed at once as far as Camden, and at that point the road reaches the largest gravel hills in Indiana or Ohio. Portland has secured four good factories in the last year, and is now raising money for a desk factory to be located there. Besides these, the enlargement of such factories as the Bimbel wheel-works and the Creamery Package Cesnpany, the largest of their kind in the State, is making it quite a manufacturing city. —Paterts have been granted to the following Indiana inventors: William 1. Bennett, Kokomo, saw-mill dog; William i.. Durth, Frankfort, metallic buggy bed; Oscar R. Decker, Rochester, | watch-bow fastener; John E. Donaldson, ‘ Montezuma, assignor to Clay Shl‘ngle“ Company, Indianapolis. roofing tile;

i Emil E. Herman, Terre Haute, trousers; : | Ira W. Eikenbarv, Warren, nutomatic' ; sliding gate; Edmund H. Hanna, assignor | | of one-half to A. T. Baker, Portlzmd,l plane; Willis C. Howe, Evansville, i spindle for vehicles; Harry Huddleston, | { Liberty, wheel hub; Charles McNeal, | | assignor of one-half to E. b‘killman,! { Goshen, split pulley; Henry Nichols, | assignor of three-fourths to J. W. and IE. .E. Ruark, and A. J. Bird, Mount t !;\.lcridan, car coupling; Lewis J. Ricey i Indianapolis, hose coupling. ! -—(George Zimmer, a farmer of Ma_ i ville, Allen County, discovered a radica,_ | though somewhat expensive remedy to | | cure vermin-infected cattle. A neighl bor told him to rub the animals thoroughly with kerosene and they would no i longer be troubled with the vermin. Zimmer did so. saturatine the hides of eight cows until they were dripping wet { with the fluid. Along in the afternoon | he took a red-hot iron and startedto ! brand one ot the cows, when in an inI stant, the animal was enveloped in )flmm-s. Astampede {followed, and the burni=_ _ow mingled with the rest of ! the herd, until all eight of them were a Im ass of flames. They rushed into a | barn, setting fire to it. A hay-stack was }next ignited and consumed, and panI demonium reigned. “The barn was | saved. When all was over, it was found that the vermin were dead, and so were the cows. } —Horace, aged 10, son of Marshal ' McDonald. of Retreat, fell from a load “of hay, and a bale of hay falling upon Lhim, crushed him to death. —Mryr. and Mrs. N. F. Sykes, who reside near the government weather sta- P tion at Weed Patch Hill, ia Brown' County, have a 4-vear-old midget. The | little boy is eighteen inches in height e and weighs but twenty pounds. He has | j never known what it is to be sick any | length of time. ‘T'he father and mother [ are rather portly and of the average . height, o o ramm ol 1

|THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. ReEER e L e SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY AND ABLY CONSIDERED, A Scholarly Exposition of the Lesson —Thoughts Worthy of Calm Refleetion—Half an Hour's Study of the Seriptures—Time Well Snhent. The lesson for Sunday, May 11, may be found in Luke 9: 10-17. WHAT TER LESSON TEACHES. And tbe apostles. Whose first expedi'tion is described in the opening verses of the chapter.——Returned. They went forth | like a little b:nd making a momentary f'sally from the central citade!.——Told { him. The word fora full and orderly narrative of facts. They made g complete return of oceurrences.——They had done. Miiacles and works of power.—— He took them. To take to one's self in close intimacy, The same word used in (01. 2: 5: “As ye have therefore received (paraiabon) Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him.”——Went aside privately. For - wore quiet and sympathetic converse, —— ! Into a desert place. Not in Tischendorf, i aod indeed scarcely consistent with what | follows.——Bethsnida. Perhaps to the | privacy of Philip’s house. John 1: 44; 12: l 21, or its vicinity. | People. Or multitnde (okloi). It was " probably some throng oa their way to the Passover, one of the great festivals of the Jewish church,——When they knew it. ~ Aorist particivle, coming to know it. Jesus bhad but a brief respite with his dis | eiples.——Followed him. Like sheep 'atter a shepherd.——Received them. Or welcomed. See Variations. —- Spake unto them. To talk. The word for familiar and protracted discourse.——( oncerning the kingdom of GGod. Os which the people are ever ready to hear.—Need. The ground of Chr st’s beneficence. — | Healing. It is from the Greek of this | word that our term therapeut es comes. i Wear away. Or incline. Poetic for the | approach of sunset.——Came the twelve. | With kindly intent, nccording to human | reckoninz.——Send the multitude away. | Origmaily, to loose or set free. As if the l veople were held enthralled by his words; | and wers they not?——lnto the towns | and viliages. According to the (ustom of | the pilgrimage.——Todze. Literally, to | loose or unbind, referring to the packs usually carried by travelers.—— Victuals. | Provisions. Used by Xenophon of fori aging.——Desert place. Uninhabited, { probably, on the outski ts of the town. | Give ye them to eat. The ve is emphatic, in form and position. Literally: ! give them to eat, your:elves.—— We have |no more. That is, their available sup- ’ plies.——All this people. With a tone of i bo: elessness, nnd perhaps a hint at the l simple absurdity ot it. bumanly speaking. | Were all filled. The verb is used of !entiur_: to* satiation. In Rev. 19: 21, it | refers to birds of Jrey.——Fracments. | Pieces, broken off. Not necessarily ref- | use portions of the feast but food suita- { ble for others.——That remained. Rath- | er, that were more than enough.—— | Twelve baskets; usually carried by the l p.lgrims,

: WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. ; Told him =ll that they had done. How | inexpressibly sweet their privilege. Like | home returning after days of weary toil, ' | like the mothec's bosom after the child’s | perplexing tasks. It was more. They | ' were coming back to the center and source .1 of their power; coming back for new | equipment and encouragement. But is I not tnat our privilege to-day? ours even ' | more to the deeply spiritual un-erstand- | ing than it cou'd be the rs. They must ‘gmher atout him after their toils, but i Peter’s elbow, perhaps, struck sgainst that | of James or Andrew, and much as they could get from him, and near as thav could draw, tney could not have him, each one ot { them, as do we, all to himselr. “For we ; have not an high priest, which cannot be l touched with a feeling of ourinfirmities.” He is in touch with our weakness., Let ! us, therefore, “come boldly.” { And he took them and went aside. How | tender he was! How considerate! That word took—received—has a wealth of love a:'d sympathy in it. Have you seen twoardoent friends meet after an ordeal on the part of ove of them? Have you l not seen the deep, voiceless emotion of { the moment as the one draws the other l aside, where, unhindered by the throng. | they can look into each other's faces, and | verily into each other’s hearts, “Come,” ! said Christ, as they returned, perhaps ; trembling with the tumultuousness ot | their new emotions. “Come aside,” and | he drew them with him. What he said ' and did in that time of separateness we ! are not told. But what he has done for | us when hot and bewildered we have | gone aside to him in life’s throngz and | press—of that we are well aware. | The people when they knew it followed " him. Knew what? Simply that Jesus | waus there. When the people knew where ! to find the Son of man they went out to

{ him. Knowing as much to-day they will i still follow him. There is no coldness | between Christ and the multitude. Let | them but see him and they will flock to | him. ILet him but speak to them and | they will acknowledge him. Suppose we | tell the people of Jesus. Make him i known as nigh at hand ready to greet ! them and help them, and perhups as of | old we shall need totake pains to secure | privacy rather than to be perpetually - planning to bring out the multitude. The ! maltitude will come of itself, if only Christ be made msnifest. Be that the burden and prayer of every teacher and preacher, to have audiences with Christ. Audiences with men will speedily and blessedly follow. (3ive ye them to eat. It is the Savior’s ' command. “But we have so little,” is the answer; “but five loaves and two fishes.” Never fear; it is the Savior’s command, and all good things are his. “And they are so many. How can we buy food for all his people?” Be still and know that it is God who speaks, with whom is all power. See he takes our littles and under his hand how amazing the increase! All are fed and more is left than when we began. Ah, this is our God. One whe can prevail by many or few, one who can satisfy by much or little. Bring what you have to him. Bring it in faith and he will make it great. Yea, is it not so every Sunday in school and congregation? We make the people to sit down by fifties, more or less, in a company, and when we look at whut we have to give them, what. is it more than five loaves and two fishes? Yet let Christ be present to bless and O, the feast that God grants! May there ba many such by his bounteous grace to-day. Next lesson—" The Transtiguration.®— Luke 9: 28-36. WaEN the bank cashier skipped the local paper said he was non est—and ever after the defaulter consoled himself with the thought that a non est man is the noblest work of God.— Whiteside Blade. Ix a paper recently read before the British Asscciation it was ably argued that man was naturally left-legged. Tur Hartford (Ct.) Courant, which was first printed on Oect. 29, 1764, is the oldest uewspaper in America.