St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 1, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 July 1891 — Page 3

REAL RURAL READING WILL BE FOUND IN THIS DEPARTMENT. Selecting Seed M heat—Tape Worm Ui Sheep—Needs of tlie Farmers—Mistakes in the Poultry Business—Flan ot PoultryHouse—How to Jlako Milk Fay—About Carpets—Notes. THE FARM. Selecting Seed Wheat. Q . "Vtt'7'HEN I first began -a * ^\/ growing wheat I ■ AV «. JL A ran )n y wheat i

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t>art,of the lot. I notice particularly " where this is and when the wheat is drawn to the barn, this is taken last and put by itself on top of tiie hay. Then it is thrashed first and my own seed saved from it. My soil is not uniform in quality. One could lind spots yielding at the rate of, say, from twenty-live up to fifty bushels per acre. Seldom is there a year, I think, when I can not pick out a half acre that will yield at the rate of from twenty to twenty-five bushels, or twice that amount per acre. But, now, where does the plumpest wheat grow? Where do 1 lind the largest berries? In the thin spots every time. Where do I find terries of large average size, and more or less shrunken some years? In the richest parts of the field, where the growth is great, and the crop more or less lodged. If we thrash the grain and mix it and then grade out the largest berries, we shall be likely to get most of our seed from the parts of the lield that yielded the least. Is the plump individual berry the Lest one to sow, without regard to the conditions under which it grew? This is what I would like to know for a certainty from a series of careful experiments. Prof. Plumb is just the man to find this out for us. 1 take the wheat from the best halfacre and run it through the fanning-mill in such away as to take out merely the screenings—the very small and badly shrunken grains. In most seasons these would amount to one bushel out of from twenty to forty. All grains of fair size are left in the seed. Perhaps you ask: Why not grade the wheat from the best half-acre? Well, which heads contained the largest grains—the small ones with a few kernels, or the longer ones that had twice as many? 1 have thought for some years that the former did, and 1 do not •care to plant them to the exclusion of the others. If it were practical to select the best heads from the best half-acre, and then the best berries from them, I would like to do so; but. as far as my present knowledge goes, I do not care, to »ade my seed from the best of the field. Accept to take out the very poorest. 1 lumped at this conclusion as a H-ifiafter of theory, for it is the result of a good deal of observation, and stiU 1 presume that nine farmers out of ten who go oat to buy seed wheat would select fine, plump grain, from a field which had yielded twenty or twenty-five bushels per acre, rather than an inferior-looking article somewhat smaller and perhaps a little shrunken, from a field which they knew had yielded thirty-live or forty bushels per acre. Cheap Clod Crusher. Take five or six or more hard wood saplings of uniform size, 4 or 5 inches in diameter and straight, 6 or 8 feet long; 18 inches from each end, bore an inch hole; then take a chain and run it △ —■*4)! imr-jfc, „ through as represented in the cut; fasten • it at the outside pieces, and the float is I ready for business. You can hitch so as to work it straight or catering.—Practical Farmer. The Needs of the Farmers. The enactment of a law by which a liberal increase of endowment is made to the agricultural colleges, is an evidence that Congress affbreciates fully the. importance of technical education for farmers. Farmers, says Henry Stewart in Practical Farmer, are to be considered in the light of public servants in a great •measure. Their industry provides food And clothing for the people. It is the I most. impuruni oi an arts, and it is I based upon scientific knowledge which is not afforded by ordinary means of educa- 1 tion. It is an accepted principle of our free and liberal Government that the education of the young is a public charge and duty. This was a fundamental principle of the ancient republics, and is unquestionably the basis of any free and popular government in which every citizen is at once sovereign and a public servant. This idea has been recognized in the establishment of agricultural colleges and experiment stations, and under our present system of protection to na- i tivo industries it becomes a right that j agriculture should receive its share, which cannot be given in any practicable i way in any other manner than by giving i every facility to farmers to make their I industry as productive and profitable as possible. The greatest need of the farmers of the present time is a thorough education. Agriculture is based on a vast system of scientific knowledge which is to be acquired not only through well conducted agricultural journals but by means of technical schools for the young. The schools la}’ the foundation which the agricultural press must be constantly building upon ami enlarging; and the ex- j isting colleges need be made more effi- I ciont. The new appropriatiop of §ls, -1

. | 000 annually for each college, with anincrease of §I,OOO yearly until the i amount reaches §25,000, is thus a j(ist , j recognition by the Government of what i is a pressing need of the farmers. THE STOCK RANCH. Tape norm in Sheep. Reports from the West indicate that many sheep, especially lambs, are being killed by tape-worms. The writer lost several sheep from this cause before it was generally known that sheep were troubled in that way. Lambs sometimes die in a few days after the first symptoms appear, but sheep that have got their growth will linger [ for months and sometimes a year. They * appear dull and stupid, stand with their | heads up and eyes wide open, but show •no desire to keep with the flock. They : grow poor and weak and linaMv die with tlie appearance ot having starved to death. As there is but little hope of saving a sheep that shows these symptoms from any cause tlie best way is to kill them and see that they are deeply buried; or, if medicines are to be tried, put the patient in a pen where the excrement can bo scraped up and destroyed. Turkeys are frequently troubled with tape worms and show about the same symptoms as sheep, tut they are more likely to get rid Os them and recover, and if they run over the sheep pasture may spread the trouble in that way. Impure Water for Stock. Dr. Young, the Secretary of the State Board of Health, has recently had sent to him for analysis, water from a well near the barnyard of a Maine dairyman. From it comes the water supply for all the stock on the farm. The water appeared dear to look at, yet when analyzed it is found to bo by all odds the worst specimen which has yet been received. Five-one-thousandth parts of ammonia would ordinarily be enough to cause a water specimen to be looked upon with suspicion, and this specimen contained one and three-tenths parts of lunmonia, or in other words was as much worse than water ordinarily suspicious from excess of ammonia, as live to 1,3(M). The question arises whether the milk from cows who drink this impure water can by any possibility escape its contamination. Knowing the condition of this water supply one would scarcely feel able to vouch for the wholesomeness of such milk. This is a matter w hich is open to discussion. It will illustrate the fact, however, that many farmers are prone to look upon any kind of a water supply as '‘good enough for the stock.” Nothing could be more fallacious. If a bad water supply is a source of disease to men, one need not expect that it will prove otherwise with cattle. Tlie stock on a farm should have as pure water as that used by tlie family, yet how often it is that we find wells dug as was the one above mentioned, dose to, or even in tlie barnyard, and receiving a large part of its drainage. Can it be expected that cattle drinking the product of such cesspools as these will be healthy?— Maine Farmer. POULTRY YARD. Making New Hreoda. It seems to be the craze of both amateur anil professional poultry met: to either endeavor to get up a new breed or help boom one just started. It is this Yankee notion for “something new” that causes it. Os what use <an it be? When we had the Dominiques, Plymouth Kocks, and Silver Wyandottes, why was it necessary to go further? Have the White Plymouth Rocks eclipsed the original Barreds. Have the White, Black, or Golden Wao’otte? been able to put the Silver Lace. n the shade? We could thus roviev he new foreign vari. ties, but it is useless. There are exceptions, however, but they are few. We believe the Indian game is a valuable addition, but we see no use of the White Langshan, A new breed should prove themselves more meritorious than those already established. When they fail to do that, we have no further use for them. Tlie other day a prominent fancy poultryman told us he had a new breed—the Dominique Minorca, but he admitted they were no better than tlie Black or White Minorca. Granting that they might create a boom, would not a swindle soon occur? Would not the Dominique Leghorns be used t\> catch unfortunate novices? When tlie White Minorca boom arrived, tlie White Leghorns put their best foot forward and won. And so we could continue for some time. When the speculator will cease making new breeds, we may b. more able to near up to perfection in what we've got, but not before.— Live Stock ami Western Fann Journal. Flau of Poultry-House. A plan of a poultry-house has been sent us by Mr. S. Johnson, Indiana the cost of which is Sis for lumber and §5 for labor, or total of §’3. It holds 100 fowls. It is 10 feet wide, 6 feet high in front and i 4 feet feet at the rear. Tlie bouse is 32 i feet long, having two rooms, each < feet ; i wide, and one 10 feet wide, ttie room A iL" > ing-iootn; if, the feed-room; and C, the roosting-r >om. I) D shows steps for reaching the floor. Underneath is lattice railing, enclosing tlie under portion as a resort in rainy weather. W W are windows. E E E are ventilators. The house can be made of any size or height.— Farm and Fireside. Mistake in the Poultry Business, The author of tlie following should have due credit, bo it is going the rounds credited to an “exchange:'’ To think that a man who has never been able to make a living at anyUiing else —who has failed in everything eTse — i can go into the poultry business and I make a “grand success” of it. To try to keep 100 fowls through the i winter in a house that is none too large I for half that number. I To neglect to provide comfortable winter quarters for their poultry. I To waste food by throwing it on the floor instead of feeding in troughs or some other vessel. To dose well fowls with all sorts of stuff to “keep them well.” To think that any “poultry powders,” or any “egg food” in creation, will make your hens lay unless they have proper food, comfortable quarters, and good care besides. j To cram 50 cents worth of drags down I the throat of a sick’ chicken that wouldn’t Ibe worth even a quarter if it -as well.

through a mill, grading it so as to | take out about ■ half, which would be large, plump kernel s. The smaller grain was sold at the mill. At present, saysT. ! B. Leroy, in Rural New Yorker, ray practice is to select, when cutting the wheat, a half acre which promises to yield more than any other

-I To ventilate the poultry house through 1 ; cracks in the walls and floors and holes . in the roof. To put off until “to-morrow or next day” the things that ought to be done to-day To feed one kind of food 3G5 days in a year. To keep a lot of old hens that are 3 or 4 years old. To allow the poultry dropphigs to accumulate in the house for weeks at 3 time. To neglect to supply green food regularly throughout tlie winter. To give all the waste milk to pigs. To buy an incubator before you know enough about poultry to set a hen. To iyitch out a lot of chicks in midwinter.'or very early spring, unless yon have a suitable place in which to raise them. THE DAIRY. How lo Mako Milk Pay. If money making is the object In keeping cows, there are times when more can bo made in other ways than by making butter. During the hot weather when butter is cheap it is often better to find other use for the mHk. 1 have In my mind one woman who makes smearkase, or cottage cheese, thus using both milk and cream. She delivers it to her customers in shining pails, and she cannot make enough to meet her demand. On another farm near me the milk is all made into ice cream and delivered to regular customers. It is put into cans holding a pint, quart-, half-gallon or more; each can put into a pail and packed yi ice, so it keeps nicely for several hours after it is delivered. Ido not advise every one thrush into this kind of work, but every small town will have numerous families who do not keep a cow, and consequently must buy these things or go without. Many of these families are only too glad to make arrangements to take such things on certain days of each week, and by so doing they know what to depend on for the table, and the one who prepares it knows Just how much he has sale for. To the one who delivers it in neat shape and promptly according to agreement, there are good prices to be had in almost any small town. Those living near the large cities or tow ns, of course, have their regular "market days" to help them disposed of such things. While on the subject of milk, let me say to those who cannot churn as often as it should be done, that every time you milk add a cupful of new milk to your cream. It seems ■ to freshen the cream, anti the butter will be far better and come easier. THE HOUSEHOLD. Some!him; About Unless carpets have been woven in j breadths of the desired length and width i for a room, nearly every one getting them ready to put down finds it a difficult matter to keep the edges from fray- j Ing as soon as they are cut. To prevent i this, measure the breadth to be cut off. i anti before cutting it run a double row of stitching, with the sewing machine, on each side of the line where It is to be ! cut off. Cut It lietwecn the rows of ; stitching; it can then be bound, or hemmed, us desired, and it will not fray j or ravel at the ends. A durable and nic< looking stair-car-I p^t may be easily and cheaply made j when one is making rag carpet by hav- i ing a pretty stripe of dark colors woven, as wide as y.>u w ish yum stair > aqwi ‘ ' be, alternating with a stripe, sav two inches wide, using string, warp, or old yarn instead of rags for tilling. When enough to make the length desired has been woven, stitch with the i sewing machine twice across each place > w here the twine or warp has twen woven j in, cut the stripes apart between the ' rows <>f stitching and hem tlie warp stripe down; then -ew the ends of the stripes s<> formed together, and you w ill have a stair-carpet that not only looks well but that will wear as long as two of j the ordinary kind. II (iiiM’ho'd >tint<u Rice, boiled very dry, is n eeptably served with fish instead of potatoes. A hmai i. bag of sulphur kept in a : drawer will prove an absolute preven- j live to red ants. Sprained ankle has been cured in an hour by showering with hot water poured from a height of a few feet. i ommox washing "oa and toiling water should be used to rinse al! the i waste pipes at least once a w> ek or ten | days. It is said that whole cloves put into a * chest witli woolen goods me a better ! preventative against moths than cedar shavings, tobacco k camphor. Silvek spoons and forks in daily use may bo kept bright by leaving them in strong liorax water several hours. The water should be boiling when they are put in. IT ee can be saved on ironing day by placing over Hie irons an old tin bucket lor simila vessel bottom side up. You i need a thick irtm-holder, lined with j paper, to handle them with when heated in this way. A nice way to serve mashed potatoes i is to pass tliem through a sieve, allowI ing tlie p .tato to fall in flake-like form i into the dish into which it is to be ■ served. This makes it very light and palatable. It is sometimes cal led potato snow. — To n.r.ix and restore the < la-ticitv of cane chair ■ -u- etc., torn up the chair bottoms, etc., and with hot water and a sponge wash tlie cane work well, so that it may be well soaked; should it be dirty, you must add soap; let it dry in the air and you will find it as tight and firm as when new, provided the cane is not broken. A novei. experiment which is very simple may give a great deal of pleasure to friends who are of an inquiring mind. The material- are all easily obtained. Pour a pint of boiling water cm thrte leaves of red cabbage cut in small pieces; let it stand an hour or more, mid strain. Prepare three tumblers on a table. In one put six drops of vinegar, another a good pinch of baking soda dissolved in a few'drops of water, and have the third empty. Bring the liqnidj in a pitcher, and pour about tlie. same amount in each glass, and your guests will be surprised to sec tlie first red, seccnd green i and the third blue. — Natiemal Stockman and Farmer. Fooling \»lth People “doctor" too much. They like to have some one look nt their tongue, feel of their pul.-e, and look wi-e. If they won d throw their pills and powders ont of the window, forget that they have pnl-es and tongues and that there are <i eb>rs, they would feel very much bcHcr tor it. The seeuter of pi pulatic n is the skunk.

THE CYCLONE'S FURY. ,T ’ The Munificent c , by ‘h. Liu^ oil t J Monnter c.’ T * r ‘ Struck L US,*’, fr<>m P-ri. The , * at ’blag’s penitentiary SUte widesDrejiAn , t-on Rouge, La , was trous? ? results most disasM U'"'. ol • ”»• ♦En rnnt WP l o for ty prisoners at work in riasK 2L fBC , Ory at tho tlmo o f til cd’ ° f tllat nutn ber six were twenty two were wonnded and horribly crushed. On the second story or contra! floor was tho hospital, where twenty-srx prisoners lay undergoing medical treatment^ of which number four were killed and font teen seriously if not fatally injured. Tho fire alarm was I sounced and the entire fire department was summoned te the scene of thedn adful catastrophe, and together with the eitlz.t n< and prison officials, a dod by the injured prisoners, w< rked vigorously Jor tho rescue of the unfortunate souls, w ho lay, sAmo dead and others dying, confinc^Arier tho great heap of debris rtfat winSKJkly strewn over every qcartorof the Demises Semes of Wie greatest horrorkroeted the eye of those engaged In the rescuing work, and t'he pitiful wails and deat i groans fnpm the m n buried out of sight by nassive heap- of bricks and mortar could to lipard arising from every part of tho wreck, Imploring help, and altogether the scene was heartrending. Pho storm was attended by a most violent rain, in which tho rescuers | toiled for several hours, or until b .th tho IB Ing and the dead wore extricated from the ruins. 1 ho tow boat Sm iky City was caught eight miles below the city, and almost wrecked. One man was drowned, and nine of the crew seriously hurt. Near Brook Haven and Madison, Miss., several people were killed, many wounded, and crips and buildings leveled. At Galveston, Tovas, a driving southwest wind accompanied by heavy rain caused many of the lower portions of tho city to be practically inundated. The wind reached a velocity of Ufty-tive miles per hour. The ehwtrlc-light plant was useless, and tho darkness addl'd to the fury of th • storm made anything tike travel imfossib e, and cause'd many to think that T repot ill >n of tho great storm floou of 18*;> was al out teioecur. All street ra! way service was aba" doned. The worst damage done w a ong the Gulf I eseh, where tho terr.tic forre of the surf carr ed away almost everythi&g within its reach The ti Ie was tho highest known for years and when the wind veered to the west late at night it looked as though i every craft in the harbor was d on**! to i destruction Much uneasiness is felt for tho safety of, tho steamer Fra kiln, duo from the banafia fields of Nicaragua. The*Occupints of tho pagodas and many I of tho beach resorts had to bo taken j out by moans of life-saving line’. ThrougboqLthe city lions s were blown down aa-i steps and stairs wore carried , awa Y ^t^joplo were Injured. sEIiViA m vid.r.o ■ < a Crank Fin nnd •• <1 »»> Iloturti ( » York Tho llpkout-man in his eyrie on Flro Island, iff Now York, was startled by signa strom tho North German L’oyd steamshTfi Eider, which told of a moet- | Ing In mid-ocean with tho big ( unarder Servia. The latter was in tow of tho lit! e oil-tanker < hosier, and had her crank-pin broken. The ac ident was discovered just in tim ■ to prevent tlio piston rod from thrashing around as it i did on tho (By of Paris, when a siini ar I accident befell that vessel off Ireland's coast Tho Servia was perfectly h.-lp-less, except for I.er sails, and It was ■ fortonat • indeed for her that the “tank--1 er" a । pea red-o opportunely. It is also fortunate for tho Che-tor, as sho will get mor" for^salva^e on tfio magndicent Cunardcr ti an she could make In a whole season of oil trale. bho strujg'od along with h r monster bsirI den at tho rate of live knots an 1c nr, retracing tho way to New York. Tlie i < aptain of the Eidor>ays thaX < aptain I Futton of ti o Servia reported his ship 1 in no danger, and declined assistance from the Eider, but requested that a fleet of tugs be sent to him of tho Lfarbor. A large number of passengers were on board the Servia, most of them being < hieago peop’e. Print o George of Greece is also on the ship. MADE ITS LAsT TRIE. Tlie Alons er < uptivc I alb on ot Faris struck by I.ghtning. Tlie frolicsome Frenchman at the Paris exposition had a monster captive balloon, which was one of the wonders of the vast m Ititudes who saw’ it. It wa; brought direct to Chicago, to be use i in a celebration of the Fourth, tv d ascensions were so extensively advertised that thousanas wont to see it. High winds, however, and insufficient gas iUgr» , r* Vend r< <l trips impossible, and preparations w re made for a iator exhibition; But she has made Uer :a»t trip y Tlie dfrcfui electr! al storms which have swept tho Southern Stat s swooped down ujion Chicago in ae midd eof tho night; tho monster Lal oon, with its ICO,<X)t) cubic feet of gas wa- rolling ponderously, making tho restraining hawsers used as guy ropes groan and creak, when flash!—a b fit de •eended and Lhe next instant there was a fabulous mass of flame which startled tho surrounding country by its intensity; a sullen roar, a trembling of the earth, which threw people fro u their feet and ( shattered windows—and tho erstwhile j captive was captive no moro Light- i ning had released it from its bonds, and ! a pile of ashes alone marked the scene ' of its last abiding place on earth. Professors Godard and l'anis, of Paris, who had tlie balloon in charge, were both very sevcrly burned. From Great Itifnds. The true test o' a great man—that, at least, which must secure his (lace among the biihest order of great men—is his having been in advance of his age. Haste and rashness are storms and tem; < JUI , breaking and wrecking bnsine s, but nimblcness is a full, fair wflnd, b owing it ,viih speed to the haven. The gayety of the wicked is like tho flowery surface of Mount ^Etna, beneath wirch' materials are gathered for an erupti. n that will one day reduce all its beauties to ruin and desolation.

TIIE SUNDAY SCHOOL. THOUGHTS worthy of calm reflection. A Fleaunt, Interesting:, and Instructive Lesson and Where it May Be found— A teamen and Concise Review of the Sarnow The lesson for Sunday, July 19, may be found in John 2: 1-11. INTRODUCTORY. We have come back to tho miracles of our Lord. May God bring us back in a real and true sense! There Is a saying abroad that the miracle has lived its day as a convincing power. Have a care. All “.at Christ did as well as all that ( hrist said is life, and it lives and works in all ages We have new light, Ihe I writer bo ieves, yet to break forth on ' nineteenth century paths from all por- ! tions of God s work. “This beginning of miracles did Jesus in ( ana of Galilee and n auifested forth ins glory, Lis divinity.” '1 he miracles begun then have • gone right on with this purpose, to I ■ manifest his glory. WHAT HIE LESSON SAYS. Third day. After tho ca ling of tho ! five, soo last lesson. Marriage, or I marriage supper, Matt. 25:10. ( ana. Four or five miles distant from Naza- , reth, Christ’s boyhoo I home. The ; mother of Jesus, t.u. ry, was his father ■ already dead? i Both Jesus. Rather, Jesus also, the । emphasis being here. And his disi ciples. The five above mentioned, namely, John, Andrew, Peter, Philip, Nathaniel. When they wanted wine. Tischendorf. They had not wine, because the wino of the feast had come t> an end. wine. Greek. Tho wine is not. Tasted. H s official <uty. Knew, I e., “the servants which drew.” Obedience leads to knowledge. Do and know. Called the bridegroom. The word for “called” signifies a loud voice. It was a sort of public appeal. Saith unto him. Spoken thus openly, it was a clover kind of compliment: evidently sincere. Weil drunk. Or, as in I Revision and Bible Union version, drunk freely. Good wine. Whatever God । does is “good.” This beginning of miracles. Greek,; This did Jesus, a beginning of miracles. Manifested forth. 'Vo make clear, distinct His glory, i. e , his divinity. Believed on. Greek, into. They espoused him. Wll.vr IHE LESSON TEACHES. Mine hour is not yet come. Here was life with a nurpos •. Jesus was living according to the divine d rertion, and every step ho took was ordered of God. At a later time he could allow those about him to go up to the feast, but for him-e f there wa- no open gateway in that direction. It was caprice Versus > haraet r. Go Us will was his will, a.id he went forward as one not his own. So went I aul to Ji rusaleru. Sow«nt Luther to Worms So go s every devoted sul to duty, watching narrowly the shadow on the dial, looking for (-ids hour. Heaven has in this sense, too, its own minute men. Whatsoever he saith unto you, do ft. Better counsel, though in part unwitt ng, wa- never given to chur h or leliever. Is it privilege we desire? “Whatsiu ver he saith,” to doit is privilege Is it duty? “JV te-iJLV’i” LlliJiJ 3 duty. Is It JcVoLione “Vnat-o %*<•? h<^ 1 Saith"- look there for orthodoxy. Is it ■ hariti ' •W hatsoever h ' saith” —herein :s love. Would we make progress in < hr -tian apprehension, Christian experi- | ence, Christian joy, peace, victory? . "Whatsoever he saith,” “Whatsoever ho saith.” Go 1 help us to put it on all our ; banners. If he says it, it is true; for he , is truth. If ho -ays it, it shall be; for ; he is the alpha and omega Only “do it.” | Doit. Why? Because hesaith. How? He saith. I ill tho water-pots with water. How? ! we have just been asking. By taking ; him at. his word. But how? we ask ; again. By doing just what he says, i Christ never bids us do what we cannot j ilo He does not ask us to turn water I into wine Ue simply bids us to make the necessary preparation and fulfill tho anteci dmt conditions. He doos the rest. There were the empty water-pots. To fill th m with wine were impossible there: but to fill them with water —that th y could easily do. In this blessed partnership they furnished the water and he furnished the wine. What part have wo in our own salvation? We pro- । vide crude huma i nature, giving our ; selves just as we are And now what ; do»s God do? He gives of himself, he makes us sons. ‘ Salvation bclongeth ' unto the Lord. ” •- -—s-- -a.- I Draw out. now .’ust where that water turned to wine wo do not know, but we doubt whether the undrawn water was wine. As faith’s hand drew it forth it sparkled r d whqre the sun s rays struck across its surface. We speak of buried talents, tr a ures hid in earthen vosse’s But there is no rea' treasure lo<t. It is n t gold till it finds faith's ba id and is brought forth. It is water, ti.l trust, by God’s gra e, transmutes it into wine. The drawing forth gives it value, God working in us to will and to do i f h’s good i leasure. To > many of us are waiting for new power, new ;m---partation. The power ha- already been givi n. tho spirit already poured forth. Lise i, faith and “draw out now.” \n,l lo’i. v. ,1 r, n him. Yes, it is so still. iho discip.es Iwliew, yic ’curie r. the so iower. The skeptic, the! don! ter, remains tlie same. He that I ha’h cars to hear let him hear, (ne would have supposed that all that torn- ‘ pan} would have believed in the divinity ; of Jesus, for this was the intent i f the mirae e But no, only those that gave he< d t > him and made his life their j study were effectually convinced. 1 have sometimes seen God’s power manifested in wondrous measure, a-nd I have said, now ail will see it and believe. Alas it S the few, the few only. The truth is still truth: “As many as received him, to their, gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that bid cve on his name.” It is disciples that believe. Next 1 e son. — “Christ and Nico-: derails ” John 3: l->7. After the Losson. Tin: Bib’e promises to save everybody i to-day, but no hope is offered that anybody can be saved t > morrow. The man who goes around comparing himself to other people, to their disadvantage, is in small business. There won! I be more revivals in the church if the devil never got a chance to go into the pulpit with the preacher. It is hard to und 'rstand how any one ; who always hides his money before he j prays can expect to attract, attention in heaven.

THE WAY THINGS RUN !N THE GREATEST Or GREAT STATES, INDIANA. Things Which Have Lately Happened Within Its Korders—Some Peasant and 8 eno Sad Reading. The Inter-State Drill Tnnrnainent. Ihe judges decision in the inter-state drill tournament, which was held at Indianapolis, has been made public. In the free-for-all infantry drill the prizes were as follows: First prize of §2,500 and Galveston . <’iip. Branch Guards. Company G, St. ! Lo,lis ’- second, si.oeo, Belknap Rifles, | San Antonia, Texas: third, Ssoo Sealey I Rifles, Galveston, Texas. I Artillery—First prize §750, Dallas, Texas, Artillery; second, <250, Rockwlle, Ind., Battery; third, §l5O, Dickson Battery, Danville, 111. Maiden infantry—First prize. Dealin < adets, Jackson, Mich.; second, §250, Fletcher Rifles, Little Rock. Zouave drill—First prize, SI.OOO, Aurora Zouaves, Aurora, 111.; second, Walsh Zouaves. Minor State Item.. —Columbus Peak, of Madison, wa? drowned in the Ohio. —Crawford County physicians will organize a board of health. —Thomas Leo, a prominent citizen of Frankfort, was killed in a runaway. —Maggie Zoble. aged 22, suicided at Shelbyville—the lad she loved didn’t recip. — Clay City Reporter says there are sixty-five widows in that town “including grass.” —John Edwards, of Crawfordsville, took two spoonfuls of ammonia by misj take. —I na Campbell, an 8-year-old girl, j was badly bitten by a vicious dog at Jes- : fersonville. —Cornelius Birch, a Crawfordsville lad, was badly injured by the explosion of a toy cannon. —Rushville churches have all agreed to ; ring their bells only twelve strokes Sundays hereafter. —James Parker, aged 15, playfully blew into a loaded gun barrel and crossed the river at Tipton. —Mrs. David Stine, farmer’s wife, was thrown from a buggy and fatally injured near Columbus. —The body of a 2-months-old male child was fished from Middle Creek, Floyd Countv, by hunters. —Jesse Paulus, of Fort Wayne, a traveling man, was killed by lightning during a heavy storm at Bourbon. —Operations have been resumed at the structural iron-works, which cldsed down at New Albany recently. —The estimated yield of the DePauw peach orchard, in Harrison Countv, this । year, is placed at 5,000 buslv V. A-4— Ni|.|^.. J.Jo be affected with hydrophobia, bit scwral dumb animals, : near Bloomington, before it was killed. —Alexander Smith was dangerously ; slabbed during a street fight at Lexing- ! ton, Scott County, for calling Joseph ; Fall in ger a liar. w —Albert Hicks, a brakeman, fell from a freight train near New Albany, and ■ when the engine went I ack after him he : was i nconscious and dying. —Deputy Internal Revenue Collector John Platt is inspecting the many stills in Perry County, where apple-jack and peach brandy are manufactured. —“Professor” Lake, who had planned to walk 2,000 half-miles in the same number of consecutive half-hours, at Columbus. will not be permitted to do so by tho Town Council. —Elmer Shumaker had two shots fired at him by would-be assassins concealed I near the Lye Crock bridge, north of ; Crawfordsville. This is the second at- ! tempt to kill the farmer. —Annie Farber. GO years of age, was ' run over on the J., M. & I. tracks at ' Bidianapolis, by a cut of cars. Both legs were cut off, and death occurred before a surgeon could reach her. —Jordon Scott, a farmer, living one mile north of Hobbs, was struck by lightning and instantly killed, while in his yard viewing the approaching storm. He was 35 years old, and leaves a wife and one child. —Thomas Hackett, of Reed Station, has submitted to a painful surgical operation that resulted in removing a silver dollar from his esophagus and will save his life. Last week he was amusing himself by tossing up the dollar and catching it in his mouth. One time the I coin came down straight in his throat, | passing beyuuu reach. J^ach eH'ort to recover it only pushed it deeper. Inflammation threatened and tiie operation became necessary. —The wheat crop in Knox. Daviess and Gibson has been put in -hock, and a trip across the land is a cheering sight, for the crop is unparalleled. Tlie farmers are rejoicing in the bounteous harvest. Such a yield was never before witnessed in this section of country. Good judges place th" yield of Knox County at about a million and a half of bushels, and in each of the other two counties named, the yield will not fall behind that in Knox. Already tho threshing has begun, and sliipmenja^?^ - * new wheat East are being maux**^ —“Sam” is the name of 1 fire department horse that lias green twenty-five years of service at Jeffersonville. —With the new reservoir completed at New Albany the water supply of that city will be 45,000,000ga110n5, an amount sufficient for three cities of equal size. —Four boys of Birdseye found an old coat near the railroad and began tossing it about and boating each other with it. A bank note slipped from beneath one of the patches. The boys ripped the coat to pieces, and it panned out §1,711.