St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 21, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 December 1891 — Page 3

R R A ARR R B R R | BY POST AND WIRES e ——————————————————— COMES THIS BATCH OF INDI~ ANA NEWS. A Catalogue of the Week’s Important Dccurrences Throughout the State — Fires, Accldents, Crimes., Suicides, Ete. Indiana World's Fair Board. Secretary W. T. Noble, of the Indiana World’s Fair Board, has prepared a report of the expenses of the Indiana department since its organization. They are as follows: Perdien) expen5e5...................... $1,040.89 PRI = e 265.00 Printing and Stationary.......... .... 45,00 IR i R B 870.50 BRI (Lo i s 27.20 I RIS ... it ooty iiiae s 27.00 BRI EIRE . e i i eeabe 8.00 Committee expen5e5................... 47829 ORI i s aaakadsasciasercenies 9N,760,88 Secretary Noble and B. F. Havens, the Executive Commissioner, each receive a salary of $1,200, and they are the only salaried persons in the employ of the Board, beyond the occasional employment of a stenographer. SHELBYVILLE has footpads. MapisoN electric light plant is to be -sold to its gas company. & Mgs. Jou~N ALLEN, of Logansport, has mysteriously disappeared. - "THE Baptists of Lebanen are involved ~in htigation over the titie of their church property. ~MuNciE men are being solicited by New York ‘‘green goods” men to handle their wares. Joux WHITESIDES, one of the oldest and wealthiest citizens of Franklin, was found dead in his bed. NeAr Noblesville John Colburn and Chester Simons cellided with buggies. Colburn was perhaps fatally hurt. Davip Browx and Richard Wolfl are in jail at LaPorte charged with train robbery. They are wanted in Detroit. THE case of Virginia McGill against the Big Four railroad for damages has been taken from Ciay to Putnam County. WasH Goobp shot Louis Curtis at Shelbyville, for alleged familarity with his | wife. Both are colored. Curtis will recover. | Tae Valparaiso Normal School stu-| flents who attend any dance can con-| sider themselves expelled, says a recent order of the principal. | Moses BRADFORD, at one time the wealthiest man in Grant County, and l favorably known in Northern Indiana, , i 3 reported to be insane. ! B. E. WALLAcE, the showman, has i purchasea the farm of Gabriel Godfroy, | near Peru, for wintering headquarters {for his circus and menagerie. Tue Citizens’ Enterprise Company, of | Muncie, has closed a deal with George R. | | Edgly that will remove the Ohio wagon- | ‘ works from Cincinnati to Muncie. I | FrANK ZEIGLER, a dry-goods clerk in the employ of Stewart & Hahn, of Fort ! Wayne, was almost fatally asphyxiated ! | with natural gas while taking a bath. i ' Last Fourth of July Webster Huff | shot John Armstrong at Washington. ! Huff is a boy and recently inherited al | {ortune. Armstrong sues for SIO,OOO «amages, ] 1 J. A. BUCHANAN, Vincennes pension i ‘ axaminer, has an application from al, .:..‘vr;:":r',;:; ont WPI TeEfmeiit wat cdpio : of rebel prisoners. ] ~S. P. WiLLiAns, of Lima, has given | | £20,000 to Wabash College, the income of | which will be $1,400 per year. The sum | will be devoted to the general running | expenses of the college. ; ] WHILE a number of laborers were at | g work in a gravel-pit near Muncie, a ! S cave-in completely buried James Upton. | ¢ The fellow-laborers quickly rescued the | ¢ man, who had one of his hips broken. i i At Muu~ie, while Mrs. Edward Lyons | ( was sittiug with her feet on a hearth v her husband accidentally stumbled over 't her, breaking one of her legs. On ac-| count of the woman's extreme age it is | y thought she cannot recover. L} Tur suit of Mr. Sarah O. Doherty, of | s Crawfordsville, against John B. Robb, ’ b her son-in-law, to recover valuable lead | g lands in Missouri, has resulted in a ver-| j dict for the plaintiff. Dut the plaintiff |} is ordered to pay defendant 85,500, which | ¢ she will willingly do, as theland is worth | £2OO, 000, | O THE electric street-car line claimed its | f first victim at Marion the other day. | Michael MeGrahan, a veteran of the | ( Soldiers’ Home, was walking along the | track near the home grounds, and as a|, car approached reeled in front of it and | y was struck by the platform. He was in-| f stantly killed. He was 47 years old, and | y a seaman during the war. it THE original survey of the Ohio-|f Indiana boundary line has been turned | i ap at Columbus, O. W. M. Ingalls, | ¢ of the Canal Commission, discovered |t among the records in the Auditor of |i State’s office the original survey of the | ¢ boundary line, about which there has}(' peen so mach controversy. The line was | ¢ run by Surveyor Harris under the direc- |t tion of Survevor General Tiftin, who was | ¢ afterward Governor of Ohio. 3 ANSIL BrßowN, a young man of 25 years, visited Lafayette, his home being | r about a-mile from Stoekwell. Brown | C had teen suffering from consumption for | n some time, but, the weather being | J pleasant, he conciunded to drive to the | » ity. Here he transacted his business | : and started for home. He passed through Stockwell all right, and was met by s friend about three-fourths of a mile from his home. He spoke to the | latter, and thatis the last time he was| zcen alive. When the horse and buggy | reached his home members of the family :ame out to assist him to alight, but | were horrified when he*did not answer | their questions. Examination showed that the young man was dead. Ile was sitting uprizht in the buggy, his hands | firmly grasping the lines, but the vital| spark had fled. He became .t‘thc-z‘i { throngh, it is supposed, and in his weak | condition conld not rally. As Milss NerTiE HOSTETTER, a mem- i ser of the Ligonier graduating class of | the High School, was crossing the Lake Shore tracs, she was struvk‘h.?' the Boston express and instantly ‘\'“‘l““- She was carrying an umbrella against a driving snow-storm, and fl«)ubt.h-ss did not see the approaching train. WirLiAM HARROLD, s.(-_\‘t(mf,f Walnut Ridge Cemetery, at Jeffersonville, found n the woods a rude fire-place and a set »f broken counterfeiters’ n.mids. One was for making nickles, while the other was a dollar size. They are thought to nave been left there by a couple of tramps rvm-ntly.

BR S S A S T e FAIRLAND bas a new Christian Church, ODEN was almost completeiy destroyed by flre. -—I‘;DWARD NEeFF found $1,600 in gold at Winchester. Fraxk SAarem, an aged German, died suddenly at Evansville. Tre Tipton County Teachers' Institute was attended by 100 members. GEN. LEw WALLACE may be offered tha presidency of Wabash College. JoHN GREENLEAF, of Peru, was disaps pointed in love and hung himself. CHRISTOPHER TRENGE accidentally shot himself while hunting near Fort Wayne, Tur Evansville Co-Operative Min ng Company has struck coal at a dept' of 240 feet. Mgrs. Emnrny TaorNTox, philanthropist, will found a home for Pike County’s orphais. ] Raverm Warrers, of Reno, was kicked on the head by an old family horse and fell dead. l Marioxn Woop, a wealthy farmer. near | Paoli, was arrested, charged with the | murder of John Webb, Nov. 14, l JosEri MusHoN was sentenced to three , vears' imprisonment for attempting tc kill Joe McCulley, at Seymour. ‘ At Ligonier Miss Nettie Rostetter, 3 beautiful school girl, was struck by a Lake Shore train and instantly killed. Jonx 11. Urz, one of the first children born in Floyd County, died recently at his home in Georgetown, aged 75 vears. AX open hydrant in Bursley & Cos wholesaie grocery, at Fort Wayne, dam'aged the stock several thousand dollars’ worth. SHEPPARD FAvLk~NER, who lived with two wives at Muncie, has deserted them and they and seven children are in abject poverty. Miss GERTRUDE ScHrLATER. of Ander. son, in a few months went from death's door to good health by the transfusion | of blood. | Tur farm-houses of Peter Bishop and William Court, five miles north of Port. land, were burned. Neither man had any insurance. § PaTrick Braprey, foreman ot the Indianapolis Pipe-line Company, at An- | derson, was injured by an explosion of gas while he was testing a pipe. ‘ GrorGE FErßry, formerly a brakeman | on the L., K. & W., has sued the company, at Peru, for 825,000 for injuries re. ceived in an accident last spring. SEVERAL young ladies of Laporte will | sacrifice a quantity ot cuaticle that Ernest Schmitz, recently severely burned, may undergo skin grafting. Tur arrangements Lave been completed between local and Eastern capitalists for the erection of a large plant for the manufacture of terra-cotta ware at Anderson. ; Mgis. EsTHER Puinnies, near Goshen, died, 2ged 90 years. When she died she could enumerate thirty-five grandehildren, sixty-four great-grandchildren and four grcat-great-grandchildren. Wuire Anna Ward, liviog near Wash- | ington, was popping corn at the grate, | her clothing caught tire and before any one came to her assistance her body was burned to a crisp. She died instantly. | IN the Muscatituck River, Thursday, | near Seymour., a young man named Busch, from near Salem, was drowned together with his team, while trying to f Cross the swollen stroam. 'Ph(‘ bfld)' was | not recovered. Fort Wayne, has been sold to George B, | Ketchum, a Toledo millionaire. The price paid was 85,000. Strathso madas the best 4-year-old record this season. i Having decided to build a new Court House for LaPorte County, the Commissioners have accepted the plans and specifications prepared by B. F. Tolan, of Fort Wayne, Ind. The structure is to be an imoposing affair of cut stone,and s estimated to cost 163,000, The old Court House is being torn down, and work on the new building will begin in the spring. : CHARLES McCaNDLESS], a son of Dr. McCandless, of Roachdale, slipped out his father’s revolver and, together with some playmates, went to the woods t have a wild Westshow., Heaccidentally lischarged the weapon while it was yet in his pocket, the ball tearing through his leg. He was able to walk home, and lid not tell his parents of the accident until closely questioned as to the causa of his palid cheeks and weak condition from loss of blood. | WitHiNy a few weeks the Adjutant eneral of the State will Issue the comemissions of the officers of the Stats militia, instead of the Secretary of State, who now issues them. There are about fifty gommissions issued every vear, for which the Deputy Seeretary of State has been accustomed to receiving a fee of 81 for cach. The rural officers have been in the habit of paying this, but the local ones refuse flatly to pay a cent, maintaining that that there is no law requiring them to do so, and furthermore they are obliged to pay enough out of their own pockets for uniform, equipments, etc., when there is no salary attached to | their office. The Adjutant General has | consented to issue them free of fee, and will do so hereafter. i Toe Adjutant General, in his annual report, devotes much space to the disrussion of the last Annual State Encar pment, he'd near the eity of Fort Wayne, | JUly 20 to 285 180 y The consolidated statement of the attendance at the camp | shows the following, by reziments: First | Regiment of Infantry, 351; Second Regi- | ment of Infantry, 456; Third Regiment | ¢f Infantry, 460; Fourth Regiment of Infantry, 275; First Light Artillery, 127; total attendance, 1,696. The Adjutant General recommends that hereafter the camp be held near the center of the State, and not in the immediate vicinty of any large city or town. The site should be on a stream sufticiently large to admit ot bathing, and there should be ' a good field at hand for a rifle range. | Another important requisite would be to | have the site on a railroad, so that the | camp equipments could be readily un- { loaded and reloaded. % TrouvrMax's Stationfon the Big Four, iw:-st of Crawfordsville, will soon be no i more. The depot has been moved one | mile east of the old place, at the crossing ;nf the gravel road. A long side-track i will be put in, and the name changed to | Darter, after J. J. Darter. ! Patrick Henderson, a Panhandle ] section man, was killed by an Incoming ! train on the Little Miami division at i Richmond, while avoiding another train | on the Indianapolis division, where they | parallel each other at the junction. He l was struck from behind and the rear | part of his head s horribly mutilated. {He leaves a wife nd one child.

HOME AND THE FARM. | I A DEPARTMENT MADE UP FOR ‘ OUR RURAL FRIENDS. 5 | _—_— : , i Beorotary Rusk on the Needs of Farmers—- | Invest Your Surpius on the Farm- Large Profits from One Cow—Ahout Poultry—- | Househo d Hints and Decorations. 3 Needs of the lar ners. Now, as to the ignorance of Ameri- " can citizens not farmers regarding the ‘needs of agriculture and the conditions of the farmer, says Secretary ' Rusk in the North American Review, ' I must in this respect ask my readers to take my statement on trust, as [thut of a man who has had speeial . opportunities for judging and who is conscientiously convinced of the nelcessit»_\' for absolute sincerity on this ‘subject. 1 ask the reader to take my { word for it that, great as is the ignol rance of the average farmer in regard | to business matters and city life, it is| no greater than thatof hiseity brother ‘ in relation to things agricultural, nor indeed is it so great. This Weing the case we tind ourselves confrontea in | the presentgrave economic emergency with a serious condition of affairs, We hove a patient sick with a disease our physicians do not. understand; as a result the sick man and his friends, blinded a little, perhaps, by suffering and sympathy in their efforts to arrive at a true diagnosis, yvet endeavor to secure relief from suffering by such ! means as they can command or de- | vise; and who shall blame themn if in‘ " ’ ‘ the absence of physicians who know ’ , Something abouwt the case, they are { perhaps misled into the adoption of | certain nostrums? The farmers at‘ least know their own condition: and "of what use is it to deery the remedies i they sugwest if ignorance of their true I condition and of their needs makes it | impossible for you to soggest ong® | ' For the last twenty-five years you have | | been giving the farmer and his needs | {little or no thought; vou have been | letting agriculture take care of itself | and him. All other classes, all other {interests and industrics, existing | though they do only by reason of the fact that agriculture has called them into existenee and supports them. | have received yvour consideration, have been the objects of your special study. | Is it surprising then, that, as the re. sult of your selfishness, the farmer | { should be indisposed ta trust any one { but himself? Even when you talk to | { him fairly, he detects at once that, | while you talk well and know much | "about many things, vou know little or | | nothing of him and his surroundings. | { If, on the one hand, the farmer lacks | business training and experience in | affairs, you, on the other hand, who | have both, lack to an even greater | Lexteut, and ina most pitiful degree, | knowledge of agriculture, acquaint- | ance with its followers, and famaiii- | (arity with their needs and conditions. | g Tuvest Your Surplas on the Farm, i ‘ When a thoroughbred or a highe ; TETRGS COW- W Hidhe SIUO Wolidi. | butter lin a vear, and a serub cow ou‘i;} makes 340 worth, while it costs buv little more to feed one than the | “other, money invested in improved f breeds of cows, or in a pure male from which to raise up a herd of grades, will pay better returns to the | dairyman than can be obtained from bank stock or railroad shares or Western Farm mortgages. : When a small extra investment in better seeds and more liberal manur- | ing will inercase the crop without | increasing the labor of cultivation, or | when extra cultivation will make an | increase in the money return four | times as great as the expenditure: | when better tools will save their cost ! in one season’'s labor, while with care | thq“\' will (l«)gsrtnl work for tive or ten , yvears, then is the time when the farmer can make money by spending | money. 5 When the expenditure of $25 or 335 | per acre for tile drains will enable a| fleld that now yiclds less than $lO | worth poor grass a season to prodm'ci 835 worth of the best, and fit it for| the growth of any crop that will yield t profitable returns, it is economy to| spend money, and so it is when a sim- | ilar sum or a smaller one will so reno- | vate an old pasture which now only | feeds about one cow upon six acres, so | that it will give more feed and bet- | ter for six times that number.—Amer- i scan Cultivator. ! Handy in Butchering | ogs . Chester J. Broen, of Grinnell, { Jowa, illustrates in The Stockman a ! isimple and very casily made dvvicci N - 1 ,%J_M t ‘ ?’\\»’ | il Gt f‘fL | ‘ e e AT :T P | for scalding and liftine hogs. With % the lever as shown one man can han- | ~dle a large porker with cum]_i:ll‘;lti\'o! case. | § THE DAIRY. ! | Losses from Poor Manufacturers, ’ In the-dairy business, Q_\-I,(\Ci;myl E where cheese and butter are “10‘ | staples, the farmeris g mnmu:u'tu,.(‘r' | . and the salableness of his product, dv*’- ~ bends largely on his skill. It does 1 . . | innn all depend on this, however, fop ;gth(- proportion of butter and cheese %Ilhzlt. is wholly ul}iiL for food is oftén ,‘s”‘_ large that it detracts from the | brice the best would bring if it were : \m)l} Wweighed down by this im‘el.i'm; , stuff, whieh only competes because jt ’ ’ goes under the same name as that of 1 good quality. It is much gained toq : ‘ have th.o fraudulent compounds, oleo- : lmurgzu‘me and the like, brandeq for what they are; but the work wil] not

| be compiéte until the poorer qualities of butter are ruled out of e O e . Rood for cooking, as, ki :,;‘,,5.@‘(“88“’%(1. it flavors | Whatever It Is cooked into, and thus (CSSens AAC demand which using good g< iy ing would increase. In m butter is so gener- | al Y usett for making butter crackers that they are discarded for milk crackers by all having any regard for their stomachs. This is only one of many ways in which the use of poor butter lessens the demand.—American G Tator, e e—— e ‘Washing Butter. Mo Nter makers wash their butter wher in a granular state in the churn. They do this under conviet!on? ’iuf long experience, that be“@? ts follow this method, than ,:M Sing the old method of working out the buttermilk. It has long a‘;"; m;am that water in no : e flavor, grain or keeping ‘l%ifi of bi!tteg but thatlib washes out all casecus matter and {othel' impurities which might injure it If the butter comes soft the water in going through it has a tendency to lcool it and harden the granules so | that it Jwill pack better and be in better gondition for salting and working - gike superiority of this method, says Mm and Home, is shown in | thq 4 k that butter made in the | countiel Orange, Courtland, Delaware, and Chemung, the great but.tcrz distriets of the Empire State, com-| ‘mands & higher price in the New i York market than that from an_v§ iothe!f,Q!!l;;h'm of the United States. | Nine-ténths of the dairymen in these x ‘ counties wash their butter. 1 ! ! THE POULTRY-YARD. [ Mere's for the Drinks. ! Where it is not possible to have | running water in the yards and henhouses, says a poultry raiser in Farm and Home, a never-failing fountain the birds cannot foul is next best. 1t % easy to make one, using an old kKeg. | - Even'a flour-barrel or half-barrel wili serve for some months, Bore two holes in one head. In one place a pipe for filling. The other is for the sseape of air as the water goes in. Cork both holes tightly after tilling. A plece of half-inch pipe set in tightly when the tank is dry will let out - water fast enough for a large flock. This pipe must be just a little lower than the edge of thedrinking-trough. - When water has filled the trough ucep enough to cover the end of the ; ) i " ! e | ’ i ' | | | ] i S, £ e ' oy W. o ! - it ol i pipe, no more wiil fiow out until it has been drunk. By bhaving the trough project into two vards one tank will supply both. If the waterbarrel is shaded n summer the drink will be relished better. The trough should be raised from the ground high enough to prevent the scratch- | ing of dirt into it. . Breed for the Best, i . Do not try to use more breeding | stock than you need. It is often a great temptation to breed from inferior fowls when there is a good | prospect or good demand for eggs. You may make sale of the eggs from | those superior fowls you are keeping, | at the same price as those from the | prime breeding stock, but you a®e deceiving your cwstomers first, and losing their custom last. The suceess | ;Of nearly all old breeders is in a great measure due to their observance of a rule never to breed from any but the best. Poultry Note-. ; . NEVER allow the fowls to go| thirsty. 1 . ApoveE all things keep the hen house elean and well ventilated. . - Dox’'t forget that green food should l be fed to fowls when confined. :, SAVE the best birds for next year's | breeding andsend the others to mar- : ket. ? .~ Ir your hens lay soft-shelled eggs they are probably too fat. Put them | at work seratching. | } DoxN’T forget to keep your chicks | wvny from the hog pen. Hogs lmve‘ Mweakness for young chicks. ‘ TEwesercTTITTOCRGTCLS as well as | pullets are ‘spring chickens.” The | next spring they will be *old roost- ! ers,” worth about half as much in| market as hens. l E YOUNG poultry should not be fed 2 with the older ones. Tt will alw: | pay to keep a coop and provide a | | board or shallow trough in order o | ) cconomize feed. { Tue effect of damp ground and! \Stjagn:mt water on fowls—especially | ‘(m young turkeys—is well known. | Jratal diseases foliow as inevitably in l lt,hoso cases as with human exposure | to miasmatic exhalations A dry 2 !gmvelly spot is absolutely necessary | to healthful conditions. l THE HOUSEHOLD, l Make the Home Neat. ! The surroundings about the farm- ! er’s home should be such as to make it i attractive. There is a money value in neatness in fine lawns and plenty of ornamental as well as of t‘ruiL! trees, especially in the localities ‘whcrc summer boarders from cities |

et e ettt et e make their residence. The city vis Itor wants to be where all the sur- l roundings are of a cheerful character. Doubtless the repellant aspect of many farm homes is one reason why ’ they attract only those who earn money by farming, and in these days i this class can only pay a low price for ' sand. So far as he can do so without { extravagant expenditnres, the farmer l should seek to attract wealth v pur-l chasers, and selling to them fit up other farms in the same way. ' A Trefoil Calendar, I The trefoil picces, says the Farm! and Home, are cut from thick bristol | board and painted the color of al

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i clover-leaf, | the markings ! being shaded | with care. ' Then cut two | clean, even slits in each leaf and ln-‘ sert a pale green ribbon of "the same ‘ width, with | the day of the ! week, the {month and the day of ‘th_e month

painted at regular distances upon ]them, as shown in the sketech. The ribbon must be fitted so as to move easily in the spaces. This is a pretty desk ornament to be made for a “fair or for a gift. | T 3 Removing Stains, ’ To remove fresh fruit stains from | table linen, cover quickly with pow- | | dered starch, or pour boiling water { trom the tea kettie upon them. ’ Finely sifted wood ashes will re.! _; move medicine stains from silver | | spoons. Egg stains on silver can be | taken off with fine salt and damp cloth, | . On fabries that will not be injured | by it soft socap will take out paint stains much better than benzine, ! ' chloroform and similar cleaners. | A weak solution of oxalic acid will | 'remove bad mildew stains and iron ! rust from white goods: ordinarily, | “mildew wiil come out if wet with sour | miik and laid in the sun. Use oxalic cacid with care, as it is poisonous. Di. | luted hartshorn takes mildew from | L woolen goods. | . Grass stains are obstinate, but soft | soap and baking soda will gener- | ally overcome them. Wet the stain, | rub it freely with the soap and soda | Cand let lie a short time before wash- | L ing. ’ | Wheel grease on wash dresses can | |be removed with svap and water. 1t | the spot is pretty oid, wet it tirst with i Kerosene oil, : Househo!d Notes. VINEGAR bottles may be cleaned with crushed egg shells in a litt,le: water. | To BRIGUTEN carpets wipe them ' with warm water in which has been pourcd a few drops of ammonia. A @oob liniment, for inflammation, ‘ Frhenmatism, swellings, ete., is olive AL W UIL Gastrevsnte Y wuleds aaes sVs ey ! A Goop cement is melted alum, | but it must never be used when water | cand heat are to come in contact with 1L ; . Fixe shavings from soft pine wood | ‘make a pleasant pillow. They have' ' special curative virtues for coughs - and lung troubles. | i CLEAN collars on woolen jackets, | Lmen’'s coats, ete., by sponging with ' 'ammonia and water, then with al- ' eohol, then rub dry with a flannel | | cloth. ; . Corper kettles may be cleaned and | | polished by taking a lemon, cutting éit in two: dip one of the pieces in I salt and rub well over the copper. i i HyrosurpniTe of soda is recom- | ' mended for cleansing tarnished silver- | ' ware. It is applied simply with a | cloth or brush dipped into a satu- ' rated solution of the salt, no powder 'of any kind being necessary. Intwo or three rubs all tarnishes are re- - moved. | } The Philadelphia gentleman of the | last century, if he were a man of sash- '( | ion or means, wore a three cornered | cocked hat heavily laced. His hair | was done up in a cue, and its natural ' shade concealed by a profusion of pow- | der. His coat was light-eolored, with | diminutive cape, marvelously long | back, and silver buttons engraved with | the letters of his name. His small | clothes came searcely to the knees; his I long stockings were striped, his shoes | pointed and adorned with huge buck- ‘ | les; his vest had flap pockets, his cuffs | were loaded withlead. * * * When i he bowed to the damsels that passed | him, he took half the sidewalk as he | | tlourished his cane and scraped his foot. | The historian proceeds to convince us \ ‘ that the dress of the lady, asshe gravely | returned his salutation and courtesed ! l nearly to the earth, would seem no less strange to us. “Those were the days of ’ gorgeous brocades and taffetas, luxuvizatly displayed over cumbrous hoops, | which, flattened before and behind, | stood out for two feet on each side: of { tower-built hats, adorned with tall feathers: of ealash and muskmelon bonnets, of high wooden heels fancifully ent; of gowns without fronts; of fine | satin _petticoats, and of implanted | teeth.” It appears that in 1784 this curious custom of transferring teeth from one woman’s jaw to another had I Leen lately introduced in Philadelphia. | In an advertisement yet extant one La ‘ Mayeur announces to his fair but presumably mature patrons, that his business is to transplant teeth, and that he | has within the six months just preceding transplanted 123; and he assures t those having front teeth for sale that L:e will give two guineas for every sound one brought to him.—McMasters’ His- ' tory. TRUE merit, like a river, the deener ‘it is the less noise it malkes.—lTalifax. :

, : SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY ' CONSIDERED. e o A Scholarly Exposition of the Lesson—- | Thoughts Worthy of Ca'm Reflection— Half an Hour’s Study of the Scriptures ~Ti»:e Well Spent. Christ Risen. The lesson for Sunday, December 13, may ®e found in John 20: 1-18. INTRODUCTORY. We have come at last to the resurrection, nay, we have never been away from this - central and essential doctrine, if we have Leen teaching, preaching. Here Is the platform for every gospel proclamation. Peter planting his foot on this rock made his first mighty appeal, mighty, indeed. to the pullIng down of strongholds. Here may we | stand, here alone for success. The demoni stration of Christ’s resurrection has been | the fortress and bulwark of the gospel in | all the years. «Nor.»says Pentecost, «could it survive one day if these infallible proofs l were broken down.» WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. The first day of the week. Greek: Day one of the Sabbath, or, more accurately, One of the Sabbath.——When it wuas yet dark. Better, while. Participial constrac- | tHon.——Unto the sepulchre. Literally, into | the sepulchre, the terminus ad queny. —— Taken away. The word means to lift. It was doubtiess set doan into the sepuichre | or tomb. Then she runneth. Or, she runneth theret fore.——Whom Jesus loved. The word used \ of manifested affection (phileo).-——Taken away. Oriified. Same word as in v. 1. \ ‘1 hoy took away (aorist tense) is more liternl. See Variat ons. - ! Went forth. They were probably stopping together scmewhere near by.——To the sepulchre. Greok: Ipto the sepulchre, with i allusion again to Ihe completion of the action. f‘ So they ran. Or, went to running. (Imi perfect. )——Outrun. Two words in the ? Greek. Ran abhead quickly.——To the sepi ulcher again, into, i. e., into the entrance. § Looking in. Nct in the Greek. Simply: | Stoopinz down he beheld —Yet went he I not in. Not inconsistent with the Greek of !v. 4. He jassed into the tomb entrance. | tho ante-room, as it were, without jrassing on into the interiorn | Went into the sepulcher. All the way in to where the linen clothes were lying. —— ' Saw. RBeheld, i. e., scratinized. i About the head. Rather, upon (epij.— ! ——~Linen clothes. Better, cloths. See i Variations. Bandages. or swaths fer the - body.-——ln a place by itself. Greek, into, | . ey wrapped together and put into a sepi arate place. This orderliness indicated that there had beea no r "dy theft or hasty ; leave-taking. ! Went in, I. e.,, from the outer chamber | Into the inner.——Saw and believed. Probably catching a sudden glimpse of the real significance of the event, the resurrection of Christ. { Fer as yet they knew not The «for» | sel ¥ to give a reason for the lurking , amaze that lies half hid in the preceding | verses. Dr. Conant says, not even yet. see Variations.——That he maust rise. This ! beiny the whole trend of scripture, its . prophecies being otherwise inoperative and unmeaning. Their own home. Greek: To theirs, or " their own. Probably their friends or their | lodgings. They lived ig Galilee when at home. | Sweod. Or, was standing. Kept standing. Pluperfect.——At the sepulchre, or near (pros).——Stooped down and looked into. Greek: Stooped down into. We can readily understand the posture, leaning forvard and possibly kneeling down, so as to thrust her body into the openinz of the tomb, . Sitting. seated compos:dly and calmly, used of judges at 1 Cor. 6: 4. ——Had lain. . Greek, lay. See Bible Union. . They sayv. The they is emphatic; these sany.——Laid him. Or placed him. Thinking of him still us a dead body. | Turaed herself back. Greek, into the . rear or the backzround.——lt was Jesus. | Greek: It is Jesus, realistic. { Supposing him 1o be the gardener. This Xus not the state of minfi to be deceived by | She seemed fearful, lest he were Délng “adnled the offices of sepulture. " | Turased be:self. Better, turning shs (emphatic) said.——DMaster. Evidently recoznizing him. Touch me not. Present tens>. Dr. Boise suggests: Do not continue touchinz or holding me, L. e., as if tosee whethar I am . in the flesh. And then, in implication, T am still in the flesh, #for 1-have not yet ascended,” ete. Told. A form of the word translated gospel.——She had seen. The realistic Greek is, I have seen. WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES, The first day of the week. First, hence- | forth and forever, because of what occurred there in that garden. «This mon:h shall be a beginning of months unto you,” said Moses. A new and greater passover has come and a new beginning, as it were, of days is to be | set. First in reverent thought; frst in ! Christly remembrance. That riven iomb in Josenh’s garden jostled and changed all | things. The almanac, the sacred things of the temple, holy places, holy days, the veil was rent for ali and a new adjustment was | necessary. We have it in the Lori’s day. | Then she runneth. It was a woman that st the new gait for the world. If the messengers of Zion had been walking before, | now they go with all speed, for the King's | business requireth haste. There at Beth- | lehem the shepherds go their earnest but unhasting way toward the manger. Wise i men stalk resolutely and composedly out of | the east. But now we have come to the i riven tomb and the word is now, «Go | quickly.” And Mary has even antici ated it. Back and ferth she runs in the appre- | hension of that empty tomb. It is the birth | of a new alacrity for the gospel message, ‘and it was a woman who inaugurated it. Aye, have not womeu's feet, beautiful upon the mountains of proclamation, been ever | the swiftest for Jesus' sake They have taken away the Lord out of the se:ulchre. she did not know who. But presently she knows; it was net men, but ! angeils. God’s son could not abide in such | narrow quarters as the grave. God's son | and his multitudinous cohorts. “«No room for him in the inn?” Verily so. It was too straitened tor the gl_ry of his birth. He | must be out in the cpen, cut where he could be in touch with all nature and all life. And so there was no room for him in the \ tomb, ample as Joseph had made it. Sig‘nmcant those words of Peter concerning | the bond of death: «It was not possible that be should be holden of it.” True, for this was God. | So they ran both torether. So go our different temperaments together to the tomD. ‘The Petrine, impulsive yet lacking deepest spiritual discernment, comes and at the first coes away simply wendering. The Johannine comes ind sees and believes. It was so also on the sea. Peter was tugxinz at the net; perhaps, too, he was glancing shoreward, wondering. It was then s«that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord.” But if they losa step it is only for a moment. [Peter is presently rejoicing in his Lord, his interse earnestness making large amends. There at the beautiful gate of the temple we see { th:se two with equal pace going up together again. Mary! Tt was this close personal address that opened her eyes. It was the Lord speaking to you and meindividually, and in intimate friendliiness that brought us to I'AI:: feet in glad apprehension. He calls u?‘ by yur names, his appeal to my soul was a3 thouch Lhe and I were alone in the universe. Such near intercourse God ever approves. “The Lord is my Shepherd,” as if David aad God were there by themselves—and they were. S 5 has it not been at times with your own soul? So let it be just now. «The Master is come and calleth for thee.” Nex lesson—« The Risen Christ and His Disciples.” John 21: 1-14.