St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 35, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 March 1892 — Page 7

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/ inf* w^'w J Lvk/yWi i^iv CHAPTER HI. After a dreamless sleep in his great four-posted bedstead Jack awakened in the cool, fresh morning to find the ■bright sunlight pouring through the broad, deep windows. He required some seconds to accustom his eyes to his new surroundings, then bouncing out of bed and dressing with unusual haste he found his way to the garden. “Ah,” he said, inhaling with keen enjoyment the pure, fresh air about him, “what a contrast to the city! I wonder if she is about.” “You shouldn’t speak your thoughts aloud, if you don’t wish people to hear them. Have you just come down? I’ve been up for hours. Maje and I have had a glorious gallop.” Jack turned with a slight start, to see Mary standing in the path beside him. “How did you get here without my seeing or hearing you?” he questioned with some astonishment. “Did you rise from the ground or drop from the clouds?” “Neither, inquisitor. I am only an ordinary mortal, so ordinary that I am about starved at the present moment. Do come to breakfast, please.” “Certainly,” returned Jack, following obediently, “with great pleasure. I have not been riding, but my appetite has assumed extraordinary proportions, I confess.” Mr. Millard was seated in the diningroom reading, but as they entered he laid his book aside, and after kissing Mary greeted Jack with kindly warmth. “I hope you are both in good appetite,” he said, as they seated themselves about the table. “I can safely count on Mary, I think.” “Always, grandpa. More particularly this morning I am ravenous, and I see muffins. Under the circumstances I must begin my breakfast. “Grandpa,” she added, when the first ■edge of her hunger was borne away, “Mr. Beverly has confessed to being something of an artist. That something is his qualification, not mine. He has also promised to show me some of his sketches, provided I show him some views worth copying. I think that must be a pleasant way of making one’s living. Painting pictures, I mean.” "Yes, my dear,” smiled her grandfather; “but with Beverly it is an amusement, rather than a profession.” He turned his eyes questioningly upon Jack. “I must confess to having made it my profession,” returned that young man, pausing in the act of buttering his muffin. The old gentleman appeared puzzled. I “You surprise me. I understood you I practiced law. Is it possible I imagined :

Alas, how time flies; it seems but a few ' years since, and yet ” He sighed and fell into a musing I mood. “Evidently off his mental balance,” thought Jack, surprised at the information he had just received. “Father never had a law ease to my knowledge. Perhaps I’m off too. It would not surprise me in the least. I wonder if I shall hear any more new points in my history. ” In this he was disappointed. Mr. Millard preserved an almost unbroken silence during the rest of the meal, and immediately at its conclusion withdrew to his library, telling Mary to take good care of Jack. “That leaves me to your tender mercies,” said Jack when they ■were alone. “What do you intend to co with me?” “I don’t know,” she said quite seriously. “What would you like?” “Suppose we walk,” he suggested. “Well. Oh, I forgot, I have not fed the chickens yet. I must do that first.” “Ail right; let me help you.” “You,” she repeated with an irrepressible smile. “Well, yes, you may, but I warn you in time. You don’t known what you bargain for. ” “I’ll bear the consequences. Lead on.” Thus commanded, Mary tied her hat under her chin, and with Jack in her wake, proceeded to the kitchen. “Is the chickens’ breakfast ready?” she asked, walking in upon the astonished Jeannette. “Mr. Beverly made me forget the poor little things. I hope they have not starved to death.” “I wonder what you can be thinking of, Miss Mary,’’was the answer, as Jeannette gave a comprehensive glance at Jack standing meekly in the doorway. “Os the chickens, of course,” responded Mary, composedly. “Mr. Beverly intends to keep off the old hens and ! roosters. He will be useful as well as • ornamental.” Jack bowed gravely at this allusion to ' his double capacity, while Jeannette { continued to look mildly shocked. “I’ll feed them chickens myself,” she i finally declared, with ungrammatical decision. “You’ll do nothing of the kind,” was the equally decisive reply. “Here is the P a jo Mr. Beverly; please carry it.” “Certainly,” was the prompt response, as Jack brought down a pile of kettles and pans in his effort to reach Marv the ■ more readily. “Any damage?” he added, i stopping short. “No, sir,” answered Jeannette; “but I do feel so ashamed of Miss Mary.” Come, said Mary, ■with imperious ' brevity; and, J; ck obeying promptly I they wore soon the center of a group of expectant chickens. E\ idently this pail appeals to their appreciative minds and palates,” re- ' marked Jack; or is my manly beauty ' the attraction?” “The pail, certainly,” returned Mary, ( with dissilusionizing assurance. “Now’ ' I will show you what to do. This is only ' tor the mother hens and young chickens. I feed them here, and I always have such a, time to keep the older ones from getting in. See that opening there? That is where you are to stand and keep a sharp watch. They will get in if you

I give them a crevice. First drive those little ones in. Pshaw! You’ll frighten : the life out of them. See—this ■way. Shake your apron at them.” “But I have no apron,” expostulated Jack. “Well, you must shake something; your coat will do. There, they are in. Get 'a stick, quick, and should another chicken try to pas, strike it, if you can.” Mary gave these instructions with the utmost gravity. The ludicrous side of the situation did not appear to her in the least, and Jack, quite carried away b by the excitement of the chase, had no i time for any other consideration. > “You look tired already,” observed ) Mary, after a few seconds, as Jack paused from his apparently laborii ous efforts to mop his brow. “Take i care; there is an old hen and a red i rooster coming up behind you. Send ) them flying; I detest .bo^h of them. Sho! Sho! Didn’t I tell you not let • her in?” , “Is she in?” cried Jack, in distressed ’ tones. “Confound her, she was out a second ago. Here, you white imp, come > out. No, you don’t. Get out! Get out!” “Say ‘Sho,’ ” interrupted Mary. “They ) don’t know what ‘Get out’ means. Look, I quick! There’s another rooster trying to get between your feet. I don’t believe you are much help , after all.” i Mary come to this conclusion as the robster succeeded in eluding Jack’s stick, and with outspread wings and a shriek of victory sailed into the forbidden Eden. “Help?” he repeated in disgusted tones, “who can help with such slippery creatures? I’d like to break that thing’s neck.” “Pshaw, how a man can work himself up over a little thing. You’ve made more fuss this single morning than I have done in a hundred.” “I think you tremendously ungrateful. For my part I think it worse than break1 ing stones on the street. I'll keep on ' banging if you say so. The things are like Pat’s fly; I think I have them, but when the stick comes down they are not < there.” ■ “Os course they are not. No sensible chicken would be. I’d be delighted, though, if you could manage to catch ' that old rooster. He is the greediest thing imaginable, and is always getting what is not intended for him. He has ■ the luek of finding the biggest worms, and when Oh, dear, I shan’t talk any more. You have let about a dozen chickens in.” “So I have,” was the contrite answer. “They are worse than eels. Confbund them! How shall I get them out?” “Impossible,” said Mary, with a resigned air. “I sisppose it isn’t so bad. Everything is almost gone. Bather warm, wasn’t it?” “You are making game of me,” returned Jack, detecting the spice of mischief in her words. “I call that ingratitude.” “Oh, no. Please don’t think me ungrateful. I am really much obliged, and to reward you I shall take you for a nice walk and show you some of the I loveliest views imaginable.” I “Youcan be kind sometimes,” he renlied. as she ran off.

- the lute unconseionaTtlenTmt^^We^by i that thermometer of yours. I find it I I quite pleasant, not to say gratifying, to read that the mercury stands at 98 deg. j in New York, and then look abroad upon ; my own cool retreat. Weston is as pleasant a village as j one might wish to see, and its surround- : ings would make an artist wild with de- | light. Not being an artist—a profession to which my friends here insist upon relej gating me—my staid, legal mind man- , ages to preserve its accustomed balance. Before leaving the city, I told you Imy address would be South Weston, ; that being, as I then supposed, the one . given me by Mr. Millard. I have since i discovered my mistake. A most fortu- I nate incident put me on the right track. On the car I got into conversation with a gentleman who lives in Weston, and knows Mr. Millard intimately. He immediately gave me my true bearings. This saved me some annoyance, though ■ I had some slight trouble about my | trunk. I have been puzzled to know I how I should have gotten South Weston iin my mind. I asked Mr. Millard about i it, but he appeared quite unable to under- ■ ; stand. To admit the plain truth, I canj not quite understand him. He is a most I pleasant and agreeable gentleman, but | his attitude toward nm is bertainlv not ■ ■ what his letter led me to expect. They ■ were more than cordial. He has never mentioned my father’s name, and the letters which passed between us are as though they never were. He doesn’t mention them and I don’t. You will be surprised to hear also that I have been allowed to take up my quarters at the 1 el, when you know I had quite ex- | pected something very different. Surely, I ivas never more mistaken in the terms | of an invitation in my life before. । Meantime affairs are very pleasant. I There is a Mrs. Millard, a fact that , rather surprised me. She is a most j charming woman, and her daughter, i Miss Ellis, or Miss Kilty, as everybody j calls her, is equally so. Under the cirI cumstances I spent a large portion of I my days at Glendale. i I wish you would find time to run up ■ here for a while. This delightful air ' would infuse new life into your veins. The hotel which I honor by my residence is called Fair View, a piece of conceit and delicate sarcasm which I highly appreciate. It is full at the present time, so my landlord informs me, | and between ourselves, he is, not unj frequently, in the same condition himI self. However, he is free, white and 1 twenty-one, and I won’t begrudge him j his little irregularities. In fact, no one । dees, unless it be his wife, a most re- ' markable woman, who manages the i house and her poorer half in a manner | calculated to win the admiration of a । Dame Aan V inkle. In my estimation, j the one wise thing John Shrimp ever did ; was to make Matilda Butler Mrs. 1 Shrimp. Matilda, so the story goes, was mis- ; tress of a country hotel, less pretentious ■ even than this present Fair View, when the worthy John happened along and took up his residence ther . John was a logician in his way, and thus he argued, as did the worthy Bitteredge before him, Matilda being single, obliges me to pay my board. Ma-

tilda, being Mrs. Shrimp, gives me my board for nothing. Therefore, Matilda j shall be Mrs. Shrimp. Result: For fifteen years Matilda has boarded John Shrlmp»for nothing. Come , and have a glimpse of this shining ex- | ample of wedded bliss. Come, I say, but don’t expect firstclass accommodations. You may share my room. It is the best that could be done for me under existing circumstances. I have this on the authority of Mrs. Shrimp, accompanied by one of her sweet smiles, and prefaced by the request to be allowed so to speak. It has its drawbacks, however, among others, a lack of substantiality in chairs, bed, etc. I admire a certain steadiness . in furniture as well as people. If you ■ fancy the daily routine of my life I can promise you plenty of it. Immediately ( beneath my window is the residence of a j comely sow, who is at present rearing a thriving family, and my interest is always keenly alive to the interesting, not j to say instructive, spectacle. Don’t let this brief description frighten you, for I really pine for a glimpse of j your seraphic countenance. It is now ‘ almost mail time, ami as I wish to get this in I must stop immediately. Write j if yqu are alive, and come if possible. ' Yours, etc., Jack Beverly. ; “One duty accomplished,” soliloquized j the writer of the above, as with a grand | flourish he signed his name. “Astonish- 1 ing what a borp writing is at times. Now what to do with myself. A distressing ; point to consider. I wonder if one ' couldn’t die of stagnation hero. I might under other cifeumstances. Ah! I had almost forgotten my letter. I will mail | that and then run ov< r for a chat.” This slightly ambiguous conclusion was evidently highly gratifying to the speaker’s feelings, for he smiled quite j cheerfully as he changed his coat, ti ok his hat from the peg on the door and left his room. I Ten minutes’ walk brought him to the । posfofflee, and upon his inquiring for the . mail, one letter was handed to him. As the writing was quite strange he turn d the envelope several times, examining it > critically. Gaining no information in this way, he went to the corner by the window, and breaking th ■ seal, read with much surprise the several closely written j pages. “Dear Jack—Your letter received and much appreciated. Under present eir- ( cumstances I scarcely hoped to bo re- j membered al all. and my disappointment in that particular is therefore the more gratifying. “Upon reflection, I don’t fe 1 grateful t at all. After your pitching into me I I feel <b eidedly ungrateful, not to say boligerent. What have I (old Mr. Millard? you ask, with inquisitorial brevity. How under heaven did I find out so much about you, and why in the mischief didn’t! let you into the secret? So you go on for a page or two. Now, my dear fellow, just cool off a bit. There’s not - - ing in the world to get, into hysterics about. In substance, I told Mr. Millard that you were my friend and an exceedingly nice young man in e\ery respect. What more would you have? “As to family history, relationship, genealogy, and such intricate subjects, I know as little of yours as I do of my own. I refrain on principle from becoming interested in such unsatisfactory researches. My ow. family has nev r been particularly distinguished, thank heaven, and if i should, by same remote chance, become great, 1 shall not be Subjected to the painful experience of, *^uT w i t It—A^**^* - *^*^ - ^ ** ■ f r.-11»।:! Hi b u*. ■ ■ ■ * f l .• . ■ ; ' mean article the other day on How a’ i Aoung Man Can Liv • on T< n Dollars a Week.’ I returned it with elaborate thanks, and the mild inquiry as to whether it might not be applicable to old mon as well. No answer as yet Ihe cit,. gets <>n pretty well without you. A few people are still left. We are not a deserted village by anv means, though your quarters look’ dismal enough. Scenery with you attractive, you say. 111 warrant you find a certain pair of eyes attractive, too. Well I don’t blame you. I’ve been there before, you know. “By the way, I ran across John the | other day. He inquired for yon most, particularly. 1 here's a young stranger at lus 1. «so—weighs ten’pounds, and'is said to resemble his father, so far as a pronounced color permits one to judge. If you had married Mrs. John, as we thought one time you might, this joy would have been yours. Do VO u feel no regret? Answer in your next.” In haste, “Frank.” ■ “Frank.” repeated Mr. Jack Beverly, turning the letter in various directions' with the air of ofie expecting Frank to look out upon him from its pages. “Who in the devil is Frank? And who is John, and Airs. John, whom I might have married, and the young visitor? Confound it, I wonder who is trying to play a joke on me. A mighty poor one I must call it. Frank! Frank! Did I ever know anyone by the name of Frank’ Never to my certain knowledge.” He knitted his broiv over this effort at recollection, and looking straight b^bre him, gave vent to a long, low whistle. Then once more reading his letter with- । out gaining any wisdom thereby, he put it in his pocket, with the words, “I’ll find the writer of this brilliant effusion ! before I die. Now to see if Miss Kitty is at home.” J With this idea in view, he sauntered out into the shady street, an I walked for some distance in deep thought. Turning from the little village into a wellkept road, he soon reached a handsome, ' modern-looking residrmce, surrounded by beautifully laid out grounds. Ah, she is theie, lie said softly as a tall, fashionably dressed girl rose from the hammock and came to meet him” with the words: “I thought you might come this after- , noon. Mamma is out, and I have been dreadfully lonely.” [to be continued.] Take good care of your stomach. It is not a pretty thing to talk about,' i but upon its condition depends the I slate of your temper, your ability to keep your friends, Ilie pleasure you will find in sleep, and two-thirds of I your enjoyment in life. If it is full i your conscience docs not trouble you’ : If it is empty or out of order, you are ; likely to behave in such away that even your own mother will see faults • in you. Half of the heartaches in । the world, and all the “unsatisfied I longings” that distress poetical peo- 1 plc, may be traced to a stomach that ! does not work right.

IF YOU ARE IN QUEST OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING: Important Happonings of tho Week | Crimes and Casualties — Suicides— Deaths—Weddings, Ltc. Minor State Items. Mrs. Owen Walker of Goshen, took poison and died in twenty minutes. The Catholics of Muncle will erect a 830,000 church during the present year. Muncie people are entering a great I big kick on street car service in that city. ! The painters and paper hangers at Crawfordsville iiave organized a union, , and will fix a schedule of rates. i Joseph Thorpe of Portland, got a five i years’ sentence for stealing a black rooster. He was an old offender. { Mrs. Charles Stout of Noblesville, committed suicide because of a bad real estate deal made by her husband. I The dead body of a male infant that had lived but a few hours was found in a j ! sink-hole at Canaan, Jefferson County. Harvey Richards, Muncie nail- । worker, badly burned by shower of redhot iron slivers striking him in the face. Rea' S. W. Brown has resigned the ! pastorate of the Christian Church at Crawfords\ file, and will enter the evangelistic field. | Fire, supposed to be of incendiary i origin, destroyed the barn and contents belonging to Mrs. Mary Crawford at Martinsville. I During the recent revival meetings held in the different New Albany churches, 300 people are said to have ' joined church. ! Dr. W. 11. Hixon, Spencer, has sued I Pennsylvania Kailroad Company forslo,- | 000 damages. Hurt by getting off a! train near Farmers’ Station. j John Boyer, a “trusty,” who has j twice escaped from the Jeffersonville] Penitentiary, was recaptured at his I mother's house at Princeton. । While Mrs. John Fraim of Montpelier, ! was washing her 2-year-old baby fell into a tub of hot water, scalding its head and back in a frightful manner. j Officers are in search of a naked man ■ roaming the woods between South Bend and Valparaiso. He is supposed to be an escaped lunatic from the Logansport I Asylum. । George Kessler, a country bruiser, who tried to clean out the town of Silver Lake. Kosciusko County, precipitated a riot ami thirty-one arrests were made before peace was restored. i Geo. C. Sroi.i., editor Muncie Tribune, was assaulted and severely hurt by John Love. The paper had published an attack on Lute’s two sisters, and the - Ar Seymour, while engaged in tearing down the old O. A M. round-house, C. Montgomery ami Granville Deputy of i Par's Crossing, were injured by a portion ' or the brick wall falling on them. Over a year ago an 1 l-ycar-old son of Dr. DeCaux Tilney of Crawfordsville, was bitten bv a garter snake while wading a branch. The bite was in the instep, and began to pain him. His leg began to dwindle, and was soon useless, until It. will have to be amputated.. • An east bound Panhamlle train killed a man at Gem. He was under the tutlu~r H-ionr While tl<« «mli> was k <n',. Stopplhg from the ear. be fell bnel.w; r.l- --■ and his head was crushed. He was a wood-cutter nr.im d John Nagalle. ' “Wiirn Caps,” at Marengo, tied a rope around ( h ireh Mattox’s neck, and were going to beat him for -t, aiing । ork. lie proved to be the wrong man, and, in excusing themselves tor the ill-treat-ment. Mr. Mattox discovered their identity. He now threatens to prosecute them. The tax for aiding the Chicago, Indianapolis ami < hattanooga Southern railway wa< voted at Mitchell In a majority of 231. This is considered a tig victory. Work will be commenced at once on the part of the route between Rockport and Indianapolis, and it is the Intention to have a direct route from there to Chicago bv the opening of the. World’s Fair. 1 Pa i r.x i s have been granted to Indiana Inventors as follows: Edward D. Chipman and E. L. I). Foster. Goshen, springs for beds, cushions, and chairs: Charles . M. Dver. Coverdale, 10l ..oaph relay: ' August H Herzog, Mishawaka, foot-rail for counters; Benjamin F. Osborn, near Nora, truss rail fence; James Pittigan, Goodland, washboard; Charles L. Ratliff, Marion, index; David Wiser, Plymouth, drive well filter. 'The body of William Raridan was found near the Panhandle railroad at. Marion, under circumstances that indicate foul play. He is known to have had money in his pocket when he started home, and only 30 cents was found on him Felix ' J’oole, who reported the find, admits having seen the body of a man across the track the night before, where the corpse was found, but declared that he had not the courage to investigate the matter. Raridan’s skull was fractured, and there were other bruises about the head. The suit of the town ot Monroe Citv against Sylvester T. Stelly to enforce a town ordinance, has been decided in the Gibson County Circuit Court in favor of the plaintiff. Steffy is a saloon-keeper at Monroe City, Knox County. Several i months ago the Town Council passed an ordinance requiring that all screens, frosted windows and hindrances to an i unobstructed view of the interior of a saloon in the village be removed. Steffy refused to comply with the provisions of the ordinance, hence the suit. The defense denied the legal right of the town to pass and enforce such an ordinance. ■ Judge Shaw of Knox County, and Judge i , Welborn of Gibson County, have now i both upheld the validity of the ordinance. ! ; The case attracted much attention, as it ] ’ is the first of the kind ever tried in Indiana Salem is in a commotion over a revival in the Alethodist Episcopal Church.; 128 conversions and as many additions have beer, made to the church, and i ; twenty of the families have been brought | j into the church. Some of the best men | ■in Salem have been converted and the ; work is going on. John B. Craft, a once wealthy man ; at Brazil, now janitor of the City Buildi ing, is dying from a stroke of paralysis. !He drank up his fortune, and while in I the poor-house claimed that his angel j mother came to him in a dream and i begged him to swear off, which he did, und never touched a drop since.

Marton is to have a lawn mower factory. An epidemic of a peculiar form of mumps is raging in the vicinity of Evansville. Sophronia Scott was indicted and arrested at Evansville for the murder of her infant. Hannah Hamer, one of the few remaining first settlers of Mitchell, died at the age of 84. Bayless Stager is the fifth car-re-pairer at Brazil who has been killed bv the cars backing over him while at work under them. Henry' Kramer, young farm hand, near Fort Wayne, arrested, charged with being highwayman who robbed Miss Kittle O’Rourke, school-teacher. Several switchmen on a wrecked E. & I. train at Brazil saved their lives by I jumping from a number of loaded coal ; ears that pitched down an embankment, j William Geubick, Valparaiso, is ; making efforts to find out who his par- ! ents are, and where they live. He was : kidnaped when a small child during the i war. F. D. Gardiner, a farmer living near : Fountain City, gave a bale of hay a vi- ] cious kick, dislocating his spine and rupturing the spinal cord, causing death in a few hours. The new steamboat Belmont was destroyed by fire on 'White River, four I miles west of Washington. Tho boat ! was owned by Hyatt & Rogers. Loss about $15,000; uninsured. Frederick West of the Farmland Enterprise office, while running a job press caught his right hand in the bed of press, mashing it in a terrible manner. He may lose both “type lingers.” John Clark, a wealthy farmer of Knox County, was killed while overseeing the work of erecting a barn on his farm, near Oaktown. A heavy beam । fell on him, causing instant death. It is reported by telegraph from EnI glish, Crawford County, that Emory I Slavin ate two cans of cove oysters in i two minutes, thus winning a wager of i $lO. It is not said what will be done ] with the guilty wretch if found. The Parker Commercial Club of i Parker, Randolph County, wishes tocor- ; respond with manufacturers wishing to ■ locate in the gas belt. Free fuel will be : furnished to anyone who will manufac-

। tore corn-planters, hay-rakes, harrows, । j and cultivators. I’resident Meyer of the Fort Wayne I Base Ball Club, has called a meeting of i the various clubs which propose to enter ; the Ohio-Indiana League this season, to be held at Terre Haute. Mr. Meyer is : very sanguine over the outlook, and says the league will be a sure go. In the northern part of Bartholomew County, in an old Baptist Church that j has not been used for twenty years, a [ young man ha- begun preaching, amt • I now the building will not hold all who , desire to hear. Services are held each ] night, and people are said to begin ar- ! riving as early as 1 o'clock in the after- ' noon, so as to get seats. Some excitement is being caused throughout Charlestown Township. ' Ciark County, by the report that a rich deposit ot silver had been found on the farm ot John N. McCoy, who resides near Ci arlestown. Ho has several times : found a mixture of silver and lead and has three pieces about the shape of a silver dollar which very much resembles silver with unusually heavy alloy. I Ex-Cot nty Tr.-asi tiER N. A. Cai.i. met with a serious accident near Ander- . .<>«. whh h It is feared will terminato

'ti*- ■ tTf* «is wn-irin? —rm ‘YFt'r- I:i rTH" rdlin^ thts an<l cot I’.'.mrht under one, i which crushed his hips and legs in a s .'hocking manner. He is unconscious and Iris I ecn in that condition several hours. Mr. Call is one of the most । prominent citizens of the county. Ihe 3-year-old daughter of Benjamin 1 Manoroof I’nion City, camo very near . losing its life. The child was playing with the fire, when its clothes caught and were soon in Hames. She at once ran to her father, who extinguished the flames by rolling her across the floor, but not until he had burned his hands to atrisp. The baby's loft side, arm and icg were badly burned. The life of the child was saved, but she is in a critical condition. A siNGVf Ait and unfortunate accident I occurred at the ear-works, Jeffersonville. I B. F. Legcl, one of the employes, to- i gether with some others, was engaged in placing a large sill in a car, when it slipped, and striking Bagel, threw him a distance of thirty feet. He was picked up bleed,ng and unconscious, and taken j to his home, where Dr. Peyton, the com•pany's surgeon, attended him. It is fear' Lis injuries will prove fatal, as he 1 had bm-ly recovered from the effects of ; anothe r accioent. A great temperance revival is now in progress at, Osgood. William Murphy, the temperance evangelist, has been laboring since March 1 with unprecedented success. The walls of the citadel of intemperance have been shaken and • nearly nine hundred have signed the ; pledge. The whole country round is 1 aroused by the fiery eloquence of tbis [ apostle of temperance reform. The vil- ; lage has four saloons, but since Murphy’s arrival tl.ev have lost their best patrons, I as the revival has been especially among t the class of drinking men. Lease hunters are now hovering j i around what is supposed to be a rich ! i sine deposit along Hock Creek, in Car- ; : roll County. Several weeks ago a young : ' man from the Hock-creek neighborhood ; ■ went to Logansport, and in an office j i there saw some zinc-ore from Joplin, i Mo. Asking what it was he was told, ! and replied that there was lots of it ! | along Rock Creek, and When he went i - home sent several pounds of the deposit * ■to Logansport. The result was that : j several capitalists, headed by Senator ' . A. R. Shroyer, hastened to the place, ■ : and leased at out one thousand acres be- ; j fore any one else knew what was going i I on. Now that the secret is out, scores ! ;of people are trying to get a lease. The i ' Shroyer syndicate has arranged to sink | i a shaft, and work will be commenced in i | a few days. The excitement in the neigh- I borhood is up to fever-1 eat, and there । are many prospective millionaires. 11. W. Pircell of Urbana, 111., de- : sires information of Thomas Tracey, a j soldier, Irish, who served in Company G, ! First Regiment Ohio Light Artillery. ! ! He was in some county poor-house in In- j diana the past winter. Workmen sinking a shaft below the I I present vein of coal, which is being ’ j mined at tiio Vincennes coal mines, penetrated a vein of coal live feet thick. Immediately beneath this is a stratum of i fire clay fourteen inches in thickness. Beneath tiiis ie a two-foot vein of coal. Both the upper and the lower mines will i be worked, and the fire clay will bs utilized. .

HOLDING THEIR GRAIN. MANY BUSHELS OF WHEAT IN GROWERS’ HANDS. Information Kegarding the Distribution of Wheat and Corn—Biggest Reserve on Record-860,000,000 Bushels of Corn Held by Farmers. Government Crop Report. The March report of distribution of the wheat and com by the statistician of the Department of Agriculture makes the stock of wheat in growers’ hands 171,000,000 bushels, or 28 per cent, of the crop; 63,000,000 of spring wheat, and 108,000,000 of winter wheat, much of the latter in States which have prac- • tieally no commercial distribution, but j entering into local consumption for j bread and seed. This is the largest re- ] serve ever reported, that of the largest : previous crop, in 1884, being 169,000,000 ! bushels. The exports from July 1 to I Ma ch 1 Avere 104,000,000 bushels, the j fall seed 26,000,000 bushels, the coni sumption apparently 200,000,060 bushi els, but a large proportion is taken i for consumption' in tie fall and winter, and the actual consumption is disprojorticnately greater than in the spring and summer. The assumed • consumption from March 1, 1891, to | March 1, 1892, is 300,000,000 bushels for i a population of 64,300,00 .'; the exports, ; 206,000,000 bushels; the seed, 56,000,000 I bushels; a distribution of 562,600,600 i bushels, with 41,000,060 visible and 171,I (160,000 invisible stocks. There are , 27,000,0 i 0 bushels not accounted for I previously, which came in the unprecei dented squeezing of all sorts of reserves. ■ mainly from the always uncounted I stocks of Hour between mill and mouth 1 and from small uncounted stocks bei tween tho f rmers’ granaries and the visible siq plies. The average weight of wheat is 58.5 pounds per measured bushel, which is the estimated .veight of t ie crop of 1887, and is 9-10 of a pound above the average of eight previous years. The estimated ] quantity of com in farmers’ hands s 860,000,000 bushels, or 41.8 per cent, of ] the crop. This is the largest prop-ortii n ! ever reported, that of 1889 excepted, I which was 45.9 per c nt., or 970,00i',hi:0 ; bushels. The seven principal States I have a surplus of 546,'t00,00t> bushels.

or 41.5 per cent, of their pn du -t. aga nst 66.7 of the great crop of 1889. The jr >- । portion merchantable* is the largest ever ] reported, 88.5 per cent., against 85.7 two ; years ago. The average of eight previous crops is 82 per cent., and the lowest average 60 for the frosted crop e f 1883. The present average farm price of merchantable corn is 39.2 cents per ] bushel; of unmerchan’able, 25.7 cents. PURE FOOD AND DRUGS. Salient I’ if the Bill Which «1 the Senate. Tho pure food bill has been ' passi d bym^ Sena'.e. Its ob.,ect is to ] secure along the lines of interstate ’ commerce the guarantees against fiaudulent adulteiations waie-h are t ow !u;- ’ nished by some of the States an 1 which it is in the power < f all the other states tto provide for their citizens. Its most i salient terms are in substam e that every person who manufacturts and delivers for si ipnu nt t > any i oint outside the State or Territory any drug or article of food, and evei y person who expo? es . for sale or delivers such drug or article ; of food outside the State or Territory in , I -which it is manufactured, shall, on de■Kntt— - - - - _ .. i ii

'ii.O ■ < amination or analy sis under the direction of the Agricultuial Department. Such articles as are found to be adulterated, within tiie meaning of the act, and are transported or being transported from one state to anoth r for sale and are still in the original cr unbroken pm kag* s, shall be liable to be proceeded against in the District Court of the United States and seized for confiscation or condemnation. If condemned as being adulterated they shall be sold, and the proceeds, minus Iha costs and charges, shall be laid into the I nited States Treasury. A trial by jury may be demanded. It is believed by the advocates of tiie measure that if it become a law this provision, which can be enforced against । the article itself, will effectually prevent ■ the transportation of fraudulent adulterations across State lines. They say that with such a rod hanging over him a man who is conscious of having in his possession adulterated food within the meaning of the statute nevi r will venture to send those goods across a State line for sale anil disposal. It was explained by Mr. Paddock that in framing she measure sufficient care had been taken in regard to the publication of analyses so as to prohibit the mention of the name of the person or corporation that is under suspicion. There is to be no publication of such analysis until after the trial and conviction of the person. There will thus be no invitation to competitors in trade or individuals who might through spite work feel like entering complaints against others who aro manufacturing different commodities to inform against them without sufficient reason. The measure was strongly objected to as ti nding to interfere with the consumption of cotton-seed oil and some other substances which are used in compound food products on a large scale and are widely claimed to be equally healthful as the material for which they are complete or partial sul stitutes. But if such claim be a correct one the products ought to he offered for sale on their merits, and no honest manufacturer should object to being obliged to label or otherwise designate his goods in accordance with fact. The rights of consumers of food and drugs ought to be considered, and they < onstitute a much more numerous class than the manufacturers and venders put together. The person who pays out his money for an article has the right to know what he is buying, to chocse for himself whether he or she will take the genuine thing or another thing which is guaranteed to be “just as good.” Especially should this right be jealously guarded in the ease of material to be taken into the system. In 1805 nearly all the silver coin in England was debased by diminishing the weight of the metal, and to such an extent was this kingly art put into practice that in the reign of that delicate monarch known as Henry Alli, the profit in exchanging silver for gold was 355 per cent. Job was of a calm, quiet disposition or he could not have been so patient, but even he was inclined to boil over at times.