St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 16, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 5 November 1892 — Page 7

AG. I’’ 1 ’’ CULTURAL TOPICS. a i Suggestions for our .RURAL READERS. Cows Should Be Treated Kindly—A Sale Ash Bin and Sitter—The Value of Fw*llage—About Seeding Wheat—General Tarin Notos. Wire Fence Stays. Where fence posts are expensive it Is an object to use as few as possible. On a Kansas farm the posts are placed four rods apart. For stays, laths are wired to the barbed wire at every rod as shown in the illustration, a sketch of which has been sent by J. Mecir. Number nine plain annealed \ /Mr--— < AN INEPXENSIVE FARM FENCE, wire is cut in six inch lengths and bent to the proper shape, over one side of a lath by baud. A boy holds the lath in place, the befit wire is quickly slipped around lath and wire, and grasped with a pair of pinchers, and with two or three turns they were solidly secured.—American Agriculturist. How Honest Farmers Are Made. The moment you can show the farmer that he can make money by being strictly honest, that moment he becomes an honest man, no matter how big a rascal he was before. He must begin by being honest to his land. The land will bo sure to strike back. He must be honest to his stock;loox how they return it to him, in better meat, better butter, better and more manure. He must be honest to his hoe; there is nothing in the world keeps a hoe so bright and cheerful as keeping it busy in hunting out weeds. He must be honest in his seed. He must give eygxx foot of land its honest of labor. He must put uh his crops for market in honest shape. lie must ask an honest price and stick to it. He must be so honest himself that no

ne iuuju uc ov uuuvjv "• dishonesty can live on bis farm, and all the money that kC / e ts will have that honest yello* the sign of thrift „ " . Morality jn the farni 1S ful| y as imnorta^ as an -Vthing else. Do you belie-' ’ n head work? If s0 > don’t -greeds belie you. Do you believe big crops? If so, don’t let your manure pile be bigger than your crib. Do you believe in honest measure? If so, don’t let it get lop-sided except when you buy. Do you believe in fat stock? Don't let ribs give you con- ■ tradiction. Do you believe in fre- 1 quent settlements? let) iff Fil ii Oil yc>u~to rernTml you ’ *of them. In fact, the morality on a i farm is easily resolved into the old: saw, “Do as you would be done by,” ; or you will find yourself done. Don’t' be a prevaricator. Don't shirk a responsibility. Don’t try to drive through a stump: better go around. The moral code is a sure one between i you and your land and stock.—Ger-j mantown Telegraph. — Ensilage. A writer upon this subject said he presumed he should be called an en-1 silage crank, but so long as he could produce 1,000 pounds of butter worth 25 cents per pound, from one acre of : ensilage, with other feed furnished, I he was willing to be called a crank, j That sounds very well, but in reality j is no argument m favor of ensilage I because of ; ts indefiniteness. At first ' thought, the impression would be that the acre of ensilage had produced the thousand pounds of butter, but tnen upon reflection, the reader is left in the dark. There is no explanation of what the other feed is, nor how much in quantity; neither is there any intimation of what the cost of production was. Undoubtedly en-j silage is all right and may be profitable to those producing milk and hav- ; ing a dairy large enough to warrant the expense of building a silo. But at the same time, from the testsi made atdifferentcxperimentstations, ; there is not a particle of evidence in favor of ensilage instead of the same fodder in a dry state. It must be re-, membered that in the case of ensilage, it is recommended that it be not | planted too thickly, so that it may develop a better growth and also . ears of grass. This all goes into the pit as a part of the ensilage fodder and is so fed, still further supple- i rnented with other grass, and those ; using it are inclined to compare its es- i sects with those of ordinary corn j stover that has stood for the ripening i and removal of all the grain. Cut your corn, dry the fodder and feed i the combined j>r. duct, and note the 1 result before making the comparison . with ensilage. This is a fairway to maxe comparisons. Why Plowing Is Hard Work. While the work done in plowing may not be greater, theoretic illy, than drawing a wagon by the same exertion of force, yet the plowing is really harder and expends more actual force, because of the dead weight moved. It is easier for a man to carry ' a load of any weight, twice as quickly, by spurts, with rests between, J than in any given time with a constant movement. Let a man carry a bag of corn for five minutes, and then rest five minutes, and then re- ■ peat, and he will make better time than another man of equal strength who has twice the time allowed him. ' Equally, a horse may travel fifty i miles every second day and last longer than he would if traveling twenty-c five miles every day. And this is what makes the difference between plowing and drawing a wagon.

Every little inequality ’ * the ground and every spirt of draft, is a rest for the horse, which hc is rc ' freshed. “ drawing a plow is a dead we^ot without any rest. Tae hors^ walk on yielding mellow y-ound. Treat the Cows Kindly. Cows are naturally of the mildest disposition of any four-legged animal upon the farm, and they should be treated kindly and not abused by the milkers and drivers. The practice of sender a dog after them and allowing him to rush them into tae milk yard, exhausted and excited, is a practice that will cost each year from ten to twenty five pounds of butter for every cow milked. Drive the cows leisurely to and from the pasture. If you are in a hurry let the driver make double quick time when he is going to and fro. the field not accompanied by the cows. The throwing of stones, sticks or other missiles should be forbidden, and the operation of milking should be done rapidly and with but little or no talking. Should a cow make a misstep or switch you unpleasantly during fly-time don’t speak so sharply as to startle her. In many herds there are often one or more cows which only a certain member of the family can milk. This indicates very plainly that some one is mildtempered, and understands the cow’s disposition. A box located at some accessible point should contain at all times a supply of salt. If salt is fed in heroic doses once or twice each week, tae cows will then gorge themselves, caused derangement of the digestive organs. Milk should not bo applied to the teats to reduce the power required in milking, for it does not, but most certainly adds filth to the milk obtained, and in cold weather the wet teat will become cracked and sore. All cows with a domineering nature and sharp horns should be dehorned. Brass ferrules at the ” tips of the horns lessen the danger but do not prevent the pushing and bruising of other cows Combined W- and Sifter. many mysterious fires have been traced directly to the careless leaving of ashes containing live coals near some inflammable material, says an exchange. It is common practice to

-• ■. J COMBINED ASH BIN AND LIFTER, set pails and other vessels containing ashes and live coals directly on the j floor of some out-building. It is certainly very foolish to run all this risk i I when, Jor a few dollars, a good and ! safe receptacle for the ashes can be i i easily cor structed. The engraving i from a sketch by L. D. Snook shows : । a simple form, three feet wide, four i feet long, two and a half feet above ; ground, apd one foot below ground. I It is made from brick laid in single i । tier with water lime. Where coil is I : used, there is great economy in silt- , I ing the ashes. Two iron or wooden ; bars can be placed cross-wise six : I inches below the top. Upon these ! rests a common ash riddle with handle projecting in front. By <hrow- | ing the ashes on the sifter and closing ■ the hinged cover, the coal is separated from the ashes without a cloud of ; dust. The handle is simply hooked i to the sifter and unfastened when j the sifter is emptied. Wood ashes j need not be sifted, but maybe safely • thrown into the bin while hot. A cement floor will keep the ashes dry. Unleached wood ashes are an excellent fertilizer. Horticultural Notes. Do not cultivate so deep as to disturb the roots. An ' fective remedy for black knot is cutting oil and burning. i Many make a mistake in failing to i spread out the roots evenly. Keeping the soil shaded aids materially in the storing of nitrogen. | Transplanting twoor three times helps in the formation of fibrous roots. In growing berries for market, the ! j best results are secured with a rich I soil. Allowing them to grow too thick is one cause of failure ingrowing root crops. , Generally in transplanting it is ■ best to set the plants down to the i first leaf. Mulching newly set trees during : : hot, dry weather often saves them ■ : from dying. ' Many plants d e because care is not taken to place the soil in close ' j contact with the roots. । I is rarely a good plan to allow a friuc tree agent to select the varieties 1 of trees for the orchard. Allowing moss or lichen to grow j to the bark of the trees affords a hiding or harboring place for vermin. The grape can be readily propagated by layering and a good supply of plants be secured at a low cost. ! The Vegetable Garden. The value and importance of the ! i vegetable garden to every farmer’s 1 family cannot be overestimated. As ! a source of supply of food in great ■ ' abundance, it may be made almost unlimited in extent and variety. It , is a duty that the farmer owes to his ' family to supply it with the greatest 1 possible variety of everything in the ; vegetable line, so long as it can be' ' done by little expenditures other than ; | that of labor. To grow vegetables of I the best quality requires a rich.sandy i loam, provided with an abundance of ; active fertilizing material. The soil , shtuld receive a thorough pulveriza-; tion as a preparatory seed bed, the j

planting carefully done and at Intervals of time to secure a succession of crops. The cultivation should be so frequent as to prevent the growth of weeds, and to keep the soil loose and porous. None but good seeds should be employ''' 1 and these can be produced of a of our advertisers of seeds. Some varieties will do better in one kind of soil than others, so it is a difficult matter to present a list adapted to all soils, but the observing planter will be able to determine what is best adapted to the requirements of his own case. " A General Purpose Hod. Carrying things on the shoulder is something that cannot always be avoided. Make the work of carrying as easy as possible. The use of the hod leaves the hands almost free. One can go up and down stairs or ladders, anti around corners with

be tilled easily, and is easy to empty, and the weight comes where it is easy to carry. It is made ot halfinch stull for the sides and inch for the end: the handle is placed near the center. The piece “A” is hinged so as to cover the end to keep such things as apples, potatoes, etc., from rolling out. In carrying dirt it is not needed. We have used one to carry twenty to thirty wagon loads of dirt in and out of our green houses, and it filled the bill completely It can also he used for other purposes where a load is to be carried on the shoulder.—Practical Farmer. Feeding: Skim Milk.

Quito a number of dairy farmefl|i> the Unit 'd States are trying the experiment of feeding the skim-milk, when sweet, back to the cows, and without exception, so far as we have heard, they are greatly pleasel with the result. Cue thing we go know, and that is that the village cow that gets all the waste milk and slop from the kitchen can usually double the amount she gave when she was a country cow.—Hoard’s Dairyman. About Sowing Wheat. The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station has for several years been investigating such problems in wheat culture as the quantity of seed per acre, the depth of seeding, drilling versus broadcasting, the mixing of different varieties, cross drilling and the use of the roller press. The average results favor sowing at the rate of five to seven pecks per acre of thoroughly cleaned seed, and sow- ; ing th s not to exceed two inches deep. j In favorable seasons broadcast seed- | ng has produced about as large a crop ! as drilling: but if the seeding season : be hot and dry. drilling is likely to : give the best results. No advantage j has yet been discovered in the mixing : of different varieties.—The Indiana I Farmer. Increase In Weight of Ducks. The rapidity of growth of the PeI kin duck is almost marvelous, and to ’ one accustomed only to the keeping of i the commom puddle duck, the claims । made in behalf of the Pekin are sul> । ject to doubt. Using ten ducklings ! for the experiment, we weighed them ; carefully. When just hatched, the ; ten ducklings, together, weighed exj actly one pound. When one week । old they weighed two and one-half J pounds:at two weeks old they weighed ■ four pounds, at three weeks, seven pounds: at four weeks, ten pounds; at ‘ five weeks, seventeen pounds: at six I weeks twenty pounds, and at seven weeks, twenty-live pounds, or two : and one-half pounas each. Some of ; them were short on weight, while ; some weighed three and one-fourth p >unds each. At eight weeks the i largest weighed four pounds each. Miscellaneous Recipes.

Good Coffee.—One tablespoonful of coffee for each person; mix with one egg and the tllm-likc lining ot the shell. Add a quarter of a cupful of cold water for each spoonful of coffee; boil twenty minutes. This makes strong, well flavored coffee. Mint Julep.—Put some sprays of quite young mint into a tumbler, say about ten or a dozen, with a tablespoonful of castor sugar, a tablespoonful of peach brandy and half a wine glass fall ot' pale brandy; then fill the tumbler with pounded ice. G reen Tomato Preserves. — Eight pounds of small green tomatoes; pierce each with a fork. Seven po mds ct white sugar; the juice of five lemons; one ounce of ginger and mace mixed and tied in a thin muslin bag. Ileat all together si .wly and cook until the tomatoes are clear; take out with a perforated skimmer and boil the syrup thick, then add the fruit, fill into cans hot and seal. Very nice, indeed. One Egg Mayonnaise Dressing. —Beat the yoik of one egg very light, and stir into one-fourth teaspoonful salt and as much cayenne as can be taken up on the point of a penknife; then add half cup olive oil, only a few drops at a time until half is used, then stir in the remainder more rapidly. As it thickens, s’.owly add a tablespoonful each of vinegar and lemon juice, lastly a small teacupful of whipped cream. Fried Apples.—Fried apples make a nice relish with both roast and fried pork, and arc generally very a 'ceptable with other kinds of meats. Cut them unpeeled in slices of moderate thickness across the core. If very sour sprinkle them with a little sugar while frying. Fry to a nice brown la lard and butter, or in all butter if preferred. They may be used as a garnish, or b? served in a dish bv themselves, either is delicion°

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED. A Scholarly Exposition of the LessonThoughts Worthy of Calm Reflection— Half an Hour’s Study of the Scriptures —Time WeU Spent. _ Peter Delivered from Prison. The lesson for Sunday, Nov/ 6, maj be found in Acts 12: 1-17. introductory. A lesson on prayer. What can be better or more timely? Prayer moves the arm ot God. Prayer was Christ’s chief resort. Who -would not pray? ithout dou^t the.e needs to be a new quickening of the spiritual intelligence in the virtue of supplication. More prayer, more of the right sort, signifies more means for mission effort, more souls for our hire; much of the greatest blessing for us is lying just on the other side of the asking. God is simply waiting to bo inquired of. To pray well, said Luther, is to study well. Yes, and to pray well is t > preach well, work well, live well. “Lord, teach us to pray.” WHAT THELESSON SAYS. About that time. Al out this time Paul was b- g nning his work among the Gentile churches, 43 B. C. Herod the king. Herod Agrippa 1., grandson of Herod the Great. His death is recorded at verse twenty-three. Vex. Or, illtreat. The root means evil. James. One of the two sons of Zebedee. Prominent in the apostolic college. With the sword. There were several modes of capital punishment at this time. Pleased the Jew?. Strictly in accordance with Herod’s policy with the nation. To take Peter also. While he was at it, he might as well capture another apostle. He did not know what he was about. Lnlea ened bread, i. e., the passover. Another passover before this had been made a time of exceeding violence. Quarternion. Four men, two to be chained to the prisoners, two to watch the door. Four sets of these, one for each wateh, sixteen in all. Easter. Greek: Passover, probably the whole feast. Without ceasing. One word in the Greek, meaning to hold out. It is also rendered fervently, earnestly. Os the church. He was doubtless the leading pastor in the group over the Jerusa em church. It might well call forth a protracted meeting. Some churches seem to be waiting for such provocation to-day. Would have brought him ferth. Better, was at out to bring him forth. The keepers, or guards. The other pair of the four making the quaternion at this time or Prison. ek: dwelling, or room. Smote, so as to awaken. Side. From this comes our word pleurisy (pleura.) Gird thyself. As for a journey.—And so he did. Instant, unquestioning obeaience. Follow me. He would certainly desire to keep very close to such a helper. Wist not that it was true, i. 0., real, actual. Thought he saw a vision. Thought he was beholding an apparition, as with the church in verse fifteen. Thou art mad. Out of her head. Constantly affirmed. More accurately ami graphically, kept on insisting. His angel. Supposing him dea l. So we understand it. Continual knocking. An angel not needing to knock, they doubtless concluded that it was something else. Astonished. Greek: out of themselves. At their wit’s < nds.

a weight one /could not carry in any other way. The hod when hung by the piece “B” on a stake, bench- or wagon bed can

Beckoning. Or, waving the hand, to secure silence. Declared. Better, related. Go show these things unto James. Greek: Tell James, i. e., either the son of Alphmus or the brother of Jesus. Gal. 1:19. The brethren. Probably met in prayer elsewhere. What glad news for the little companies gathered here and there! WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. But prayer was made ■without ceasing. Kept in prayer. It has Just been said in the narrative that Peter was by Herod kept in prison. By the church he is, as it were, kept in piayer. That is sufficient; Peter is safe. Yonder at Philippi are Paul and Silas encompassed with dungeon walls. Through prayer and praise they are surrounded by ranks of angels. Just now the angel cohorts move aside a little, but a little forsooth, and the flimsy walls come down. Kept in prison—kept in prayer. So stands the Christian in this naughty world. “Turn to your stronghold, ye prisoners of hope.” The house of Mary. It was a house of prayer. And here is a noteworthy thing. There were many gathered together, at that place, “praying.” And when Peter “considered," I suppose prayerfully, “he came to the house of Mary.” The attractiveness of prayer. “Where shall I go?’’ says Peter, delivered from piison. “Here,” answers the Spirit, and his feet are lei to the house of prayer. What called Ananias to the side of Paul? “Behold, he prayeth.” What led the apostle to Cornelius’ house? Prayer. Ah, there is a drawing power in prayer—for those who are God’s. How many of us seek out the prayer circle when we go to a new place? Confess. Then said they, it is his angel. They meant his ghost. So feeble their faith, so weak w t re they. They have just been praying for I’eter; and now here he stands before them, their prayers answered. Forthwith they say, he is deal, and this is his spirit. Ah, well, those early Christians were very much like ourselves. They had faith, a little faith, like the mustard seed in quantity, faith to touch the hem; but true faith, or they could not have prayed. They had not such full faith, or rather acquaintance with God, as to know of a surety their prayers were heard and to look out of their windows expecting the answer. After all, God is better than our prayers. Only, strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Next Lesson—“ The First Christian Missionaries.”—Acts 13: 1-13. Fathers of Great Men. Thiers, the historian of the French Revolution, and afterward President of France, was the son of a lockmender. Claude Lorraine, the great landscape painter, was the son of a cook, and himself learned the art of pastry. Lord Loughborough was the son of a farmer, but had no love for farm work, and was often berated for idleness. George Whitfield’s father was an innkeeper, and in his boyhood George held horses at the inn door and ran errands for the guests.

WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. Many Things Wlijch Sam Jones Finds to Praise in Them. Sam Jones was interviewed recently as to his opinions about Southern women and replied as follows: Socially, the people of the South have always been much more hospitable than those of the NP r th- -There is what we call Southern blood, which boils at much lower temperature than that of the North. Southern womanhood, surrounded by the same influence, has developed largely in sentiment and feeling with Southern manhood. She cares more for her character and less for chattels. In choosing, a husband the question of chattels and riches enters very little into her thoughts. She loves the man she weds, and will make any sacrifice to give herself to him; and when she does so give herself, with constant loyalty and fidelity to his interests, she is his wife indeed. If she makes a bad bargain, she sticks to it. In many States marriage seems to be a legal contract, and when either party becomes tired of its binding force application is made to the divorce courts, and that which was one becomes two. “Politically the Southern woman is not nearly so far advanced as in the North. Woman suffrage is desired much more by the Northern woman, but the Southern woman seems to prefer woman suffering to woman suffrage. The heroism and fortitude of Southern women reached its culmination between the years of 1860 and 1870. Their devotion to their husbands and fathers has never been questioned, but their loyalty to the Southern Confederacy,and their heroism and fortitude in giving up their loved ones to the army and to death, have perhaps never been equaled in the history of womanhood. “In 10,000 homes in the South the husband and father bade wife and children good by, frequently leaving them with only a meagre support; and yet the wife, with patience and frugality, maintained the home and provided every necessary thing for the comfort and well-being of the children whose father was at the front.

“The animosities created by the late unpleasantness linger, perhaps longer with the Southern womanhood than with Southern manhood. The devastated homes, the squandered fortunes, the buried loved ones—the memories of these seem to linger with many of our Southern women. “The ideal Southern woman is refined in her tastes, warm in her sympathies, profound in her likes and dislikes, modest frequently to a fault. The fast woman in the South is looked upon, if not with contempt, at least with a good deal of caution by the great number of her sisters about her. I doubt if in club life and such pastimes as the german or round dance, the wine resorts, etc., the Southern woman will ever come to the front so prominently as many of her sisters in the North. “Whatever in Southern womanhood there may be to criticise on the part ot the North, Southern womanhood is cultured, is educated, Southern womanhood is reilned, Southern womanhood is not narrow in its views and conceptions of life. And no womanhood in all the world, subjected to the same influences and surroundings. with the same questions, could or would do otherwise than the Southern woman is doing along the lines of I the race question especially.” Ruining the San Francisco Fishing. A complaint comes from California that the Chinese are ruining the fishing in San Francisco Bay. Particularly is the shrimp business affected. Paying only S4OQ a year in licenses the Chinese fishermen send across the Pacific 1,000,-009 pounds ol shrimps annually and half as much dried fish, flounders, soles, etc. Great quantities of young fish are caught in their nets that are set all the yeai round, the result of which is that the bay is being gradually emptied of the gro\p fish. This of course is in violation of the law, and the authorities are beginning to bestir themselves, The Chinese fishermen, it seem-, are extending their operations along the coast. Their camps dot the shore from the Sacramento River to Redwood Slough. The boats used by them are regulation junks with a lateenlike sail. On shore the fishermen have their boiling-tanks and dry-ing-houses. The tish and shrimps are put up in 200-pound bags. Mud, dirt, and slime and seaweed are boiled with the shrimps, as though it were all an integral part of the product. No attempt is made to separate the tilth from the food either at the boiling tanks or in the sorting sheds. Fishing in the bays, the State authorities often find Chinese craft with no license aboard. The crews on these boats do the most damage to spawning fish. One of the finest spawning grounds for sole, and flounders, and smelts in San Pedro Bay, has I een totally devastated by the rapacious yellow fishermen. An Untaught Heathen’s Views. The untaught heathen is sometimes wiser than we give him credit for being. So is the mother of his children. One of these mothers has recently expressed her opinion to a woman missionary and the missionary's reply is not given. But here a.e the words of the heathen woman: “You can read and write, but what is the use of that? You will have to stand before God and give an account of your conduct. He created you to get married, and he will punish you. You should repent and get married at once. Then, perhaps, you will be forgiven, and you may come and teach us to read and write.” Often pe pie give the impression that they are happy because they are too proud to complain.

THE WAY THINGS RUN IN THE GREATEST OF GREAT STATES, INDIANA. Things Which Have Lately Happened Within Its Borders—Some Fleasaut and Souio Sad Reading. ' Minor State Items. The diphtheria is abating In Fort Wayne. Noblesville has 21 teachers in her public schools. ~ Richmond has 886,000 worth of public improvements under way. The fruit crop in Lawrence County is reported a total failure this year. The seed wheat swindler is making his annual rounds in Northern Indiana. Michigan City masons are taking steps toward building a 850,000 temple. Allen Spinks, a colored resident of Hamilton County, died at the age of 105 years. John Farrington, aged 18,of Kokomo, died from injuries received by being struck by a train last July. Robert Woods, the President of the + First National Bank of Knightstown and a pioneer of Henry County, is dead. Footpads held up Jacob Carroll near Arcadia, „od while one held a revolver to his head the other rifled his pockets. George Breivogel, a bi-chloride j patient at Vincennes, became wild, escaped, and cut his throat He will recover. Mrs. James Watson of Crawfordsville, made an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide on account of domestic affairs. John Stadtleb’s residence and saloon at Muncie was totally destroyed by an incendiary tire. Loss, 83,500; insurance, 81,400. The public school building at Ridgeville, Jay County, was burned. Loss, 87,000. No insurance. Supposed Incendiarism. The large lake at Bethany park, near Brooklyn, was drained recently. It is estimated that 3,000 pounds of carp fish were caught. The Edingburgh Daily Call changes hands, G. A. Quick retiring and Charles F. Pruitt taking the editorial chair and publisher's desk. Muncie cigar-makers are on a strike because the manufacturers refuse to agree to the new scale of wages presented last week. The Kokomo Daily Ga»ettc-Tr<mne has moved into a new home of its t^vn, it being one of the finest printing offices to be found in Northern Indiana. The two-horse team of Barclay Moon was struck on crossing the Panhandle tracks at Windfall, by the fast mail train aud literally ground to pieces. While three physicians were operating on Mrs. Mary Hammers, aged 62, at Muncie, she died A large tumor was being removed from the stomach. Robert White, aged 16, son of John White, ot Walnut Level, Wayne County, was fatally mangled by a freight train at the L., E. & W. depot in Muncie. Robert Drake, a wealthy iron manufacturer of Newark, N. J., aged 72 years, died at Martinsville. His son is a sur- : gieal instrument dealer at Indianapolis. Gus Bryant, catcher for the Artesian Blues of Martinsville, has received an offer frem the manager of the State University base-ball team for the season of 1893. Burglars secured and hauled ?,way in a wagon clothing valued at 81,100 from J. B. McGlaughlin’s store, at Lebanon. Three valuable horses were also missing. The Knightstown Agricultural Society, one of the most successful in the country, has determined to disband, and will sell its buildings and other property at public sale. Some wretch hit an Elwood horse on the leg with a stone the other night. The animal went into convulsons and two men worked all night before its life was saved. H. L. Thomas, who cleaned out a boarding-house at Brazil of jewelry and money, was captured by Detective I Patrick Furley and lodged in the Clay County Jail. Sigman Welinitz, a prominent business man of Whiting, committed suicide. His wife had left hiiz, and he had made an attempt at a reconciliation, wkich was unsuccessful. The Peru jury, in the case of R. A. Vanflvnp. of v.-ow rage on his niece, Miss Mullcnix, a halfwitted girl, brought in a verdict of cigiit years in the penitentiary. At Elkhart while taking a near cut from school, Ida Reder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Reder,was run over and killed by a train in the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern yards. There was a man in jail at Fort Wayne recently who had been a cowboy, peddler, preacher, phrenologist,gambler, soldieL detective, had drank straight ■ alcohol and written a book. The 10-year-old son of Frank Knapa, : of Chesterton, died of hydrophobia, maki ing the second death in the county from the same cause within a week. He was bitten by a mad dog about a month ago. A battle royal occurred at Wallace’s circus winter quarters, two miles east of Peru,in which five jumbo elephants were the participants. For some time an enmity has existed between Prince and Diamond, the two greatest beasts of the herd. The enmity culminated a big ! scrimmage during the absence of keeper • Sweeny. Diamond, with a weight of four i tons, was the aggressor, but Prince was । his match and succeeded in breaking his j tusk and fairly crowding him through ; the heavy brick wall of the building, ! which fell upon them both. All the eleI phants broke loose from their chains, at । once engaging in the melee, and tor half an hour pandemonium prevailed. Quiet was finally restored, but not before they were badly hurt and the place presented the appearance of a slaughter-house. I’he noise and screams of the jungle giants could be heard for nearly a mile. James Hackett, a Bedford bartender, was accidentally shot and killed bv a boiler-maker while out hunting. William H. Kelly, a prominent resident of Frankfort, died last week. For several years Mr. Kelly had stomach trouble, and it was the desire of the family that an autopsy be held. The operation revealed a cancerous inass in the stomach which contained a metallic substance that proved to be a portion o! a shoemaker's awl, fully an inch i:i length. The awl is supposed to have 1 been in his stomach ever since Mr. Kellq I worked on the bench as a shoemaker, ! aver thirty years ago.