St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 46, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 June 1893 — Page 7

HOME AND THE FARM, i A DEPARTMENT MADE UP FCht OUR RURAL. FRIENDS. The Union of Beauty and Utility in Poultry Brings Piotit — There’s Money in । Farming—About Dehorning Cattle—Po- 1 tatoes are Injured by Heat. Fancier and the Practical Poultryman. ’ Are the ai i s of the fancier and the 1 practical poultryman necessarily antagonistic? The leading object of! the first is the production of the greatest beauty: of the second the' greatest utility. In the attempt to realize the e objects, there is a temp-. tation on the part of the one to mate fowls very closely relat d, and sometimes those lacking in constitution, and on the part of the other to use fowls, however ugly they may appear, ' provided their utility has been dem-1 onstrated. But to the former temptation there is the check that he who sacrifices constitution very quickly ► defeats his own purposes, and to the Jdtter that in shape, at least, the more elegant specimens of most varieties are the ones that prove to be the most useful. There certainly is no necessary antagonism between the aims of the two, for the utility of fowls need not be less because they I are beautiful in appea ance. A handsome hen will lay as many eggs i as a homely one, and a beautiful cock will make as much and as good | i poultry as an ugly one. Indeed, the j fancier who strives to unite as much utility as possible with the beauty of his fowls will be the o e who will make the most money cut of them; for he will raise more of the chickens he hatches, he will get more eggs to | sell, he will have more and better' poultry to kill, he will have a larger sale for his cheap birds, and his exhibition specimens will bring just as much money. And the practical poultryman, who seeks to unite as much beauty as posible with the utility of his fowls will lose nothing, for his fowls will continue to lay as many eggs as before, his dressed ' poultry will be as heavy and of as I good quality, and he may be able to I make an occasional sale of a particu- j lary tine specimen at a price double j or treble what he otherwise could obtain. The union of bead-y and' utility is the union that, brings the ■ greatest profit alike to the fancier and the practical poultryman, and . self interest ought to compel each to seek for such an union, without,however, forgetting the main object in view. Keep, as the first thing to be achieved, the beauty, if you are a fancier, or the utility if you are a practical poultryman, of your fowls; i and then, as a secondary but very importantobject, seek the other quality, j the obtaining of which will secure the J greatest profit and the most satisfac- ‘ Kflbcock, in Amercan I Agriculturist. Money in Fanning, A Lapeer, Mich., correspondent of the Detroit Free I’ress tells this •story: “Talk about farming I eing an unp:ofltable business, look here: Theodore L. Pierce, a common sense farmer of Attica, is ] oor, but has good judgment. He lives on Joshua Manwaring's farm in that township and last year paid for tiie rent of the farm of 160 acres from the products of a piece of ground one rod less than an acre. A year ago last winter he 1 gathered all the ashes in the neigh- ' borhood, paying for :t in soap. When spring came he fertilized this pieceof ground with the ashes, and when it was ready for planting he drilled it with onion seed, which grow so thickly they nearly crowded each other out of the ground; they grew fairly one on top of the other in instances, and when harvest time came he had six hundred bushels of fine assorted onions, which he sold to Mr. Randall of Oxford, at 10 odd cents per bushel, realizing over $420 in cash from the acre, less one rod of ground. Pierce himself was not able to work much, so he took pride in looking after his onion patch, keeping it properly weede 1, etc. His three boys, in the meantime, were working the other 159 acres and making a good thing from it. and his daughter was teaching school in the village at a good salary. About Dehorning. A commission appointed by the Ontario government to investigate the dehorning of cattle, come to these •conclusions: “It seems to be established beyond leasonable doubt that *- dehorning by affecting a change in the disposition of the animal, greatly increases its ma ketable value, b - sides enabling the owner to handle his stock with greater ease, economy, and safety. In the case of steers raised for the export trade, the owner is enabled to feed loose in large stables and to adopt improved meth- | ods of saving manure, and, as the un- • ruly disposition has been largely subdued, less food is required in bringing the animal to a prime condition. The stock can also be cared for by fewer men. On the English market the buyers gave about $5 per head ■more for dehorned cattle, owing to the belief that they put on flesh better. All the evidence, in fact, goes to show that the possession of horns by cattle, in addition to causing a great and prolonged suffering, means a loss in the aggregate, of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the farmers of this country.” They advise experiments in destroying the horns of calves by chemicals to see if it is not better than cutting them off from mature animals. Making Flowers Profitable. We don’t mean that the farmer who grows flowers should vie with the florist in selling what he pro- i duces to the public. It is possible that the flowers produced by the , farmer would come mostly at times

| when such flowers were abundant, । and brought low prices. But they j are worth just as much to beautify I his home and give pleasure to the ' farmer's wife and tamily as it they I sold at winter hot house prices. It ' is because farmers do not realize the j ! pleasures and comforts they get from ! the farm that they think farming ‘ । don’t pay. Few rich men can deck their tables with flowers half the; year at least as can the farmer it he tries. He can with some hardy perrennials begin about as soon as snow • is off in spring, and decorate his I rooms with these and their successors i until snow flies in the fall. When a I farmer does this one or two years he ■ will probably try hard for a green- i house, and thus get more pleasure, though of course with some additional ' work. It is not easy to gain honest pleasure in this world without working for it, and it is always the work that precedes that makes the pleasure more welcome and enjoyable. — Save the Liquid Manure. On too many farms the liquid ma- ! nure is allowed to go to waste. No provision is made for its saving, and , yet the liquid manure is one of the ■ most valuable parts of the fertilizers made on the farm. By having proper absorbents, dry muck, leaves, saw- ! dust, or dry loam placed so that it • will catch the urine of all the cows ' and horses, the fertility of the farm can be greatly increased in a few years. A little forethought and a small amount of labor will add very materially to the value of the manure pile, and return to the fields the i needed elements. Potatoes Injured by Heat. Cut potatoes should not be dropped • in a hot, sunshiny day I. ng before I they are covered, and especially on dry or sandy soil. Whether fresh cut or partially dried, the heat is liable to injure the vitality of the bud, and make it fail or produce only a weak, spindling plant that cannot pay for growing. Cut potatoes piled in heaps or left in barrels will heat enough to injure vitality. Tha potato loves cool and moist soils and climates,and ’ thrives best near bodies of water. riant I o »d. A successful farmer should discover j what materials a plant, feeds on and ' what plant food is in the soil. Such ' knowledge as this comes not to us Uy nature, but by most careful study, ! and that the farmer must be a stu. ■ dent as well as the “horny-handed son of toil.” Miscellaneous Kecipes. Canned Peaches — Tour boiling water over large, freestone peaches, remove theskins, divide in half, r - 1 move the stone; to every pound fruit । add one-quarter p aind of sugar: allow them to boil twenty minutes and i seal. Steamed Peaks—These are very i palatable. Wash the pears and place I them in a kettle with a little water. , Strew sugar over an 1 some pound- d cinnamon Lark. Cover closely and ‘ cook si wly from one and one-half to ' two hours. These are delicious eaten ' cold with cream and -ugar. Stuffed Steak.—Cut a thick slice jof beef from the round, about tw . pounds: take one pint of bread crumbs, wells asoned with pepcrsalt and sage, moisten with butter. Spread this dr ssing on the beef, roll it close: tie up carefully; wrap in a j buttered cloth: steam lor two hours. ; It is very nice cold, slic d. Baked Pears, —Take ripe, medium sized pears, wash and place a layer, stem upward, in a deep earth aware or agate stewpan. Sprinkle over sugar, then s t in another layer of pears, and so on until the dish is full. Add two or more cupfuls of water, cover closely, and cook in the oven three hours. Serve cold with mixed cr< am. Green Gkape Jelly.—The flavor of the wild grape is preferred by many for this jelly. Ju-t .is the grapes legin to turn, gather, stem and cook tender, adding very little water. Strain through a jelly bag and add a pound (some use one and a quarter pounds) of hot sugar to each pint c! strained juice. Boil until it stiffens. Then take up in tumblers or jars. Potatoes.—Cut very thin slices right across the largest potatoes: lay i the slices in flat layers on a small ; plate that will bear the heat of the ' oven. Spread fresh butter freely over the potatoes, then add another layer and so on until the potatoes are ' about four inches high. Season with i pepper and salt. Bake until the po- , tatoes are tender, about half an hour, in a quick oven. Chipped Peaks.—Eight pounds of pears, not overripe; eight pounds of sugar, one pint of water, four lemons sliced, an ounce of green ginger root. PeH the pears and quarter them, Scrape the ginger root, slice very thin. Put all the ingredients together in a ' preserving kettle, and cook slowly six hours. Avoid stirring the fruit ,or breaking it while cooking. Any of the common pears may be used in this way. Polished Shoes Glisten with Diamonds “Do you know that when your shoes glisten with a polish they are really covered with diamonds?” asked a shoemaker the other day of one of his ' patrons. “This is true,” he continued, “and I will show you why. Bone dust which is the principal ingredient of shoe blacking, is almost, pure carbon. The diamond, you know, is the purest form of carbon. When this paste has been smeared over your shoes the friction of the j polishing brush crystallizes the black- | ing and converts it into millions of I infinitesimally small diamonds, and ' every man with a shine on his shoes may revel in the knowledge (that he . wears a cluster of diamonds on his feet. ” —Philadelphia Kecord. No kind of weather is unfavorable for sowing wild cats.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. ! SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY ' CONSIDERED. A Scholarly Exposition of the Lesson— Thoughts Worthy of Calm ReflectionHalf an Hour’s Study of the Scriptures —Time Well Spent. Reverence and Fidelity. The lesson for Sunday, June 4, may । be found in Eccles. 5: 1-12. ; INTRODUCTORY. The Old Testament is a book of life. ■ No man cr.n take it up and justly call it impractical or visionary; it deals with facts, everyday facts, bo much has it to do with our daily duties that men have thought at times that it almost ! ignored the life that is to be, eternal in i the heavens. The future life, however, t is not overlooked; it is the goal and the clue, indeed, to all, the faithful doing of earth. Without it we should seek in vain for an explanation of the privations^ and the struggles of life. But in the i elder Record the emphasis is manifestlyi pla ed upon the life that now is. There® 1 j are precepts to regulate all conduct. ' Men can find here the best of mavi I the root and source, indeed, of all the I good councils of sages in every age of the world. It is wise for us to consider I these underlying principles of wellido ng. And where can we give them । timelier study than to-day in the Sun- ; day school? j POINTS IN THE LESSON. In the Hebrew verse 1 of the lesson is verse 17 of the preceding chapter. In this division it c'oses a passage on vanI ity. The preacher looks out on ihe congregation in the house of God, and i he thinks that even there he sees the ■ signs of vanity. Is he far wrong? I “Keep thy foot" means to set a guard Jor watch on the foot. "Two hawks to tame; two .hares to keep from running ; away"—so the watchful saint described two hands and feet. They are apt to go i astray, and even in God's house rnay be found by-paths and side-ways that may 1 lead to sin. The L' rd never intended that man • goings should be aimless. , As to our ways he says, watch. “And be more ready to hear." Have you ever thought of the mind as having feet Feet, and they can run. What piore nimble than the fancy of man! If we do not watch, the mind will be straying oY out of doors. The text we hear, a sentence or two more and then, there gpes the mi- d galloping off to the fields or to the n arkets. Look out on the great congregation. How many of these people are folk wing the preacher with the whole mind and strength.' Only those that firmly resolve to keep the feet of the brain in the right path. "The sacrifice of fools,” says our King Jan es versii n; “victim of tools" is the Pouay. The expression is literally fools’ slaughter, i. e , what is offered by I fools There is a sacrifice, an offering, ' which is foolish and worse than nothing. It is costly, i erhaps. it requires something like self-denial; lut, after ail, it is a fool's p rtion, and as such God views it. How much some people think they are sacrificing for the Lord's service; how much they are giving of ( time, energy, rubstanc. ! God looks ' at their hearts and sees their selfish, | vagrant thoughts. Folly is the name he gives their offering. “F< ar thou God"—th s is the end of the whole matter. The man who fears God will tr> at his neighbor aright; he will take care of his own i ody; he will be ju t in his dealings with all men. To ge’ a right concept on o: earth’s duties, get a right conception of celestial obligations. Other worldlin ss is the way to right worldlino-s. All else is venit •. HINTS AND ILLI SIBATIONs. “Therefore let thy words be few.” But that does not mean t<> i e entirely mum. Some people seem to have read no lurther in their Bibles than this. They hav^ not s- en the go tell. ' But the “Be not rash with tb.y mouth” they keep to i erfecti n in this one opinion. Do they stop to think that they may be rashly silent as well as ra-hly clamorous? Th< re come times whe:. silence is almost criminal. And in this age of the world and with the opportunities an! importunities for te-timony given, is any one exonerated from -peaking for his king? (ur friend used to say, "There are two sorts of Christians, Tweedledum Christians and Tweediedee Christians.” You close the one word with your mouth shut, the other with your mouth open. Try it and see. and then be one of the tw. edledee kind. Be not hasty to utter anything b 'fore Got and for God, but when the Spirit prompts be ready to r spond. What other mouth for praise and testimony has God, save yours ' On the other hand, remember that one is not heard for his much speaking, either by God or n an. Have something to say, and then say it. Say it simply, clearly, strongly. Not a speech, not a sermon, but a testimony. The great majority of silent Christians are silent because they think they can- : not make a long < r connected argument. “A reason of the hope that is in you," they ieaci it in First Peter, not i observing that it simply means a statement, declaration of :aith Who cannot say that much? Say it and, th^c^ being through, sit down. “And, now? Lord.” said the little girl, “I haven’t anything more to say, amen.” Hear it, i good deacon; when you haven’t any thing more to say, say amen! Perhaps it would be well for some others of us :to stop—when w get through. One would not be in so much danger of being “rash with his mouth,” if when the 1 mind says “I’m d; ne,” the lips would ; echo, “So am I.” “And I have promised my God that 1 ! will do it!” said Abraham Lincoln, in I the earliest council on the proclamation ■of emancipation. That settled it. Pay your vows to God. How many unpaid vows there are, promises made on sick beds, promises made under the preaching of the gospel? How many are deferring? How many souls convicted of I sin, how many convinced of present duty? Pay thy vow. Pay it at once. — ! Next Lesson: “The Creator Ilemem- । bered. ” Eccles. 12; 1-7, 13, 11. How They Worked. Pasteur rarely leaves his laboratory, taking little rest or relaxation of any kind. Shelley wrote very rapidly, tut revisec. carefully, and spent much time in polishing his verses. Raleigh’s “History of the World" ' was begun in prison, and left unfinished ! by the release of the author. Swift never worked at writing. All ' his works were written more as an amusement than as a serious occupation.

I N lw PENSION RULING. HOB Be smith makes an im- ■ portan- decision. du' * I" 1 Are Limited to Injuries that 1 the Applicant from Earning a Ette lg—’Tis Sa^. that the Decree Will n Big Saving-. ' A p To Cut Ort i cnsion-. - . most- ashingten dispatch says that the i sent । mportant pension decision ever of the ut from the office of the Secretary 1 ensi Interior to tl e Commissioner of claim ms has just been tiled. It is the P >d by those high in authority in the pension Bureau that it will reduce of Jubment of pensions under the act and Site 27, 1890, between $15,000,000 । of anf0,000,090. It involves the repeal approf order passed by Gen. Baum and sey ai/®^ by Assistant Secretary Bus-eta|-T|F a roturn to the language of the IK requiring the disability, not of ? il -wLfrigin, to be such, as to prevent Ws {•CijeaTlt from earning a support K labor. Secretary Hoke wß^as been considering the principWi^jvoß ed in the decision for several ^^o_im£prtant did he deem it I was ca ll e fl to his attention fro Pension Board of Appeals he submuted the questions involved to the Attorney General and the Commissioner of Pensions, Loth of whom concurred in the co rectness of the decision. j Hasis of the Derision. I The decision is in the case of one Benne t who sought a pension under the old lai , alleging that while in the service at Kaleigh, N. C., he was prostrated ly ; snstroke which resulted in partial de fness in both ears. His application vas denied on the ground that while i ie applicant has slight deafness, as alle ed, it was not of sufficient severity to warrant any rating. The testimony showed that Bennett could hear a watch lick at the distance of half an inch from either ear. Bennett subsequentb’ applied for and received a pension otsl2 a month under the act of-June 27, IfOf 1 . This act allows a pension raging from 86 to sl2 per month to ex-sol-diers or sailors suffering from any disability of a permanent character not the result of their own vicious habits, which incapacitates them for the performance of manual labor to such a'degree as to render them unable to eam a support The inability to earn a support is therefore made the basis of the law. I uring Commissioner 1 aum's administratit n an order was issued, known as order No. 164,’ which directed that all claims for a pension under the act of June 27. 1890, should be rated the same as like disabilities of service origin, and that all casts showing a pensionable disability, which, if o: service or.g n, would be rated at or above sl2 a month, should le ra ed at sl2 a month. Ihe > . n<lur<! <>! I liability. i Ths only r. qu rement to o’ ’ain a pension under 'he law ajplieable to! penslins of service origin is disability by reison of wounds received or disease contril'ted while in the service and in ! line-Ti duty. “Incapacity to perform manurt 1 labor, ' says the Secretary, : "whirl is the toun ’alion to Ihe right to ■ ■ pensiop nm^ier the act of June 27. 1890, i I fixes «j^m.tirelv different standard of i , disabu "y fto :. that ;u-t mentioneii. con- \ | ta ned'lAthe P.< vl 0.l Statutes, covering I injt.r servh e origin. Disabilities incuiTczwhile in active service and in- : j va aufty coming upon an applicant long : a 'er set vice ceased are made by the law to stand upon an entirely different foot- i ing. Those incurred dur 112 service and in line of duty are pensionable without 1 ezard to oipacity to earn a support, and are graded without reference to j this 'onditu n. Disabilities resulting * irom causes o:h-r than of service origm ! I are only pensionable wh< n incapacity j to labor .oins with incapacity to earn a I support, t ndthe grades of rating are ■ < dependen* upon these two < onditions. When ly order N<. 164 it was declared that disabilities under the act of June 27, 18 -noth! be rated as if of ser-vii-e origin, h ' verj' i rinciple which I governed the rating under the act of , June 27, was displaced anti a rule ■ applica! le to a different act was substituted.” CHRISTIANS AT FAULT. I Plain Talk to the I nited Presbyterian As* seznhly About the World’s Fair. In presenting a partial report on re- ' form to the Unite J I re^byterian AssemI bly at Monmouth, 111., L’ev. W. J. Robj inson, I>. D.. • f Alleghany, said that 1 criti.e was on the increase; that this ' was a nation or Fabtath desecrators ■ legalized by the action Os the Govern- ! ment; that the World’s Fair gates will I be opened on Sundaj' because the Government was power ess to prevent it. He thought that this deplorable con.-: dition of the country was caused by the lack of interest manifested among the Christian people. He maintained that the professors of religion were not united and that they neither worked nor voted as they prayed. The question of the federation of churches was taken up and much interest manifested in the matter. This discussion is pursuant to a plan of the committee appaiu-ed ty the conference of Uresbyteril^ ‘w^amzati* -ns hc-LI in New York 'hat conference dHBe .ollowing bodies were represented; -JTii_eF*resbyterian Church, United Pres3yferifln Church, the Reformed Church .h America, the Reformed Presbyterian Church, General Synod and Associated Reformed Synod in the South. Enorinou* 1.-»ss ! v Fire. The Ba'timore suxar efinery was stared in 18 ’l. In 18 2 it shut down for remodeling. Monday it was to be reopened, but Sun lay it was destr- yed by tire. The estimated damages "are over $1,010,00 '. How Conkling St >ppe<l Chewing Tobacco. Roscoe Conkling used to say that the simplest waj- for a person to stop the habit of tobacco chewing was to keep a package of crystallized candy in his pocket and substirute a lump of it tor the “weed” whenever a desire arose for the att r. This way, Mr. Conkling said, he had broken off tobacco chewing, but he had never been able to abandon smoking. Th;- Making of Gobi Lea'. An ingot of gold weighing two and a half ounces, an 1 worth about sst>, is I made by the gold-beaters into sheets so I fine that it would take 48,000 to measure lan inch in height. By the lai or of ; beatiag the gold acquires a value of j S4OO, making over 26,600 sheets of gold . foil cr gold leaf, as it is usually called, I It is said that the new city directory ! of Baltimore indicates an increase of 36,000 in the population of the city during the past year, due largely to the growth of manufacturing interests in the city and suburbs.

HEROIC HEALTH MEASURES. Gigantic Undertaking of New York to Secure I'ure Water. In its pure water for the defeat of typhus and cholera, New York City has undertaken the most gigantic health enterprise on record. It is proposed to confiscate, purchase, and destroy every building and drain which contributes tilth to the Croton and its numerous tributaries in the State, and control the surface which 1 drains into the streams. To ac--1 complish the latter pu poses the city will purchase a 250-foot strip on each side of every tributary, from the ; source to the mouth, and prohibit trespass thereon. The siz ■ of the undertaking ;s seen in the fact that the Croton watershed contains 362 square miles, or 231.680 acres, has 5,056 dwellings and 5,612 out-build-ings, and a population of 25,000 persons and 33,000 domestic animals. A scora of villages are to be either partially or wholly blotted out. The Health Commissioner's party is called the “barn burners,” because of the number of these structures that have be n reduced to ashes. Up along the i valleys of the Croton's tributaries, not ' only dairies and slaughter houses and i milk factories, but school-houses and I churches and fine country residences ; that have stood for decades, are be- ' ing razed to the ground or put to the ’ torch. Typical press reports of the doings of the commission are the fol- I lowing: “Thomasville will soon le ■ nothing but a memory;” “It was fur- ’ ther decided to wip-e the hamlet of Ki. byville. three- .uarters of a mile down the brook, off the face of Westchester County;” “At New Castle Corners, half a mile ea.-t of Mt. Kisco. there are a score of bouses w.th drain ■ ditches to the mam branches of the river, and Commissioner Edson ad- i vised that this town also be removed • from the face of the earth.” The' scenes which met the gaze of the i Health Officers on their tour of rural i inspections are illustrated by the fol- 1 lowing: ■‘On reaching Bear’s Gutter the Commis- ; sioner said; •Hurrah! - on noticing that the ; offensive Ackerly Hotel, which was to have i besn defended ‘vi et armis’ by its proprietor | was a mouldering heap of ashes. They looked at the ruins of J ham Tompkins' ; place and the several razed barns and cut- ; houses." T!ie crusade for the purification 0. New York s drinking water involves the destruction of thousands of dollars worth of property and the expenditure of a fabulous sum by the ' city. But such a crusade has been decided upon as necessary in order to supply the 1,500,000 population with , pure water and prevent the approach of the cholera epidemic. The drastic measures are the reflex of the . serious apprehensions which New : York looks forward to—summer's 1 heat and cholera importations. j — -Amaiatrv of Genius. Many books have been written ! , about genius, and within the last few months, says the Atlantic Monthly I in -‘Ancestry of Genius,” under the ' inspiring influence of Lombroso. an attempt has been made to measure ' accurately the physical capacity of I genius. Little attention has been ■ given, however, to the interesting; study of the elements that go to the making of genius, to what we may call its etiology, and which must be ' sought for mainly before birth. How did the shiftless Strathford tradesman come to be Shakspeare’s lather, and Micawber the father of Dickens'? To what extent can the facts of the parentage of genius be reduced to law? I limit myself here to a small but interesting group of facts bearing upon a single aspect of the matter; the ancestry of some of the chief English poets and imaginative writers of recent years, with reference to the question of race. Taking first the five English poets whose supremacy during the last quarter of a century is universally acknowledged, Tennyson, Browning. Swinburne, Kc-setti, and Morris, let us inquire what races, or combinations of races, have entered into these men. “The Tennysons,” writes Lord Tennyson, “come from a Danish part of England, an ancestor of my mother, a Fauvel or de Fauvel, is French. Taken altogether we have a predominantly Scandinavian stock, mingling with Lincolnshire people, but with a foreign Huguenot strain.” With Swinbourne, also, the foundation is Scandinavian, tempered by a i considerable infusion of Celtic and French blood. William Morris is a Welsh borderer, and with the Welsh blood predominating, but his paternal grandmother came from the Anglo-Danish County of Nottingham. The Rosettis were an Italian family. with an admixture of northern blood, and Rosetti himself is English only on the side of one grandparent, and has hence only twenty-five per cent of English blood. Browning, with a basis of Saxon stock, is modified by an intermixture on the one hand of the old dark British race; his grandfather married a West Indian Creole, and ihis father married Sarianna Wiedemann, whose father was German and her mother Scotch Looking at the matter somewhat broadly, theie has been since the dawn of European history a fusion of a fair energetic race with darker races of an earlier civilization, and the outcome has been the strongest and most variously gifted breed of men that the world has ever seen. Wherever the races have remained comparatively pure, we seldom find any high or energetic civilization, and never any fine flowering of genius. Britain has been especially expo-ed to the influence of this race mixture, and to it is due all thatds finest in English imaginative genius. No man can smile in the face adversity, and mean it.

HERE'S ALL THE NEWS TO BE FOUND IN THE STATE OF INDIANA. Giving a n*>taile<t Account of the Numerous Crimes, Casualties, Fires, Suicides, Deaths, Etc., Etc. Minor State News. Bakkf.r. Rat. loloh Countv. is on a bi™ boom. Mrs. Leona Wemek of Madison, died ; suddenly of paralysis. The new carbon works at Noblesville will start in a tew davs. Millie Wharton, a Mitchell nov. fell from a train and was killed instantly. Ihe 2-year-old son of William Keller, at Marion, fell in a cistern and was drowned. Turner Gates, aged 19, living south of Tipton, was drowned while Lathing in a pond. The Clay County Bank, at Clay, is reported to le getting readv to open again in a few Mrs. Eliza Busie. aged 82, died at • Mitchell from the effects of a broken ! limb received a few days ago I A young child of Frederick Rupel. of I Decker Township. Knox County, fell i into a cistern and was drowned. Marshal Si ar of Greencastle, who . shot a young man named Ruarke, be- ! cause he resisted arrest, was acquitted. Alex. Staples of South Bend, has sued the Chicago A Grand Trunk for s2o,ooojfor injuries by a falling street gate last winter. Albert Deri.oo a well-Known young man of South Bend, fell from a train at Elkhart and was instantly killed. He was twenty-two years o!d. and unmarried. While Isaac McArtor, 22, was plowing near Owensburg, the horses ran awaj. The point of the plow entered his abdomen, cutting him open to the shoulders. Mrs. Liberty Miller, aged 66, dropped dead at the home of her son-in-law in Pawpaw Township, Wabash County. She had been suffering from heart disease for some time. Mks. George English attempted to cross the Panhandle Railroad near Washi ington Street, Marion, and was instantly 1 killed by a freight engine. She was a I colored woman about 40 years old. The heirs of Henry Boles and Rev. H. • M. Lampert, at South Bend, have en- ' tered suit against the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern for 810,000 damages. These two men were killed last spring near Osceola while walking on the track. A sad death occurred at Dyer's Station, near Valparaiso. Mrs. W. Rinkenterger had been suffering from an ulcerated tooth for several weeks. The other morning she was found dead in bed by her Husband. A post mortem examination revealed that the ulcer broke during the night and choked her ‘ to death. At Indianapolis, Nora Walters. 12 i years old. stepped on an iron grating i heavily charged with electricity, the reI suit of a break in ar. electric light wire. ; Instantly her shoes were burned off and i the joles of her feet scorched to the 1 bone. "PtTT-^irl fn” nn rt.a and her arms were frightfully burner. Oue ■ or more persons were badly shocked in i rescuing her. The Indiana Grand Lodge of Freemasons held its annual meeting at Indianapolis, with 500 delegates in attendance. The report of the Treasurer showed receipts for the year aggregating r.: -, and disbursements of sl9, • 8 The following officers were elected: Grand Master. Daniel Voyer, Laporte; Deputy Grand Master. Frank E. Given. I Greensburg: Senior Warden, Edward O’Rourke, Fort Wayne: Junior Warden, W. P. Gillets. Evansville; Treasurer, Martin H. Rice. Indianapolis; Secretary; W. 11. Smythe, Indianapolis; Trustee, Isaac Leyden. New Albany. Patents have teen granted to Indianians as follows: John W. Cooper, Salem, trousers guard: George M. East. Holtonville, wrench; Jacob G. Hunsinger, assignor of one-half to J. N. Huston, Connersville, car coupler; James Oliver, assignor to South Bend Iron works, South Bend, molding flask; George L. Potter, Fort Wayne, draft rigging for cars; John T. Wilkin, Connersville, machine for forming cycloidal surfaces: John T. Wilkin. Connersville, machine for planing cycloidal surfaces; Watkin H. Williams. Indianapolis, yielding shackle; Minnie R. Wilson. Indianapolis, gas-mak-ing apparatus designs: Orville D- Rogers, Shoals, box, At the mining village of NicksviHe, Parke County, Lewis Puett, John Thomas, and a man named Hennis, who were engaged in cutting railroad ties, all lodged in the same house. The other night Puett was in the house, seated by a stove, when Thomas came in. and a quarrel led to a struggle, which awoke Hennis, who had retired in another room He got up and found Thomas lying on the floor with his head cut open and Puett gone. Thomas died in two hours. The ax used in the tragedy was found beside Thomas. Puett walked five miles to Rockville and surrendered himself to the Sheriff. He had a slight scalp wound on the front of the head. Thomas had a family and Puett had a wife. Auditor of State Henderson has called attention to the fact that very few of the building and loan associations of the State had filed reports with the Secretary of State, as was provided in the the Gifford bill, enacted bv the last Legislature. The iaw was faulty in that it provided that the law should go into effect April 1. whereas the Constitution defines only two ways in which acts can be made of effect, Lv declaration of emergency and upon the proclamation of the Governor. With this knowledge, most of the companies have paid no attention to the provision requiring a report But the iaw is now in force by proclamation, and it is the purpose to enforce it to the letter. Reports, the Auditor says, must be made at once. A failure to report subjects the delinquent company to a revocation of charter. While repaires were being made on the plant of the gas light and coke company at Goshen, there was an explosion seriously injuring and burning the secretary, Louis M. Latta, and Arthur Sherry. Their faces are frightfully burned. Wilber Lewis, a resident of Centerville, was fatally burned while experimenting with chemicals to produce what is commonly known as white fire. Ho - had a tube in his mouth blowing through it, when the overheated chemicals er ploded. A flame shot down his thro? burning the lining entirely out and riousiy burning his lungs.