St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 2, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 29 July 1893 — Page 3

OUR RURAL READERS SOMETHING HERE THAT WILL INTEREST THEM. To Keep the Roofs of Fann Buildings in Good Condition—Beet Sugar Farming In Nebraska-Value of Good Cows—Cultivating After Rain. Shingles and Shii V'Ung. It is a matter of no small expense to keep the roofs of farm buildings in a sound and tight condition, says a correspond nt of the American Agriculturist. Want of proper selection of shingles, of proper care in laying them, and in protecting them from the weather, are responsible for much of the cost which often seems a burden. T he saying that what is worth j doing at all is worth doing well, is I eminently true of the selection, lay-! ing, and care of shingles. In the first place, it is false economy to buy, or | have made from the product of one’s own wood lot, shingles of inferior t quality, full of sap, or of a coarse, porous, or shaky nature, which permits water to enter the grain, soon ending its usefulness. Hoofs soon become almost worthless through carelessness in laying the shingles, joints not being properly “ ro‘:cn ” and water thus let in to cause rapid de- ( cay. Another point is that an unprotected shingle, even a good one, ■ severely' exposed as it is to the ac- : tion of the weather, has vastly less I diWbility’ than it would have if cov- ! ere! with some moisture-proof ma-1 terlal. Even a cheap quality of paint wi.l prove a great protection. If paint is thought so be too costly, | there are often materials to be had that will repay applying to the newly-laid shingles, or to use as a dip before they arc laid. Tar, crude petroleum, whitewash—all these arc efficacious, if properly and thoroughly applied. Such applications mean , better looking buildings, and roofs that will long outlast those not sim- ' ilarly treated. It is much better, in I cold climates, at least, to use shin- ' gles, underlaid by thick building' paper, upon the walls of farm build-' Ings, instead of clapboards, as the । former are warmer, and, if well laid, ■ and painted, or stained, will look better than clapboards. In any event ' warmth ought not to be sacrificed to looks, and shingles certainly afford far better protection against the en-। trance of cold air than do clapboards. I In any event warmth ought not to be sacrificed to looks, and shingles certainly afford far better protection against the entrance ot cold air than | do clapboards. The great point in ; the use ot the former is to secure i good quality, to lay them with great care, as regards joints, and to properly protect the wood from the action of the weather. Such care will be repaid in the durability that will thtm In* secured. Hept Suprar Far miner. The sugar beets 1 raised last year •writes, Charles Riedel of Nebraska, were shipped in freight cars to the Grand 1 land factory. One acre of land was prepared by plowing eight ; inches deep and subsoiling so to have ; eleven to thirteen inches of loose soil. It was then harrowed and smoothed with a plank clod crusher. The seed was sown with a Planet Junior seed drill, twenty pounds to the acre, though twenty-four pounds are better, in rows eighteen inches apirt. The Held ought to be nearly' squ ire, so the double wheel hoe can be used both ways, when the tinning out is done, which is the biggest and most important part of the work. The rest of the cultivation can be done by a one-horse cultivator. By running the double wheel hoe on both sides of the iow, with the curved parts inside, only a strip one inch wide is left for hand thinning and weeding. With four-inch hoes, repe it the operation a few days later at right angles to the rows, and only little squares of ■one square inch are left to be thinned out and weeded, which reduces the much feared hand labor to a minimum. The rest of the cultivation was all done by the wheel hoe, with the cultivator teeth inserted in place of the hoes, for cultivating the sugar beets I raise for stock, I use a twohorse corn cultivator as the lows are planted three feet apart, and thinned out from ten to twelve inches in the row'. Sugar beets a r e the most profitable crop for me to raise, for they sell well, are well liaed by all domestic animals, and are superior for table u-e, to all other beets. ,aiuc° oi"’urchafd grass is becoming better understood, and there are many places where it is common to sow' it in place of timothy either alone or with clover. It is a richer feed than is timothy, is ready to pasture earlier, and is best cut as clover is coming into head, which is also the best time for cutting clover. Where clover and timothy arc sown together, the cutting is apt to be deferred too late for the clover or too early to have the timothy amount to much. Uses for Fertilizers. Os the various ways of handling i manure, good and had, the best tor me seems to be to spread it as made. The more soluble parts are carried down a ' few inches by the winter rain, and the coarser remainder, turned under just! as the soil begins to warm up in the spring, starts a chemical reaction that is probably as beneficial to the soil as is the actual plant food contained in it. By rotting it down in a compost heap and top dressing in the fall, this function of the manure is mainly lost; a loss which is partly offset by the surface protection giyen to the young wheat by the manure and by a better sod to be turned down the next time the field is p'owed, but I have no use for sod on farm

! land, my rotation not extending be* , yond four or five years of which two I years are clover. What Can Be Done with Good Cows. Should I buy the adjoining farm 01 100 acres? was the old-time question a Central New York farmer at ' Pompey Hill, near Syracuse, asked eighty odd years ago. “If you will buy live of the best cows to be had, I will pay for it with butter,” was the reply of his wife. There is a world ot suggestiveness in this old-time I question and answer. Even then it was recognized that a farmer could । not safely indulge in large land holding, unless he had the best of stock to go with it, and make it pay. We have improved stock since those early days, but nobody has improved the philosophy of that good, bu-iness-like wife.—Exchange. Feeding Grain With Pasture. The feed that stock get from the pasture always costs more than any I other on farms where land is valuable. Why not then supplement the pas- , ture with a grain ration, keeping enough stock to cat the grass pretty close and yet not allow it to suffer. Many farmers reverse this policy and have large patches of grass that becomes overgrown, and then stock will be almost starved before they will touch it. The better way is to have It so closely fed from the first that these spots will be eaten while still tresh and tender. From the Pen. । Agricultural, as well as other edii tors, frequently call for something from the pens of their subscribers or farmers that they need. It is re- ■ lated that a western editor met a well-educated farmer and said to him that he would like to have something from his pen. He was accommodated, for upon his return home the farmer ; sent him a pig, for which he charged him nine dollars and seventy-five cents. We presume this is only a ; story, but it tells well just the same. I —Germantown Telegraph. Regrafting Wild Plum Trees. There are thousands of wild plum ' trees as well as the wildings of cultii vated sorts that are no use whatever ’as they ,are. These should be regrafted with the ’nest and most pro- , ductive cultivated varieties. These ! is a common idea that plum trees must be grafted very early in order to succeed. The buds start very | early, and it is little use to try to ■ make a swollen bud grow. But if ! the bud has been held back that is to be set the swelling of buds on the tree will not affect it. Flaxseed Meal for < alves. Fall calves are hard to make thrift y, i They usually get less milk than old calves farrowed in spring. If fed by hand, more or less of the milk is apt to be fed too cold. The 1 cat feed to j supplement skim-milk is thixsccii : meal. A teaspoonful boiled in a quart of water at ••neb feeding ami added to the skim-milk will make it । much lichen If the calves scour aid a tablespoonful of wheat tine Hour to the mixture while it is being cooxed. And They Were Happy. She was a girl about 18 year- old out of a possible 20. She had on a neat calico dress, a white apron, and a cute but < heap straw hat. Just as the young man was passing she dragged a bundle containing twentysix yards of Brussels carpet out o the s.de door and Hung it over the* veranda rail and jumped after it. He stopped dead still and a,smile of hope lighted up his aristo ratio features. While he smiled sh • opened up the bundle and seized one-half of the car] ct and hoisted it over a clothesline. While he smiled more and more and seemed to whisper to himself,she spat on her hands, grabbed the other half, and, with a long-drawn “ha!” the boosted it over a second line. “Eureka!” gasped the young man as he drew nearer; but the giri was looking for one oi those swamp-elm । sticks which they sell with baled hay I at 1,000 per cent, profit and heard ' him not. She presently found one. It weighed i about fifteen pounds, she tu ked up her sleeves, moistened her palm-, seized it with both ha .d-. and with a “h-u-u-u!” which could be heard down on the next bio k she fetched that carpet a swat which made buttons and hair-pins fly ten eet hi.h “Eureka some more!” ( buckled the young man with the Queen Anne countenance—“but this is what Hvo been look!' F for.’” Swat' Swat' rags shoe-button-, pins, darning nee iles and re eipts for chapped lips fell in a golden shower on the rich green gra -. “Excuse me, miss, but are you en gaged, matrimonially?” “No, sir,” she sweetly replie I, as she turned to find the youn > man at ' her elbow •‘Have you whitewashed the cellar, I papered two or three rooms, rimmed : the bedsteads and beat all the re t of . the cirpets?” “I have, and cleaned the pantry, I an ! taken down two stoves in add!- ! tion. ■’ I “’T.s well. lam Claude Melnotte, । son of the old twenty millionaire Meb.oite, and his only heir. Will i you mar y me?” | “I will.” : “Good! I’ll bo here at 1 odo k sharp, with the license and the preacher. Till then ta! ta! ’ —l re 1 Press. The Days. With the natives of Burmah it is a ; belief that people born on a Monday are zealous; on Tuesday, honest; Wednesday, quick-tempered, but soon : calm again; Thursday, mild; Friday, talkative; Saturday, hot-tempered and quarrelsome, while Sunday’s i i children will be parsimonious.

IN STATE BUILDINGS. WHERE OLD FRIENDS MEET AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. Visitors Crowd Around the Huge Register* and Look for Acquaintances from Home 4 —A Latter-Day Evangeline — Florida’s Lament — The Model Farm. A Tour of the States. World's Fair correspondence: The people take great satisfaction in their State building. They show the feeling of ownership in many way'S.

The women drop I down upon the sofas and go to sleep. The men put their feet upon the railings. At every hour in the day groups of lunchers are on the porches. ’ And they spread out their pickles and pie without any

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of that furtive looking and apparent apprehension of interference with some rule. The State building ia the ©no place where the Columbian guard with his hanger does not make himself con-1 splcuous. After a man has traveled several hundreds of miles into a strange man’s town and is expecting every hour to have some one sandbag him and take his clothes, no one can estimate the comfort it gives him to run into a nest of old friends. It gives him a peculiar satisfaction to know that the State building belongs to him as much as to any one else. He has a right to - □ 3 ’’l * dP ® i SOUTH DAKOTA MINERALS. take a nap on the sofa or sit tilted back on the veranda all day long. Tnon when he looks in the register and finds that other people from his county are in town It takes away that lonesome feeling. Maybe he will bump into an acquaintance as soon as ho enters the frontdoor. If ho does, you will hear something after tho following: “ WelU what in the world are you doin’ hero?" “I swan, is that you? What are you doin’ here?” “Oh-h-h, wo had to boo

the Fair: couldn’t miss. It you know, not If it took n f”K-" •‘That’s right, that’s , rlgUt. Drlug yuu r / folks?” “Oh, yes, / they’re around horo^ somewhere. Mot h- " er ’ s about fagged. Says she’d rather

cook for harvest hands than walk nil day. Goin' to stay long?" “Calculq^e on bein' here all next week if body and soul stick together that long. ’Spose you’ll be here some time." 'Can't tell vet. Just about give up seeing it all. Half the time don't know whether I'm on my head or my heels. Blamodest place I ever struck.* “That's light, that's right.” State Products Exhibited. ‘‘Corn is King! Sugar is Queen!” Nebraska dis lays this double motto on her building to call attention to the fact that sho still persists in the practicability of a beet sugar industry. Kansas makes little boast of sorghum j sugar, but Nebraska is as confident as ever about the beet experiment. Not only are samples of beet sugar shown, but the process of extracting it is illustrated. In Nebraska's building is a de- | tail map of Platte County, made by i sticking wheat, outs, rye and grass । seed in a large board. The Western | States emphasize their specialty in | production. You can smell when you j come within five rods of North Dakota. I The moment you cross the threshold j you experience an overpowering sense j of ‘'No. 1 hard.” Wheat is everywhere. The custodian says there are 146 varieties of wheat in the North Dakota building. Nobody will dispute him. The State of Washington makes outs almost as conspicuous as North Dakota does wheat. Everybody who goes to the national capital visits Mount Vernon. And everybody who comes to the Fair wants to see the Virginia Building, which is •* as that of the Chinese artist who put a tear n <rvons<' upct on the new coat which was to be "exactly like u>o old one" left with him for measurement. Even the hole for the cat in the door of Mrs. Washington's room, where the mother of her country locked herself up when she desired solitude, has not been forgotten. Massachusetts, too, goes in for the historical in her State building. She has copied the home of John Hancock, of Declaration of Independence fame. She has put into it the cradle R I I NORTH DAKOTA’S OX AND CART. which has rocked live generations of Adamses, from which came two Presidents, the mirror in which Governor Hutchinson surveyed his powdered wig 150 years ago, and the desk Gen. George Washington used at Cambridge. From an upper window of Louisiana a live Evangeline, as she । cards the cotton and spins the string, looks down upon Hiawatha in plaster before the Minnesota Building. Model Farms. Model farms are centers of attraction in several of the State buildings.

Washington has one of them which is i 30 feet square, with a farmhouse no larger than a bird-cage, a red barn 3 feet high, and flowing wells which snout into troughs that hold about a -n 1 * J 9 grain are represented 1 Dy millet heads stuck in the loose earth. A thrashing machine 8 inches nigh is being operated by farmers 5 inches tall. There are reapers and ■ ^owere in miniature, pastures, cows, r id country roads, all shown with conmno ■££l rim X/^7 IM THE MICHIGAN BfILDIMO. accuracy. To many visitors tn^s dwarf farm is a triumph of tho ExpoSition. City people look at the model ana thing what fun farming must be Country folks wonder where tho weeds are and what farm was ever in such apple-pie order. In front of the North Dakota Building is a stuffed ox, harnessed to a weather-beaten cart, with big lumber, ing wheels. On tho card it says: • : This outfit was owned by the Hud- : : son Hay Company and represents ; : the only means of travel and trans- ; ; portation employed north and west : : of St. Paul prior to the year 1871. : What makes this card interesting io ' the fact that in 1893 the good people of i tho Dakotas are coming to the Exposi- I tion in through sleepers, with a colored boy to make up their berths. South Dakota has a mcdel of a miner's cabin, i a mine and a quartz mill, the work of a Black Hills boy 14 years old. Some State Legislatures from mis- ■ taken motives refused to appropriate money for building or for exhibits. In I several instances tho citizens of those : States have put their bands in their pockets and made good the lack of State prido in their law-makers. Such movements in Arkansas and Texas have resulted well. Florida is tho lonesome exception. Florida has al-mo-t nothing but, the walls of her building and some dying palm trees to I show. Few people can feel any desire to go to Florida after a visit to tho Florida Building. Texas owes her building to Texas women, but there is no disposition to deal harshly with the men of the State for their lack of zeal. All kinds of gathot ings take place in the State buildings. While tho New ork ladies are giving a high tea, just around _LUe corner . i f,v«. 1...1.. ... I I /k thO-W- o. was ■ x v./ with Sitting Bull in \ I'3’^ e'> 1his last fight, and IWJ Curly Head, a Sioux , scout, who claims to (J ■ have been at the Custor massacre, may b .RKading the home holding a recept ion in 1 A1 k “’ tho North Dakota parlors. The State Normal School Alumni met in tho lowa Building, and tho next day university graduates from Ann Arbor were making people wonder what was going on in Michigan. Every day there is a gathering of commercial travelers in the room given to the T. I’. A. in tho ’ Missouri Building. Two hundred and fifty members of the choir of the Mormon Tabernacle are coming to sing in the Utah Building. Montana has several interesting things in natural art. (>ne is a cabinet of silver crystals which camo from 1,500 feet under ground, and in which tho metal takes the form of shrubbery now THEY COT THAT BIG KAR O«’ CORN INTO HIE IOWA BUILDING. and has a peculiar luster. Another is a collection of the paintings of the cowboy artist, Russell, who herds cattle all eumwrand paints all v. inte.-in a cabin sonftSii<«>k ””••'•" 1 ■" :■: ’ Irum Wisconsin. 1 hey havo ; come pearls, dahlia pearls, fro’™ pearls, and white pearls. The story is h faci^ar one around tho Wisconsin Building. The collection brought to the Fair is made up from gems loaned by the owners, The idea of bringing building material from their respective localities has been scrupulously adhered to by several of tho States. West Virginia s house is constructed entirely of the native woods of that State. One of the relics it contains is the sofa on which Grant and Lee sat at Appomattox, and the inkstand in which the pens were dipped to write and sign the terms of surrender. The State buildings are the places to study American history. Minnesota has a Bible 300 years old and a statue of Minnehaha and Hiawatha made by a Norwegian. The school children paid for it with their pennies. The identical gun with which Gen. Israel Putnam shot the wolf is ono of the Connecticut treasures. Tho furniture in the grand reception room of New York's building is between 200 and 300 years’ old. In the Maryland building are two pictures in oil of what is now the site of Chicago as it appeared in 1821). They wore made by Frederic Harrison, who came out to do some surveying in tho wilds. Under the dome of California’s reproduction of one of the early mission buildings is a palm tree 100 years old, • and with a foot of height for each year of its age. It camo across the continent from San Diego on two flat cars. Is it any wonder the State buildings , | have grown into popularity?

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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. I SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED. — A Scholarly Exposition of the Lesson— Thoughts Worthy of Calm Reflection— | Half an Hour's Study of the Scriptures— Time Well Spent. Paul at Ephesus. The lesson for Sunday, July 30, may be found in Acts 19:1-12. INTRODUCTOY. We are given here a lesson on that transcendent theme, the Holy Ghost. He who honors the Holy Ghost honors Christ, and, may we not also say, he who honors Christ honors the Holy Ghost? “He shall not speak of himself.” His speech and suggestion is always of Christ. He takes the things of Christ and reveals them unto us. So, then, when we are keeping the words of Christ and doing the works of ! Christ, we are most truly honoring and obeying the Spirit. “He shall glorify me.” The church that glorifies Christ is the church of the Holy Spirit. The man who trusts Christ, lives Christ, is the man possessed of the Spirit, for only by the Spirit of Christ do wc love and honor Christ. Holy Ghost power is a simple thing—it is'every day wit-nes-ing for Jesus. POINTS IN THE LESSON. Paul has at last gone to Ephesus. He essayed to go there orce before, but was “forbidden of the Holy Ghost.” And yet it was just the place where the Holy Ghost was lacking honor. God’s Spirit is the spirit of wisdom. To the Godhead there is a tit time. But Apollos is now in Corinth carrying on Paul’s spiritual work there. Paul is in Ephesus and he finds work to do. perhaps the haidost he has ever undertaken in his Master’s name. He finds a whole church composed of men l like Apollos before he was instructed. Doubtless they know the Scriptures, as ■ Apollos did. Doubtless they were | judges of good speech, as was the eloi quent Alexandrian. But they lacked , the Holy Ghost and his power. That ; was a grievous, a fatal lack. It is j nothing less to-day. An eloquent pul- । pit. a vigorous Sunday school, a wellj organized society are as nothing in the i sight of God when the practical influ- | ence of the Holy Spirit is ignored. This the Ephesians did not know. I Like any other church, trusting in the flesh, they were behind the times, they were an anachronism. Paul takes them in hand to lead them out into the light, into the power of the Risen Life. He takes them out of Judaism and away ! from the Jordan! He brings them into | Christianity and to Joseph's garden, and this side of the tomb. Are there any churches back in the Judaistic, ante-Easter gloom. Come away from it. “He that heareth my word, and believeth in him that sent me. hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life.” Do you know tho resurrection life? Have you put darkness and death and the dread of judgment be-

hind you where Christ put it—on the Thin Is Bplrltual retiplon. “Out of my bondage, sorrow an : uiguu Jesus I come. Jesus I conic: Into thy freedom, gladness and light. Jesus I conic to thee.” HINTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. We arc not yet through with first things as to the proclamation of the word. We have hail the first prayermeeting in Europe, the first open-air ; meeting, the first after meeting, the ( । fir: t cottag' meeting seo previous les-। i son notesi; here we have the first ; I school-house mission. That schoolhouse of Tyrannus made a good place of overflow. If tho synagogue was too narrow and stiff. Paul found here am- ! pie latitude for his proclamation oi the I truth. Thank God for such schoolI houses. There are a few of them left.-, What a preaching th< se walls of Tyr« i : annus must have heard! "What a de- । fensi) of tb.c Christ. What a declara- 1 ■ tion <,f the power of the Holy Ghost! i Suppose we turn our Sunday schools ; : to-day into such colleges of Tyrannus, I I where we may “dispute” and “persuade” | regarding the truth. Why not goback ' to that original query at Ephesus? “Have ye received the Holy Ghost?” j I f so, when? How do you know it? I What are the signs of the Spirit's pow- ; er? To whom is the Spirit given? : How may wc rejoice in larger measures : of that power to-day? Do we pray for , । the Spirit as much as we should? Do ! we pray in the Spirit? “T and P” the old lady wrote over ■ against many of the texts in her wellworn Bible. “What does it mean, auntie?” Her answer has a significance here, “Tried and Proved.” Is not the Holy Spirit moving might- ■ ily in the young people's movements of ■ to-day? At Indiarapolis. at Montreal, j he is being honored by those -who are I ; growing up to be pillars in the temple j I of OU l 'God. “Where would vn» miHmc . I Spirit have something to do, a great i deal to do, with this new enthusiasm, i • the best that youth has ever known? Some one has been telling us of an 1 j English gentleman who. on a wager, i ! stood in old clothes on London Bridge, ’ and, with a tray before him, cried all ■ day. “Nice, new sovereigns: a penny I ; apiece.” And nobody would buy, none I but a nurse girl who bought one to still the fretting of a child. Foolish people, I : were they not. to let true coins of tho । realm thus go begging for a recipient! j ■ Is there not like folly abroad in the । ; church of Jesus Christ? Dr. Hastings, of Boston, has well ! । said that the Dark Ages of the nine- । I teenth century are just as bad as the I ’ i Dark Ages of the ninth. “Outside of I the light of God’s revelation all ages I , i are dark.” — . ; Next Lesson —“Paul at Miletus.” i । i Acts 2 : 22 ' 5. The value there may be in so-called : I waste products is well illustrated in the 1 manufacture of turpentine as at present ' carried on at the South. The dross, which is now burned to get rid of it, would, if turned into lampblack, equal, it is estimated, about 50,000 tons, which, at 2 cents a pound, would be worth ’ $2,000,000. ' The ruby, sapphire, oriental topaz, ' oriental amethyst, oriental aqua-ma-rine,’ oriental chrysolite, hyacinth, 1 star ruby, star sapphire, star topaz, are all corundums of different colors.

RUSTLING HOOSIERS. ITEMS GATHERED FRO? 4 OVER THE STATEAa Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties, and General Indiana News Notes. Teachers’ Institutes. The following are the places of hold- , ing and the dates of the County TeachI of 3 , for the year 1893 for the I State oi Indiana: Adsma, Decatur, Aug. 28-Sept. 1 Allen, Fort Wayne, Sept. 4-8. Bartholomew, columbus, Au” 7-’i Benton, Fowler, Aug. 21-25. ° Blackford, Hartford city, Sept. 4-3. Boone, Lebanon, Aug. 28-Sept. I Brown, Nashville, Aug 21-2>. Carroll. Delphi. Aug. 21-25. Casa, Logansport. Aug. 28-Sept. 1. Clark. ( hnrlestown, Aug. 2i-_5. Clay, Brazil. Aug. 14-18. Clinton. Frankfort, Aug. £l-25. Crawford, Leavenworth. Aug. 28-Sept. 1. I Daviess, Washington. Aug n-iB. Dearborn. Lawrenceburg, Aug. 28-Sept. L Decatur, Greensburg. Aug. 28-Sept. 1. Dekalb. Auburn. Aug. 21-25. Delaware Mancie, Aug. 21-25. Dubois. Jasper, July 24-28. Elkhart, Goshen, Aug. 21-.5. Fayette, । onner c ville, Aug. 21-Scpt. 1. Founti-.in, Covington, Aug 14-18. Franklin. Brookiille, Aug. 28-sept. 1. Fulton, Rochester, Aug. ul-25. Gibson, Princeton. Sept. 4-8. Grant, Nation, Aug. 28-Sept. L I Greene, Bloomfield, Aug. 21-25. Hamilton, Cicero, Aug. 21-25. Hancock, Greenfield, Aug. 14-18. Harrison, Corydon, Aug. 21-25. Hendricks. Lanvilie, Aug. 7-11. Henry. New Castle, Aug. 21-25. Howard, Kokomo, Aug. 28-Sept. J. Huntington. Huntington, Aug. 28-Sept. L Jackson, Brownstown, July 31-Aug. 3. Jasper, Rensselaer, Aug. 28-Sept. 1, Jefierson, Mad.son, Aug. 21-25. Jennings, Vernon, Aug. 21-25. Johnson. Franklin, Aug. 14-18. Knox, Vineennes. Aug. 28-Sept 1. Kosciusko, Warsaw, Aug. 28-Sept. 1. Lagrange, Lagrange, Aug. 28-Sept. L Lake, Crown Point, Aug. 21-25. Laporte, Laporte, Aug. 14-18. Lawrence. Mitchel, Aug. 14-18. Madison, Anderson. Aug. 28-Sept. 1. Marion. Indianapolis, Aug. 2»->-ept. 1. ' Marshall. Plymouth. Aug. 28-Sept. L Martin, Shoals, Aug. 7-n. Miami, Peru. Aug. 21-25. Monroe, Bloomington, Aug. 21-25. Montgomery, Crawfordsville, Aug, 21-25. Morgan. Martinsville, July 31-Aug. 4. Newtou, Kentland, Aug. 21-25. Noble, Albion, Aug. 7-H. Orange. Paoli, Aug. 14-18. Owen, Spencer, Aug. 7-11. Parke, Rockville, Aug. 28. Sept. 1. Perry, Cannelton, Aug. 14-19. Pike. Petersburg. Sept. 4-8. Porter, Valparaiso, Aug. 28-Sept. 1, Posey. Mt. Ver ion, July 31-Aug. 4. Pulaski, Winamac, Sept. 4-8. Putnam, Greencastle, July 31-Aug. 4. Randolph, Winchester, Aug. 21-25 Ripley, Versailles, Aug. 14-18. Hush, Rushville, Aug. 21-25. Scott, Scottsburg. Aug. 28-Sept. 1. Shelby, Sheloyville, Aug. 21-25. Spencer, Rockport. Aug. 28-Sept 1. Starke, Knox, Sept. 4-8. i St Joseph, South Bend, Aug. 28-Sept. 1. Stubene, Angola, Nov. 6-10, Sullivan, Sullivan. Aug. 21-25. Switzerland. Vevay, Sept. 4-8. Tippecanoe, Lafayette. Sept. 4-8. Union, Liberty, Aug. 21-25. Vanderburg, Evansville, Aug. 28-Sept. 1. Vermillion, Clinton, July 24-28. Vigo. Terre Haute, Aug. 28 Sept. 1. Wabash, Wabash, Aug. 21-25. Warren, Williamsport, Aug. 21*25. Warrick, Boonville, Aug .14-18. Washington, t alem, Ang. 7-11. Wayne. Centerville, Aug. 21-25. Wells, Bluffton, Aug. 7-11 White, Monticello. Aug. 28-Sept. 1. Whitley, Columbia City, Sept. 4-8.

A>th i ... . fnllinor from tho troos in Southern Indiana. Sam Jones is holding protracted meetings at Winimae. George Russell of Crawfordsville, has a eolt with one leg. A VALUABLE mineral spring has been discovered near Charleston. The Second National Bank of Vincennes has commenced business. Toll roads in Wayne County have been abolished by a popular vote. Five houses and several barns at Goshen were destroyed by lightning. Clifford Vandorin, aged 16. was drowned while bathing near Kokomo. Counterfeiters are making and circulating spurious silver coins near Jeffersonville. Houleham & Stump's hardware and carriage house, Crawfordsville, wasdesroyed by an incendiary lire. Loss, $25^,000. One of the horses at the South Bend police station has a fancy for playing with the hose and delights in taking it into his mouth and drinking from it. Frederick Gani of Omego, Hami ilton County, a pensioner drawing $72 ! a month, reported dead, writes that he ; is still living and that it was Wesley i Gani who died. Charles Rigamun, the 10-year-old | son of Henry H. Rigamun of Albany, had his hand caught and badly mangled in a pulley in the barn of John Andrews, where men were unloading hay. Mrs. Sarah Stoner of Brunswick. Mo., filled a SIO,OOO damaffe suit at i LaPorte against the Baltimore & Ohio ! railroad. Mrs. Stoner was a passenger I on a train t hat was wrecked at WellsI boro last October. The gas well being drilled near Farmland bv a stock company of farm- ' down in that locality immediately. | Mrs. William McMorris, near ■ Hall. Morgan County, threw a bucket of ' scalding water out of a rear window on I her 2-year-old child, which she thought i was playing in the front yard. On ! hearing its piercing screams she ran I out and carried it into the house. ! Pieces of flesh, fell from its face, arms ! and legs, and it died in great agony. Patents were awarded to the folI lowing in Indiana: Lyman Cooper of | Patoka, sawing machine: Edgar Green, I Albion, typewriting machine; Oscar S. ' Guernsey. Seymour, ear coupling; ' Moses IC Myers, Cambridge City, gate: I Ralph W. Nye, assignor of one-half to ’ J. G. Scott of Richmond, attachment i for cooking stoves: Henry G. Olds, Fort i Wayne, churn: William T. Putnam, ; Brightwood, oil burner: Frank A. ‘ Smith, assignor of one-third to J. । Krause of Flora, heating drum. Edward Elkins, aba cer. fell from | the third-floor window at No. 418 Third i street. Logansport, and was killed. I He was in the habit of sitting in the window when he could not sleep on account of the heat, and it is supposed he went asleep and fell out. While the fire that laid Princeton to the ground is a great blow to the people, they do not seem to be disI couraged in the least. Tents are bei ing pitched in all parts of the city, and ! business is going right along. The । Western Union telegraph office is lo- ! cated in a livery stable, and Dr. Gilmore is pulling teeth under a tent.