St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 13, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 October 1894 — Page 2

A RONG OF OLD TIMES. l ove to think of old-time days—brightest and tne Lest! an got up at break o’ day an’beamed from east to w st; bon was ri in’ right on time, with lots o’ stars, n' sweet girls done the milkin’whore the cattle crossed the bars I Love to think of old-time days—the glory in the dells— The mi k-wliite daisies blossomin’—the chime o’ village bells I The birds that sung heap sweeter than these new-time birds kin sing— The maiden »ith the red lips an’ the lover with the ring! Love to th nk of old time days—coin’ all too fust; Love was lots more swe ter then an’ more inclined to ast; All the world was brighter -don t matter what they say, Every heart was lighter an’beat happy on the way! Love to think of old-time days—skies was always blue; Violets blossomed ever wheros, jest twinklin’ with the dew! But what’s the use o’ thinkin' an 1 dreamin’ day an' night ? If the old times wag the brightest we kin make the now times blight.! HOW ANGELS GOT RELIGION. “Never heard how we got religion ‘o Angels, stranger? Yer see ’twas afore Anuels got to be sech a big lamp as 'twas later on, but it was a rich camp and a mighty wicked one. Ihere were lots uv chaps there whc’d jest as soon die in Xheir boots as eat; aAW^rery other house was a dance-house or a saloon or a gam-bling-hell. Pretty Pete and hisjpardner, Five Ace 800, was reckoned the wickedest men in tne State; and Old Bill J mes, what kept the Golden West Hotel, had a national reputation for cussin’. 3he idea of a parson striking the camp never was thought uv; but one day 1 was pl yIng bank into 1 ete’s game when Five Ace came runnin’ in ’n’ sez: ‘Boys. I'll be , but there’s an ornery cuss of a parson jest rid up to .Jones’. He’s got a pardner with him, and he 'lows he’s going to convert the camp.’ — — I wkKYsc W ftp 1 : •gent , AS YER SEC, I*M A MINISTER 01 < HIE G sriL."

•The he is,’says Pete. 'l’ll tinish the deal and go down and see about that.’ So we all walked down to Jones’, and thar, sure 'null, In the bar, talking with Old BPI, wuz the parson, black coat and white tie ’n’ all. He was a big, squar’-shouldcred chap with a black beard and keen gray eyes that looked right through yer. His pardner was only a boy of 20 or so, with a yeller. curly liar pink and white gal’s f.ve, and big blueeyes. We all walked m, ’n’ Peto he stands to the bar ’u’ shouts fer a l hands ter drink, ’n’ to our surprise the parson 'n' the kid both stepped up and called for red licker ’n’ drank it. Alter the drink was finished the passon sc : ‘Gent-, as yer see, Pm a minister of the Gospel; but 1 see no harm in any man drinking ez longe , he ain't no drunkard. ] drank jus. now because I want you to see that I am not ashamed to do before yer fa e what Pd do behind yer back.’ 'll ght yer are, parson.’ sez Pete, ‘put it thar, 'a' they sh ok hands, and then Pete lie up and called oil the hull gang. Five Ace ’n’ Lucky Barnes ’n’ 1 irty Smith ’n' one ’n’ all the root uv 'em. The parson shook hand> with all uv us and se I be wa< going to have a meetm' in Shitty Sal’s dance house that night,

e ’twas the biggest room in camp’n ast us all to c me, ’n’ we sed we would. ■‘When we got outside Pete sez, •Boys, you mind me that devil dodger’ll capture the camp;’’n' he did. That night we ail went along down to Shifty’s and found the person and the kid on th' platform where the tiddlers ust to sit; and tverv man in camp wuz in the audience. The pa s m spoke first He sed: ‘Gents, I want to tell yer first off I don't want any uv yer dust I’ve got enutf for myself and my young friend, ’n’ there won't be no rake-off in this yer mcetin'-house, ’n’ I’m not here to preach against any man’s way o’ makin’ a livin’. 1 will preach agin drunkenness, and [shall speak privately wish the gamblers: b .t I want to keep you men in mind of your homes ’n’ yer wives’n’yer sweetheart ■<. and not. s»v tn m m cleaner lives so’s when yer meet ’em ag n jer’ll not h v to be ’shamed.’ and then he sed we’d hev a song, ’n’ the youngster he started in’n’ played

a concertina, and sang, ‘Yes. Wc Will Gather at the River,’ ’u’ there wuz.n’t one uv us that It didn’t remind uv how our mothers ust to dress us up Sundays ! n’ send us to Sunday school and stand at the doo ■ io watch us down street, and call us back to ast if we were sure we lad our clean pocket handkerchur; n I tell yer, mister., that wuz.n’t a man with dry eyes in the crowd when he’d finished. That young feller had a v’ice like ’a angel. Pete he said it wuz a tenner v’ice, but Five, A e offered to bet him 100 to 50 it wuz more like a tifteener or a twenty. “W<!l, things run along lor about a week, ‘n’ one day Pete come to me and sez: Took here, 1 alters, this yere camp ain’t no jay camp, ’n’ we’ve got to hev a church fer the parson. He’s a jim-dandy, and won’t ask fer nothing. He’d jest natchedly go on prayin’ and preachin’, ’n’ tryin’ ter save a couple of whisky-soaked souls like your’n, and Bill Jones’, which ain’t worth powder to blow them to ,’d’ vou’d let him go on doin’ it

j In that oil shack of Sul’s ’n’, never make a move. Now, I’m goln’ to rustle round ’n’ dig up dustenuff from the boys, and we’ll jest build him a meetin’ house as ’ll be a credit to the camp; ‘n’ in a few days the boys hed a good log meetin’ house built, floored, *n’ benches in it ’n’ everythin’. The parson was tickled most to death. Next they built him a house, n he ’n’ his pardner moved into it. Then Pete sed the church had to be properly organized; hed to hev deacons’n’ church wardens ’n’ sextons ’n’ things; so old Bill Jones ’n' Alabam ’n’ me wuz made deacons, ’n’ Pete ’n’ Five Ace wuz church I wardens. "In a month every last man in camp wu worryin’ ’bout his future state. Old Bill Jones came into meetin’ one night with his face 'n' hands washed ’n’ an old black suit on, sot down on the anxious ben h and ast to be prayed fer. The parson Knelt down ’n’ put his arm round him, ’n’ how he did pray; before he got through Lu ky Barnes, Alabam ’n’ me wuz on the bench too, ’n’ Pete shoved his ( hinaman up the aisle by the collar ’n’ sot h m down 'longside o’ me. Pete sa’d he was a hightoned Christian gentleman himself, hed been born ’n’ raised a Christian, ’n’ was a senior churchwarden to boot, and that he’d make a Christian of Ah Foo or spoil a Chinaman. That parson myed njost power!ul that night, As a rFve?" ’n’-easy prayer, I never see his beat; । he hed the whole an iencc in tears, ’n' you might have heard Pete’s aniens ’n’ glory hallaluyers off to Buller’s Flat. old.lones wuz a rolling around on the floor ’n’ hollering fer to be saved from the devil before the parson was half finished, 'n' he made so much noise that Pete hed to fire a bucket uv water over him to quiet him down. That meetin’ wuz so plum full uv the spirit ez the. par son called It that it never broke up till 12 o’clock, ’ri' wouldn't er broke up then only Pete said he’d hev to quit ez his shiit to deal faro begun at 12. “There wuz over twenty perfesscs that night not countin’ l ete’s < hioaman, ’n’ next Sunday we hed a big baptizm in the creek, n' forty uv us was put through. Pete sed he reckoned Ah Foo had better be put through every day for a week or so, sence he’d a ways been a dod g isted heathen, but the parson’lowed onct wuz enuff, but he give him an extra dip jest for lurk; ’n’ I never see a more ornery lookin’ cuss In mv ll.e khan that Chinese were when be came out. "Waal, stranger, things run along

nice an’ smooth fer a co iple uv months er so t 1 < hris'mus c >me nigh The boys hed been a keepin' mighty straight; there wasn't a man in camp that drunked morc'n wu ■ hulßome fer him; there hed n’t bin a sho dm’ sera; e b r weeks. Nary a man packed a gun, ’n‘ when a gent j'nd forgit n'drop a cuss word he’d j beg pa ding. The parson wis thick । with all the bovs. He writ letterfor us. advised us about all our biz , ness, ’n’ knew all about on rvls.d 's - allairs. Lots uv 'em cave him their I dust sack to keep fer 'em, n 1 he . knowed where every man hed his I cached “Along lest afore i hrN’mus cum. Pete called a m<et n' uv the deacons q ■ aucJ - "A MEETIN ll THE l l iCrXS V CUVU-M

’n* churchwardens down to his place, 'o’after the sexton \li 100 ha! brought in a roun I of drinks he said Gents, ez chairman ex-officer in this yer layout, 1 move that we give the parson a little present ler Cliris'mus. i ser know he won’t take a durn cent j from us, ’n‘hever has Uv course he has taken a tew thou and from time to time to -en I to ortlns ’n‘ things uv that kind, but not a red for his self or paid; ’n* 1 move that we make him a little present on ( hris’mus day, ’n’ it needn't be so little. * either. Gent’s in favor’ll say so, and gents wot ain’t km keep mum. ( arried, ’n’ that settles it Five Ace ’n’ me’ll take in contributions, 'u' we won't take any ess than 5u case-.’ ‘That wu two days afore t hri-"-mus day. ’n’ when it come Fete 'n' Five Ace hed about live thousand in dust ’n’ nuggets fer the parson’s V>V.C<.V- 1< LV a'-v.>.-v<l All luy * month’s pav, ’n’ he Kicked hard accordin', but ’twer’ n't no use. The day wib bright ’ri’ clear, ’n’ at 11 o’clo k every man in camp wuz. at church.

The little buildin’ looked mighty ; tasty all fixed oil' with pine tassels * ’n’ red berries we’d got in the woods, i ’n’ every man wuz dressed out in his best duds. At 11 exact the parson ’n’ the kid, who hod bin standin' at the door shakin’ bauds ’n’ wishin’ everybody what cum in merry Chris’mus, cum in ’n’ took the r seats on the platform. I’ete ’n’ Five Ace ’n’ Bill Jones ’n’ Alabain ’n’ me sot on a bench jest in front o’ the platform. We wuz all togged out in our best fixin’s, ’n’ Pete ’n’ Five Ace they sported | dimons till yer couldn’t rest. Waal, j e usual, the perceedln’s opened up with er prayer from the piison ’n’ then we had singin', ’n’ it seemed ter me as if I never hed heerd sich singin’ in my life afore ez thet kid let onto’him thet day. Then the parson he started in ter jaw, ’n’ I must ellow he giv us a great discourse. I never see him so longwinded afore, tho’. ’n’ I ete was beginnin’ to get mighty restless ’n’ on--1 easy, when all uv a suddint we heerd > the door open ’n’ shet quick 'n’ sharp,

’n’ every one turned around to find a great big black-bearded cuss at the door a coverin’ the hull gang uv us with a double-barreled shotgun, ’n’ jest a standin’ thar cool ’n’ silent. ‘Pace round here, yer fools,’ yelled some! ody in a sharp, quick biznus-meanin’ v’ice ’n’ all hands faced round to find the par on holding ’em up w th another shotgun own brother to the one the other cuss hed. 'I don’t want a word out er yer,’ he sed. ‘Yer see my game now, don’t yer? Thar aint a gun in the house ’cept the ones you see, ’n’ if any gent makes any row in this yer । meetin’ I’ll till his hide so plum full o’ holes’t won’t hold his bones. The kid will now take up the collection, n ez its the first on • we ever hev taken up yer must make It a liber’l one, see?’ The kid started out with a gunnisack, ’n’ went through every last ma in the crowd. He took Fk. "YER SHE MY GAME NOW D()X> aISF bit —- -Jnn this bu; (every thing, even to the rt ’A. be able . • • ..lit- t ’n’ we knew it r? never kicked, jest giv’ up our stuff like lambs. ,K oy '•After the kid lied tlnishe<^Jg4 took the ack outside, ’n fhetstne] last we ever seed o’ him Then the i parson he sez ’’N* now, gents, 1 must say adoo. c 1 must be a travelin’, for I hev another meetin’ to atr tend this ew. i want to say tho’, afore 1 uo. thet you're the orneriest gang of- fi <>|s I ever plaved for suckers, a few tris mb uv mine hev taken the lllhtli, wmle you've been to meetin' thG ble^ q t hriAmasday, uv goln' through yer cabin> 'n' diggin’ up yer ittie < ache-, uv dust’n' uther valables. N< r stock hez all Ikrnn stampede I, ’n’ yer guns yer’ll find some whar at the lot tom uv the crick My friend at the door will hold yer level while I walk Out, ’n’ we will then ke p yer uiet fer a few minute- longe; through the w Oder jest so's we can git a nice cuinf’table start; ’n’s > they did. What cd we do? The paiM»n walked out. grip nlng all over himself 'n' he ’n' his pals they nai cd up the d<mr 'n' winders, Hhar wu only two. > ’n’ very soon after th y ha 1 tinnbed we heird the clatter <>'hu N ’n’ knowed they wuz gone. 1 mu-t draw avail over the rest uv thet day’s purceedlngs, st Linger. The iangwidge used by i ther 1 vs wuz too awful to repeat, j but t was ,est as this parson sed, i when we got out o thet meetin’ j ho se we found every anunai on the Io- i cation gone, ’n’ th- onlv arms left j wuz knives 'n' eluls vet we’d hev i gone after 'em w th nothin’ but our i hands, bu w<> c .uidn't follow afoot. 1 How much did they get i donX^ rlghtlv know oof <■ ■ i r»»r from oo.t, ihe hos» mni)> wus niouc all excep' Ah l 00. 'n' he wuz the only t one uv us had scuse enuff not 11 teh j thet durned j a n whar he cached his stuff.” Vssanl lcd by » Druukrit M-an. Here is unoriginal wav of dealing with a drunken man. adepted with great sucres^ • by Th .mas JeffpfSOfi Hogg, the lu graphtr of >h hey. “I i was alH.ut Lu enter ’ ovent Garden,’’ he -ays, "when an Irish lal»orer, i l»earing an empty ho i, a costed me ( somewhat roughiy, and a-ke ; whv 1 had run against him I told him | !.ne y that he was m-t i.-v u. ‘ W hethe - tneboly h.; 1 a- tuai y pu-hed the man. or he only s ught a quarrel, 1 «in>w not; but be dis-; coursed for some tune as if lie con- i s de red himse.t in ured or insulted, and being emiio.deiied by my long silence, concluded with a cordial in-j vital ion ju-t to pu-h him again. “Several persons tn-.t very unlike | him in costume had gathered round, i and appeared to regard him with i sympathy. “ A hen he paused, I addressed to him s'-owlv and quietly, and with great gravity, these words, as nearly a- 1 can recolivet them; ‘“1 base put my hand into the | hamper; 1 have looked upon the saeied barley; 1 have eaten < ut of the drum! 1 have drunk and was well pleased; 1 have said Knox ompax, and it is tin >htd.’ " 'Have v. u, sir?’ inquired the astonished Irishman, and his raggefriends pre sed round him with. ■Where is the hamper, raddy?' > AVhat barley-' and the like. Andi ludu'j f>- '■> 1 — -“rrv that iS i to say, the basket women, suddenly j began to interrogate h.m: i •• ‘Now, I -ay, i at. where fiav't ! you been drinking? What have you had?' •■I turned, therefore - t > the right, leaving the astounded neophyte, whom I had thus planted, to expound the mystic words of initiation as he could to his inquisitive com- . pan ions.” it "M ustang.” According to the dictionaries a mustang is one of the wild horses ol I the American prairies, small and hardy. The word comes from the Spani-h mestengo, “pertaining to j mesta or graziers,” and mesta means | “a body of proprietors of black cattle or sheep. From this came the meaning of mustang, something be- ’ j 10. ging to a grazier, so that a mustang horse was such as a grazier ; might be expected to ride in herding • । his sheep. In time the word horse was dropped and the, adjective mustag was used alone as a noun. There ’ is a mustang grape, a hardy variety, ■ with small berries. I The failure of right is reparable, , that of wrong final.

REIN AT LITTLE ROCK capital of Arkansas struck BY A CYCLONE. Commercial Center of the City Laid "*»te-Many Are Killed—State Peultenthry Badly Wrecked and Convicts Inj^ed— Asylum Buildings Demolished. Loss n Million Dollars. . X terrible windstorm swept over the buMness p rtion of Little Rock, Ark., "’uisday night, varying death and deBtruction in its path. Shortly after dark a heavy storm < ame from the West, accompanied by vivid flashes of Uffhtnii g and hea y crashes of thunder. The skies suddenly cleared and the storm was thought to be over when suddenly a heavy gale from the southwest appeared, and for a few moments the city was in tho horrors of death and destruction. '1 ho wind was terrific in the extreme. T eos, telegraph, to ephono, and electric light poles wore carried a distance of 200 yards. The roofs of about thirty of the larger b indings in the city wore torn from the houses and burled against inga on the opposite side s i recta, lo: ing tho occuw* and property jx Un to the !P* f wy <,f the drenching oo which to fall in torrents in wi^'ward. >ci .k q*stvrm had wa od it was IM- inree ne^^i^e residence p< rtion to Beuerleins^' 1, i , ‘- 1 y escaped, but strike!^ ‘ on 'iver to Third, jrvin 5 I Oet ^’ U,U ( cn J er t<> < umP and Second from ( enter to I'l berland, were almost total wrecks i Tbte territory covers the principal buknoss portion of the t wn. At the tinze this is wr tt n half a dozen dead lilies have I een found. 4he oil co of the main building of the State penitentiary, two miles out. wa- torn awa aid lodged on several frime cottages in the neighborhood, completely demolishing them. A st impede took place among the convicts, six of whom were badly in ured by taping timbers. Two will die'. 1 ortunamely only aoout 1.5 conv.cts are inside tho walls. Tho other 450 were taken to Sunnyside plantation son o days ago. At the insane asylum was so md the greatest wreck. Tho roofs I of the main building- were completely : demolished, and several wards caved In. destroying everything in sight. The male ward is a total wreck, s everal insane pat ients made their escape, but wore re- a du-ed. It is not known how many in nates are killed or inin^ured. WEATHER FAVORS CROPS. Gathering and £rr<tlng Nearly tn Completion. - According to the weather crop report issued by tho Unit-d St tea Weather Bureau the pa-t week wis i favorable for crop gathering and ie -d- --' inf bth nearing completion. Missoarl, 111 noia, Indiana and Wisconsin i divert winter wheat in e ce l nt eon- I dilion. Pasturage is also in excellent j «Klpditi->n gen rally. Ohio, Ko tucKv, i Tennessee and Arkan-a-, however, i i need moisture. Cotton piekit g hae progres-, <1 rapidly- un- ' d»r fav.ea' io weather conditions - t Florida, where pic.-iux ’Jan interrupt -q crop injured Civ the tropic d hurricane. I eportsint that u n it- onr-i a f tp,, has boon -eeured in -»uth < urolinu I Fj^rldu and Texas, while in Alabama. I Arkansan, Mis i-alppi. North < arolina, I and I'ennes •••' from no t > . . jw cent j <? tha crop renmin.-d ungathered < ct. :J. brt st.- ic> urre i as far south aKentucky, but no scious inju;y has ;l* en reported. I’o.iowiug is the ie \ port from several States; | HlUiols t cinfter.itlire t>< rrn it sunshine jib, ve. and r ». uf;d i ;<>n S ;tions unI usually favorable; Corn cutUni; progress - I InK and much In stock; wheat and rye In ( One condition; meadows, pastures and late i gardens growing finely. Iridian#—Corn all safe, most in shock: wheat and ryo coming up luxuriantly; seeding n arly done; tobacco all cut; pasturage green; frost, did no Injury. Wisconsin- W.-ather f ivorabie for farm j work; corn husking is general; fall ;lo»i leg Is well along and seeding about completed: a large acreage of ryo has been town; pastures tn splendid conlltlon and rtock healthy. Minnesota—Go< d ra ns in all sections have greatly improved pasturage; fall , plowing and so w lug of winter grain pro- | gres-tn; rapidly; field crops about ail se- ; cured; frost Sunday night. j I .wa—Th<> wek 1 tts been warm and dry, favorable for :n taring late crops and f r j plowing an 1 -c > ling; pa-uuroi are good. ; and forage for winter will be more abuni dant tlian anticipated. Nebraska—Loss than the usual amount of fall plowing bus been done, because of the dry condition of the ground; showers have been general the last of the week and very beneficial to all farm interests. Missouri—W. ek favorable f r farm work; seeding nearly finished ; early-sown grain looking well; corn practically safe from frost; yield somewhat becer than expected; pasture good, but beginning to *ed rain; much complaint of potatces rotting. Michigan—Temperatuie and rainfall below normal, sunshine above; the end of Hie season finds late potatoes and corn pd-iT'm-dig'giug and corn-husk- ' -packing progresses, aq4 pastures are I ' R ooo. , Ohio- General showers In northern sec- ■ tlon. butdrv in other portions; wheat ali । sown, and corn nearly all in shock; fall i plowing progressing; potatoes small; apples falling; pastures in excellent condition; tobacco about all cut and housed ToVAVE THE TIMBER. Hard Work to Do in Wisconsin’s Burned District. A large owner of the timber lands in the burned district of Wisconsin, while in New York City recently, talked interestingly to the reporters. He says a vast amount of timber cutting will be necessary this fall and winier near Hinck oy and Phillips in order to save the stumpage from being a total loss ‘The timber in the burned district,” says he. ‘‘will not be lost if it is cut and drawn to the water before next spring. The fire has charred the trunks of the trees and killed them. The wood worms will ruin the trees after a year. But if the trees are cut and the logs put into the rivers or ponds they can be kept two or three years without injury. Probably there will be more timber cut and hauled to the water in Wisconsin the coming winter than ever before. “Cornell University, it is said, is preparing to cut all its stumpage. All the lumbermen in the burned district 1 will do likewise. It was said that Corhsll University would lose $1,000,000

by the fire, but that isn’t so, provided the university s timber is cut this winter. The university’s loss will be comparatively light. I rode through the burned district the other day. There is not a green thing in sight. An area about thirty miles wide and hundreds of miles long is charred and black.” GEN. WESLEY MERRITT. ’Tls Believed that He Will Asaame Command of Governor’s Island. Important changes soon to take place in the officers of the army by the retirement of some who hax o reached

the age limit excites interest in those likely to be promoted. 11 is believed that Gen. Weslez Merritt will assume ccmmand of Governors Island p when Gen. Miles goes to Washington . to succeed Maj. Gen. | Schofield. Gen. Mer- । ritt was born in New 5 York City in 1836, was graduated at c the United States Military Acad em v

OEM. W. F. MEKItITT

in 1860, assigned to the dragons, and. promoted Fli-.-t Lieutenant in ism omiCaptaimJ^*^®^ His war record was a v Brilliant one, he was advanced to high offices, and in IM>5 was breveted Brigadier General and Major General Ui the regular army for gallant services. After the war he was employed on tho frontier until 1882, was in charge of the military academy at \\ est Point for seven years, and since then has served in the West In 1887 ho became Brigadier General. HONOR THE FOUNDER. Grand Army Men Dedicate a Monument to Dr. Stephenson. The dodic ition of the Stephenson monument in Ros • Hill Cemetery, I eter-burg, HL. was a nati nal event, and was celebrated in away worthy of the Nation. The mem >rv of th? late Dr. B. F. Stephenson, ioiinder of the Grand Army of the Republic, was honored by the dedication of a handsmo ms nument appropriately inscribed and located in a mo-t beautiful spot. The funds for the monument were raised by the members of tho o; ganization from all parts ; of the Nation, which gives all i comrades a special interest in it. I Trains from every direction with ■ extra fa< ilities bri ught in thousands of Grand A mx men. The Nationa 1 ( ommandcr. Colonel Lawler, of Rockford. and his Adjutant General, Jtnos, woe among ti e ear y arrivals Among tho other nota >les were Gen R. J. Oglesby. < ou. John A. McC.ernand, Ma .’aines A Cvnnoly. N. W. I ran--on, R C. Gibbs, contractor of iho monument; Junior Vice Commander Inman. < 01. D .1, I lock, ( apt Weaver, < <1 Fred Wilkin-on, ami (. apt Reibsam», <>f I lo mingto a. one of the six i surviving cha - ter member-of the orgaid ation, and the the only mo of the six pro ent A proce s on formed, headed by the i otab'os in ca rago<. The column moved to Ro o Hill and surrounded the ■ honored shaft where the ceremonies : t -ok place. After t o preliminaries I din er was owed to th > people by the ‘ aero, l ong tablox were placed on the greensward, where 1,500 were fed at a tim •. it was not a barbecue or restaurant lunch, but In me-made and home cooked bread, meats. fried Clili K -‘H. 1 >-X >». -J „ m -■ rt V-J ——, pickle . hot eoiiee with creem all iresh from tho kitchens. < ommander Me- | lr «■ I. orator of the day. brought tear- to the eyea ot the widow and ilaeghters of Dr. Stephenson, as well as others, in his boa tis d st >ry of tho life and work of the leoved founder of the order. Th ■ speech of National ( ommander Lawler was full of enthusiastic tire and was cheered equal to t e remarks made by ' Dick’ < 'g’esby. and the rousing but brief speech of N’ajo: - Connolly. CHARGED WITH COWARDICE. Admiral Tins* Removed from Command of the •‘North Sqn «dron.” Admiral Ting, recently removed fr m tho command of tho “North Squadron” of the Chinese fleet, and deprived of his peacock's feather lor

AD MIKAL TING.

his cowardice a'd im oni; etonco. has been Li Hung Changs trusty lieutenant in nutters pertaining to the J Chinese ravy since-' its organization in I“‘s. i.e i , however, more of a soldier than a sailor. . Before taking coin-' mand of the "Northern Sqi adron” he was a Brigadier General of tne ( hinese

land forces at Tien-Tsm. From this o ce to a full-i edged admiralship, without any prelimit ary training, his failure as a naval commander was only to be expected. Admiral Ting is between 50 and t>o years of age. He has acommanding appearance, being about six feet tall. Ue is an inveterate gambler. ' Women Will Wear Trousers. • of Tbne&al form d ess They have eutereu'TEt: ' an agreement a d adopted a c s’nme 1 which is to consist of Turkish trousers covered by a skirt, reaching to the fold, a close or loose waist. as the wearer may prefer, and cloth leggins to n atch the trousers. It is the intention of the Topeka womey. to organize into relief squads so that a number of them may be on the streets all day, and thus the community will bee me familiar with the reform. Sparks from the Wires. 1 The next meeting of the Road--1 masters’ As ociation will be held in ' St. Louis on the second Tuesday of October, 1895. Montana Democrats nominated P. S. Corbett for Congress and L. A. Luce for Associate Justice and indorsed the national administration. While C nrad Bitzer, a farmer liv- . ing north of Crown Point, Ind., was . repairit g the rcof on a large barn he ’ fell about fifty feet and was instantly । killed. Mrs. Winchester, wife of S. S. Winchester of the Winchester Arms , Company of New "York City, who had gone to Guthrie, Ok , to get a dii vorce from her husband, died of I typhoid fever. Her fa her is presi- ; dent of a leading New England college, • and the body was embalmed and 1 shipped East.

FARMERS’ CONGRESS? NATIONAL MEETING OF TILLERS OF THE SOIL. Big Crowd of Agriculturists tn Attendance — Interesting Papers and Debates on Important Subjects—Some of the Objects and Purposes of the Organization. The Fa-mers’ National Congress, comp- sed of de egates from every State in the Union, appointed by the

Governors, met in Par ersturg, W. Va., and remained in ses- , sion nearly a week. |Gr ea t preparations I were made by the citizens of Parkersburg for the recept on of the delegates, \and the several hun[Nd red representative I fa; mers from all parts of the country were present. The address of we come was deliv- « 'd by Gov. Me "or-

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kle. and many distinguished men dewl ere h ^ ldre Thursday s session held on historic Elennerha set Island, xt here a lan net wai served the tielegates by the citizens of Parkersburg. On Saturday an e cursion tvai r u n to the famou Sistersville oil field. The regular sessions were held in the Acadrmv oi Music and weie . open to the public. 1 lie a ional v armers’ Conoco a । non-part san in character and has no j alliance with t .e many sem -partisan j iarmers’organizations of the country. I At this session many valuable papers were read and the proceedings are expected to be fruitf. 1 of much g od to the agricultural class. Resolutions favoring f.ee mail delivery, Sunday rest for lailroad employes and for government control o. railroads were introduced and inferred. A c >mmittee was appointed to investigate charge i against millers taking excessive tolls. Are olution favoring a law to compel railroad to carry live stock thr. ugh to its destination without stops of more than an hour wai adopted. Oliver of Pennsylvania. Rogers of Maryland, Wells and Cowden of Ohio, Smith of Pennsylvania, Potter of New YorK and Moore of Pennsylvania spoke on taxation. J hn Hutchinson of Parkersburg delivered an historic address relating to Blennzrhassett island and Aaron Burr. Colonel Dan Needham of Massachusetts spoke on farmer and finance and Senator Henderson of West V irginia on stock and the farm. The congress also adopted resolutions calling upon the President and the United States Congre s to call an

international c nvention of nations ready to unite for the e lual us j of gold and silver as full legal t nder ' without discriminating, and censured the United Congress for repealing the Sherman act without making nrovi-ion for the coinage of silver dollars. A i esolution was al-o adopted de-| manding that equal prot-ction I e given

i toiarm p oduetj with other industries iu an mriu legislation and that a committee be appointed to confer with the committee of Congress to secure the e ,ua adjustment of such schedules. A resol tion demanding projection to woo, ( otton, hemp, and Ilax was laid on the table by a vote of 160 to the convention refusing to entertain pilitieal questions. The Committee on Resolut ons was instructed to report no resolutions that were not non-par-tisan. Object of the Conjrpss. B. F. Clayton of Indianola, lowa is President of the Farmers Congress. President Clayton is a practical and extensive farmer, has served on the lowa State Board of Agriculture, in the I egislature, an 1 declined further political honors. His opinions are said to have more weight than these of any other agricultural writer. The 1 armors' congress is not a political body, as is shown by the fact that delegates are appointed by both Democratic and. Republi< an governors. The congress owes much of its success to the effo ts of its President. As Secretary of the Farmers’ National Congress, Hon. John M. Stahl, of uincy, 111., was onp of the leaders of the recent annual meeting. Mr. Stahl is a man of prominence and influence. He has he'd political office, and when appointed delegate to the Farmers’ Cong ess by Governor Altgeld, he was chairman of the Republican Central Comm tte, of Quincy. The Farmers’ National Congress is strictly nonpartisan, but no other organization of farmers has so much i dluence with legislative bodies. It is said that to it alone is due the provision made by ■ Congress for a test of rural free mail delivery. The Congress is composed of one delegate from each Congressional district, two at large, appointed : from each State by the Governor, and one from each State Boa d of Agriculture and r gmcultural collage. Its ■* «-n*-aZ 11 (q ‘ ware attractive. CUc. New York City has decided to adopt the patrol wagon system. Reece Rush was killed at Marengo, Ohio, by a Toledo and Ohio Central t.ain. Edward Hurst, a pickpocket, was shot at South Beni, Ind., by Dr. Crawsby, whose pocket he attempted j to pick. A THROUGH mail pouch from Chi- ! cago to St. Joseph, Mo., is said to have been robbed of ninete n registered letters. The boiler in Shultz's sawmill, near Parkersburg, W. Va.. exploded, killing three men and fatally i quring two others. Joseph Shackleton has filed suit ! for $ 0.0 -0 at Muncie, Ind., against the Eureka Land Counpany fir damages alleged from non-fulfillment of contract. Mrs. J. E. Butler, a wealthy widow ! of Mount Kisco, shot herself through the head at New York. She was tne wife of a Confederate general who died a year ago. The five members of the sophomore class of the Minnesota State University I who were suspended for taking part in a rush with freshmen have been I reinstated.

JOHN M. STAHL.