St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 20, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 December 1894 — Page 7

SEAL BUB AL BEADING WILL BE FOUND IN THIS DEPARTMENT. Report on the Subject of Feeding Soaked Corn—How to Build » fodder Stack— The Dairy Calls for Special Care—Farm Notes. Feeding Soaked Corn. Whether the answer to this question will be a yes or no will depend upon circumstances. Steers get more out of soaked corn than they do of j <Jrv corn, and the reverse is true ot I the hogs which so low. It will not j jay to soak corn whenever it is nec- ; essary to take precaution against freezing, nor is it likely to pay ii it involves more extra laoor than can । be done by the regular force in charge i of the cattle. But when a feeder is I so situated that the corn can be soaked at slight expense, it is a pro- j titable practice, .at least during mild | weather. In conclusion, the facts brought to light by this experiment may be sum- I marized as follows: 1. The five steers fed on soaked shelled corn gained a total of 1,632 pounds in 150 da s on 282 bushels of corn, while the live steers fed on dry corn gained a total of only 1,468 ■ pounds on 2.0 bushels of corn. I'. Steers fed on soaked corn,owing to their better condition, biought a higher price in the market than the steers fed on dry corn. Balancing both cost of feed and market value of the two lots, there is a d'tTerpnce of $2 .. 0 in favor of ihe soaking of the corn. 3. The hogs following the steers fed on soaked corn made a total gain of 635 pound', while the hogs following the dry corn steers made a total gain of 747 pounds. This makes a dil’.eren eof 112 lounds gain in favor of the dry corn, an 1 the market value showed a ditTe.enco of $5.58 in favor of the hogs following the dry corn steers. 4. Based on the foregoing figures, It will pay to soak corn if it can be soaked for 6 cents, or less, a bushel. Fall Dressing for Strawberries. The strawberry rows should be cleaned first of all the weeds and grass. Large rooted we ds, such as dock, buttercups and daises, should be cut out with a long, sharp knife. If cut two Inches below the surface of the ground they cannot sprout again, if pulled they will root out many strawberry runners which should be avo ded. After the rows are free of weeds run the cultivator through the rows twice. They should then receive a dressing of fine, wellrotted manure—a shovelful to every two square leet of row is about the right quantity to use. Such a dressing will keep the roots from severe freezing and make|the soil very poswrl sogrowth early next spring and bear abundantly. Nothing is equal to evergreen boughs spread lightly over the rows. Next in value is long corn fodder. It should not lie laid on thick, but just enough to partially shade the|plants. Straw lays too close, and is tilled with grass seeds, which quickly sprout and grow rapidly in early spring, to the injury of the strawbeiries. Mr. Quinn, a large strawberry growerof New Jersey, advises a heavy dressing of loose manure and street dirt which has been thoroughly rotted and fined. He uses a half inch of this dressing, spread the latter part of October, over the plants, but none between the rows. The time to put this winter covering over the >lants is about the middle of November. It is not the severe freezing that does the damage, but the freezing and thawing. A light covering will prevent this. —Baltimore American it Calls for Si e"ini Care. As one of the great । roductive industries of this country, the dairy calls for special care and protection. From its products the vast majority of our people feed more or less every day in the year, and at nearly every meal. Indeed, it may with much force of truth be said that the product of the cow, in one form or another, forms the staple food of the people of this country. We have spent vast sums of money to exterminate pluropneumonia, and now are spending equal sums to do the same with tuberculosis. Why? Because they peril the health and life of the people. But where the one or the other periled the life of one individual, the u-e of oleomargarine jierils ' the lives of hundreds—nay, of thou- I sands. Boes the law take any special i pains or spend any sum of money to ; exterminate this tremendous, this infamous fraud, tiiat is ruining our digestion and sapping the constitution of thousands and sending them to untimely graves? Not a penny! On the contrary it takes dollars for dues according to law, and hardly spends a nickle to detect and punish the frauds that are daily imposed upon the people. If our legislators would care for the interests of the people with the same zeal they devote to politics and the success of party this would hardly be so. ihe Profit tn Poultry. Ten car loads of Eastern poultry were lauded in San Francisco in one weex. The full-grown hens sold for ; $4.50 and spring chickens at $2.50 a ; dozen. While we are shipping fruit East the poultry producers of Illinois, Ohio, lowa, and Wisconsin are making money by raising chickens and shipping them to California. Now here is the poor man’s chance. It takes coin, credit, capital, good land, a favorable location and three or four years’ time ere a man can live from his orchard. Fifty dollars or less will start you in the poultry business- A little patch of land, a spot

big enough to grow clover, alfalfa, ot other gieen food for your chickens and a few dozen hens and you are ready for business. Your returns are immediate, a single week brings you coin for your eggs. Within a, year your money makers have paid for themselves twice over and also paid for their keeping. Hens beat hogs, hogs beat cows, cows beat sheep, and sheep beat horses. The poor man, the widow with a family, or the old maid, who wants to be independent, 1 each have an opening that will give them a bank account if they will raise poultry and attend strictly to business —Oroville (Cal.) Register. Building a Fodder StackCorn fodder may be stacked when l itis so well cured in the shock that { it w ll not sweat much in the stack, thus insuring its keeping sweet. The amount of sap remaining in the stalk can be judged Uy twisting it, and examining the pith. If the fodder is so dry that the leaves break badly, choose a damp, drizzly or i foggy day for handling it. Otherwise much of the most nutritious food will be lost* and the sharp mid- : ribs will tear the clothing to tatters. For hauling from the field a low wagon if best. Have the front wheels about three feet in diameter, and the hind wheels six inches larger. The rack may be made with I open spaces between the boards, but a tight level floor is best to prevent weste, and for convenience to the loader in walking and in sliding the heavy stalks. These should be , grasped by the tops and swung on the load, be laid across the rack with the stalks parallel, and the butts all in the same direction I n ess the fodder is husked it is too heavy for large loads. Drive the load so that the tops will be toward the stack, and then lift and puli off the bunches 1 of stalks in the reverse order from which they were loaded, avoiding all tangling and contusion. The middle j of the stack or rick must be kept so | full that the outside stalks will have a steep slope outward and downward. Top with long straw or hay.—American Agriculturist. Not a Wonderful Discovery. A reprint of a German book comes to us with the taking title “Biead from Stones.” it is the old story that all the soil was originally made j from finely-pulverized rocks, and the . growth of plants and trees from car- ! bonlc acid gas taken from the Htmos- । phere. But it does not follow that indiscriminately grinding up rocks and ; putting the product on tbe land is the best way to fertilize it. The auI thor of the book declaims against the । use of stable manures as "tilthy,” ami likely to a ect injurious y the product of ground thus fertilized. This is absurd except as regards plants like lettuce and cabbage, whose leaves are eaten. One of the wonderful provisions of nature. Is that , ^matter how offensTvenesS W* leaves, making the seed or fruit entirely tree from any injurious flavor. — Exchange. Thoroughbreds »nd Gindes. The good qualities of the grade are valuable only in the animal showing them. There is no certainty that they will be transmitted to its posterity. Bather is there certainty that such qualities will not be transmitted. A grade female bred to a thorough bred male of her own kind 1 1 will generally breed true to the male. But if bred to a male of another । breed, eyen though a thoroughbred, | this prepotency of the male is less i certain The result is alm st sure ; to be a mongrel, Inferior to cither of its parents. Odds and Fncts. To break a piece of ice in a sick room place it In a cloth and press a needle firmly into it. It w.ll break oil smoothly at this point. Before using new iron utensils ■ grease them in-ide, fill them with i cold water and heat the water grad- | ually to the boiling point and let it i cool slowly’. To temper earthenware i put the vessel in a larger kettle of i cold water beat slowly to the boiling 1 point and cool slowly. Those whose houses are infested by that troublesome domestic animal, the rat, should heat plaster of Paris in an iron vessel until it is done boiling. then mix it half and half with Indian meal. It is said the rats will eat of this compound freely, and that it sets in their little stomachs and kills them, without the danger of poison. ; if you have many short-stemmed I flowers to arrange it is well to till a low dish with damp moss, then with ; a sharp stick dibble hole in the moss and insert the stems. When the Howers have faded the moss may be dried and used again. Pansies show to better advantage in this way than in any other. Do you wish to make gruel for a sick friend? Take corn meal and sift it into a quart of boiling water, stirring it until it is the consistency of cream. Add salt to flavor, and let it simmer for half an hour or longer; then run it through a line seive, Have in a bowl a little cream or rich milk. Pour your boiling gruel into it, and you have a drink a sick person ought to relish. An experienced cabinet maker says j the best preparation for cleaning I picture frames and restoring furniture, especially that somewhat marred or scratched, is a mixture of three parts of linseed oil and one part spirits of turpentine. It not only covers the disfigured surface, but restores wood to its original color, leaving a luster upon the surface. Apply with woolen cloth, and when dry rub with woolen. When a woman loses anything, she nearly always believes that some one stole IL j

NINE MILLION SHORT. LARGE DEFICIENCY IN THE POSTAL REVENUES. Report of Mr. Blssell-How He Would Decrease Expense and Increase Receipts Readjustment of Regulations and Other Reforms Urged. I Shows a Hlg Shortage. 1 ostmaster General Bissell has submitted to the President his annuli report for the year ended .lune 3, 1894. He briefly outlines the policy of the department. In general I would recommend that the first and most important thing to be done is to revise the law as to the second class matter so as to place the Postoffice Department immediately upon a self-sustaining basis. 2. Avoid expensive experiments like the postal telegraph, rural free delivery, etc. 3. Develop the postal service on existing lines of administration, viz.: Extend free delivery in cities that now enjoy it. Accord it to towns already entitled to it under the law. Quicken railroad transportation. 4 Revise and reclassify organization oL the railway mail service, and rod clerks in postofiiees. 5. Provide for district supervision of all postal affairs by appointment of expert postal officials from classified service, ns recommended in my last annual report. The revenue for the year was $75,080,479; expenditures, $84,324,414, leaving a ■ deficiency of $9,243,935. The estimates I for the current year ending June 30, 1895, I are: Revenue, $84,427,748; expenditures, $90,399,485; deficiency. $5,971,737. The I estimates submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury for the next fiscal year are: Revenue, $8(5,907,407; expenditures, $91,059,283; deficiency. $4,151,870. This animal deficiency, the Postmaster General says, could be overcome by the increase In postal rates, but he does not believe this is advisable. Economy has t been practiced, but nevertheless great care has been taken that it should not affect the efficiency of the service. Mr. Bis- : sell recommends that tin* ^peritoentnl ; frec-delivery projects should be diocontini ued. and thinks that free delivery in rural 1 districts is not needed or desired by the ! people. Too Much Second-Clues Matter. One of the most important and inter esting features of Mr. Bi sell's report is its discussion of i-lnss matter. In his last । report he referred to the great disproportion of growth of second-ehiss mail matter, He gives figures f,.r the last s \ years, showing that in Isxs the weight of second-class mail matter carried was 143.000.0 m pounds. nml in 1893 it was 1 25(1,000,001*. 1 luring th*- year 1804 there was carried 451 .om.uoo pounds of all mail ' matter. <>f which 21*9,IM«>,IMS> p**un«l» was . second class matter, the total cost being i : $3(>,207,572, an average of 8 cent* a pound. Returns from postmaster* show । that the amount upon which postage nt the rate of 1 < < nt per pound was pa d । j was ‘251.000.0m pmmds, the remaining I 45,000,000 pound* being matter carried free in the emmfv of pc’ u.. I’no- ।ln* *’ * ud-cla* ; **r ' - J: ' ■ 547.000. and snmLooo special tZmlya in carrier cities, leaving « net h ss to t! e Government of Slt‘ t ,97.3,>m<>. Th,. f.. - master (»en< ral < i nt m-o -; I do n<>t a>lvoentc a change of rates now > upon legitimate to n spnp, r . aa ,f period; , cal magazines. My purj •;. to urge tin- ■ withdrawal of low iw^tago rates from th. . large cities and the prep tided periodical.-, that are now impr per’y enjoying them. Books mid Bogus Trade Papers. i T1 e m ' ■ «pi. ..us ;o f these preI tended p.-ri.xii. als IS . ■ I ‘ ~r ally known as serial paper covert .! books . They are in no sense M rial, however, ex cept in name, bein b - usually given some general designation, as the “Fireside Se ries,” “The D< t.-. tive Library," ~r some Other title ..f like chit racier. Another class is what Ims got to be known as the “house organ," being simply a pamphlet devoted mainly to the advertising of sortie mercantile establishment, but purporting : to l>c devoted to trade. The bogus trade . devoted mainly to the advertising of any particular house, is another iilustrai lion. , j After commenting on the great increase in the mailing of fraternal insurance publications as second-class matter, Mr. Bis sell suggests the remedy iti the following: ' If it be the policy of Congress to continue the privileges of second-class rates I to benevolent or fraternal societies, then the remedy 1 would suggest would be an amendment of the law limiting this rate to them and to legitimate newspapers and legitimate periodical magazines. The Postmaster General does not favor : the postal telegraph, a system advocated । by his predecessor. The conditions in this i country, he says, are such as would enori mously increase the large deficit He takes as example the system in Great , Britain, which is a eompanatively small ■ territory, and shows that the postal telegraph entails a total annual loss of^i’-oit S2,<MM),OOO. He points out that in try where the territory is so lar® the cost of a postal telegraph would ar CXceed any possible receipts or benefi®. Mr. Bissell gives tin following dailyaverage busines of the department, which shows the vastness of the postal service: Number of miles of post route run. 1 100 000 Number of stamps manufactured S JlOo’oOO Number of envelopes manufactured i'soo’oih : Number of postal cards manufae- ’ ’ ture.l j 000 000 Number of pieces mailed ”n'7fMHHM> . Number of letters mailed. ... ’ 7’400’000 I Number of pieces of mail matter ’ distributed and redistributed by railway postal clerks 27 500 000 Number of pieces bandied in dead ’ letter office 04 qqq Daily transactions lu money Order business ’. $1,100,000 Dally expenses The Postmaster General believes in civil service in the Postofliee Department. He says: If the system has produced such good results In the clerical torce of the department it is reasonable to inquire whether something j Ike could not be applied with advantage to the loner grades of postmasters. For more than one generation the American people have been trained to regard the postoffice as inseparable from the varying fortunes of the Ino great political parties, and In some instanees, even, as legitimately following the niero Unions within a partv. This fallacy is to be deplored. The intelligence of our people bus long outgrown the j notion that any one political party enjoys a monopoly of administrative talent. ?J 10 t? ocal P° B t°6ice is closely connected with the every-day life of the people who patronize It, and nothing is further from the principles of home rule and majority rule than to force any change whatever Yet tills I is what happens and is bound to happen as long as the postoffleos remain in the public i mind, and hence in the practice of the government associated with politics. । 1 The postal service must either be taken out

eUwVtR alt °K p t h <’r and surroundt<Lhl conditions which conduce vlded ? P ri X ato business or bo dlHocHA’n^ r t? dm u Btl,at,vo Purposes, Into two PO11& en’,.h nc P? Ilt,cal «“«* t-he other nonthnrrhT ea h , under u separate head, so lltffia s of Ule non-po-of ids tboiwhi'tll.I 1 1.1” 1 10 required to give any tai Bystem g ‘ lO the 1,u P roveu ient of the poi MATTER OF PENSION APPEALS. Work of the Board Reviewed in a ReP° rt Made to Secretary Smith. Ihe work of the Board of Tension appeals during the fiscal year ending nor^A 1 ? 3 ’ j S f «»>’ reviewed in are port made by the assistant secretary of the interior, John M. Reynolds, to Secretary Smith In summarizing the admin- It istratmn of the office, Reynolds says: Upon taking charge of the office of ass^’ant secretary in April, 1893, I found 4,91«> appeals pending on the docket with the work of the board of appeals more than two years behind. In eighteen and one-half months, with 5,847 additional appeals entered during that time, current appeals are being decided, and tardy justice no longer follows the appeal to the department by any deserving soldier, widow 01 orphan. Thus 10,000 cases were considered on appeal and finally ruled upon, a greater number of them was never before disposed of in the same length of time, and more than double tbe number considered in any period under my- predteeessor." The small balance of arrears is said to consist almost entirely of claims undergoing further investigation in the pension bureau and others which, for final decision, await the determination of legal questions that will be decisive of all. The sub-committee of the House on pensions met Saturday, and lifter listening for an hour to Commissioner D>chren’s explanation of the requirements of his office, virtually deciiled to report a bill providing for the appropriations recommended by the commissioner in his estimate, except in one item of fees for examining surgeons The original estimate was that Sl.immi.ihhi would bo required to pay these f<es, but Loehren told the committee he thought SSimijMH) would be sufficient, and that figure was decided up.,n. Pension appropriations as deeideil upon by the subcommittee will, therefore, he: For pensions. $1 Itt.OOO.tMH); for surgeons’ fees, Ssihiji »:>; for clerk hire nt pension agencies, SISO.(HM>; miseeF laneous. $131,570. BOUND TO HAVE THE BOUNTY. Sugar Growers of the Country File Suits Agitint-t the I nited States. Th- controversy between the sugar I growers of the country and the I’nited States Govi rnment growing out of the I repeal of the sugar bounty < lause in the M-’Kinhy bill by the new tariff act and the subsequent refusal of the Treasury Department to pay bounties up m sugar grown in the present year, re.u-hed tho first stage in its pr 'tress to a definite legal settlement Saturday. J. Fitirehihl Murray, an attorney of New York, l as filed in the court of claims three suits. Identical in chameter, and al! seeking to reenter from the Govcrnmtmt sums of money alleged to be legally due complainants as n bounty ui«m sugar raised by them in the year 1894. The Chino Valiev Beet Sugar t'ompnnv of New Jersey, for $18,121, the N Tfolk Beet Sugar Company. <>f New Jei s. y. for $3.R93. and ti e Oxford IL ,q Sugar Company, for • $11,782- 'Uku-gmiU'Jaiuts are based timn “TfmTrrr-Hinn f r.;. Unit,.,! Mtntos by an ret of t'■ nt . -s granting a bounty of Ole half cent per p-m .d ujam all sugar grown in the United S ates and the Territorie- < nt* red into a legal contract with <■" up . aunts, ns w* :) ns other sugar growers. ;j,.| 1-d them by its terms to eb-rh; ke tb • cultivation of beets and <>thi r plant* from which sugar is obtainI > !, but which could no? have be.-n profitably pursued Without the Ixmelits of such contract. The tbim is further made that tin* <T"ps <>f complainants were growing and the sugar resulting from them m pr ee~> of maniifactun* long before th*- passage by Congress of the measure r< P tiling the pnwi.-cons of the act I graniing .s bounty, and the Government has no right to withhold the payment of un; .s alh-g*'d to be due. 'Die cases will probably be pnshed to an early bearing in tin- court <>f claims ami will then be taken to the United States Court for final scttleinenL It is understood tip* suits are brought in test eases, and will !>•• vigorously contested, as an amount reaehmg sotm> $ 11,1 >:a),ihio is at stake in the controversy. from thr Uiret, Ale fho entire business portion of Marion. N. C.. was burned. The loss is * stimated at $125,000. Profo r Jean Victor Duruy, the b'remh historian and an ex-minister of public instruction, is dead. I'hree citizens of Brookside. Ala., were probably latally idiot by moonshiners, who took them for officers. Officers tried to arrest Claqdo Moss at a church near Carrollton, Miss., and killed him when he resisted arrest. Two men entered the Erie station at Bloomfield, N. J., and after binding the agent robbed the cash drawer. Seven business houses and one dwelling were destroyed nt Swayzee, Ind. It is feared a woman lost her life. Robert E. Harvey, the noted forger, who escaped from jail at B l Air, Md., was captured in Lansing, Mich. A railway construction gang attempted to lay tracks on a Delaware, Ohio, street, but reiiented on being placed in jail. Fire caused by a defective flue destroyed a block of dwellings in Kansas City. The loss will reach SIOO,OOO. Japanese loss in the assault on Port Arthur was but 250 in killed and wounded. Many vauable stores were captured. According to Superintendent Stump, of the Immigration Bureau, more foreigners are leaving the country than are coming in. Trading on the Chicago Stock Exchange last week was the largest in its history, nearly (50,000 shares'changing hands. Isaac Taylor and wife and Miss Kidwell were run down ami killed on a bridge at. South Branch, Md., while on their way j to church. Chicago Russian-Americans in massmeeting petitioned the Czar to grant his people freedom of speech and religion ami the right of assemblage. Three fires broke out at about the same time in Zanesville, Ohio, and led to the impression that a systematic attempt was being made to destroy the town. In his annual report the Postmaster General recommends the extension of the i free-delivery system, quickening of rail- | way transportation, and revision of the j law as to second-class matter* . 1

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. SERiOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED. A Scholarly Exposition of the LessonThoughts Worthy of Calm Reflection-. Half an Hour’s Study of the Scriptures— Time Well Spent. Leeson for Dec. 2. Golden Text: ‘‘Behold, I send my mes- ! senger before thy face.”—Luke 7: 27. Christ’s Testimony to John” is the ! subject of this lesson, which is found in iLuke 7: 24-35. Next to Christ thi?re is : no more interesting figure in the New Testament group than that of John the , i ßaptist. What shall we say of him? .Certainly nothing else than Christ here ! jspake when he called John “much more I jthan a prophet,” and up to his time the : (greatest of those born of woman. There is away of reading or expounding this narrative such as would degrade John to a weakling. Doubtless he was tried to the verge of disheartenment, and Christ himself says that ours is a privilege and purchase of power which by the aid of the Spirit, makes the least of us greater than the Baptist, but our Savior’s strong language on this occasion sets as’nle the imputation that John was either in the pit of despair or on the deserts of vacillation. He was no shaken reed, he was no petted child of luxury. He was a hero, every inch of him, and the present queries are not to be interpreted as in any sense a renunciation of the faith. Rather may we not esteem them as coming from deep devotion rather than dark despair. John is in dismal confinement. Doubtless it tries his soul and the souls of his immediate disciples. lie had perhaps anticipated another denouement, but now he sees the end is drawing nigh. He also I hears of the wonderful works of the Nazareno. Is his own work finished? Is he to bear no larger part in the new kingdom, and is the Lamb of God fairly and fully entered upon his great mission and career? This for his own sake and for his disciples’ sake and for the world’s sake John wants to be assured of, and, being so assured, he silently retires, his work being ended. Points in the Lesson. “The messengers of John.” It is the last appeal of the Old to the New. The law salutes the gospel, the last of the prophets salutes the author and finisher of faith. It is the final declaration of prophecy's fulfilment and of the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The messengers have “departed,” but ! not empty-handed. It would be interesting to follow them as they bear back to John the precious messages of Jesus that these signs nre worthy to bo believed. The blind seeing, the lame walking, etc., these are the sure tokens that the kingdom has begun and the Christ has come to establish his reign. We can imagine the worn and weary John turning aside now. not with grief, but with deep joy, to await God's call. He has fulfilled his : course, he is ready for translation. “What went ye out into the wilderness for to see?" And now let us get Christ's own estimate of John the Baptist. Some men may just now be thinking him a j reed that bends with the wind. Circumstances seem to help out such reports. This very embassage of John’s disciples might possibly suggest it. Or did any at the outset go out expecting to find a yielding, easy-going or ease-loving soul? Such could not hare spoken as John spoke, or have endured as John endured. Christ but mentions them to indicate by the very mention their absurdity. What John was at the Jordan, he is still, i. e., in this mission of his life. A man he is, and subject to like sorrows ami discomforts as others, under something of grief and burden just now, hut there stands his life, let it speak for him. ‘'Wisdom is justified of her children.” It is the life that vindicates ami establishes. The world stands or sits like unj natural and stubborn children in the market place spending the time in fruitless complaint and criticism, instead of in tbe enjoyment which might be theirs. Some see too much austerity in religion, others too little. But here in the midst nil the time stands Christ preached by prophets and apostles, hands full of benefits and pleadingly saying. “Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life.” Let mother wisdom drive us home to God aud his salvation in Christ. Hints and Illustrations. Do with John the Baptist as Christ did with him, honor bis noble character, j Prove by him how God uses man for high and divine ends; show how great he was, and yet how much greater the privilege of the humblest chih^pf the kingdom. The traits of character in John that are worthy of emulation are self-devotion, loyal- > ty and humility. Greatest among the I prophets and them of the old dispensa--1 tion, he bows reverently and joyfully a I the feet of the Man of Nazareth. His life is a specimen life under the great j plan of God, and the glory which is now j his and the grace which is now ours I make up but a part of the rich fruitage ! of that life. When John was born it was prophesied that he should go before “in the spirit and power of Elias.” The effects of that power were further declared to be “to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisdom of tbe just; to make ready a people preI pared for the Lord.” Is there apvsthing j more needed to-day? We might well ■ pray for the coming of some one armed j with the spirit and power of Elias. Ausi tria is solicitous because there is no 1 royal son to take the crown. Kingdoms i are full of acclamations when an heir is ‘ born in the princely halls. But of how ; little moment are those compared with the birth of a Whitefield, a Wesley, a I Spurgeon, in whom is the spirit and power of Elijah? Is there such an one j somewhere for the generation before us? “As bright as the promises of God,” said Judson regarding his prospects abroad. The career of John the Baptist : demonstrates that one may be accounted ■ strong without the show of success, that 1 the shut-in life is a providential life, and j that real steadfastness and straightfor- ! wardness may go along with seeming deI feat and failure. Mr. Moody is reported j to have said that God has no use for a discouraged man. The expression is I strong. Many a discouraged man, disheartened over results, dismayed at his j own conscious weakness, has, even in the i midst of his grief and despondency, held on to God, and has brought the project 1 through the cloudy day. Trust God and keep on, spite of all. Keep on, brother, sister. He knows. I - | Next Lesson—“ Christ Teaching by I Parables.” Luke 8: 4-15.

NEWS OF OUR STATE. A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLrNG HOOSIERS. What Onr Nelghbots Are Doing—Matter* of General and Local Interest—Marriages anil Deaths — Accidents and Crimes— Pointers About Our Own People. Minor State Items. Wild ducks are very numerous on the river near Jefferson. The number of inmates at the north ern penitentiary is rapidly increasing' Barney Hoar, track watchman, was struck by a train at Centerville and | killed. i Michigan City papers are urging i that ladies remove their hats in the ! theater. Paoli is congratulating herself on the successful completion of a system of water works. Ari hur.J inks was thrown from a passenger train near Morristown, and s seriously in ured. Thomas Christian’s 6-vear old ‘L while playing a’out a bonfire , near Marion, was fatally burned. 1 SIMEnN BM- mi. old armer near , Boonvi le, was aocidentallj’ shot and killed by his son-in-law while hunting. William Foutz, a Montgomery County farmer received fatal injuries in a runaway and died twelve hours later. Three shots were fired at Editor L. iS. Boots, of the Greenfield Herald, । while he was in his office. The bullets j flew wide. Woodfield Mcody, aged 10, while I wording in an elevator at Fisher’s Station. was caught in the machinery and j fatally injured. A passenger train was fired on near Columbus. The bullets crashed through a window and came near striking '‘Andy” Beck. Peter Resh, aged 30, living three miles east of Goshen, died of rabies resulting from the bite o: a mad dog inflicted eighteen years ago. AT Clymers, the 3-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Reed, was fatally burned, her clothing taking fire from a match with which she was playing. Nielvin Morgen of Hebron, aged 9 i years, bad his right arm taken off by a < ornhusking machine which he was i operating. Two years ago he lost his left arm in the same manner. Thomas Samsel, an old-time switchman employed by the Vandalia, was run over and instantly killed at Terre Haute. He leaves a wife. His parents live at Logansuort. He was a member • of the Brothei hood of Trainmen. Last April a Wabash man wrote on an egg requesting the consumer to I notify him when and where the egg i was cracked. Re has just received a note from a Hartford, Conn., woman, dated Nov. 5, ami stating s-he had that . : day purchased the egg at a grocery. i The New York Bowery Insurance ■ Company, of New York, has been fori bidden to do business by the Auditor .j of State. It is announced that this . 4^.1 _ withdrasm fron^^J^^ ; State and aftei .iai d : The policies were to be written in New । York and thus avoid taxes in Indiana. Philip Markey, a young man who i came to Brazil a few days ago from St. Louis, was instantly killed in the yards of the Chicago and Indiana Coal road. He was walking in front of a switch engine which he did not observe. A friend warned him of his danger, and in attempting to escape he fell and was cut in two. He is a single man. Patents have been granted to the following Indiana citi ens: Lewis F. Ambrose, Center Point, carpet fastener. Albert T. Bemis. Indianapolis, brick dryer car; John B:own, Walcott, frame for hay-stacks: Pinkney Davis, r rankfort, butchering apparatus: John McCullough, Crawfordsville. strawstacker. Clement Neidim, Bourbon, folding umbrella: L. T. Reeves. Columbus, windlass: -James Wood, Fort Wayne, armature core. “Jack the Spitter” is being watched for by the Muncie police. For ten da vs vast women have complained that some vagrant along tne streets delights in s uirt ng tobacco juice on their dresses. He has been seen standing in dark alleys, but disappears and cannot be caught. The other evening the Knights of Pythias ball and receDtion , kept him busy. As a result of his ac- . t ons some of the women were com- . pelled to retire from the ball-room and changed their elegant silk gowns. The special convocation of the Ac- > cepted Scottish Rite Masons of the ■ Valley of Fort Wayne was made memorable by the presentation to Thrice ■ Potent Grand Master William Geal o : of a gold watch, a chain and a charm and thirty-third-degree coat jewel. । IL C. Hanna, s eaking for the mem- ■ bers of i ort Wayne Lodge of Perfection, placed to his ere nt the organization and building uo of the Scottish Rite in Northern Indiana, which has proved such a success, and complimented him on his zeal for Masonic work in all degrees. A telegram from R. T. McDonald at New York, states that he has just secured absolute control of the Fort Wayne Electric Light Works, has severed his connection with the Central Electric Company, and w 11 devote his energies hereafter to the building up in Fort Wayne of a great institution for the manu acture of machinery and appliances whose ] atterns and patents are owned by the local concern. This is good news to hundreds of employes of the establishment at Fort Wayne as well as to the people generally, for it ■ means the end of litigation and the beginning of a new era of prosperity in an institution that has been hampered in its progress by manipulation of the managers of the Ea tern Company, whos : interests have never been in the line of advancing the local com; any. Frederick Hji m, in tutting down a tree on the farm of ■ ames Thomnson, ne. r Crawfordsville, was stru k on the head by a limb and instantly killed. He was married, and leaves several children. There are now ten cases of scarlet fever at the Indiana Home for Feebleminded Children north of Fort Wayne. There are over five hundred inmates at the institution and nearly all of , them have been directly or indirectly j exposed. A temporary hospital lob contagious diseases hes been secured । for use during the prevalence of the < auixlamic.