St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 24, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 January 1895 — Page 7

T o s ALL ABOUT THE FARM HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR AGRICULTURISTS. The United States Unable to Convert Germany to a Wider Use of Corn— Improved Varicties of Fruit—Tobacco as a Fertilizer—Notes. Selecting Butter Cows. Let the dairymen follow this course: 1. An A No.lbull. 2. Fall calves. 3. Weighing and testing. Raise your heifers from the best cows. 4. Gentleness and kindness in handiing all your stock, 8 IFeed calves and heifers well, but do not have them fat, and have them to calve at about two vears old. By so doing he will have a herd of cattle that will be hard to beat, especially if he chooses the blacks and whites, where nearly every heifer turns out a good milker. In selection by milk signs may be in cluded: 1. The milk form, which may be deseribed as a wedge-shape—i. e, shoulders thin, forward legs comparatively close together, quarters without _ uch flesh. 2. Good, large udder. 3. ~ Large and crooked milk veins. 4. itcheon. 5. Openness between the 1;"’= 1 processes. 6. Oiliness and depth - offolor. 7. Tail reaching to hock. 8. Good, mellow, loose skin., 9. Large openings of the milk veins into the body. 10. Fine head. As ewidence of richness and quality of milk., only mention these signs as a | Lelp to those who are about buying, as | I would rather have them than not; but the only true tests are the scales and | Rabeock or other tester. Both quantity and quaiity are influenced by feed. In the selection and breeding of butter cows the character of ancestry should be carvefully studied as regards quality and quantity of milk, and also the economy of its production.—Philadelphia Press, Feeding Wheat to Stock. The following points ave the restlt of experiments by the Wisconsin Boauvd of Agriculture: Feeding wheat to stock is yet in the experimental stage in this State, but the best judgment of farmers and feeders estimate that 20 per cent. of the sar plus wheat will be thus used. Estimates of the feeding value of wheat, compared with corn, vary from 75 to 150 per cent., but the average is 10}, estimating the feeding value of corn at 100, There is more care taken in feeding wheat, which, probably, increases its comparative value, for it carelessly sod as corn is in the ear, there would be danger from over and too rapid fead ing. It is fed every way—whole, dry. cooked or soaked, cracked or grouni

coarse, dry or as slop, and in the sheat. The latter method is vmmnunm-c‘\ by those who practice it on account of sav ing the expense of threshing the grain ; and labor in feeding, but is not largely practiced. Feeding whole to hogs, even wh'vn R e ing. The majority of reports, however, commend as the best and most ecH nomical way of feeding wheat: To horses, whole, mixed with bran, or corn, and fed dry. To cattle, ground coarse, mixed with one-third ground corn, and fed dry or fed in the sheaf. To mileh cows,

ground and fed as slop. To hogs, ground coarse, soaked and fed while sweet to pigs or young growing hogs, it is very superior to corn in the production of bone and muscle, but for hogs being finished for market, onethird corn added will increase the fat, To poultry, feed in the Sheaf orswhole, cookked and mixed with bran, Forest Guardianship. Our country needs to study the systems of forest guardianships practiced in Europe and Canada. The protection provided for in Germany, for instance, is almost perfect. The American pioneers have been a vandal people, cut- | * ting away forests without rhyme or reason, and paving the way for the very desolation from which their descendants are suffering. They were not without excuse for this, for they could not have dreamed a century or even half a century ago of the tremendous growth of our populiation or the increasing demands of a more highly ueveloped civilization. But the lesson is before the people of this generation. ‘The country does not need more farmfigflt it does need to save fts P Eotapad o o oy yoars TE<will Al er the necessity of enlarging its forAbu -I'roy Times. Failure of the Corn Mission, The Government has decided to dis- I oontinue its missionary efforts in Europe, particularly in Germany, in be- l half of corn and leave the foreigners 10 their “invincible ignorance” of the l value of maize for human food. After looking over the sround in person See retary DMorton {'\E'!l‘YlH.\"(‘Hll‘i'h‘.t"«’t‘t! the cause hopeless and accordingly no tified the American agents, Col 'Niill'-\ pPhy and Mr. Mattes, to close up their affairs. Indeed, the hint is Pretty broadly conveyed that the attempt to ! wean the Germans from Iye bread aid pumpernickel will not be renewed, This is disappeinting: but Mr. Moxton evidently had good grounds for his ‘ action, to judge from the facts presentoed. Os course this is a bad year to push the use of corn. It lacks the ordinary qualification of cheapness to recommend it. With wheat and corn only a tew cents apart in price, and often not even that small margin, it is wejj nigh useless to endeavor to persuade people to give up their inherited preju- | dices. The saving by the use of corn as compared with wheat ig hardly l

OOy T T T U T s ot appreciable at the present time; in fact, as the markets go, corn four is dearer than wheat flour. ‘ But the cause of failure to convert Germany to a wider use of corn lies ' deeper even than the powerful argument of price. The habits and prejudices of the people are against such a change. Mr. Mattes was sent over to show the brewers how corn could be used in place of barley. But the brewers were prejudiced in favor of small grain for malting. As for “kornbrod,” the one chief cause of its failure to become popular is that Germans eat their bread cold and corn bread is palatable only when hot. To adopt corn, therefore, would involve a change of national habits, something almost impossible to accomplish. That corn will be more largely used in Germany as food for cattle than heretofore is very likely; but Secretary Morton evidently looks upon the corn bread crusade as a ‘“lost cause.”—Creamery Journal. Sulphur, There is no remedy and assistant so easily and cheaply obtained, so harmless to the fowls, and so satisfactory in its results, says an cexchange, as s.ul-l phur. It being in the system of animals in a small degree, there is a greato aflinity for it than there otherwise would be. It can be administered to the fowls by having it in a small box, ' so that they can help themselves, or by | mixing it with their food once a week, | or as often as there are indications of , vermin, Penetrating, as it does, to overy part of the system, all parasites | arve quickly and survely destroyed; also gapes ave said to be prevented in chickens. I"owls need it more than most animals, their feathers containing b tween 4 and 5 per cent. of sulphur. Their eggs also have a small quantity, whieh is noticed by the discoloring of a silver spoon when it comes in contact with a boiled egg. Applied externally to the fowls when on the nest, to the nest itself, or mixed with the soil in the dusting box, it is equally efficacions in destroying vermin. Field and Farm. Oats, The high price of oats will doubtless lead to a larger seeding with this crop another yvear. It is not likely, however, that oats will ever be so cheap as they have been in years past., They are an exhaustive crop, and one which he farmers do not wish to grow except tor use on the farm. For this reason tie crop is lavgely left to farmers who care little for preserving the fertility o« their farms. There is no reason wiy so large a proportion of the oat cvrop is of poor quality. It is light weight be cause it §s grown on land which fuils to provide plentiful plant food, as the erain is filling. There are also more weed seeds in oats than in any other ; erain sold on the market.

Tobacco as a Fertilizer, The extremely low prices at whicl some tobacco growers have sold thel | undesirable erops of tobacco SUggest | a query why they do not keep it oft th market and use this tobacco as a fertll 'izer to gr ar 8 . las a4 manure, | s rich in potash, and is easily decom posed. Market gardeners often use pe | fuse tobacco as a fertilizer, and thiey | ind better results from it than fron many manures that cost more money 1 One of the advantages of tobaceo as fertilizer is in repelling attacks of in | seets. Itis especially valuable in grow ing cucumbers and melons.

; l Odds and Ends, Apply powdered alum to a fever sore | this will prevent it from becoming ver; | unsightly or noticeable. | For stains on the hands nothing i better than salt molstened with lemon juice. Rub the spots well with the mix. ture, then wash off in clean water. When cane-seated chair bottoms have “sagged,” to make them as tight as ever wash them with hot soap suds and leave them to dry in the open air. When anything has been spilled on the stove, or milk has boiled over and a suffocating smoke arises, sprinkle the spot with salt, and it will quickly disappear. It will be well to tack little rolls of cotton batting, covered with a dark cloth, under the rear ends of the rockers of the chair that makes a practice of “tipping over.” It is said that a good remedy for strengthening and clearing the voice is to beat the white of an egg with the juice of a lemon and sweeten it well ~with sugar and use as needed. ~ The annoyance of a rongh eriddle when Laking cakes may be overcome by rubbing it with a slice of raw turnip. Those who have used it say it malkes the griddle smooth as glass, and cake baking, therefore, an easy operation. | Do you wish to make a gruel for a sick friend? Take corn meal and Sift | it into a quart of boiling water, stir- | ring it until it is of the consistency of | cream. Add salt to flavor, and let it | simmer for half an hour or longer; then run it through a fine sieve. Have in a bowl a little cream or rich milk. Pour Your boiling gruel into it, and you have a drink a sick person nll;:h{ to relish, ! ‘I To make excellent cough candy soalk & gill of whole flaxseed in a pint of .imilina‘: water. In another dish put a | cup of biroken bits of slippery el and | cover this also with boiling water. Let these stand for two hours; then strain | them both through a muslin cloth into ! 4 saucepan containing a pound and & | half of granulated sugar. Extract all ‘ the liquor you can, stir the sugar until | it is melted, and then boil it until it§ turns to candy. Pour it out at om‘ef when it reaches this point onto gl‘(‘:lsnd | | paper. This is the old-fashioned rule, | The candy is more palatable if the ' l Juice of two lemons is added to it after it has cooked for ten minutes, ‘

WIDESPREAD DISTRESS IN WESTERN NEBRASKA. ; | S e Failure of Crops in the Semi-Arid ~ District, Not Yet Watered by Irriga- ~ tion, llas Driven Thousands of Peoi ple to Actual Want, g In Sore Need of Aid. The stories coming into Omaha of the destitution and suffering in the central and western covuties of Nebraska, ns! the result of last summer’s drought, are ! heart-rending. Awpalling tales are told of the condition of the settlers in this semi-arid district, where Lrrigation has not yet had a chance (o traesforin the gandy soil into a gnrden spot. Thousands of people are reported on the verge of starvation, but o far there have been only three deaths reported as the result of actual hunger. There may have been more, but so far they have escaped publicity. It is in the extreme sounthwestern counties of the State that the condition | of the people is most appalling -in Per’k?ns. Dundy, Chase and IHayes Counties. In Perkins (‘ounty alone, of which (irant is the county seat, there are 3,000 ! people who are actually destitute. l The sitnation there is told graphically by County Clerk Wilcox, who has made l public the following statement: : ‘ “We are facing the most desperate gituation in our history. About €15,000 ! of the county’s money is tied up in the | broken banks of tirant, and all three | banks are broken. We have issued bonds to the full limit allowed by the law, and onr warrants kave been refused by some of the merchants. The latter are all'!‘:ll‘,\ out considerable money for :.:vn.:.\' furnished to laborers on the diteh, We voted SOO.OOO in diteh bonds for an irrd gntiogl diteh which f‘;:.;u-‘] the South Platte west of Juleshurg and ran the entire length of our connty., This was ip September, and about o month later al most every voter in the county —~between 000 amd GOO ont out there to work en it. They took their teamasa, and I soMmy CRARe’ cows and families In the mean

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o O S A “';;Hi the bonds have not been sold, prohfably from distrost of BEastern eapital in h Western investments. The consequence . is that the farmers who did this work %1- g e % fi [ upon the diteh ara a great deal worse off 3 | dan if they had not gone out there at all ¢ | The erops of the last two years Lave buel I | total failurex, aud in nine years W: - [t | left helpless for funds of any kind. Men - | and women sometimes drive in here for »- | twenty-five miles for relief which we are y | tnable to give. Farmers who have lived ;‘ Lin the county for years and have sunk . | their ecapital heeo trying to raise CrOps Fx | come to me vwith tears in their oves and A | ask for food, There is not a stream of I- | water in Perkins County nor a living - spring. Wells ran from 60 to 200 foet, | the majority being from sbout 150 te 200 | feet deep. The soil, if watered, raises { good crops; if not, it bakes info a solid .. | mass. The roads and much of the prai- . | ries resemble asphalt, so hard packed and y | smooth are they,” | As a result of these conditions many N| of the settlers have left the country, and 1 a traveler through the county describes ~ | the situation graphically: | On every hand the bare country sprend o itself. Nct a shrub, not a tres met the .| sight; no crecks, no rivers, no sign of : anything which would give meisture or l | produce hay. The rolling swells sf the émhh‘ land are covered with the shot, 1 | erisp brown gass, but nothing above ankle 1 | high shows itself, except a dead and de- , | serted tree claim on the right side. But . { wttle stock eould be seen, though \\'llzlt} " [ w=s there was in good condition. A few | { deserted sod huts and frame houses were | seen, and there were signs, here aud ;;tho‘ro, that some habitations had been ! .| taken down and removed with the other , goods of the owners when they left. , In some cases farm implements were i seen in the fields, and at a distance sub+ | stantial granaries stood just as their ow : | ers had left them. One farmer 1 talke r with, who had come to this town for nilk ; lief, said, with tears in his eyes: “I neven | applied for help before and I neve ’t.hought to, but when a fellow has losj . all his crops for two years, and has haq his team and cows taken away o of board while working on the ditch, he can’'t see his family starve. I'm not above s | saying that there isn't a thine o 45 1

TR .s o sitßet g AT e TR RO eo R R ' house but a little flour and about a peck [ of potatoes that was left of the last lot rl:«-:'.’ gave me credit for at the store, “I'm no worse off than my neighbors,” [ he continued; “but the honest truth is | that we're ali mighty near starvation. | They're all good, industrious men, and i have worked night and day, some of them, to try and get a crop. Since June { 14 last not a drop of rain fell on my place except a light shower too late in the fall. It stood 1006 and 108 in the shade, I'm told, several days in succession in June, i and then the hot winds did the rest. I tell you there is going to be starvation all over the county in & few weeks. The farmers are on their last row. and uniess i help comes in a few days I don’t know L What'll happen”? It iy not tiso much to say that his case is well nigh typieal of | the farmers throughout the county. i | On Sunday a visit to the house of one of the seitlers revealed the farmer dress- . ing a jack rabbit he had killed. f “I’ll hang this fellow out to freeze to(might’ he snid, “and 'l Liva high for g { day or two.” [ “Well, you manage to keep the wolf ; from the door?” I asked. | “No wolf ever comes to my door,” said | the sand hills philosopher; “I'd out hic: if he did.” | Ft is said on good authority that in a

| drive of thirty miles in any directlon fromy | . . _‘tandt ten tons of fodder could not be : na. ~The situntion in ITayes and Hitchcock Pounties is but littla better than in Perns. County Commissioner Rhodes, of | #layes County, gives the following deils of destitution and suffering in his distriet: 1 “I tell you the situation is about as bad 28 it can be. We have raised no Crops— ‘ no, sir, none. I speak from bitter experience, for you can see for yourself that there wasn't an car of corn on one of those stalks. ISven the stalks are not any too good fodder. And 1 am no worse han my neighbors. The stock has been Iriven out of the country and sold for vhatever it could bring. Cows brought s low as S 6 or §B, although to-day they re worth sl6. So we have no stock. Our unds are about exhausted. There is very ittle ntoney in the treasury, but the mer- | Jhants cash our warrants at par. We ‘ we offering limited aid only to the most irgent cases, cutting our requisitions ll lown to the lowest living quantity of all ; the necessaries. No sugar, coffee or tea | s given cat except to old or infirm perons. There is the greatest need 'uf | wel and flour at present. In the spring voryone except a few will need seed of 1 kinds."” Many Deserting Their Farms, “Postmaster Nickerson, of Marengo, lls the following tale of helpless starFution as he has seen and experienced : in Lis neighborhood: ; ‘1 am keeping three families on a penldion of sl2 per month. Luckily, I have a | Rittle credit here and there. The other day ; ealled on some neighbors of mine, not 1 suspecting that they were in want. The | Bvoman met me at the door inan old and | {Rore calico dvess and a pair of rotten . L!hu'fi-. I asked her if that was the best - | glothing she had. She said it was, but s {Ehnt she needed somothing more than . \‘-!Mtzin:‘. and that was yood. 1 gave her “;‘x; order for 811 worth of groceries at | ’al;!:-‘.’.\ Center and also e v the counprty. A good many of my neighbors have y | loft Their teams were mortgoged and | they couldn’t get away I have fifty 7 jor more head of ] es, and I told five 1 | men to pick out teams and go on. They 0 lt‘!wi this, leaving their mortgaged teams to run at large. The stock of the county

Ss e S A A YA SWst . | - {4 mostly gone, People either took it fAway with them or the mortgage men | y ve got it. Some irrigating was done | cZuear our place on the Red Willow, One ! {4 INAN, On 7 patch aboutr 20 by 30 feet, ‘ e TN 3 o a while ago brought $8 a bushel” Stories ke thess are coming from all irections In the sflicted distriet. 1 In Other States. 3 In more than twenty of the counties of ' Bvestern Kansas the suffering and destii ution are fully as great as they are in ' BNebraska. . A. Gilbert, w riting from P ¥Macon, Wallace County, that St te, mives ! this tenly startling dese ription of the con- [ dition of the deatitute there: *“At one F Htimo we had nothing in the house to ;Icnt. My daughter Rose came aseross an %u!d flour sack containing some stale bread ‘éallfi CTUsS, \‘;!xi-,‘!a had been in the house li('ightt*:::x months, hard and dry as a bone, i 2 By pounding with a hammer and sonking §l4B warm water, we twere able to cnt ’tln*m. while my son was away in search 'lof work. We have lived the past year |1 almost exclusively on bread and flonrl}am!‘\\'nh*r gravy. There are many in ilhi!’i vicinity who are fully as destitute 'fas we are. Food and fuel are what we ' fare the most in nesd of. We can burrow {in the ground to hide our nudity and keep ' from [reezing, but it will not satisty fhunger.” The letters which come from the afflieted portions of South Dakota, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas are equally touching. “The drought has left us withont resources eof any kind,” writes 12 J. Benbow, of Galla, S. D. “Many have left the Staie, and many others have sent away the most of their stock, as there is no hay or straw with which to feed them., Our creps were a complete failure, and | hundreds are living on bread and water, B sng very little of that.” And C. A. Yeogin, of Burlington, Col., says: “There is #an army of destitute people in the east- | Born counties of this State. Only a fourth lof A crop was grown in 1893, and absofutely nothing in 1884, 1 heard of a fam--4 ily the other day who have been living for REsome time on wheat ground in a coffee i ‘one of this family is a man 75 3 ‘o!d. This old man has only an old #overcoat for a bed. Such is the present : condition of many of our people.”

g Mrs. Mira Lamb, of Stillwater, Okla., jgwrites: “The people of thls section have gsuffered untold misery {rom the drought | atwhich has existed for the past two years, | ’;,'l]}('inr; a new country the suffering and ! Xehardship here are greater than they can :;bossihly be elsewhere. Thousands are slalready at the end of their rescurces and | in danger of starving unless they are helped.” - : Telegraphic Clicks. :fi Bishop McDonald, acting for the Pope, Sinvested Rev. Dv. Joseph P. O'Connell, | gos New York, wih the title of Monsignor. | & William Childs, residing at Coatsville | “=710., had trouble with his sister-in-law lg*nn(l shot Ora Long, her lover, when he i :;C}mll)piunvd her causc. l '_:: Harry Bauchmann, aged 22, train dis- I sppatcher on the Wabash Road at An- | L{g‘n’(‘w& Ind., committed suicide with poi- | Besor: while temporarily insane. | 2. t¢ IHarry Wells and Charles Rowe, two | ?g}[’hilmh-lphi:l lumber sswvindlers, were ar- ' t &rested in Atlanta, Ga., and will be taken L.":bnck to Pennsylvania for trial. ; == Chief of Police Pratt and Detectives | heets and Ferguson, who had been in | r{%:m for ten -days nt Salt Lake, Utah, for * | )"'ygoutempt in refusing to answer questions, | - J%vere released. | e- -

N OIY AV ' THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. | i e ————————— THOUGHMTS WORTHY OF CALM REFLECTION. | A Pleasant, Interesting, and Instructive Lesson, and Where 1t May Be Found— A Learned and Conclse Review of tho Same.

Lesson for Jan, 6, Golden Text—“ Fear not them which Kill the body, but are not able to kill lhe\ soul.”—Matt, 10; 28, ‘ L 4 Al Ilul-l:::l‘r’jt}:-‘;u:]:'“fi Oof John the Baptist is \ ‘ These !\'.'s‘»’n;mnilcl: lvfl?‘m' Mered-dohs. t ’ led in the same verse, one distinguished for infamy, the other for piety. 'l_‘h“)' will never be so close together again; asg sap apart thenceforth as hell and heaven, So do the bad and \ ‘ the KU*_HI confront each other n moinent here, just a noment; after this—God’s har. “Ilerod himself had sent forth and l laid hold of John.” The word for sent i forth is apostled. The devil has his own | apostles, sent to do ill. Beware of them. | “IYor Herodias' sake.” lor sin's sake, for selfish and sensual indulgence, most of the evil has come upon this world. It began thus in the garden. For John had said unto Herod, "It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.” And 80, presently, off went his head. But did that make it “lawful?' Did that change the nature of the sin? Adas, poor Herod, whipped doubtless by conscience and remorse, driven to his dismal exile and eternal death., He is not the only one that | bas thooght by the futile sword to loosen | the everlasting grip of God's law. | “Therefore Herodias had a quarrel ngainst him."” It was not with him, but against him, or rather against her better self and the truth. John quarreled with no one; he simply stated the trath and { the guarrel that ensned was an internal e, in the woman's own mind. It is the kKind of a quarrel the truth always starts {in 2 mind where Satan's seat is. The | margin savs, and gquite literally (see also Lauke xi. 53, where the same Greek verb s used), she had “an inward grudge” toward him. Satan has a “grudge,” a

“gquarrel,” against you, brother or sis- | ter, every time you denounce sin in any ‘ shape. Alas, that such disagreement should even abate in this naughty woikd. - “Herod feared John.” Sin always fears righteousness: the bad man is in- | Cwiatrdly afraid of the good man, This ace- I - sounts for the fact that, as the context | informs us, when Herod heard of Jesus | he thonght of haunting ghosts and of an ; Cavenging Nemesis, The King James ver- | iiiun savs that accordingly Herod “nl)-I ! served Johin,” rather kept him safe, i. o, ‘ %fnr his own safety. (The Revision is | - more aceurate here with this verse.) PerI haps if we understand by the word “ob- | served” that he kept his eye upon him, i we shall not go far astray. It is the man | who is preaching the truth without ft‘m'i i or favor that the world sets a watch upon, ! The other man, the one that trims his '?smn to the popular breeze—never mind i him, no danger from that quarter. But l Herod feared John, But this fear works % no reforms, and at last, as with such fear | usually, it comes to its rational fruitage; L it works the death of the man feared, | Feared by HHerod: hated by Herodias, ‘l‘hem is always a hating Herodias to tead a fearful and vacillating Herod ong . : Aaurhter of said I Herodias, with her lascivious charms, to | give occasion. Possibly the weak Herod P did not realize what he was doing till | there at last was the head of the dead | propiet before him, and sin had done its i worst. It was on “a convenient day” | that it all happened. And for Herod, and ¢ Herodias and Herodias' danghter, and for John, and for all of us there is com- ' ing another day—the day of judgment. Hints and Illustrations. John the Baptist was a hero, every inch of him. He was of the stuff of which martyrs are made, and o he became seed for the church. Look at hita from any side and he looms up large and massive, Does he seem to have weakened in his message to Jesus toward the elose? Out of that very weakaess, if sweakness it | may be calied—we prefer to look upon it L as in keeping with his general repose of faith—he is made, in our estimation, | strong. It but gives him opportunity for i & splendid exhibition of resignation. | 'This, indeed, was the motive of his life: | “He must increase, but I muost decrease.” | As a preacher he spoke the truth, plainly, | directly: as a prophet ke warned openly, ‘ boldly: as a forerunner he left behind the i echo of a voice sayingz: “Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the | world,” and the vision of a finger point- { ing straight toward the Christ; as a man, | he stoed forth chaste in youth, devoted - in serviee, upright and ncble and good. i Give us another like him. i Study the resultant of lives. The after- | thought and echo of John's life was—- ‘ Christ. 1t is a curious thing that when i Herod saw or heard of Jesus he thought at once of John, and, we may believe, trembled. It is a blessed thing when death yields such good fruitage. l Herod destroyed John's life, but not { his testimony. They cut off his head, | yet he finished his course and his witness |to Christ shone all the brighter. His i life 'f""fim‘?"W |'@eath witness,” the same. A lone life ' prisoner in one of the terrible dun;.z«-(,ms ! of Europe crept at the last to the side of ! his cell and began with a piece of nail

i to etch his last testimony on the Sh)ueg | wall. And when it was found, what | [ was it? Not the record of his pains and | Epri\‘:niuns: not his ewn name, or even | { his initials. There stood the graven out- | { lines of a cross. It was the sign John | | left bohind his life and his prison so- | | journ. In hoc signo vinces;”’ yea, more | i than <onquer. | | Next Lesson—“ Feeding the Five Taou- | { sand.” Mark 6: 3C<4. ; I asily Digested. ‘ | The most easily digested meats ave: § | Cold mutton, mutton chops, venison, | | tenderloins, sirloin steak, lamb chops, i roast beef, ralibit and chicken. i i They Don't Count, f g The response of a certain Frenchman | | to a handsome woman who cpmplained ‘ that she had discovered t";‘n'vo gray | hairs in her head, was paradoxical but | é pretty. “Madam,” he said, “so long as | they can be counted, they don’t count.” | | New Western Interprises. | f A railroad is to be built from Los An- | ' gelos to Salt Lake, 1,500 miles; one frem 9 ' Colorado to the asphalt region of Utah, | ' ane from Natchez, Miss., to Texarkana, ' j ‘ Texas, and one of 309 miles in Mexico. | |

T ——————————————— i \ X ' AROUND A BIG STATE. “ BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDI- ‘ ANA NEWS. | ¥hat Our Neighbors Are Doing —lMatters i of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes—FPer- \ sonal Peinters About Indianians,

Blinor Sta‘e Items, TrerE are over 200 taxpayers in Valparaiso. I BarTnor,oMEw CouNTy schools cost tha taxpayers S6OO per day. . W. W. CoLE’s fine barn, near Kokomo, iin ashes, Incendiary. | CoArLes F. McConrmici: of Princeton, was dangerously shot while hunting. Mnrs. Jayes D. Wirsox of Greerwood, fell down stairs fracturing her skull, “Will die, Creero VANCE'S large harn at Tiushville, together with two valuable horses burned. : | Miscrizvors Geshen boys pass away the time breaking the glass fronts of fire : \ alarm boxes. ‘6 T Mayor of Plymouth “docks” the Councilman’s salaries when they fail to attend meetings. H AaMmyoND attorneys will petition the | coming Legislature to establish a fuperior-_ | Court in that city. G S sl : mew "| the narrow gauge road running inbe = : ‘ city is made a standard width. ; | Tng proposition to bond the village of | Centerville, for SIO,OOO for waiter works was i voted down by a majority of one. | VALPARAISO's fire protection costs the ‘ 5 eity nearly $6.000 per vear for water alone. | The eity vses about ninety hydrants. [ SaMm Sivexs and a man named Smith - ; were seriously injured in separate coal | mines at Shelburn, by falling rocks. | GronrGe DAy, a desperate young man of | Muneie, visited houses of ill fame, and cut | three girls with a knife. Ile eseaped. | WmLr Wit Kixa, 18, was hunting near | Jeffersonville, his gun exploded and a frag- | ment of the barrel was imbedded in his Sl All Al

| forehead. W 1 GIE, | IrA Lrezexsee, farmer near Logans- | port, was killed by jumping from a swiftly ‘ { moving Wabash passenger train. e l alichted on his head, crushing the skull. ! SouvTtn Bexp police have arrested a man | who barks incessantly like a dog. _hey {don’t know what to do with him. He | elaims he wants to get to Washington and remove the President. | CnanLes CrorFT, a well-known resi- | dent of Laporte, was eaught piilaging the | pesidence of William Miller near Kings'bury. Hundreds of dollars worth of goods | were found in his house. i Wartir Mirenern and Johin Christian | quarreled at Terre Haute over a game of | pards. Mitchell struek Christian on the | head with a pair of brass knueks, fracturing | his skuil. Christian will die. ‘ Tue old Beal heading mill at Salem, | which was stored full of hard-wood iumber } belonging to Thayer & McCowen, burned. | The stock and building was valued atabout | $5.000. Supposed to be the work of tramps. t‘ AT Shelbyville, Manunel Montgomery, | while driving the delivery wagon of Randall & Co., was caught by a Big Four ,\[rni;iht train. The wagon was ecrushed to | atoms and the man badly injured about the [ ihcad. WS E ; y | NORTHPERTINDIAS be a | | great field for swindlers. Two of the latest | , erooks are insurance men who eall oa wives | | to coliect dues on insurance pelicies which, | it is elaimed, their husbands have just taken d i out. || RoneErßT CALVERT has brought sait ! : against the Clay County Cominissioners for . 10,000 damages for broken-down health { from ten days’' confinement in jail. He | alleges the jail is a breeder of vermin and . | disease. | Micnicax Crry papers say that that | | town’s possession of the penitentiary has . | its drawbacks. The worst class of crimi- _ | nals locate in that city after theirdischarge, ; 1 and become resvonsible for wuehr of the - | lawessness committed there. , Lovis A. ErMIER, a switchman ia the - | emiploy of the Air Line Railroad at Evanss | ville, received injuries froin which he died _ three hours later. He was making a rua- . | ning switch when he was threwn beneath | the wheels. Both legs were broken and : | pne arm eut off. ; | Jonx D. BippLrn, 'a wealthy farmer of ,iJnhimm Township, Knox County, was i fleeced out of S2OO by two strangers, who , | caught him on the three-card moente trick. , | One man wanted to buy a farin, and he , | and Biddle met the other stranger in the _ i road, where the trick was worked. ; ' Ayos GREeNLEE of Pike’s Peak, Brown i i County, was driving a yoke cos oxen, a . | thing common in that locality, when the § animals ran away. throwing him againsta _ | fenee, injuring him internally, resuliingin _ | his death. Greenlee was a soldier in the 2l Eighty-second Indiana Regiment and a t well-known citizen. : CrarLEs Moorgs, 80, filel suitin the--1 Monroe County court. for divorce from his | wife Amanda. aged 64. They were married ¢| on Thanksgiving Day. The couple were lovers in vouth but married other eompani {lons. Their conserts died and they met > | acain and were married. After the cere- ; mony, which was perfornied in Kokomo, OT Mocre went to his heme in Monroe Couniy, 51 his wife refused to foilow him and he wouid . | not oto Koke.ro. Hissuitiordivereewas - | brought to settle it. I Nyrlr Bret nf 1o Fanfanat fr9ainowraci-inog

{ LIIE OISt Oe ¥ oNanect traill-wWwicOhilis | murder cases was disposed of at Terre ' Haute, when Georze Roberts was given a life sentence on his plea of guiity. He confessed that he helped throw the switch by . which engineer Moehrman and Fireman T'leck were killed in the wreck of the New | York express cn the Biz Four road on the e night of July 12. He had been a railroad ‘man and a miner and, with strikers and ‘sympathizing miners, had helped capture Cireight trains at Fontanet. With others, ' that night he threw the switeh, the purpose | being to wreek a freight train cuarded by | Shieriff Stout and deputies, but which was ' abandoned and did not pass Fontanet. The ' life sentence was given by acreement with | the prosecution. Noze of his four ceon- | foderates has been arraigned. | L=t week James R. Keleher of English, | sold his home for 82400 and hid his money amone some old papers in his trunk. The next day his wife burned the papers and the money. Dinrixe a sermen by Rev. Harland, at the Shurman Chureh, in the southeastern part of Johnson Couuty, an unknown miscreant threw a brick through a window, striking Miss Anna Stean in the face, Inocking her to the iloer and causing setere injuries. The woman is stiill uneonscious and the peeple of the community are excited. 1t is thought the brick was intended icr a man whe sat in frent of Miss Stean