St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 43, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 May 1895 — Page 3

TOPICS FOR FARMERS A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. The Former's Garden Is Usually Too I Large — UnderdraininK Wet LandHow to Prevent Bruising Fruit— Al w ays Flenty of W ork on the Farm.

The Farmer’s Garden. One of the principal mistakes made by some farmers who want to grow vegetables ami small fruits, is that the garden is made too large. My experience is that one-fourth acre is suf tieient. except for growing potatoes and late sweet corn. Another mistake is in laying out the garden. My plan Is to have it eight rods long and live wide. Put everything in rows the long way. Commencing on one side, lay out about one-half of the plat in rows seven feet apart for permanent plants and fruit bushes, such as asparagus, pieplant, grapes, blackberries, raspberries. currants and gooseberries. Some of these will take a whole row; for others a half row is sufficient. This part of the garden is worked with a ono-

horse cultivator. The other half can be plowed and harrowed every spring, as only annuals are planted, except a strip for the strawberry bed, which, to facilitate cultivation, should be on the outside of this half, alternating from one side to the other from year to year. The rows for vegetables may j be three feet apart, except for melons and other vines, which will need a double row or more. Ise a line and measure to lay out the rows. The tomatoes are trained to a trellis and take no more room than a row of corn, while the fruit is much finer than when the plants are left to run on the ground. No spading is necessary, except tn dressing the asparagus and pieplant

beds in the early spring and loosen Ing the soil about the roots of the berry bushes. To get the best results from this small piece of ground, it is essential that it be made very rich with composted manure and that it have thorough cultivation. Run through it every week with horse and cultivator. Don t wait for the ground to get weedy. It should be done as regularly as going to meeting or as wash day is observed in the house. The garden properly laid out ami cared for is a thing of beauty. Its usefulness no housekeeper questions. Besides supplying the table with a fresh variety of vegetables for a large part of the year, It will supply fruits and berries, fresh or canned, 3G5 days. The cash value of the product of the one-fourth acre can be SSO to SIOO, and besides, a val- 1 liable lesson may be learned of results from rich soil and thorough tillage.— ^ American Agriculturist.

Draining Leased Land. < wvgn^/^diana farmer, J. c. Wain Ins j n n le Drainage Journal, ^ght i^Tiie laud belonged to a ueisbooi could not be persuaded to drain ur Finally he offered to give a five years lease of the land to Mr. Wainwright, who thereupon set to work to underdrain and crop it. There was a good incline to the field, and 250 rods ol drain tile were required to conduct the surplus water and fit the land for cropping. This cost $122 70. lhefn-t year oats were sown. The yield was forty bushels per acre, and the crop from the eight acres sold for $96. No account was made of the straw. AX heat followed the next year, yielding twen-ty-nine and a half bushels per acre, and selling at GO cents per bushel, or $141.60. The third yield the field was in clover, yielding two tons per acre

of hay worth $96 and a crop of twentyseven bushels of clover seed, which sold for $121.50. The fourth year the field was in corn, yielding 504 bushels of grain, worth 40 cents per bushel, or S2OO. After cutting the corn the field was sown with wheat, which yielded thirty-five and a half bushels per acre, or 384 bushels, and was so | good that it sold to a seed company at 75 cents per bushel, making $213 sot the crop. Mr. Wainwright estimates his expenses for the above crops at S2OO, rent $l2O. ditching $122,70. Total, $442.70. The total receipts were SB6B, leaving a profit of $425.30, besides which Mr. Wainwright fed on his own farm the cornstalks ami the straw from two wheat crops, and the clover hay from which the seed was threshed. The field was turned over to its owner improved fully 100 per cent. Both parties made well by the bargain, though the neighbor who leased his land to be drained might have done better if he had drained the field him self. Barn Plans,

We have three 1 Iters asking for plans ! for dairy barns and economical build- I ing. To give advice in regard to build- | ing a barn is much like instructing a I man in politics; he has his ideas, and > many men when advice is given say, | “Oh, that is for book farmers," if any new, modern ways are mentioned, while others hear the truth gladly. It is difficult to tell a man how to build when the location and conditions are not known. Our own idea is that the cow stable of the future will not be part of the barn. The latter will be a storage for hay. grain and the like, and the cattie will be kept in an “ell” or addi-

tions, so arranged as to afford the most light and warmth, and with special reference to sanitary conditions. That thousands of dollars are needed to build a barn, where hundreds would do as well. is. we think, the economic policy of the future. If for cows, the stable needs to be down on the ground, not with floor stilted up above the earth to give a chance for a cave of foul smell under the stable. In the future, silos will be used largely for the storing of food, which will largely do

away with the need of great storing places for feed. There is no need for the high castle-like building if for a dairy barn, and the best authorities now pronounce against two things, manure cellars under the cows, and haylofts over them to absorb the air I and dampness from the cows and stables. This means a cow stable separate from tlie barn proper. Unneeded capital used in barn building is a poor investment beyond the actual need. A

thousand dollars wisely invested will go a long way toward giving a man a *- good cow stable, light, warm, comfortable and dry, and the storage for silage and hay may even be included in this estimate. Let the plan be made to conform to location and capital and the * uses of a barn, and not in unneeded things that often are mere show and an actual disadvantage.—PraclfealFariner. To Prevent Bruising Fruit. ITof. B. 1). Halsted says: “There is no question about the importance of so far as possible preventing the bruising of fruit. From what lias been said ill strong terms concerning the barrier ol a tough skin which nature has placed upon the apples, it goes without saving that this defense should not be ruthlessly broken down. It may be safely assumed that germs of decay are lurk-

ing almost everywhere, ready to come in contact with any substances. A bruise or cut in the skin is therefore even worse than a rough place caused by a scab fungus as a lodgment provided by the minute spores of various I sorts, if the juice exudes. It at once lurnishes the choicest of conditions for molds to grow. All apple bruised is a Hnit lor the decay of which germs are specially invited, ami when such a simeimen is placed in the midst of other fruit it soon becomes a point of infection for its neighbors on all sides. Seldom is a fully rotten apple found in a bin without several others near it being more or less affected."

Plenty of Work to Do. I he farmer should not worry about work to do. There is steady employment for him on the farm throughout tlie year both for hands ami brains, if he will but see it, and there are endless little resources for making a little more money even during tlie hardest times. Certainly his lot is by far the better during periods of financial depression. He must suffer the same as all other laboring and business men. 1 here will be less money to buy his goods and a smaller margin of profits. ; But the soil and weather are not de- | pressed by any money or business de- I pression. they will often combine at such times to produce larger crops than at. other seasons. If the margin of profits is smaller, then the increased yield can partly compensate for the 1 loss. Gt eater activity in cultivation 1 and study of crops fn such years can ‘ certainly be made to yield better re- ( turns if the weather and soil do not ,

conspire to prevent. Richer Feed for Holatcin Cows. It seems to be generally conceded bv the larger breeds of cows. It . perhaps, in part due to difference In feeding, and in part is hereditary If more rich foods were given to Holsteins, tlmy also will increase the pro portion of butter fats in their milk. Tlie first calf of any cow is apt, if a . heifer, to give rich milk. Its dam while bearing it has had to provide tor some growth of her own frame and for that of her foetus Tlie fat in tlie milk is not required for this. Heifers’ milk is usually rich in fats and poor in casein, or the nutrition that makes strength. bone and muscle. Tlie heifer’s milk is defieh>n in quantity, and it is better for ma kh g butter than for cheese making.

Grain Tocding for Young I ambn. Lambs LA . ded for the butcher soon begin to m-d more nourishment than their mother's milk will furnish. They ] should have it in the form of grain. , Those that are intended to be kept tor breeding should have little or no grain, but be fed a small amount daily of well- ' cured clover hay. A lamb ten days, or two weeks old will begin to pick at hay placed where it can reach it. nnd if fed properly will soon eat almost like an old sheep. The greatest care in feed- j ing fattening lambs should be to not give them too much. The sheep is al- i ways a delicate feeder, and a quarter of a pound of oats per day is heavy enough for lambs that are sucking tin it dams. That Is only two ounces per lamb at a feed, but it is better than more. If the lamb needs more nourishment give it what clover hay it will eat. It is better not to feed the lamb through the owe with grain. That will fatten the ewe, and soon dry her up. besides unI fitting her for breeding next year. Tho I breeding ewes should not be allowed to i become very fat.

The Munson Grape Trellis. Grape trellising. according to the , I Munson system, has proved so success- j I ful at the Oklahoma Experiment Station that Prof. Waugh unhesitatingly j recommends it for adoption in general vineyarding. According to this system, posts stand six feet out of the ground. At the top a crosspiece two feet long is nailed, and at each end of this a wire is run. A third wire is run through the middles of the posts eight inches below these two, so that the three wires set ' in a sort of V shape nearly six feet | from the ground. This great height is

an essential feature of the system, and should not be modified. On this trellis the grape vines spread out as they do where they grow wild in the fruit. At the same time the fruit is so far above ground as to be safe from the Intense reflected rays of the sun, which caused more damage in Oklahoma vineyards last year than all other causes combined. The trellis also has many other advantages and only a few disadvantages.

SMALL GRAINS SAFE. DAMAGE BY THE FROST IS NOT SERIOUS. Cheering Reports from Fifteen Western States —Fruits and Vegetables I inched by the Cold—Slight Injury Otherwise in a Few Sections.

I • Severe Fall in Temperature. Reports from throughout tlie Northwest indicate severe damage to small fruits and vegetable crops in almost every section by the frost of Saturday night. The grain crops, however, are reported safe. M heat and oats escaped uninjured, because neither had begun to joint, and where cut down by tlie frost or heavy rains will sprout again. Coni was slightly nipped by the cold in a few States, but not enough to occasion the slightest alarm that the yield will be affected to any noticeable extent. In a general way this states the condition of the throe great staples in the Mississippi valley. 'There is no longer any ground for a scare in the face of these facts. On the contrary, the outlook is said to be better than it was May 1, when it was unusually promising, i On the whole, the news from the fifteen 1 States visited by the frost is of a cheer- ।

। ing nature. Illinois fared best of all the States. Secretary Garrard, of the State Board of Agriculture. attributes the death of millions of chinch bugs to the heavy rains, and says the ground needed just such an I amount of moisture to make tlie future lof the crops more promising. From but | two points in the State have the signal service oilici is received reports of damage by the sudden tall in the tempertit tire. \\ iseonsin dispatches show that eon- I siderable harm has been done to small j fruits and gardens. North of Green Bay । the ifost worked the greatest damage. I Baraboo ami Boscobel will semi few ! strawberries to market, and Pine River i will have a shortage on potatoes and corn. (he southern ami western portions of the State escaped the blight, and in no part ot the State has any damage to "heut, oats or corn been reported. Some Damage to Fruit.

Fears are expressed that there has been much injurv inflicted upon the fruit region of Michigan, especially ou the highlands. A still wind saved the peaches, apples and strawberries along the hike shore, and the warm weather had pushed lidit so rnilidly that it was hardy enough to withstand the fr >st in most sections, i \ egetnblcs ami garden trm k growing jp ' ' the interior of the Slate were badly hurt. I Larmcrs believe the spring wheat and! corn are all right. 1 rum lowa comes the assurance that I both winter and spring wheat, corn and I oats are generally safe. While corn was ! killed back to the grouml. it will grow ; again. Dis. nnraging reports come from nli or it the State, Imwer er. on the condi- ■ lion of fruits and vogetabhs, and in this respect lowa has probably be. n the worst ; injured of ail the States. .Minneapolis cn.als are rv|mrted safe, but corn, vegetables mid small fruits

"ere greatly damaged. Kansas escaped j tlie frost except in the southern ]H>rtii>n ; of the State, u here some damage was done to fruits. Missouri mid Indiana j were not >< j n t|, c * hUu. » Ron nt Springfield. Ma-^.. • most snccriMul gathering in the history ! of the organization. and ns a result of the , exchange of opinions and wdlmds. a great increase in the scope of the work H j oxpemed during the coming year. Tlie opening session in the State Street Lap tist t’lmreh on tlie last morning of ihc | convention devoted to an • N.lmngC ' j of views concerning the duty of the a —'■ ciatmns to young m< " of foreign birth ; and parentage, an I also the relation of the organizations to the sm ial-ccoimmie qm-s tions of the day. The primapa! *1" akers were Kev. A. A IhieHe. of B— ■ . 1 roE Graham Tay’mr. of ( hnago. ami epins Brainard, of N-" Ymk. Before th • re ciss delegate - ihwotcd half an hour to a season of prayer.

h> (he aftevm m there were ten parh>r conferences to consider railroad work. ! college work, boy-' work, work among i French speaking young men and kindred Subjects. At light thcie wa- . a imtm u-e I mass meeting at the city hail, at which , 1 Dwight 1.. M b -poke on the work of , the Holy Spirit. Sunday there were spe I cial services in the various churches. eles- • ing with a great farewell meeting u the ; ! evening. SEND WHEAT TO CANADA. „ i Ten Carlo.id-. of K d Winter Go Acton?’ t lie Boundin'.' Hinv. A dispatch from M inin al says H at the j initial importation ot uheat from tho j United States into Canada has been i made. Jame- Carruthers is the importer I and the amount brought is ten cars. It is from Detroit, and of < ourse red wither. Mr. Carruthers say- the wheat will be consumed by Ontario millers. Now that it has been pretty welt demonstrated that the United States wheat can pay the duty of 15 cents a ’-.-hel and sell in the same ‘ market v.ith the < V arm pr ■bu t. dealers are inclined to believe the prices tor tielatter have rv«d:i-l the top unless Ilie Cnited States market shows re i tvrial ad-

vanets. A- high as 85 cents has been j paid for Ontario red winter wheat re- ] cently and SO cents f .r hard Manitoba] wheat at Cort William. It is probable that further importations will be made i and if they reach hundreds of thousands of bushels, the expectations of many Montreal traders will bo realized. STATES MAY HAVE TO REFUND. Demand Likely to Be Made for Cash Received Years Ago. A very interesting question has been । raised, as to whether, in view of the de- ‘ j pleted condition of the treasury, the twen- I ty-six States of the I nion, which in 1837 i received from the general government de- ■ posits amounting to over $28,600,000, ; could be made to refund. The first few months in 1836. Congress having refused to extend the charter of the bank of the United States, found the Government in possession of between $40,000,000 and $50,000,000 for which it had no present need nor suitable place for safe keeping. ■ On June 23 of that year an act was pass- ' ed authorizing the Secretary of the Treas- . ury to deposit, under certain specified conditions, all of the money save $5,000,-

' 000 Mt a* 7 rr —” • the obli. ' btn ‘ os on their assmmnk The $ Os P a y mpnt on demand. twentv* >f money which each of th* - several’T" loß received, as stated in of the'l a reports of tlie Secretary otnitted^ Ury ’ WaS US follo "s (cents $669 ^ew Hampshire, ’ setts Massachu- ' Rhode J, ;:L, < “ unneeti,ut > $7(14,670; 014 s*’ol d ’ New York, $4,Ters^te'™ 1 ^ 1 ' $ 2 .86V>14; New di-imi'^-7 : Ohio - 92-007.260; In2an V Illinois - $477,919; MiduHnd iV Delawal ’e. $286,571; MaryNorth $2,198,427; line -St , la - $1,43.3,0x; South Carobanm Georgia - sl-951.422; Ala757- I.’ lennessee, $1,433,S'W’ 'Cu "i k - ' ’ $1,433,757; Missouri, 101,a'^ ,kailsas ' $286,751; total, $28,-St-itJ^"‘ l,al report for 1885 the United that ^ UrPr . Bays “ thnt tlie fiction" 101 (i;k ^epo^its, amounting to $28,has' e® l-V so,ue day become available filet life If * s a aingular Dartm* e records of the Treasury Dehis '* n °*' B i ,ow that any demand reii/-'r < n ,na ^ e on the States for the . J •' 1 tof this money. It seems to be ,7,.' ' a ' opinion that an act of Con4i] ( | bp necessary before steps could taken to compel a repayment.

but BUc h an act will be paused by is extremely doubtful in view of thi I', that the representatives of tW01^)1 States in both houses would be iffested in its defeat. ^-GOV. CHASE DEAD.

Forito.- Exccutive of Imliiina, SucCnmbH to Erysipelas. ‘ ’ ' l ^ivoeks ago ex-Gov. Ira J. Chase e ‘Plmi polis’ for the purpose of enK|evungeHstic work in Maine, 1 7 b '”niter reaching Lubec was seizc: w ‘JO-ysipelas. Letters from him ' 1 .to time spoke of the disease, but *'■*t apprehend serious consequem-es ami ndjj u , as j I|vss was ;,y friends. y, Tiowever, a telegram was re^jouncing hjs death. The disease b,‘^ n j n |] u , nn( | was partially for a time, but he grew rapidiy w w within two days. Bx-t^y Chase was 5i years of age and uns b<|gj j n t ) ie state of Illinois, where he gre^ o manhood. While still young lie ent^,; j| le U rmy and rose to the rank

of major, but was sent from active ! duty to the hospital j service on account I of the giving away I of his health. At the close of the war he returned to Illinois and entered it ! grocery store as a clerk. and while j thus engaged under- i

.O 1 X-<i« . CHASE.

t<H»k tli study of theology, afterward , unitingrwith the Christian Church and onteriiij. the ministry. IL- preached for several years in Northern Indiana, and ton ye»Ss ago was called to the pastorate of the 'Cristian Church nt Danville, this .'’fate. I In Ii- ;ho was nominated by the RopnbHc^j S t | le Fifth district for Con-

grvss, was defeated by C. C. Matn ' Democratic candidate. Two Iba'-- * t’.mgr^Bmse succeeded to the gubernnto- | y- In > K 92 he was a candidate I । fir Governor, but was defeated by He L aves a « .dov, and two ' cbildr^i, a son ami daughter. MAKES IT A TEST CASE. Nebraska Farmer Sues n R iilro.nl for FnHiirc to observ c the Law. A Nebraska statute imposes a penalty of $5<M for each failure of a railway company to have its trains whistle at the pub lie ermmings. and one half of the tine goes t<» the Informer. The matter will be test -1 for the first time. The -ait was begun bv Alonzo R. Miller, of Lyons. Neb.. against the St. Paul. Mmm-ipobs and om.aha Railway Company. The plaintiff sues for yTS.'.**’. Mdh r n -id -"U a farm near a railroad ems-ing and has k< pt an aeeonntof su.-h failures to blow the whis

Ue of passing trains between Ma\ J. IMM. and Aug. 9. I S '.'l. and noted 1.57 s sm-h failures. The petition eowdstH of .>26 | sheets of typewritten legal cap. SOW Lady Beresford proceeded in the most business-like manner ami d:dn t pay a i penny on her new husband until aftm tho I goodshad been delivered. Robert Lebamiy has subscribed 1.000 francs toward the prizes tor the Bordeau -Paris and back horseless carriage race,’which will lake place on June 11 1 ami fidlowine d"’ijk n r William Grew. pr<>f<"or in V MkiA'ge Toronm. -i -1 <72. and a I bader in the Presbyterian wT-^resigned the professorship / ^>unt of old age. mjAr Pond says his offer of $3,000 a night , for Mark Twain, which has been

standing for five years, still holds good. Twain has more calls to lecture than any other American citizen. Robert Halstead, a son of Murat Halstead has been appointed managing editor of the Fourth Estate. Mr. Birmingham's lively “newspaper for newspaper men,” in place of I . H. Lancaster, resigned. The last miller of Dee is dead, but the Chester town council has voted to buy and preserve the mills, in order to control the How of the stream. The original j grant of the mills was made by King Edward A IAlbert George Sandeman has been electI ed to the responsible position of governor ।of the Bank of England. 11“ had previI onslv been a director of the bank lor ’ many years, and also a director in many financial institutions ami insurance companies. Pope Leo XHl.'s hands are nearly useless and cause him much suffering. AX hen he writes he must hold his right wrist with his left hand, and what he writes is almost illegible. This is not due to age, but to an attack of ague twenty-five | years ago, when he was bishop of Perugia.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. — SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED. A Scholarly Exposition of the Lesson —Thoughts Worthy of Calm Reflec-tion-Half an Hour’s Study of the Scriptures—Time Well Spent. Lesson for May 10. Golden Text.—“ But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marveled.”—Mark 15: 5. Sjibject: Jesus Before Pilate—Mark 15: 1-15. Scene: Early morning in old Jerusalem. The sun is just sending its first intimation across Olivet to the east, down whose slopes a few days since came the triumphal procession. On tlie other side rises Golgotha’s pretentious brow, just emerging from the night mists. Yonder lift tlie temple towers, to whose shadow Christ so often came. But the denser shadows, just now, seem massed about the Pretorium. A group of men are pushing their way in, Pilate’s court is about to convene. The personages: Here sits Pilate the Roman ruler who was ruled. A little beyond, the Pharisees, representatives of a faith that is dying, if not dead. Beyond them still the soldiery, looking heartlessly on, waiting to do their cruel part, and apparently anxious to be at Undoing. Yet further on the clamorous multitude, nervous, curious, volatile, easily led. In the remote background, shrinking disciples, a few women amongst them. And in tlie midst, One like unto the .Son of God. Great God, thy Son; and sub mitting himself to earth indulgence and indignity! “Herein is love,” not that we loved, but that God loved us. Jesus "bound.” The Son of God bending to the children of earth; amazing condescension. “He humbled himself and became obedient unto death.” And it was all for us. for us who insolently bound him. And “delivered" to Pilate. IL- is "delivered” to this world to-day for suffrage. Accept him or reject him, one or the other. "And," as Matthew says, “Jesus stood before the governor.” He is standing there yet, confronting the slate. What will the commonwealth do with religion? What will politics do with Jesus? Christ is standing before each of the dominant parties to-day and saying, i "What will you do with me?" Christ is । standing before every governor, and every p>mperor, and every mayor of every city, and every chief of department. You must ' reckon with him in the state. “Art thou the king of the Jews?" There must have been a little sarcasm there. Some contempt for the Christ, none for the Jews. For well ho knows that for I envy they have delivered him. Why indeed should the sly plotting Jews be re- ! porting one of their number as seditious? I A King indeed! “Thou sayst it." Equivalent to a strong atHrmation. He was a King; ho is a King. Not seen of men. but , of tied, and of those enlightened of God's Spirit. Not over men’s heads, but men's hearts. Your King, my King, the world s King, King of kings, and Lord of lords is thus "King of the Jews." Anil some i time Pilate, awl all the world, will say it.

"But Jesus yet answered nothing." t Jc-iUs lueun the fell enmity of uis foes' The <-mi pF knew was nigh. Mas it not above all, a calm and noble acceptance of the title •A en to him? What need indeed of vei ba] r -po’us.-? He himself was the an wcr. His life nnd his hastening death, and his life after death, these declare him. Hints and 111 ost rat ions.

Pilnte's court is yet in session. There thev ii'l. Just now Pilate has said, "Bei’old the mall." Behold him? How m we help it: All eyes are upon him. We are imt looking at the richly robed u.m-n»>r or the piously bedecked priests; Cliyst is the eynosu'e of every gIIZO. They thought t" put him on trial, and. 10, ae has them before him, instead. Pilate is writhim:: liis wife wringing her hands, the I'hnrisees nre foaming, the tickle J, .q.le shrieking, and on the edge some women's tears. This, this is the word insistent beneath the whole picture: "What slmll I do, then, with Jesas,

wlrn I- . ill. d Chris. Pilate'- court, we have called it. It mi.;ht better be named Christ's court: his lower court. The upper court has not yet ; convened; that comes next. Friend, get ] ready, pa-s this lower tribunal first. What i will you do with Jesus? I-or before the i Christ <>n trial, are gathered, themselves in the balam e. Pilate and the Pharhees, d the multitude and the disciples. These four classes, representative in their way. ‘ make up thus -parties to this protected ■ 11 is ('hrist before the world, and i the world before Christ. \nd what will the Pharisee do with the Christ? He, too. will crucify him. Perhaps he does not mean to at the first. He only endeavors to suppress the new voice, to silence it. Then comes open disavowal, denial, opposition. At last

it is discovered that there is but om* way to meet this new doctrine. The author of it must be put to death. Crucifixion is the . ertain . nd of the Pharisee's rejection of ('hrist. To religiously- withstand Christ is to crucify him. He is wounded in tho house of his friends, wounded to the death. AA 1 the multitudes, what will they do with the Christ? Oh. they will listen to him at the first, be interested, indeed, for a while pleased. "The common people heard him gladly -heard him, that was all. Out there at the city -ate thev wave palm branches ami cry. “Hosanna!” Yet it is the same multitude that to-day is hoarsely shouting."Crucify him!" They have come to understand him better to-day; what he is. a spiritual king: and what he demands, a spiritual surrender. r i hat they are not ready for. and so they crucify him. Jesus lis either all or nothing. No half-faith hero. Half-faith is whole rejection and complete crucifixion. And the disciple, what will he do with the Christ? Not much. Alas, the disciples figure little to their credit here. Judas betraying him. Peter denying him, all forsaking and fieeitig. some women weejung on the outskirts of ihe throng—that is all. Brethren, sisters, we also are in that trial scene, and we do not figure well. We have not, perhaps, rejected him. or cried out agamst him, but there is little we are doing for him. A very little we can do. but that little we do not well. Acknowledge it, brethren, it was all of grace. In that final act of redemption he did it all, and of the people there was none with him. Next 1.-esson —“Jesus on the Cross. Mark 15: 22-37.

HUSTLING HOOSIERS. !TEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAn Intt eating Summary ot thu More Important Doings Os Our Neighbors—Wed. dings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties* sad General Indiana News Notes. Minor State News. Apcaiua plate glass works burned. Loss, U 25,009. The Dieterich syndicate has brought the Logansport natural gas plant for SSOO- - Wobms are destroying corps, meadows and other vegetation in Clarke and Floyd counties. Oka Pickett, 10, Noblesville. ?!s dead from injuries received by falling from a haystack. Yhe bakeries of Elwood have combined and raised the price of bread from 2 to 4 cents per loaf. » Fueton county commissioners have let the contract for a new $78,000 court house, to be built at Rochester. Jui.n s J. II asee, Fort Wayne laborer, has fallen heir to $50,000 left him by his grand-father in Germany. Oveii one hundred new residences and ten new business houses are to be erected in Parker City this summer. The county seat removal question is being revived in Lake county, llamniond disputing with Crown Point for a relocation. The members of the First Presbyterian Church of Greencastle have extended a call to Rev. William K. Weaver, of Gwattona, Minn. Mad dogs have done considerable damage to stock in Morgan county. Many hogs have been killed suffering with rabies. A cnn.D was born in Kokomo, recently that is the fourteenth daughter of the fourteoth daughter. Mrs. S. 11. Buirt is the mother. Guy >jii:i , hei:ed was waylaid by footpads at Vincennes, beaten unmercifully, roblied and driven home in a buggy by the robbers. AV ai.teu Akmstkoxg was seriously injured at the Arcarde tile works, Anderson, by a grindstone bursting. A fragment struck him on the head. Jonx lleidexkek n. who has been a switchman in Terre Haute for thirty years, was run over and killed by the cars in tlie Evansville A Terre Huate yard. South Bend will send a delegation to Washington to protest against the^new public building in that City. The citizens are greatly dissatisfied with the plans. Mi:<. G. W. Ross, who last winter fell through a grating on Main street, Brazil, while in a delicate condition, and suffered serious injuries, has tiled suit n the Superior Court lor $20,000 damages against the city. A vol ng man, who was beating a ride over the Monon railroad, fell between the freight cars near Crawfordsville, and was cut to pieces. Nothing was found to identify him, but it is supposed that he belonged at Danville, 111. I Wai ia M t ummins, an employe of the A fTA mail dress skirt to its owner, accompanying it with a note explaining in illiterate language that he stole it to clothe hisnaked wife, but it was his first theft and his conscience hurt him. Epwvrd 3Y. Dp.ieman. a commercial traveler who was seriously injured in a wreck on the Indianapolis & Vincennes - ailwav some wi eks ago, has tilled suit at V incennes for $5j«W damages against the Pennsylvana company. l'<>ui: voting men were playing poker in the heading mills at Bedford, when Paul Johnson quarreled with Homer Bruee. The latter shot Johnson through the head causing a mortal wound. Bruce, his brother and Wm. Emery was arrested. one hundred and fifty new residences are in course of-election at Wabash this spring, the building boom beingunpreeeTl -nted. The estimated cost of each .mild'ii 1 ’ is $1 <*D, making a total of $15'9,000 W9eh local investors are putting into re-

sidences. ll\m;v Ki.i.t.Aii, who was formerly in Ihe dry goods business at Logansport, was assaulted and robbed of? 315 shortly before midnight recently at his home. Hearing a noise he went to his barn and Mas attacked and left in a dazed condition. T1 era is no elm ami the affair is regarded as a mystery. \ r Latav ette, Judge Everett rendered a decision in ex-A M>mey-general Snub's suit to recover from the, school trustees a c< nsiderable sum of money that had not been expended for tuition purposes. The court held that the law of 1895 did away with the law of 1893 and that the attorneygeneral could not maintain a suit under the new law.

1 i i nr iiS'uiTii of Logansport, got on the cowcatcher of a Vandalia engine to ride to Maxinkuekec. Near Verona station, a f. w miles north, the engine struci; three l.oi. s that were running loose on the track, killing tuo of them. When the train stopped the remains of Smith were foun I ten iblv mangled. He was about gs years old ami lived with a widowed mother, lie was formerly employed as a switchman on the A andalia. Patents have keen issued totliefolloM - ing Indiana inventors: Charles F. Black, Topeka, dish cleaner; Jame- D Bowman, assignor one-half toll. Y. Miller, Union County. Indiana, earth auger: Allen < . Brantingbam, assignor to Nordyke and Mannon. Indianapolis, feeder for mills; Edward and L. Iledderick, Pettit, washboard: Steven G. llindsley, Union Cit ~ flood gate: Joseph Reiff, jr., assignor ot one-half to E. AL Nichols. Hebron vent controlling meeanism for pumps: A alentme C. Rocholl, Fort Wayne, prize wrench: Ferdinand Scheumann, Logansport, smety valve; Fred and L. Winkler, South Bend, sprinkler head, two patents. Xs a result of eating onions purchase t from a huckster, Herman Wilson, aged 7 died at Jeffersonville, and two oth.i children Elmer Wilson and Paul Moziei^ are dangerously ill with little hopes ci recoverv. During the day the child.e i purchased several bunches of onions and ate them with salt. Soon they were taken ill and plivsieians were puzzled at the symptoms. ‘ Emetics were a< mmis erel and it Mas found that they nad overdosed their stomachs, but as this alone wouldTKt 1 o sufficient to produce death, tuc ptij sicians are inclined to the belief Liat something of a poisonous nature muse haia been mixed with the onions.