St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 2, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 August 1895 — Page 7

TR ST VI A W SOOI A 8 S ReTTN S TN - w g THE FARM AND HOME. MATTERSOFINTERESTTO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Cattle Without Horns Are Much More Quiet—Hoeing Is Now Done with the Cultivator — Balanced Retion Will Prevent Dyspepsia in Hogs, The Dehorning Question, ; In the cattle they are to handle people seem to have a leaning of late years to l the idea of no horns. It is a conceded fact that cattle are much more quiet | without horns than with them, says the J Nebraska IFarmer. It is a fact, too, that this disposition to be quiet among ’ themselves goes a long way toward se~ccuring the comfort and good condition ‘ that lezds to profit in the handling of cattle. This preference for cattle with the horns off is evidenced in the growing popularity of the hornless breeds of beef cattle, and also in the disposition to remove the horns frem steers that are to be fed in bunches for the - market. We may be allowed to ven- ~ “ture the opinion, too, that this new de- ~ partare wonuld have taken a still Taster holad upon feeders in the last few years if low prices had not cast a gloom upon the feeding industry. With Dbetter prices and a better I‘vbliug pervading weattle circles. we predict that the dehoruing practice will receive a new impetus The question does not resolve itself into one of breeds, but into one -of methods only. If it be true that cattle do better with their horns off, it has Deer: demonstrated to be a thoroughly practical business transaction to re‘move them, and at small cost, so that we may expect to see the practice more than ever popularized in the next few Years to come. Heeing to Kill Weeds. We hoe merely to kill the weeds. The land has been, or should have Dbeen, Pproperly and thoroughly prepared Dbefore the seed was planted. Now nothing -of that is to be done, no digging, no pulverizing, no making of hills, only Kiiling the weeds, says the Maine Farmer. Much of the hoeing is now done with team and cultivator, though there is -still some work to be done with the hoe. Simply stirring the surface soil and cut- | ting up any stray weed that may hava | Dbecome rooted is all that is called for. Do this early and often, and the weeds will be mastered. Never svait for a field “to get weedy. It is just as effective to -stir the soil before the weeds have had time to get rooted, and it is much easler deing it. It has been a pet theory to run the cuitivator through the fleld often and keep it up as longaspracticable. Experiments at the stations, however, have shown that frecuent cultivation, ‘ unless needed for the destruction of weeds, is no advantage to the growing i crop in an ordinary season. Work the | field, then, as often as needed to km} “the weeds, and no more. Clean culture should be the aimi. The weeds must be \ ~destroyed. 1 Dyspeptic Hogs. l‘ The acidity of the stomach, which is the result of feeding hogs exclusively I -on coril, may be temporarily corrected l by feeding charcoal. But in this case, | -a¢ in most others, prevention is better ‘ ‘tkan cure. The hogs fed with a prop- , ‘erly Dbalanced ration, including some } linte wheat middlings and a few roots i esch day, says Colman’s Rural World, | will not be troubled by acid stomach. % Acidity is a sign that fermentation has | progressed to its sccond stage, the first I ‘being alcoholic. It is not possibie to ‘ <cause food to ferment in even the slightest degree without some waste of | its nutrition. When fermentation prn-i Bresses so far a3 to make acidity of the stomach the loss is much more consid- | erable. This is in addition to the loss by impaired digestion. ‘ Rapairs for Harvesting Machinery, ‘ Al kinds of mowing and reaping ma- | ckinery are much cheaper than iheyi ware a few years ago. But in some | cases the manufacturers put ini‘vriorl material into their work, so that more | repairs are needed, and these always [ come very high. The separidte pieces | cost enough more than they should to make up the deficiency in price of the «coriplete machine, which competition -obliges them to submit to. When they | have soid a machire the buyer can get his repairs from no one else, and they -can raake charges without limit. Worse than this, the buyer often finds that he amust send for repairs hundreds of miles -and wait perhaps two or three days while they are coming. If thie machine g is ovt of date 1t is sometimes difficult | to ot repalrs at any rate. This is a

matter that farmers should think of in I‘ buying harvesting machinery. 1«‘211(1‘ out, i€ possible, whether repuairs will be \ sold reasonably, and deal only with | houses of such established reputation ‘ that there need be no fear that they I svill go out of business. ’ Sprouted Potatoes. \ 1t i 3 well known that seed potatoes ; which are stored for late planting often become soft, while much of their nutri- \ tive matter is exhausted in developing sprouts which must be broken off ™ planting. . The first sprout is always the strongest and thriftiest, but it often hoppens that these sprouts have to be removed several times before the potatoes are planted, and each time .some of the vitality of the tubers is Jost. A comparative test was made by Prof. Tatt at the Michigan Experiment Station last year, when two egual lots of potatoes were taken, one being left in the cellar, the other spread in a dry, well-lighted, moderately warm room. On April 20 both lots were planted side by side, and the plants from the unsprouted seed came up first, looked the best throughout the season, and produced a greater amount of potatoes and a greater proportion of large ones with fewer ill-shaped tubers. Os course, it hardly needed an experiment to demonstrate the superiority of unsprouted

seed, but since no ene can afford to 1 grow anything but the very best crops ‘| it would seem to be worth while to take every precaution to prevent sprouting, or to secure second crop seed from the South, which is rarely affecied in this waz.—Garden and Forest. Evaporated Apples. In Wayne County, New York, which lis not a very large county, says the Awmerican Cultivator, something like a million bushels of apples were evap/m':ltod last year, yielding a product worth $500,000. As most of this was from fruit that could not very well have ’ been marketed in any other form, and some of it probably was just goml; } enoughand large enough to have tempt- | ed the growers to try to work it iut(‘)! ‘ the barrels if they could not have util- | ized it as they did, and thereby lessen- ! ed the market value of the better apples among which it would have been put, we say blessings c¢n the man who invented the evaporator, and hope tosee them in more common use in New England soon. They save fruit that would igo to waste, or to wolse than waste, the cider barrel, and improve the quality of the apples sent to market. If those who use them wiil stop the artificial bleaching of their evaporated ap- | ples, the product will soon be more popular. While farmers color their butter and bleach thelr apples they should not make much outery about the shoddy goods sent out by manufacturers. | i Cotton-Seed Meal, } ~ English farmoers have learned to use ‘ ‘ cotton-seed meal, and it {s very largely | taking the place that linved meal used | to have. 1t was the English (l«-m:mqli for linsced meal for feediag that raised | its price for many years, so that Ameri- | can feeders could not afford it. The | English farmer feeds meal with roots. i This ernables him to use richer meal | than the American feeder can feed with ! profit. The English farmer does nnti have corn except by imperting it, and | it Is, therefore, for him not so (‘h(‘ll[)i feedl as it is for us. Nor does the Eng- { lish farmer bave such large supplies of : bran, as much of the grain now im—j ported into England comes in the form of flour. Bran is even better than roots § to give with concentrated foods, like ! cotton-seed and linseed meal. f IS | ) Milking on the Ground. i Ttere is a belief among dairymen | ithat to milk on the ground dries up | the cow. One reason for this is that ; milk is not often spilled upon the | ground while milking unlegs there is | something the matter with it making | it unfit for use. In such case all the | milk is not likely to be drawa from | the teat, and that of itself will dry up | | the cow. The soothing nolse of the | milk going into the pail keeps the cow | k quicet and disposes her to give down all | ! the mllk she has. There is & stopping { fi.vl‘ this soothing noise whem milk 1s drzwn out upon the ground. 'The cow | is very susceptible to the strains of% musie, voeal or Instrumental, and theg milker who can sing while milking will | be able to get all the milk quickest as | well as to get the largest quantity, | e i Green Peas Profitable, ; l Market gardeners tind that the pea ! crop returns as large a profit as any ! l that can be grown so easily. They sell { it while green, and for the very earliest | get very high prices. The pea i 3 bardy, | i:lnd the farmer who has light, warm | ! 861 has as good a chance as the market | %g:mlm:s-r. To give the plant a good | z senddoff early some concentrated com- | mereial manure should be put in with | | the seed. This will make the green | i pea crop several days earlier, and on ! l earilness the price mainly depends. The <rop bears shipment well, and rar. | % mers too far from the city to market j i the peas themselves can easily m:\]u}: larmhgmnnms to ship them to some | ’ one who will deal fairly with Lilin. 3 Adnlterated Paris Green. ‘ In purchasing paris green for poison- , ing potato bugs or other insects, care [shouid be taken to secure that which | |ls pure. The entire unreliability of | much of the paris green in market leads to using it in large doses so 2s to pro- | duce the right effect, and this is fre- | quently injurious to the tender leaves. i With paris green of full standard purity | | the amount required to kill insects ig | so small that no injury will result from | its use. When the paris green Is used } to destroy fungous growths hearvier doses are required, and lime must be used with it to prevent injury. But for | both uses the pa’s green should be ! ‘ pure, so that those 'sing it may under- | stand what results to expect.

Merits of the Java Fowl, ; The Java fowl resembles in form that | of the Plymonuth Reck. It is, however, | | not so heavily buailt, says the Indepen. | E_ dent, nor is its comb like the latter’s. | | T'here are three colors among the Javas | —black, mottled, solid black and solid | white. Javas are good layers, very | | good broilers, and by many considered | superior to either the Plymouth Roek \(n‘ Brahma fowl; but experience will imore correctly prove this. We find in i'u(-zn-ly all fowls some few points that we do not fancy. The better qualities | overbalancing the inferior should be ! the point to aim at in selecting a stock for fancy and practical purposes. i Time to Cut Wheat, Wheat is ready to cut as soon as any part of the stalk begins to turn yellow. llf the head is well filled it will | then be bent over and the berry will .| fill from the stalk better if the grain is | left standing until dead ripe. The | bran of wheat cut while the stalk ls ' | somewhat green is thinner and its pro- - | portion of gluten and starch is larger. .i e s - Dampness Kills Chickens. ; Cold, dry weather, vrovided there are .| no eracks to cause draughts of air, will | not cause sickness in fowls, but damp .} quarters will cause roup, even in mod- | | erate weather.

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‘bate. The bicycle is so far in the lead‘ that other competitors for popular favor are not even within sight. And there is good reason for its great | popularity, for the 'bicycle is a real treasure—a source of health and of power as well as of delight. Pleasure trips are no longer restricted to slow and very 1i b 7 ; to expensive dri.. . ment of public conveya T T }bh-ycnst can get the full benefi : pleasure of a brisk walk without the fatlgue of it, while at the same time getting over more ground than a lmrsn! can cover, and enjoying the variety of | scene which comes with rapid motion. i But it is the women who have most reason to bless the inventor of the bi—l‘ ' cycle, for it has dote more to enfranchise them from the restraints imposed | - upon them by time and distance than | anything else that we can think of - could have done. Not only yoing woCmen, but women who are well along in | | middle life; not only light women, but pretty heavy women; not only robust i women, but delicate women—any wo- ' man who is reasonably active can ride a bike, and scon learns to feel at home | upon it. | Then, instead of having to support | a weight of perhaps 150 or even 200 :;m:mtl: every time she puts her foot ' down, she only requires to exert a | pressure of perhaps ten or twenty pounds, and instead of covering per- | haps two feet at every step, she will | advance over six feet for every revo- | Tution of her wheel. Thus she will got - exhilarating open-alr exercise, which

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1 will refresh and strengthen her for in-g idmr work without much expenditure ! of time. ! i Before long the bieyele will (‘umpel! § the improvenient of the country reoads, { and the farmer's wife instead of hav- | " ing to wait till her husband has time | | to hitch up and take her for a drive.! { will mount her wheel at any time and | f go off to visit her neighbor or to do an ; | errand in the next village; and will ge-tg | through her housework all the more | | easily afterwards. ‘ The price of bicycle is kept pretty | weill up by the ever enlarging demand, ! but the time must come before very | long when the supply will exceed the ~demand, and ? | fall, and | “almost every family will find some way of setting a wheel, | The Ql_l“:“;!-{ln}"fi(:f Tact, % . Tact is not dishonesty, writes Fran- | l ces E. Lanigan, in the Ladies’ Home | | Journal. It does not mean the su[)—% | pression of tlie truth nor the expres- | | sion of an untruth, but it does mean | | the withholding of gratuitous disa- | | ercements from arguments in \\'hi«-h! | they are quite superfluous; it also | imv:mx' the effort to induee an :1:..'1%‘0-‘ { ment kindly when possible, and if | an agreement is impossible it demands | ta gracious acceptance of opposing i { views. Tact cannot be said to be syn- | { onymous with policy; tact is '.xlw.‘iys‘ I honest and policy cannot invariably 'ho said to have that distinguishing { mark. % About Bargains. i | Ivery woman whose incomes reqilires ? ] her to pause and ask the price of what | she buys catches the bargain fever at some period of her life, but those who ‘h:\\'(- enough to live on in reasonable ' comfort recoter from it and thereartor i immune. The intelligent shopper soon | learns that the real bargains for per- | sons who seek really good articles are | in the main those things that are sold \ toward the end of the season to save the cost of storage, to make room for new goods, and to avoid the disaster | that attends a change of fashion. A | few of the shops that address :ihem- | selves almost exclusively to the rich | have bargains about which no great fuss 13 made. There is never a crowd

R ol in these shops, though their business may ageregate millions a year. Many of their sales are made in single larvge orders. Others are made through correspondence. They send salesmen with goods to the homes of rich women who &flnd it inconvenient to come out for their shopping. Many thousands of dollars’ worth of the costliest goods are sent out upon approval every day. The Dainty Picnic Girl, At dinner in the leafy woods * Her lemonade she sips, .And nibbles at the cake she holds Between her finger tips. Iler beau is there, and ere the rest Are half done eating, she Declares she has partaken of “A great sufficiency.” Put when she homeward goes f B She to the cupboard flies, {And pork and beans, with beef and gree ” . -t SRy 4 sty grabs with both her hands | To hunger overcomse, nd wags her jaws without a pause l ‘And says, “Yum, yom, yom, yum!” 1 4 Shrewd Business Wife. # Congressman Johnson of North Da- | ! nm has 2 wife who is of rare value to ! 3 Bim as a business manager. Mr. John- i son Is a farmer on an extensive scale | ' and during his sojonrns in Washington ! IMrs. Johnson assumes eniire control | of 1,800 acres under cultivition. In the | ispring of 18063 Mpr. Johnson invested | i heavily in hay lands. Before the hay i\vns ready to cut he was called t' { Washington by aun extra session of : | Congress. Ie tried to find a man who | z\\‘mllcl attend to his hay for him dur i {ing his absence, and, failing, allowed | ;his wife to assume charge of the big | i:!m_\' farm. The harvest cawe on, and | é‘.\lm, Johnson was in the fields bright . sand early in her top buggy, and, when | fi one field was cut, selecting another, and ‘ fth(-n another. All of the hay of the | iJnlmsnn farm was mown, and then i Mrs. Johnson leased hay tracts in the ;%vivlnity of Petersburg until the total | | ent amounted to almost 300 tons. Mr. |

o ——— 10 g 1 Johnson himself says that hie vever in ; his life had a crop looked after in a | more business-like way than the hay | erop of 1893, | o e SP—— - } False Hair Unfashionablie, i It is reported that the style of coif- | sure which will be the fashion among ' : ; ; | women this year is causing great de- | pression in the artificial hair xx‘;:«imi which in this country gives special em- | ployment to perhaps 2.000 or 2,040 | persons, and in France to about twice | that number. This seasen the hair is | to be worn much after the fashion of | our, grandmothers, flat and hiding the j eamd; but, instead of the old-time ring- | e deilhic coiffurc will be carefully wun- | Soeled. . Lhe effect, it is said, will bo | .- gng, but the style does not lend it« ¥ to the wearing of postiches, or chignons, of more or less prominence. Whenever there is a demand for these articles the workers in artificial hair, as distinet from the coiffeur, are very | busy and make a good deal of profit, , 3 I | L and, of course, should fashion be | | against them there is corresponding | depression. | ; 1 g Best Type of Beauty, 5 | - i ; e | | Of‘e\’d) . ’ | e | i R eAR Y i | el | R A "’% L~ | W e A 3 e %,‘ - o | | AL 2 (RGNS eé\ 2. | | e R N R eSN AN/, I Bt N 2 ni 5 ' % Eerniny . /‘: o gy 7 EE N R & AR . Giigaz . ler B l (7 e L N / ‘,‘/‘f,"/,l"’/r,f‘;' ’;';/V;Yé{f’l,';/ 7 J /:/j '-‘(\ 5 | P T i ) Bl b i v l b &gm/fi, il / b "h'(\?{"””‘.':';"";f"’:y ! Es « NENS oo e A ‘3\\3 \\ : I"y o B e : e N m Rt o -~ i o \.;fl P et === ) 7 Miss lEdith Giffin, selected as prizewinner by the committee of judges in the California beauty contest.

eA R A WA U 5 ST S PP ARt~ WO e ——et el —————— s o THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. | | INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE ' LESSON., Reflections of an Flevating Character —Wholesome Food for Thought— Studying the Scriptural Lesson Intelligently and Profitably, Lesson for August 4, Golden Text—The Lord is with us; fear ‘ them not.—Num. 14: 9, ‘ Subject: The leport of the Spies. Some one might have said, Is God dead? on that | sad day in Israel's history when she ' paused on the borders of the promised lland. It was always a land of promise, ! given by promise and to be conquered by | faith in the promise. When Israel nt‘ last entered the land it was distinetly by the way of the promise and as she conquered as Hebrews tells us by f:\ith."i Undoubtedly the Hebrew nation stumbled at the border. It is a dangerous placei there among the stakes; one must needs watch his feet and gaard well his ways. But Israel was heady, high-minded, un- ' 3 ntr el o e 1 has more than once subjected itself to by i its faithlessness and disobedience. God | help us to learn @ lesson from Israel this | day. . ‘ “Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan.” And it was but a spy-glass | glimpse that Moses got of it at the bvst.i Might he not have entered in? “See the land, what it is and whether it be good | or bad.” But why a new survey? God | had told them it was a land flowing with ! | milk and heney, a land kept in n'svrw% for Israel. Why not take God's word | ’ forit? | | “And bring of the fruit of the land.” | x']'hix' part of the injunction they «':lrrivdi jum. Grapes on their shoulders, but no | grace or grit in their hearts. As a pleas- { E ure excursion that trip was something of | i a success, but as a picket or skirmish line | ! that meant tight, it was a miserable f";xi!-g [ ure. ! ' “And they returned from searching us; { the land after forty days.” And it por-! I tonded just forty days of :Ifta-i'~\\':m-h-x'-i Lings in the wilderness. Forty days, It | }!:Lk:-a‘ some people a long while to Bet! !z'- ady to do a thing. They might have ! ; gotten to Jericho or to Ai with the con- | t quest by that time. Has God told you'! ! something to do? Go abont the doing of ] § it, Don't send spies. God's time is too ‘ valuable—and your hearts too treacher- | ous. z i Hints g1 Illastrations, : § Was the sending up of the spies necesI sary? Was it expedient? Was it right ? § Ask these questions. Discnss them. And fm get light on the subject turn over :”i { Dent. 1: 22, where Moses gives us a | i meaningly hint when he sayvs: “And ye | came unto mwe everr one of sou, and said, | | we will send men before us, and they shall | | search us out the land.” As if the Lord | | had not aiready given them word (1: '_'H:E I"lt hold the Lord thy God hath set the ! ! land befors theo: go up and possess it, as | tghe Tord God of thy fatbers hath said | Fanto th : fear not, neither be dis- | couraged.” HBn‘’ von say it was only a matier of military tactics, That it was forty vears later Joshng | gt the s Jericho, but bere it was timidity and doubt and questioning. Phare g quite a differen botween going 1 f oo o nd going up to see whether, In fact, Is at the very outset here re- | vealed b } st Nhe was l.;Yxx.; with God. That never pays. : i Did the Lord command that Moses ap- | point the spies? So-alzo did he command Samuel to anoint & King over Israel, but | it was only when Isrpel’'s mind was set ! { for it, and the answer of her persistent ! was given ss an ordeal and a re- | ! buke. Beware how we make insistence | { upon God. There are prayers which God | answers at times for chastening. It is al- | | tozether wisest to give God the lead. It | is a hazardous thing to seck to have your ! { own wayv., Some one has recently said: ) | “There is, perhaps, no way in which a | man may be more dead sure of utter ruin | | than to have his own way.” There is not | | o little significance in the fact that right | where it savs in Sacred Writ, *we h;:‘;fi‘g | turned every one to his own way,” there | i ndded: *“And the Lord hath laid on | ! him the iniquity of us all.” Itissin. That | | is the short way of spelling it; our own | | way is sin. And it is death, too. It meant é“\‘j[gfj"!\ as this to disobedient Israel, ; sent back to wander in the wilderness {till i their bones were- bleaching by the way. al¢ has never meant less since. *The | waces of sin is death,” and this is inter- ? nreted by “‘to be earnally (selfishiy) mind- & . e | ed is death.” | There wera two reports from the spies, | a majority and a minority report. These ‘ reports are stiil ‘ us f "u‘ | “*lWhat are your marching a2 . d } Wellington. Thus spoke tl "- ¢ A;;;:‘?» ll | Joshua spirit. But it is 1n the minority, | always so. Ten to two stands the pro[H»l"u;"!!! of unfaith to faith, or of timidity l to boldness, of worldly prudence to spirlituul trust. Carey brought in such a ! minority report once, likewise Judson. ‘ What if it had been declined! Israel lost forty vears by so doing. The church lost i IAI‘,-.)":‘ -I!:.“lx ‘4l'2.'!'. time listening to ma- | iority reports on foreign missions. It is | losing tim to-day. There is a ten spies’ T report warring for the ascendeney in ev- | ery church where aggressive work is | proposed, and in every §;;,»:.1"? where the ! eitadels of sin are to be overtiirown. Dt | God is with the minority here. Listen to the voice of Caleb and Joshua. . é “The counsel of the ungodly” is still i clamorous. It has on its side, in the lx‘;'.\:' { place, numbers, then the t‘\"r:!l'll~l|:':’l‘i?7"u‘i' | of events, then the natural reasonableness |of things. It is hard to contend with 2 worldly prudence. Its voice 1.\‘11;1-:{1"‘1 \t"l')' | | pronouncedly within the ('A‘!;i“l".’l. .1,:!1 the I work still stands, “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counse! of the un- . ! godly.” | o ; | Next Lesson—*The Brazen SL'X';H-ILI.”; | Num. 21: 4-9. i I Nazr Ullah Khan, the Afghan ameer’s | l son. is rather light of complexion for an | | Oriental. IHis face is not darker than | the Shah’s. Ile is rather a g(,-r;:mus; fizure in his uniform, with its gold-em- | broidered coat, blue sash and blue and ; black astrakhan caftan. Gold stripes got off his trousers, and he wears gold | spurs on his patent leather boots. t Dr. H. M. Field, of the New York Evangelist, has occupied the editorial chair fer forty years. |

OLASR OB ST DDA RIS St NOE BT HOOSIER HAPPENINGS e———— e e NEWS CF THE WEEX CONCISELY | CONDENSED. - What Our Nelghbors are Doing—Matters of Generanl and Local Interest—Jiiarriages and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes—Yere sonal Poluters About Indianians. Minor State News, | © A TELEPHONE rate war is on at Frank- | fort. ‘ MisHAWAKA is to have a new Christian i church. ' Jonx Hipr of Staunton, was killed by a Vandalia train. | JOuN STEVEN'S barn, near Martinsville, | was destroyed by lightnine. ‘ Miro Tnosas' hardware stere at Corunna is in ashes. Loss, $15,900. ) : BEx Laripus robbed four eclothing stores in daylight at Madison, and nearly escaped. Mapisox County is infested with robbers. Supposed to have headguarters near Eiwood. Tue twenty-first anniversary ofsttmmet—settlers and the scldiers reunion will be held at Quiney, Aug. 3. A pARrN belonging to Frank Owens, i seven niiles west of Monticello, was struck ! by lighting and destroyed. , Ture old settlers of Eaglestown will hold ‘their twenty-fifth annual meeting in the grove near that place on Aug. 10. i AT a picnic at Monroe City, recently, a i colored woman 111 years of age was given i the prize for being the oldest person on tie | grounds. i EvEry business house in Brazil eclosed | jts doors during the funeral of County i Clerk Wherle, who was accidentally shot . by Hon. G. A. Knight. ! Fraxx E. HALL, of the Standard oil t eompany, was murdered at Whiting, and ' his bedy placed on tiie B. &O. tracks. | He was robbed es his wateh and SSOO in i cash. g WhHt. M. Davis, near Franklin, swali Jowed carbelie z2eid for cough medicine j and will die. His brother, who made the mistake by handing him the acid, is crazed i with grief. ! DraTo came in a peeuliar manner to ¢ David Troyer of Peru. He was sitting on i the porch at his home, and his nephew, { Hiram, was trying a revolver in a shed. ¢ The weapon was fired and the ball passed | through the boards and entired Mr. Troy- | er's head. i IIWiLLIe Hoover, 7-year-old-son of A. i A. Hoover, principal of the Ohio side i schools at Union City, met with a painful i eceident recently. While playing around , Snooks’ tile factory he, in some manner, got caught in the ten-foot fly-wheel, cutting several large gashes in his head. ‘ Tur contraet of the Amazon Hosiery Company will expire at the Northern i Prison December 1, and the board has been { informed that the company will make | other arrangements. This will throw ! about 2% men out of work. Secretary i Hicknell, of the Board of State Charities, | belizves that the only remedy lies with the i Legislature. The next General Assembly, i he tiinks, will be compelled to solve the : probiem of furnishing ¢mpiloyment to the ! prisoners. ! Fine at Tyrone, destroyed the general store, saloon, billiard hall and liguor storage hou of James Ges, also two dwellings and an iechouse. lLoss, $25.000. { The whisky was stored in barrels in the second story and James Gee fook the ' bungs out of two barrels and lighted a mateh to inspeet them. They exploded { and caused the fire. Mr. Gee is so badly ! burned as to render his recovery uncertain. John Berry, his clerk, was seriously but i not fataily burned in rescuing Mr. Gree. f PaTexts have becn granted to Indiana | inventors as follows: Elias C. Atkins, i Indianapolis, and N. I. Roberts, PasaI dena. Cal.. rotary plow; Jchn T. and 8. i W. Colling, Kokomo, bank cuiter and ! seeder; John R. Etter, Crawfordsville, i eleetro-medical apparatus: Sebastian C. i Guthrie, Evanaville, dispensing case or i cabinet: Anton Ilulman, Terre Haute, | shutter fastener; James J. Keyes, Peru, ; basket: Britton PPoulson, Fort Wayne, road I grader; Rudolph 11. Ripking, Aurora, ex- ; tension table. { Tnz estimates of State Statistician | Thompson as to the wheat crop in Indiana ! are that his ante-harvest ficure of 20,- [ 000,000 bushels was not far from right. He ! thinks that one-fourth the crop will be i required for seed, and cne-hall coni sumption, which will leave only 5,000,000 i bushels for sale, as compared to 35,000,600 | bushels last vear. Fred P. Rush, authority i on the wheat crop, savs the yield in the P Qiate isnot more than 18,000,669 bushels, or i about 40 per cent. of the ayerage crop. He ! savs the wheat will grade 20 per cent. % A pozeN or more old soldiers of Clinton | County are making arrangements to attend : the ’ Lieat ('x".'i‘?;li’lAf",‘ 01l fll,‘ (,'lxi-('}{-amauga baitlefield, to be held Sept. 19 and .: and 20. Theyv propose to travel the entire i gistance with team and covered wagons | and will start on their journey the first day é of Angust, taking their time to i, hunting i and fishing on the way and having a good | time generaliy. Their outfit will be .“ claberately painted in the eolors of “Old I Glory,” with the names of the companies | and reciments in which each of the party ! sorved during the war, printed where it I ¢an be conveuiently read by comrades on { the way. | NparLy every day the Governor and | other state ofticers are besieged by conviets returned to Tndianapolis for release under ! the new law, and there are many pitiful scenes as the discharged men beg for food | and clothing, so that they may go out in {he world and make their own living. Fre- : quently they are sent home still wearing { the prison shirt with the prison number | stamvped on it and the poorest and shabbi- . est eiothing, and under such cirenmstanees ' they find every docr closed against them. i When released they are not provided with : money, and this adds to the forlornness of i the situation. The more the operations of ; the nesw law are noted the more generally ! is il condemned as an utterly heartless and [ a most wretched enaciment. Itseifeet will { be to drive men back into crime. | Davip Gapex, a well-known farmer i residing north of Thointown, dropped { dead at dinner, in O'Rear’s resfaurant. i His dinner had just been placed before i him, when he was noticed to lean snddenly i forward and when assistance reached him i he was bevond the power of medical skill. ! The deceased was a”Zed 48, vears and was ! unmarried. This death takes another | member from a family whose history is i closely interweven with that of Boone and i Montgomery counties. Zaechariah Gapen, i the father of the deceased, was one of the : pioneer settlers of Montgemery County. | Later, with his family, he removéd to | Thorntown