St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 2, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 August 1896 — Page 7

TOPICS FOR FARMERS A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Mints bya Practical Farmer on Stackius Hay—Small Fruits Properly Cultivated Are Profitable —How to Kill Caterpillars-General Farm Notes. How to Stack Hay. If hay must be exposed to the weather, then clearly it should be so stacked that the damage will be the least possible. To make a stack entirely of •clover is but io invite heavy damage. If a load or two of timothy is put on the top, the damage will probably be reduced one-half. Clover does not shed •rain well; timothy does. To put the stack directly on the ground, no matter of what grass or clover it is made,

is needlessly to incur damage. A foundation of old rails or poles can easily be made. B* careful that the foundation is solid. The greatest secret in making a good hay stack, or any other stack, is to keep the center full and high and well trampled down. Then when the stack settles, the outside will settle most and will soon droop, and rain will always be conducted to the outside of the stack. If the center is not kept high and well trampled down, it will be lower than toe outside when the stack has settled, for as the most weight is on the center, Ft will settle most; ami the water will be conduced toward the center of the stack and the hay will be spoiled. Another important point in building a good hay stack is to have the hay toward the outside of the stack lie parallel with linos drawn from the center to the outside of the stack, and not nt an angle to those lines, rhe bunches of hay put on the outside course of the stack should be nicely straightened, so they will lie as recommended. Yet another point is never drive a stake in the top of the stack to hold It ■down. The stake will pull the hay ■down that it is contact with, forming a basin at the top to receive the water and conduct it into the sack. The proper way to hold the top on is with light poles tied In pairs with pieces of binder twine or rope about two feet long and hung over the top of the stack. Care should be taken to have the poles composing each pair of very nearly the same weight, else the top will be pulled to one side. .John M. Stahl, in Country Gentleman.

Small Fruit for Farmer*, The reason that the average farmer would give for not growing berries is that he thinks it would not be profitable. It cannot bo doubted that lie is right upon th's point if h * should undertake to handle the business according to methods employed in the raising of his ordinary field crops. To raise berries of any kind successfully requires that intensive cultivation be asfopted. But because the farmer has long been in the habit of employing the rather loose methods that apply to general farm crops does not sig nify that he cannot make a good use of the more intensive methods suitable to these specialties. The farmer who has had no experience in intelligent garden making and in the growing of small fruits can have no adeqnat • notion concerning the value of well prepared seed-beds for such things to be gin with, and of frequent and clean cultivation later. These are the secrets at the bottom of sue ess with any and all kinds of berry-growing. Os course, there must be an intelligent selection of locality. The hills are particularly adapted to tlm growing of small fruits as offering protection from untimely frosts, outside this consideration It lies mostly with the Intelligent and experienced mind of man to control the conditions favorable to the growth of these fruits, and It has always seemed to us that the cultivation of a plot of ground set to berries would form an agreeable diversion from the general field work on th' farm.—Nebraska Farmer. To Kill Caterpillars. A better way to kill caterpillars than by rubbing by hand or by burning with kerosene is to use the following method: When the caterpillars first commence their web, as soon as it is visible take a pail with soft soap and make a strong suds. Have a pole of proper length to reach the nests, with a swab or sponge fastened to tiie small end. Go through the orchard, insert the swab in the pail and wipe off the nest. The suds is like fire to the worms and .good for the trees. This is a very easy way to kill the caterpillars.

Fowls in One Flock. Fifty or sixty fowls in a tlo< k are ■about as many as can be safely kept together in one flock. Shall we conclude, then, that fifty or sixty fowls are all. that one man can keep with profit? Not by any means. If he has room enough he can keep as many flocks as be can watch over, take good care of, protect against vermin and disease, supply with suitable food and afford sufficient space for good air and healthful exercise, .and especially for roosting without crowding. Hints About Horses. Tn cleaning them, if they will not stand the currycomb well, get a five or ten cent brush made of broom corn, used for scrubbing in the house; they are very stiff. If horses are troubled with the scratches, mix two parts lard and one part gunpowder thoroughly, and apply on the place affected; it is cheap and effective. So manage your stables as to save all the urine, as it is very valuable; have cement floors if possible. Do not feed too much hay, and avoid watering iuynediately after feeding a horse much of a dinner. If you have whole rye, you can feed a little, and save expense and trouble of grinding It, to young horses only.

Use good snaps on lines and side straps at least, and by so doing save time, which is money on a farm. Farmer* need to be cautioned about watering horses when heated. —Orange Judd Farmer. Tbe Mole. A writer says: “It is not probable that the mole eats vegetable matter in any form. I have kept numlx'rs of moles confined where they could not get any food except what I gave them. Vegetable food in all the various forms in which they are accused of eating

it was kept before them, and was also offered to and put In direct contact with them. Potatoes, bulbs, tender roots of various classes of plants, swift corn that had been sprouted, sweet corn toady to sprout and seeds of various kinds, and although ravenously hungry and dying of starvation they would not eat such food. 1 have starved them to death in these experiments.” Removing Unfruitful Tree.. There are In many orchard trees that

are from son*' cause unthrifty and therefore unprofitable. If alter due trial of better treatment the tree dees not respond, no time should be lost in removing it. not by cutting it dtwn. but by digging It out. This Is not so difficult as would be thought. The trunk and branches of the tree act as a lever, and with some cutting of the roots with an old ax the tree may bi pulled over by bitching a team to a chain connected with a branch as fur tip as the chain will reach. A little work with the ax at the roots will help the team very much, it is much easier to dig out a tree than a stump, and it is much bettor than cutting the tree down and leaving the stump in the way until it rots out Feeding Charcoal. Four turkeys were confined In a pen and fed on meal, boiled potatoes ami oats. Four others of tbe same brood were at the same time coniined In another pen and fed dally on the same nrtildes, but with one pint of very tine pulverized charcoal mixed with their food -mixed meal and Itoiled potatoes. They had also a plentiful supply of broken charcoal in the pen. The eight were killed the same day, and there was a difference of H-j pounds each In favor of the fowls which had been sup plied with charcoal, they being mm h the fattest, and the meat Ih’lur superior In point of tendonwss and flavor. ChrapCow Not Profitable. There is no d sad vantage in having a cow that is an "easy koqter;” that Is. one tlutt consumes comparatively a

small amount of fo<M|. a cow that Is to produce a large quantity of milk must rat enough to enable her to make the milk. She cannot produce zom* thing from nothing. A g<»»l cow must noco'.saiUy be a g'«>d fooler, and that Im one of tin* merits claimed for tho beat bn’i'b. Not only should a c<>w haven good appetite, but her food aZlould be of the Ixwt, so ns to derive a* tnueb from her as possible. Farm Note*. The Holstein Frlcsoin AawH'latlon of America offers a sp<*'!nl prize of 8123, op'ii to registered Holstein Fraieian only, at the New York State Fair, tho milk and butter test to be comi j -ted on the fair grounds. The good farmer is prov<*l b* the steady appH'dation <>f L * crop* Any one may reap an amph* hnrvst from a ferlih' virgin anil; the good furmer alone grows good crop* at til's' and !*••• ter ami better ever afterward. Black cap rasnberr ■ * :i: -' pn.pa *a 1 . 4 by buying the tips, which take r—cs ami become the young plants for the u xt planting. After lliey ara r'-c I t \v art' then separate 1 from the p:i:ont vine by cutting Rui raspberries are t rq> i gate*! by the old plants sending up new ones from the roots. Wool will keep In the best condition when stored In a some w ha t da nip plr *'. says the American Sheep r.re*sb’i The best place’s a dry subcellar half aN ve the ground, ami that may be well alnNi. When to"* dry. wind Is hard to the f'el and brittle ami loses its natural seftncs* and curl. The rail fence, w ith Its numerous corners and large space occupied, may be apparently cheaper than one of win', but when the saving of land and destruction of weed.* Is considered the wire fence is much cheaper. T’to weeds that frequently overrun a farm are propagated ou the spaces taken up by the rail fence. Dairying lias never N*'n ovenlone. There is a large amount of poor butter and cheese marketed, but the dalrynlhn who sends only choice articles to market and Increases his product by the

n »,-> o f cows that arc capable of giving good results will alw iys have a pi UU no matter how many others are la tho business. Hogs will make a very fair gr< wth with goc*l clover pasture, but will gain much mere rapidly if they can hive, in addition, all the slops they can oat Middlings ami milk niak" one of the cheapest and best feeds for growing pigs, and they can be given all they can eat twice a day with profit. If rats Infest the barn fill a tight barrel half full of rye and other grain, and give them a treat for a fortnight, placing a board against the barrel for easy access. Some night substitute water for the grain, leaving enough of the latter on top to deceive, and the results may as mish you. Moreover, the rats

will leave that barn tor months. When the eager, hungry flies torment the cow and make her restless at milking time, do not vent epithets against the animal, nor punch her with a stool, but take with you to the yard or stable a thin sheet to cover her back, and a sponge dipped into an effusion of tansy or wormwood in water, or moistened with kerosene oil, and rub it over the cow's legs. She will evince her gratitude In an unmistakable way, and the pall will be the gainer.

CONTROL OF THE ORINOCO. Punta Barlina Important but Not a Vital Point. To comprehend fully what the con trol of a vast waterway treading the richest part of Guiana would mean to America and American interests, one must study carefully the map of South America. Geographers divide the southern continent into three great basins, those of the Amazon, the Orinoco, ami the Plata. To dominate the mouth of any one of these grea r ar torii'S of commerce would be to become the master of one-third of South Aiiwi lea. The Orinoco is navigable for vessels of the deepest draft to Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela’s eastern metropolis. Within this distance of four hundred miles, twenty other navigable rivers swell the mighty current of tlie Orinoco, wlille still farther into the interior. the eastern bank recotv-s the

waters of ninety-one large rivers, and the west those of’ thirty. Two of the former are navigable to the affluents of the Amazon, and many of the latter to the remote Interior of.the neighboring republics of Venezuela and Colombia. If she wore to gain control of the Orinoco, England would possess the key to the entire eastern part of South, America. This view has been ad = vancod by ex-President Guzman Blanco in n recent publication. He attaches to the possession of Punta Barlina the ability to dominate the Orinoco Mid the entire water system which empties Into it. Punta Harima Is on the southeastern bank of the OrlnoiNt nt Its Juneture with the sea, and Is di h.tllhhl as a high bluff which, when properly fortlib'd, would control this entrance, the most navigable of all the mouths of the Orinoco. It would not lie under water luring the perh*l o’Y Inundation, and win* a dockyard and three or four Tiver RunJmnts, Its master might h'k up the Orinoco and ill that vast tributary country. <hi the other hand, the countervlew s advanced, ami should be stated, that the position <>f Punta Harima would enable the English to dominate only one pass by me-iu* of guns placed on fortifications on whore, since at least two of the other mouths of the Orinoco can be entered by ws sols from the wen. The In-si Uno of communication to day betw-en Trinidad and t sudad Bolivar In by a side wheel steamer, built Hl the I tilted Slates übh II JMW* through a mouth of the Orinoco far to the wes' of Punta Harima, on the Kar of wldch there Is at h ast right feet of water. It therefore tray I*- ergn-4 that fortification* at Punta Harin a <suild pot clour the OrhusM, the con trol of which would <b p> n<l upon v* *• wk of war. England' stnugh ns a ■o-1 power, w ith Trtnhlnd a* a baw, give* her nil net vinery control of th" river to Iny. If British Guiana ahonhl d<-v< lop Into a great nation, < IMming and owning one hank of the i»rlnc*o. great nwportance; but Hit* i* a row • g i. j hardly h.l <! er |. «Uq zm'ht. M:n* with le r -up",natui ; wilmntngew. who must inevitably keep' th 'b ad t ontury. V l>, « That Mon n train “It 1- the little tb.ngw in traveling that make* It Hit nb- d Pro*. Gr-g ry Amatm of Petti..nd. Ora, a! the S i »rrham. Prof Xma'in * con ne. :ed with the SMtc Vn . ty of Orgun, and * now starting abroad «»u h * annual excur* <>n. I mean tea' a jeTsou cna get as much mt 1 ' om■ nt. au-l po"|ldy mon* inetruethm out of tbe lit tie Im tdeuts i." <" ’..mit-T* I a route than !.<• ion from the ■."qu ivl .u• strucfmvu built by man or the handiwork of mecr. 1 have made • .. tr- a. " •* tinent several time*. It alwaj* hap p.-m-d tluit I went through Rurl.ugtiMi. h-wa. Th tra u 'top* t-*r a h inge of v.g.n - in a suburb w<-M of th. city The last time 1 went •hr-.ugh there on • of the ported from th- d.nmg ar got ofi and arr.ed a plate of food b» a -mad yelbca d<>g 'hat vvm’rd out at one ~d * of t tm.k. When I siw it I ramem berad that th * p«wter had d-ne the very "-ame tang the hist time I bad been over the route. •• rhe engine hell rang, the porter gave the dog a pat on the head an I ran an I caught the already mov ;ng train, and

■he canine wagged him a farewell. A ■ hurt time later the porter told me .bout the dog. He -.id about tbre' vears before tho d ‘g bad had his l-'g broken by his train. The men pity vn him ami nursel him. tak ng him along in the cars fur a few day •. When the leg began to Iwai be was again left at the same station where we saw him. "Tiie p<irier’s car came along cverv dnv at that tb ■• and 'I 'b dav th* d<^*t wax* sav< I for it. By and by the train - >j>ped there only four times a week, f -r it had become u through train. The , little yellow <1 m soon learned of the •hang*’. He would nvariably b at tho station when that parts ular train ar ' rived, though one could be found ; | ’hat ever saw liijn there at any other i time. Another '’uui-ra thing was that l.e would never approach nearer the car . tracks than the little grass plot on j which I saw him. and that was two _ rods from them. He never missed tho train. If it was late he would wait for r it, but ho was never late himself.” . g ashington Times.

An Oriental Kite. Only those who have studied Byzantine history can have any idea of how closely the ceremonial of the Mos<-ow coronation resembles, even in its minutest details, that which used to be observed at tne coronation of the Byzantine emperors. Although the Russian Church did not separate from that of Rome until the twelfth cerftury-Rbat is, nearly 400 years later than the schism of I’hotlus, which rent the Western and Eastern churches asunder nevertheless it retained its oriental rite. In 1184 a Russian commission arrived

n Byzantium to study tbe etlqustta ?X C TTi° nial ' eecle sla-tlc a i and proonnltH ‘'A 0 " 11 and chureh that eo ntrv n retU ™ tO thelr native the u h ’J I'®®* 1 '®®* ehnn « e tO( >k place in h national costume, architecture and sacrcd^H*' Who,l Mosc ow became the Iri hJ J"- Pai ‘ of the emsame n, Rremli “ wns r *bullt on the on tIJ i T the Blatl ^™ae Palace, I ike its i WallS ° r Consta ntlnople. Kories of h r u m ? dpl U <>f a as the -r J ” an<l apartments—kiosks, w ’'“k^togeth: 41 nr ? 8 ’ anU ‘"^rsP^-Ht'd with the Whr i * ,ur, ‘ ,l ° B and monasteries, tenHl b L SUrr ^^ by a wa ” aud which w- l,>ng 3 fortlUe d gates, above Saint* IT 1< T 8 ° f th ” Vlr «’ U <urv it I-. >'* <IOWU ear,y ln th<> eenchlteeiiir i’“ U n ‘ bullt 1,1 Plainer arP>»n. It appears that Harold Frederic Is the author of the novel. "March Hates,” which recently appeared anonymously London. Uatulle Mendes has written a new volume which he calls "L’llomtne-Or-chestre.” The work Is said to bo as whimsical as the title, which is saying a goo.l deal. Illeliard I.e GalHonne’s "Search for the G<l b n Girl” Is pronounced by those who have seen the proofsheets to be by far his best work. The British sea stories by Crockett, Parker, I nderic. yuilh’r-Couch, and Clark Kus-ell, which api'-ared in the Idler, are to be published In the autumn under the title. "Tales of Our Coast." Mr. Barrie has ice- 1-d to an invitaI tlon from his American publishers and will visit tlds country In the autumn, I aeeomjKinh'd by Dr. ll -b. 's .n Xl.-011, the editor of the European edition of I the B'x.kman. In the Metaphysical Magazine for I July Prof. Elmer Gates, formerly of I the Smithsonian Institution, announces I for the first time the results of his exl toned psyeholog . al experlmen's and | ri'# r.rahe*. I The Bookman is authority for the annoumoment that < »| ’laml A Pay I 5 vx ill d!s« onthiue the A inert, an edition of the London Yellow Book, as its i*>p . Ular VogU- seems tn have di'e’dnod | «in< e Aubrey It ir Isley |.-ft it for th.* ‘ B<>und in Shallows.” Eva W Ibr | Bro.ltend's m w serial. l< a Kentucky | story whl< h attempt* ngaln the soln > tlon of that mooHM eonnndnttu, Should a girl marry a man Gun sue • may reform himT" Jnakoff Pralooke- !* engaged upon an | Anglo Rue an rm .am - to bo ■ all-d Palas m and M o’ni.” w In. h narrate* j th.- fortunes of two Hussir-u sistera. j^aughtors <»f lM»«cnterw, hitnslv.elng I T 1 is i e .n ' I n !i .. I. oi's I V <*f - s u ■ ■*. yi'-s irm- | «tr-ng « at-*1 •’• •• ut *'-im’e« " | |*.<vv es him fps* t»» »|et .de all bls eiwr gh-W to the poems with old h he hopes I I |.. t btr.. t E !• • . . A n « *'or> by i I i ill Is en I titled How the • uidr u I:. —d the ' W Ind and • ■ ■.■.. r • -.e d -^u. re ' pr<"hu ■ ! ■ ■ - r. 1. k: in. !» ' the work Os I t.tl Med young arils'. Ms. J?1 I B 1! Ap; 1 ■ added to Lcto:um s;.. ff o I', ■ opyng ' | ,-s ill the List W . k , Prof. Z.-ila : All.-n Hixon. I ? : *r; i i of ti;e I nhersj trtbinion to btbln ,- u-liy in I will app. ar among ti e fall publ! i: . - J The I^ndon Lib rary Wort I say * । i that a v< ry imisutnut and lueradve , literary position was r.-evntly offered to Eduard W. Bok. one d.-tad of th.- offer . | being n ten year lea, of a mansion in I ' Gr .-vehor Squar -. Mr. Bok was much j dined and wlm d in his recent London ,1 sojourn, and .nice lie daneed with n । [ real live I >ueh< .-s.

The Sen Gull Is a Benefactor. IJC sea gull s do'.lbb. .r b"ncfa< *>l of man. It le’ mly f.4io-.\s th., plow ton farm' hear rhe .-oast., in order tc eat tie’ freshly 'timed _ nibs, but it seotirs the surfa •• <>f ■ • ^-a mar tin shore, ami fnsjtients harlxH's to sciza on floating garbage, d> n d tish, or utk. i putrefying morse’s. The service of the.- ■ birds have >av- 1 many a v.ipofl town and village, v u .1 v dh they hover, num plague and pestilence. Yet every year they are massacred by thousands for idle and cowardly sport or for the sake of their wings to be used in millinery. Their eggs are pint dered wholesale for museums and w liil the shop windows of naturalists One man boasted a y *: ago that 1: bad killed I.mo kittiwak” gulls in a single season with h's own gun, an! an order was given and xeented from one London house for 10.0. n pairs ol wings. At this rate gulls must soot: disappear altogether. The carrion crow, the raven and oth frs which follow their example, more or less, confer an immense boon or mankind. Sparrows dear the gutters acd places which they inhabit from a vast quantity of scattered fragments Though too small to be seen, these un savorv morsels would soon become dan gerous to human life ami health.--Spare Moments. Antiquity of the Hornpipe. The dance called hornpipe dates as far back as 1,300, and took its name from the Instrument, the pib-corn, te the music of which it was danced. Every one who lias a dead open and shut in anything will stub his toe be fore he gets through.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CALM REFLECTION, A Pleasant,lnteresting, and Instructive Lesson, and Where It May Be Found—A Learned and Concise Review of the Same. Lessnn for Anunst 2. Golden Text.—"Be kindly affecUoned one to another with brotherly love.”— Hom. 12: 10. David’s kindness is the subject of the lesson, found in 2 Sain., 9: 1-13. Chapter 8 contains a summary of the chief wars of the first* part of David’s reign, which made him master of a territory several times as large as the original home of the nation. He brought und.‘r his sway the Philistines, the Moabites, the Syrians and the Edomites. The two latter nations were in later times among the foremost enemies of Israel. Having establislu*d his empire over this great stretch of land, extending iM'rhaps to the Euphrates on the north, David had time to think once more nlsmt domestic affairs, lie tisik the opi>ortunity to do a very graceful <l<mml to t lie crippl.'d son of his friend Joi'athnn. t*u*uc«tlon<« for Study. 1. Head chapter eighth. 2. Ihe story of the h'Hson is simple and tun'd* little comment here. It is omitti'd from Chronicles, doubtless because it does not concern the religious history of

David's reign. Lesson Outline. 1. David seeks out Mephiboshetb. vs. LA. 2. Mephibosheth’s future provided for. vs G-13. Lx planatory. 1. The time of this incident is not definitely fixed. It must have been a number of years after the beginning of David’s reign, ts'cause Mephiboshcth was only 5 years old at the death of Jonathan, and at the time of the lesson he is grown and has a young son.- "Is there yet any that I- left;’’ it is not surprising that David was not Acqtiamb-d with the history ot the lame boy who bad been living iu seclusion for eight or nine years since the death of hi* un.-le Ishbosheth. “For Jonathan’s sake;” not only because of the friendship but also in accordance with the covenant rala^s! in 1. Sani. 20:1417. 42. 3. "The k:ndn>*s >f God;” see I. Sam. 2»•: 14. S -.eh kindness as God shows to men. "I.uro en his feet;" si*' the account of the cause ■ f his lameness. I: 4. I "Mnchir;” he was among the prominent n on 'he' welcomed Divid nt Mahnn nm. n his Hight f: >m A’ s.ihun. 17: 27 29. <’> "Fell on his face and del reverence;** t >■ :.-'er«'v hng. perhaps, with what intent hr had been sent for. 7. X the li . l >f Saul thy father;" Sani's .■-•ate at Gib nh had l»een forfeit’d ' ■ Di. d nt h » ne-es^ion, 12: S. “Fa'her" t* here us *1 for grandfather. ' "A d. ad d 'g." a term of greater confempt in the on'l than w ith ns. 'J It M-ems from this verso proliaWe , that '/.b i ha ! been acting ns steward or ; - >' the e*' re. He is now iu- ! • truoted ' • turn over the revenues to I Meyhibo* ..*’b. b> "Sbah cat brand ninny nt my ta- I ; t ie." a mark of distinguish**! honor. | lr.ivhltl'4 K ill *•. ’ ' . •. < . ■ ■ s' on c ■ uas no | ■ p.c • ■ e :r ve f-r •. * kc. I -t net >f po 1 !» w >,s - kindness toward • e». :. . f !. , friend. C -Mras! this w ith re ■ ' : r of - :rv;v g tin :u1 . ' . .tl .. o;*e ui :i:ie*-nt tunes, e g J. : A . i r of the family of \ J Du d went out ..f his way to do a k :>d 1? < • 0 a n.’ ’ s the things that Le right ;n •ur pa'h that need most to be due S ic. !:ii:> sw ■ nu:-: look round and ’ !:: d " wb I' WO. in do ; .»r others. Such ' I t:. . ight fulness in be cultivated. 3. Du ;-! . .v how- >C)a R 1 xi thing in : e ■ . -t way II • did not spoil the k .1 .-t y i ■ ; seemling demeanor. ; A 'es*- a in ■ ■ rb -y. I H.w stna>'. i tie: c t was after nil, .n ■ । ■ i -.n w < ! i • L>vo f <I >d in •ending L s .n to d< !ivcr men. There was n<i . »v.mint te- re which obliged him to - ' Hi—r y > the undeserving. Yet : e » nds f r t on • Hid w re’ohcd of ; earth ami brings them into his bousehold. Made for Love. The lu nrt was made for love —to love and be loved. It s according to the fitness of things that it should be the depo- tory of Go I s love "slied abroad in 1 our hearts by the lb ly Giuist given unto u«.” it is Its natural action to "love Him because He first loved us.” It Is j . K.f of the highest md purest wisdom i 'o make love the ■ thteal rule of Chrls- , tian uiduct to God and man. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all t thy heart.” "IL' that loveth not his , brother abideth in death." The Kingdom of God on Earth. : Seeking first the kingdom of God and His riglitisutsness, we then first know 1 the bountiful goodness with which tho Heavenly l ather nils the world and provides for the wants of His children. ' Laying up treasure in heaven, we find ’ that heaven and earth are one. and that e the Heavenly Father is in them both, and provides happiness for His children in both upon the condition that tho Lord and hoav m be loved first, and the world be loved for their sakeis.— Kev. John \\'or< < s'er. Trust in Him, 1 Would you trust your life to a : stranger whom you have never tried? How can you have faith to calmly commit your soul to God. it an angel of e death should visit you to-night, if you have not trusted Him day. by day? • Cast all your cares uixm Him, for He 1 careth for you. God’s Plants. We are as yet only the roots of a . future beautiful plant. The best man or woman is only a shoot a little way out of the ground. We are God’s plants, God’s flowers. Be sure that He will ? help us to unfold into some thing se^ 2 renely fair, nobly perfect, if not in this : life, then In another. If He teaches us nol to be satisfied till we have finished , our work. He will not be satisfied until He has finished His.—James Freeman Clarke.

INDIANA INCIDENTS. RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Grant County Farmers Will Force Toll Gates and Fight in Court—Two Tramps Force Boys Into a Life of Beusary and Crime. Farmers Fight Toll Roads. The farmers of Grant County are id open rebellion against toll roads, and at a meeting 120 of the most prominent entered into a league to ignore tollgate keepers and tight the payment of tolls to the bitter end. Under a system adopted by the County Commissioners the county bought a number of gravel roads, built others and was to open them to the public, the people being taxed to pay for them. As all or nearly all of the roads lead into Kokomo, it was supposed that that city would receive the benefit, but no protest was made by the farmers and the roads passed into the possession of the county. । Ihe cost of keeping them up to the standard of toll roads proved a heavy one, anil • the commissioners concluded to establish i tollgates and make the people pay toll. 1 hss raised the ire of the farmers along the Barnersville road and they entered into a solemn league and covenant to rej slat payment, to foree the gates open if j passage was refused and defend themselves in person and in the courts, if necj essa ry.

B >ys Abducted from Home. While rounding up a gang of tramps suppose! to have had a hand in the robbery of Zeitnor's hardware store at South Bend, the police ran across ten men aceotupanied by two boys, aged 12 and 13 years. They said they were the sons of poor parents and had luim abducted by Bennett and Stephens and compelled to accompany them on begging tours around the country. When tin* two men were .searched st> was found upon Bennett’s l>ers >n and 527 upon Stephens'. The boys said the men had about ^3llO secreted on their persons. Chief Cassidy compelled Bennett to take off a wooden leg he wore. In it was found a compartment containing a letter Imx. and in this was .5335. Chief Cnssidy will write to the boys’ parents and endeavor to secure the money for them, as they earne*! it by begging. The “Ghost’’ Given Forty Lashes. Tin- ghost which has been creating a sensation in Benton township. Elkhart County, was captured by a crowd of farmers and proved to be an unknown tramp. It was finally deeidixl to administer forty lashes, and four men provided themselves with long hickory switches and the tramp's back was bared to his waist. The blows were administered and the man was released and left with his back bleeding from every stroke. AU Over tbe State. Alex Anderson, of Petersburg, was shot and killed near Elizabethtown, Ky., by tho marshal of the place, who suspected him <>f horse stealing. X ir Lowell, Lutter Bartley, a young farm hand in the employ of I'eter Miller, r >bb> I his employer erf s-TTi*'ami made _• 1 :iis <—■ ape. Bartley arrived recently j fr itu I’pper Sandusky. 0.. and he is a I nephew of Mayor Ingard of that city. J. W. Xlerchant and family, consisting j of ti\e htsoiis. were poisom-d at Frankj fort bye .;i:ig "sclunierkaese." Ada, the 1" y. ar old daughter, died in terrible agony, but the remainder of the family, while dangerously sick, will probably reL’>n Dale, who was to have made a balloon ascension and parachute leap at the Russiaville bicycle rms's. fell from a tree wiu re he was fastening the guy ropes. I’he injury is fatal. Dale’s back being . !oke;i in the fall. He is 20 years yl 1 ami this was his first attempt to make an ascension. Farmer Burkhart, of Kokomo, lias a sagacious hen. II >gs robls*d its nest in the orchard. It continued to lay eggs and cackle, but the nest could not be found. Finally Mr. Burkhart set a watch on the wary fowl, and was surprised to see it tly up into the top of a tali tree. There, in the forks of the topmost branches, was found a nest containing sixteen eggs. This is the only ease known of a domestic fowl making a nest in a tree. A portion of I'ort Wayne was submerged Wednesday by the waters of a floo 1 ut Shawnee Run, a creek which run? through the southern part ot the town. T he cause of the flood was a deluge of rain which j otind down from midnight until alm -t noon. Many of the houses along the sid< s of Shawnee Run w?re comph'tely surrounded by water, and the people moved out of them in boats. Abcni I "imi cellars were tilled with water and in i some cases the foundation walls were weikoiied. allowing the buildings to sag. i There was good boating on many of the I streets. The sun came out hot after the rain and ruined thousands of acres '-t thrifty corn in that vicinity. The St. Mary’s, St. Joseph, and Maumee rivers are out of their banks and tilled with drift wh id. A terrible tragedy occurred in Floyd Con! -y Monday morning, in Greenville township. Edward Miller, a well-to-do farmer, educated and greatly respected, as were all his family, became angry at his wife over some domestic misunderstanding. Both he and his wife were high lempei'ed. and in his anger he went out of the house, procured a heavy club, and, ' re'nrnirg to the house, struck his wife a terrible blow, knocking her senseless on the floor. He then lifted her to a chair, and. ordering his little son of 12 years from the house, took down his Winchester rifle and shot his wife through the back of the head, the ball coming out at her mouth and dropping into her lap. Miller then left the house, taking his Winchester with him. and. going into tho woods about a quarter of a mile from home, took the shoe from his right foot, placed the gun Isetween his eyes, and discharged it with his foot, literally tearing off the top of his head, dying instantly. Excitement is running high over the discovery of a largo snake of unknown species on a farm near Waterloo. About two years ago a mammoth snake was seen in that vicinity and it is believed to be the same one. H. D. Smith, a Rockville coal dealer, killed himself with a revolver, the ball passing entirely through his head. Mr. Smith was once a wealthy coal operator in (’lay County, and later a res-dent of Terre Haute. He was about 79 years old. Suffering induced by an attack 0 * grip is assigned as the cause of the suicide.