St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 4, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 August 1896 — Page 7

THE FARM AND HOME MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Creameries Do Not Make So Large a Proportion of the Blitter' l-se<l as Many Suppose—One Reason Why Wheat Is Cheap—Farm Notes-

Farm and Factory Battcw*. The idea is generally prevalent that the amount of butter which has of late years beeu made by individual dairymeu was insignificant as compared with the output of creameries and butter factories, but figures given in "Statistics of the Dairy.” by Henry E. Alvord, chief of the dairy division, shows this belief to have had no foundation in fact, up to 1890. While the increase in population from 1850 to 1890 was about 1.0 per cent., the production of butter lor the* census year of 1890 exceeded that of 1850 by 284 per cent. This increase was not uniform with either population or butter production, but quite the contrary, as may be seen by the following figures: BETTER. ■ Ter cent. Increase from 1.850 to IS'JO 4(».70 Increase from 186 • to 1870 U.S > Increase from 1870 to 18.80 56.85 Increase from 1880 to 1890 49.40 I’ol'l LATION. Per cent. Increase from 1850 to 1-860 3o.;>s Increase from 1860 to 18<0 Increase from 1870 to IBS'* 30.08 Increase fr m 1880 to 1-890 24.85 Emanating from some other sources the figures given by Mr. Alvord might reasonably be subject to doubt, but Mr. Alvord is not one who would knowingly send forth false Information nor base an oflleial statement on mere guesswork, and being in a position to know whereof he speaks, his figures may be relied upon as correctly representing the situation. But it will be a genuine surprise to nearly all who have given th- matter a thought to learn that So per cent, of all butter produced in this country was, as late as IS9O, made on the farm. Here is what he has to say on the subject: “The most noteworthy fact in connection with tin- production of butter on farms is that, noth withstanding the great extension of the cremKuw system and the decline in the amount of butter annually exported, such production iijs increased even more rapidly than population. To go back to the census of 1850, it is found that the total production of butter on farms in 1.849 was 313,345.366 pounds, or 13.51 pounds per capita of population. In 1860 the amount reported was 459,081,372 pounds, or 14.62 pounds per capita. In 1870 the amount reported was 514.062.653 pounds, which gave an average of only 13.33 pounds for each Inhabitant. Up to this time there had been no creamery butter repotted, Iwtf Tn lßßo the production of farm butter averaged 15.50 pounds for each inhabitant, and that of creamery but ter 0.5-8 pounds fw each Inhabitant, the total.average being thus 16.08 pounds." At uie eleventh census, however, the production of butter ou farms alone averaged 16.33 pounds per capita of the population, and such had beeu the Increase that the total production of butter averaged no less than 19.24 pounds per unit of the population.” As no creamery butter was reported until 1880, when only a little more than one-third of 1 per cent. (.036, to be exact) was thus produced, it follows that of the 15 per cent, shown by the eleventh census, nearly all was gained during ten years. There is no doubt that the ratio of gain has beeu much greater of late.—New York Times. Dryinz Wheat for Seed. There is often an injury to winter wheat seed from heating after the grain is gathered, which is always done in hot weather. If the straw and grain are slightly damp when put in the mow or stack, it wiil almost surely heat. This heating may uot be injurious in itself, but it leaves the grain damper than before, and it only dries out when cold weather comes. So it often happens that when winter wheat of the present year’s crop Is used as seed, it often is sown when very nearly as damp as it was when garnered. Such wheat germinates slowly. It is already expanded with moisture, and so does not swell in the soil as it should. For this reason many old farmers who grow winter wheat prefer wheat a year old for seed. It is, however, no better than if as good as this year’s wheat, which has been thoroughly dried and if possible without any heating in its jinoist state. Put the seed vCheat in | bundle on scaffolds where it will dry, i spreading so that it will not heat. Then thresh it out with the flail and put it In a fruit evaporator for twenty-four hours. By that time the grain will seem much less plump than new wheat ought to be, but it is all the better seed for that. Why Horses Slobber, A correspondent of the Amer'can Cultivator expresses the belief that the reason why the second growth of clover makes horses slobber is becau-'o of its seeds. Clover seed at present and prospective prices is altogether too dear feed to be given horses, even the most valuable. But, says the Cultivator, w? think our correspondent mistakes in ascribing the slobbering to the clover seed. Neither do we think it is the second growth of the clover itself. Many

— V*. V— V • -- years ago we made an investigation, and found that the slobbering only occurred where the lobelia plant, often cal ted Indian tbbacco, was found mixed with the clover. This lobelia Is, as every farmer knows, a most powerful emetic. Even on land where it is abundant. it does not get large enough to go into the first crop of hay. But after the first and heavy clover crop is removed

the lobelia makes a very rapid growth, and its blue flowers are often very plentiful where clover is grown ou low, moist ground. The Tassel of Corn. The flower of the corn plant Is dlvlded into two portions, the tassel, or male section, which furnishes the po 1eu, and the silk, which is the female portion of the flower, which receives it. Each thread of silk carries some of the pollen to the ear, ami there a grain « f corn is formed. The prolusion ... . t. .i. nr

of silk is so great that the grains or corn are compacted on the ear as closely as possible. When this is not the fact It is more likely due to the drying up of the tassel, so that not enough pollen is formed to fertilize all the silk. If there Is either a very dry or very wet time when the tassel should be dis-

tributing pollen, these defective eats will be plenty. Heavy rains in one case wash the pollen off. and the dry weather causes the tassel to shrivel and become worthless. The blossoming is exhaustive. If the season Is Just right one-quarter of the tassels produced would make a full crop of welldeveloped ears. But as In every crop there are more or less defective ears, it is unsafe to cut them out. The suckers usually tassel later, and for this reason they often Increase the corn crop on the main stalk after the earlier tassels have dried up. Egus and Young Chickens. In the twenty-one days that it takes to turn a perfectly fresh fertile egg into a chick, there is more profit In proportion to the capital invested than in any other farm operation. So the old lady was not so far out of the way when she said she- would not sell eggs under a shilling a dozen, or a cent each, because It didn’t pay for the hen’s time. If an egg is worth one cent, a lively young chick, newly hatched. Is worth at least six cents, if not ten. Six hundred to I,<mh> per cent, profit In twenty-one days’ time is not to be sneezed at. There is another side to this, of course, when sickness or something else thins off the young chicks, and (heir dead little bodies are not worth even the cent that the egg costs from which they nen* hatched, it Is by looking on all sides that conservative farmers usually called rather slow ; are ^aved from enthusiasm in the egg and poultry business that have deceived and disappointed many who have gone in without experience and have come out wi.h more experience, , than they wanted. Growing Melons. It is natural at planting time to put some composted stable manure In melon hills. The soil Is then rather dann> and too cool for the melons. The manure dries am! warms it, which gives the seed an earlier start than , It could get without the Mjanfire. But ; shout this time the man w ho ims me!- ’ ons With manure Wk the hill wishes he ' bad not put any there. No matter hew well composted the manure, it will not hold its moisture into midsummer heats. The best way to water these melon hills is to make deep holes down below the manure hLthe hills, and then slowly fill ana refill tnein with water until the ground is well saturated. ; Then if the holes are tilled with loose soil, nnd the surface is kept mellow to . prevent evaporation, the melons will hot suffer for lack of moisture in even the dryest times. Substitute* for Wheat, Possibly one of the reasons for the low prices of wheat the past few years Is that so many substitutes have been found for it ns human food. We still j use a great deal of wheat, but in cities especially wheaten bread is bss the staff of life that it used to bo. The use of oat meal has increased, and l t daily , forms part of the nutritive ration, and ' very good nutrition it Is, too. We use far more fruit than formerly, and also ■ more potatoes. The latter are not so good in nutrition as wheat, and for this reason their increased use is not i for our advantage in health nnd J strength. Like all other starey foods, , potatoes are difficult to digest, and should only be eaten in moderation, except by those whose digestion is strong. . Facts for the Farmer. To help the early lambs, the ewes i should have a libera! meal of oatmeal j gruel, a little warm, every morning, as soon as the lamb is born. The feet of foals very seldom re- J ceive the care and the frequent in- i speetion so necessary to their future ' protection of form and soundness. I Horses' feet from this cause alone fre- > quently become defective and un- j healthy. Ignorance and carelessness .-ire. perhaps, equally to blatne. It Is the bustness of the farmer tn ! ascertain if he has any stock that It i does not pay to keep. It is suicidal ; business policy to be feeding and she!- j tering stock that do not pay for their j keep. A correspondent of an exchange sug- j gests to prevent apple trees from I splitting where they grow In forks, takj Inga sprout that is growing in one . ’ branch and grafting it on the other. . The branch will grow with the tree . and become a strong brace. > A difference of a very few days - makes a great difference in all kinds r of crops some seasons. Clover sown t just before a beating rain would belt come imbeded in the soil, and would a grow better and stand more dry r weather than if sown immediately

after the rain. Owing to the location of some stables, it is impossible to get much sunlight in them; but in the greater number of barns, where the cows stand in a row next to the side, it would be an easy matter to put in a few windows. One window for every two cows should be the rule, and they may be swung open to throw the manure out of them, if necessary. If the sun can s^ine di- ' rectly on the cows, so much the better.

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LADY BEATRICE BUTLER. Lady Beatrice francis Elizabeth Bull r Is not only one of the most beautiful girls in Great Britain, but in the matter of ancestors she can make pretty nearly any boast she likes and back it up with the records in Burke’s peerage. Lady Beatrice is just passing out of her teens. She was born on March 26, 1576. Her father is Marquis of Ormonde, Enrl of Ormonde ami Ossory and Viscount Thurles of Thurles in the County Tipperary. Her mother was Lady Elizabeth Harriet Grovesnor, eldest daughter of the Duke of Westminster. The house of Butler of Ormonde Is one of the noblest in Ireland and the oldest in Irish history. The Butlers nnd Geraldines, rivals In power and equals In MjlSll 1 ./s><*** t ’ ZD lady nr. ktrice nt ti.kr. renown, have been nt the hend of the fine nobility of Ireland ever since the Anglo-Norman Invasion. The first of the fandli to arrive on Irish soil nnd set up a castle wns old Theobnld Fitz- ■ Walter in the reign of Henry 11. Ho p was chief butler of Ireland, whence the I surname. His fathet was wlervoy Wal- ; ter, who married In 1156. That seetnn I to have boon the foundation of the house nnd the descent has been prOFy clear slikt then. Little Lady Ren trice may, thcrefvre, be truly said tn Ih* the] dawthter of n Jtun<!rr*d ends, hut ««bo Is one that ^bo has a

- -J--" MRS. BRYAN AT HOME IN THE WATER.

| very pretty little sister, Constance l Mary, who Is Just Id. KrnnttH of Open Air Life. Women will have to organize a new i crusade against wrinkles and the leatherlike, growing-old sort of look of the skin if they persist in following up all the open air pursuits which belong to • man’s kingdom. Fresh air in all kinds i of went her may be conducive to health, i but it is very trying to delicate skins, ; Women who row and ride bicycles should substitute oatmeal or boiled bread and milk for soap. The dry skin Is especially sensitive to the effects of ! sun and air and needs all the preeau- ■ tlons It is jm^slblo to find to keep It j smooth and white. Potatoes boiled in j milk are said to be very effective in ' whitening and softening the skin, and nltnond meal should be on every toilet ' table. Get Their Shoes Blackened. The spectacle of a woman availing herself < f the services of a bootblack on the streets has become so common as to ' attract no more attention than that of a woman reading a daily newspaper In i a street car or "L" train, says the Chi- 1 cago Chronicle. It was not so long ago! ( that a woman with a newspaper wnsi considered to be Ooin K ...moti.tn K mrrf "mannish," and she was stared at ini consequence. Women have dared toj A ** WOMEN HAVE BECOME PATRONS, brave public inspection by sitting Inth^ chair of the street corner bootblack and reading a paper while the Industrious bootblack gives them a “patent leather" or a “russet polish." Women require the cleaning of their shoes as often and with as much reason as men do theirs, and the “ladies’ bootblacking parlors” that have been opened in the shopping districts have proved decided successes.

their dah vfe 4 ” P C ° Urag ° to P«t uatnty feet upon the box. T he r ’ em ®n<ls of Society look w4l (i tJ nandß that you «bould beautv ' that you shou M be a eashm’nm ‘ y ° U Bhou,d . on ocand het °?J° Ur b,b t^ker <N)nstl ‘ P Up the P ,ct »re that, al! in all, social « . > BOe,ety - Y ° U speak of thc domJ nS Belfißh: 80 n 18 - It fr ° ,U aH ltS vot a r, «> absolute 0 Y ° U must ,oarn to hav e , ’Il-feeling toward anybody. If n v.m 1 tP,ls yo ” that Madame -'lauce has made you the subject of her ridicule you must make yourself smile; go forwnrd and meet Madame MallcO with a pleasant word, a courteous bow, and you must entirely forget that she has ever said anything but that which was pleasant. Society ceases to be good when malicious sayings are recog-nized.-Ruth Ashmore, tn Ladles’ Home Journal, Mrs. Rryon nn Expert Rwlmmer. Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, wife of the Democratic presidential candidate, Is up to date In many ways. For one thing she Is a firm Isdlever In the wheel, although ns yet she Is not an expert rider. Being comparatively a novice, she has not yet reached the stage of wearing a short skirt, but free ly acknowledges the advantages of such a garment to the fast-riding blcycllenne. She Is also a splendid swimmer nnd rather prides herself on her natatorial ability. She is also proud of her membership in the Sorosis of Lincoln, Neb. It does not belong to the federation of dabs, but is In the Nebraska State Federation. The Lincoln Sorosis has a membership of twenty five, to which number 1! is strictly limited. Three or four names are always on the waiting list. No one is admitted who bn not some claim to membership through tntvrest in current events or some special e^pdlence In other directions. Mrs Bryan lays no great stress on her adntlsslon to the bar. Sho regards Is as :^i ordinary matter in view of the large imnlwr of women now practicing law. 4here Is no dress reform in her creed, only an id- a that - sMe attention to too first laws of h * should tie con-' sldonal; also that ♦ should be distlm tly femlnlno^r trnvagnnt, but '

1 as iHM'omlng as possible and suitable to the occasion She wears evening dress when the event requires it, but not decollete gowns. Evidently superstition doesn't count with her, for on the finger with the gold wedding band she a ears a large opal. I Heles* Hric-a-Urac. The folly of excessive accumulation In the way of bric-a-brac, ornaments and the thousand and one trifles scattered through the modern home Is never more forcibly Impressed than when packing away household goods and gods, previous to the summer exodus. Each article has some association that renders it in a degree precious, and yet half of them disfigure rathef I than adorn the apartment to which i they belong. How much wiser Is the mistress of the Japanese home, who, while keeping It exquisitely neat, never cumbers and litters it with cheap or excessive ornamentation. She understands the rest to eye and brain in frequent change of surrotindlngs. Today sbe hangs up a piece of rare embroidery, and in front of it places a litjtle table, with some one choice vase I holding a few carefully arranged [flower sprays. Across the corner a [screen with richly painted or embroidlered panels is set, and everywhere the Foye looks upon some object worthy of study and admiration, and so few are they as to admit of genuine enjoyment I and appreciation. After a few weeks a complete change is made, one set of art treasures removed and another put In their place. By this method a succession of charming interiors are secured far more educating and retining in influence than the crowded tables, cabinets and mantels found in the American drawing-room. Announcing the Baby’s Birth. In sending announcement cards of a baby’s birth the baby’s name is printed in full on a small card which is inclosed with the parents' card. If desired it may be attached to the larger card by a bow of very narrow white satin ribbon, or silver cord. The date of birth is added, but not the weight of the baby, nor any other particulars of any sort whatever. —Ladles’ Home Journal. A man feels drowsy after a hearty dinner, because a large part of the blood in the system goes to the stomach to aid In digestion, and leaves the brain poorly supplied.

CHEYENNES SADDLES. The Delight of the Cowboy and United States Cavalry. v™!L™ er N ° rtU many Cheyeun « Addles have been faUnuVcf CVery et l"ostrian outside the nib d States cavalry and of the Northwest Mounted Police of Canada has either had his horse tricked out with Cheyenne leather or wished he had. he fancy work on saddles, holsters and stirrup hoods that once made Mexican saddlery famous and expensive long ago was copied by the Cheyenne ■ makers, who kept up the fame and beauty of American horse trappings, ! but made them so cheap as to be within ' the means of most horsemen. In the I' old days when Western cattle ranged 1 Rll over the plains and the cowboy was In his glory, that queer citizen would rather have a Cheyenne saddle than a best girl, in fact, to be without a Cheyenne saddle and a first-class revolver was to be no better than the sheep herder of that era. When the writer was in Cheyenne recently the first places he looked for were the saddle-makers’ shops. Hei . was surprised to find only one showy, first-class store of that kind, and, instend of there Ix-ing a crowd In front of , it, there was no sign of more business than was going on at the druggist’s near by, or the stationer's over the way. । Tin* goods displayed in the windows wore Is-auHul and extraordinary. There were the glorious, heavy, hand-strap-ped saddle; there were Hie huge, cumbrous tapaderos; there were the lariats or nqtes; the mngniticent bits that looked like Moorish art outdone: and there were mule skinners and the fanciful spurs; and. In short, the windows formed a museum of things that a cowboy would have pawned his soul to own. The metal work was all such as a cavalryman once dts'lansl it, "the most elegant horse jewelry In creation.” Englishmen and Germans now buy the fanciest and best trimmings to send abroad to their homes. Hand-strapped saddle's <xist fnmi sl3 to SBS, but $35 buys as good a one as a modest man who knows a good thing will care to ustv Cowgirl saddles were on vie v—seven of them with rigging for side seats and with stirrups made In slipper shtipiw. It Is not that then' are really half a dozen cowgirls in the world, or half a dozen women like the Colorado cattle queen or the lady horse breeder <>f Wyoming, but there are Western girls who have to ride a great deal, and they had fond fathers and brothers, nnd still fonder lovers: hence the manufnctun* of magnitleoift side-saddh's, all deok-d with hand strapped iiatterns, and looking as rich as the rieln*st Bedouin ever dreamed of horsegear being made. There is still a good trade iu Cowboy outfits that are ordered from Montana, the Dakotas. Wyoming, Colorado and Texas, and similar goods go to Hie horse ranches of Nevada. Idaho ami • *rvgnn. Moreover, as long as men ride horsed there will lie a trade In fancy outfits for them.“ Denver Field and Farm. • Hnilroad X i»rd Terrors. ' It s hard for the ordinary traveler to realize the terrors of the average rallnxid yard." sn!<! an old and experience.l trainman nt one of the big Jersey City terminals to a New York Sun rejMirter. "The commuter who scans the ya’ds daily as he Is smoothly riding through them naturally enough fails to appreciate t he mass of detail In the duties of the men who are employ^*! to switch him wifely into the station. Os tsairse. the routine work we do, fraught with n-sponslbility and danger as it is, bevmes mechanical enough to us in time, but there Is one thing that I never have l»een able to d > with <‘oolm*ss in all the years I have been employed । here, ami that is to cross this network , of tracks at night. The experience of ; Thomas Bouker. the freight clerk at j the Lehigh Valley station In Communi- I paw, is proof that I am not the only I hardened railroader afflicted in that way. Bouker was run down by an engine because he got bewildered in the maze of tracks. I don't blame him Why, it's enough to give a man heart disease to attempt to cross such an aggregation of rails with a lot of headlights moving all around him and scores of bells and whistles ringing in his ears. "Every time that I am compelled to make such a trip—and I only.do so nowadays when I am compelled to—l get the lay of the land well in my mind and note which engines are moving and which are not; but it is of no use. By the time I'm in the middle of the yard /ny head is in a whirl, the headlights are dancing ail around me, and I skip and dodge around frantically until I get safely on the other side. Usually most of the locomotives me standing still in the tram shed, but it’s hard to believe it when you are in front of them. Some commuters who work in Jersey City have a trick of walking into the station from the yard to save the trouble of going around by the regular way, but when I can I always warn them of the danger of doing so.” An Andes Tunnel. Humboldt describes a remarkable tunnel in the Andes, known as the । Desague Real, which was driven through a mountain by a Flemish engineer In 1603. This work was four , miles loßgT’Pleven feet in width, and j fourteen feet high. It was designed to ; carry off the threatening waters of a deep mountain lake, and was executed with pickax and spade in one year by the incessant labor of 15,000 Indians. "You say you want a position in my company. Why, man, you don’t look well enough. Actor—“ That's just it. My doctor says If I will walk thirty miles a day I'll be cured.”—Life. Thej* talk about the country people being, green, but at least they know too much to kill spring chickens every ^ime town people go out to see them.

INDIANA INCIDENTS. RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Board of State Commissioners Complete the Assessment —Census Now B. ing Taken Shows a Marvelous Increase in Madison County. Indiana’s Railroad Tax. i he Board of State Tax Commissioners have completed the assessment of railroad property. The net increase :n valuation is about S6O,(MX), The total for IN9(> ik ^1.>(’>,259,260, as against $156,- ‘ ,).),465 for 189.>. The miles of mala 1896, are 0,279.88, for 1895, 0,-2(>i.->2; assessment of main track for 1.896 is $123.935,5t>5; for 1895. $124,211,940 The assessment on other corporations ii as as follows for each mile: Western I nioh, $350; Postal. $225; Gram! Rapids .stiff Indiana, $75; Grand Rapids and Ft. M ayne, $75; American Long-Distance Telephone Company, $250; Central Union, $250; t’nmlx'rland, S4O; Greensburg, $--j. Jasper ( ouuty Telephone Company, $25; Madison County Telephone Companj. s2.>; S<-ott County Ix>ng-Distauee Teh-phyue Company. $25; Ohio Valley, SSO; Pn,-iti<- Kxprvss Company, $250; AJania. su>o; Wells l-’argo Compnnv, s2so' National. $250; UnUyd .States, $175; । man (’ar Company, $156; Wagner Company. $125. Sudden Death Stops a Murder. Edward Savage, of Anderson, awoke early Friday morning with a start and - his blmsl ran cold when he found Janies 1 iehl, his roommate, standing over him with a razor in his hand. He was to all appenrniKt's just on the ]>oint of cutting Savage's throat. Savage gave an exclamativn of fright, just as Field dropped to tin- floor with the razor Ix'side him. Savage jumpis! oic of Ix-d, called his brotlu-r and went to when- Field was lying. Thev found him dead. Oflirors were called and the case was put into their hands. Ih-vel-opments indicate that Field was insane tbml had taken a deadly poison. He was just on the verge of making rhe trag»*dy a double one. when Savage awoke. The latter cannot tell what caused him to awake at the time. The action of the Irug Field had taken worked simultaneous!} with the slight shock caustnl by Savage crying out. Th«> i>oison was for the purpose of sobering him. but was to be taken in very limited quantities. He took all of it. Hi* was a gitssworker and leaves a widow at Rochester, Pa. Gas Bett Population Grows. The house-to-house canvass l>eing made in Madison County for census purposes has brought out some wonderful surprises for those not acquainted with rhe gas Indt's growth. The compilation has been sunpleteil for Alexandria and Elwood. It shows Elwood is now a city of 11.933 inhabitants, against 1.490 in 1887 and 7.950 in 1894. Alexandria makes a still more wonderful showing. Her population to-day is 7.632 against 491 iu 1887 and estimated 4.000 in 1894. Anderson’s summary has not been made. It will probably exceed 21.2(K>. against 3.300 in 1.8.87. 10.967 in 1890 and 18.000 estimated) in 1894. The same will hold good with the city of Muncie and possibly of Marion. The grow th is the result of natural gn«. The iwpuHtiou of Madison County in 1887 wa* 20.5T3. in 1894 88,- , *sl. and now 0x1*0069 100.000, nnd is the second largest in the State. All Over the State. Philip Kittle, a farmer residing near Clay City, was crushed to death by falling under a log wagon hxtdisl with logs. Grorgo F. M< :znn. of Brooklyn, N. Y., who had ls»en West for his health, died •n n Lake Shore and Michigan Southern pass, tiger train near Elkhart. At Anderson. Rev. H. Privitt. of Daleville. a lead* among the Church of God divines, is made ro-respondent in a divoree suit tihsl by (irorge VandegTiff, one >f the stand-bys of the church. Privitt is quite w<-11-to I-*. Van logriff will also cater suit for $l().(M>0 damage. Wills-r Pas<water. an Adams Comity । farmer, had his foot caught by a thrasher ! *ngine and rhe leg crushed to a pulp. He • was taken to the nearest town and the in- ■ I iro-1 member amputated at the hip joint, j PasswattT diisl in five minutes after the qxtration had bt**n perfi rnxal. The horse of Mrs. Augustus Koublor, >f Marion, ran away, throwing Mrs. Ketibh-r and a small child and a 12-year->ld nephew to the ground. When found the woman and 1 <>y were unconscious. The baby in the arms of its mother was ’ nninjurtsl and was peacefully sleeping. The woman remained unconscious and H.M a few hours after the accident. The 12-year-o! 1 lad soon recovered anil was 1 ;*nly slightly injured. । Eight years ago J. W. Sanders and his e>n. Claud, were separated in Missouri, tnd the fath>*r heard later upon good authority that the son was dead and buried ■it Joplin. The grave he was supposed to ]be buried in was located. Saturday night ■ 1 young man e.-illcd at the Sanders home it Anderson, and. after talking with Mr. Sanders a half hour about engineering, product*! unmistakable proof that he was the long-lost son, His father is wild with joy. ami there is not a happier home in the land. Just as the Joel Menefee thrashing crew was finishing thrashing on the farm of William Wynant. near Anderson, Wednesday night, the traction engine was completely wrecke<l by the boiler exploding. David AVynant was killed outright, and others, whose names cannot be learned, were injured. The meager reports indicate that two of the cases will be fatal. It s,*efns that the engine had leen I considered unsafe for several days. The (dd engineer gave up bis position two weeks ago oil account of the boiler being i frail. He warned Menefee then about I continuing with it. Young AVynant had I taken his place. He did not give it close I enough attention, and the steam got too high. The Anderson Even.ng 'Telegram, started as a co-operative concern by the Tyisvgraphical Union two years ago. has suspended. It was placed in the hands of a receiver two weeks ago. He will sell it. Miss Mamie Murphy, aged 20. went from her home in Springport to Muncie, purchased a quantity of laudanum, went two miles into the country and drank it. The girl was taken to a near by residence and died. She had quarreled with her sister-in-law as to how some green corn should be cooked, whether on the cob 0# off