St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 28, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 30 January 1897 — Page 7

TOPICS FOR FARMERS A department prepared for OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Heat Time to Kill Timber — Making Good Butter in Winter —Wholesome Advice to Husbands—Mice and Rab* bits in the Orchard. Time to Kill Timber. My experience in cutting bushes or healthy timber is that no time in the year will kill all, but I find a big difference in the time. 1 have best success cutting sprouts and deadening young sprouts in the dark of the moon. August is the best month, but July and September will do. Dry. hot weather is favorable for this work. The best success I ever had in my life in cutting bushes and deadening young timber was several years ago when the sign was in the heart in the dark ■of the moon in August. Very little sprouting was needed after that cutting. “Rnt-p one, “what has the A ,v-Üb^the lift; .of - un”*’ in the ^T^MBiTnoonTHSett Win In the light of the moon, and see how much easier it peals; also, cut a few hoop-poles. Those cut in the dark of the moon will continue longer clear of worms and rot than those cut in the light of the moon; but many people ■have too much faith in signs and the moon. We all know the top of a tree •dies without a root; much the same a root will die with no top to support. Thus we see by cutting an old or matured tree, if bushes are closely sprouted, they soon will die.—Jacob Faith. Missouri. Making: Butter in Winter. With care in making the proper arTangements, good butter can readily be made in winter, and the cost be not materially increased. There must be fresh cows. Good, warm, dry shelter, plenty of good food and water, proper i arrangements for handling milk and j eream so as to secure the desired temperature from cream raising and butter making, and with these essentials good butter at only a slightly increased cost per pound can be made. But the quality must bc> good to make the most out of it. as the consumer demands good butter in winter the same as in summer, and the price is largely determined by the quality at all seasons.- Massachusetts Ploughman. HusbandsDo not judge husbands too harshly. I have looked the situation over very carefully, and 1 am convinced the blame is not so much of the heart, as some may suppose. These labor-sav-ing appliances in the house are not provided many times simply because the farmer’s wife really feels she cannot afford- them; but all too often they are not procured simply because the ' husband has never given the matter a serious thought. “Good husbands,” this is written for you. Consider how much money you have expended to make your farm work less burdensome, and then compare your laborsaving implements with those in the ; house and see if you have done all you -can to save the strength of her who works on uncomplainingly.—Country ■Gentleman. Mice and Rabbits in the Orchard. In the winter season in periods of -deep snows, rabbits and mice are apt to do a deal of injury to unprotected I orchard trees. Where it is anticipated it can generally be prevented, but to those young in the business it often occurs that such a catastrophe is never dreame-1 of. In the case ot mire, their work is always between the ca'th and the top of the snow, where orcl rrds arc clear of grass or weeds about t‘ie base of the trees as they should be. To prevent any injury from them it ira good , plan to mound up earth about the base of the trees as high as snow? usually cover.—Practical Farmer. Poultry Points. Plumage, symmetry and so on depends upon the sire. Observe which hens are the best layers and breed for them. It is from well-matured parocts that vigorous offsprings come. Give fowls all the range and exercise that the weather will permit during the winter. Strong, stimulating food han a ten- I dency to disorganize the stomach and produce indigestion. Better results can be obtained by giving a warm feed in the moriung and warm water to drink. strawberry Culture. VVvevt* are many re-ions wUhout a supply of home-Ri-owu st ra w 1 terries, \ and for every such section there is an ' opportunity for some wide-awake i farmer to build up. in a sim-.1l way. a business that will bring to him much better returns for labor expended than he is wont to receive from any ordinary crop. I say in a small way. because few will find it profitable to grow more than will supply such a section as they can cover by wagon and realise retail prices for. unless exceptional shipping facilities are enjoyed. But th > quantity of strawberries a small town will consume when furnished a cor tinuous supply of first-class fruit is something astonishing. Many who cons'der the gritty, half-decayed specimens usually offered by the dealers as luxuries quite beyond their reach, will buy veil-tilled baskets of fresh, clean, well-ripened berries by the dollar’s woUh.—Exchange.

Farm Note=. Sunlight is a great tonic ami health giver. ■ No stable should be without a window on the sunny side. The park commissioners of 'tew York City have been spraying the tall elms, oaks and other shade trees of the city with an old fire engine, and the ap-

5 + When It is tirqp for any sort of wort to be done push if along as fast as possible. Never let it push you. It costs no more to hire ten men one day than one man ten days. paratus works so well and is so rapid and economical that many large or- „ chardists who have seen it at work proe pose to adopt it. Spraying by steam _ will be a new wrinkle, truly. Mutton can be produced at 50 per cent, less than the cost of beef. Experiments made in England with choice r sheep and cattle showed that sheep , stored in their bodies 12 per cent, of the _ food (demonstrated by increased . weight), while cattle stored up only 8 , per cent., thus proving that for mutton alone, leaving out the value of the wool, sheep are more profitable than cattle. Hoard’s Dairyman says: “The man who would set up a stove out of doors to keep himself and his family warm differs only in degree from the man who fails to provide adequate shelter for his stock; and the man who keeps two fires running where one would suffice is just as wise as the one who feeds stock that does not bring him a profit.’ E. Williams advises the use of corn shield for young peach and He selects a large stalk, cuts off about two feet of the lower end, split^it in half, removes the pith, and clasps it around the young tree, tying on securely. If two pieces are not sufficient, add more prepared the same way. Rabbits will leave them alone, and it is the best kind of protection for the tree. The German potash salts are not caustic potash, hence they do not dissipate ammonia by hastening fermentation when applied to manure. Instead, they form a compound with the ammonia, thus helping to keep it from washing. The nitrate of potash thus formed is the most powerful fertilizer known, and it Is one that can be applied to nearly every kind of crop or fruit with benefit. Pea and bean straw are much liked j by sheep, and, as they are somewhat | more nutritious than hay, it is desirable to grow them for the Hock. Beans are not eaten with relish at once, but the sheep soon get accustomed to them, and then eat them readily. It Is the best way to chop or coarsely grind them with corn or oats. One pound a day will be excellent for the ewes right along from this time on. The American Sheep Breeder says: Keep the sheep’s feet dry and clean while they are in the stable. It. is quite unnecessary to disturb the manure on the floor if it is kept dry and well littered. The packing of it under the feet ! will prevent decomposition, and keep the floor better in every way for the sheep than if it were cleaned every day. Plenty of common land plaster should be sprinkled or scattered over, the lit ter. This will prevent all bad odor. JUST A BOY. Laurence Hutton’s Rcmini^rrnccH of His Boyhood Life in New York. He was not a very good boy, or a very bad.boy. or a very bright boy, or an unusual boy in any way. He was just a i boy; and very often he forgets that he is not a boy now. Whatever there may he about The Boy that is commendable he owes to his father and to his mother; and he feels that he should not be held responsible for it. His mother was the most generous and the most unselfish of human beings. She was always thinking of : somebody else; always doing for others. To her it was blessed to give, and it was not very pleasant to receive. When she bought anything The Boy’s sterotyped query was, "Who is to have it?” When anything was bought for her, her own invariable remark was —“What on earth shall I do with it?” When The Boy came to her. one summer morning, she looked upon him as a gift from j heaven; and when she was told that it was a boy, and not a bad-looking or a bad-conditioned boy, her first words were —“What on earth shall I do with it?" She found plenty “to do with it” before she got through with it, more than forty years afterwards; and The Boy has every reason to believe that, she never regretted the gift. Indeed, she once told him. late in her life, that he had never made her cry! Whe.t better benediction can a boy have than that? The Boy was red-headed and longI nosed even from the beginning: a shy, dreaming, self-conscious little boy, made peculiarly familiar with his personal defects by the constant remarks to the effect that his hair was nM. and that his nose was long. At school, for years he was known familiarly as “Rufus.” “Read-Head,” “Carrot-Top/’ or J Uis uhillkt. married at nineteen, was , the eldest of a. family of njne children; and many of The Boy’s aunts and | uncles wore but a few years his senior ; and were his daily and familiar comi panions. He was the only member of । his own generation for a long time, and j there was a constant fear upon the part j of tlic elders that he was likely to be : spoiled; and consequently he was never ' ; praised, nor petted, nor coddled. He ■ | was always falling down, or dropping things, he was always get.ing into the ' way; and lie could not learn to spell correctly nor to cipher at all. He was ' never in his mother’s way, however, ’ and he was never made to feel so. But nobody except The Boy knows of the ' j agony which the rest of the family, un- , | consciously and with no thought of hurting his feelings, caused him, by the fun they poked at his nose, at his fiery

locks, and at his unhandiness. lie fancied that passers-by pitied him as he walked or played in the streets; and he sincerely pitied himself as a youth destined to grow up into an awkward, tactless, stupid man at whom the world would laugh so long as his life lasted. “A Boy I Knew,” by Laurence Hutton, in St. Nicholas.

“ WINTER’S ICY BLAST. S - 1 MERCURY BELOV/ ZERO IN 1 MANY STATES. " Cities of the Northwest Suffering with 1 the Intense Cold and Trains Blockaded in Several Places —Coldest for Many Years—Several Deaths. The Blizzard. The remarkable and unseasonable mildness of December and the earlier part of January has been broken by a severe cold wave, which has swept across the continent from the far northwest, The weather conditions prevailing in the middle west for the previous ten weeks have been extraordinary. The thermometer has registered a temperature more suitable for early November than for midwinter. There has been little or no snow, and a heavy, soggy rainfall has drenched the inhabitants of the Mississippi valley and the lake region. The sudden drop of the mercury upon the arrival of the cold wave marks another of the curiosities of the temberate zone in North America. The weft has been visited by a blizzard of unuswl violence. The emire^jTgfon from ^ritisli Columbia hasMweu swept by nu lcyt' v *nd, followed by a heavy fall of snow. whole, the average citizen will wel^^e the change. The real winter article i? 1 considerably more wholesome than th< “open” winter weather of preceding weeks. The poor, however, suffer severely from the sudden and severe cold. The cold wave has been general throughout the central west and has been xaore or less over the entire country. The temperature has been below freezing in Tennessee and central Texas. It is below zero in Ohio, Indiana. Illinois and Missouri, and 20 degrees below zero over the Dakotas and Minnesota. Reports from every part of the Northwest indicate that Saturday night was the coldest night in two winters. St. Paul, about the warmest point in this whole section, registered 25 below. The range was from that figure to 30 below nt St. Cloud, 36 below at Aitkin and 40 below at St. Hilaire. Suffering in the country must have been very great. Railway traffic is everywhere greatly retarded, either because of drifts or inability to keep up steam. A Chicago, M^waukee and St. Paul passenger train stuck in a drift near Bonilla, S. D. Another train containing $250,000 of the money of South Dakota stuck in n drift near Highmore, S. I). Reports from points along the Missouri river indicate that there will be heavy mortality among cattle and sheep in that section. In Chicago Sunday was the coldest day in twenty-five years, according to the records of the weather bureau. At no time since the Chicago station has been established has there been so low a max imum temperature recorded. It was a steady cold. There was a variation of but four degrees in the twelve hours from C o'clock in the morning until the same hour in the evening. Not the poor alone felt the sting of the thirty-mile “norther” that blew in from the Dakotas before sunrise and raved through the skeleton iron work of the elevated roads long after ; people had gone shivering to their beds I 'nt night Suburban furnace* Ind down town heatmg plants were to the task of keeping the t the windows as were the pitHA mall stoves in the tenements of the rtf 'r war - Fifty-three persons were list?* s r . come by the terrible cold and were r s cued in a partly frozen condition. One death occurred, which was due to the cold, and a number of people are likely to die as the result of frozen limbs or exposure. Most of the sufferers succumbed to the cold while about their work, but a number of the victims were homeless wanderers. In Wisconsin the lowest temperature known for years was recorded Sunday. According to the government reports it was IS degrees below zero in Milwaukee, while private thermometers in various parts of the city made it 24 degrees. Out in tin' State there were some great records made, Stevens Point leading with .”>2 degrees below zero. In Michigan the temperature ranged from 6 degrees below zero in Detroit to 15 degrees below at upper peninsula points. Ar Omaha, Neb., I in twenty-four hours the thermometer j dropped from 30 above to 10 below zero. I and in some parts of the State it crowded , the 15 mark very closely in that time. In Indianapolis, at 7 o'clock Sunday i evening the temperature was 5 degrees below zero, and the weather bureau announced that it would continue to fall until morning. There is a shortage of nat- ; ural gas in some sections of the city, and ' it is feared there will be much suffering । if the low temperature should last long. At Lexington, Mo., Martha Lacey, an ’ aged negro woman who had no home, was I frozen to death in the basement of a dij lapidated and unused house, where she had gone for shelter with her two little children. The cries of the children attracted attention to them in the morning. Park Sterling, a negro coal miner, was frozen to death near Hamilton, Mo. In the vicinity of Milan, Mo., the mercury fell fifty degrees Saturday night, reaching 10 below zero—the coldest it has been for years. It was accoinp^’ l d by a severe blizzard, doing grea^ daniag.- n> stock. At Dubuque, lowAk *”* / 1S -m.i is frozen sMTT be sccu up and down. ■■ Told in a Few lines. The largest annual pension is $95,000, paid by Great Britain to the Duke of Richmond. It is a perpetuity from the time of Charles 11. John W. Glover and Harry Glover, contiactors, and I. A. Degarmo and John W. Schreiver were killed by an explosion iff giant powder in a mine at Ward, Colo. I Miss Ethel Belle Appel is one of the , nest known designers of book covers in New York. She says the greatest need in her profession is originality that is ■ practical. Mr. Reid, the Montreal contractor, who - is now in England, i s believed to bo making arrangements for the construction of . a powerful vessel to be used in a propos- । d fast service, which will expedite pas- , sage from Great Britain via Canada to , the extreme western ports of America. -, A Great Western passenger train ran into an Interurban street car at Minneapolis, injuring several of the passengers, , one of whom may die. The most seriousy injured wore: W. W. Riddle, professor of mathematics, State University, sus- • tamed serious injuries about head, inmuding fracture of nkull, probably die.

HON. THOMAS C. PLATT. The “Tioea Chieftain” Will Be New rp, York’s Next Senator. ihe expected happened at the Republian joint legislative caucus in Albany a i Whcn Thonias C. I’latt was selected by an almost unanimous vote to succeed David B. Hill as United States SenVotes the Ti °S a chieftain eeived 143, the other seven going To < oseph 11. Choate, New i’ork’s distinguished lawyer. The career of Thomas C. Platt strikingly illustrates the “ups and downs” of American politics. When with the mighty Conkling he left the Senate sixteen years ago to seek vindication and found defeat, tv THOMAS C. PI.ATT. nobody dreamed that he would ever again return to the Senate, much less rise to the supreme leadership and almost absolute mastery of his party and State. Born in Owego, Tioga County, July 15, 1833, Thomas Collier Platt was educated at Yale, and at the age of 20 entered mercantile life in Owego. As a young man be become president of the Tioga National Bank, made money in Michigan lumber And became an officer of the United States Express Company. Os the latter he has been president since ISBO. In 1872 he was elected to Congress, re-elected two years later, and in 1881 was chosen the successor of Hon. Francis Kernan in the United States Senate. The historic disagreement of Senator Conkling and President Garfield regarding New York I'ederal patronage led to the dramatic resignation of Mr. Conkling and Mr. I’latt in May, 1881. after I’latt had served but a few months. They sought vindication in a re-election and were denied it. Conkling left the political arena forever, hut Platt remained. Though the party was wrecked in that State he was not discottraged ami when better times appeared he reaped the burv« st. Jntrrnntion I Arbitration. The arbitration treaty with tliv at Briti sin is likely to go through in away that f wilt make the earth subject in great meaaI ure to the English speaking I Louis \ ille ( ’oiiiuo r ial. The J,,], 5 1; 1! to be friendly is so sudden and um vpe. ted | that ths* ordinary citizen will be sure to suspect ths re is sonu thing the matter with John. Washington Post. The arbitration treaty between the : United States and Grt at Britain is a zr* -it step in the progress of civilization. Tin re should be stieh treaties betwet n all the nations of the world. St. Louis Ih st I'cs patch. National passions, which are often but national prejudices, cannot bo extinguished save by the slow process of broadening ideas of right and wrong, but to this process arbitration lends assistance. Boston Tnn.script. When asked to express an opinion of the arbitration treaty I < tween the United States and Great Britain, Gen. Harrison ! said: “Mr. Olney has made a great record I for himself as a statesman and a diplo- ■ mat.”—New Y'ork Herald. Now that the two great Anglo-Saxon I nations of the world have set this most patriotic and statesmanlike example, it is to be hoped that France, Germany. Russia and the other countries of Europe will fall in line for international arbitration. —New Y’ork Herald. It would be infinitely more preferable to let matters jog along as they are now doing, and meanwhile push our coast defenses and naval equipment to that degree of effectiveness where our defensive ability will offset Great Britain’s offensive ability.—Chicago Tribune. It was a beautiful coincidence that the arbitration treaty reached the Senate while Mr. Mills, of the placid State of Texas, was making one of his peace speeches on Cuba. Mills, we understand, wants Spain whipped in the interest of arbitration and pacification.--Brooklyn Standard Union. This and That. Now if the Corbett-Fitzsimmons filibustering expedition would only go to the bottom. —Chicago Dispatch. Chicago’s water can only be used after it is boiled, and it is necessary to soak it ever night before boiling.—Daily Nonpareil. Senator Wolcott will probably confine himself to one song while abroad, viz.: “Silver Threads Among the Gold.” —Cincinnati Post. It would not be advisable, under most circumstances, for the United States to undertake the manufacture of armor; but if there is any intention to “hold up” the Navy Department the sooner a national armor plant is started the better. New Y’ork Herald. E. S. Dreyer & Co., bankers of Chicago, failed for $1,400,000, and had only $9,000 in cash on hand. They must have labored with great diligence to scoop the depositors to that extent. There is scarcely a crumb of comfort to divide. —Binghamton Republican. It strikes us that there is no need just now for either a permanent or temporary tariff commission. The Ways and Means Committee of the House, which is a continuing body, although its membership is subject to change, is in reality a permanent tariff commission. —Minneapolis Tribune.

INDIANA INCIDENTS. RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Samuel Kirby and Wife of French Lick Are Kilted by Robbers—Sinsntar Case of Recovery from “Incurable” Injuries at Goshen. Ag:ed Couple Cruelly Murdered. Meager details have been received of the murder of Samuel Kirby and u ife at I'reuch Lick. Mr. ami Mrs. Kirby lived about three miles west of the springs. Both were found dead in their house Saturday morning, and then* were evidences of a struggle, followed by robbery. The last seen of Mr. Kirby until his body was found was Thursday. It is supposed that a burglar entered their home and. being surprised by Mr. Kirby, killed both husband and wife to avoid detection. Mr. Kirby was .>.> years old and a soldier in the civil war. serving in the Forty-ninth Indiana. His wife was 50 years old. ’I racks in the snow show that two or more men .^fTe engaged in the crime. The Ilf "ife were disH UJU3 Wax was found Ji, ueissny bb»«i. murder. The Seymoui hoim^^'^^'/' graphed for and were taken The dogs soon struck a trail southwa/d, with a posse of men following them.

The Cold Wave. Saturday night there came sweeping down from the Northwest the most bitterly cold blast ever recorded by the weather bureau. In sections of Illinois. lowa. In<liana, Michigan and Wisconsin the mercury dropped 60 degrees within twelve hours. Chicago experienced a temperature 20 degrees below zero. In the country districts and villages, where the people had not much to do except get in shelter and keep warm, there was not much of suffering. But in all large cities. 1 where there is always an element of impoverished people, the suffering was intense. Police stations, churches, public buildings and depots were besieged by miserable beings who wen* not only perishing from cold, bi.t starving. In Chicago the Mayor isstted a proclamation, calling upon all who were able, to give relief. The usual avenues through which aid is extended were overworkml. It is estimated that KMMMHt people were aided. Many of them had never before been compelled to ask help. And thousands more who were in dire need were prevented by pride from making an appeal. Rolling Mill Ordered Fo’d •bulge Custer, of Marion, ordered the Westerman rolling mill sold. Receiver A. T. Wright tih d hie petition asking for an order Io sell the mill and the ruling is in compliance with that petition. The order of the sale is with the consent of the bondholders and ti e Chicago. Cincinnati stud hidianapolis rap iron dcah rs. who are creditors to :le amount of Ssn.tHHt. Tin* property has been appraised at 825.- • !,■>'ml capit tlists have formed a toiupanj and will >r >b.tbh buy the plant and start it up. 1 will employ 15” m« n. Faith Cure *«»<•« C-oshcn $7,500. A feu dollars' worth of faith in Chicago faith eurists will probably be worth j 57.5”0 t«> the eit* of Goshen. A year ag'i < >rx ill,' Afford l< k info an . ight inch street t'irmiit Court iu.r g;i **• him 57.: r I a long contest. AL 't'd. whoso physician j advise,! amimtat’,,.l < hub legs. , >usult td Chicago faith mire practitioners and Ims returned without Lis < r itches and says he is entirely ettfed. He may get a feu hundr< I dolh is. Experts made the most critical itivi stigatioii at the trial and prmmum cd ti e plaintiff in arable. All Over the State. Jacob Kneislvy. a farmer of Walk, rtim. while tit tempting ‘>o board a moving tram, fell under tlic wh els and wa- knit d. The death of George R. Hoke, of Elkhart. who went to San Diego. Cal., about a week ago, is announced from that city. He was NS years >f age. ( Imdwick A (io •ilman bought the Da -v Improvement fmtory in Ashley, which was sold by the receiver for 51.050. i’his was not enough to pay the pre!erred claims. At Mari insvilh*. Mrs. John McDowell was standing near the stove, with her baby in her arms. She fell in a fit and tlic child's ne' k was broken. The mother was badly burned. \t Shelbyville. John Daniels, convicted of forging a note for Sl7 on his aunt. Anna ; ('ole. was sentenced to State's prison for a period of two years. He is but 20 yenrs of age. ami of good family. The firm of Lathrop & Co . Fort Wayne, retail china and glassware dealers, went ‘ into the hands of a receiver, owing to , differences between the partners. Ihe i firm owes about S9.!M!O and has assets ot j over SI2,(MX). ('omptroller E kels has sent :! letter to the Governor -of all the States requesting them to urge upon their respective Legis- j latures the exp* diem y ot requiring State ■ minks to make reports of their condition coincident with the reports made to the I’t derai Comptroller of the ( ’urn n< y by the national banks. The saloonkeeja i s ot Monroeville are mourning the loss of their best customers. A vigilau-e committee lias been organized for the purpose of preventing intemperance in (he town, an 1 notice has been sent to the habitual drunkards that they will be given rough treatnient it they arc again found m an intoxicated condition. For several nights rm idenis of Kokomo lune noticed a light in (he Monroe Street Methodist Tabertiacle. but thought servi<-< s were in progress. Saturday night when th<* janitor went to warm up the house for regular services Nunmii. he found th<* plact* full oi tramps, w'm had turned on the gas and lights and taken full possession. Mrs. .Joseph Ueacoek, of Terre Haute, in asking the court to appoint her guardian of her husband, says that lie is oi the belief that their 3-year-oid child is an incarnation of the Deity, and Sunday he tried to make the child take hold of redhot coals. ■ F. M. Stevens & Co., Columbus, agricultural implement dealers, who mortgaged all their property to secure their creditors to the extent of $12,000, have made trust deeds of assignment to Arthur Overstreet for the benefit of creditors. The liabilities are said to reach $40,000; assets not near so much.

THE INDIANA SOLOXS Senator-elect Fairbanks was present at the joint session of the Legislature Wednesday to acknowledge his election. Outlining his policy in the Senate, Mr. Fairbanks said: “I favor upholding the — dignity and honor of the government against all comers at any cost; yet I am opposed to any policy which shall tend to involve us in unnecessary international entanglements and possible war. Our people want peace, for it is the mother of prosperity. One of the hopeful, reassuring incidents of the hour is the progress made toward the institution of a high liibunal of arbitration for tlic settlement of disputes between the great AngloSaxon powers. Such a step is in keeping with the demands of our highest ami best interests; it is responsive to the imperative requirements of Christianity. The strongest government can well lead the way. Our isolation is such, our resources are so limitless, the virtue mid patriotism of our people are so acknowledged that w-e have, as Bismarck said of the new German empire, no power to fear except the power of Almighty God. We need no frequent display of our prowess. 1 believe in commercial conquests—‘hose conquests which shall bring the trophies of peace to the homes of our countrymen of low and high degree.” The formal vote on Senator in the joint session resulted: r airbanks, 85; Voorhees, 58; Templctoir The Senate passed the bill prohibiting the shooting of quails in this State for two years. The bill goes to the House with a

auv win tu iiir- xiuuse 11ii a penalty of SIOO for any one violating the law. The Senate also adopted the report of the Judiciary Committee on the anticigaret bill. This prohibits the sale of cigarets to any person under 18 years old, and fixes a license of S2OO for retailing cigarets and a license of SSO for wholesalers. Any person under IS years found smoking cigarets is subject to a fine of $lO. The action of the Senate in attempting to kill the investigation of the alleged $2,(MMi.doo, which the Vandalia Railroad owes the Indiana school fund, has resulted in placing the House and Senate at loggerheads. When the Senate substitute was reported back to the House Friday morning it was utterly ignored. The House decided at once to carry on the investigation J>y itself, and a resolution was unanimously passed calling on Attorney General Ketcham to produce all the information he had on the subject, after which a proper form of investigation will be arranged. Under a resolution of the House of Representatives requiring the Attorney General to report to that body on the status of tin* claim of the State against the \ andalia Railroad that official Monday reported that the corporation owed the State, as nearly as the amount can be figured without an investigation, about 81.5o0,(M)0. He says the railroad was incorporated under a special charter in 1847 and it was provided that al! its earnings in excess of 1(> per cent, of its net receipts should l>e paid into the common school fund of the State. Nothing was ever paid and the company continued to operate under its special charter till 1874. when it accepted the general law of railroad corporations, and since that time it is doubtful if the State could legally claim the amount specified in the charter. He says there is no question, however, that I rhe claim is valid from 1847 to 1574. and - w iiin rm hour the House had passed a'"”’ I i'lil requiring an accounting from the company. and tin’s was taken up and immediately acted upon by the Senate. The matter is to be pushed, and interesting legal complications are expected to arise, as the railroad company denies it is indebted to the State. Among tile bills recommended for passage in the House Tuesday is one making it unlawful to play football in the State. The bill went to the Committee on Rights, which decided that it was only proper that the House should have a fair chance at the bill. The bill, as it stands, does not discriminate in favor of unprofessional football. The same committee reported favorably on the bill prohibiting the wearing of hats in public gatherings where an admission is charged. The Republicans held a caucus as to political legislation. < Iver the protests of several members who had desired a Congressional reapponionment of the State it was decided to leave tire districts as they are. On the question of legislative apportionment a committee was appointed to take all the legislative apportionment bills that have been introduced thus far—a half I dozen or more—put them into one bill and redistrict the State into legal divisions. It was also decided to revise the election law so that no man shall have his name on the ticket more than once, thus doing i away with any future case of fusion ai*d also providing for marking the ballots with a pencil instead of a stamp. “A M il < ar.” An amusing story is told by the New , York Tribune of a woman who resent- / cd what she supposed was an exclusive i privilege granted to men. A determined-looking man tried get on a street-<ar in Philadelphia tlu^^ other day. when it made a momentary stop on account of a blockade; buLXlu*. conductor said to her: "Take the next car. madam: we don’t carry passengers.” "M hat’s the reason yon don't?” she inquired, at the samp time making an effort to scramble aboard just as Wie car started up. "Y’ou can't get on: it's a mail-car!" shouted the man on the rear platform. ■’The idea!" muttered the woman, i shaking her green umbrella at the rapidly disappearing conductor, to the infinite delight of a number of spectators. "A male car. and you won't let women ride on it! I'll report you at the depot—see if I don’t!" and she made a mental note of his number. Tin* only potdry written by Michael Angelo Buonarroti was in honor of A it- _ toria Colonna, a lady of the highest personal character. She appreciated him. ami once said, "Those who know Micbael Angelo only in his works have very little conception of his noLilitv." Os sea islantl cotton raise;! in the coast islands of South Carolina, and esteemed the choicest staple on the market, we exported 15,261,322 pounds, and received for it $2,782,639.