St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 32, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 27 February 1897 — Page 7

TOPICS FOR FARMERS A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. tkunks and Squirrels Are Friends of the Farmer—Unhusked Corn Makes Good Feed—Cause of ‘‘Cold” Soil — Table for Sorting Apples. Farmer’s Friends. Last spring I planted a sixteen-acre I field in corn. Part of the Held had been mowed the year before and part had been pastured after harvest. The cutworms cut a great deal of it off. Some of this was replanted and some not, being afraid I would get it too thick. To give you some idea how thick they were I will relate a little Incident which occurred one morning when I went out to see if the squirrels were taking up the corn. I was on the point of returning home when I saw a little ground squirrel running up a stump and sitting down to sun himself. I thought it was my chance. ' I shot him, but before he died lie threw everything out of his bowels which he had secured for his breakfast, and much to my surprise I failed to find any corn but numerous worms. Upon counting I found exactly twenty-one; mostly cutworms. I have not killed any ground squirrels since. And I, therefore, think that the squirrel is the farmer's friend. The corn did not do well all summer and began to dry up very early. When we were cutting it, 1 noticed wherever the grub-worm had bothered It a hole had been dug around th* stock, and 1 wondered what could be the cause, when some one suggested the skunk as being the cause in its search of worms, I have come to the conclusion that had the ground squirrels' and skunks been a little plentier we would have had more than 359 bushels of corn on sixteen acres. M hat do Uie readers think? —New York M itness. Feeding Unhuskcd Corn. Some farmers have learned that ears of corn merely broken from the stalk and unhusked are eaten by cattle with less likelihood of injury than if corn is husked and fed on the ear, the usual way. The husk makes a porous addition to the ration and prevents the grain from fermenting. But when corn Is snapped from the stalk, there is a hard, rough stub at the butt of the , ear that has little nutrition, and may ; ( very easily be injurious. If tin' stock . Is valuable, it will pay for the extra cost of husking and grinding the corn, ( in the greater amount of nutrition the , animals will get from their food. Cold Soil. What Is usually called “cold” soil is due mostly to excess of water which finds no outlet by sinking into it. and is , forced to evaporate from the surface. । This takes so much heat from the soil ( that vegetation will not grow readily ( in it. Hence the cold soil is very often thin as well, coming quickly to the clay । on which it rests. If this clay is mi- j derdrained air and frost will pulverize । it. enabling deep-rooted plants to pene- ( trate the soil and enrich it. So long as ( soil is filled with stagnant water it will , only support ferns and mosses, whose ( roots run near the surface. Sorting Apples. The ease and convenience in assorting apples can be greatly enhanced by using a table constructed for the purpose as follows: Length feet, width 3% feet, height 3 feet. The top should consist of canvas or oilcloth securely nailed to the frame, strips three inches wide of inch stuff, and. for convenience, openings should be left in each corner large enough to admit a half bushel basket. These rest on supports fastened to the legs of the table, the latter being made three inches wide and two inches thick, all well braced. The writer can vouch for the ease, comfort and facility of the work performed by its aid, and could not be induced to return to the tiresome, backaching method of sorting on the ground. Not being patented, they are free to all, and are truly a great acquisition, not only in the apple orchard but are desirable for handling pears and quinces as well.—-Farm and Vineyard. Burying Loose Rubbish, It is well to have in the garden in winter an open trench, into which may be thrown the waste from the house that would otherwise lie around as rubbish. The earth thrown out of this trench may be used to receive the waste from chambers, and being exposed to frequent freezing and thawing, this soil, when thrown over the rubbish in the trench, will be an excellent place to plant the very earliestvegetables. By having these trenches made in different parts of the garden each fall, in time the soil of the entire garden will be deepened, thus greatly Increasing its productiveness. Snow in Forests. There is no place on the farm where a uniform level of snow is so sure as in the forest, and hardly anywhere it does more good. The uniform depth of snow melting and sinking in the soil supplies the trees with water, and at the same time prevents the deep freezing which injures the roots of trees and often destroys them. Whenever wood is to be got out of forests sleds on a good snowfall can be loaded much easier than wagons, and can be got out of the woods with less labor and danger of breakage. Snow in maple groves delays the beginning of sugar making, but it also protracts the flow of sap, besides making it more abundant. After a cold winter, with little snow, there is always a short and poor maple sugar crop. Early Potatoes in Gardens. Almost every farmer's garden has its patch of early potatoes, planted there

because usually the garden is plowed^ earlier than any other land equally rich.,' It often happens that these garden potatoes come year after year on the same soil. No amount of manuring will make this successful. In fact, the excessive amount of stable manures predisposes the potatoes to rot, especially as the spores of the disease may be left in the soil from the previous year's crop. Besides, these garden potatoes are always an early mark for the potato beetles, which have probably wintered under the rubbish and weeds that the garden too often furnishes, or under the fence that surrounds it. The better way is to plant potatoes on some rich land away from the garden, choosing a clover ley, with which not much manure will be needed to make a good crop. On a clover ley the early potato beetles will be only the scattering ones that have flown from a distance. The crop will also, in most cases, lie more easily cultivated and kept from weeds than in Its cramped quarters in the garden.—American Cultivator. Marketing Grapes. Grapes, like other fruits, need to be carefully handled to bring the best prices. Tile vines need to be gone over frequently during the ripening season, gathering only those with full color, because grapes do not, like other fruits, color after being gathered. The bunches should be cut off with a pair of scissors and so handled as not to disturb tlie bloom. Ordinary varieties may be at once packed from the vines into the basket that is intended for sale. Choice varieties should be gathered in shallow trays or baskets, in which they should stand a day or two on shelves in the fruit house, and then re packed. By this treatment the stems will wilt, and the bunches will then keep without i molding and pack more closely thun when green. Canadian Horticulturist. Fruit Trees by the Roodeide. Tell us if you know any good reason : for planting maples, elms and the like along the roadsides in place of the | practically useful cherries, chestnut?,, walnuts and other fruit trees, especially out in the country where the depredations of fruit-hungry city boys ■ are not much to be feared. Os if one must have forest trees, why not the linden, that will after a while enable our bees to gather the choicest honey i in abundance? When a Spaniard eats a peach or pear by the roadside, wherever be is, he digs a hole in the ground with his foot and covers the seed. Consequently, all over Spain by the roadside and elsewhere, fruit in great abundance tempts the ; taste and mny be picked and oaten by anybody. This fruit is n great boon to tired and thirsty travelers.—The Garden. One Dollar the Average. Experiments made in different sections show that the cost of feeding a hen one year is about sl. and that the profit is about the same, the gross receipts from the lien being about $2 a year. Os course, thiw varies according to the breed, cost of food and location, being sometimes more and sometimes less; but it is accepted that $1 pays the cost and $1 profit is made from each ben. With small flocks, where table scn*,i»s are put to use and when the labor is of but little value, the cost is reduced ami the profits larger.—Poul try Keeper. Poultry Fickinga. Always select the cream of your flock for breeders. It pays to improve. There W not one-half the amount of labor in keeping fowls in health as there is in trying to cure disease. Do away with condiments and condition powders; each tends to weaken instead of strengthen your poultry. Don't fail to supply your birds with plenty of grit. Bear in mind it takes push and grit to make poultry profitable. Farm Notes. Wherever there is a low place beside the road accumulating the wash from the rotldbed the soil will probably be rich enough to pay for plowing up and carHng into adjoining fields. This will improve the road as well, as it makes a place into which its surplus moisture will flow. A sheltered yard would be very serviceable in winter. This may be secured by the use of boards or by growing an evergreen hedge around the inclosure. to serve ns a windbreak. If the cold winds can be kept from stock they can stal'd quite a low degree of cold and enjoy themselves in the open air. A Pennsylvanian has a simple plan of feeding bees. As he has never lost a colony that bad a queen and enough bees to keep it warm, the plan is worth testing. He nTakes candy of granulated sugar and pours this into shallow pans. When cool he lays it on top of the frames right over a cluster of bees. Low-down wagons with wide metal wheels are being used with good results, as they are more easily loaded and the wide wheels do not cut up the roads, but assist to pack the surface. Wide wheels are not necessarily heavy, as improvements in wheels have gained width and lightness, metal being substituted for the heavy hubs and spokes to be found in wheels made of wood.

There is much work on the farm that can now be more cheaply done by steam power, even though It leave . horses idle in the stable. The horse • has saved man much labor now let man - use the cheaper devices of modern Invention to save the horse whenever , this is possible. There is no danger • that steam power will supersede horse power, for the latter can be used in ways that will be pleasanter for the farmer, besides being less expensive, t There are plenty of uses for the horse 3 that the steam engine cannot till.

J THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. I THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CALM » REFLECTION. A Pleasant, Interesting, and Instruct* Ive Lesson, and Where It May Be Found—A Learned and Concise Review of the Borne, Lesson for Feb. 29. Golden Text.—‘‘They that wore scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word.” —Acts 8: 4. The subject this week is The Disciples Dispersed and the lesson is found in Acts 8: 1-17. The persecution that arose after the death of Stephen was the most important event since rentecost; it was one of the turning points of the history of Christianity. Had there been no obstacle to Ilie spread of the now religion in Jerusalem, there is no tolling how long it would have been before the missionary motives contained in the teaching of Jesus w^nld have effected a dispersion of the diable” and a beginning of world evangel ij^^ A brief review of the first eight les™F nt the quarter will be advisable at thisW ' Those lessons cover a period of seven years, from A. D. .IO to 3T.y^l ne chief events of the period were, th^sk*scent of the Spirit and the opposition to the preaching of Peter and John; the chief changes in church polity wore, n growing tendency toward indifference to property, due to tlie necessities of the poor, and the appointment of deacons. The close of tlie period witnessed great and rapid advance of evangelization through the efforts of Stephen and others, which led to tlie fust martyrdom. Humanly speaking, it. seems to have been necessary for the Lord to drive tlie disciples out of Jerusalem in order to get them to do any missionary work; they had spent seven years there without any sign of intention to obey ! the grent commission. Ex ptunntory. “And Saul was consenting unto his ■ denth”: this sentence of course belongs | with tlie preceding chapter. That it should be placed ns pnrt of the first verse of chapter eight is simply one of the many j examples of stupidity on the part of those people who several centuries ngo divided the scriptures into chapters and verses. It would ho ungrateful to deny that they did a great service in rendering the Bible ‘ easy of reference, but there nre serious, blunders in the work, which sometimes ob ' score the sense for the ordinary reader. Saul not only showed his approval of the murder of Stephen by standing by and taking charge of the outer garments of those who did the stoning, but probably used his influence in the Sanhedrim tc secure Stephen's conviction. "Devout men nre pious Jews who trMii Tied in this way their commiseration for Stephen's fate and their conviction of his innocence." "Haling men ami women”: haling is of course the same ns our word “hauling,” and means "dragging away." i That Saul did not confine bis vioiw»e tc men but arrested ami treated thus rqpghly . women also \v a .it I Kl " which afterwards tormented **,..* The mirm les of I’liiUp si ‘ucO I^W'° possessed of nt least one of th* i’ll portant qualifications of no Siephen also bad performed miracles 8). "This man is the great power of God' : the Greek is more literally Ranslated In the revised version. “This mnn is that । [k>w< rof God which is calh d Great. I bat is, the man's official title, claimed by him and admitted by his followers, seems tc have been "The Grent Bower of God.” • Trenching tlie things concerning the kingdom of God. ami the name of Jesus Uhrist”: it is interesting to note the sub jects of the early sermons in the church. Rvpentam e, reformats n, in order to enter the kingdom of God, mid personal alb* giancc to Jesus the promised M -sinh, were the topics that o< copied the chief place. “Simon himself believed also": he may have been partly in earnest at first, or he may have had only gain in his mind all the time; we cannot say. At any rate, he did not truly believe, as the subsequent verses clearly show. Hi re is a good example of the truth that the Bible is not to be literally interpreted in all cases. The writer of Acts says Simon believed, thereby implying that lie became a member of j Christ's kingdom, but he immediately pro- । coeds to tell us that Simon in reality did nothing of tlie kind. Tlie context must i always be taken into account in inter- ; preting a verse of scripture. Simon ob- ' served Philip's miracles with a practiced i and professional eye, for he was accus tomed to do a little in that line himself, as

he would have expressed it. But the difference between his clumsy tricks and the genuine wonders wrought by Philip through divine power amazed him and aroused his cupidity. Teachinsr Hints. When God's people fail to move in the path of duty voluntarily, he setnetimes gives them a push. Seed must b/' torcil. Any fonohor who knows soUM thing ' of botany can make this point vryy vivid ' mid striking by describing somvof the ways in which nature provides fiir fertilization and dissemination. Simon's mistake may not he common today. but we have some not far different: there are those who imagine that membership in a church, outward conformity to the principles of Christianity, will advatice them in material ways. The lawyer or the dentist or the merchant rents a pew at church to get the patronage of the 1 church people that is. sometimes this happ* ns; mid thereby it comes to pass that ] other lawyers, dentists and merchants, . self-respecting and upright but. not Chrisl timis. stay away from church lest they j be suspected of that very species of hypoerisy. However, let not the teacher ' take pains to apply this point to somebody ’ else for the benefit of the class. Inquire ' rather whether we have not the germs and J possibilities of the same sin in ourselves.

Next Lesson “The Ethiopian Convert.” -Acts 8: 26-40. Merely waiting on God by a formal and stated observance of church ordinances will no more communicate to the sinner’s soul the joys of Christ’s salvation than will walking to the bubbling fountain give relief to the heated, thirsty man. Not until he drinks of the water is his burning thirst assuaged; and so, not until the convicted sinner takes hold of Christ by a living faith, and actually appropriates Him to himself as his own living, loving, atoning Redeemer can he find relief

DEATH IN THE FLOOD I SEVERAL PEOPLE DROWNED IN OHIO VALLEY RIVERS. Disaster to Many Towns Inundated 1 by Swollen Streams-Houses Arc ^ orn Apart and Residents Forced to Flee—Property Lohs Ih Heavy. bloods Bring Disaster. Streams in Kentucky are clear out of their banks and doing unmeasurable damage. Four men were drowned in eastern , Kentucky and one man in Butler County. Much stock has been lost, fencing swept away and other property almost ruined. The streams all through the mountains are higher than for years ami the greatest damage is feared. News conies from Pineville, Ky., that two white men. while crossing a raging stream, were drowned, and also a revenue officer, who was in the mountains looking after moonshiners. Among the heaviest losers in the mountains are the lumber men, who have lost thousands of dollars' worth of timber. It has been raining for a week. Tin* people have been forced to seek shelter on tlie mountains. Reports from Jackson mid other places up the north fork say there has been considerable loss of life ami property. Mrs. Hutzell and little daughter were drowned in their house, which was washed from the mountain side in Brent bitt County. Two men whose names could not be learned were drowned in one of the streams in Bell County. In Frankfort the Kentucky river is away out of its hanks. Families in the west end are being moved from their houses in boats. For seventy-two hours, a steady rain fell over the entire area of tlie immense watershed of the Ohio valley, with the exception of the mountainous portions of western New York and western Pennsylvania. Considerable alarm is felt in Cincinnati over tlie rapid rise of the Ohio river. A stage of forty five feet indicates the danger point. The river bad reached forty-four feet ami was rising at tlie rate of seven inches per hour. Reports from all the tributaries tell of floods. At Charlestown, W. Vs., the steady rain for two days put the Kanawha ami Elk rivers above the danger line. Ths lower part of the city is flooded, ami many people hml to move out of their homes. Blizzard in Wisconsin. , Advices from northern Wisconsin nre in effect that a violent snowstorm raged nil day nml that railway mid other traffic is practically suspended. At Black River Falls, the snow is fifteen feet deep on n level. Plainfield highways are blockaded and all business is suspended. A cyclone struck mar Benwood. north of Brazil. Ind., leaving ruin in its wake. The path of the storm was Umi yards Wide and three miles in length. Trees Were torn up mid carried fur miles through the air, fences were lifted ami strew n over the county nml small buildings were caught up nml twisted into splinters Iwo largo stock barns on the farm of M A Johnson A ’ 'o. were hft* *l l< ir of their foumlntlons nml whirl®*! nml t«i«tr*l th rough th® air, Iwing «hq»o»it«><! in ib-brla for several miles akmit the path of ihr cyclone. <*m- barn w till* <1 w ith live Stink, but th- animals w-re left imhw: ami unhurt Th* storm ' • k the top from a buggy oc* .q*ied by nn employ e, and rnr tied it two miles, doing no harm to the man or his home. Much other dmmigc was done by the st*>rm. IO FIGHT DIG STORES. ' Chicago Retail Merc hint a Organize Against l'< pirtnunt llouaea. The retail dealers of Chicago are “out ' after" the department -tores a- they mrer have been I -fore. They have all felt the fiern* *i>mp* iiti**i> o! these big com binntion Imus* -downtow n. nml have realized they . nnii.it .s.mp, te in the matter t of prh e». Tl-y det hire that publit pob ley demands the abolition <>t th- big stores. Through the devi. c intiodm.d years ago by I' .1 Lehman difl. rent line of trade w.re ...mbimd under om rout ' mid n single high priced man could man • ngo all of them. Cheap salesmen mid 1 I cheaper girls, it is alleged, took the place U of the competent < !erk*. -<> that expenses ' I were greatly reduced, ami pri. * - could be Mint down accordingly. It is well known ’ that the department stores sell hats < heaps or than the hut stores, stoves cheaper than the stove stores, sdks cheaper than 1 the silk stores, books cheaper than the 1 book stores, mid that every independent hou-e in every conceivable line suffers in • the struggle. Modern department stores 1 sell practically everything. Tiny have ■ added photograph galh ri. s, physicians,

lawyers, dentists and even manicures to their multitude of regular lines, mid representatives of those businesses Lavi* at last organized in opposition. Against the assertion th:i' a man has a right to run as many lines of trade as he wants to they reply that the whole body of the public is damaged; that real estate values are confused; that good salesmen are thrown out of work: that child labor is encouraged, with nil its possibly hurtful incidents, and (lint ihe general public in the long run pays more for its goods than it would in the old way, when each separate line of goods was displayed in a separate store. A big meeting of retail merchants was held at the Sherman House and an organization perfected for the promotion of the anti-department store bill now before the Illinois Legislature. The chief reliance of the leaders in the movement is what is called the cumulative tax system. They bold that a tax should be levied on each line of business.. If a man wants to engage in a single line of trade, let him pay a tax of SIOO to the city. If he wants to manage two separate and distinct lines, liiiii il/xiililo flit* Fun llul’p is 111 UFO

posed scheme of taxa I ion: Dept. License. Depts. License. 1 $ 100 9 8 25.60(1 2 200 10 51,200 3 ’ 400 11 102,400 4 ''" ’’ \ ’ 800 12 204.800 5 ....... 1,600 13 409,600 ‘ . 3.200 14 819.200 j (>,400 15 1,638.400 B.^.^.^ 12,800 16 3,276,800 Thomas L. Johnson, who was convicted at New Bloomfield, Pa., of murder in the second degree for the killing of Dr. George S. Henry of Duncannon, Pa., was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment. He attempted to kill his wife at the same time, alleging that she had been intimate with Dr. Henry. The old board of directors, with one exception, was re-elected at the annual meeting of the National Lead Company stockholders in Jersey City, N. J. Ine regular quarterly dividend of It per cent on the preferred stock was declared.

INDIANA INCIDENTS. RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Charges Against an Indiana Institute —Sensation at Waterloo —Gov. Mount Wants the Wise Counsel of Editors in Legislative Matters. Cruelty nt the Reformatory. Otto Heinl, son of Lawrence Heinl, a prominent Terre Haute florist, makes the charge of cruel treatment of the boys at the State reform school. He says he was nt the institution as florist three years ago, and saw the boys flogged in a brutal manner and on slight provocation. He is moved to make this statement, he declares, by the report of a visiting legislative committee which is highly commendatory of the management. Editor Ball of (he Gazette is one of the directors of the institution, and devotes two eohumns in his paper to a,denial of the charges. Heinl says the Humane Society ought to investigate the matter. Officials Must Pay. The report of W. H. Ernest, of Waterloo, expert accountant, who for three months has been investigating the financial affairs of the county, made his final report to the County C'ommissioners a few days ngo, and it was announced that the total amount of shortages of all officials and ex-officials would reach over $30,000. The report was not made public, but a part of it has now become public property, ami it is found that a number of other officials are short in their accounts as well ns those discovered recently. The Shortage of the sheriff is not counted against him, ns the county owes him over $2,000. It is reported on good authority that another ex-official paid the County ffommislioners $3,000 to settle up the shortage found ngainst him, so that his name would bo withheld front tlie public. Another present official is said to be involved for several thousand dollars. Wanta Editors to Help. Gov. Mount has askfd the editors of the State to help hint in passing upon legislation. He lias just sent out a circular letter, in part as follows: "Persons having dir<*et nml special interest in the passage of certain bills naturally see to it that such measures are promoted with all possible expedition at every stage of progress, while the people at large, less attentive to such matters, often permit grave injustice to be done by non-aetion. The Governor is a firm believer in the influence •ind integrity of (he press, and. believing, furthermore, that the n-w spaces of the State refle-t the w ill *.f ciiizens generally n a trustworthy manner, he requests your .■..-operation tn the extent of sending to this office mnt k* d copies of issues of your paper in which you comment in favor or Hgiiinst any h zislatnm now pending.” All Over the Htutc. !.b>hn W hctsteinc. aged sr, years, banged a.ui *-.f to a tre*- < n hla farm near Morgan- \\ if nm Tin rle. t wenlthv farmer near Gr* *mslmn-. w ■ moidei. d nml robbed of ■; Urff whe h he ■ ni - d on his person. Elliott A Smilh, wledesale batters at Terre Haute, made nn assignment, with t.qntim :I nd SJaJKo liabilities. The firm went into business abmit four i.ars Uhnrl. * Pinkerton, of South B. nd, wits murdered by hi- um le. <'lnn les Pinker t<>n. and tlie mind, rer i- m.w under arrest. I’lie tragedy was the result of a longstanding f. iid. i'lic murderer claims his m-phew stem U him with u club ami that lie stabbed him in seif defelis. . The Court of Appeal-, wlii. h met in Elwood to adjust the differences existing .at the Mmbetli factory and tin* Lippincott fm fori at Alexandria between the chimm i work- ami the companies, effected a settlement, and tlie Lippincott plant will r.sume operations in a few days. The . xact terms of tlie s.tllemeiit were not Many of the papers before the National Association of Schoo] Superintendents at Indianapolis related to supervision of teaching. Lewis 11. Jones, snperintemlnt of th- ('lei eland schools, and Sarah (Brooks of Si. Paul schools, led the disnssioii. "Round table" work was a prom ■ iiient subject in the afternoon. In tlie High School building "Public Libraries । and Public Schools’ was tlie topic for i discussion, led by Melville Dewey, secre- , tary of the State Board of Regents, Albany. "Summer Sessions and the Ar- > rangement of the School A eat” was eonIm ted by Orville T. Bright, county sup- [ Tint.■mien) of schools. Chicago. James Cropper and John Roniizer, his i nephew, were sleeping off a drunk at. In- > dianapolis in tlie tailoring establishment - >f the latter, w hen Cropper's pretty young • wife appeared upon the scene with a rei volver and began filing at Romizet. 'l’wo shots went wild, but the third struck

Komizcr in the hip. making a dangerous wound. When the police amml .nd arrested Mrs. Cropper she said that Romizer induced her husband to drink and remain away from home. Later in the day Cropper appeared at the station and pleaded for his wife's release, saying the fault was all his. and that she was the best woman in Indianapolis. An effort will be made to dismiss the cast* without a trial. A peculiar war is being waged at the little town of Eaton between the saloon men who sell only beer by the quart. The proprietors are Joseph Hayden and .1. B. Lambert. The established price for their goods is 20 cents per bottle, but Hayden cut it to 15. Lambert went him one better ami sold his goods for 12’4 cents per bottle. Next day Hayden was selling quart bottles for 10 cents and m the evening Lambert was advertising his bottles for 5 cents each. The ent continued until Tuesday morning, when a hottie could be purchased for 1 cent, ami that evening both places bad big signs out announcing “free beer” by the bottle. Everybody who was so inclined got drunk and the calaboose was full. The finding of John C. Evans, the Jonesboro banker, and John C. Crum guilty of bunkoing Farmer Haines out of 81.000 does not put an end to the already famous case. H. J. Paulus and L. D. Baldwin, two attorneys for the defense, were arrested for attempting jury bribing. Mr. and Mrs. Orin Burgess, residing near Westville, celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary. Six children were born to them and all were present at the celebration, together with a number of guests, who witnessed the wedding ceremony.' Mr. Burgess is 89 years old and Mis. Burgess 87.

THE INDIANA SOLONS The street railroad question came up in both bouses Wednesday. The New bill was called up on third reading in the Senate, but a motion by Senator Sweeney to postpone was carried. Senator Sweeney explained that he had no intention whatever of injuring the prospects of the bill, and later moved a reconsideration. Senator Wood tried to kill this motion by a motion to adjourn, and this was defeated. The action was reconsidered and the question of the final passage of the bill in the Senate was made a special order for 10 o’clock Friday morning. In the House the duplicate bill came up. The bill in the Senate form was recommended to puss. Mr. Shideler introduced a minority report along the lines of that drawn by .Jerry Collins, and introduced in the Senate by Senator Wood. No vote was V. en ' Jhe Legislature sent to Gov. Mount the two bills in which the State Board ot Charities is especially interested, one providing for the better care of dependent orphan children, and the other converting the State prison south into an intermediate or reformatory prison. In ihe Senate Thursday the street railroad bill was passed with an amendment that may possibly invalidate it. The — _ House passed the Jernegan factory inspection bill. It prevents the employment of children under 14 years in factories and prevents the employment of boys under 10 and girls under 18 more than ten hours a day. Four caucus measures were passed. Ono restores the appointment of the State House engineer to the Governor; another puts in bis hands the appointment of the boards of prison directors; another is the bill passed by the Senate amending Hie election law. The changes maE^lt impossible for the name of a fusion candidate to go upon the official ballot more than once. The fourth, reorganizing the eleven boards of metropolitan police commissioners, was a Senate bill. The House passed the general pharmacy bill. The Governor signed the first of the series of bills introduced for the purpose of collecting the Vandalia claim and the second bill was introduced and passed the House under suspension of the rules. A question of religion hobbed up suddenly in the House Friday when the Education Committee sent in two reports upon a resolution by Mr. Wiener. The resolution declared that “The Story of Liberty,” one of the books put out for use in the schools, was an improper book for school children. Hot arguments were made against this volume, which was denounced by Mr. M iener as a collection of lies and calumnies. The resolution was finally adopted by a heavy majority. The House pnssed the anti-trust bill. It is a copy • f the Georgia law with a clause inserted that * < nfines its operations to “those who contr I the output." This lets out the who'osnlers who operate under price igrcemonts known by various terms as the “eqv iJby” or “contract" or “rebate" plan. I hi' House also passed the bill to change !h< N -wton County seat and a couple of minor bills regarding the funds of the State University. The amended street railroad bill as passed by the Senate was r«-f* rreil to i ninmit tee. Tlie Senate passed i lull, permitting tlie organization of trust •onipa lies with not less than $50,000 capital stock in counties of less than 60,000 inhabitants; to permit the ownership of teal csiate by aliens; amending the Jaw regarding gornishnicnts; the second Vandulia bill; the bill legalizing the issue of bunds by Jeffersonville, over which there tins been much litigation. Ail uneasiness wlii. h Judges, State and county officials •md legislators had felt about having their railroad passes taken from them was disiclled Saturday when the Railroad Committee in the Senate killed Senator Gill's bill defining official corruption and reguli>(ing the control and issuance of railroad jiasscs. At the same time the ■iminibtee reported favorably on the ! cent street ear fare bill, and it will be ■ailed i|i fur passage under suspension of In- ru cs. The committee also reported faviua'd.v on file bill compelling street car •otnpanies to heat their cars from Nolembcr to March, inclusive, and .he bill whs passed. The bill to prevent In bilging mly got to the point of engrossment. The throe-cent street ear fare bill was nut <ni passage under a suspension of the rules Monday. There was only one vote igains tlie lifll. The legislative apporlionment bill passed the Senate. The Senate also passed Senator New's bill repealing the apportionment act of 1885, .‘he nmonstitutional gerrytminder under whic , t the last election was held. The >hje< i in repealing this act is to force a q* cial session of the Legislature to pass i new apportionment net should the i)em>crati< Supreme Court throw out the new qiportionnient. In the House the Temaerance Committee reported on NicholKin’s anti-quart shop bill and offered a -nbstitute in the shape of a bill that dc- . -troys much of the original Nicholson law uni modifies a great portion of the renainder. It provides for a 12 o'clock , losing law for the larger cities in the State to replace the 11 o'clock law. I “ Samuel Lover and His Moth r. ' Samuel Lover was born in Dublin, I'ebru.-iry 24. 17!>7. His father was a, man of business, and, as tin* eldest son. Samuel was able, at I<> years of I age. to fulfill the duties of head - clerk i (for he was as clever at correspondi cnee and figures as he was at every- ' thing else), and so save much expense to the firm. It was natural Io wish - that he should remain in it. My father, i however, possessed such strong ariis- - tie talents that business was distasteful to I ’m. and he longed to follow another path in life. He liad bad the mis--1 fortune to lose his mother when he was a boy of 12. She would probably - have understood and forwarded bis aspirations; for the tenderest affection ‘ hail existed het ween (hem. and 1 throughout life he revered the memory ' of his mother as the sweetest and best • oi' Women. His talents he probably inherited in part from her. as well as bis amiable and lovable character.— ('entury. Steers a Ship Automatically. It is stated that Lieut. Bersier, of 1 the French navy, has invented a com--1 pass which steers the vessel automatically in a course set by the navigator. In Connecticut the rent of farming land is the most serious item of expense in rhe production of wheat, being no less than $6.31 per acr *. Over five hundred tornadoes occurred . during the twelve years from 1871 to 1883 in the United Stat' S.