St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 47, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 June 1897 — Page 7

AGRICULTURAL NEWS THINGS PERTAINING TO THE FARM AND HOME. Treatment of Horses Afflicted with Heaves—Pigs Should Be Fed Regularly—Advantage of Straight Rows for Cunltivated Cropa—Notes. Heaves in Horses. ' Heaves is not so common a disease among horses as it was in former years. It may be described as a chronic disease of the breathing organs, without inflammation, characterized by a peculiar breathing, the breath being drawn in with ease, but breathed out with difficulty, and by two distinct efforts. The immediate cause is the rupture or debility of the small cells in the lungs, so the animal canont expel ithe air he has drawn In without an extra and double effort. It is obvious, therefore, that the symptoms are readily dewwmmm I 8 established it is incurable, though it can be alleviated materially. If the disease is not too lintense some relief may be obtained by giving one-half to one grain of arsenic in form of Fowler’s solution daily for several weeks. One authority recommends the follow{ng prescription: “Thirty grains each of calomel, digitalis, opium and camphor; make into a ball and give once or twice a day.” After the first week the calomel should be omitted. But more valuable than any medicine is the food and treatment of the animal. The diet should be of the best quality and small quantity. Coarse foods should be avoided. Mouldy or dusty hay or fodder is especially injurious. Let him run on a clean, short pasture and the feed given be in a concentrated form, slight1y dampened to allay any dust. Keep bowels loose. Feeding Pigs Regnlarly. Much depends in feeding pigs on giving their food at regular intervals. Then the pig will very soon become used to this, and will not expect his food until the next regular feeding time comes. The old saying that a squealing pig loses a pound of fat every time it squeals has this much of truth in it, that the irregular times for feeding which occasions most of the squealfng is the surest way to destroy digestion. This in pigs is not so strong as is often supposed. The pig is greedy by nature. Others must see to it that it does not eat more nor oftener than 18 good for it Straight Rows for Hoed Cropas. So much of the work of cultivation is now done with horse power that it is more than ever important that all rows of hoed crops shall be as nearly on a ~_straight line as possible. Unless this -18 done it is impossible to guide the caltivator so as to avoid destroying more or less plants, beside leaving seeds that cannot be thereafter uprooted except with great difficulty. When a weed is not killed by cultivation it is made all the more thrifty, for the pruning of the roots which cultivation gives makes new roots put forth just as it does for the cron. It Is for this reason that after harrowing both ways over corn ground before the grain Is up, the cultivator should be set to work between the rows just so soon as the rows can be seen. This will destroy any weeds that the harrowings may have missed. Kicking Cows. A Western agricultural writer says that there are just as good milkers among cows that do not kick as there are among those that do. This, we think, is hardly the fact. It {s the tenderness in the udder, caused by the presence of a large amount of milk.l that makes careless handling of the teats very painful. The result is that the cow becomes a kicker, and soon this grows into a habit not easily broken. It is usually the fault of the man who breaks the heifer to being milked who is responsible for her character as a milker. If the first operations on the teats are gentle, drawing milk slowly until the bag is somewhat eased, milking is a soothing and pleasure-giving process for the cow. For the first few times the heifer is milked she should have some appetizing feed set before her, which she can eat while the milk is being drawn. This should always be given when there is danger that the ¢ow will hold up her milk. The cow is ~ a one idea animal. When she Is eating _heartily she cannot easily think of anything else.—American Cultivator. Fruit by Roadsides, Probably the best use that can be made of roadsides is to plant fruit trees beside them, especially of those that are somewhat hard to gather in quantity. We have In mind a farmer who, many years ago, planted a long row of cherry trees on the roadside, and far enough from the fence so that the trees did not injure the crops inside the fields. These trees never failed to furnish a payingcrop,andsomeyears the cherries were sold on the trea for four to five dollars per tree, and still paid a good( profit to the man who bought the fruit. l Very few cherries were taken by passersby, though the trees were beside a well-traveled road. Most people while going along a highway are too busy to stop, and the tramps wno were not teo busy were generally too lazy. Probably if peaches or pears had been thus exposed the result would have been d@ifferent. Even then a few roadside trees for the public would be apt to lessen depredations on the neighboring orchards, which near citles or large villages are the causes of much loss to fruit growers.—Exchange. Muskmelons by the Acre. Cheap as muskmelons are at times, they pay better than do most staple farm crops for those who are willing to give them the care which all garden crops require. To get the best prices

plant as early as the land Is warmed at the surface. Frequent:'cultivation, leaving the land as light’ as possible, will do much to make it warm. So will planting on a newly turned two-year-old clover sod. The very earliest melons are planted in a compact space, with a box 10x12 over the hill to keep off winds through the daytime and to be covered at night. Ten or more seeds are placed in each hill, which are later reduced to two plants by the time the vines begin to run. One of the worst enemies of all melon plants is the white grub, the larva of the May or June bug. It will travel on the surface soil at night and eat the plants just at the surface. Wheat brfan through which Parls green has Heen mixed and scattered around the stems of the plants will make short work of these pests. The grubs are very fond of the bran, and in eating it will get enough poison to kill them. This method of getting rid of grubs will not, be practicable if fowls are allowed to come near the patch, as they are also very fond of the bran.— Agricultural Exchange. 1 Alkall in Western Lands. In an instruotive paper recently read bet -e i by Prof. E. W. Hilgard, this mgjuet was broadly considered, and it wae shown that alkall is the result of disintegration of rocks and found only where rainfall {s too little to carry it off in solution. The more common salts are Glauber's salts, common salt and sal soda. The lagt named occaslons the principal injury by girdling plants at the surface. In connection with these salts are found othgrs which are | among the most valuable elements of fortility, mainly salts of potash and lime, and found in greater proportiona in arid than in humid lands. These salts frequently appear on the surface only after irrigation. In such cases it will be found that they existed below the surface and were carried in solu. tlon by water used In irrigation and left on the surface by evaporation, A remedy is deep cultivation with thor | ough pulverization of the surface in orchand cultivation, to reduce evapora- | tion to a mindmum; or shading thol ground with such crops as alfalfa. The more important discoveries are tlmtf the Australtan salt bush will thflve! on strong alkall lands and that they | have also produced large yields and a ’ fine quality of sugar beets, i Raising Ducks, ' In raising ducks set the aggs whder | hens; when hatched remove to « ox | lined with poper and kept in a wa.m | place with all the sunshine possible, | When two days old put in a board pen } during day time. IFeed bread soaked in | water and pressed dry. Do not give them water to swim in until three weks old, Dust with Perslan insect | p(\;\\‘dor once a week; when four weeks i old feed on corn bread sonked in sweet | milk; young onion tops cut fiune and mixed with their feed are healthful. | After four weeks okl they will thrh'ef on almost any diet and wlill grow with | less water to swim in than {s generally | supposed. Always keep water for| drinking as pure and clean as possible, | changing often and putting gravel in| the dish where water is kept. ' Poultry Pickings. Don't have the flocks of hens too large. If you have more than seventyfive or elghty, they ought to be separated into smaller flocks. , An egg containsg from 25 to 27 per cent. solid matter, nearly 14 per cent. albumen. That means that laying hens need food rich in albuminous matter meat, oatmeal, milk, bran, ete. While poultry will not thrive on neglect, it Is well to remember that overfeeding and lack of exercise are also fruitful sources of loss in the pouliry yard. | If we would keep up the vigor and fecundity of our flocks we must infuse new blood into them. If service or profit or vigorous growth is desired, there must be a frequent change of cockerels in the flocks. Weed out the flocks, disposing of really old stock and the undesirable young. A few good hens, well cared for, will raise more chickens this summer than If & great’flock is crowded together in unhealthy coops, 1

A Boston commission merchant says | that If farmers would market all the chickens and eggs they can spare each week, they would be surprised at the regular income that they were recefving, and they would find more profit in poultry. A writer says that crop bound s nothing more than Indigestion, and that charcoal fed fowls rarely ever have this trouble. Then prevent it by l every now and then charring several ears of corn and allowing the hens to | pick it off. ‘f Farm Notes, | I.ean the tree at planting towards the direction of prevailing winds. Bees need special care in early spring if profitable returns are secured. Syrup made of granulated sugar is the best and cheapest feed that can be given to bees. A nearly eight-fold increase in the exports of oats i{s noted the past nlne months compared with a year ago, the figures being respectively 26,000,000 i and 3,500,000 bushels. A cross between the Brown Leghorn and Buff Cochin Is an excellent egg producer and an ldeal table fowl. Eggs will be had the year round and the hens make excellent mothers, Just before fruit blossoms open is the time to spray thoroughly to destroy bud moth, clgar and pistol case bearers, These three insects do their most destruoctive work before blossoms open, To make grafting wax, melt together and pour into a pail of cold water resin four parts by weight, beeswax two parts and tallow one part. Then grease the hands and pull the wax until it lg nearly white.

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PETTICOAT OF FLANNEL. | :Aa fa ; W%fig“%‘ never dreamed of in the days when flannel skirt making was an art. ‘The newest ones show yokes of white (as. feta, to make the waist smaller. Wash silk is used and the flannel, which s very fine, is gathered on the silk yole The principal trimming is ribbon. T'his A o £ 7y Q,,,_\ 3 1. &P - E /‘.! 5 1 \ 7 | : ! Il 11 : Vv & ] i) % ! I_v‘,”fi' }#. . Lk 3 | PR e X LIRS EN N L . ; Y1 () e 1 Vi ! L \ | .e1 S | 1 e ey N TEN\ | 3 \ "AR ke e "wn Y I w /"'- ]i ] x..: a. \ . ‘.; ‘_,. " . . \,'\\’ h’;}"" 2o A A IF'HE NEWEST FLANNEL SKIRTS, ‘ is used for strapping the seamy nmd for decorating the top of the ruftie, When lace is put en the flann>' {5 ent out underneath and the laco .\!!‘-'ll'_:flt-; ered with coarse thread stitches, put | on invisibly., Ruffles of ribboa are set ' vnderneath the skirt or Jeep flounees of white needlework. Thees fs a pate tern of hand embroiders upon exory flannel skirt, but it is done as o finisi to the ribbon and lace, and not as llmi. main trimming of the skirt, | The Rights of a Young Wife, 1 “Before everything else the young woman has a right to expeet from her husband tenderness, sympathy and faith,” says Ruth Ashmore, writing in the Ladies’ Home Journat of “What to Expect from a Young Man.” “Eut sometimes, in his eagerness to make all life falr to her, he fancies she 1s a doll, and not a woman., And a doll is a very seltish toy: it demands careful treat ment all the time, and it gives nothing but a pretty appearance in return, It is the foolish wife who expects infallibility in her husband. She forgets that there s a difference between the housewife and the house moth., She should expeet from Lier husband politeness at all times, and a certain gentleness that every man, possessing the real instinet of a man, gives to a woman. But she should not expect from him too much. She has no right whatever to ask of him permission to live a lazy life herself, and to gave up all her days and years to vain and lidle thoughts. * * * When the wife can make her husband's home-coming a joy, his home-staying a pleasure and a delight, and his leaving home a sorrow, then, and then only, can she expect a great deal from him."”

Coiffure for a Narrow Face, | The hair should be dressed round to suit a long, narrow face, It is always best to show a coil or so from the side behind the ears; also endeavor to fill up the nape of the neck as mueh as possible. lor a sharp-featured face always avoid dressing the hair right at the top of the back of the crown in ¢ line with the nose, as this so accentnates the severe outlines. Dress the hair low or else quite to the crownto meet the fringe. For a round face narrow dressings are becoming and can be taken well down the neck. New Calling for Women. The Parish Council of Liangley, near Slough, has received an application from a woman for the post of slaugh- | ter-house inspector of the town of \ Colnbrook, under their jurisdiction, She was recommended by two local ‘ residents as well qualified for the post, ‘ but the council preferred to reappoint the present male inspector. In the ad- | Joining Parish of Iver a woman has | acted as registrar and vaccination ofl ficer for several years with the greatest | ] success.—Westminster Gazette, ‘ Ridiculous Footgear. Women are more often too short than too tall. Height, they think, must be gained, and consequently the ridicnlously high-heeled shoes are decided upon. Tfiey do, undoubtedly, give dignity as long as the wearer stands still, but when the wearer is in motion they destroy grace, even in a room, and deform the feet. Thus women are made to minister to a very short-lived fancy. American women, as a rule, have too small feet, which do not add to their beauty. The better shape a foot is the smaller it will look, but in the disproportionately small foot there is always

| Ipvolved an awkward gait. The foot %‘Zr‘ ' ,(%f;{w,vg t ;@W ;;} \«:,':, ;,r % j S e L ] ] u YR 4"‘ o ‘~’ ,M,,p . |pe the length of the ulna, a bone in ; e forearm, which extends from the | lump in the outer portion of the wrist |to the elbow. Os course the ulna is Adonger in tall people, and to be graceful the foot should be also, ~ Marrying a Man to Reform Him, “The most subtle and deceitful hope which ever existed, and one which wrecks the happiness of many a young girl's lite,” writes Evangelist Dwight L. Moody, In the Ladies’ Home Journal, “is the common delusion that a woman ¢an best reform a man by marrying him. It Is a mystery to me how people can be so blined to the hundreds of cases in every community where tottering homes have fallen and {nnocent lives have been wreeked, because some young girl has persisted In marrying a scoundrel in the hope of saving him. 1 have never known such a union, aid I have seen hundreds of them, re#ult in anything but sadness and disaster. lLet no young girl think that she may be able to aceomplish what a loving mother or sympathetic sisters have been unable to do. Before there is any contract of marriage there should bha | convincing proof that there has been real and thorough regeneration.” | Teaching Danghters How to Shop, A practical mothenhbas determined on i another “course’” for her daughter. She bas taught her how to shop. It takes costly experience often to show women the pitfalls of the shops. The sta- 1‘ ples of dry goods, housckeeping linens, blankets, regular grades of dress goods, as serges, flannels and the like, the long ] st of white goods—all such and many Spore bave distinetive characteristics, paefal knowledge of which should be ired Defore attempis to purchase AN {O, The mge among women for ! g’ temipts even the most repu. t‘bh‘ l!iv;w-?:;m’u to Keep “seconds” in stock it 1& valuable to know them at sight and to reject or accept them as may scem expedient, % Invention for Toilet Tables, § A new invention for a tollet table, { whereby we may see ourselves as oth- { ers see us, will doubtiess be greatly appreciated by both men and women. It I 8 on the principle of the triptych mirror., but the glasses are arranged on long, movable arms, and on swivels at the top, so that they may be turned and moved in every direction—a most | (@) [ ) ,"‘f"‘ :u l_,e‘;b'\\ \ ; ; EA]'.%\ b i%, ; N \ /i f ' {/fl g 3\:;/ fl¥~ | i R filk::fl\ :;- & E‘! e §.'..... \ ;, Rl N \ B i : M|l @ 7 1 9§ Ifi\l g e | ' INVENTION FOR A TOILET TABLE. convenient arrangement, whereby a

fashionable woman may watch her maid arrange her hair on the sides as well as in front, while she is seated in front of her dressing table. After the task is completed, she can view the back, front, and sides, all at the same time. :* , Strawberry Ambrosia, } Pile a pretty glass dish with alternate “aavers of strawberries and powdered %&n Pour over them orange julce ond claret in the proportions of the juice of two oranges and one gill of claret to one quart of berrles. Let them stand on the ice an hour before serving. A University Degree. The Countess of Aberdeen has received the degree of doctor of laws from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. Lady Aberdeen is she first woman in the Dosinion who has been thus distinguished. The Self-Sufficiency of Eeauty. . Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in Itself and {8 complete In Itself; praise forms no ' part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.—Marcus Aurelius. Flower-Sprinkled Corsage. Some of the new French corset. show tiny forget-me-nots, “Quaker ladies,” or wee rose-buds on their white ground. These corsages are also trimmed with dainty ribbons and white lace. Why He Was Good. Mrs. Cobwigger—l hear you were a very good little boy while I was out. Freddie—Were you out, ma? Why, I thought you were in the next room all the time.—New York Journal,

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. e— —— — ————— THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CALM REFLECTION. A Pleasant, Interesting,and Instructive Lesson, and Where It May Be Found—A Learned and Concise Review of the Same, Lesson for June 13, Golden Text.—“ From a child thou hast known the hoiy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation.”—ll. Tioy, 81185: Paul's Advice to Timothy is the subject of this lesson.—ll. T 11T 3:14-17. On his first missionary journey Paul spent some time at Lystra. There lived a young man named Timothy, who became a disciple early in life, and when Paul came again on his second journey, some five years later (A. D. 61) he took Timothy with him. I'rom that time on their lives were closely connected. With the first lesson of the next guarter we begin the study of the second missionary journey. Hence this lesson, taken from a letter written to Timothy by Paul some sixteen years later, is inserted at this point. The reason for thus confusing the order of events in the minds of the average pupils is not clear. The lesson should have found place at the very close of Paul's life, in December. However, since it is here instead, the teacher must explatnm that Paul wrote these words when he was an old man in his second imprisonment at Rome, probably about A. D. 07, just before his death, when Timothy was separated from him and was in Ephesus. The passage in Acts 16: 15 should be read, which makes the connection with the history; and the whole of the epistle from which the lesson is taken. Fxplanatory. It is especially desirable to use the revised version in this lesson, as it improvestherendering of several verses, and modifies one's interpretation of the famoug proof text, 11. Tim., 3: 16, “My dearly beloved son:” he was Paul’s “son in the gospel,” having beemn led to Christ under his preaching when but a boy. IFrom that time he had been much associated with Paul; was with him during the first Roman imprisonment (A. D, 61-63); but at this time was in charge of the church at Ephesus. “I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers:” The mind of an old man turne naturally to his ancestry, physical and spiritual. Henece Panl, in a strong figure of spech, says “whoin [ serve from my forefathers.” Without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers;” the friondship between these men had been very close, and consecrated by their common Cheistian faith How powerful an argument to the young man Dimothy, now in & position of great responsibility, to remind him of his early home and his mother! Since so much has been given him, of him much wiil be demanded. Paul admoenishes Timothy to “‘stir up'’ the gift of vod, which

is compared 1o a smoldering fire that needs poking., '“The gift of God,” the apecial endowment of grace for Timothy’s ministerial work. “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear:” revised version, “‘a spirit of fearfulness.” Instead of a “sound mind,” the revised has “discipline,”” The connectiom seems to be, that Timothy shouid cultivate the gift that was in him in confidence, not fearing the dangers by the way, because it is ordained that the Christian's development shall proceed according to definite principles, that make for power and love and the training of charadcter, “Continue thou in the things which thou hast learned:” sound advice for anybody, young or old. Paul would not have said that Timothy must not under any circumstances change his early views of truth; what he urges is, that the fundamentals, the things he learned at his mother's knee and {from the sacred writings of prophets aud historians, should i not be surrendered. - “The holy Secriptures:” he refers of convse to the Old Testament. The books of the New already written—that is, the other epistles of Paul, that of James, the books of Acts, ete., were not constantly referred to as “‘holy Seriptures’” go early in the century, though I. Pet. 3:16 is an exception. *“l'hat the man of God may be perfect:” That is, well equipped in character as well as in knowledge for his work. Teaching Hints, Gratitude for a Christian home. This seems a rather tame subject to the average boy or girl, simply becaunse they know little about the other kind of home. As they grow older, and begin to feel the need of every resource in the engrossing and taxing business of life, and see others failing about them, something of the due gratitude comes to them for the unconscious discipline of early life and for inherited Puritanism. Moral battles which others are fighting and losmg today were fought out for some of us by our grandfathers; we bave simply to enter into the succession of victory. There is indeed an opposite side to this principle. Some, apparently fortunate in this world’s ways, are handicapped from birth or from childhcod with obstacles almost too great to be overcome. But for ‘‘the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunic®,” thank God, and abide therein, Even the gift of God needs stirring up lest the flame flicker and die out. Iven Timothy needed to be touched up ouce in a whiie. Stick to the things you learned first, says Paul. We have learned a deal of nonsense since, but the first things, the first fresh apprehension of God, the first overwhelming sense of the love of father and mother and of Christ, the first horror of sin, the first hiumble joy of repentance are things to be remembered and cherished always. Next Lesson.—“ Personal Responsibility.”—Rom. 14:10-21. Thy Father Loves Thee. There is rest remaining. Hast thou sinned? There is a sacrifice. Lift up thy head; The lovely world and the over world alike Ring with a song, a happy rede, “Thy lather loves thee.” —Jean Ingelow. The Work that God Appoints, I am glad to think I am not bound to make t » world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the word that God appoints.—~Jean In gelow.

RECORD OF THE WEEK O —— ——————————————— (INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD, fmp rtint Ruling Affecting Waste ot Gas—Loss to State Has Reached Mi’liona—Great Eastern Fields Ruined by Profligate Waste of the Fluid, No More Flambeaus in Indiana. The Supreme Court ruling, which has Just been handed down by Judge McCabe, establishing the constitutionality of the anti-waste gas laws of Indiana, 1891 enactment, and in this instance, especially, in regard to the flambeau, forever wipes out the flaming torch, which, since the first discovery of natural gas in this nation, has sucked life from the great and small gas fields. This ruling, had it come years ago, would have saved gas fields which are to-day in the list of the past. In 1891, when the Indiana Legislature | enacted laws against the waste of gas, and especially against the flambeanu, there | was an open revolt, and the owners open- ; 1y defied the law. When State Gas In- 4 | spector Leach was appointed he took the [ stand that was needed. He served warn- o | éng, and a few days later caused the ar- | rest of Andrew J. Townsend of Black- | ford County. Townsend was found guilty { and fined in the justice courts. He appealed to the Cirenit Court and was again found guilty. Then the case was appealed for a ruling on the constitutionality of a law which would not permit a man to burn his own gas on his own premises, after his own idea. The decision of Judge McCabe is complete and concise, He holds that the vight of the owner of a gas well to draw from a common reservoir beneath the ground is analogous to his right to take wild animals or fish on his own land, and he may be restrained by law from needlessly and wastefully destroying that part of the common stock which is drawn to the surface through his well, State Geologist Jordon, who oceupied the office prior to Mr. Leach’s appointment, makes the statement that the waste of gas during his first four years in Indiana amounted to $20,000,000. Almost all of this he attributed to the flambean. If this was the case, the flammbean waste for the entire ten years in Indiana would be not less than $50,000,000, while the total for the nation during all of the years since 1824 would foot up not less than $£200.000.000, lad it not been for the flambean the great fields of Pennsylvania amd Ohio would yet be producing, and Pittsburg and Pennsylvania and Ohio cities and towns would not to-day be burning coal for domestic as well as manufacturing purposes. The statement has often been made that nineteen-twentieths ' of the gas taken from the ground has been wasted, and close analysis shows that it is not far from correct. Govern- : ment figures for the last fifteen years | place the value of natural gas consumed at about 3300000000, The statement ' | that nivetecn-twentieths has been wasted | would place the waste alone at billions of "1 doliars, X s : t All Over the Rtate.

The 13-year-01l son of Walter Knox, a Brazil farmer, was fatally injured by a vicious horse, Charles MeDowell, aged 16 years, has disappeared from his Elkhart home and foul play is suspected. At Brazil, Frank Clary. aged 28, was instantly killed while out hunting. In climbing a fence his gun was discharged. James Six, of Logansport, has been arrested for having seven wives. And they actually propose to punish him further. In a runaway at Lake station Mrs, and Miss Nellie Eastwood were badly injured amd an infant child received fatal injuries, Miss Ola Brown has Dbrought suit against Grier 17, Gemmill of Pennville for $25,000 damages for breach of marriage CONIrarL The Appelate Court at Indianapoiis affirmed a judgment in favor of an undertaker at Bloomington against John NScott, a wealthy man, who had declined to meet expenses arising from the burial of his wite, The wife had left her husband because of his alleged eruelty and she depended for support upon the labor of a little son employed in a quarry. After her death and burial the undertaker charged up the expenses to her husband and on refusal to pay the court below gave judgment for the entire amount. The Appellate Court sustained this judgment and added 16 per cent damages. The Rowland Zeigler Oil Company has disposed of its heavy holdings in the Indiana oil field to the Standard Oil Company, the consideration being close to a quarter of a million dollars. The holdings of the company selling out consisted of a thousand acres of leases, over one hundred producing wells, and a large amount of valuable drilling machinery. The Rowland company was one of the earliest operators in the field. It began poor, but persevered despite low prices and made many lucky strikes, taking 90. - 000 barrels of oil from one pool. The Standard is after the holdings of several other large producers operating in the Indiana territory. ¥ Fifteen years ago Sarah Bass, the wife of Leonard Bass, a prosperous farmer near Shelbyville, was taken suddenly and violently insane, Her relatives had her taken to an asylum, with the hopes that she would soon be restored, but her case seemed hopeless, A few days ago the busband was taken suddenly il and died. IFriends who went to town for an undertaker and to bring home the family mail found in the postothice a letter from the long-absent mother, who wrote to her husband and children that she was authorized to say she would be released and return home that day. Not until she arrived home and was surrounded by her three children, a son and two daughters, was the news of her husband’s death imparted. The blow was more than the unfortunate woman conld endure and she again beeame unmanageable ard will have to be returned to the asylum., Johnson, the Logansport bank wrecker, stoutly maintains that his *‘heart has been all right from theé start.” But it seems a mistake to attempt to conduct a zeneral banking business in Indiana, without a conscience, Des Moines Leader: Banker Johnson, the Logansport wrecker, was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. 1f he earns all the possible “good time’ his actual confinement will beseven years. Johnson stole $400.000, Just before his ciase was reacked, in the same court. a man was given a five years’ sentence for passWe five covnterfeit dimes,