Walkerton Independent, Volume 27, Number 26, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 11 January 1902 — Page 3

¥ / , SOME LARGE FIGURES NECESSARY WHEN SPEAKING OF OUR FARMING INDUSTRY. Wheat Crop of 1898 Would Have Made Nearly Ten of the Pyramids — Our American Forefathers Were Poor Tillers of the Soil. Joseph, son of Jacob, had to warehouse a good deal of wheat in the seven fat years to carry the Egyptians through the seven lean ones. The American farmers produced enough in 1898 to make Joseph’'s little stock look like a pea in a tub. If it had all been piled in form on the plain of Gizeh it would have made nine pyramids the size of the pyramids of Cheops, and with the surplus another could have been rearer four-fifths as large. That was the biggest Americar wheat crop ever recorded. It amounted to 675,148,705 bushels, grown on 44,045,278 acres of land. Next year the yield was lighter, and the Americans only turned off seven and nine-tenths pyramids of wheat. In 1900 they even fell short of that, producing only a paltry seven and a half pyramids. Still, that would have been a comfortable addition to Joseph’s ‘ stock, and cousidering that it was grown on a smaller acreage than the crop of 1899 was a rather creditablel performance. The deficiency was made crop, and 210,000,000 bushels of potatoes. There was considerable ado over the increase of the standing army to 100,000 men. If every man in such an army were 4 good fast milker, and worked at it ten hours a day, the whole force couldn’t milk more than one-third of the cows that are now being milked in this country—not to speak of the goats. And if they could milk them all, and if they did, and if they milked them into the Chicago drainage canal, beginning with it entirely empty, theyl could milk 1t bankful in about two weeks. If all the hems in this country were to be consolidated, like some of our other manufacturing establishments, into one hen, and that hen were to lay an egg with the cubic contents of all the eggs laid daily on American soil, that egg would be as big as—well, it would be a very large egg. A chick hatched from it ought to be able to peck wheat off the dome of the national capitol. In 1890 there were 258,871,125 chickens in the country, and during the year 819,722,916 dozen eggs were produced and sold. When somebody deprecated a billiondollar Congress Mr. Reed retorted that it was a billion-dollar country. It is. The millions period is no longer adequate to express tlhie magnitude of our manufactures, our trusts, our fortunes and our farming industry. The acreage of American farms in 1890 was greater than the combined acres of France, Germany, Austria, Italy and the British Isles. The value of their realty was $13,279,252,649, and the tools and implements on them represented an outlay of nearly half a billion more. They produced over $3,500,000,000 worth of food and raw material. The value of their exports in 1899 was $792,811,733, or more than half the value of the entire exports of the country by $42,000,000. The growth of this industry had the most primitive beginnings, and has gone forward in the face of the most discouraging vicissitudes, says Frank M. Todd, in Ainslee’s.

The American of the revolutionary period was an eXtremely poor farmer. Looking back on his methods and his work, it is hard to say which were the more crude, his implements or his ideas. He used a wooden plow; he was afraid an iron one would “poison the 30il.”” He had not yet learned that xlanders was contagious, and would work and stable healthy stock alongside stock affected by it, and wonder what there was in the soil, air or climate that carried them off. He didn’t understand the use of fertilizers, and instead of spreading his barnyard manure on his fields, he let it accumulate around his barn until the approaches were impassable. Then he dug the barn out and moved it. Instead of rotating crops te save his soil, he planted according to the phases of the moon. There were few sheep in the country, and other like stock was poor and scanty. In Virginia the belief prevailed that i. would kill cows to house and milk them in the winter. Transportation was poor and continued so for a long time. The roads could not have been worse. Markets were scattered and far between. lach farm attempted to be self-sustaining in as large a degree as possible. What the farmer couldn’t grow or his wife make they went without. Wasteful méthods l of tillaca eventually exhausted a oonil originally rich, and in the reign of Andrew Jacksen agriculture had fallen into such an alarming state of neglect and inefficiency that the government had to come to its relief. Through the efforts of Henry L. Ellsworth, Commissioner of Patents, a bureau was established in the patent office which developed info the Department of Agriculture. By aid of that department principally farming has been made a science, CURIOSITIES ON RAILWAY TRIP, Experiences Met With by a Man Traveling Around the Globe, A globe-trotter sends some remarkably interesting notes of a journey round the world to the Pall Mall Magazine, He says: I traveled from Nagasaki to Yokohama, in Japan, without a break in the journey. The distance is TOC miles, and the best trains require exactly forty-eight hours for the trip. Os these six hours are occupied in crossing the Inland Sea by boat. The first-class fare is £2 sd, second class £1 4s and third class one-half of the second. Only an occasional train has a dining car or a sleeping car attached 0 it Like everything else in Japan, the railway carriages are toylike, usually have only two or three compartments, In the dining cars vou eat from tables hardly larger than little girls have for their dolls. At all stations, which are frequent, you can buy freshly made tea for three-halfpence—pot, éup, tea and W‘W

all. This you take in the car, and the ] dishes are thrown out of the window usually. Luropeans dislike the prepared luncheons sold in boxes. They consist mainly of boiled rice and undercooked fish. Smolking is permitted in all compartments, for all Japanese men and women smoke almost continually. A native l lady enters the carriage, slips her feet from her tiny shoes—which have wood or rice-straw soles, stands upon the seat and then sits down demurely with her feet doubled beneath her. A moment later she lights a cigarette or her little pipe, which holds just tobacco “enough to produce two good whiffs of ‘sm()kv. All Japanese people sit with their feet upon the seat of the car, and not as Kuropeans do. All of them have first removed their shoes. When the ticket collector—attired in blue uniform —enters the carriage he removes his cap and twice bows politely, He repeats the bow as he comes to each passenger. More than 90 per cent of all the travel in Japan is third-class, and about 2 per cent only is first-class. Nearly all the locomotives are English, '\\‘?W" " \J ‘: o ) P ALY / NC- 4 %\ < “{ > eo T et ot — The DUltsh governmrent conducts a turtle farm at Ascension Island. January in each year sees the commencement of the turtle season, which does not as a rule last more than three‘ months. All turtles caught at Ascension Island are the property of the crown and are only sent to England and other places for disposal as directed by the admiralty, in whose hands the government of the whole island practically rests. The particular species which favors Ascension with its visits is the green turtle, from whose green fat and portion of the fins that particular brand of soup is made which iy proverbially associated with the banquets of London’s civie dignitaries. Many people still smile when they hear travelers talk of oysters that grow on trees, just as, long ago, sailors were laughed at when they came home with stories of flying fish. Both are real enough, however, and the tree oyster is of delicious taste, if voyagers through the tropics are to be believed. At a conference recently held in Barbados J. E. Duerden, of Jamaica, an economic scientist of some note, brought forward an interesting proposal for increasing and improving the cultivation of tree oysters, and as there is a rich field in nearly all the West India Islands and along the coast of Central America something may come of the scheme. These oysters cling to the branches of the mangrove.

When the English rooks are building their nests frequently a rookery is disturbed by big quarrels over the placing of those huge bundles of sticks in the treetops. The trouble occurs mostly with young birds wishing to place their nests too near to an old nest. 'A council of rooks is called, with the result that the disputants’ nests are soon scattered to the win.. .. and the claimant and the defendant both have to begin a new foundation. Sometimes there im a disturbance on a more limited scale when a pair of birds do thelr very best to pull the sticks from the nest of another pair, each of the contending parties doing all they can te prevent the other from building. Rooks are curiously weather wise and they scent a coming storm and set to work to repair and strengthen their nests before that imminant gale has been evident to the farmer. The rook’s powers of sight and hearing are remarkable. ‘When Baby Writes to Daddy. When baby writes a letter to her daddy far away, The occasion's most important, for she has so much to say. She sits up to the table, as grown-up folks all do, And then a pile of paper all around her We must strew. With grandma’s golden spectacles safe perched upon her nose, She dips her pen into the ink, then straight to work she goes, ! And the onslaught fierce that follows would fill you with dismay— When baby writes a letter to her daddy far away. : “Baby sends her love to daddy, and hopes that he is well,”™ Is the sentence baby first indites—her methods I must tell— For the sweet and simple message that expresses baby's love Is a dot and dash and big ink splash below and just above, She perforates the paper with many tiny pricks, And plays a tattoo on her chair with sundry little kicks, And all the fleor is scattered o’er with fragments of the fray, To tell us baby’s writing to her daddy far axvav. The letter is a long one, for scores of sheets are used, And every one bears witness to the way it’s been abused. A page for every word she takes, she quite ignores the lines, While each one as it's written to oblivion she consigns; Then proudly for an envelope Miss Baby now will call, And she fills it full of paper, with no writing on at all. The address is so illegible, I much regret to say, t It's doubtful if ’twill ever rteach dear daddy far away. —Woman's Home Companion, Hard to Make Right. A prominent legal light, whose office is not a hundred miles from a 2d South street building, and a physician whose office is in the same building were waiting for the street car to take them te their homes. “There,” said the doctor, pointing to a man who had recently emerged from the pen, “is one of your mistakes come back to face you!” . “Granted,” said the lawyer. “My mistakes do face me sometimes. Your mistakes, however, are buried so deep that it requires Gabriel’s trumpet to call them back.”—Salt L.ake Herald. When you suddenly meet a man yoy hate, ever remark that you hope you are looking well? LLack of sense is too often blamed on lack of confidence.

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~ "OPEN-WAR ON MERGER. - ' ———— . 'l'l Officials of Five Northwestern States Begin the Fight, Governors and Attorneys General of five Northwestern States met in conference at Helena, Mont., for the purpose AT of planning ways ARs TN and means to pree *-, vent the consolidafi,; ' @A\ tion of the North. B 0 S\ e Pacific and i (%*v 21 Burlington Railsv“ fg‘« '&." Y roads in the Northi3; ";i 41 crn Securities Com- . R fd pany. News of the s Jzfi B temporary injuucv 8 B e 1 43;\&, N tion granted at v i Minneapolis reo straining Vorth£raf ¥ straining the North SR N ern Pacific from reD tiring its preferred *&i : stock was received TN 4 with acelaim. s Those presents GOV. VAN BSANT. were: Gov. YVan Sant and Attorney General Douglas of Minnesota, Gov. Herreid and Attorney General Pyle of South Dakota, Gov. Hunt and Attorney General Stratton of Washington, and Gov. Toole and Attorney General Donovan of Montana, Gov. Toole delivered an address of welcome, after which the conference was organized with Gov. Van Sant as chairman and Attorney General Martin as secretary. . Gov. Van Sant made a short speech, in which he said: . “The State of Minnesota has had on the statute books for more than twentyfive years laws prohibiting the consolidation in any way of parallel and competing lines of railway. It has been the settled policy of our State to maintain a free, open and unrestricted competition in freight and passenger rates, “The Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railway companies operate parallel and competing lines of railway within the State. These are practically the only roads which furnish any transportation Tacdilitics t 6 the neithern half of-the State, with the exception of the two known as the ‘lron Ore roads.’ “It has been recently announced that Mr. Hill and his assistants have obtained the control of the Northern Pacitic Railway Company and intend to operate the same jointly with the Great Northern and in effect bring about a consolidation by removing all competition and all rivalry between these roads. ; “To this end the Northern Securities | Company was organized in New Jersoy{ to acquire a controlling amount of the‘ stock of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railway companies in ex-l change for its own stock and it is through this company that the unity of management and control is to be effected. “As soon as this fact became known to me I felt it my duty as Governor to do everything in my official power to oppose the consolidation or amalgamation of these properties within the State of Minnesota. “If there is such a consolidation contemplated, and that fact seems to be practically conceded, it is an open violation of the law as well asahe declared public policy of the State of Minnesota, and I feel that I should be negligent of my dutieg as the official head of the State if I remained quiescent under such circumstances. “The people of the State of Minnesota, feeling certain that competition has been the chief factor in its development and equally certain that its destruction would result in the greatest loss to both producer and consumer, have determined to oppose this consolidation. “This determination is not entered into with any spirit of hostility toward railroads. Our State has dealt liberally with them and has deeded to the various railroads operating within the State more than 10,500,000 acres of land, or more land than is under cultivation by the people of Minnesota, and by the State and national government at Washington some 20,000,000 acres, being double the cultivated acreage in the hands of the agri»l population. e ‘VAacrns l “In view of this and om granted by the State, it is but just to say that railway companies owe reciprocal duties to the publie, including cheerful obedience to our laws.” M’KINLEY MEMORIAL ABUSED. Judge Day Issues Warning to Donors of Monument Fund. The McKinley National Memorial Asgociation, with headquarters in Cleveland, has had its attention called to so many enterprises of a comiuercial nature tending to make capital out of the sentiments of public affection for William McKinley that the following statement has been issued by Judge William R. Day, ex-Secretary of State and president ’ of the association: The public Is especially cautioned against any enterprise attempting to make capital ; out of the sentiments of affection which in- | splred the desire to rear at the grave of our { late President a memorial which shall fit- | tingly honor his memory. It ils the desire {ut‘ the trustees th:}_t all contributions shall { be the free-will offering of the people and i they respectfully request the public to dis- | courage all propositions which may seem to | have as their object the obtaining of money | by givitg all or part of the proceeds to the ! memorial fund. 'l:).u- pnlllviv' is hereby notified that the McKinley National Memorial ’ Assoclation has no connection with or re- { lation to any other association or to any en- | terprise of a commercial nature, Chromos for Church Attendants, Every woman and every man, too, who | attended the First Congregational Church | in Chicago the other night got a chromo. It was the first trial of Rev. W. A. Bartlett’s plan to increase the attendance and to arouse more interest in biblical teach- | ijngs. The idea of giving pictures away { in church, the better to bring out the points in the sermon, is a new one

USED A CI_OTHIES}‘N 10 i STOP WHY. ERING IN SCHOOL. | /’ ,//// ’ * //é/////////{,,////// l %,,/' > AR / 7 (& P \»\V o // ' /;% // /// =W /’/ ~’.' i 74777 G %77 % e 7 % 7 2 bo N@ m"' ( _ eq B /.8 7/ s POO 3 V7 AR e e ?//” i 27, _ BT ////////7////////7////7/‘////// a % The spring clotßespin has been introduced in one of fthe Taunton, Mass., schools as a mmihment for whispering. The 11-year-old W°¥ whose lips the clothespin was ingended to seal removed this muzzle from/]his mouth and ran home. Next morgißß. it is said, he had no sooner tflken iS seat ifl ‘h(‘ school room than he was| B&ain ordered to place the clothespin on his lips. The boy refused to obey the ommand and a thrashing is alleged to Have followed. THE GREAT| PEAD OF, 1901, Year Has Been Bvotable in Passing of Conspig 'lous People. The year 1901 $ been quite as notable as any of itsf ~eécent predecessors in the loss of those}jho have been conspicnone in +heir varions departments of labor —mha have nidde their names widely known. The ])O]i ilL‘fll world has lost WilJiam MecKinley, &aurdered during his presidency by t assassin Czolgosz at the Pan-Americas dxposition; Benjamin Harrison, the erpinent lawyer and exPresident: Willigm M. Evarts, also a great lawyer and} ex-Secretary of State; Prince von Hohgnlohe, the German exchancellor; Frandesco €Crispi, the ex-pre-tnier of Italy, agpd Li Hung Chang, the smartest and sapgleést man of his time in China. Among fthe rulers of the world Victoria, Queen sos Great Britain, has passed away, likfewise the Dowager Empress Frederick,] Abdur Rahman Kahn, the Ameer of Ahfghanistan, and Milan, the dissolute ex-jing of Servia. The world of jliterature and the arts has suffered sevgrely. Among the prominent writers whfo have passed away are: John Fiske, thef historian; Charlotte M. Yonge, and Sir WValter Besant, novelists; Robert W. Buclanan, the British poet; William Ellery §Channing of the famous Concord groupg of writers; Maurice Thompson, the fgtory writer and essayist; and Ignatius D ID(,‘”}', the romancer and Baconian ciphefe inventor. Music has lost Verdi, the Igist of the old school Italian opera compfosers; Benoit, who was the chief repreffentative of the I'lemish school of compc sition; Sir John Stainer, the organist an@l author of the best dictionary of terpfds Yet produced; Iranz l{lllll[ll('l, the p ilUiSt: Alfred I)i:l(?i' the ‘cellist, and Afdran, the French light opera composer§- In art France loses Jean Cazin, ond of its greatest painters; England, Kate Greenaway, the delightful illustrator; and the United States, James MecD. Bjart and Edward Moran, two of the best Jrepresentatives of the old school of paints§ig.

A DICTATFRIAL PRESIDENT. Castro, of Ve @aezuela, Said to Be Unpopu\ ur and Unhappy. According to}m}""ei}t reports Cipriano Castro, the P esident sf Venezuela, is an unnopulgr 04 unhappy rr'-umeee—tl L

¥ A l'll"‘l.'lll“‘ TS, o AL A, AL 4w ’BWLM: his own - soldiers dislike and 5 mistrust him. The y Ny : officers, however, e § make little com--5 ' plaint, as they e i share, to a small 14 / & extent, in the divisY " ion of the spoily “"/(317;"1 Do i which the Presi- /{/ : j/® dent secures and : /'/. exacts, RO. % Castro appears to GEN., CAST of the most pronounced be a dictator ustration of his despotism type. As an i that last fall the report it is related hrough some soldiers that geached him t €BS merchants were hoardthree rich Cars their homes, The Presiing up gold jp bat each of the three men dent ordered t )OQ for the support of the be taxed $60,( ,YWhen the merchants regovernment, they were turned over to fused to pay officers, who, having made certain army 'S kep% them tied to stakes them prison: zup. du'rm;: the ('l:\(\’, and at facing the ¢ tric light as bright as sunnight an elec own upon them. Almost light, was thl,__‘ca”y crazed by their sufblinded and n ¢ last yielded and paid the ferings they a tax, s of the country try to be If the judge 1g some of thn‘ mn:xsmw:s of just in opposir Are thrown _into p:ison. Castro they 1 representatives the Presi Among 'foreigx,___"'ed as not hnv'm;; a single dent is report ok upon him with suspicion friend, Al b He is in constant dread and distrust. on, and should an uprising of assassipati fdministration come it is against his he would be first to fall by predicted that ' violent means, .

GIRL RISKS HER LIFE. EXTRAORDINARY ACT OF MISS EMMA H. KING. Inoculated with Deadly Germs to Disprove the Theories of Koch—She Now Has Tuberculosis and May ¥Fall a Victim to Science, By an act of martyrdom in the cause of science, Miss lEmma H. King, a New York trained nurse, has drawn upon hergelf the gaze of the ’ world, The medical : 5 — fraternity is partic- /«}f; ulariy interested in hs ‘ her case, because % N 5 4 q e " A» % it is to demonstrate T\ whether tuberculo- |} Ql \{\& Bis can be transmit- l ‘}";I ¥ ’%\:—-‘ ted from a cow to I}}{/ X T a human being. o ;‘/4 DY, ISoch, the ~/& ‘ ; -f eminent German F/// 54 admitted to be an r - 5 authority on dis- \) 2 eases of the lungs, |7/, created something '\' of a sensation last Y@ summer by the an- ‘\\N . nouncement that \\\&;l-‘;‘\ bovine tuberculosis ;,?\&\\ ) is incommunicable WA /NI to human beings. ]n This assertion was /‘///}/ contrary to the gen- = erally accepted be- [,/__/\ 4 MHefwmSswell e grounded was the MISS KING. idea that tubercular germs in a cow could affect a person, that by order of the government, thousands of heads of cattle thus affected have from time to time been killed, in order that the disease might not be transmitted to persons drinking their milk. According to XKoch’s theories, these precautions were unnecessary and a waste of really valuablo cow flesh. Among those who doubted the truth of the German scientist's assertion was Dr. George D. Barney of Brooklyn. He set out to demonstrate its accuracy or falsity, as the case might prove to be. Purchasing a healthy cow, he injected a broth containing tubercle from a human being into the animal. The cow is now in the advanced stages of the disease. Having proved Dr. Koch's theory would not work l-m-}(w:\rd, his next thought was to demonstrate that it was not tenable as originally stated. At this time he was treating Miss King for tongilitis and, on one occasion, mentioned the fact that he was looking for a subject upon whom to make the experiment, Miss King was much interested and when assured by the doctor that there was really no danger attached to the experiment she offered herself for the test. For the injection Dr. Barney used the germs taken from a mammary gland of the infected cow, which he prepared in a solution, Before the operation Dr. Barney requested Miss King to make a formal declaration of her entire acquiescence, and the young woman did so, and insisted upon adding a clause exonerating the physi‘Cifl[l in the event of an unexpected development, . Miss King said: “I have contracted tuberculosis, and that was exactly what I expected to get when I first undertook to help Dr. Barney with the experiment. At first I thought I would not get consumption. I felt cheerful, although I did not feel well. I can’t put into words all the feelings I had, except to say that lnfter the burning sensation and tingling passed away from the places where the pofson wasinfected i scemed just ag If ‘a big icicle was gradually growing, growing and spreading and aching down into my lungs. I am sure that I will be cured, but for the benefit of any one else who may ever essay a like experiment I want to say that they should be very }surc of their nerves before they undertake it

BIG YEAR FOR TRACKAGE. Roads Lay More than Five Thousand Miles of Steel Rails, Railroad building in the United States during 1901 was greater than it has been for eleven years previous, the total approximating 5,057 miles of line. In 1890 the total was 5.670, and in 1900 4,437 miles. The construction for the year, added to the total mileage reported previous to that, brings the total mileage of the country to approximately 199,370 miles. These are the figures prepared by the Railway Age after a painstaking compilation extending over a period of several months, and may therefore be taken to be as nearly correct as is possible in such matters. It is noted that the Southwest takes the palm for the year, that Texas leads, with 583 miles of new line, distributed among twenty-three roads, and that the Rock Island leads all others with the longest single line of 265 miles, to which might well be added 128 miles of the El Paso and Northeastern from Santa Rosa to Carrizozo, N. M., which will soon be completed. The Rock Island extension proper extends from Liberal, Kan., to Santa Rosa, N. M. Had it been possible to obtain rails on all orders in shops the construction would have largely exceeded the figure. In order that the new mileage of 1901 may be compared with the construction of previous years the following table showing the mew work by years since 1887 is given: Miles. | Miles ABRT oos. i A2OBBLIRSS oo i.. .. 1.808 2888 .. .cioooso. 10011896 ..vcvociee, . 1,848 B ISR TREEE. - Y 4 S a

eVL ST a8 G R S RS N O 9 @ 0.0 eI WP ROy ...y domaßes i e PEABO2 .. vesiaess 419201000 oo oo v e 4487 l 1893...........2,(335{1901............5.057 1808 e evavie 1,949 ] A s L s S e S : GILBERT PARKER. | Brilliant British Author Who Is Now : in America, | Gilbert Parker, the well-known British " | novelist, now on a visit to the United | States, is a distinguished man in more than one way. He ' ERian) is not only a clever | / e writer of fiction, ' A e fl:\ but he is likewise : 7 X&)/ an excellent dra- | Vo 8%, atis 1 als . gt /% matist, and aso .4 # “‘;‘,‘l.;}“,‘:.!__' 1 member of Parlia--4 \‘d,r,;;: ment, With all | ' \%.\.' t. ~11-»1"";5,‘;»;5{‘.%3,{7,-,':/; this, Mr. Parker is l \«'N’,,'yf,’;’,'f’” a native Canadian. - .;.}‘T\'\\‘§4‘,,s;},4/-7/,’;;14/’/{/ 7 e was educated W€y e was educate ' \\“/"‘;}"{z’fl;f,’/ in the Dominion, ] - spent some Yyears e e ;\n\‘tx':xii:l,) and . | finally settled in l.ondon. | TRADE IN MULES AND HORSES. ' | Enormous Exportation from New Orleans During Two Years. ; The exportation of horses and mules ' 1 from New Orleans during the past two .| years has been the largest of any single port in the history of the world during y | the same period of time. A report re- | cently made shows that from Oect, 1, 1 | 1899, to Nov. 30, 1901, the total valua- | tion of horse and mule cargoes was $13,- . | 483,052, exclusive of feed, which amouns- | ed to $992,619, making a grand total of $14,476,270.

POOR YEAR FOR CHURCHES, Religion Has Not Prospered Financiale ly Like Other Interests. With possibly one exception, the year 1901 has not witnessed great financial strides within the churches. With money making by the billions, and given away by its makers by the millions, religion has suffered acutely when compared either with some previous years or with interests without the churches. The Baptists have spent the year discussing administration of their beneveolences, and at the end of it have arrived at no satisfactory conclusion. All of the three larger Baptist henevolent societies have suffered in financial incomes, Almost the same history belongs to Congregationalists, only that no exceptions can be made of educational work among them. KEpiscopalians, of whom many expect much, have still o depleted missionary fund, with $%0.,000 wanted, and no marked advance anywhere. Lutherans, in their many boards, have had to draw in rather than extend. Methodists, who form the possible exception to the rather dismal reign of 1901, end the year with $15,000,000 raised in their special fund, but their missiontry society is crying out that it is hit in its contributions. Presbyterians, both North and South, have special fund schemes, but neither of them has succeeded sufficiently well to give them courage to proclaim their amounts. Roman Catholics have kept up their rate of church building, of school building, and the rest, and have made striking progress in their task of creating Washington into the great center of Roman Catholic education in the world, Rome scarce--I}' (A'E-imtgd—.‘“‘( P L SRS The feature or 1901, financially, is the tremendous progress made by causes outside the churches. Millions of dollars have gone into secular charities—probably more than during any year the world ever before lived through. Exclusive of his gifts abroad Mr. Carnegie has so far given $14,500,000 in round figures. Mrs. Stanford’s gifts reach $30,000,000, Mr. Rockefeller gave during the year $2,775,000, Pierpont Morgan $1,850,000. Mr. Rockefeller has just made a conditional offer of $300,000 to the Baptists of New York City, but aside from that he has hardly listened to religious gift appeals at all. Mr. Carnegie declines to listen to the entreaties of even the liberal religious body to which he belongs, and Mr. Morgan is known to be away behind in benevolences to objects which have looked to him for many years.

In 1892 the benevolent gifts in the United Stateg, outside the churches, were $33,500,000, and they have been steadily climbing, and if the present ratio keeps up the amount reported next April will beat all previous years by at least $12,000,000, and stand at $74,750,000. The year 1901 being the opening of & new century several interdenominational efforts were put forth for large accessions to the churches. Great spiritual revivals were planned. Accessions to church membership averaged well during the year, but spiritual awakening of the sort sought there was none. The raising of $£15,000,000 by the Methodists North and $1,500,000 by the Methodists South, a total of $16,500,000, is the most gigantic thing of its kind any religious body, Protestant or Catholie, ever achieved. The ecclesiastical tendencies of the year now ending have begn interesting. Among all religious bodies there is marked effort to give greater dignity to public worship. Vested choirs have increased rapidly in number among Methodists and Lutherans. Churches built new have been far more ecclesiastical in architecture without and within than formerly. Much has been heard about a decline of faith in the supernatural within the churches., IT thére beswek decline it is not apparent during the year in attendance upon religious services. Figures show that such attendance has been up to the average, and that the proportion of men steadily increases. These two statements are contrary to popular opinion, but they are readily demonstrable as true. JAM AT WHITE HOUSE. New Year Reception by Roosevelt Attended by Over 8,000 Persons. The New Year's reception at the White House was attended by over 8,000 persons, the largest number that ever passed before a President at any such affair in the executive man-ion. It was not only the largest but the most brilliant reception ever held in Washington. Several novel features were introduced. For the first time the diplomatie corps wns headed by a woman, Lady Pauncefote, wife of the British ambassador. A notable feature of the reception was the cordiality witk which the Prosidcnti greeted Gen. Miles, The general, magnificent in gold braid, headed the song line of army officers. President Roosevelt gave him more than a formal greeting, shaking his hand warmly and chatting tc bhim a felv moments. When Gen, Miles passed from the line he was the center of interest for several minutes. He soon left, however, for his home. Admiral Dewey also received a warm greeting from the President. - As President and Mrs. Roosevelt entered the blue parlor a band played ‘“Hail to the Chief,” followed by *“‘The Star-Spangled Banner.” Three officers in uniform led the way for the President and those with him. The officers were Col. Theodore A. Bingham, U. S. A., commissioner wf public buildings and grounds; Maj. Charles MeCauley of the marine corps, and Capt. John C. Gilmore, Jr., of the army artillery corps. Immediately after them came the President with Mrs. Roosevelt on his arm, and they were followed by the Segretary of )83 | War and wrs. IXoof, the ATTorney

YYdIL AU iS, AVWULy LWUT LA lIVAULYg A4 eral and Mrs. Knox, the Postmaster General and Mrs. Smith, the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Long, the Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Hitchcock and the Secretary of Agriculture and Miss Wilson. Secretary and Mrs. Hay and Secretary Gage, who are in mourning, were not present. BAD WRECK ON THE B. & O. Score Dead or Hurt and Whole Train i Destroyed by Fire. Wreck and fire destroyed a through passenger train on the Baltimore and Ohio road between Pittsburg and New York, causing the death of two persons and injury to seventeen others, five of whom are seriously hurt. Congressman Hopkins of Illinois, his wife and daughter, and E. G. Timme of Kenosha, Wis,, all bound for Washington, were on the wrecked train. They escaped uninjured. Only the prompt work of rescuers averted a more serious disaster, for the | gas tanks in the cars exploded, ignit-‘ ing the wreckage, making necessary | quick and perilous work in saving the in- 1 jured. | In going down a steep grade near Glencoe the engine jumped the track at a curve and the entire trzin piled on top of it. Probably the only thing that prevented a great death list was the fact that the heavy vestiule cars did not break up in going over the embankment. When the wreckage caught fire the flames spread rapidiy and in a short time | the entire train was burned. The engine was demolished, and the two dead men, when taken from the debris, were horriBly mangled, 1

INDIANA INCIDENTS . RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. State Has Done Well Through 1901 Elkhart Girl Accused of Witcheraft —Soldier Goes to Porto Ricoon WildGoose Chase - Hartford City Fire. The annual reports covering the various departments of the Indiana State gcovernment show g prosperous condition of affairs. During 1901 the State debt was reduced $817,000 and the debt promises to he wiped out by 1907. The cost of running the State was £7.129.483. The balanee left over for the new yvear was $642.299, an increase of $228 647 over 1900. Os the receipts the State tax produced $1,257.267. The total assessed valuation of the State is $1,360.445,139, and the number of acres subjected to taxation was 22,375,046. The assessed valuation of lands and improvements thereon aggregates $50,754,275: of town lots and improvements, $325,227,903; personal property, $332,857.739:; telephones and telegraphs, $7,336,102: railroad properties and holdings, $153.669,120. The current tax on this property produced $21,825,127, and $2,904,261 was added by collection of delinquents. The thirteen charitable and penal institutions of the State were the greatest item of expense, the former using up $1,110,070. The value of Indiana crops amounted to $250,000,000. Despite short corn, wheat and oat crops the year was a record mflflkfljmflm&urfl__g_rwpfir%lfl- - shown by the bank deposits, which increased largely. Remarkable increases are reported in all of Indiana’s lines of . industry. Based on the reliable figures of the census report, the capital of Indiana manufacturing concerns has increased 78 : per cent over 1890, and is now $234,481,528, and there has been an increase of 67 per cent in the value of production, which in 1901 was $378,238,100. Soldier Duped by Fiancee, James Hicks of Irvington, a regular in the army when it camped in Porto Rico, . met in San Juan a fascinating Australian woman 21 years old, who was doing missionary work. He loved the young missionary and they became engaged. Afterward Hicks sent her money to come here and to buy her trousseau. She replied that she preferred being married in San Juan. Dee. 4 Hicks sailed, and when he arrived there found that his fiancee was engaged to two or three others, from all of whom, he says, she had collected mearly $2,000. She said to Hicks that she was “‘sorry,” and Hicks took the next boat for “the States.” 5 Girl Accused of Witchcraft. + Bessie Currier, a pretty miss of 13, has been forced by Mrs. William Currier of Elkhart, with whom she and her mother, Mrs. Mary Currier, lived, to leave home because of certain mysterious happenings which have alarmed the household and have been attributed to some occuit pow_er possessed by the girl. Plates, it is said, have been caused to float through the air, water pails to upset and bedsteads to come apart. The mother does not regard the girl with supernatural awe, but thinks the phenomena the result of trickery on her part, though the child maintains that she is not responsible for the manifestations. Holds Foe on a Hot Stove. John Valasky, a crazed miner of Rosedale, made a desperate attempt to kill Henry Johnson, another miner, in a Crawfordsville saloon. Johnson and sevothers were playving cards when Valasky came in suddenlymnd; Setzing Johm=—— son by the throat, raised him up bodily and held him over a red-hot siove with one hand while he kept the rest at bay with a revolver. Johnson ~was badly burned. He was finally released after the maniae was knocked senseless by the bartender, who stole up behind him and struck him with a poker. Big Fire at Hartford City. At 5 o'clock on a recent morning fire broke out in the dry goods and clothing store of E. I. Winters in Hartford City. The flames had gained great headway when the discovery was made, and they could not be brought under control until heavy damage had been done, The stock was almost totally destroyed, and the building was laid in ruins. The loss is $50,000, and the insurance $30,000. There was mnobody in the store at the time, and it is not known how the fire was started. It is supposed to have been due to irregular gas pressure, however, Within Our Borders. A millinery store at Goshen was robped, the robbers carrying away the entire stock. . Van Martin, 6, Washington, chased a pet rabbit, when he fell and burst a blood vessel, death resulting. A iittle son of William MeCormick, Washington, was fatally buined. His <lothing caught fire from a grate. John P. Edwards and Mrs. Nancy Reeder were killed on a Pan-Handle grade crossing a mile south of Mount Summit when going to Newcastle to be married. A notice has’been posted at the Elwood plant of the Macbeth-Evans Glass Company stating that the factory would close indefinitely. Manager Harnack saiid that failure of the gas supply was responsible. Willie and Mary Daniels, aged nespectively 5 years and 7 years, living near Sand creek, were bitten in several places by a large rattlesnake that had taken t_p{n_vp from the cold weather_iu_;.;‘.';;__

of wood. The piece of wood had been carried into the house and placed behind the stove to dry. The parents of the children were attracted 1% sereams from the kitchen and were horrified to find the snake coiled in the little girl's lap. Hee brother caught the reptile by the tail and was bitten on the hand and arm. Tke zirl was bitten twice upon the leg. Big Four train killed a man at Anderson, who is thought to be Fred Marker of Cineinnati. He was knocked from a pridf_'v. % A negro named Hensley was shot to death by a erowd of miners ag llsiand City when he returned to the scenpe of a ficht he had with a feiw of them earlier. Ilza Bennett, 21 years old, shot and fatally wounded his stepfather, Edward Bishop, at their home in West Indianapolis. The investization' by the police showed that the boy had shot in defense of his mother, who had been struck and abused by Bishop. Mrs. Mattie House, wife of David House, living near Perkinsville, while temporarily insane, committed suicide by saturating her clothing with Kerosene and applying a match. John Hensel, a resident of Stillwell, who went to LaPorte to marry Mrs. Sophia Harness, was found dead. The marriage ceremony was to hiave been performed at 3 o'clock that afternoon, James A. Bowles, son of wealthy parents in Blooinington, and now a student of Purdue University, has disappear®d. He went te Chicago before Christinas to spend a few days in theater-going and similar pleasure and failed to rewarn.