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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
A JOLLY HANGING.
AMurderer's Cheerful Adieu to a Wicked
World.

Lee Barnes was executed at Dover, Ark,
one day last week, for the murder of Charles
Holman, near Plummeryile, on November
20. Barnes spent last night as is usual with
criminals, sleeping very sOundly and not
waking until late hour this morning. He
ate hearty breakfast and spent the morning
in receiving visitors. He ate a very hearty
dinner at ~ O'Clock. at 1920, in company
with Sheriff Quinn and posse, he assembled
the scaffold, running up the steps. He sur
veyed the crowd of three thousand present,
and with wave of the hand, said:
Gentlemen, how do you all dor
And turning to the guards said:
Right good crowd to witness my execu-
ton, and never felt better in my life"
Rev. Mr.. Jolly and some thirty persons on
the scaffold sang:
What friend we have in Jesus.
Into which Barnes entered with spirit, his
voice being heard round and full. He lis
tened to the death warrant without culver,
and when asked if he had anything to say,
he stepped forward, made a bow and said:
"tELLoW-CITIZENs, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
i am to be executed to-day for the horrible
crime of numbering Charles Holman.
killed him for his money, and want this to
be a warning to everybody. / commenced
my dreadful career with small crimes, and
grew harder until did not mind taking a
mans life. would have taken a life for $40,
and if did not like man | would kill him
for nothing. / was assisted IN this crime by
John Collins and Russell Watson. l am
ready to 60. | can now meet my God in
peace"
He then gave a detailed and minute de-
scriptiOn of the murder, in which he claimed
to have shot Holman twice while on pallet
beside him and with his back turned, and
that then Collins and Watson drew Holman
from his pallet, and he TBarnesl struck him
three times on the head with an axe.
THE HARDEST OF ALL.
After statement about burying the body
and his final capture, he said:
Now, gentlemen, come to the hardest
thing of my life. 1t was darling little girl
whom dearly loved. and to whom was en-
gagged to be married. After 1 was put in
prison she married the man who prosecuted
me before the examining trial. do not
blame her, but it is harder for me to bear
than to be hanged by the neck. Now am
ready to go. Ny execution may be warn
ing to everybody"
During his speech he stopped several times
to drink water.
Jesus paid it all
was sung, and during the singing Barnes
went around to each one on the scaf10ld and
embraced them. saying to each:
meet me in Heaven"
This scene brought tears to the eyes OF
nearly everyone III TIE dSStmDldge, anu your
reporter expected every minute To hear a
regular old camp-meeting shout raised. A
ferventprayer was offered by Rev. Jolly, in
the midst of which that gentleman broke
down, and clapping his hands together,
shouted:
Hallelujah, bless the Lord
and several Joined in the chorus, Barnes re-
spending with a loud amenm
AT 1890 Barnes stepped upon the fatal
trap, While being pinIoned he surveyed the
crowd calmly and serenely, and not muscle
was seen to culver. Just as the black cap
was being drawn down he said:
Goodbye to the world"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
why They Wear Long Dresses.

Speaking of Cinnamon, the Historian fell
in with one of the race as he was whirling
madly out Washington street on the front
platform of car the other day. Extraor-
binary as it may seem, the car ceased to whirl
for considerable periods now and then, and
one of these ceases occurred directly in front
of Jordan & Marsh's store, where there wasn't
much to gaze at except the dainty costumes
displayed in the window. So the Historian
and the Chinaman gazed at the dainty cos
tunes, and there was very superior sort OF
smile clearly percepuble on the Chinaman'
face.
Not many desses like that for the ladies
in China, john" said the Causasian.
The Chinaman's superior smile extended
noticeably in either direction.
"Chinese ladies no likee such dresses,
said he. Too much cloth; likee show small
feet. Mclean lady heap big feet'-and he
measured off space of about two feet IN
the air with his hands; 'gottee wear big
dress-no likee show feet.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
A Word About stacking.l
| Kansas City Farmer.l


The object of putting grain and hay in
stacks is 70 save it from loss by rain. The
secret of good stacking lies in making it shed
water, and to do this there must be thatch-
ing kind of straw shingling on every part
of the outside above a few feet from the
ground. All the outside straw or hay must
incline downwsri, and it must. have that
tendency fixed when The stack is built.
The first thing to be learned and remem-
bered about stacking is to keep the middle
full. Start in the middle of the foundation.
Put the first forkfull there and build around
it. Not only must the middle be kept full,
but it must have the most tramping If any is
done, the point being that if any part OF the
stack is more soEdly built than another part
it ought to be the middle, 10 that in settling
the middle will not sink faster than the out
side. Then lin case of hay) if the outside
layers are so arranged with the fork as that
the stalks and blades be Strengthened out in
Ginning downward, they will settle that way.
The same principle holds with wheat, rye
and oats, but ii is not so difficult to get the
straws into proper position because they are
bound in bundles beforehand. But the stack
must be begun on the middle of the founda-
ton. Lay q bundle down, then put another
on top of that. letting the butt end extend q
little beyond the heads of the under sheaf.
Build on and around these, tops in, butts
out, ring after ring, until the bottom is large
enough. II the stack is to be Tonga rick
and not round, then, when the rings widen
to the proper size as to width, build back
and forth on the two sides that are to be run
out as ends. Widen the stack little as it Il
raised TO about six feet, then place two OF
three layers so as to keep the outside going
up perpendicularly. After that draw in
until the stack is finished. As soon as the
stack is high enough to commence the draw
ing In, the middle should have an extrs
filing. On q stack Of ordinary width tn,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
The Walking Horse.
lJournal of Agriculture. |

lSOuIunA VI
Not every horse can be made to trot in
2:10, il does not matter what sort of horse
it may be, or what kind OF training it has
been subjected to. But it is reasonably GER
tain that every horse may be trained to be a
reasonably fast walker. And after all, that
is the most important gait that can possibly
be taught a horse.
1t may not seem desirable that race horse
or a trotter should be a fast walker; fire
engine horses may dispense, without detri-
ment, with that gait, as they are only wanted
to 20 on run. But every other horse that
we can think of would be a more valuable
horse IL he had been trained as a fast walker.
Some men and women are possessed OF
what is sometimes called mack OF doing
things" dispatch in business" Such a
one can accomplish generally two or three
times as much as others in q given time.
Such a person stands in the same relation 10
others in doing work or business, as the fast
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
A Pretty Story.
IPall Mall Gazette. !


a pretty story, if one could believe it, is
told by Paris correspondent of Vienna pa
per. A short time ago matinee musicale
was given by the DRchess Lamotte, and
among the guests was the charming bride
elect of President Cleveland, then in Paris
completing her trousseau. The young lady
was the object of many marks of distinction,
the high aristocracy surrounded her, and
there wad muc talk of her position. One
lady, the daughter-in-law of the Duchess de
Persigny, condoled with Miss Folsom be-
cause she would have no title as the wife of Q
Republican President. "All would be well,
only you will have no title" said she; you
will only be called Mrs. Cleveland" "Bui
that name is only for strangers" was the an
swer of the fair American; "the President
has for intimacy confer ed upon me very
particular title" Everybody looked up cur
iously, and blushiDg deeply, Miss Folsom ad
ded, He calls me-his darling. Can a wife
desire better title?" The hostess embraced
her amiable guest, remarking. "You ar,
right, and you appear to me as if you woult
keep the title to the end of your life."
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
Sharp Pangs Athwart the Forehead.

And in the muscles of the neck and shoulder,
usually most violent after nightfall among the
cheerful manifestations Of neuralgia. Iii an aec
ton of the nerve intensified by cold. Repose,
bringing with it cessation of pain, is induced by
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which is fine nerve
tonic and tranquilizer. 1t is also reliable means
of checking rheumatism and govt. These mala'
dies have always more or less to do with the kid
neys that, when inactive, fail to throw of the i'm
purities which engender them. The Bitters can
be relied upon to renew q healthy and purifying
action OF The real organs. Besides this IL gives
riches the circulation. Appetite and sleep both
profit by il, and it is q well-accredited means OF
fortifyiDg the system against malaria. II hasten<
the recovery of strength by convalescents, min
gates the infrmities Of age. and hepes the con-
additionally feeble.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
John KeIIy's Power as an orator.
Cincinnati Enquirer.

One of the greatest elements in John
Kelly's strength was his impassiveness.
Those attendant upon the st. Louis Con-
veDtion Of 1876 saw 1t exhibited in its
highest degree, and will never forget il. Ris-
ing to make an anti-Tilden speech, he was
met with storm Of opposition. that shook
the very roof and made speech utterly im-
possible. For fully thirty minutes Mr.. Kel-
ly stood with folded arms and calm, impassi-
bic free until his opponents were wesried
into silence. Then his voice came, clear,
strong and passionate. as il no breath OF OPP
position had lifted itself. He lost his game,
bit be played it like the powerful man that
he always was.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
ie. Alfred Freeman, Cheyer

Drs. Dixie, Alfred Freeman, Cheverton, +.
C.S., Maberly, M.R.CS., and DR.. Bernard,
F.RC.P., and DIR. Arthur Guinness, M.D.F.
res, physicians OF great renown in Eng
land, and many leading physicians in this
country are prescribing and praising Ponds
Extract as the great remedy for all forms of
Inflammation, Hemorrhages, Piles, Sore
Throat, Boils, Burns, Sprains, and kindred
diseases. Ponds Extract is used both inter
nally and externally. Be careful to get the
genuine.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
The Triumph of ban Lamont,s Life.

kansas City Tines
We are com PEELED to inform Colonel Dan
iel Lamont that there are no vacancies in
the editorial department of the Times at
present, but we will keep the gentleman in
mind and endeavor to work him into the
society branch at an early day. As a Jenkins,
we are free to admit that the Colonel has no
superior in American journalism.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
Emperor william Sinking.

hear from Trustworthy correspondent
in Berlin that the Emperor William is in
such q state of weakness that it scarcely
seems possible that he can survive many
days. He failed with amazing rapidity dur
ing the last fortnight, and his manifest de-
biIity excited the most painful impression
made some marvellous rallies during the last
ten years, but at the age of eighty nine, moth
ing short of a miracle can now restore him.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16

middle, when drawing in is begun, ought to
be at least two feet higher than the outside.
Keep it that way to the top.
When grain is very short, it is not best to
undertake to widen any up to the bulge"
because there is danger of the sheaves slip
ping out. Where the straw is long enough,
the stack may easily be extended three or
four feet on each side beyond the outer lines
of the foundation, and that makes room for
good deal more grain than can be put into
a stack that is run up straight, or drawn in
from the bottom. The writer of this always
did his stacking of grain, except the filling
of the middles, on his knees. That was the
rule in those days. But the work can be as
well done standing by using good fork to
place the heavy sheaves. Every bundle ought
to be pressed into place by the stackers
weight upon it.
A stack, whether of grain or hay, after it
is finished and settled some, ought to be
raked so as to comb out the straw and make
a good matching. The top may be secured
by few sticks tethered with straw or hay
bands, twisted and ten to twelve feet long,
and thrown across the top of the stack. If a
rick, the weights out to be about four feet
apart. They need not to be heavy-just
enough TO keep the bands in place.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
Insects Injurious to Vegetation.

Boston Journal
As soon as the green leaf expands myriads
of insignificant bugs, with appetites made
yOracious by a season of fasting, fill the air
and settle upon each growing leaf, to begin
their work of destruction; or, if their appe
titles are not equal to the work OF completely
destroying all of the leaves as fast as they
grow, they will each lay thousand or two
Of eggs that multitude of disgusting worms
may hatch out to honeycomb the leaves, and
thus not only destroy their beauty, but also
their vitality. We wonder If the green olive
leaf which the dove returned to the ark with
had any bugs or worms on it, or were they
still sheltered in the ark? Man trains the
elephant, and even makes the lion obey him;
but when he comes to the flea, the mosquito
or the apple maggot, he strikes right and left
at random, only beating the air or boxing
his own ears, while the little torments raise
their voices in songs of gladness, or perhaps
hop few inches higher.
From the first expanding leaf of early
spring to the chilly winds of autumn man is
compelled to keep up the battle with the de-
stTuctive insects or be content to see his gar
den orchard stripped of every green leaf, and
instead of having harvest of fruit and veg
etables have only harvest OF worms and
bugs. The creeping things of the earth seem
to be on the increase, thus compelling man
to be continually inventiDg new weapons Of
destruction. Thus far the race between the
destructive insects and the man seem to be
about equal, with some doubts as to which
will eventually conquer. The best scare yet
made by man is the use of paris green, and
the best scare mady by the insects is the in
PRODUCTION of the apple maggot-one Just
about offsets the other. The insects have
found no way to avoid the poisonous effects
of the paris green and the man has found no
way to destroy the maggot, who is vet master
of the situation, and reigns supreme in the
orchard, selecting the largest and sweetest
apples, Kidding them from skin to core with
out fear of being molested by man. What
the next scare will be, or by which side,
time only will tell. We must make the best
Use of what weapons we have, and exercise
cur highest wisdom to improve them.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
Trespassing in Massachusetts,.
Boston Herald. I

"God help the child that trespasses upon
these grounds" is inscribed on a sign a
Lowell woman has erected in her garden.
God help the man who has to live with the
woman who puts up such sign.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16

The warm weather often has a depressing
and facilitating effect. Hoods Sarsaparilla
oyercomes all languor and lassltude.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
Inxau,s Descrihed.

louisville Courier Journal.
Ingalls, is three parts venom, two parts OF
the cheap brightness which "stinks and
shines" and nc part gentleman.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
OUR FARM BUDGET.
The Old Barn-POultry, White Plymouth, Wy
andottes and DirigOs- Soluble Fertilizers.

Word About Stacking-IDjurious Insects
Balled DISQUALIFICATION
should Keep Bees = Thinning
Frait-Farm Notes, Etc.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
The Old Barn.
JEROME W. TURNER.

The light flashed in, past each shrunken board.
And blazed in the fragrant bay,
Where the wifely hens their eggs had stored
In the bowls OF the new-made hay!
And there went the iris-spattered dove
ON the crOss-beam to and fro,
Telling the sweetness of her love
To her mate, as white as snow.
There through the open, knot-hOle-dOOr
swift swallows hurtled past
To their braeket-nests the rafters bore
Glued to their sides so fastl
Lulled to sleep meath the "dishing" roof,
BY the drOne song of the fly,
While the horse marked time with his falling
hoOf
Stamping the floor hard by.
1t was Joy to be in the quiet place
In the sunshine and the rain,
And we would feel il were quite grace
To be put there once again?
Chicago Current
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-03-05
HINTS ON HYGIENE.
May Children Go Barefoot without InjuI
to Their Health?

May Children Go Barefoot without Injury
to Their Health?
This question is every now and again
proposed for discussion; and when it
is sow are compelled to give the same
answer. On physiological grounds, it
is manifestly a sound practice to ac-
custom children to develop the circu-
Iatory and muscular systems of the
lower extremities, precisely as those of
the hands are developed, by free use
and exposure. 1t is not supposed to
be either necessary or desirable that
children should wear gloves for hygi-
enic purposes. When the hands of
little folks are thus decorated, the pa
rental idea is cOnfessedly to give them
what is conventionally regarded as a
genteel appearance. No one thinks a
child ought to be protected from the
weather, so far as its hands are con-
cerncH. On the contrary, it is recOg-
nized that the upper eXtremities should
be kept warm by exercise and habitual
exposure. Precisely the same view
holds good with regard to the lower
eXtremities.
Contact with bodies that abstract heat,
even more than the earth abstracts it.
is an almost constant condition of child
life. In short, it is entirely in defer
ence to fashion and the usages of
society that children wear foot COW
erings. There is much to be said in
favor of a more natural practice. The
foot is an organ of WOndrOus complex
ity, regarded as bony and muscular
apparatus. 1t is, moreover, provided
with nerves and blood vessels of espe-
cial intricacy. The softest and most
flexible shoe to a very great extent,
and a boot almost entirely, reduces
this organ to the character of a iointed
block with little self movement. Obvi-
Ously this reduction must retract not
only from the efficiency of the foot, but
of the organism as a whole. If the
foot and leg are fully developed, as
they can only be when the foot is
habitually exposed, the quantity of
blood which the lower extremities can
be made to receive, and, if need be, at
tract for time, is very considerable.
We can only say that children who
are allowed to 90 barefOOted enjoy al
most immunity from the danger of
''cOld'' by accidental chilling of the
feet, and they are altogether healthier
and happier than those who, in Obedi-
ence to the usages of social life, have
their lower extremities permanently in
valided and, so to say, carefully swathed
and put away in rigid cases. AS re-
CARDS the poorer classes of children,
there can be no sort of doubt in the
mind of any one that it is incompara-
bly, better that they should 90 bare
footed than wear boots that let in the
wet and stockings that are nearly al
ways damp and foul.-LOnd015 Lancet.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-03-05
SELF-P RAISE.
One OF the Most InsuGerabIe Qualities in
Man Woman.

One OF the Most InsuGerabIe Qualities in
Man or Woman.
COnceit is an insuflerable quality in
man or woman; an honest self-estima-
ton is quite another thing, A man
must, however. have indisputabIy
proved by his deeds that he is worthy
to stand among the great, before an
assumption of worth can be forgiven
him. Some of the self-laudatory re-
marks of famous men have an honest
simplicity which amuses US, while we
are unable to dispute their substantial
truth. Victor Hugo set a high valua-
ton upon his own genius. 1t is said
that, in speaking of a continued eX-
istence after death, he declared that
only in future life should he attain
the true greatness which his earthly
career merely promised.
''At present" said he, II am but tho
tadpOle of an archangel."
Although this metaphOrical natural
Cor celestiaD history may have struck
his hearers as being slightly irreverent,
it evidently expressed his honest
opinion of his own great powers.
John Hunter, a wonderful anatomist
and surgeon of the eighteenth century,
had no delicate scruples against Iauda-
ton of his own talents.
"Ah, John Hunter, still hard at
work. one day exclaimed a medical
friend, who found him at the dissecting
table.
yes, doctor" was the reply, "and
you II find it difficult to meet with an
other John Hunter when l am gone!"
Again he is reported as saying: Il
know am but pigmy in knowledge,
but l feel as a giant when compared
with other men"
Self-praise is not confined to individ-
uals; often it embraces an entire ma
tiOnality. =
How do you like the English?"
asked a British squire of his Scotch
gardener.
'sWeel sir" was the answer, 'sbein'
frae hame, and among the English, [
find me great fault in them; but l maun
max this remark, that for n1ee-niSter1
or gardeners, or any thing needing
hede-wark, We maun come to US i the
nOrthr'
Such remarks are merely amusing
because we are occasionally willing to
bear them from a great man, and from
a small man they are palpably absurd.
Remember, however, that Socrates
earned his right to be called the wisest
of men by his recognition of his own
ignorance, and Sir Isaac Newton de-
clared himself to be a child picking
up few pebbles of knowledge while
the great ocean of truth lay all undis-
covered before him, it will perhaps be
safest for the great majority of US to
preserve a discreet silence in regard to
| our power Youths Companion.