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Philadelphia Record
The fall is the proper time to apply lime to
the soil, as the lime will then have sufficient
time to exert q chemical effect on the matter Of
the soil by spring, thereby assisting TO get the
land in proper condition for q crop. The benefit
impaired by lime is due to the Liberation OF inert
matter, although IL 10 also itself used as plant
food, but as all soils contain lime 1t 10 seldom
deficient. 1t renders heavy soils lighter. and
light soils heavier. The proper way to apply IL
it to pillow the land deep and leave the burrows
N the rough, without narrowing. Inen broad
cast about twenty bushels OF Fine 10 the acre
forty bushels would not be tco muehl and bar
row the ground lightly, but only once The
lime should bs in a very fne condition, and as
the rains viii carry il down IL Will soon Do
mingled with the soil.
Lime has o strong affinity for csroonlc ACID
but the carbonic acid may be displaced by q
stronger acid. such as sulphuric or nitric lis
this change Of composition with other chauRes)
that enables it to decor pose matter In the soil,
mineral fertilizers from their original condition
of combination and hasten the formation OF
silicates that can be more easily broken from
combination than before. Ii also causes .
mechanical effect on tie soil, aud, in connection
with the frost. breaks mp the Jumps and clods.
AS a result OF its action there 10 a formation OF
nitrates, sulphates. phosphates and other com
pounds, which, in thsir turn, assist in supplying
the growing plant with many forms Of soluble
matter that otherwise could not be appro-
priated for use. 1t Is due to the many changes
it produces in the fertilizing material CT the soil
that permits It TO be considered the best of all
substances to be used as a fertilizer If the mates
of its cost be given proper consideration.
Lime is an oxide, but usually exists as q car
Donate in the shape Of marble, ordinary lime
stone. chalk and sea-sbells. As a carbonate
(compound of lime and csrbonic acid 1t 10 inert
The limestone or shells should be burned in a
kiln until the carbonic acid is driven of. In
this condition it is best for the soil, as it will
then be eager TO again combine with the carbon
ic acid, aud seeks it from the air or from the
soil. In so doing il causes potash and other
substances TO release their carbonic acid in or
der to surrender it TO the lime The potash
then seeks another combination, and by this
process of breaking Town combinations and
making others the soil is acted upon chemically
and thereby changed in character. A coil may
be rich In fertilizine matter, and only needs
the lime in order to have the substances rem
dered soluble and available for plants.
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An Alabama Man Resppears After Ten
Years and Claims HE Own.

An Alabama Man Resppears After Ten
Years and Claims HE Own.
Birmingham (Ala.) Special.
A remarkable aud long legal contest of a will
has just been ended in a most unexpected man
ner In Winston county,, Alabama. Twelve years
ago Charles II. Baker was known as the richest
man in Winston. He owned several large plan
tations and a store, from which he supplied the
small farmers for miles around. He discounted
notes aud in other ways accumulated q large
fortune, a considerable portion Of which was
cash. Baker was then living with his second
wife and two children, also three sons by q
former wife.
Ia the summsr of 1878 Baker went to Men,
phis, Tenc. where hi always sold his cotton and
did his banking. When the yellow fever broke
out IN Memphis he was caught there. and could
not return homo On account of the rigid Quarar-
tine regulations. After the fever had been rag
Ing several weeks, Bakers name one day ap-
peared among the list OF new cases, and soon
afterward the family heard that he was dead.
Then his widow filed for probate . will which
left her and her children the principal part OF
Bakers fortune. and made her administrator
without bond. Bakers sons by his first mar
riaee contested the will. and ten years OF bitter
and expensive litigation followed, the final re-
suit being that the widow aud her children Sc
cured the bulk of what property the lawyers
had left them. The three sons Immediately Sc
cured en- injunction restraining Mira. Baker from
taking charge or the property. claiming that
they had secured evidence OF q later will. The
day after the Injunction was served Charles II.
Baker himself, now a very old mac. appeared az
the old homestead aud claimed MS fortune.
1t seems he die not die OF yellow fever. but
after he recovered, after several weeks, his rea-
son was gone and the past was a blank to him.
He had drifted here and there as a common
tramp. finally turning up in Buenos Ayres,
South America, where he wac taken to q hospi-
tai and, under the care of a Spanish physician,
recovered his reason. He then worked his way
To New Orleans as q oumon sailor. and after
many hardships reached his homo. He con-
firms the claims Of his sons that be had made q
later will, in which he made an equal division
of his property among his wife and FIVE chill
dram
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Anti-Pyrine in sea.sickne.s.

DIR. W.. + Hutchinson, in American Magazine.
At a late meeting of the doctors of France at
Marseilles, part of the programme was an ex-
cursion to Algiers; and before they sailed, one
OF them announced the preventive virtues of
anti pyrine in sea-sickness. Now" said he,
there is an opportunity to test its value in a
way rarely occurring. Here are a hundred aud
fifty doctors of US going to sea, not one of whom
is a sailor. Let US all take the drug. sail across
the middle sea like veterans and enjoy our little
trip like old salts"
Adopted. So every doctor armed himself
with capsules OF anttpyrinea and began to take
them as the ship swung out Of the dock and
headed for Africa; and in half An hour after
wards that society. without exception was laid
out. They stuck m~anfully to the remedy, de-
termined to giveit fair play; but when they
landed in the morning, a dragged-out dilapidas-
ed-looking set, the vote that anti-pyrine was q
miserable delusion in sea-sickness. passed by q
large vote--a strictly unanimous one.
As a temporary relief for sick headache, it hes
considerable value; but 1t is as insidious as
chloral, aud even more seductive. All these
drugs have about the same biography. They
come in with trumpet blast and beat of drum.
heralded az absolute cure-alls, spread themselves
among the people like q pessi!ence. are eagerly
seized by youthful physicians and helped along,
and gradually subside out of public sight, leav-
ing behind some victims to their power who live
and q host Of gravsA
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1t Turned His Hair White.

Big Indian IN. W Special.
A young man named John NJ. Damon, who has
recently been boarding at Ssmsonville, High
Point. in the Catskill mountains. has had q
tobogganing experience which he probably will
never forget, aud which has caused his hair to
grow white. On the northern point OF Samson
vile, High Point, is a rocky slide of slate about
] 500 feet i'll length. as smooth as polished mar
BILE and inclined at an angle of about ffty-ive
degrees. At the base is a yawning chasm Fifty
feet in depth. While amusing himself there the
other day by casting huge powders down the
slide so as to see them bounce to the oppo-
site side of the chasm and fall with q
crash into the yawning abyss, the young man
lost his balance. and away he went down the
steep. What passed through his mind in his
rapid fight he will never be able To state clearly.
but his clothes bore unmistakable evidence of
what friction will 90. Luckily, as he bounced
to the other side OF the chasm after his natural
toboRgan slide of fifteen hundred feet and Was
about to topple backward into the %yawning
abyss below, he caught a firm hold of a young
cedar. While suspended in mid-air. and mount
ing and praying for celiversrce. a party OF
young ladies, to one of whom be had pledged his
youthful affections, appeared on the cliff. They
heard the voice of the young man and saw his
queer p~redicament. Shouting to him to retain
bis grip Gu the tree. the young ladies ran for
help. and soon the young man was rescued with
the aid of ropes.
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n
Gleanings from Exchanges and Ceilings

Gleanings from Exchanges and Ceilings
from Correspondence.
The annual session Of the southern Illinois
Synod of the English Lutheran Church is in
progrsss at Hilisboro.
William Eahert opened FIRE at East ST Louis,
Thursday, on officers who saw him breaking
brasses from railroad cars. Tue fire was re-
turned and he was fatally shot.
While at work in the Browning coal mine at
Duquoin on Thursday, boss driver Charles Free
man and boss trackman Dave Howell were Sc
riously il not fatally injured by falling slate.
The reunion Of the Seventy-nipth Illinois In
fantry took place at Tuscola, on Thursday,
about sixty of the veterans participating. AZ
night they had a grand banquet at the Beach
House. w. II. Armentrout was elected presi-
dent of the association and w. L. Foulke secre-
tsry.
Dick Oglesby. Of Chicago, q comedian, form
erly proprietor of Oelesbyis Troubadours, was
accidentally killed onlWednesdny, at Marionville,
Mo-, where his company were playing. He was
thirty nine years old, and leaves a wife and two
children in Chicago. He was a cousin OF Gov
ernor Oglesby.
The Supreme Council OF the Western Catholic
Union completed its session at Springfield, on
Thursday. with the election of the following
officers: President, j. Metzger. Quincy; vice.
president, Joseph Braun, ir. Joliet; financial
secretary, John Schauf; recording secretary.
Henry Crding, treasurer, George Fischer.
The survivors OF the Thirtieth Illinois In
fantry held their first annual reunion at Spring
field, on Thursday. The regiment was ir Gen.
John A. Logan's division, and was with him as
long as he commanded a division. The follow
ing officers were elected: President, Capt Lind
say Steele, Chester; vlce-president, s. W.. Con-
slant, Dawson; secretary, Martin Dougherty,
Breckinridge; treasurer, Jsbez Mitchell, Waiver
ly; historian, l. +. Pierce, Curran.
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Extraordinary Custom Which IL a Common
Occurrence in Naples.

uih0ty So5hDsA 10 q OIAAnhOA
Occurrence in Naples.
Paris Register.
Many marriages take place annually in Naples
because of money left. according 20 last will and
testament, by be1evolently disposed individuals
to endow q certain number of %virtuouS poor
girls with q small sum OF money as an outfit,
and when these girls, say twenty or thirty, pre-
ssnt themselves to the trustees as candidates for
that dover, and the will only provides for six
such marriages, all the girls must step up to the
urn and draw a lot OF course, out of the
ty or thirty girls who have qualified, only six
not entitled to the dover unit. all
the legal arrangements for the marriage
are gone through. There are always plenty OF
young w%orkmen, either day laborers or mechan-
les. who are ready to accept a girls hand and
the 100 or l50f dover, for she has had to 90
neatness, virtue, etc,
l very often see the announcements In the
daily papers of such marriages. and last Satur-
day one Of these announcements attracted my
attention more than usual on account OF the
length OF time the ~testator had been dead whose
funds were to. annually benefit These virtuous
girls. | translate the advertisement literally az
follows:
'M~ARRIAGEs-The trustees of tire Monte
Cahello Chapel, of the Church Of San Salvatore
Of Petra Sante fin Naples), moke known to the
public that on the second Sunday of September,
1883, at II NJ, lots will drawn for three mar
riages, each successful person receiving the sum
of 1l9 francs, left by the will Of Caesar Capaloo.
who died in 1910. and left euch sums in favor OF
three young women who will qualify themselves.
which qualification must take place on or before
the 9th of September. The following are the quail
ifcations: First. they must be descendants OF the
%testator; second. they must be maSriageabie
whatever that may meanl: third, they must be
honest and poor; and, fourth, they must not be
over twenty five years Of age"
Now here We have a provision made differently
from the usual run, in that the candidates for
this lottery must be poor descendants of the
%tcstator. JUST fancy that will made for such q
purpose by a man who died ten years before .
Pilgrim placed his foot on Plymouth Rock, and
that il IS faithfully carried out.
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Mrs. Wai,e.s Reduced Finances.

Chicago Tribune's Washington Letter.
Mrs. Waite and her daughter are AZ present in
Washington, and hope TO make it their future
home. The residence they have occupied ID,
too expensive for them, aud hencs is
10 offered for rent. Ii is almost the only prop
erty which the late Chief justice left his family.
1t NAV yield an income of 81. 500 per year. When
Mr.. Waite came to Washington fourteen years
ago as Chief justice he gave mp a lucrative law
practice. He lived in keeping with his position,
but not ostentstiously and il is certain that out
OF q salary of $40, 800 he was not abs to save
anything. The money he brought with hin was
invested in a house. which, with an insurance
policy Of S.. 900, was all he left to his family.
After the death of the Chief justice il was stated
that a fund had been started among the lawyers
TO be invested for the benefit of his widow. Rich
members OF the Supreme Court gave 81. 900 each,
but outside of this it is doubtful if any large
contributions were made 20 the fund.
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G.. :. RedfeId Ends His Life.

BOHEMIAN. M. t., Oct. ia pssseng gar on the
train going east took an overdose of morphine
with fatal effect tonight. From papers on his
person it was learned that his name is c. s.
Redield, ex-treasurer Of McVicker's Theater,
Chicago. Mr.. Redfeld was widely known to
the dramatic profession, and no face was more
familiar to the theater-going public Of Chicago.
q quarter OF a century. Manager Sharp Says he
had oeen acting somewhat strangely for some
time, and a few months ago hs took offeuse at
some INSIGNIFICANT remark and resigned. Since
then he has been travelling in the West, and
was. il appears, returning TO Chicago.
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~INDIANAAND ILLINOIS NEWS
Two Young Men Meet Death with the
Pistol While Engaged in a Quarrel.
A Farmer Becomes Insane Through Religion
and Wants to Sacrifice One of His Chill .
%dren-0ther Happenings.
INDIANA.

Two Men Fatally Shot While QuarreIing ut
Political Rallies.
Special to the indianapolis journal
VINCENNEs, Oct. 19. William Watson fatally
shot Tom Mason at the barbecue at Edwards
port yesterday. The trouble began in the shout
Of Mason for Harrison. Watson responded by
shouting for Cleveland. In q moment the two
men came to blows Mason threw Watson to
the ground, and as he fell he fired his revolver.
The ball passed through the abdomen OF Mason
and lodged in the skin at his back. He started
TO walk away. bat fell after going q few steps.
He WAS carried to q house close by. and a
medical examination showed his wound to be
fatal. The murderer is at large, taking to his
heels at once after the shooting.
CLINTON. Oct. 19.-During a political rally at
Newport, the c~ounty-seat OF Vermillion county,
tonight. Bill Richardson, son of ex-postmastsr
John Richardson, shot and killed Harry Aikman.
Five shots were fired in qnick succession, four
striking HIM in the groin, the last one near the
heart Altman died in ten minutes. The diff.
Guilty grew out of an old feud that originated on
a political excursion. The families of both men
are highly respected and well TODD citizens.
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of the Chicago Historical Society, telling how
Hagar had once claimed that in q trance or
vision he had been permitted to enter heaven,
where he saw bis first wife and clearly rec
oenized her and conversed with her. "Why,"
Wentworth would say, 81 told Hagar l didn't
take q cents worth of stock in his story. said,
'HsRar, if you really got there. what puzzles me
is that you were ever willing TO return to
Chicago again. You bet If ever l got through,
squarely through, much as l like Chicago and
my place at Summit and all that. / never would
have let 60 on the return trip here. Neither
would you, Hagar.' You may bet a farm either
that he was a lynn or heaven amt the place its
been cracked up to be. He'd never have come
back here again to keep on looking after the
books and traps of the Historical Society"
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Miss Hosmer's Beginnings in Sculpture

DOoIOu II
Her taste for the art which has. been 10 her
the love and the labor OF a lifetime showed itself
milton OF the need OF Studying anatomy IN order
to fit herself for her work as a sculptor was
shown in the course % instruction which she at
tended at the 81. Louis Medical College, after
completing her school education at Lenox. The
lessons which she received In modelling here liz
Boston were of use in enabling her TO continue
this practice at home.
II is thirty-six years ago since Miss Hosmer
exhibited her first ideal head, called ''Hesper.7
in this city. Ii was the year IN which she made
her first visit 10 the place which was destined TO
be her home and the scene OF her artistic aspi-
rations and achievements, and it Is interesting
to recall the fact that she went 20 Rome with
Charlotte Cushman, who showed the wa.
appreciation of her talents and who was glad to
aid her father in placing her under the care of a
competent teacher.
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Foreign Notes.

Two French officers who were found studying
the defsnses at Dresden have been expelled
from the country.
The fund for Mr. Bradlaugh amounts TO
60, 49,, which will enable him 10 wipe out the
whole of his debts.
Mitchell, the pueilist, was tried at the Sussex,
Eng. sessions, yesterday, for completely In o
prize-feht at Good wood. BE was acquitted.
A movement is talked of to provide q new
building a, Westminster for monuments 70 dis
tinguisned dead. the abbey being nearly full
The North Wales Coal Owners Association
has granted the workmen a rise of 10 per cent.
10 wages, aud the danger of q universal strike is
over.
Mr.. Goschen has refused to accept the freedom
Of Aberdeen, on account OF a division in the
municipal council regarding the comforting OF
the honor.
The Holy Office is about to issue a decree in
s~tructing the bishops in America to obtain from
the leaders of the Knights of Labor verbal
declarations as 10 the innocuousness Of the
order.
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NEWS FROM ABROAD.
Emperor William Distributes Valuable Gifts

Emperor William Distributes Valuable GiftS
aud Departs from the Eternal City.
ROME, Oct. 19.-Emperor William took
luncheon at the Quirinal to-day and left on his
return to Berlin at $50 o'clock this afternoon,
after bidding farewell to the Queen and royal
princesses. He vas accompanied to the station
by King Humbert, Crown Prince Victor
Emmanuel and the Dukes Of Genoa and Aosta.
The parting was cordial. the Emperor embrac-
ING all the royal party who accompanied him.
HE Majesty converssd with King Humbert
until the train started. A large crowd had
& altered a. the station and gave the Emperor
an ovation.
The Fsnfulla says: When Emperor William
was leaving Premier Crispi he ssid: IAN revoir
dams cette Rome vraiment intangible En-
peror William has sent to the Pope, through
Baron Won Schlezer, the Prussian representa-
tive To the Vatican. his portrait set with dia-
monds; 10 Prince Henry a splendid cameo and
diamonds, to Count Herbert Bismarck a large
gold inbilee medal and to the other members OF
the imperial suit small medals.
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Minor Notes.

A gang of tramps has been arrested q Valpa-
raiso for breaking into freight cars.
Miss Florence Martin, a former resident Of
Cambridge City, died in California, yesterday.
j. G.. Parker. Of Charlestown, was thrown
from a buggy, at Cemeutvil!e. and probably
fatally hurt.
John Mayhem, of Shelbyville, has been SEN
fenced to three years in the State prison, for
housebresking.
The body of John Winslay, of Goshen. who
disappeared a week ago, has been found in the
canal. at that place. 1t is thought he was acct
deutally drowned, the money in his pocket being
untouched.
At Fort Wayne, on Thursday, while the fire.
men were working at a fire near the Lutheran
Cemetery, the chimney OF the burning dwelling
fell suddenly. crushing Edward Moody, one Of
the fremen. 90 badly that he died In the even
ing at the City Hospital.
Two stations. at the Knox county fair, broke
away from their keepers. and engaged in a ter
rife combat. cutting each other with their hoofs
and teeth until they were both covered with
blood. They were separated with difficulty, and
led away limping and sore from numerous
wounds.
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HORRIBLE. Deed of an Iusane Man.

Sickness has unsettled the mind Of Thomas s.
Barnes. who lives with his married daughter.
Mrs. Gibson, at No. 1910 Parrish street, and
yesterday be killed his infant grandchild. Viii
helmina. The child was sleeping in it's cradle,
when the grandfather picked her up, walked to
tho window and, lifting tho sash, dropped the
child head first to the pavement below. Drs.
Halle and Pe,tz were sum moned as soon as the
insane mans act had been discovered, but the
child died in q short time from concussion of
the brain. The back of her head was horribly
crushed. When Barnes was arrested he was
seated on a chair in the parlor. He made no
resistance. Barnes was at one time q prosper
Gus butcher. but six months ago had an attack
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Her Usefulness Ended.

Philadelphia Record.
Blinks-Holdo on. What's your hurry
Jinks-Nearly driven TO death. Half a busbel
Of letters to answer this morning. and no one to
help do it
What has become Of that pretty girl type
writer You hadF
'Shes no use any mere. She went and got
married"
You don't say so. Whom did she marry.
Me-
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Ladies' Missionary Meeting.

Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal.
SHAwNEE MOUND. Oct. 1s.-The ladies Of the
Charlottesville district. Northwest Indiana Con-
ference of the Nj. E. Church. held a very success
full day aud-a-half meeting at Newton, Oct 16
and Il. Mrs. A. c.. McKinsey. conference sec
rotary, was present, and interested tho audience
each evening with her pleasant talks. Miss
Zimmerman, a veteran missionary from India,
occupied an hour on the evening OF the nth,
exhibiting her very many Interesting curiosities,
so different from what most returned mission
aries bring back. She dressed herself in the
costume of the ladies of that country. and also
In the costume Of the yelled women. The ses-
sions were business-like and prompt. and much
work and planning for the coming year was &C
complished. The next annual session will be
held at Rockville, In October, 1889.