Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 May 1895 — Page 6

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FRIDAY, MAY 3. 1895.

Thk Toledo Bee suggests free grind age for wheat instead of free coinage for silver on the ground that free grindage would do the farmer some good. It says:

For instance, make milling a governmental monopoly. Let nobody make flour but Uncle Sam. Let the farmer l)ring in his wheat and have it made into flour free of charge. Arbitrarily fix the price of flour that can be made from fifty cents worth of wheat at one dollar. Then the farmer can walk into the government mill with fifty cents' worth of wheat and walk out again with a dollar in flour or money. That would make it a sure thing for the farmer.

New Yoi'.k Tribune: Very important is the bearing which the peace just negotiated at Simonoseki is likely to exercise upon the silver question. The opening up of China with its :i00,000,000 of population to the commerce of the world stipulated for by the Mikado involves a considerable rise in the price of silver, since the internal trade of the Celestial Empire will necessarily be conducted on a [silver basis. And with the rise of silver prosperity will return to South and Central America, while immense advantages will accrue both to British India and to the United States. In one word, the opening up of China probably means a temporary, if not permanent, settlement of the troublesome question for which we are indebted to Japan.

ENGLAND is in favor of arbitration, Tout it is only with nations of her own size. Had the United States, Germany or France been in Nicaraugua's place there would have been no thought on the part of England to take possession of a custom house of the offending nation and collecting an indemnity. But little nations have no rights that England is bound to respect. Possessing the giant's strength she uses it like a giant and bully. Nicaraugua wants to arbitrate but England declines. Her autocratic course is unworthy of a great civilized country. What England really desires is not the 875,000 indemnity but to get control of the Nicaraugua canal. And this imbecile American administration sits with folded hands playing into the hands of England.

PROTECTION AND liLMETALI.ISM. The New York Herald has, for some time past, been publishing communications from importers, manufacturers and wholesale and retail dealers,in the United States, flupnii public economic questions, our national financial policy, tarifv matters, condition of business and suggestions as to what course should be adopted by the next Congress. Theodore Justice, of Philadelphia, the well known wool man, was asked by the Herald for a letter that would give |his opinion of a remedy for the present business distress and depression. He replied, however, that in his opinion his views would be •unacceptable to the Herald, and he doubted whether it would agree to publish his views if he wrote them. The Herald promised to print his letter and Mr. Justice wrote out his views. As is well known Mr. Justice is a firm "believes in therpolicy of protection, which he regards as absolutely necessary to insure progress to the United States. The llcrald, true to its instincts, so garbled the letter and abridged it that it was scarcely recognized by its author. The American •Economist procured the letter and presented it in full. He shows that the rxemedy lies in such legislation as will increase the purchasing power of the people. This may be accomplished by giving our producers an opportunity to make here more of the ai tides which we consume, but which are now made by foreign nations. For instance, he says, the removal of the wool duties caused a decline in both the value and 'production of our home clip, and lessened the purchasing power of the agricultural classes in one year to the extent of 8100,000,000 in one branch of animal industry alone. The entire letter which is quite lengthy, is a vigorous presentation of the doctrine of protection, and is simply unanswerable. He closes his letter with a paragraph on the silver question as follows:

Possibly the majority of the American people are convinced that we shall never enjoy the full measure of our prosperity until -ve return to bimetallism. The. prevailing impression is that this would be impossible without international agreement and co-opera-tion. 'International bintetalism can "be forced'by the adoption of 'bimetallism bjyjshis batioii _at af"srdt remote 'fitfed'ftitate" "dlrtfei* Tf«'fliccomparir£d-! by .Sr.-. tV .'.it.

the increase in duties upon the imports from nations not having the same standard of bimetallism as that of the U. S. Less duties upon the imports from such nations as have the American system of bimetallism than upon those which have not, would soon settle the matter. The Bradford Observer, one of the leading British commercial papers, states that the best British foreign market is America. While England is the hardest nation to bully by a show of brute military force, she is the easiest nation in the world to influence through her commercial interests. If the U. S. declares that by July 1st, 1806, bimetallism in the U. S. should be the law of the land and at the same time give the world notice of our intentions to favor the imports from bimetallic nations agreeing to our standard, the thing would be accomplished. Horace Greeley said that "the way to resume specie payments was to resume." Mr. Greeley was right. So now the way to have bimetallism is to have bimetallism.

These ideas were embraced in the Indiana State Republican platform of 1804. The only way to bring England to terms is to strike at her commercial interests. The remedy is in a high tariff with a discrimination in favor of those countries as have a system of bimetallism. As Mr. Justice suggests this would settle the matter.

TIIE UNIT OF VALUE.

In these days of the discussion of the monetary question there is considerable confusion and misinformation as to what is meant by the term "unit of value" as it is popularly applied to our coinage laws. A cox-respondent of the Chicago Times-Herald, Sigmund Zeisler, explains the meaning of the term "unit" in such a way that even the simplest mind can comprehend and understand, if he is an earnest and sincere seeker for light and knowledge. Mr. Zeisler says:

What is meant by the term "unit" is simply the basis for reckoning in money. Some governments have adopted a larger, some a smaller unit. England's unit, the pound sterling, is nearly five times as large as ours. France's unit, the franc, is about onefifth Germany's unit, the mark, about one-fourth of ours. The "unit" is simply the starting point in counting money. Eyery sum is expressed in multiples or fractions of that unit. Now, this unit in every system of currency has not only a certain name but also a certain value as measured by the amount of precious metal contained in it according to statute. In countries which have the single gold standard the unit is defined by a certain quantity of pure gold. Jnder the single silver standard the unit is defined by a certain quantity of pure silver. Under a bimetallic currency the statute fi.ves a certain quantity ofcsilver and u,lso a certain quantity of gold, richer of which is the unit, under 'lie supposition that the two quantities as thus fixed are, at least approximately,equal in commercial value.

The "unit," thus defined by law, is very often merely an idea, a conception, an abstraction, rather than a concrete, tangible thing. Thus, for instance, in Germany,- which has the single gold standard, the unit is expressed by a fixed quantity of gold. At the same time, there exists in that country no gold coin which contains just the quantity of gold which makes the unit. The unit of account in Germany is the mark. Still no 1-mark pieces of gold are coined, but she coins gold pieces of 10 marks or units and gold pieces of 20 marks or units. The only 1-mark pieces coined are made of silver. Under the German currency system the unit is measured in gold only, still the only coin which passes for the value of one unit is a silver piece, and the only gold pieces coined contain multiples of the fixed unit. Thus we see that the only true unit in the German system which is expressed in a certain quantity of gold is merely an abstraction, as no one-unit gold coins are in existence, and the 1-mark silver coins are merely subsidiary money.

The same is true in France, where the "franc" is the unit, and the money system is the single gold standard. There also no 1-franc pieces are coined in gold. And the only gold pieces are multiples of the "unit" or franc.

Let us now look at the statute of the United States of 17'J^!. It provides that there shall be coined "eagles, each to be of the va'ue of ten dollars or units, and to contain 247 grains and foureights of a grain of pure or 270 grains of standarjl gold." It then provides for the coinage of half eagles and quarter eagles containing the proportionate quantity of gold. And then, tin ally, it also provides for the coinage of "dollars or units, each to be of the value of a Spanish milled dollar, as the same is now current, and to contain Ii71 grains and four-sixteenths parts of a grain of pure or 41i grains of stanuard silver."

Now. it is true that the only coin provided for which shall contain just the value of one unit, no more nor less, is the silver dollar. But it is likewise true that by that statute several coins are provided for which are multiples of the "unit" and which are to be coined of gold of a certain, fixed, defined quantity. In other words, where the statute fixes that a certain quantity of gold shall be "ten units," it requires a vast amount of stupidity to deny that one-tenth of that quantity of gold is one "unit." And as shown above, the fact that no one-unit gold pieces are to be coined does not in the least militate against that position. As well argue that, because no 1-mark gold pieces are provided for by the German law, the German unit of money is not settled upon gold but upon silver.

The reason whj' Germany's 1-mark pieces are coined of silver is quite obvious. The coin would be too small if made of gold. Even a 81 gold piece would oe a very small coin, and that was certainly one of the reasons wh}' the statute of 1792 did not provide for its coinage. But the "unit" may exist, as we have seen, though the coins provided for may be only multiples of that unit.

Suppose that, after providing for the coinage of eagles, half eagles and quarter eagles, the statute had merely provided foiv subsidiary cpi jis of copper or some other metal,' but had omrtted

the provision about the silver dollar, would we have been without a "unit" of value? Would not gold have been the "unit"? If 247 4-8 grains of pure gold are equal to ften "units," as the statute says, how much of gold is one unit?

THAT MONEY CONFLUENCE. E. O. Leech, Director of the Mint under President Harrison, and now Vice President of the National Union Bank, of New York, the other day said: "It looks as if Germany would call an international monetary conference, and England has decided to participate in it if called. France and the States of the Latin union, which are burdened with large quantities of overvalued silver, would naturally take kindly to it. In the United States public sentiment is strongly in favor of international bimetallism, and as Congress has already made provision for delegates to the conference it follows, as a matter of course, that this country will be represented and its voice, as in all previousiconferences, will be unmistakably in favor of the largest use of silver money. I believe that if the great commercial nations of the world should agree to coin gold and silver at a uniform ratio the value of silver would for a long period of time be maintained at approximately such coinage ratio. At any rate, I believe the experiment would be well worth trying, and I am quite sure that if the leading commercial nations were willing to try it, the sentiment in this country would be very strong in favor of the experiment. It is true that the free silver agitation here and the saturation of our -.currency with silver money has done much toward creating a sentiment in favor of the gold standard, but I believe that a vast majority of our people would favor international bimetallism."

Some of the best thinkers in the universities of the United States, England and Scotland, together with several ex-governors of the Bank of England, and other great men in Great Britain and elsewhere, believe that international bimetallism at a uniform ratio is not only possible but desirable.

BOWERS.

The measles are east of here at Mr. Stinson's. Alden Kirk and Al Lewis are over on the Wea prairie ditching.

John Kirk will begin work in his tile factory next Monday. Wm. Bundy and wife visited relatives in Boone county Sunday.

Ed Hamilton and his hand, Herman Bailey, are kept busy putting up their patent fence.

Mrs. Sharp and family, of Shannondale, were the guests of J. Woodward over Sunday.

Thos. Hawkins and James Kirk have bought the Maxwell shop and now Tom is kept busy hammering iron.

Mrs. Mary Shockey, of Brown's Valley, visited her nephews, Doctor and James Wrare, the first of this week.

As we failed to write last week we will at this late date make mention of the arrival of a fine boy at Lewis Kirk's.

Chester Butcher found his buggy robe that was stolen from him last winter. A Mr. Riley, of near Thorntown, had it in his possession.

Why not organize a Sunday school at our school house. As we have no church building such a course might prove in the future a great benefit to some of our rising generation and with the aid of the older and influential element of the neighborhood the unsavory reputation of Bowers and vicinity could ba redeemed. Although we are a peaceable people, no fights, few drunks or thefts, yet the deeds of former years molded our reputation. Let's redeem it.

JAJIESXOWN.

School commenced Monday. Perry Smith was in Lebanon Sunday,

Joe Flure, of North Salem, was here Sunday. E. E. Camplin was in Indianapolis Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stockton were in Indianapolis this week. Mrs. R. T. Someryille has returned from a week's visit at Ladoga.

Miss Bertha Richmond, of Danville, has been visiting friends here. Mrs. Tom Williamson and daughter have returned from a visit at Lebanon.

John Hendricks and Charles Osborn, of Crawfordsville, speat Sunday here. Rev. Stafford preached an unusually interesting sermon to a well filled house Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. John Ashley, of near here, entertained their friends Saturday evening.

The young ladies of the Methodist Sunday school will soon give an entertainment for missionary benefit.

R. A. Oli pliant is home from Millstot, Mo. He is contemplating building a new house on north Lebam street.

The citizens of Jamestown will in the near future be favored with a drama given by the I. O. G. T. lodge of this place.

GALLAGHER GAS WELL, Mrs. John Thompson is some better. Prayer meeting every Wednesday night.

Frank Hankin's family are on the sick list. The Misses Minnie Middleton and Minnie Cunningham, of Mt. Tabor, attended the Endeavor Society at Otterbein Sunday night.

Mrs. Sadie Stanley, of Lafavette.and son Frank, and Mr. and Mrs. George Barnhart, of Frankfort, visited Peter Barnhart this week.

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CENTER GROVE.

Farmers nearly all done planting corn. John Jennings is working for John Harris.

Mrs. John Hewitt is much better at this writing* J. C. Francis says he gave his brother a horse last week. •B P. Engle, of this place,, .visited home folks Sunday at Flat Creek.

Newton BQoher, the barber of Partington, used the breaking plow for his^ither tlfis wefeft.

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OLD ELI'S FAVORITE SON

A Eevelation of the Romantic and Remarkable Uareer of Lawrence Bangs, the Famous Yale Athlete.

He might profitably be dismissed at this point, had he not figured in a series of events, the first of which was witnessed by thousands, some of whom may be interested to learn what followed. Nobody can have forgotten the extraordinary success of the alleged Larry Bangs on the football field. His triumphs there were second only to those which he scored upon the green diamond. Perhaps the greatest of them was the last.

The Harvard-Yale football game in Larry's senior year was a bloody and desperate struggle. The Harvard team that year was entirely made up of heavy-weight pugilists of the first ranb- rt. was said that, thev were trained on a diet of raw meat and warm blood. The game which resulted was one of the most entertaining athletic exhibitions ever presented to the gaze of the first families of America. Every time the referee winked somebody was knocked down, and by the end of the first half Harvard had scored eleven black eyes. But a Yale man always plays with an eye single to the interests of his college, and therefore the mere fact that the other eye is closed up does not destroy his usefulness. So it happened that while the Harvard team would have taken a better photograph at the close of the first half the Yale eleven looked the likelier to win, when viewed by an expert.

It must be confessed, however, that upon the feminine part of the vast surrounding throng Harvard had made a very deep impression. Nothing so perfectly lovely as "Buck" Halford's slugging had ever been seen before, and his headwork was simply marvelous. lie seemed to know by secret supernatural means when the referee was looking at somebody else, and the man who played opposite him could not have been identified by a coroner's jury composed of his immediate relatives after play had been in progress twenty minutes. His face looked more like a strawberry shortcake than it did like any recognized type of human countenance yet "Buck" had accomplished it all without so much as a warning from the referee. It is no wonder the girls thought him clever. Even Florence Lome admitted that, but she always added, hopefully: "Just wait till Larry Bangs gets hold of him."

Yale had b6rne the assault of her enemy remarkably well. Only one man had been permanently retired from the game, and he had been restored to consciousness by his own father, who was a celebrated surgeon and one of the most interested spectators of the struggle.

In the midst of this animated scene Paddy O'Toole had been a conspicuous figure. He was unquestionably the best running halfback on any college team. When the ball was with the blue, and ground had to be gained, Paddy got the signal, and in almost every case it was discovered, after the other twenty-one men had been removed from his prostrate form, that he had scored the necessary advance. In this way he accumulated courtplaster and glory, till the latter encircled his head like a halo and the former covered his face like a mask.

He was the man whom Harvard feared most, and in the fifteen minutes' interval while the crimson eleven were having their knuckle bones put back into place by a competent surgeon his doom was sealed. By great good fortune and the most marvelous endurance he succeeded in staving off the inevitable for fully thirty minutes of the second half. Neither side had scored. Yale had pushed the ball to Harvard's ten-yard line, and still retained it. A mass play advanced it three yards more.

It was decided to send Paddy between right guard and tackle for the remaining distance. Nobody who saw that play will ever forget it. Everybody was in it. Even the experts among the spectators could not tell what had happened. They knew that a big gain had been made, but it was impossible to disentangle the runner from the mass of strugtrling giants. For the first time in her athletic experience Florence was frightened. She was certain that she saw one of her lover's legs at a distance of three .yards from the spot where his body lay. But as that spot was over the line and Florence was true, blue, she breathed a prayer that Larry's body might be there, and the leather spheroid with him, for a touchdown counts four and a leg more or less counts nothing in the game of football.

The referee approached and succeeded in persuading several men to get off

SIX INCHES OTEB THE LINK.

the top of the heap. Then, with the aid of hie cane as a lever, he removed such as cckild not perform that office for themselves. At the bottom lay Paddy O'Toole still clasping the ball, and it was six inches over the line!

It seemed at first that Paddy had "gone over the line,"too, but the medical and surgical corps succeeded in retaining him on this side. A decision on this point, however, was not reached in time for Paddy to proceed with the game. His loss seriously weakened the ranks of the blue. They Were pushed back foot by- foot, the- ball was was ^within, throe yards of their, goal line andjiji Harvard's, possession when .time was called^. j,

But the game was won, ami tfie

name of Larry Jiangs—so familiar to Paddy that he had nearly forgotten his own—once more arose until it seemed to echo back from the sky.

CHAPTER XII.

1'AI.MAM QUI MERUIT FEltAT." It is a pleasure to report that Paddy had both his legs with him when he was found. They were, however, of little immediate use to him. First, because he had not strength enough to move them, and second, because there were plenty of willing hands ready to carry him wherever he wished to go. So great, in fact, was the press, that Harry Bangs was unable to reach Paddy's side until after he had been borne to the coach on which sat old John Bangs weeping tears of pride and joyit was the first time that Paddy had been subjected to close scrutiny by the elder Bangs. Harry had always dreaded the proverbial keenness Qf a father's eye and he had successfully schemed to keep them apart. To a casual observer there might have seemed to be no cause for anxiety in this instance. Paddy looked more like Banquo's ghost than he did like Lawrence, but Lawrence after a similar experience would have appeared not otherwise, except that he would have been dead.

Harry tried in vain to separate his father from Paddy the venerable gentleman was obstinate. "He shall go to my house," he declared. "I'm too proud of him to let him out of my sight."

So Paddy was taken to Boston. When the special from Springfield arrived in that city, John Bangs hurried to his residence in order to have everything ready for the reception of the hero. The servants were drawn up in the hall and hurriedly drilled in the Yale cheer, which they gave in great enthusiasm when Paddy was led in. The proud old man advanced to meet the noble youth, and embraced him gently, for it was not yet known definitely how many of his bones were broken. He was put to bed, and four doctors, at a hundred dollars an hour apiece, watched beside him while good old mother nature began his cure with sleep. John Bangs stole into the room every half hour to look at him, though it must be confessed that he was not beautiful to see.

After one of these visits Mr. Bangs descended to the main hall of the house, and there beheld a spectacle which was almost too much even for his iron nerves. Standing by the door which he had just closed was the real Lawrence Bangs. He had been concealed in Boston during the game, of which he had read an acount in the evening extras. Having learned that Paddy had been subjected to rough usage, he had painted a number of w3unds upon his face and had liberally decorated it with court plaster. Lie must have been inspired in this work of art, for it resembled the wreck of Paddy O'Toole's features to a nicety. Of course he supposed that Paddy had been secretly transported to New Haven, and that he could appear at his father's residence without fear.

It flashed across the mind of John Bangs that his son had died in the room above and that this was his ghost. He dismissed that notion promptly, but his surprise was so great that he could command no words except a few disjointed expletives.

Before the old gentleman could reply, the hall door was flung open and Harry Bangs rushed in. Since the game he had been %vildly careering about, trying to find Lawrence in time to avert the catastrophe, which, at that moment, he saw precipitated before his eyes. He made no effort to prevent its full culmination. The situation was evidently hopeless. "Come in here, both of you," he said, throwing open the door of a reception room on the right of the hall. They followed mechanically. "It's all up, Lawrence," he said. "We might as well tell the whole story."

He told it with wonderful clearness and brevity. To paint the father's grief would require too firm a hand. It will not be attempted here. Indeed, that was a very hard case. No pride was ever higher and no humiliation deeper than John Bangs'. He had believed himself the father of a hero, of the "Speechless Wonder," of "Old Eli's Favorite Son," and when the mask was stripped off, there remained nothing but a creature of books and rank lists, not laurel crowned, but with a halo of stale lamp oil smouldering upon, the dark background of obscurity.

It is greatly to John Banks' credit that he was able to stifle all upbraidings, and to come at once to the practical consideration of the case. "I will not burden you with useless reproaches," he said. "Neither will I make hard conditions. There is only one thing which I insist upon, and that is that this deception must cease. It is not honest. I will not have two of you at Yale any longer." "But, father," interposed Harry, "how can we take Paddy away? It will simply cripple the ntee, and Harvard is going to have the same old batting gang next spring." "No," replied John Bangs, "the university cannot spare Paddy, but I oan't see thg£ she will suffer by the loss of Lawrmioe." "Then I am not to graduate," said Lawrenoe, sadly. "I am not to have my diploma." "Have you won it?" asked his father. "1 don't wish to be unnecessarily severe, but I must ask what you have given to the university in exchange for it."

Lawrence hung his head. "It's true," he said. "I begin to perceive that I am not fitted for a modern collegiate life. Let Paddy have the diploma. Palmam qui meruit ferat." "And what do you intend to do?" "I have an ambitious plpn," returned Lawrence, "and if you are generous to me in the matter of money I believe that I shall bring it to success. I have dreamed of starting a purely-. educational institution in Central America. It is much too hot there for either baseball or football, and there is no water for boat-racing. In. that favored climate I shall h^pie* to. concentrate, th^' mind of youth upon purely intellectual

attainments, dux uo not oeneve tnat( that can ever be done again in the temperate zone. Have I your consent?" "You have," said John Bangs, "and I think that's the best way out of it. Go, my son, and found your school. If you run it on that principle it can never be a rival of Yale. I'll back vou, with all the money you need." "And I Say, Lawrence," said Harry, "if you strike any fellow over therewho looks as if he could play football, ship him across to me. They say some of those natives grow to be seven feet high, and Yale will need two or three men like that after Paddy leaves."

The subsequent adventures of Paddy O'Toole are well known to the reader. It will be remembered that the so-called Larry Bangs, during the last months of his stay at Yale, suffered from an affection of the eyes which made it. necessary for him to be accompanied whenever he took an examination by an amanuensis, who recorded the answers to the questions on the paper. It. was fortunate that this private secretary possessed an excellent collegiate education, for otherwise he might have been bothered by the fact that Paddy never said anything which related even remotely to the subject mentioned on the examination paper. As it was, Paddy secured excellent rank.

It was even more fortunate that his eyes did not trouble Slim except at examination time. He could see the home plate and get his ej'e on the ball as well as ever.

He was secretly adopted by old John Bangs, and after graduation he accepted the post of athletic instructor in a western university at a salary much larger than that received by its president.

The reader will have no trouble at all in predicting that he will marry Florence, with whom he is deeply in love, and that she will be proud and happy always. [the end.]

SWAMP COLLEGE.

Richard Finley will plant corn this week. James Shrader is working for Bob Williams.

H. A. Foster has plowed his bluegrass pasture. Frank Hester is working for John jster this week.

Etta Taylor is staying at George Todd's this summer. Hezekiah Evans' sons have got 60 acres of corn planted.

Ed Goff has his new ground turned over ready for harrowing. James Evans has purchased a new bedroom set for his new rooms.

G. A. Goff is still breaking corn ground and will put in a large crop. Otto Hamilton, of Russellville, put up one red gate for John Gott on Friday.

Robert Frame has got his blue grass pasture broke up for corn and pumpkins.

James Long is getting ready to gravel the roads. He will commence next week.

Miss Georgia Landers helped Mrs. Mary Taylor make her new carpet last Wednesda3'.

Joseph Doyle and John Hanna attended the Wm. Poynts sale near New Market Thursday.

George E. Grimes has purchased a new surrey and says he can now go to church rain or shine.

A. W. Shrader bouget twelve bushels of potatoes of George Grimes at dOc. and will raise some this summer.

The people would like to know where "Pike's Peak" is. You had better locate your place of business, and tell us why you call it "Pike's Peak."

George E. Grimes got in some trouble over his farm. He rented it to a party, then went back on his promise. Now the party has sued hirr for S350.

There is one of the Swamp College old bachelor going on 30 years of age who is paying his respects to a girl of sweet 16. There is quite a contrast in their ages. You may guess who.

There was an exciting runaway in Swamp College last Friday. The occupants of the vehicle were two young ladies. No one was hurt. This should be a warning against fast driving.

WESLEY.

John Singer has his barn completed. Pete Brown and wife spent Sunday with Fred Remley and wife.

Clayton Remley has purchased a new gasoline stove and refrigorator. There will be preaching at the Chapel on next Sunday by Rev. Stephens.

Clarence Haggard, of Cincinnati, has come to live with his uncle. Abe Switcher.

Several from here attended the ice cream r.upper at Yountsville on Saturday night.

Miss Ethel Gray was in this vicinity trying to organize a class in instrumental music.

Everett Edwards is doing a flourishing business with his huckster wagon and will start another soon.

The Sunday school convention at Union Chapel was well attended and many interesting topics were discussed. Uncle Sant Gray's treat to the children will long be remembered.

A large concourse of«friends and relatives attended the funeral of Uncle Sant Gray on last Friday who was laid to rest in the Wesley cemetery. O that we might act as noble apart in life as he, then great would be the reward.

SHADY NOOK.

The measles are still raging here. If reports are true Mr. Griffith will soon build his house.

Milt Moore, of Darlington, spent Sunday with his father here. Bert Chesterson had quite a/ wreck last Sunday while breaking a c^lt.

Rev. Zook filled his regular Appointment at Otterbein -last -Sunday evening.

Lou Chesterson, of Dairlington, visited her grandparents at this place Sunday.

Mrs.* Jackson has returned from New Market, where she has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Abnetfy, the past week1. I