Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1896 — Page 3

BRYAN FORMALLY ACCEPTS.

WILLIAM J. BRYAN has sent the following letter of acceptance to the notification committee of the Chicago convention: Hon. Stephen M. White and Others, Members of the Notification Committee of the Democratic National Convention. — Gentlemen: I accept the nomination tendered by you on behalf of the Democratic party, and in so doing desire to assure you that I fully appreciate the high honor which such a nomination confers and the grave responsibilities which accompany an election to the presidency of the United States. So deeply am 1 impressed with the magnitude of the pbw«d vested by the Constitution in the Chief Executive of the nation and with tl?e benefit or injury of the people that 1 wish to enter the office, if elected, free from ■every personal desire except the desire to prove worthy the confidence of my country. Human judgment is fallible enough when unbiased by selfish considerations, and in order that I may not be tempted to use the patronage of the office to advance any personal ambition, I hereby announce, with all the emphasis which words can ■express, my fixed determination not, under any circumstances, to be a candidate for re-election in case this campaign results in my election. Indorses the Platform. I have carefully considered the platform adopted by the Democratic national convention and unqualifiedly indorse each plank thereof. Our institutions rest upon the proposition that all men, being created equal, are entitled to equal consideration at the hands of the Government. Because all men are created equal it follows that no citizen has a natural right to injure any ■other citizen. The main purpose of government being to protect all citizens in the enjoyment of life, liberty and the pursuit ot happiness, this purpose must lead the Government, first, to avoid acts of affirmative injustice, and, second, to restrain each citizen from trespassing upon the rights of any other citizen. A democratic form of government is conducive to the highest civilization because it opens before each individual the greatest opportunities for development and stimulates to the highest endeavor by insuring to each the full enjoyment of all the rewards of toil except such contribution as is necessary to support the Government which protects him. Democracy is indifferent to pedigree—it deals with the individual rather than with his au- ' cestoES. Democracy ignores differences in wealth —neither riches nor poverty can be invoked in behalf of or against any citizen. Democracy knows no creed —recognizing the right of each individual to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, it welcomes all to a common brotherhood and guarantees equal treatment to all, no matter in what church or through what forms they commune with their Creator. Having discussed portions of the platform at the time of its adoption and again when your letter of notification was formally delivered, it will not be necessary at this time to touch Upon all the subjects embraced in the party’s declaration. A Dual Government. Honest differences of opinion have ever existed and ever will exist as to the most effective means of securing domestic tran-

quility, but no citizen fails to recognize at all times and; under all circumstances the absolute necessity for the prompt and vigorous enforcement of law and the preservation of the public peace. In a government like ours law is but the crystallization of the will of the people; with out it the citizen is neither secure in the enjoyment of life and liberty nor protected in the pursuit of happiness. Without obedience to law government is impossible. The Democratic party is pledged to defend the Constitution and enforce the laws of the United States, and it is also pledged to respect and preserve the dual scheme of government instituted by the founders of the republic. The name United States was happily chosen. It combines the idea of national strength with the idea of local self-government and suggests “an indissoluble union of indestructible States.” Our revolutionary fathers, fearing the tendencies toward centralization, as well as the dangers of disintegration, guarded against both and national safety, as well as domestic security, is to be found in the careful observance of x the limitations which they impose. It will be noticed that, while the United States guarantees to every State a republican form of government and is empowered to protect each State against invasion, it is not authorized to interfere in the domestic affairs of any State except upon application of the Legislature of the State or upon the application of the Executive when the Legislature cannot be convened. » This provision rests upon the sound theory that the people of the State, acting through their legally chosen representatives, are. because of their more intimate acquaintance with local conditions, better qualified than the President to judge of the necessity for Federal assistance. Those who framed our Constitution wisely determined to make as broad an application of the principles of local self-gov-ernment as circumstances would permit, tmd we cannot dispute the correctness of the position taken by them without expressing a distrust of the people themselves. Economy. Since governments exist for the protection of the rights'of the people and not for their spoliation, no expenditure of public money cab be justified unless that expenditure is necessary for the honest, economical and efficient administration of the government. In determining what appropriations are necessary the interest of piose who pay the taxes should be consulted rather than the wishes of those who receive or disburse public moneys. Bonds. Ah increase in the bonded debt of the United States at this time is entirely without excuse. The issue of interest-bearing bonds within the last few years has been defended on the ground that they were necessary to secure gold with which to redeem United States notes and treasury notes, but this necessity was imaginary rather than real. Instead of exercising the legal right vested in the United States to redeem its coin in either gold or silver, the executive branch of .the Government has followed a precedent established by a

former administration and surrendered the option to the holder of the obligations. This administrative policy leaves the Government at the mercy of those who find a pecuniary profit in bond issues. The fact that the dealers in money and securities have been able to deplete the treasury according to the changing whims shows how dangerous it is to permit them to exercise a controlling influence on the Treasury Department. The government of the United States when administered in the interest of all the people is able to establish and enforce its financial policy, not only without the aid of syndicates, but in spite of any opposition which syndicates may present. To assert that the Government is dependent upon the good will or assistance of any portion of the people other than a constitutional majority is to assert that we have a government in form, but without National Bank Currency. The position taken by the platform against the issue of paper money by national banks is supported by the highest Democratic authority as well as demanded by the interests of the people. The present attempt of the national banks to force the retirement of United States notes and treasury notes in order to secure a basis for a larger issue of their own. notes illustrates the danger which arises from permitting them to issue their paper ns a circulating medium. The national bank note, being redeemable in lawful money, has never been better than the United States note which stands behind it. and yet the banks persistently demand that these United States notes, which draw no interest, shall give place to inter-est-bearing bonds in order that the banks may collect the interest which the people now save. To empower national banks to issue circulating notes is to grant a valuable privilege to a favored class, surrender to private corporations the control over the volume of paper money and build up a class which will claim a vested interest in the nation's financial policy. Our United States notes, commonly known as greenbacks, being redeemable in either gold or silver, at the option of the Government, and not at the option of the holder, are safer and cheaper for the people their national bank notes based upon interest-bearing bonds. The Monroe Doctrine. A dignified but firm maintenance of the foreign policy set forth by President Monroe and reiterated by the Presidents who have succeeded him, instead of arousing hostility abroad, is the best guaranty of amicable relations with other nations. It is better for all concerned that the United States should resist any extension of European authority in the Western hemisphere rather than invite the continual irritation which would necessarily result from any attempt to increase the influence of monarchical institutions over that portion of the Americas which has 1 beau dedicated to republican government. Pensions. No nation can afford to be unjnst to its defenders. The care of those who have suffered injury in the military and naval service of the country is a sacred duty. A nation which, like the United States, relies upon voluntary service rather than upon a large standing army, adds to its own security when it makes generous provision for those who have risked their lives in its defense, and for those who are dependent upon them. ■ ’ • The Producers of Wealth. Labor creates capital. Until wealth is produced by the application of brain and muscle to the resources of this country there is nothing to divide among the nonproducing classes of society. Since the producers of wealth create the nation’s prosperity in time of peace and defend the nation’s flag in time of peril, their interests ought at all times to be considered by those who stand in official positions. The Democratic party has ever found its voting strength among those who are proud to be known as the common people, and. it pledges itself to propose and enact such legislation as is necessary to protect the masses in the free exercise of everv political right and in the enjoyment o’s their just share of the rewards of their labor. Arbitration. I desire to give special emphasis to the plank which recommends such legislation as Is necessary to secure the arbitration of differences between employers engaged In Interstate commerce and their employes. Arbitration Is not a new idea—lt is simply an extension of the court of justice. The laboring men of tile country have expressed a desire for aubitratloti and the railroads cannot reasonably object to the decisions rendered by an Impartial tribunal. Society has an Interest even greater than the Interest of employer or employe and has a right to protect itself by courts of arbitration against the growing Inconvenience and embarrassment occasioned by disputes between those who own the great arteries of commerce on the one hand and the laborers who operate them bn the other. Immirration. While the Democratic party welcomes to the country those who come with love for our Institutions and with the determlriatlon and ability to contribute to the strength and greatness of our nation, it Is opposed to the dumping of the criminal classes upon our shores and to the Importation of either pauper or contract labor to compete with American labor. Injunctions. The recent abuses which have grown out of injunction .proceedings have been so emphatically condemned by public opinion that the Senate Mil providing for trial by jury In certain contempt cases will meet with general approval. Trusts. The Democratic party Is opposed to trusts. It would be recreant to Its duty to the people of the Country If it recognized either the moral or the legal right ot these great aggregations of wealth to stifle competition, bankrupt rivals and then prey upon society. Corporations are the creatures of law, and they must not be permitted to pass from under the control of the power which created them; they are permitted to exist upon the theory that they advance the public weal, and they must not be allowed to use their powers for the public Injury. Kailroads. The right of the United States Government to regulate Interstate commerce cannot be questioned, and the necessity for the vigorous exercise of that right Is becoming mdre and more Imperative. The Interests of the whole people require sueh an enlargement ot the powers of the Interstate commerce

commission as will enable it to pserent dt» crimination between persons and places and protect patron* from unreasonable charges. Pacific Railroads. The Government cannot afford to discriminate between Its debtors, and must, therefore. prosecute its lecal claims against the Pacific railroads. Suffi a policy Is necessary for the protection of the rights of tiie patrona as well as for the interests of the Government. -Cube." The people of the United States, happy in the enjoyment of the blessings of free government, feel a generous -sympathy toward all who are endeavoring to secure like blessings for themselves. This sympathy, while respecting all treaty obligations. Is especially active and esruest when excited by the struggles of neighboring peoples, who. like the Cubans, are near enough to observe the workings of a government which derives all its authority from the consent of the governed. The Civil Service. That the American people are not In favor of life tenure in the civil service is evident from the fact that they, as a rule, make frequent changes in their official representatives when those representatives sre chosen by ballot. A permanent office-holding class is not in harmony with our'lnstitutions. A fixed term In appointive offices, except where the Federal Constitution now provides otherwise, woukl open The public service to a larger number of citizens without Impairing its efficiency. The Territories. The Territorial form of government is temporary in its nature and should give way as soon as the Territory Is sufficiently advanced to take Its place among the States. New Mexico, Oklahoma and Arizona are entitled to Statehood, and their early admission Is demanded by their material and political Interests. The demand of the platform that officials appointed td administer the government of the Territories, the District of Columbia and Alaska should be bona fide residents of the Territories or District Is entltbiy In keeping with the Democratic theory of home rule. 1 am alsobheartily In sympathy with the deelarntlpD that all public lands should be reserved for the establishment of free homes for American citizens. Waterways. The policy of improving the great waterways of the country is justified hy the national character of those waterways and the enormous tonnage borne upon them. Experience has demonstrated that continuing appropriations are, in the end. more economical than single appropriations separated by long intervals. The Tnriff. It Is not necessary to discuss the tariff question at this time. Whatever may be the individual views of citizens as to the relative merits of protection and tariff reform, all must recognize that until the money question is fully and finally settled the American people will not consent to the consideration of any other Important question. Taxation presents a problem which In some form Is continually present, and a postponement of definite action upon It Involves no sacrifice of personal opinion or political i rlnclples; but the crisis presented by financial conditions cannot be postponed. Tremendous results will follow the action taken by the United States op the money question and delay Is Impossible. The people of this nation, sitting as n high court, must rende.', judgment in the cause which greed is prosecuting against humanity. The decision will either give hope and inspiration to those who toll or “shut the doors of mercy on mankind.’’ in the presence of this overshadowing Issue, differences upon minor questions .must be laid aside In order that there maybe united action among those who are determined that progress toward a universal gold standard shall be stayed, aud the gold and silver coinage of the Constitution restored.

A Usesful Barn.

A bicyclist recently made a little journey Into the country. As lie wheeled along the road he came to a farm house, the owner of which he knew slightly. As he drank a gourdful of water at the pump he noticed that the farmer's barn had an unusual look. The last time ho had seen It it had the usual coating of silvery gray painted by time and weather. "Been fixing up the barn, haven’t you?’’ he asked the farmer. "Yes. It’s all new painted.’’ answered the farmer, proudly. “An’ I reckon It's mighty pretty lookin’, too. Ye see, a feller came along one day an’ says he belongs to a paintin’ syndicate in Chicago as was out to paint all the barns in the country free, an’ he said he would paint mine if I wanted him to. So I says: ‘Go ahead if it don't cost nothin’.’ 1 went to town with a load of hay, an’ when I got back the barn was painted, shore enough.” The barn had been painted a bright yellow, as a good background for varicolored advertisements with letters a foot or two long. The advertisement of a patent medicine covered both sides of the roof In letters of red, blue and green against the yellow. Chewing tobacco, shoes, soap, hams ami other commodities were pictured aud told about on evory available space. “When I got back,” continued the farmer, “the feller that was paintin’ says to me: ‘I put a few signs on the barn,’ says Jie, ‘but you won’t mind that none, an’ the re good readin’ matter when the paper don’t come.' “Anyhow, it didn’t cost nothin’ to paint the barn, an’ I’ll be darned if the boys ain’t a-larnin’ to read from it, which 1 consider pretty cheap education these hard times.”—Kansas City Star.

A Chinese Funeral.

A well-conducted Chinese funeral is the most forgeous sight in Asia. At the front of the funeral procession walk the noisy, musicless musicians. Then come men beasiag the insignia of the dignity of the dead, if he had any. Next come more men, carrying figures of animals, idols, umbrellas and blue an 1 white streamers. After them come men carrying pans of perfume. Just before the coffin walk bonzes, Chinese priests. Over the coffin a canopy is usually carried. The casket Is borne by about a score of men. Immediately behind the coffin walk the children of the deceased. The eldest son comes first. He Is dressed in canvas and leans heavily upon a stout stick. He is supposed to be too exhausted by grief and fasting to walk without the aid of the staff. The other children and relatives follow this chief mourner. They are clothed in white linen garments. The women are carried in chairs. They sob and wail at Intervals and in unison. When the burying place is reached the bonzes begin chanting a mass for the dead, and the coffin is put in the tomb. A large, oblong white marble table Is placed before the tomb. On the middle of it are set a censer and two vases and two candlesticks, all of as exquisite workmanship as possible. Then they have a paper cremation. Paper figures of men, horses, garments and a score of other things are burned. They are supposed to undergo a material resurrection and to be useful to the dead In the Chinese heaven. The tomb is sealoil up or closed, and an entertainment concludes the ceremony at the grave.— Chicago News.

Noise.

That birds do not mind a noise so long as they feel safe from enemies is shown by a pair of pewees, who built a nest last spring and hatched out a urood in a North Llmington, Me., sawmill. The nest Is on a horizontal joist, within six feet of the end of the carriage where the logs are rolled. At the time of the building, laying and hatching, three saws were running and five men at work in the milL

ALL ABOUT THE FARM

SUBJECTS INTERESTING TO. RURAL READERS. Dairy Department Equipment in an Experiment Station—A Homemade Windmill that Answer* All Requirements. Dairy Department. In the accompanying engraving the first shows the floor plan of the new creamery, and the second presents a perspective view of the new dairy barn, which have recently been added to the equipment of the Maryland Experiment Station. This addition has been

made In order to keep pace with changing conditions of the agrlcultnre of the State. Many sections that were but a few years ago grain-producing are now becoming dairy centers. In 1888 there were less than six creameries in the State, but now there are eighty In operation. The work at present of the station will be to Illustrate the best methods of work with the average conditions as they exist in the State. Illustrations how to go about selecting and rearing a profitable butter herd will be a prominent feature—a herd that will produce 300 pounds or over per cow, Instead of the present low State average of 100 pounds per cow. It will also be the alm of the station la Its every day work, and by means of accounts, to show how It is possible to carry a cow per acre Instead of using four or five acres as Is usually done. The more technical work will be with feeds and Improved methods of handling and care t>f products. The dairy barn is fitted up with a number of kinds of stanchions, Newton cow ties, Bidwell stalls

W. J. BRYAN.

PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF DAIRY DAIRY.

and the old-fashioned mangers, and many conveniences for preparing and handling feeds.—American Agriculturist. A Homemade Windmill. A windmill such as is portrayed below can be made by any ingenious farmer at a trifling expense. For an upright to place the windmill on, I use 6by G Inch elm scantling. Cut a 2-lnch strip four feet long from the center and run it down on the cribbing of the well. Two bolts, a, a, were riveted through upright to cribbing. Two braces, b, of 2 by 4 Inch scantling make the upright secure. To upper end of upright is bdlted a piece of old pump piping about two feet long for the sucker rod c c to work through, as well as for the windmill to turn and face the wind. The crosspiece upon which the windmill works, d, contains a hole just large enough to allow it to turn easily on this pipe. The shaft from the windmill to pitman passes close at one side of this pipe. The tall or vane Is put on the opposite side of the crosspiece to the fan and balances It. To prevent the main vane from holding the fan too stralghtto the wind In a storm, I placed a smaller vane, e, at the side. Strong winds press against (he smaller vane, turning the ' fan out

enough to prevent breaking. The crosspiece Is 6by 0 inches. At about onethird of the distance from the pipe to pitman is placed a standard, g, for a lever, f, to work on. These parts were made by a blacksmith. My windmill has been in operation over a year, and since placing the smaller vane, e, on the side, I have had no trouble with it; before then, a *orm would break the, leaves.—R. M. 8., in Farm and Home. Good Advice. The habit of calling attentiqn to defects about homes, by apologizing for them, Is a bad one, a»d one that no selfrespecting woman should follow. The following advice given to a young married woman who was visited by another older and more experienced one may be helpful to some of our readers. When the visitor rose to go the hostess came with her to the door, and out upon the piazza, which, however, looked a little dusty In the corners. “Oh, deilf!” said the yonng wife, “how provoking the servants are! I told Mary to sweep the piazza thoroughly, and now look how dusty it is.” “Grace,” said the older woman, looking into the disturbed yonng face with kindly, humorous eyes, “I am an old housekeeper. Let me give you a bit of advice: Never direct people’s attention to defects. Unless you do so they will rarely see them. Now, if I had been in your place and noticed <he dl;t, I should have said, ‘How blue

GROUND PLAN OF CREAMERY.

A CHEAP PUMP.

the sky tor or ‘How thg cloydk are? or ‘How bracing-the sir is!* Then I should have looked up at that as I spoke, and should have gotten yob down the steps, and out of sight without your seeing the dust!” There to a good lesson here for many of us. Pottllyy Pointers. .. ■ When hens lay thtn-sbelled eggs they are in need of lime. The roosts should be low, especially for large, heavy fowls. Build the house ten by ten feet for ten fowls, and the yard ten times larger. Ducklings are marketed at five pounds weight, which they attain in ten weeks. i’. . >-x Placing ah old cock bird In a run of cockerels will prerent' the latter from fighting. Ten doxen eggs a year Is the average estimate given as tl;e production of the hen. t . . • Thirteen eggs are considered a set* ting, though many breeders are now giving fifteen. Better for the wife to earn her pin money with poultry than' to take in washing or sewing. In shipping live poultry it Is poor economy to ship the best wita thejxmrest. Grade them. Don’t forget to clean out the nests and put In new litter, for the lice are still With us. Better strew a handful of Insect powder In the nest to help drive the enemy out. Attention to poultry pays on the farm, and during these times, when country produce is selling at such low prices, there is no product on the farm that brings cash so readily as poultry and eggs. _____ Eeneflts of Early Fall Plowing. In all our experience we have never seen any but the best results from early fall plowing, while on the other hand we have often seen the ill effects of late plowing 'on the next crop,; At one time we began the plowing of a field containing eighty acres while still engaged in stacking, the wot weather having interfered with the latter work, says a writer In the “Homestead.” Plowing was continued at odd times till late in the fall, and the following year the entire field was planted In corn. During the summer the growing corn told unerringly of the difference |n time of plowing, the crop being the best on the early plowed ground and the poorest on the late plowed. With our experience In plowing stubble ground for a crop of corn we would much prefer spring plowing to that of the late fall, the only thing to be said in favor of the latter being that work Is not usually so pressing In the fall as in the spring, but early fall plowing Is far better than either, whether for corn or small grain, and if the surface pf the soli does become packed all the better for the crop. It Will show its aiipr&dlation as soon as It secures a foothold. Seme Trrlga’tion Problems. Prof. Sanborn says: It has long been held that irrigation water Applied beneath the surface Is better than surface irrigation, in relation to the amount used, the temperature of the soil, the amount at evaporation, washing the soli and yAeJd of crop, including quality of crop received. Though philosophically there would seem to be little doubt that the propositions are well taken, sub-lrrlgatlon as an economical process has been overpressed by some as a means of very greatly curtailing the amount of water used. There are those who have asserted that only one-tenth of the water applied by sub-lrrlgatlon would be found necessary td substitute for that required by surface Irrigation. Such claims are the untempered claims that enthusiasts frequently make in new methods proposed. But, if the claim for sub-lrrlgatlon be granted, we are confronted With the cost of sublrrlgatlon and our practical ability to distribute it rapidly enough through the soil to meet the wgnts of growing plants. Winter Rye. An Eastern farmer Writes: To those who have never tried it I would say, sow a field of rye thte year. Sow it early, and do not be afraid to pasture, it late. It will come up nicely in the spring, affording pasturage long before the grass is big enough to turn into. Keep it fed down as long as possible, but when it begins to joint, keep out the stock if you want it for hay, or to perfect the grain for threshing. Inputting for hay cut before it begins to turn yellow at the roots, so that it will be green and nice when cured. If It can be used for hogs let them remain in it all summer and you will find it the easiest way of fattening them you ever tried; nothing makes spring pigs grow equal to it, although a little ground feed may be fed to advantage at any time, and milk the same.

Teach Boys How to Farm. To make farm life a success and df* sirable, the farmer must teach his boys and girls that there is no other profession within the bounds of civilization as Independent, honorable and ennobling as life on tie farm. This growing practice of sending our boys to school to be educated for some other profession is making all our farm boys anxious to leave the old homestead and crowd into the cities; where every profession is overdone, and trickery the only door left open to the educated boy. It is not enough to teach boys how to farm; the foundation of success is in teaching them contentment on the farm. Horticultural Hint*. Cut out the raspberry canes that have borne fruit this year. How have you been most successful in keeping winter apples? Cuttings of currant or gooseberry plants may be made this month. < Judge Emery, of Kansas, says “irrigation will double the life and product of any orchard.” Market gardening is a profitable businessAf the market is.near. But it is a laborious business. ' All fallen fruit shoujd be destroyed in some manner. Many ipseet pests will be killed by so doing. If horticulturists want to Improve their conditions, and th<* general condition of the people, they should get in touch with each other. To have a good crop of strawberries next season there must be a < good growth of plants this fall Thorough cultivation wilt help thia

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY . * " told. Workmen at Valparaiso Find a Pack* ape of Majl Lost Thirty-six Years Ajo-Land Owteri Will Try to Reclaim Thousand*of Acres of Swamp, Lost Letters Come to Lipht. After having been lost for thirty-six years and, in early days, been the cause of many remptaints to the Pustoffice Department, a package of ninety-four letters was found the other day at the old Michigan Central depot in Valparaiso, now being dismantled. The letters were yellowish With age and some of them on the point of dropping to pieces. They were discovered in a barrel under a lot of rub'bieh. When Porter Station was the principal town of that section the postoffice was In the depot and all mail was received there and sent to its destination overland. From all parts of the country had the letters come, addressed to individuals and firms in that locality. They have been turned over to Poatofilee Inspector Letherman, and when possible will be forwarded to their destination. The others will be sent to tho dead letter office nt Washington. Plan to Reclaim 030,000 Acres. About 300 land-owners, representing the ownership of 000,000 acres in the Kankakee Valley, met at Hanna to elect directors and to discuss the best method of draining the valley. A eonunittre was elected as follows: A. E. Stowell, Kouts; D. W. Place, South Bend; Chas. Holmes, Walkerton; James Ixtug, La (’rosso; Charles Donaldson, Hamlet; Janies Gilchrist, Walkerton; Edgar Shilling, Hamlet. This committee was empowered to employ an engineer to make preliminary surveys and refer the proposed route and probable cost to the land-owners, they in turn to petition the County Commissioners to appoint appraisers to assess benefits. The cheapest method will cost several hundred thousand dollars, but it will reclaim land which is now largely valueless for agricultural purposes.

All Over the State. At Terre Haute the Northwest Indiana Conference voted —85 to o—in favor of admitting women. The other proposition, submitted by the Cleveland general conference, for equal lay representatjon, was carried by a vote of 53 to -15. Hugh Fisher, an Audersoh young tunn subject to epilepsy, has received peculiar treatment that has resulted in n remarkable cure. The disease has, it is claimed, been Iransmitte<|' to a pet dog, leaving its master free from all of tho symptoms. Mrs. Margaret Gather, one of the oldest ladies iij the, county, died at Anderson while shopping. Al her funeral Mrs. Bell Gather Elliot, of Winemac, one of her daughters, rode in a closed onb to and from the graveyard. As she was leaving the eftb, after returning home, sire dropped from the step, and before she could be taken into the house was dead. H. E. Sterling committed suicide nt tho Arlington Hotel, Richmond, where he registered from Chicago, his home. Some time ago his wife left him and went to the home of her parents in Richmond, and his object was to bring about a reconciliation, but this he failed to do. lie then rMtftrted to the hotel uiiM ended his life. He was not over 40 years of age, ami was a representative of the Winger Sewing’Machine Company. Tho large shaft of tho Isaac Mclntosh Coal Company at Caseyville w»» destroyed by five Friday. The Hames caught from the boiler in the shingle roof of tho boiler-noom and .spread to the tipple and blacksmith shop, totally destroying everything above ground and ruining tho valuable machinery’.* The danger signal was sounded and the 300 miners nt work underground escaped by the air course, The loss la about $5,000; ‘fully coverts! by Insurants*. There is evidence of a conspiracy to burn property In Greensburg, anil three attempts have already, been made. (’/Ulcers Meek and Sperry saw a num skulking in an alley Thursday night. They shallowed him and noon saw him enter the barn of M. D. Tacekett, clerk of the Decatur Circuit Court. They followed and saw him put some shavings on the hay, pour t> bottle of coal oil on, ami apply the nintob. They waited till the tire got a little. stdrt and then arrested the man, who proved to be George Israel. At. Laporte tjie Grand Jury has returned an Indictment .against Christian Ba - ker, a convict in the Northern Indiana prison, for arson, the charge on which ho is now serving a sentence. Baker escaped from prison nnd was recaptured. The.citizens of La Grange County, fearing that Baker would carry out a threat he had made to destroy property in retaliation for fancied wrongs, found an old statute which prescribed a penalty equal to tb.e original sentence the convict is serving, ns punishment, for an attempt to escape from prison. Baker was sentenced to serve ten years. This is the first case in tho /history of the Indiana courts brought under this statute.

Ever siuce the burning of the Hymera coal mining plant at Sullivan by incendiaries Pinkerton detectives have been working in thut locality, and Wednesday, two men were placed in jail there agaiuut whom damaging evidence has been secured. Some days ago John Boyles, living nt Linton, was arrested at Bloomfield on a charge of. drunkenness. While he was dissipating freely, it is claimed, he foil In with a stranger and the two became confidential friends, during which Boyles told him that he knew about the burring of the Hymera mines. The stranger repeated the conversation to others. Night Watchman Marlow, of the mints, was sent to Bloomfield to see if he eoUld identify Boyles, which he did nt once. Boyles, whose reputation is not the l>est, has been recommitted to jail. Ho has implicated an old man a med Thomas, and Thomas has also been arrested. George Southern, a business man of Burke, left his home Thursday morning and has not returned. He had about sl,500 With him at the time ahd suspicions are entertained that he has been foully dealt with. Father Gerald Wilson, assistant pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church at Terre Haute, died of typhoid feter. He came from New York several years afco and had be4n very popular. Last spring he was selected to go to Rome' to be the American confessor there, but securedthe privilege of remaining at Terre Haute. , Glosser Brothers, general merchanta of Kingsbury, made an assignment to J. Vene Dorland. Assets, $2,500; liabilities, $3,500. Several years ago there came to Shelbyville a young man named Lev Jewett, w!> would relate nothing aboyt his fem?iky, but wh<* frequently said he h(id left home because he and his father could not agree. About four years ago he suddenly ' disappeared, ahd had been fortotten until ’When County Clerk Powers received a letter from J. H. Minegan inquiring if he w& s and string that a fortune,,swatted him Ur Carlisle Ky. He is thought t'd b<; somewhere in Ka*> * aß - .gal <» . ifo-> " •’

A CYCLING PHENOMENON.

The Remaxkabta Performances of • ' > 4#’ iXs»dk ot.DMver. J..*. Ip Among tho women es pluck and energy* In Denver is a dfilnty little lady, Mrs. Rhinehart, who- Is surprising tho world at large by her wonderful exploits upon the wheel. Mrs. Rhinehart Is the wife of one of Denver’s leadingphotographers. She is a native of CaLIflfrnla, having lived In Colorado but five years. On Sept. 20, 1895, Mrs. Rhinehart took her first ride, and, finding that she enjoyed it, she invested In a wheel. Dec. 14 she made he.- first century, and when April arrlvtd she had ridden three centuries, and, in company with her husband, had toured old Mexico upon her wheel. Up to the . present date Mrs. Rhinehart has ridden forty-four centuries In all, and during July gained a world-wide fame by riding ten centuries In ten consecutive days. She folks wed that July 22 with*, double century, which she accomplished In 20 hours and 20 minutes, riding the last forty miles in darkness, mnd and rain. Feeling confident that she could lower her record for 200 miles, Mrs. Rhinehart started out on the morning of Aug. 7 at 3:25 and in 7 hour* and 50 minutes covered a distance of 102 miles. After resting thirty minute* she started once more, and accomplished the second 102 miles in 9 hours and 45 minutes, making the entire 204 mile*

MRS. RHINEHART.

In 17 hours and 35 minutes. This was done entirely for her own gratification and pleasure, yet Mrs. Rhinehart mado a complete registration of her arrivals and departures. If her feat were to bo questioned she could produce the necessary affidavits. Mrs. Rhinehart’s record is one that Is not equaled by many male bicyclists, and probably by no lady rider In the country. She rides purely for pleasure. She has never cared to break any record and has refused* to enter contests. She Is an easy, graceful rider, averaging thirteen miles an hour, coming out fresh and untired at tho end of trips that few could endure. Her fastest riding Is always done near the finish. When she began, riding Mrs. Rhinehart was an Invalid. She Is now the picture of health. Mrs. Rhinehart was the only woman given a place In tho recent relay race from San Francisco to New York. She carried tho message from Red Butte to Tie Siding, Wyo., nine miles In 37 minutes. It rained all day, leaving the roads In a soft, sloppy condition. Fast time was Impossible under the circumstances.

What the Doctors Say.

Malarial Fever. This disease—also called fever and ague—ls best described as a periodical fever. Its chief characteristic is not so much the nature of the single attacks as the peculiar manner of their repetition. The two principal tyyca of malaria are Intermittent fever and remittenWever. The intermittent type is characterized by recurring attacks, in which, as a. rule, chill, fever and sweating follow each other in orderly sequence. Ono generally knows a few hours beforehand, by unpleasant sensation:;, and sometimes by headache, that a chill is approaching. The entire duration of an attack is usually from twelve to fifteen hours. The periodicity of the attacks is most striking?-they occur with regularity at the end of twenty-four, forty-eight or seventy-two hours. During the intervening period the patient feels pretty well, and except in unusually severe cases is able to be about. The remittent type of the disease has no distinct intermissions of the fever; the temperature Is constantly above the normal, thougli marked remissions occur. Malaria is caused by the presence in the blood of a parasite, a minute organism which can be seen only by the aid of a microscope. The natural history of this parasite is not known; nor do we know how the organism enters, or how or In what form it leaves the human body. It is known, however, that these organisms are always present in the blood of a person suffering from malaria, and that they disappear with the. disappearance of the symptoms, or with the administration of quinine. Low, marshy regions, with abundant vegetation, badly drained low-lying districts, old river courses, tracts of land which are rich In vegetable matter, and particularly districts which have been allowed to fall out of cultivation, are favorite localities for the development of the malarial poison. In regions where malaria constantly prevails, It occurs most frequently In spring and autumn; in temperate regions it is at its worst, in September ahd October. Wherever it prevails the drinking water should be boiled, and unnecessary exposure to the night air should be avoided.—Youth’s Companion.

In Disease.

An English professor recommends to persons suffering from dyspepsia, consumption and anaemia, or any who need to take on flesh, to eat very thin slices of bread and butter. The idea is that it induces people to eat much more butter, a quality of fat most essential to their nutrition, In a form against .which they will not rebel. Every reckless, driver finally gets » Uob on a grocery delivery wagon.