Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1900 — Page 7

Captain Brabazon

BY B. CROKER

CHAPTER Xlll—(Continued.) Four days later the Portugal had cast anchor just outside the bar of Durban, and the marchers were at the end of their frayage—all but the two miles which intervened between them and the shore. It (was too late to disembark or do anything that evening, although boats with disSatches were soon alongside. After dinner files came up on deck for a smoke, rested his arm on the bulwarks and gazed on the scene before him*. Although it was night, it was not dark; the sky was Jit up with millions and millions of stars, that seemed closer and brighter than in our own Northern region. The troop ship lay just outside the bar, and a tine bay, evidently fringed with trees; at one extremity blinked a lighthouse, and far away toward the middle of the curve were the lamps of the tpwn of Durban. J. “And so this is Africa,” thought Miles. ’“A new country to me, and a hard nut ifor the Government to crack. 1 wonder what I shall find there'/” he asked himself, as he looked at its distant, silent shores, clothed with the dignity of night. “Shall I come home as I landed? shall I find a medal or a grave?” And that other fellow, what would he find? in a few months’ time—perhaps even now, he was a spruce young lancer officer; he ilooked just the sort to shove along and distinguish himself; have his name in all the papers, and go home to receive his reward at Esme’s hands. “If he does,” muttered Miles, half aloud, “may I never iUve to know it." . Next morning the regiment embarked for the shore in tugs and boats. Durban •town, with its green turf, wild flowers and trees and hedges, reminded one of home, although its long, sandy streets • and curiously built houses were more colonial than English. It boasted several places of worship, two clubs and some good shops, and the marchers, as they passed through en route to the station, were not likely to see anything so civilized again for some time. ; The marchers traveled by rail as far as the trail went, and then the real campaigning business commenced, then they began to understand what was meant by “the tented field,’“"trek oxen, dongas, dust, mosquitoes, laagering; it was march, march, march, steadily march, day after day. The new arrivals speedily learned how to make the most of commissariat flour and beef, to pitch and strike tents, to out-span and in-span; but we need not pause to describe their route, as this story deals more with the fortunes of Miles and Teddy Brabazon than with the Boer campaign; which has been aptly and abundantly related elsewhere. Long, l monotonous, stretching plains, covered with high grass, bowlders and ant-hills, and vexed with aggravating dongas. Here and there along the track a dead bullock, dead a week, another, dead a fortnight, another, oh blessed change, a skeleton. We see no sign of life—no cattle, no «moke, no trees, no villages, nothing but the broiling sun overhead, the baking veldt underfoot. One, just one or two ominous objects we do pass, near the end of the march—one or two skeletons, and one or two knapsacks lying at the side of the track, in the long, coarse yellow grass. I CHAPTER XIV. In due time the column came to a halt and real camp life commenced. It was duU work enough; this waiting for orders to more to the front was trying to those who, to use their own phraseology, were eager to be “talking to the natives." There was nothing to be* done but grin and bear it, and the time was put in in mending kits, making forays for food on Kaffir kraals and Boer farms, cutting wood and grumbling—there is a great luxury in a good grumble. Captain Brabazon and Gee had pitched their little tents side by side, and were almost as much together as in the old days. The nights were cold, the dew was heavy, and white, chill fogs of constant occurrence. Visiting the outposts and pickets was a duty that fell to Captain Brabazon about once a week. Between eleven and twelve o'clock one night he was going round the sentries in a dense fog which had come on quite suddenly and obscured the moon most completely, swathing every object in a cloak of thick, white mist. r “I heard a noise just now, sir,” said one of the sentries, in a lonely spot; “something like a lot of men on horses trampling below us in the valley. There it goes again," and, sure enough, Miles made out the uncertain scrambling of hoofs, scattering stones hither and thither as they made their way up the hill. “Challenge,” he said, promptly. “Halt! who goes there?” sentry, in one long word, bringing his rifle tfl the charge. And out of the fog a bold English voice replied, “A friend." "Stand, friend; advance one, and give the countersign." And very shortly a trotting sound was heard through the soppy grass, and from the midst of the surrounding milk-white fog suddenly loomed a man and a horse, lancer officer—in short, Teddy 1 Oh, happy Teddy! a lieutenant at last, though the glories of your uniform are concealed betcath a cape, and the water is streaming rom your helmet, and your very muskache is limp and wet. “Are these the outposts of the Royal Marchers?” he asked, In a cheery voice, as he reined up his charger. , “Yes, sir,” responded the soldier. “I’ve been rambling over the whole country, lost in this beastly fog,” to Miles, Who now came forward, “and only 1 heard the challenge of your sentries, I'd be rambling still,” dismounting from his blowing hone and following Captain Brabazon to the picket fire. As he came within*the light thrown by the brushwood, his companion, had he noticed it, started perceptibly; and no wonder, for he recognized, standing before him In the just the very one person in the

world he never wished to see again—- “ Gentleman Brown.” “I’Ve dispatches from Lord Cbalmsford for your chief,” proceeded Teddy, unconscious of the sudden and ominous change that had come over his companion’s face. “Will you show me the way to his diggings?" "Yes, if you will follow me. This way,down to the left, and look but for the tent ropes,” said the marcher officer, in a hard, mechanical voice. “Come on then, Kitty, old girl,” taking her by the bridle, “and mind yourself. We have been among the bogs and holes and ant hiHs for the/last couple of hours,” he went on, speaking to his guide, who was walking a few paces before him, “and, upon my word, I thought we were lost. Two or three times I’d have come to awful grief only for the mare here,” patting her affectionately; “she's very quick on her pins; ain’t you, old lady?” “You seem to have a good-sized camp,” he continued, as they steered and stumbled their way back to the tents. “The marchers’ column must be pretty strong.” What a silent beggar the marcher was. “Pretty well,” laconically. “Here is the colonel’s tent,” and he was going to add, “now I’ll leave you,” but this would ndt have been marcher manners or form; he would have to look after this cub and his horse, too—finders are keepers. The colonel was a veteran who considered four hours of sleep ample for any man. He was sitting up writing, when Miles introduced the young lancer officer bearing dispatches. Having made a lew inquiries about the route he had come, the condition of the roads, etc., the colonel dismissed him by saying: “Well, 1 shall see you again to-morrow morning; you must be pretty well done up now. Brabazon, you will look after him and see that he has a comfortable shake-down for the night, and that his horse is attended to.” And Miles muttered something rather indistinct, which was meant to convey the fact that it would be all right, of course, and he would be delighted. "My servant is in bed, but I’ll have him out in a minute,” he said. “He will look after your horse, and I’ll see what I can find you in the way of supper; you must not expect anything very gorgeous.” “Don’t mind routing up your fellow. I’ll do up the mare myself, if you’ll just let me have a feed and a sheet and a picket rope." And, sure enough, he set to work in the most professional manner, unsaddled her, groomed her a bit, fed her and made her up, while Miles stood by with a lantern in his hand and a sneer under his mustache, and told himself contemptuously that “Gentleman Brown had certainly not been in the ranks for nothing.” This business accomplished, Captain Brabazon conducted the stranger to his own tent, and set the best fare he could .find before him; cold stewed beef, eold tea in a silver mug, a bunch of bread, and—oh, luxury!—a tin of sardinds. And Teddy sat on he side of his host's bed, and did ample justice to the fare in question, for he was hungry, having traveled far and fast, and very, very tired. Captain Gee was a light sleeper, and had been aroused by this strange, loud voice in Miles’ tent. Who was it? There was but one means of discovering the fact, and that was to go and sec. For a time he struggled in his own mind between laziness and curiosity, but in the end the latter gallantly carried the day. He, like every one in camp, slept nightly in his clothes, so in two minutes his sandy head was presented in the doorway, and his familiar voice was heard demanding “What’s the row?” His blinking eyes quickly took in a broad shouldered young man sitting upon Miles’ bed, busily engaged in polishing off their last tin of sardines. "This officer has just ridden in from Lord Chelmsford’s camp with dispatches,” said Miles to his friend, by way of an introduction. “But what ailed Miles?" thought that astute little man, as he glanced sharply over at his brother officer. "Why did he speak in such a curiously ‘company’ voice? Why was ah usual bonhommie absent from his manner? Why did that manner convey an idea of mere frigid forbearance?” Mr. Dicky had not been called "a cute little beggar” without good reason; he could x>nt two and two together better than most people. “In the cavalry, in this country,” and Miles face told the whole story. He took in the scene before him with a cool, discerning eye, and informed himself that "this lancer, sitting on Miles’ bed, playing havoc with their European stores, this good-looking chap with the merry eyes, who looked as if when once he began (o laugh he could never-leave off, was the other fellow!” CHAPTER XV. At daybreak the bugles sounded the reveille, and found Miles still awake. He got up, made a hurried toilet, and, leaving “Gentleman Brown" fast asleep, he hastened out to his work. His morning rounds of inspection over, he strolled away down the hill from camp, and seated himself on the wall of a deserted mealie field, where he could have the full benefit of the rising sun. "No need to return till that fellow has gone," he said. He had done all that hospitality required, had given him a good supper and his own bed, and now let some other marcher “speed the parting guest.” But what was this he saw? This lancer himself, hurrying down the hill, looking wonderfully spruce end smart, his kit a painful contrast to Miles’ shabby serge coat and wentherstained leggings. “What does he want now?” said Captain Brabazon to himself. Irritably. "1 believe he’s looking for me." “Ilulloa! I say, Brabazon,” he hailed, cheerily, from some distance, “1 want to have a word with you before I go,” clattering quickly down over the loose stones. “With me?” returned the other, in a surly tone and most unpromising man-

ner, not rising, not showing any alacrity to gyeet him. “Yes, with you, of course. 1 was too dead-beat to talk to you last night. Don’t you know who I am, old chap?” accompanying the question with a violent slap on the back. “Yes, I know who you' are right enmigh,” morosely. v>h, you do, do you? Well, you might seem a bit more pleaserd to see me, instead of sitting there like an old bear with a sore head,” in a tone of surprise. “Look here, ybung fellow,” said Miles, suddenly rising. “I’d advise you to leave me alone; I don’t want to have anything to do with you. Don’t provoke me too far, or we might both bo» sorry for the consequences.” “Hullo! hullo! Easy does It. You are on the wrong track; you evidently don’t know who I am; come, now, where did you ever see me?” “On board the Resistance. Will that do?” looking rather dangerous. “Oh!" quite coolly. “I suppose you recognized me by being with Esriie. She was very plucky to come all that way. Poor girl, she was in a terrible state. 1 thought she would never let me go. How she cried!” To this remark Miles preserved an ominous silence. “Tell me one thing," continued this undaunted lancer, squaring himself before his now boiling companion. “Why did you not marry her? What has happened? I declare when I recognized yon last night in the colonel’s tent you might just have knocked me down with a feather. Why did you not marry Esme?” he reiterated, persistently. “I should think that no one knows the reason better than yourself,” ferociously. “You forget that 1 witnessed the affecting parting between you and her,” he added, in a tone of scorching contempt. “And what harm if you did?” indignantly. “I say, you know, if you are going to be jealous of a girl’s brother you must be a most ” “Brother! brother!” was all his companion dould ejaculate, as he leaned against the wall and stared nt Teddy with a dazed, white face, and, in so staring, brought conviction home to his very soul. For was not Teddy looking at him with Esme’s own dark-blue eyes? “Don’t you know that I’m Teddy Brabazon?” exclaimed the lancer, seizing his cousin by the arm and giving him a vigorous shake. “No, I don’t,” returned Miles, at last rousing his mental faculties (rom the shock they had sustained. “Mrs. Brabazon told me that Teddy was dead,” speaking in a strange voice. “Yes, she said he was dead.” “Oh, Mrs. B. would say anything!” contemptuously, “but all the same I’m alive and kicking,” giving his relative another little shake. “Why, man, you look as dazed as if I had knocked you on the head. Just listen to me, and I’ll tell you all about it,” still holding him by the arm as though he were afraid he would escape. "You must know, in the first place, that I’m as stupid as a fish, brains, nil; was plucked three times from the line, and as Mrs. B. cut up awfully rough I went off and enlisted; was, in consequence, disowned by the family and given out as dead,” speaking so rapidly that the words seemed to tumble over one another in their eagerness to be uttered. "The only one that stuck to me was Esme; she clung to me like a limpet from first to last.” ■“And why was I never told?” interrupted Miles, fiercely, suddenly wrenching himself away from Teddy’s eagerly detaining hand. “Why did she never speak of you?” “Because I would not let her,” replied the other, frankly. “Over apd over again she begged and implored leave to let you into the secret of ‘Sergeant Brown,’ but I would not listen to her. 1 said, time enough when I could take your hand as an equal, aud as a brother officer. It' was just a whim of mine,” now possessing himself Miles’ reluctant fingers and shaking them very heartily as he spoke. “A whim of yours has cost me pretty dear,” said his cousin, bitterly. “Forty thousand pounds and Esme." “How? What do you mean?’! ly"How?” angrily. “Why, when I saw her down at Portsmouth that day,-on the sly, taking an agonizing farewell of a sergeant of lancers, was not that enough?" Teddy was now the one whose face expressed incredulous amazement and blank dismay. “I—l ” proceeded Miles, with a catch in his breath, “rushed after her to the station, feeling like a madman, and no doubt looking the character; had just time to tell her that I had done with her forever; then I exchanged out here within forty-eight hours; and to think,” clinching his hand, “to think that, after all, it was her brother.” He stopped, unable to utter another word. (To be continued.)

To Correct Bashfulness.

“The bashful young girl must stop thinking about herself,*’ writes Margaret E. Sangster in the Ladles’ Homo Journal. “I beard the other day of a man, a college student, who went to visit bis sister, a college student also. He was the one mau, as It happened. In the dining room with five hundred girls, and he bad occasion to cross the room with their bright eyes beaming on him with curiosity and interest Said my Informant: ‘The boy was completely at his ease. You would have thought his sister the only girl present.’ Evidently the young man’s mother had brought him up in a sensible way and he was free from that bane of comfort, self-consciousness. It is bard for a very diffident person tn be free from awkwardness, and very acute distress and much humiliation may be the results of an extreme shyness. Try not to think bow you look, what impression you are making, what sort of gown you have on. Do not let your mind dwell on yourself, but think of what you are to do, and of making others pleased and happy. Once you are free from self-conscloL'a-neaa, bashfulness, will trouble you no more.” James Wbltcoinb Riley, when ing of bis nationality recently, said: “I’m Irish from the word go. 1 show It In mytastes, I show It in my face, and I show It in my name. Whoever heard of a man who wns not Irish doing business at the old stand under the name of Riley F

INDIANA “OLD VETS."

THEY MEET IN ANNUAL SESSION IN INDIANAPOLIS. State Encampment of 1900 Is Attended by 18,000 Soldiers of the Grand Army that Fought in the Civil War—Com-mander-In-Chief Shaw Present. ludianapotls correspondence: •_ Eighteen thousand veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic and somewhat more than that number of visitors gathered nt Indianapolis for the tweirtytirst annual encampment of the department of Indiana. The city was gay with flags. The most important event of Tuesday was the.annual meeting of the Loyal Legion, at which Rear Admiral George Brown of Indianapolis was elected commander, A, C. Ford of Terre Haute senior vice-commander; W. R. Myers of Anderson, junior vice-commander; recorder, Brevet Col. Zemro A. Smith; treasurer, Capt. Horace McKay; chancellor, Capt. John C. Nelson; registrar, Capt. Joseph Balsley; chaplain, the Rt. Rev. Jdhn Hazen. A reception for the commander-ia-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic was given at the German House in the evening. The encampment began its sessions in Tomlinson Hall shortly after 10 a. m. Wednesday. The meetings were secret and all the doors were carefully guarded. A regular guard with officer of the day and reliefs just like they had when chasing the Johnny Rebs, looked after this part of the meeting. Department Commander W.. L. Dunlap called the encampment to order and read his annual address. It regretted that the largest loss of membership is due to suspensions, because comrades fall in arrears. He said the death rate during the last year was greater than ever before. He urged a plan to reclaim suspended members. He called memorial day the most sacr.ed of the 365 and hoped the time will come when all sports, games and races will be laid aside. R. M. Smock, assistant adjutant general, reported that the total number of Indiana members in good standing Dec. 31, 1809, was 16,615. The year before, there were 17,537. The loss by death was 411 and by suspension 1,480. The total number, including suspended members, is 20,456. The order has spent $1,884.50 for relief. There were 154 posts in good standing, Dec. 31, 1899. The report includes the correspondence with Gen. Lawton after his Philippine victories. The report of Mr. Smock as assistant quartermaster general shows total receipts for the year ending April 30 to have been $5,858.90. Disbursements were $4,031.22, leaving a balance of sl,827.68. The adjutant general’s report recommends that small and weak posts be consolidated to save expense. A. D. Shaw<»f New Y'ork, commanfler-in-ch:e!!! of the G. A. R., was introduced amid applause, and made a patriotic address. The grand parade took place Wednesday afternoon. James Whitcomb Riley was given an ovation at the camp fire at Roberts Park Church Wednesday night, when he arose to recite “Old Glory.” Addresses were made by Chairman Marsh, Col. Samuel Merrill of California, Frank Martin, former commander of the Sons of Veterans of Indiana; Col. W. E. McLean and Rev. Daniel Ryan. The comrades got down to business early Thursday, most of theai being in Tomlinson Hall by 8 o’clock, to hold caucus on the election. Order was called at 9, and the election proceeded, the final result being as follows: Commander—David E. Boom, SpenCer. Senior Vice Commander—A. It. Seward, Indianapolis. Vice Commander John Gordon. Argos. Medical Director—Dr. J. E. Sterrett, Logansport. - Chaplain—Rev. H. E. Butler, Warsaw. Council of Administration Benjamin Starr, Richmond; Theodore Wilkes. Shelbyville; A. I». Miller. Wabash; William E. Shilling, Indianapolis; Henry A. Root, Michi gan City. Representative at Large-Admiral George Brown, Indianapolis. Alternate at Large—Gov. James A. Mount. Indianapolis. Logansport was selected as the place for holding the encampment of 1901. The Woman’s Relief Corps, which met in the city at the same time, chose these officers: President—Laura 8. Burr. Anderson. Senior Vice President-Thes a Allee Ross. Indianapolis. Junior Vice President-Isabelle Neal, Albion. Secretary—Hettle Forkner, Anderson. Treasurer—Ret tie May Metcalf. Anderson. Counselor—Eliza J. Crlsler, Greensburg. Inspector-Julia Smith, South Bend. I. and I. Officer Allee Yonkey, Lafayette. Patriotic Instructor- Ella Nye. Liberty. Executive Board—Emma Druley, Middletown; Belle Ephlln. Tangier; Kate Scott, Richmond; Latin* Crider, Alexandria; Josephine Thomas, Danville. The seventh annual convention of the Ladies of the G. A. R. came to a close Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Jennie Irvine of New Albany was unnuhuoiisly chosen State president of the organization. The other officers elected arc: Senior Vice President—Mrs. Mary Colwell, Aurora. Junior Vice President- Mrs. Rebecca Hollis, of Washington. Chaplain—Mrs. E. C, Sawtell, of Fort Wayne. Treasurer—Mrs. Carrie Porter, of Rensselaer. Council of Administration—Mrs. McCoy, of Vincennes, aud Mrs. Emma Beech, of AuAllee Kramer, of I*, fayette.

State Items of Interest.

Muncie haS six brasa bands. Forty-third vohiiPecrs will hold a reunion in Brazil. New Castle has a new Knights Templar commandery. The big steel trust mills at Terre Haute will be dosed indefinitely. Andrews now has a bank. The owner is J. H, Key of Br. Louis, Mo., and the ■ftfineern Is capitalized at $12,000. • ♦ William Weldy, a farmer near Goshen, got a bee in his oar the other day. With the horrible sting and the buzzing Weldy waa almost insane when the insect was removed. William McKinley Weaver. 3, of Michigan City, has been awarded $250 damages for a dog bite. Little William has a brother named William Jennings Bryan Weaver. Martin if. Malloy, Hanna saloonkeeper, has disappeared, not notifying his family or leaving instructions alwut his buaineaa. He told friends be*waa going to Unior Milla, but he did not.

MAKES MANY MOTHERS MAD,

Address of Professor Chrisman la Resented by 3,000 Women. At the second day’s session of the National Congress of Mothers in Des Moines great indignation was raised by the address of Oscar Chrisman. A. M., Ph. I)., professor of pnidology or child study in the State normal school at Emporia, Kan.. "Men never love as women do,” he said. Instantly the.big convention hall was filled with hisses, and it wns several minutes before the speaker could proceed. He continued to say that women were made for love and men for reason. This was greeted by an indignant protest from 3,600 throats. The professor dropped this branch of the subject and went on with his address. At its conclusion a dozen women leaped to their feet and demanded recognition. Mrs. Birney, who was presiding, gave the floor to Mrs. Winfield 8. Hall of Berwyn, 111., who cried in a voice that reached the street, “Meij do love!” Mrs. Hall then gave Prof. Chrisman a tongue-lash-ing for fifteen minutes. When she ceased a man and fifteen women jumped up. The man, T. H. Smith of Harlan. lowa, was recognized. “It is false," he said. “Men do love. It is a slander that the professor has given you. He ought to Im» ashamed of himself for standing before this audience and saying such things. Men do love their sweet hearts and wives. As boys they love their mothers. As meu they love their families. Prof. Chrisman has queer ideas for an educator of- the young. He has no business telling this congress of mothers that men do not love. They know better, and I am glad of this magnificent rebuke the speaker has suffered justly' at your hands.” The man closed, and the women cheered. The meetings of the congress were well attended aud full of interest. More than 1,000 delegates were in attendance from out of the town. Policemen had to help keep the doors closed Tuesday oh account of the crush. Gov. and Mrs. Shaw received the delegates in a formal reception at the State House Tuesday evening.

TWENTY-TWO DIE IN A MINE.

Colliery Explosion l at Cumnock, N. C., Terrible in Its Effects. Twenty-two miners, ten white men and twelve negroes, lost their lives in an explosion at Cumnock coal mines, Chatham -County, North Carolina, Tuesday afternoon. The explosion is supposed to have been caused by a broken gauze in a safetylamp. Between forty and fifty men were in the mine at the time. About fifty people from Sanford, a town six miles from the mine, started immediately when the news of the disaster was received to assist in the work of rescuing the dead and helping the injured. Within an hour after the explosion the work of rescue began and by night all the bodies except one bad been brought to the top. This is the second explosion this mine has had within the past four years, the former one having occurred on Dec. 28. 1895, when fortythree men lost their lives.

The Polirical Pot.

Yates clubs are organizing all over Illinois. Rockford. 111., traveling men have organized a McKinley Club. Indiana friends of Fairbanks will booio him for President in 190-1. Republican congressional committee headquarters will be in Chicago. Hawaiian* have agreed to join neither the Republicans nor the Democrats. James R. Keene has bet $7,500 to $lO,000 that Bryan will be the next President. Webster Davis says polities are uncertain, and no one is exp«'eto<l to keep promises. The Ohio House has adopted a resolution urging Congress to pass a per diem pension law. Alabama Democruta in Gen. Wheeler’s district have called n convention for July 3 to select Gen. Wheeler’s successor. Philadelphia Convention hall only lacks the decorations. Otherwise it is ready for the Republican national convention. lu Ohio bequens to the State and to political subdivisions have been exempted from provisions of the collateral inheritance tax law. Democratic nominees for State offices in North Carolina art* touring the State in a body. They are ipaking their hardest campaign in the eountids where there is most opposition to the pending constitutional* amendment disfranchising the negroes. Massachusetts lawmakers want a higher salary, and fifty-five memls'rs of the House have put themselves on record as favoring a bill to make the coni ism-sat ion SI,OOO. The Senate gave a majority for the bill amended, to take effect at the next Legislature. Following in a list of the Stall's which by action of their legislatures have ap proved election of Senators by the jieople: Nevada. Utah, Washington, Wisconsin. Wyoming, North Carolina. Montana. Arkansan, Idaho, California. Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Ixurisinna, Michigan. Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hamp shire. North Carolina. North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, and Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Missouri. Texas and New Jersey are among the States wbitdi have taken no action. There are indications of a lively presidential campaign.in Delaware. Warrants hare been issued for two Republican lead era at the request of two rival Repq)*li can leaders In Kent County, thy charge being the use of money In elections. The Young Men's Republican Chib of Oklahoma has been organized at Kingfisher by 100 of the young party worker* of the territory. Tbe object of the organization la to promote good fellowship among active young Republican* by giving a banquet on Washington's birthday, of eaoh year. It was decided to hold the flrat banquet at Guthrie.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA. INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Ilia Mind Win Long a Blank— Sportsman Breaks Hie Neck—Mysterious Disappearance at Daleville-Railroad - Practically Tied Up by a Snake. Fred Fry, under detention for several days at the Indianapolis police station as an insane person, has been recognized by his father, Stephen D. Fry, a well-known traveling man, and released. The young man is 19 years old, and until his father arrived hin mind was a positive blank as to his own identity, but the moment he saw his sire his mental condition seemed to dear. His father reports that his son has been ailing for several years, and physicians have been unable to afford permanent relief. He usually fs rational on every subject, but occasionally he loses his own identity, and if away from home at the time tlie attack seizes him he is unable to give information of himself, although talking readily on other subjects. Last June he wandered away and after a long search was found at Kokomo, where he had been earning his own living, no one suspecting him of mental infirmity. Squirrel Hunt Proves Fatal. Because his wife expressed a wish for a squirrel for her supper, Elijah Myers, a fanner of Prairie Creek township, met his death. Mrs. Myers has been a helpless invalid for more than two years. She is suffering from consumption and cannot live longer than a few weeks. The other night shf- expressed a desire for some squirrel broth, and her husband went into the woods. He shot a squirrel, but the animal lodged in the fork of a tree, and Myers, in climbing the tree, fell and broke his aeek, dying instantly. Assaulted and Spirited Away. Because of the strike at the Daleville stove works at Daleville, Arthur Walker, aged 20, has disappeared. He was a nonunion man and was going to the factory to work when he was attacked by a crowd of the strikers. The crowd after beating Walker took him away in ft bug- ~ gy and searching parties have failed to find trace of him. Muncie officers arrested three men on charges of being implicated in the assault. Walker’s home Is ia Portsmouth, Ohio. Snake Ties Up a Railroad. Traffic on the Chicago and Erie Railway was delayed the other day on account of a big rattlesnake. The reptile crawled up a telegraph pole near Preble, and stretched itself across the wires. As a result the current was broken and messages could not be sent. A special crew was sent out from Huntington to ascertain the cause of the delay in the transmission of dispatches, and the snake was discovered and dislodged. Within Our Borders Bushels of counterfeit money over the State. A Goehcn mau saved 3,500 tobacco tags and got a gnu. It is said gold in paying quantities has been found north of Hope. Mrs. John Fenton stabbed to death her husband at Clinton, after a quarrel. Muncie incendiaries made throe fruitless attempts on a factory in ten days. Laporte First National Bank has increased capital front $25,000 to $50,000. Delaware County farmers will form a union, and use the union label on all their products. A new insect is damaging apple trees and farmers are fearful that the crop will be ruined. The Ontario Silverware works resumed operations with 250 hands after several weeks’ shut-down. Surveyors are running a line across Steuben County and the people are mystified as to what is up. Mrs. J. A. Schenk, Muncie, and Mrs. Florence Kirby, Paris, 111., sisters, met for the first time hi forty years. A 300-gear bicycle was exhibited at Waterloo. Some of the local speedare were able to ride it by hard pumping. The 4?>00 lots platted by the Mun>*ie Land Company during the gas boom haze been sold to Akron, Ohio, capitalists for $80,600. William Henry Atkinson, at one time a familiar figure in Logansport and worth $30,000. is dead in the Cass County Infirmary. The Union Trust Company, Indianapolis, and W. 11. Roney, Cicero, have I>s<m made receivers of the Bonita glass factory, at Cicero. An explosion of natural gas at Marlon caused the destruction of the Harwood & Bailey bedstead factoty, entailing a loss of $70,060. Mrs. Ida Dooley, Daleville, whose husband, a Big Fc»ir brakemen, was killed two years ago. has compromised with the company for $2,500. Mayor Durand, Peru, has forbidden the Mormons to hold any more religious meetings, giving as a reason the Monnona’ alleged belief in polygamy. The Indiana Odd Fellows home wps dedicated at Greensburg in the present of one of the largest crowds of pecple ever assembled in the city. Mrs. George Ray of Garrett, whose husband was fireman on a Baltimore ntd Ohio Railroad aud killed In a wreck near Chicago, has begun suit in the United States Court asking SIO,OOO damage's. The Rev. J. W. William:*, pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Anderson, conducted the services there on a recent Sunday. and early the next morning be|an suit in the Superior Court against his congregation for his salary. He was engaged in 1808 andsTlaims that he wat to be paid monthly, but has not received a cent. William Shanks has asked the commissioners to let him establish a saloon in Burlington, The citizens say they will not remonstrate, but will blow the place sky high with dynamite. Eugene O. Durkee, aged t»6 years, was • married at Guthrie, Ok., to Mrs. SalUo C. Wilson, aged 45 years, of Salem. Th* two bad been sweethearts in childhood and each bad beta married. Noah R. Freeman of Winamac and the oldest Justice of the peace, has in the past thirty years married over 2,000 couples. As the net result of these marriage* over 0,000 children have been l»r»