Ligonier Banner., Volume 37, Number 22, Ligonier, Noble County, 28 August 1902 — Page 2

THINGS THAT TROUBLE US. There is nothin’ in this frettin’ an "this worT¥in’ about : . How this, thas or eise the otheris goin’ to €ome put; Lo ¢ - Takin® thought unto the morrer, seein ' trouble right ahead . With a heart a trifle heavier than so much bulk o' lead; . . Jes" a studéyin’ an’ broodin’ an’ despondin’ . an’ cast cown; Mouth an' forehead puckered up into an everlastin’ frown; i For voull notice, if you care to, an’ I've watched it mighty clus, | That the things that rever happen are the ones that trouble us. Them theré people that is allus stayin’ In the coleful dumps - Is, in my sineere opinion, jest a set o’ cussed chumps, A - With thelr faces long as fiddles an’ their voices all awhine, - | fLowin’ it'll rain termorrer when the weather now is fine; - e Prophesyin’ tribulation of all kinds laid up in stove,. ; ; War ar® pestilence an’ famine, fire an fiood an’ then some more;. Never stoppin’ to consider that thfngs allus might be wuss, : . An’ the things that never happen are the ones that trouble us. . If there’s troubles, we can bear 'em, takin’ them jest as they come, Havin® all the pleasure meantime we can git an’ not feel glum. : : Over what's hid in the future—that’s phil- : gsophy, 1 guess— - "Not to Ist what may be give us no particu- = dar distress, : - Make the most of all our blessin's, ard if .iroubles come it's wise’ Ts consider they are blessin's, sorter fixed up in disguise. Once you git that way o’ thinkin’ you won't fret or stéw or fuss, : For the things that never happ@n are the ones that trouble us. —Chicago Daily News. -

The Tenderloot in Wyoming <

BY E. K. WOOLEY.

HY Tenderfoot sidled cautiously T around the half-open door of the Managing Editor’s sanctum, after which he deliberately and with extreme care seated himself upon the softest chair therein. ~ » “Well,” he sighed, “I'm back.” - “I see.” replied the Managing Editor, “Where you been?” ' : “Casper, Wyoming,” said the Tenderfoor. : . ' © *“Couldn’t you go a little farther?” facetiously. inquired the Managing Editor. ’ “Went as far as my pocketbook would let me.” retorted the Tenderfoot. “Besides, I’ve got some uncles and cousins and aunts out there.” Here he shifted his position slighti¥. with an accompanying groan. “Sick?” unsympathetically asked the Managing Editor. -

“Riding horseback,” explained the Tenderfoot. *“One of those measly little sleepy-eved. white-faced broncos. Had a back like an arch in a suspension bridge. Kicked in four directions at once. See-sawed with both ends and made me think of my happy childhood, swhile I held A("mt“o the saddlehorn with both hands and said prayer words in a different arrangement from what my mother taught me. And when he finally lit on the ground it jarred the marrow in my spinal column. Say, you ought to see me! 1 look like an Easter egg with my clothes off!” ; The Tenderfoot groaned again, and the Managing Editor leaned back in his chair and yelled. _ " “oh. say!” he gasped. “You're good! You are!” 5 : © The Tencerfoot looked flattered and comntinued. : : - handsome, symmetrical shape. Been - “I stuck, though—but it’s spoiled my walking bow-legged ever since. “You know, I always wanted to go out west, so when I got my two week’s leave of absence I counted over my shekels and decided I had enough to get me out to Casper and back. I therefore packed my grip, wired one of my uncles I was coming and choochooed out of the railway station that same evening. ‘ : :

“It tzkes two nights and two days to get to Casper, and I wouldn’t walk a mile to view the scenery onthe way: until after we passed the Wyoming state line.” From there on I found sections worth seeing. It gets hilly and rocky. and sandy, and sagebrushy and cactusy and snakey. I can’t help but think there must have been a vast sea there in past ages. We went through part of the Wyoming ‘bad lands” I might remark that they are. positively . obnoxious—especially the rattlesnakes. 1 saw one 14 feet long, two feet wide and—> = .

“Forget it,” suggested the Managing Editor. : 5 “Well, I don’t want to build a residence in the Wyoming ‘bad lands)” insisted the Tenderfoot. “It-is horrible—horrible—theé essence of hopelessness—a glaring, pitiless, poisonous, waterless hades for damned souls. Yet they say thereare no more fertile lands in the world if there was only water there. -And farther on, where there is water, and wherever the slim irrigation canals wind their way, there are green fields and trees and flowers. Teddy Roosevelt knew

PLEASED WITH HIS RECORD.

Young V.-derblh Hopes, However, . te Do Still Better with His Automobile,

Sporting circles in Paris have been in a ferment since W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., smashed the automobile record for both a mile and a kilometer. His time for the mile was 0:48 2-5, and the kilometer 0:29 2-5. Fournier’s mile record of 0:51 4-5 was made on Ocean parkway, New York, last November. : Serpollet’s kilometer record of 0:29 4-5, made at Nice last winter, had hitherto dtood against the attacks of the best chauffeurs with the best -‘chines.g g - P . The Prench awtomobilists, although somewhat annoyed by what they consider another defeat—following closeiy .upon Edge securing the international cup and Jarrott, another Engfishman, winning the great 300-mile race in Belgium last week—heartily praise Mr. Vanderbilt’s performance. His pluck, science and fairness have made him the strongest kind of a ~Mr. Vanderbilt said to the Chicaga Chronicle correspondent at Trouville: .¥I shall not vest until I succeed in

what he was doing when he put that irrigation business through-—and say, talking about Roosevelt, you ought to hear what the wild and woolly west thinks about him! I didn’t see a cowboy out there who hadn’t slept side by side with Teddy when he was roughing it.

“I.don’t know what I expected of Casper. Maybe I thought it was made up of tents, canva--top wagons, yelling cowboys and dirty Indians. If I did I was disappointed. When I first set foot in the place I thought I'd got turned around and was back in Chicago. Honest! Lively? It has three big hotels brimful all the time; three department stores doing a rushing business every day in the week; a whole block of saloons that are rolling in wealth and working overtime; two banks, two newspapers and 832 inhabitants, every one of whom tends to his business so actively that he constantly keeps the air stirring violently around him. That must be why it's so windy in Casper. Going out on the street was like turning the corner of the Masonic Temple at home here. “I had prepared myself to do without a bath until my return to eivilization. What was my astonishment to find a modern bathroom, with all attachments, in my uncle’s house—running hot and cold water! He also had a telephone in the house. Youcan have your choice of gas or electric lights, and Uncle Charlie is even talking of installing a hot water heating plant in his house this fall. How is that for a frontier town in the wilds of Wyoming? e

“There isn’t a poor man in Casper. I wouldn’t mind living there. It’s the same altitude as Denver, and a sick person is a curiosity. The name of the masculine element is Charlie. This includes horses, dogs and Chinamen. Occasionally you find a Bill Anyone with a more high-flown front name is looked upon with suspicion. I didn’t tell them that mine is Algernon.

“The native masculine costume of Casper consists of a $7 pair of boots, a $5.50 hat and a 75-cent pair of overalls—bout $1.25 for shirts, I guess. I didn’t seé many cowboys. They call ’em sheepmen now. Everything’s sheep out there. Casper isnlt a stockyards, but once in awhile a bunch of cattle went by the house, and once I got mixed up with a bunch of sheep. If Mary’s little lamb smelled anything like it I don’t wonder that the teacher objected.

“The native Casperite is not a modest man. His voice is large, and when he talks you don’t have to ask him twice what he said, if you happen to be standing a mile across the prairie away from him. He is partial to exaggerating the truth. His children are the finest, his wife the best cook, bis ranch the biggest, his crops the largest, his sheep the most numerous, his state the best, his politics the only kind in the whole union. He wouldn’t change shoes with Pierpont Morgan—not on your life! He’s honest and bighearted and open-handed. I like the native Casperite. “The woman of Wyoming votes. She wears divided skirts when: she rides horseback, so you may know that she rides in the fashionable attiude. She doesn’t powder her face and frizz her hair. She’s big and buxom and healthy, and when she laughs it isn’t a windy giggle. She can hit a rabbit on the jump with a 45, and she knows how to fry sage chicken and bazke rabbit pie. She rears a numerous and husky progeny, and to express it mildly, she ‘rules the roost.’ “Fruit is scarce out there, and bananas are 50 cents a dozen, so they buy ’em by the bunch. The Casper taste runs to bananas—bananas for breakfast, bananas for dinner and bananas for supper. And say—talk about feed! Maybe you don’t think they feed a fellow down there!”

“I don’t see that you're any fatter,” interposed the Managing Editor. “The bronco did that,” mournfully returned the Tenderfoot. *“I lost 20 pounds in perspiration, epidermis and fatty tissue. And say—l ain’t just a tenderfoot any more—l'm tender all over now.” -

“Well, I guess you’d better go to work and get tough again. You can give us a story of your western experiences as a starter. Go on now, I’'m “busy,” ecommanded the Managing Editor.

“All right,” grunted the Tenderfoot, as-he laboriously prepared to lift himself into a standing position. “You’ll excuse my moying gradually for a day or two, however. I ought to have another week to rest upin.”

“Guess you don’t want to go west again in a hurry, hey?”

“Don’t I!” said the Tenderfoot. “Next time I go I’ll stay there, too. I'll buy half a dozen sheep and go up in the lovely cool mountains and roost with my gentle baabaas, and get rich in a couple of years. Say, you can buy land for 50 cents an acre out in Wyoming—plenty of water on it, too!” “Where?” demanded the Managing Editor. !

“On the river bottom,” serenely replied the Tenderfoot, as he limped hastily out of the Managing Editor’s atmosphere.—Chicago Record-Herald.

one hour, Automobiles as now built ought to be able to travel 80 or 90 miles an hour easily, given proper roads and proper handling. . The trouble with chauffeurs is that their experience has not yet been sufficiently varied. Most of the breakdowns are from some mistake during the excitement caused by high speed.

“When I return home I shall make every effort to induce the American automobile clubs to adopt the kilo meter instead of the mile, for, besides being much easier to measure, it would familiarize the people with the metric system and pave the way to its adoption throughout the United States as a whole.” Boston Exactness, A Boston critic is worried over the proverb “Honesty is the best policy.” He says it isn’t grammatical, unless there is a third policy which is neither honest nor dishonest. Trust the Boston critic, says the Chicago RecordHerald, to hunt for trowble every time. . Judging from Crime, Yes? Times may be dull at Herr Krupp’s cannon works, but, says the Chicago Tribune, most of the pistol factories are believed to be running at their

CONDITION OF THE CROPS.

Maturing of Fruitsand Grain Retarded by an Abnormally Cool Week,

Washington, Aug. 20.—Following is the general summary of crop conditions issued weekly by the department of agriculture:

The week has not been favorable for the rapid maturing of crops in the northern distriets eastward of the Mississippi valley, where it has been abnormally cool, with excessive rains in portions of the Missouri and Upper Mississippi valleys, while hot and generally dry weather prevailed in the southern states, and the protracted drought continues in the midcle Rocky mountain districts. Drought has been relieved in Washington, and generally favorable conditions prevailed in the Pacific coast states, although the week was unseasonably cool in that region, and showers interrupted, grain harvest in Oregon during the forepart of the week. > Corn continues in very promising condltion in the principal corn states, in the more northerly portions of which, however, it has not matured rapidly uncer the ow temperatures which prevailed during the week.

The reports indicate that early corn over the northern portion of the corn belt will be safe from frost by September 1 to 15, and the late crop from September 15 to October 1, while over the southern portions of the corn belt some of the early corn is already matured, and the late will be safe by September 15 to 23. Spring wheat harvest is nearly finished in the Dakotas and has progressed under favorable conditions in northern Minnesota, but was interrupted by showers in the southern portion of that state, in which the crop generally has ripened slowly and unevenly. In lowa wheat in shock has been injured, and a large percentage ruined by wet weather. Harvesting was also interrupted on the north Pacific coast, but Is well advanced in Washington, Further reports of damage to oats in shock are received from the Ohio and upper Mississippi valleys. Harvesting is unfinished only in some localities in the morenortherly portions of the New England and middle Atlantic states. The reports respecting apples are favor-

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able from New England, Michigan, Kansas, Oklahoma and portions of Illinois, Ohio and Virginia, and the outlook in Wisconsin is improved, while in Missouri the prospects are less favorable and variable reports are received from New York; elsewhere a generally light crop is indicated. Plowing for fall seeding has progressed favorably over the northern portion of the southern states and portions of the middle Atlantic states, but dry soil has retarded this work in portions of the Ohio, central Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys.

NOT A SHOT FIRED.

Venezuclan Revolutionists Have No Trouble in Occupying Seaport B Town of Cumana,

Willemstad, Island of Curacao, Aug. 20.—News has just reached here that the seaport of Cumana, in the state of Bermudez, Venezuela, was occupied at noon Tuesday by the Venezuelan revolutionists without the firing of a single shot. 5

- Cumana, which is about 200 miles east-of La Guaira, was occupied for a short time by the Venezuelan revolutionists last May. Upon this occasion also the government forces left the town without offering resistance. Cumana is about 50 miles east of Barcelona, which was captured by the revolutionists the early part: of this month. The revolutionists now hold the custom ports of Ciudad Bolivar, Guaira, Cano Colorado, La Vela de Coro, Carupano, Barcelona and Cumana.

Mont Pelee Again in Action.

Castries, Island of St. Lucia, Aug. 23. —Officers of the steamer Dahome, which arrived here Friday. report a severe eruption of Mont Pelee, on the Island of Martinique, at noon Thursday. The eruption was followed by total darkness five miles away from the volcano. It was 20 minutes before it again became light. The Dahome was obliged to change her course to escape the volcanic dust which fell heavily upon her deck.

Gov. Taft Again in Manila.

Manila, Aug. 23.—Civil Governor Taft reached here Friday morning at daylight on board the United States gunboat Gen. Alava.from Singapore, Straits Settlement. He was welcomed with an enthusiastic popular demonstration.

- A Fast Mile, ; Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 22.—Cresceus Thursday afternoon trotted a mile at the Indiana state fair grounds track in 2:04%;, breaking the track’s mile trotting record. This record was established in 1894 by Nancy Hanks at 2:04Y%,. George Ketcham drove Cresceus. - To Help Rebuild Campanile, New York, Aug. 20.—The National Arts club has started to collect funds to aid in rebuilding the Venice Cappanile, recently destroyed. The club considers that Americans will respond readily. e Hexty Rains, Vienna, Aug. 21.—Heavy rainstorms in lower Austria and Bohemia have resulted in severe damage to crops. The river Etsch overflowed its banks at Meran, in southern Tyrol, and caused the collapse of a house, with a result that two persons were killed -and eight seriously injured. Engineer and Fireman Killed. Des Moines, la.,Aug, 20.—1 n a head-on-collision between freight trains at Nobleton, on the Keokuk & Des Moines division of the Rock Island, Tuesday evening, the engineer and ‘ifireman were killed, . 0 0

FAMOUS FIGURE GONE.

Death of Gen. Franz Sigel, of New York, a Noted Charaeter of the Civil War,

New York, Aug. 22.—Gen. Franz Sigel, a distinguished figure on the union side in the civil war, and one of the leaders in the revolution in southern Germany during the days of 1848, died Thursday at his home, 563 Mott avenue, in the Bronx. Gen. Sigel would have been 78 years old

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south. The distance between these points is only a little over 100 miles, and for its defense Rear Admiral Higginson has a fleet of three battleships, eight cruisersand seven torpedo boats. Having established his headquarters at Rockport, the admiral is about 45 miles from Cape Cod and 60 miles from Portland. His main fighting force is therefore within easy five hours’ sailing distance of any point of the defense

which he had won a reputation for militavry genius and power which placed him high up in the list of famous men developed by the great American conflict.

TRADE REVIEW.

Situntion Generally Appears to Be Favorable—Fuel Searcity an In=dustrial Handicap.

New York, Aug. 23.—Bradstreet’s says: “Trade developments are still largely favorable, fall jobbing activity being widespread, and reports as to collections are more uniformly encouraging than for a long time past. Weather conditions have not been -altogether favorable to corn at the north or cotton at the south, but decadence in crop prospects is still largely a matter of trade sentiment reflecting some reaction from earlier buoyant agricultural prospects. Fndustrial activity has apparently never been surpassed, and what checks are noted are either, as in the case of anthracite coal stoppage, of an ancient date, or as in the case of furnace shut-Gowns in iron and steel trades, the results of superabundant railway traflic curtailing fuel supplies. . Harvesting, eXxcept of corn, has been completed except in the more northern sections, and results in these latter respects are more or less secure. The high prices of cattle, sheep, hogs and produce are tempting and inducing large shipments, which seem destined to cause a natural downward drift in prices. Fall trade is now in full swing at most of the leading centers. Buying of dry goods, shoes, clothing and millinery is liberal. - Some sectiors, particularly the southwest, report the best trade in years.” “Failures for the week numbered 207 in the United States, against 205 last year, and 30 in Canada, against 35 a year ago.”

A DESPONDENT FARMER.

He Drowns His Four Children in a Cistern and Then Attempts Suicide, :

Salina, Kan., Aug. 20.—Joseph Anderson, a farmer living east of Salina, in a fit of despondency Tuesday drowned his four children, three girls and a boy, in a cistern, and then shot himself with a revolver. Anderson is still alive, but will probably die. Financial matters had affected his mind. The crime was committed during the absence of the mother. The oldest child was six years old and the youngest a babe of four months. Anderson left a note on a table in the parlor notifying the mother that the children could be found in the ecistern.:

Convicts Attempt to Escape,

Frankfort, Ky., Aug. 21.—Fired by a desire to gain their freedom, Wallace Bishop and Thomas Mulligan, of Kenton county, and Lafayette Brooks, of Morgan county, all murderers and desperate criminals, made a futile attempt to escape from the state penitentiary here Wednesday morning, and as a result Bishop received a bullet wound in his breast; Brooks is shot through the shoulder and Alfred Ransome (colored), a Louisville murderer, who for a few moments essayed to follow the three daring leaders, is suffering from a wound in the shoulder. To Regulate Apple Prieces. ; St. Louis, Aug. 20.—About 25 prominent apple growers of Kansas, Nebraska, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas and Illinois are meeting here for the purpose, it is said, of uniting the commercial apple growers of the United States and Canada into an organization to regulate the price of that fruit. ; lowa Prohibitionists. Waterloo, la., Aug. 22.—The lowa state prohibition convention placed a full state ticket in the field, headed by H. H. Howard, of Marshalltown, sar secretury ol afate, o

PRESIDENT BEGINS TOUR.

Roosevelt Leaves Oyster Bay for New England and Addresses Gathering at Hartford, Conn.

Hartford, Conn., Aug. 23.—President Roosevelt left Oyster Bay Friday morning for New Haven on his tour through New England. The presidential party left the house at 9:30 o’clock and was taken on board the Sylph ina launch. Fifteen minutes later the Sylph weighed anchor and started for New Haven. where she arrived at 1:30 p. m. He was taken for a drive through the city and in Pope park the president was greeted by 10,00 working men who presented him with a magnificent floral horseshoe. _

In the evening he addressed 5,000 men and women at the Coliseum. He said that the United States is in duty bound to establish reciprocal trade relations with Cuba and made the prediction th: t this cbligation will be met within “a very short time.” He set forth in detail the insular policy of the administration, called attention to the great work accomplished since the Spanish war, and pointed the way, as the president sees it, to progress for our new possessions and honor to America. He was frequently applauded by the audience, many of whom were workingmen. NEARLY A SCORE OF DEAD. Total Number of Victims of Explosion in Pulp Mill at Wilmington, Del., Will Reach 19. Wilmington, Del,, Aug. 22.—Eleven persons dead, two of those in the hospitals so seriously injured that little nope is entertained for their recovery, six still missing, and whose

line. As Capt. Pillsbury is required to make a landing and establish mines inside of six hours before the fighting force of the defense appears, it will be seen that he is ‘‘up against it,”’ and New England, with patrols on every point and the telephone and telegraph at the service of Admiral Higginson, can pull its nightecap about its kindly old ears and lie down in gafety to pleasant dreams.

bodies are supposed to be in the ruins, is the result of the terrible explosion at the Delaware pulp works of the Jessup & Moore Paper company in this city late Wednesday afternoon.

James Jester and George Durham, both employed in the digester room, where' the explosion occurred,. died Thursday. Following is a list of the victims:

DEAD—John McCormick, William 7. Burke, married; Granville Walters, chemist, married; James B. Stokes, married; Franklin T. Harris, George W. Wright, married; Josebph I.aubacker, Joseph Nagle, Zachariah Collins, George Durham, James Jester. .

MISSING—JoeI Hutton, William Ruth, E. H. Mousley, married; Bernard Sweeney, William Scott, Joseph Henry. SERIOUSLY INJURED—Thomas Reese, skull fractured; John Collins, inhaled flames, critical,

WOULD LIKE TO WEAR TOGA.

Gen, A_lger Expresses a Wish to Succeed the Late Senator McMillan,

Detroit, Mich., Aug. 21.—Gen. Russell A. Alger, former secretary of war, issued a statement Wednesday afternoon announcing himself a receptive candidate for the United States senate from Michigan to succeed the late

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FIVE PERSONS CREMATED. Explosion in a New York Tenement Causes a Fire with Fatal Results, New York, Aug. 20.—Something exploded in a furniture store on the ground floor of a double tenement at No. 35 Essex street, Tuesday, and before the tenants could recover from the surprise the building was a mass of flames. The fire obtained a frightful headway, which the firemen had to fight while the work of rescue was going on, and before the flames wete under control, two women and three children had been burned to death,

and a man and a woman carried to Gouveneur hospital suffering painful inju#ies. Many others were badly burned in addition to the three children burned another

was reported missing. One of the dead bodies was believed to be that of Mrs. Hannah Balothin, and the other that of Mrs. Joseph Knott, but both were so badly burned that they were not recognizable. The three dead children were believed to be those of Nathan Liebowitz, -who reported to the police that his four little ones Moses, Julius, Louis and Solmon,respectively 3. 5, 6 and 8 years old, were missing. The persons seriously injured were Mrs. Rose Miese, who was burned about the body and face, and Jacob Muscovitz, who had three ribs broken by jumping to the pavement. : The money loss by the fire was $5,000. NAVAL CONTEST ON.

Outline of Maneuvers Begun on the Atlantie Coast by North Atlantic Fleet,

Rockport, Mass., Aug .21.—The New England coast from Portland harbor to Cape Cod is on a war basis and will be so for some time to come. The men who are the most interested are the officers and crews of the vessels of the North Atlantic fleet, which Rear Admiral Higginson commands. To. put the situation in a few words is to say that somewhere in the Atlantic is a fleet supposed by the North Atlantic fleet to be a hostile one, which by strategy purely, intends reaching -the New England shore. On the other hand, Rear Admiral Higginson is to use his fleet to stop that enemy. It is a war game to be worked out with real mel manning actual fighting machines, under unavoidable conditions of wind and wave, with the probabilities of fog and storm, and, what is more important, the ever present danger of disaster on the reefs and shoals which mnaturally guard much of this coast line,

KILLED BY CORN.

Farmer Living Near Trempeleau, Wis., Eats 530 Ears and Falls Victim to His Appetite.

St. Paul, Minn.,, Aug. 22.—A dispatch to the Pioneer-Press from Winona, Minn., says: William Hafner, a, farmer living near Trempeleau, Wis., is dead as a result of eating 50 “roasting ears.”” Mr. Hafner had an especial liking for green corn, and at dinner Wednesday ate 24 ears. He pursued his regular occupation duripg the afternoon and for the evening meal disposed of 15 more ears. No bad results were noticed and Mr. Hafner retired for the night in his usual health and spirits. He was awakened during the night by an intense raving for more corn, and rising proceeded to devour 11 more ears -f cold corn. In the morning his wife awoke to find her husband dead at her side, he having apparently died in great agony.

IS AN EXPENSIVE GUARD.

Coal Companies Have Thus Far Expended $1,800,000 to Protect Mine Property.

Wilkesbarte, Pa., Aug. 23.—1 t is estimated that the coal and iron policemen now guarding the idle collieries in four counties of the anthracite region number 5,000. The employment of so many special guards has necessitated an expenditure by the companies to date of $1,800,000. Besides paying the special policemen a daily wage, the companies supply them with food and lodging. Every coal company in the anthracite district and nearly every washery has its quota of police. The commissions are all granted by Gov. Stone at Harrisburg, and cost the companies four dollars for the granting and recording of each commission. Of this sum two dollars goes to the state and two to the county. Memorial Services to Be Held. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 23.—Mayor Knight has issued a proclamation suggesting that on Sunday, September 14, the first anniversary of the death of President McKinley memorial -services will be held in all of the churches in Buffalo and that the city be draped with flag of our country. He has appointed a committee to arrange for other special observances fitting to the occasion. He further suggests that on the day following the anniversary special exercises be held in the public schools. ‘Slain by Officers, Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 22,—Brandishing two razors and terrorizing passers-by in the business district of the city, Lewis Pierce, whose home was at Louisville, Ky., ran amuck in Seventh street Thursday evening, ant was shot to death by Patrolmen Pierce and Fedderson, who attempted 1o capture him. Fine Crops in Russia, London, Aug. 23.—“The crops of southern Russia,” cables the Odessa correspondent of the Standard, “show the largest yield of the last ten years.” : Many Lives Lost. London, Aug. 20.—From Singapore, Straits Settlement; a correspondent of the Daily Express cables that the town of Pontiana!k, near the west coast of Dutch Borneo, has been almost completely destroyed by fire. Many lives were lost. Seattle Is Selected, St. Paul, Minn.,, Aug. 22.—Seattle was selected as the city in which will be held the néxt session of the transMississippi congress in 1903. New Orleans was-the only other candidate for ‘the honor of enteytaining the conBt s U e R

ART IN ARCHITECTURE

HE six-room house here described T and illustrated will cost $2,000, built upon a cement and bowlder foundation. :

The sizes of the rooms are as follows: Parlor, 121,x17 feet; diningroom, 12x13 feet; kitchen, 10x12 feet; chambers, 121,x17 feet, 10x12 feet, 8x 81, feet; hall, 7x121, feet; pantry, 3x12 feet; bath-room, sxB feet; alcove, 31,x9 feet.

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laid about 3 inches to the weather. Plaster, two-coat work. Painting, three-coat work. American glass throughout, excepting in front door. ‘ : All floors will be double. Doors five cross panels. o Trimmed throughout with Georgia pine. : The parlor is separated from the

DIAMONDS TO ORDER.

German Chemist Believes That He will Be Able to Duplicate Nature’s Largest Gems,

In the opinion of H. Hoyermann, a German whose mind is bent upon investigation and experiments, it will not be long before the scientific world is able to produce artificial diamonds that will rival the most highly prized gems of the earth. He has experimented in a rather superficial way with the problem of making diamonds, and, although his apparatus was of the crudest sort, he progressed far enough to convince him that in time there would be no question about the materialization of his project. . The idea of artificial diamonds did not originate with Hoyermann. He got it from the French chemist Aloissan, who has been successful in obtaining crystallized carbon, although the particles were too small to be visible to the naked eye. Hoyermann, however, has gone a step farther. He has produced - diamonds which can be seen without the aid of a glass, and is confident that with more improved equipment he could create stones of commercial size. In speaking of the experiment, which he thinks will some day result in a complete revolution of the diamond market, the far-seeing German says: “Aloissan has proved that carbon crystallizes from its alloys with metals at certain high temperatures and under high pressure as diamond. After both methods the diamonds obtained are always small, as the carbon has not time to form larger crystals. Should it be possible to keep a metal or an alloy of the same saturated with ecarbon for a longer time in a liquid or semiliquid state at a certain high temperature and high pressure, then the conditions would be given to obtain larger diamonds.

“If, for instance, a mixture of oxide of lithium, oxide of iron, and aluminium be placed into an air-tight block of steel whose inside walls are covered with unslacked lime as a poor heat conductor, and then filled with retort carbon or graphite and then have the reaction caused by electricity, the alloy, saturated with carbon under the high pressure whick would naturally be caused in this bomb, would keep liquid for a long time and the carbon would have time during the long cooling process to crystallize in larger crystals. This would take place with all the more certainty the larger the quantity of the reaction mixture is and the longer the corresponding temperature and pressure would hold out. R e s e

reception hall by a cased opening, having columns at sidep and each column having a carved cap. The mantel showing in parlor and chamber will be of wood, having tile face and hearth. The dining-room has a bay with three windows. Pantry and closets have shelves. The sink in kitchen is of iron, lined with white porcelain. The size of the house upon the

ground is 26x26 feet, a good size. Building paper will be wused between the sheathing and siding. Also between the double floors. . The shelf hardware will be of a neat design. g o The house is piped for gas, furnace and plumbing. : The basement, cement wall, is 12 inches thick. .

Chimney showing abcve roof is of press brick. : - The entire basement floor is cemented. . The coal-roof, fruit-room and fur-nace-room are in the basement. All work throughout will be of a good kind, and the building is to, be left ‘broomr clean ready for occupancy. GEORGE A. W. KINTZ.

“Instead of carbon proper a combination of it could be wused, and graphite acid would be best suited as, if mixed with aluminium, it may perhaps contribute to the reaction. The freed carbon would at once be heated to a high temperature, which otherwise would be done at the expense of the metal reduced. In this manner the bhydrogen developed would even at a comparatively low temperature still exert a high pressure upon the mass f the bomb. The mixture of aluminium and graphite acid would, however, have to be placed at the bottom of--the bomb, as otherwise the metal would become saturated with carbon and on account of its consistency would not collect at the bottom.”

GREAT HEAT OF METEORS.

Some Have Fallen Upon the Earth in the Form of Molten : Masses,

Ordinarily the meteors that flash across the sky at stated periods of time burn themselves out in the upper air,—but occasionally a meteorie mass lasts long enough to reach the earth. One fell omn May 15, 1900, at Felix, Ala. Meteors were seen on the occasion referred to and sundry explosions - were heard, while later on a mass of meteoric substance weighing seven pounds was discovered imbedded in soft soil. This meteorite was analyzed and found to be built up of such minerals as olivine, augite, triolite, nickel iron and graphite carbon, says a scientific paper. The dark color of the Felix stone is stated to be due to the presence in fair amount of the last-named substance. The interest attaching to meteorites, of course, centers around the fact that they enable us to obtain glimpses of the composition of other worlds than ours. Astronomy is well agreed on the unity of chemical composition which marks the orbs, and even the simple fact that it is_hydrogen gas which blazes in the sun and gives us our light and heat is a testimony to this fact. Meteoric iron and carbon similarly display links between these erratic. bodies and our own earth. The Wrong Expression. The policeman heard high wordsand poked his head in the door. “What’s goin’ on here?” he demanded. “Nawthin’! Nawthin’ at alll!” answercd one of the belligerent Irishmen in the middle of the floor. “There’s nawthin’ goin’ on, but there’s a fight comin’ oft {u liss thah & winute, it ye'll only keep movin'."—Chicago Post.