Ligonier Banner., Volume 37, Number 23, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 September 1902 — Page 3

HOW TO SwiM.

"Twas marny days with Sam and Jim Before they taught me how to swim. A smimming collar, fat and wide, Arcunéd my timid neck was tied; 1 hagd a life preserver on, 5 And buoyant boards to float upon, Axnd wertured out six feet or more From safety and the beckoning shore. 1 pacdied in the shallows there With gquite a bold, determined air, : And got the motions to a T, _ As Jim and Sam did both agree; But, some way, spite of Sam and Jim, I never managed—quite—to—swim.

One day, worn out with these attempts, Discarding my accoutrements, 1 stood there, like the fool I am, All goose-flesh, watching Jim and Sam, Whern suddenly they rushed ashore, Ang, heeding not my panic roar, They caught me up and carried me Indignant, fighting to get free, lAlong a rustic bridge, to where The deepest, deadliest waters were, Then threw me in with warning grim: “You booby! Now it's sink or swim!

And it was swim. A splash! A scream! A frartic struggle with the stream! 1 waxed a éemon in my wrath, | But floundered on my watery path, Angd gasping, faint, too weak to stand, And blubbering, I reached the land. Thus, tardy thanks to Sam and Jim, 1 learned at last the way to swim.

Ard now, as I surrender me To some ecstatic, leaping sea, Or cleave the waters dark and cool )f heron-haurnted forest pool, ©Or through the shining of some lake : My liguid flashing course I take, . i say, while wrapped in that delight: ““Well, Jim was right, and Sam was right.”

And often, in these later days Of hustling twentieth century ways, As from the shore I watch the tide 37 life and labor deep and wide, - Whers fierce contentions clash and beat Alorg the current of the street, Ang in the ocean of the town I see full many a wreck go down, : As bound by timorous despair, I stand aloof and idle there, . . The thought returns of Sam and Jim, And how they made a coward swim. “Jump in!" I bid my shrinking soul. “Nor heed the waves that angry roll, Nor breakers, fierce howe’er they be; A man is lighter than the sea. S Traust i your lungs and muscles stout, Ang in Godis'ocean. Out! Swim out!”

Tren, as I verture to be brave And burl my body on the wave, And pay no heed to my alarms, i But upe my feet and use my arms, - 1 find my body instantly In liguid oneness with that sea, : And—thanks once more to Sam ard Jim—i l=arn at last that I can swim. —Amos R. Wells, in Young People.

AND THE WATER KEPT AGURGLING

By DAVID HILL.

OHN HAWKINS’ pasture and mine J joined together in a kind of dry Lollow and were separated from each other by a high rail fence. That fence, as well as the hollow, ran due east and west. To the east was Tom Lamkin’s pasture, whose land joined ours, and whose fence ran in directly the opposite direction. The hollow from Lamkin's land down to the western extremity of ours was quite descending: and in the lower corner, on John's side of the fence, was one of the largest, coolest and most invigorating springs I ever saw. . : :

1t seemed to gurgle, and bupble, and boil up like so much liquid crystal; a 2« when the sunlight flashed across it the suggestion was that of a cluster of pure diamonds in the bright glare of an electric light. If 1 do say it, I always envied John that beautiful spring, from the moment I discovered it was on his land instead of my own.

Finally an idea entered my- head that, if I dug into the ground on my own side of the fence, just a few rods above Jonn’s spring, I might tap the vein that farnished the supply, and so convert a portion of that water to my own use.

So I went at it. , And my success was greater than my expectations. , For. in less than four feet of soil 1 struck a vein of water that boiled up like a miniature fountain. Neither <id the force-diminish, as I fancied it would after a few moments. It rose higher and higher, and bubbled.and gurgled. until finally it overflowed the ‘bole and went pouring down the incline like a young spring freshet. 1 was in ecstasies. i ‘

Theelation over mygood fortune led me to steal over to John’s spring to see how the two compared for quantiiv and circumference.

Well. bless my soul! Judge of my astonishment when I. found that Jobn’s spring was as dry as thetable lands of New Mexico. I had cut off the main channel connecting the water with his Jand, and had converted the whole of that magnificent spring into one of my own. ; ' I guickly realized there would be a eyclone when John found it out, and—there was.

He danced a fisher’s hornpipe on his own side of the fence, and swore he would have me prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. ;

I simply continued to excavate my new find, cleaned out the bottom, walled up the sides, whistled “Annie Laurie” softly to myself, and—the water kept right on a gurgling. John said, compared with myself and some of my contemptible acts, the devil -would make a good citizen. I invested $25 in cut granite, fitted the spring up to the bestof my ability, and—the water kept right on a gurgling. .

John said he pitied my mother, but had more genuine sympathy for the wife who was compelled to drag out

AN UNINHABITABLE LAND.

Boeundary Between Utah and Arizona & Desert from One End to the Other,

A well-known civil engineer, H. B. Carpenter, who has recently completed the survey of the southern line of Utah, says the boundary between that state and Arizona does not cross a feot of cultivated land. It traverses a desert, which is cut up by great canyons that are almost impassable. The length of the line is 277 miles. Landmarks along the line will make it possible for the boundary to be located without any difficuliy in the future. Just east of

the Colorado river a sandstone butte « Tises I.GOO feet above the plain, and . the very peak of this butte is exactiy on the boundary. Mr. Carpenter mamed the peak State Line butte.

her existence with such a miserable wretch.

I put a stone curb on top of the granite, ornamented it with an iron railing, erected a sign called “Crystal Spring,” which I faced toward John’s pasture, and—the water kept right on a gurgling. - And while this was taking place Tom Lamkin, whose land joined ours, stood leaning over his own fence, smoking his pipe, and watching us, and saying—nothing.

At last the same idea occurred to John that had occurred to me. He went a few rods above my spring, on his own side of the fence, of course, and dug into the ground exactly as I had done; and when he had finished you can use me for a canceled postage stamp if the water in my spring didn’t refuse to “gurgle.”

He had cut off the main channel in precisely the same manner as I had done, and had stolen the whole of that spring back. : Well—or—or—this may seem funny to some; but I could never quite realize just where the fun came in. In the first place, I didn’t steal John’s spring—not intentionally—it was a case of pure accident. But John—why —what John done was an exemplification of spite on the face of it. And I told him so!

What did John say? Why—the—the old cripple! He said if I would toss that iron paling and cut granite over the fence to put around his own spring he would give me 20 cents for it. Think of that! :

Insulted me right to my face. Said I: “You old hayseed! If I had you over in this pasture I would mop you all over it if it killed every spear of grass there. was in it.” And he replied, just as sneeringly as he knew how: “Tompkins, I'm agoin’ tu wall this spring up, an’ lock it with an iron kiver; but when you feel so inclined you kin come over, an’ though you can’t get at the water you have my full permission to hear it Yourgle’?” To which T went w-r-r-r-r-r-th! And when a man goes w-r-r-r-r-r-rh he’s so mad he can’t use the Anglo-Saxon language. - .

I watched John wall that spring up, attach his mnew iron cover, -and w-r-r-r-r-r-rh’d all the way through it. And all the while - Tom Lamkin stood leaning over his own fence, smoking his pipe, and watching us, and saying—nothing. - Finally, after John’s work was all completed, it occurred to me that possibly I might strike that same vein of water again. So I went a little above John'’s spring, just as he had gone above mine, and began to dig; and I hadn’t dug long before the water began to “gush” and “gurgle” with the same impetuosity as ever; and I soon knew by the expression on John's face, who had been watching me, and his own spring at the same time, that I had stolen the whole of that blooming spring back again. It did seem strange how, the channel of that water wound serpentinely back and forth under the soil of John’s pasture and mine, and both of us living in total ignorance of of that: fact.

Well, I transferred the iron paling and cut granite from my first spring and arranged them as artistically as I knew how around the second. John watched the proceedings, bombarding me with numerous expletives while the work was progressing, and of course I let him bombard. I finished the whole thing up grand, planted my “Crystal Spring” sign so its front faced toward John’s pasture, then snapped my fingers at John and told him to whistle.

“And Tom Lamkin stood leaning over his own fence, smoking his pipe, and watching us, and saying—nothing.

Then John began to wake up and show signs of activity. Hardly was my work completed before he spat on his two hands, grasped his spade firmly by the handle, and, with the same determination as before, started in to steal that spring back.

And he made his work count, too

Hang me if right up in the corner of the fence close to Tom Lamkin’s land and mine, that old cross-grained Ishmaelite didn’t strike water again; and when he did and I inspected my own spring, the water began to gurgle less and less until finally it died out and stopped altogether.

I knew it was then or never with me, so, grasping my spade, I darted into my own corner of the fence and began to dig dirt, too.

Holy smoke! how the soil did fly. Some of John’s mud plastered me, and some of my mud plastered John. And that water, as if trying to please both at the same time, first “gurgled” on one side of the fence and then “gurgled” on the other. It was mud and water flying here, mud and water flying there, mud and water shooting in every conceivable direction, and with John' and myself right in the center of attraction. : :

And in the end, to serve us both right, Tom Lamkin, who at divers times had been leaning over ' his fence, smoking his pipe and watching us, and saying nothing, went to work on his own land, found that same channel, cut it off, dug a ditch up over the hill and down to his own premises, put in a ram, and took nearly every drop of that blamed water right over to his own house. —N. Y. Times.

Not far from this butte is another, which stands 1,300 feet above the plain, «nd was named Tower peak. “These two gigantic stones will always be a guide to persons who have enough curiosity to penetrate the desert.in search of the state line.

Brewers Build Churches.

St. James’ Review states that a well-known brewer is building a church as a memorial of King Edward’s coronation. Dean Swift’s cathedral—St. Patrick’s, Dublin—wag restored by the late distiller, Sir Benjamin Guiness. It was a famous distiller,too, who rebuilt the Protestant cathedral of Cork, and another distiller restored Christ church, in Dublin. One of the famous brewing firms in England has erected no less than six churches at various times.

Pittsburg ships more than 12,000, 000 tons of coal annually, i

PRECIOUS PORCELAIN

Beautiful Sevres Plates That Are Worth 8750 Each—Operations of the Famous Kiln,

The administration of the famous porcelain factory at Sevres, weary of watching the prosperity of fraudulent imitators while its own business, from the commercial point of view, at all events, languished, has decided to place itself in direct relation with the public. Hitherto the purchase of modern work from the most renowned of all the European kilns has been a matter of some difficulty, with the result that -the annual ‘“turnover” has fallen to something less than 100,000 francs, says the London Standard. - The Paris exhibition of 1900, however; gave such a fillup to the trade that orders equivalent to the output of five or six ordinary years has been received, and it has at last been realized that those who have something to sell, even when it takes the form of Sevres china, should try to deal directly with the purchaser.. A retail shop is, therefore, to be opened in Paris, into which the wealthy amateur may walk and make his selection, without the trouble of a journey to headquarters. This concessian to the ways of the modern world should be assured of success. Enormous quantities of imitation Sevres, well executed, beautifully decorated and furnished with the proper marks, are sold every year at prices which are probably little, if at all, smaller than the state manufactory itself would charge for the genuine article. The collector of China speedily finds —usually by experience as painful to the feelings as it is injurious to the pocket—that to “beware of imitations” is the first lesson he has to learn. Every great style, every esteemed “mark,” has been copied by men who are such consummate artists in forgery that even the elect are often in doubt, and are sometimes actually taken in. Dresden and Sevres have both suffered grievous things at the hands of the counterfeiters, but the French national establishment has been particularly unfortunate in this respect. Its unique distinction and the enormous prices commanded by the products of its best period have made it well worth while to copy its designs, to forge its marks and to imitate its beautiful coloring. -

To reproduce exactly the exquisite tints obtained by the old plate tendre is a practical impossibility, since even the factory itself has forgotten how to do that; but the more modern and durable, if less artistic, plate dure is more readily dealth with. The amateur, collector, however, constantly finds it extremely difficult to distinguish between them, and fraud is thus simplified. Avowed copies of “soft paste” Sevres have been made in the past by English firms of the highest reputation for their own original work and without any thought of deceit, yet these efforts are to-day much more easily confounded with the genuine article than the modern French china, excellent as it is, which is deliberately intended to mislead.

The porcelain produced at Sevres is still beautiful and charmingly decorated, as well as being of high technical quality, but the secret of the

T he Future of American Commerce _ S By HON. O. P. AUSTIN,

HAT of the future? What is the promise of this magnificent country of ours, this land of plenty, where are now produced more of the requirements of life than in any other land, and which : is to become a perfect unit through this addition of tropical territory, to give us the one GSNEEE class of materials in which we have been lackP 4 4%_., ing in the past? i’:" In my mind’s eye I see a great, a wonder--’:'f-:‘é_"j‘_ NN ful development, far beyond that before which ; .’,',‘: g"_ the world now stands in amazement. e s I see Niagara and countless smaller water- , ‘;\Q’;‘/ :';fj falls furnishing electricity to be carried by wire GRS T to every city and hamlet and farm, to be used A 3 for light and heat and power, in manufacturing, @ and for transportation on rivers and canals and railways and roads. I see a great canal connecting the two oceans, and putting our eastern and western shores in close water communication and our great ports in direct touch with the markets of the whole world. : I see another ship canal connecting the great lakes with the Atlantic with ocean vessels landing at the docks of Cleveland and Chicago and Milwaukee and Duluth, and making the greatest produciag section of the whole world a great ocean frontage. I see another canal connecting the lakes with the Mississippi river, and a great sysem of light-draft steamers and barges carrying the products of that great valley to the ocean steamship upon the lakes or the Gulf of Mexico, as convenience of location may determine. I see an American cable giving us facilities for instant communication with our islands of the Pacific and the Orient, and those islands supplying us with hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of their products in exchange.

I see the islands of the Gulf of Mexico one by one knocking at our doors and coming under the American flag and furnishing us through open doors their tropical products to mingle with those of the islands of the Pacific. ;

I see a great railway line extending from Alaska at the north to Argentina at the south, connecting the railway systems of the two continents and bringing the great markets of that continent into closer relation with our own.

I see a steady growth of American influence and a developmenf of closer commercial relations with our neighbors on the north and on the south.

I see a magnificent fleet of steamships, controlled by American capital and genius, and many of them flying the American flag, penetrating every sea, carrying American goods to every continent and every clime, and sending them to the interior of every country by American engines, in American cars, and upon American rails. I see the product of the American farm and factory in every land throughout the civilized world, and with this accomplishment, increased prosperity for American producers and manufacturers, and increased happiness among all classes of American citizens, ¢

old “soft paste” which allowed of such exquisite effects of color is no longer available. To make this paste—which is a mixture of fine clay and silex and other materials, while “hard paste” is an amalgamation of china clay and felspar—is not ‘enough. It must be a pure white. The modern imitation has a grayish hue, whereas the white of «dd Sevres was dazzling. Upon the fragile semi-transparent porcelain the deliciously artificial groups and figures and landscgpes of Boucher, Watteau, Lancret and Vanloo were painted, and the perfection of the soft paste at its best, which corresponds roughly to the reign of Mme. de Pampadour, enabled these pictures to blend with the “body” in a manner which no other European porcelain has ever rivaled. It is to this circumstance and to the pure beauty of its delicate colors that Sevres owes its fame.

To look upon the bleu de roi or rose du Barri is an abiding delight, while the modern chemist has never discovered any tint more delicately translucent than Helbot’s bleu torquois. The Sevres factory traces its origin ‘back to 1740, but by 1769 its most glorious period was over, and the more utilitarian hard-plate ware took the place of the ‘delicate eggshell porcelain, with its tender blues and soft reds, its dainty figures, artificial landscapes anll classical scenes, which is now worth” a king’s ransom. The collection at Windsor has been valued at £lOO,OOO, and a single plate of the service, in 744 pieces, which was made for Catherine 11. of Russia, commands about £l5O in the auction room. The finest examples, however, never come into the market. - They are national possessions, locked up in museums and palaces, where even revolutions are powerless to touch them.

Big Increase in Cremation,

Cremation is one of the oldest forms of disposal of the dead, yet it is a form that lapsed from use for centuries. It appears to be in process of restoration. True, it has made but little head against the custom of burial, yet there is an increase every year in such proportion that we may look for a wide adoption of it within the next quarter century. There are in this country but 26 crematories, yet this is against but two 18 years ago, and the number of eremations is 2,500 or more a year. When statistics were have so ceased to be an ocecasion of comment that an impression may Itave been created which is contrary to this fact of growth, but the truth that about 14,000 - incinerations have occurred in the United States, which, added to the large number in Europe, certainly indicates an inerease.

Sure of Him There,

Patient—Why, doctor, if T take an ice-cold bath with this cold, I’ll surely get pneumonia. Dr. Killum Wright—l know: and that’s my great disease. I’ve never lost a patient yet who had pneumonia.— Indianapolis News.

Had an Eye for Business,

A Chicago dentist recently took his son, aged four, to see a new baby sister. After gazing at the new arrival in silence for a few moments the little observer said: ‘“Papa, who is going to pay you to make her a set of teeth?”

WORN-OUT BOGEY PHRASES.

Republicans Railing Upon Al Who Are in Favor of a Revision " of the Tariff,

An angry resentment of the popular demand for tariff revision is the most noticeable characteristic of republican comment thereon, making plain the truth that republican wunwillingness to act against the monopolies enjoyed by the trusts unfits that party for service to the people.

The leading organs of republicanism stigmatize as ‘tariff-smashers” all those who are in favor of a revision of the tariff. The only variant of this favorite term in which they indulge is the second-choice epithet, “businesskillers,”. which they employ hopefully is tending to deter voters from a conclusive insistence upon tariff revision. In their desperation they are preaching the doctrine that the maintenance of monopoly is necessary to the prosperity of the masses, says the St. Louis Republic. ;

The millions of Americans now bearing the tax burden of the Dingley tariff have passed that stage where they could be fooled by such tactics. They doe not see “prosperity”in the fact that they are compelled to pay higher prices for the products of the American trusts than are paid by Europeans

A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY.

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for the same products. They fail to feel “prosperous” merely because the cost of living in this country has been tremendously increased in order that the food trusts should make exorbitant profits and pay millions in dividends to a few multi-millionaire monopolists. They can only see and feel that the Dingley tariff is a mighty good thing for the trusts and a mighty bad thing for the people. ~ Nor is there any popular apprehension of American trade being injured by a revision of the tariff. American merchants and manufacturers are underselling their competitors in all the markets of the world. They are more than equal to holding their own in American markets. They can,without the slightest danger of loss, do without the ‘“proteetion” of a tariff whose duties are necessarily paid by American consumers. They are very sure that business will be healthier when a healthy competition is possible and when individual enterprise and the conduct of smaller business concerns stand some show of profit. There is no prosperity for the people in the fact that a few hundred trust magnates, out of a population of nearly 80,000,000 souls, make fortunes every year and proceed to spend the bulk of those fortunes in foreign lands. That form of ‘tariff-smashing” which would revise the Dingley tariff to the wholesome basis of a tariff for revenue only is heartily favored by American public sentiment. This sentiment is so strong, indeed. as to make tariff reform the leading issue of the day. Republican organs can no longer frighten American voters by calling them “tariff-smashers” and ‘““businesskillers.” The only business to be killed is the monopoly business, and the only tariff to be smashed is the unjust Dingley tariff that has created and maintained the monopoly business at the sore cost of the people.

——Senator Hanna’s declaration thatthere are no monopolies save those which are protected by patents invites research. Possibly he does not include the beef packing industry among mon~ opolies, and perhaps, again, the proprietors of the slaughter-houses have found some means of copyrighting the cow. Senator Hanna's expressions of opinion on this subject have been frequent and consistent and no doubt are the result of investigations which go beyond the popular interpretation of the word “trust.”—Bangor (Me.) Commercial. -

——The best way to make trusts behave themselves is to put them in'competition with the world. The best way to make them arrogant is by a protective tariff to give them »r exclusive market. Let the democratic party make its fight on this issue and it will stand on solid ground.—Richmond Times.

——The president’s notion of letting the tariff alone while pretending to fight the monopolizing trusts is as idle as it would be to treat a patient for ague and neglect his fever.—N. Y. World. .

ARQUSING OF THE EFEOFLE.

Tarif Reform Is Being Demanded Even by Members of the Protection Party,

- Whatever may be the outcome of the present tariff agitation such resolutions as were adopted in the Idaho republican state convention show conclusively what the rank and file of the people are thinking. Without serious opposition the convention declared:

“That many of the incdustries of this country have outgrown their infancy and the American manufacturer has entered the market of the world and ig successfuliy competing with the manufacturers of all other’countries. * We thereforz favor a revision of the tariff without unreasonable delay which will place upon the free list every article and product controlled by any monopoly and such other articles and products as are beyond the need of protection.”

This is a stronger declaration than the one in the Towa platform because it was written later. It is an exceptionally clear and straightforward expression of the real feelings of the people of the west, says the Des Moines Reporter and Leader (rep.).

Such resolutions as these are to be commended not only for their fearless frankness, but also because they indicate a popular fnterest in the public policies of the nation. It is right and proper that the people should in this connection exert an influence on party

policies. This is a government of popular will, and there is no way for the men who represent the will of the people to know what it is excepting asitis stated in some concrete form by their constituents. Congressmen who attend these conventions, and who witness the enthusiasm with which these declarations are received, return to Washington with a better acquaintance with public sentiment and are in better position to act intelligently in behalf of their constituencies. It will not do to minimize the fact that in states like lowa and Minnesota and Idaho, which have recently spoken, the people propcse to get at the trust evil in some effective manner, and that they propose to have such tariff schedules as are sheltering these trust combines removed. Those who witnessed the reception which this plank received at the hands of the lowa convention had no doubt of the feelings of the delegates who adopted it. It wasreceived with a greater demonstration of enthusiasm than any plank in the platform. After all the discussion that this lowa plank has occasioned, Idaho republicans with deliberation adopted it in more clear cu& and aggresive terms. The trend is unmistakable.

It is to be hoped that in every convention still to be held that the people will take a fearless hand in debating these great matters. The power lies with them, and their’s is the right.

POLITICAL DRIFT.

——lf we wait for an amendment to the constitution before we begin to control the trusts the. trusts have nothing to fear.—lndianapolis News (Ind.).

——So the movement for freer trade spreads. We rejoice that it is so. If we can only have, at present, a democratic party capable of dealing with this great question, we may hope that the republican party as a whole will model itself after the pattern offered by the republicans ef lowa and Idaho. —lndianapolis News (Ind.). ——The exact position of republicans is that an unjust tariff is crying out for urgent revision. That they are the only ones who can do the work, and that they will do it just one day after never. This is the true tariff faith, which if any republican do not profess he shall without doubt everlastingly fail of getting a campaign fund.—N. Y. Post. :

——lln any other relation than that of politics the claim of the party in power which is responsible for the existence and maintenance of monopolies that it intends to destroy them would be received with open contempt by all enlightened citizens.—St. Paul Globe.

——When there was talk of Hanna being a candidate for the first place Foraker didn’t attempt to keep his face straight. If Hanna can unload his colleague in second place on the presidential ticket he will have full revenge and it looks as if he is playing for that.—Atlanta Constitution,

ALLOVER THE STATE,

Events in Various Portions of Ine : diana Told by Wire.

Heart Was Broken,

Hartford City, Ind., Aug. 28.—Jacob Weisman died at the county infirmary at the age of 81 years.of a broken heart. At one time he was one of the prominent citizens of the county. By thrift, hard work and economy he became the owner of a fine farm. Becoming too old to work he deeded the farm to his son with all the property he had. The son agreed to keep the old man the remainder of his life. The son died. The farm was sold, and the aged and helpless father was compelled to go to the county poor farm.

New Electric Line,

Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 28.—Articles of incorporation of the Fort Wayne, Logansport & Lafayette Traction company have been filed with the secretary of state. The capital stock is $1.000,000, ,to be divided into 10,000 shares at the par value of $lOO each. The object of the incorporation is to construet and operate street and interurban railways between the cities of Fort Wayne, Huntington, Wabash, Peru, Logansport, Delphi and Lafayette, the towns of Roanoke, Andrews and Largo and the vittages.along the route.

Right to Celebrate,

Muncie, Ind., Aug. 28.—Police Judge Moreland refused to fine George Swain, a young soldier who was found in the streets badly intoxicated. *“I was drunk,” Swain remarked, “but if a man would not get drunk on getting home, after living and fighting for vears in the Philippine jungles; then he is more than human; that’s all.” This so impressed the court that on the young soldier’s showing an honorable discharge, he was dismissed.

A Medical Wonder,

Evansville, Ind., Aug. 28.—A rare disease known as ‘rickets,” has caused the death of the four-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rudolph. The child never gained a pound in weight after its birth, and at the time of its death was as much of a tiny infant as the day it was born. The disease affeeted not only the'bones, but the en-

tire body as well. During most of the four years of its life the child seemed to be in pretty good health. ;

Fifty-Year Gramnt

Wabash, Ind., Aug.2B.—The Wabash city council has granted the TFort Wayne & Southwestern Traction company a 50-year franchise covering Wabash, Water and Market streets in this city. The company has beenheldupat the outskirts of the city with its cars for the last month awaiting the council’s action. The ordinance provides for five-cent fares in the eity, with transfers good to all the connecting hpesg.=

Sent His Picture,

Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 28.—The express has brought.to Gov. Durbin a framed photograph of Prince Henry. The souvenir of the prince’s recent visit to Indiana came through the German consul at Cincinnati. The photo graph is inclosed in a cream-colored frame with gold trimming. At the top is the letter “H” in gold, and under the picture the prince has written **Henry, Prince of Prussia.” .

After a Druggist,

Newecastle, Ind., Aug. 28.—Isaac T. Faulkner, the druggist at Kennard, and his son have been indicted for illegal selling of liquor and for selling to minors. Some time ago Faulkner was arrested for selling an alleged stomach “bitters,” alleged to contain mostly whisky, but a jury discharged Faulkner.

To Regulate Fares.

" Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 28.—The legislature, next winter, will probably be asked to enact a law fixing a maximum passenger rate of one and one-half cents a mile for interurban lines. Tt is pointed out that the state can do this, as it established a maximum fare of three cents a mile for steam roads.

Fights a Railroad

Columbus, Ind., Aug. 28.—A bitter contention is on between the residents of Waileboro and the Pennsylvania railroad authorities, over the burning of fence lasf'Saturday on the right-of-way of the company. Thisis the fourth time the fence has been destroyed, and the company is now rebuilding it.

Died of Injuries.

Noblesville, Ind., Aug. 28.—Guy Clark, aged 21, died at his home near Jolietyille from the effects of injuries received in the June storm at Wilkinson, - Hancock county. He was hit by flying timbers, and for several weeks after the storm it was thought that his injuries were not serious.

Gored by a Bull,

Dillsboro, Ind., Aug. 28.—While milking cows in his father’s barnyard, Fred Baas, the 18-year-old son of Peter Baas, of Ripley county, was attacked by a savage bull. The animal erushed the boy to the earth, gored him frightfully and then tossed him high in the air. His condition is eritical. :

Charged with Counterfeiting.

Vincennes, Ind., Aug. 28.—Henry S. Holman, of this city, has been arrested charged with passing counterfeit money. Holman is married and hasa family.

Caused Darkness,

Kokomo, Ind., Aug. 28.—At 8:30 o’clock at night some miscreant closed the gates to. the natural gas mains leading to the power house of the street railway and light company. For two hours the city was in darkness, as the cause of the stoppage of the gas supply could not be found. Street car traffic was also stopped. .

VARIOUS LITTLE MATTERS.

The 11,000,000 inhabitants of Siam use only American flour. Tooth brushes have been described as a luxury by a member of the German tariff commission.

In a memoir presented to the Russian Academy of Medicine, Dr. Filotoff, of Moscow, declared that a preparation of the leaves and stems of common heliotrope, macerated in brandy, can be economically substituted for quinine, having all its advantages without any of its inconveniences,

THE GRANITE STATE. !

New Hampshire Accords a Very Enthusiastic Welcome to President Roosevelt,

Newbury, N. H., Aug. 29.—President Roosevelt Thursday night was the guest of Secretary of State Hay, whose summer home is situated a few miles from here along the shores of Lake Sunapee. The secretary and his daughters met the President upon his arrival and joined with the assemblage in extending him a hearty welcome. The president delivered a brief address to the townspeople, in which he thanked them for their greeting. He then entered Secretary Hay’s launch and steamed to The Fells. -

New Hampshire's arms were open in readiness to receive the president. Long before he was awake a committee representing the governor boarded the train. The welcome they extended to him on behalf of the state was magnified later in the day in the smaller towns through which the train passed and, at Nashua, Manchester, The Weirs and €oncord. although the day was replete with the miscarriage of arrangements. At The Weirs, where the Grand Army reunion was held, the people, in the excess of their desire to accord the president a fitting reception, came near causing a crush which might have resulted disastrously. .Asit was the president was for a time in the midst of a howling, surging mass, and was all but carried off his feet. Soinadequate were the police arrangements that the erowd had entire control of the situation and much relief was expressed when the president, after reviewing the veterans, was escorted into the hotel for luncheon. Here again the carefully laid plans for his entertainment went astray, luncheon being finally served through the gallantry of the governor's staff, who turned in and acted as waiters. The president’s speech at the park, where the veterans were gathered, was most favorably received. As in the case of Bangor, he admonished his hearers to remain still and not to shove. In tis addresses on Thursday the president explained his attitude toward itrusts, and defended the work of the American army in the Philippines. STILL WITH ITS MOTHER. Mrs. Keller, of Keokuk, Retains Possession of Her Now Cele-

brated Baby,

Keokuk, la., Aug. 29.—A policeman! accideatally found the now celebrated Keller baby Thursday morning in the southern part of the city. He was serving a subpoena in another case when the excitement in the neighborhood convinced him that he was near the hiding place where the mother, Mrs. Vina Keller, had concealed the baby. The people ~were much cxcited for awhile, as they all favor the mother. They thought that Secretary Park, of the Associated Charities, had obtained a habeas cerpus writ to get the sick baby from the custody of the mother, who is acting as a special constable. It developed that when the mother was made & special constable and given charge of her infant, 11 months old, under arrest for vagranecy, in order to give her possession despite the operation of the new sociological law, she took it to her sister’s house. This is som?2 distance from her own home, and the baby was carefully guarded. The mother’s brother hadinstructions from lLer attorney to use necessary force to prevent anybody taking the baby, unless with court warrant. After finding the baby the attorney for Secretary Park advised him not to use the authority given him by the construction of the law to take the baby irom the mother, who was found by the trial couri competent. Nothing was done in the matter in the courts Thursday. Excitement here over the discovery of the effect of the new law that babies may be kept from acquitted mothers pending long delayed appeals to-the supreme court has given way to more sober but intense and nearly unanimous indignation at the law passed by the last legislature.

DISASTER AT SEA.

Collision Between Steamers in Strailts of Malacca — Twenty-One

Lives Lost,

Victoria, B. C., Aug. 29.—A Singapore telegram says: A collision occurred in the straits of Malacca between the Dutch mail steamer Prinz Alexander and the British steamer Ban Hin Guin. The Prinz Alexander sank and the first

officer and the first engineer and 19 passengers and crew were drowned. Twenty passengers, including the captain, were saved by the Ban Hin Guin.

To Distribute Indemnity Fund.

Washington, Aug. 29.—The state department has decided to begin at once the distribution of the first installment of the Chinese indemnity funds, amounting to $480,000, among the missionary societies and individuals who suffered from the Boxer uprising. It is expected that the total of the claims allowed will amount to about $2,500,000. =

Monument DPedicated.

Janseville, Wis., Aug. 29.—Citizens of Janesville and Rock county dedicated the soldiers’ and sailors’ monument for which the county board of supervisors appropriated $lO,OOO. The principal address was made by Bishop Fallows. Music and other addresses were by local talent.

Extinguishing Forest Fires.

Washington, Aug. 29.—Advices received by the general land office indicate that the work of extinguishing the forest fires which have been raging on the public lands in Wyoming is progressing satisfactorily.

Opposition te President Palma.

Havana, Aug. 29.—The Cuban press is hostile to President Palma, declaring tha? he has carried his independence so' far now he has the support of neither party. The members of the house demand his impeachment for granting Havana electric light franchise. -

Due to an Incendiary. York, Pa., Aug. 29.—Fire, supposed to be <f incendiary origin, started in the rear portion of the Palace of Amusement building, spread to several adjoining buildings and destroyed property valued at $60,000. 5 5 A ¥