Ligonier Banner., Volume 38, Number 21, Ligonier, Noble County, 20 August 1903 — Page 2

A LOST BOY. The old Noah's ark is stored away, And beside it 1s a dusty drum; The soldiers have fought in gheir last affray And are battered, crestfa%en and glum. The brown-eyed doggy is roaming foriorn In that self-same storage place, With pitiful pleading and eyes that mourn For his little master's face. The domino train is switched aside, " The whistling top is still, And tlie old planchette where the checkers ride : - Has lost its wheels and its skill. The_'lfootbalx is idie, the skates careless ie, - : Beside them the littie oak sleigh; Tke small laddies he knew wander dismally by . i ;. : : In a shivery, half-hearted way. Do you know where this storehouse of playthings lies hid? - Why the playmates are silent and wan? Why the dog wanders restiess, these treasures amid? : Where the dear littlé master has gone? Oh, it makes my heart ache and the bitter tears fall, & ! = And with loneliness filis life’s fair cup; For the teoyvs are but stored in fond memory's hall, And their owner is oniy—grown up. —Frank H, Sweet, in Farm Journal.

S e e eea e e T £ : Miss Hutto : Miss Huiton 3 oy { MAUDR. MAYNE - . > : :+++*M+*HHHHHWH+ ATHIE was patting Anita’s plump K hand reassaringly, as Miss Hutten hurried by them in the hall. “She’s just a spiteful old maid, and I wouldn't mind a minute!” the indignant, girlish voice rang out. Then two doors banged violently, and Miss Hutton stood within her own apartment, a scowl upon her forshead to flatly contradict the dry smile that moved her lips. o She said not a_wor'd._but going to her desk, removed a huge pile of papers and sat down determinedly to mark them. For half an hour her pencil checked tirelessly, - scratching Gown .its final judgment with relentless vigor; then it stopped suddenly, and the examination papers dropped in a heap to the floor. “I believe those art students downstairs absolutely hate me!” she said. “I'm sure Katherine looked it as I passed her just now. If I've a friend in this house I don't know it—or anywhere else, for that matter. Just let a woman grow old and ugly and halfsick; and friends fly faster than trash in a March gale!” She was looking out, as she spoke, at the little whirling eddies of dust. the gate that creaked on its rusty hinges, the swinging .and swaying of the bare brown trees. ‘lt -makes me cross as two sticks when the wind bangs things about like this!” she exclaimed.” And cross enough was her “Come in,” when a knock upon her door gave her a sudden start.

. It was a determined young face that looked in upon her then. with brown eves steady, though the round chin quivered. : ) o ‘ . “Miss Hutton,” said Katherine, “I’ve come to apologize for my rude speech in the hall. I'm very much ashamed of myself for letting my temper go like that.” . _ : “*Well, you ounght to be!” said Miss Hutton, severely. _ Katherine’'s eyes flashed. “And so ought-vou!” she retorted. “I was rude in the hall, but you were more rude at the {able: and yon hurt Anita's feelings dreadfully. You ought to: Iknow how sensitive she is about her nose!” “Who said anything about her nose?’ demanded Miss Hutton. . “Who else has a broken one?” blazed the girl. “For shame to comment upon another’'s misfortune! Anita’s not to blame because her nose was broken. And I'll tell you what T think,. Miss Hutton. I think your disposition needs making over a deal worse than Anita'’s nose!” “And I think you've forgotten your penitence and turned—" = “Turned fury! Yes, I have, and now that you've paved the way I'll tell you what I think of you and relieve my mind. I think you are the most selfish, snappish, disagreeable woman I ever knew. 1 don’t believe you ever said a kind thing in your life. If there’s an ugly trait in anybody you’ll discover and develop it! You can make me so furious in five minutes that I feel like a perfect savage! I hate you! *And everybody hates you! And I cen’t imagine what people like you were born for!” Kathie was storming downstairs in a passion of tears, when a goodnatured little old gentleman, removing his coat in the lower hall, came bustling up with a “Bless me, Miss Kathie, what’s it all about?” :

“Oh, Mr. Shepard!” wailed the girl. “I've gone and done it now! Tl've said every impudent thing I could to Miss Hutton and made her mad as a wet hen, and myself still madder.” ““Tut-tut, Miss Kathie. I mnever knew you vexed in my life. 1 would call you a thorough little lady. That is what Mrs. Shepard has always called you.” . . ;

“I—l used to be,” sobbed the girl, and she laughed hysterically as she went on: “Did you hear her tell Mrs. Barnes that her dear little Johnnie was so fat hé was deformed? And she called our good Mr. LLamb a canting hyprocrite, and only to-day at lunch made a malicious speech about the Lord breaking some folks’ noses instead of their high spirits, because

INTELLIGENCE OF PLANTS. They Are Endoswed with Sort of Sense by Which Their Movements Are Guided. Z Prof. Shaler, of Harvard university, is of the opinion that plants are possessed of intelligence that serves the surpose of self-protection and selfgratification to a very considerable degree. Recently after discussing the automata observed in growing things he said: - “We may accept the statement that our higher intelligence is but the illuminated summit of man’s nature astrue, and extend it by the observation that intelligence is normally unconscious, and appears as conscious only after infaney, in our waking hours, and not always the;xy.‘"f‘ In summing up the professor uses .the following sentences: “Lgoking tﬁ"ward the organic world in

Anita happened to laugh in her pres-\‘ ence. I tell you I'd rather have smallpox in the house than tha: sour old gooseberry! " . Mr. Shepard shook his head, shocked and a ‘trifle bewildered. “My dear lady!” he cried. “Not smallpox! Not a gooseberry! I wouldn’t say that!” “I said worse things'than that right to her face! I went.dn to apologize to her, and what an apology I made of it! I'm deadly ashamed! I'll never be able to look myself in the face again. And oh, I'll have to write and tell mamma—my little lady mother!” ‘“Can’t you smooth it over somehow with—with the enemy?”’ I shouldn’t dare try again. I'll go to my room and think.” Anid while Kathie sat contritely thinking; Miss' Hutton was thinking too, her heart stirred as it had not been in years. : “And I can’t imagine what people like you were born for!” . Something in that last hot speech of Kathie’s had caused her to ‘take from her worn trunk the old-fashioned album that held a small picture marked “Susie at five.” : She looked at it long, the little sunny, smiling face, the round, brizht eyves, the dimpled chin. - Nobody -wondered what she was born for in those days, she fancied, when “Susie” was five—or even 10 or 15. Ske remembered the dear, grizzly old gentleman who called her “}.Afox:gling-glory,” and how the home name “Sunshine” had clung to her for years and years. When had she lost it? When had she changed from the “Sunshine” of younger days to the “selfish, snappish, disagreeable woman' of now? : “Susie at five” seemed to look Miss Susan Hutton through and through until every corner of her hardened heart was a-quiver.with remorse and shame., L :

+ “I would never have expected to be like this,” she said, with a sudden choke, shutting her eyes tightly upon the slow tears that were filling them. “I used to imagine myself growing into a sweet patient old lady, given to dainty gowns and caps and. the planning of surprises for the younesters. A soured, dyspeptic schoolmarm would have been my last idea of myself. 1 can see it now, though it has all been so gradual—how in my efforts to care for my own health I have lost all consideration for the world outside, and simply grown more and more selfabsorbed, nervous and ugly tempered.” .

Outside, the March gale rattled the shutters and creaked the gate, but still Miss Hutton sat thinking, thinking. That night at dinner she passed Kathie the rolls and smiled as she said: “There’s a corner one, Miss Kathie, brown and crusty. I know your preference, you see,” and Katherine was so amazed that she almost dropped the bread plate. : “She- has always taken the corner rolls herself,” said Anita, in commenting upon the matter next day.

“Anita Baxtei", don’t say 2 werd!” said Katherine, solemnly. “It makes me want to talk in whispers. After all the dreadful things I said to her! And do you know she’s at home taking care of Johnnie Barnes this minute, wkile his motiher goes to chiurch. And she-was cooing over him as if she'd taken care of babies 'all her life. He must be a forgiving little. chap or he’d howl in her face, remembering all the unflattering remarks she’s made about him.” The week long Miss Hutton: zentle, quiet, was an object of mystified wonder to her fellow boarders; -and when on Saturday night, she invited them all to her z“oém, ‘incredulity could stretch no farthern. -

- “I'm scared of my life,” said Anita, “though there ought to be safety in numbers.”

“Don’t be funny,” said Katherine. “For my part, whenever I think of her I feel like going down on all fours.’”

But for all that she looked with pleased eyes about Miss Hutton's cozy rooms that bore such a holiday air. It was a cool spring night, and the dancing fire in the little grate threw a rosy light upon the fresh white curtains, the little open piano and the bowls of early crocuses and jonquils that were scattered about. Through the dcorway one caught glimpses of a dainty tea table appetizingly suggestive to hungry schoolgirls. " When everybody had arrived, even to bustling Mr. Shepard and the dimpled Barnes baby, Miss Hutton, her face gone suddenly white, walked to ‘the fireplace, and turned to them with something in her manner that hushed all other veices in the room.

“Miss Pasini is coming to sing for us presently,” she said, “and I hope you will enjoy it, but before she comes there is something I must say if you will kindly hear me. A week ago something happened which set me thinking—which made me realize what a miserable sort of person—what a failyra— I have been. I want to apologize al! ‘round. I really want to be different. I want friends—" :

And there the voice, first so cervously hurried, thenso faltering, broke off with a choke, and it was impulsive Kathie who took a quick step to the older woman and placed her warm arm aroung her. “We understand you, Miss Hutton, indeed we do. You're a real heroine, and we are glad to be your friends.”

And then everybody talked very hard and fast, the baby crowed and laughed, Miss Pasini came and sang like a lark, and Anita slipped over and whispered into Miss Hutton’s ear: “You may say anything you like about my ridiculous nose. I'llloveyouanyway!”—Farm and Home. :

the manner above suggested, seeing that an unprejudiced view of life affords no warrant for the notion that automata anywhere exist, tracing as we may down to the lowest grade of the animal series what is fair evidence of actions which we have to believe to be guided by some form of intelligance, seeing that there is reason to conclude that plants are derived from the same primitive stock ag animals, we are in no condition to say that intelligence cannot exist amng them. In fact, all that we can discern supports the view that throughout the organic realm the intelligence that finds its fullest expression in man is everywhere at work.” = : ; The Union Forever. : Lady—But you promised to cut some wood. : Weary—Ma’am, I told you I wus a union man, an’ I jest noticed dat dat ax wus made by a factory wot employs nonunion labor.—Chicago American.

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HE approachingseason prom- - ises t ‘e as £ its N, Ises to have as one o ,’:; % marked features ihe manv\&\ | nish gown. Not only is the =g cut to severe and tailory B rather than dressmakery, but -the fabrics themselves are to be very Ilike "these worn by men. Checks, printed-yarn effects, heavy-looking material splashed with a color contrasting with the foundaton tore, all these are borrowed from the garb affected by the sterner sex. And the straight lines that will be in vogue in preference to the curving ones of ‘past years will add emphasis to the general air of mannishness. The fall costumes will look businesslike, utilitarian, and perhaps suggest to inrocent man, because of their severe simplicity, that they really are simple and inexpensive. Not necessarily so. Authorities declare the present year is to be a silk year, that all gowns are to be provided with a drop-skirt of silk, that everyone must have waists of silk, petticoats of silk, linings of silk. And the one item of lining will therefore add very considerably to the expense of these neat, simple-appearing gowns. But to offset the luxury of the free use of silk, we are to have thi§ winter the economy of the short gown; even elaborate afternoon gowns aﬁ»*) be without the superfluous train; those of the best style will be of the samej length -all around, merely touching the floor. In mak}i’ng an old shirt shorter, to get the close fit about the hips and sufficient fulness at the bottom is not an easy matter? As a rule it is advisable to rip up the skirt entirely, and cut it over from a new pattern. .In the autumn, rich autumnal shades always are in vogue, but this year the grape tones, the blue-reds, are to be especially prominent. In themselves they are beautiful shades, but often are very trying when worn next the face ‘and should not be chosen unless of de-

Fall Hats a.nd Waists.

gemsmgy. OTH silk and cotton waists ;LS,() are now being shown in the %‘r shops, both designed for fall !Q;A wear. And unquestionably = o= throughout the winter cotton o = waists will form an important part of the wardrobe. Such heavy, beautiful cottons the .dealers have furnished us the last two years, it is no

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wonder silk for a time had to give way. Whilst white still reigns, we notice colors are showing here and there; the blues, delft and pale blue, and in linens the soft, deep reds, holﬁii'ng»their own after the fashion arbiters’ decree of white wrists only. ! The very long shoulder effect must be observed in the waist, either by means of a deep yoke, long, wide shoulder straps, or a collar that shall come well over the seam of the sleeve. And speaking of sleeves, it is difficult to declare positively what is to be the right thing. That they are to be full at the lower part is certain, but whether or not more fulness will be required above the elbow remains to be seen. Present indications point to little increase of fulness at the top. - ’

Trimmings Tor waists will be varied. Large,-unique buttons are effective, especially on dark material, and on rich, dark stuffs black fagoting over white lining also is very effective. Bias and up-and-down tucks of self-material are used on the fall waists, and this ornamentation has the double merit of cheapness and style. Stocks are almost invariably the same material as the waist, and trimmed to correspond with the blouse. Long, stole-like stocks, extending clear to the belt, will probably obtain this winter. The question of gleeves is the most puzzling point in autumn modes and no one seems tq know definitely what we may expect. For some time past there has been a movement toward pushing the fullness up the arm, and many of the

o As She’'d Have Them Do. He—Whatever else may be said of Miss Passay, she certainly is good and charitable. i . She—Yes? - He—Yes; her motto seems to be “to Go unto all men as you would havethem do unto you.” She—Oh, come now! She doesn’t really kiss them, does she?—Philadelphia Press ;

cided becomingness. Dahlia red and fuschia can be safely affected by the pure blonde or clear-skinned brunette, but the neutral toned .or florid should religiously avoid them. Though the prophesies are for fuller skirts, street skirts will not immediately show flamboyancy other than at the bottom. Tucks and plaits prevail, as last year, and the close fit over the hips is still the mode. Street skirts are quite short enough to display the stout boots, and are walking skirts in fact as well as name. . Coats are long and yet longer, the three-quarter length being much preferred to the short jacket that has had the lead for so many years. Some of the coats are princess in form, many are skirted. The belt giving the French curve is seen on a'nost all, and is a touch that adds very considerably to the modernness of the garment. ‘While most skirts of the present day .are unlined, the silk drop-skirt s thought by many an absolute necessity. From time to time we hear that taffeta has had its day, but this silk is in demand more and more; not the old stiff, rustling sort that loudly advertised itself, but a softer, more pliable kind. The newest styles in lining silk are the changeable and fancy varieties, checks and small designs being popular. - Though it makes one warm just to see them, all the big shops now are displayink their furs. It is scarcely safe to affirm thus early what finally will be the choice of the best-dresSed in the matter of shapes for these fur accessories, but one can at least give hints. It is rumored that the sloping shoulder of the persistent 1830 modes will. dominate, and that the fur boa and collarette, to which we have been used for some time, may be extended into the quaint, old-fashioned pelerine. Brocades, which have been banished for so leng, are striving to get back again, and if they do we shall indeed see a jumble of periods. - :

summer frocks have shown considerable fullness at the shoulder and suggestions of the oldtime gigot shape. i The pelerine yoke appears upon many frocks intended for early autumn wear and is merely a close-fitting yoke coming down almost to the armpits and extending over the sleeve top and giving an exaggeratedly long shoulder line. Plaited boleros or bodices are mounted on these yokes, which may be straight or curving in line. : The yoke is seen, too, upon some of the smartest of the new shirt waists and separate blouses; but here it does not, as a rule, take the extreme pelerine form and is more like the oldtime shirt waist yoke, only with some device to lengthen the shoulder line slightly. Black-and-white continues with us, and the combination is used with very good effect in the turbans that promise to be a noticeable part of fall. millinery. These turbans are round, ¢f medium height, and very simply trimmed, consorting well with the tailor costumes described above. Made of white felt splashed with black velvet, or of black and white chenille, they are suitable caither for morning or afternoon wear. For evening, they are a little severe. Plumes and quills, used so much during the summer, remain in fashion, the white plume on the black hat is still in good style, and a single black ‘quill on either a light or dark hat. The pompon quill is not so stiff-looking, more becoming, than the quill common during the summer. - !

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‘ Tommy Knew. “Now, children,” said the teacher of the kindergarten class, trying to bring to the attention of the scholars the active flea, “what is it that goes quickly from place to place?” -“T know,” quickly said Tommy. ' “Well, Tommy, what is it that goes quickly from place to place?” _“A cook, ma'am!”—Yonkers Stateésman. :

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GIRL CARRIED OFF BY NEGROES. They Narrowly Escaped Lynching By a Mob at Indianapolis. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 10.—The bold attempt of two Negroes to abduct 12-year-old - Ethel Denker Sunday night might have resulted in a double lynching if they had not eluded an angry mob of several hundred citizens. The girl was sitting on the porch of her home, at 457 Holton place, when the two Negroes approached. Before she had time to make an outery they seized her and started down the street

on a run. They were seen, however, and an alarm was given. Her captors held on for nearly two blocks, when they let go and sought safety in flight. Cries of “Lynch the Negroes!” soon filled the streets, and the number of pursuers increased. as- if by magic. The Negroes had a good lead and finally succeeded in making their escape. :

The attempted abduction occurred a short distance from where baby Teddy Kendall so mysteriously disappeared Friday afternoon, and it is now thought he may have been taken by some of the Negroes who live in the vicinity. CEMETERY CAPTURED BY A MAN. He Flashed a Winchester and Drove Masonic Guard Away. Kokomo, Ind., Aug. 11.—“ Pete” Hostetter, who has figured in many escapades in Indiana during the past six years, has just appeared in a new role, that of the complete capture of a graveyard. Since the death of Senator Charles A. Dchaven the masons of this city have kept a guard over the grave of the dead senator. Sunday night at 1 o'clcck while two of the brethren were standing guard a man entered Crown Point cemetery. As he approached the grave two muskets were drawn and the man was commanded to halt. It proved to be Pete Hosteter. In an instant the man who figured conspicuously in the Osgood quintuple hanging, they say, flashed an ugly gun and commanded the guards to “git.” When they discovered that Hostetter was at the other end of the gun they fled and scaled the fence, leaving him in full possession of Crown Point cemetery, where 4,500 bodies are buried. :

SURRENDERED ITS CHARTER. A Claim of $1,700 Was Not. Paid By : the Supreme Lodge. Evansville, Ind., Aug. 12.—The supreme lodge of American Blowmen, having refused to pay the claim of $l,700 on tne life of William F. Schmidt, a member, who died on June 2 last, Vanderburgh Council No. 164 surrendered its charter, and is now a thing of the past. The supreme lodge refused to pay the Schmidt death claim on the ground that deceased was insane at the time he joined the order and that his mental condition was due to the excessive use of cigarettes. Wife and Home Gone. Anderson, Ind., Aug. 10.—After being mysteriously missing for several weeks Virgil Harp, a well-known saloon and restaurant man, turned up suddenly here Sunday night and learned that his wife had not only. sued for a divorce and secured a restraining order against him, but had also seizﬂed their place of business, in which she held an interest, settled the accounts, sold the place to Sherman Bates, of this city, and is ready to move away. Contract Marriage. Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 12.—Before the annual harvest home camp meeting came to a close Tuesday the general superintendent, Rev. Thos. Nelson, of Indianapolis, performed a contract marriage for a couple who had been denied license by the county clerk, the bride not having been a resident of the state the 60 days required by law. The bride and groom were Rey. Moses Josart, of Sheridan, Minn.,, and Miss Lizzie Frazier, of West Baden, Ind. .

Pu¢ Chloroform in Baby’s Milk. . Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 11.—Because she was accused of stealing a diamond pin and a silver buckle Jeannette Childs, 17, colored servant in the household of Mrs. Priscilla Brown, tried to murder the infant child of B. G. Hiltz by pouring an ounce of chloroform into the milk with which it was fed. The odor of the drug was detected in time. Demands Her Resignation. Elkhart, Ind., Aug. 12.—The majority of the Carnegie library board Tuesday voted to ask Mrs. Elizabeth Griffith, of Huntington, to resign as librarian, and she expressed a determination to comply, though friends are urging her to withhold action while pressure has been brought on board mem‘bers. to reconsider. : Thinks It Is Kirby. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 11.—Capt. Gerber, of the local detective bureau, believes he has identified a prisoner at the Indiana reformatory as George P. Kirby, who is wanted in St. Paul, Minn., for the murder of Policeman Charles Mayer, in February, 1902.

Adventists’ Convention Closes. Peru, Ind., Aug. 11.—The state conference of Indiana Adventists closed here Sunday night after being in session for ten days. During the meetings 33 were converted and were baptized in the Wabash river. : Probably Murdered. Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 12.—The evidence now. indicates that the body of the man found in the Wabash river below the city was that of an old soldier named Davis, who got a pension check cashed last week and was last seen with an umbrella mender named McCarthy. : " Picture Agent Missing. Anderson, Ind., | Aug. 12—J. H. Stark, a picture agent, was reported missing Tuesday night. His relatives fear he met with foul play, He carried considerable money.

AN INDIANA PUGILIST. He Captured a Farmer’s Wife’s Assailant While Flesing. Valparaiso, Ind.,, Aug. 10.—While Mrs. U. S. Biggs, 30 vears of age, the wife of a farmer near here, was alone at her home with two small children, a Negro, who afterward gave his name to the authorities as John Wilson, asked her for matches to go to a field to roast some corn, Later hée returned and grabbed her in an attempt to assault her. Mrs. Biggs is now in a very critical condition.

- When the news spread relatives and farmers foraiod a posse and started in rursuit of the Negro. At Winslow Station the telephone was used to notify officers in surrounding towns. The Negro escaped on a freight train to Wanatah, ten miles west of Valparaiso.. There he met Deputy Sheriff Mattheys and Billy Wilson, a local pugilist. He drew. a long knife anc threatened to Kkill them. A stone thrown by the pugilist felled him to the ground. Matthews and Wilson then brought the Negro to the county jail here. At the jail Wilson was surIy and the officers believe lhe is feigning insanity.

A LYNCHING IS THREATENED. . Two Girls Were Attacked By a Negro 5 Near Geneva. ‘ Geneva, Ind., Aug. 10.—Arthur Williams, aged 35 years, was caught, it is allezed, while attempting to criminally assault Flossie Barr, aged 14 years, and Vera Wilson, aged 13 years, in a woods at the edge of this city Sunday morning. The girls’ cries summoned aid in time to prevent the dastardly deed. Williams was caught after a hot chase by an enraged mob, and quick work of the police prevented a lynching. Williams was lodged in the city jail.. An extra guard was on duty Sunday night to prevent lynching. The streets were thronged with excited people and violence is feared. LIGHTNING ROD MAN. An Old Swindle Perpetrated on a Muncie Brewer. Muncie, Ind., Aug. 12.—The lightning rod swindler is still alive. He appeared in Muncie and found a victim in Col. John Birkenstock., brewmaster of the new Muncie brewery. He induced the colonel to allow him to wire his house, saying that the cost would be comparatively nothing. His vietim unsuspectingly signed a supposed contract, payable in six months. Tuesday the swindler returned with a demand for $225 and showed Birkenstock his own signature to a contract for that amount. The job was really worth $25. The contract is legally signed. IN HER DEATH AGONY. The Woman Almost Squeezed the Life Out of the Baby. ; Frankfort, Ind., Aug. 11.—Mrs. Henry Lewis, the wife of a wealthy farmer, was found dead in bed Sunday night' by her husband. The husband and a daughter returned at 10 o’clock and could get no response from Mrs. Lewis. Mr. Lewis broke in the. door and found their 6-months-old baby almost suffocated in the arms of its mother, she having squeezed it to her breast in the death agony.

Pearl Hunting in Ind’ivana. Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 12.—The pearl hunting industry is again coming to. the front on the Wabash river. Fleets of pearl boats, by which mussel shells are obtained. from the river, are

stationed here, at Vincennes and Mt. Carmel. The motaer-of-pearl shells are used for manufacturing buttons, a large factory having been established at Vincennes. : ? Failed to Catch Him. . Greencastle, Ind., Aug. 10.—Sheriff Cooper, of Putnam county, started out Sunday to arrest ‘“Dode” Carrington, wanted in Danville, 111., on the charge of murdering his sister-in-law, Mrs. George: Carrington, at Grape Creek, lil. Carrington’s uncle, Jesse Albright, lives near here. Cooped failed to find the man, ) Body Found in a Cistern. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 11.—The body of Ted Kendall, 215 years old, whose disappearance Friday aroused the whole city, was found Monday morning in a cistern a few doors from home. Rewards for his reccvery aggregated $l,lOO. He disappeared from a group of children about two organ grinders.

War on Promiscuous Seining. -Rushville, Ind., Aug. 10.—State Fish Commissioner Sweeney has declared war on promiscuous seining in the rivers c¢f Rush county by camping parties, which it is said has been carried on to a great extent. Dr. Noye’s Successor. Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 11.—Dr. John Wiite has been selected as successor to Dr. Noyes‘at the head of the department of chemistry at Rose Polytechnic institute, Dr. Noyes going to the new department of commerce at Washington, Two Drowned While Bathing. - Waterloo, Ind., Aug. Ill.—Anthony Pfefferhorn and Milo Betz were drowned in Ball's Lake while bathing. A third man named Heckathorn narrowly escaped death while trying to rescue his companions. ' Will Build Stations. Anderson, Ind., Aug. 10.—The Indiana Union Traction Co. announced the awarding. of a co!?tract to the Brannan Co., of Alexandria, for 50 station buildings to be placed along the traction lines.through the gas belt. They will be lighted and heated by electricity. : Farmer Killed in a Runaway. Lebanon, Ind., Aug. 10.—Harvey MecCoy, aged 60 years, a prominent farmer, was thrown from his buggy while driving a fractious colt and was in. stantly kiiled.

- . THE CEREALS. : Some Facts Concerning the Constituent Elements of Those Brought . to Our Tables. 4 . | A grain of wheat, says Jessie Shipman, in the American Queen, may be divided into three parts, the citer layer, an inner bark and a central kernel. The outer skin is a \.Noody fiber, which is not digestible; when removed it is called bran. The ianer bark is removed by tearing off the outer layers of the kerrgl. These layers are the richest part of the grain in nitrogenous mhtter. The flour made from it is called pollards. The kernel makes a white flour which is simply starch and a ve_x')" small .percentage of gluten. . Wheat c¢dnsists of bran, starch, gluten, mineral salts and a’ little fat. Bran is the woody fiber. Stdrch forms the bulk of the kernel. Gluten is the nitrogenous element in wheat. The mineral salts exist in very small quantities. but are essential to the body. Oats and barley are similar in eonstruction to wheat. They are.nutri-

tious arg palatable. From oatmeal are made oatcake, porridge and gruel, which are very nourishing. Barley freed frcm the husks i wused as pear] barley for broths. Barley meal is ‘sometimes ‘mixed with flour and

made into bread. It is chiefly used to make malit for beer and whisky. Maltine is an extract of malted barley: Rye meal makes: a dark, heavy bread, twhich in gluten properties approaches more nearly to wheat than does any other cereal. i Maize or Indian corn is a rich, nutritious cereal, containing more fat than does any other grain, except oats. Like oatmeal, 1t cannot be made into bread without - being mixed with wheaten flour, but dry cakes are made of“it. Corn flour and hominy are preparations of maize flour.

Rice, although the poorest in nutrition, is much eaten for its delicate flavor and digestibility. It consists almost entirely of starch.- Rice is the staple food of one-third of the human race, but it is eaten in warm eastern countries, where starch is more digestible than fat and where those -subsisting on it obtain the necess®#®y nitrogenous matter from lentils and milk and from flesh. The nutritive value of broiled rice is about the same as that of potatoes. Arrowroot is made of a tuberous root in the West Indies and is composed entirely of starch. When cooked with water it forms a clear, gelatinous paste that is very digestible. . Tapioca is a warchy product obtained from the maniec. a root that grows i@ Africa. The extracted starch is \'6!‘3 wlholesome and easily G gested. Tapioca is ®sed for puddings and soups. QUIFS AND QUIRKS. Observations from Life and.a Little Advice Thrown In for Giood -Measure. There are people who . 'thiak " they will be abie to make a Golden Shore of their own by collecting the dust on the way. : E What worries us is not so muca that cur friends .persist in looking at a thing in the wrong light-as that they should be so Dblamed comfortable about it. o ' )

It is a ‘poor jole that won’t stand revamping every few weeks. Some people avoid facts simply because they are stubborn things. Kentucky needs schools, but not to teach the young idea how: to shoot. Thought wedded to a jingle, if it has a true ring, never knows divorce. A touch of sentiment will stir one’s inmost being when a fact will meérely jolt one a little. - A statesman is a -politician who knows the way the people are going to jump the day after to-morrow. Den't worry, if you want to grow fat. If you are worrying because you are too fat you needn’t take this advice. . ) : It takes a collector to find men out. Sentiment would" make-a bully auctioneer at a sale of household gods. The man who whistles at his work is often happy only at the expense of others. . s 2" When a man finds money in a coat he hasn't worn for some time, it is unkind to question him too closely as to his condition when he took it off.— Grif Alexander, in Pittsburg Dispatch. NUTRITION AND EXPENSE. lh’nordnce of Simple Principles Leads to Much Greater - Ountlay. ) P

A common mistake people make is in purchasing .expensive foods when cheaper ones:would serve the purpose as well, if not better.. The general impression seems to be that the costlier foods are better in some peculiar way, says American Queen. On the other hand, the desire’ to economize lis often unaccompanied with a knowledge of how to do it: Many housekeepers. are really .desirous of economizing, but tßey teink it necessary to use steak at 20 centz a pound, when the samé amount of nourishment could be 'had from a cheaper cut. - 3 The whole difficulty is the ignorance of the simple principles of nutrition. The saying that the best is the cheapest does not zpply to foods. The price paid for expensive food is not for the food ‘itself, but fsr its appearance or its rarity. . The plain, substantial, standard foods—meat, fish, flour, cornmeal, oatmeal, beans and potatoes—are just as digestible and as nutritious as are,a‘ny of the more expensive articles of diet. High-priced foods merely cater to a fastidious appetite and take the place of skillful cooking and tasteful serving of the simpler ones at home. The evil can be remedied by a better understanding of the elementary laws underlying nutrition. Economy, unlike some less worthy practice, should be more honored in the observance than in the breach. " Not Guility. o “Sandy,” said Gritty George, “here is where somessarcastic writer says dere ain’t much difference betwéen us tramps an’ de loafers dat hang out in de country stores.” : : . “Oh, git out!” sneered Sandy Pilkes. “Who ever heard of us sittin 'on scar boxes?”’—Chicago Daily News.

THE EXTRA SESSION. May Be Called Earlier Than at First Contemplated — Conference — at Oyster Bay. Oyster Bay, N. Y., Aug. 14 —President Roosevelt’s conference with the membérs of the subcommittee of the sen" ate finance committee was not concluded until the small hours of Thursday morning. The whole subject of finanfcial' legislation at the approaching session of congress was discussed thoroughly. s ) Serious consideration was also given to the legislation to be proposed to corgress in approval of the Cuban reciprocity treaty ratified by the senate last spring. ~ The committee, consisting of Senators Aldrich, chairman; Platt (Coxnn.}; Allison and Spooner, did not present even a tentative draft of a currency bill to the president, although soms propositions which, subsequenily, may be enmrbodied "in the measure, were reduced to .conerete form. No definite conclusions as to the shape of the proposed- legislation were reached. The conference related rather to method: of procedure in the work at hand than to the form of the Tegisiation. At 7:3¢ o'clock. in the morning the members of the committee left Sagamore Hill, boarded their yacht, the Vérgena. and sailed for Providence on their returs to Senater Aldrich's home. One fact of distinet importdnce was developed at the conference. While az extraordinary session of congress naxt fall is assured it has not been determined definitely whether it will be called tc meet in October or in Nevember. It has been supposed that the extraordinary session would convene on Monday November 9, but the indications now are that it will be calied-for an earlier “date, perhaps several weeks earlier. ~ The primary purpose of the extraordinary session will be to enact legislation- making operative the Cuban reciprocity treaty, but financial legisiation also will be pressed upon the attention of congress soon after it convenes. '

Three of the senators present at the conference are members of the senate committee on relations with Cuba— Platt,thechairman; Aldrichand Spooner. All of them, particularly Senator Platt; who, has made a profound study of the situation in Cuba, regards the necessity = for the enactment of the Cuban treaty legislation as very urgent. President Roosevelt enteriains the same views. It is understood that the suggestion of ‘an extraordinary session of congress at a date earlier than November 9 was made by these senators because of the urgency of the Cuban legislation. ; It was pointed out, too, that if comgress were convened at an early date, the eantire work of the extraordinary and regular session could be cleared by the time the national conventions are to be held next year. On many accounts that is regarded as desirable and it would be great convenience not only-to the president. but alsc to members of both the senate and the house.

It can l?e said that the senate finance committee will draft po measure formally. and conclusively uatil consuliations have been held with other members of the senate—democrats as weil as republicans—with members of ths hcouse and with the best authorities on finance in the country. It is-the desire of the committee to be constantiy in

touch with the president, with other senators, with members of the house, with bankers of the west as well as those of the east, and with country baniers as well as city bankers, so that some plan of degislation may be formed by the epening of the extraordinary session of congress. It is the hope of the committee to devise a genuinely elastic currency system —a system that will expand when the necessity shall arise and contract when the necessity shall have ceased to exist. Senator Aldrich, when asked by a reporter with reference to the visit of the senators to the president, said: “The republican members of the subcommittee of the senate finance committee, who recently met for an informal conference at Warwick, R. I, talked with the president about financial conditions and the need of legisiative changes. No bill has been drafted or agreed on and none will be until after the fullest consultation with our democratic associates of the subcommitiee and all the members of the finance committee, It is, however, our purposs to have a bill in-readiness for presentation to the senate at the beginning of the extra session, if cne shall be called in- October or November. We are hopeful that a bill can be agreed upon and reported that will receive the approval of both houses of congress and afford prompt and efficient relief to the business interesis of the whole country.”

Charged with Embezzlement. Duluth, Minn., Aug. 14.—E. B. Johnson, bookkeeper for the Commercial Banking company, of this city, was arrested here Wednesday evening on a warrant charging him with the embezzlement of $45,000 of the bank’s money. ‘When placed in jail, Johnson admitted -his guilt and claimed that the peculations had extended over a period of eight menths and that he had been able to deceive his employers by a manipulation of the books. Pausses Third Reading. London, Aug. 12.—The British house of lords passed the third reading of the Irish land bill after the duke of Devonshire had expressed confidence that the government will be able to reconcileany differences on the amendments when they come up in the house of commozns. - My’ REewARD e Daiviesh. Washington, Aug. 12.—Reestablishment of the army canteen probably wiil be recommended by Secretary Root in his annual report. Department officiais and army officers are unanimous in its favor because of the saloons which succeeded it. ; Former tCircus Performer Dead. New York, Aug. 11.—Eaton Stone, well known in his time as a circus performer, is dead at his home in Hutley, N. J., at the age of 86. Stone is said to have been the first man to turn a somersault on a galloping horse. He retired from the ring about 30 yearsago. Portsmouth, 0., Aug. 11.—The Humphrey & Hogan canning factory at Rutland, near here, blew up at noon, killing three people and injuring a dozen others. The factory was lighted Monday for the first time this season, and the building was blown to atoms.