Ligonier Banner., Volume 39, Number 7, Ligonier, Noble County, 12 May 1904 — Page 2

" THE SWEETEET. Of course I'l} get down on the floor And play at blocks with sou, And you ‘will hi¢e behind the door = . L And play at peek-a-boo; And I'll pretend vhat I can’t find You anywhere, 1 will; And all the while you'll be behind :The door, and just as still. And'l will say: “Mamma, have you Seen Marjorie to-day? . . I can’t find her ai all; she knew . I:wanted her to play; > i That I was dowa here on the floor, And now she's‘gone and hid!” I And I'll look -bauk of ev'ry door And under evegsy lid. ’ : And I'll look ev'rywhere but vnvhere ‘I know you're hid away, Your biue eyes glinting through your hair In goldén locks astray; - ' And you will giggle soft and low,. And.you will.preek at me, : And still T’ll go a-to and fro. And search for where you be. Oh, (there be other babes, I know, As glad. as you, and wee; " With ‘tousled golden curlssablow, - .. An@ they are dear tp me; o For I love ev'ry babe I meet, i : Be:.their eyes brown or biue, For, Heart-6'-Mine,-all babes are sweet; But none are swest as you! —J. M. Lewis, in Houston Past, S

A CHANGE OF FORTUNE The Atonement of lise.

R AIN, storm and the ringing of bells. lise listened. She steadied herself a moment and leaned her head against the door frame.

How tired she was ! For hoursshe had tramped around in the November storm, { upstairs and downstairs. She had rung "at the various dcors and opened' her large }eather portfolio to display the specimen pictures. - “Kindly pardon me.. Perhaps you would like to have some photographs enlarged? They are well done, worth the price and promptly executed”—she had probably <aid jt-a hundred times, just as her employer had requested. “Only do not let yourself be confused, Fraulein,” he had added, “and always keep to the business routine; that is the chief thing. If they turn you away at the front dcor, go in again at the rear.”

Ilse shuddered.. A drop of rain trickled through the crepe veil which covered her face. ' Or was it atear—one of those bitter tears :which she had shed so often since the death of her father? All wgs different after the death of the professbr. The servants had to go, the great household was broken up, and a small dwelling in the north of the city was rented. S :

There the mother sat and wept, though she said little and did not complain. This cut Ilse to the heart. : She, the spoiled daughter, who had heretofore paid little heed to the sufferings of others, suddenly raised her head and sought work. She went from one place of business to another, advertised, ‘answered advertisements and ‘humiliated herself as much as she could, all to no avail. = ; At last an acquaintance recommended her going to a firm where canvassers were wanted to solicit orders for the enlargement of photographs. -

Ilze applied. She looked well—yes; the slender figure in mourning would linduce people to give orders out of pity, if nothing more. But she found it difficult to talk, and the orders were go few that her employer gave her to understand that he would not need her servfces longer if things went on in this way. , :

Ilse shuddered when she thought of it. How was she to save herself from losing her employment, herdaily bread?

S gathered up her, wet skirts and en,té'reed the house. Then she raised her head and pressed the portfolio closer to her. S

_ On the first story the door was not opened at all. At her gentle ring on the second story a boi&:hut,the door in her face, so that she s obliged to rest a moment after the‘third flight before pulling the bell.; (- A woman opened the door. ~ She shook her head pleasantly when the young girl obened the portfolio. L 2 “No—don’t need them,” she said. “I let furnished rooms and the men don’t want such stuff hanging about.”

Ilse: quietly closed her case, and was on the point of descending the stairs, when the woman called to her again. “It just occurred to me, Fraulein, one gentleman who lives here asked me recently if T knew where one-could get photographs enldarged. Perhapsyou can do something for him.” - - Ilse turned. “Is—is the gentleman at home?”’ she asked. “Just wait; I'll knock,” said the woman. ; She went to a door and knocked, while she bent her head tothe keyhole. “No—not a sound. He is not at home, Fraulein. Too bad!” , : The girl nodded her head as if resigned. . " _ “Nothing then?” she asked. ‘“Nothing te-day,” the woman replied. . Her feet ached and her lips burned. She had to grasp the railing for support, she was so dizzy. The landlady looked at her sympathetically. “Come to-morrow; early, Fraulein,” she said. “Then Herr Valentin will be at home. It is Atonement day. Hedoes not go to Lee & Co.’s.” Ilse suddenly raised her head. She _had heard only the word “Valentin” and the firm name of Lee & Co. A light came before her gaze, and she saw.an old picture suddenly, asif it was brought by magic to her mind. - She saw herself, young, happy, spoiled, at a spring festival in the month of May. And before her a young man with -a dark head with brown eyes—the son of a friend of her father, a young mer‘chant. She had played with him as a child. Yet she had always kept a certain distance between herself and him. - Heavens, such an unassuming fellow. ‘He had not even finished the preparatory school, scarcely completed the first year. - Yet she liked to talk to him, rule over him and make him follow her caprices. And then that spring evening. He told her of his new position with as much bliss as if his ship had come in. : “Ilse,” he called her again, just asin childhood. And he took her hand and - stood before her as one intoxicated, and said: “I had to tell you first, lise dear, for I love you so much, so very much!” ~ “What are you thinking of, Herr Val- - entin!” e : 3

He grew‘pale before her proud glance. He spoke no more, but turned silently away. - 1

The girl gave astart. The woman had talked on without her having heard. Now she repeated her question: ; *“Will Fraulein come again to-morrow, on Atonement day?” = “No,” said the girl, quite loud, “no, np!u " The woman shut the door, nonplussed. ,{As if she was pursued, Ilse ran down the stairs, through rain and storm, on, on, She saw only one thing—Herr Valentin, and that evening in.the springtime of her life. Then she -carried her head high, ch, so high. His wife? The idea was delicious! Her father a professor and he a clerk in the house of Lee & Co.! It was five years ago; five long years. He never came back, she had never seen him again. At home, Ilse laid the wet portfolio on the hearth to dry, and with tired steps entered her mother’s rcom. - The old lady smiled when she beheld Yer child. ! Ilce laid her head for amoment silently in her mother’s lap. Then:

“Mother dear, I—l must make a confession.” And while the soft old hands moved gently over the blond hair; Ilse told of that spring'evéning when sHe, in her pride, had so deeply wounded her young .friend—told of her experience that-day, and of the request of his landlady that she return on the Day of ‘Atonement to—to earn money. g The widow sat silent awhile: Then she bént down and kissed her daughter’s brow. . s

“I will tell you something, child!” she gaid. “Tousall comes some time a great hour of atonement and self-humiliation. You have a burden on your scul in the wrong which, in our days of prosperity, you did a good man.

“Throw it off, child; do penance! Go to-morrow early where your duty calls

“Go. simply and modeétly as always, as to a stranger. Show him your pictures and take his order. :

“When you return we will go to church, and we shall both feel that the wrong is atoned for.” ;

Ilse wept. She seemed quite broken down. :

“I cannot, mother. Only think, if he should recognize me, and in this way!” “He will not know you. Grief has changed you, my dear. It is five years. And then your veil.”

Ilse stood up. Then she said, quickly: “I will go, mother.”

And shé ii'ent. The landlady showed an astonished face when she found her at the door. Fas R e

“Well, thisis fine! Ithoughtyou were offended at me,” she cried. “Herr Valentin, the Fraulein with the pictures is here!” she added, knocking at the door. Ilse stepped into the room and remained standing at the entrance. She trembled so that she was obliged to hoid the portfolio with both hands.

The young man looked a moment at the gifl in mourning. = Then, as she remained so shy and quiet, he placed a chair. “If you will, be seated,” he said.

Then she looked up.. Hans—her dear old playmate! The same eyes, the same dark curly hair! Only his face—it had grown strangely serious and narrow. He looked older, more manly! : Mechanically she opened her case, although her thoughts were far from the business at harnd. He examined the specimens carefully, then nodded.

“Very pretty; yes, very pretty. It really isn’t a simple photograph that I wish to have enlarged, Fraulein, only a head from a group.. Can that be done? Will it be just as good as this one?” - She nodded. Her throat was as if paralyzed. ;

Astonished, he looked at her closely veiled face. Why did she not speak? He hunted about on his desk.

“At least it was very kind of you to trouble to come here on a holiday. lam very grateful to you. . ‘

. “The fact is I should like to have the picture soon. Here it is now. “I hope it will be done well. I am very particular about it—" he hesitated, became red, and held a piece of cardboard on which was a photograph of a picnic party. “When can I have it, Fraulein?”’ o

Ilse trembled. Now she must speak. “In eight days,”rshe replied, softly.

The man looked up surprised.: This voice reminded him of something, something dear. Excitedly he passed his fingers through his hair and busied himself about his desk. . ’

Ilse bowed her head and grew pale as death.. The people here in the picture —merciful heaven; these young, smiling faces in the midst of trees and gay banners—where had she seen this before? Her iips trembled, everything began to dance before her gaze, and she could see nothing more.

‘ Hans Valentin pointed to a face, a pure, smiling, girlish face, above a white dress—llse in the Maytime of her life! “Look, Fraulein—this is the one I want enlar—" he began. He did not .complete the sentence. With a.,lfbarse cry the young girl had fallen against the desk.

Horrified, he held her firmly and removed the veil from the apparently lifeless face. Now he gave a crys | A “Ilse!”’

She opened her eyes at his compassionate call. ) '

“No,” she moaned, “no, no, no!” He looked at the careworn face. saw the eyes tired with weeping, and understood all-—understood her father’sdeath, her struggle for daily bread and her humility. ; And just as the bells began their summoning to the celebration of Atonement, the man xnelt down before the girl.

“Now you will weep no longer, your mother and you,” he whispered. “Now I need the picture no longer, if you are willing.” . - : . In shy tenderness he took one of the cold white hands. “Yes, will you?”’ Ilse could neither nod nor shake her head. She sat quite still and looked into the true eyes of her old friend. _ : “Hans, dear Hans,” she whispered at last, smiling like a child who has reached home. : * Then he knew that she was willing.— From the German, in N. Y. Sun. ‘ A Human Freak. A woman who asks the police to find ‘her husband says that a part of his right ear is missing. If the rest of the ear isn’t missing, asks the Chicago Daily News, how does it happen that the man is? - Has he detachable ears?

SEASONABLE SCENES — TAKING DOWN THE STORM WINT WS

U e _ 8y | g A o 1 A AL Q 0 | Mr. Dubbly—lt's easy enough doing things yourself. Hullo! One pane gone! ': ”,w . "r ~= S N e Vi il h | i ',,‘\ "_.,’”‘}'! ‘“Who left that gas fixture up there? - \'_ ‘ ™ e m i i= S o s K A s ™ Ape g2/] P ‘ ; “m - N — 7 S - “Ouch! There goes number five.

ARMY MEN CONSCIENTIOUS. They Are Found to Be Honest in the Handling of Public : ; i Money. “Army officers, as a class, are extremely cautious in their dealing with public funds,” said a - Fort Snelling officer, according to the St.. Paul Piocneer Press. (‘Of course, there is an elaborate system of checking up the accounts, but it is not for this reason alone, because the ‘officers themselves are conscientious in the matter that they are so carefuj. “Why, I have known officers who, after selling some of the surplus supplies given to the.company, haveshunted through their clothes for an empty pocket to put the company money in, so it would not be mixed with their own-money. I have seen officers with a large amount of company money in their pockets 'borrow a nickel to pay street car fare so that none of the company money would be used, as they held_ it sacred “Each company, you know, sometimes- accumulates quite a sum, which is obtained perhaps by the sale of surplus supplies, and the money is used to purchase other supplies not obtained in the regular way. This money is always in the hands of an officer, usually the captain, who sees tc its care and disbursement."

“Yes,” interrupted a cecord officer, “I have sometimes asked. our captain for five dollars until I could cash a check or something like.that, and he perhaps would refuse because he didn’t have it to spare. “‘But,” I sometimes say, ‘you've got money, and you know it.

% sOh; ro,’; he always replies, ‘that is the company fund,” and he never touches it.” : W

"“Every check we draw,” continued the first officer, “must contain the use for which the money is drawn written on the check, so that if one is disposed to ‘be. dishonest he would soon be discovered. Officers..do not pretend to be other than common clay. like most men, but I think it is a fact that theére is exceedingly little dishonesty in the service. Our training has been against it.” ' : Thegemarks were made in the discussion of the meetings of the post exchange council, and the post council of administration,which held its regular monthly meeting to audit the baker’s bill. “Whether it is to audit the baker’s Lill or transact some important matter, the council must be assempled with all due formality,” explained one of the members.

A SANITARIUM FOR GRAIN.

When the Cereal Is Diseased It Is Sent to a Hospital ror Treatment, in Ontario. :

Most of us are familiar with hospitals and retreats where life and health may:be restored to human baings and animals, but a new and interesting phase is a sanitarium for grain, says- the Detroit Free Press.

" Plants and flowers are subject to disease, and, as the loss of crops throughout the United States alone has been estimated at some -$18,000,000, it becomes imperative that'an effort shouid be made to save the diseased grain. Very often farmers lose the whole crop because of being.compelled to harvest in wet weather. ' !

To the new hospital; which is located at Port Arthur, Ontario, the farmers may-send their grain to be treated and carefully nursed. .After passing out of the care of the experis the grain is said to be cleaner and more wholesome ‘than wheat which has not been subjected to this process. Convalescent wheat has been stored away and kept in perfect health for several years. hoi .

When the wheat ill unto death arrives, a nurse places it in a bath of pure water, where it is brushed and scoured in machines made for the purpose until the grains are highly polished and in good shape for the mill, 1t is then placed upon a bed made of screening and subjected to a jamming process, first of hot and then of cold air, until it is perfectly dry. : Again the grain is subjected to another cleaning process, after which it is ready to be returned to the owner, with the guarantee that it is thoroughly cured. Strange to say, when it is weighed it seems to have lost nothing. and, being all grain, and no chaff, it weighs three or four pounds heavier to the bushel. - :

Soldiers Who Do Not Forage.

The Japanese army seems determined to present a refreghing contrast to other armies in regard to the.question of looting. The troops, though limited in rations and marching through a country rich in poultry, fruits and grain, have not yet been known to give offense by lawless acts, and it will be remembered that they eStablished a similar record of self-restraint at the time of the march on Peking.—Washington Times. As Most Men Figure It. ° “Nine’men out o’ ten,” said Uncle Eben, “hones’ly thinks deir misfortunes is owin’ to luck an’ deir successes to personal smabizess.” — Washington Star. i Pt vian oiy abiamsd

- l e ..—/‘” 1\ : - ) —/{‘f q‘: i \, gk, @ “Just like a measly post to be right ia the way! Never mind; glass is cheap. RS 1 Y e ) 7 \‘a‘\‘}; i 1 @l\ g } t*.‘ : q |IL b 2= 15 iy & d '\:‘""‘ I 4T & ‘ , “Of course, I can’t marage my own knees; ain’t old enough, I suppose! - wr RINENE, B 3 I 7 S e e T TI% Z P \\‘*"z.’h‘;@ ol Pl | il = 1 % RSI PR, S ; ST, g a R B “Never mind, I've saved the frame!” —Chicago Daily News.

COLD EASY .TO WITHSTAND. The Problem Is One of Training the Skin and Muscles to En- c durance. ‘ “It would be a good thing for humanity if the men of science would figure out some system by which mankind could be protected against changes in the weather,” said a writer in the New Orleans Times-Demececrat, “and I am moved to make this reflection by an article ‘which recently appeared in a medical magazine on the subject of ‘How Not to Mind the Weather,” and -comments on the same in the Literary Digest. The idea is advanced that it is possible to harden the skin so that one will not be so susceptible to eold. The writer dewriter declares ‘sensibility to cold is largely a matter of education. . . .

There are thousands of people living in a savage state who wear very little clothing and yg%are wonderfully hardy. The natives of Terra del Fuego—a | country as cold as this—live without fixed habitation, having only the poorest kind of little huts, and the people are exposed to the weather without covering. Travelers report that all the protection from the weather that a native of this bleak country needs in or to make him comfortable is a board or a bush behind which he can be sheltered from the wind and sleet.

. “The case of the,savage is cited and the writer remarks that it is well worth while to inquire what it is that makes the savage so hardy. Continuing, he says: ‘“The muscles of the skin need a gymnastic training that will educate them to contract vigorously on the slightest contact with cold, shutting the blood out of the skin so quickly that the precious body heat will not be lost.\i You ‘notice that when the skin is closed ‘ there is a ‘gooseflesh’ appearance. This‘ is due to the contraction of the little muscles of the skin. The contraction of these muscles compresses the blood vessels of the skin and shuts out the blood; the skin is hardened and thickened and becomes a better nonconductor, maintaining the body temperature. It is by repeated applications of cold that the skin musclessare educated to contract rapidly upon exposure to cold. For this reason the daily cold bath is an excellent measure for the prevention of: colds. i

“The usual effect of a draught of cold air upon the, back of the neck is a cold and a sore throat. Many years ago Dr. Brown-Sequard, an eminent French physician, devised a means by which sore throat from this cause might be prevented. By blowing upon the back of’ the neck with a pair of bellows, in¢reasing the time each day, he trained his patients until they could endure this treatment for half an hour without injury. It is not necessary to be exposed to a draught of air on the back of the neck in order to obtain this result. By means of the cold bath, the wet-sheet rub, the shower bath, towel friction, ete., the skin may be eéducated to contract on the slightest fncrease of cold. . . . Many people sneeze and take cold upon the least exposure toa draught of cold air. The remedy for this is not to try to keep away from the draughts, but to make oneself proof against them. It is only necessary to accustom oneself little by little to contact with cold air. And it seems to me that there is much in this theory. At any rate, the drift is in the right direction and men whose business it is to look after humanity’s health would do well to study a little more along this line.” :

HER ABSENT TREATMENT

It Was Simple Enough and Had Suf ‘ficed in Thousands of Similar Cases. g

A young mother left her baby with her obliging mother-in-law one night, in order to attend the wedding of 8 relative who lived in a town about a hundred miles distant, relates Carroi} Watson Rankin, in Leslie’s Monthly. The young woman, apparently free from all family cares, spent an enjoyable evening; but just us the newlywedded couple were preparing to depart on the midnight train, an express sion of acute anxiety flashed across tha young mother’s countenance .

“Oh, George!” she exclaimed, clutch. ing her husband's arm, ‘“there was one thing that I forgot to tell your mother to do for the baby, and he'll never go to sleep without it. You must go right out and send ‘her a telegram.” .

“Nonsense,” said George, “‘this isn’{ the first baby she’s taken care of.” - ““But George, she’ll never think ot doing just the right thing, and the baby is so perfectly trained that he won'k accept any substitute. I know he’s cry~ ing hard this very minute.” .

She was right. A hundred miles away a weary grandmother was at her wit’s end because she could think of nothing that would pacify a wailing infant who was most wretchedly sleepy yet utterly unable to go to sleep. She was pacing wearily back and forth in the nursery to the accompaniment of her grandson’s howls when the doo» bell rang and her daughter-in-law's telegram arrived. Tearing it open thn tired, perplexed grandmother read;

. “Lay baby on his stomach in the crib.” . i

Two minutes later, the baoy, adjusted to his liking, was sound asleep.

STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST.

GILLESPIE CASE CONTINUED.

Great Crowd Thronged the Rising Sun Court House Monday.

Rising Sun, Ind., May 2.—Tae Gillespie case was continued Monday morning until May 9 by Judge Downey. This contintance was granted at the request of Attorney Coles, for the defense, in the famous assassination case. The court room was crowded early Monday in anticipation that the Gillespie case would be begun. Citizens from .all parts of Ohio county were present. Myron Barbour, Mrs. Barbour and Mrs. Belle Seward, who are defendants in the case, were early arrivals at the court house, and James Gillespie, pale and thin from his long confinement in jail, appeared shortly afterward in- charge of Sheriff Henry Rump. Capt. J. B. Coles, of counsel for the defense, wanted the case postponed until the last Monday in May, but Judge Downey compromised by setting the case for the second Monday in May. Mr. and Mrs. Barbour and Mrs. Seward were arraigned and entered a plea of not guilty. Some time age, it will be remembered, they withdrew this plea and stood non-com-mittal. The case lis to be bitterly fought and will doubtless be one of the memorable Yegal battles of Southern Indiana. i .

. Vincent Williamson, who is to testify as to threats made against Miss Gillespie, is thought to be in Birmingham, Ala., but has not been heard from.

A CHIVARI PARTY.

The Bride Was Seriously Injured By An Explosion of Dynamite.

I.ebanon, Ind., May 2.—Mrs. Hoover Turpin, a bride of two days, was se- ' riously injured by the explosion of dynamite, set off by a chivari party at her home near Fayette in the southwestgart of this county. The dyna- ’ mite was placed in a cherry tree near the house, and when it was exploled {the weather-boarding was torn {rom ~one side of the house and much plas[tering shaken from the svalls. Mrs. Turpin was unconscious for several ‘hours. The members of the party ~were apprehended and given their liberty upon payment for the damage done to property.

INDIANA MINERS STRIKE.

Six Hundred at Star City, Jackson Hill i ; and Hymera Out.

. Terre Hautes Ind., May 4.—Six hundred miners at Star City, Jackson Hill and Hymera are on a strike authorized by President John Boyle. The men claim they should be paid the price for mining screened coal and not on the’ mine-run basis. The Indianapolis contract fixed the price for screened coal at 85 cents a ton, and for minerun at 53 cents but stipulated that when coal is sold as screened coal the miner should be paid on the screened coal basis. The miners say the coal is being sold as screened coal. President Boyle says. that so far it is a good na. tured controversy.

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

Fifteen Towns, So Far As Heavd, Elected Democratic Mayors. |

Indianapolis, Ind., May 4.—Municipal elections were held throughout Indiana Tuesday. Up to this time the returns have been received from 47 towns. In 15 of these the democrats elected the mayor and the majority of the municipal offices. The republicans won in 28 cities, making a clean sweep in five. Warsaw elected its first democratic mayor by a small margin and Connersville, which has been republican for 15 years, Tuesday elected a democratic mayor. The elections in two cities were equally divided.

To Spend $lOO,OOO.

Muncie, Ind., May 2.—J. K. Stroupe, of Cincinnati, division engineer of the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville railroad, with other officials of the road, while here on an inspection trip, stated that the C., C. & L. would this summer spend $lOO,OOO on rebuilding and repairing the road. ;

A Stormy Session.

Lafayette, Ind., May 2.—After one of the stormiest sessions ever held by iraveling men the state session of the T. P. A. closed Saturday. Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Wabash, Frankfort and Warsaw delegations bolted the convention, and for a time it threatened to disrupt the division. :

Thirteen Hearst Men.

Plymouth, Ind., May 2.—Of 18 delegates elected from Marshall county to the state convention 13 are pledged to Hearst, two are non-committal and three are in favor of a compromise. The Hearst movement in this county has been fathered by Wm. O’Keefe.

Two Saloons Leoted.

Marion, Ind., May 4.—Burglars loot: ed two saloons in Mier, nine miles west of Marion, Tuesday morning. Over $lOO was taken. A trail of cigars along the Pennsylvania railroad tracks indicated the direction the robbers had taken, but they were not captured.

Burglars Loot Indiana Post Office.

Chicago, May 4.—Burglars have dynamited the safe in the post office at Hanuna, Ind. The marauders escaped. and a posse, armed with a variety of weapons, is in pursuit. The booty secured is estimated at $l,OOO.

Mysteriously Disappeared.

Evansville, Ind.,, May 4—The widows and orphans’ fund, amounting to $50.57, collected from the ministers of the Evangelical conference here, mysteriously disappeared from Zion’s church. The ministers took up another collection of $50.57. '

Blew His Head Off.

Aftica, Ind., May 4.—John Carlson, a farmer living east of this city, committed suicide by blowing his head off with a charge of dynamite. Carlson tied a stick of dynamite under his chin and touched a.match to it

WOMAN'’S DRESS SET AFIRE. Sun’s Rays Focused Through a Goldfish Jar Did It. Elkhart, Ind., May 3.—Mrs. Julia Filbert narrowly escaped possible fat*al injury, the danger arising in a singular manner. The oid lady was sleaping in a chair by a window, in which was placed a jar of gold fish. She was suddenly awakened by heat near her knees and found a tiny flame on her apron, It was extinguished, and she again dozed off to be aroused a secoud time. Her apron was in a fierce olaze and the flames were extinguished with difficulty after she had Deen severely burned. It was found that the sua’s rays, passing through thé goid fish jar, was focused at the spot on her apron where the blaze had started. - STOLEN PAPERS.

Thay Were Returned to Indiana Man's

Home After Seven Years.

Marion, Ind., May 3.—The residence of Mrs. S. A. Edminson, 1203 South Washington street, was locted by burglars seven years ago. Clothing, jewelry, silverware and a pocketbook containing nctes for $6OO, deeds, mortgages, abstracts, ete., were taken. Sunday night some unknown persons returned the valuable papers. They were enclosed in a large envelope and addressed to the owner. The party had in some way gained admissicn to the hcuse and left the package in a room on the second floor. Painters were painting the house at the' time, and it is supposed the party gained admission to the house by the way of a ladder.

INCIANA RETAIL GROCERS.

They Formulated Plans For a Distributing Warehouse.

¢ Indianapolis, Ind., May 4.—One hundred ‘and fifty Indiana retail grocers met here Tuesday and formulated plans for the establishing of a warehouse in this city as a distributing point for the members of the Indiana Wholesale Grocers Co.. The articles of incorporation will be filed Wednes: day. The capital stock will be 350, 000. The officers of the company will be Edwin P. Thayer, of Greenfield, president; Allen Williams, of Blcomfield, vice president; A. W. Tompkins, of Rushville, secretary; W. T.. Bacon, of Indianapolis, treasurer and manager. FIREMAN FATALLY HURT. Stay Bolt From the Boiler -Head Flew - © Out and Struck Him. Marion, Ind., May - 2.—While the train was running at a high rate of speed near Roseburg, Sunday night, a stay bolt blew out of the boiler head of the engine pulling the Toledo, St. Louis & Western express, striking Fireman Joseph Wustner and knocking him from the cab. When Wustner was picked up it was found that he was probably fatally injured by the blow and scalding. His home js in Delphos, O. The train: ran for almost a mile before the steam was exhausted. Engineer Charles Major escaped injury by climbing out of the cab to the running board. : Receiver Asked For. Indianapolis, Ind., May 3.—Two suits asking the appointment of a receiver for the Midland Portland Cement Co. were filed in the superior court Monday by stockholders. In each it is alleged that the $2,000,000 corporation is insolvent. A receiver is asked, according to the complaints filed, in order to head off a combine of certain stockholders and outsiders who are preparing to sell the company out to a holding company for the purpose of freezing out the-minority stockholders. = . ; Francis Kyle Arrested. Elkhart, Ind., May 4.—Francis Kyle was arrested by United States Deputy Marshal Martin, charged with sending an ob§cene letter through the mail He was taken before Commissioner Ziegler, at Goshen, and bound over to the federal grand jury in default of $2OO bond.. - :

After Many Ballots.

Petershurg, Ind., May 3.—After having taken 171 ballots without arriving at a verdict the jury in the HowardTate murder. trial came:into court Monday afternoon and asked Judge Ely. for new instructions. ‘Later the jury brought in a verdict of manslaughter. Small Riot in Evansville. Evansville, Ind., May 2.—The presence of a crowd of Negroes at the lower market where a carnival is being held, precipitated a riot Sunday night when the Negroes were attacked anid driven from the carnival by a crowd of white men armed with missiles. : The Election at Greencastle. Greencastle, Ind.,, May 4.—The former republican majority was restored Tuesday by the election of James M. D. Hayes for mayor, with a majority of 141. The entire republican ticket was elected and six of the eight councilmen. . They Robbed the Safe. Marion, Ind.,, May 4.—The office of the Marion Machine and Boiler Co. was entered Tuesday at the noon hour, when the office employes were at their lunch, They took $lOO in money, several checks and a watch valued at $6O. Decided Against the Strikers. Terre Haute, Ind., May 3.—The United Mine Workers’ officials decided against -the strikers at the Latta’s Creek coal mine, who struck because the company discharged a mule driver for leaving his mule in the mine over night. ! ' ' Babe and Mother Burned. Valparaiso, Ind., May 38.—Mrs. Frank Hefferline, of Goodland, and her baby boy were burned to death Sunday night when she poured gasoline on a smoldering fire. The explosion scattered burning fluid over their clothing

CONFERENCE BEGINS.

Great Gathering of Methodists Opens Its Sessions at Los Angeles, California. g

Los Angeles, Cal, May s.—The thirty-first general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church - opened at Hazard’s pavilion, in this city, Wednesday. When Senior Bishop Stephen M. Merrill walked to -the front of the stage and rapped for order he faced one of the most notable - gatherings of churchimen in the history of Protestantism in America. Seated in the auditorium proper were 798 representatives of Methodism gathered from the four quarters of

/>~ ‘ o " \ | A @ ; / > s A 5 r.-/& ‘,\. - . 4 ,/_‘ e - 7 . ~ /) ey /' /2 // ' . ,/“t'l.“,'_, i £ % A//' N 7 a 7 7 i ¥ ‘ # / P /,/ g BISHOP STEPHEN MERRILL. the earth, earnest In their zeal for the good-of the common cause and eager’ to discuss the problem of and to legislate for the welfare of the church. When: the confusion attending the assignment of delegates to their séats had subsided Bishop Merrill called the conference to orcer and introduced Bishop J. C. Hartzell, of Africa, who delivered the opening prayer. He was followed by Bishop W. D. Warrenand Rev. Dr.D. W. C.Hewington, D. .. of Nebraska university, who also delivered a brief prayer. The- afternoon session met at™ three o’clock and spent three hours in balloting for secretary and in referring tocommitteeés various resolutions bearing on the questions to be considered by the conference. Rev. James B. ‘Hingely, of Minnesota, was elected secretary. Los Angeles, Cal, May 6.—The Methodist general . conference ‘held two sessions Thursday, the morning session being devoted to the reading of the quadrennial address of the board of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church to the general conference, and the afternoon -to the receipt and reference . off memorials from the various annual conferences. The reading of the quadrennial address of the bishops-of the Methodist Episcopal church to the general conference was the featureof Thursday’z session. Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, of Philadelphia, read. the address. Ii elaborately reviewed: the statistica! records of the past four years and se! before the ‘conference many of the current problems which the church iy facing. The present membership of the church was reported as 3,031,918 an increase of 138,025 during the foul years. The Sunday schools ‘includs an aggregate of 3,124,644. The world wide scope of the work of the churcl was indicated by the brief review of the administration of bisheps in for eign lands. ) Warnings were given against the current evils of the time, political corruption, the liquor traffic, the tyranny cf trades unionism, the green of unserupu-. lous employers, lynching, the negrao question and Mormonism. = - -

A recommendation’ was made that g new chapter on popular amusements be added to the discipline, admonishing Methodists to guard their spiritual lif¢ and to avoid such amusements as havea dangerous or demoralizing tendency. The chapter is intended to take the place of the present paragraph, number 248, which occasioned much discussion at the general conference at Chicago four years ago. : 4

The address made a deep impression and was received at the end with hearty applause, R Los Angeles, Cal.,. May 7.—Very little progress was made by the Methodist general conference Friday, but the business is being so shaped and systematized ‘that with a few more sesisons to clear away the vast quantity of preliminary matter the work will. proceed smoothly and rapidly. The various important. conmimittees = held. their first meetings in the afternoon at a half a dozen different churches, and made a fair start in the business before them. The resignation of Senior Bishop Stephen M. Merrill, of Chicago, was presented tothe conference and referred to the committee on episcopafi%veith instructions to report to the general confernce with appropriate resolutions commendatory of the great service Bishop Merrill- has rendered to the church in his 59 years as minister and -bishop. ; Bishop Merrill’s petition opened with the statement that he was.in the sev-enty-ninth year of his life and the fif-ty-hinth year of his ministry. t Renominated. ; Denver, C 01.,, May 7.—The First district republican convention renominated Congressman Robert W. Bonynge. Many Slain in Battle. 2 Amsterdam, May 4.—A dispatch to the Handelsblad from Batavia, Java, says that a Dutch column captured the Atchinese position at Tjantoe after a desperate fight in which 190 Atchinese were killed. - The Dutch casualties were seven men killed and fivd officers and 38 men wounded. . No Opposition. : Clare, Mich., May 4.—Congressman A. B. Darragh, of St. Louis, was renominated by acclamation here Tuesday by the republican convention of the Eleventh district. - Two Men Drowned. - - Stevens Point, Wis., May 3.—Andrew Rieschél and Joseph Brandstaetter, two middle-aged men, fishing froma flat boat in the Wisconsin river were sWebt over the Plover papermill dam and drowned. The bodies have not been recovered. ‘ R - Killed by Highwaymen. New Orleans, May 3.—While resisting an attempt of two highwaymen to rob him, Capt. Carl Uphoven, of the steamship Alps, of the United Fruit compan line, was murdered on the levee.-Mt'.\t:‘L day. : e

STRAIGHT TALK ON COOKING

By One Who Knows How to Handle Men as Well as Culinary . Utensils. .

There’s nothin’ noicer than bein’ abla to get up a good dinner, fer good cookin’ is a grand thing and it won’t hurt annybody“to know it, rich or poor, says Mrs. O’Gally, according to the Chicago caily News. ) 4 ,

There is chew sorts o’ cookin’ in this world—poor man’s and rich man’s. Fer ‘he ruinin’ of good ingregients I don't call cookin’ at ahl, atahl. . -To make spring lamb chop tinger, new peetaties and green peas appetizin’; and straberries fit to eat is what the rich man’s cheff does. But there's more folks concerned with makin’ such a tasty dish with three-cents-a-pound neck o’ mutton and a pint of dried peas there won’t be a scrap to warm up fer breakfast, and it's a far more pertickler job. S ovie i

‘Sirline-steak niver bought a harse fer O’Gally ner paid a dollar on our cottdge and chew lots; but it’s pork an’ beans that'ud make yer mouth waater that has, not to spake of.a way I have of throwin’ pancakes together that's saved us tons of poundcake ard apple poie. Fer I've niver seen the day I'd allow angelcake in me house, let alone in me family’s stomach’s, extra good stomachs though they be, tco. . !

Min will be min, and byes byes, and they will eat and must be let eat and given plinty to eat, but they mustn’t be pampeyed. It's wrong to pampey ‘em, child er man.

Pervisions O'Galley will have, er he ‘gets oogly. As a dotter ‘and woife, I know min in that way and how to handle ’em. Who better? It’s me natural way, bechuxst you and me, an’ aisy fer me. - Feed ’em, man and byg. feed 'em! Er they go ter the barrooms er, werse yet, to the sody fountains. . My little bye Toby will come in of an evenin’ playin’ he’s starved to a skellytin an’ droppin’ inty his livin’ choom—and the bye is tired workin’ ahl day and skylarkin’ between whiles—but the way he will brighten oop at the sight of a pot of dumplin’s an’ gravy does me as much good as goin’ to church, an’ more. I joost sit there watchin’ him eat, froze to me chair with happy feelin’s, and before I know it I'm plannin’ what I’ll have fer dinner to-morry, and my! my’ I'm ‘that comfterble. - 'Feed ’em, I say, man and ‘bye; feed 'em, but don’t pampey *em, don’t spile ’em with biled isters and ice cream. If my ‘little bye' Toby gets chicken of a Soondayohe wants gocose fer Moondah and turkey the rist o’ the week, and I'm the very same oidentical may mesilf, and so is O’Gally, and there’s no use in it. _Pull ’em shart, I say; pull ’em with ‘a tinder pot roast, with a speck o’ onion and tomahtah a-top of it. Let the chickens live and lay eggs fer us, and bile up the carn-beef and cabbage, till it fairly melts-on yer tongue. ° Look at the Dutch and Eyetallans. They ain’t pinin’ fer portyhouse steak and mushrooms; ner fer plum puddin’ with tawtaw sauce, whativer that is. They eat savin’ and they eat sinsible, and they eat hullsome, and they get well off, ivery man of ’em, and do less fussin’ and- have less ailin’ and would -as soon think of goin’ up in a balloqn as runnin’ a bill fer fancy groceries: You - don’t need ’em—these fancy groceries—if you knows how to cook. It’s the cookin’ does it. Nothin ilse, and ahl we n<ced in this country is fer somebody to make cookin’ fashionable, and" it seems to me that’s aisy done. :

NOTES ON NEEDLEWORK.

Seasonabie Finery That May Be Gotten Up by the Handy Seamstress.

. New embroideries are character_ized by the buttonhole ornamentation' introduced this year, says the Chicago Daily News.

A new fad is the Dutch poster pillow cover. Quaint little scenes from the land of windmills form these posters. Now that all kinds of hand-made laces are in vogue, the darned net patterns come in for a share of popularity. They can be made as simple or as elaborate as-one wishes, and they have the merit of being practically indestructible.

- Pillows - prettily covered serve the double purpose of utility and decoration indoors and out of doors in- hot weather. Pretty and cooling looking are the pillows in Java prints finished with full ruffies and floss-filled. Such pillows cost in the neighborhood of 99 cents. The covers are washable.

" A pansy pillow, which has a painted wreath of this blossom on a pale pink surface, has clusters of pansies at the corners and a garland of pansies festooned on ribbon caught from corner to corner. This idea of using artificial flowers will probably last longer than the fad of attdching small- steins, wampum and toys of all sorts to sofa pillow corners. - =

Lingerie hats for the children, made of muslin or embroidery, are pretty and appropriate. One of these of shirred muslin has both crown ani rim shirred, the wires of the frams being pink silk covered, and an open space being left at an interval around the rim the crossing wires of pink showing. This hat is trimmed with pink ribbon bows and pink roses. The embroidery hats are formed of ruffles of the Hamburg edgings and will illustrate the airy effect that is so popular. . B

Parker House Potatoes. Add one beaten egg to a pint of hot mashed potatoes, seasdn with one teaspoonful of salt and six dashes of pepper. Roll in a teaspoonful of flour, then form into balls; press these out rather. thin, place a tablespoonful of finely-minced and seasoned meat on the potato cake, covering only one-half, fold over and press the edges together; place in a buttered baking pan in the oven until a nice brown. Serve with brown sauce. Garnish with parsley.— Rural New Yorker. The Proper Distance, . “A girl,” said Miss Prim, “should always teach a man his distance.” “Yes,” replied Miss Koy, “but the right sort of man would know his distance. I bave no patience with the fellow -who stands off about three feet and- then leans 'way over to kiss you, as if you were a hot potato.”—Philadelphia Press. i At s s