Ligonier Banner., Volume 39, Number 11, Ligonier, Noble County, 9 June 1904 — Page 7

G ," i * e Ay, : The Ligonier Lanner 2 1 LIGONIER, - = INDIANA. T eDIP LT U Y T B SISV G TTR M HATTIE PRESTON RIDER : | i (Copyright, 1904, by Daily Story Pub, Co) : 8y 70U wish a loan of $5,000, then? - Y What security can you give?” The pale eyes of. the visitor shifted uneasily. ; “A mortgage on a farm in Kent county; as fine a quarter section as ever lay. out doors.” . ; i Burdick looked him overikegenly. “A first mortgage, of course. I know Keut vounty. ‘What is your nanie?” “Emmett Warren.” The visitor pronounced the words almost brazenly, it seemed to Burdick. He ‘started slightly, flukhing under his clear brown skin. / “th the Warrens of Orton township? You are not—John Warren'’s son?” “His only child,” the young man rodded eager affirmation. My, father died four years ago. - The farm was willed tome.”” | — . Burdick's ‘pen clattered to the floor. He stooped to- recover it. When he straightened up there was a queer, drawn look on his face. “Your mother—"" he paused. ’ : Young Warren set the tips of his slim, unfarmerly fingers together. 2 “Mother has—ahem—no control of the prpperty,” he said, smoothly. 1“I attend to everything. The farm is in my name.” : } Burdick’s face. cleared. Then he frowned, : . “Do you mean that.your father left his wife dependent?”’ he asked, sternly. “Bhe confirmed bachelor had ideas of his own concerning such matters. “Areycu married?”’” He looked his client over with cold; critical dislike. The' latter

NN AR = | A 1 HOM R - St et Ej e P e Py — 1/ 7 A | o B/ A 1 7 o d . i iy Sl |l W / e . r‘\"n.’," ‘ \ A 1 | - | R . 07 JLA BN ¢ “p/;’ fa 0 oEm ‘ g \ A ;'/'; oA 3 G //E I ',/// iR : & 298| /e — T o | 2= 74 > . /?{/ = ' % . | 7 - ’ “HE WENT UP THE FLAGGED WALK, LOOKING KEENLY AROUND HIM.” flinched under the disconcerting gaze. He had sought the money-lender as an absolute stranger; yet the man evidently knew his people—more trhbgn that, was catechizing him like a Sunday school teacher. ; “I ' have a ~ife and two children,” he answered, with smooth irony. “I am of legal age, and, I believe, of a sound mind; therefore qualified to transact “business. However, if you decide toloan ‘me the money, I can probably get my nmother’s &gnature to whatever is nec€ssary.” : “The place is gqod for it,” said Willard Burdick, passing his visitor’s rudeness 11nheedix;gly'. “I must see thettitle, though, and an abstract; if you have it, also the original of your'father's will. Your mother lives with you, I suppose?” A dull -flush stained young Warren'’s face. : . ! k“S-he is in Igidgetown, just ‘at present,”” he evaded, stiffly. - The lawyer raised his brows; but he only asked: : “Her address, please?” Emmett Warren turned a dozen colors, cursing vigorously under his breath, as his questioner wrote down from his dictation:” ‘1N0..156 Collins street,” and folded the paper inside a corpulent pocket book. Gad! What danger was this he had run his head into so neatly? gßurdick was leaving him not a lo‘op-i EIT'I_‘LE CHIEF LAUGH-.A-HEAP.} IBehind the chair there lurks a brave—: ' | { But that is not a chair; It is the entrance to‘a cave, : ‘ .-And he is watching theére, i He waits, the cunning, wily foe, | ~__And sings a war song deep i i ‘ . While craftily he crouches low— | Bold littie Laugh-a-Heap. | A feather d%ster on his head— ! Hist! Would you meet your doom? | The feathers bound with strands of red | -Are Laugh-a-Heap's war plume. | The wooden dagger in his hand— | Ah, mo.! A gleaming knife | With ‘which he means to make his stand And leap into the strife. i | Andwonbc—r is a hobby horse— A hobby horse, indeed! You should be burdened with remorse Not to have known that steed. - - 1t is the faithful th6roughbred On which our chieftain rides, Observe the proudness of its head _And notéits well-groomed sides. : Why, here's a boy upon the floor— Hush! Wearied with the fight The wg'xrrior could strive no more And €o.rests for the night, : The smiles still linger round his eyes And Jaugh dreams fill his sleep; ’ “War weary, battle worn, Le lies, Brave little Laugh-a-Heap, . —W. D. N, in Chicago Daily Tribune. BREAKS RIB BY COUGHING. Brooklyn Man, with Severe Cold, Is - Victim of an Extraordinary - osasan i Reeldent, ' Henry C. Hulbert, of Brooklyn, broke one of his ribs during a fit of coughing a few days ago. Physicians cannot recall a similar case. - - Mr. Hulbert contracted a severe cold ‘and when the accident happened was in . bed; resting on his right side. He was seized with a violent fit of coughing and ;ﬁmﬁi’ﬁwrgiave his distress &t-r temped to change his position. The G ST RSR e e(o s LS

hole of retreat. The fiends take Homes, ' that he should have dropped off just at this juncture! ~ e : | . Weli! At least the dead claim "o share in any spoils! Luck had stood by him so far. There was a chance he might still pluff his game through. The money once safe in his hands—yes, there were better places of residence, even, than Kent county. : “Bring the papers to-morrow, at this hour, if it suits you,” he heard Burdick saying. ' Then he ‘got up, and almost without a word took his departure. Under the long line of maples in front of 156 Collins. street, two days later, Burdick hitched his span of bays. Em--mett Warren had come and gone, but the interview had not prog’rjessed exactly as the young worthy hoped. Burdick smiled grimly as he thought of it, and then frowned with pain. It was Marcia’s son; and his own task to tell her the story. & : He went up the flagged walk, looking keenly about him. Over the door of the plain brick' building was cut the legend: ~ ST. MARGARET’S HOME. . The rich money lender drew down the corners of his mouth. A retreat for old ladies! On a poplar tree in his father’s pasture his own name and Marcia Barber’s were cut, and their birth dates. She was his junior by three years; and he was 54. v o A faded little woman showed him to the neat reception room. Yes, Mrs. Warren was in. He walked back agd forth restlessly, while the gentle waitress took his message.. A few moments later, when the door opened softly, his heart beats were so thick he could not have ‘spoken to save his life. Thin and worn, with frost touches on her brown hair, she stood there; but it was his lost sweetheart of 30 years ago that looked at him i out of her hazel eyes. As she paused an jjnstant in’ puzzled unrecognition, Burdick took long strides toward her, ‘ “Marcia!” he cried, holding out both 'hands. ‘“‘Great Heavens! If I had im‘agined—why on earth didn’t. you come to see me?’ : ; '~ She stepped back with a surprised exclamation; then a girlish color suffused her face. She put out her hands impulsively, instantly withdrawing them again. But it was too late. Burdick had them both securely in his. He led her ‘ tp thesofa, and sat down beside her. - “Do you mean to tell. me you live ihere.?” he asked, sternly. ° : Sensitive tears sprang to her eyes. l “Yes, Willard. -It seemed—Dbetter.” ' she faltered. “Everything went to Em- ; mett; and I could not be a burden.” He restrained some: foreeful words." “Your son came to me two days ago, to obtain a loan of $5,000 on the farm. He is very unlike you, Marcia. Do you mean to tell me that your husband left him absolutely everything?” He was watching her narrowly, for a clew to l put his news with gentleness. i “Everything,” she answered, fuietly. “Emmett is not my child, though, Willard; he is a relative of John’s first wife. He was not even adopted; but he lived with| us, and uses our name. I never knew of the will, till Emmett’s ’lawyer brought it. I signed the papers | because they insisted upon it. I did not llmow. I never had any head for business,” smiling tremulously. “I supposed there was at least a living for me. But Emmett and his wife understood differexﬂly’. So I took the two hundred I had in/the bank, and came here.” Burdick leaned back, almost giddy with relief. No son of hers! Thank God! :

“What if I were to tell you, Marcia,” he said, at last, slowly, “that your signatures under compulsion are not worth a straw, that the will itself was forged, and that I have Emmett Warren’s sworn abdication of every claim on your husband’s property, while you live?” White as a ghost, she sfared at him in dumb unbelief. . “It is not true, Willard ?” .

“It istrue,” he answered. “Your home is your own again. There will be no scandal; the rascal was glad enough to capitulate, when he was faced with proofs—and I had them. - But—" he leaned over, a great light leaping into his eyes—*“that was not the real business that brought me to see you, Marcia. Do you remembrgr the old poplar down in the pasture? I saw it last summer. The two names I cut in the bark have grown into one. Was it an omen? Dear, the place you left vacant walits for you still. Will you take it again?” Once more the soft color flooded her thin cheeék. “Oh, Willard!” she began; but Burdick’s big arm was around her, and he had drawn her close to his shoulder, : !

“We must never quarrel again, sweetheart. Great Heavens! Was it all a wretched dream, I weonder! It’s never 30 years since I held you—and kissed you —thts way!”

sudden movement, coupled with the paroxyism of coughing, caused a complex action of the muscles, which broke one of his ribs. ¥

Mr. Hulbert will be confined to his home for some time. He is a director in the Pullman Palace Car company and retired from active business several years ago. '

NEW SPLINT IN SURGCERY.

Invention -' Enables Person -with Broken Leg to Go About Business - a Few Days After Accident. -

A series of interesting experiments have recently been made at the London hospital with new gplints which enable a person with a broken leg or thigh to go about his business within a few days of his accident. The invention hails from the continent; where it has been in use for scme years. The principle of the splint is that round the seat of the fracture is fastened a hardened leather case, which fits the leg closely everywhere and prevents any movement of the fractured bone. The weight of the body is ‘then carried by jointed steel rods attached to another case fastened above or below the knee, according to the place of the fracture. With this appliance the patient is enabled to walk before the brokén bone is joined, and there is none of that after trouble with stiff joints which comes when a limb has been held rigidly for weeks. ; e ‘Twould Seem So. Shippen—lt’s awfully dull in the shipping business; nothing to do at all. It’s particularly hard on the tramp steamers. Jokeley—Why, I should think tramp steamers would be delighted when ‘there’s nothing to do.—Philadelphia Press. ; S o

ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS.

Long Deadlock Ends in Nomination of Deneen for Governor—The [ Full Ticket. '

Springfield, 111., June 4—By making a combination with Charles S. Deneen, L. Y. Sherman, Howland J. Hamlin and John H. Pierce, Gov. Yates broke the deadlock in the republican state convention and brought about the nomination of Deneen for governor. The nomination was made on the seventy-ninth ballot, which stood: Deneen, 957%; Lowden, 5221%; Warner, 21; Yates, 1. The combinaticn was the result of a series of conferences, which were held Thursday night and Friday morning,

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The convention then took up the nomination of a candidate for lieutenant governor, but the leaders of the new combination were not prepared for this and a recess was taken until eight p. m.. In the meantime, the parties to: the combination which had nominated Deneen, met at the executive mansion and prepared a slate for the remainder of the ticket.

At the evening session the making up of the ticket was rapidly proceeded -with L. Y. Sherman, of McDonough, was nominated for lieutenant governor; James A. Rose, of Golconda (present incumbent), for secretary of state; Len Small, of Kankakee, for state treasurer; James S. McCullough, *of Champaign (present incumbent), for state auditor; W. H. Stead, of Ottawa, for attorney general. - The following nominations were made for univerg¢ity'trustees: Mrs. Mary E. Busey, Champaign; Charles Davidson, Chicago; W. L. Abbott, Chicago. The ticket went through according to the slate agreed upon at the executive mansion conference except in the case of P. M. Chiperfield, who W. H. Stead defeated for attorney general. The following were elected by the convention to be members-at-large of the state central committee: Homer J. Tice, James S. Neville, Solon Philbrick, J. B. McPatrick, Edward H. Wright, Clarence Buck and Scott Cowan. ; At 11:46 'the convention adjourned sine die. ’ .

DOUBLE MURDER AVENGED.

Two Bloodthirsty Blacks Are Shot Down and Another Captured and Then Lynched. ¢

"Greenville, Miss., June 4.—As a result of a fight which occurred on the Sims and Williams plantation, at Trail Lake, Miss., 30 miles east of here, John Sims and his manager, named Cato, were killed by negroes and three of the negroes have been killed, also. The country is in a state of intense excitemen\t and it is feared that further trouble may ensue between the whites and blacks. The slaughter started about ten o’clock Thursday night, when Sims and Cato were shot.down in their store by a negro named Sam Clark.

News of the tragedy was immediately. sent to Greenville, and Sheriff John Crouch, with a posse, went to the scene. Vaw Horn, a confederate of Clark’s, was captured by the posse, taken to jail, and Friday morning takén out and lynched. A negro convict who attempted to interfere with the posse was shot, and Clark was later killed by Sims’ bookkeeper. It is believed at Trail Lake that the shooting is the outcome of a meeting held in the vicinity of Trail Lake by a negro secret society, and that the negroes involved were picked out to do the killing. -

Noted Photographer Dead.

Cleveland, 0., June 3.—James F. Ryder; one of the best-known photographers in the country, died Thursday night after an illness of a month. He was 82 years of age, and had been in business for 52 years. He retired a couple of years ago, after having photographed some of the most prominent men jn public life of two generations.

Assets Ax:e Light.

Boston, June 2.—Hattie M. Johnson, who is known on the stage as Marie Jansen, filed a voluntary petition in bankruptey in the United States district court here Wednesday. She places her liabilities at $1,325, with assets of $177.

Two Men Killed.

Evansville, Ind., June 3.—A freigh\t train on the Louisville & Nashville rajlroad several miles below this city struck a hand car on a trestle Thursday. Two men were killed and one was injured by jumping from the track: To Celebrate Semi-Centennial. . Mount Vernon, la., June 3.—Cornell college will celebrate its semi-centen-nial June 10-16. Senator Allison will preside on ‘“jubilee day,” and Secretary Shaw, of the treasury, and Hon. James Wilson, secretary of agriculture, will be among the spedkers. The commemorative oration will be delivered by Rev. Dr. Elliott, of the class of ’72. . Nominated for Congress. Hamilton, 0., June 3.—Dr. Charles W. Conley, of Eaton, Preble county, was nominated for congress by the democrats of the Third Ohjo district.

ALL OVER THE STATE. Events in Various Portions of Indiana Told by Wire. : : Democratic Convention. Indianapolis, Ind., June 4 —Chairman W. H. O’Brien and Secretary Reiley, of the democratic state committee have issued the formal call for the democratic state convention to nominate candidates for state offices to be held in this city August 3. The change in this date from July 20, the time first fixed for the convention, was ordered by the state committee which originally fixed the date. The convention will be composed of the delegates selected prior to May 12, 1904, and the officers and committees of the state convention held on that day. Candidates for the following offices are to be nominated: Governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, treasurer of stato, auditor of state, attorney general, reporter of supreme court, state statistician, superintendent of public instruction, two judges of supreme court. :

Baby’s Rights_in Law.

.Indianapolis, Ind., June 4.—A judgment, declaring little Mary Hazel Himes entitled to $1,640, with which her grandmather had charged a farm in Elkhart county, on selling it to the child’s uncle, when she was one year old, wasaffirmed by the appellate court. The owner of the farm insisted that the promise tc pay the money was ‘‘outlawed,” because the grandmother had allowed six years to elaps¢ without requiring it to be performed. But the court held that the statute of lijmitations does not run against a baby, and that the $1,640 belonged to Mary and ngt in any sense to her grandmother.

Damages for Child’s Death.

Indianapolis, Ind., ' June 4.—The judgment for $1,350 recovered by William Schomberg against the Indianapolis Street Railway company, on account of a street car having run over and killed his three-year-old boy, was affirmed by the appellate court\; The child was struck while trying’to run across the street directly in:front of the car, but the company was charged with being negligent in using an old, worn-out car, that was not equipped with proper fenderson the front end, nor with proper appliances for stopping it when the child got in the way. A :

Minister Injured.

Tipton, Ind., June 4.—Rev. U. S. A. Bridge, pastor of the Methodist church, was very severely injured by an explosion of gas, as the result of which he may lose his sight. Mr. Bricge went into the basement of the new church, and struck a match to light a gas jet. A heavy explosion® followed, the 'pastor being severely burned and losing his hair and eyebrows, besides suffering the injuries to his eyes. Some one had lett a jet partly open in the basement, and the gas had been accumulating for several days. : . .

Blue Jay Is Bird of Prey.

Greensburg, Ind.,, June 4.—Several days ago complaint was lodged against Clyde Stagg for violating the law relative to protection of song birds, he having shot a’ blue jay. Deputy Game Warden Gulletfer was complainant. A jury in ’Squire Crath’s court “sat” upon the case, and finally returned a verdict that the blue jay is a bird of prey, and not a song bird, and therefore Stagg was not guilty.! ap: '

Tooth of Mastodon Found.

Hillsboro, Ind., June 4.—A tooth of‘a mastodon has been found on the farm of Frank Helms, on Coal creek, east of Aylesworth. It weighed about three pounds, and was well preserved. Pieces of numerous skeletonsqbf these animals have been' uncovered along Coal creek in recent years, indicating that mastodons once roamed this region in large numbers. Jaanh S

Elks to Meet in Anderson.

Anderson, Ind., June 4.—After a campaign of several weeks, conducted by means of correspondence, the local lodge of Elks has obtained the state meeting of theorder for Anderson. It will be held next August. There are 56 lodges in the State, with a membership of about 6,500 and a large crowd is expected at the state meeting.

Postal Clerk in Trouble.

Danville, Ind., June 4.—Fred Wilson, aged 18, a clerk in the post office department here, was arrested charged with the theft of valuable letters from the mails. llt'is alleged he opened letters containing money and drafts and appropriated the contents. Some of the letters were found on his person, and he confessed. He is in jail. X

Rapid Work.

Terre Haute, Ind., June 4.—The Chicago & Eastern Illinois is trying to lay ten miles of track in ten days. The stretch is south from Hillsdale toward Terre Haute. Three big gangs of men will be kept at work full time until June 10. It is part of the double tracking project of the company. 1

Fell from a Train.

Brazil, Ind., June 4.—Charles Grimm, a brakeman on the C. & E. 1., was almost instantly killed by falling off a freight train near Coal Bluff, several cars passing over his body. His remains were brought to his home in this city.

Millers Want to Grow.

Indianapolis, Ind., sune 4—The constitution of the Indiana Millers’ association was modified at its session here so that its membership shall include all ajlied business men, such as sack dealers, manufacturers of milling machinery and others, whose membership may become advantageous to the organization.

Aged Man Killed.

Terre Haute, Ind., June 4.—Michael Sheerin, aged 60, was kilied by a Vandalia passenger train as it arrived in the zity. He was on the track at the north Mmits of the city. :

BITS ABOUT ANIMALS.

Broad headed horses are the cleverest. In cavalry regiments it has been noticed that horses with broad foreheads learn their drill more rapidly than the others, ;

Animals have a language made up of signs or inarticulate sounds expressing sensations, passions, but never ideas. So this language excludes conversation, and is limited to interjections or signs or movements expressing joy, grief, fear, anger, all the passions of the senses, but never more. ¢ ;

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MOST OUTRAGEOUS BURDEN

Tariff-Cursed Wool Industry Isa Fine Sample ‘of Republican Love of Big Trusts.

Of the many foolish, injurious and even outrageous tariff taxes levied by the Dingley bill, none, perhaps, does & greater amount of harm to all, and a smaller amount of good to a few, than do those levied on wcol and woolens. This tax, averaging nearly 100 per cent. on both raw wool and on woolen goods, increases the cost of woolen clothes by nearly 100 per cent., reduces the amount of wool consumed by about half; compels the general use of cotton, shoddy and other cheap substitutes and adulterants, instead of wool; compels working men with ordinary incomes to wear inferjor and improper clothing in winter, and is responsible for much of the pneumonia and other diseases that carry off such a large percentage of our northern population every year.

This tax on wool and woolens is, besides, a heavy burden upon the woolen manufacturing industry, which is now ianguishing, and is comparatively stagnant and unprofitable. Neither has it, apparently, benefited the wool growing industry, for fewer pounds of wool are produced now than either 10 or 20 years ago, while the number of sheep is about the same now as then.

The only real prosperity enjoyed by the woolen industry for more than 30 years was during thd three years of free wool under the Wilson bill. During this period our woolen mills manufactured more yards of woolens than ever before or since, and the per capita consumption of wool increased gr=atly, and was then about 60 per cent. greater than it has since been. ;

The duties of woo! vary from 4 to 12 cents per pound on raw wool, to 33 to 36 cents on scoured wool. Duties on woolen goods vary greatly. Generally speaking, they are three or four times as much per pound as upon an equal number of pounds‘of raw wool, and, in addition, from 30 to 55 per cent. ad valorem. The duties on raw clothing wool may be considered as 11 cents per pound, on woolen clothes, at 44 cents per pound, and 50 per cent., and on clothing, 44 cents per pound and 55 per cent. The duty collected on' imported wool last year was 35 per cent. of the value of the wool, and that collected on woolen goods was equal to 91 per cent. of their value. As these, like all other specific or partly specific duties, are higher on cheap than on expensive goods, it {5 evident that they will average about 100 per cent. on -ordinary woolen goods. As about 40 per cent. of the wool con= sumed in this country comes from ‘abroad;and, thersfore, is nearly doubled in value by the tariff duties, it is evident that the tapiff must increase the value of most woolens sold here by nearly 100 per cent. ; The total value at retail of all woolen goods and clothing sold in this country is probably about $500,000,000 a year. It is safe to say that $150,000,000 of this amount is due to the tariff dutieson wool and woolens. This is an average of about nine-dollars per family for our whole population. : The total value of all the sheep in the country on January 1, 1904, was estimated at only $133,530,099, and the value of the wool clip for the year 1903 at $58,775,373, or only about one-third the tariff cost of woelens. -

But not more than half of the price of wool (probably not one-fifth) can be credited to the duty on raw wool. THerefore, in order to grant a protection bonus of from $10,000,000 to $30,000,000 a year to our wool growers, we tax all families an average of nine dollars per family, in order that we may confer a tariff benefit which cannot possibly exceed two dollars, and which probably does not exceed 75 cents per family. . But, as one-half of this protection bonus most .certainly goes to less than 200,000 of the big ranchmen of Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, 'who produce more than one-half the wool grown in this country, the average for all the other families cannot exceed one dollar, and probably does not exceed 40 cents per family. ; :

How the Farmer Is Robbed.

If the farmer had to set aside a part of his produce and deliver it to the tariff beneficiaries, he would think he was robbed, and be up in arms. Yet that is virtually what the farmer does. He sells’ his produce at the price the trusts set on it, or at prices fixed in the open .markets of the world. When he buys he pays a certain portion of his produce to the trusts and monopolists in excess of what their goods are worth, and in nearly everything he buys there is also the tariff tax, to the government, added. The protection the tariff gives the trusts plunders the farmer. both ways, and also indirectly increases the railroad rates that have been raised, to match the increased cost of living. If the portion of the farmers’ produce that all these Zeneficiaries of the tariff exact were piled up alongside of the portion the farmer retains for himself, it is a question which pile would be greater. e

MAKING A TARIFF PLANK

A Task That Is Gi®ing the Managers of the G. O. P. Much Anxiety Just Now.

Senator Aldrich says the republicans will revise the tariff when it is necessary to do so, but as the senator manages the republican tariff programme, and in turn is controlled by the trusts, the time for revision is certain to be in the distant future. Those of us with small incomes, at the mercy of high trust prices, have seen the necessity for tariff reform ever since the combines boosted prices beyond the ability of the poor man to pay. The Rockefeller group of-industrial trusts, with whom Senator Aldrich is connecied, will hardly consider it necessary te revise the tariff, unless to raise it o a higher plare. The last republican platform for lowa declared that “Duties that are too lcw should be increased, and duties that are tce high should be decreased.” That was the plank adopted ‘to compromise the difference between Gov. Cummins : and “the standpatters,” so that each could point to it with pride. The followers of Gov. Cummins who believe that the tariff shelters trusts, could quote that part of the plank which promises that if duties were too high, and were fostering the trusts and allowing them to ‘tob “the lowa farmers, the duties would be reduced. The standpatters, on the other hand, who proclaiim that h‘igh’ duties bring prosperity, doibtless feel that still higher duties would bring about even greater prosperity. But this juggling with words that gave both factions a chance to approve the platform, did not lead to any revison of the ta/g,ff by congress, and, in fact, the la,v\/a delegation, led by Senator Allison, agreed to ‘“let well .enough alone.” That is, the trusts and corporations ‘had more influence with congressmen than their constituents, for Gov. Cummins, who believes in tariff reform, was elected by a large majority, which shows that most of the people of lowa favored . revision.

The repyblican leaders are now trying.to agree on tariff and trust planks to be incorporated in the platform to be adopted at Chicago, and the same juggling with words that will allow b‘iﬁh factions to stand on the platform is\certain to be presented to the voters. Senators Aldrich and Lodge are said to be preparing the planks, under the close supervision of President Roosevelt, and the voter that will not be able to find what he wants will be hard to please. ‘ Yet the fact remains that the protectionists and trust interests will write the platform, and also contrnl the action of the -republican national convention, and as every revision of the tariff by the republicans has resulted in increasing duties, it is certain that if the republican party wins the election it will not be considered necessary to revise the tariff, and more certain that if any revision is attempted the protection the trusts now enjoy will be maintained. ; Dun’s incex figures for May show that high prices for all the necessaries of life are still maintained, and yet wages are declining, with a vast number of workers - unemployed, and many important industries running on short time, and yet the high tariff, which the republicans declare' produces prosperity, is in full working order. The price of many farm preducts is falling, and yet the cost of living shows but little, if any, decrease. The beef trust, the coal .trust, the salt trust, the oil trust, the sugar trust, and the minor combina.tions, are paying large dividends, fostered in most cases by the protection the tariff gives them. It woculd seem, therefore, Senator Aldrich to the contrary notwithstanding, the republican national platform should declare when the traiff will berevised, and if the revision shall provide for higher or lower duties, especially on trust products. - :

No Reciprocity for Oligarchs.

Reciproeity was a moderate enough compromise in the interest of the overcharged American consumer and hampered American manufacturer as well. Its expediency and justice were recognized by so eminent a protectionist as William McKinley, and, there can be no doubt, are to-day recognized by a majority of the members of the republican party. But the trust-bound leaders of the party, under the oligarchy in which Aldrich acts as chief director, will not yield this grain, of common sense and common honesty, being determined to hold to the tariff policy of loot and scuttle for present day monopoly gains, no matter how much the purchasing public is beggared or what the menace to the future of the country.—Atlanta Constitution.

Why Not Turn Teddy Out?

Roosevelt’s administration has cost, .80 much that if the sums appropriated were divided'into ten-dollar bills, placed end to end, the earth could be belted and 6,000 miles’ be left. If he' should be given four years more he. would very easily make a new record in extravagant expenditures. Why not turn Teddy out? Prior to hisoccupancey of the white house the United States treasury has never been considered merely as a thing to be played with.—lndianapolis Sentinel. i

TRAINED DOGC DOCTORS.

Hospitals Maintained by Skilled Physicians for the Care of Sick Canines. Joo

Are Chw®ago children treated like cogs? A good many are 'nots.‘EcNot 2s well as some dogs, especially ck dogs, that are often made sick bybeiiljg‘tréated too well, have too much to eat, too many dainties, don’t get out enough or have exercise enough, are shﬁt up. in steam heated houses, and have exactly the same diseases”as their owners do, reports the Chicago Tribune. There are enough of them to keep special doctors busy and maintain special hospitals for them. One on the North side goes his rounds mornings and afternoons just’ like “human” coctors,-as the animal doctors cali their professiornal brethren who take charge 'merely of human beings. A successful animal do¢tor needs as thorough training as 2 “human” doctor. Some take preliminary J;Qurses in ordinary medical colleges, atﬁ “special ones in veterinary institutions - afterwards. Eurcpean institutions are more thorough than those in thisi [country. Here the courses are subsidiary to general medical practice. There they are systematic and independent. || - ) The owner of a $l,OOO dog naturally Goes not spare expense when he thinks he is in danger of losing him. [And when the owner of a pet thinks enough*of it to spend no inconsiderable time feeding it, and playing with it, and-going out to walk with it, and letting it drag him all over the sidewalk and evenlinto the street in its ambles and gambols, he naturally does not hesitate to-call in a doctor when it.has a cold or a fever, oris “off its feed” for any reason, and - is grumpy, sullen or snappy. The doctor is even called up at night, like the “ha--man” doctor, to treat sudden attacks. In some respeets the sick dogis harcer, to treat than a human, because hissymptoms are pot specified and described by language. But the dcctor gives exdetly the same remedies as he would to the owner. Most of this kind of practice is found among the rich, a{s'gheé.\gL can best afford the dogs that are consicered worth so much care and experse, but among those not so able to afford such luxuries dogs are frequently kept for companionship and protection, and ‘are subject to catch human diseases, being confined and pampered .aljost as much as the dogs of thé rich. Andthe coctor is called to them. - . b

The most pampered of the dogs are owned by the childless, who devote themselves to the care of*thesr pets, and are as nervous and as anxious and send for the doctor as often and.as hurriecly as a “human” mother:¢oes. | There are some valuable and valued ¢ogs that are brought into families as toys would be for the amusement of the| | children. These often grow into the affections of the whole family, and when Qne of them

is ailing the doctor is sent for as much as though one of the 'houseqpid'n,eeded him. . : e

A dog’s hospital on the North side isl net as palatial or imposing inside or out | as a “human’ hospital. But/so far as cleanliness-and thorough management is concerned it challenges domparisonwith the best. It is claimed to be more sanitary than most homes,| even -the most elegant. The operating room has all the various protections ﬂrgainst bad conditions -of the more pretentious “human” institutions. Cement = floors, enameled surfaces, porcelaiiifbathtubs, with hot and cold water, and all requisite antiseptics are provided.. On two sides of a long narrow room is ‘t‘he hospital ward. On each side stretch a dozen “rooms” for the patients, steam heated and kept the year round at a temperature of 60 degrees. Each room is openat the front, across which is a strong wire retting. There is bedding at the back, separated from the “parlor’ by a partition coming half way up. Thje;igmage always respects the cleanliness of his bedroom when it is thus separated from the rest of the apartment.. To keep the patients warm and well fed is the first principle for recovery. Under these circumstaces they seldom growl-or bark, especially the high-bred ones..’ One can almost always deteet a ‘“‘cur” mixture by the whimpering and barking. - Equal care is given to the foog -and preparation. Meat, bread and boiled rice carefully selected and cooked are the chief articles of diet. Tpere is room for 30 patients and the hospital is generally full. Its clientage is not confined to Chicago by any . manner of means. Dogs from all over the United States may frequently be !fdund there —hunting ogs: from Florida, pets from St. Louis or Green Bay. To-day a patient will be operated upon for tumor, to-morrow another for paralysis caused by being run over in the street. If the X ray shows the spine unbroken the patient is etherized and the injury relieved, with almost certainrecovery.

Growing Plants for Iron.

The Neue Tageblatt of ' Vienna reports some interesting experiments at the agriculfural bacteriological station there. It. is well known ‘that salts of iron are of great importance to the Luman system, but in Ln;rodueing— the salts into the .body -through the medium of artificially prepared | foods the iron is not always assimilated. The experiments recently made were to ascertain the quantity of iron it would be possible ‘to introduce directly into ‘plant growth, ' procuring| a - natural means of supplying the human system with nutriment rich in iron and easily absorbed. The first experiment was made with spinach, by adding hydrate of iron to the soil. The spinach grown from seed showed a pércentage of iron seven times as great as ntdfnary‘ spinach, without injury to the plant.- It is presumed that other plaritsg will yield similar results. The iron contents, as ascertained in this experiment, are perfectly sufficient for medicinal purposes. and in a form which possesses none of the defects of the best artificial iron preparations. - R nake :

Nothing Strange There.

Scientists are seriously c¢onsidering the report "of the commander of the French gunboat Avalenche, who tells of having twice seen a sea serpent in the bay of Fai-tsi-long, on the coast of Tonkin. It did not differ from the usual vision, being huge in size, with a ruffle along its back. Shots fired at it glanced harmlessly. Cameras were hustled on deck, but the monster disappeared.— Argonaut. S - e o Bae PRI - o Self-conceit is ‘-ielifde,éeﬁt.-,—'-t}hlcgo THbeR e ~

HIDDEN FROM THE WORLD:-

Some Parts of the Lives of Most Fedple Must Be Kept from - : Everybody.

- “In order to keep their pl;ces in soo- - to their own satisfacticn,” says Dr. Norman Bridges, in an essay on “The Etiology of Lying,” “all people must hide some part of their lives from most of “the world..- They reveal different phases to different companies. The public in general, one’s persgnal intimates, the different elements of one's family, his friend or father confesscr, his doctor, even scme casual friend, are se many distinct entities that see the man differently. To each he reveals something of himself that is different from what others- see; some pereeive qualities the others never dream of, and the picture of the man as seen by cach is different from that seen by the others. Nor does the man reveal the whole of himself to even all .these companies combined; some part of his life he lreeps to himself absolutely. No human life is ever fully known or completely written down: -“lnstincet and custom,” continues the doctor, “make it easy, whef_ not disturbed by unusual emoticns, to keep these different phases of-life apart and hold them strictly for the respective audiences they are intended for. Arnd the discrimination seems =0 effortiess that it must- work with-the ease of an autematon. “People of all qualities of intelligence and character discriminate as to what they tell peoplé and what withhold. * * * Even the lcquacious, the exexcessively talkative, find it fasy to Leep certain things to themselves. * * * Anyone who succeeds in smothering his native secretiveness and discrimination as to what shall be toid and what with“held is singled out as a curiosity, end -one to whom it is unsafe to revesl your ¢soul or even your dajly aFairs.” e ‘ And in our connection with others, ih ‘conduct as well as in words, we prevari)'cate and deceive from hour -to hour. ““We put the best we have forward as a - hint we have nothing worse. *#* 3 l We try, before the public. to act bstter L than we really are—always beatter than our average. This deception is laudable ! if it teaches us to be better and cleaner; and. perhaps even if it ¢oes not hake us | better, it is justified on the ground that it spares the world some of the unpleasant things of life. But it leads to the worst misfits in partnerzhips and unions of people of all sorts. "“Is it any wonder, then. if view of° these facts and circumstances, that-we sometimies find difficulty in keeping in line with our ethiecs? Our ethics are based on an undesrstancing of right and. wrong. Our defigitions of lying and. truth-telling are largely man-maée, “and- made because of .the reguirements -of social life. They are certainly good. " Society could not exist without them. But to tell the vertical truth always, even within the proprieties, is cneof the fine arts. Few attain to it absolutely ‘and still keep their fcrce ef character.”

SEVENS IN THE BIBLE. Multiples of This Figure Recur Significantly Throughout the e New -Testameriy The phenomena of the figure T and its multiples;” occurring in the New Testament, have been tcuched upon by Ivan Panin, a Russian student of the Bible, who for a number of years has made his home at Grafton, Mass. This significance of the “seven” .group, says the Chiecago Tribune, will not be lost.even upon the superstitious who are outside the 'pale of Scriptural points, and, as Mr. Panin has shown them, their relations of their ‘groupings to the first 11 verses of the. New Testament must suggest that they were scarcely chance. For instance, in these first 11 verses of Matthew, the ‘vocabuiary' consists of 49 words, or seven sevens; of these ‘words there are 28, or f{cur sevens, which begin with vowels, ard 21, or ‘three sevens, which begin with cohsonants. . ' “This distribution by sevens between vowel words and coasonant words justly might have, been deemed accidental but for the fact that of the 49 words 42" of them are nouns—six sevens—and seven are not nouns,” is the comment of the writer. “Of the 42 nouns there are 35 proper nouns, or five sevens, while seven are_common nouns. Of the 35 proper namés four- sevens are male ancestors of Jesus and seven are not such. Not only then is'the distribution of the® 49 words of the voeabulary by sevens as between vowel words and consonant words but also as between the parts of speech.” ' ‘ : As a further and absolute proof that these phenomena of the sevens are not ‘accidental Mr. Panin points out ‘that the 49 words of the vocabulary show 14 words that are used but once, while 35 of them, or five sevens, are used more than once. His conclusions after an exhaustive arrangement of the “seven” features are that “Not even the choice of the languages in which the Scriptures were written was made without marked numerical design .at the threshhold of the subject.”

*Radium in Germany.

Consul General Richard Guenther, at Frankfort, Germany, reports that notwithstanding the difficulty in its production (many tons of ore being required to produce one gram) a radium industry has already developed in Germany and France, and although one gram is sold at a little less than $2,000, the manufacturers are said to have orders for several hundred grams. The demand for medical purpgses exceeds the supply. Radium possesses all the important qualities of the Roentgen rays, in addition to the invaluable property of being ready for use at any time and furnishing its rays without the employment of apparatus. |

Fired by Snow.

A snowstorm started a fire on the premises of a Belgian farmer. He placed a quantity of quicklime near a sned on his farm, and left it there all night. lln the course of the night snow feil on the lime, and the heat thus developed became so great that the shed was set on fire, its contents being completely destroyed. = : They Want to Live. ' Up to a certain period m>3n comgﬁln because they have to work; after that period they pray that they may always be able to.—Atchison Globe. =