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The Creed of Physicians. We have so long been accustomed to thinking ot physicians as men 'almost wholly iree irom the mercenary spirit that we nnd it difficult to reconstruct our theory. Xoi do we mean to soy- tnat it will be necessary to do so, tor a whole profession ought not to be condemned for the sins of a few men. Only the other day we read of the $23,000 fee charged by the physician who attended Marshall Field in his lat illness; this was at the rate of 300 a day. No one will c intend that the services rendered were, considered simply by themselves worth what was charged for them. Last fall a New York dentist charged Prince Louis $1,000 for filling four teeth. This, too, was an outrageous charge. The Boston Transcript tells of a rich Massachusetts man that had to pay $1(1,000 for having a leg amputated. Another man was charged $13,000 by the physician who removed his appendix. But if physicians have been guilty of this extortion it is good to know that they are being called to account by another member of the profession, Dr. John L. Hildreth, of Cambridge, Mass. He says that in too many instances" the fee.- charged by physicians "seems to be based, as the railway magnate said of the freight charge, upon what the traftic will bear." That indeed is the almost avowed theory. But there is nothingto be said in support of it. The rich physician would think it a great hardship if he were charged more than the poor man for his books. He pays his coachman the market wages, and these have little relation to his ability to pay. Service is service, and it ought to be paid for as such. Of course, we understand that many physicians do much work for little or nothing that they have a large charity practice. And this is sometimes pleaded in defense of the practice of foaking" the rich patients. Put what a pitiful plea it is! To admit it would be to rob the profession of one of its greatest glories that of succoring the poor and needy. If the physicians compel their rich pttients tc pay for their charities, it s the rich patients and not the physicians who ought to get the credit for them. Indianapolis News. Chicago-New York Trolley. The Cleveland Plain-Dealer says: "A syndicate of leading Cleveland bankers and traction men has been formed to undertake the construction and equipment of the Chicago, Lake Shore & Sou Ih Bend Railwty Company. They propose to have the road completed and ready for operation by Sept. 1, 100S. "The Chicago-South Bend electric is one of the most important links in the troltey chain that will eventually connect Chicago with New York. The financial plans of the new syndicate have not been announced, and probably will not be for some time. ,The participants are wealthy men, who will furnish the funds required and perfect the underwriting plans later. The total investment is expected to reach $3,000,000."

School Opens August 0. There is held annually at Winona Lake a school for the training of Sunday school workers. The. school is under the joint auspices of the State Associations of Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Illinois and the Winona Assembly. This is known as the "Fourth . International District Training school" for all Sunday School workers. The session of 190G, which is the third annual session, begins August 9 and continues until the 18th. It was organized in 1903, in the month of December, at Indianapolis, and held very successful sessions in both 1901 and 1905. The enrollment in 1905 was over 500 students. Very Likely Groundless. A statement printed in the South Bend Tribune that the Democrats of the Thirteenth district contemplate the nomination of Mayor Fogarty of South Bend to run against Brick is very likely groundless. While Fogarty is very popular and would command enthusiastic support, he has never even intimated that he is an aspirant for such an honor and it now seems to be well understood that Mr. Shively is to make the race against Brick. Goshen Democrat. Heading Off Hearst. Ex-candidate Alton B. Parker is given credit for discovering a way to head off Hehrst as a seek-, er for the nomination for governor by the Democrats of New York. It is pleasing to know that Mr. Parker has been aide to render some service to his singularly helpless party. He has not, incidentally, rendered much service to his state, for there was no danger that Hearst would be elected if nominated by the Democrats. -

Diseases in Swine. The heavy loss from disease in hogs is largely due to transmissible diseases. The organisms that produce this class of disease usually enter the hotly in the feed and inspired air. Hence, muddy or dusty- yards, especially, if over-covered and filthy, filthy feeding floors, troughs and hog houses are largely responsible for the prevalence of hog cholera, swine plague, etc. As young hogs are less able to resist these diseases than healthy, mature animals, the necessity of using preventive measures at this season of the year is of double importance. During the spring and summer wallo'V-holes are formed in the yards and pastures. In case the hogs run in a large lot or pasture during the summer, it is often considered unnecessary to clean and disinfect the small yards and hog houses and they become filthy and dusty. Muddy yards arc especially objectionable, as they become filthy. If necessary," the sanitary conditions of the yard can be improved by draining them, keeping the wallow holes filled in and taking the hogs out for a few months every year. The unused lots can be cleaned and put to good use by plowing and sowing them to oats, rape, cow peas, etc. In no place on the farm are disinfectants so necessary as in the hog houses and yards. Whitewash should be used about the houses at least once during the year. Every two or three weeks the houses, feeding floors, troughs, etc, should be sprayed with a disinfectant. The tar disinfectants are the most convenient to use. These should be used in not less than two per cent water solutions. An occasional spraying or dipping of the hogs in a one per cent water solution should be practiced. The entrance of disease producing germs from outside sources should be carefully guarded against especially if hog cholera is present in the neighborhood. The danger of carrying the germs in the mud and filth that may stick to a person's shoes who has walked through yards where hogs are dying of "cholera" should be recognized. Dogs, horses, cattle, stray hogs and wagons may also act as carriers of disease. The opportunity for -rows, buzzards, and dogs to distribute disease is not great in ;ections of the country where the carcasses of the dead hogs arc disposed of by burying. Hogs from other herds should be placed in quarantine, for three weeks before allowing them to mix with the herd. Keeping the hogs under the liest sanitary conditions possible, ind usingUhe necessary precauions in preventing infection from the outside, is the mos satisfactory method of avoiding loss from this class of diseases. Purdue Bulletin.

Was a Partner of "Nasby." Samuel Andrews, of Toledo, Ohio, is visiting in Warsaw, the guest of his relatives, B. F. Richardson and wife. Mr. Andrews, who is past eighty years of age, is a veteran newspaper man and was connected with the Toledo Blade for 40 years, when that paper was one of the leading periodicals in the middle west. In the publication of the Blade Mr. Andrews was a partner of Mr. Locke, whose nom de plume in a series of political articles, which appeared for a few years succeeding the war, was "Petroleum V. Nasby." These communications, dated "Confederate X Roads," will be recalled by many subscribers of the Blade who reside in Indiana. Mr. Andrews is a gentleman of il:-; old school and one whom it .s a pleasure to meet. ' How to Produce Pork. The essential points involved in profitable pork production consists of quality in the breeding stock. The pure-bred sire is the farmer's best friend, although" some do not realize this fact and think that a common-bred sire will do as well. The pure-bred sire is prepotent and will impress uniformity upon his offspring. Provide range, an abundance of grass and succulent feed, a wellbalanced ration, regularly fed. Also charcoal ashes and salt and an abundance of pure water. If not blessed with natural shade in summer, provide it; also dry, clean, comfortable pens, with an ibundance of sunlight. Keep stock free from vermin. Removing a Mountain. It was said that faith like that of a grain of mustard seed could say to a mountain, "Be thou removed and cast into the sea," and it would be done. St. James exhorts to show thy faith by thy works. The inhabitants of Rio Janeiro have taken the advice of St. James to manifest their mountain-removing faith. They are expending $100,000,000 to remove a hill that has shut out the sea bifezes from their city and they are succeeding in their work.

Mrs. Van Dorstan Suicides. Mrs. Catherine Van Dorstan hanged herself to a clothes-line post at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. T. Wallace, 2 miles south of Argos, Wednesday night, and had been dead several hours when found by the family Thursday morning. Mrs. Van Dorstan was the widow of the late George W. Van Dorstan of Argos, and the mother of Mrs. Charles Yearrick and Mrs. Charles Bell of this city and Mrs. J. T. Wallace with whom she was making her home at the time of her death. She also leaves one son, Willis Van Dorstan, of Chicago. Deceased was one of the early settlers of the Argos neighborhood and was an excellent woman who had during all her long life held the respect and esteem of all who knew her. She was 78 years old on the day of her death. She had been in failing health for several years and during the past year had been quite ill most of the time. She had evidently prepared to hang herself. She buckled a shawl strap over the top of the post and attached to it a strong strip of cloth with which she had affixed a noose about her neck and then fell forward, choking to death with her feet touching the ground. She slept in the front room of the house and when the family went to bed after she had retired about 8 o'clock Wednesday evening, she requested that the door be left partly open on account of the intense heat. This was done, and as soon as the family were asleep she went quietly out and hung herself. Despondency and ill health had evidently impaired her mind and she felt that death was preferable to life. The relatives have the sympathy of all in this trial. She was a good mother and a good woman and under ordinary circumstances would never have taken her life. Funeral services will be held Saturday. Reduced Railroad Fares. The era of cheaper railroad fares has come. It is learned from a representative of the allied railroads of the country that all the large systems are preparing to follow the example set by the Pennsylvania and reduce one-way through passenger fare to two and one-half cents as a maximum rate. The Southern system probably will be the first road to announce that it has decided to meet the Pennsylvania's new rate. It is confidently believed by persons acquainted with the situation that a universal two-cent fare will be in force within three years. The action of the Pennsylvania Railroad company in reducing its through rate to a maximum of two and one-half cents will, it is asserted, give an impetus to the campaign for a twocent fare in many states. Both political parties are declaring for such a passenger rate, and it is foreseen that nearly every state legislature that will meet next January will have to deal with the subject. It seems probable that the state view will be that if the roads can afford to give a rate of two and one-half cents a mile on through traffic which requires such expensive equipment, they can well afford o make a twocent rate on all business within the boundary of a state. Garn's Title in Doubt. Francis E. Garn, who was installed as chairman of the Republican central committee at Plymouth some time ago by J. L. Moorman of Knox, Republican district chairman, apparently did not get a clear title to the place and is having a lot of trouble to hold it. Last week he brought suit against William G. Hendricks who claims to have been regularly elected last winter, to have Hendricks ousted from the chairmanship and his own title to the place quieted. Mr. Garn also asks for a change of venue from the county, claiming that Hendricks' influence is so strong that a fair trial of the case cannot be had there. Evidently the Republicans of Marshall county do not submit to Mr. Moorman's leadership or dictation so patiently as those in this county.---Knox Democrat.

Millionaire as Farm Hand. One young man millionaire docs not believe in joiniii the ranks of the idle rich, and has gone to work on a farm. John F. Crosby, 17 years of age, came into a fortune of at least $1,000,000 by the death of Major F. Crosby, of Chicago. Young Crosby is a student at the high school, is a good golfer and athlete, but believes that every young man should do some useful work. This summer, therefore, he is working on the farm of Charles McConncll, near Ripon, Wis., as a hired man, and takes his share of what is coming without dodging.

Mint Raising in this Secton. One of the most profitable agricultural ventures in Northern Indiana at the present day is the growing of mint. Owing to the big increase in demand the past two years, the number of farmers interested in the growing of mint has increased and the acreage has been doubled. Mint growers like Todd, of near Detroit, who raises from 30,000 to 40,000 pounds every year, soon become millionaires. Todd is known all over the world as a grower and dealer in peppermint. One of the essential factors to the succesful growing of mint is a soil adapted to the plant. It must be damp but' must not be too wet. A drained marshland has proven to be the best. The farmer can get into this kind of soil and ground early in the spring and can also afterwards keep it weeded. There are at the present time in Elkhart county six farmers interested in the growing of mint. There are about twenty-five acres in Elkhart county in mint. Michael Mishler, who came to this county from LaGrange and settled southwest of Goshen, has extensive plats in mint. A couple of farmers, including Samuel Whisler near Nappanee, are raising mint this year. The others are located in Clinton township, near the LaGrange and Noble county line across which lies the rich mint section of those counties. The peppermint grown by the farmers and cultivated is iie

English mint brought to this country about ten years ago, a4; least it was first introduced to mint raisers about 1895. The American mint, which grows wild, is much sweeter but yields only about fifty per cent as much oil as the English plant. The old mint is ripening now, and from this time until October 1st, will be gathered. The new mint, which was set this spring, will be ripe about the middle of August. A peculiar thing connected with the mint industry is the value of what is known to the trade as spear mint, and which the farmers claim is not really mint. This grows wild along the country roads and lanes. The dealers are very keen for the oil of this spear mint and will pay $1 a pound for it.. The pricc'has advanced rapidly the past two years on spear mint. The farmers state they do not know what it is used for. American Meats are Best. Secretary Wilson of ihe department of agriculture is undoubtedly correct in saying that American meats and meat products are superior to those produced in any other country. Their quality moreover, will be improved by the inspection act, the rules for which have just been promulgated by the secretary. As recent revelations have shown some bad conditions in the slaughter houses of England Germany and Australia, our own will have a decided advantage over all the other concerns as soon as the requirements of the new law are fully met. As was to be expected, the packers have cheerfully promised to comply with all the terms of the inspection act. It is to their interest to assist the inspectors in their work. ' The act will put the national government's stamp of approval on their products, and this will give them a prestige all over the world. There has been a heavy falling off recently in the sales of American meats and meat products abroad, as compared with the same time in 1905. Part of this is due to the shrinkage in Japan's purchases on account of the disbandment of a large part of her Manchurian armies. Some of the decrease, however, has undoubtedly been caused by the recent exposure of abuses in this country. This will all be improved under the new law, and the sales of the American products abroad will 'soon pass the highest records of 1905 or previous years. v But something is yet needed to protect the American consumers. The federal inspection law covers meats for interstate and foreign commerce. Those for local consumption are not touched by that statute. State and municipal regulations will be needed to supplement the national act if all the people are to be guaranteed wholesome meats. The chances are that the reforms made necesgary under the federal law will operate in favor of the local consumer as well as the purchaser in other states and in the outside world, but the state and city lawmaking bodies should move in the matter. In food products of all sorts the recent federal statutes, if properly supplemented by local regulations, give the American people an important advantage over those of any other country. If you have not already done to subscribe for the TRIBUNE for a frie.id during the campaign. .

Can He Raise the Dead? The magicians of India excel the rest of the world in their necromancy. In the open air, in view of hundreds of people, they will plant a seed in the ground and cause it to grow into a tree the top of which is out of sight and by climbing which a boy will disappear into the clouds, to reappear irom behind the magic

ian. They will shut up an attendant in a wicker basket and run a sword through the basket in every direction until the blood of the attendant all runs out and his dying screams have ceased and then take him out of the basket alive, unscathed and smiling. Varying the feat somewhat, they will place the attendant in a coffin and bury him in the ground for two weeks. At the end of that time the crowd of people that saw him interred will meet again at the grave. The magician will then open the grave and the coffin and present his attendant to the spectators in as good health and as cheerful as any of them. Whether this resurrection feat is real or only a hypnotic trick is disputed, but it seems to. have made a deep impression on the mind of Victor F. Lawson, who has conceived the idea of using it in politics. He seems to think that if the magicians can bury a man for two weeks and then raise him to life a political boss ought to be able to kill a man politically and afterward raise him to political newness of life with equal ease. Chicago Chronicle. Income and Inheritance Tax. In England a man with an income of $2000 a year piys $02.50 in hard cash to the government each year as income tax If his income is $3300, he must pay $173, and for all incomes over that size the rate is the same one-tvientith of the income. On ly incomes of less than $800 nre entirely exempt. Also in England there is an inheritance tax so heavy that it absorbs 8 per cent of all estates of $3,000,000 value or over, de creasing, however, for smaller estates, so that for the smallest it takes only 1 per cent of their value. ' . From the inheritance taxes the British treasury gets up ward of $30,000,000, and from the income taxes upward of $110,000,000 a year. Indeed, with a higher tax rate, the yield of the income tax has been as "much as $190,000,000. In Germany over 10 per cent of the income of the states comes from the income tax. In Italy over 1G per cent. In France over 2 per cent. In Japan about 5 per cent. In Sweden over 11 per cent. The inheritance lax, which gives England about 9 percent of its total revenue, gives Belgium over 4 per cent, and is said to be in practical use in almost all of the European countries except Russia and the Balkan states. The income tax is forbidden to our federal government until the constitution is amended or the supreme court reverses itself, but the inheritance tax is within, the power of congress to impose. Three Miles of Ships. ' More than thirty steamships are under contract or in process of construction . at lake ports. These vessels will average more than 500 feet in length. Ten of them will measure a mile, touching bow and stern all the way. The thirty odd ships mean more than three miles of steel boats of the latest type and greatest efficiency. On one trip these vessels will be able to carry 300,000 tons of freight, rough speaking. They can take down the lakes over 10,000,000 bushels of wheat in one load for the fleet. In a month they could move as much wheat as would make a good average crop for Ohio from Chicago to Buffalo. If live animals could be stowed away like coal these new boats might transport 500,000 horses na single trip. It will call for good times in the great industries of the lake region to keep lake tonnage busy henceforth. But such times are normal in this part of the world Indiana Third In Revenue. In the preliminary report of the Commissioners of International Revenue on collections throughout the country for the last fiscal year, It is shown that aggregate collections in Indiana for the year amounted to $25,312,002.15. The sixth Indiana district under the supervision of Elam II. Neal, collected $9,720,120.19, And the Seventh Indiana district, in charge of John R. Bonnell, collected $15,G22,481.73. The report also shows that Indiana stood third in the amount collected, Illinois being first, New York second and Kentucky fourth.

Begin Reform With Boys. President Roosevelt says: If you are going to do anything permanent for the average man you have got to begin before he is a man. The older man is almost impossible t& reform. Of course, there are exceptional individuals, men who have been completely changed, not only after they have reached years of manhood but after very adanced periods of life. "But speaking generally, the chance of success lies in working with the boy and not with the man. That applies peculiarly to those boys who tend to drift off into courses which mean that unless they are checked they will be formidable additions to the criminal population when they grow older. It is ; eminently worth while to try to prevent

their becoming criminals, to try to prevent their being menaces to and sores in society while there is a chance of reforming them. "A year ago I was approached by the people interested in Col orado in their juvenile court and they set an' example which I wish could be followed all over the country and particularly in the District of Columbia. To the peope of Colorado I expressed, as I express to you, my earnest belief in their work and told them that of course, so far as my very limited powers here go, those powers will be at your disposal. "I think people rather often completely misapprehend what are really the important questions. The questions of the tariff, the currency or even the reg ulation of railroad rates are all subordinate to the great basic moral movements which mean the preservation of the individual in his or her relations to the home, because if the hom s are all straight the state will take care of itself." Prohibition That Pays. Partial prohibition that is, prohibition of the use of intoxicating fiquors during working hours is enforced by most American . railway companies, and also by some labor unions in dangerous callings in which the lives of many depend on the sobriety of each. In Belgium, it appears, it is practiced on a much larger scale. Consul General "Church Howe in a recent report says that practically all employes of the government and of municipalities are forbidden the use of alcoholic drinks during working hours, and the rule is so strictly enforced that drunkenness in any branch of the public service at any time is rarely met with, while among railway employes it may be said that it never occurs. In Germany also Mr. Howe has found a similar tendency. He tells of an order of the director general of the Alsace Larraine railways prohibiting all forms of intoxicating liquor during working hours. The rule affects all grades in the service. A first offense is punished by loss of grade, and a second offense by immediate dismissal. Such rules as these have common sense for their origin, and there is every indication that further doses of common sense will cause them to be more widely adopted and more rigorously enforced. The indirect results will be almost as important, perhaps ultimately even more important than the direct results. For it can hardly fail to come to pass that men who are required to exercise self-restraint during half or more than half of their waking hours will also exercise it during the rest of their time. Record Herald. Funeral of William Cummings. The funeral of William Cummings held at the Catholic church Saturday morning, was largely attended. Deceased was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Cummings of this city, was in his nineteenth year and until he was stricken with consumption, gave promise of a career useful and honorable. His health began to decline a year ago and for several months he has not been able to do much work, but was able to be up and was out the day previous to his death which occurred Thursday, August 2 at 9:50 a. m. He leaves his parents, two sisters, one brother and one half brother besides other relatives. Stricken While Asleep. G. K. Smith of Silver Lake, went to bed in good health. When he awoke he noticed a pe culiar numbness and prickly sen sation in the limbs and the entire left side of his body. There is no sense and feeling in the left side even to the face and head. While he has felt no bad results other than the peculiar numbness, there is no doubt but that the attack is of a "paralytic nature. He has the use of his limbs the same as usual but the sense of feeling has not returned.

Common Sense on the Highway. Motorists as well as pedestrians will be interested in a recent decision by the British Court of

Appeal in a case involving the application of "the rule of the road." A motorist had run down and killed a cyclist, and a jury, under instructions from the trial court, had awarded the widow of the unfortunate cyclist substantial damages. On appeal the defendant contended that the cyclist had been guilty of contributory negligence, as he did not seem to pay any attention to the hooting of the motor horn. There was evidence, how ever, that the cyclist had stopped to look and listen," as he had to cross certain tracks, and possibly the anxiety regarding trains diverted his attention for the moment from the other source of danger, the speeding auto. The Court of Appeal sustained the jury's verdict, and the lord chancellor took occasion to remind the defendant and all other motorists of the first principles governing the use of "the King's highways." Ihe London press reports him as making the following remarks: "I desire to say this, that when people are driving motor cars or other vehicles on a public highway they have a duty to remember that deaf persons, and blind persons, and nervous persons and children, and decrepit old persons are just as much entitled to use the public highway as they are. And if anybody thinks proper so to drive that there is a chance of serious consequences from a mistake of judgment or a miscalculation on the part of the driver, and those consequences are not averted, he will have to pay for it in damages." Here is sterling sense and simple justice. Reasonable speed regulations are in order, of course, but they are not everything. Motorists have rights, and in providing for the safety of the general public those rights should not be overlooked. The auto has come to stay or to run, rather and we must all accomodate ourselves to it. On the other hand, this or that legal limit to speed docs not relieve the autoists of their general duty of reasonable care. They

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mind that not every pedestrian or cyclist is absolutely sound in body and mind, and quick, alct agile. The English lord chancellor is entitled to the gratitude of the aged, the infirm, the absent-minded, and other large classes of the population for his admirable statement of the rule of the road as it applies to modern conditions. Indianapolis Star. Trying to Fool the Indians. Many of the Democratic pap ers of the Indian Territory are telling the Indians that they ought to vote the Democratic ticket because the Republicans in congress killed the project to create a state of Sequoyah, comprising the present Indian Territory. It is declared that the Indians wanted a separate state for that community so as to, "avoid being swamped by the whites". The Republicans, they charge, defeated that scheme because "the state of Sequoyah would be Democratic." All this is folly. The 92,000 Indians actual and constructive, in Indian Territory, or the proposed state of Sequoyah, would be outnumbered six to one by the whites. They would be "swamped" there by the white vote so completely that they owuld have comparatively little sway in the state. In any way that the ingenuity of the Sequoyah advocates could shape their proposed state the white inhabitants would be in the majority. The red men lose nothing of any consequence by the merger with Oklahoma territory, while they gain much. They get favors in the school fund. They become residents of a state which will be the twenty-second on the roll. and which will enter with a pres tige which will advertise it all i over the world. Every acre of ground in each Indian allotment will be worth 50 per cent more to its owner in the state of Okla homa than it would have been in the state of Sequoyah. Stung by Angry Bees. While poking a stick into the bee hive the young child of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Goss, of Rochester, was attacked by the angry bees. Its cries brought the mother to the backyard of their home, where she found the child with its head and arms completely covered with the bees. She drove them away and carried the child into the house, where upon investigation she found 117 stingers in the child's face and head. Although in a serious condition the baby probably will recover. The child's head is so badly swollen that it measured nearly twenty-eight inches in circumference.

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i, Big Bank Closed. The Milwaukee Avenue State Bank ot Chicago, custodian of the savings oi 22,000 persons was closea by State Bank Examiner C C. Jones Monday morning. . , ihe cashier of ihe bank, Chas. W.' Hering, cannot be found. A warrant cnarging him with embezzlement is in the hands of the police. Paul O. Stensland, president of the bank, is absent irom the city, and his whereabouts cannot be tie finitely ascertained. It was said at his home in Irving Park that he had been spending a vacation in St. Paul and would return to Chicago Tuesday morning. Although no official statement

of the bank's entanglements was made by Examiner Jones, it was reported that there was a shortage in the accounts of from '00,000 to $700,000. According to the banks last statement, the deposits amounted to $1,032,809, of which $3,175,195 was in the savings department, represent ing the life savings of thousands of small depositors. Examiner Jones Monday made the following significant statement : T do not see why the d'rectors of the bank did not cause the 'arrest of President Stensland. He at least hid guilty knowledge." As for the bank's future, Ex aminer Jones shook his head gravely and said: "I do not expect the ban!: to reopen.' The history of bank sus pensions in Chicago is that a bank once closed stays closed." Immediately followjn'j the sus pension of the bank hundreds of excited, wild-eyed and uespciring depositors beseiged its doors. Hardly had the news of the crash become known before cne depositor had dropped de2d from heart disease, being stricken just after leaving a telephone booth wherein he had verified the report. Later in the day auother depositor comiritted suicide by shooting. Natural Gas Has Petered Out. Indiana once far-famed on ac count of the natural gas offered m what was thought to bz inex haustible quantities . for manufntiiT"it- rr tinur rw1e itcolf nfmofr the earth to turn the busy wheels of thousands of the greatest manufacturing industries in the . United States. In his recent report, the state" Geologist says: "Natural gas for domect'c proposes will doubtless be furr.isi:d . the cities of the gas belt for a number of years," but for frctcry use it is almost wholly a thl.'.'ji of the past." -1 In consequence of Hit d:: :: ution of natural gas, Ind:r. . ) lost many of its great menu.' turies and some of the deadest towns on earth are located in what was once "The Great Gss felt" of Indiana. Quarterly Settlctnrr.t Tuesday was quarterly settlement day with the State officers and the secretary of state paid into the State treasury the sum of $30,408.01. The secretary's set-" tlement sheet showed that during the quarter he had collected interest amounting to $7J.17 from banks that held the State's money. In making his settlement with the treasurer, Auditor Warren Biglcr turned over $27.08 interest he had collected. The treasurer received $905.10 from the Board of Control of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, the amount of July receipt at the monument. Lapaz Correspondence. Fulkerson and Row are conducting the meat market. Don't forget the Old Settler's meeting. Date the last Saturday in August. Children's Day will be observ- : ed at the Lutheran church .Sun- -day morning at 10 o'clock. Cement crosswalks are being built in the village. Work wiil soon begin north of the B. and O. R. R. tracks. The Chicago children who are enjoying an outing in and around Lakeville, had a picnic last Saturday at Riddle's Lake. Fight Hurting Brie!:. The fight between the two factions of the Republican party in Marshall county is awakening interest not only in that county but throughout the state. It is thought that the fight has become so furious as to preclude any possibility of republican success in Marshall county, and that the effect in the district will be the retirement of Mr. Brick. Laporte Argus-Bulletin. Has No' Political Ambitions. W.G. Kyte is authority for the statement that Col. C G. Conn will under no circumstances be a candidate for c::y ofnee. Col. Conn had be?n mentioned in connection with t. Democratic ; gubernatorial ru ination.

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