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WILL USE NEGROES.

Contractors to Employ 5000 on Panama Canal. William J. Oliver, and Anson M. Bangs, the contractors who will possibly build the Panama canal, are waiting for the isthmian canal commission to take actioa on the proposition they presented Saturday to construct the canal for 6.73 per cent of the total cost. There seems to be no doubt that the canal commission will within a few days make the award. The proposal of the OliverBangs combination is now being carefully scrutinized by T. P. Shonts, chairman of the commission, and Richard R. Rodgers, general counsel. When the conclusion Is reached and the contract formally executed, Mr. Oliver and Mr. Bangs will set in motion the great machine with which they will build the canst. Mr. Oliver will go to the isthmus at once to superintend this work, the largest and most important ever given a contractor. The contractors will take over the whole plant owned by the government in Panama and will at once begin shipping additional materials to the isthmus. They must, in accordance with the terms of the contract, begin actual work within sixty days from the execution of the contract. Five thousand southern negroes will be taken to Panama by Mr. Oliver. The conditions in Panama are somewhat similar to those in some southern states, where Mr. Oliver has done much work, and he is doubtless more familiar with the methods of handling negro labor than any other contractor in the United States. As practically the whole working force in Panama is black that is, the force actually behind the picks 2nd shovels Mr. Oliver .perhaps will be well equipped. Mr. Oliver will take with him a great force of white steam shovel men, superintendents, foremen subbosses and the like. These will come from the employes of the Oliver interests in the United States. They like Mr. Oliver, will come from the south, where they have been working with negro labor, and it is declared that they will not find trouble in pushing the black man forward at a rapid pace in making the dirt- fly. Anti-Lobby Legislation. The anti-lobbyists that are springing up in legislatures everywhere indicate a healthy and honorable revulsion from an abuse that is hoary with age, but discredited by honesty. Yet at best it is an imperfect remedv for legislative corruption. The death blow to the pernicious lobby must come from the presence of sterling integrit in the Legislature itself. It is a melancholy fact, however, that the formal exclusion of lobbyists from the privileges of the House or Senate floor or from active presence about the State House is calculated to reach persons whh worthy aims and not so much to reach the dangerous and corrupt agencies at which proposed legislation is really directed In the main, the citizens who go openly to the Legislature and seek conferences with members are interst:d in legislation they believe to be meritorious and legislation that usually is meritorious. Such causes as temperance and criminological reform railroad and labor legislation, sanitation and charitable institutions, ballot reform, and tax reform are urged upon members at the State House. The anti-reform and corruption enterprises usually work under cover. Their directive agents are at the leading hotels, or in clubs, or In office where they arrange to meet the members they hope to influence. Often these deals are consummated not at Indianapolis at all, but at Chicago or elsew eri. A iacrite and effective avenue of approach to the Legislature is through the State officers. There is no other way in which members can be so deftly and potently influrnced Governors, auditors, attorneys general, etc., specially if resourceful and masterful men ,are usually In such posession of information as to the members' ambitions, desires, needs and propensities that they can be enlisted in special causes, through appeal to their own plans for strengthening themselves or forwarding measures that seem to them important. The most dangerous and powerful lobbyist is not he who goes openly to the State House and talks his ideas freely to members there. It is the man who holds secret conferences with the members or with, his agents at dinners in private rooms of Indianapolis or Chicago hotels. Indianapolis Star. Death of Mrs. O'Keefe. Anna Maria Wilson was born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1831, and died at her home in Plymouth, Indiana, Jan. 17, 1907. She was married in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1849, to Timothy O'Keefe, who died January 22, 1899. She, with her family, came to Marshall county in 1871 and resided here until her death. She was the mother of eight children five of whom survive her. They are William and Timothy O'Keefe, Mrs. Kate Sester and Miss Mary O'Keefe of this city, and Mrs. Hahn of Indianapolis. She also leaves several grand children and many friends who had known her as an excellent woman during her long residence near this city. Funeral at the Catholic church Saturday morning at nine o'clock. Services conducted by Rev. Father Tremmel. Interment in the Catholic cemetery.

Looks Like Lobby.

Nothing more than oratory and rid icule followed the effort of Mr. Elliott of St. Joseph, to obtain a suspension of rules in the House Wednesday for the immediate passage of his bill, drawn along lines recommended by the Governor, to compel lobbyists to register with the Secretary of State Opposition from the Republican side as well as the Democratic side sur prised Elliott, and he withdrew his motion before a test vote had been taken. Representatives of "special i-utr ests," meantime, sat around the edges and smiled. The first intimation of opposition to the anti-lobby bill came from the Democratic side "I'd like to ask if that bill is introduced by request," said Mr. Cravens, in the most innocent voice possible, when it was introduced. "It's mine only," declared Mr. Elliott, and the reading clerK read it. When Mr. Elliott moved the suspension of rules, Mr. Cravens objected on the ground that the measure was too important for such hasty ac tion. "I regret to hear him say said Mr. Condo, "that the members of the minority side are not familiar with this bill. It was printed in full in the newspapers a few days ago. The majority is familiar with it." "Are we dependant upon the newspapers? demanded Mr. Hoham(Demj "For me, I'll never vote upon a measure that I have not read, digested and fully understand. There are no lobbyists 'here. If there are I have not been so fortunate as to see th?m. If they show up here they'll be treated as was Cigarette Baker two years ago." The members applauded. Mr. Edwards (Rep.) 'of Mitchell, surprised the House and brought cheers from the minority side by saying: "I heartily indorse the remarks of the gentleman from Jefferson (Cravens.) The House is not ready to sus. pend the rules for a bill of so little merit so early in the session. "If there are members here who fear they will be corrupted within the next few days they should remain at home until the danger is over." Mr. Elliott, of Fayette county, suggested a high board fence ana a special guard for weak-kneed members who, he said ,migh need such a meas are for their protectionMr. Elliott, of St. Joseph county, speaking for his bill, said: "My idea was to have the bill, which, I take it everybody understands, passed before the House became engaged in the heavier and more important duties of the session." Mr. Scholl, of Camden, moved that the motion to suspend the rules be laid on the table. He withdrew his motion a moment later and Mr. Elliott withdrew his motion for suspension of the rules. The bill was referred to the committee on rights and privileges. Wül Begin Criminal Suits. Terre Haute, Ind, Jan. 2i. Criminal prosecution of the railroad's omcials, as well as damages from the company, was determined here today by relatives of the dead and by survivors of the explosion which demolished a Big Four passenger train and a freight train at Sandford Saturday night. To the county prosecutor it was represented that the State law gor. erning the handling of explosives was violated by the railroad, and that criminal carelessness was shown in the manner in which the death-dealing shipment was packed. The prosecutor has promised a rigid investigation and warrants for the offenders if criminality is shown. Coroner Leavitt began an inquest to day. It is now believed that the car contained nitroglycerin, though its complete destruction makes the, theory impossible of proof, at least at present. Two of the injured died today, bringing the total number of known dead up to twenty-eight.' It is not certain, however, whether all the passengers have yet been accounted for, and more bodies may still be found. Four more deaths are expected among the injured. The Senate Was Frightened. The Senate has had a streak of economy. It has eliminated from the House legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill the provision for increasing the salaries of Vice President, speaker and cabinet mem bers from $8,000 to $12,000 a year. If the House had not got frightened when the time came to vote on the proposal to increase the pay of members of Congress by 50 per cent, and if the country had not complained loudly of the proposed increase, the senators would no doubt have assented to the increase of their own salaries, and then they would not have thought of striking out of the bill the further appropriation for increased pay for the cabinet members Down on His Associates. Because his wife, to whom he was married in 1900, persisted in allowing the house to go for a period of eighteen months without being renovated, during which time bed bugs accumulated until the sleep of the plaintiff was one protracted nightmare and about as pleasant as sleeping on a bed of thistles, Thomas Williams filed suit in the circuit court for a divorce. Bluffton Banner.

A Letter From Texas.

Stratford, Texas, Jan. 19, '07. Editor Tribune: I promised a number of friends to let them hear from me here and will ask to answer all at once through The Tribune. There was a party of ten from Plymouth with as many more from adjacent counties. We got out of Chicago at 6:30 of the 15th on the third section there being a fourth to follow. The six inch lay of snow remained the same half way across Kansas and in western Kansas I saw what I have heard of so much, the sleet covering telegraph wires so thickly that they broke down. The wires were fully an inch thick including the ice. The weather was gloomy until we passed Pratt, Kansas when the fog cleared and at Hooker, Oklahoma it was like a fine, clear April day. We arrived at Stratford at 3:30 Thursday and found everything all I had expected including a stiff prairie breeze. I began to feel the softness of the air Trom the middle of Kansas on and here it is fine. This morning we had our trip cut off by a genuine northwester which lasted nearly two hours but now an hour afterward the sun is peeping through and the snow is fast disappearing. We passed through Missouri in the daytime and if the balance is like four-fifths of the little portion I saw, I wouldn't thank my best friend to "show me" further. We drove with the Standard Land Co. about forty people in carriages southwest of the city seven miles, swinging eight miles to the northeast and back, thirty miles of a drive and I saw the prettiest lay of fine, rich prairie that I ever saw, and I have seen some of the best too. They raise all crops raised in the north except corn, but they have substitutes for that, nearly as good, which are much easier raised. I saw one field from which forty bushels and one peck of wheat per acre was raised. A man who is fully qualified for farming feels hampered here on a quarter sec tionThe land company's people have not overdrawn' the picture one par ticle unless there are hidden pitfalls, and if this is the case they are hidden on the open prairie. The dirt from postholes all looks alike a chocolate colored, waxy rieh loam. We saw men plowing several places, most of the country being the native buffalo grass sod, which can be plowed with our common plows and three horses. The horses are not good and those coming here would do well to bring horses. Much of the farm machinery is thesame as ours. Nearly half of our company yesterday were from Indiana and the first thing in the morning a young man from Posey county bought 440 acres one mile south of town for $20 an acre, which was the finest bargain I saw, but several other sales were made of quarter and half sections for less money and some farther out. I guess I have taken space enough and will say in closing that the trip is worth the cost and will please the most skeptical. I bought ticket to Amarillo and will come home via Oklahoma City and St. Louis Intending now to reach home about Feb. 10. F. M. McCrory, Disease and Death in December. The monthly Bulletin of the State Board of Health for December says Bronchitis and tonsilitis were the most prevalent diseases. Pneumonia caused 403 deaths as against 347 iii tht same month last year. Diphtheria existed in epidemic form in 12 local ities during the month. It was reported as present in 50 counties and 443 cases were recorded with 67 deaths The city rate for this disease was 45.6 and the country 15.5 per 100,000. 493 cases of smallpox were reported from 19 counties with on death. Said death occurred in Marion county. Ty phoid fever was reported present in 50 counties. There were 439 cases in all with 79 deaths. The city rate of this disease was 34 and the country 35 per 100,000. Tuberculosis wrought its usual de struction killing 329, 293 being caused by the pulmonary form. The death rate of all cities was 15.7 and of the country 11.6. The six larger cities present the following death rates: Indianapolis 17.9, Evansville 14. Ft. Wayne 15.0, Muncie 17.8, South Bend 14.9, Terre Haute 24. Dark Day at Pittsburg. Daylight was not seen in Fittsburg during the thirty-six hours ending Friday evening. Known throughout the country for its "dark days", Jan. 18 is recorded in the history of that city as the darkest day and the only day in which daylight has not been seen for a few hours at least. The phenomenon is attributed to the warm weather fog and smoke from the mills and--, manufacturing plants, coupled with absence of wind that would carry off the obstructions to light. Stores, offices, factories and dwellings were illuminated as at night, and but for the tim as shown by clocks a 'id' timepieces it might well have been theater-goii g hour at any time during the day. Pension for Soldier Woman. The entire Indiana delegation in congress will unite this week to se cure the passage of a bill giving Mrs. Elizabeth Finnian of Grcenburg, Ind., a pension of $30 a month Mrs. Finnan enjoys the unusual dis tinction of having served through the war as a soldier. She donned male attire and performed a number of deeds of heroism. She is now con fronted by direst poverty. Her case will be the first of its kind ever presented to congress.

ANTI-HANGING BILL KILLED.

Capital Punishment Will be Meted Out to Indiana Murderers. Representative Oondo's bill abol ishing capital punishment met its death in the Lower house Monday very soon after it had passed to sec ond reading. It was killed on the mo tion of Representative Cravens of the minority side. The bill made it illegal to inflict the death penalty on murderers in In diana. It was one of the reform measures urged by Governor Hanly in his message to the Legislature. I was said the Governor hoped to save the lives of four condemned men now in prison. The Governor has long opposed capital punishment and Rep resentative Condo, knowing that he had a strong ally in his fight against this system of punishment, had felt that his bill had an excellent show of becoming a law. The debate for and against the bill was listened to by well-fillled galler ies. The bill was before the House on the report of the Committee on Criminal Code, recommending its passage. The report of the committee was made last week and action on the report was postponed until Mon day afternoon. Representative Condo led the de bate in favor of his measure.. The friends of the bill and those against it made frequent references to the Scriptures in support of their argu ments. "I contend," said Mr. Condo, "that there is no distinction between the execution of a murderer by the State and the execution of an individual J citizen by another." The speaker depicted the horrors of prison life. "Death," he said, "is a release from punishment." He held that people do not fear death as they used to fear it. The increasing num ber of suicides, he asserted, would support this contention. "We are liv ing a death sentence every moment of our lives," he continued. "Is il punishment to you and mc to be un der that sentence? No, because we know that it is bound to come. maintain that there is absolutely no punishment in the death sentence. It does not blot out crime; it does not restore the victim." The speaker declared that to inflict the death penalty is to mock Chris tianity. He said the State, in the execution of a murderer, transgresses the law of the Scripture which says that no man knows when hi life is to be taken. He recited -the 'biblical story of Cain and Abel, recalling that the Lord did not say' to Cain, "You shall die," but instead banished him from society. The speaker alluded to the scriptural passage, "Whoso sheds man's blood, by man so shall his blood be shed." "They do not comply with thai passage in Indiana," said Condo "Why? because when you execute a man you do not shed one drop of blood. His neck is broken. Then th:s passage is violated when you convict a man of manslaughter and send him to prison." "If capital punishment wis prescribed in the Old Testament," asserted the speaker, "it was abolished in the New." Representative Fruechtenicht of Allen county spoke against the bill He declared that capital punishment is a menace to those who would commit murder and serves as a restraint. Representative Brown or the minority spoke in support of the committee's report. He said he favored the bill. Representative Garrard of the minority took the other side. ' Mr. Carmichaels of Delaware county, said that while it is a fearful thing to take human life the man who go? out and deliberately commits murder forfeits his right to live. Mr. Carmichael is a minister and his remarks were given close attention and he was frequently applauded. The bill then passed to second reading, but survived only a few minutes. It was killed on the motion of Representative Cravens that the measure be indefinitely postponed, the vote being 48 to 30. More Work for the Republican Council. When public sentiment is once aroused it is wonderful how quickly the evils of a community can be corrected, as for instance, the slot machine craze, since that has been disposed of to the satisfaction of the majority of the citizens of Plymouth, we would like to call the attenion of the Republican council to an evil much more injurious than the slot ma chine, which is being overlooked by the mayor and marshal You will remember that soon after election the order for Sunday closing of saloons went into effect and was strictly obeyed, with but a very few exceptions as it was only intended for a purpose it lasted for only a short time. It has now reached a point where the violators feel so secure from interference that the stairways and hallways are lined with men and boys going and coming where beer and whisky is openly sold in violation of the law. A firm stand by the Republican council assisted by the law abiding citizens will compel the may or and marshal to do their duty. Speaks for 50,000 Negroes. Speaking for the 50,000 negroes which comprise its membership the Grand Council of the National Industrial Association of America adopted a resolution indorsing fresident Roosevelt's action in dismissing the negro soldiers at Brownsville.

n income xax .xor wew Yonc ine state ot New York has revised or materially changed its system of taxation more frequently perhaps, than any dther state in the union. It has created a number of commissions, first and last, to investigate the subject profoundly and discover, ir possiDie, a thoroughly scientific ss ....... . " huhu j i l i j headed by the late David A. Wells, who made an elaborate report which was more scientific than the legislattire could grapple with, and it was almost entirely ignored. , the state now has a tax commission which was appointed by Covernor iiiggms iasi year ana is supposed TT? t t to have been working out the seientific problem once more. It met last Saturday to complete its report, which has been foreshadowed in one respect. It will recommend a progressive income tax. The counsel for me commission nas aireaay prepared a wii lor sucn a tax tne passage ot which it is believed the commission will recommend. . a ... ... U has been given out that the bill provides for laying a tax on all in - comes exceeding $500 per annum, Ihe tax proposed on every income up to and including $10,000 is 1 per cent on the excess over $500, 2 per cent on the excess over $10,000 up to $25,000 5 per cent on the excess over $25,000 up to $50,000 up to $100,000, 15 per cent on the excess over $100,000 up . to $200,000 and 20 per cent on all in excess of $200,000. Persons whose incomes exceed the exempt $500 are required to file statements of the amount and sources of their incomes wages, salaries, fees, commissions ana irom an sorts ot se - curities arfd investments. Tne total is subject to reducti n to the amount inning uue Wimm uic year on mc taxpayers' indebtedness, if any. A uniform income tax is about the

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fairest of taxes that can be devised that funds be provided for an irr'ga- market, America being too well supor would be if the incomes of all J tion scheme on a huge scale. I P'd with timber to create a demand.

could be ascertained with certainty. Yet, though this is beyond reasonable dispute, it has always been found dif -

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' 0 correct returns from taxpayers or fair assessments in default of returns, Bankrupt isn t a Bankrupt. Joseph Leeson, of Garrett, was ad judgd a bankrupt in 1904. His lawyers neglected to have him discharged as a bankrupt within- a year frgm the time he went Into bankruptcy, as the law prescribes and r.ow some of his cred itors ar suing hm for the full amount of their claims and will get them. The peculiar part of it ail is that Lee son's attorneys who had him declared a bankrupt are now bringing the suit to make him pay his old claims in full. For Leeson's neglect to apply to be discharged as a bankrupt the whole bankrupt proceedings are ren dered null and void. It is said that there are dozens of men in Northern Indiana who have gone through bankrupt proceedings and settled with . . ... g . . , uicir ircuuuis iui a icw trii ? wi nie uwuai diiu ntjn.v.n.vi n- i us.i discharge as bankrupts and thus voil -I ed the entire proceedings. The Gar-1 ich läse is VAjJctitu iu jJiii suiuc vji ; , . , . of other bankrupts wise , . her gentlemen may now the creditors and some other be called upon to settle in full in ... , ... .. . uwicr low ii 9 ui uns scviiuii ui state. n Biuc reneu ccaco, A Til T M lt.. J.J Basing the figures on the number of persons enrolled in the Indiana institution for the deaf and dumb, and the. demand made upon the legislaiure Dy its management, it is esti- i matd that if a very large per cent ofl the people of the state were thus af-1 flicted, the entire state of Indiana I would have to be knocked down at sheriff's sale in order to raise the I

money to erect school buildings and aIreadv beun their self-imposed task liminary to a variety of radical redormitories. It would, if tne same telhn the members of the Indiana form laws which have been introduc-

equipment were required to provide I for the education. of a normal child that is asked in behalf of the deaf and dumb, necessitate an investment of two and a half billion dollars. It would seem tht the authorities of the Indiana institution for the deaf ana aumo mignt noia some proniaoie ooo: - ..-u .u a I Willi wich aiv.aiici.1 a uian- . i .1 I nc ings and a large blue pencil. Marion Chronicle The Corn Show. Prizes aggregating $300 and rib bons were awarded at the Purdue University corn show at Lafayette hrtrlv !Tir -ac a htm men to I

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doors were not opened until all the ribbons had been tied on the winning corn, and then fully 1,000 persons thronged through the exhibit hall of the corn school. The judge, A. H. Wintere ä( VVinnni 111 aurarderl the I .....iv.., w ,....v,..u, ..., I premiums. . The state was divided into five sections. In section one, which Included . . a. . ...I Marshall county, the awards were as I ollows: Yellow corn: First, Grant Hayden, Lowell; second, V. D. Lit-1 tlejohn, Kentland; third, P. E. son, Lima; fourth, Moses Sigo, Remngton. White corn: First, S. V. Gor, don, Rochester. Mixed corn: First, P. E. Hudson, Lima; second, G. Graverson, Bremen. Cigarette Fiends Discharged. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy

has handed the cigarette fiend a stiff of Mrs. Nancy Kime's residence, 12 "7 ' blow in the form of an official cir North Sixth Street, Miss Minnie chanf-. Everybody should be intercular recently issued. It announces Gepharr, was attacked by a largt- f stcd ,n sce'n& a &rowth f the teach-

bl cuiar recently issued. It announces that any employe found smoking cig-j arettes will be promptly discharged. I They have ascertained to their satisfaction that a cigarette fiend cannot, or does not, perform his duties in as satisfactory a manner as does the I other fellow. I

The Salton Sea.

What to do about the Salton Sea is a problem which Congress must decide in the next few weeks or never President Roosevlt has sent in an emergency message describing the situation and telling a remarkable story Qf a struggle between man and nature now holding the upper hand. tin. imjjcudi v tucy ui oan uiego County, California, also known as the Salton Sink, lies below sea level and also about 200 feet blow the level of the Colorado river which flows along its eastern side. The vallev is protected by low hills which extend as far as the Mxican border, but there I - ena. irrigation has been the great need of the valley, and a few years ago a private company undrtook to supply it by leading the water of the river around the southern end of the hills and through Mexico back into! California. The company rejoiced in huge profits, which its official Pock - ted instead of using for permanent irrigation works. With what the president calls "criminal negligence." no controlling works were erected at the 1 river where the cut was made, aud when the floods came the river tor I through its soft banks and began to flow into Salton country. To save its tracks the Southern Pacific Rail1 road Company spent $2,000,000 and patched up the bank, finishing the work Nov. 4 last. A month later I . came a rise in the river, which tore the levees out again. With the spring floods such a breach will be I made that enormous expenditures will be necssary to save the valley from being turned into an inland lake, if, indeed, there will be anv 1 hope of saving it The presMent urges that the rights of the private improvement company 1 De acquired on reasonable terms, that $1,000,000 be appropriated for work 1 in building permanent levees and

He estimates that 700,000 acres ofl11 ls different now.

land "as fertile as the Nile Vallev" 1 can be reclaimed, and he illustrates I v..v ..i.rHuvi. ui mc wum uy uuiiu - ing out that the entire producing area of southern California is onlv about 250,000 acres. The land will support he thinks, from 350,000 to I 500,000 people, and the land values I alone, under proper protection,! should be worth from $33,000,000 o I $70,000,000. Women County Superintendent. In many states women arc 'chosen Thirteen of the best counties in Ulinois have women sunerinnntc ,nH ... v .'i I t;;:V" "7": nt Ii,- . v.x.. . hMded down b Af General xn accordance witn art oninmn I r - . ... - Miller on inquiry of State Superin tendent Fassett A. Cotton a woman is eligible to the office of County S. , ITs. . . . I M . . . . on the following found in section u" ZT.. " : :rr I ' rr:u I nit TO. . . . , ... Qmjji married or sin le of th I f 91 VÄ.0 . . Ä , . agel . t. f. . men, shall be eligible to any office un- ... . ? f, , , ler the general or specific school j t h f . . . . My opinion is that the county sup I -.r.iA . .it. .t niiin-uutHi uns Wimm me purview of the last cited section," says the at tornev general. "Whil th Sm mr I ' " --" vv :tf;rt : .. ... ... .... no person shall be fleeter! rr ,nin I acvuuii rquircs inai ed as county officer who shall not be I an elector of the countv vet I nnt construe the term 'county superintendent as being included in county! officers. I I A . . , 1 w8cc hcouko. me f the Indianapolis papers I ....j ...i mcy siwum iipnpra a c c rrt I xr iht i . i ,1 00 and wnat Ieave undone. The unselnslt devotion of some of the publications is beautiful to behold. They appear .to iw&nc that they are the self aPP,ntea guardians of the 150 memucr w, ine "gisiature, ana a ac."Z Z k u some members in that bodv who I ... hold to the idea that the General A- . . . UCrt 111,1 1 luc -cTcrai assembly is fully capable of managing us own Dusiness, witnout so much ofl this gratuitous advice from the local press. If they fail, then will be amnle time for the ncwsnaDers to take tmon themselves the burden of direcrintr thc coufse q( , . , , r mic ui uui jjcuuic. j-aiayexie L,eaa-1 er. I inj ruur to j. axe jraper. I We Heard on the streets the other dav of a man im4i- liim.l U ....... I - . vioiihvu iic w I too poor to take his home paper, but all the same he read a notice in one . I of the city papers telling how to keep a horse from slobbering and sent $1.50 for the receipt. When the $1.50 worth of information came it

Hud-jsakl: "Learn your horse how to spit."

The man who pretends he is too poor to take his home naoer is usually the same individual who is continually getting goldbricked. Attacked by a Snake. While in the woodshed at the rear (Jephart, was attacked by a largi snake. She screamed for help, but before assistance arrived the snake had escaped. How the reptile got in the woodshed is a mystery. It lashed Miss Gephart several times and she was badly frightened. Goshen Dem ocrat

Forest Giants Once Here,

Negotiations for the sale nf the 4no acre Elder tract of timber near Bar bee lake, one of the few large bodies of woodland left in Northern Indiana. has recalled to the minds of older cit izens the former wealth of walnut and poplar near Pierceton. savs the Pierceton Record. William and J. G I icaniara are among tnOSC who helped lay many of the giants of the I forest low, when such a patch as the Elder forest was little noticed. "Between Dutchtown ud here north I of Wooster and Chaoman lake stood poplar tree 9 feet in diameter." said J- G. McNariara, the other dav. "O I . . - such timber! It was certainlv im mense in all that regionl 1 ran what I ws. I think; the first sawmill in that neighborhood. It was the Jacob Snv der mill and I run it for him in 1859 "My, but we've burned manv a thousand feet of the finest noolar and wa,nut you could imagine in big log rollings around Pierceton "The finest of wide walnut, even 24 t( 30 inches wide, sold for $12 to 14 a thousand." The finest tree I lhnk I ever cut was a huge walnut on F. P. Seller's place. It measured 6 feet ad 1 inch at the butt and was aI1 cwrly grained clear to the too. I hink the stump is still standing. That I tree was split up and taken to the Daye Miller saw mill, later known as the sidebottom mill, south of town. I ' and sawed up. It sold for $14 a thous an1 while now every foot of it would be used for veneering and brinir the I highest price." McNamara told of other giant trces and of the richness of the early supply of timber. The saw mills were I aI1 equipped with the old upright saws. he said. "I believe I filed the first buzz saw bro:igh'; into this I nc,S"ornooa, saia i.e. Much of the walnut was sauared I anc shipped east to go to the German I Charge Gross Fraud. I A Tf n . 1 mcinci ikiics r. oarnev. widow I of Samuel F. Barney, founder of the wrecked American Mutual Life insur ance company, of Elkhart, and her sons, v Hugh C, Richard Carl, Wade and Terrance Barney can be held responsible for $86,163.73 of the fund? of the concern alleged to have been misappropriated by the founder, will soon be determined in a suit to be filed in the Elkhart circuit court by I 4. n. ... t . Ü x ,Uil company, r ' . "Ir''.':" u'r 1U w n m diana' 1. Michigan. Ohio, Pennsylvania .and New York are in . . , ... .... icicsicu in ine outcome ot tins utiI gaiion. If the Samuel E. Barney estate is held for the big shortage, policy holders will realize something on i im.ii Claims. ll their claims. If it is not so, they will practically everything. i n If the suit against the Barney es hu &i ui estate left by Samuel E. Barney is seized, it will not pay more than 25 per cent of the sum he is alleged to u . 4 . . have misappropriated in the manageu a r . i tnent of the American Mutual. Lobbyists Out of Nebraska. The Nebraska legislature has pass ed a bili making it a misdemeanor, punishable by heavy fine, for any cor poration to employ a professional p0st' an rcstr'ct,'n2 aIl compan an individuals to arguments be orc comm'ttees- To this end any iicMutnuug mc wpuui, wun out appartnt occupation, may be ar rested, questioned and ejected from the building, and if they return may be confine1 jn :aii unt:i tt,e ses,;on closes. This is understood tobe nrei r n . cq ior a z-ceni passenger rate, airect primary elections, rate regulation, an ti-passes. etc. The legislatures of Kansss and South Dakota are also considering similar measures Indications of Oil and Gas. Ti . Don t get scared, but it is a fact . . that m bo"n8T for the new well at .. . "uinigu u'cwmK Co in ihc scarch for pure water, the dnM nas recently encountered a body I m a a 01 ciaY wnicn gives torth unnv.siakable evidence of crude petroleum. The company is after pure water, to li . usea m Dring meir tamous Deer I and for marmfartnrincr artifirinl ,V ...... uul 11 incy snouia siriKC me on or gas gusher, they would not be very hadlir diannointrl nor tVi n'tiTnc either The well is dom-n over 4nn feet at . .1 .. . present, ana me contract stipulates an ultimate death of 750 fee, if nec essary. The drill is now in limestone rock. Mishawaka Enterprise An Honest Man. One honest man has been found. He ,ives at Warsaw a"d has Just paid evcry cent OI a indebtedness notwithstanding the fact that he was discharged as a bankrupt ten years ago. After his failure he became in terested in Christian Science which quickened his conscience. This is about as substantial a testimonial as ing among business men. New York Tenement Houses. The tenement inspectors in New York City have found over 323,000 occupied rooms which have neither light nor ventilation.

ANTI-LOBBY BILLS.

Republicans Denounce the Measures, But Decline to Vote Against Them. At the end of two hours of oratory in the Senate Monday afternoon, durmg which leaders on the Republican side denouncej anti-lobby legislation with greatest vehemence, declaring it would cast x stigma on the members of the Legislature, and many of them hurling defiance at the administration a vote to kill the measure in question, drafted under the direction of the administration found only nine supporters. Some of the Republicans who had hurled thc loudest protestations at the bill under consideration, when the crucial moment came "backed down" and voted against the resolution to kill. Even Sttiator Roemler, who introduced the motion to postpone the measure, had his name recorded among those who voted "no." The roll call on the motion to kih the administration anti-lobby bill first showed seventeen or eighteen voting in favor of the motion. As soon, however, as it was seen that the measure had been lost there was a general rush for the band wajon, and as the minority sat and smiled Votes were changed from yea" to nay" so rapidly that the roll clerk became confused, and it was necessary for Lieutenant Governor Miller finally to straighten out the result. The plan to have the anti-lobby question fought out Monday was born of Democratic ingenuity. Senator Slack, who had introduced a bill designed after the Folk measure in Missouri, arranged to have Senator Benz, whose name comes early on the list, call up his bill on second reading. He believed that he would force the Republicans either to vote foi his measure or go on record as being opposed to anti-lobby legislation. The Rpublicans vrere looking for this, however, and had arranged to have Senator Beardsley call up the administration bill which had been introduced by Senator Färber. Urge Legislative Action. The Indiana State Board of Education at its closing session Friday in the office of State Superintendent Fassett A. Cotton adopted a resolution expressing the sentiments of the members with regard to the proposes legislation increasing teachers' salaries. The resolution states that it is most important that this session of the legislature enact a law whereby more money can be raised for an increase in teachers' salaries. The resolution was drafted only after an allday consideration of the question and a conference with Senator T.. T. Moore, chairman of the senate committee on education, and Representative Slimp chairman of the house committee, cn "education. They Could Not Save Money. : The fact that a man may be an able professional man, a valuable public official and a usful member of society, and yet lack financial ability to manage business affairs, has again been exemplified in thc recent bankrupt proceedings against Josiah Quincy, former mayor of Boston. He was one of the best mayors that city ever had, is an eminent lawyer and an honorable man, yet in private business ventures he has been a failure. The younger Pitt of England, whose friends had to furnish funds to bury him. was another eminent example. So alx was Daniel Webster. A Funny Case. An unusual lawsuit is now on at Fort Wayne. A piano firm offered a piano to the person making the largest number of words of common us age out of the firm name of the con cern. The piano was awarded to a man with 1,924, it being stated that although a woman had filed a list of 2,471 names, a large number of her list were obselete or else not in the dictionary. The court will now be called upon to decide how many words in the list of 2,471 are good dictionary words. Trainmen Work Too Lonj. That the men employed in the op eration of trains and the signal system on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad work an excessive number ot hours vrlthbut proper periods of rest has been brought out by the commerce commission investigation in connection with the Terra Cotta wreck. An engineer had worked for thirty-six hours without rest. General Manager Fitzgerald admitted that accidents largely occurred as the result of the failure of men to take thc proper time to rest . Good for Chicago. The death penalty for criminal at tacks on women and childrn is de manded by the city council, it is stated. A resolution recommending that the legislature pass such an act was carried by a vote of 42 to 15. The council's state legislation committee presented the resolution as the result of agitation to that effect started by Alderman Daniel Herlihy after the murder of Mrs. Bessie ffollister by Richard Ivens. Life imprisonment also is asked for attempted attacks. Advertise "Loud" Shirt A Melbourne shopkeeper displayed in his window some exceedingly gaudy tennis shirts. Underneath was a placard bearing the one word, "Lis

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