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Death of Keim K. Brooke. By Daniel McDonald. Plymouth has last one of its oldest and most respected citizens in the death of Keim K. Brooke which occurred suddenly at his home in this city at seven o'clock June 26, 1907. He had been an invalid for the past few years, although it was known the end was not far in the future, his death was unexpected when it occurred. His earthly career was embraced in the following statistical information: He was born in Parker's Ford, Chester county, Pennsylvania, May 12, 1835. When he was but 14 years of age his father died and in 1849 his mother with her family of five children, came to Indiana. Dr. Jerred E. Brooke of this city, is now the only surviving member of that family. On May 16, 1858 he was married to Margaret H. Patterson, who survives him. Their family consisted of three children, Nona, Carrie and Frank. Nona, now Mrs. F. G. Smith, and Frank, are living; Carrie died September 25, 1902. In early life he was engaged in the drug business, being employed at LaPorte and Indianapolis, and during the latter part of the 50s, was for a time proprietor of a drug store in Plymouth. In politics he was a Democrat and as such was elected in 1878 Auditor of Marshall County and served from March 14, 1879 to March 14, 1885. He was a careful, painstaking business man, and conducted the business of the office with credit to himself and entire satisfaction to the people whom he served. He was an efficient member of the city school board, having been three times elected a member thereof, serving in all, about nine years. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church having united with the church in this place in early life. He becam a member of Plymouth Masonic lodge No. 149, April 27, 1860, and at the time of his death was the oldest continuous member of that organization. In all the business rela-

tions of life in which he was called upon to act, he performed his duties faithfully and well, and in all the walks of life during the long period of his residence here, his character was without spot or blemish and one worthy of emulation. We are apt to look upon death as a great calamity, and temporarily to those afflicted, it is natural that it appears so. But the writer does not believe it is. Death, like birth, is one of the necessary phases of human existence. But after death what? Ever since the time of Job when in the agony of his heart he propounded the momentous question, "If a man die, shall he live again?" the interrogatory has rung down the corridors of time unanswered. A writer of our own time has beautifully said: "I have asked that dreadful question of the hills that look eternal; of the clear streams that flow forever; of the stars among whose field's of azure many raised spirits have walked in glory. All are dumb." But he added: "I cannot believe that earth is man's abiding place. It cannot be that our life is cast up by the ocean of eternity to float upon its waves and then to sink into nothingness, else why is it that the glorious aspirations which leap like angels from the temples of our hearts are forever wandering about unsatisfied? Why is it that the rainbow and clouds come over us with a beauty that is not of earth and pass off and leave us to muse on the faded loveliness? Why is it that the stars that hold their festival around the midnight throne are set above the grasp of our limited faculties, forever mocking us with their unapproachable glory? And finally, why is it that bright forms of human beauty are presented to our view and then taken away from us, leaving the thousand streams of affection to flow back into Alpine torrents on the heart? We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth. There is a realm where the rainbow never fades; where stars will be spread out before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass out before us shall stay in our presence forever." Our friend has passed over the mystic river with the grim ferryman to the great beyond. "Beyond this beautiful and rippling stream, this mystic river, just over the edge of a grassy knoll, a writer has beautifully said, there blooms a rare and richly tinted flower. They tell us it is so rarely beautiful that it may have blushed to life at the touch of an angel's kiss, and caught its rosy flush from a burning star. Beyond the pathless mountains that lift their blue peaks in the fading distance, they tell us there is a charming valley that drinks the diamond dew of the morning and bathes in the liquid sunbeams clad in verdure of everlasting green and dotted all over with flowers of every hue and shade. Beyond the blue shade of the pathless ocean, they tell us there is a climate from which the mellolw sunlight of spring never departs; that it is laden with the songs of the birds of beautiful plumage, and peace, ease and plenty rule the lives of the people who never heard of war or pestilence. Beyond the curtain of darkness that hangs over the gloomy night there dwells a picture of morning---a picture of fresh new life---that seems to wake and move and breathe away the mists; and they tell us the disappointments, the bitter trials and wearing labors of time, we are taught there is an eternity whose higher possibilities

give promise for calmer hours and sweeter rest." Let us hope that our departed friend is in the realization of that beautiful picture. "He has just gone over the hill---my friend, Right over the hill by a shorter way, While we must toil on to the long road's end, Through the dust and heat. We shall meet some day At the resting place. No, he is not dead---He has just passed on. Why, of course you know, How we would always send one boy ahead. In our childish rambles of long ago, To pick out a place for a pleasant rest, Where we all might sit. He has gone before, It is only a few short years at best Before he will call us to toil no more. He has only gone by a shorter way To the resting place. No, he is not dead; Like the pioneer in our childish play, He has simply wandered off ahead."

The funeral services were held at the residence at 3 o'clock Sunday, attended by a large concourse of people. Rev. Mr. Crowder officiated and Mr. Daniel McDonald, a life-long friend, read which appears elsewhere in this paper. The burial service was conducted by the Masonic fraternity, in charge of Mr. McDonald, and was impressive. The speaker referred to the fact that when he was received into the order of Masons, Mr. Brooke was an officer of the order and that with his death not one of those who were present at that meeting remained among the living. The speaker was much affected at the thought, and expressed himself as feeling that he was being left more and more alone by the departure of his friends of other years. Those present from out of town were: Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ruth and Mrs. Fannie B. Ruth, Miss Mary Pat terson, Mr. Searles Patterson, of Chicago, Mr. Theodore Godfrey, of Michigan City. The? Snoeberger et al. Franchise The ordinance granting to C D. Snoeberger and divers other persons, whose names for some reason, not given, is now published and we presume the object in having the same published is to afford the citizens of lymouth an opportunity to register their approval or disapproval of the same, and should a citizen disapprove express the grounds upon which he disapproves the same. Now the writer disapproves of granting to Mr. Snoe berger, or to any one a franchise at this time nd the following are some of the reasons. 1st. The franchise under which Mr. SnoebergeT has operated, and is now operating, does not expire until February 16th, 1910. And therefore here is no cill for the granting of any franchise at this time. 2nd. Mr. Snoeberger has not com plied with all of the terms of his con tract under the ordinance upon which the plant is now being operated. If hb has failed to fulfill the terms of his contract in the past what right has he to expect the people to believe he will perform the conditions of any contract? 3rd. The franchise granting the right to furnish light to' the city and its citizens for a period of 10 years from Feb. 16th 1910, is a valuable franchise and the people naturally ex pect some return for the granting thereof but the proposed ordinance if passed by the council will be a free donation of the franchise, for section 5 thereof provides that Mr. Snoeberg er etal, shall receive for lighting all public buildings belonging to the city (except school buildings) five cents per killowatt hour. uoes this mean a hold-up of our school board, by which Snoeberger and his unarmed chums, can extort from our school board any sum their avarice may dic tate? It looks very much like it to the average citizen. If there is any public building in the city that should have free light it is our public school buildings, for the public . schools of Plymouth are the pride of every worthy citizen within its borders, and the man or set of men who discriminate against our schools will find themselves up against a hard proposition, (and if there is no attempt to discriminate against lighting our chool buildings why are they excepted in the provisions of said Sect. 5. Section 1 of the ordinance grant? to Snoeberger and his associates, a franchise. Why arc the names of his associates not disclosed? Why thi? mystery? Who are they and wlicre do they live? Is the city to be turned over to the tender mercies of a syndrcat"? An explanation is certainly in order. Taxpayer and School Patron. Evacuation of Cuba. Scretary Taft Monday threw some additional light on his plans respecting the American evacuation of Cuba by sending the foJlowing cablegram to Governor Magoon, at' Havana: "I am in receipt of a telegram from Gen. Loinas Castillo, as to something I have said with reference to the restoration of Cuba t'oi the republic. The plan for the devolutiv! of the gov ernment of the island upon the per son to be selected by a fair election, as outlined in my letter to you, has not been changed in the slightest. The question of fhe time within which that can be wefrked out, due to the doubt as to the time in which the census can be taken, is a mere mat ter of opinion. Please advise General Castillo accordingly."

July Weather to Be. Freakish. Rev. Ira Hicks predict! that July Fourth will be rainy and stormy and that the month will contain a variety of weather calculated to suit all classes. He says: The first storm period, reactionary, will center on the 2nd and 3rd, with violent Julv clouds and thunder gusts generally frotm the 2nd to the 4th. Cloudbursts need not suprise any one. Watch your barometer squint at rising clouds be ready. A very warm wave will cross the country from the Cth to the 11th, the barometer will fall to low readings, and blustering thunder storms will reach active to violent culminations on the touching the 8th tol the 10th. Look for only scattering rains with possible cloudbursts. The third storm period reactionary is central on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, the 13th, 14th and 15th. The seismis and volcanic disturbances will be most natural for a period of several days, centering oin and about the 10th, the date of a solar eclipse. Low baromctert threatening conditions and probably heavy mid-summer storms will culminate about the 13th, 14th and 15th. "Existing causes may prolong storms and other disturbances on through tie 16th and Ith, into ilie next storm period. The fourth storm period, regular, is central on the 20th, covering the 18th to the 23rd. We fear that the rainfall at this and other central and late July storm periods will be scattering and light. Very black and blustering storm clouds will almost certainly appear at the culmination of storm periods, ' and phenomenal "water spouts" may occur here and there. Within 43 hours of sunset ofn the 24th, many storms and marked seismic disturbances will be heard from in many parts of the earth, so that a maximum of such phenomena may b; noted. The temperature will fall after these storms. The sixth storm period, regular falls within a Mercury period. It is central on the 31st and extends from the 29th two days into August.

Offers Chancel to Inventors. uj large fortune awaits the man who invents a device toj deliver mail bags from moving trains," declares Assistant Postmaster General ,Mc: Cleary. "A substitute for twine in wrapping up letters also will bring great riches to the inventor. "Men with brains have been ex-

perimenting for years to solve tncjth;ng tQ do w;th the death Qf nis problem of how mail bags shall be ghtc.

X 1 . i . . 1 f.. 11 ,.,1 received irom trains unuvi iuu yvEvery day hundreds of mail sacks arc thrown from fast moving trains to the platforms of stations where it is impossible to make stops. The bags frequently are forced under the wheels by suction and' ground to pieces and the mail Is scattered broadcast. If they escape destruction in this way they arc badly torn and knocked about. "The government has hunted in vain for a practical device for catching these flying mail-bags. It will pay a big price for the use of a pat ent which , solves this problem. The government pays' hundreds of thousands of dollars every year for twine. We have had all kinds of substitutes offered, but none has proved satisfactory. A good f; stener which can be disposed of instantly will be worth a fortune to the inventor." , Subpenas Issued for Oil Trust Men. In accordai with his announce ment in court Thursday, Judge Landis, in the United States District Court, issued subpenas for John D. Rockefeller, H H. Rogers and othe big men in the Standard Oil company, of New Jersey, and the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, ordering them to come into: court and answer the court's questions concerning the financial resources o the trust. On advice of the Standard's attorneys witnesses ''closed up" when Judge Landis questioned then on this point. The Standard Oil company was indicted on the charge of using illegtil freight rates tendered tot it by the Chrngo & Alton road, and after a Ion;? trial was found guilty In 1,402 counts of the indictment. A maximum fine of $20,000 is allowed on each count, mrking a total possible fine of $29,240,000. Before passing sentence, Judge Landis announced it was his" custom tot proportion the fine according .o the financial conditions of the person- or corporation conicted, and asked for specific information" regarding the financial condition of the Standard Oil comnany. This information he has been unable to obtain tip to date, and the subpenas issued Thursday were the consequence. All the subpenas are returnable July 6. Doll's Suicide Stirs Police A note pinned to a tree near Murphy's lake, in Forest park, St. Louis, Mo., Friday, made the police think that a suicide, had taken place in the park. The note read: "I, myself, Ju lian Hafter, committed suicide June 2G. GooJbye to all. Take me home." Sergeant Hartfeldt of the mounted police found the note. Two squad of police searched the park, and pre parations were being made to drag the lake, when it was learned that Julian Hafter, 12 years old, living at 1365 North Euclid avenue, had pin ned the note on the tree as a joke. He said he had drowned a doll that had expressed a wish to die. '

Chiming Clock Tells of Death's Approach. Stored away in a dusty attic at tiie home of Dr. W. T. Porch, the oldest and most prominent physician of I3akersvillet Tenn., in Humphreys county, is an old-fashioned Seth Thomas clock. Eust-coveTed and time-worn, this old clock many years ago refused to record the fleeting hours and was stored away in the attic with cast-off plunder. Dr. Porch is quite aged, and has been married three times, and the old clock occupied a prominent position on the mantel in the family room from the first day he began housekeeping until it was cast away as worthless. Shortly after the death of Dr. Porch's first wife he was called to see a gentleman residing in the neighborhood who was quite ill. The patient's wife dreamed that her husband died, and that she afterward married the physician. She also dreamed that she became the mother of twin children and at their birth she died. Strange as it may seem, in after years Dr. Porch and the woman were married. They lived happily together for some time, and finally twins were born to the union, but the mother never lived to see the child ren, death resulting at their birth. Dr. Porch' states that he believes the dream had more than anything else to do with the death of his wife. But now to the story of the clock. , After a lapse of some time Dr. Porch was again married, and the old clock occupied its accustomed place on the mantel, as heretofore, o this last union were born several children, among them being Carrie John Boy and Porter Porch. One Sunday morningt long after the clock had been discarded, and as Dr. Porch and his daughter Cairie were preparing to attend Sunday school, ten plain distinct strokes rang out from the old clock in the atic. But little attention was paid to the incident at the time, and it was believed that a mouse or rat had become entangled in the clock wire and caused it to strike. However, it was noticeable that the ten strokes were as plain and distinct as if the clock iad been running. Shortly afterward Miss Carrie complained of not feeling well and stated that she would not attend Sunday school. She rapidly grew worse, and at. exactly 10 o'clock lapsed into unconsciousness and died. Then it was that the striking of the old dock was recalled, but Dr. Porch is not a superstitious man and would

not believe that the clock had anyTime wore on, and the next oldest child, John Boy, was taken sick. For a long while he lingered between life and death, and one night, as friends sat around the bedside, there rang out, clear ana distinct, from he old dock in the attic eight stroke-. The puzzled look on the faces of the members of the family evidenced to the friends present that they feared the worst and recalled the first warning of the old timepiece. Next 'morning at 8 o'clock John Boy passed into, the gre-.t unknown, being unconscious at the time of his death. N Japan Has Strength en sdl The Rev. Henry C. Mabie, general secretary of the American Baptist Mission union of San Francisco, who arrived an the Korean Friday, has beeil on a four months' tour of the orient, inspecting the mission stations'. He gave careful study to the Japanese question and says that Americans should be warned against underestimating Japan's strength. "They have a standing army of a million men," he said, "and their drill work is not the performance of perfunctory evolutions. They go at it in the greatest earnestness. Every day of their lives they are put through the jiu jitsu exercises and the result is a stocky, straight set-up soldier, as square cut and trim as the English 'Toimmy Atkins" ever was. "No nation can afford to hold the Japanese efficiency or valor in contempt. Japan? is prepared, if need be to defend her honor and dignity before the world if a crisis comes. There is an increasing feeling beneath the surface of uneasiness and sensitiveness in regard to our immigration poflicy and the treatment of her subjects.' It is' not so manifest as reports would endeavor to convey; the thoughtful, substantial men are disposed to be patient and to trust to the good intentions of, our country and our officials for an amicable adjustment of the difficulties with regard to their rights. But there is less, of the bumptious and threatening in their attitude than one would expect. It was really surprising that they have not shown a moire challenging disposition after their success in arms in the Russian war." Take 150 Fruitless Ballots. The democratic congressional convention to nominate. a candidate for congressman from the Fifth district, which convened at Hobart, Okla., Wednesday, had taken 150 ballots without making a choice. Of the five candidates, Claude Weaver, of Paul's Valley led with 9S votes. It requires 15Ö votes to nominate. J. L. Harmon, chairman of the Republican state committee, issued a call Wednesday for a state convention to be held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, July 12 for the nomination of a state ticket. According to arrangements made, addYeses will be delivered by Secretary Taft, Congressman Landis, and Speaker Cannon.

About Sunstroke. Two deaths from sunstroke occurred in Indiana in the week beginning

June 16. If people would exercise intelligent care, sunstroke would be avoided. We should be careful not to expose ourselves unnecessarily in hot weather. When it is very hot we should be extra careful. Being careful is to keep cool a tol temper, preserve a placid1 mind, don't worry, and the body will not get so hot. Avoid all alcoholic drinks Beer is not so refreshing as cool water, and a reaction follows beer drinking. We should remember it is a natural law, that what goes up must come down, and if we push up our nerves and heart with beer or other alcoholic drink, the nerves and heart mus.t come down again, and they frequently come down with a thump. We should practice extreme temperance in all things in hot weather. We should eat less, avoid meats especially and hold ourselves down to fruits, cereals and milk. Butter milk is an extra wholesome summer drink. Weak iced tea in moderation is' not a bad summer drink. Strong hot coffee and tea are bad. They contain a drug (caff ein) which is a heart and nerve stimulants, and it is rvith this drug as4 with alcohol heart and nerves pushed upx by it, are sure .a Gome down again. Hot weather is sufficiently stimulating of itself, there fore avoid stimulants when it is hot. He is a foolish man who eats stimulating food and drinks alcholic liqu ors' in hot weather. Autopsies show that nearlv all persons dead oif sunStroke have full stomachs. Workmen exposed to the direct rays of the sun should have their heads well protected and should wear woolen next to the skin. A very good precaution is a pad of cotton baiting or flannel sewed along the back of the undergarment so as to protect the spine. Walk on the shady side of the street; avoid over exertion; let the air circulate freely about the head,' either by frequent removal of the hat, oir by perforating the hat. Heat exhaustion is mild sunstroke. In case either happens, call a reliabfc physician. Don't trust to your own treatment unless a physician cannot be secured. But, while waiting for o physician, remove the patient into the shade, dash the head and chest with cold-water, give two or three drops of aqua ammonia in cool water, and also appl a few drops of ammonia to the nose on a handkerchief. Uncle Sama is Bound to Get Rockefeller. In'ortler that the Government's efforts to bring John D. Rockefeller into the United States District' Court in Chicago next Saturday may be successful,'-. District Attorney Sims Monday enjoined the strictest secrecy upon all people connected irr any way with the case. If the effort to serve Mr. Rockefeller with a subpoena is not successful before Saturday, the hearing of the case will be continued unill he has been properly served with the papers. A dispatch from Cleveland says that United States marshal Frank 11 Chandler was! an early visitor Monday at Forest Hill, the suburban home of John D. Rockefeller. Chand ler, however, t did not get further than the lodge at the entrance of the estate. Pat Lynch, the lodgekeeper, declared positively that Mr. Rockefeller was not at Forest Hill. A carriage entered the gates about this time and the marshal stopped it long enough to inspect the Occupants. Mr. Rockefeller was not in the vehicle, however, and it proceeded up the hill to the Rockefeller residence. Marshal Chandler on being questioned as to whether he had a subpena for Mr. Rockefeller, declined to discuss the matter. Exile Flees to Far West to Escape Czar's Spies. Exiled from his native land for treason in participating in the student riots in PoJand last year, and followed, as he believes, by Russian police, Vasil Kotoff, a member of a noble Polish family, has given up his position and fled to the far west in an effort to escape his pursuers. Through an interpreter Katoff told of his escape. "With two others I escaped," he said. "We spent two weeks irr a wheat field living on grain and fruit. "In order to cross the border out of Russia we walked into the sea at night until our heads were just above the water. We arranged far passage for Mexico. "I went to San Antonio. Tex., and made my way to Kansas City by rid ing the trucks!. Now I want to go west so no one will know me." Coolest June, in 75 Years. The Weather Bureau Sunday announced that the month just closed was the coolest June of record in Washington in the last seventy-five years, and thrt the same is probably true of New England, the Middle Atlantic States and the lower lake region. In other parts of the United States the temperatures were also lower than usual. The bureau's offi cial statement says: "As in previoius cold Junes the distribution of atmos pheric pressure, over the Canadian maritime provinces and the North Atlantic was such as to cause a predominance of ocean winds in north eastern districts' and a blockade of the continent fodlows either in the Ohio valley or off the New England coast. . i

The Nation's Standing Timber. The annual consumption of timber in the United States is enormous. The present supply of standing timber will not: long meet the demand.

unless scientiic methods of forestry are introduce i When an attempt is made to change these generalities in to something specific, fo state, for instance, how much timber of suitable size for cutting there is in the United States, there are no statistics avail able. All estimates are cruesses and the highest differ from the lowest by more than eleven hundred billion board feet. The only thing certain is that the supplv is growing smaller and the price is growing higher. This situation is the stranger be cause all the machinery is at hand for making an accurate estimate in such a way that? the possible error will not exceed 10 per cent instead of 50 per cent as now. The United States gov ernment has in its employ men who are capable of superintending this work. They are found in the census bureau and in the forest service. To assign them to this important duty, all that is needed is for congress to pass a resolution calling upon the proper departments for information and to authorize the necessary ex pense. Effective legislation must proceed from known facts. Legislation alone can save or replace the American for ests. If taking an accurate census of the standing timber of the United States results in such a realization of the need of legislative action that congress takes the necessary steps to protect the ma,ny important commer cial interests which are dependen1 upon the use of wood, it will be worth all that it costs. While airangements are being vmade for the census of 1910, the census bureau and the forestry service can devise a plan for working in harmony at a mir.'i mum of expense and a maximum of efficiency. The' Sixtieth congress in its first session ought to authorif and order the preliminary work for the first accurate census of the nation's standing timber. The United States is behind all other civilized nations in this ignorance of its own resources. It ought to take account of stock and find where it stands. The danger of exhaustion roav V nearer than believed,' ot the alarm may be groundles, but it is reckless to proceed without knowledge of the situation. Mail Clerks are1 in Demand. An examination to secure eligible for vacancies in the position of United States' railway mail "clerk is an nounced for Aug. 6. The position are irt a number of states, not includ ing Indiana. The list is as follow, and only those who can claim legal residence in one of the States named can take the examination: Alabam, Arizona, Arkansas, California Color ado, Florida, Idaho, Indian Territory, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missis sippi, Montana, Nevada New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon South Carolina, Texas', Utah, Virginia, Washingtgon, West Virginia and Wyoming. It will not be necessary to appear at any particular place in the States named for examination, but applicitiorc should be made at once of the Civil Service Commission at Washington for the necessary application blanks. The minimum weight and size have been lowered to 130 pounds in ordinary clothing, and 5 feet 5 inches in height. Additional information may be had of H. K. Milhouse local secretary of the civil service examiners, on the fourth floor of the Federal Building, Washington. De Raylan Life Secret is1 Bared The life secret of Nicolai De Raylan, for years secretary to the Russian consul at Chicago, who, after masquerading as a man for eighteen years, was found after her death to have been a woman, was revealed Tuesday. The stoiry containing her reason for starting out on a career of deception that proved her one of the most accomplished actresses in the world!, and disclosing a Russian scandal that has been hidden for years, is contained in her diary and correspondence. It is a story almofct without parallel for amazing features showing the pluck, resourcefulness and cleverness of the woman, who began with an elaborate and daring scheme to blackmail her mother and force from her the secret of her own parentage and her mother's suddenly acquired fortune, and who then found it necessary to go through life for eighteen years disguised as a man, and "making good" the bluff under all circumstances, even'when her sex was disputed. She made love -to .almost every woman ..she became acquainted with and besidesi being married twice in Chicago, was engaged several times. Hanly Not After Toga. Gov. Hanly, in the course of an interview while at Pittsburg, Ta., said that at the end of his gubernatorial terms he would retire from politics and devoite himself to the practice of law in Indianapolis-. It was suggested that he might make another effort to secure a seat in the United States senate. "No", he said, "I have no desire to go after a scat in the senate." He also refused to discuss the presidential campaign, but commended the views expressed by Senator Knox.

Primary Nomination of Senators Rejected. The senate at Madison, Wis., Thursday, by a vote of 20 to 6, killed the Nye bill providing for thj nomination of a candidate for United States senator at a general election by choosing one of. the two receiving the highest number of votes at th primaries. The senate rejected the Turner 2cent passenger fare bill passed by the assembly Wednesday. Those who voted for it were Senators Burns, Hazlewood, Husting, Pearson and Rummel. The senate concurred in the assembly amendment to the Bancroft bill, increasing the limit of liability of corporations for death by negligence frolm $5,000 to $10,000. Senator Whitehead tried to defeat the bill, but failed. It will particularly affect the railroad! companies. The assembly killed the bill in

creasing the salary of the state commissioner of-banking from $3,000 p $4,000 a year. Governor Davidson returned two bills to the assembly with his disapproval. One of them proposed o establish a state teachers' employment agency in connection with the state bureau of labor. The governor said the appropriation provision was indefinite and that he did not believe the state would be justified in ex pending public money in finding jobs foir such an intelligent class of citi zens as school teachers. The other bill . proposed to legalize the acts of common councils in appropriating money for the aid of railroads and the purchase of lighting plant?. It was vetoed because the exeevtive did not believe unauthorized acts of common councils of hi character should be legalized. The governor reported to the leg islature that the expen '.Wurcs ficra his contingent fund during the last two yeirs amounted to $1,979. The appropriation was $4,O00, the balance being 'covered back into the general fund of the treasury. Big Fleet in the Pacific. Ever since the reapp arance of the agitation in Japan over the treatment of Japanese subjects residing in San Francisco Washington has been filled with rumors that this, government contemplated . an immediate increase in its naval strength in the Pjtiific. These rumors have now assumed definite shape. Sixteen battleships of the Atlantic fleet, the main division of the American naval fighting force, are fro be sent to the Pacific it is declared. Naturally the inference is drawn by those unacquainted with the situation that, fear of the trouble with Japan is responsible for this reported decision to move a great aggregation of floating foirts to a position of greater strategic importance in any conflict with our far eastern neighbors. The Roosevelt administration has spared no means tol deprecate the reports that there is danger of war, between this country and Japan. From statements made by prominent officials it is practically impossible to escape the conviction that President Roosevelt and his principal advisers are satisfied that there is no prospect of a conflict unless the jingo press American and Japanese succeeds after long effort1 in producing enough pin pricks to turn the present cordial feeling into distrust and eranity. ' That no just ground for war exists or can exist in any discrimination against' the Japanese by an infinitesimally small proportion of the American pople is apparently the honest belief not only of those in authority in Washington but among members of the Japanese government as well. Two Banks to Metget The creation of the largest banking institution in Chicago; is about to take place in the consolidation of the Continental and Commercial National banks. When the merger is effected Chicago will be able to boast of one1 of the strongest and richest banks in the world. The new bank will make the follokving showing: Total capitalization, $7,000,000; total surplus and undivided profits, $S,948,48G; total deposits, $105,094,378. The merged institution will lead its nearest competitor, the First National Rank, by several millions' so far as deposits are concerned. The latest report shows the aggregate deposits otf the First National to be $99,573,040, which is nearly $ß,000,000 smaller than the' total of the Continental-Commercial. 1 This Fisherman Goes to Head. The biggest fish story of the season comes from Fort Atkinson, -Wis R. A. Ralph of that city asserts that while coming up Rock river in a canoe with his son they came on a large school of carp. He cut off their escape and with the paddle as a weapon bagged ,so he claims 1,134 fish, aggregating in weight 10,000 pounds. Wm. Harrington. Wm. Harrington, formerly of Tipepcanoe township, died at the county infirmary, Monday afternolon at 2 o'clock. Farm for Sale, Seventy-five acres of good bottom land, located on the north bank of the Yellow river, 3-4 miles north oi Rurr Oak. Address: E, THIELE, 5900 Wentworth Ave., Chicago

The American Monarchy Human nature being what it is, I suppose we must expect toj drift into monarchy by and by. It is a saddening thought, but we cannot change our nature; we are all alike, we human beings; and in our blood and bone, and ineradicable,, we carry

the seeds out of which monarchies and aristocracies .ire grown; worship of gauds titles, distinctions, power. We have toj worship these things and their possessors; we are all bora so and we cannot help iL We have to be depised by somebody whom we regard as above us or we arc not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy, or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privileges, but privately we hanker fte them, and wtfien' we get a chance we buy them for cash and, a daughter. Sometimes we get a good man and worth the price, but we arc ready to take him anyway, whether he be ripe or rotten, whether he be clean and decent or merely a basket of noble and sacred and long-descended offal. And when we g:t him, the - whole nation publicly chaffs and scoffs and privately envies, and also is proud of the honor which has been conferred upon us. We run over our list of titled purchasers every noiw and then' in the 'newspapers and discuss them and caress them and are thankful and happy. In a monarchy the people willing ly ai.d rejoicingly revere and take pride in their nobilities, and are not humiliated by the reflection that this humble and hearty homage gets no rturn but contempt. Contempt does not shame them; they are used ten it and they recognize that it is their proper due. We are all just like that. In Europe we easiy and quickly learn to fake that attitude toward the sovereigns and the aristocrats; more over, it has been observed that when we get the attitude we go on and exaggerate it, presently becoming more servile than the natives and vainer -of it. The next step is to rail and scoff at republics and 'democracies. All of which is natural, for we have not ceased to be human beings by becoming Anericans, and the hu man race was always intended to be governed by kingship, not by popular vote. Mark Twain in the North American Review. ' Wipes out Michigan Militia, The national guard of Michigan is in danger 'of being wrped out of existence by the passage of the new military bill by the legilature which has; just adjourned. If Governor . Warner signs the maesurc the "present organization wil cease, and every man will have to be reenlisted and mustered in, every officer elected arni . commissioned 'and new staff officers appointed throughout. Under the opinion of Attorney General Bird the new bill fails to perpetuaie the existence of the present state militia and as it repeals' all cither military laws, an entire new organization must be effected. Only the brigadier general commanding will remain an officer, his appointment being specially made by the act to continue until Jan. 1, 390S. It is possible that Governor Warner will veto the new bill in view of the trouble and expense of recruiting a new national guard. Explains Twine Induitryi J. D. Rcid, warden otf the Michigan City penitentiary, before the house committee in the affairs of the Indiana state prison gare informa tion relative to the binder twine industry at the prison. The committee is considering a bill providing for an appropriation of $200,000 with which to better the equipment of the plant. Mr. Reid favors' the appropriation. "At the present time," he said, "the state has contracts for contract labor with 4he J. D. Mott Cooperage Co., The Mount Airy Stone Co. and the Reliance Shirt Manufacturing Co. These cokitracts expire in 1910, and unless they are renewxd the state must make some provision for convict labor. The convict must be employed at something, and with binder twine industry the institution of late has taken some very rapid strides toward making it self-sustaining." Judge Hits Higher Court. Judge Samuel Artman, of Lebanon, Ind., who recently refused a liquor license to an applicant on the ground that' a saloon is a nuisance per se and that the state has no right to legalize it, said tonight that he was not surprised at the Suprem Court decision overruling him, though he was disappointed in its substance. He declared that the only reason for the decision seemed to lie in the fact, that the business is hoary with age. As much ,he said, could have been said of slavery when it was destroyed. ' "The statement of the Supreme court," said he, "that the saloon business, in the absence of a statute, is a lawful and common right leads to the conclusion that the court hoid that it is right and lawful to do that which results in much evil, that which endangers public peace and the good order of society." Court News. A suit cn account has been filed by Francis E. Meyers and Philip A. Meyers, doing business as F. E. Meyer &Bro., against Chas. EL MikeL