Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 34, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 May 1908 — Page 3

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CIIAITEIi IV. "What a wonderful old place," says A flare, stopping and peering down through a great hole in the flooring near the doorway. A trap-door once had covered it no doubt, because some of the broken fastenings can still W seen, whilst a ladder caught on by iron crooks hangs over the gaping space. "Does it ever come to an end? ' "I don't know. I suppose so. down there." She has come up closeyto him, and is now bending, as he is, over the yawning gulf in the rotten boards, and gazing into seemingly unfathomable depths below. "Do you know," she goes on, "this old mill has the strangest fascination for me. I cannot keep away from it. I think," smiling, "it will make me, or mar me, some day. Black as it looks down there, another floor is beneath it, and beyond that something e'oc lies I don't know what." A cellar, probably." "I daresay. As I tell ion't k'now. I have not had the cv e to go down. There is a sound of ta-er when you get to the flooring bflov.-, and that means rats ! I hate rats I'm a coward I confess it." They are standing together, peering into the black void beneath, but now she turns and gives him a little glance. It is the archest, merriest little glance the most innocent one and she accompanies it with a laugh, soft and light-hearted. You spoke of home a while ago," says he presently. "It is that house up there, is it not? But a Louse does not mean a heme, and yoa have told me nothing of yourself. You haTe friends?" "If have" slowly "relations. And then, with a cold little smile, "You had not even learned so much about me:" "I am so seldom here," begins A da re, flushing hotly. Then losing all his selfcontrol, I know you have been most disgracefully treated by the lot of us. But for the most part we never knew." "And' did not care to inquire." Her tone is no longer aggressive. It is low, and a little sigh breaks from her lips. "Well, you shall know all there is to know. I live here with a cousin of my father's, Esther Deane. She has some little money, and I have a little more, and so sh says it is well for us both to keep house together." "Yours being the house?" t "0. yes ! If such a tom-down old uin can be called one." She seems crushed for the moment, but almost in a moment recovers herself. Adare, who has not known the Irish character sufficiently well to make allowances for these sudden inexplicable changes of mood, is a little taken aback, when she says calmly: "Talking of that, I must seem very inhospitable. That is my house up there, and yet Won't you come in and have a cup of tea? Esther, I am sure, WH1 be " "Not to-day, thank you. I am afraid, as it is, I shall be a little late for dinner, t But another day, if you will allow me He breaks oIT, expecting an rmwer. But she is silent. Her whole air ?jp to this has been so gracious and so sweet, that he turns sharply to look at her. Her ej-es are steadily, downcast ; a faint tinge of color that seems to him born of confusion warns her cheek. To cover it he goes on qu jfckly : "You have another relation here, have you not?" She glances at him quickly, a little disdainfully perhaps. And Adare grows less sure that that touch of color a moment since was lrn of confusion. "You know something about me, after all, then?" says she. "Yes, Esther's brother, Brian Peane, is staying here, for the present only." Had that quick flush m?ant that he was out now, but might be in another day? "He came from Australia about a month ago, where he has a sheep farm. Why he cams, or for what, I don't know; but Esther says on business. I know she wrote to him to come." ' "Oi business?" ' "So ?he says. I sometimes thmk she wants to go back with him. And they both want me to go, too. However," with sudden recollection, "these details cannot possibly interest you. And you want to know your road home, do you not? You see that hill over there? You go up that, and then in the valley below it you will see a straight white, road. Follow it, and it will take you straight to Carrig." She fcows her head slightly. "Good-by!" "We are not living so very far apart," says he hopefully; "we shall 'certainly meet again." " "I don't think so. I hope not. Don't think me too rude, but believe me it will be better that our acquaintance, such as it Is, shall be ended now. There could never be friendship between our houses." "There might be," begins he impulsively "if you ana Sir Lucion were to meet." "I have no desire to meet Sir Lucien," says she in a low voice full of concentrated bitterness. "He believes my father stole and sold those jewels that my mother was given by Oh!" (passionately) "of course you, too, know the whole of that detestable, hideous slander." Her eyes are aflame. "If you had known my father " "I believe the whole story a most despicable lie." His tone is almost as vehement as her own. "How does that old man dare to say my father was a thief? Oh, yes, he did ! He met Brian the other tiy, and accused him of knowing what my i xther had done with them. My father! 1 if he would touch them! My mother had them I know that. I often saw them. The necklets th? tiaras. And they were her own she often said so that her father gave them to her." "Yes. Iiut " "Oh !" haughtily, and tilting her rounded c'n, "I know what you wo;ild say that they were only hers for a time. Iiut how could my father help it if she lost them? And of course she lost them; because if she had sold them, there would be the money do you see? But there was never any money! Therefore they must be lost I know the'- are lost." She turns deliberately and runs down the path away from him. His eyes follow her until she is out of sight, then, with a quickening of his breath, he turns and makes for the hill she had pointed out. lie -has hardly gone a Tew yards, however, before his attention is caught by a man who has jumped over a wall into the road, a man of about forty, tall, dark, forbidding looking, handsome of a sort, aud with a certain strength of character written on his low brow. He goes by Hilary with a swing that has something of aggrwsion in it; in passing, however, the eyes of the two mrn meet rage in one, contempt in the other. Both had seen each other before within the last three days. Then a turn in the road takes Brian Deane beyond the other's sight, and presently to the side of "Who was that man you parted from Just now?" demands he, as he catches her up. His tone is harsh and rough; his breath is coming from between his whitened lipr in short, suppressed gasps ; his nosfms are dilated. Amber regards him curiously. Her

beautiful eyes run over the disorder ol his face as if not only surprised, but a little disgusted, at the excitement so distinctly printed on it. "That was Captain Adare, my cousin. returns she, deliberately. "Your cousin !' His face twitches. "The nephew of the man who has dubbed your father a liar and thief! And so you would condone the offense?" lie laughs derisively. "As though all those vipers were not bred in one nest. And pray how did this special viper, this cousin, this Hilary Adare, find his way here to-day? By your connivance? By your apiHjintment?" Amber stands still and confronts him. She 'is quite calm. "Talking of ways," says she, in her clear, soft voice, "this is my way," turnin to the left : "see that yours leads somewhere else!" CHAPTER V. "After all, I'm rather glad we decided on coming." says Mrs. Clarence, drawing the carriage rug closer round her. "Nothing at this dreadful woman's party can be duller than the hours we should have spent at home. I wonder if she lias changed, and what direction the change has has " Here the landau drives into a heavy rut, so that whatever Mrs. Clarence would have said about Madam O'Flaherty is lost to posterity forever. The shock is sufficiently great to unseat them all, in a measure. This to Mr. McGrath seems a most suitable opportunity of making himself unpleasant all round, so with a wild shriek of dismay he seizes May in his arms, and holds her closely to him. whili a frenzied expression grows upon his trow. "Let me go, Owen ! Don't," cries May, angrily - pushing him from her. "What on earth do you mean, McGrath?" exclaims Grey furiously. "I thought she was killed," says Owen, with rather suspicious excitement. "Oh. Grey, what should I what should you have done had she been killed?" "I don't know," returns Grey, so gruffiy, so indifferently as it seems to1 May, that for the whole of the remainder of the day she refuses so much as to look at him. "Her roads haven't changed, anyway." says Mr. Clarence with disgust ; her laces have been shaken a little out of place. "I expect neither is she ! We shall have an awful time here, I know." "What is she like?" asks May. "As I remember her, she was a big, fat, dreadful creature, with a brogue you could sit on without fear of breaking down. I think it is a monstrous thing, a perfect infliction, to be compelled to come here to-day just because tnis ridiculous old woman happens to be a sort of connection of Sir Lucien's. He has made us come said he'd arrive after us." "She is so fearfully inquisitive," says Everard. "You know I met her at the Brownes the other diy. She asked me every question under the sun:" They have driven up to the hall door of "The Larches," Madam OTlaherty's house, by this time; the hostess comes lumbering down from the topmost step of the stone flight to receive them. So far as May can see. Madam O'Flaherty is distinctly remarkable. She is a gigantic woman, with three chins and a topknot. On the topknot rests a hat a sailor hat, that a girl of fifteen might have worn perched at an angle of 40 degrees. "Here you are, here you are," cries she, prancing up to the door of the landau, and pushing the footman triumphantly to one side. "So glad to see you all. But where's Lucien? No nonsense about his being engaged now. I know all abott that. lie can't I. Faith," with a sua len thought " 'twould be a fool would be tngaged to him!" Here she pauses in her rapid utterance, to give way to a loud and raucous laugh in appreciation of her own wit. Mrs. Clarence shudders. "lie he's coming!" says she, which is the readiest lie that occurs to her. "He gave us distinctly to understand that nothing would keep hici away," supplements her brother nobly. "Well, come along, come along," cries Madam O'Flaherty, with great hospitality. "Tea's over there in the tent." With their hostess they go round the corner of the house, and into full view of the guests already assembled. A miscellaneous lot 'enough. Some very charmingly and daintily clad, who stand in groups together; others a little impossible perhaps, but not so altogether out of the running as to be bej-ond knowing; on the outskirts of both these, Nome really awful beings. Beyond all these, a little, slender, graceful figure, leaning over the bank, and dropping leaves or twigs into the stream below, catches Hilary's eye. It is Amber! In a flash he knows her. What other form on earth could be like hers? Who else could claim such delicate coloring, and that half-petulant, half-haughty turn of the chin? "Here we all are now!" cries Madam in her loud and strident tones. "Here we all are I really don't think I have any more folks to expect. So now," with an encouraging and altogether joyous glance round at her guests, "sort yourselves and go for a little stroll round the place. The gardens are looking lovely, and we can't all play tennis." A rather alarmkig silence follows upon this noble command to go for a sentimental "promenade" in the shrubberies; even the impossible ones sit motionless waiting on events. Madam has forgotten'to make: formal introductions. Mrs. Clarence and May .are struggling with a wild desire for laughter, whereas Mr. McGrath looks sad. Madam O'Flaherty sees his dejection. "What's the matter with you?" asks she anxiously. "I feel such a difficulty about sorting myself," says Owen modestly. "My darling boy," cries Madam. "Not at all not at all. You see those girl. on the bench over there, the Moore girls; you know them, eh? No? Oh, that won't matter ; there inn't one of them won't be delighted to go for a stroll with you, if you'll only ask them. To tell you the truth, they've !eon expecting your party all the day long. Society here, my dear Owen, is going to the bad for want of a few men. But now that you've all come for a while, we'll be looking up a bit. To let you into a small secret, I'm thinking of giving n bit of a d-mce." "Madam! the first waltz is mine," cries Owen enthusiastically. "Oh. get out with j ! Ton me honor and word, I don't know what you boy are coming to. But look here, Owen, I think if I give a hop, Sir Lucien might well give anotlr. He owes it to us all down here. But he's such an old hunks. th?re's no being up to him. Just to think, my dear boy, tat he should be alive and kicking, and my poor darling Denis, whe used to keep the table in a roar,' gone forever. 'Tis a queer -vorld. my dear." (To be continued.) They Get Over It. Willie (aged G) Say, pop, what's an Idealist? Mr. 1 1 en peck A very young mar who thinks all women axe angels.

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Americana Have Learned Presidents Make ;od Without It. Until Jackson's era in Washington this country selected Presidents who In every case had had hr-ge iersonal cx-perien-v in "lationat affairs, says the Springfield Republican. Washington, Adams. Jefferson. Madison, Monroe and John Adams were statesmen of truly r ational proportions when chosen to the ollice of chief magistrate. All but Washington and Madison had even diplomatic experience In Europe before gaining the presidency. With Jackson an entirely now tyio of executive began to appear. Jack?o.i came straight from the heart of democracy. Ho represented the determination of the masses to rule, and It mattered little to the people whether or not be had lcen trained. for high executive station by adequate experience in thi legislative, administrative or diplomatic services of the government. The tremendous popular success of the two Jackson administration profoundly Influenced American politics. iAirties desiring to win elections no longer placed so much emphasis upon long preliminary training; In federal affairs in selecting presidential candidates. The Whigs, trying to repeat the Democratic success with Jackson, nominated Gen. Harrison in 1S40 and Gen. Taylor in 1S4S, and both were elected, although neither was Jackson's equal In natural personal power as a leader of men. The Whigs tried the "hero" once more with Gen. Scott and failed. Then came the Lincoln nomination by the republicans in 1SC0, and Lincoin's destiny has been so extraordinary that the American people have been confirmed, If anything. In their beHf that the man of long preliminary pe -.-ico in national business is not always the necessary choice for the presidency. Receipts of the Manhattan postofSee are now amounting to $54,370 each day that it Is open. During the last six months there have been burned in Xew York: City 10,3So,000 .tons of coal. Lord Beaconsfleld's love for the bumble primrose has been perpetuated by the foundation of the Primrose League. There has been a noticeable increase In the negro population of Now York City recently, and most of It is settling on the upper west side of Manhattan island. New York City gets a portion of Its milk supply from as far as four hundred miles distant, and the product of SG.000 farms is drawn on to meet it daily wants. It has become known that the thr attempts made by Sir Thomas Llptor to capture the America's cup, the Intrinsic value of which 1.4 about $2.7) have cost him $500,000 for yachts alone Since the establishment of the Horn an Catholic diocese of New York 8 century ago there has been erected Ir the territory of Greater New York on church building In every two hundred days. A black and white spotted and f yellow lizard, full grown, and alive were found in the heart of an oak lop split by Joph McCloskey, near Hell wood. Pa. The log had been cut froir a tree more than fifty years old. Criminal records kept In New York county for the last six years show that a trifle more than one-half of the persons charged with crimes are found guilty, while expert opinion Is agreed that not two out of one hundred arc Innocent. In the course of a r eport to the Britlsh Colonial office the :esident of Korgu province, Nigeria, mentions that the chief, Kokafu, Is sa.d to have reached the age of 203, while his son did not die until he was 157. The latter visited Sokoto not many years ago. David Howell has died at Stroud Infirmary at the age of 102. He worked on farms In the Stroud district all his life, being employed on one for between sixty and seventy years. He attributed his longevity to simple food, hard work and no worry.. London Standard. GRAVITATION. The Mystery of This Wonder(n) Force to Xature. When plants are grown In receptacles fastened to the rim of a rapidly revolving wheel, the shoots and leaves grow toward the center and the roots away from the center of revolution. This Is remarkable as showing the influence of centrifugal motion upon growth. Hut the earth, any point in whose iurface at the equator passes through dfteen miles In one minute, has a centrifugal motion so swift and so great that it Is almost Inconceivable. Why, then, reasoning on the basis of this wheel experiment, do not trees and plants grow In the directions they are urged by this centrifugal force namely, with leaves and boughs toward the earth's center aud roots pointing to the sky? The answer Is because there Is a force called gravitation which overpowers the enormous centrifugal force and practically reverses it. Whether this overmastering force which we call gravitation Is electrical or what It Is no one has yet been able to discover. There can be no doubt that It Is the greatest force we know of. To unveil the mystery of It would be to become masters of a power whose possibilities dazzle the iiuman mind. It would simplify the problem of building, water and air navigation, projectiles and many other branches of mechanics. It would revolutionize present methods. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Why II Mourned. O'Flannagan came home one night with a deep band of black around his hat. "Why, Mike!" exclaimed his wife. "What are ye weariu' that mournful thing for?" "I'm wcarin It for yer first husband," replied Mike, firmly. "I'm sorry he's dead." Everybody's Magazine. Lacking Only Ksuerience. Jim I promised my old 'ooman two years ago that first time I ever corned home 'nebrated I'd give her a five-pun-note an' lm proud to say hcr's never hat It yet. ' Garge Ah, now but I reckon she's thought every other night she wuz entitled to four pound nineteen an' six. The Sketch. Everyone suffers wrongs for which there U no remedy,

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Give Your "Wife n Square Deal. Are you sure that you are giving your wife a square deal? Perhaps she. with all her ch.irm. doesn't happen to have either great energy or executive ability. She may not want any occupation outside your home. She may not be strong enough for anything else. In that case she must get her experience of life second L .nd. She can, perhaps, get much from ucr reading, from her friends. She must, however, depend mainly upon you. You must be her point of contact with the larger life outside your home. If you surround your doings with an air of mystery make the patronizing assumption that she can't understand the affairs which interest and occupy you, you deliberately narrow her 'life, you deliberately festen her chances for efficiency and happiness. No matter how good a provider you may be, no matter how kind and considerate, you are not giving her a square deal. This does not mean that you should heap your business cares and troubles upon j-our wife's head. That would be as wrong as for her, to shift her domestic troubles to your shoulders. Perhaps you are so unfortunate as to be discontented with your wife. She Is frivolous, extravagant, unpractical. You feel that her beauty does not counteract these deficiencies? Probably that is true, but who is to blame? ,Did you marry her because she was economical, practical, a good housekeeper, a good prospective mother?" You were fascinated by her because she was pretty, irresponsible, illogical and whimsical. You are now discontented with her because she is irresponsible, illogical and whimsical. Did you think that a -wedding ring and a husband would change her nature? Would you buy a horse because he could travel lu 2:10, and then become disgusted with him because he wouldn't haul bricks? Strange as it may seem, the wife with whom you are discontented was once the pretty girl whom you were wild to marry. Nobody made you marry her! She didn't tell you she was a good cook, or an experienced housekeeper. Your mother wanted you to marry another girl who was both. You laughed at the thought. You got what you wanted. If you don't want what you got, that is your fault and yours alone. 'Why not give up expecting the impossible of your wife, and expect only the possible? If you thus give her an honest chance she may yet achieve what nrv seems impossible. If she does not, take your medicine. Appleton's. Very smart colored effects are this year obtained in the dotted Swisses. The heavy filet laces gain constantly in popularity and have quite superseded the Irish and Venlse. Chenille tassels are run through crystal rings and fastened to the handle of the gay parasol. Of course, tassels and cover match. Odd little animals are seen on the handle of the light wood parasols. Some of the patterns are artistic, though rather odd looking. The Madame P.utterfly costumes of tussore are displacing cretonne jacket linings and a touch of cretonne on the trimming, with picturesque buttons to match. Many or the striped walking suits are trimmed with pompadour ri!Iwn an the collar, narrow rovers, cuffs and belt, the ribbon matching the stripe of the material. White d roses are finished In the tunic style, with an overskirt of lace that ends in a point at the front and back, sometimes with a bordure of lace beneath. Plack and white is still Immonsely popular, but If one wishes to be "in grand chic" one must get the white and (ltaudrou or copper plaid skirt, with the cutaway empire jacket of solid chaudron. A rather startling color scheme for a hat, which seems to be gaining in popularity, is a straw of dark bronze, with a mass of Quills In nattier blue.

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geranium and emerald green. A wide loose braid of ribbon in these three shades encircles the crown and the ends form a chou at the base of the quiljs. There is an attempt to make every sown that is not distinctly a shirtwaist suit t long and sweeping. This holds good even for the sheer lingerie fabrics; but 'while the trained gown is undoubtedly newest there are still quite elaborate white and light colored frocks seen that clear the groundalso the dirt. After all It's a consolation to the untitled mother to know that a royal baby is much like any other. The Prince of Austria, son of King Alfonso and Queen Ena of Spain, Is as chubby and crotchety as the average infant, and in Seville recently his proud parents had a most exciting time inducing him to pose for a photograph. The little prince was held firmly In the arms of his nurse, who lent backward to balance his weight. On one sidt stood the Queen, on the other the King, with the photographer in the middle clapping his hantls, calling attention to the mythical bird, flashing gaily colored worsted globes and going through all the other motions useful in attracting a baby's eyes to, the camera.' They got the picture, but not until several plates were spoiled and the artist was al-UP-TO-DATE GOWNS AND HATS. most ready to lose his temper In the presence of royalty, which doubtless would have meant being loiIed in oil. And all to get a snapshot of perhaps 10 pounds of pink aud white boy! Hovr to lint. The prevalent idea that slow eating Is very favorable to digestion Is largely fallacious. The important part is not that we eat slowly or fast, but that when we do eat we chew with energy. Of course, where the hast? Is due to some mental anxiety this may injuriously Inhibit the secretions. Sloweating begets a habit of simply munching the food without really masticating it. Hence, hurried eating is bad, but rapid mastication Is advantageous. It concentrates our energies on the act in question and, hence, more thoroughly accomplishes :t. Moreover, energetic chewing stimulates the secretion of saliva in the most favorable manner. Thest various points are so commonly misunderstood, at least by the laity, that they demand frequent attention. Dark Color After Twenty-Five. When she gets past 125 years of age the Japanese noblewoman lays aside bright colors and brilliant effects and wears a dark brown or dark blue kimono. This Is always of the richest material, however, and always the family crest is embroidered on neck, shoulders and sleeves. Sometimes during this period a simple design of storks or cranes or a mountain with clouds around it will be. embroidered around the lottom of the kimono. IJrlght colors are absolutely forbidden to the Japanese lady of quality after passing her twenty-lifth birthday. Since she is usually a grandmother alout this time, or very shortly afterward, the deprivation is not as great as a Westerner would think. lift ween Fifty ninl Slxlr. The sixth decade of life has been most prolific in human achievements, and may well be designated as the age of the masterwork, says the Century Magazine. In net ion alone, Its accomplishments have revolutionized history, and it would be most difficult to conceive what would be the present status of the. world's affairs had these ten years of individual life never existed. A Sweeping: Tip. Soft brooms and a light hand In sweeping are responsible for much of the lasting powers of carpets and rugs, a bad servant usually Ignoring the rule of swecniujj with the pile instead of

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against it, a detail of sweeping which makes, however, all the difference in the case of Turkey rugs, while giase spots should always be searched for and removed as soon as possible. Powdered magnesia and fuller's earth in equal parts made vinto a paste with boiling water is excellent for the purpose, the paste being laid over the spots and removed with a brush when caked. The use of a hot iron and tissue paper is always to be deprecated on account of scorching the pile of the rug or carpet. ' Health and Beauty Hints. Turpentine applied to open wounds is painful, but successfully kills any germs which might happen to be there. An inexpensive and. excellent toothpowder is made of equal parts of powdered castile soap, powdered orris root and precipitated chalk. Powdered charcoal will sweeten the breath. After eating onions if a little is taken Into the mouth the offensive odor will be taken from the breath. Honey is excellent In nearly all throat and lung affections. For a sharp tickling throat cough, a teaspoonful. taken every few moments will quickly allay the irritation. Ink and other stains may be removed from the hands by a solution ot rose water and acetic acid in the proportions of eighteen parts rose water to one of acetic acid. Never sleep in a room with closed windows ; lower the upper sash an inch and raise the lower sash slightly; this will give a free circulation of air wltUout creating a draft. To drop medicine easily cut a groove along the side of the cork of a medicine bottle; put back In the bottle and it will be easy to count the drops one by one, without pouring too fast The habit of biting the nails may be conquered by will power In an older person, but with children cut the nails very close and dip fhe ends of the fingers In quinine or a little extract of quassia. Light hair Is brightened by adding a teaspoonful of salts of tartar and the juice of a lemon to the shampoo water. Frequent use of this is not recommended, as it will In time make the hair harsh. If the skin Is the least bit greasy, never use any cream on It, for thli will make matters worse Instead of improving them. Apply this lotion to the face once a day : Boracic acid, one dram; distilled witch hazel two qunces; rosewater, two ounces. For bruises, witch hazel applied and wrapped over äfllicted part is a sovereign remedy. To prevent discoloration or congestion from bruises, apply as hot water as can be borne for five or ten juinutes, renewing cloths as soon as they become slightly cold. Keep Within Income. The true secret of comfort and good taste in the home whatever Its size or quality Is never to attempt what cannot be done well with comparative ease. Keep well within the family income, bring down the ' work of the houe well within the strength of those who have it iir' charge, and the breadwinner will be care free, the housekeoier will be good-teuqwred, and general content will reign. Household Hints. Hot sunshine will 'remove scorch. Hot tartaric acid will take Ink stains out of white cloth. A package or envelope scaled with white of egg cannot be steamed open. I'ven delicate glass can be safely washed In very hot water If slipied In edgewise. Saturate grass stains on children'3 pinafores etc., in parafiin and then put into the washtub. For Hurtling: Feet. If you are a sufferer from burning feet about as speedy a relief as i:ny may be bad from soaking the feet iu tepid water in which washing soda has been dissolved. A tablespoonful to a bucket of water Is a good proportion. A Society Pet. There Is no more mischievous pest in society than the man whose attentions are without Intention who comes, and comes, but never courts. Dorothy Dix.

One of the remarkable men of New England is ex-Gov. Frederick Ilolbrook, of Brattleboro, Yt, who recently ob served the ninetyfifth anniversary ot his birth. He one of ' but three surviving Governors of the civil war period aud Is the old est living ex-Governor of any fctate. Mr. Ilolbrook en joys excellent health despite the weight ex-gov. iioLEKOoK. of years aud takes a keen interest In political and other affairs. lie is still active in business, being president of the Vermont Savings Bank, an oflice he has held for thirty?ight years. He has never missed a meeting of the bank's officers since he has been president !of the institution Mr. Ilolbrook is a fine tyie of the "gentlcman of the old school." He affects the dress and manner of the days Df Lincoln and Grant. He is a great reader and letter writer. 1 Kev. Dr. William Thomas Manning who has been elected rector of Trinity Chr. ich. New York, to succeed the late Dr. Morgan Dix, who had been pastor for forty-six years, guides the spiritual and to some extent the temporal welfare of the richest church corporation in the svorld. Dr. Manning Is noted as an administrator and or ganizer, and this is- bkv. vu. uaxm.xg. vhat Trinity parish, with Its yearly revenues of $1,000,000, its nine murches, four semi-connected churches tud congregations of nearly 10,000 perJons, needs. There were only three churches in Trinity parish wuen Dr. Dix became the rector in 1SG2, aud the Darish is still expanding and destined for Continued growth. Dr. Manning's ?areer in the church has been one of rapid advancement. Did you ever hear of a man who got too much snlary and asked to have it reduced? Probably not. Trobably you never heard of , a preacher 'who received such a large salary that he stirred up a big rum pus by asking his church to reduce hl nnr flftrt n 1'.' -H . , -. w " vonr lint thl !a Trli the case with the Rev. Fred B. FishI er. rtastor of the V. Temple street Metheev. r. B. fisiieb. odist Church, Bos ton. Dr. Fisher has always been iHsed to big salaries to clergymen. He is now drawing $2.200 a year. lie says that he only needs "$1.200 to live and that a preacher has no right to draw a larger salary than his living ex penses. 'The money could lie better used to relieve the distress of the poor," he says. John S. Leech, who has been appoint ed public printer by President Itoosevelt, is a native of Bioomington, III and learned his trade In a job printing otliee there. Being ambitious, he entered the government nervlce and was steadily advanced until five years ago he was sent to the Philippines to take charge there of the government printing. Senator Cullom and Congressman Ster ling were the polit- john leech. ical backers of Leech for the position of public printer. Victor C. Vaughan of Ann Arbor, Mich., was chosen president of the Asso ciation of American Physicians at thf twenty-third annual meeting of the or ganization at Washington. The Nebraska delegation to the DemXTatic national convention has selected Ignatius J. Dunn to place Wm. Jen nings Bryan In nomlua tion for President of the United States Dunn is one of the four delegates-at large selected ' by the State conven tion. lie is City Attorney of Oma na and has been sWV' identified with tGNATics j. Duxjf. Democratic State lolitics for twelve years. He Is a brilliant orator. j William II. Crane, who is now spear ing in George Ade's "Father and the Boys," announced in New York that he would probably never create another role, though he may be seen in one or two revivals after the present season.' Mr Crane is (3 years old. Death claimed the youngest member of the United States Senate when William James Bryan, of Florida, passed away in asnington. Appointed by Gov. Broward to succeed the late Senator M a 11 o r y early in January, Senator Bryan had scarcely begun his career. He had I ccn ill four weeks, his death resulting from an attack of typhoid fever. He is the seventh mem- senator ijbyax. Iht of the Senate to die within a year. Others are Senators Morgan, Pettus, Mai lory, Latinu-r, Proctor and White. The Bev. David Gregg, cut off from a fortune by his millionaire V-tlier, because, he left the Covenanters' church for Presbrterianism. has inherited $7."VUQC by the death of his mother. Dr. Gregg formerly was pastor of Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian church, Brooklyn. The liev. Dr. Derrick Johnson, formerly of McCorniick Theological .."seminary, Chicago, said in St. Louis, .Mo., that the stage of the present day is a moral abomination and trending downward and that "in Chicago, at least, it I has trampled the Sabbath with scora."

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FRIGHTENED BY REPTILE. Girl Is Stricken Speechless by SixFoot Snake. While seated in a big rocking chair Miss Florence Ramsey of Warsaw was terrified by having an enormous snake run its head up to her face, darting out its tongue. She sprang from her seat and ran screaming from the house. Her parents attempted to quiet her and to learn the cause of her agitation, but the girl had temporarily lost her speech and could explain only by motions. Mr. Ramsey found the snake, which measured six feet in length, coiled up in the chair the girl had left a moment before. The reptile was killed, but not until its body was displayed could the girl be persuaded to reenter the house. INDIANA DRYS NAME TICKET. Inrom Tai, Potal naak and AatlInJuncfSon Plank Included. The Prohibitionists of Indiana have nominated a State ticket, as follows: Gov ernor, Sumner W. Haynes; lieutenant Governor, Dr. Abraham Huntsinger; Sec retary of State, W. II. Hill; Treasurer of State, William II. Crowder ; 'Auditor of State, Dr. Henry Coons; Attorney General. Tilman E. Ballard ; Reporter Supreme Court, II. F. Watson ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Monroe J. Vayhinger; Chief of Bureau of Statistics, Jesse B. Davis. The platform adopted denounces the liquor traffic, dec-Urea for an income and inheritance tax, postal sav ings binks, and 'a rational use of the injunction order. PLOT TO KILL REAL ESTATE MAN Activity in Fighting Saloons Is Behind Move to Murder. ¶ A plot was discovered in Hammond to assassinate Louis E. Bryan, a real estate dealer of Gary, and to burn his home. Bryan recently secured enough signatures to a petition. which, if passed by the county commissioners, will put 150 saloons in Calumet township out of business. His action has caused the enmity of the saloon interests. Attacks Woman; Nearly Lynched. ¶ Thomas Thompson of Westville, aged 18, was arrested near Chesterton after a ten-mile chase, charged with an attack on Mrs. Mary Kelly. aged 50. The woman was found in an unconscious condition. But for the officers Thompson would have been lynched. He was placed in jail. Thompson formerly resided in Chicago. Lake Shore Must Pay $73,000. A jury in the Laporte Circuit Court returned a verdict of $73.000 in favor of the Lake Shore Sand Company, against the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Company. The railroad company in constructing additional railroad yards at Miller found it necessary to condemn forty-eight acres of land Suicide by Hanging. Gideon Moore, 60 years old, committed suicide by hanging himself in his stable in Dublin. A long-settled melancholy was responsible. For several days before killing himself he busied himself in adjusting his business affairs, paying his debts, and balancing all obligations. He leaves a widow and several children. Burned Before Money Was Paid. A large sawmill plant, owned by Mo Gee & Son, was burned by incendiarism at Jasonville. It had not been in operation for several weeks. The plant had been sold to Linton investors, but the money had not been paid. The loss is $7,000, with no insurance. Indiana Man Killed In Mexico. A telegram reported the killingfcy Mexican bandits of William Jones, an Indiana man, at Durango, Mexico. Robbery was the motive. Reports-of the crime were made to the State Department at Washington and redress will be sought. Indict Merchant as Firebug Walter S. Farmer, a prominent merchant of Colchester, was indicted on a charge that he is responsible for four fires which burned one-quarter of the business section of Colchester, Lye Cost Child's Life.. Lye, left in the house by former tenants, cost the life of Henry Frankstine's child in Wabash, who found the drug and swallowed it. AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS. Betrayed by a former fellow convict, Jerry J. Morris, a forger, was arrested in Bremen, after haing [having] passed a forged check for $60 on a bank. The new pipe organ bought largely with money subscribed by the inmates of the Indiana Reformatory in Jeffersonville, has been put in place. The organ cost over $1,000, of which Gov. Hanly gave $100; aud nearly $100 was contributed by the inmates from over-time earnings. It will be dedicated on Memorial day. Judge Anderson in the United States Court in Indianapolis ordered a decree of foeclosure entered for the gas properties of the Fort Wayne Gas Company in the cities of Fort Wayne. Anderson. Bluffton, Montpelier and other towns in the gas belt, to satisfy the amount due on bonds, which is $2,271,000. Judgment was entered in favor of the Central Trust Company of New York, trustee. Joseph Melvin, a baker, took morphine in a fit of despondency and died at St. Margaret's hospital in Hammond. The body of an unidentified man was found two hours later at Calumet Park, a revolver by its side, and bullet holes in the brain and heart. ¶ The sheriff and coroner are trying to solve a murder mystery brought to their attention when a man's body was plowed up under the spot near Vineennes where Nicholas Rousch's body was discovered recently after ten days' search.. Rousch, who was a wealthy farmer, is supposed to have committed suicide. Ralph, the 12-year-old son of' Mrs. Louisa Nagel of Columbus, was drowned in Flatrock creek. Some mystery surrounds the death, as no one was with the lad. He was seen floating down the stream by two colored men, who were attracted by his cries, but before he could be reached he sank. It is supposed that he fell off the interurban bridge at that point. ¶ In Warsaw William Ftiltz, 25 years old, got hold of a can of fruit that had not been inspected in accordance with the new Indiana pure food law. He tasted of the contents and died a few hours later. Hazel McMillan, formerly an inmate of the girls' reformatory at Indianapolis, at the home of her mother, Mrs. Henry Powell, near Newcastle, saturated the carpets with coal oil, with the expressed determination of burning the home, but she was arrested by the authorities and is now in jail. A year ago, while confined in jail, she escaped, purchased morphine and attempted suicide, and her life was saved with difficulty. While in the reformatory she proved to be a troublesome prisoner. The first fatality from the flood came when the 4-year-old child of Moses Stone, near Decker, fell from his father's waterbound home and was drowned,