Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 3, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 October 1908 — Page 3

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Copyright, 1936w by Will Copyright. 1)7, by J. B. Lifpincott CHAPTER XVI. (Continued.) How many times the blue eyes of old Ernst rolled back under the lids, and his grip relaxed upon the oars, only to be recalled by the pleading voice and the face of tragedy before him; how many times the whipping tongue of Macready mumbled, forgetting i;3 object, while his senses reeled gainst the burning walls of his brain ; ho:r many times the splendid spirit of the woman recalled her own lowlier faculties to action and the terrible meaning of the quest only God and Chese knew. Hut the little boat held its prow to the desolate shore. They gained the Sugar Landing at last, and strange sounds came from the lips of Ernst, as he po-nted to the hulk of the launch, bu.-ned to the water line. Gray-cove-red heaps were sprawled upon the 6hore, some half-covered by the incoming tide, some entirely awash. Pelee had brought down the city; rnd the fire-ti?er bad rushed in at the kill. He was hissing and cr inching still, under the ruins. The woman moaned and coveied her face. "There is nothing alive '." she said with dreadful stress. "What else could you luk fur?" Macready demanded. "Watt till we get over th' hill, and you'll hear th' burrds singIn the naygurs iaughiu" in the fields an wonderin' why the milkman don't come." "I can live yes. I can live until I see our house crushed to the hill, all coated wita paste, and those heap? lying about on the ground ! 'A woman can't be a friend like a man'! You will stan-1 and uncover your heads when you so your friend lying upon the ground and I I will die !" She was walking between them, up toward the market place, fighting back her terrors, which added to the burdens of the men. The opened space was filled with the stones from the houses, hurled there as from a dice box. Smoke and steam oozed forth from every ruin. The silence was awful as the sight of death. Rue Victor Hugo was effaced, the way up toward the morne undiscernible. A breathing pile of debris barred every way. It was plain that they must make their way southward along the shore. "If I cud on'y get holt o that barnacle av a shark's toot,' Pugh if I cud on'y get him here wance bare-futted Denny lasped "sure I'd lie happy holding av him! Ha ! don't sthep there!" lie pulled her away from a puddle of cacongealed stuff as' hot as running iron. Once he had stepped upon what seemed to be an ash-covered stone. It was soft, springy, and vented a wheezy igb. Rain and rock-dust had smeared all things alike in this gray, roasting shambles. "Speak won't you plef.se speak?" the woman cried suddenly. "It luks like rain, ma'am," Macready's quick tongue offered. Thpy were on the shore, nearing the rise of the Morne d'Orange. Saint Pierre had rushed to the sea at the last. The mountain had found the women with the children, as all manner of visitations find them and the men a little apart. There was nothing to do by the way, no lips to moisten, no voice of pain to hush, no dying thing to ease. IYlee had not faltered at the last. There was not au initr; murmur in the air. nor a crawling thing beneath, not a. moving wing in the hot gray sky. They traversed a shore of death absolute these three and the woman was thinking ahead. From the shoulder of the morne Lara turned back one look. Saint Pierre was like a mouth that had lost its pearls. The land ahead was a husk divested of its fruit. Pelee had cut the cane field, sucked the juices, and le:c the blasted stalks In his paste. The plantation house pushed forth no shadow cf an outline. It might b felled, or lost in ihe smoky distance. The nearer landmarkj were gone homes that Lad brightened the morne in their day, whose windows bad flashed the rays of the f fternoon sun as it rode down over sea levelled like the fields of cane. There was no balm, no saving grace. Pelee had wept far and left only his shroud, and the heaps upon the way, to show that the old sea-road, so white, so beautiful, had been the haunt of man. The mangoes had lost their vesture; the palms were gnarled and naked fingers pointing to the pitiless sky. She had knor this highway in the mornings, when joy was not dead, when the son 3 of the toilers and the laughter of children . glorified the fields ; in the white moonlight, when the sweet draughts from the sea met and mingled with the pice from torrid hüls, and scent of jasmine and rose gardens. - The dark eyes under the huge helmet were staring ahead; her lips were parted and white. Though they bad passed the radius of terrific heat, she seemed slowly to be suffocating. Macready remembered his voice. "Things are ceer by the sea, ma'am. Now, if I'd ha tuk Pugh be lb' t'roat I'd be mjertainin Mr. Constable presently in the bottom av th ship, togged out head an' fut in irons fur th' occasion, an' he'd tay, 'Dinny, why didn't you sthand be th' lady whin I tould you? Perhaps you can stand be th bunkers betther, me son. Go to thim, ye goat Emst, lad, you're intertainin, you're loquenchus." The woman , was stepping forward swiftly between them. Words died upon Älacready's tongue when he saw her face and thought of what the would find ahead. He believed that she would keep her word that she would break, brain and body if the mountain had shown no mercy at their jouvuey'a end. And Macready did not hope. The man ta whom he had tied his own life would b down like the others, .and the great house about him! All that a soft Irish heart could feel of terror and bereavein, t had waged in his breast for hours. To let the woman succumb among her dead waj more than he could bear. The ruins of the plantation house wavered forth from the fog. The prayer had pot availed ; the day still lived. A swoon had not fallen pitifully upon the woman. He was allowing her to walk forward to her end, this beautiful creature whose courage was more than a man's ! Her fingers were upon his sleeve, pulling him forward. She had no need of words from, him now. Life remained in her to reach the place ahead. She did not want more life, if the dead were there. "Wait, ma'am!" he pleaded. "No, no! I cannot wait!" "Fur aid Dinny 1" "I thank you both. You have been very brave and kind; but, Denny, don't keep me back not now !" "Let me go firsht!" he implored, harboring the mad idea that he might put something out of her sight. "NoT she screamed, breaking from him, and rushing forward through the fallen gate. Her cry brought an answer a muffled answer, the voice from a pit. Macready end Ernst plucked at the charred boards in the circle of ruin. "Peter, King Peter! -Where are you. Great-heart?" she called, laughiug, crying, picking at her hands. "In the cistern in the old cistern," came the answer. "Why did they let j ou CO me h ere ':" "D;dn"t I tell you 'twud take more than a sphit av a mountain t' singe hair ai him, ma'am?" Macready yclh-d, dancin? about the rim. "Are you hurted, sorr? Tfcll me, arc you hurted?"

epulchre Pelee Leriartoa Comfort Covrm. AU riht reserved He was pushed away, and the woman knelt at the rim, bending far down. CHAPTER XVII. Constable rested and reflected in the cistern. It did not occur to him, save in the most flimsy and passing way, to doubt the efficacy of the distance in the case of Lara. She was safe, eigh- miles at sea, and watched over by Macready, whom he had learned thoroughly to trust. Here was gladness immovable. Second, for tho present and to all intents, his own life had been spared. This was not so important in itself, but was exceedingly vital in consideration of the third point that she loved him, and had said so. His first worry was that Lara might be thinking him dead. The aspect of Constable's mind being touched upon, it may be well to outline the state of affairs as a th'rd party would see it. In the first place, there was a woman in his arms, a woman whom the fire had touched and in whom consciousness was ngt ; the mother of the world's matchless girl. Then he was sitting upon a slimy stone in a subterranean cell, the floor of which was covered with six inches of almost scalding water, and the vault filled with team. The volcanic discharge, showering down through the mouth of the pit, had heated the water and released the vapor. An earthquake years before had loosened the stone walls of the cavern, and with every shudder of the earth, under the wrath of Pelee, the masonry lining the cistern tottered. Then, his hand had been torn during tl descent of the chain, and the terrific heat in tho well livened his burns to exquisite painfulness. Rut, as has been stated, these were mere cuticle disorders, and the heart of the man sang again and again its tuneful story. Pelee was giving vent to the afterpangs. Torrents of rain were descending. The man in the cistern had lost track of time. Though replenished with rain, the water was still too hot to step in ; therefore, be could not change his position and relieve the tension of his arms. Still, be felt that he owed an astonishing debt to the old cistern. No sudden impulse had brought him there. Since he had discovered the place in his night's vigil, and examined It more closely the following day, the idea had become fixed in his mind that it might be used at the last minute. The women sighed now and stirred in his arms. The first gripping realization took his mind. He waited in embarrassment for her to speak. Would the fact that he had saved her life stand as extenuation for his rough treatment? Constable was by no means sure that he was not about to hear her estimate of him on the old footing, with the rage of a manhandled woman added the whole a finished document delivered with Mrs. Stansbury's art and force. Rut she did not yet awake. His brain worked rapidly now. She had Iain upon his shoulder during the descent. Livid dust had fallen through the orifice. His burns were slight. His eyes strained into her face, but th? cistern was dark, dark. The fire had touched her hair he knew that. Her bare arm brushed his cheek, and his whole being crawled with fear It seemed that hours elapsed. Where had Uncle Joey been at the last? Did Pelee tolerate any favorites? Brcen, Soronia, Pere Rabcaut, Mondet, the ships in the inner harbor, the thirty thousand of Saint Pierre were they all wrecked In the mills of the world? Rut the Madame was eight miles at sea! Pelee had waited for the woman. His heart of hearts held this joy. The breath of life was returning to his burden. She sighed once more, and (then, full pityingly, he felt her wince with the pain which consciousness brought. "What Is this dripping darkness?" he heard at last. The words were slowly uttered, and the tones vague. In a great dark room somewhere, in a past life, perhaps, Constable had heard such a voice from some one lying" in the shadows. "We ar in the old cistern you and I, Peter Constable." His tones became glad as he added, "Rut your daughter- is safe at sea!" "Did you forget something, or did Lara send you for her parasol?" "I Tame for you came to tell you how much we needed you how much we feared for your life, and to ask you once more " "What an extraordinary youth!" she murmured. "Was there ever auch darkness as this?" The cavern was dark, hut not utterly black now. The circle of the orifice was sharply lit with gray. "They will come from the ship to rescue us soon. Please please turn your face to the light so ! Yes, that will do !" "Did you not know that I am blind, boy? How big you seem! I should think you would put me down and rest your arms " Her face had been turned upward in the descent Of the chain ! He steeled himself to sjeak steadily. There was a cumulative harshness in that her face, above all others, so fragile, of purest line, should meet the coarse element, burning dirt. Furies leaped upon him that . he had not saved her. "The water is still hot in the bottom oi the cistern he said. "My arms are not in the least tired." An interminable interval passed before he heard. the voice again, slower, fainter: "And so you came back for me and you knew Pelee better! No, the burns do not hurt terribly. My face feels dead. You were not burned so?" This was the moment of dreadful memory. Her body, her face, arms, throat, had covered him, as the rusty chain slipped through his hand. The molten stuff had not cracked bis flesh because she had stood between. "I tried to save you you know that but you kept the Are from me V His voice was broken with rebellion. Then out of a sigh came the words that lived with him always: "I would have you know that la Montagne Pelee is artistic!" (To be continued.) All Very "Civil." In certain sections of the country there are much favored words which are required to do duty with a wide -arIety of meanings. Such Is the word "smart" among Yankees, and up along the Labrador shore the word "civil." The following conversation between two natives was overheard by a traveler. "We are goln to have lots of dirt today," said one, glancing at the sky. "Saw. It'll be civil," replied his companion. "How did you get on with the cap tain?" "Oh, he got civil to hunting deer by and by. When he went out he didn't know nothing, but tie got civilized." "Did you go down the Ketchee?" "Naw. It's too civil for him. He wanted lots of rapids. So we went down the Boonier. Them's about is civil rapids as I want to see."

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Ilreathe Fresh Air. If people only knew what good health and good spirits nttend sleeping with one's head under a window tent, one and all would do it, says a bulletin of the Indiana Health Department. Coughs, colds, pneumonia, consumption aud all other diseases of the air passages are principally Induced by breathing foul air. The window tent supplies fresh outdoor air to breathe and at Hie same time permits the lxxly to be In a warm room. Hie head is accustomed to the cold, and ?u very cold weather an ordinary woman's knit hood may be worn to protect the ears and cheeks. During the night and when asleep the tissues are repaired and the brain and nerve cells are recharged with energy. Pure air Is the great factor In repair work. Consumption . and catarrh In their early stages can be cured by breathing fresh air night and day. Cold and silver net-; and trimmings are to be very much employed for evening trimming, erpec.'ally silver, and L.! thin silvea laces and nets will be much in evidence. All sorts of lovely sashes, arranged in many diverse lines, will be a factor of evening gowns, and often a simple evening frock will be decorated with a rich sash, or a brilliant frock toned down by one in black or some dark tone, although as a rule the evening sashes are light and brilliant. Tho brocade evening gown laid in lecp plait about a pointed bodice and laced down the back in quaint and awkNEW ward old-fashioned manner has again appeared on the horizon of fashions. The gown is a revival of the styles of the period of Louis XIII, and is made with long tight sleeves and folds of heavy brocade, with no stiffening or facing of any kind about the foot of the skirt The latest examples in trains nowshown are the squared ones, but already comes the promise that the train for midwinter will have not only a -pointed end but one extremely pointed ; so does the pendulum swing and then back again. Certainly it is much easier to change a square traiu into a pointed one than vice versa, and those having their trains made long and square can have them modified later if they desire. Very pretty negligees of kimono shape are developed of black or white coin-spotted foulard silk, with border bands of light blue, emerald green or cerise taffeta, or of wide ribbon divided through the center, the nt edge run on to the edge of the garment and then turned backward, so that the selvage edge will supply a finishing ou the upper side. When these negligees are intended solely for use in sleeping cars they are provided with deep attached hoods to be drawn over the head when going to and from the dressing room and with small bags about the size of those carried to the theater, which are designed to hold the purse and any other valuables of small size. Smlle'a Face Value. Although most of us would hesitate to express what might be termed the face value of the ''modern smile," we certainly realize at times that It is a form of currency which is depreciating. In the "modern smile" we recognize the crude, official thing which neither Illuminates, cheers, nor bridges awful gaps Of silence. It may savor of suggesting a wave of imbecility to declare that we ought all to smile more; but it Is certainly true that the charm of a woman's smile was once :stiemcd even above beauty. When Anyone Is 111. Don't forget, if you have on Invalid In the house, that, before taking any ineal up to him, It is always wise to ascertain if lie is ready for It. It Is disappointing to bring a tempting little meal, all piping hot, and find that the invalid wants his hands washed and his pillows shaken up, and various other little things attended to, and when the meal Is finally tasted to have It pronounced "too cold." The tldng to do is first to see that the patient Is all ready, then bring the i leal. The Abotilnnhlc Wrinkle. Nothing is more fatal to a woman's peace of mind than the discovery of her first wrinkle. Gray hairs may be tol-

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erated; often their framing softens tho complexion, giving depth and brightness to the eyes that flash beneath them, aud many a plain face has been glorified when crowned by the sheen of silver tresses. The fading tints of a wellgroomed skin are easily concealed by the artifices familiar to every woman, but a wrinkle is obstinate, a disagreeable, aggressive witness, that bears evidence of age in unplcturesque language, as convincing as the family Bible.

Health ana Beauty Hint. To heal an open cut apply alum water twice a day. A drink of warm sage tea will often soothe a restless child. Half a teaspoon ful of lime water will usually cure colic and hiccough. To bathe tired eyes in water as hot as one can bear will give great relief. For a scald or burn apply immediately pulverized charcoal and linseed oil. Orange juice with cracked ice can often be taken by a patient who can retain nothing else. To cure sleeplessness take a cupful of hot IuJian meal gruel just before retiring. Sip it slowly. When tired out and hungry take a cup of hot soup for quick refreshment rather than tea or coffee. Never leave a patient's untasted food by his or her side from meal to meal. It will destroy the appetite. Bathe the face and hands of a feverish iK'rson In warm water that has a bit of common soda dissolved In it. Too rich food and not enough exercise is responsible for many bloodshot eyes, while too little sleep often has the same effect. Never stand or sit with the arms folded. By so doing the shoulders naturally slip forward, the chest becomes Mat, and deep breathing which is one

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of the essentials to health and good looks is Impaired. Coffee burning on a hot stove cover, carried about a sickroom, will disinfect aud purify the air and kill any unpleasant odor that may exist. Au excellent preventive against scarlet ftvfr cr diphtheria In their season is to tlve a child a small pinch of sulphur every night and morning. Egg shampoo is well enough, but it is said to make the hair dry. Nothing Is letter than soap and water, provided tho soap is a good sort and especially made for the purpose. Illtth HuchlnR. The new plaltings and frills at the top of boned stocks arc growing higher than ever. There seems no limit to what can be done lu the height of the collar and the size of the hat. Very few faces can stand as much niching as the fashion prescribes, but these are tl. very faces that will wear It. While the small, plaited frill Is pretty, the extra large one Is not. Iteinvmber idways to have the stock very high if you weir one of these Tuchings. Nothing is uglier than the tight stock that is an inch too low, with the plaiting that droops over Its edges. Sbenth fur Hat Tin. The hat pin protruding from .Its owner's hat has long been a menace to the safVty of i assers by. The hat pin of the present season, called into existence by the huge hats of the period. Is a positive Instrument of torture. In the first place, it is twice the length of the ordinary hat pin, and, having to support such a prodigious specimen of millinery, It is doubly strong. But the antidote has already arrived In the form of an ornamental sheath, which Is fitted over the point of the pin after the hat has been properly adjusted. llrniovlng Color Stains, The despair of the home laundress Is the garment which has become stained by a color which has run out of another one when they were all washed together or when a moist garment has been worn over another and imparted Its color. The garment should be put at once Into a large vessel of cold water for twelve hours and then allowed to dry In the sun. Prnlae for the American Woman. The American husband is the best in the world and his wife the happiest woman in the world, nccording to IJev. Dr. Charles F. Akod, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Church, New York, who came to this country a year or so ago from England. "The American woman has less drudgery and more leisure than any other woman. She has more money to spend and better things on which to spend It. She has more freedom Independence, more power of Initiative and

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of self-direction. She is a person of im-portance--and she knows it. She quietly assumes that she Is somebody. The assumption Is warranted in fact and conceded In practice. The American woman is, up to the present moment, God's best piece of work, and there are no visible indications of outside improvements upon the product." A beautiful shade of blue is beinj exploited In millinery. It is a very dan; dye of Beau va Is, b t there is much more black to the present shade. "Dusky blue" might best characterize it, and yet there is great indication of the smoke color, too. The tone is unl versally becoming and seems to go witt anything. In the new velvets and vel veteeus it is adorable. To render the hats of this shade more soft in tone the milliners are putting a covering of moussellne the same shade of felt or silk. Handkerchief Lannilerlng. An eary way to wash and iron handkerchiefs. Overworked mothers, trj this way: Collect haudkerchlefs an? put a couple of stitches through the corners of all. Wash in machine, smooth out each handkerchief and dampen slightly without removing stitches. Iron each one separately, or, If pushed foi time, iron on each side of the bunch. Gown of Crepe De Chine. The sketch shows a charming model for a gown of silk, voile or crepe. Old rose crepe de chine was used for thu original, the effective hand work, In a bold design, used on tho bodice being done in silk to match. The skirt was long and trailing, and was finished by a shaped applied fold. The yoke and underslcevcs were of white chiffon tucked In small squares and Inset with Chantilly lace. Look at Her Teetb. Young man, before you marry, tak particular notice of the teeth of your Intended wife. Aunt Peggy tells mo just now that the organs of mastication are certain indicators of a wife's irelination to roam or not to roam. "If jou want a home body," says the aged high priestess, "marry a girl whose teeth grow close together. If the teeth are distinctly separated, your wife will go gadding about all the time. She may love her home, but she won't stay there. She will want to be traveling. The greater the distance between the teeth the greater her inclination to wander abroad." Nt.v York Press. Homemade Tight for Children. Take a pair of ladies black stocking legs, cut off the feet and split down from the top twelve inches or more, according to the size of the child you're making them for. Stitch the two legs together, leaving a little square In the center. Stitch a square piece in there to form a gusset. Ituu . a half Inch black rubber through the hem at the top. Behold a pair of tights In about fifteen minutes. Mending Hose. When buying liose for children always buy them long, so when the knee becomes worn you can cut the stocking off enough to get all the worn part out and stitch the two pieces together again on machine. The seam will not be noticeable and looks much better than such large places darned. She Grew. A teacher, after patiently defining words in a spelling lesson, gave the word "grewsome" from among them, to be put Into a sentence, with this result from the brightest little girl in the class: "I can not wear my last Rummer's dresses, because I grew some." Life. Will Whiten tho Skin. Buttermilk Is one of the simplest and most effective remedies for whitening the skin. Bathe with It both before and after exposure to the sun and let it dry on the skin. This will also help to keep freckles away. To Make Underwear. When making undergarments for the men of the family use the ribbed bottom of old drawers for the new and make the undershirts large enough at the neck to slip over the head, thus saving the making of button holes.

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Pattern Department UP-TO-DATE DESIÖNS FOR THE HOME DRESSMAKER v v Tnckeil IHoaae Over VValat Effect. The over waist that is made with loose sleeves Is one of the best liked aud is always charmingly attractive This on? is distinctly novel, giving the effect of a separate guimpe, while ir. real itj the entire blouse is made in cue In the illustration taffeta is trimmec with banding and is finished with em broidery on the yoke and the cuffs while it is combined with a chemisettt of tucked mousselire, but almost al PATTERX 0. rl52. the waisting materials are appropriat and the blouse will be found quite as satisfactory for -the gown as it is fo separate wear. The above pattern will be mailed t your address on receipt of 10 cents Send all orders to the Pattern Depart ment of this paper. Be sure to give both the number and size of patteru wanted, and write very plainly. Foi eonvenien'e, write your order on the following coupon: Order Coupon. No. 5932. SIZE NAME ADDRESS Infant rettleoat. The long, protective ietticoat is the one of which every infant stands in need. It can be made from nainsook, from cambric, from any similar ma terial and finishes! at the lower edge in any way that may be liked. This one is comfortably full without being over voluminous and is joined to a smooth r.VTTKRX xo. COSO. ly fitted body iortion. In the illustra tion fine nainsook is tiimmcd wit! embroidery, but lace whipped to tin edge of the frill is very pretty and much used, and the material embroidered by hand Is the daintiest of all things. The above pattern will be mailed tc your address on receipt of 10 cents. Send all orders to the Pattern Department of this paper. Be sure to give both the number and size of pattern wanted, and write very plainly. For convenience, write your order. on the following coupon : Order Coupon. No. COSO. SIZE , NAME ...... ADDRESS ITEMS OF INTEREST. The Bank of England employs about 1,000 ieople. The actual cost of the Suez canal was $120.730.000. Michigan ranks second of the States of this country In Its potato product. Pressed potato meal is used as a substitute for wood in making pencils. Financial disturbances have had a serious effect ou the tide of Immigration. The tonnage of Japanese vessels at the Chinese port of I long-Kong has doubled since 1898. Slam Is the land of temples. New one1? are constantly being built and the old ones rarely, repaired. The United States produced 2.1,704.128 barrels of salt, each of 2S0 pounds, in 1907, leading the world in the industry. According to a recent report of the Smithsonian Institute the mammoth was no larger than the elephant of the present day. The largest flower In the world is the raffesia of Sumatra. It Is composed of five petals, each a foot wide. A patent has been granted to a California man for a poison bottle w ith the sides covered with sharp points. The Imports to this country of tropical and sub-tropical products will amount this year to at least $100,t00,000.? Olive oil .'s Injured by being kept in the light. When used at the table It should be removed to a cool, dark place after each meal.

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4r Five minutes after Albert E. Tucker, of Akron, was divorced, he was united In marriage to Lulu E. Tucker, his own son's divorced wife. Ollie Woodruff, a well-known, saloon man of Evansvüle, scratched Iiis hand several days ago on a beer bottle. Blood poisoning has developed and his condition now is critical. Rear Admiral Dayton, of the United States navy, is now living in South Bend at the Oliver Hotel. He was bora in that city. His retirement will take effect on October 25. J. H. Kirkham. of Snencer County. who celebrated his seventieth birthday anniversary last week, has been para lyzed for more than fifty-four years and has been a member of the M. E. church for fifty-six years. Thomas Moberly, after an illness of several months, died at his home In Shelbyville at the age of 87 years. He was one of the old school teachers of the county and many years ago taught in a little log cabin. He was once a justice of the peace. Five children sur vive him. Mr. and Mrs. Casper Lipschitz, both aged 73 years, were hurt, when their carriage was struck by an Elkhart & Western train at the Jackson street crossing in Elkhart, Mr. Lipschitz was not badly injured, but hi3 wife suffered a fracture of the skull and other hurts. It is feared she will die. Sol Frank, while fishing in a small lake three miles west of Petersburg, landed a six and one-half-pound black bass. He was using only an ordinary cane pole, and City Councilman Lige Aiiley. who was with him. caueht the fish by the gills as he drew it jtoward shore and safely landed it. Wild ducks are very plentiful this season, and some hunters kill eight or ten In one afternoon. There is little water in the streams of Pike County, and the ducks have taken to White river, and several small lakes in swarms, and are hunted at dusk, when they seek water for the night. The Young Men's Christian Association of Michigan City, which was organized early last summer, has begun the construction of a building which will cost $70,000. All the funds have been subscribed. The foundation will be laid this fall, and the remainder of the structure finished next'spring. Henry Kling, a merchant, was seriously injured at Linton by a team's becoming frightened at an automobile. He was In a wagon which was delivering a range. He fell from the wagon and thtrstove fell on him. His right leg was broken and badly crushed, a bone protruding Just above the anUe. Several hundred men will be placed at work in Ball Brothers fruit jar fac tory in Muncie within the next few weeks, adding materially to the large force that Is now employed there. The entire No. 1 factory has been over hauled in ue last few months, ax d im provement costing $100,000 have been made. The Roberts-Conner Veneering Com pany at New Albany recently began operating double turn and the em ployes will work in day and night shitts for an Indefinite period to get out orders that have been received from furniture factories throughout the country. About fifty men are on ihe nay roll. From the print shop of the Indiana Reformatory there has been issued a little booklet containing the nams and photographs of 138 former inmates of the institution who are wanled there again on account of violated parole. There aro also the pictures of eleven others and descriptions only of eight more who have escaped from the institution and are still at large. Huntington will soon have an auto transit system Instead of a city street car system, if the application to be submitted to the Huntington Common Council for a franchise receives favorable action. The city is scattered and industries are distributed about in such a manner that such a system is proposed. John C. Cuitis, now receiver of the Cincinnati, Bluffton & Chicago railroad, is back of the move. E. D. Hoeltke, who Jives west of Columbus, was feeding his chickens when a strange bird alighted In the barnyard and began gobbling up the grain. The bird seemed both tired and hungry, and the farmer had no difficulty In capturing it. He was unable to classify the fowl, so he brought it to Columbus, where he Intended to have Ernest Stahlhuth, a local ornithologist, pass judgment. Mr. Stahlhuth was not in, and a clerk thought he would see whether or not the strange bird was a , water fowl. He placed the bird in a large tank containing gold fish and minnows and went about his work. In a little while he returned to find that the visiting bird had gobbled down every goldfish and every minnow. He threw it out and It flew away without being class lifted. While he was being Initiated Into the Beta Phi Hfgh School Fraternity in Bloomington, Wilbur Hobbs, 17 years of age, was dangerously hurt on the head and was unconscious for two hours. Williard Haislup, who owns a farm In the southeastern part of Bartholomew County, has corn as fine as has been seen In many seasons. On twenty-eight acre3 of ground he raised a corn crop this year that averaged rr.ore than eighty bushels to the acre. Three months after his fourth marriage, which took place two weeks after the death of his third wife, John VanBuskirk was divorced by his wife, who was given alimony. Mrs. Van Buskirk had also been married four times, each time to old soldiers. Plans for a great wraterway convention in Fort Wayne within the next few months are now being made. Cincinnati men who are Interested In the Chicago to Toledo via Fort Wayne Canal were the prime movers in the suggestion for tho Fort Wayne meeting, and it is a practical certainty. The Board of Commissioners have ordered an election, to be held November 21, 1908, for the purpose of deciding whether or not to construct eight miles of rock road3 in Washington Township, rike County. Ranch owners near Morocco are indignant over the conduct of Illinois hunters, who persistently invade the ranches and shoot prairie chickens and other game, contrary to law. The nearness of some of these ranches to the State line makes the work of guarding against violations of the game law a difficult matter.

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Sherman Peffley, of Wabash, had $200 stolen from his pocket while he was on his way to a bank, to deposit tho. cash. The Moellering Construction Compsny, of Fort Wayne, has completed the paving of Main and Market tsreeta at Columbia City. Ben Allen, the Fremont young man who was fearfully burned in an attempt to kindle a fire with coal oil, died as a result of his injuries. Cebert Abshire, Keystone, Is the defendant in a suit for $23.000 filed by his Invalid wife in Muncie, la which she charges him with abandonment. Contracts were let recently and work is to commence immediately on extensive additions to the big plant of the Maxwell-Briscoe Motor Company in KcAcaaue. Through an ordinance, recently passed by the Town Board, Bowling Green will soon be supplied with ce ment sidewalks and street crossings on the principal streets. The National Horse Thief Detective Association, which met in Peru, ad journed after selecting Charles Spry, of Logansport, president, and Crawfordsville as the next meeting place. George K ravers, employed at the plant of the Crescent Handle Works in Evansviile, has never voted, al though he is about 43 years old. He says politics has no charms for him. Within ten minutes after she had been granted a divorce at Plymouth, Mrs. Edith E. Brockus, of Bourbon, was united in marriage to Clyde Kittlnger, of iyrla, Ohio, where they will reside. Two cases diphtheria and a new case of scarlet fever have developed In Greensburg. Rigid quarantine is established and every precaution has been taken to prevent the spread of the contagions.. Mrs. William IL Taft, wife of the Republican presidential candidate, has sent a hand-made handkerchief to the Working Girls Auxiliary In Evansviile to be sold at a bazaar which will be given by the working girls November 11, 12 and 13. One more s&lcon, the eleventh since January 10, closed its doors in Newcastle, through the blanket remon strance. The saloon was that of Thom as Hatfield, which was located in the basement of the Bundy Hotel, and was known as the Bundy buffet.' Several weeks ago a swarm of bees took refuge in the cupola of the Re'gu'ar Baptist church in Owensville and this week the sexton, Mr. Matthews, found several pounds of honey there in fine condition. The bees got Into the cupola through a small hole near the base. The last saloon In Waterloo closed its doors last week by the expiration of license, the remonstrance law operating against a renewal. It is the first time Waterloo has beenwithout a saloon since 1836, when the first one was started there by John Wood, during the building cf the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad through the town. In the circuit court at Huntington a few days ago there came up a motion on a case that was originally at issue in that court In the March term, 1842. It was a foreclosure matter, and the motion set forth that wherea3 the property had been sold In 1850 under the mortgage, the latter had never been cancelled on the record. Judge . Cook ordered the cancellation of the mortgage. Charles W. Fox and Lorane Dellstreet were married at South Bend by Justice W. B. Wright in writing. They are mutes. "Will you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband?" wrote the Justice. Miss Dellstreet replied "yes" In writing. Fox was asked if he would take Miss Dellstreet for his wife and he replied that he would. The justice, after tne proper questions were all answered, pronounced them man and wife, In writing. Artman Francois, the miner whose back was broken and who was denied admittance to the St Anthony Hospital in Terre Haute, is now on the road to recovery. When the injured man was refused admittance to the hospital the Linton physicians had no hope for his recoverj', but they decided to do all in their power to prolong life. Finally they decided to replace the broken bone and after four hours work they succeeded In doing so. Judge Heaton, of the Allen County Superior Court, held recently that the letters "O. K." written on the back of an order for money and having a signature under them mean "all right," and are equivalent to an indorsement. The case in which the decision was made grew out of a refusal of the McBride Electrical Company, of Chicago, to pay for material bought by a subcontractor for a municipal lighting plant which the McBride Company was building. John Weston, a fanner near Jasonville, shipped a carload of hogs to the Bourbon stockyards, Louisville, where they sold for 7 cents a pound, the highest price that has been received by any shipper this year. Mrs. Israel Taney, of Klrkland Township, Adams County, was thrown from her buggy In a runaway acident and sustained p. broken arm. Her husband and little child, who were driving with her, were painfully bruised. Irving Cartensen, 15 years old, of Ho hart, was fatally injured in a hunting accident on Deep river. He stumbled over his gun while getting out of his boat His right hand was blown off, the muscles In his right arm were torn and a part of his shoulder was shot off. Jacob Mangold, former night policeman of Decatur, was killed by Charles Wolf, it is alleged. Both men were working on a new road west of Decatur. Mangold instructed Wolf to unload stone according to rules. Wolf, it it charged, hurled a scantling, striking Mangold's head. Wolf is under arrest Rain softening earth where they were working a gravel bank caved in on 6everM workmen near Anderson, and John Atkinson, CI years old, was Instantly killed. Several msn had harrow escapes from death. L. A. Crittendon, near St. Anne, says that ho figured, one rainy afternoon, on the number of miles he was compelled to walk in cultivating an acre of corn, and found It to be 312. He rented his farm and moved to town, where he walked 700 miles the first six months looking for a job. He has returned to the farm.