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A - imca By VELDON CHAPTER XVIII. (Continued.) Hope thrilled, Lis eyes glistened with Interest. "Is escape, then, possible?" he demanded quickly. "And cav!"Show me the way to freedom, then!" You pledge yourself I shall go with TOU?" -Ob, surolyl" uTo assist me if I need aid?" "Yes !" 'To hast.n yourself to the execution of tfce mission, should I be overcome anl Incapacitated by weakness or accident?" "I promise you that !" And you look like a man who means what he ears, and I believe ia yoa," earnestly paid the other. "Very well, then oar course Is simple. Alone, I fear I could not carry out my designs, but yo'i are strong, fearless, while I am a physical wreck. There is a window in my cell, ur.like your own. An hour's work with tl e saw will enable you to break out tl e framed grating. Then there is a yard to cross, a hiprh stone wall t scale, and liberty! But we must wail for nightfall, for all day long the attendants here are about the garden." Hope's energies spurred up as If by magic His crushing experience of the past week had well nigh distracted other than a pained interest in life, but every man craves liberty, and the prospect of freedom was alluring. I shall certainly hold myself solely at your service while you carry out this mission of yours," be said. At the allusion, the former agitation of his companion recurred. "My mission I" he repeated, weirdly, pacing th floor with excitement. "Heavens! when I think of itl And only twenty-four hours left! If I fail! if I fail r Hope placed a hand soothingly on th? man's arm, for he observed that he was "becoming frightfully worked up. "Be calm, my friend," he said, reassuringly, "you are not going to fail. Is not -the way to freedom open to us?" "Yes. yes It seems so!" "Will not I be at your side to assist yoa 7" Hi en the man's face glowed with hope 1 He resumed bis place on the bench. "My name Is Warren," he said, after a long, dreary pause, "and I am an expert -chemist, and agent for the Vulcan NitroOlycerine Company of New York." So peculiar and grim-sounding was this Announcement that Hope secretly wondered if, after all, the speaker was entirely responsible for what he said, but the latter proceeded, with a manifest powerful effort to be cool and coherent : "It was exactly two months ago yesterday that I was struck down in the railroad wreck. This I know by computation, for I learned the day of the month from a newspaper and an overheard conversation in the garden. It Is, therefore, precisely 63 days to-morrow morning that I left in the Vandyke House, at Murryville. a satchel containing my latest chemical experiment ir. dynamite." "You mean? " "What I tell yu. It Is there now. In the closet of the room I always occupied when a guest there, pushed way back on a dusty, unused shelf." "Ah, I see," nodded nope, "yon fear someone may discover it, tamper with it, ad create disaster?" "Not at all!" dissented War.en, shari ly. "No one would do that, for the hotl people understand uiy ways, and I have frequently used the room. Again, the satchel has a warning tag attached that would at once apprise a meddler of his risk." "Then? " "Listen," proceeded Warren, his tones shaking "it is nearly rie!" "Ripe?" "Yes." "I dm't understand yoa." Warren wrung his handj. "As a chemist," he said, "I know that precisely C3 day3 from the date I ende the mixture spontaneous explosion will positively materialize!" Hope gave an awed start, comprehending. "Then, indeed " he began. "It must be reached, removed, cast into some deep river bed. Aye! or a hundred innor-ent lives will be blotted out. Why. man! there is enough dymmite in that little satchel to blow the Vandyke House to atoms in an intsant !" - It .vas fated that what Warren had planned should be in a measure carried out. Just after dusk -Gideon Hope and his stranre associate in escape removed the sawed-ihrough window frame, let themselves down by a trellis to the garden. found a ladder, and gained the top of the high stone wall surrounding the private asylum. Its broad surface was littered with broken crockery and glassware. About to pall up the ladder to drop it over on the other side, Hope ciught a faint moan from the lips of his companion. "What is th? matter?" he inquired quickly. Warren was tottering, and Gideon grasped him to eceady him with his strong hand. "I have cut my wrist on a fragment of broken glass!" panted Warren, and !t Is bleeding profusely. I am so weak ah, f feared it ! I shall not have the strength to go with yoa." "Nonsense courage !" "No you mu?i see that. Ah! now it Is not a question of choice!' A shout arose from the garden, a rustling echoed. Two attendants came into view around the corner of the buildIn. "Halt, there !" was gruffly ordered, and the click of a revolver cut the air, sharp and menacing. CHAPTER XIX. "Gor "And leave you behind never I" "You must!" Wsrren had summoned the strength to throw himself before Hope, so as to shield him from the revolver aimed upwards from the garden. Thence hid arisen the brief instruction: "Drop the big one he's a special !" "Jump. ! tell you!" insisted Warren. "They dare not injure me. In two days' I shall be free, but yoi man ! the dynamite ! Save the innocent lives at that totel " "Yes!" cried Hope, inspired with the holy purpose indicated. " He leaped backwards. In half n m'u'it J he was safe in the shelter of shri'b5?ry, :ii I balf an hour, at the end of a kfvn fully four miles away from his re e prison plate. Now he sat down on a fallen tree m . regain his 'ireath and calculate what was to be done, and the speediest way of accOmpliihing It. He had .c.-w versed o generally with Warren that day that he knew he must lose no time in heading straight and swiftly for the hotel where the satchel of dynamite Iny. Hope put aside the exultation of freedom, the complications of th? escape, even ell thoughts of Kane, of Claire, as he realized the sacred i'.ec?e te mast fulfill tx ail hazards.

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endetta J. COBB Murryville was 20 miles across country. By pfing back six in Che direction of the asylum he could strike a railroad, but it might be to run directly into a nest of attendants on the lookout for him. Again, he knew nothing of the train schedule. He resolved to press onward oa foot, trustin; to general ideas of direction and distance to cover the straight twenty miles before daylijht. Hut, a man badly injured in a brutal melee and shut up in an unwholesome prison for a week, Hope found that he was scarcely in normal shape. lie proceeded more slowly than he had calculated. The lonely country road oppressed him. He became footsore and dizzyhcaded. Hope welcomed a light shining in th.distance. lie kept it in sight ns a beacon, and traced it to the window of a cabin near a quarry. A knock at its door brought thither an uncouth laborer, sleepy eyed and uncivil. "What you want?" he challenged gruffly. "A horse, or a horse and vehicle," responded Hope promptly. "Only for a few hours. See I will pay liberally to secure the means of getting at once to Murryville." "I've got no horse," advised the man. "and there's no place between here and Murryville that I know of where you could get a rig hold on I" he interrupted himself; "there is. "Where?" eagerly demanded Hope. "Go down the road a mile." "Yes?' "You'll come to the old Thorndyke place. Some strangers have rented it lately, and they keep a horse and carriage I've seen 'em." "GoodT' Hope tossed the man a coin as a reward for his cheering information, and put forward with renewed ardor. The district was rough,' barren and not a habitation did be pass until he came in s'ght of what had once been quite a pretentious residence, probably formerly that of some person interested in the quarries in the vicinity. It was lighted up, front and side. As Hope approached, he, too, made out stables at the rear. "I must get a conveyance here,' he ruminated. "It is only ten miles to Murryville, but I don't seem to be able to walk it on foot. I am dreaming I" These last words fell from his lips in a wild gasp, as, crossing an unkept garden 6pace, he fixed his eyes upon a man seated in a lighted room, and smoking leisurely. The windows were open, the lamplight showed him plainly "Percy Kane!" Like one In a trance, rooted, incredulous, Hope gazed in at the man. His temples throbbed, the old fever of hatred and vengeance crowded back the mission that had strangely guided him to thin spot, to this vital, unaccountable discovery. Firmly he set his lips his hand closed, unclosel his breath came hard. Gideon went around to the front. An open door showed a hallway at its end the room in which Kane sat. ?IIe shall tell me of her of Claire P hissed Hope, and noiselessly entered the place. As he crossed the threshold of the inner room Kane sprang up. His eyes dilated. He brushed one hand swiftly across them, as if to exclude an unreal vision, though he paled, and his lips parted, aghast. The rternness of confrontation was lost for Hope, for as Kane arose a singular revelation caused the former to stare ia amaze. About one wrist of Kane was a bright, strong handcuff, and a chain ran from this to a stout marble pillar of the ornamental fireplace. Lost in wonderment and mjstery, Hope exclaimed : "What does this mean?" Kane had grown steadily whiter. Hut a bitter sardonic sneer made his evil face now rather defiant and reckless than affrighted. His lips parted, but ere he could speak there was a sound in the adjoining room, a swishing frou-frou, like the rustling of silken skirts. Quick as a flash, Kane turned, pointed through the opening connecting doorway, and said in bitter mockery : "Ask her!" "Your wife?" breathed Hope, aud his senses reeled as he caught sight of a graceful feminine figure arrayed in tasteful evening attire. Claire! His heart seemed bursting within him. Claire I Were they to meet thus at last? He tool; a step forward to address her, to once more view that lovely beloved face. What would she say at the recognition? What could she say. save to hurl upon the man who had driven her to link her destiny with that of the deepest scoundrel on earth, words of reproach and contempt ! "Claire ! Miss Denslow ! Mrs. Kane !" The woman turned. They came face to face. "Great heavens!" rang from Gideon Hope's ashen lips, his heart in a tumult, as he recoiled with a shock. CHAPTER XX. Glleon Hope stood petrified abashed. He '-vas transfixed with consternation and incredulity. "You you are not " he began. "I am not what?" came the sharp, quick inquiry. From the lips of the woman upon whom he had advanced the words Issued. Never for an instant had his gaze left uTi" face the confrontation, unreal as was it unexpected, fascinated him. There she stood a woman to admire, to wonder at ; for most men to worship, for she was queenly in form and bearing, her eyes were dazzlingly piercing, her features statuesquely radiant. She was naught to Gideon Hope, though for she was not the woman he had expected to meet, was not Claire Tremaine or rathr, Claire Kane, as he had expected to greet her and find her. The discovery was a puzzle, and the puzzle a shock but as yet no ray of the true light flooded his mind; only Rheer. profound mystification and bewilderment permeated. "Yrti are not his this man's wife," sttirioled Hope, indicating the manacled a.ch-plotter with a movement of hi3 band 'ncl'ward. "Indeed !" change went over the tragic face of .. -vornan a scornful defiance was presented, and he could not but note these rap'd changes, the intense power of expression. The most superb and skilled actress could no better potray the emotiors that were apparently quick-kindling fuel to a strongly unique temperament. And. too, Hope fancied in the queerly iridpseent eyes there was a token of stranze imiort. as thoujrh this creature hov-Med on a distorted mental balance. "Ask him!" she said, and power and triumph freighter her tones that were part a mocking cry, part a malignant hisY With that a quivering indication of

her Index finger in the direction of th adjoining room where Kane sat she turned coldly and unceremoniously from Hope, nnd es she s vept past a jtortiered doorway the overwhelmed intruder slowly, dubiously ü'ovcil around, nnl with vnzue. dulled ste;-M returned to the presence of the man he o hated. Kane sat as lie "ore in the luxurious armchair r l fo". the stout chain encircled one wr'st, runnin: to the heavy marble jüüar. and holding him captive. Thrt pallor that had been occasioned by the first startling and unexpected appearance of IIo', had departed. Ills lip was curled with a mockery that seamed born of some mysterious innate confidence. He regarded lvs visitor's fare sardonically. Then he burst into a short, hfirsli and derisive lausli. Kane poised r.'otionJe? and silent, trying to study out the situation, striving to analyze the jarring elements that had distraefl all his original ideas and purposes. With coo' and contemptuous demeanor Kane laueliel twice a?nin. Then he rebelled over (o the dainty stand at his elbow, selected a fresh cicar, lit it. sank back with a chir l ie and a grin, and calmly pufiVd out the blue leisurely smoke towards l:s enemv. In all this Hope suddenly fancied he detected trickery some diabolical effrontery that had for its ends the baffling of his cherished project to discover Claire and wrest her from the power and presence of this unpunished scoundrel. . His muscles relaxed to grow instantly rigi 1 again, but menacinsly so. for he had both hands clutched ahove his head, his e;es aflame, his white, regular teeth bristli ig, and he posed as if to spring upon Kane. "What'." jeered the other "would you jump oa a lHpless man !" (To be continued.)

QUEEREST MEN ON EARTH. Wear Xo Clothes, While Few Leaves Satisfy Prldo of Their Women. Earth's oddest and oldest race of men has been brought prominently into notice again through the widespread interest aroused by sending a balvh of Indian political agitators to the venal settlement on the Andaman Islands, that beautiful coral-bound archipelago iu the Bay of Bengal. This remnant of the most primitive human species In existence will soon he nothing but an ethnological memory, writes n Calcutta corrcsiiondont in the New York World. Contact with advanced civilization has been followed, as usual, with a train of infectious diseases, which are steadily thinning the ranks. Owing to the ancient course of trade, the Andamanese have been known about from the earliest times, rtolcmy's Agathan Daimonos Nesos probably preserves the misunderstanding of some term nppll&l by sailers to a place in or near the modern Ami. mans. Notices of them by travelers, Asiatic and European, are continuous from the seventh century, and the islands regularly appear In tome shape ,on maps of those regions from the Middle Ages down. The Andamanese live in a Ilesperidlan garden, where they toil not, neither do they spin. For the product of the spinner they have no use, as the men go stark naked and the women wear one or more leaves In freut and a bunch of leaves tied around the waist behind. The average height of the men is CS Inches; that of the women 53 Inches. They appear to dwell free from care In a country that Is everywhere beautiful and varied. In the ordinary attainments of human beings, however unenlightened, the Andamanecs are amazingly deficient. Duritig nil the ag(-s of their intercourse by word of mouth they have not developed a medium worthy ofthe name of language. Before the nnival of the British the tribes except actual neighbors, had no intercourse. Even clans of the same triltc found difficulty In the details of dialogue with one another. There is a change of jargon along about every twenty miles on the coast. They have no words for ordinary greetings, salutations or expn-s-blons of thanks. Such language as they have, however, is exceedingly Uiteresting from the philological point of view. It possesses a quality which would be Invaluable were the Andamanese a business people. In their sieech ouly what is absolutely necessary is usually expressed. These mites of humanity could do Just as well probably without any words at all. They have an expressive ?ign language, which they employ almost as much as the sioken words. Their speech Is Jerky, disjointed, and helped out often by a grimace, a gesture, or a sudden change In tone. The Andamanese knows scarcely snythlng and has no dire to increase his stock of knowledge. He has never learned any sort of agriculture, Until the English taught him to keep dog3 he did not know how to domestic-ate any animal or bird. He cannot count, even with his fingers, and doesn't see the need of counting. All his Ideas are hazy and Inaccurate. On one point, however, he Is levelheaded. He belongs to a race of bad fighters, knows It, nnd will never attack unless certain of success. The Voice of I'm tue. 'An American author of some note was passing a summer in New Hampshire. One day he received word that a 'distinguished Englishman was visiting In the country town and would like to call upon the author, of whom, he added in his note requesting an audience, he had heard. Somewhat flattered, the author wondered to himself who had spoken to the distinguished Englishman about him. "Some Oxford dignitary doubtUm," he reflected, pleasantly, "or jiosslbly some London publisher or critic," and he awaited the stranger's arrival with interest. "So you had heard of me," he ventured, after the" usual greetings had been spoken. "Well, that is odd. Might I ask who " but his visitor interrupted him. "Oh, yes." he said. "I heard all about you before I got here. The porter on the I'uliniiin told me that you were the very man to come to to ask about the best route to Niagara, and what hotel I'd better stay at" No Tronbla lo Stick. "Yes, sir," said the pompous individual, "it pays a man to stick to his own business. I made a fortune doing that." "What 13 the nature of your busl noss?" queried the Interested party. "I'm a glue manufacturer," was the significant reply. Out for ftaftlttmn. The Arctic Explorer Say, can you tell me where I can And the north pole? The Eskimo Nix. If I knew I'd had It In a museum long ago.

f REVIEW OF INDIANA J

Des ponder t because of ill health, j Mrs. May Kizer, a?ed 40, killed herself i at her home in Mishawaka by inhaling ; gas. While out hunting, Harry Shirley, , assistant postmaster of Shoals, shot i and killed a large blacksnake. Thi3 is unusual for December. Miss Sarah Jones, of Fowler, h. a dandelion In bloom on the lawn at her home. In many yards the grass is almost as green as in summer. While hunting near his home in Moscow, Bert Owens treed a 'possum. It had white fur and black ears. The animal was brought to Shelbyville. An unknown man, supposed to be an escaped lunatic, is in the custody of the police at Goshen. He refuses to eat or talk. His appearance Indicates that he is 23 years old and of foreign birth. Fire destroyed tho farm house, two miles west of Waterford, owned by j John Arnold, of west of New Paris, and occupied by his son-in-law and daughter. Insurance $500 in the Elkhart County Farmers' Mutual. John Alltop, son of William Alltop, a farmer who lives six miles west of Nashville, a few years ago enlisted in the regular army. Now, it is said, he is charged with desertion and with attempting to murder an officer who tried to arrest him. Last week Sheriff Roberts and an officer from Bloomington made an unsuccessful effort to capture him. Dead fish In great numbers have been found lodged at a dam In the Misslssinewa river, near Matthews, and the fear is expressed that strawboard plants above Matthews have been guilty of turning refuse into the river without awaiting a freshet to sweep the refuse away. The river at this point has had an inky appearance for several days, where, for months previous, the water had been clear. As he was sitting in a wagon ready to drive away from the home of a friend, Abraham Long, one of the best known farmers in the vicinity of Lafayette,' suddenly straightened up on the seat, pitched headlong to the ground and was picked up lifeless by his companions. The fall broke his neck and caused instant death. It is believed that a stroke of apoplexy caused him to fall from the wagon. Because his High School teacher, W. O. Kitchen, took Ellis Stewart, aged 17, colored, to task for not keeping his work, up, he knocked the teacher down and beat his head against the floor of the classroom in the Columbus High School. The teacher is a white man, but was no match for the young negro, who 13 muscular and athletic for his age. Stewart has been suspended from the High School, and there is considerable feeling against him among tho whites. George Brewlngton, ot Milan, paid $23 for two registered cockerels last spring. When he opened the coop one morning recently one of the fowls left the premises as fast as possible and the other one Jumped five feet straight Into the air and crowed lustily. Brewington made a careful inspection. He found that some one had taken hi3 blooded cockerels and substituted two fowls of a more common stock. He says the strange roosters are about 27 and 42 years old, respectively. Charles, the 11 year-old son of Weldon Luse, of Elwood, while on his way to school, found a blacksnake that had crawled into the roadway. The boy's father was called and ho took the snake home, wrapped it in rags and straw and placed it in a barrel wh'ch was sunk In the ground inside the barn. The snaKe is four feet three inches long. Mr. Luse will attempt to domesticate It In order to rid his barn of rats, as blacksnake3 are known a3 enemies of rats and mice. Blacksnakes are not poisonous. The mystery of the disappearance of Anna Smith and Bessie Krieger, two lC-year-old Hammond girls, last week, when they left their homes, has been cleared up by their arrest at Kavanaugh by Officer Halon. of the Hammond police force. Both girls rented masquerade cowboy costume last week to attend a ball and then disappeared. They were found In a houseboat on the Calumet river attired in buckskin garments, sombreros and fully "armed. The girls said they preferred the freedom of the woods to lifo in society. Charles Warner, of Elwood, who spends much time hunting and trapping, while going over his traps recently, made a queer catch. He chased a rabbit into a muskrat hole on the bank of ripe creek and dug it out When he found the bunny at the bottom of the hole It was squealing loudly, and when pulled forth was found to be wrapped securely In the embrace of a large blue racer snake. The snake and the rabbit were brought to Elwood, and are now being exhibited In the rhow window of a rocal store. The snake was In a semi-comatose state. William VanNoorman, a Chicago steeplejack who visited Kendallvillo list week, can neither read nor write, but he finis no difficulty in earning from $30 to $100 per week at his profession. Several Mormon elders have begun their customary mission efforts in Terre Haute, visiting businoss and professional men mostly, although rome go to residences, always in couples. They also do some street preaching and they sell their Bible. Business at Osslan has Increased sufficiently to warrant the advance of the postofflce there from the fourth to the third class after January 1. The salary of the postmaster will be $1,100 a year. "That's a funny looking thing," cald Frank Davis, of Reed Station, 12 years old, as he haw on the Lake Erie & Western railway track near hl3 homo a torpedo used by railroad men for signaling purposes. Thereupon he hit it with a big stone and was severely injured. A surgeon removed several iron slivers from his body. Frank C. Zimmerman, who died very suddenly at his home In Fort Wayne, wa3 probably the oldest dry good3 clerk in the State. He had pursued that vocation in the city for fifty years. Kobert Jamison, 39 years old and unmarried, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Jamison, of Noblesville, died at his home from sciatic rheumatism. He was bandmaster in Bingling Brothers' circus and left the show in the South about two weeks ago on account of illness. Ho had held similar positions in the Forepaugh circus and the Ben Wa'laco shotvs.

Ollie Craven, of Blufften, was kicked by a horse, and his leg was broken. The Board of State Charities says the jail at Auburn is in bad condition. Archie Lockhart, aged 32, a boiler maker of Fort Wayne, ended his life with carbolic acid. Dr. I. Nutt Plummer, the oldest and wealthiest physician in Shoals, dropped dead from heart failure as he was entering his home. Charles Heckman, aged 24, foreman at the Mitchell Cement Mills in Bedford, fell from a thirty-foot ledge to a stone below, and sustained Injuries which caused death in a few minutes. T. IS. Williams shot an eagle on his farm, three miles northwest of Rockville. The bird measured seven feet and seven inches from tip to tip, and was carrying away a young pig when shot. C. W. Kimmell of Kendall ville, Senator-elect in the coming Legislature, has resigned the agency of a Mg insurance company in order that he may be untrammelled in his legislative work. Taylor C. Shobe, a horseman well known all over northern Indiana, died a few days ago at his home in Ligonler. Mr. Shobe had his spine Injured in a runaway accident a year ago and did not recover. The barn on the farm of Mrs. Goben, two miles west of Linden, was destroyed by fire last week. Thomas Endine, tenant on the farm, lost all of his farm implements, buggy, wagons, harness and a quantity of corn. Loss $900, partly Insured. Mrs. Maud Stonecipher has asked for a decree of separation from Dr. Alva E. Stonecipher, a practicing physician of South Bend. She demands $75,000 alimony, alleged the defendant Is worth $200,000. Both parties have been twice married. Owing to the failure of natural ga the Fort Wayne Gas Company has dismissed all Its employes In the Blackford County field save two men. The pumping stations were abandoned some time ago for the reason that there was no gas to pump. Vernon Stldd, aged 14, son of Benjamin Stldd, and Hazel Allen, 15, the daughter of Pearl Allen, a widow, were married at Columbus by Justice Kanney In his office. The mother of the two children were present and gave their consent to their marriage. Wlfen Perry F. Fields and Miss Amy Nash were married at Washington the third brother of the Fields family ta k for his bride the third sister of the Nash family. Often Instances occur where two brothers of one family marry two sisters of the same family, but it 13 unusual that three brother marry sisters. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. W. Moore. To be run over by a freight train and escape uninjured was the queer incident that happened to Ora Dyer, a student of the Oakland City High School. Dyer was walking over a high ft-estle on the Southern Railway, when he heard the warning whistle of a locomotive. Ho lay as flat as possible to tho ties, aiw tue train passed over him. Aside from slight bruises he was uninjured. Elvet Rhodes, owner of the Rhodes farm in southern Martin County, lost a valuable team of horses by drowning at tho Haysville ferry. John Rhodes and some companions had been hunting and were returning from the neighborhood of West Baden. When at Haysville they stopped and left the team standing in the highway. The horses became frightened "and ran away, plunging into White river and in a few minutes were drowned. The team was valued at $500. J. C. Kimmell, Noble County chairman of the Agrlctural Society, has given notice that there will be five farmers' institutes held In Noble County in January, as follows: LaOtto, Tuesday, January i9; Wolf Lake, Wednesday. January 20; Cromwell, Thursday, January 21; Cosperville, Friday, January 22; Albion, January 23. All of these meetings will be addressed by J. B. Burris, of Cloverdale, Putnam County, and MIs3 Ethel E. Berry, of Jewel City, Kan., will address the meetings at Cromwell, Cosperville and Albion. E. A. Brown, formerly of Carmel, who recently Invented a rapid-firj gun that attracted attention, has just applied for a patent on an ingenious devico for a phonograph. The new appllanco Is small, not as large as an ordinary thimble. The device is attached to the cylinder, on which the records are placed. It holds the record so firmly that It is impossible for it to vary, thus doing away with the rasping noise. The record is placed on the cylinder, a miniature gate Is closed

and when the selection Is finished the gate opens automatically and the record Is removed. Mr. Brown believes his invention will bring him a small fortune. Joseph McBride, ex-Deputy Sherifl of Shelby County, and for sixteen years a member of the Council o Shelbyville, has been adjudged insane and will be committed to the State asylum. F. W. Barrett, night operator at the Indianapolis Southern station at Sullivan, was held up by two men as he wa3 leaving the station. The highwaymen took several dollars In money and a gold watch, then walked quietly away. ) James Bomer, aged 70 years, a farm er near Jeffersonville, and member ol an old family, was found dead in the barn lot by his daughter, Eliza Bomer, soon after he had gone out to attend to his stock. Apoplexy was the cause Eight children survive. The Fulton Drilling Company hai Just completed a well In Bearcreek Township for the Standard Oil Com pany, which 13 one. of the best oil pro ducers recently drilled In the Jaj County field. Twenty-four hours aftei the well was shot it had produced 13C barrels. Dr. J. T. Drybaugh was found dead in a hotel In Evansvllle. He fell heir, a year ago, to a big fortune In Scot land. After coming into the estate h started on a wild career. LaGrange citizens are working hard to make their city one of the best com mercial polnt3 in that part of the Stat by endeavoring to locate factories and otherwise helping to increase the pop ulatlon. The officers and members ol the LaGrango Business Men's organl zation are saying they will double. th size of the city within the next twe years.

IE THEYEAR QF6FIAGE1908 Record Is of Change and Death, but Also of Peace and Prosperity. NATIONS HAVE NEW RULERS. Many Persons Known in Statecraft, Politics, Music and Letters Pass Away. The year 1908, like most of those preceding it, has brought about many changes in all parts of the world. Death has taken rulers and governments have been changed, men and women of prominence and achievement in many lines have passed into the silent hereafter, fire nnd flood have levied their toll upon human life and property, greed and hate have Incited to grave crime in numerous instances. But the record is not all dark. Man's activities along peaceful ways have gone steadily forward, achievement has made decided headway, the quiet lives of the majority of earth's people have moved on unvexed by war, pestilence or famine, and a grateful material prosperity seems to be the portion of most of the civilized nations. Early In February the king and crown prince of Portugal were assassinated In a street of Lisbon and the crown passed to a young son and brother, the present King Manuel. The deaths, in November, of the Emperor and the Dowager Empress of China caused a change in the ruling head of the Celestial empire. A new president has more recently taken hold of affairs in Hayti, Bulgaria has declared itself independent of Turkey, and the lastnamed country Itself has made radical Innovations tending toward a constitutional government The necrology of the year is memorable for the number of notable men and women of prominence in the world of art, letters and music who have passed away. Among those to succumb during 1008 were ex-President GAver Cleveland, Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-man, ex-premier of England ; Tomas Estrada Palma, Cuba's first president; Bishop Henry C. Potter and Rev. Morgan Dix of New York, Ira D. Sankey, Pablo do Sarasate, August Wllhelmj, Edmund Clarence Stedman, "Oulda," Joel Chandler Harris, Murat Halstead, Bronson Howard, VIctorlen Sardou, Louise Chandler Moulton, Harriet Hosmer, Chas. Emory Smith and Wm. B. Allison. The principal events of 1008 may be thus epitomized: JANUARY. 4 Jury disagrees In trial of Caleb Powers for murder of Gov. Goebel of Kentucky. .. .Jury acquits Geo. A. Petti bone of Steuncnburg murder in Idaho. 13 Theater fire and panic in Boyertown. Pa., causes 107 deaths and injury of 7.") persons. .. .Union station annex ia Kansas City burns. 18 Death of Edmund Clarence Sted man. poet. .. .Three miners rescued after being buried for 40 days in mine at Ely, Mo. 10 Death of Chas. Emory Smith of Philadelphia, former Postmaster General. 24 $1,000,000 fire in Portland, Me Death of August Wilhelmj, noted violinist. 25 Death of "Ouida," English novelist. 2S-$1,700,000 fire in Chicago. 30 Death of Burr Robbins, wellknown circus man. FKBRUARY. 1 King Carlos and Crown Prince Luiz Felippe of Portugal assassinated in streets of Lisbon. ... Harry Thaw acquitted of Stanford "White murder.... Gov. Toole of Montana resigns. 2 Manuel II. proclaimed King of Portugal. 3 Death of Col. Thos. G. Lawlor of Rockford. 111. 10 Burial of King Carlos and Crown Prince Luiz Felippe of Portugal. 11 Anthracite centennial celebrated in Wilkcsbarre, Pa. 12 523,000 bank robbery ia Rich IlilL Mo. 15 Marriajre of Miss Theodora Shonts and Due de Chaulnes. 18-10 Severe blizzard sweeps middle and western States. 20 Death of Senator Latimer of South Carolina. 21 Death of Harriet Ilosraer, American sculptress. 27 Mine explosion near San Juan de Sabinas, Mexico, kills 70 miners. 28 Unsuccessful atrtempt made to kill Shah of Persia with bomb....W. O. Bradley, Republican, chosen Senator from Kentucky. MARCH. 1 Great fire in Tampa, Fla. 2 Attempted assassination of Chief of Tolice Geo. M. Shippy of Chicago. 4 178 Children lose lives in burning of public school in North Coll in wood, a Cleveland suburb. .. .Death of Senator Red Seid Proctor of Vermont. . 10 Attempt made on life of King Haakon of Norway. 12-20 Floods do damage along rivers of middle west. 12 Admiral Evans' fleet arrives at Magdalena Bay, Lower California. 17 Death of Senator William Pinckney Whyte of Maryland. 22 Death of Senator William J. Bryan of Florid i. 23 200 persons drowned In collision of Japanese Rhips ol Todohokke, Japan. 20 Earthquake and fire destroy ChiIapa, Mexico. 28 Bomb thrown in Union Square, New York, by Slig Silverstein. APRIL. 2-3 ropulist national convention in St. I on is. 4 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, premier of England, resigns. (3 Election riots in Lisbon, Portugal. 7 Death of Congressman A. L. Brick of Indiana. 12 Chelsea, Mass., devastated by $10,000,000 fire.... Death of Gen. B. M. Cuteheon of Michigan. 15 Ilauscr Lake dam, north of Helena, Mont., bursts and causes great havoc. 22 Death of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. ex-premier of England. 23 Death of Gen. Linevitch, Russian commander. .. .Due de Chaulnes dies suddenly in Paris. 24 Destructive tornado sweeps 13 A Wonderful FonU Red. An expedition directed by Trof. II. F. Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History has recently returned from the Fayoum desert in Egypt laden with new skeletons of prehistoric animals. The Fayoum district is the bed of an ancient liver, and in the sands are found the bonea of all kinds of animals mixed indiscriminately. They are bo soft that they can be removed only by pouring shellac over thein. One of the most important finds is the skull of the gifcnt areiuoitherium. The dominating feature Is a long pair of sharp-pointed horns

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States, from North Dakota to Georgia. 25 American liner St. Paul sinks British cruiser Gladiator. 2G Notre Dame dc Salette Luried bj landslide. 29 Death of Rev. Morgan Dix. 30 23S lives lost by sinking of Japanese cruiser, Matsushima. MAY. 3 Burning of Aveline hotel in Fort Wayne, Ind Marriage of Prince Wilhelm of Sweden and Grand Duchess Marie Paulovna of Russia. 4 120 persons drowned in River Dneiper, Russia, by capsizing of ferry boat. 5 6 Nipe corpses unearthed on farm of late Mrs. Belle Gunnees, north of La Porte, Ind. 0 Combined Atlantic and Pacific fleet enter San Francisco harbor. .. .Manuel proclaimed King of Portugal. 8 Ilisr fire in Atlanta, Ga. 10 Violent storm sweeps Southwestern States. 11 Destructive tornado in northern Nebraska. 13 Governors of all States meet in convention in White House ia Washington. 21 Great railway disaster near Antwerp, Belgium. 23 Death of Comediari Peter F. Dailey. 00 Sixtieth Congress adjourns sine die. JUNE. 1 Death of ex-Senator James K. Jones of Arkansas. .. .Oregon votes against single tax and equal suffrage. 2 Death of Sir Redvers Duller, English general. 4 Paris assassin shoots Capt. Alfred Dreyfus. 13 Caleb Towers and James Howat-d pardoned by Governor of Kentucky. 14 Death of Blind Tom, negro pianist. 16 Republican national convention in Chicago. IS William II. Taft of Ohio nominated for President by Republican convention. 19 James S. Sherman of New York nominated for Vice President by Republicans. 24 Death of ex-President Grovef

Cleveland. 20 $1,000,000 fire ia Duluth. JULY. 2 Death of Murat Halstead. 4 Death of Joel Chandler Harris. 5 Port an Prince, Hayti, swept by fire. C Commander Teary starts for 'ax north. 7 Democratic ' national convention opens in Denver. 10 Wm. J. Bryan nominated for President by Democrats. 21 Death of Bishop nenry C. Potter of New York. 22 United States Court of Appeals re verses Judge Landis' decision fining Standard Oil Company $29,240,000. 24 Sultan-of Turkey grants constitu tional government. 28 Independence party nominates Hisgen and Grave. AUGUST. 2 Great fire destroys cities and many lives in British Columbia. 3 $1,500,000 elevator fire ia Chicago. 4 Death of Senator Wm. B. Allison of Iowa. .. .Death of Bronson Howard, American playwright. 8 First general primary election in Illinois. 10 Death of Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton. 12 Death of A. R. Spofford, librarian of Congress. 14 Fatal race riots in Springfield, 111.... Death of Ira D. Sankey, gospel Binjcer. 23 Great fire in Constantinople. 20 30 miners suffocated in coal mine at Ilaileyville, Okla. 27 Death of Col. Wm. F. Vilas of Madison. Wis. 30 $2,000,000 fire ia New Orleans. SEPTEMBER. - 1 Vermont election. 3 Death of Lord Lionel SackrilleWest, former British minister to Washington. 4 Death of Frank P. Sargent, commissioner of immigration.... Rawhide (Nev.) destroyed by fire. Forest fires in northern Michigan, Wisconsin and Michigan and across border in Canada. H Republicans carry Maine election. 21 Death of Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist. 28 International tuberculosis congress meets in Washington. OCTODKR. T Bulgaria declares itself independent of Turkey. C Philadelphia celebrates 225th anniversary, v 7 Elevator explosion at Richford, Vt., kills 13 persons. 16 Forest fires rage in Michigan and Wisconsin..!.. Relief train burns near Alpena, Mich., with 20 persons aboard. 10 21 Land lottery of Rosebud lands in South Dakota. 22 Marriage of Trinee August William of Germany and Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. 20 Canadian elections carried by Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Liberal party. NOVEMBER. 3 National election. W. II. Taft and James S. Sherman, Republicans, chosen President and Vice President. 4 Death of Tomas Estrada Palma, first president of Cuba Libre. .. .Chas. W. Eliot resigns as head of Harvard university. 8 Death of Victorien- Sardou, French playwright. O Trial of Ray Lamphere begins in La Porte, Ind. .. .Former U. S. Senator Edd W. Carmack shot dead iu Nashville (Tenn.) street. .. .Postmaster Edward M. Morgan of New York shot in street. 12 Explosion and fire in mine in Westphalia, Germany, kills 339 men. 13 Death of Emperor of China.... Secretary of the Navy Metcalf resigns. 11 Death of Dowager Empress of China. . . .Gen. Jose Miguel Gomes chosen president at Cuban elections. 24 Gov. A. B. Cummins chosen U. S. Senator from Iowa .... Lieut. Gor. Garst becomes Governor of Iowa. 20 Ray Lamphere convicted of arson at La Torte, Ind. 27 Treaty between United States and Japan is announced. 25 138 miners killed by explosion in Marianna, Ta. 29 Flood at Guthrie, Okla. DECEMBER. 2 Tresident Nord Alexis of Hayti deposed.... Pu Yi ascends throne of China .... Hole blown in levee, saving town of Pine Bluff, Ark. 10 Abraham Ruef, San Francisco political boss, convicted of bribery. 12 Dutch cruiser Gelderland captures Venezuelan guardship Alix. 15 Death of Donald G. Mitchell 17 Constitutional government inaugurated in Constantinople. 20 Gen. Antoine Simon sworn in as president of Hayti. 21 Graft arrests cause sensation in Pittsburg. 22 Burning of Herald Square theater iu New York. protruding upward and outward from the snout for nearly two feet This animal was the brute king of its time. The body combined the thape of the elephant and the rhinoceros. The monster was named after the Egyptian queen Arsinoe. famed for her beauty. The animal stood six feet high and nearly ten fect Ion. The feet were adapted to walking on sandy or sinking ground. The origin of the Great Banks of Newfoundland is said to have been in the boulders carried down by icebtrgs. The bank is G00 miles long and 120 broad.

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1773 Destruction of cargo of taxed tea , in Boston harbor by citizens disguised as Indians, known as the "Boston Tea Party." 177G The seat of the United States gov crnment was removed lo Baltimore. 1777 North Carolina adapted constitution. 1778 Four hundred persons perished in the burning of a theater in Saragossa, Spain. 17S7-Xew Jersey ratified the Federal constitution. 17S9 The first circulating library was established in Salem, Mass. 1790 The Russians took Iic fortress Ismael from the Turks. 1792 First provincial Parliament ol lower Canada met at Quebec 1799 Burial of Gen. Washington. 1801 Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton were unanimously chosen President and Vice President of the United States. 1S07 First Roman Catholic orphan asylum in America Incorporated in Philadelphia. 1812 Town of Derby, Vt, attacked by the British. 1835 Great fire in New York; $20,000,000 property loss. 1845 Sir Hugh Cough defeated tin Sikhs in battle of Moodkee. 1846 The first regiment to fight against Mexico was organized in Pittsburg. 1852 "Sacramento, Cal, was flooded by the breaking of a levee. 1855 Joel Abbo'L. commanding t&f American squadron ia the East Indies,, died at Hongkong. 1SG0 South Carolina seceded from th Union. .. .Gov. Hicks of Marybind refused to receive the Mississippi commissioners. 1SG2 The Confederates recaptured Holly Springs, Miss. ISO! President Lincoln called for 800,000 volunteers. . . .Gen. Dix issued aa order for reprisals on Canadians because of the St Albans raid: order annulled later by President Lincoln. 1S7G Destructive fire at Little Rock, Ark. 1SS0 Paul Kruper elected president o! . the South African republic. 1S91 Dresel Institute of Art Seien and Industry dedicated in Philadelphia.... Sir Oliver Mowat, Libera! prime minister of Ontario, issued aa address declaring vigorously against American assimilation. 1S93 A provincial plebiscite in Prmc Edward Island supportel prohibition of the liquor trafilc by an overwhelming majority. 1S94 E. V. Debs sentenced to mix months' imprisonment for contempt of court during the gre.it railroad strike in Chicago. 1S99 The Broadway National Bank of Boston closed its doors. . . .Lord Roberts appointed commander-in-chief f the British forces in South Africa. 1002 George Moorman, adjutant general of the United Confederate Veterans, died at New Orleans. ' 1003 Gov. La Follette of Wiseonsia resigned and "was buccedt-d by Lieut Gov. Davidson.... Abraham II. Hammel, New York lawyer, was conviotH of conspiracy and sentenced to Imprisonment for one year. 19y The new law separating church and state went into force in France. 1907 The American battleship fleet dePacific coast. FACTS TOB FARMESS. Paper is to be manufactured from cotton f-talks, according to a report of th bureau of manufactures. A company ' capitalized at $500,000 has be a organized at Atlanta, Ga., for the purpose. It is claimed that paper can b. made from cotton stalks at a cost of about $15 a ton. Secretary George G. A. Wells of the Iowa Grain Dealers' Association estimates that 47 per cent of the marketable portion of the new aits crop has ixw left farmers' bands. lie estimates this year's harvested corn crop at 115 jkt cent, ns compared with last year, based at 100 per cent. The Grain Dealers' Aseia tion report last year gave Iowa a crop of 250,000,000 bushels of corn, which, on tb basis of 115 per cent, pives 287,0,. 000 bushels as the harvested crop this year. Ten per cent of the com will tx soft High and well tiled or drained lands show remarkably heavy yields per acre; level fiat lands that were not low cr overflowed gave disappointing yields per acre and low and overflowed and washed lands produced practically nothing. North Dak ot ans have t-cn holding a good roads conference at Grand Forks; and a number of changes ia the present road system will be recommended. Special orders iiavc been iued by th British board of agriculture, giving tb proper official full power to deal wita the cargoes of three steamers that left New York, and four others that cleared from Philadelphia after the board issued its order prohibiting the landing in Great Britain of cattle or foJd.r froia tb States of Pennsylvania. New York and New Jersey, because of the outbreak of the foot and mouth disease Director Chappell of the Jowa cro bureau, announced the total crops ot Iowa as follows: Corn, 301,873,150 buAels; winter .wheat. 1,078.540 bushels; fprinjr wheat, 4,908,350 bushels; oata, 112,030,490 bushels: rye, Si9,072 burfiels; barley, 10.029.C00 bushe!s; potatoes, 10,058,290 bushels. That the sheep business in the north western part of Soulh IXikot.t, on a large scale, is practically a thing of the past, ii the opinion of many of the larg? dealers. And tun whole thing is due t ths lack of water facilities. Practically all the watering places have been fenced in by small ranch owners. A rabbit hunt, in which twenty men and boys participated, and whicn rmuited in the slaughter of 278 rabbit, ushered in the first heavy fall of snow in tLe vicinity of Albion, Iowa. Metcalf and Fraky, two members of one team, killed eighty-ei?ht cotton tails in one slough. The Minnesota Co-operative Dairies,' Association, which began in May to Loll Minnesota dairy products independently of eastern commission houses, iias handle 2.i!),000 pound of butter iJnce thai time. The creameries are sath-fied with, the results, and the business of tie con cent ii growing. The business this month U considerably laigrr than it was last month. '