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CHAPTER IV. (Continued.) And now, perhaps, she might never unpack her boxes under the shelter o that dilapidated, but friendly roof. If he could bring herself to entertain Mr. Stewart's mad scheme, a widely different prospect lay before her. She must think she must think, and not sit their, raging in her heart that she, Mathilde Thorne. should hare become an object of such contemptuous pity to the merest stranger, that he could consider her destiny a fit subject for the most reckless freak to lay hold of. With all her womanly pride up in arm, It was a trifle that seemed to sting the most, and that trifle was the fact of her name being Mathilde, after her French mother. How she now hated the name! How should ehe ever let Mr. Stewart know that it was hers. She knew that she should eventually have to tell him, for, somehow or other, even with every womanly instinct at bay against the proposition, she knew that she meant to at least consider the carryin? out of this mad scheme. That it might, probably would, explode in a week, she believed. But in ner present humor, the Tery recklessness . of the project tempted her. If she must always carry about with her the same numbed and bilter spirit, urely it were better to carry it in n comfortable carriage than a-foot firstclass instead of third ; surely it were better to be alone, with footman and maid In attendance, than alone, having to run her own errands, pack her own trunk, and wrangle with the landladies. If a Stewart family row ensued, It could hardly hurt her, either in leelings or in pocket. As for pride her pride s.iould be used by now to wounds, she said to herelf bitterly, and even the daily pang of the daily act she might get used to. It was stranf! that with all her 6ullen indignation against Stewart, she still felt a full confidence that he would keep to his share of the bargain, and make no more claims upon her than he had pledged himself to. There was no grain of kindliness towards him no satisfied vanity at his choice. There was only the reckless courage of the gambler who throws his last stake, knowing that it is insufficient to procure him one comfortable meal. What good could her life bring her? Let her throw it all upon this wild chance ! And so, at the sound of the first bell, she roused herself from that long intense absorption in the freaks of her own destiny, and then set herself to get ready for the Christmas feast. Thre was a certain courageous and determined air oi gaiety over the "St. Lawrence's Christmas dinner table, worthy of a better case. The electric lights gave it as white a radiance as they might have done to the daintiest feast. Wreathes cf holly and mistletoe lay along by the riddles, and the cook had surpassed himself in a brilliantly decorated boar's head, that held the place of honor on the captain's tab'e. Captain and officers wore their best uniforms, and the sleekness of hair and briancy of neckties visible among the bag-men was a matter of evident admiration to the stewards. Even tiie Northwest men looked a bit more brushed up than usual, though few of them, amongst whom was not Mr. htewart, had attained the dignity of a black coat. Mrs. Hunter, the sea captain's wife, ha- donned the blacx silk, lace collar, and cameo brooch which had graced tea meetings and church socials in every quarter of the globe. The bag-man's bride had emerged from her seclusion, pale, but gorgeoups in a bodice of Stuart tartan velvet which had been the envy of all the girl friends privileged to inspect it in her trousseau. Miss Thome still kept her big red cloak around her, but to-night she had exchanged the black lace scarf which she usually wore over ner head in the saloon, for one of creamy old Spanish lace, which she had fastened at the throat by a spray of bright-berried holly. Captain Kerr and Mr- Hudson greeted her appearance with effusive inquiries after the headache. "I should never have recovered the shock if you had not been able to come to my tree, this evening." Charlie Hudson protested. "But she doesn't look as though she had a headache, does she. Kerr?" Tia rather afraid she does. Here, Miss Thorne. come and rest in your own cor ner while we are waiting for the Cap tain, the older man said kindly. His greater feminine experience enabled Lim to see the traces of past storm in feverishly flushed cheeks and dark-rim med eyes. As befitted the more formal occasion. Instead of singly slipping into their seats on arrival, they awaited in little groups tne advent or tne Captain. Mr. Stewart had not yet apieared, and the irl raged Inwardly at the fact that she was trembling with nerrous dread of the meeting. But the Captain's honest red face and burly figure, smart In gold-laced coat. appeared, bearing down upon her corner. "Come, Miss Thorne," he raid In hear ty tones, "you must take my arm tonight." And so led her to her place. while the first officer and doctor did respectively the same for Mrs. Hunter and the bride at their own tables. With an air of great pomp and cere mony Charlie Hudson placed Mrs. Hunt ers little girl beside him, while Captain Kerr took charge of the other, both chil dren apparently stiffened Into rigidity by the unaccustomed honor. The Captain spoke in an aside to Miss Thorne. "I've Just be?? to your cabin to look for you, and brLg you in to dinner. I'd have missed my wn girls twice as much if you hadn't been beside me to night." The girl turned on him eyes that had In them the suffering of a dumb ani mals, before which his own grew dim. "You are very good to me," ah said. Imply. "Not a bit, not a bit he answered, patting her benevolently on the arm. "I know a plucky girl when I see one, and there is nothing that fetches ma like pluck." During this dialogue, Stewart had quickly slipped into his seat opposite, and as the Captain attacked his soup, he spoke to Miss Thorne. "I hope that the headache Is better, he said. "I hunted up the stewardess just now, and she said that you had gone in." "Thanks yes you are very kind," the rirl stammered. It maddened her that she could not peak connectedly for the heavy heart beats under the scrutiny of those keen eyes. Charlie Hudson, wittingly or not, came Cf her rescue. "The next time that Miss Thorne has a headache we must hang a basket for cards for kind Inquiries on her door, or the stewardess will strike," he said. "Miss Thorne Is going to be good, and not have any more headaches," the Cap tain announced, with benevolent despot Ism. "I don't think that I snail have many more chances. The voyage is so nearly ver now." As she spoke she looked across at Mr. Stewart. I

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of Hearts JOHN - Leslie Publishing House g lie seemed to be taking up and an swering a challenge. "Don't be too sure of that," he said. "It's three good days yet, isn't it. Cap tain?" "Something like that," the other an swered, shortly. Even the benevolence of ' Christmas could not make his answer anything but short to a remark referring to the speed or rather slowness of nis ship. Champagne had been ordered on all sides, and although of the quality usual on ship-board, it still served to loosen tongues, and promote laughter. Cap tain Kerr, sitting beside her, filled her lass, and Mathilde was glad of anything to stop the fiis of nervous trembling that shook her. Even Rosina and Gwendolin had taken a few dubious sips out ot the glasses be side them before they were stopped by a stern mandate from their temperance mamma at the first officers table. "Never mind, Rosina," Charlie Hudson consoled his partner. "It Is said to give ittle girls headaches, and ginger ale fizzes just as cheerfully. You shall ask me to your wedding, and drink my health then." "I'm never going to marry," piped a shrill voice from the hitherto dumb Rosina. "I'm going to be a missionary to the Chinese. I put all my cents into a money-box for the heathen, now. She doesn't," pointing the severe finger of scorn at her sister opposite, who hung her head, convicted of crime. "Well, of all the little prigs!" Charie Hudson ejaculated in horror. "I think I'll swap partners with you. Kerr." Then, with a further effort at sociability. "And what do you do . with your pennies, Gwendolin?" That young woman raised tho bead that sunk under the weight of moral obliquity. "They're cents, not pennies, and I put them all into my money-box, and when we go back to Boston mammer puts them Into the savings bank for me, and I get interest. I've got five dollars and fifty-five cents in the Boston savings bank. I'll show you my book Having poured this out with shrill volubility, Gwendolin resumed her business-like dispatch of the plum-pudding. while Charlie Hudson looked helplessly across at Miss Thorne. "One might as well have made dolls for a bank director and a Methodist parson," he said, but now Rosina's voice was heard in indignant accents. "We aren't Methodists, we're Baptists." And to this no one was found to answer . Miss Thorne laughed. "Poor Mr. Hud son I Your Christmas 'made to order,' is turning out one of life's little Ironies ! Never mind! If you haven't the courage to present your offerings, give them to Captain Kerr and Mr. Stewart. They can hang them up by their looking-glasses for i pin-cushions and to keep them from forgetting their Christmas at soa." And again she looked straight at Mr. Stew art. The retort was obvious and he made it quickly. "Do you think that there Is any likelihood of Its being forgotten, then?" he asked pointedly, but all the answer that he received was a careless, "How should I know?" as she turned to some thing the steward offered her. But the time had come for toasts and speeches. The Captain opened the IL: with "the Queen," and the National Anthem 'rang out its heart-stirring rhythm, heartily echoed by the line of stewards and cooks in the doorway, and caught up by men in the cold and outer uarkness of the deck. The Captcln's health wus proposed, and cheered to the echo, and after this came various efforts, such as me ladies," "ab sent friends," "sweethearts and wives." As the ladles health was toasted Charlie Hudson leant across the table and held out his glass to clink against Miss Thome's, according to the pretty old cus tom. It was very much a matter of course for Stewart to follow suit, which he did in a tone which caught only her ear "A pledge of good faith!' But his eyes sought in vain for any promise, for any light of friendship in her face. Her smile was not defiant, but if it was not that it was certainly enigmatical. CHAPTER V. But Charlie Hudson had begun to fidget and exchange mysterious whispers with the head steward, who presently went and whispered to the Captain, who 6poke up: "Ladies and gentlemen, our Christmas dinner being happily ended, we will now adjourn to the other table where the Christmas tree, arranged by the kind exertions of a few of our passengers, is awaiting us." There was a general move towards the center on the saloon, wnere, on a stand under the skylight, the tree shone resplendent from an electric light above. Rosina had condescended, with portentious gravity, to carry round the captain's cap, from which the duplicate numbers were to be drawn. The fun began with the captain, who drew first, being handed a dainty little ivory powder-puff box with looking-glass top. It was quaint to see all the small belongings of travel that went to make up those gifts. Penknives, pencil-cases, and match-boxes, together with any variety of novels, formed the greater part of the masculine contribution; and from the women were one or two dainty little boxes and sachets, while Captain Kerr's cardboard furniture and animals reigned alone of their kind. Miss Thorne had, as she thought, tucked herself in safely between the captain and Charlie Hudson; but, as they were both directing the fun, her refuge was not a sure one. Presently she felt, rather than saw, that Stewart had slipped into the seat which Hudson had vacated. "Did you see what I have drawn?" he asked, holding out a little scented sachet with her own initials in one corner. "Yes; I saw Mr. Hudson give it to you," she answered, dryly. Charlie Hudson drew a tortoise-shell hairpin; Mrs. Hunter a copy of Swin burne s poems. "It will look smart on grandma's par lor table," she said, contemplating the bright cover with complacency. "I would like to witness grandma's her ror If she takes to studying it," Stewart said in an aside to Miss Thorne. Charlie Hudson even mustered up cour age to present a pair of dolls to the sis ters, who gravely proceeded to investigate all the minutiae of their composition. In spite of the apparent incongruity of the objects drawn. Miss Thorne had doubts if there were sot some method in the chance, especially when her number brought her a 'ittle silver photograph cas In which she had seen a picture on one of Captain Kerr's children. More was to follow, though, for, as the proceedings seemed to be drawing to a close, and the revived bride was execut lng a piece of musical fireworks at the piano, Hudson came to her with two small white packets In his hand. "These are directed gifts," he said. handing them to he. Miss Thome's heart sank. She looked roand, but the Captain had gone over to the piano. Mr. Stewart sat beside her, , and Hudson stood looking on. She bid

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she chose that which she knew was addressed In Hudson's writing. Its contents proved to be a pin with a nugget for a head, which she had admired one day when he was wearing It. "Oh, but this is too good. I can't take this," she said, distressed. "Please do," he urges ; and as she looked lno his honest face, pink with hyncss. she yielded, thanking him gracefully. Then came the second package, and. do' what she would, her fingers would bungle a bit over it. The wrapping disclosed an old seal with arms engraved upon an amethyst. She let it lie upon her open palm and turned toward Stewart. Charlie Hudson had fled, and they were practically alone, under shelter of a noisy chorus at the piano. "Is this yours?" she asxed. "No : it is yours, if you will accept it. Tou don't mind, do you?" And in spite of his coolness, there was a touch of anxiety in his tone. "I suppose that my keeping It settles the question?" she asked in the same dull, lifeless fashion. He stared, puzzled ; then spoke warmly. "No, Why, do you suppose that I should try to entrap you in that way? I had promised you only to ask for further discuss'on. Cannot I give you a trifla like that as a sign of friendship, just as nudson has done?" "I suppose so," she said slowly. "But these are the family arms, are they not? I could not take it without being in some measure pledged." "Well, then, will you let it pledge you? I ask nothing better," he said, leaning forward. "I suppose It might as well be now as any other time. What does it matter?" she said, wearily. (To be continued.) SIX TOES TO A FOOT. Farming Community Remarkable for General Frealc of Xntnre. On the line between Lincoln and Sagadahoc counties Is a settlement of thrifty farming folks who have a peculiarity which is but little known outside, says a Bangor (Me.) correspondent of the New York Herald. It is noT visible and a stranger might go there year in and year out without ever discovering that they were any different from ordinary . persons in a farming community. They are peculiar for the number of people In the settlement who hare six toes on each foot, ono moro than they really ought to have and one more on each foot than they are entitled to. The six-toe belt lies partly In the town of Dresden in Lincoln County and partly In Woolwich in Sagadahoc County. Just how many people there are who have more than their share of toes In that vicinity would bo hard to say, but there Is quite a number, and the way in which they came by them Is a mystery In the first place, although there are a number of traditions as to how it happened. Like many country districts, the people have been born, brought up, set tied, on farms In the vicinity and married Into each other's families until time has produced a number of six-toed people in a comparatively 6mall community. The settlement Is an ordinary coun try place, In which is a store or two, a postoffice and a grange hall which serves as a meeting place for all social occasions which are held in the homes of the people of the vicinity. Bather than being a benefit to them. the extra toe is somewhat of an affliction in a number of ways, especially in getting shoes to fit them, for no shoe maker has yet ventured to manufacture a special line of boots for slx-tood pefsons. So much of a bother has this been to some of the people that they have submitted to surgical treatment and had the offensive sixth member re moved, that they might wear shoas much the same as others. At a time, several years ago, when it was all the rage to wear the extreme loInted toed 6hoes these people were In a sorry plight To crowd six toes into a shoe with a capacity for three, but in which vain nwn often crowded five, was too much for these reople. They were fairly ostracized from being in the fashionable swim by the freak of nature which put them out of the run ning. Being possessed of Hound sense they submitted -to the Inevitable and walte! until their five-toed brethren had become crippled by the freak styles and then they wore In the swim again with broad-toed shoes. How it happened that this colony of slx-tood people settled in this place is hard to explain. Tradition has It that some man of several generations ago settled in that vicinity, and while . work in the woods split a toe with an ax, and, instead of adhering, the two parts separated and In the course of time as the generations passed tho sixth toe made its appearance In a more perfect form. This theory does not find many ready believers among the people there, who have given up accounting for It. The sixth toe is an offshoot frota the little toe of the ordinary foot. It Is perfect in shape, although It Is not al ways in alignment with the other five toes of the foot For this reason it If troublesome, and becomes more ao aa the people advance in years. The Small Brother Aval a. It was the first warm night of springtime and they sat out in the park tinder the stars. Suddenly there was the sound of a snapping twig In the tree near them. "Dear me, George!" she whispered. What kind of a tree Is that?" George looked up and discovered a pair of Juvenllo eyes peering through the branches. "H'm!" he muttered sheepishly "Looks to me like a rubber tree." Something to Explain "Gentlemen," shouted the drummer in the hotel lobby, "there are more men pushing the products of my fac tory than any other house In the world." "And what are you selling?" ven tured the timid listener. "Automobiles, sir ; automobiles." Harvard Lampoon. Disappointing. The Bachelor Here's a magazln poet who likens "hope" to "a fair wo man." The Benedict Huh I No woider; it Is so disappointing. rienty. The renter Say, that furnace keepa throwing out gas all the time I The agent Well, what do you want electric light? Cleveland Leader. Trouble Afoot. He Do you think to-night would be a good time to ask your fathert She I think so; he's laid tip with gout Life is learning, suffering, loving; and the greatest of these is loving. Ellen Key. Blessed Is he who findet a a true friend. Bible.

Entertaining Quietly. "These people who entertain all the ime in a cheap way make me sick,'" said a young housekeeper discussing an inexpensive puzzle party a friend had given. "How much smarter Mar gery's affairs would be if she gave one stunning lunch or dinner a season? It vould save her lots of trou ble, too." Ideas like these are the deathblow to hospitality and sociability. Wom en who cannot give handsome dinners and luncheons give nothing. They limit their entertaining and are bur dened by a weight of unpaid social obligations because they cannot have as fine linen or china as wealthier friends. The power to entertain handsomely is enviable; even more to he envied is the gift of entertaining charmingly but simply. Girls at home and youug married women who possess this knack are never lacking in popularity. It is a pleasant thing to welcome one's friends, but when their coming means a splurge that can be Ill-afforded entertaining misses its pur pose. , We need to get back to the sim pler ways when having a few guests to dinner did not mean a caterer, several extra waiters and swelled bills. There are brides who pine to show oft their dainty, gifts of silver and china, who yet keep their pretty things packed away waiting for the time when they can give a costly enough meal to be in keeping. How more than foolish! There are many ways in which young peopje can entertain at little cost. Eliminate expensive re freshments and costly prizes. These are the things that run into money. What is needed is courage not to do as the rest of your set does. To Frenhen Flower. If, cut flowers from the florist's or garden are placed as soon as possible In cold water In which a little mild soap ha been dissolved, making suds, they will keep fresh much longer than usual, and will even freshen up wonderfully If they have already drooped. Also. If one wishes to keep roses In bud for some time, a soft thread should be tied snugly around the bud. and when ready for use, even though several days after picking, the rose will be found as snug a bud as when first tied up, and, moreover, will not shatter as soon as ordinarily. Woman's Home Companion. How to Open a Book. Hold the book with Its back on a smooth or covered table; let the front board down, then the other, holding the leaves at the back, then a few at the front, and so on, alternately opening the back and front, gently pressing open the sections till you reach the center of the volume. Do this two or three times and you will obtain the best results. Open the volume violently or carelessly In any one place and you will likely break the back and cause a start in the leaves. Never force the back of the book. To Decrenne Height. When standing or walking the ef fect of tallnes3 may be decreased by a slight droop of the head. To allow the head to hang 13 extreme and ac complishes nothing beyond an unpleasant appearance, while the tiniest droc p can do wonders. There should be no stooping of the shoulders, however, for this will-ruin the figure and make the girl most awkward. She should hold herself erect, though not stiffly so. Marvels may be done in taking off inches by the manner of hair dress ing. Lair of Attraction. The attractions of men to women and women to men are full of the most perplexing inconstancies and con tradictions Imaginable. It Is, for instance. . a physical law that magnetism Is not simple attraction of one thing for another, but the difference of two opposing forces of attraction and repulsion, of which the former Is the greater. The same law hold3 in relation to the attraction of men and women for each other. Stylish Foulard Gown. Dotted wistaria satin foulard was used to make the gown from which this model was sketched. Plain satincovered buttonä are elaborately urcd for decoration, and the Emp!re waist line is defined by a band of velvet (several shades darker than ground of material) attached In front at bust line by two huge amethyst buttons. Chemisette and stock are white Irish crochet lace. Wedding" r.xpenne. The bride's parents defray all wedding expenses, whether the wedding Is a house or church ceremony. The groom pays for the flowers which the bridesmaids carry; the carriage which the bride uses In going away and the minister's fee. Women Who Do Thins. Miss Anna Prltchett, of Louisville, oaly vparq nid u rjrofessor of

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economics at "Wellesley College. Miss Margaret Ashton. sister-in-law of Ambassador Bryce, has been elected to the town council of her native place in England. Miss Zella Nuttall, of Chicago, Is field director of the ReidCrocker expedition in Mexico. . Mme. Louise Blano and Mme. Jeanne Menard are regular ship physicians on two of the largest Mediterranean steamships. Should Trnln Their Nerven. We hear women talk 6t "nerves! nerves!" as though they looked upon them as their greatest foes. All the physical pleasures of life are brought to us through our nerves, and even the higher joys of the intellectual and the spiritual life we become aware of only through the medium of feeling, and for this reason alone it behooves one to keep one's nerves in a normal, healthful and responsive condition. The fact that the nervous system Is amenable to training and that its habits can be unerringly cultivated at one's own will, and under one's own direction, or with outside assistance is necessary, is a fact of growing Importance. This is so because the recent work of scientific men is showing us to what a minute degree nerve habits can be controlled and also because especially in America, our climate and our modern civilization are making greater demands upon nervous force and contribute to the unconscious formation of detrimental nervous habits. The time has come, prophesied by Mr. Gilman's "neolithic man": We're going to wear great piles of stuff Outside our natural skins. We're going to have diseases And accomplishments and sins. Worry, 111 temper, haste, laziness, overwork, selfishness, egotism and distrust are in many cases bad habits of the nerves. Anna Sturges Duryea in the Delineator. Poetry, Prose and Truth. "If I should die, and at my death some friend should come and stand above me should whisper with his sobbing breath how very much he's ronie to love me If he should weep and wring his hands and wall that I had acted fairly should say that ever from the stands he's boosted me for doing squarely; if he should say that I was right in giving out some close derision against the home team In a prrht where he had never cu-sed my vi.-ion; if he should whisper in bis giief. 'Old boy, I know that you were j straight I never called you a lopI eared thief nor swore you were a pirate's mate; I never clamored for a rope when your decisions looked quite sirkly; nor have I yet expressed the hope you'd go where snowballs vanish quickly: I cheered each time you actjd well, as thou you were a human being nor daily gave you merry h for accidents beyond my seeing; I a.'ways thought you did your best, and so no side advice I proffered I think you fairly met the test whenever the occasion offered.' If these were but the words he said, I'd rise up in my white cravat it were not enough to wake the dead to get a sudden shock like that I'd rise up in my coat of white and look around a bit, and then, if I

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found that I'd heard aright. I'd drop back dead again." Grantland Rice. A Sad Disappointment. Mrs. Gould gets $36,000 a year all mony, and she insisted on the stand than no lady in her position could dress becomingly on less than $40,000 a year. So she's short $4,000 a year alone, not to speak of hotel, carriage and touring expenses. Evidently this unhappy woman is doomed to a life of self-denial. What she wanted was $250,000 a year. Ileauty'n Mar. The forehead filled with lines is nol always a sign of years. Often it is nothing but evidence of bad facial ha bits. Do you knit your eyebrows when you are thinking of perplexing matters or are down on your luck? If you do you will have a forehead seamed with lines and several deep furrows between the eyes. Inexpensive Kindling. Mix 10 cents worth of crude oil with five gallons of cawdust. One large spoonful upon paper In stove will burn ten minutes without odor, smoke or sparks, and no explosions. Arrange wood over kindling before lighting. Keep In cool, dark place. Hot Search for a Shovel. "Lady, I'm de gent you hired ter dean your snow off last winter!" But, my dear man. Its summer now, and the snow is (til gone." "I know, lady; but It's took ma all dls time ter borrow a shovel." Vinegar Improves Skin. If one is obliged to have the handi in strong soapy water while washlni dishes or doing other household duties a little vinegar rubbed upon then after they have been taken from tht water will greatly improve them anc also tend to keep the skin white. To Perfume Clothing Use one-half ounce each of cloves nutmeg, caraway seeds, cinnamon and three ounces of orris root. Have these In a fine powder and place In smal bags. These bags, placed amid cloth ing, will Impart a pleasant odor, and will keep moths out. Good Fire Extinguisher. Ordinarily baking soda, either as a powder or dissolved in water, will put out a small fire immediately. It forms a gas, carbon dioxide, which smothers fire. A small handful in a cup o water or by Itself is usually sufficient Disgraced If t nmnrried. If Japanese parents do not find mat rimonial companions for their sons and daughters, both parents and chll dren are. looked upon, as disgraced. The Berlin police administration have decided to establish a corps oJ woman detectives.

REVIEW OF INDIANA

James Donlin, of Richmond, while carrying a pitcher fell and received a cut in the neck, from which he died. Fire, thought to have started from spontaneous combustion in a quantity of new wheat in sheaf stored in George Summer's barn near New Albany, de stroyed the structure with Its contents, including a horse. Colonel Clinton P. Ferry, formerly of Fort Wayne, -who figured conspicuously in the development of Tacoma, Wash., and amassed immense wealth in buying real estate there, died sud denly at San Diego, Cal. He was 73 years of age. John A. Brown, a farmer living south of Milton about one mile, got into a den of snakes in his field while cutting hay recently. He killed eight big reptiles. They were blue racers and blacksnakes and were from six to seven feet In length. In a fit of despondency, Thomas Bump, aged 60 years, of Owensville, committed . suicide by jumping into the Wabash river near Crawleyvilie. The body was recovered. A divorced wife and four children survive him. They live in St Louis. At one time Bump was a wealthy farmer. The Rev. Mr. Willoughby, pastor of the First Christian Church in Fortville, is seriously ill from tetanus, caused by running a rusty nail in his foot three weeks ago. The wdund had healed, and all danger was thought to be over, until last week, while in the pulpit, he lost control of the facial expression, and has been growing worse ever since. A charivari party at Greenfield went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jeffries, who were recently married, and placed them in a cage arrangement, in 'which they were hauled through the streets and taken to New's roof garden. The cage was duly placarded and was followed by their friends ar.d two or three hundred attracted by the novel procession. Efforts of the Wayne County Fish and Game Association to put a stop to alleged depredations committed by dynamiters along the county's bass streams, has begun In earnest. Earl Doddridge, of Washington Township, has been charged with dynamiting fish. Prosecutor Ladd said that several other young men were implicated. Doddridge has been released under a $3,000 bond. William Lawson, aged 75 years, a wealthy farmer of Anderson, who two months ago got a divorce from his fifth wife, has eloped with his housekeeper, Mrs. Carrie Sutton, aged 31 years, to St. Louis, where they were married. Mrs. Sutton came from Knoxville, Tenn., a year ago. Lawson buried four wives before he met his fifth and sixth. He has several sons, all well-to-do farmers. Suffering from the hallucination that he is a candidate for Mayor, W. L. Clement, 50 years old, escaped from his home at 1923 Holloway avenue, Indianapolis, and the police have been asked to look for him. Clement has been reading politics exclusively the last few days: and told relatives he intended to get out and finish up the A'ork of his campaign. They have beta watching carefully, but he evaded them. W. B. Barefoot & Co., a poultry firm of Cambridge City, has in the last six months paid to farmers, for chickens, eggs and butter $223,000. Poultry was by far the heaviest part of the business. The Barefoots this season paid the highest price for chickens ever known in the county. They made weekly shipments to New York. Spring chickens have been in active demand at 17c to 20c, until this week, Vhen heavy receipts caused a decline to 14c. A Brown County rattlesnake Is proving the central attraction at Greenwood. The snake v.'as captured by William Watson, formerly of Greenwood, who found it near Bear Wallow and brought it to Greenwood. The snake is more than four feet long and 1 3 six inches in circumference. It has twelve rattles and a button, Indicating that it is thirteen years old. Mr. Watson said he extracted Its fangs, and the people here are willing to take his word for it without examination. Headache powders are said to have caused tho death of Mrs. Mollie Riley, wife of Charles R. Riley, of Middletown. Mrs.: Riley was found dead in her bed. She was subject to severe attacks of headache and especially for the last week had she suffered Intensely. On this account she was a constant user of headache powders, and these are believed to have caused her death. Coroner Hlatt went to Middletown to investigate the death and is inclined to this opinion. Mrs. Riley was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lanyan, of Greenfield, and is survived by her husband and two children, ages 6 and 9 years. Thinking that the yellow tufts on a brightly colored patent fly killer were flowers, Josephine, the baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Stump of Union City, pulled one of them and chewed it. She died in a few hours. A hot box in the machinery at the plant of the Acme Glass Sand Company at Rosedale, started a fire which caused a loss of $8,000 on the building and machinery. The plant, which was partly insured, will be rebuilt immediately. Herbert Bell, 35 years old, one of the most prominent young mea of Richmond, was found dead In bed. Heart disease was the cause. He was owner of a large nursery east of the city and was also engaged In. the automobile agency business. Richmond won the 1910 session of the Grand Lodge of Colored Knights of Pythias over Terre Haute. The Indiana representatives to the Supreme Lodge meeting at Kansas City in September were instructed to work for Indianapolis as the place of holding the Supreme Lodge in 1911. Humane officers from Indianapolis came to the farm occupied by Thomas Payne, south of Carmel, and killed a horse which, it was alleged, was slowly starving to death. The first crop of tobacco ever raised n Tipton County is growing on the bounty Farm. It was planted and cultivated by one of the inmates of the institution who formerly lived in Bracken County, Kentucky. The crop will not be for sale. The superintendent will assist in housing and curing It. It will be consumed by the inmates of the poor farm.

While trimming trees at Bedford, Bert Lynn, aged 35 years, came In contact with a live electric light wire and was hurled to the ground, thirty feet below, striking on his head. He is badly injured. Robert Sari, aged 14, was drowned last week while playing pranks in the water at a pond east of Terre Haute. The boy was missed in the drk. His body was found. He was a step-son of George Kean, a farmer. Joseph Pickerell, without arms, signed with pen in te&h, an application to marry Nora Hare at Terre Haute. After the elopement the couple returned to Paris, 111., to ask his rich grandmother to help him. The Monroe Oil and Gas Company, an Oakland City corporation, drilled in an enormous gas well on the Sim Burnett lease, near Oakland City. The well is thought to be one of the largest in the field. Oil is expected at a greater depth. Princeton Is going through a bread famine, four wholesale bakeries working at full capacity, having been unable to supply the demand. On last Sunday not a loaf was to be obtained In the city. The Ehortage is largely due to the demand by thrashers. Soon after she had taken the vows that made her a nun of the Order of St. Francis, at Oldenburg, death claimed Miss Bernadetta Faske, aged 20 years, of Richmond. Only ten days ago Mi$s Faske went to Oldenburg for her confirmation. Her death occurred there and was sudden. Two Richmond, families are doing their full duty toward swelling the population of Wayne County. Mrs. John LIscomb has just given birth to her nineteenth child. She Is 49 years old and her husband i3 56. Mrs. Wallace Williams, only 33, has just become the mother of her tenth child. Shelbyville people living In Franklin avenue, between Elliott and Habig streets, two short blocks, believe that many children are a blessing. Within these two squares, on both sides of the street, there are 103 children by actual count. One family consists of twelve children and two doors from this house is a family of father, mother and their eight children. , Catfish, weighing from five to thirty pouuds, are being shown in the streets of Columbus nearly every day, and 'fish markets are selling "homegrown" fish almost exclusively. Chas. Haveron, who lives near Columbus, brought a forty-one-pound shovel head catfish to the city and sold it to a local dealer. This fish was caught in the White river below Columbus. The fish was cut into steaks and sold, and it was so large that the bones had to be cut with a raw. Miss Mary Carmany, 76 years old, for thirty years a teacher of music in the Pennsylvania Asylum for the Blind died at the Madison County Poor Infirmary, where she had been an Inmate by choice for 11 years past. She was blind from nine months of age. After leaving the Pennsylvania Blind School and growing feeble Miss Carmany expressed preference to being a ward of the county rather than be supported by relatives. Her brother, William Carmany, a prosperous resident of Ovid, near Anderson, provided for the burial of his sister in Ovid cemetery. , Bloomlngton citizens witnessed a pathetic sight a few days ago, when Edward Batterton, at one time a prosperous citizen, was taken to the County Poor Farm. The man, now past SO years, has for years eked out a miserable existence, constantly scorning assistance and refusing to be sent to the public farm. ' He made a fight that could not be overcome by Rolla Walker, trustee, who wa-orced to call Ed Johns, chief of " ine police force, to help get the old man to the county farm. Mr. Batterton was at one time the leading saddle and harness maker In Bloomlngton. George Bush, manager of the skating rink at Spencer Park, and Walter McCrea, a farmer, living north of Logansport, tell two stories which doubtless may class as nature fakes, but which are said to be true. McCrea siys two robins on his farm were raised by a foster mother. The mother of the robins was killed a few days after, they were born and the cock robin went away for half a day and then returned with another female. The newcomer hopped on the nest and raised the little ones as tenderly and as faithfully ai the mother would have. Bush siys he has a rooster that will not roost any place but on the horns of billy goat which he owns. And, according to him, the goat is not happy until the rooster is perched there. Effort to dislodge the rooster from his perch is resented by the goat, who advances threateningly on the disturber. All during the day the rooster and the goat chum around together. Charles Breese, a timber buyer of Newcastle, found a box turtle in the hundred-acre woods near Milton. Th creature draws Itself Inside its shell until it forms a box, in which it is entirely enclosed. It is a land turtle. Edward, 9 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Spangler, of Peru, while dreaming of bathing, stood up in bed and dived over the footboard. He struck the floor with such force as to dislocate his shoulder and bruise his head. The application of John Middlemans, John R. Moffeett, James E. Conley, W. F. Yeagerllne and B. J. Bennett to organize the First National Bank of Clay City, with a capital of $25,000, has been approved. Otto Boyce, of Streator, 111., caught 4 carp in the Kankakee river, near Jerrys Island, that weighed 27 pounds when dressed. On cutting the fish open there were found two large fish hooks, a foot of line with a leaden sinker, and two young pickerel and three young bass, averaging three inches in length. John Hoffman, a well-known young farmer, living on a farm two milej north of Tipton, a bridegroom of two months, is in a serious condition as a result of cutting a corn on his foot with a razor. Blood poisoning is feared. The crop of honey in Boone County is almost a failure, according to Leonard Eckesteln, an apiarist. Unless the fall flow is good bees will have to be fed for a winter supply. Eighty stands produced only two hundred pounds. The failure is attributed to the rains, which washed the honey from the bloa-Eoms.