Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 11, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 December 1909 — Page 3

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. Hy MUST. LOVBTT CAMET.OJV Xotbor of "In a Grass Country," "A DerjQbtcrs Heart."A Sister' Sin," "Jack's Secret," Etc, ftc

CHAPTER XIIL Agatha's wedding day was fixed for the 10th of January- The weeks of her short engagement had sped with lightning rapidity, and now It only wanted two days more to complete her happiness. She had lived in a fools' paradise ever since the day that Rupert had asked her to marry him. After the faithful love of years, she had won him at last! she had gained her reward for the patient devotion with which half her lifetime her heart had worshipped him in silence. She was exuberantly happy. Louise Carroll was secretly uneasy. She had at first been overjoyed with the news of their engagement, for was it not her own pet scheme for their happiness planned and conceived long ago., and only laid aside with regret at a time when it had no longer seemed practicable? But as the days went on, she saw that although Agatha was perfectly satisfied, and in fact almost too radiantly happy her brother was by no means so filled with joy and content, as might have been expected of him. Louise watched him narrowly, and with an ever-increasing anxiety. The 10th of January fell on a Tuesday, and on the previous Saturday Carroll came down to stay at The Lodge till over Sunday on the Monday night it was arranged that he was to sleep at the clergyman's house in the village in order to conform to an ancient superstition that a bridegroom and his bride shall not stay under the iame roof en the eve of their wedding. When Rupert arrived by an afternoon train he was moody and abstracted he kissed Agatha carelessly and flung himself down upon the sofa with a gesture almost of misery, complaining that he was tired, that his head ached. Louise turned to him and said eriously: "My dearest Rupert, surely there is something wrong with you? You look well almost unhappy! Has anything happened?" "Nothing nothing! that is the worst of it!" he replied, despondingly. i cannot put a name to it but it weighs upon me like load it 13 an intangible something, a black shadow that seems, to envelop me yet the only distinct thing I can put my finger upon is that my head aches as if It would split all this week it has ached more or less but now it seems to increase every hour; the pain is simply awful." "My poor dear boy. You ought ta go and lie down in a darkened room of course such a headache as that 13 enough to account for all your other sensations. Xo doubt the excitement of your wedding 13 too much fcr you. When it is over, and you are married and at rest after all this commotion, you will settle down and become perfectly well nnd happy again." "No, no, no!" he cried, emphatically, "It is ju3t that, that Is making me ill! I know that I ought not to marry Agatha, there is something day and night that calls out to me to stop not to do it something that seems to drag me back and yet for the life of me i do not know what it is, or- why l ahould not inarry her!" "My dear Rupert, this Is very dreadful! Do you not love Agatha?" "I believe I do love her In a way at any rate I am very fond of her I always was, you know only "Oh, my darling boy, If you are not quite sure of your feelings, pause before It too late at whatever cost to yourself and to d;ar Agle, tell her the truth and break It off!" I cannot!" he said, at length. "How la a man to behave like a blackguard to a pood girl who loves him and trusts him? I could clve her no rea son for such conduct either none none! I don't know why I feel as I do but, Louise. he said, suddenly stopping short in front of his sister, and looking at her earnestly and solemnly, "1 swear to you that if anything on earth should arise, even at the last moment, to break off this marriage, 1 should fall on my knees, and thank heaven from the very bottom of my heart. Only I cannot move a finger myself to stop It. It Is impossible!' When he rose on his wedding morn ing, it seemed to be rather late, an yet the oppressive weight upon his mind, of which he had tpoken to his - J null cw UJ'Uil UII11. It was a bitterly cold day, the ground was frozen hard, and thin flakes oT now drifted now and again one by one from the grey and gloomy clouds. There would probably be a heavy fall before night there was every appearance of it; although for the pres ent the snow was not enough to necessitate an umbrella. But. for certain, no sunshine would fall on the bride"head to-day. Carroll shivered as ha looked out of his bedroom window at the Vicarage. It seemed to him that the weather was typical of his own condition; the h?.d frost was In his heart, the chilling snovvflakes were harbingers of trouble ahead, the lowering skies were not blacker than that black shadow that brooded over his fate. The little church was gay a Ith flowers that morning, and crowded to overflowing with friends and neighbors. Everybody turned round in a flutter ot excitement as Agatha came up the nave, on the arm of a distant Dale cousin. The bride had never looked so well; her fine figure showed to advantage In her white satin dress, and she held up her head as she went by. with a glad light In her eyes and a flush upon her cheeks. Nobody had looked much at the bridegroom, as he waited for her at the chancel, or It might have been seen that he was deadly pale. The ervice began. The brlda answered the responses well; the bridegroom was Inaudible. A little contretemps took place; the ring dropped en to the stone pavement, with a little clamrin noise. Just as Ru pert was about to place it upon Agatha's finger. The clergyman picked It up quickly, and the ceremony proceeded. Presently tho service came to an nd; Rupert and Agatha were pronounced to be man and wife. The bridal pair went Into the vestry, and Immediately Mis Carroll went in after them, followed by as many Intimate friends as could possibly crowd in through the doorway after her. All over the church the rest of the company experienced a sense of freedom and relief from a tiresome and trying ordeal, that was satisfactorily got over; and everybody began talking, and laughing, and walking about from pew to pew actly as If they were. not In a church, but in their own drawing-rooms. Fresntly a hush of expectancy fsll upon them. It was time for the newmarried couple to come out of the vestry. Everybody hustled auickly back

into the pews, and the organist was on the point uf striking the first chord of the wedding march. Just at that moment a curious commotion seemed to arise about the open door of the vestry; several persons ran out together; there was a confused sound of voices; a little crowd that seemed to be blocking the way; whilst In the midst of them was suddenly seen the dark head of the bride In Its coronet of orange blossoms. Surely something was wrong! A questioning murmur went through the crowd. A few left their seats; the country doctor, who happened to b3 present, stood up in his place. Then, all at once, Agatha burst from the restraining hands that were trying to get her back, and to the astonishment and dismay of everyone came running quickly down the nave alone! She seemed distracted; her face was white as death, her eyes wild and panic-stricken; her lace veil, flung back from her head, floated wildly behind her. Xo one could stop her; till, half way down the church, her flying, feet becoming entangled In her long satin draperies, she fell heavily forward, with outstretched arms, without making an effort to save hemself, and lay face downwards upon the tessellated pavement. CHAPTER XIV. By nightfall Agatha was lying In her darkened bedroom. In the house from which she had sallied In the morning in all the bravery of her wedding garments, with a hospital nurse by her bedside tossing to and txK upon her tumbled pillows In the delirium of high fever. The story of what had happened In the vestry soon spread like wild-fire, and the deepest compassion was felt, both for her and for the unfortunate man who was the cause of the catastrophe. It appeared that on first entering tho vestry, nothing unusual had taken place. Mic3 Carroll was the first to kiss her brother and his new wife, then others followed quickly with their good wishes and congratulations. Then Agatha sat down quite gaily to writa her maiden name for the last time. Then it was Miss Carroll's turn, but Just as she was stooping down ovar the table to affix her signature below theirs, some one standing behind her caught her by the arm and whispered to her, with agitation: "Look at your brother. Miss Carroll for heaven's sake look at him!" She dropped the pen and turned quickly. Rupert was deadly pale; h stood motionless, clutching his head between his hands, and staring down blankly - and wildly at the written names In the register on the table. "It 13 wrong! all wrong!" he cried, "that Is not the right name; there i3 some dreadful mistake here. Relcaso me!" he cried, turning fiercely round upon the startled Vicar. "Set me free: undo this horrible mockery of marriage, to which I will never consent. It cannot be too late; I remember everything; I am engaged to be married; the woman to whom I am engaged Is waiting for me to come to her let me go set me free; this marriage Is nothing but a sham and a mockery Agatha Dale cannot be my wife!" Then Agatha had turned away speechless and pale, appalled by the hideous horror of these dreadful words, and breaking through the many kindly and compassionate arms that would have held her back, she fled like a mad woman down the church, with no consciousness of the crowd on either sido of her, and no thought save a wild craving to escape and to hide herself somewhere anywhere, out of tho world, till at last she had mercifully fallen insensible amongst those who surrounded her, ere she reached the church door. - ror Rupert Barrett, who was perfectly convinced that he had gonj out of his mind, got him away quietly by the door of the vestry, and hurried him back to the Vicarage. Rut he was not In the least mad, only frantic with despair. After a while he became calmer, and expressed the deepest penitence and regret for the pain and shock he must have given to Agatha; but when Mr. Barrett assured hin solemnly that his marriage was an accomplished fact, that Agatha was his legal wife and that nothing on earth could now annul or cancel his union to her, he became stricken with a perfvt paroxysm of grief, both on her ' -ount and on his own, and bur3t lna passion of tears most painful and -ji.rtrending to witness. Then, when he grew calmer, he described to the Vicar exactly what had happened to him. The pains In his head, he said, had continued to Increase In intensity for some days past, but on the morning of the wedding there had come a little respite, only to be followed when the service actually began, by a fiercer renewal of the agony. He confessed that he had been scarcely conscious of what was going on In the church, nor of the presence of his bride by his side. He had dropped the ring literally because he did not know whether he held it or no. When he got Into the vestrj'. he felt convinced that some terrible thing was about to happen to him almost Immediately he said that he believed that he should drop dead. Suddenly he seemed to hear .i clap of thunder; k might have been just before he signed his name, or immediately afterwards, he could not telL But the moment he heard It, the blackness and the pain all rolled away, he looked at the white-robed figure by his side, expecting to see, not the face of Agatha Dale, but that of another woman to whom he was engaged and whom he loved he looked down at the book and saw not her name, but Agatha's! Then remembrance came fully back tf him. and that page of his past that had been blotted out of his memory, was made clear and distinct to him once more. "Last summer I met her, the woman I love, and shall always love," he said, to the distressed but sympathetic VIcad. "Then, you know, I had that blow on my head, and my long illness afterwards, and every trace of her vanished out cf my mind! I forgot her utterly, I knew I had forgotten something. I was always trying to remember what, but I could not grope my way through the thick darkness. Once I had a gleam, I recollected the place she used to live In, and Louise and I started off there together, but when I got to it, the house was no longer as I remembered It; she must have left it, for there was an auction going on, and I became bewildered and everything faded away again in my mind. , I could not remember her in the least- Latterly, since I have been engaged to Aggie, I have suffered from the most

intolerable depression. I have felt all along that I ought not to marry her and yet I could not for the life of me tell why. Rut what must Irene have thought of me? She must think I havs have deserted her; and whre can she be now? Where can I find her how can I ever make her believe in my unhappy story?" "My dear Mr. Carroll," said Mr. Barrett, very seriously, "I deeply sympathize with your misfortune. I pity yoa. In fact, from the bottom of ry heart, but I am compelled to speaic to you plainly. What you must think about now, Is not the young ladv to whom you were once engaged, and from whom an unfortunate chain of circumstances has separated you. but of the lady who is now your wife." "I must see her," he muttered. "I must explain everything to her. What a curse there must bo upon me, that I should have wrecked the lives of two women In such a terrible manner!" Mr. Barrett helped him across tho garden and down the road to his sister's house. All the wedding-party had vanished; r faw groups of aweStruck villagers alone remained standing curiously about the gate, and these, when they saw the Vicar supporting a pale, haggard wretch, who looked more dead than alive, and in whom they almost failed to recognize the handsome bridegroom of the morning, dispersed quietly to their homes with pitying looks and whispers. (To be continued.)

RAILROADING IN KANSAS. A Game of Chance t Time Under the Law Protecting l'iuploye. "Kansas Is a great State," said the man whose business keeps him jumping from town to town In the sunflower country, says the Boston Herald, "all except the railroads, and these sure did bother me In the first few months that I, a raw Easterner, spent within her borders. "It Is a game of chance sometimes, to get from place to place and It isn't all due to the fact that the farther you get away from the East the mora railroad schedules go awry. They have a law in Kansas that no railroad employe shall work more than sixteen hours on a stretch and it's that law which plays the dickens. "A few superb trains pass through Kansas that's what they do, pas3 through, scarcely stepping long enough to say howdy. They are going to the coast or returning, and once in a while I can makd a trip from one big town to another in true Eastern style, but for the short local trips that my business demands it's mixed freight and passenger trains most of the time. "And here's where the law to protect employes works like a wheel of fortune. The schedule may call for arrival at a particular place in ample time for the crews to be changed legally, hut if a lot of freight Is to be I handled at preceding stopping places the delay may be so great that the sixteen-hour limit may expire miles and miles short of destination. "And if this limit does not expire there's nothing for It but to run the train to the next place that resembles a stop, If It's only a siding, and lay It off. The next train that come3 along doubles up with the stalled train and takes the law-protected trainmen along a3 passeingers. "They mustn't work, mind you, until eight hours have elapsed. Occasionally there Is no next train for more than eight hours. In that cas3 the crew, having had It3 legal rest, may resume work. "This is gospel truth I'm telling you. for I have been held up in these stalled trains many a time. "One night I was going up the Lincoln branch of the Union Pacific, hoping to reach Marysville late that night. The train had only one passenger car. There was a lot of way freight and we kept losing and losing time. "The slxteen-hour Unit of work for that crew came at midnight when we were about twelve miles out of Marysville. We were near a siding and into this we ran, prepared to wait for another train or for the eight hours to expire. "There wasn't a sign of a house anywhere, so tho passengers, only six men. then spent the night as best they could In the car. The trainmen had the moro comfortable caboose. "There we stuck until daylight. Xo next train had came then, so the six of U3 trudged along until we found a farmhouse. We got the farmer to drive us into Marysville and beat the train in at that." A Sllslit Jolt. Brown had just finished a narrative that was tedious and long drawn out. "Say, Brown," exclaimed one of his audience, "you'd make a good bank cashier." "Why do you think so?" queried Brown. "Because," answered the other, "you are never short In your accounts." Graaplng; the Detail. "Can't you get a better grasp on the details of the business?" asked the senior partner. "This is a very large business," explained the new clerk. "I know, but you seem to be able to keep up with the baseball batting averages without a card Index." Kansas City Journal. A Xew Dangrer. "I was fined a hundred dollars and co3t3 thl3 morning," said the owner of the aeroplane, sadly. . "What for?" queried his friend. "My chauffeur lost control of the machine and It bumped into and smashed some fellow's air castle," answered the high flyer. Uaed to It. Downe Yes, I .went to a 5 o'clock tea with my wife yesterday. Towne Gracious! Didn't it almost drive you crazy? Downe Oh, no; I didn't mind It. I own a boiler shop, yoi know. Timnar. "Huh! You think you are smart, don't your "Sometimes I do, and then I happen to look at what I married and I am ready to confess that I am not." Houston Post. Why She Grieves. "Why is it that Rosamond appears so unhappy? Did she not marry a count?" "Yes; but he turned out to be no count!" Harvard Lampoon. A French scientist is out with an argument that the contraction of the solid part of the earth ha3 caused it to take a pyramidal form, the faces being the basins of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, the fourth being within the Arctic circle. Twenty million false teeth are sent to England from this country every year.

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y r Agricultural Bulletin Tells Poultry Men How They May Increase Profits. NEED CAKE IN KEEPING HENS Heavy Losses in Spoiled Product May Be Averted by Following' Certain Rules. In his report last year Secretary Wilson asserted that the eggs and poultry produced upon the farms of the United States are worth as much as the wheat and the cotton crops, and that the income from the henhouses of the land was one of the four or five most important sources of the wealth of the nation. This surprising statement Is confirmed by a circular which has recently been Issued by the Department of Agriculture, entitled "The Egg Trade of the United States," by Milo M. Hastings, scientific assistant animal husbandry office. "The loss of wealth in this country due to the actual spoiling of eggs." Mr. Hastings asserts, "constitutes an enormous waste which could in a large measure bo saved were eggs given reasonable care from the time of laying until they raached the customer." This is due, he says, to two main reasons: 1. Lack of realization of the importance of the ogg crop, and (2) ignorance of the correct methods of caring for them. Under our present system the individual farmer and the Individual storekeeper have no inducements for exercising greater care. The storekeeper who receives egg3 In exchange for merchandise reckons his profits on the goods rather than on the egg3, and knows that he can dispose of the eggs at the market price whether they are good or bad. The remedy is to be found In co-operation. The farmers should organize to control the egg market and to compel buyers to establish agencies where eggs can be sold at prices regulated according to their quality. At present .the best eggs are in demand at premiums ranging from 1 or 2 cents to double the ordinary market price. In the large cities soda fountains, clubs, high-class hotels and many private families will pay as high as 73 cents a dozen for the best quality, bul the farmer who has shipped them derives no advantage aud the profit goes entirely to the retailer. Under the present system all grades good, bad and Indifferent bring the same price at the country stores, and therefore there is practically a premium upon carelessness. Mr. Hastings gives us an Idea of the Items that make up ihe cost of a dozn eggs: Assuming that they sell for 23 cents In a New York grocery, the money is divided as follows: The farmer gets 15 cents; the country merchant three-fourths of 1 cent; freight, cents; profit of commission merchant, a cent; profit to jobber, l cents; loss from spoiling and breakage, 2 cents; profit of retailer, 4 cents. The great bulk of the poultry wealth of this country is produced by SUnr ImnilKFanla Arlre. During October there were 73.C0S Immigrant aliens and 16,764 non-immigrant aliens admitted into the United States, 26,431 United States citizens arrived and 1,616 aliens were debarred, according to the October bulletin of the Immigration Bureau. "Mother of Iiiiniljrrnntn Head. Mrs. Regina Stucklen, matron at Ellis Island, N. Y., known as the "mother of emigrants," is dead at her home in Rrooklyn. Four l'crnons Drowned. One woman, two girls and a member of the life saving crew were drowned near Tillamook, Ore., as the result of the overturning of a lifeboat rescuing passengers from the steamer Argo. Killed by Coal Gns. A high wind, which blew down the chimney and closed the damper of a parlor stove, caused the deaths by coal gas asphyxiation of Charles Herrick and Miss Ida Lydston, his housekeeper. In East Lynn, Mass.

VAST RICHES 111 EGGS; ADVICE FOR FARMERS

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THE CASE GF PATRICK. 1 - ' -I "mi'i.l" PATRICK. The latest plea of Albert T. Patrick for release from Sing Sing prison In Xew York on the ground that hj Is legally dead, has been turned down. Some years ago Patrick, a lawyer, was convicted of poisoning to death In New York William Rice, an aged Texas millionaire. The case was never proven except circumstantially. Patrick was condemned to death, and every once in a while since he has entered a new plea of some kind. The latest was that the Governor's commutation of his sentence to life Imnrisonflnent arrived at the prison a few min utes after the time he was supposed to have been executed, and that he was therefore legally dead and could not longer be held behind prison walls. The judge, however, didn't seem to take much stock in the plea and sent Patrick back to prison. the general farms In the Mississippi valley. The value of poultry and eggs sold in Kansas in 1903 was $G,498.S5ß. and this total Increased at the rate of a million dollars a year until 1907, when it reached the enormous sum of $10,300,0S2 for that State alone. The largest number of eggs are traded for merchandise at country stores, and pass through the commission houses in the cities to retail dealers. Regular poultry farms, which are numerous in the East, but are almost unknown In the West, ship their product direct to fancy grocery dealers, hotels or clubs under contract. Many big hotels either have their own supply farms or else make permanent arrangements with poultry farms for a regular supply of eggs, broilers and roasting chickens, ducks and geese, which are received daily. They pay fancy prices and get the best quality of eggs within twenty-four or fortyeight hours after they are laid. Mr. Hastinga suggests the establishment of cash markets at the larger towns like the markets for cream and butter fat, where the farmers will be Independent of the country merchants, where they will come In contact with men who will educate them in the production of high-grade eggs, and offer inducements to improve his product and bring it promptly to market, because the freshest eggs will command the highest prices. Mr. Hastings gives several suggestions for the production of good eggs and for marketing them in good condition, as follows: 1. Hens that produce not only a goodly number of eggs, but eggs of INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS. Queen Helena of Italy is to become a member of the International Congress of Mothers. At a Thanksglvi ig entertainment at Moreland, Ky., a general fight occurred in which John Alams wis shift and killed and John McCormick badly wounded. The United S'.at s an! Canadian governments have Just perfected a treaty for the protection of the waters lying between the two countries ircm conditions endangering the fisheries. Ohio Wesleyan University is in a campaign to raise ?500,000 by April !, 1911. Of this sum Andrew Carnegie has given $25,000 and the educational board $125,000. Estimates of the season's gold output from the Nome district place the production at $4,120.000, the largest ever secured from dredging operations on the Solomon River. Dr. J. B. Shober reports through the Journal of the American Medical Association a substitute for redium in treating disease. It is a cocoanut charcoal after It has been charged with a current of air from a solution of radium bromide.

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moderately large size. Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Rhode Island Red?, Orpingtons, Leghorns or Minorcas may be expected to do this. 2. Good housing, regular feeding and watering, and, above all, clean, dry nests. 3. Dally gathering of eggs, and, when tha temperature is above SO degrees, gathering twice a day. 4. The confining of all broody hens as soon as discovered. 5. The rejection as doubtful of all eggs found In a nest that was not visited the previous day. . Such eggs should be useriy at home, where each may be broken separately. 6. The placing of all summer eggs, as soon as gathered, in the coolest place available. 7. The prevention at all times of moisture in any form from coming In contact with the egg shells. 8. The disposing of young cockerels before they begin to annoy the hens. Also the selling or confining of old male birds from the time hatching is over until cool weather in fall. 9. The using of cracked and dirty as well as small eggs at home. Such eggs, If consumed when fresh, are perfectly wholesome, but when marketed are discriminated against and are likely to become an entire loss. 10. The marketing of all eggs at least once a week, and oftener when convenience allows. v. 11. Keeping eggs as cool and dry as possible while on the way to town and while in country stores. 12. Keeping eggs away from musty cellars or bad odors. 13. The use of strong, clean cases and good fillers. Many Millions Invented. Throughout the United States there are 7,000 moving picture shows with average audiences of 4,000,000 persons daily and a dally income of $300,000, or more than $100,000,000 a ,year. There is invested in this business a total of $50,000.000. About 190 miles of films are shown every day in the United States. At the average rate of speed fourteen separate pictures pas3 the eye every second that the machine Is in motion, so that every day the public sees more than 13,000,000,000 separate photographs. Motion pictures are being used more and more for educational purposes. It is now proposed to introduce them into the public schools in order to instruct the children in the growth of plants, the habits of birds and animals, and for the portrayal of historic events. Biff Aeroplane Company. A corporation to be known as the Wright Company, with Wilbur1 and Orville Wright as Its head officers and $1000,000 capital, has been formed under the laws of Xew York State for the purpose of building and selling aeroplanes to the public. In It are Cornelius Vanderbllt. Theodore P. Shonts, Allan Ryan, Morton F. Plant, Howard Gould, August Belmont, Robert J. Collier and a number of other wealthy New Yorkers. The stock of this company Is not to be offered to the general public. It is "expected that orders for these flying machines placed now will be filled In about six months. A factory is to be erected at Dayton. Ohio. The price will probably be $7,500 each. The company will control the Wright patents only In this country and Canada. An experimental field Is to be opened In Florida for the use of prospective owners of the Wright machines. DI WaUtmaken Strike. A general strike of the 40,000 waistmakers of New York City began, to enforce their demand for a 20 per cent Increase in piece work and 15 per cent increase In regular wages. Then the Cutters' Union went out to sustain the waist-makers. Four Chinamen who had been smuggled into the United States from Canada and billed to St. Louis as "merchandise," were taken from a freight car in the yards of the Wabash Railroad at St. Louis. They told the police they had Leen placed In the car in Montreal. Lieut. Foulois of the American army has arrived In New York after attending the international aeronautical congress in Paris. He says France is crazy over flying machines, and this class of craft is bound to supplant dirigible balloons. Henry E. DIxey filed suit at Minneapolis against Henry W. Savage for $50,000 for alleged slander. Dlxey charges Savage and Claxton Wllstach with circulating false reports that he was responsible for the failure of "Mary Jane's Pa." While playing with a shotgun at his home in Norfalk, Va., Julius Merts, aged 16, was accidentally shot and killed IfJ Willie Hinchey, a companion o his own age. An investigation by the authorities . exonerated youn Illnchey.

Walter Wimrick, of Shelbyvllle, was kicked by a horse owned by Curtis Coiuier, while trying to unharness the animal. He managed to crawl out of the way of further harm, but it was some time before any member of the family heard him calling for assistance. With a telegram in her possession saying her mcther had just died at her home in Barberton, Mrs. Hugh Beaver refused to desert her role as Ruth in the cantata at the First M. E. church in Fort Wayne, and thrilled her audience by her sympathetic rendering of the solo, "Mother, I Must Leave Thee." Henry Newport, aged 83," a Vigo County farmer, living near Terre Haute, and Mrs. Marietta Petit, aged 42, of Evansville, were married at ML Vernon. It is the third marriage experience for each of the newlyweds. The couple met in Evansville several weeks ago for the first time and it was a case of "love at first sight" Mrs. Joiin Shafer, aged 21 years, was burned to death at Wlnamac by the explosion of a can of kerosene which she was pouring on the fire. She was alone at the time, and when the woman was discovered by neighbors the fire had spread so that it was within a few inches of her 3months-old son, who was asleep on a bed near by. Mrs. Frank Hawkins, of Carmel, who accompanied her husband on a coon hunt last week, captured the

largest possum reported this season. It weighed almost twelve pounds and Mrs. Hawkins captured It alive. Mr. Hawkins and two other hunters recently captured a coon which measured almost three feet in length and weighed seventeen pounds. Following a custom of pioneer days, neighbors of Mrs. Esther Hayes, aged 75, gathered at her farm home near Hagerstown and prepared her winter's supply of fuel, chopping and splitting twenty-five cords of wood. While the men worked the wives and daughters of the generous farmers provided a dinner that was enjoyed by seventyfive guests. Mrs. Hayes is a widow and lives alone. The W'arner Gear Company, of Muncie, manufacturers of automobile parts, which employs about 500 men, has announced a voluntary increase of wages for all employes, based on the tern of servico and the promotions received by each on the next pay day. The amount of Increase is greatest for those who have been longest with the concern, the schedule being based on a graduated system. Mrs. Libble Miller, aged 70 years, fell dead at Blooming Grove under peculiar circumstances. An aged widow, who was her friend, died suddenly, and Mrs. Miller went to an upstairs room to dress for the funeral, which was5 to be held directly across the street. When she delayed coming down her friends went to her room and found her dead. She was fully dressed, excepting her collar, which was clasped in her lifeless hand. The congregation of the Twelfth Avenue Baptist church of Evansville have opened a grocery store and meat shop in a building near the church, and will attempt to run the business "as Jesu3 would do. A member has been placed in charge of the business, and members of the church and their friends are expected to patronize the store. The proceeds of the sale? will be used to pay off the church debL Goods will be sold at a small margin and there will be no short weights given to the customers. The annual corn contest under the auspices .of the First National Bank was held at Fortville recently, with twenty entries. Ott Kincaid received first prize on yellow, Clarence Pettigrew first on white, and J. L. Vail first on mixed varieties. Superintendent Haines, of Noblesville, did the scoring, levator men say that corn has been much improved In the last three years, and declare this annual show has been no small factor in bringing this abouL Thirty-five dollars in premiums were given by local business man. I. H. Norman, 1036 Dawson street, Indianapolis, made an unusual discovery, a few days ago when he found a bees' nest on a grape vine about eight feet from the ground, on bis farm, north of Paragon, Morgan County. Mr. Norman says old settlers told him they had never before known of bees building a nest and making honey In the open air and on a grape vine. The nest evidently had ben there for several months, as the bees had Lmilt three large pieces of comb and made considerable honey for the winter. Mr. Norman photographed the nest and then he wrapped mosquito netting around it and cut it down, capturing with it all of the bees in the swarm. He brought the prize home with him in a box where the bees will be kept until "warm weather. The supposed panther which had been annoying the residents of the northern and western parts of Carroll County, proved to be a Canadian lynx. The bast was captured by hunters a few days ago and killed. frjine cows were Ftolen from George W. Williams, south of Connersville, a day or two ago Williams did not discover the theft until he visited his pasture. The ndsslng animals are valued at $400. No trace of the thief has been found. There have been twenty-three cases of appendicitis In Lawrenceburg during the last two years and some physicians are of the belief that it is caused by people drinking too freely of water from the city pumps, which contains a large percentage of lime. Asa Smallwood, member of fire company No. 2, of Columbus, recently took a photograph of the moon and stars with a common kodak which has astonished students of astronomy. The picture is remarkably clear and In addition to showing the moon it shows a myriad of stars. Mrs. Nancy Ritchlnson, of Odon, Bartholomew County, who is 107 years old, fell and broke her hip. She is possibly the oldest person la the State. On account of her age the physicians think she will not recover. Courtland Koontz, a carpenter of Richmond, whose fall from the roof of a building a few weeks ago resulted in a fracture of hi3 spine and whose death was momentarily expected for days, may live, though he will be a helpless cripple. Koontz has displayed emarkable vitality since his injury, .jospital surgeons r

There is little change in the condition of Allen Zollars of Fort Wayne, former judge of the Indiana Supreme Court, who has been seriously ill for many monthr. Mr. Zollars was removed from the hospital to his heme tvo weeks ago, but his progress toward recovery has been disappointing. Putnam County records for corn husking have been smashed by Chas. E. Rogers and his three sons, who live near Greencastle. From 7 o'clock in the morning until 7 in the evening the three men husked six full thirtybushel loads of corn and put it in the crib by darkness. Steven DavU who lives six miles west of Greensburg, had a fine hog weighing 160 pounds to disappear about a month ago. The animal came home last week but It weighed scarcely sixty pounds. It Is sail the hog fell into an abandoned well a month ago, where it remained until the well filled up, thus permitting it to escape. City Attortey Al Veneman, and James D. Saunders, city engineer of Evansville, have prepared an ordinance for the City Council taking in a strip of land in the eastern part of the city which will add about 2,000 to the population of Evansville before the next census Is taken. The City Council is said to be favorable to the ordinance. John S. Downing, aged 80, a pioneer

who has lived in Clay County sirxe his infancy, boasts of an unusual record. He says he has never been fined, ntver been charged with any offense; nev r used an oath; never tasted an intoxicating beverage; never used tobacco; never had a fight; never Indulged in any habits or practices deleterious to himself or the community in which he has lived more than threequarters of a century. Fifteen members of the Women' Aid Society of the Methodist church of Windfall husked fifty bushel 3 of com at the farm of Dr. G. C. Wood. When the society was soliciting funds among members of the congregation Dr. Wood agreed to give to charity all the corn the women could husk In an hour. The women accepted the offer and were taken to the corn field by Justice C. P. Allen in a farm wagon, where they worked Industriously. After the corn was husked the women sold it to the Windfall Elevator Company for a good price. There Is a singular incident connected with the tragic death of Robert Bell, a Baltimore & Ohio Southwest ern switchman, who was killed last week in the yards at Washington while at work. A month ago a clairvoyant was in the city. Mrs. Bell went to have her fortune told, and the woman told Mrs. Bell that the and her husband did not get along well together. Mrs. Bell asked the fortune teller if she should go ahead and obtain a divorce. The clairvoyant told Mrs. Bell that it would be unnecessary, as her husband would be dead within ?. month. To the day a month elapsed, and the truth of the prediction was made evident when Mrs. Bell was called out of bed to be told that her husband was fatally injured, i Fishing with dynamite is costly recreation In Wayne County, as Carl Doddridge, a Washington Township young man, tan testify. After a trial lasting all day a jury in the Wayne Circuit Court returned a verdict of guilty against young Doddridge and he was fined the minimum sum, $250, which, with court costs and attorneys' fees will make the total cost nearly $400. Doddridge was arrested, last summer following dynamiting in the Whitewater river near Milton, which resulted in the killing of a quantity of fish. Several other young men implicated In the affair escaped arrest, fled the country and have never returned to Wayne County since. Doddridge belongs to a prominent family, has always borne a good reputation and the jury returned the lightest possible punishment The Grant County Farmers' Institute, on its adjournment, adapted resolutions declaring against the next Legislature appropriating funds to Purdue University and the State Experiment Station until better appropriation is made for fanners' institutes. The resolution says: "The last General Assembly appropriated $330,000 for the experiment station and Purdue University, but not a dollar for tuition or salaries of teachers, and not a cent for farmers' institutes, therefore we, as farmers of Grant County, In institute assembled, shall oppose any new appropriations for the experiment station of PurdQe University at the hands of the next General Assembly, or until farmers' institutes have a better appropriation." A. Aj Burrier, chairman of the committee on resolutions, was a member of the House of Representatives from Grant County In 1901, and was formerly a loyal friend of Purdue University. David Deatrick, 102 years old, and the oldest man In Southern Indiana, died last week at his home nearEallzabeth. He was a native of Virginia, but had lived in Harrison County for more than ninety years. William Brockman, a young farmer near Hartsville, has struck gas on his farm. His well is now 220 feet detp. The gas burns about four feet above the casing. He will drill the well to trenton rock in the hope of striking a stronger flow. Sherman Havens, of Shelbyvllle, who has a number of turkeys In th Middle West poultry exhibit at St. Louis, has received first, cecond and third premiums on torn turkeys. A. E. Price, of Grant Park, Is the possessor of a large and valuable collection of birds' eggs. The collection consists of more than ten thousand eggs, arranged in a cabinet, each classified and labeled. Price has several eggs for which he paid $23 to $250 each. Eggs of many Indiana and Illinois birds are Included In the collection. Mrs. Richard Lane, of Richmond, was probably fatally burned as a result of her clothing catching fire from an open gas stove. Friends and neighbors of William R. Myer. a stockman living east of Flora, husked his corn last week. Mr. Myex has been in bad health for a year and recently was operated on for cancer. When his friends found he was helpless seventy-twö of them, with twentyfour teams, went to work in the field and husked and cribbed nearly. 1,201 bushels of corn. Fifty women cooked dinner for the toilers.