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etty Hy mjkcda. Cor Triebt. 190, ky W. 0. aupmaa. CIIAPTER XIII. (Continued.) J "Tour name?" asked Morris. "Benonl." answered the black. "Just Benoni." "American?" asked Larry. Tve lived there," volunteered Benonl. "Where are we going now?" "Anywhere to get away from them." replied Johnny. "Then don't go so far to the right. Turn at the next "crossing there now turn to your left again see? Beyond those hills we'll find a snug defile! Here we are!" The motor wheezed and grunted and turned awkwardly Into the debouchment of the mountain side. "How'd you come to get In such .1 crape?" asked Larry. "Ever see that woman before? Do you know her at all? What was her animus?" Benonl nodded. "Yes. I gave her passage money to go back to Maine to her family once, and she gambled it away. Then she came to me again, and wanted some more money and I refused to give It to hr. and she's hated me ever since, I guess. I hadn'i seen her for years." "Like a woman," commented Johnny. Larry smoked in silence, till Benoni asked: "Exploring? Or Just touring?" "How long since you've been in the States?" asked Johnny. "Just came from there a week ago.' replied Benonl. "Then you heard of the Wayne murder mystery, of course? Well, we're huntin.se for the abducted Miss Lancey. We think she'3 in Africa here." Err.onl raised his woolly eyebrows. "You're a nice hunt." he observed. "Have you any race of where she might be? Africa is very large, larger even than your vaunted State of Texas." "1 know." responded Larry, curtly. "But If a man's heart's In the hunt he doesn't stop to reckon the length of the chase." Benoni smiled. "You are related to Miss Lancey.?" "Not yet," said Johnny. "He's Just hoping that way." Benonl sprung out of the car. He paced by its side nervously for a few seconds, and then stopped beside Larry. "I am black, as you see." spoke Benonl. "but I own . e blood of kings and ray mind has been subjected to a thorough course or education in European universities. I am in Africa now tn an errand similar to yours. I am seeking my wife, Meta. Unlike you, I have an inkling as to where I may find her. Perhaps the woman you are hunting for is not far away from Meta. Will you join forces with m?? I am single handed, and I may need foreign aid men I can trust!" Larry and Johnson grasped at tha straw. It was something tangible anyway, In this great wanton waste of sun and sky, desert and barbarians. And far more likely of result than the neatly red-taped government assistance that had been 'proffered them. So they made a compact with BertonL It was taking a long chance with a stranger, but the boys had learned that long shots frequently won when the short arc failed altogether. The three were to meet at the deflb en the morrow early before the sun waxed unbearably hot. Benonl told them to leave behind al luggage; that he would attend to all of that, and to take with them but a nominal sum of money, if any at all. "You can both ride?" he questioned. "Well, I'm not much at lt.7 confessed Johnny. The black surveyed the small redheaded man hrlf contemptuously. "I know wnat you'ie thinking." blurted out the American. "You're thinking that barring the color of the skin and head that you've got me beat on being a man. Perhaps you have. Anyway, I don't grudge you anything, and you needn't me!" They rumbled Into town r.s the false dawn broke. Benoni left them at the corner of an obscure street, and Larry and Johnson took Suiveler back his auto. Suiveler was not yet home, so they went to the cafe, where they had left him early in the evening, and fourd him there drowsing. .'. .:u shame." groaned Johnry. H.v ;ui a m: n with a mind do such things as this'.1" "You nevtr c:hl." said Harry, quietly. "Here, let's tak-; him home. Come, Suiveler, come oj, we've got something to tell you." CHAPTER XIV. Benonl was waiting at th defile. With him was a small Arabian servant. lienoni nimseir was astride a magnificent black horse, and smaller mounts were saddled for the two Americans. The little Arab rode a wizened but sturdy beast and led the pack horse by a short tether. The black was still more of the physically perfect by daylight than he had been under the lamplight and the later gleam of the moon. He was even yet more taciturn. Larry and Johnson Jogged along side by side. Benonl paced them, at times making far excursions ahead, returning with foaming horse and flushed face. At noon they stopped beside a scant little creek for rest The sua was un endurable and despite their visored and veiled helmets. Johnny and Larry were suffering terribly from sunburn and their hands were blistered from the reins. The little Arab spread their lunch eon for them and went over to rest with the horses, staked a few rods di3 tant. Benoni produced healing salve and showed hl3 two companions how to relieve the worst of their distress. The tropical nooning sped in heat, si lence and half-slumber. At Z o'clock Benonl roused the little caravan, and after a hasty supper, told them to make ready for a long, hard ride. All night they Journeyed. Through desert wastes and pver rocky fastnesses, up steep mountains and acres? half-stag nant, shallow rivers. And even when the dawn came there was no resting. The hors3. Jaded and covered with a coating of djst and sweat, stuck their feet wenriedly into tho sand or clun listless! v to the hilly slopes. Larry was weak as a woman, and Johnny too worn to talk. The sun centered the gy when Benonl let them halt They were Just past a strip of desert waste and near a tiny oasis of parched grass And scrawny palms. A murky pool of water mocked them with resemblances of Apollinaris, seltzers. Ice-flushed lemonades and carbonated beverages to J quaffed in the blessed land at home, Johnny, exhausted, had dropped fron his horse and was trying to drag him elf towards the muddy pooL Benonl was as unshaken as the palm tree standing motionless In the desert csJm. He pulled Johnny up, bolstered Lixr. slocg with a draught from his

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r. WEST Copyright Is Great rttxia flask, and set htm to rights generally. "How are you, Morris?" he asked. "Oh. fair." replied Larry- This gaunt American found It hard to admit physical inferiority to the black. "We can rest but an hour or two," volunteered Benoni, curtly. "Then we must go on." "But where?" asked Larry. "I confess I wanted to go Into darkest Africa, but tnis affair Is growing too shadowy for me. I don't care about being handled like a packinghouse cow!" Benoni turned a reproachful eye upon him. "I have promised to help you find the girl you seek, can you not rely upon me? I know my Africa. I am trusting you, and trying to repay you for aiding me to escape from that cafe mob that corral filled with worse I than the beasts of the Jungle drunken, infuriated swine that once were men. "Hello, what's this?" asked Johnny. "I'm always finding things now ain't I? Look at this, and. in the desert, too!" He held up to view a plump pigeon. Apparently It had been hurt In a fight with some heavier denizen the air. For It was quite dead, and its head was severed almost from its body. Doves like that nest in but one place in ah this continent." he remarked. and his face became ashen gTay a3 he noted the odd markines of Durole and brown on its snowy breast. "Only one place," he repeated. Johnny had been turning the bird over and over, rumpling up the help less wings. Something caught hi3 ey and he held the dead dove out with upraised wing for the others to see. Scratched on its wing In rude letters they read: "Betty Lancey, Africa!" "Hetty!" cried Larry-. Then h seiz ed Uenonl by the wrist. "If doves like that nest in but one place on this con tinent, take us there, take us at once. What place is it? Where? Would she be safe? Or In the hands of savages?" That Is where Tve have been trav eling to, my friend," answered Benonl. I had suspected, but I had not cer tainly known. We will not even rest ior me nour, you Wisn." . I must." answered Johnny. "Safety MTftra' Vrry Uot nut - . I i w t, rr , for six nonths!" "Tell me. tell m something:- oleaded Larry. I But the sands were not more silent, Benonl made but one reply, "i dare not. It might destroy all hone!" I Day after day. clinked off this arduous travel, once they met a cam-nn n nennni brined fnr f-v, The erstwhile novelty was succeeded by a feverish unrest Both Americans . "UiaCJ, I were dead with fatigue, the little Arab stood the Journey well, and Benonl was in the pink of condition. Ten daya later they found a second pigeon. rnis one was auvc ana fluttered to .k.l. Innnn KU T ered it with his hat. and bent its wings lark fiercely onlv to find a h(tt -11. appointment, for there was no messa traced upon the wing. Two days later they reached a native village, hanging tassel-like upon the borders of an Immense Jungle. Benoni -bCf 1" ' t0 Veik t!ie way for 7 : "V- JW"r " ..s w uik, eiasa aiiu UU9KV I skins. One mornlnj Larry awoke to find the camp oeserted of all but Denonl and Johnny. The horses were gone and even the little Arab had disappeared. What! are we lost In this Jungle? Letrayed and deserted?" questioned ljUrrJ I "No, Indeed, I sent them away. We cannoi leave nere uu nigntfall. so A. . - - aietp asuui or tuunge un i return, re plied Benoni. "I will be back in a few hours.' Divesting himself of his garments. Benonl swathed his loins with a girdl-e of flexible gTass, and strode away In to the fastnesses of the thicket. Larry roused the sleeping Johnny rudely. I irehead. get up. and tell me what you think of it," ho commanded. Johnny, roughly disturbed from dreams of home, kicked viciously in Larry's grasp. "Can't you let a fellow sleep when he's having a pleasant dream V he de manded. You're worse than an alarm clock!" "Look around and go dream again," growled Larry. Johnny sat up. "Safety razors!" he cried. "What's become of them?" "What's going to become of us grunted Larry. "Benoni said he'd be back." "Then I think he will." allowed Johnny. "Did he leave us anything to eat?" 'There's some dates, that confound el meal cake they make In this coun try and some figs," Itemized Larry, "and, say, Johnny, these look like hen's eggs!" "Well, you can sample them, I won't!" declared Johnny, with visions of the stomachic illness that had be set him early on the route, thanks to an overly curious appetite. "I'll stick to the viands that have come the least near to killing me during our African peregrination. Were we fools to come, Larry, or not?" "Oh, I don't know, quit your kick lng." said I-arry. "I suppose if Be nonl doa . "ome back we might stay hero all night " "I reckon we will." added Johnny. grimly. For the want of a better occupation. their meal finished, they fell to play lng mumble-peg In the clearing where camp had been struck. Mumble-pcs? falling as a time-killer, they tried roiling marbles out of the soft clay, and had put up a very passable game of "Mlbs" when they heard a rustling and crackling In the brush and foliage around them. "Bets on a lion," said Johnny. "Oh, make It a cannibal king or a boa constrictor." suggested Iarry. "Something novel!" Benonl appeared at the edge f the clearing. "Larry wins," was Johnny's meeting. "I bet on a lion he said 'twas a cannibal king approaching." "I'm neither," answered IJenor.t. "I want to sleep. I worked all night while you fellows rested. Will you keep w;'.tch for me? Wake me at the slightest sound. And if I'm not up 1 y starlight, call me then. Don't forget." Long before that hour, though, the great black was up and ready. All of their luggage he stacked In a great heap and set fire to it They waited till the pile gave signs of thorough ignition, then led by Benonl the trio set out through the Jungle. The walk was a fight for breath. There were briars that pricked, gnats that stung, knotted vines that trapped unwary feet. Sometimes the foot stepped upon a sodden snake,, causing

the reptile to coil around the ankle In a horrifying snarl. But Benonl paused for nothing. With one arm plunged forward, with the other he grasped hold of Larry and bade him pull Johnny In their wake. This nightmare struggle lasted not longer than a quarter of an hour, but when they had come out of the Jungle Larry was shaking like a leaf in the wind and Johnny was too far gone for words. A tramp over an arid plain brought them to a loathsome, turgid stream. From a small cove in the bank Benoni punted oat a fiat-bottomed scow with small sail. He leaped Into It and bade the others follow. Then began a pull to which the struggle through the Jungle was as child's play. The days and the nights had all the furies tortures far outdone. And through It all they lived! This was the wonder that came to Larry afterward. For they fought hand to hand battles with bnakes and hideous water reptiles, fat crocodiles

leered at them and more than once sent them scurrying high on the bank. Once the punt overturned and Benonl stood breast high in water, a black, slimy ooze that reached to Harry's chin and almost overflowed Into his mouth. Poor Johnny, the shortest of the three, was carried off his feet and almost drowned, but they got ashore somehow, but all their food except two tins of biscuits In waterproof canisters were soaked. This happened their third day on the river, and they had yet another day's travel ahead of them. The next day the rains commenced and the river teemed with the floods. Benonl moored the punt at the mouth of a cave that yawned from a little hillock on what bank. had once been the river's (To be con tinned.) JAPAN'S ANCESTRAL GODS. Quaint Ceremony Performed Every 21 Years Since A. D. 90. One of the most marvelous maniTestations of patriotic and religious 'fumed recently jy the transference 01 ine imPriat surines at ise to tneir new tatlernacles just completed, the London Standard says. This remark able Shinto festival may be witnessed only every twenty-one years, when the temples of the ancestral gods are re constructed and the sacred objects are removed to their new abode. The Ise temples have been thus renewed every score of years since A. D. COO at least and for how long before that no one knows, the present occasion being the fifty-seventh rebuilding on record. Such a periodic reconstruction will appear quite necessary when it 13 recollected that on these shrines no mor tal hand is ever permitted to execute repairs. After they are built the gods of the nation take possession of them and thenceforward they are not touched till they go the way of all things. At fill Hm Tcp th np of tha Jananrs natrint hut on n nntaM r 9 wv an occasion as this thousands flock from a11 Parts of the empire. Tbe work rebuilding the sacred shrlne3 begins almost as soon a3 the last reconstruction Is complete by the appointment , of an imperial commisdn intmef with th imnnrn or. uprise. Every stage is marked bv .. . , reugious ceremonies, irom tne renin . 4. 4 41, J !.! iL. 1 . . unwug iue lasi Eai1' The comPlctIoa Is emphasized ? a special festival of purification. after which the temples pass from the hands of the commissioners to the nriestly custodians of the lmncrial KhHnu . 1 , . 'c,uu"u5 am"ual fi" "U tue Eacrcd treasures and relics to the new "holy of holies," which took place this month. It Is computed that no fewer than 40,000 persons were present on the night of the actual removal Though the august spectacle takes Place at night, the preparation for it 4 a 10 ew on ior two or mree üays Previ0usiy, DUt tne ceremonies r tbe notable day itself are the most interesting. The day opened with the annearance before the new temnle of a specially chosen Virgin, who went through a peculiar ceremony of buryInf in thf crniinrl hpfnro t Vi a eKin a Jar containing offerinea to th nd I O Qf earth. -This observance ! lnton. ed as an act of thanksgiving for the successful completion of the new abode of the ancestral gods. Later in the day began a long pro cession of priests in gorgeous robes of green and gold, chanting weird litanies and motioning sutras to the strains of archaic Instruments. It 13 affirmpd that the service has In no respect been changed during the last thousand years. With the settling down of darkness came the great function of removal. A detachment of pric3ts, led b7 a princely representative of the im perial house, went Into the soon to be abt ndoned shrines to examine the treasures and to measure the sarred fabrics. As the latter are rennted tn hn '.nftrt ft n i .i. this was no small matter. Tor Forty Years. Mrs. Perkins (calmly reminiscent) Jonathan, we've been cnarried forty years and never had a cross word yit Mr. Perkins I know it. I've rrwi yer jaw purty well Mrs. Perkins Jonathan Perkins, you're a mean, hateful. Spiteful old thing, I wouldn't marry you ag'Iu fer love ner money! Exchange. Obeyed Orders. "What," said the Maglstrate.severely, to the prize fighter arraigned before him, "made you knock your own child into a state of unconsciousness?" "Didn't mean to hurt the kid," responded the repentant parent, "but I Jest forgot meself when me wife told ma to put the boy to sleep." Balti more American. Water I'owrr, "S you ar Is. favor of protecting i water power?" said the forestry expert. "I am," answered Mr. Dustln Sta. "A man don't appreciate tho power there is in water till he has had as much to do with the stock market as I have." Washington Star. Keeping Time. "What's tho trouble?" "Big crowd waiting for tables," explained the head waiter. "Tell the orchestro striko up romethlng lively," ordered the proprietor. "Maybe it will make theso' people chew faster." Louisville Cour-lir-Journal. The Authority. Mother (to her daughter) You'd better accept. Peter, my dear. He's a nice boy, though he may rot Le handsome. After all, good looks fade, don't they, pa? Father Rather! Flfecnde Klarier In Slf-Iefeie. "You didn't really need a wig." "I wa3 driven to It. Now th- Harber won't try to sell me any tonics o: hair restorer." Louisville Courior-JournaL

r. t i imun III PARTY CONVENTION Senator Indorsed and Aldrich Law Ignored in Resolutions Prepared by Indiana Republicans. CHEER FOR INSURGENT TALK. Delegates Moved to Enthusiasm by Leader's Defense of His Fight for Downward Revision. Secretary of State Otis E vJulley Auditor John K. lleed Treasurer Jonce Monyhan Attorney General Finley P. Mrjnt Clerk Supreme Court Edward V. Fitzpatrick Statistician John L. Pi'tz Geologist V. S. BlJtchljy Jude of Supreme Court, Second District Oscar II. Montgomery Jutle of Supreme Court. Third Dis trict IC. M. Miller Aonellate Judges. First District.... Ward H. Watson and C. C. Hadley Appellate Judges. Third District D. . Comstock. Joseph M. Habb and II. D. Tuthlll. Sunerlntendent of Instruction S. C. Ferrell Indianapolis correspondence: The Republican State convention was opened with a speech by Senator Beveridge in which he defended his fight in Congress for downward revision of the tariff and his vote against SEXATOB BEVKBHf.r. the Aldrich-Payne bill. "I couldn't stand, for it then and I cannot stand for it now said the Senator time and again, each repetition being greetci with applause. Mr. Beveridge declared the battle would be kept up until the aims of the progressives a substan TOMLINSON HALL WHERE tial reduction of duties and a. tarifT commission are accomplished. The resolutions committee of the convention decided unanimously on a platform making no reference to the new tariff law, although indorsing the principle of protection, and heartily commending the course of Mr. Beveridge in the Senate. Speech of Senator Ileverldnre. Senator Beveridge served as temporary chairman of the gathering, which was held in Tomlinson Hall. In taking the chair he said: "The Republicans of Indiana are 'or a protective tariff which covers the difference in the cost of production here and abroad, fcss than that Is unjust to American laborers; more than that Is unjust to American consumers. It was to reduce the Dlnley tariff to meet changed conditions and obtain Justice that we undertook its revision. "Tlio masses of Republican voters to-day refuse to permit the great doctrine of protection to be used to excuse and cloak tariff excess. Like President Taft, I wanted free iron ort-, of which we have the greatest deposits on earth and which the steel trust , chielly controls. I would not stand for tne duty mat was passcu anu i cannot stand for it now. But a majority of Democratic Senators did .stand and fight for it. and stand for it now. "Like President Taft I wanted free lumber, out of which the homes of the (id Power for Idle Street Car. After an idleness of more than a month, the cars of the City Street Railway Company -in Washington will again be in commission as the result of an agreement on a power contract signed by the committee of Council and Z. F. Graham for the car company.. The company plans . to extend to Indianapolis and Illinois, connecting with interurban sj stems now rontrolled by the Bums Construction Company of Chicago. Pottle Fnctory Ilurn. The Iloosler bottle factory at Petersburg, tho largest in Southern Indiana, was destroyed by fire. Four other buildings and three freight cars were also burned and tho shaft of the coal mino fifty feet distant set on fire. The loss is ?90,000. I'tid Life on S reo nd Try. Worried over ill health, Louis Steimel', aged 2S, committed suicide in Evansvllle by drinking carbolic acid, it being his second attempt within a week. A lin on t "I)rniied' by Oats. When the freight car on which he was setting brakes was struck by another freight car near Wabash A. G. Doell, a switchman, was thrown and the car was hurled over him. Loose oats flowed over him and only after a fierce struggle was he able to escape suffocation. The Rev. Herbert L. Wilson of Ev-s-.nstor;. III., has been appointed rector of the Episcopal Church at Garrett and the Trinity Episcopal Church at Kendall i'iile.

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peopee are built. Like President Taft I wanted the ancient woolen schedule reduced a schedule forty-two years old, which raises the price and reduces the weight of the people's clothing. I stood against that schedule and am against it now.

"I could not stand for an increase of duties on cotton cloth, the higher grades of which are used as clothing by every man, woman and child throughout the republic. The manufacturers declare before the House committee that their business was thriving, their labor employed and that all they asked was that the tariff on cotton should not be decreased. I stand against those Increases now. I could not stand for an increase on structural steel, punched and ready for use, out of which all modern buildings are constructed. I could not stand for an increase of duties un those lino leums which are the poor man's car pet; or on zinc, which is a universal necessity; or on silk, which is a part of the clothing or adornment of every American woman, rich or poor; and I cannot stand for them now. Clte II In Ohii Itevord. "I could not stand for the obsolete and infamous sugar schedule, which no man in Indiana can read and understand, but which the sugar trust can read and understand; yet efforts to change that schedule were opposed by Democratic votes. We reduced the tariff on refined sugar 5 cents per 100 pounds one-twentieth of one cent, a half of one mill, a pound which was worse than no reduction because it cannot affect the price and therefore is a deception. Yet that is one of the boasted reductions we hear of. "It is said that the law has made reductions on articles entering into the consumption of the people to the value of $5,000,000,000; yet those articles are lumber, agricultural Implements, meat and food products, petroleum and its products of all of which we are the greatest exporters in the world; steel rails and coal, which we export; barbed wire, monopolized by the steel trust; nails, manufactured and sold by an international trust as complete as the international tobacco monopoly; yarns and threads; the raw materials for textiles, on which when finished for the people's use the tariff was increased; sugar, which was reduced not in fact, but only in pretense. "Above all, I could not stand for the slaughter by the conference committee of tiie moderate beginning of a tariff commission which I wrote into the bill that passed the Senate; but all except one of the Democratic Senators were and are the enemies of any tariff commission. I voted against the bill and for plighted honor. I voted ufainst excess and for protection. I voted against the interests and for the people. "Where lies the plain remedy? In a tariff commission. When I introduced the tariff-commission bill three years ago I said it had no friends in Congress. To-day a large majority of Republicans are for it and one Democrat has seen the light "But the conference committee struck out ever' word giving these persons any powers to investigate and collect the facts, leaving to .the President nothing but the authority to employ persons to assist him in the admlnisTHE CONVENTION MET. tration of the maximum and minimum section of the law. Senator Hale, sen ior member of the conference commit toe, declared on the floor of the Senate that the committee had done this for the purpose of depriving these persons of any power whatever to gather facts or to do any work which a tariff com mission could do. "President Taft, by executive con struction. has attempted to restore to these persons he is authorized to cm ploy som.1 of the powers that the conference committee destroyed. But ex ecutive construction cannot restore powers that Congress deliberately re fused to give, and any President at any time can discharge the so-called tariff board. For the members of this tariff board arc not officers of the govern ment: they are mere employes of the President. Any trust in America , can refuse to hve them information. We asked for a reality: they gave us mockery. We asked for power; they gave us palsy. We asked for bread; they gave us a stone. Such a make shift will not .answer the needs cf American, business men, producers and consumers." All of the candidates for places on the ticket were chosen by acclamation except Monyhan, who received 911 votes to Job Freeman's 834. Ferrell, who was chosen from a field of three, and Finley P. Mount, whose opponent, William Bossom. withdrew before th balloting was completed Home Hum with Horn. The barn of William D. Ilarnes, County Treasurer, burned at Elizabeth, burning his driving horse and a team belonging to John Kraft of New Albany. F.dneator' Wife Find Life. The wife of Elam B. Meyers, wellknown educator, committed suicide by Utting her throat with a razor at their "ome iu Elkhsrt. She was 70 year.: C'liiltl II u med to Death. Raymond, the 2-yoar-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Nixon Sherwood, died in Munde as a result of Lurns received by his clothing catching fire. The child was playing in the street and is thought to have been handling matches. To uuu rröTril oteiifürn. The Clifton, or old French Lick Hotel, owned by Thomas Taggart, was destroyed by firo the other day. The jy,-v hotel building, was saved only by , al work. The loss is about $23,0m.. ( overed by Insurance. Corn (Hiie III Ilenth. Arthur It. Wolff, aged 55, for thirtyfive years proprietor of a Muncie clothing store, and widely known as a merchant, died after an Illness of several months. The beginning of his illness was blood poisoning, caused by trimming a corn too closely. Grp.ngrene set In and other complications followed. "Walter C. Bennett, of Hammond, tried to commit suicide three times by linking chloroform because of grief over the death of his sister.

REPORT OF THE RESOLUTIONS committee:

The platform of the Indiana Republicans, in convention at Indianapolis, as prepared by the resolutions cemmittee, makes the following declarations on national Issues: We, the Republicans of Indiana, declare our determined support of those great policies for the common good developed under Theodore Roosevelt and bearing his name, and we demand that they be given effect in legislation and administration. , We believe In a protective tariff, measured by the difference between the cost of production here and abroad. Less than this is unjust to American laborers; more is unjust to American consumers. That difference should be ascertained with the utmost speed, and the present law modified accordingly. We demand the immediate creation of a genuine, permanent, nonpartisan tariff commission, with ample powers and definite duties fixed in the law it self. - We believe with President McKinley, n his last tariff utterances, that "The period of exclusiveness is past," and we heartily favor the Republican pol icy of reciprocity first announced by Blaine and later advocated by McKinley. We demand comprehensive laws for the conservation of our natural resources, and especially that the coal deposits of Alaska shall be kept the property of the nation, to be developed only under lease and payment of Just royalties to the government. In time of war, or any other emerency, when ordinary forms of taxa tion are not enough for the needs of the government, the nation should have the constitutional power to tax Incomes. We heartily favor an amendment to the Constitution, giving Con gress this power. We favor such limitation of the pow ers of injunction as will not imperil the liberty of any man without notice and hearing. We favor national, legislation which will end child slavery In 'the factories, mines and sweatships throughout the land. We favor just and liberal pensiors tov all deserving soldiers and to the widows and orphans of those who are dead. We demand the enactment of laws providing for publicity as to campaign contributions, in both State and nation. We demand that United) States Sen ators shall be elected by the direlt vote of the people. Other planks declare for good roads, State code revision and child-labor re form. 1 The resolutions Indorsing President Taft and Senator Deveridge are as fol lows: ! We recognize that no President in our history ever began his administra tion with such universal favor and good will as did William Howard Taft; few men have entered the presidency with such extraordinary train ing. As collector of Internal revenue, prosecuting attorney, Judge of a State court, solicitor general, federal Judge, Governor of the Philippines, Secretary of War, builder of tne ranama eanai, regenerator of Cuba each period of oilicial activity immediately following another for his entire adult life he brought to the discharge of the great duties of the presidency broad executive experience and grasp of governmental affairs. We indorse his administration and pledge to him our support In any efforts to secure the enactment of genuine progressive legislation. The spirit of the times demands not only wise policies and sound' principles, but clean, vigilant, brave and sincere men In public office.' We Indorse and applaud the splendid record of our senior Senator, and especially his' record In the last session of Congress, which deserves the unqualified approval of all the people of the State. Wita pride and confidence we make a solemn pledge to the people that a Republican Legislature will return to the Senate of the United States this man, wose name is synonymous with victoryAlbert J. Beveridge. The Difference. My neighbor eateth lobster; He eateth rarebit, too; He loveth brie and edam And hldeth them from view. My neighbor wakes at midnight And shrieks with sudden pain. Quick comes the costly medic And treats him for ptomaine. I eat my humble dinner. My chops and beans and pie. Perhaps with indigestion I suffer by and by. The good old family doctor My case In hand doth fake, And as he spreads a plaster He calls It stomach-ache. New York Telegram. 1 Nature of Ldfe. The question of life Is as great a mystery as ever. Herbert Spencer's definition that life Is '"the continuous adjustment of Internal relations with external relations" and the other theory that life is a form of electrical action as well as all the other theories combined quite fall to show how nonliving matter becomes living matter or what it really means to be alive. We know no more on the subject than they did five minutes' after men began to think upon it thousands of years ago. New York American. Ill Architecture. Sally Gay What a cunning littla. fellow Mr. Callipers Is! Dolly Swift Cunning? Why, he's dreadfully bow-legged. Sally Gay Yes, but that gives him such an arcb look, you know. TitBits. Illg Game In Kavt Africa. The increase of big game shooting In East Africa threatens to bring about the complete extermination of the larger mammals within about half a century, despite the restrictions applied to this form of spori by the authorities, according to the London Globe. The most appalling destruction is that of the elephants; the number of tusks annually imported into Antwerp alone represents the slaughter of no fewer than 20,000 elephants. Ye, iteniiiiKton I'alnietl. A western man who knew Frederic Remington only by his magazine illustrations in black and white once called on the artist at his New Ilochelle home. The stranger was ushered into the studio, where Mr. Remington was at work In colors on a large canvas. "Oh!" exclaimed the surprised visitor. "Do j-ou paint, Mr. Remington?" "Ah well ah," responded the almost equally surprised artist, his 'uly sense of humor reveling in tha nation, "I ah I think I do." ;..w York Press. Don't. Tell All Yon Know. The little daughter of the hostess looked long and inquiringly at the guest who she had been told wa3 a very learned man and a professor. During a lull In the conversation she spoke up, "What do you do in college, please, sir." "I am a professor, my dear," was tha reply. "I impart my knowledge to the students." "Then if you keep on that way," she said soberly, "prett3" soon you won't know anything yourself, will you?" Ladles' Home Journal.

REVIEW OF MIAU

While In a dazed condition John Jackson, of Nappanee, a stock buj'er, walked out of a second story window in the Central hotel in Laporte, receiving injuries which will probably prove fatal. Chris BIIHps, a Lawrenceburg fisherman who ships fish, to the Cincinnati markets, caught a catfish in a net recently that was found to contain a gold compass. It is supposed that the compass was lost from some passing boat and the fish, attracted by the bright object in the water, promptly swallowed it. The fish weighed eleven pounds. Charles P. Wolfe, a contracting painter and merchant of Seelyville, committed, suicide by inhaling artificial gas at his home in Terre Haute. On Christmas eve Wolfe's wife committed suicide in the same manner. He had lost money in business ventures and worry over the loss is thought to have made him mentally irresponsible. Two sons and a. daughter survive him. Aaron Brubaker, aged SO, of Perrysburg, and Mrs. Elizabeth Coffing, aged 72, of Perry Township, Miami County, were married last week by the Rev. Frank Fisher, of the Church of tho Brethren denomination. Both are wealthy. The bridegroom was married once befolg, while the woman has been married three times. They are probably the oldest couple that ever obtained a license in Miami County. After being a steeple jack for several years, painting many tall stacks and cupolas without a serlouä accident, Isaac Gunn, of Anderson, is at St.John's hospital and maj' be crippled for life, one of his feet being badly crushed and broken. Gunn, with other men, was trying to take down a tall water tank at the tin plate mill in North Anderson, when the tank and platform collapsed and Gunn was caught beneath the wreckage. Austin Daugherty, a retired druggist of Indianapolis, went to Columbus a few days ago for the first time in fiftythree years. He was born in Bartholomew County and spent his youth in Columbus, and, although he has lived within two hours' ride of the place over half a century, he says he has postponed his Contemplated visits from year to year. He took a walk over the city and found the Western hotel, one of the oldest hotels in the State, the only landmark he knew. A remarkable run of fox hounds began three miles south of Elizabethtown and continued for twenty-three hours. It was witnessed by many farmers from the neighborhood. A 7 months-old pup, owned by E. E. Sisco, ana" an S-y ear-old dog owned by W. H McCord started the fox, and later seven fresh dogs were put in the chase against them. After several hours all but the Sisco and McCord dogs, the original starters, had quit the chase, They finally ran the fox to his hole ou Bear creek, ten miles east of Elizabethtown High speed by traction cars passing through Columbus is soon to be a thing of the past as the City Council has instructed City Attorney C. B. Cooper to prepare an ordinance making it un lawful for interurban cars to run at a greater speed than eight miles an hour. The Indianapolis, Columbus & Southern Traction Company has about one and one-half miles of track in the city and except in the business section of the city the cars run at a high rate of speed. TWs Council intends to reduce this speed from the time the city is entered until the car leaves. G. W. Kissell, age 59 years, an organist, fell down a stairway at the home of William Schröck, on Blddle's Island, and broke his neck. The un fortunate man lost his balance on reaching the top of the stairway and fell backward. He plunged to the bot tom and his head struck a clothes wringer, causing Instant death. Miss Schröck was awakened by the fall and on investigating found Mr. Kissell's body. Mr. Kissell was one of the best known musicians in the State and years ago gained fame as a pipe or ganist In Logansport and other cities He is survived by a widow and a daughter and sister, who live ia St. Louis. An old family dog succeeded in sav lng the life of F. A. Moore, a promi nent farmer of Liberty Township, Shel by County, who was attacked by a stallion, which he had started to lead to a watering trough. The horse had been in the stable most of the day and was anxious to get away. It became infuriated at a Jerk of the halter In the hands of the owner, knocking him to the ground, after which it tried to crush his life out by kneeling on him The dog, hearing the shouts of Its mas ter for help, ran to the barn and after biting the animal on the legs several times, caused the horse to get up and give chase to the dog. Mr. Moore was then released. Ethel, the 6-year-old daughter of Nelson Fishel, of Helmsburg, was disfig ured for life while romping with shepherd dog. The animal suddenly sprang at the little girl and tore off her nose. Refusing to accept public charity and feeling financially unable to de fray the usual funeral expenses them selves, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Barbitsky, of Wabash, buried .the body of their child in an ordinary, store box last week. Mizpah Temple, Noble3 of the Mystic Shrine, of Fort Wayne, received a c. .ss of seventy candidates in a ceremonial session last week. Many prominent Masons from Northern Indiana points were in attendance. The near approach of Halley's comet is believed to be having a mysterious effect on the hens in the vicinity of Owensville. A hen egg resembling a comet is on exhibition in Owensville and Is attracting much attention. The egg has a shell like a tail, four inches long. The hen belongs to Sanford Garrison. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Smith, of Fort Wayne, are patients at the Lutheran hospital, having undergone operations for appendicitis but a few hours apart. Both husband and wife are believed to be safe on the road to recovery. At a recent meeting of poultry fanciers of Portland and vicinity, steps were tajcen in the organization of the Jay County Poultry Association. Committees on by-laws and on solicitation of new members rere appointed and a second meeting will be held to perfect the organization by the election of officers and the adoption of the by-lawg.

Many farmers in Southern Indiana wore their overcoats last week while plowing. The weather was cold, and fears are entertained for fruit and .. early vegetables. Announcement has been made of the marriage of Robert T. Grimes, aged 54, formerly postmaster of Anderson, and Miss Frone Smith, aged 51, who has been a clerk in the postoffice there for the last eight years. The bride is a sister of Mr. Grimes' first wife. The Fort Wayne police arrested Edward Thomas Joseph Baughman, who has deserted from the United States navy three times. He is now in jail awaiting transportation back to a training ship. Baughman last eluded officers at Indianapolis four weeks ago, when hie fled from the Union Sta

tion ther.. The. Rev. Milton Mahin, a veteran superannuated minister of the Methodist church of Newcastle,, went to Bluff ton to attend the annual Metho dist Conference, the sixty-ninth con ference he has attended. Despite his age, he preaches whenever called upon and often holds two services in on day. He is 87 years old. Jealous because the 12-year-old daughter of Mrs. Lydia Schneider, of Evansvllk-, petted another dog, a largo . St. Bernard belonging to Carl Songer attacked the child and badly lacerated her face and hands, and it is feared she will cliel The dog leaped on the ittle girl and several men who were passing at the time rushed in and beat the animal off. Louis A. Bartholome, aged 43, died after a lingering illn jss of twenty-five years of consumptioiw at his home in Lawrenceburg. He is survived by two brothers; Andrew Bartholome, Piqua, Ohio, and Rudolph Bartholome, of Ko-komo.-This was the thirteenth time that he had been given up to die by attending physicians during the last quarter of a century. Leaking steam opened the throttle of a Pennsylvania locomotive standing in tne liicnmona roundhouse and the big machine "walked" out of its stall before hostlers could enter the cab and shut off the steam. The engine ran on tc the spurCoading to the main track, but as th turntable was not set, toppled into the ten-foot pit It required the combined efforts of two wrecking crews to raise the locomotive, which was only slightly damaged. Melvin Anderson, of Hartsville, Bar tholomew County, owns a horse that eats rope. The horse was hitched by a rope halter and the halter disap peared. Other rope about the barn went the same way, and finally the an imal was watched. It passed up cora and oats to eat rope. Even twine strings were eagerly devoured by the animal. A veterinary surgeon was called to examine the horse, but he gave the case up as one that baffled his skill. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Robinson, of Lowell, were victims of a runaway horse and automobile accident at Lowell. They were driving home from church when the horse became frightened at a scorching automobile. Tho animal ran away, crashed into the Lowell opera house after leaping on to the s.'ciewalk in Commercial avenue, and piled the buggy, occupants and the glass of the window Into an Indiscriminate heap. The maddened animal kicked itself loose. Robinson was bruised about tke head and body and Mrs. Koblnson was hurt internally. If a policeman la Columbus 13 seen chasing a chicken there will be no cause for inquiry because it will simply be in the line of his duty. The City Council has adopted an ordinance requiring chickens to remain at home. If fowls are ound at large it is the duty of any officer to "arrest and Impound them. After three days, if they have not been claimed by their owner, they will be told at the market price and the money will go into the city treasury. The ordinance gives any citizen the right to capture chickens running at large and turn them over to the police. A fine for the owners of chickens which run at large is provided in the ordinance. Although he was a good swimmer and made a hard fight for life, the handicap of his clothing and shoes proved too much for J. R. Egloff, who fell from a gasoline launch into the Wabash river, near Emison, and was drowned. The man had been walking on the roof of the boat when he lost his footing and fell, dragging his companion, William Woodrum, with hhn. The latter swam, to the Illinois shore in safety. After falling in the water Egloff swam after the boat, but could not reach it. Tho'gasoline on the vessel ran out and the men onu the boat were unable to aid him and Egloff sank. Later his body was found near the mouth of a sewer at Wolfe Hill, about one hundred yards from the place of drowning. Charles E. Dean, a leading fruit grower of Madison, has six thousand peach trees in full bloom. Present prospects are bright for a big yield both of peaches and applts. A belled buzzard, which had caught its foot in the forks of a tree, was captured by Lee Kinther, southwest of New Albany, the jingling of its bell attracting his attention. On a band on its leg wijs inscribed "B. H. Crone, Tyrone, W. a., July 4, 1SSC." The bird will be liberated. Will Long, aged 22. a negro, was shot through the heart and instantly killed at Jeffersonville by his sweetheart, Susie Woodards, aged 2S, colored. Jealousy was the cause of the shooting. Ths.Woodavds woman is under arrest Karl Selling, a Fort Wayne youth, submitted to a surgical operation a few weeks ago In order that he might enlist in the navy, a slight deformity ot the toes bavring him from the service. When the wound had healed, he presented himself a second time for enlistment and was accepted. Sixty dollars a dozen is high for eggs, but that is the price J. C. Fischel, of Hope, obtained from Joseph Strasburger. He sold him fifteen eggs of the white Wyandotte variety for $75. The freight car on which he was setting brakes being struck and sideswiped by another freight car at Wabash, A. G. Doell, aged 30, switchman, was thrown and the car hurled over him. Loose oats Rowed about him, and only by a valiant struggle was he able to escape being smothered. He was taken to the hospital esriously wounded,