Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 29, Plymouth, Marshall County, 21 April 1910 — Page 3

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Itev. L.apl?y Suffereil Tvrelvr Year (rum If How Conquered It Yua Also Can, Free. Throtiph an announcement that he saw In his l.x al paper the HeT J. I. Laply, of Av rulale Station, llirmingham, Ala.., learned that he could obtain a tree trial bottle if a remedy for the cure of inJiKvstion. anil as he was interested, because he suffered that way. he wrote for it. The remedy wa Vr. CaldweU's Syrer IVrsin. MrLil.Uy. who is a. miniM.rc.f the Methcibt episcopal t'hun-h. und a member vi the Central Ala'.v.:r.a Conference, tock the free bottle with the result that he was very speedily 2fi cured. Mrs. Alice Northr up sufTtr-r from cons-tipation. indigestion ana dyl-eps-ia. sick headache and such tlve troubles can have a free trial bottle sent to vour hon:e prepaid by forwarding your narne and address. It is the gentlest. miUest. best tasting, most effective laxative tonic Sou ever tried. Druggists will sell vou the resrular bottles at 50 cents or and results are guaranteed. A picture vt i!ri. Northrup. of Quincy. lilA a cured patient. 1 presented herewith. If there Is anvthlng about your case that you don't understand write the doctor and h will advise you. The address Is Dr. V. B. Caldwell. 202 Caldwell Bldg.. Montieello. 111. . The Limit ut Lnxlnrm. Two darkles lay sprawled on tb Zevee on a Lot Tay. George Washington drew a long sigh and said. "Ah wish Ah had a hundred watermillons." Dixie's eye lighted. "Iluni; dat would suttcnly be line! An ef yo had a Ltun'ed watermlllons, would yo pib me fifty V "No. Ah wouldn't." "Wouldn't yo gib me twenty-five?" "No. Ah wouldn't gib yo no twentyfire." Dixie grazed with reproachful eyes at his close-fisted friend.' eeuis to ine you's powahful stlnsy. George Washin'ton," he said; and then continued In a heart-broken voice, -wouldn't yo' gib me one?" "No, Ah wouldn't gib yo one. Lookaheah. niggab! Are you so good-fer-jailfin' lazy dat yo can't wish fo yo' own waternilllons?" If Pettit' Eye Salve, that gives InsUnt relief to eyes, irritated from dust. heat, sun or wind. All cruggists or Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y. It Mlsht Work. Reformer I wish I could do something to make people take my advice. Friend Try engraving It on the handle of your umbrella. Bcston Transcript. Compound Sulphur Tablets For the Blood. Skin Eruptions, Boils, etc An old and tried Spring Remedy. By mall 25c. Wlller imru Co., Dk(J raff. Ohio. STUDENTS CHEAP LIVING. Ten 31 em her of tae "Epicurean Fared Well at 1.20 a Week. The "Epicurean," a "self-boarding" club of university students, closed, with the Christmas vacation, the tenth week of its existence. The experiment proved a success beyond all anticipation. Ten boys are In this club, says the K. U. Graduate Magazine. For doing the werk cooking, dishwashing, etc. the members are divided into five pairs. Each pair prepares four meals a week, not more than two in succession. The amount of time required for the preparation of each meal, taking out twenty minutes for eating, averages from one to one and a half '.ours. In addition to this, Wednesdays and Saturdays are "special cleanup" days. All the members serve in succession as stewards, each member holding the office for two weeks. Club rates are secured by them on all purchases. The rotaticn of the office of cook ghes special variety to the fare. The expense of furnishing the com bined kitchen and dining room amounted" to $30. Bulk groceries for ' beginning cost $20. Work done in fur nishing the rcom amounted to $14 The rent was $S.30. This made the starting expense about $75. The money for the starting and running expenses was raised by ten weekly assessments; two of $4, one of $2 and seven $1. This amounts to $170. The fixtures now on hand dishes, tables, chairs, cupboard, gas range and cooking utensile are worth more than $40. Groceries on hand at Christmas would net over $10. This leaves $120 a3 the cost of boarding ten young men for ten weeks, or $1.20 a week for each man. The many fears of starvation and ill health which women, especially, are likely to associate with bachelor life, certainly do not apply here, for all the members have enjoyed excellent health and have added weight. One man has gained -eight pounds, another six and a half, and others almost as much. MISCHIEF MAKES. A Surprise la Brooklya. An adult'3 food that can save a baby proves itself to be nourishing and easily digested and good for big and little folks. A Brooklyn man says: "When baby was about eleven .months old he began to grow thin and pale. Thts waa, at first, attributed to the heat and the fact that his teeth were coming, but, In reality, the poor little thing was starving, his mother's milk not being sufficient nourishment. "One day after he had cried bitterly for an hour, I suggested that my wife try him on Grape-Nuts. She soaked two teaspoonfuls in a saucer with a little sugar and warm milk. This baby ate so ravenously that she fixed a second which he likewise finished. "It was not many days before he forgot all about being nursed, and has since lived almost exclusively on Grape-Nuts. To-day the boy is strong and robust, and as cute a mischfefmaker as a thirteen months old baby is expected to be. "We have put before him other foodJ. but he will have none of them, evidently preferring to stick to that whih did him so much good his old friend, Grape-Nuts. "Use this letter any way you wish, for my wife and I can never praise Grape-Nuts enough after the brightness It has brought to our household." Grape-Nuts is not made for a baby food, but experience with thousands o! babies shows it to be anion? the best, if not entirely the best In use. Being . a scientific preparation of Nature'3 grains, it i3 equally effective as a body, and brain builder tor grown-ups. Read the little bock, "Tho Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the abovs letter? A new one appears from tirn to time. They are genuine, true, aud full of uman interest.

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CHAPTER XIV. (Continued.) There Johnny had chills and fever, nd Harry fell into the dumps, while Benoni tended Johnny like a woman, with such skill and technique that Larry was moved to ask If the black had ever studied medicine. "Yes, I took my degree at Heidelberg." Benoni replied. somewhl gruffly. "They don't balk at an African prince in Germany." "Why do you hate America, for you Jo, you know?" said Harry. "Because it was an American, the father of the woman vou know as Cerlsse Wayne, who brought unwui misery' upon my father and his ancient African house" blurted Benoni. forcing Johnny to drink a tea he had steeped for him. The cave was coarsely furI nlshed with skins, some crude pottery and cooklnr utensils. To Larry It ooked like a secluded hunting lodge or the some-time retreat of a spasmodic hermit " 'Then you know about this mystery, Just as I've thought." said Larry- "And Into what mess you're taking Johnnv and me. I'd like to know!" Tm trying to take you to Miss Lancey," responded Benoni. "I don't know,

of course, but I'm pretty certain she's J Johnny Johnson grabbed her hands alalive. That pigeon confirmed my be- I ternately and danced around so reck-

lef of that But as to telling you Morris, the tale will unfold itself and if it doesn't ' he chrugged his shoulders and put down the cup. After that, even in the long watches of the night, when Johnny lay still and quiet, fighting a long, slow battle with his malady, Benoni forbore to discuss

any aspect of the Wayne murder my- "City Editor Burton," mumbled Rettery. This tantalized Larry all the ty, extricating herself from Larry's more. Benoni would speak, though, of arms, and both the men roared, his travels, and Larry listened to the 'Wouldn't I like to see old Burt's

narrations as spellbound as If to the master of all story-tellers. For tha black had a marvelous power of language. One morning the rain ceased to fall.

Johnny was up now and walking I Betty's locket, lowered the little revolaround the cave, trying to laugh at the Ver, which till this moment Betty had

Ulness'that had laid him so low. Larry

had lost his watch when the punt over- turned to go Into the house Betty caliturned, also his notes of his African ed her back, and putting her arm

travels that' he had conscientiously been making. Whether It was noon. night or dinner time, Larry n,ever knew any more, and it might have been Christmas or Decoration Day for aught he might tell to the contrary. He tried Robinson 'Crusoe's notch-on-a-cross I experiment in time keeping on a rock by the cave door, but had given up this calendar attempt as altogether too crude and too much of a near-Water-bury. "We're going to move on to-day. boys," said Benoni, "as soon as break fast's over." "Now see here," objected Larry. "If I I'm going to die I'd Just as soon die right here as die of curiosity on the road, and that's what I'm going to do if you don't drop this swathing of mystery. Benoni. and tell us where we are going, and all about it. What's the matter with you, anyway? Why don't you take us into your confidence ft. bit? Supposing you'd die? Wrhere would be be then?" "Better oS If you knew nothing of what I know," Benoni responded. "Besides. I'm not going to die. Then,

too, lack of knowledge means want of that up against hr all her life, I supworry. You will need all your strength, pose." I don't want it depleted by anxiety. "Well. I don't care." said Betty.

Better trust In me quietly. I've not failed you yet And I'm trying to pay you a debt of gratitude. In taking you where we are Journeying I'm risking the lives of others I hold dear. Remem ber that!" "Well, where are we going?" In slated Johnny. "I don't want to take any more of your launch rides if you're going to serve them up with jungle sauce, aa you did before. I don't like the taste of the drinks!" -We won't have any more of that ready?" Rebelliously, mutinously, Johnny and Larry followed the giant African. The eniititrv an arouna was a waste or . 1 . a a orater. where the prodigal river had burst her bands. Afar to the south rose a dull granite mountain. Toward this Benoni bent nis steps. Thev the toD of the hillock above MV and bv dextrous 1umos and Bhrewd calculation reached an elevated plateau with but a nominal wetting. iu erass carpeted this plateau, be.t j t the earth, and interwoven .v UUn 1 fcv - - ' - j the pounding of the rains It made a slippery matting for them to walk upon. Far to the north rose the moun tain, and to the west lumbered the nauseous river that skirted the cave. For hours they walked until they en tered a thicket through whose mazes Benoni found a labyrinthine path. which they threaded in silence. "Won der what the time is?" volunteered Johnny. "About noon, I think," answered Be i "We'd ston to eat but I want tn reach the castle before the rain begin . again. The castle?" queried Johnny. -Whose? Whew-ee!" They had .Uopped abruptly. The path had come out upon a wonderful gar den. exquisitely la'd out. though bat tered from the onslaughts of the rain Ahead of them was a granite-castle, und close to its uncouth entrance a girl was dancing. As they looked they sa .v that she was tall and fair, and that though there was a huge lion besida her though her hair fell In braldj down her back, and though her garb a that of a woman of ancient Greec Ihat she was unmistakably the Ion; ought Betty! CHAPTER XV. f!itv Fdltor Burton and Betty were rftikin in the earden. The earden was wet as a sponge, and Betty, shoes and stockinzs off. was joying in the rush of the water and the feel of the tepid ooze beneath her feet. It was the first time in days that the rain had not been falling. A haze still overipread the desert and the air seemed full enough of rain to have dripped If you had squeezed It. But Betty didn't tare. Her long brown Vair, still dull tnd satiny as a pecan-shell, despite the havoc of fever, sea wind and southern sun, dangled below her waist In two thick braids, and was parted with never a sign of a ripple over her broa l white forehead. Betty's hair under nprovocation had ever been known to eurl. It was nice, straightforward hair. Her gown was a prolongation of Meta's tunic, and skirt of fine white linen, low of neck, devoid of sleeve and clasped at the shoulder with two flashing diamond buckles that Meta picked np somewhere around the castle. It was fastened at the belt by a wide girlie of cut and uncut diamonds curlausly and Indiscriminately mixed. Betty had long since ceased to take any Interest in diamonds, for she had had more of flashing pins an 1 gee-gaws thrust on her by the admiring Meta luring her stop In the castle than sho

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Lancey F. WEST had ever dreamed of owning. Betty's skirt, though much longer than Mcta's. was very well above her ankles and with City Editor Burton as an appreciative audience Betty was practicing a barefoot dance a3 she had seen an ultra-fashionable exponent of barefoot dancing prance upon a very esthetic stage. "Just watch. City Editor Burton." she laughed. "Just watch! Here is where I am expressing joy! Note the glow of the drapery, Bui ton. my boy, and the marvelous way in which the dancer sticks her toes into the ooze un, mere s a thorn, .now, city suitor Burton, I'm about to be captured and cast away on a desert isle watcn me see this gesture in grief City Editor mine I send a message see I welcome a pigeon see, there. City Editor Burton. It brings me a message from from oh. Meta, Meta Meta Larry Johnny " Burton bayed a prodigious roar, Meta tumbled from the house with a small rifle In her hand as Betty, barefooted. dishevelled, sprang Into the arms of Larry Morris, and let him hold her very tightly and kiss her forehead again and again, while red-headed lessly that City Editor Burton howled louder than a simoon. Betty and Larry were too rapt for words. Not so the mcorngiDie jonnny. Uet on to the Isadora Duncan rig." he chortled, "and this animal here your lap-dog. Betty? What do you call him?" t face if we could only ship him th-3 brute," said Johnny. "It would be worth getting hung for!" Meta, when she had recognized Larry as the original of the portrait In not known she possessed. As Meta around the black girl's waist, she said: "Larry, dear, she has been good to me; this is Meta." Larry put out his hand and the black girl, half abashed, took it silently. "Meta," echoed Johnny. "Where's Benoni? Is she his?" Johnny whistled, and a man came through the brake he came like a whirl wind, and when he saw the black girl by Betty's side a savage yell of triumph, mingled with the grief that is born of joy, rang out from both their throats. -His wife," said Larry, quietly. "He brought us here. He and the plgeon3. Betty, dear, it was so like you to think of the pigeons!" "Oh, then my messages did some good; those blessed birds, those blcssed birds!" exclaimed Betty. "I never knew what became of them. How did you find the way?" "We followed Benoni; he knew the way best," answered Larry. "His wife," said Betty, aghast. "And she never told!" jonnson ana iarry pom iaugncci. "ir that Isn't the woman of it You'll hold Any way. 1 11 bet I know one thing yoii boys don t. I know who killed Cerlsse Wayne." "Who?" asked both boys, in a breath. "Well. then. It was the man who loved her best." replied Betty. "Oh. what's his name?" asked John ny. "I don't know,' said Betty, "but It her husband, f must have been course. "Fell down on your assignment," sneered Larry. "No story's any trood without names!" The Hon stretched his shrunken gums over his rickety teeth and yawn1 It A 1 tu .... k1 C I 1 17 T 1 I I ' - Jiaaemoiseue. saiu .ieta. approaching. "you had better come in out or ine wei u is going to rain ajaln! I 1-uulk ttL W1C "Meta- do 'ou EPeak English?" re proached Betty, with a mental, resume of lhe weary daya tnat she nad gPent wIthout intercourse of coherent speech sInce Tyoga'a absence. "Oh. forgive rne." cried Meta, falling at her feet. "Yes, I went to a convent In London, Mlladl, but they made me promise I would not let you know I knew your tongue. They were afraid I would tell too much. But it has hurt me so much. Miladi; I felt at times that I would choke if I did not speak with you." "Now I know why you couldn't Jearn English." laughed Betty. "But I know these boys are hungry. Let's get them some dinner and then we can talk." "We must depart In all haste from nere" arned benoni. "To stop long I is very dangerous." "Benoni speaks truly," adJed his wife. "But In all this rain that's to come?" expostulated Betty, "and we can't leav City Editor Burton." "We're not going to," said Johnny. "That's too good a Joke." CHAPTER XVI In vain did the police and the reporters dig and pry Into the house at 9 Brlarsweet place In hope of finding some trace oi namiey nacKieye. r Hackieye was not about. His London bankers could give no definite information about him. For thirty years he had been accustomed to go and come when he pleased. He had for a long while maintained a comfortable home at Khartoum and another at Calr. but he visited these only at bl tervais. ana sometimes was not seen in tnem for a year at a tlme- He wa3 known to possess great estates located in Antral Africa, but none knew posi tivt-ly where. He kept a retinue of servants at each establishment and a suave major-domo In each was accus tomed to being the nominal head of the household. Neither of these men, however, could give any of the wished for explicit Information about their master. Each home contained the usual accumulation of furniture, brlc-a-brac, and the olla podrlda of civilization that nijreKates in every wealthy home, but nothing at all mysterious or in any way smacking of the criminal. They were the homes of a gentleman of wealth and culture. Any connection between the African laws and penalties of Mr. Hackieye and tho Indian home of the Harcourts. It was impossible to discover. The Harcourt menage was located in th hill country, in a most beautiful spot. Harcourt had come there about seven years previously, at the time of his marriage to Narcisse De L'Encio, the widow, i Madame Marie De L'Enclos, whoso husband. Captain Raoul De L'EncloM, an "honorably discharged officer In the

Trench army, had brought his brid

there Immediately after his marriage. The captain had died a year after th birth of his daughter, and Madame De L'Enclos and the little girl Narcisse had lived In secluded magnificence, till ono season on a trip to Calcutta, they had met Harold Harcourt, the younger son of an English nobleman, who was then visiting a cousin in the Indian city. After a brief acquaintance the young girl, then only IS, and liarcourt were married. The young pair went back to the hill country palace and the mother left for a continental voyage from which she never returned, though It was given out that she had died while abroad. Then the Harcourt baby came a boy and when he was two years old he met a tragic death. There had never been anything to give rise to suspicion about the Harcourt home, any more than at the Hackleye estates, nor was any seeming connection between the two families Instituted except that both were accredited with possessing large diamond interests In Africa, and the peculiar likeness between the two women, and the similarity in handwriting and in the euphony of the names of the two men. Portraits of Harcourt on the walls of his Indian home were photographed and sent to America and were an tract tally for the man held in jail In Chicago. (To be continued.) TOBACCO LORE. MolasKen Used to Keep the Stock Moiftt. "Plug tobacco," said the tobacconist, "Is simply leaf glued together with molasses and then pressed Into a block. If you'll take a plug of smoking and put it in a damp place outside somewhere and then come back after a week or two to look at it you'll see a pile of square cut leaves, perhaps five or six inches high. This Is because the tobacco will have lost its molasses glue, not from the molasses having been washed off the leaf, but from Its having fermented Into vinegar. "The film of molasses keeps the leaf moist and pliable. This is because of the sugar crystals in it. If you've ever, noticed salt in wet weather you often have seen how it gathered the wet. The sugar crystals act exactly like the crystals of salt, but to a less degree. "When you fellows that smoke pipes say that tobacco burns your tongue you're away off. The tobacco hasn't a thing to do with it, and your tongue isn't being burnt, it's being scalded." "From the moisture in the tobacco?" asked the customer. "Partly," said the tobacconist, "but mostly from the moisture you'd not think was in the tobacco. There's a sreat deal of water in the little sugar crystals over and above what you'd expect they might collect from the air. "When you melt this sugar in your pipe each crystal dissolves first in a little pool of water, and makes ma terial for steam, in addition to the free water in the tobacco that you can feel with your fingers. "Thl3 hot steam makes a regular steam-heating system between the bowl of your pipe and your tongue, and while you think your tongue is being 'burnt' you're actually getting it par boiled." "Has all tobacco molasses in it?" the customer asked. "No," said the tobacconist. "The very cheap tobacco smoked by the natives of Cuba, Porto Rico, Mexico, and those countries, in the form of cigarettes, hasn't any molasses in it. Molasses Isn't needed once the manufacturers have their leaf made up In the form of cigarettes, because they use a very heavy paper cylinder, with the ends tucked in. This keeps the leaf from falling out, even if it's crushed a little through the thick pa per. "You'll get 23 of those cigarettes for" about 2 cents. The worklngmen smoke them all the time because they're too lazy even to roll their own cigarettes. The coolest pipe smoke you ever had will be yours if you'll only go to the bother of buying a few bunches of those cigarettes and emp tying the tobacco into a Jar." She Was Welcome. "Can you give me any references from your last place?" , "No, ma'am. The last woman I worked for was Mrs. Llppy, that used to live next door to you. She an' I couldn't get along at all. You don't know how mean she is. 1 could tell you. ever so many " "You may come." Hard Lack. Ames Did you hear that Jones died last night? Blames You don't say! That's what I call rough luck. Ames How's that? Blames 1 paid him the 5 I owed him the day before yesterday. Ally Sloper's. The Sun. Sir Robert Ball asserted that every 100 years the sun loses five miles of its diameter. To ally anxiety, however, he mentioned that the diameter of the sun Is 860,000 miles and that 40,000 years hence the diameter would still be 850.000 miles. A Bod Actor. "I see that a scientist has proved that many horses have unsound minds." "The one I bet on yesterday ought to have had a commission in lunacy appointed forty years ago, when he was a yearling." Cleveland Leader. Strong Habit. "That fellow made money, but ht certainly is a faker." "Indeed he is. Why, the habit was so strong, that's why he built his new house on a bluff." Baltimore American. A Rural Critic. Artist (sketching) Art fci long and time is fleeting, my friend. Farmer Waal, I ain't much uv Jedge of picters, but it strikes me your quotation orter be t'other way round. Boston Herald. Veracity. "Figures can't He," said the mathematician. "Did you ever try to zollow the argument put up by the figureea an a taxcab register?" Wa3thington Star. Sure They All Do. "Heard the latest?" "No. What?" "Bank's gone into liquidation." "That so? What bank?" "Snowbank." Judge. Awful ThouKht. "When I leave here I shall have t depend on my brains for a living." m "Don't take such a pessimistic vier o'f things." Cornell Widow. MUflts. "I hope those old boots of mine fit yw!" "Thank you, miss my solger brother finds, 'em very comfortable." M. A. f.

m Donxlu Spoke in the Dnrk. "The boys of 1S61 are going fast," said the uajor. "Nearly every morning there are names in the obituary columns of the newspapers whose owners were associated with events or incidents to which I held a personal, even if humble, relationship. And each name rtvninds me of how close we fellows were to each other in the first months of the Civil War, and how much we have forgotten. There died recently a man who was, like myseif, only one of a million soldiers, but I had reason to remember him, because in the first week of war he stood beside me in front of the old Neil House, in Columbus, Ohio, and heard that wonderful speech of Stephen A. Douglas, which was never reported, and yet gave courage to thousands of broken-hearted and despairing men. "It was about a week after Fort Sumter had been fired on, and Douglas was on his way to Chicago and Springfield to confer with his friends and supporters in Illinois. He had been delayed by accidents on the railways, and went quietly to the Neil House for rest. The Governor and members of the Legislature heard of his presence in the city, and organized a demonstration in his favor. He had been very popular with his party in Ohio, and since the inauguration of Lincoln had been Almost as popular with the Republicans. He was regarded as the leader of the Union Democrats, and there was already gossip as to the important position he was o hold in the struggle against secession. "All men in political life had been stunned and enraged by the events of the last week, and they as well as the people who looked up to them as loaders turned hungrily to Douglas, hoping that he might say the right word, and yet fearing he might say the wrong one. When the crowd gathered in the street in front of the Neil House, myself and severcl other young men, leaning on the fence of the capltol grounds, strained our eyes to see the great Democratic leader, who had held Lincolns hat on inauguration day. But we did not see him. He came, half dressed, to the window of his unlighted bedroom, and, standing in the darkness, spoke to the crowd below. "Hi3 deep voice rolled out from the darkness and fell like a benediction on the crowd standing with upturned faces In the street. Never had voice so thrilled me; never had mere words seemed so solemn and Impressive -is those spoken by Douglas that night. My boy friend standing at my side caught my arm at the first word, and held me in his clutch until the last word had been spoken, and the crowd of legislators politicians and business men seemed as much impressed by the mystery and the words as we younger men were. "Douglas said at once that a great crisis had come upon the country, and that all party and other questions must be pushed aside. He said slowly, as if weighing every word, 'The Union must be preserved, and the insurrection against the government must bo crushed. After the word crushed came a pause that gave emphasis to the phrase, and then, speaking as slowly as before, he pledged his hearty support to the Lincoln administration, and declared there was no other course open to the loyal citizen, who must stand by the government until national authority was everywhere recognized. Then, declining a reception, he closed his window, and the crowd dispersed. "Members of the Senate and members of the House walked away arm in arm, like boys. There was no cheering, but all had been comforted, and a good many Democrats who had ben on the fence that night jumped off i the other side. There were in that trowd, standing within ten feet of my perch on the fence, one man who was to become President, four men who were to bi-come major generals in the Union Army, a score of men who were, as brigadiers, to hold important commands, four men who were to become Governors, three cabinet officers, aud several hundred who were within three months to be carrying muskets in defense of the flag. "Of all the more prominent men present on that evening not one is Mving now. Douglas, then spoken of as a possible lieutenant general, died within six weeks. Dennison, Garfield, Cox, Tod and others who lived to do great work, ail are dead. Some of the young men who were with me that night at the fence became distinguished soldiers. Not a few of them fell on the field, but the most of the:n lived on for thirty or fourty years. I can place only one of the hundreds who heard Douglas speak in the dark in April, 1SC1. In the last year they have gone fast, but if any are lef : they should put on record their recollection of the incidents of that night." Chicago Inter Ocean. Sixteen Stmt In Civil War. It was Cornelia the Roman matron and mother of Grachi, who on being ! asked to exhibit her jewels tailed her children into the apartment where she was entertaining visitors and presenting them said: "These are my jewels." With fully as murh pride might Mrs. Sarah Brandon, of Pipe Creek. Belmont County, Ohio, exhibit her children as her jewels, for sixteen of her tons fought in the civil war, fourteen on the side of the North and two on tho side of the Confederacy. Few cases parallel to this can be found in all history. Mrs. Brandon recently celebrated her lOPth birthday anniversary and thus from the standpoint of longevity, as well as of motherhood, is a remarkable woman. Her maiden name was Sarah Barker and .she was born in ISO! near Pipe Creek, Ohio, where she has resided all her life. At the age of 15 she was married to Charles Brandon, who took part in the Mexican war. In 1S56 Brandon died, leaving his widow with twenty-three children, sixteen of whom were boys. When the civil war broke out all of the sons enlisted, fourteen of the brothers going into the Union army and two with the Confederates. In one battle, that of Bull Run, the two brothers on the Confederate side were pitted against five of tluir Union brothers. , Hiram Brandon, the oldest son, is now past S9 years of age and is a resident of Bellaire, Ohio. The youngest is a resident of Belmont county and exhibits seventeen bullet wounds, having 'taken part in seventy-two battles, skirmishes of scouting expeditions undor General Sherman.

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Those who find in the use of tobacco an argument against longevity will meet with no support for tflir view in the case of Mrs. Brandon. Early in life she formed the tobacco habit and uses a large quantity daily, both for chewing and smoking. Never during her life has she worn a hat, her only head covering being a sunbonnet. Notwithstanding her great age she is still able to get around and drives to town several times a week to purchase household supplies. Last fall she was thrown from a buggy in a runaway accident, but picked herself up and walked to her home, a mile distant. Every three months she travels to the county seat for the purpose of drawing the pension of $12 allowed her by the government. The photograph of Mrs. Brandon is in the natural history gallery at Columbus and also in the Hall of Honor at Washington, D. C, as a mark of respect for her having furnished the largest number of sons for the civil war. Each of the sixteen sons mar

ried when young and was blessed with a large family. It is intended to hold a big reunion at her home the coming summer, when several hundred relatives and friends will assemble to pay honor to this remarkable woman. Could Do Everything Bat FlRht. We had in the Twenty-third Ohio (Hayes' regiment) a quaint old character an enlisted musician whose name I would not mention for anything. Just before the battle of South Mountain he came to me and asked me to step aside with him a moment. I did so, and he said: "My God, Major, I am a coward! I did not know it. I thought I could help -the country, and, though I was past 43, and needn't to, I enlisted. Now I have found that I can't go into a fight! I can't, Major, if you should kill me! I shall be disgraced, and all the folks at home will know it. I can never hold my head up again if I try to go into this fight. Can't you do something for me? Give me something to do that ain't fighting and I'll do anything. Oh, for God's sake, Major, think of something and save me from disgrace!" The poor fellow was half frantic In Lbls earnestness. I thought a moment and said: A , do you inmK you could carry water for the men while they are fighting? It is going to be an awful hot day, and a canteen of fresh water will be about the greatest luxury the men could have under-fire. Can you carry water for them?" "Oh, yes! Thank you. Major." Well, now, in the thickest of that fight, where the regiment lost within eight men of half that went into action, old A would come to the front loaded down with canteens, delivering them, and taking up the empty ones along the line. Between bayonet charges, the men were hugging the ground like a long-lost brother, under such a storm of minie balls as did not seem to leave any unoccupied space in the air. Old A would prance down the line delivering canteens to the panting men without any more sense of fear than th bravest man in the army, until hi3 lat canteen of water was gone, then he would give a wild yel! and bolt for the rear as if the devil was after him -Brig. Gen. Comly, in National Tribune. Power of Music. In the early spring of 1S63. when the Confederate and Federal armies were confronting each other on the opposite hills of Stafford and Spottsylvania, two bands chanced one evening, at the same hour, to begin to discourse sweet music on either bank of the river. A large crowd of soldiers of both armies gathered to listen to the music, the friendly pickets not interfering, and soon the band3 began to answer each other. First the band on the northern bank would play "Star-Span-gled Banner," "Hail Columbia," or some other national air, and at its conclusion the "boys in blue" would cheer most lustily. And then the band cn the southern bank would respond Ith "Dixie." or "Bonnie Blue Flag,' .- some other Southern melody, and the "boys in gray" would attest appro batlon with the old Confederate yell But presently one of the bands struck up, in sweet and plaintive notes, which were wafted across the beautiful Rap pahannock, and were caught up at once by the other band and swelled into a grand anthem which touched every heart, "Home Sweet Home!" At the conclusion of this piece there went up a simtlltaneou3 shout from both sides of the river, cheer followed cheer and those hills, which had so recently resounded with hostile guns, echoed and re-echoed the glad acclaim. A chord had been struck, responsive to which the hearts of enemies enemies then culd beat in unison and on both sides of the river. Something down the soldier's cheek Washed off the stains of ponder. First Mght on Picket. I shall never forget my first night on picket. It was in Virginia while I was a raw recruit. My post happened to be situated in an old graveyard inclosed with a worm fence. The soldier I relieved advised me to keep a sharp lookout,' as ' it was not an unusual thing for a guard on that post to be n urdered during the night. The relief squad passed on and I was left to solitude and my own reflections After a time I found myself gazing at frequent intervals with something like fascination toward the tallest head stone within the inclosure. I felt sure that danger was to be expected from that directloa. After awhile something did move from behind that head3tone and I fek the blood turning to Ice In my bones, but I didn't lose my presence of mind not a bit of it. I even replaced the old cap on my gun with a new one, selected a large oak tree as a barrier, and with finger on trigger. I waited for the enemy. On it came, and when within pistol range I challenged it. There was no response and the slow and apparently stealthy advance continued. "Halt, or I fire!" There was some thing like a groan, and a more rapid advance. I pulled the trigger. A gasp a groan, a quiver, a lurching fall, and then all was still. The relief came hurrying up, a light was obtained, the object was pointed out, and the officer of the guard, bending over the now pulseless body, flashed his lantern up on the ghastly remains of an old bill goat. The megaphone has been used at some western army posts for the pur pose of amplifying the volume of the bugle, where it is desired that the calls shall be heard at a distance greater than the sound will carry un der ordinary circumstances. The notes of the horn may be distinguished easily at almost incredible reaches in this manner. As a means to reduce the smoke evl the municipal authorities of Glasgow will hold an exhibition of gas heatin lighting, and cooking appliances an appliances for the use of various sort cf smokeless fuel.

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U . . f WfV Everett George, aged 19, of Hortcnllle, was seriously hurt when hö was hrown from a spirited horse he was riding. William Murphy, aged 8, who lives south of Delphi, had his left hand so adly mangled by an explosion of a dynamite cap that amputation was necessary. The lad found the ca in the barn, where it had been left for Btump blowers. Elmore Holycross, of Greenfield, an employe of the Terre Haute, Indiana polis & Eastern Traction Company, is In a serious condition as the result of coming in contact with a live electric wire while at work as lineman on the road near Dunreith. The Pure Oil Company, buyers of the independent production of the oil field at Oakland City, Is building a ten-car loading station on the Southern railway, east of the city,' and the first important movement of oil will begin soon. The Company has nearly 50,000 barrels of oil in storage. Fire of incendiary origin destroyed the stable of the Rainbow mine, at Caledonia, last week, entailing a loss of $2,500. Six mules and two horses were consumed. Five hundred bushels of corn and fifty tons of hay were also destroyed. The stable belonged to the Alliance Coal Company and was insured for $1,500. When Pleasant N. Koons, a justice of the peace of Newcastle, accepted a cash fine from a prisoner before him who was charged with intoxication he did not notice that one of the dollars was counterfeit. He is now wondering who paid it to him. The dollar is a rough imitation of a silver dollar of the 18S9 coinage of the New Orleans mint. White river mussel shells are being sought by buyers from Iowa at prices ranging from $19 to$36 a ton. They are the best shells found in tue United States and are becoming scarce. our years ago, like other shells, they were a drag on the market at $4. Now the "river run" is worth about $27 a ton. Slugs, "river run," are priced at $3.75 aa ounce. J. F. Van Zandt, who for twentyeight years was connected with the railway mail service on the Southern railroad, has resigned his position and will engage in business at New Albany. Duriyg the time he served the govern ment he traveled over one million five hundred thousand miles and In all the time he served he never lost a registered mail package. A public meeting has been held at Utica, eight miles above Jeffersonville on the river, in support of an interurban road and many promises of right-of-way and purchase of stock were nade. The town has no means of communication, except the river. A meeting 13 also to be held at Hibernia, twenty miles east of Jeffersonville, al so In the section of country between the B. & O. and the river, with a sim II ar purpose In view. The population of the Indiana Refor matory at Jeffersonville has shown a remarkable falling off in the last six months, since the present management took charge. In a little over six months the population has fallen 205 from a maximum of 1,293, soon after Major David C. Peyton became gen eral superintendent, to 1,093 at the present time. The present number is even now more than the institution can accommodate with comfort. Pensions have been granted to the following Indianians: John Resinger, $12; Thomas Dennington, $15; Caroline Carter, $12; Robert H. Chance. Charles T. Clark, $12; John Con- . $12; George Keidel, $36; by spe.il act, John Leimbach, $15; John B. Lewis, $30; Hiram McHobson, $24; Ceream M. Meeker, $20; Samuel A. Moore, $12; Joseph O'Haver, $17; Lemuel O. Powell, $12; Stephen Preble, $12; L. J. Shook, $22; John Spahr, $12; Walker II. Turner, $30; John H. Waiden, $12; by special act, Bartlett Whitehouse, $24; Martha J. Wilson, $S; Daniel Young, $30. Attorney Charles E. Averill acted as Judge in the Indianapolis Police Court when a controversy arose as to wheth er or not a rooster was an animal. He was "from Missouri," to use. a slang expression, and he insisted on looking at the section of the law that put the rooster in the class with animals. The prosecutor said he did not think a roos ter was an animal until he had seen it in the law books, and he got out a book and marked a section for the court's edification. There it was in print that domestic fowls, doves and birds shall be considered as animals in cases of cruelty to animals. The court then proceeded to hear evidence against George Taylor, 217 South Oakland avenue, who was charged with cruelty to animals by beating a rooster ith a spade. He killed the rooster be.use it persisted in coming into his ard. Thomas Williams, aged 14 years, died from blood poisoning in Evansvllle. He had a mall pimple on his finger, which he picked with a pin and tetanus developed. i Nellie Bradley, operator in a telephone exchange at Terre Haute, heard a hurry call for a surgeon and learned that her father, Thomas .Bradley, had been run over by a Vandalia train at a crossing. He died twenty minutes later. He was a Vandalia employe for rty years. Ah He blowing stumps on the farm oi Dr. Horace Martindale, near Wilkinson, Jesse E. Slaughter was instantly killed, when fifteen pounds of dynamite exploded prematurely. Slaughter who was 23 years old, was a member of the Knights of Pythias order, John B. Ryan, a detective well known In Northern Indiana, has opened an agency and Information bureau In the People's Trust building In Fort Wayne. Mr. Ryan is a Spanish-American war veteran and was a deputy sheriff of Allen County under several '.nlnistratlons. Mrs. Ott Crownover, living near Milton, marketed C5 dozen eggs at Cambridge City. A merchant said this is the largest number of eggs of one week's gathering ever marketed In the city. The Board of Trustees of tho Indiana Village for Epileptics, in session at the Tillage north of Newcastle, reorganized for the Coming year with the following officers: President, Enoch G. Holgate, of Bioomington; secretary, Dr. Wilmer Christian, of Indianapolis, j"--! treasurer, George Nichol, of An - jo.

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.-. ---A... .f. .t. J. J m ,W ! ill - TVTTTTTTVTV ' T Tf VT f W T V T VTT John Marshall, .a young miner of Princeton, died of, turns, sustained in St. Louis when" he fell Intd-a vat öl boiling tar. George Jackson, Elmer Dilman, Harley Sims and J. O. Ireland, of Bloomington, were injured while working on the nev science hall at Indiana University. The false work for the concrete gave way and the men fell from the third story to the basement. The injured workmen probably will recover. Planting and husking corn at the same time i3 something unusual for this part of Indiana. A farmer living northeast of Goodland has about fifty acres of corn to husk yet. Some of the farmers .of that vicinity are experimenting with a little early corn. At least one has corn up so that the rows ran be seen across the field. Only small fields have been planted. Sick and destitute and too proud to appeal to charity, George Wolfe, aged 30, of Evansvllle, died suddenly as he was seated at the dinner table. He had been ill for several weeks, suffering from lung and throat trouble, but refused to the last to ask for aid. After remarking that he felt better than he had for some time his head fell over on his breast and he expired in a few seconds. Construction work on the new Grand Trunk railway bridge over the St. Joseph river at South Bend, which was held up last summer by litigation in the courts, has been started and a large force of men is engaged in doing preliminary work on the abutments and pillars. The bridge will be wide enough to accommodate two tracks and will be four spans long, each span 124 feet In length. Several cot lages occupied by negroes In a suburb of Evansvllle were destroyed by fire. Dozens of loaded army rifles were found under the cottages, and in the numerous explosions of firearms that followed firemen were in danger of their lives. The dwellings were veritable arsenals, and it is believed the negroes had the guns there since the race riot there several years ago. Tae police are making an investigation. An interurban car struck George Wemiller, a farmer, living near Crothersville, and he may die of his injuries. Wemiller had been marketirg at Crothersville, and on returnlr home tried to cross the track in flint of a limited car. His large two-horse farm wagon was torn to fragments, but the horses escaped uninjured. The wreck of the wagon and the man were thrown some distance from the crossing. Wemiller i3 believed to have suffered concussion of the brain. Several fields of corn are planted near Oakland City, the earliest for many years. The acreage rill be unusually large, owing to the excellent season for preparing the ground. Bottom land that usually is too wet to plow until during May is now in fine condition for planting. The oats crop, which was sown early, promises a good yield. The fruit crop wlu probably break all records. Peaches, pears, apples, plums and all small fr tilts are showing abundance of bloom. The drillers of the Lynch well on the Kightly farm, one and one-half miles southwest of Hazleton, have reached a depth of nearly two thousand feet. Between 1,823 and 1,900 feet an oil producing sand was struck, and if no better is found lower down this one will be shot in a few days. The well will be drilled to about 2,200 feet in order to see If there is an underlying strata of Trenton rock. This well is one of tho deepest In Gibson County, and is ae of the two deep test wells now being drilled. Mrs. Hartman Nolte, aged 40, died at her home In Clinton from the effects of a dose of morphine which a physician said was enough to kill a rhinoceros. It is thought the woman committed suicide, although the drug may have been taken through ignorance. The woman had been an Invalid many months and had been denied morphine by her husband. She obtained it by sending her son to a drug store and had swallowed over half the contents of a bottle before her husband found what she had done. She lived several hours. Miss Laura Smith, a young stenographer, saved Lewis Dawson, a' printer, from being run down by a cut of freight cars at the Fourth street crossing In Connersville. Dav. son, whose hearing Is defective, was about to go on the crossing, and did not see or hear the cut of cars approaching. Miss Smith was several yards behind Dawson, and she ran, seized him and jerked him back out of danger a moment before the cars went by. The girl collapsed and almost fainted afterward, but Dawson declared the pull she gave him, which was his first intimation cf danger, would have mov 4 a giant. Thomas Nye, of Greenfield, Douht and shipped to eastern markets during the last six weeks twelve carloads of eggs, a total of 864.000 eggs, or 72,000 dozen. He paid 19 cents for most of them. Joe Matthews, aged 10, of Coxville, is at St Anthony's Hospital, Terre Haute, with a fractured skull, caused when with other boys he was playing pranks while swimming. Somehow he was struck with a stone. He will recover. Mrs. Elizabeth Bannon Fitzpatrick, aged 94, who lives in Coal City with her daughter, Mrs. J. F. Brinley, remembers distinctly having seen Hal-' ley's comet in 1833. The aged woman has expressed a wish to view the comet again. The residence of James Gibson, of Evansvllle, wis badly damaged by fire at 1 o'clock in the morning. Mrs. Gibson and her five children were sleeping in the home and were rescued by neighbors rushing in and rolling them down a plank from the second story. All escaped alive. The baby camel born a few days ago to Advance, a big female camel with the Norris & Rowe circus at Evansvllle, is dead. The members of Had! Temple of the Mystic Shrine had Intended to christen the camel and buy It a silk blanket. Charles Dorem and Mint Shaw, of Coxville, were arrested on suspicion of dynamiting, then burning the Coxville 300-foot covered bridge over Big Raccoon, ten miles south of the city. Dvnamlte was placed on the middle pier, ' The bridge was built in 1SGG. Los3, odd.