Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 38, Plymouth, Marshall County, 23 June 1910 — Page 3

nnnHnnnnnnnnnnnnnxinnnnHnEHn

u H U n n n n n n

THE QUICKENING

:BY:

FRANCIS Ccpyrleht. 19C6. CHAPTER V. On rare occasions the Major, riding to or from the cross-roads post-office In Harris store, would rein in his hors at the Gordon gate and ask for a drink of water from the Gordon well. At such times Thomas Jefferson remarks! that his mother alnajs hastened to erve th Major with her own hand?; this notwithstanding her own and Unci Silas oft-repeated asseveration touching the Major's unenviable proeminence as a Man of Sin. Also, he remarked that the Major's manner at uch moments was a thing to dazzie the eye, like the reflection of the summer sun on the surface of burnished metal. But beneath the polished exterior, the groping perceptions of the tor would touch a thing repellant: a thing: to stir a slow current of resentment in his blood. It was Ttomas Jefferson'j first collision with the law of caste; a law Draconian in the Old South. Before the war, when Deer Trace Manor had be.en a seigniory with its six score black thralls, there had been-io visiting between the great hous on the Inner knoll and the overgrown 'og homestead at the Iron furnace. Quarrel there was none, nor any shadow of enmity: but the Dabneys wre lords of the soil, and the Gordons were craftsmen. Even In war the distinction was maintained. The Dabneys. father and ton, were officers, having their comjnlsslons at the enrollment: while Caleb Gordon, hose name headed the list f the Tarao-se volunteers, began and ended a private In the ranks. In the years of heart-hardenlngs which followed, a breach was opened, narrow at first, and never very deep, but wide enough to serve. Caleb Gordon had accepted defeat openly and honestly, and for this the unreconstructed Major had never fully forgiven him. It was an added proof that there was no redeeming drop In the Gordon veins and Major Caspar was as scrupulously polite to Caleb Gordon't wife ai he would have been, and was. to the helpmate of Tike Bryerson. mountaineer and distiller of illicit 'whisky. Thomas Jefferson was vaguely Indigent when Pettbjrass came to ask his father to go forthwith to the manorhouse. In the mouth of the foreman he invitation took on something of the flavor of a command. None the less, he was er.ger for news when his father came back, und though he got it only, from overhearing the answer to his Another's question, it was satisfyingly thrilling. "It's mighty near as we talked, Martha. The Major lumps the railroad In with all the other Improvements, calls em Yankees, and h'iats his battle -flag. The engineer, . that smart young fellow with the peaked whiskers and the eyeglasses, went to see him this evenin about the right of way down the valley, and got himself slung off the porch of the great house Into a posy bed." "There 13 going to be trouble, Caleb; now you mark my words. You mustn't mix up in it" T dm't allow to. if I can he'p It. The railroad's goln' to be a mighty good thing for us If I can get Mr. gowning to put In a side-track for the furnace. Following this there were other conferences, the Major unbending sufficiently to come and sit on the Gordon porch In the cool of the evening. The iron-master, as one still in touch with the moving world, gave good advice. Falling to buy, the railroad company might possibly seek to bully a right of way through the valley. But In that case, there would certainly be redress In the courts for the property owners. In the meantime, nothing would be gained by making "the contest a personal fight on individuals. So counseled Caleb Gordon, sure, always, of his own standing-ground In any conflict. But from the last of the conferences the Major had ridden home thrown the fields; and Thomas Jefferson, with an alert eye for windstraws of conduct, had seen him dismount now and then to pull un and fling away the locating stakes driven by the railroad engineers. Giving the Major a second and t a third chance to refuse to grant In easement, the railroad company pushed its grading and track-laying around the mountain and up to the stone wall ? larking the Dabney boundary, quietly ccumulated the necessary material, and on a summer Sunday morning Sunday by preference because no restraining writ could be served for at least twenty-four hours a construction train, black with laborers, whisked around the nose of the mountain and ilropped gently down the grade to tha temporary end of track. ' It was Thomas Jefferson who gave the alarm. Little Zoar, unable to support a settled paitor, was closed for Che summer, but Martha Gordon kept he fire spiritual alight by teaching her son at home. One of the boy's Sunday Privileges, earned by a faultless recitation of a prescribed number of Bible Verses, was forest freedom for the remainder of the forenoon. lie heard the low rumble of the coming train, and It was only by resolutely Ignoring the sense of hearing that he was enabled to get through, letter-perfect 'Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you and persecute you," he chanted monotonously, with roving eyes bent on finding hi3 cap with the loss of the fewest possible seconds - 'and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake' and that's all." And he was off like a shot. "Mind, now, Thomas Jefferson; you are not to go near that railroad!" his mother called to him as he raced don the path to the gate. Oh. no; he would not go near the railroad! He would only run up the pike and cut across through the Dabney pasture to see if the train were really there. . It was there, as he could tell by the noise of hissing steam when the crosscut was reached. But the parked wooding of the pasture still sere jned iL How near could he go without being "near" in the transgressing sense of the word? There was only one way of finding out to keep on going until his conscience pricked sharply enough to stop him. It was a great convenience, Thomas Jefferson's conscience. As long as it kept quiet he could bs reasonably sure there was no sin in sight. Tet he had to confess that it was not always above playing mean tricks; as that of sleeping like a lof till after the fact, and then rising up to stab him till the blood ran. He was half-way across the pasture when the crash of a falling tree stopped him In mid-rush. And in the vista opened by the felled tree he saw a sight to make him turn and race homeward faster than he had come. The Invaders, hundreds strong, had torn down the boundary wall and the earth for the advancing embankment was flying from uncounted shovels. Caleb Gordon was at work In the blacksmith shop, Sunday-repairing while the furnace was cool, when Thomas Jefferson came flying with his news. The iron-master dropped his hammer tad cast aside the leather press.

n n H H H H 1

LYNDS ty Francis Lynd "You hear that. Buck?" he paid, frowning across the anvil at his helper, a white man and the foreman of the pouring floor. The helder r.odded, being a mal of as few words es the master. "Well. I reckon we-all hain't got any call to stand by and see them highflyers ride it roughshod over Major Dabney thataway," aid Gordon, briefly. "Go down to the shanties and hustb. out the day shift. Get Turk and Ilardaway and every white man you can lay hands on, and all the puns you can find. And send one o' the black boys up the hill to tell the Major. Like as net. he ain't up yet." Ilelgerson hastened away to obey his orders, and Caleb Gordon went out to tho foundry scrap yard. In the heap of broken metal lay' an old castiron field-piece, a relic of the battle which had one day rased hotly on tho hillside across the crock. A hundred times the ironmaster had been dn tho point of breakhig it up for rcmelting, and as often the old artilleryman in him had stayed his hand. 'Now it was quickly hoisted In the crane shackle Thomas Jefferson sweating manfully at the crab crank clamped on the axle of a pair of wagOn wheels, cleaned, swabbed, loaded with quarry blasting powder and pieces of broken iron to serve for grape, and trundled out on the pike at the heels of the ore team. By this time Helgerson had come up with the furnace men, a motley crew In all stages of Sunday-morning dlshevelment, and armed only as a mob may arm Itself at a moment's notice. Caleb, the veteran. , looked the squad over with a slow smile gathering the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. "You boys'll have to make up In fierceness what-all you're lacking In soldier-looks," he observed, mildly. Then he gave the word of command to Helgerson. "Take the gun and put out for the Major's hawss-lot I'll be along as soon as I can saddle the mare." , Thomas Jefferson went with his father to the stable and helped silently with the saddling. Afterward he held the mare, gentling her In suppressed excitement while his father went into the house for his rifle. "That'll do. Buddy." he said, when he came back. "Run along in to your mammy, now."

But Thomas Jefferson caught again at the bridle and held on. choking. "O pappy! take me with you! I I'll die if you don't take me with you!" Who can tell what Caleb Gordon saw In his son's eyes when he bent to looien - the grip of the small brown hand on the rein? Was it some sympathetic reincarnation of his own militant soul striving to break ts bondi? Without a word he bent lower and swung the boy up to a seat behind him. "Hold c-i tight. Buddy." hu cautioned. 'Til have to run the mare some to catch up with the boys." When the one-piece battery dashed at a clumsy gallop through the open gate of the Dabney pasture and swung with a sharp turn Into the vista f felled trees Thomas Jefferson beheld a thing to set his heritage of soldier ilood dancing through his veins. Standing fair in the midst of the ax-and-shovel havoc and clearing a wide circle to r ght and left with the sweep of his old service cavalry saber, was the Major, coatless, hatless, and crying them to come on, the unnumbered host of them against one man. Opposed to him the men of the construction force, generaled by the young engineer In' brown duck and buttoned leggings, were deploying cautiously to surround him. Gordon spoke to hij mare; , and when he drew rein and wheeled to shout to the gun 'crow. Thomas Jefferson heard the engine- '-low-toned order to the shovelers: " careful and don't hurt him, boys. the old maniac who threw me off the icranda of his house. Two of you tako him behind, and" The break came on the uprush of the unanticipated reinforcements. With the battle readiness of a disciplined soldier, Caleb Gordon whipped from the saddle and ran to ruelp the gun crew slue the makeshift fiejdplece into position. "Fall back. Major!" he shouted; "fail bark on your front line and give tho artillery a chanst at 'em. I reckon a dose o broken pot-iron'll carry fu'ther than that saber o' yourn. Buddy, hunt me a punk match, will ye?" Thomas Jefferson ran to the nearest rotting log, but one of the negroes was before him with a blazing pitch-pin splint There was a respectful recoil in the opposing ranks which presently became a somewhat panlciky surge to the rear. The shovelers. more than half of whom were negroes, had not come out to be blown from a -cannon's mouth by a grim-faced veteran' wha was so palpably at home with the tools of his trade. "That's right; keep right on goln'!" yelled the ironmaster, waving his blazing slow-match dangerously near to the priming. "Keep it up." The panic had spread by its own contagion, and the Invaders wer fighting among themselves for place ... the flat-cars. And while yet the reu guard was swarmiug upon the engine, hanging by toe- and hand-holds where it could, the train was backed rapidly out of range. Caleb Gdrdon kept his pine splint alight until the echoes of thj engine's exhaust came faintly from Ihi overhanging cliffs of the mountain. "They've gone back to town, and I reckon the fire's plum' out for to-day, Major," he drawled. "Buck and a few o' the boys'll stay by the gun, c.gainjt their rallyin later on, and you might as well go home to your breakfast Didn't bring your hawss, did ye? Take the mare, and welcome. Buddy and me'll walk." But the Major would not mount, an i so the two men walked together as tar as the manor-house gates, with Thomas Jefferson a pace in the rear, leading the mare. It was no matter of wonder to him that his father and the Major marched In solemn silence to the gate of parting. But thj wonder came tumultously when the Major wheeled abruptly at the moment of leave-taking and wrung his father's hand. "Suh, you are a right true-hearted gentleman, and my very good friend. Mistuh Gordon!" he said, with the manner of one who has been carefully weighing the words beforehand. "If you had been given youh Just du'.-, suh. you'd have come home from I"glnla wearln' youh shouldeh-straps." And then, with a little throat-clearing pause to come between: "Suh; an own brotheh couldn't have done mo'! I . I've been mlsjudgin' you, Caleb, all these yeahs. and now I'm proud to shake you by the hand and call you my friend. Yes, suh. I am that!" It was. In a manner not to be understood by the Northern alien, the astolade of knighthood, and Caleb Gordon's toil-rounded shoulders stralghted visibly when he returned the hearty handgrasp. And as for Thomas Jefferso-i: In his heart gratified pride flapped It winge and crowed lustily. (To be continued.)

MELONS WITH HANDLES.

w Siei'ir Jin llen Developed ! 4 allforiiiii. Hut What' the l uef "The most remarkable thing I saw during my travels," asserted a honiecomiiu: winter tourist, according to the New York Press, "was watermelon with handles. A gardener :iear Los Angeles brought about the etolution out of the fruit by some process of his own and is said to bo growing the new shapes now in quantities. The specimen I was shown resembled a fat rolling pin. "What's the purpose? To facilitate toting, I'm given to understai-J. A. man can grasp both ends of the new melon with his hands and carry it off with debonnair assurance. But I can't say that I really approve of the amendment. I still retain a few boyish memories and of them the most cherished is the memory of the thrill of joy it gave me to cuddle a plump melon against my expectant' stomach and lug it off to the place of dissection. I never thought of needing a handle in those days. Once I had acquired tho melon I could guarantee Its safe transportation to the appointed spot. "Handles? Shuoksl Why, I've don a hundred yards in twelve seconds at nigh, through underbrush and over fallen trees, with a fourteen-pound melon under either arm, and neither the farmer nor the bulldog could keep close enough behind to force me to drop my prizes. I've carried two melons five miles without losing either. I think, too, that I was just an ordinary boy. At least, I don't recall any of my companions who didn't pull off similar exploits at some time or another. Oh, well. I suppose It isn't my place to interfere in behalf of nature, but I warn yru that when they begin exclusively gi owing the kind with handles half the charm of the melon will have been lost. I suppose the next stage of development will be melons on skids, with a creeper affixed at the head for a trace." SHORT METER SERMONS. The law of service is the touchstone of human endeavor. Rev. E. V. ?J Ulli ns, Baptist, Louisville. Character i3 not an endowment, but an acquisition. Rev. E. P. Thoma3, Presbyterian, Fernando, Cal. The solution of life is within the Individual heart. Rev. P. A. Simpkin. Congregationalism Salt Lake City. .Surrender U a necessary prnciple to Christian activity. Rev. P. G. Stephens, Presbyterian, Santa Monica, Cal. The spirit of brotherhood is the underlying motive for philanthropies and humanities. Rev, S. S. Wise, Hebiew, New York City. A creed is that which a man thinks in his heart, and what he thinks In his heart he is and does. Rev. M. McLeod, Presbyterian, Tacoma. There is only one cause, one God. Therefore, speaking scientifically, there Is only, one mind. Rev. P.. Young, Christian Scientist, Boston. The religion of no man Is real, who does not extend the loyalty he professes toward God to God's people aa well. Rev. .G A. Smith Presbyterian, Glasgow. The soul is a nechanlsm. Like a ship, it asks tho winds to fill its sail; like a car it ask3 power to drive the wheels. Rev. N. D. 1 1 ill is, Congregationalist, Brooklyn. The design of education Is to so augment the powers of the mind aa to make inen and women wise, strong and useful. Rev. Statoni, Presbyterian, Coeur D'Alene. Salvation is' high and holy service. Salvation is doing the will of God. It Is a call to share in ;v divine purpose. Rev. W. II. Steveis, Presbyterian, Huntington, Can. The moment a sinner comes Into vital tou'.h with Christ, by faith, he i3 reanimated, that is. "regenerated," under the influence of the Spirit. Rev. D. J. Burrell, Reformed, New York City. See that your ideals include purity, charity, justice, truth, love, righteousness. Jesus Christ is the ideal character. Fashion your life. after His. Rev. S. II. C. Burgin, Methodist San Antonio. With the state, the home and the school, the church stands a great light in the world, and by that light tha good ship Progress 'slowly but surely moves on to a higher and more stable civilization Rev. W. D. Simonds. Unitarian, Oakland. Donizetti r.ntl Coffee. Donizetti, composer of "L"cia di Lammerraoor," sought inspiration in the coffeepot. It would be interesting to know accurately the total amount of coffee this erratic genius managed to consume during his short career. It was his habit to shut himself up in hia room with writing materials znd three or four coffeepots full of steaming coffee. When these .were emptied he ordered In three or four more and, these disposed of In their turn, another throe or four. IÜ3 biocrapher says that the amount of coffee he drank was "fabulous," and one can well believe It. The etfect on his once fine constitution was deplorable. Ills face shriveled and turned yellow, his lips became black, and with the inevitable breakdown ol his nervous system his genius fell rapIdly into premature decay. Where Tuey Onitht to lie. "I wonder," said the wild looking man with the multiplied whiskers. "You wonder what?" asked the meek looking boob with the concentrated eyebrows. "If the man who figured out the length cf a week was referred to aa a weekling." "Sure." said the boob. "They also called the man who discovered ink an inkling." Whereupon the driver from the asylum backed his wagon up and the pair were dumped in. St.. Louis Star. A lueer Aoiue. Among the books in my small library is Bradley's "Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature." whicsh Is well interleaved in portions and the margins annotated. One of my latest additions ia this curious specimen. It is on a brass in the church of Llangattocknigh-Usk, Monmouth, to the memory of Zirophoeniza, daughter of William Mathew. She died In 1G25. This can only be a variant of the woman mentioned in Mark vil, 26, who was Greek, a SyroPhoenician by nation. London Notes and Queries. Lucky. "The stork has brought a little peachl" The nurse said with an air. "I'm mighty glad." the father said, "He didn't bring a pair!" The Nurse. Never believe more than half of the story a man tells on his opposition.

HUSEVBTS TOUR OF AFRICA ID EUROPE

Strenuous Ex-President Has Spent Fifteen Months in His Remarkable Trip. IN THE JUNGLE AND AT COURT. His Triumphs as a Hunter Only Equaled in His Reception by Royalty. Ex-President Roosevelt's fifteen months' tour abroad has been one of triumph both in the jungles of Africa and in the courts of Europe. The hunting trip, officially known as the Smithsonian African expedition, occupied nearly eleven months of the time. The Smithsonian Institution wanted specimens from the Dark Continent. Mr. Roosevelt was commissioned to obtain them, and he has been oiost successful. So, there was something back of the strenuous ex-President's desire to hunt big game. Soon after his successor was inaugurated Colonel Roosevelt bade farewell to a great throng of friends and sailed from New York for Naples. With him were his son Kermit and three naturalists, and stowed in the hold was most of their elaborate outfit for killing or photographing the animals of East Africa and for preserving the specimens destined for the Smithsonian Institution. The Institution paid part of the expenses of the expedition, but Mr. Roosevelt bore the personal expense of himself and son. Wireless communication was maintained with the steamship Hamburg, which bore the party, and the Colonel found it impossible even in mid-ocean to be lost from the world. At the Azores, and again at Gibraltar, the officials and people insisted on doing hkn honor, and when he reached Naples the entire populace turned out to greet him. Flowers and a letter from Emperor William wishing him "good hunting' awaited Mr. Roosevelt when he boarded the German steamship Admiral for Mombasa. A stop was made at Messina to view the earthquake ruins, and there, at King Victor Emmanuel's reQuest, Mr. Roosevelt and Kermit vialit

i I J I J 4 'te-'-'''';'.;v:.'1

MOMBASA, WHERE COLONEL ROOSEVELT LANDED.

lted the Italian monarch. At Mombasa the party was cordially received, wd the Acting Governor, under instructions from the British government, did all in his power to further the plans of the expedition. ,Mr. Roosevelt and Kermit were licensed to kill Hons, and the hunters were otherwise granted unusual privileges. Kermit had trained himself to be the chief photographer of the expedition, but he also turned out to be considerable of a hunter. The party was here joined by R. J. Cunninghame, a veterap African hunter and explorer, and Leslie J. Tarleton, and these two managed the expedition In a most able manner. nifr II ant Heisln. The party next became guests on the ranch of Sir Alfred Pease at Kapitil plains. Here a caravan of over 250 persons was organized and on April 23 Colonel Roosevelt had his first African hunt, during which he bagged a Thompson's gazelle anl two other beasts. Five days later the first lions fell victims to the shots of the Roosevelts. After that the big game came fast ar.d cheetahs, giraffe, rhinoceroses and more lions were added to the list, in all fourteen varieties of animals being secured. Meanwhile Kermit was busy with hi3 cameras and the naturalists prepared the specimens. Several weeks were spent on the ranch- of an American named MacMillan and In tho surrounding country, Game was plentiful thereabouts and many fine spac'.-nens were secured. Leaving East Africa on December 19. the expedition crossed Uganda and went down the White Nile, getting back to comparative civilization at Gondokoro. There they went aboard a steamer put at their disposal by the Sirdar, and journejed to Khartum, where Mrs. Roosevelt met her huskmd, and accompanied him in a leisurely trip to Cairo. During his stay in Egypt Colonel Roosevelt wa3 the recipient of many honors and made sev eral speeches. At the end of March the Roosevtlts sailed for Italy. In a preliminary report to the Smithsonian Institution MrRoosevelt summarized the material results of the expedition as follows: "On the trip Mr. Heller his prepared 1,020 specimens of mammals, the majority of large size; Mr. Loring has prepared 3,163, and Doctor Mearns 714 a total of 4,037 mammals. Of birds, Doctor Mearns has prepared nearly X' 100. Mr. Loring 893, and Mr. Heller about 50 a total of about 4,000 birds., "Of reptiles and batrachlans, Messrs. Mearns, Loring and Heller collected about 2.000. "Of fishes, about 500 were collected. Doctor Mearns collected marine llshes near Mombasa, and fresh water fishes elsewhere in British East Africa, and he and Cuninghame collected fishes in the White Nile. "This makes. In all, of vertebrates: Mammals 4.807 Hirds (about) 4.000 Reptiles and batrachlans (aboat)... 2,000 Fishes (about) Total 11,337 "The invertebrates were collected chiefly by Doctor Mearns. with some assistance from Messrs. Cunninghame and Kermit Roosevelt. "A few marine shells were collected near Mombasa, and land and freshwater shells throughout the regions

vlsitcd, as well as crabs, beetles, mililpeds, and other invertebrates. "Several thousand plants were collected throughout the regions visited by Doctor Mearns, who employed and trained for the work a M'nyumnezi named Makangarri, vhr soon learned how to make very frood specimens, and turned out an excellent man in every way. "Anthropological materials were gathered by Doctor Mearns, with some assistance from others; a collection

GUILDHALL, LONDON, WHERE MR. ROOSEVELT SPOKE.

was contributed by Major Ross, an American in the government service at Nairobi." Tour Tbroogh Karopr, In the tour of Europe the American ex-President desired to be treated M a man of letters and scienc, rather than as a sportsman, and his desire was gratified. But in addition, Europe insisted on receiving him as the most distinguished American of the time, and everywhere he went honors were showered on him. Emperors, kings, princes and all manner of royalties and nobility greeted him, dined him and toasted hfcn, and the people in all the lands that he visited turned out in vast throngs to see him and cheer him. In Paris, Christiania, Berlin and Oxford Mr. Roosevelt delivered scholarly public addresses and the literary and scientific circles opened to let him in and marveled at the wide scope of his knowledge. The event connected with Mr. Roosevelt's European tour that aroused the . , Li 9 T most Interest and excitement occurred Immediately after his arrival in Italy early in April. Before he left Africa his desire to pay his respects to the pope had been conveyed to the Vatican and the holy father had intimated that he would be glad to see tho distinguished American. However, upon his arrival In Rome the Colonel called off the contemplated audience, stating that as an independent Americap citizen he could not submit to the restrictions that were imposed. Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt and Kermit were received by the king and queen of Italy and spnt some days in that country. The Colonel and his wife visited Venice and traveled once again the Riviera route that they passed over on their honeymoon, and next Mr. Roosc velt visited Vienna and Budapest where he was given a royal welcome Paris was next visited and there, on April 23, he lectured in the Sorbonne before a great audience of savants and students. The municipality and, its of ficials, the president of France and various learned societies vied with each other in doing honor to the visitor, and for amusement he was taken to the field of aviation, where he saw some exciting aeroplane flights. Then, traveling northward by way of Brussels, Amsterdam and Copenhagen, Mr. Roosevelt arrived at Christiania and delivered an address on International peace before the Nobel prize commission, which had awarded to him the Nobel peace prize for his successful efforts to end the RussianJapanese war. Emperor William had made great plans for the entertainment of the ex-President In Berlin, but the death of King Edward caused the curtailment of the program to a coisiderable extent. Instead of being the kaiser's guest In the palace, Mr. Roosevelt stopped at the American embassy, and though William received hkn and dined him and showed him the German army in maneuvers, the more spectacular and public features were omitted. On May 12 Mr. Roosevelt delivered at the University of Berlin an addre3 oa modern civilization which

COLONEL ROOSEVELT AT THE GERMAN ARMY MANEUVERS.

was highly praised for its scholarly qualities. Having been appointed special ambassador of the United States to at' tend the funeral of King Edward, Colonel Roosevelt next crossed the channel to England, and when the body of the dead monarch was- carried to the tomb he was one of the remarkable crowd of royal personages and distinguished men that followed the gun carriage on which Edward's coffin was

borne. After the funeral he was received by King George , and Queea Mary and by the widowed queen mother, and la a quiet way made necessary by the mourning of the nation much attention was shown him. This culminated, in London, by a reception in the Guild Hall, at which the freedom of the city in aold casket was presented to him. He was the guest, thereafter, of several prominent Englishmen, and on Juie 7 he delivered the Romanes lecture a't Oxford, which had been postponed by the demise of the king. This was the most pretentious of all hl3 European addresses and the best. Mr. Roosevelt was honored by Cambridge University, which conferred upon him the degree-of doctor of laws, and the occasion served to demonstrate his popularity with all classes. As Mr. Roosevelt accepted his diploma from the hands of Vice Chancellor Mason, the students who crowded the galleries shouted "Teddy! Teddy!" and let down a large Teddy bear from the celling. The whole audience cheered and the Colonel, as he passed out, smilingly patted the Teddy bear. Later that day Mr. Roosevelt addressed 70f graduates. on all kinds of topics, from football to good citizenship. After fifteen months abroad the traveler, together with Mrs. Roosevelt, Kercnit and Miss Ethel, sailed, June 10, on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria on their way to New York and the rousing welcome that he knew was awaiting him on the American shore. WESTERN UNICN IS INDICTED. Federal Grand Jury nt AVaohliic toa Make IlncketShop Clinrjjfs. J The federal grand jury returned an indictment against the Western Union Telegraph Company, charging It with. 42 violations of the bucket-shop law of March 1, 1909. It is charged that the Western Union, by means of a telegraph wire and a ticker, aided and abetted the conduct of a bucket shop in the District of Columbia. The 42 counts vary only In the date on which the alleged violations are said to havo occurred. An additional indictment, charging the conduct of a bucket shop in the district, was filed against William B. Price, Virgil P. Randolph, Charles T. Moorehead, Edward Weldon, James A. Anderson, all of Baltimore; Thomas H. Campbell and John P. Altberger of Philadelphia, Joseph F. Catins of New York and Edward Everett Taylor of Washington. KILLS WITH CHOLERA GERMS. Doctor Confenfte Other Crimes Don ty Mean of Inoculation. Dr. Michel Patthenko, murder specialist of St. Petersburg, has confessed that he caused the death of Count Bouturlin by injecting cholera germs into his victim's arm. He also confessed, the police say, that he murdered many other wealthy men by the same method, at the solicitation of their prospective heirs. His fee for a murder was $230,000. Held with Dr. Pat chenko and charged with having em ployed him to murder Count Bouturlin, is Count de Lassa, brother-in-law of the slain man and one of the chief heirs to his estate of $3,500,000. ZVeed of Japanese Lnborefa. The California commissioner of labor has made a report to the governor, showing that the State needs Japanese labor to develop her resources, as white unskilled labor can not be enRaged "for any reasonable wajje." Uut the report siys that more Japanese are now leaving the State than are coming in, and that Hindoo immigrants are on the increase. Already the Japanese perform over 50 per cent of the feld and vineyard labor. But the Japanese are ambitious to become land owners, and according to this report quoted the mo.-nent this ambition possesses him he ceases to be the Ideal laborer. The number of Japanese obtainable for this year's harvest is far short of the number needed. During the fifteen months prior to January 1, 833 Japanese entered at San Francisco and 4,182 departed. Receipts of eggs in New York one day recently broke all records at 56,000 cases. At thirty cents to the case this means 29.0Ct.000 egrs.

REVIEW OF IND

Grain men in the vicinity of Evansville estimate that the present high water along the Ohio River has submerged more than 5,000 acres of wheat and corn between Owensboro, Ky., and Shawneeto'n, 111., and that the loss will exceed $250,000. Much of the corn washed out will be a total loss.' When Hugh Eickel, aged fifteen years, of Darke County, was trying to dig a bullet from a cartridge to use for a fishline sinker, the shell exploded. The bullet penetrated his right breast just below the collarbone, and he died in five minutes. The hand which held the cartridge was not injured. Frank Mason, age twenty-six, of New Albany, who has been ill of measles, sprang from hi3 bed while in a delirium, and running to the Ohio River, two squares from his home, leaped into the water. Relatives, who were closely following, sprang into a skiff and reached Mason before he sank for the third time. His condition is serious. A young rooster belonging to Earl Hurley, of Rushville, committed suicide the other day. It jumped up and caught its head betwe-en two palings, strangling to death. It i3 said that the bird woke up to find the sun had risen before he gave the signal. His succeeding loss of prestige In the barnyard was too much to bear, and he ended It all. Holding a branch of a tree which extended out into Pigeon Creek, after they had sunk twice in the water, Jennie Cox and Stella Julian, each age fifteen, barely escaped drowning. The two girls, with forty-five others, from Evansville, went to Lost Bend on a picnic, and after they had decided to go In bathing in Pigeon Creek they got beyond their depths. An elevator in the Claypool building fell in Indianapolis with five passengers. It went down three floors like a shot, injuring Dr. H. A. Koss, Miss Leonie Scott and Miss Leo Rose, Chas. Hendricks and Cornelius Wilson, the colored operator. None t them Is thought to be seriously hurt. A bolt holding the cable gave- way, and the emergency brake failed to work. Mrs. Amy Carroll and her two daughters, Mabel and Cella, are among the graduates at the University of Michigan this year. Mrs. Carroll and Miss Mabel will receive a degree of A. B. on June CO, and on June 29 Miss Celia will receive a . diploma. The Carrols, who are from Richmond, Ind., each spent two years in the Indiana University before entering Michigan.The following appointments have been announced by Joseph Sego, the new commander of the Sons cf Veterans of Indiana: Division councillor, Herbert A. Luckey, Indianapolis; division chaplain, J. B. Dullman, Bloomington; division inspector, Fred S. Kenneson, Valparaiso; division patriotic Instructor, Legrand T. 'Meyer, Hammond; division chief of staff.'M. B. Rockwell, Valparaiso; divisioi personal aid, George F. Ogden, Wabash; division organizer, R. G. Boswell, Winchester. - The latest addition to the artist col ony of Brown County. is Gustave, Wf Baumann, of Chicago. He was attracted by the glowing accounts given by fellow-artists of that city, and is the first Chicago artist to arrive this seasonl Mr. Baumann is especially interested in wood engraving and etching, both in color, and is deligated with the numerous subjects the county offers for this kind of work. Mr. Baumann is an American, but Is comparatively fresh from two years of study in Munich? where the art of I color printing is highly developed. Several months ago Mrs. Frank Mulvey, well known society (woman of Hammond, died, and recently Mrs. Marshall Gardner, of Brideport, Cohn., came to visit her brother, Mr. Mulvey, and assist him in housekeeping. While making a bed Mrs. Gardner accidentally tore a mattress and saw a bulky package tied In a handkerchief. When unwrapped it .was found to contain $3,000 in bills, which had been sewed into the mattress by Mrs. Mulvey. Her death was sudden, and just before she died she seemed to have a secret to impart, but could ribt talk. Alonzo Pace, a farmer living west of Bedford, is in receipt of a letter containing "conscience money" from a man who lived in Bedford years ago. The letter contained a one dollar bill. More than twenty years ago Mr. Pace raised many watermelons for market and from the letter, the man, who was then a.boy, invaded the farmer's patch and helped himself. This the writer says has caused him much worry and his conscience has troubled him bo since reaching manhood that he could stand It no longer and inclosed the money that he knew would cover the value o! the melons he had taken when a boy. Simon Conn, aged fifty, married, a farmer in "Washington Township, Ma rion county, was killed when he was struck by lightning while at work in the field. His wife witnessed his death. Survivors of the old Fort "Wayne volunteer fire fighting organizations are being rallied together to participate in the fifth annual tournament of the Northeastern Firemen's Association, which will be held in Fort Wayne June SO. Mrs. Miller, wife of Lora H. Miller, a young farmer near Rushville, committed suicide at her home southeast of Homer, by taking carbolic acid. Ill health is attributed as the cause. The husband and two children survive her. Mrs. Michael Plapes, of Lafa3'ette, was bitten about the hands and arms to-day by a mad dog, and, it is alleged, was found to have been suffering with the rabies. There Is an epidemic of rabies In the county and fifteen people are taking the treatment. Scores of dogs have been killed by the authorities. Oliver Cromwell, the son of James Cromwell, of Clay City, is convalescing from his eighteenth attack of pneumonia. He has had the disease once each year of his life. Miss Imo G. Quarterman, age sixteen, committed suicide last week by swallowing carbolic acid, at the home of her sister, Mrs. Dennis Coleman, in Bedford. She had been suffering from goitre, which had begun to show plainly on her neck, and the fear that the diesase would cause her to be an Invalid is said to have caused her to end her life.

lANA'i

The Odd Fellows will lay the corner stone of their handsome new tempi In Tipton July 15, and to enable all of tho members of the order it home and those who will be Invited from neighboring places to attend, will have the exercises in the evening instead of the afternoon as is the custom. Tlmoer thieves are rrfcing Inroads ' on the valuable walmn and hickcry timber in the southern part of Brown county, several tracts of thick woods have .-?en denuded sirf, although the farmers have seen mr.ny teamsters nith logs on their wakens, they have no .ty of identifying the logs. Grand jury Indictments were returned against four men, but the sheriff failed to find them. ,The f.rst premature Fcurth t.l July celebiation accident occurred Jjcnday, when eleven-year-old George. Heigjiway, son of Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Heighway, of Ladoga, was Injured In a gunpowder explosion. With some play-" mates Young Hei&hway placed ' tha gunpowder In the . back yard 'andtouched a match to a short fuse. Young Heigh way's right hand was badly burned In the flash that followed. Howard Stanley, living near Pittsboro, has been exhibiting an apple blossom which is a novelty. It is about four times as large as the ordinary bloom and looks and smells like a rose, but Mr. Stanley is reads' to take oath that the blossom and the twig to which it is attached were taken from an ap- ' pie tree at his home, and there are apple leaves on the twig to bear out the statement. Another remarkable thing is tho lateness of the tree in blooming. Oil has been struck at a depth of less than one thousand feet on the Kirper farm, about two miles east of Huntingburg. The well is now flowing at the rate of twenty-five barrels a day and Is covering Hunley creek and other rmall streams In the neighborhood. Oil men estimate that the well will produce five hundred barrels a day. Several oil wells will be drilled between Huntingburg and Birdseye, Ind. Several oil leases on land around Huntingburg have been signed. Mr. and Mrs. Otto B. Klnneman, of Marlon, were seriously Injured by the explosion of an old cartridge which. Mr.' Klnneman had found on the grave of a soldier in the cemetery adjoin. ing this city. , He took the shell home and regarding it harmless commenced to hammer It. It exploded and a piece of the shell struck Kinneman in the . right eye and the bullet struck Mrs. Kinneman in the left forearm, Inflicting a severe wound. It Is feared that Mr. Klnneman will lose the sight of his eye. ' Near Hebron Church, on the northern border of Clark County, lives one of the oldest married couples In this j art of the country. Thomas Montgomery and Mary E. Blizzard were marritd December 20, 1848, more than sixty-one yers ago. The husband is ninety years old, and his wife Is ten years his junior. They are both, in good health, and the aged man. atill works in the field. Their descendants number w ell over one hundred, including eight children living of a famltf of eleven, seventy-two grandchildren and thirty-two great-grandchildren. A dog and a pot of hot,fcwffra were directly Ihe ciuse of the death of little Charlotte Carlsen. 132C North Tremont avenue, Indianapolis, .- whose death was reported to Coroner Blackwell. The child, who was three and one-half years old, was playing In the kitchen with the pet dog. The mother had been ironing and the Ironing board was still in place on a stand. Oa a table nearby stood the pot, filled with hot coffee. The dog bumped against the stand and the ironing board was shaken down. In falling, one end of the board struck the coffee pot and the scalding liquid was spilled over the child's back, causing terrible burns. David Bixler, age eighty, a contractor, died at his home in Greenfield last week of Brlght's disease. Fifty years age he 4id the carpenter work on the house in Greenfield pictured far and wide as thE Riley home, and which stands in (Main street, near the business district. This property is now owned by James Whitcomb Riley, and although it Is understood to be the birthplace of the poet, such is not the? case. Mr. Riley, it Is true, was born on the same lot, but in a log bouse lhat stood several feet to the cast of the building Mr. Bixler erected for the poet's father, Reuben A. Riley, and which was the childhood home of the Riley boys. Mr. Bixler lived in the original Riley home, for a number of years, until tht house was razed. Mr. Riley sold the property later and lived in another part of the city until his death. In a few years James Whitcomb Riley bought the place, and, although It is kept in good repair, no material changes have been made since it was built by Mr. Bixler. Dr. Pepper, of Mt. Carmel, has a shipment of. Wabash river p?arls valued at IS0.000. He bought them from -musel gatherers along the river between Grayville and ML Carmel. A committee of Petersburg business men met recently and decided to celebrate the Fourth of July by holding automobile races for amateurs at the old fair grounds race .track. This w ill be the first automobile race meet ever held in Southern Indiana, and. it is thought, will attract wide attention. Little Mary Johnson the sixteen months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Johnson, of near Ladoga, died last week from the effect of poison caused by eating strawberries. The child ate the berries and died within twelve hours. Thomas Green, a mussel gatherer, found a twenty-three grain fresh water pearl in the Wabash river at Crowleyville. He asked $500 for the gem and sold it to a New York buyer three hours later. Green Is regarded as a lucky fisherman, having sold $S00 worth of pearls and slugs this season. William H. Wilson has filed suit la the circuit court at Newcastle against Alvis Bird, demanding 11,000 damages. Both are fanners in the northeastern part of the county and the suit is the re.-mlt of Wilson being bitten by a dog which was oaned by Bird. What is thought to be the largest fish ever caught iu White River was brought to Petersburg by local fishermen. It was of the mudcat species, weighing ninety-two pounds, and was caught where the east and west forks empty into the main stream, four miles north of the city.