Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1898 — Page 3

A TANCLED SKEIN

MRS. ALEXANDER

CHAPTER I. The last notes of an air from the “Trovatore” were dying out over the shining sea. The crowd which had gathered on the pier to listen to the band began to move and disperse, the music being over for that afternoon, a fine glowing August afternoon, tempered by the fresh, soft air breathing across the bay, crisping the waters here and there and bringing a delightful saltness from the rippling waters. The scene is Fordsea, a flourishing bathing place on, the South Coast of England, Hot altogether dependent for its prosperity on summer nomads. Its attractiontf~are of a more permanent character. Being in the close neighborhood of the naval and military station of Eastport, the officers of both services are glad to establish {heir families in the villas, terraces, crescents, which border the grassy common intervening between them and the beach. At the end of this pleasant common a pretty two-storied villa stood on an abrupt rising ground. A veranda, its supports overgrown with roses nnd honeysuckles, ran along the side facing the sea. This veranda was evidently used as a morning room, comfortable lounging-chairs, a work table laden with books, bright-colored silks and wools, a doll und a cup and ball lay about. On the beach in front of this dainty mansion a young lady was sitting on a ridge of shingle, bleached by sea and seawater to perfect cleanliness, which afforded a comfortable resting place. The young lady seemed much at her ease. Her skirt of blue serge was turned up over a second skirt of white and blue and caught up at the back in what used to be called “fishwife" fashion—the bodice fitting her slight supple figure easily, perfectly; n little foot in a dark blue stocking, and an incomparable shoe peeped forth as she supported an open book on one knee, and a wide-brimmed sailor hat almost hid her face as she bent over the page. A big brown boat drawn up beside her made a shelter from the level rays of the sinking sun. Altogether she presented a pretty picture of quiet enjoyment. As the last strains of the band died away a gentleman in boating attire strolled slowly across the grass, paused, looked round ns if searching for something, and then came straight over the shingle towards her. She,heard his step and looked at her book with renewed attention, nor did she move till he stood beside her. Then she raised her face, an interesting, rather than pretty face, somewhat brunette in complexion, and pale, with a warm paleness—a small, oval face, with a delicate chin and a very slight downward curve at the corners of the soft red mouth, that gave a pathetic expression to her countenance when in repose. Her eyes, too, which were her best feature—large eyes, with long, dark lashes, had a wistful, faraway look, more suited to a saint than to their piquant owner. The man who paused beside her was tall and slender, with a grace of movement not nsual in an Englishmen. He was darker, too, than ordinary Anglo-Saxons, Who rarely possess such blue-black hair and flashing dark eyes as his. His wellcut, refined, but determined mouth was unshaded by mustaches, though a strong growth of black board showed through the clear olive-brown skin. He smiled a soft, caressing smile as he threw himself on thesnnd at her feet, saying: “I thought you had gone on the pier with Callander?" “No; he has gone to the station to meet Mr. Standisb, and Mabel has had the honor of a command from the Grand Duchess to drive with her.” The- saintly-pathetic expression entirely disappeared as she spoke with a swift, arch smile, and a flash of scorn from her “holy eyes.” “Ah,” he returned, in an amused tone, “why did you not go to meet your beloved guardian?” “I never meant to go. I came ont of the way to listen to the band here. Music is so charming as it comes fitfully on the breeze, and I enjoy it most alone.” “Well, it is over now, so I may venture to stay?" “Oh, yes, if you like! But I am tired of sitting here. I want to mnteh some silks. Do you mind, Mr. Egerton?” “Don’t you think it would be cruel to waste this lovely evening matching silks in a stuffy shop? Let us go along the common towards the pier. We may meet 6ome of your party returning.” “Yes, let us go along by the sea.” They walked awhile in silence, Egertou’s expression hardening as though his thoughts were not pleasant. Presently he began to speak on indifferent topics, and suddenly, after a pause, Miss Wynn asked: “Do yon really think Col. Callander seems better?” “Yes, I do. I fancy the sunstroke which knocked him down was not severe. Good as an excuse to come home to his wife, perhaps, and—here she is!" he exclaimed, interrupting himself, as a smart victoria and pair came up at a brisk pace and stopped beside them. “1 thought we might meet you,” said the elder of two Indies who occupied the carriage, a stately lookiug woman of perhaps sixty or more, with iron gray hair, a thin-lipped, close-shut mouth, and eyes too light for her complexion. Her companion was a beautiful young woman, exquisitely fair, with soft blue eyes aud light golden brown hair. Except on her lips she bad scarce a trace of color, and her delicate face expressed pensive weariness as she lay back in the carriage. “I thought we should meet you,” repeated the elder lady, who was the Dowager Mrs. Callander. “Now Mabel can w'alk home with yon, fcr I must return to receive my niece, Henrietta Oakeley. You ought to have come with us, Dorothy, but no doubt you- were better engaged ” Egerton bowed, and raised his hat as if he had received a high compliment. Dorothy smiled and gave a saucy little toss of her head as her sister alighted jflrom the carriage.

“I hope yon will ail dine with me tomorrow, to meet Miss Oakeley,” continued the Dowager. “May I have the pleasure of seeing you, too, Mr. Egerton?” “Certainly; I shall be delighted!” Mrs. Callander opened and upreared a grand white, much-beflouneed parasol, bowed graciously and was whirled away to her hotel. “You do not look much the better of your drive, Mabel!” said her sister, looking earnestly at her. “I assure you Mrs. Callander was unusually amiable. I don’t think she stabbed me more than once or twice.” She slipped her arm through Dorothy's, and turning towards home, walked on slowly between her sister and Egerton. Mabel and Dorothy Wynn were the daughters of a military officer, who in the days of purchase, never had money enough to buy the next step beyond that of eaptaiq. When both girls were babies, Captain Wynn lost his wife, and then, in consideration of his junior officers’ wishes, expressed in bank notes, retired. He did not long survive the combined loss of wife and career. His daughters remained at the school where she had placed them, in order to acquire the means of adding to their diminutive income. They bad apparently no relation save their guardian, Paul Stnndish. He was a distant cousin of the late Captain Wynn, and his nearest friend—he was also executor to bis kinsman's will, as well as guardian to his children; and very faithfully did he fulfill the duties he had undertaken, The young orphans soon learned to look upon him as an elder brother; indeed to Dorothy, who was five years younger, than her sister, he seemed in their childish days quite elderly. One afternoon he brought a married sister to see them. This lady invited the two girls to dine, and go to the theater. A supreme joy in itself, and productive of important consequences. At dinner they met Colonel, then Major, Callander, a grave,' sedate man, who had run the gauntlet of many garrisons without any serious affairs of the heart; and now, in the most unexpected manner, he fell utterly and absolutely fathomß deep in love with the defunct captain’s lovely daughter Mabel. Colonel Callander carried out his project, and Mabel, won by bis quiet kindness, and pleased at the prospect of a home which he assured her she should share with her sister, consented with sweet, frank readiness, and in about six months after their first meeting Mabel Wynn beeiyne Mabel Callander, the object of tier-grave husband's profound devotion, of her overbearing mother-in-law’s deepest dislike. This event wrought a considerable change in the life of Mabel’s sister. The first grief of parting over, Dorothy found that many pleasures and advantages had come into her hitherto rather meager existence. She had prettier frocks, more abundant bonnets, and more frequent expeditions to concert and panorama with those better-off elder girls whose superior lot she had hitherto envied. The Christmas and midsummer holidays, spent with Major and Mrs. Callander wherever they happened to be quartered, were glorious periods of fun nnd frolic, and when little baby niece was preitmted to her, her joy and exultation knew ntrbounds. Towards her brother-in-law she felt the warmest regard, not untinged with awe, and her highest reward, when sh.e did not resist her natural tendency to idleness, and attained any school distinctinetion. was Callander's grave approbation. This halcyon period came to a close when the baby girl was a few months old, and the regiment being ordered, to India, the commanding officer retired and Callander got his step. But a warm climate did not suit his fair wife, who was never very strong. After the birth of a boy she was ordered home. Dorothy, now close on the serious age of eighteen, by Callander’s wish, left school to reside with her sister. The only drawback to this blissful arrangement was the neighborhood and supervision of Mrs. Callander, the delicacy and depression of Mabel. This, however, seemed likely to pass away, as, in a month or two, Dorothy gladly recognised an improvement in health and spirits. The winter was a pleasant one, for Paul Standish proved himself the best, “guide, philosopher and friend” they could have had. The gayety of their lives was considerably increased towards Christmas by the arrival in London of Egerton, who had known Colonel and Mrs. Callander in India, where he had gone for sport and travel. He loaded the sisters with flowers, stalls at the theaters, small presents, endless attentions, managing nt the same time to stand well with the Dowager, who respected his wealth and position. CHAPTER 11. Mrs. Callander's little dinner was a greater success in her own estimation than perhaps in that of her guests. She had what she considered a distinguished party, which included nn Honorable Major St. John, whose pretensions to exclusiveness nnd superiority were upheld by masterly taciturnity; her niece, a much-trav-eled and experienced young lady of good fortune, and beyond the twenties, to whom the Dowager once thought of marrying her son, aud who-was nothing loth; nu eloquent Low Church divine, the Rev. Septimus Cole, who was her spiritual director; Egerton, sundry nonentities, naval and military, of good position, and her son with his wife, who looked provokingly elegant. Dorothy had been unceremoniously put off to make room for St. John, who was especially asked for Miss Oakeley's benefit, and as Egerton, who was, Mrs. Callander thought, the greatest man there, was more silent than usual, and looked slightly bored, she began to fear before dinner was over that she had made a mistake in dispensing with that conceited, insignificant chit Dorothy, for really Mr. Egerton seemed to miss something.

and that something might be Dorothy. The rest of the company, with the ex* ception of Miss Oakeley, “made” conversation more or less stiffly. She rattled away on all possible subjects to St. John and Egerton, between whom she sat, being divided between the desire to make an impression on the latter ah inanimate the former. Colonel and Mrs. Callander remained to the as he acted host, aßd when the family party were left alone, Miss Oakeley took a low chair beside her cousin’s wife. “I have pot had the chance of a word with yon,” she exclaimed, “and it must be more than two years since we met. I protest yon are prettier than ever, but paler and graver.” “Thank you, Henrietta. Please remember I have two babies to think of now.” “Horrid little brats! I hate children!” “Heretic! they are sweet things, but certainly troublesome. How do you think Herbert looks?” “Oh, very well. I would not trouble about him. Tell me, how do you come to be such friends with Randal Egerton? He is the most exclusive of men, and never allows himself to be bored.” “Then I suppose we do not bore him. He was hurt when out tiger shooting, and carried into our bungalow, where we nursed him. He fancied we saved his life. Herbert is very fond of him.” “And Dorothy? I fancy she has grown pretty. May I come to luncheon to-mor-row? I promise not to murder the children if you show them to me. And so Mr. Standish is with you. Why in the world didn’t my aunt ask him to dinner? He is so agreeable and so popular.” While Miss Oakeley chattered on, Mrs. Callander was pouring a few grievances into her son’s ear. “I am sorry Mabel was so bored at dinner to-day, but I am quite aware of the reason.” “Indeed! Well, I did not observe her being bored, nor do I know why she should be.” “Oh, 1 am the offender! I did not ask Mr. Standish to join us. He is, I confess, a man I neither like nor approve.” “There is no accounting for tastes. He is a good fellow enough.” “A mere worldling. I fear his want of faith has had an evil influence on Mabel and Dorothy.”' “Oh, come! If there are no worse women in the world than my wife and little Dorothy it would not be a bad place!— Mabel, it will be late before we reach borne.” The Dowager (as she liked to be called —it somehow smacked of ducal rank) bade them a glacial good-night, but Henrietta ran downstairs to see them off. “You will be at Mr. Egertou’s picnic on Tuesday, will you not? He has asked me and Aunt Callander. Just fancy her yachting! She will bore aud be bored. Mind you are at home to luncheon, Herbert; I am coming!” “Certainly! As to the picnic, nearly every one is goiug, ourselves among the number. Good-night.” (To be continued.)

ALASKAN INDIAN WOMEN.

They Have Artistic Ability Despite Their Toilsome Lives. Writing of the “Indian Women of Alaska and Their Handiwork,” in the Woman's Home Companion, Olive McGregor says: “The huge expressionless face of an Alaska Indian woman shows but little evidence of any ambition or ahjlity to perform cvej> the slm ; plest features of domestic art. and yet the skillful and artistic results of the handiwork of these untutored aborigines much sought after by the tourists who visit their villages during the summer. Moreover, though the women are all fat and lazy-looking, their lives are not uninterrupted ease, notwithstanding tlia,t their needs are few. Abundance of fuel is all about them, and food, which with them is synonymous with fish, swims almost to their doors. But the procuring as well as the preparing of this food is all accomplished by the women. During the summer they leave the villages and towns for the Islands in less frequented water, where they camp for weeks at a time, catching and curing the fish for winter use, while the men lazily watch them, or paddle the canoe, or otherwise amuse themselves. * * * “If an Indian’s wife is in ill health or too old to work, he marries another younger wife, usually a relative of the first one, who is expected to provide the food, while the first wife cares for the house and •hildreu. Fish and berries furnishing almost the only food of these people, the women have little scope or ambition for developing culinary art, l>u»t in matters of personal adornment they take keen delight. During the long, dark winter they weave beautiful blankets and baskets for their own use and to sell. The blankets are made from the strong rough wool of the wild mountain sheep. Yet some of these are as soft as silk, and in beauty of coloring and intricacy of design rival the Oriental rugs and hanging. It usually takes a woman six months to complete one blanket, but many of them sell for prices ranging from fifty to two hundred dollars. The much-sought-after genuine Chilkat blanket Is about four fee* long aud two and oue half feet wide at each end, but as one side is pointed, the center is a foot wider than the ends, and on this side is ornamented with a ten-inch fringe. These are worn in the dance, thrown around the shoulders, with the pointed fringed side Hanging uown. The design is grotesque, consisting of conventionalized faces of meujind animals in pale green, outlined until black on a white ground. Sometimes dull blue takes the place of the pale green. A peculiarity which stamps their genuineness is a fine thread or shaving of deerskin in the center of each hard twisted strand of wild sheep’s wool yarn, of which they are made, rendering them almost indestructible.”

Scotland’s Strange Birds.

From tlie> small island of St. Kilda, off Scotland, 20,000 young ganuets and an immense number of eggs are annually collected, and although this bird lays only one egg per annum and Is four years in obtaining its maturity its numbers do not diminish. Obviously such birds must reach a great age or they would long ago have been exterminated.

FLEET TUANS TAIL.

SPAIN’S CAPE VERDE SQUADRON FLEES FROM SAMPSON. £... . • . j[. ■ ( " ■ > Bugaboo Armada Reported as Having • Arrived at Cadia—Troops to Be Rushed to Cuba—Massacres Reported in Manila—Brief War News. Flotilla Has Fled. The Spanish Cape Verde fleet has turned tail and fled home to Spain. The Navy Department on Tuesday received apparently trustworthy advices that the Spanish fleet had arrived at Cadiz. Lisbon advices have affirmed that the Cape Verde fleet will be joined by the remaining Spanish ships at Cadiz, now being fitted out for service, and that all will then cross thf Atlantic to relieve the blockade of Havana or attack the American const. American naval experts consider this program Very doubtful, as before the Spanish fleet could cross the Atlantic the American fleet will probably have taken Porto Rico, thus leaving the Spaniards no base of supplies. To attempt to fight the American fleet off Havana without a chance to refit after a voyage of A,500 miles would be impossible. The question has been as to what Admiral Sampson will do if the Spanish fleet, for which he is searching, is still on the •other side. His orders were similar to those of Commodore Dewey. He was instructed to find the Spanish fleet and destroy it. Some of the naval officers are inclined to think that Sampson will obey his instructions if he is not recalled, that he will take San Juan, Porto Rico, wait for the Oregon, recoal and continue to look for the fleet, where he is most likely to find it, though he should have to go to Cadiz. This will, however, be the last move of the administration to eud the war.

TROOPS TO CUBA. Bixty Thousand Soldiers Under General Miles to Be Rushed Forward. President McKinley and his advisers at the cabinet meeting Tuesday decided upon an immediate invasion of Cuba. Troops to the number of tiOJXX) will be landed, it is stated officially, as soon as arrangements for transporting men, ammunition ami provisions are completed. The entire army stationed tit Chicknmauga park was ordered to the front. The First and Tenth Cavalry to New Orleans, the Second Cavalry to Mobile, the Third and Sixth to Tampa. The entire infantry goes to Tampa; President McKinley, it is said, lias constantly ojtposed immediate invasion, awaiting results of the expected engagement between Admiral Sampson’s fleet and the Cape Verde flotilla, but upon the receipt of official information announcing the arrival of four Spanish cruisers and two torpedo boat destroyers at Cadiz he

GEN. NELSON A. MILES.

determined upon immediate invasion along the line suggested by Secretary Alger and Gen. Miles. Orders were at once sent to Ailjt. Gen. Corbin countermanding that portion of the general order issued for the concentration of troops, horse, foot and artillery, at Chiekamnuga from the States of Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Colorado, Kansas. Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio. Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Idaho, Wisconsin and North and South Dakota. These are ordered to proceed directly to Tampa, Fla., Mobile and New Orleans. The transport Gussie sailed from Tampa for Cuba amidst a din of cheers, bearing the first regular troops of the United States to Cuban soil. The docks were thronged with enthusiastic people, who could only guess what was going to happen next and when it would occur. The Gussie carried a large cargo of miscellaneous supplies for the Cubans... There were hundreds of cases of the old Springfield rifles, forty-five caliber, with accompanying ammunition, anil there were also large quantities of old army muskets, such as were used in the civil war. Powdoa and ball galore went with them. Hospital supplies of every description went with tin* hospital attendants. Twentytwo Cubans, clad in the new canvas uniform of the United States soldiers, went with the two companies of the First Infantry. MASSACRES IN MANILA. Oppressed Natives Seek Revenge on t Spanish Masters. According to Shanghai advices, massacres are reported to have occurred outside of Manila, the insurgents butchering even the Spanish women and children. It is reported that Admiral Monte jo, the commander.of the Sj>auish fleet, who escaped from Cavite by running along the shore to Manila with his two sons, was killed by the iiopulnce of the latter place. It is added that the Hospital of San Roque, filled with Spanish soldiers, was .accidentally set on tire by shells from the Boston, and that Sisters of Charity were killed by a native mob while removing the wounded.

News of Minor Note.

Landing of troops is to ho effected at Matauzas to protect suppling, Comment lias been aroused in Paris by the extraordinary naval preparations of the French Government. There are 5,000 men in muuo to yellow fever who will enlist for military service In Cuba. Danger is apprehended from the incompetent and youthful volunteers of Porto Rico. They are armed with Mauser rifles und are displaying considerable war enthusiasm.

ALPHONSO BETROTHED.

He la Only Twelve Year* Old, and Hla Fiancee Ie Fifteen. A cable dispatch says that Francis Joseph. Emperor of Austria, will shortly announce the betrothal of the Archduchess Elizabeth, his little granddaughter, to Alphonso XIIL, the King of Spain. The Archduchess Elizabeth seems to have been born to trouble. Her little life has been often clouded. 'Tragedy has chased scandal and scantlitl tragedy. Her father was the Crown Prince Rudolph, whose tragic death, murder or suicide, at Meyerling. after a life of escapades, was one of the most extraordinary stories of his generation. Her mother, the Crown Princess Stephanie, is the daughter of the King of Belgium, a woman erratic as the wind, whose acts have frequently given rise to scandals, and who has never shown a rnotner’s love for her child. Were it not for the affection of the aged Emperor, who has been not only a father but a companion and playfellow of the little heiress to his throne, her life would have been far from happy. But the Emperor and to a less extent the Empress, have played the parts of father and mother and shielded her to the best of their ability. She was born—the child of a loveless marriage—on Sept. ”, 1885, aad was named Elizabeth Marie Henri ette Stephanie Gisela. She took her first communion when 12 years old in the chapel of the Imperial Palace at Vicnta. At the conclusion of the ceremony she gave her mother the out direct, and walking up to the old Emperor, of whom she was passionately fond, was clasped in his arms and covered with affectionate kisses. The Austrians and Hungarians, both of whom were very fond of good-na-tured but profligate Rudolph, '“Unser Rudl,” as they called him, give his place In their hearts to Eltzabeth, whom they called “Our Little Lady.” By Rudolph’s will she was made the ward of her grandparents, and nobody was surprised or displeased, unless it was Stephanie herself, who never showed any signs of anger at this post-mor-tem evidence of the Crown Prince's sentiments regarding his wife. Should she become the consort of the youthful King of Spain, who is three years her junior, she will likely find more trouble awaiting her in trying to rest easy upon that tottering throne.— New York World.

Nature’s Gardens in Alaska.

The most expensive, least spoiled, and most unspoliable of the gardens of the" continent, says John Muir, iti the Atlantic, are the vast tundras of Alaska. Every summer they extend smooth, even, undulating, continuous beds of flowers and leaves from about latitude C 2 degrees to the shores of the Arctic Ocean. And in winter, sheets of snow flowers make all the country shine, one mass of white radiance, like a star. Nor are these Arctic plant people the pitiful frost-pinched unfortunates they are guessed to be by those why k&ve Vwver seen them. Though lowly in stature, keeping near the frozen ground as if loving it, they are bright and cheery, and speak nature’s love as plainly as their big relatives of the SoHith. Tenderly happed and tucked in beneath down® snow to sleep through the huge white winter, they make haste to bloom in the .spring without trying to grow tall, though some rise high enough to ripple and wave in the wind, and display masses of color—yellow, purple and blue—so rieli they look like beds of rainbows, and are visible miles and miles away. * * * And in September, the tundra glows in creamy golden sunshine, and the colors of the ripe foliage of the lieathworts. willows and birch, red, purple and yellow, in pure, bright tones, are enriched with those of berries which are scattered everywhere as if they had been showered down from the clouds like hail; their colors, of the leaves and stems, blending harmoniously with the neutral tints of the ground of and mosses on which they seem to be painted.

Leather Coats.

Leather coats are made of sheepskin, of horselilde and of dogskin. They are lined with corduroy, with flannel and with sheep’s wool. The corduroy-lined coats are made reversible, so that they may be worn either side out. Tlie coats or sheepskin are usually finished black, the liorsehide and dogskin coats russet colored. A leather coat of sheepskiu, corduroy lined, costs about $5; horsehide coats sell for sl2 to sls, aud dogskin coats for $lB. Leather coats are worn in the West by truckmen and policemen und hunters and lumbermen. The leather coat is serviceable and warm, without great bulk. The duck shooter, lying, perhaps, for hours in a battery waiting, keeps warm in a leather coat. The sportsman after big game wears a leather coat. It keeps the wearer warm without impeding his movements. A leather coat is sometimes worn unilijr another coat for the sake of its warmth, as, perhaps, by a policeman. And the leather coat may be worn with the corduroy side out, so that more leather coats are worn here in eities than might be supposed.

Tea the Curse of Thibet.

Tlte Times of Imlia declares that tea drinking is the curse of Thibet. “The people,” it says, “have such an insatiable craving for the beverage/ that they will sell their houses, tlieir:flocks, their very children, to procure it. If ever an apostle appears in Thibet he will have to preach a crusade in favor of whisky drinking in order to wean the inhabitants from their national vice.” , woman passes a certain age, attempts to renew her youth by curling and powdering, often result in a suggestion of Immorality.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY* TOLD. Did Not Prove the Minister Gnilty-*< Panhandle Railway Mulcted tor Damages Officers for Dentist*—* ; Woman Chews a Baby. ; I •. Hugging la Not Proved. | Rev. Mr. Fusion, a retired minister of the Baptist Church at Fairbanks, has been tried by the church on n charge of slandering Rev. Mr. Mugg. a man who recently became pastor of the church. Mr.; Fusion was accused of having said that Mr. Mugg was seen with his arms around % the waist of a married woman. At the' trial the young married woman denied , that Mr. Mugg hail encompassed her waist and a woman as jiositively testified that she hud seen it done. There was much other conflicting testimony, and the verdict was that no slander hud been circulated and yet that it had not been proved beyond doubt that Mr. Mugg had hugged the woman. The church is now trying to determine if there are to be more proceedings or if Mr. Mugg is to continue as pastor.

Verdict Against the Panhandle. In the Circuit Court at Noblesville, for the second time, a judgment was rendered < against the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- | pany for damages for ejecting passengers from its trains. Some time ago Mr. and Mrs. George League bought first-class ■ round trip tickets from Tipton to Indianapolis, which were murked “good only. | for teifedays.” They attempted to return J from Indianapolis to Tipton after the ten days had expired, and were put off the , train at Noblesville. Suits were brought for damages and several weeks ago Mrs. League got a judgment for SBOO, and now Mr. League has been given damages to the sum of SIOO.

Indiana Dentists Adjourn. The Indiana Dental Assoeiation ad- j joumod a two days’ session at Mancie,, after electing the following officers: I'resident, Dr. D. M. Hiatt, Marion; vice-pres- 1 ident. Dr. J. 11. Morrison, Connersville; 1 secretary and treasurer, F. It. Hens haw,. ] Middletown; board of directors, D. L. I Stine, Indianapolis; A. T. White, Newcastle, and Frank Martin. Muncie. The J next meeting will be held in Marion the first week in May, 1800. There were I three women dentists present. Woman Chews a Baby. A Lafayette woman named I.aivahan, while intoxicated, savagely attacked a 2-yeur-olil nephew residing with her. The I child was seriously bitten all over its | body, many ugly wounds resulting on the | .face, neck and arms. It was in such a condition that its clothes could not be s put on to remove it to a hospital and it 3 had to be wrapped in a blanket. The J baby’s condition is serious, blood poison- <i ing being feared. Glass Workers' Wages Reduced. The Wages of the American plate glass -j employes in the plant in Madison County j have been reduced from 5 to 25 per cent, 1 the reductions affecting alsurt 500 meo.-i Many of the men have refused to work ! and it is feared a general strike will re- 1 suit. i- - - - Ja Within Our Borders. James Babb, a young farmer, northeast J of Edinburg, committed suicide by shoot ing himself through the head with a re- S volver. Ezra Swain died at his home on Fed- .j eral.Hill, after a short illness, aged 70. | He had been a resident of Noblesville for ' about thirty years. In a tight at El wood John Hood stabbed 1 Jgmes Hughes in the back and on the a head and cut a great gash in his throat, grazing the jugular vein. Jesse Stearns, a prominent young farm- f er six miles north of Lebanon, shot him- ■ self four times m the abdomen with sui- 1 cidal intent. He will die. New Indiana postmasters are: John I Payne at Connersville, John C. Fudge at Dunkirk, Daniel Lynch at Lowell and' Havillu C. Hobbs at Salem. Charles Pepper, a prominent lumber | dealer and postmaster at Peppertown, 1 died of heart failure. His successor as postmaster has been appointed. The new Christian Church in Hamrick -1 was dedicated by Rev. Dr. L. L. Carpou- 1 ter of Wabash, who raised more money than was necessary to pay all debts. The gravel road election on the building of what is known as the Seymour and Dudleytown gravel road was carried by an overwhelming majority—72s to 174. At Sycamore, an afternoon west-bound freight on the Clover Leaf road took tire and several cars were burned, with con- ? tents, mostly merchandise. Passenger j trains were delnyed. The Union Traction Company, con- J stmeting the gas belt electric railway, * has closed a deal for a line from Alexan- j dria to Elwood, connecting with the An- M derson-MariOn line. This makes the elec- ; trie a rival of the Panhandle and Lake Eric as well ns the Big Four. Jesse Jones, Ed Jones, Will Lewis, 1 Charles Brunner and John Wheeler, all sons of prominent citizens and none over 15 years old, were taken to Anderson,. charged with committing the many rob- | bories nt Ingalls during the past month. ! The police were baffled and one of the : . boys was trapped by his father. All the cities of Indiana, except those under special charters—lndianapolis,' Evansville and Fort Wayne—elected munici-. | pal officers recently. In many places pol- $ itics did not cut into the contests. The j Republican tickets wore elected in South > Bend. Washington, Greoncastle, North Manchester, Lagro and Roann. At LaPorte, Valparaiso, Michigan City, Kokos -i mo and Terre Haute Democratic Mayors ; were elected. In nearly every city the vote was very light, local issues generally standing aside for' the discussion of war j news. An important event in Franklin college and society circles was the anniversary}, party given by the ladies of the Pi Beta Phi fraternity. The leading feature of the evening was the presentation of tho Gree kplay, “Electa," by the active members. A contract has been let for the erection of a monument at the grave of the late • Gen, T. J. Harrison, in Crown Point eem- | etery, Kokomo. It is a modest shaft, | procured by popular subscription through jj the efforts of the local G. A. R. Gen. i, Harrison’s grave has been unmarked foe | twenty-oeven years.