Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1893 — Page 2

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

, *Argos has diphtheria bad. Suicide Is epidemic at Ind ia n n pelfs. The smallpox scare at Dunkirk is dying out “ ~: A large otter was recently captured near Vincennes. * The Republican State committee trill reorganize Jan. 10. Columbus’ new business college was opened Monday night. The merchants of Goshen will hold a merchants’ carnival Nov. 23. A receiver has been appointed for the Wells M’fg Co., of Greenfield. Shelby cotnity is being worked by lightning rod thieves and swindlers. , Franklin Knights of Pythias are preparing to biilld a fine castle hall. The new <15,000 G. A. R. hall at Valparaiso will be dedicated Nov. 37. The Columbus marshal says hereafter he will not permit any gambling in that place. Secretary Carlisle has appointed George G. Tanner surveyor of customs at Indianapolis. «A typographical tourist has been “doing” up Greensburg parties with forged -cheeks; Alexandria has decided to put in a complete water works system as soon as possible. Elwood has opened a skating rink and _the young people are in a fever of excitement. , There is a row among the Muncie doctors growing out of the recent smallpox epidemic. The warden of the Prison South raised 2,000 bushels of onions this yeay on the prison farm. Frank Bowers, another member of the so-called Goodman gang, of Summitville, has been captured. The murderers of Noah King, Marcins■ville, are still at large. Bloodhounds w ill bo put on their trail. Only the polishing department of the Diamond plate-glass works at Elwood has resumed operations. The saloonkeepers of Crawfordsville have organized and will tost the validity of the screen-ordinance. The road between Jonesboro and Fairmont is acquiring a reputation as a dangerous one to travel over after dark. The Cathedral Glass Company, of Anderson, has purchased the plant of the American Glass Company, of Gas City. The Muncie city council has created a new office, that of a cat killer. It is his duty to send all stray eats to their seventh heaven.

A tramp who had been beaten unconscious by his associates was found nearly dead in a cornfield, near South Bend, Tuesday. The Dulaney Clock Company, of Valparaiso. is in trouble. Conspiracy to defraud and defalcation on the part of the officers are alleged. Smallpox has again broken out near Dunkirk. There are four new cases in the family of George Maltlen, two and onehalf miles from that place. Lewis Black, of North Madison, sold all his household furniture while his wife and daughter were at the World’s Fair and left for the Indian Territory. Jimmie McDonald, near Logansport, whose clothes wore saturated with coal oil and then ignited by drunken brutes. Is recovering from the serious burns. Messrs. Rodlfer & Hoffman, whose win-dow-glass plant at Elwood was recently destroyed by fire, have decided to rebuild. The new structure will be fire-proof. The farmers of Randolph county are blessed with an excellent corn crop, and 20 per cent, of our subscribers could pay up if they desired to do so.—Winchester Herald.

John Kissinger has sold 18,101 worth of fat hogs since August, and has a good supply for next year. This is what may be called successful farming.—Cambridge City Tribune. The miners employed by the Parke County Coal Company at Rosedale are on strike, claiming that the operators have lowered the screen, in violation of the contract of May last. fl Two applications for saloon licenses have been filed at Farmland. The good people say that they have not tolerated a saloon for twenty years and will not allow one to enter now. 6There was a collision between a passenger and a freight train on the Clover Leaf railway, near Marlon, duetoan intense fog. and engineer Gteorge Gilpin was painfully injured by jumping against a wire fence. Gustav Vanderbush, of Kokomo, treasures as a priceless relic the gun borne by his great-grandfather under Napoleon at Waterloo. It is of antique construction, and one of the earliest patterns of a breech-loading weapon. A sensation was created in Brazil, Tuesday. by the announcement that Sheriff Ringo had visited the prisoners in jail there and advised them to empljy a certain Democratic lawyer to defend their cases, as this lawyer had a “pull” with the judge. Mrs. J. A. Taylor, of Second street, this city, has a sheet of money scrip of the denomination of 6%, 12%, 25 and 50 cents, js. ued by her father over fifty years ago. Of course its value was based on the integrity and financial responsibility of the Issuer.—Eikhart Review. Fortville reports that Jack Connelly and a negro named Williams, of Indianapolis, fought near that village for a purse of 15.75, which was made up at the ring side. The negro was besting Connelly until the referee dealt him a blow on the head which knocked him out. A party of girls who were out “Hallowe’ ening” at Monticello, threw a stone through a window of a house occupied by D. B. Stafford and family, striking a child. Stafford fired into the crowd with * shot gun, hitting three or four of the fair serenade™. The next morning the doctors were busy picking out shot. During the financial stringency Adam Pence, a weathy man of Laporte county, who had money deposited in several banks, drew out the entire amount, being afraid of the solidity of the banks. This week he attempted to redeposit, but the banks refused to reopen an account with him. After twelve months' litigation and not <a few exeitlog experiences, Luther Morris has triumphed In his application to retail intoxicants at Fairmount, acting Judge Simmons, of Bluffton, granting the application. Threats are freely made at Fairmount that the saloon will not be tolerated. The big marshes bordering the Kanka*

kM river are on fire and an immense sea Of flame is carrying destruction in its patch. The fire threatens to swebp over the tracks wf the Lake Erie & Western road and burn over a large contiguous territory. Several hundred menare'iattling the flames. “ ; Mrs Louis JMiller, of Stewartsville, has brought her thirtieth year’s supply of mittens to Fretageot’s store. She is now in her eighty-first year, has knitted to date 2.283 pairs of mittens, and Is still knitting. Her husband, Louis Miller, is living in good health at the age of ninety years.—New Harmony Register. We had the pleasure of taking a strol» through the Acme distillery, Monday afternoon. Mr. John Stitzel, the distiller, is a clever gentleman from Louisville, who took pleasure in showing us through and setting up a “growler” of apple jack. The brandy made by the Acme, of which we have a sample, is of the best quality.— Tell City Journal. Daniel Caylor, of Hamilton county, while passing from his house to the barn at 6 a. m., was fired upon by an unknown party. Four shots missed him, but ono bullet took effect in his thigh, makifig un ugly wound. Charles Boden, an adjoining farmer was arrested as the assailant. He will have a hearing on the 20th Inst. Mr. Boden stoutly protests hjs innocence Fire at Claypool destroyed the drygoods store owned by Charles Thomas, the Kinzie hardware store, C. M. Saber’s drug store, a frame residence and two unoccupied business rooms. Some rolling stock and other property belonging to the Nickel-Plate Railway Company also burned. The total lossed exceeded <22,000, with moderate insurance. A. R. Hopkins was severely Injured by the falling walls of 1 the drug store, an explosion of dynamite wrecking the building. The handsome new Masonic hall at Lawrenceburg has been dedicated with appropriate ceremonies, conducted by exSpeaker Mason J. Niblack, of Vincennes. The Aurora commandery assisted and there were visiting brethren from many of the adjoining cities. The Lawrenceburg lodge is one of the oldest in the State. It was organized under the Kentucky jurisdiction In 1813 and was reorganized under the jurisdiction of Indiana in 1817. The oldest living member is Capt. James Shepard, who became a Mason in 1843. fol elec news

W. Downs, of Fairmount, who was injured by a natural gas explosion in his house, died of his hurts. He was operating a quart shop under Government license, and the saloon men allege that the natural gas pipes leading into his house were tampered with by the anti-saloon element. The feeling is very bitter at Fairmount because of the war upon saloons, and threats are freely made by both factions. Recently one of the ministers at Fairmount, who has been vigorous in fighting the whisky faction, found a dynamite charge on his porch, to which a partially burned fuse was attached. Had the dynamite exploded the house would have been torn to pieces. Fear is now openly expressed that the bitterness will lead to incendiarism, and that much destruction of property will result. Mrs. Emily J. Herron, wife of Solomon Herron, of Branchville, left her husband, and Mr. Herron posted a notice, reading: “be it none to oil persons that I Shall Not be Responsibel for enny debts contracted by emily Jane Herron, because She has left my bed and board without cause.” Thereupon Mrs. Herron also posted a notice, in effect that her husband had never furnished her with bed or board) and that she had even sold the bed given her by her mother on her wedding day to provide herself with sustenance. She added: “He never had a bed for me to leave, nor have I one at present. Furthermore, he has bestowed upon me nothing since our marriage, nearly three years ago, so freely as abuses and curses—all he has, and indeed he would not have the latter but for inheritance, and they would not have been kept for me could he swap them for bad whisky. I hereby warn all people to give him a wide berth and no credit. I will honor none of his debts nor contracts.”

Patents were granted Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: T. H. Anderson, Spencer, combined pipe wreqph and cutter; C. H. Cool, assignor of one-half to. J. B. Kinney, Ridgeville, tire upsetter; C. W. Claybourne, Indianapolis, cleaning device for hydrocarbon burners: A. C.Davis, Koxomo, plant protector; F. W. Flanner, Indianapolis, fluid fuel burner; C. J. Greenstreet, Indianapolis, nitrogenous fertilizer and making same; W. B. Harris and C. W. Claybourne, Indianapolis, gas i>r off "burner: J. C. Hassey, Indianapolis, adjustable bicycle support; W.O.Higgins, Kingwood, rock drill; J. Heaghes, Waynetown, gate; J. C. Hunsinger and W. Ensminger. Laurel, car brake; J. E. Mustard, Glen Hall, assignor of two-thirds to G. A. Harrison, Lafayette, and T M. Andrews, West Point, safety switch; J. F.Prinbow, Indianapolis, saw gauge: O. Stetchhan, Indianapolis, trunk; E. B. Stone, Narrows, car coupling.

AGAINST THE TAX ON BEER.

Letters received by the few Indiana Representatives who remain in Washington Indicate that there is a thoroughly organized movement among the brewers to oppose tha increase of the tax on beer. The German vote, which was cast almost entirely for Mr. Cleveland in the last campaign, is being used now as a menace to the ways and means committee to pre - vent the increase of tax. The German newspapers which reach the ways and means committee room are filled with tho criticisms of the Democratic leaders for the proposed Increase of taxes.

REAR-END COLLISSION.

By a rear-end collision at on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad, Wednesday evening, at Seventy-first street, Chicago, three people were killed and many injured. Passenger train No. 11, known as the limited vestibule express, crashed into the rear-end of a Blue Island accommodation, badly wrecking two coaches and tho engine of the limited.

Run in the Family.

“The absent-minded man who searched everywhere for the spectacles which he had pushed up on his forehead," said a citizen, “was my uncle. The absent-minded worn an who took a clock which had stopped from her. own room to the one adjoining to oil it, and who sent from there back to her own room to see what time it was, so that she could set it, was my wife. I think that absent-mindedness must ruu in our family.”

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

TRADE AND THE FAIR. The effects of the World’s Columbian Exposition on the business of the country at large are questions on which authorities disagree. Mr. Henry Clews, the famous New York financier, has publicly expressed his desire for the indefinite prolongation of the Exposition because he believes that the Fair has been a great factor in preventing the most disastrous consequences which otherwise would have surely followed the great business depression through which we have been passing. Mr. Clews holds that millions of money have been put in circulation throughout the land’ on account of the Fair that under other circumstances would have remained hidden in vaults or other inaccessible hiding places. From the inception of the enterprise to this day it has furnished employment to myriads of men. Every iron beam and wooden joist and piece of glass and block of stone that has been merged into forms of beauty in the great structures of Jackson Park has been the product of American artisans and workingmen, of American mines and quarries and forests. Every railway throughout the land has felt the added impetus of increased travel on account of the tide of humanity that flowed to Chicago, and in a majority of cases increased equipment and increased number of employes has been the necessary result. That the railways did not profit in a largerdegreewasdueto their own parsimonious policy at the beginning of the World’s Fair traffic. Nearly every visitor to the Fair has bought dry goods and wearing apparel that they wonld have done without under other circumstances, thus adding largely to the general volume of trade at a time when traffic was practically stagnated. On the other hand the country tradesman in all the territory within three hundred miles of Chicago is fully convinced that the Fair has been directly antagonistic to his interesta in every particular, and the one great cause of the financial troubles in the world at large. Taken in the sense meant by Mr. Clews there is no doubt but what the Fair has been beneficial to many lines of industry, but in the broad and comprehensive view of the political economist it must be reckoned as an extravagance, or rather an unneccessary outlay —as a holiday, beneficial as other holidays are, but still drawing on the resources of the country at large as a holiday at all times does upon the purse of the private citizen. Let us not delude ourselves with the vain idea that because the expenditures for a protracted series of fetes and jamborees have helped many people to put bread into their mouths that it is financial wisdom to continue the program until< the Day of Doom. “A man can not lift himself by his boot straps,” even a little bit, and it is a very old proverb and a true one that “They who dance must pay the fiddler.” We have danced and we have paid the fiddler, we have had a “time” to be remembered and our pocketbooks are sighing and some of us are crying for the wealth we squandered on Midway,and we’re glad the “dooks” and critters and the palaquins and litters are going or have all gone away. Now if we will all stay at home and “saw wood” we doubtless can make up for lost time and perhaps save enough to go again to see the Court of Honor next fall, as it is already practically settled that that grandest of architectural aggregais to be indefinitely preserved.

CROKER’S CAREER.

As an instance of the possibilities of “practical politics” in this country, the career of Richard Croker, the noted Tammany chief of New York, is interesting. Born in poverty and obscurity in Ireland in 1843. he landed at Castle Garden in 1852, attending school and learning the trade of a machinist in the intervening years until 1860, when he became prominent as a “rough and tumble fighter, which reputation he sustained until 1866, when he defeated Richard Lynch in a Sunday prize fight. In 1867 he was elected aiderman, serving until 1873, when he became coroner. In 1874 he was indicted for the murder of James McKenna, but was acquitted, and was again elected coroner in 1876. In 1879 he was defeated for coroner. In 1883 he succeeded again in a race for alderman, and was also appointed a fire commissioner of New York. In 1884 Sheriff Grant gave Croker’s daughter 110,000 because the child is his god-daughter and because Croker was poor—as he said. In 1886 Croker became the leader of Tammany Hall, and in 1889 was appointed city chamberlain, but re signed in 1890. During 1892-*93 Croker is known to have expended

for race horses, farms and a city residence not less than $685,000. This, in brief, is the history of a man who probably wields more power than the richest man or the most influential politician in the United States. As a man he is quiet, reserved, sphinx-like. He never made a speech in his life. He could not. He has never had any regular business since he served his apprenticeship as a machinist, except a brief connection with a real estate firm, to which he gave no personal attention. Only a little over three years ago he was regarded as a man of very moderate means. To-day he is accepted as a multi-millionaire. “Practical pol/tics” pays sometimes —if the practical politician succeeds imjreeping otit of the penitentiary and avoids open scandal.

PASTE THIS IN YOUR HAT. Rev. Dr. Talmage, in a recent sermon, suggested that the press of the country might well print the decalogue in their editorial columns to the exclusion of less important matter. So common have transgressions of the moral law become, the distinguished divine averred, that he fully believed that a large number of peopie had never read the Ten Commandments, and that, in fact, such publication would be in the nature of news and fresh information to a large number of people. We accept the suggestion, and present herewith extracts from the 20th chapter of Exodus, which embody the ancient and sadly fractured code: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything in heaven above or earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long in the land. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, nor thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s. Comment is unnecessary. Paste this in your hat for future reference.

Not What He Prayed For.

Boston Bu cat. Small Robert had one desire that transcended all others, namely, a bicycle. Now, Robert’s family are of a religious turn, and here was an opportunity to inculcate devotion in the boy. So they told Robert that if he prayed regularly perhaps God would send him a bicycle. Robert prayed. After he had been praying regularly for a month or more the anniversary of his birth arrived, and the family decided that it was about time to reward bis devotion. But thinking that a bicycle might endanger the boy’s life they bought him a tricycle. Small Robert came down on the morning of his birthday and was told that there was something out in the yard for him to look at. He went out to see, and there was the tricycle. But a tricycle was not what Robert wanted, and he looked up to heaven in disgust. “O Lord,” he said reproachfully. “O Lord, don’t you know the differ ence between a bicycle and a tri cycle?”

New Brick making Machine.

New York Sun. A new brick baking machine is tc be noted among the recent mechanical novelties. It is a simple contrivance, consisting of a table covered with iron brick molds, to which ar electric current is applied, the table being 8 by 14 feet, and holding 1,000 molds, joined together like pigeon hole. Each mold is the size of a brick which has been pressed but not baked, and each has a cover so fitted as to follow the brick as it shrinks. The bricks are taken from the presses and placed in the molds, the cover adjusted, and the current turned on. The iron sides of the mold form the “resistance,” and the brick are virtually inclosed by walls of fire. The brick having shrunk to the proper size, the sinking covers of the molds automatically turn off the current, the baking is done and the bricks are dumped.

New Danger in Tobaooo.

New York Herald. Buyers of leaf tobacco declare that in some parts of the South so much parts green was used on the growing plants last seasoh that the crop was not only seriously injured, but that the prodect was thus rendered dangerous for consumers. This condition of affairs certainly confront! users of the weed with a new ele meet of danger. If to the natura poison of tobacco is added the extn terror of arsenin the chewer oi smoker may wisely pause to sugges* that manufacturers inclose priz< slips in their packages which, wher E resented in certain sufficient num er, shall entitle the bearer to om neat, but not gaudy, coffin.

THE COURT OF HONOR.

A Beautiful Expression of the Popular Sentiment. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Had it been possible to make a true prognosis of the airiness, the grandeur, the delicacy, and the majesty of the quadrangle that fitly is known and forever shall be known as the Court of Honor, the Nation would not have permitted it to have been built of perishable stuff. Were the work of exposition building to do again it would be insisted that at least the Court of Honor should be constructed of age-enduring marble. Millions would be spent well in perpetuating this enchanting and sublime architecture. What moods it has! The hot sun talik on it from a cloudless sky and it shines a silver group worthy of the mansions of the blest, the lake gleaming through the peristyle and suggesting the perennial plenteousness and coolness of “the river of the water of life." The wind grows cold, the skies are overcast, the sun is obscured, and the ponderous masses array themselves in stubborn resistance to the unkindly elements and loom as though they were, what, alas! they are not —eternal granite, rooted and fixed in earth, but strong enough to repel the storms and fires of heaven. Never before was such masonry and such grouping of masonry imagined, far less executed. The Court of Honor is delicate enough to be the palace of the gentlest-and most beautiful of disembodied spirits of Titania, of Astarte, of chaste Diana, or of that higher class intelligence “angels ever bright and fair,” and it is also grand enough to be the abode si Jupiter Tonans. It is so grand, so really yet so unreally grand, that one would be little astonished were he to see Venus rising from the spray of the fountain, or Neptune coming from the lake through the pillars of the peristyle, or —and we say it reverently —Archangel Gabriel gazing with admiration on the colossal virgin who personifies the Republic, and saluting her with, “Sister, it is well.” The religious sentiment is irrepressible when one meditates in the Court of Honor. A few paces them e and man, “less than half removed from the brute,” feeds in the Dahomeyan village; here man, “but a little lower than the angels,” has blended the ethereal and the massive in love-exciting, yet in awe-inspiring piles. And over the grand arch of the peristyle are inscripfions that tell how this has come about, and hint at how yet grander—though as yet unimaginable—things mav yet come about. There is Lincoln’s exhortation that we should'“highly resolve that government of, by and for the people shall not perish;” there is the definition of that liberty which Lincoln advised,us to cherish, and for which he gave his life, “Civil and religious liberty means the development of personal and National character”—and fronting the peristyle is the Court of Honor, that bears witness to a noble development of personal and National character through the agency of civil and religious liberty. And, lest one should fear that liberty shall fail, high over all are the assuring words of the heaven-born Teacher: “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” As the Court of Honor is the hitherto climacteric result of search after and knowledge of the truth, so hereafter greater dis» plays await the unfleshed eyes of aL who seek and know. But the Court soon is to perish. Tennyson’s heartfelt cry, Oh. pull not down my towers that are So lightly, beautifully built! Is echoed by millions. But, had men known how grand it was to be, millions cheerfully would have been spent to give it so much of eternal duration as sublunary material and earth-born genius can give.

Working the Judge.

Detroit Free Press. When the judge looked over the collection of pick-up and other vicious bric-a-brac spread before him in the Police Court room and saw a man under the sword of justice whom he had seen there before he was wrathy. “Didn’t I tell you,” he inquire gternly, “the last "time you were here, if you came again I’d send you up for sixty days?” “Yes, your Honor,” confessed the culprit. “Then, what did you come here for?” “To git the sixty days, your Honor. It’s cheaper’n payin’ board.” It wouldn’t do for the court to go back on its word, and the prisoner became a guest of the city for the time stated.

A Burglar Came.

It was an agent for a big manufacturing concern who was talking. “I once got out a poster,” he said, “which started in: ‘Keep your eye on this, a burglar is coming.’ This I distributed broadcast in the towns in the northern part of State. Among other places, it was hung conspicuously in a .small grocery and ary goods store in one of the towns in that section. “One morning the proprietor, when he opened up shop, found that my notice had been amended to read: ;Keep your eye on this: the burglar has come.’ "The correction was made in pencil marke. “And sure enough, the burglar had come. And he had carried off about 1600 in money and goods.” • The skeleton of the leatherywinged bat is, bone for bone and joint for joint, similar to that of man. It is estimated that thereare 100,000 tramps in Germany.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

It is believed that the fly can make 600 strokes a second with its wing. Ah Me is the name of a Philadelphia Chinaman sentenced todeportation. In Rockland, Me., last Sunday a “sacred sleight -of - hand performance” was given. Americans drink tea hot and wise cold. The Chinese drink tea cold and wine hot. Canadian papers are advocating the revival of winter navigation on Lake Ontario. Relics of the battles that accompanied Washington’s retreat from New York are still found in the Washington Heights region. Potatoes first appear in history in 1503. In 1892 the United Slates raised 201,000,000 bushels. lu 1884 the world raised 79,000,000 tons. Fifty-three per cent, of the lunatics in the asylums of Bengal are there entirely as the result of using “hashish.” a poisonous drug. ,tn Egypt, Greece and Turkey the use of the drug is forbidden by stringent laws.

Yucatan is thehomeof an uncanny species of spider,the “mule-shearer.” It has a habit of creeping up the legs of mules and horses shearing off the hair that surrounds the hoof, especially the fetlock. A missionary in Chiu-Choo, received a letter-from a banker asking him to recommend ten or more Christians to be employed in his bank, “Because," he said, “the Christians are the only trustworthy men in the city.” A little girl near Winston, N. C., was bitten by a snake last August. She recovered, with this exception: Ever since the bite of the reptile her eyes have had a green color, and occasionally her tongue protrudes in the same manner as that of a snake. At the close of, the Columbian Fair Chicago papers are recognizing the existence of what they call the World’s Fair grip, whose symptoms are a slight, hacking cough, constriction at the base of the nose, and a general languor. The new Congressional library in Washington will, Librarian Spofford believes, accommodate copies of all the books of the world for one hundred years to come and still leave seven-eights of its available space applicable for other purposes. Two expressmen in Spokane, Wash,, a few days ago had a dispute over a dime, which resulted in a fight. Two hours later each paid in the police court a fine and costs amounting to sl7, and the question of who owned the dime is not settled yet.

The natives of the west coast of Africa are subject to the attacks of one of the most remarkable parasites known to the scientific investigator —a colorless, threadlike worm about two inches in length, which affects only the eyeball and the surrounding parts. A mountain, about fifteen miles from Tunscasori, near the boundary line of Arizona and Mexico, is said to have a great resemblance to the Tower of Babel. It is of a soft sandstone and pumice formation, and has many roads on its side. The mountain is about seven thousand feet high. For preserving wir • ropes carried under water or under the earth’s surface, a mixture of thirty-five parts of slacked lime and from fifty to sixty parts of tar is found thus far a very satisfactory method as compared with other processes which have been resorted to. - The compound is boiled and applied hot. Many queer stories have been told of the “Miraculous Thorn of Glastonbury,” England. It was said that! if the chips were planted they would sprout and grow like potatoes; that the leaves cured all inflammations, swellings, etc., and that “rods” cut from it would never leave marks on the children corrected by their use.

PEOPLE.

Frank Lenz, the ’round-the-world bicyclist, came within an ace of being killed in China by natives armed with hoes and rakes. Ex-Senator Ingalls had a remarkable way of preparing his speeches, according to Frederick Haig, formerlv his private secretary. He first dictated a speech very rapidly. Then he dictated another and altogether new speech .oh the same subject, and taking the typewritten copies of both speeches, he would cut, paste, erase and interline until he had made one symmetrical and harmonious address out of the two. Not all blood is thicker than water. A cousin of Herbert Spencer lives in San Francisco and pursues the peaceful occupation of selling paper, and stationery as a clerk in a little store. His name is Moira Spencer, and he is seventy years old, but he has not yet read any of his famous Busin's

Refused One-Half Million.

Chicago.—[Special] The makers of No-To-Bac, the guaranteed tobacco habit cure, lately refused a syndicate offer of me-nalf million for their business. No-ro-Bac is an absolute guaranteed eure for shewing, snuff-dipping and cigarette smoking. It is sold by nearly ail the druggists in this country and Canada. Made by the Sterling Remedy Company, Box 21, Indiana Mineral Springs, Ind. Chicago office, 45 Randolph street. They print a book called "Don’t Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.’’ Every tobacco • user should read it. Mailed for the asking. uhh No Quick a.u .uruid your retort cut Mr. Clio.-mat to the quick,’* •‘lmpossible! Ho is a PUiludoipbian.*