Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1907 — Page 2

A SMILING VILLAIN.

” CHAPTER XII. On the whole Aileen enjoyed the mornbusiness extremely. It was pleasant to shop with any one so generously inclined a* Heywood Fentop, and both the Caterham West and the orphanage children had reason to blase his presence in the toyshop that morning. And Billy was an entertaining companion, with a fund of easy conversation. As she listaned Aileen began to understand the secret of his extreme popularity. A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men, and the highly strung, intellectual girl found Billy’s commonplace conversation a decided relief. "I’ve really enjoyed myself,” she commented, as they parted. The Rectory was very quiet when she entered it, but a light Issued from beneath the drawing room door. "Visitors again 1” she thought, as she stood with her hand on the handle. Then her quick ear caught a .familiar tone. "The professor, of all people!” she exclaimed. She gave a hasty glance at her reflection in the glass- that faced the doorway nod went quickly in to the room. She expected to find Moyra making friendly talk with the reserved, silent professor, who was held in awe even by the most audacious of undergraduates r but instead, to - her intense astonishment almost openly expressed. Bride was presiding over the tea table, and Bride was talking easily •nd freely to the visitor, who listened with an indulgent smile, on his dark face and managed to appear very interested •ver the news that Bride was giving him. “Wonders will never cease,” Aileen thought, as she looked from her future husband to her sister, whose lovely face war aglow with excitement. “ What a beauty she is—our Bride! How do you do, Professor?” she said aloud, as he started almost guiltily. “So you have really found your way to this benighted region? I am so sorry we were all out except my sister. I hope she has looked after you well?” “Oh, yes—thanks ! She has been most kind.” > • Bride flushed a little and shrank into heraelf. No longer obliged to rely upon herself, she went back to her customary attitude of dependence upon her sisters. She gave up her seat to Aileen, and presently, when Moyra entered, clipped quiet - ly out of the room. Moyra waa agreeably surprised at the sight of Prof. Lewisson. Instead of the •Id gray-headed, untidy man she had vaguely imagined was one certainly not more than thirty-eight, with a CleverJooking, dark face, kind, grave eyes, and a black pointed beard and hair as short ’"'jjTerry’a Nor did he wear jglass&frim-' tetually, Jid, EEough they hung ready for use. He was tall nd thin and stooped a little, but he was no bookworm in appearance. “If Aileen takes him in hand and trims him up. he will be quite good-looking,” Moyra told herself, as she listened uneomprehendingly to the conversation that was going on between master and pupil. How clever and how very dull it was! she thought, as Greek quotations slipped flawlessly from Aileen s lips, and the professor waxed eloquent over disputed readings. , Dinner was a little later that evening •wing to Terry’s and Angus’ late return from a football match, and as Moyra stood at the dining room window, waiting for them, the postman arrived with some tetters, one for Angus with a foreign postmark. She sent it up to his room and forgot all about it until later In the evening, when his extreme quietness and preoccupied expression attracted her attention. . It was a dull evening. Conversation at dinner was monopolized by the Rector and professor, and afterwards, when Mr. Beresford had gone to a meeting, a blanket of dullness seemed to have settled •ver every one. Only the professor and Aileen seemed to be enjoying themselves. Tetry yawned openly and finally went •ut, "while Bride went to sleep without any disguise. Moyra glanced at Angus, and be met her gaze. He rose and seated himself beside her.

“Hasn’t h been a dull evening?” Moyra •aid. "Terry has gone to the big house.” "And Bride is asleep, which is a sad comment on our general liveliness. Card playing and the easiness of the school room party have spoilt us for respectable life in the drawing room,” he said, a smile lightening his face. “I must acknowledge that two or three times I have felt inclined to join the crew.” "Vera is here. But you haven’t done much to increase our hilarity,” she added, with gentle reproach. "I have been wondering why you have looked so miserable all the time.” He did not answer at once, and she looked up inquiringly, to meet his eyes fixed upon her with an expression that made the color rise in her face. She bowed her head over her work again, not * knowing why she should feel- so foolish and yet so pleased. “I am afraid,” Angus said, “if I looked miserable, it was because I feel so. I shall be obliged to go away to-morrow." Moyra's hands dropped ; she looked up at him astonished. “Go away?” she echoed, and it was happiness for him to hear the soqpow in her tone. "Not —not to South America?” "Not yet, although I must hold myself fa readiness for that, too. To-morrow I must go to London” —his brows contracting. “My father Is growing impatient at my laziness and is loading me with commissions in town. Lt Is an unpleasant business, too, and one I would infinitely rather leave alone, but needs must •hen .the 'chief drives.' My father is an exceedingly impatient man. I came to England with a great task set me, one that demands a great deal of care and involves anxiety and trouble, yet every letter says, ‘Have yon done what I wish.' and, alas, every latter mys in return. ’I have not’!" “I am afraid you are very dilatory.” . Moyra Said. He had certainly done noth iMRAiIe he had been with them. “Have

By VIOLET M. FLINN.

you ever begun to do what your father wishes?” “Oh, yes!” he answered gravely, not noticing her surprise. “Everything is set in -train. But my father, like other clever men, thinks only of the end, and cares nothing for what has produced it” They were silent for a while; then Moyra asked, with her usual serenity: “Shall you bfraway long?” He started as if his thoughts had been far away. “What? Oh, I beg your pardon! I am afraid I cannot answer that —It depends so much on how my business progresses—but I stall certainly return here before I finally leave the country. How will you get on at the tea party without Miss Prior or myself?” She laughed and made some light reply, although her heart had grown very heavy. She could not tell how it was, but his words had made her very uncomfortable. It. was late when the professor left and the elder sisters could ge to bed. They did not stop to talk over the dying fire as they usually did. Each had thoughts she could not share with the other. '»

Aileen gazed long and critically at herself that night as she undressed. She was looking unusually well; her cheeks were flushed, her eyes sparkled, her face wore an animated expression that was not usual to her. She had enjoyed her evening; it had been intellectual in the extreme, and the professor had thrown a fresh light on a difficult passage that had defied her in her readingyet she was conscious, deep in "her heart, of a little dissatisfaction. “I might just as well have worn my old gown and been seventy and an old witch,” she said half a loud, as she turned away to blow out the candles. “He never noticed if I looked nice or not. He regards me just as an intellectual machine.” CHAPTER XIII. It was-surprising to all the Beresfords to find how much they missed Angus' presence and unobtrusive help when they were removed from the Rectory circle. Every hour of his absence intensified this loss to _ Moyra, and she recognized the little kindnesses, the help, and the prompt assistance that had been hers. She had been alone so long and the break in her old habits had been so brief that she could not understand why the resumption of thorn should be so filled with pain.

The day of his departure had still another event to mark it unpleasa.jfiiy in Moyra’s memory. t That evening the Rec-t°r-■’Terry g[ r ] s were uihe at the big house, but that did not prevent Billy and Vera from making their appearance in the school room at tea time, Billy with a request for Prof. Lewisson’s address, as Mr. Fenton was anxious that he should join the dinner party. After the gloom of the day the spirits of the family began to revive, and tea became a very lively meal. In spite of his sister"# protests, Terry was mimicking Prof. Lewisson, when suddenly Bride, who was facing the window, jumped up with a scream. “What is the matter? Are you going to have a fit? What did you see, Bride?” were remarks that were distinct in the hubbub that arose, but Bride had flown to the window and was unfastening it as quickly as her excitement would allow. She threw the sash up, and the next instant a laughing voice cried: “May I come in? Or must I say, like Paul Pry, I hope I don’t Intrude?” “Why, it’s Charteris!” Terry exclaimed, open-mouthed and open-eyed, as Bertram sprang lightly into the room. “I assure you, cried, in laughing protest of her grave face, “I was intending to make an orthodox entry, but the way was long, the wind was cold,’ and the light across the lawn tempted me, and then Bride finished my fall” —looking at her with merry eyes. “Why, Terry, I never expected to see you! And how are you, Aileen? It is ages since we met.” He went around the table, shaking hands with those he knew, smiling in very friendly fashion as he was introduced to the strangers. “I met a man in town, charming fellow, who knows you very well,” he said to Fenton, as he sank into a seat beside Bride. “He is a Trinity man named Ormond.” “Yes,” said Billy, rather indifferently. *'l know his name, but the acquaintance does not go any further.” “When did you come back. Bertram?” Bride inquired. The color his sudden appearance had.brought was still in her cheeks. She was looking radiantly lovely and so unaffectedly happy that Moyra clenched her hands at the sight.

"Exactly three hours ago—just time enough to have some lunch, change, and get rid of smoke and dust, and then I came here. 1 could not .stay away any longer,” he added, in an undertone that only Bride heard. She smiled and blushed. and her eyes shone with happiness. Bertram was evidently very pleased to be amongst his friends, and laughed and talked in his gayest, most fascinating manner. He did not seem to notice that his arrival had caused a cessation of the laughter and joking that had been going on. He talked little about his absence; be bad been very busy, he said vaguely; he was more anxious to know how the Bereefords had been spending abet? time, and he began making plans Tor skating parties and the like. A little later Hammond came in with a note, which she presented to Moyra. Aileen, who Mt beside her sister, mw her face brighten suddenly as she read, but it was not until Billy made a move to depart that she said to him : “Will you please thank Mrs. Fenton. Billy, and tell her Bride shall go with us? Mrs. Fenton wants you to gp with us too. Bride,” she Mid, addressing the girl, who seemed about to protest, and did so as soon as Billy had gone. “I would rather not go. Moyra,” Bride raid. “I—l wop Id prefer to. stay at home. I don’t want to go out .to-night."

Moyra glanced from the flushed taco cbnnteiunjisFT”®*' eyes, laughing as they were still, had a touch of defiance in them. He could see plainly when he chose, and bis glance told her that he saw’ through .her anxiety not to leave Bride fit-ar him, and he defied her to win as easily as she expected to do. “I wish you to go, Bride,” she said, with unusal authority in her voice, and siie began to talk of passing events, determined not to leave until Bertram had gone, and she could with her. Then the conversation became general again. Tgrry wanted to know something of Bertram’s foreign experiences, and during the talk that ensued Angus Robertson’s name was continually brought up by one or another of the Beresfords! Presently Charteris turned to Bride, who was sitting in her favorite attitude near the fire, her bands clasped round her knee, hen-face uplurned to him. “You have not forgotten your promise about the portrait, Bride?” he asked. “When may I begin?” Bride’s pink cheeks grew pinker; she pouted her lips like a child, and looked perilously near tears. “Moyra says I had better not," she said brokenly. Bertram looked at Moyra in mild surprise, but before she could make any,reply Hammond reappeared. Some one had called to see the Rector, and insisted upon seeing Miss Beresford. Moyra was obliged to go. She could only hope that Terry, who was talking of boating, was so enamored with the subject that he would talk until she returned. She hurried back to the school room, to find Lulu still playing with her dolls, Terry absent, and the other two in close confabulation " over the fire. Bride started almost guiltily as her sister came in; Bertram was gay and inconsequential as ever. “Terry has gone,” he said lightly, “and I must go too. I know you all want to make yourselves even more cliarming than usual.” He looked up at Moyra. with his good-tempered smile, and as he did so a slight change came over his face. “Some one has been increasing the contents of her jewel box,” he said idly. “May I look at that very quaint brooch?”

She unfastened it unwillingly, and he turned it over carefully, holding it -first , in one waj- and then in another. "Isn’t it pretty?” Bride said admiringly- "Angus gave it to her for a Christmas present.” ...t “It has no value,” Moyra put in quickly, resenting • his close scrutiny of her treasure. “It is simply a curio.” "Is it?” he said dryly, handing it back to her. “I have some slight knowledge of stones. I should say that was a very valuable one. Your new friend, Moyra, must be either a millionaire or”—with a little laugh“a receiver of stolen goods. That ruby was never put on sale to catch the fancy of globe-4 rotters at Colombo.” There was no reason to doubt hjs _s!&cerity and did so. It was so verx finhkcly, she thought, that Anr' vUe have made any mistake, au3' could not have bought it had he kngwn its real value, for ha was no millionaire, she reflected, with a tender little smile. But later in the evening, while she was sitting beside Mr. Fenton, the subject recurred to her memory, and she suddenly asked her host if he was a good judge of rubies, and, giving him the brooch, asked his opinion of the stone. (To be continued.)

Low Wage Scale.

“Columbus,” said a local antiquary, “got a salary of $320 a year—less than $1 a day. His captains got SIBO a year apiece. His crew got $2.25 a month. To equip the expedition that discovered America cost $2,500. The to’tal cost of discovering .America was $7,200. “Lawyers nowadays, especially corlioratiou lawyers, think nothing of earning $1,000,000 a year. In the reign of Edward IV. a baronet entered in his diurnal, or diary: “ ’Paid to"*Roger Fylpott, learned in the law, for his counsel, 3 shillings, with 4 pence for his dinner.’ “Ministers often make to-ddy $20,000 or $30,000 a year. The late Dr. Talmage made $60,000. Yet John Knox only got $220 a year, or $4 a week, and that was $1 more a week than Scottish, judges got. “Small salaries those,” concluded the antiquary “but we must remember that in that epoch there were fio trusts to Inflate prices, and a dollar went a long way. In fact, a Christmas dinner for a family of six would have cost in John Knox’s time, for the turkey, 10 cents; cranberry sauce, 2 cents; potatoes, 1 cent; turnips, 1 cent; celery, 1 cent; plum pudding, 2 cents—-total, 17 cents, or less than 3 cents a head.”

The Boy Guessed Right.

They were getting a kindergarten lesson. The teacher taught them very simple subjects. She touched a table. “What is this?” “Wood.” “What is this?” she asked as she touched the fender. , •’lron.” “What is this?” Indicating a bottle. “Glass.” “What Is this?" and she touched hoe watch chain. “Brass," said one small boy. and sho changed the subject.—Sjiokesiniin-Re-view. x

Something in a Name.

"Circumstances!” exclaimed the summer boarder. ‘That is certainly a queer name for a mule.” “Oh, I dunno," replied the old farmer.*, “Didn’t yew never heer uv circumstances over which a feller ain’t got no control?”

The Old Story.

“Jane not in bed at 11:30?” “No.” “What's the matter with her?” “She's sitting up with a lovesick friend.”

Truthful Thomas.

Clara —I hope you would not marry a woman for her money? Tom —No: not if I could get her money without marrying her.

Political Comment

_ To Harry "Vp Canal Wort. ’ ’ Many members of Congress who expect to be on tjie committees which will be called upoii to make appropriations for the Panama Canal are making arrangements to visit the isthmus before the session begins. They will do this for the purpose of seeing what work has been done, what is doing, and what is needed to be done. The President, it is understood, is to give more'space to canal matters in his coming message than he has done heretofore, and Congress will need to inform itself on the subject at first hand, in order to act intelligently. The President made a trip to the canal zone last fall, and the result was quickly seen in some changes which he made in the 1 working .forces at the isthmus, and in legislation which he urged in a special message. One of the objects of the coming visit of congressmen to the isthmus is to devise means to hurry the work forward. As the army is in charge of the construction now, report says that far more progress is being made than was done during the civilian regime. And there is far less talking by the men who are doing the work, and there*is no [losing before the camera. During the administration of the civilians the country quickly got familiar with the pictures of Wallace, Stevens, Shouts ahd the others, but nobody outside of Hie canal zoue knows what the present head of the constructive forces looks like, and very few know his name. lie atteuds strictly to business, and the newspapers get no chance to mention him.

Still, it may be possible for the president and Congress to devise means to hurry up the work of canal building, by strengthening the hands of the army officers who are in charge of affairs. If this can be done the country wants it to be done. The fac,t that the fleet for the Pacific will have to sail 15,W0 miles to reach a point which could be reached in 5,000 if the canal were completed is an eloquent reminder that that sljort-cut ought to be pushed with all possible' speed. The Covfttfy is spending a good de?> eflnoncy in canal Imildme: ’htrt' it is willing to spend more if the additional outlay will bring completion a year or two earlier. The Panama issue" is one of the most interesting questions which will come before Congress this winter. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. llopinK for a Word. Chicago Democrats are hoping, through the medium of the national committee, to smoke out William Jennings Bryan. Chicago is bidding for the convention, but it fears that with Bryan in complete control, be will switch the big gathering to some other city for the reason that Chicago is not bubbling over with enthusiasm for the Peerless One. 1 Ever since Bryan undertook to teach Roger Sullivan his duty as a Democrat, there has been a growing revolt in Illinois against the Nebraskan. Sullivan, it will be recalled, as, a inemlier of the national committee," but Bryan claims there is a taint to the title, and hence personally advised him to retire. This impertinence brought a tart re» ply, from the effects of which Mr. Bryan has not yet recovered. But the Democrats of Chicago don't intend this little political duel shall deprive them of the honor they seek. They have invoked the aid of Folk's friends to help them out. and as the program is designed to place Bryan on record, mutual advantage will be derived. The Missouri governor has a little bee buzzing in bis bonnet. He knows he won't cut much of a figure if Bryan trie* to be the wliole show, while should the latter eliminate himself. the Folk l>oom might assume dimensions. Several inembers of the national committee are friendly to Folk, and if these can be lim'd up for "Chicago. it is thought Bryan will be coml>elled to announce his position.

The most remarkable evidence of .veakness of the Democratic party is this confession that before anything can be accomplished Bryan must be consulted. Even as courageous a man is Watterson admits that Bryan, the man who has done more than any other Democrat to disrupt the Democratic IKirty, can and probably will, dominate the next national convention. Yet how ’quickly life could be galvanized into that party were Bryan to announce his retirement! —Toledo Blade. _________ ■* Wouldn’t It Be Better. The constitution of the 1 United States wisely provides that ail measures for the raising of revenue shall originate In the House of Representatives. Tills is because the House of Bepresentatives is supposed to be d» er to the iteople tiuin any other body. Almost without exception our experience has shown that when matters like fids are left to the State pepartment the United States gets thehrorst pf it. Wouldn’t it be better to adhere strictly to the spirit as well as to the letter of the constitution and Jet Congress (miss on all these matters?—Cedar RapIds Republican.

Sounded Familiar.

Eva —Uncle Tom made millions with bis mines. When be went over to Europe he could afford a private cabin for himself. Edna —Gracious! How funny! Eva —What Is i- x Edna —Why, It must nave been “Uncle Tow’s Cabin."

Mr. Bry«a and the Republican Party. - - That- Mr. Bryan will st?ek the Da.so* cratic nomination In 1908. and expect! to receive ft, is announced by a re-ng nized Bryan spokesman in New A’ oris city. • ‘ There is nothing surprising about this, r It, is a logical consequence of poli t ica 1 developments In the hist three ~ years. . The national Democracy, as far as it has an organized existence, stands foi nothing but Bryanism. Mr. Bryan is its only presidential possibHty-of na tional dimensions. Unless there Is a revolution within the party, either Mr. Bryan or some man selected by him will be the Democratic candidate. What will be his chances of'el fiction *> To all clear-eyed and cool-headed ob servers they now seem better than in 1900, and almost as good as they were in September, 1896. Ths reason is not that the Democratic party has grown stronger, but that the Republican party has grown weak er. So many conspicuous Republican leaders have gone so far with Mr. Bryan that his candidacy seems a log ical consequence of their campaign. To make the point clear, let us re call bow Mr. Hearst, in bis campaign for the New York Governorship, justi fled himself and his doctrines by print ing in parallel columns with his own views the inflammatory utterances of several national Republicans. How, then, shall the Republican party de feat Mr. Bryan? How save the conn try from the disaster of his election? Plainly it can do so only by. adopting a platform of Republican and American principles, by selecting leaders whose lives and characters . show both the ideals through which this nation has grown great and prosperous above all others, and by thus bringing the American people to a new birth of hope and faith in their country, its, institutions, and themselves, The outlook is not dark or discouraging. It is necessary only for the Republican party to do its duty and attend to its busintfW.* *lt lias a/year in which to accomplish a task more difficult but of the same kind as that with which it grappled successfully in 1896. If the task is begun now with determination, and is' carried on in faith, notliing wavering, .we some day shall all look back upon 1908 as we now do Upon 1896, and confess that nothing but our own.follies put us in fear.— Chicago Inter Ocean.

Prosperity to Stay. Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture has returned to Washington from the West with good reports of the ripening crops. The Western farmers have plenty of money and are soon to have a great deal more, since they are getting ready to send to market enormous quantities of grain and other products. Good prices for them are amply assured. So the process by which an abundance of money is put into circulation is about to begin all over again under favorable conditions. The scarcity of money for investment and speculation in Wall street and other financial centers presumably will increase during the next few weeks, since the moving of the crops will cause the West and South to withdraw their surplus funds to be used in transactions throughout the regions of actual production. The easing process, so often provided by the national treasury. of preventing a breaking strain by the deposit of government funds in banks in New York and other financial centers will come into play once more. But while the big financiers are looking glum and stocks are sagging on the exchanges the producers of the nation will be largely increasing their stores of money. That Is prosperity. For., the producers’ money soon flows back to the financial centers from the local banks where it has been deposited or from the cities where it has been expended for supplies. So long as it is not squandered in foolish speculation or lost in the heart-breaking process of toiling through unprofitable years, which either supply but scanty fruits of the soil or provide no remunerative prices for them, the country is truly prosperous. The curbing of the railroads. which are now required to carry the products of the farms to market at a reasonable charge, Is an Inqwrtant element In the present period of prosperity.—Chicago News. Tariff Reduction by Treaty. The goods Imported from Germany are virtually under the new agreement allowed to enter at the value certified by the German Chambers of Commerce. Thus the duty on German goods Is less than that exacted uj»on the products of other countries, w hlch are subject to an ad valorem rate of duty, because the lower the value at which imports are appraised the less the duty, ’tlntll we allow France, England and other countries the same favor it can harjlly l»e called a square deal. The Manufacturers' Association and the stand-pat-ters object to this agreement with Germany liecnuse it thus reduces the rate of dut.v In this round-about way.—Salem (Ill.) Democrat

Over at St. Joe. .

The elopers were all smiles. The parson had just tied the knot. Suddenly tbe telephone buzzed furiously and tlie bride’s fattier shouted: “Wait for me!" But the bridegroom only smiled some more and sweetly replied: “Not on your life, dad-ln-law! Time and ‘tied’ wait for no man. We are tied now.” A new prize of SIO,OOO is offered In France for tbe inventloa of a dirlgibla balloon ,

Indiana State News

GIRL’S DINNER WIN« HEART. Attorney Weds Fair Cook Week After Flrat Meeting Her. John Hamm, a young Elwood lawyer, started to Anderson in an automobile. Near Franklin his machine went “dead.” He went to a farm house to buy a luncheon. Miss Telia M. Welch, who is just 21, informed the young man that if he could wait she would prepare dinner. He amused himself in the parlor playing the piano until he was invited into the dining room. The biscuits were superb, while the coffee was delicious. The pies and cake melted in his mouth. The girl was interesting and pretty. They chatted while a cheuffeur was hastening from an Elwood garage to -bring his “dead” auto back to town. Just one week later the young man and the girl rode to Anderson in the same old automobile, where a license was taken out. A wedding followed. INSURANCE SHOWS LOSS. Report Shows Decrease In Business of Indiana Companies. of the insurance department of the State for the'year ending Dec. 31, 1906, shows that the fire insurance companies had the best of the business during the year and that the life- companies showed a decrease over the year preceding, though made a comparatively good showing, circumstances considered.. The Indiana fire insurance companies wrote a total of $8,246,648 worth of business in 1906, as against $18,308,555 in 1905. The foreign fire insurance companies wrote $80,937,977 worth of business in 1906, which is a substantial increase over the $73,111,565 that they wrote in 1905. The legal reserve Indiana life insurance companies wrote a total of $59,922,882 worth of business during the year. ■ ‘ ■. TROUBLE IN SHELBYVILLE Race War Started Wheip Five- Negroes Attack P6TTceman. Shelbyville has another race war. The trouble started when five negroes attacked Policeman Daniel Starkey, beat him into insensibility and fled when a crowd of whites arrived. Five shots were fired at the fleeing negroes, but none took effect so far as is known. A posse of 100 whites was formed and scoured the city. Mayor Swain and a party of policemen captured two of the colored men, Steve and Robert Marshall, near the outskirts of the city. They were taken to jail, where they are closely guarded. The streets were vlea/ed of negroes. No violence was attempted, but crowds of angry citizens stood on the street corners threatening the colored men. MORE TROUBLE FOR STANDARD Inspector of Indianapolis Gets Tip from Commissioner Smith. Isidor Wulfson, inspector of Weights and measures in Indianapolis, who wrote to the bureau of corporations at Washington asking for aid in his fight against the Standard Oil Company, received a reply from Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith, in which the writer says that certain information asked for by Wulfson could not be furnished, as it was expected to use it in proceedings against the oil company. Mr. Smith said information gathered by the bureau is submitted to the President, who may or may not give it out as he sees proper. Woman, 94, Drops Dead. Mrs. Mary Tucker, 94, who ‘came t« Wabash county when it was all a wilderness, died suddenly the other day. Brief State Happenings. Literally frightened to death by a passing automobile; a horse driven by Mr. and Mrs. Squire Barr, living between Warsaw and Akron, fefi over in the roadway. When Carl Myers, the chauffeur, discovered that the animal was shying at the machine he stopped, just in time to see the horse lunge forward and sink to th.e ground. Despondent because she could not master the English language, Goldie Goldenberg, aged 23 years, jumped into the St. Joseph river at South Bend, in an attempt to drown herself. A policeman saw the girl go down and jumped in after her in time to make a rescue. The girl was taken to the county jail and later was turned over to the Associated Charities. It will require a joint meeting of the State executive boards of the Indiana miners and operators to decide if 400 men at a John R. Walsh coal mine at Terre Haute are liable to a fine of $1 a day each, as prescribed by a contract, for striking pending an Arbitration. The miners took their tools away, which is claimed to mean quitting employment and not striking.

Thrown into a rage by several cups of water being dashed upon him, Henry Robinson, a demented man, who was locked in the city jail in Connersville, killed Austin Ford and seriously injured several other prisoners. After striking with an iron cuspidor Charles Ringo, an old trusty, and William Snow, a member of the city fire department, who was-called Ijo. Robinson attacked Ford and beat his head to a pulp against the bars of a cell. Ford was killed before the jailer arrived. The jailer and police were notified, but were unable to conquer thfi crazed man. The fire department was then called, and after a stream of water «as played upon him he was dragged into a cell. The Rev. Waller Clark of Cassopolis, MiCh., has donated SIO,OOO toward the establishment of an old people's home, to be controlled by the Brethren church. The announcement of the gift was made at the closing session of tbe Brethren church at Winona Lake. Tbe body of Homeg S. Casey was found sitting upright iu a buggy in the barn at his home near Bloomfield, with a bullet hole through the left temple. He was to have been married to Miss Anna Brone, and drove home the previous night from visiting her. The horse was hitched t» 'be buggy when the body was found