St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 51, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 July 1892 — Page 7

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lab~ — - Is^ ’ -ZZ 3^ ; L^UPJLW^^ CHAPTER I. MA HG ABET. On the af.eraojn of a day early in Ap it two ladies were driving along a level Ci unt. y road Ono was evidently a straager to tho place and its surround ngs, for she observed the scenery w.th curious inter■est, an 1 frequently questioned h r companion about the persons an 1 residences they passed. The other, who drove the , « handsome bays with an unndstal ale ' air of proprietorship, was ;.n old resident. She ha 1 foun 1 her way to this small but pretentious town some years before, and, bu 11 ng a han Isome home, ha I since devoted her energies supple* mented 1 y the mag cal influence of mo ey, to gaining an entree in o it i cx■clusivo society. Bo h were deep in conversation, when a turn in the road brought them face to face with a young girl riding. Mrs. Downs was in the act of checking her horses, but the newcomer, as though quite unconscious of any such intention, nedded indifferently and role on. “The pron I piece,” commenced tho slighted la iy, endeavoring to hide her -chag in. “Who is she?” questioned her companion, glam ing after the rider with some curiosity. • “Miss Leigh. You remember I jointed her home out a fcw'mbments ago.” "Ah! Then she’s the heiress?” “Yes, an heirness uov, though a year -ago she wt s joorer than her own cook. I never could tolerate her, 1 ut I manage to keep up a show o.' friendship. She’ll be one of th ■ leaders of society here when she gets rid o; her mourning.” The speaker concluded this remark ■with a very visible frown. She was forcibly reminded of her own doubtful position and her inability to disregard any’person or tiling that could contribute to her social advancement. Annexation was ind< o I a burning question with her. and while she found her dollars ; n important ally, her lack •of a presentable grandfather was decid•edly a drawback in the furtherance of her ambitious- aspirations. “A graceful rider and quite a pretty igirl,” remarked her companion, breaking in iq on these unpleasant reflections. “Where did she get her money?” “From her uncle. The case is a together peculiar. It seems that her father was dis nherited for marrying •contrary to his father’s wishes, and her uncle, being the only other child, came , in for all the property. Afogunate । thing fcr him. as . ap■enjoying his good fortune, for his father ] was scarcely buried be.ore he began to , sear, h for his brother “Yes, he found him dying, I believe, in some obscure California town. Miss Leigh came to Elmwool. That was five years ago, and now she his inherited all of her un le’s money. He died last October, and his son ” “His son! You don’t tell me he has a , son.” “He certa nly has. lam not surprised at your astonishment. It’seems almost impossible that a lather could enrich a niece ut the expense of a son, yet that is what Mr. Le gh has done. “The young man g. ts something, of ■course. Two thousand a year, I believe. A sn ail sum in compor.son with ;h‘ whole.” “A very unusuil case. Beihaps he intends the young perpe to many.' “Perhaps, but as they nave nev r see i each other, the result is scan ely rr b■able. The son has been in Europe ior the last five years. He wis considered quite wid, I am told, ami 1 e an 1 his fa her qut reeled frequently. No doubt, that fact had some connection with t .e terms of the wid, but, I think there was •undue 'nftuence somewhere With this broad acct sati< n the subject was alkwed Io d op. Meanwhile the object of these remarks was pursuing her way homeward. Mrs/ Down ' companion had called her pret'y, but the word scarcely did h< r justice. Her face, while lacking perfection of feature, was singularly Winning and attractive. If the mouth were a trifle hroad, the full red lips with their expression, half pleading, half imperious, made ample compensation. I the nose deviated from the straight and perfect \ iline, the fault was forgotten in the clear •contour of the beautifully mol led brow, the liqu d depths of the clear gray eyes, and the sweet persona' ty b aming from the expressive eountemm e. Absorbed in thought of tin unpl *asant characte~, as evidenc d by her very perceptible f own, she rode on, quite lostto her surruun Lags, until her ho se, through force of habit, Tati er th tn the guiding hand of his mist’ess, turned into a bioad elm-lined avenue, an 1 siw looked up in some surprise to find herseif at home. Ten m nutes lats r she had divested herself of her rid.ng habit, an i mad • her way to her sitting-room. A bright, cheerful apartment whose tasteful furnishing revealed something of the individuality of its owner. “I was sine I should find you here,” she -aid, at preaching the old lady <stab ished before the glowing fire, and lay ng her cool hand aga nst me warm, s i.o th cheek. “I'm afraid I shall have 1o assert some authority. You should b • enjoying this delightful weather, Miss Hilton.” “I dare say I shou’d,” was the a reeable reply, “but you see I m lazy, mj dear. I’ve had a nice nap. Did yo t ride alone, Margaret? “Yes. except ior my thoughts. I had a whole hist of them for company. Really, I'm as cro-s as a boar.” “I am sorry to hear it. YA hat have you been thinking of?” “Oh, everything. Papa, grandfather, an( j yes, and this hateful money.”

I “I!a’eful, Margaret? Then you don’t . share the world’s opinion of that useful I article.” ; Margaret drew a < hair close to Miss i Hilton, and seated herself upon it, as i she replied. Not the world that Mrs. Downs ropi resents. I met her a while ago. Sho ! wanted to step, of course, but I lust lode on. Awluliy rule, wasn’t it? I : couldn’t help it. I detest her. She | wouldn’t care a snap of her finger for I me if I were poor, 1 ut simply because I Oh! I hate such people! Thank : heaven, I’ll soon be away from them for awhile. I told you I was cross, Miss ' Hilton.” ! “I see it, my dear,” was the half grave response. “Have you quite decided to go io that outlandish place?” | “V. hat a doleful expression. If that j outlandish place m-ans Siasconset, I’m i ai'iaid I must plead guilty to such a dreadful decision, and I think I shall find my experience both novel and delightful. 1 mean to do just as I please. Take another name and forg t Margaret ; Leigh entirely. I’m tired of her.” "Poor Margaret Leigh. I fear you don’t appreciate her; and since you are j quite de ermined to go to that land'send of creation I suppose the best thing ior me to do is to hope you won’t regret it.” i Margaret laughed at this view of the matter. “ . ou see, lam not looking for beaux,” she said, w.th mock gravity’. "I’ve always liked old men better than young ones. I’m sure those deligh ful old fishermen will suit me immensely. Besides, I m tired of civilized life and shams generally, so I welcome something genii ne lor a change. I suppose you think I have a very carping disposition, but I do so want to air my grievances. If it were not too undignified I should like to lie cn the floor and scream.” , “Don’t do so, my dear. The doctor is right. You do need a change. I don’t recognize my old Margaret? ’ y- -“-Anattering way of expressing an unflattering opinion,” laughed Margaret, giving Miss Hilton’s hand a rebuking little pat. “I am' growing degenerate, arii I not? I feel outrageously reckless to-day. I have a most overpowering desire to shock this prim and severely’ proper neighborhood. Don’t look so rci roving, Miss Hilton. You couldn’t scold if you tried, and I’m afraid I take advantage of that knowledge. Your expression reminds me of Mr. YVebb. : He was dilating on my grandfather’s : virtue - this morning—to me, of ail people, mind you!—when I stopp d his eloquence, and horr lie I him in the bargain by saying if my grandfather was a specimen of the good men, I preferred the bad. I do, too. I don’t believe that because a man goes to church every §unday an 1 occasionally puts his name to a subscription list, where it can be seen and read by th' neighborhood, that he is entitled to any’ admiration on that account. There are other varieties of charity which I admire more, and these my gran (father did not possess. I daresay he belonged to the class of abnor- ; malij’ good people wh > are perfectly ( content in their own self-ri-hteou me-s. i They a;e precisely the kind of in livl I- . ua's I detest. Give me an out-and-out ; sinner any day. I’m certainly g'a I 1> didn’t know h m. because I’m afraid I i should dislike him even more than I do I - I “Don’t scold mo. please, Miss Hilton. I know such feelings are neither kind nor just. I try’ so hard not to have them, but when I think of papa I ” She pained abruptly, her fa e and ; vo ce filled with emotion. Miss Hilton stroked the bowed head with an infinitely lender caress. “I would ( be ;he last to blame your loyalty to your i father,” she said gently, “but I wisit you could forget.” "How can I forget? ’ was the tearful; answer. "How can I forget the pov. ry and want that embittered my father's I life and caused my mother’s death? If I you had known papa as I did,” she continued, mere quietly; "if you had un h rstood his hopes and ambitions; if you । ha i seen how h s sensitive nature shrank from his uncongenial surroundings, or ' guessed h w his heart longe I for the ' sweet peace and restful influence of I home, you would be unforgiving too. His father deprived him of all that made life w rth living. I can never forget that. The time lias been when I felt bar I and bitter to all the world, because one min had been socru 1 to him. The money I enjoy now would have made his Lie so different. It is so hard for me to think of this. I know I shall regret all my life that uncle found us too late. All these thoughts rush over me when I think of my grandfather, and then I feel inclined to expiess n y opinion strongly. “You can’t understand my bitterness because you are always easy and gentle. ' I don’t believe you could be angry if you tried; but I have a very fire of pasl sion in me, and it flares up on occasion. "Let us talk of something else. Did ; I te!l you of my letter Irom Cousin Brian? No? I intended to. It came l after Ivmheon. I wonder he cares to i write to me. Yes, I know I wrote to him first, but I felt called upon to do that. I was so unhappy over the will that I wanted him to know how I re-

UIUU X HUUIIU lllfll LU IVJIVtV II ' » X 1V“ i belled agiinst it with 11 my soul. You ■ remember what a candid, geneious let- i ter he wrote in answer. This letter is equally characteristic. He tells me he is coming to America soon. Do you know, I am really anx ous t > sec him.” “I am sure you will like him,” put in Miss Hilton, wi *. suspicious haste. “I conn ss I always had a tender place in my heart for Brian, lie lias some exi celt nt traits, despite his shortcomings. He lost his mother when he was very : young, poor b >y, and his after training was left in the he n Is of servants, and was not very judicious, as you may imag ne.” “He a d m cle quarreled a great deal, didn’t they?” asked Margaret, after a ; thoughtful pause. “Yes, quite often,” was the answer. “Brian spent money more freely than his father approved. Your uncle once remarked to me: ‘lf Brian were not sure that I would pay his till? he would lei 'ss industrious in making them.’ I think he was rather anxious for him to marry and settle down to the practice i of his profession. He could not tolerate < a man with no occupation.” I, “I agree with him there,” relumed . [ Margaret quickly. “I perfectly abomii nate a man without ambition. If I had > a husband of t hat disposition I’d make hm do something *r I wouldn’t have , ' him around me.” | “Still,” she added more thoughtfully, ,

j “uncle need not have disinherited him on that account. Such a course seems to be a peculiarity in this family. It humiliates me to fe.4 that my coming here had anything to do with it." I “I am sure your mere coming had not, Margaret. Your uncle evidently’ had some good reason for his action. I think ; he believed that leaving Brian an inl come sufficient only for the necesities of life would morally force him to use his > own exertions to secure the luxuries he ; prizes. You can see the force of such , an argument.” Margaret sh ok her head uncon- । vince J. "The argument and reason may’ be good,” she agreed, “but I don’t care to ■ be the instrument for the working out of the benefit. It makes me feel responsible for my cousin’s inconvenience, and ; I hate it. ” “You allow pride to blind your judgi men!. Your regret is quite ineffectual. | You couldn’t, if you would, return tha money to Brian, unless ” । I “Unless what?" I Miss Hilton hesitated. ; I “Unless you marry’ him.” Margaret flushed at these words. “He is not the kind of a man I admire,” she returned after a thoughtful pame. “Indolence and want of ambition are not commendable characteristics. I fear I should become disgusted, or he would, which would amount to the same thing. Try to think of some other plan, Miss Hilton; and while you are puzzling your dear o'.d brain, I’ll answer some letters. And do forget the things I’ve said. I’m always repenting of someihing Uve-said or done. I can’t afford to lose your good opinion.” With these words Margaret- left the room, and Miss Hiltom’s eyes followed her with a very loving glance. "Dear Margaret,” she said -gently, “Dear, dear child.” [to be continued.] Mollie Mclii'tuler’x GhosU Ihe ghost of Mollie McGruder, who , was killed near Seventh and Tra y ■ streets, about a year ago, by William McCoy, still appears to frighten those ! who have to pass along that way in the j early morning hours, writes a Kansas City’ correspondent. As stated in these dispatches two ! Weeks a;o, the woman first appeared to the keeper of a saloon on th • corner -ol . Independence a d Lydia avenues, and appeared to be asking for a bucket of beer. Sho then appealed to several passers-by and to a policeman, who, since that time, has never had occasion ' to get near the spot where the n.urdei was committed. The publieat'on in a morning paper here of the fact that such an apparit;on had been seen caused a number of peo- j pie to go in that neighborhood on such | nights as they happened to b? out late in the hope of being able to see the ’ spirit. The result is that there are now nos I less than seven people who de lare that i they saw the ghost of the mur lered wo- ' num, and, while she invariably has the ! appearance o; wanting to roved some- : thing, no one has yet had nerve enough I to s'ay to hear her s'< ry. Tho latest | ■ ta'e is from a man who had heard noth- I ing about the ghost, and who had occasion to cut arross Lydia avenue about 2 ; o’e!od< one morning recently. i Tiie gentleman was hurrying through । the dark street, when his attention was attracted by a woman who w .s standing p r.ectly erect near a telegraph pole I about ten feet from a street lamp. She j stood so still and looked at him so in- I j tently that he thought she might Le a • man who was dresse 1 as a woman for ) ; the purpose of robbery, and, drawing j his revolver, he approached her with the I intention of asking what she was doing there at that time of night. She was in full view, but as the man i got near to the telegiaph pole the woman seemed to dissolve in thin air. : and left no trace beh'nd her. The gentleman thought it strange, and it was I only when he relate I his story next morning that he found ha had ap- . preached Mollie McGru ler’s ghost. Making a Map of Peking. ll<>w a military map of Peking was s cretly made is told by Gen. Sir Rob- ' ert Biddulph. During the China wai । of 1860, in which Sir Robert was cn- ' gaged, mur army was greatly embarrassed by the absence of any map ot the city. But it happened that the j Russian legation had, only a few : months before, contrived to make a ’ map in spite of the jealous watchPulj ness of the Chinese. They’ had sent i an officer in a small covered wagon, ' such as they use to carry their women ; about, completely covered in. An indicator was attached to the wheel. | He drove for a certain distance, to a certain crossroad, for example, and i “took a shot” with his instrument: । then down the next road; and in that ; way made a complete plan of Peking, i with all its streets ami roads, both in the Tartar city and the Chinese city. ; Gen. Ignatieff, who produced the map, | offered its use to the English. There I were no photographers then attached Ito the army, but an Italian pho- ; tographer, who had followed the army for his own private purposes, being : set to work, produced a number of copies, which proved extremely ser i viceable.—London News.

An Item in Boiler EconomyA writer on the subject of boiler economy alludes to the porosity of ordinary bricks and mortar, : n I.for all exposed j flue w^lls or boiler Beatings advises a ' facing of glazed bricks, in neat cement j mortar,, to reduce to a minimum the en- j trance of cold air to the tines, which un- | doubtedly takes place through the millions of pores in a rough brick wall. Fit ’ this purp >se the tarring of the external face of rough brickwork flue walls is I also recommended. G’azed bricks, of : course, are better, and are vary easily 1 kept clean. Waterproof Lentbor. •! An Austrian chemist is reported to have solved the problem of waterproofing leather by a cheap and efficient method. He employs a solution of gelatine and five parts of biehro nate oi potash dissolved in 1,2 H parts of water, impregnating the leather with this s >lution causes the albumen to coagulate in tire 1 ores. Try It, Girls. i It is tid that the juice of the garden beet, oi the blackberry and the strawberry, ii rubbed lightly on the cheeks and then washed off with milk, leaves a beautiful rosy tint that more than rivals that of cosmetic paints, and such vegetable juices are not of course injurious tc rhe most sensitive skin.

INDIANA ItEPUBI.ICANS. , I — THEY HOLD THEIR STATE CON- | VENTION AT FORT WAYNE. fra J. Chase Renouiinnted for Governor and Theodore shockney for Lieutenant Governor-Full Text of tho Plutforin Adopted—The Convention in Detail. A special from Fort Wayne, Ind., says: Not unlike the scone in the exposition ; building at Minneapolis a fortnight ago । was the picture presented by the interior of Indiana's Republican Convention hall at Fort Wayne. An enthusiastic throng numbering over 5,000 were eomtortably seated in । the vast hall, the tasteful and profuse decoration of which with national emblems made it not only a thing of surpassing beauty, but an ever present inspiration to the 1,130 delegates there assembled. The convention was called to order by Chairman John K. Gowdy, of the State Central Committee, who introduced the Rev. Dr. Moffat. Tho audience reverently arose and stood with bowed head while the Rev. ' Dr. Moffat invoked divine guidance through and over all the deliberations and acts of the eon vention. The report of the Committee on Rules and Permanent Organization was read by Mr. Hawkins, Secretary of the Committee. The report named Charles W. Fairbanks for permanent Chairman, and Gil Stam ount for permanmit Secretary. The rules adopted by the Fifty-seeon’d

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' Congress wero to be used for the govern- , ment of Ilie convention insofar as they wore applicable to a political natl ring. The report was unanimously adopted. Chairman Fairbanks took up the trawl I surrendered by Mr. Gowdy, and in i distini’t. measured tonoM eti»ntv audible tn ov^ry I art ot tno naif, addressed the I first State Convent ion ol a areat i» cal partv that ever nssem fled in Indiana outside of the State Capitol. At the conclusion of the Chairman's i address, the Convention took a recess I until 1 o'clock’. At a quarter past one Chairman Fair- ' banks seized the emblem of authoritv. i called for order and asked for the report । ( of the Committee on Credentials. The commit tee, finding no contests, recommended that tiie list es delegates | ' reported to the’State Central Cotnn t be recognized. Tho report was tinaiii- j monsly adopted. Next in order was the report, of the j Committee on Resolutions. The reading | of the platform was l'*tened to with rapt ! attention, interrupted with generous and sometimes vociferous applause when an especially strong or striking plank was reached. The following is the platform in full: First.—The Republicans of Indiana heartily approve the declaration of principles adopted by the Republican Nai tiohal Convention at Minneapolis. As citizens of Indiana, we congratulate the people of the State upon the nomination ; for President of the United States of our iellow citizen, Benjamin Harrison., The ; administration of the National Govern- | : ment, tinder his leadership has Loen ' । marked by'sueh wisdom and patriotism | I as to embrace the whole country and to ( give abundant assurance, of its continu- | ; ance, will add luster to the American | name and increase the, comfort of the j American home. We commend the can- । didates of the Republican party and Na- ■ tion as eminently worthy of the suffrages I of an intelligent and patriotic people, j The Democratic party has ever dem- । onstrated its incapacity for government j in Loth National and State affairs. In Indiana, believing itself intrenched behind a gerrymander of surpassing 1 iniquity, it has show a reckless disregard ! for the people’s interests and welfare.

: imposing intolerable burdens without ; benefits. We therefore condemn the Democratic management of our State affairs as incompetent, wasteful and ! in the interests of office holders ami party managers, and direct attention especially to the subjects hereafter mentioned. Debt and Democracy are synonymous terms with the taxpayers of this State. I nparalleled | extravagance in public expenditures has : marked the course of the Democratic I party in Indiana during the past decade, I until the State is now burdened with a , debt of S!i,ooo,oooi The current ex- | penses of the State government have ] been rapidly increased by reckless mismanagement. The burdens thus im- ' posed have become too oppressive to be I endured. Our progress as a people has been frequently impeded and the credit of the State will soon become seriously . impaired unless radical changes in the 1 conduct of our public business are , freely introduced. Relief lies with the I people and we invite the vot rs of all poj litical opinions to unite in turning out of | power the party that has always teen i false to its pledges of honesty and re- ' form. We arraign the Democratic party of Indiana for enacting an unequal and unjust tax. It imposes upon the farmer, laborer, and householder an excessive and unjust share of the public burden; it creates a great number of unnecessary

offices hitherto unknown to the law; to the burden that is already too heavy, it adds more than one hundred thousand dollars to the fees and salaries and expenses of these offices and officers. Wo demand its radical revision. We pledge ourselves to enact such amendments to I the present tax law as shall relieve the | farm and the home from the unjust tax-1 ation now imposed by them, w’hich I should place a just share of that public I burden on capital and corporate prop- 1 erty and provide a more simple and less ' expensive method of assessment. i We condemn the action of the last I , Democratic Legislature in largely in- : creasing the fees and salaries of both i State and county officers. It made many ! public offices sinecures by providing for: the performance of official duties by I deputies paid out of the public treasury, j The laws passed by the last Demo- ’ cratic Assembly apportioning the State | for legislative and congressional pur- ; poses were designedly and wickedly ; framed so as to deny to many counties ; and localities fair and equal repre- ! sentation in the legislative departincuts of tiie State and nation and to j place and retain under Democratic control in this State all its public institutions and affairs and to give that party । increased and unfair representation in : Congress and the State Legislature. ; Such a policy’ is dangerous and destruct- [ ive of all government and merits the , condemnation of all patriotic people. I And we now pledge the Republican party to continue the warfare against this dishonest policy of the Democratic party until the State shall be honestly apportioned by giving each county and locality its fair and

equitable representation in the legislative departments ot the State and Nation and each party representation in ; proportion to its members. AVe denounce the purpose of the Demo- j cratic partv, clearly ave.wed in the National platform, to repeal the law im- ' posing the 10 per cent, tax on Stale bank nnd thus remove the only banier to a return of •‘wild-cat inanev,” which once disgraced our State and largely impoverished our people. The Demogratie party deserves the j emphatic condemnation of every citizen I of the State for its refusal to place our | I enevolent institutions upon a non-parti- : san basis, when murder, cruelty, de- i [ bauchery and fraud and incompetency ■ mark’ that party’s management of ' ! many of those institutions, and for [ still persisting in retaining partisan I control of these asylums of the j I helpless and unfortunate, that they I may be made tho coin in payment I for party services. YVe therefore de- ’ i maud absolutely non-partisan manage- j ment ot the I enevolent, penal and re-[ formatory institutions of the State [ through boards whose members shall be ! appointed by the Governor from the dis- : ferent political parties of the State, to ! the end that they may be relieved from their present profligate management. YVe favor amending the law concern- ; ing the construction and maintenance of [ the public highways so as to utilize to : the best advantage the large sums yearly ! expended thereon and thus put the far- j I nierin close and easy communication with : | the market at all seasons of the year, i Wo believe in the enactment by Con- . i gross of a law which was recommended i j by President Harrison, compelling the . ! use of the standard safety couplers for the protection of the lives and limbs of ' employes engaged in inter-state com- i merce. The people in the employ of I railroad companies in this State form a| large percentage of its population and । are justly entitled to such legislation : i as will place them on an equality with I I such corporations before the law. And we are opposed to railroads maintaining insurance companies by coercing their employes to become members of them. 'The eninloyers of labor should be liable for damages for injury to persons or destruction of life where the employer is more at fault than the employe. We also believe in a law governing convict labor in the convict institutions : of tho State that will work the least i possible injuiy to free labor YVe are in j sympathy with ail well directed efforts ; of laboring men to improve their conI dition by united action or otherwise, and i pledge ourselves to give them such aid I by legislation as will tend to advance the interests of wageworkers. We most heartily endorse the generous pension laws enacted by Republicans in . Congress, and congratulate the country that dtwitig the administration of President Harrison no pension bill has been . vetoed. ; IWe demand that suitable and proper provision be made ior the care and maintenance of indigent soldiers and their ■ wives and widows, that no soldier, or ■ wife or widow of a soldier shall ever be ; an inmate of a poor house in the State • of Indiana, and that such provision be f made that the snidier when overtaken i by poverty and adversity, shall not, in - his declining years, be separated from the wife of his youth. YVe therefore f advocate the establishment by the State, - in connection with the, Indiana depart- , ment of the Grand Army of the Repuba lie, of a suitable state soldiers’ home for t the care and maintenance ot indigent v soldiers and the.ir wives and widows.

upon the plan recommended by the Grand Army ®f the Republic. The people of Indiana cherish the memory of Alvin I’. Hovey, who was a native of this State, anil with only such । opportunities as were open to all, rose to i high positions in the State and Nation | and distinguished himself as jurist, solI dier and statesman. Tiie Republicans of ! Indiana lament his death as the loss of a 1 trusted leader and of a statesman who | crowned a long and useful career by a : courageous and manly defense of the I constitution he helped to frame and of I the just powers of the State’s chief cxI ecu live. We tender to that eminent Republican i leader, the Hon. Janies G. Blaine and ; the members of his family our sincere sympathy and with them mourn the loss [ of one who so recently formed a part of : their family circle The platform was adopted amid great : enthusiasm. I The following resolution was adopted: Hisolved, That we hereby adopt the ; American eagle as the emblem of the : Republican' party for use on the ballots I to i.e voted throughout the State of In- : diana, in conformity to the law on that ■ subject. The Chairman then announced that [ nominations were in order and the folI lowing ticket was chosen: ! For Governor—lra J. Chase, Hendricks County. I For Lieutenant Governor—Theodore Shockney, Randolph County. Secretary’ of State—Aaron Jone^, St. Joseph County. Auditor of State—John YV. Coons, Marion County. Treasurer of State—Fred J. Scholtz, Vandqrburg County. Superintendent Public Instruction— James H. Henry, Morgan County. Reporter Supreme Court—James P. Haywocd, Tippecanoe County. Attorney General—Joseph D. Ferrall, LaGrange County. State Statistician—Simeon J. Thompson, Shelby County. For Judges of the Supreme Court— Second District, John P. Miller: Third District. Byron K. Elliott; Fifth District, R. Wes Mcßride. Judges of the Appcllata-Conrt—First District, Col. Aden G. Cavins, Green County: Second District, Charles F. Baker, Bartholomew County: Third District, James B. Black, Hancock County; fourth District. Milton S. Robinson; Fifth District, Edward Crumpacker. The following Presidential electors were chosen: First District—Daniel B. Kumler of Y'anderburg County. Second—John 11. Weathers of Crawford. Third—Morris McDonald, Sr. of Floyd. Fourth—George F. O'Byrne of Franklin. Fifth—George YY\ Hanna of Putnam. Sixth —Jacob C. Kitchell ot Union. Seventh—A. R. Hovey of Marion. Eighth—Henry Daniels of Parke. Ninth—David Colter of Clinton. Tenth—L. M. Brackett of Fulton. Eleventh—Jesse J. M. Lafolletto of Jay. Twelfth—A. R. YValters of Allen. Thirteenth—William M. Kendall of Marshall. Mr. Williamson offered the following resolution: Resolved. That this convention congratulate the citizens of Fort YVayne in having redeemed their pledge trade to the State Central Committee, and that we tender to them the hearty and sincere thanks of this convention, and shall carry to our homes lively’ remembrunces of their magnificent hospitality. The resolution was unanimously n<lor>toj ^■'•l ■.; Would ■starve IJetorc He’d Fay That. At Perryville, on the Pennsylvania railroad, a thin old man with a month like u cruller climbed on board a south-bound train. He carried an umbrella tied up with a shoestring, and an old valise, which looked as if it had been with Lee at Appomattox. He sat down on a cross seat n ar the the door, deposited his property, and beckoned to a train I oy who was passing with a basket of sandwiches. ••Got anything ter eat, young feller?’’ ••Sandwiches—ham. chicken, and tongue.” “Are they fresh 0 ” “Certainly." “There ain't no ‘certainty’ about, it,” objected the old man emphatically: “the sandwich business is ticklish in hot weather." “They're fresh,” said the 1 oy impatiently — “only been made an hour.” “I'd rather like a chicken sai d I wich.” remarked the old man, “if l knowed I wouldn't draw a wing.” i “No wings, sir—all clear meat.” i “’Spose you let me see one of them ' sandwiches-” “Can't, sir—they are all wrapped up. Take one?” I “How much do you ask fer ’em?” i “Ten cents.” “Not by the dozen, young feller: how much for one?” “Ten cents.” “Great day 'n mornin”’ gasped the old man, horror-stricken —“ten cents fer two bits of bread and a smell of 1 chicken?” I’m hungry enough ter ; eat a pickax, but I’m game, and 1 tell you, boy, before I pay ten cents ; for one little sandwich I’ll set here I and roll my eyes and swoller all the way 'to Bowi termer. ” She Was Shopping. I She had been shopping—plain, uni adulterated shopping for an hour, and ! had all the goods from the shelves on ’ tbe counter. The clerk’s patience was gone. “Have you anything else besides ■ these?” she inquired, with a wave of i her hand across the rejected stuffs. ■•No,” he replied cuitly. “Have you any dark blue ribbon ; with a faint red line in it?” “No.” ‘ Have you any dark red with a i blue line in it then?” J. “No”’ , i She began to get warm. ' i “Have you any politeness?” she ; । asked unexpectedly. “Y es,” he responded coolly. i i “YVell, I’d like to see some of it,’ 1 she said sarcastically. 3 1 “I can’t show it to you, miss,” he ' ; said firmly, unless you agree to take ' enough of it to justify mein showing '. I it.” t j Then she walked out, but she never . I renorted the clerk