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have a new surface exposed to rains. As they are then partially dried, the stalks should be got under cover as soon as possible. If the stalks are wet after being once dried, the waste from rotting goes on much more rapidly than before. If the stalks should heat somewhat in the mow this is bet ter than to leave them exposed to further injury by storms, with little chance of drying out, except as it will be frozen dry by the cold of winter. This freezing of wet stalks takes from them most of their feeding value. The Quality of Timothy Hay., One reason why timothy hay is a favorite in the markets is its uniformity of quality. Not being so nitrogenous as clover, it is much less likely to be injured by being wet and heating. The variation in quality is mainly due to early or late cutting, though some livery stable keepers prefer the fully ripened timothy, which is least nutritious because the horse likes the timothy seeds. Clover hay is very apt to become musty and dusty if it has been exposed to fermentation. Timothy hay will not be dusty unless cut in the bloom, and the dust is not so injurious as that from partly decayed clover. Sweet Apples for Horses, A quart or two of sweet apples per day for each horse will be woriih mare to it than the same bulk of oats additional to its regular ration of hiy and grain. The apples are better than any kind of roots, and this year they are everywhere cheap and plenty. Seour apples are nearly as good, but the horses prefer the sweet apples when they can be had. In nutritive value there is very little difference. 'Chore is mueh sweet in what we call a “sour” apple, which is only called “souv” nhe- | cause an acid disguises the sweet 1 contains. } Handy Style of Wheelbarrow, ‘ A deep wheelbarrow is more usefal than one built on the old plan, because it will hold more, and the work of building such a barrow is not much greater. Any one who owns 22 wheel and irons belonging to an old wheelbarrow can easily construct one by first procuring two stout pieces for | the shafts and mortising them together ‘ firmly just behind the wheel. The next mortise must come 2 inches from ‘ the ground on the legs at A. 'rom this ‘ mortise the floor of the barrow must ‘ reach forward to B, where it is supported by two false legs mortised inte ‘ the shafts and reaching within 2 incheg | of the ground. The sides may be solid from the floor up, or if preferred they may extend only to the top of the shafts, and from this point movable side boards may extend upward. The only disadvantage in having the body 1 solid is in being forced to remove mest 1\ of the load from between the handles. F‘ S TR o “:.' " o e N IS L - BIG LOADS EASILY MOVED. This wheelbarrow 1s especially useful in carting leaves, etc., and in handiing heavy stones, which are loaded upon it with ease, because so near the ground. If one desires ie may arrange a movable bottom, which will permit the load to be deposited without tipping by merely raising the handle. I'arm and Home. Watering Plants in Winter, There is far more danger of giving house plants too much rather than too little water in winter. During the short days and long nights, with very little sunlight on the soil, it is bard to keep it at a temperature where the plants can grow vigorously. All the surplus water added lowers the temperature until it reaches a point where the plants barely exist without making any growth. If the soil has much vegetable matter, humic acid will be developed at a low temperature and this will poison the plant roots. Saving DUry Road Dust, One of the jobs which should be attended to before cold weather is o save a few barrels of dry road dust to be used as dust baths for hens in winter. Nothing contributes more to the heaith of hens than this. Coal ashes will answer, but they stick to the feailers of fowls worse than road dust will, and give the birds an unsightly apsearance. The road dust is coarser, and we think the fowls like to roll in it better than in the white, fine dust that comes from sifting coal ashes. Phosphate for Clover. Whenever phosphate is sown with erain, a part of the fertilizer is always appropriated by the clover seed sown with it. Clover is a lime plant, and it also needs the phosphoric ccid that is so helpful to the wheat. The phosphate is especially valuable when applied to clover that is to produce a seed crop. Potash is also needed to make clover seed well, and should be applied in some form. Telephone Wires and Lightning. Telephone wires seem to have an important influence in preventing lightning from striking, according to the investigation of the German Telegraph Department. Three hundred and forty towns with telephone systems and 500 towns without them were under observation. In the former lightning struck three times for every hour of sterm; in the latter five times. Moreover, the violence of the lightning was much less in the former cases. . Lite Leeds, Jr.—What is Hardfrost doing this season? I haven't heard of him. Walker—Playing the Dane. Leeds —You don’t say! He must have struck fuck. Walker—Yes, there’s a commis- ' sion inquiring into his sanity.—Pittsburg News

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. | T ’gﬁ‘}) THOUGHTS WORTHY OF m@% REFLECTION. “f A Pleasant, Interesting,and w _’ ive Lesson, and Where Xt M"?* Found—A Learned and ‘Concise w;f view of the Same. iy A Lesson for December 6, s Golden Text.—*“Let him that thinketh | he standeth take heed lest he fall”— 1. Cor:; 107 12 This lesson is found in E Kings, 11: 4-13. The downfall of Solomon was not a sudden one, like that of his father, David. The degeneration had begun in his young manhood, in the years of power and fame that came after the building of | the temple. In contracting foreign alliance by marriage he went contrary to the whole spirit of EXcbrew national life; and the idolatry into which his wives led him jwas an almost inevitable result. The ’;sin of polygamy, in itself, ig not exprw ccondemned in the Biblical account, any inore than in the case of David; but it {s to be judged by its fruits, which wege juniformly evil. » ‘ : Explanatory. i é‘?; . “When Solomon was old:” Histdly ‘repeats itself; David in his old age wa§s the victim of scheming women, and noWw Solomon follows the same path.——“ His heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his fath‘er:” Having sinned he did not repent innd return to the Lord as David had ‘done. " “Woent not fully after the Lord, as did David his father.” It is evident that the ‘writer of the history speaks of David as having a “perfect heart” with the Lord ‘and going “fully after the Lord” byway of contrast with the deeper sins and unrepentant heart of Solomon. 1 “Chemosh:” the battle-god of the Moabites. On the famous Moabite stone, which bears an inseription deseribing the campaign of Ahab against the Moabite king Mesha, the latter speaks about his god Chemosh; “Chemosh said unto me, ‘Go, carry Nebo over Israéel’ And 1| went up by night, and I fought ngainstl the city even from dawn until noon, and ‘ I took it, and I dedicated (the captives) unto Ishtar-Chemosh. And I earried 1 away from thence the Ariels of Jehovah, and I dragged them on the ground bﬂ-! fore the face of Chemosh,” ete. The | stone is dedicated to Chemosh. It was found in the land of Moab, east of ®e Dead Sea, in 1868. : | Some of the wives probably worshiped other gods than those mentioned, for instance, those of Egypt. The condition of Solomon's conscience, when he could allow the worship of a dozen different heathen deities after the clear view of ‘the one true Ged that. he had had in his youth, can hardly be adequntely stated. It certainly shows a long descent from the dedicatory prayer that we studied four weeks ago. “I will surely rend the kingdom from thee:” the following verse shows what is meant; not that the kingdom should be taken from Solomon personally, but from his family, to which the succession Lfid been promised. | " Teaching Hints. i Here we leave Solomon—*“falien fm% his high estate” through disobedience. 1 is a sad ending to the life of posver and riches and fame; a sad proof of the futility of “wisdom,” practical worldly wisdom, to preserve men from ruin. With this lesson we pass also from the Old Testament (excepting the next lesson in Proverbs). If the wisest of kings ended his life thus, surely we need to turn to the gospel for the means by which sinful men may escape from sin, ~ One sin leads to another. Inordinate | ambition led Solomoun to desire to extend i his empire beyond the territory of the He- | brews; this led to his foreign alliances, i:m«l those to his many marriages; his | wives led him into idolatry. So it is in | our own lives. | Some pupil is likely to raise the gquestion i whether Solomon went to heaven or to hell. It will be unwise to attempt to | prove the former, simply because of Sol- | omon’s being “in the Bible.” All that can | be answered is, we do not Kknow. o | certainly left the world without any as- | surance of a “‘triumphant entrance” into ' heaven. The important thing for as to . be sure of is our own future. | The thing to be emphasized is that %.\'..-.’l_ummn sinned against light, knowing % full well the consequences. Just in pro- | portion to the enlightenment that we | have will be our punishment. Young peo- } ple who are constant attendants at I church, belong to Christinn families and | are familiar with the Bible, should know E that they will not be sv leniently judged i for shortcomings as the ignorant convict | who has never known anything but erime. l Solomon was king of Israel, but not i king of himself. He took cities, but did | not rule his own spirit. He knew all wisdom except the wisdom that refuses to do evil that good may come. If only he had known less and practiced more of what he knew, we should not have ghis i lesson to study. t The Tord appears more than twie® [0 | us. Ivery day of our lives there is.. pne warning or some promise that is 5«-;“%0 i us if we are ready to bear it. Yet we'!nre sometimes as deaf as Solomon to the ¢ail. Primary teachers will have to dweil chiefly on the faet that Solomon allowed his wives to worship idols, though he knew that there was but one God. The idols that children may worship can be brought out—fine clothes, “a good time,” ete. The teacher should refer to the lesson about Solomon’s wise choice and then ask why he did not stick to the thing he chose. Good resolves are not enough, without God’s help. Pretiy soon New Year’s Day will be around, but it will not be enough to premise that we will be good, unless we are sure that we intend I to ask God to help us keep the promise. Nevt Lesson—‘“Cautions Against Intemperance.”’—Prov. 23: 15-25. Labouchere cannot see why Sir Edwin Arnold should have made a fuss because his “Queen’s Day” ode w4ds used to Increase the attractiveness of certain advertisements of beef and beer. The latest president of the Royal Academy, he declares, was “made” by lthe empioyment of his picture, “Bubbles,” to spread the fame of a soap. A woman’s idea of a comforter Is some one to say ‘“There, there!” and vat her on the cheek,

~ DUBUS' HISTORIC DRIVE. T , , Famous FEscape of Gambetta After - His Vorage in a Balloon. %,m. ‘Dubus, who was Maire of Epeneuse, Oise, in 1870, has just dled at Clermont, aged 72. Who was Dubus? Outside of our small and respected French colony here we may safely say that few of us know. And yet his name is bound to be recorded in history aad to remain there ungil the records of the “terrible year” are lost and forgotten. He was the man who saved Gambetta from falling into the hands of the Prussians during the FrancoGerman war. - The story is simple enough, but its very simplicity serves to teach sound citizens of every country the priceless value of patriotism. Oect. 8, 1870, taking advantage of a favorable wind, ‘Gambetta, accompanied by Spuller, left Paris in a Dballoen, intending to reach Teurs. After sailing in the air at a comparatively slow rate the balloon drifted toward the north. The Prussians noticed it, gave chase, and fired at it furiously. It was hit several times, but the holes made in it by the ‘bullets caused only a slight escape of gas. After some little time, however, the leaks began to tell, and the ‘balloon began to descend slowly. The famous travelers distinetly heard the hoarse cheers of the enemy, who imagined that their leng chase was coming to an end, and that they were about to congratulate themselves on their capture. But just then all the remaining sandbags, together with everything that could be dispensed with in the car, were thrown out, and once more the airship pointed toward the clouds. - The fusillade became more furiocus but the bullets were harmless. A slight increase in the wind also favored the fugitives. The enemy was left behind, but he was still in hot pur‘suit. The Dballoon, becoming weaker l:md weaker in buoyancy, at last began to descend gradually. It landed in the woods of Favieres, eleven kilometers from Clgrmont, The Prussians were coming on rapidly. The Maire of Clermont, M. Dubus, whol watched the balloon and saw the dan}gor of the fugitives, hitched up his two Istmngost and fastest horses to a light wagon, and a few moments after their Ilauding he was driving them at full speed on the road to Montdidier. In that drive he beat the record nnd' brought Gambetta and Spuller into ﬂn?! little town in safety. Os course, the Prussians found the balloon, but no trace of the men who were in the car. Such is the simple story of Dubus’ drive, for which he received the ecross of the Legion of Honor and an appeintment to a judgeship in the Canton of Mouy. Tlour years ago a monument was erected to Gambetta near the spot where his balloon descended, and the tree in which the airship got fastened was named “Gambetta’s oak.” The owner of the land on which it stood has lately cut it down, because he did not like to have patrietic pilgrims and picnickers on his properiy. This gO6S 10 DProve that there are hogs even in France, but, fortunately, they are among the sans patrie.—~New | York Sun. Boarded by a Seagoing Eazle. In the wheelhouse of the Atlantie | transport liner Montana, Captain Wil- 1 ikim:. which came into port on .\:mnni icizly from Swaunsea, the emblem of the ] %{:rvnt Awerican republic was in dis«“ : grace. | ‘ Last Wednesday, while off the Nova | Scotian coast, an eagle hovered about { the Montana for several hours. When §l'hiv( Officer Percy George Lowe took g)xi.\' wateh at twilight the bird of free!._me swooped down upon the Montana ! and took a position on one of the boat %d:n’its. Mr. Lowe devised a measurs |to capture the arrogant bird, which i had interfered with work on deck by E causing the crew to watceh it when their fattention was needed elsewhere. l Creeping upon the bird with his big { oil coat, Mr. Lowe threw the garment ! over the eagle and wrapped it up. The [ bird was soon a prisoner, with a stout ! string about his starboard leg. i The eagle was fully 100 miles from i land when he succumbed to fatigue and !Im)k to the Montana for rest. He is | marked with white on the throat and levcry feather has a delicate tip of the ! gsame color. Mr. Lowe will present the | bird to the “zoo’ at Druid Hill Park lif the commissioners will send to the { ship for it. | The eagle measures five feet from tip | to tip when its wings are extended.— ; Baltimore Sun. ‘ Both in the Same Fix, A Tioga youth started to take his best { girl to the cily one evening last week. | The couple boarded a street car, and ’when the conductor came in for his ‘ fare, the young man dived down in his pocket. To his horror, he discovered that his pocket was absolutely empty Looking up at the conductor, he blurted out: “I’'ve changed my pants and . left my money at home.” Then he lookfed questioningly at the girl. She shook her head, and murmured: “So have L.” The conductor grinned, the maiden blushed, and the youuz man signaled i to stop. Choice Hibernicisms. At the convention of the Irish race l recently in Dublin, two speakers, who ; had come from the United States, co®i tributed the following sentences in the course of their speeches. One of them, ! in giving some details of personal his- ! tory, informed his hearers that “he had left Ireland fifty-three years before, a naked little boy, without a dellar in his pocket.” Said the other: “Until last week, I had never set foot in the i land of my birth.” “Good morning, Lieuterant! I hear you are engaged to Miss Rosenberg. Where is she now?’ Lieutenant—Oh, : she’s at home congratulating herself.— |—Fliogende Blactter.

DEATH’S MANY FORMS SINGULAR CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS It DECATUR COUNTY. Gunpowder and Boys Are Responsible ‘ for Two Fatalities—Changes to Be Made at the Resting Place of William Henry Harrison.

Death Reaps a Harvest. Reports from various points in Decatur County show that on Thursday two people were killed, two fatally injured and several others seriously hurt. At St Paul Roy Favors, aged 13 years, wus killed while at work in Adams’ stone quarry. Young Favors manipnlated machinery about tihe derrick, several yards from the other workmen. They had not noticed him for some time and suddenly a piece of the boy’s clothing was scen to go around on a chain. They rushed to the spot and found a mangled mass of human flesh on the ground. The boy’s clothing had canght and he was thrown about the shafting, every thread of his clothing being torn off, except his left sock. His skull was ecrushed and the brains oozed out. Ilis heart was pievced and several bones were broken. A fatal ?shooting took place at Clifty. A crowd !of boys began shooting at marks, banter‘ing each other as to who could shoot the iheaviest charge and stand the resulting "‘kick.” Carl Right, aged 17, loaded his gun, an old single-barreled army musket, lwith an extra-heavy charge and handed it to Charlie Jones, aged 13. Jones fired and the weapon exploded, parts of it striking the boy, killing him almost instantly. At Versailles several boys wers shooting a toy ecannon made out of gas pipe. This exploded, crushing Jesse Yarnell’s skull. His eyes were destroyed by the burning and he will die. Several other boys were seriously burned. The T-vear-old daughter of Phil Hays, of Marion Township, was mortally wounde:l by a discharge from Roscoe Roberts’ shotgun. Roberts shot at a bird and the charge struck the girl in the breast as she sat in the barn window. In Greensburg, at a football gzame, Frank Bell and Fred Thomas were seriously hurt. Bell received internal injuries about the abdomen and an injured leg. Thomas was inI_iurwl in the stomach. Bronson, of Shelbyville, was also bhadly injured. A prize fight was pulled off at Moscow between # tramp and Charles Smith, a loeal pugilist. Smith was struck in the stomach and may die. The tramp escaped. Tomb to Be Remodeled. The drawings and plans for the remodeling of the tomb of Willinm Henry Harrison, whose remains now rest near North Bend within a few rods of the Ohio River, have been completed and are now in the hands of ex-President Harrison fur approval., They were sent to him from the Cincinnati architects some two months ago, but his time has been so fully occupied that he has not vet passed upon them. The plans provide for an expenditure of about £5,000, and the structure is to be built of Indiana stone quarriad from the Bedford quarries. The interior proper is not to be toueched, but the outer part will present o complete change, as at the front will be a concave excavation into the knoll some fifty feet wide and about the same depth, with a stone wall leading to the entrance. The door is to be made of bronze lattice, that a glance at the interior may be had from the outside. The old tomb, which was huilt in the latter part of the forties, has for some vears been the subject of much comment. It is on the crown of a beautifully sloping knoll, overlooked by the Kentucky hills, from which they are separated by the Ohio river a few hundred feet below. The site of the tomb is an excellent one, and when completed none in. the country will present a wmore attractive appearA Nee, Minor State News, At an early hour Sunday morning five prisoners in the Bedford jail made a desperate attempt to gain their liberty, and but for the timely discovery of their scheme by Sheriff Holmes not only themselves but the family of the Sheriff would have burned to death. Kokomo has a wooden-legged burglar that is a puzzle to the police. Every night for a week the mysterious individual visited from one to half a dozen residences, wrecking larders and carrving off articles of clothing., His tracks clearly showed that he has one wooden leg and, as bloodhounds refuse to follow his trail, it is supposed that both legs are artificial. He has been sighted several ! times, but each time disappears so sml-] 3'3«':.1:5 that those »;;evl\i'ﬂ‘l:x!is!,\' ilh']im‘d‘ i declare that he goes either straight up orv | straight down. Mark MeTigue has completed his thirtieth continuous year as sexton of Crown Point Cemetery, Kokomo. Before thart Mr. MeTigne was sexton of the old cemetery. Dauring this period the veteran sexton has buried 4,000 dead, digging all the graves with his own hands. He knows every grave in the cemetery, marked and unmarked, including the potter's field, and can without reference to his hooks tell whose bones repose therein and the time of interment. Mr. MecTigue, though upward of 80 years old, is remarkably well preserved, and digs the graves with the same vigor he did thirty years ago. The Wabash jail burned at 11 o’cloek Monday night, the flames originating in the basement of the structure and proceeding from the furnace up through the chimney shaft. Twelve prisoners set nup wild vells, attracting the attention of Sheriff MceMahan and outsiders. Tt was some time before the prisoners could be ,1'.~1;1s«»«l. and they became almost insane ]wi?h fright before they were all trans- | ferred, without mishap, to the city prison. i The cellroom was of stone and the Sher-

priemandie LR LSB AT eR B ome 2050 NT bl tediine N 0 ORI eeiee BWe R, o, TR T GRRE A iff's residence of brick, and beth are in ruins, water finishing what the fire did not destroy. The edifice was built fifteen vears ago at a cost of $17,000. Insurance to the amount of $12,000 was earried on building and contents. ; The Osgoed high school and Mooreshill l College faaiball teams played at Qsgood, ; but the game was not finished, being ¢ broken up by a number of skunks. The 3 first half was ended when some boys just outside of the line, in the edge of the wood, drove a pack of skunks out of a hoilow log. They ran through the field ia all directions, two of them getting raixed up with boys in a scrimmage. The players weakened in their work and finally were forced to give up the game. Several hundred spectators myqe present, a large number of whom were vigtine of e skunks.

INDIANA INCIDENTS. L s RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Probable Defeat of the Plan to Erect a $1,000,000 Centennial Building at Indianapolis—Outlaw Bill Wood May Recover—Nursery in a Chnrch‘Indiana’s Centennial Projzct. The scheme to expend $1,000,000 in the erection of a centennial building in Indianapolis in connection with the celebra; tion of the one hundredth anniversary O Indiana’s organization as a territory 13 meeting with Dbitter opposition 11 ail parts of the State, and there now seems little doubt that the coming Legislature will refuse to give the project encouragement. The objection urged by the out counties is that Indianapolis is seeking to secure a permanent museum at the expense of the other counties, and, that, the State being already some $8,000,000 in debt, it would be folly to add to this “debt by holding an exhibition that would 1 place an additiona! burden upon the people. The subject was canvassed by the last Legislature and an act passed for the appointment of a commission by the Governor to consider the feasibility of a centennial exposition and report to the com- ° ing session some plan or plans for the same. The commission was appointed and will meet in a few days to prepare its report.. The members of the commis sion are aware of the feeling tha 353 developed against the project, but t propose to submit a plan that would be creditable to the State on such an occasion, regardless of the fate that may overtake it. They say that anything that does mot involve a large expenditure of money would not be creditable to the peopla, and it would be better to abandon the matter entirely than to have such an exhibit as would detract from rather than_ add tc the good name of the State. It is proposed to have the exposition open from three {n six months, and, in order to meet the plens designed by the commission, a permanent building should be erected. At the close of the exposition it is proposed to seek donations of the exhibits and convert th® building into a permanent museum. The proposed exposition would be confined to Indiana, but would embrace displays showing every stage of her progress frotn her organization as a territory in 1800. The present temper of the people outside of the capital city does not promise well for the project, however, and the chances are that it will be coldly treated Ly the Legislature. All Over the State. The flour mill of Franklin, Malony & Co., at Yorktown, was destroyed Saturday morning by fire resulting from a gas explosion. Mpr. Franklin was perhaps fatally burned. Loss $20,000, with little insurance. A unigue innovation has been inaugurated by the Northville Methodist Church. The Sabbath school room has heen designated the nursery, and committees have been named to be on duty each Sunday to care for the babies brought to the church. The nursery is what the term implies, being supplied with nursing bottles, cabs and ecradles, nn}m bath discourse of the minister will hence: forth be urbroken by erying babies. i IFor sevesal days prominent women of Indianapolis were preparing for the charity ball, and a number of new dresses were made for the occasion. Monday one of these was delivered by a boy from the establishiment, who met a eolored man in the yard. 'fhe negro said he would take the package in, but the boy refused to deliver it to him. As soon as the boy left the negro rang the door bell and called for the dress, saying that the package was intended for another house. Tha dress was given to him and this was the last seen of him. At another house a negro answering the same description received a dress from the delivery boy, passed through the yard to the alley in the rear anid disappeared. One of the dresses cost SSO and the other $75. Bill Wood, the member of the Miller gang who was shot during a desperate fight with ILebanen officers and whose wounds were pronounced fatal by the aitending physicians, seems to be improving, and there now seems a possibility of his recovery. His mother and sweetheart called orz him at the jail. The meeting was a most affectionate one, and for the first time since the tragedy the prisoner exhibited some feeling. Jesse Miller and John Paragan, the other members of the gang, who were lodged in jail, were arraigned before Justice Perrill, chargeil with conspiring to commit murder. They were held to await the result of the Grand Jury’s investigaticn. The streets around the jail were crowded when the prisoners were taken out, heavily guarde, but there was no attempt at violence. EF'ren Richardsoen, half brother to Wood. ;1;{»-1“;»((‘(] to gssault Officer IFrost and was promptly lodged in jail. Mrs. Susan S:qaith, of Hagerstown, has applied for a wiiow’s pension. Eighteen yvears ago David Smith lived five miles northeast of town with his family. There were rumors ol domestic infelicity, but violence in the family was not suspected. ~= There came a time when David Smith was not seen about the place. His absence was unsatisfacterily explained by members of the family, and the neigh- | bors searched the premises. lis mutilated and putrefying body was found in | an old well near the house, covered with | broken fence rails, stones and dirt. The | widow and two of the boys, Jake and | Dan, were arrested for the murder. Jako | was discharged before trail. Dan re- | ceived a life sentence in the prison, north. | which sentence he is now serving, and . | the widow was sentenced for life to the

A O N o L -WO WD M. T--~ NI reformatory for women at Indianapolis. Two years ago she was pardoned from™ that institution, and she now applies for a pension as the widow of Ravid Smith, a soldier of the civil war. A peculiar feature of the case i 3 that pubike sentiment strongly favors thie granting of the pension. Burglars visited the residence of exPresident Xarrison, in Indianapolis, Monday night. While Mr. Harrison and the members of the family svere in the lower part of the house tke thief or thieves nimbly climbed upon the porch ‘and entered the library windsw. From there they went into Mrs. Harrison's room, where a gold watch and a small sum of money were secured. It is believed the thieves were frighteved away, because nothing in the other rcoms was distarbed. The watch belonged to Mrs. l}lnrrison's first husband, and was highl¥ prized .