The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 36, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 January 1908 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal WALKER & FANCIL SYRACUSE, - - IND

■ Anna Gould seems td be a poor Judge of material out pf which husbands are made. . .'I ■ / ■ ; ■■■-■' i Mn Roclkefe’Jpr says he is not the father of S-tmidtir.l oil. Then.be must be' itg rich unejp. a ' . ?‘. '• “I—| : Wisdom of lie ver being ashamed of your nerve is again proven bj’ Castro’sadvent in Europe. •' i Open! door in -ma will not' be such it boon if. we.'fiqd the Japanese have appropriated all it lie best seats. “Shall kissing be confined to the lower 'classed?” asks a Baltimore paper. Kissing shall -l!>e' confined td those who like it.. Another argament aginst capital punishment is j:ha some scientist may want .to revive ybu after. you've, been electroi rated.’ ■' ■■ • ' I Why Should the white men be proud and haughty?! It is said that cannibals do not likel him because his flesh is of.) ■poor flavor 1 . ■ What are tlje people who are weeping for .the lions That Roosevelt is going to kill doing for the hungry children in their home precincts? ' A Kansas C ity preacher says the ma* Jority of people who marry sos lewe inake a mistake. If it is a fair question, how doos hi', know? King EdwanL knows how to run his •ountry harmoniously. He doe’s it by the .simple method of putting' in most 5f his-time playing croquet. —* „ Perhaps thef-ipest way to end the. Boni-llelie nuisance would be to lock the two men in a room and let them have it out with, bean shooters. - ’ TTMrs. Caroline E. Johnson, of B< ton. says it is liayd .to live- on the interest £>f S2,(XK).bOU. .Right again ; ..it is hard, mighty hard, Ito get the two million. JAfter readdig all- the tubprculosys. re- . ports, one finds that there are three, great preventives, as follows: (I, Fresh air. (2) Freslj air. (3) Fresh air. ' ' , ■ • ■ The recent frank, terse, simptifieibEnglish .expressions of the President’s' opinion must cause gnashings of envy from the innermost depths of the palace at Berlin. " * -All fourth-class postmasters are to be put under civil service, and will have to undergo ■tm-wx.anii'nat ion. This means they will have to know alnliost’as much as their clerks. Kaiser Wilhelm is reported as being ■pressed for money to meet Ills debts. ‘ How sad some American heiresses must feel that he, is in a position where they cannot coine to the rescue. Triose members of a secret society who were suSpendi d front ' a California high sVliool for branding tip* name of -the fraternity with nitrate of silver upon the foreheads of /two iniliatea will get little sympathy from the par- . ents of other, boys or the school teachers throtujlyut the country. The Eroteytant EpisebppL diocese of New/Work has fixed the,minimum salAiry of its married clergy at twelve ' ihuridred dollars a year and house rent, and of its unmarried. clergy at one thousand dollars and house rent The step will finest With -general -approval, t>Qth in and out of that church, and it Is hoped that other denominations in which the pay is even smaller, may. see their wajxlear to take similar measures. . ' ' *, - Mr. Taft., cation of .the.' prison slfip martyrs’ monument in Brooklyn-the otlidr day, dwelt on the heroism of : the Revolutionary patriots who endured the suffering on aboard the ships anchored, in New York harbor rather than abandon the colonies and obtain comfort and freedom by enlisting in the .British armies. It has been customary to . dwell on " the crpelty of the British in treating their prisoners inhumanly: but Mr. Taft ■wisely nad truly called attention to the fact that,these prisoners were dealt with in the way that was customary at the time. Prison reform isa modern philanthropy. The naming of dishes for those who . have attained a success known to all the world, in artistic, *or professional, lines, is an hopor of no mean place in a list of the fruits of fame, particularly If the edibles and the names are thap/pily met, If a dish is fine-enough and has.'sufficient.-.dis: incl ion to .fee .the namesake of ,a great singer or access, its reputatioii may endure for more than a /generation. ILong after the 'singer-awl her songs have ceased to delight us our menus will bear the legends, “Melba tarts” and “Melba peaches.” And if “‘Spaghetti Warfield” and “Peaches a la Geraldine,” recent Inventions of a New York hotel chef, honor as they should the artists whose names they bear, thosp who dine and sup well twenty or fifty years hence may still rejoice in them. Reference has been made to the Hawaiian land question in presidential messages, and it has been urged that

there was, or should be, an opportunity on the Islands for the American farmer to engage in profitable small farming. Some of the older residents, however, have not taken very* strongly to the idea, because they have judged.of the future by the developments that have taken place under their eyes.' Sugar is undoubtedly king in Hawaii, and sugar does not mean- small holdings. On the contrary, it mentis, vast estates and big corporations. Prosperity is measured' by the fluctuations in' sugar stocks. . I Furthermore, - the plantations have been- enlarged of late years. In one diktrict on the Island of Hawaii where the cultivation of coffee was encouraged a dozen years ago the coffee has given way. to sugar.? liiti- * mately connected with the sugar question is a labor question. -The planters would like, to hire Chinese laborers. They employ Japanese and natives, and 'have experimented with Porto Ricans ’and divers other importations. Americans, of course, are not among the possibilities.- The 'srna.il farmer , will not prepare himself to raise pineapples or coffee by an apprenticeship among plantation gangs. Nevertheless the cry for the small farn’iers has been taken up In Hawaii, and the following -arguments for them are addressed to , Secretary Garfield by the Hawaiian Gazette: Os a total lafid area of 4.250.000 acres only 200,000 acres are! in sugar, and because, of the lack of a proper land policy the ■islands are yielding' only '..about ©nethjrd of the salable products naturally to be expected of them, There are im.perial private estates held in fee that s’liould be broken* up for the benefit of the country, and there -is a bad lease system-under which' whole, townships havq been ’allowed to go for a nominal rental into the hands’of graziers and others. In addition to sugar the islands should produce in merchantable quantities pineapples, sisal, tobacco, cotton aitd rubber. Already pineapples and sisal havika good selling value, and the soil promises e-X'-ellent returns on the other prialucts. I‘ilieapples we know are actually raised by small farmers, ’out a canning company is a large landholder and exercises, of course, considerable influence over the industry. Rubber is in the early stages of development and is being cultivated through corporations. There is necessarily much waste land because of the relatively large area, of mountainous country. J?ut the Soil should yield abundant crops under„the careful cultivation of small fanners, and a more delightful place to live cannot bd* imagined-; He Couldn’t See the Jfoke. - • '“The mother-in-law joke isn’t halK as funny to me as it was when I was a bachelor,” said a young New Yorker to his old chum. “I’ve got a pretty 'good mother-in-law myself,, and she’s, visiting us now. That’s all right, too. But here’s my grouch: “Whenever we go out in a bunch, as we generally do. ma gratis the baby every time we sit down--subway, elevated, bridge,: surface or ferryboat. Just grabs the kid, you.knqw, as if it was tier private property; exhibits it in away to everybody near by, tells ; the woman next to her all about how to raise children and: what she’s doing, for this particular one; attracts general you see, with my baby aS a (star performer and my wife and I sitting, there without a chance toWy a word and looking al if we wanted' to 'apologize for being on earth.” ■’Don’t think that’s funny, eh?” said his friend. “How your sense of humor has shrunk —New York Globe. -□ r . J ■ ■ ■ Fiji Islanders’ Cane Dance. A very curious and exceedingly clever dance may be. witnessed in Fiji, called by the natives, “the sugar cane meke,” or sugar cane dance. It represents the growth of the sugar cane. 1 In the first figure the 'dancers squat low on the ground, shake their heaiTs. shut their eyes and murynur slowly and softly an unintelligible sentence. Gradually they all stand up together, growing taller and taller, and- as they I “grow” they wave, their and ; tremble over from ankle to head. ■ ■like the tall, tasseled cane waving in the wind, and still they keep on chanting loqder gnd Iquder, The last fig l ure represents a series of combats meant to symlvolize the exactions of the chiefs, who <‘ompel the "kaisf." willing and_unwilling. to-come and opt their 5 crops.—Bond on [Standard. One Reason, There may be two reasons for a thing, both equally true, and it may be the-height of folly” to attribute the effect to both, A gentleman to whom ant -was a strange thing asked a friend, to whom the ways of its votaries were more familiar: “Why does Connepay stand off and half-shut his eyes tvhen. he looks at 'the pictures he is painting? I was in his studio the other fday, and he made me tlo it. to<>.*' “That’s simply explained,” replied file other. .'“Did you ever try to look at them near to. with your eyes wide open? Well, doi|’t; you can't stand it.” Saw Him with Her Own Eyes. “It is .too bad” said Mrs.-Oldcastle,: “that our curate seems likely to be a valetudinarian all his life." ‘“Why, he ain’t, is he?” replied her hostess as she toyed with her diamond studded lorgnette. “I’m almost sure I seen him eatin’ beefsteak at the dinner in the parish house night, before last.” —Chicago Record-Herald. The.streams of the Himalaya motmtains will soon be engaged in the pro sale work of turning wheels. 1 :—. : New York City hotels are now entertaining 18 per cent more customers than they were one year ago.

IS FATE FLIRTING WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT! THE PRESIDENT HAS HAD FOUR NARROW ESCAPES FROM SERIOUS ACCIDENT.RECENTLY?

Strenuous as« his whole term has been. President Roosevelt’s finfil days in the White House are proving m<>st exciting., Os late he has giyen indications of being a poor accident jinsurance risk. Three times recently he has been nearly’ run down on the'streets of Washington. Not feong ago he war- unhorsed while out riding. Altogether he has l>eeh getting as many thrills right in well-dis-posed Washington, as he 'could expect in the f’astn&sefc of Africa. In the riding accident Mr. Roosevelt was in grave peril when a young horse threw him on a steep bank and'nearly rolled on him. The President was only shaken up and was able to remount and ride to town. Thi# happened in the country near the capital. There jyere other actors in the three accidents which occurred !on -the streets of Washington. While walking with secret service men Mr. Roosevelt stepped .off; the

THE LABORER’S REWARD ■We labor bsst in life's long day, When most jve labor for the pay That -is. divinely given. . , laborer, worthy of his hire Is he. .whom langels-can inspire With love! sent down from, heaven. Life’s labor'iis nptr lost to hjm Who fills hii cup of life to brim With love f s own satisfaction ; Or seeks in toil to realize of labor’s perfect prize, The prize ofl art's perfection. vNo man can pay the fairest price • .Os love’s most willing sacrifice ; No human) hire rewards us; - But we ha in the strength and joy, Which others |ain in our employ, The best that life affords us? Life’s true reward is in itself, Without the: gain of sordid pelf— It is the jby bf living! . No pay in gold or honor rare Is: compensation to compare . Vyith just the joy of giying,! . —Rev. J. J). G. Graham.

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Yes, thus lived Miss Spencer (at the time of Which I write) all alone with Richard of the Lion Heart, and if you usk me for further particulars of Richard I will* say that he was a canary whose pleasure and duty it was to piir'ld his mistress and keep her safe from harm. Oh, but he was a' champion bird, was Richard! Afraid of nothing, chattering tierce warnings to the butcher find the groceryimin, and tolerating the baker in a peremptory sort of way only because he was the man who brought the bread; and when anybody .sought to ingratiate, themselves with this spirited bird by inserting a finger between the ffil,rsz,of his cage he almost fell off bls perch at the impudence of them and straightway fell to sharpening his beak on his bit of cuttie. his chirping .turned to the horrid croaking of a feathered pet who is presently going to , bite a finger off! Well, then, It began with slight hoarseness in Richard’s highest notes and the moment she heard it Miss Spencer folded her needlework—she was knitting a pair of shoes for some fortunate little orphan—and mixed a tittle flaxseed with Richard’s birdseed. ,npd shut a door and a window to keep the draught off him, but all in vain. Ills hoarseness .increased to an extent that would have discouraged any other bird, but Richard, justly named the Lion Heart, persevered, in his song until! it sounded almost as shrill as a very rusty saw going through hard knot. In vain he -hopped from ■one perch to .another; in vain he sidled afong his perch, as he sang, his poor little beak opened so wide that he had to shut his eyes': his cold grew Jvorse and worse and he began to neglect his food. Lettuce tempted him not. except for hopeful’moments; he turned up his bill at celery tips and green peas, and As for birdseed, he simply' wouldn’t look at it. And there he stood, day after day, on the, end 1 of his perch, leaning .against the side of his cage, silent, moody, drooping and only showing a flare of his old-time spirit upon seeing the butcher , and the groceryman, when, indeed, he gave expression to a few sentiments, of*whichk it is only charitable to say nothing at all. And that was 'how Miss Spencer missed going to church for the first time in ’twenty years, since the year of the great blizzard, to be exact, which brings us to the doctor, whom you be abl£ to picture clearly when I. whisper to you that he was an elderly blueeyed gentleman, beloved Os everyone, who lived in considerable awe of his housekeeper and was famous for the great age of his horse. “I didn’t see Miss Spencer at church this morning,” said the doctor as he obedlehtly sat himself Vt the ■ dinner tabla.

sidpwalk and was brushed by a, negro -Boy who was swiftly riding a bicycle and steering it. with only one hat d. The President uttered ah exclamation,'but the boj pedaled away, grinning. He was pursued by secret .service men, who reprinlauded him.*' A few days later the| President was scraped by the ipudguard of a prominent citizen's autoinobjlV as he was crossing the street. The'machine had been'Slowed up or thft President would h,aye . been struck He himself admitted it was a ‘close’shave.” The very next day. while out -driving, the carriage t-ontainihg the President was in the path of a hose wagon going" to a fire. The fireman driver, avoided a disastrous'collision by- pulling his • horses to thiir haunches, the carriage passing unscathed. Shivers enough to satisfy the 'most adventuresome, doesn't it geem? '

“Out of town, mebbe)”-snapped the housekeeper. , ■' ' “No,” said the doctot) “she , never gpes out of town.” The. housekeeper rattled a platj?. “Itisthefirst time that she has missed church.” said the doctor, “Since 11 can remember. • • The ;>"r rattled another plate and thte doctor relapsed into silence, but sbo'n after dinner he harnessed the ancient' nag, ’.and half an hour later Rithard the Lion Heart had his little beak opened a fid a doctor of medicine was trying to look at his tongue! r A fortnight.. passed and the doctor called every .day? tempting Richard’s appetite wtrh chickweed —slyly rubbed with olive oi|— swathing, his cage with flannels, coaxing him back to activity song ;■ sp that; at the end of the fortnight the doctor announced that his patient was entirely well, and re-| gretfully added that his visits,.his very pleasant visits, for which he ■would take no other fee than one of Richard’s lion-hearted songs, would have to cease and determine. He .stayed away.a wqek and then he called one evening, “just to see," as he told himself, “how his patient was getting along.” Little Miss Spencer was sitting at the window .•knitting a pair of >socks for another of those unfortunate orphans, and Richard’s cage was on the sill, where 'he was playing with a bit of yarn, frying to unravel it and calling- to the Miming sparrows. What Miss Spencer’s thoughts had been’ I do not know, but 'ftsrshe knitted away ' and looked at the sunset it sometimes happened, I think, that-she knitted a tear into those little woolen socks, but-yet, whbn the doctor entered', her eyes were very ’bright. . ■ ’ 4 . "Well,” cried the doctor in his mild w •••’A w 'V i Pidn’t see miss spencee at church. and cheerj' manner, "and how’s the patient?” He sat, too, at the window. • “He thinks he’s making a nest,” smiled Miss Spencer. “But what is he chattering about?” asked the doctor. ’ “I thrift,”! sa i(i Miss Spencer, her eyes brightly On her work, “I think he is calling—to his mate.”“ ‘ And still the busy pins clicked in and out of that fortunate orphan's socks, a little bit damp in a place or two, but, none the worse for that, and still Itjzm ard pie Lion Heart unraveled his flit of yarn and Softly called to the hdming birds. ■ “He’s lonely,” said the doctor, in a voice so low you cbuld hardly hear him, “and so am I,” he breathed, “and so am I—but if you would care to be a poor old doctor’s wife—Ann And after Richard Had quite recovered from, his surprise, and had sung his evening song, and had tucked his head under his wing, and fead carefully drawpAip one of his feet and hidden it among his feathers, his mistress and the doctor still sat there, hand in hand, gazing into the sunset —-little Miss Spencer with Tier lips parted, her eyes Shining, and thkt tender look of happiness which tells of direams fulfilled -— Evening MAGIC GLASS. A Curious Mirror That May Be Made Transparent. One of the most curious inventions of this age is what is called platinized glass. A piece of glass is coated with an exceedingly^thin layer of a liquid charged with platinum and then raised To a red heat. The platinum becomes united to the glass in such away as to form an odd kind of mirror. The glass has not really lost its transparency, and yet if one placfes It against a wall and looks at it. he sees

his image as in an ordinary looking glaSs? But when, light Is allowed to J hrough the glass from the mht-ri,: iside, as when it is placed in a window, ) it appears perfectly transparent, like ) ordinary glass, ; -. By constructing a window'of plat- ) inized glass’ one* coulfl stand close, bej ) hand the panes in an unilluminated'! room ami behold . cleatly everytffthg going, on “outsid^,'while passet's-by looking at the window would Wiold only ) a fine mirror or set of mirror/in which their own figure’s;-would be reflected, I .While- the person -inside remained inVIsIMa ' In France various tricks have been contrived with the aid of this glass. In one a person, spuing 'what appears to be an ordinary mirror,.approachesit to gaze upon (himself. ■ A sudden change in the me.jmnisn* s rids light through thel glafes from the . back, whereupon ;it instantly, becomes trans parent, and the startled spectator finds himself confronted by spine grotesque ' figute that had been lijdden behind the ) magic glass.—New York Tribu-mS His Idea, of the English. j The following illustrates Louis. Phi- I lippe’s idea of England and the Eng- , lish. He one day asked Hugo if he ! had ever been in England and oh re- ! ceiving a negative reply'continued: “Well, when you do go—for you will go—you tvill see how strange it is.. It resembles France in nothing. Over there are order, arrangement, symmetry, cleanliness, well mowed lawns and profound silence on the streets. The passersby are as serious and as mute as specters. When, being French ;and alive, you speak in the street these specters look baCk’at you and murmur with an inexpressible mixture of gravity and disdain, Trench people !’ When I was in London I was walking arm in arm with my wife and sister. We’ were conversing in a not too loud tone of-voice, for we-are well bred persons, you know, yet all the passersby, bourgeois and men of the pdople, turned to gaze at us, and we could hear them growling behind us:. ‘French people! French people!’”— “Memoirs of "Victor Hugo.” Bernard Robbins, head of the legal department of New York’s Court of Tears—tins charity helps the poor to adjust their marital troubles without going to the expense of lawsuits—-.said the either day to a newspaper man: “Such .work as mine makes you, if you are not careful, pessimistic about inarriage, so that you find yourself telling grimly over and over again the story afeout sf. Peter and the widower. “What?. yAi don’t know the story? Well, it seems that two souls approached'St. Peter-side by side, and the younger was repulsed sternly by tin saint on the ground that since he had jjever been married he had never know; suffering. “The older man advanced with glad confidence. He stated that he had beei married twice. “But he, toor-the saint repulsed, say ingr ‘This is no place for fools? ” 'Au Awful Animal. “Really,” said tlie Stylish lady, en thusjastically, to her friend, “it is qu * wol-th while going tor the zoo. if onl to see the wonderful supply of rhoddendrons.” . • ’ “I’d like to look at the great, big, clnm . I . unpleasantly round the cages?’—Lo, don Nfcws. . The Fierceness of Debate. Campaign AiKiser—Ypu think you next speech’will make an impression Candidate—l do. Campaign Adviser —Have you an new arguments to place before you opponent? Candidate —No; but I have a lot < new names to call him. Another Authority. Mr. Howe—l suppose you- ha' studied all the. authorities on social ai economic questions? Mr. Wise—N' quite all. My daughter’s graduation e say is not out yet.—Life. Other people may) have good tasi but of esurse yours-Hs a shade be ter.

REVIEW OF INDIANA

When W., F. Woodmansee married Mrs. Sarah. Goff at Hartford City, he became his divorced .wife's .somln-law. Fred Asper, of Culvef-. old, while skating on Lake broke through the -icle -ami. wis drowfled. The town of Syracuse,, with but few jnore than 1.000 •• inhabitants., has a single industry—the Siuufusk’y Portland Cement Company—with more 'than 300 men on its payrolls, The Spiegel Furniture Company at Shelbyville has. received,a large number of orders during the last few. days 'and has spirted up with a full’ force and full time. The company now has a sufficient number of orders’ to Keep the large, plant in operation for many weeks. In a shipment of logs being loaded at Clay City are two cifl from a wild Cherry tree which are from three to four feet in diameter, theTargjest of the kind ever seen on the-yards in the history of timber traffic at (“lay City. ’ Recently a land owner on Eel fiver sold, ten poplar trees for $1,200. While Ermel Goodwin, 21 years oid, and Grant Lawson; 11 years) old, both ' of Anderson, were in a friendly seuflle for possession of a shotgun, the gun was discharged and Goodwill received almost the entire load of shot in his shoulder, and he may be permanently crippled. -A. few shot- were jmbedded in*young Lawson's neck; but all--Were removed. - 'Charles Day paid a,ffirte in the Mayor’s court at Peru for disorderly conduct. Day bought a . ijocking. chair from a catalogue, house for his fife’s Christmas present. When the present, .cj.tme .Jlrs. Day had to piy the express charges. , She told her husband about it. He became so-angered that.he and* his wife got ipto a controversy which ended in her senditug for the police. I Tb.e large flouring nfill in Milan, owned by John F'. lleimsath. -of Napoleon, was destroyed recently by fire. The elevator contain&d 3,000 bushels of Wheat, 1,000 bushels of which was placed there by farmers on depbsipr This was the oldest mill in Ripley County, and wa/ established-in 1552. There ivere sixty barrels of flour in the mill ready for -shipment. The loss is at SIO,OOO, and was net) covered by insurance. ■ ■ Valparaiso University,* which furnishes boand to over 1,200 students, has installed potato peelers, which it is will save from 700 to 800 bushels of potatoes a yea4*. The‘potatoes have the “hide taken off” in a contrivance With an emery covered bottom find sides and as it revolves the process of paring.is accomplished with the? exception of removing the eyes. Machinery also washes the dishes and cuts the bread. C. W. Higgs, of Terre Haute, whose coiv. died- of hydrophobia, will be sent to the Chicago., Pasteur Institute because some of the animal’s saliva got on scratches on his hand. When she 'was suffering from the’malady Higgs thought "she was choking and put his hand in her mouth to remove a supposed obstruction. A boarding-house was supplied with the coW’s njilk, but the doctors at the institute sent y,T>rd bat persons drinking the milk will not.. ’>e affected.. Higgs, who is comparaively ‘a poor man. lost a horse by an 'accident, and 200 chickens died from cholera,about the )time the cow died. Health officers’ discovery of typhoid bacilli in milk served by Jluncie ,'dai- . ymen and.the tracing of three or four, ■ases of’the fever to the. use of injcted milk} has arouspd mtich agitaion for the passage of a milk inspecion ordinance in Muncie, The, City ’ouncil* which has hitherto been indiferent to the demand for a milk inpeetor, is said now to s be 'willing to ass an ordinance such- as is proposed. \ determined effort to regulate the lairies supplying Muncie .customers . ith milk began several months ago, I >ut iintil now has bad no prospect of access. Investigators . said, -several limths ago, that of all the dairies- ■ bout the city only one was wholly unitary. • ' Secretary W. 11. Duncan,) of,the Ter•e Haute Commercial Club, says there- ■ s such a) demand for business locaions in the downtown district that ■ ■ents are strong and; rooms are at a •iremium. “A large number of -firms re seeking locations here,” said he, from all parts of the country.” )ne firm that wished to come here ext spring got a chance for a room nd rented it; although'not to be used or six month's. Though Terre Haute’s 'opulation has increased 75 per cent), n seven .or eight years, and with d ’ i.etory class which has-had steady ’ ork, making fine patronage for the real! stores, the amount of floor space n the retail district has not increased 0 per cent. The result has been pros>erity for the merchants already, in msiness, and this fact becoming mown outside, other merchants wish o come to the city. W. G. Mflnson, who has been in Illitois for the last two : years visiting, las returned to Shelly County and he irought with him the longest whiskers -yer seen in the county. They measire just twenty-seven inches. As the result of the bursting of a ontinuous tank in the Lippincott lamp himney factory at Alexandria 250 nen and boys have been thrown out >f employment until the tank can be emptied of molten glass and rebuilt, which will require about ?hree weeks.

The Odd Fellows’ building and John Kerstein’s store and residence at inland were burned. Loss $14,000. insurance* SII,OOO. Caldwell, a farmer near J-r-Ilivutb, was killed by a falling t.-. ’ he was cutting-for His * son narrowlj* escaped the same f;ite..‘ Farmers in .the vicinity of h? .are'.plowing for spring planting. For the first time in twenty years the .-.dil . is in such condition that it admits of easy iplowihg.’ . J A certificate has‘been issued awtnbritting the First National Bank ofyFort■fple, capital stock $25,000, tobusiness. John G. McCord wilb JpA president; Willmih R. Rash, vice pr<-A ideht; b. I, Morrow’cashier, and W.ls.-J Todd and John A.'McComas assistant cashiers. . ■ *rhe Terre Haute police have rounded up a band of bdy burglitrsj the old- , •dst -of whom is Joe Seavey,- aged 19. ■ According to their con essions they have committed many-robberies. Four lof the older boys were >onn<l over’ to ihe Circuit Court, and,the others were placed in charge of the Pfopatipn Officer. . ■ ~ ’ '. <) ■ !I; ■ ■',. ; Mrs? Emma Steele, of Greenfield, has brought suit against-' John F. Spaunhurst and Charles M. \Laßue, of Indianapolis,, doing, business under the 'name of the Spauhhv.rst Institute of Osteopathy, demaudi ig $1,0.000 -damages.. She alleges her -health has .been permanently injured by the Institute’s system of treatment. ■).;» ’ - ! - , Ruisipg the w indow of his berth in a slee'per on the Monon to get frlesji air, R. D. Winsey bent o.utTtoo far and fell from the car jwhile. the train yvas - going at the rstte miles an hour, near’Reynolds. Winsey .was found 'lying near the track unconscious. * ito Jives at 331 Wells -street, Chicago, and was bn route to 'Wench Lick Springs to take treatment. . His condition!-is critical.' . ■ ) ’. . )', ,' The large barn on the farm of Stephen Sparks, south of Cbnnersyilie, was destroyed by, fire. The origiip. of the blaze is unknown. The {loss tmiounts to $3,000. .with.,ssoo insurance.- A span of mules, for’which Mr. Sparks recently received An, offer of SSOO, was burned, together with! 1.600 bushels of corn, fifteen hogs readY for tke market, farm implements affd a large amount of hay. . s \ r f While a dredge boat was excavatiug to Marsh creek, five miles ’ southwest! Os Princeton, a number .of bone’s dty what h ! ad .evidently been a mastodon were unearthed. The bones are in good ; state of preservation, and include a front leg bone, a portion of the) jaw and ah- almost perfect tooth of large size. The jaw bone was about two and one-half feet in length. The bones were taken out by Charles Dougan, about six feet below’ the surface, and were turned'over to Aiayor Cushman, of Princeton. * « ->■' Albert G. Newsbm, ,a farmer, Who lives near Columbus, estimated that he. had lost 150 bushels of com from the field, so he decided to watch. He sent t-woof his men to -the field, where they made themselves as conffortaple as possible. In a short time Williatn and Daniel Shatto, it is charged, drove in- ' to the field and began shucking corn. As soon as they had loaded/,some of the grain in the wagon they were cap-, lured and eer called from Columbus. The men were placed ip jail and charged with larceny. • After Seeing moving pictures, in a vaudeville show in Evapsville, where Indians were representedjkiding White people, Landry Brahdley, aged ,9, and George Huskey, aged ■ 9. jried to kill Roy Berry, aged 6, w;ith an ax. They tied the BerfW boy to a. log in his father’s stable and had a heavy ..ax raised and were going to cut Btf his; head , when anther companittn rushed into the house ar.d informed the lad’s / 'mother. The mother reached '.the stable in tithe to throw herself on the boy’s neck, in Pocahontas fashion, and save his life. The Berry boy was a willing victim, and said he would, have left his - companions, .kill him had .not his mother arrived on the scenp), * Benjamin' Mullican.’ of-Macy, had a surprise for a party of rabbit-hunters a few days ago in the Wa*y of a rabbit- • hunting pig. He carried a sack with. , him, and told his companions that the bag contained a ferret. When the party , had tracked fa rabbit to its hole in the ground and Mr. Mullican drew the pig from the sack his companions were much surprised and hooted the idea that the pig would go into* tfaFhole and chase out the rabbit. But his pigship did tha| very thing, and the hunters were so surprised that not one of them, managed to kill the pab-" bit and all five or thepj The pig is two years old and is knbwn as a dwarf hog. Mr. Mullican bought the hog a few months ago while visiting in lowa. Since returning ..home Mr. Mullican has taught the little animal many tyicks, rabbit-hunting bMpg one of them. Tire pig is about the ' size of a 2-monfhs-old kitten. >; A movement has been started at Sullivan to purchase two bloodhounds to be used in trailing thieves, and to do aWay with the night watchman who' has been patrolling the business ’dis? tricts In recent years. More than 1,000 men entered the army in the last six months through the Terre Haute recruiting station. » This gives the station the sixth place among cities of the country, New York Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis and San Francisco being ahead- . ’ ’ 3 • i‘] .. ■■' !' '• f ’