The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 38, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 21 January 1908 — Page 6

Syracuse Journal * WALKER & FANCIL SYRACUSE, - - IND. Railway mall cars that are built of steel are not likely to burn. F. Augustus Heinze appears to’haVe forgotten what happened to Jimmie Hazen Hyde. ? No more Venezuelan vessels will be seized by the. Dutch. Sst! There are no more. i. ' . If the London suffragettes get the ballot It will spoil all the fun; for they can’t be suffragettes, then. John L. Sullivan’s wife says he is a mollycoddle. She probably says it because she believes he would not hit a lady. . Then, again, If- there are no artists outside Europe, why does King Oscar ask an American to paint Jiis portrait? Up to date President Roosevelt has been compared with every great man In,history with the exception of St. Patrick. . . We feel thoroughly justified in saying that the fellow who tried to pull the chin whiskers of the President of I France was no gentleman. Should it ever become necessary for the Sultan of Turkey to do the Castro act, his $300,000,000 will make Cairo'ss6o,ooo,ooo look like 30 cents. They’ve got a press gallery in the new parliament of Turkey,: so the sultan has on hand now all the facilities needed for a first-class scrap. Will somebody kindly send in the correct address of Richmond Pearson Hobson? There hasn't been a decent war scare in the last 24 hours. i“'. ‘ Aeronaut Knabenshue has -demonstrated the possibility of bombaring a city from an airship. Laws governing the ownership and operation of airships, . should at pnce be passed; J. Pierpont Morgan’s dues in the thirty-five clubs to-which he* belongs amount to more than $7,000 anually. What a lot of excuses he has for remaining away from home at night I President’ Roosevelt says he will'not; be satisfied if he fails to’bring, down a rhinoceros dr two while he is in Africa. We expect to hear at once from the Society for the Protection of the Innocent Rhinoceros. o A San Franciscri man has turned his entire estate, rallied at above $4,000,000, over to his' wife. It may be that he wants her to be kept so busy managing things that she will not notice it when he happens to remain out late at night. Dr. Hillis thinks the millenlum has arrived. The man who needs 14 tons of hard coal and doesn’t know. wh|re he Is going to get the money tp flay for it is probably convinced that ' a millennium doesn’t amount to mulsh, after all. ‘ . It is alleged that the Earl of Granard, whose engagement to nn' American heiress was recently announced,. has never put out a crop of wild oats. If this is true, how did he ever gain admission to the Heiress Hunters’: Home? . ■ ’ A Kansas farmer complains that he was swindled a few days ago by. a sharper who induced him to pay several thousand dollars;for what he represented to be a diamond, but which, turns out to be a stone of little value. This should serve as a warning to other Kansas farmers. A farmer may properly invest in a grand piano or 4 SIO,(XX) automobile, but he‘ really ought not to wish to wear big diamonds. .There is no quarrel with the Venezuelan people. /Not a country with which diplomatic relations have been broken off feels hostile toward the Venezuelans. The disputes are all with Castro and his government, and much as foreigners have to resent, they believejthat Castro's own people have more, (nd that they are to be‘pitied more than flamed for the sorry pass to which they have been brought. If they do indeed throw off the yoke their friends, the enemies pf the dictator, will , gladly do what they'can, to make the way easy for them. ’ When the owners of the Madison Square Garden in New York announced recently that they could no longer afford to hold the unprofitable property, the people of the city, suddenly began to ask themselves what they should •do without it. The building covers a whole block, and its amphitheater will accommodate ,eighteen thousand persons. It is the scene of the horse artd dog shows, the automobile and sportsman’s exhibitions, bicycle races and the circus. Great political meetings are also held in It as the most capacious auditorium in the city. If the Garden should be tom down, New York would have no adequate hall for such gatherings and exhibitions. It would also lose the tower, which was suggested by the bell-tower ot the Seville Cathedrai, and is one of the most beautiful structures in America. An attempt is making to prevent the demolition of the building. Every Important city needs such a large gathering place.

The busin ss men of Washington are making ai angements for such a hall in that cil , The national capital has no »• meeting place for big conventions, i id no room suitable for the inaugural tall, Chicago, with char acteristic iterprise. has maintained its big hall f< -a long time. Denver built one last j ar for the National Democratic Cor mention. St. Paul has built! such a t .11 by public subscription. Other citi 3 are similarly equipped, for with the acreased facilities of travel,! exhibition and conventions attract people fr :h so wide an area that ,al. hall large enough for all demands fifty yehrs ag< has become inadequate to/ day. Bui land is sb expensive in the large citl s and the price of building materials is so high that the big modern halls •seldom pay expenses.- Their benefit t< the community at large is greater t an to their owners. They are reallj public institutions. The re uklng of leading lawyers by. a judge or undignified performances, unseemly wrangling, flippant “abides" and pbje less, interruptions is ah tin oc< irrerice in this latitude, ft ’is the ni re welcome on that account arid the nore hopeful. - Certainly the ■; and scenes which have pro VQked th censure are far from being exception Tin American courts, and thV judges a e, as a rule, too indulgent and too ong-suffering. Many American law. >rs have commented on the contrast hat the British court atmos phere pr sents to the American. In I England the lawyers really act like ' “Officers if the court;” they treat the presiding magistrate with due tespeet and deft ence, and they refrain fropi personal ies,, theatrical outbursts, displays of cheap wit and the bandying <>f epith is and slurs. In America idals in the courtroom are so •dcjipmon hat most laymen and lawyers take the i as a matter of course,. Tlic new cod of legal ethics adopted' by, the America Bar Association is already a dead etter ’as*" far as. dignity and propriety in the courtroom are concerned, nd the worst of it is that it is not t e shysters who are the most pernicio s offenders, for from them the judges ’ ould hardly stand much nopsense. t is the strong and influential’ lawyers! whom the judges hesjtate to Call to i icount when they permit themIselves s andalous branches of decoruni and gop- • manners, As some independent jud es have frankly said, . the„ (State belch .is often' afraid of the bar, since th occupants of the former have to thin' of E re-election, of possible retiremen and return to practice. Such lebnside itiofis. .however, do nos excuse ej "essive weakness and lack of (self-fest set. The bar bassociations tliemsel es would collectively uphold a firm an dignified policy on the part of’ th ; e ben h, a policy that should aim at the srfl session of- dreary and vulgar farce s enes in cwp’t and that should accentv te the gffTvity and good faith of judi lai proceedings! A Glove Secret. “The only trouble about these wash gloves,’ said, the lady; “is that they dry, al er washing, so very stiff and boardli' e.” The salesman wrapped the soft, p: e yellow gloves in tissue paper. “That i easily remedied,” s he said. “I’ll .tell ybi how to wash the gloves so that tl iy vfill dry soft and pliable the same ns new. After you have rinsed them i- iite clean dip them in a final bath o fresh water and rub plenty of •soap i to them, drying them without rinsing this last soap gut. The soap left in the gloves makes them wonderfully ' i >ft—they don’t then need, aftet drying to be rubb.ed soft with ten or fifteen minutes’ hard labor.’ This soap secret being used, wash: gloves are I quite perfect. It is no wonder they are c< npletely superseding the expensive I 1 gloves, for they are half asj cheap again and their gashing is sot easy— io them at bedtime, toss them on the r. liator and in the morning they the rt idy to put on,” His Next Work. The New York Tribune reporter who had journeyed to the home of the rising young writer for the purpose o? iuten ewing him as to his next novel, disco’ irhd the author in his garden, ent. gagec in earnest conversation with- g small my, who had a large towel pinned roun< his neck. ; Tli ; author received’ his visitor copdiall; <but seemed ratheg absent-mind-ed. ’ >1 ■■ “A e you willing to trill me a littlp abou your next important work?” aske. khe’ reporter. Th ' author clicked a pair of shears and atted the boy on the shoulder. •‘V’e were just talking about it as you ame up,” he said. “Willie thinks I or ht to do it with a bowl, but I thin I can do it without. What you dvlse? You see, his mother has always cut it before, but she's away now A Real Dilmma. “f i.y, Mike,” queried Plodding Pete, whc was looking at the piece of a Sun ay school paper that had come witl a.’’handout, “wot does it mea-fi ’boi bein' between de devil an’ de deep sea 'j. •» ■', ■ ' : . “ ’s de same as bein’ told t’ take yter choice between goin’ t’ work aiji’ tjak h’ a bath,” explained Meandering Mil - —Chicago News. Located. ■ “ believe there is a movement on foo to prevent our marriage.” learned of it last night” ' . ‘ >ld you locate it?” ‘ es, it’s on your father’s foot” - Ho ston Post. I s a sign a girl likes to be kissed if tie says she doesn’t

••••••••••••••••••••••a : Aunt Diana: • • • . • • 77te Sunshine • J of the Family J • I' • ••••••••••••••••••••••a CHAPTER XXII.— (Continued.) “Oh, there is the river’” exclaimed Alison, in a tone of ecstasy. “Look. Roger; ygu can just catch a gleam through the trees- oh. the dear place! How Ido love it J” her voice rising into a perfect crescendo, of which the top note was complete satisfaction. , “It is just a year since you have seen it,” observed Greville. “Miss Alison, what made you steal a march on me in that fashion? I was quite;hurt that you never gave me a hint .of your intention bf going home.” * He spoke in a low tone that Roger could not hear. The quick, sensitive color rushed into Alison’s face; there wa'S such implied proach in Greyille's voice. Had he really been hurt? "Oh,,you must not feel like that about • it.” she returned, with a sweet, candid look. “We. had talked of the possibility,’ Aunt Diana and I, but nothing had been settled. I had put it . out of my mind. I Was so naughty, I could not bear the Mett bf •going home and .doing my duty. P should never have gone at all .if Aunt Diana had not helped me.” “You .did not think how I should feel (when I came back and found you gone,” (retorted Greville. in a boyish, injured voice, that reached Roger and made him (smile, only Alison grew a little grave. ( “I left a message, with your grandfather,” she 1 said, quietly. “What could ;I do? Aunt: Diana said it was my duty (to go, and .that it was no good putting one’s hand and looking backward. What is the use of loitering over a difficult task when it has to be done?” j “That is true, but . ( “Please don’t talk of last summer,” interrupted him; “it makes me sadIpnly to think about it.” And he could Bee there were tears in her eyes as she (spoke. “I made myself so miserable over lit; I could not bear leaving Aunt Diana, (and I missed every one so.” ( “Miss Alison, plea'se do not look sad over.it,” said Greville, earnestly. “What a clumsy fellow I am! I have silenced the nestful of twittering young larks (referring to Roger’s speech. “Come. 1 know you will forgive me, and look chirpy, 'again, when I tell you I have passed (muster and come off with flying colors.” ( »‘jOh, lam so glad!” exclaimed Alison, her smiles returning-again. “Then you .must havj worked hard. How pleased Mr. Mcbre must be!” - I “To hear grandfather talk,” returned Greville, calmly, “you would think I was the Admiral Crichton, at least. The dear ’bld man makes no end of fuss, bless him! I tell him it is all your doing;'you gave pie such a terrible lecture that Wednesday." •'' : ’. /„■ ' r()h, no,” replied Alison, blushing; “it was your own gbod sense.” • “I shall go hi for ‘Greats’ next year, so I shall have to grind pretty hard.' -I am to have a coach down here this summer. Cheyne, of Balliol, is at The Crays with his people, and he is a rare fellow for that.’ I have to work all my mornings,” he continued, rather dolorously, “but 1 shall have my Afternoons and evenings free. Miss Alison, you are not listening to me.” “Oh, yes I am!” she cried, joyously, “but I can not bear any more just now, though I am very glad to hear it all. Roger, dp look ! There is Moss-side—-you know you have forgotten it—and there is Aunt Di in the porch.” “Allie, ybu have eyes like a hawk. I see nothing bu't greenery and sunshine.” Nevertheless, Roger did perceive, a moment afterward, a tall figure in myr-tle-green standing under a trellis of roses. Miss Carrington had evidently heard the wheels of the dog cart, and had come out to look. When they stopped she had the little gate open and was helping Alison to alight. • “How are you, my dear child?” she said, as Alison put her arms around her; “actually not tired,’ Allie ! And you. Roger? Welcome to Moss-side, my boy!” . ‘lAr'en’t you going to welcome me, too. Miss Carrington?” asked Greville, half jokingly, but he looked a little wistfully at the . “No, not to-night,” she. returned, decidedly. “I must have my belongings to myself for this one evening: you may come in to breakfast, if you like.’’’ - And, knowing of old that Miss Carrington’s decisions allowed of; no appeal, Greville lifted his hat and wished them good evening, and turned hi® mare’s head in the direction of the Fernleigh stabies, not without a backward glance at the glim, dark-eyed ’girl looking affectionately in Miss Carrington’s face. “Now, Allie, go to your old room and get rid of the dust, while I show- Roger upstairs,” observed Aunt Diana, in a brisk- voice- “You will find me in the studio when you are ready.” CHAPTER XXIII. Her old room! Alison gave a happy little sigh aS she trod on ■ the threshold. What a green little bower it looked, and. op, the roses!—roses in the quaint old china bowls that Aunt Diana so. much affected; roses in the slender Venetian glasses on the mantelpiece and toilet.table; roses clambering into the window and pressing their pink faces against the swinging lattice; and on the window sill, dropped by some thoughtful hand, a glorious Gloire de Djjon, with a background o 4 maidenhair fern, such as Alison loved to wear in her white gown. She stood for a moment looking out thoughtfully. The long shady lawns of Moss-side and Fernleigh lay beneath her, and through the fresh foliage of the willows and acacias was the silvery gleam of the lovely river. Something in the Sabbathlike stillness, in the beauty of the scene, in the peaceful satisfaction of her heart, moved Alison to kneel down among the roses, and breathe a’< brief thanksgiving for the duties she had been strengthened to perform, for the fatherly goodness that brought her back to the home of her adoption, and for the iyiman ! ove that was but a dim reflection of the Divine. » She did not hurry to go down, though

her luggage had not yet arrived, and there was no possibility of changing her traveling dress. But when she had brushed her brown hair, and put on her breast knot of roses, she looked trim as ever, and her bright, smiling face, as she opened the studio door, brought the name “Sunny” to Miss Carrington's mind, for she looked as all young faces should look—the very . essence of a sunbeam. “Oh, Aunt Di, the dear, lovely room!’ And, oh, that is the. new picture,” springing to the easel, to gaze delightedly on golden cornfields, with scarlet poppies struggling among the wheat, like gaudy promises never to ripen into fruit, arid under the hedge a little brown baby sleeping, with its dimpled hand full of weeds, and a sheep dog watching its slumbers. “Do you like the picture, Allie? It is sold already. Lady Franklin fell in love with it, but I want it to hang in next year’s Academy. ‘The baby is painted from life: the original belongs to Barby, an old servant.” “Aunt Di, it is perfectly beautiful! Roger. Nome here and tell me if you do not think so?’ “Nonsense, Allie ; Roger is far too hungry for art criticism at present. Come ’awhy, you foolish child, and let me give you something more satisfying than painted canvas. The chickens came from Barfly's farm, with the strawberries and this jug of-delicious cream.” ' Alison looked round rather bewildered-, for none <?f these tempting viands were in sight: but Miss Carrington, who knew’ her love for meals al fresco, had had the supper table laid in i the wide veranda, and not only and' strawberries, but other delicacies were provided for the hungry: travelers. I , “This iS better than tea table under the limes at homp, Allie,”, exclaimed Roger, as he carved for the ladies. “No wonder she was spoiled, Aunt Diana, and did not take kindly to the sooty ivy and the music of the crane.”/ “Roger, I shall impose a forfeit if either you -or Allie- mention the mill,” observed Miss Carrington, as she handed him a cup of coffee enriched with Barry's yellow cream. “I want yon two young things to forget everything bftt how ! you are to amuse yourselves. Allie, shall we have our breakfast here, as we did last year, while the blackbirds and thrushes take theirs? Roger looks as if he wanted to live in the open air. Do you know’ you have got thin.'dear boy?” “Never mind that, Aunt Diana; there is' no fear of rusting, that is one bless-! ing— ; work never hurt man or woman yet.”, ■ , -j.’-"'-' “No,” she said, thoughtfully, “but ‘moderation in all things’ was an apostle’s, maxim,; but you are right in principle,, Roger. Now for the home news. What, is really your father’s condition? Letters are,so unsatisfactory, and they never say half enough.” “Dr, Greenwood, is delighted with the progress he has made, Aunt Diana; he gets across the room quite nicely on, crutches, though he is not to do more at present. Os course, the long confinement has made him look pal.e and delicate, but his spirits are first rate. ■ Dr. Greenwood told me the other day that in another year or. so he might hope to be as well as ever. He says he is an excellent patient.” ' , “And how does the book go on?” “VAy well, I believe; he manages to ■write without difficulty with the help of a sloping board.” “That was Roger’s clever contrivance,” interrupted Alison. “Aunt Diana does not want to know that; you have broken the thread of my discourse. Father does seeth. happier lying there with all his books round him than he did at the mill.” “And a very good idea, tod,” observed Miss Carrington, looking at her nephew with decided approbation. “How does Murdock fulfill his duties?” “Admirably; he is a very stea‘dy fellow.” • “Then Allie’s plan will answer,” she returned in her practical way. “There is no reason, Roger, why you should not car--ry on the business, and leave your father free for his literary pursuits. He was . never fitted for a,business man; he is too dreamy and unpractical. , Believe me, he will be far happier and less irritable if circumstances allow him to follow his own particular bent.” ■‘l am (quite sure of it, Aunt Diana,” returned Roger, quietly; “and now I have worked alone all these mbnthß, I feel ni&re' competent to carry on the business single handed. It has been a hard pull— Fergusson had done/so much mischief, but things are righting themselves now, and with Murdock's help we shall get on capitally.” ■ • • “That is well,” replied Miss Carrington, hehrtily, “and now, how does Missie go on?” . ‘ This time Alison answered. - “Her arm is quite right, but she still looks rather thin and delicate. Mrs. Hardwick —Mrs. Forbes, I mean—wants to take her to Torquay, in October, for two months; she says she will be such a nice companion for Anna. Papa insists that she is to go.” “And how does my little friend Anna get on with her stepfathers?”-. “He is very kind to her,) Aunt Di. Roger is rather pleased with ,him on the •whole.” / “Dr. Forbes is one of those men bark is worse than their, bite,” observed Roger ; “he rather prides himself on being a bear, but I think Miss Anna has proved there is a soft spot in his heart.” “I am glad to hear this. Then the poor little girl is happy on the whole?” “I don’t think Anna is to be pirfed. Aunt Di,”: returned Alison, ip rather a peculiar tone; “she looks extreme!j’ hap'py,” And something in Alison’s manner made Mis? Carrington change the subject ; it certainly did n<& appear to interest Roger, for he seemed absorbed in his strawberries all at once, and his criticism on Dr. Forbes was given in rather a constrained voice. “Miss Leigh tells, me that Missie is wonderfully improved since her illness,” observed Aunt Diana, after a pause, which no one seemed anxious to break. “Indeed she is,” returned Alison, with quick enthusiasm. “I have never seen any one so changed; she is so much quieter in dress and manners, and so much more tolerant of Rudel. Poppie likes to be with her now, and Miss Leigh can not say enough in her praise. It is easy to see now she tries to break herself of her faults, and it is so much hard- (

er for her than for us, as she has not naturally a good temper.” “Neither had I, Allie. Many a girl has a sore fight to goj through life as well as Missie; it is so easy to contract bad habits, and so difficult to subdue them. I believe nothing hut. grace can enable one to overcome a really, bad temper.” And so saying; Miss Carrington rose from the table, and proposed that Roger should go down to the river while she and Alison disposed of the unpacking. CHAPTER XXIV. There ,was. a merry breakfast on the veranda next morning, and Alison, in her white dress, with some dewy roses as a breast knot, looked the picture of happiness as poured out the coffee. Directly ’it was over, Greville took her /and Roger to see his grandfather. Mr. Moore was eagerly expecting them; even before Alison’s foot had passed over the threshold his sightless eyes were turned to the window, and his “Welcome, Sunny?’ reached her ears. In another moment Alisou was occupying. her old footstool at his feet, and his fine wrinkled hand, a little more trembling than of old, was placed on her hair, with a half audible blessing. “Dear Mr. Moore', I am so glad to see you again “Have you missed us. li-ttle one? Not half as much as we have missed-Sunny.” And as she pressed her lips to his hand in mute contradiction of this, he said, half sadly: “Child, I never thought to have heard your sweet voice again, but the good God would have it otherwise. Before the message reached me it was recalled; the gates were almost closed in my face.” ' “’iThank God for that,” she whispered; “but they never told me that you were ill until you were ’ well again.” “Ah, Miss Carrington is a wise woman; she thinks it wrong to burden young spirits with sorrows that do not belong to them. My boy there nearly broke his heart about the old man: can you believe it, Sunny?” “You are like his own father,” she returned! softly. “He is outside on Jhe E veranda with Roger. Are you well enough to speak to Roger?” ' “Ay, ready and ’willing;' he Atas grown a fine lad, I hear?’ And as Alisbn beckoned t,o them the two young men came in through the window, and Roger sat down by she old man’s side, (To be continued.) A LESSON IN LOYALTY. Girl Stood Up for Her Friends | . Like a Boy. <“Clare is as good as a boy; just as gobdas a boy!” said Rita, bhoiiglitfullyT) “YeSr-uear?” Mrs. Denny’s tone suggested a question. 'Her daughter was speaking about a cousin who luujacom? to live with the family, and evidently designed to compliment her; but the mother was not sure that she perceived the bearing of the odd expression. “Yes.” Rita added, emphatically, “she believes in.standing by other girls, as boys stand by each other. “I can remenjber a time,” Rita went on, “when, if one bf. us girls did something silly, the rest would talk and nlk and talk! It wasn’t only manners and actions that we criticised. If colors didn’t match, or if .any article of dress was conspicuous,that was reason enough to pull a girl to pieces. We didn’t do It because we wanted to be unkind. It was a kindjbf habit, you know, and we never realized the meanness of it. “But Clarej told us!” Rita laughed as she recalled the incident. “It was the very first time she had met if number of us togethej 1 . Belle Ward there. S,o onp'miade fun of her aew hat. and* another "had a joke about her awkward gait, and a third told how she and her sister wrangled—and all <f a sudden Clare spoke up. • “ ‘lsn’t this Miss Ward a schoolmate and friend of yours?’ she asked. “ ‘Oh, yes? somebody said. ‘Bede’s one of our crowd? “‘Then? said Clare, in that <ool. quiet way of hers, ‘if she’s good eniugh for all of you to associate with. I shluld thfnk that some of you might find sunething pleasant to say about her? “She didn’t stop at that. She wisn’t a bit preachy, but She 'suggested that our practice of talking about eftch ether in a belittling way was one that hurt ourselves as well as the persons we» talked about. We were giving ourelves lessons in insincerity and uncharihbleness, she, said. People who overlbard us would think less of and W<men because of -what we said. We night na-turally turn into gossips and solds when we got older. “It seemed very shocking, but wehad sense enough to see that there was ruth in it ; and we owned up, and asked Clare to help us keep watch of ourselves. She does. She’d stop us In a minute if she heard us begin to talk slightingly about another girl. And more than that, she sticks up for (iris who don’t have many pleasant flings said about them, and makes us d> it, too.” ” . “ ‘She openeth her mouth with wisdom. and in her tongue is tlje lar of kindness,’ ” Mrs. Denny quoted. s>ftly. “That,” she added, “is a part of ai ancicrit description of the ideal wonan.” —Youth’s Companion. i Jealous ol Jack. i Dick —Did you enjoy yourself town at the masque ball-last night? Edna —Indeed, I did. And ecntng home through the chilly night Jack Frost kissed my cheeks. Dick —Lucky Jack! The next time I am going disguised as Jack ifcost myself. Consoling Thought. “I’m glad my children are all toys,” said the mother of seven young lopefull. “Because why?” queried,# the »rivileged friend. “Because none of them is doonrd to grow up and marry a man like thel. dad,” she answered, with a sigh.

REVIEW OF INDIANA

George Simmons, colored, ra under arrest at South Bend on the charge of passing a counterfeit SSO bill. Ed Lane, 17 years old. after an illness- of twelve hours, died at Petersburg of cigarette consumption. When he became so ill that hopes for his recovery were abandoned, he divulged the hiding place of hundreds of cigarsetteies that he had prepared to smoke, and( they were destroyed. Game Warden . Rigney, of Goshen, brought a man from that place, to Elkhart, and had him arraigned as John. Doe on the charge of killing a deer in Elkhart county bn Nov. ?0. The accused was fined SSO and costs, S3O of which was proxpptly paid. , The identity of the iflan kept secret. Crawfish have often been found deep underground, but it is seldom frogs haye been discovered hibernating far .beneath the surface. Last week, however. sewer contractors ih Elkhart found ‘ several-.batrachians twelve feet underground. , They were 4 dormant iwljen picked up.‘but soon came to life! The killing-of stray dogs on the street’ in Alexandria because of she m|d dog scare wh(ch followed the death of 12 : yearsold Helene Ward, was belgiin by the police and a half dozen dotes >have been- killed. The majority ofj dog owners heeded the proclamation of Mayor Edward sand either njuzzlpd their dogs or kept them confined. Sq far no additional cases of rabies have developed. ■Three trees from the tropical zone, wliich are owned by Homer -Gaddy, the Manila druggist, attracting considerable attention. They are a 12-year-old orange .tree which, at presept, has thirty-six. oranges on it; a 3-year-old lemon tree paving two lemons on it. orie .being fourteen inches, in circumference;: and also a Japanese (orange tijee which produces fruit qnly once in every three years. • ! (Shooting on a Stride game preserve south of Terre Haute cost Dan L/nch and Walter Blbdsoe, of that city, $43 effch in a justice court, according to alrqport made to the officelof the State fi(sh and game warden. ( Lynch and Blliedsoe, it appears, had bagged a fine lot of game, particularly quail, while hunting on the preserve, and escaped without notice, as they thought. Howelver they were arrested soon after their return to Terre Haute and pleaded guilty.; ’ Mrs. Mary A. Schooler, widow of the late Benjamin Schooler, who is dead a-t her Home, in Columbus, at the age of eighty-five yea(rs, knew \yilliam Henry Harrison. * Her maiden . name was Hughes, and she was born on a fflrfn which is now covrired by the city cjf Cincinnati. Her father’s farm joined tpe farm owned and occupied by William Henry Harrison. Her father sjerved with General Harrison in the battle of Tippecanoe, and Mrs. Schoolin' used to tell of the early days of the man who afterward became President She used, to see him every day when she was a, child. Grant County is rich .in women who ‘ldo things.” Sire has women who write, paint, sing, engage /in commercial life, preach, edit papers and do almost everything else and are successful at 'it, too, but Gas City has added a;new one to her list in the person of Mrs. N. G. Fort, who for some time has beeii conducting her husband’s barber shop in Third street. Business was hqt so good as it had been at one tinie and Mr. Ford got work and went to Chicago. During his absence Mrs. Ford took charge of the shop and. the customers say she can cut hair, shave laud massage as well as her husband. A letter received ‘at the Richmond postoffice a few days ago bore the postoffice address, “Seeder Rabbits.” There was no other guide to the place of destination meant by the 'sender. The mailing clerk who attempted to “route” the missive cast it aside, but aftrir several attaches of the office had viewed the curiosity and scratched their heads, it was decided that the writer evidentlj’ Intended .that the letter should go to Cedar Rapids, la., and ih his inability to spell correctly ihad brought the phonetic system into play. There was no State indicated, but; according to the postoflice directory lowa has the only "Seeder Rabbits.” • Henry Allouez, southwest of St. Anne, has an old sword, the blade of which, the owner asserts, contains 842 sherits of metal. The sword was made in Japan and was brought to this country by Mr. Allouez’s grandfather severity-five years ago. The blade, according to 'Mr; Allouez, is made from magnetic iron ores. The steel is produced in small sheets, as thin as it is possible for them to be, and soldered together until the mass forms the desired length and thickness. Thfe blade Is then brought to a white heat, doubled "and hammered to its original thickness, this process being repeated fourteen times. Mr. Allouez asserts that the sword has been handled down in the family, from father to son, for the last 120jyears. /Messrs. Everly & Wallace, of Plymouth, have received the contract from the United States Government for constructing the new postoflice building, at Niles, Mich. Their bid was $46,000. John Jones, 10 years old, of Mitchell, died in terrible agony of lockjaw resulting form his toe being cut off by a train. He was with a crowd of boys near the track when, it is said, they told him if he did not get on the train then passing they would throw at him.

■ Interurban cars will soom btf* in operation between Warsaw and Mt tone oyer the Winona line. MCDowell Brothers, formerly of Auburn. are organizing a . company at Muncie to manufacture motor vehicles. Thomas Dowling, a farmer near Morocco, has a small colony of bees, occupying a quarter of an acre of land.. * This j/ear ne sold honey to the amount of $364.24. and has 150 pounds left; His’ total expenses in connection with the bees for tlye season was $24.80, leaving him a profit of $330.4’4 on the .year's crop of honey. A tract of forty acres in the oil field near Oiiklarid City .sold recently for $4,800. The kind was bought from, the Nichols-Shepard Machine Company. and had cqjne to the company in satisfaction of a mortgage for a machine sold .several years ago. Aside , from the prospeclt of oil under it. the J land was practicilly worthless. ' ■ /-J South Fork, a small stream flowing a mile east of O.akland City, and emptying into the and which has been the fishing place of Oakland City for i. iy rations, has. beeii ruined as a fishing resort. Great volumes of salt water flows from around the casA ing in each,, oil well drilled in the vicinity and all this water flows to South Fork. The fish halve died or have !%t't the stream. The family ot Charles Steimel, In the' St. Thomas church neighborhood, near Decker, is sorely afflicted with the whooping cough. Two of Steimel’s ten children died last week, and six of the remaining eight are in a very serious condition. There is a great deal of whooping cought' in the locality, although it has'-not broken cut in any. one part of the country in the'form pf an epidemic. ’ The Farmers' and Merchants’ Bank of Clay City has several $5 greenbacks of the first issue of this.’kind of currency put into forty-seven, years ago. Spheral 'months ago a deposit was made of money which had been kept between leaves ot an old family Bible until the death of the woman to whom it had been £ent by a soldier of the Civil War. The bills are kept at the bank, as relics. June, the month of rosfcs apd weddings, failed to hold her visual record in a matrimonial line last year in Shelby County; according to the Records of the county clerk; That month was'' beaten by. February, October and .N<> vember. The s number of marriage licenses .issued, each month are: Jami 'ary, 18; February, 28; March,-22; . April, 14: Af'ay,. 14; June, 26; .luly, 12; August, 22; September. 22; Octobetijf! 27; November, 22; Decrimber,- 21. ■Playmates in childhood, lovers at 60’. George H. Qglebay, cashier and leading stockholder of the Romney Bank, and Miss Lucy Harter, of Frankfort, went to Chicago .a few days ago and were married at noon at. the home of the bride’s brother, George Harter. Mr. Oglebay was married twice, both wives ’ dying. • (Three weeks ago Miss Harter went, to Romney to visit ©ld friends, and Mr: Ofclebay met her for the first time in many years. ’ They planned their wriddihg and decided to waste no time. . One of the big delivery horses of the Adams Express Company in Columbus has grown sd vicious that it has been shipped to Chicago. The horse frequently stood in front of the express > office, in Washington street, where it “nipped"'at pedestrians on the side-_ walk. A few weeks ago George Schooler, a mcjl carrier, was passing, when the horse'. reached for him, grabbed him by the shoulder and pulled him ' from his bicycle. The teeth qi the horse inflicted a wound in his right shoulder that riaused him to be off duty. fdr three weeks. The horse was then muzzled, and this seemed to increase its anger. Last week, Fred McCaslin, who drove the horse, was standing near the wagon, when the animal struck him with its muzzle and broke three ribs. He tried to Work again in a few days, and tore the ribs loose. Then the horse was coaxed into a car and shipped away. , The Cox family, of Central Indiana, . claims the world's longevity record. There are three sisters and a brother who are centenarians, and their combined ages total 430 years. They are: Mrs. Eliza Wilson, Ford, Kan., 116,; Mrs. Nancy Rideshour, Brownsburg, Ind., aged 106; Mrs. Anna Bolton, AI-' exandria, Ind., aged 104; James Cox# Quincy, 111., aged-104. Mrs. Bolton and Mrs. Cox are twins, find lay claim to the reeprd as the oldest twins in Ameriba.' Mrs. Ridenhour has just celebrated her bifthday. She. is an invalid,, but her sisters and brother are not only able-to look after themeslves, but Insist ! strenuously on doing so This is true of Mrs, Wijson. Two years ago Mrs. Bolton, then 102, paid Mrs Wilson a visit. While there Mrs. 80l ton, became ill, and for several nights her sister, 114 years old, attended he) in a manner that a professional nurse might have envied. - s L. H. Henry Warsaw man whos< lower lip was eaten away by cancel J will shortly submit to an operation i> . a Fort Wayne hospital in which ai * effort will bri made to replace the li by the grafting process; Dr. W. H. Johnston, head of the Lai ", in department! of the University of It diana, has been admitted to the Moi ■ roe County bar. Though not a lawyei, Mr. Johnston said he wished to becom i a member of the bar that he migt : get better acquainted with attorneys.