The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 3, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 14 May 1908 — Page 2

Syracuse WALKER & FANCIL. k SYRACUSE, l^ P ‘ A little -garden seed, wen will produce a lot of back aeb One newspaper has bad the audacity to wonder whether vJount Boni was so much to blame, offer all. — ■ '-F ■ - There axe few people tout have felt, at one time or another, that they could and write a spring poem. Prince HeJie de>&agan says he never wants to see America again. But America said it about Helle first. Married life may be quite a comedown to the Philadelphia couple married on-top__pi;k the Washington monument - We believe the Chicago News when it says “there is always some man around who is willing to second any kind of a motion.” According to one statement Prince de Sagan is worth $3,000,000, and another has him $0,000,000 in debt. Perhaps they are both correct. A Boston man is offering SSO reward for a treatment that will cure a parrot of the habit of repeating profanity. Why not try the ax? The garden seed sent out by members of Congress will produce plenty of backache, if nothing else. Which, is another lift for the druggists of the country. That Cleveland judge who held it assault and battery to steal a kiss appears to have been unnecessarily alarmed by the fact that this is leap year. It may interest the man who reaches into an empty pocket now and then .to know that the present per capita circulation in the United States Is $35.85. ‘The unconscious habit, of smiling promotes wrinkles,” says the Sioux City Journal. But so does the habit of frowning. Must we keep a straight face all the time? The law decides that a “family hotel” is pot altogether a hotel. J but no one would so .cruel as to trace the connection between such “select” hostelries and a mere boarding house. . A New Jersey woman has secured a divorce because her husbMid was in the habit of cutting another lady’s /corns. He should have taken the precaution to secure a diploma as a chiropodist. A Chicago scientist claims to have discovered that “the disturbance of the equilibrium of imponderable ether is not the agqnt of heat.” It might be well to remember this when the thermometer gets busy this summer. A New-York man has been sentenced to serve a term in prison for perpetrating election frauds. The jury that found him guilty recommended clemency, and 200 politicians wrote letters asking the judge to be lenient with him, which facts merely emphasize the courage exhibited by/the public servant who happened to be on the bench. , ~T = ±= Scholars have enjoyed making lists of the best'hundred books, the best hundred pictures, the greatest hundred battles. jSenatoy La Follette of Wisconsin recently made a list of the men who, in his opinion, control the finances of the country. Like other lists, it omits many distinguished Americans who think they are entitled to be included. There ate several million of us who believe we have something to K say about the wealth of the nation. < A cartoon in the Chicago News illustrates the cause of much of the failure of pitylic business. Mr. Busyman is represented in one picture before a line of candidates for the position of office boy; he is considering their qualifications carefully. In another picture he is buried in work at his desk. Behind him a disreputable person is saying, “I want to be aiderman.” “All right,” says Mr. Busyman, oveb his shoulder. “I’ll vote for you if you’ll get out and let me alone. I’m busy.” It is often said that the palmy days of travel by river are over, but this remark applies only temporarily to certain streams .that do not at this time afford, the necessary conditions. Taking- the world as a whole, there is more Journeying by water than ever before. The figures of last year’s passenger traffic on the lakes show that 7,500,000 passengers were carried out of Detroit by boat, 1,900,000 froifi Chicago, 530,000 from Milwaukee, over 400,000 each from Port Huron, Grand Haven and Marquette, with smaller ports getting a proportionate share. One feature to be noted is the exceptional safety of lake travel. Not a life was lost among the 7,500,000 persons who left Detroit »by boat, and passenger casualties were few anywhere on the lakes. The vessels have increased in size until they are almost in the class of ocean liners. They offer roomy berths, cabins and promenade decks, with good fare on - various plans, and the, public comfort ' had enjoyment' are carefully studied. Between some of the chief 4ake flties excursion steamers of the largest size run daily during the heated period as a (Deans of refreshment to the crowded

■■■■■■■■■■■■■■s 1 !■■■■■■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ population keeping in motion on the water as lung a time at) possible. Many farmers are crossing the line of the United States into the western provinces of Canada. The movement has attracted widespread attention. It been' encouraged by systematic work of publicity and promotion. The boomer has used all sorts of advertising devices to emphasize the advantages of the new country. That his services have been effective is undoubted. If Canadian figures are reliable several hundred thousand people have moved from the United States to these provinces since 1900. There Is a steady movement of population in the other direction, also. New England is filling up with immigrants from Canada. They are crowding the mill towns and are also occupying the farms once owned by the descendants; of Pilgrim and Puritan. The old towns show the loss pf names once common and the presence of' families of entirely different origin. These Canadian-French settlers are changing rural conditions in New England completely. The fact of their steady increase.is as apparent and, in away, as striking as is that of the other -migration in the • Northwest. There is another movement from Canada of men of business instincts rather than of agricultural or industrial tendencies. Hpw great the volume ,of this steady flow is uncertain. But it is a matter of common observation that many Canadian clerks are at work in the United States. Only a casual glance is needed, to show that a good proportion of these follow up their migration to the South by seeking American •citizenship. The outflow of population is more spectacular than the inflow., It causes alarm in the minds of many, because it is the same sort of movement that accomplished so much in the development of the. United States. The “west” in changing localities was largely built up- by settlers from the “east,” this latter term also being a movable one. Because of the knowledge of this splendid citizenship which is being lost Americans regret the restless search for new lands is carrying the • pioneers across the' border into •Canada It is the regret manifested by Gov. Morris when_ speaking of the eastern opposition to the Louisiana purchase. He' the exuberant population of the Eastern States flowing in a steady stream Into the western wilderness. He declared that if that country were neglected or permitted to pass into the hands of a . foreign power the fairest hope of posterity would be destroyed. The loss of good American stock is to be regretted.. But the movement means progress. It means harmonious relationships between the. Northwestern States and the Canadian Northwest. It means development of a new region toy splendid citizens. It means betterment of conditionsl by those whose fathers and grandfathers sought the sa me thing by western migration. In this instance the United States loses as the older States, lost .before. PNEUMONIA. Fresh Air Is the JBest Cure as Well ’ as the Best" Preventive. The most effective weapon with which to fight pneumonia is fresh air, real fresh,air, and lots of it. The fact that pneumonia might be called simply a shutting off of oxygen shows how. important it is to give the patient plenty of air. In one large NewYork hospital sufferers from the disease are. carried to the roof-and kept there day and night. When your child grows ill, move it to the largest and sunniest room. in the and open the windows. If it is too cold for that, have another room near by into which the patient may be moved at least three times a day to permit a thorßtagh ventilation of the sick room. 'Air unnecessary furniture and all pictures, hangings and other impedimenta should be ' taken out of both rooms. An attack of pneumonia begins in a manne- which suggests a very bad cold. The pa tient has a chill >and a feveKand suffers from pains in the side. A cough soon appears, and the breath becomes short and quick. The valiant battle of the overworked "heart is indicated by a quick pulse and flushed cheeks. Soon there, are signs of great exhaustion, with headache, sleeplessness and (some imes) delirium. During all of this period the blood is yvaging a tremendous war upon tne invading germs. If it. is destined to Tose, the exhaustion will grow more and more marked, and the patient will die. But if it is destined to win there will come a time-s-it will be between the fifth and the tenth day—when the patient will suddenly seem brighter. The temperature will fall, the breathing will be more regular, and the violent jumping of the pulse will cease. When this happens, it is a sign that the battle is won.—-Delineator. Couldn’t Po It. “A father should be the friend and companion of his sou,” said Mrs. Corntossel. who had b< en reading a magazine. “Mandy,” answered the farmer, “you’re askin’ too much.. I There’s no use of askin’ a man at my time o’ life to let his hair grow out over his forehead like a back ijorrn an’ go around in cl thes that ain’t mates, hollerin’ ‘Rah: rah! rah!’ ’’-—Washington Star. Arrangiß K Matters. “H re is a rnap of the route’we shall take.” , , y'J - “Did you make two of them?” “Nu; what for?” “S< papa be able to overtake us aid forgive usp’ 1 — Houston Post

LOSS OF THE TORPEDO-DESTROYER TIGER AND THIRTY-SIX LIVES. •• I ■ ’ • ' - ‘ I.®'.'-/I ; /di AwMßfa THE COLLISION BETWEEN THE TIGER AND THE CRUISER BERWICK.

The illustration uepicts the terrible British naval disaster which recently occurred off the Isle of Wight. ‘ During some night operations, carried on without lights, off the south coast of the island, the destroyer Tiger ran across the bows of the armored cruiser Berwick. Both vessels were going at full and the destroyer was I cut ! in two between the second and third funnels. The forepart, on which the commander and most of the deck hands were stationed, tilted perpendicularly and went

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, I Hoti with resentful retrospect, Tom sardon leaned heavily upon the parapet >f the bridge. All around the silent the absence of life, the darkless, accentuated more than illumined •y the’i even-spaced gas lamps, seemed to •onvey the idea of a deserted city—as f mail, awed by the devastation he had vrouglit on fair Nature’s face, had fled ’rom bis grim handiwork. Like .virgin ‘.ouls engulfed in a mire of sin, the mowflakes fell silently and vanished in he grimy-looking watei; that flowed sulenly underneath the bridge. “I beg your pardon.” • The lurch of a heavy body against die brooding man brought- him back iharply to the present. A belated travsler, the sound of his footsteps deadmed by the mantle of snow which by his time had turned sidewalk and roadray into one level highway, had slipped m a snow-tipped heel and fallen against the loiterer on the bridge. The latter, so brusquely aroused to time and place, started dt the sound of the other man’s voice, and peered, with set eyes, into his face. The recognition was mutual. “Lionel!” “Tom!” The tones of their voices differed; one was of glad amazement, the other of bitter intensity. “My dear lad, who’d have thought of meeting you- here?” Lionel held out his hand, 4 but the proffered mark of friendship was unheeded- With body erect and taut, in a voice which a blend of bitterness and anxiety mafle to tremble, Tom asked: “Did you marry Miss Arley?” “Yesl,” returned the other. “Then I wish you much happiness!” snapped out the angry Tom, and, turning on his heel, strodq off, not noticing, in his hot mood, that he was going in the direction which Lionel had been pursuing. For a few moments the latter stood looking at his brother’s retreating. figure, then with a smile of comprehension he hurried after the wanderer. “Come along home with me, Tom.> Let s us have a talk about old times.” ’ “Do you imagine I have any desire to discuss the past? My father di;pve me from his presence with a bitter taunt. You married the one girl -” “Come now, old -fellow, look here; let us deal plainly with each other as man to man. Nay, you shall hear me. Where are you going to? What are you doing now? Down on your luck, eh?” “What is that to you? I want no sympathy, not even justice, from any of my own kin.” * He staggered and, but for his brother’s upholding arm, would have fallen. “Steady, old chap, we’re nearly home. You’ve been running yourself too fine. Here we are!” By this time they had reached a house Which stood, an oasis of home life, arpidst the desert of warehouses, printing offices, and the like. The ponderous,' polished knocker, the wide steps, the arched fanlight over the door, the solid aspect of the building, told .of a t me when merchants were content to live amidst the scenes of their labors. With his left hand Lionel unlocked the door and then supported and helped* Tom up the steps into the hall and<aused him to sit in a chair. Quietly refastening the front door, he turned into a small room on a level with the hall. After lighting the gas he poked the firj?, Which had been left burning for hijta, into a blaze, placed a small kettle pn the fire, and returned to Tom, who sgt, white and tired, looking at the portrait of a gentle-faced lady hung opposite to him. “NoW, we’re right,” said Lionel. “Come! in here, Tom.” He Helped his brother to a cosy armchair near the fire and busied himself with sietting out some bread and cold meat, which was ready cut, from a cup-

down with all hands. The men in the stern* part, promptly ordered up from below, were able to throw themselves clear of the rest of the vessel, and some kept afloat on oars, spars, and wreckage; but nearly every man saved belonged to the engine room staff. The Berl wick and Gladiator sent boats to the rescue, with the result that twenty-two persons were saved. At the mcAs?ment of the collision a grealj sheet of flame shot up from the furnaces.

board, talking rapidly and vivaciously all the while. “This is my sanctum. I’m left here undisturbed. I am hungry. Traveling makes you so,'doesn’t it? Will you join me in a little snack? Six o’clock in the morhing is a funny time for a- meal, but I believe in eating when you are hungry. There, now. You take the head of the table, as befits you. Come —a toast! You won’t refuse that,will you? To my wife!” He held out his glass toward the portrait of a lady which stood in the center of the mantelpiece. With fierce eyes Tom looked at the picture of a gentle lady sitting enthroned as a happy mother, vXfith her two children, one standing by i her side, the other nestling in her arms. “That—your wife!” said Tom. Amazement was followed by a quick gleam of hope. “You told me that you mar--1 tied Miss Arley!” “So I did.” Lionel’s eyes twinkled. “A health! To my wife!”' “Your wife!” and woncleringly Tom drank the toast. Lionel kept his brother served with the simple meal, and under the influence of his surroundings and the badly needed food, Tom seemed to forget eyerything else but to. satisfy the craving of his hunger. Lionel went to a desk, unlocked it and took out a square, blue envolpe, sealed and addressed in a firm, clerky hand, L ireKfe®''' Wiii TOM TOOK OUT THE LETTER. to “My Son Thomas.” Handing it to Tom, he said: “Now, I’ll leave you for a minute or two, while you read your epistle.J. I sha’n’t; be long away.” Softly closing. the door, he crept upstairs, chuckling to himself at every step. “What a lark! Poor old Tom!” Tom waited till his bro ther had closed the door, and then ripped open the envelope and took out the letter “My .Son —You and I parted in anger. You have gone away, I know not where, leaving your father and. your brother without a good-bye. You have not written, and now in my last days I find myself cut off from communication with my eldest son. But before I die I wish tp set down some particulars of which I feel you are ignorant. Jacob Arley was my enemy. The only crime he could ever accuse me of was that I married your mother—the girl he professed to love, but who did not love him. Three times he tried to ruin me in business, but failed. When you told me that you loved his daughter and wished to marry her, I forbade you, on pain of my displeasure, to think of such a thing. When you persisted—you were always stubborn—l threatened you with loss of my favor and esteem, and to dissuade you—for I loved you, my son—l informed you. that your brother Lionel had a claim upon Miss Arley’s affections. So he had, but not upon the Miss Arley Whom you E.nd I quarreled about. The woman your brother loved and has jus married iis Miss Arley’j cousin, and fc >re the same name. I ask you to let the traitorous designs of your father’s enerfcey '#• the excuse for my deception. I bave since repented of it. Before I go tq join your mother I wish you to know/ should this letter ever .f ' •

fall into your hands, that the headstrong course you pursued in leaving home after our quarrel has darkened the closing hours of my life. Some daj you will learn that it is the privilege of the old to remonstrate with the young and the duty of the young tc listen in patience to admonishment The warehouse and the business I have left to you. Yopr brother holds it in trust till you return. He will be a good steward, for he is upright and generous, and has such an affection for you that I trust you Will return it in some measure. May the peace that well doing brings be yours. Accept my blessing. But, oh! my lad, why did you ever leave your well-meanihg but blundering father? Thomas iSardon.” “Good news, old man?” “Yes, too good for me. I’ll not let you read the letter, Li. It is too sacred. But lam off again, LL I’ll write this time to tell you how I get on.” “Not without, your breakfast, my son My wife will be -down soon, and she will be disappointed if you go away without seeing her. I told her the “good news of your arrival.” “Well, all right. But after breakfast I must say good-bye.” “Perhaps,” said Lionel. f He led his brother upstairs and, with rare tact, left him after giving him the key of the ancient oak clothes chest where their mother had kept their stock of household linen, their . little baby shoes, and otfier trifles Os fond remembrance. Tom unlocked the chest and with trembling hands drew out the clothes that he had left behind in his hurried departure from his home some years before. Then, after tubbing, he dressed himself and waited. The gong sounded. Lionel appeared and led the way downstairs to the breakfast room. A pleasant faced lady there was introduced as Lionel’s wife. With womanly intuition she greeted him as if' he were an old acquaintance, and busied herself attending to the wants of a little boy and girl who were clamoring for f ‘Aunt Bessie.” Tom winced at the name. “Do you take tea or coffee?” asked his hostess; but she received no reply. Hdr brother-in-law bad half risen from his Chair, his eyes riveted bn .a lady who stood in the doorway, her hands pressed to her breast, s her lissom, grayclad figure outlined against the door’s dark background, and swaying with agitation. For a moment a dead silence fell bn the roonl. Then, with a glad cry, Tom broke the spell of as tonishmeht which enfolded him, and rcse up in his place, “Bessie!” “Tom!” ( He strode up to her. “You waited for me, then—through ail these years?” “Yes, Tom. I would have waited forever.” The simple words wefit • home. He drew her to him, till her head sank upon his breast. Brokenly he murmured: “This is too much happiness. I am not deserving.” Lionel, Who was almost choking himself in his efforts to continue his breakfast, at last cried out: “Come along, you two! Breakfasl is getting' cold.” —London Tit-Bits. Slightly IJifferent. “Miss Gabble seems like a pleasant person 5 to talk to.” “Indeed? She doesn’t seem to think so.” “Why, how do you mean?” “She seems to think she’s a pleasant person to listen to.” —Philadelphia Press. Driven- to It. “Drinking Is a matter of habit with . him, Is it not?” , “Exactly; he goes bn a tear every., time his wife buys a new hat.”—Houston Post. > Grass widows are never as green ai they pretend to be.

! REVIEW OF INDIANA |

Andrew Carnegie has approved the plans for the new library building at Connersville, to cost $17,500. The school enumeration for the city of Huntington shows a loss of 5 as against 1907. There is a decrease of 21 boys and an increase of 16 girls. The Hughes grain elbvator at Brooklyn burned with its contents. The fire is thought to have been of incendiary origin. No estimate of loss is given. While tearing down an old house near Freetown, Leonard Harvey, aged 70 years, was caught under the roof as it fell and was killed. ■ His neck wa : broken. Whooping cough is epidemic at Oakland City, and almost every child is affected, or else is just, recovering. Older people are also suffering from a kindred disease. James Straley, near Pennville, Jay County,, was operated bn in a Muncie hospital, his right eye being removed. The iiyured man was hurt while engaged in blasting stumps on his farm. The Floyd County Live Stock Association has been organized and an option has been secured on a thirty-acre tract near the, city limits of New Albany for fair ground purposes. Geo. Strack is president. Sarah R. Chamberlain, 80 years old, who lived for seventy-eight years on a little farm near Chamberlain’s Crossing, Vigo County, is ddad. She never married. Her sister, Miss Mary Chamierlain, 77 years old, died six years igo. The City Council bf Muncie has adopted a resolution calling upon the City School Board to erect a new High School building to replace the structure that has been in service for more thqn twenty-five years, holding that thetpresent three-storyj structure is unsafe and unhealthful. e One of the historic spots in Linton Is undergoing a change, workmen being engaged in moving the home of the late Hon. Andrew Humphreys. The site will by the new Carnegie library, and it was donated to the committee by Mr. Uumphreys’ laughter, Mrs. Joe Mobs. , Charles, 15 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Scott, near Martinsville, accidentally shot himself while trying to kill crows, the charge entering the left shoulder and Carrying away the ball and socket of the shouldei- joint. Some of the shot penetrated his left ung. He will probably recover. During a recent Storm lightning struck the barn on the Frank Stranahan farm near Delphi and while the bolt did not set the structure on fire, nearly every beam, studding and joist; was knocked out of; place, and,tinmany instances, splintered. Four of the five horses feu the barn were knocked insensible, they afterward recovering, apparently none the worse for the experience. John Sullivan, bridge builder, 43 years old, unmarried; started for the Granville bridge, south of Lafayette, in a scow, floating with the current of the Wabash river. After reaching midcurrent he was seen to be sawing back and forth, and before boatmen could reach his side he pitched headlong into the water and was drowned. The body was recovered some distance below the sceneI’of 1 ’of the Accident. When the old family’horse which she was riding to school becanfe frightened at a passing auto Miss Bessie. Skirvin, 14 years old, was thrown into a ditch and jier left leg was broken in two places. It is not known to whom the automobile belonged, but the girl says it did not check when her horse began to scare. She is the daughter of Samuel Skirvin, north of Bloomington, and d High School student there. After a, meeting of the Terre Haute City Council a fdree of firemen and policemen tore down a “spite” fence erected by Otto Baganz, at the side of the home of W. Al Dorgan, with whom he had quarreled. Dorgan appealed to the courts to have the fence removed, and he also brought suit for damages. Then he appealed to the City Council, which unanimously passed an ordinance providing that no fence inside the fire limits should exceed five feet in height. John Russell,-colored, 75 years old, and believed tofrbe the tallest man in Indiana, is defld at his home in Kokomo. He was seven feet two inches in height, and his attenuated form made him look even taller. He took no pride In his stature, and always resented being called a giant. Russell lived in Howard County forty-three years, coming there at the close of the War of the Rebellion from Georgia, where he was reared as a slave on the Gordon plantation. He accumulated considerable property, owning a good farm and sev eral residences in the city. He was a devout Baptist, and he contributed . practicably all the funds for building the colored Baptist church |n Kokomo. Losing patience with Central’s oft-, repeated declaration, “Line’s busy,” John Mauche, a wealthy farmer neffr’ Greenfield, has constructed an pendent telephone system of his town, communicating with all his Mrs. Arosa Brooker, widow of Geo. Brooker, died at her home at Henry- ' ville, while seated at the breakfast i table. She had been in poor health I for several days. She was 70 years old, and lived with a niece, having no children. '

Adam Reinhardt, residence unknown, who was seeking employment in New Albany, attempted to board a moving freight train and was ground to fragments. He was 45 years old. A bunch of switches was left at the farm home of Leon 'Maymon, near Madison, and the sheriff has been , notified. The same farmer was assaulted by two unknown men ten days ago. A committee representing the Indiana Sons of Veterans recently made an annual visjt to the Soldiers’ and, Sailors’ Orphans’ Home at Knightstown, carrying with them six large swings as gifts of the childreri. Carl Weisenburg, 12 years old, of Letts Corners, after extracting the shot from a shell, applied a match to ithe powder. Part of his npse was torn off by the explosion and his face, "and hands were burned. He may lose the sight of both eyes. Charles Wright, Superintendent of the Brookville and Metamora hydraulic, brought to Metamora a Morrel mushroom that weighs two pounds and ten ounces. It is attracting a great deal of attention in the window of a meat market, where it is on exhibition. A Winona limited traction car was wrecked by a freight train on the Grand Trunk railway at the Eddy street crossing in South Bend. Fifteen passengers escaped serious injury although the car was turned oyer. Motorman Charles Burwell stuck to his. post and went; over with the car, but’ was not hurt. . Sylvia Newton, 10 years old, dalLighter of W. H. Newton, near Boundary, Jay County, accompanied her father to a “clearing,” and her clothing ca,ughti fire from a burning stump. She was badly burned and died in Twenty-four hours. Her father and prother were badly burned wl.i3 u;y- . Ing to save her. Following she commencement exercises of the Brownstown High School , Miss Ruth Johnston, one of the graduates, became the bride of Oakley Allen, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Johnston. The bridegroom is the 'son of Oscar Allen, Township Trustee, and the bride is the daughter of Walter Johnston, merchant. Philip Plank, an old soldier, of Was I len, Allen County, was stryck by a J Lake Shore train north of Fort Wayne while walking along the track aid he was instantly killed. Plank \was thrown to the side of the track iand he “skidded” /along the ground, race downward, for 100 feet. He was a member of the old 129th Indiana Im - fantry. • .. The venerable ex-Senator Hill, of Madison, is visiting relatives at Brook. He is 95 years, old, and still hale and hearty,. bidding fair to round out one hundred years. He formerly owned a large tract of land in . the northern part of the county, and he did much to reclaim the Beaver Lake/country, converting it from a vast quagmire into valuable farming and grazing lands. Luther Cook, of Princeton, may be prosecuted under the Illinois law for perjury,in swearing falsely to obtain m marriage license. A few days ago Cook and his first cousin, Miss Jennie Stilwell, of New Albany, .wpnt to Mt. Carmel, 111., ;and were married. The. marriage of first cousins is prohibited in Illinois, but it is charged that Cook made affidavit they were' riot related. License had been refused them at Petersburg, this State, when they made application, because of the relation? ship. That his body ghould be given to the doctors for an autopsy, then to the medical department of Indiana Univer- . sity for dissection, and finally cremated and ashes scattered over the graves of his two children, was the strange request bf Cron Thrasher, 32 years old, former fire chief of Bloomington, who died of Bright’s, disease. Thrasher had been separated' from his wife and had lost two children, on whom he doted. He predicted,, his death when apparently well four. days., before it occurred. i A clever gang of thievesTs again operating along the line of the Lake Shore railway between Chicago arid Buffalo, as shown by fhe-.,fact tlpat John A. Herzog, shoe merchant lof> Mishawaka, has, within the last months, lost entire cases of the finest gra(le, the cost of whifch • must be borne by the manufacturers or the transportation companies, the aggregate loss * being -over si|ooo. Shirts and men’s wearing apparel have also been stolen. Last week a shipment of $1,500 in phoes came there eight cases short. The others had been broken open and then nailed up with slats, fence boards and rough lumber. There is a score of special detectives working between Chicago and Buffalo, 4 but up to this time there have been no arrests of the skilful car thieves. On recommendation of Dr. C. W. Burket, of the Kosciusko County ?Board of Health, Dr. J. N. Hurty, sec- / retary of the State Board of Health, has condemned the school buildings at Oswego, Burket and Sidney. Black bass seem to be plentiful du the river at Milton. Charles Davis re- ° cently caught one that weighed four pounds and was 19% inches long. He caught another since, then of the same weight, also one that weighed one and one-half pounds.