The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 14, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 30 July 1908 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal WALKER & FANCIL. SYRACUSE, - - IND.

Hiytl Is one of the spots on the earth that Is progressing backwards. In regard to elections, many have been named, but few will be chosen. The Czar wants to visit America. Westward the course of empire takes its way. A. Chicago thief wears a merry wld,pw. Probably because widows usually Are touching. Prince Helle is as happy as a man who has just found the ’commutation meal ticket he thought he had lost. Dr. Emma Culbertson, of Boston, asserts that “every' woman is a human being.” More wild-eyed radicalism. Time is moneV, but you can’t start a bank accofluV with It and sit down while it draws 3 per cent interest Strange how proud a self-made man is of his handiwork; yet you never hear a self-made “lady" throwing any bouquets at herself on that score. When It comes to inquisitiveness and •uspicion almost any woman can give ft detective cards and spades and beat him out • ' The average woman gets a double quantity of enjoyment out of a present —the present itself, and trying to find out the cost thereof. • 4 Some people talk as if hot weather In summer is nothing less than a blooming outrage, which the government ought to put a stop to.' ' ■ '■ < ■= ■ A Chicago woman was arrested and. fined for wearing overalls. She com[pitted the mistake of not having them made by a Paris dressmaker. The French Academy, when full, contains forty “Immortals.” Two of them, Ludovic Halevy. and Francois Coppee, have lately proved their mortality by Hying. z From the capitalist’s point of view, perhaps, the north pole is not worth $50,000. It isn’t portable, and for merely the good will of it that price is too high. France is to have a new law which will bring divorce automatically after married couples decide tj> separate. Evidently the French lawmakers are determined to keep the population from dwindling any more. “What,” asks the Washington (Iowa) Democrat, “has become of the old-fash-ioned min who had to have a feather bed Jb sleep in?” The last time we hijstrd of. him he was content with a .Xforris chair, because he has a wife who snores. What will the women say to the assertion recently made by John Bums, president of the British local government b6ard, that the “servant problem” arises not so much from the scarcity of good servants, as from the incompetency of present-day mistresses to [manage their help? Whether his charge is true„or not, a girl without training for the work will find it as difficult to run her house and direct her sen-ants as her husband would find it if he tried to direct a business without first learning how. < Louis Honore Frechette, who died recently, was the unofficial poet laureate of Canada. He wrote in French, and his work -was crowned by the French Academy. Longfellow hailed him as the “pathfinder of a new laud t>f song.” As a poet he was born, so to’-, apeak, in two nations. One of his poems, “Le Drapeau Anglais,”—“The English Flag”—suggests his allegiance to the British flag and his affection for that other flag, the flag of France, which, as a French poet, he kissed on bended knee. Freight shipped to merchants east of the/Mississippi must be plainly marked with the name and address of the conaidnee, according to a recent decision Df uthe railroad companies. It has been tM practice of manufacturers to mark goods with a hieroglyphic, partly to save time in shipments, and partly to prevent spies from competitors learning who their customers are. This practice has made It difficult for the railroad companies to deliver the goods, pnecompany is said to have lost $1,500,000 in the last ten years, because it has had to reimburse shippers for goods lost on the road. Goods In car-load lots may go marked in cipher as heretofore, as it is not difficult to deliver a car at the point to which it is billed. Among the sincere mourners at the Heath of the late Secretary of State, John Hay, there were none who felt more keenly the loss of a friend than Sid the Jews. They have not forgotten, pbe other day, at a convention of the Independent Order B’nal B’rith, resolutions were adopted to erect in Washington a suitable monument to Mr. Hay. The thing for which the Jews generate the great Secretary’s memory I* his action at the time when the Kishenef massacres stirred the whole world to horror. The B’nal B’rith requested Mr. Hay to forward a petition to the Russian government; and although Mr. Hay waa definitely, but unofficially. in-

formed that It could not be received, he went ahead, and the representations he made tore believed to have done much to check the massacres.

If within the range of possibilities, a sure and speedy solution of a very practical problem should be found—the problem of labor on the farm. It is discussed year after year, but is oftener treated as a joke than as a serious problem bearing in the most direct way upon the prosperity of the country. We have succeeded in moving the bulk of what the harvest fields, gardens, orchards and vineyards have yielded to such labor as could be had to gather their products. Transportation and money have hot always been adequate, but have in the main met demands at the most pressing season of the year, film record is, however, that millions of dollars’ worth of farm products have rotted In the field or been allowed to wither on trees and vines because the help to gather and market them was not to be had. even at thebest prices ever offered for such service. It will be recalled that during one harvest time the farmers of Kansas adopted the shotgun policy and brought the hoboes Into camp, compelling [them, for a time, at least, to . earn , their bread by the sweat of the brow. But this is not a plan to be considered, and in spite of what we have lately been referring to as our “army of the unemployed,” the vexatious problem now seems more difficult than ever before. The manufacturing interests are reviving and expanding. Public works are enlisting a larger army than ever. In consequence, the trouble df the farmer is even more acute this season than in previous seasons. The farmer labors under a handicap because he wants extra men but a few months in the year, because the job is a rush, one, and because the demand for short hours is not conceded when there is a question of saving crops. They mean the wealth of the nation, and some way will have to be found to harvest apd market them without the. heavy loss which we.annually sustain. TAEjfiifiiLY ■ iiwig » The Prolongation of Life. Why we grow old is a problem which many scientists have tried to solve. The fact that we Ido grow old is incontestable, and the changes in the tissues that come with increasing age are known to physiologists, but what causes these changes, and whether they are the cause or the result of old age, science has been unable to show. We know that the process of aging is a hardening process. The soft and yielding structures, the arteries and the cartilages, stiffen with age; the juicy tissues dry up, and fibrous materials, or those containing lime, strangle or take the place of the structures which are concerned in the vital processes. . Some believe that it is simply a wear-ing-out process, and that the body is used ,up by work just as ari engine Is, or a watch. But this is no explanation, for a living‘‘machine which has within Itself the power of regeneration, as the ■ animal body has, is not comparable to a machine of lifeless material, vfrhicb friction wears away and which cannot be automatically renewed. The cause of old age in the tissues is a gradual loss of the power of regeneration. As the cells wear out with use they can no longer be replaced by other cells of the same sort which are able to do the same work, but their place is filled by fibrous material which is incapable- of doing the work necessary to nutrition and vital .action. This explains the process of growing old, but gives no hint as to the cause. One of the most recent theories proposed to account for this fatal change in the body is that of Prof. Metchnikoff of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He says that there is a constant warfare going on between the cells of the body—the “noble” cells, such as those of the brain, the walls of the arteries, and the various organs, on the one hand, and those of lower order, the ‘phagocytes” or eating cells, on the other. The noble cells are always on the defensive, and so long as they are well nourished they, are able to resist the attacks of their enemies. But within the large Intestine are numbers of bacteria constantly creating poisons which weaken the resisting power of these noble cells. The remedy Is to lessen the production of these prisons by attacking the bacilli which make them. This Prof. Metchnikoff, proposes to d& by "introducing harmless bacteria into the intestine to take the place of the Injurious ones. He says that among these harmless bacilli are the lactic acid bacilli—those which are present in sour milk; and he advocates, therefore, the dally drinking of buttermilk. His theory is simple, but he himself is not so simple as to regard buttermilk an the elixir of life. He maintains only that the use of sour milk helps to prolong life by preventing the formation of poisons which shorten It.—Youth’s Companion. *, When all the neighbors unite In saying, “What a good time she has in life,’* you can' bet your last cent “she” ii either a spin or a widov-

THE CONTINUOUS SUMMER VAUDEVILLE. 4 £> 0

Brimmer girl, you lead the bfil, A quickstep plays you on, You make your bow, and all is; still But the flutter of your la;vn. ■ I «s ' { IL But the flutter of your lawn, dear girl, And the beating of our hearts.

The Fort Bethold Bands. Round the ancient trading post of Fort Berthold, N. D.—a post of the fur companies in the long ago—cluster three strange and interesting Indian tribes. The association of these three bands—the Arikara, Mlnltari and Mandan—shows how feeble tribes of different stock often had to join arms for protection against a common foe, while the Fort Berthold Indians afford most interesting subjects for ethnological investigation. The Arikara are of Pawnee race; the Mlnitari—generally known as “Gros Ventres of the Missouri” —are Crows, and the Mandan, if old tradition and curious circumstances can be believed, are a mixture of Sioux, Mouita Builders and Welshman. "Why back some 600 years ago, a Welsh prince named Madoc sailed to find a new world, and is believed to have landed in North America, taken his followers into the interior, and vanished among the Indian tribes. At about the same time, the misty, dimfigured Mound Builders were erecting forts and houses along the Ohio River. Traces of their wanderings are shown by the remains of these structures—down the Ohio, up the Mississippi, and ending where the Mandan villages were found 200 years ago. The Mandan pattern homes and fortifications as the Mound Builders did. That, with their location, links them with this prehistoric race. But among the Mandans, to this day are many people with light skin,, and blue eyes—not mixed bloods, but recurring types,' transmitted from a white infusion of the long ago. The Mandan language, taken word by word, is mainly Sioux, but shows many words that are declared to be plainly and unmistakably Welsh. Finally, the Mandans navigate the river in “bullboats” of strange circular pattern, identical with the coracle of Wales. . The Mandans, therefore, seem to be a wondrous link between the Indian and the adventurers of centuries gone by, and also a link between the red man and the extinguished nations that built the great structures dotting many portions of the Mississippi Valley. Where can an ethnologist find a finer field for long, industrious labor? The Mlnltari, or Gros Ventre —not related to the Gros Ventre du Prairie, living at Fort Belknap'—are Crow by race, suture and speech, and are the bravest of the three allied tribes. The Arikara are stocky, dark, silent and taciturn, of Pawnee stock, but less Valiant than the Pawnee proper. Lewis and Clarke, a century ago, had some skirmishes with the Mlnltari, and the white trappers fought the Arikara, while the Mandan were ever and always the white man’s friend, entertaining La Verendrye and Ids coureurs des bols in royal fashion 200 years ago. These tribes fought among themselves considerably, but when the Sioux began to press them hard they built adjoining villages, fortified them ®vith palisades, and made treaties of pesipe and brotherhood. About seventy years ago the three tribes probably numbered 4,000 —1,000 Mlnltari, 1,500 each for the Arikara and Mandan. The smallpox swept off .most of the Mandan, and hundreds of the others. In 1878 they totaled-about 1,4C0, and now number about 1,100. Their reservation is of poor quality, and they are a poverty-stricken lot of red men, although they do their beat to «et alooa.

As you juggle them until they whirl, „ Mere playthings of your arts. 111. Mere playthings of your arts so rare — And when you let one break. \ In place of. it you think it fair A mitten we should take.

LAWYER AND EDITOR. Charles P. Taft, editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star and half brother ol William 11. Taft, Republican candidate for the presidency, was born in Cincinnati in 1843 and therefore is 14 years older than, the latter; Their father, Alphonso Taft, was AttorneyGeneral of the United States. The eldest son was graduated from Yale in 1864 and from Columbia College Law School in 1860. He also studied at Heidelberg,. Berlin, and Paris practiced law in Cincinnati. ISGh-Jh. and in the latter year bought a controlling Interest in the Cincinnati s. ' x? 1 ' -I »■' , ■ ' ■ ■ ...f , c . x - y x '' ■ WMT ' k' CiIABIXS P. TAFT. Times, which was consolidated the same year with the Star. In 1895 Mr. Taft Was elected to Congress, serving until 1897. Black Forest Customs. The peasant farms of the Black forest are handed down from father to son in a direct line, often dating back for a century, says the Antiquary. There is no division as in France; all falls to the heir, only here it is not the eldest but the youngest son who inherits. It is rare that a bur (peasant) dies as reigning head. When he .gets on in years he abdicates in order to end his days in the Leibgedingehaus (dower house); which stands beside each hos (steading). That he does so in favor of his youngest son is very sensible; were if the elder he would have no peace, for as soon as he married he would try tc Induce his parents to retire just at an age when power is sweetest and besl exercised. For this reason the practical farmers of bygone generations de elded to hand over the succession tc the youngest, since when Benjamin h a full-grown man Father Jacob Is old and glad to rest Tills law of Inheritance goes by the name of vbrtel. Should the heir of hiti own free will desire to resign In favor of his elder brother the latter musl buy the property from him. In such s’ case the younger may be termed a kind of Esau. It Took Everythin®. Naybor—Sorry to hear you had scar let fever at your house. That’s a bac disease. They say it usually leaves yot ; with something. ’ | Popley—Hub I It isn’t likely to leav< me with anything, judging from th< doctor’s bill.—. Philadelphia Press. An Apology to Him. “He has no regard for any one else He has no milk of human kindness.” “Oh, I wouldn’t say that. He’s a verj small man, you know; probably he ha! it, but it’s condensed.” —Philadelphia Press. When a man becomes so worthiest that he is of no further use In th< community, he is just right to post uj as a danger signal to the young.

THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. • It la the Greateat Purveyor of Falce New* Ever Published. At present the Congressional Record ! Is a model “yellow” journal. It prints more fictitious stuff than almost any : other daily in the world, says the Lou-! Isville Courier-Journal. A representa- { Live may not open his mouth upon the j floor" of the House, and yet, if he choos- 1 es, the Record will publish a long speech which he wrote but did not speak. «■ Granted that he spoke. the Record will still, if it b£ his will, publish Wftat he wanted to say or thought he said and not what he actually did say. Thus the government daily thrives on fake news. That, the Record will be reformed, as l promised by Messrs. Sulzer and Dalzell, is not to be expected, however. The members of Congress get too much fun and value out of it. as at present conducted, to render likely a change In method. It appeals to the pride of the mem=bers to see in bold, black type a child of their brain in the form of a speech, polished, dressed, from their own. study, whether.or not it-be deiiveced ■ in congressional halls by congressional ; .tongue. Best of all, it Aelps them"with their constituents to mail—free of cost —copies of their speech, for the constituents may see what great statesmen they are and derive the impression that it would be a public calamity not to return them as representatives at the ensuing/election. There is a feeble argument for this practice, but the better side of the question is that which contends for the aijcuracy of the Record; for making it chronicle exactly what a member of Congress says, so that all the world, Including constituents, may learn what actually occurs and what actually is spoken. The newspapers of the country give so .faithful a report of ,tha dally proceedings in the national a legislature, anyhow, that the Record’s fakes are regularly exposed. An exposed fake is futile. Therefore, the yellow streak in the Record is not only immoral but needless. RISE OF EMPORIA. How It Got to Be a County Seat in the Early Days. The early settlers of Kansas rememDer many exciting times occasioned by county seat fights, says the Kansas City Times. Many of these tights resulted in the.killing of some of the participants. But when Emporia wanted tc ! get the county seat away from Americus it sets its brains, to worif and took It without raising a disturbance. Americus was unaware of the trick that was being played. When Emporia conceived the idea ol becoming the capital of the county the south line of Breckenridge County, now Lyon County, teas a short distance south of the town. Its citizens circulated a petition asking to cut a strip off from the north end of the county and to add a strip to the south end, thus making Emporia close to the center of the county. Americus the proposed change and got out a remonstrance, which received as many or more signatures than the petition. At that time the State capital was | Lecompton, and the only way to get; there was on horseback. Each towr.i prepared to present Its side of the cast to the Legislature and the Emporia man started with his -petition for Lecompton. On his way, however, he was stricken with fever and ague and was detained on account of the illness. Ths Americus man with the remonstrance overtook him. Just what kind of a deal, was made is not known to the public j but the remonstrance never got to ths ■ Legislature, and when the petition was | presented the number of signers had i greatly increased since it had left Em-1 poria.. The Americus man' suddenly - came into possession of S4OO and ths title to several town lots, it is said. Owing to the poor facilities of com tnunication in those days the people oij Americus did not find out they had been duped until it was too late. Nobody op posed the change in the Legislature, ths petition was granted and Emporia got 1 the county seat without much trouble Valor. “And you have iteen oh the firing line?” aske<l the girl who admires a uniform without knowing much about military matters. “I think I can say so,” answered the cadet who hates to disappoint; “at<any ; rate, I have been in line to be fired as often as any man in the academy.”—l Washington Star. Training. Miss Terry—Mother, I notice that lately whenever I ask you for money you grumble and growl and act nasty. What’s come over you? You didn’t use to be that way.” Mrs. Terry—My dear, you are going to be married soon, and I am getting you used to it.—Cleveland Leader. Changed His Opinion. “I understand the old man gave you i. cigar?” “Yes.” “I congratulate you. You must have made a hit with him?” “I thought ;so myself till I smoked the cigar.”—Houston Post. A Jiatnral Cnrlonlty. “Do you know what I do when a man offers me advice?” said the curbstone philosopher. “No.” “Ask him if he’s tried it-” The little a man wants here below he Mually wants above the ordinary.

REVIEW OF INDIANA

Alexander Phillips, of Crystal, captured a rattlesnake fifteen years old, as shown by the rattles, one rattle for each year of life. He has the reptile on exhibition. Dutipg a -recent storm in Charlottesville Isaac Hatfield started downstairs at his home to close the windows and he slipped and fell,- breaking four ribs, some of them double fractures. His condition is serious. John Shirrell, a mute, 71 years old. while hunting, stepped on the track of the Wabash railway near Covington, . and he struck by a train, losing his left leg below the knee, while his right foot was crushed. Both were amjmtatefL He may recover. Link Wiley, near Petersburg, caught a 62-pound catfish in YJhite river, and another fisherman landed a 40-pounder. Large fish have been caught all spring in White river, which are sup posed to have been driven there from the Wabash because of the polluted water in that river, caused by the Bridgeport oil fields. Mayor Rigdon, of Warsaw, notified proprietors of cases, drug stores and refreshment stands that they must cease selling soft drinks known as ‘ Winona Water,” .“Velvet” and ‘Tonica,” under penalty of arrest and prosecution. The mayor has been advised one man became intoxicated from drinking these so-called “soft drinks.” Here is a State Board oil Health joke: Dr. J. N. Hurty, secijetary of the board, received from William Harrison, coroner of Howard Qounty. a statistical notice of the death of a Howard County resident. The blank form for such reports leaves space for comments. The following was the comment of the Howard County coroner: “Died without the aid of a physician.” Allen Brooker, 15 years old, an expert swimmer, while bathing in the Ohio river at Jeffersonville, was seized with cramps and drowned. Ollie Jenkins made an effort to save him and barely escaped with his own life. Chester Long, 14 years old, son of John Long, of .Louisville, Ky., while visiting his grandfather in Jeffersonville, went swimming below the city and w.as drowned. The Indiana University has constructed at the experimental station in Michigan City several concrete pools for the use of blind fish, which are found in the caves here. There ■ are already a number of blind fish exposed to the light, and breeding in the light will be tried, to see if eyes will not develop. As the fish are .brought from the underground waters there is ho place for eyes. * Hazel, 7 years old, daughter qf Danjel Holderman, farmer, near Noblesville, while throwing hgy to the horses, was. seized by one of; the animals, the horse reaching over the manger and grabbing the child’s left arm with its teeth, stripping the 'flesh from the shoulder to the elbow.; One hundredand fifty stitches were taken in sewing up the injury. The child was rendered unconscious and physicians fear blood poisoning. v ■“I have a hen that one thousand dollars can not buy,” declared El vert 8.. Rhodes, of West Baden.. “Six little kittens deserted by the mother cat were immediately taken under the protecting wing of the lien that refuses to leave the box of kittens. She seems as proud of the kittens as she ever was of a brood of chickens. She is attentive to them. When they mew she clucks, and objects seriously to any one molesting the kittens.” The tiger which ran ainuck' in the bottoms near Oakland City, last winter, seems to be back to his old camping ground. Blackberry pickers, who have been working in the Patoka bottoms, have been frightened by the screams of some animal, and many of them are afraid to enter the woods. No one has met it face to face, so the identification is not complete, but as only one tiger is known to be loose In- Southern Indiana, thjs must be it. One of two old neighbors, life-long acquaintances, residing on adjoining premises at Hausertown, the hamlet known abroad as “Tailholt,” on complaining to the other about the superabundlfhce of fleas at his home, and the perpetual annoyance - inflicted upon the family by the pestiferous insects, received the response: “We have no experience of this kind; we don’t know, in a practical sense, what fleas are. Could you not let us have enough to start a colony, that we may become acquainted with them.” The the woman of the house already coionized caught a dozen fleas in a bottle, and released them in the neighbor’s house. The neighbor, curious to form the acquaintance, was not long in realizing his ambition, and not at all reserved in his imprecations over the success of the colonization scheme. William McGinnis was adjudged insane several days ago, and he has been received in the Southern Indiana Hospital. Hfe has refused food and drink for ten days, and is thought to be slowly starving himself to death. Roy Rider, aged 4 years, fell from a cart in Warsaw a few days ago and broke his collar bone, but he continued playing with his companions until his condition was discovered by hitr parents, who had the injury attended to. * ) ■ . I

John Linebach, a farmer, living near Island, while feeding a brood sow, was attacked by the brute and two of his fingers bitten and may have to be amputated. ' Ava Bush, 11-year-old son of Adolph Bush, of Shelbyville, ran a hoe hamde down his throat while showing some boys how to walk on. stilts' and hold the handle between his teeth. William Faulkner, of Evansville, remarked to a party of friends that he never, felt better in all his life, and that he expected to live many morel years,, when he dropped dead. Death - was due to heart disease. J. K. McGregor, of Oakland City has a fig tree laden with fruit. The tree' is five years old and until last .winter was protected during the- Severe weather. Despite the exposure it bG.r6 fruit. The -figs are as .large and developed as the Southern product. A 1-year-old babe of Mrs. D. K. Mann of Vine street, in Elkhart, swallowed an open safety pin which lodged in its throat. While waiting for a physician the mother grabbed' the jjhild by the foot and by swinging it produced a nausea and dislodged the pin. The throat was scratched, but no serious results will follow. Following some words with her husband, Mrs. Ben Soule, at Auburn, attempted suicide by swallowing parts green. A physician who was called promptly succeeded in saving her life. It is said that seme tirae ago Mrs. Soule sought to encl heroine by taking carbdlic acid, but a 13-y/ar-old daughter prevented it by knocking the -bottle from her mother’s hAnd. The management of the Fairmount Fair Association wil\ add ah entirely unprecedented - feature to the attractions of the fair this year. This will be a series oi athletic events soy amateurs, consisting, ,qf IQO-yard and 200yard dashes, 440-yard and 880-yard runs, high jump aijd pole vault. The events will be limited to residents of Grant County, -.who are ■ not over 21' years old. The family of Elin -consisting of husband, wife and \ children, who reside near Petersbu - were thought’ to have been poisoned by drinkti impure milk, are now all ■■eriously ill of typhoid fev'er. Two pl - ciansiare almost in constant attenct.mee. A coincidence in connection v . the family j illness is that all the m- mbers taken sick within a short time of another, and all havg the same dis-w ease. ■ • ‘ ■ Miss Mollie Conder, aged 56 years, is. thought to hold the record for the State in continuous hotel service. For- ■ ty years ago, at the age of 16 years, she entered what was long known as the Williams Hotel, Worthington, as assistant cook; was afterward promoted to.the head of the culinary department, in which poskion she continued in the same hotel mtntil last spring, when she resigned the place, at the expiration of -forty years. A large barn on the farm of Peter Henry Bottorff, farmer and preacher, eight miles east qf Jeffersonville, was destroyed by fire of unknown origin. The loss is several hundred dollars. John Riehhart, of Warsaw; <aged 65 years and blind from birth, has. just, received a prize of? 350 from a magazine in a contest for new subscribers and sales of the publication. John Richhart has for several years supported his brother. Nelson Richhart, aged 75, and his sister,- Susan Richhart, 73. years old, both blind from birth and residents of Warsaw, by selling the magazine. Col. William A. Oliphant, of Petersburg. has entered into q contract with ‘ the E. & T. H- railroad whereby the railroad will equip six hundred miles of its right-of-way with an indestructible fence post invented by Mr. Oliphant. The railroad has been conducting a test of the post for more than a year, and as a result has bought the right to manufacture the post from the inventor. The post has a concrete base on which is anchored, by means of an iron appliance, a wooden post treated with creosote. The new post ‘ is said to withstand the weather with no signs of deterioration.' When Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Stein, of Terre. Haute, discovered a few minutes after they had been married, that friends were at the railway station to give them a “send-off,” they got an automobile and went to Clinton, where they caught the train. Their friends discovered the move and took an.interurban car, reaching Clinton ahead of the automobile. When the Stein party arrived, Mrs. Stein whs so excited over seeing her friends that in alighting from the machine she fell into a mud puddle and was splattered with the dirty water. The train pulling in at moment, she had a novel attire for a “going-away gown.” Mr. Stein, in lifting her from the puddle, also got himself well daubed with mud. Jacob Tallman, a farm hand living nine miles north of Elkhart, stepped into the cylinder box of a threshing machine and before the machine could be stepped his left foot was severely mangled. WilP'Finn has been notified by Harry Barnett, of Beeville, Ont., that an ordinary toy balloon, sent up by Finn from St. Joseph, July 4, was recovered by Barnett intact when it descended July 6, more than 150 miles from Its starting point.