The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 18, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 27 August 1908 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal WALKER & FANCIL SYRACUSE, - - IND. The tongue of A gossip never grows weary. _____ Most of the things we do for fun are anything but funny. What a lot of lying we all do when our guests start away. * And It’s sometimes easier to earn a living than it is to get it. It’s easier to be a college graduate than it Is to earn a living. Be careful when it comes to lending money or borrowing trouble. Lots of men are unable to reform because they haven’t the necessary material. “Chew: your steak longer,” says one doctor, who has a friend who Is a dentist. __ No, Alonzo, a girl Isn’t necessarily a manicurist just because she likes to hold hands. * No poverty-stricken aristocrat ever considered a plutocratic heiress too rich for his blood. Somehow the average girl just can’t help loving a young man whom her mother doesn’t like. Commander Peary has started on another of his justly celebrated trips almost to the north pole; There is soniething wrong with the girl who Would rather read about lovemaking in a novel than try it herself. Every time a yoring mail sees a pretty girl purse her lips he wonders if there is anything in the purse for him. A new book, advocating starvation as a cure for all human ailments, is out. We assume that it was written by the author of prunes. “I Take This Man” is the title of a new play. The author is probably anxiously waiting to learn whether It Is to be for better or for worse. The Mayor of Timpson, Tex., receives a salary of $1 a year. Even with the most, rigid economy’ no public man can lay up much money on that. Possibly Minister Wu has determined to livh 200 years in order to read that Chinese history’ about to be Issued in 432 volumes. Or is it 642 volumes? “Have you figured out why a man wears suspenders with a belt?” asks the Pittsburg Press. No; but we can imagine why he wears them with his trousers. ” The New York Tribune Is disturbed because of . the discovery of a flying variety of cimex lectularlus. Let us go on bravely hoping. Perhaps w r e can have, screened-in beds. “Mother Eve at any rate never wore a sheath gown,” says the Birmingham Age-Herald. No; nor a Mother Hubbard, nor a bustle, nor hoopskirts, nor a long list of Other things peevish man ' has been finding fault with. The Czar is learning how to get along with Ims parliament. He told the president of the Duma the other day that he approved, its action in rejecting the naval program of the ministry, and sympathized with; its championship of the cause of the university students. Not only does the Czar seem to understand the Duma, but the Duma itself is doing the business for which it was established with remarkable success for a body composed of men without previous legislative experience. “Blind Tom,” noted a generation ago as a musical prodigy, died recently in the home of. the daughter-in-law of his old master, for he was born a slave near Columbus, Ga. When a boy he amused the household by imitating the cries of birds and the sound of the wind and rain. He had a marvelous memory, and could play any musical composition w’hich he heard. It is said that he could play one melody with his right hand, another with his left, and whistle a third at the same time. Yet with all his musical gifts, he was Intellectually a child, and lived in the care of guardians. Although men as they run are perhaps muscularly stronger than women, their inability to withstand the elements and their reliance upon clothes places them considerably below the so- ■ called weaker sex in the matter of unclothed toughness. Women wear clothes for ornament; men use them as a protective covering. A group of men marooned clothesless on an Island In the temperate zone might be expected to die off in a month from draughts and colds and rheumatism. The health of women similarly placed w’ould suffer little from the enforced exposure. The fact appears to be, therefore, that in everything but muscle—in vitality, ruggedness, character, disposition, brain power, etc. —woman is the tougher, not the weaker, sex. ===== ’ When railroad trains first smoked across the plains, the Indians used to •hoot at them. More recently a farmer here and there has taken the old shot-

gun down from the hook to welcome the inconsiderate motor-car. There was a little excuse for the Iridian and for the farmer whose chickens lay dead in) the. road; but it is hard to see what led a man to shoot at a balloon, and narrowly miss sending the balloonist to death. The judge made an example of the offender, oil the ground that aerial navigation is becoming more common, arid that new’s of the sentence will spread abroad and protect aeronauts, who do no one any harm, and run risks enough without additional danger from rifle-shots. Commander Peary is off for the North Pole again. He may not reach it, but he is more likely to do so than ever before. Each failure has had its useful lesson for him. If he were to retain his physical vigor for a few decades there would be little question of his ultimate success, but if he does not get to the goal this trip it is not likely that he ever will make another. Some other man, profiting by his experience, and probably following in his footsteps, will gain eternal fame as the discoverer of the North Pole. There are many who do not care whether it is discovered or not, who can see nothing practical In these journeys to the frozen North, and who think it folly for men to risk their lives there, but who at the same time would like tri see Peary win. They admire his pluck and pertinacity and think them deserving of the reward he covets. So, indeed, they are. Even if Peary shall riot achieve success, he is entitled to it. Other men have goneiout on the same Ferrand, but none of them has stuck to his work as Peary has. If he does reach the pole, it will not be- owing to luck, but will be the result of intelligent| persistence. If there be any possible i route to the pole the one he has selected probably is it. In a few weeks Peary will be lost, to the world for a long time. If no news shall come from him within three years there will be no alarm. He has learned how to live in reasonable comfort, on the shores of the Arctic ocean. That knowledge eliminates much of the suffering which was the lot of the early explorers. The only real danger to which he will be exposed will be in traversing the drifting ice fields between his point of departure and his destination. If he can escape those dangers he and his companions should be able to get back homej in safety, to be welcomed with unbounded enthusiasm if they shall have succeeded. Even the Americans who on the search for the North Pole as a waste of effort would be delighted to have one of their countrymen get there first. \ . ■■■ ... Marshal Your Forces. No mind, no intellect, is powerful or great enough to attract wealth while the mental attitude is turned away from it—facing in the other direction. One of the greatest problems of modern science is to discover means by which the great energies or forces which are going to waste all about us may be utilized. It is a well-known fact that the finest locomotive yet ma,de has succeeded in utilizing only aliout 15 per cent of the energy of its fuel. Eighty-five per cent of the sun’s force stored up in the coal is lost Great forces of nature are everywhere going to waste because man does not know how to control them, to marshal them, to harness them to his uses. On every hand we see great human ability doing the.work of mediocrity or running to waste; splendid possibilites in rags and hovels; mep of quality and’ talent living shiftlessly in narrowness and squalor ; thousands of men and women, who have reached their grayhair period, having still seventy-five, eighty, or ninety per cejnt of their ability undeveloped, untouched. They are small, mean, and pinched, when, had they discovered themselves and demanded the best of themselves, they might have been large, broad, full, and Complete.—Orison . Swett Marden, in Success Magazine. Origin of “America.” “1 suppose I am the [only person here who heard ‘America’ sung the first time in this country,’? said the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D. D., in an address at the Old West Roxbury meeting house. “It was on a: Fourth of July when I was a boy. I'had spent all my celebration money and on my way home had to pass Park Street church. I decided to go into the church, where there was a celebration of the nation’s holiday. “There was a chorus of boys and girls who sang ‘America’ on that day for the first time. I don’t remember whether I tried to sing it. Later in life Dr, Smith told me how he came to write the verses to the tune of ‘God Save the King.’ “The ininister of Park Street church told him that there was to be a celebration of the Fourth of July at the church and that he wanted Dr. Smith to write some verses of a song for It, and handed to Dr. Smith a number of English and German music books and told him to find some tune in them and fit his verses to the rijuslc. “Dr. Smith looked through the books and selected the tune, which he had never heard, and which has been sung as ‘America’ in this country ever since.” —Boston Transcript. What It Was. “Oh, John!” she exclaimed, “now that you’ve seen my new bonnet, you simply can’t regret that I got it. Isn’t it just a poem?” “Well, if it Is,” replied John, “I guess a proper title for it would be ‘Owed to a milliner.’ ” —Philadelphia Press. When a man begins to make a fool of himself he is apt to work overtime.

IpAPERS

IS WOMAN’S VANITY INCURABLE? By Prof. Emile de Laveleye.

Vanity and-the love of fine clothes which it engenders are marked among the savages who. tattoo themselves before putting on garments, and tliey become more refined in civil ized man in what is called society. Formerly men as well as women wore brilliant stuffs and ribbons, laces and jewels, and it is still the custom in China and among savage peoples.. But since the beginning of this century civilized

nations have borrowed from England the black suit of the Quaker. Women, On the other hand, still love to pierce their ears to hang from them certain stones, or to surround their necks with bends or sihall pieces of metal, as in the isles of the Pacific or in the days of prehistoric man. Every year they seek some new mode of rendering their garments more inconvenient and more costly. _. The love of the beautiful and the instinct of adornment arg things good in .themselves, and they do not necessarily encourage luxury, since they take delight, if they are pure, not in the costliness of the material, but, in the harmony of the coloring and in the purity of the lines. It is possible to conceive of garmerits suited to the seasons of the year which would combine in a high degree comfort and elegance. Material’, cut and colors would all be decided on esthetic lines arid hygienic principles.

ACCIDENT THE MOTHER OF INVENTION. By Prof. Ernst Mach. It is by accidental circumstances, or by such W as lie without our purpose, foresight and vi P°' ver , that man gradually is led to the ae7/ quaintance of Improved means of satisfying FJ his wants. r Let the reader picture to himself f the genius of a man who could have foreseen Ji ' without the help of accident that clay handled in the ordinary manner would produce a useJ ful cooking utensil. The majority of . the in-

ventions mhde in the early stages of civilization, Including language, writing, money, and the rest, could not have been the product of deliberate, methodical reflection, for the simple reason that no idea of their value and significance could have been had except from practical use. Granting that the most important inventions are brought to man’s notice accidentally; and in ways thatare beyond his foresight, yet it does not follow that accident alone.is sufficient to produce an invention. The part which man plays is by no .means a passive one. Even the first pottef in the primeval forest must have felt some stirrings pf genius within him. In all sucli cases the inventor is obliged to take note of the new fact, he must discover grasp its advantageous feature, and must have the power to turn that feature to account in the realization of his purpose. The capacity to profit by experience might well be set up as a test of intelligerice. This power varies considerably in men of the same race, and increases enormously aS we advance from the lower animals to man. The former are limited in

, IN THE FIRELIGHT. The fire upon the hearth is low, Arid there is stillness everywhere. While winged spirits, here and there, I'he firelight shadows muttering go. And as the shadows round me creep, ' A childish treble breaks the. gloom. And softly from the further room Pomes, “Now I. lay me down to sleep.” And somehow with that little prayer And that sweet treble in my ears, Aly thoughts go bak to distant years. And linger with the loved ones there; And as I hear my child’s Amen, My mother’s faith comes back to me— Crouched at her side 1 seem to be, And mother holds my hands again. Oh. for an hour in that <Jear place! Oh, for the peace of that dear time! Oh. for that childish trust sublime! Oh, for a glimpse of mother’s face! Yet. as the shadows round me creep, 1 do not seem to be alone— Magic sweet of that, treble tone, And “Now I lay me down to sleep.” —Eugene Field. - ; . I THE LAST TIME, t L 4* “How many times do you want me to say' it?” demanded Miss Callonby. ‘I thought, we had that all settled finlily and forever.” “I didn't understand it was ‘finally.’ " said Bennie Purvis. “I hopedl—- — told you there was no use hoping,” mapped the young woman. “You asked ne if you mightn’t hope and I distinctly told you no. That’s what I said, and now you drag' the whole thing up ftgain.” “Was that the last time?” asked Benlie doubtfully. “You know perfectly well it was. It was in this very room. I’ll have witlesses the next time, or a phonograph.’ “There isn’t going to be any next :ime.” Bennie.said this quite deterninedly. “You said something to that effect jefore. There oughtn’t to have been any this time. There wouldn’t have seen if you had any regard for my feelings.” “Oh, I say!” remonstrated Bennie in • lis best English manner. “Well, you haven’t. You know it’s a lainful thing for me to have to refuse rou.” “Why do you do it, then?” Risked the ,'oung man, not unnaturally. “Why not Save some consideration for my feelings and say ‘Yes?’ ” “Because I don’t want you. I’m not joing to marry you just to spare your feelings.” “I haven’t any idea of asking you » marry me to spare my feelings. If rou were willing to do it I shouldn’t let you.” . Miss Callonby pouted. “I don’t see low you could help It,” she said. “But

this regard almost entirely to the reflex actions which 5 thej’ have inherited with their organism; they are almost totally incapable of individual experience, and, considering their simple wants, are scarcely in need of it. ; . ’ EDUCATION CRIME'S GREATEST FOE. By James Anson Farrer.

It is remarkable that a book which has done more for law reform Mian any other before or since should have been written by a man who was nbt a lawyer by profession, who was totally unversed in legal practice, and who was only 26 when he attacked a system of law which had on its side all authority, living and dead. Beccaria’s book was published for the first time in 1764. It quipkly ran through several editions, and was first translated into French in 1766,. since which time it has been translated into most of the Iduguages of Europe, not excluding Greek and Russian. The following is front Beccaria; “Would you prevent crimes, contrive that the laws favor less different races of citizens than each citizen in particular. Let men fear the laws and nothing but the laws. Would you prevent*crimps, provide that reason and knowledge be moremnd more dlffufjcd. To conclude: The surest but most difficult method of making men better is by perfecting education.” PEOPLE GROWING IN POWER. By Ada May Krecker.

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is their millions of votes that elect presidents and governors and- congressmen, that pass laws, that appropriate government funds. ’ It is their powerful public opinion that is final arbiter of conduct and custom. The arts and the sciences in their variform aspects will be the common heritage. When this shall.have come to pass the stupendous increase in knowledge, and hence power and refinement, will revolutionize the earth arid all that is in it. Humanity, enj masse will come into possession of the gentle culture which rendered delicate, and beautiful, and lofty, the leisure castes of earlier days and inevitably set them apart from the cruder folk to whom, it was denied. Then The whole world will be “gentles.” the "quality.” For they will have all ' that makes the patrician and the privileged.

you needn’t feel alarmed. I’m not going to. You're the last man on ,the face of the earth that I would dream of marrying.” “You’d sooner have Corwin. I suppose?” “Why. Bennie!” exclaimed the young woman. “I’ve told yoti twenty times that I detest him. You know I have. And I do. He’s loathly.” “N-pbOdy would ever think it,” said Bennie. “And you’ve told me half a dozen times or more that you liked”him. very much, indeed.” “So I do —as a friend,’’ Bennie tried to shrug his shoulders. “We'll count him out for the sake of argument.” he said. ■’How about King?” “King?” “Yes. King,- How about him?’ “What about him? What do you mean?” “I mean to ask you if yo uwohldn’t sooner have him than me?”* “I wouldn’t have either of you,” said Miss Callonby. “So there!” “You don’t seem to get the point—or you don’t mean i to,” said Bennie “You said I was thfc last man in the world that you would marry.” “I hope you will excuse me if I contradict you flatly, but I didn’t.” Bennie made his eyes round. “I said, ‘On the face of the earth that I would dream of marrying.’ It Illis ft “i’ll have witnesses next time.” may amount to the same thing, but I should prefer to be quoted correctly.” Bennie let that pass. “It follows that if you had to choose between King and me you would take King,” he said. “It wouldn’t follow at all,” said Miss Callonby. “That was just a figure of speech.” Bennie brightened amazingly. “Employed to impress you with the very positive nature of my—how many does this make? Well, my refusal— I should like you to understand that it is positive. I want this to be the very last-tlffie. I shall be angry with you, Bennie, if you ever approach Ae subject again.” “I sha’n't. Don’t you worry about that” “I wish I could believe you.” “You may believe me, all right I can promise you safely that you

i Would you prevent crimes, then cause the ' laws to be jclear and simple. Make the laws to favor not. s<> much classes of men. but men themselves, i Would you prevent crimes, then set* that enlightenment accompanies liberty. The evils that flow from knowledge are in inverse ratio to its diffusion; the benefits directly proportioned to it. The surest means J of preventing crimes is to improve education.

It needs only a glauce and a thought, to appreciate that the distinguishing marks of our current institutions and culture are the impress of the people. The people who erstwhile were of no iriiportixnce and negligible factors in national affairs are “mow the determining influence. It is they that rule, and mote forcefully every hour, the politics, the press, the learning; the law, the society. It

be pestered any mbre so-far as I’m con eerned.” V “Bennie.” said Miss Callonby, “yot aren’t angry witth me, are you?” “No,” answered Bennie. “Truly?” “Truly.” “Because, you know, I would if 1 CQjild possibly. I wouldn’t have you really angry with me' for anything ir the world,: You know: that, don’t you’ What makes you say I can believe you in that way?” “Because I mean it.” The voting woman looked at him lons and seriously. "Bennie, you don’t seen at all.this evening,” she said “There’s' something hard about you that I don’t like; I believe you art angry Aith me, and you never were be* fore iri your whole life.” ’ “And 1 never will be. I shall always have thp very kindest thoughts of you. “I don’t want ’the very k’yidesi You talk as if you were going tri China and didn’t ever intend to comp back.” » Miss Callonby gasped a little. “You're joking, ’’ she said. J “Never a joke,” declared Bennie “I’ve a good chance at a good thine’ out there, and I made up my mind that if you said ‘No’ to-night I’d take it And when I really do make up my mind ” .“Change it,” said Miss Callonby “Change it to please me. I don't want you to go to that wretched place You’ll have fever and all.sorts of hor ribel things.” . , Bennie shook his head. “I guess 1 might as well say good-by now,” ht said. He held out his hand. Miss Callonby took it and stood with tier forehead wrinkled thoughtfully. “I’ll miss you horribly,” she said, at last. “Just a little at first,” said Bennie “No, all the time. You won’t changi your mind?” , "No.” The. thoughtful frown on the yotins woman's face deepened as j the clod ticked on. ” “Good-by,” said Bennie. She raised her eyes to his and found them sad but inflexible in expression. “Bennie*,” she said 1 , hesitatingly, “11 I asked you to ask me agaim—what you asked before, would you? Wait a moment. I said ‘No’ this evening arid you said if I said ‘No’ you’d go to the Philippines, and you wouldn’t change your mind. Would it make any differ ence if I said ‘Yes?’ ” “Are you asking out of demanded Bennie, sternly. But he saw that she was not. “It was a blamed mean trick,” Ben nie said to himself as he left the nouse “Still I’m mighty sorry I didn’t think of It before. If she ever finds out I was bluffing ’’.—Chicago Dally News.

REVIEW OF INDIANA

William Bilger, 15 years old, was drowned in the Maumee river at Fort Wayne while learriing to swim. The docket for the September term of the Whitley Circuit Court shows a total of 515 cases, of which seventyeight are criminal. I The Auburn Manufacturing Company’s plant is now running full time of ten hours a day with orders ahead for 2,000 storm fronts. The cornerstone of the new Miami County court house will be laid at Peru some time next month. It is planned to make the occasion memorable. • George Luther, aged 20 . years, was drowned inc Hunt’s Lake, near Laporte. He was bathing with a party of friends when he was attacked with cramps. Mrs. Jacob Filby, of Milton, stepped on a rusty, crooked nail. The wourfS is painful as the *nail penetrated her shoe and buried itsrelf three-inches in her-foot. \ Fire resulting from the explosion of a coal oil lamp destroyed the home of Abram Gudgel, a farmer near Princeton. The loss is estimated at $2,500, partly covered by insurance. Made despondent by continued ill health, Charles F. Eller, of South Bend, married, father of eight children, the eldest of whom is 19, took three ounces on laudanum and died an hour later. Captain John K. Weyer’s auto boat, the Cita, collided with the Government dyke near Madison. Captain Weyer anq, his guest, Miss Bunnell, a Chautauqua singer, narrowly escaped drowning. The Rev. J. J. Fischer, of the Jamestown M. E. church, a graduate of Wabash College this .year, has received a scholarship in Harvard University and he will enter this fall as a student in the divinity school. The five-room residence and store building combined, together with contents, owned byi. Frank Salee, at Buddha, near Bedford, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $2,500, with small insurance. Origin of the fire is unknown. While over a hundred chautaiiquas to the wall this year, Madison closed its sixth assembly recently with gratifying' success. Sixteen hundred and seventy tickets have been sold for the 1909 assembly, insuring Ats permanency. Mrs; Edward Irons ’ and her 18-months-old baby were burned to death in their home at Terre Haute. A bottomless oil can found by the firemen indicates that Mrs. Irons had poured Oil on the fire and that an explosion followed. Word has been received from the Government hatcheries at Northfield, Mich., to the effect that within a few days 5,000 small-mouth bass and yellow perch will be sent to W. F. Little and S. H. Morris, in Shelbyville. They will be placed in ponds and streams in different parts of Shelby County. Dr. Clarence A. Waldo, head of the Department of Mathematics at Purdue University in Lafayette, who is touring Europe with a party of American travelers, met with an accident in Berlin, Germany, which nearly cost his sight of one eye, and he spent three weeks in a hospital there. A large cinder that got in his eye could not be dislodged. Dr. Waldo will return to Lafayette next month. Deputy Fish Commissioners John J. Bravy and Fred Bravy obtained a search warrant recently and searched the home of Frank Euberroth, in Columbus. Three seines and a trammel net were found and brought into court. When Euberroth was arrested he pleaded guilty, and his fine and costs amounted to $35.50. The seines and the net were taken to Commissioner Z. T. Sweeney’s office and burned. Wawasee, Kosciusko County, has the smalest postofiice building in the United States, at least Postmaster Jesse M. Sargent believes that he is housed in the smallest Government building from New York to San Francisco, and from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico! This particular building is something less than six feet in height and it is about five feet square. Hundreds of persons receive their mail daily from this -place, for many persons, drawn from the Middle West, are spending the summer at AVawasee. There are many persons who visit Wawasee who would like the distinction of having been in the smallest postoffice in the United States, but, as Postmaster Sargent puts it, “It is strictly against the rules,” but however, he sometimes allows the inquisitive peo-. pie to poke their heads through the general delivery window or the stamp window. What they see is picturesque, for Postmaster Sargent is a souvenir postcard fiend. He admits it, and he is now favoring his friends with postcard pictures of the srhallest Government building in America, Although her jugular vein was severed when her husband cut her with a razor, and although physicians said she could not live, Mrs. Cleveland Snyder, of Muncie, is still living at the hospital, and she'may pull through. Northern Indiana farmers are worried over a new disease which is destroying their hogs as fast as the cholera. The disease appears in the form of a stiffness in the limbs, which in a few hours communicates to the body and kills.

Joseph Carpenter, south of Elwood, reports that bees deposited fifty pounds of honey near a berry Priteh on his farm. Edward Cosand, aged 17, a freshman at Rore Polytechnic, was drowned while bathing in a gravel pit west of Terre Haute. . ‘ I George T. Barney, aged 86 years, and president of the Indiana Association of Mexican War Veterans, is seriously ill at his home in Elkhart. .. Mrs. Benjamin Sawyer, of Bluffton, has come into possession of an old (family Bible, printed in 1720, which she prizes very hightly. While excavating in Evansville for a building on a lot that was formerly an Indian burial ground,, workmen dug up the skeletons of several Indians. The residence and household goods of Abraham Gudgel, a firmer, a mile east of Owensville, were destroyed by fire. Loss $2,500. The fire was caused by a defective flue. Merchants of Winamac have recently taken in a large number of counterfeit dollars and nickels. There- is a suspicion that home talent is at work manufacturing these bogus coins. Harry Kinney, who has a fishing camp below Columbus, on White river; landed a seventeen-pbimd white’perch, which is the largest perch ever caught in that vicinity. Local fishermen advance the theory that the fish is a tramp, having come from some large stream into White river and nosed its way north. It put up~a game fight. The Pursley Brothers, cane growers of Boonville, -have been, offered 50 cents a gallon for tliWr entire’crop of sorghum, delivered the local depot. They have fifty acres of sugar cane, which is in good condition. The cane acreage in thisniounty will amount to 100 acres. The first sorghum will be made about the middle of September. Because, his friends assert, they have knowledge that in recent years he has saved the lives of nine people, •Frank Scott, a blacksmith of Digdon, is being considered by Andrew Came gie for a medal and allowance: in recognition of his services. The ninth life saved by Scott was that of Miss (Arson, of Rigdon, who;was drowning in a gravel pit full of water, two weeks ago. Warren McDaniel, of Wilkinson lav down on his back in the woods whilje watching for a squirrel, and another hunter, thirty steps away,' seeing ri movement in the ’grass and weeds, fired on the supposition that game was concealed there. Nearly thirty shot entered McDaniel’s body between his hips and head. His condition is critical. - Neither hunter knew the other was in the woods. Jj. What is believed to be the next* largest fresh-water pearl ever discovered, has just been found in the waters of Sugar creeX by Peter Coffman, nbar Thorntown, northeast of Crawfordsville. Tile pearl weighs fiftyseven grains. The largest fresh-water pearl weighed’sixty grains, and was on exhibition at St. Louis during the Lou- ■ isiana Purchase Exposition. Mr. Coffman has sent the pearl to New York City experts to have its value determined. Lawrence Benfier. a prosperous farmer near Boonville, lost his large hay barn with contents, by fire,of unknown origin. This season's crop of hay, over seventy tons, was also burned, with his farm machinery. Five horses were cremated. Matthew Ashby, a spectacle peddler; who had stopped for the night, tried to save a firie horse which he owned, and he lost his right eye. Several of the farm laborers were badly burned while trying to save property. Mr. Bender was engaged in baling his crop of hay. and the task was half completed! Everything was in ship-shape when the laborers quit for the night, but they were awakened to find the, barn in flames. The loss is estimated at $5,000, with $2,500 insurance. Gwendolyn Washburn, of Elwood, had a narrow escape from drowning in White river. In trying to emulate Mahar and Dollihar, who took several hundred pounds of carp from the river by feejing around logs with their feet, she suddenly disappeared. Bubbles marked the spot where she sank. A young man at once dived into the water and found the gril being dragged along the bottom of the river by an unseen force. Rising to the surface and holding to the ( girl’s hand, he called for help. The half drowned girl was assisted to shore, whei’e it was found that an immense’turtle had resented her interference with his> midday sleep and had seized her by the toe. Before she could cream for help the turtle had dragged her under the water, and it was by the sheerest good luck that her absence was noted in time to save her from drowning. , ■ Dennis Cain, aged 93 years, was struck by east-bound passenger train No. 46 at Batesville. He suffered a broken arm and internal injuries. His home is in New Orleans. He was taken to the City;Hospital at Cincinnati. George Ade’s new town, south of Morocco, was hit hard during a recent storm. Both the general store build ing and the coal shed were wrecked beyond repair. The grain elevator, the tallest in that part of the State, was not injured.