The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 23, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 1 October 1908 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal WALKER & FANCIL, SYRACUSE, - - IND. It sometimes takes a man (SownFhen a woman sizes him up. If canary birds couldn’t sing, they’d lave to hustle their own hemp seed. When a 'Small boy cries because he pan’t go to school he ought to be invesiljjated. The office sometimes seeks the man, Et how he does hustle after he gets » nomination. Having laid down his arms. Admiral {tcbley D. Evans no longer has any use lor his sea-legs. When the aeronauts form a trust we rill know that the navigation of the Mr 16i a success. "’Smile once a day,” is the motto of ( New Jersey optimist league. Smiling tally on paydays will not do. About the worst thing the new apple rust can do will be to hand us a Ben Davis when we ask for a pippin. No man Is perfect, yet almost every girl fools herself into believing that at least one young man of her acquaintance is. You may have observed that an officeleeker is' a man who shakes the voter’s hand before election and shakes the roter afterward. Mr. Roosevelt, when he goes to Afrita, will take a camera with him, but ft will bother some of the jungle aninals to look pleasant. A man wants a divorce because his ndfe won’t sew buttons on his trousers, the case will appear In the court records as a disunion suit. The Standard Oil Company doesn’t »ave to pay that .$29,240,000 fine, not set Now would seem to be a good ilme to ask the Standard for the loan if two bits. The Kaiser says the peace of Europe b not in danger. This persistent ignoring of Mr. Castro’s belligerent attitude nay yet spell disaster to some contilental powers. The ambitions of Aguinaldo seem to >e rising. A few years ago he desired !o be merely a second George Washington. Now he to become a Manila aiderman., - '. Commander Peary Is laying plans for rapturing the south pole after he has the north pole laid away oh ice. Ambitious man, that Peary ’ And Impartial, strictly Impartial! f In Austria a married man cannot go ip in a balloon unless he has the writ? ten consent of his wife. Over there they must regard ballooning as more Hangerous than remaining late at the flub. Heretofore elections in Cuba have been the signal for disorder and revolutionary outbreaks. The recent elections were as peaceful as a contest for (electman in a New England town. The new electoral law which provides for non-part iz an electoral boards was tried for the first time, and it proved to be i| good political device. But the real reason for the unprecedented good order of the elections is to be found in the temper of the Cuban people. They are learning, if not to govern them■elves, at least not to make a riot of government, especially when’American troops are ready to suppress disorder. Grant that “dad”‘wjas as a rule a child’s name for father; where Is the disrespect in the use of It by any son, however old he may. be? We have often heard the word used when the relations -between father and son were Unusually tender, when the two were Close companions, when there was complete understanding and the strongest love. There was a time in New Eng-*lan-l when a son addressed his father In writing, “Respected Sir.” The father was then of the Roman order. There was little thought of any possible intimacy. The son stood in awe of the ■ire. Hence, too often dcimestic tragedies. When you hear a lad speak today of his father as “the old man” you may reasonably infer that there is no Bwret companionship. If a boy mentions his “dad” there is a world of affliction in the word. There is a touch Os hardness, a suspicion of fear in the term “governor.” “Pop” is a cheap term, if It be not vile. ITesldent Roosevelt has appointed a conunisslon of five men to report on methods of improving the social conditions of farm life. Next to the conservation of national resources, he regards the well-being of the farmer as the chief problem before the nation. On the man who gives us the materials for clothes and food the entire nation dejiends. Through him society is rooted in the land. Many of the great economic Improvements in late years have been directed to the betterment of farming. The Department of Agriculture has been working to increase the productivity of the land, to inBtract farmers in the best methods of cultivation. All the development of Irrigation, the establishment of rural postal delivery, the improvement of IralMrwaya and railroads over which

the product of the land is sent to the cities, the good roads movement, the creation of State agricultural colleges, the regeneration of the district school system, have tended to make farming more prosperous and the farmer healthier and better Instructed. But most of this work has dealt in land and crops and tools and roads; it has in large measure missed the human being. The President’s most Inspiring idea, his most statesmanlike move, is the belief that it ,Is the man that counts. We “must help and improve human beings. We must make farm life so attractive that the best strength of the nation wilF live it. At present tie brilliant prizes of life seem to lie in the city, and fobmany capable boys are tempted away' from the soil. To bring to the farm the essential comforts and intellectual interests of the cities, to give farm boy and farm girl every chance for self-improvement, to secure to the farmer his proper share of the profit of his labor, to make life in the country most worth living—this is the problem the solution of which will strengthen the foundations of national prosperity. Measures to be considered by the commission are the establishment of postal savings banks, the creation of rural parcel post, by which the farmer may more easily get the products of manufacture, the increase of “co-operation between farmers for buying, selling and borrowing,” and the ‘‘better adaptation of rural schools to the training of children for life on the farm.” College athletics in America, the drift toward professionalism and the progressively’ .fewer members of the student body who interest themselves, except aS spectators, in athletics, have occupied the attention of educationists in this country for over a decade. Latterly there has been a wholesome tendency manifested to eradicate this evil, though the stigma is by no means removed. It is interesting to note in thia connection what a British scholar, resident for a year ,in America, finds objectionable in the American system. Ip a long letter to the London. Times he has conveyed his impressions of student life and ideals here. He believes that the demoralization resulting from “profesisonallsm” is attributable to three things: First, that while the interest is general few students actually take part in the uthletic contests; second, that the members of the athletic team are often unequipped to benefit by college work and achieve Only ath; letic distinction; and, third, that the corruption in . athletic sports fosters a general low standard of honor. These are not new criticisms, of course, but they are developed with more sharpness than is ordinarily found In American discussion. The writer thinks that the system of hiring professional coaches whose business it is to win for their several colleges and thus iijprease their prestige and attract students is largely responsible for this condition. On that point he says: “I have almost persuaded some American students to believe, but I do not believe that I have succeeded in convincing one,-that there is no organized and systematic coaching of athletic teams in English universities such as is practiced in American colleges, where professional trainers ordinarily receive, for a few weeks’ work, more than the best professors get for a year’s academic service.” He objects that with the spirit of professionalism Intrenched the real purpose of athletics is overlooked and that the training it is meant to give to the whole student body is lost. The English observer, who is inclined to think that athletics and outdoor sports are one and the same, probably overlooks the gymnasium exercise that is required in our colleges. Still there can be no doubt but that the spirit of the a,mateur which characterizes English sport is the true spirit, and America is making progress toward the substitution of this ideall It will come with time. • Tennyson’s Cure for Shyness. It is recorded in “Tennyson’s Life’ that he used to recommend to a younger brother the thought of the stellar spaces, swarming with constellations and traversed bj planets at ineffable distances, as a ct ye for shyness, and a lady of my acquaintance used to endeavor as a girl to stay her failing heart on the th night Os eternity at such moments. t is all in vain. At the urgent moment one cares very little about the stellar motions or the dim ■ristas of futurit; r and very much indeed about the cu: of one’s coat and the glances of one’s enemies, and the doctrines of the church and the prospects of ultimate salvation are things very light in the scales in comparison with the pressing necessities of the crisis and the desperate need to appear wholly unconcerned!--Arthur C. Benson in Putnam’s and Reader. One it Three. “Being twins” is the ambition of many a lively boy. Being triplets is usually a step beyond his intellect. The complications are too numerous. One of the most serious Is suggested by this tale from the Washington Star: “So you are engaged,” a man said tc my friend, “to one of the beautiful Vronsky triplets, eh?” "Yes,” my friend replied, “But how can you tell them apart?" the man asked. ! “I don’t try,” eaid my friend. Th i! Mute. “She has no fr lends to speak of.” ‘’Good heavens I What does she tali about?”—’Sporting Times. There is sometimes danger In not getting scared enough.

Papers

WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH DOCTORS? By H. Edwin Lewis, Jf. D.

For the past five years the dominant features of modern medicine have been doubt, pessimism and intolerance. With tactless zeal the medical profession has done its laundry work in the full gaze of an ever-critical and not over-friendly public. Quarrels with our tools and with each other have been the order of the day. Criticism, suspicion and accusation have been

rife, and on every hand have sprung up commercial tendencies that have lowered the dignity and efficiency of our profession. The thirst for money, power and position has possessed us, and under the spell of these dangerous intoxicants too many of us have lost sight of the true nature and obligations of our calling. With a stupidity that is incomprehensible we have rushed to sit at the feet of every new prophet, no matter how questionable his teaching, and have foolishly forsaken the time-proved logic of the old. Thus, in many instances, established facts have been discarded for phantom theories —though temporarily, let us hope. The worship of the laboratory fetish has caused us to sadly neglect clinical and bedside observation. COSTLINESS OF NATION’S WAR SPIRIT. By U. S. Justice Brewer.

At the close of the civil war we owed about $3,000,000,(XX). In the twenty-five or thirty years following that we paid twothirds of that debt. Since then, although during the last ten years we have had unexampled prosperity, we have not paid a dollar, and we owe to-day, as we did at the end of the Spanish War, $1,000,000,000.’ During the past ten years the approprla-

tions for our army and navy (exclusive of pensions) have aggregated $1,626,000,000, an excess over the prior ten years of $1,119,000,000. This is why we have not paid the national debt. Is this nation any better off, with its magnificent fleet of . ironclads and its larger army, than it would have been if it had paid its national debt and stood to day as the one great nation on the face of the earth not owing a dollar? The surplus excess of our military and naval expenditure for the last ten years would have reclaimed every arid acre within the limits of ibis country, and would have given us magnificent canals, stretching from the North to the South. Every school in the country has its military company. We are all craving for war, and we cannot be craving for war and not have war. I contend that the principles of right and justice are eternal and can be depended on. If we can trust God

GRANDMOTHER. Oh I when a grandmother is sweet How very sweet she is! Three generations blending meet: A triple grace in this; For all we feel and all’ we know, She too has felt and known. And to the heights where we must grow, , She long ago has grown. Mothers are lovely, dear, and good As ever good can be; . And yot it seems they never could Be quite as quick as she To find the good and miss the ill In all the children do; But then, perhaps, at last they will When they’re| grandmothers too. ■ i • ' .>• ■ ■ Comparisons bow can we make, Since equal love we give To each? —for either’s darling sake We’d gladly die—or live. Yet one sweet truth is very clear And by it we will stand: Mothers are lovely, good, and dear, But grandmothers are “Grand” I —Sunday. Magazine. “So you want to marry my daugh-' ter?” said the banker, eying the young man steadily. “I dp, sir.” “Do you love her?” “More than life,” was the emphatic reply. The banker thought for a while. “Let us see,” he'finally said. “What (re your You are poor, but some of a good family. You have intelligence, honesty and ambition ; and you are now working at a salary of fifteen dollars per week as assistant to Mr. Stewart, the cashier. How can you expect to support a woman who has been used to luxury all her life on a sum so small?” “I didn’t think of marrying at once, ilr. I would work hard, and be willing to wait until I could advance myself to a better position In the bank.” “And do you suppose a girl like Gladys would engage herself to you, and wait years for a husband, while there are plenty of eligible young men among her acquaintances?” The rich man spoke mildly, but War-

tlo see that our dollars are paid, I think we can trust Him to make good His declarations that righteousness will exalt the nation. WHY WOMEN SEEM FRIVOLOUS. By Dr. Lester Frank Ward.

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china and silverware, and she has an idea of them. In the absence of other Ideas she will think about them, talk about them, have her whole mind absorbed with them. The mind must act, and this is ail the material it has to act upon. j It is the same of dress. Her soul is engrossed in dress, since it is her most important object of experience, if you wish to make her forsake it you must give her something else to think of. Give woman an interest in great subjects and she soon will abandon small ones. If she knew as much about the. great men of history or of iier own age as she does about her neighbors she would cease to talk about the latter and talk about the former. Teach her science, philosophy, law, politics, and. you will do much to put an end to gossip, slander and fashion worIship. , M . BEWARE OF APPLAUSE OF THE CROWD. : By President Butler of Columbia.

'that which is at the moment the most popular is generally held to be the wisest. This confusion is the chief danger to which democracy is exposed. What men want o’ften contradicts what men ought to have, and to bring the two into harmony is the supreme task alike of education and statesmanship. Not the clamor of the crowd, however angry or however emphatic, but what Sir Thomas Browne quaintly called “(he judgment pf the judicious,” is the true standard of merit.. To it •we must constantly and hopefully land resolutely repair. We should never for any reason Ibe tempted or cajoled or frightened into deserting it.

ren Lewis detected a sneer in his tone. He hastily arose. j “Then you object, sir,” he said. __ “I certainly do. I may as well tell you now that Gladys will marry Mr. Stewart. 5 ye is the man I have picked out for her, and they think a good deal of each other. So return to your work, Mr. -Lewis, and let us hear no more of this presumptuous nonsense.” Warren went back to his desk, unhappy and disappointed. He was sure that Gladys loved hiih, and-Mr. Wilson had always treated jh Im so J cordially when he called at his house that he hoped no objections would be offered to his suit. But now all was suddenly changed. Still he determined to see Gladys, and ask her if she was aware that her father wanted her to marry Mr. Stewart. He called on her that evening, and came at once to the subject nearest his heart. “Gladys, do you know that your father wishes you to marry Mr. Stewart?” he asked. She colored and looked confused. “Yes,’’ she answered. “But you don’t intend to accept him?” . “Yes,” she said again. “The matter was settled by my father long ago.” For a moment Warren could not speak. That the. girl he loyed and trusted could have deceiyed him was hard for him to credit, yet she herself admitted the fact, and he was compelled to believe it. Warren Lewis was' one of the men in whom honor is placefl above every other consideration. lie 1 despised anything like deception, and a wave of anger swept over him. “Well ” he said, “I suppose I am not the first man who has been fooled by a deceitful woman. I am glad I have discovered the fact, though how you expected to profit by such conduct I can't imagine. A woman who so far forgets her womanliness as to trifle with a man who loves her Is not worthy of his thoughts. I wish you good-evening, Miss Wilson.” As Warren turned away the girl made a step forwarfl and appeared to be about to speak; but before she could do so he had gone. He went straight home, and alone in his room struggled hard with his grief. When he returned to his duties at the bank on the following morning, beyond a slight pallor, there was no outward indication of the ordeal he had passed through during the night But ft was a severe blow to .the young man, none the less. He had loved Miss Wilson almost from the first day he had met hex’, yet realizing the social gap between them, would never have presumed to address her had she not given him unmistakable encouragement. After that he trusted her implicitly, and the discovery of her duplicity was overwhelming. He was destined to have two more surprises within the next few days. The first came In the shape of a telegram announcing the death of a near relative who had left him a large fortune. The bank president congratulated him on bis good luck, and remarked that he supposed Warren

It often is remarked that women as a rule are more, frivolous and trifling than men. Where the only objects with which woman comes tn contact are those of the kitchen, the nursery, the drawing room and the wardrobe, how shall she be expected to have broad Ideas of life, the. world and the universe? Her ideas .are perfectly natural and legitimate. She has seen and handled culinary utensils,

A most persistent enemy of sound standards is the tendency to delight in the applause of the crowd and in the acclaim of the unthinking, the Immature and the illinformed. More than one leader of men, past and present, has been led astray by the strong temptation which this tendency offers. Sometimes one almost feels that the noisiest policy passes for the best, and that

would not care to remain longer in the position he now held. "I do, though,” said the young man. “The change in my fortune will make no difference in that line. I desire to get a thorough training in the banking business, and shall go on just as if nothing had occurred to place me above the need of working—that is, if yon care to have me stay.” “Most assuredly I care/’ said the banker, heartily. “I’ll see to it that you are advanced as rapidly as possible.” So Warren remained at his desk, and no one would suppose that he was a rich man. The second surprise occurred one morning when Mr. Stewart was arrest-! ed for misappropriating the funds of the bank. The State bank examiner had visited the institution on the preceding day, jfind the arrest of the cashier was the result. Many false entries had been discovered. aggregating over two hundred thousand dollars, and the folly of attempting to deny his thefts in the face of the evidence appealed to the cashier so cogently that he made a full confeselon. Speculation had proved his ruin. The news soon got out, and the next day a. run on the bank began. There was a hasty meeting of the directors, i who contributed all the-cash thejjcould command to save the honor of the in-, stitution, but it was apparent that this would not preclude the necessity of closing the doors. Then Warren came to the rescue; “I can raise seventy-five thousand dollars in three hours,” be said to President Wilson “I’ll gladly lend it to the bank if it will be of any service.” “It will save us from ruin, my young friend,” said Mr. Wilson, grasping his hand. “And now, in justice, let me tell you something. What Gladys said to you the other night 11 am responsible for. I represented, you : as a fortune hunter, and commanded her to give you up. She has always obeyed me, and she did not refuse to do so this time, though she now lies ill as a result. Come and see her. I no longer object to your attentions to my daughter, for you have proved yourself in all ways worthy of her.” When Warren reached the banker‘s house that evening he found Gladys much Improved, a direct result of her father’s withdrawal of his objections to her lover’s suit; and the knowledge that the girl he loved was not the treacherous woman she appeared to be repaid the young man for all he had suffered, Warren’s money saved the bank. When the panic-stricken depositors found their claims paid as promptly as their books were presented they recovered from their fright, and many put their money back again, using their Influence to quiet the fears of others. Warren now has a position in the bank second only to Mr. Wilson himself, apd Gladys has been his wife for more than a year.—Pennsylvania Grit. It is a good thing women don't swear: They have so many things that would make them do it

REVIEW OF INDIANA

Theofanic Theofanopholes, a Greek, 36 X p ars old, fell from an Air Line car at'T.aporte and was killed. The record Sale for land in Wells County was reached when seventy-five acres, east of Bluffton, was sold at ?an acre. Jeff and Albert Hirely flit the farm of Christian Ebnit. aaring that there were Indians in me wilds of Indiana, three Chicago boys, registering as Frank Fisher, Martin Mullaney and Elmer Minnetts, who gave their address as 471 Hastings street, Chicago, came to Hammopd looking for trails. They were arrested by a “cop” who confiscated their toy weapons and notified their parents. Fred B. Leighty, editor of the St. Joseph News, and Miss Lora E. Hull, of DeKalb County, a popular apd successful music teacher, were married last week at St. Joseph.. Mr. Leighty is only 22 years old,- but for the last four years he has been editor and proprietor of the News and at the last mebting of the State Editorial Associatioti he was mentioned as the “youngest editor in the State.” Mrs. George Colson, of Milan, was awakened by a commotion in her poultry house, while her husband was away. Upon investigation she saw a man, and she fired a shotgun in his direction, as he was endeavoring to escape.. Bloodstains in the vicinity give evidence that her aim was good. The same night seventy-five young chickens were stolen from F. M. Kemper! in an adjoining neighborhood. George T. White, probably the oldest blacksmith in Johnson County, is dead of tipoplexy at his home in Greenwood. Hei came to Greenwood from Ohio more than fifty years ago, and set up a shop on the site of his present home and continued in active work until the death of his wife, a few- weeks ago, when he closed his shop and patiently waited the end. He was 77 years old, and the father of seven children, five of vrhom survive him. Piilip Potts, near Morocco, commonly known as the “watermelon king of Newton County,” says his success with this season's melon crop depends largely on the result of the State election; He is a Democrat and he is backing his faith in Mr. Marshall’s j election as Governor by selling melons as big as a bushel measure for 10 ! cents if Marshall is defeated and 50 j cehts if he is elected, payment to be ' mad p after the election. I Dsivid Barber, of Muncie, suffering from toothache, took too much whisky to ki ll the pain, and endeavored to enter the residence of John Gallagher, a former policeman, thinking it was his I own home. Gallagher, believing that his neighbor was a burglar, knocked him down, the man being unconscious . on tie sidewalk for twenty minutes.; Barbsr was placed in jail, but when the' circumstances wer§ explained City{ Judge Gass dismissed the case. The, | toothache was stopped by the knockI out. I While John Wright, a farmer, living west of Brownsville, was cutting corn, his dags cornered, in a thicket nearby, what he supposed to be a groundhog. Going to the thicket he saw a strangelooki ig animal in a bush. It sprang at him and had it not been for the dogs he would have fared badly.- The animal succeeded in getting away from the dogs and is now in the large thicket. Young pigs have been missed in ■ the neighborhood and the farmers are very much alarmed. It js thought the animal is a lynx and an effort will be made id'capture it. : As a mortgage lifter the common,, old-faishioned Newton County hen has few equals. Eggs sell at an average price of 18 cents a dozen the year round, and the price of butter rarely falls beolw 20 cents. Phoebe .Aykorn, west |of Morocco, sflys after buying all of the household supplies sipqe last spring with money from the* sale of eggs and butter, she was able to place to hep.credit in the bank $.362.28. Her husband's entire oats crop brought .little more than. $l5O. A number q£ farmers' wives in the vicinity clear from I $250 to S3OO on their poultry and but- ' ter each year, after supplying the family. Scott Lawrence, a farmer living about two miles from Silver Lake, while driving a well, struck a vein of gas, or something quite similar to natural gas, when down about eighteen feet. After a number of trials, he failed to ignite it. The odor , was similar to natural gas, and it flowed from the pipe with considerable force, producing a whistling noise that could be heard for half a mile. Although the gas was allowed to flow for several hours, there seemed to be no diminution in the force. Lawrence then continued to drive the pipe, and five feet below the pocket of gas, he struck a strong vein of pure water. Fire, presumably of incendiary origin, destroyed the barn at the Wallace circus winter quarters near Peru, causing a loss of SB,OOO in hay. grain, machinery and building. The oss is partly covered by insurance. Mrs. Charles Hines fell from the back porch of her home in Bedford to the ground below, a distance of six feet with a tub of boiling water. In landing Mrs. Hines was severely scalded on the breast and arms and badlv bruised.

As a result of a small cork slipping into her throat, the 3-year<rtd daughter of George. Hicks, ten mile's west of Richmond, choked to death * A telegram received in Brazil recently announced that William Hunt, a single man, aged 38 years, had been found dead in acorn field, near Harrisburg, 111. At the side of the body was an empty whisky jug. The ' yowfig man's home was in Brazil, wffiere he belonged to one of the highly respected families. Myrtle Glass, the 15-year-old daughter of Jacob Glass, a prominent farmer, who lives near Evansville, sustained a slight bruise on, the knee in playing with her 'schoolmates. She paid no attention to the wound, and three days as er the accident bloodpoisoning developed. Amputation proved futile, and she died. When Dr. Strickland, of Owensville. went to get Some ice out of an old grain sack he found three long snakes curled up near the chunk. The jn this section have been on the marcii for several da s. They are searching for moist places and the reptiles which Dr. Strickland discovered had evident ly found the ice much to their liking Farmers report having seen traces <•’ hundreds of snakes in the public highways, where the duts is several inches deep. Dr. Thomas A. Shane, of Columbus, found a strange bird in the alley near his home. He gave the bird to/ an expert, and it was found to be a “jflapper rail' ; at least, that is its common name. The bird feeds along the!? Eastern coast of the United, States. >and is rare.iy if ever seen in this part of the country. It had a broken wing, and was found under a tangle of telephone wires, So it is supposed to have' flown into a wire and become injured ih that ’ manner. _ While Frank garner, of Owensville, was drilling a well at a depth of 70 feet on the Jones farm, two snakes were seen to d: op out of the drill pipe. It in believed the snakes crawled into the casing and tell to the bottom wtiile the drillers were, at dinner. At a depth of 80 fee the drill was obstructefl by a layer of straw. Straw was matted around the dri 1 ryhen it was taken out. The presence of straw at that depth is a mystery as the where the wel was being drilled i» perfectly levfll: -- ■ Joseph Adams, of Reeve I Daviess County , belongs to a family, twenty-three of whom will vote ‘ for W. J. Bryan this year,-.and he issues a . challenge, asserting that'this is the largest number of voters in a single family'that will vote for the Democratic presidential candidate this fall. He is a rieniber of a family of thirteen children, eleven of whom have families of their own. “I met the challenge of the Huberts, of Carlyle. 111.. 1 and any other family in the whole country,” says Mr. Adams. William Berridge, proprietor of the Petersburg Mantle Works, owns a gray mule thirty-nine years old. which he 'has named Maud. Berridge has great I confidence in Br yan, and a number of his Republican riends agreed to present him with a rubber-tired buggy together with harness, if he would, in case of Bryan’s election, go to Washington with Ma d to attend "the ,Commoner's inauguration. Berridge promised his friends that in case of Bryan’s election he would not only go to Washington, but after he got there he would present the whole outfit to Bryan with, his compliments. . o’ Hiram Stew’arr, a farmer boy, 20 years old, was shot by his uncle. Stephen Ellis, last week, under the supposition that he was a burglar. Hiram spent the ■evening at an entertainment in the neighborhood, and he decided to quarter himself for the remainder of the light with his uncle, without informing him of , his intention. While pitting his horse away .he made a noise at the\Jj&rn which awakened his u cle- who’ investigated with a--shotgun. The rrncle fir.ed both barrels, but his linrwas poor,, and he only sueceedec in sprinkling' his nephew’s legs. The wounds /are not serious. . j / Mayor Lawrence Becker, of Hammond, who is a /eurocrat. wiJI be compelled to take his'family-horse out of a local livery barn because the animal goes frantic who i it. sees the pictures of Taft and Sherman, in the shape of lithographs hu g up in the livery stable. Before the pictures were hung up the horse w: .s gentle as a lamb, but when he is n itched up in the barn he paws and ki< -:s at the sight of the pictures and the: barn men can scarcely control him. The livery man complained to" Mayo Becker that hq.was unable 4o handle the horse and Mayor Becker told th llverythan to* take down the pictun s of Taft and isher? man and the ahiitnal would be pacified. A barn owned by William Mitchell, near Pleasantville, was destroyed by fire, with contenls, and the home was saved with difficulty. Four horses were cremated. r otal loss. $1,600. with S4OO insurance. Two mangled liodies, thought to be those of Roy Shirley, of Melrose, Ohio, and Ralph Roaci, of Paulding, Ohio, were found along the tracks of the Nickel Plate railroad near New Haven. It is believed the two men fell from a freight train