The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 52, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 April 1909 — Page 6

Syracuse Journal SYRACUSE, - - IND. There Isn’t much more to be saia about the new spring millinery. It is with kidnaping as with other things, a man-can’t drink and make a success of it A cow in Minnesota ate into a bag of concrete. That may explain some of the steak we get. Human nature is the same in village and city. Father takes 'Willy to the circus in New York and Thompson’s Corners. Mr. Roosevelt is indeed a lucky journalist He gets a good long vacation |n less than a month after he starts’, to work. It may be only a rumor, but a report comes from Spain to the effect that King Alphonso is trying to raise a mustache. Scientists say that camels originated Im America, which serves to explain how they happened to get a hump on themselves. Child stealing is bad enough, but what must be thought of the conscienceless scoundel who takes a dozen good hens? The first, thing Germany knows the English parliament will pass a law making the building of battle ships by Germany a misdemeanor. 1 Fashionable tailors announce that men will have their hips padded this spring. Anything except the revival Os spring bottom “pants.” Colorado train robbers recently robbed a Pullman porter of nearly sls. This porter evidently didn’t belong to the Fraternal Order of Train Robbers. ' It is proposed in Cleveland to pay commissioners $40,000 a year for overseeing the street car service there. We predict that Cleveland will find it easy to get commissioners. The bee sting as a remedy for rheumatism is being revived. But if the bee sting is good, why wouldn’t the sting of a yellow jacket, which is several horsepower stronger, be still better? ■ One of the German scientists announces that whales’ milk ■ possesses great merits as a food for man. This being the case, we may 6 expect counterfeit whaled’ milk to appear in the market eftsoons. Some New York farmers asked the state commision of agriculture in New York city to undertake to persuade families to go from the city into the country for the sumpier, and work on I the land. Even if they had to work for their board and car fare, life in the open would be worth while to many growing boys who ordinarily have to spend the hot months cooped up in the crowded town. The agents sent here by the little, nations on the outskirts of the civilized world and their lots rich in heartaches. They are alone among a people to them alien in speech, customs and ideals. That is the acme of loneliness. Theirpower is negligible, their standing noticed only by the official happening to be in the State Department when they call. And their labor is. as a rule, to beg their countries out of trouble with the offended United States or to beseech the. American republic's aid in escaping the wrath of some other big power. Worse than that, there is usually trouble at home. In the treasury or on the throne Itself, acute and keeping the ministers’ nerves on edge. When it eomes to any danger of German invasion of England, it is not worth considering. It is true that Great Britain hps in her history been overrun and conquered by the Romans, the Norsemen and the Normans, but under very different circumstances from any that now exist. Such an attempt on the part of Germany could only be made after having waged ’ a successful war on the sea. disabling the British navy, and then it would be impossible to land a force large enough to be a peril before it would be confronted by many times its number and driven iffto the sea. Englishmen can be trusted to defend their homes if need be. but it is almost impossible to Imag-). ine conditions under which any invasion of Great Britain would be at-' tempted. There is everywhere a profound and growing desire among natlons for deep peace, and a realization that tjp best use to put another country to is not to fight it, but to trade with it President Gomez seems to appreciate fully the spirit of his people which is the source of greatest danger' to the national life of Cuba. He furthermore has the courage to speak plainly regarding it in his message to the Cuban congress, hoping that the new republic, through self-discipline, may curb the characteristics for which southern races tn general are unfortunately noted. The Cuban president links the tendency to form and mantain third parties with the individual tendency toward rebellion against everything wearing the badge of discipline or authority. Perhaps Hie manifestation of

the rebellious tendency is not due K much to antagonism to all authority as it is to authority dlrectetUiv another person The great trouble wjth many of the Cuban people, to be hewers of wood and drawere of water, is that they want to be generals ior governors. There are others of more or less capacity who are natural marplots. It may seem unbecoming to hurl stones at leaders who place personal ambition above stability of government as long as we have some glass houses in our own country, but it is a fact that the personal equation finds its most grotesque manifestations among our southern neighbors. Thus far ths government of the new Cuba has dealt admirably with the evil that is recog nized to be the great national peril. The summary treatment of an incipient Insurrection.- which tended to inflaraf the spirit of which Gomez complains, set a good example. If there is firn: dealing with the chronic, malcontents and at the same time the masses are educated up to sound ideas of the object of government, the Cuban ship ot state, it is to be hoped, will find its course lying in calm waters. The conn try’s finances are in good condition, and all that appears necessary to the republic’s success is a willingness tc work for the prosperity of all and the cultivation of the true national spirit .All true labor is sacred, and “blessed Is he who has found his work.” says Carlyle. An American poet extols labor as life, worship, glory, honor and other beautiful things. While the poets and moralists and makers of saws and maxims unite in the praise of industry, there are but few who have any good words for Idleness. One of the first rhymes taught children is that “Satan tjnds some mischief still for idle hands rto do.” The example of the ant and the busy bee are held up as worthy ol human imitation, and we are gravely Informed that “though slaves may in, dulge in sloth, it is a most royal thing to labor.” The importance of being up and doing betimes is Illustrated by such familiar proverbs as “the early bird catches the worm.” But all the while the fact is ignored that if the worm were not up and stirring when ■he might just as well be in bed, he wouldn’t be caught by the early bird ; and we khow perfectly well that slaves never can or do Indulge in sloth, and are well aware that the ant and busy bee only work the first half of their lives. In order to lay up a store which wljl enable them to pass the other half in eating and sleeping. While agreeing with Carlyle that to have found one’s true work is blessedness, we need not believe it is a blessed thing to work all the time,' While most people are overwhelmed with work, the few who are overwhelmed with leisure do not begin to derive the enjoyment from It that the busy man obtains from bls little snatches of idleness. To stand idle in the market place and cry, “No man has hired me,” Is not pleasant tc the starving man. For him the “dolce fqr niente” has no delights, but when it comes as the reward of work well done, It Is sweet. Dr. Johnson, himself a great worker,'said that “all hope some day to be idle.” They are willing to toil up the hill of life tn their early years In the hope of descending its downward slope In idleness. Wouldn’t it be better to throw little episodes of idleness Into one’s early life, and not work so hard as to bring decrepitude into one’s later years? Between labor <nnd idleness there should be a golden mean. WOMEN ACCOUNTANTS. There Are Said to Be Twenty-Five in the United States. ' One line of work which women have recently taken up is accounting. There are said to be about twenty-five women engaged In this work in the United States. They have come into this field within the last two or three years and have met with unexpected success. I It is hard work, but it is far more remunerative, according to a writer in the Bookkeeper, than any other of the professions in which vs omen have heretofore engaged. A director in a leading commercial school of New York says: “I know of two women tn well known concerns who have mapped ou( and put into operation a complete new system of financial methods for theii employers and/who have ever been intrusted with big funds for profitable investment and whose advice has been followed In many other important busi-i nese undertakings. The number of such women who have proved their ability and liking for this responsible and remunerative work is steadily growing. It offers a splendid field for the woman who is not loath to accept responsibilities and who has a liking for the hard work it entails and who is ambitious.” Nearly all the commercial schools show a steady increase in the number of woman students over previous years. One of them reports that four-fifths of Its students in the course this year, which includes stenography, commercial law, banking, English aqd kindred subjects, are women. In the bookkeeping classes there are about as many women as men. A very large proportion of these women, who appear to have marked out a business career, are college bred and many others are high school graduates. One reason given for this tendency is the overcrowding of such professions as teaching. A woman never knows what a mai thinks of her, although she thinks shi does, ? The mean things done by those we dislike sever surprise u&

WHEN BIRDS GO NORTH AGAIN. Oh, every year hath its winter, And every year hath its rain— But a day is always coming When the birds go north again. When new leaves sik-etl in the forest, And grass grows green on the plain, And the. aider’s- turn ■ And the birds go, north again. Oh, ev.ery heart has its sorrow; And every heart Hath its pain— But a day is always coming When the birds go north again. ’Tis the sweetest to remember ’ If courage be on the wane. When the cold, dap days are over— Why. the birds go north again. —Elia Higginson. . 00000000000,00000000000 I J He Bl! i 000000000004000*00000000 Chiffon Carroll looked carefully about the room—luting had been for--gotten. Closing he satchel, she turned to leave, when Hie sound of musI fled sobbing camie :o her ears. She I listened intently, then impulsively crossed the wide hll, and rapped at the opposite door. In answer to a low “come,” she ienltred. and was surprised to find, oh 1 couch before the dozing fire, the) lomau who. six i months before, hadbecome her father's wife. From th first Chiffon had been determined) no to like her. but , the older woman’s gentleness and sweetness of disposlon were beginning to make an imfession. “I am hotdressii; for dinner tonight, Jane. I shall not go down; I am too sad and my bad aches,” came in muffled tones! fro; pillows. Deft fingers loosted the heavy masses of hair, and penetrating massage follower The surprised sufferer raised her ®s, catching her breath with a littlejialf-sob as she saw, it was not her aid, but the one whose love she despafed of gaining. “This is very swa of you, Rose, dear,” she said ) gent 1 “Indeed. I want tijnake you more comfortable,” answed a soothing ■ voice. “I cannlot he? that any one should suffer. Why' le you so miserable. Mrs. Carrpl? lyour son worse to : day?” I i

“Mrs. Carroll) I Isihat the only name you can ) find | your heart to call me, dear?.! I waler if you will ever call me mother?! have always longed for a dalughteryour own dear mother could be no m? tender than I would be if yoi(i woulpnly open your lieart to me.” ■ “I really care for?ou,” answered the girl, kissing her irmly. “Wjm’t you call me Chiffon? hose I love call me by that name." | “Such a dainty pedame I I have not dared to use it-Do you think. Chiffon, that your mer’s heart is not big enough for usoth? I would not take one ) iota obis love from you.” The proud Head wagently lowered as Chiffon’s arm creptbouud the other’s neck, and as theitears mingled the barrier was gone jever. t “Mother, why do yoiot bring your boy here? Surely ye home should be his. Let him have]} rooms, they are the sunniest. I ill be gone a month; by that time may be able to move to the suite are. How long is it since he was injid?” “He has been in tl hospital nine months, his horse ft; on him and his spine was hurt.the surgeons promise a complete cujbut the waiting is so tedious, andb suspense almost unbearable.” “Will you accept nfeffer?” asked Chiffon. “My visit wfee happier if you do.” “I gladly accept, dec Philip never would have dome with your invitation.” ’ “What a sensitive I!” exclaimed Chiffon. “Give him mfarmest sympathy and tell him eel that we shall be warm friends.] will help to amuse him when I conmck; does he care to be read to?” ; “He is very fond olimpany,” answered his raother, “bib very sensitive about tlhe crutchae is obliged to use.”

Chiffon had anticipatno end of a good time. Although 1 was entertained continually herlart yearned for home, and at the of three weeks she surprised th' >y returning unannounced. “How is our invalid' as per first question, alter affectic dy greeting her father and mother. “Improvirg every damiswered her mother; “you must sea a after dinner. He is anxious tol .nk you, although' he said it won 1 e rank presumption to accept tl se of your rooms, an 1 occupies iose above yours.” | “What nn unusua] thoughtful boy!” laughed Chiffon. Immediately after .?r she ran over the sfairs to the lid’s apartments, armed with of Henry’s newest bocks for boys, ch she had brought home from tl ty; also a bound volume of St olas Magazines. As she enterei a room, in answer to a deep “con a scarlet flame rushed from the d chin, losing itself n the fluffy >adour. For the first time i she could remember, Chiffon C was not equal to tLe emergency, stood staring Into the eyes of sung man of twenty-six years, wt >se to meet her. She had expected Ind herself

SIGNAL CODE QF TRAMPDOM. ®j f N 0 USE YOU CAN 3 ( J FOOD i X l I r'n \ / WORK HERE j Pick yarn; rm HANDED \ WOMEN,,, the 11 II OVERTO HOUSE. POLICE | CiET Out of!this"""( AX Town as QA|ICK I / V AS POSSIBLE ~ ... JM* ' V ■ BADERS of stories about) the tramp and his ways are. perhaps, inclined to take what tl|ey read with a grain of salt, but this much may be said witli certainty: Trumps do have a. system ——My signs and symbols, which they communicate with their brethren on the road.’pVhen the New York police recently opened the new municipal lodging house they discovered in the process of moving from the old building a piece of paper, apparently left behind by some forgidten lodger. Some peculiar characters, on the paper attracted notice, and an Examination of the accompanying handwriting, which, by the way, bore evidence that the writer Lmd at one time been a man of culture and training, showed that the hieroglyphics were none other than a code of signals of triunpdom. That these signs are used by the tramp fraternity is well knowmfoThojpe who dwell in_ country districts. They have often noticed strange marks, mfeanmgtes^To them, gracing their gatepost or barnyard fence. It is the language of the tramp, to whom each sign has its own meaning. The accompanying cut is a reproduction of the signs and interpretations found in the Ne|r York municipal lodging house. It is-not a difficult task, in examining some of these hieroglyphics, to see why they should have been selected. At any rate, one may hazard a guess on the subject. There is the symba’l used to Inform the. fraternity of an arrest, it represents prison ears,, no jdoubt. Notice the warning that a dog is in the garden; by a stretch of | he imagination the rectangular figure might be taken to denote a garden, |md the queer little figure inside,' with the four vertical lines, might very w) ell be the dog itself. “Work here” is also open to amateur analysis. The gross probably refers to the saw horse, commonly used in chopping wood, the other symbol might conceivably Indicate the saw, although it would ;be hard to; convince many that a saw built bn such lines would prove an implement, even in the hands of the most skillful hobo. 1 . 1 ■ “Get out of the town as quick as ijossible” is self-explanatory. Seemingly.' when tramps set eyes on that token, itheirs' is not to reason whv. but merely to leave the arrows far behind. The) symbols for, “no use” and "you can get food” were probably chosen for their; simplicity; if any other significance attaches to them, it Is' unknown except to the favored few. But tjhe amateur investigator reaches the end of his when he ‘tackles the symbols which tell the reader to pick a yarn, .because there are “women in the house." Apparently, “women in the house" is good news to the tramp with a tearful hard luck story to relate; But whijtever bearing these particular symbols may have on the matter is not to be! answered.—Montreal Star.

in the presence of a fourteen-year-old boy- ' ; “Where are your crutches?” shh gasped. “Thrown away forever, I hope. Aren’t you going to congratulate in’? and tell me that you are glad?” j, “But you are so tail and so oidj’ she faltered. ; “A veritable Methusaleh.’ A modern .Goliath!’’ he responded smilinglf. “I thought to find a little boy.” she hesitated. J “And are you very sorry?” ! “Not exactly sorry, but awfully ei>j-bari-assed and ashamed.” she laughed; “and I had no reason in the world my supposition excepting that yo|r' mother is so young and beautiful.” )■ “The matter is all of that,” he aje-

I ’I ■ I V i I !i “why speculate any longer?” !

quiesced tenderly. “I believe she married at seventeen.” ]! “I have brought you some solid mental food,” said Chiffon, demurely, handing him the books. “If we bfad been properly introduced I might goffer to assist you to assimilate the/ju.” Philip Calvert threw back his.handsome head, and laughed for the first time since his accident. “How unchivalrous! BUt perhaps you prefer muggins, or old maids,” iffie continued, taking a pack of cards ftom the table and looking at him with dancing eyes. “Why. you are standing! and yesterday was the first time that you had stood alone.” .... J “By Jove, I had forgotten!” he ,exclaimed. 1 . “Lie down Immediately, and I will skim through the paper if you Kke. What shall it bo- the stock market first?” “If you •please,” he answered, not caring a rap what she read, as lonj, as he could watch the soft flush on her cheeks come and go, and meet her eyes occasionally. i Mrs. Carroll was much to find them thus cosily ensconced. She had wondered at Chiffon’s disappearance and was feeling a trifle hurt i hat she had not asked to visit the invrlid.

Philip maintained a prudent silence while Chiffon, with evident embarrassment, explained the situation. “Is it all right that I should read a little, to Mr. Calvert?” “It is evidently all right." answered Mrs. Carroll, looking understaqdingly into Philip’s animated face. “The stock market has acted as a tonic.” Chiffon was an excellent horsewom) an, and it was not long before she was allowed to drive Philip out. The young man chafed under his affliction. Naturally an athlete, he longed for activity. One day still another famous surgeon was summoned in consultation. That evening when Chiffon made het daily visit she found a morose listener. fe At last Philip took the paper gen-' tly Yrom her, saying: “It’s no use. Chiffon. I have not heard one word, I can’t listen tonight. I want to talk to you. I can walk very well now, and the gruff old fellow who was here to-day promises that German baths will affect a perment and speedy cure. Still. I won’t

go abroad alone.” fi’Such a thing would be very indis creet at least. I fancy your mothei would go with you,” she answered. "I should not think of allowing her to leave her new-found happiness}’ Then, wistfully, “I thought, perhaps that some one whose sweetness anil adorable womanly inconsistencies have warmed my heart into new life some one whose previous encouragement in hours of despair has been un speakable consolation, comforting me and giving hope when I had grown morbid and felt myself a being apart —I thought Chiffon, thllt this deal girl might marry me and take in the continent at a wedding journey.’ Then, continuing with nervous rapid

ity: ,“I knew if I saw her, day aftei day, she would become the life of mj life. But how was a poor cripple t< run away from his fate even if h< was so inclined? Sometimes sht whom I love is the embodiment of ten derness; at other times. I feel tha> her heart is adamant.” His forlornness appealed to her She reddened at memories of her owr duplicity, little elusive acts that wem to hide her love for him from liis watchful eyes. Then, after a silence she. said demurely : “Why speculate any longer. Philip Why not ask her? I assure you tljaf she loves you, dear.”—Grit. Natural. “She’s a very natural girl.” “So?” “Yes, whenever she’s invited out t< dine she never thinks of taking th< smallest piece of meat in sight, but helps herself to as much as she would eat if she were at home.”—Detroit Free Press. I>uck. “Have you had good luck with youi automobile?” “Wonderful luck. Succeeded in sell ing it last week.”—Washington Star.

REVIEW OF INDIANA

Harry Teal, in the north part of Shelbyville, found a rabbit’s “nest” in his back yard a few days ago. The liest was near the rear porch, and contained seven small bunnies. Mr. Teal took them in captivity. ’ / A new record in the matrimonial line was established in the county clerk’s office at Anderson, when Mrs. Goldie Carpenter was granted a license to marry her fourth husband, though she is not yet 26 years of age. Three stables in Evansville belonging to Mrs. Philip Braun were destroyed by fire last week with a loss of SIOOO. While the firemen were fighting the flames she begged them to let everything else burn and save her pet chickens in the burning stable.

Mayor Hinchman has served notice that all dealers wishing to sell cigarettes idn Greenfield must pay a SIOOO license. The council passed an ordinance in 1896 requiring this fee and since the last legislature passed a bill allowing the sale of cigarettes the mayor says the ordinance will be enforced. An attempt may be made to have the ordinance repealed, since the new state law favors their sale under restrictions. Believing that the recent legislature : passed a rat bounty bill, a young I farmer drove to the home of Lawrence Montgomery, township trustee at Owensville, and handed over a box containing sixty-nine rat tails, for which he asked a bounty of 1 cent each. Trustee Montgomery explained that a bill of that character was introduced in the legislature by Representative Stevens of Gibson county, but that it was defeated. The farmer went away much disappointed. '■ The new city directory of Evansville, will be issued in a few days by Mrs. O. S. Moore. The founder of the directory, H. Thornton Bennett, who published it for more than forty years, died a few days ago. and at his/death his daughter, Mrs. Moore,' decided to take up the work. Mrs. Mo6re estimates that Evansville’s population is now between* 80,000 and $5/000. She says the directory this year has thir-ty-five more pages of names than last year, and this indicates an increase in the population of the city of about 6700 people.

Joseph Houston, sixty-three years old, son of James Housten, former minister to China, former district attorney of New York and congressman from that state, and who was the first manager of the Gary hotel when it opened in 1907, is under arrest in Chicago, charged with forging a postal money order. Housten. after a varied career, is now penniless and says poverty was the motive for his act. He has made a full confession of his guilt. While in Gary the tall, distinguishedlooking man made many friends and proved one of the best hotel managers the city has had.

A government patent to eighty acres of the best land in Sullivan county was filed! at Sullivan recently by Geo. .Alkire, of Turman township. The old instrument was- issued in 1841 and the signature of John Tyler; president of the United States, stands out boldly on the yellow parchment. The seal of the government, impressed on a piece of cloth stuck on the parchment, is still there. The land has been in possession of Mr. Alkire since the issue of the government grant. Mr. Alkire paid $1.25 an acre for the land which is now worth almost a hundred times that amount:

Dr. William M. DeHart, of Logansport, last week found a purse in the gutter in front of his office in Market street, which contained money and notes to the value of $2,000. The strange part of the affair is that he has been unable to find the owner. He has advertised jn all of the papers, but no one has claimed the Logansport money. The name of James C.° Davis is printed inside the purse and papers show that the owner had been doing business in Crawfordsville arid Fort Wayner- DeHart’s supposition is that the purse was dropped by some automobilist who was speeding through the city.

Mi‘s. Polly Weed Baker, aged 67, residing at Newburg, and Simon Shippert, aged 60, of Burlington, lowa, were married at Evapsville a few days ago. This is the tenth marriage of the bride and her ninth husband. She was married the second time to one of her husbands after obtaining a divorce from him. Mrs. Shippert says she is happy in her last marriage, and that she thinks more of her . present husband than any of the others. Several of her husbands were divorced from her and two of them died, one having committed suicide. Mrs. Shippert met her present husband two years ago and shortly afterward obtained a divorce from a man named Baker. She is a native of this state, and says if her new husband should die, she would probably marry again in case she could get any one to have her. ; The first good pearl find of the Reason by the mussel diggers in the vicin- < ity of Princeton is reported from hit. ; Carmel, where Milton laun purchased i for S3OO a fine 27-grain pearl. It was 1 found in the Wabash river. * According to official reports received from Rome City there will be no im- < provement on the island this y«qr in 1 the way of new buildings, -llowever < the company will improve the'grounds « and convert the place into a first class t park. , 1

In a letter to a Fort Wayne newspaper Willis Moore, of the United. States Weather Bureau, gives assurance that a weather observatory will soon be established in that city. Robert Johnson, of Williamsport, reported to Chief of Police Brennecke of Evansville that while on the train near Danville, m., he was robbed of a draft for S7BO and S7O in cash. Brennecke. will take the matter up. with railroad detectives.

Miss Theta Penning, aged 22, night - operator for the Bell Telephone com- > pany at Columbus, drbwned heVself : in Flat Rock river. She is said to i have grown despondent because her ■ mother objected to her keeping com pany with James Brown.. f|, 1 J. V. Gillum, a farmer near Oakland City, recently found a hen’s nest con- , 1 taining. sixty-eight fresh eggs.- Therl nest was in the bain loft and so deep-vk ly buried in the hay that Mr. was forced to remove a part of the side of the" barn to obtain the eggs. William Liggan, of Nashville has captured one of the largest ehicken hawks ever seen in Southern Indiana. The bird, measured four feet from tip to tip and resembled a young eagle more than a hawk. It was caught ip a trap after it had been carrying away .chickens for some time, Fishing along the Schuylkill, Petar Miller, of Riverside, hooked a monster Carp. Hauling in the line, he caught .it on the limb of a tree. Then he crawled out on the lipib to loosen the line, the limb broke and he fell sixteen feet into the water, but was rescued, with his carp, by friends in a boat. , i H. F. Horst, a coal miner, of Evansville, had no faith in the solidity of banks, and placed S7O in cash and s4so‘in notes in a tin box and buried it in a hole in the cellar under his hojise. He went to hunt for his treasure and found that thieves had stolen it., Albert Hurst, his nephew, .was arrested and idea confession accord ing to the -police. The large frame barn owned by Edward Maloney, one-half mile’ jiortb of Churubusco, was destroyed by fire It was caused by lightifiug durin a heavy electrical and rainstorm. The live stock in the barn ’was all saved. A large amount'of hay, feed and iyfc pl.'merits were destruved. Th.' loss the building and contents will be about $2500 with SISOO insurance There was an unusual reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Eberhardt Klefoth, in Richmond, it making the sev- _ entieth birthday anniversary of Klefoth, the golden of her ( MH marriage and the silver anniversary of ’ ■ the marriage' of her son, Christopher fl Klefoth, of Cincinnati. The families F of both, together with guests from « various towns, joined in the day’s, festivities.

Automobiles driven by Luther Terrill, son of Dr. L. B. Terrill, and Richard Wright, son of T. W. Wright, were in headon collision two miles north of Anderson. Terrill and one of the four young men.in his machine were hurled out of the automobile. Terrill received a bad cut on his forehead. M. C. Norton, one of Wright’s three*’companions, had a leg hurt. Both parties were pleasure riding, Manfred Ingram was buried by a sand cave-in, while working in a. well twenty-five, feet deep at Terre Other men who were trying to release Ingram, before a second caye-in completely covered him, narrowly escaped his fate. It is probable that the coroner will investigate, as the men were digging a well through sand with no curbing • until twenty-five feet down. Ingram was twenty-four years old, and is survived by a widow and one child. r John W. Adams, of, Farmersburg, has a patent on a gasolene can in the way of a phonographic device. Whenever the cap, is turned to unscrew, the phonograph says: “Gasolene—Explosive.” By this means one can tell < when he has the gasolene can, even j the dark. Mr. Adams says he been offered $50.000 for the :■! but declines to sell. With tills Jfl ‘ peri'oet safety is obtained, is t/s)/; n-iot make tbc mistake of olene in an oil lamp without

Abraham Doyle, eighty-two years of Anderson, gave his friends a stlflra||| prise by buying an automobile also demonstrating that it was no for him to guide it in crowded streets. He was on the street recently and is probably the oldest* man in Indiana who owns and drives an automobile. Mr. Doyle is the head of the several Doyle families* ri Madison county. He retired from his large farm only a few years ago. Questioned if he were not a bit nervous while guiding his automobile, he replied: “I’ve broke a hundred colts in my time, and I guOsaflfl this machine is easier to handle ttiajH a colt. .Lloyd Cooney, son of Theo. CooneM|||i of Kosciusko county, is eight years and.a champion speller. Preparing a contest, he spelled for four h 'Lfl||||| without missing more than one nut <■-' "; 1,500 words. Opal, the little daughte of Chtdfl Comey, a well known M .■■ near land City, was brttW by the dog. a large Xewfoundlam and ably fatally injured The animal I eating when the child jj.it;. d head, c;.using it.to becotm enragtfl