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Syracuse Journal SYRACUSE, - - IND. Kidnaper gets off with a lift jentence. He ought to be exceedingly frratefuk . Every time the publln succeeds in forgetting May Yobe she up and gets tnarrled again. Probably some day an inventive genius will patent a scheme for putting cow catchers on tornadoes. Our Idea of a true philosopher is a Ean who Is able to explain away his ults to the satisfaction of himself. When a woman says that all men are brutes, you can make up your mind that she isn’t having her own way frith one of ’em. If the young Turks have any respect for old age, they will not insist that the sultan jump through a. hoop for the amusement of the people. One of the Standard Oil lawyers grgues that the concern Is not a trust. Ke must think there Is a prejudice against trusts In this country. Being- only a human, the weather man cannot always be expected to guess it right, although he has been known to hit it twice In succession. Elinor Glyn thinks the American are too good. The American men Should say something complimentary to Elinor Glyn in return, if they can. King Edward recently appeared. In public, with his trousers creased at the Sides. Emperor William can attract attention without going as far as that. Historian Ferrero, who found life comparatively simple in this country, Visited us when there was neither a moving campaign nor a baseball season on. One of tfie members of the new Turkish cabinet is Madmoud Ekrem Bey, minister of pious foundations. They must be determined to have this ministry established on rock bottom. A St. Lonls wife has left her husband and applied for a divorce because Che couldn't eat the heavy, sour biscuits he baked. It serves him rlgfft. No man who Is a poor cook has any business marrying. The fool killer is still on the job. A Winchester, Va., man drank a quart Os whisky within fifteen minutes and died a few hours later. The f. k. may overlook a few occasionally, but the number . Is comparatively small. Owing to the fact that a Dreadnought might be constructed with the taoney It would cost to Communicate with Mars, It Is not likely that England will inaugurate any movement for the purpose of getting on speaking terms with our stellar neighbors. .... • ■ . Recent improvements In the mechanism for aiming big guns make It possible for an officer in an observation tower to have Complete control of the, battery of a warship. The disappearance of the man behind the gun will result in a hardship for the poets when the next big war comes on. For the first time since the British began to rule India a native has been appointed as one of the council of Six members who, with the viceroy, form the supreme government of the country. This natlve-is a noted Hindu lawyer. The Hindus are naturally pleased, but the Mohammedans demand that they be recognized in a similar fray. Every farmer must decide for hlmBelf whether he will specialize or raise a variety of things. One successful specialist within reach of the markets New York City raises nothing but celery. To enlarge his sales, he has prepared a little book containing recipes for about thirty different ways of using celery, and he gives it away to his customers. It is this sort of combination of specialization and advertising that brings success In any business. Want of occupation will ruin the most promising of young men. When a youth, sits down In idleness, with the idea/that the world owes him a living, /ft’s high time that his body was committed to the dust from, whence it came. As for his soul, noth- ' Ing, will ever be known of it. A record of the young men who have been unfortunate enough to have a fortune left them shows that eight in ten never amount to a single atom in the world, and seven out of the eight die bankrupts, financially, morally and Otherwise. When a father brings up tils son in Idleness, never teaching him the first principle of economy or the value of a dollar, he commits a terrible blunder. The father guilty of such a crime generally has to saw wood for a living in his old age. Nine out of ten of the boys with fathers who bring them up In idle luxury, ere they reach the meridian of life are total wrecks. Money bags may, like bladders, keep you above the waters of distress for a time, but puncture them, let their contents escape, and „ you sink. Many plans have been suggested for the remedy so the evil of unearned fortunes. But socialism,'' Inheritance taxes, or

government regulation of any description will avail but little until fathers, over provident, become wiser In their generation and see to it that their heirs are worthy of receiving the fortunes for which they themselves have tolled. . _____i Although In many. States deaf mutes and the blind receive special training t« enable them to livelihood, others of the handicapped, such as cripples, are not so provided for, and must frequently beg or go to the workhouse dr starve. But a hundred cripples were cared for last year by the Employment Bureau for the Handicapped, a branch of the New York Charity Organization Society, which, although not organized until April, received about thirteen hundred applications for employment, and found places for more than half the applicants. Some corporations and business houses refuse to employ the physically defective, on the ground that they are peculiarly liable to accident and injury; and a careful canvass is necessary to find positions which they can fill. But there,are such places. There is no reason why a one-armed man should not be a faithful watchman, or why a legless man should not be valuable at a factory bench, or 1 why a lame woman should not earn her board and a little more by doing light housework. Although as a rule they receive small wages, it Is surely better for them and for the community that they should be usefully employed and selfsupporting. In Chicago, as well as In New York, and it may be. In other cities, the special problem which these unfortunates present has been taken up for solution, and already with excellent results. But philanthropists now raise the point, and with good reaeon/lhat there ls.no community, large or small, in which a helpful mission to the handicapped cannot be carried forward. A church guild could undertake it; a charitable association which is organized on reasonably broad lines might branch in this direction; even an individual could accomplish much. The need is so imperative that, once it is clearly stated, money and service will be forthcoming, and ■ many an employer will be glad to find places for the handicapped men, who ask nothing but honest work. w FArpty Food# for the Gouty. Dr. Haig, of London, who has attained eminence in the treatment of certain diseases, came to his theory of the uric-acid causation of many cases of so-called neuralgia, rheumatic pains, gouty twinges and headache as a result of observation on himself. During his student and early professional days he suffered horribly from periodical headaches, losing an average of one or two days out of every week in consequence thereof. He experimented with all sorts of drugs and modes of living, and finally discovered that the less meat he ate the less headache he had, and he found further that the occurrence of headache was marked by a simultaneous excretion of a large amount of uric acid. From these two facts he concluded that the headache was due to the presence of uric, acid in the blood, and that the presence of uric acid in the blood was due to ; meat-eating. From this beginning was developed a complete system of dietetics, having for its object the exclusion of all uric-acid-containing foods, since, if uric acid is really the cause of these troubles, no permanent relief can be expected so long as fresh quantities of the offending poison are thrown into the system every day.. • Man is a fruit-and-vege-table-eating animal, he believes, and must return to his original diet as the only means to his sanitary salvation. In other words, Dr. Haig is a vegetarian, but a peculiar kind of one, for he, does not allow all vegetable foods by any means. Beans, peas and other pulses are forbidden, sii|.ce their protein Is readily convertible Into uric acid, and especially does he eschew tea and coffee, their alkaloidal ingredient, caffeine, being practically the same chemically as uric acid. The diet of one who would avoid becoming a subject of the uric-acid diathesis, or who would emancipate him- . self from the pains of the already existing condition, must therefore consist almost entirely of breadstuff and cereals, puddings, fresh and dried fruits, nuts and the milk products. Water Is the only beverage allowed. It is a meager diet, and must be more or less monotonous; and moreover, it is not always efficacious In curing periodical headaches and other supposed manifestations of- the uric-acid diathesis. An occasional course of it, and a habitual more or less dose approach to it are, no doubt, of great benefit to the general health, but one must not forget that many of the ills credited to uric acid may be a direct result of eyestrain, to be relieved more by glasses than by diet. We suppose "Peach” is the accepted nickname for girls these days because their mothers bring them up In fear and trembling that a frost may get them.

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Illinois will erect a monument at Andersonville. This Andersonville monument will be no such memorial to her soldier dead as she has erected at Get: tysburg and those she triumphantly proclaimed her pride in the heroism of het sons who met the matchless patriot's

death —on the firing line, with face to the foe. In this she will tearfully show her pity and love and remembrance of her even more heroic soldier dead who suffered the agony of martyrdom. . It la an odd fact, writes John D. Snerman in the Chicago Inter Ocean, that the most infamous spot on American soil should have been named for an American soldier whose name Is Immortal —Major Anderson of Fort Sumter. The site for the prison was selected by Captain W. S. Winder, a son of the man who became commander, and construction was begun Nov. 27, 1863. The orignla} Inclosure was a quadrangle of eighteen acres, heavily covered with pine. Captain Wilder cut off every tree, in order, as he said, that the Yankee should have no shade. The ground rose from the middle to round- < ed and rather steep hills at the north and south ends. Through the low ground flowed a stream. The inner stockade was made of pine logs, hewed square and set close.

and was twenty feet high. The, two outer stockades were similar.. About twenty feet from the inner stockade ran the dead line, marked by slight posts and a strip of board. Upon the Inner stockade were fifty-two sentry boxes. "Forts” mounted with artillery commanded all parts of the inclosure. The prison was ready for use at the end of February, 1864. BrigadierjXjreneral John Winder took command of the post, and Captain Henry Wirz became superintendent of the prison. Andersonville was a prison for enlisted men only. Winder and Wirz are execrated names in American history. All the burden, of testimony is . that Winder was a coward. He boasted that he had never set foot within the stockade. The prisoners always believed that It was the vengeance of God that struck him down as he was going to a dinner party in his quarters. At any rate, his sudden-death presumably saved him from sharing Wirz’s fate upon the scaffold. The prisoners regarded Wirz as literally a demon, and after he surrendered to General Wilson he would have beenjkorn to . pieces had the federal authorities not shaved off his beard and disguised him on his way to Washington for trial. There were no "quarters” of any kind. The Inside of the sTockade was sand and swamp and tree stumps—and nothing else. After being searched by the guards—and usually stripped of everything useful or valuable — the prisoners were turned loose to shift for themselves. The first to-arrive found enough limbs and fragments of trees to ■ erect rude shelters, which they did with pocketknives and their hands. Later comers had to burrow in the sand. Later still, new arrivals lay on the edges of the marsh, with no shelter at aIL At one time, In the spring of 1864, there was rain for twenty-one successive days. In winter the temperature dropped below freezing. In the summer the sun was fierce enough to

Three Under One Blanket. Two ex-governors and a state senator were standing on the platform of the West St. Paul station at Madison. The senator said: “I distinctly recollect this part of Madison. I had been In the army, a member of the Twentyfifth Wisconsin, under Jerry Rusk., and was discharged In consequence of poor health. v I got better rapidly upon receiving home care, and when the call for hundred-day troops came, In 1864, I enlisted again. I was to be the adjutant of the Forty-first Regiment, but there was a misunderstanding and t entered and left it a private. The day we started for Madison I was married. My bride accompanied me to the city. As the train, that was to bear me away was to leave early In the morning, we took quarters* in the station hotel. This Is one reason why I remember this part of town, gentlemen. “Now, I will give you another reason: Three of us, who had been oh ya together in Grant County, enlisted In the same company, were put on detached duty and did not come back to the state with the regiment. When they got ready to let us'come 1 we were told that we would be paid off at Madison. There was just $6 In the party, and we had to travel from Memphlsxp Lancaster. We had transportation. “A few hours before reaching Chicago Adolph said: ‘Boys, my pocket Is picked; the last penny of our fund is gone and so is our transportation/ We reached Chicago in the evening, penniless, with no transportation to Madison. I happened to think of the Christian commission. We went there and they kindly gave us supper and a place to sleep and breakfast the next morning; then we called on the provost marshal, stated our case and asked If he could furnish us transportation to Madison. He curtly Informed us he could not, and went on with his work. The outlook was gloomy for We three young fellows, but I had been In the army long enough to have other resources, and I said, ‘We will go down to the Northwestern station and have with the agent.’ That Is what we did. The agent looked us over carefully. He seemed to have satisfied himself that we were all tight, for he kindly said, *1 am sorry, but it is not in my power to give you tickets. Walt around here a minute

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and I will go and see the conductor; maybe he can do something for you.’ When he came back he did not tell us what the conductor would do, but remarked that, ‘lf I were In your places, boys, I would get on that train/ We took the hint and got on. When two or three miles out the Conductor came along and said to one of us, ‘Are you the soldiers who were talking with the agent in Chicago?’ ‘Yes, sir.' ‘That is all right,’ and he passed .on; so did we. We reached Madison after the bating houses had closed, hungry, tired' knowing no one in the place. There Was one blanket for the three of us. No dinner, no supper. We crossed the track, and in an old shed they had there then lay down - to sleep until morning under one blanket. The next morning we met a Grant man who knew us and was glad to supply us with what money we needed. Later .we drew our pay and went to. our ’homes. “Two of us re-entered the service, I went out as a captain that time. The other one was so well pleased with the South that he settled at Chattanooga not long after the war, and has lived there ever since. He is one of the foremost business men of the city. They tell me he is a millionaire; I know he is very rich. In 1894 he carried Tennessee for governor by a safe majority, but they counted him out for some reason or other. Os course you know I mean 11. Clay Evans. “Who was my other chum under that • blanket? He is pretty well known in Chicago. He was one of the managers of the world’s exposition, and about as capable a man in his particular line, a looker after the finances, as therp was in that body of able, public-spirited Chicago citizens— Adolph Nathan. Mr. Nathan has been a millionaire some time and shows' no signs of letting up in thematter of accumulating wealth. “I remember that in 1860 he was a poor boy, picking lead in the mines at low wages. He was a young -fellow, of tireless industry, knew how to make money; knew how to save it. Some years ago, when he left Lancaster, he bad SBO,OOO to his credit. I remember that when he took his money and started for the great city, old heads shook wisely and men said, ‘lt will not take him long to run up against a stdne wall and lose his hard-earned dollars/ But Adolph Nathan was not that kind of a business man. He made that SBO,OOO spring right into the business of accumulating.” Now let me say something about the third. His name is Baxter—-Captain Charles H. Baxter. For many years he was a leading merchant, now retired on a competency; in 1894 he was prominently talked of in connection with the governorship. What a deal of aenui»* Pleasure an

or meat The trieal was coarsely ground and contained the husks and impurities of many kinds. The bread was poorly baked, and the mush, hardly fit for a hog. The prisoners had no clothing except what they brought in. When it was gone they went naked. The guards stood with finger on the trigger and waited for the chance to shoot a prisoner who crossed the "dead line.” They took delight In shooting, and It was currently believed that every guard who succeeded in “getting a prisoner’,’ received a furlough. Anyhow, nearly every day they shot men reaching under the dead line at the stream In an attempt to get water that could be swallowed J In August, 1864, there were more than I 30,000 prisoners, the stream was too foul to I be used, and thousands were almost insane from the agony of thirst. Boston Corbett —the man who afterward shot John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Lincoln—called upon a number

of his comrades to. join him in prayer for water. This was the night of Aug. 5. While they were kneeling in their appeal to heaven a storm broke over the stockade, with heavy wind, thunder and lightning and a deluge of rain. In the midst of the storm a mighty shout of joy went up. At the northern end of the stockade the ground burst open and a clear, cool ap'd exhaUstless spring was revealed. The police immediately toofe charge of the spring and everyone was compelled to take his turn in filling his vessel. Every morning, soon after daybreak, a thousand men could be seen standing in line. The spring Is still there, with a handsome shelter over It, and the negroes of the vicinity preserve the story of its origin and ascribe to its waters wonderful qualities of grace and healing. When the prison was broken up the federal author ities did what could be done for the spot where the victims of the stockade had been buried. Individual graves were marked with tablets so far as possible, walks were laid out, fifty acres were inclosed, and appropriate inscriptions were placed at various points. The Illinois monument will cost $15,000, that sum having been appropriated for the purpose by’ the Fortyfifth General Assembly. • An effort will be made to secure the name and company of every victim,, and it is purposed to Inscribe these names on the monument which will probably be a lofty shaft of granite. * How our pity and love and admiration go out to these martyrs of Andersonville!' They were enlisted men, be it remembered, and not Officers. Yet they put down disorder, punished crime,, established police, and'displayed incredible ingenuity arid determination in their fight for life against terrible odds. And more: They steadfastly refused to enlist in the Confederate army and faced death 'in its most distressing forms rather than desert the flag. _

ex-soldier has in the knowledge that so many of those soldier boys in the long ago have, by honest efforts, integrity, manhood, courage, won their way in the world, as these three men have won!—J. A. Watrous in«Chlcago Times-Herald Near the Enemy’s Works. “Corporal David U. McCollough, ol Colonel Dan McCook’s Fifty-second Ohio,” said the Colonel, “carried the regimental colors In the assault of Kenesaw Mountain,. Georgia, June 27, 1864. - When he reached the abattis and. was within ten feet of the rebel works, and while in the act of trying to mount and climb over, the obstruction, he was shot through the left shoulder, and. Corporal H. H. Fleming of Company B, color guard, caught him as he stood still like a stat.ue, and, taking the colors, said, 'Dave, you qre-drft.’ The color guard pushed on through the’abattis an! planted the colors in the' loose earth at the foot of the rebel works, and that was the only Union flag planted upon the enemy’s works on any part of the rebel lines that day. In front of either Colonel Charles Harker’s or Colonel John G, Mitchell’s brigades.' A Captain Beasley of the First Tennessee rebel infantry got up on the works and, while attempting to- grasp the Fifty-second colors and pull them over inside the. rebel works, was killed. "‘When,’ said Corporal McCollough ‘Fleming said do me, "Dave, you are hit,” I was dazed and thought I had been struck with a solid cannon ball and that my left arm Was carried away at the shoulder. I looked to see if my arm was still there, but the sensation from the shock was such that' my eyesight did not respond to the action of my mind. I was still standing rigid, partly supported by the abattis, against which I was leaning: when I saw my flag on the works, jwhere I had endeavored to carry It, and realized that I was not with the flag, but did not fully know why. "‘At last my eyes began to respond, to the action of my mind, and with my right hand I felt to see If my left arm was still there. ’ sense of touch acted like magic, and my mind acted In concert with my eyes. I realized that my arm was there but was paralyzed from the wound through my shoulder. One of the boys laid me down for a moment and later assisted me down the mountain to the rear and to our hospital. My idea Is that the thought and -intent to plant the colors on the works remained active while the shocks from being shot paralyzed the’ power to act physically.— Chicago Inter Ocean. The whalebone Industry, once the support of hundreds of persons, now amounts to about 25,000 pounds a year, most of which Is obtained in the Pa* dfic.

blister the skin. The oyercrowding was simply 4 slow murder. The food furnished was slow starvation or else quick death from disease. At first there Was a pretense of furnishing a little meat, salt and vegetables. But soon the rations came to be corn," in three shapes—-corn bread, mush,

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Danbroock Powell,, 85 yedrs old, a pioneer of Madison county, died recently at the home of his daughter-in-law, Mrs. D. D. Powell, in North Anderson. After Marion, the 17-year-old son of William Struble, of Elkhart had sunk out of sight in St. Joseph river, the floating end of a fishing pole whose line had become wrapped around the body, Indicated the whereabouts and he was pulled up by George, Vanfleet and Thomas Wilkinson, who had come to his aid in a boat. ’ He was resuscitated with difficulty. Lloyd Anderson, six years old, was found dead, at the home of his foster parents, on a farm near Marion. His head was held fast by the weight of a .sliding door abd indications are that the boy struggled to free himself until he died of Two years ago he was kicked by a horse and recovered in spite of the fact that physicians said he could not live. War on Carlisle druggists for alleged Illegal sale of liquor will be commenced during th*e present term of the circuit- court. Ike Durrett, and Curtner B rot Kers-, of Carlisle, are under indictment. The Anti-Saloon League has made a request that local authorities look into the alleged illegal sale of cigarettes. Prosecutor Walter F. Wood will probably hold a court of Inquiry. ■ , , . William Hall, of Evansville, a negro, caught a gang of white boys drinking beer recently and asked them for some. When they refused he pulled his gun and shot into the crowd, wounding Eurie Peck in the leg and the latter’s brother, Annis Peck, in the shoulder. The boys seized the negro and would have lynched him had not officers rescued Hall. He was arrested. In filing an affidavit in the court of Justice Kinney, of Columbus, against James Spencer, charging petit larceny, William Jone's explained to the court that it did not pay in the long run to be too flush with money. He said he was displaying a handful of money, when Spencer grabbed $1 from him and ran. He was afterward unable to recover the dollar, he said, so decided to charge the man with stealing. ' / • It is believed Robert Greene, the “banker horsethief,” who escaped from the State prison recently, is in hiding near Valparaiso. A posse of citizens and officials is searching for him. He escaped from prison after being made a “trusty,” and stole a horse and buggy, later, near Westville, but th,e outfit was recovered by Sheriff Johnson, of Porter county. Greene escaped but the sheriff believes he wounded him. ■ ' A cleverly laid plan by Peter Sobesky, of Laporte, under arrest on a charge of robbery, to murder Sheriff Wm. Anstiss. and escape, was frustrated through a tip received by the sheriff from another prisoner, just after the officer had been called into the-jail by Sobesky. In Sobesky’s cell. carefully hidden, were found several Iron bars, a saw, two knives and a pair of shears. How he secured these articles is a mystery. s E. S. Ricketts, of Terre Haute,-while spading in his garden, dug up a tomato can containing / a roll- of currency. From appearances the bundle had been buried several years,'* and- i't ..was In such a condition that it could not be examined. Mr. Ricketts has turned it over to a bank for examination. The discovery Jias revived old stories com cerning a miser who lived there about twenty years- ago. It is-also said that the house was at one time occupied by two men who were suspected of receiving stolen. goods. Merrit Toogins is dead at his home near Correct, as a result of being shot last April while at work in Tennessee. Mr. Toogins at the time, with a partner, was operating, a phosphate fertilizing plant which was on the land of a relative of the partner. . After some disagreement the relative ordered the men off the land, the shooting resulting. Mr. Toogins was paralyzed by the bullet. Although- he underwent an operation he gradually grew worse. He is survived ~by a widow and several children. If the advice of A. H. of Churubusco, is followed! Cass county will become noted for more .than its politicians, its Democratic majorities and its “wetness.” It will be noted for its onions. ‘Peffley known around Pburubusco as the onion king, has bebn in Logansport for the past week and he has made an examination of Cass county soil. He says he has found much land which should yield anywhere from 600 to 1,000 bushels of silver skin onions an acre. He is enthusiastic and ‘Wishes Cass county farmers to go the onion raising business on a large scale. He sees a fortune for them and will be back scon and talk onions to every one who yill -listen. , James Hayden, Knovhi over Union county as “Fjddler Jim” committed suicide by hanging himself at the infirmary in Brownsville. He used his shirt as a rope and tied It to a piece ,of timber, u . Alfred Guthrie, one of the wealthiest men of Lawrence county, and president of the Stone City bank. In Bedford, has divided one-half of $160,000 among his seven children. He is one of the largest land owners in the county. ’ r

Rev, William E. Huttter, just graduated from the McCormrick Theological Se minary, has been Jcalled as pas- . tor of the Ossian Presbvferian ch-urch. : . \ Harrison F. Crabill, 86 yvars of age, residing in Smith Towi shijo, Whitley County, suddenly lost his ikearipg a few days ago. Mr, Crabill retired in his usual health, awakening tffie fol-, lowing morning to find himself totally deaf. * Ezrp. Kendall, comedian, has.gon\? to to spend the suminer writiiJg a book to be called “Top SoTil.”' Kendall proposes to get inspiration Ifor his cqief character from “Jap” Milner, made famous by James Whitcoffiib Jliley. I As F. J. Rump, a Fort Wayne corktractor, was driving on Fairfield ave\ nue recently his. auto struck Elva > Woods, a milkman, find knocked him 40 feet. Woods’ legs were broken and he was'injured internally, but he may recover. Henry Hall, of Evansville, Was heavily fined in Police Court recently for striking his father-in-law, James Sartin, an old soldier, with a club and breaking his arm. A year ago the arm was broken in the same place by another son-in-law, who struck the old’ man with a club. Miss Leona Pearl Acton, a Bluffton, blind girl, will soon be graduated " from the State Institution for the Blind. Until two ago, from the time she was 6 years old, her education was provided by the Woman’s . Home Missionary Society of-the First M. E. church at Bluffton. ; « A family reunion out of the ordinary was held near Greenfield, when the twelve children of Mr., and Mrs. Benjamin F. Shelby assembled at the 'family dinner. Thee remarkable feature of the reunion is the-fact that in the fifty-five years the Shelbys have been married death has never visited their home. Alfred Bordarijpn,. of ■ Marion, 4X years old,, while engaged in pulling drive pipe from an abandoned oil well,' three miles southeast of Van Buren, was instantly killed, by being struck in the head by a flying pulley which - broke from l its fastenings. The top of his-skull was jorn away. Bordaman survived by a widow and four chjldfemM “Uncle” William Kelso, of Peters- ’ burg, aged 80 years, the biggest man in Pike County, ’ died recently. He could easily shoulder a two-bushel sack of wheat with one hand and carry a sack on each shoulder, until a few yearns ago. He was the strongest man of his time there and during his life, ’ through hard labpr, amassed a ■ small fortune. ■ ” ’ -- J. F. Stensil, aged 60 years, of Mt. Carmel, 111., killed^.himself ln\he St.j George Hotel at Evansville. He took both phenol and ( laudanum, rtiidT’to make death certain. ; shot himself in the temple. Mie conducted a hotel at Mt. Carmel, 111., where he leaves a widow and one daughter. He was formerly a railroad conductor and belonged to the Cenductorg’ Union and Eagles. ■ .• ’ Geow' I. Winans, of-Shelbyville, re- ■; cently bought a» number of •tfronr Ben Kokentied, who lives iij Fmtrock, Shelby County. Thohias J. Noblitt purchased, two of the chickens from Kokentied. When one of .the chickens was cleaned'a nugget of pure .'gold was found in its iCraw. It is thought the hen picked up the gold where.more of the precious metal,can be fqurid, and the : feeding place of ■these chickens will be closely William Jennings Bryan refused to*S give the Ladies’- Aid Society of the Ripple M. E. church, in Shelby ship* near Shelbyville, 10 cents mr their festival held the latter party of the week; In a kind letter he said Ke was called-on so much for small dona'’tions that he had to refuse them all. The women had a silk quilt with 1,026 names on it, and it was sold to Perry Amos for sl7. The names of many prominent men were on it, each person whose name was on the quilt paying 10' cents. The ' society received $119.60 for the quilt. ■ That, an old hen will put up a strong fight in defense of, her little chicks was shown at the home of D. E, lerton, south qf Owensville, when a large chicken snake moved noiselessly td a point where the hen was standing with her chicks nestled cfosely about her. The hen was on the defensive before the reptile was aware of it. Clucking at her chicks two or three times, the mother waited for the snake to the first pass. The reptile advanced* a little farther and quick as a flash the hen sprang at the eneniy in a maniter that made the snake crawl for the tall grjass. The hen continued the onslaught and the snake was driven out oMh4 yard before the old hen returned to her chicks, that were chirping with all their might as jf -applauding their mother’s bravery. . ! - The City Council of Ligtjnier has . granted the Ligonier School. Board the square opposite the Carnegie library for the purpose of erecting the proposed High School building. Work will commence on the building at once. Joseph Coopldd'er, of Clay City, picked up in the bed of a srpall water course » formation which; all who have seen it believe is a petrified hu- . man foot. In outline the object resemblea a foot, although the toed are missing.