The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 17, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 22 August 1912 — Page 6

The Syracuse Journal GEO. O. SNYDER, Publisher. Syracuse, - Indiana A FRIGHTFUL WRECK ONE DEAD AND MANY OTHERS INJURED. BELIEVEOPENSWITCH CAUSE The Car Plunged Into a Bank ol of Clay and Rolled Into a DitchOther News of the Day. ~ Greencastle, Ind., Aug. 15.—W. E. Friche. motorman of Indianapolis, was killed and 12 passengers of a Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern traction car seriously injured late yesterday afternoon when the car was splintered after having struck an open switch, west of here. The car plunged into a bank of clay, overturned and rolled into a ditch and the passengers, many of whom were standing, were caught under timbers and cut by flying glass. F. May Cook, colored, of Louisville, and Mrs. Mary Sinclair, of Cloverdale, Ind., received internal injuries and probably will die. Railway officials believe that the switch was left open by the crew oi a repair car. Others seriously injured are: %ark Kestler, Indianapolis: back injured, shouldfer and hands cut. William E. Small, Brazil, Ind.; right hand cut and mashed; left arm cut. Mrs. Margaret King, Brazil, Ind.; head cut and bruised, right arm juredGuy Troutman, Indianapolis, express messenger; head badly cut and bruised. Charles Huffman, Brazil; scalp cut and hip mashed. Charles Davis, Brazil; chest cut and shoulder injured. Laura Ruggenstein, Indianapolis, face and head cut and bruised. Hilton Osborn, farmer, West Terre Haute; arm mashed and face cut. Pansy Osborn, age five; right hand cut. Barney. Stevenson, Indianapolis; arm broken in two places, head cut internal injuries. The passengers were thrown into a heap in the front end’of the car and a wild rush for the exits was made by the uninjured passe,ngers. Many were cut slightly, jumping from windows and others trampled. A. J. Handy, the conductor, ran to a- farm house, where he notified the dispatcher at this city. Physicians were summoned and a jpecial sent from here. The Terre Haute and Brazil injured were taken to a hospital in Terre Haute. The Indianapolis people were taken to Indianapolis. Body Impaled on Trapeze. Muncie, Ind., Aug. 14.—»While Sam Freeman, acrobat, was doing a double somersault through the air .from a horizontal bar, he misjudged his distance, and his body was thrown on an ’ iron trapeze hook twenty-five feet above the ground. The iron sank deep into his side, but did not penetrate a vital organ. He freed himself from his position, dropped into the net below and sent for a physiftian. He ’will recover. Seven Electrocuted. Ossinning, N. Y„ Aug. 14.—Seven murderers were taken from their cells in Sing Sing prison and put to death in the electric chair. This is the largest number of criminals to suffer the death penalty by electricity in any day since the electric chair was adopted as a method of capital punishment. Laporte Has SIOO,OOO Blaze. Laporte, Ind., Aug. 15. —The plant of the M. Riimley Company was almost destroyed by fire early yesterday. Thirty-eight oil pull-tractors were burned, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Spontaneous combustion is believed to have been the cause. * Killed 1 at South Bend. South Bend, Ind., Aug. 15. —An interurban car and a work train on the Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana railway met in a head-on collision in this city yesterday. O. Luck, head carpdnter for the railway, was killed. Balloonist Drowned. Muskegon, Mich., Aug. 12. —Several thousand people yesterday afternoon saw 18-year-old Elizabeth Lebar, a balloonist, drown in Lake Michigan. "Her parachute landed in the lake and by the time rescuers arived in boats the y,oung woman had disappeared. Five Are Killed. Seattle, Wash., Aug. 13. —Five persons were killed and several injured late yesterday when the west-bound Olympian train of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound railroad broke a bridge half a mile west of Kechelus. Eleven-year-old Mother. lowa City, la., Aug. 13.—The youngest mother recorded in lowa medical history is an 11 -year-old girl from near Davenport, who gave birth to a healthy 8%-pound child at the university hospital yesterday. 19 Killed by Explosion. Abernant, Ala,, Aug. 15.—Nineteen negro miners were killed by an explosion in the Abernant Coal Company’s mine. Forty-six white men and eighteen negroes got safely out of the workings after the blast. Hurls Acid in Doctor’s Face. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 12.—An unknown assailant, claiming he had a telegram for his victim, hurled acid in the face of Dr. J. J. Howard on the latter’s porch. It is believed the attack will cost the physician his sight.

PASS WOOL BILL OVERJAFFS VETO House Again Adopts Rejected Tariff Measure. VOTE WAS 174 YEAS, 80 NAYS Speaker Rules Members Present and Not Voting Should Not Be Counted in Ascertaining TwoThirds Majority. Washingtoik Aug. 15.—‘With ten members votmgX’present” but not having their votes Vounted, the house on Tuesday, by of 174 to 80, passed the woolen bill over President Taft’s veto. There were 21 Republican members voting with the Democrats to enact the bill into law despite the president’s opposition. The vote overriding the veto was received by the house with great enthusiasm. Speaker Clark, through a decision upheld by Republican Leader Mann, held that the members voting present should not be counted in ascertaining the two-thirds required to pass the bill over the veto and that only the years and nays should be considered. Former Speaker Cannon, Representatives Fitzgerald and Gardner differed with the speaker and Gardner first moved an appeal from the decision, but withdrew the motion later. “I don’t think any speaker would rule for present political effect,” said Speaker Clark, ‘‘who could not stand by his decision when political majorities change or a like decision may be against him. Those voting present are counted solely to make up a quorum.” The ten members declining to vote to take a decisive stand on the motion to override the veto were: Ashbrook (Dem.), Ohio; Browning (Rep.), New Jersey; Estopinal (Dem.), Louisiana; Fordney (Rep.), Michigan; Hartman (Rep.), Pennsylvania; Husley (Rep.), Oregon; ’Humphreys (Dem.), Mississippi; Johnson (Dem.), South Carolina; Rucker (Dem.), Missouri; Sparkman (Dem.), Florida. t The post office appropriation bill, carrying approximately $160,000,000, was passed by the senate after two days’ debate on Tuesday. The bill has established a parcels post and also permits employes of the postoffice department to organize, provided they do not affiliate with any outside labor organization. The bill provides a flat rate of 12 cents a pound for parcels, regardless of the distance carried. The house in its bill divided the country into eight zones, with a graduated rate of from 5 to 12 cents a pound, the limit of weight of packages to be 11 pounds. For rural routes and city delivery the rate Is five cents for the first and one cent for each additional pound up to the limit permitted. The differences between the two houses are vital and it will require time and patience to reconcile them. The good roads provision of the house bill, invqlving an expenditure of millions, was rejected and a commission appointed to investigate the subject and report to the next congress. The Panama canal administration bill, providing free passage to American ships, prohibiting railroad owned vessels from using the water way and authorizing the establishment of a one-man government when the canal is completed, was passed by the senate by a vote of 47 to 15 on Friday. The provision for free tolls, which was fought out in the senate Wednesday, was indorsed again just before the passage of the measure. Several important amendments having a bearing on interstate commerce and anti-trust acts ■frere added to the bill. By a vote of 49 to 18 an amendment, offered by Senator Smith of Georgia, was adopted, limiting the house provision against railroad ownership of boat lines to those operated through the canal. ■ r SET HEARING IN GRAFT CASE Nine Detroit Aidermen Are Arraigned in Court. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 15. —Nine of the aldermen accused of graft on Tuesday were arraigned on warrants sworn out by Prosecutor Shepherd. The charge was “promising to accept a bribe.” The penalty on this charge is the same as in the case of accepting a bribe. The others will be arraigned later. The cases were set for August 20 and will come up in police court. There Is no ciiarge registered against Eddie Schreiter, the former secretary of the council committee, who has made a confession. His case simply has been continued from time to time and was continued until August 20. " Gen. Booth Critically 111. London, Aug. 15.—Gen. William Booth, the venerable head of the Salvation Army, who has been in failing health, is critically ill. His physicians announced Tuesday that there is little improvement in his case. X a Schurman for Minister to Greece. Washington, Aug. 15.—President Taft sent to the senate Tuesday the nomination of Jacob Gould Schurman, president of Cornell university, to be minister from the United States to Greece and Montenegro. Memorial to Major Butt. Washington, Aug. 14. —The senate passed the Bacon joint resolution Monday authorizing the erection in Washington of a joint memorial to Maj. Archibald W. Butt, late aide to the president, and Francis David Millett. Accuses U. S. Mail Officials. Washington, Aug. 14. —Senator LaFollette charged officials of the postoffice department Monday with rifling his mall to learn the results of an investigation he was making of conditions in the postal service.

TURKISH QUAKE TOLL TOTALS 3,000 PERSONS Hospitals Filled With Injured Homeless Suffer Greatly From Lack of Food and Water. Constantinople, Aug. 14. —A physician, who has been engaged in relief work in the region stricken by the recent earthquake, has returned to this city with details of the terrible disaster. He states that at Myriophitos, Chora and Irsklitza 3,000 persons were killed and many thousands are destitute. There is no shelter for the survivors and so little food that the men were fighting with knives for the meager supplies that have reached the ravaged area. At Chora a great crater was formed and the entire village was swallowed up. On both sides of the Dardanelles villages were destroyed. The doctor estimated the total number of towns destroyed at fifty. Harrowing scenes were witnessed everywhere. Dead women, still holding living babies, wsre removed from the ruins of several houses. The earthquake shocks continue at intervals. Big stones are being hurled into the air frequently from the center of the disturbance. Old people are dying of fear and many others are suffering from hunger and thirst. Hospitals everywhere are full of people who have been injured by the terrible visitation. HILLES PICKS TAFT ADVISERS Barnes of New York Named as Head of Campaign Committee. New York, Aug. 15. —Charles D. Hilles, chairman of the Republican national committee on Tuesday announced the members of the advisory committee for the campaign, as follows: William Rarnes, Jr., New York, chairman; Senator Theodore E. Burton, Ohio; Col. Austin Colgate, New Jersey; Thomas H. Devine, Colorado; Governor Phillips Lee Goldsborough, Maryland; John Hays Hammond, Massachusetts; Joseph B. Kealing, Indiana; Adolph Lewisohn, New York; Senator Ury F. Lippitt, Rhode Island; David W. Mulvane, Kansas; Col. Harry S. New, Indiana; Herbert Parsons, New York; Samuel L. Powers, Massachusetts; Senator Elihu Root, New York; John Wanamaker, Pennsylvania; George R. Sheldon, New York; Otto F. Stifel, Missoni; Fred W. Upham, Illinois. ALLAN LINER HITS ICEBERG. Steamer Corsican Collides With Ice East of Belle Isle Straits. Halifax, N. S., Aug. 14. —The Allan line steamer Corsican, bounu for Liverpool = from Montreal, with 200 passengers, struck an iceberg east of Belle Isle Straits, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence river, between Labrador and Newfoundland. The vessel was running under low speed when the crash occurred. To this fact may be attributed her escape from the fate of the Titanic. The Corsican struck the iceberg only a glancing blow, and after an inspection which showed the damage to be inconsequential, the captain decided to proceed on the voyage to Liverpool. ROCKHILL ADVISER TO CHINA American Diplomat May Go to New Republic. Washington, Aug. 15. —Unofficially it is known here that overtures have been going on between President Yuan Shi Kai and W. W. Rockhill, the American minister at Athens, looking to the appointment of the latter as adviser to the new Chinese republic. These have not progressed far enough to warrant Mr. Rockhill’s resignation, but it is known he is giving the offer serious consideration. Mr. Rockhill is regarded as being thoroughly conversant with Chinese governmental methods. PLAN $40,000 HARLAN FUND. Move on Foot to Aid Late Supreme Justice’s Family. Washington, Aug. 12. —Washington society, as well as the legal profession, is interested in the 'movement on foot to raise a $40,000 fund for the widow and daughters of the late Associate Justice John M. Harlan of the United States Supreme court, who left his family practically penniless. Justice Harlan sacrificed a fortune by his long service on the bench and died worth only $3,000. HAYTI’S PRESIDENT IS BURIED. Remains of Cincinnatus Leconte, Who Perished in Explosion, Are Interred. Port-au-Prince, Hayti, Aug. 13.—Funeral services for Gen. Cincinnatus Leconte, president of Hayti, who was killed in the blowing up of the hational palace Thursday, were conducted here. The remains were interred with military honors. All flags were at half mast. The .city remains tranquil. “Ty” Cobb Is Stabbed. Syracuse, N. Y., Aug. 14—Tyrus Cobb, center fielder of the Detroit American league baseball club, was attacked and stabbed in a battle with three unknown men in Detroit Monday when on his way to the train. Shoots Two; Then Self. Chicago, Aug. 14. —Locking his Intended victims in a room, J. B. Lautzenheiser shot and killed a man and a woman at 2307 West Madison street Monday, and then fired into bis own brain. All died instantly. Wilf Admit Wood Pulp Free. Washington, Aug. 13.—Wood pulp, print paper and paper board manufactured from woods of British Columbia will be admitted here free of duty under the one operative clause of the Canadian reciprocity act. Notify Eugene W. Chafin. Waukesha, Wis., Aug. 18.—Prohibitionists assembled here Saturday for the formal notification of the nomination of Eugene W. Chafin of 'iucson, Arlz., as their party’s candidate for president of the United States.

MEXICAN REBELS SLAUGHTER NIAHY Zapatistas Attack Passenger Train From Ambush. BURN WOUNDED IN COACHES Thirty-Six Soldiers and More Than Twenty Passengers Massacred in Canyon Near City • of Mexico. City of Mexico, Aug. 14.—Twenty passengers and every man of a military guard of thirty-six soldiers convoying the passenger train were shot to death, cut to pieces with machetes or burned alive in an attack by a band of Zapatistas under Eufamio Zapata near Ticuman, 110 miles from this city on Monday. A rail was loosened in the track and the train, running about forty kilometers an hour, went into the ditch. Only meager details have reached this city. So far as known only a part of the train crew escaped. The first news of the massacre was sent to Mexico City by the conductor and Marino Dominguez, who, although wounded, managed to make their way to Yautepec, twelve miles away. They | were forced to steal through the Zapa- i tista lines. j After a murderous rifle fire had ceased the rebels swarmed down the hillside and set fire to the three cars composing the train. A few of the wounded had crawled out onto the right of way, thus escaping the fate of those unable to leave the cars, who were turned. According to reports the leader of the rebels made absolutely no effort to restrain his men from acts of brutality greater than any that has yet marked the campaign in the south. The wounded, pleading for their lives, were struck down without pity, and even looting was held in abeyance until the slaughter was completed. Not satisfied with robbing, their victims in an ordinary manner, the fingers of men and women were chopped off with machetes, that rings they wore might be more quickly obtained. Ornaments were torn from ears of women and their bodies were otherwise mutilated. Most of the passengers belonged to the farmer and lower classes. The soldiers, who had been detailed to act as a guard, were from the Eleventh battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Reynoza. El Paso, Tex., Aug. 14.—One United States soldier was killed and one Mexican rebel wounded in a fight between border guards and ammunition smugglers near Columbus, N. M. Col. E. Z. Steever, commander of the department of Texas, has received a report of the encounter. ODELL TO TELL* OF BIG GIFT Is Called Before Committee Investigating Campaign Expenses. Washington, Aug. 15. —The senate committee investigating campaign expenses decided to call former Governor and State Leader Odell of New York, who went to E. H. Harriman and obtained from him the famous contribution of $250,000. This decision was reached sifter Representative James T. Lloyd of Missouri, chairman of the Democratic congressional committee of 1908, testified. Lloyd told the committee the contributions for that year amounted to about $27,000 and the expenses were within a few dollars of that amount. OLD SOLDIERS IN APPEAL. Veterans Suffer Because Congress Fails to Pass Pension Bill. Washington, Aug. 14.—Commissioner Davenport of the pension bureau is receiving hundreds of appeals from old soldiers for their pension checks. To as many as he can the commissioner is sending word that congress has appropriated no money as yet. It will before it adjourns. “I’m penniless and among strangers and have had to go to the poorhouse,” wrote one veteran to the commissioner. Many others have appealed in a similar way. START SUGAR TRUST HEARING. Government Takes Testimony In Colorado in Dissolution Proceedings. Denver, Colo., Aug. 13. —Taking of testimony from Colorado beet sugar men was begun here on Monday before Special Examiner Wilson B. Brice in the government's procedure in equity to dissolve the so-called sugar trust under the Sherman anti-trust law. J. R. Knapp, Goldthwaite H. Dorr and Abel I Smith, Jr., assistant United States attorneys of New York, will conduct the hearing here for the government. The hearing will last two or three days. 55,000 Cars Will Take Wheat. St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 15.—More than 65,000 freight cars have been assembled in the wheat raising district of the northwest, east of the Missouri river, in readiness to handle the crop that is being harvested. English Aviator Is Killed. Salisbury, England, Aug. 15. —One of the most experienced of English airmen, R. C. Fenwick, was killed Tuesday while participating in the military aviation speed tests on Salisbury plain. American Yacht Wins Race. Chicago. Aug. 13.—Chicago “rediscovered” Lake Michigan Saturday by sending the Michicago, the American representative in the international yacht races, to victory over the pick of Canada, the Patricia. Rosenwald Gives Away $687,500. Chicago, Aug. 13.—Julius Rosenwald, a Chicago millionaire, celebrated his fiftieth birthday Sunday by making gifts to charity and education totaling $687,500. Many noted Institutions were remembered.

UNITED STATES READY TO SEIZE NICARAGUA American Minister Weitzel Ordered to Assemble Troops—Martial Law May Be Proclaimed. Washington, Aug. 15. — Minister Weitzel, with the assistance of 450 .blue jackets and marines who are now in Managua, Nicaragua, will proclaim martial law in that rebellionridden republic within 48 hours and take charge of governmental affairs unless conditions improve very mate- j rially. Long experience with Latin-Ameri-can republics has shown the state department that too much leniency is a dangerous thipg and, while President Taft is wedded to ideas of peace and diplomacy, even he admitted to Secretary Knox that conditions in Nicaragua were growing well nigh unbearable, and that something should be done at once. Accordingly the state department wired Minister Weitzel to assume full control of the American troops in ■ Nicaragua, moving them as he thought ; best for the protection of foreigners ' and. their property, and even using i them to attack the rebels should the I ‘latter make good their threat to bombard the foreign portion of Managua. ' Owing to the difficulties of communi- : ‘cation, nothing furthet- has reached , the state department concerning this i threat. In addition to the 450 sailors and marines already at Managua. Minister Weitzel will have the aid of 300 sailors from the Denver witjhin three days. FEAR FREIGHT CAR FAMINE. With Prosperity on Every Hand Short- ■ age Endangers Big Crops. Washington, Aug. 12. —Pessimists, with a “high cost of living” frame of , mind, look up at the sun and smile. i Prosperity spelled with a large “P” is rolling in from the farms and fields ; of the west, heralding big business for the merchant, the manufacturer j and the railroads the country, over. The report issued for August by ; the department of agriculture shows record crops that mean prosperity for the next twelve months. The records of the big yields of 1910 and 1911 have been smashed, and not a single section of the country has been overlooked by the goodness of nature in providing ideal weather conditions for immense yields. The only dark cloud on the horizon is the prediction of W. A. Garrett, chairman of the Western Association of Railroads, that an unprecedented shortage of cars confronts railways and shippers on account of the immense harvests. This shortage is placed at between 60,000 and 180,000 cars. GOTHAM GUNMAN IS TAKEN. Leader in Rosenthal Murder Is Caught at Hot Springs, Ark. Hot Springs, Ark., Aug. 13. —Police authorities here are closely guarding Sam Schepps, the alleged paymaster of the gunmen in the Rosenthal murder case, who was arrested in this city on Saturday, to keep him from committing suicide to balk any attempt on his life by the New York gangsters or police back of the killing of Gambler Rosenthal. Scheeps was taken into custody by Postmaster Fred E. Johnson Im- ; mediately after he had received a let- | ter at the post office from Jack Rose, | in which Rose pleaded with him to re- j turn to New York arid make a full , confession to District Attorney Whitman. ALLOT COAL LANDS TO CITIES. Secretary Fisher Recommends Such a Plan to Congress. Washington, Aug. 12.—SecretaryFisher has a plan to allot government coal lands to cities, which in turn may operate them under regulations to supply municipal needs, as well as those of citizens. As a first step in the plan Secretary Fisher has recommended that congress pass a bill granting 640 acres of coal land to the city of Grand Junction, Colo., and meanwhile the Interior department has withdrawn from entry the land the city desires. Cities In Colorado, Wyoming. Utah, Montana, Idaho and other public land states west of the Missouri river would be affected most vitally by Secretary Fisher’s plan. AIRMEN BATTLE WITH GALE. Flyer Brown and Passenger Have I Fierce Fight Against Wind. New York, Aug. 13. —Fighting a sev-enty-five-mile an hour gale, with their aeroplane dipping and swaying until it seemed likejy at any minute to turn turtle, Harry Bingham Brown and J. Jordan Wilson, the latter a passenger, battled with the wind for 57 minutes and managed to make a safe landing. Flying against the wind, the aeroplane stood still; going with the wind Brown declares they made 150 miles an hour. At short periods the machine was even driven backwards. Prof. Massenet Dies In Paris. Paris, Aug. 15.—Prof. Jules Emile Frederic Massenet, the famous French composer, died here Tuesday, aged seventy. Among Prof. Massenet’s best known operas are "Thais,” “Don Cesar de Bazan,” and “Herodiade.” Demand War Be Declared. London, Aug. 15.—The declaration of war by Bulgaria against Turkey was demanded at a mass meeting attended by 20,000 people in Sofia, according to a news agency dispatch from that city Tuesday. Seven Die in Chair. Ossining. N. Y.,. Aug. 14—Seven murderers were taken from their cells in Sing Sing prison and put to death in the electric chair Monday. This is the largest number of criminals to suffer the death penalty by electricity. Taft Saves Colored Woman. Washington, Aug. 14.—President Taft has decided to commute to life imprisonment the death sentence of Mattie Lomax, a negro woman, convicted of murdering her husband in this city. i

WHY CONNIE STONE CHANGED HER MIND Chance Remarks Heard in a Bridle Path Unite Two Loving Hearts. 0 BY CLARISSA MACKIE. The path followed the windings of the well-macadamized highway and ifforded a leafy, shaded way for several miles before it took a sudden, unjxpected turn and wandered off through the deep woods to the river md the bridge. Connie Stone rode dreamily along the bridle path, her brown eyes fixed an the green perspective ahead. From the highway came the sound Os swiftly’flying moter cars and the ramble of jarriage wheels to the accompaniment 3f horses’ hoofs. “It would be lovely if it were not ior the noises from the road,” sighed Connie at last. She flicked Brown Ben lightly so that they would reach the turn in the path and ride toward the river. “Ah,* I wish something might happen—something perfectly lovely!” she sighed again. “My life is so cut and iried —plenty of money and even my future husband selected for me! If Uncle Remus had only spared me that. The very fact that I am bound to marry Phil Baring has prejudiced me igainst him. I can’t bear him —I wish 'ie would go away!” This unhappy victim of match-mak-ing parents and a worldly old uncle and guardian sulked openly as she rode along, for ribw grievance against the world in general, and Phil Baring in particular, quite overpo#?red her delight in the fresh morning air. A saddle girth had slipped and Connie alighted and bent to tighten it. As she did so, standing there in the green-brown woods only a stone’s throw from the highway, she heard a motor car jar to a sandstill close at hand and two feminine voices engaged in conversation. “ and we all think it was perfectly horrid of old Remus Barrie to agree with the girl’s parents that when Phil was twenty-five he should marry the girl. No, I’ve never seen her, but you may take it for granted that she’s a fright, Adele! If she were not her parents wouldn’t have been to such pains to marry her off.” “And so Phil isn’t quite happy over It?” asked a lazily amused voice. , “Wretched! Why—you know, my dear, it’s no secret that he’s breaking his heart over little me—and there’s that fright of an heiress standing like a mountainous wall of money bags between us. Os course, Phil couldn’t marry me without some of his father’s fortune—and there you are.” “Poor Elizabeth!” derided the voice of Adele. “If you only knew Phil Baring was free to marry, you wouldn’t care two pins for him!” “Adele!” “And so he has poured out his troubles to you?” / “No. He isn’t that sort, arifl you know it, Adele. Only he looks miserable, and I understand the reason.” The started noisily and drew away from the spot where Connie Stone stood, a crimsoned, palpitating eavesdropper. With a swift movement she pulled out a gold vanity case and scanned her reflection in the little mirror. saw a blushing ie.ce framed in a mist of jet black hair, brown eyes with golden specks in them, a perfect nose and mouth and a white chin with a deep dimple. “If she calls me a fright. I wonder what she looks like!” exclaimed the indignant Miss Stone, and she mounted Brown Ben and flashed down the bridle path. As she rode along the leafstrewn way she thought of her first meeting with Phil Baring. He had returned from a long residence abroad, and although he was a very grave, goodlooking young man without much to say for himself, Connie hrid mistaken his silence for awkwardness and she was" angry with him from the beginning i When he did try to be agreeable and displayed some admiration for this cousin who was to be his bride, Connie became contrary and erratic In her moods. Somehow she felt that his admiration was affected. He was trying to play his part. And all the time he was in love with a horrid creature pamed Elizabeth, who shrieked when she talked. Connie could have spared herself any qualms—he was not in love with her. He was miserable at the idea of this foreordained marriage.’ He was unhappy. “I hate him!” cried Connie as she flew around the sharp bend away from the high road and into the stillness of the thick woods. Here the trees grew gnarled and undown from the high, mossy bajhks on both sides to form arches overhead. A scarlet tanager flashed across the read and ’made a spot of gorgeous color against a .brown tree trunk. ’ A herfnit thrush sang from some hidden covert and a thrill of unearthly happiness was in his tender notes. "tears sprang to Connie’s eyes for this love and happiness that would not be hers. “I ought to have had a chance——” Her mutinous voice' broke sharply, for ahead of her there came the thud of hoofs on the bridle path. She drew Brown Ben aside under the trees as the hoof beats became louder. Then a black mare streaked past and disappeared in the direction whence Connie had come. Connie felt sick and. faint. The black mare was Phil Baring’s favorite mount and the saddle was empty. In another instant Brown Ben was flying down the path and Connie’s eyes were half fearfully searching for a limp form in the road. AU at once she came upon it. A still gray-clad form stretched beside the road. Connie slipped from her horse and knelt beside the form of her fiance. “Phil, oh, Phil!” she cried brokenly as she slipped a warm little palm under his cheek and endeavored to turn his face to hers. Slowly his eyes opened and stared at her in wide surprise. Stiffly he

turned, rose to an elbow —a perfectly sound and good elbow, to Connie’s amazement —sat upright, stared again at Connie, at Brown Ben and then gazed" around in startled fashion. “Where's Nellybird?” he cried, jumping to his feet. “Oh, are you all right?” cried Con-, nie, standing beside him. I met your mare running away—and I—l thought you were dead or hurt — and so, I came.” She paused with a little break in her voice. “You came and found me nappin j beside the roa4—Nellybird must have become frightened and bolted. I’m sorry, Connie 1 hope you ere not disappointed at finding me unhurt?” He smiled rather wryly at this pretty distant cousin. Connie tried to smile, blinked and Suddenly began to cry softly. “Connie! You didn’t care, did you?” he asked in a sharp whisper. “Os course you wouldn’t believe me if I swore that I you and that your coldness is making me wretched—but, ah! Connie, do you care? Can you?” Connie found her answer when their eyes met, and what she said Was perfectly satisfactory to Phil Bar, ing. Love had performed a bit of magic that June morning, for he had turned a plain bridle path into' a rosestrewn bridal way. PUT MUCH RELIANCE ON ANT Use of the Little Insect in Medicine and Surgery Has Been Well-Nigh Universal. Among the last of the remedies provocative of nausea of the imagination to disappear from the lists of official remedies have been preparations made from ants. . Such, preparations, however, have not obtained much recognition in this country even among the wise old women in domestic practice —though in parts of Europe they arq yet in use. Ant baths, made by boiling ants ip water, are yet in use by Bavarian peasant for rheumatism and gout, and also in Hessen and in Hungary. In Bohemia, it is said, for paralysis of the lower limbs patients are placed in an ant hill and allowed to remain until the w’hole body is covered by the insects, which are then shaken off when the cure is effected. In Braadenburg an aching tooth is rubbed wiph blood by means of a crust of bread and the crust is then placed in an ant hill. Impoverishment of blood is cured by means of an egg ’buried in the hill of the large red ants. The" eggs must have been laid by a pure white or pure black hen, and must have been found when still warm. In Oberwalz the crushed eggs and larvae of ants are stirred up with cream and used as a remedy for colic. A salve made from wood ants, dog fat and coal dust is said to be used by Hungarian gypsies against goiter. There is also in use in Montevideo the “ant suture," in domestic surgery. Those who had been bitten by ants noticed that the heads remained clinging to the Syx when the body was torn away, being held in place by the powerful mandibles. The idea was thus suggested that the ant’s jaws could be used tc close'the edges of wounds. The edges of the cut are pressed together, an ant is held so that Its jaws will grasp both sides and its head is cut off. Several are applied along the wound and serve instead of the usual catgut stitches. STAND ASIDE FOR ELEPHANT Animals of the Jungle Have Well-Rec> ognized Etiquette Observed at Drinking Places. A moving picture firm has been taking some remarkable pictures at a wa ter-hole in Abyssinia of animals which come there from miles around tc quench their thirst. It is the etiquette of the jungle foi the elephant to drink first. No mat ter how many animals are around the water hole, they all stand aside foi the greatest beast of all. Many oi the animals come 40 or 50 miles for a x drink, and there is a truce between even the most deadly enemies. Aftei the elephant comes the rhinoceros Although most of the other animals ob serve the water-hole truce faithfully, two rhinos will fight over their prece dence. The cinematograph operatoi obtained wonderful pictures of two ol these huge .animals going at it hammei and tongs. The fight only ended bj one of the animals being killed. When the' rhinoceros had finished the giraffes drink their fill, followed by zebras. Zebras always travel in herds, and sometimes 40 or 50 will ar rive at the water hole at a time. Ac cording to the etiquette of the jungle, however, they only come in fourth foi the drinking stakes. The first foul animals are fixed in order, but the resl get a drink just how and when thej can. —Pearson’s Weekly. New Theory for Treating Ailments Dr. Sigaud of Lyons, France, qd vances a new~theory for treating hu man ailments, which is attracting scientific attention. He divides hu' manity into four classes, to be deter mined by form and physiognomy These forms-are: First, cerebral, as represented by Edison and Richelieu; second, muscular, as as represented by Napoleon and Caesar; third, respi ratory, as represented by Lafayetti and Fenelon; fourth, .digestive, as rep resented by Rossini, Gautier, anc' Louis XVIII. Dr. Sigaud says it ii all very well to attribute to microbes a large influence upon life and health but men must study to discover tc which category they belong in ordei to avoid doing those things whici harm them. Those of muscular type must not confine themselves in offices but must take a great deal of exercise He points out that Napoleon was al ways in, good health on the field ix active campaigns, but when secluded in St. Helena he became a prey to dis ease. The Lafayette type demandi travel, change of scene, activity ol mind. Cerebral people must have oc casion and opportunity for reflection and study. A Political Wrangle. “I hear your oKxET'was divided ovei recommending a suffrage plank foi the Democratic platform.” “Yes. Some wanted a maple wood plank, but the others held out form» .hogany with a dull finish." -