Walkerton Independent, Volume 27, Number 25, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 January 1902 — Page 3

gifßW Apple Tree Borers. Apple growers through the country lose annually many trees from the ravages of the apple tree borer. There are two species, one of which is known as the flat-headed borer and the other the round-headed borer. Both are shown In tiie accompanying illustration. By taking proper precaution many apple trees could be saved if watched carefully. Ail trees should be closely examined ®aily in the fall, when the young larvae or worms, if present, may be detected by the discoloration of the bark, which sometimes has a flattened and dried appearance. Exuding sap and the presence of sawdust-like castings El'o the clew to their whereabouts

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Whenever such indications are seen, tiie insects should be dug out with a knife or other sharp-pointed instrument. Those which have bored deeply into the wood may be reached by a sharp, stiff wire thrust into the hole, they can also be destroyed by cutting nway the bark at tiie upper end of the chamber and pouring scalding water Into the opening so that it will soak through the castings. Among the preventive remedies, alkaline washes or solutions are probably the most useful. Soft soap made to the consistency of thick paint by the additioc of a strong solution of washing soda in water, is a good formula for application. It should be painted over the bark, especially about the base of the trees and upward to the main branches. A small quantity of gas tar added to the solution will also assist in repelling the insect and will not injure the tree.-Orange Judd Farmer.

Shipping Poultry to Market. there are two errors most poultry shippers fall Into which have considerable bearing on the results obtained. One is the use of improper crates, and the other crowding of the fowls in the crates. In the first case, sometimes the crates used are too hear, 7 and some . times too light. The last error is made usually by poultrymen who b"— been

m the habit ot shipping muw less breeding stock and who use light crates to save transportation charges over long distances. The heavy crates are generally used by farmers and are made of any loose material they happen to have on the farm. The crates should

always be as light as it is possible, and still have it strong enough to bear rough handling, and each fowl in it should have a space equal to that required for it to turn around in comfort. If this sort of packing is done the fowls will reach the market in good condition, and there will be none smothered, as is usually the case when too many are packed in a crate. Don’t ship the culls and half-starved fowls to the city market, but send only the plump birds and those in good physical condition, if you would get the highest prices. Winter Protection of Bee Hives. After the bees have stopped their fall flying the hives should be set in a row, facing south, with about six inches of space between the hives. Drive a tew stakes between and in front of the hives at an angle of about forty-five degrees, so that when boards are placed across them the lower edges of the boards will rest against the hives .just above the entrance. Then pack leaves over the hives and between them, doing the work thoroughly; the board will prevent the packing material from closing the entrance. Cover the leaves with straw to a considerable depth. Dig a trench along the back of the hives, forming a ridge against the hives that will shed water and keep it iron getting in at the bottom of the hives This is a very simple plan, yet gives ample protection, while, by using tin board in front, the opening of the hiv< receives all the sunlight there may b* during the winter. Should the winte’ be unusually severe, more straw ma; be added from time to time during tin winter to obtain the needed warmth.

Building a Small Ice House. If ice is readily obtainable during the winter, there should be a small ice house on every farm, holding enough 0 last through the summer. A cheap house may be built by making an excavation. in circular form, ten feet deep, walling it with brick or stone, or even heavy planking, and having the wall come up two or three feet above the surface of the ground. On this I wall is built the top. which may be round or octagon and running to a sharp point. This wooden portion may be built of rough lumber. A door Is fitted in one side and around the outside the soil is mounded up under the eaves and back for several feet to form a perfect watershed. In packing the Ice air must be excluded, and this rule is as applicable to an expensive ice house as to a cheap one. Sawdust is the best packing material and should be used in liberal quantities both between the cakes of ice and as a layer over the top. If the ice is properly packed it will keep well in the very inexpensive structure described. Grading Up the Flock. It does not follow that because a hen Jays a goodly number of eggs she is fitted to form a portion of the foundation of the two-hundred egg strain, for

unless she lias ancestry behind her and has the type fairly well developed in hei, she is not likely to have progeny that will carry on her record. As a general rule, it is safe to select the large and well-mat tired pullets of the type as the foundation, even though they may not lay so well as the smaller fowls of the same breed, for they are closer to the type desired. In order to accomplish this grading up properly a careful record of the egg production should be kept during tiie winter, as i veil as a record of the egg formation an I size, and the best of those pullets should lie properly mated in the spring and the eggs from this selected lot only used for hatching. From a continuance of this selecting each season, weeding out these that fall behind tiie record and adding those that improve, with the mating by cocks from eggs laid by hens with equally good egg records, one will be able in two or three seasons’ to come very close to the two-hundred-egg strain.

Saving Garden Seeds. There are many seeds that tiie farmer should save for himself every year. His sweet corn from the earliest ears to mature, and his field corn from the most perfect ears, straight rows and well-tilled tips he can find, and if possible from stalks that have two or more cats, to induce the habit of twin-bear-ing stalks. These should be thoroughly diied and kept dry until wanted for planting. Rows of peas and beans should bo saved expressly f or seed, ami

not the seel taken from those that are , | left after picking for market. We have even let the first that set ripen for seed, and picked them , dry while picking others for table use. This we did to insure early maturity in the next crop. Cucumber, pepper, tomato, squash, pumpkin and melon, we saved seed from some of the best if not tiie earliest on the plants, and if we cared to save beet, carrot, turnip, cabbage or OniOD seod. WO snvnd Krvof- tvtzx

wvu , we saved the best we had to set out in the spring for seed. The | lettuce and radish go to seed the same year if left long enough.. Having se- | lected our seed and seen it thoroughly ripened, every package was carefully labeled with the name of tiie variety, and the smaller ones put away in a tin box, that insects might not get to them, and the larger ones in cotton bags securely tied. A few’ we thought we could buy cheaper tiian we could grow them, and better because grown in a more favorable soil or climate, but when we saved seed as we have described above, we had no running out of any variety.—American Cultivator. Watering Ilogs in Winter. Ihe best hog watering device we Know of lor winter use is composed of two barrels. Barrel A should be set in the line of pipe coming from the supply of water. The float should be adjusted to a point on a water level line, as seen in the illustration. Barrel B is let dowm in th* ground so the water line will come near the top, but not flow er. At C is seen a lid composed of two-inch plank or heavy lumber built in such away as to make four drinking places, the hog sticking its snout through a hole to get tiie water. This barrel should be in a cornier of the lot or near a fence where be protected to somb extent from the coldest 1

weather. At D will be seen a valve which regulates the supply of water and keeps barrel B so full of water all the time. Eis the line of pipe leading from the float barrel to as many watering places as may be placed on the

/ \ | jriOATl | Line JEUBSiI uZT / I B \ 'Wo el g . 1, V J BOG WATERING DEVICE. line. Barrel A should be covered with litter to prevent freezing.—lowa Home stead. Success in Dairying. If experience in dairying does not make a man or woman wise, it counts I for but little. We often see cases where people grown gray in the cure of cows I realize only meager profit;; from the business. This is because years ago they decided that they had mastered all there was to be known relative to dairying and have since never tried to get out of the rut. The most conscien- ! lions attention to detail work in the 1 care of cows, care of milk and the routine of labor required in butter and cheese making is necessary to success in any or all of these branches—Farm and Ranch. Brains in the Dairy. How many dairymen can tell bow many pounds of milk each cow gives, ; the percentage of butter fat in each cow’s milk and the average for the herd, bow many pounds of butter to each hundred pounds of milk, how much it costs to feed each cow, how I much it costs to make a pound of butI ter and a few tilings like that? Yet this is just what many up to date dairymen know to a nicety. A scale, a Babcock test, a lead pencil and a little brains are the chief requisites.

Hints About the Horse. Teach a horse what you want him to do and he will always do it. Plaster scattered on the stable floor keeps down bad odors and purifies the air. Don’t put your horse's feet in unskilled bands. Good feet are spoiled by bad shoeing. You can influence the shape of a colt’s legs by keeping the feet trimmed in proper shape, the same as you can trim a growing twig. Have your horse’s teeth dressed occasionally, a little attention given to this will prevent, a so-called “side-driv-er” or “puller.” It prevents sore mouth and assists mastication. Keep your horse feeling good by proper food ami care and he will more i’mtn repay you for the little extra time you give him. Tie your hors* so that, he can lie down comfortably at night. It is a practice with some grooms to tie a horse so be can’t lie down, to save work in cleaning him the next morning. Don’t bring your horse in hot from a drive if you can help it; if you do, rub i him thoroughly dry. A slow jog or 5 walk for a short distance before un- - hitching will coo! him off quicker and r save much work.

rm 3 S A Cheap Floor Stain. An excellent plain staining fluid foi floors is permanganate of potash, whici and a half to a gallon of boiling water. Ihe crystals cost only 10 cents an ounce, making tiie stain among the cheapest that can be procured. As is well known. it is an excellent disinfectant. so its sanitary value is appreciable. The easiest way to apply the stain is to use a painter’s brush, working

i 'i uhii. " m i Hi; vith the grain of the wood. If after one coat the stain does not seem to be dark enough, a second may be applied The floor should then be gone over with' two or three coats of linseed oil rubbed <n with a piece of flannel or chamois, and a final polish, if wanted, of beeswax and turpentine, which are mixed in the proportion of two ounces of the wax to four of tiie fluid, put in a covered vessel, and set where a slow heat will melt tiie wax. Stir the mixture smooth, and when coo! i£m readv for ' ~ . . -j_ .. ' V- -- L Blain Christmas Cake. Heat half a pound gs butter to a cream, sift one quart of flour with half an ounce of ground ginger and one rounding teaspoonful of eream of tar" tar. Add to it half a pound of brown sugar, half a pound of stoned raisins and mix thoroughly. Add to the softened butter half a pint of good sweet cream, half a pint of New Orleans molasses and two eggs well beaten. Moisten a level teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda in two tablespoonfuls of water Add to the mixture and turn this into the flour. Mix an q ponr jnto n inking pan lined with greased paper. Bake in a moderate oven for about two hours

Tapioca and Apple Pudding. Slx good, tart cooking apples, three- I quarters of a cup ©f pear] tapioca, sugar to taste and one quart* of water. Soak tlie tapioca in the water two hours, then put in a double boiler and cook until clear, sweeten to taste. It may lie flavored with the rind of lemon cut very thin and removed when the tapioca is done. Peel and core the apples and fill the holes with sugar, arrange them in a pudding dish and pour the tapioca over them, bake until the apples are tender. A few tiny bits of butter on the top will make it brown a little. Serve hot or cold with cream and sugar. Beef Croquettes. One pound of roasted or boiled beef, one onion, two small eggs, three boiled potatoes, two tablespoonfuls of flour, a small piece of butter, a little pepper and salt to taste. Chop the onion fine and brown it carefully in the butter Chop the meat fine and the potatoes as for hash. Put the meat, onion and potatoes in a ettopping bowl and mH thoroughly. Add the sJiebtT X beaten, and season with pepper and salt. Mold into croquettes, roll thoroughly in flour and fry until brown. These may be served garnished with parsley or in tomato sauce.

Remove White Spots on Polished Wood Spirits of camphor will quickly remove the white spots on polished wood surfaces made from the spilling of spirits or from too hot plates. A large and serious stain caused by the breaking of a bottle of brandy and the spilling of its contents on a mantel was entirely eradicated by an application of spirits of camphor. The camphor must be wiped off quickly, and in this ease the surface was wiped over afterwards with a soft cloth upon which a few drops of good furniture polish had been poured. New York Evening Post. Fricassee of Eggs. Set two ounces of butter into a stewpan, and when dissolved add chopped parsley, a little finely minced onion, with pepper ami salt to season. Stew I this until the seasoning is cooked, then add a cupful of milk and a little flour to thicken the whole. Boil four eggs until hard, peel off the shells carefully and cut into slices; each egg should make four or five slices. Set the eggs I into the sauce, let till come to the boil, I and set in an entree dish at once. If I preferred, substitute gravy for milk. Tomato Sauce. Take any desired quantity of ripe I tomatoes, put them into an earthen jar I and place them, covered over, in a hot oven till perfectly soft; then rub them 1 through a fine sieve to keep out seeds and skin. To every quart of juice add a clove of garlic, or, if preferred, two shallots; bruise a quarter of an ounce I of ginger, one tablespoonful of salt, one I teaspoonlui of cayenne; dull twenty I minutes, bottle, cork and wax. Vinegar or lemon juice may be added if liked.

Wliat Soda Is Good For, Aid a little soda when stewing a fowl to make the flesh more tender. If canned tomato I'erments, a little soda will restore it.—Good Housekeeping. Rub a bit of soda over meat or poultry that seems overripe and wash in cold water. To counteract the acidity of molasses allow one teaspoonful of soda to one cupful of molasses. Add a speck of soda when cooking beans or any vegetable which seems tough, and the cooking process is quickened. Wash hair brushes in strong tepid soda water, then rinse well in clear, cold water, and place in tlie air out of ■ sunlight to dry. For cleaning paint before repainting use two ounces of soda to one quart of I cold water. Afterward rinse off witii dear cold water. In using soda with cream of tartar, allow one level teaspoonful of soda to I two rounding tea spoon fills of cream of I tartar for each quart of flour. I Soda should be pulverized and care- | fully measured whenever it is used in I cooking, as it is a powerful alkali I which must be used with discretion and accuracy.

’ _ beav_ _tail soup. A Michigan Lumber Camp Delleaey that AmazeV a Marylander. ’ “Although I an|i a Marylander, and an Eastern shoro one at that,” said Chauncey F. Raynor, ‘-and consequently know what go<|d things to eat are, I want to tell you (that I'll have to take oft mj hat to tlje lumber camp cook of the upper Michigan peninsula as the discoverer, fabricator and dispenser of a dish that knoc^ tiie eastern shore cuisine »iHy. Ap that rare lumber camp dish is beaver tail soup. 1 was with Co . Park, of Columbus, Ohio, deer hunting in the Rainy Lake region of Michi^ijon^ fall. We lived at a lumber camp boarding shanty. there were signs of beaver at the upper end of the] lake, and a trapper succeeded in trapping one of the wily dam-builders. । "When the beafer was brought into camp the cook went nearly wild. And •so did tiie lumbermen when they heard the news. All because they had been trying to trap a beaver for weeks, not for its fur, but for its tail, as they were pining, they said, for beaver tail soup. g■ 1 Ihe cook 1 /ad appendage of tiie beaver, n ike an armadillo, tool; 1 rc^n it i lerlying bone and meat, and fro, iade such a soup as nevej*came ry other stock, at of ' Wert and scientific Che. Jut a on . same thing, ami eastern strore, - but we lack one " e haven’t got the beavers to ; Jus their tails.”— New York Sun.

RECENT JUDI AL DECISIONS. A commission f curing one willing to lend a cert m 0,1 mortgage is held, in Castor Juimby (Mass.), 52 L. R. A. 785, n >0 earned by the production of a j willing to loan that amount but ln sists that the contract shall pr ,de for Payment of principal and inte ' st in R°hh because .of Which the offer 001 a -Pted. The blowing of factory whistle at unseasonable houi in a Populous community, which is rtirely unnecessary and so harsh anl t ^fie as seriously to interfere with pla “tiffs-' reasonable enjoyment of thei/^ habitations, is held, in Hill vs. Mcßur Oil and Fertilizer Company (Ga.), 5 ’ R- A.. 398. to be a nuisance which ma Y l) e enjoined.

Money collects ' a bank for an other on notes ant 1 drafts and retained, is held, in State v ’• Edwards (Neb.), 52 E. R. A. 858, not , to become a part of the assets of (he bank, but to be held in trust for the o vner l and if the bank thereafter becom 8 ir, solvent and a receiver is appoint ’ d ^ ie one for whom the collection is na de is held to be a preferred creditoi ' A bank wide 1 P a F s a check on a fraudulent indoi sement by. one who procured it from the maker by representing himself a s another person is hold. In Tolman v American National Bank (R. I.), 52 1 • E. A. 877, to be liable for the amou at least. under a statute declaring an indorsement to be wholly inoperatm 0, which is made without the ar*’ of the person whose signatl be. The consoliu..

TSSsSd ■ «<*>••• the public lntwaw”*“ k ’ Is Held, m WsaT?; *“*'?' IRV 369 not lO be in violation of a constitution al Provision prohibit-

ing monopolies, and combinations of companies for the purpose of fixing prices, or ] siting production, or regulating transmutation of any product or eommodit - A note to case reviews'the anti orities 011 the n » ht of corporations to c onsolidate. Ts ir Offer.

An Englishmi n wbo was K iv , en t 0 1 drawing the lon told at a dinner ( one day a thrillh talc of a tiger ^lneb ’ measured tbirt ’ teet in th, and which be, alt# . and unalded ’ had J caused to depart this llte - Among the g> ts was a who listened a^^tly unimpressed, ; to this nnrrativW adventure -Heard any ye \ caught off the <f oast 0 Wales that sof or ’ ered two acres| wlien il was ; spread on dry land?” he iMutred. in a clear, innocent voice a late Y . The hero of tl e tale bushed and looked much and of l " S friends glared J^ 033 the table at tlie guileless Welsl diaiK -Do you mea n to insult friend? he demanded. “No that Ic° not ’ sfl,ld thc ^J 3ll ' ' i ' • n . “but if he inclines to man, placidly,: , , ~ T mi i t ,n font -trom his tiger, I will do take ten feet r „ , „ , i- Ithe fish, out of complime best with ’ ment to him.” ~ Irrigating Canals. u iP e first State to build irMontana is tl It bas creatC(] a rigatmg eana s commission,” with an< t” lalld i^ ven to I Rational government unState by . . commission r— w! ’ : a system ot < irmiis rrrlhas compl*^ cre3> and t , ip stafe wll] land td actual settlers in tracts sell the land tr . , . .. r ice nt the cost of placing tb« of 160 acres a water on tne lan 2 Business. .... „ .. w the returned traveler, S .’ , , S< rs since I left home.” ••So'was sa Y‘ n S to Merchant this moinin a . why, when I left he was ! X' a ^'--fi'- tO WeSt ’” "'“Well, he’s i still ^ llins ^t.”-Pbila-delphia Rressi ^autious Girl. , jnosed to Isabel on a loveBercy—l pi V. , , ly moonlight .'Vol said to bring the matter UCJ - v n^e cloudy night; that she up a^.im . L a tters to stand so I could . d.dn t want n jf ni a bad blame the 4 i >» nJroit Free Press, match. —Det ; Persian Hugs. A squared or the luist Persian rus 1 iri worth aboflt aa < it takes a singh weaver twenty-tb™ days to complete . it This all?" 3 tho " eav , Gr 8 )O , Ut , 4 - , ' . for her wool and labor t ' *' ’ / irths of this amount goes ,ot c- ™i- only >1 - ’ day is left tc 1 j „ ' are suspicious ot the! i ffcuigej*.

| RECORD OF THE WEEK INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. j Mms Heroinefor Bride Syrian Family | las Nai row Escape Dead Bank Robber Identified— Five Paper Plants Merged Fatal Gas thplodon., A romance which had its beginning in , nn act °f heroism on the part of a voud" woman barely past the age fo/shoig dresses was disclosed ihe other .lav in the announcement that Miss Edna Keener of Logansport is married to John iHPei. a brakeman, whose life she saved. Miss Keener attracted much attention last summer iiecause of her bravery m saving a I’anhnndle train from being i Wtetked. She discovered a burning tres- i tie near her home, am], standing on the track -waving her red sunbonnet, she signaled the approaching train ami brought it to a standstill in time to avert disaster. Driver was one of the train’s crew His engagement to Miss Keener resulted from the acquaintance thus begun. I

Jumped for Their Lives. Mr. and Mrs. George Bashara and their child, all Syrians, came near losing their lives in the Cooley block tire at Hartford City. They were asleep in the building, and when they awoke the flames surrounded them. Bashara made a desperate effort to save 81PU in money, which was in another room, but he had -to give it up ami then jump from the second-story window. He had his wile, who was almost suffocated, throw the baby to him. He caught it. but it may die. Mrs. Bashara then had to jump to st.te her lite. She was scantily clad and stood in the snow in her hare feet.

Summitville .Mystery Solved. Sheriff Houston lias been advise I that the dead bank burglar at Summitville has been positively identified as Alfred Brown. His parents are dead. Bert > impson, held at Anderson on suspicion of hating been a pal of Brown, was identified by young Ainsworth Barrett, a young man who came from Hicksville, Ino, to tisit relatives. He recognized the name of Simpson and went to the jail, whore he identified the prisoner.

Large Paper Mills Merged. l ive extensive paper mills and strawboard wm-ks of Delaware Cminty will be merged mt., ihe gigant!-- corporation effected at Bufialo recently. The transfer will be made at once. Company officials have been informed that the corporation officials have accepted the plants They are located at West Muncie, Albany. Eaton and Muncie. Numerous other similar industries in adjoining counties are also to be taken in.

Fatal Explosions of Gas. Two probably fatal explosions of natural gas occurred in Muncie within a few minutes. At the Dickey spool factory l ewis Staggs was horribly burned. Staggs was blown twenty feet. He fell on Otto Lichardson, another workman. ' vas a!sil -‘evei-ely injured. Soon after this \\ . E. \\ hite, a groeer. and his clerk, Claude Dunn, were dangerously wounded by a gas stove explosion in the store. State News in Brief. Farmer Will Hanner, aged 22, was struck by a train and killed at Wheeler. Night \\ atehman William Ray shot and killed a burglar at Summitville. The burglars pal. who was robbing a saloon, escaped.

Chapin- t vas killed and ! several ■ a"* -T. ^ l, . v a R a '- explosion in the Kokomb plate glass fae tory. The pothouse was wrecked. The Indiana coal operators have issue< a circular announcing that all orders re ceived for coal will be booked subjec to the price at time of shipment. James Ryan, a prominent and inoffen sive business man of Richmond, was in stantly killed in a saloon at Cambridg by James Schook of New Lisbon. Richard Watkins was shot and instani , ly killed by his 19-year-old son. Theodor I Watkins, at Brazil. The son says h

fired the fatal shots to save his mother's life. Watkins came home slightly under the influence of liquor and objected to hi- wife attending an entertainment, lie seized a hatcher ami started after his wife, who ran to a bedroom where her son was cleaning a revolver. Ihe husband f flowed and was in the act of striking his wife when the son fired two shots, one ot whieh passed through F father's heart. John E. Scary, aged 27 years, second miller employed by the Noblesville Mill-

ing Company in Noblesville, was murdered the ether day. He was resting on ’ a stairway near a window when an tin- . known person tired a load of buckshot through the glass, the entire contents of the weapon entering Seay's head. William Fodrea. aged 23. son of ex-County ; Recorder Rudrea. was arrested soon after the tragedy on the charge of having committed the crime. He strenuouslj protests his innocence. It is said both Seay and Fodrea were in love with the same girl. An elopement out of the ordinary took place from South Bend recently and end1 ed in the marriage of Georgi' L. Cassa- > day. aged about 18. to Miss Carrie Horein. aged about 20. Because of the standing of the groom's parents, his fath- i or being vice-president of the South Bend I Chilled Plow Company, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the world, the elopement caused a sensation. Noting . Cassaday. it is understood, began to I make love to M;— Horein, who w;.< a chambermaid, it is said, m a local hotel, . < 4 .I..thn

lad snmmcr. G. Burr ( assailay, the father of the groom, is furious and he will take lemil Steps to have the marriage i annulled. The grandfather of the boy, James ('assaday, one of tlie richest men in tlie West, is also furious and will make every effort to free his grandson. Win. Blockley, Evansville, who is dying. was carried into court and given a divorce. Wife had quit him. IL' had his life insurance policy transferred to a friend. i Hendricks A Webb, dry good- dealers at Fratikiim have assigned. Their stock is estimated to be worth from SI2.U(_G to SIS.IHH) and the liabilities, it is said, will rim close to S3OJJOO. J. B. and O. H. Hampton, "f Rich ! mo ld., claim to have perfected an aecty- , the art of photography In making it p - । sible to take pictures al night. i June Morrow was burned t ■ death, at Crawfordsville, her die-- < w<'iing tiro , from a stove. Her mother in frying to : estinguish the damis wa- b d.y ouin d , L about the fr'-e and arm-. * After being Idin I for thirty-six years 6 Mrs. Lucy Fry of Crawfordsville is bee ginning to di iumi'-a objects and even colors. She was stricken blind by neu--5 ralgia. She is now hopeful of complete 8 recovery. a The Indiana State Republican commiti tee will meet at Indianapolis Jan. 21 for the election of officers. The conventions it for the election of district committeemen y will be hold Jan. 22, the caucuses for tht 1 election of delegates Jan. Hl and 11.

•j- INDIANA- TEACHERS MEET. State Association Convention ], Held in Indianapolis. , Indianapolis correspondence; The Indiana State Teachers’ Xssoci • ion held a three days’ meting ; ,t‘ Indian•1P dis ihe opening .e,sion was held at , 1 he Statehouse Ehm- ley evening, when . ' R i 11 “ ■ -■ n, and the incoming 1 ■ 11 “■ K ■■■' '' of v | ‘■ r( " addresses. A mu-.: ,1 program was । leml. red and wo-king committees : .pI pointed. Ihe most important subject to corm•'‘lore the meeting was "What Shall i:Induinas Next in y - ; Whl . ,h in the form Os a -vmposium. Among r he v _. । Sami - , :i . ’An w i; ~ ( D ,n v’ A ' k L Hamilton D. M Getting ami Mrs. O. F. Ki n .,. v . ”f \ alparaiso. The various educational organizations held their meetings at the Sratehou. । itursday morning ami afternoon. The ■ ^HnMay with a paper by I resident Swain of the State I niVPT<lf v nn •• \ \ . • it-.

iers lt v on "A National University.” He -oiid that many difficulties stand in the way of carrying out such a project. Some ’“’ld toe Mew that Congress lack- s liin . < len. po W ,. r ; existing institutions are nf'aid that a great university at Washington would overshadow them; there is a fear that the political atmosphere of .he capital would bo deleterious to the highest interests of a national universitythere is op position to the scheme because >t contemplates the use of public money. He also said that the clamor of the supporter- ~f many unwise schemes. COTU'“ned with the great pressure from the routine of ( ongress, makes it difficult for any cause for education, however mentorioiis, to be undertaken without the unanimous and persistent efforts of the edmanonal people of the country.

AVERTS TRAGEDY IN CHURCH, ’ rt U ' G,rl ,n J’Hliana Prevents Parent from Shooting Her Beau. A tragedy in a church at Newmarket wits narrowly averted by the plnek of a . pre tt 18-year-oM girl. <> np of thp prjn . I ' ipals in the affair was Robert Reeves a brother of the prosecuting attorney of Crawfordsville. Beeves had been courting a daughter -arkm Branch of Newmarket for -orne time despite t j l( . latter s onjection Ilie other night while the couple attended an entertainment in church the irate parent rushed down the aisle and tried to drag the girl out of her seat. Reeves interfered and Branch drew a revolver Miss Branch threw herself upon him an 1 Pinioned his arms until her beau escaped. Ihe row caused a panic- in the sanctuary, women fainting and others being injured by those trying to get out. The assailant was released after paving a heavy fine.

FIERCE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. Mother and Two Sons Nearly Asphyxiated Before A»fractinK Help In Torre Haute 3 s. Josephine Faraway and her two sot John, aged 32. and • larence, aged 24. suffering from asphyxiation. Struggled for many hours to get fresh am and call - - help, and when John reached a wind .- and attracted the attention of smm he fell uncons< ions to the floor hen the physicians ItT i the * re alm «s t <^ad. John besides sufle g from asphyxia- , lion, had, a badly dis.onted shoulder His brother 4nd mother w4 e i n a mO st critical corn! - ion. the brotter having spasms. 1 Jhe "as -aped from ( baseburner stove ‘ .^nd - he cottage home. J and tne ^^~-ey ,airs . desperate to a window 01 7 1 dqor. ^Accident to Car Kills Motorman. Albert Kiley, a n otorman, was thrown from his car at Terre Haute an ’ h^OTH later from internal injuries. The • t id 1 I

Short State Jif-mfe-Ralph Heath. 7. Lafayette, lost a leg | under a Monon train. J. D. Myers. Worthington, has 50.000 bushels of corn in storage. Ties slipped from a car on Brakeman Wm. Beckshultz. Muncie, fatally injuring him. ?«t Evansville Carl Blum, a small boy, was -hot through the tongue by a com-

panion with a rille. •John Brenton, a merchant of Clay City, shot aid killed himself while eraz.oj with drink. He leaves ,•> wile. G. Wolff fi ed a bill in bankruptcy at Butler. His 'iabilitb - are placed at SW.500. with assets of N<.OOO. Jesse Wells was fatally -imr nt Bcru by Frank Rowe, a private in the army, while they were preparing for a hunting trip. Indiana Harbor, the town lai 1 out last June, is humping o. R n;-w honses have been pm u». and a 820.000 hotel is under way. I Orval Williams and Clarence Gable । were stoppt I by two highwaymen near Royal Center and Williamson was relieved of a gold watch. By the explosion of a bottle of medicine in an oven Mrs. Julia Me!-h and a baby of Mrs. Barclay Donahue were seriously burned at Kokomo. I Charles Anderson. Shelbyville, placed a | dynamite cartridge ©u a 'tick of wo<»d and fired a rifle ball at J. Ine . ‘

exploded and the ball, reeomag, em<-rc<; j his leg. Many Hoosier- who went to North Da- ' ; kota last spring are spending the winter . in Indiana. They find that the Dakota “crimp” pim hes tighter than the Indiana I article. ' A man supposed to have been bred Barker of Cuniniingsville. Ohio, was knocked off a bridge seventy fm-t high into the river at Anderson and killed. | The Lake Shor hnv lie ! W Kvbarkewioz of Smith Bend <nd another train killed Mrs. Hiram Barnes ml < - - ao; da .' . Proof Positive. ■'Do yon really believe the good die young?” asked the optimist. "I do.” replied the pessimist, "judging by the pouk y >r- "d a mi bo • : ing house.” Waiting a F.ixorabfe Time. “Did yon a- : daughter'.'’ •‘.Nor yet.” -Why not?” io ■ feel the benefit of h - 'll mb ■ ug — Cleveland I’lain D< ahs. 'ihe A .iin Question. Layaround Lucas Ah! w- 'll live fat while we're here: see dem chickens er- ' round dar farmhouse.' Tired Timothy Yes. but wbo'll ketch ' ’em?-Ohio State Journal.

11 1 ■ MMil J. 'I * Senator Wellington of Maryland is having an um-omforta! Ie time of if. His । holt from ri: Republican party last year P o,s wow llie ; rib-med To him <1 n Pi- s’m-nt Mcf'l Him y was shot / \ i‘ av " • mbined to the ‘ n ‘“ : 1 ■ 1 fi- ( r , nitely estab -c I G. 1., tt ELLINGTON, rl. > r vv • l D a t v\ e :ri i-t .n

said, as reported, that the assassination of the President was - a matter of in--1 ifte,ence to him. He declined to deny or affirm it and Maryland Republicans proceeded to punish him by expelling him from their Hubs. Wellington has become n pessimist, and he has pride enough neither to try to justify himself nor to regain the favor he has so completely lost. On the other hand, the Democrats are giving Senator McLaurin the cold shoulder since he began trying to organ.ze a semi-Republican party in bouth Carolina Dm second-day of the present session o ( ongress Senator I^xlge and Senator Hanna got on a street car together, bound for the down town hotel district. They were a strikingly different tvne.

. , "I*.’ '-“.‘ ‘■-UI. and yet the wealth of each has often been envied and frequently commented upon. The two chatted about the events of the day. and seemed oblivious of the fact that the conductor of the car was standing patiently in front of them waiting for his fare. Lodge was first to realize it. He started to feel first in one pocket, then in another. Senator Hanna pulled back the capacious skirts of his I rince Albert and began a search himself. Hanna found a rough-looking jackknife and four rubber bands. Senator Lodge brought out a gold match safe and a nail hie. Then Hanna looked at Lodge, Ixidge looked at Hanna, anl both continued the -earch. Eventually they produced seven cents between them. The conductor, noting their silk tiles and the distinguished appearance of Lodge, hesitated, but finally reached for the seven cents, with the comment: “I’ll reniember you. jndge, and you can pay me the other three the next time you ride.”

z Um collection of animals, wild, domestic and foreign, at the White House, is being enlarged almost daily by new arrivals from distant places.’ The possum and the parrot have now been joined by a game rooster. It is a bantam, and, alhough diminutive in size, looks capable of winning a championship in the feath•tbeight class if pitted against an adversary of its kind. It is the property of Kermit Roosevelt, to whom it was sent, as was the President's possum, by some admirer in the South. The Roosevelt boys would like to see the rooster fight, but of course the President will not permit an exhibition of this kind in or near the Mhite House. He yielded to Kermit's appeal, however, so far as te have % sma fi coop erected at the south side of the mansion. The possum and the parrot are doing well^ The bird is a Bra7'tu° 0LF 01,86 ? 3 plu lx 1 SpeSh Spanish with fluency. 1 1 ,

One of the cloak room stories told in connection with one of President. Roosevelt’s stag dinners to Congressmen is to this effect: It appears that either int ntionally or otherwise the guests invited to the dinner included a dozen or more Senators who are noted for their 1 ng speeches whenever they indulge in general debate. During the dinner Presi-I-nt Roosevelt led tie- i onversatron on to ■ngressional topics and commented fn-dy upon the beauty anl effectiveness of the middle of one of President IL velt's sharpest and most direct pleas tpr short speeches he was interrupte 1 by the venerable Senator Pettus of Aub-ma, known in senatorial circles as •’O’d Confucius,” w-ho remarked in his droll way. “Mr. Pres-i-dent. I don't think you set us long-winded ftl’ows a very good «-

ample in your first message to Congress. Everyone at the table gathered the point, and for a few moments the laugh wa- <>n the President. Food adulteration and fool fra uh a the United States, says a chemist connected with the A-ri Iltural D pa ■ m nt. are a national - tandaL Sme A tie States have done what they can to c- rrect the alvi-es of whieh every:, ly .;s a right to complain, but the strong h n - of the national government must be a. 1 on the offenders. It is difficult to get butter that is butter. lard th t - lard, coffee that is coffee, vinegar' mt .• vinegar, etc. A man stands a slim clnm •o. getting maple -yrup o • ' y w! n he buys goods labeled with those a Luring names. If an. n buys a bott'e < -e radish he does not get it, nd when ae wants to buy a pot of mustard «t he gets is an add paste comp.mn le 1 of flour or fuller's earth. I might rm over the list of foodstuffs. I would not .>e sure that the market is not stocked with

president Roosevelt has under way au almost complete reorganization of the Treasure Department. Secretary Gage * the retirement of the thre assistant secretaries. Milton E. AD O. D. S^’dmg and 11. A. Taylor. <■ urge k. -udwe... collector m- th p U « has been m tifi< 1 that his place will become vacant in the spring and his successor, in the person of N. N. - »ahan of Oswe -- has been named. Wilbur F. Wakeman/appraiser at New York, has already been removed and his p’ace taken by G K- Whitehe; d. Thoma - r. Xew York and an app dm ■■ of .b-s'inr s vrv Tayl ". will tire as - aas former editor and m m; i tor of the Utica Morning Herald. is •; - ' ' ' ' , . . . (b-p :m ms, • m-blerable num- \ . :!1 ■ in th. employ of the In the government p nto >n who has been there ! ; ears nd who is 82 yeari ■ , - who carnj $4 a day. Another V™’ husbecnempioy- - , h( . , - f mU years. Q. « , r , m p. t 3 employes of the . ...... betw a GO .nd .0 years o1 ■ge