Walkerton Independent, Volume 47, Number 2, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 June 1921 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT Published Every Thursday by THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPEN DENT NORTH I IHEHTV NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD “THE ST. JOSEFI{ CO.”WESKUEB - Clem DeCoudrea, Business Manager W. A. Eadley, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 11.50 Six Months .......... 9C Three Months M TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post ofSce at Walkerton, Ind., m second-class matter. \ Indiana] \ STATE ^EJTS : Bicknell.—Tecumseh No. 1 mine, commonly known as the Martin, burned. The loss on top was practically complete, the tipple, shaker, engines, motors, engine room, supply room, blacksmith shop and all top buildings except inexpensive barns and the fanroom and powder house were destroyed. The loss is estimated at SIOO,000. Two shot firers and two pumpers were in rhe mine at the time. Several hundred men who work at the mine had left about half an hour before the fire started. Two men went down to hunt the pumpers and shot firers, while heroic efforts were made on top to keep the manway from burning. The aid of a locomotive with a line of hose from its tender alone kept this from burning until the men came up an hour and twenty-three minutes after the fire started. Elkhart.—Sixty-five of seventy-two persons who replied to an advertisement for a tenant for a farm, north- । west of the city, own automobiles, but none of them had a team or money with which to buy a team or other necessary farming equipment. The amount needed was about S3OO. Neither did they have security, other than antomobiles, with which to secure funds to purchase equipment M hen ft was proposed to them that they sell their cars and buy equipment, they refused to part with their machines. South Bend.—Wool growers of St. Joseph county have adopted a co-op- ; erative plan of consigning the 1921 i clip and that part of the 1920 clip still on hand to a joint warehouse, where it will be stored, graded and j shipped by experts. Indiana farmers generally are accepting a plan offered by the Ohio Wool Growers’ associa- i tion, which operates a large warehouse at South Columbus, O. Shipment of the wool east from here avoids back shipments necessary when it is sent to Chicago. Indianapolis.—W. F. Stewart, Bloomington, was elected president of the i Indiana Rainbow Division Veterans' ' association at its annual reunion, which was held here. Other officers elected were: Honorary president, Sidnev F. Miller Tndinnnnrxlic -

r. Aimer, inmanapoiis; vice presidents, Charles Gift. Henrv Spring-

er and Byron Young, all of Indianap-

olis; secretary, Herschell M. Sanders, Indianapolis; treasurer, Paul Fechtman, Indianapolis. M abash. —Officials of a Wabash construction company say they have a letter from the attorney general of Indiana, in which, the officials say, the attorney general gives an opinion that contracts issued by the Wabash coun-

ty commissioners for road work, prior to the time the state board of tax commissioners had acted on the proposed bond issued, are valid no matter what decision the tax commissioners may make. Columbus.—Of 31,000 cars of seed ‘corn treated at the seed corn testing station conducted by the Bartholomew county agricultural agent, this spring, more than one-third were found unlit for planting purposes because of disease or of low germination power. ■Enough tested corn to plant 1.600 acres was obtained from the station. It is estimated that 50,000 acres will be planted to corn this season in Bartholomew county. Indianapoli^^ln carrying out the jirovislon biih& law enacted by the recent legislature compelling owners of ferrets to obt^jp licenses to harbor such animals, announcement is made by officials of the cpnservation departhse»t that a fee of’slo will be charged for the first ferret, and a fee of $5 for each additional ferret in the pos- i session of any person, firm or corpro- ' ation in this state. , Indianapolis.—Frank 11. Wheeler, millionaire manufacturer of Indianapolis, President of the Wheeler-Schebler Carburetor compsfny ami one of the found- i ers of the Indianapolis motor speed- I way, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with both barrelof a shotgun at his home in Riverside drive. Bedford.—-’Robert Cazee, age twentyone, anti Elza Flinn, age twenty-one, all of Oolitic, were killed by lightning and Emmet Manuel, age twenty-three, was seriously burned. Evansville.—About 2,000 Elks and other visitors are expected at Evansfllle Wednesday and Thursday, June 8 and 9. for the annual state meeting of Indiana Elks. - Indianapolis.—Governor McCray has accepted an invitation to speak at the Annual state conference of charities 6nd correction to be held at 'Muncie October 23. . I Lafayette.—More than 2,000 graduates and former students of Purdue university an- expected back for gala Week festivities, which precede the commencement exercises June 8. Logansport.-—Nineteen hundred ami fifty white leghorn chickens ]H*rished In a fire <>n a chicken farm north of here. Indianapolis..— Announcement that state agent- will be disjmtched to Spencer and Perry counties mclean up blind tigers if the sheriff.- ami town marshals in those counties fail to curb aunged flagrant violations of the liquor laws was made by Attorney General ; U. S. Lesh, with the sending of letters of warning to officials of these coun- j More than l-yUNX* ,toers near here in he la t w. <k. The tomnt... - , n • A mdrlu Preserving j: •y, •

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CHAPTER Xl—Continued. —l3— fie was a curious instrument of such abstract justice. He served fate as if it had sworn out a police court warrant. As a nemesis he was a j clown, or at least a beadle or a bailiff. The manner in which he served inevitability will appear. Mr. Sidney’s crime, I soon saw, whatever manner or kind of crime it had been, was one of unescapable consequence. “A man named Dravada,” said Morgan, after we had looked at each other in interrogative hostility for an instant, “has come to our agency with a very strange tale. From what I learn of the things he and his disrepu- : table attorney have done, I can see that they are heading directly into the , penitentiary. I understand that the lawyer is dead and that all their schemes are closed. Dravada has come to our agency, and I have come : directly to you. I want you to under- ■ stand our methods of doing business. They are honest. The paper Dravada carries about him says that crime has been committed. Are you familiar ; with that paper?’’ “I have seen what a blackmailing lawyer said was a copy of a sheet In the possession of Dravada.” “I am not much of a literary man,” said Morgan, taking from a black leather case a manuscript which he handed to me, "but I’ve read ‘The Moonstone,’ ard this looks to me like a couple of chapters copied out of it. Probably you are familiar with ‘The Moonstone.’ ” “I have read It several times.” “Then what do you make of that manuscript?” I looked at several of the pages. The manuscript was a copy of part of “The Moonstone.” “I am right, then,” said Morgan, i “ ‘Moonshine’ it had better be called. That’s the manuscript the maid stole out of your man Jed’s room and that Dravada took after the lawyer had been killed. Here's my reasoning—j maybe you wkl be interested: This man Jed and this fellow Dravada ; v/orked for Mr. Sidney in Montevideo. Dravada is a thief; Jed isn’t much better. Dravada got one sheet of a manuscript that had something to do with a concealed crime. Jed got the rest of the manuscript, so Dravada says. Dravada has been trying to

make Jed go 50-50. He has been try-

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Lien muiurr jcu “Now here’s the way I look at It: A man like Jed does not go to the trouble of copying a couple of chapters of ‘The Moonshine’ and planting the copy in his room just to devil a desperate fellow like Dravada. He does It for a purpose. That proves he has the real manuscript. That proves

As ’Ophi "I Suppose You're Something to Miss Sidney, Too.” there Is a concealed crime. Our agen- ; cy is interested in finding out what that crime was. As an agent of the law I am Interested in this case. Are you? Is this family interested?” “I Bln not, and the family is not.” “I'll take your word for it, but I’ll see Mr. Sidney.” “It is quite impossible. He never sees callers. I am his doctor. I should forbid it.” “Then I'll seo Mrs. Sidney.” “That also Lb impossible. I am her representative.'’ “Well, I’ll t&lk to Miss Sidney.” “That also I? out of the question.” “I suppose you’re something to Miss Sidney, too.” “I am her fiance.” “You are a little bit of everything around here. Well, how about seeing this man Jed?” “That can bp arranged,” I said, and I rang for Jed. When he came in, I said: “Jed, This If Mr. Morgan, of the Metropolitan Detective agency. He wants to talk you.” “Yes, sir,” said Jed, and I went out of the room. In about twenty minutes Jed came to me again. “Mr. Morgan wishes to sj^ak to you once more,” he said. “Well?” I said, looking at him Inquiringly. “A downright, direct and positive sort of a perron,” he said, smiling, “but although keen, not a real intel- ! ligence. He is waiting for you. sir.” CHAPTER XII. Mr. Morgan was pacing forth and i xck tn the office much enraged.

“Look here,” he said. “This does! not get us anywhere. My time is val- ( uable. 1 am wasting a lot of it. I’ll I tell you now I've got enough information to know this is the sort of case we like, a tough case. I haven't been fooled a bit. You may not be interested. Maybe no one here is interested, but I'm interested. Do you get tlmt, Mr. Doctor, Mr. Representative, Mr. Fiance? I’m interested. This case is going to be gone into. There’s a crime concealed somewhere which will do our agency good to discover. We sha’n’t do it for money. We shall do it for publicity. The advertising I will he worth thousands of dollars to ! us. Do you understand me?” “I know you can make life very mis- [ erable for us for a couple of days. You will have to use your own judgment." “I can pack that lawn out there with reporters and photographers from the city. They'll see and talk to Mr. Sidney. Take my word for that. They’ll see and talk to Mrs. Sidney and to j Miss Sidney. I can bring that down , to you by midnight.” “The house has some protections,” । I said. “You might suggest that to ; the newspaper people for their own 1 good.” “The shyster and that common thief Ann Forth got in, didn't they?” “I don’t know Ann Forth.” “No, but you know Agnes Mitchell. Well, you know Ann Forth, man. Say, I you simpleton, you don’t know \vhat you're up against. This story just as it stands—copy of sheet from manuscript—Spaniard—running off with Jed—theft of manuscript—death of shyster—Ann Forth back in house — hidden crime—millionaire recluse — beautiful daughter—haunted house — it’s copy for every paper in the country.” I knew it and was appalled by the certain prospects. “It would be a very cruel and useless thing to do,” I said, “but as I told you, you must use your own judgment. We are not interested in this child's nursery story you are follow- ' Ing, and I do not intend to have peo- | pie who are not well disturbed by the I questioning of a detective.” I knew how to deal safely with , Morgan, but the method was out of the question. I should indeed have been a simpleton if I had not known.

All I had to ask was “How much?”

paying blackmail, knowing that It was only a gradual descent to ruin. It was better to go in one direct plunge if It were fated. Morgan looked at me steadily for a few moments as if giving me a chance to listen to the voice of reason. His method had been perfect. He was beyond a legal suspicion, and I knew

he was dangerous. “Well, young man,” he said at last, “we are both wasting time —at least I am. But it’s only fair to you to tell you that this is not the end of the case. It's the kind of a case we like, something tough and difficult. We may not make any money out of it, but when we are ready, we at least shall be paid in publicity. You । needn’t be afraid of the reporters and photographers Just now. It’s too good a case to waste that way. There’s always that, no matter what we turn up. “This case Is just good enough to spend some money on. It’s just ; good enough to send a couple of men I down to Montevideo. I’ll tell you in advance that is what we’re going to do. “We’ll go into the life of Mr. Sidney with a fine-tooth comb, and we’ll do : it well. We are accustomed to doing ' such things well. And we’ll do this ; well. We’ll get something here or in South America. We’ll follow that something until we know why Jed copied two chapters of ‘The Moon- ! : stone’ and hid them in a box built in [ the springs of his bed. “Then we'll come back here and ask ' for a little more co-operation in serv- | ing the purposes of the law, and if we I don’t get some help, the reporters and ■ photographers will be swarming on I the lawn. That’s all, Mr. Doctor.” I knew at first glance that Morgan's face was malevolent. Now I saw it extraordinarily so. “I’ll have Jed show you the door,” I I said. “And tell him we do not know whether we take Dravada to South i America or not. It will make him happy.” Jed was scrupulously the servant as j we dismissed Mr. Morgan. That was the fashion In which in- i evltability entered the house. We I were no longer dodging chance. Mor- ; gan surely and certainly represented ' fate. It had become only a matter of I time when in one fashion or another ; the security of this home, so carefully studied, would be invaded successfully. That was apparent. It might be that Morgan would be able to expose i us to nothing more than the publicity ; he mentioned. But that was sufficient; | it would be destructive. I had telephoned McGuire, telling I him of Morgan's part in the new turn i of events, and he later informed me ; that two of the Morgan agency op- - eratlves had sailed for South America, i taking Dravada with them. The hunt I had begun—but a long way off. The hunters knew as much of the j quarry as I did, and I had no way of knowing whether It was likely that they could find a trail back to Hartley house. It was impossible not to feel uneasy. Dravada had been to me, whatever he had been to Jed, merely an incident grotesque and extravagant, a preposterous dash of color in odd conditions. The lawyer had been resourceful and cunning enough, j

but his action s had to be those of a slinking feral animal, lie was not to he greatly feared, but Morgan was. He had the u lachinery for the work. His cupidity v as aroused. Every rascal who smelll ?d the mystery of Hartley house be ne eager to follow the scent into th, rong box of tin* house. I thought r** is not assuming enough responsibility!— I asked Mrs. Sidney again if it w n dbe of service to give me the secre ’ the house. I told her I was far fr- certain that my reliability and trio .vorthiness had been established, but ! f they had been, and if the question sl l re merely one of fidelity ami stai a ness, I hoped I could be regarded ‘ al. “If only se qualities were involved, Johma, ;aid Mrs. Sidney, “you could have tn » inmost secrets of my (soul. I woul I rust you with anything anywhere, b or your own salvation I would not e this terrible thing in your console^' less. Knowledge of it would curse >u. It will be unless WJ fl And, by George! She Danced Up and Kissed Her Mother and Kissed Me. there is expiation in a gn at love, and exculpation In self-sacrifice. Jed’s soul is gone beyond redemption. I dare not think of Mr. Sidney nor of myself. But Jed is a gross sinner.” She was by nature and wish an unemotional, untheatric lady, but she was dramatic in her seriousness. Then she said: “I should like to have you for a ! son.” I was much embarrassed —the more so when she kissed me. To conceal some disconcerting emotions I laughed awkwardly and went on about my j business. I was to go blindfolded into ! the intricacies of the strangest situations I ever encountered. With early October beautiful days came and brought tranquillity. Life is full of zest in October, the rich, rare month cf the year: physical

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was now gio I could havi days of hapj common sens* Isobel broke Occasionally I tried to belie' self by playin man available

41UU1 <1 * <ll l<imv senses, I kne* All she did and friendlily man, and if « i it was a comi ,I deserved. With the n , Jed back and ‘ ed. our famil lished. Dinne the sociable have been, be< superserviceal event. Heretofore to restrict am at easy conver and left us t( It was owin favorable dlsj dinner one ex had opportuni : which concern “Mrs. Sidne placed the co had retired, “. me from the : “What pos ; kindly lady. “I am enga “Which is I said Isobel. “It is,” I re a trial and to release. I do I in by the abs ; merit.” “John, my I “what’s happ “Nothing, b better if I sob preposterous “But there ney suggeste ' exists, and w We don't wai I but you don’t . apparent, ant “I don’t ca i me or not,” s I are going to > precise mind John. While and I are eng “Isobel I” h “I’m going I this man Jo] frothed,” said . reconcile yoi । you are a vic me, and I ) : Mother, you | I am engagec to remain en ! and I love y< And, by Gt I kissed her m cr At times I leal person, was methodi* no escape. T night as I ma_. to the day of so this night j previous yen

sudden and astonishing recovery of strength. He walked about his room without assistance and was in a high degree of animation.” I recalled that night with the sharp- : er interest because the entry I was about to make this night was substantially if not precisely to the same effect. Mr. Sidney had again revealed an astonishing recovery of strength and had displayed the greatest animation. He had asked us to have our dinner in his room, a thing very sel- ; dom done, and lie had been wonderful । as the majestic, courteous head of the . family, full of humor and joviality. Jed was an amiable servitor, ban- ■ tered by Mr. Sidney from time to time. ! Isobel’s animation was as infectious as her father’s, but Mrs. Sidney, I thought, had a look of apprehension in her eyes* which was something apart from the pleasant smile on her face. She seemed to find the occasion significant, and I wonder that I had to read my diary to be refreshed in memory. \\ hen I had read it, I also saw the significance, and turning the page in the record of the year before, I read: ' “Mr. Sidney is in a condition of exhaustion which might be called a complete and dangerous collapse. . . . Dr. Brownell, summoned in alarm, . says that during his acquaintance with I the case this transition overnight from I extraordinary activity to exhaustion I has been noted once every year and at approximately the same time of the i year, if not precisely on the same | date." The apprehension which Mrs. Sidney could not wholly conceal had this good foundation. Mr. Sidney was in the periodic miracle of renewed health i and strength, but for whatever cause, , he would be found tomorrow morning । in a precarious condition of weakness. The event seemed so certain that I thought it best to acquaint Dr. Brownell that night of the premonitory I symptoms. I decided to telephone a message to I >r. Brownell’s residence in the city, to be given to him immediately if he weTe awake or as soon as he arose in the morning. I did not want to be overheard, by any chance, by any one, in telephoning this premonitory message, and thought that the office would be my most secure place. The house was not yet in full darkness when I came down the stairs to the main hall. It was lighted, and the stairway leading directly to Mr. Sidney’s room was lighted, which indicated that Jed was still with Mr. Sidney. The office door never was locked. I did not want Jed blundering in on me while I was telephoning. He would be along presently, I thought, ami I decided to go out on the main portico until by the extinguishing of the lights I should know he was on his way to bed. I was on my way to act on this plan when the light in the stairway leading to Mr. Sidney’s room was extinguished, and I knew Jed was on his way downstairs. I did not have time to reach the

entrance. I doubted that I even had time to retrace mv stens. I did not

1 been beautiful before I rifled. • hours, but not complete dness. I could use my ■ • part of the time, but it down at other times. ' thought her willful and ‘ re that she amused herT fhn 4.1. - » —

? tne devil with the only , but when I came to my v I was a fool. was to associate frankly with the only available he liked to be with me, •liment I did not see that ?tum to normality, with immediate alarms quiety routine was re-estab-r, which had been less occasion that it might 'ause of Jed’s malevolent •ility, became a pleasant Jed had made it a point 1 embarrass our attempts sation. Now he withdrew » ourselves. g to tlds extraordinarily •osition that I, coming to ening in a sullen mood, ty to take up a subject ted me. y,” I said when Jed had ffee-tray beside her and I must ask you to release drsurd position I am in.” tion, John?” asked the ged to Isobel,” I said. a torment and a trial.”

plied with warmth. "It is rment from which I wish not want to be hedged urdities of this arraageboy,” said Mrs. Sidney, ened to you?” ut I’m confused. I’d feel el and I were not on this footing.” was a reason,” Mrs. Sidd mildly, “and it still e relied upon you, John, it to make you unhappy, care for Isobel. That’s so I it helps us so much.” re whether he cares for aid Isobel suddenly. “We em&in engaged. Get your reconciled to the fact, you are in this house, you aged to be married.” er mother exclaimed. to have the freedom that in brings me as my beIsobel. “Both of you can jrselves to that. John, tim. You are engaged to <now you are unhappy, see me do things because i to John. Well. I intend gaged and to do things—m both.” ■orge! she danced up and other and kissed me. IAPTER XIII. hated myself as a methodbut it did no good. I 'al, and from it there was - kept a diary. And each i de an entry, 1 turned back ■ the year before. In doing | I read in the entry’ of the .r: “Air. Sidney made a

' want to meet Jed. So I stepped into a I sort of little lounging space off the hall, which was quite dark. In a few minutes Jed went by, humming, not singing. I had expected him i to be very tipsy, considering the jovial mood of Mr. Sidney It had even I oceured to me that once a year, on a

certain date—one to be commemorated Sidney joined Jed in the wine and that this caused the relapse. But Jed was not drunk, his step was ‘ steady. ■ | (TO BE CONTINUED.) I MARK ADAPTABILITY OF MAN Automobile, Airplane, and Submarine Prove His Right to Rule Over the Natural Kingdom. In the competition for survival, leafeating insects must be green, like their prey, or perish; woodpeckers, like the bark; the tiger, striped like sunshine through the rushes. The fittest survive. “A black sheep” is more than a figure of speech. Tha struggle for existence demands his murder in the flock of white, conspicuous in contrast. Adaptation or death. The crafty little chameleon Is the prince of color adapters. Faculties used, are sharpened; if neglected, they waste away into vestigia—the appendix in man. Eyes of moles and burrowers are slowly closed wiith skin and fur. The fluffy little lap dog has weak eyes. But cavern toads, with eyesight almost gone, will recover dim perception in slowly ;

graduated light. And night-prowling cats improve their sight to penetrate shadow land. Man noticed the pupils of his eyes contract in sunshine, and enlarge in darkness —saw the bat, and understood. On all sides he saw this principle at work: Bears, fur coated, restricted to the cold; the dolphin, in the sea; the eagle, the bird of freedom, alert always to escape in flight. He therefore devised the automobile, the airplane and the submarine, to jump from mountain top to ocean bottom. This adaptability of his body of dlversified surroundings has made him monarch of the natural kingdom. Alarm Clock for the Deaf. An alarm clock which will prove useful to the deaf and also to those whom the ordinary alarm clock falls to arouse lias recently been patented. At the hour at which the alarm is set not only does the bell ring but a wooden ruler taps the sleeper gently on the head until the “cease action” lever is pulled. This should prove efficacious except for those who sleep with their heads under the bed clothes. The invention has received the patronage ot the American Association of the Deal and Dumb. Something Doing Then. If only more millionaires had the imagination of poets, sighs a Florida editor, what a wonderful world this might be! But wouldn’t ft be a still more wonderful world if more poets had the incomes of millionaires? Springfield Republican. Burke on National Defense. "Education is the cheap defense of nations, ’’ was uttered by the EngUaJ statesman. Edmund Burke.

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SEES FRANCE KINGDOM AGAIN Seeress Also Points Out That Present Leaders Are Reincarnation of Country's Great Men. Considerable attention is being paid to the revelations of Marguerite Vols, ; who predicts that France will have a king in 15 years, and that the divinity will appear in France, observes the i Living Age. M. Clemenceau is a re-

incarnation of Robespierre, and M. Millerand of Louis XIV. Maurice Barres was once Danton. Debussy was not only Mozart, but also Michael Angelo and Peter the Great. Paul Adam, the fine French writer who recently died, was, in former life, Socrates. Regularly Mlle. Vols summons to her

। the great men of history—presumably . those who are not reincarnated—such • as Pindar, Homer and Plutarch. Shi । is compelled to spend 12,<J00 francs a year for candles and incense in order to preserve the right vibratory ati mosphere which makes possible these revelations. Sans commentaire. Her Locks Were False. After a siege of typhoid fever my hair all came out and in order to make it come in better I had it all cut off. Had to wear a wig. One afternoon late I went to the train to meet some friends and just as the engine whizzed by there was an unusually strong gust of wind. To my ..mazement and horror my hat and my hair went flying down the platfoim ami there 1 stood looking for all the world like a brand-new robin. I cried out: “Oh, there goes my hat and my hair.” Os course that drew everyone’s attention and it seemed years before a kind young man returned it to me. I wasn’t long in getting away from the curious crowd; my sisters greeted the newly | arrived friends.—Chicago Tribune. Tennis balls for shipment overseas are sealed in cans to prevent them from going dead.

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“ANGEL” OF SENATE PAGES Political Opponents of Senator Elkina Aver He Is Appearing in Entirely New Light. When Senator Phelan of California retired from the senate there was an air of gloom around the haunts of the pages on the Democratic side which couldn’t be dispelled. The California senator has been the official angel of

. Illi the pages for years and he had seen to it that they got tickets for baseball games and such things. Being a page without having an angel is hardly worth while. About this time Senator Davis Elkins of West Virginia heard about the desperate situation of these boys and

j declared he would be the official angel j for the suffering pages. Since Senator Elkins is supposed to own a lot of coal mines and oil wells and perhaps a rail- ' road here and there, if they haven’t been mislaid lately, nobody could make a grander angel and the pages see before them a summer marked by ball games, strewn with lollypops and ice cream.—Buffalo Express. Pearlie’s Sorrow. Upon returning from kindergarten one afternoon Jerome said to his mother: "Oh. mamma, Pearlie Peterson cried and cried in kindergarten today.” “What was the matter, Jerome?” the mother inquired, sympathetically. “Well, you know.” Jerome replied, ■ “Miss Finn let us have a Washington’s I birthday party, and Pearlie brought a I handkerchief for Washington, and Miss ; Finn toid her he was dead.” Preventive Measures. “Why are you so anxious to play bridge?” “Somebody will play the piano if we don’t.” More than 5.000 pieces of one meteor which fell in lowa were picked up after it burst.