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S ’\ , :,v >.'' . r. •/r-’- ■ , 'yy.': ;t v;:- ' ‘V .i'kv,- M $. W FAWCHiLti, Prop. ^ R f v m j a . t / 'i M f ' ^ . i '■■' :1 >r •• Hymn-Writers. •• , It is a)b American liabit tor the fam< ily to ifi’oup about the piano once a ''Keek and sing hymns, each member ^^lling for bis favorites among the 60 iOE more 'whic^ he knows by heart, ill foims of literature, the words of Hymns have the widest appeal, and the -or^nary mnn can remember more , hirmn-ttines than all the other cona?; ' plete tunes he can muster. The hymn- writer is thus the most popular of all artists who express themselves in words and melodies. Yet he frequently renmlDS obscure. The people . who knpW hiS songs do not remember him. Ehren persons who know the words and the music of scores of hymns will confess that they never looked in the hymnal to see who wrote them. It was the good fortune of the late Ira p. Sankey that his manly voice and enthusiastic personality were associ ated with his tunes. No doubt the extra heartiness with which people ’ usually break forth into a Sankey hynim is due to the fact that so many have heard him lead them. The quali ty of Sankey’s work is indicated in the story of the beginning of his alli ance with Moody. It is said that Moody heard him leading a revival hymn, at a religious convention, and asked in excitement who he was. A neighbor told him, and expressed ad miration for his fine voice. “I don’t imow anything about his fine voice,\ replied Moody, “but I do know that he feels every word he sings and be lieves every word he feels.\ Sankey was a doer as well as a singer of the 'Word, says the Youth’s Companion. He responded to Lincoln’s first call for volunteers. At the end of his life be was afflicted with blindness and ill health, but be kept bis fervent spirit And the income from his published wprk went largely to religious Institu tions. #c»od Roads b y a n B x p e i r t By H. H. GROSS, SecniaryNaUonal Gook Roads IlBafua.. Worrying About the Future. A rich man in Cincinnati ordered his coffln in advance years ago. Paid 9500 for i t When be died last week be bad grown too big to go into it. Ijots of men and women order their coffins in advance. They worry and weaken their ■wills by worry over dis asters that never come, difficulties they never meet and rivers of trouble they never have to cross. Many lives Imve been and are made miserable, hopeless and profitless, remarks the Philadelphia Press, because people re fused to move, or marry, or take a place, or edter a business for fear of contingencies and risks that never came .and duties and obligations that were mere shams. Every home is clut tered and Uttered with things that are hept waiting for use on this chance or that, and then never used—coffins, all, that have been ordered in advance. These things are dusted, and moved, and kept from the moths, and packed and repacked, and in the end all la ‘wUste, worry and empty effort. Ah' official of the British admiralty was \flUed with despair” the other day -7-ahd openly, in parliament—over the increasing cost of warships and—tte-j-aai rapidity with which new models make them obsolete. Ten years ago the flrst-class battleship Caesar cost less than a million pounds, he said, while aow a Dreadnought costs nearly two million pounds. Last year the admir alty sold for a Uttle more than twenty, six thousand ppunds a battleship ifblch Was domplet^ in 1891 a t a cost of almost nine hundred thousand pounds. Such are the penalties of process, which did not have to be lii the days of the “wooden walls” .^^!-fl^-NelBon's Victory was 40 .years old when It fOught^at Trafalgar, N ALL the questions before the American, people to-day, none is inore misunderstood than the one that heads tjiis article. - It is high time this subject was understood and acted upon intelligently. The follo'Wing condensed statement may serve to clear the atmosphere and show that the budding of good roads is not an impossible task. ■We often hear the statement: “There are 60 miles of roads ia our township; at $5,000 per mile it 'wpuld cost $300,000 to build them.” Therefore they assume the task is an impossible one, as it would be from that viewpoint. The facts are that only the main highways need to be unproved and from 15 to 25 miles in most townships would be ample. In the central west $3,000 per mile would be the average cost, so the outlay ranges from $65,000 to $75,000 and not $300,000, as stated. Of this amount the township should pay aroout one-third, the state one-third and the general government onVthird, and this is what we should work on. The township’s part should be paid by issuing 30-year bonds at say four per cent, interest. In order to meet the interest and pay off the bonds it would, require the township to raise from $1,000 to $1,500 per year. This burden in a township will be scarcely felt. If in a state like Illinois, with 1,500 townships, the state should pay for state aid at the rate of $3,000 per township per year for ten years, making a total for the state for state aid of $15,000,000, the tax on farm property to raise this amovmt would be about 2 ^ cents per acre per year! \Witli state aid the townships can build gravel or stone roads upon the main highways at an average cost of ten cents per acre pep year. This will cover both the local tax and the state aid tax. The first step toward an equitable solution is an, up-to-date stab aid law. Among the states that are taking steps to change their constitu tions so the state may aid in building the roads are 'Wisconsin, Kentucky, Alabama and Arkansas. No state in the central west would gain so much by state aid as Illinois, due to the enormous amount of city and cor porate property located in that state. Farm property pays only 30 per cent, of the state taxes, while the city of Chicago alone pays over 40 per cent. Fifteen states are now building roads by state aid and it works to the satisfaction of every- ^ one. When state aid is es tablished national aid will soon follow and then the question will be speedily solved. Fashion Makes Bond Slaves By BUME RISBET. We put on hoots to keep out the /cold and they soak in the damp; stockings to help the absorbing process, and thus con firm the risk of consumption. Nature makes us all beautiful, or would do so if we gave her a fair chance; and<we spend yeaj?.hi bringing nature down to a level not, ,jo described in any simile. Nature me& t ip endow us with sinews and muscles to give; and take a squeeze, and we poultice them' all over until they are flaccid and shrink at the slightest forde. Nature made the Greeks, and the Greeks owed what pOwhts they possessed to the restraint they displayed in letting natupe alone. Art, having no humtui nature now left unspoilt, points to the old Greeks. Taste admits art to b6 light, yet yields to fashion, while that graven calf stands ■withTeimeteW hoof .upon the roses and the lilies, calling itself the god of Modesty, Purity, irKer hauds and f , A Ne*w Ifork charity organization Bfids ItBelC in possession of a hand- iBome and Costly Irish lace gown re- jpelvedlii rissponse to , a call for sec- «id-hand,ciotthlng to he. distributed •inphg the poor. The donor, a wealthy Society woman, wrote that she bad ^iw^>^^''the dress but once and did not and i t comfortable, but thought It ;i^ught to be good for some needy per- V Kph. thia tale Win do to go with the „ imclent one of the Prehch queen ■wfio^ •shed, '‘W^hy not give them cake?” . when .told, that her’ subjtets were ! wlthqqt bread. . and lay bare her breast, a purity which can show, a naked arm and blush to show a naked foot. We cannot improve upon the naked foot. The hand may wear rings, and to degraded senses look improved; the neck may have its chains, the ear, the arms, and ankles, even the nose,' rings, aceordiflg to the fancy of the wearer, or the taste of the nation. I do not like rings or anything that divides the lines of symmetry, yet if one part be covered gold'toay be worn with advantage on other portions, but I defy any cover or orna ment yet invented by man to improve the foot, which God has already 60 beautifully covered. ’ • We mufSe the feet in wool or cotton and cramp them inside the stiffest of tanned skins, dead skins over living skins, and think that this can be healthy. We shape them according to a fashion, square, ro(md or pointed toes, never according to nature ahd the foot. '■'.J . Hplland has. at least reached the se- YiSteT dl^lty pf ajL ultimfitum, and 1Pa#trp;ffii^t,.answei‘ bpltofe Ndveipher aL Apparently the naval circles In aihitcbiand 'think It would be nice to '• ^winter In the balmy climate of the West Indies. . h^s been inveiitlgat- ■ I ieit cqiuB dropped Into the ^ohtrlbm ■ ,Pon h«es as ever? If not, we shall Aeclde at once that fho world Is grow- dagbetten 'Picthres of ytrpmen h^teister* have. ‘ t the Parle law dfre^: itty,PB;.ta’e. gte4fid' {hal .piihlilatloh vrdviid give the hetter-iookihg'ones ail ; .#vafita|e oyefvthejH«>f*fatrdr4' sl»-- Airisliip’s EHiciency iii War By ALEXAimiEll CRAUAM BE^ As to the ultimate type of airship, that^ to my mind, is a question that cannot; he answered. There are two distinct classes of aerial vehicles—balloons, which are light er than air, and airships, which are heavier thdh air. I beljeye ihat aerial navigation ■will be solved by the heavier than air ma chines, aiid consequently am ^ving all my attention to that class. . fi'here are three' varieties of heavier than a ir ffiachines---ae?odrotoes,' helicpplefh and the ornithopter. Aerq^omes ate; di* -yidfed into manf. iype3,, and'ihe,.fypq, t h |t w ill eyentudly he siteceteMfiyill he decided by experiments now being made, hui 1 have the greatest confidence jn the tetradons. As torthe pteh^hle influence on social and pdiitical conditibjas,: I might teply that 1 am hpt inteteStdd ih that phate pt'the’ tion; and„have not given, it seridus thought, I ain'^.’j'/' ankioiijs Oiily to succeed withofit peferenee to the uses, to ■which file.' machine map f e ptit, hut h' wih, .say’ that the siiccssS o f lh o airship 'Sdjd te'volntiohize war-fi fare. I t noay become, in faej,, a, war exterminating : agdhep, and thks ehd’ail 'armed'conflicts hOtWOen. hd^ tidps, por iflstance^ as ah, j)ljiUs.iratihd of the .ttemhp-;, aohih i i ^ i p wljihh tiitf Sitehip^^ *^^ Im -pati. a $7jdbD;- 0 6 4 iship ,noi|ht '.ea^ilyj ho:- destteyOd. by 'P 'beap*. •maehhih^i ahd ‘ .bjr ^tho > saipo, ageaeifes, ithoJe; ditif!.*:'! ■'/■A/iif/tln ' ' :i OF FAMILY OF FIVE, DAUGHTER AND MOTHER ONLY ONES WHO HAVE NOT VANISHED. NO CLEW THE MISSING MEN strange Mystery Overhangs Colorado Household—Friends Unable to Account for Calamity—No Apparent Motive. Loveland, Col.—Some dreadful mys tery overhangs the Garlough family, Whose three male members, one at a time, have dropped from sight. The last one to vanish, Paiil,'a'ged 24, left behind a 19.;year-old sister. May, as well as his mother, who Is at present visiting relatives in London, Ont, who has been Informed by her daugh ter by ■wire' of tbe last calamity to be^ fall the family. ■Without the slightest motive, the girl declares, with a happy, ideal home, with no woman In the- case, her father, L. E. Garlough, a prosperous contractor and builder, dropped out of sight over three years ago and has not been, heard from since. Last July Ed. Garlough, aged 19, failed to return from work one, even-. Ing, and the family has never learned whether he Is dead or alive. And now Paul, the sole support of the mother and sister, has gone just as myste riously, just as silently, just ’as strangely as his father and brother. Miss Garlough scouts the Idea that the boys have joined their father. She is positive that they have never heard from him and equally certain that they all had no good reason for de serting the family. Entirely at a loss to advance any theory for the calam ities which have befallen the family. Miss Garlough Is keeping solitary vigil in the cozy cottage that was once a happy home, confident that “the boys” and “dad” ■will come hack. Mrs. Garlough shares her daughter’s faith that somewhere, some, time, her loved ones will return. She has never got a divorce, and her stanch faith has never wavered. “Why, dad was just the best father a girl ever- had.” said Miss Garlough. ' 2 Keeps Constant Vigil 'for Boys” and “Dad.” \the HllSBilllB A tllfl / •: HAVEG E 6 BlilTtE “He was always so good to us, and his whole Ufa.'.centered around his heme. There isn't one thing that I know of that could lure hlin away. “And Paul -and Ed. went to work after father disappeared. We expect ed every day to hear from him, or that he would come walking in some day and explain his long absence.\ Near tears, but struggling bravely with her emotions, she continued: “While we -thought It very strange that dad should just, vanish Into thin air, as It were, when Ed. dropped out of sight the mystery grew deeper than ' eveV> \And n 6w Paul Is, gone, leaving me all alone.. I know they didn’t go of their .own free will. There is some- tijlng; terrible; . something uncanny about it'all that makes me shudder,” and Miss Garlough hid her face In her bauds. . Search by the officers and friends of the family, whieh came here seven years ago from London, Gnt., has failed to unearth thq slightest clew to WHEN, FIGHT CEASES THE flRED^ com b a t a n t s look LIKE^*\' ITALIAN SUNSET. Evansville, Ind.—^Judge Winfrey found it necessary to Impose a fine of J50 and a jail sentence of 60 days on Fred Gebhardt, a grocer residing on Virginia street, who had been ar raigned before him,. ,.;A bottle of 'whl»- key, a case of eggs, Fred Gebhardt and his good wife got badly mixed. Patrolman Hughes found the mixture in Qebhardt's grocery. He says it looked and smelled like an enormous rum omelette. The first Ingredients In the egg hodgepodge were the whisky and Gebhardt. The mixing was superin tended by Gebhardt himself. At this v - r t l ; ■> The Eggs Flew Thick and Fast. stage of the game the idea of an ome lette had not occurred to GebhardL It was later, when heated by good whisky and taunts from his good wife, that the beautiful scheme 'with the shanghai berries occurred to him. When the conception came to him he hastened, like a true artist, to put it Into concrete form. Mrs. Gebhardt was standing behind the counter of the grocery store. She noticed that her husband’s move ments 'were slow and inaccurate. She told him he was “soused.” It was then that the poetical idea of a human omelette entered 6eb- hardt’s brain. He turned to a case of eggs and began hurling them at Mrs. Gehharlat. Mrs. Gebhardt retaliated, with hen fruit from another case, and in less than a minute cotmters, glass cases, walls, windows and floor were cov ered with frothy whites and streaky yellowh. Mr. and Mrs. Gebhardt were unrecognizable under their coatings of ponltrV product Softie of- the egg? were not fresh, and the smell acepm- panying them was akin to a packing house odor. The' fight ended ■with a 12-lnch shell in tbe shape of a water melon. Mrs. Gebhardt ran from the store. The battle sends Gebhatet to Jail for 60 days. For his boate the peo ple of Evansville pay $24. ' )iim i Bin C0D( SURLY BELGIAN FORCES CAPTAIN. AND MATE TO WALK THE PLANK, SINGLEwHANDED APT OF PIRAC'^ With Aid of Cabin Boy He Attempts, - to Navigate Ship, But Is Wrecked on Island Reef---Arrested and Held for Trial. Sydney.—Details have just reached! this city of a cold-blooded but highly romantic instance ‘ of single-handed, piracy. Joseph Mortimer, a burly Belgiaa cook, has been committed for trial on the charge of forcing the captain and mate o£ an American' built schooner on which he was employed, to walk the plank In' regular old-fashioned Capt. Kidd style. After disposing of them in this fashion and with the help, of only a cabin boy, he attempted to navigate the ship Into an Australian ■port, intending there to sell It. Know- tag absolutely nothing about seaman ship, this strange crew succeeded only- in running their craft on to the reefs which fringe the Gilbert Islands in the- ^outh Pacific. There they were ar rested and held for trial by the local authorities. . The cabin boy, George Jackson, an English lad, broke down and told the ^w som e story. It appears that the schooner, which was a two-master of about 50 tons burden, and named the Neuvre TIgre, hailed from Callao, Peru, and was engaged In the coastal trade. On Us last voyage It left that port with a' cargo of coke, carrying a crew of four, al) told—the captain, the mate, Mortimer, the cook, and Jack- son, the cabin boy. The vessel--had not been at sea many hours when^ the night being a dark one, Mortirner crept on deck with a tomahawk, and, stealing up be - hind the mate, who was standing at the wheel, aimed a terrific blow at his head. Had It reached home it would have dashed the man’s brains- out, but, though unconscious of any danger, the mate moved his head slightly. Instead of striking his head' HORSE HIDES IN BEDROOM. Detroit Equine Mounts ■ Stalr«, Crathet Through Weak. Floor. Detroit, Mlch.-^James Weir, chief clerk of the freight department of the Detroit ‘United, railway, Is authority for an amazing story of a horse. Weir’s veracity is unchallenged. The other day a freight driver for the company missed a horse. After searching the neighborhood for 24 hours he gave the animal up as lost But in the afternoon he heard a Oueer noise upstairs, and, going to an im- used bedroom, fdund the' missing equine. No one can tell how the horse got upstairs. The steps are not overstrong and must have been Strained when the horse went up. A hole was khoclred In the celling and a block and table rigged, the plan being to get the horse up to the roof and tower him. But the rigging broke and the floor, being no stronger than the stairs, let the horse down into the parlor. The animal was badly injuned, but its owner has hopes of Saving its Ufa the missing men, aftd the disappear ance of the last mftn o f the house has capped the climax fOr inexplicable things.'. , Dating their residence here the fkm- fly? haft nlade a, hpftt, of friends wljto have liifetesteia themseives in the ‘matter, but' Wlthbat avail. Cbffih Too Big for Door. DanVUle, Tll.-^Tae huge coffin coh- Mning.’the body of L. d Porterfieii oi Bhito, lyeighittg 460 pounds, whtf .died of 'heart disease, was bOme to ;^ihb-'^^urch; oh A baggage trtick. As the dOqr .ilyas'too ftmatl to admit the cdffln, the funeral 'services were, held ,dh the church Itept. Porterfield ivas ofie. n't the,, wealthiest men In Philo tifid hfid hten hh invaild for six years, thfifead ■’•of ■itlnefts.’ ' decreasing his weighti it Jncteasedlt. when he dtoA hift: .measuremehtft were: .tielght.telx niaisp; Wears Snake In Her tialr* Strong, Me.—Miss Myrtle I.,ambert of this town has started a new fad. Most girls wear a “rat\ in their hair, but Myrtle has gone one better and wears a snake. And It’s a real live one, at that. She has a passion for snakes, and, has a python ten feetJong, which- was bfohght to her by a friend from Asia. She has aupther onft, a coral snalm, which is three feCt Jong, .and, this lone Myrtle -wears, colled ftp in her hair, as comfortable as the ‘Taf* that most girls wear. jpW, hdwe-rer, would agree that the effect Is as charming. The fact probably won’t ,ge.t yety far, for not very many tellotis. would care to make love to a girl- wljh. a snake Jn'her’hair.'' ■. . - > South African’s Need of LfirobOr; British south Africa' importft Ovef $2,0.00,000-worth ..Of . luibheti iftalialy froiu Sweden, and the 'tinilH Sthtes, says the trade comtalssidner »f ddn- ada at Cap4# 0Wn,, The chiVf dOittahd is for pine, spruce, ash and poplar, . spruce, __ ‘dftr ‘•iift per c e n t^4 valdrejn f t f ffiadufaotured wOods., American ‘ i.Mpmente contiei dhleflj ............. chiefly of and '.'southftte; hted'pJ^'A ' • > ; ^ Oro»«. the Cook’s Command the Jumped Into’ the Sea. the tomahawk burled Its edge In his arm. The mate turned and grappled with his assailant, at the same time shouting for help. The cook was a powerffilly built man, and it was apparent from the first to the cabin hoy, who watched the. desperate Struggle from a safe dis tance, that he would ultimately tri umph. After an unsuccessful attempt to wrench the tomahawk from the grip of btortimer the mate broke away and ^sought safety In the rigging. iTfie commdtloh and the shouts of the mate .had by this iline brought the captain on took In the situ ation at'a glanq.e, but before he could seize a Weapon Mortimer was upon him aftd rendered hjih .tthconscioii.s^ with a bloy^ from the tomahawk. Theufthe cOpk raft; to hlft bunk below and, almost Immediately reappeared 'with a floaded whotgunj Which he had evidently prepared IW advaude. Point-’ ing It at the mate, 'wfid was still perchfed. in the rigging, fie gave him the altevnatlve of jumping overboard or ‘being shCtl After an jtes'iccessful attempt to brgu'e the cook ihtcr b more pleasant frftme'bf mind thfgnJWO chose the former alternative Mid' toflk a hfehdef 'jlfofh. tbe’tigging Inte ttie sea. tfiis. time $fi^ 0^^^ fiftd re- gaiftea-conftclouaftesBf-afld the cook. Bt'aislljig oyei^'biiii'witfi the shotgun, .iiive film 'alsfi m optiqfi-Of’being shot or jutiping-Jlite,- tbe’ 'ftea. \it did not take {he captain toftg tb'decide which tvas^he- .ijesser'-of tfie twq evils, and he .lmuie41ate)/;:.teolC.!a head^ over the'igii; • . ; Mortimer, .tben, advaftcod threaten ingly \ilpOti Jaoksbft, Whci-'tv'as crouch- -Jligifiehlftij tii’e'-fofWard'mael almost deftd :^fth teaKt;-^addlEi^ pver the yo.uth tfie opok .foteOd hifti to .promise to hblp film take .tbe; VOftfiol. 'Into an k vow With this Clltiouft.tetefir , of two. 'H6itficr ,>obb at wfibto know .enoiigU to ■bpj;, .a -ceiftridsft, ‘bfie 'Vqyagft waS'begftn; ‘fete it? was ti6fc .'jote tossel vwfiwfibrd ;bh. .rigisf ,■ and, w n.--’ > , , %■. . ' L ■ INot
