Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — Page 3

A WOMAN'S INFLUENCE

BY LULU JAMISON

CHAPTER lll—Continued. “I thought you were afraid of the wet sand," she said. “It you entertain any fears for your delicate constitution I advise you to return to.the village." ’’Which is a pjllte way of expressing your wish to be rid of me; but I have no desire to spend the day in those hencoops. There’s the sun now. Blessed sight! I’m going to move this shawl up there where it is dryer. May 1? It is positively suicidal-to sit here. If you should be ill, I’ll have to act as Eseuiapius, for there isn’t a man of pills and squills in the. whole village, I’m told. Bo be warned in time. " “It will be more prudent, no doubt, ” -admitted Margaret, allowing him to move the shawl in question, “but we -can’t see the waves so well.” “That’s no great loss. We know they are there, which is just as good. Do you know, I’ve be< n thinking of you all night. Beally, I had a strange dream in which you seemed to be leading me, and some influence compelled me to follow; Don’t look, skeptical, please, and say nonsense. It was all very real, I assure you. One of those old men called you Miss Margaret. Please tell me if that is your name? I have quite a curiosity to know.” “Your curiosity is easily satisfied. My name is Margaret. ” “Thanks. I’ve always had an odd fancy for the name. It seems to mean so much. It is her name, too. Curious, isn’t it?” “Not at all,” responded Margaret 'promptly. “The name Is common •enough, I dare say. ” "Perhaps. I like it*nevertheless, I -only wish she were like you. ” Margaret moved impatiently, and replied with a susDiclon of petulance; “I’m like myself and no one else. ‘Variety is the spice of life;’ so please don’t compare me with any unknown ‘she’s.’ ” “.Oh, this one’s tolerable "enough,” he rejoined, “and smart, too, I dare say. She’s managed to feather her nest at my expense. Perhaps she’s gloating ■over me at this very moment. ” “How can you say that?" asked Margaret, with some warmth. "You have no right to judge people that way. She may hate the very sight of the money.” “Money!" repeated Brian, in some •surprise. “I said nothing about money.” “No,” she returned, thoroughly angry with herself; “but I am sure money has4Bomething to do with the injury you ■speak of. I know she isn’t so hateful •as you think her. It is neithor just nor Tight to condemn her unheard.” He laughed at her earnestness. “I ■suppdse she isn’t a bad sort,” he admitted, pulling at some seaweed beside Mm. “I don't see why you take such An interest in her, though. ” She flushed at these direct words. “I speak in general terms,” she replied, unable to meet his searching glance. “I simply say you have no right to assume certain things, and I wish you would not run people down in my presence, especially when I don’t know them, and cannot take their part, I hate it; it is against my principles, and it’s ■contemptible besides.” She rose to her feet and walked away In some excitement, already regretting her childish warmth. “Tell .me about it," she added, imperiously, returning to her old place. ■"What did your cousin do?* Another mistake. She bit her lips as the word cousin escaped her, but fortunately Brian had not noticed it. “Do?” he echoed, still regarding her with an amazed expression. “She didn’t do anything. Only my father happened to think so much of her and to little of me that he left her a fortune and me a beggarly income to starve on. No use living without money either. But I’ll forgive her if she marries me, and I •dare say she will.” The confidence of this assertion was too much for Margaret. “•Didn’t I understand you to say you had never met her?” she asked, in a voice unnaturally quiet and full of scorn, that made no impression upon him. He replied in the most imperturbable manner. “No, I haven’t seen her. that’s true; but I dare say she’ll make a good wife, And ” These words further enraged Margaret. ■ “How dare you," she cried, without giving him a chance to complete his sentence. “I never heard of such unparalleled impudence in my life. I daresay you consider your charms so overwhelming that every woman must be •overcome by the bare sight of them. If I were your cousin you would very soon discover your mistake. A conceited man is the very abomination of desolation.” “You show your oontempt very freely,” relumed Brian, not overpleased with her remarks. - “If I suggest the idea of my cousin’s marrying me it is because of the ciroumstanees. Father would have liked it, I know. Perhaps he had the idea in his head when he made his will.” Margaret grew; paler at these words, but she did not answer. “And don’t you know,” Brian continued, with a spice of malice, as he turned lazily In his effort to see her face, “a man can marry any woman he provided he goes about it the right way. No woman can withstand constant, enduring affection.” “Constant, enduring fiddlesticks!” was the contemptuous reply. “No doubt your knowledge of woman, her nature and capacities, is deep and profound, •but pray spare me your wisdom on the subject, or I may be tempted, like Aunt Sukey, to jaw. back. I dare say your constant, enduring affection is another variety of constant hanging on. I would ■despise a man eternally around me, Please don’t laugh so loud. I’m not trying to be amusing. ” | “No, I’ll wager not. Tell me what sort of man you do like. An Admirable Crichton, with every virtue under the sun?” “Heavenforbid! How tiresome such a perfect creature would be, and what a curiosity. No; I like men. Beal, actual men. Not ornamental show pieces.” “Like me, for instance. How complimentary you are. But the truth is I sha’n’t be even ornamental, if circumstances don’t ohange.” He looked away from Margaret as he uttered the last words and began to make marks with his heel in the sand. She watched his movements, but her mind was following up an engrossing train of thought. “Are you going to sit still and allow ! your life to map itself?” she asked, after , a second’s pause. 'lt seems to me you ■ have an opportunity to make a future ! for yourself. Why don’t you take ad- i

vantage of it? Ido admire a man who can fight against obstacles, and who wins for himself a great name and a high position, not because of, but in spite of the accidents of fortuno. And I certainly cannot understand how any person with oidinary talents can go through life with no ambition above amusement. I grow disgusted with myself.” “It is just as I expected,” replied Brian, endeavoring to speak lightly. “You’re strong-minded." “Thanks. I consider your remark a compliment, though you may not mean it as such. I don’t admire weak-minded men or women. lam glad to have ideas of my own, and not to be swayed by every passing word. You are laughing again. I suppose you consider me vastly amusing, but I think myself vastly nonsensical. There is something in the air, I dare say, or in the oompany,” she concluded mischievously. “The oompany without doubt,” he agreed. “I never pretended to amount to much, and I know I never shall. That is why I never considered It worth an effort. ” “Why not?” she asked quickly, some instinct prompting her sympathy. “You have so much befora you. It is never too late to begin, neither is it ever too early. That sounds like a. paradox, doesn’t it? Your profession is an advantage in itself. It is sueh a noble one.” “A dog’s life when it comes to practice, ” he answered. “I tell you there’s a lot of sentimentality in the world. People talk about this thing and that thing being ennobling and elevating, and all that nonsense, when they know about ae much of it as Ido of heaven. MJich good medicine has ever done me. I’ve tot my diploma. I’ve lugged it all over urope, but it hasn’t seen the light of day for many a long month. I know this don’t suit your ideas, but I never realized the need of practicing for a living. I expected to be independent, and where was the need?” “But now?” questioned Margaret. “Oh, now, my beloved cousin has stepped in and I’m as poor as the devil. I beg your pardon. The words are forcible but expressive. The feeling is wretched, but the experience worse. I’ll worry along somehow, unless a certain event come about. Are you going?” “Yes,” she returned, half absently gathering her things together. “I amhungry. I think it must be twelve o’clock, and here in S’conset we dine at that unfashionable hour. ” “A barbarous practice, but now that you speak of it, I begin to feel some inward cravings myself. May I walk under the shadow of your wing?” Without awaiting her permission he possessed himself of her shawl and trudged by her side through the deep sand to the village. Turning from o;.e of the grotesque little streets, into- a more grotesque Broadway, Margaret found that her appetite had been a true guide. It was twelve o’clock, and all S’conset was going to dinner. This pleasant duty S’conset never forgot, it being one of the unwritten, yet faithfully observed, laws of the small town that, whatever the individual’s occupation at the moment, the stroke of twelve should find him ready, and all ideas gave way to the reality—dinner. After leaving Margaret Brian found his own appetite had increased to an alarming extent, and he very gladly betook himself to his unpretentious abode and the meal awaiting him. He did full justice to the latter, and at the Bame time managed to take in the history of Captain Folger’s eight brothers and sisters, all of whom had reached their eightieth year and were still in the land of the living. As he showed some skepticism on this latter point, the Captain proposed a oruise to town, where the house in which they were all born should be pointed out to him. It is needless to say Brian was still unconvinced. He afterward discovered that town meant Nantucket, and cruise was the Captain's word for ride. These old seamen do not take kindly to the expressions of landsmen. They will greet you with the salutation, “Where are you heading?” instead of “Where are you going?” They will agree to “land" milk and vegetables at your door, and if you happen to be riding with an old captain you may be requested to shift your seat fore or aft, or midship, or to sit to the lfeeward, as the Case may be. It is even said, though we are not bound to believe it, that when the whaling industry failed through the discovery of coal oil, the old salts, obliged through necessity and not choice, to take to farming, encountered much difficulty from the fact that their oxen were land animals, and when commanded to go to port or starboard were too obtuse to obey the order. Horses were equally trying. Contrary to tactics on shipboard, a pull on the port rein made the animal sheer to port, when the old captain was bent on having him go to starboard. Under sueh difficulties plowing was slow work and farming a decidedly discouraging experience. After Brian had disposed of the double duty of eating and listening he spent some time in walking up and down the streets of the grim, small village, hoping for a chance encounter with Margaret. He came to the old pump, reported to have been set in its present place in the year of the declaration of American independence, and feeling in duty bound, he drank a cupful of its delightfully cold water. Still, not seeing Margaret, he determined to improve his hours of waiting-by observing the oottages around him. Mathematical accuracy had not been considered in their erection. Their slanting roofs, curious embrasures, odd wings, and sprawling proportions, supplemented by grotesque ornamentation in the nature of nameboards of ships, fantastic scroll work from unknown prcfws, and gayly painted figureheads made them the strangest-looking houses in the experience of man. Such names as “The Barnacle,” “The Anchorage," “Castle Bandbox,” “Big Enough," and “The Sardine Box” suggested another element of originality. “It beats me,” commented Brian, In terms evidently intelligible to himself. “Nothing interesting about them, though. I wish she’d come.” “She” not making her appearance to suit his convenience, he decided to go in search of her. He found her sitting in the doorway of her little cottage sewing, and without asking permission, but only sorry he had not come before, he sat down beside her and proceeded to give her a ludicrous description of the cottages he had seen. “You come the day after the fair,” she laughed in answer. “I’ve not only seen their exterior but their interiors also. Did you notice Captain Baxter’s old house? You must have, I think. It is near the pump. They say it is two hundred years old. Looks like it, doesn’t it? Some day I want you to see the curiosities it contains. The greatest lot. • ‘ Some of them come from the furthest Corners of the earth. The house has a real laughable history, too, but I’ll let Captain Baxter tell you that.' In story telling he is unapproachable.

Have yon written to your aunt? She might be worried.” “Oh, she’s all right," he answered. “I’ll write to-morrow. Do you like to sew?" “Not particularly. But we’re often obliged to do what we don’t like." “She’s poor," decided Brian. “I thought so ail the time. Confound it." This oonclusion was quite a surprise to himself. Why Margaret’s poverty should affect him was A' problem destined for future solution. ■ when he was leaving her at supper time he asked permission to call around in the evening, but she shook her head resolutely. “No; it will not be worth white. Igo to bed at eight o’olook. Don’t look so horrified. I know it is a tilirdery hour, but after you’ve been herd'a day or so you will feel the effects too, and be very glad to creep into bed even that early. Besides, the doctor ordered rest and quiet when I oame here, and I’m obeying his command to the letter. I dare say I’ll see you to-morrow. If you want diversion this evening go to the club house; you’ll find all the men there assembled smoking their pipes, and discussing the prospects for fishing to-morrow. You may gain much information." Brian did not follow this advice. Instead, he spent the evening in a high state of disooritent, and went to bed at half-past eight. [lO SB CONTIS USD. J

Civilization in South America.

“The South American systems of education have been framed upon the plan of ours; and In several of them even more radical measures have been adopted to Increase the Intelligence of the people,” says the Hon. William Eleroy Curtis, in an article on “The Progress of the South American Republics” In the New England Magazine. “Their universities are of a standard that compare well with any in this country, and in most of the republics the attendance of children at the public schools Is compulsory. They have more newspapers In pjoportion to their population than we have, and some of their periodicals are of a high order; they encourage art and music, and every city has its museums and galleries of paintings. Their shops are filled with the most modern articles of merchandise; the homes of the rich are sumptuously furnished, and their Incomes are expended for luxuries to the degree of extravagance. The steamships that connect their ports with Europe are always crowded with passengers; but the lack of transportation facilities has prevented them from visiting the United States as frequently, and In as groat numbers. The national debts of the Latin American Republics have been Incurred for the purpose of constructing railways and other Internal improvements, which in several of them have certainly anticipated the necessities of the population, and become burdens upon the public treasuries. But in most of them Immigration from Europe is rapid and permanent, and the development of natural resources will soon enable the railway lines to become self-sup-porting.”

Origin of a Soup.

The exiles who took refuge in London at the time of the French Revolution met the poverty and hardships of their lot with much courage. They never begged, and It was often difficult to Induce them to accept the funds subscribed for their assistance. The women did not accept the partially worn and soiled clothing of wealthy and charitably inclined ladles, as most women in their condition would have been glad to do, but managed with the cheapest materials to dress neatly and tastefully. Their necessities developed an Inventive spirit. The records of the London Patent Office at the beginning of the eighteenth century have on every page such names as Blondeau, Dupin, Cardonel, Gastlneau, Leblond, and Courant. How Ingenious they were in utilizing the most unpromising of materials is shown by their invention of a now famous dish. When the London butohers slaughtered their beef they were accustomed to throw away the tails with the refuse. The French women had* the bright Idea of buying them, since they could get them for next to nothing, and making soup of them. And thus they gave to England the popular ox-tall soup, which loyal Englishmen now consider an essentially national dish.

How Navajos Hunt Pralrie Dogs.

A Navajo will stick a bit of mirror in the entrance of a burrow and lie behind thd little mound all day if need be to secure the coveted prize of a fat prairie dog. When Mr. Tusa ventures from his bed-room deep underground he sees a familiar Image mocking him at the front door, and when he hurries out to confront this impudent intruder, whiz! goes a chalcedony tipped arrow through him, pinping him to the ground so that he cannot tumble back into his home, as he has a wonderful faculty for doing even in death, or a dark hand darts from behind like lightning, sefzes his chunky neck safely beyond the reach of his chisel-shaped teeth and breaks his spine with one swift snap.—St Nicholas.

Eyelashes and Eyebrows.

For those people who wish to make their lashes longer and more regular, the following suggestions may be of use; Examine the eyelashes carefully one by one, trimming with a pair of scissors any which are split, feeble or crooked. Then anoint the base of the lashes every night with a minute quantity of oil of cajuput on the top of a camel hair brush. If this is repeated sedulously for a few months the result is most gratifying. Beautiful arched eyebrows are likewise a great detail of beauty and are not to be underrated, It Is best not to trim the eyebrow, as it makes it coarse, but if it is desired to strengthen or thicken it a few drops of cajuput oil may be safely rubbed into the skin every other night.—Detroit Tribune. :

The Negro Sun Proof,

The function of a negro’s black skin is supposed to be the conversion of the sun’s light into heat. The heat thus generated remains in the skin aud does not penetrate to the deeper tissues. Being thus provided with a sun-proof armor the negro can stand an amount of heat that would be fatal to a white man, and run littlqj>r no risk of sunstroke.

FARMER STATESMEN.

THE AGRICULTURIST IN THIS CONGRESS. July S 3 Farmers Against 270 Lawyers In Congress—lnterviews with the Farmers —What They Are Trying to Do—Holman's Clearing Casey's 300,000-Acre Ranch. The Plow In Politics. Washington correspondence:

THE revolt which brought this Congress to the front was understood as being largely in the interest of the plowman, the wheatlift grower, tho cottonBg picker, the lierdsman. It was announced that tho farmer was demandflfeing attention; that man who had .callosities on tho immia-inside of his fingfers rgr-- was about to superInl ll sede tho man w^° I U i B ot h’ B bread by tha U." sweat of his iqge-

„Dulty and had’ raised corns on tho convolutions .of his brain by overworking that organ. v Well, what Are the facts? Why, the facts are that the lawyer is jqst as dominant in this Congress as ever. There are a few more farmers than usual, but they have no more influence on legislation than they had in the Fifty-first Congress, and tlielr voicos are scarcely heard. As John Davis, one of the ablest farmers in Congress, said to me yesterday: ' i We„Boarcely expeot to got any of our important measures through this session, but shpjl oe satisfied with an educational campaign. We are going to make some speeches that will influence votes hereafter.” Another Congressman-farmer from the West permits me to publish his plaint thus; The lawyers always rule the States And all the rustic drudges; They crowd the bar as advocates, And fill the bench as judges; And no man understands the laws Till after he has paid them, For they aro tangled up, because The cunning lawyers made them! This is “the Farmers’ Congress," yet there arer only twenty-three members who really get their living by agriculture, and there are 270 lawyers, about three-fourths of the whole, and twenty mote belong to one of the so-called learned professions. In the Tennessee delegation both Senators and all ten Congressmen are lawyers. Both Senators from Virginia are lawyers, and ail the ten Congressmen, except a parson and an editor. Both Senators from Texas are also lawyers, and ten out of the eleven Congressmen, the odd man being “Parson Long,” who indicates In the Congressional Dlreotory that he Is virtually and sentimentally a Presbyterian farmer. Other Profession*. Among the other olergymen are Senator Kyle, of South Dakota (Congregratiooalist); McKinney, of New Hampshire (Baptist); Baker, of Kansas; and Posey Lester, of Virginia, who is an itinerant preacher in eighteen States. Among the doetore are Galllnger. of New Hampshire; Dockery, of Missouri; L. E. Atkinson, of Pennsylvania; and Thomas Dunn English, of New Jersey, far better known as a poet and author. It is noticeable that there is only one merchant in the House, but a number are “engaged in mercantile pursuits." So a lot of the lawyers are chromo farmers—tillers of the soil at long range. Thero half a dozen bankers, too, who are flat farmers—raising produce at a tremendous expense, the horny hands with which they toil being attaohed to somebody else’s shoulders. Some of the most extensive farmers end planters in this Congress are those Ahoee practice law as their chief interest. This is true of Senator Gibson of Maryland, a man of 50, who does not look his years. Gibson keeps a farmer, of course. Ho raises corn and wheat—-twenty-five to thirty bushels to the acre* of the latter. He has four or five thousand peach trees and sends the peaohes and much small fruit to New York and Baltimore. Holman is running a farm of three or four hundred acres in the southeastern corner of Indiana, and he can stand on his front doorsili and see court-houses in three States—lndiana, Ohio and Kentucky. His sightly home is on the Ohio Blver hills, and the house is the one he was born in, built by his father in the early pioneer days in the first quarter of this century. The kind of ability resulting from courage, sagacity and experience gives him a great deal of influence on the floor of the House. He has been a lawyer,, blit he now spends most of his time farming when he is not here. He raises hay, wheat, and corn, and “farmer” is written all over him. He is homelier than Lincoln. Nature made him when she was feeling reckless. He looks as if he had been rived out with a dull ax from a tough maple log. His gestures are all severely angular, and his voice sounds like a tinman’s cart on a corduroy road. His beard is always three times as long as It ought to be, and his head is' covered with cow licks, evidently bestowed when the animal was feeling mad. Notwithstanding his personal appearance, he has a kind heart, and will help anybody kill an appropriation with all the sifavity of Chesterfield. He isn’t aspoor as he looks, but in spite of his froverbial honesty is worth, they say, 150,000. The Northern Senators are mostly small farmers and the Southern mostly laree planters. Mr. Morrill spends all the time he can on his little Vermont farm of sixty-five acres, and never en* joys himself so well when he is there. He has been in Congress almost forty years. Senator Casey of Nortn Dakota was sent here as a farmer by tho farmers. He is one of the biggest farmers in the land, having the control of over 300,0110 acres and owning a good deal of it . himself. Irrigation is his continual text and he expects to make his State a garden by bringing to the surface the vast lake which underlies it. Mr. Vance is a Senatorial farmer. Around his country seat in the mountains of North Carolina, which he calls “Gombroon," ho owns several thousand acres of land, a little of it arable, but most of it covered with some of the best timber in the United States. Ho got it for a song and it has grown very valuable on his hands. He pines for his farm constantly when in .Washington, and he not only enjoys life there, but dispenses a large hospitality. George of Mississippi is probably the most extensive planter in the Senate, owning some thousands of acres. Ten of the Southern Senators were Major Generals in the Confederate army, and four of them surrendered to Grant at Appomattox. Winn,,. Farmers’ Alliance, of Georgia, tells me: “My opinion is that we shall all get back here again, unless some legislation is had in the farmers’ interests. ” Jerry Simpson is as lively on his feet and with his tongue in the House as if he were pulling slumps with an unbroken yoke of steers. He owns 1,000 acres, and when he is at home it keeps him busy to take care of the stock. Clover, another of the five men who

found themselves elected to Congrats from the same State, has a ran oh of 1,600 acres and wastes a good deal of valuable time in chasing graded cattle around It. Baker has been renominated and says he will be re-elected. Otis, is a shy, timid, suspicious man, who feels very much away from home, and is not at all certain which way tho volatile feline Is going to jump.- John Davis continues to bite his iron-gray mustache off short, and put in a clip whenever monopoly carelessly drops its guard. . termers by Brevet. New York has three alleged farmers in the House—Ketcham, Curtis and Groeuleaf. They do not use the hoe or perspire much thenmeTves; they are professionals rather than amateurs. They love faming oven well enough to pul their money into it. They do not rely on it for support: it relies on them. The Umpire »t Texas. Almost all of the Texans hero are big ranchmen. Sayers owns 500 head of cattle and has sent cows to Chicago that weighed 3,200 pounds and had never had a bit of born or uny grain but cotton seed mebl. Tim Campbell, of New York City, Is not a farmer. There are not four rods of dirt in his district, except that borne upou tho surface of the oitlzens. His is the smallest district in the United States. He can walk in throe minutes from one end of It to the other and can almost throw his hat across it in plaoes. Mr. Lauham, of Western Texas, presents the sharpest contrast in this respect. The other day bo told mo of his empire. “My district is 500 miles wide and 600 miles long,” said Mr. Lanham. “It takes a fortnight to ride across it in a straight line. Well, no; J nevor 'stumped’ it, except fitfully and partially. I represent ninety-seven counties, and ono of them is larger than soveral of our smaller States. My district is about the same size as New York, Vermont, Nfew Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. I have made an estimate that it Is as large as tho oombined districts of sixty other members of the House. I am going to try to got acquainted with my people when a flying machine works, and when I oau buy a second-hand machine cheap." “You ought to spell your 'district* with a capital D,” I suggested. “Oh, no,” he said; “we Texans are modest—we always use lower case whon wo can." “Will Toxas ever be divided?" “No. Our act of admission entitled us to the right to divide into four States, but wo love the State so well that wo wouldn’t split up merely to obtain six Senators and the control of that body.”

Prussia's Suicides.

The number of sulc des Is not increasing largely In Prussia, as is gen. erally supposed. In 1883 it was 6,171; in 1884, 6,900; in 1885, 6,028; in 1886, 6,212; in 1887, 5,898; in 1888, 5,393; in 1889, 5,615; and in 1890, 5,965. It was highest In 1886,' diminished very considerably in 1887 and 1888, and has been increasing again since. In 1884 and 1885, 21 per 100,000 of the population committed suicide; in 1886, 22; ih 1887, 21: and in 1888, 1889, and 1890, 19. Tho number of female suicides, in the years from 188.3,t0 JB9O was ,201, 205, 202, 188, 203, -511, 211, and 215. The number of male suicides, however; is four times that of the female, for the number of men who killed themselves last year was 32 per 100,000 of the population, and that of tho women only 8. In Berlin the number of suicides, after some fluctuation, has increased, first slowly and then rapidly, since 1886. From 1883 to 1890 it was 410, 369, 396, 306, 371, 386, 425, and 465. The numbers per 100,000 in the Same years were 33, 29, 30, 27, 26, 26, 28, and 30. Relatively, then, the year 1883 had the highest number, while 1887 and 1888 had tho lowest. In discussing these figures the Statistlsche Korrespondenz points out that the apparently unfavorable prominence of Prussia in the matter of suicide may be due in no small degree to the great accuracy with which statistics are kept.

A Woman’s Figure.

The outline of a woman’s figure should be like that of a classic Jar, slim at the neck and at the ankles and tapering slightly at the waist. The reason that all women do not look Just this way is because they will wear petticoats, and petticoats arc destructive to the symmetry of the jar. Petticoats .have flounces upon t-beiq, ajid flounpes make the dress set out, around the feet, and so a womaq, instead or looking slender at her ankles, looks very broad Indeed and big around, so that her figure more often resembles a beehive or a pyramid than that of "a, classical jar. If a woman Is large In the bust and large in the hips she should not allow her waist to taper to any great extent, because when she destroys her classical outline and makes herself look like an hour glass or a wasp. To quote from an artist who has made a speciality of women's figures: "The principle which should be adopted Is that of balancing the expansion of one part of the outline by such constriction of another part as is felt to be in due proportion.”—[Pittsburg Dispatch.

To Test a Diamond.

Here is an easy means of determining whether a supposed diamond is genuine or not. Pierce a hole in a card with a needle, and then look at the hole through the stone. If false, you will see two holes, but if you have a real diamond only a single hole will appear. You may also make the test In another way. Put your linger behind the stone and look at it through the diamond as through a magnifying glass. If the stone Is genuine, you wiy be unable to distinguish the grain of the skin, but with a false stone this will be plainly visible. Furthermore,looking through a real diamond, the setting is never visible, whereas it is with a false stone.—New York Herald. Being a millionaire has its drawbacks. N. C. Creede, who is the founder of the great Colorado mining camp, knows this to be a fact. Every day he receives letters from all parts of the country signed by .women who want to marry him. It might be refreshing for these matrimonially inclined females to know that all such letters and photographs are turned over to his wife. Man is the only animal that can not sleep well after eating heartily.— Exchange. Man is the only animal that takes to Welch. rarebits and similar rest disturbers. No man ever offended his own conscience but first or last it was revenged . upon him for 1L —Si u:h.

W. A. CROFFUT.

Great things are the aggregate of littles. Human life is a succession of unimportant events. Half a oentury ago a clerk In New York City was viront to take down the shutters of tho store at precisely 6 o’clock In the morning. While he was taking them down, rain or shine, a certain old gentleman almost always passod by on his way to his place of business. The old gentleman smiled so benignantly upon the young man that a hearty and familiar “good-morning" became natural to both. Month after monlh this mutual greeting continued, until ono morn-, ing tho old gentleman was missed, and he never appeared again. He was dead. Not long afterward the enterprising and faithful clerk was waited upon by the administrator of tho old man’s estate, and Informed that his store and stock of goods had been willed to him. Attracted by the youth’s promptness and fidelity, the old gentleman likd Inquired Into his character and circumstances, and was satisfied that he could leave his property to no one so likely to make good use of It ns the dark, who took down the shutters at just silt o'clock summer and winter. Through this legacy the clerk was Introduced into a profitable business at once, and he afterward .becamo one of the most wealthy, benevolent and respected merchants of: the city. A young man responded to the advertisement of a New York merchant for a clerk. After politely introducing his business, he was engaged in conversation by tho merchant. .Finally a cigar was offered him, which the‘young nian declined, saying, “I never use tobacco in any form.” “Won’t you take a glass of wine, then?” the merchant continued. “I never take wine or anything of the kind," the young man answered, courteously. “Nor I,” .responded the merchant. “You 4rflJ,ust the young man I want. ” lie had the key to the applicant’s character now, and he wanted ns further recommendation..

What would the fair woman do without that useful little Implement, the hairpin? If she buttons her shoes she uses her hairpin, and who ever saw a woman button her gloves with anything else? Suppose a coin drops between the bars of a wooden foot grating of an omnibus! Does she soil her fingers as a man would, and then not get it! Certainly not! Outcomes the hairpin, and the coin is lifted out without trouble. If her shawl-pin is lost, where so good a substitute as the hair-pin? If she eats a nut does she take a pair of nutcrackers? Most assuredly not. The hairpin again. It is with the hairpin that she rips open the uncut leaves of a book or magazine; it is a hairpin wjth which she marks her progress In her favorite book: if a box or drawer key is missing, a hairpin opens the refractory lock as neatly as a burglar’s skeleton key would; and the feats of hair dressing that she will make a simple, bow-legged hairpin accomja'ish nearly surpass the belief of man. Altogether, it deserves to be classed among the great inventions of the world.

TO MAKE NEEDLES SWIM.

although Solid Metal They Can Be Made to Float on Water. A drop of water oh a piece of glass spreads In all directions, but a drop yf quicksilver retains its circular form. The difference between the two processes is explained by the water moistening the glass, while mercury does not. Solid metals possess tho quality of adhesion In a lessor degree than most solid bodies not metal, but the fact that they do possess It makes it possineedles or pins to be made to swim on the surface of the water. It is necessary, of course, to place the needle in an absolutely horizontal position on tho water, when it will swim exactly as a match would, for example. Tho needles need not be very lino; with care and clrcumspeotiou even a darning-needle can bo made to navigate. The experiment Is a trifle dittlcult to perform because of the care that must be observed, but with the aid of two loops of thread in which the needle hangs it can be laid on the surface of the

SOME OF THE WAYS.

water in au absolutely horizontal position. The threads must be cautiously dropped, so as not to ruffle the water; they will soon absorb It and sink to the bottom of the glass. Persons with steady hands can take a needle by the'point and lay it slowly down on the water. A fork can also be used to advantages, as shown in tho accompanying cut. But the simplest method is that of laying a needle on a piece of cigarette paper, on which it floats at first. As soon as the paper absorbs the water it sinks a little and can bo easily pushed aside with the aid of a piece of tine broom-straw, always taking care, howovdr, that the wator is not ruffled in the least. —St. Louis Post-Dis-patch.

Character In ln[?]xes.

A Useful Possession.

Two Sisters.

Here is a bit of dialogue from the New York Press. The moral of it is not expressed, but perhaps the reader will he able to find It. “What is Mamie doing?” “She is a saleslady.” “Does she earn much?” “Hardly enough to keep soul and body together, but her sister helps her a Ijttle.” “What does her sister do?" “She's a servant-gild. ”

SPICED AND PICKLED

ARE THE INDIANA NEWS ITEMS IN THIS COLUMN. Frw*h Intelligence from Every Part of the State— nothing of Interest to Oar Reader* JLeft Out. I Minor State Items. Chahi.f,B Rick was badly tossed by A bull which he was driving near Crawfordsvillo. Lakok strata of marble have been discovered in Huntington, and will as once be quarried. Shei.byvili.e wants freo mall delivery and about every man in town wants to be a carrier. Robinson & Redmond, of Logansport, will roinove their hub and spoke factory to Montlcollo.

The State Camp of th,o Patriotic Order Sons of America convenes at Crawfordsvilla on Aug. 2 and 3. g| ~iq| An owl alighted on tho pilot of a Wabash onglno and was carrlod Into Peru, whero it was caught. Thomas Kelly, near Fort Wayne, fell dead while leaning against the fence talking to a neighbor. The State Bank Examiner has asked that a receiver be appointed for the Vinconnos National Bank. The "upper ten” of Wabash are shocked because tho City Marshal smokes a clay pipe while on duty, Monbor Bbkknr of Franklin fell from a boat plying between Cincinnati and Loulsvlllo anu was drowned. Montickllo is to have a 81,500 cloctric light plant before Jan. 1, furnishing both arc and incandescent lights. Elmer Tucker, a boy employed at tho tln-plato works in Elwood, hadhis hand cut off In a shearing machlno. The boo-ralsors of Clark County are complaining that tho honey-crop this season is almost a total failure. Frank Lydick, aged 13, was rondered Insane by a blow on the head received in a fall from a.hammock at Brazil. Sixteen cars wore plied In a wreck four miles north of Vernon, on the G. t R. <fe I. railroad. No loss or life. Thomas Jackson, near Fllmore, Is 94 years old. He reads without glasses, wulks without a cane and hoes corn. Mbs. Polly Wkahe v an agod widow of Brooklyn, was thrown from hor buggy in an accident and seriously Injured. * Mrs. John Dawn, wlfo of a prominent Columbus business man, was thought to bo fatally injured by a fall in the cellar. Richard Pace fell from a scaffold at tho Methodist parsonage In Jeffersonville, and was probably fatally injured. Charles Mookk of Groencastle, was shot through tho hand wh'lo hunting, caused by carelessness in handling his gun. William Sheffield, killed by tho cars in Richmond, was a wealthy farmer near Marlon, but was deciarod Insane last May. Muncik soldlors have resolved that only veterans of the rebellion should be, given recognition on tho soldlors' monument tablets. New Ai.hany shipped sixteen oar loads of onions to Chicago last week and now you can smell Chicago's breath all ovor Indiana. A freight train was wrecked at Thorntown by running Into an open switch. Tho fireman and a brakoman wero slightly hurt. Word has been received that Miss Allco Palmer of Franklin, has sailed from England for Africa, where she goes as a missionary. The eighteenth annual prpgramo of tho Battle Ground Assembly and campmeeting, at Battlo Ground, Aug. 11 to 28, has boon announced. John Farrington of Kokomo, who wont to sleep on the tracks, was knpeked twenty feot, crushing bis skull and breaking his riba Ho will die. Miss Bettik West, daughter of the well known turfman, Preston West of Charleston, shot herself through the hand with a revolver and will lose the member. Five thousand Hoosier soldiers ar« expected in Frankfort during the encampment They won’t be there, as there are only 2,000 In Indiana’s standing army. James W. Powell, a bright young high school pupil, of Logansport was found drowned In wbat Is known at "deop” pond on his father’s farm. He could not swim and ventured in too fat while bathing. Mrs. James Lane, near Herbst, crazed by protracted illness, committed suicide recently by Jumlng Into a well. She was about thirty-five years old, and the mother ot eight children, the oldest of whom is only 10. James Farmer, of Poland, was taking a traction englno up a very steep hill near Groencastle. The engine becams unmanagabie, ran down the hill and ovel a bridge embankment, scalding and crushing him to death. The marble-eyed, but necessary bovln* still munches the public horblvora in th« thriving town of Peru. The Coupci) stood a tie and Mayor Zern voted with the cow the other day and now the peoplo threaten to make the question theti shibboleth in the next city election. Ma O. S. Newton of Coatsvllle bai just completed an oil painting that Is attracting considerable attention among the Indiana G. A. R. The picture it reproduced from the original photograph, portraying the first winter quarters oi the famous Twentv-seventh Indians Volunteers near Fredericksburg, Md. suit growing out of th< wreck of Jan. 11, has been entered against the Monon Railroad. Georg* Fitchey demands 8175 for liquor drunk by the survivors of the wreck. Fitchei kept bar at the hotel where the passengers were taken. Fitchey claims that t Monon official authorized him to let afl who wanted have drinks. This he did to the amount of 8175, and now he snei for that sum. A colored barber, supposed to be C. D. Lockey of Indianapolis, was killed at Roraona, Owen County. 'He was caughl on a bridge, and attempted to let him self down from the ties when the trail passed, but fell to the rocks below. ! The large frame barn of County Com missioner Anderson of Groencastle, wai burned recently. Three mules and i valuable family horse wero lost Th« fire was caused by spontaneous combustion from new hay. Anderson heart a terrific explosion and, looking towart his barn, saw the flames shoot up it all directions. Loss, 82,500; insurance 81.000. The Eighty-fifth Indiana Volunteer will hold a reunion at Rockville, Aug. ; and 4. All Who attend will be cared fa by the citizens without any chargea The committee is composed of Elwoot Hunt M. W. Marshall, and George 1) Jones. There will be a sham battle ant speakers. By direction of the Secretary of Wax First Lieutenant Abner Pickering, Sea ond Infantry, will visit the encampmen of the Indiana State militia, to be hen at Frankfort from July 35 to 30. ant after the close of the same will retun to his proper station. He will report b* letter to Gov. Chase for such service a L *ay be required of him during the en 1 campment