Ligonier Banner., Volume 39, Number 6, Ligonier, Noble County, 5 May 1904 — Page 7

Che Liganier HBanne. LIGONIER. —_— INDIANA

The Call of Arcady @ &

By EDWIN J. WEBSTEK

ILLIAM, the tramp, was " seated W .on a little bank by tae side of the highway under the shade of a big elm. The day was warm, but not uncomfortably hot; he was eating a frugal yet satisfying lunch of bread arnd cheese, and nearby ran a brook from which he could quench his thirst when he had. finished eating. Whenever he might tire of rural life, the railroad was orly a short distance away, he could jump on a freight train and be quiekly carried- free of charge to the city. William, the tramp, was contented with his lot. But as his glance fell on a little cottage up the road, a vague unrest filled his heart. A young mother followed by a child clinging to her skirts had just come out of the cottage and was feeding the hens and ‘ducks who flocked at her call. Near the house a man was plowing. He alsg heard the young housewife’s call, and looking up from the furrow, threw her a kiss. “Must be sort of nice, after all, to have 2 home, and a wife, and a baby like that fellow’s .got,”” thought William, the tramp, regretfully. “Used to ~ /); /,%/,- vv\:*ifi' xj d ::{ 2 Gty | Tey "*A‘é‘:as } GAy )v == ] il < ;4«123/7% i hj Mnmfy e i =T--1% 7 (NN N 7 ‘ e A ?,‘,\“&\3{}'%% /7% Y ;’“-,' S ,‘f.g{"'\\x\:\\“\!% [ | 474 & AL\ L 7 . [l / e VI W\;\\\\\\\‘ wS~ .-‘l'fi - LR 2/ ; i H"“ —//j(// 5 \\ "',‘”) {//// e (/7 Teh N ‘\!l, 09/ =~ Y\l \= - - : ) \ ———= ////f/;f/ \5. \_\{-:j = W £ . _/-_//_'?-/‘_?;—' 5_ ‘ HE CONTINUED HIS WALK, think I would have one myself. :But 1 guess I'd better give up that idea.” He brushed away tke crumbs of bread and resumed his journey. At the “next farmhouse he stopped and asked the woman who came to the door to give him something to eat. William was not hungry, but he might be before nightfall, o it was the part of a prudent man’ to try and lay in a supply of food. Even if he did not care to eat then, Hhe could put it in his pocket. : But the womamr called him a bkig, lazy tramp, and sk,lmmed the door in his face. . = ’ This did not worry William. He always expected a certain number of refusals during the course of a day, but like many other tramps in this big land had found that he was seldom forced to the unpleasant, alternative of either working|or going to sleep hungry. So whistling cheerily he conti\nued his walk. As he neared the curve of the road, “‘William heard the thudding sound of horses’ hoofs. To his experienced ear ‘the galloping sounded louder yet more uneven than that common to an ordinary team of horses on a country road. “Either that fellow is driving mighty fast or it is a rupaway,” he soliloquized.And he hurried around the curve in the road.

Down the highway, swaying from side to side in their mad gallop,-came

; IDEALS. Mom says he's good as he can be— So-zentermenly an’ perlite, An’she is awful sure that he Would never throw a stone or.fight. She says hé does as he is bid— I think I'd like to lick that kid! &he says hemever tears his clo’es, An’ loves to wash his hands and face,: An’ when he's through with things he goes An' puts them back right in their place. I'm glad I'm not like him, you bet; . I'd hateto be a mommer's pet, "An‘ then he never makes a noise, But plays at some-nice, quiet game, He isn't buiit like other boys, 3 I guess, but I am, all the same, I'd think they’d put his hairin curl; He ain’t much better than a girl. Mom :alks about him all the time, An’ wishes I was more like him. 2 She thm‘ks, I ought to be, but I'm . Afraid the chance is sorter siim, - I think at. I ’'ud just as lief Run off an’ be a pirut chief.—Chicago liaily News. 3 ,? - + . g BAD TELEPHONE MANNERS. Dignified ,Matron Who Has a Just Complaint to Make—lnexcusable . Curtness Over the Wire. ‘A dignified matron who has a couple of debutantes in ler family complained the other day that the “phone” was conducive to bad manners, reports the Chicago Tribune. “I ‘do not think I can be accused of being unprogressive,” she said, ‘“but I ver shall becowe .accustomed to Lel&on‘e manners. This is' what happens to ‘me about every hour in the day: o : : ; “Phone bell rings. I, being convenient, answer. . Masculine voice calls ‘Hello.” 'l}low I realize that the possessor of that voice is probably a youth of 20, and while I resent the familiar ‘Hello’ I respond, ‘Hello,” and he begins: > B ‘th is this? “‘Wino is this?’ There is something soo abrupt in this form of question that I feel like making an explanation that will not only be considered satisfactery but final, but having identified myself to the young man’s satisfaction he proceeds: - “‘Oh, this is Mrs. B.! Well, Mrs. 8., I want to see Miss H. Will you tell Miss H. I want to speak to her?” “He do€s not apologize, seldom says ‘Thank you,’ and never by accident says ‘Please,” and -allows me to hunt all

!a team of horses, drawing a wagon which bounded up and down Over the rcugh road, threatening each second to turn over. William’s first instinct was to stand in safety at one cide and let the frightened team pass. Then he noticed that a little girl was clinging in [ white-faced terror to the seat of the wagon. . For a moment he_hesitated. To try to stop the team was to risk his life. - Then the tramp gave a secord glance at the frightened child, little more than a baby, on the seat of the wagon. He drew a long breath and ran in the direction of the team. Unless they were stopped before they reached the curve | the wagon would be hurled into the ditch. | When a few yards distant from the runaway team William whirled around | and began racing with them. As the ! horses caught up to him, he hurled his body forward, his hands shot cut, he ‘gripped the reins firmly. He was dragged from Lis feet. ' l But ncw the long and varied experi"ence of the tramp in catching fast freights stocd him in good stead. As the horses plunged forward he only _clung the tighier. Nearer and nearer 'to the curve drew the team. But even %frenzied horses cannot run with 170 ' pounds of sturdy humanity hanging 'from the _bits. Little by little they %slowed down, until at last, with a few . final, fierce tugs, William brought them i‘to .a standstill little more than a yard from the aitch at the curve of the road. And now that the danger was over, the :little girl, who had been clinging to the seat, broke into tearful sobs.’ The owner of the farmhouse from which William had just been scornfully driven had seen the galloping team and was running to William's assistance. His wife, who had just turned William away, was hurrying behind him. The farmer’s face grew a little pale as he lsaw how near the ditch the team had been halted. 4

" “It’s our Minnie,” he said to his wife. “I never could have got there in time. She would have been Kkilled if this brave man hadn’t stoppcd the horses at the risk of his own life.” : “And I just refused him something to ‘eat,” replied the woman, with a big sob in her voice as she helped the child down from thé wagon.

The farmer looked hard at William. He had a deep-rooted dislike to tramps. But this one seemed different from the others. i .

“Can’t you leave the life you're leading and come on my farm?” he inquired in tones far more cordial than William ivas accustomed to hearing. “I’ll give you good wages, ' and the place will be a permanent one. It won’t be long before a young man like you will have a home of his own, and perhaps a wife and child like the one you saved to-day. You're too good a man to be on the road. And you will find it grows harder and harder each year. By and by your strength will be gone, or you will miss your grip catching a freight some night, and then all that will be left for, you will be the poorhouse or the morgue.” . William, the tramp, could feel his heart beating quicker. The vision of the little cottage with a wife and home of his own was drawing very clcse to him. Perhaps, after all— Then he locoked down the long highway, bordered by green, arching trees in which the birds were singing. The smoie from a distant freight train floated lazily over the tree tops. At the sight a vague feeling of unrest stirred his pulse. The love of the careless, wandering, reckless life, banished for a moment, returned with renewed force. Arcady was calling her child, and the undefined call thrilled his heartstrings. William, the tramp, shook his head with a sigh. . “No, I can’t do it,” said he. “Somehow the love of the road is in my bones and I'm bound to go back to it, even if it does mean what you say in the end.” And turning away, William, the tramp, walked rapidly in the direction of the drifting smoke. He had heard the ‘call of Arcady and answered it. ‘For though the end thereof was death, the path was very pleasant.—N. Y. Times. §

over the house for the one he wants; sometimes grows impudent when 1 can’t find her, and seems to ignore the rights of every one but himself.”

A DEPARTMENT "OF GRAFT.

University of Michigan Plans to Train Graduates to Withstand : - Boodling Spirit.

A graft department has been organizell dt the University of Michigan under the name ‘“nonatheletic board of control.” The aim of this new educationai movement is to turn out graduates trained 'to withstand the boodling spirit of American cities. ‘'The department is working on a big scale, creating legal corporations for its boys to handle, and buying a néwspaper {o serve practically as a classroom model. 3

The name, ‘“nonathletic board,” explains the origin of Michigan’s work in political-business honor. The “nonathletic board” was created to supervise everything else. It looked at the student get rich schemes and found its remarkable mission.

Out of college honor offices students were found to be earning from $lO to $5OO each. The most reprehensible of these schemes was the two-price class rate, by which a class emblem, the pin perhaps, was sold to the student pin committee at one dollar and retailed to the class at $1.25. Manufacturers secretly offered the rate to secure bids, and.: the student committeeman pocketed the extra quarter as pay for his work. '

Age of Utility.

According to the director of the mint the coins of Greece in the fourth century B. C. are regarded as more beautiful than any made to-day. Why cannot we have as beautiful coins? Because we desire “low relief,” that is, figures which will not come out higher than the edges, so that our coins will stack. Moreover, the modern coin loses less Dby abrasion than the ancient, Thus the interests of beauty &nd utility -stand in conflict, and this is a practical age.

Old Injunction Obeyed. A surgeon in Savannah cured a disease by an operation on himself., This is one of the few instances on record, says the Chicago Daily News, in which the injunction: “Physician, heaj thyself,”” has been obeyed.

(Copyright, 190¢, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) lT CERTAINLY seemed a very long distance to the branch, and the night was 'very black—a veritable ink blot over the face of the earth. . Several different times Constantina paused, hesitated, started to go back; then finally pursued her way in trepidation. The excitement which had buoyed her up since morning threatered to ooze suddenly in a burst of nervous tears. Still, she pérsevered.

When but & few yards from the tryst, she st down weakly on the edge of a stump &nd fumbled fretfully among the laces at her bosom for the hidden paper. She drew it out with unsteady fingers, and as best she eould, by the pale road-light in the distance, glimpsed for the hundretith time the words written inside: :

“If possible, meet me at the branch to-night at nine. Must see you. v | ‘lC.t)

The writing was a serawling disguise, but to Constantina a sclution was not the most difficult thing in the world. Her husband’s open admiration of Cary Fleming; their habitual absence from the house together; lastly, the palpable unease that had marked the actions of both through the whole of the past day —well, that much was sufficient, per se. ; A :

She: consulted her watch and found that there still remained ten minutes before nine o’clock. The time dragged horribly; a thousand curious noises made her'start and tremble, while innumerable grotesqre shadows danced eerie-like in and about the thickshrubbed woods. -

Finally, she straightened herself, tucked the: slip of paper hastily in her belt and rose, picking her way cautiously through the bushes to the shelter of ‘a dense clum? of trees that stood a little back from the branch. . She had not long to wait.. A moment only, and she recognized the quick, swinging stride that coutd not belong to anyone in thke world but her husband. ' She shrank back involutarily, overcome by a wild sense of terror lest he 'should discover her there in the role of eavesdropper; - lest—but no. She strained her eyes tensely through the dark, but no ¢Cary Fleming was there: Surely— ShE shifted her position a trifle, her foot faltered uncertainly, then came down with an ominous crash on a heap of dead twigs. A silence of fearful constraint followed. Constantina grew rigid. She turned with a sudden mad desire to escape, however, wherever. But a strong arm intercepted her. - ‘ ‘ “So it is you!l? ' | “Yes, 1.” She faced .him coldly.

“I thought as much; 1 saw you leave the house, and—l followed you here.” Constantina flushed furiously under cover of the darkness. Her hand went to her belt in a gesture of swift indignation. The paper was gone. 5 “This, then, is the meaning of it all.” He thrust the folded bit of paper toward her. P

“I—l lost it,” she said, dazedly. “And I-—luckily no one else—found it, down there.” He pointed sternly toward the stump on which she had sat.

“But it—it is’nt mine,” she insisted, trying to extricate herself from his grasp. r : : :

‘“Don’t,”” he commanded harshly, “you are to come home—now, and with me. ‘Whatever is to be said can be said afterwards.” He looked down at her with wrath-black eyes. His face bore a white, set look. Constantina was shal‘!ing like a leaf. Oh, what a fool she had been; what a consummate, unthinking fool! Even supposing he were guilty, and perheps, afteral]l,hewas not, but even supposing he were, she might have known that the woman—the wife—must inevitably suffer|the brunt in the case of detec~ tion. ;

Perhaps, after all, he was not guilty! The words recurred again and again to her bewildered brain as they trutiged in silence through the black dark and brambles.

“Dick,” she ventured presently, ‘you must give me back that paper; then, I have a confession to make.”

“I should rather think so 0,” he sneered, diving into his pocket with considerable ill grace. “But first,” he held the paper away from her extended fingers for a second, ‘“you must

AN INTRUDER.

There’s a mockin’ bird a-swingin' on a twig across the street, 9 An’ a jig-time sort o' feelin’ is a ticklin’ of my feet, An’ the grass is green an’ tender’'s anythin’ you ever seen, . : An’ the creek down in the medder’s a blue "~ ribbon.edged with green, An’ the earth’s damp an’ perfumey, like a million kinds o' biooms k Was a-bustin’ into bein’ with a ~ million sweet perfumes! : An’ the bee’s a-goin' business with ‘the blossoms as aof yore, An’ the hummin’ bir@'s a-hummin’ just the same’s he was before, An’ you almost think they wasn’'t any winter-time at all . | When you see the grass a-springin’ an’ you » hear the mock-birds call; An’ you see th’ little children troopin’dewn the village street, An’ you hear their happy laughter, an’ the patter of their feet!

Ain’t the world just like a jewel ev'ry mornin’ wrapped in mist, : Like a gem in cotton-battin’ that scme " maiden’s: lips had kissed ‘Cause a lover sent it to her? Just a soft rose-tinted wrap, Opal tinted in some places? Don’'t it sorter make a chap Fee] that he's been born all over when the world wakes up in spring, A An’ a bird lights right beside him and hops on a twig to sing?

An’ the laughin’ of the children, jolly little boys an’ girls, i In their roundabouts an’ aprons an’ their . tousled golden curls, Ly With their wee hands full of blossoms, full o’ violets and such— There ain’t never any danger you can love a child too much! : Sort o’ feel that this world’s their world, : an 'f I grumble, or I'doubt . That they’'s joy in simply livin’ they’ll rise ° up an’ put me out. Gaan —J. M. Lewis, in Houston Post.

A Brussels expert, M. Paul Otlet, estimates that from the invention of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century to January, 1900, 12,163,000 books have been issued. He also estimates that about 200,000 books are now annually issued. G

vromise me to destroy the infamous thing—and at once.” - Constantina - guiped. “I promise,” she acquiesced, receiving it tremulously, “I will burn it as soon as I get to my rooms” . “And the confession—how about that?” He spoke dryly. . “You’ll not be angry, dear?” “I don't exactly see how I'm to avoid that?’? :

“But—buiit it isn’t what you imagine at all, Dick. Not a bit. Of course I can understand what you think and why you think it—but you mustn’t—oh, you mustn’t.’. Let me explain.” She paused, all out of breath and clung to him in an agony of entreaty. He regarded her gravely by the lights that glimmered softly from the grounds Leyond. - “Certainly; I am anxious for an explanation,” he replied, stifly. ““Undoubtedly, I should be more than relieved to have this—mystery cleared up.” - Constantina caught her breath in a little choking way, and broke directly into the subject. “I found it—the paper,” she said, speaking rapidly, “on the front veranda, after everybody had gone—this morning. I thought—l was sure that it was meant, had been meant for you and that—and that—it was written by- that detestable little cat, Cary Fleming. Oh, I hate her and I'm glad, glad, glad she's going away!” i “And so—you stooped to petty jealousy—{o petty suspicion—to a petty intention. to eavesdrop—to—" He shrugged and laughed in a cutting little fashion that sent the blood racing to Constantina’s face and lips. She shivered piteously in the cool wind that had suddenly sprung up. ‘ “Od, Dick,” she criedjremorsefully, “I onught not, I know, by it was all because I loved you so, and I was mad—-half-crazed to think—” She burst into nervous sobbing. : . ““Couldn’t you forgive me?”’ she asked after awhile, looking up at him through tear-bright eyes. “Why, as to that, .I suppose so. I am only too glad to be assured that it is nothing worse. You can see for yourself that I might perfectly well have believed otherwise. There’s\_one provision I wish to make, however. This subject must not again bealluded to between us. It must never be known to anyone that you have mistrusted me so grossly. You must aever doubt me again, Constantina. Do you agree?” - . ;

“To everything,” she,answered .in a low voice. ‘Dear, deagést. I’ve been a foolish, unforgivable/ little fool,” she hurried on, “but I do" want you to say just once that you forgive me.” “Well, then, I forgive.you,” he recited with an indulgent little laugh. Constantina lifted her lips to ‘his, suddenly; he bent suddenly and kissed them. & A

They passed silently through the low iron gate, up the wide gravel path and onto the veranda where the rest were assembied for the evening’s pastimes.

She did not stop longer than a minute, but hurried up the broad length of stairs and gained the shelter of her own room. She went first to the long cheval mirror and stood for some time regarding herself critically. Her eyes were very, very gray and eloquently bright, and her cheeks were beautifully pink and fresh. The pile of hair that tumbled picturesquely over her forehead, stood somewhat awry, but none the less golden and splendid. Her heart was beating tumultuously under the fluff of lace above it; below, the cloudlike ruffles of her gown hung snagged and dripping with dew. She smiled; then laughed. It was a curiously happy little laugh, full of relief and gladness and love. Suddenly she thought of:the paper. She must burn it immediately; she had promised Dick that she would do so. She walked over to the open fireplace. A blue and red mass of coals huddled sleepily in the grate. ; Constantina. opened her palm slowly, and eyed the crumpled scrap of paper with. deprecative eyes. “I wonder—" she mused, unfolding it mechanically, “I wonder who could have written it, anyway—and to whom it was written? No one else came—there. Perhaps I can trace a resemblance.” She smoothed out the creases with careful fingers and read: - ‘ ; “Impossible for me to get to the branch before 9:30. Wait for me. “C-"

An instant her lashes flickered; the paper slipped from her nerveless fingers and lay unheeded on the floor. Minutes passed. Presently, she stooped, quite calmly, and picked it up and laid it on the coals. She watched it curl and blacken and sift to ashes. Then she turned away and went downstairs to rejoin her guests.

GESTICULATION IN FASHION

Teachers Say Exactness Must Be Qbtained or the Effect Is Disastrous.

Gesticulation is the fashion now. says the New York Sun. Woman must gesticulate to be in the swim. But she must do if in. a correct manner. ’ It is said that the most fashionable people have taken to making gestures, and therefore, of course, all’ womankind must paw the air, so to speak. Just any and every sticking about of the hands or motion of the head and shoulders will not do, declare the teachers of gesticulation, and théy are pretty thick nowadays. Gestures are like the alphabet, they form a languags of their own. : These teachers furthermore say that gestures are innate in the human being, like a terrible thirst or any other old thing, and ‘that they merely have to be brought out and perfected by those who have made a deep study of the subject. . Gesticulation, in its highest form, must convey to a person out of earshot a general understanding of a conversation that is being carried on. S Ambition. At ten years old, or somewhat later, Tom Smith resolved to be Dictator; But at fifteen was quite content With being one day President. At twenty all his mind was set On Congress or the S&blnet. At thirty, having grown much wiser, He tried to run for Supervisor; He had (ana pald for) an ovation, But failed to get fhe nomination. 'Twas then, with politics disgusted— With temper ‘riled” and wallet : “busted’’~ - He sought the post of an Inspector Of Customs from the Port Collector. ! He’'s sixty now, and one can wager That he will die a simple gager. —Qliver Bollivar, in Youth's Companlion.

FEW FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Sheep and Hens and Wool and Eggs and Their Relation to Tariff v Legislation.

‘The insignificance of our sheep and wool industry is seen wlen compared with our poultry. and egg industry. ‘While the total value of our wool product last year was only $58,775,;373, that of our egg product was $145,000,000 in 1899 and probably $200,000,000 last year. ‘The value_of the 91,000,000 dozens of eggs laid in Ohio.in 1899 was over $lO,000,000, while the value of the 12,320,000 pounds of wool produced there was only $3,134,208, and yet Ohio is by far the largest wool-growing state east of the Rocky mountains. If Ohio sheep could be made to produce as much value as do Ohio hens the protectionists there, from Grosvenor down, might be excused for doing more cackling than do all the hens in that state.

Even the value of poultry killed for food is $130,000,000 a year, or 215 times the value of our wool products. In view of these facts, why is there so much fuss and feathers about protection to our sheep and wool industry and so little said about the industrious hen and her valuable - egg product, on the part of our tariff worshipers? Could not our farmers be made to believe that their far more valuable egg and poultry industry is entirely dependent upon the duties upon the eggs and chickens? *ls it not certain that this imdustry would be ruined and that ouridomestic hens, would immediately retire from business if the tariff duties were taken off and the pauper hens of Europe and their cheap-labor products were: put on the free list? Are not our protectionist friends overlooking a good thing when they neglect to fill the Congressional Record with speeches and statistics showing the great benefit,of protection to this great and growing industry? Would it not, in fact, be better for their cause if they would lose the declining sheep and wool industry and let it go to the dogs, where it appears to be going in spite of ektremely high duties?

A SENSIBLE LABOR PLANK.

Pennsylvania Democrats Give Utterance to Sentiments That Are Wise and Patriotic. .

Among the many admirable planks in the platform of the Pennsylvania democrats there is none that appeals more strongly to conservatism and a sense of justice than the one defining the party’s attitude on labor unions, which follows: - Labor unions organized for the betterment of the condition of wage earners, acting within the limits of law and not subversive of public order or individual rights. are not only lawful but commendable, and should be met, recognized and dealt wii. accordingly.

This accords not only with the traditional friendliness of the democratic party toward men who iabor—for the strength of the party has ever been and must be among thosc engaged in honest toil-“but it expresses'the sentiment which should prevail among all classes of people in dealing with the so-called labor problem. It recognizes the right of workingmen to organize as an inalienable individual right, and one which they should be enzouraged to exercise for the betterment of their condition. That right is indorsed both in its legal and moral aspects. Th 2 only demand it makes upon workingmen is that the right shall be exercised within the limits of the law, the maintenance of public order and equal consideration for the individual rights of others. : .

The Pennsylvania declaration; says the New York Post, deals with the labor question frankly, honestly and intelligently, and without demagogy. It could not have contained less "and it would have been a waste of words to have said more. It should be incorporated in the St. Louis platform.

FAITH THAT MUST BE KEPT.

The republican party of Massachusetts, having placed itself entirely in the hands of Senator Lodge and one or two others whom he can trust, has been compelled to take the back track, so far as reciprocity is concerned. - Reciprocity is all very well to figure as pledge in a party platform, but it becomes quite another matter when the republicans themselves—those who are not in the secrets of the party management—undertake to promote it. For while the republican leaders can afford to make solamn promises, so long as those promises are confined to the party platforms, faith must be kept with the powerful interests that have heretofore furnished the campaign corruption funds for the republicans, and who are expected to do the handsome thing in this campaign.—Atlanta Constitution. : - Can Animals Count? That a dumb animal cannot have the arithmetical faculty, as we understand it, is the conclusion of Ernesto Mancini, a recent student of animal psychology. The animal is lacking in the power of drawing a general, as opposed to a particular, conclusion; italsolacks articulate speech; hence it is wanting in the explicit {exercise of intelligence—that is, in all that contributes to the formation of the idea of number and its development. Up to a certain limit, indeed, an animal may have a notion of numbers—not of abstract numbers, but of groups of objects or of simultapeous and consecutive images of .them. Here there is a certain likeness between a dumb animal and a child, or a savage, with the difference that the two last may progress further, while the animal cannot do so. A dog, then, according to Mancini; may know the difference between two cats and four cats, Wwhile the notions of the numbers “two” ‘and ‘“four” are beyond him.—Success. , Doctors Disagreeing. The 1904 address of the Protective Tariff league declares as follows: ““That reciprocity in competitive flroducts is unsound in principie, pernicious in practice and condemned by experience. It is contrary alike to the national policy of protection, to' the fair treatment of domestic producers and to friendly ‘relations with foreign countries.” The last republican national platform said that “reciprocity and protection are twin measurers of republican policy and go hand-in-hand.”” There seems to be a misunderstanding here—a case of doctors disagreeing. The adoption of a democratic policy will make such things impossible.~lndianapolis Sentinel. i b

SENATOR SMOOT IS SAFE.

Republicans Will Stand by Mormon Church Until After the Fall - Election.

A seemingly well informed correspondent at Salt Lake City is authority for the statement thal if Senator Smoot should be unseated Utah will give her electoral vote to the democratic candidate for preswient, and will send two democrats to the United States senate. No cne who is familiar with the affairs of church and state in Utah, says the Chicago Chronicle, will question the power of the church to make the correspondent’s” prediction a reality, but there is little, if any, prospect that the senator will be disturbed, at least before the national election. While there is abundant evidence that Utah mormons who lived in polygamy previous to the -cnactment of a state law forbidding it continue to sustain = polygamous relations, there has been no evidence that Senator Smoot has more than one wife, or that he has ever advocated polygamy' since the enactment of statz legislation against it. =)

For the 'existing polygamous practices in Utah the political party to which a majority of the investigating committee belong is largely, if not wholly, responsible. Had Utah been compelled to remain a territory federal legislation faithfully enfcrced could have eradicated this evil, but, to gain a party advantage by increasing republican representation in congress, it was admitted as a state, and thus the control of pv%ygamy was given into the hands of the polygamists of the mormon church, who controls the politics of the state. .

It is a late day now to shirk responsibility for the folly of making Utah a state and to indulge in the practice of manufacturing party sentiment by persecuting a monogamous mcrmon.

The Smoot investigation, which is not an investigation of Smoot, may drag along several weary months, but there will. be no Smoot verdict to incite vengeance in Utah _until the electoral vote of the polygamous state has been again recorded for the presidential nominee of the party in power.

FACTS IN A NUTSEELL.

——Senator Dietrich may confidently inform Senator Burten that the true measure of statesmanship is in having a masterly command of technicalities.— Pittsburg Dispatch (Rep.) ——llt is promised that the postal investigation will be revived “after the presidential election.” This will give the president of the senate and the speaker of the house time to select the committees on self-exoneration.—Wash-ington Post (Ind.). . ——Judge Parker is a strong candidate. He occupies the highest place in the judicial system of his state, a place of great dignity and honor. He is personally a man of superior professional emulition and of upright life. He is a candidate without any taint of the cemagogue. Such acancidate cannot be whistled down the wind.—Pcrtland Oregonian (Ind.), ——No class of our pscple is so cependent upon the foreign market as the farmer, none suffer more keenly from any restriction upon American trade by foreign countries. But the American farmer has never received much ccnsideration from the republican party in congress. All of the energies of that party in the national legislatiire have been directed tcward maintaining the home market for the American manufacturer without foreign competition.— Galveston News.

——Mr. Grosvenor, speaking in the house the other day, said that ““we donot want to reform the tariff; we conot want to revise the tariff, and if we do we are going straight ahead when we get ready and we will do these things if we see fit to do so.” Mr. Grosvenor merely gives voice to the §pirit of the present acministration. He is only a spokesman for the Roosevelt idea and method. “We will do.just as we please.” That is the notice that is served upon the country.— Indianapolis Sentinel. :

* Republicans’ False Promises. ‘ It is announced that there is little hope for the statehood bill to pass congress. ‘lndeed, there has nevér been any hope ‘at all for it in our judgment. Several obstacles have been placed in the way of it. The fact that the republican party in its mational platform in 1900 declared that “we favor homé rule for and the early admission to statehood of the territories of New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma,” was virtually conclusive evidénce that it favored nothing of the kind. Senator Quay has been trying.for two years to get the republican party to keep its plelges, but it has been to no purpose. Nothing else really was to have tbeen expected. The republican party never had any idea of keeping its qr(')mise with regard to statehood, and that plank in its platform was placed there purely for humcombe.—Memphis Com-mercial-Apepal. :

Something New in Politics.

The probability that Mr. Roosevelt will be the choice of the republican convention in the fast-approaching summer seems to weigh heavily upon the publi¢c mind. It is doubtful whether in the whole record of American politics there can be found a parailel instance of public uneasiness over a probable nomination. There have been cases of grave democratic concern over a republican nomination and vice versa, but the uneasiness which attends Mr. Roosevelt’s almost certain chance is not confined to party. It is public uneasiness. It is no less manifest in republican circles than in demccratic.—St. Louis Republic. ' Genteel Employment. This advertisement was unblushingly inserted in a London newspaper a few weeks ago: A lady moving in good society is required at once to wear and to make fashionable very beautiful, dainty -articles of jewelry; liberal remuneration. Strict secrecy.” Oftena delicate suggestion will be made aat fashionable shops that in return for a tactful recommendation the firm would be only too delighted to supply dresses, hats or shoes, as the case may be, gratis, even paying a commission upon new orders obtained. The system of female touting is done in London to an almost incredible extent, women apting as secret agents for wine merchants, soap manufacturers, and even as touts for- money jénders.

i L o .7? = 2 : T «@faf-'-‘ [T YIRS “Elg!;i) t'ia Ul. P NS % ’4 5" »‘&\ B . !Q. AN DA N _l He— V== ST G = EH@ 130y~ 4 =1 Ng' A A A P A AN NSNS SIS NSNS NI NPT A USEFUL TOILET CLOSET. Handy for Keeping Medicines, Shaving Materials, Soaps, Wash Cloths, Etc. A small closet in a home, for keeping medicines and toilet articles, is a great convenience. Mine consists of one-half ;inch pine, four inches wide, planed and put together:so as to be 2x3 feet. It has four shelves. The door is of thin pine, free from knots, planed, hinged and with a lock -catch.” The outside of frame and door is varnished. Being in our toilet room, it is indeed a very useful as well as ornamental piece of furniture. It has no back case L Jllll —1 I / l : ' !s’/’/‘/ . /i ———l ~< L :;' ’ — T, HOW THE CLOSET IS MADE. . ings or boards; simply rests against the wall. It is held in place by four shert pieces of band iron, one ‘end of each band being fastened ‘to back of frame; the other end fastened to the wall by a screw. All kinds of medicines, shaving- materials, soaps, wash rags, ete., can here be I}jept.' If there is no other looking glass in the room, one may be fastened on the outside of the door.—F. H. Plumb, in Farm and Home. - How to Treat Your Eands. - The exigencies of domestie life make many people treat their hands:as if they were insensitive things. Thefollowing simple rules may bring such sufferers solid comfort: The hands are to be rubbed over at night with a mixture of lanolin, one part, and sweet almond oil, three parts. Large gloves of kid or leather are then to be donned. ,For washing the hands the best soap and warm water must be used and it is preferable to employ a lather. Rinsing should always follow washing. Finally, this lotion is to be freely rubbed over the skin: Precipitated chalk, -one ounce; glycerin, one ounce and a half; saturated solution of gelatin, two drams; rose water to make eight ounces.. The bottle should be well shaken before its contents are poured out. Asthe chalk hasa tendency ‘to deposit round the nails, the latter must be carefully wiped.—Chicago News. )

The War Against Moths.

Cedar oil applied to the crevices of trunks and chests is a far better preventive against moths and certainly less disagreeable than moth balls.

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HE sleeves not zalone tell the vintTage of ‘the gown, but give the . distinctive touch in nine cases out of ten as Dame Fashion rules in these days. Sleeves just now differ enough in style to suit the most changeable representative of the fair sex, the¢ only point of resemblance being a certain degree of shoulder slope. - This variety is most welcome, for it enables a woman to select a different type of sleeves for almost every kind c¢f gown or: waist, and at the same time secure something new and suitable.. In ths accompanying group, which we taks from Brooklyn Eagle, are seen five favorite models, in which the principal points of the season’s sleeves are noted. First is the new. -inverted gigot sleeve, shaped entirely to the wrist by medns of the seams, and minus any added cuff. Another is a pretty example of the Stuart sleeve, edged either with lace or hemstitched lawn- frills. A third shows a popular elbow sleeve, decorated with rows of narrow ribbon, and edged with a handkerchief cuff. The fourth design is Parisian and semiloose. It is gauged to:the armhole, and round the upper arm, falling loose till it reachés the wide gauntlet cuff. The last style, suited to an evening frock or tea gown, is formed of a deep pouf edged with accordion plaiting Among other new sleeves ean be counted at least’half a dozen that are distinctive in style.. There is tha sleeve which is shaped like a crook neck squash. It is long and tapering unti} it reaches the main portion,

RUDENESS AT THE TABLE.

It Takes Away the Pleasure of Eate ing and Indirectly Impairs - Healthful Digestion.

To a nervous person vulgar manners at the table are the most irritating of #fl things. It takes away the pleasure of eating, the relish for food, and in a measure unfits the digestive organs for their work. The fact is,'it does a stomach absolute harm to he affected in this way during the process of di= gestion, and persons habitually annoyed by such things are sure to suffer seriously from it. At no other place do the habits of vulgar people appear 8o vulgar as at the table. Trifling things that one would not notice in the parlor or in ordinary conversation about the house, become positively offensive when indulged in at the table, and persons who have been shocked at the disgusting sight of a knife ladened with food on its way to the jaws.of a womamn, or heard with a sickening of the nerves an uncontrollable belch from a man, must have felt the premonitory symptoms of dyspepsia. It is needless to protest that such cases are rare, and to claim that it is not often®the case ‘that men or women are so vulgar as to pick their teeth with pins at the }able. or in other ways display their {nnate vulgarity. But they do, and not all well-bred people are so fortunate as to escape enduring agony from such causes. Women who set themselves up to be teachers of morality,-and who condemn coarse or rude talk in others, are guilty oftentimes of manners at the table that would really shock them if they knew how they affected others. The matter is one that demands consideration from young and old, and il there are persons who know of themselves that they have rude habits at the table, whether it be, of one kind or another, theve should be no time lost in correcting them. There are innumerable ways in which valgarity is exhibited, but the most commonly vulgar forms are those mentioned, and the greater number of peopie who are offenders at all, ars offenders in these particularly mentiohed ways.*N. Y. Weekly. . ; = WAR FROM TATTOO MARKS. New Guinea Tribe Fought Because : Its Design Was Copied—Un- . written Copyright Law. * One special feature of many of tha2 tribes inhabiting' New Guinea is the uawritten law_of copyright in the designs with which they tattoo their bodies, says a wrifer in Stray Stories. Each tribe has its own particular system of ornamenting the body, and should a member of any other triba imitate the pattern, it i 3 regarded as quite a sufficient reason for a declaraticn of war between the two tribes. * A young warrior fell in love with a girl of a neighboring tribe; thé girl favored his suit, but there was a rivat in her own tribe. This rival wished to know why the girl did not look upon him with equal favor, and whyl she went outside the trilte for a husband. The girl hesitated, and then replied—either as a subterfuge.or as a statement of actual fact, but probably th= former—that the rival was not so weil ornamented as was the suilor from tho neighboring tribe L The home rival watched for the sueccessful suitor, took note of the pattern, gnd copied it. The other tribe resented this infringement, and declared war, in the course of which both suitors wer2 killed. ’ :

where it widens out into a deep shape. This kind of.sleeve is now made all a mass of tucks. At the wrist it is side plaited into a wide band of goods, which is covered with a cuff of lace, which is finished with a big chou of ribbon, or a rosette of cloth. Then there is the delightful old sleeve which is shirred very full into the arm hole. It falls limp and baggy to the wrist, where it is trimmed with no less than six ruffles, each one bordered with narrow lace. These ruffles reach almost to the elbow and the effect is decidedly quaint. The umbrella sleeve is lovely and is best described by its nams. If it could be “lifted” it would form a very nice parasol cover. As it is it is gathered into the arm hole and falls. in many points around the hand. Underneatha there is a lingerie cuff over which the points make a very nice trimming. There is the bag sleeve, which is very much liked, and which can be em--ployed upon many gowns. It is suwitable for all materials from sprigged lawn to broadcloth. This sleeve has its fullest part underneath. It is gath~ ered into a band of embreidery just below the elbow. And. from this band of embruidery, there falls a flounce of the dress goods, atranged in such a way as to cover the knuckles. ~ The cape sleeve is one that is alse worn. This is gathered into the arm hole and falls mostly at the back. There is an underneath sleeve of thin~ ner stuff. This sleeve is designed for