Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 25, Plymouth, Marshall County, 23 March 1905 — Page 7

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CHAPTER TL Let me try to describe that on which my eyes rested as I pushed the door wide. Twas a long room, wainscoted half up the wall in some dark wood, and fax daytime lit by one window only, which now wa hung with red curtains. By the fireplace, where a brisk wood fire pas crackling leaned a young gentlewoman who, as she now turned her eyes upon me. ceased fingering the guitar or mandolin that she held against her waist, and raised her pretty head not without curiosity. Bat 'twas on the table in the center of the chamber that my gaze settled, and on pro men beside it, of whom I must speak more particularly. The elder, who sat in a high-backed chair, was a little, frail, deformed gentleman of about fifty, dressed very richly in dark velvet and furs, and wore on his head a velvet skullcap, around which his white hair stuck up like a ferret's. But the oddest thing about him was a complexion that any maid of sixteen would give her ears for of a pink and prhite so transparent that it seemed a soft light mast be glowing beneath his skin, On either cheek bone this delicate coloring centered in a deeper flush. His eyes were very bright and sharp, and his chin stuck out like a Ticious mule's. The table before him was covered with flasks, in the middle of which stood a silver lamp burning, and over it a silver saucepan that sent up a rare fragrance as the liauid within it slmmer'd and bubbled. So eager was the old sentit man In watching the progress of his mixture that he merely glanced up at my entrance, and then, holding up a hand for silence, turn'd his eyes on the saucepan again. The second man was the broad-shouldered lackey, and stood over the saucepan with a twisted flask in his hand,' from which he pouid a red syrup very gingerly, drop by drop, with the tail of hit- eye turn'd on his master's face, that he might know when to cease. Now It may be that my entrance upset this experiment. At any rate, I had scarce come to a stand about three paces inside the door, when the Ettle old gentleman bounces up in a fury, kicks over his chair, hurls the nearest bottles to left and right, and sends the silver saucepan spinning across the table to my very feet, where it scalded me clean through the boot, and made me hop with pain. "Spoil'd epoil'd!" he screamed; "drench'd In filthy liquor, when It should have breath'd but a taste! And, to my amazement, he sprang on the strapping servant- like a wild cat, and began to beat, cuff and belabor him with all the strength of his puny limbs. Twaa like a scene out of Bedlam. Yet all the while the girl lean'd quietly against the mantel-shelf, ani st'tly touched the strings of her Instrument, while the servant took the rain of blows and slaps as though 'twere a summer shower, grinning all over his face, and making no resistance at all. Then, as I stood dunb with perplexity, the old gentleman lit go his hold of the fellow's hair, and, dropping on the floor, began to roll about in a fit of coughing, the like of which no man can imagine. 'Twas hideous. He bark'd, and writhed, and bark'd again, tlH the disorder seem'd to search and rack every innermost inch of his small frame. "He's dying!" I cried, and ran forward to help. The servant pick'd up the chair, and together we set him in iL By degrees the violence of the cough abated, and he lay back, livid in the face, with his eyes closed, and his hands clutching the knobs of the chair. I turn'd to the girl. She had neither spoken nor stirr'd, but now came forward, and calmly ask'd my business. "I think," said I, "that your name is Killigrew?" I am Delia Killigrew, and this is my father, Sir Deakin." ow on his way to visit his estates in Cornwall?" She nodded. "Then I have to warn you that your lives are in danger." And, gently as possible, I told her what I had seen and heard downstairs. In the middle of my tale, the servant stepp'd to the door, and return'd quietly. There was no lock on the inside. After a minute he went across and drw the red curtains. The window had 2 grating within, of Iron bars as thick as a man's thumb, strongly clamp'd in the stonework. Clearly, he was a man of few words; for, returning, ' he merely pull'd out his sword, and waited for the end of my tale. The girl, i also, did not interrupt me, but listen'd ! in silence. As I ceas'd, she said: "Is this all you know?" "No," answerM I, "it is not. But the rest I promise to tell you if we escape I from this pUce alive. Will this content ; your She turn'd to the servant, who nodded. : f Whereupon she held out her hand very j cordially. ' "Sir. listen; we are travelers bound for j- Cornwall, as you know, and have some ' email possessions, that will poorly reward the greed of these violent men. Nevertheless, we should be hurrying on ft our journey did we not await my brother ADuiony, wuu wo us uo c nuuen iron ' Oxford to join ns here, but has been dellayed, doubtless on the King's busiI started; for below I heard the main .'.door open, and Captain Settie voice in , the passage. The arch villain had retnrn'd. ;, "Mistress Delia," I said hurriedly. "the twelfth man has enter'd the house, and unless we consider our plans at once, all's up with us." "Tush!" said the old gentleman In the chair, who, it seems, had heard all, and now sat up brisk as ever. "I, for my part. leave it all to Jacques. Come, sit Sby me, sir, and you shall see some pretty I play. Why, Jacques is the neatest rogue with a small sword in all France." I "Sir," I put in, "they are a round doz;'en In all, and your life at present Is 'not worth a penny's purchase." "That's a he! "Tis worth this bowl before me, that, with or without you, I mean to empty. What a fool thing is youth! Sir. you must be a dying man f like mj self to' taste life properly. Come rand sit, sir, nor spou sport, ion are too t. You I i raw, I'll wager, to be of 1 any help: and f boggling I detest. j( "Inceed, sir," I broke in, now thoroughly angered. "I can use the small swora as wen as anotner. "Tush! Try him, Jacques." I Jacques, still jwearinjr a stolid face, brougat his weapon to the guard. Stuug o the quick, I wheeled around, and madi 1 lange or two, that he put aside as ea if as though I were a babe. And then U-I know not how it happened, but my Vword slipped like ice out of my grasp, tr.i went flying across the room. Jacques, (eclately as on a matter of business, stepped to pick it up, while the old gentlebia chuckled. I w&3 hot and ashamed, and a score of Itter words sprang to my tongue-tip, r:n ths Fwrchman, as ha rosa from :" caught my eye, and beckoned

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the hilt of my sword and the demi-bar engraved thereon. "He is dead," I whispered; "hush! turn your face aside killed by those same dogs that are now below. I heard a sob in the true fellow's throat But ou the instant it was drowned by the sound of a door opening and the tramp of feet on the stairs. CHAPTER VII. I looked around. Sir Deakin had picked up the lamp and was mixing his bowl humming to himself without the least concern. "Hand me the nutmeg yonder," he said, and then, "why, daughter, what's this? a trembling hand?" And all the while the footsteps were coming up. There was a loud knock on the door. "Come inr called Sir Deakin. At this, Jacques, who stood ready for battle by the entrance, wheeled round, shot a look at his master, and dropping his point, made a sign to me to do the samt-. The door was thrust rudely open, and Captain Settle, his hat cocked over one eye, and sham drunkenness in his gait, lurched into' the room, with the whole villainous crew behind him, huddled on the threshold. Jacques and I stepped quietly back, so as to cover the girl. "Would you mind waiting a moment?" inquired Sir Deakin, without looking up, but rubbing the nutmeg calmly up and down the grater; 'a fraction too much, nd the whole decoction will be spoiled." .t took the Captain aback, and he

oanie to a stand, eying ns, who looked back at him without saying a word. And this discomposed him still further. There was a minute during which the two parties could hear each other's breathing. Sir Deakin set down the nutmeg, wiped his thin fingers on a napkin and addressed the Captain sweetly: "Before asking your business, sir, I would beg you and your company to taste of this, which, In the court of France" the old gentleman took a sip from the mixing ladle "has had the extreme honor to be pronounced divine." He smaoked his lips and, rising to his feet, let Lis right hand rest on the silver foot of the lamp as he bowed to the Captain. Captain Settle's bravado was plainly oozing away before this polite audacity. and he pulled off his cap In a shamefaced manner and sat down by the table with a word of thanks. "Come in, sirs come In!" called the old gentleman, "and follow your friend's example. Twill be a compliment to make me mix another bowl when this is fin ished." He stepped around the table to welcome them, still resting his hand on the lamp as if for steadiness. I saw his eye twinkle as they shuffled in and stood around the chair where the Captain was seated. 1 "Jacques, bring glasses from the cupboard yonder; And, Delia, fetch up some chairs for our guests no, sirs. pray do not mova!" He had waved his hand lightly to the door as he turned to us; and In an instant the intention as well as the bright success of this comedy flashed upon me. There was now no one between us and the stairs, and as for Sir Deakin him self, he had already taken the step of putting the table's width between him and his guests. I touched the girl's arm, and we made as if to fetch a couple of chairs that stood against the wainscot by the door. As we did so, Sir Deakin pushed the punch bowl forward under the Captain's nose. "Smell, sir," he cried airily, "and re port to your friends on the foretaste." Settle's nose hung over the steaming compound. With a swift pass of the hand the old gentleman caught up the lamp and had shaken a drop of burning oil into the bowl. A great blaze leaped to the ceiling. There was a howl a scream of pain, and as I pushed Mis tress DeKa through the doorway and out to the head of the stairs, I caught backward glimpse of Sir Deakin rushing after us, with one of the stoutest among the robbers at his heels. "Downstairs, for your life!" I whis per' d to the girl, and turning, as her father tumbled past me, let his pursuer run on my sword, as on a spit. At the same instant, another blade pass'd through the fellow transversely, and Jacques stood beside me, with his back to the linteL Aa we pull'd our swords out and the man dropp'd, I had a brief view into the room, where now the blazing liquid ran off the table in a stream. Settle, stamp ing with agouj, had his palms press'd against his scorch d eyelids. The fat landlord, in trying to beat out the flames. had increased them by upsetting two bot ties of aqua vitae, and was dancing about with three fingers in his mouth. The rest stood for the most part dumbfounder'd; but Black Dick had hla pistol lift ed. Jacques and I spring out for the landing and round the doorway. Between the flash and the report I felt a sudden scrape, as of a redhot wire, across my left thigh and just above the knee. Jacques pointed down the staircase, where, by the glare of the conflagration that beat past us, I saw the figures of Sir Deakin and his daughter standing. "But how can you keep the door against a dozen?" The Frenchman shrugg'd his shoulders with a smile. At this moment came a rush of footsteps within the room. I saw a fat paunch thrusting past us, a quie pass of steel, and the landlord was wal lowing en his face across the threshold. Jacques' teeth snapp'd together as he stor I ready for another victim; and as the fellows within the room tumbled back, he motion d me to leave him. sprang from his side, and catching the rail of the staircase, reach'd the foot in a couple of bounds. "Hurry I" I cried, and caught the old baronet by the hand. His daughter took the other, and between us we hurried him across the passage fcr the kitchen door. Within, the chambermaid was on her knees by the settle, her face and apron of the same hue. ' I saw she was in capable of helping, and hasten'd across the stone floor, and out toward the back entrance. A stream of Icy wind blew In our faces as we stepp'd over the threshold. The girl and I bent our heads to it, and stumbling, tripping, and panting, ,rull'd ; Sir Deakin with us out into the colü air, The yard was no longer dark. In the room above some one had push'd the casement open, letting in the wind; and by this 'twas very evident the room was on fire. Indeed, the curtains had caught, and as we ran, a pennon of flame shot out over our heads, licking the thatch. In the glara.of it the yard gata stood clearly out from the night. I heard the crampling of ; feet, the sound of Settle' voice shouting an order, and then a CI2 mal yell and clash of steel as we flung open the gate. Jacques!" scream'd the ell c2man; "my poor Jacques! Tbcr dcs

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n answer to Sir Deakin's cry, we heard he brave fellow's voice; and a famous shout it must have been to reach us over the roaring flames. And after that only a racket of outcries reach'd us. Without doubt the villains had overpower'd and slain this brave servant In spite of our peril, 'twas all we could do to drag the old man from the gate and up the road; and as he went he wept like a child. We found a hiding place in the woods. where we remained all night, but the great exertion and the exposure to the cold was too much for the old gentleman. YY hen morning broke Sir Deakin had breathed his last I delved his grave in the frosty earth. close by the spot where he lay. Some how, I shiver'd all the while, and had a cruel . shooting pain in my wound that was like to have mastered ne before the task was ended. But I managed to lower the body softly into the hole and to cover it reverently from Eight; and afterward stood leaning on my spade and feeling very light in the head, while the girl knelt and pray'd for her father's soul. And the picture of her as she knelt is the last I remember, till I open'd my eyes, and was amazed to find myself on my back, and staring up at darkness. "What has happen'd?" "I think you are very ill," said a voice; can you lean on me, and reach the hut yonder?" "Why, yes; that is, I think so. Why U everything dark?" "The sun has been down for hours. You have been in a 6woon first, and then talk'd oh, such nonsense! Shame on me, to let you catch this chill!" She help'd me to my feet and stead ied me; and how we reach'd the hut I cannot tell you. It took more than one weary hour, as I now know; but at tha time hours and minutes were one to me. (To be continued.) MONGOOSE SAVED HIS LIFE. Remarkable Story from India of Little Animal's Ficht with Cobra. One sultry afternoon a gentleman who was staying In India was lying In a hammock swung on the veranda of his bungalow. He was whillng away the time eating fruit and biscuits. when all at once he saw a little sharpnosed, bright-eyed creature all covered with smooth fur and looking some thing like a bandicoot rat and something like a squirrel come creeping slyly along the door. He threw it a bit of banana, which at first :$tartled it, and it acted as though it was go ing to run, but pretty soon it seemed to think better of it and turned back and snapped up the morsel. The gentleman crew Interested and gave it some biscuit crumbs, which it ate, by degrees becoming more familiar and In clined to make friends. Just then some one approached and the creature ran away. Then the gentleman was taken very ill with a fever, ari one day when he was Just beginning to recover he sent his servant away and composed him self to take a nap. Just as he was about to doze off Into dreamland he saw a horrible sight. Describing it. he says: "Creeping Into the room from the veranda, coil after coil, was a huge hooded cobra, the deadliest snake In all India, more than 6even feet long and as thick as a man's arm. For a moment I was fairly dumb with horror and then, although I knew It was no use, I Instinctively called for help, but my voice was so weak that it couldn't even have been heard in the next room. "On came the snake, rearing up its horrid spotted hood angrily and blowing out its head, as It does when it means mischief. It had already got to the foot of the bed and was Just preparing to crawl up when I heard a sklrr of tiny feet across the floor and I saw my squirrel-rat friend, little Tommy. Tho brave little fellow never hesitated for a moment, but went right at the cobra like a tiger and gave It a bite that drew blood like the cut of a knife." The upshot of the matter was Tom my and the snake fought a duel, and upon its victory depended the life of the sick man. Again and again the rat-squirrel attacked the reptile, biting and biting and always escaping the enemy blows, until at last the ratsquirrel actually bit off the snake's head. But just as this happened the snake in its flopping knocked some glass off a table and the attendants In the house, hearing the crash, came rushing In. As it turned out, the little rat-squir rel was a mongoose. These creatures are the greatest serpent killers in the world. Thus this gentleman, by mat ing a pet of the little mongoose, had found a friend that actually saved his rife. Pearson's Weekly. COSTLIEST MITER IN LAND. Bishop Horstmann Wears One that It Studded with Valuable Jewels. The most costly miter in the United States, a miter which represents $10, 000 worth of Jewels and precious stones, is worn by Bishop Horstmann, of the Cleveland diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. The bishop by vir tue of his office is custodian of the miter, which is the property of the church. The extreme costliness of the Jewel ed headdress is equaled by its artistic excellence and Interesting history. The gems which adorn the crown were the gift of Mrs. W. J. Gordon, wife of the late multimillionaire. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon were close personal friends of the late Bishop GilmouT, Bishop Horstmann's predecessor, and during Mrs. Gordon's last illness she directed that her Jewel box be given to the bishop and that its contents be used for a miter. Later Mr. Gordon added the jewels of his dead daughter to the collection, and when he vaa shown a water color of the miter as it would appear when finished he was so delighted that he agreed to bear the expense of making It. ...... The emblem Is so thickly Incrusted with the gems that its fabric, white moire antique, Is barely visible. The jewels are diamonds and seed pearls, amethysts, turquoises, topazes and garnets. The cruciform design is outlined with a pearl necklace and a large diamond cross Is placed In the center. The miter was first worn by Eishop Gilmour la 1CC3 and is exposed to the public vi3V7 only three timea during the year at Christmas, Easter and T

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General Graut'i Granddanshter. Miss Rosemary Sartoris, whose en gagement to J. M. Nelson, a prominent young broker of St. Louis, was recent ly reported, is the youngest daughter of Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris and granddaughter of General Grant This is the third time that rumor has announced her to wed under romantic circumstances. Four vears aco. only a mm EOSEMABT SABTOniS &hort after her coming out in Washington, fash ionable society of that city was Inter ested by Miss Sartoris' reported en gagement to Jack Hibbert, a handsome young Englishman whom she met 01: the shores of the Mediterra nean. Miss Sartoris at last formally denied the truth of the report. Shortly thereafter it was rumored that she would wed Lieutenant John Wright, Ü. S. A., the son of the late General Marcus Wright, who had fought her grandfather in many a bitter battle during the Civil War. This engagement, too, was promptly denied. Miss Sartoris is a beautiful girl, an accomplished musician and a talented linguist Her debut in Washington five years ago was one of the most brilliant of the season's functions. Young Nelson Is related to Lewis C. Nelson, who is a brother-in-law of for mer Governor Lon V. Stevens of Missouri. Panama Suiting Coat time. Costume of panama suiting In navy blue with circular skirt, which has a double box-plaited flounce at half length Joined with stitching and a stitched point and band at top of each plait trimmed with buttons. Bolero coat with tuck seams back and front which form box plaits below the girdle at the back. Neck finish, inverted fevers and flaring cuffs of velvet Stitched points and straps finish the fronts; full sleeves, plaited at top. It is unlawful in Norway for women or girls to serve in public houses. The coronation robe presented to the Empress 'of Russia was of fur. It weighed only sixteen ounces, yet was worth $6,000 or ?375 per ounce. Among female Moors birthday celebrations are unknown. A Moorish woman considers it a point of honor to tfc absolutely ignorant of her age. Turkish women do not come Into control of their private fortunes until after marriage. After that they can dispose of one-third of it without the husband's consent.

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Curious Vanities of Women. It is amazing how few sitters are content to have their pictures do them Imple Justice and fail to grumble if their portraits are not much more presentable than their actual selves, declares a prominent pho:ographer. Some subjects, women especially, I am , afraid, carry this craving for a flattering picture to a ludicrous extent. For instance, early last spring one of my lady clients, who must certainly have figured In the census of 1840, was photographed as "Queen of the May," in a white muslin frock with a blue wash, and wearing a coronet of blosaoms. Anything more grotesque yon could scarcely conceive than this haggard, wrinkled old lady posturing as a "maiden of blushing fifteen." What her object was I cannot imagine, for she would surely never have the cdurage to present a copy to any of her friends. Anoiher good lady called on me one day and announced her intention of being taken in the character of Juliet a part which it seemed she had played in fonie historic past When I till you that she would certainly never see her fiftieth birthday again, and that her weight was not much less 'than that of Hans Breltmann's lady who Weighed zwei hundert pounds," yoc can imagine that I had dlQculty in keeping my countenance as she gazed Undcrly down from my imvOTjbrd

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der the floor. . A lady may always be trusted to know exactly in what aspect she looks her best One young lady, who had a lovely head of dark hair, a fine pair of eyes, and a beautiful nose, but whose beauty was completely spoilt by an ugly mouth and a weak, receding chin, was always taken with the lower part of her face concealed behind a fan, over which her dark eyes flashed coquettishly. It was a most effective picture, and gave one the impression of" an exquisitely beautiful Spanish girl. New York News. ir it FASHION NOTES. L: J Broderie anglaise appears on the new parasols. French cravats of white kid, embroidered In colors, are new. Sunshades of heavy linen bid fair to be popular with the summer girl. Elastic belts covered with velvet are about the closest fitting to be had. Deep, circular collars and cuffs of knife-plaited lawn are modish and launder well. Some of the embroidered evening wraps rival Joseph's coat for diversity of coloring. Truly astonishing is the diversity in sleeves. Your choice depends only on your fancy. The girl who sports an opera cloak around in daylight is an occasional incongruity. In the wake of the elbow sleeve come long silk gloves in elbow length, finished like kid. The real old-fashioned little sailor hat comes in white with a bunch of flowers at the left front Certain exquisite little French blouses are very simply made, with only tiny tucks and lace edging. A soft felt hat with a bunch of peacock feathers stuck Jauntily through the band is smart for morning. The "polo" hat is a little box turban, merely a crown, with a plume or flower cluster at the side. A buff silk petticoat with lots of little black lace ruffles put on with wide black velvet bands is quaint A hat to finish the season can be had now for that infinitesimal sum of money known as a mere song. The skirts of the latest models fit snugly over the hips, devices for attaining this end being innumerable. naif -long coats of heavy renaissance and guipure laces are to be greatly in vogue with the ornately dressed. A new dotted net, the dots so heavy as to give the impression of little balls, comes In white, black and evening shades. A dainty garniture for an evening corsai is made of white marguerites and there is a head ornament to match. The girl who wants to look natty in the spring will get herself together a white coat and skirt suit either cloth or corduroy. Health and Beauty Hints. Pure olive oil Is of the greatest value to consumptives. If the nose is oily or shiny use borax water or wash it with cornmeal instead of soap. For hoarseness beat up the white of an egg, flavor with lemon and 6ugar, and take some occasionally. Don't forget that the woman who smiles rather than frowns will have a skin more free from wrinkles than the woman who knits her brow. There is nothing that so promptly cuts short congestion of the lungs, sore throat or rheumatism, as hot water when applied promptly and thoroughly. To soften the hands, make a lotion of 10 cents' worth of bay rum, 15 cents' worth of glycerin, 5 cents' worth of alcohol and 5 cents' worth of quince seed. Don't give unnecessary time to a certain established routine of housekeeping when it could be much more profitably spent in rest or recreation. Weddin Gown

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A white satin wedding gown, with plaited skirt trimmed with satin roses. Mothers Too Attentive. Children are often worrieü because their mothers are too attentive, and constantly reprove the small ones without reason. A child should be let alone, and be allowed to play or amuse Itself in its own way, without the constant direction of a nervous mother. A boy, for example, enjoys more a few slnple toys and something which his crm inndty has Trcx-cd cut than

tho most elaborate plaything w!hlc!h has been bought. In the same way the little girl will lavish her affections on a misshapen doll, probably made at home, while the most artistic production of the toyshop will lie In state, to be taken up on rare occasions.

Ten-Gore Bklrt. Skirt with ten gores. Inverted plaits between the back and side gores, except on either side of front where they are cut away, rounding at about yoke depth and stitched over the front gores, which are seamed In the middle and plaited at sides; finished with stitching and buttons. Suitable for cloth, panama suiting, taffeta or pongee. Platonic Friendships. When a young man and woman, fancy-free and unfettered, become really good friends, it is very delight ful to both; but there is always the very strong probability that friendship may develop Into love. If the love be on both sides, and there be no obstacle to marriage, then nothing could be happier; but, unfortunately, platonlc friendships have a way of ending in a one-sided love affair which is in variably the cause of much pain and sorrow to one, and sometimes to both, of the erstwhile good comrades. "But" you may say, "friendship, pure and simple, between man and woman, Is so delightful a thing Isn't It worth some risk?" Not the risk of an unrequited, hope less love, and therefore platonlc friend ships should not be indulged in by either man or woman till they are well on the shady side of thirty. For younger people the risks are so grave that they will be wiser to content themselves with the less exciting friendship of their own sex till the time comes when the friend Is found who, it is hoped, will become the part ner and companion for life. Baby. Rolling on the carpet, playing with her toes Snatching at the sunbeam aa it comes and goes. ' Witching little fingers, moving all the day, White as water lilies, full of grace as they. Sharing Rover's corner, tugging at his paw, Grasping pussy's soft fur, fearless of her claw. Eyes with beauty borrowed from the sky above, Lips of dainty curving, like the bow of love. Gurgles of low laughter, motions full of grace, Dimples where the "'angels kissed the baby's face. Spiashings In the bathtub, the morning's merriest hour. Happy Is the household, 'neath the spel! of baby s power. Life Is full of duty, each must bear a part, The baby only brlngeth sunshine to the heart. Care of the Toothbrush. The care of toothbrushes is not suf flciently observed. Ia our houses they stand in their cups or hang on their racks above the set toilet bowls day and night absorbing any disease

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germs that may be floating about They should be washed frequently at least about twice a week in some antiseptic solution, strong salt and water or bicarbonate of sodium and water being two good and readily provided cleaners. Tooth washes and pastes should also be kept carefully covered. The World Need Women who are gentle, courteous and kind. Women who have not lost the ancient art of loving. Women in whom the maternal instinct is not dried up. Women whs believe they have a higher destiny than a life of Idleness and luxury. Women who consider it beneath their dignity to either drink or smoke. Women who will never cpeak uncharitably of the less fortunate of their sex. TVaahLasr Stöckln-. It la recommended that a little Tinegar ba tdded to the water in which stockings are rinsed after being washed. The stockings cironld then be dried wrong side out Colored stoeüngs will ee unladed end black ones will re' tain their criminal lurt:r.

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3RIEF COMPILATION OF INDIANA NEWS. What Onr Nelshlor Are Dolnic Matter of General and Local Interest Marriages and Deaths AccI dents and Crime Personal Pointer About Indianiana Brief State Item. Jake Behringer of Terra Haute, a street corner x pressman, lias received word that by the death of his mother in (Jcrmany ho will inherit $00,000. Joseph Yobst, 44 years old, of Fort Wayne, a driver of a brewery wagon, Mliot his wife and then committed suicide. The woman will live. She had applied for a divorce. Henry Ileckman, while hunting ducks four miles west of Rushville, shot a seagull, the bird measuring i feet 1 inches from tip to tip. The gull was not accompanied by any other birds of its species. It will be mounted and preserved. As a result af police investigation, Miss Thima Stone of IndianaiKlis, has confessed that she wrapied her infant child in a blanket and threw it into a furnace to hide her disgrace. The charred remains of the babe were found in an ash pile at the rear of a house where she w as employed. Mrs. James Stockwell, aged 70, was burned to death at her home, six miles west of Browntown. While she was burning weeds in the garden her clothing took fire and she ran screaming to the house. Her clothing was all burned off before her hurband, who was at the barn, readied her side. With a smile at the motorman an unknown man jumped from the roadside under a fast flying traction car and was instantly killed. The suicide occurred between Whiting and East Chicago, and it required the wrecking crew to extricate the man's body. Meanwhile traftiu was delaved. J. W. Womble, a Wabash boilcnnaker, had three ribs broken, his pelvis fractured in two places and his leg broken, the result of a collision with an engine of a fast passenger train that was entering the station at Peru. Womble tried to cross tho track when he was struck and pitched into the air.' Otto Creason, working in the plant of the Shinier fence factory at Anderson, was caught in one of the wire-fence reels and was vrapied round and round with the wire, which covered his head and shoulders. A fellow-workman, instead of cutting the wire, rushed to the engine-room and shut off the steam. Creason was seriously injured, two ribs being torn from the spine, while his head and face were seriously crushed. His recovery is not anticipated. Arthur Henry, the son of Capt. l. T. Henry of Alexandria, has lain in a semiconscious condition for twelve days, the result of an assault said to have been committed by young companions. Henry lias only been able to tell in disconnected sentences of his mishap, but enough has been developed to warrant the authorities in holding William Whitehouse and Charles Whitworth, both of Alexandria, for felonious assault. It is asserted that they attacked Henry and threw him from a train for the purposes of robbery. None is o er 21 years old. A man who is withholding his name was drawing a pitcher of water from the city mains at Columbus, when e saw some object sticking from the nozzle of the hydrant. He jerked out about four inches, of an eel. The rest of the eel is in the hydrant. The man is now drinking water from his neighlKrs well. This is the water which is being pumped through the city mains for the use of local consumers, and there is a great deal of complaint ou account of its condition. The filter can not bo used and for that reason the untiltered river water is being served for drinking purjoses. Mr. and Mrs. Isom Sanders, aged re?lectively 90 and 8S, one of the most respected couples of Monroe County, died within a few hours of each other at their home, northwest of Bloomington. For sixty years they had shared each other's joys and sorrows, and haviug traveled through life so long together it w as their wish that death w:ould not long separate them. Mr. Sanders died first, his death caused by the infirmities of old age. The time for the funeral was set, and when the faithful wife learned the hour of separation she was stricken and passed away. The couple was laid side by side in one grave. A snowball, thrown in boyish fun, all but caused the death of 2-year-old Theodore Lerner of South Bend. As a result of the injury the nasal passages and roof of the lad's mouth began to decay. The teeth also began to grow upward into the decayed iortions, affecting the nasal passages and eyes. As a last resort an operation was performed by Dr. Nicholas JSenu of Chicago, and although the boy hovered between life and death for live weeks he is now out of danger. "Two months of delay," said Dr. Senn, "would have brought on insanity; the teeth would have grown up into the brain, as the bones intervening were soft." Mrs. 31. II. Ingram of Winamack, possesses a breastpin made of a gold dollar, the coin having been 'found by Mrs. Ingram's father, a soldier of Company A. Sixty-third Indiana Infantry, while he and his command were crossing the Potoinao River on the famous Long Bridge, in 1852. A company of cavalry "preceded the command, and a rider's horse stepped on the coin, flattening and scarring it until the date of coinage was almost obliterated. Mr. Drake snt the coin to his little daughter at Linden, and a few years later it was converted into a breastpin, leaving the date side as it was after being trampled on by the cavalryman's horse. Edward Donahue, convicted in Crownpoint, of the murder of Armiter .Vorthrup of St. Joseph, Mich., and condemned to be hanged at Michigan City June 9, was received at the State prison and upon approaching the prison Donahue, wuo had been a convict there before, said: Ml suppose the next time I come out it will be feet first." He heaved a sigh when the imier gate was slammed at his back and officers began to remove his handcuffs. Donahue was placed in the department for condemned prisoners with Berkley Smith, colored, of Indianapolis, who is to be hanged for wife murder. A loaded shotgun shell thrown among a lot of rubbish will probably result in the death of Balph Randolph, 8 years old, of Huntington, who was innocently watching a bonfire. There was an explosion, and playmates noticed the lad reel. The shot entered many parts of his body. The ;orst wound was in the groin. , After spending almost an entire day ia sharpening a penknife, David Hosier, aged 5, of South Bend, went to his room and carefully prepared for death. lie removed his coat and vest, unfastened his two shirts and carefully folded them back so as to expose his breast. He then plunged the knife Into his heart and severed the aorta artery. lie undoubtedly died instantly.

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