Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 38, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 June 1905 — Page 3

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By H. W. O CIIA?TER VIII. (Continued.) Hilly Bller looked very much relieved at something. Probably at the prospect of trouble. Or perhaps that there was no public charge that any of Squire Wlckly's money had gone into his pocket. AJ lh. same moment Lizzy Wickly was aying: " ul don't mind It, father. And you mustn't. We can't make It any better by worrying so over it. And so far ar. the land is concerned" but sh couji hot go oa without a sorl of IpTLsTII or the throat that strangled her for ten seconds "why, it isn't such a beautiful tract as ajl that. Next time I'll buy a tiarter section in the second bottom prairie. That will be a sensible purchase, won't It?" Mr. Wickly looked at her with his brews knitted into the sort of lowering frown that had until to-day been unknown upon his kindly face. "You don't seem to understand," he raid, harshly and slowly, and with that strange flushing of the whole face that tad made Dr. May shake his head, when be had been called in to seo the sick man that morning "that I already know that the mere loss of those ugly wooded hills and hollows is nothing! But is it nothing that I must lose my fortune of more than a million three hundred thousand, -simply because I; can have nothing upon' which to raise a .few . hundred dollars when it is needed to ' push my case? I, believe that you actually want me to fail, or delay It until I die, so that you can have it. Yes, that's it: That's the plot that you are capable of concocting and carrying forward! You and that scoundrel. Mason lie put you up to it! That's what ycu were In the woods that day for!" " - He 'came toward her with his hands clenched and his lips drawn in a sort of horrible smile that changed and vibrated between the appearance of ghastly mirth and fierce anger. She had never dreamt of such a mood in him. For he had been the best and kindest of fathers never very helpful at bread-winning, to be sure! But to uniformly good and kind, and sensible! And now in this awful, mood he surely meant to do her harm! At that Instant Mrs. Wickly coming In, fortunately announced in her ordinary cheerful manner that "dinner was ready, and go on in John; don't keep me waiting!" . Äs if Instinctively, or by force of long habit, John Wickly turned slowly away, and with the menacing look fading Into a sullen and brooding frown, he went slowly out of the room and into the kitchen, where they heard him moving a chair cs he always did in sitting down to dinner. CHAPTER IX. "Now, Lizzy, my child," said the mother in a hurried undertone, "put on your unbonnet and run as quick as you can can to Dr. May's and tell him that I want him to come, and bring some help, If he thinks best. Run nowl" "But hadn't you better go with me? Is it safe for you alone?" . The girl clasped her arms convulsively about her mother's neck. "It will be perfectly safe for me, Lizzy. Run, now." The girl started, and her mother ran after her to the door. "When you come back, don't come In where he is, Lizzy. You know what strange antipathies are often shown by by by people under great mental excitement." She had hesitated at the very word that was ringing louder and louder through all the resounding labyrinths of the brain. She had made a generalization where the specific objec wn ; most glaringly, before them, Lizz thought, as she ran through the dry, ight, yielding sand of the street. If she had said plainly what she so plainly meant she would have said: "Don't venture near him! He Is furiously insane, and Is possessed of the hallucination that you and Mr. Mason are plotting to injure and thwart and destroy him. lie may kill you in a sudden paroxysm of Insane fury. Don't go near him! Don't go near him!" Unheeding the knots and larger bunches of men that now literally dotted all Jhe conjoined thoroughfares of Sandtown, scarcely stepping a foot out of the way of the wagon loads of people that were still coming in from the southwest by the River road and from the northeast by the Overcoat road, Lizzy ran on to the doctor's office, only to discover that he was not there. "He's done gone down town some'rs, long go. Reckon you'll fine im mebby some'rs whur they're agoun to hole the meetua on the bank bustun. I'll go down un seef I kin ketch 'im fur yuh, cf you wawnt me to," said young Billy Dikes, who was known to be "re?. 'ling medicine and tendun to Doc's hosse fur 'im," as his father, little Bill Dikes, had said jocosely in explanation of the process by which young Billy had already achieved the title of "the young Doc" upon the spontaneous motion of the humorous H ooslers of his acquaintance. The young Doc had clearly volunteered to "ketch 'im," as an afterthought founded upon the signs of great anxiety and distress In the young woman's face signs of need of h lj that had appealed successfully to the chivalric hearts of these rough people of Sandtown ever, heretofore, and will continue so to appeal uccessf uJiy, so long as one of their characteristics shall remain unplaned way by the smoothing and polishing processes of advancing civilization. 'You jist set right down right h-yur, In this h-yur chur," continued the kindly young Iloosier, exhibiting all the hospitable instincts of all the hospitable Dikeses, as far back as anybody can remember. "Is your pap much worse, Lizzy V All Hoosierdom has a fashion deipised of the polished East as it is of filing everybody by his or her christened name! - A fashion tat it is to be hoped will no, be planed away in the polishing processes of westward-advancing civilization. "I'm afraid he's very much worse indeed," Lizzy said, taking the offered chair, and feeling that even yis rude ympathy lightened the burdfn of he: great grief. She had dreaded o reveal it to the world. But she forr-i 1 that the world of Sandtown knew it'alftdy, and took active and partisan iaterestMu doing what it could tö help her. "I h-yurn um say at this h-yur feile, Mason Is Jist about the whole cause ut yur pap's uh nh sickness?" "the young Doc" said, as he put on his hat and lingered a little. "I don't know. I can't think so. I ion't know what Mr. , Mason has really Cone In all this terril fe business. Will j-ca please hurry, Mr. Dikes? I left Esther alone with bizi. And I'm enrrsy, o uneasy."

TAYL03 She sat down again as the young Doc sprang out of the open office door and ran down the street throwing up little arcs of dry, sandy loam after each broad, scraping shoe-sole until he disappeared In the crowds that still closer and closer drew to each other and grew and blocked up all the thoroughfares of Sandtown till net even a re-enforcing team from' tho very uttermost end of the Overcoat road dared attempt a passage, but stopped and hitched farther and farther out. tones, and occasionally a wild yell and then a shout of laughter that indicated some ludicrous accident to somebody by somebody else. Then all at once there was a complete diminuendo as if all the voices had suddenly end steadily slipped away to the westward, and out of hearing. And then she saw a two-horse wagon drive away from her father's door, with a number of people in it. She had not seen the wagon drive up. She had not been looking that way. But there was something ominous in the driving away of that particular wagon, that, was now far out on the Overcoat road, toward the little railroad station. She watched it with parted lips and widening, eyes until it had hidden itself in the clouds of drifting, light, sandy loam that perpetually rose up and settled down upon the grayed surface of all .the jimson leaves and the oak and tho maple and walnut foliage, that bore their burdens of earth in patient assurance of the rain that must come and wash them clean and bright again. And then out of the hush, the finished diminuendo of this general assembly of the makers of public opinion for this section of the Wabash country, there drovH a strange and unknown two-horse carriage, with a driver, whose figure coming within the field of her abstracted and unfixed vision Instantly caught and concentrated her gaze. Beyond a doubt it was Mr. Mason, this time in broad daylight, driving toward her through the crowd, and going eastward as to the railway station. He would stop when he 6hould see her! And there were others ia the carriage one a fine, dignified looking gentleman. Was he Mr. Huntley? She stood in the door and even stepped down into the sand outside in order to make sure that Mr. Mason would see her. He had doubtless repented of his determination to keep Prof. Huntley away from her; and now he would make all necessary and possible amends for all his ungraciousness If so she could very, very freely, nay even joyously forgive him. And that much the more readily because of the fact that since so many people, in fact, practically the whole community, had joined as with one voice in denouncing and threatening Mr. Mason, she had turned about and engaged, passively at first, and then actively. In hjs defense What had he done to ah and all of the people of Sandtown that was half so unfair, unjust and cruel as what he had done to her? Compared with her wrongs, theirs were a matter of nothing! If she could afford to become his companion, could cnybody in all Bedden township afford to say aught against him? As they drove rapidly nearer, Ehe was conscious of something altered about his look, she could not tell precisely what. But it was something that gave him a totally different air, some way! Before, he had been thoughtful, respectful, almost subservient In all his actions in her presence. Always watchful, respectful, and considerate, at all events, with a manifest anxiety to please her. An anxiety so manifest that rerhaps it had tended to prevent her from being pleased with him at all. Now he had something of the cold, hard, haughty look of the man who is directing a great many men who are "under" him in every sense of the word. She saw this so plainly in that brief time in which the powerful horses were walking through the heavy-pulling dry sand of the Overcoat road, that she compared tliis with his former bearing and felt that there was a loss almost an uncomfortable loss. And all these impressions and reflections were redoubled and reduplicated, and intensified, when to her utter surprise and unending mortification the carriage did not stop, and the driver, Mr. Mason, passed with only a cold and formal inclination of his head toward her! She fairly sunk down upon the office door sill with a feeling of shame, surprise, almost angry resentment! She looked after the carriage as the new paint on its wheels glittered in the sun. She saw them whirl the light sand up into little settling clouds, and she felt absolutely like screaming at the very top of her voice and starting in a wild chase after the rapidly disappearing vehicle. So engrossed was she with these feelings and reflections that she was unaware of the approach of Dr. May along with "Coonrod" Redden, and a constantly increasing posse of followers. "Lizzy, you un your mother better git into my cairge, un Lum will drive you down to my house. Hits no use uh niekun a furse 'bout things 'at cain't be hept. Yur pap's jist plum, slap dab crazy. Un we've jist started im to the assle-um. That assle-um is jist the plast fur 'im. He'll git k'yored right away ef they's airy a k'yore fur 'im. They sont Billy Beaseley over to that assl-um bout thee-four weeks ago, wasn't it, Doc? Un by gum; he's .back at home now with more 6aince un 'e had before he went. Yur pap nil git tuck k'yur uv, Lizzy. Me un Joe Eilet un Bill Shipley nil go over to-morry trr day atter, un see to 'im. That was that ornerry hee-hawun un whimwhammun feller, Mason, at druv a past jist now, boys! I h-yurn 'at he's h-yur to bid in all ar moggijis. I've jlsf sont him partickler nodus at he'll be hosst up ef he puts his nose enside a this town the next thee-four weeks, by gum!" CHAPTER X. The rain had put off its coming until every broad black-green glossy j in" son leaf, and all the delicately palmated foliage of the wild hemp, and the maple, and the white oak had long lain under " - common veil of sober gray, thrown ything over by the rolling wheels and uping feet of the Overcoat road In wie light, sandy loam came down at last in a steady, growing patter that awoke Lizzy Wickly for the twentieth time throughout the hot, feverish, restless night For the twentieth time t9 lay and listened to the southwest wind, sweeping In gusty circles that dashed the cool, hard ram against the window panes with a thct-liis rattla as if it wcra ths diminutive pebbles cf that tbxeatcrdc, tpec-ter-trodden, ominous Overcoat road, rising up and Cylns at her la a conjoined ccrlacct cf all pczzltls evils. Ü3T7 c j tzlzi to recall tla clncrt

listened J? Jhe Jow buzz of voices jji the streets and Jrv ly.,9ui Louse, and heard here and there louder

perfect happiness that had been hers only a few weeks ago! And how did she only succeed in fully understanding that she had then been really happy and had not known it. The angel of bliss had tarried with her for nights and days, and she, too, culpably unaware! Iler brain pictures came and went ia one unvarying triangle of great troubles, Her father's dreadful mental disease, with all the divergent and dependent misery of this more than living death, blighting and destroying their happy lit tlo home at one terrible blow. Her sirong and growing passion -for a man whom she had never seen face to face, and whom she only knew through th partial word pictures of his friend and assistant; together with the attitude ol that friend and assistant toward her. And finally, as the smallest angle of this triangle of constantly pressing griefs the loss of her property upon which she had built her hopes of future successes to be achieved in the great city that was so fast spreading down and across the prairies, that its subtle attraction uäu nägÖ reached Jh wooded the Wabash country, and was drawing to Itself all of the ambition, the daring, the discontent, the spirit of adventure of these wide valleys and shaded hüls, and wood-hedged prairies. Cutting into the second angle of this triangle, and even into both the others was a perplexing mixture of regret and indignation centered upon Mr. Mason, Regret that Bhe had been left, so far as he knew or could know, in tba attitudi of having treated him with inexcusabli rudeness and lack of feeling. What did he think of her; what could he think of her in the light of that last evening when he had appeared for a brie! time endowed with god-like attributei that enabled him to defy the very demos of the hurricane? What a magnificent man must his principal be, Indeed, to have developed sue! heroic qualities in this underling th man who labored with him for a stipulated price, is he had confessed to her! How had he slipped away like a thief under cover of the night with all the gossips of Sandtown wagging their, heads and smiling the knowing smile of absolute faith in the certain villainy of the fleeing man! Why had he not taken time to come to her openly and without fear, as he had done often and often before? And could it be true as more than intimated by Conrad Redden, that he was now in the neighborhood for the base and heartless purpose of purchasing all the heavily mortgaged property of the Sandtown people for one-tenth of its real value, just at the time when a series of unfortunate speculations had crushed the Sandtown Farmers Bank, and thus put it out of the power of the people to borrow money with which to 6ave their homes? (To be continued.)

WORLD'S RICHEST MEN. List Shows Where the Millions Are Distributed Here and Abroad. No two competitors have made similar lists of the millionaires of the world. China, England, France, Russia and the United States each claims to be the home of the richest man. The list compiled by James Burnley, the English author, is as follows: Alfred Beit, diamonds, London, $300,monds, London, $iOO,0Ou,OOO; J. 13. Rockefeller, oil, New York, $230,000,000;. W. W. Astor, land, London, $200,000,000; Trince Demidcff, land, St. Petersburg, $200,000,000; Andrew Carnegie, steel. New York, $125,000,000; W. K. Vanderbllt, railroads. New York, $100,000,000; William Rockefeller, oil, New York, $100,000,000; J. J. Astor, land. New York, $75,000,000; Lord Rothschild, money lending, London, $75,000,000; Duke of Westminster, land, London, $75,000,000; J. Plerpont Morgan, banking, New York, $75,000,000; Lord Iveagb, beer, Dublin, $70,000,000; Senora Isidora Cousins, mines and railroads, Chile, $70,000,000; M. Heine, silk, . Paris, $70,000,000; Baron Alphonse Rothschild, money lending, Paris, $70,000,000; Baron Nathaniel Rothschild, money lending, Vienna, $70,000,000; Archduke Frederick of Austria, land, Vienna, $70,000,000; George J. Gould, railroads, ,New York, $70,000,000; Mrs. Hetty Green, banking, New York, $55,000,000; James H. Smith, banking, New York, $50,000,000; Duke of Devonshire, land, London, $50,000,000; Duke of Bedford, land, London, $50,000,000; Henry O. Hävern ey er, sugar, New York, $50,000,000; John Smith, mines', Mexico, $15,000,000; Claus Spreckels, sugar, San Francisco, $40,000,000; Archbishop Conn, land, Vienna, $40,000,000; Russell Sage, moneylending, New York, $25,000,000; Sir Thomas . Lipton, groceries, London, $25,000,000. Kansas City Journal. Keeps tho Light Darning. Mrs. Naomi D. Wells, aged 70, for seven years has kept a light burning at right inr the window of her humble cottage on Seward street In the hope that her son, Frank D. Wells, who disappeared seven years ago, may return to her. She is in destitute circumstances and every effort has been made to induce her to go to the old ladies' home, but despite her extreme poverty she stubbornly refuses to leave the little home to which she expects her lost boy to return. . In 1S07 the son, then 20 years old, with two compapions, set out for a Journey down the Missouri river in a houseboat His mother gave him $400 before ha left Soon after ha went away the mother received word that he had been killed in St Joseph. . She went to St Joseph, had the body exhumed, declared it was not that of her son, and returned home and ever since has kept a lighted lamp In the window of her cottage. The son was an only child and a graduate of the University of Nebraska Omaha Bee. Two of a Kind. The two sportsmen looked at each other in the parlor of the village Inn, and at last entered into conversation In regard to the experiences of the day. "And you say you have caught sixty trout in less than two hours," said one at last "Well, I'm glad to have met you; I'm a professional myself." "Fisherman V Inquired the othei man. . Ifocr-r-narrator," was the reply. Mohlis Register. , Insincerity in a man's own heart must make, all ;hls enjoyments all that concerns hlri unreal; so that his wfcola life nc;t' esen like a' merely dramatic entertfJnment Hawthorne. Our atni l-zzlzzzz Is, not to zzs what Kzi Clzzlj ct a dltanrs, tut to do whit dr-xiy Kzi at ni-Carljls,

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Mother Lullaby. Come to my arms, my darling, Come, for the nightfall is near; Come, and thy mother shall tend thee To dreamland with never a fear. Come, and thy mother shall sing thee A lullaby softly and low Sing thee to rest and to dreamland Ere darker the day doth grow. And as thou sleepest, my dear one, Visions will come to her eyes Visions of thee, strong in manhood, Noble and gentle and wise. Iler heart will glow at the picture, Thrilling with joy and with pride, Yet the tears sadly fall as she presses Thee close, little one, to her side. And she knows that always at twilight Wherever, wherever then art, t - The same little lullaby, darling. She'll sing to thee down in her heart. The Rich Are Slow Payers. It is notorious, writes Cleveland Moffett In Success, that the rich are often scandalously slow In paying their bills. I recall one instance where the wife of a multi-millionaire (she was afterward divorced), took no notice, month after month, of a bill amounting to over $20,000 for her daughter's wedding trousseau, and this bill was not paid for more than a year after the ceremony, and only then because a resourceful collector "held up" the multi-millionaire himself in the street one day, and finally got hi3 check. I have been told of several rich women In the smart set, two of them very rich, who are wont to haggle over prices in the shops as if they were in genteel poverty. One of these ladies, whose showy Newport fetes are widely proclaimed, tried, on a certain occasion, to "beat down" an estimate for candle shades, favors, etc., that she wanted In a hurry for a dinner dance, and, having failed in her effort, she finally exclaimed: "Why, you oughtn't to charge me a cent for these things! Think of the advertising you can get out of it! If you treat me right I'll see that your place is mentioned by all the reporters !" And another, whose husband Is one of the richest men in the world, actually wept before a New York dressmaker in her pleadings for a reduction of $13 on the price of a certain garment that she simply had to have but couldn't afford, 6he declared, out qt the small allowance made her by her husband. - The Girl from School. The daughter whp comes home from boarding school is often a disappointment to her mother. Is it not so? She is Inclined to be critical and make re marks about the furniture, the table, even your gowns, which hurt bitterly, even though sh? is your, daughter. She seems discontented with the old life. And you are at a loss as to what Is" to be done. Rut do not take the situation too seriously. And, above all things, do not harass her with showing her what you consider her "plain duty." She loves you Jrtst as much, but she is young, and has been away. Although she seems very self-assured, very confident of herself and her - abilities, she has only -not gone far enough to realize how lltle she knows. She must be led by auction, and led with tact and gentlenes3. If she wants to make changes in the home life, so far as they are possible, permit her to do so. It will give her occupation, and possibly the new ideas she brings out will mean something to you, too. . xBkirt Design. Skirt of pale-gray crepe de chiie with .double-flounce effect. Trimming of 'silver-gray silk soutache and liberty satin ribbon, same shade. : Women "Who Shonld Not Marry. The wonian who buys for the mere pleasure of buying.".. ;. i.,..: - The woman whpexpects" to have" "a good, easy timelr -r The woman who thinks that cook and nurse ean- keepJoufe." .; f . The woman who would, die .rather than wear fast season's iiat.v" The woman who-waats -to refurnish her house every spring. - - The woman who expects a declaration of love three times a day.- . . The woman who marries in order to .have some one to pay her bjlls. The woman ;who reads novels and dreams of being a duchess or a countess. . ,The woman who , proudly declares that she cannot pren hem a pocket handkerchief, anc never . made up a bed In her life. . " The woman who cares more for the style of her. winter cloak than she cares for . the health and comfort of her children. - - Do Tori Treat Yonr Gowns Illght? Do you know how to hang your gown up properly? n If you don't it will take on a shabby look a lDng time before real . wear thould g;t it Into that condition. It isn't wear that ai!3 ytyr best cowa wfcen it disappoints you la held-

1. Young giifs frock of white mull embroidered in openwork eyelet fashion. The skirt opens at the bottom in points over a deep Valenciennes flounce. 2. Young girl s costume of cream-colored Rajah silk, braided with scarlet soutache in Greek key designs. 3. Matron's costume of white crepe, embroidered in black and topped by a black lace coat.

lng a good appearance through the season when you don't hang it right. It's a sort of passe look that makes you think you were misled in the quality of the goods and you paid the price for something first-rate. Not every woman has a long gown trunk or a gown box in which to put her garments loosely placed and so no creases ensue. The average woman hangs her skirts and waists on a hook in a cJoset and spoils their appearance In short order. To obviate this, get some coathangers, Just ordinary coathangers. Slip the curved bar into the top of your skirt and hang the long wire hook on the hook in the closet. Hang your waist the same way the bar will hold the back and front straight out. Do this and you will be surprised by the quite new look of your skirts and waists for a long while. They will wear better, too so it pays all around to spend a very little money for coathangers and then to use them. Exchange. The Secret of Good Discipline. One great secret of good discipline is not to require too much. Govern by principles, not laws. Where possible keep your hands off. Better too great freedom than too little. Give a little loophole. When the daughter goes to spend the afternoon with a friend don't mention the precise minute for her return. Say rather: "Be at home in time to meet papa with hands and face washed and hair brushed." Then should the little girl be a few minutes late it is not disobedience and punishment need not darken an afternoon. "Better not" will secure disobedience without punishment when "must not" and "shall not" often fail, particularly when they are attached to a threat. Unless self-government is taught parental discipline is imperfect. It is valuable to give the children the feeling that they are necessary to mamma and papa as helpers, companions, confidants. The greatest inducement to be orderly and put things In their places is that it saves mamma steps. .If the mother's head aches let her rest it against the little girl's shoulder and see how quickly responsive is the love and sympathy of that wee heart. After that she will tiptoe around and whisper In her play lest the pain grows worse. A Good Cleanser. A mixture of equal parts of naphtha, alcohol and chloroform Is an excellent cleansing agent. Being very volatile the bottle must be closely corked. Worsted stuffs of all grades may be washed in gasoline without fear of fading or shrinking. If you can do this out of doors It Is best to take all your apparatus into the open air, with no fire or artificial light near. If, as Is more probable, you must work in the bouse, shut yourself into the bathroom and set the window open wide. Lay the breadths several at a time In a wash basin, cover with gasoline, put a close lid on tho bowl or boiler and leave for half an hour. Lift then, wetting your hätfds as little as may be, and shake aud souse alternately for two or three minutes. Do not rub. Hang in the air to. drip and dry and the work is done. . Bedtime. If you close your two eyes and lie ever so q'liet, Counting them soft and slow, One little, two little, three lk tie sheep ."Down through the pasture xhey go, ; Four little, five little, six, and then seven, , Trotting so gray and small, One little, two little, six, and then seven Jumping across the waft: Some of them faster, but most of them slower, - 4 Eteht little, nine little, tenTen little sheep, and you have to stop counting - " ' I think that you go to sleep then. Exchange. - "Abont Trained Nurses. All trained nurses take the same courses, and are, as far as education goes, alike; it is only their duties that differ. The visiting district nurss must adapt herself to one line, the school nurse to another, and the ordinary trained nurse that goes out la famili?3 to yet another. Etill tnsthtr I

class of visiting nurse has been tried in some cities with satisfaction to her patrons; that is the "hourly nurse." Boston is now giving her a trial, and is very well satisfied. There are so many cases where it is not to be expected that the patient will need a nurse more than a day or two, and to engage the usual trained nurse means that she must remain for a week at least; no trained nurse would take a shorter time than that and no one would think of asking her to, but that means from $21 to $23, and often the family of moderate means hesitates to incur the outlay unless in an emergency. But there is the hourly nurse to stay an hour or two, half a day or a whole day, as the case demands that can well be undertaken. Then, again, she Is very useful to assist the doctor in slight operations, and in the case of a physician of large practice he would gladly turn over the daily dressing of wounds to her. Suit of Twilled Foulard.

Suit of twilled foulard with dot design. Double box pleats on shoulders and front, held by straps of same, finished with small crochet buttons. Shirt sleeve and full circular skirt. Mrs. McKinley To-Uay. Mrs. McKinley has aged since that terrible blow; her hair is a little whiter, her gray eyes not so bright Iler expression is sad, and when she speaks there is a slight quiver of the lips that indicates somc-iing of the great grief ever present -with her. She goes to drive nearly every day, and everywhere and by every one is greeted with tender and sympathetic cordiality. Her general health is improving, and she is now able to take an interest in all the household matters connected with her home. National Magazine. Leather Covered Furniture. Leather covered furniture should be frequently sponged with warm water softened with borax and rubbed perfectly dry with an old soft cloth; then rub In a few drops of glycerin, after which polish well with chamois. When leather acquires a shabby, dull look it may be freshened by applying the white of an egg, slightly beaten with a bit of flannel, says the Ladies' World. Pretty Effect in Bedspread. Among the new bed covers of linen are seen beautiful effects in 'lace inserts . and borders. One particularly handsome design was hemstitched to a-depth of ten inches and six-inch Cluny insertion was then used as a border upon tho hem. The linen was cut away beneath and the effect was very rich and graceful. , Manicuring in Brief. Soak the finger tips in hot water. Dry thein and soak In almond oil. Push back the skin with the orange wood stick. Take an emery board and shape tha nails the precise shape of the ends of the fingers; polish with a good brisk nail powder. This is briefly all, though thero arjj many dainty touches to; fcä

MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE TWO INDIANA MUTUAL COM PANIES SUSPEND.

Mutual Fire Insurance Conceded to b Impractical. Acting u?on the opinions of Attorney General Miller, State Auditor D. E. Shcrrick has served notice upon two mutual Uro Insurance companies that they are not organized In accord ance with the statutes of Indiana, and requiring each to suspend business at once. These concerns are the Merchant's Mutual Fire Ins. Co.. and tho Merchant's National Mutual Fire Insurance Company, each of Indianapolis. The former began operations September, 1904. and the latter In January 1905, since which dates they have been doing a large business throughout Indiana, especially in its smaller towns and cities. When these companies applied for authority to begin business, each made affidavit to tho State Auditor that it had taken in -excess of one hundred thousand dollars of bona fida premium notes as required by law and over twenty thousand dollars in cash. Early in the year an examination of each company by tho Auditor of tho State disclosed the fact that neither had cash In hand of the amount required to organize viz. $20,000 and tha opinion of the Attorney General being given that this amount must be retained a.i a cash reserve, the companies wee so notified and after some delay the promoters raised the required funds. It was observed that the so-called premium notes alleged to be held by the companies, which are closely associated together, were each of unusually large amounts and in most cases the note was given for exactly the amount of insurance applied for. In the Merchants Mutual the fa' Ira Insurance in force at time of organization was $167.000 to secure which, premium notes were alleged to havo been given of $103,230. The Merchants National Mutual had received, according to its affidavit, $108,500 to secure the makers Insurance in tho amount of only $129,800. This condition was so :eculiar that the State Auditor, on April 19th addressed an Inquiry to the Attorney General asking what In his opinion would be considered a bona fida premium note, or In other words would a note for $2,000 for $2,000 of insurance be considered a bona fida premium note within the meaning of the statutes providing for the organization of mutual fire insurance companies. Atterney General Miller responded upon the next day in part as follows: "The notes must be not only bona fida notes, but they must be good faith premium notes given by solvent parties. It Is hardly necessary to discuss that a note of $2,000, if given by a solvent party, and such party receives only $2,000 Insurance, is not given purely as a premium note, as any one knows that no person will pay any such amount for such an amount of insurance, or can it be conceived how a premium note, for $2,000 given for $2,000 of insurance could bo enforced to its full amount It 13 clearly my opinion that such a note, would not be a bona fida premiun, note." The notes thus referred to woro' made almost entirely by non-residents of the State, mostly by citizens of North Dakota, with a number from Minnesota. Among the makers two other mutual fire insurance companies each for $5,000, and by several clerks In tho offices of these companies. It is stated that the promoters who came from North Dakota proposed to control these companies and to operate them, not upon the basis of a purely mutual concern, but rather to consider tho company as virtually the property of the originaly note makers. The Insuring public throughout Indiana was urged to patronize these companies toon the basis of the usual' yearly notes and premiums, but only sixty per cent, of the year's premium was demanded In cash and a premium, aote given for the remaining forty per cent. In many cases the Insurer dldi not fully understand the probability of. assessment upon the note given, nor did he know of the existence of a special class of policyholders who were to receive the large proportion of profit earned as the virtual owners of the company. A further opportunity was given the companies to present their claims as to why these premium aotes should be admitted as bona fida premium note assets, but on May 29th' the Attorney-General after going into the merits of the entire case, considering the forms of notes, contracts and' policies made as between the companies and their two classes of members again ruled adversely as to tho admission of the premium notes offered as the basis for organization. Tho action of the Auditor in ordering tho discontinuance of business and revek-. lng licences tien followed. Although business and Income havs of course now ceased, no receivers have yet been appointed for either company. An effort will be probably made to organize a stock company to take the business of these concerns Several million dollars of Insurance 's in force in these concerns and creditors are scattered throughout Indiana. A salmon on which all the spots art In the shape of 1 shamrock was caught In Ireland the ot'.icr day. John Waterworth, the oldest engineer In the world, has just died at Preston, England, at the age of 85 years. Hi began driving in 184C, and drove an engine 2,000,000 miles in his thirty-scvea years of service without a single acci-. dent. I A Modest BInsictan. ' Young Lady You are a wenderfuji master of the piano, I hear. 1 Prof. Von Spieler (hired for the occa tion) I blay aggompanlments sometimes "Accompaniments to Einging? , "Agsompaniments to onversationa.,, j Point of View. ; MA man' said the young widow," "usually marries a woman because he loves her." "And a woman," rejoined the old bachelor, "usually marries a man because he asks her." Willing to Risk It. "A fool and his money are toon parted, you know," said the stingy man who had a mania for quotations. : "Well," rejoined his good wife, "for the. sake of having the money to part with," I wouldn't Eiind being considered a' little' foolish."