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CHAPTER X.-ContInued. She could not believe it This inau' who hud stood Sunday after Sunday In the little white church, and had talked bo earnestly of the after life In relation to the Infinitely smaller questions of this life! this man "who had first given her so lofty a perception of the character and person of his principal, by revealing a surprising breadth and depth in himself! It could not be that he could slink away from all of them for the base purpose of Derfectin a villainous scheme to rob the people among whom he had lired continuously for nearly half a year; and whose kindly acts of confident, trustful hospitality had fallen about him like the dews, of heaven, as he had said. It had been said that she had become his only defender. But she could do no less than believe that the assistant and confidante of Prof. Huntley could be nothing less than a sincere and honorable man in all his dealings. Bat why! why! could he not come to her and tell her all? He had shown, and had spoken in hundreds of ways an admiration and fondness for her that had given Sandtown the undoubted right to say that he was "head-over-heels in love with her." She had been jestingly cruel to him in that respect, It is true! But he knew that vai because of her love for the man who was his master and employer. How could the slave and the hireling expect more of her? - Bat at last it was daylight, and Mrs. Kedden was calling them to breakfast, i "Coonrod et hisn a good spell ago Mrs. Redden said in explanation of the absence of the head of the house from th? head cf the table. 'H-yur, Miss Weekly! you set right down in this chur closte to the stove. Hit's kine uh damp nn chilly this mornun. Xiziy, you set down thar. Your'e youug un hearty, un kin stan the damp better'n your mammy. How did you sleep.? I was certain at fou wouldn't have enough kiwers on yur bed las night. Hit's been so sweltry fur the last three-four weeks. You take cream un sugar both, don't yuh? I do! I don't wawn't no coffy less hit's gut good fraish cream un sugar, both. Hep yursef to the fry, Lizzy, un pass it to yur mammy. That salt-risun bread haint as fraish uz hit ort to be! When did you fust nodus anytheng outen the way with John Miss Weekly?" "Xever till yesterday morning, after we had heard the news of the bank breaking," said Mrs. Wickly, who was Eitting at the right of her friend and neighbor, trying very hard to show her appreciation cf the friendly offices of the kind-hearted old Hoosier woman, by nib bling a very little at almost every bit of delicacy that was heaped in almost unlimited variety and profusion upon her plate. "WelL well, I do say! Why, I sez to Coonrod two weeks ago, Miss Weekly, They's some-hn the matter with Squar Weekly. He's a do-un work at hed ortn't to do i'iL I nuwer see a man a do-un uv weemua's work, but some-h'n wrong Why, I'd git down un crawl on my han's un knees. Miss Weekly, fore I'd uwer thenk a lettun Coonrod go out un milk one uh ar cows. He haint nuwer done no weemun'a work senst him un me went togyuther, so he haint. Why, when Lum thar was a baby " "Now, mother," said Columbus Red den, warninsly, "please don't say any thing about that interesting period of my existence, qn this occasion, will you? I don't care for those reminiscences myself, having heard them twice a week for, say fifteen years." CHAPTER XI. Columbus glanced a little confusedly at Lizzy Wickly. His mother paused in the very act of cutting her fried ham, and sat ominously stiff with both arms extended and the knife and fork held rtady to resume' operations so soon as she could get sufficient command of herself to turn her head away from the direction of Columbus Redden's chair toward her own plate. "You don't k-yur! Huh! Well, I reckon yon don't k-yur. Hit haint ben no trouble to you, ef hit has ben to me, uh! Hit's mighty fine to have somebody to work fur yuh! un sen you to jcollige, cn pay fur your aige-cation so 5 our kin set roun' un make fun uv the way your mother un your father talks. At's about whus aige-cation's good fur, Miss Weekly! Hit's a good theng you ain't gut no boys to raise un aise-cate! A g'yurl haint a go-un to set up un meek fun a thur mother's way a talkun right to thur falst." "Yon don't happen to have any girls, mother, retorted Columbus Redden, smiling In a very self-possessed and exasperating way. "I wush to thuh lan I had g-yur!st instid a the kine uv a boy I've gut. So I do! Whur did you stay so late las' night, my larkey? I wawnt to know some-h'n 'bont whur yon pat In so much time. So I dor broke in Mrs. Redden, In a fury. Mr. Columbus Redden smiled, and winked deliberately at Miss Lizzy Wickly before proceeding ia a calm and pleasantly mischievous manner: "Oh, these secvets of ours are not at all to be intrusted to the keeping of women, mother. There never waa a woman who could keep a secret, you know. And,, of course, I couldn't for a moment entertain the idea. Indeed. I couldn't. I'd do anything to oblige you. But really " And Mr. Columbus Redden smiled again and winked at Lizzy Wickly, with quiet, enjoyable humor. - "Yes, you'd do lots to uhbleege me retorted his mother with great scorn, and going on to cut and cat her fried ham taith great vigor. In spite of a downpour of rain, cool and even chilling in the mere suddenness pf its fall of temperature from ninety degrees to sixty-eight degrees, there was almost . a 7 continuous procession of twohorse farm wagons along the Overcoat road In the direction of Sandtown. Little troops of horsemen went scurrying round these wagons at every point, going this "jay and that, and looking not unpictufe3yue, and even cavalierly, draped as they were, In variously colored horse "blankets and linsey counterpanes, whose variegated color and cunningly woven ornamentations are marvels of the ancient housewifely skill la many Indiana homes. And very efficient "watexv proofs" they were, too; the fine long wool of which they were closely woven Yhedding the water of an ordinary rain end the coldest wind of any winter day In a manner that secured the wearer frcm these Inclemencies oi the weather t- tmt rit'-f-rfsrr zrrta Id2d -"rrin?r All thini. Directly citcr trc-hftrt Colnmbns

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and his pantaloons turned up at the bot toms until his neat fitting calfskin boots showed to advantage, had gone cautiously out of the front yard into the side lane, and stepping on bunches of grass and chunks of firewood and large chips as a sort of disconnected pontoon, he passed scatheless over the waters that had spread about the level of the fields of corn and the narrow lane and so joined the procession of wayfarers going to Sandtown. ' . Conrad Redden did not come home to dinner, and supper was upon, the table and waiting at that, when he finally made his appearance. "Whut in the wurl's kep yuh this way, Coonrod? Why, I 'lowed some-h'n must a happened to yuh, reise you'd ben home to dinner, shorely," Mrs. Redden said as Coonrod hurriedly jerked his chair up, and nodded to his two guests, who were already seated in obedience to the urgent request of their kind-hearted hostess. "I spose you give Lum a purty good rake-nn, did yoh?" he said, winking slyly at his two guests and beginning to pile eatables upon his plate, and to hurry the dishes around in a way that indicated the extreme pangs of hunger. "Hit don't do no good, ole womern. 'Jis s'well let the boy 'lone. I'll git him a plaist en the bank when hits fixed so hit kin open agin, ur when a new un starts. He don't wawnt to farm ut Un I don't blame him. He's gut a aige-cation soce he kin meek-, a livun without work. Un uv course no feller's a go-un to work ef he kin hep ut. But I've gut to eat, un hurry back to town to-night. I'm needed up there." "Whut fur, Coonrod?' said his wife, pausing again with her arms extended, the points of knife and fork resting ominously upon her plate, while her face was turned with fixed scrutiny toward that of the head of the house. "What you needed up thar fur? You haint a go-un a step to town, ef they's go-un to be a rukus up thar now." - "They haint a go-un to be no rukus up town if I kin hep ut. I don't know whurrer I ken it nut. But "I've kine a kept ut down all day. But they's a lot a the Dikeses un the Sparkses un the Eilets un the Shipleys, un I don't know who off an Big Rattlesnake Crik, jist come en,' this evenun. TJn they're fur hossun that feller Mason up. Un he'll be hosst up, too, ef I caint keep up down." "Is Mr. Mason in town?" Lizzy asked. She did not know what it was to be "hosst up," but she knew enough about the impetuous people upon the Big Rattlesnake Creek to know that he was men aced with a real danger. And the very uncertainty of its nature made it perKaps more threatening more to be dreaded. "I don't know jist whur he Is at. He's some'rs up awn your lan. I thenk. Camped up there, so I h-yearn; They's two companies uv railroad fellers up thar watchun one unuther, I low. You see they both wawnt your lan Lire! Un this feller Mason's gut some-h'n to do with ut some-way urruther. .Un one com-, pany's tryun to sk-year the other'n off; un hits a tryun to sk-year tham. Un so they have ut." CHAPTER XII. . There was perhaps as much of ill omen in "Coonrod" Redden's Information as to make Mrs. Redden visibly uneasy, and so, by natural and obvious processes, to communicate her uneasiness to one of her two guests, at least. Mrs. Wickly, perhaps, having no other sorrow pressing upon her save the one iuvolved in her husband's enforced absence on account of his dreadful malady, had, even in that, some return of satisfaction. "Your father would never have dreamt of such a thing as mortgaging your land without your permission, Lizzy, if he had not been actually insane then," she said, as the two undressed for bed, leaving Mrs. Redden trying the front door to see if it had unlocked itself within the last ten minutes. "What a great pity such a dreadful disease cannot be known in time to prevent It, like other diseases. "You remember that he was wakeful, mother. He slept very badly for weeks," Lizzy said, thinking of her own wakeful nights of late. "Yes, but we thought he . was only studying about the fortune that .we have been making fun of him about Poor man! I wonder how he is faring? I wonder If they are kind to him? Mr. Redden assured me that they would treat him very kindly. But I'm afraid they won't understand him." - Simple and unemotional as were her mother's words and gestures, Lizzy knew that they Indicated a depth of feeling that no one else would suspect. So she set about the task of reassuring her mother, with all that Mr. Redden had said to her on the subject. They talked together in low tones for a long time while the wind and rain bent upon the resounding weatherboards ?ud shook the window sashes In the windows, and pattered drops of rain against the panes, with a sound that migut have been made if the Overcoat road had thrown its coarsest sands in showers against the farm house in a burst of anger at the Innovation that put a new and painted building in the place of the old log cabin that now leaned lonely and dejected against a bunch of dreary, sobbing, soughing pines a quarter of a mile away. Finally Mrs. Wickly sank into a deep and restful sleep; and Lizzy, feeling that her only hope of sleep lay in tiring herself thoroughly bf walking, arose, dressed herself, and slipped noiselessly down stairs, intending to go through a side hall and let herself out on the long sheltered south porch where she might walk and walk until she was tired enough, without disturbing any one. In fact, there was very little dangt r of being heard, once 6he succeeded in reaching the long, wide-roof ed : and latticed porch, cut off as it was from all the sleeping apartments, so far, as Ehe knew. Bat scarcely had she reached the foot of the stairway, when the "front door" opened, disclosing Mrs. Redden also dressed and holding a candle in her hand. "Is that yon, Lizzy? Ef I'd a ben shore you was awake, I'd a ben upstairs after you to go with me. I caint stannut any longer. Gome-h'n must a happened, ur Cocnrod wouldn't a staid out thisaway. I wush you'd put awn this big shawl over yur head, and come along. Is yur shoes all right? I've gut a pair a good uns h'yur ef yourn wont keep the wortcf out." "Mine are proof against any moderate amount of water, Mrs. Redden. And besides, it doem't hurt me in the least to gtt my fest wet" -... "Oh, dear! I dasa't to est mine the hzzt tit rret. Lra fcU I ct czs foot tret en a rillli, czt en C3 c-tt yard, en LlJ tieda ma czto a dül ca X had

the fevers fur three-four weeks. Better slip this linsey sk'yurt over your white drest, . White shows too much after night- There, lemmy pin ut good Un tighj, soce you kin climb roun en ut ef . you wawnt to, thout ut drappun offun yuh. - Lizzy had not had iime to offer any ob

jection, if she had really - thought of objecting to this short and usually safe walk to town. For in those days the women of Indiana were safe anywhere, for many and cogent reasons. There were no tramps. And besides, women were strong and courageous by reason of the hard work they did with their hands; and so were able to make a good defense of themselves if needs be. v . . This endowed them with a couraze that women lack in later days. For, after all, what we. cajt courage is simply confidence in one's own powers, physical or mental. The man who knows or deems him self deficient in such physical or mental powers as are to be called into action hi any emergency, Is necessarily a coward. The ma a who . is confident is also brave. "What if mother should wake, while we are -away, -Mrs. Redden? Oughtn't I to wake her and tell her?" Lizzy said as the two stood at the front door. "Oh, we won't be gone no time at alL Bat mebby yotTbttter write a little note un leave ut by the can'le h-yur awn the stan. She'll be shore to see ut ef she gits up. I'd hate to wake 'er outen sich a good sleep as she's a haven jist now. Gut a pencil? n-yur's some paper." The ever ready and capable old Hoosier woman had found a scrap of foolscap paper where she had put it among the leaves of a large history of the wortl, that, along with some almanacs and a book on 'The Horse," constituted the whole library of the Redden family, save the big, brown-backed leather Bible out of which Coonrod Redden "loved to read out loud" on a Sunday afternoon when he had tired himself with a walk around the farm to see if the "army worm" and the "fly" were making their annual incursions in their usual force. . Lizzy rapidly wrote a few lines, explaining their temporary absence by saying that she had gone with Mrs. Redden at 11 o'clock, to ascertain what had detained Mr. Conrad Redden so long, and that she would be back very soon. TTo be continued.) A LIBRARY 8,904 YEARS OLD. Tablets Taken from One at Nippur Date Back 7,000 B. C The oldest city public library In the United States Is that of Boston, which was founded In 1S51, says .the New York Mail. That makes it very old, according to our standards. But Prof. Angelo Hilprecbt of the University of Pennsylvania has been examining a library, and a public library of some sort, which Is a little older than that. It consists of a mass of documents, Inscribed in cuneiform leiten on tiles. In a wing of the temple of Baal at Nippur, the ancient Babylonian city which lies between the Tigris and the Euphrates. Prof. Hilprecht had already dug out of the ruins of this temple about 30,000 commercial, legal and literary tablets, and this last summer he has found 4,000 more. The tablets which ho has discovered this year are the oldest ever, so to speak, for he declares that they dato back as far as 7,000 years before Christ. This discovery. Is startling In more senses than one. If the familiar and so-called biblical chronology Is right the Nippur people had a library of documents and stories, probably free to those who could read them, some 1,330 years before Adam was created or," according to Archbishop Usshers chronology, 1,102 years before It; for this learned man supposed that exactly 4,004 years had elapsed from the creation cf Adam to the birth of Christ, ard 1904 years are supposed to have elapsed since that dato. This chronology has been somewhat discredited slnco Archbishop Usshcr made his computations, and discredit ed largely as the result of such dis cover! es as- those made by Prof. Hll precht In Babylonia It is to be said, however, that the nwe the old Assy rian or Babylonian records are looked into the more they increase the re spect of students for the Hebrew scriptures. Revere ice and authority must always go with the record which survives in men's lives "and thoughts Ages after the temple of Baal and Its great library had been "a possession for the bittern, and pools of water," and after the very dust of the last sur vivor of the old librarians had van ished from the Interior of Its tomb the stories of Genesis were still told by the. living successors of the priests who compiled them. Knows When to Quit. "I can shine and entertain for Just fifteen minutes, but not for one sec ond longer," w-as the naive admission of a well-known club woman the oth er day. The statement came as a surprise, for her vivacity and ready wit have long been the envy of her friends. But that she was wise In her know! edge of her limitations and the strain her reputation for brilliancy placed upon her Is shown by the fact that she has reduced the matter to a system. "I apply a time limit to my social calls w well as my, club ad dresses," she says, "and I should hesitate for my reputation if I trusted myself for longer than fifteen mln utes.; "No matter how much I may feel like talking, no matter how hard I am persuaded by my hostess, I always leave a house at the expiration of fif teen minutes and then proceed to the next place with a new stock of entertainment ready-for the next set of victims. To following this method alone I attribute the reputation for vivacity which has been accorded me." The Difference. .. An Atchison man lost five dollars in making change, and when he went home told his'wife about It This happened six years ago, and she has never forgotten it, often telling him what ltmirlca they could afford If he hadn't lost the money. A iew weeks ago their son dropped two thousand dollars In a poor investment. Don't say a word to him about it," she said to hex husband. Tocr.boy, he feels bad enough as it Is." Atchison Globe. Do net derpisa any opportunity beczzzi It teems email. . The way to caka an opportunity Is to take held of it tri u;3 It Bacon,

Phyllis. , Phyllis, from her latticed casement, Where the climbing roe twine, Plucked a dewy bud one morning. Dropped it from her hand to mine. Butterflies and blooming flowers Helped to make the window gray, Fitting background for the picture Thyllis in her negi'gee. Just a glimpse of frills and ribbons; Just the memory of a face Framed about in buls and roses, And a cloud of mi&ty lace. Laughing eyes, still dark from slumber, Soft, red lips,. where dimples play! Hound, white arm hair in disorder Phyllis in her neglige-.;. At the high desk in the city. Where I earn my daily bread, On the margin of the blotter There are sketches of a head. Bending o'er the oflice ledger Double entries fade away. And instead, all framed in roses Phyllis in her negligee. Leslie's Monthly. - Woman Railw? y Manager. vMuse the railroad of which she is president is about to pay a dividend of 10 per cent, Mrs. S. A. Kidder of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge road In California is attracting wide attention. She is not a figurehead. When her husband, the late John F. Kidder, died In 11)01, the stockholders and directors unanimously turned to her as his successor. She had been with him MBS. &. A. KIDDEIL. in his battles against v'.cissitudes and in developing the railroad she had been his confidant and aid. For four years the has been continuously re-elected. The road is called 'the crookedest railroad In California, running through picturesque scenery, and through a territory rich in mineral deposits. The road is only 24 miles long and eight trains pass over It daily. In the win ter, after a heavy storm, the miners are organized into shovel brigades to release the trains. . hen Mrs. Kidder took hold not a dividend had been declared in eighteen years. The road was in debt and its physical condition was run down. Mrs. Kidder improved it, so that it was. soon in condition to handle business for the first time in years. She actually boom ed the road, with the result that in 31)03 a dividend of 10 per cent was paid on a capital stock of $2;O,000. .Mrs. Kidder owns 72 per cent of the entire Issue. , Sit In the Sunshine. Uecent statistics show that the death" rate from consumption is less than It was ten years ago, and not be cause we have found any specific in drugs, but.because we know the deadly enemy of the tubercle is sunlight, and that they will not flourish In a person who breathes deeply of fresh air and who is well nourished. In 1S90 Dr. Koch clearly showed that these bacilli are killed by sunlight in "from a fewmi nut es to several hours, according to -the thickness of ue layer." The tubcrcle bacilli are, of course, microscopic. They- are destitute of chlorophyll,' they love darkness. Even diffused daylight will destroy them, but not nearly so quickly as sunlight. If every housckeeper declded to war against this enemy., to open up every closet and dark room to the beneficent power of sunshine, to exercise daily in the open air, to give intelligent-thought to the admittance of fresh air at night and train the children "In the way they should go," another generation would see a much more rapid yielding of the great vhite plague. And evidently, Just as the wild beasts of the forests give way as civilization advances, this minute but deadly microbe would be unable to maintain itself In" Its struggle for existence, and would most certainly be subdued. Good HousekeepIng. : Snmmcr Street Costume. Woman and the Club. Judicious intermissions of domesticity are refreshing to' women, and give them fresh spirits and ideas, and qualify them to make home happier than ever when they get back to it, says Uarper's Weekly. Moreover, there comes a time -of life when 'some of a" woman's more pressing home duties are largely accomplished, if she marries at 23, her admirable feat of roc.ing the cradle is apt to be all done In ten years, and by the time she is 45 ter children have" usually reached-an c3 when she can take her eye o2

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them a minute without much risk" of ! disaster. She has few duties that are more Important at that age than to bring home ideas. Household spinning is done in a family, always daily tasks to be directed or performed, hut household Industries. in this age of readymade are certainly lees absorbing than they were a Landred years ago. A woman nowadays, especially a mature woman, may stick too close at home for the best interests of .her family, and in so far as a club or two amuse her, and stir her mind, and give her society and new things to talk about, they are not at all unlikely to do her good. The Re-Enslavement of Women. Keformer, educator and economist have been occupied for-the past quarter of a century in the emancipation of women. Just when it seems that the work Is nearly finished, and that woman is free to go where she pleases, study what she pleases, and do whatever she pleases, behold, the air vibrates with a new threat of an old tyranny! The physiologists and the economists may have been vanquished, but'the edlct of Paris still triumphs, and if that ordains the re-enslavement of women the revival of the hoopskirt rebellion is useless. An awful whisper is in the air that this calamity impends. Nobody knoAvs whether the crinoline is coming at the behest of the dressmaker, whose occupation demands a change in sleeve or bodice or skirt every year, or whether he plot is one by which the steel trust geeks to double Its profits. But England is aghast at the prospect. Some energetic agitators are organizing a post-card campaign against the danger. A well-known feminine novelist appeals for a hundred and twenty housand worocn to write post-cards to a London paper, pledging themselves to defy the crinoline. One active woman is reported eager to write a thousand post-cards with her own hand to help on the cause. It Is not clear why she thinks a thousand repetitions of her personal view will be more effective than a single protest.v But her enthusiasm may be granted. Arguments in favor of the hoopskirt are hard to find. It was not ornamental or becoming. Its nearest approach to actual human usefulness was discovered by. Artemus Ward. He was obliged once to spend a winter night in an unheated room, having a broken window. Half-frozen, he rummaged about to find something with which to stuff the broken sash. The only article the closet yielded was a discarded hoop-skirt, with which, he afterward declared, he kept out "a little of the coarsest of the cold" the one histor ical instance of the servlccableness of a hoop-skirt Youth's Companion. Buttons figure prominently. Lots of tailored stitching is used on linens. Bracelets, bangles and wrist velvets are all worn. . Morning parasols are as big as they should be.' White pearl buttons are used on the white linens. - Soutache braiding is one of the smartest' w?.ysof trimming. Irish lace beading joins the seams iu a beautifully shaped princess frock. Lilacs, jack roses, American beauties and wistaria are heaped on one hat. There are lovely mauve belts, beaded with pearls and having pearl buckles." Chain stitching, dope in heavy rope silk, is one of the favorite trimming models. A collar of black or colored velvet finishes many of the linen and pique coatsr Adjustable revers and collar of white or colored embroidery soften the severest coat ' Even the tailor has yielded to the craze for elbow sleeve3, and his coats show that modef The black suede half-shoe is very smart, with a somewhat heavy, sole highly polished and black heels. Some of the new belts are only one inch above the skirt belt and three below it in the center point For the benefit of thin women It can be told that the new skirts, those that are just being designed, will be trimmed around the bottom. Shoulder seams are fully two Inches shorter than last year and one is "particularly impressed with the puffs that are springing up along the shoulder Hue. The .kilted or all-plaited skirt universal last summer among suits of linen, pique and other short skirts of finer materials, is not to be so generally popular this season. " Most of the new. sleeves, by the way, for simple blouses, neglect to droop even at the elbow. They are very full, but do not bag, which is to say they are cut the exact length of the arm. Husbands, Note This. There are few right thinking persons who could deny that business men ought to confide in their wives. First of all, a woman cannot feel that her husband has given her hia whole heart when he keeps from her the whole course of hi3 business life. No doubt It is generally done from a good lUotive. The husband thinks he is saving his wife worry and trouble, but in most cases he is doln;; tha ci-

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feeling would gladly lessen her hus band's burdens by sharing them. Xor does a sensible woman care for the left-handed compliment that her pretty head was not meant to bother with figures. True marriage is a true union In everything where all is open, and the griefs and the sorrows of each ire shared by both and comfort drawn Ironi the mutual sympathy. A man who does not confide in his wife deliberately shuts himself out from his 'chief consolation. Why Baby Cries. For the small Infant, which should spend most of its time sleeping, a Chicago doctor has classified the causes for cryiug in the order of their likelihood. Colic is the -first of these, due to the disposition of so many parents to overfeed the baby. Thirst is the next ranking cause, and after this In their order come hunger, tight bands, pins, need for changing garments, change of position, and perhaps the desire for mere "mothering." When the babe is older there are teething and earache, both of which have marked symptoms. "It is always a safe and sensible thing to strip the baby to the skin when it Is crying and will not stop, says the physician. "In the first place, an infant's clothing is all about as unnatural as it could be made, and It offers many opportunities at the best for torturing the little one." The Best Husband. iris not always the cleverest man who makes the best husband. Very often what the world calls a stupid man will be far the easiest to live with. When water pipes burst or when children have the croup" an ordinary man will be so patient and heipful that you do not realize what a perfect comfort this may be until you have had experience of a different sort of being at the head of a" house. It is very nice to have the world talking of your husband's greatness and cleverness, and you are very proud of him, but this is not every day in the week, and you have your husband about all the time. U you are thinking of a husband, don't look for outward shine, for glitter and glory; homespun wears much better than spangled net so don't be afraid to accept the homely man who loves you and will take care of you, instead of waiting for an ideal that can only exist in your own mind.To Match Gown. .The fashion of wearing necklaces of large beads has been revived, and quaint old stones and Venetian glass beads are in demand. Sets of gems to match the color of the gown worn with them are now the rage, and in the. jewelers' shops many strange stones are to be found. The spinel, a pretty stone which comes from Sianvcan be procured in almost any color, and is specially attractive in red and blue. 'Greenstone, the "lucky" New Zealand stone, which is a kind of jade, is also often made into necklets and the aquamarine, which was In vogue in the Georgian days, is once more a favorite. Other necklets are composed of amber, coral, topaz,-lapis-lazuli, jet, Connemara marble, carnclian3 and garnet, so that a great variety of color can be chosen. Skirt Design. Skirt of pervenche-blue silk voile with tucks at top and lattice of mechIin lace galon with tucking on the Interstices. - Lacquered Glass. It Is easy enough to keep brazen vessels, taps, etc., clean, but it is another matter when it comes to ordinary lacquered brass. It will not polish In the same way that real brass does. Of course, lacquered brass must not be allowed to get black, but should be cared for in. the beginning, while it is still new and bright, and thus insure a longer and brighter existence for it. It should be washed occasionally Avith slightly warm, soapy water, then dried with. a soft cloth and polished with a clean, dry chamois leather. In dampweather lacquered brass should be well nibbed every day with a clean, dry leather. Treated iu this way the lacquer can be kept beautifully bright - A Recipe for Success. Keep your head cool, your feet warm, your mind busy. Don't worry over trifles.' Plan your work ahead, and. then stick to it rain or shine. Don't; waste sympathy on yourself. If you are a cein, come cne will find you.

HOOSIER ITAPPENINGS

NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Our Xeichbor Arc Dolnc Matters of General and Local Inter est Marriages aud Deaths Accidents and Crimes Personal Pointer About Indianians. Crlef State Items. Gladys, daughter of Asa Miller at Crumstown, t. Joseph county, is in a serious condition due ii a rattlesnake bite. Mi. Earl Mull of Eushville,has been declared insane, due to a blood clot-on the brain, the result of an injury received in a runaway accident. Mark Mogan, 14-years old, while dhing in a pond west of Terrs Haute, struck a stone and was drowned. He is the fifth Terre Haute boy drowned this season. Henry Hounds, a 5-year-old lad, w hile scuffling with his brother Charlie, 7 years old, for the possession of a revolver, was shot and almost instantly killed at Oolitic. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. John Adams of North Malern, was seriously injured by the overturning of a large lamp, the globe of which cut a gash in the child's head. The town people of Brook have guaranteed $6,0uu with which to hold a harvest festival, beginning August 30 and closing September 1. The festival last year was a great success. Ij. S. Stultz of Tcrre Haute, was fined twenty-five dollars for selling cigarette wrappers, llecarriel them in a 4,grip" and had regular custodiers in the "red light" district. The residence of Peter Wirtz at Yung, caught fire and burned so rapidly that the family barely escaped. The house had just been built at a cost of $1,803 and was partially insured. Clarence Orn, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Orn, who reside near Milford,was drowned in the St. Joseph river at South Bend. Orn was only 19 years of age and was attending the Commercial Business College at that place. The Merchants' Association of Anderson, with a view of broadening its operations, has reorganized as the Manufacturers and Business Men's Association, and it will hereafter act along the lines governing a chamber of commerce or board of trade. An unusually bright meteor was seen at Ilagerstown, striking the earth north of that place. The head was apparently as large as a cocoanut, while the tail was many yards in length. After the light disappeared a trail of smoke u as distinctly visible. Fire of unexplainable origin did $5,000 damage in the livery, stable cf Fisher & Iiichardson, Evacsville. . Seventy-eight horses were saved w ith dif.iculty, and a large number of privately owned buggies were damaged. It is the second time in a year that the stable was burned. U. G. Moore, 19 years old, is in jail at Lafayette for assaulting hi stepmother, Mrs. Henry Moore, who had occasion to correct Moore,s little brother, and was knocked down by the defendant and severely beaten. She declined to prosecute, but the authorities took the matter up. Joseph Davis, a fanner, residing near Rochester, w as struck by a train on the Erie railway, instantly killing him and his horses. Mr. Davis w as returning homeward from the city in a driving rainstorm, and it is presumed that he did not realize that he was approaching the railway track until too late. Uriah Xichols, 65 years old, was accidentally killed while unloading logs in tho Monon railway yards at Monticello. He was alone at the time. The indications point to the fact that when the stay-poles were removed the logs fell on him. Mr. Xichols was long a i evident of that place.. He leaves a wife ajd fern- children. Herbert Ochscnrider, aged 51 years, of Bluffton, committed suicide by hanging himself with a clothes line. Before com-' mining the act he wrote his obituary, selected two pallbearers, stated here ho wished to be buried, requested that two familiar songs be sung at Iiis funeral, and named the Itev. L. A. Beeks to preach his funeral sermon. Local detectives of Evansville drove several miles into the country to arrest Fred Williams, wanted on an alleged felony charge. They met Williams near the house where the latter worked, and not knowing him told him to guard their rig while tney went in search for the fugitive. Williams drove away with the rig and is believtd to have escaped into Kentucky. But for the unusual presence of mind of Lizzie, the 3-year-old daughter of William Mountain of Alexandria, her 8-months-old sister Helen would have drowned in a tub of water into which she fell. While older children ran screaming for assistance, Lizzie went into the water unhesitatingly and pulled her baby sister out. It took an hour to resuscitate the baby. Sheriff Whiting intercepted a jail delivery at Princeton, when be appeared at a window where tho prisoners were engaged in sawing through the bars. There are thirteen prisoners in jail and a few minutes more would have seen a majority of them at liberty. Two saws were found to have been smuggled in. Two of the prisoners are awaiting trial for attempted murder. Harry Hatten, 30 years old, of Lafayette, shot and instantly killed his sweetheart and niece, Lulu Hatten, 17 years old, fatally shot the girl's fathrv Daniel Hatten, and then running a mile in a blinding rainstorm to the home of his sister, Mrs. Cornelius Cadwallader, sent a bullet through his own head, dying instantly. The tragedy, it is claimed, is the result of the refusal of Daniel Hatten to give his consent to the marriage of the suicide and his daughter. The G. A. It and W. It C. members of Clinton may erect a soldier's monument in that city. Congressman E. S. Holliday of the Fifth district, will obtain some cannon and balls to be used to decorate the base of the monument. A. C. Barley, who conducts a large department store ia Marion, known as the Big Store, has purchasxl the Lec Hall department store and will consolidate tho two. The consideration is said to be $1C0,C00. Mr. Hall will rel'.ro from the mercantile business and will devote his time to interurbans, in which he is interested. While Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Wissler, living four miles distant from Milton, wero driving homeward, they were victims cf a runaway accident, their horse becoming uncontrollable. Mrs. Wissler was thrown from her seat, injuring her spine. She is now suffering with nervous prostration. Frank Hun of Cowan, the farmer who was bitten by a rabid dog a month ago, died at his home after suffering .terTible agony for several days. Huff owned a dog that was bitten by a mad dog about six weeks ago. About two weeks after tho dog had been bitten he showed signs of hydrophobia,! in d the owner designed to kill him, but Has bitten before the deg wt I killed . 'J