Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 21, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 March 1906 — Page 3

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for The Term ofHis Natural Life By MARCUS CLARKE

CHAPTER III. Continued.) "Pine," says Captain Blunt, as the two were left alone together, "you and' I are always putting our foot into it! "Women are always in the way aboard ab Ip," returned Pine. Ah! doctor, you don't mean that, I know," said a rich, goft yoive at his Ibow. It was Sarah Purfoy emerging from her rabin. "We were talking of your eyes, my dear," cries Blunt They're the finest eyes I've seen In my life, and they're got the reddest lips under 'm that " "Let me pass. Captain Blnnt, if you please. Thank you, doctor." And before the admiring commander could prevent her, she modestly swept out of the cuddy.. "She's a fine piece of goods, eh?' asked Blunt, watching her. "I don't know .where Vickers picked her up. but I'd rather trust my life with the worst of those rufflans 'tween deck than in her keeping, if I'd done her an injury. I dnt belie she'd think much of sticking a man, either. But I must go on deck, doctor." Pine followed him more slowly. 'I don't pretend to know much about women," he said to himself. "But that ijiri's got a story of her own, or I'm much mistaken. What brings her on board this hip as a lady'i maid is more than I can fatiom." And as he walked down the now deserted deck to the . main hatchway, and tamed to watch the white figure gliding up and down, he saw it joined by another and a darker one, he mattered, "She's after no good." At that moment bis arm was touched by a soldier in nndress uniform, who had come up the hatchway. "What is it?" "If you plase, doctor, one of the prisoners is taken sick, and as the dinner's Ter, and he's pretty bad, I ventured to disturb your honor." "Why didn't you tell me before?" In the meantime the woman who was the object of the grim old fellow's suspicions, was enjoying the comparative coolness of the night air. Her mistress and her misrress' daughter had not yet come out of their cabin. The awning had been removed, the stars were shining in the moonless sky. and Miss Sarah Purfoy was walking up and down with no less a person than Captain Blunt himself. She had passed and repassed him twice silently, and at the third tarn, the big fellow, peering into the twilight ahead somewhat uneasily, obeyed the glitter of her great eyes and joined her. "You weren't pot oat," he asked, "at what I said to you below. I was a bit rude. I admit." "I? Oh, dear, no. You were not rude." "Glad you think sof returned Phineas Blunt, a little ashamed at what looked like a confession of weakness on his part. Sarah Purfoy laughed a low. full-toned langb, whose sound made Blunt's pulse take a jump forward, and sent the blood tingling down to his fingers' end. "Captain Blunt," said she, "you're Suinz to do a very silly thing.' "What?" "You are goh- to fall in lote with a girl of nineteen." "Who is that?" "Myself."' she said, giving him her hand and smiling at him with her rich red lips. 'T k.i:.. !. t . i . I am half in lore with yon already." "That is yoar affair," she said; and as the head of Mr. Frere appeared above the companion, Blunt walked aft, feeling considtrabl bewildered, and yet not displeased. '" "She's a fine girl!" he. said, cocking his cap, "and I'm hanged if she ain't sweet npc me." And then the old fellow began to whistle softly to himself as h paced the deck, and to glance toward the man, who had taken his place, with no friendly eyes. But a sort of shame held him as jet, and he kept aloof. Maurice Frere' greeting was short enough. "Well Sarah." he said, "have you got cut of your temper?" "What did you strike the man for? lie did you n harm." "lie was out of bis place. What business had he to come aft? One most keep these wretches down, my CirL" "Or they will be too much for you, es? Do you think one man could capture a ihip, Mr. Maurice? What could they

) "Vdo against the soldiers? There are fifty ! oldlers." : "You are a strange girl; I can't make : , i 70a out. Come," and he took hr, hand, l) "tell me what you are really." i "Lady's maid in the family of a jeni J tleman going abroad." ;i "Sarah, can't you b serious" U "I am serious. That was the adrer'.1 t'sement I answered." j "But I mean what you have been. 1 Yoa were not a lady's maid all your ! life. Have yoa no friends? What ; i have you been?" -: She looked up Into the young man's face a little less harsh at that moment than it was wont to be and, creeping i i closer to him, whispered: j "Do you love me, Maurice?" j "lie raised one of the little bands that i t rested on the taffrail, and. ander cover

cf the darkness, kissed it. "Yoa know I do." he said. "Yoa may be a lady's maid, or what you like, but you are the loveliest woman I ever raeL" "Then, if yoa love me, what does it natter?" j "If you loved me. you would tell jrae," said he. with h uickyness which

fl surprised himself. C, "But X have nothing to tett. and I -iii t 1 .

iaoni love you yet. Ue let her hand fa!! with an Impatient gesture; and at that moment Blunt, (who could restrain himself no longer, '.came up. "Fine night. Mr. Frere." "Yes, fine enough." Just then, from out of the violet haze jthat hnng OTer the horizon, a strange I glow of light broke. "Halloo!" cries Frere. "Did you see that? A flash of light" They strained their eyes to pierce j through the obscurity. ' "Best saw something like It before -dinner. There must be thunder in the ar. i At that Instant a thin streak of light shot np, and then sunk again. There Was do mistaking it this time, and a jimnltanous exclamation burst from all i in deck. From out of the gioom which I aans over the horbou rose a column of 1 3ame that lighted up the night for an Instant, and then sunk, leaving a dull red spark upon the water. f i "It's a h;p on fire!" cried Frere. CHAPTER IV. ' They looked again. The tiny spark ,;till burned, and immediately over it 1 here grew ont of the darkness a crimson spot that hung like a lurid eta In he " air. Mrs. Vickers, with little Syl'ia clinging rv her dress, cam up to ihare the new sensation, i "Captain, you'll lower a boat. We ; nay save some of the poor i'eliows," , Jies Frere, his heartiness of body reiving at the prospect ol excitement. "Boat?" said Blunt; "why. shes welve miles off. or more, and there's t?t a breath 0' wind I They're got their wn boats. Ia the meanwhile we'll show :a that there's some ocs near 'em." uid, as he spoke, a blue light flared .Using into the night. "There, they'll that, I expectr ha slid, ai the

ghastly flame rose, extinguishing the stars for a moment, only to let them appear again brighter in a darker heaven. "Mr. Best, lower and man the quarter boats! Mr. Frere, you can go in one, if you like, and take a volunteer or two from those gray jackets of yours amidships. I shall want as many hands as I can spare to man the long boat and cutter, in case we want 'em. Steady there, lads! Easy!" And, as the first eight men who could reach the deck parted to the larboard and starboard quarter boats, Frere ran down on the main deck. At his nod the prison door was thrown open. The air was hot, and that strange, horrible odor peculiar to closely packed human bodies filled the place. He ran his eye down the double tier of bunks which lined the side of the ship, and stopped at the one opposite him. There seemed to have been some disturbance there lately, for, instead of the six pairs of feet which should have protruded therefrom, the gleam of the bull's eye showed but four. "What's the matter here, sentry? he asked. "Prisoner ill, sir. Doctor sent him to hospital." "But there should be two." The other came from behind the break of the berths. It was Rufus Dawes. He held by the side as he came, and saluted. "I felt sick, sir, and was trying to get the scuttle open." Maurice Frere stamped his foot indignantly. "Sick! What are you sick about? I'll give you something to sweat the sickness out of you. Stand on one side here!" Rufus Dawes, wondering, obeyed. "Which of you fellows can handle an oar?" Frere went on. 'There, I don't want fifty! Three'll do. Come on now, make haste!" The heavy door clashed again, and in another instant the four "volunteers" were on deck. "Two in each boat!" cries Blunt. "I'll burn a blue light every hour for you, Mr. Best, and take care they don't swamp you. Lower away, lads!" As the second prisoner took the oar of Frere's boat, he uttered a groan and fell forward, recovering himself instantly. Sarah Purfoy, leaning over the side, saw the occurrence. "What is the matter with that man?" she said. "Is he ill?" Pine was next to her, and looked out instantly. "It's that big fellow in No. 10." he cried. "Here, Frere!" But Frere heard him not. He was intent on the beacon that gleamed ever bright in the distance. ."Give way, my lads!" he shouted. And amidst a cheer from the ship, the two boats shot out of the bright circle of the blue light, and disappeared into the darkness! Sarah Parfoy looked at Pine for an

t xplanation, but he turned abruptly away. For a moment the girl paused, as if in doubt; and then, ere his retreating figure turned to retrace Its steps, she cast a quick glance around, and, slipping down the ladder, made her way to the 'tween-decks. The iron-studded oak barricade that, loop-holed for musketry, ind perforated with plated trap-door for sterner needs, separated soldiers from prisoners, was close to her left hand, and the sentry at its padlocked door looked at her inquirlugly. She laid her little hand on his big rough cne, and opened her brown eyes at him. . "The hospital." she said. "The doctor sent me;" and before he could answer her white- figure vanished down the hatch, and passed round the bulkhead, behind which lay the sick man. Though not so hot as in the prison, the atmosphere of tfcu lower deck was close and unhealthy, and the girl, pausing to listen to the subdued hum of conversation coming from the soldiers' berths, turned strangely sick and giddy. She drew herself up,' however, and held out her hand to a man who came rapidly across the misshapen shadows, thrown by the sulky swinging lantern to meet ber. It was a young soldier who had been that day sentry at the convict gangway. "Well, miss," be said, "I am here, yer see, waiting for yer." The tone of the sentence seemed to awaken and remind her of her errand in that place. She laughed as loudly and merrily as she dared, and laid her hand on the speaker's arm. The boy reddened to the roots of his closely cropped hair. "There, thfts quite close enough. You're i.dlj a common soldier, Miles, and you mustn't make love to me." "I knew you're above me. Miss Sarah. You're a lady, but I love yer, I do, and you drives me wild with your tricks." "Hush, Miles! they'll hear you. Who is in the hospital?" "I dunno." "Well, I want to go in." "Don't ask me, miss. It's against orders, and " She turned away. "Ob, very well. If this is all the thanks I get for wasting my time down here, I shall go on deck again. Mr. Frere will let me go In, I dare say, if I ask him." "Go in if yer like; I won't stop yer, but remember what I'm doin of." She turned again at the foot of the ladder, and came quickly back. "That's a good lad. I knew you would not refuse me;" and smiling at the poor lout she was befooling, she passed into the cabin. There was no lantern, and from the partially blocked stern windows came only a dim vaporous light. The dull ripple of the water as the ship rocked on the slow swell of the sea, made a melancholy sound, and the sick man's heavy breathing seemed to fill the air. The slight noibe-made by .he opening door rounsed him; he rose on his elbow and began to mutter. Sarah Purfoy paused in the doorway to listen, but she could aiake nothing of the low, uneasy murmuring. Raising her arm, conspicuous by its white sleeve in the gloom, she beckoned Miles. "The lantern," she whispered "bring me the lantern. He unhooked It from the rope where it swung, and brought it toward her. At that raiment the man in the bunk sat up erect, and twisted himself toward the light. "Sarah V he cried, In shrill, sharp tones. "Sarah!" and swooped with .1 lean arm through the dusk, as though to seize her. The girl leaped out of the cabin like a panther, and was back at the bunk head in a moment. The convict was a yonng man of about four and twenty. His hands- were small and well shaped, and the unshaven chin bristled with promise of a strong beard. His wild black eyes glared with al the fire of delirium, and as he gasped for breath the sweat stood in beads on his 'sallow forehead. The aspect of the man was sufficiently ghastly, and Miles, drawing back, did not wonder at the terror which had seized Mrs. Vickers' maid. With open mouth and agonized face, she stood in the center of the cabin, like one turned to stone, gazing at the man on the bed. "Ecod, he be a sight!" says Miles, at length. "Come away, miss, and shut the door. He's raving, I tell yer." "He's choking. Can't you ee? Water! give me water!" And, wreathing her arms around the man's head, she pulled it down on her bosom, rocking it there, half savagely, to and fro. Awed into obedience by her roice, Miles dipped a pannikin into a small unheaded puncheon cleated in the corner of the cabin, and gave it her; and,

without thanking him, she placed it to the fcipV nrtasinav'a lino TT a mnV rroe1.

ily, and closed his eyes with a grateful sigh. Just t'.en the quick ears of Miles heard the jiagle of arms. "Here's the doctor coming, miss!" he cried. "I hear the sentry saluting. Come away! Quick!" She seized the lantern, and. opening J the horn slide, extinguished it. isay it went out," she said. In a fierce whisper, "and hold your tongue. Leave me to manage." She bent over the convict as If to arrange his pillow, and then glided out of the cabin just as Pine descended the hatchway. As he' groped his way with outstretched arms in the darkness, Sarah Purfoy slipped past him. (To be continued.) LIVES WELL ON $10 A YEAR. Wisconsin Man Has Done It for 40 Year Seem Content. Near Mirror Lake, in Wisconsin, is a log cabin in which a man has lived for forty years on $10 a year, fleorge Swinner is his name and be seems perfectly contented, writes a correspondent of the St. Louis Republic. The old man is a Civil War veteran. When tie was discharged at the end of the war he had money enough to purchase an acre of ground on the shores of picturesque Mirror Lake. In this acre of ground he planted vegetables and fruit trees. Close to the house there grows a thick cluster cf blackberry bushes and in the garden behind It there are long rows of strawberries. Over the fence that separates the yard from the road are wild roses. Here the veteran makes his home. How does he live? , Each day he takes his fishing rod and goes down to Mirror Lake. That Is his pork barrel. The fish that he draws out of those waters sinply his dinner, likewise his breakfast. The vegetables and meal made from corn grown in his garden complete his diet. For his lake fishing Skinner has built himself a boat which is as unique as himself. In order that he may fish and propel his boat at the same time he has invented an extraordinary contrivance. At the fitern of his boat be has a paddle like that of a river steamer. This is turned by means of n chain running on cogs and attached to a crank that the old man turns with one hand as he trolls with the other. From this strange craft, nicknamed "the flying machine" by the people of Delton, Skinner does his angling. Skinner .lives during the winter as well as he does in summer. From the overabundance of one season he saves enough to meet the necessities of the other. He catches on an average 10O fish a day, mostly small ones. Ten of these sufUce for his two simple meals. The other ninety are carefuliy cleaned and stored away In great barrels of brine kept in the cellar of his cabin. When he has enough barre cf fish stored away to last him through the winter he stops fishing, as he thinks it Is a slu to kill any creature, even a fish, except for food. From his garden he cans his vegetables and berries. Everything that he needs is supplied from nature's "pork barrel." The $10 which he spends annually goes for tobacco, fish-hooks and clothing. I'lnkere In Cattle. Complainls are being received from different sections of the country concerning an eye trouble which is afflict ing cattle, mainly young animals. The eyes swell and water and are covered with a white scum. Later, as the disease develops, the eye becomes very red. As the disease is highly contagious. care should be taken to Isolate the affected animals and to begin treatment at ouce. Start with a change of food, giving a ration that Is highly laxative for some weeks. Salt water waroi Is excellent for sponging the eyes, which should be done dally. Witch hazel is better and should be used as strong as the animal can stand It, In very bad cases use the following; Take forty grains each of sulphate of rlnc and acetate of lead, ten grains of s llphate of morphia, one-fourth ounce Luid extract of .belladonna, two ounces of extract of witch hazel and sufficient rain water to make a pint of the mixture. Shake well and use by applying it to the eyes with a sponge. Give treat ment twice or three times daily for two weeks. Let the stables be clean and the animals have considerable gr&ia. Exchange. Oystera Grow on Crab's Daek. A crab on the back of which Is a cluster of growing young oysters was caught In the vicinity of Cambridge. Md., a few days ago by a boy, fisherman and is now on exhibition there. The crab Is of medium size and on Its back the oysters, seven in the number, the size of a quarter, have attached themselves and are flourishing. Goes Without Vorklax. Jones If you had jour choice of everything going, what kind of a Job would you select? Bones I think the fifth wheel oa an automobile would Just nbout suit me.Detroit Free Tress. Xearro Physician Speclallst. Dr. Marcus Fitsherbert Wheatland, a colored physician of Newport, R. I., Is recognized as New England's 1 fading specialist In electro-therap t tics and the X-ray. In early life he was a shoemaker. A Discriminating? Intelligence. "That's a wonderfully intelligent dog of Hardupp's." "What can he do?" "Why, he bit three bill collectors last week." Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Reanon. "I'm master la my own house," said he; And we wonder now no more Though we did at first we have found, you see. That the man is a bachelor. Cleveland Leader. Making Licht for Them. There's a fellow who makes light of his financial troubles." -How's that?" "Why, when his bills come In he burns them.' Clcvland Plain Dealer. Mean Thins. Susie Just think! Tom says there isn't a girl In town with a completion like mine. Lucie Isn't he the knocker? Cleveland Leader. Why He Is. Biggs Young Authorton seems to be rather a smart chap. DIggs No wonder. The criticisms of his new book are enough to make him smart. While Germany has 0,500,000 women who earn their own living, Italy, with only one-half the population, has 5,250,000. Six thousand people sleep in the opea air in London eycry night.

Modish Velvet Gown. The illustration shows a very good gown of velvet, which Is quite practical and suitable for other and cheaper materials. The short coat has three narrow panel effects in the back, the center one tucked nearly all the way down, the tucks ending In a scallop and the whole, as well as the shorter side panels, being framed in braid. The same braid edges the shallow yoke In front, below which the coat is tucked in groups on each side, with a scallop at the bottom of each group. These tucked panels ar framed in narrow stitched folds. Braid ornaments trim the fastenings and are set on each side of the back near the bottom. The collar is an effective ar rangement of white kid and green Oriental embroidery. Two tabs of the same materials hang below the slashed bottom of the coat fronts. Moderately full sleeves are trimmed with braid and finished with a loose cuff over a tight one of kid and embroidery. The coat belt, which is hardly perceptible under the slightly bloused arrangement of the coat, dips Into a curve over the waistband. The skirt Is cut walking length and is made in a circular pattern and trimmed with braid above the hem. Management of Hashanda. It may, I suppose, be taken for granted that all husbands are, whether they know It or not, managed by their much better halves. Some pretend that they manage themselves, or even their wives, but It is only for a short time. One of these feeble would-be rebels. In the absence of his wife. Invited some gentlemen friends to spend the evening with him. The conversation turned on the marriage question, when the host boasted: "I am master In my own house; I do not believe In women ruling; I do as I please, and make my wife submit to my rule. I am a regular Julius Caesar In my house." Just then his wife came In and said : "Gentlemen, you had better go hone, and Julius Caesar will Just walk right upstairs with me." If it be asked whether a wife who has vowed to obey her husband should attempt to manage him, we reply that it depends upon the characters of the husband and of the wife. If a man be weak and easily led, he will bo managed by someone, and if bis wife, does not lead him right, bad friends and bad pass'.ons will lead him wron. The reason It sounds badly to speak of managing a husband Is because so many wives manage their husbands for selfish purposes only. If their sole object were to make the most of them, It would be all right, but too often what they aim at Is to make the most out of them. As a rule, however, when the reins get into the hands of wives the domestic coach goes much more comfortably even for the husbands themselves, and we are not surprised that so 1 many wives consider their husbands creatures that have to be looked after as grownup little boys. Interesting, plquaint, Indlspfnsible, but shiftless, headstrong, and at '-t torn absurd. Unless he be very unlike the rest of us, that husband of yours Is continually liable to say and do absurd things, to dress In a slovenly manner, to offend people from want of tact, and generally to make a fool of himwlf. It Is your duty to prevent him doing so. Nor will he object (though that would be of little consequence) to your winding him up like a clock and making him go right In reference to tveh matters. What can be pleasanter taan for a husband to be well managed, and. at the same time, allowed to fancy that be Is managing himself? The Gentlewoman. Woman's Hand in the World' Work Where but in the West of this great country would one And youn? women dauntless enough to undertake so dlfllcult and complex a career as that of Impresario? And the two young women who are the pioneers In the field are the daughters of pioneer families In Oregon, Miss Lois Steer. and Miss Wynn Coraan. The former, four years ago, undertooK the management or a tour for Nordica through the Northwest and was so successful that she has kept up both her Interest and that of the public in the business, as well as acquiring for a partner so levelheaded a business woman as Miss Coman. The amount of work Involved by such an undertaking as managing grand opera stars is not dreamed of by the public, and the average woman would stand amazed if asked to undertake even part of it. To see that every detail is properly attended to on the tour of one of the great prima donnas, to look r the financial as well as the music success, to attend to the requis

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ite amount of advertising, make arrangements with house managers, attend to transportation of singer, attendants, and baggage, is a task heretofore undertaken only by men of ripe experience, yet these two young ladies are eminently successful in the work, and with all the exasperations incident thereto have lost none of their womanly charm and graclousness. The only vroman, so far as known, who has had the temerity to run counter to man's ideas on the subject and Invade his special field as a scenic painter is Miss Grace N. Wishaar, of Oakland, Cal. A devotee of nrt, without Fufflcient funds to continue her studies, she wisely decided to choose work in which were the best financial prospects. The work is very hard from a physical standpoint, for the canvases are frequently 30 feet high and 50 feet wide, and the swaying, swinging bridge on which the artist stands while laying on the paint in great, sweeping sirokes is calculated to try the nerves. Wb ?n Miss Wishaar first made application for the work in New York she was advised to go home and take up embroidery or some equally distinctively feminine occupation. Her sueiess was a delightful surprise to her friends and her fame is growing. The Pilgrim. Watch Yonr Voice. Kind hearts are more plentiful than persistently kind and gent'e voices, and yet love loses much of Its power when the voice is sharp and hard. Try, therefore, most earnestly to acquire the right tone In speaking, and guard yourself carefully from falling into cs reless and bad habits of voice. Often a sharp voice shows far more Ill-will than the heart feels ; but people do not know that the speaker's "bark Is worse than her bite," and they believe her to be Ill-tenipered and disagreeable. , It Is so easy to pick up a sharp and snappish manner of speaking. Very often It is acquired In mirth, and In the give-and-take battles of words, In which the boys and girls delight. There Is no malice In their sallies, and a great deal of fun; but meanwhile the voice Is often acquiring a sharp and shrewdish tone wJch sticks through life, making It stir up strife and Ill-will

among its listeners. So watch the tone In which you speak, and take care that It is gentle and sweet. A kind voice Is like music in the home, and is to the heart what light and beauty are to the eye. Troubles I.lttle and IIIjc. The small faults, the petty troubles, the little Irritations, are constantly with us. Great emergencies do not need so much watching as these Infinitesimal worries of every -day life; and It Is often the case that while our worst trials arlso out of circumstances over which we have small control, or none whatever, our lesser ones are the product of personal littleness of soul. Then is nothing so detrimental to true enjoyment of life, so productive of harm in any community, so Injurious to private and public welfare, as Jealousy. We do not speik of the all-absorbing reign of the green-eyed monster, the passion which makes man and woman beside themselves, but the microscopical Jumps of feeling which would be contemptible for their smallnesrt were they not so successful in destroying peace and comfort. These things affect all classes, without respect to culture or Intellectual attainment 3 Miss Helen Gould's mail has grown to sucU proportions as to be burdensome. . Mine. Melba, the singer, cau memorize an air by having It played over -once. Mrs. Drusllia Hall 'ohnson, who died recently at Northampton, Mass., was beli-ved to be the oldest true Uaaghter of the revolution. Miss Archer, daughter and heiress of the late Fred. Archer, the noted English Jockey, recently came Into possession of her fortune of about ?G00,000. Mrs. Sarah Noble, a widow of OnTHE LAST OF 1 Driving coat of caracul, made Jacket, also following Empire lines. 3. new short tall effect.

cinnati, feeds 1,000 canaries in her luxurious home In that city at a cost of G5 a year. They are housed In some seventy cages. Mrs. Clara Hay, widow of John Hay, has received a memorial address signed by 2.3G3 Jews In America and Great Britain, commending the services of th late secretary in behalf of the Jewish people. Mrs. Nansen, the wife of the explorer, Is a singer of note. Her father was a zoologist, her mother a sister of the Norwegian poet, Welhaven, and her brother, Ernest Save, is a professor of history in the University of Christlanla. Miss Edith Wetmore, daughter of the wealthy Rhode Island senator, is one of the most consistent music lovers among fashionable folk, and baa been an earnest worker In the effort to establish a national conservatory In Washington. An Empire Coat.

The picture shows an empire coat of oyster-white broadcloth, strappings of the cloth and leaf-green velvet, with front' facings of grey satin and silver and green applique. This is an exquisite mode for an evening wrap, and is one of the newest adaptations of the popular models for coats. In the tailored effects especially the Empire coat is meeting with general approval by the women of fashion. Heavy corded silk, with strappings of self-toned cloth or velvet, wltlt straps of silk or cloth, would be effective combinations. How To Combat Chilblain. On the first Indication of a return of the chilblains rub the feet with warm spirits of rosemary to which a littlo turpentine has been added and then bind some absorbent cotton wet with camphor on the affected parts. Alum and borax footbaths will relieve the Itching. If the chilblains are broken wet bandages in the following lotion and apply them two or three times daily: Glycerin, one ounce; tincture of iodine, twentyi grains; tincture of opium, twenty grains. Salve For Chapped I.lpa. Take some marrow out of fresh beef bones, add to It a piece of white wax the size of a filbert nut, melt these Ingredients together, then remove the result from the fire and add to It a piece of gum camphor the size of the wax and an ounce of glycerine. Stir this until the camphor Is dissolved, and add to it a few drops of oil of roses. Cleaning Terra Cottm. The color of terra cotta ornaments that have faded may be restored by being Immersed In a bath of skim milk for twenty-four hours. The discoloration may then be washed away with a pponge and clean water. A dilute solution of either oxalic or sulphuric acid is also sometimes used for cleaning tera cotta. Helen Gould's Bcn-arla Letter. Miss Helen Gould's mail has grown to such proportions as to be positively burdensome. Ninety per cent of It consists of begging letters. Miss Gould makes it a rule not to give any aid whatever except in cases with which she is In touch, so that practically all of these letters are written in vain. THE PURS. in the Empire style. 2. Loose ermine Walking Jacket of Persian lamb, with

A DOG'S FAITHFULNESS.

Ills Efforts to Help Ills Master, Cauarht In Snowstorm. William Vlenas has probably perished in the snow between Hyampom and this place, says the Hayfork correspondence of the Sacramento Bee. That conclusion was reached when J. W. Lattlmer arrived here coming by way of Peanut, and was disappointed in not finding Vlenas In town. Vlenas and Lattimer were working In the copper mine near Hyampom. Vlenas left the mines, expecting to go through to Hayfork, a distance of twenty-five miles. In one day. He did not even take along a bite of food and hU faithful dog accompanied him. Lattimer remained alone in camp. Five days later the dog came back fc? camp again in a half-starved condition, making great demonstration! before Lattlmer, who could neither understand Its strange actions nor Induce it to partake of food. The dog remained in camp about an hour and struck out over the mountains toward Hayfork, arriving here the same day. The faithful animal again tried to make his troubles known, but no one could understand the message the dumb creature had to convey. The dog whined and refused to be comforted, although it did finally partake of food. When Lattlmer arrived here and did not find Vlenas the meaning of the dog's strange actions was understood. Lattimer is sure that Vienas perished in the storm that sprung up at midday and that the dog kept faithful vigil over his master's body for flve days, when hunger or instinct, or both, impelled it to return, first to Hyampom and then to Hayfork, for succor for Vlenas. RARE RELIC OF NAPOLEON. Houston Man Has Cast from One of the Five Death Mask Made. Frank S. Pendleton is In possession of a plaster of parls cast from the death mask of the great Napoleon, says the Houston Chronicle. . There are now only four of these masks In existence. Dr. Antomarchl, physician of the world's greatest military genius at St Helena, made five. One of them went to London and four were carried to Mexico by the Zacatecas, one to Mexico and one to Vera Cruz. One of those taken to Zacatecas has been lost and the other is the one from which the cast now in possession of Mr. Penditon was made. Of course, only the face Is shown in the cast, and on the side of the base of the cast Is the following inscription : "Napoleon Imp. Et Kol, Subscrlbcion, Dr. Antomarchl, 1833." The face, though calm in the repose of death, with lips slightly parted. Is the Impersonation of force. The chin bespeaks the bulldog determination which characterized the nan In life. The prominent cheekbones tell that a trace of cruelty blended with his determination when obstacles blocked the way to his desires, strikingly evidenced by his putting away the only woman who ever loved him by the cruel hand of ambition. The faculty of reasoning is brought out in bold relief, against the base of his massive forehead, and the firm lines of the mouth are a striking feature of the face of the man whose personal magnetism changed men's blood to molten steel hissing through hearts of ice to fight like demons at his command. Escaped from Kfthenev. A Russian Jew named Wechsler, his wife and three chldVen, refugees from Kishinev, where he was a grocer before the riots, arrived in New York recently, says the Kansas City Star. "I had a good business In Kishinev," Wechsler said on Ellis Island. "I owned my own home and other property, all of which was pillaged and burned by the rioters. 1 managed to save 1,000 rubles ($5ö0) in gold. I placed it In a canvas bag and dropped tt into a well for safe keeping. We were driven to a town, seventy-five miles south of Kishinev, where we remained for two weeks. "I then learned of an opportunity of escaping to America with my family, but. In order to leave, I had first to return to Kishinev, which was still in the bands of the rioters, to procure the money which I had hidden 4n the well. I managed to pass the town guards un'observed. By dropping myself into the water I succeeded In getting the bag and money and was leaving the city when I was halted by a sentry. I refused to stop and the sentry followed, giving the alarm and firing at me as I ran. At length my pursuers crowded me so closely that I hid In a haystack, where I remained- for two days without food or water, while the soldiers were searching for me. "Later I seized an opportunity to escape and made my way on foot back to my wife and children. We succeeded in crossing the frontier after much difficulty, and reaching Antwerp, we boarded the first ship for America." ne Intends to use the $500 In opening a small business. Dewey IIa Dor's Jannty Air. Admiral Dewey, dapper, sprightly and smiling, is a familiar figure on Washington street He walks with the Jaunty spring of a boy and takes a keen interest in the street sights. An amiable man is the head of the active branch of the sea defense, nd cne who takes the good and ill of life with cheerful philosophy. But one thing upsets the serenity of the hero, and Christmas time Is the most trying In the year. . People will send him gifts lounging robes, pillows, footstools and other emblems of 111 health and feebleness. The admiral hates the sight of a walking cane as a pious Christian is supposed to hate the evil one, and he bundles all such presents off to a homo for the aged. He will barely acknowl edge such a gift politely. As he Is to be seen dally on the principal thorough fares of Washington, always without a cane, he Is confounded to think that his friends exercise bo little tact. Accord ing to the admiral, he hopes It will bo twenty years before he will need a stick, and In the meantime ne does not wish to collect a museum of canes in his Washington home. Plerctnsr a Thick. Hide. "No, it's my treat." insisted Nurltch, "I kin afford it bettern you fellers kin. I guess you don't know how much I'm worth, do you?" "Well, no," replied the quiet stranger, "I don't know your exact weight, nor do I know the current market price of pork." Philadelphia Press. ! When a man gives 23 to the church his wife, who is setting beside him, fisj absorbed In a mental picture of a h'atj she saw down town that could be bought for a good deal less. A 10-year-old girl and a man pest 50t are mighty scornful of little old Cuyld.'

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SELLS IV HOLE TOW7f FOR fO,OCÄ Proprietor of Village f Solon Trane fer Ills Property. Orlando Ross is no longer proprietor t the town of So'on. For $0,000 be sotf it to William Dellinger of Scottsburs. Fire years ago Ross brought a cro&srcxiJ store at Solon, paying $100 for tio stock. About ail !.e had to sell was bacon, molasses and fiour. In a short time he had everything to sell, from a needleto self-binding harvester machines. Solca thrived. Ross built fifteen cottages and established another store. He bouxit butter and eigs from the farmers' wivcr; for which he gave them calico and nstiuns. Ross prospered until he decided he was ready to retire. Along came Ilr. Dellinger and asked him what he woaU take for the town. Six thousand dollars for the town as she stands," said Rcca "Throw in your two old market wagon that are out on the route," replied Dellinger. Roas agreed and Dellinger is now ling of a village of about fifty soul. 700 SCHOOLS ARC ADANDOXED. Indiana Favors Consolidation of Districts In the Country. Seven hundred small country schools have been abandoned since the movement toward consolidation of country schools began some years ago. Outside of Crawford county the number of school abxa- t doned is C99, and it is believed the report from that county will bring the total up to 700. These schools hare given way to 2S0 consolidated schools. Reports show that of ninety-one counties reporting the people of forty-three agree that, after a fair trial, thpy are in favor f consolidation. People of nine counties ara against consolidation: An average ef 8,312 children were transferred to consolidated schools every day during 10C5 at an average daily cost of $824.8., anJ at an average cost of $1.GS per day fsr wagon. The wagons carry an average Z seventeen children. HEX, XOT SUPPORTED, QUIT. Seven Ilnadands Given Deeree C cauae "Wives Failed to rrovlde. Seven husbands in Indiana secured divorces on the ground that th?ir wivesfailed to provide for thcai, according to the report of the State statistician for 1905. just completed. Another interesting: feature of the report is that, whil marriages decreased in 1003, the number of divorces increased. A total of 23,301. marriage licenses was issued in 11K)I, an4 last year the number fell to 20,7'J7, whil the number of divorces in the same period increased from 3,44'J to 3.840. I 1904 there was one divorce for every eight persons married, and in 1905 them was one divorce for every seven ruarriac licenses issued. Of the divorces granted 95S were to husbands and 2,790 to wivcx. GIRL STOPS A POKER GAJJC. With Pistol She Forces Brother tm Quit Plar. f Mis3 . Lena Hendricks, a ; romincct young woman, entered the vestibule or the Mattingly & Harbin quart bbop at Wheatland, intent on rescuing her brother from the gaming table. When refuse! admittance, she shouted : "Open or I will shoot through the door." The latch wu thrown and Miss Hendricks rushed in. At the sight of the gun the habitues of ti place, cards and poker chips, ell disappeared. The wrath of his sister causti Hendricks to halt. He accompanied hzr home and promised to be good. DREAKS VOW AND GOES 1NSAK2, Son of Man Who Lost Mind at Ca vlval Follows Father's Foot a tens. Jeremiah retticord of Warrick county is a patient at the Eransville Insane arjlum, having been made insane by the excitement of attending a revival meetirj. nis father lost his mind tweDty-v3 years ago in the same way and died ia tzi asylum. The son made a vow never ta enter a church, and kept it for a quarter of a century, only to lose his mind frc religious excitement when he finally attended a meeting. Brief State llappenlnjrs. Nicholas Bauzoff, 70 years old, a soldier hermit, was found dead at his Ici cabin home near Boonville. Benjsjnin Draper, a young fanner, was found dead in the roadway near' Peru, the victim of a runaway accident. Warren Mitchell was drowned at Lawrenceburg while testing a device he kad invented for saving tkaiers who brtilz through thin ice. Lloyd McReynolds fell from the Illinois Central railroad bridge below Eransville while trying to walk across aoi was instantly killed. George Derkes of Peru, Charge! wit! poisoning his wife, was released frc3 custody because an analysis of the stoaach showed that it contained no polscaAttorneys representing anti-uniaa Cumberland Presbyterians met at Evansviiie and decided to file injunction proceedings to prevent the General Assembly, which meets at Decatur, 111., next May, from voting to sanction the ante with the Presbyterian church. The binucr twine factory recently iaRtalled in the Michigan City prison hra boen put in operation. The plant starts with a force of forty hands, which number will be increased to seventy as tt demand requires. The plant is intended to compete with the binder twine trurt. whese plants are not conducted by organized labor, and the product of the local plant will be disposed of to Indiana, farmers at a low price. Gov. Hanly of Indiana announced at Indianapolis that he has agreed to serv on Thomas W. Lawson's insurance com mit tee. Former Councilman Samuel Wagjaman, a poultry dealer,, died in Kokons from blood poisoning caused by the bits of a goose. Joseph "Negeskinki, aged 35 years, baing refused whisky at O. J. Sack man' grocery store in Burdick, attacked t! proprietor and severely beat him with a hammer. Sackman's injuries may result in his death. Negeskinki was placed uad?r arrest and taken to Valparaiso. William W. Lockwood, 71 years old; died at Peru from the amputation of a leg injured in an accident. He was editor of the Peru Itepublicau and one of the widest known men in northern Indiata. A daughter and son of August Carlson, ased S and 11, respectively ; an 11-year-old daughter of Charles Tetzlass and an 8-year-old daughter of Adam Tetzlass, are dead in South Bend as th result of burns by an explosion of gasoline with which the children were trying to start a fire. One of the girls with her doth-, iug ablaze ran considerable distance; t her home and tLe others were found rollivs in pools of water in a field. Frank Centon, John Klien and Thomas Steels, about IS years of age, choss to be whipped by the police in Evansvills rather than serve a workhouse sentence. The young men had pleaded guflty to drunkenness, and their parents, at the suggestion o! Jud?e Winfrey, who is aa advocate of the Aliipping post, agreed the defendants shou d be whipped at the poli; station instead of bein fined and scit to the workhouse. After the laih had been laid on good and strong by a bis policeman the youns men were dismissed. William Mahler, a wealthy tanner of Posey countj', was crushed to diati tj. a fallin tree.