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CHAPTER XXIX. (Continued.) "Well." said John Rex. "we are iu private. What have you to lay? "I want to tell you that I forbid you to carry out the plan you have for breaking up Sir Richard's property." "Forbid me?" cried Rex, much relieved. "Why, I only -want to do what my father s will enables me to do." "Your father's will enables you to do nothing of the sort, and you know it." She spoke, as though rehearsing a series of set speeches, and Sarah watched her with growing lärm. "Oh, nonsense!' cries John Rex, in sheer amazement. "I haTe a lawyer's opinion on it." "Do you remember what took place at Hempstead this day nineteen years?" "At Hempstead?" said Kex, growing suddenly pale. "This day nineteen years ago? No! What do you mean?" "Do you cot remember?" she continued, leaning forward eagerly, and speaking almost fiercely. "Do you not remember the reason why you left the Louse where you were born, and which jou wish no to sell to strangers?" John Rex stood dumfounded, the blood suffusing his temples. He knew that among the secrets of the man whose inheritance he had stolen was one which he had never gained and he felt that this secret was to be revealed to crush him now. Sarah, trembling also, but more with rage than terror, twept toward Lady DeTine. "Speak out." she said, "if you have anything to say! Of what do you accuse my husband? "Of imposture!" cried Lady Devin?, all her outraged maternity nerving her to abash her anemy. "This man may De your husband, but he is not my son! You ht.ve not stood the test, for you cannot recall the day of your quarrel and mine over my cousin. AraiigeJl Esme Wade, Lord Bella sis." John Rex gasped for breath: his hand tugging at his neck-cloth, rent away the linen that covered his choking throat. The whols horizon. of his past was lighted up by a lightning fiash which stunned him. His brain, already enfeebled by excess, was enable to withstand this last shock. He staggered, and, but for the cabinet against . which he leaned, would have fallen. The secret thoughts of his heart rose to his lips, and were uttered unconsciously. "Lord Dellasis! He was my father, and 1 killed him!" A dreadful silence fell; and then Lady Devine. stretching out her hands toward the self-confessed murderer, with a sort of frightful respect, said in a whisper, in which horror and supplication were strangely mingled, "What did you do with my son? . Did you kill him also?" But John Rex, wagging his head from aide to side, like a beast in the shambles that has recvived a mortal stroke, made no reply. Sarah Purfoy, awed as ahe was by the dramatic force of the situation, nevertheless remembered that Francis Wade might arrive at. any moment, and saw her last opportunity for afety. She advanced and touched the mother on the shoulder. "Yonr son U alive!" "Where?" "Will you promise not to hinder us leaving this house if I tell you?" "Yes, yes." "Will you promise to keep the confession wbici you have heard secret until we have left England?" "I promise anything. In heaven's name, woman, if you have a woman's heart, speak! Where is uxy son?" Sarah Purfoy rose over the enemy who had defeated her, and said, in level, deliberate accents, "They cull him Ruf us Dawes. He Is a convict at Norfolk Island, transported for life for the murder whih you heard my hnsband confess to having committed Ah!" Lady Devine had fainted. Sarah .flew to Rex. "Rouse yourself, John! We have not a moment!" John Rex passed his hand over his forehead wearily. "I cannot think. I am broken down. I am ill. My brain seems dead." Nervously watching the prostrate figure on the floor, sh hurried on bonnet, cloak and veil, and in a twinkling had him outside the house and into a cab. "Yon won't give me up?' said Rex, turning dull eyes upon her. "Give you up! No! But the police will be after us so soon as that woman can speak, and her brother summon his lawyer. I know what her promise is worth. We have got about fifteen hours. "I can't go far, Sarah," said he; "I am sleepy, and stupid." She repressed the terrible fear that tugged at her heart, and strove to rally him. "Now, sit still and be good, while I go and get some money for you. She hurried into the bank, and her name secured her an interview with the manager at once. 'That's a rich woman," said one of the clerks to his friend. "A widow, too! Chance for yon, Tom," returned the other; und, presently', from out the sacred presence came another clerk with a request for "a draft on Sydney for three thousand, less premium," and bearing a check sign! "Sarah Carr," for two hundred pounds, which he "took" in notes, and so returned again. From the bank she was taken to a shipping office. "I want a cabin in the first ship for Sydney, please. When does the Dido sail?" "To-morrow morning. She is at PIvmouth, waiting for ths mails. If you go down to-night by toe mail train, whifch leaves at 9:30, you will be In plenty of time, and we will telegraph. "I will take the cabin." T I T 1 t .. iuaa ii was gnawing, bis naus in sullen apathy. She displayed the pas sage ticket, "lou are saved. By the tune Mr. Dtvme get his wits together. and his sister recovers her speech, we shall be past pursuit." "To Sydney r cried Rex, angrily, look log at the warrant. "Why there?" Sarah surveyed him with an expres sion of contempt. "Because your schema ' had failed. Now, this is mine. You have deserted me once; you will not do o Again in any other country. You are a murderer, a villain and a coward; but you suit me. I save you, but I mean to keep you. 1 will bring you to Australia, where the first trooper will arrest you at jny bidding as an escaped convict. If rou don't like to coma, stay behind I don't care. I am rich. I have done no wrong. The law cannot touch me, Do you agree?" Having housed him at last al' gloomy and despondent1 in a quiet tav ern near the railway station, she tried to get Some iuformation a3 to this last-, revealed crime. "How came you to kill Lord Bellasis?" she asked him, quietly. "I had round ont from my mother that she was his deserted wife, and one day riding home from a pigeo'a match I told him so. He taunted me, and I truck him. I did not mean to kill him, bat he was an old man. end in my passion I struck hard. As he fell, I thought I saw a horseman among the trees, and I galloped off. My ill luck began then. ' for the same night I was arrested at the coiner's." "But I thought there was robbery?" said she. "Not by me. But t?A- no more about ltl I am sick my brain is going round. I want to sleep." "Be careful, please! Lift him gently! said Mrs. Carr, aa the boat ranged alongside the Dido, gaunt knd grim, La tht fxl:; dajta a Weak 5XI. oraln, .

"Gentleman seems to have had a stroke." said a boatman. It was so. There was no fear that John Rex would escape again from the woman he had deceived. The infernal genius of Sarah Purfoy had saved her lover at last but saved him only that she might nurse him till he died died, ignorant ven of her tenderness, a mere animal, lacking the intellect he had in his selfish wickedness abused. .

CHAPTER XXX. "This is my story. Let it plead with you." It had grown dark in the prison, and as he ceased speaking, Rufus Dawes felt a trembling hand seize his own. It was that of the chaplain. "Let me hold your hand! Sir Richard Devine did not murder your father. He was murdered by a horseman who, riding with him, struck him and fled." "How do you know this?" "Because I saw the murder committed, because don't let go my hand I robbed the body." "You?" "In my youth I was a gambler. Lord Bellasis won money from me, and to pay him I forged two bills of exchange. Unscrupulous and cruel, he threatened to expose nie if I did not give him double the sum. Forgery was death in those days, and I strained every nerve to buy back the proofs of my folly. I succeeded. I was to meet Lord Bellasis near his own house at Hampstead on the night of which you speak, to pay the mouey and receive the bills. When I saw him fall I galloped up, but instead of pursuing his murderer I rifled his pocketbook of my forgeries. I was afraid to give evidence at the trif.l, or I might have saved you. Ah! you have let go my hand!" ' "God forgive you!" said Rufus Dawes, and then was silent. "Speak!" cried North. "Speak, or you will make me mad. Reproach me! Spurn me! Spit upon me! You cannot think worse of me than I do myself." But the other, his head buried in his hands, did not answer, and, with a wild gesture. North staggered out of the cell. Nearly an hour had passed since the chap.ain had placed the rum flask in his hand, and Gimblett observed, with semi-drunken astonishment, that it was not yet empty. If he didn't finish the 3ask, he would be oppressed with an everlasting regret. ! If he did finish it, he would be drunk; and to be drunk on duty was the one unpardonable sin. He looked across the darkness of the sea, tc where the rising and falling light marked the schooner. The commandant was a long way off! A' faint breeze which had arisen with the night, brought up to him the voices of the boat's crew from the jetty below him. His friend Jack Mannix was coxswain of her. He would give Jack a drink. Leaving the gate, he advanced to the edge of the embankment, and. putting his head over, called out to his friend. The breeze, however, which was momentarily freshening, carried his voice away; and Jack Mannix. hearing nothing, continued his conversation. Gimblett was just drunk enough to be virtuously Indignant u this incivility, and seating himself on the edge of the bank, swallowed the remainder of. the rum at a draught. The effect upon his enforcedly temperate stomach was very touching. He made one feeble attempt to get upon his legs, cat a reproachful glance at the rum bottle, essayed to drink out of its spirituous emptiness, and then, with a smile of reckless contentment, fell fast asleep. North, coming out of the prison, did not notice the absence of the jailer; indeed, he was not in a condition to notice anything. Bare-headed, without his cloak, with staring eyes and clinched hands, he rushed through the gates into the night as one who flies headlong from some fearful vision. It seemed that, absorbed in his own thoughts, he took no heed to his steps, for Instead cf tak ing the path which led to the sea, he kept along the more familiar one that led to his own cottage on the hill. "This man a convict!" he cried. "He is a hero a martyr! What a life! Love! Yes, that is love Indeed! Oh, James North, how base art thou in the eyes of God beside this despised outcast!" And so muttering, tearing his gray hair, and beating his throbbing temples with clinched hands, he reached his own room. Already he fancied he could see the speck that was the schooner move slowly away from the prison, shore. lie must not linger; they would be waiting for him at the jetty. As he turned, the moonbeams as yet unobscured by the Tapidly gathering clouds flung a silver streak across the sea, and across that streak North saw a boat pass. Was his distracted brain playing him false? in the stern sat, wrapped in a cloak, the figure of a man! A fierce gust of wind drove the sea-rack over the moon, and the boat disappeared, as though swallowed up by the gathering storm. North staggered back as the truth strack him. Was it possible that a just heaven had thus decided to allow the man whom a coward had condemned to escape, and to punish the coward who remained? Oh, this man deserved freedom; he was honest, noble, truthful! How different from himself a hateful self-lover, a drunkard! The looking glass stood upon the table, and North, peering Into it, started in insane rage at the pale face and bloodshot eyes he saw there. What a hateful wretch he had become! (To be continued.) Wh ped 524 Pupils. .Alfred Bunker of Boston has becomr famous, not because be baa been a schoolmaster forty-seven year, but because be has whipped 524 pupils of the Qulncy school during the last half j'eat of 1905. The school board Las declared that it wns not necessary to whip a single child, and Bunker Is facing a crisis. His pupils are a bard set, being largely Poles, Italians, Syrians, Armenians and Jews, and the district Is, of course. Illiterate. Consequently, th3 pupils of the Quincy school were without borne Influence for betterment Their educating Influences began wben they came Into the school and ended when tbey left it Moreover, It wa peculiarly difficult to understand their natures. The duty devolved upon the principal and staff of the Qulncy school, first, to get close to these children of foreign birth or foreign parent age ; next, to keep them In order ; next to teach them the rudiments of knowledge. Not Friends. "Your ready repartee has made yot many friends," said the sincere admirer. "Your mistake Is a common one," answered Miss Cayenne. "They are not friends. They are merely an audience," Washington Star. Well Wrappfd. Piker I understand that you filled your Incubator full of cold-storage eggs. Hatch anything? , Peaker I should say so! All the chickens came out with fur instead oi feathers and wore ear muffs. Our grand business Is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what Ilea clearly at hand. Cor

Lkick of Merchant Marine Pats United States Far In Rear. Brazil Is a country of varied and wonderful resources and, with the introduction of proper machinery and up-:o-date methods, its development would fe extended so that within a few years t would produce enormously and take rank among the leading commercial xmntries iu the world, says the New Vork Tribune. Its export trade is advancing now at a very rapid rate, especially that In rubber, which amounts lo millions of dollars annually. The Introduction of. the bicycle, the uitoniobile and other rubber-tired velicles bas given the rubber production an Impetus which has caused It to forge to the front as the leading export of the country. The coffee trade Is also being extend?d rapidly, having a healthy growth to .ts credit The United States purchases jne-half the coffee exported from Brasil, which, during the fiscal year ended .vith June SO, 1904, amounted in value :o $40,922,974. Of the three leading nations which cid their products to Brazil In 1901 3ieat Britain ranks first, with $34,970,200 to its credit, or 23 per cent of the total amount of her Imports. Germany ?omes second, with $13,073,11S, or 12 per cent, and the United States third, vith $14,031,970, or 11 per cent. The jreat disparity of the amount of goods sold by Great Britain and the United Slates to Brazil presents a problem for the manufacturers and exporters 3f this country which must be solved

if their trade with that and other 3tuth American countries is to be itended. Of Britain's imports In 1904 the leading articles were the manufactures of cotton, which a mounted to ?1S,744.912; manufactures of Iron and steel, $10,197,044; breadstuff, $13,S09,731 ; wine, $7,GST,C23 ; provisions. $7,207.480, and coal, $G,1S3,C3S. Of all these, with the possible exception of wine, the United States Is a manufac turer, or agricultural producer, and it seems absurd that Brazil' should bo Dbligedto seek them in Europe Instead of from her North American neighbor. Of the exports from Brazil, during the same period coffee and rubber comprised the principal articles. For the six months ended June 3d, 1904 md 1905, the value of coffee exported amousted to $31,113,913 and $33,449,541, and the value of the rubber to 520,443,877 and $39,010,439, respective ly. This shows an increase In rubber exports of $10,100.32 for the six months under review. In recent years a large amount of foreign capital has been Invested In Brazilian enterprises, especially In the city of Bio Janeiro. German capital ists have established steamship lines for coast service, and American and Canadian capitalists have acquired the car lines, gas works and telephone ser vice at Rio Janeiro, the money invested being closely estimated at $23,000,ooe. 1 This, however, Is only the beginning. of the Invasion of Brazil by foreign enterprise. There Is a determined movement now being made to revolutionize the trade conditions there. The United States Is reaching out to grasp what It considers to be its fair share of the trade which has been controlled so long by Great Britain and Germany. Thf- greatest obstacle in the way of Its passage to the desired goal is the weakness of the merchant marine of this country. American exporters have not the facilities for transporting their goods to Brazil which are enjoyed by their rivals In Europe, "and until this obstacle Is removed the progress of Atrerican trade must necessarily be slow. The record of the ports of Brazil for the year 1904 Is a sad one for study by American exporters. During the year 17.407 sailing vessels and steamers entered the ports, with an aggregate tonnage of 11,879,303, being an increase of 1,339 In the number of vessels and ?11.203 in the tonnage, and of these the American flag Is represented as among the 299 of "other countries" not specified because of the small number of their ships. True Joy of Autoinoblllnir. "I want an automobile, but If 1 thought It would save me car fare I'd be ashamed to have one. I'd rather ride In one of these 5-cent automobiles with a pole on top. Surer to g?t there," says a writer In Everybody's. "What makes it desirable is that 11 Is an advertisement of the fact that you have so much money you don't know what to do with It The steam yacht used to be the best for that; but the reason why the automobile has such a vogue Is that with It your advertisement, for less money per agate line, gets a top-of-the-column, next-to-pure position in a medium with as much larger circulation than, the yacht as roadways all over this broad land are more populous than the waterways round the elges of the broad land. It beats getting your wife all sleety with diamonds and planting her in a box at the opera; beats it to death, for there's only one genuine, yellow-label grand opera in this country, and there are roads almost every place; the opera Is only seventeen weeks at best, and the program of the Metropolitan Opera House, with its list of box-hold erswhy, for all folks know, you might save up for that, whereas the automobile Is a continuous expense, winter and summer, week in and week out." A Veteran. A member of the bar of Baitimor relates bow a witness in a trial suit in that city once "got back" at the lawyer who had been endeavoring to "rattle" the witness by a severe crossexamination. At a certain point In the proceedings the witness suddenly Interrupted the cross-examining lawyer by exclaiming "Look here! You needn't think you kin rattle me by askln all them ques tions." "No?" was the sarcastic rejoinder. "No, slrree!" came In empliatlc tone from the refractory witness. "Your questions don't bother me at all. Ure raised three sons an' two grandsons, an I've been In training a good many vears." Harper's Weekly. Overshot the 31 ark. Mrs. Houston I don't believe yoii ever want to work. Weary Willie Oh, honest, lady, many's the time. But I'm such a streu uous feller that every time I start tei go ter work I go clean past It d?hlladclphia Tress. Writing- by Proxy. Newman The idea of saying that Penman doesn't write the books that are published over his name ! Why, he keeps two secretaries busy ! Crlticus Yes, one writing and th other dictating. Translated for Tale? from Le Figaro,

Gown of Sheer Material. The two designs Illustrated show gowns of thin material for afternoon or evening wear, both models being very pretty ones for organdie, mull, wash cbiffon or any of the thin silk muslins, et cetera, so much in vogue this season. Both of the gowns sketched were made up without a lining, and. although not very expensive as to material, were quite elaborately Inlet 'and trimmed with lace. The first sketch shows a gown of cream white silk mull, which come- at about 30 cents a yard, 12 yards being required. The bodice had smart little touches of black velvet, which gave the frock a very Frenchy air, and was trimmed with Inch-wide Valenciennes lace, with a little narrow edging to match, and a strip of two or four inch wide Irish lace insertion. The upper part of the bodice had narrow Valenciennes lace Inserted, as shown In the drawing, about sections of cross tucking, forming a sort of flat yoke, und there were two tiny little revc-rs of black velvet, edged with plait ed valenclennes edging in the middle of the front. Just below the collar. The sleeves were very short, full puffs, set Into a rather deep-fitted upper sleeve of the Irish lace, edged with valen clennes frills and trimmed with a row of black velvet buttons. The skirt was made with a gathered flounce set on under insertion, as shown in the 6ketch, the lace being inset to give a panel effect In front. About the bottom of the flounce section were four rows of the narrow Valenciennes insertion, with a band of the Irish lace Inset. The second figure shows a frock of pale blue organdie, trimmed with rather wide cream-colored Mechlin lace, and a few figures of heavier lace, this combination of thin lace with the heavier lace being very fashionable. The bodice had a strip of the heavier lace set down the middle of the front to the bust line, this lace being fagoted to tucked strips of the organdie. Ou each side of this pointed strips of the wide Insertion were set In, frills of edging lace to match, edging this upier trimming, as a study of the figure will explain. Figures of the heavier lace were set In across the shoulder seams, and the lower part of the full bodice was banded around with a strip of the Insertion. The sleeves had tucked cap-like upior parts, edged with Insertion, and finished with a circular frill, trimmed with rov.s of narrow lace over a transparent lace puff, the girdle being of shirred ribbon to, match the frock. The Fklrt was tucked about the upper part and was made Iu five gores, with deep tucks as trimming, there being five tucks about the bottom, with n band of Insertion above and three tucks In the second group, topied by a second band of lace. The little hat had a rather high crown and was of white Neapolitan, trimmed with n pale blue plume and mallne and a single large creamy pink rose, with foliage. Always Keep Faith. Many a woman, who would not think of lightly breaking a promise made to a grown-up person, Is utterly careless about keeping her word with her children. She promises whatever Is convenient at the moment, and apparently thinks that the breaking or keeping of those promises Is a matter in which she can please herself, and that her children have no right to consider themselves aggrieved If she does not do so. A mother who acts thus does her child grievous harm. She forgets that the sense of Justice is strong In quite a little child, and that It Is natural and reasonable that he should exject his parents to be as good as their word, and to fulfill their promises even at the cost of convenience. Promises should rot be lightly broken, and the parent ho is guilty of this soon loses her children's confidence, which Is one of the sweetest things our little ones can give us. When boys and girls learn to doubt their parents truthfulness, they soon look around for someone else whom they can trust, and on that person they shower their affections and bestow their confidence. Advice to Drides. A great many bridegrooms are like Jelly. It Is only when they begin to grow cold that they become set In their ways, says a writer In Good Housekeer leg. It Is always wise, therefore, f(r

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the bride to reniem!er this and while there is yet time to mold him'into the proper form for future keeping. I woull admonish all brides, therefore, to obey their own blind Instincts and to train up their husbands in the way they should go. Mere man thinks he knows something and he is Inclined to act upon this fatal assumption too often. . The bride, however, does not know she divines, and she should hold him sternly fast to her intuition, selecting for him the things that he needs or doesn't feeding him on the things that are good for him or are not taking him to the places where he is anxious to go or isn't and, in short doing for him all the things that he likes or doesn't like in the firm assurance that her own sweet incompetence is by far the best guide.

A Wife's Duties. When a womau marries she undertakes certain duties and should fill then to the very best of her abilities, ay& the Philadelphia Press. Marriage was never intended to be one-sided, though this fact seems oftentimes .to be overlooked; but it takes two to niake a contract. On her part she should try and spend her husband's funds to the very best advantage. Never to get into debt To see that the home is always kept clean and well ordered. To bring up the children properly. To keep them well fed. well clothed an J, above all, healthy in body and mind. Never to allow any 'waste In the housekeeping department. To see that all food Is of good quality, well cooked and set before the family In the most appetizing form possible. Always to be clothed leconilugly and according to her station. In fact, to be the real head of the home, with wisdom far above rubles. Caring for all, advising and directing aii. Not to forget the poor dumb beasts, ont to see that they also have their meat and drink and shelter. That the children do not abuse them. To think more of things- than of people and to avoid gossip and criticism of her acquaintances. What the Hair Tells. Auburn hair means a kindly, sympathetic nature. Straight hair indicates more power to govern than curly hair. Curls denote a feeble sense of right and wrong, gayety, vivacity, self-confidence. Straight black hair, growing coarse and thick. Indicates more order and In dustry than mental power.'Fine brown hair only accompanies excellent minds; generally the owner has Intellectual tendencies. . Hair and eyebrows differing In color are said to mean uutrustworthiuess. They bespeak a wavering, unsteady nature. Bed hair is strongly characteristic no half-way business there. It usually indicates a quick temper, though there are exceptions. Beautiful golden hair Is rarely seen on persons of gross nature. Its owner loves fine arts and possesses exquisite sen-dbllitles. ' ' ' As a rule, smooth, fine, softly waving hair betokens gentleness, quietness, neatues. Unduly 1 sleek, straight hair gives warning of slyness, hypocrisy. Don'ti for Readers. Don't forget to return a look when lent. Don't turn down leaves at the corners . Don't leave a book lying face downward. i Don't handle A took except with clean hands. Don't cut leaves with any knife but the proper piiper knife. Don't, when opening a book, be rough and pull the leaves apart too quickly, let them open gently. Don't get a book from the bookcase by the binding at the top; take It from the middle of the back. Marrying Well. We often hear It said that So-an-So has "married well." What Is meant? That she bas married a man with money'; oftentimes has married money with a. man. By general usage the phrase has coaie to possess this extremely limited meaning. When a girl gives herself to a young man who is rich only In character, energy and a good name, do we say that she has "married well?" It would seem time to reform either our Ideals, our rhetoric or both.

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What is the usual standard of measurement for men in our land? Is It not money? When a man dies, and we ask, "What was he worth?" we mean, "How much wealth did he accumulate in his lifetime?" We are not inquiring concerning his true "worth." according to the ancient and honorable definition of the word. In the very inquiry, therefore, we voice the prevailing sordidness of the age. It is his flnaucial value, that is his "worth." A girl may "marry well" though her husband be not rich in this world's goods ; a man may be "worth' much without two coins to clink together. A more Intelligent use of ' these terms would In itself be a potent protest against the modern worship of Mammon.

Woman and the Church. "Take woman's treatment by the Christian church," says The Woman's Home Companion. "To-day it Is easy to understand why many women have half deserted church work for club work. Inasmuch as for centuries men did all the preaching and women most of the practicing, largely through missionary societies devoted to heathen on the other side of the earth. "This 'religious' record was most secular, to say the least. The council of Macon, composed of fifty-nine bishops, seriously considered whether woman had a soul, bdt by, a majority of one decreed that she had. Later one Christian sect declared that woman would have to be transformed into a man before she could be resurrected. . Then the saints called her all sorts of vituperative names. St Bernard said that woman was 'the organ of the devil. St Cyprian characterized her as 'the instrument of the devil St. John Damascene denounced her as 'the daughter of falsehood, and St. Gregory the Great said, 'Woman has the poison of the asp, the malic of the dragon.' St Taul's milder edict, 'It is a shame for a woman to speak in the church,' has until lately prevented the fair sex from securing any representative within the secred precincts. She was not permitted to sing in the choirs or to speak In the pulpit. To-day the only church which recognizes the absolute equality of men and women is the Orthodox Friends, though the recent establishment of the 'house of churchwomen by the Episcopal church is a step toward universal religious equality." Pretty Simmer Hat.' An exceedingly attractive small hat for wear with summer gowns is suggested in the accompanying sketch. It Is fine white straw, 1 low crown and upturned brim thJ former encircled with pale green tulle, a double choux of which trims the left side. A large pink rose Is placed directly in the center of the choux and there Is a pretty arrangement of tulle at the back resting on '.3 .V V the hair. She Remembered. A little girl was out walking with her aunt1 one day. Tho aunt bowed 'to a man they were passing. "Who is he, Aunt Jennie?" asked the little girl. Mrs. LIttlefield told her that he was Mr. Melrose, the village undertaker. "Oh, yes," replied the child, quickly, "I remember him. He undertook my grandmother." Harper's Bazar. , Gras Uns Are Popular. Small grass rugs make a sufficient floor covering, or, if the floors are nicely finished, they may be left entirely bare. For any furniture that is upholstered make coverings, not funereal looking affairs of brown holland, but pretty ones of cretonne In a dainty design, that doesn't cost very much, and that adds to rather than takes away from the attractiveness of the room. Knots In Cotton. To prevent knots In cotton while se'wing always thread your needle before cutting the length of cotton from the reel. This will prevent both knots and twisting. Furniture Polish. To make cheap furniture polish get one pennyworth of linseed oil, one ditto vinegar, one ditto turpentine. Put into a bottle. Shake before using ; then polish with a dry cloth. The Sanctities of Life. Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be, As more of heaven in each we see; Some softeuing gleam of love and prayer Shall dawn on. every cross and care. John Keble.

The Duke of Devonshire possesses Claude Lorraine's "Book of Truths." It Is worth six times as much as the Mazarln" Bible, the most valuable look in the British Museum. The late Duke refused an offer of $100,000 for it Ibsen is said neyer to have written anything unless he had a tray of little toys on the desk before him. Among these toys were a wooden bear, a wooden figure of Mephistopheles. two cats, one playing a fiddle, and some Votton flannel rabbits. A list of Ibsen's Important works In order of publication follows : "Cati line," 1849 ; "The Warrior's Mound," 1S50; "St John's Night" 1851; 'The Banquet at Solhang," 1S3G; "Lady In ger of Ostraat," 1S57; "The Vikings of Helgeland," 1S58; "On the Mountain Plains," 1SG0;, "Love's Comedy,!' 1SC2; "The Pretenders," 1SG4; "Brand," 1SG6; 'Peer Cynt" 1SG7; "The League of Youth," 1SG9; "Emperor and Galilean 1873; "The Pillars of Society," 1877; A Doll's House," 1879 ; "Ghosts." 1881; "An Enemy of the People," 1SS2; 'The Wild Duck," 1SS4 ; "Rosmerholm." 1SS3 ; "The Lady from the Sea," 18S8 ; "Hedda Gabler," 1S90; "Master Builder Solness," 1892; "Little Eyolf." 1S94; ' TsVit-i Oat-trial Pirl-TyKin " 1 CV? trnrf "When We Dead Awaken," 1900. In a recent survey of American liter ature George Moore found only three commendable writers Poe, Walt Whit man and Edgar Saltus. In praising Saltus he remarked that he is not noTT read. But It would be difficult for Saltus to be read. It Is not that the de mand for his books Is lacking or that I they are what Is termed out of print Their publication has been legally en joined. Saltus is the author of at least two dozen books. Of these twenty were handled by a bouse that failed. From the ruins a new company emerged. Saltus objected to Its methods, ne continued to object until the court of appeals, in sustaining him, restrained the company from further publication of his wares. Then and since other houses offered to take them over. But Saltus, regarding them as Juvenlla, de clined to allow them to reappear. That Is why be Is not read, ne is beginning again, however, and the first of a series of new novels has Just been published. It Is called "Vanity Square," and is a story of 5th avenue Ufa Professor W. J. Rolfe has written a long Introduction to Miss Elizabeth Wllder's translation of Karl Werder study of "Hamlet This extraordinary piece of German criticism must now be regarded as one of the landmarks of the literature that Is devoted to a study of the Prince of Denmark. It has won over to Its point of view Shakspearean critics of the first rank, among them Furness, Corson and Hudson. Werder advances, and, it would seem, triumphantly champions, the theory that that Hamlet's Inaction and procrastination were forced upon him by circumstances which were beyond his control. He vehemently denies and utterly dismisses the theory that weakness of will, or any subjective cause, paralyzed the hand of the prince. -For Werder and for those. who accept his conclusions this play Is seen in a new light. It becomes a tragedy of fate, and can no longer be regarded as a tragedy of character In accordance with the views of Coleridge, Goethe and other critics. Werder's essay, now for the first time appearing In English, will not fall tc engage the attention, of all students ot Shakspeare. w Standards of Speed. The old simile of a "mile a minute" U no longer of any use in describing a rapid gait It is as slow as standstill in the eyes of many of this day and generation. Our fathers and our grandfathers thought they struck a record gait when they did anything that entitled them to measure Its swiftness by this standard, but to their motoring descendants a pace must be two miles a minute or it Is not worth mentioning. And no one claims to be wise as to how long this will be considered good enough. Not for many years, one may say. Judging by events In the automobile world. For, of course, automobile time is standard now; no one really expects to get anywhere with his watch standardized by figures set down by race horses and great locomotives. Boston Transcript. Carious Seating- Plaee. At the beginning of last winter, says the London Globe, a cocoamit, with a small hole pierced at the top, was fastened with wire In a tree at the residence of Mr. Ramsden, colliery proprietor, Hilton lane, Walkden, near Manchester, for the benefit of a tomtit which made Its winter home In Mr. Ramsden's garden. After eating the whole of the contents of the nut, the Ingenious bird 1 has now plucked the hairy fiber from the nutshell, and taken it Inside tbe nut for a nest Pampered. Hannibal had ordered the elephants io the front. They refuse to work unless we feed them peanuts and the supply has Iven out," the Carthaginian lieutenant explained. "This comes of loaning 'em to the circus," grumbled the great commander. "Don't do It again." And the battle went on. Cleveland rialn Dealer. A Mohammedan Custom. The Mohammedans have the custom, when they receive a present, of thanking God first, then the giver. If you do them, e favor they will eay, "I thank God for your kindness to me." Som may comply rather thoughtlessly wlfci this custom, which they have Inherited from their fathers, but many certainJy sav It wit hthelr whole heart. Sudden Recovery. Miss Dash You used to be so dreadfully troubled with drowsiness. Have you ever got over It? Mrs. Rash Yes, unfortunately. The wall paper our landlord has put on my bedroom keeps me awake nights. Detroit Free Press. Three Times a Day. New Cow What kind of fodder do you get here? Horse Breakfast food, principally. Every time the family hears of a new variety they feed us what is left of the old! Detroit Free Press. Then He Went to Red. Toor old Prof. Thlnkard went home the other night, and he knew there was something he wanted to do, but he couldn't think what It was." Before a little girl in school bas left the primer her mother Is telling tlve neighbors that Ehe is "SO ambltloux"

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RISIC MEN' GET TKIPLE SALARIK Foor Officials of State Life Drevr $20,000 Each In 1005. The investigation of the State Life Insurance Company by the Auditor of State is said to have disclosed the fact that tbe four principal officers of the company had drawn triple salaries in 190r a officers, as directors and as members of the executive committee the three aggregating 20,000 yearly for each man. The practice was discontinued at the beginning of the present year, wbn the revelations in the New York insurance investigation created a furore. The men who re alleged to hare drawn the triplicate salaries in 1005 were Andrew M. Sweeney, president of the company: Samuel Quinr' vice president and agency inan-r-ger;' Charles F. Coffin, general couns?!, and W. -S. Wynn, secretary and actuary. Each received a salary of $1.000 that went with his office, and in addition salaries of $1.500 and $2.yX, one as director of the. company and the othr as a member of the executive committee. All of these men are said "to have admitted that they had received these three salaries during 1003. TOSS COIX FOR A2C OFFICE. Marlon Maror- Makes Applicants Gamble for Job, The deaih cf Dr. A. II. Combs, secretary of the city board of health of Marion, creat-! a vacancy in the office which Mayor Field W.' Swezey found necessary ro fill at once. Dr. O. W. McQuown and V E. O. Harrold. both friends of Mayor Swezey. were applicants for the office. The Mayor could not chooe between them, and offered to divide the appointment between thenv civiag each twentyone months of the three years and six months of the unexpired term of the deceased secretary. This was agreed to, but the question as to who was to get the t first twenty-one months was another serious matter for the Mayor to decide. He told the two doctors to toss up a coin, one to select beads, the orther tails. Mo Quown won the toss and will be secretary thi) first twenty-one months. PASTOR DIE IX KXFLOSIO. Minister and Coin pac Inn Arr ICIlleJ When Carbide Clows Uiy While the Rev. D. J. Levis was arranging to give an exhibition of moving pictures in Greenwood, a 'JO-gallon cirbi'? exploded, instantly killing him and George McMenus, who was standing ne.7. and seriously injuring Harry E. Levi, eon of the minister. A two-story fraise etruo tuie near the tent in which the explosion occurred -vaa partially wrecked. The Rev. Mr. Levi! was thrown fifty feet by the explosion. One arm was completely torn away. Attacked br Dull. Mrs. John W. Pottinger, w ife of a Trcllknown farmer, while in the barnyard at her home near Laporte, was attacked by a bulL She was knocked down before she was aware of the animal's approach and, elthough partially unconscious, she managed to evade the bull's horns. She was rolled over several time. Her cries brought her husband to the cen? and the anhnal was driven away with a pitchfork. Storms In State Do l?amae. . A cloudburst with an electric Ptora visited Shelby ville. Water a foot d?en fell in five minutes, doing much dataag? o factories and other property in the ' city. No lives were lost. One of the iu3ät severe ain and electrical storms of the season passed over Evansville and southern Indiana, doing considerable damage. Great damage h reported to wheat in shock and to growing crops. Lire AVI re Kills Odcer. A live wire which had become charged in some mysterious manner not yet understood by expert electricians killed Patrolman Edward Dolby of the Indianapolis police department and badly shocked several other members of the police department. Officer Dolby had just inrted hi key into a Gamewell signal box when he was thrown to the ground, shocked to death. ; Jenlons Husband Shoots Preacher. Rev. Lemuel Ilobson, a minister of the United Brethren Church, was 'h.t and fatally wounded et midnight the other night by A. V. White, of Mitchell, at whose home the preacher hid boarded For a year. White was jalu3 of Rev. Mr. Hobson's attentions to his wife, accusing the minister of ruining his home. Thresher Hniclne Explodes. By the explosion of the boiler f a threshing machine at the Cannlgham farm near Princeton, Henry EisMder, the engineer, was blown 25 feet and terribly burned. The separator, straw stack and sixty sicks of wheat were destroyed by a fire which followed the explosion. Lynvllle Is Darned. Fire supposed to have been of Incendiary origin destroyed the town of Lynnville, wf 1.000 population, causing a loss of $-'00,000. Twenty-two buildings wer burned. Wltbitt Our Dordrra. George XcwbiU-n, 10, was drowned ia a stone quarry west of Peru. Th boy was overcome by cramps and sank ia 13 feet of water. . George Plakeit, a weli-to-do fanner who lived a short distance fron Jefferson ville, was inantlyv killed by a lightning bolt that came from a practically clear sky. John Young, aged 23, was drowned ia the Ohio river at Boonville while learn- , ing to swim. Reuben Duncan, aged 12 years was smothered to death by wheat at the Wiliiams & Sons elevator at Sandusky. Jacob Boettinger, aged CO, a well-known ciÜJten of Evansville, committed suicide by hanging himself. His mind was unba'anced. Conductor Gifford was missed from Ms train thirty miles west of Marion the other day. The train was backed to Marion and the body found floating in the river three tniles east of Marion. Lightning struck th. grain elevator of George C. Woods at CurtisvilJe. The elevator burned, with IVOOO bushels of wh-at and 1,000 bushels of corn. The loss exceeds $10,000, with small insurance. Irene Dyer, aged 21, of Jacksonville, attempted to commit suicide with poison, but the doctors probably saved her life. A btoken marriage engagement with a young man named Moffett of BlomSeIJ is said to have been the caus. Jam s Lauterdale, TO, and Varissa L. C. Chinn, 00, owners of SOO acres of land lying side by side, were married iu Boonville. Lauterdale told a neizhhor that he needed a cook, and Mrs. Chinn proposed to him, so it is said. Alexander Johns, aged 70, of Boonville was struck by an Evansvllle-Boon-vilie nactioi car and illed. Bert Campbell, a traveling salesman of Chicago committed suicide in the Altos hotel ia Valparaiso by taking morphine. He was despondent over poor business. He was ."S years old. What is said to be the largest c,ut!y deal in the history of the ounty ws made when Milser & Weaver of Frankfort sold to the buyers for Swift & Co. L"01 head of fancy cattle and V) head of los. The Frankfort men received $11,000 for the live stock, which went to the packing houses nt Haneburg, Pa., aci New York City.

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