Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 18, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 February 1907 — Page 3

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CIIAPTEU XXV. (Continued.) Kitty danced for a littl time, but was too. much agitated to enjoy the valse, in wpite of the admirable partner Mr. Vandelonp made. She stopped abruptly, and insisted on Vandeloup taking her to the conservatory. "What for?" he asked, as they threaded their way through the crowded room. "Is it imponant? "Very," she replied, looking straight ta him: "it is essential to our comedy." "My faith ! he murmured, as they entered the fernery, "this comedy is becoming monotonous." The fernery was a huge glass building on one side of the ball roou, filled with Australian and New Zealand ferns, and having a large fountain ia the center sendir.g up a sparkling jet of water, which fell into the shallow stone basin filled with water lilies and their pure wnite flowers. "Well," said Vandeloup amiably, as he sank into a seat beside Kitty, "what is this great rutter you wish to speik about?" "Madame Mid&s," retorted Kitty, looking straight at him. "Such a delightful subject," murmured Gaston, closing his eyes, as he guessed what was coming; "go on, I'm all attention." "You are going to find some way to divorce me and marry her," said Miss March urst, bending towards him and closing her fan with a snap. "You don't say so? Who told you this news for news it is to me, I assure you." "Then it's not true?" added Kitty, eagerly, witl a kind of gasp. "I'm sure I don't know," he replied. "I haven't aked her yet. Don't talk so loud, mv dear : it doesn't do to let every one know your private business." "It's private now," she said, in a voice of passion, "but it will soon be public enough." "Indeed ! which paper do you advertise In?" "Listen to me Saston," she said, taking ro notice of his sneer ; "you will never mar.-y Madame Midas; sooner than that, I will reveal all and kill myself." "You forget," he said, gently; "it is xmlr, not tragedy, we play." Having given Kitty over to the tender care of Mrs. Rolleston, Vandeloup went back into the conservatory, and, sitting down in his old place, commenced to review the position. If he could only stop Kitty's mouth in some way persuasion was thrown away on her. If he could with safety get rid of her he world. Ah! that was an idea. He had soiue poison if he could only manage to give it to her, and thus remove her from his path. It was a pity to kill her", so young and pretty, and yet his safety demanded it; for if she told Madame Midas al2, i might lead to further inquiries, and M. "Vandeloup well knew his past life would not bear looking into. Well, if he had to get rid of her, the sooner he did so the better, for even on the next day she might tell all he woald have to give her the poison that night but how? that -was the difficulty. lie could not do it at this ball, as It would be too apparent if she died no it would have to be administered secretly when she went home. But then she would go to Madame Midas' room to see how she was, and then would retire to her own room. He knew where that was just off Mrs. Villiers' room; there were French windows in both rooms two in Mrs. Villiers' and one in Kitty's. That was the plan they would be left open, as the night was hot. Suppose he went down to St. Kilda, and got into the garden he knew every inch of the way then he could slip into the open window, and if It was not open- he could use a diamond ring to cut the glaus. He had a diamond ring he never wore, so if Kitty was discovered to be poisoned, and the glass cut, they would never suspect him, as he did not wear rings at all, and the evidence at a cut window would show a diamond must have been used. 'Well, suppose he got inside, Kitty would be asleep, and he could put the poison into the water caraffe, or he could put it in a glass of water and leave it standing. He might get Party to assist him. When M. Vandeloup bad come to this conclusion he arose, feeling a little nervjns over tie crime he was about to commit. He thought he would give Kitty one. !ast chance, so when she was nearly Cloaked, waiting with Mrs. Riller for the carriage, he drew her aside. "You did not mean what you said tonight," he whispered, looking searchingly at her. -Yes, I did" she replied defiantly; "if you push me to extremities you must take the consequences." "It will be the worse for you," he said, threateningly, as the carriage drove up. "I'm not afraid of you," she retorted, shrugging her shoulders, a trick she had learned from him ; "you hare ruined my life, but I m not going to let you ruin Madame's. I'd sooner see her dead." "Remember I have warned you," he aJd gravely, handing h ;r to the carriage. "Good night!" "Good night!" she answered, mockingly ; "to-morrow," in a low voice, "you will be astonished." "And to-morrow," h$ said to himself, as the carriage drovj off, "you will be dead." CHAPTER XXVI. Madame Midas was not by any means of a nervous temperament, yet ever since the disappearance of her husban she was a prey to a secret dread, which, reacting on her nerves, rendered her miserable. Had Mr. Villiers only appeared she would have known how to deal with him, and done so promptly, but it was his absence that made her afraid. Was he dead? If 0, why was his body not found; if he was not dead why did he not reappear on the scene? , "Are my troubles never going to end?" she said to Selina on the night of the Meddlechip ball, as she passed restlessly op and down her room; "this man haj embittered the whole of my life, and now he is stabbing me in the dark." "Let the dead past bury its dead," quoted Selina, who was arranging the room for the night. "Pshaw!" retorted Madame, impatiently, walking to the French window at the end of the room and opening it ; "how do you know he is dertd? Come here, Selina," she went on, beckoning to the old woman, and pointing outside to the garden bathed in moonlight; "I have always a dread lest he nay be wairhiag the house. Even now he may be concealed yonder" pointing down the garden. "You've left the window open," remarked Selina, looking at her mistress, "and if you are nervous it will not make you feel safe." Madame Midas glanced at the window. "It's so hot," she said, plaintively, "I will get no sleep. Can't you manage to fix it np, so that I can leave it open?" "I'll try," answered Selina, and she undressed her mistress and put her to bed, then proceeded to fix up a kind of burglar trap. The bed was a four-poster, with heavy crimson curtains, and the top was pushed against the wall, near the window. The curtains of the window and those of the bed prevented any draught blowing in: and directly in front of the window Sella set a small wood table, so that any

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one who tried to enter would throw it over, and thus put the sleeper on the alert. On this she put a night light, a book, in case Madame should wake up and want to read, and a glass of home-made lemonade, for a night drink. Then she locked the other window and drew the curtains and. after going into Kitty's room, which opened off the larger one, and fixing up the one window there in the same way, she prepared t retire, but Madame stopped her. "You must stay all night with me, lina," she said, irritably. "I can't be left alone." Selina slept on the outside of the bed, and Madame having a sense of -security from being with some one, slumbered calmly ; so the night wore drowsily on. and nothing could be heard but the steady ticking of the clock and the heavy breathing of the two women. A sleepy servant admitted Kitty when she came home from the ball. Kitty found Madame's door ajar, and vent in softly, fearful lest she might rake her. She did not know that Selina was in the room, and as she heard the steady breathing of the sleepers, she concluded that Madame was asleep, and resolved to go quietly into her own room without disturbing the sleeper. Just near the door was a long chevral glass, and Kitty caught sight of herself in it, wan and spectral-looking, in her white dress, and, as she let the heavy blue cloak fall from her shoulders, a perfect shower of apple blossoms were shaken on to the floor. Her hair had come undone from its sleek, smooth plaits, and non hung like a veil over her shoulders. She looked closely at herself in the glass, and her face looked worn and haggard in the dim light. He was going to marry Madame Midas the man who had ruined her life ; he would tell her all the false tales he had told her. He would look into her eyes with his own, and she would be unable to see the treachery and guile hidden in their depths. She could not stand it. False friend, false husband, he had been, but to see him married to another no! it was too much. And yet what could she do? A woman in love believes so ill of the man she adores, and if she was to tell Madame Midas all she would not be believed. Ah ! it was useless to fight against fate, it was too strong for her, so she would have to suffer in silence, and see them happy. How still the house was; not a sound but the ticking ot the clock in the hall. The dawn reddens faintly in the east and the chill morning breeze comes up from the south, salt with the odors of the ocean.' Ah! what is that? a scream a woman's voice then another, and the bell rings furiously. The frightened servants collect from all parts of the house. The bell sounds from the bedroom of Mrs. Villiers, and having ascertained this they all rush in. What a sight meets their eyes. Kitty Marehrust, still in her ball dress, clinging convulsively to the chair; Madame Midas, pale but calm, ringing the bell; and on tie bed, with one arm hanging over, lies StHna Sprotts dead! The table near the bed was overturned on the Soor, and the glas and the night lamp both lie smashed to pieces on the carpet. "Send for a doctor at once," cried Madame, letting go the bell rope and crossing to the window; "Selina has had a fit of some sort." Startled servant goes out to stables and wakes up the grooms, one of whom is soon on horseback riding for dear life to Dr. Chinston. Clatter clatter along in the keen morning air; a few workmen on their way to work gaze in surprise at this furiois rider. Luckily, the doctor lives in St. Kilda, and being awakened out of his sleep, dresses himself quickly, and taking the groom's horse, rides back to Mrs. Villiers' house. He dismounts, enters the house, then the bedroom. Kitty, pale and wan, is seated in the chair; the window curtains are drawn, and the eold light of day pours into the room, while Madame Midas i? kneeling .beside, the corpse, with all the servants around her. Dr. Chinston lifts the arm; it falls limply down. The face is ghastly white, the ey sti .ring; there is a streak of foam on the tigatly clenched mouth. The doctor puts his hand on the heart not a throb ; he closes the starin eye reverently and turns to the kneeling woman and the frightened servants. "She Is dead," he says briefly, and orders them to leave the room. "When did this occur, Mrs. Villiers?" he asked, when the room had been cleared and only himself, Madame and Kitty remained. I can't tell you," replied Madame, weeping; "she was all right last night when we .went to bed, and she stayed all night with me because I was nervous. I slept soundly, when I was awakened by a cry and saw Kitty standing beside the bed and Selina in convulsions; then she became quite still and lay like that till you came. What is the cause?" "Apoplexy," repl'ed the doctor, doubtfully; "at least, judging from the symptoms; but perhaps Miss March urst can tell us when the attack came on." He turned to Kitty, who was shivering in the chair and looked so pale that Madame Midas went over to her to see what was the matter. The girl, however, shrank away with a cry as the elder woman approached, and rising to her feet moved unsteadily toward the doctor. "You say she," pointing to the body, "died of apoplexy?" "Yes," he answered, curtly, "all the symptoms of apoplexy are there." "You are wrong !" gasped Kitty, laying her hand on his arm. "it is poison!" "Poison T echoed Madame and the doctor in surprise. "Listen," said Kitty, quickly, pulling herself together by a great effort. "I came home from the ball between 2 and 3; I entered the room to go to my own," pointing to the other door. "I did not know Selinr. was with Madamv" "No" said Madame, quietly, "that is true. I only asked her to stop at the last moment." "I was going quietly to bed," resumed Kity, hurriedly, "in order not to waken Madame, when I saw the portrait of M. Vandelonp on the table; I took it up to look at it." "How could you see without a light?" asked Dr. Chinston sharply, looking at her. "There was a night light burning," replied Kitty, pointing to the fragments on the floor; "and I could only guess it was M. Vandeloup's portrait; but at all events," she said, quickly, "I sat down in the chair over there and fell asleep." "You see, doctor," sne had been to a ball and was tired," interposed Madame Midas; "but go on, Kitty, I want to know why you say Selina was poisoned." "I don't know how long I was asleep," said Kitty, "but I was awakened by a noise at the window there," pointing toward the window, upon which both her listeners turned toward it, "and looking, I saw a hand coming out from behind the curtain with a bottle in it; it held the bottle over the glass on the table, and after pouring the contents In, withdrew." "And why did you not cry out for assistance?" asked the doctor, quickly. "I couldn't," she replied, "I was so afraid that I fainted. I recovered my senses, Selina had drank the poison, and when I got np on my feet and went to the bed she was in convulsions; I woke Madame, and that's all."

"A strange story," said Chinston, musingly, "where is the glass?" "It is broken, doctor," replied Madam Midas; "in getting out of bed I knocked the table down, and both the night lamp and glass smashed." "No one could have been concealed behind the cur ain of the window?" said the doctor to Madame Midas. "No," she replied, "but the window was open all night ; so if it is as Kitty says, the man who gave the poison must have put his hand through the open window." Dr. Chinston vent to the window and looked out; there were no marks of feet on the flower bed, where it was so soft that any one standing on it would have

rieft a foot mark behind. "Strange," said the doctor, "it a peculiar story," looking at Kitty keenly. "I Jut a true one," she replied boldly, th color coming back to her face ; "I say she was poisoned." "P.y whom?" asked Madame Midas, the memory of her husband coming back to her. "I can't tell you." answered Kitty, "I on3' saw the hand." "At all events," said Chinston, slowly, "the poisoner did not know that your nurse was with you. so the poison was meant for Mrs. Villiers." "For me?" she echoed, ghastly pale: "I knew it my husband is alive, and this is his work." (To be continued.) STRANGE CHECKS. The Odd Ainortment Collected by One Hank Clerk. A torn linen collar, a piece of lath, a cuff and a half dozen other odd objects hung above the bank clerk's desk. "My collection of queer checks," the youug man said. "Each of those things is a check. Each was duly honored. Each has a story. "I have been collecting qu-er checks for three years. That piece of lath started me. A western bank honored the lath for $230. It was made out a cheek by the owner of a sawmill, who was out at the plant with his son. thirty wiles from any house, and totally without paper, let alone a check book. The money was needed to pay' off the hands. The sawiniller wrote on the lath Just what a check correctly draun has on it, and he sent his son in to the bank to get the money and to explain. The lath check was honored after some discussion among the bank's officers. "The cuff check was drawn by an actor who had become slightly Intoxicated, got Into a fight and been arrested, lie was treated cavalierly in his cell. They wouldn't give him any paper, and he bribed a boy to tike the check to a bank. The boy sot the money, and with it the actor paid his fine. Otherwise he'd have been jailed for ten days. Thus the cuff check may be said to have saved a man from prison. "The check written on that linen collar won a bet of $5. A man bet a woman that a check made on a collar would be cashed, and of course he won his bet "Your bank, if you carry a good account, will honor the most freaky checks you can draw up. In such monkey business, though, It won't encourage you." Chicago Chronicle. WHEN IT RAINED SOME. Crowd Around Country Store Listen to Amazing Tales. Each man around the store had told his tale of the "hardest ram he ever saw fall out of the sky." Tom Limklns was an easy winner with his of the great harvest rain In 03. "It began with big drops kinder scatterln like," he said. "Then It got to a shower, and I Just thought I'd crawl under the canvas on the reaper till it was over knowed the team would stand. But, fcir, when the lightning took to hittln' right at that binder I concluded to get out from there. I had a gallon-and-a-half bucket on my arm and I lit out for the mule shed. When I was about half way there the thing began to get heavy. I looked down, and if the blamed thing wasn't full of water I'm a " The lank individual who had been leaning against a barrel broke in: "Well, now, I reckon that must 'a been, the day I'm thlnkln' about What made me know It was rainln some was seein' a flock of wild ducks go over. Gents, tbeni ducks had folded their wings and was Just naturally padiinV For the space of two minutes not a sound was heard sjjve the purring: of the cat asleep on the counter. Then, silently, with bowed heads, the crowd dispersed. Woman's ILime Companion. Egyptian Onion. Egypt has been regarded by some people as the laud of pyramids and mummies only, but It has from time immemorial had a reputation for onions. Ancient Egyptians swore by the onion and regarded the plant as secred. The Inscription on the pyramid e.f Cheops tells us that the workmen had onions given to them, and from the Bible we learn that the Hebrews, when slaves under Pharaoh, enjoyed these bulbs, and that when far away they remembered "the leeks and the onions and the garlic." The Egyptian onion is a handsome and useful vegetable, and by selecting the best strains of seed the quality tends, year by year, to improve. The Egyptian knows two varieties, the "Baali" and the "MIskaoul," but supplies of the latter kind are seldqm sent abroad, as they absorb so much moisture from the frequently Irrigated ground In which they are grown they they do not stand a sea voyage well. The "Baali" onlou is the more popular Egyptian onion and Is grown In yellow soli, which Is sparingly watered while the bulbs are maturing, In order that the colons may stand a lengthy sea voyage with little risk of sprouting. Smiling Orer the Dar, "He has such a smiling countenance." "What? The man's face is a regular sight. What with the rum blossom and " "Well, it's his continual smiling that has made his face that way." Philadelphia Press. A Care Needed. Mrs. Nexdore -I've been thinking of ! having my daughter's voice cultivated. Would you? Mrs. Knox By all means. If you have tried every other remedy. Philadelphia Ledger. Kpiiled lila liest. Green I ate a piece of mine; pie for breakfast last Sunday. But never again for yours truly. Brown What was the result? Green I had a nightmare In church. Even if you do a good thing well, you will hear more complaints than compliments. Does a goody-good man like to see another man In trouble, or la he grieved?

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Work Should Tie Systematized. An Inexperienced young housekeeper who for the first time tries to manage a home, doing much, if not all, of the work herself, will find no end of difficulties cleared away if she will systematize her dally tasks. The system is only regularity, doing in order all of the things that are necessary, so that before she realizes it everything is done, and there is leisure to read, sew or visit. Much less time is consumed In the work, far less 1 nervous energy, and one's temper is saved no end. To begin with. If a woman does not keep a maid, she should so arrange her work that by noon certainly. If not before, it Is all done, and the rest of the day she has to herself. Of course, breakfast Is the first away. Many housekeepers bring the dishes from the table into the kitchen as soon as the meal is over, but I do not believe in this, because there Is alrendy confusion in the kitchen, and more dishes simply add to It. Leave the breakfast table as It Is and. return to the, kitchen. Begin there by washing the pots and kettles that have been used, and then wash whatever cups, spoons and the like that has been used In preparing the meal. They are, of course, kitchen utensils, and so may be put away as soon as cleared. Wipe up around the sink, that there may be a fresh place for the diningroom dishes, and then bring out those. Do not do this one at a time, or even several at once, but have a tin tray (It is the lightest) large enough for all or almost all of the dishes, fill this from the table and bring them all out In one trip. Take them from the tray, wipe that and place it near for the dishes when clean. Wash the glasses first in water from which "the soap has been taken out. Do three or four at once, and if the water Is hot enough they will almost dry themselves. They may be lifted from the pan with a mop handle. Turn them upside down to drain, and then, with a fresh towel, wipe them. Put each on the tray as It is dry. so that it may be returned to the dining-room in one trip. After the glasses, wash the tea or coffee cups, proceeding as with the glasses. Then, there being no grease yet In the water, put In all the small silver. Let that stay In and over It put the plates, a few at a time. After several of those are washed It Is well to turn out the water and put in fresh, letting it run on the soap to form a suds. Finish washing the plates, then wash the silver, and, lastly, do the vegetable dishes or platters. I prefer getting out dining things, that It may not be necessary to return to the kitchen until lunch time. To go back constantly to the same kind of work Is not only monotonous, but tiring. Gone Dark to Good Old amri, "I was lookiug over the society column of ray newspaper," said a lady of the old -school to the New York correspondent of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "and It did my heart good to see how people have returned to the good old habit of giving their girls names that stand for dignity, poetry and the traditions of our race. "There wa9 not a Sallle, a Mamie, or a Nellie in the list. In one announcement of a reception given by a mother on the coming out of her daughter there was one Dorothy, one Alice and one Eleanor, two Helens, one Augusta, one Elizabeth, and, thank heaven for It! one plain, lovely and old-fashioned Mary. There was a Lucy, a Jane, an Agnes and three or four Iluths. It seemed to me, almost, as If I were! reading a social roster of the respecta ble days of forty years ago." When a Girl In of Aire. In Nebraska she Is r ige at 1G. In the State of Washington she attains her majority at 18, but If her husband Is of age, she also Is, no matter how young she may be. This Is a strange law. allowing the husband to control the majority of his wife. But marriage also brings our maid to her majority, no matter whit her years may be. in Maryland, Oregon, Texas, Iowa and Louisiana, while 18 Is the age pre scribed in Arkansas. California, Color ado, Dakota, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa (un less married), Kansas, Maryland (un less married), Minnesota, Missouri, Xebranka (unless married, when it Is 16), Nevada, Ohio, Oregon (unless mar ried), Vermont and Washington (un less married). Give Mother" a Chnnee. "What great man oi' history is there who did not have a good mother and who did not derive at home many of inequalities which made his greatness? asked the president of the Chicago Woman's Aid Society, pleading for the home the other day. There is a genera feeling spreading among club women that poor mothers should be given the opportunity to keeD their child - - - home with them and not lw obliged to send them to Institutions; that the money used in supporting these instltu tlons might be used to better advantage in building model homes that the poor can afford to rent, : In which they can take care of their own children, with help from charity If necessary. Hooded effects are in vogue on all sorts of garments, though on bodices these are more often simiiated by trirnnirngs than otherwise. Dinner bodices finished with coat tails of a somewhat direetolre descrip tion are very smart and becoming. In flowered silk overxkirts of lace or oth er fluffy materials this mode Is espe cially fetching. Openwork stockings now take a seconu piace iesiue xuose or gossamer mesh. A stocking cannot be too fine to-day to suit Dame Fashion and even In the street the finest mesh Is worn. Embroidered silk hose are much in demand and if possible the embroidery should be of the same design as that of the gown. For your light gowns this year there are belts woven of gold or silver

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stme are woven m the most fanciful design. One exoulsite belt of this tvne is shown in the dull old irold. The irirl vho wants something to harmonize rith her new "antique" bracelet would lo well to invest in one of these llts. She must be careful to hive a buckle hat Is also In keeping, however. White leather with ornamental braid ing is the touch of relief on many walking gowns. In is introduced in rather bz patches, such as a vest collar or facings, more than as lines of trimmings. Huge rosettes and bows of glossy rib bon, also of gold and silver ribbon or panne velvet, are considered very smart for hat trimming, and many -ards of material are used in this way. larger flowers are favorites this winter a nd are placed at almost any spot on the hat. Grapes In every color are used extensively, sometimes In laree bunches, to match the gown or the body of the hat or the ribbon. Glace kid continues the favorite for street wear, both snede and glace be ing In demand for social functions. With the three-quarter-length sleeve, which many prefer to the elbow length and which Is newer, twelve-button-length gloves are amply long and it Is waste of money to buy the longer ones, which cost more proportionately. The best colors for general wear are white, black, gray and all the very del icate shades of tan and suede. Selfstitchlng is considered In better taste than contrasts, even black not being ery much in evidence. After a liny of Fatljrue. A simple and homely cure after a day of excessive fatigue, especially when the business of shopping or sight seeing has brought on a nervous headache in addition to a fueling of lassi tude, Is to hold the feet Iu mustard and water for the space of some ten or fifteen minutes, this having the efFUB SETS feet of drawing the blood away from the brain, and, in fact, resting the entire body. The "fresh air" method Is likewise exceedingly popular among many women, and has been found most efiicaclous. This consists In resting with the feet up for twenty minutes or half an hour beside the open window, taking deep Inhalations through the nostrils from time to tiaie, and expelling the breath slowly and erenly. Introduced Handkerchief. Ladies who find the dainty mouchoir such an indispensable bit of finery are probably not aware of the fact that the handkerchief was not used In polite society until the Empress Josephine made it fashionable. She carried a handkerchief and held It before her mouth to hide her bad teeth. The Queen of Italy is said to have the handsomest handkerchief In existence, which is valued at $30,000. It took three women more than Ave years to makfelt. What a Woman Can Do. It takes a woman to find out a woman. Is a homely adaptation of a wellknown phrase, and Mrs. W. C. II. Keogh of the Chicago School Board has proved this by unveiling the secrets of some of the women connected with the schools who have been using the children to further their pet political schemes, and now the ladies will have to fight the matter out themselves. Emt Carrots and Onions. Some one suggests that If you want to have a good complexion a good beginning is to eat carrots and onions. In fact, it s very fashionable to eat onions nowadays, and the very pleleian vegetable appears In most unexpected places. If one eats them, however, It is Just as well to go Into retreat for gome time afterward, as no specific has been discovered that will lessen the evil effects In the way of odor. Polnta In Ironlnar. If your wax has given out and the starch sticks to the irons, try kerosene. Put a little of the oil on a cloth and rub the hot Iron over It a few times. This will keep the starch from sticking, and removes any dirt that may have collected on the bottom or side of the irons, which often soils the clothes. As so little oil is used, there Is no dr. n gor. What Mother Mny 1)3. At a meeting of the Mothers' Club In Chicago the other day one of the members said that each mother should tell her child all about her own childhood and that in this way there would In a few generations be connecting links with the past. Happy Is the child whose mother takes the time to tell such stories. AeaynM Symplifled Spellyn. Five girls In a fashionable boarding school have formed a society to protest earnestly against the new spelling. They sign themselve? Alysse, Mayme, Grayce, Katheryne and Carrye. Smart Set.

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MUSHROOM HAT.

Among the smart hats whieli have made their appearance as early spring harbingers of what is to follow later on is this broad, low, scuttle-shaped hat. quaint in outline and trimming. It is an exaggerated mushroom shape in leghorn straw and one of the first of the new big hats, a summer vogue for which is confidently intimated. The natural-colored straw Is used, with a mauve dotted chiffon scarf folded MUSIIR00M FOB SPBINO. around the crown and ending with two long looped bows in the back. A silver buckle Identifies the front of the hat, while two big yellow roses each side of the front chifl'on loops lend character to the ensemble. Would Have New Word. A writer in a Philadeihia paper thinks that the time is ripe for a new word that will mean either man or woman, and he suggests 4hu" as the word, the first syllable of the word human. Several years ago they tried to make such a word at the chautauAND HATS. pua, and the word decided upon was "thon." It even went so far that notices were given, Jn which the word was used, of entertainments and so on, and it was used In the periodical pub lished. It died a natural death, how ever, as there is no necessity for any such word, as the man from Phlladel phi a seems think. What a Wife May Do. ''Can a woman buy a new hat with out asking her husband?" Is one of the questions that is agitating the public mind. Does she own her own clothes? Can a husband select a site for the family home without consulting his wife, and make her move into It? are among other of the fifty . questions which are being- asked to determine the legal status of woman. It seems that a hat being a necessity, a woman may buy within her mis band's means. but the gentleman has a right to buy his house in any part of the country that pleases him, and the wife must go with him or be guilty of desertion. The Proper Veil to Wear. Ladles will please take notice that In Paris "they" do not wear black veils of any sort, at least so the New York papers say, and. white and rose color are on the way to certain doom. The proper color for the veil Is now light blue and the material the finest tulle. One veil described is of pale blue, with a frill of the same shade outlining its circular form, and over it traverses like a spider web a gold thread. Silver threads are also in favor, but the woman with much color in her cheeks should beware of blue, unless It Is Just the right shade, or It will give her a magenta complexion. Good to Keep In Mind. A lady fell over a brick pile In Indianapolis the other day and no damage resulted except in the loss of the lady's hat, which was ruined by the mud Into which It fell. The brick pile was in position owing to negligence of a city workman, and the city attorney, hearing about it, called on the lady, and to avert a damage suit Insisted on buying her a new hat. This Ls probably the first time a city ever bought a hat, and It Is a good thing for ladies In other cities to remember that to fail over a city's brick pile may bring like results. Why It Failed. Mrs. Tom L. Johnson, wife of the mayor of Cleveland, takes a great Interest in the domestic science school which she helped found in that city, and tells the story of a j'oung bride who wanted to havo sponge cake for diuner, kut informed her husband that the cake was a failure, as the druggist sent "the wrong kind of sponges." Silver It I lift" Worn. Some of the new rings seen abroad have little chains attached to them, from which dangle the Jewel, instead of being "set" la the usual way. Silver rings are also very fashionable for men and women as well, the old serpent rings and other little finger silver rings of a generation ago being revived,

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PEAELS DUE TO PARASITE.

French Scientist Advances ctt Tha ory as to Origin of Gems. The origin of the pearl In the shell of the oyster or other bivalve or mollusk has been the object of a considerable amount of Investigation and speculation. Among the more recent studies of the subject may be noted those of M. Seur&t, recorded in the "Comptes Kcndus." This naturalist finds that in pearl oysters from the Gambia lagoons in (the South Pacific the pearls are due to a small worm a sort of tapeworm. In cysts on the body and mantle 6f the oyster he has found true pearls sur rounding a nucleus which he has shown to be one of these worms. Like other tapeworms, this one concorned in the production of pearls re quires a second host in which to complete its development. And M. Seurat considers that the ray is the second host in this case. For he has found In the spiral Intestine of this fish small tapeworms which he regards as the adult form of the larval worm of the pearl oyster. The author has named this uew species of tapeworm tylocephalum margaritiferae. The view has been held that the pearl is a secretion formed, as it were, In self-defense for the surrounding and isolation of an Injurious foreign body. If M. Seurat's views are correct, however, the pearl would rather appear to be a protection to the worm and to bear to It somewhat the same relation a, the oak-gall does to the gall-fly. When the epicurean ray swallowsIts oysters the pearls will be dissolved In Its digestive juices as Cleopatra's pearl was dissolved In vinegar and the worm set free to become a tapeworm In its new host M. Seuratt notes the curious fact that the fish seems to prefer those pearl oysters In which the shell has been riddled by a species of boring sponge. It does not appear to have been ascertained:, however, whether or not these oysters with the perforated shells are the most prolific in pearls. Philadelphia Record.' By his gift of story-telling Mark Twain has endeared himself to the whole American people. A pleasant glimpse of the way in which this gift was exercised In his own home, for his own children, he gives in his autobiography, published in the North American. "Along one side of the library, in the Hartford home," he says, "the bookshelves Joined the mantelpiece; In fact, there were shelves both sides of the mantelpiece. On those shelves and on the mantelpiece stood various ornaments. At one end of the procession was a framed oil-painting of a cat's head ; at the other end was the head of a beautiful young girl, life-size called Emmeline, because she looked just like that, an Impressionist water-color. Between the pictures there were twelve or fifteen of the brle-a-brac things air ready mentioned; also an oll-palntlng by Ellhu Vedder, The Young Medusa.' "Now and then the children required cne to construct a romance, always Impromptu.. not a moment's preparation permitted, and Into that romance I had to get all that bric-a-brac and the three pictures. I had to start always with the cat and finish with Emmeline. I was never allowed the refreshment of a change, end for end. It was not permitted to introduce any bric-a-brac ornament Into the story out of Its place In the procession. In the course of time the pictures and the bric-brac showed wear. It was because they had so many and such tumultuous adventures in their romantic careers. "As romancer to the children I had a hard time even from the beginning. If they brought me a picture in a magafeine, and required me to build a story" o It, they would cover the rest of the age with their pudgy hands, to keep me from stealing an idea from it. . The stories had to come hot from the bat r I ways. : "Sometimes the children furnished me a character or two, or a dozen, and required me to start out at once on that lllm basis and deliver those characters np to a vigorous and entertaining life )f crime. If they heard of a new trade, or an unfamllar animal, or anything like that, I was pretty sure to have to ileal with It in the next romance. "Once Clara required mö to build a 3udden tale out of a plumber and a lawgunstrIctor,and I had to do It She äldn't know what a boa-constrictor was ant 11 he developed In the tale. Then she was better' satisfied with It than ever." The Dog Was Tired. A little Incident related by the late General Shafter In an article on the capture of Santiago Illustrates the spirit of the American soldiers who entered Cuba, and at the same time contains a bit of humor that was none the less enjoyable because It was unconscious. The men had been la battle all day, and, weary as they were, had then walked eleven rough, muddy miles In the dark, a remarkable and arduous performance, which served to show their sterling military qualities, A correspondent noticed a corporal of the Twenty-fifth Colored Regiment carrying a pet dog in his arms. Surprised that an overworked soldier should voluntarily burden himself, he said: "Corporal, didn't you march all night before last?" "Yes, sah." '"Didn't you fight all day yesterday?" "'Deed I did, sah." "Didn't you march all last night?" "Yes, sah." "Then -why do you carry that dog?" "Why, boss, 'cause the dog's tired." How Mach lie Loved. A little boy declared that he loved his mother "with all his strength." He was asked to explain what he meant by "with all his strength." He said: "Well, I'll tell you. You see. we live oa the fourth floor of this tenement and them is no elevator and the coal is kept down in the basement. Mother Is dreadfully busy all the time, and she Isn't very strong, so I see that the coalhod Is never empty. I lug the coal up four flights of stairs all by myself, and it is a pretty big hod. It takes all my strength to get it up there. Now Isn't that loving my mother with nil my strength?" Sunday School Times. lie Didn't C ount. A Parisian, on returning from .1 month's holiday, examined his cook's accounts. "But you have put down my expenses for the time I wasn't here," he said. "Yes, sir," said the cook, "but you see one more or less doesn't really m&kt any difference." Noa Lolslrs.

Indiana I I State News I

PAYS 5-,00 TO IIO.NOll GHOST. Man Leave Money to Church Pi -vidlnf? Spirit Shall lie Trustee. The filing of the will of George-Y. Deffenbaush, one of the wealthiest citizens of Howard county, and the contest of his heirs against the Swodenbors church have dev'lorwd th fact that Mr. Deffenbaugh's will, which gave the church $.""0,000, contained the stratje provision that his -'iirit was to-be elected a member of the board of trustees and should" be allowed to attend all of its meetings. The will gives details for the government of the church, and appoints two of the testator's sons on the board of trustees of which his spirit is to be a member. The will is being contested cn the ground that Deffenbaush was insane. THEFT A FAMILY LEGACY. Youth Follows Father- and Grandparent In Prison Sentenee. Ilartley Stillwcll of the third generation of the Stihvell family lo go to prison, was sentenced by Judge Faulus of theCircuit Court in Marion on the charge of burglary and lar?eny. About f.ix months ago Clifford Stiiwell was sentenced t& tbeMichigan City penitentiary cn the charge of larceny. About two months ago his " son, George Slilwell. was sentenced to- thepenitentiary on the charg'. of burglary. Later the same court passed sentence oa Hartley StilweH,. a son of George Stilwell and grandsoni of Clifford StilwelL The elder Stil well is 6C years old, the son. is 4Ü and the grandson is IS. SCHOOL GIRL DCRXCD. Settle Carter Stands Too 'enr Stare and Her Dress Isrnlte. Nettie, the 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Carter, fix miles from Columbus, while 'in the Center school house, Harrison township, stepped too near the stove and her dress caught fire from lire coals on tbe hearth. The drew was blazing before the girl realized the danger, and she ran wildly , about the room, while the cfcildren fled. Meanwhile the teacher seized an'overcoat and smothered the flames. The Carter cirl waa terribly burned abcut the shoulders and back, and physicians tay she cannot recover, fDEPORT CIIICUS EMPLOYES. Pern and Losran sport Trylns; ta Be Rid of Objectionable Men. Fift3 animal trainers and other circus employes of the Ilagenbeck shows, who were released on arrival in Peru, wherethe show consolidated with another circus, were shipped to Logansport by the Peru police. ThCinen were promptly arretted and deported be for daylight. Each man was given a printed tag reading: 'Returned with thanks, not available, city of Logansport." Police commissioners ordered the men returned to Teru on the. ground that they came from a city where an epidemic of typhoid is alleged to exist. GIRL MISSING THREE WEEKS. Daughter of Charleston Bnslaesa Man Mysteriously Lost. Miss Esther Johnson, daughter of Charles Johnson, a wealthy Charleston business man, has strangely disappeared and police departments of a number of cities have begun work on the mystery. Miss Johnson wrote her father from Manson, Wis., that she would arrive home Jan. r. The Manson authorities advised Mr. Johnson that his daughter left that place for Charleston on Jan. 3. Since that time no trace of her has been found. COAL STRIKE STIRS COUNTY. Fabnlous Prices Art- Asked for Land Near La Porte. Intense excitement has been caused by the striking of rich coal veins on the Miller farm, east of Mill Creek. The lani is i.ow held at a fabulous value and experts have been called to make examinations. Coal in paying quantities has not heretofore been found in northern Indiana. BROTHERS DROWN I'SDER ICE. Yonnarer Dreaks Throggh and Elder Dies Trylnar to Save Hint. Charles and James Harrison, brothers. aged 20 and 21 years, were drowned while skating. The bodies have been recovered. The young men were sons of Mrs. Anna Harrison of Frairieton. The younger man broke through the ice, and in an effort to save his brother, James lost hia life. Alleged Shortage Causes Resignation John P. Walker, county treasurer at Evansville, whose books are being examined for an alleged shortage, resigned and was succeeded by Otto Klausa. Mr. Klauss is the treasurer-elect, but would aot take office for a year under the Indiana law. No statement as to the extent of the shortage is known, but rumor puts it at $00,000. Two Men Fatally Scalded. Yucaus Raney and C T. Miller, stationary eng !neer and fireman, while making repairs on a battery of boilers at the plant of the Mutual Heating Company of Terre Haute, were caught in a pit which suddenly filled with scalding water from the boilers. They were fatally injured. Within Our Bordera. Samuel Longfellow of Richmond was killed in a freight wreck on the Pennsylvania railway near Millville. James Watson cut his throat and wrists with a piece of tin while in jail in Peru. He will die. John A. Glekbman went on trial at Evansville for the alleged murder laut summer of Oliver Bryant, a coal miner. Engineer W. C. Bender and Fireman Erwin Lowe were killed and Brakenuw B. J. Ilogan was badly hurt when a locomotive exploded at Areola, Chris Goetz, landlord at the Wolf Lake hotel, struck Curtis Older on the head with a hatchet because Older lay in bed after Vclock. Older may recover. Gip Hopkins, aged 1G, and Million Willette, aged 14, while skating on thin ice near Evansville, went through and were drowned. Their bodies were recovered. The 10-year-old son of William Grubb, a fanner, eight miles south of Petersburg, became enraged at his father and attacked him with a corn knife, cutting him so severely that he may die. The Indiana railroad commission concluded its investigation of the 'cause of the disaster at Saudford on Jan. 10, when Big Four passonegr train No. 3 was destroyed. The commission will render no decision at presrnt. Mrs. Pooly Weed Baker of Boonville, agei. filed a suit for divorce from W'il.'iam Baker, an electrician. lie is her eighth husband. She 1ms the record of leing the most married woman in the State. Of her eight hushinds, Mrs. Weed divorced five, one died, and one committed suicide by jun ping into a well. Mrs. Weed is estimated to le worth $2.j,O00. She believes her many husbands irarried her only to get her wealth, but he gays that she will not give up. She charges desertion and cruel and inhuman treatment. 1 Fire partially destroyed the bottling works of the Berghoff Brewery in Fcrt Y-'ayne. Loss 10,000, no insurance